@@freddiethecutestcavapoo9184 Agreed. You can practice all you like, but when you're actually in the studio and the lights are in your face, you never know how you're actually going to perform.
21:26 If only Amol had said "you may not discuss"! Not sure if Reading noticed, but there is a burnt bear on their table. Also, there is an entire episode on Moorcroft's shirt by Seinfeld. That said, Moorcroft was the star of today's show.
Mine too! An unbelievable 8 starters and a little over a dozen bonus questions. Last game was my all time low in an opening round, so I'm glad to have made a comeback, haha.
@@michaeln9931 Well, not that we're keeping score (but we are keeping score 😍 ), I had 10 starters and 16 bonuses. A banner day for both of us! Well done you!
Thanks a bunch, wonderful CP! As for the match itself, I got a shockingly high number of answers (namely 15), which means that the questions were comparatively easy this time around. Usually, I only get one - if I am lucky! Exeter produced real teamwork and everyone contributed! Carr stood out to me, though! She seems wonderfully tenacious.
Hello again! The losing team put up a good fight in the middle, but was blitzed in the beginning and the end. And so we say goodbye to them. The winning team is a force to be reckoned with. My best to both teams, and to each individual.
Carr and Moorcroft are a wonderful duo! The rest of the Exeter team work amazingly together but these two stood out to me. This match got me loads of points, too :)
Moorcroft and Mouelhi are both really good, Carr and Newman, while not as fast, are good at answering the bonuses. This team might go far. [Edit] They got absolutely destroyed by Bristol. What the heck.
Congratulations to Exeter! Seem like a strong team. Reading didn,t seem to be cohesive and dithered a lot. Always enjoyable nonetheless. Thanks for our much anticipated Monday entertainment! 😁
Not many starters-for-ten answered - 18 in total which is lower than average, but 24/33 is mighty fine work from Exeter. We're definitely not seeing Reading again - second round continues to be set up nicely with how the scores are coming in ;). I also make it that 6/7 qualifying teams have bonus rates of 2/3 or more. Only Wadham, Oxford from 2 weeks back had one below that - not sure what it means but let's hope it continues ;).
My first episode of these contests; grew up in the Sixties with the USA "College Bowl" with similar format (not sure it was structured similarly, with eliminations)... and enjoyed the farcical "Colorado University of Boulder Trivia Bowl" in 1978. Face to face team competitions are ❤❤❤
Decent performance from the winners, they do need to pay more attention to the actual questions though. Not sure we've seen a winner here when compared to dome others we've seen so far, but potential for a deep run certainly and you never know.
The question on gametes was wrong. Gametes can be produced either by meiosis or mitosis, depending on the type of organism. In plants, for example, gametes are produced from haploid cells by mitosis.
In spite of all the unanswerable (by me) biology questions I still managed to get 220, once again placing myself between the winners and the losers. I really liked the fiendish 'flags of countries/metals exported' question, where I got exactly zero.
There is a phenomenon in TV quiz shows called 'studio freeze'. In spite of all the practice they provide beforehand, even the smartest can suddenly find their brain has frozen in that particular moment. That said, I can't forgive not knowing that gametes don't have pairs of chromosomes.
Interestingly the expression "to cock a snook" is not as much fun as it may suggest. Its just the action of putting thumb to nose and waving fingers is a childishly insulting way, which im sure Exeter never would do. Its also a fish. Also, nice to see a couple of old duffers like myself on the teams, though it does seem a bit unfair to younger generations. Im always impressed by how well informed the young people are on this programme.
@@Narwhaltat I don't think she was repeating Moorcroft's answers as if they were her ideas; I think she was trying to help Newman hear what Moorcroft had said. idk though obviously, we can't know what was going on in her head
Exeter a really good all round team, Reading only had Rock and Finkelstein taking part. Really wish the editors had excluded the many many times Selvaramesh adjusted her top while answering nothing at all.
Either Rock is younger than he looks or he doesn’t pay attention. So many missed questions were giveaways for somebody born before 1970! That sci-fi run especially.
Cheating surely having a guy as old as the bizarrely named Newman in the Exeter team. Why not make it for undergraduates between the ages of say 18 and 25? I get a moderate number of the questions, but often simply because of being a lot older I was at 20!
