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Reply 3960

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by ByronicHero
I enjoyed this match a great deal.

I didn't do enormously well - somewhere in the 13/14 region - but I did beat them on a few things such as Edward II and Titian.

I mentioned the eyebrows weeks ago :lol:


You did well to get one of the paintings, I found those quite hard.

I managed to get cloisonné, for some odd reason I knew that.

Reply 3961



I think Ms Woods has plans for young Oscar... certainly her left eyebrow does.

Reply 3962

bear™ was devastated to get none of the stanza questions right :cry2:

he did beat the brains with....

-2

Prometheus

Trent/Mersey

it's getting harder ! :eek:

surprised that JP did not go ballistic when someone said that π was an integer.... :ahee:

Reply 3963

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by the bear

surprised that JP did not go ballistic when someone said that π was an integer.... :ahee:


lol

Reply 3964

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by jneill
I think Ms Woods has plans for young Oscar... certainly her left eyebrow does.


bear™ finds Ms Woods' voice mesmerising... he keeps replaying her saying Vole

:ahee:

Reply 3965

Original post
by the bear
bear™ was devastated to get none of the stanza questions right :cry2:

he did beat the brains with....

-2

Prometheus

Trent/Mersey

it's getting harder ! :eek:

surprised that JP did not go ballistic when someone said that π was an integer.... :ahee:


It was funny the way they rolled their eyes on hearing that the questions were about canals in the Midlands. There was kind of a sign on the desk saying "no Northern type stuff here please". :teehee:

Reply 3966

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by Fullofsurprises
It was funny the way they rolled their eyes on hearing that the questions were about canals in the Midlands. There was kind of a sign on the desk saying "no Northern type stuff here please". :teehee:


i like totally missed that ? :spank:

:bear:

Reply 3967

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by TheGrammarGuru
Bear never fails to beat the students! Do you get most of the ones they get right?


:smug:

Reply 3968

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by Fullofsurprises
You did well to get one of the paintings, I found those quite hard.

I managed to get cloisonné, for some odd reason I knew that.


Titian is the only one I seem to be able to regularly identify. I believe I also got Caravaggio but I may be mis-remembering.

I'm generally terrible at science, maths, classical music, opera, ballet, art and geography. I'm not sure how I get anything right :lol:

Original post
by the bear
bear™ was devastated to get none of the stanza questions right :cry2:

he did beat the brains with....

-2

Prometheus

Trent/Mersey

it's getting harder ! :eek:

surprised that JP did not go ballistic when someone said that π was an integer.... :ahee:


I was so annoyed that I couldn't think of Prometheus - it was at the top of my tongue :colonhash:

Reply 3969

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by BJack
I was hoping for zymurgy and zyzzyva to make appearances. :sad:


"by what nickname is Aziz Sergeyevich Shavershian better known in bodybuilding circles ?"

:borat:

Reply 3970

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by ByronicHero
Titian is the only one I seem to be able to regularly identify. I believe I also got Caravaggio but I may be mis-remembering.

I'm generally terrible at science, maths, classical music, opera, ballet, art and geography. I'm not sure how I get anything right :lol:



I was so annoyed that I couldn't think of Prometheus - it was at the top of my tongue :colonhash:


bear™ urgently needs to learn Renaissance Painters and Russian Composers :redface:

Reply 3971

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by the bear
bear™ urgently needs to learn Renaissance Painters and Russian Composers :redface:


I always guess Shostakovich, Dvorak, Brahms or Debussy depending on the question :lol: I will occasionally throw in some Rachmaninoff if I'm feeling adventurous.

Reply 3972

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by the bear
"by what nickname is Aziz Sergeyevich Shavershian better known in bodybuilding circles ?"

:borat:


Hugh mirin'?

Yeah, Hugh mirin'.


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Reply 3973

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by ByronicHero
I always guess Shostakovich, Dvorak, Brahms or Debussy depending on the question :lol: I will occasionally throw in some Rachmaninoff if I'm feeling adventurous.


bear™ is similar with the painters... it is a pick and mix of Cranach, Botticelli, Rubens, Titian, Varese, Tintoretto...

Reply 3974

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by the bear
bear™ is similar with the painters... it is a pick and mix of Cranach, Botticelli, Rubens, Titian, Varese, Tintoretto...


I can identify Titian reasonably well and am not too bad with van Dyck of Friedrich for example but I'm really rather awful in general.

Reply 3975

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by ByronicHero
I can identify Titian reasonably well and am not too bad with van Dyck of Friedrich for example but I'm really rather awful in general.


same here: Watteau / Davide is always "do you feel lucky ?"

and Goya / El Greco "make my day !"

last night bear™ said Goya :s-smilie:

Reply 3976

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by the bear
same here: Watteau / Davide is always "do you feel lucky ?"

and Goya / El Greco "make my day !"

last night bear™ said Goya :s-smilie:


I generally find it's always worth yelling 'Titian' at the screen to any UC painting question, at least a quarter of all paintings ever shown on the programme are Titians. :teehee:

Similarly, you cannot go wrong with Bach, Beethoven or Brahms.

The answer to all geology questions is "the Cretaceous".

Reply 3977

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by Fullofsurprises
I generally find it's always worth yelling 'Titian' at the screen to any UC painting question, at least a quarter of all paintings ever shown on the programme are Titians. :teehee:

Similarly, you cannot go wrong with Bach, Beethoven or Brahms.

The answer to all geology questions is "the Cretaceous".


:five:

maths questions usually the answer is 1

physics usually the answer is Dirac

chemistry usually the answer is benzene

:ahee:

:rofl:

Reply 3978

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by the bear
:five:

maths questions usually the answer is 1

physics usually the answer is Dirac

chemistry usually the answer is benzene

:ahee:

:rofl:


I thought the correct maths answer was always "minus 1".

It was last night.

Reply 3979

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by Fullofsurprises
I thought the correct maths answer was always "minus 1".

It was last night.


geography questions: the answer is usually Botswana or New Zealand

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