Eco-Warriors v Snake Charmers Only Connect

Hello and welcome to Only Connect.

Do you hate being scared by spooky stories?

If so, let me recommend ITV's new Tales Of The Expected,

in which a family who have just moved into an old rectory

are woken up by strange clanking sounds in the night.

Turns out it's the central heating.

Quizzing this evening are, on my right,

Jonathan Kershaw, a Green volunteer for Rochdale Council who owns

every edition of Car Magazine since 1985.

Peter Barlow, a French studies graduate who encountered

a courageous mole on a recent nature hike.

And their captain, Brett Bostock, a grandfather of five who is

an enthusiastic campaigner for both train and tram

and a member of a steam engine preservation society.

United by a passion for the planet, they are the Eco-Warriors.

You won your first heat against the Escapologists

in a very close match. How are you feeling about your second game?

I'm quietly confident that we have at least another match in us.

Let's hope so, otherwise it could be a short evening.

You are up against this time on my left, Thomas Rychlik,

a maths graduate who has cycled across Tasmania

and spent 40 seconds on the Isle of Wight.

Kate Pfeffer, a keen amateur baker who spent significant time

in a Japanese monastery.

And their captain, John Howe, a PhD student who recently

had a game of croquet sabotaged by a marauding peacock.

United by a regard for reptiles, they are the Snake Charmers.

Now, you beat the Extras in your first heat.

How have you prepared for the next game?

Well, we all recently left the country.

Tom went to Australia, Kate went to New Zealand

and I went to the Czech Republic. And we've been trying to work out

the connection between these three places,

but we've not come up with anything, so that doesn't bode well.

Our core viewers are now going to spend the whole

rest of the programme trying to work that out

and they won't even hear the questions.

Never mind, we'll play anyway. You won the toss, Snake Charmers,

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

So, Eco-Warriors, please choose a hieroglyph.

-Lion, please.

-The Lion, OK.

What is the connection between these clues? Here's the first.

THEY WHISPER

Next.

Erm...

THEY WHISPER

-Shall we try the next?

-Next.

Next.

Oh...

-Italian painters.

-They're Italian painters.

-Translation.

-Translation. Right.

BUZZER

We think that these are the English translations

of the names of Italian painters.

Probably Renaissance.

I'm afraid you think incorrectly, so I'm going to show the last clue

to the Snake Charmers for a possible bonus point.

-Erm...

-Things you can shake a stick at.

No, that's too long.

Now, it is to do with translations -

translations of types of coffee.

Espresso, macchiato, cappuccino

and, of course, Americano.

Cappuccino, it takes its name from Capuchin monks,

who were named after their hoods.

Do they wear hoods in Japanese monasteries?

Not as far as I saw, most of the time.

That leaves many questions unanswered!

Names of coffee translated.

No bonus point, then, Snake Charmers,

but you may choose a question.

Could we have the Horned Viper, please?

I don't see why not. What is the connection between these clues?

Here's the first.

Double Dutch.

I think we'll just go for it. Next, please.

-Oh, is it the composition...?

-The EU?

No, it's the composition of something, I don't know what.

-I think we'll go for another one.

-Yeah.

-Next, please.

SHE WHISPERS

It's going to be 9/12 something.

Next, please.

It is the composition of something, but I've no idea what.

Three seconds. BUZZER

This is the number of South American countries

that speak a given language.

That is exactly right, independent South American countries.

You get French Guyana, they speak French,

but that's a Department of France.

Yes, one in 12 independent countries in South America speaks Dutch -

what country?

-Suriname.

-It is. English in...

-Guyana.

-Guyana. Portuguese in...

-Brazil.

-And Spanish in the others.

Well done, for a point. Eco-Warriors, what would you like?

-Two Reeds.

-Two Reeds. CHIME

It's the music question, lovely.

Let's all relax and enjoy a piece of music, and when I say relax,

I mean the opposite of relax. What's the connection between these clues?

Here's the first.

# When you cycled by

# Here began all my dreams

# The saddest thing I've ever seen... #

-The Smiths, isn't it?

-Yes.

Next.

ORCHESTRAL FILM MUSIC PLAYS

Back To The Future.

-That was The Smiths?

-No idea.

THEY WHISPER

Next.

# I love you much

# It's not enough

# You love blow... #

BUZZER

We think they are linked by the colour black.

