Geocachers v Vikings Only Connect

Good evening and welcome to Only Connect.

If you're worried that your house is haunted by a ghost

and might need exorcising,

there's an easy way to work out whether it is or it isn't.

It isn't.

But speaking of having a fright, let's meet the teams.

On my right, Ward Broughton,

an electronics lecturer and cycling enthusiast,

who took control of the sound system on a Royal Navy ship

while refuelling in Liberia,

Lowri Williams,

an Open University student who enjoys collecting dictionaries,

and their captain, Rhod Thomas,

a finance analyst who arranges his extensive DVD collection

alphabetically across four rooms in his house.

Of course he does! He's not a gibbon!

United by a knack for navigation,

they are the Geocachers.

Your team is based here, in Cardiff. Why haven't we seen you before?

We've been planning it for a while but this is the first time

we've managed to coordinate our calendars together.

This is series 13. For 12 series,

-you weren't all free on the same night?

-Pretty much, yeah.

We're delighted you were able to make it tonight.

You will be facing, on my left,

Mark Oxley,

a physiotherapist who was once asked to play

Patrick Swayze's stunt double but declined the opportunity,

John Wilson, a retail assistant and former IT professional

who attended the same school as Guy Fawkes,

and their captain, Mick Lee,

a chemical engineer and keen amateur chef

who is currently building his own pizza oven.

All hailing from the city of York,

they are the Vikings.

How's your team feeling ahead of its first Only Connect appearance?

We're absolutely pumped.

In true Viking fashion, we burnt the taxi before coming into battle.

I thought I smelt something. I'm sorry, that was just the crew.

Geocachers, you'll be going first.

You won the toss, so please choose

an Egyptian hieroglyph.

-Lion, please.

-Lion, OK. MUSICAL NOTE

We're starting off, immediately,

with a music or sound question.

You'll be hearing up to four clues. They have something in common.

What is it? Your first one is coming in now.

# I'm in love with I'm in love with

# I'm in love with a girl called Amanda... #

Next, please.

# When you look at me tell me what you see

# This is what you get It's the way I am

# When I look at you, I want to be, I want to be

# Somewhere close to heaven with neanderthal man... #

Next, please.

# I thought I saw a man brought to life

# He was warm, he came around

# And he was dignified... # BELL

Are they all performances by people who used to be in Neighbours?

They are indeed. Who did we hear from?

-It was Natalie Imbruglia.

-Mm-hmm.

-Holly Valance.

-Mm-hmm.

And I'm not sure who the first one was.

People have their different Neighbours era, don't they?

Very much my era.

-Craig McLachlan.

-Oh.

They're all sung by actors from the Australian soap Neighbours.

-Did you see Scott and Charlene's wedding?

-Of course I did.

-It was my era.

-Cried buckets.

-Do you know how many people watched that?

-Everyone.

-20 million people!

You know how many people watch Only Connect? About 17 people.

LAUGHTER

Very well done. Two points to you. Vikings, your turn for a question.

-Water, please.

-Water. What is the connection between these clues?

Here's the first.

Any thoughts? No. Next, please.

-It's planets, isn't it?

-It can also mean comets...? Next, please.

That's a horse. It might be a vegetable as well.

Um, they could be TV horses, maybe,

if the last one was Silver or something like that.

Um, let's see the next one, please.

INDISTINGUISHABLE

-Um...

-Two seconds.

BELL

Um, we believe these are TV animals.

They are not TV animals so, Geocachers,

you have the chance of a bonus point.

-No.

-Don't know?

-We don't know.

What do you think is happening

in clue four?

There is a TV animal called Cheeta.

-Yeah.

-In Tarzan, it's the monkey, Cheeta.

But he's not called Me Cheeta.

Me Cheeta is the title

of that monkey's autobiography.

It's almost certainly a chimpanzee.

They are the autobiographies of animals.

Black Beauty is the name of the horse,

but also the horse's autobiography.

Traveller is also...

It's not really by a horse -

breaking news -

but it's supposed to be. It's in the voice of a horse.

And Beautiful Joe,

in the voice of a neglected dog.

I hadn't heard of this Me Cheeta.

-It was a Booker Prize-nominated autobiography.

-Was it?

Let me tell you, if you google

"Victoria Coren", as I used to be,

"Victoria Coren Cheeta observer",

you will find I wrote an article

in the voice of Cheeta

from the Tarzan films in 2006,

three years before the Booker Prize nomination!

