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Hoops posted:I was just watching that. It always annoys me how easy the music questions are. They'll ask specific questions about characters from lesser known Shakespeare plays, but then they'll have a "name the composer" round and the answers are as easy as "Beethoven, Chopin and Bach", which anyone with even a sligth interest in classical music would be able to atleast guess at. I mean, I studied maths and music at uni, and I reckon I would get less than 2/3rds of the maths questions on my best day, but there is barely ever a music question I can't get instantly and it's not as though I sit there listening to classical music all day. University Challenge has always been big on history, art history and english literature, but they really don't make the effort for music questions. I disagree. While there will always be questions about Bach, Beethoven and Mozart, there are also plenty of questions about Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. More obscure composers obviously don't come up as frequently but they still make occasional appearances. The fact that you can answer most of them quickly is down to spending 3 years at uni (plus somewhere from 5 to 12 before, and however many since) playing and listening to classical music, giving you a familiarity with it that the vast majority of people just don't have.
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My favourite part of Uni Challenge is Paxman's barely disguised disgust on the occasions the music round dares dip into the last 100 years.
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Aug 22, 2011 22:45
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Derek Agony posted:I disagree. While there will always be questions about Bach, Beethoven and Mozart, there are also plenty of questions about Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. More obscure composers obviously don't come up as frequently but they still make occasional appearances. The fact that you can answer most of them quickly is down to spending 3 years at uni (plus somewhere from 5 to 12 before, and however many since) playing and listening to classical music, giving you a familiarity with it that the vast majority of people just don't have. My knowledge of maths is a lot stronger than my knowledge of classical music, which means I can say with confidence the maths questions are much, much more specialist than the musical ones. That's why I brought it up. You would have to be a dedicated, above-average maths student to get most of the maths questions but I don't know a single music student who wouldn't be able to get nearly all the UC questions. Specific examples: Tonight there was the "New World Largo" by Dvorak. That's a hugely famous piece of music, especially to the British public. I'm not saying that the vast majority people can name it or its composer (its way more famous as the Hovis theme tune), but far more people would know it was Dvorak than would know other UC questions, it isn't specific, degree-level knowledge at all. In contrast, there was a question about the Goldbach conjecture. No-one who doesn't have the knowledge of atleast a second year maths student is going to be able to come close to being able to name the Goldbach conjecture. My general knowledge is good enough to recognise what is an easy question and what is esoteric knowledge, and I'm telling you, all the other subjects except like the "name this country on a map" questions require a much deeper knowledge of your subject than the music rounds. Hoops fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Aug 22, 2011 |
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Cerv posted:My favourite part of Uni Challenge is Paxman's barely disguised disgust on the occasions the music round dares dip into the last 100 years. I like the twinkle in his eye when he takes a shine to a team Hoops posted:It's not as though I didn't think of that, come on. It's something I notice every single time I watch it, I've been saying it for years now. I don't think the classical music questions are as obvious as you think. I do think the maths questions are particularly advanced, but I find for example the art questions very broad and rarely get them wrong, but only because I have had an interest in painting since childhood like you and your classical music. I have never gotten a single question right in a straight up classical music round, it's a very difficult thing to retain if you're not genuinely interested - as you obviously are. Everyone I watch it with groans when the classical music question comes up, we always hope it'll be something about radiohead or television theme tunes lol.
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Aug 22, 2011 23:10
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Once they had a 'guess the film' round with stills from Kubrick films. It was the only time I got all the questions correct 
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The only time I've aced a whole section (starter and bonuses) was a picture round about naming assault rifles. My family gave me uneasy looks, but they were all really common guns in video games .
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Aug 22, 2011 23:27
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Hoops posted:I mean, I studied maths and music at uni, and I reckon I would get less than 2/3rds of the maths questions on my best day Really? Given that I remember the maths questions being of the order of "What it's 2 cubed multiplied by 2 squared" then I question your department.
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Cerv posted:My favourite part of Uni Challenge is Paxman's barely disguised disgust on the occasions the music round dares dip into the last 100 years. I love how Paxman shows disdain if you don't know which two characters from a Shakespeare play are referenced in a work by some obscure Czech musician, but thinks you're a modern day genius if you know what HTTP stands for
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Aug 22, 2011 23:39
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Angelos dicking about with the Casio keyboard absolutely ended me. So many memories. Dictionary! Excellent!
