Networkers v Cousins Only Connect

Hello again.

Yes, like the fearsome Scot, Macbeth,

we are back from the dead to fight another day.

Sorry?

Doesn't he?

Well, then, what happens

in the sequel?

Yes, there is!

Oh, well, that's a ridiculous waste

of a potentially lucrative...

Fine. Fine. Fine.

Fine, fine, fine.

Let's meet the teams.

On my right...

Frank Little -

a semi-retired computer programmer who enjoys orchestral music

and once played postal chess against Boris Karloff's brother.

David Collison -

an IT specialist who enjoys sudoku puzzles

and some light recreational mathematics.

And their captain, Harriet Courtney -

a retired data analyst with a BSC in Earth sciences

who has lived as a Viking, a Saxon and a Roman.

United by a fondness for forums,

they are the Networkers.

What are your team's strengths?

What are your best subjects?

We've all got different strengths, I think, hopefully.

Let's find out.

Different strengths are very much what you need for this quiz.

We'll see.

Your opponents tonight are, on my left,

Michael Cannon -

a French and history graduate

who hosted Angela Lansbury's 90th birthday party,

which was not attended by Angela Lansbury.

He is the cousin of Emma Reeves -

a writer and English graduate with an MA in creative writing from the

University of East Anglia,

who is the cousin of their captain,

David Whitley -

an author and classically trained bass baritone who can recite

the opening of the Canterbury Tales in 14th century English.

United by DNA, they are the Cousins.

David, what are your team's strengths?

Well, we think we're doing all right on music.

We've got different eras covered, over here.

But otherwise I guess we'll find out

as the questions go.

Well, you're good at tossing coins. You've won the toss

so you'll be going first.

This is round one. I simply want to know,

what is the connection between four apparently random clues.

Please choose an Egyptian hieroglyph.

Eye of Horus, please.

The Eye of Horus.

What is the connection

between these clues?

Here's the first.

Duck. Something duck.

-Toilet duck?

-Toilet duck.

Any insight?

Yeah, let's get on with it. Next.

House.

Sitting duck?

Sitting duck? Sitting house?

Well, that might be, mightn't it?

I think maybe one more, shall we?

Yes. Next.

Builder.

Cowboy builder. No - cowboy duck?

-Bob the Builder?

-Yes, Bob the...?

Shall we have the last one? Next.

Gabler.

-Gabler. Hedda? Gabler?

-Header? Duck?

-What?

-Three seconds.

Ibsen? Ibsen.

Ibsen.

Yeah.

They're all plays by Ibsen.

The last word of the titles of the plays.

The last word of the title of a play by Ibsen.

They are all the last words

in the titles of Ibsen plays.

Yes, not "G-ay-bler" -

builder might throw you in that direction -

but "G-ah-bler". Hedda Gabler.

What are the other plays?

Doll?

Yeah, so, there's A Doll's House.

-The Master Builder.

-Yeah.

-Hedda Gabler.

-And Duck?

-Wild Duck?

-It is.

The Wild Duck -

a play about some people that find a duck.

Sometimes staged with a live duck.

I often recommend that this show

be staged with a live duck.

Nobody listens to me.

Well done for the point.

Networkers - your chance to choose.

Horned Viper, please.

The Horned Viper.

These are going to be picture clues.

Something connects them. What is it?

Here's the first one.

SHE BUZZES

Sorry - I didn't mean to do that!

I'm afraid you have buzzed.

I must ask for an answer.

Oh, dear! I'm sorry.

I was trying to say next

and my fingers went wrong!

How about something about weather,

in case it's a lightning bolt?

-Yes.

-Might be something like that.

OK. Weather.

It is not the weather.

I'm going to throw it to

the other team for a possible bonus.

I'll show you the other clues, but

I can't give you long to consult.

No...erm...

That's... Oh, blimey.

Do you have an answer?

I don't think we do, do we?

No. It is unprecedented, I think,

to throw it over after one clue.

So, you would want longer

than you've got.

What an unfortunate piece of luck!

