This match is the reason why there should be a time limit in the bonuses. While it's obviously a strategy to keep the lead, it irritated me very much how the winner kept stalling from the very beginning. The only time I saw them answering quickly was in the last question when all was done and dusted.
@@freddiethecutestcavapoo9184 also if you see Harrison at the Gong, he is dejected. I don't think I have ever seen a participant so disappointed and rightfully so because the opponents took their own sweet time.
I completely agree with you, but I would say that both teams were using the same tactic here. As you said though, by the last questions they were rushing so much. This is what it should be like on all the bonus questions. There should be a 10 or 15 second limit. Time to discuss but not enough time to go "Hmm, what 17th Century battles do we know. Well, there's this, that, this that. Oh it could be that. No, that was early 17th. Wait, what did he say, Russian? Oh it can't be that. Hmmm"
To be fair I read this comment before watching the video and I only understood which team you were talking about in the 24th minute, but yea those final minutes were blatant timewasting
Thank you so much CosmicP! You rule! As for the match, initially I liked Christchurch, but I found their almost endless discussions towards the end, and their total ignoring of pleas to speed up blatantly unfair and unsportspersonlike! I have never felt like that about this type of behaviour before. But they really took the biscuit! it wasn't even as if they were actually involved in substantial discussions. The chatter was just filled with hollow, meaningless blah blah! And yes, I am aware that Emmanuel at times went painfully slowly about things, too. But Christ Church was just playing for time! Boo!
I agree. I'd like to think it was just lack of awareness but Amol repeatedly reminds them and even threatens to end their time and they still don't change.
It’s very frustrating to watch the team in the lead conferring leisurely on questions they can’t answer late in the game. There seems to be a premise that everyone will act in good faith. I wonder if teams are coached to stall with a lead late in the game.
With this set-up, the perception of “gaming the system” is inevitable. That’s why you can’t blame the team in the lead; the fault is with the producers/rules. The show needs to add a :15 or :20 timer so there’s never any question of a team intentionally delaying to waste time, or of the moderator being too lenient or too strict in the amt of time he allows them. Start the clock when he finishes reading; turn the numbers red when it hits 5 seconds; sound a buzzer at 0:00. It removes any question of perceived inequities.
In almost any competition or sport, knowing how to use the clock is skill in itself so I wouldn’t blame a team for using it to their advantage. Would agree there should clear time limits but Christ Church “parked the bus” very well in fairness
Both teams dithered endlessly over the bonus questions, I don't think the winning team is to blame or slowed down the pace late in the game. A very frustrating watch throughout.
Dean isn't the type who knows much esoteric stock knowledge but she really makes excellent use of deductive analysis -- like her answers "Sky", "Bat", and "Trigonometry". She isn't afraid to trust her hunch, which means also risking points. But the payoff was worth it. Rooted for Emmanuel but self-doubts took over in this match: like saying "It might be a trap" which only triggered analysis paralysis -- destructive in a time-constrained game.
Close it was; vintage it was not - that's the lowest joint score this series - bonus rates of 11/24 and 13/30, along with much more discussion time than as of late I think contributed to that (can't judge if the questions in this particular match were harder than any of the last few). Still nice for the winners that the buzzing was more spread - not sure at all on future prospects but they're in the dance for now at least. Also surprised that Mr Wotton's 9 starters in Christ Church's first game weren't mentioned as well?
Thanks again, CosmicPumpkin! What a match this was. And decided by one wrong answer by the losing team. As Rajan himself said, that word will pain them for a long time. As usual, I listened to each team member's field of study from the introduction by both teams, and then guessed who would be the eventual winner. Also as usual, I was wrong. They say insanity is defined by doing the same thing over and over, yet expecting a different result. Oh well. It's a real shame these teams had to meet when they did. Both teams and each individual can be proud of their performance in this match. My best to all of them.
