0:00:21 > 0:00:24Hello and welcome to the Only Connect semifinals.
0:00:24 > 0:00:27Yes, we are in the home straight towards the deciding of
0:00:27 > 0:00:30this year's championship, which means so much to everyone involved.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32"Remember last year's winners?"
0:00:32 > 0:00:35is the very difficult tie-break question I'll be asking
0:00:35 > 0:00:36in the event of a draw.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38We're all very excited here, in the studio.
0:00:38 > 0:00:42Let's meet the first contenders for this year's final.
0:00:42 > 0:00:43On my right...
0:00:43 > 0:00:45Jeremy Partington,
0:00:45 > 0:00:48a civil servant who visited the set of A View To A Kill
0:00:48 > 0:00:52while the crater which blew up Grace Jones was still smouldering.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55Chris James, a software developer
0:00:55 > 0:00:57who used to live next door
0:00:57 > 0:01:00to the original lead singer of Iron Maiden.
0:01:00 > 0:01:02And their captain, Jonathan Carter,
0:01:02 > 0:01:05a civil servant who's been down a salt mine in Poland,
0:01:05 > 0:01:08a silver mine in the Czech Republic and a coal mine in County Durham.
0:01:08 > 0:01:09United by a fondness
0:01:09 > 0:01:11for well-tended shrubbery,
0:01:11 > 0:01:13they are the Surrealists.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17Jonathan, your team has not lost a single game on the way here.
0:01:17 > 0:01:19How's your team faring as the pressure mounts?
0:01:19 > 0:01:22Well, it's been so surreal that I think we've broken through
0:01:22 > 0:01:25and come out the other side, where it's all too worryingly real.
0:01:25 > 0:01:29Tonight, you are facing, on my left...
0:01:29 > 0:01:32Phyl Styles, a secondary school teacher who's had
0:01:32 > 0:01:36a total of 104 children living in her house at various times.
0:01:36 > 0:01:39Tom Cappleman, a software engineer
0:01:39 > 0:01:41who spent several consecutive nights
0:01:41 > 0:01:44sleeping in a graveyard.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46And their captain, Graeme Cole,
0:01:46 > 0:01:49a computer sciences graduate who designed a logo for
0:01:49 > 0:01:52a teletext page that was used for the next ten years.
0:01:52 > 0:01:54United by a love of language,
0:01:54 > 0:01:55they are the Verbivores.
0:01:55 > 0:01:57Now, this is a rematch.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59You've met tonight's opposition once before,
0:01:59 > 0:02:02and you suffered a defeat on that occasion.
0:02:02 > 0:02:03How are the team's spirits tonight?
0:02:03 > 0:02:06Well, we thought, to maximise our chances today,
0:02:06 > 0:02:09we ought to spend the previous night swotting up with encyclopaedias
0:02:09 > 0:02:10and quiz books and so on.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13Then we decided it would be a lot more fun to go bowling,
0:02:13 > 0:02:15so we did that instead.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17Excellent. That'll get you right in the mood.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19Let's bowl a few questions at these teams.
0:02:19 > 0:02:20You won the toss, Surrealists,
0:02:20 > 0:02:22but you decided to put your opponents in first.
0:02:22 > 0:02:23So, Verbivores,
0:02:23 > 0:02:26- please choose a hieroglyph. - Lion, please.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29OK. The first question of this year's semifinals
0:02:29 > 0:02:30will be the Lion question.
0:02:30 > 0:02:32Your first clue is coming in now.
0:02:35 > 0:02:36Next.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45Precision. Detective?
0:02:46 > 0:02:48Pre... So it's C, I, S.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50- But that doesn't... Yeah.- Next.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54Influen... Oh, tec!
0:02:54 > 0:02:56Yes, detective can be used for tec.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59So you can use it for what it would be related to.
0:03:01 > 0:03:05A common abbreviation of these words have been removed from the words.
0:03:05 > 0:03:06Very well spotted.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08You didn't need the last clue.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11Eabeth, from which Liz has been removed. Elizabeth.
0:03:11 > 0:03:13What words are we looking at?
0:03:13 > 0:03:17Detective, influenza and...
0:03:17 > 0:03:19The first one? I'm not sure.
0:03:19 > 0:03:20It's prescription.
0:03:20 > 0:03:22You can say script for prescription.
0:03:22 > 0:03:23That's come out of prescription.
0:03:23 > 0:03:24Tec out of detective.
0:03:24 > 0:03:26Flu out of influenza.
0:03:26 > 0:03:27And Liz out of Elizabeth.
0:03:27 > 0:03:28Very well spotted. Well done.
0:03:28 > 0:03:30Abbreviations have been taken out.
0:03:30 > 0:03:32Surrealists, what would you like?
0:03:32 > 0:03:33- Twisted Flax, please.- Twisted Flax.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36OK, what is the connection between these clues?
0:03:36 > 0:03:37Here's the first.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42Anything? Next, please.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48That was the first film...
0:03:50 > 0:03:52And they're the producers.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54What were the first films...?
0:03:54 > 0:03:56- Have to take another.- Next, please.
0:03:58 > 0:03:59Oh, it's the first...
