Didn't feel too bad watching this back, think I gave it my best shot. We were just generally too slow on the buzzers as a team. Warwick were brilliant, I hope they go far!
You did a great job! Hart was so quick on the interruption buzzer I'm amazed you guys got a word in! Thanks for astonishing us all with your wit and brilliance. x
14:10 “Johann Strauss Senior”. A few seasons ago there was a music question which was answered: “Strauss” Paxman: “Which one?” “Johann Strauss” Paxman: “which ONE!” “Johann Strauss Junior” Paxman: “Wrong, it was Senior”
@@tejassuresh8221 Wish it were better. There are some pub quizzes. I was on Jeopardy! but, I lost... It was fun anyway... Oooo I did the Quiz on QMII last year, was hard, but it was written by the Brits who are the best.
@@YourQueerGreatAuntie He didn’t have much chance to think of the correct answer with that idiot shouting “Say Gibraltar, say Gibraltar!” at him constantly. Blame Warner, not the captain.
The fact that UEA seemed more of a team performance but that one very strong performance from Warwick made the difference. Hart seemed to know everything.
As an Indian,was rooting for the Bengali Bhodro purush Saha ,but can't forgive him for saying "Islamabad" @18:45 😤😤😤😤😩😩😣😣😣 Stupidest Answer Everrrrrrr!Aikdom stupid 🙈
Thank you, CosmicP! Incredible performance from Warwick who seemed incredibly well prepared in every way. I think may have been the most serious looking team I have ever seen on UC!
Warner last week, Hart this week with incredible speed and knowledge with good teams. Would be exciting to see them go head-to-head later in the series!
Hart is very strong, definitely a hard player to beat. The speed of his answers sometimes even shocked Amol. Warwick were excellent as well. Excited to see where they go! We're seeing some lightning progress.
8:45 I was just screaming "it's just 'dialysis' you overthinkers" And then the next bonus question they almost overthought themselves out of 5 points again before UEA North (9:12) reminded them of the same 3 starting letters hint
Hello again! Another week, another contender for the title of "strongest team". What sets the winners apart is their buzzer speed...tremendous. They will be a tough out going forward. The losing team were better than their score indicates IMHO, they just didn't get a chance to answer more often due to being constantly out-buzzed. My best to both teams, and to each individual.
Couldn't agree more! UAE still impressed, but were unfortunate to encounter a team in peak form. You could tell by the way that Wawick positions themselves for each starter question that they had trained buzzer speed.
We've seen decent teams with an obvious strongest player crash and burn before. We'll see if Warwick can avoid that fate. I have to root for them a little with a member of the team being from my own home town and old school (the headmaster tweeted about it this morning). Thought UEA fought well and with a different opponent might have done better. Was hoping for them to get another 20-30 for stronger 2nd chance potential. I doubt their score will be enough. I do enjoy "plate glass" unis doing well having gone to one myself!
25:50 It is so humiliating when you can't answer questions about your major, when I saw Hart and Siddle giving each other that smile i thought that's gonna be 3/3,I didn't expect that failure,they did brilliant in general but math is sooo tricky
tbf polynomials and descartes rule of signs is something theyve probably learned 10+ years ago, most of the parts of that question are likely largely irrelevant to their study
really was a series of unfortunate events, missing the crucial "positive" on the first, blanking on descartes after getting rattled, then getting scared and missing that the third didnt specify positive
Sometimes one just feels bad for the losing team. UEA kept their heads and methodically worked things out-you can see it in the way they worked out the flag/geography questions of the picture round, earning the praise of Amol Rajan-but they _couldn’t_ replicate that feat regarding questions relating to rivers of western Europe. (Meanwhile, _everyone_ in the audience was imagining how the legendary “Imperial Zeng,” Imperial’s Max Zeng of Series 51, might have handled those questions.) _But,_ in order to work things out in the bonus questions, the team has to be quick on the buzzer and get a chance at the bonus questions, which UEA did only half as often as Warwick. As always, Amol Rajan sealed the fate of the Warwick team at a little over the midway point with his trademark ostensible affable encouragement “Plenty of time, UEA. See if you can get going again with this one”-no team who has heard those sinister words (with the appropriate team name switched in) has ever, to my knowledge, recovered to go on to win the match. UEA’s Marlowe North, in