University Challenge 2018/19 E17: St Peter's - Oxford v Emmanuel - Cambridge

[@JV-the-Tossh]

I totally dig Williford's accent. Brilliant. I also dig his mustache. Equally brilliant. 200 years ago that man would've become sheriff just on account of those two traits.

[@brianm2881]

He looks like a 19th century bare knuckle boxer. Even his name is very suitable for a 19th century bare knuckle boxer. I bet if he ever got in a street fight, he would literally adopt the old fighting Irish stance with one arm tucked in near his chest, and one arm extended out long.

[@halbyg4291]

I got white nationalist vibes from him.

[@brianm2881]

@@halbyg4291 His look is a bit reminiscent of Gavin McInnes

[@halbyg4291]

Brian In Fingal that's it. Glad I'm not crazy.

[@Skycania]

Elon Musk with a moustache disguise =o

[@KSfan4ever]

Thank you so much for the quick upload!!!! A great game! And, it was lovely to see the dashing Nick Williford again.

[@Luke-bu6cc]

The way that Cooper sits back in her chair and blows out with relief is hilarious!

[@t.least.he.was.honest]

She is hot she can to do anything she l;ikes

[@4guys4fun]

Nair answering Dravidian and being so proud of himself 😆 .

[@Sandra27HK]

He was fed a VERY SPECIFIC question and kudos for answering it. Remember poor Ojha who missed 'Rogan Josh'? 🤣

[@MatthewMcVeagh]

I got it before he did though, and I'm a humble linguist rather than someone of Indian ancestry. :)

[@andrea22213]

I'm sad, I was hoping for more rounds with the lovely Laura Cooper and her wonderful beret. After their previous showing I had them as favourites to win the competition!

[@criticuttam]

Indeed, loved Cooper! Both team were good, but the deserving one won.

[@astrolingus]

Cugini is brilliant! Thanks for the fast upload.

[@Dax893]

Not really. That Canadian fellow is sharper.

[@satori4183]

Best team won, though the competition lost some eye candy with the departure of Williford and his creative facial hairstylings

[@Sandra27HK]

Williford will be missed. Sigh!

[@andyth55]

Cugini rocks, again! .. ... and Harris is superb at 20:20. Love Emmanuel-C!

[@aniavedissian204]

Thanks, Ovid :-) I really look forward to these.

[@SP-qi8ur]

12:26 lmfaooo nigga said henry "ill" instead of "third" gotta love 'im

[@anu2601]

Cugini is brilliant. By far one of my favourites!

[@parkviewmo]

Thank you, Ovid! Good match! I think Emmanuel's secret weapon is MacDonald!

[@Sandra27HK]

Emma-C quite a good team, which means Glasgow could win this thing, as they beat Emma-C 200:175 in R1. St. Peter's-O: 8 starters, Captain Elon Musk, oops, Williford, on 4, Cooper 3, Hodgson 1. Bonus conversion rate 42%. Emma-C: 11 starters with Macdonald and Nair 4 each, Cugini 2 and Harris 1. Bcr 55% incl 4 full houses. Happily Paxman keeps the focus on the quiz and the contestants, not hogging camera face time with rambling, unfunny intros and conclusions, or micro explaining easy answers. Thanks Jeremy!

[@anafatimaful]

Hi Ovid, what happened to the Masterchef Professionals UK episodes?

[@codynatof5901]

On Dec 17th, 2018; a regular episode of Only Connect airs with two returning teams playing their second quarterfinal. On Dec 18th, 2018; the String Section faces the Europhiles in a rare Champion of Champions special On Dec 19th, 2018; the Korfballers go up against the footballers in a brand new Sports Special (not to be confused with the old Sport Relief Special). A very busy week for Only Connect KZbin Archivists. Be sure to keep your videos legally posted and be sure to put the full episodes online.

[@josephkarl2061]

Also, I'm picking it - Emmanuel for the title this year. They've got a really strong team overall, and a good general knowledge base. And also, my crush on Cugini isn't stopping...

[@mrjefferies90]

Init fam

[@tjfSIM]

Ha ha! She is lovely indeed, glad I'm not the only one.

[@Malc2169]

Definitely geek-sexy

[@chiselchannel]

Really good team performance from Emmanuel. They owned!