0:03:59 > 0:04:00The first lesbian kiss.
0:04:00 > 0:04:01It's the first kiss
0:04:01 > 0:04:03of a particular kind.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05Yeah. First kisses.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11First kisses.
0:04:11 > 0:04:12Well, I will take it.
0:04:12 > 0:04:15There's an interesting fact about the last clue
0:04:15 > 0:04:18that you haven't seen yet - that's about to come up now - but, yes.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21May Irwin and John Rice, do you know what that is?
0:04:21 > 0:04:23- That's a very early film. - The first film kiss?
0:04:23 > 0:04:24That's one of the first kisses
0:04:24 > 0:04:25we know about on film.
0:04:25 > 0:04:29Thomas Edison filmed a scene from a musical that had a kiss in it,
0:04:29 > 0:04:31and that was terribly controversial.
0:04:31 > 0:04:35The next one, Jack Powell and David Armstrong, what's that?
0:04:35 > 0:04:38That must be the first male kiss on film, somewhere.
0:04:38 > 0:04:40Of course, we don't know
0:04:40 > 0:04:41everything that's on film,
0:04:41 > 0:04:44but the first or one of the first kisses between two men.
0:04:44 > 0:04:45It's a Clara Bow movie,
0:04:45 > 0:04:46and the two men are competing
0:04:46 > 0:04:48for her affection, and they kiss
0:04:48 > 0:04:50each other - in a very manly way.
0:04:50 > 0:04:52But still, a little controversial at the time.
0:04:52 > 0:04:54Beth Jordache and Margaret Clemence from Brookside,
0:04:54 > 0:04:56a lesbian kiss that was very much talked about
0:04:56 > 0:04:58and actually used, I think,
0:04:58 > 0:04:59at the beginning of the Olympics.
0:04:59 > 0:05:02- Yes.- Because people were very proud of that one.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04Let's have a look at the last clue.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06Star Trek, yeah.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08- Interracial.- First interracial kiss, wasn't it, I think?
0:05:08 > 0:05:10Except that it wasn't, you see.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12There had been an interracial kiss
0:05:12 > 0:05:13on a TV play for Granada,
0:05:13 > 0:05:15You In Your Small Corner, that
0:05:15 > 0:05:17was quietly the first interracial
0:05:17 > 0:05:20kiss on TV, but thought to be the first one is this from Star Trek.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22It is thought to be the first kiss.
0:05:22 > 0:05:23Very well done.
0:05:23 > 0:05:25Verbivores, what would you like?
0:05:25 > 0:05:27- Eye of Horus, please. - Eye of Horus.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30You're going to see some picture clues. What connects them?
0:05:30 > 0:05:31Here's the first.
0:05:33 > 0:05:36- Don't recognise them.- No.- Next.
0:05:39 > 0:05:42- Don't know who they are. - I don't know.- Next.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46Well, we're clattering through these, aren't we?
0:05:46 > 0:05:47Do you know who that is?
0:05:47 > 0:05:49HE WHISPERS
0:05:49 > 0:05:52- No, I don't. Not good at these people.- Next.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55David Bowie...
0:05:55 > 0:05:57Is that Liam Gallagher?
0:05:59 > 0:06:02Are they...? I don't know, have they done duets?
0:06:02 > 0:06:04If we haven't got anything else, let's do it.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07- Two seconds.- Same names?
0:06:07 > 0:06:12Uh... Is the surname of one the first name of another?
0:06:13 > 0:06:14The surname of one
0:06:14 > 0:06:16is not the first name of another,
0:06:16 > 0:06:18I'm afraid.
0:06:18 > 0:06:19Surrealists, do you want
0:06:19 > 0:06:20to have a go for a bonus point?
0:06:20 > 0:06:22They both have the same real name.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24The whole name is the same.
0:06:24 > 0:06:25Their birth names are the same.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27Who are we looking at?
0:06:27 > 0:06:28Stewart Grainger and James Stewart.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31- Michael Douglas and Michael Keaton. - Mm-hm.
0:06:31 > 0:06:35Katy Perry and... Elizabeth Hudson?
0:06:35 > 0:06:37- Kate Hudson.- Kate Hudson. Yeah.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39David Bowie and David Jones.
0:06:39 > 0:06:40Davy Jones.
0:06:40 > 0:06:42David Bowie and Davy Jones.
0:06:42 > 0:06:43Yes, Davy Jones very much
0:06:43 > 0:06:46the Liam Gallagher of the 1960s.
0:06:46 > 0:06:48That's right, the person on the left
0:06:48 > 0:06:49was born with the same name
0:06:49 > 0:06:51as the person on the right,
0:06:51 > 0:06:52but they changed it to avoid fusion.
0:06:52 > 0:06:55So James Stewart became Stewart Grainger.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58Michael Douglas became Michael Keaton. And so on.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00Surrealists, what would you like?
0:07:00 > 0:07:01The Horned Viper, please.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03The Horned Viper. What is the connection between these clues?
0:07:03 > 0:07:05Here's the first.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09Anything?
0:07:09 > 0:07:10Next, please.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14So that will be versions, or something.