I think university challenge might have an unofficial policy to pit oxbridge colleges against each other in early rounds and thereby avoid an all oxbridge final and the accusations of elitism that would produce in the media. They’ve already set a limit on only 3 colleges from each entering a team per year
It continues to baffle me that there’s no formal timer for conferring. Hearing the host say ‘Come on,’ repeatedly is annoying, and there’s no real consequence for repeated offences. There should be a timer that starts and which counts for the duration of the bonuses. If a team runs out of time before all the questions are completed, they forfeit the score. That’s one idea that could work.
Not too impressed by either team this week....a certain spark missing between the players. Far too much dithering and stalling by both teams, especially Christ Church.l agree that there should be a time out warning during conferring. However, great to see how each team tackles the questions each week. Thanks for keeping us entertained!
The moat ridiculous thing about the stalling is that you actually deny yourself the chance to score more points. We’ve all seen teams that faff about deliberately in close matches find themselves beaten at the last by a faster buzzer. Better by far to throw yourself straight back into the starters and trust yourself to pick up half of them.
Christ Church should be ashamed of their obvious stalling tactics. If I were one of the organizers, I would disqualify them for what was a clear lack of sportsmanship.
They should get time if they're discussing options, not just a general call out as to wheter they've even got an educated guess that takes more than a couple of second. That also does them the favour of not highlighting their lack of clues, better all round just to move on.
Yes I thought the leisurely pace of conferring was at odds with the brisk progression we had come to expect since the new presenter took over . In fairness to him he did threaten to time them out at one stage.
I think it's fair game. The other team should've played better earlier. Why should Christ Church answer immediately and possibly blunder a narrow victory when they can run out the clock? It happens in every sport.
First click of the day...that woke me up😵💫 Anyone else think Wotton was winding the clock down, he pushed it to the limit more than once and was warned about it? They won't get much further, imo. Geometry? Ouch!
Frustrating watch, this one. I'm all for conferring - a team collaboratively working their way towards an answer is lovely to watch, even if it's just a best guess. But most of the discussions in this match seemed knowingly aimless, as evidenced by many of the wildly off-base guesses. Did *any* of the extended conferring eventually bring a team to the right answer? Maybe once? Perhaps it was a tactic, perhaps it was a way to appear less ignorant about the question topics, perhaps it's just what their coaches have advised them to do as a rule. Regardless, I much prefer when teams are confident and self-aware enough to admit (quickly) the gaps in their knowledge without pretense. I think it's much more in the spirit of the game.
I don't wanna brag, but kinda chuffed with a full round on 18th century treaties and conflicts 😂 Quite enjoyed tonight's show, although I do feel both sides would struggle against some of the other opposition we've seen. Mind you, easy to critique from the comfort of my armchair!
Another thank you to CosmicP, my Monday hero!!! Good game. Both teams worthy of a win but I didn't think Cantab (Cambridge!) was quite up to prior form tonight!
Good match, although a little too much confereing for my liking. Most of the recent matches have had much faster questions and I prefer that style. Anyway, came here to say I really like Harrison as Q in the last couple of Bond movies.
I think it's fair game. If they are in the lead, it would be a poor tactical play to answer immediately and possibly hand out the victory to the other team. The other team should've just played better earlier, they have no excuses.
To go down the road of stalling for time or running down the clock would ruin the game completly and be unfair. For instuction on how to behave each team should have to watch all rounds involving Newnham Collage last season.
Disappointing performance from Emmanuel, I expected big things from them after 1st Round. Neither teams were good enough with the bonus questions. Unfortunately I don't see Christ Church making a push for the victory. Imperial still clear favourites in this tournament IMO, I was hoping to see Emmanuel make a statement tonight.
From Allen, Texas, thanks again CosmicPumpkin. Vince Lombardi, a famous American Football coach, said that he never lost - he just ran out of time. UC deffo needs a clock for bonus questions.
The episode that sparked the deranged right-wing frenzy, targeting a Muslim woman with bogus and laughable claims of anti-Semitism. Thankfully, today she has won in court and the idiots who defamed her have been forced to apologise. (if you can't tell how this comment relates to the episode, then that has proven my point about bizarre and baseless the claims of anti-Semitism were)
Very annoying to watch. I’d like to see Amol actually start timing teams out rather than just threaten it. As for Amol - feel like he’s getting stronger with each episode
I'd say it is still the standard *English* pronunciation for not only the character himself but also for all those (the Lotharios and the Casanovas) who share the same behavioural traits. Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, on the other hand, is pronounced and sung in the Italian fashion.
