Thanks Cosmic P! FINALLY - two teams who figured out the need to not waste time on too much discussion! It was clear from the pace that the losing team was going to make it into the next round!
Highest scoring runners up: 1. UCL-175 2. Durham-165 3. Soas-London-155 4. St. Andrews-145 Eliminated: Gonville & Caius-Cambridge-80, Manchester-75, Reading-100, Birkbeck-London-110, St. Catharine’s-Cambridge-120, Exeter-Oxford-110, Leicester-100, Liverpool-125*, UEA-125*, Leeds-125*. *All eliminated this week Lowest scoring winner: Edinburgh-175 Highest scoring winner: Bristol-325 Even with both teams returning, this week sees 3 teams eliminated from the competition and the dead of the 3-way tie that's been with us for much of the series thus far. Of note, this is the first series in several years where no team advanced to the second round with a score lower than those of the 4 runners up. With that my status posts go on hiatus until the 2 win to advance rounds. Please enjoy the repechage and the next round everyone!
SOAS are now one of my favourite teams. Great teamwork, and a sense of not wanting to waste too much time. I’m looking forward to their future appearances 😝😎
We just saw two incredibly low-key (and often also very hesitant) captains. I felt that the two teams were carried by Elkington and Dorn respectively, who interestingly also seemed to be their team's most cheerful members. Anyway, if SOAS can gain a bit of confidence from their performance, they should cruise into the second round. Interestingly, both teams have great problems with buzzer-speed (in fact, neither team has got any). Anyway, overall I felt that this was a fantastic match! Thank you so much for everything, CosmicP!
Hello again! What a great match! And we will see both teams again, a real treat! Although I always felt that the winning team would prevail, the losing team did not go quietly into the night. Well done by both teams. My best to both schools, and to each individual representing them.
Great match...but actually bees carry pollen mixed with nectar in their corbiculae. So SOAS's answer was arguably correct, as much so as the accepted response. That adjudication mistake could well have decided the match! But at least both teams get to play on 🧐⚖️🐝
Shoutout to Jeffrey Liu from Teddy on the left - an incredibly gentle, absolute legend of a man; amazing to see him here. Let's go Teddy!! Excited to see this!
“an incredibly gentle, absolute legend of a kind” Mr Liu would be a legend for his hair alone-it has a timeless academic aesthetic, especially paired with that black turtleneck, and is perfectly maintained-but I have no doubt he has other legendary attributes as well.
I didn’t hear it as “Margritte”-I wouldn’t assume that someone from Cambridge, Massachusetts is necessarily speaking non-rhotically-but something more like “Mau-gritte,” almost between a /ɔ/ sound and a schwa /ə/ sound, with the latter being entirely acceptable. I think that’s a bit different than adding an extra syllable to the name “Kitts” in “St. Kitts and Nevis.”
@@excitingfruit actually, based on the route that I want to go down, soas is my best option! I could go study abroad but it would be expensive as I’d want to go to the other side of the world
For the second, that's a lovely way to wrap up the first round. With 20 starters-for-ten answered for the second week in a row, we say goodbye officially to UEA, Liverpool and Leeds. If I were a betting man, I'd say UCL will play St Andrews next week (as usually 1 v 4 and 2 v 3 in the HSL matchups), with Durham playing today's losers the week after. 13/27 and 17/33 are ok bonus rates, and that's also the first time in a while there were no penalties all night. Bring on the HSL matches and the 2R 😉!
The promise of a repachage means that there is no garbage time for the first round since you're still watching if the losing team can make the threshold
So SOAS doing well knocks out all of the bunch of losing teams at 125. The best 4 losing teams are: 1. UCL - 175 2. Durham - 165 3. SOAS - 155 4. St. Andrew's - 145 Then it's gonna be UCL vs St. Andrew's and Durham vs SOAS in the repachage matches
Seems unfair to me that Amol didn’t accept SOAS’ St Kits a Nevis answer, especially given that their captain clearly has a bit of a lisp or speech impediment…. Nonetheless great showing from both teams and I’m excited to see SOAS again!
In UC they usually don't accept names if they aren't exactly correct, so I think it was a fair call. In a competition where that is an issue, it might be advisable not to have someone with a speech impediment as your captain, because no matter which decision the judge makes, it may seem unfair to one team.