0:07:18 > 0:07:19Next, please.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24Renaldo. Renee and Renaldo?
0:07:25 > 0:07:27- What's their song?- No, it's not.
0:07:27 > 0:07:31- That's completely different. - Next. Next, please.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35Those are singers of the...
0:07:35 > 0:07:37HE WHISPERS
0:07:39 > 0:07:40It's the Four Tops, I think.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42- Sure?- Three seconds.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46They're all singers for the Four Tops.
0:07:46 > 0:07:47These are the Four Tops,
0:07:47 > 0:07:49that is absolutely right.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51The Motown vocal quartet, the Four Tops,
0:07:51 > 0:07:52and these are the four.
0:07:52 > 0:07:54Very well done.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56Verbivores, what would you like?
0:07:56 > 0:07:57Two Reeds, please. Two Reeds.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59- MUSICAL TONE - Water, please.
0:07:59 > 0:08:00SHE LAUGHS
0:08:00 > 0:08:01Too late, I'm afraid.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03It is the lovely music question.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05You'll be hearing your clues. What connects them?
0:08:05 > 0:08:06Here's the first.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:08:09 > 0:08:12Oh, my God, what is this?
0:08:12 > 0:08:14I think that's...a ballet.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16- There's one that goes... It's not that, is it?- No.
0:08:16 > 0:08:17Next.
0:08:17 > 0:08:20LIVELY ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:08:23 > 0:08:25No. Next.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27# Lights go out and I can't be saved... #
0:08:27 > 0:08:28Coldplay.
0:08:28 > 0:08:32- # Tides that I tried... # - X And Y? X And Y?
0:08:32 > 0:08:35- # Have brought me down... # - Next.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37LIVELY GUITAR MUSIC PLAYS
0:08:44 > 0:08:46Two seconds.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48Letters of the alphabet.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50Not the answer, I'm afraid.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52So, surrealists, would you like
0:08:52 > 0:08:54to have a go for a bonus point?
0:08:54 > 0:08:56- Clocks?- Clocks is the answer.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58What did we hear?
0:08:58 > 0:09:00Was the first one Haydn's Clock Symphony?
0:09:00 > 0:09:01I mean, it's officially
0:09:01 > 0:09:02Haydn's Symphony Number 101,
0:09:02 > 0:09:04but it is known as the Clock Symphony
0:09:04 > 0:09:05because of the ticking
0:09:05 > 0:09:06throughout one of the movements.
0:09:06 > 0:09:07What else?
0:09:07 > 0:09:09The third one was Coldplay.
0:09:09 > 0:09:11Coldplay, Clocks.
0:09:11 > 0:09:13The last one was Rock Around The Clock, wasn't it?
0:09:13 > 0:09:15Rock Around The Clock, Bill Haley & the Comets.
0:09:15 > 0:09:17And the second one was The Syncopated Clock.
0:09:17 > 0:09:18Clocks is the answer
0:09:18 > 0:09:19for a bonus point.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21And your question now, Water.
0:09:21 > 0:09:23What is the connection between these clues?
0:09:23 > 0:09:24Here's the first.
0:09:30 > 0:09:32Anything? Next, please.
0:09:39 > 0:09:42- Why? - THEY WHISPER
0:09:42 > 0:09:43Next, please.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49- What's that?- Oh, the next part of that is...
0:09:49 > 0:09:51- No, but they must all have... - Hampton Court, is it? No.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53It's between... Wait, Hammersmith.
0:09:53 > 0:09:56Yeah, but what's the connection? Next, please.
0:09:56 > 0:09:58- Which one is it, though? - It's not a sequence.
0:09:58 > 0:09:59No, but the...
0:10:02 > 0:10:04Two seconds.
0:10:04 > 0:10:05- The Kew Bridge.- Q.- Q.
0:10:05 > 0:10:06Q.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08The answer is Q.
0:10:08 > 0:10:11You don't have to write it down, so it doesn't matter how you spell it.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14How would you spell it in these various clues?
0:10:14 > 0:10:17Um... That must be C-U-E in the first one.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19That first one, it is a term
0:10:19 > 0:10:20from psychology and biology.
0:10:20 > 0:10:22A cue that prompts an organism
0:10:22 > 0:10:23to make inferences.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25- Q-U-E-U-E.- That's right.
0:10:25 > 0:10:27That's the second complicated one.
0:10:27 > 0:10:30- Kew.- That's Kew Bridge. - And then just Q.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32The letter Q is the least common in the OED.
0:10:32 > 0:10:35All sound-alikes of Q. Well done.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37That means, at the end of Round One,
0:10:37 > 0:10:39the Verbivores have two points,
0:10:39 > 0:10:41the Surrealists have six.
0:10:44 > 0:10:48On to round Q, the sequences round, or two as some people call it.
0:10:48 > 0:10:49You will be going first again, Verbivores.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51Which hieroglyph would you like?
0:10:51 > 0:10:53- The Horned Viper, please. - The Horned Viper, OK.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56You'll be seeing the first in a sequence of pictures.
0:10:56 > 0:11:00What would you expect to see in the fourth picture? The time starts now.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04- 4, dart.- OK.
0:11:04 > 0:11:05Next.
