Lasletts v Board Gamers Only Connect

If you like games and you like connecting things,

then you're going to love Connect 4.

I've got a set. It's like a slightly more complicated noughts and crosses.

Anyway, on with the quiz.

If you don't know what it's called I'm not going to tell you because I bet you don't really care.

What you may care about is who's going to play it.

And the answer is two teams of previous heat winners

who are vying for a place in the semi-final.

They are, on my right,

Jake Laslett, a teaching assistant and film fanatic

who's working his way through Empire's top 500 classic films

Emma Laslett, an accomplished linguist

with a passion for Eurovision and the works of Samuel Beckett

And their captain Chris Laslett

a marketing controller with a love of Japanese and Korean cinema,

who once sat in a bath of jelly for charity.

United by family love, they are the Lasletts.

Chris, you beat the Pilots in your first heat. Yes, we did.

How's the family been preparing for today's game

We spend breakfast throwing questions at each other

and then take the rest of the day off.

Tonight you'll be playing, on my left,

Hywel Carver, a postgraduate student

who once gave an unsolicited saxophone performance

to Sir Bob Geldof in an airport departure lounge

Michael Wallace, a published author and member of the Cambridge Assassins Guild,

who has a PhD in statistics from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

And their captain, Jamie Karran

A hospital doctor with an interest in mythology

who once trended globally on Twitter.

United by a yearning for Yahtzee, they are the Board Gamers.

Jamie, you beat the Globe Trotters in your first heat.

Any new tactics today?

We spent the whole last week practising just for the skateboarding round.

So we're looking to kick back there. That was supposed to be a secret!

What round did you most enjoy when you played before?

Missing vowels is always fun.

And the sequences is good as well.

Sequences was good cos we got a maths question. Yeah. Maths.

Let's play round one.

I simply want to know what's the connection between four apparently random clues.

I think you know that the winner will be going into the semi-final.

The ones who don't win... I won't use the word.

Won't be going home. They still have a chance to get through to the semi-final.

It'll just take them longer.

Lasletts, you won the toss, you're going first.

Can I have a twisted flax, please? I don't see why not.

What is the connection between these clues?

Here's the first.

Bobsleigh upside-down.

Are they numbers that when you turn them upside down they're words

You weren't paying attention at school. Coming after one clue, you get five points.

All that typing things into the calculator to make words has paid off.

Those numbers are bobsleigh, eggshell, boobies.

I'm speaking of the bird native to the Galapagos, of course. What did you think I meant?

And gigolo is the last one.

All words if you turn your calculator upside-down.

OK, Board Gamers.

The game is afoot. What would you like?

We'll take the lion. OK.

What is the connection between these clues?

Here's the first.

I think they were all flags.

Go one more at least.

Next.

Yes, so they're all inspired by flags.

OK. We need to...

Boom.

Sorry!

They are all inspired by flags

Coming in after two clues, you get three points for inspired by flags.

You didn't need to see Kieslowski's Three Colours Trilogy or the Red Cross symbol.

The Pizza Marguerita, based on which flag? The Italian.

Italian. And Khartoum's street layout? What's that about?

That's laid out like the Union Jack, I think.

I think the theory was it made it easier to defend or something.

Or it was just patriotic.

It was Lord Kitchener in 1899 who planned that design.

That's cool. OK, Lasletts, we're coming back to you to choose a hieroglyph.

Choose water, please. OK.

This is the music question. Let s see if you can do this after one clue. Here's the first.

CLASSICAL PIANO MUSIC

Any idea? I should know.

Next, please.

CLASSICAL PIANO MUSIC

I don't know. You don't.

Next, please.

CLASSICAL PIANO MUSIC

Next, please.

CLASSICAL PIANO MUSIC

Is it death scenes?

Five seconds. Three seconds.

We think they might be connected to seasons but we have no idea

I'm afraid they're not connected to seasons. So there's a bonus chance for the Board Gamers.

We think times of day is the connection.

That's not it either.

You heard Chopin's second piano concerto.

You heard Beethoven's second piano concerto.

Brahms's second piano concerto

and Rachmaninov's second piano concerto.

I knew I wasn't musical at school

the day they suggested I try the recorder.

And then I got thrown out of recorder classes for messing about.

There are some amazing recorder pieces out there.

You see, I was thinking, how can they expel me for messing about

as opposed to what, the serious business of playing the recorder.