Actually Amol's and Jeremy's pronunciation of Juan in the context of the Byron poem is the correct one. If you read the poem you can see that in the rhymes that Byron chooses. Also, I believe that it was a deliberate affectation back in those days (we would call it racism nowadays) to pronounce Juan in an unashamedly English fashion, a way of looking down on the Spanish with whom the British were warring on and off for centuries before Byron.
The first two bonus questions asked for a “national capital” but the third just asked for “a major city.” Under those conditions, it’s not surprising that the contestants were primed to think in terms of a national capital for the third question as well.
I got the most number of questions correct in this one. Managed to make a few guesses (Keats, Augustus) that were somehow correct too. There really seems to be the case of stalling here but I see it more on the team captain, who seemed to need a bit more push to give an answer, compared to the other captains. They should have a policy where if being reminded of time more than twice, there should be a change in captain or introduction of timer.
The people complaining about stalling may not fully understand the feeling of needing to answer questions under pressure. As a quiz bowl player, I know what it's like when the panic sets in and you just can't make anything escape your mouth. Wotton looked especially like he wanted to be polite and give an answer but couldn't get anything from his brain to his voice (which maybe makes him not the best choice for captain, but that's a different issue). No one will see this because I'm three months late but I'd like to complain about people complaining anyway.
Not saying anything that hasn’t been said by other comments, but this one felt very painful and almost unwatchable at times. The quality of this entire show would skyrocket if teams had like a 10 second timer on conferring. In the meantime, it’s an agonizing way to watch a close match turn into a deliberate stall-fest by the winning team 😔 Edit: I also feel like Paxman wouldn’t have let this episode go down like this. I like Rajan a lot but yeesh man. Fewer “come on”s and more “Sorry, took too long”s would make this episode feel more fair.
Alagar is pretty arrogant despite being wrong. I like how she shut down Harrison for suggesting Breda as a Dutch city, with her claiming it isn't Dutch...
A great many names of both countries/cities/people, have a standard English pronunciation that differs from the native pronunciation: e.g., Lisbon instead of Lisboa and Saladin instead of Salah ad-Din. There are those who will opt for the native pronunciation, which is nowadays accepted, but is usually born of ignorance of the proper English pronunciation or pretentiousness: a latter example is saying 'HiMAAlaya' instead of 'HimalAya' or worse, pronouncing Paris in French while speaking English.
That's how it's pronounced in the poem. Paxman said it (more or less) the Spanish way when talking about real people by that name, and I have to imagine Rajan will too.
@@shinichikudo3515it is a convention to use an English pronunciation in certain works of literature from the past, which seems quite odd, but it persists.
Actually that pronunciation of Juan in the context of the Byron poem is the correct one. If you read the poem you can see that in the rhymes that Byron chooses. Also, I believe that it was a deliberate affectation back in those days (we would call it racism nowadays) to pronounce Juan in an unashamedly English fashion, a way of looking down on the Spanish with whom the British were warring on and off for centuries before Byron.
Joo an !?!? It's not that difficult to pronounce the name juan properly. Honestly it makes English people sound unutterably stupid when people hear the way we insist on pronouncing Don Juan.
Once again sadly disappointed by the knowledge of British wildlife. Those bird call questions were all so easy. The way they treat the questions as if they are beneath them with lots of laughing also depresses me. No hope for retention of biodiversity when there’s so little interest from the young in the environment.
I laughed too because it was a weird question. They could've played live recordings of the birds but instead they had Rajan mimic the birds. It was a pretty dumb question.
Can someone please teach Amol Rajan the "usual pronunciation" of the words "a" and "the", before he starts passing judgment on the pronunciation of foreign names at 4:02?