A coincidence? Almost certainly.

Almost certainly a coincidence.

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

-Two Reeds, please.

-Two Reeds.

What is the connection between these clues?

Here's the first.

INAUDIBLE

Next, please.

INDISTINGUISHABLE

-Is it tennis or is it names for big bangs?

-Oh, good idea, yeah.

-Shall we see the next?

-Next, please.

INDISTINGUISHABLE

-Shall we get the last one?

-Yes.

-Yeah.

-Next, please.

Two seconds. BELL

-Um...

-No.

-No, sorry.

-You don't know?

Bonus chance for you now, Vikings.

Yeah, they all mean "bear".

They are all names derived from "bear".

The Irish McMahon, meaning

"son of a bear" or a bear cub.

Bjorn originally from the old Norse for "bear".

Ursula, the Latin, "little she-bear".

What about the third clue? Do you know anything about that?

The Swiss capital, Bern,

is named after bears, I think.

Yes, the Duke of Zahringen decided

he would name this city after...

well, my screen says the first animal he met/ killed while hunting.

That's the lovely thing about hunting, isn't it,

meeting and killing? Much of a muchness. He was going hunting.

He said, "The first animal I meet/ kill,

"I will name the city after it."

And it was a bear, so Bern is the name of that capital.

Well done, you get the bonus point

and it's your chance to choose a question.

-The Eye of Horus.

-The Eye of Horus.

What is the connection between these clues?

Here's the first.

Exhibit. He's also a rapper.

if you take some of those letters out. Next, please.

Salt and Pepper were also rappers,

if you take letters out. Shall we?

-Yeah.

-Go for it.

-BELL

If you remove letters,

then you have the names of rappers

or rap acts and hip-hop.

I will accept that answer for three points.

You could have buzzed in after one clue.

These are the names of rap acts.

We have corrected them.

How would you spell those names?

-Um, Outcast, you'd put an E on the end.

-You wouldn't.

You'd replace the C with a K.

-Would you now?

-Yes.

-Right.

It would be Salt-N-Pepper.

-P-E-P-A.

-Pepa.

-Yes.

-Yeah,

good hip-hop knowledge there!

Um, Exhibit, I think, was just an X,

which he would demonstrate

from time to time in his videos.

X-Z-I-B-I-T.

And Roots Manoeuvre, M-A-N-U-V-A.

Let me ask you this, John.

How many times a week do people say "Great rap knowledge"?

That could be the first time ever in my entire life.

Very well done, for three points.

Back to you, Geocachers, for a choice.

Twisted Flax, please.

What is the connection between these clues?

Here's the first.

INAUDIBLE

Next, please.

INAUDIBLE

Are these going to be acronyms, maybe?

Things the FA have done?

Next, please.

-Things to do with football.

-Yeah.

-At a particular time or...?

-Are they all...?

-Do we need to be more specific?

-Shall we get the last one as well?

-Go on.

-Have they all happened as a result of a controversy?

-Next, please.

Two seconds. BELL

It's things that have been introduced into the Football League.

I'm going to need more than that.

In the '90s.

That is not the right answer.

Another bonus chance for you, Vikings.

They were all introduced into football.

It was connected with Jimmy Hill.

They were innovations credited

to the late great Jimmy Hill.

Very well done.

What can you tell me about any of those clues?

Highfield Road was the first

English all-seater stadium,

which was when he was in charge at Coventry.

And also the first electronic scoreboard, in 1964.

Colour matchday programme.

It was a programme for Coventry City, the Sky Blue.

He managed that team to great success. And three points for a win.

That was introduced in 1981.

Very well done.

And the last question will go to you.

The Horned Viper.

I expect these will be picture clues cos we haven't seen any.

Yes, picture question coming in now.

INDISTINGUISHABLE

Yeah, let's go next, please.

-That's Kubrick, isn't it? Is that not Stanley Kubrick?

-May well be.

We need another one, unless we can think of the name of that first lot.

Next, please.

That's Kraftwerk, so they're all starting K.

It's a bit weak though, isn't it?

-Start and finish with K.

-Start and finish with K. Beautiful.

-Even better.

-BELL

I'm impressed. It's start and finish with K.

I like your admiration for our question writers. Fiendish work.

They start and end with the letter K. Talk me through them.

-Kayak.

-The temple at Karnak, is it?

-Mm-hmm.

