TEFL Teachers v IT Specialists Only Connect

Hello and welcome to Only Connect,

the quiz so tough it's like gladiators for the brain.

By which I mean proper Roman gladiators, where contenders fight

to the death against a lion.

Grrrr!

That's just an analogy.

Our contestants won't literally be fighting wild beasts

or haring around in chariots,

because BBC Four rejected my brilliant idea for a format change.

So, sitting in the same old boring chairs, on my right,

Saul Jones, an opera fan from London who studied

English at Mansfield College, Oxford and likes Turkish cuisine.

Emma-Louisa Mutter,

a former archaeologist who plays the cello

and sings in a four-part a cappella group.

And their captain, Chris Sowton, a part-time charity worker

and reluctant gardener, whose first book on academic writing

for foreign students was published this year.

They all teach English As A Foreign Language at King's College London.

They are the TEFL Teachers.

So, Chris, what sort of revision have you been doing?

We've obviously been playing the excellent Wall Online.

We've been asking each other random questions

and we've been sending each other vowel-less e-mails all week.

Excellent. Your opponents.

On my left, James Kemp, a software developer who keeps chickens

and can solve a Rubik's Cube in 27 seconds.

Sally Wilson.

A music graduate who works as an IT project manager.

And can play the saxophone, violin, viola, clarinet, piano and percussion.

And their captain, Lynne Ashcroft, a test analyst with

a degree in English, who owns 10,000 books and was once chased by a bear.

They are all professional computer experts. They're the IT Specialists.

Lynne, the obvious question, what brings your team here?

We've always loved the show.

We've tried very hard to get on it

and we've made it, so everything now is a bonus.

Well, there are bonuses available, also your own points.

-Good luck, I hope you get them.

-Thank you very much.

Let's kick off, then, with Round One.

I simply want to know what is the connection between four

apparently random clues.

The fewer clues you see before giving me the correct answer,

the more points you can get.

The TEFL Teachers won the toss

but they've elected to put the IT Specialists in first.

So, Lynne, I'd like your team to choose an Egyptian hieroglyph.

Can we have the Twisted Flax, please?

You certainly may. What is the connection between these clues?

Here's the first.

-Sue Tilley.

-She's in...an actor, in EastEnders.

-EastEnders, yeah.

-Shall we get the next one?

-Next, please.

No, it isn't, that's Susan Tully.

-Dentist, Byron McKeeby, Nan Wood.

-Haven't a clue about that.

-No, next one.

-Next, please.

Lisa Gherardini, that's... She was a mistress.

She was somebody's mistress.

-Dentist's mistresses?

-I could have got this completely wrong.

-Yeah?

-We'd better go next.

-Next, please.

Ten seconds.

-Oh, no, she was Whistler's mother!

-They're mothers? Famous mothers.

No, no, no, subjects of famous paintings.

BELL

They're all subjects of famous paintings.

They are models for famous paintings. Quite right.

-Can you tell me the paintings?

-Mona Lisa.

-Mona Lisa.

That's Lisa Gherardini.

She's not a mistress at all, I don't think she is!

The third clue. No, she was the wife of a Florentine merchant.

-The Mona Lisa.

-And that's Whistler's mother.

-That's Whistler's mother.

Yeah. And...

A dentist and his sister were models for Grant Wood's American Gothic.

What about Sue Tilley? What's that painting?

Is it something by Hockney or something like that?

Sue Tilley is the model for Freud's Benefits Supervisor Sleeping.

Very well done, you got one point.

Over to the TEFL Teachers to choose a question.

-Two Reeds, please.

-Two reeds.

What is the connection here? Time starts now.

-Is it computer games?

-It is a computer game.

-Next.

-MI5?

-Could be Israel.

-Don't know what that is.

-Next.

In the films it's like something, the imagery in films...

-I haven't a clue. I don't know what it is.

-Oh, God, yes.

-I've got no idea.

-Next.

Is it, the Calais Coach...

It sounds like...

