Shutterbugs v Highgates Only Connect

Confusion is a terrible thing.

I once arranged a get-together with Sean Connery.

I said, let's meet for ten-ish.

He said, but I don't have a racket.

Let's hope that sort of miscommunication does not befall

our teams on Only Connect tonight, who are...

On my right, Jasmine Leonard,

a software engineer with a degree in

natural sciences who has set up a

company that doesn't do anything and

will likely cease operations quite soon.

Adam Ardron, an engineering graduate

and keen musician whose guitar stand

was stolen by a member of the

Scissor Sisters.

And their captain, Jenny Skene,

a private tutor with a degree in philosophy who owns five copies of

the same dress to avoid making frequent wardrobe decisions.

United by a fondness for

photography, they are the Shutterbugs.

How do you know your team, Jenny?

Jasmine and I met when we were in sixth form,

and Adam is married to a friend of ours, we were all at

university together.

Well, let's hope that friendship

doesn't end in a bitter wrangle this evening.

You will be playing against, on my

left, John Aldersey-Williams,

a company director with three cats

who has swum from Europe to Asia with 800 Turkish friends.

Stephen Bowden, a civil servant

with a degree in Anglo-Saxon,

Norse and Celtic, who has twice been mistaken for the artist Peter Blake.

And their captain, Tom Bannatyne,

a chemical engineering graduate who had afternoon tea with

the Queen Mother when he was a teenager.

United by their love for London,

they are the Highgates.

Tell me about your team, how long have you known each other?

John and Stephen grew up together in Highgate.

We all met at university.

They no longer live in Highgate, I live in Highgate,

married to Stephen's sister.

Well, let's hope you're not

hurrying back to Highgate too soon.

Let's play Round One.

What is the connection between these four apparently random clues?

Shutterbugs, you won the toss,

you have the dubious pleasure

of going first.

Please choose an Egyptian hieroglyph.

I think we'll have Water, please.

Water. What is the connection between these clues?

Here's the first.

Does that mean something in Icelandic? Like, hello, or...?

Next?

Next, please.

It could be when the phone rings.

-Yes, that sounds plausible.

-When you knock on a door.

-Ah, the phone.

-Shall we risk it?

Rap Rap is not very phoney, is it?

It kind of is.

-Rap Rap.

-Do you want to guess?

You could go next one, it's up to you.

-Go next.

-Next, please.

-Coin Coin.

-Is that when you...?

-The ring ring.

-Ring on the telephone. OK.

We think this is the noise that the telephone makes in these languages.

I'm afraid it is not.

So I'm going to show the fourth clue to the Highgates

for a possible bonus point.

It's the noise that a duck makes in those languages.

That is absolutely right.

Coin Coin is not a phone in France, it's a duck.

Bra Bra is, of course, the noise of an Icelandic duck.

Did you know, you're all Londoners,

did you know that a study at

Middlesex University recently found

that ducks in London have a harsher

quack, a sort of Cockney sound?

-Had you heard that, Stephen?

-I had heard that, yes.

In order to make themselves audible

above the noise of London.

Whereas Cornish ducks communicate in

a softer, more relaxed quack.

-Do you think that's true?

-Regional dialects for ducks, absolutely.

It's a very nice idea.

Well done, you get the bonus point

and you may choose your own question.

-Twisted Flax, please.

-The Twisted Flax.

What is the connection between these clues?

Here's the first.

-No.

-No. Next, please.

Cot...

-Anything?

-No.

-No?

Next, please.

Chira. Are they...? No.

-Hollandaise.

-No. Chira isn't left-handedness.

-Yeah. Another one?

-Another one.

-Next, please.

Add an E on the end and you've got...

Another letter on the end and you've got a French president.

-President.

-Yes.

Thank God for that. If you add

a letter at the end of any of them you get a French leader.

That is absolutely right,

a French president.

Which letters are missing from which presidents?

Hollande and Bonaparte have an E each.

