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Seagull versus Monkman Univ Challenge tonight



Frutos

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Final score is Seagull 140, Monkman 170, Frutos 45 (ish).
 






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The only other one I got was Habeus Corpus. I did say Gannymede for the moons but for the wrong question.
 








KZNSeagull

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Monkman is very clever though and seems to know a frightening amount of british history for non-Brit.

I would have got the last 3 questions right but the gong went. I got Kimberley.

Is this last years series though?
 










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Not a bad effort.

I only managed 15.
It very much depends on how the questions fall - its always going to vary as to how many fall into your area of knowledge/guesswork.

It was a good warm up for the real intellectual stuff on Friday night though. :thumbsup:
 


Miximate

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Some fine jumpers on display tonight. Got about 6 questions right tonight. More of an 'Only Connect' man myself with my strength being the 'missing vowels' round at the end
 




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Some fine jumpers on display tonight. Got about 6 questions right tonight. More of an 'Only Connect' man myself with my strength being the 'missing vowels' round at the end

I do like a bit of Only Connect as well - I'm best at the Missing Vowels too. I enjoy the rest, but some of the connections, especially in the first two rounds, absolutely baffle me. There is some serious brainpower going in to coming up with those questions.
 


CorgiRegisteredFriend

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I can never answer the classical stuff but usually good on the rare occasions they venture into more contemporary music.
 






BN9 BHA

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Monkman scares me!

He does look scary. :eek:

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I'll bet that shouty Monkman is hated in his class at university
Now that we're getting to the business end of University Challenge a lot of the questions are way beyond me - especially the science type questions. I did OK on the National Parks and silent films questions and the art.
Only Connect is devised by sadists - again now we're at the business end of the series there's little that I can get right.
 




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So, a defeat for Monkman et al in tonight's Final.

From the looks on some of the faces during the trophy presentation, I think they were more thrilled about meeting Stephen Hawking (they filmed the trophy presentation seperately at the Cambridge college of which he is a fellow, and he said a few words) than the outcome of the match - I reckon I'd have been exactly the same.
 




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The 'first and last' pub in costa adeje put the Leeds vs, Albion match on there for me specially - even tho' most people
were watching the rugby.
 




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