That bond angle of water question is brutal. It may be 104.45, but it's usually written as 104.5-degrees so anyone who correctly remembers what they learned in school would have rounded up to 105 like Binnie.
I think I know why he does it. It's like pinching yourself to make your brain pay attention. My attention sometimes overlooks key words if I don't pinch myself, contort my face, or do something like that to increase blood flow to my brain. I don't know the exact biology behind this, but my memory also works faster and more accurately when I do that. Another attention thing.
Could Gibney's answer at 22:42 be the fastest ever response to a starter in all of University Challenge? Her buzz came about 2 seconds after JP started asking the question. Anyone who can find a faster response, please post a reply.
For the equation question: The plus/minus root over of b2-4ac part cancels out in the sum, leaving 2 times -b/2a = -b/a. If you get a down to 1 by dividing by the common factor, the answer is always the negative of b. Bet this wouldn't have occurred to me under pressure, though.
Kazi Siddiqui I think the question implied the use of the identity, product of roots = c/a and sum of roots = -b/a which makes the questions much easier.
He asked for the sum of the roots. The equation was 4x^2-12x+8=0 The sum of the roots is minus the middle coefficients divided by 7, which is -12/4=-3.
Fredrik Meyer That's the first of the three bonus questions. I was asking about the second bonus question. He asks for the product of the two roots for the equation 7x^2+42x+28=0.
Paxman has no room to criticize the Magdalen pronunciation, he constantly mispronounces names and place names. Hecarefully pronounces "Department" when talking about French locations, but always mispronounces Tannhauser.
That's the zeitgeist. The only indication of honesty/authenticity is casual dress (preferably sloppy). Any suggestion of being well-dressed means one is either phoney or a queen. It is, of course, itself phoney, since it is snobbery of the worst kind.
@@jrmungandr I only read English, Japanese, Gurna, Pitjantjatjara, Latin, Greek, Aramaic and Coptic. Are you able to explain your cryptic response in one of these languages, please?
@@artistsanomalous7369 Maybe you can google it for me and tell me which language it is. 😊 All I got was that it's an Indian village, and that the people who live there speak Hindi.
why would i need a place? i'm already at a golden triangle uni kiddo. who cares if its recognised .... its like comparing legit unis like KCL,UCL,Oxbridge with london met... you have ur opinions and i'll have mine
If you think that the only difference is a more practical approach, you're the misguided one. I get better teaching with higher endowments, more scholarships, more respect, more bragging-rights and above all more career opportunities. Don't think you'd ever see someone from OU working at a legit company like google would you?
That bond angle of water question is brutal. It may be 104.45, but it's usually written as 104.5-degrees so anyone who correctly remembers what they learned in school would have rounded up to 105 like Binnie.
i really like Binnie he is smart but humble about it
Maybe you haven't yet seen Gabriel Trueblood of St. Peter's-Cambridge or Fred Harvey of Durham.
@@frank-ui4bu are you saying that other smart people exist?
I love it when he laughs.
Both teams were having a good time that evening. It's nice to have a light atmosphere.
I absolutely love the Open team...each one of them is a delight.
Binnie is so smart yet so humble🥰👍
The return of the face! Quinn and his strangely overdone pained heroic distortions.
Phil Porter Dear old Quinn is clearly in love with himself.
I think he might suffer some kind of Tourette sindrome, so we better dont joke about it.
Rubbish. He sees this as an opportunity to display his affectations to get attention. What a poseur!
I think I know why he does it. It's like pinching yourself to make your brain pay attention. My attention sometimes overlooks key words if I don't pinch myself, contort my face, or do something like that to increase blood flow to my brain. I don't know the exact biology behind this, but my memory also works faster and more accurately when I do that. Another attention thing.
I love Ms. Jones' spoken English, and her French pronunciation is flawless.
You mean Magdalen College, OXFORD, not Cambridge.........
... no, Cambridge.
... no, Oxford.
@Vesivian
This is magdalen Oxford, including a friend of mine Hugh Binnie.
4:23 to 4:38 Magdalen Quinn is quite the character and even Paxo seems to agree.
