[TV] Monday Night Quiz Night is Back!

[Stato]

Disappointing that Amol Rajin, and not Samira Ahmed, has replaced Paxman, but 'University Challenge' is back next week:

New host, new set, same fiendish questions: behind the scenes with the all-new University Challenge

Forget the revamp, the quizshow is as tricky as ever. Scott Bryan plays along disastrously, then meets new anchor Amol Rajan to talk nerves, piña coladas and replacing Paxman

www.theguardian.com

The wonderful 'Only Connect' is back on the same day!

All shall be well and all manner of things shall be well.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

The wonderful 'Only Connect' is back on the same day!

The good Lord gives with one hand, and takes away with the other.

 

[Seagull on the Hill]

Great news!
I was hoping Clive Myrie would get the University Challenge gig, but I am just happy that Monday night quiz night is back.

 

[Official Old Man]

Only Connect back again? How many episodes before I get my only correct answer?

 

[jcdenton08]

Wrong account?

 

[Stato]

The good Lord gives with one hand, and takes away with the other.

Not a fan? I love 'Only Connect' as it's questions are aimed at a wider range of knowledge. The breadth of knowledge among the teams on UC is generally amazing, especially considering the youth of most of them. However, the questions rarely stray from subjects taught on University courses. I only get to pull the self-satisfied 'Oh dear - that one was easy!' when the music round is something other than classical or opera and I can smugly identify something that was on the radio before they were born. With OC, all the time I've wasted watching junk TV, reading about pop culture, obsessing over films, sport and comedy etc. comes in much more useful.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Looking forward to watching the whole series of University Challenge once more. This year, I might even get a question right before they do

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Not a fan? I love 'Only Connect' as it's questions are aimed at a wider range of knowledge. The breadth of knowledge among the teams on UC is generally amazing, especially considering the youth of most of them. However, the questions rarely stray from subjects taught on University courses. I only get to pull the self-satisfied 'Oh dear - that one was easy!' when the music round is something other than classical or opera and I can smugly identify something that was on the radio before they were born. With OC, all the time I've wasted watching junk TV, reading about pop culture, obsessing over films, sport and comedy etc. comes in much more useful.

The questions on Only Connect don't fit with however it is my brain works (see also: scrabble and any anagram based game, despite having a generally broad vocabulary).
I also, while realising this is entirely subjective, I find Victoria Coren quite irritating.
Anyway, I try not to come on the Internet only to shit on things that other people like, and it's not like they're showing it instead of films of bollard crash tests, so I'll leave it there.
Re. University Challenge, my vet friends were always extremely scathing about how easy the medical/biology questions are. I lived with a guy from the University of Bristol team, who was entirely lovely and also basically guaranteed victory in any pub quiz he could be persuaded to attend.

 

[Stato]

Only Connect back again? How many episodes before I get my only correct answer?

Try this one. Fit the 16 into four groups of four and say what links them.

Trossard ​	White​	Bridge​	Hemed​
Dunk ​	Cook​	Mooy​	Ferguson​
Gross ​	Stephens​	Ward​	Mac Allister​
Brown ​	Ryan​	Suttner​	Colwill​

 

[Stato]

Wrong account?

 

[Official Old Man]

Try this one. Fit the 16 into four groups of four and say what links them.

Trossard ​	White​	Bridge​	Hemed​
Dunk ​	Cook​	Mooy​	Ferguson​
Gross ​	Stephens​	Ward​	Mac Allister​
Brown ​	Ryan​	Suttner​	Colwill​

Presuming this is a real question, you've got me beat.
Worked out two have a single England cap.
Three went to Arsenal.
But I can see no relationship between six of them and any of the others.

 

[Stato]

Here are the answers with spoilers for anybody still guessing.

Trossard, White, Stephens, Mac Allister - players we sold to other EPL teams
Bridge, Colwill, Mooy, Brown - Players we had on loan
Dunk, Hemed, Gross, Suttner - Starters in our first match in the EPL
Ward, Ferguson, Ryan, Cook - Players in the Bloom era that share their surnames with former Albion attackers.

 

[Official Old Man]

Brilliant #Stato and 100% in the true 'Only Connect' style, many names there could have been in at least two of the 4 categories.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

I LOVE Only Connect

 

[Stato]

Rajan's going to take some getting used to. They've gone from the donnish Bamber, to the headmasterly Paxo, to someone who comes across as a sixth form lecturer trying to befriend students by talking about Coldplay.

 

[wolfie]

Thought he did well but did miss Paxman tossing the question cards away after every starter.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Here are the answers with spoilers for anybody still guessing.

Trossard, White, Stephens, Mac Allister - players we sold to other EPL teams
Bridge, Colwill, Mooy, Brown - Players we had on loan
Dunk, Hemed, Gross, Suttner - Starters in our first match in the EPL
Ward, Ferguson, Ryan, Cook - Players in the Bloom era that share their surnames with former Albion attackers.

I got line 2.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Here are the answers with spoilers for anybody still guessing.

Trossard, White, Stephens, Mac Allister - players we sold to other EPL teams
Bridge, Colwill, Mooy, Brown - Players we had on loan
Dunk, Hemed, Gross, Suttner - Starters in our first match in the EPL
Ward, Ferguson, Ryan, Cook - Players in the Bloom era that share their surnames with former Albion attackers.

I got none of those however what I got out of your frankly mrvellous post is

Spoiler

the discovery of the spoiler feature but not the ability to use it like you did.

How did you do it?!

 

[Stato]

If you click on the vertical line of three dots in the text options at the top of your post window (next to the wonky pacman like pallete for text colour) you get another row of options. The last of these looks like a bagel and if you hover over it, calls itself 'Inline Spoiler'. Simply select the text you want to blur and click on it. Alternatively you could just type ISPOILER in square brackets before the text and type it again after the text to be hidden, but with a forward slash between the open square bracket and the I.

Sorry for the long winded way of explaining. As you can see, if I say write it properly it automatically spoils.

 

[Stato]

You know you're old when you're angrily shouting F*** Off! at both teams this evening when asked about Jon Savage's book about a band that released the albums 'Closer' and 'Unknown Pleasures' and they give the answers 'Genesis' and 'Rush'! Thousands they've borrowed to go to university and they've learned nothing about the difference between post punk and prog!