-Ten seconds.

-An Agatha Christie. Something detective.

-I don't know.

-I don't know.

BELL

They're all detective films.

They are not all detective films, I'm afraid.

I can't give you that, so there's a bonus chance for the IT Specialists.

We think they're alternative American names for films known by other

names in England, in the UK.

I'll take it.

Murder In The Calais Coach, for Murder On The Orient Express.

I mean, it's actually a book but of course it's also a film.

Clue, the name for Cluedo which is a board game, also a film, in fact.

MI-5 is a TV programme - Spooks.

Desert Attack, that one was the film known as what in English?

Ice Cold In Alex. American names for British creations.

That is it. So, well done for the bonus.

You may now choose your own question.

-Could we have Lion, please?

-I don't see why not.

What is the connection here? First clue coming up now.

-New boy at Repton?

-I don't know. Should get next clue.

-Next, please.

-Oh, it's, erm...thingy out of Monty Python.

-Eric Idle?

Shall we go for next?

Next, please.

He was called Stig.

-They were called Stig.

-Yeah.

BELL

They're all called Stig.

They ARE all called Stig.

You didn't need to see the last clue which suggested Stig Of The Dump.

What can you tell me about the first three clues?

Well, I know The Rutles' lead guitarist was nicknamed Stig,

wasn't he?

That was the name of the character.

Yeah, and ABBA's manager was Stig.

Can't remember his surname.

Have a guess.

Stig Larsson or something? No, no, not Stig Larsson.

You're close. Anderson. Pretty much everyone Swedish,

if they're not called Larsson, they're called Anderson.

I hope that's not offensive to Swedish viewers. I mean it lovingly.

And what about the first one?

-New boy at Repton?

-The Stig.

Obviously a new boy at Repton is nicknamed Stig.

Why would I have thought you might know that?

They named The Stig on the TV show Top Gear after the name

of a new boy at Repton because that was where Jeremy Clarkson went.

Perfect. Jeremy Clarkson went to school

there and they named the driver

after the new boy slang, Repton Stig.

Very well done.

TEFL Teachers, it's your turn.

-Water, please.

-OK.

It's the music question.

What is the connection between these pieces of music?

First one coming in now.

MILITARY ANTHEM PLAYS

Queen of Sheba, isn't it?

Next.

# Well you don't know me... #

-I don't know what this is.

-You know?

-Don't know what it is. No idea.

-Next.

-Carmina Burana by Orff.

-Orff. Could be, I don't know.

-Do you want to go for the next one?

-Next.

OPERATIC SINGING

Ten seconds.

-What's that, then?

-Um, that's Tosca.

-Three seconds.

-BELL

Er, slaves.

Ooh, no, slaves is not the connection,

so there's another bonus chance for the IT Specialists.

-Got O in the title?

-They've got O in the title.

-Yeah, they've got O.

They all start with O, can you tell me what we heard?

-Don't know the first one.

-But the second one is...

BOTH: O Superman.

From Laurie Anderson, that's right.

-The third one is O Fortuna from Carmina Burana.

-That's right.

-We didn't listen to the last one.

-Didn't listen at all!

O Holy Night was the last one and the first,

the Canadian national anthem, O Canada.

O was the connection, you get a bonus there.

And it's your turn again to choose a question.

-Can we have Eye Of Horus, please?

-Absolutely.

What's the connection here? Time starts now.

-Santinho.

-It rings a bell, but...

OK, next, please.

-Isn't that a name? Aren't they names?

-The names of something.

-Erm, no, we'll have to go next.

-Next, please.

That one isn't.

They're all the same thing in different languages, I think.

-But I don't know.

-Next, please.

Oh, bless you! Yeah.

BELL

Things you say when people sneeze in different languages.

That's exactly right. Responses to a sneeze in different languages.

What are the languages?

The last one's German.

LAUGHTER

-Santinho, Portuguese or something?

-It is, Portuguese.

So, Jesus... Spanish?

