A blowout so amazing it inspired a new running statistic! Highest scoring runners up so far: 1. UCL-175 2. Liverpool-125 3. Gonville & Caius - Cambridge-80 4. TBD Eliminated: None. Lowest Scoring Winner: Open University-190 Highest scoring winner: Bristol-325
Rajan wouldn’t have been so generous with G&C’s starter mess up towards the end if they had been 20 rather than 200 points behind. He obviously felt sorry for them at that point.
Scrolling around UA-cam after watching today’s University Challenge, I was pleasantly surprised to find our old friend Brandon Blackwell from Imperial College competing on today’s episode of Jeopardy, Tournament of Champions.
Hello again! We have a new contender for strongest team this week! What a performance! And balanced to boot. That score will most likely not be equaled in this tournament. The losing team got going too late, but they were just overmatched. My best to both teams, and to each individual.
After a while I was just watching Warner's face to see his reaction to their team doing so well. He looked like he couldn't believe what was happening! I knew the fact about Pierre, South Dakota immediately, so I would have loved to be on the stage for this one. That would have gotten a good reaction lol
This game made me truly miss Gonville and Caius team from season 44 consisting of Ted Lovely, Anthony Martinelli, Jeremy Warner and Micheal Taylor. Ted is currently an advocate and advisor at Maitland Chambers Anthony is an NHS doctor and CL Warner is also a doctor focusing in psychiatry Taylor is a historian, has a few books out
One episode does not make a team a contender, as we've seen teams smash a debut only to crash hard later...but I don't get that vibe here. This lot felt strong, and all four contributed. Shame for the losers... might have stood a chance against either team from last week.
i feel like he just did it because at that point it was 100% their win anyway so he wanted to get to the next starter to at least give the other team a chance to get some points
nope, definitely not prompt at all, they were taking their time. paxman would have done the same, except a lot earlier and faster. amol is already very generous here.
I worked for the copyright library in TCD. Was very surprised they didn’t get that and Warner’s suggestion that it was in Gibraltar was very unhelpful. The question clearly mentioned university libraries so they were going to be well-known institutes.
@@genevievedolan1288 That’s what annoyed me about Warner. He started to get cocky and a lot of his suggestions were unhelpful. But this is only the first round. The questions get harder in subsequent rounds so they’ll quickly learn how much of a liability Warner will be if he continues in this vein. I agree that he put the captain off and his teammates blamed him for not knowing it was TCD. Pretty unfair given Warner was shouting “Gibraltar!” At him constantly. A good captain will always listen to his teammates and Warner was pretty pushy throughout so it’s no surprise he went with his answer and didn’t go with a more suitable answer. I give Bristol two games more maximum. There are far better and more mature teams in the competition who will wipe the floor with them in the next rounds.
@@MrRubrick yes, he did get too cocky, but I have to admit he was right quite a lot too. But he could prove to be a liability if he doesn’t rein it in. They were a good team overall though, and it was a decisive win.
@@genevievedolan1288 True but I’ve seen a lot of UC over the decades and teams like this always come up short in later rounds. It was a decisive win but that doesn’t mean they are favourites to win. The questions were not that difficult and they were just quicker on the buzzer. As I said we will see their true mettle when they come up against a far better-organised team in later rounds.
As a Russian, hearing questions about Dostoevsky, Lev Yashin AND blini (or Bellini, as Flanagan would say, lol) is fascinating. Thanks to CosmicPumpkin and the question makers! Edit: Oh, now we have Chagall, perfect.
How does Warner know so much in so many different spheres at such a young age? Does his brain simply have the ability to store absolutely everything he ever encounters and then recall it almost instantly? If it is a "rare condition" is there a name for it other than very high IQ?
@@CharlotteinWeimar welcome to the world of “looking things up in books”. God knows how any of them got into university without knowing so many different things in so many different spheres at a young age. I guess the rare condition you are looking for is called “studying”.
yeah I don't think IQ comes into play here. it's a mixture of very good memory but probably also a certain technique/habit (probably not even intentional) that exposed him to so much and made him interested enough to retain it. maybe just being a massive bookworm for encyclopedias or something like that... I'd love to know
Interesting little tidbit: the Pierre referred to at about 21:33 - the capital of South Dakota - is actually pronounced *peer*. It's one of those American quirks.
