University Challenge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWAREfotNOM&NR=1

Am I the only one wondering why it took so long for her to buzz? Haha maybe I'm into HP too much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_lRB...eature=related

I love this ^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y7NX...eature=related

I died. This is even better!

Interesting. I think they made a mistake with the Harry Potter questions. Obviously Moody was never a DADA teacher at Hogwarts, Barty Crouch Jr was, as is mentioned in the comments. UC could argue that they meant from the perspective of the students it was apparently Moody, but Crouch is hardly a wrong answer and I'd be a bit miffed if I'd said that and it was declared wrong. It's a bit of a trick question, perhaps they should have asked something else.

Interesting. I think they made a mistake with the Harry Potter questions. Obviously Moody was never a DADA teacher at Hogwarts, Barty Crouch Jr was, as is mentioned in the comments. UC could argue that they meant from the perspective of the students it was apparently Moody, but Crouch is hardly a wrong answer and I'd be a bit miffed if I'd said that and it was declared wrong. It's a bit of a trick question, perhaps they should have asked something else.

True, but I think it was based on appearance alone.

If you think that's bad you should've seen the major economics fail a few weeks back (maybe you did). They put the wrong diagram in and labelled all the axes wrong

Interesting. I think they made a mistake with the Harry Potter questions. Obviously Moody was never a DADA teacher at Hogwarts, Barty Crouch Jr was, as is mentioned in the comments. UC could argue that they meant from the perspective of the students it was apparently Moody, but Crouch is hardly a wrong answer and I'd be a bit miffed if I'd said that and it was declared wrong. It's a bit of a trick question, perhaps they should have asked something else.

If they told me I was wrong on something like that, it would be one of those awkward.com moments when a contestant argues with Paxman.

That economics fail was awful!!!

I did see that! I thought my eyes were deceiving me and brushed it off as my mistake, glad to know that someone else thought the same. Normally UC has such a high standard of questions.

hahaha indeed... but could it have been more awkward than the classic:

Paxman: Good guess
Guttenplan: It wasn't a guess

still gets me every time




Indeed! No wonder they didn't get the answer! It wasn't exactly very obvious

I'm going to come out with it. I can retain it no longer.

I want to marry Guttenplan.

Really though?

REALLY?!

Just googles him, to see what he looks like... Will from the Inbetweeners was so blatantly based on him

One thing I don't like about it is that Oxbridge can sign up as different colleges, surely it should be one team for each Uni, just like all the other Unis

So you didn't even know who he was!

Haha yep, they even look alike! Although Guttenplan made his debut after Will so...
The media dubbed him a "sex symbol"

Surely the truth is that Moody was appointed as a DADA teacher but never got as far as actually teaching a class, though he appeared to?

1000th comment wooooo

I always forgot the far right member of the Magdalen team, exceot he was really good at maths and science.

I loved, when they explain whom they are at the beginning, McComish and Haddad-Fonda came out with respective Australian and American accents, and then Chan, the captain, who looked Asian and probably the least British, came out with a royal posh accent, saying he was from Leamington Spa

They were also quite fashionable. Although I have to say, I've watched a few of the ancient episodes form the 50s on youtube and I am waiting for the day when an Oxbridge team comes out wearing the full academic garb.

Plus, your sig (I'm a little too affectionate don't you think? It's 16 btw, and Pi. I can't forgive you for not having Pi)