# UK dopers: see me (Univ. Challenge FINAL) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 28, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819 "2008-11-28T18:02:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DaphneBlack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daphneblack/32/5389_2.png) [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/1 "2008-11-28T18:02:20Z")
UK dopers, watch me represent \*\*Corpus Christi College, Oxford \*\*in our second round match against Edinburgh University this Monday (1/12) at 8pm. I’m the girl who’s not the captain. Any other Dopers ever been on UC? Mastermind? Eggheads? [I think this should go here as it is about the actual airing of a TV show rather than the game specifics, but if it should move to the Game Room that’s cool.] ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/2 "2008-11-28T18:28:08Z")
I’ll be watching and rooting for you! It’s long been one of my favourite shows, I’d have loved to appear on it but I’ll be shouting the answers (hopefully) at the TV again, as usual. The show is based on an earlier American one, _College Bowl_. Any US dopers recall that one? ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/3 "2008-11-28T18:37:17Z")
> [@DaphneBlack](#): > > Any other Dopers ever been on UC? Mastermind? Eggheads? You left out _Who Wants To Be A Millionaire_. Did you participate in the first round match? If so, why didn’t you tell us? If not, why weren’t you selected for it? Is Paxman really a pussycat, as I suspect? Will you take further questions? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/4 "2008-11-28T18:38:30Z")
I’ll watch. I couldn’t go on UC because I am usually lucky if I can answer a single question. Better on Eggheads. Even better on Weakest link (Not hard, considering questions of the calibre: “What colour is red”) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/5 "2008-11-28T19:52:05Z")
Who holds the record for stuffing the most marshmallows up his nose? ---
**Author:** ![Busy\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@Busy\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Busy_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/6 "2008-11-28T19:59:27Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > Who holds the record for stuffing the most marshmallows up his nose? Toxteth O’Grady 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/7 "2008-11-28T20:02:49Z")
World’s stickiest bogey? ---
**Author:** ![DaphneBlack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daphneblack/32/5389_2.png) [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/8 "2008-11-28T20:33:18Z")
> [@Chez\_Guevara](#): > > You left out _Who Wants To Be A Millionaire_. > > Did you participate in the first round match? If so, why didn’t you tell us? If not, why weren’t you selected for it? Is Paxman really a pussycat, as I suspect? Will you take further questions? I was originally the alternate for the team, so I didn’t appear in the first round match. Our original captain had to leave the college so I stepped in. On Paxman: he’s a good chap. Very friendly; he paid for one of the team’s dinner in the canteen when his voucher didn’t cover it. I’ll take further questions, but I can’t say anything about the results of course. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/9 "2008-11-28T20:37:24Z")
I’ll be watching! ---
**Author:** ![DaphneBlack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daphneblack/32/5389_2.png) [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/10 "2008-11-28T20:37:36Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > I’ll be watching and rooting for you! It’s long been one of my favourite shows, I’d have loved to appear on it but I’ll be shouting the answers (hopefully) at the TV again, as usual. > > The show is based on an earlier American one, _College Bowl_. Any US dopers recall that one? Yay, thanks. 🙂 College Bowl the TV show is way before my time, but I participated in ‘intramural’ College Bowl at my undergrad university back in the States. We don’t have a BBC2-equivalent to air such shows back in the States, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/11 "2008-11-28T20:48:08Z")
> [@DaphneBlack](#): > > UK dopers, watch me represent \*\*Corpus Christi College, Oxford \*\*in our second round match against Edinburgh University this Monday (1/12) at 8pm. Ah, sorry. I’ll be shouting against you, even though it’s already happened. I’ll also be hoping to get more than my long-term average of ten questions right. Go **Edinburgh**. Er, yeah. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/12 "2008-11-28T20:55:49Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > World’s stickiest bogey? World’s stupidest bottom-burp? [“Oi! Up Scumbag! Up Scumbag!”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj36uQ0De6I) ---
**Author:** ![DaphneBlack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daphneblack/32/5389_2.png) [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/13 "2008-12-01T17:33:11Z")
Self-promoting _bump_ ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/14 "2008-12-01T17:39:18Z")
I’ll be watching(and supporting )you tonight. Yea DAPH.! ---
**Author:** ![Hogwash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e57/32.png) [@Hogwash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hogwash)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/15 "2008-12-01T17:42:03Z")
Cool. I mean, I don’t know anything about you, but you post on the Straight Dope so that’s reason enough to support you over the competition. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/16 "2008-12-01T17:57:46Z")
Oh **cool** , and you’re for my city too! Wicked - best of! If you need any help with the trickier ones, text me under the desk on 07555 659 875. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/17 "2008-12-01T17:57:56Z")
> [@DaphneBlack](#): > > I’ll take further questions, but I can’t say anything about the results of course. OK, thanks. I think the series plays out over 30+ weeks in the TV schedules. How many shows are recorded in one day, and what is the true elapsed time between the first first round match and the final. Did your show go straight through uninterrupted, or were any retakes necessary. I had an ITV lunch once. It tasted like shit. What’s the food like in the BBC canteen? ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/18 "2008-12-01T18:11:50Z")
Ah great stuff, you must have brains to burn. UC gives me an intellectual inferiority complex. The way Magdalen is pronounced by the presenter I always find jarring. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/19 "2008-12-01T18:17:55Z")
How impatient was Paxo? Did he go “come ONNN” at any point? ETA: **An Gadaí** , Magdalen College was originally spelled “Maudlin”. The spelling changed hundreds of years ago, but us locals kept on pronouncing it the old way. I heard originally it was in defiance of the Reformation, but can’t find any evidence of that online. Similarly the Cherwell river is pronounced “Charwell” and the Thames in Oxford is spelled “Isis” but pronounced “Featherstonehaugh”. Yez Dubs have similar odd pronunciations too - DorSET street not DORset street. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/20 "2008-12-01T18:29:12Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > How impatient was Paxo? Did he go “come ONNN” at any point? > > ETA: **An Gadaí** , Magdalen College was originally spelled “Maudlin”. The spelling changed hundreds of years ago, but us locals kept on pronouncing it the old way. I heard originally it was in defiance of the Reformation, but can’t find any evidence of that online. Similarly the Cherwell river is pronounced “Charwell” and the Thames in Oxford is spelled “Isis” but pronounced “Featherstonehaugh”. > > Yez Dubs have similar odd pronunciations too - DorSET street not DORset street. In my experience although DorSET is more popular a significant chunk of Dubs call it DORset St. Anyway I didn’t say it was rational jarring 😉 . [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819.md?page=2)