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[AmandaJR]

Talk about making a person feel inadequate!

Mastermind - not so bad and get a fair few of the general knowledge.
University Challenge - happy if I get more than half a dozen right and most of the questions require questions!

Sandwiched in between is Only Connect...

 

[Deleted member 23270]

I can't stand that woman, just tries too hard to be clever.

 

[AmandaJR]

I can't stand that woman, just tries too hard to be clever.

Agreed. Her closing comments are quite ridiculous!

 

[AmandaJR]

Oh but I can do the missing vowels!

 

[Robster59]

I can't stand that woman, just tries too hard to be clever.

Maybe, but I have to say does it for me. Attractive, intelligent and likes a pint.

 

[GG26]

Maybe, but I have to say does it for me. Attractive, intelligent and likes a pint.

She's also a winner on the European Poker Tour

 

[Wolf]

My Mrs loves only Connect, im normally pretty good at wall round, get the odd connection round questuin right but the presenter really gets in my tits and is about as funny as a punch to the kidneys.

 

[rudebhoy]

One of life's great pleasures is when you get a question right on UC which the teams can't get. Keilder, Kelso and Massive Attack for me last night

 

[Deleted member 23270]

Maybe, but I have to say does it for me. Attractive, intelligent and likes a pint.

Likes a pint...... ????

 

[Doon frae Troon]

I surprised myself on University Challenge last night, actually got about 5 answers.
Mastermind GK usually ok on but it sometimes surprises me how many clever people do not know basic general knowledge stuff, especially geography.
I like Only Connect but the wall can sometimes be pretty obscure.

As they say all questions are easy if you know the answer.

 

[ADB]

Talk about making a person feel inadequate!

Mastermind - not so bad and get a fair few of the general knowledge.
University Challenge - happy if I get more than half a dozen right and most of the questions require questions!

Sandwiched in between is Only Connect...

I love these, especially OC, really gives your brain a workout and has plenty of 'shout at the TV' moments in our household. Good to have an antidiote to reality TV and endless repeats of Place in the Sun...and i'm sorry Victoria Coren Mitchell is amazing - intelligent, funny and the perfect host for that show.

 

[Liverbirdie]

Have you ever tried doing one of the crosswords in the Saturday times, I think it's called the insider or something.

Me and the missus regularly finish the ordinary large crossword, or have less than 6 left. We dont do the cryptic, but it has a small one on the next page over - even with the answers it hard to even fathom how to do it, or work out how the answers fit the questions. Stephen Fry on steroids would struggle.

 

[Hobbit]

Have you ever tried doing one of the crosswords in the Saturday times, I think it's called the insider or something.

Me and the missus regularly finish the ordinary large crossword, or have less than 6 left. We dont do the cryptic, but it has a small one on the next page over - even with the answers it hard to even fathom how to do it, or work out how the answers fit the questions. Stephen Fry on steroids would struggle.

Wuss!

The mother-in-law used to translate it into Latin, work out the answers in Latin then translate it back into English so that it would fit in the matrix. You could give her a complex maths equation, and by the time you'd finished writing the question down she had the answer, well, almost.

She was the most amazingly intelligent person I've ever met by some margin. All coupled to a wicked sense of humour. Miss her dearly - great friend.

 

[Liverbirdie]

Wuss!

The mother-in-law used to translate it into Latin, work out the answers in Latin then translate it back into English so that it would fit in the matrix. You could give her a complex maths equation, and by the time you'd finished writing the question down she had the answer, well, almost.

She was the most amazingly intelligent person I've ever met by some margin. All coupled to a wicked sense of humour. Miss her dearly - great friend.

Ha, only Latin?

I translate it into Coptic Egyptian backslang, then into early Akkadian.

Honestly, its the hardest thing I've ever seen, and its different every week. You have to subtract letters and all sorts.

 

[Hobbit]

Ha, only Latin?

I translate it into Coptic Egyptian backslang, then into early Akkadian.

Honestly, its the hardest thing I've ever seen, and its different every week. You have to subtract letters and all sorts.

My dad used to do the cryptic one in the Sunday Express that only had 4 squares blacked out. You had to work out which squares had to be blacked out. Used to take him most of the day but he cracked it most weeks. He tried to educate me... waste of time.

 

[Liverbirdie]

My dad used to do the cryptic one in the Sunday Express that only had 4 squares blacked out. You had to work out which squares had to be blacked out. Used to take him most of the day but he cracked it most weeks. He tried to educate me... waste of time.

That ends the nature vs nurture debate then, Bri.

I dont "get" cryptic, either.

 

[Blue in Munich]

My dad used to do the cryptic one in the Sunday Express that only had 4 squares blacked out. You had to work out which squares had to be blacked out. Used to take him most of the day but he cracked it most weeks. He tried to educate me... waste of time.

The skeleton iirc, my Dad used to do it as well. He'd usually complete the Telegraph crossword, think I managed it twice in my life.

The small Telegraph crossword used to make the first two clues read as something else as a check that you had them right, don't know if it still does. I'll give you the one I remember & let you ponder for a bit; Zeal (6), Gastropods (6)...

Pete, noticed you don't get cryptic so for you, the clue is Tommy Smith (4, 2, 5), same answer...