University 'not so' challenging

[Miss Demeanour]

How on earth is this front page news.....

Hardly anybody watches the programme - this is where you all get the opportunity to chastise me and confirm that you are all avid viewers  -

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s1i48814

The shows host, Jeremy Paxo, is said to be furious. He thought it strange that a chemistry student was able to answer so many questions about tax returns. Now he knows why.

Runner's up Northern Provincial University want a rematch, despite not actually scoring any points in the final. Their captain, Doug Ringpiece, spoke from the Hezbollah students' union bar "We lost, but they cheated. We want a rematch. We'd like another day out all expenses paid. We are students you know."

A meeting is being held to decide what action to take.

 

[Snoopy]

I do watch it from time to time but not regularly.
It gets sooooooooo boring when you know 95% of the answers doncha know 

[Uncle Mort]

Of course we all watch it. One of the best programmes on TV.


As to chastising you ~ yes please

[Miss Demeanour]

Don't you know it - you all bloody watch it - of course you do 

Your starter for 10

A game-show host has placed a car behind one of three doors. There is a goat behind each of the other doors. "First you point toward a door," he says. "Then I'll open one of the other doors to reveal a goat. After I've shown you the goat, you make your final choice whether to stick with your initial choice of doors, or to switch to the remaining door. You win whatever is behind the door." You begin by pointing to door number 1. The host shows you that door number 3 has a goat. What should you do (assuming you want the best odds of winning the car)?

 Switch to door #2
 Stay with door #1
 It doesn't matter
 Punch the host in the jaw


Answers on a postcard please


I'm just off to the naughty step 

[Uncle Mort]

The old " Monty Hall" problem. 

The answer is always to switch.

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

Don't you know it - you all bloody watch it - of course you do 

Your starter for 10

A game-show host has placed a car behind one of three doors. There is a goat behind each of the other doors. "First you point toward a door," he says. "Then I'll open one of the other doors to reveal a goat. After I've shown you the goat, you make your final choice whether to stick with your initial choice of doors, or to switch to the remaining door. You win whatever is behind the door." You begin by pointing to door number 1. The host shows you that door number 3 has a goat. What should you do (assuming you want the best odds of winning the car)?

 Switch to door #2
 Stay with door #1
 It doesn't matter
 Punch the host in the jaw


Answers on a postcard please


I'm just off to the naughty step 

  Well,  I'll have a 'B' Bob.

[Nick]

I find this thread utterly baffling 

[Miss Demeanour]

My work here is done 

[Uncle Mort]

[Miss Demeanour]

Here are some of the questions contestants managed to answer correctly in the final.

Q: What everyday concept did Iris Murdoch describe as "... the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real"?

A: Love (in the essay The Sublime And The Good, 1959)
Alternative answer - eh 

Q: An unattested language from which a group of attested languages, in this case those of the Germanic, Slavic, Romance and other families, are thought to be historically derived, for what do the letters P.I.E. stand?

A: Proto-Indo-European
Alternative answer - pastry ingedients encased D'oh !!!!

Q: If a tap leaks a millilitre of water every second, how many 10-litre buckets will it fill completely in a day?

A: Eight (8.64)
Alternative answer - the plumber will have fixed it by lunchtime

Q: Which of Shakespeare's plays is the only one to be set in Vienna and concerns the city's Duke adopting a disguise in order to observe the actions of his subjects, including his deputy Angelo?

A: Measure for Measure
Alternative answer - CSi Vienna

Q: Which French obstetrician, who died in 1957, gave his name to a method of childbirth involving exercises and breathing control designed to give pain relief without drugs?

A: Fernand Lamaze (the Lamaze Technique)
Alternative answer - who the feck cares - it doesn't feckin work  - therefore it doesn't exist - nor does he

[Nick]

My work here is done