Now, we're looking at the sprinter

Yohan Blake -

nicknamed The Beast.

As was Aleister Crowley,

who features at clue two.

The American presidential car

also called The Beast,

and who's in that last picture?

Is it Mark Labbett, is it?

Yes, it is. From The Chase -

erstwhile of Only Connect

as well, of course -

known as The Beast.

They're all known as The Beast.

Unlucky there, Harriet.

No bonus point for you then, Cousins.

But you may choose a question.

Twisted Flax, please.

The Twisted Flax.

What connects these clues?

Here's the first.

Henry Bowers? No. OK, so...

Next.

Edgar Evans...

Ah...ooh...

-No.

-I don't know, I'm afraid.

Are they sports? They probably are.

-Shall we go for the next?

-Yes.

-Next.

-Next one?

-Oh...Ed Wilson?

Yes, probably. Next, please.

Titus Oates?

Was he a boxer?

Oh, this is not going...

Edgar, Edward...

Are they all, sort of, second people

who went in polar expeditions?

-Try it.

-Three seconds.

Are they all second-in-commands

of polar expeditions?

They are not seconds-in-command

of polar expeditions. A bonus chance

for you, now, Networkers.

They're all members of Scott's

ill-fated expedition.

That's right. In a way, they all

came second in an expedition,

-with Captain Scott.

-Too specific.

Yes. That ill-fated trip to the

Antarctic, where they got to the

south pole to discover that Amundsen

had beaten them to it.

And they died in

various grisly ways.

So, you get the bonus point.

Well done. Please choose a question.

-Lion, please.

-A Lion question.

OK. Careful on that buzzer.

Your first clue is coming in...now.

-OK.

-OK.

-Next.

Next.

Is it something about the letters

-as opposed to the words?

-Yeah...

What are you thinking?

Next.

Is it soldiers?

Might all be called soldiers.

Could be, yes. Give it a go.

They're not all called soldiers, no.

What's your answer?

Oh. I'm...

I'll go for soldiers, yes.

I can't think of anything else.

I'm afraid that's not it. Here's a

bonus chance for you, Cousins.

Another name for them all is

French something.

That's right. I heard you muttering

it at clue two but you veered away.

A cafetiere - a French press -

it's also known as that.

A condom, of course,

the French letter.

What is eggy bread?

-French toast.

-It's French toast,

and chips are French fries.

Although the Belgians claim they

invented them, actually, so they

should be known as Belgian fries,

but not for the purposes of

this question.

Well done, Cousins. You get the

bonus and the choice of question.

-Two Reeds, please.

-Two Reeds.

It's the music question.

We've heard your musical confidence.

Let's see if it's rightly placed.

You'll be hearing the clues,

and the first one is coming in now.

# Ten years ago

# On a cold dark night... #

Next.

# Jane came by

# With a lock of your hair... #

No. Better carry on.

Next.

# No words

# With no song

# You can dance the dream... #

This is not our area, is it?

Shall we have the last one,

just for the sake of it? Next.

# She was afraid to come out

# Of the locker

# She was as nervous

# As she could be. #

Swimwear?

Three seconds.

We're going for dots.

Not the answer I'm afraid.

Networkers, another bonus chance.

Shall we go for yellow?

That's not it either.

You've all recognised

Itsy Bitsy Yellow Dot Bikini

but you've gone too specific.

You also heard the country ballad,

performed here by The Chieftains,

Long Black Veil.

There was Famous Blue Raincoat.

That's a Leonard Cohen number.

And The Red Shoes.

It's all just generally

coloured clothing.

Coloured pieces of clothing

was the connection.

All right. Networkers,

what would you like?

Let's be honest, it doesn't matter - you're getting water.

We only have water left.

We'll have water, please.

It's often like that when I'm hosting anything.

What would you like? Never mind! You're getting water!

What connects these clues?

Here's the first.

Next.

INAUDIBLE

Next.

In Zorro or something like that?

Next.

INAUDIBLE

Three seconds.

No, Harry Potter's not in Morocco.

Victor Laszlo's in Casablanca...

