UCL Hall here! Saw the lovely new tradition of some fellow contestants giving some post-match analysis in previous matches and thought I’d add mine - hope you all enjoyed the episode! This was a great one to film, the quarter-finals really felt like something else, and I certainly wasn’t expecting to ever be able to say that taking part at this level was something I could ever do. Thankfully though, with a brilliant team we got to this point and tried our best and had a load of fun on the way. The team from Christ Church were some of the loveliest people out and are great quizzers, so it was such a great match, too. Also, in case it wasn’t really obvious from my surprise, “iridium” was a complete 1/118 guess lol so glad that paid off! Thanks CosmicPumpkin for uploading!
Well done, felt sorry for CC losing so many points to early interruption but they came back well. Very worthy winners UCL and yes thank you, enjoyed the contest very much tonight.
Young Mr. Hall, you're a credit to your team! What a performance! Well done to all, of course. Great match, very pleasing. Nice that both come back for more, to my eternal delight. Thank you CP for your putting this up so quickly - who said they don't like Mondays!? ☺
This lawyer from Rockford, Illinois is glad to see a future lawyer (or do you still refer to yourselves as barristers?) do so well. Congratulations on your team’s victory and breadth of knowledge. I can see UCL and Imperial in the finals.
@@megadethly Bored by what? The question, the music, the comment, the show as a whole? Whatever it is, why bore the rest of us with your boring comment?
Thank you again for doing the statistics. 19 rounds (19 rounds completed; Amol barely began the starter question in the 20th round before the game ended) 24 starter questions (19 answered correctly, plus an additional 5 starter questions which neither side got right) 57 bonus questions (19 rounds x 3) 81 questions asked in total (24 starter + 57 bonus) 525 points available in total (24 x10, plus 57 x 5) 62.9% of the 525 points available were answered correctly ((200 + 130)/525) UCL 38.1% of the total points available answered correctly (200/525) Christ Church 24.8% of the total points available answered correctly (130/525)
I'm so invested in this! I feel like Hall is underrated because he clearly has a very vast knowledge and pretty much contributes in all the bonus question discussions.
Didn’t get to hear half the starter questions! Always stuns me when they answer before I can even understand the question lol. (But very much expected, given these two teams and given the nature of the competition)
Thank you CP for uploading this delightful match. The winners totally deserved it - they worked really well as a tight quartet and I'm looking forward to seeing them again!. The non-winners could have been better with a full four person team - one of their members added little to nothing, imo. Overall, I enjoyed this match a lot!
From Allen, Texas, thank you CosmicPumpkin. For the first half, I was dead weight, but I got more than a few later on and a couple no/wrong answers. Nice to have some culture in NE Texas.
Yeah, a really impressive team leader. Good reminder that it's not just a competition who knows the most, but how the teams choose amongst a handful of possible answers.
Thanks again, CosmicPumpkin! I was able to correctly guess who would win this match ahead of time, based on fields of study. Much like the proverbial blind squirrel in a snowstorm. I just felt the winning team was too well-rounded, as they proved to be. The losing team is very good, and perhaps with a different set of questions would have done bettter. We will, of course, see both schools again. My best to both teams, and to each individual.
I've been at sea for most of these quarter-finals but I got quite a few questions right today. The questions definitely get harder as we move through the rounds.
I think Sawh should at the very least run through her answers to medicine bonuses through her team even if that's her specialty. It cost them maybe one or two bonuses this match and in closer matches down the line it might be the difference.
Two full rounds for me; African football, and the flags/emblems. Low-hanging fruit, but a win's a win! Few other answers throughout as well, so chuffed. Big fan of both these teams, so hopefully will get to see more of both this series
The losers definitely put up more of a fight than I thought they would - bonus-wise with 13/24 it was actually their best showing :). With actually the highest score of this QF round and a good 18/33 bonus rate, the winners will play Trinity Cam in their next game - not much at all between the two sides stats-wise so should be good ;)! Manchester vs Imperial next - as an ex-Manc based on their shows to date, I'm not wholly optimistic against that juggernaut 😟but anything can happen!
