Clearest Sign Of A Misspent Undergraduate Life on University Challenge

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PAXMAN: "Doctor Gordon Freeman-"
PHYSICS GEEK: "Half-Life!!"
PAXMAN: "Correct!"

Comments

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

At least the answer wasn't "Duke Nuke'em" :-)

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

To be fair I knew that too despite never having played Half-Life - possibly misspent youth is sexually transmitted.

[gaspode.livejournal.com]

Quite possibly mu OH also knew - and she's not played HL either lol..

[multiclassgeek.livejournal.com]

You'd never get that sort of interruption in QLL, just in case it was a trick.

But it's not necessarily misspent, as the physicist might have been minoring as a coder, or doing a dissertation on the Half-Life physics engine... And I'd argue that HL is a better time investment than WoW or EQ2...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I know the protagonist of half-life: what I don't know is how much an average person knows about half-life, and hence whether the most likely question is "Which famous computer game featured Gordon Freeman blah blah blah blah blah aliens blah" or "Gordon Freeman, star of Half-Life, was inspired by which cousin of game designer blah..."...

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

For a University Challenge level question I don't think there could be much doubt that the answer is Half-Life - it's a gamble, but only a tiny one, and it's in the nature of the game that you have to take those gambles if you're playing competent opposition.