Thanks as always for the upload. I'm here once again to bemoan the total lack of knowledge of nearly every team about British ecology/ fauna and flora. Those bird questions were all very easy, and no, I don't know all the scientific names. The English description sufficed. Very rarely do any of the contestants seem to care or seem concerned that they have no clue. The bee basket was another example.
Yes, it is sad that no one knows these things anymore. In modern agriculture, there is no room for these birds and none of these young people will miss them...
10:08 - It's weird to me that both Paxman and Rajan put a lot of effort to make good french pronunciation when necessary, but don't give a fuck about portuguese pronunciation. I'm brazilian and wouldn't have gotten this question because of him saying it completely wrong. And i really mean COMPLETELY', its not just a single phonem that is slightly different, it's a whole different word (pa - ra - no - AH, with a hard R in the middle). JFC dude just spend 10 seconds on youtube and you will find how it's pronounced.
@@janisorveye8184 A pronúncia francesa deles é bem boa. A Italiana geralmente chega perto da real, dá pra entender (mas com um pouco de sotaque). Mas em português sempre é uma merda. Lembro uma pergunta sobre Xingu eles literalmente falaram zinggu
@@janisorveye8184 Não é só questão de ser britânicos, é falta de interesse mesmo. Até no chinês (de vez em quando falam de cidades e dinastias) e acertam mais
@martinmills135 I misspelled one word as another, so I clearly can't distinguish between the concepts they represent and am thus unqualified to make any point. Thank you for putting me in my place. Students at an Oriental Studies school should be able to provide wildly laughable guess answers for basic Buddhism knowledge questions without abuse from illiterate fools like me.
FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE... WHY ARE YOU GUYS WHISPERING *THAT* LOW????? (Also, where is Dorn looking at? O.o?) ... Well, final match of the first round... and as always, someone somewhere is always shouting an answer... here: CUPID!!! (Only because I love late 50's and 60's music so, STUPID CUPID BY CONNIE FRANCIS!!! xD )
Connie Francis. The luckiest pop star in the history of the world! She had a contract for 10 singles. The first 9 all tanked and the 10th was Stupid Cupid. These days if your first record is no 1 but your second is top ten but ONLY top ten, Simon Cowell is already thinking of replacing you with next year's winner. Record companies don't give all those chances now. Not wanting to lose her after all that, they gave her another contract for 5 singles and the next two tanked again.
Thank you, Cosmic Pumpkin, for bringing some culture to Allen, Texas (*especially* after the election 🙄 ) This was pretty hard. I only got one no/wrong answer which would have put me just above dead weight. Hasler seemed to have a speech impediment, adding an 'r' to make 'Margritte', which was allowed, like Paul McCartney singing "I never sawr them winging..." And then 'Kittis' was disqualified. Oh, well, it didn't change the outcome. And call me a dirty old man but Bursey is a foxemous babe with bodacious tatas. 😁
Thanks Cosmic P!
FINALLY - two teams who figured out the need to not waste time on too much discussion! It was clear from the pace that the losing team was going to make it into the next round!
A lively, invigorating match with two great teams. Congratulations to the winner and thank you Cosmic!!!
Highest scoring runners up:
1. UCL-175
2. Durham-165
3. Soas-London-155
4. St. Andrews-145
Eliminated: Gonville & Caius-Cambridge-80, Manchester-75, Reading-100, Birkbeck-London-110, St. Catharine’s-Cambridge-120, Exeter-Oxford-110, Leicester-100, Liverpool-125*, UEA-125*, Leeds-125*.
*All eliminated this week
Lowest scoring winner: Edinburgh-175
Highest scoring winner: Bristol-325
Even with both teams returning, this week sees 3 teams eliminated from the competition and the dead of the 3-way tie that's been with us for much of the series thus far. Of note, this is the first series in several years where no team advanced to the second round with a score lower than those of the 4 runners up. With that my status posts go on hiatus until the 2 win to advance rounds. Please enjoy the repechage and the next round everyone!
Thanks for your service! Was great to track the stats after each episode.
*repechage
You're a star sensei. Appreciated
@@DennisDaguman Thanks. Edited.
