University Challenge S53E12 Bangor v Edinburgh

[@VLind-uk6mb]

Edinburgh was really impressive -- the way they worked together, the various strengths that the captain knew to refer to, their willingness to pass as soon as they knew they did not have it. Really the best teamwork I have seen. Plus mind-boggling knowledge of geography, art, and quite a few other things.

[@PS-vm3we]

Thanks very much, Pumpkin. What a phenomenal match, the highest overall score by a mile. Really gutted for the losing team - so close to making it to the repechage. Amol has really given the show a boost. I love his mid-match encouragement to the team lagging behind and the comments at the end to cool things off. It is lovely to get a bit of the studio atmosphere through to our screens. And his tempo simply allows for more questions to be asked and more for us viewers to enjoy.

[@Esquarious]

Their captain was quite impressive. However, not to take the wind out of their sails, they seemed blessed with some very easy starters in at least the first half of the match. Heck, you could've gotten more than half the points on the Art ID Q's by just listing Ninja Turtles.

[@johncartwright8154]

@@Esquarious Indeed, also though no turtle called Caravaggio, said artist seems to feature a lot in these rounds too!

[@castelodeossos3947]

@@Esquarious Stafford was pretty d*mn impressive too.

[@Ramboost007]

12:48 for the weekly Indian food question

[@lindorsibande]

MATCH STATS BELOW *Bangor : 150* *Edinburgh : 320* *Starter Questions Stats* BANGOR : 75 Bhatt = 1/1 {10} Barnes = 1/1 {10} Cunliffe = 1/3 {10 minus 5} O'Hagan = 5/6 {50} Starter Success Rate: 72.73% EDINBURGH : 150 Stafford = 6/7 {60} Hadley = 3/3 {30} Uttamchandani = 6/7 {60} McGovern = 0 Starter Success Rate: 88.24% *Bonus Questions Stats* BANGOR : 75 Bonus Success Rate: 62.5% (15/24) EDINBURGH : 170 Bonus Success Rate: 77.27% (34/44) ‐---------------- *Top 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 7. Wolfson - Cambridge 8. Bangor *Top 5 Scores* 1. 320 [Edinburgh] 2. 290 [Sheffield] 3. 285 [Imperial] 4. 265 [Warwick] 5. 240 [Emmanuel - Cambridge]

[@PS-vm3we]

Those success rates are quite impressive - for both teams. I remember last year when people were ravishing about teams (or, a particular one) that at times only had a bonus conversation rate below 40. And now this. Really sad to see Bangor go, but what a phenomenal team they were up against.

[@BlueSoulTiger]

The quiet star of the bonuses was Stafford I reckon - good breadth of knowledge there. In any case, thanks a million @lindorsibande

[@imokin86]

Good teamwork on both sides, the teams had their go-to big hitters, but the others contributed a lot. This season has been very good, the longer distance (thanks to Amol's tempo) brings out the best in all players, gives everyone a chance to shine.

[@dilatasialkena]

Congrats Edinburgh! 320, what a magnificent score!! and Stafford just blimey with his geography, well done!

[@arkdeniz]

Stafford knows his geography but Imperial Zeng would take him with speed.

[@dilatasialkena]

​@@arkdenizexactly!

[@BlueSoulTiger]

Stafford not just a whizz on geography either

[@goawayimsleeping509]

I'm lucky enough to know this team from Edinburgh Quiz Society, they are a bunch of legends and lovely people too, and it shows.

[@adamdodda3275]

uttamchandani looks like the kindest guy ever, very impressive team

[@zaphbrox8239]

The pace and the quick answering and the high scores results in more questions, which is a treat for us. So win, win, win.

[@Ramboost007]

I realize that the highest scoring loser qualification system is not just for fairness, it also makes excellent TV. With it, there never is any garbage time in Round 1 because you're watching if the trailing team can reach the minimum target score.

[@chrishobbs58]

Thanks again, CosmicPumpkin! Another runaway result, featuring a very strong team against a plucky opponent who I was actively rooting for at the end. I was hoping they could get a high enough score to come back. The questions did not favor the losing team's skill set. As Rajan noted, there were two biologists on the team, and they didn't get to use their specialty IIRC. That said, my best to both teams, and to each individual.

[@dws49]

12:49 this is definitive proof that someone on the writers team LOVES indian food

[@sophitsa79]

Along with a large proportion of the UK population

[@emmapeel829]

Fabulous match this week - WOW! My head was spinning! Congrats to the winners and sincere commiserations to the losers - you really rallied. Alas, it was not to be. Thanks CP for our Monday fix!!