-Stanley Kubrick.

-Mm-hmm.

-Kraftwerk.

-Kraftwerk, the band.

-Do you know what they're named after, that band?

-Power station.

Power station, yes.

The machinery in the studio, they said, reminded them

of a power plant and it helped

to underline their German identity.

Really bucking the stereotype there.

That's the end of round one.

We continue with round two, the sequences round.

The teams will still see four clues in total,

but we will not show them the fourth one

unless they can tell us what it is.

Geocachers, you'll be going first again.

-Which would you like?

-Lion, please.

You will see the first in a series of four clues.

What is the fourth?

Your time starts now.

Next.

INDISTINGUISHABLE

Possibly the lyrics of a song or something.

-I'm trying to think.

-Next, please.

I have got no idea on this one at all.

INDISTINGUISHABLE

Two seconds.

I'm afraid you're out of time

so, Vikings, another bonus chance.

-Film.

-Is the right answer. And why's that?

It's Channel 4 Freeview channels

in the order they were introduced.

They're actually going backwards.

It's reverse order.

The first one was Film,

so we're going backwards through the Channel 4 sister channels.

The problem there, as we heard at the beginning,

you're just out too much, you have too much of a social life.

Social lives are not really encouraged here at Only Connect,

to be honest with you. We like people who are at home,

watching television. Going out and about,

you're not going to know your Channel 4 sister channels.

You get the bonus point, Vikings.

-What would you like to choose for yourselves?

-Two Reeds, please.

Two Reeds. What would come fourth in this sequence?

Here's the first.

-It ended up green.

-It did.

Next, please.

It would be a different colour.

Um, give me a sequence starting with green then.

Is it the traffic lights - green, amber...?

Or it could be the rainbow, so...

Red and orange and pink...

No, it would go red, orange, yellow,

green. I'd take the next.

Let's go next, please.

-They were purple, weren't they?

-They were purple.

So, is it only...?

Three seconds. BELL

-Say orange.

-Orange.

Is not the right answer.

Geocachers, it's your turn now for a bonus point.

Could we have the Marvel character of Hulk in the 2000s?

And why would that be?

Because they introduced a red Hulk

when he'd previously been green.

I will accept that answer.

I'm delighted!

Talk me through the other clues.

They're the colours of the rainbow, going in reverse,

turning green, turning yellow,

turning orange and then turning red.

That's right.

The 2016 Olympics pool went green

because hydrogen peroxide was put in

that neutralised the chlorine's ability to kill off the algae.

Oxidised paper turns yellow.

That's why we make scrolls, isn't it?

Lowri, you're about 30 years younger than me.

Do young people still make scrolls

by soaking paper in tea

or is that a pre-internet thing?

I definitely did it. I still do, where I can.

LAUGHTER

Excellent. That turns yellow. And 17th century carrots.

There were these vegetables that were many colours

but in the 17th century, there's the first thing

we know was really a carrot

and Dutch growers encouraged it to be orange

as a sort of tribute to the royal family there.

So, we're saying things that turn green, yellow, orange.

We want something that turned red

and this comic contribution gets you the bonus. Well done.

What question would you like?

-Water, please.

-Water. What will come fourth in this sequence?

Here's the first.

INDISTINGUISHABLE

Next.

These are islands.

-Dutch islands?

-OK.

-Are they in size?

-There's Aruba...

-I don't know which one it is.

Next, please.

So that's also... Curacao is also Dutch.

So, what famous Dutch...?

They're all Dutch Antilles, are they? Is that right?

INDISTINGUISHABLE

BELL

The Netherlands Antilles.

Not the answer, I'm afraid.

Vikings, would you like to have a go for a bonus?

-Benin.

-Not it. Not a sequence.

I can see what you're all thinking.

No, these are the four countries that are the constituent parts

of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

So the final one is simply the Netherlands mainland.

And they are getting larger in area and population,

but simply, Netherlands mainland.

No points there. Vikings, what would you like?

The Eye of Horus, please.

Eye of Horus. What would come fourth in this sequence?

Here's the first.

Yeah, OK, next, please.

Consecutive months? So, it's January, February, March, April.

-Oh, beautiful!

-June, July. August, September would be 3130.

No, it's either 3031 or 3130.

Five, six, seven, eight. So, it's 3131.

-July, August.

-31 and...?

-31 if it's July and August.

-Two 31s?

-No, it's August, September, isn't it?