Funny coincidence: an asteroid carrying huge deposits of Iridium is a central plot-point in the most recent season of Apple TV's For All Mankind, which is how I guessed that one correct
@@nochblad55 whoops, I assumed the comment was made in reference to the quasars guess in the Tully-Fisher starter. Although when you do astrophysics everything beyond helium is basically a metal
The more I watch U.C , and have been since it started on Granada T.V the greater my sense of ignorance and inferiority increases. So now at 72 I realise I am just plain thick.🥴
You're a month or two ahead of me, but you sum up my own knowledge impeccably. But like me you know what you know and it's not done us too badly - as yet!!!!
Thank you for the greetings. The date is just two weeks off. Had a great weekend when two great friends from Melbourne visited my wife and I in Crete, just a fortnight back. Nothing like a bit of Aussie humour! And when I say nothing ...... :-)
@@lookslikedavid They have better problem solving ability, great with numbers etc. If there was a perfect team for this show, in my opinion it would consist of one computer science student, one engineering student, one economics student and one history student. That team would win this show.
That's not data, that is your opinion. Problem solving is not very relevant for UC, and math questions come up less than (art) history, geography, biology, perhaps even music. @@McFlashh
UCL Hall here! Saw the lovely new tradition of some fellow contestants giving some post-match analysis in previous matches and thought I’d add mine - hope you all enjoyed the episode! This was a great one to film, the quarter-finals really felt like something else, and I certainly wasn’t expecting to ever be able to say that taking part at this level was something I could ever do. Thankfully though, with a brilliant team we got to this point and tried our best and had a load of fun on the way. The team from Christ Church were some of the loveliest people out and are great quizzers, so it was such a great match, too. Also, in case it wasn’t really obvious from my surprise, “iridium” was a complete 1/118 guess lol so glad that paid off! Thanks CosmicPumpkin for uploading!
You were amazing, my man ! Your speed on some of the starter questions were stunning !
Congrats man and good luck in the next round, I’m rooting for UCL to win
Well done, felt sorry for CC losing so many points to early interruption but they came back well. Very worthy winners UCL and yes thank you, enjoyed the contest very much tonight.
Young Mr. Hall, you're a credit to your team! What a performance! Well done to all, of course. Great match, very pleasing. Nice that both come back for more, to my eternal delight. Thank you CP for your putting this up so quickly - who said they don't like Mondays!? ☺
This lawyer from Rockford, Illinois is glad to see a future lawyer (or do you still refer to yourselves as barristers?) do so well. Congratulations on your team’s victory and breadth of knowledge. I can see UCL and Imperial in the finals.
Hall telling his teammates "say your favorite words" when he didn't know the answer to a law question (16:36) cracked me up
The music at 14:59 is beautiful. For those curious, it's Schumann's Piano Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 44: II
The first, Schubert’s Trout Quintet, is my very favorite piece of chamber music. Could listen to it over and over, all day.
Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor op.34 a surprise miss, it's the king of the quintet repertoire
I was bored shitless.
@@megadethly
Bored by what? The question, the music, the comment, the show as a whole? Whatever it is, why bore the rest of us with your boring comment?
The music, genius.@@dodiad
Cracks me up how much we learn about Rajan’s tastes in these haha
Hall summarizing my common UC strategy at 16:35: "just say your favourite words"...
Hard not to love both of these teams!
MATCH STATS BELOW
*UCL : 200*
*Christ Church Oxford : 130*
*Starter Questions Stats*
UCL : 110
Hall = 4/5 {40}
Izzatdust = 6/8 {60}
Sawh = 0/1 {0}
Finlay = 1/2 {10}
Starter Success Rate: 68.75%
CHRIST CHURCH - OXFORD: 65
Dean = 2/2 {20}
Gorgianeh = 0/2 {-5}
Wotton = 3/8 {30 minus 5}
Lowe = 3/5 {30 minus 5}
Starter Success Rate: 47.06%
*Bonus Questions Stats*
UCL : 90
Bonus Success Rate: 54.55% (18/33)
CHRIST CHURCH - OXFORD: 65
Bonus Questions Stats: 54.17% (13/24)
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*QF Win/Loss Record*
1. [W] Manchester
2. [W] Imperial
3. [W] Trinity - Cambridge
4. [W] UCL
5. [L] Birkbeck - London
6. [L] Sheffield
7. [L] Open
8. [L] Christchurch - Oxford
Thank you again for doing the statistics.
