Verbivores v Taverners Only Connect

Hello and welcome to Only Connect,

the show that would go into a library

and not just to use the loo, but to actually read a book.

Oh, who am I kidding? It would be to shed a tear for the dying art

of the Dewey Decimal Classification System.

Blowing their noses wistfully tonight are, on my right,

Phyl Styles, a secondary school teacher

who's written and performed a Countdown-themed rap

under the stage name, Phyl Styles.

Tom Cappleman,

a software engineer who enjoys board games and speaks

conversational Swahili,

and their captain, Graeme Cole,

a software engineer

who is an enthusiastic member of the campaign to install

a cuckoo in Big Ben's clock tower.

United by a weakness for words,

they are the Verbivores.

Now, Graeme, you lost your opening game against the Smiths and you went

through to the lucky losers and beat the Channel Islanders.

What have you learned from your Only Connect trip so far?

Well, that last win, we got a bit lucky there,

we were behind and then we won by one point

on the last question of the last round -

and what I've learnt from that is my fingers go all numb

when I'm stressed and I'm not sure why.

No need to be stressed here.

I'm so friendly.

You are facing tonight, on my left, Dean Reilly,

a software engineer who flooded his college

in order to make an artificial waterway

for a Venetian-themed party,

Simon Gibbons,

an astrophysicist who falls asleep at parties

and is the husband of their captain, Mickey Alexander,

a medical student, who was in a play with a person,

who was in a play with a person,

who was in a film with Robert De Niro.

United by a passion for pints,

they are the Taverners.

Mickey, you also lost your opening heat,

that was against the Cosmopolitans, then you beat the Bardophiles.

How are you feeling about tonight's opposition?

Well, I think they're a pretty strong team, as far as I can tell,

particularly on their missing vowels round at the end,

which has let us down a bit before,

so, hopefully, we're going to be quick on the buzzer tonight.

I have a slight sense of being surrounded by software engineers...

LAUGHTER ..not for the first time

on this show, I'll tell you. Good luck all of you.

Now, the gamesmanship has started early.

Verbivores, you won the toss,

but you've decided to put your opponents in first.

So, Taverners, please choose a hieroglyph.

Do we want the Eye of Horus?

-Yes.

-Yes.

-Can we have the Eye of Horus, please?

Yes, you may.

What is the connection between these clues?

Here's the first.

Chief Executive of TalkTalk.

-Do you know who that is?

-I don't know who that is.

-No...

-Next.

7-Up mascot...

Is he a lemon?

No, I...

No, no, OK. He's a big number seven.

Er... next.

THEY CONFER

It's a good name.

Er...

Er... No. Anything? Mean anything...? Next.

Is Dido.

-That could be Dido the musician.

-Yeah.

Dido, yeah, I guess is the connection.

-Dido?

-They are all named Dido.

You recognised the first Queen of Carthage.

Do you know any of the others?

I'm assuming Florian, etc,

-is Dido the singer.

-That's right.

Erm...

-The rest I don't know.

-The 7-Up mascot, not a lemon,

although he looks a bit of a lemon.

That sort of cartoon person with the frizzy hair,

he's called Fido Dido,

and the chief executive of TalkTalk

is Dido Harding,

who was in the news a bit a couple of years ago

after a sort of hack of information.

All named Dido for a point. Well done.

Verbivores, what would you like?

Horned Viper, please.

The Horned Viper, OK.

What is the connection between these clues?

Here's the first.

-Paddies?

-What was that?

-Paddies.

-Paddy...

-Let's go for the next one.

-Next, please.

Three stars. Is that Paddy as well?

I don't know. Next, please.

That's Lego, that's Lego. Is it all Lego?

Er... plausibly. And... thing.

Or is it, is it the name of a brand of...?

I mean, does Samsung mean three stars, for example?

-Er...

-Are we going to get to see Mitsubishi, three diamonds?

Possibly. Do you want the next?

Let's go for it.

Er, are these the English translations

of brands from these countries?

Yes, they are, well done.

What you've actually got in fourth place is German,

people's car, Volkswagen.

