He's an imposter. There's no red shirt.

@@hampshirewanderer5078 That's the main thing I was thinking. That Tom Scott just looks out of place without his red shirt.

You can tell he's a pub quizzer. Not just the answers but the way he consults his team and praises them for good guesses.

@@johnnye87 He's been on some similar TV shows way back in the early 2000s, so he has some experience.

@@quinnobi42 he was on Only Connect series 3 in 2010!

.. and nailed it.

You can tell that Tom is the only one that has experience being in front of a camera. He is relaxed and engaging while the others are nervous wrecks. It is both adorable and painful to watch.

Tom even took part in University Challenge when he was younger. Dudes smart af

I know he was on Only Connect... Haven't seen his UC episode.. do share a link if avl on KZfaq

@@chitraagarwal8259 he has his own game show on youtube called "lateral with tom scott" he has years of experience in quiz shows

Because they're not allowed to say "KZfaqr"

@@frankthetank2550 I think they are but they try to make it sound more professional

He felt flattered to be called a broadcaster and presenter. Because that term is normally for journalists doing serious news reporting on respectable tv studios.

@@hermanjacobs4425 he has done both though, iirc

And then one of the questions directly referred to something he covered in a Citation Needed episode. One definitely prepared him for the other.

I was able to get that question from the memes, but I've never even seen the movie!

Paxman did deliver the quote in a more deadpan tone of voice than in the original I think they missed it. But watching their puzzlement is almost as funny as the original.

I think their reactions as Paxman revealed the answer shows that the tone of voice used to deliver a quote is as important as the quote itself sometimes! He was so serious that it seems like they were expecting the movie to be some sort of political drama.

That was one of 3 questions I got correct 😂

"Splitters"!

The location of the Straits Settlements too! Kind was right about Shostakovich being much later, she just didn't realize how early Tchaikovsky was haha

I think the Caesar one was the biggest miss. As soon as the date is given I think just saying Julius Caesar as a guess will get you there 50% of the time.

Placing the Ganges in Western India and Pakistan, as well (sorry, Tom!)

Plus not pinpointing that Gregor Mendel worked with peas, especially after giving the Latin name _Pisum sativum_ for the plant, and not at least _guessing_ George Orwell for the “English author in a work of 1941…”

Don't forget the LED

BOXES OF KNIVES!!!

UC needs a host of the same seriousness and drive of Paxman. Not sure if it can happen.

Ark of truth forehead symbol challenge? Today they made it smaller so the chicken penis could it the symbol 😂

It was a shame, but he didn't look or sound well during the last series.

If you play at 1.25x speed he sounds like his younger self

And the answers!

haha same here :D

Oh yep, that's what was odd about this. Even on Only Connect, he wore a red shirt haha

She’s a theoretical physicist that’s why

Well, physicists usually don't spend a meaningful part of their career looking at circuit diagrams.

As a working theoretical physicist I can tell you that electrical symbols are as relevant to our work as differential equations are to a linguist. I happen to know the symbols, but not because of my physics background but because I personally have electronics as a hobby.

Not really, they missed tons of obvious ones.

eh, well he does research for his videos and interviews with many experts so that's something

@@iamthinking2252_ in a way he has proabably a wider range of relatively deep knowledge than the absolute experts. Or maybe not.

I used to be on my university's Quizbowl team and our best players were almost always the generalists rather than the specialists. In games where literally anything could be asked, you have a much better chance of getting one of the starting questions right is you know the basics of a lot, and then the specialists can shine in the bonus rounds!

Note that many of them have relatively weak backgrounds: geology, English, education, sociology, … Linguistics and physics are much tougher and therefore much better predictors of high IQ.

Chapman’s performance on electronics symbols was a disappointment.

Exactly, went from twitter to the link and then directly here

You're very much welcome

@@mcmadow Who posted it on Twitter (just out of interest) 😀

@@tybaltmacbeth Tom Scott

@@2tri749 he posted the iplayer link, not the link of this video

haha

Here in America, the ads pay for the shows. They don’t need that gimmick in Britain.

"Help! Help! I'm being repressed" XD

it's a sad indictment of the British education system that even the graduates don't know Monty Python.

But which is genuinely more useful? Which can boost an individual higher?

