University Challenge and Only Connect 2024/2025

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Meglet 17 Sep 9:57am, 17 Sep 2024 25,064 posts	0 Meglet The missing vowels were really hard last night, it’s usually a good round for me. Did ok on the walls, even spotted the anagrams though couldn’t see two of them.
larkim 17 Sep 9:59am, 17 Sep 2024 25,620 posts	0 larkim Funnily enough I did OK on the vowels. Agree that the connections were easy, relatively, but they did hook onto a few of them very rapidly. Funny how film / actor knowledge is often important on the walls. Feels disproportionately represented there (not that I'm complaining).
JamieKai chameleon 17 Sep 2:28pm, 17 Sep 2024 19,154 posts	0 JamieKai chameleon I think them hooking onto them quickly was more about how easy they were though. The "triangle with extra lines" one was achingly easy and I had that almost immediately - I was surprised they went for a second clue. I wonder if the film-link in the walls is a new thing? I seem to remember earlier series leaning more heavily into homonyms, etc - assume they need to change thematically to avoid becoming predictable?
larkim 17 Sep 2:52pm, 17 Sep 2024 25,622 posts	0 larkim Yep, the shapes was easy (though I had drawn a different shape in my head for the first item), as was the 1911, 1912 pattern. The musical amphibian was also pretty straightforward.
Fragile Do Not Bend 17 Sep 5:26pm, 17 Sep 2024 12,087 posts	0 Fragile Do Not Bend Identifying the second song in the music round earned me an eyeroll from Mr F
JamieKai chameleon 18 Sep 3:09pm, 18 Sep 2024 19,157 posts	0 JamieKai chameleon Fragile Do Not Bend wrote:Identifying the second song in the music round earned me an eyeroll from Mr F Glad it wasn't just me, I named the song and "artist" - but needed the third clue to confirm the connection!
Fragile Do Not Bend 18 Sep 7:05pm, 18 Sep 2024 12,089 posts	0 Fragile Do Not Bend In my defence I had the album the song was on when I was little and played it to death.
Ocelot Spleens 24 Sep 1:01pm, 24 Sep 2024 39,601 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens I have caught up after holibobs, s9me good games, last week's OC seemed easier hence the scores, this week's was tough.
Meglet 24 Sep 1:15pm, 24 Sep 2024 25,087 posts	0 Meglet I did quite well on the walls this week, including the fruit anagrams and I’m usually rubbish at the wordy ones
larkim 24 Sep 1:17pm, 24 Sep 2024 25,662 posts	0 larkim I had a terrible time with the second wall this time. One thing I am happy about with OC is that team members who would never make it onto most quiz shows these days, which are more about chatting than actual quiz knowledge etc, get their place without being set up as parodies or punchbags for jokes. The Introverts' team captain being a case in point. Well done to the production team for selecting him and his teammates, most shows he would have failed the audition by some distance!