What are the companies that you're looking at here?

I'm guessing Korean is Samsung,

cos that's the only company I can name from Korea.

That's right,

three stars would be thought of as something powerful and big

and, for Korean superstition, or law, that is what that is.

-Play well is Lego.

-That's right.

I don't know what growing rice fields is.

-Growing rice fields, minolta.

-Oh.

It sounds like the Japanese term, minolta, for growing rice fields.

Apparently, it reminded the founder of the company

of the ancient proverb,

"the ripest ears of rice bow their heads lowest."

Yeah, so, I hope the winners of tonight's show

bow their head like a low ear of corn.

And if you've tuned in just for that sentence, welcome.

Taverners, what would you like?

-Er,

-Lion. Lion.

What is the connection between these clues?

Here's the first.

Charles Percy, that rings a bell,

I think he was...

he's a historical figure...

-I agree.

-Shall we have the...?

Next.

-Cecil Scott.

-Cecil Scott.

Erm...

INDISTINCT

No, he was...

-Do we need another one?

-Yes.

Next.

Pamela Lyndon.

Are they previous names, so Pamela Anderson?

No, I think they're...

Er, next.

Gilbert Keith.

There's something at the back of my mind here.

Three seconds.

So, we think that they are,

erm...

They are the first names of...

members of the Rolling Stones, I don't know...

My goodness, and which one of the Rolling Stones is Pamela Lyndon?

That would be Mick Jagger's real name.

Yeah, I mean wouldn't that be lovely?

-He might have changed it.

-I'm afraid that is not the answer,

so a possible bonus point for the Verbivores.

They are people who are known by

their first two initials,

GK Chesterton, for example.

-Um...

-I need something more specific for a bonus point.

-They're writers.

-Writers.

They are the first names of authors,

not members of the Rolling Stones, but authors.

Yes, GK Chesterton at clue four, who are the others?

Er, CS Lewis.

No, that's Clive Staples, actually, CS Lewis...

Cecil Scott is CS Forester.

-CP Snow?

-And Charles Percy is CP Snow.

-And you got...

-PL Travers?

Yes, Pamela Lyndon, PL Travers.

Although her birth name was actually Helen Lyndon Goff,

but her writer's name was Pamela Lyndon Travers, or PL Travers.

First names of initialled authors.

Well done for the bonus point.

And what about your own question?

Water, please.

Water. What connects these clues?

Here's the first.

-Something Bill.

-OK, anyone?

Next, please.

Something...

It's... No, I've not got this.

Next.

Right, what are we doing here?

Are they brands, or, er...?

My home page? My baby?

Next.

String? I don't know.

Er...

Something home page? Quartet?

Three seconds.

Based on the last one, string.

Not the answer I'm afraid.

So, Taverners,

your chance for a bonus point.

Erm...

Er...

The only other quartet I can think of is Raj,

but I don't think that fits with any of the other...

That's not it either.

That first clue is a reference to the last

top ten hit for the singer, Whitney Houston.

It was Million Dollar Bill.

Million Dollar Baby

is the Clint Eastwood film from 2005.

Anyone remember the Million Dollar Home Page?

Yeah, he bought pixels at a dollar a pixel.

That's right,

a sort of gimmicky website set up by a student and you could

buy pixels for a dollar a pixel, and Million Dollar Quartet,

do you know who was in that?

Oh, yeah, Jerry Lee Lewis,

Johnny Cash,

-Roy Orbison and...

-Not Roy Orbison,

Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley.

Carl Perkins...

Yeah, fantastic sort of one-off super group.

See, the information was all there,

but you couldn't grab it at the key moment.

No points there, then.

Taverners, what would you like?

-Er, Two Reeds, please.

-Two Reeds, OK.

These are going to be picture clues.

What connects them? Here's the first.

-That is a fish.

-It's a fish. Is it a Dover sole, or...?

-Could be sole.

-Yeah.

Next.

Is it...?

That's a partridge, isn't it?

-Grouse?

-Or is it grouse?

INDISTINCT

Things that are famous?

