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 KZhead, 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.
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.
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 🐨🌷
Finally it's a Caravaggio
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.
@@heliotropezzz333 Indeed, and one of those "Caravaggios" (not!) was a canal scene... bit of a giveway, there!
@@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.
Helen Trope is Caravaggio’s style of painting distinctive and if so how?
@@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.
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.
Thanks very much for taking the time to upload the Christmas Special rounds.
... and that is why the recovering paleontologist is a senior editor of Nature! :P Good job, sir!
Much appreciated the series, thank you.
Thanks for the upload. Leeds was very impressive over all 3 of their appearances
Well, that was fun. Here. Have some more praise for the uploads - you're certainly deserving of all of it. Happy 2020!
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!
Thanks for uploading this special. Wow! What a round!
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.
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.
For ten points, which non-Russell Group University has won the competition twice?
Celestial Teapot 🤔. All I can think of is Open University, without consulting the official records again.
Always happy when a red brick university beats an Oxbridge college.
Enjoyed these...thanks so much for posting!
Thanks for uploading the whole series.
Thank you for all of the Christmas specials from Greece.
Thanks for doing this. Happy new year.
Greetings from Canada! I've really enjoyed this series, and I thank you very much for uploading it.
No doubt about it, Coles is a smart and funny man who deserves all his notoriety.
Gee that was exciting! " you can still catch up" ......lol. No you can't.
But it sure lit a (small) fire under them for a time!
15:30 Probably because they're behind, Paxman shamelessly makes no mention of McElvoy's conferring with Mosey on this starter question.
Thank you for the upload!
22:07 IT WAS CARAVAGGIO!!!
Another in the chorus of thanks. These were a highlight of my Christmas.
Thank you!
Very much appreciate all the uploads! I do like Clements' clothes - though I know this is irrelevant
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.
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. KZhead needs to do something about that anomaly.
Gee Coles and Freedland are outstanding!
@kiloscott he was pretty much the only good (or contributing) member of wadham college
Holy Gee! What a performance!
6:29 CH lives on. Long may he do so!
Brilliant. What a brain box mr Gee
Gee had science sewn up. Coles had arts and humanities sewn up - a great and powerful combination.
Thanks!
365 total points! Dang.
Thank you very much for uploading these, much appreciated.
I'll take Mosey's smile and Gee's brain, thank you very much :)
Thank you for the subtitles. Will you keep uploading the students' competition with subs?
I won't be uploading the student series, but I did ask Dave Garda if he might consider adding them to his uploads.
Causus Belli - I learned that one from watching Seinfeld.
It's casus, not causus.
I guessed that black tulip one. I'm good at guessing but that was my best guess yet :D
15:31 definite conferring there, probably saying "who composed the nutcracker?". How did they miss that?!
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.
Afterthought, Don't thing I've ever seen an Open University Alumni team in one of these xmas shin-digs.
@@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.
Merry Caravaggio, everyone!
The V&A 'Three Graces' is co-owned by the National Gallery of Scotland
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.
Daniel Dennett is still alive and is a phil prof at my college.
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?
It is always hard to see the audience clapping in the end.
Gang of Four FTW
Allen is so handsome
I am Timothy Allen
En Kefalitis? En Sephalitis, Solomon. So weird.
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'!
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.
This show is too easy! I get every question correct!
czech republic is incorrect, it is Czechia
No its not. Czechia the short name, Czech Republic is the long name. It's the same as calling France, the French Republic
@@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.
i'm not going to go as far as to apologise.