This match was obviously more one-sided than our Manchester match but it was a good game and it was very nice playing against Southampton, so well done to them! I think everyone on our team did very well, and I'm glad I got some nice buzzes. Missing Russell was unfortunate, and I think I was thrown off by the fact that I thought there were many rivers called Stour but couldn't actually place any of them. The picture round on women who should have won Nobels was definitely nice, although I remember being able to mostly guess which ones would come up. The Episcopalian/Episcopal mix up was also unfortunate. Anyway, it was a great match, and the second round can only get harder from here!

"No, sorry. Pass" 😂😂 Excellent episode, and well deserved that Trinity get another bite of the cherry. Would have been a painfully premature exit for such a strong team. Picked up a few answers myself too, so happy all round

Ms Harrington getting her 'groove on' in the music round and Mr. Banergee with big grin enjoying every moment of the quiz was a high point for me!

Harrington was bopping along with that music round

Mr. Banergee is very impressive! Amol Rajan really likes and supports the people on the team! I also like the nice mix of old standard question and broader of topics. Thank you Cosmic Pumpkin for sending this out to us all over the world!

19:47 Roger clearly having fun with "Trinity Banerjee"

I think this is the first time at a repechage round where I correctly guessed which team would win based on their first round performances. Love the Trinity team and it seems like they appreciate each other very much. Their captain seems like a jolly person and the way he clutched his fist everytime Banerjee answered a starter was appreciable. Also he has a good sense of humour with the "No Sorry Pass"😂.

Well done to Trinity! They were quick on the buzzer and worked well together. Great spurt at the end by Southampton to boost their score. Enjoyable match...thanks!

25:10 Brilliant delivery😂

3:55 the laugh in the background here lmao

11:55 Amol starting to channel his Paxman there 😂

Thanks as ever for your service, especially today as one of our dogs passed away so something good to lessen my sadness 😥 . In comparison to the last two weeks, that match was a bit more like it 👍! Very impressive from the winners - very much on the competitive side of the mix but we'll have to see what happens in the dreaded Round of 16 ⚔. I did enjoy seeing Ms. Harrington's apparent head-bopping to the UC theme at the start of the episode as a more unusual highlight as well 😃.

obsessed with "I don't even know what country that is" when Russia came up. Iconic. love it

This might not be the best match of the season, but it sure is the funniest

I didn't know Trinity made it in the second round. Let's see if Henderson's amazing music skills are put to the test a second time.

The Hummel Concerto is in E-Flat Major, not E Major. Impressed she pulled that out, after not getting a Brandenburg Concerto!

Thanks a big bunch for the upload, CP! Trinity seemed almost invincible and Southampton was strangely subdued. Their captain didn't get much help from her team. They are much better than they showed, me thinks. Trinity will feature prominently in the next couple of rounds.

Thank you for Mr.CosmicPumpkin uploading the competition. I feel a little sorry Magdalen-Oxford（I graduated from）couldn't entry this year. But I'm always fond of solving hard questions. In my sense every year E14 seems the easiest in level of the questions wholly, also in this year. Actually this E15 today sounded much harder than the E14 which had several cute questions last week, especially for a natural scientist as me.

Amol Rajan is such a brilliant. A new era has begun :)

Thank you for posting.

Henderson is turning into one of my favorites contestats this season. She has the inteligence and the charisma we enjoy, without looking arrogant.

Thanks, as always, Cosmic Pumpkin. I think the result was fairly predictable but still an enjoyable match.

Cheers Pumpkin. Trinity looking very strong indeed.

so cute when Harrington started dancing to Hungarian Rhapsody at 15:55 hahaha

Banerjee is a force, very impressed

MATCH STATS BELOW *Trinity - Cambridge: 245* *Southampton: 120* *Starter Questions Stats* TRINITY - CAMBRIDGE: 120 Henderson = 2/3 {20} Banerjee = 6/6 {60} Kang = 2/2 {20} Jaksina = 2/2 {20} Starter Success Rate: 92.31% SOUTHAMPTON: 70 Harrington = 1/1 {10} Counsell = 2/2 {20} Wickermasinghe = 2/4 {20} Meredith = 2/2 {20} Starter Success Rate: 77.78% *Bonus Questions Stats* TRINITY - CAMBRIDGE: 125 Bonus Success Rate: 69.44% (25/36) SOUTHAMPTON: 50 Bonus Success Rate: 52.63% (10/19) ---------------- *2nd Chance Match Remaining* Oxford Brookes vs Open

Thanks for the upload

14:22 I'm stunned that no one recognized this piece, and moreover that out of the three famous Baroque composers, they managed to guess the two incorrect ones.

Good lord, this is far more difficult than I expected. I considered myself good enough at geography before Meredith from Southampton educated me about the Yenisei.

Thank you!!

Meredith reminds me of UC champion Warwick’s George Braid. And Rajan said ‘you did incredibly well and you’re hugely impressive’ to the loser rather than to the winner 😂 no hard feeling there. Nevertheless this is one of the funniest episode, i enjoyed it.

does anyone know how does one sit in as an audience member at one of these recordings?

21:16 Watson and Crick did not discover the DNA molecule, which was identified in the 1860s by Friedrich Miescher. Franklin photographed it, and Watson and Crick deduced its structure.

aw, i was hoping for bonus questions in entomology.

Thanks

First time watching through a series. I'd been picking up around 25-30 questions per episode in the qualifiers but only managed 12 this game. Does it get progressively harder during the series?

Kang you beautiful human being

Thanks again, CosmicPumpkin! I'm just going to say it...the losing team just never had a chance in this. The winners were far more complete, confident, and quicker on the buzzer. Not that they really needed to be quicker. I mean no disrespect to the losing team, they were very likeable, and I'm sure they will have wonderful lives. My best, in fact, to both teams, and each individual.

thx!

I didn't think rabbits and hares were specifically British mammals.

No stats?!

So many British questions 😂 painful

@8:25 "Don't even kow what country that it" How!? it's the largest on earth... stretches nearly halfway around the globe...

3:41 Henderson's got some set of eyebrows, don't she?

Amol Rajan always seems to rush in the last few minutes. It would be much fairer to all if he maintained the same pace throughout.

Thank you for the upload CosmicPumpkin. So my thoughts…I have thus far maintained a rather positive stance toward Amol Rajan's new role as a presenter. However, the latest episode breached the threshold of my silent tolerance. While I, up until now, appreciated his amiable demeanor and deemed him a suitable inheritor of the UC realm, this particular episode witnessed a lamentable deviation. Rajan appeared markedly unserious, indulging excessively in banter and permitting some egregiously incorrect responses to go unchallenged. Also, his tempo exhibited an unsettling unpredictability. Acknowledging that this marks his inaugural season and that a period of acclimatization is inevitable, all creds to him thus far. Nevertheless, these recent lapses, notably in the aforementioned episode, have stirred a profound sense of disquiet within me. I ardently yearn for a restoration of rigor within the University Challenge milieu, especially as the competition goes on and stakes continue to rise.

After the effortless charm and charisma of Jeremy Paxman, this obnoxious Rajan fellow is almost painful to watch. Like watching the wee woman from the Krankies playing Hamlet. RIP UC>

UC Please get a new host.