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…
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. 
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…
Well I’ve just watched it. Very impressive.
a) Well done - you smashed the oiks!
b) You’re cute! Fancy dinner sometime?
Shucks, I bet I’ve missed it now! Should have come in half a hour earlier. :smack:
I didn’t see this thread before the programme, but I watched it anyway. Well done! That was quite a score!
Quizzing is a bloodsport in our house. We play along with Eggheads every night. I wish Foxtel would put on UC.
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.
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.
Thanks as well! I’ll have to ask the boyfriend about that dinner…
Are you sure? The adjective ‘maudlin’ is derived from ‘Magdalene’ (Chambers English Dictionary) so it would surprise me if that were true.
Congratulations! That was a fun episode to watch.
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!
Oh I watched this last night too. Congrats, that was a fairly impressive victory.
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!
Impressive performance Daphne.
Have you played the third round fixture yet or is that still to come?
I think that they are through to the Quarter or Semi finals now.
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?
Available on iPlayer til next week!
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.]
Thanks! The next round has been filmed, yes. I will be sure to alert the dope when it airs!
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.
Well bad luck, Oxford. Pipped at the post.