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Reply 6380

the bear

the questions are getting harder :emo:

only 5 successes this week:

i) Seleucid :smug:

ii) Slough

iii) Stoic

iv) Integrated Circuit

v) Young

annoyed that i did not get Joy. i know the Greek phrase για χαρά :facepalm2:

Reply 6381

Sinnoh

In the second round, Sheffield went through because of their high conversion rate on the bonuses even though Aberdeen had more starters. This time, Imperial won despite having fewer starters.
Did not enjoy seeing the physics bonuses go dead :frown:

Reply 6382

the bear

an entertaining mind tussle tonight :h:

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i managed to get six past the students

i) Nixon

ii) Van Gogh

iii) Drumlin

iv) Tonga

v) Van Dieman's Land

vi) Cheese

i blanked on the Jazz and the Big/Small units questions :emo:

Reply 6383

Sinnoh

Four times now, Amol Rajan has mentioned the number of starters that a player got - and every time that player's team went on to lose

Reply 6384

the bear

high quality quizzage this evening. UCL are very impressive.

me not so much :emo:

i) Lake Geneva

ii) Empson :smug:

iii) Brahms :dancing2:

iv) Membranophone :five:

v) Stereochemistry

:hat2:

Reply 6385

Sinnoh

That starter on entropy in black holes really annoyed me. Listing a bunch of fundamental constants that happen to be in an equation isn't a clue.

Reply 6386

the bear

Imperial played a blinder. Mr Lee was oarsum :adore:

i only squeezed 5 past the students:

i) Walton

ii) What is love

iii) Lech Wałęsa

iv) Catalysis

v) Mollusca

:hat2:

Reply 6387

Sinnoh

That was large. Looking forward to the semis. Too early to tell who their opponents might be, but because Imperial won both their matches, it'll have to be a team that lost one match in the quarter finals.

Reply 6388

the bear

the first half was quite difficult. thereafter i squeezed four past the students

i) King's Lynn

ii) Salmon

iii) Scarlet Pimpernel

iv) Silicon

:hat2:

Reply 6389

Sinnoh

Quite sad to see Sheffield out, but Birkbeck deserve to stay on after that performance. Bit surprised nobody got the music starter, but that was a particularly tough music bonus set.

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Reply 6390

the bear

so sad to see Trinity lose :emo:

but great entertainment. well done UCL :congrats:

i only squeezed three past the students

i) Zoological Society of London

ii) Brigid

iii) Cirencester

i must brush up on my Chinese geography :rolleyes:

Reply 6391

MedMama

Universities Forum Helper

it was an exciting round and delighted UCL came through
they have a medic captain, after all!

as one tweet quipped, they came
they Sawh
they conquered 💥

Reply 6392

the bear

sad to see Open leaving. an excellent performance from The House.

i managed to squeeze a dozen past the students....

i) Barcarolle

ii) Dravidian

iii) Torrey Canyon

iv) Black Swan

v) Odile

vi) Otter

vii) Mica

viii) Massenet

ix) Ford Madox Brown

x) Hamilton

xi) Quarternions

xii) Areopagus ( tbh i put Areopagites :rolleyes:

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Reply 6393

the bear

an entertaining mind tussle
i managed to squeeze six past the students:

i) Jazz

ii) Carmel

iii) Lacan

iv) Kant

v) B Holliday

vi) Magritte

i scored zero on the Japan picture round & the music round :emo:

Reply 6394

Sinnoh

It seemed as though people weren't expecting much of Corpus Christi going into the quarter-finals so it's been nice to see them performing particularly well in the past two games. Picture and music rounds seemed especially hard this week.

The semifinals of UC always pair a team that won both QF matches against a team that lost one; since they try to avoid repeat matches, it should mean that Manchester play UCL in their semi-final (and either Trinity or Birkbeck playing Imperial).

Reply 6395

the bear

Wham Bam Thankyou Kang !!

Trinity played a blinder. Plenty of math & chemistry questions for them to get their teeth into.

i managed to squeeze seven past the students:

i) Aroyo :bandit:

ii) Abigail

iii) Carageen ( OK so the answer was carageenin :rolleyes:

)

iv) Zambia

v) Omar Sharif

vi) Izmir

vii) Parnell

:hat2:

Reply 6396

the bear

Wow Trinity got their ass whooped :eek:

i managed to slip 6 and 1/2 past the students ....

i) Heinkel

ii) Gödel = 1/2

iii) Moore

iv) Janáček :smug:

v) Floor

vi) Agave :bandit:

vii) Wolves from the Fold

:hat2:

Reply 6397

Sinnoh

Well, that was... enjoyable.
I was hoping they'd ask about Marianne Ihlen in that bonus set, I was disappointed.

Imperial now the first university to reach the final 6 times in the BBC era.

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Reply 6398

the bear

`a tense mind tussle tonight. my telly went wrong after 5 minutes so i had to wait an hour for the iplayer to take over.

i managed to squeeze 8 past the students:

i) Lingual

ii) Mysore :smug:

iii) Cameroon

iv) Morrisot :pierre:

v) Tenniel

vi) Paean

vii) Horseshoe

viii) Kant

:hat2:

looking forward to the final :yay:

Reply 6399

Sinnoh

The UCL students' union put together a fun preview video for the final with members of the Imperial and UCL teams (try to ignore the fact that they played the final nearly a year ago now)

https://twitter.com/TheUnionUCL/status/1776309474485051891

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