Top 10 University Challenge Funniest Answers

Aren't these people supposed to be smart? Welcome to WatchMojoUK, for this list we're counting down the most memorable, dummiest, cheekiest, and luckiest answers given by University Challenge contestants. Featuring errors about anime, literature, Latin, and many more!
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[@WatchMojoUK]

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[@marktipper994]

The thing about Mojo: you don't need to give a running commentary, just show the clips - I imagine you get this a lot

[@aryanjoshi3342]

they do this so they can make more profit by extending video length and diluting content, notice how most videos are just above 10 minutes-- the minimum ammount required to monitize a youtube video

[@davedyer9045]

Like pulling teeth

[@sylvester-jb3lj]

absolutely !!!

[@alexwells6876]

@@aryanjoshi3342 they're BULLSHIT ARTISTS

[@TBrl8]

Here here!

[@horseandcart5978]

Too much commentary . Just let us hear the questions and answers instead of polltwaffling.

[@annbsirius1703]

They can't play the whole thing to dance around copyright and not get the video pulled.

[@beaubrent]

These would be a lot funnier if you just showed the clips instead of talking throughout in your odd commercial tv voice.

[@naferemix]

Cheesemongers, Cherry Pickers, Bob’s Own, Emperor’s Chambermaids and The Immortals bloody should be nicknames for homosexuals.

[@jrbs]

🤣

[@Ramboost007]

They all look like excellent names for gay bars

[@victorhernandez8723]

What was the real answer to the question?

[@roberthindle5146]

​@@victorhernandez8723Transvestites.

[@victorhernandez8723]

@@roberthindle5146 Thanks.

[@richardwebb2348]

The video would be much better without the facile commentary!

[@Tannhauser45]

How could you not put in Monkman's hilarious 'He who lives by the sword shall perish by the sword'?

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

Paxman made this show. Suffering fools gladly is one thing he is pathologically incapable of... and it's awesome.

[@castelodeossos3947]

Must disagree. His protests are good-humoured although not patronising, which is why so many think he's snooty. He simply comes from a generation where one didn't patronise people and didn't always ascribe mean motives to others, didn't look for something to be offended by. When people didn't take themselves so d*mn seriously. And what's noticeable is that the contestants (top students in top universities) take his banter in the right way. Only commentators get their knickers in a twist.

[@PetroicaRodinogaster264]

@@castelodeossos3947He is an awful host. Rude and he most certainly is not good humoured bit I agree not patronising but very condescending. Except for the answer Benjamin Franklin which even I said, “WHAT” before the camera even went to Paxman. Still I thi k it is tragic for his career to end with such a debilitating disease.

[@ivorscrotumic3556]

Gotta disagree there. Bamber was the OG & the definitive GOAT. 😀

[@exk6]

RUBBISH!! Bamber Gascgoine did!!

[@paulmca8514]

we don`t need the voice over, show the clips, we understand.

[@davidfoster8318]

No, because that's the BBC's responsibility--if an external organisation does it, they have to stay within the fair use policy... hence, commentary.

[@paulmca8514]

@@davidfoster8318 you must enjoy coldplay

[@vaughanfrank]

Would have been considerably more watchable without the commentary; made it to 1:58 before my irritation level became too much.

[@wehavebiscuits]

Only he didn't nail the pronunciation of hapax legomenon. He actually said hapax legomenenon. And he admitted as much himself in a later interview. He knew he blew it. That's actually why he's laughing so much.

[@CMonty31]

There’s one answer from a contestant that I laughed at for days. He didn’t know the answer so just said Deborah Meaden and the gong went

[@MrUtah1]

You’re seriously gonna forget “Tyszczuk Smith”?

[@roberthindle5146]

Vowels are overrated

[@davidrenton]

he was named after the static in a garbled radio transmission

[@Telamond]

4:53 the guy said Hoar which is a white frost which forms when water vapor in the air freezes directly onto surfaces.

[@SoTypicallyMeh]

Papaphilippopoulos is indeed a mouthful, but what about the guy next to him, Mr. Tyszczuk Smith?

[@Iam18andcool]

Phonetically it's tishchuk-Smith, so it isn't that difficult to say

[@deltaframes-os4km]

William the 1st 😂😂😂😂

[@victorhernandez8723]

My tongue gets a hernia while trying to pronounce that name.

