University Challenge S54E13 - LSE v Leicester

[@theyruinedyoutubeagain]

I don't get why watching this programme is so damn cozy, for lack of a better word, but I can't get enough

[@josephkarl2061]

It’s an old friend, one of those friends that you’re really pleased to have 😎

[@rapnsee]

There's nothing better than the feeling of knowing the answer to literally any question on this show

[@theresamcghee8362]

😅ignorance is bliss perhaps?

[@slightlygrouchy]

LSE's Nyang's gung-ho approach to the whole thing is incredibly endearing. I particularly love the fact that after a wrong answer or two he doesn't lose faith in himself, and just keeps going as if nothing has happened. Anyway, thank you so much for posting this, CosmicP.

[@MrLalitknaidu]

Love people like him who don't seem to be underperforming under pressure simply because they enjoy indulging in the pure act of answering questions without overthinking it.

[@jack0lantern-nn4re]

I really like the chemistry between Nyang and Bramley: Nyang delivers guesses with perhaps a 70% accuracy rate and Bramley checks whether they're any good...

[@jeff__w]

LSE’s Albert Nyang Ying Zhi has a sweet, engaging demeanor, so when he presses the answer “Maxwell,” not “Kelvin” and the answer turns out to be “Kelvin” 21:37-and _then_ gets wrong the winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry-one can’t feel anything other than sorry for him. (He redeems himself, getting the next two answers correct, looking justifiably pleased.) Not since Trinity - Cambridge’s Agnijo Banerjee in last year’s series has a contestant smiled so consistently throughout the entire episode.

[@unnotabelle]

Current status: completely in love with LSE Nyang 😍

[@SundaraRamanR]

We had Tarsala with Masala before, now it's Lister from Leicester! This one's gonna be a slight tongue twister for the poor announcer 😄

[@SundaraRamanR]

And a different Lister appears as an answer too 😂

[@jeff__w]

@@SundaraRamanR It felt like some sort of missed opportunity that that question 22:26 wasn’t a starter that Noah Lister might have answered correctly: “Leicester - Lister” “Lister.”

[@paulaolson8956]

And my favorite Birckbeck MacMillian

[@genevievedolan1288]

I didn’t know whether to be proud I got all the blues artists right, or sad that no one knew them…they were so revered in my generation…

[@NeilRossHistoryComedyPoetry]

@@genevievedolan1288 I kept guessing Howlin' Wolf for Muddy Waters and vice versa. Had Robert Johnson right until I changed to Leadbelly. Sigh.

[@nightheart8927]

Thank you Cosmic Pumpkin. I am from Jena (the thuringian city 26:32) and found it wonderful to hear my cities name on this wonderful programme. :)

[@acdallas6356]

Too bad Leicester Lister didn't get to answer the Lister question.

[@freddiethecutestcavapoo9184]

Leicester Lister is one of the best name calls!

[@chron123]

Spoiler Barrier

[@aadhaarmurty1180]

Extending the barrier :)

[@saber1epee0]

Supporting the barrier. Yay for good comment best-practices!

[@thetessellater9163]

Anyone who doesn't want a spoiler should read the comments after the show, surely?

[@thomaswilkinson4027]

@@thetessellater9163 top comments automatically appear in app whether you want to see them or not

[@thomaswilkinson4027]

love for the barrier

[@idk3759]

I am Canadian, and I was very proud to get the first question within the first few words, before the competitors. I don’t think I’ve ever done that with a first question on this show

[@NeilRossHistoryComedyPoetry]

Moi aussi, WLMK!

[@martinmason5008]

Thank you so much Cosmic. It's terrific to see this, in Michigan, around the same time in the evening that it's being broadcast back in the UK. Amol appears to be nicely putting his stamp on the show.

[@RyuSensei42]

Highest scoring runners up so far: 1. UCL-175 2. Durham-165 3. St. Andrews-145 4. Leeds-125 via tie break of fewest questions answered to obtain score. Eliminated: Gonville & Caius-Cambridge-80, Manchester-75, Reading-100, Birkbeck-London-110, St. Catharine’s-Cambridge-120, Exeter-Oxford-110, Leicester-100, Liverpool-125 via tie break, UEA-125 via tie break. Lowest scoring winner: Edinburgh-175 Highest scoring winner: Bristol-325

[@zaphbrox8239]

With only one more heat, it is getting real close to a time when we will discover the arcane rules of UC in deciding who will progress in a 3-way tie.

