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University Challenge 2016/17
Just been watching the new series of University Challenge . Paxo looked ridiculous with his blond hair,
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And what was up with Bristol's Clarke? Plenty of withering looks directed at her team-mates and Paxman!
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I got quite a few right
There are a lot of "obvious" answers, aren't they. E.g. the tropisms. Obviously water is hydrotropism. Questions like that. |
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I was very distracted by Paxo's hair...
Bristol seemed quite good - all of them buzzed in for starters which is usually a good sign, rather than having just one superstar. |
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And what was up with Bristol's Clarke? Plenty of withering looks directed at her team-mates and Paxman!
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Just been watching the new series of University Challenge . Paxo looked ridiculous with his blond hair,
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/1...ity_Challenge/ Quote:
I was very distracted by Paxo's hair...
Bristol seemed quite good - all of them buzzed in for starters which is usually a good sign, rather than having just one superstar. |
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Good contest last night I thought - quite close right up to the end - feel sure that the losers will be back as one of the highest scorers.
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Good contest last night I thought - quite close right up to the end - feel sure that the losers will be back as one of the highest scorers.
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I know Oxford PPE students tend to end up in important positions, but having six or seven starter questions on Economics set texts seemed a little bit fishy to me.
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Isn't PPE one of those courses like Media Studies or Advanced Hairdressing?
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Isn't PPE one of those courses like Media Studies or Advanced Hairdressing?
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If you can ask that, I can't understand why you would be watching UC!
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Don't get you. Politics, Philosophy, Economics, right? I always assumed PPE was one of those degrees people took who couldn't manage a proper academic subject.
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Don't get you. Politics, Philosophy, Economics, right? I always assumed PPE was one of those degrees people took who couldn't manage a proper academic subject.
It is common for people to study a combination of more than one subject. Subjects such as Media Studies became a bit of a joke because they tended to be the newer universities (i.e. colleges) and no one in the industry had any respect for the courses. Might have changed now. |
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This is too early to tell but Corpus Christi is the early favourite. Jesus should come back and win the playoff - they are too good not to.
I love both teams - they don't take time guessing the answers and almost everyone has his or her share on the answers. Both equally balanced teams (however I suspect science might be the Achilles's Heel for Jesus and might cause trouble for them in later rounds) |
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No one watching last night?
Warwick (my old uni) look good, especially Rudd
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I thought the chap on the end for Liverpool, Kerek? was doing quite a good impression of Max Headroom.
![]() He didn't answer many questions, although he thought the surface area if the Indian ocean was the same as Jupiter's!
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Don't get you. Politics, Philosophy, Economics, right? I always assumed PPE was one of those degrees people took who couldn't manage a proper academic subject.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...th_PPE_degrees |
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No one watching last night?
Warwick (my old uni) look good, especially Rudd ![]() Very impressed by DS not sinking to its usual depths (although slightly disappointed too). |
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Do you mean the Wookie?
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Do you mean the Wookie?
And then there was Rudd... |
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I was more in a Lord of the Rings thought process, but I couldn't decide between Hobbit or Dwarf.
And then there was Rudd... Grow up. |
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I was more in a Lord of the Rings thought process, but I couldn't decide between Hobbit or Dwarf.
And then there was Rudd... I will happily mock a very beardy man though, or a man who looks like a bond villain yet doesn't know how big Jupiter is. |
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Don't get you. Politics, Philosophy, Economics, right? I always assumed PPE was one of those degrees people took who couldn't manage a proper academic subject.
Fancy your chances with 'only' a PPE degree? |
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Well, she may or may not be trans, it's not an issue for me nor a lot of people. If she is, more power to her for having the strength of character to be on telly and the twittering abuse it will undoubtedly bring.
I will happily mock a very beardy man though, or a man who looks like a bond villain yet doesn't know how big Jupiter is. |
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