[@Schmidtelpunkt]

The name certainly gives an additional second for the candidate to think...

[@DavidYoo-m7z]

My enjoyment of these clips is completely destroyed by the WatchMojo person talking over them. I am almost impressed by how low WatchMojo has set the bar on content. Simply terrible.

[@nmacl123]

Much better just to show the clips. I can’t watch this because of the commentary.

[@Waywoodprojects]

Sorry but who wouldnt have bern able to guess that grandmaster flash track

[@spotstate3548]

There is absolutely no need at all for so much (or any at all) commentary

[@tricia4479]

Between the unnecessary commentary & ads, there's no bloody point watching this video.....

[@pigbinjosh8466]

The guy in the thumbnail really looks like Daisy Ridley.

[@dmwallacenz]

Oh please! There's more "talk over" than content in this video. I had to stop watching after the first couple of clips. Could we have just had the clips, without the annoying commentary?

[@KingofDundee]

No Green Elves?

[@annetteeggett]

Too much chat!!

[@pauli4909]

I lasted 30 seconds, change your presentation.

[@davidlee8115]

Far too much over talking. You don’t need to drag the clip out mate, it doesn’t improve it

[@DeviJankowicz]

Good grief. Amusing material RUINED by the inane commentary.

[@Sammy-r2h]

Jeez mojo just be quiet and watch the clips. Your constant blathering does NOT make it any more enjoyable.

[@exk6]

Look up the definition of "funny"!

[@silafuyang8675]

University breeds stupidity.

[@chicochi3]

The more attractive folks at the universities don't appear regularly on this show?

[@Haris1]

wdym

[@Graysonn1]

I'm so annoyed by that amount of commentary, I'm blocking this channel. It's the only way to teach these youtubers a lesson. There's many other youtubers that don't love the sound of their own voices.

[@annbsirius1703]

They have to worry about copyright infringement.

[@MrAJR76]

You keep saying that, but it’s not true. It’s perfectly possible to assemble a montage of clips without infringing copyright (other channels manage it without any problems); and in any case, you can surely agree the sheer amount of commentary is unnecessary and spoils the viewing.

[@davidfoster8318]

@@MrAJR76 Those other channels are usually companies related to the show's production.

[@SoTypicallyMeh]

some of these contestants look old enough to have founded their universities

[@DreamtOfSleep]

the rules.. do..........

[@samwatson2373]

Why do we need the idiotic commentary over the top of the actual competitors and Paxman that we want to listen to??

[@jimmyhopkins4095]

mojo please dont talk just let the clips play its so annoying

[@Prasutagucaster]

Can’t stand the irritating and badly done voice over. Watched 3 mins that was enough

[@91vanced14]

It's easy when your looking at the answers Paxman

[@mythgreatbritain5634]

Some people don't need to read it...

[@Milburt]

you’re*

[@fairlyvague82]

This channel would be great if there wasn’t so much unnecessary yapping 🙉🙉🙉

[@burrytellam]

It just occurred to me that the guy who calls the names (Roger Tilling) could just be a recording when the contestant presses their button. But when he was saying "Papaphilippopoulos" he gets more excited each time he says it!

[@youtuber6193]

Agreed - I just assumed it was and that WatchMojo had misunderstood but you can clearly hear his voice change.

[@victorhernandez8723]

That guy must be Greek.

[@Schmidtelpunkt]

I guess that is the reason they didn't automate this - towards the end there is always more energy when shouting the names. The show does not have many other devices to increase the pacing.

[@davidfoster8318]

@@Schmidtelpunkt The announcer is known for becoming more excitable as the show goes on.

[@HolaMexicoo]

would be so much better without the narrator

[@pablobratcat]

Actually Hoar is a type of frost

[@MarquisDeSacks]

Thankyou! That's what I was thinking, like I could understand where the guy was coming from.

[@Ater_Draco]

That's why he answered hoar of course, but he didn't listen to the 2nd part of the question so he was wrong

[@MarquisDeSacks]

@@Ater_Draco Right. I understand that it was wrong, I just meant that it wasn't as ludicrous and random of an answer as the video made it out to be.