They are not linked by the colour black so I'm going to play

a blast of the fourth clue to the Snake Charmers for a possible bonus.

# Show me how, decide what you want from me... #

We think the connection is "back".

-"Back to".

-"Back to" is the connection, yes.

You recognised Back To Black and you went for the wrong bit.

-What else did we hear?

-Theme from Back To The Future.

The theme from Back To The Future.

-The first one you probably don't know.

-It sounded like Morrissey.

It's The Smiths, Back To The Old House.

And the last one, Back To Life, Soul II Soul.

Who knows the motto of Jazzie B from Soul II Soul?

Not me.

-A smiling face, a thumping bass, for a loving race.

-Aww!

It's nice, isn't it?

You get a bonus point, Snake Charmers,

and you may choose a question. What's it to be?

-Can we have Eye of Horus, please?

-The Eye of Horus.

What is the connection between these picture clues? Here's the first.

Red Arrows, but I'm not... Is it a chevron?

Could be.

Next, please.

THEY WHISPER

Next, please.

That's the Old Vic. Is it?

I think that's the Old Vic.

Next, please.

-Yeah, they're all Old Vics.

-Oh, are they all Old Vics?

-Yeah.

BUZZER

Are they all the Old Vic?

I'm going to let you have another go.

-Just the Vic?

-Are they all Vics?

They are all Vics, I'm going to let you have it, because you might refer

to them as Old Vic if you were in a very colloquial frame of mind.

It is the Old Vic Theatre, the Queen Vic pub - I guess you might say,

"Let's go down for a drink in the Old Vic."

Vegas Vic is certainly an old character, Vegas Vic is a symbol

of Las Vegas outside the Pioneer Club,

and do you know what's happening in that first clue?

Victory something?

Vic formation.

It's the Old Vic formation, I think we have to agree,

that they must say if they've been in the gang for a long time.

-Back to you, Eco-Warriors, for a choice.

-Water, please.

-Water.

What is the connection between these clues? Here's the first.

-No idea who it is.

-Nope.

Next, please.

Nope.

There's nothing coming there.

OK. Next, please.

Were they all renamed?

-Possibly, cos it was Boss Cat over here.

-Yeah.

Do you want to go for another one?

Yeah. Next, please.

-Oh.

-THEY WHISPER

-Yes.

-BUZZER

We think they all live in bins.

They have all lived in bins, very well done.

Oscar The Grouch, obviously from Sesame Street, the hoarder.

Top Cat, he lives in a trash can, doesn't he?

What about the first two clues? Do you know Nagg & Nell over there?

-No.

-Beckett characters.

-Of course.

-Endgame. They live in a bin.

And any of you heard of Dr Jeff Wilson?

He's an academic otherwise known as Professor Dumpster,

and he lived in a bin apparently for a year to find out

what it was like to live in a very small space,

and the findings were very positive.

They'd have to be positive, wouldn't they?

You'd have to know the result was going to be it's fine

to live in a small space because if it was bad, there would be

no point investigating it because nobody lives in a bin for a year.

All dustbin-dwellers, very well done.

Snake Charmers, there's one question left, the Twisted Flax.

What is the connection between these clues? Here's the first.

You hold it with forks.

Next, please.

The Virgin Queen.

-None of these things are practical.

-No.

That's how corn reproduces, but I don't think that's...

Next, please.

Something to do with hands, faces?

Numbers?

Next, please.

Stamps, faces...

Two seconds. BUZZER

-Is it William Howard Taft?

-It's not.

Eco-Warriors, do you want to have a go for a bonus point?

Have they all given their names to forms of pipes or smoking devices?

-Are you thinking of a cob pipe?

-I have seen such a thing.

No, you're right. No, I quite like that, but no.

It is to do with their names - they are retronyms.

None of those things had that name when it was first introduced.

Corn on the cob was just corn, but once canned corn or

tinned corn came along, it became corn on the cob.

It was just Queen Elizabeth,

but became Elizabeth I after there was an Elizabeth II.

Analogue clock, of course,

pre-digital wouldn't have meant anything.

Snail mail so called after the invention of e-mail. Retronyms.

At the end of round one, the Eco-Warriors have one point,

the Snake Charmers have three.

Onto round two, the sequences round.

What comes fourth in a sequence? That's what I want to know.

