University Challenge - Christmas 2019, Episode 10 (Final) - Wadham College v Leeds University

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And just like that, we're at the final! Hope you all have enjoyed this year's Christmas Special, I certainly have had fun reading your comments (without which I may well have missed our host's fabulous outfit during Semifinal 1). With viewers from over 85 different countries and territories tuning in to this series on KZread, you all make up a truly worldwide community of UC fans. Cheers all around.
Best wishes in 2020 fellow dreamers,
DoP
University Challenge Christmas 2019, Episode 10 (Final). Wadham College, Oxford v Leeds University. Copyright owned and viewing generously tolerated on this platform by ITV Studios/BBC.

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  • @joanr6915
    @joanr69154 жыл бұрын

    Gee had amazing scientific knowledge, but the lovely Rev had an exceptional grasp of general knowledge over the three rounds. So glad Leeds won - very satisfying to beat Oxbridge.

  • @jjissoexciting
    @jjissoexciting4 жыл бұрын

    Finally it's a Caravaggio

  • @heliotropezzz333

    @heliotropezzz333

    4 жыл бұрын

    I don't think the woman in the previous round had ever seen a Caravaggio as his work looks nothing like the ones she was presented with.

  • @ftumschk

    @ftumschk

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@heliotropezzz333 Indeed, and one of those "Caravaggios" (not!) was a canal scene... bit of a giveway, there!

  • @heliotropezzz333

    @heliotropezzz333

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ftumschk Yes, I got the impression that she knew it was an Italian painter and Caravaggio was the only Italian painter's name she could think of.

  • @jamiengo2343

    @jamiengo2343

    4 жыл бұрын

    Helen Trope is Caravaggio’s style of painting distinctive and if so how?

  • @ftumschk

    @ftumschk

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@heliotropezzz333 There's a similar "default response" with Verdi and opera, although that even transcends nations! Indeed, there was an instance this series where a clip of Beethoven's _Fidelio_ was played and they named the composer as Verdi, even though the language being sung was very clearly German.

  • @jaynordlinger4750
    @jaynordlinger47504 жыл бұрын

    A thousand thank-you's. The Leeds team is so good, I do believe they could compete against the students. Henry Gee is a beast (a positive statement, of course). Thx again, for the uploads.

  • @lucylou5766
    @lucylou57664 жыл бұрын

    Really enjoyed this series! A welcome distraction from the Antipodean apocalypse we are living through presently. Congrats to Leeds and to Gee in particular as MVP. 🏆Thank you 🐨🌷

  • @PapaSarto
    @PapaSarto4 жыл бұрын

    ... and that is why the recovering paleontologist is a senior editor of Nature! :P Good job, sir!

  • @johnyarbrough502
    @johnyarbrough5024 жыл бұрын

    Thanks very much for taking the time to upload the Christmas Special rounds.

  • @bobfarnaby7676
    @bobfarnaby76764 жыл бұрын

    Much appreciated the series, thank you.

  • @n0nchalanc3
    @n0nchalanc34 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the upload. Leeds was very impressive over all 3 of their appearances

  • @xdemgeo3581
    @xdemgeo3581 Жыл бұрын

    Leeds was lucky to have so many science starter and bonus questions here especially that they have the senior editor of Nature in their team.

  • @BettyWoo
    @BettyWoo4 жыл бұрын

    Well, that was fun. Here. Have some more praise for the uploads - you're certainly deserving of all of it. Happy 2020!

  • @defaultyorker6096
    @defaultyorker60964 жыл бұрын

    Hopefully we [Leeds] can get onto the student's televised rounds one year. A rather poor record for us as a Russell Group University in that competition. I'll pretend I chose to study there knowing we'd win this one. Well done men! And thanks for the upload, DoP.

  • @celestialteapot309

    @celestialteapot309

    4 жыл бұрын

    For ten points, which non-Russell Group University has won the competition twice?

  • @defaultyorker6096

    @defaultyorker6096

    4 жыл бұрын

    Celestial Teapot 🤔. All I can think of is Open University, without consulting the official records again.

