University Challenge - S51E07 - Durham v Trinity, Cambridge
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- Publicado el 22 ago 2021
- 2 institutions that have been champions in the past, battle it out to go one step closer to lifting the trophy once again.
Jeremy Paxman asks the questions. 
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Really nice to see Kim smile every time he answers a question.
I'm also enjoying the glasses pushing. It's a boss move.
I'm enchanted by Brekke's reactions to his teammates nailing answers.
I'm Norwegian, and it's extremely impressive to see my countryman captaining a Trinity team!
kim is so endearing i couldn’t help but smile every time he smiled
Trinity is such an engaging team. Kim for MVP.
Neogi was impressive as well
Kim is so happy whenever he answers a question.
Definitely. Kim has a quicker buzzer though. Not to nit pick but the captain needs to pick his game up. His answers sometimes felt a bit rushed.
Neogi is just as good as Kim and the other two are not chopped liver. They should go a long way in the competition.
paxman describing evangelion is the greatest moment of the year
@Muhilan He should have said brotherhood
He would make a great Gendo.
@Muhilan true true
@Shyam sundar De
What the hell are you talking about?
@Johny Marcial daŕoon very good andexiting competirion
Kim's confident smiles are contagious, I can't help but smile with him!
Felt bad for Durham, felt like they could easily have gone through with a kinder draw. Also, loved Griffiths delight when he heard the pi/newtons question - he knew he'd have the answer even before Paxman had started speaking.
I disagree. I was disappointed in Durham, a team I usually expect to do well. The girl captain was useless, and if she is studying English she had better pick up her game. Durham has a good department, and would expect less comprehensive ignorance of the subject than she so blatantly showed. Free tip, honey: The Faerie Queene is not 18th century.
They would have come up against a stronger team eventually. It does seem they always stack an oxbridge up against a red brick, so frequently it defies the randomness of the draw. Also, a lot of questions are not just academic or common knowledge, but questions that class "background" would provide the answers to. But I suppose upbringing does count for something.
I think we’ve just watched a future semi-finalist, at least. Great match.
Sort of agree, but they did seem to have a few grey areas, and I don't think Durham were that hot.
Think we will see Trinity go far for sure.
I swear Paxman takes longer to not explain the rules than he does to explain them
Your continued dedication to providing us with UC online is much appreciated, Dave. Thanks so much.
This is the first episode of the current series where we have had good questions and a genuinely strong team.
All the same:
Question: Which town east of Edinburgh ,,,
Team: Fife?
Remember the mockery a few weeks back when a Glasgow team couldn't place towns in southern England?
Which town in the Borders ...
Hearts? Rangers? Aberdeen? Glasgow?
Opera tunes and African geography - now here lies the hallmark of a great team 👍👍
wow rare this season to see a team where everyone is pulling their weight, Trinity are very enjoyable to watch.
Yep, and a captain who at some point gives an answer when his team is stuck - which in this season is extremely rare. A very deserved result.
Well we only had one team last season where everyone contributed and they (Warwick) won it all.
Kim has such an infectious smile that shows his bubbly personality. Durham were totally outgunned while Trinity were on fire. Durham's captain didn't seem to ever know if her answer was right, but being 100 points behind it didn't matter..
When I grow up I want to go to Trinity. Unfortunately I’m already past retirement age.
That needn't stop you - when I was there I had an undergrad friend who was in his late '60s. Not common, but it can be done.
Grow up!
Me too 😎
Don't let that stop you.
Love it!!!
Trinity seem to be a very good team, and Durham came across as extremely hesitant, especially their captain.
@Alan Hope I've been on the show, although I wasn't the captain - luckily - I struggled to get my name out on the introductions. It was so frustrating, and I knew that I could get serious embarrassed if I said something silly. I did get 2 starters though.
@Alan Hope I'm sure you'd perform marvelous and never once stumble over your words if you were in the hot seat
I'm wondering what must go through a team's mind when they pick someone as captain who doesn't know common words and is unable to pronounce others, like Massachussshess.
