Tom has been cursed to take physical damage every time he gets an answer wrong, and the only way to break it is to win the game before dying.

@wolf-wm2zs

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha you've captured this so well xD

I love how the presenter exudes such a lack of fucks given energy to all the wrong answers

@daniellowe6116

Жыл бұрын

Jeremy Paxman's attitude is definitely part of why the show is so fun. It's a shame he's retiring

@ChimozuFu

Жыл бұрын

@@daniellowe6116 What's even worse is the replacement their getting

@jessicamenschel6775

Жыл бұрын

and the right ones as well it seems.

@GeordieAmanda

Жыл бұрын

Sadly, he is suffering from Parkinsons, which seems to have made his speech a bit more slurred than normal. Great broadcaster and a huge character in his field.

@MrKockabilly

3 ай бұрын

Such a sleepy host. Merely reading the questions and the answers, a job that can be performed by anyone. A far cry from Victoria Coren.

Anybody else love the cheesy ‘York Scott’ and camera zoom?

@rexon112

Жыл бұрын

It reminds me a bit of The Chase

@jeanmarco40

Жыл бұрын

YORK SCOTT!

@peachierose3356

Жыл бұрын

same!

@willkirton1178

Жыл бұрын

The only thing that would make it better would be a full on 'Hitchcock zoom' or 'Dolly Zoom' on Tom's face (like the Jaws or Vertigo zooms in with the other panellists in the background) but I appreciate this is a highbrow show 😂

@Holygiant

Жыл бұрын

@@jeanmarco40 I love how excited the dude is. That's gonna be stuck in my head

Tom Scott should be on every game show!

@zacstarkey1369

Жыл бұрын

Even better….. a chaser

@rexon112

Жыл бұрын

@@zacstarkey1369 Person of culture I see!

@jessicamenschel6775

Жыл бұрын

tom scott does cats does countdown? Tom scott does mock the... oh wait they canceled that one...

@d5rcy

Жыл бұрын

Would I lie to you!

@DominicMcCool

Жыл бұрын

What I'm hearing from this is Tom Scott should be on Taskmaster

My heart broke when he didn’t get GameCube. All that knowledge and I still know more about weird purple consoles 😂

At this rate, I'm convinced that Tom Scott should be on celebrity jeopardy.

@stephenbeck7222

Жыл бұрын

Is there a British jeopardy? Even with all of Tom’s travels, I doubt he’d do well on an American trivia show.

@MelissaJoans

Жыл бұрын

@@stephenbeck7222 There used to be a British version back in the 1980's.

@ceselb

Жыл бұрын

@@stephenbeck7222: Not since 1996 or so. Though I imagine the UK has more quiz shows per capita than the US, just home grown ones.

Tom is playing as if someone has the password to his youtube account and will delete all the videos if he doesnt win.

@KLienne

Жыл бұрын

Yea, his facial expressing are absolutely appalling to watch. He acts like he saved his own life when he gets a question right.

@myspinalchord1871

Жыл бұрын

@@KLienne shows his passion i guess, wouldnt say 'appaling' tho

@KLienne

Жыл бұрын

@@myspinalchord1871 Well yeah, but I've watched numerous episodes of this show now, and I haven't seen anyone who even somewhat expressed themselves the same way, not even close. To me, he is highly unlikeable.

@myspinalchord1871

Жыл бұрын

@@KLienne he's probably never done anything like this before while contestants from the normal seasons have done years of practice. He's also naturally expressive which probably contributes to his success on KZread. I find it so funny personally

@KLienne

Жыл бұрын

@@myspinalchord1871 I guess we're different. I just can't bare to see him blow out the air contained in his cheeks, as if he just avoided pressing the nuclear launch button by a phone call right on time, but instead he's on a quizz show.

Those opening few seconds truly show how excited Tom is to be there! Looking around at his teammates and buzzing with excitement - I was so shocked but elated to see him appear on University Challenge.

@bisma1352

Жыл бұрын

he was on onlyconnect before fame as well. I mean it's totally in character for him to want to be on these kinds of shows but I'm happy he did it recently after all his success as well

I love the "York Scott" shout and the camera zoom!

@khovre

Жыл бұрын

Sounds a lot like "Young Scott" sometimes

I loved the video game questions. Glad Tom got most of them

@alice_hml

Жыл бұрын

he was great, but also this is edited to only show his answers :)

@fruitchewx127

Жыл бұрын

@@alice_hml well he is team captain, which means he always answers on behalf of the rest of the team, the exception being the starter questions

@woomy8971

Жыл бұрын

@@alice_hml I mean he got most of the video game questions correct. Probably because he's the youngest one there 😅

@irakyl

Жыл бұрын

Which Californian video game professional of the aforementioned Super Smash Bros. Melee has aliases such as 'The GOAT' and 'Scorpionmaster94' and mains the space animals Falco and Fox?

