Wayfarers v Builders Only Connect

Hello and welcome to the quiz with more fiendish links than

The Joker, The Riddler and Catwoman linking arms to sing Auld Lang Syne,

although what a wonderful sound that would be.

No auld acquaintance shall be forgot here at Only Connect

due to our incomprehensible rules, by which a team can

lose a match and still not be knocked out of the competition.

Why do they come back for more of this hell?

Surely anybody normal would just go home.

Let's meet the teams.

On my right, Barbara Thompson,

a cricket fan with a BA from the Open University,

whose recent interest in genealogy has revealed

that she is distantly related to Anthony Eden.

Matt Beatson, an IT consultant

and biology graduate who enjoys pounding his Malawian bongos.

And their Captain Gerard Mackay, a maths graduate who was

raised in a pub and whose face has appeared on a Belgian news report.

United by a willingness to wander, they are the Wayfarers.

Gerard, you won your first heat against the Bookworms,

but lost to the String Section.

What's been the highlight of your Only Connect experience so far?

Oh, so many to choose from,

but apart from the missing vowels rounds,

I'd say it's all been one long highlight.

That's the spirit. Let's see if that continues tonight.

You will be facing, on my left...

Robin Whelan, a property manager

and former sound engineer who has stayed awake for 40 hours

and filed his last two tax returns with only a minute to spare.

Max Espensen,

a chemistry PhD with an interest in video gaming who spent New Year's Eve

in a Norwegian bus station.

And their captain Ian Orriss,

an archaeology graduate who once convinced a group of

American tourists that they couldn't photograph the moon

without a special licence.

United by a soft spot for structures, they are the Builders.

Ian, you lost your first game to the Scientists,

then you beat the Road Trippers.

How have you been preparing for tonight's match?

Well, we went off and did a pub quiz and we stayed quizzing

until we got kicked out of the pub.

How did you do in the pub quiz?

Erm, we came second to the team we'd beat in the previous round.

Really? Almost literally a busman's holiday.

-A builder's holiday in the pub.

-Indeed.

Well, let's see how you do in tonight's quiz.

Because both these teams have lost a match each, the loser tonight will be

going home, but the winners continue on their way in the competition.

You won the toss, Builders, you'll be going first.

-Please choose an Egyptian hieroglyph.

-Two Reeds, please.

Two Reeds, OK.

What is the connection between these apparently random picture clues?

Here's the first.

THEY WHISPER

Patsy Kensit.

Next, please.

Another one, please.

-Fourth one?

-Fourth one, yes, please.

Stereotypes?

Three seconds.

Oh, I'm afraid you're out of time. It went to zero.

So, Wayfarers, you have the chance of a bonus point.

-Nope, nothing.

-What do you recognise over there?

-I think they're all...

-Kensit, maybe Transit, they all end in -sit.

Are they election, sort of, stereotypes -

like working woman or full-time mother?

That's what it is, they are categories beloved

of everybody's favourite two types of people, politicians and marketers.

We're looking at Holby City woman, that's Patsy Kensit in Holby City,

Mondeo man, soccer mum,

that was borrowed from America in the 2005 election and,

of course, white van man.

Pseudo-demographic categories used to target particular people,

so, well spotted, Robert, but too late, I'm afraid.

-Wayfarers, your chance to choose.

-Erm, Twisted Flax, please.

Twisted Flax. What is the connection between these clues?

Here's the first.

THEY WHISPER

-Any idea?

-No.

Er, next, please.

-They look like names combined, don't they?

-Some sort of stereotype.

Er, next, please.

No. Next, please.

-It's a sort of...

-Yeah, OK.

BELL

We think they are those countries', sort of, name for an everyman.

That's exactly what it is.

In this country, we would say, I think, Joe Bloggs.

Everyman placeholder names in Sweden, Germany, Netherlands and Australia.

Well done.

-Back to you, Builders, to choose a question.

-Lion, please.

-Lion.

It's the music question. You're going to hear the clues.

They have something in common, but what? Here's the first.

AEROSMITH GUITAR RIFF

With Aerosmith or by themselves?

It's either Run-DMC or Aerosmith, Walk This Way.

-Take another one?

-Another one. Next, please.

# I can catch the moon in my hand

# Don't you know who I am?

-# Remember my name... #

-Fame.

-# I'm going to live... #

-Next, please.

# Her voice is echoed in my mind

# I count the days till she is mine... #

-I don't know. Take another one?

-Yeah.

-Fourth one, please.

# We don't need no education... #

-Another Brick In The Wall. It's...

