My local team is the Portland Thorns. One match pre-match, the scoreboard read “THORNS” for the local team. The visiting team, instead of their name, had the Old English/Old Norse character “þ”. I commented “wait, the Thorns are playing against themselves?” Very few people got it. Those that did really appreciated it.
My brain really *really* wanted 1,101 to be binary for something... I had the right idea (different number system) but Roman Numerals never would have occurred to me.
That's interesting. I never thought of the name Liv as a roman numeral because they're normally all upper case. I also don't really look for roman numerals where they're not expected. As one might do.
Given how many clues Tom is giving in this episode, he REALLY doesn't seem to like the difficulty of the question lol. great episode as always with the LLE team!!
Finally one I got immediately!! Not a football fan at all, but I went to Roman numerals straight from the gate. Liverpool was obvious, but I had to guess Manchester City because I couldn’t think of anything better for MCI. It is a bastard of a question, but sometimes you just luck into the right thought path…
My immediate thought was that it was the total score between the two teams across all their games ever. But that goal difference would be astronomical!
This is the second time I watched the episode and now i groaned. I thought the numbers actually had been spelled out as as scores and it was the TV/Stadium people that made a funny "haha". No, it was the question writer that read it like that.
I'm going to echo others and say that until that last sentence I also thought it was some kind of joke that was actually being put on the scoreboard intentionally to be nerdy, but that last sentence suddenly reveals it to be a perfectly normal scorbeoard display and it was just how Sergei chose to interpret LIV - MCI.
If I understand correctly, the scoreboard does NOT ever have the actual characters "5" and "4", right? It has "LIV", which is fifty-four written with Roman numerals instead of in decimal notation. The _spoken_ question is therefore perfectly accurate (although the text at the start of the YT video is questionable).
Oh yeah! I thought the scoreboard-managing people were having fun and set the scoreboard to LIV 54 / MCI 1101 as a nerdy joke, but no, it's just the fact that LIV and MCI are displayed... That makes more sense now.
@@FZs1oh thank you! I also had to listen/ see this one three times to understand that it wasn't some kind of joke of the scoreboard guys but the way the reader read it 😅
Why did Brad Pitt's name appear on a US college basketball game broadcast that he had nothing to do with? It turns out that the scroll line was listing upcoming games, and was using 4 letter abbreviations for the schools. Bradley University was playing Pittsburgh University.
Tom literally gave them the answer at 5:50 (I did not know this before, but I got it instantly when he said that)... and I was so frustrated that they were not getting it when he gave them the answer
I had to listen/ see this one three times to understand that it wasn't some kind of joke of the scoreboard guys but the way the reader and question making Sergueï read it 😅
Yeah, I was real confused until Tom's very last sentence where he says the question editor just saw "LIV-MCI" on TV and thought of Roman numerals. Up until then I still thought it just said the Arabic numerals on screen _and_ LIV-MCI and I couldn't wrap my head around it.
SPOILER - 3:05 I got one! My thinking went "Well, it's definitely not my team (Man City) because I don't recall this ever happening. Oh wait it is my team!" EDIT - Delighted with this one 10/10. All future questions to be on sports please
Guess at 0:30 Is the time 11:01 on the fifth of april? or 4th of may? Edit At 5:53: Oh! roman numerals! MCI = 1101 and LVP....Well, LV = 55...How do they get it down to 54? Edit at 6:32: Where did i get LVP from?
Interestingly there isn't a common set of 3-letter acronyms for teams - Arsenal for example can be rendered as both ARL and ARS depending on how prudish the broadcaster is. Man Utd also tends to be rendered as MU on Sky
The national and international federations do have a shared set of official codes though, meaning Man City will be MCI whether in the Prem, UCL or Club World Cup
Im at 3:45 and I think I got it. Is the shortened version of their teams’ names Roman numerals for those numbers? LIV vs MCI. Liverpool vs something. Not sure as I don’t follow soccer.
I'm watching this while visiting my parents, and when I worked this out I made a noise so weird my mum came in from the other room to check I was okay (this is totally a humblebrag and I don't care)
I figured out midway through that the numbers mirrored spell out "LOLLYS" (nevermind that I was slightly wrong), and was convinced that was somehow the answer.
the moment Tom said "one thousand one hundred and one" my first question to him would have been: "is it 1101 or is it 13?" but I was thinking binary not roman numerals
No, but the scoreboard doesn't read as the numbers, then. The question said 'the scoreboard already indicates 54 and 1101' not 'the numbers 54 and 1101 are already up', so that's not right, as that says that those are in numeric form at that moment
My hypothesis hearing the question: the score board is showing LIV and MCI because they're abbreviations for the teams' names or something along those lines, which is 54 and 1101 in Roman numerals. Edit: hehe :D Roman numerals my beloved
As soon as Tom said "Nope" when Tom was reading out the digits I figured it out. It took me googling to figuring out what the actual end result meant, but that's because I've never watched soccer
Liverpool vs Manchester City? liv / mci? Is that right? It was Tom specifying it was "one thousand one hundred and one" instead of "one one zero one" that triggered that if so.