[@mudpill7509]

Birkbeck McMillan

[@clairebrett6615]

​@@zaphbrox8239I read in the comments of a previous episode that it goes to who got the score the fastest

[@aliceharuna4]

Now three teams (Liverpool, UEA, Leeds) are tied on 125 points. I researched the number of the questions each team needed to reach 125 points in order to reveal that the only one team who reached that score on hearing the fewest questions can go through. Liverpool：72 questions UEA：75 questions Leeds：60 questions So we should have to say goodbye to Liverpool and UEA.

[@TomWells-nu9bz]

@@clairebrett6615 I found Leeds reaching the score of 125 47 seconds ahead of UEA, Liverpool further behind as well. So Leeds the quickest

[@knightsatin]

Another great match with two enthusiastic teams

[@marty9011]

I was impressed by the wide range of knowledge of the winners. Thank you CP.

[@Cassandra_Steel]

That's an unfortunate acronym

[@gabsymalone6307]

That's the first time we've had 20 Starters-For-Ten answered since the Imperial-Manchester game two months ago ;), and I think the first all-male team this season. The flipside was that the losers just had no luck with the bonuses - 6/21 is almost never going to be enough, and we won't see them again. Winners quietly racked up a very impressive 24/36 on the bonuses - we'll have to see if it can be replicated later. St Andrews is also confirmed to get another chance now - almost the end of R1 - bring on HSL and R2 in due course ;).

[@FrenchArrogance]

Was waiting to hear Leicester - Lister, 14:54 made me happy (good song too)

[@aliceharuna4]

UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE S54E13 MATCH STATS BELOW LSE: 235 Leicester: 100　Eliminated Starter Questions Stats LSE: 115 Nyang = 5/8 {50 minus 5 points} Dalton = 4/4 {40 points} Bramley = 2/2 {20 points} Jiang = 1/1 {10 points} Starter Success rate: 80.00% (12/15) Leicester: 70 Lister = 4/5 {40 points} Beeden = 1/1 {10 points} Gowland = 3/5 {30 minus 10 points} Owen-Shah = 0 Starter Success rate: 72.73% (8/11) Bonus Questions Stats LSE: 120 Bonus success rate: 66.67% (24/36) Leicester: 30 Bonus success rate: 28.57% (6/21) The fourth highest-scoring losing point is now kept 125, tied on Liverpool, UEA and Leeds. It may be a cliff hanger up to the last 1R next week.

[@Outwhere]

Leicester's bonus success rate is atrocious. They shouldn't have doddled so much.

[@saber1epee0]

Leicester-Lister is such a perfect announcement name!

[@MrPotsy81]

Thanks CP for the diversion tonight. East Coast USA, I am having a personal news blackout. So nervous. Our Constitution is at stake and the World needs a good US President. Scary stuff. And may I say it is unbelievable to me that this election is even close.😳🙏 Praying.

[@Tesserae]

Same here in Canada 🇨🇦 and likely around the rest of the world. I would like to propose that in case of a tie, the u.s. election should be decided by a university challenge match between republicans and democrats.

[@VLind-uk6mb]

@@Tesserae Neither side would beat Leicester.

[@genevievedolan1288]

Trying to ignore it for a little while …this program helps!

[@MartinAmis-u9g]

Britain is hoping for a Harris win. ( apart from the racists, homophobes and conspiracy theorists , of course)

[@jameshogan6142]

Let's hope the candidate who already has a proven track record prevails.

[@someangel-shape6797]

I feel like Leicester would have been much better suited with Lister as the captain - he was much more decisive and willing to throw out answers, whereas Gowland wasted a lot of time thinking to himself when he should have been discussing with the others

[@Redu3]

Leicester team seem like a vibe tbh

[@JONNYTUBSTER]

The Tuss!! Big up! Aphex the goat

[@Cassandra_Steel]

​@@JONNYTUBSTERdoes this mean anything

[@JONNYTUBSTER]

@@Cassandra_Steel it’s his profile picture. Aphex Twin in 2007, released music under Karen and Brian Tregaskin, aka The Tuss, releasing 2 insanely intricate breakbeat and acid records on the moniker. In 2017, it was reissued digitally on the Aphex twin website and more full photos of the sheep that appeared on the labels, joined in with the extra tracks. The sheep in this pfp coincided the track “Beautiful Japanese People.” Really really gorgeous track ! Recommend it for sure

[@jackblack704]

a nerd vibe

[@JONNYTUBSTER]

@@Cassandra_Steelit means that the bloke who commented has got elite taste in music

[@carolineben-ari2798]

I so enjoyed hearing, "Leicester Lister"!