Chirac has a C, and Cot probably has a Y, maybe.

Coty, Renee Coty, the second and

last president of the Fourth French Republic.

-Him, yeah!

-Back to you,

Shutterbugs, for a choice.

-Two Reeds, please.

-The Two Reeds.

Ah, it's the music question. THEY LAUGH

You'll be hearing your clues. There is a hidden link between them.

Are you laughing with delight?

-Yes, absolutely.

-OK.

-We love it.

-Well, good luck with it.

Your first piece of music is coming in now.

# Come on, baby Tell me, what's the word?

# Word up

# Everybody say... #

Next, please.

# When she is lonely and the longing gets too much

# She sends a cable coming in from above... #

Next, please.

# And I talk to the filth and I walk to the door

# I'm knee deep in myself

# But I want to get more of that stuff... #

Next, please.

# It's just another manic Monday... #

-Days of the week?

-What was the first one?

# I wish it were Sunday... #

Days of the week? Days of the week? Days of the week.

# Cos that's my fun day... #

-Days of the week.

-Which one?

-I don't know.

Two seconds.

We're going to go for accessories, like jewellery.

Is the right answer.

Very well done. What did you hear?

We only know that we heard The Bangles, really, at the end.

It was The Bangles at the end.

Did you recognise anything else, over there?

-We were going...

-Golden Earring, and Cameo.

Golden Earring and Cameo.

The third was Jesus and Mary Chain.

A real selection of great music and terrible.

If we ever brought out an album

from this show, it'd be really weird. Yes.

Cameo, Golden Earring, Jesus and Mary Chain, The Bangles,

the artists' names all contain

jewellery. Well done.

Over to you, Highgates, for a question.

We'll have the Lion, please.

The Lion. What is the connection between these clues?

Here's the first.

THEY WHISPER

Next, please.

THEY WHISPER INDISTINCTLY

Next, please.

-Yes.

-Characters?

-They're all played by Pythons.

-OK.

They're all roles played by members of the Monty Python team.

What would you expect to see in the fourth clue?

John Cleese, Basil Fawlty.

It's Brian Stimpson of Clockwise in place 4.

John Cleese did play him.

They're actually all films, but that is right,

they are roles taken by members of the Python team.

John Cleese would have been the fourth one.

All non-Python roles

played by Pythons in films.

Well done.

Back to you, Shutterbugs. What would you like?

Eye of Horus, I think, please.

Eye of Horus. What is the connection between these clues?

Here's the first.

-Film or magazine?

-Magazine.

Next, please.

OK. When they went bust or when they went free?

When they went offline?

Some of them went freesheet, didn't they? Some of them went online.

-I don't know.

-Shall we have another?

Next, please.

-Dandy?

-That has ceased.

-Stopped.

-That stopped.

-OK.

We think these are magazines and the year that they ceased publication.

I'm going to take it. Can you be any more specific?

The year that they...in paper form.

They ceased paper or print

publication, went online-only.

Last one would have been the Encyclopaedia Britannica in 2010.

Yes, they all exist online except, I think,

the Dandy which tried for

about six months and went under.

2016 is the year that Penthouse became more difficult to

find in a hedge.

Well done. And the last question of the round goes to you, Highgates.

-That's the Horned Viper.

-Lovely, we'll have the Horned Viper, please.

It will be picture clues because we haven't seen those yet.

What connects them? Here's the first.

-I don't know who that is.

-Do you?

-No.

-No. Next, please.

THEY WHISPER

-Could be. Another one?

-Yeah.

-Next, please.

THEY CONFER

Another one. Next.

Adrian...Lester.

-Ripon.

-Towns, cities.

-Leicester.

-Yeah.

They all have names that are homophones

of towns or cities in the UK.

That's exactly right.

-Who are we looking at?

-Angela Rippon and Adrian Lester,

-and some other people.

-Do you know who that first one is?

He was in Flight Of The Conchords, wasn't he?