Yeah, Famous Grouse.

-We need another one, don't we?

-Yeah, I think so.

-Next.

So that's a mother.

The other word for a female dog,

which we probably shouldn't say.

-Yeah.

-Er...

Mother dog.

Mother dog?

Oh, they're all things that mean to complain,

-so grouse, bitch...

-Yeah.

Words that mean to complain.

-Carp.

-Carp.

-That's right,

I'm afraid you must use the word bitch in this instance.

We're looking at grouse, bitch,

beef you didn't need to see

- and so what will the first one be?

-Carp.

-It's a carp, not a sole.

Carp, grouse, bitch, beef,

they are verbs to complain.

Well done, for two points.

Verbivores, there is one question left,

the wick of Twisted Flax - and I think we know what we haven't heard.

-Oh, well.

-We have now, it is the music question.

What do these audio clues have in common?

Here's the first.

# Splash, up in the sky...

# A jet plane... #

Next.

# Gloria!

# I'm gonna shout it out now!

# Gloria! #

Next.

# Well, I'm not the world's most physical guy

# But when she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine

-# Oh, my Lola... #

-Lola, Lola. erm...

Next.

# What you are... #

Spelling out letters...

Spelling out words, R-S-P-C-T.

Yeah...

They all contain the singer spelling something out.

Yes, you are absolutely right.

All these songs have a moment

where the titles are spelt out.

What did we hear?

Er, there was Lola and Respect...

-Mm-hm?

-..and some others.

The second one was Gloria and the first one, Fergie's Glamorous.

All songs where the title is spelt out.

Well done.

That means, at the end of round one, the Taverners

have three points,

the Verbivores have four.

Onto the sequences - and it will be your turn again, Taverners.

What would you like?

Er, can we have the Horned Viper, please?

Yes, you may. So, you're going to see the first of a sequence.

I want to know what you'd expect to come fourth.

Time starts now.

Anita and three girls:

Life can be bright.

-It sounds like a...

-It doesn't.

Next.

Are they...?

-Charity...?

-Charities? No, that's Barnardo's.

Oh, yeah.

I think we're going to need...

I think we're going to need another.

But if we can find...

Oh, it'll be people singing

the lines in a charity song,

-or something like that.

-Yeah.

Um, next.

It's... No, it'll be from, it's from a musical.

Do you know what it is?

So shall we say All Boys...?

-If you...

-Three seconds.

Er, we're going to say, 'All Boys:

Er...

Er...

'When You're Out At Night.'

I don't know.

Not the answer, I'm afraid.

I'll come back to you in a moment. Verbivores,

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

Everyone: Turn Out The Light?

That's not it either, but I think you've all got a future

in musical theatre. No, now, are you not fans of West Side Story?

-I thought it might be that.

-You're right it's a musical,

you're right this is a song.

I don't think any of you would've dared guess this lyric

if you didn't know it. It's...

Oh, weird.

Yes, it's the exchange between Puerto Rican women

about the sufferings that they're experiencing

and their shark partners - and the boys sing back

"If You're All White".

So, no points there. Verbivores, what would you like?

-Eye of Horus, please.

-The Eye of Horus.

What would come fourth in this sequence?

Here's the first.

Hmm. OK.

28: 3 in 48.

It's like perfect, times seven, four...

Next, please.

29: 1 in 48.

Ah, what's 28 got three of?

Next.

30: 16 in 48.

Oh, is it...?

No, it's not. Er...

It's not probabilities, is it?

30, 16, 48.

13... We'll have to go with something.

I'll defer to Tom, I think.

31: 1 in 48.

Not the answer, I'm afraid.

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

-Sorry...

-It's going to be...

erm...

It's going to be four sevens, isn't it? So...

I need to hurry you.

So we're going to say 31 is...

How is it four sevens?

That's far too many.

-How many months have...?

-No, that's, that's too long, I'm afraid.

What you needed to do is complete that sum.

It is four sevens. 31: 28 in 48.

Why do you say 1 in 48?

I was thinking prime numbers

and factors and hadn't anything further out.