Gillow is very beautiful.
Aww, I wish _______ team had won instead.
OU did very well but Magdalen were outstanding... So quick!
I think I have a crush on Binnie
who doesn't?
Could Gibney's answer at 22:42 be the fastest ever response to a starter in all of University Challenge? Her buzz came about 2 seconds after JP started asking the question. Anyone who can find a faster response, please post a reply.
6:52 and 4:26, the guy with the beard keeps jumping
Either trying to press it hard as fuck because he's autistic, or he's being jump scared by the loud noise because he is low testosterone.
For the equation question: The plus/minus root over of b2-4ac part cancels out in the sum, leaving 2 times -b/2a = -b/a. If you get a down to 1 by dividing by the common factor, the answer is always the negative of b. Bet this wouldn't have occurred to me under pressure, though.
Kazi Siddiqui I think the question implied the use of the identity, product of roots = c/a and sum of roots = -b/a which makes the questions much easier.
I do appreciate quinn's style
having to do quadratic equations with no paper having to do it quickly would also give me a minor breakdown i felt that
You weren't supposed to find both the roots. Sum of roots=-(coefficient of x) and product of roots=coefficient of the constant
@@vangoth2396 Oh my goodness, that's genius! how did I not see it :D
Quinn is pretty much straight out of Dead Poets Society!
Yes!
it's Magdalen Oxford! (Not the other place!)
Jeremy Paxman ssmashed his career. As much as I don't like his interviewing style, he decided on on his USP and stuck to it like a trooopoer
@ 24:20
What are the two roots for the equation: 7x^2+42x+28=0?
Is there some short cut to get the roots apart from dividing through by 7?
He asked for the sum of the roots. The equation was 4x^2-12x+8=0 The sum of the roots is minus the middle coefficients divided by 7, which is -12/4=-3.
Fredrik Meyer That's the first of the three bonus questions. I was asking about the second bonus question. He asks for the product of the two roots for the equation 7x^2+42x+28=0.
Same procedure. The product of the roots is the last constant in equation. In this case 28/7=4.
Yes, look up Vieta's formulas
It's Magdalen-oxford
Any chance of Gonville and Caius vs. Manchester soon?
Paxman has no room to criticize the Magdalen pronunciation, he constantly mispronounces names and place names. Hecarefully pronounces "Department" when talking about French locations, but always mispronounces Tannhauser.
Schubert...SCHUBERT!
Beethoven and Brahms as guesses for Austrian composers were apalling
Quinn: Ethan Hawke twin from Dead Poets....
Is Quinn a queen?
That's the zeitgeist. The only indication of honesty/authenticity is casual dress (preferably sloppy). Any suggestion of being well-dressed means one is either phoney or a queen. It is, of course, itself phoney, since it is snobbery of the worst kind.
unacceptable and intrusive question.
Utterly biased toward useless topics, such as arts, and philosophy.
Filtered
@@jrmungandr I only read English, Japanese, Gurna, Pitjantjatjara, Latin, Greek, Aramaic and Coptic.
Are you able to explain your cryptic response in one of these languages, please?
@@MichaelKingsfordGray Which language is Gurna? I'm genuinely curious, never heard of it 😂
@@mlml984 Is Google on a coffee break or something?
@@artistsanomalous7369 Maybe you can google it for me and tell me which language it is. 😊 All I got was that it's an Indian village, and that the people who live there speak Hindi.
A real uni vs. a "uni"
because anyone can get in, even people with all EEEs for their a-levels
well then in that case, OU is a uni for mature students
yeah so what if i'm a snob? i don't see anything wrong with that. OU may be for X or Y or Z but the end of the day, it isn't a very good "uni" at that
why would i need a place? i'm already at a golden triangle uni kiddo. who cares if its recognised .... its like comparing legit unis like KCL,UCL,Oxbridge with london met... you have ur opinions and i'll have mine
If you think that the only difference is a more practical approach, you're the misguided one. I get better teaching with higher endowments, more scholarships, more respect, more bragging-rights and above all more career opportunities. Don't think you'd ever see someone from OU working at a legit company like google would you?