[@toluatilola6412]

Omg i went to the same school as daniella cugini! Just recognised her name

[@t.least.he.was.honest]

sure ya did

[@MS45636]

its not really something you'd lie about is it@@t.least.he.was.honest

[@raybeeze5522]

Thank you, Ovid.

[@MsStack42]

Thank you Ovid!!!

[@johngoff3426]

Nick Williford: UC Captain by day. fisticuffs by night.

[@mhappy01]

Master chef gone down, anybody know where else i can watch it? ie not iplayer or tv?

[@Ana-gx1li]

Someone named Jerseyshore has uploaded but it's unwatchable, big annoying frame, sound and image distortion and about a thousand ads. Hoping someone else can upload a better version.

[@jamesduffy7549]

01:32 why does no one on this show ever sound like where they're from?

[@richardwebb2348]

"...no one"??? have you watched every show and are you an expert in regional dialects?

[@aliceharuna4]

MATCH STATS BELOW St Peter's - Oxford: 120 Eliminated Emmanuel - Cambridge: 195 Starter Questions Stats ST PETER’S - OXFORD: 70 Hadgson = 1/1 {10 points} Braddock = 0/1 Williford = 4/5 {40 points} Cooper = 3/5 {30 minus 10 points} Starter Success rate: 66.67% EMMANUEL - CAMBRIDGE: 105 McDonald = 4/4 {40 points} Nair = 4/6 {40 points} Cugini = 2/5 {20 points} Harris = 1/2 {10 minus 5 points} Starter Success rate: 64.71% Bonus Questions Stats ST PETER’S - OXFORD: 50 Bonus success rate: 41.67% (10/24) EMMANUEL - CAMBRIDGE: 90 Bonus success rate: 54.55% (18/33)

[@3ggnog668]

Thank you Ovid, very cool

[@icystrangers5482]

Cugini must have some Italian blood, given the charismatic mannerisms and the name?

[@SantomPh]

Mmm Cugini.

[@pinarozge6895]

Williford looks like a literary figure from early 20th century. Emmanuel team was much better however, too bad for St. Peter's.

[@LiaIrin]

Did you delete all the master chef episodes 😭?

[@princesskatie666]

Where did your master chef shows go

[@karent-s7639]

It's rare for any series of MasterChef the Profs to survive on youtube. The BBC seems determined to stop people uploading episodes. I wouldn't mind so much if the Beeb provided a paying alternative (for people who live overseas) but they don't.

[@AMHFD]

Thanks !!

[@defenda1]

lol why am I watching this, I don't even have a university

[@BanalayerPete1972]

Tapirs do look like larger pigs or smaller elephants, but they're in fact related to horses/equines and rhinos. Williford demonstrated nasty prejudice by excluding Cooper. She did lose the team 10 points, but no excuse. She made up for that later in the program anyway.

[@guavaguy4397]

Nair is so wholesome.

[@wetsock7052]

St. Peter's 😭😭

[@pardox28]

I totally thought that this was the round where teams have to lose twice to be eliminated (and win twice to advance) but I've confused the 2nd round with the quarter-final round. I'll be sad to see St Peter's - Oxford go; Williford's awesome mustache (and brain) along w/ Cooper's brains will be missed. Though truth be told, Emmanuel - Cambridge is the more solid team as each member pulls their weight (sort of; Harris less so).

[@SuperCOCOPANDA]

Harris is just as solid, he is a more natural sci guy, so the literature & history questions allude him. I imagine he will be very useful in future rounds when the questions get harder. I don't think this team will just because their science background is weak and no player really specializes in it.

[@htconex19062012]

Cugni is very cutie pie

[@ianmcdougall1654]

You are related yes?

[@user-pe1ns8bd6j]

Williford was definitely in the US Army. He has that vibe.

[@angelibrock3399]

He was! He did tours in Iraq and Afghanistan

[@user-pe1ns8bd6j]

@@angelibrock3399 That is funny. I deployed to both countries too, so I guess it is easier for me to identify other veterans.

[@josephkarl2061]

I really didn't mean to, but I cackled out loud at Miles Davis. I mean, I wouldn't expect people like them to know otherwise, and so I completely understand why they didn't get it, but I laughed nonetheless. Bah :/

[@nat-moody]

"I wouldn't expect people like them to know otherwise" Really? What do you mean by "people like them"? Learned as they are, surely one would expect they know Mile's Davis as a trumpeter - and not a Scat singer.