It's the New Zealand comedian Rhys Darby from Flight Of The Conchords.

And the second one is the lovely Jennifer Ehle.

-Yep.

-You don't remember her from Pride And Prejudice?

Jennifer Ehle. They all have surnames

which are homophones for English cities.

Well done.

That means at the end of Round One

the Shutterbugs have three points, the Highgates have five.

On to Round Two, the sequences round,

where the teams must work out the connection

and then tell me what would be the fourth clue in the sequence.

Shutterbugs, you'll be going first again,

which hieroglyph would you like?

Horned Viper, please.

OK, you are about to see the first in a sequence,

what would you expect to come fourth?

Time starts now.

Lead or leed.

Next, please.

A copper?

A policeman?

-Or a coin.

-Or a coin.

What's the sequence, in terms of the periodic table?

Yeah, I'm trying to think of that.

Next, please.

Palladium, so that has another meaning as well.

Yeah, I think it's a theatre. What's the...? Is it Pd?

-I don't know what the sequence is.

-No.

Copper.

Three seconds.

-Gold.

-Not an acceptable answer, I'm afraid.

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

Er, is it a gym class at school?

Would be an acceptable answer.

We've phrased that as physical education.

-Why?

-It's Pb, PC, Pd and PE.

That's right. I think you had all the pieces there.

There's a nasty trick in this question.

So, lead has the chemical symbol Pb.

It's not copper, it's a copper, a policeman, PC.

Palladium has the symbol Pd

and we need something denoted by the letters PE.

Well done, then, Highgates, you get the bonus point,

and your chance to choose.

-Eye of Horus, please.

-The Eye of Horus.

What will come fourth in this sequence?

Here's the first.

Looks like a word...

Another one? Next, please.

Websites?

-Could be.

-Another one?

Yeah, next.

Google...

Yeah, but it's not going to be that, is it?

Netflix is the biggest...

-Increasing bandwidth.

-Yeah.

Yes, that would be it.

-Netflix.

-Why would that be?

Um, sort of internet platforms in order of bandwidth taken up by...

I mean, that sounds so impressive but I'm afraid it's not a sequence!

I can't accept that answer.

Shutterbugs, you have a chance now for a bonus point.

We think the answer is Alphabet.

That is the answer.

-And why?

-Each is the parent company of the previous.

So Alphabet owns Google, Google owns YouTube, etc.

That is exactly right.

RightsFlow is owned by YouTube, owned by Google, owned by Alphabet.

I'd never heard of Alphabet till I saw this question,

which I find incredibly sinister.

I've heard of all the other things that gather your information,

everything that somehow magically knows where you live, what you buy,

but apparently it's all ultimately owned by a very friendly sounding

company I've never heard of.

They have our best interests at heart, I'm sure(!)

I'm sure they do! Very well done, you get the bonus point,

and your chance to choose.

-Lion, please.

-Lion.

What would be the fourth in this sequence?

Here's the first.

Presidents?

Boris?

Percy Johnson, Boris Johnson.

Another Johnson?

OK. Next, please.

OK, so this is...

It's a rugby question.

So are these the highest capped or something like that?

First equals...

The most caps?

-Jonny Wilkinson?

-Shall we try that?

-Yeah, yeah.

-Jonny Wilkinson.

-First equals...

-First equals Jonny Wilkinson.

I'm afraid that is not the answer.

So I'm going to show the third in the sequence to the Highgates.

Do you want to have a go for a bonus point?

First, Leonard.

Is the right answer.

Once again I think you had most of it over there,

but what's the actual sequence?

It's international appearances by England rugby players.

That's right, it's the most capped England rugby union players and

third equal there, Rory Underwood and Lawrence Dallaglio,

first - Jason Leonard.

So you get the bonus point that time,

and which question would you like?

We'll have Twisted Flax, please.

Twisted Flax. OK, these are going to be picture clues,

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

Here's the first.

No idea who that is.

Next, please.

Next.

What's that, the Great Seal?

