University Challenge S53E21 Manchester v Edinburgh

[@Ramboost007]

15:04 McGovern during the music round is what every UC contestant dreams of happening to them: a music round about a genre they absolutely love.

[@ArthurKuntsler]

Whoever wrote the questions knows little about the genre. All pretty basic.

[@Ramboost007]

​@ArthurKuntsler To be fair, University Challenge, especially in the early rounds, doesn't go too deep into topics. The skill is in getting as wide of an information base as you can. For me for example, the bonus set on the types of chromatography is trivially easy, but only because I'm a chemist. I'd probably fuck up art genres that an arts major will find easy.

[@ArthurKuntsler]

​@@Ramboost007 Just about anybody who listens to College Radio even casually would have nailed all those. Sort of impressive that the guy knew about bands that were from his Granny's generation. Was trying to make a point about how UC has know-nothings writing questions that should be left to people who actually know what they are doing.

[@fracturedopal]

@@ArthurKuntslerWhatever, you record store reply guy. It's not the 90s anymore, nobody wants to hear it. I am a gen-x college radio listening granny and a fan, and I didn't know the answer to question two.

[@ArthurKuntsler]

@@fracturedopal Then you're not as bright or hip or whatever as you think you are, Granny.

[@YourQueerGreatAuntie]

I love how uncertain Senehedheera sounded every time he buzzed in with a correct answer! Another high-quality game. Thanks Cosmic Pumpkin!

[@lailedcat]

19:06 haha poor de los Reyes white “I’m looking like a real bad queer person” it’s okay, we haven’t all read Feinberg!

[@alysonmcmanus2005]

I laughed hard. As someone who’s done queer studies, I was yelling feinberg at the screen. Oh well, next time.

[@sfumato8884]

Ouch, this one hurt, I really enjoyed the Edinburgh team. Guess we have to say goodbye to the lovely Uttamchandani! The better team won though… hats off to Manchester!

[@philhayhoe1]

Thanks Cosmic Pumpkin, I'm loving this season and looking forward to some really tight rounds as we move towards the final. From NZ.

[@ralseihugger]

I’m from NZ too! Good to see we’re not alone here 🤞

[@lindorsibande]

MATCH STATS BELOW *Manchester : 215* *Edinburgh : 105* *Starter Questions Stats* MANCHESTER : 120 De Los Reyes - White = 0/2 {0} Kullmann = 4/6 {40} Senehedheera = 5/6 {50} Grady = 3/3 {30} Starter Success Rate : 70.59% EDINBURGH : 50 Stafford = 2/7 {20 minus 5} Hadley = 0/1 { -5} Uttamchandani = 2/4 {20} McGovern = 2/2 {20} Starter Success Rate: 42.86% *Bonus Questions Stats* MANCHESTER : 95 Bonus Success Rate: 52.78% (19/36) EDINBURGH : 55 Bonus Success Rate: 61.11% (11/18) ___________________________ _Apologies for publishing these late. Life got busy this week._

[@patsy451]

Not at all! Thank you for tracking and posting these, I always look forward to reading them. Your input is so appreciated!

[@ritawing1064]

Thank you! Invaluable for us suspenseaphobes.

[@Ramboost007]

7:53 I was about to argue that De Los Reyes-White's answer of SEC is acceptable because it's mostly considered a type of column chromatography since it almost always uses a column, but the question specifically mentions separating out a solvent and that's not what SEC is for

[@andrewclifton9772]

I would have accepted liquid chromatography there. SEC is very much a subset of LC /CC.

[@imokin86]

A heavy metal set, finally. Unexpected result overall, but very well played!

[@ShaktiShetty]

"A bit like this program" was very smooth by Amol Rajan.

[@WonderWhatHappened]

Well I was not expecting this outcome. Very well played to the winners.

[@emmapeel829]

Great match!! Thanks dear CP for our weekly dose of fantasticness!

[@johnyarbrough502]

Thanks Cosmic Pumpkin very much. UC always makes workday Monday more bearable. Manchester's reaction the Heavy Metal bonus was a joy to see. But nobody could complete "Tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in..."?

[@castelodeossos3947]

I know that passage off by heart but found the question badly formulated. So it was 'What's he talking about?', which should be unnecessary in a quiz.