[@ubiergo1978]

Kudos to Beeden celebration dance at some point =). As always, someone somewhere is always shouting an answer... here: EMBRYOLOGY!!!!, but that's just because I'm a veterinarian... Also as a bonus: CHILE!!!!, but that's also because I'm chilean. =P

[@jessicaellina3878]

Well done to LSE! Leicester came across as a bit listless ( no pun intended!).. didn,t see great interaction between the players.Always enjoyable nevertheless. Thanks CP!

[@SundaraRamanR]

13:13 I'd always thought of mass extinction events as a short period (years/decades) of existing species dying that's quickly followed by other species taking up the niche. So the idea of there being a measurable coal gap sounded curious: turns out this was the biggest mass extinction event there ever has been, with maybe 90% of existing species dying out. The theory is that it took millions of years for even plants to recover from this vast destruction, which is why there's a coal gap.

[@Cassandra_Steel]

Yeah a lot of these events took place over a loooong period of time. Common misconception though, since what first comes to mind in the common cultural mind is a big meteor quickly wiping out all live. Also, the term "event" is conceived of as something that doesn't take longer than a month in common usage.

[@PetroicaRodinogaster264]

Yes happened quickly, but took forever to recover. I always thought the mass extinction of the large land animals (dinosaur etc) probably took a millennia at least but I saw a doco that said it probably took as little as a month, the devastation was so bad. But I could be wrong. It is a fascinating subject.

[@zaphbrox8239]

@@PetroicaRodinogaster264 AFAIK, different dinosaur species went through periods of domination, and extinction within the Jurassic period itself. The Yucatan meteor strike killed the remaining dinosaur species. The stegosaurus never coexisted with the T-Rex. So, in that sense, it did take a long time for them to go extinct.

[@Olivia-cq7tv]

Knowing that once upon a time 90 percent of species died out on earth yet life clung on by its fingernails and eventually thrived again, well that gives me hope in our planet's resilience. Perhaps in millions or billions of years when humans have long ago become mere footprints in time, other life will flourish and this world won't be the desolate space our species is threatening to make of it today. I want to believe that we can do better, but if we can't then I want to hope nature and life in all its forms is ultimately stronger than our childish destructiveness.

[@robert-cc2sh]

Thanks CP, got the Malta question as it's where I live. Got the Robert Johnson question because I am Robert Johnson !

[@josephkarl2061]

All them blues players sure gave Leicester the blues 😜😂

[@mudpill7509]

I know everyone loves to show their age here, but I was screaming at how long it took them to name Clapton.

[@NeilRossHistoryComedyPoetry]

Hell, at least they got it!

[@VLind-uk6mb]

I'm increasingly persuaded that the good contestants are a tribute to their schools as much as their universities, though obviously good university environments widen their collected knowledge. Young Mr. Nyang is a signal that Singaporean education is still at a very high standard. I lived in Asia and although I disapproved of some of their teaching methods, I suspect schools in much of Asia are far better than all too many of their western counterparts, where students are coddled and conceded to.

[@castelodeossos3947]

Have always believed that UC competitions are won owing more to the contestants' schooling than to their university studies, since the latter is specialised. It is when one is in school that one develops the habits of wide-ranging study and interest. So don't quite agree that it's one 'as much as' the other.

[@VLind-uk6mb]

@@castelodeossos3947 Exactly.

[@jamesfarquhar1518]

thank you cosmic from Italy.

[@SundaraRamanR]

Didn't know George Bernard Shaw was involved with the LSE! Seems he also gave it its first ever literary shoutout, by sending Eliza Dolittle to LSE at the end of Pygmalion.

[@NeilRossHistoryComedyPoetry]

Nice! Don't know how they resisted citing M. Jagger.