[@josephkarl2061]

@@nat-moody I'm 45. I really dig jazz, but in all my years, I've only met a couple of people who dig it as much as I do. My experience has been that people have a passing acquaintance of it, but that's all. I sincerely wasn't being offensive - that they got Louis and Ella was quite good, AFAIC. But yeah, in my experience, people don't dig jazz too deeply. That's my experience, anyway... :-S

[@nat-moody]

​@@josephkarl2061 Fair enough, and thanks for the civil response. However, I'm 21 and am pretty sure I dig jazz as much as you! There's a budding new jazz scene in England (assuming you're based there) - London in particular - and I think its becoming a lot more popular and accessible recently. I would recommend checking some live music and meeting some like-minded people (in my experience, Love supreme festival is great) - you'd be surprised how many of us there are!

[@josephkarl2061]

@@nat-moody I'm based in New Zealand, where to cut a long story short, theres not the same level of enthusiasm for jazz as there is in Europe (you're still in it for at least another couple of months, so you're included - but I won't bang on about that... ;-) ) If I had my time in life again and the passion for jazz I do, I'd want to be based in London, Amsterdam or Berlin, because those three countries really seem to embrace,well let's say the arts in general. I'm not saying New Zealand doesn't, but it just doesn't to the same extent, or so it seems. I was at work thinking about what I was going to say in this reply, and I could just go on and on. For the sake of sanity, I won't, and instead say have a good one, and many thanks for this conversation. I'm off to put So What on the stereo, and get some programming done. Have fun!

[@hansdemos6510]

@@josephkarl2061 , Unless infirmity or social obligations are keeping you shackled to your current abode, don't feel bound by age to dare a new adventure! London, Amsterdam and Berlin will all welcome you with open arms! I presume.

[@davidanis9300]

Good 😊👍👍💜👌

[@VinaKay95]

The Southeast Asian in me was screaming because it's not pronounced tape-ir. TAPIR.

[@silvr94]

if you don't know seinfeld, you're lacking a good education

[@Tararu3500]

Nair.... brilliant.

[@MrPoetSpeak]

25:37 endings of dystopian novels

[@barryday9107]

Viz readers from the 90s may recognize Cooper as Student Grant's girlfriend Hilary!

[@adamgrimsley2900]

Sonnet mashup, how dare you.

[@simplypqz]

Cambridge is so strongggggg

[@Baud2Bits]

A beret is not a personality

[@criticuttam]

I was one of those heretics who fell both for Cooper and Cugini, but alas one of them went home...

[@jc3drums916]

First O'Mahony and her earrings, now Cooper and her beret. Such a shame.

[@Pinkybum]

No goodbye wave from Harris - scandal!

[@shanemckenna9416]

Too many non-whites let in to Oxbridge these days. I only want indigenous British to attend them. They should have voted for Nick Griffin and the BNP. He would have stopped this foreign student nonsense.

[@Ovvenchips]

Yo y deez nerds all so hot?

[@Sandra27HK]

I now understand why some folks find Cugini very irritating ...

[@osamakhojah6304]

Sandroid because she’s superior to them?

[@Sandra27HK]

@@osamakhojah6304 Just how old are you? That was a dumb reply we used to use when I was a kid coz it means nothing without FACTS! Lol Btw Cugini isn't even superior to her teammates who score higher than her every time. Now THAT'S A FACT. Your turn ...

[@silvr94]

@@Sandra27HK are you an incel or something?

[@Sandra27HK]

@@silvr94 The latter. And you? Oh u must be the troll typically resorting to ad hominem as you're too dumb to think of an intelligent response supported by FACTS? Lol

[@elicugini2615]

Sandroid hello, you appear to be after some facts! :) saying ‘my entire team outscores me every time’ actually isn’t correct! ben got 1 q to my 2 this match, and generally scores about the same as me. this is because vedanth and connor - aside from being very good - are the history/politics/geography specialists, ben is the science specialist, and i’m the literature and secondary science specialist. vedanth and connor cover a higher percentage of the distribution, so can be expected to cover more questions even before we get to the ‘random knowledge’ ones. when it comes to bonuses, you can see that it’s a pretty even spread around which of us knows them. but actually, it doesn’t really matter, because i agree i generally get fewer questions than my three (excellent) teammates. this is partly due to knowledge gaps and partly due to anxiety. however, i came top of the trials to select the team, i know important things my teammates don’t, and i’m a highly competent captain. as for you believing i’m irritating, it’s a free country - but i don’t think that’s particularly fact based either :)

[@Typosflair]

noooo - St Peter's were my favourites

[@halbyg4291]

Is it just me or did you get neo-nazi / white nationalist vibes from Williford?

