University Challenge S44E11 Exeter vs UCL

[@homersimpson8561]

Gunnarrson didn't bother to say that he was from Iceland, he probably thought it was obvious.

[@thetessellater9163]

Steady on - if your mind gets any narrower, your head might explode! Has it ever occurred to you that someone with an Icelandic name may never have been anywhere near Iceland! It may be, for instance, that his forebears emigrated from Iceland to the UK centuries ago - is he still then "from Iceland"? Beware of your own unaware pejudices!

[@evaristosbethlehem3339]

@@thetessellater9163 Steady on - if your mind gets any more selective, your head might explode! Have you not considered that Peadar Films might be Gunnarsson's best friend and have known them since childhood, and know (that/whether) Gunnarsson identifies as Icelandic? Beware of your own unaware prejudices!

[@castelodeossos3947]

@@thetessellater9163 Absolutely correct counter-assumption. Plenty of Brits with foreign-sounding names whose ancestors immigrated to Britain generations ago. Eg. the Rothschilds, although their name is no longer pronounced Roth (red) -- schild (shield) but Roths--child. (Have, however, always found it bizarre that the contestants have to say where they're from: meaningless information if ever there was any.)

[@Connachtdude]

Thanks for everything, your work is appreciated!

[@alanrussell5374]

Thanks for your efforts

[@fkasqar8484]

Gunnarrson is one angry fellow

[@castelodeossos3947]

He's Scandinavian. Not angry but they don't smile easily, unlike Brueton.

[@jugjugette5188]

Sage looks remarkably like a young Roger Daltrey, but Pete is missing.

[@hlm896]

11:02 Halliday's face; when the vodka hits

[@johnlawrence2757]

Tut tut tut: Senate house is not part of UCL: it houses the admin offices of the University of London

[@equatoriallights]

Does anyone know which Vaughan Williams piece that was?

[@conalquinn5276]

Darude - Sandstorm

[@junkjive1]

thanks!

[@andrea22213]

Is Mr Sage the first foreign captain of a team?

[@thetessellater9163]

given this show has run for many years, with dozens of teams competing, I feel this is most unlikely, but maybe there have been very few relatively.

[@caramayer5461]

15:20

[@leftinlister829]

Sage can't help looking like someone I didn't like at school, but he seems to have the same miserable personality.

[@tomlane5818]

omg miss drew did that OMG yas queen!!!

[@willbennett6166]

I got 29 right.

[@frank-ui4bu]

Halliday and Sage were good leaders of their teams, but thus far Gabriel Trueblood of Cambridge-St. Peter's and Fred Harvey of Durham remain unbeatable.

[@andrea22213]

Ms Barry smiled and nodded when the round on feminism was announced, then contributed nothing except her blank smile.

[@johngoff3426]

The question wasn't actually on feminism, it was on Prime Ministers. They just obliquely referenced feminism in order to ask about Prime Ministers.

[@gtgw]

Drew was good

[@celestialteapot309]

Sage, but not sagacious

[@fkasqar8484]

Brueton lool

[@Oliver-ub4gc]

Heath is HOT

[@johnahearn7964]

He just finished up the latest season of Only Connect.

[@bhavikapopat528]

.foOd

[@thetessellater9163]

Que?