-No.

January, February, March, April,

May, June, July, August. 3131.

-Yeah. 3131.

-BELL

-3131.

-Is the right answer.

And, as we heard you discussing,

these are simply about days

in particular months.

31 days in January, 28 in February,

so the first clue, 3128.

Then March, April, 3130.

May, June. And we want to hear

how many days in July and August.

3131.

Geocachers, your turn. What would you like?

-Twisted Flax, please.

-What would come fourth in this sequence?

Here's the first.

INDISTINGUISHABLE

Next.

Is this Churchill's speech or something?

Ooh, on the beaches.

-Yeah, go on.

-BELL

-On the beaches.

-Is the right answer.

What's happening here?

It's Churchill's speech in reverse,

where we'll fight them.

Yes, June, 1940. "We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France.

"We shall fight on the seas and oceans.

"We shall fight with growing confidence

"and growing strength in the air.

"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be.

"We shall fight on the beaches."

A great speech and a good early buzz.

Horned Viper remains for you, Vikings.

What will come fourth in this picture sequence?

Here's the first.

It's Aung... Aung Suu...

-Suu Kyi, yeah.

-Yeah.

Next, please.

-Is it Nobel Prizes?

-No, because that's Lee Harvey Oswald.

-So, Aung Suu Kyi, did I hear?

-You did.

We're going to need another, aren't we? Next, please.

Abraham Lincoln. So, Aung, Lee, Abe. Or Lincoln.

Lincoln... Oswald...

Harvey. Did he have a middle name?

-Abraham Lincoln? I don't know.

-BELL

-I can't give you that, I'm afraid.

-George Best.

Not an acceptable answer.

Geocachers, you have the chance of a bonus point.

-Moses.

-I will accept as an answer.

And why's that?

Cos, going by four names,

then three names, then two names

and he only goes by a single name.

That's absolutely right.

Four names, three, names, two names.

We wanted to hear somebody with one name.

We said Cher, you said Moses. That's the difference between us.

Very well done. That means, at the end of round two...

Time now for round three, the Connecting Wall.

This time, there are 16 clues, all jumbled up,

that the teams have to sort into four connected groups of four.

There are red herrings, clues that seem to come

into more than one group, but there is only one perfect solution.

Vikings, it'll be your turn to go first this time,

so please choose Lion or Water.

-Lion, please.

-Lion.

You have two and a half minutes to solve the Lion Wall, starting now.

Er, it's X-Men.

-There's Glorias, aren't there?

-Er...yeah.

Oh, yeah, Estefan, Hunniford, Swanson and Vanderbilt?

BUZZ

-Steinem?

-Estefan.

-BUZZ

-Right, OK.

Vanderbilt, Steinem,

Estefan and...

-Hunniford.

-Hunniford.

-Ah, nice.

-Um, Big Lebowski.

-Big Lebowski, yeah.

They're both played by the same actor.

John Goodman, so John Goodman.

Maybe it's not then.

I'm not seeing others. Maybe Irish, but... Um, OK.

Um...

-Defile, soil, tarnish, sully are all the same.

-Yeah.

Could have dirty as well though.

-BUZZ

-So, that's dirty.

-OK.

-Three lives now.

-Have we got shoes there?

-No, we haven't, have we?

-Um...

May be there. Irish. Irish stew, Irish mist...

-Film... The Big Lebowski.

-Yeah.

-What else could that be?

-Oh, yeah...

-Right...

Yeah... OK, Professor X and Essex girl, I somehow feel...

You've got a minute left.

-Let's try Sully.

-BUZZ

-We've got two left.

-We've got two left, so let's concentrate.

Sully's in Monsters, Inc, isn't he? Is anybody else in that?

-Professor X might be.

-No.

-Might have been off on the...

Was Swanson the receptionist?

-Give me one.

-Lightbulb.

-Lightbulb, yeah?

BUZZ One life left.

-It's not Lebowski and Sully?

-Oh, now then. Lebowski, Sully...

-Irish, why not? Let's try...

-Are they songs or albums?

20 seconds.

Not Practical. So, it's Swanson or Lightbulb. Let's go...

That's not it. Your lives are up

and the Wall's frozen.

But you found two groups

and let's see if you can tell me the connections.

In the first blue group...

-They're Glorias.

-They're famous Glorias.

And the second group, starting Defile?

They all mean to dirty or despoil.

That's right. They're synonyms for each other.