particular, made a few errors that will likely haunt her-naming the title of a Jane Austen novel, rather than the character (“titular park” in the question probably primed a response for the title); persuading team captain Soumyajit Saha, to go with an answer _other_ than the one team member Ciaran Shaffrey suggested (Shaffrey was right); and confirming that the guess offered by Saha _was_ the answer (“Oh, yes, you’re right-it’s that”)-it wasn't. (North can take solace from the fact that the spread between the two teams was large enough that the correct answers plus even getting all the bonuses right for the Jane Austen question would not have resulted in them winning, although a higher score might have made the team’s reappearance in the repechage more likely.) Cieran Shaffrey (who makes a guest appearance here in the comments-always a treat when an actual contestant shows up) did what he could, getting all three of the starter questions he nabbed right and some of the bonus questions, too, including two regarding pre-telescope observatories in the Islamic word. (Side note: A fascinating episode “The Persian Renaissance” on the podcast _Empire_ covers that period.) Still, as Shaffrey notes in his comment, the team just wasn’t fast enough on the buzzer. Nor, apparently, hard enough: Warwick’s Thomas Hart, the MVP of the match, poised his hand over the buzzer, smashing down on it, with team captain Oscar Siddle following suit, earning the jeers of fans on social media-which only goes to show what captures the attention of those on _X_ these days. Whatever they were doing, it worked. Warwick answered double the starter questions that UEA did-and we know that, mathematically, a team can win a match without answering *_any_* bonus questions correctly if they get enough starter questions right-and their success rate on the bonus questions (of which they had obviously twice as many, too) was 25% higher. Hart managed to get the starter music question in about two notes-it was like watching the old US game show “Name That Tune”-and two out of three of the subsequent bonus questions, and nailed all three questions regarding brass band instruments. The only truly out-of-left-field answer was Siddle’s guess as to who played Maxim de Winter, the lead male character, in the 1940 movie version of _Rebecca,_ the person named being, among other things, female and only about 15 when that movie was made. (She’s now the oldest living winner of an Academy Award, having turned 100 on 4 July.) In any case, condolences to UEA-I hope you manage to squeak through to another round-and, of course, congratulations to Warwick, whom, I’m sure, many are looking forward to seeing again.
Thanks, Cosmic P! A very good performance by Warwick (surely their best team in years!), impressively dominated by Hart and Siddle but with support from the others.
Good game! Well done to Warick..Hart and Siddle elbows bent over the buzzer! Two great players. Two fairly serious teams, not a lot of giggles and banter. Maybe that's a good thing😊.Thanks CP.
@@philroberts7238 Thank you! In my world, PPE stands for Personal Protective Equipment. I was having a difficult time with thinking that was an area of study!
Continuing to record my score for posterity: 155 this week (only 4 starters), once again coming in between the winning and losing teams. I'm amazed yet again by the giant scores of episode 3, where I made 220, mostly because of the high speed of the answering all the way through and resulting abnormal number of questions. Looking forward to the next episode!
That's at least 400 on aggregate for the second week in a row, and no penalties from either side as well; Rajan I think is definitely trying to keep the pace up now which I like to see. UEA unfortunately comprehensively outdone, and despite Rajan's words I don't think that score will be enough to come back. Warwick we'll see regarding future prospects - wondering if Mr. Hart and his 9 starters show an over-reliance on him, but you never know ;).
@@someangel-shape6797 That actually wasn't too difficult. If you've heard the march once, you will never forget it again. It's amongst Verdi's best known compositions, and it sounds very unique.
From Allen, Texas - thanks to CosmicPumpkin for sending us a bit of culture. For a first round, I hardly got *anything*! I did get the electoral college stuff, but only b/c I'm a political junkie!
As always, someone, somewhere is always shouting an answer, here: DYALISIS!!!... but only because I'm a Veterinarian and in the University lab classes I had to do SO MANY OF THEM, for some reason... @.@ // Also as a Chilean, MAKEMAKE IS NOT HAWAIIAN, IT'S EASTERN ISLAND'!!!!!
What happens if one of the members of the team is unable to attend due to illness or other unforseen circunstance? Is there a replacement or the team must go with only 3?