Zero points lost in an entire episode of UC, when did that last happen? Thrilling fight!
There were no negs in the Warwick v UEA game earlier this series
UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE S54E14
MATCH STATS BELOW
SOAS - LONDON: 155
ST EDMUMD HALL - OXFORD: 195
Starter Questions Stats
SOAS - London: 90
Delves = 0/1
Dorn = 4/4 {40 points}
Hasler = 4/5 {40 points}
Lambert = 1/1 {10 points}
Starter Success rate: 81.82% (9/11)
St Edmund Hall - Oxford: 110
Liu = 5/5 {50 points}
Elkington = 4/5 {40 points}
Bursey = 1/2 {10 points}
Pendergast = 1/1 {10 points}
Starter Success rate: 84.62% (11/13)
Bonus Questions Stats
SOAS - London: 65
Bonus success rate: 48.15% (13/27)
St Edmund Hall - Oxford: 85
Bonus success rate: 51.52% (17/33)
Stellar!
Fabulous match! Very happy to know we'll see them both again. Thanks v much, CP!!!
SOAS are now one of my favourite teams. Great teamwork, and a sense of not wanting to waste too much time. I’m looking forward to their future appearances 😝😎
We just saw two incredibly low-key (and often also very hesitant) captains. I felt that the two teams were carried by Elkington and Dorn respectively, who interestingly also seemed to be their team's most cheerful members. Anyway, if SOAS can gain a bit of confidence from their performance, they should cruise into the second round. Interestingly, both teams have great problems with buzzer-speed (in fact, neither team has got any). Anyway, overall I felt that this was a fantastic match! Thank you so much for everything, CosmicP!
Dorn was great!
Hello again! What a great match! And we will see both teams again, a real treat! Although I always felt that the winning team would prevail, the losing team did not go quietly into the night. Well done by both teams. My best to both schools, and to each individual representing them.
Great match...but actually bees carry pollen mixed with nectar in their corbiculae. So SOAS's answer was arguably correct, as much so as the accepted response. That adjudication mistake could well have decided the match! But at least both teams get to play on 🧐⚖️🐝
That pass on Goldberg Variations hurt me physically
Had to pause and go to the comments for the exact same reason
I couldn't believe that they could neither get Beethoven nor Wagner! Easiest classical music questions there are.
Lamentable!
Especially from Dorn, who is a bonafide genius
Shoutout to Jeffrey Liu from Teddy on the left - an incredibly gentle, absolute legend of a man; amazing to see him here. Let's go Teddy!! Excited to see this!
“an incredibly gentle, absolute legend of a kind”
Mr Liu would be a legend for his hair alone-it has a timeless academic aesthetic, especially paired with that black turtleneck, and is perfectly maintained-but I have no doubt he has other legendary attributes as well.
OMG, I am crying, I skip the introductions, I thought he was a girl 🤣🤣🤣
I thought it was Yoko Ono
@@jeff__w I thought he probably harbours great martial art skills which he will only use as a last resort with deadly effect!
@@johncartwright8154 Ha, that occurred to me, too! (Perhaps some sort of “mythic” character.)
TY CP! These shows make my Monday's!
do NOT abbreviate his name 💀
Feeling brilliant because I knew a couple of answers that the contestants didn't. Congrats to the winners & thanks to CP.
Spoiler block for the first comment.
@@gabsymalone6307 thanks for doing that!
Well done, drives me nuts when I accidentally read who won
Bump!
You’re awesome
wonderful episode.Thanks CP for uploading this video. Cheers from Amazon...
Two great teams! Very close indeed...well done to all..a great bunch of young people. Excellent! Congratulations to St Edmund's. The CP😊
Great episode!! Looking forward to seeing these two teams again :) Thanks for the upload CP!
Thanks CosmicPumpkin for the time and effort you put into keeping us in the loop . .
Liu - the next Bond villain I'd like to see
Sorry he's booked to play Snape in the new Harry Potter T.V. series.
Anyone else had flashbacks to St. Edmund Hall, Leo? Loved that team.