Have you watched the 2019 series that had Brandon Blackwell? It was a great series and he is from New York. And Golfinos from the 2018 series was another very good contestant from New York.
I think the last time someone scored more was in 2018 - Durham scored 360 vs Strathclyde's 55. This is the joint 29th-highest-score of all time under Paxo/Rajan. Bambi era scores I don't use for comparison as scoring rules was quite different which allowed for much higher tallies.
The last time any team scored at least 325 points in a match was in the first round of the 2018~19 series, where Durham scored 360 points; they eventually made the semifinals before losing to Edinburgh. Last year, Edinburgh scored 320 points in their first round match; however, they lost in the second round to Manchester. So a huge first-round score is not necessarily indicative of a team going far.
Commiserations to Caius, curious to see how Bristol will be faring. Somewhat shocked by the opera round where they kept suggesting Italian composers and ignored the German and Swedish language being sung.
@@garryoreilly5524 And Donizetti. Though. to be fair, Mascagni is pretty much a one-opera man. A couple of his minor works might get the odd outing in Europe, but not in major houses there or anywhere else.
It can be difficult to recognize a language that's not your own (or one that you're extremely familiar with) when sung in opera, to be fair. Although there's really no explaining the whole "naming famouse opera composers during the 'name someone famous for composing only 1 opera' question round"!
Ouch - that was close for about 3 minutes, then the winners ran riot with an excellent 34/48 on the bonuses. Gonville & Caius were outdone in every aspect with 5 vs 16 starters and 'only' 8/14 on the bonuses, and that is the joint 29th-highest-ever score under the Paxo/Rajan regime from Bristol. EDIT: Mind you, based on what happened last year with Edinburgh and their beefy 1st round score, I am wary of putting bets on them just yet. But keep that up and they'll do very well indeed. Also liked that despite Mr. Warner getting 6, all of Bristol got at least 2 right so a decent spread of contributions. And Mr. Warner was the reserve on the 2022-23 Bristol GF team, so good to see him really exercise his potential.
It reminded me of last year's final. Just before the picture round, it was 40-40, then Amol says "scores level". Then after that it was never level and Imperial won in a 285-120 blow out
So I started this so I'll keep going.... I score myself as in the game, 10 for starters, 5 for bonuses, and this week made 210 (9 starters). As usual less than the winners but better than the losers. The speed of the game this week was really up there! hence the high scores by me and (of course) Bristol.
Well, the _real_ question of this match was why Ted Warner wasn’t seated closer to team captain Kevin Flanagan. Bristol got off to a blazing start out of the gate with Ted Warner’s answer regarding “the German Marie Curie” and, in a real sense, never looked back. The team sort of hit its stride with a series of questions regarding the most basic parts of the human brain, too easy for _University Challenge,_ really, although they obviously didn’t need the help. Bristol’s Warner was clearly the star contributor here-and he managed to look as if he were winging it on nearly every answer, while nailing them, and _then_ looking astonished at his good luck 11:32-but the other team members were no slouches. Bridie Rogers, who bears a bit of a resemblance to a young Sandra Bullock, answered starters regarding the invention of a medical device and “Death and Disaster”-themed artwork; Olivia Watts got starters about an Olympic gold medalist and some German principle that she answered so quickly, I still don’t know what the question was. Meanwhile, team captain Kevin Flanagan answered questions about various of pieces of art so casually and matter-of-factly, it was like they were hanging in his living room. (Maybe he’s training AI on art recognition?) And that’s the thing about Bristol: they were focused and yet _easy_ about everything-and not in the giggly, chatty way that Newnham-Cambridge was two series ago. Sure, it’s easy to stroll your way to victory when you’re 250 points ahead of the other team, but Bristol was that way six minutes in with 40 points. The team was dazzlingly good but they made it look pretty effortless. Meanwhile, Gonville and Caius just couldn’t hit its stride. There’s _always_ a question, maybe more than one, each series about the Chicxulub crater, the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs and all that. The answers are almost rote: iridium, K-T boundary, Yucatán, and so on. But the team somehow _missed_ the answer of the geologic period preceding the impact 4:27. (That’s what the “letter symbol” _K_ in “K-T boundary” stands for.) It was difficult to watch. By the middle of the match, when Amol Rajan sealed the fate of the team with his kiss-of-death-disguised-as-encouragement “Plenty of time, Gonville and Caius-see if you can get going with this music starter,” it was all but over. I usually root for the underdog team to break at least 100 but, unfortunately, Gonville and Caius didn’t even do that. It was really too bad. Anyway, condolences to Gonville and Caius and congratulations to Bristol, whom we’ll see in the weeks ahead.