Every team has a reserve player (essentially the person who came 5th in the trials). If one of the team is ill/cannot make an episode the reserve player comes in and is then on the team for the rest of the series (the replaced player can't return). You then also have to get another reserve for the reserve I suppose.
So these guys knows everything but don't know the stuffs they are actually studying for. Two mathematicians but they all get wrong on maths related stuffs.
27:46 We vaguely enjoyed the experience. You got on tv, that’s the main thing. As an American, these statements sound condescending and patronizing…. But I suppose it’s different across the pond…
I like Amol’s genial manner while keeping up the pace, but he is beginning to annoy me with some of the phrases he is using that are kind of patronizing, like ‘At least you got to be on TV’, and ‘are you nervous?’’ And as someone else mentioned, ‘plenty of time to get going’. Not really encouraging when what it actually means is you are way behind! Still like him though!
Didn't feel too bad watching this back, think I gave it my best shot. We were just generally too slow on the buzzers as a team. Warwick were brilliant, I hope they go far!
You did brilliantly, thanks for making it an enjoyable contest!
You don't sound like you're from Reading.
You still impressed greatly! I think that against any other team, you would've won! Overall, you looked like a wonderful, highly intelligent group.
it genuinely took me a minute to hit 'wait i went to school with uea shaffrey, nice'
You did a great job! Hart was so quick on the interruption buzzer I'm amazed you guys got a word in! Thanks for astonishing us all with your wit and brilliance. x
love how not two people on the warwick team look like they'd go to the same thing
Govindarajan and Watson might be going to the same optician and hairdresser hehe
Highest scoring runners up so far:
1. UCL-175
2/3. Liverpool-125
2/3. UEA-125
4. Gonville & Caius - Cambridge-80
Eliminated: None.
Lowest Scoring Winner: Open University-190
Highest scoring winner: Bristol-325
14:10 “Johann Strauss Senior”. A few seasons ago there was a music question which was answered:
“Strauss”
Paxman: “Which one?”
“Johann Strauss”
Paxman: “which ONE!”
“Johann Strauss Junior”
Paxman: “Wrong, it was Senior”
Do you remember the episode?
UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE S54E04
MATCH STATS BELOW
Warwick: 275
UEA: 125
Starter Questions Stats
WARWICK: 140
Govindarajan = 0
Hart = 9/10 {90 points}
Siddle = 3/3 {30 points}
Watson = 2/3 {20 points}
Starter Success rate: 87.50% (14/16)
UEA: 70
Willis = 2/2 {20 points}
North = 0/1
Saha = 2/4 {20 points}
Shaffrey = 3/3 {30 points}
Starter Success rate: 70.00% (7/10)
Bonus Questions Stats
WARWICK: 135
Bonus success rate: 67.50% (27/40)
UEA: 55
Bonus success rate: 52.38% (11/21)
Impressive from Hart, and yikes for North, who also talked captain out of "Prometheus" and tried talking out of "Helen"
From America: Thank you CosmicPumpkin. Without you I would not know about this educational, addictive & enjoyable show.
How's the quizzing scene in America
@@tejassuresh8221 Wish it were better. There are some pub quizzes. I was on Jeopardy! but, I lost... It was fun anyway... Oooo I did the Quiz on QMII last year, was hard, but it was written by the Brits who are the best.
@@tejassuresh8221 There's Jeopardy and not much else. I prefer UC, even with all its UK-centric topics.
@@prestonage is there diversity equity and inclusivity in jeopardy
@@tejassuresh8221 yawn
Most relatable thing as a mathematician is being unable to answer high school mathematics questions
Hart and Siddle are a strong pair, going to be hard to beat. Another exciting match!
Loved their embarrassed look at each other after giving the wrong maths answer!
@@MrRubrick Almost as good as last week's Irish captain not knowing Trinity College Dublin has a copyright library!!!
@@YourQueerGreatAuntie He didn’t have much chance to think of the correct answer with that idiot shouting “Say Gibraltar, say Gibraltar!” at him constantly. Blame Warner, not the captain.
@@MrRubrick I personally thought Warner did pretty good
@ well, bully for you!
12:15 all the geographical questions have me remembering Imperial Zeng's voice.