The woman in the middle for Christ Church Oxford absolute disgusting for displaying that octopus. Shows what the BBC are really like. Boycott the TV licence tax.
so you saw a toy octopus, and thought that the only logical explanation for was that someone on the team had dug up an obscure nazi political cartoon and decided to show the world that they hated Jewish people. Would you have come to the same conclusion if you had watched this when it was recorded - i.e. in March? consider this: quiz teams often have plush toys as a mascot. And this is just a blue octopus because someone on the team likes octopuses. also, you don't know who the toy belongs to. You just perceived something as anti-Semitic and then blamed the woman wearing a headscarf. Maybe you should examine yourself first.
This match is the reason why there should be a time limit in the bonuses. While it's obviously a strategy to keep the lead, it irritated me very much how the winner kept stalling from the very beginning. The only time I saw them answering quickly was in the last question when all was done and dusted.
Completely agree. I've said for years that there should be a proper "clock" for answering bonus questions.
@@freddiethecutestcavapoo9184 also if you see Harrison at the Gong, he is dejected. I don't think I have ever seen a participant so disappointed and rightfully so because the opponents took their own sweet time.
Very poor sportsmanship.
I completely agree with you, but I would say that both teams were using the same tactic here. As you said though, by the last questions they were rushing so much. This is what it should be like on all the bonus questions. There should be a 10 or 15 second limit. Time to discuss but not enough time to go "Hmm, what 17th Century battles do we know. Well, there's this, that, this that. Oh it could be that. No, that was early 17th. Wait, what did he say, Russian? Oh it can't be that. Hmmm"
To be fair I read this comment before watching the video and I only understood which team you were talking about in the 24th minute, but yea those final minutes were blatant timewasting
The trigonometry question was the defining point of the episode, as was the rat/bat. I don't see the winners going to the semis...
Thank you so much CosmicP! You rule! As for the match, initially I liked Christchurch, but I found their almost endless discussions towards the end, and their total ignoring of pleas to speed up blatantly unfair and unsportspersonlike! I have never felt like that about this type of behaviour before. But they really took the biscuit! it wasn't even as if they were actually involved in substantial discussions. The chatter was just filled with hollow, meaningless blah blah! And yes, I am aware that Emmanuel at times went painfully slowly about things, too. But Christ Church was just playing for time! Boo!
I agree, I was praying on the comback of Emmanuel, and the random discussion when they clearly didn't know was infuriating
I agree. I'd like to think it was just lack of awareness but Amol repeatedly reminds them and even threatens to end their time and they still don't change.
On a positive note it looks like Dean has a bop before answering the music question 15:30
It’s very frustrating to watch the team in the lead conferring leisurely on questions they can’t answer late in the game.
There seems to be a premise that everyone will act in good faith. I wonder if teams are coached to stall with a lead late in the game.
With this set-up, the perception of “gaming the system” is inevitable. That’s why you can’t blame the team in the lead; the fault is with the producers/rules. The show needs to add a :15 or :20 timer so there’s never any question of a team intentionally delaying to waste time, or of the moderator being too lenient or too strict in the amt of time he allows them. Start the clock when he finishes reading; turn the numbers red when it hits 5 seconds; sound a buzzer at 0:00. It removes any question of perceived inequities.
In almost any competition or sport, knowing how to use the clock is skill in itself so I wouldn’t blame a team for using it to their advantage. Would agree there should clear time limits but Christ Church “parked the bus” very well in fairness
Has anyone accusing teams of stalling actually timed it?
They understandably went to the corner flag.
Both teams dithered endlessly over the bonus questions, I don't think the winning team is to blame or slowed down the pace late in the game. A very frustrating watch throughout.
Dean isn't the type who knows much esoteric stock knowledge but she really makes excellent use of deductive analysis -- like her answers "Sky", "Bat", and "Trigonometry". She isn't afraid to trust her hunch, which means also risking points. But the payoff was worth it.
Rooted for Emmanuel but self-doubts took over in this match: like saying "It might be a trap" which only triggered analysis paralysis -- destructive in a time-constrained game.
Well that was stressful! I feel sorry for the losing team but they did their best. Thanks, as always, CP for your great efforts. Most appreciated.