Maybe an answer to why Warner sits to the far end is similar to why Imperial Zeng was also in the same seat position. I remember that Imperial team, and maybe even Zeng himself saying that Zeng was the type of guy who either knew the answer right away or didn't. If it actually came to deliberations on marginal answers, Sheriff and Mays were more helpful to the captain. You can see it as Zeng will only speak up if he's at least 95% sure of the answer. During deliberations he didn't usually participate.
@@Ramboost007 Thanks! It’s a really good hypothesis but, reviewing the team’s deliberations, it seems to me like Ted Warner is highly engaged in them with Kevin Flanagan, often talking _past_ Bridie Rogers (he doesn’t have a choice-she's between them)-in other words, Rogers and Warner are not really conferring with each other-which is why I made the initial statement in the first place. Warner seems like a pretty chatty guy, unlike Max Zeng, who gave the impression of being a hyper-accurate, laser-focused _machine_ (in the best possible way). Obviously the team has its reasons but I’m not sure the “Zeng positioning” is one of them. Look back over the team deliberations and see if your take is similar to mine.
25:19 The Chola dynasty was based in South India, more towards the East since they are of Tamil heritage. So, ideally the question should have stated "South East" instead of "South West". Also since Rajan has roots in that region, he should have picked up on the question setter's mistake. If he misspoke, that's a different matter.
This was a massacre O.O, as usual, someone, somewhere is always shouting an answer... in this match, VIOLIN!!!!!!, not that I know anything good about music (except listening to it), but because TwoSetViolin xD
Southeast Asian does not include India, which is usually referred to as part of South Asia. As far as I know the label Southeast Asia was not used until the nineteenth century and was not in common use until the Second World War. Odd that the question should have headlined the questions as being about Southeast Asia in the eleventh century.
What an amazing showing from the winners. Very quick on the buzzers, and their bonus conversion rate is great too!
A blowout so amazing it inspired a new running statistic!
Highest scoring runners up so far:
1. UCL-175
2. Liverpool-125
3. Gonville & Caius - Cambridge-80
4. TBD
Eliminated: None.
Lowest Scoring Winner: Open University-190
Highest scoring winner: Bristol-325
Rajan wouldn’t have been so generous with G&C’s starter mess up towards the end if they had been 20 rather than 200 points behind. He obviously felt sorry for them at that point.
Gonville and Caius have fallen since the days of HAPAX LEGOMENON
@@Ramboost007 the goat (cheese) of University challenge
hahaha i was just thinking about him yesterday
Funny that the colleges team of Ted Loveday fell down to the team of Ted Warner who happens to sit in the same seat!
If you search hapax legomenon on Google, the fitst thing you’ll see is Mr Loveday’s mugshot.
Warner getting so excited about having bonuses on Southeast Asia in the 11th was adorable.
That was a thrashing. Warner was amazing. Thank you CP.
Scrolling around UA-cam after watching today’s University Challenge, I was pleasantly surprised to find our old friend Brandon Blackwell from Imperial College competing on today’s episode of Jeopardy, Tournament of Champions.
Brandon is a mainstay of the US trivia world by now - he is a Chaser on our version of The Chase
UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE S54E03
MATCH STATS BELOW
Gonville and Caius - Cambridge: 80
Bristol: 325
Starter Questions Stats
GONVILLE AND CAIUS - CAMBRIDGE: 40
Tompkinson = 1/2 {10 minus 5 points}
Bentham = 1/2 {10 points}
Noble = 2/4 {20 minus 5 points}
Qureshi = 1/1 {10 points}
Starter Success rate: 55.56% (5/9)
BRISTOL: 155
Warner = 6/7 {60 points}
Rogers = 2/2 {20 points}
Flanagan = 5/6 {50 minus 5 points}
Watts = 3/3 {30 points}
Starter Success rate: 88.89% (16/18)
Bonus Questions Stats
GONVILLE AND CAIUS - CAMBRIDGE: 40
Bonus success rate: 57.14% (8/14)
BRISTOL: 170
Bonus success rate: 70.83% (34/48)
Hello again! We have a new contender for strongest team this week! What a performance! And balanced to boot. That score will most likely not be equaled in this tournament. The losing team got going too late, but they were just overmatched. My best to both teams, and to each individual.