Well balanced effort from Trinity, showing that breadth across the team (especially for toss-ups) can build a formidable lead. It seemed that only one contestant on Durham had a working buzzer and/or microphone.
Thank you, Dave, for the upload!
Trinity team seems to be very strong. Brekke is criticized in the comments, but I think he can do a lot. Also, the team has shown very good vibes and a lot of times vibes are the thing that determines which team I'm going to root for by the end of the season (everyone can answer the questions, but not everyone can do it the way it would be interesting and fun to watch).
I've been bitten twice already in this year: twice this year the teams with great vibes were great in the beginning yet by the end of the episode lose with 5 points difference. This time, though, was different: Durham was a bit late to start catching up. I feel for Durham though: they also seem to be a nice team and I really respect Durham as a UC institution. Definitely an unlucky draw.
Also I'd like to mention that I miss Don Fatale's comments, they were a very interesting highlight last season.
I was rooting for Durham as I live in South Shields, about 25 minutes away. But they were just outclassed. Excellent performance from trinity.
Holy hell wasn't expecting to see a question about Evangelion on a British Quiz show!!! As for the one guy thinking it was Fullmetal Alchemist, I can totally see where he was coming from with how Ed says that alchemists are the closest things to gods in the world, along with the entire religion of Ishbal and how it ties into the over arching story...in the 03 anime at least :D
Strangely enough, I was in a similar general knowledge/history quiz competition some years back where they also asked a question whose answer was NGE. Never felt prouder to be a weeb when I got that point for my team :D
Welp here he is, Kim. The future MVP. With ease he answers
He could have been if they went far. But Hutchinson is the real MVP
I could also see Neogi as MVP. That's not a slight on Kim, just reflects on how good Trinity is.
Such a balanced team. All four players brought points. Some lightning-quick buzzes from them as well. The losing captain too hesitant and maybe too nervous.
Also, anime on UC, yay! And a very well-crafted set of music questions, without recognisable lyrics as clues. Would love some death metal in the future, lyrics are guaranteed to be impossible to discern.
Chuffed to get 10 tonight, getting all the plant questions right helped, Thanks Dave👍😎
Strange. Durham facing Trinity - Cambridge in the first round for the second time in 3 seasons, which is annoying considering that they're both very strong historically. Just as strange as Glasgow playing the in the first episode of each of the last 3 seasons.
In this case it's quite disappointing because Durham were looking to reach their 4th quarter final in a row, and in my eyes, they were the Mr. Dependable of UC (from a year-on-year perspective).
In fact, I think I said two years ago that I struggled to see the thought process behind putting these two up against each other so early on.
Felt happy when Hetherington got that outer space/roman numerical answer right.
Trinity nailed that round. Them and Reading are going to be forces to be reckoned with this series.
Ok, that Trinity team is the best team I've seen yet this season! I'd rank the best as 1. Trinity, 2. Reading, and 3. Hertford as the three best I've seen so far.
@Sharanya Ray It simply meant that my two old universities were in with a chance. And they were. Not clear why you seem so keen to have a go at me?
@Tullochgorum you said "I might be onto a winner here", what did that mean?
@Sharanya Ray How so? I said that I didn't think Trinity were quite good enough to win it and they didn't...
@Tullochgorum well you were completely wrong
@Adam M-S For sure! Please note that I hadn't seen them yet when I posted this comment.
Great contest this time, more of a " proper " UC match. Thanks Dave.
Well balanced team, great trinity 👏
Wow! Knew a surprising number of those answers! The Bible questions at the end were painful 😁 I was shouting Zechariah at the screen
Thanks and much love from India. My favourite quiz show and my favourite ESclipsr. 🐙
Trinity - great team - hot on the buzzers and good conferring. They'll go far.
This was a terrifying match to watch for an 'anyone but Oxbridge for champion' obsessive like me. Durham can usually be counted upon to field a team that can claim at least one or two Oxbridge scalps along their way...nope. Bang, out in one fell swoop with no chance at the repechage. At least one Oxbridge team that might have been dealt with by them will now get through. Oxford and Cambridge mean business this year, having been deliciously denied a win for the past three series on the trot. Oo-er...