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Really? Given that I remember the maths questions being of the order of "What it's 2 cubed multiplied by 2 squared" then I question your department. quote:I love how Paxman shows disdain if you don't know which two characters from a Shakespeare play are referenced in a work by some obscure Czech musician, but thinks you're a modern day genius if you know what HTTP stands for
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sebzilla posted:Angelos dicking about with the Casio keyboard absolutely ended me. So many memories. That was my facebook status haha. DJ DJ, DICTIONARY! Also Bob asking about being a fast bowler slayed me hahaha.
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N3RDSTER posted:The only time I've aced a whole section (starter and bonuses) was a picture round about naming assault rifles. My family gave me uneasy looks, but they were all really common guns in video games That question about M16 vs. M4 was harsh, but the differences are recognisable if you know what you're looking for. SCAR was an interesting one and FAMAS was obvious as soon as he said "A French..." I liked the "Political Parties" picture round in this one. But how the hell are people supposed to know the difference between Israeli political parties like Likud and Kadima?!  
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If anyone likes The Victorian Farm and shows of that ilk, The Victorian Pharmacy is on BBC2 right now. We've just seen lead nipple-guards for breastfeeding and some baby product involving opium. And yes, the ginger woman with the nose is back. It's quite possibly a miracle that the British public survived the Victorian age.
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eating only apples posted:What happened with their brother? I don't follow them because they're unbearably annoying, but sometimes I go on their page and giggle at the silliness of it all. Their brother (Kevin) was initially put in charge of their Twitter account while they were in hiding prior to going into the house. He took exception to something that was written in the press (either the statement the twins are virgins or a suggestion of incest) and went off on a Twitter rant in which he kept threatening the press and claiming to know defamation law better than the papers (he's a law student). He actually posted a copy of the Irish law on defamation at one point. Cue fans contacting management to ask if this was really a good idea, and Jedward's mum taking over.
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Hoops posted:My knowledge of maths is a lot stronger than my knowledge of classical music, which means I can say with confidence the maths questions are much, much more specialist than the musical ones. That's why I brought it up. You would have to be a dedicated, above-average maths student to get most of the maths questions but I don't know a single music student who wouldn't be able to get nearly all the UC questions. Paperhouse fucked around with this message at 08:58 on Aug 23, 2011 |
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Hoops posted:Was it? I turned it on after it started, think the score was like 45-65 but the mathsy bonus questions I saw were about theorems and conjecture, and one was about diophantine polynomials. I definitely didn't see anything with straight-up arithmetic. This is from a while back, I don't have a TV any more.
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Paperhouse posted:you may well be right actually, I just watched this episode and while I didn't know the Dvorak piece, the next three questions were just "identify the composers of these pieces" and I got 2 out of 3. Also got 3 out of 3 on film composers. I know a little about classical but not a lot, it's certainly no specialist subject for me or anything. In the rest of the show I got a right answer very occasionally and in the maths bit I literally couldn't even begin to guess Last series there was a question that started 'In maths, a perfect number is...' and some girl buzzed in. She realised she hadn't actually heard the question part of the question, and looked a bit worried. Then said '6', which is of course the first perfect number - something that most of my class knew when doing a level maths. To anyone that doesn't know maths that would seem an astounding guess. To anyone with a vague interest, it's pretty basic knowledge.
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Aug 23, 2011 15:27
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RIP The Hour
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Metrication posted:RIP The Hour Cracking programme. I saw it coming but still, wow. I wish live TV was that exciting in real life 
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What a finale to The Hour. Polar opposite to what happened with The Killing earlier this year. I hope BBC gives it a second series.
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So I guess I'm one of the few people willing to admit watching and enjoying big brother? Darren Lyons body is like a ninja turtle  
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Aug 24, 2011 23:55
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There's a gutter/sewer joke in there somewhere.
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Hold on while I try to remember who Darren Lyons is. Isn't he that annoying podgy papraz-Bioalchemist posted:
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Something about his face in profile makes him look like the sports guy from Anchorman. "Whamey!" Edit: I want to be clear I am in no way suggesting that that is the funniest thing about that picture. BizarroAzrael fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Aug 25, 2011 |
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One of the other housemates asked him how he got those abs, and he claimed it was "body contouring" and they'd just sucked out the fat to show off his natural abs. He's deformed.