After a while I was just watching Warner's face to see his reaction to their team doing so well. He looked like he couldn't believe what was happening!
I knew the fact about Pierre, South Dakota immediately, so I would have loved to be on the stage for this one. That would have gotten a good reaction lol
Me too! I practically jumped out of my seat because that's my favorite trivia fact
@@sixwheeling what is the fact? I don't feel like going through the whole episode
@@Sara-kq8qb Pierre, South Dakota is the only US state capital that shares no letters in common with its state
Great match. I have been watching UC since the BG days. Liked JP a lot but I am liking Amal more and more. Thanks for posting CP.
Very impressive performance by Bristol...what a score! Caius never really got off the starting blocks. Great game..thanks CP!
THERES ONLY ONE BRISTOL WARNER
A bit too false-modestly self-congratulatory for my taste but suum cuique
He scores when he wants!
I, for some reason, hate him with passion.
Has all the visible characteristics of the self-adoring, which is not unusual for people who know a lot.
Coincidentally I saw a Jasper Carrot video earlier today.
This game made me truly miss Gonville and Caius team from season 44 consisting of
Ted Lovely, Anthony Martinelli, Jeremy Warner and Micheal Taylor.
Ted is currently an advocate and advisor at Maitland Chambers
Anthony is an NHS doctor and CL
Warner is also a doctor focusing in psychiatry
Taylor is a historian, has a few books out
Actually that was‼︎
The match in the year when a magdalen-ox friend of mine Hugh Binnie was taking part!
@@aliceharuna4 oh ofcourse who could forget Hugh Binne Mr. Mental arithmetic himself
Ted Loveday :)
One episode does not make a team a contender, as we've seen teams smash a debut only to crash hard later...but I don't get that vibe here. This lot felt strong, and all four contributed.
Shame for the losers... might have stood a chance against either team from last week.
I only watch this show so when I answer one or two questions correctly I feel like a smart university student...
Amol shouting at Bristol seemed a tad unwarranted I thought - their answering was generally quite prompt. Terrific score!
i feel like he just did it because at that point it was 100% their win anyway so he wanted to get to the next starter to at least give the other team a chance to get some points
nope, definitely not prompt at all, they were taking their time. paxman would have done the same, except a lot earlier and faster. amol is already very generous here.
I went to UCD and got the Trinity question right! Bit of a runaway game tonight and thank you!
I worked for the copyright library in TCD. Was very surprised they didn’t get that and Warner’s suggestion that it was in Gibraltar was very unhelpful. The question clearly mentioned university libraries so they were going to be well-known institutes.
@@MrRubrickI think he would have got it if the other player was not so insistent on Gibraltar, not giving him space to think!
@@genevievedolan1288 That’s what annoyed me about Warner. He started to get cocky and a lot of his suggestions were unhelpful. But this is only the first round. The questions get harder in subsequent rounds so they’ll quickly learn how much of a liability Warner will be if he continues in this vein. I agree that he put the captain off and his teammates blamed him for not knowing it was TCD. Pretty unfair given Warner was shouting “Gibraltar!” At him constantly. A good captain will always listen to his teammates and Warner was pretty pushy throughout so it’s no surprise he went with his answer and didn’t go with a more suitable answer.
I give Bristol two games more maximum. There are far better and more mature teams in the competition who will wipe the floor with them in the next rounds.
@@MrRubrick yes, he did get too cocky, but I have to admit he was right quite a lot too. But he could prove to be a liability if he doesn’t rein it in. They were a good team overall though, and it was a decisive win.
@@genevievedolan1288 True but I’ve seen a lot of UC over the decades and teams like this always come up short in later rounds. It was a decisive win but that doesn’t mean they are favourites to win. The questions were not that difficult and they were just quicker on the buzzer. As I said we will see their true mettle when they come up against a far better-organised team in later rounds.
As a Russian, hearing questions about Dostoevsky, Lev Yashin AND blini (or Bellini, as Flanagan would say, lol) is fascinating. Thanks to CosmicPumpkin and the question makers!
Edit: Oh, now we have Chagall, perfect.
I had a tear on this episode, got like 15 answers!
