University Challenge

Culture
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Devastated to announce that I missed the final. Can anybody please provide a report and result?

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Another Oxbridge clash tonight.

Surprisingly slow start by Bailliol, always one of the true blue bloods of the competition.

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They were very slow getting ‘culture shock’ there. Pembroke must be a very poor house in Cambridge.

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Easy win for them there. That must be one of the poorest Balliol teams to ever take part.

Paxman’s practice of abandoning the question completely on the gong rather than the Mastermind practice of completing it continues to rankle. Many’s the final question I’ve been left hanging on looking for the answer and never getting it. I wonder will I ever find out the name of the Scottish shellfish soup being described as the gong went tonight.

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I’d do Turner on tonight’s show.

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I was just going to say Turner is my type. Would be even better if she wore glasses.

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+1, she’s lovely and she’s the kind of girl you could actually have an interesting conversation with too.

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I’s say she has her contacts in for tonights show. She is very knowledgeable in the arts dept. Not too clever on her general knowledge though.

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I felt for her at the finish, achingly lovely voice. An all-round lovely.

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Ah she was terribly pretty and seemed a lovely polite sort. Glad I taped tonight’s episode. We’ll have her back for another round.

I actually have 2 rules based questions:

  1. If Team A interrupts a question and gets it wrong does Team B get penalised if they also interrupt and get it wrong?
  2. Do the same rules on interruptions apply on the music round?
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  1. Not sure, but don’t think they get penalised.
  2. No. Technically you could say the question has already been asked in full before the music starts to play though.
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Unfortunately a trawl for ‘Eleanor Turner Newcastle University’ has yielded slip pickings in the popular search engines I’m acquainted with.

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http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Weaver’s_Week_2011-07-31

Screenshot down here. Won’t be enough for you I think!

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taken from the magnificent http://universitychallengebabes.tumblr.com/

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:frowning:

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:clap:

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I feel that photo doesn’t do her full justice. It’s lucky that like Rocko I too had the presence of mind to record the last three minutes. It’s not much but it’s something. And she answered a question in that time.

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Ah she’s the best.

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I think her facebook is private. Pretty sure this is she (despite the Estonia info) based on being a member of Newcastle University Academic Medicine Society.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=617125252&sk=wall

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Shannonsider, after a quick Twitter search I can inform you of the following. The lovely Eleanor is the daughter of Adair Turner, Chairman of both the UK’s Financial Services Authority and the “Committee on Climate Change”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adair_Turner,_Baron_Turner_of_Ecchinswell

Her mother is Irish - her name is Orna Ni Chionna.