It's looking like it'll be a great season
The fact that UEA seemed more of a team performance but that one very strong performance from Warwick made the difference. Hart seemed to know everything.
That's our boy Thomas.
@@jonathandowning1828 how are you related to him? He was incredible. Hope to see him in the upcoming matches too.
As an Indian,was rooting for the Bengali Bhodro purush Saha ,but can't forgive him for saying "Islamabad" @18:45 😤😤😤😤😩😩😣😣😣 Stupidest Answer Everrrrrrr!Aikdom stupid 🙈
Thank you, CosmicP! Incredible performance from Warwick who seemed incredibly well prepared in every way. I think may have been the most serious looking team I have ever seen on UC!
Warner last week, Hart this week with incredible speed and knowledge with good teams.
Would be exciting to see them go head-to-head later in the series!
Another brilliant episode already this season, and another very strong outfit. Warwick a well-rounded team overall.
Hart is very strong, definitely a hard player to beat. The speed of his answers sometimes even shocked Amol. Warwick were excellent as well. Excited to see where they go! We're seeing some lightning progress.
8:45 I was just screaming "it's just 'dialysis' you overthinkers"
And then the next bonus question they almost overthought themselves out of 5 points again before UEA North (9:12) reminded them of the same 3 starting letters hint
This was me with the emulsion test. It's just emulsion, not someone's name!
Winning team have a very impressive buzzer.
@@mlml984 ooh, matron!
13:25 that look to camera
He Jim'd the camera
It’s almost a look of concern as the boffin level intensifies
I just loved it. It made me burst into laughter. Glad someone else picked it up too.
Hahaha. That was hilarious!
Probably the most famous piece Verdi ever composed?
Hello again! Another week, another contender for the title of "strongest team". What sets the winners apart is their buzzer speed...tremendous. They will be a tough out going forward. The losing team were better than their score indicates IMHO, they just didn't get a chance to answer more often due to being constantly out-buzzed. My best to both teams, and to each individual.
Couldn't agree more! UAE still impressed, but were unfortunate to encounter a team in peak form. You could tell by the way that Wawick positions themselves for each starter question that they had trained buzzer speed.
But what did you have for dinner, and what kind of wine did you pair it with? Don't tell me that tradition isn't still going!
@@slightlygrouchy I wonder if they constructed some kind of buzzer gym?
Thanks from Ukraine.
So proud i got the Turin ones
9:23 maybe the first appearance of a fidget toy on UC? I love those little things
Insane scores this season!
Amol Rajan's delivery of questions are about twice as fast as Paxman managed.
@@MikedeGarry haha interesting theory!
We've seen decent teams with an obvious strongest player crash and burn before. We'll see if Warwick can avoid that fate. I have to root for them a little with a member of the team being from my own home town and old school (the headmaster tweeted about it this morning).
Thought UEA fought well and with a different opponent might have done better. Was hoping for them to get another 20-30 for stronger 2nd chance potential. I doubt their score will be enough.
I do enjoy "plate glass" unis doing well having gone to one myself!
25:50 It is so humiliating when you can't answer questions about your major, when I saw Hart and Siddle giving each other that smile i thought that's gonna be 3/3,I didn't expect that failure,they did brilliant in general but math is sooo tricky
By that time I think they were a bit giddy with their huge score!
tbf polynomials and descartes rule of signs is something theyve probably learned 10+ years ago, most of the parts of that question are likely largely irrelevant to their study
really was a series of unfortunate events, missing the crucial "positive" on the first, blanking on descartes after getting rattled, then getting scared and missing that the third didnt specify positive
Sometimes one just feels bad for the losing team. UEA kept their heads and methodically worked things out-you can see it in the way they worked out the flag/geography questions of the picture round, earning the praise of Amol Rajan-but they _couldn’t_ replicate that feat regarding questions relating to rivers of western Europe. (Meanwhile, _everyone_ in the audience was imagining how the legendary “Imperial Zeng,” Imperial’s Max Zeng of Series 51, might have handled those questions.) _But,_ in order to work things out in the bonus questions, the team has to be quick on the buzzer and get a chance at the bonus questions, which UEA did only half as often as Warwick. As always, Amol Rajan sealed the fate of the Warwick team at a little over the midway point with his trademark ostensible affable encouragement “Plenty of time, UEA. See if you can get going again with this one”-no team who has heard those sinister words (with the appropriate team name switched in) has ever, to my knowledge, recovered to go on to win the match.
