Shutterbugs v Korfballers Only Connect

Hello, and thank you for coming along to play Only Connect,

where nobody has a note to excuse themselves from games

because this is mind PE, here in my specially built brain-nasium.

Spread-eagled on the parallel bars tonight -

metaphorically, thank God -

are, on my right, Jasmine Leonard,

a software engineer whose previous job involved writing code

for the charges of electric cars.

Adam Ardron, an engineering graduate whose band,

Rich Rich and the Moneymakers, have so far made £1,000,

which they have since spent.

And their captain, Jenny Skene,

a theatre captioner who enjoys visiting cathedrals

and is the proud champion of a flamingo-drawing competition.

United by a love of lenses, they are the Shutterbugs.

Now, you won your first game against the Highgates.

-How have you been enjoying your trip to Cardiff?

-Very much so.

We have seen some container ships.

That was very exciting. And a squashed watermelon.

Excellent. You are facing tonight on my left, Taissa Csaky,

an interpretation planner for museums

who plays fiddle for a morris-dancing group.

Niall Sheekey, a keen historian

who is named after an architect

and learned to whistle at the age of 24.

And their captain, Michael Jelley,

a maths graduate and support services manager

who has chaperoned Andrew Ridgeley

around the mountains of Cervinia on skis.

United by their fanatical fitness, they are the Korfballers.

Now, Michael, you won your heat against the Channel Islanders.

How are you feeling about tonight's game?

Well, quite nervous. We hope we score more than zero points

in round two this time round.

Well, good luck. You can't score fewer than zero, anyway.

-That's true.

-Shutterbugs, you won the toss.

You'll be going first. So please choose an Egyptian hieroglyph.

-Two reeds, please.

-Two reeds.

OK. Round one, what's the connection between four clues?

Here's the first.

Do you know what that is?

-No.

-No.

-OK, next, please.

OK.

Are they French, these?

-I don't know.

-I have in my head...

-Go on.

-..fines or taxes.

Oh, OK. Could be. Do you want another one?

-In what context?

-Yeah.

-Next, please.

-Scot.

-Is that a tax?

OK, so what might it be?

Could be a language. Yeah, could be.

Another one, please. Next.

-Oh, OK.

-Yeah, taxes.

So these are taxes.

Could have come in after two.

They are former taxes once levied in the British Isles.

Well done. Korfballers, what would you like?

I'd like the twisted flax, please.

Twisted flax. OK. These are going to be picture clues

and there's a hidden link between them. What is it?

Here's the first.

Left beaters. Two left beaters.

Next, please.

Goalkeeper.

Beater, Keeper... Oh, positions in Quidditch.

Yeah.

-Beaters.

-Go.

We think they might be positions in Quidditch.

They are all Quidditch positions and players.

What can you tell me about what we're looking at?

The first picture was two beaters.

The second was presumably a keeper.

Let's go with...

-Oh, one of the Seekers.

-And chasers.

And those three are presumably Chasers

from the ITV show, The Chase.

They are from ITV's The Chase.

Yes. Apparently,

this is actually the number of players you get on a Quidditch team.

I suppose, as Korfballers, you would be keen followers of Quidditch.

Any game that no-one really knows how to play, we're on.

Have you ever tried to figure out how to actually play it

-and give it a go?

-What, Quidditch?

No, there was already a team when we arrived at Oxford so we thought,

we're not going to attempt something someone's done before.

-There was a Quidditch team?

-There was.

-There IS a Quidditch team.

-Oxford Chimeras.

-Don't you have to fly?!

Muggle Quidditch.

I mean, maybe they do, but just not when anyone is watching.

So they run around in a park with broomsticks?

So I'm led to believe.

I shouldn't be surprised if they appear on this show sooner or later.

Very well done. Quidditch positions and players.

Shutterbugs, what would you like?

-Water, please.

-Water. OK. It's a music question.

We're getting those novelty ones out of the way early.

What connects these pieces of music?

Here's the first.

# Tell me how am I supposed to live without you... #

-Michael Bolton, How Am I Supposed To Live Without You.

-Next, please.

-# Now I go cleaning windows... #

-George Formby. Places.

Bolton...yeah, they're in Lancashire.

The artists' surnames are places in Lancashire.

Well, I'm going to have to give you that.