-Spanish.

-And the other one... I've no idea.

Swedish?

-That's right, Icelandic!

-Yeah, Icelandic.

OK, very well done.

TEFL Teachers, your last chance for points in this round.

It's the Horned Viper question.

I expect these will be picture clues, we haven't seen them yet.

What's the connection? First one coming up now.

-I don't know who that is.

-Next.

-White cat?

-White cat.

-White cat. Persian?

-Couple of Persians?

-Next.

-That's an Ottoman.

-The Turkish Empire?

I think they are based on Oriental empires.

-I don't know who they are.

-Oriental?

OK. Great.

BELL

-Empires. Oriental empires.

-Empires is good enough.

You didn't need to see Roman Abramovich,

would have been in the last picture.

But you saw Aztec Camera, the band.

A Persian cat, an Ottoman. Roman would have been the last one.

But after three clues, you get two points, well done.

At the end of Round One, the TEFL Teachers

have got two points but the IT Specialists are ahead with six.

On to round two. Sequences.

This time the teams may see up to three clues,

and I want to know what would the fourth one be?

IT Specialists, you're going first again. Please choose a hieroglyph.

-Erm, can we have Lion again, please?

-You certainly may.

What would be the fourth clue in this sequence?

Here's the first.

Disputatious, Stage 4. Obviously going down.

-Yeah.

-Next please.

-Argumentative? They're obviously stages.

-In something.

Not sure which way they're going.

Next, please.

-Talky?

-Erm...

-Ah, they're all states, aren't they? Of, erm...

-Yes.

-Erm...

-Argumentative, talky.

-Talky. Agreed or something like that?

-Or is it, it's...

-Ten seconds.

It's, erm, things in a, on your way to becoming...

BELL

-Stage 1.

-Stage 1: Unconscious.

No! That's...that's not the answer.

TEFL Teachers, there's a bonus chance.

Stage 1: Silent.

It is Stage 1: Silent. And why is that?

Is it to do with films?

It's not. The answer is silent, so you'll get the point.

This is from a letter that Lord Byron wrote.

It's Byron's stages of a party. It's going in the wrong direction.

It would begin with silence.

Silent, talky, argumentative, disputatious.

-Yeah.

-Shall I read you what he said in full in the letter?

This was a letter to Thomas Moore, 1815.

"Yesterday I dined out with a largish party

"who were Sheridan and Colman,

"Harry Harris of Covent Garden and his brother Sir Gilbert Heathcote,

Kinnaird and others of note and notoriety.

"Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent then talky,

"then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible,

"then altogether-y, then inarticulate," and then...?

-Fun.

-Unconscious.

-Dead.

-Disputed.

Did you say "dead"?!

What kind of parties do you go to?!

No, drunk. Drunk is the last one.

So, just like the parties I have,

except in my case it's silent, silent, silent, drunk.

So you get the bonus point,

despite not being sure of the connection,

and it's your chance to choose a hieroglyph.

-Twisted Flax, please.

-Twisted Flax.

What is the fourth in this sequence?

They're picture clues. First one coming up now.

-Bass clef.

-Bass clef.

Next.

-That's a tenor clef.

-Is it going to be a treble?

-A treble, but what goes after the treble?

-Is it one above?

-Is it viola and then treble? Could be.

-Shall we go for the third?

-Try viola and then treble.

-Treble? Do you want to guess treble?

-Shall we get the next one?

-No, guess treble.

-Treble?

-Hmm.

-Yeah?

-I think so.

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

BELL

A treble clef.

It is a picture of a treble clef, after two clues.

You get three points. Very well done. What's the connection?

-Emma will explain.

-They're all musical clefs.

The first one is bass clef, if I'm not mistaken, being a cellist.

Then I think it's tenor then viola clef, and then treble clef.

Alto is the third one. They're going by pitch, getting higher.

And after alto you get treble. Well done.

Oh, scores getting closer now. Back to you,

IT Specialists, to choose a question.