13:23 - "Just make something up.... uh, PASS"
So Rajan accepts “Margritte” but not “St. Kittis and Nevis”?
the team had already called it correctly and just a nervous stutter
@@anakintalldog291well yes, that’s what I’m arguing for.
agree. it was just a stutter. Im certain he was giving the right answer
I didn’t hear it as “Margritte”-I wouldn’t assume that someone from Cambridge, Massachusetts is necessarily speaking non-rhotically-but something more like “Mau-gritte,” almost between a /ɔ/ sound and a schwa /ə/ sound, with the latter being entirely acceptable. I think that’s a bit different than adding an extra syllable to the name “Kitts” in “St. Kitts and Nevis.”
After Rajan accepted "Margritte," I had to go and look it up to see if I'd miss-remembered the name.
I’m currently in secondary school and SOAS is my dream university, so I’m very happy to see they got through!
You can dream bigger than that
@@excitingfruit actually, based on the route that I want to go down, soas is my best option! I could go study abroad but it would be expensive as I’d want to go to the other side of the world
I think the Latvian flag could have done with a bit of colour correction - is it not a maroon?
I thought the same thing. I have one behind my desk and didn't make the connection because I focused on the red colour
I was so confused as well
For the second, that's a lovely way to wrap up the first round. With 20 starters-for-ten answered for the second week in a row, we say goodbye officially to UEA, Liverpool and Leeds. If I were a betting man, I'd say UCL will play St Andrews next week (as usually 1 v 4 and 2 v 3 in the HSL matchups), with Durham playing today's losers the week after. 13/27 and 17/33 are ok bonus rates, and that's also the first time in a while there were no penalties all night. Bring on the HSL matches and the 2R 😉!
The promise of a repachage means that there is no garbage time for the first round since you're still watching if the losing team can make the threshold
Super episode with two very good teams. Thanks for uploading !
One of the best contests so far.
Hasler instantly gave his team members suggestions as answer. Should've done a quick look to see if others might disagree.
nathan fielder in the thumb nail
So SOAS doing well knocks out all of the bunch of losing teams at 125. The best 4 losing teams are:
1. UCL - 175
2. Durham - 165
3. SOAS - 155
4. St. Andrew's - 145
Then it's gonna be UCL vs St. Andrew's and Durham vs SOAS in the repachage matches
Everything is wide open.
I really enjoy Ms. Pendergast's moments. Quiet killer.
banger of an episode
Cheers for the upload
Good match, thank you!
Very impressive from SOAS. Quite a small institution but very prestigious.
Bravo both teams. 👏
Seems unfair to me that Amol didn’t accept SOAS’ St Kits a Nevis answer, especially given that their captain clearly has a bit of a lisp or speech impediment…. Nonetheless great showing from both teams and I’m excited to see SOAS again!
It did seem a shame, but he definitely had added a wrong syllable to St Kitts, which would have been unfair to accept.
In UC they usually don't accept names if they aren't exactly correct, so I think it was a fair call. In a competition where that is an issue, it might be advisable not to have someone with a speech impediment as your captain, because no matter which decision the judge makes, it may seem unfair to one team.
Shouldn't be captain with a speech impediment
@@genevievedolan1288Afaik they got him to spell it in the studio and he added an extra syllable there
@@Scaro.sOh, so the show is really a lot more edited than it appears. Thanks for the information.
Lambrusco comes from Emilia Romagna not Lombardia!
It comes from both.
I'm just happy that we'll see Ms. Dorn again
She was good!
Cheeky
How would they have broken the three-way 125 tie, if they had to?
He butchered my country's language. It's "Chichewa" or "Chinyanja". Glad to hear Malawi mentioned though.
So many easy questions tonight
I think I saw that Bursey girl somewhere :D
Thank you!! GG
This was actually my favourite episode, I got a whopping 2019 correct!
Thanks pumpkin ❤
Well done SOAS
🙏
Proud of SOAS 🎉🎉😅
Joan Didion mentioned loveeeeeee
Thanks as always for the upload. I'm here once again to bemoan the total lack of knowledge of nearly every team about British ecology/ fauna and flora. Those bird questions were all very easy, and no, I don't know all the scientific names. The English description sufficed. Very rarely do any of the contestants seem to care or seem concerned that they have no clue. The bee basket was another example.
Probably because it's not taught in schools as much and with most people living urbanised lives they're disconnected from many aspects of nature.