They are place names, and the two you've heard,

we heard Michael Bolton and George Formby,

historically Bolton and Formby are part of the county of Lancashire,

so you will get three points.

Had you gone on, we were going to hear Dionne War-wick, spelt Warwick,

and Belinda Carlisle.

That would be more generally places in England.

But, having gambled early, you're right about Lancashire for those,

so well done. You get three points.

-Korfballers, which question would you like?

-Lion, please.

-Lion.

OK. What is the connection between these four clues?

Here's the first.

8/7 or 7/8, depending on...

Next, please.

-I don't know.

-What's August the 8th?

That's very true.

Next, please.

Oh, Lord.

It's the Bible.

THEY CONFER

I have literally no idea.

Things that didn't happen?

Next, please.

Oh, are they scores in Scrabble?

Oh, yeah. Go for it.

Are they the scores in Scrabble for the words?

Very well done. These are words and their Scrabble scores.

Absolutely right. Well done.

Shutterbugs, your turn to choose.

We'll have the horned viper, please.

OK. What is the connection between these clues?

Here's the first.

THEY CONFER

Shall we go next? Next, please.

Duke of Newcastle?

Who was the Duke of Newcastle?

First to... No, because that's not true.

-OK. Next.

-Next, please.

THEY CONFER

OK, so we're going to just have a sensible guess.

-Next, please.

-Is he a brother?

-It's the brother.

-Three seconds.

I think they did medicine or something, they studied medicine.

I'm afraid that is not the case.

So there's a bonus possibility for you, Korfballers,

if you know the answer.

We think that they were

the younger brothers who...

they also did the same job,

so Raul Castro's brother was also president of Cuba,

Jonny Brownlee was also a world triathlon champion, etc.

You are right that they succeeded their brothers.

Not in all cases the younger or older brothers, that varied,

but they did the same job as their brother.

Can you say job, being monarch?

But James II succeeded his brother, Charles II.

The Duke of Newcastle succeeded his brother, Henry Pelham.

And who was the world triathlon champion before Jonny Brownlee?

Probably Alistair Brownlee.

It was Alistair Brownlee.

And Raul Castro succeeded Fidel Castro in 2008.

Well done. So you get the bonus and your own question.

The eye of Horus.

What is the connection between these clues?

Here's the first.

THEY CONFER

Next one, please.

I don't know.

Let's have another one, shall we?

Next, please.

I mean, how can it be just statements that are true?

Wouldn't really work. Next, please.

Oh, they're sayings that...

Oh, that's...

They are sort of old wives' tales or proverbs expressed differently,

so red sky at night does increase

the possibility of a nice day in the morning

and an apple a day might potentially keep the doctor away.

Yes, it's sort of scientific evidence for old wives' tales.

So people say that a fright can cure hiccups,

but actually fear does stimulate the vagus nerve,

which connects the brain and the stomach

and is implicated in hiccupping.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away, absolutely, is the second one.

There is pectin in an apple, which can lower blood pressure.

And the other ones, fish is brain food,

-that's what the third clue is about, that idea.

-Good for Jeeves.

And the fourth one, the fourth one, you're right,

that's about red sky at night, shepherd's delight.

So it's scientific ways of looking for evidence

in those old bits of folklore. Well done.

That means, at the end of round one, the Shutterbugs have four points,

the Korfballers have six.

Round two is a sequences round.

What comes fourth in a sequence?

The teams have to spot the connection, work that out,

then tells me what comes fourth.

Shutterbugs, you'll be going first again.

Please choose a hieroglyph.

-Lion, please.

-Lion.

These are going to be picture clues. What sort of thing

would you expect to see in the fourth picture? Here's the first.

-Lily.

-Lotus flower?

Next, please.

Is that Doctor Who?

Is it?

Is he pointing?

Can you think of a sequence at all?

-Go next.

-Next, please.

Serena Williams.

She's a tennis player.

-What else is she?

-Lotus could be the car.

Three seconds.

A Prius.

-A Prius?

-Yeah, a Prius car.

Very much not the answer, I'm afraid, so, Korfballers,

you have another chance of a bonus point.

A picture of, if this is what the Italian for Ferrari is,

some kind of prancing horse or rearing up horse?

I'll take it. We've gone with a picture of Nick Ferrari,

the... The personality.

But what is the reason?

What is the sequence here?