[@WhoIsSirChasm]

The time loop category gave me that ever-so-rare opportunity to shout at my monitor an answer the team didn't know. (I haven't played Returnal, though; I don't own a powerful enough system!)

[@WhoIsSirChasm]

I also got the "arctic" question correct because of, of all things, an old episode of Whose Line is it Anyway?. "Backstreet Boys!"

[@profpartout6609]

Manchester brainstormed together so well

[@ArthurKuntsler]

Amol breaks out the monogrammed cuffs. Big Stylee!

[@marty9011]

Great game. Winners deserved the win. Thank you CP.

[@british.scorpion]

Thank you for uploading, it's one of my highlights of the week👍

[@shariffahatikah1725]

Every manchester teammates contributed, good game. Grady and Hiru are particularly great. And Edinburgh’s captain is very likeable, love that he loves to smile.

[@freddiethecutestcavapoo9184]

Thanks again, Cosmic P. So appreciate your speedy efforts to post! Well.....!! That was a bit of a surprise result based on round 1 performances! But Manchester thoroughly deserved their very clear win. They were on fire tonight! I cringe every time UC includes questions on video games!

[@ianleslie6971]

Thank you for posting this

[@jessicaellina3878]

Well done to Manchester, although they drew out their deliberations a bit too much. Disappointed for Edinburgh, a very likeable team. Great match! Roll on next Monday ! Thanks.

[@Andy2kk]

Completely outbuzzed by Manchester, what a fantastic game from Senehedheera. Hoping to see them against Imperial.

[@gabsymalone6307]

If you'd placed bets on the 2R based on R1 performances, I reckon you'd be a lot poorer given how the matches have turned out so far 😮! The two teams here scored as many points combined as Edinburgh did in their first game alone - I make that about 7-8 dropped starters for ten which is the highest for a while 😬! Still we did hit over 300 and both bonus rates were decent. Given the teams left, if Imperial vs Sheffield is one of the last R16 games that could be intriguing (to clarify I have no idea personally - just wondering if they might do that).

[@jamesfarquhar1518]

Thank you very much Cosmic Pumpkin from Italy.

[@chrishobbs58]

Thanks again, CosmicPumpkin! This is one of the rare occasions where I managed to guess who would be the winning team beforehand. The losing team was both slow on the buzzer, and terrible on bonus questions. After an early deficit, the winning team just pulled away. Anytime the losing team tried to rally, the winning team buzzed in with a correct starter. And the winners were much better on bonus questions. That said, it was a good effort by everyone. My best to both teams, and each individual.

[@ab8jeh]

20:10 Bursting onto the scene.

[@lesterlim7693]

Big Meeks got featured here

[@theyruinedyoutubeagain]

6:52 It's Outer Wilds, not The Outer Worlds

[@GeorgeLeow-e3p]

Got to say it's a big shock Edinburgh were knocked out in the last 16 given their performances on paper 2 years ago

[@ArthurKuntsler]

"tight contest"??? It was a walkover.

[@jjjj8644]

Manchester looking really strong. Let's not forget that they defeated Trinity Cambridge, a team that returned as part of best team losers and that recently won agaisnt two strong teams

[@grimftl]

From Allen, Texas, Thanks CosmicPumpkin! For the vast majority of this match, I was dead weight - BUT! I got the last question (opposite of euphemism) right. A tiny saving grace. Also, the guy from Massachusetts, De Los Reyes-White, kept starting his answer with "Is it..." Apparently, he watched a lot of Jeopardy. 😁

[@dinuushin3827]

Well done Manchester team..💐

[@yongjinnkim9207]

It's almost bizarre that such young boys know Napalm Death. How can it be possible?

[@megadethly]

Did I just hear the word Megadeth spoken on an episode of University Challenge? How I wish I was that contestant during that music round (I didn't actually know the Napalm Death answer. I guessed Venom which was a pretty good guess as it turns out).

[@ofnothing]

Thanks for the upload and the subs! Felt like a bit of a slow game but the team I was rooting for won in the end so all good 👍🏼

[@HoscoFelix]

Outer Wilds in a UC question! Amazing ❤

[@lailedcat]

6:00 man I would have crushed these bonus questions

[@davidconnell1959]

Twenty-six starters. Whoa.

