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University Challenge and Only Connect 2024/2025

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Diogenes Aug 2023 10:42pm, 14 Aug 2023 80,757 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes Last week’s OC was good, two excellent teams (Thrifters and Suncatchers). I got one of the second round questions from the first clue.
LazyDaisy Aug 2023 7:59am, 15 Aug 2023 38,663 posts	Quote Pin LazyDaisy I was surprised the Isotopes struggled so much with the wall yesterday.
Ocelot Spleens Aug 2023 10:36am, 15 Aug 2023 37,813 posts	Quote Pin Ocelot Spleens We did too! Much better in UC got some good random answers....
Chrisity Aug 2023 10:48am, 15 Aug 2023 22,669 posts	Quote Pin Chrisity There seemed to be a lot of Maths questions, which pleased me.
Little Nemo Aug 2023 12:52pm, 15 Aug 2023 13,724 posts	Quote Pin Little Nemo The Isotopes were awful at the wall. They had 5 artists but seemed to just give up on going through them systematically and started doing random element stuff. I was yelling at the TV I thought the team dynamics on UC were a bit odd. The bloke next to the captain was pretty annoying, maybe he wanted to be the leader?
Ocelot Spleens Aug 2023 7:01pm, 15 Aug 2023 37,814 posts	Quote Pin Ocelot Spleens I think there's a tactical trend in UC over the past few years where the best or second best at answering anything sits far left and the captain 2nd left and increasingly the captain includes others whenever possible.
Little Nemo Aug 2023 9:06pm, 21 Aug 2023 13,733 posts	Quote Pin Little Nemo You know you're old when you're screaming "Joy Division!" at the TV and the students just look bemused at the answer
Dibble Aug 2023 9:47pm, 21 Aug 2023 1,010 posts	Quote Pin Dibble wow! I am told someone I know from my triathlon club was on Only Connect tonight (as I am away on holiday I'll have to catch up later in the week). She also completed an Ironman yesterday. That's 2 items on my 'would love to do one day, but probably never will' right there!
Oranj Aug 2023 9:59pm, 21 Aug 2023 3,763 posts	Quote Pin Oranj I'm a sucker for the Portillo double entendres which sometimes close the show; tonight's was a corker "A heavy pet with Michael Portillo"
Ocelot Spleens Aug 2023 10:07pm, 21 Aug 2023 37,842 posts	Quote Pin Ocelot Spleens I am preferring the Richard Osman books are tripe stuff.