Thanks again, CosmicPumpkin! Really appreciate you doing this for us non-UK residents! A great match for a good bit, the winning team was just more knowledgeable about the questions asked. I saw very few instances where the winning team had to be quicker on the buzzer. If anything, it was individuals on the winning team out-buzzing each other. That said, it was a good effort by both teams, and my best to each contestant.
Chris Hobbs! It's great to see you over here, just catching up on the season after finding this new uploader (hooray!). Hope whatever you had for dinner today was delicious.
Eloquent? His pronunciation is erratic - he misses off some (but not all) "t"s at the end of words; he often pronounces "th" as a "v" or an "f", and he sometimes even makes a glottal stop for "tt" in the middle of a word. You've got a funny definition of "eloquent".
@@robertmatthews4397 I don’t think you have an understanding of the meaning of eloquent. It has nothing to do with pronunciation. So, I argue that is you with a funny definition of eloquent. So funny that it is, in fact wrong.
@@kevinnndon Try looking in a dictionary before you accuse someone of not knowing what a word means. Here is the relevant part of the definition of "eloquent" in Wiktionary: "articulate, well-spoken; effective in expressing meaning by speech". My gripe, and that of others to whom I have spoken, is that the presenter's erratic mispronunciations make him difficult to understand (ie not articulate, well-spoken or effective in expressing meaning by speech). I once heard him use a word unknown to me - sahinabo - which I later worked out was "sat in a boat". This is not good when rapidity of response is one of the key ingredients of this particular quiz. "Eloquent" also means "persuasive" and I wonder if that is the only part of the meaning you know.
Far fewer comments this season. There must be quite a few David Garda subscribers who have not yet found magicpumpkin. Long live the memory of David Garda. Thank you magicpumpkin for picking up the mantle so I can watch UC in Rockford, Illinois, U.S.A.
Many thanks for doing this, for all the fans out there. Who do not watch BBC. Also, thanks for doing the subtitles. Us, "hard of hearing," would be lost without them...
Eisler is the one to look out for in the future matches. Even the Captain trusted him when he didn't know 😂. It was a close match at the beginning but Aberdeen took the lead and a few negatives from Birmingham made the difference. Bennett was really good too and would hope they can make a comeback in the repechage.
@@XoIoRouge We're not quite as sly as that. We did tell Obsorne to nominate freely though, since it costs nothing and saves the team from losing points if the captain mishears an answer or isn't sure of the pronunciation (you'll see in our next match that this is a very real risk). She may have taken this policy too far when she nominated me to give an answer I didn't actually know, but we got a funny moment out of it at least.
Thank you for the upload and for also including subtitles! Good match today, it looked like it was going to be very close but the winning team pulled away. I don’t think we’ll be seeing the other one in the repechage but who knows 😊
Thanks Cosmic Pumpkin! Really enjoyable episode tonight. Unusual to get such modern music as well; I'd have been better suited to the classics! But happy with my own score tonight. Aberdeen look a decent team
He definitely does not pronounce or articulate well: he misses off some (but not all) "t"s at the end of words; he often pronounces "th" as a "v" or an "f", and he sometimes even makes a glottal stop for "tt" in the middle of a word.
@@ProuvaireJean I can't believe you made me rewatch the whole thing instead of just pointing me to the Britten buzz :P. Yeah that was a near instant get as well. Two great displays of ear speed to kick off the season.
Thanks CosmicPumpkin - I'm a big fan of UC but I couldn't find the vids until now, nearly a year late! Oh, well, the good part is that I can do one/day!
Nearly fell off my chair at 17:53, that’s my island 🏝️ of Timor, divided between two countries- my beloved Timor-Leste 🇹🇱 and Indonesia. Bennett was right all along
Seems like the correct content to be snarky on, especially considering your snark towards her, but the thing that follows "let alone" is supposed to be more implausible.
Ha ha ha, Noel Coward wrote 'The Lady in the Van' and she was called Madame Arcati (16:33); the Baroque painter Vermeer famous for domestic interiors painted a naval battle (21:18); Matisse painted the pop-art 'Vesuvius' (22:13). Sometimes the guesses are really funny. At 25:50, the quiz master expresses surprise at an answer, which when Mr Paxman did it was termed rude/abrasive/ arrogant, etc., by the anti-Paxman crowd. (Plantains are of the genus Musa, indigenous to Southeast Asia).