Close it was; vintage it was not - that's the lowest joint score this series - bonus rates of 11/24 and 13/30, along with much more discussion time than as of late I think contributed to that (can't judge if the questions in this particular match were harder than any of the last few). Still nice for the winners that the buzzing was more spread - not sure at all on future prospects but they're in the dance for now at least. Also surprised that Mr Wotton's 9 starters in Christ Church's first game weren't mentioned as well?
Thank you for posting this great challenge, marvelous.
wonderful episode, both teams are fabulous. What spectacle of intelligence and culture
Thanks again, CosmicPumpkin! What a match this was. And decided by one wrong answer by the losing team. As Rajan himself said, that word will pain them for a long time.
As usual, I listened to each team member's field of study from the introduction by both teams, and then guessed who would be the eventual winner. Also as usual, I was wrong. They say insanity is defined by doing the same thing over and over, yet expecting a different result. Oh well.
It's a real shame these teams had to meet when they did. Both teams and each individual can be proud of their performance in this match. My best to all of them.
I think university challenge might have an unofficial policy to pit oxbridge colleges against each other in early rounds and thereby avoid an all oxbridge final and the accusations of elitism that would produce in the media.
They’ve already set a limit on only 3 colleges from each entering a team per year
What? When did that happen?
@@nope2dat
Ditto, thanks CP. Brit in Michigan, really enjoying this. Delighted with how Amol has already put his stamp on the show.
It continues to baffle me that there’s no formal timer for conferring. Hearing the host say ‘Come on,’ repeatedly is annoying, and there’s no real consequence for repeated offences. There should be a timer that starts and which counts for the duration of the bonuses. If a team runs out of time before all the questions are completed, they forfeit the score. That’s one idea that could work.
Not too impressed by either team this week....a certain spark missing between the players. Far too much dithering and stalling by both teams, especially Christ Church.l agree that there should be a time out warning during conferring. However, great to see how each team tackles the questions each week. Thanks for keeping us entertained!
Totally agree!
Christ Church Lowe was the best part of the episode hands down
No doubt
The moat ridiculous thing about the stalling is that you actually deny yourself the chance to score more points.
We’ve all seen teams that faff about deliberately in close matches find themselves beaten at the last by a faster buzzer.
Better by far to throw yourself straight back into the starters and trust yourself to pick up half of them.
Thank you CP. I think I got two questions correct, but was shouting at the screen with numerous wong ones!
Christ Church should be ashamed of their obvious stalling tactics. If I were one of the organizers, I would disqualify them for what was a clear lack of sportsmanship.
They should get time if they're discussing options, not just a general call out as to wheter they've even got an educated guess that takes more than a couple of second. That also does them the favour of not highlighting their lack of clues, better all round just to move on.
Yes I thought the leisurely pace of conferring was at odds with the brisk progression we had come to expect since the new presenter took over . In fairness to him he did threaten to time them out at one stage.
I think it's fair game. The other team should've played better earlier. Why should Christ Church answer immediately and possibly blunder a narrow victory when they can run out the clock? It happens in every sport.
First click of the day...that woke me up😵💫
Anyone else think Wotton was winding the clock down, he pushed it to the limit more than once and was warned about it? They won't get much further, imo. Geometry? Ouch!
Talk about neck-and-neck , wow ! Both great teams. Thank you CP.
WORST CASE of stalling I have EVER SEEN.
Very competitive match with a lot of fun questions and damn if wasn't cheering for Emmanuel to get back in the lead at the end.
Frustrating watch, this one. I'm all for conferring - a team collaboratively working their way towards an answer is lovely to watch, even if it's just a best guess.
But most of the discussions in this match seemed knowingly aimless, as evidenced by many of the wildly off-base guesses. Did *any* of the extended conferring eventually bring a team to the right answer? Maybe once?
Perhaps it was a tactic, perhaps it was a way to appear less ignorant about the question topics, perhaps it's just what their coaches have advised them to do as a rule. Regardless, I much prefer when teams are confident and self-aware enough to admit (quickly) the gaps in their knowledge without pretense. I think it's much more in the spirit of the game.