19 rounds (19 rounds completed; Amol barely began the starter question in the 20th round before the game ended)
24 starter questions (19 answered correctly, plus an additional 5 starter questions which neither side got right)
57 bonus questions (19 rounds x 3)
81 questions asked in total (24 starter + 57 bonus)
525 points available in total (24 x10, plus 57 x 5)
62.9% of the 525 points available were answered correctly ((200 + 130)/525)
UCL 38.1% of the total points available answered correctly (200/525)
Christ Church 24.8% of the total points available answered correctly (130/525)
Thank you so much I couldn't watch a match without knowing the outcome, far too suspenseful!
I'm so invested in this! I feel like Hall is underrated because he clearly has a very vast knowledge and pretty much contributes in all the bonus question discussions.
Thanks as always for the uploads. I love this little part of UA-cam where us geeks reside 😂
Really liking rajan. Such a great host & presenter
Brilliant, so much fun to watch. Many thanks.
Didn’t get to hear half the starter questions! Always stuns me when they answer before I can even understand the question lol. (But very much expected, given these two teams and given the nature of the competition)
Thank you CP for uploading this delightful match. The winners totally deserved it - they worked really well as a tight quartet and I'm looking forward to seeing them again!. The non-winners could have been better with a full four person team - one of their members added little to nothing, imo. Overall, I enjoyed this match a lot!
I was yelling all the answers for the Malay cuisine questions, thus startling my husband Greetings from Malaysia!
As said, in every program, someone shouts something... In my case as a Chilean: CHINCHILLA!!!!!
I believe I only said chinchilla 3 or 4 times out loud, surprised they didn't know it. They know all sorts of things I have no clue on, after all.
Mine is OSMOSIS!
Watching a previous episode on laptop with headphones I upset wife and dogs by suddenly yelling 'NAKED MOLE RAT!'
Thought the mention of the fur was a giveaway, but I'm not in their stressed position.
Results so far:
Manchester 1-0
Imperial 1-0
Trinity-Cambridge 1-0
UCL 1-0
Birkbeck 0-1
Sheffield 0-1
Open 0-1
Christ Church, Oxford 0-1
From Allen, Texas, thank you CosmicPumpkin.
For the first half, I was dead weight, but I got more than a few later on and a couple no/wrong answers.
Nice to have some culture in NE Texas.
Thank you CP! Greatly appreciated!
Sawh with her usual calmness, deducing the answers from her team’s inputs and her own ability very well !
Edit: spelling
Yeah, a really impressive team leader. Good reminder that it's not just a competition who knows the most, but how the teams choose amongst a handful of possible answers.
Surprised she missed the medical starter about the skull.
Deducing, not deducting?
Izzatdust knows a whole lot
@@gcuptonYes, but he is not a good - looking female like Sawh
Izzatdust is a beast especially on history
You gotta admire his knowledge base but that little knowing smile when he answers seems to say
'yes, l'm clever aren't l?
@@dondesmond7969 just say you're jealous, no need to tear him down for something he's clearly proud of
Thanks again, CosmicPumpkin! I was able to correctly guess who would win this match ahead of time, based on fields of study. Much like the proverbial blind squirrel in a snowstorm. I just felt the winning team was too well-rounded, as they proved to be. The losing team is very good, and perhaps with a different set of questions would have done bettter. We will, of course, see both schools again. My best to both teams, and to each individual.
I've been at sea for most of these quarter-finals but I got quite a few questions right today. The questions definitely get harder as we move through the rounds.
I think Sawh should at the very least run through her answers to medicine bonuses through her team even if that's her specialty. It cost them maybe one or two bonuses this match and in closer matches down the line it might be the difference.
Two full rounds for me; African football, and the flags/emblems. Low-hanging fruit, but a win's a win! Few other answers throughout as well, so chuffed. Big fan of both these teams, so hopefully will get to see more of both this series
Pompey!
Here for Sawh!
The thought of her one day being a medic reminds me of a song by Peter Sellers and Sophie Loren.
