University Challenge S53E10 Sheffield v Loughborough

[@namahj9788]

obsessed with rujak unintentionally rizzing all the wlw audience members

[@hazellalexis]

she already had me at the immediate girl in red buzz, and then went on to get SOPHIE and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night... she's completely stolen my heart

[@Ramboost007]

It gets more and more apparent every episode that someone in the UC question writing team is really *really* into Indian food

[@CosmicPumpkin]

Sorry all for the delay - minor computer issues this week!

[@WonderWhatHappened]

We are grateful for the upload regardless of the timing.

[@ashersharol]

Cheers mate. I really appreciate the uploads. ✊

[@chrishobbs58]

Thanks!

[@andrewclifton9772]

Thanks from Kentucky.

[@MrPotsy81]

Thanks from East Coast, USA.

[@Joe-nb3fs]

"Why are you looking at her?!" 😆

[@castelodeossos3947]

Just gotta play the race card when you're brown, don't ya? In this day and age, such a comment is clearly never a joke.

[@johnahearn7964]

Why wouldn’t you look at her???? If you had a Polish teammate & the question was about that country’s culture, you’d be stupid not to count on their knowledge. And it should be noted he’d looked at her several times since, you know, SHE IS ON HIS TEAM!!!!!

[@ellentronicmistress4969]

@@castelodeossos3947 Different profile but same attitude. Just have to make silly remarks when you have low intelligence and insecurity issues, don't ya?

[@alani3992]

But she seemed to know nothing much about South Asia, even though she is studying history.

[@castelodeossos3947]

@@alani3992 The things she didn't know about South Asia were, according to my recollection, unrelated to history. And who knows, maybe she's studying Black History.

[@gabsymalone6307]

That's the third joint score of 400 or more this series and yet another impressive yardstick with the just-highest score of the series from the winners. The HSL/2nd Round is shaping up to be a bit of a bloodbath - so many good 1st round performances, and there's not enough room for them all to progress ATM 😮! Thanks as ever CosmicPumpkin for your stalwart services - I'm sure those living outside the UK, or without the BBC, are extremely grateful for your videos 👍.

[@VLind-uk6mb]

Indeed. Many thanks.

[@castelodeossos3947]

Lower the quality of the questions and one gets higher scores. Same thing done in schools/universities.

[@ellentronicmistress4969]

@@castelodeossos3947 The pace of the questions is far quicker. And I don't believe are people are getting any less intelliegent. Far from it.

[@lucylou5766]

Loving the cracking pace of this season. Excellent hosting! Incredible performance by winning team too!

[@chrishobbs58]

Thanks again, CosmicPumkin! This is another episode where my predicted winning team, based on the fields of study of each member, was completely wrong. I don't know why I even bother anymore. The winning team was absolutely fantastic on popular culture questions, and that proved to be the difference. The winners are a well balanced team that will be a tough out for any of their opponents, especially if there's a lot of pop culture questions. My best to both teams, and each individual.

[@zaphbrox8239]

Ironically two of them are history majors ... and they got quite a lot of pop culture questions...

[@YourQueerGreatAuntie]

At this rate, next week's winners will have 300+ points. I can't believe the standards from all teams! Thanks Cosmic Pumpkin for your public service x

[@Patricknoddy]

I like how Rajan called out the Colclough for looking at Rujak when the curry questions came up!

[@thundersleycleaningco.6621]

Why

[@kartkoe]

such a funny moment

[@jameshogan6142]

She is beautiful. Any question is reason enough to look towards her.

[@jjjj8644]

simp detected@@jameshogan6142

[@ChrisSmith-cw1um]

Why? He did the same look every time, and now he's on national TV being made to look as though he's stereotyping a teammate. Shocking that it was said, and even worse that it was left in the final edit.

[@scotto6271]

A lot more modern 'pop' knowledge than usual but a fun game. Thanks for the upload Cosmic!

[@emmapeel829]

Another fabulous match! What a team - working like clockwork together. Lovely to see. Thanks so much, CP for your weekly efforts. Really enjoying this year's tournament - where would we be without you??

[@michaeln9931]

"This game doesn't have many rules, and the few it does have haven't changed in decades." This is cracking me up. It sounds like such a slam! Loving getting some new blood in here.

[@yogeshraut4928]

Nothing wrong with listening to girl in red :)

[@lindorsibande]

MATCH STATS BELOW *Sheffield : 290* *Loughborough : 115* *Starter Questions Stats* SHEFFIELD : 145 Rujak = 5/5 {50} McGough = 3/3 {30} Colclough = 3/3 {30} Nail = 4/6 {40 minus 5} Starter Success Rate: 88.24% LOUGHBOROUGH : 50 Jones = 0 Alvey = 0 Simmons = 1/3 {10 minus 5} Campion = 5/7 {50 minus 5} Starter Success Rate: 60.00% *Bonus Questions Stats* SHEFFIELD : 145 Bonus Success Rate: 67.44% (29/43) LOUGHBOROUGH : 65 Bonus Success Rate: 72.22% (13/18) ------------------- *Top 4 Losing Scores* 1. Oxford Brookes (205) 2. Trinity Cambridge (175) 3. Southampton (155), Open (155)

[@lindorsibande]

_ELIMINATED_ 1. Birmingham 2. Jesus Cambridge 3. Strathclyde 4. King's Cambridge 5. Balliol - Oxford 6. Loughborough *Top 5 Scores* 1. 290 [Sheffield] 2. 285 [Imperial] 3. 240 [Emmanuel - Cambridge] 4. 235 [UEA] 5. 230 [Hertford- Oxford]

[@Andy2kk]

Didn't think anyone would top Imperial's score but here we are just one week later lol

[@Ramboost007]

Didn't expect Rujak to be the top starter performer but here we are

[@Ramboost007]

Riz Ahmed has one of my favorite movie quotes. It's from Four Lions and he talks about how a suicide bomber's corpse is mixed in with a sheep he's accidentally blown up. Bonus, it features an answer in a bonus question this episode: "Is he a martyr or is he a fucking jalfrezi!?"