I don't wanna brag, but kinda chuffed with a full round on 18th century treaties and conflicts 😂 Quite enjoyed tonight's show, although I do feel both sides would struggle against some of the other opposition we've seen. Mind you, easy to critique from the comfort of my armchair!
Another thank you to CosmicP, my Monday hero!!!
Good game. Both teams worthy of a win but I didn't think Cantab (Cambridge!) was quite up to prior form tonight!
Good match, although a little too much confereing for my liking. Most of the recent matches have had much faster questions and I prefer that style. Anyway, came here to say I really like Harrison as Q in the last couple of Bond movies.
Wasn't Emmanuel's captain quite slow at giving the answers? It felt there was time wasted just there.
Really enjoyed this one. Thanks Cosmic.
Sorry Christ Church dawdled much too long for their conferring. It lessened the time for Emmanuel. So wrong and unfair!
I think it's fair game. If they are in the lead, it would be a poor tactical play to answer immediately and possibly hand out the victory to the other team. The other team should've just played better earlier, they have no excuses.
I disagree. That's blatant unsportsmanlike behavior and especially repeatedly ignoring the moderator's requests for them to provide an answer quickly.
To go down the road of stalling for time or running down the clock would ruin the game completly and be unfair.
For instuction on how to behave each team should have to watch all rounds involving Newnham Collage last season.
Disappointing performance from Emmanuel, I expected big things from them after 1st Round. Neither teams were good enough with the bonus questions. Unfortunately I don't see Christ Church making a push for the victory.
Imperial still clear favourites in this tournament IMO, I was hoping to see Emmanuel make a statement tonight.
I favor Edinburgh more to take the series. A final against Imperial would be a dream!
I would have said Hertford.
Christ Church are the complete and total opposite of the Open University, which would just flatten them.
These two predictions have not boded well
@@gooscarguitarYep, I stand corrected 😖
Love Harrison's sweater
Great round. Thank you for posting.
good game, but can you imagine trying to get these people to hurry up when you're late for the train?!
From Allen, Texas, thanks again CosmicPumpkin.
Vince Lombardi, a famous American Football coach, said that he never lost - he just ran out of time.
UC deffo needs a clock for bonus questions.
The episode that sparked the deranged right-wing frenzy, targeting a Muslim woman with bogus and laughable claims of anti-Semitism. Thankfully, today she has won in court and the idiots who defamed her have been forced to apologise.
(if you can't tell how this comment relates to the episode, then that has proven my point about bizarre and baseless the claims of anti-Semitism were)
WHERE DID HARRISON GET THAT LOVELY JUMPER FROM?
Lowe didn't get the Christ Church email 'Wear something colourful' 😊
Sad at the lack of Gaiman knowledge!
It's crazy to me how there is still not a strict time limit for questions in these...
Does anyone know where I can get Harrison's goose jumper?!
Alagar was too slow for a captain.
also arrogant when she is wrong
Very annoying to watch. I’d like to see Amol actually start timing teams out rather than just threaten it. As for Amol - feel like he’s getting stronger with each episode
Subs at 24:01 should read Iraq, not Iran, as Iran's capital is Tehran, breaking the question 🙂
@@jeffg.6110 Which is what ChrisWar666 points out.
The subtitles are taken from BBC iplayer, they're wrong on there too
PHD in Astrophisics and can't ace astrophysics questions... sheesh...
Maybe tensed
Thank you!
Don Giu-an? Is that the received pronunciation in English?
😢 I had a crush on Harrison and now hes out haha #sad
Am I the only person to note Amol is using Paxman's pronunciation of Juan.
Well, it is the one that rhymes in the poem, isn't it?
I'd say it is still the standard *English* pronunciation for not only the character himself but also for all those (the Lotharios and the Casanovas) who share the same behavioural traits. Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, on the other hand, is pronounced and sung in the Italian fashion.
Byron’s pronunciation. Bit of a shibboleth for poetry nerds.
@@Nav-gs7br Yes. In the very first verse he rhymes Juan with 'new one' and 'true one.'