That's...that's...

Eagle?

It's something that's America.

The first one looks like a ballet dancer.

It does, doesn't it? Just.

-Lion, lamb, eagle, man?

-Hm?

Lion, lamb, eagle and man.

OK.

A man.

Would not work as a sequence, I'm afraid.

Well, maybe it would. What would you think the sequence would be?

Stephen's got a very good idea.

The symbols of the Four Evangelists?

I'm afraid they're not.

I like your thinking, but no.

So a bonus chance again for the Shutterbugs.

Erm, a lion.

Not a lion. Are you going for the same sequence in the other

-direction?

-We're just hitchhiking on their idea!

That would have been mean, wouldn't it?

If I'd gone, "That's absolutely not it. Yes, it is it."

No, now...

The person in the first picture is the author Dodie Smith,

who wrote 101 Dalmatians.

The second picture is Dodi Fayed,

the son of Mohamed al-Fayed and the boyfriend of Princess Diana.

-That third one is the symbol...

-Department of Defense.

Department of Defense, DOD.

So we're going, Dodie with an E, take it off, just Dodi with an I,

take that off, DOD. So I want to hear D-O.

We've gone with, obviously, the note do.

Not as in "doe, a deer," because then you'd have to add an E,

-something that always annoyed me about that song.

-Yeah.

But do without the E, not a deer, the musical note,

would have been an acceptable answer.

Not to rub it in, but it would have been.

Shutterbugs, you don't get the bonus that time but you do get the choice.

-Two Reeds, please.

-Two Reeds.

What would be the fourth in this sequence?

Here's the first.

Oscar, isn't it? Or something like that? It's an award.

-Er, OK.

-Maybe. Anyway, think of a sequence.

Next, please.

-OK.

-Best actor.

So, what is the...?

Are these what they used to be called at the Oscars

and we've now got Best Picture?

Could they be out of date?

It might be the new name, the current name.

Have we got any other ideas?

Are we going to have our minds changed by the next clue?

-We could go next.

-Is it going to change our minds?

Next, please.

-So Best Picture.

-Is it Best Film?

No.

Two seconds.

-Best Picture.

-You could have buzzed one clue earlier,

the answer is Best Picture, as I heard you saying.

These are the successive names of the Oscar

that goes to the best film.

It was once Outstanding Production, currently Best Picture.

Very well done.

Highgates, there is one question remaining, it's the Water question.

What would be the fourth in this sequence?

Here's the first.

THEY MUTTER

Next, please.

Next.

Are they forts?

They must be the capitals.

-Is it?

-THEY MUTTER

-Palma.

-Is the right answer.

Well done. And why is that?

Capital cities of Balearic Islands.

That's right, and what's the sequence?

Smallest to largest.

That's right. What are the islands?

Palma's Majorca, that's the first one.

Mahon is Minorca.

-That's right.

-So Ibiza must be Vila d'Eivissa.

-That's right, it's actually Catalan for Ibiza Town.

-Yeah, of course.

-And the first one, Sant Francesc?

-And the other one.

-The other one!

The other one.

So, moving on...

Formentera, Formentera is that first one.

Balearic capitals by size, very well done.

That means, at the end of Round Two, the Shutterbugs have six points,

the Highgates have nine.

Time now for the fiendish 16-clue Connecting Wall that the teams have

to sort into four connected groups of four.

Highgates, you get to go first this time,

so please choose Lion or Water.

We'd like the Water wall, please.

The Water wall. You have two-and-a-half minutes to solve it,

starting now.

Daphne du Maurier...

and The Birds?

Must be another one.

Rivers. Axe, Exe, Tamar, Torridge.

-Dart.

-Dart.

-So...

It could, of course, be, erm...

It could also be, erm...

..Hitchcock films, as opposed to...

That one, that one.

-The Scapegoat is a...

-What do you think Scapegoat is?

It's a river, I think, isn't it?

Bathsheba is...

..in, that's in Hardy.