[@_o_-I-_o_]

My obsessive refreshing was rewarded by a fresh upload. Thanks CosmicPumpkin!

[@parkviewmo]

I hope Nial smiles a little in the next round--he is most often absolutely correct!

[@nothere9295]

He was so good. I really love this team, all the members are very likeable. Excited to see them again.

[@Andy2kk]

Thank you Pumpkin

[@slightlygrouchy]

Whilst Sheffield's performance was indeed absolutely stellar, this year's first round questions are significantly easier than in previous years. Classical music-related questions have been mostly absent, but most telling ist the fact that during each show, I am now able to answer about a quarter of all questions, whilst in the past I was lucky to get three overall. I hope this changes in round two!

[@beng6080]

Mr Rajan, growing on the fans [no pun, eh!!] - i am loving it! And the answers to the curry questions were all in the questions 😁

[@jessicaellina3878]

Good match! Excellent performance by Sheffield..good team work. Commenable spurt at the end by Loughborough. It,s an exciting series!

[@nathelondon3719]

The standard is amazing. .

[@marty9011]

A runaway win is not as exciting as a close match but the winners this match were solid. Thanks Cosmic Pumpkin.

[@thadrin]

A solid performance from the losers in face of another juggernaut. A shame to see more claims of dumbing down just because the scope of questions has noticably broadened.

[@charlessperling7031]

I think the answer the gong didn't allow is *The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.*

[@grimftl]

Thanks again CosmicPumpkin. Got a few that no one got, but this was a pretty tough round.

[@lazystalker1]

Big win, pretty sharp team. One to watch. (cheers for the upload)

[@Joe-nb3fs]

Go go Loogabarooga!

[@alij8920]

Seems to me that the higher than usual scores are due to an easier level of questions in general. (No disrespect to the knowledge of any team.) I was rooting for Loughborough, they were bringing it back in the second half and a lovely bunch.

[@slidetrombone]

I wonder if it's a combination of that and Rajan's reading speed- maybe it's just in comparison to Paxman, but he seems to be zipping through the game (not a criticism)

[@andrewclifton9772]

I don't see the questions as being easier than prior years. They always are easier in the first round and going by memory I think my own performance is about the same as always.

[@patsy451]

I think it's the speed - in previous years I would usually get about 20 questions right in the first round, but this year I've been averaging 10-15. So I'm not finding them easier. Rajan seems to read a lot faster than Paxman. I think the test would be how many questions are asked over all, and what is the ratio of correct answers to total questions. (I am not going to do this research, but it would be a reasonable way to identify the reason for the higher scores).

[@ratwest]

Rajan is soooo good in comparison to often rude Paxo.

[@kevinwalsh1400]

thanks..i can go to bed now

[@barbaramoreira290]

Now, eveytime i see a map in this gameshow, i think in Max Zeng tho

[@tillyyyhollanddd]

I'm inlove with rujak

[@stgermain1074]

The questions seemed easier tonight. Great match.

[@kakaji5053]

17:24 the face you make when people say chai-tea 😂

[@campbell953]

rujak i know what you are

[@Ninterd2]

"...shares his name with which antagonist in the Super Mario game series?" "Bowser." "Bowser's good enough". But they were asking about the video game character! If the character was called Doug Bowser, that aptonym would be insane.

[@eleidal]

Too bad for Loughborough, they were up against the best so far. Such sweet students!

[@accountnamewithheld]

The questions this episode were hugely easy... I had 18 points

[@jameslatin2939]

Amol's little comments and ad libs meant to give the impression he actually knows all the answers are a bit tiring. It strikes me as very British.

[@oakpope]

Toi many music questions.

[@alexanderdavidmartinezsilv1914]

16:16 🤣🤣🤣

[@adrija9340]

This is the second time I’ve seen a question based on Girl Walks Home Alone At Night in UC

[@ZaphMann]

too much pop culture content - quality is lower

[@arkdeniz]

Pop culture is to today as Berlioz was to the 1840s. Equally valid topics.

[@castelodeossos3947]

Definitely. I can answer far more questions than before and there are fewer academic questions.

[@jhsc8367]

Pop culture content is better than ""intellectual"" content

[@castelodeossos3947]

@@jhsc8367 That's precisely why it's called 'University Challenge'.

[@jhsc8367]

@castelodeossos3947 you can have pop culture questions at a university level, questions dont have to be boring and tailored towards private school torys

[@neoepicurean3772]

It pains me to see that this legendary show is getting increasing low-brow...

[@gooscarguitar]

Some of the old questions used to really suck. There used to be spelling questions, of all things...

[@castelodeossos3947]

Nobel as in 'Nobel laureate' (13:22) pronounced as 'noble'. Hmmm. We were allowed to criticise Mr Paxman but not Mr Rajan, of course.

[@PS-vm3we]

Good that you're on his case then (not). Every Scandinavian I know pronounce it as 'noble' in English.

[@castelodeossos3947]

@@PS-vm3we Oh, sorry, was convinced Mr Rajan was British of South-Asian origin. Got it all wrong again.

[@Gwydda]

​@@castelodeossos3947 Relax, that's how a lot of people pronounce it. Why are you gatekeeping pronunciation?

[@Redu3]

Swear the questions came in themes today... weird

[@seanolaoire8476]

Thank you Cosmic Pumpkin 👍