Eco-Warriors, you'll be going first again. Please choose a hieroglyph.

-Twisted Flax.

-The Twisted Flax. What would come fourth in this sequence?

Here's the first.

THEY WHISPER

Next, please.

THEY WHISPER

No, it's the...

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

-It's the resurrection.

-OK.

BUZZER

We're going for the resurrection.

I'm afraid that's very much not the answer.

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

-Snake Charmers for a possible bonus point.

-Do we have anything?

Is it going backwards?

-I can't let you chat.

-Seven...

Nope, that's too long. The answer is seven: burial of Jesus.

Now, these are the last four of the Seven Sorrows

of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The resurrection is good news, of course,

the Sorrow is the burial of Jesus.

We're going towards the seventh and most sorrowful of the Sorrows.

So, no points, Snake Charmers, but you may choose your own question.

-Could we have Horned Viper, please?

-Yes, you could.

What is the fourth in this picture sequence? Here's the first.

That's someone stretching a hamstring.

Next, please.

Is there a special name for those?

There probably is, but I don't know it.

Next, please.

That's an amp. Oh, it's cramp, ramp, amp, so it's going to be MP.

We'll pick an MP.

BUZZER

-A picture of Jacob Rees-Mogg.

-Oh, no!

-And why would that be?

-Because he's an MP.

-At time of recording, Jacob Rees-Mogg is in MP.

I will accept it. What are we looking at?

We're looking at cramp, ramp, amp and mp.

That's right, we're taking letters off at the beginning each time.

You could have had military police, mezzo piano as a musical term,

that sort of thing, or MP, anything that stands for those letters.

Well done. Back to you, Eco-Warriors.

-Two Reeds, please.

-Two Reeds, OK.

I'm going to show you the first in a sequence. What comes fourth?

Your time starts now.

THEY WHISPER

Next, please.

THEY WHISPER

-It's got to be April 2004. Is that too straight?

-Possibly.

-I'd go for the next one, though.

-Next, please.

THEY WHISPER

Two seconds. BUZZER

Right.

-Good luck.

-3rd April 2008.

Not the answer, I'm afraid.

Snake Charmers, do you know for a possible bonus?

3rd May 2008.

It is my 3rd May 2008. What are we looking at?

It's the Fibonacci sequence.

So you start with 112 and then you've got 123, then 235,

so then it should have 358.

That's it, Fibonacci numbers, where

the first two add up to the next one.

So 1 + 1 = 2, 123, and then 2 + 3 = 5

and the next one would be 3rd May, 358.

If you have trouble understanding the Fibonacci sequence,

let me help by explaining what Fibonacci

himself said about it.

A certain man put a pair of rabbits in a place

surrounded on all sides by a wall.

How many pairs of rabbits can be produced from that pair in a year

if it is supposed that every month, each pair begets a new pair,

which from the second month on becomes productive?

Did that help? That's the Fibonacci sequence.

Snake Charmers, well done for the bonus. What question would you like?

-We'll have the Lion, please.

-Yes, you could.

What would come fourth in this sequence? Here's the first.

Portuguese man-of-war.

-Oh, Portugal won Euro 2016...

-Yeah.

12...

No, because Spain was '12.

-2004 was Greece.

-It was Greece, yeah.

So, are they all jellyfish? What would you follow it up on?

-Next, please.

-Oh, no.

-Yeah.

-Yeah, it is that sequence.

-Yeah, tragedy.

-Tragedy, yeah.

-BUZZER

Tragedy, 2004.

Correct, for three points. Very well done.

What are we looking at?

It's the winners of the European Football Championships

in those years and things that can follow that country.

So, Portugal won in 2016, Spain in 2012.

-Spain again in 2008?

-Yes.

And then Greece in 2004.

That's right, so Portuguese Man-of-War, Spanish Practices,

Spanish Steps, Greek Salad.

Very well done, though, for coming in after two clues.

Back to you, Eco-Warriors. What would you like?

-Eye of Horus, please.

-The Eye of Horus.

What would come fourth in this sequence? Here's the first.

THEY WHISPER

We need context.

Next, please.

-The zigzag pattern.

-Oh.

Is it one of these shows where they do various...?

Next, please.

Don't know.

Two seconds. BUZZER

-We're going for a pool of water.

-Not it, I'm afraid. Snake Charmers?