@@jameshogan6142 LOL. Boom diddy boom indeed!
The losers definitely put up more of a fight than I thought they would - bonus-wise with 13/24 it was actually their best showing :). With actually the highest score of this QF round and a good 18/33 bonus rate, the winners will play Trinity Cam in their next game - not much at all between the two sides stats-wise so should be good ;)! Manchester vs Imperial next - as an ex-Manc based on their shows to date, I'm not wholly optimistic against that juggernaut 😟but anything can happen!
Thanks again, Cosmic P, for rescuing my Mondays from hell! LOL!
An OK game but no eventual trophy winners here again, I think.
how poetic is "knee jerk"
Izzatdust is a cute genius!
Btw laksa, nasi lemak, nasi & mee goreng are all delicious!
Love from malaysia ❤
Hello fellow Malaysian! Saya pun menjerit-jerit jawapannya, hahah :D
Funny coincidence: an asteroid carrying huge deposits of Iridium is a central plot-point in the most recent season of Apple TV's For All Mankind, which is how I guessed that one correct
Izzatdust again and again 🎉👏🏻👏🏻
17:04 and shes studying her astrophysics PHD!?
Astrophysics is a very broad topic. She's not necessarily studying galactic dynamics.
But answering silica when the question mentioned a metallic element. A 14 year old would know that it is not silica.@@gooscarguitar
@@nochblad55 whoops, I assumed the comment was made in reference to the quasars guess in the Tully-Fisher starter. Although when you do astrophysics everything beyond helium is basically a metal
Also at 3.34 Black hole starter question.
The more I watch U.C , and have been since it started on Granada T.V the greater my sense of ignorance and inferiority increases. So now at 72 I realise I am just plain thick.🥴
I'm only here to push back the early-onset Alzheimer's. So far it's working [I think].
You're a month or two ahead of me, but you sum up my own knowledge impeccably. But like me you know what you know and it's not done us too badly - as yet!!!!
@@geoffpollock6892 Yeah you are not wrong there. Happy Birthday for whenever it is and enjoy the remaining ones. 🇦🇺
@@mjmcb1 mmmmm That’s one of the reasons I do. But not sure the effort seems to be working🇦🇺
Thank you for the greetings. The date is just two weeks off. Had a great weekend when two great friends from Melbourne visited my wife and I in Crete, just a fortnight back. Nothing like a bit of Aussie humour! And when I say nothing ...... :-)
Congrats to the winners. As always, thanks to CP.
Where s the previous presenter??
Retired
Thank God one of the classicists answered ὕστερον πρότερον.
I'm just here for Sawh
Why? Izzatdust carried, really.
@@clairdelunex Because they see her looks first, mainly.
Portugal?
It's a country in Southerm Europe; next to Spain
Bravo, genius. Maybe someone else will explain. @@ellentronicmistress4969
@@JanKosinski-x8hI think that was a pretty good answer to the question posed
@@JanKosinski-x8h Explain what? The only question you seemed to ask was 'What is Portugal?' You could just look it up.
@@gooscarguitar Thank you kindly!
Always thought that Oxbridge colleges were overrated! Londoners know more!
To be fair it's a college of 600 students against a university of 40,000 roughly
Yes! Another round with Ms. Sawh!
UA-cam, you can manage the massive database of our personal data, so why can't you manage my "advanced" viewing settings in any way which makes sense?
Gorgianeh's main contribution seems to be to smile nicely when her teammates give the correct answer. Does she have 'knowledge' of anything?
Sawh 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Phrenology? In 2024?!? From a university??!!??
Dean 💗 Such a beautiful face.
Generally engineering, computer science and mathematics students perform the best on this show.
Very odd thing to say given none of these players is studying any of those
Interesting claim, any data to back it up?
@@lookslikedavid They have better problem solving ability, great with numbers etc. If there was a perfect team for this show, in my opinion it would consist of one computer science student, one engineering student, one economics student and one history student. That team would win this show.
That's not data, that is your opinion. Problem solving is not very relevant for UC, and math questions come up less than (art) history, geography, biology, perhaps even music. @@McFlashh
@McFlashh eh? Thats just your opinion. There are tons of question on language, literature, music, art, pop culture, media etc.