Managed to get 45 on #UniversityChallenge final thanks to a set of bonuses on Zimbabwe. 2 starters - Wagner and Dom. 5 bonuses - mistletoe, Ian Smith, ZANU-PF, Ndebele and Charlie Parker
Posts by Chris Hall
Had the slipper at my school. Stung a bit
They were difficult tonight. I had a couple of lucky guesses - if in doubt say "Beethoven" for a dramatic piece of classical music question
60 on #UniversityChallenge 2 starters - Beethoven and Tess of the D'Urbervilles. 8 bonuses - Graham Hill, Lester Piggott, Volga, Bernini, Bologna, Quo Vadis, Ecce Homo, De Profundis
95 on #UniversityChallenge 4 starters - Denmark, Barcelona, Version, Torque. 11 bonus - Norway, Cromwell, Kaliningrad, New York, Couperin, Blondie, Grapefruit, Seville, Holbein, Eifel/Eiffel, Pole/Poole
100 on #UniversityChallenge 5 starters - percolation, Smiley, Balkan/Levant, DH Lawrence, Buenos Aires. 10 bonus - Navajo, Ash, World Series Cricket, Tony Greig, West Indies, Nicaragua, San Marino, Mary Magdalene, Amiens, Rebecca West. Plus my birthplace Ashford, Kent got a mention!
95 on #UniversityChallenge 3 starters - Black, Psalms, Col. 13 bonuses - Gorgons, Far From The Madding Crowd, Pride and Prejudice, Festival of Britain, Clerk, R.L. Stevenson, Rotterdam, St Francis of Assisi, Liszt, Mary I, Act of Settlement, Male primogeniture, Charlton Athletic
re Aphra Behn - we have a statue of her here in Canterbury (her birthplace)
65 on #UniversityChallenge 2 starters - Mendelssohn and British National Grid, 9 bonuses - Monteverdi, Aphra Behn, Bute, Mull, Crucifixion, Devonian, Orkney, Elgar and Malawi
The questions in these quarter finals do seem a lot more convoluted and difficult than in previous years
85 on #UniversityChallenge 5 starters - York Minster, Colonel, Vulgar, Hogarth, King John. 7 bonus - Gaucho, waltz, Ravi Shankar, Burne Jones, Titian, Ken Russell, speedway
75 on #UniversityChallenge 2 starters - 800m and Roger Bannister. 11 bonus - Jesuits, Preston, Ballarat, Toronto, Pastels, Constantinople, Kind Hearts and Coronets, It Always Rains on Sunday, Ealing, Jack Draper, Tom Daley
Yes I should have got that one as well!
The questions seem a lot harder in these quarter finals
95 on #UniversityChallenge 6 starters - A Suitable Boy, White Heat, 4th, Camera Obscura, Vienna, Greenwich. 7 bonus - John Clare, Autumn, Petra, Trappist, Leicestershire, Damien Hirst, Canaletto
The Nailbourne chalk stream in East Kent has re-emerged in the last few days. Also known as the "Waters of Woe"
The quarter finals seem to go on for ever
65 on #UniversityChallenge 3 starters - Rubens, Bonnie Prince Charlie, 1840s. 7 bonuses - New Zealand, Verdi, The Rachel Papers, Henry James, Millais, Constable, Pontius Pilate
85 on #UniversityChallenge 3 starters - Gustave, celluloid, veld. 11 bonus - Elizabeth Barret Browning, Idi Amin, Kinsey, Alice Springs, Lady Day, Candlemas, Lammas, Cherbourg, Norman, Age of Innocence, Carmen
100 on #UniversityChallenge 4 starters - Desmond, Richard III, Odense, Portugal. 12 bonus - Arsenic and Old Lace, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Elizabeth Taylor, Rochester, Brecon, Bury St Edmunds, Tennyson, Josephine Baker, Boar, Doncaster, Henry IV
60 on #UniversityChallenge - only 2 starters Turin and Apricot. 8 bonus - Nightingale, Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell, Sydney, Duke Ellington, Carmen Jones, Passchendaele, Edward IV
110 on #UniversityChallenge 7 starters - BRIX, Pius, Bosnia War, Erskine, Holbein, Chas I, Alexander. 8 bonus - Goethe, Crystal Palace, Arrabbiata, Clipper, Van Gogh, Garrick, Rosalind, All About Eve
100 on #ChristmasUniversityChallenge 3 starters - Bristol/Bath, Margaret Mitchell, Beamish. 14 bonus - Britten, Robert Redford, Alan Ladd, Leo DiCaprio, Salome, Neon, Hoover, Chrysler, Baikal, herbal, Hemingway, Thurso, Sunderland, Yttrium
I thought I remembered Paxman used to do that in every Christmas episode.
I'm sure there was something he "corrected" but he'd actually got the wrong pronunciation and the team was correct!
He's very rude and condescending to the teams this year
Amol Rajan is so bloody condescending to the teams in this competition, I've gone right off him!
Baguette, John Adams, Grover Cleveland, Tehran
165 on #ChristmasUniversityChallenge 8 starter - Schubert (Unfinished), Belgium, E-U, Thomas, Warfarin, John Ruskin, R. L Stevenson, Snapdragon. 17 bonus - Waterloo, Latvia, Slovakia, Murmansk, Lithuania, Millennium Stadium, Dvorak, pomegranate, partridge, Audobon, Burne Jones, Durer, Jimmy Connors
musk, Freud, Arvo Part, Harold Wilson, Lord Mountbatten, computer aided design