Is it a climbing rope?

It's not a climbing rope, no.

What are you thinking the sequence is?

I think it's the final four obstacles on some TV assault course

and I think it might be Gladiators.

It absolutely is that, it's the Eliminator at the end of Gladiators.

But I guess there's sort of a rope involved,

but specifically, they swing through a piece of paper.

They burst through paper,

or in the revival I think they swing through the wall.

Not an actual wall, a foam wall.

So, yes, it's not about the rope itself,

it's about what they swing through at the end of Gladiators.

So, you were close but no bonus.

You may, however, have the Water question,

which remains at the end of the round.

What would come fourth in this sequence? Here's the first.

Oh, it's me! Oh, it's not apostrophe, so it could be popes.

Lots of Johns.

It could be also somebody's surname. Next, please.

40, erm...

They're all in alphabetical order?

Next, please.

Fields, erm...

THEY WHISPER

Something 40. Anything goes with 40?

Two seconds. BUZZER

Erm...

-Bells.

-Not the answer, I'm afraid.

So a last bonus chance this round for the Eco-Warriors.

WB Yeats.

Is the right answer, very well done. What is the sequence?

WD-40,

WE Johns,

WC Fields...

It will probably be kinder for the viewers

if we start at the beginning.

So, WE Johns, who wrote the Biggles books,

WD-40, WC Fields,

so something WB,

and the most obvious would be Yeats, very well done.

Have you heard this about WD-40 being the opposite of duct tape?

If it moves when it shouldn't, use duct tape.

If it doesn't move when it should, use WD-40.

Very handy, I think, very handy.

That means, at the end of round two,

the Eco-Warriors have two points, the Snake Charmers have nine.

Time now to swing through the Connecting Wall, and you'll be going

first this time, Snake Charmers, so please choose Lion or Water.

-Can we have Lion, please?

-Yes, you can.

2.5 minutes to solve the Lion wall, starting now.

Austrians.

Good gracious, good lord, good grief.

-Who else is Austrian? Lauda, maybe.

-Yeah, Niki Lauda.

BUZZ

Oh, but also we have some Formula 1 drivers, cos we've got Lauda...

-OK, what's the goods? Good God, good Lord...

-Good grief.

-Good heavens. Also good gracious.

-BUZZ

Good gracious is more likely than good heavens...

BUZZ

-..got connectors.

-Three lives now, plenty of time.

-So, Schwarzenegger, Shea...

-Shea butter.

-Laver and Lord?

-Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Is Arnold Laver a person?

What's his name, the tennis player? Rod Laver.

Unbuckle, unzip, unbutton, un...toggle?

No...

I mean, toggle, buckle, button and zip,

they're all...connections on clothing.

Probably wouldn't have another word one.

Schwarzenegger's governor...

-A toggle is also a thing on clothing.

-Yeah...

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

Buckle can be a name as well, but zip and toggle can't be names.

Presumably button... If we've only got...

-Assuming this is correct...

-Uh...

Laver, Shea, Lord...

Well, I think these are the names of four people,

but I couldn't tell you...

-You've got a minute left.

-Oh, is it, um...?

No, I was thinking if we could have anagrams...but we can't.

-Schwarz means black...

-Um... Shea. Shea Stadium? No.

Do you want to guess this, see if it works?

You've solved the wall.

OK, you can also get points for the connections.

So, tell me about the first group.

"Walled-heim", or however you choose to pronounce it,

Klimt, Laude, Popper.

Famous Austrians.

They are Austrians. Waldheim, of course.

I tried to mislead you with my pronunciation, but no.

Heavens, gracious, grief, God.

They are all exclamations if you precede to them by good.

That's absolutely right. And what about the next group?

Zip, button, buckle, toggle.

All sorts of things you can have on clothes and fiddle with.

To put them together,

-connections on clothing.

-They are fastenings. That is right.

And what about the last group?

Lord, Schwarzenegger, Shea, or "shay", Laver or "lava".

Shall we just go with California Governors?

Have all been Governors of California?

One of them has been a Governor of California.

No, they are people who have given their names to sport stadiums.

So, Thomas Lord gave his name to Lord's,

Schwarzenegger, there was a sports stadium in Austria with his name on.

He actually asked them to take it off after a controversy about

the death penalty when he was Governor of California.