0:11:08 > 0:11:104, 1...
0:11:12 > 0:11:14Two o'clock. One o'clock.
0:11:14 > 0:11:16No, it's not that. Next.
0:11:17 > 0:11:20- 18.- Is it adding a double?
0:11:21 > 0:11:22D-A-R-T!
0:11:23 > 0:11:25A dart in the 20.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28Is the right answer. Very well done.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31So, you spotted what is going on in this fiendish sequence.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33- Talk me through it.- It's the...
0:11:33 > 0:11:35The fourth letter of the alphabet is D,
0:11:35 > 0:11:37the first is A, the 18th is R and the 20th is T,
0:11:37 > 0:11:39and it spells out dart.
0:11:39 > 0:11:40That's right.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42This is very much up your street.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44It is a clever letter question,
0:11:44 > 0:11:46but deeply disguised on a dartboard,
0:11:46 > 0:11:47so very well spotted there.
0:11:47 > 0:11:50T is the right answer, to spell out the word dart.
0:11:50 > 0:11:51Back to you, Surrealists,
0:11:51 > 0:11:52for a sequence choice.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54- Eye of Horus, please.- OK.
0:11:54 > 0:11:58What would come fourth in this sequence? Here's the first.
0:12:00 > 0:12:01- 1381.- Yes.
0:12:04 > 0:12:06- Next, please.- Next one.
0:12:09 > 0:12:101581?
0:12:10 > 0:12:12No, was it that?
0:12:12 > 0:12:14No, that was before the Spanish Armada,
0:12:14 > 0:12:15so that would be...
0:12:15 > 0:12:17So we think it could be something that happened...?
0:12:17 > 0:12:19It could still be.
0:12:19 > 0:12:20- You think it could be 1981?- Yeah.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22- It could be 1981.- What do you want?
0:12:22 > 0:12:23- Next?- OK.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25- Next?- 1781, so it will be... - Next, please.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29So what happened in 1981?
0:12:32 > 0:12:35Assassination attempt of Reagan.
0:12:35 > 0:12:37Was that...?
0:12:37 > 0:12:39- Um... Was that definitely in 1981?- Yeah.
0:12:39 > 0:12:40Something that happened in 1981.
0:12:40 > 0:12:42Something that happened in 1981.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45Well, that's the right answer, but I would like an example.
0:12:45 > 0:12:48Assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan, or the Pope.
0:12:48 > 0:12:49Both those assassination
0:12:49 > 0:12:50attempts were in 1981.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52Charles and Diana's wedding would be
0:12:52 > 0:12:53the cheerier example that we
0:12:53 > 0:12:55were thinking of, but that's right.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57And what were the years of these other things?
0:12:57 > 0:12:59So, 1381,
0:12:59 > 0:13:011581,
0:13:01 > 0:13:031781 and 1981.
0:13:03 > 0:13:05- So going up in 200s. - That's right.
0:13:05 > 0:13:06The Battle of Yorktown
0:13:06 > 0:13:07was the last major battle
0:13:07 > 0:13:09in the American War of Independence.
0:13:09 > 0:13:10We are jumping 200 years each time.
0:13:10 > 0:13:12Something from 1981,
0:13:12 > 0:13:15for example a wedding or an assassination attempt,
0:13:15 > 0:13:16depending on your...
0:13:16 > 0:13:17outlook on life.
0:13:18 > 0:13:19Verbivores, back to you for
0:13:19 > 0:13:21- a choice.- Twisted Flax, please.
0:13:21 > 0:13:24The Twisted Flax. OK. What would come fourth in this sequence?
0:13:24 > 0:13:25Here's the first.
0:13:27 > 0:13:30A wanderer. A wanderer is another word for a star, isn't it?
0:13:30 > 0:13:34- Planet.- Sorry, no, you're right. Yes, sorry, planet.
0:13:34 > 0:13:35Next.
0:13:36 > 0:13:37Horch.
0:13:37 > 0:13:42- It's going to be four...- Is it going to be the Audi symbol?- Yeah.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45Cos that means a planet, that... I don't know what Horch is,
0:13:45 > 0:13:48- but should we say four rings and Audi?- Yeah.
0:13:48 > 0:13:50Four rings, Audi.
0:13:50 > 0:13:52Four rings, Audi
0:13:52 > 0:13:53is the right answer.
0:13:53 > 0:13:57- And why?- They're just successive number of rings.
0:13:57 > 0:14:00The first one, I think it is the symbol for a planet,
0:14:00 > 0:14:02which is otherwise called a wanderer.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05What it is, the four rings symbolise
0:14:05 > 0:14:07four different car companies
0:14:07 > 0:14:08that merged in 1932.
0:14:08 > 0:14:10- Oh.- Wanderer - or "Vanderer" -
0:14:10 > 0:14:12Horch, DKW,
0:14:12 > 0:14:13however you pronounce them,
0:14:13 > 0:14:14these are four German car companies
0:14:14 > 0:14:15that merged
0:14:15 > 0:14:18and they ended up with Audi.
0:14:18 > 0:14:20We're going in reverse alphabetical order.