No, I think you know over there

this is a four-year cycle,

a usual four-year cycle of months.

I think, every few hundred years, it's a bit different,

but in a usual four-year cycle,

three of the months have 28 days.

One - of course, the leap year - is 29,

16 have 30 and there are seven 31-day months in a year.

So, as you say, Simon,

it would be 28, although you didn't say that,

you said it would be four sevens.

Just fell at the last hurdle there.

So, well done, but not quite good enough for the point.

However, you may choose a question.

-Do you want to choose?

-Let's go Lion, please.

I'm worried there's marital discord.

LAUGHTER Nobody did anything wrong.

He'll forgive me later.

Let the newlywed sunshine continue with your next question.

What would come fourth in this sequence?

Here's the first.

-Chamber of Stone?

-Er, possibly.

THEY CONFER

-That's true.

-Oh, yes.

We probably need another one to...

So, we want the other one to work out the sequence.

Next.

-Yes.

-Yes.

-So, I've not read them, so....

So it's... Azkaban's the next one.

Prisoner of Azkaban. And then it's...

Erm, then it's the...

Goblet of Azkaban.

And then it will be Order of the Phoenix,

Order of the Fire.

-Order of the Fire.

-Three seconds.

Order of the Fire.

Is the right answer.

You could've come in after one clue

for five points there.

Very well calculated.

What are we looking at?

They're Harry Potter books,

so that's the...second book

and then the previous book is the end of the title for it.

That's right, it's the first four Harry Potter books,

but we've replaced the first part of each

with the corresponding part of its successor.

Verbivores, what would you like?

-Twisted Flax, please.

-The Twisted Flax.

What would be fourth in this sequence?

Here's the first.

Point-two. Next, please.

Is it a fifth, a fourth, a third, a half?

That's going to be too... We're going to have to see the next one,

aren't we? Er, yeah.

-Yeah.

-Next, please.

It's just point-five.

And one third, yeah.

Point-five.

This wasn't lateral thinking at all, it is point-five,

it is just decimalisation of fractions.

A fifth, a quarter, a third, a half,

point-five. You're supposed to go down a very

complicated path thinking, what could the dot represent?

What are there 25 of?

But it is simply fractions.

Back to you, Taverners, for a choice.

-Water, please.

-Water. These are going to be picture clues.

What sort of thing would you expect to see in the fourth picture?

Here's the first.

-Pirates?

-Pirates, is that?

Pirates of the Caribbean.

Yeah. It's just some Pirates.

-Shall we go for another one?

-Yeah.

Next.

Pirates.

-Angry?

-I don't recognise that guy off anything.

Pirates, rage.

Mm...

Next.

Rat.

Pirate, rage, rat.

Is it a rat or a mouse? It's a rat.

-That's a rat.

-Pirate, angry, rat.

-It's not pirate...

-INDISTINCT

No.

Er...

Two seconds.

We're... Dean would like to suggest something.

-That's mean.

-Yeah, it is, isn't it?

-Um...

-What would you like to suggest, Dean?

I have no idea.

I don't think this is one you can guess.

-A sword?

-A hat.

It's not a sword.

It's not a hat, either.

That's an extra tip for you, Verbivores, not a sword or a hat.

Would you like to have a go for a bonus point?

The indefinite article.

It is the indefinite article.

Well done. This is your sort of question, really, isn't it?

-What's going on here?

-Well, Tom spotted this one.

Pirates, irate, rat,

a... They start and end each time.

That is the horrible thing.

That second picture denotes irate.

We're taking the end letters off.

Pirates, irate, rat,

and then just the letter A in the middle.

Well spotted, Verbivores, and you get the last question of the round,

the Two Reeds.

What would come fourth in this sequence?

Here's the first.

Plymouth Argyle in green.

Do they play in green?

-I have no idea.

-Next.

Norwich City in blue.

INDISTINCT

Norwich City are canaries, so yellow bird, but...

Have they got to the Cup Final? I don't know.

Next, please.

Blackpool in orange.

Oh, it's just going to be a team that plays in red.

Any team that plays in red, isn't it?