Yes, but if you look at the real standouts of UC over the years they have all been undergradauate age (Monkman, Seagall, Trimble, Blackman, Zeng, etc.) With the older students there is the tendency to forget what they came into the television studio for . . . Anyway, I suspect the BBC is as loathe to announce a policy of blatant ageism as the next publically funded broadcaster. Peace from Canada.
Arent most of the (younger) guys postgraduate or phd students too? Anyways, I personally don't really feel a disconnect to the older students at my uni, so i wouldn't mind getting represented by them.
Well no it isn't, because they don't necessarily do better than younger players. In 2018-19 a team with an average age of 19 beat a mature college from Cambridge in the semi-finals. I don't think Imperial hasn't had a single player over 30 in its previous 4 appearances
Newman is an excellent captain. I like the way he states his answer. Not rising inflection but confident downward inflection.
Thank you so much CP! My treat for the week.
Highest scoring runners up so far:
1. UCL-175
2/3. Liverpool-125
2/3. UEA-125
4. St. Catharine’s-Cambridge-120
Eliminated: Gonville & Caius-Cambridge-80, Manchester-75, Reading-100
Lowest Scoring Winner: Wadham-Oxford-180
Highest scoring winner: Bristol-325
Serves to remind me how incredibly poorly the normally top-notch teams fielded by Manchester did this year! It just was not their year at all!
@@freddiethecutestcavapoo9184 Agreed. You can practice all you like, but when you're actually in the studio and the lights are in your face, you never know how you're actually going to perform.
21:26 If only Amol had said "you may not discuss"! Not sure if Reading noticed, but there is a burnt bear on their table. Also, there is an entire episode on Moorcroft's shirt by Seinfeld. That said, Moorcroft was the star of today's show.
to confirm, isnt that garfield
But I don’t want to be a pirate
Moorcroft was Puffy Bloody Brilliant.
Thanks, CP. The highlight of my morning.
UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE S54E07
MATCH STATS BELOW
Reading: 100 Eliminated
Exeter: 240
Starter Questions Stats
READING: 45
Selvaramesh = 0
Finkelstein = 4/7 {40 minus 10 points}
Snook = 1/1 {10 points}
Rock = 1/2 {10 minus 5 points}
Starter Success rate: 60.00% (6/10)
EXETER: 120
Moorcroft = 5/5 {50 points}
Carr = 1/1 {10 points}
Newman = 1/1 {10 points}
Mouelhi = 5/5 {50 points}
Starter Success rate: 100.00% (12/12)
Bonus Questions Stats
READING: 55
Bonus success rate: 61.11% (11/18)
EXETER: 120
Bonus success rate: 72.73% (24/33)
Thanks! If not for this, I would not have realised that Mouelhi got 5 starters! Seems like the quiet, efficient, and deadly assassin.
100%? Jesus Christ, good for them though 👏🏾
Selvaramesh BALLIN
Fabulous! And made my highest score ever! Thank you CP - so appreciate this.
Mine too! An unbelievable 8 starters and a little over a dozen bonus questions. Last game was my all time low in an opening round, so I'm glad to have made a comeback, haha.
@@michaeln9931 Well, not that we're keeping score (but we are keeping score 😍 ), I had 10 starters and 16 bonuses. A banner day for both of us! Well done you!
@@emmapeel829 Nicely done! If we got to sit at home with no pressure, we could have made great team members! 😂
Thanks a bunch, wonderful CP! As for the match itself, I got a shockingly high number of answers (namely 15), which means that the questions were comparatively easy this time around. Usually, I only get one - if I am lucky! Exeter produced real teamwork and everyone contributed! Carr stood out to me, though! She seems wonderfully tenacious.
Hello again! The losing team put up a good fight in the middle, but was blitzed in the beginning and the end. And so we say goodbye to them. The winning team is a force to be reckoned with. My best to both teams, and to each individual.
Thank you soich cosmicpumpkin so kind of you. I love watching these ❤🎉
The music round was FIRE 🔥
Carr and Moorcroft are a wonderful duo! The rest of the Exeter team work amazingly together but these two stood out to me.