I need an answer.

I can't give you one.

OK. Cousins, do you know?

Ah, we think, possibly,

dead fathers?

Dead parents?

Or taking vengeance upon someone?

I can't take that.

That is key to the first and third clues.

But Victor Laszlo,

I think if his father's dead it's just cos he's an older character -

it's not actually part of the story

of Casablanca, where he appears.

Now, Inigo Montoya,

his father does die.

-He's from the Princess Bride.

-Yeah.

And he's a fencer.

And the father is killed by a man

who spares the child but

-marks his cheek with a sword.

-Scars!

Victor Laszlo has a scar.

Harry Potter, of course,

the scarred child.

And Tony Montana is Scarface

in the Al Pacino movie.

Scarred faces

was the grisly link there.

That means that the end of round one

the Networkers have one point.

The Cousins have two.

Luckily for our teams, more points

are available in round two.

This is the sequences round,

where there are still four connected clues but the fourth one is hidden.

I want the teams to tell me what it is.

They must work out the sequence and tell me what comes fourth.

Cousins, your turn to choose again.

OK. We'll go for water, please.

Water. What would come fourth

in this sequence?

Here's the first.

Corey...2010...?

OK, next.

Davis Love III...

It's only every two years.

Better say next.

Next.

Tom Watson.

Is he, is he a golfer?

-Oh!

-Did they all win...

Erm...

INAUDIBLE

Did they lead the...?

Ryder Cup, maybe?

Yeah, so, what's...

So, what's that main guy's name

this year?

INAUDIBLE

Two seconds.

So not right, but 2016 - Tiger Woods?

Not the answer, I'm afraid.

Networkers, do you want to

-have a go?

-2016...

2016 - Fred Couples?

Not it, I'm afraid.

Why do you say Tiger Woods? What do you think the sequence is?

We think they might be people who

won a golf tournament in alt... every other year,

-but that's about as far as we got.

-Possibly the Ryder Cup.

-Yes.

They are captains.

American captains of the Ryder Cup

and the 2016 tournament,

not yet played yet - it's due to

be played in October this year.

Davis Love III.

Networkers, what would you like?

Eye of Horus, please.

The Eye of Horus.

What would come fourth

in this sequence?

Here's the first.

INAUDIBLE

Next.

INAUDIBLE

Oscar winners?

I think they've all had, maybe...

-Remakes?

-Remakes, yes.

Where there have been remakes.

Shall we see the third one?

With Meg Ryan? Yes. Next, please.

-We have to give the fourth.

-Yes.

Musical.

The Shop Around The Corner became...

INAUDIBLE

OK, so there's a fourth...

-She Loves Me.

-Do you want to

go first with the fourth?

-I don't know...

-Three seconds.

You Got Mail.

Is the right answer.

-Well done.

-You weren't expecting that, were you?

-No.

Do you know what's going on? What's the sequence?

They're remakes.

They're remakes of themselves.

Now, the original doesn't feature

in the sequence.

The original is a play from 1936.

A Hungarian play called Parfumerie.

And The Shop Around The Corner is

a film that was made of that play.

Subsequently, the film

In The Good Old Summertime.

Then She Loves Me.

And then You've Got Mail

was a film of that same story.

So, very well found, in the

lateral corners of your mind.

Back to you, Cousins,

for a question.

-Two Reeds, please.

-Two Reeds. OK.

These are picture clues.

What would you expect

to see in the fourth picture?

Here's the first.

That's, erm...

Ooh...

Next, please.

That's The Tall Toll?

-Toll...

-European is it?

-Yeah.

It could be the Eurotunnel,

at Dover, yeah.

Next, please.

A till? A till...

So we've got toll...

Hang on - toll till.

So...like William Tell,

it might be Tull - Jethro Tull.

So it's toll... So tell.

William Tell?

Is exactly the example we went for.

Here is a photograph of William Tell's statue in Switzerland.

What is the sequence?

Well, we worked out that the one before was a till

and before that was a toll

so we're assuming the first one is the band Jethro Tull.

It is the band Jethro Tull.

