University Challenge - Jesus, Oxford vs Warwick. Part 1 of 3.

[bwfc12]

Haha how confident was that dick at the end

[itsthehannahness]

LOL at 'pick a number between 1 and 5'

[gtawesom3]

Meh, chris Christmas? My teacher is Mr. Christmas and guess what his wife is called? Mary, Mary Christmas lol.

[englishgainer]

Christopher Christmas? Lol

[scottmarshall456]

@englishgainer It would have been so much ironic, had he been in Jesus College...

[cazmaestro]

'Pick a number between 1 and 5'

'Pick a number that's not 4'

Real smooth Hayes.

[SONGSTICKS]

Never mind the Honour of the university.. stuff that !!

What I think they should do every now and then is do a University Challenge whereby the winners of the whole challenge have their student debts cleared.

[Procycliste]

Never heard any one say 'Hello I'm Victoria and I'm reading MEDIA STUDIES'

[RogerabbitGosu]

Am I the only one who thought she said "fuck" instead of "duck"?

[whyisingtheblues]

Christopher Christmas?! Best name ever.

[Nallenbot]

And who calls their son Chris Christmas??

[Nallenbot]

Will Doherty from Birmingham...not a trace of an accent. Peer pressure's a bitch!

[linjedomarn99]

I bet 50% of them had diarrea!

[tomsito365]

loved the way Will Doherty introduced himself. I was almost expecting him to say "or am I" in a sinister voice at the end of it!

[blackgenet]

@FridaLaReina Any form of English Literature degree from Oxbridge or any red brick uni is far more respected than something like sociology, film & media or business management

[Nyxtia]

Chris Christmas? Really?

[theonelink]

Such faggets -_______-

[planetgallifreytv]

@theonelink You're an idiot. They are probably a lot cleverer than you are, considering you haven't managed to articulate yourself properly.

[theonelink]

@planetgallifreytv umad?

[loler4eva]

i could only answer two of these, but im still in highschool...

[suenaamy]

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[askl23]

I find Stevens' psuedo-English accent kind of annoying.

[simonelalalala]

aw both captains are women, thats pretty cool

[stuartidh]

I don't doubt that we're watching a bunch of very intelligent individuals, but they all seem to hold an unrealistic amount of general and specialist knowledge. Not just on this episode, but every UC. Pretty sure they must be given a list of stuff to research prior to the episode.

[makingprogress]

@stuartidh If only. It's astonishing how much Wikipedia-derived knowledge pops into your head when you're on the spot vs Paxman - along with a lot of educated guesses. The most satisfying moments were when an apparently useless nugget of information from an old GCSE syllabus suddenly turned out to have value.

Jim Waterson

[RogerabbitGosu]

@makingprogress

Hahaha well GCSE knowledge had to be useful for something

[a1024s]

@stuartidh it's also worth noting they're wrong half the time (so there's probably a good deal of "educated" guessing among the times when they are right)

[trentmuch1]

There's nothing wrong with an educated guess that's correct!

[SONGSTICKS]

@trentmuch1

As opposed to an uneducated guess.. which would be wrong !! :)

[trentmuch1]

@SONGSTICKS

Yeah, true!

There was a question on the Christmas special, where both answers differed by only ONE letter substitution in the name, UCL's answer?

"Pope and J.G. Ballard"

Well, I didn't know the second answer (And can't remember) but I understood the question well enough to laugh! :D

[trentmuch1]

@stuartidh

How could anyone research an "unrealistic" amount of general knowledge? :P

[SuperMangn]

@stuartidh I have known people who were gifted and they could read huge books very quicky and recall huge amounts of info from the book. Normal people do not recall very well if they take in large volumes of information.

[alienatedfreak23]

let's me the jesus team....lol

[babsadoodle14]

Waterson. You're attractive. Well done.

[bobsinnepalshekitout]

blatant, lol

[makingprogress]

@FridaLaReina What constitutes an acceptable degree in your utilitarian, exclamation-filled world?

Intellectual study for its own sake. Challenging yourself, absorbing yourself in our culture and - to use a gross term - developing 'transferrable skills'. All things to be celebrated and all things that have served Chantal well.

Jim Waterson

[laladizzylandhi]

@makingprogress I agree. But you can't say that time travel comment wasn't funny. :)

[98smithg]

@makingprogress Well one would assume study is undertaken as a course to improves prospects of employment later in life sufficiently as to cover the initial outlay or less prudently but perhaps an equally noble cause would be to hope the enlightenment obtained would further human progress in due course. Of course neither of these would result from mediaeval English and Frida is correct to assume Chantal is rather frivolous in her choice of subject.

[petkragh]

@98smithg So you don't think the study of the past aids human progress?

[98smithg]

@petkragh The past should of course be studied so as we may learn from our mistakes. But learning last linquistical tropes is just pointless. Medievil English is a dead language.

[petkragh]

@98smithg Mistakes in what respect? What kind of mistakes would we be able to rectify with the study of a more "up-to-date" language? And where do you think modern English comes from? Large parts of modern western languages originate from Latin and Greek. These languages are also dead. Should we stop studying them as well?

[fattymattyweasel]

@makingprogress jim waterson im assuming you're james waterson.

[Xenolinguistica]

@Computerdisplay about 2-5 per episode. This quiz makes me feel so incredibly stupid

[cheesesandwich555]

"Warwick- Christmas". Always makes me smile. That and "Jesus- insert any of their names".

[cheesesandwich555]

"Warwick- Christmas". Always makes me smile.

[abctom123]

Speller sounds like Angelos Epithemiou from Shooting Stars.

[Libervurto]

What an ending "Parkinson's Disease!" xD

You have to hit a guy pretty hard to give him that.

[Libervurto]

hmm the adhesive tape is called duct tape not duck tape.

[jimbobafrodite]

Christopher Christmas!! What a name!!!

[Xerox20077]

Doherty sounds like someone from a compensation advert.

[Leeroythegreat]

@Xerox20077 Check out that eyebrow action from Doherty. :D

[eineScheibeBrot]

@cnavaro88 why do you say that?

[makingprogress]

@cnavaro88 Chantal's a product of the state system. And I reckon she's done pretty well for herself. All the best, Jim Waterson