UEA’s Marlowe North, in particular, made a few errors that will likely haunt her-naming the title of a Jane Austen novel, rather than the character (“titular park” in the question probably primed a response for the title); persuading team captain Soumyajit Saha, to go with an answer _other_ than the one team member Ciaran Shaffrey suggested (Shaffrey was right); and confirming that the guess offered by Saha _was_ the answer (“Oh, yes, you’re right-it’s that”)-it wasn't. (North can take solace from the fact that the spread between the two teams was large enough that the correct answers plus even getting all the bonuses right for the Jane Austen question would not have resulted in them winning, although a higher score might have made the team’s reappearance in the repechage more likely.) Cieran Shaffrey (who makes a guest appearance here in the comments-always a treat when an actual contestant shows up) did what he could, getting all three of the starter questions he nabbed right and some of the bonus questions, too, including two regarding pre-telescope observatories in the Islamic word. (Side note: A fascinating episode “The Persian Renaissance” on the podcast _Empire_ covers that period.) Still, as Shaffrey notes in his comment, the team just wasn’t fast enough on the buzzer.
Nor, apparently, hard enough: Warwick’s Thomas Hart, the MVP of the match, poised his hand over the buzzer, smashing down on it, with team captain Oscar Siddle following suit, earning the jeers of fans on social media-which only goes to show what captures the attention of those on _X_ these days. Whatever they were doing, it worked. Warwick answered double the starter questions that UEA did-and we know that, mathematically, a team can win a match without answering *_any_* bonus questions correctly if they get enough starter questions right-and their success rate on the bonus questions (of which they had obviously twice as many, too) was 25% higher. Hart managed to get the starter music question in about two notes-it was like watching the old US game show “Name That Tune”-and two out of three of the subsequent bonus questions, and nailed all three questions regarding brass band instruments. The only truly out-of-left-field answer was Siddle’s guess as to who played Maxim de Winter, the lead male character, in the 1940 movie version of _Rebecca,_ the person named being, among other things, female and only about 15 when that movie was made. (She’s now the oldest living winner of an Academy Award, having turned 100 on 4 July.)
In any case, condolences to UEA-I hope you manage to squeak through to another round-and, of course, congratulations to Warwick, whom, I’m sure, many are looking forward to seeing again.
Enjoyed watching this Warwick team and will be following the Hart v Siddle internal 'battle' in future rounds.
what makes you say there’ll be a battle? 😂
A healthy rivalry within the team?
Thanks, Cosmic P!
A very good performance by Warwick (surely their best team in years!), impressively dominated by Hart and Siddle but with support from the others.
Good game! Well done to Warick..Hart and Siddle elbows bent over the buzzer! Two great players. Two fairly serious teams, not a lot of giggles and banter. Maybe that's a good thing😊.Thanks CP.
I thought someone would beat me to commenting on how much alike Hart and Shaffrey look.
Separated at birth. Reunited through UC.
Think I've got to root for Warwick, fun team and what a score.
What is he studying, pee-pee? xD
PPE : Politics, Philosophy and Economics
For more context: In the UK, a lot of PPE majors end up in politics, including a handful of prime ministers
@@philroberts7238 Thank you! In my world, PPE stands for Personal Protective Equipment. I was having a difficult time with thinking that was an area of study!
Thanks again for posting.🌷
Amazing episode
That Ukraine cardinal directions question was a total freebie
13:22 lol amol is amazed
that brief glance straight into the camera, it was perfect!
I think Hart will take his team to the finals. Thank you CP.
Siddle slamming that buzzer like his life depended on it
Can’t believe the math students bungled those easy questions! 😂 I trust they would nail them without the pressure and the lights
or listened to their teammate 🙄
Yeah, but they had an embarrassed laugh together knowing what they did. All part of UC!
Continuing to record my score for posterity: 155 this week (only 4 starters), once again coming in between the winning and losing teams. I'm amazed yet again by the giant scores of episode 3, where I made 220, mostly because of the high speed of the answering all the way through and resulting abnormal number of questions. Looking forward to the next episode!