@ethanf1398

Жыл бұрын

@@irakyl mango mango mango mango

I love how right upon receiving condolences for the loss from Paxman, Tom immediately opts to compliment the Hull team on their well-earned win. Just an incredibly class move and a true show of sportsmanship.

Them being completely lost on the gamecube questions is too on brand lol

Always hoped I would never hear the words "Power Puff Girls" uttered by Jeremy Paxman

7:26 tom gets a video idea

The fact that there was a video game and comics round here makes extremely happy in a way I can't describe. It's nice when you know all the answers

GAMECUBE IT’S THE GAMECUBE GAMECUBE TOM SCOTT THE GAMECUBE

I love how when in the video game questions everyone looked at Tom confused. Pretty cool that they had a section for video games/comics

I know this is a Tom Scott compilation, but its a shame that Kind wasnt on the team for this round, she was so good against Durham.

@lai17

5 ай бұрын

also my thoughts, I wonder why she wasn’t on, maybe someone who watched the full episodes could answer

the video game part is the only part i would nail, especially with all questions being around the game cube

@albal156

Жыл бұрын

I got all the geography questions in the writer round about james Joyce purely because I knew where the cities/territories were the fact they discounted Gibraltar did surprise me a bit.

I quite enjoy the nodding in admiration for every right answer

this is one of the only university challenges I've seen where I've been able to answer some of the questions before the question finished (mostly the ones about video games and comics)

Got that first game cube answer in an instant. Wave racer was my first ever game on my first ever console and ended up turning a passion found on that console it into a short lived profession as a top 20 Fifa player from 2012-14. That question hits hard. Never heard Wave racer referenced anywhere else since. Who would've thought an obscure jetski racing game could evoke so much emotion.

Really needed this update thank you

thanks for making these and thanks for not spoiling it

I shed a little tear to hear Paxman picking his way through the pronounciation of those wordy questions. This must have been near the end of his run on University Challenge. He's only 73, but older age can be such a bitch.

Great job Tom!

I love how the tom's not the one in the red t-shirt this time

Thank you, you are an mvp.

Given how much Tom travels, his sense of geography is atrocious.

@BlackSpiderPro

Жыл бұрын

he said Andalusia when he was supposed to name a city in Spain lol

@mercurialinterference6931

Жыл бұрын

@@BlackSpiderPro it's not even a city in spain it's one of englands many territories lmaoooo

@stephenoxf

Жыл бұрын

@@mercurialinterference6931 Andalusia... in England? Andalusia/Andalucía is a territory (not sure what they call it there) in Spain.

@therandomman1171

Жыл бұрын

@@stephenoxf He is talking about Gibraltar which is english

@kaaaien

Жыл бұрын

@@therandomman1171 but he was replying to a guy who said andalucia, andalucia isn't english. maybe he confused andalucia for gibraltar

4:19 that's my city, I've walked past that statue thousands of times, that's so cool!

@stephenoxf

Жыл бұрын

It's a gorgeous city, I went there in summer as part of an Interrail and stayed there for a night.

Impressive! I got all the cities on the map, and the countries' official names, but wouldn't have fared at all well otherwise

Watching the previous video, it seemed that tom and the professor missing now that was in the previous game (Dr. Vanessa Kind) seemed to get a lot of the answers from the last game. I wonder how that affected the score here if she was still there. Great game regardless!

@gracelandtoo6240

4 ай бұрын

Mooney, who replaced her, was their second best player in this after Tom Scott, Sadly the other two didn't contribute much.

I was screaming at my screen for the gaming ones

I would object to the Pleiades being included in that list of groups of 7. There are, in fact, a large number (a thousand or so?) of stars in the Pleiades. 7 is a traditional number in the West, based on how many people can typically see with the naked eye (and with skies lacking light pollution, of course). However, this can vary between individuals (Galileo apparently could see several dozen!), and there are some places where a different number is used. For example, in Japan, it's 6. You can see this most famously in the logo of car company Subaru (its name being the Japanese name for the Pleiades), which shows 6 stars. Well, if it were said to be a traditional number, I could let it slide, but that wording was notably lacking.