[@angelibrock3399]

As his mother I can tell you absolutely not.

[@halbyg4291]

Angeli Brock I didn't say he was. I asked whether anyone else had caught those vibes. Maybe It's my prejudice, assuming that Americans are still viciously racist.

[@halbyg4291]

CL how else is a person supposed to make assumptions based on a person other than the way they present themselves and the ways their characteristics are similar or dissimilar to other people? All humans and animals do that. That is the way you live in this world. Are you going to try to tell me you do not make assumptions about anyone before you know for a fact about those things? One assumption that you've made is that I'm British, with absolutely no solid evidence to back it up. You've already made assumptions about me. And class is different than wealth. An aristocrat may be poor and have no money while a working class person can be a billionaire. An assumption that Americans make is that wealth makes a person better, or worth more as a person. I don't believe that. I don't think there's anything wrong with a person having a working class accent or a person having an upper class accent. My comment on assuming Americans are viciously racist was obviously in jest, and I stand by it and won't apologize for it.

[@claumeister1]

@@halbyg4291 You're initial assumption about him was not in jest, that's what really concerns me. And my assumptions about were just to add wit to my argument. I'm not wedded to them. Your last treatise just shows all the more what I'm talking about. NO, you do NOT make assumptions about people based on their looks and accent. (that's all we really know of these UC people, along with what academic knowledge they may have). You bear with your own uncertainty until you get some relevant data. If someone interviews Williford about his racial views, that's data, and I'm all ears. Until then, I know nothing about his soul, and charity demands that I treat him as an honorable man until then, and probably after as well. Didn't anyone teach you that? As for class and wealth, my point exactly. The tradition Brit notion of class is empty of all substance. You're "high class" if your ancestor 600 years ago fought for the King, which decides your accent as well. (I'm a historian, yes I know about the actual English class system and its power in the past). The US mistake is to say that money is all there is to class. True class is the actual moral worth you manage to demonstrate in this life. Someone once that good manners are when in a person knows how to make OTHERS feel comfortable, and real class is a larger moral version of that. Trump (maybe) is "worth" a billion dollars, but he's a classless person because who loves only himself, and insults anyone who dares interfere with that self-love. See my point?

[@halbyg4291]

CL you seem to have totally missed my point...

[@Sandra27HK]

Nair & McDonald are carrying the Emma-C team. 'Captain' Cugini & Harris need to step up their game. Of the 3 outings so far, Nair the superior player with 11, McDonald 10, Cugini way behind at 6 and Harris 5.

[@angelicalicari8355]

The captain's job isn't to know the most outright answers, it's to compile the multiple ideas being discussed into the correct answer, and to make sure stupid mistakes aren't being made in interpreting complicated questions. You'll hear captains say things like "No, because both words have to start with 'A'" or "that fits the description, but we need 1500's, that was 1600's". Cugini isn't perfect- she jumped the gun in another episode, cutting off a group question and giving the wrong answer- but she's not a bad captain.

[@cosmocoffee666]

Why is Williford dressed as racism?

[@rhysroberts515]

nerds

[@CC-dd6fm]

Cooper's hat is really annoying and unnecessary.

[@Sandra27HK]

Not sure why a beret would upset anyone watching a quiz show while ignoring her superb all round knowledge both matches ... she wrote on Twitter that she has a hair loss problem.

[@adamwalker9796]

@@Sandra27HK Why? Is her hair gangrenous and coming off in huge shreds?

[@Sandra27HK]

She posted pics. Just the latter.

[@SvobodovaEva]

Not more than your comment

[@jc3drums916]

@@adamwalker9796 She has Asperger's, and she had a breakdown to the point where she was pulling her hair out. The beret was what she used to cover it up so she would look presentable on TV.

[@pipster1891]

Trotsky.