[@jeff__w]

While Amol Rajan’s ties are striking, I think it might be better if he wore ones that were _not_ orange-hued a bit more often. (He has several different orange ones but, after a while, they sort of all merge together into one.) Perhaps a plum- or burgundy-colored one would be nice.

[@johncartwright8154]

I thought his shirt cuff was stained in first contest, but I realise now it is a monogram!

[@castelodeossos3947]

His attire shows clearly that he's of South-Asian heritage, where orange is popular, as is a bulky watch and bulky rings.

[@jeff__w]

@@castelodeossos3947 That’s an interesting observation. The orange ties look great on him, I think-they’re definitely _not_ a mistake in a fashion sense-but, after a while, I get a bit of “orange tie fatigue,” which I am, perhaps, more susceptible to than most people. (And probably other colors would look really good on Amol, in any case.) And, speaking of watches, I was trying to figure out the exact watch, just out of curiosity, but couldn’t.

[@calxtra5361]

I'M HEARING JEREMY PAXMAN IN MY HEAD STILL AND I'M HALF WAY THRU A BINGE WATCH OF THIS SERIES

[@BanalayerPete1972]

So impressed that UC know the difference between heavy metal and heavy rock.

[@DragonsEyeTours]

Thanks

[@Kwippy]

It hurts to see my alma mater lose, but fair do's to Manchester.

[@SC_Jolly]

Thank you!

[@jordanp815]

Really disappointing from Edinburgh after R1. Imperial clear favourites now with UCL in behind them. Manchester annoyed me a little bit with their slowness when it came to bonus questions, felt like time-wasting. I see them making the Semi Final though

[@elixir8417]

pretty sure every team that is leading with 5 minutes to go 'time wastes' lol

[@dfar5990]

Manchester were so slow on the bonuses and spent a lot of that time trying to pull answers they didn't know out of thin air. Wasting time to come up with a complete guess is annoying, bordering on unsportsmanlike. Regardless, it speaks to the gaps in the team's knowledge and the limits of how far they'll ultimately go in the competition.

[@billyhodges7194]

Good to see the dude from Trolls on the Manchester team with his cool hat 😁👍.... And metal questions too.... Horns up 🤟

[@johncoulson2041]

Get rid of the sreen used for the questions, the guy is forever hunched over it. Have a timer on questions, some yeams take forever before saying "pass"

[@jameshogan6142]

Yes you don't mind so much if they show some chance of answering but it grates when they just sit there tooling around when it's obvious they haven't a bulls notion.

[@AttilatheNun-xv6kc]

@@jameshogan6142 The producers have long been reluctant to level the playing field by introducing any measures to prevent blatant time-wasting. It's a mystery why they allow teams to get away with this.

[@nyanbinaryDC]

pulling for Manchester this season. the trans bee mascot and de los Reyes-White's hat pins are excellent

[@Dalexb]

Thank you \m/

[@yuliaz-rz8sw]

WHATT WHERE IS OLD HOST

[@gooscarguitar]

Retired

[@nathelondon3719]

Manchester were quicker, cleverer, better looking and had better hair!

[@grainnetaggart]

Organic chemistry

[@importedmusic]

So much wokeness and niceness, absolutely fucking love it!

[@sho-m-er5194]

COYBeeees

[@castelodeossos3947]

Not impossible that the Edinburgh team's very high score in round 1 was due less to superior skills and more to weak opponents, 'cause this was not far from a drubbing. They just made it to 105 points.

[@alanknotts1844]

I bet the guy with the hat on will look back on this in ten years and cringe😂

[@judithbaban5150]

I think the quizmaster gave Manchester too much time to answer their bonuses.

[@dwblurb]

Prettyshameful not knowing Alfred Dōblin.

[@EverymanMeets]

were I a writer for a quiz show, I would definitely double check the pronouns used by trans activists appearing in questions

[@LeeCount]

These are some really 'Woke Ass questions' an investigation is most definitely required.

[@markgardner2959]

Sorry, but since when has it been acceptable for University challenge to ask questions concerned with video games? Has the gene pool gone awry or something?

[@gooscarguitar]

god forbid that a general knowledge competition tries to be more general in the knowledge it asks for?

[@ytpanda398]

became acceptable when video games became as large a part of childhood as board games. That is to say, a while ago