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Town on University Challenge

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supertown
December 30, 2023, 11:57am
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Hopefully this link works, Town were a starter for 10 on UC yesterday
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December 30, 2023, 12:16pm
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Yes, I saw that and couldn't believe it! Mind you, the contestant shouldn't really have got the points because his answer was "Grimsby" rather than Grimsby Town.  I'm  listening to Radio Five , with its lead-up to the Old Firm Derby in Glasgow, Pat Nevin has just told us how his great friend Ivano Bonetti believed Rangers v Celtic to be  the greatest derbies in the world!
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December 30, 2023, 12:39pm
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Yes, I saw that and couldn't believe it! Mind you, the contestant shouldn't really have got the points because his answer was "Grimsby" rather than Grimsby Town.  I'm  listening to Radio Five , with its lead-up to the Old Firm Derby in Glasgow, Pat Nevin has just told us how his great friend Ivano Bonetti believed Rangers v Celtic to be  the greatest derbies in the world!


He’s not wrong - I think it’s easily the biggest derby in world football.

The Istanbul clubs might disagree, but I reckon they’re the only ones that come close.
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December 30, 2023, 1:05pm
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Appropriately answered by giant killers, Middlesex Poly (or it would have been when the team members were there), a rag-tag team of arts students, who beat the mighty Corpus Christi Oxford in the final, having disposed of what looked to be a well balanced Leeds side and a science-orientated Bangor side on the way.
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December 30, 2023, 3:57pm
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Quoted from Reverendmariner
Yes, I saw that and couldn't believe it! Mind you, the contestant shouldn't really have got the points because his answer was "Grimsby" rather than Grimsby Town.  I'm  listening to Radio Five , with its lead-up to the Old Firm Derby in Glasgow, Pat Nevin has just told us how his great friend Ivano Bonetti believed Rangers v Celtic to be  the greatest derbies in the world!


And he looked as if he wasn't that sure. Might as well have spelt the answer out in the question and they would still have had to think about it.
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December 30, 2023, 4:24pm
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...............and a team with Cockerell and Waters in it couldn't answer that !
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And he looked as if he wasn't that sure. Might as well have spelt the answer out in the question and they would still have had to think about it.


Some of the questions in the alumni Xmas version are pss easy, and a few of the answers are mind bogglingly stupid. In the final there was a question about the 1923 cup final, they got the white horse bit right, said Tottenham instead of West Ham as the losers with a London club as hint (fair enough for non-football fan guess). Then the hint for the winner was a North West club - and they answered WBA! Can’t necessarily expect the right answer (Bolton of course) but appalling lack of basic geography knowledge.

The biggest gaffe in an earlier round was Trumpian though, vinegar (acetic acid) was given as the answer for a neurotransmitter beginning with A. Paxman would have been snorting with disgust.
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December 31, 2023, 6:08am
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Yeah,  the part about the ground being near Cleethorpes was a giveaway.
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December 31, 2023, 8:39am
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Only near Cleethorpes? Has it been moved while I wasn't watching?
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I preferred it when Gazzas dad was the question master
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