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Hello and welcome to Only Connect,

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like James Bond after a bad guy

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Roger Moore jumps over a cliff

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using a parachute with a Union Flag

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the basic principles of espionage.

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I'm about to blow any plans our teams might have for covert missions

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by introducing them to the nation.

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a business analyst with an interest in architectural photography,

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who has ridden both species of camel in their respective countries

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a university research fellow

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in international conflict analysis, who's learning to play the ukulele.

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who was once rescued at sea after being stranded in a thunderstorm.

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United by a passion for world travel, they are the Globetrotters.

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our own individual weaknesses,

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but we cover for each other

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so hopefully nothing'll come up

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You are playing tonight, on my left,

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Hywel Carver, an engineering graduate and accomplished musician,

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who's halfway through a PhD on simulating blood flow in the head.

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a maths graduate and statistician,

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for his poem about fantasy football.

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a hospital doctor, who can recall

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United by a passion for Pictionary,

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How will a love of board games help you with this particular game?

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to the intellectual side of things

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but the kind of games we like

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things like The Settlers of Catan

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but then, to play board games, you also need to be sort of sociable

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because you need to talk to others

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but it's that intersectionality

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It's like listening to myself talk,

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Let's start with Round One.

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Ah, the music question immediately.

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# We have no memory tonight

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# We have the sun in our hair #

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I would rather go blind, babe #

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I don't recognise that at all.

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# Love don't live here any more

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Is that the Brand New Heavies?

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They're all, erm, related by colour.

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Can you be any more specific?

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Professor Green... Jazz Orchestra.

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Ah, I see where you've gone wrong.

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OK. But they are connected by colour, so very well done. You get a point.

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And it's over to the Globetrotters.

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We'll have the eye of Horus, please.

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

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Busingen: Switzerland. Any ideas?

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Possibly, yes. Maybe? Next.

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They've gone between two countries.

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Monaco's probably part of France

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Shall we take the last one?

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Er, we think they are, erm...

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is the name of a town or a city

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is where they used to be located

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So, you're thinking that Swansea

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It doesn't make much sense, I agree!

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How would it have got there?!

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We've got the wrong crux, perhaps!

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Not the answer, I'm afraid. I'll go over to the Board Gamers for a possible bonus point.

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used to be in England? No -

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is now in England? Yes. Is it not?

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OK. Because you'd have been going

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..that they're football teams

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That is what they are. Sorry!

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playing in non-native leagues.

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Too late, though, I'm afraid.

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Swansea City is a Welsh side

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Busingen - a German side playing in Switzerland, Monaco plays in France,

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I think it's in the Borders, but it's technically English.

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So they are all football teams

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No bonus point for you, then, but you may choose your own question.

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Horned viper. OK. What is the

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Invisible paint. The next one

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I think we need the next one,

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They're all things of the order

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such that they're inventions that are ridiculous or wouldn't work,

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I am going to pass it over to the Globetrotters for a possible bonus.

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We were going to say fool's errands.

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You're both in the right area.

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They're not all oxymoronic, because iron bird seed, you could have it.

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manufactured by the ACME company

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and bought by Wile E. Coyote.

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you're just supposed to add water,

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and is immediately run over.

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when he uses the bird seed?

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so Road Runner can't run fast?

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It all goes hilariously wrong.

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He feeds it to The Road Runner

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and then he has this giant magnet

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but instead the magnet draws him into the path of a train! Ahh!

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but that, I think, is honestly the funniest thing that's ever happened!

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it went on the stock market? Yeah.

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the French newspaper or something.

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And you are absolutely right.

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Isn't that terrifying? 1804 - a billion people in the world,

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a billion people just in China! Yes.

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when they reached one billion.

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Very well done. You get the bonus

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Is "Professor" his real name? No!

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No! Shall we do the next...?

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Er, yeah, we'll take the next.

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That's Prince Naseem. So they've taken titles for their first names.

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They are using titles in their names they have not actually earned.

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singer or rapper of some sort,

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Queen Latifah, Prince Naseem Hamed,

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and the first picture is of whom?

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the wife of Lyndon B Johnson.

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So, yes, all using titles to which they are not entitled. Well done.

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the Board Gamers have got 1 point, the Globetrotters are ahead with 4.

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Round Two is the Sequences Round. I want to know what comes fourth

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You may see a maximum of three clues but fewer and you get more points.

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Board Gamers, you're going first again. What would you like?

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Lion again. Lion again. OK.

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do you suppose, in this sequence?

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Have you read Forsyte Saga?

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Well done, Hywel. You stopped them

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You can see them both now. We went with The Chronicles of Narnia.

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Why? What's the connection?

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You can't get much more explanatory,

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That was absolutely as explanatory

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A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu,

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you went with Harry Potter,

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Very well done. Coming after

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Globetrotters, back to you for a go.

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We'll have the Horned Viper, please.

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What's the fourth in this sequence?

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"Now". Brown Cow... So it'll be cow.

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So, what are we doing? Erm...

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An animal with four stomachs

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one of my old school friends!