0:14:20 > 0:14:22It's not that Audi was particularly the fourth.
0:14:22 > 0:14:23Audi is also the one
0:14:23 > 0:14:24you're most likely to guess,
0:14:24 > 0:14:26if you recognise the logo - well done.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28Back to you, Surrealists, for a choice.
0:14:28 > 0:14:30- Lion, please.- Lion.
0:14:30 > 0:14:33What is the fourth in this sequence?
0:14:33 > 0:14:34Here's the first.
0:14:38 > 0:14:41Next, please.
0:14:44 > 0:14:46There is commas... Full stops...
0:14:46 > 0:14:47Comma, dot-dot-dot.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50It's missing out B, C, F, G...
0:14:50 > 0:14:52And H, I, K.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54M...
0:14:54 > 0:14:55- Next.- Next, please.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59M, O, P...
0:14:59 > 0:15:01S, T. So it would be...
0:15:01 > 0:15:04The last one missing is the first one and the next one.
0:15:04 > 0:15:07So...you'll have to do something.
0:15:07 > 0:15:10I'm stumped. Can't see it.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12Two seconds.
0:15:12 > 0:15:13BELL
0:15:13 > 0:15:16Um...T...
0:15:18 > 0:15:19X...
0:15:19 > 0:15:25So, T,...X,...Z.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27Is the right answer.
0:15:27 > 0:15:29Do you have any idea why?
0:15:29 > 0:15:30Cos we're missing out
0:15:30 > 0:15:31some letters along the way!
0:15:31 > 0:15:33We do sometimes have that.
0:15:33 > 0:15:34Amazing thing about the brain.
0:15:34 > 0:15:36Sometimes, people give an answer, and it's right,
0:15:36 > 0:15:37and they don't know why - sometimes,
0:15:37 > 0:15:39your unconscious mind's noticed something,
0:15:39 > 0:15:40sometimes it's coincidence.
0:15:40 > 0:15:41I'll tell you the letters
0:15:41 > 0:15:43that are missed out - have a think
0:15:43 > 0:15:45whether they have anything in common.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47B, C, F, H, I,
0:15:47 > 0:15:52K, N, O, P, S, U, V, W, Y.
0:15:53 > 0:15:55They are elements.
0:15:55 > 0:15:58- Oh!- We have removed all the letters
0:15:58 > 0:16:01that symbolise chemical elements
0:16:01 > 0:16:02and left only the letters
0:16:02 > 0:16:04that are not elements.
0:16:04 > 0:16:06So taking out V, vanadium,
0:16:06 > 0:16:08W, tungsten, Y, yttrium,
0:16:08 > 0:16:11we get T,...X,...Z.
0:16:11 > 0:16:13Maybe a hypnotist could regress you
0:16:13 > 0:16:14to the moment in your life
0:16:14 > 0:16:16when you knew that, when the inner voice
0:16:16 > 0:16:18told you T, X and Z were the answers.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20Spooky.
0:16:20 > 0:16:22Back to the people who sleep in graveyards.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24LAUGHTER Verbivores, what would you like?
0:16:24 > 0:16:26- Water, please.- Water, OK.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28What will come fourth in this sequence?
0:16:28 > 0:16:29Here's the first.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33HORN, in capitals, for some reason.
0:16:33 > 0:16:34Next.
0:16:37 > 0:16:40It's the examples in a game of Scrabble.
0:16:40 > 0:16:42HORN, FARM...
0:16:42 > 0:16:44In the box, these are
0:16:44 > 0:16:46the example words, aren't they?
0:16:46 > 0:16:48We are going to have to see them.
0:16:48 > 0:16:49Next.
0:16:51 > 0:16:52PASTE...
0:16:54 > 0:16:55I don't know...
0:16:57 > 0:16:58FARM...
0:16:58 > 0:17:00Where does PASTE go in, there?
0:17:00 > 0:17:01Oh...
0:17:01 > 0:17:04I know PIE is used, but...
0:17:05 > 0:17:06Three seconds...
0:17:06 > 0:17:08BELL
0:17:08 > 0:17:10PIE, written vertically.
0:17:10 > 0:17:12Not the answer, I'm afraid.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14Surrealists, do you know?
0:17:15 > 0:17:17- NOTE.- No.
0:17:17 > 0:17:18If you don't know, you can't work it out.
0:17:18 > 0:17:19You were absolutely right.
0:17:19 > 0:17:21This is from the sample game from
0:17:21 > 0:17:22the official rules of Scrabble.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24They show you how to play Scrabble
0:17:24 > 0:17:26by putting some words out
0:17:26 > 0:17:28and the next word is MOB.
0:17:28 > 0:17:30It's played from the M of FARM,
0:17:30 > 0:17:32and it makes NOT and BEE,
0:17:32 > 0:17:34using the N from HORN and the E from PASTE.
0:17:34 > 0:17:35MOB is the next word.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37Well done for recognising the sequence,
0:17:37 > 0:17:39if not remembering the word.
0:17:39 > 0:17:40So, no bonus for you, Surrealists,
0:17:40 > 0:17:42but you may have a question,
0:17:42 > 0:17:43the Two Reeds.