This match got me loads of points, too :)
Really? It seemed like Carr just repeats Moorcroft's answers to Newman
Carr: I'll wear the craziest outfit!
Moorcroft: Challenge accepted!
Moorcroft and Mouelhi are both really good, Carr and Newman, while not as fast, are good at answering the bonuses. This team might go far.
[Edit] They got absolutely destroyed by Bristol. What the heck.
& Mouelhi
Another thrashing. The winning team is very strong. Thank you CP.
There is something about one player on each team that seems different… oh wait, they are old people like me! 😂
The music round of 1980s British New Wave acts must have been a piece of cake for you and them lol
@@Ramboost007 It took way too long to say Duran Duran.
I love that Moorcroft wore a puffy shirt. Somewhere, Jerry Seinfeld is feeling quite proud.
With Newman as the captain. "But I don't want to be a pirate."
The oldies were pretty hopeless on the oldie questions.
He got the music
Not seen a finalist tonight. Also think both were allowed too much prevarication time.
He was so generous! He must have been in a very very good mood
Not very good on popular culture.
Thanks, Cosmic Pumpkin. I actually didn't feel too stupid this time. Got a few. I'm a math Numpty, but got Parallelogram.😳
Good result for Exeter - well done.
Nice work winners!
Congratulations to Exeter! Seem like a strong team. Reading didn,t seem to be cohesive and dithered a lot. Always enjoyable nonetheless. Thanks for our much anticipated Monday entertainment! 😁
Not many starters-for-ten answered - 18 in total which is lower than average, but 24/33 is mighty fine work from Exeter. We're definitely not seeing Reading again - second round continues to be set up nicely with how the scores are coming in ;). I also make it that 6/7 qualifying teams have bonus rates of 2/3 or more. Only Wadham, Oxford from 2 weeks back had one below that - not sure what it means but let's hope it continues ;).
My first episode of these contests; grew up in the Sixties with the USA "College Bowl" with similar format (not sure it was structured similarly, with eliminations)... and enjoyed the farcical "Colorado University of Boulder Trivia Bowl" in 1978.
Face to face team competitions are ❤❤❤
i loved this episode i have never gotten so many answers right by myself lol
How can so few have liked this so far? I'm stumped, like them.
Thank you!
Sad to see Reading get cooked - we'll make it to the final again one day!!!
Yes. It's sad when the team you follow gets trumped. I support Manchester who were trounced last week. So sad. I almost didn't watch this week. Lol
I really enjoyed watching Reading. I hope they're not too disappointed. They did a great job, especially Rock.
08:00 in and Exeter is kicking butt...
Thankfully they then were off the 'mark' with Nitrogen! 😮😂
These questions are getting harder 😂👏👏👏
I disagree. I managed way more than I normally do!
As always, someone, somewhere is always shouting an answer... here: COPPER!!!, but of course, that's only because I'm Chilean. xD
I didn't do too badly on the bonus questions, but I don't think I got any of the starters.
SnookRock- good name for a band
22:20 in what bizarre world is that a regency dress?!?
Exeter such a strong team, each scoring good points, balanced, and well managed.
Decent performance from the winners, they do need to pay more attention to the actual questions though. Not sure we've seen a winner here when compared to dome others we've seen so far, but potential for a deep run certainly and you never know.
Loved the questions this week! Heartbroken to discover no one's seen RHPS lol
Prime University challenge this one
Moorcroft-chan is so cute!
Exeter Fighting!
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Bro studies biomedical sciences and doesnt know the number of chromosomes in a typical human gamete. What is Reading doing
A levels stuff.
i was thinking the same, that's GCSE knowledge!!
Always nice to hear Gauteng being mispronounced on a quiz show
Snook 🔥 but also a splendid team captain.
Poor old Salvaramesh might as well have texted in her contribution.
I did pretty well on this which was good to see aha, quite a few of the history and sports questions especially
I for one cannot believe Moorcroft is a weeaboo
Wdym its written all over their face 😅 congrats to them too🎉
From Allen, Texas, thanks to CosmicPumpkin for taking the trouble to upload this.
Today was a good day for me. I got 5 no/wrong answers.
The question on gametes was wrong. Gametes can be produced either by meiosis or mitosis, depending on the type of organism. In plants, for example, gametes are produced from haploid cells by mitosis.