So going backwards through the

vowels of the alphabet sequentially,

Tull, Toll, Till, Tell.

Very well done.

Back to you, Networkers, for a choice.

The Twisted Flax, please.

The Twisted Flax.

Oh, no.

Well, it's a music sequence,

how lovely.

What sort of thing would you expect

to hear in fourth place?

Let's have the first one.

# Maybe you think that love would tie you down

# And you don't have the time to hang... #

Next.

CLASSICAL PIANO MUSIC PLAYS

Yes.

Next.

# Yes, I am

# Oh, yes, I am... #

Midnight Hour?

# One more thing I just wanna say right here... #

Something with "hour", you want "day".

Yes, a song with "day" in it.

BELL CHIMES

-What, Lovely Day?

-Lovely Day.

Anything, some song with "day" in it.

I'd like to hear a specific one.

Lovely Day, Bill Withers.

I'm glad you've chosen that one.

It is an acceptable answer,

you may have 2 points.

We would've played I Wish

It Could Be Christmas Everyday.

But you've chosen Lovely Day

by Bill Withers.

Do you know that song?

-Yes.

-Oh, good.

Let's give it our best shot.

One, two, three.

# A lovely day... #

Lovely day. Lovely day.

What a lovely day that is.

The viewers at home will think we've

played it in over the sound system,

so melodic was that!

That was indeed a Lovely Day.

Thank you very much

and well done for 2 points.

Cousins, back to you for a choice.

The Lion, please.

The Lion, OK.

What would come fourth in this sequence?

Here's the first.

South Thanet, oh, that's...

Wasn't that where Nigel Farage...?

Yes, I think Nigel Farage stood... Ah, well...

Maybe it could be 20.

Yeah, we need another one to get the timing differentials, though.

-Yeah.

-Next, please.

Chislehurst.

-Ukip seats?

-So, Ukip, Ukip seats.

Was it South Thanet again?

Clacton won a Ukip seat in 2015.

But we could go...

Shall we go 2008 Clacton?

Yeah... Oh, no.

-2008...

-OK, correct, again.

-Shall we go for that?

-Yeah, yeah.

-BELL CHIMES

-2008, South Thanet.

I'm afraid that is

not the right answer,

so we're going to show the third in

the sequence to the Networkers

for a possible bonus point.

2015, Rochester.

2015, Rochester?

That's not it.

Now, if you could get together

and form a team of six,

you'd have the right answer,

which is 2015 South Thanet.

So, these are seats contested by

Nigel Farage, all unsuccessfully,

for Ukip,

and after 2010 in Buckingham,

the next one was 2015, South Thanet.

He stood again in the seat

he tried for in 2005.

So, no bonus point for you,

Networkers, but you may have

the Horned Viper question.

What would come fourth in this sequence?

Here's the first.

Next.

So it's ball games.

Ball games, yes.

-Something with six.

-Six.

Is that netball? Netball, with six?

-Oh, right.

-I think netball.

-Yeah, so between those...

-Seven.

-I think the team is seven so we've got to try and find...

-Six.

..the ball game with six people in the team.

-Is that netball?

-Is netball...?

How many, six in?

-Is there six in netball?

-I don't know.

If you think there are...

We're coming to ten seconds now,

-so shall we go for Net 6?

-Yes.

Yes, we'll go for Net 6.

I'm afraid that's not

the right answer,

so I'm going to show the third in the sequence to the Cousins

for a possible bonus point.

Oh, is it basketball?

-Basket 6?

-Is it Basket 6?

I'm afraid not.

Now, you correctly identified that

you want to add "ball"

to all the words,

baseball, korfball, netball,

and the number of players on the team.

There's seven on a netball team.

We wanted something where

there are six players,

so volley is the example we gave,

volleyball, six players.

That means, at the end of Round Two,

the Cousins have 4 points,

and the Networkers have 5.

Time now for the Connecting Wall.

16 clues jumbled up that the teams have to sort

into four connected groups of four.

You'll be going first this time, Networkers,

so please choose Lion or Water.