-Can we have Eye of Horus, please?

-Absolutely.

What is the fourth in this sequence?

Here's the first.

Semiquaver is known as a...

The quarter note, so that's...

No, semiquaver... All right.

Next, please.

Okta.

-It's divisions of eight.

-It is.

-A semiquaver is an eighth.

-Next, please.

A quart, so something two.

-Um...

-Like a half, or something.

-A half?

-So it's a half?

-Ten seconds.

-16, 8, 4...

-Do you want to go for...?

-A half.

BELL

-Do you want to go for semibreve, that's a half?

-No, just a half.

-Hello!

-A half!

Well, I'll take it.

I'd like to have heard a half of something,

like a semicircle, but absolutely.

They're doubling fractions. In North America, a semiquaver

is know as 1/16th note. What's okta?

-An eighth of something!

-It's in meteorology. Eighth cloud cover.

A quart - a quarter, so next would be a half, half of something -

semicircle, for example.

Well done. Back to you, TEFL Teachers,

-to pick a question.

-Two Reeds, please.

-All right.

What will be the fourth in this sequence?

Here's the first.

-Tay...? Next.

-Is it rivers?

-Morar.

-They're Scottish rivers.

-Going towards...

-Tweed, I don't know. Clyde?

Clyde... It could be tributaries of the river.

Yes, I don't know.

-Do you want to go for the next one?

-We could guess Clyde.

-Do you think that's the biggest river in Scotland?

-It might be, yes.

I think it's tributaries. I don't think the third clue will help us.

BELL

-The Clyde.

-That is not the answer.

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

-to the IT Specialists.

-Loch Fyne!

That's not it. They are lochs.

They're Scottish lochs by volume,

and the next would be Ness.

-Yes, sorry. Yes.

-Good old Loch Ness! Ness is the answer.

IT Specialists, your question.

-Can we have Horned Viper, please?

-Horned Viper. What's fourth here?

Here's the first.

-Neck.

-Could be anything.

-Next, please.

-Oh, right, this is horse racing.

-This is horse racing.

-It's neck, a head...

-Something else.

-And the length.

-Shall we go length?

-Do you want to go length?

-Yes.

BELL

-Length.

-Not the answer.

I'm going to show the third in the sequence

to the TEFL Teachers now for a possible bonus.

Um...a nose.

It is a nose.

It used to be just a throwaway, "Oh, lost by a nose!"

Now a genuine official term, and that would be the shortest.

So, well done for the bonus, TEFL Teachers. Your question now.

Water is the last one, so that's what you'll get.

What's fourth in this sequence?

Time starts now.

-Um...

-Poetry?

-Next.

-Not Shakespeare?

-No, I don't think so.

-Forever.

-For summer...

-How long...?

-Your love for someone.

-Go again.

-Next.

With fever. I don't know what this is. Forever.

-Fever...

-I don't know.

-Summer...

Forever, with fever, then something.

-It's the end of a song line, isn't it?

-Yes.

-Ten seconds.

-Something that rhymes with summer.

-A Hummer?

Three seconds.

BELL

In a Hummer.

No, it isn't "in a Hummer."

A bonus chance for the IT Specialists.

-With love.

-With love, yeah.

Lovely(!)

With love, in a Hummer - you should all be lyricists!

But no, the answer is completely,

and as I'm sure people will be shouting at the screen at home -

it's the final verse of Alice Cooper's School's Out.

"School's out forever, school's out for summer,

"school's out with fever, school's out completely."

At the end of Round Two,

the TEFL Teachers are up to seven points,

IT Specialists now just ahead with eight.

Time for the Connecting Wall.

16 clues jumbled up that need sorting into four connected groups of four.

If you're easily bored,

why not make a few phone calls at the same time,

or perhaps play Monopoly, whilst simultaneously

playing the walls on our website, where you'll find them now?

TEFL Teachers, it's your turn to go first now.

You've got a choice - Lion or Water?

-Lion, please.

-OK.