Moorcroft is the goat
honestly what a legend
Mouelhi did pretty well also.
He's amazing.
Okay but wtf was he wearing lawl
@@bandofather the goat uniform
🎉🎉🎉
The lack of knowledge of classic Cinema is astounding. Don`t young people look at old movies anymore !
Thanks, Cosmic P.
Exeter has a fairly balanced team and I could see them going on to near the end (although I wouldn't put money on a final win!!).
I applied to Exeter
In spite of all the unanswerable (by me) biology questions I still managed to get 220, once again placing myself between the winners and the losers. I really liked the fiendish 'flags of countries/metals exported' question, where I got exactly zero.
So many advertisements spoils it sum WHAT
If you are part of a team on this show don't sit on the end furthest from the quiz master as the rest of the team will ignore you.
Did Selivaramesh contribute anything?
There is a phenomenon in TV quiz shows called 'studio freeze'. In spite of all the practice they provide beforehand, even the smartest can suddenly find their brain has frozen in that particular moment. That said, I can't forgive not knowing that gametes don't have pairs of chromosomes.
it's always cape verde
Interestingly the expression "to cock a snook" is not as much fun as it may suggest. Its just the action of putting thumb to nose and waving fingers is a childishly insulting way, which im sure Exeter never would do. Its also a fish.
Also, nice to see a couple of old duffers like myself on the teams, though it does seem a bit unfair to younger generations. Im always impressed by how well informed the young people are on this programme.
I think Rock was too slow.
@@marty9011 And showed much angst.
Snook is gorgeous
C'mon!
Carr should have been the captain of Exeter since she kept telling Newman what to do.
And repeating other people's answers as if they were her idea! She struck me as a bit of a deadweight ..
I though she showed character. But then I like bolshy women. It's fatal.
@@Narwhaltat she did get the satire answer, even though they went with kaleidoscope
@@Narwhaltat I don't think she was repeating Moorcroft's answers as if they were her ideas; I think she was trying to help Newman hear what Moorcroft had said. idk though obviously, we can't know what was going on in her head
@@puzzles7413i agree, seems like theres a lot of women-haters on this side of the internet, sadly 🥲
Here’s a starter for Mourli….😂
Proper league one tie
I am always envious of people, like Moorcroft, who have no difficulty flossing their teeth. Mine are jammed in tighter than Scrooge.
Exeter a really good all round team, Reading only had Rock and Finkelstein taking part. Really wish the editors had excluded the many many times Selvaramesh adjusted her top while answering nothing at all.
First!
Either Rock is younger than he looks or he doesn’t pay attention.
So many missed questions were giveaways for somebody born before 1970!
That sci-fi run especially.
It's a common occurrence for people around his age to forget what they have learned after just a short time. You forgot to include that possibility.
He was a ditherer..gave the impression that the answer was on the tip of his tongue but he couldn't quite get it out.
Some need a haircut for their mental health wellbeing like Muelhi
I got fixated needs a good wash
Carr. Marry me
Even University Challenge has gone woke.
Cheating surely having a guy as old as the bizarrely named Newman in the Exeter team. Why not make it for undergraduates between the ages of say 18 and 25? I get a moderate number of the questions, but often simply because of being a lot older I was at 20!
Yes, but if you look at the real standouts of UC over the years they have all been undergradauate age (Monkman, Seagall, Trimble, Blackman, Zeng, etc.) With the older students there is the tendency to forget what they came into the television studio for . . . Anyway, I suspect the BBC is as loathe to announce a policy of blatant ageism as the next publically funded broadcaster. Peace from Canada.
Arent most of the (younger) guys postgraduate or phd students too?
Anyways, I personally don't really feel a disconnect to the older students at my uni, so i wouldn't mind getting represented by them.
Well no it isn't, because they don't necessarily do better than younger players. In 2018-19 a team with an average age of 19 beat a mature college from Cambridge in the semi-finals. I don't think Imperial hasn't had a single player over 30 in its previous 4 appearances
It‘s a quiz for students (not necessarily for young people) and has been that way since the 1960s. It doesn’t need to be changed.
What a weird suggestion
24:13 🤦♀️
16:40 for all those that came from sports team