We think that's Lotus, a lotus, Malcolm McLaren,

Serena Williams, and they are all F1 teams.

Well, it's specifically the constructors' championship.

Formula 1 constructors' championship by number of wins,

and I must tell you that Prius, that team has not won

the most Formula 1 constructors' championships.

-Ferrari.

-I'm impressed that I've heard of another car, to be honest.

I thought I was doing quite well.

And the idea that the second one was Doctor Who.

Malcolm McLaren would have been a rather brilliant Doctor Who.

Not a very popular Doctor Who,

I think, Malcolm McLaren, but good guesses.

So well done, you get the bonus point

and your chance to choose a sequence question.

-We'll have the two reeds, please.

-The two reeds. OK.

What would come forth in this sequence?

Here's the first.

-Oh, dear.

-He's an astronomer.

Next, please.

Astronomer Royal.

Another one, please.

-Say next!

-Oh, sorry, next.

Oh, they were on the £50 note.

-So who's on it now?

-Oh, God.

THEY CONFER

Three seconds.

We'll go with Charles Dickens.

Not the answer, I'm afraid.

Shutterbugs, would you like to have a go for a bonus point?

Elizabeth Fry.

For what reason?

People who have been on the £5 note.

I am going to accept that answer.

They are people who have previously been on the back of notes.

We are looking at the back of a £50 note for Houblon,

the £20 for Faraday, £10 for Nightingale,

so someone from the back of a £5 note.

Now, the rest of them, it's all previous ones.

She's on her way out, isn't she?

Elizabeth Fry is on her way out,

we know that Winston Churchill is coming in.

Whether Winston Churchill is on the banknotes by the time we go to air,

I don't know. I get paid in copper coins on this show,

so I haven't seen a fiver for a long time.

Charles Dickens was on the £10 note but Elizabeth Fry, rather sadly...

We are a bit short of women on the banknotes...

-Yeah.

-..and they're taking her away for Winston Churchill.

So, well done, you get the bonus and you may now choose a question.

Twisted flax, please.

The twisted flax.

OK. What comes fourth in this sequence?

Here's the first.

THEY CONFER

Next, please.

OK. That must be the US Senate.

Vice...

-Tell me?

-The next one will be the Speaker of the House...

OK, next, please.

Vice President.

Again, you could have come in after two clues,

the answer is Vice President. And why?

So these are people who are the order of seniority

leading up to the President.

If the President goes, then it is the Vice President,

-then the Speaker of the House.

-That's right,

it's the presidential line of succession.

Vice President would be fourth, well done.

Back to you, Korfballers, what would you like?

-The horned viper, please.

-The horned viper.

OK, another sequence coming your way.

What will be fourth? Here's the first.

THEY CONFER

Next, please.

Oh, gosh.

Could just be the females getting married in the royal family?

There's been plenty since then.

Next, please.

-Did she become...

-She's not in the British Royal family, is she?

No, becoming the female head of state of...

-But what's the next in the sequence?

-Oh, so no good.

Three seconds.

We'll go with...

Camilla?

Really? 2008, Camilla Parker Bowles,

which is wrong.

I'm afraid it's not the answer,

so there is another bonus opportunity for you, Shutterbugs.

2004, Camilla Parker Bowles.

Why do you think it's Camilla Parker Bowles?

We don't, we've got no idea.

I see.

Do you know who Cory Aquino is?

-No?

-No? She was the first female

-president of the Philippines.

-Oh.

These three people that you are looking at were the first three

women to be Times Person of the Year,

and the fourth was 2015, Angela Merkel.

Angela Merkel. Yes,

so if you were thinking of Royal consorts and so forth,

I don't think anybody quite carried on with the president of the

Philippines, so no.

Angela Merkel was the answer.

Shutterbugs, what would you like?

-Water, please.

-Water.

What would be the fourth in this sequence?

Here's the first.

OK, it's a money thing.

Is it some kind of profit thing?

If we get some ideas together... Next, please.

Tare, that's the weight.

-It's a calculator button.

-What sort of calculator?

Are they things you can press on scales?

Yeah, they are, when you get grocers' scales.

Yeah, I don't know.

Next, please.

Payload.

So is it lorries...?

Three seconds.

BELL RINGS

Erm...

THEY CHUCKLE

-Got nothing.

