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He needs to ditch his arse of a team captain. Yes, dragons!
He needs to ditch his arse of a team captain. Yes, dragons!
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Sorry, this is going to sound horribly sneering and smart-arse, and I admit I'd be absolutely crap as an OC team member, but honestly, on the picture question in the sequence round last night, after the first two pictures were revealed as the digits 1 and 2 respectively in matchstick arrangements, I thought that lad's comment to his teammates "surely it's just going to be the number 4, in matchsticks" was the funniest thing I've ever heard any OC team member say.
Edit: that'd be a great sequence for OC Nursery School though.Comment
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Too right!Mumpo wrote: He needs to ditch his arse of a team captain. Yes, dragons!Comment
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Both of last nights teams were shockingly bad, pity that they finally get on a terrestrial channel then serve up rubbish teams.Comment
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And he's gone. Hallelujah.Squarewheelbike wrote:Too right!Originally posted by MumpoComment
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They need to come back at some point with a different Captain, then I think they'd do quite well.Mumpo wrote:And he's gone. Hallelujah.Originally posted by SquarewheelbikeComment
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Determined to have a go before a contestant buzzed in with the correct answer, but unable to digest so many letters so quickly, my missus when faced, in the "former European states" category of the missing vowels round, with the sequence
KNGD MFTH TWSC LS
gamely rushed in with a shout of "Kingdom of the Santa Claus".Comment
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Women! Know your limits.Comment
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It would be unkind to speculate on whether she'd rather discuss fluffy bunnies or a return to the gold standard.
Edit: same goes for me too, mind.Comment
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Heheh, that's a superb attempt though — I came unstuck on that clue too, but couldn't come up with anything past "Kingdom...". Glad that team have gone, as quite apart from any lack of knowledge their captain seemed frustratingly incapable of formulating a coherent response to anything, as if he'd never watched the show and didn't know even what kind of answer he was meant to be making. As soon as I'd seen the first couple of questions I thought "This one is going to be a race to the bottom", as the QI Elves team too had been surprisingly clueless to that point, but on balance I'm glad they were the ones to stagger over the line in the end.Comment
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New levels of volume shouting at the connecting wall tonight, IT'S THE RUTLES!Comment
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To my shame I didn't spot the Rutles.
Generally though I don't know why teams always groan when they get a music question. They're almost without exception piss easy like last night's Bogey/albatross and Boom/Boom Boom.Comment
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Very poor efforts on the connecting wall by both teams. You would have thought this is one show where contestants would know the Rutles.
I for one was enraged that they didn't see the tennis player nicknames.
I think they have dumbed down the contestants for BBC2, the clues are as tough as always, but you're given more of a chance to get them as the contestants aren't quite as sharp.Comment
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The Chessmen are all former University Challenge champions who normally perform much better than that. They seemed to have a collective off night last night,Comment
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A question for Hof (or anyone else who has been on the show). How aware are the contestants of the scores going into and during the last round? There doesn't seem to be an active scoreboard in the studio and the scores weren't announced to the contestants before the final round. I am not sure it matters, but I guess it could have some effect on how quickly you try to buzz in on the final round, so I'd be interested to know.Comment
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Going into the final round, you don't have a clue how well your opponents did on the wall until VCM announces the scores just before. You therefore end up spending a few minutes while the production team are making final preparations to begin the round eyeing up your opposition from across the studio looking for some sign as to how well they did.
During the final round itself, you have no visual indication at all of what the scores are - if you're not keeping a mental count (as I tried to) then you only find out at the end of the round.Comment
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Thanks Hof. It must be disappointing to get full marks on the board, only to find out your opponents have done so as well.Comment
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Ok, I'll take that back about shouting loudest at the Rutles connection. Tonight both teams failed to spot Great Train Robbers! The more I see of QI Elves on the show, the less I want to watch QI!Comment
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The other team not spotting the Treasure Island characters (Hawkins/Silver/Pew/Trelawney - "are the all professors?") was hilarious.Comment
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And tonight, the History Boys manage to win by making up their own answers..Comment
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QI Elves again tonight, reckon they'll get whooped!Comment
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They squeaked through by 2 pointsComment
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Got trounced tonight. Sadly QI will never be the same again if this bunch of fuckwits are behind the scenes!Tramp The Dirt Down wrote: They squeaked through by 2 pointsComment
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two very strong teams in next week's final, then. Looking forward to it.
Hang on... we're away on holiday.
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Record? Catch-up?Comment
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