Because it's going up the rainbow.

Or if it's their nicknames...

-So Manchester United, the Red Devils.

-OK.

Er, Manchester United in red.

We went with Liverpool,

but Manchester United in red

is an acceptable answer for two points.

Well done. What's the sequence?

I think it's the colours of the rainbow

going backwards from green and a team, a football team,

that plays in that home strip.

Exactly right - and we've got the Green Army, Plymouth Argyle,

the Canaries there in yellow,

Norwich and Blackpool, nicknamed the Tangerines.

So we needed a red team - and Manchester United would be one.

That means, at the end of round two, the Taverners have six points,

the Verbivores have nine.

Time now for round four, the Connecting Wall,

and, Verbivores, you've chosen to go first this time

by virtue of choosing to go second before,

so you have the choice - Lion or Water.

-We'll have Water, please.

-The Water Wall.

Two and half minutes to solve it, starting now.

Optimus, Optimus Prime...?

Sounds like songs by someone.

What - like, Sweetest Thing is one.

New Year's Day...

I haven't got anything on this.

The Fly - it's a film,

but I don't know if we've got other films in here.

Revolution's the name of a film.

I think...

Like that, for example.

BUZZ

-Desire...

-So, Xperia's a travel company,

do we have any others of that?

Travel companies...

Desire sounds like it could be one.

-Galaxy.

-Galaxy - you're travelling quite far there, but OK!

And...who wouldn't call a travel company Lumia?

-BUZZ

-No.

No, I don't think we're going to get anywhere with that.

-So...

-I think Sweetest Thing and Elevation might be U2 songs,

-but I'm not sure about that.

-Possibly.

-Those two?

-No.

-BUZZ

I think we might have gone with those before, didn't we?

What's New Year's Day there for?

Is this something to do with one of one?

Optimus Prime, "prime" means one.

First...

Yes.

Timbers. What's timbers doing there?

We've got Latin phrases - Lumia's light, isn't it?

And Optimus. So we've got... That sounds like it could be...

That one?

-BUZZ

-These aren't anything

if you change one letter like Saunders or Crow?

-Crow...

-No.

BUZZ

Yeah, it's... Revolution, there was the Russian Revolution, for example,

-or the...

-Something in colour...

-It's...

-30 seconds.

Er... No.

So, we've got... I think those go together for some reason.

So...

BUZZ

Something I think revolution as well. But...

BUZZ

-BUZZ

-Have we got missing words?

Ten seconds.

Xperia, Xperian? That one.

BUZZ

Let's try... Yeah, we've got nothing.

Wall-tastrophe.

The time's up, and it's frozen -

but don't worry, the other one's very difficult, as well,

and you can still get points for the connections -

so let's resolve the Wall.

There you go, that's how it should have been.

What about the first blue group?

Timbers, Sounders, Crew, Galaxy.

-Er...

-Is it worth trying changing one letter?

You change one letter and get another word?

No, no, it's not a word one at all.

They're American soccer teams.

LA Galaxy, Portland Timbers, Seattle Sounders and Columbus Crew.

American football teams.

And the Green group - Desire, Lumia, Optimus and Xperia.

Is this something to do with cameras?

-Magnifying glasses...

-Only in the most massively indistinct way.

I'm afraid they are makers of Smartphone.

They probably all have cameras on them -

but Smartphones is what they are.

And the next group -

The Fly, Sweetest Thing, Elevation and New Year's Day.

-U2 songs.

-U2 songs?

They are U2 songs.

-I think you knew there were some there...

-I knew two, but...

That's the thing with U2, anything could be a song title,

they could just have easily

have released a Crew or Xperia - but that's it.

And the last turquoise group starting Frozen in Time.

Films starring Keanu Reeves.

Not it, I'm afraid.

They are stunts by David Blaine.

The one you might know, Above the Below,

that's the one he did in London,

you know, he was in a glass box over the Thames.

-The box on the Thames, yeah.

-Exactly.

All of them David Blaine stunts.

So, unfortunately, you didn't find any groups

but you do get a point for the connections,

so that is a total of one.