23:5525:28 There are better ways to screw up on University Challenge than as an Indian fucking up two India-specific starters. At least he got the next one, about Ramanujan.
The questions don't seem as interesting as they used to be, they seem much more prosaic. I remember in the past being struck by the obvious effort that went into constructing questions that were almost poetic. Is it just me thinking that?
Why so many picture rounds involving foreign languages? How are you supposed to engage in them? And when the music round concerns albums of the 20-tens, I know it's nearly time to drop out of the quiz.
@@dennisw8868 I didn't say it wasn't deserving. I just don't have a clue about 'pop' music from the turn of the millenium (with good reason). It was a way of saying I'm getting too old for student quizzes.
The Brothers Grimm question isn't impossible for those with no knowledge of German. "Rumpelstilzchen" obviously corresponds to the English Rumpelstiltskin, which should tell you that you're looking at a collection of fairy tales. Which 19th century authors are known for collecting fairy tales?
@@zacharyeisler3870 If you are the young man from the quiz, then I'm guessing that you had an advantage over me anyway (German ancestry?). In truth, I would have needed much longer to have arrived at the 'obvious' conclusion. You were far too quick for me. Well done.
Look mum I’m on the telly!
And not for the last time it would seem! Congrats to you and your teammates on a great match!
Well played to all the team. That was an emphatic performance 👏
Many previous contestants speak of their nerves appearing on the show. If you had them, you didn't show them at all. Well done to you and your team.
Congratulations to you and your team!
False. I'm watching you on my phone 👍
Thanks again, CosmicPumpkin! Really appreciate you doing this for us non-UK residents! A great match for a good bit, the winning team was just more knowledgeable about the questions asked. I saw very few instances where the winning team had to be quicker on the buzzer. If anything, it was individuals on the winning team out-buzzing each other. That said, it was a good effort by both teams, and my best to each contestant.
Chris Hobbs! It's great to see you over here, just catching up on the season after finding this new uploader (hooray!). Hope whatever you had for dinner today was delicious.
The presenter is superb. Eloquent and relaxed. Natural and not OTT - over the top
Eloquent? His pronunciation is erratic - he misses off some (but not all) "t"s at the end of words; he often pronounces "th" as a "v" or an "f", and he sometimes even makes a glottal stop for "tt" in the middle of a word. You've got a funny definition of "eloquent".
@@robertmatthews4397what's not eloquent with that accent?
@@robertmatthews4397 I don’t think you have an understanding of the meaning of eloquent. It has nothing to do with pronunciation. So, I argue that is you with a funny definition of eloquent. So funny that it is, in fact wrong.
@@kevinnndon Try looking in a dictionary before you accuse someone of not knowing what a word means. Here is the relevant part of the definition of "eloquent" in Wiktionary: "articulate, well-spoken; effective in expressing meaning by speech". My gripe, and that of others to whom I have spoken, is that the presenter's erratic mispronunciations make him difficult to understand (ie not articulate, well-spoken or effective in expressing meaning by speech). I once heard him use a word unknown to me - sahinabo - which I later worked out was "sat in a boat". This is not good when rapidity of response is one of the key ingredients of this particular quiz. "Eloquent" also means "persuasive" and I wonder if that is the only part of the meaning you know.
Far fewer comments this season. There must be quite a few David Garda subscribers who have not yet found magicpumpkin. Long live the memory of David Garda. Thank you magicpumpkin for picking up the mantle so I can watch UC in Rockford, Illinois, U.S.A.
Well indications are that he was a fraud, and made up the identity and illness, so maybe not so much. At least he gave us UC
Since posting this, I have read that the David Garda Illness and the gofundme campaign of his alter ego are fraudulent. Has this been confirmed?
@@raphaeleyald
Not _confirmed_ but everything's very suspicious indeed
@@gooscarguitar Yeah. Dave Garda almost certainly doesn't exist and never did.
Yes, I just got my money back from Go Fund Me for Dave's Park Run. There was never a Dave Garda.
Many thanks for doing this, for all the fans out there. Who do not watch BBC. Also, thanks for doing the subtitles. Us, "hard of hearing," would be lost without them...