Yes, it is sad that no one knows these things anymore. In modern agriculture, there is no room for these birds and none of these young people will miss them...
Did Hasler not get points for stammering, or did he indeed say "St Kitts" wrong?
He said St Kittis and thus added a syllable, so clearly incorrect unfortunately - albeit as close as it gets.
Couldn't believe Who is John Galt. You only have to read the first sentence.
BOIIII WHAT U KNOW ABOUT AMOL RAJAN ☠☠
10:08 - It's weird to me that both Paxman and Rajan put a lot of effort to make good french pronunciation when necessary, but don't give a fuck about portuguese pronunciation. I'm brazilian and wouldn't have gotten this question because of him saying it completely wrong.
And i really mean COMPLETELY', its not just a single phonem that is slightly different, it's a whole different word (pa - ra - no - AH, with a hard R in the middle). JFC dude just spend 10 seconds on youtube and you will find how it's pronounced.
Cara, é um programa de britânicos feito pra britânicos, eles sabem as pronúncias europeias mas não saberiam se fosse uma pronúncia brasileira
@@janisorveye8184 A pronúncia francesa deles é bem boa. A Italiana geralmente chega perto da real, dá pra entender (mas com um pouco de sotaque). Mas em português sempre é uma merda. Lembro uma pergunta sobre Xingu eles literalmente falaram zinggu
@@janisorveye8184 Não é só questão de ser britânicos, é falta de interesse mesmo. Até no chinês (de vez em quando falam de cidades e dinastias) e acertam mais
Sim sim, também
agree, he mispronounced a filipino word in a recent match and i would not have gotten that
A bit strict on the St. Kitts & Nevis answer. I feel like that could have been just poor pronunciation on Hasler's part rather than a wrong answer.
Oriental studies school is failing its students on the basic tenets of Buddhism though...
But they might be able to distinguish renters from principles.
@martinmills135 I misspelled one word as another, so I clearly can't distinguish between the concepts they represent and am thus unqualified to make any point. Thank you for putting me in my place. Students at an Oriental Studies school should be able to provide wildly laughable guess answers for basic Buddhism knowledge questions without abuse from illiterate fools like me.
@@nathanpiazza9644Just a pet peeve of mine, don’t overthink it. Thanks for taking the time to change it!
St. Kittis. My foot
I failed my 11 plus in 1966...........I answered 8 correctly, Im made up
❤
FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE... WHY ARE YOU GUYS WHISPERING *THAT* LOW????? (Also, where is Dorn looking at? O.o?) ... Well, final match of the first round... and as always, someone somewhere is always shouting an answer... here: CUPID!!! (Only because I love late 50's and 60's music so, STUPID CUPID BY CONNIE FRANCIS!!! xD )
Connie Francis. The luckiest pop star in the history of the world! She had a contract for 10 singles. The first 9 all tanked and the 10th was Stupid Cupid. These days if your first record is no 1 but your second is top ten but ONLY top ten, Simon Cowell is already thinking of replacing you with next year's winner. Record companies don't give all those chances now.
Not wanting to lose her after all that, they gave her another contract for 5 singles and the next two tanked again.
Thought Liu was Yoko Ono for a sec
SOAS did really poorly on one bonus. Four Quartets and Goldberg Variations are both very easy clues at this level
Liu is so beautiful.
Nice to see yoko ono testing her mind
the most annoying theme music with those ghastly squeaking violins
last week, a miffed poster typed about the 'lack of inclusion' as the teams were all male.
Well..........
Liu reminds me of young Martha Argerich
Thank you, Cosmic Pumpkin, for bringing some culture to Allen, Texas (*especially* after the election 🙄 )
This was pretty hard. I only got one no/wrong answer which would have put me just above dead weight.
Hasler seemed to have a speech impediment, adding an 'r' to make 'Margritte', which was allowed, like Paul McCartney singing "I never sawr them winging..." And then 'Kittis' was disqualified. Oh, well, it didn't change the outcome.
And call me a dirty old man but Bursey is a foxemous babe with bodacious tatas. 😁
just call her pretty dude
Amused that SOAS with its focus on decolonisation blah blah blah fields an exclusively Anglo-Saxon team!
Wulcano Ewuption
Miss Pendergast is a cutie!