Water, please.

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

starting now.

So we've got types of Rolls-Royce, potentially.

-Yes.

-Two captains.

-The Silver Ghost and Corniche.

Maybe the Wraith is the fifth, I'm not sure.

So, a Silver Ghost,

-Phantom, Corniche and Wraith.

-Phantom, Corniche and...

-BUZZ

-No.

-No. OK, so, we've left out

-Carmague.

-That one?

We've left out Carmague, OK.

We've left out Corniche,

so we'll leave out

Wraith or Phantom here.

OK, so do Carmague,

Corniche and Silver Ghost.

-BUZZ

-OK, let's...

-Let's try...

Let's try some...

We've also got Spook, Spectre, Phantom, Shade.

-BUZZ

-No, so there must be another

-ghost somewhere.

-Left Wraith out.

-A Wraith is a ghost.

-Yes.

BUZZ

-BUZZ

-No. I thought I'd done them all now.

Oh, my goodness.

Shall we have another try at the Rolls-Royces?

-Yes.

-If we leave out Wraith to start with,

then Phantom, Carmague,

Corniche and Silver Ghost.

-BUZZ

-I think we've done that.

Then I'm going to leave out Phantom.

There we go. OK, we've got them.

Aspects Of Love.

Yes, so it's musicals here.

Yes, Aspects, Phantom, Starlight and...

I think it may be the last words of

musicals, or the first words.

-So we've got...

-These are first words.

So we've got Jesus Christ Superstar,

we've got Phantom...

Aspects, Phantom...

-Aspects, Phantom...

-First words, as is Starlight.

..Superstar and Starlight.

Three strikes and you're out now.

Right, OK. Now we've got...

Is one of these about films?

Revenant is that new film with...

-So, Spectre...

-We've got Spook, Spectre,

Shade and Revenant.

-That would be Trouble, Neuron, Spook...

-That's another ghost.

Yes. Trouble, Neuron, Spook.

So we've got Boulevard, Franco, Neuron....

-Yes, we've got...

-And what's the other one with that?

Don't do all four. OK, we're running out of time.

Yes, so we want Revenant...

You've got 15 seconds.

..Spectre,

Shade and possibly Spook.

Can we work out what these

-other ones are?

-Go for it now.

I think we're almost out.

That's it, you've solved the Wall

with just a few seconds to spare.

Well done.

And what about points for the connections?

Wraith, Carmague, Corniche, Silver Ghost?

Rolls-Royce models.

They are models of Rolls-Royce.

The green group - Aspects, Superstar, Phantom, Starlight?

Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals.

That's right, they feature in the titles

of Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals.

The next group - Spook, Shade, Spectre, Revenant.

Erm, ghosts of some kind.

-Types of ghost.

-Yes.

And the last group - Trouble, Franco, Neuron, Boulevard.

Right, anybody got any idea about the last one?

Something like general, or Sunset maybe, or Franco?

I'm afraid I can't let you debate.

-No, no, no.

-You're not seeing it.

-We're stuck. We're not seeing it.

-This is a word one.

Contained within the word Trouble,

is rouble,

in Franco is franc,

in Neuron is euro

and the tricky one in boulevard, lev, the Bulgarian currency.

There are currencies hidden inside all those words.

But you get 4 points for the groups

and 3 for the connections - that's a total of 7.

Let's bring back the Cousins now and give them a new Connecting Wall,

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

You'll be getting the Lion Wall, the Water's been taken.

You have two and a half minutes to solve it,

starting now.

So, Amusement park.

-Safari park.

-Safari park.

-Caravan park.

-Country park.

Oh, yeah, that's good.

-BUZZ

-No, OK, what else can be a park?

Science park?

Science park? I suppose so.

-Edge. Dinner.

-Dinner jacket, Harrington jacket.

-Oh, good, yes.

-Donkey jacket.

Donkey jacket.

Safari jacket?

Could be. Oh, that would be another kind of...

-BUZZ

-Opera jacket.

-Is there...? Yeah.

OK, yeah, great.