-Pink Floyd.

-They're all... They're all songs...

-BELL

All songs with brackets around words.

I'm afraid they are not.

It's not the connection I'm looking for.

I'm looking to see if that's another connection, but it isn't.

Can't accept it, so bonus chance for you, Wayfarers.

We think they might be the title tracks of films.

That's not it either.

The second one, Fame, "I want to live forever," that is

the title track of the film Fame. No, it's much simpler than that -

all set in a school. Songs about being at school.

Walk This Way, about "a high school loser never made it with a lady,"

he has a memorable encounter in the changing rooms, as I remember.

Fame, obviously the high school for the performing arts.

What I Go To School For, that's the third one, Busted,

a pupil has a, sort of, crush on his teacher.

No brackets in that one, that's your problem there, Robin.

And Another Brick In The Wall, of course, Pink Floyd

and their guest vocals from the children at Islington Green School.

All set in a school.

So, no bonus point, Wayfarers, but you do get a choice.

-Which would you like?

-I'll try Eye of Horus, please.

-The Eye of Horus.

What is the connection between these clues? Here's the first.

THEY WHISPER

Next. Next, please.

Does that mean anything to you?

No. Next, please.

They're all mistakenly called that by somebody. No, Rodney.

-They're all misnamed by the second person, are they?

-Could be, yeah.

BELL

I'm going to need to hear something specific.

Oh, cos we were just going to say the second person

misnames the first person.

-Famously.

-I'm going to give you another go.

-Er...

Well, they haven't all called them Dave, have they?

They have all been called Dave! Very well done.

The thing about Cesar Azpilicueta is his name is

so obviously difficult looking at it, you can

just guess he's called the wrong thing by his team-mates.

They call him Dave, cos they can't pronounce his name.

Darcey Bussell was once addressed by mistake by Sir Bruce Forsyth

on Strictly as Dave.

That is what Trigger calls Rodney in Only Fools And Horses

and you didn't need to see the last one,

which was the TV channel Dave, formerly UKTV G2.

Do you know, once - we couldn't quite have this cos it was David,

not Dave - but in an after-dinner speech in 1985,

President Reagan referred to Princess Diana as Princess David

and then corrected it to Princess Diane.

A proud moment for international relations(!)

OK, Builders, you've got one last choice. Which question attracts you?

-Horned Viper, please.

-The Horned Viper, OK.

What is the connection between these clues?

Again, I'm going to want a specific answer. The time starts now.

-THEY WHISPER

-JFK died the same day.

Next, please.

-Yeah.

-Yes.

-Which date was he?

-22nd of November.

22nd of November, 1963.

Coming in after two clues, you get three points.

The connection is 22nd of November, 1963.

You didn't need to see eve of the first Doctor Who episode or

John F Kennedy dies. Of course, those things all fell on that day.

-Weren't tempted to come in after one clue?

-We were, but...

Didn't want to risk it.

It could have been, like, Prokofiev died on Stalin's death day.

Oh, I see, it could have been like that.

To people at home, you know, let me translate that into English.

To quizzers, the fact that Aldous Huxley

and CS Lewis died on the same day as JFK is a famous fact,

but, yes, you saw it at clue one, Aldous Huxley famously died

the same day as JFK, 22nd of November, 1963.

Wayfarers, one question remains, water. That's what you'll be getting.

What is the connection between these clues? Here's the first.

THEY WHISPER

Next, please.

I can't think of the name of...

Yeah, next, please.

-Pink, isn't it?

-It's a sort of...magenta.

-Yeah.

-Those colours come from those countries, shall we try?

-Yeah.

BELL

We'll say the names of those colours are derived from that country,

or places in that country.

I'm afraid that is not the case, so I'm going to show the fourth clue

to the Builders for a possible bonus point.

It's traits associated with those countries.

What on Earth are you saying about the French? Goodness me, Ian.

It's much simpler than that.

Look again at the last one, the giveaway,

it's simply cycling leaders' jerseys.

The yellow worn by the leader of the Tour de France

and the cycling tours in other countries -

Turkish blue in Turkey, red in Spain, pink in Italy.

Cycling leaders' jerseys.

At the end of round one, the Builders have three points,

the Wayfarers have three points.

So nobody wearing the leader's jersey at the moment

because they are neck and neck as we go into round two, Sequences.

I want to know what comes fourth in a sequence.

Builders, you'll be going first again, which would you like?

-Eye of Horus.

-The Eye of Horus.

OK, you may see a maximum of three clues,

please tell me what would come fourth.

The time starts now.

