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University challenge..
#26862121 - 08/04/20 07:39 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Not sure if anyone else here does uni challenge.. but pretty happy this week i got 15 which is a new high for me If anyone if bored enough...
P.S. i use the rules of say the answer out loud, and can't change the answer.. pretty much the rules on the show but self enforced.
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Re: University challenge.. [Re: icetech] 1
#26862158 - 08/04/20 08:03 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Long before jeopardy, this was popular in the US. One historic match was Princeton (all men) vs a historic all women's college(given no chance). Well that Women's college went to pull out the most incredible buzzer beater FTW out there. They ask some damn hard questions. Different time before we were all stupid due to computer having answers for us. Game show was called College bowl:
https://slate.com/culture/2018/08/agnes-scott-vs-princeton-college-bowl-the-biggest-upset-in-quiz-show-history.html
Edit:125, if I deduct simultaneous answers(they are quick on the buzzer) i go way down to 65.
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Re: University challenge.. [Re: Ice9]
#26862165 - 08/04/20 08:09 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yup.. have seen college bowl... i like uni challenge some questions are just WTF though, i REALLY need to read dickens but i can't stand his writing
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Re: University challenge.. [Re: icetech]
#26862188 - 08/04/20 08:33 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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icetech said: Yup.. have seen college bowl... i like uni challenge some questions are just WTF though, i REALLY need to read dickens but i can't stand his writing 
Dickens all right, he mostly avoided the written diarrhea that most English authors liked to use at that time, meaning his works were relatively speaking, concise. Also. one of the best as far as character portraits go, sometimes worth reading a whole novel for one character.
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Re: University challenge.. [Re: icetech]
#26862190 - 08/04/20 08:35 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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The fuck kinda questions are this?
I think you need to be British to know
I also only understand half of what is being said
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Re: University challenge.. [Re: Tripsurfer]
#26862193 - 08/04/20 08:38 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'm from detroit and not having much issue... and they are speaking english.. sooo... no idea..
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Re: University challenge.. [Re: icetech]
#26862198 - 08/04/20 08:40 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Must be me then, who cares about window shapes anyway
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Re: University challenge.. [Re: Tripsurfer]
#26862200 - 08/04/20 08:41 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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k.. the show just might not be for you And i actually care about pretty much every question, it's how you learn things.
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Re: University challenge.. [Re: icetech]
#26862288 - 08/04/20 09:33 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Mah expensive edumacation coming out, also my grandpa watched re-reruns of college bowl and jeopardy religiously and he was the person I looked up to most in the world, so I watched them too. Have a ton of random knowledge bouncing around the ole noggin. Especially science/math and oddly enough art and soon to be classical music. But the UK specific questions, woof, no chance.
Geography in general, there's The U.S. and then a bunch of other places I can't name lol typical american.
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Re: University challenge.. [Re: Ice9]
#26862295 - 08/04/20 09:36 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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ice.. UC can be brutal.. like "Name the 7th century stream in rural china that ran behind Mr. yangs house and ended 3km away behind Mr. woo's house"
Not even joking...
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Re: University challenge.. [Re: icetech]
#26862298 - 08/04/20 09:37 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'll have to watch some repeats, sounds like a folklore question, if you know chinese folklore you'll know the answer.
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Re: University challenge.. [Re: Ice9]
#26862303 - 08/04/20 09:40 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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The ones that get me bad are the periodic table ones cause i never memorized it.. and then the local geography questions that pertain to the UK.. other than that it's not bad.
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Re: University challenge.. [Re: icetech]
#26862312 - 08/04/20 09:43 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Nightmares of writing out the periodic table, including masses and relative abundance of isotopes, fuck you inorganic professor...I gots the googs now, oh also oxidation states...spiraling down a dark hole here.
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Re: University challenge.. [Re: Ice9]
#26862321 - 08/04/20 09:50 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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haha i love physics and chemistry but just don't need to know what's just below and 2 over from boron... i can't remember stuff for shit in my old age, so not bothering.
Usually i do great on the music questions but this week it was rap bands out of Atlanta.. WTF..
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Re: University challenge.. [Re: icetech]
#26862429 - 08/04/20 10:48 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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I do "are you smarter than a 5th grader?".
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You joke but whats funny is how much stuff people forget even Rachel Riley was beaten by a 12 year old..
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Re: University challenge.. [Re: icetech]
#26862434 - 08/04/20 10:50 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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I forgot lots of things.
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Re: University challenge.. [Re: icetech]
#26862507 - 08/04/20 11:36 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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When I was in grade school I was on a team for a quiz game a bit like this. They called it W5H. A couple of years we won the first meet but got knocked out in the second.
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Re: University challenge.. [Re: psi]
#26862531 - 08/04/20 11:56 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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I love Uni Challenge. I think my best was 18 questions right. I'll give a guess on any subject other than the hardcore STEM ones that ask you to work out an equation or something, or anything chemistry or biology related. Anything else I can take a guess on. Paxman is a legend as well 
I'm gonna watch that episode and see how many I get
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18 is damn good... i will get there one day i'm strict with myself bout the rules..
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