Actually Amol's and Jeremy's pronunciation of Juan in the context of the Byron poem is the correct one. If you read the poem you can see that in the rhymes that Byron chooses. Also, I believe that it was a deliberate affectation back in those days (we would call it racism nowadays) to pronounce Juan in an unashamedly English fashion, a way of looking down on the Spanish with whom the British were warring on and off for centuries before Byron.
Bro, Taiwan is an island. Come on now.
That guy(Sutton!) might’ve been the least knowledgeable contestant in re geography.
Not to be confused with GPS Zeng for sure@@johnahearn7964
hes thinking of countries in that area, and then thinking of the capitals of that country.
The first two bonus questions asked for a “national capital” but the third just asked for “a major city.” Under those conditions, it’s not surprising that the contestants were primed to think in terms of a national capital for the third question as well.
Hanoi a surprising answer too
When are you going to upload E20?
Amol's BBC2 interview show started up again today, with Ronnie O'Sullivan as his guest.
Did Jericho seem too easy? The Book of Joshua?
I was amazed that Gorgianeh actually spoke. She said nothing in the previous match
Is she trying to be a flag?
One might contend she spoke louder than anyone on the screen.
I got the most number of questions correct in this one. Managed to make a few guesses (Keats, Augustus) that were somehow correct too. There really seems to be the case of stalling here but I see it more on the team captain, who seemed to need a bit more push to give an answer, compared to the other captains. They should have a policy where if being reminded of time more than twice, there should be a change in captain or introduction of timer.
Me during the whole video 👁️👄👁️
I find it very frustrating to watch Christ church take the lead and then stall on bonus questions they know they don't have the answer for...
Just out of interest, why is Dave Garda not posting these still. ??
Thanks
The stalling when they were ahead!!! 😮😮😮So dishonest. Disappointed it worked for them.
My score this time was only 50😢
The people complaining about stalling may not fully understand the feeling of needing to answer questions under pressure. As a quiz bowl player, I know what it's like when the panic sets in and you just can't make anything escape your mouth. Wotton looked especially like he wanted to be polite and give an answer but couldn't get anything from his brain to his voice (which maybe makes him not the best choice for captain, but that's a different issue). No one will see this because I'm three months late but I'd like to complain about people complaining anyway.
Not saying anything that hasn’t been said by other comments, but this one felt very painful and almost unwatchable at times. The quality of this entire show would skyrocket if teams had like a 10 second timer on conferring. In the meantime, it’s an agonizing way to watch a close match turn into a deliberate stall-fest by the winning team 😔
Edit: I also feel like Paxman wouldn’t have let this episode go down like this. I like Rajan a lot but yeesh man. Fewer “come on”s and more “Sorry, took too long”s would make this episode feel more fair.
Alagar is pretty arrogant despite being wrong. I like how she shut down Harrison for suggesting Breda as a Dutch city, with her claiming it isn't Dutch...
I wanna study Animal Behaviourology
No offence, but I absolutely hate the face that Emmanuel's Alagar make while putting across her answer. Every. Single. time.
That’s a split opinion. Another comment saying exactly the opposite has a lot of thumbs.
she’s acting like a cringe book character😭😭
Am incapable of hating someone's facial expression but do find it disagreeable.
The time it takes before she delivers the answer is the real problem here imo.
It's that mouthbreathing chin move. Quite divisive. Quite rare.
Both teams kept stalling excessively. Hopwfully the winners lose their next match.
Yeah, both teams were very very slow and had weird energies between their members. Frustrating to watch!
The most egregious stalling I've seen.
Don Jew-an 💀
❤
Alagar, please fix your posture!
No way its murman thurman
At the risk of sounding like a dunce, can anyone explain why he’s pronouncing it “don-jewan” instead of Don Juan?
A great many names of both countries/cities/people, have a standard English pronunciation that differs from the native pronunciation: e.g., Lisbon instead of Lisboa and Saladin instead of Salah ad-Din. There are those who will opt for the native pronunciation, which is nowadays accepted, but is usually born of ignorance of the proper English pronunciation or pretentiousness: a latter example is saying 'HiMAAlaya' instead of 'HimalAya' or worse, pronouncing Paris in French while speaking English.