-Nothing, OK,

Korfballers, would you like to have a go?

Fourth, length?

Not the answer.

The answer is fourth, CU capacity.

Now, Shutterbugs,

during your visit to Cardiff you claimed to have been looking at some

shipping containers.

I worry you did not look very closely.

-They were at a distance.

-Shipping container labels, that's the order,

so the CU capacity would be fourth

in the order of things displayed on

a shipping container.

Here's a bit of interesting background triv.

In 2001, Malcom P McLean died, aged 87.

Who was Malcom P McLean?

Did he invent shipping containers?

-Yeah.

-Well, as people at home will be shouting,

he was the father of containerisation.

That's absolutely right. What a man.

So one question remains, Korfballers.

You'll get be getting the Eye of Horus.

What is the fourth in this sequence?

Here's the first.

Next, please.

Things that were introduced in these years.

On April Fools' Day?

I don't know.

Let's get the next. Next, please.

Three seconds.

BELL RINGS

The moon (Earth).

2016: The moon, Google Earth, or Earth.

I'm afraid that is not valid for this particular sequence.

Shutterbugs, do you want to have a go for a possible bonus point?

So we think that it's a Minion...

2016: A Minion dropping a mic (G-mail).

Is that right?

These are successive stunts for

April Fools' Day on Google and one

of the ones they did in 2016, the most famous one,

was you could have a Minion dropping a microphone,

a sort of sarcastic joke thing to put on e-mails and all sorts of

people got into trouble for putting them on serious,

professional e-mails and that was all very embarrassing.

In a good way.

So you get a bonus point and that means that the end of Round Two,

the Korfballers have seven points, the Shutterbugs have eight.

Connecting Wall time now and it's the Korfballers' turn to go first,

so you have a choice, Lion or Water.

-We'll have the Water, please.

-The Water Wall,

you've got two-and-a-half minutes to solve it starting now.

Vale, glen and gulch are all kinds of valley. Dale...

Magdalene sisters...

Gulch, glen, dale...

Yeah. Shall we try those?

Yeah. Is there anything else?

Are there some astronauts, here?

OK, all right, let's think about the brothers.

Tales.

-Mary Stuart.

-Mary Beard.

-Mary Hancock.

-No.

Mary Berry.

There must be... Mary Barton?

Is there another group.

OK, what do we think?

We've got a colour.

That's a curio.

Blew...

Were the people in...?

Oh, TV, radio comedians, Hancock.

I don't see any others.

-Jim Dale.

-OK.

-Detectives.

-Marys.

Beard.

Keep thinking of other things.

OK.

I think these valleys are still here.

Is it Berry, potentially?

No, water...

Three strikes and you're out now.

Mary Magdalene, Mary Beard...

I'm sure we've done that before.

What's it going to be?

Blew, Lowe, Grimm.

Oh, things that are synonyms for feeling down.

OK, Blew, Grimm...

Beard, I don't know.

Well, we've got to go something.

Magdalene, heaven's sake.

There you go.

You've solved the wall, very well done.

Now what about the connections? Tell me about the first blue group,

starting Horne.

They are comedians or comic actors from...

-Radio shows?

-I will accept radio comedians.

And what about the next green group, starting vale?

They're all sort of low points or valleys.

They're valleys. Ria is an obscure one, a drowned valley.

There it is. And the next pink

group, starting Magdalene...

Blew and so forth.

They are homophones for feeling sad.

That is absolutely right, for feeling a bit low,

because you said maudlin to begin with,

that's how you pronounce the name of the Cambridge college.

-Yes.

-Then you went the other way for Magdalene.

They're homophones, that would be absolutely right.

In the last turquoise group, starting Barton.

-They are Marys.

-They are Marys,

Mary Barton, Mary Stuart, Mary Berry, Mary Beard.

So you found all four groups.

You got all four connections, you get the bonus points,

that's a maximum of ten.

Let's bring in the Shutterbugs now and give them a new Connecting Wall,

16 fresh clues, and see what they can do about sorting it.

They'll be getting the Lion Wall, the Water has been taken.

Two and a half minutes starting now.

OK, so these are types of wool.

-Yeah.

-What other ones are there?

Yeah, go for it. They're fabric.

OK.

So is lame, but that usually has an accent.

Edo is a Japanese place and period.