So I'll just try a few of these

-whilst we're looking through.

-Cycle through.

And there's...

So, Combusted, Caravan...

Nehru. Nehru's a kind of jacket.

-Nehru is a kind of jacket.

-OK.

-Safari, Harrington, did you say?

-BUZZ

OK.

Donkey. We have six potential, so...

We seem to have six.

-Maybe don't put Safari in.

-Yes!

OK, so...

So, then, Amusement park, Caravan park...

Yeah, Caravan, Amusement...

Country park? Yeah, that's... And Safari park?

-BUZZ

-No, OK, erm...

Those are quite likely.

I don't know what Brose is, could that be the park?

Yeah, so that's...

-OK.

-Hang on, Safari...

Safari and Edge, they're web browsers.

Safari, Edge, Chrome and Opera?

-BUZZ

-OK.

-Torch?

-Torch?

Brose? Brose could be?

OK, so...

No, I've already done that one. Don't be ridiculous.

OK, so, Combusted, Cabbage...

Erm, so, Science...

Erm...

You've got 30 seconds.

Yes, absolutely.

So, Safari, Edge, Chrome,

I'm so convinced about those,

but it's a...

-BUZZ

-No, we've already tried that,

haven't we? OK, so...

Torchwood?

Yes, Opera...

Torch singer, Opera singer...

-Country singer?

-Yes.

-Ten seconds.

-And Brose singer?

-Try it.

-BUZZ

-Erm... Erm...

-Edge singer?

No, no, not...

No, that's it, the time is up,

and the Wall is frozen, but you have found a group.

Can you tell me the connection - Nehru, Donkey, Harrington, Dinner?

-Kinds of jacket.

-Kinds of jacket.

And you could still get points for the connections

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

There you go, that's how it should look.

Cabbage, Combusted, Amusement, Brose.

Oh, hang on... Is there a...?

No, I can't give you this one.

If you don't see it, you don't see it.

Hidden within the word Cabbage is Abba...

-Oh!

-Ooh!

-..Busted in combusted,

Muse in Amusement,

and brose, which is a sort of porridge, Bros.

-Pop groups and bands are hidden inside those words.

-Yeah. Yes.

What about the next group?

Caravan, science, safari, country.

Types of park.

Those are the parks. You can have a science park, it's not a fun thing.

-It is in a way. It's an area of scientific research.

-My apologies.

Science park.

And the last group, Chrome, Torch, Opera, Edge.

Are they web browsers?

Those are the web browsers, well done.

So, a point for the group you found and 3 for the connections,

that's a total of 4.

Let's have a look at the scores as we enter the Final Round.

So, after a very difficult pair of walls,

the contest will be decided in the Missing Vowels Round,

where we take the vowels out of well-known names,

phrases and sayings,

and the teams must tell me what the disguised clues are.

Fingers on buzzers, teams.

The first group are all...

-Cousins?

-First past the post.

Correct.

Don't know this one?

It's alternative vote.

Next clue.

Networkers.

Additional member system.

Correct.

Networkers?

Single transferable vote.

Correct.

Next category...

-Networkers?

-Urchins.

Correct.

-Cousins?

-Peelers.

Correct.

-Networkers?

-Pea-soupers.

Well done.

-Networkers?

-Gas lamps.

Yes, it is.

Next category, they're all Twins.

-Networkers?

-Robin and Maurice Gibb.

Yes, it is.

-Cousins?

-Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.

Correct.

-Cousins?

-Jedward.

Of course.

-Cousins?

-Danny DeVito

and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Well done. Next category...

MUSIC PLAYS

But we're not going to play the next category

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

and looking at the final scores,

the Cousins finish with 13 points

but the Networkers have 18

and are the winners.

Very well done,

you are through to Round Two.

Cousins, we have a highest scoring

second-place finisher system

which you may be in,

although you've had a slightly unlucky night.

It remains to be seen.

Thanks all of you for playing.

Thank you for watching.

We're done for the night.

I'm off for a cup of tea and some crystal meth.

Only joking, I've had quite enough tea for one day.

Goodbye.