@@castelodeossos3947 Be all of that as it may, Juan is Spanish for John in English, even basic speakers of either can pronounce the counterpart’s.
probably only seen it on paper
That's how it's pronounced in the poem. Paxman said it (more or less) the Spanish way when talking about real people by that name, and I have to imagine Rajan will too.
@@cat_or_pillar I see, thank you for the elaboration. Much appreciated.
I love Alagar's facial expression every time she gives the answer. 😁
That’s a split opinion. Another comment saying exactly the opposite has a lot of thumbs.
It makes me want to vomit.
Why is he pronouncing Don Juan like that? :|
Glad I'm not the only one bothered. Due One. Still ok too he's still good hehhe
@@shinichikudo3515it is a convention to use an English pronunciation in certain works of literature from the past, which seems quite odd, but it persists.
Because that;s the way Byron pronounced it in the poem.. In the first stanza the rhyming lines and 'new one' and 'true one.'
Actually that pronunciation of Juan in the context of the Byron poem is the correct one. If you read the poem you can see that in the rhymes that Byron chooses. Also, I believe that it was a deliberate affectation back in those days (we would call it racism nowadays) to pronounce Juan in an unashamedly English fashion, a way of looking down on the Spanish with whom the British were warring on and off for centuries before Byron.
@@Olivia-cq7tv Ah, I didn't know. Thanks for pointing that out, I appreciate it :)
Cardi b in an intellectual quiz question ⁉️ seriously??? Is this a joke?
Do Brits really pronounce "Juan" as "Joo-en"?!
Yet another question about the box-ticker Lise Meitner.
What Is It Like to Be a... Rat! What a travesty
Joo an !?!? It's not that difficult to pronounce the name juan properly. Honestly it makes English people sound unutterably stupid when people hear the way we insist on pronouncing Don Juan.
Once again sadly disappointed by the knowledge of British wildlife. Those bird call questions were all so easy. The way they treat the questions as if they are beneath them with lots of laughing also depresses me. No hope for retention of biodiversity when there’s so little interest from the young in the environment.
In fairness I don't think the laughter was dismissive, but rather of hopelessness - think "oh god I have no idea. We're screwed 😂"
goddamn eat a snickers bruh 😭😭😭
I laughed too because it was a weird question. They could've played live recordings of the birds but instead they had Rajan mimic the birds. It was a pretty dumb question.
It's impossible to know EVERYTHING
Can someone please teach Amol Rajan the "usual pronunciation" of the words "a" and "the", before he starts passing judgment on the pronunciation of foreign names at 4:02?
He could also improve on his pronunciation of Juan.
@@Outwhere That pronunciation of Juan is specific to the poem
Omg first 🙌🏻
"Don Giu-an"??? the brits can't pronounce Spanish names properly!!! and this is University Challenge!!!
Interesting choice of colors, Gorgianeh
Too political for my taste. Was that why she was on the team?
Always a pleasure to see an oxbridge college lose!
The woman in the middle for Christ Church Oxford absolute disgusting for displaying that octopus. Shows what the BBC are really like. Boycott the TV licence tax.
so you saw a toy octopus, and thought that the only logical explanation for was that someone on the team had dug up an obscure nazi political cartoon and decided to show the world that they hated Jewish people. Would you have come to the same conclusion if you had watched this when it was recorded - i.e. in March?
consider this: quiz teams often have plush toys as a mascot. And this is just a blue octopus because someone on the team likes octopuses.
also, you don't know who the toy belongs to. You just perceived something as anti-Semitic and then blamed the woman wearing a headscarf. Maybe you should examine yourself first.
Get a grip! The show was recorded months before the crisis in Gaza! Moreover, octopusses have always be an important element of popular culture!
Why are you an Octopus Hater? Not even an octopus could get you off? BBC have gone full NeoCon lately.
Does anyone know which other episode Gorgianeh is on please?