I wish those tournaments would be double elimination so Tom could do a loser's run and come back to win the tourney from losers bracket

i was actually looking forward to this even youtube recommended it to me lol edit: gg york damn

Theme music: similar in style to Only Connect, but a lot more convincing as music

Triereste and Gibraltar were easy (if you know what cities are where, trireste is easy because thats the only city in that bit of italy that cuts off slovenia, and since james joyce was irish (and he wrote in english), it'd be more likely that it was a statue in gibraltar than in Cádiz or any other city around there in spain) As for Zürich, I guessed Zürich because i'm pretty sure Bern is further south and east than that in switzerland, although I wasn't 100% sure it was Zürich (I thought it might have been Basel or something, but not Bern)

Hell yeah

Watching them fail at geography was painful. I got all of the country-related questions except the Zurich one - I thought it was Basel.

oof he got the gamecube one wrong

MELEE MENTIONED!!!

*me in the USA* Knew video games, knew "7", also thought "Nigeria" and "Venezuela". Maybe I am not a moron after all

Hold up. Powderpuff Girls came out in 1998?! I remember that first episode! 😱

They missed Prof. Kind. Way to go eff off to Norway and leave your team hanging. (/s)

Why didn’t my boy get GameCube 😭

I was so proud I got the GameCube one lol

bUT "a NEuRaL nEtwOrK" is tHrEe wOrDS

why was Kind not on this episode? She was great in the other one

The Whole thing can be seen here kzread.info/dash/bejne/o4qVsc2AgdjKk6Q.html

Tom lost ANOTHER semi final. oof.

I'm incredibly conflicted here because on the one hand I want to support Tom Scott but he's playing against Hull, which is my alma mater.

WHY DOES TOM SCOTT KNOW POWERPUFF GIRLS LORE

@barrytschirpig9328

5 ай бұрын

Why not?

University Cakewalk.

1:35 They say *"mêlée"* with such an upper-crust pronunciation. I've never heard a real Melee player pronounce it that way.

@xenon2561

Жыл бұрын

They pronounced it the right way though

@citizenhal

Жыл бұрын

I mean, I’m pretty sure every single person in the UK pronounces it like that… because that’s how the word is pronounced.

@RatzaChewy

Жыл бұрын

The fact you used the right accents shows that you know that's how it should be pronounced. 'May-lay' as a pronunciation makes absolutely no sense when you spell it out like that. It's like how Pelé (RIP) was pronounced as 'Pay-lay' by USA citizens.

@RatzaChewy

Жыл бұрын

It's not an RP accent or an imitation of French either, you can tell because in French the intonation would rise in the middle, with the é sound being a little bit more elongated. The British pronunciation is a lot flatter.

@WeaselKing1000

Жыл бұрын

@@RatzaChewy A lot of US people seem to like to subconsciously virtue-signal about being 'in touch' with Latin American pronunciations. Sometimes it's close to the proper native pronunciation, sometimes not. Hence the jarring insistence on 'Chi-LAY' for that country in common US usage.

my stupid ass is just happy that i nailed the video game questions-

I think we've found the next presenter

@robertwilloughby8050

Жыл бұрын

Oh yes, but I sadly doubt as to whether Tom would be interested. I'd start watching again if he was, though!

Super Smash in a UK game show. Ight.

@stephenoxf

Жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure this is a quiz show to test every facet of the contestants' knowledge bases, so there should be no categories without a question.

@mxspokes

Жыл бұрын

@@stephenoxf This is also the "Alumni special" so the questions are a bit more mainstream than the usual fare.

Toidi na m'i 😢

Get''s questions about PC's and Game's consoles lol.... its a fix!!!!

I had a GameCube!

Tom Scott is still the most intelligent KZreadr on KZread.

@stephenoxf

Жыл бұрын

Matt Parker imo

damn F tom

(As an American,) half of the difficulty of these questions is just understanding the presenter's mumbles...

@MandrakeHorse

3 ай бұрын

Jeremy Paxman, the presenter, had been recently diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. This special was from his final series before he retired.

it's so rude how you cut out all of the other introductions

Damn they are really bad at geography

That presenter is not made for people outside England I guess? Really hard to hear what he says! Or maybe I'm not used to old sleeping men from England.

@47Jamm

Жыл бұрын

It's sad to see Jeremy Paxman like this, really. He has hosted the show for almost 3 decades, and has recently stepped down as host of the regular show due to him having Parkinson's. This was a Christmas special featuring past alumni, and likely Paxman's last stint as host

A host that can't enunciate ...

@MandrakeHorse

3 ай бұрын

The host, Jeremy Paxman, has Parkinson's disease and retired a couple of months after this special was broadcast.

@MrTandtrollet

3 ай бұрын

@@MandrakeHorse Oh, that explains it. THey speak so increadibly fast that it makes it very hard to catch what's said.