# 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:** 2
**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, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/21 "2008-12-01T19:01:04Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > How impatient was Paxo? Did he go “come ONNN” at any point? > > [snip] > Similarly the Cherwell river is pronounced “Charwell” and the Thames in Oxford is spelled “Isis” but pronounced “Featherstonehaugh”. > . 😉 So right. Particularly challenging for a Yank like myself. 4+ years on, (by George) I think I’ve got it. Paxo (like it!) does get impatient with people stalling for time. What he says doesn’t always make it to air! OK, gotta run. Will answer any other q’s after the airing… ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/22 "2008-12-01T20:10:28Z")
Clever **Daphne**! I won’t be able to watch it, but it sounds great fun anyway. And not watching means I don’t have to choose between shouting for **Daphne** or shouting for Edinburgh. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/23 "2008-12-01T20:30:30Z")
I enjoyed watching it, but have to go out now (2 minutes left). I assume you won comfortably - well done. Your captain (Ms. Trimble) is absolute dynamite! 🆒 I noticed the way you leant forward eagerly when the question on US State abbreviations came up… ---
**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, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/24 "2008-12-01T20:33:36Z")
Well I’ve just watched it. Very impressive. a) Well done - you _smashed_ the oiks! b) You’re cute! Fancy dinner sometime? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/25 "2008-12-01T20:34:13Z")
Shucks, I bet I’ve missed it now! Should have come in half a hour earlier. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/26 "2008-12-01T20:49:35Z")
I didn’t see this thread before the programme, but I watched it anyway. Well done! That was quite a score! ---
**Author:** ![bathsheba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@bathsheba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bathsheba)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/27 "2008-12-01T20:55:55Z")
Quizzing is a bloodsport in our house. We play along with Eggheads every night. I wish Foxtel would put on UC. ---
**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, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/28 "2008-12-01T21:54:03Z")
> [@Chez\_Guevara](#): > > 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? There’s about 4 shows per day. J. Pax gets paid for 16 days work in toto I believe. After filming an episode there’s usually a few retakes – they don’t interrupt during the filming unless there’s a technical fault with light or sound. The show is filmed at Granada Studios in Manchester, not the BBC. Whilst we filmed, the other show filming was the Jeremy Kyle show – different audience! The food in the canteen was mostly left untouched by me, as I can’t eat when I’m nervous. ---
**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, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/29 "2008-12-01T21:56:42Z")
> [@glee](#): > > I enjoyed watching it, but have to go out now (2 minutes left). > I assume you won comfortably - well done. > > Your captain (Ms. Trimble) is absolute dynamite! 🆒 > > I noticed the way you leant forward eagerly when the question on US State abbreviations came up… Thanks! Ms Trimble is indeed bloody good. She and I are in the same department as well; she’s just as brilliant at actual academic stuff. Grrr, I was so looking forward to the US abbr. question, but man, that was a tough one. Oh well. > [@jjimm](#): > > Well I’ve just watched it. Very impressive. > > a) Well done - you _smashed_ the oiks! > b) You’re cute! Fancy dinner sometime? 😉 Thanks as well! I’ll have to ask the boyfriend about that dinner… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stafford_cripps/32/7167_2.png) [@The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stafford_Cripps)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/30 "2008-12-01T22:27:00Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > **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. Are you sure? The adjective ‘maudlin’ is derived from ‘Magdalene’ (Chambers English Dictionary) so it would surprise me if that were true. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/31 "2008-12-02T03:03:44Z")
Congratulations! That was a fun episode to watch. ---
**Author:** ![QuizCustodet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ba0ec/32.png) [@QuizCustodet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuizCustodet)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/32 "2008-12-02T08:47:11Z")
Well done, **DaphneBlack**! Just to let everyone else know, viewers at home see the pictures for the picture round and hear the music earlier than the teams themselves - so that was a quick buzz on 1968! I was on University Challenge in 2003, representing St. John’s College, Oxford - we got to the quarter-finals, where we lost to Caius. On the last starter. Not that I’m still disappointed or anything. Hopefully you will do better! (I’ve played in the Inter-collegiate quiz for St. John’s until this year, so we met briefly in the final rounds - I was the big chap with the Americanish accent.) Best of luck for the next round! ---
**Author:** ![Hrududu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Hrududu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hrududu)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/33 "2008-12-02T10:02:20Z")
Oh I watched this last night too. Congrats, that was a fairly impressive victory. ---
**Author:** ![Martiju](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@Martiju](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martiju)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/34 "2008-12-02T11:23:30Z")
Yeah, I watched too. Looks to me like you’re on the way to winning this one - Trimble was amazing and you obviously get on well, unusual to see on UC. And I answered 5 questions right last night - pretty good for me! ---
**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 2, 2008, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/35 "2008-12-02T11:51:55Z")
Impressive performance **Daphne**. Have you played the third round fixture yet or is that still to come? ---
**Author:** ![Hrududu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Hrududu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hrududu)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/36 "2008-12-02T12:26:02Z")
I think that they are through to the Quarter or Semi finals now. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/37 "2008-12-02T14:38:44Z")
Pretty convincing win,your team captain was awesome,I reckon that if I’d of asked her what colour socks I was wearing two weeks ago Tuesday she’d have got the right answer. When are your lot on next? ---
**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 2, 2008, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/38 "2008-12-02T14:43:00Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > Shucks, I bet I’ve missed it now! Should have come in half a hour earlier. :smack: Available on iPlayer til next week! > [@QuizCustodet](#): > > Well done, **DaphneBlack**! Just to let everyone else know, viewers at home see the pictures for the picture round and hear the music earlier than the teams themselves - so that was a quick buzz on 1968! > > I was on University Challenge in 2003, representing St. John’s College, Oxford - we got to the quarter-finals, where we lost to Caius. On the last starter. Not that I’m still disappointed or anything. Hopefully you will do better! (I’ve played in the Inter-collegiate quiz for St. John’s until this year, so we met briefly in the final rounds - I was the big chap with the Americanish accent.) > > Best of luck for the next round! We at CCC understand the bitter disappointments of quizzing – Edinburgh knocked us out of UC two years ago in the second round, so this was nice. Ooh which year did we meet in ICQ (2008?) Was your accent more or less ‘Americanish’ than mine? [I thought my accent sounded particularly strong on TV, guess it was being surrounded by all these posh Brits that did it.] > [@Chez\_Guevara](#): > > Impressive performance **Daphne**. > > Have you played the third round fixture yet or is that still to come? Thanks! The next round has been filmed, yes. I will be sure to alert the dope when it airs! ---
**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 2, 2008, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/39 "2008-12-02T14:44:39Z")
> [@Martiju](#): > > Yeah, I watched too. Looks to me like you’re on the way to winning this one - Trimble was amazing and you obviously get on well, unusual to see on UC. > > And I answered 5 questions right last night - pretty good for me! I think the secret (for us anyway – aside from the Amazing Trimble) is that we’ve known each other for a long time and have ‘quizzed together’ quite extensively. It’s the one advantage of coming from such a small college. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819/40 "2008-12-02T23:43:19Z")
> [@DaphneBlack](#): > > Thanks as well! I’ll have to ask the boyfriend about that dinner… 😉 Well bad luck, Oxford. Pipped at the post. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-see-me-univ-challenge-final/474819.md?page=3)