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I hope Bobby gets dropped. He sounds kind of reasonable at first with his complaints, but takes it too far and it comes off really arrogant.
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Aug 25, 2011 08:19
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I hope you all stop watching big brother. What the gently caress is the matter with you all.
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My friend told me about Jedward spilling some coleslaw by the fridge then giving someone a wedgie. Otherwise I'm pretty okay with not watching it. I thought muscle went underneath fat, especially in the stomach. Maybe he is inside-out.
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The fake abs they've sewn in actually increase his girth, hilariously. The more he eats, the fatter he'll get, and the further out they're going to spread. The line cutting through his navel is his own San Andreas Fault. It's just a matter of time before each ab becomes a completely separate island on his torso. I've watched a bit of this Big Brother and it's a mess. Entertaining things, like Paddy wrestling Jedward, are caught in the background of a tedious conversation between Tara and Mrs Hasselhoff, almost like they've only got half the manpower of the Channel 4 run product. When one of the Jedwards wedgied Amy, they didn't show it, even though they'd obviously filmed it. Took a while to understand Darryn wasn't just freaking out about coleslaw. Later Amy asked if she herself had over-reacted, but while we didn't see the actual incident, for probably bum-based reasons, neither did we see her verbal reaction. Des-Group (or whatever it's called) must have a deal with it's better interests (Amy, Kerry, anyone else that appears in OK magazine) not to show them in anything but a flattering light, or one at least that ties into their PR personas (Amy: bubbly, a bit dumb. Kerry: nice, a bit sad, a bit manic, addictions) Bobby is an idiot. If you want to bad mouth the contestants to the guys at home either do it so the victim is privy to it, or wait for Big Brother to press you on it in the diary room. Just talking to a stationed camera makes you look a right oval office. Although, with it being vote-to-save, it will probably help him.
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Bioalchemist posted:So I guess I'm one of the few people willing to admit watching and enjoying big brother? or a pregnant cat.
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He wants to have his cake and eat it too. And that must have been one large cake judging by the size of him.
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I hope if there's another series of The Hour, that it won't constantly be referred to 'the UK's version of Mad Men' like this one. Because they are literally nothing alike.
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Metrication posted:I hope if there's another series of The Hour, that it won't constantly be referred to 'the UK's version of Mad Men' like this one. Because they are literally nothing alike. What are you talking about? Everyone smokes indoors.
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Well, Bobby's a total dick after watching this episode. I'm from the US and I don't really like regular Big Brother UK or US, but the last celebrity one hooked me. I don't know most of these people save from Jedward, Tara Reid, and the girl from Atomic Kitten. This one isn't as good as the last celebrity season which I think was the best one out of all of them.
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Remember how Big Brother had the best ratings ever (for a non film or sport event on Channel 5)? Well they don't any more.Broadcast posted:Celebrity Big Brother ratings tumble Although it's still doing better than normal for Channel 5.
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:Cracking programme. I saw it coming but still, wow. I thought I saw it coming but the whole reason Clarence had Freddie in his scheme I didn't see coming, that was a fantastic twist to the finish. Been a decent last few months for BBC drama that I've watched: The Hour, more Luther and The Shadow Line being enjoyable. If you have any interest in Formula 1 at all, I urge you to watch "Grand Prix: The Killer Years" before it disappears on the 3rd September http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00z8v18/Grand_Prix_The_Killer_Years/ I was vaguely aware of things being pretty bad in those years but to actually see footage of what racing was like back then and the number of people who were killed, usually with the race carrying on whilst the body was being dragged away, is astonishing. Examples of the stupidity by the designers include a newly designed car with a large amount of magnesium in its chassis being entered into a race and of course catching fire and burning it's driver to death in its very first race. How did they know the then best racer and multiple time world champion in the world had crashed in a race in Germany? He didn't come round at the end of a lap... When they went looking for him they found his car wrapped around a tree where he had gone off (barriers? crazy loving talk!)and the chap himself dead from being thrown from his car and hitting a tree 15 feet in the air (marks on the tree showed where he had hit) killing him instantly. Anyways, watch and be amazed at the casual disregard for life. Fazana fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Aug 26, 2011 |
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Brooker has a new comedy-drama in the works; Yay! It's going to be on Sky1. :sound of a deflating balloon:
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