There's got to be another Daphne du Maurier, I think.

OK, so...

-Try Tamar.

-Let's look elsewhere as well.

Cheque, what's that?

It's the Czech Republic. Sounds like cheque.

Any others that sounds like... Axe, Exe? No.

Dart.

Things that bounce? Things you write?

Things you throw?

Throw a dart.

Things that are the beginning of something?

Jam...?

The Scapegoat's a Pre-Raphaelite painting...

-You've got a minute left.

-OK.

-Done these?

-Yeah.

OK.

Things...

-Are they not places in...?

-Frenchman's Creek is in Cornwall.

-OK, places in Cornwall.

-Torridge?

Torridge in Cornwall, Tamar is in Cornwall.

Otter?

Theatre? What's theatre?

Safe harbour, safe theatre? Safe...

Safe route?

Can we get a letter on the front of Potter?

-Eve, Axe and Exe.

-Nope.

Dart, Axe...

National Theatre?

Ten seconds.

Amphitheatre? Dartmouth?

Chequebook?

And that's it.

Horrid wall!

The time has frozen. Absolutely horrible wall

but you can get points for the connections anyway.

So let's resolve this nasty wall.

This is how it should have looked. So, the first group.

Frenchman's Creek, Jamaica Inn, The Birds, The Scapegoat.

They're works by Daphne du Maurier.

They are, yes. You were putting Rebecca in that category every time

but, no, The Scapegoat is also a Daphne du Maurier novel.

And the green group - Eve, Rebecca, Bathsheba, Tamar or Tay-mar.

Thomas Hardy heroines?

They're actually not, they are simply women in the Old Testament.

Yes, women from the Bible is all that is.

So they are rivers.

Otter, Exe, Torridge, Dart.

-Well, rivers in south-west England.

-Rivers, yeah, rivers in Devon.

That's right, rivers in Devon.

And the last one.

Harbour, cheque, theatre, axe.

No, you're not seeing it.

This is that nasty old snake,

words that are spelt differently in America.

Yes, no U in harbour, check with a CK, ER in theatre, no E in axe.

Words that are different in US spelling.

Nevertheless, you get two points for the connections that you found.

Let's bring in their opponents now and give them a horrible Connecting

Wall and see if they can sort it out into four connected groups of four.

You'll be getting the Lion wall because the Water's been taken.

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

OK. Well, that's interesting.

Atom-probe-field-ion, electron.

Yep, so shall we go for... Not many others.

Things with a charge. OK, what else?

-What's proxy? Proxy's how you vote.

-The internet.

Internet proxy, any of those?

-Grit and ash are things...

-Yes.

Do you want to start pressing stuff and see if anything falls out?

-No?

-Which...?

Nerve ending, anything else that's got an ending?

Electron ending.

Go on, then, do it. Yeah. What other charges? Nerves have electricity...

Well, yeah.

OK.

Dishwasher charge?

-Dishwasher fluid.

-Dishwasher fluid.

Dishwater, it's not dishwasher, dishwater.

Dull as ditchwater...

Oh, gosh.

-Dissecting...table.

-Yeah.

Grit, true grit, true pluck?

True proxy?

Shall we try these, these are all things like pluck, aren't they?

Yeah.

Things that you can what?

Grit and pluck and spunk, these are, like, things that you are

-if you're strong.

-Yes!

-Lovely.

Right, so. About halfway through, what can we get?

-Strawberry fair?

-Strawberry birthmark?

Platinum is like...

You've got a minute left.

What's Arizona? Raising Arizona.

Raising Platinum? Platinum is a catalyst, any other catalysts?

-Ash?

-Phoenix, Arizona, things that rise from the...

-Rise from the ashes.

-OK, go on, then.

Keep talking, keep talking, just keep pressing now.

Is there a Platinum Strawberry Fields?

It's River Phoenix but Phoenix isn't on here, Arizona is!

Crossing and dissecting.

I don't know, I'm pressing stuff randomly,

somebody come up with something!

