The Durham team were really funny. "Who was Dora's dog in David Copperfield?" - "Toto". LOL. Paxman was witty as well.
Was it the first-ever appearance for Plymouth? Don't remember seeing that team on the show before?
The durham team were very very good!! Yeah i dont think ive seen plymouth before but no offense (coming from a woman myslef) teams of women are never as good...
It would be fun to see a table of the highest scores ever - there isn't one on Wikipedia, it just says that UC Oxford got 520 once. Although the opposition was weak, i am looking to Durham as possible winner this year after that, they are very very sharp. 325 is impressive.
That would be interesting - 520!!!! :O :O :O What did the other team get - 0 -!!!!! Has anyone ever got 0? I totally agree...
I remember some team (a couple of years ago - was it an all-girls team from Oxford?) who languished on -10 for most of the programme - after quite a while they got a Starter for Ten and Paxman said "you've now surged up to zero points".
I remember some team (a couple of years ago - was it an all-girls team from Oxford?) who languished on -10 for most of the programme - after quite a while they got a Starter for Ten and Paxman said "you've now surged up to zero points".
Haha I saw highlights of that - Paxman started celebrating when they got it right. I think it was an all-girls Cambridge team actually.
Just missed out on the uni challenge team this year - hope we get to the final again and win it though Magdalen last year were supreme!
Sorry should have been more precise, York (colleges are here but slightly irrelevant :P) but we did make the final last year thanks to the supreme clementinho. There was a tweet going round that that 'prog rock group have wandered onto university challenge' which summed the team up really.
Sorry should have been more precise, York (colleges are here but slightly irrelevant :P) but we did make the final last year thanks to the supreme clementinho. There was a tweet going round that that 'prog rock group have wandered onto university challenge' which summed the team up really.
You weren't in the 2009 York team? Laura Horton was said to be striking.
Wow!! Kind of jealous but I think we went out to the Royal Vetinary College, we didn't go up i 2009 against the juggernaut that was the Trimblenator.
Ahahahahaha epic. You are getting repped for that I know the Trimblenator smashed Durham at the first round of season 38 (I spend last week watching all the episodes with her...as I'm European I hadn't seen them before and I figured I need to catch up!) but it could have been 2008 (well the season aired for 2008-9)
I remember some team (a couple of years ago - was it an all-girls team from Oxford?) who languished on -10 for most of the programme - after quite a while they got a Starter for Ten and Paxman said "you've now surged up to zero points".
Oh dear!!! It must be so enbarassing to get 10 after all their efforts of getting onto the show!!!
Hahahahaha imagining finishing on a minus...you started with 0 and finished with -10!!!! fail!!! Hahaha aww I do like jeremy....
It would be fun to see a table of the highest scores ever - there isn't one on Wikipedia, it just says that UC Oxford got 520 once. Although the opposition was weak, i am looking to Durham as possible winner this year after that, they are very very sharp. 325 is impressive.