Paxo was stumbling in his pronuncements tonight. Trinity will be at least a semi-finalist. They're quick. PS Thanks Dave.
@thomas261989 I didn't know that. I have every sympathy. My father had it too.
He has Parkinson's. I'm not surprised if his pronunciation of non-English names is getting worse.
@James McMahon I sometimes feel he's done something to offend the question writers, who have a drawer full of questions that will trip him up in return for any given offence.
He struggled in particular with Lichenstein's painting - GRRR... 😂
Thanks Dave!
But what happened to Don Fatale? 🥺 I always look forward to his(her) summary. Anyone up to the task?
This!!! Where's Don! Love his breakdowns. Don't have the patience or energy to do so myself.
Only found out about this show today, because of the classical music. I wish my father could have seen this. He would have killed the music section. In the US there was a radio program called "First Hearing" that started in the 70's in NYC with a three person panel who were played recent releases of music to judge, but also were played obscure pieces and they had to guess the composer. Well, my dad was on a version of that show at his local radio station around the year I was born. And he would identify music played to him. Which really explains why when I was kid riding in the car, and later when I was the driver, that when we listened to Classic FM he'd identify the music within the first few notes. The composer, the name of the piece and/or its catalogue number, the key, when it was composed, and sometimes the conductor, the exact performance and sometimes the soloist (not exaggerating, both my mother and brother provided that detail independently.) And naturally he also knew the personal details of the composer, when they were born and died, who they married and so on. He had such an encyclopedic brain for classical music and related facts. I would say he had perfect pitch, but he only claimed "near perfect." He certainly always told me I had the notes wrong when I whistled things. XD He also had Chromesthesia, so certainly that influenced his relationship with music (probably didn't hurt that his aunt was a music professor.) Anyway, this is making me feel really nostalgic for my Dad (he passed in 2015), but in a cheery good way.
Okay, that's hilarious. I knew the thymus question because my dad had his removed. XD I quietly screamed foxglove at my screen (thank you Dad for introducing me to Agatha Christy and my brain for always retaining that it's the source of digitalis, also lady at the farmer's market for growing it so I know what it looks like), no idea why I knew St. John's wort. But I should stop blathering now. Really enjoying this, even though I'm very bad at it except for a few stray questions.
Durham's captain lookin like she's about to break into tears at any moment
I went to school with her.
@Anisur Rahman agreed
Too panicky and wasn’t confident with any answers, hetherington should be captain
By the time they've answered the questions I've forgotten what the question was, and I love participating in pubquizes.
Not even 10' into the game and Trinity looks so strong
Ooooooh.... This got almost ugly. Durham got straight buzz-sawed. I thought they looked promising after their first two answers, but they got a bum draw, and when only one of them wants to even buzz, theres not much to do. Hetherington tried, but in vain.
Trinity looks VERY daunting already, though maybe they got boosted by an opponent who was asleep for most of the match. They almost seemed too cocky and quick on the draw a couple of times, but at the same time they are clearly broad and deep in knowledge, and I deeply respect how they just left the floor for their Opera guy in the music round. They knew that guy was the best shot, and the captain made sure he didn't get interrupted.
As a non-Norwegian Scandinavian, I do not think I can support a rival Scandie just yet, but this time is surely a hot bet for a final.
@SvobodovaEva Well, if it turns out there are no Danish people in the competition this year (And that seems likely), then I'm happy to throw my hat in with the Norwegian guy.
We Scandies are like brothers. We want the other one to do well, sure, but now if that means he'll beat us! :D
Non-Norwegian Scandinavian 😂 What a funny term
Trinity, Cambridge, versus a team captained by a woman named Mitchell. Brings back memories.
8:23 That Westernmost circle is clearly centred not on Lagos, but on Porto-Novo, Benin.