The Lion wall.

You've got two-and-a-half minutes to solve it...starting now.

-OK.

-Boat race...

-Cockney rhyming slang.

-Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.

-So is Phizog.

-Boat race. What else have we got?

-Kisser? That's for the mouth, specifically.

-Smiler.

-Smiler.

-Smiler.

Face... Kisser. Try kisser.

Kisser, phizog... OK. Tag.

Oh, these are Facebook... social media things.

Tag, poke, block. Things you can do on Facebook.

-Share. Unfriend.

-Unfriend, OK. There are six there.

Dog in the manger, cat on a hot tin roof,

-pig in a poke, and bee in a bonnet.

-Well done.

So we've got five now of the Facebook ones.

-Like, tag.

-Block.

-Unfriend.

-Share. Unfriend.

So leave out Share? OK.

Leave out Like...

Leave out Tag...?

-OK, leave out...

-Block.

Three strikes and you're out now.

So it's faces now. So, Boat Race...

What are the other ones?

Kisser. Bun. Chip...?

So, Phizog. Boat Race.

Smiler... And a Mug.

So we've got those three, definitely.

And then one of Kisser or Smiler.

Block, Chip...

About halfway through the time.

Is there some kind of...

-Burger...

-Block.

Is it something in sport? Like block a tackle, chip the...

Bun, I don't know what that is.

Kisser and Smiler, though.

Maybe those two go together with those two

and then Block, Mug, Chip, Bun go together. Shall we try that one?

That's it! You've solved the wall, very well done.

Four points for the groups you found,

and I'll give you bonus points for the connections.

So the first one Poke, Hot Tin Roof, Bonnet, Manger.

Expressions or titles with animals in them.

That's right. They are phrases

that can be turned into idioms if you include animals.

Tag, Unfriend, Share, Like.

They're all things you can do

on Facebook, or a social networking site.

That's right. Things you can do on Facebook,

which is one of the many excellent social networking sites

that we at the BBC refuse to privilege over each other.

Quite right too.

And the next one - Boat Race, Phizog, Smiler, Kisser.

-Slang terms for "face".

-That's it. Slang for the face.

And the last one Block, Mug, Chip, Bun.

Er...sports terms.

Tell me about Bun.

-Bun? Er...

-I mean, I personally have a bun

before and after any sport and often in the middle -

but what sport were you thinking of?

It's one of the things in rugby?

-I mean, it isn't...

-Like a ruck or a maul? It could be.

OK. Not, though. Mug...?

I mean, mugging is discouraged in most sports.

But you can mug a tackle. It's a well-known phrase down our way.

Is it? Well, I'm afraid I'm not going to accept it

because I'm not FROM down your way.

Now, I'm sorry you don't recognise our old friends

Mr Block the barber, Mr Mug the milkman,

Mr Chip the carpenter, Mr Bun the baker.

They're from Happy Families!

But you found all four groups

with 3 extra points for the connection,

so that's a total of 7 points. Well done.

Time to bring back their opponents to see what they can do.

16 new clues, still sorted in the same way if they get it right.

Welcome back, IT Specialists.

OK - like a pub when I've been in it for the evening, only Water remains.

The Water wall is yours

you've got two and a half minutes to solve it. Starting...now.

Ambient temperature...

Types of music? Techno, House...

Breakbeat...? Euro.

Euro music.

OK. Try those three.

We've got a Sit-In, we've got a Boycott, a Picket.

-A March?

-And a March.

-Or a Walkout.

-And a Walkout.

OK, got that one. So...

Ambient. Something in the background...

-Ambient music!

-Yes, there is an Ambient music.

-Techno...

-Techno...

-Isn't there Industrial music as well?

-House...?

OK. Let's think of something else.

-Dashwood.

-Character in...

-Sense and Sensibility.

In Austen, yeah.

Oh, the March. They were sisters.

Dashwood sisters, March sisters.

Mortmain sisters?

-It's a name, isn't it?

-We could try it.