I'd consider myself a skilled researcher with a number of different fields that I try to keep a competent knowledge in. I knew practically none of these questions given in the show (in some small part to my personal horror, I will unfortunately admit). Part of this is because my brain doesn't hold traditionally factual things like these very well unless they contribute to a "bigger picture" explaining the shape underneath a field or several fields. A benefit is that I'm able to have the "brain space" to intuitively polymath-shuttle concepts from one field to another, the downside is that I am quite horrid indeed at these types of challenges (especially if you're asking for process names, etc. Now, ask me the extended effects of a system given certain starting conditions, and I'll avenge myself on that question with delighted aplomb). Being an academic does require some general education, but if our best professors were just fact-memorizing, then I would find myself worried. One potential confounding factor is that I'm of an American background, so the divergence between what's considered academic "common knowledge" here and over the pond is likely to be higher, I'd reckon. (and a small final side note -- pulling out my researchy side here -- this program certainly did not demonstrate that advanced academic prowess does not often result in broad, commonly known, general knowledge. To first show this is true, you need to either change your statement to an appropriately weak one "does not often" >>> "may not always" / "might not" / "does not always", or get a large sample size, appropriately set some sort of metric definition for "often" (or even a range, who knows! You can always report at a table at the end of some paper), then increase your sample size to be much more significant. Then define a metric for what is considered "broad, commonly known, general knowledge", define and find either one or two good control groups (maybe a "fact finders/fact memorizers group" for a more contrastive bent to the study, and of course a well and appropriately recruited control group for the general population), run all those guys, gals, nonbinary people, and people who are otherwise through said metric, and the at the end report your Student's t test results vs. your control from the general standard population with respect to any metric(s), and there you should have your answer as to whether or not there is appropriately sufficient evidence to support the thesis statement. If anything, I have hopes that this side note demonstrates that there is so much more to academic pursuit than simple/rote fact-finding and memorization, as beautiful as those things are. To truly understand any tiny sliver of the field for I think any particular practice, in general, takes a lifetime, and I think that is a truly valid and beautiful pursuit for any particular given person

@@fernbear3950 words words words words words

Don't broad, commonly known and general mean the same thing? Unnecessary words?

Seriously. That pathetic tram and their combined 500 years on earth performed abysmally

of course he did, he has a video on it

Help an ignorant spectator out - what’s it about and which video was it?

@@vantilate it was titled Why My Teenage Code Was Terrible: Sorting Algorithms and Big O Notation

@@TheCheesyNachos im still quite surprised that he got the answer before the question had finished on that one. Jeremy could have asked anything.

@@tybaltmacbeth bubble & heap were the first two iirc. While I'd not have been as quick on the draw as Tom, I struggle to think of anything else that would fit.

You're welcome Steve

😅 I wish I was that amazing. But the subtitles are automatically generated by KZfaq (I just briefly went through them and made small corrections).

@@tybaltmacbeth ah - tbh at least you went through some effort, plus seeing the "autogenerated captions" for me personally is well not good cos how KZfaq displays autogenerated captions.

Something about this is just pleasant to watch

Crossing the bridge theme?

@@marka2520 Indiana Jones 3 ?

🤣 Yup. It seemed like nobody else wanted to upload it, so I took the duties.

Yup, as a foreign resident myself I have resorted to watching the show via VPN and on KZfaq in the past. I just wanted to help people out who arent in the UK with no access to IPlayer.

@@tybaltmacbeth Much appreciated, thanks.

Parkinson’s + age.

I was jsut about to say the same. I didnt realise he has parkinsons. Looked it up and interestingly, a Dr diagnosed him after seeing him be less exuberant than normal on University Challenge.

I know, it makes it a little hard to watch! He still seems pretty sharp mind,

lol yes

I'm glad it inspired you :)

I wouldn't go that far, the performance was pretty poor.

Patience, young padawan

I was shocked when they didnt get October Revolution but sometimes contestants blank and scare to buzz in because of the pressure.

@@tybaltmacbeth Thank you for these uploads. Gives Dave Garda a rest!

@@lucylou5766 Welcome. I hope he is enjoying his break.

I know that the Christmas Specials have easier questions, but these were really a lot easier than the usual UC standard! I have been scoring myself recently on UC. I got 120 here which is my highest score ever

@@martinstent5339 “…these were really a lot easier than the usual UC standard” I thought so, too. These were Jeopardy-level questions, which are much easier than the UC ones.

They are! Typically in the Christmas edition since the contestants are no longer studying in academia they are expected to know less so the questions are easier than the original series.

Yes I will. The semi-finals will take place on Wednesday/Thursday.

@@tybaltmacbeth Thank you

Indeed, I wish so too

He did Only Connect ages and ages ago. He was still wearing a red shirt tho

ikr :)

Hope I remember to watch the semi finals

The questions are normally easier on the Christmas Edition as the celebrities generally know less than the students on the show.