You can get points for connections in the groups you didn't find,

so let's resolve the Wall.

That's how it should have been.

Professor X, Lebowski, Sully, Swanson.

Do they all use wheelchairs?

They use wheelchairs. Professor X in the Marvel comics,

Lebowski in the film,

Joe Swanson from Family Guy

and Jake Sully in the science-fiction film Avatar.

And what about the last group?

-They're jokes. We just spotted it.

-Yeah.

Lightbulb jokes, Essex girl jokes,

Irish jokes, practical jokes.

So, that is two points for the groups you found

and four more for the connections. A total of six points.

Time to bring in the other team now,

give them a whole new Connecting Wall

and see what they can do about solving it.

Geocachers, you have got two and a half minutes

to solve the other Wall and your time starts now.

-OK, people from... Nuttall...

-Nigels.

-They're also people UKIP-related.

-Yes.

Planer, if you go for Nigels.

-BUZZ

-OK, so...

-BUZZ

-I'd like to put Farage

-in with Carswell and Nuttall.

-BUZZ

-Want to put Wedge, Slater?

-Nigel Slater?

What are we looking for? What else?

-BUZZ

-Chesterfields and Settees are things

-to sit on, aren't they?

-Yeah.

We've got the Nigels. Chesterfield...

-Is it Davenport as well?

-Yeah.

Davenport, Settee, Chesterfield...

Um...

-These have both been leaders of...

-BUZZ

..of UKIP.

Davenport, Settee... Wedge?

BUZZ

That's a type of shoe, isn't it?

Canape - has it got something written in it? "Ape".

"Edge". Um...

-Do you know what a Sked is?

-No.

-Canape...

-Carswell...

Castle...

Banks?

-BUZZ

-No.

-OK.

-Chesterfield, Settee...

Um...

-BUZZ

-We're going terrible now, aren't we?

Right, Canape...

If we go things... Yeah.

BUZZ

You've got things that sort of seat. Settee, Chesterfield and Davenport.

-30 seconds.

-What else could it be?

BUZZ

Sked? Try Sked, seeing as we don't know what that is.

BUZZ

BUZZ

BUZZ

-Table... Seat, table...

-Table top.

BUZZ

This is just...

Roy Castle. Douglas Carswell,

-Douglas Banks...

-Yeah.

-Ten seconds.

Douglas... Douglas someone else.

I don't know... Storm... Storm?

No, that's it. Your time is up and the Wall has frozen.

But you've found a group and I will give you more

if you can tell me what is the connection between those clues.

-They're all Nigels.

-They are all famous Nigels.

And you can still get points

for the connections in the groups you didn't find.

Let's resolve the Wall. There you go. All done for you.

Carswell, Banks, Nuttall, Sked.

-Members of UKIP?

-UKIP?

They are all people who are or have been, at one time,

members of UKIP. Alan Sked, the founder of UKIP.

And what about the next group?

Castle, Storm, Wedge, Table.

-Nothing.

-You don't see it.

You can put "sand" before all of them.

Sandcastle, sandstorm, sand wedge, sand table. And the last group.

They're all types of chair or sofa.

Those are the sofas.

So, you found one group

and you get three points for the connection, a total of four.

Let's have a look at the scores going into the final round.

On we go to the Missing Vowels round,

where teams can lose points as well as gain them.

Fingers on buzzers, teams.

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

Correct.

Correct.

Correct.

Very good farming idioms.

Next category.

After Simon Bolivar. Correct.

After Captain John Marshall.

After Queen Adelaide.

After the American president James Monroe.

Next category.

Correct.

Correct.

Correct.

Correct. The next group are all Famous Five books.

Correct. MUSIC SIGNALS END OF ROUND

Sadly, we will not have

any more Famous Five books

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

And I can tell you that, after a very exciting round four,

the winners and through to the next round, with 21 points,

are the Vikings.

But in second place, with 20 points,

it's the Geocachers.

Just one behind.

So, you might be going home, but you might not,

because this series, our two highest-scoring finishers

will go through, so we'll wait to find out.

Thank you all very much for playing.

Thank you for watching and a special thank you

to our new question editor, who is Mr Waley-Cohen,

as you'll know if you watch the final credits.

But you don't, do you? You never look.

You don't even know who our vision mixer is.

Neither do I!

I'm the star of the show! I don't talk to the drones.

Just leave the coffee outside the door and go. Goodbye.