[@gabsymalone6307]

That was phenomenal 😲from the winners; I think the last 450+ aggregate score was Trinity/Manchester 10 years back. Feel bad for the losers 😔 as they missed out on the HSL by the skin of their teeth, and were potentially staring at the biggest defeat this series so far until they pulled themselves back. This does mean that Trinity deservedly get their second chance, and Edinburgh's winning total I think is just outside the top 30 highest-ever scores achieved in the Paxo/Rajan era - the second round is really shaping up nicely 😃.

[@freddiethecutestcavapoo9184]

Thanks Cosmic P! It's a pleasure to return to the fast questioning days of Bamber Gascoigne (clearly reflected in the high scores being received again)! I was so sick of the long conferring periods allowed by Paxman!

[@gabsymalone6307]

TBF, if you look at Paxman in the 90's, 2000's and early 2010's, he could be exceptionally fast as well. Mind you I do agree that in the latter stages of his tenure conferring took much longer and led to a sharp drop in the quality of games - I think his Parkinson's also noticeably slowed him down.

[@TaylorEarlWest]

Uttamchandani is a unit

[@fireballs619]

Thanks for the upload pumpkin! great display by all

[@jessicaellina3878]

Very exciting match! Special congrats to Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👏 ..valiant effort by Bangor. Really enjoying Amol as host..l think he,s doing a very good job.

[@marty9011]

Yes he is good apart from his strange pronounciations.

[@undersimplified]

Lovely score from Edinburgh! Although quite a shame Bangor couldn't make it as well, they deserved it.

[@Andy2kk]

That 5 point penalty came to bite Bangor in the end.

[@grimftl]

Thanks again CosmicPumpkin! Slowly working my way through this season - 10 months late.

[@timothywalker1388]

This show is reborn!

[@paulaolson8956]

Thank you for uploading.

[@jean-pierredeclemy7032]

I think Amol needs a cushion to boost him up a bit 😵‍💫

[@joanhale7159]

Yes, he kinda looks uncomfortably low in his chair!

[@jjjj8644]

MCU questions? I hope to see some DCEU questionst then

[@kurttaube5527]

Trinity has now qualified for the repechage. Open and Southampton must still sweat it out.

[@stevef.5269]

Stafford is the new official geography freak of U.C. Brings to mind "GPS Max", the Singaporean-Chinese guy from a few seasons ago.

[@mlml984]

The winners are bound to be early favourites, that was team work. Unfortunate for the losing team, they were so good that they might have won against some other team!

[@martinmason5008]

Thanks for posting. I thought this was a good show despite the result being determined early on - with Bangor remaining motivated for the 160+ total. Any concerns that whoever replaced Paxo have been obliterated by Amol, comfortably resonating his mark on the programme. The show is in safe hands.

[@TheSabian321]

Stafford summoned his inner Zeng in those Geography questions.

[@fidomusic]

Disappointed by Bangor, my alma mater, not knowing 60s bands, but impressed that Edinburgh did.

[@marty9011]

Wow, what a great winning score. Like last week, the losers only got going halfway through. Thank you Cosmic Pumpkin.

[@Dalexb]

Thank you.

[@filipfaraci2751]

Thanks

[@neilmartin4315]

Quiz starts 2:45

[@walkingbassline]

Good match!

[@DragonsEyeTours]

Thank you

[@mortemerb8839]

15:15 that was a somewhat risky guess at that point in the question, but it paid off.

[@nickychimes4719]

Edinburgh are up there with the best so far .. Just need to tag-out McGovern!

[@Kwippy]

My alma mater doing us proud once again! Well done guys! My wife took one look at the team and said "What a bunch of nerds!". She should know. She married one.

[@davidconnell1959]

Edinburgh were amazing of course, but Bangor fought for what they got, too. Missed Mary Cassatt? uff. Off topic… Bhatt has the most harmonious face I’ve seen in a long while.

[@ollietaro]

Edinburgh ate

[@kevinwalsh1400]

thanks

[@redoxrecords6384]

Big improvement. Bit of pzazz from the presenter even though there was another Guy Fawkes question.🙄

[@kenmunsell1364]

What a score! And, what a pumpkin! The music questions make a person feel old. I can deal with not getting Bowie or the Who, but not getting the Kinks? How can that be? That team must now have the acute schizophrenia paranoia blues.

[@Ramboost007]

Wonderful to see the former Detroit Lions and now Los Angeles Rams quarterback excel in geography on University Challenge.

[@murmurrrr]

Bangor seems like a really strong team, simply not nearly as strong as Edinburgh.

[@revilo00]

Stafford is a beast

[@hifijohn]

The monkess??!!

[@siliconesal]

We used to get a few answers … it’s way too elitist of late

[@Bruhaha9]

I got 22.