Many thanks
That's at least 400 on aggregate for the second week in a row, and no penalties from either side as well; Rajan I think is definitely trying to keep the pace up now which I like to see. UEA unfortunately comprehensively outdone, and despite Rajan's words I don't think that score will be enough to come back. Warwick we'll see regarding future prospects - wondering if Mr. Hart and his 9 starters show an over-reliance on him, but you never know ;).
shut up
I think the screen rather than the cards Paxman had to use is helping with the pace.
The maths problems 😂
North's left earring is sick
What is the tape on Siddle’s sleeve covering up?
A company logo - no advertising allowed on the BBC
Hart is annoyingly good
Good but he's no Braid.
That initial music round answer was crazy
@@someangel-shape6797 That actually wasn't too difficult. If you've heard the march once, you will never forget it again. It's amongst Verdi's best known compositions, and it sounds very unique.
Nah, just annoying
@@thomashart6166 Nah, you're just good.
16:18 I think the captain said "House of Darkness". Not that it mattered...
Hey, I am the captain (now) and although I did say it weirdly I was saying ‘Heart of Darkness’
@@Scaro.s Sorry!
the book is so well known, i doubt they would say such a thing given their depth of knowledge
Woohoo, got four right this time...me so smart
From Allen, Texas - thanks to CosmicPumpkin for sending us a bit of culture.
For a first round, I hardly got *anything*! I did get the electoral college stuff, but only b/c I'm a political junkie!
15:02 of course the young ozzy lookalike gets this one
That made me laugh. First time he'd piped up all match?
My man Hart, reppin Jesus
North with that shirt, recognising Carol and The Favourite? Sapphic viewers are swooning
N E B R A S K A M E N T I O N E D
what did the "Islamic Mongrel conqueror" do with the dogs ?
Hart was so awesome!
❤
As always, someone, somewhere is always shouting an answer, here: DYALISIS!!!... but only because I'm a Veterinarian and in the University lab classes I had to do SO MANY OF THEM, for some reason... @.@ // Also as a Chilean, MAKEMAKE IS NOT HAWAIIAN, IT'S EASTERN ISLAND'!!!!!
Kolkata kids are so good in quizzing the aristocratic culture that values knowledge over money still prevails
Uff tough one for UEA, when ur opponent looks like a frikin’ Power Rangers team u oughta know ur losing
What happens if one of the members of the team is unable to attend due to illness or other unforseen circunstance? Is there a replacement or the team must go with only 3?
Every team has a reserve player (essentially the person who came 5th in the trials). If one of the team is ill/cannot make an episode the reserve player comes in and is then on the team for the rest of the series (the replaced player can't return). You then also have to get another reserve for the reserve I suppose.
Our reserve had to drop out inbetween filming blocks and we had to find someone new.
@qfox16789 Thanks a lot for the answer!
So these guys knows everything but don't know the stuffs they are actually studying for. Two mathematicians but they all get wrong on maths related stuffs.
question was about a mosque!
27:46 We vaguely enjoyed the experience. You got on tv, that’s the main thing.
As an American, these statements sound condescending and patronizing…. But I suppose it’s different across the pond…
@@someguy9164 ah…changes that sentence…
The amount of guessing (vs. knowing) in this one, esp. from Warwick, was disturbing, no offense meant.
No offence taken
hart has an intensity about him. feel like he’s gonna be a problem going forward
Yeah, a problem for the opposition
He looked so tense and keen that personally I couldn't help wishing he'd relax a little; but maybe if he had, the team might have lost 😅
North reminds me of Newnham's Chen
I like Amol’s genial manner while keeping up the pace, but he is beginning to annoy me with some of the phrases he is using that are kind of patronizing, like ‘At least you got to be on TV’, and ‘are you nervous?’’ And as someone else mentioned, ‘plenty of time to get going’. Not really encouraging when what it actually means is you are way behind! Still like him though!
The "plenty of time" is a Paxperson line.
@@zaphbrox8239 exactly. And he used to say it all the time too. Does OP even UC?? 😮
I still don’t like the new hosts niceties, too many “well dones” and “unlucky’s” …bring back the pax.
first
last
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If you’re happy then I’m happy.
I don't get it. What's your point?
From Bamber to Jeremy to who the fk is that?