Watching on TV, ahh... For one peculiar reason, if you're familiar with NBC Sports' Premier League Coverage, this won't work in the U.S. The 54 is stable. But the other number is off by one. This is specific to the games shown on TV with NBC Sports' own presentation. And considering the teams involved, you're pretty well assured of seeing it on TV!
. . . With how you insisted on the wording, I was expecting 1000, 100 and 1 to be separate numbers. I didn't realize the thing until you spelled out "L-I-V".
The end was kind of disappointing... they did not show the numbers, they just shown the thing and Sergey saw the numbers in it? It would have been cool, if they really were showing the numbers
@@thespankmyfrank that's exactly what I figured from the ending, that it just shown LIV and MCI and just the question-setter interpreted it as 54 and 1101 Id would have been much better, if the person responsible for the board wrote 54 and 1101 on the board as an inside joke. That's my point :)
My local team is the Portland Thorns. One match pre-match, the scoreboard read “THORNS” for the local team. The visiting team, instead of their name, had the Old English/Old Norse character “þ”. I commented “wait, the Thorns are playing against themselves?”
Very few people got it. Those that did really appreciated it.
Upvote for Thorns!
5:36 this face transition came out of nowhere and it got me
For some reason this made me think of when Sweden is playing Denmark and it ends up spelling out SWE-DEN.
...and the remaining letters spell DEN-MARK
I had a similar thought
don't google Nigeria v Germany worst mistake of my life
@@camicus-3249Nigeria is NGA, it’s Niger that is abbreviated NIG
Ella saying 'boobies' with the hand gesture made me choke on my coffee 🤣
My brain really *really* wanted 1,101 to be binary for something... I had the right idea (different number system) but Roman Numerals never would have occurred to me.
Yeah, I started by thinking 1101 was binary for 13 and maybe for luck reasons they put it in binary.
Yeah, I quit using Roman Numerals when Binary came out.
I assumed it was the never walk alone
I heard him emphasize "one thousand one hundred and one" and went "Wait is it one thousand, one hundred, and one? Like different numbers?"
The question felt deliberate considering that we're so used to binary things
That is a clever one, I think Tom was right in the beginning, I would’ve hated to have to struggle to figure that out.
as someone who goes by Liv, I recognized that Roman 54 immediately.
Does this mean you also answer to 54?
@@hairyairey not generally, though I might do in the right context
How they all didn't leap at it when he said L-I-V is beyond me.
That's interesting. I never thought of the name Liv as a roman numeral because they're normally all upper case. I also don't really look for roman numerals where they're not expected. As one might do.
Given how many clues Tom is giving in this episode, he REALLY doesn't seem to like the difficulty of the question lol. great episode as always with the LLE team!!
I love the way you can literally see Ella thinking with her body language, and she's so witty.
My dumb brain immediately thought the answer was 54 to 1, LOL.
Finally one I got immediately!! Not a football fan at all, but I went to Roman numerals straight from the gate. Liverpool was obvious, but I had to guess Manchester City because I couldn’t think of anything better for MCI. It is a bastard of a question, but sometimes you just luck into the right thought path…
My immediate thought was that it was the total score between the two teams across all their games ever. But that goal difference would be astronomical!
I love Tom Lum's excitement near the end. What a man.
This is the second time I watched the episode and now i groaned.
I thought the numbers actually had been spelled out as as scores and it was the TV/Stadium people that made a funny "haha".
No, it was the question writer that read it like that.
Oh! No! I've just got it 5 minutes in and that is absolutely a nasty question!
I'm going to echo others and say that until that last sentence I also thought it was some kind of joke that was actually being put on the scoreboard intentionally to be nerdy, but that last sentence suddenly reveals it to be a perfectly normal scorbeoard display and it was just how Sergei chose to interpret LIV - MCI.
As soon as Ella started saying the letters for the code I immediately got it and audibly groaned lol
Tom Lum's final journey to realisation was so sweet and eventful!