(Parents' cousins.)

-Shall we take another one?

-Next please.

-Is this going up in age?

-Shall we go another one?

Let's go for the third one.

Next one, please.

-It's going to be your brother, isn't it?

-Yes, brother or sister.

Yeah, sibling.

Your sibling.

Not an acceptable answer, I'm afraid, that is not a sequence.

Wayfarers, you have the chance for a bonus point.

We'll try parent and child.

Have a look at the other clues, what do you think the answer is?

-Your child.

-Your child is the right answer.

You can't quite make a sequence out of it being your sibling

because it's the next generation down.

You would notice, Barbara, with your genealogical interests,

it's the generation beneath you.

Your second cousin's child, your first cousin's child,

your sibling's child and your child,

as one gets closer towards you,

so that will be a sequential completion, well done.

And which question would you like?

-Two Reeds, please.

-Two Reeds.

What is the fourth in this sequence? Here's the first.

-Next?

-Next, please.

It's sequences of Windows.

So what's the next one?

95, 98, Me...

-Shall we have next?

-XP.

Next?

No, erm...

95, 95 and Me and after that came Windows Vista and then Windows...

Windows 7.

Right, shall we buzz?

I'll nominate Matt.

Windows 7. Or 7.

Have a look at the other clues, what comes fourth in the sequence?

It would be three things, the last three.

7, 8, 8.1.

Fascinating.

7, 8, 8.1 is an acceptable answer

but it is so sophisticated an acceptable answer,

it's not even one that we've got.

It's one that was explained to me in some detail by the question editor

earlier today as something that I have to accept,

the reasons I can barely understand but talk me through the sequence.

It's pairs of three of the Windows operating systems,

so Windows 1, 2, 3, then 95, 98, "Me" for millennium.

Windows 2000, then moving into XP, Vista, you have

7, 8 and 10.

Well, that's it, these are the major releases of the Windows

desktop operating systems, so the major ones are those.

We didn't include updates, 8.1 is an update but it is a sequence

because after 7 and 8, you've got 8.1 as an update,

we weren't expecting quite such precise computer knowledge.

I certainly must give you the point, so very well done.

-Builders, what would you like?

-Water, please.

Water, OK, what would come forth in this little row? Here's the first.

That's in January.

They're the first, aren't they?

US Open, US PGA...

US Open, US PGA.

Coming in after one clue, you're going to get five points,

brilliantly gambled. Can you explain this sequence?

The first one is the first tennis major of the calendar year

and the Masters is the first golf major of the calendar year,

so it's sequential.

That's absolutely right, it's grand slams and majors in pairs,

tennis and golf, going chronologically

through the year ending with

the US Open in tennis and the US PGA in golf.

Very good, quick buzzing. I like it.

Wow, the points are changing hands at a rapid rate here.

Back to you, Wayfarers, for a choice.

-Lion, please.

-Lion, OK. What would be the fourth in this sequence?

Here's the first.

Do you have any idea? Next, please.

Roster.

Rostering, is it called?

-Yes, something like that.

-Next, please.

It's a beta-blocker.

Rostering...

Restering, no, rendering...

How many vowels?

-Best press the button, I think.

-Three seconds.

Any idea?

Yeah, go with rostering, I think, I think it's probably better.

-Erm, Rastering.

-Not it, I'm afraid. So, Builders,

you have a bonus point available.

Something to do with RW.

-My initials.

-Robin's initials.

I can't accept that

but I'm fascinated to know what sequence you've spotted.

It would be RU, it's not RW. It's RU.

We don't know the alphabet.

-QT and...

-I see, but no, no, no, that doesn't work as a sequence.

No, Son House's blues is Delta Blues.

Then it's gamma correction, then, as I head you mutter, Barbara,

beta-blockers, so something with alpha, for example

in-house testing stage, alpha testing.

Could have had an alpha male, of course - for example,

Michael Portillo, that's always a good example.

Michael Portillo, what an alpha male.

Did you ever see that travel show where

he went to a sauna and got sort of hit with twigs? Gripping viewing.

Gripping. Where was I?

Alpha, something with alpha

because we're going backwards through the Greek alphabet.

No points there, then, but, Builders, you have

-a choice, what would you like?

-Horned Viper, please.

-Horned Viper.

What would come fourth in this picture sequence?

Here's the first clue.

Matthew Pinsent.

Next, please.

Judo. That's judo.

THEY MUTTER

-Take a next?

-We've got to do a sequence here. Next, please.

That's...

Adrian Moorhouse, isn't it? We've got to take the final one.

