UNIVERSITY Challenge viewers have all had the same complaint about an ‘excruciating’ round in the latest episode.
The quarter-finals of the BBC show continued on Monday night and saw King’s College London take on Emmanuel College Cambridge.
One of the rounds was picture based and host Jeremy Paxman explained: “For your picture starter you’re going to see three countries marked on maps.
“Each one has a tricolour flag, you need to work out the fourth country whose flag can be made by taking colours from the other three as indicated by arrows in the diagram.”
The first picture with flags appeared and seemed to stump the teams as well as viewers, with Emmanuel eventually buzzing only to get it wrong.
King’s College then had a guess but were also incorrect however, they answered following question correctly and were given more questions on the subject to gain more points.
One involved the flags of Estonia, Yemen and Ivory Coast with the answer being that one of their colours then made up the flag of Armenia.
At one point, one of the players said: “This is very difficult” and viewers agreed.
One wrote: “these flag questions are a one way ticket to a migraine #UniversityChallenge.”
Another added: “Stupid flags round is the worst University Challenge round ever.”
A third tweeted alongside a man with a long beard: “I was clean shaven when the flag questions started #UniversityChallenge.”
Meanwhile a fellow viewer wrote: “#UniversityChallenge is never going to repeat that #FunWithFlags round, is it? Excruciating, and took up a huge chuck of time, Paxman was unbelievably patient.”
Another joked: “Hope the flag setter has been fired. #UniversityChallenge.”
In the end, Emmanuel beat King’s College by just five points, scoring 85 to their rivals’ 80.
University Challenge airs Mondays on BBC Two and is available on BBC iPlayer.