  • @KSfan4ever
    @KSfan4ever4 жыл бұрын

    What a fabulous final! I loved it as much as a good student episode! Both teams were impressive, I thought, but MVP Gee was a stand-out, as was Coles. Thank you DoP for making the UC Christmas break so enjoyable. Wishing you a Happy New Year from America!

  • @GirGir183
    @GirGir1834 жыл бұрын

    15:30 Probably because they're behind, Paxman shamelessly makes no mention of McElvoy's conferring with Mosey on this starter question.

  • @russcomp1920
    @russcomp19204 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for uploading this special. Wow! What a round!

  • @deborahrogers9760
    @deborahrogers97604 жыл бұрын

    Enjoyed these...thanks so much for posting!

  • @meirwise1107
    @meirwise11074 жыл бұрын

    Gee that was exciting! " you can still catch up" ......lol. No you can't.

  • @kevincollier4546

    @kevincollier4546

    4 жыл бұрын

    But it sure lit a (small) fire under them for a time!

  • @jazzhonk21
    @jazzhonk214 жыл бұрын

    Greetings from Canada! I've really enjoyed this series, and I thank you very much for uploading it.

  • @geeflat
    @geeflat4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for doing this. Happy new year.

  • @helenelizabeth100
    @helenelizabeth1004 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for all of the Christmas specials from Greece.

  • @lmiddleman
    @lmiddleman4 жыл бұрын

    No doubt about it, Coles is a smart and funny man who deserves all his notoriety.

  • @srinivasanvenkateshwara6964
    @srinivasanvenkateshwara69644 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for uploading the whole series.

  • @nathelondon3719
    @nathelondon37192 жыл бұрын

    Always happy when a red brick university beats an Oxbridge college.

  • @jamiengo2343
    @jamiengo23434 жыл бұрын

    22:07 IT WAS CARAVAGGIO!!!

  • @openmind9152
    @openmind91524 жыл бұрын

    Gee Coles and Freedland are outstanding!

  • @vamika2033

    @vamika2033

    4 жыл бұрын

    ​@kiloscott he was pretty much the only good (or contributing) member of wadham college

  • @michaelahilzensauer4994
    @michaelahilzensauer49944 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the upload!

  • @viviennedickinson268
    @viviennedickinson2684 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for taking the trouble to upload all these. I really enjoyed them. Leeds were excellent, especially Gee and the lovely Rev Coles.

  • @AlanHope2013

    @AlanHope2013

    2 жыл бұрын

    You do of course realise the oploader gets paid money for all of those 26K views (at this moment) without having to pay a penny for the trouble? This show was on public TV, put online by the BBC, and used by the uploader to make money for him/herself. Not exactly the most charitable act. KZread needs to do something about that anomaly.

  • @lirazel6414
    @lirazel64144 жыл бұрын

    Another in the chorus of thanks. These were a highlight of my Christmas.

  • @helenswan705
    @helenswan7054 жыл бұрын

    Very much appreciate all the uploads! I do like Clements' clothes - though I know this is irrelevant

  • @MrExEssex
    @MrExEssex4 жыл бұрын

    6:29 CH lives on. Long may he do so!

  • @walkingbassline
    @walkingbassline4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @ShaktiShetty
    @ShaktiShetty4 жыл бұрын

    Holy Gee! What a performance!

  • @Ozrichead
    @Ozrichead4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much for uploading these, much appreciated.

  • @susyward6978
    @susyward69784 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant. What a brain box mr Gee

  • @heliotropezzz333

    @heliotropezzz333

    4 жыл бұрын

    Gee had science sewn up. Coles had arts and humanities sewn up - a great and powerful combination.

  • @mwhite1005
    @mwhite10054 жыл бұрын

    365 total points! Dang.

  • @sunway1374
    @sunway13744 жыл бұрын

    Causus Belli - I learned that one from watching Seinfeld.

  • @AH-te5gs

    @AH-te5gs

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's casus, not causus.

  • @mikeyteee95
    @mikeyteee954 жыл бұрын

    15:31 definite conferring there, probably saying "who composed the nutcracker?". How did they miss that?!