If I understand correctly, the scoreboard does NOT ever have the actual characters "5" and "4", right? It has "LIV", which is fifty-four written with Roman numerals instead of in decimal notation. The _spoken_ question is therefore perfectly accurate (although the text at the start of the YT video is questionable).
Oh yeah! I thought the scoreboard-managing people were having fun and set the scoreboard to LIV 54 / MCI 1101 as a nerdy joke, but no, it's just the fact that LIV and MCI are displayed... That makes more sense now.
@@FZs1oh thank you! I also had to listen/ see this one three times to understand that it wasn't some kind of joke of the scoreboard guys but the way the reader read it 😅
Some clubs do have numbers in their abbreviation, just mostly not in England. For example Schalke 04 (S04) or Mainz 05 (M05) in Germany
3:48 is what made it click to me, this was a great one :D
Got it after Tom’s corrections/hints at 3:40-3:45. Very satisfying.
Why did Brad Pitt's name appear on a US college basketball game broadcast that he had nothing to do with? It turns out that the scroll line was listing upcoming games, and was using 4 letter abbreviations for the schools. Bradley University was playing Pittsburgh University.
Happy to report I figured it out 4 minutes in, this one was great :)
Tom literally gave them the answer at 5:50 (I did not know this before, but I got it instantly when he said that)... and I was so frustrated that they were not getting it when he gave them the answer
I had to listen/ see this one three times to understand that it wasn't some kind of joke of the scoreboard guys but the way the reader and question making Sergueï read it 😅
Yeah, I was real confused until Tom's very last sentence where he says the question editor just saw "LIV-MCI" on TV and thought of Roman numerals. Up until then I still thought it just said the Arabic numerals on screen _and_ LIV-MCI and I couldn't wrap my head around it.
SPOILER - 3:05 I got one! My thinking went "Well, it's definitely not my team (Man City) because I don't recall this ever happening. Oh wait it is my team!"
EDIT - Delighted with this one 10/10. All future questions to be on sports please
Guess at 0:30
Is the time 11:01 on the fifth of april? or 4th of may?
Edit At 5:53: Oh! roman numerals! MCI = 1101 and LVP....Well, LV = 55...How do they get it down to 54?
Edit at 6:32: Where did i get LVP from?
When i got this I screamed. Excellent question!
Interestingly there isn't a common set of 3-letter acronyms for teams - Arsenal for example can be rendered as both ARL and ARS depending on how prudish the broadcaster is. Man Utd also tends to be rendered as MU on Sky
The national and international federations do have a shared set of official codes though, meaning Man City will be MCI whether in the Prem, UCL or Club World Cup
This one had me completely stumped, until the team was identified
Im at 3:45 and I think I got it. Is the shortened version of their teams’ names Roman numerals for those numbers? LIV vs MCI. Liverpool vs something. Not sure as I don’t follow soccer.
I'm watching this while visiting my parents, and when I worked this out I made a noise so weird my mum came in from the other room to check I was okay
(this is totally a humblebrag and I don't care)
Great question! Finally one that I was able to get earlier than the people in the video :D
54 Tyler was really good in LOTR.
I figured out midway through that the numbers mirrored spell out "LOLLYS" (nevermind that I was slightly wrong), and was convinced that was somehow the answer.
5:53 those are roman numbers aren't they...
i got when tom was like "fifty four and one thousand one hundred and one"
this is the first i got instantly without actually knowing it. like i had the idea for what the “twist” was and got the teams right
i got this one instantly because those numbers felt so roman numeral-y to me. (although i thought VIV first which nearly through me off)
Is it the team name abbreviation in Roman numerals?
I do English cryptic crosswords, so got this one immediately.
So... are there any other teams whose 3-letter abbreviations make legal numbers in Roman numerals?
the moment Tom said "one thousand one hundred and one" my first question to him would have been: "is it 1101 or is it 13?" but I was thinking binary not roman numerals
Kept giggling at Caroline they really know how to make the silliest facial expressions xD
No, but the scoreboard doesn't read as the numbers, then. The question said 'the scoreboard already indicates 54 and 1101' not 'the numbers 54 and 1101 are already up', so that's not right, as that says that those are in numeric form at that moment
My hypothesis hearing the question: the score board is showing LIV and MCI because they're abbreviations for the teams' names or something along those lines, which is 54 and 1101 in Roman numerals.
Edit: hehe :D Roman numerals my beloved
I got this one because of tthat one meme about the girl named Liv talking to the romans named quintus, sextus, etc LOL
Haven’t finished the vid… 54 and 1,101 is LIV and MCI as Roman numerals… are those the teams?
