Was University Challenge Cancelled Last Night ?

[jessiedog]

As above

[Ken4155]

No

[Ken4155]

It was on after Nigella.

[jessiedog]

Bother, that means my recording failed

[Bazile]

Looks like your machine had a bit of a moment ,after Nigella

[lady-janine]

I missed that then. Bother.

[roopower]

If you can get I player, it's worth watching. I'm annoyed at the usual monday schedule ow, Nigella slap bang in the middle of the quizzes!

[shoota]

Nigella, slap and bang all in the same sentence has got me thinking...

[ichkeria]

Yes it isn’t going to get me watching her.
I was caught out a couple of weeks ago by this bit of sneakiness

[Prudie]

I also find sticking nigella in the middle of 3 quiz programmes highly irritating - by the way mastermind was cancelled, they put the One Show on so BJ could have BBC1 slot at 7pm.

[jim360]

I was miffed at Mastermind being postponed, I know two of the people on in that episode and wanted to see how they got on :(

[jessiedog]

Many thanks, will watch it on iplayer and double check next week that the recorder is obeying me

[Hopkirk]

Naughty Shoota

[Peter Pedant]

no - yes
it was on
and quite close- twenty points between them

who was born in Cairo and the first leddy FRS....
barp Dorothy Hodgkin !

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin had a sister Elisabeth Crowfoot who did textiles on 'my' site in Egypt 1978. They and three others were brought up in Cairo and none spoke a word of arabic ! Stunning. My mother British Raj Bombay spoke hindi and urdu - and Elisabeth never said in our desert fastness, "O I say my sister has a nobel prize ! haw haw haw!" (*)
the past is a different country

(*) the parents had an open marriage - god knows what the servants thought in 1910 ( and did the horses bolt)

[jim360]

At the risk of even more name-dropping, I've met the players on the Edinburgh team, even helping to teach one of them. It was kind of frustrating when nobody was getting the maths question about hyperbolic functions and I was screaming "come on Clarke, I even taught you that!" She got it in the end though :)

[Peter Pedant]

yeah that one
exponential

Pax just said a sum of a sine and a cos - and not cos x + isin x
which made me hesitate....

I thoght the Greek word for a dog in a monkey name was cynomolgus but he came out wiv something else

Has anyone noticed hero dog Cuno is the gk word for dog - kunos ?