Peking is, are these sort of dynasties or places, you know,

sort of ruling...? I don't know what the word is.

Myrrh is a product of, no, it's not, is it?

-Yeah, go on to it.

-Rubber comes out of a tree.

Or cork. You do those ones.

So then we've got lame, angora, alpaca?

What else could be a fabric?

Cashmere.

What did you say vicuna was?

It's a type of llama.

OK. Sitting duck.

Peking, a lame duck, and...

Well done. Hanyang, is that...?

-Rubber duck.

-So now we need to be careful.

Three strikes now.

Christiania is the capital of...

Denmark at some point, is that true?

Peking was the capital...

So these are erstwhile capitals.

Christiania.

Yeah. So then we've got four walls.

-Alpaca.

-We tried those four.

So one of these is both.

Cashmere... Shall we try, we've got three goes, shall we try those four.

OK, so which ones?

-Alpaca...

-What about capitals, can we do Edo, Christiania.

It's the same thing.

-Can we do that?

-OK.

OK, so it's not those four.

So which one of those four could be...

And which one of the other four is...?

Angora.... Any of those could be.

-Is cashmere usually spelt with a K when it's...?

-No.

It's... It's spelt that way.

-Maybe we think that's all right.

-Alpaca is not a capital of anywhere, is it?

I don't think so, I think it's just a type of llama.

-Is Vicuna the capital of anywhere?

-It could be.

-OK.

We've got to try something, so I think cashmere definitely because,

-Well, it is spelt that way.

-We don't think it's spelt that way when it's

a town. Yeah.

I'd go for Edo.

-I don't think....

-It's fabrics.

-30 seconds.

-Is alpaca actually the name of a fabric?

-It's the wool, isn't it?

-It's the wool.

Angora is the animal as well. OK, so I think... Yeah...?

-Hang on.

-So that, that and that.

Do we have any idea what that is?

OK, so...

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

What about the connections, tell me about the blue group, starting myrrh?

So these are products of trees.

That's right, mostly resins and then cork,

things that are obtained from trees.

And what about the next green group, starting lame, or lam-ay,

I heard you say.

LAUGHTER

So things that are types of ducks.

-Followed by the word duck.

-Lame duck, sitting duck, rubber duck,

Peking duck, that's right.

And the next group, starting Christiania.

Erstwhile capitals.

Well, I'll take it.

Erstwhile capitals, or erstwhile names for capitals

because they still exist.

Christiania is now Oslo, Hanyang is Seoul,

Edo is Tokyo and Angora is Ankara.

And the last turquoise group, starting cashmere.

Types of wool.

They are the wools, yes.

Qiviut is the one you found hard to find.

The muskox provides that wool.

So you did find all four groups and the connections,

so you get the total of ten points.

Let's have a look at the scores going into the final round.

So it is very close and the place in Round Three will be decided by the

Missing Vowels round.

Fingers on buzzers, teams.

Good luck, everyone. I can tell you

that the first group are all things...

-Korfballers.

-One-night stand.

Correct.

Don't know this one. It's a tattoo.

You're all too clean, this one is a booze-up.

LAUGHTER

-Korfballers.

-Marathon.

Correct.

Next category...

-Shutterbugs.

-The Flight Of The Phoenix.

Correct.

No? This one is...

Next clue.

-Korfballers.

-Sink The Bismarck.

Correct.

-Korfballers.

-Boxing Helena.

Correct. Next category...

-Korfballers.

-Richard of York gave battle in vain.

Yes, it is.

-Shutterbugs.

-Every good boy deserves favour.

Correct.

END OF ROUND JINGLE

That last one, slightly obscure mnemonic

for remembering the seven hills

of Rome...

But let's see who is getting cold apple pie

and who's getting hot custard.

I can tell you, looking at the final scores, that the winners,

with 22 points and through to Round Three

are the Korfballers,

very well done. And an excellent and close second place with 20 points,

it's the Shutterbugs.

Very well done, that was really close,

but a very good round for you.

Very nice to meet you all.

I'm sorry to lose you, sorry to say goodbye.

And Korfballers, we'll look forward to seeing you in Round Three.

What an exciting night, I can tell you,

the air in the studio is absolutely redolent with quizum,

which, as I'm sure you know, is a bodily secretion brought on by

rigorous quizzing. It's pungent, but cats go mad for it.

Goodbye.