We're going to bring in the Taverners now

and give them a horrible Connecting Wall

and see what they can do about sorting it.

It's going to be the Lion Wall for you because the Water's been taken.

You have two and a half minutes to solve it, starting now.

-What have we got? We have...

-Oh, we've got Star Trek movies,

so we've got Into Darkness and Nemesis.

Yes, OK, very nice.

Helter Skelter, Rita, Michelle, Glass Onion...

-and Across the Universe.

-BUZZ

-..Across the Universe...

-So, leave out Rita.

BUZZ

-Leave out...

-I think, yeah, because...

-Three strikes and you're out now.

-Sketch, Maxxie, Sid and Anwar -

Sid is the one I said you looked like earlier, are from...

-Excellent, yeah.

-That one, whatever it's called.

-Skins.

-That's the one.

So, which means we've got The Swarm, Revolution and Big One.

Does that mean anything?

-Oh, aren't they rides at Alton Towers or something?

-Ah, yes.

-Yes!

Could well be.

So, which do you think the other one is?

-It's got to be Sketch.

-No, it's Rita.

-Oh, is it Rita?

-Rita Speed, because it's a backwards acronym,

it stands for Alton Towers Interim Rocket.

That's good knowledge!

-Should I press it?

-Yeah, go for it.

-Yeah.

You've solved the Wall! Very well done, excellent.

Now, what about some points for the connections?

The first blue group, starting Into Darkness.

They are Star Trek films.

They are Star Trek films.

I feel like it's been all of seven minutes

since we had a Star Trek question, so...

And the green group starting Helter Skelter.

They're all Beatles songs.

They are Beatles songs.

And the next pink group, starting The Swarm.

I think they're all rides, amusement park rides.

They are.

Can you be any more specific?

I think they're all at Alton Towers.

They're actually not all Alton Towers, but they are all rides,

so I'll take it. I think they're all officially roller-coasters.

-Oh, OK, yeah.

-But that might just be my very old-fashioned word.

The Big One's in Blackpool, isn't it?

-Oh, is it?

-Yeah.

All fairground rides - and the last turquoise group...

They're all characters from Skins.

They are from Channel 4's Skins.

So, you did find all the groups and all the connections.

That is a maximum of ten points.

Very well done. Let's see how that affects scores.

The Taverners have 16 points, the Verbivores have 10 points.

But we're going to play round four, the missing vowels round.

I think, in your last heat, you overcame a 7-point gap here,

so can you do the same again?

Someone's going to round three, someone's going home.

Fingers on buzzers, teams.

I can tell you that the first group are all football tricks.

Taverners.

-Scorpion Kick.

-Correct.

Verbivores.

-Stepover.

-Correct.

Taverners.

-Cruyff Turn.

-Correct.

Verbivores.

-Nutmeg.

-Correct.

Next category, they're all musical trios.

Verbivores.

-Bee Gees.

-Correct.

Verbivores.

-Hanson.

-Correct.

All too young, eh?

Too late, it's Rod, Jane and Freddy.

Next clue.

Verbivores.

-The Three Tenors.

-Correct.

Next category, British butterflies.

Verbivores.

-Comma.

-Correct.

Verbivores.

-Duke Of Burgundy.

-Correct.

Verbivores.

-Orange Tip.

-Correct.

Verbivores.

-Gatekeeper.

-Correct.

Next category, TV series set during the 1940s.

That last one Tenko - but the bell has gone for the end of the quiz -

and, looking at the final scores,

the Taverners have 18 points,

the Verbivores have 19,

you've done it again.

Turned around that gap,

and you have won

and are through to round three.

Taverners, I am so sorry to lose you, you've been a great team.

Mickey, you have looked excellent throughout this quiz.

I've very much enjoyed your wardrobe and your quizzing.

Very sorry to say goodbye -

but that's it, the show's over.

It is time for us to go home.

And frankly, it's time for you to leave home.

Really, you need to get out.

You're getting pale. Just go for a bag of chips.

Salt and vinegar? I thought so.

Goodbye.