Mombasa - Lagos. The map is very deceptive as the green dot is actually placed over Benin
@ExEssex : They won because they were much better but if they were tied or worse they would surely have had the right of appeal. UC (and Paxton) makes a surprising number of mistakes.
Exactly. Well, I thought it was Togo but it certainly wasn't in Nigeria.
Despite the score, both teams were good. Trinity is impressive but I’m doubtful of a place in the final. Kim and Neogi did the heavy lifting with assists from Innes. Their coach should have a chat with the captain: attempt a guess, brush up on popular culture if maths, science and art are not strong points. There’s an air of casualness and arrogance that didn’t seem warranted given that he was the team weakest link.
He kept a constant pace and there is nothing wrong with an atmosphere in which people dare to press the buzzer. The casualness is a welcome change from the tedious confering of many other teams this season and likely would have earned them one of the four free spots - had their opponent been stronger.
They have a coach?
I want to have a coffee with Kim and hear his general wisdoms and outlooks on life
@Luke Kim, I nearly died drinking for the number of times you adjusted your glasses. You're a god, very proud.
Durham University was the great legacy of Van Mildert, the last of the Prince Bishops of Durham.
Hitting at least 100 in the first round is a benchmark all teams should make🤦 Trinity also got through purely on buzzers 🤯
I was recently made aware by another viewer on this channel that Jeremy Paxman has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. I'm very sorry to hear this, I wish only the best to Jeremy.
I'm an Imperial fan (hope they'll feature this season) but I reeeally like this Trinity team. I really like them.
And they won!
@Oscar Great! Looking forward to seeing them. Thanks!
Imperial are on this year
I dont know anything about 95 % of what they talk about but somehow i enjoy this
Durham beating Kim to DPRK answer, top achievement
I just want to hug Durham's captain, she always looks so scared to give an answer 😅
Gosh. I never thought there would be a question about my old home village's football team on UC - go Crossgates Primrose.
I like the trinity team, I love Kim. Strong team.
Hes been taught in a foreign school I would imagine.
@Sally Parker no they are not lol...and I work in a good one.
Korean high schools are just on another level aren’t they. Kim seemed to have a huge knowledge.
I have to admit I got a little overexcited at the Rockville question. That's not far from where I live and I never expected it to come up!
“Your starter for 10 - who needs to get in the goddamn robot?”
I think Trinity has a chance to win this thing.
The intra-team rivalry (Neogi vs. Kim) greater than inter-team one?
3:03 Quiz starts - I know what a young eel is called. I've answered at 3:10 - a full ten seconds before Mr Neogi. Wow, what a start! (Didn't continue, though...)
Excellent match. Amazingly I got 8 right.
Have to admit I clicked for Innes…and stayed for Innes.
Good game! Thanks dear DG!
5:35 the best question ever
Well Trinity is currently my favorite to take the championship.
The questions on "John Williams" essentially had nothing to do with him as he has scored all of Spielberg's notable films, and none of the questions referenced the actual music.
Griffiths studying Physics… true to his name.
280 Points won. One of the better matches.
question about the Standedge tunnel … I was shouting Huddersfield at the screen… My hometown… So I definitely got one question right… A really good game tonight
I felt pain when that one guy said it was Evangelion then the other guy was like “nah it’s Full Metal Alchemist”
To be fair he didn't know the entire title of Evangelion
Full Metal Alchemist is my favourite mecha anime.
LOL, anyone else get the feeling none of the kids from Trinity have ever heard of the Manchester Ship Canal? They were starting to sweat, getting all the low-brow questions.
Thanks again Dave! Is it possible for you to make the top comment in the "public comments" field always something from you? I mean, when I go to ESclips to view someone has invariably typed something like "well done X team - great win" or something like that! It's impossible not to see the first public comment underneath the viewing area so it really spoils the game! Do you understand what I'm trying to explain? Sorry to be confusing!!
Just as I'm about to have dinner. Perfect timing!
Durham facing the people who won the places they applied for and getting wrecked by them. Ouch.