[@Doctor180185]

Morley should have followed with BAZINGA!

[@eamonnevans8005]

Can't you just run the clips without the pointless background commentary?

[@henryphillips4764]

For goodness sake : pipe down. There is no need to explain what we are about to see for ourselves. Unbearable and unwatchable.

[@visible5000]

What a terrible video. Cut over Jeremey Paxman asking the question by reading out the question. Who can bare to watch this

[@tammoton9494]

Awful presentation of content.

[@TonyLee-r6k]

Sorry mojo you have ruined this clip

[@smorris7435]

The commentary is pathetic

[@johnleake5657]

He didn't pronounce _hapax_ _legomenon_ correctly, which I'd certainly hsve got. He *butchered* it!

[@victorhernandez8723]

This from the guy who misspelled “have”.

[@davidrenton]

Benjamin Franklin did live in London in 1774, it's not inconceivable, that as a very important person of that time, (he was representative of the colonies) that he on some occasion gave a speech in the houses of Parliament. So even though he did'nt, it's not the most stupid wrong answer

[@johnjackson8783]

I agree. Beside the point, l know, but one can even visit house house in Craven Street, in the Charing Cross area.

[@tomico9154]

My cousin is a cheesemonger.

[@RUBBER_BULLET]

Daddy sends hugs!

[@Scodouk]

I've got a Porsche!

[@alzeNL]

drum and bass

[@captainweekend5276]

We need jungle I'm afraid.

[@michaelfisher7159]

*Hapax Legomenon* intensifies

[@redshift1976]

Karl Marx!

[@martinauld670]

Just another crappy watch mojo video

[@grimupnorth]

Wish Jezzer was still doing it.

[@markspence5288]

No they are regiments in the British army

[@billybob12337]

Green elves robbed

[@KingofDundee]

Agreed!

[@stevenleslie8557]

The Young Ones brought me here

[@SPECTRE_Madman]

Even though I don’t watch University challenge, I knew number one would be Hapax

[@royw-g3120]

It sounds like a nasty venereal infection.

[@hansel2001]

Loveday!

[@gedhoughton9523]

Just shows that even when you go to university, you don’t know absolutely everything. Even those who don’t go to university can be smarter than you.

[@paulmca8514]

Monkman is a real freak, harmless maybe, but he could rip you to bits with a dirty look. Monkman and Seagull was a wierd show, if you haven`t seen it, look it out. Paxman could be incredibly rude sometimes, not a nice man.

[@trevormillar1576]

"Trotsky!" "Trotsky!" "Trotsky!"

[@orourkeda]

I like cake.

[@WatchMojoUK]

hapax legomenon!

[@romainsavioz5466]

Monkman and seagull

[@victorhernandez8723]

“Give us some easy ones, Bambi! You big bottom boil!” - Vyvian from The Young Ones

[@christiansrensen8330]

Bruh, how relieved is Tyszczuk when he sits next to Papaphilippopoulos.

[@aliceclick7107]

I don't like amine

[@aliceclick7107]

@matt 😐

[@dakotareeves3939]

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[@SirAsdf]

You Brits get very pissy about the most minor of wrong answers

[@Ater_Draco]

Paxo is permanently angry, that's why he makes a great UC host

[@paulhostler7863]

There should be a full stop and the end of that sentence... (just kidding).

[@brontewcat]

Just saw one of the funniest deficits in knowledge in the 2022 Christmas series (York and Durham) when a team could not answer from which 1975 film a quote about supreme executive power being derived from the masses, and ‘not some farcical aquatic ceremony’ comes from. If you ever do another list watching the 4 alumni try to work it out is almost as funny as the original quote, particularly as Paxman mentions it is referencing the Arthurian legend.

[@Hue_Sam]

Tom Scott is in that one. They later found that was something from Monty Python

[@brontewcat]

@@Hue_Sam Yes Tom Scott was on that episode, but was the other team who missed the reference. It was funny, they all looked completely bewildered. Although, to be fair Tom’s team missed a few obvious ones as well.

[@deepindercheema4917]

I think I gave the funniest answer in 2005. It was wrong but only because I wanted to get Blanket in my Muesli - into the show. Hapax Legonmenon.