[@jackjones4248]

Venus and de Milo???

[@Olivia-cq7tv]

I thought that too. And since when was LOVE ISLAND spelled with an M anywhere in it?

[@JJdakilla]

OMG way to go LSE!! We finally have a good team and they’re even LIKABLE?! They must have started admitting real people after I graduated there in 2018 with an MSc in Finessing Investment Banking Internship Applications! Jokes aside, I hope they go very far in the competition!

[@philroberts7238]

How things can change! Way back when - by which I mean the early 60s - I tossed up applying for LSE . The attraction for me was that it was reputed to be a nest of (shock, horror and whisper it softly) Marxists!!!

[@MultiVince95]

Monday 4th November 2024

[@annereidy7981]

Thank you!

[@jonathanjones691]

wow nyang total mvp, wvp Beeden, i saw 1 question answered

[@outsidespac3]

Nyang might have set a record for most incorrect answers given

[@someangel-shape6797]

I think Owen-Shah was even worse I didn’t see him answer a single one

[@ahntaea]

Thank you CP

[@theresamcghee8362]

Thanks cosmicpumpkin ❤

[@JonnyWanKenobi]

Leicester seem to have Napoleon Dynamite’s brother on there team.

[@grimftl]

Thanks to CosmicPumpkin for bringing some culture to Allen, TX. Pretty tough round. I only got two no/wrong answers - that said, my mind was off my gain as the election is ongoing.

[@redoxrecords6384]

Although academically qualified, most of my correct answers come from general knowledge aka life experience. Thanks for the upload cp.

[@tonybarnfield8411]

Did not envy Roger Tilling getting Lister Leicester in the correct order! Or should that be Leicester Lister?

[@PetroicaRodinogaster264]

Leicester (Lester) Lister…so funny

[@courtenaywrites]

Gowland was far too slow! You could see his teammates were annoyed.

[@joshabrillo4237]

I got Hymenoptera, Qing, and embryology letsgoooo

[@2Majesties]

Grant Dalton of LSE is a babe! 😍

[@thetessellater9163]

What happened to Dave Garda , anyone ?

[@PS-vm3we]

Never existed. Dave Garda was made up name for someone who posted the UC shows on KZbin weekly but also conned us all by faking his own illness and death and scammed a lot of fans and contestants into helping his family financially afterwards. And no, I’m not making this up.

[@Tumleren]

There was a whole thing with him claiming he was sick and (I believe) took donations. Turns out he was faking it, people found out and he vanished. Now we have the lovely pumpkin to deliver us our UC

[@jeff__w]

Just to add: apparently, if various online accounts are true, there was no actual Dave Garda-or, at best, it was a pseudonym-just someone who ran a channel like this one for several years who then claimed to have a terminal illness, ran a fundraiser under false pretenses, announced (under a different name) his own death, and then wiped all traces of his channel from this site upon discovery. Searching _Dave Garda_ will quickly yield results leading to those accounts.

[@martinrevell8806]

❤❤❤🎉😊

[@davidconnell1959]

Woohoo UC

[@castelodeossos3947]

When the contestants give a wrong answer, the host's Political Correctness compels him to attribute it to bad luck rather than ignorance. Mr Paxman's honesty was far to be preferred. Nothing like phoniness to ruin a host's credibility.

[@markvinylgenie2920]

What a lovely person you aren't

[@glenntimmermans8277]

Amol Rajan is a prize twerp.

[@avaaaaaa3261]

first

[@mul1gan256]

do you realise how immature you sound to someone like me with a comment like that? How low and pathetic you appear before me? Pfft, I suppose your probably don't. So Please continue, no really. With your 'first', no really, I mean it; for to me you will only ever be last in this race we call life...

[@mul1gan421]

How...... Trivial

[@Zoomo2697]

"I talk about the gods; I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth." Ursula K. Le Guin Oh Ursula..." “Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad” was first used by the Reverend William Anderson Scott’ in his book Daniel, a Model for Young Men published in 1854. Its original origin, however, is believed to be much older and likely to be ancient Greece. Intriguingly, in Latin this phrase is usually presented as Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat which means, those whom God wishes to destroy, he first deprives of reason." "Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative." G. K Chesterton

[@SC_Jolly]

Thank you!