Smiling Kim with longer hair is so cool
Thanks again Dave! Dark Chocolate with Hazelnuts and Diet Dr. Pepper while I watch tonight!
@TimeyWimeyLimey Also sounds good!
Milk Chocolate and Bourbon biscuits for me.
Hurrah! I identified “v” (middle letter of “elver”) before any of the contestants!
Me too. Went downhill from there though .....
I love those questions, in how they're creatively guessable - but without insulting people's intelligence.
(Rarely do I ever get them right though, so well done!)
8:20 That green terminal is clearly showed to be in Benin though. Seems at least 50 km west of Lagos. But they got Benin's capital wrong anyway.
5:44 cracked me up
Hattie could have him for Brekky. Lol.
Durham hardly distinguished themselves. Thank you Dave
Current Top 4 runners up with 7 first round matches left to play:
1&2 (TIE) UCL (University College London)--135
1&2 (TIE) Emmanuel-Cambridge--135
3. Strathclyde--110
4. (TIE) Glascow/London Business School--100
Eliminated: Oxford Brookes, Durham.
Lowest winning score (s): Kings College London & Queen Mary London--115
What's a Glascow?
27:45 HE SAID THE LINE 😄
Found myself doing lots of 5s jumps via right-arrow as we waited, and waited, for some answers. Maybe I'm just tired today : )
8:19 that really doesn't look like the green line ends at Lagos, looks like it goes into Benin...
Let's learn again ! At least i gotta some Knowledge, thanks 🌐🇬🇧♥️
You have to admit its a bad year. Trinity are the highest scorers so far with 190 and only 2 other winners have even broken 150. Two teams have qualified for the next round on 115. And we're halfway through the first round.
Would you still say the same now that the competition is over?
@Michael Lawlor I love him too as a host but he should have stepped down with last season.
Might be an issue alright, which is sad to see. He was always one of my favourite British broadcasters. Newsnight was never the same after he left. His book on fishing, even though I don't fish myself, was poetic,lyrical and beautiful. All of his others, particularly the one on the English, never less than fascinating. He's about 73 so can!'t have longer as host. I know I'll be sad when he leaves.
My theory is that the ear pieces make it difficult to get the answer from both sides at the same time and therefore everybody tries to avoid talking over each other more than usual.
Paxo’s slow reading is certainly lowering the standard of what a good score is
Skulls are cool. and bow ties. Skulls and bow ties are cool.
Thank you Dave.
Thanks again Dave!
Trinity might be the best thus far but they do not strike me as a championship outfit. I am still interested to see what the likes of Manchester, Magdalen (Oxford) and Imperial produce this season. Manchester and Magdalen are definitely due....
Kim is adorable
Never get why there’s no timer with a buzzer limiting the time allowed to confer and answer. Pac-Man has to get annoyed and rudely say Come On, and even that settles nothing.
Durham captain looked unsure and terrified; justifiable considering the mettle of the opposition with the smiling assassin Kim looking as though he was enjoying every minute! And then there is Innes gorgeous eyes......
so, we know this year's winners, right?
fma would be hilarious as a mecha anime
one of the easiest matches in years. trinity missed too many lay ups.
We know what we are, but know not what we may be - 💀
MATCH STATS BELOW
Durham: 70 Eliminated
Trinity - Cambridge: 170
Starter Questions Stats
DURHAM: 45
Griffiths = 1/1 {10 points}
Hetherington = 3/5 {30 minus 5 points}
Mitchell = 0
Silvers = 1/1 {10 points}
Starter Success rate: 71.43%
TRINITY - CAMBRIDGE: 120
Innes = 2/2 {20 points}
Neogi = 3/3 {30 points}
Brekke = 2/2 {20 points}
Kim = 5/5 {50 points}
Starter Success rate: 100.00%
Bonus Questions Stats
DURHAM: 45
Bonus success rate: 60.00% (9/15)
TRINITY - CAMBRIDGE: 70
Bonus success rate: 38.89% (14/36)
Lmao the Eva question hahaha