Edit: LIV is Liverpool and MCI is Manchester?
Time and temperature?
I was guessing temp (degrees F) and pressure (hPa)
As soon as Tom said "Nope" when Tom was reading out the digits I figured it out. It took me googling to figuring out what the actual end result meant, but that's because I've never watched soccer
This is also why LIV Golf is called as such, because it's over 54 holes (18 short of normal, non-Saudi golf)
My first guess without completely revealing the answer: Liverpool vs. Manchester City?
I got it at 4:08
Liverpool vs Manchester City?
liv / mci?
Is that right?
It was Tom specifying it was "one thousand one hundred and one" instead of "one one zero one" that triggered that if so.
Watching on TV, ahh... For one peculiar reason, if you're familiar with NBC Sports' Premier League Coverage, this won't work in the U.S. The 54 is stable. But the other number is off by one. This is specific to the games shown on TV with NBC Sports' own presentation. And considering the teams involved, you're pretty well assured of seeing it on TV!
It's pretty funny that in my country, they are removing Roman numbers from more of the curriculum.
Dear Sergi:
That. Was. *Filthy.*
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With how you insisted on the wording, I was expecting 1000, 100 and 1 to be separate numbers. I didn't realize the thing until you spelled out "L-I-V".
If MCI are playing at home, the score would be: MCI0-0lIV (with an l as lower case) = 1001
Took me a minute for this one
Got it when the name was mentioned, yay
Roman numerals would be LIV for 54, the panel got it before I could complete my answer 😅
t'was at 6:00 that I realized it was roman numerals
Got it immediately
For once I got this one straight away in terms of what was going on.
Took me almost as long as the players.
Side question:
Liv is also a name. Is it the longest name that is also a "valid" Roman number?
Would MIX be the longest word in Roman numeral then
@@garbagecazWould you be LIVID if you were wrong?
Ironically on the topic of football, there was a Manchester United footballer called Nemanja Vidic. His surname are Roman numerals
@@Ryan-ho4hf I am sorry, I meant the largest (MIX-->1009)
@@MrWillyMrBrightside The letters are, yes, but their order doesn't match how roman numerals are written.
I have not been more angry about a Lateral question's answer.
I got this one straight away, haha!
"Have a think about how it's going to be written on the TV" and then it clicked. TOM. I HATE YOU.
Got it within a few seconds
My first guess is 'away fans' and 'home fans'
This reminds me when Sweden play Denmark, you get SWE / DEN
got it a bit before them but damn this is very nerdy
Oh my god I got it 4 minutes in.
Before I see it fully: is it the number of times the two towns have fought in wars/battles and the ratio of respective wins to losses
Edit: Ah smart
even as a big football fan I haven't got the first idea.
Well that's more writing on my bedroom wall, I should use a notepad but the wall's there...
I didn't get it. 🙄
I'm also mad at the question writer haha
this is such a witty one! thank you!
54: S,A
1101: L,L,O,L
Is there someone named SALLOL who's celebrated by that number?
I don't know Jeff
Aaaah, I hate you. That was brilliant
never wouldve gotten it sadly, because i know nothing about any american teams
What a delightfully evil question
the crossword people probably got this one in seconds
The person running the scoreboard is a liar.
Because the game is fixed and the scorekeeper forgot to wait to post the score.
54, eh? I think I know where this is going.
I'm proud to say I got this as soon as Tom said they're gonna hate the question writer :D
Brilliant question, hate it.
This is "either you know it or you don't", there's not lateral knowledge here
3:09 "boobies! :)"
I figured this one out in seconds. But I'm a football fan. And a nerd who knows Roman numbers
The lesson to learn here is obvious: ROMANES EVNT DOMVS
The end was kind of disappointing... they did not show the numbers, they just shown the thing and Sergey saw the numbers in it?
It would have been cool, if they really were showing the numbers
The numbers are just the Roman numerals "LIV MCI" though, not the Arabic numerals. So the screen just said "LIV 0:0 MCI".
@@thespankmyfrank that's exactly what I figured from the ending, that it just shown LIV and MCI and just the question-setter interpreted it as 54 and 1101
Id would have been much better, if the person responsible for the board wrote 54 and 1101 on the board as an inside joke. That's my point :)
Geeks live here. I mean geeks LIV here.
My guess would be the footballers were time traveling steroid junkies.
a nasty little question from the question makers. nice.
Go 54!
#YNWA