University Challenge

[PDJ]

How good is that Italian chap? He could have won on his own I think. Another really good series and deserved winners.

 

[Diamond Geezer]

I actually got a question correct tonight, but you are right, the Italian feller carries his team (Corpus Christie, Oxford). The other team never got going,

 

[Maurice]

I thought they were a bit thick...

 

[BrianH]

I think that to get him into the team Corpus Christi made Signor Mariani an offer he couldn't refuse

 

[krizon]

Where do we place ourselves between the two teams? I usually get a lot higher than the losers and somewhat below the winners until they get to the quarter-finals, when the bloody Science and Physics questions knacker me. Sometimes I guess, and it's amazing how many times 'argon' is the right answer!

 

[Irish Stamp]

We got 42/50 in the pub quiz tonight so was pretty pleased with that.

"So here's to you Joe DiMaggio:

 

[solerina]

I flicked over for 5 mins and was chuffed that I got the chinese lantern / gooseberry question right . Those guys are amazing . Pete Postlethwaite to present the prize , Nice touch I thought .

 

[PDJ]

I think I got about 10 or so right. My average is around 8.

 

[Shadow Leader]

Yup, that Italian guy is very good - I saw the semi final against Jesus College, Oxford (I think it was) which was very close & it was only Mariani that got them through. I wanted UCL to win, not least as the Corpus Christi team were a little weird, to say the least - at least UCL seemed near human! They were good in the earlier rounds, too. Did you see the state of the guy on the end for CC - he looked more like Michael J Fox in Teenwolf than anything else! He also did the same as in the semi final - barely answered a question, then kept nodding his head with the answer as if he knew it all along...prat!