I'm afraid you have to give me the final one.

For a guess?

-Who are you going to go for?

-Three seconds.

Sebastian Coe.

Not the answer, I'm afraid.

Wayfarers, do you want to have a go for a bonus?

GERARD MUTTERS

-No?

-No, Steven Redgrave.

Not it either.

Is it who was carrying the flame

for the opening ceremony or something?

It's not the flame, it's the flag.

Carriers of the flag for Team GB at successive opening ceremonies.

We've got Matthew Pinsent, Kate Howey, Mark Foster

and at London 2012 the flag was carried by Sir Chris Hoy, of course.

Flag-bearers for Team GB.

So no points there again, Wayfarers. One question remains,

the Twisted Flax, can you get something on this?

What would be the fourth in this sequence? Here's the first.

(Viking?)

Next, please.

THEY MUTTER

Next one? Next, please.

It is Cnut, isn't it?

It is, yeah.

We think it's King Cnut.

The answer is Cnut, what are we looking at?

-The successive Kings of Norway or...

-Denmark.

Denmark, sorry. Denmark. Oh, Denmark, yes.

It's another family tree one.

This is just the forebears of King Cnut going forwards towards

the man who tried to stop the tide, very well done.

At the end of round two,

the Builders have eight points,

the Wayfarers have nine.

Time now for the Connecting Wall,

16 jumbled up clues that need sorting into four connected groups of four.

Wayfarers, you will be going first this time.

Would you like Lion or Water?

I'll try Water, please.

OK, you have two-and-a-half minutes to solve the Water wall,

starting now.

Mark Kermode's a...

-Film Critic.

-Barry Norman.

-Yeah. Film critic, any others?

Ebert. Yes.

-Pauline Kael.

-Kael. No.

OK, Sisko.

Star Trek captains, you've got Sisko, Picard, Kirk, Janeway.

-OK, not that. Archer as well.

-Kirk, Archer, Janeway, Picard.

OK.

There we go.

So we've got... We've still got the full...

We've got sort of languages.

-Norman, Alsatian, Provencal...

-French dialects.

-Picard is.

Picardy, yes.

Three strikes now, you got plenty of time.

Ebert, Kermode...

Kael...

What are Lancashire Heeler and Schapendoes?

Are they breeds of something?

-I don't know.

-Collie is a dog.

-Collie is a dog.

Lancashire Heeler must be a dog as well.

-Is that a sheepdog?

-Schapendoes is a Belgian dog.

-Bazin?

-Could be a film person.

Shall we try those four?

That's it, you've solved the wall.

Very well done,

so that is four points immediately for finding those groups.

What about the connections?

The first blue group, Kirk, Janeway, Archer, Sisko.

We think they're captains of the Enterprise

in various incarnations of Star Trek.

Captains in Star Trek. Or the...

captains of the main... The main...

..leading crew member of Star Trek serials.

Because one is Deep Space Nine.

One is Deep Space Nine, yeah, so not necessarily a ship.

This isn't a Star Trek quiz.

Captains in Star Trek is an acceptable answer.

Yes, a couple of them captains of the Enterprise, there's a captain

of Voyager and one of Deep Space Nine but Star Trek captains is right.

The next green group starting Norman?

French dialects. Or languages.

Well, yes, they're dialects and languages

and the people who speak them.

Peoples of France and the dialects that they speak,

that's quite right.

And the next pink or perhaps purple group starting Bergamasco?

Well, breeds of dog but we think they're probably all sheepdogs.

They are sheepdogs and herding dogs.

Some of them can do cattle as well, apparently, very well-schooled.

Sheepdogs used to collect livestock.

And the light blue group at the end starting Kermode.

-They're all film critics.

-They are, can you tell me their first names?

-I know Mark Kermode, Roger Ebert, is it?

-That's right.

-Kael I don't know.

-Pauline.

-Pauline Kael of the New Yorker, that's absolutely right

and Andre Bazin, a French film critic.

So four points for the groups you found,

four for the connections, a bonus of two for getting it all right,

that is a maximum of ten, very well done.

So let's bring in the Builders now and give them the other wall,

the Lion wall, see what they can do about solving it.

Two-and-a-half minutes, of course.

Good luck, Builders, your time starts now.

Zodiac, seven...

Film, Panic Room...

Zodiac, Seven, Gone Girl.

Sisters. Sisters, they're sisters.

-Ugly Sisters.

-Pointer Sisters, Scissor Sisters and...

Seven Sisters.

OK, not sisters.

-Magdalene Sisters?

-Let's keep going.