Thank you so much for the upload, CP! This was an extremely impressive feat from Bristol, but I found their endless discussions hard to bear.
My sister goes to Caius and she was so excited to watch this episode lmao
How does Warner know so much in so many different spheres at such a young age? Does his brain simply have the ability to store absolutely everything he ever encounters and then recall it almost instantly? If it is a "rare condition" is there a name for it other than very high IQ?
@@CharlotteinWeimar welcome to the world of “looking things up in books”. God knows how any of them got into university without knowing so many different things in so many different spheres at a young age. I guess the rare condition you are looking for is called “studying”.
yeah I don't think IQ comes into play here. it's a mixture of very good memory but probably also a certain technique/habit (probably not even intentional) that exposed him to so much and made him interested enough to retain it. maybe just being a massive bookworm for encyclopedias or something like that... I'd love to know
Big up UCD! Glad to see Flanagan and all of Bristol do well
Interesting little tidbit: the Pierre referred to at about 21:33 - the capital of South Dakota - is actually pronounced *peer*. It's one of those American quirks.
There are a handful of those shibboleths right? On the top of my head, I can only recall New Orleans vs. the original Orleans in France
That’s great! Even I, as someone in the US, didn’t know that!
ua-cam.com/users/shortsIRkd05bSi-o?si=Be9zUZAmZkvI5CV8
Someone told me Flanagan has a CRACKED Melee Fox and Pikachu :OO
hopefully there are some Smash questions coming up in the series hahaha
Bravo. What a great show form the victors.
I'm surprised no one knew what a dosa is!
as a New Yorker…love the hometown rep in a British TV show lol
My brother lives in central New York (Oneonta) so it was good to hear all those towns mentioned!
Have you watched the 2019 series that had Brandon Blackwell? It was a great series and he is from New York. And Golfinos from the 2018 series was another very good contestant from New York.
cant remember the last time we had a score of 325 or higher.
where the historians here?
I think the last time someone scored more was in 2018 - Durham scored 360 vs Strathclyde's 55. This is the joint 29th-highest-score of all time under Paxo/Rajan. Bambi era scores I don't use for comparison as scoring rules was quite different which allowed for much higher tallies.
The last time any team scored at least 325 points in a match was in the first round of the 2018~19 series, where Durham scored 360 points; they eventually made the semifinals before losing to Edinburgh.
Last year, Edinburgh scored 320 points in their first round match; however, they lost in the second round to Manchester. So a huge first-round score is not necessarily indicative of a team going far.
what a beatdown. feeling homesick but this show always helps!! Fantastic game from both.
Commiserations to Caius, curious to see how Bristol will be faring. Somewhat shocked by the opera round where they kept suggesting Italian composers and ignored the German and Swedish language being sung.
And all Italians primarily known for operas. I was also astounded at the Tchaikovsky answer after they listened to O welche Lust
And known for having composed just one full opera and suggesting Puccini, Verdi and Mascagni!
@@garryoreilly5524 And Donizetti. Though. to be fair, Mascagni is pretty much a one-opera man. A couple of his minor works might get the odd outing in Europe, but not in major houses there or anywhere else.
It can be difficult to recognize a language that's not your own (or one that you're extremely familiar with) when sung in opera, to be fair. Although there's really no explaining the whole "naming famouse opera composers during the 'name someone famous for composing only 1 opera' question round"!
To be fair operatic singing is so bizarre and unnatural that it’s a job to ever distinguish any words in any language.
Great. Big thanks for sharing.
Thank you Cosmic! What a runaway!
Well done Bristol and hearty congratulations ❤
Thanks for posting. I thought this one was difficult. Bristol was amazing.
Ouch - that was close for about 3 minutes, then the winners ran riot with an excellent 34/48 on the bonuses. Gonville & Caius were outdone in every aspect with 5 vs 16 starters and 'only' 8/14 on the bonuses, and that is the joint 29th-highest-ever score under the Paxo/Rajan regime from Bristol.
EDIT: Mind you, based on what happened last year with Edinburgh and their beefy 1st round score, I am wary of putting bets on them just yet. But keep that up and they'll do very well indeed. Also liked that despite Mr. Warner getting 6, all of Bristol got at least 2 right so a decent spread of contributions. And Mr. Warner was the reserve on the 2022-23 Bristol GF team, so good to see him really exercise his potential.