Shea, that is a lawyer who gave his name to the Shea Stadium.

And Rod Lever, the great tennis player.

They have stadiums, or stadia, named after them.

But you've found all the groups and you get three points for

the connections - that's a total of seven.

Let's invite the Eco-warriors down from their trees now, give them

the other Connecting Wall, see what they can do about solving it.

You get the Water Wall, two and a half minutes to solve it,

starting now.

Right...

THEY SPEAK IN HUSHED VOICES

No other nationals there, so forget that one.

THEY SPEAK IN HUSHED VOICES

-No, that's not it.

-Kinetic...

-Right...

Oops.

What is Helfgott?

-Goodrem - she was an Australian actress, wasn't she?

-Yeah.

Delta Goodrem. Popstar.

Judy Durham - she was an Australian singer.

-Durham...

-Nick Cave.

-Nick Cave.

-BUZZ

-No, it's not that one.

Melba - what is that apart from peach?

-So it's an Australian singer.

-Right!

Australian singer, Delta Goodrem was.

-BUZZ

-No, not it. Right...

-David Helfgott.

-Who is he?

-I think he was a pianist.

-Right.

We have urban, we have pop, we have sonic...

-Vox.

-Vox.

-BUZZ

-Oh, sorry.

-Ooh, dear...

-Latin terms - that's the status quo.

Vox...

Curriculum vitae, caveat emptor.

-Vox pop?

-Cave...whatever.

-BUZZ

-No.

Try vox populi, something like that.

-And vox.

-Yay.

-We got one. Right...

-Sonic is a hedgehog.

-Sonic the hedgehog.

-Sub-editor. Sub-editor, yes.

-Submarine.

-Submarine.

-Subsonic, submarine...

-Suburban.

-Marine, sub-urban.

-Yeah. Yay!

Three lives now, about 40 seconds.

Not long left now.

-So, David Helfgott.

-Yeah.

-Nick Cave.

-Yeah.

Melba.

Melba.

Melba...

-Goodrem or Durham?

-One of the two. Try it.

BUZZ Two lives.

Goodrem, Durham...

INDISTINCT SPEECH

Try that?

That's it, you've solved the Wall, very well done.

And more points available for the connections.

What about that first group, starting caveat?

They're all Latin phrases that would have an addition on the end.

Caveat emptor, curriculum vitae, status quo and vox populi.

That's absolutely right, the beginnings of Latin phrases.

And the green group?

They can all go with "sub" at the start.

You can put "sub" in front of all of them.

And the next group - Durham, Helfgott, Melba, Goodrem?

They're all Australian musical performers.

Yes, David Helfgott, that's right.

The film Shine is about him, isn't it? Helfgott.

And the last one - cave, or "ca-vay", performance, pop, kinetic?

They can go before "art".

They can go before "art". They are types of art. Very well done.

So, four points for the connections as well and the bonus -

that is the maximum of 10 points.

Let's have a look at the overall scores.

On with round four, the Missing Vowels round.

Fingers on buzzers, teams.

The first group are all...

BELL

Correct.

GONG

Correct.

BELL

Correct.

BELL

Too long, I'm afraid. Eco-warriors, do you know?

No? It's...

Next category...

GONG

Correct.

GONG

Correct.

GONG

You're the car guy, aren't you?!

Next clue.

GONG

Well done.

Next category ...

BELL

-Masala.

-Not it, I'm afraid.

Eco-warriors? Do you know?

Too long. It's...

Next clue.

Don't know? This is ...

Next clue.

Not seeing it? It's Soft Cell.

Marc Almond, of course.

JINGLE

Marc Almond, the singer of Soft Cell. That's what that one was.

But after a very exciting round four,

the bell has gone, the scores are in.

And I can tell you that the winners,

with 17 points, are the Eco-warriors.

And just pipped with 16 points, it's the Snake Charmers.

The good news is, we are now in round two, you don't go home.

I'm starting to figure out our new structure and I think the way it

works is, after round one, almost everyone goes home, after round two,

you can't go home.

Nobody goes. So you'll be coming back, you'll be coming back.

Lovely to see you, and see you again.

Thank you for watching.

And coming up next on BBC Two, a repeat of this week's Only Connect.

It will be kicking off with a question about press,

stained and little hood.

Will you get it right? I bet you don't.

Goodbye.