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something that denotes a cow.

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Very well done. Also coming in after

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Very well done. We're heating up.

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

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Are we going to go for that?

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Hang on. You've got to tell me

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that's what it's going to be?

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It's meant to be x-squared,

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It's much flatter than x-squared -

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You look really lost! Have a go.

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Can he say it? Anyone can answer.

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A graph with the lines of y=x,

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and exactly a diagonal line,

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Very well done for the points.

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I'm afraid that is not the answer.

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I'll show the third in the sequence

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So no bonus points, Board Gamers, but you do get the chance to choose

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What's the fourth in this sequence?

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What else is adenine? It could be

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No, but it's not going to be. OK.

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Brilliant. Coming in after one clue,

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I would've accepted uracil.

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DNA or RNA. Well, DNA, RNA... If it was RNA, it would be uracil.

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You can make other things, though,

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And it's them in alphabetical order.

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They are the bases of DNA or RNA.

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Globetrotters, one question remains,

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Picture questions. What's going

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Justice of the Peace, I guess.

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Can you give me a better example?

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A picture of a Member of Parliament!

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I'm going to give you the point

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Kevin Pietersen, known as KP,

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you so long to think of an MP!

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so I thought I'd go past them and choose one that was a bit better!

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It's time for the Connecting Wall.

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OK. I'd like you to sort this into four connected groups of four.

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You've got two and a half minutes,

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Perfect 10, Rotterdam, A Little Time

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What was the other one again?

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Galaxy Ford cars, Ford Fiesta,

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Right. Three strikes and you're out.

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Erm... Ravensburger, Waddingtons,

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You've got Brazilian, Playboy... OK, these are all types of bikini wax!

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Ah, right. French, Hollywood,

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OK. This is an opportunity to have

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Don't worry, I could create a minute of dead time on BBC4 all by myself,

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Four points for finding the groups. What about the connections?

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Perfect 10, 36D, Rotterdam,

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They're songs by the Beautiful South.

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You weren't sure about 36D.

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Galaxy, Fiesta, Kuga, Escort?

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They're all cars made by Ford.

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This one - Parker Brothers, Mayfair, Waddingtons, Ravensburger?

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They're all board-game manufacturers.

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They are companies that publish board games. Just as well the Board Gamers didn't get that one!

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lion board - it's their favourite!

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This last group - French, Brazilian,

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I'll pass to Suda to explain this. They're types of bikini wax.

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You didn't fall for it all. There was a whole fake group in that wall.

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Was there? Can you see what it is?

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I think I can see what it is!

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I shouldn't be at all surprised

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There was a whole fake group

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It means you're living right.

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Your reward for having no idea about these terrible magazines is -

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four points for the groups,

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for never having heard of Mayfair.

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It's the maximum. Very well done.

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Board Gamers are probably itching to play something by now, if they haven't been playing Monopoly,

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It's the water wall for you.

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The Jam. The Undertones probably?

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Annie Oakley. What's Leyden?

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as in it could be a scientist

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Anne Robinson, Annie Oakley...

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We had The Damned. Do we know anything about these people?

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Have we tried the Buzzcocks and the Undertones as band ones

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"Clash" and "jam" are both verbs

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We've not got enough time on that.

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Do you really think that's it?

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We haven't even got a word one. No.

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Annie Oakley, Anne Robinson...

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Erm... Oakley make sunglasses. Yes.

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Undertones... I think we've tried this already, but those three seem most likely to be bands.

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We're definitely going with bands. We need to work out what our roots

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OK. So we're going with jars,

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10 seconds. ..news presenters.

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Or potentially Annes? Maybe.

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OK, well, it's a good effort.

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There are still plenty of points available for the connections.

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what you should have found.

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There we go. The first group - Cole, Marr, Simpson, Oakley.

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OK, so these are all news presenters.

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They've all been political editors

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News presenters, quite right.

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Next - Bell, AgustaWestland,

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They're all... They make helicopters.

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They are helicopter manufacturers!

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I think you only recognised

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I don't even know that I knew that,

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That's what this quiz is all about.

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Kilner, Leyden, Canopic, Jam?

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These are jars. I'm... Yeah.

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we didn't get that one. They're jars.

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It's not what I'd call mine! I thought you might know that one.

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Let's see what that does to the scores going into the Final Round.

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the Globetrotters have got 19.

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You'll find plenty of walls to play

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Board Gamers. Officer Cadet.

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Board Gamers. Colour Sergeant.

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Board Gamers. Gas central heating.

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Board Gamers. Inclusive of bills.

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Possible point, Board Gamers.

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Furnished flat. That's right.

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Board Gamers. Bath Oliver.

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It is Bath Oliver. That bell means

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In a Missing Vowel turnaround, the Globetrotters finish on 21 points,

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Board Gamers, you are on the fast track towards the semifinals. You only have to win one more game.

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the slower road. You've got to win

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We'll be seeing you all again.

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I hope we'll be seeing you again for more 007-level code-breaking.

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who's driving the Aston Martin

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and who's in the ejector seat.

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