It reminded me of last year's final. Just before the picture round, it was 40-40, then Amol says "scores level". Then after that it was never level and Imperial won in a 285-120 blow out
A great match. Feel sorry for Caius, Bristol were too fast on the buzzer.
It's surprising that these guys got the Cretaceous one incorrect. They were probably overthinking it lol.
Warner was crazy good. Love to see an Oxbridge team get trounced by the underdog. Bristol will go far
Underdog? Bristol has given us some really strong showing over the years, plus drawing from 30000 students versus Caius’ 700.
@@PS-vm3we True, but despite drawing from significantly fewer students, the Oxbridge teams have still won 27 times in 53 series
underdog ? bit superior sounding there willie
Imperial have won the series quite a few times in the past 4-5 years, including last year...
@@willhawthornethey good plus having more participating colleges, so higher representation
Oh my god. It was a butchery! 😩
5:10 I immediately knew that the prime minister who took Arabic and Persian was Anthony Eden thanks to The Crown
Thanks Cosmic P!
Wowie....! Bristol smoked Gonville and Caius today, rather messing up its impressive UC history! Warner was a star.
This is definitely confirmation that one of the question writers has an obsession with Indian food.
Bristol looks like the team to beat this year, wow!
Always hen an Oxbridge college gets beaten but that was a massacre! Bristol is one to watch…….😮
I couldn't do as well as in last two matches totally although I could get Rashomon fast as one of the Japanese!
Many thanks.
Has Bristol ever win UC? I reckon they will go far in this years competition as that was a mighty fine performance
20:21 "Je suis Meduse!" / "We've been framed, by Jericho!"
Many thanks Cosmic from Italy.
So I started this so I'll keep going.... I score myself as in the game, 10 for starters, 5 for bonuses, and this week made 210 (9 starters). As usual less than the winners but better than the losers. The speed of the game this week was really up there! hence the high scores by me and (of course) Bristol.
@CosmicPumpkin Please can you re-upload S52E22? It's missing.
stella performance by the Bristol Team, ones to watch out for for fure
Stellaaaaa! Stellaaa!
This guy is so nice compared to Paxman 😂
Well, the _real_ question of this match was why Ted Warner wasn’t seated closer to team captain Kevin Flanagan.
Bristol got off to a blazing start out of the gate with Ted Warner’s answer regarding “the German Marie Curie” and, in a real sense, never looked back. The team sort of hit its stride with a series of questions regarding the most basic parts of the human brain, too easy for _University Challenge,_ really, although they obviously didn’t need the help.
Bristol’s Warner was clearly the star contributor here-and he managed to look as if he were winging it on nearly every answer, while nailing them, and _then_ looking astonished at his good luck 11:32-but the other team members were no slouches. Bridie Rogers, who bears a bit of a resemblance to a young Sandra Bullock, answered starters regarding the invention of a medical device and “Death and Disaster”-themed artwork; Olivia Watts got starters about an Olympic gold medalist and some German principle that she answered so quickly, I still don’t know what the question was. Meanwhile, team captain Kevin Flanagan answered questions about various of pieces of art so casually and matter-of-factly, it was like they were hanging in his living room. (Maybe he’s training AI on art recognition?) And that’s the thing about Bristol: they were focused and yet _easy_ about everything-and not in the giggly, chatty way that Newnham-Cambridge was two series ago. Sure, it’s easy to stroll your way to victory when you’re 250 points ahead of the other team, but Bristol was that way six minutes in with 40 points. The team was dazzlingly good but they made it look pretty effortless.
Meanwhile, Gonville and Caius just couldn’t hit its stride. There’s _always_ a question, maybe more than one, each series about the Chicxulub crater, the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs and all that. The answers are almost rote: iridium, K-T boundary, Yucatán, and so on. But the team somehow _missed_ the answer of the geologic period preceding the impact 4:27. (That’s what the “letter symbol” _K_ in “K-T boundary” stands for.) It was difficult to watch. By the middle of the match, when Amol Rajan sealed the fate of the team with his kiss-of-death-disguised-as-encouragement “Plenty of time, Gonville and Caius-see if you can get going with this music starter,” it was all but over. I usually root for the underdog team to break at least 100 but, unfortunately, Gonville and Caius didn’t even do that. It was really too bad.
Anyway, condolences to Gonville and Caius and congratulations to Bristol, whom we’ll see in the weeks ahead.