Cheers from New Zealand 😀 I (and many others) couldn't watch this otherwise 👍
Same here from Thailand 🙏
And from the US!
Cheers from Brittany, France .
Indonesian here. been watching since S50. props to the uploaders!
MATCH STATS BELOW
*Aberdeen : 190* ( _should be 195_ )
*Birmingham: 125*
*Starter Questions Stats*
ABERDEEN: 100
Broomfield = 1/2 {10 minus 5}
Eisler = 6/7 {60 minus 5}
Osborne = 1/2 {10}
McClements = 3/4 {30}
Starter Success Rate: 73.33%
BIRMINGHAM: 70
Bennett = 3/3 {30}
Ahmed = 2/4 {20 minus 10}
Rogers = 2/4 {20}
Hastings = 1/1{10}
Starter Success Rate: 66.67%
*Bonus Questions Stats*
ABERDEEN: 90 ( _should be 95_ )
Bonus Success Rate: 54.55% (18/33)
( _should be 57.58% (19/33)_ )
BIRMINGHAM: 55
Bonus Success Rate: 45.83% (11/24)
_Aberdeen got 2 music bonus questions correct. Only one reflected on their score, thus their score is 5 points less than what it should be._
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*Top 4 Losing Scores*
1. Trinity - Cambridge (175)
2. Birmingham (125)
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Can you confirm Osborne didn't answer one correct answer apart from Taylor Swift ?
And isn't it shocking they missed five points for Aberdeen ?
Eisler is the one to look out for in the future matches. Even the Captain trusted him when he didn't know 😂. It was a close match at the beginning but Aberdeen took the lead and a few negatives from Birmingham made the difference. Bennett was really good too and would hope they can make a comeback in the repechage.
Eisler was incredible! Can't wait to see him in the future
She was also playing the game by nominating him. She used her time of saying "Nominating Eisler" to give him a fraction of a second longer to think.
@@XoIoRouge We're not quite as sly as that. We did tell Obsorne to nominate freely though, since it costs nothing and saves the team from losing points if the captain mishears an answer or isn't sure of the pronunciation (you'll see in our next match that this is a very real risk). She may have taken this policy too far when she nominated me to give an answer I didn't actually know, but we got a funny moment out of it at least.
@@zacharyeisler3870you were really good. Hope to see you in further rounds too.
@@sharanyaray2454 Very kind of you to say!
Thank you for the upload and for also including subtitles!
Good match today, it looked like it was going to be very close but the winning team pulled away. I don’t think we’ll be seeing the other one in the repechage but who knows 😊
Thanks so much for posting these, and thanks also for including the subtitles! Very helpful sometimes especially for unfamiliar place names.
“Plantain?!”
Thank you very much, CP, for this speedy upload. Most enjoyable way to spend a Monday afternoon in the colonies. Excellent match!
Thank you for the upload. In the immortal words of Frank Zappa: "What a pumpkin!"
Thanks Cosmic Pumpkin! Really enjoyable episode tonight. Unusual to get such modern music as well; I'd have been better suited to the classics! But happy with my own score tonight. Aberdeen look a decent team
fantastic match tonight !! rather surprised by how many incorrect interruptions there were but quite an interesting match
The poor Indian got it wrong every time except one.
@@castelodeossos3947 they were all questions related in some way to India, explaining his eagerness
Amol is such a great quizmaster. He pronounces and articulates well.
He definitely does not pronounce or articulate well: he misses off some (but not all) "t"s at the end of words; he often pronounces "th" as a "v" or an "f", and he sometimes even makes a glottal stop for "tt" in the middle of a word.
@@robertmatthews439716:59 he pronounces Asia as Aja
That Taylor Swift buzz might have set some kind of speed record for a music question.
Did you see last week's episode?
@@ProuvaireJean I can't believe you made me rewatch the whole thing instead of just pointing me to the Britten buzz :P. Yeah that was a near instant get as well. Two great displays of ear speed to kick off the season.
There was a great buzz in S50E08 at about 15:14
In both of 2020 Royal Northern College of Music's games, they buzzed at the music starters just as quickly
LMAOOO XXXTENTACION????
Thank you.
Man, this is a tough quiz, these kids are very smart. Fun to watch, in my country we don't have anything at this level
And your country is ?
Thanks CosmicPumpkin - I'm a big fan of UC but I couldn't find the vids until now, nearly a year late!