  • @chelsiewei1232
    @chelsiewei1232 Жыл бұрын

    Daniel Dennett is still alive and is a phil prof at my college.

  • @raysutton2310
    @raysutton23104 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, says it all really! After all these years I still can't listen to the intro without expecting to hear the name Bamber Gascoigne. However I can't think of a more suitable successor who's not currently dead.

  • @raysutton2310

    @raysutton2310

    4 жыл бұрын

    Afterthought, Don't thing I've ever seen an Open University Alumni team in one of these xmas shin-digs.

  • @bayadere8308

    @bayadere8308

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@raysutton2310 Possibly because OU students tended to be mature and if you managed to find a team now, they'd probably all be their dotage.

  • @Ogma3bandcamp
    @Ogma3bandcamp4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @augustoandrade2295
    @augustoandrade22954 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the subtitles. Will you keep uploading the students' competition with subs?

  • @dreamingofpaxman

    @dreamingofpaxman

    4 жыл бұрын

    I won't be uploading the student series, but I did ask Dave Garda if he might consider adding them to his uploads.

  • @paulmichaelconnell495
    @paulmichaelconnell4954 жыл бұрын

    The V&A 'Three Graces' is co-owned by the National Gallery of Scotland

  • @castelodeossos3947
    @castelodeossos39472 жыл бұрын

    Funny how I seldom can answer any questions, but nearly always those they can't answer. For example, the quotation by Christopher Hitchens, the picture of Ruskin, his criticism of Canaletto, and Francis Bacon on solitude.

  • @kevincollier4546
    @kevincollier45464 жыл бұрын

    I'll take Mosey's smile and Gee's brain, thank you very much :)

  • @willywonka7812
    @willywonka78123 жыл бұрын

    I guessed that black tulip one. I'm good at guessing but that was my best guess yet :D

  • @GLASBE
    @GLASBE4 жыл бұрын

    Merry Caravaggio, everyone!

  • @martinstent5339
    @martinstent53394 жыл бұрын

    Paxman said goodbye in the reverse order! He generally (always?) says goodbye to the losers first. This time he said goodbye to the winners first. On purpose or just a slip?

  • @goldsmithfire
    @goldsmithfire Жыл бұрын

    It is always hard to see the audience clapping in the end.

  • @klaythoring1326
    @klaythoring13264 жыл бұрын

    En Kefalitis? En Sephalitis, Solomon. So weird.

  • @Kkidzz
    @Kkidzz4 жыл бұрын

    Gang of Four FTW

  • @enlisty
    @enlisty Жыл бұрын

    Allen is so handsome

  • @fracturedopal
    @fracturedopal4 жыл бұрын

    I am Timothy Allen

  • @richardwebb2348
    @richardwebb23484 жыл бұрын

    I would like to see a US version of the Christmas challenge with Trump (Bachelor of Science degree in Economics, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, 1968), and 3 GOP senators/White House staff (who would never get to answer) as one of the teams - the team captain would likely have the 'best answers'!

  • @AlanHope2013
    @AlanHope20132 жыл бұрын

    I would have questioned the wisdom of having a snapper on the team, but as the guy himself admits, he brought absolutely nothing to the picnic, less even than the pop star vicar, so I guess that says it all. Not even name recognition, I would suspect.

  • @123Coffs
    @123Coffs4 жыл бұрын

    This show is too easy! I get every question correct!

  • @chaosbynature
    @chaosbynature4 жыл бұрын

    czech republic is incorrect, it is Czechia

  • @n0nchalanc3

    @n0nchalanc3

    4 жыл бұрын

    No its not. Czechia the short name, Czech Republic is the long name. It's the same as calling France, the French Republic

  • @chaosbynature

    @chaosbynature

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@n0nchalanc3 watch this, i am going to concede to you www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36048186 you're right. i am not going to as far as apologise, but thank you instead. we have just made youtube comment history. no name-calling, no nasty arguments. you are neil, i am buzz. one small step for a man, one massive fucken leap for rationality.

  • @chaosbynature

    @chaosbynature

    4 жыл бұрын

    i'm not going to go as far as to apologise.

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