[@iansmith9125]

God it was a butchery! 😫

[@vik24oct1991]

edinburgh is the most balanced team except mcgovern rest of the team is top.

[@geoffpollock6892]

I suppose it was just my generation!

[@RJ1164]

Thor film.

[@arkdeniz]

Two unis with majority foreign teams. Is it me or are we seeing that a lot more these days?

[@PS-vm3we]

What do you mean foreign teams?

[@arkdeniz]

@@PS-vm3we sorry. I should have been clearer. A Welsh uni with only one Welsh member and three English, and a Scots uni with only one Scot and three English.

[@gooscarguitar]

well this is because the majority of people in the UK are from England

[@goawayimsleeping509]

@@arkdeniz These are both UK universities, and everyone here is British. For example, I'm an English person studying in Edinburgh, just as I have a Scottish friend studying at Cambridge - it's a free country.

[@arkdeniz]

@@goawayimsleeping509 If it were true that the UK was a single country rather than four nations loosely tied together by a monarch and a vaguely centralised system of government then why is it that Scots get free HE in Scotland but English do not? Why are there English and Scottish and Welsh teams at the rugby world cup and not a British team? (And conversely why is there an Australian team but not a Queensland or NSW team?) Oh no, you’re definitely different nations.

[@castelodeossos3947]

Presume I'm not the only one to notice that that famous alumni now mentioned are always non-native (when possible), or at least of immigrant stock and, of course, women, almost all of whom are mentioned not because they are famous but because it's Politically Correct to do so. In this case, David Hume was not only librarian but also an alumnus of Edinburgh University, along with Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott, Alexander Graham Bell, and Charles Darwin, and other presently unmentionable white men.

[@gooscarguitar]

Perhaps they don't want to mention the same people every single year

[@ellentronicmistress4969]

You're right. We should continue to ignore everyone who is not white and male.

[@Messier45_Pleiades]

That questioner always looks like he's sneering.

[@Ramboost007]

It really isn't University Challenge if the host isn't at the very least condescending isn't it

[@robertalenrichter]

I'm not British, nor have I ever lived there, but I always used to enjoy the elegant sound of British media. I realise that Received Pronunciation no longer exists, phased out as elitist, politically incorrect, and that there's a great variety of accents. Unfortunately, some quite literally grate on my ears, to the point that I tune out the speaker, in this case, the new host. He has a nice manner, but I no longer watch this series. My comment is at once a sort of apology and a cry of exasperation. The contemporary world seems to believe that form doesn't matter, or that all forms are equivalent, or on the other hand, that certain forms are even to be avoided because people don't want to sound what is referred to as "posh". My argument has nothing to do with politics -- here in Germany, I vote on the Left/Green side. My point is, quite simply, that my ears aren't interested in socio-economics, and I can't listen without feeling what I'm hearing. Spoken language is like music. You either like it or you don't.

[@castelodeossos3947]

Agree entirely. A bit like listening to the German spoken in Goethe's Faust versus that spoken in Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz. In all the countries I visited, I've come across natives speaking their language euphonically and not so. The exception is, perhaps, Afrikaans.

[@robertalenrichter]

@@castelodeossos3947 Coincidentally, I live in Berlin. Not one of the nicer accents, but I agree with you, it depends. The local newscasters sound cool, a blend of regular German and the Berlin colouring. A vast subject, about which I could go on at too great a length. For me, the most gorgeous German accent is upper-class or educated Hamburg, which, sadly also seems to be dying out. I speak English, French and German and have noticed in all of them a sort of generalised "euphonic decline". Contemporary "Parisian" can sound harsh, flat. I don't have anything against regional sounds, per se. Recently watched a KZbin clip in which Richard Burton switched from his acquired accent to the Welsh of his youth. Both were wonderful. I imagine that some sort of work with articulation still goes on at acting schools, and wonder why none of this should be relevant for broadcasters.

[@robertalenrichter]

Further to this -- the German trend has actually gone in the opposite direction, towards a kind of standardised pronunciation in the media, based upon a vaguely Northern German model. I quite like it, clear, precise.

[@redoxrecords6384]

@@robertalenrichter The continiuity presenters on NDR speak very elegently.

[@ellentronicmistress4969]

It's not political correctness; it's inclusiveness. For many years, people with regional accents (which are a vast and rich in the UK) were rarely heard on the radio or television. Thankfully, we now accept that it's okay for people to speak in their natural voice rather than in some elitist, forced pronunciation deemed acceptable to the 'ruling classes'. I'm sorry if that upsets you so much but for me personally, it's utterly beautiful. Besides which, this has been the case for many years so I'm not sure how it's only just become an issue for you?

[@seanolaoire8476]

🎃 👍

[@jsio3820]

Thank you.