-Any ideas? What's simple?

-You've got ten seconds.

Not complex. No.

-Simple protocol?

-No.

No idea at all.

I'm afraid your time is up but well done,

you found a group and I will give you a point if you can tell me what

connects bottle, nerve, pluck, spunk.

So these are things you have if you've got strength of character.

Well, courage, certainly.

I mean, I say quite a moral ruling, strength of character,

but I'll take it and you can still get points for the connections in

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

There you go. Dishwater, ash, platinum, strawberry.

Are these shades of blonde?

They are types of blonde.

The next pink group, crossing, grit, Arizona, proxy.

Shall we go with the Phoenix?

Something to do with Phoenixes?

It's not. Now, you mentioned the film Raising Arizona.

That is the key. They are films by the Coen brothers.

That's right. Miller's Crossing, True Grit, Raising Arizona,

The Hudsucker Proxy.

Last words of Coen Brothers titles.

And the last group, atom-probe-field-ion,

or atom-poh-beh-feld-ee-on,

dissecting, simple, electron.

Are these beams?

Something to do with lasers?

Oh, beam?

I'm afraid they are microscopes.

But one point for the group that you did find

and two for the connections.

That is a total of three.

-Shall we have a look at the scores?

-Yeah.

The Shutterbugs have nine points,

the Highgates have 11.

Great relief for both teams, as they discover

that the other side also had a horrible wall!

LAUGHTER

Let's see what happens in Round Four -

the missing vowels round.

Now, tension is high, because teams are not only trying to win tonight,

they are trying, if they don't win,

to be the highest scoring of our second-placed finishers.

But, of course, if you buzz in with a wrong answer in this round,

I will take a point away.

So gamble with care.

Fingers on buzzers, teams.

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

breeds of British sheep.

Highgates?

Jacob.

Correct.

Shutterbugs?

Cheviot.

Correct.

Highgates?

Blackfaced Leicester.

Not it, I'm afraid. You lose a point. Shutterbugs, do you know?

Blackfaced...Lancaster?

Wrong, it's Bluefaced Leicester.

We haven't got a CK. Next clue.

Highgates?

Oh, Dorset Shorthorn.

I'm afraid that's not it. Shutterbugs, do you know?

Dorset Horn?

It's just Dorset Horn.

Next category -

brand names for food with holes.

Shutterbugs?

Warburtons crumpets.

Correct.

Highgates?

Cheerios.

Correct.

Highgates?

Oreos.

I'm afraid they don't have holes

and we don't have an S. Shutterbugs, do you know?

Aero.

Is the right answer. Next clue...

Highgates?

Polo Fruits.

Correct.

Next category - times of day.

Shutterbugs?

Eleven o'clock.

Correct.

Highgates?

Twenty-five to five.

Correct.

Highgates?

Eight hundred hours.

I'm afraid that's not it. Shutterbugs, do you know?

Eighteen hundred hours.

It's EIGHTEEN hundred hours.

END OF ROUND JINGLE

The bell has gone for the end of the quiz.

And, looking at the final scores,

the winners, and through to the next round with 15 points

are the Shutterbugs.

THEY SIGH AND LAUGH

And in second place, with 11 points,

it's the Highgates.

Now, terrible news, Highgates.

I'm afraid, with a score of 11,

you are not going to make

our highest-scoring second place finishers

in this half of the draw.

I think you did the right thing,

coming in and gambling there on Round Four,

but a couple of errors and a horrible wall,

I'm afraid, mean we have to say goodbye.

-But thank you for playing. It was lovely to meet you all.

-Thank you.

And I look forward to seeing you all again in Round Two.

And that is the end of the show.

Which means, according to the findings of focus groups,

that you're no longer listening to what I'm saying,

so it doesn't matter what I say.

It could be anything.

Vaccinations are the devil's work.

QUIET LAUGHTER

Praise Hitler.

Always put water on a fat fire.

Hello!