Oh, well, the good part is that I can do one/day!
Thanks. Keep up the good work.
not knowing it's frank ocean, then guessing it's xxxtentacion, mmm idk that's a lot to take in
Yes Aberdeen! Go my alma mater! 🔥
Nearly fell off my chair at 17:53, that’s my island 🏝️ of Timor, divided between two countries- my beloved Timor-Leste 🇹🇱 and Indonesia. Bennett was right all along
well presented and seamless delivery
Get the question cards back! Can't stand the awful grey box, it's almost bigger than Amol!
And paxman back too?😊
@@Timoroan1Nah, let him rest. He was amazing in his prime but the show needed a breath of fresh air.
I'm baffled how these kids (I'm old) know so much!😵💫👍
She is a dead ringer for Olivia Rodrigo
How did Osborne get to be captain, let alone into the team?
Look down LOOK DOWN LOOK AT WHO YOURE TALKING TO
@@geroconnor nu?
Seems like the correct content to be snarky on, especially considering your snark towards her, but the thing that follows "let alone" is supposed to be more implausible.
She nominated Eisler when he clearly said he didn't know the answer
@@northwoodplace286
She did neither
Jakarta mentioned 🇮🇩
Monday 24th July 2023
the frank ocean question trouble was painful to watch 😢🥲
I’m a bit surprised that the guy studying medicine didn’t get the PCR questions right
I think the correct name is Quechua rather than Kituwah
The Aberdeen captain reminds me of Liz Truss!
Nominate Eisler!
It's Osborn for me
Thanks for the upload and the subtitles. We really appreciate them now we have to suffer the mumbliest man on television.
Pretty tame compared to Paxman when he was the same age, and no humour. But can't complain, as they say.
A crown would go great with the jewels.
EY I FINALLY GOT ONE!
I miss paxo and dave
Frank Ocean!!!
Is it me or Eisler talks to Osborne with disdain and contempt?
It's you
Ha ha ha, Noel Coward wrote 'The Lady in the Van' and she was called Madame Arcati (16:33); the Baroque painter Vermeer famous for domestic interiors painted a naval battle (21:18); Matisse painted the pop-art 'Vesuvius' (22:13). Sometimes the guesses are really funny.
At 25:50, the quiz master expresses surprise at an answer, which when Mr Paxman did it was termed rude/abrasive/
arrogant, etc., by the anti-Paxman crowd. (Plantains are of the genus Musa, indigenous to Southeast Asia).
How can you be from India and miss 'bhajji' 🤔
When you're Indian, too many words come to mind with such a general description
Is Osborne blind?
Pretty sure she was obsessed with looking at herself in the overhead monitor....?
She is certainly a looker.
@@jameshogan6142
Eisler is hot
23:55 25:28 There are better ways to screw up on University Challenge than as an Indian fucking up two India-specific starters. At least he got the next one, about Ramanujan.
The questions don't seem as interesting as they used to be, they seem much more prosaic. I remember in the past being struck by the obvious effort that went into constructing questions that were almost poetic. Is it just me thinking that?
I'm just glad they got rid of the spelling questions that they used to have.
idk i don't think it's bad that they keep in touch with reality
yeah questions seem a lot easier than they used to be
Promo-SM 😝
Why so many picture rounds involving foreign languages? How are you supposed to engage in them? And when the music round concerns albums of the 20-tens, I know it's nearly time to drop out of the quiz.
There's zero reason why 60s, 70s and 80s music is more deserving to be asked about than 2010s. Just got to keep up
What do you mean by engaging in them?
@@dennisw8868 I didn't say it wasn't deserving. I just don't have a clue about 'pop' music from the turn of the millenium (with good reason). It was a way of saying I'm getting too old for student quizzes.
The Brothers Grimm question isn't impossible for those with no knowledge of German. "Rumpelstilzchen" obviously corresponds to the English Rumpelstiltskin, which should tell you that you're looking at a collection of fairy tales. Which 19th century authors are known for collecting fairy tales?
@@zacharyeisler3870 If you are the young man from the quiz, then I'm guessing that you had an advantage over me anyway (German ancestry?). In truth, I would have needed much longer to have arrived at the 'obvious' conclusion. You were far too quick for me. Well done.
wtf is she looking at