I enjoy a bit of a quiz.<\/p>\n
Monday evenings tend to have a lump of frenetic mental energy from 8-9pm. Only Connect followed by I can usually get a few (maybe ten or more) UC ‘starter’ questions, and do fairly well on the follow-on questions.<\/p>\n But Only Connect has a very healthy record of making me feel inadequate. Sometimes I don’t even understand the questions.<\/p>\n While UC can leave me feeling a bit smug at times, Only Connect just leaves me frustrated.<\/p>\n *pauses to consider how I seem to be lining myself up for a part in The Detectorists*<\/p>\n There was just a question on Only Connect where the answer was ‘Airport Terminals’ and frankly I didn’t see that answer coming.<\/p>\n Must have been foggy, obv.<\/p>\n Anyway, that Victoria Coren Mitchell is a bit of a bright smartypants.<\/p>\n I’ve just googled her. Professional poker player, no less.<\/p>\n Roll on University Challenge. At least then I can get some self-esteem back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I enjoy a bit of a quiz. Monday evenings tend to have a lump of frenetic mental energy from 8-9pm. Only Connect followed by Universally Challenged<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Universally Challenged<\/del> University Challenge.<\/p>\n