Maybe an answer to why Warner sits to the far end is similar to why Imperial Zeng was also in the same seat position.
I remember that Imperial team, and maybe even Zeng himself saying that Zeng was the type of guy who either knew the answer right away or didn't. If it actually came to deliberations on marginal answers, Sheriff and Mays were more helpful to the captain. You can see it as Zeng will only speak up if he's at least 95% sure of the answer. During deliberations he didn't usually participate.
@@Ramboost007 Thanks! It’s a really good hypothesis but, reviewing the team’s deliberations, it seems to me like Ted Warner is highly engaged in them with Kevin Flanagan, often talking _past_ Bridie Rogers (he doesn’t have a choice-she's between them)-in other words, Rogers and Warner are not really conferring with each other-which is why I made the initial statement in the first place. Warner seems like a pretty chatty guy, unlike Max Zeng, who gave the impression of being a hyper-accurate, laser-focused _machine_ (in the best possible way). Obviously the team has its reasons but I’m not sure the “Zeng positioning” is one of them. Look back over the team deliberations and see if your take is similar to mine.
@@jeff__w Oh, that’s easy to answer. Because he’s an annoying wanker!
@@jeff__w Because he’s an annoying twat
@@jeff__w because he’s an annoying twat
25:19 The Chola dynasty was based in South India, more towards the East since they are of Tamil heritage. So, ideally the question should have stated "South East" instead of "South West". Also since Rajan has roots in that region, he should have picked up on the question setter's mistake. If he misspoke, that's a different matter.
Am I the only one disgusted that both medical students couldn't answer cerebellum faster than any of the other participants?
I was lost on the other 3 operas but come on that obviously sounded like Beethoven
I got Pelleas and Melisande because 1) I have seen it and 2) it was the first 0ne-opera composer/opera I could think of.
You can tell it's Debussy when it has a string of high-notes.
If only you had an Irish captain Flanagan vs if only you had a South Korean captain Kang
Go on Kevin👍
The capital of South Dakota is pronounced "peer." Now, how do you pronounce Magdalen?
Ooh!
Wow
This was a massacre O.O, as usual, someone, somewhere is always shouting an answer... in this match, VIOLIN!!!!!!, not that I know anything good about music (except listening to it), but because TwoSetViolin xD
Bristol were such a pleasure to watch!! Good Luck guys..
The lack of music knowledge was painful!
Rogers has got to be a part time supermodel because WHAT
bridie rogers studying medicine ... i hope i get sick so u are my doctor
I think I remember Noble
The 15 Nobel Laureates
R.I.P.
are not impressed.
Are they all dead already?!?
@@anthtan At least 4 are still alive.
Rogers of Bristol is a stunner!
Dosa 😅
Impressive team! I only got 3 starters and 11 bonus questions in this one. It feels like round 1 questions are harder this series thus far.
Bristol medic quite useless on questions relating to physiology and anatomy... redeemed herself with Andy Warhol though!
Thank you cosmic pumpKin. Once again you are such a star. . I get that warner is amazing, but he is kind of hard to watch .
@@rebeccaowen5902 Ooh!
I loved his enthusiasm at 25:00
silly comment
@@polar199 Agree. Your comment is silly, since it's merely a comment about itself.
23:38
Roger：Caius, Tompkinson !!
Noble：Raguuuu‼︎
Tompkinson：RAGU !!!
RAGUUUU
Yoo
Southeast Asian does not include India, which is usually referred to as part of South Asia. As far as I know the label Southeast Asia was not used until the nineteenth century and was not in common use until the Second World War. Odd that the question should have headlined the questions as being about Southeast Asia in the eleventh century.
The question was about a Sumatran kingdom which happened to be conquered by an Indian power. Very much SEA considering the background
Why did Watts look so angry every time she got a correct answer?
Surely Scots is the closest living relative of English???
Not even close
@@meshuganater I'm referring to Scots, not Scottish Gaelic
@@jackjones4248fair point but I think there's some disagreement over whether it's a seperate language or a dialect.
Warner. Smart, arrogant and a bit much
British parents really need to do better on exposing their children to the arts. This was embarrassing.
but he knew all the paintings
@@antzooma Because he was Irish
most grown adults don't know any of these lol, let alone your average university student
first
first haha
last haha
Who gives a shite about pancakes? This show is getting worse.