0:17:43 > 0:17:44CHIMING
0:17:44 > 0:17:47It's a music sequence, I'm delighted to say.
0:17:47 > 0:17:50Which piece of music would you expect to come fourth?
0:17:50 > 0:17:51Here's the first.
0:17:51 > 0:17:55MUSIC: What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor?
0:17:57 > 0:17:58It's the...
0:17:58 > 0:18:01So, it's the last night of the Proms.
0:18:01 > 0:18:05So it finishes with Land Of Hope And Glory.
0:18:05 > 0:18:07Yeah...or God Save The Queen.
0:18:07 > 0:18:10It finishes with Land Of Hope And Glory, surely.
0:18:10 > 0:18:12Not sure...
0:18:12 > 0:18:13Next, please.
0:18:13 > 0:18:15MUSIC: Greensleeves
0:18:15 > 0:18:17That's Greensleeves.
0:18:17 > 0:18:18Yeah, is that not what they do?
0:18:18 > 0:18:19Then it's Rule Britannia...
0:18:19 > 0:18:22Or is it sea songs?
0:18:22 > 0:18:24No, sea songs, Greensleeves...
0:18:24 > 0:18:25Must be Land Of Hope And Glory.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28BELL
0:18:28 > 0:18:29Land of Hope and Glory.
0:18:29 > 0:18:31Not the answer, I'm afraid.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34So, I'm going to play a blast of the third piece
0:18:34 > 0:18:36to the Verbivores for a possible bonus point.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38MUSIC: Men of Harlech
0:18:38 > 0:18:40Are they sea shanties.
0:18:40 > 0:18:42What would be the fourth...?
0:18:43 > 0:18:45That's Welsh, isn't it?
0:18:45 > 0:18:47What else have we had?
0:18:47 > 0:18:48I need an answer.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50Uh...the national anthem.
0:18:50 > 0:18:51Not it, I'm afraid.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53- You're thinking of the Proms, aren't you?- Yeah.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55- That's not what it is. - Not what it is.
0:18:55 > 0:18:56It's the UK Theme.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59- Oh...- Radio 4 always used to begin with the UK Theme.
0:18:59 > 0:19:02Horrifically, they dropped it a while ago for, sort of, news,
0:19:02 > 0:19:04cos we don't get enough news(!)
0:19:04 > 0:19:06But it used to be that, and the fast section
0:19:06 > 0:19:08is made up of What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor,
0:19:08 > 0:19:10Greensleeves, Men of Harlech,
0:19:10 > 0:19:13and then Scotland the Brave.
0:19:13 > 0:19:15Scotland the Brave, people at home
0:19:15 > 0:19:16will be aching to hear it,
0:19:16 > 0:19:17but we don't have it to play.
0:19:17 > 0:19:18I think, though,
0:19:18 > 0:19:20- we might whistle it.- Yes!
0:19:20 > 0:19:21What do you think?
0:19:21 > 0:19:22Can we whistle Scotland the Brave?
0:19:22 > 0:19:23- Yes.- That's right,
0:19:23 > 0:19:25have a sip of water, get yourself
0:19:25 > 0:19:26ready for the whistling.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28- Warm up!- Warm up.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30OK, one, two, three...
0:19:30 > 0:19:34THEY HUM AND WHISTLE SCOTLAND THE BRAVE
0:19:44 > 0:19:45We're all in a different key.
0:19:45 > 0:19:47I mean, I could let this go
0:19:47 > 0:19:48till the end of the show.
0:19:48 > 0:19:49Absolutely lovely.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51Scotland the Brave, there.
0:19:51 > 0:19:52Scottish viewers will be thrilled.
0:19:52 > 0:19:54LAUGHTER
0:19:54 > 0:19:55The rousing sound
0:19:55 > 0:19:57of that beautiful whistling.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00No points, though, unfortunately, but I can tell you that at the end of round two,
0:20:00 > 0:20:02the Verbivores have 7,
0:20:02 > 0:20:04the Surrealists have 10.
0:20:06 > 0:20:08On to the Connecting Wall, now,
0:20:08 > 0:20:10and the Surrealists will be going first this time.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12So, please choose - Lion or Water?
0:20:12 > 0:20:14- Lion, please.- Lion.
0:20:14 > 0:20:17Two-and-a-half minutes to solve the Lion Wall, starting now.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21- Um...- Fish.- Right...
0:20:21 > 0:20:26Fugu, dace, bass...hoki.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33Vaux, or...
0:20:34 > 0:20:36No. Dace...
0:20:38 > 0:20:40Must be...
0:20:41 > 0:20:44You can pluck courage, you can pluck flowers...
0:20:45 > 0:20:47You can...
0:20:47 > 0:20:48Courage is a bitter.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50So is that, so is that.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53- Castle?- Vaux, as well.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55It's a drink. It is a beer.
0:20:55 > 0:20:56- Castle?- Try that, yeah.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59Volva?
0:20:59 > 0:21:01They may be...
0:21:01 > 0:21:02They may all be drinks.
0:21:02 > 0:21:06There is a Dutch...oven, Dutch auction...
0:21:06 > 0:21:07- Dutch courage.- Dutch cap?