Fight Club, Panic Room, Gone Girl, Seven.

Do you know what Munsterlander is?

-No.

-Italian spinone.

Oh, Ugly Sisters.

Zodiac, Zodiac.

12 signs of the Zodiac, 12...

Rock-paper-scissors.

-The other sister.

-Oh, it's films, what about the film options?

Go for it.

Things which don't exist.

Fight Club.

Are they directors?

-Conjunction...

-OK.

Gone Girl, Panic Room and...

Zodiac. Well done.

They must be films from a certain time of year.

So sisters, sister, ugly, pointer...

-Seven Sisters.

-We tried that.

-Munsterlander sisters?

-Could be.

Let me try it.

-Brittany is in France, isn't it?

-Yes.

-You've got a minute left.

Ascendant.

Are these like...astrological terms?

Conjunction...

Go for it.

-House.

-And Zodiac.

-No, Zodiac's gone.

-OK.

Three strikes now.

What are the Magdalene... Are there Magdalene Sisters?

-Could be, yes.

-Spinone. What would the other things be?

Brittany, Italian spinone, what's spinone?

Ugly Sisters, Scissor Sisters.

We've tried to those before, don't do that.

We've got time running out.

20 seconds.

-I'll try Munsterlander.

-With those three, yeah.

-No.

-One more go.

Shall we just do one of these?

-Ten seconds.

-What do you reckon?

-Munsterlander.

-Munsterlander.

That's not it, you've used your three strikes.

The wall is frozen but two points for the groups you found.

What about the connections? I will need a specific answer.

Gone Girl, Fight Club, Zodiac, Panic Room.

-Director?

-I can't give you long.

-All films by the same director.

-All films with Ben Affleck.

Not it, I'm afraid. I need to hear the name

David Fincher.

It is the director, David Fincher, who directed all of those films.

The next green group - conjunction, ascendant, house, square.

Terms used in astrology?

They are astrological terms.

That's right, you can still get points for the connections

in the groups you didn't find, so let's resolve the wall.

-Scissor, seven, ugly, Magdalene.

-I thought we tried that.

They're all sisters.

That's right, Magdalene Sisters, it's a film,

the early 2000s, about Irish teenagers.

The last blue group, Brittany,

Munsterlander, and so on, what are they?

We think they're hunting dogs.

They are hunting dogs, I don't think I heard you say that

all the way through the wall, but that's what they are.

All pointers, actually, pointer being a red herring

but they're all gun dogs.

So two points for the groups you found

and three for the connections, that is a total of five.

Let's have a look at the scores.

The Builders have 13 points, the Wayfarers have 19.

Time to play the missing vowels round.

What are the disguised clues from which

we've removed the vowels and squidged up the consonants?

They will come in four connected groups of four

but I will tell you the connections upfront.

Fingers on buzzers, teams.

Be careful because you'll lose points for any wrong answers.

I can tell you that the first group are all items of...

-Builders.

-Doner kebab.

Correct.

-Builders.

-Falafel.

Delicious.

-Builders.

-Jellied eels.

Yes, it is.

-Builders.

-Currywurst.

Quite right.

Next category, they are represented by the letters...

-Wayfarers.

-Polonium.

Correct.

-Wayfarers.

-Italy's longest river.

Yes, it's just the word Po, that's right.

-Wayfarers.

-King of Poland.

-Not it, I'm afraid, you'd be missing an L.

Builders, do you know?

Too long, it's Kung Fu Panda.

-Oh, yes.

-Next clue.

-Builders.

-The red Teletubby.

Also Po, that's right.

Next category...

-Wayfarers.

-Porky Pig.

That's right.

-Builders.

-Fred Flintstone.

Correct.

-Wayfarers.

-Sorry, no.

-No?

Builders, do you know?

This is a trickier one, it's Olive Oyl.

Next clue.

-Wayfarers.

-Spongebob Squarepants.

Correct.

Next category...

END-OF-ROUND JINGLE

But I can't tell you the next category

because the bell has gone for the end of the quiz.

And, at a rather hotly contested missing vowels round,

where the lead could have gone either way, the winners

and through to the quarterfinals with 21 points

are the Wayfarers. Very well done to you.

Builders, you finished with 19 points, I'm afraid.

We have to say goodbye.

Thank you very much for playing, you've been a great team.

Wayfarers, I think you're through to the quarterfinals,

I don't really understand.

You're through to something, it's not goodbye forever.

I also know that it is the end of the show.

That's it, I'm off to paint the town red.

Just four more nights and my community service is complete.

Goodbye.