University Challenge

geography questions: the answer is usually Botswana or New Zealand

Ha, yes, although the flag is always that of Louisiana.

Guatemala is the runner-up

The philosophy quote is always either Hobbes or Hegel.

"Which American state...."

usually is Arkansas or Wyoming

hot diggety etc

Someone should keep a running log and produce a website with a big table showing the percentage occurrence for each answer in every subject.

Perhaps they do exactly that on the show.

there should be an App...

Time for university challenge!

It was really good tonight.

One thing it reminded us of was that you can never know too much about Heraldic Ordinaries.

It was funny that Paxman asked York if they have their own coat of arms - Smith answered that he does! Not the guy on the team called "Joly de Lotbiniere". It was Smith.

Joly de Lotbiniere also wins the title of Most Unusual Surname this year.

I can't believe he knew those ordinaries so well, I could answer half of the names which would be worth no points.

The question where they were asked to list those 7 capitals was new.

Maths question with 1 AND -1 as the answer

it was sad to see Katz being vanquished... they are a good-humored and knowledgeable crew.

The Heraldry question was fascinating... Mr Cole showed a lot of bezants

bear™ managed to beat the brains on just four questions:

Maple

Klimt

Milton

1820 ( guess )

bear™ scored nul points on the music round

he was especially pleased about the Klimt painting as he had never seen it before, despite owning several books about GK.

I beat Bear in the music. I knew the Philadelphia one.

That was funny, because I immediately thought "Klimt" on seeing all those starry sequined flowers, then I thought, gaah, I've never seen that one before, can it be Klimt? So I went into a sort of fugue state of puzzlement.

tbh i did know Butch Cassidy... but not the composer

My Dad likes that kind of thing - I'd heard of Henry Mancini but only recalled when Paxo read the answer out.

So do we think York are going to reach a lot higher? They were very good in that one.

as long as there are plenty of Heraldry questions