0:21:07 > 0:21:09No.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15Volva...umbo...
0:21:15 > 0:21:17There must be...
0:21:17 > 0:21:20- What's the stalk? - Beanstalk...
0:21:20 > 0:21:24What did you say? Dutch cap, Dutch courage, Dutch auction...
0:21:24 > 0:21:26Fly leaf...
0:21:26 > 0:21:28Jumbo...umbo...
0:21:30 > 0:21:32What is stalk?
0:21:32 > 0:21:36Parts of flowers? Stalk, umbo, leaf, cap.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41What's the wordplay?
0:21:46 > 0:21:47Come on, time...
0:21:49 > 0:21:51Beanstalk...stalk...
0:21:51 > 0:21:5330 seconds.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56I don't know.
0:21:57 > 0:22:00- What about other flower...? - Volva.
0:22:05 > 0:22:06Go for the beers, then.
0:22:10 > 0:22:11No...
0:22:11 > 0:22:13Bass...
0:22:13 > 0:22:15- No...- 10 seconds.
0:22:22 > 0:22:24That's it, the time is up,
0:22:24 > 0:22:25the Wall has frozen.
0:22:25 > 0:22:27But you've found a group in this difficult semifinal Wall.
0:22:27 > 0:22:30What can you tell me about this blue group, starting fugu?
0:22:30 > 0:22:33They are all fish, types of fish.
0:22:33 > 0:22:35They are all fish. You can still get points
0:22:35 > 0:22:37for the connections in the groups you didn't find,
0:22:37 > 0:22:38so let's resolve the wall.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40There we go.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43Stalk, umbo, cap, volva.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45Parts of a flower?
0:22:45 > 0:22:46No, it's not a flower,
0:22:46 > 0:22:47but a mushroom.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49I think a flower doesn't have an umbo,
0:22:49 > 0:22:51but all bits of a mushroom.
0:22:51 > 0:22:53- Dutch... - And the pink group -
0:22:53 > 0:22:55oven, courage, auction, leaf.
0:22:55 > 0:22:59They can all follow the word Dutch.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01You can put "Dutch" before all of them.
0:23:01 > 0:23:03And the last turquoise group,
0:23:03 > 0:23:05starting "Vau", or "Vox", or "Vaux...
0:23:05 > 0:23:08- Breweries.- Beers or breweries.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11They are beers, and the breweries that make them.
0:23:11 > 0:23:12That's absolutely right.
0:23:12 > 0:23:14So, you found one group and told me three connections,
0:23:14 > 0:23:15that is a total of four.
0:23:15 > 0:23:17Let's bring in the Verbivores, now,
0:23:17 > 0:23:20give them the other Connecting Wall and see what they can do with it.
0:23:20 > 0:23:24Two-and-a-half minutes to solve the Water Wall, starting now.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28- Sargasso Sea?- Sargasso Sea.
0:23:28 > 0:23:31Any other seas? Irish Sea, Dog Sea? Or have I made that up?
0:23:31 > 0:23:34- Bothnian Sea.- Bothnian Sea. - Labrador?
0:23:37 > 0:23:39No... Is there a Labrador Sea?
0:23:39 > 0:23:41Seaweed, maybe? Irish moss.
0:23:41 > 0:23:43It has...
0:23:43 > 0:23:45Oh, Sargasso is a seaweed as well, yes.
0:23:45 > 0:23:46Wrack, Irish moss...
0:23:46 > 0:23:48Any other weeds? Tangleweed?
0:23:48 > 0:23:51- Oh!- Well done.- Right, so... Labrador, Dog...
0:23:51 > 0:23:52The Isle of Dogs, perhaps?
0:23:52 > 0:23:55Are these Kings? Larry King, Carole King, Stephen King...
0:23:55 > 0:23:58Oh, I thought you were meaning there was a King Larry!
0:23:58 > 0:24:02- LAUGHING:- Larry King, Carole King... - Rodney King? Any other Kings?
0:24:02 > 0:24:04There might be an Earl King, mightn't there?
0:24:04 > 0:24:06The others aren't names, are they?
0:24:06 > 0:24:07Let's do it.
0:24:11 > 0:24:12Oh, we've got one...
0:24:12 > 0:24:14Three lives, now.
0:24:14 > 0:24:16Right. Pink, Stephen...
0:24:16 > 0:24:18Irish terrier?
0:24:18 > 0:24:20Um...
0:24:22 > 0:24:24Dog Star? Um...
0:24:26 > 0:24:28What's Wadden?
0:24:28 > 0:24:29I don't know what Wadden is.
0:24:29 > 0:24:32Is it a surname, or...?
0:24:32 > 0:24:34Imperial... Imperial March?
0:24:34 > 0:24:37We could still have seas. Bothnian Sea, Irish Sea...
0:24:37 > 0:24:38Wadden Sea might be...
0:24:38 > 0:24:40Bothnian, Irish, Wadden, Labrador?
0:24:40 > 0:24:43- Might be, yes.- It sounds plausible.
0:24:43 > 0:24:46What do we think the others might be?
0:24:46 > 0:24:48Mint? Is dog mint a thing?