House sisters?! I don't know.

Give it a go.

Fossil sisters(!)

Fossil fuels...

No, that's wrong.

-OK, what's a Bureau?

-Erm...

A Bureau de Change.

It's another name for an office...

Do you want to have a go at the music again?

Just go through the music.

-Techno.

-I can't think of anything else.

Breakbeat.

-House music...

-You've got a minute left.

-Shall I just keep doing this? OTHERS:

-Yes.

A Demo tape...?

-Can you have industrial music?

-Yes, you can.

Right, let's think of these sisters, then.

-Break beat.

-March...

Sisters...

Are we looking for a red herring here?

-Ambient. I'm sure Ambient must be.

-30 seconds.

-Go for the music again.

-Techno...

-No.

-OK, what goes with Fossil?

Fossil music, possibly. I don't know.

Fossil fuel. Industrial...

Demo tape. Industrial...

Ten seconds.

There you go...

And you're out of time.

So you found two groups.

I will give you more points if you can tell me the connections.

Pickett, Boycott, Sit-In, Walkout.

-Types of protest.

-Types of industrial action.

Yes. Types of protest.

March, Fossil, Dashwood, Mortmain.

They must be the literary sisters.

Sisters in books the March sisters from Little Women.

Dashwoods from Sense and Sensibility,

Mortmain from...? I Capture the Castle.

And the Fossil sisters are in Ballet Shoes.

OK, you can still get bonus points

for the connections in the groups

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

What about that? Ambient, House, Breakbeat, Industrial.

Types of music. Well, types of...

I mean, I wouldn't say so, but types of electronic music.

Industrial you didn't know -

I'm reliably informed that is at the experimental end

of the electrodance spectrum.

Personally I'm more a fan of fossil music.

Frank Sinatra, that sort of thing.

And the last one Techno, Demo, Bureau, Euro.

They're all "-cratic" or "-crats".

You can follow them by "-crat".

So you found two groups, and you got

all 4 points for the connections. That's a total of 6.

Let's see how the scores look going into the final round.

So it's going to be a rather nerve-wracking Round Four.

If you can't take the tension and need to run away, you'll find more

connecting walls on our website, where you can even write your own.

There's no escape for you guys we must play the Missing Vowels round.

We've taken the vowels out of well-known phrases or sayings

and squidged up the consonants.

I want to know what the disguised words are.

The first group are all films about sport.

-TEFL?

-Invictus.

Don't know this one?

it's a skateboarding movie, Gleaming The Cube. Next clue...

-Specialists?

-International Velvet.

-Specialists?

-Cool Runnings.

Next category

methods of advertising.

-Specialists?

-Sandwich Board.

-TEFL?

-Direct Nail.

This is an online one Interstitial. Next clue...

-Specialists?

-Handout.

Next category circus performers.

-TEFL?

-Bareback Rider.

-TEFL?

-Escape Artist.

-This is a tricky one.

-BELL

Too late, I'm afraid. Aerialist. Next clue...

-TEFL?

-Fire Eater.

Next category gadgets.

-TEFL?

-Baby Monitor.

-TEFL?

-Eyelash Curlers.

-Specialists?

-Foot Spa.

-TEFL?

-Coin Sorter.

Next category African capitals.

END-OF-ROUND MUSIC

Well, you buzzed there, IT Specialists,

and perhaps you were going to say Cairo,

but too late because the bell has rung for the end of the quiz.

And the IT Specialists

finish on an excellent 19,

but just ahead with 22

are the TEFL Teachers.

Well done, TEFL Teachers,

you'll be in the quarterfinals.

We'll see you again then.

IT specialists, I'm terribly sorry. Thank you for playing,

it was lovely to meet you.

I'm afraid, though, for you,

gladiator style, it's that...

Ancient Roman scholars

are divided now about what the thumbs down actually meant, so let me clarify.

Here it means that the contestants will be executed.

It's the only way to incentivise them without prizes. Goodbye.

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