University Challenge - Jesus, Oxford vs Warwick. Part 1 of 3.

[@cheesesandwich555]

"Warwick- Christmas". Always makes me smile. That and "Jesus- insert any of their names".

[@Nallenbot]

And who calls their son Chris Christmas??

[@jimbobafrodite]

Christopher Christmas!! What a name!!!

[@cazmaestro]

'Pick a number between 1 and 5' 'Pick a number that's not 4' Real smooth Hayes.

[@SuperMangn]

@stuartidh I have known people who were gifted and they could read huge books very quicky and recall huge amounts of info from the book. Normal people do not recall very well if they take in large volumes of information.

[@a1024s]

@stuartidh it's also worth noting they're wrong half the time (so there's probably a good deal of "educated" guessing among the times when they are right)

[@itsthehannahness]

LOL at 'pick a number between 1 and 5'

[@cheesesandwich555]

"Warwick- Christmas". Always makes me smile.

[@FeatherWait]

@Xerox20077 Check out that eyebrow action from Doherty. :D

[@SONGSTICKS]

Never mind the Honour of the university.. stuff that !! What I think they should do every now and then is do a University Challenge whereby the winners of the whole challenge have their student debts cleared.

[@blackgenet]

@FridaLaReina Any form of English Literature degree from Oxbridge or any red brick uni is far more respected than something like sociology, film & media or business management

[@jaundist]

I was drastically and self contemplatively confused when i read that O-level knnowlegde is useless, then i payed attention to apparently

[@jaundist]

the first three questions were so delicious, they only required a recent read of any book ! very baccalaureate level !

[@trentmuch1]

There's nothing wrong with an educated guess that's correct!

[@theonelink]

@planetgallifreytv umad?

[@98smithg]

@makingprogress Well one would assume study is undertaken as a course to improves prospects of employment later in life sufficiently as to cover the initial outlay or less prudently but perhaps an equally noble cause would be to hope the enlightenment obtained would further human progress in due course. Of course neither of these would result from mediaeval English and Frida is correct to assume Chantal is rather frivolous in her choice of subject.

[@trentmuch1]

@SONGSTICKS Yeah, true! There was a question on the Christmas special, where both answers differed by only ONE letter substitution in the name, UCL's answer? "Pope and J.G. Ballard" Well, I didn't know the second answer (And can't remember) but I understood the question well enough to laugh! :D

[@LearnGenomics]

Hahaha Will Doherty. Even Paxman laughed at his introduction.

[@trentmuch1]

@stuartidh How could anyone research an "unrealistic" amount of general knowledge? :P

[@gtawesom3]

Meh, chris Christmas? My teacher is Mr. Christmas and guess what his wife is called? Mary, Mary Christmas lol.

[@stuartidh]

I don't doubt that we're watching a bunch of very intelligent individuals, but they all seem to hold an unrealistic amount of general and specialist knowledge. Not just on this episode, but every UC. Pretty sure they must be given a list of stuff to research prior to the episode.

[@Xerox20077]

Doherty sounds like someone from a compensation advert.

[@tomsito365]

loved the way Will Doherty introduced himself. I was almost expecting him to say "or am I" in a sinister voice at the end of it!

[@abctom123]

Speller sounds like Angelos Epithemiou from Shooting Stars.

[@RemyLeBleau]

Warwick's team looked so much cooler vs. Christ's Cambridge

[@eineScheibeBrot]

@cnavaro88 why do you say that?

[@Nyxtia]

Chris Christmas? Really?

[@Scratchyjam]

Stevens and Hadley would both receive it.

[@babsadoodle14]

Waterson. You're attractive. Well done.

[@SONGSTICKS]

@trentmuch1 As opposed to an uneducated guess.. which would be wrong !! :)

[@hortuk]

my face when parkinson's disease.

[@askl23]

I find Stevens' psuedo-English accent kind of annoying.

[@98smithg]

@petkragh The past should of course be studied so as we may learn from our mistakes. But learning last linquistical tropes is just pointless. Medievil English is a dead language.

[@linjedomarn99]

I bet 50% of them had diarrea!

[@simonelalalala]

aw both captains are women, thats pretty cool

[@bobsinnepalshekitout]

blatant, lol