Tom Jones is quite relaxed about hat etiquette in his own home of course.

Did we all think baby eating Bishop tonight?

Of course. I thought it was obvious my joke referred to men!

(I don't follow the Tom Jones reference, though )

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Tom Jones version was used in The Full Monty

Blackadder reference

... And yes it did spring to mind for me as well

Good spread of knowledge, particularly if its maths and philosophy. Also black turtle neck, if the young man was smoking a gauloise and had a rolled up copy of the transcendence of ego, he would have the full set.

Awwww gutted for Worcester. 5 (or 10?) points away from a best loser play-off. They were so close.

Surprised St Andrews got back into the match as they looked out of it for almost 20 minutes. The always smiling chubby guy from Switzerland carried the whole team (and boy what a knowledgeable fella). The constant smirk of the captain and his slow response kinda got on my nerves.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...nts-cant-answ/

lol this is interesting.

That explains why, on occasion, they get a starter correct and then the follow up questions are completely unrelated to any previous starters!

Heh, I thought that was just one of the quirks of UC.

Hardly a major shock. I wonder how many mistakes by Paxman are also edited out!

BTW the lovely girl in Worcester looks like a film star. Gorgeous. Effortless beauty.

The team were muttering it too

Pity she knew NOTHING right all evening (apart from 1 "guess" where she said 4 instead of 3 which was the answered "guessed" by the other side!!)

Largely true, tho' he did make one impressive captainly move, when he rejected Naseby as 'too early', and went on to come up with 'Worcestor' (which I for one had never heard of) and bag the points.

I thought she looked like the girl who works in my local Sainsburys. She mainly does the front counter, but is sometimes on the tills.

Probably not much help to you though.

You don't live in Oxford do you - quite a few of the students have jobs?

I did once see a University Challenge contestant walking up the road (I live about 10 miles away from Oxford and was in there shopping) and did a bit of a double-take. He was on the Magdalen team which won a few series back ....

I wasdriving through Shoreditch once when the dreadlocked girl from BBC's Castaways crossed the road in front of me, if that counts as a claim to fame.

Oh, and I nearly ran over Jim Bowen in Melling, Lancs once.

I see Tony Richardson, who was in the Newcastle team on UC, won last Friday's round of Mastermind.

That's a dangerous thing for them to do. because some highest scoring runners up go in to the next round.

So- if you had over 5 minutes without a starter answered correctly that would significantly reduce scores of both teams. I don't see how they can stretch out (or edit) the conferring between team members once the starter has been answered, Otherwise you would be thinking 'How can he let them have 30 seconds to confer on this answer, when last week he was only giving 5 seconds conferring time' If your ineptitude is rewarded with extra questions you can answer that would be unfair on average teams.

Nominate used as a time wasting tool last night by Jardine in my opinion.

Yup, clearly using the rules to their advantage so you cant really moan at them.

They did it quite smoothly so I don't think it took any more time than consulting the other person and checking they repeated the answer correctly.

Have to admit I've never thought of it in this way - just a way of making sure they don't hear the answer incorrectly and then get it wrong.


If they really were then I expect Paxo would say it - they'd probably stop filming and he'd tell them I'd guess? If they really think they are doing it on purpose, then they need to change the rules and give them a maximum number of 'nominates' per round?


Agree with this - probably quicker in the end to say nominate than to check and then check again that the captain has heard correctly.