0:24:48 > 0:24:50Dog mint, pink mint, Stephen Mint?
0:24:50 > 0:24:53- Well, can we try Labrador?- Yeah.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56- Oh!- That's it, you've solved the Wall, very well done.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58So, that's four points for the groups,
0:24:58 > 0:25:00and I'm going to ask you about the connections,
0:25:00 > 0:25:03and I will be wanting specific answers in this semifinal.
0:25:03 > 0:25:06Tell me about the first group, starting Irish moss.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09Types of seaweed?
0:25:09 > 0:25:13They are types of seaweed or marine algae, well done.
0:25:13 > 0:25:16And the green group - Earl, Larry, Rodney, Carol.
0:25:16 > 0:25:17King.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19They are all kings.
0:25:19 > 0:25:21What about the next pink group?
0:25:21 > 0:25:22They are seas.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25- I need more.- They are seas...
0:25:25 > 0:25:26Around the British Isles?
0:25:26 > 0:25:28Are they European?
0:25:29 > 0:25:31They are around Europe.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33They are not, the Labrador Sea
0:25:33 > 0:25:34is between Canada and Greenland.
0:25:34 > 0:25:36They are seas of the North Atlantic.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38- Oh, right. - That's what I needed to hear.
0:25:38 > 0:25:41And the turquoise group, starting dog.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44- Mint?- Let's say Mint.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46The word is not mint, but pound.
0:25:46 > 0:25:48Dog pound, Imperial pound,
0:25:48 > 0:25:50pink pound and Stephen Pound,
0:25:50 > 0:25:51who is an MP.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53You found all four groups, you told me two connections,
0:25:53 > 0:25:55that is a total of six.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57Let's have a look at the overall scores.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00The Verbivores have 13 points,
0:26:00 > 0:26:02the Surrealists have 14.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05So, it could be anyone's game
0:26:05 > 0:26:07as we go into the Missing Vowels round
0:26:07 > 0:26:10that will decide the first place in the final.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12Fingers on buzzers, teams.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14I can tell you that the first group are all...
0:26:20 > 0:26:21BELL
0:26:21 > 0:26:22Verbivores?
0:26:22 > 0:26:24Mastering The Art Of French Cooking.
0:26:27 > 0:26:28BELL
0:26:28 > 0:26:29- Surrealists?- The Naked Chef.
0:26:38 > 0:26:39Don't know this one?
0:26:39 > 0:26:42It's One Is Fun. Next clue.
0:26:45 > 0:26:47BELL Surrealists?
0:26:47 > 0:26:49How To Be A Domestic Goddess.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51Next category...
0:26:58 > 0:26:59BELL Verbivores?
0:26:59 > 0:27:01High School Musicalifornia.
0:27:01 > 0:27:02Well done.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06BELL Surrealists?
0:27:06 > 0:27:08There's Something About Maryland.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12BELL Surrealists?
0:27:12 > 0:27:14The Night Before Christmassachusetts.
0:27:14 > 0:27:16I'm afraid it's not. Verbivores, do you know?
0:27:16 > 0:27:17The Night Before Christmas...
0:27:17 > 0:27:18That's not it, either.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21It's The Nightmare Before Christmassachusetts.
0:27:21 > 0:27:23Next clue.
0:27:25 > 0:27:26BELL Surrealists?
0:27:26 > 0:27:29Gone With The Wind...
0:27:29 > 0:27:31Too long, I'm afraid. Verbivores?
0:27:31 > 0:27:32Gone With The Windiana.
0:27:32 > 0:27:33Gone With The Windiana.
0:27:33 > 0:27:34Next category...
0:27:37 > 0:27:38BELL Verbivores?
0:27:38 > 0:27:39Sedimentary.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42END-OF-ROUND JINGLE
0:27:42 > 0:27:44Sedimentary is the right answer.
0:27:44 > 0:27:47And after an exciting and hotly contested ground four,
0:27:47 > 0:27:49I can reveal that the winners,
0:27:49 > 0:27:51and through to the final with 17 points,
0:27:51 > 0:27:53are the Verbivores.
0:27:53 > 0:27:56Very well done to you, and a close second,
0:27:56 > 0:27:59with 15 points, it's the Surrealists.
0:27:59 > 0:28:00Very unlucky, Surrealists.
0:28:00 > 0:28:03You've been a brilliant team and a pleasure to have here.
0:28:03 > 0:28:05- OK.- I'm sorry to say goodbye.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07Well done to you, Verbivores.
0:28:07 > 0:28:08You are through to the final.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10So unexpected!
0:28:10 > 0:28:12Good luck, there.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14And before we go, I'm excited to reveal that Only Connect
0:28:14 > 0:28:18has just come second in a poll to name the greatest quiz shows
0:28:18 > 0:28:21of all time, second only to the classic Bullseye.
0:28:21 > 0:28:23We are honoured to be in such exalted company and,
0:28:23 > 0:28:25as a tribute to that great show, next week,
0:28:25 > 0:28:29the teams will be competing for a small Bronze Bully.
0:28:29 > 0:28:31That's right, I'm getting a fake tan.
0:28:31 > 0:28:32Goodbye.