I thought there was only London's Burning

There's a whole repertoire out there.

All of the nursery rhymes and more.

LAUGHS: I should have tried harder.

OK, you didn't get the bonus point but you may choose your own question.

Eye of Horus. Eye of Horus.

What connects these little fellows? Here's the first.

Next.

Next.

Is that Love In A Cold Climate No, it's not.

Next.

Three seconds.

You can contract part of them to make what they're better known as.

Like The Fonze is Arthur Fonzarelli.

Mm. And how does that work with the third clue?

Giles Coren's first novel was GiCo The Novel?

And the other ones are obvious

Nevertheless it doesn't apply to all four so I have to throw it over to the Lasletts for a bonus point.

The only thing we can think is are they all F-O-N-Z?

They're not but you're in the right area.

Did you say that Giles Coren's first novel was Love In A Cold Climate?

I thought it was a novel by someone.

By Nancy Mitford from many years ago.

The reason why we said that... You said that.

We said that was that climate of wine growing regions could be temperate.

Temperate. Climate. Love In A Cold Climate.

And then Arthur Fonzarelli is Henry Winkler, which is a type of climate.

Yes, I don't think you get two novels more different

than Love In A Cold Climate and my brother's book Winkler.

So named because it has a character called Winkler in it.

The test of dissolved oxygen is the Winkler test.

Climate of wine growing regions measured on the Winkler scale.

And of course The Fonz was played by Henry Winkler.

Lasletts, you didn't get a bonus point but you get to choose a question.

Horned viper, please. Horned viper. What connects these clues? Here s the first.

Is it the legs game?

Shall we take another one just in case?

Next, please. Yeah. It is.

This is the legs game. How many legs in a pub name.

Pub signs. How many legs are there on the animals or people.

Hence the Ship Inn you'd be out cos there's no legs in it.

Very well done.

OK, Board Gamers, there is one remaining question, two reeds.

I suspect these are going to be picture clues. What do they have in common? Here's the first.

Next.

Windy. Auction of a painting where it looks windy.

Next.

Singing nuns. Nuns on the run, maybe.

Next.

I don't know who that is.

Three seconds.

Songs from The Sound Of Music.

And for example the first clue would be what? Something about Hitler

No! They don't sing directly about Hitler!

They talk about something nasty coming to Austria!

They never quite say. So it's your chance for a bonus, Lasletts.

They're all the Singing something. They're all the Singing something.

Can you be more specific?

The Singing Detective, The Singing Nuns. Is it The Singing Butler, the painting?

The sculpture, is that The Singing Ringing Tree as well

or was that just the TV series and it's called something similar?

No, it is The Singing Ringing Tree. The sculpture outside Burnley.

Very well done.

At the end of round one, the Board Gamers have got three points, the Lasletts are ahead with nine.

Round two is the sequences round. I want to know what comes fourth in a sequence.

Lasletts, you'll be going first Which hieroglyph would you like

What should we choose this time Emma should choose. Eye of Horus.

Eye of Horus, please. Eye of Horus. OK.

These are going to be pictures you may see up to three of them

I want to know what you would expect to see in the fourth. Here's the first.

Shall we take the next one?

Next one, please.

An Alcoholics Anonymous sign. I will give you the point.

We went for a picture of that lovely author A.A. Milne. Yes.

Can you explain why your answer and mine are correct?

Doctor of Divinity is DD.

I believe that is C.C. something. It's Bette Midler in Beaches, is it?

That's right, C.C. Bloom, the character.

That's B.B. King. And the great B.B. King.

It's simply DD, CC, BB and AA.

A.A. Gill, A.A. Milne. You went for an Alcoholics Anonymous sign.

Obviously. One look at me in the morning, it's what most people think of.

Very well done for the points.

Board Gamers, your turn to choose. Twisted flax, please.

Twisted flax. What would be the fourth in this sequence? Here's the first.

Next.

Could that be... I don't know.

Is it someone... I don't know.

Next? Next.

From the North Pole to the South Pole.

Could these be journeys a celebrity has taken or something?

Like... I don't know who it might be.

Three seconds.

First is any path that would take you from all five continents.

Across all five continents.

I'm going to let you have another go. Around the world?

That is the answer. Around the world is absolutely right.

I suppose that does mean taking in all five continents.

So you get two points but do you know why?

No.

Well, we thought it was maybe

trips people have taken that are following another person's trip

Maybe someone went around the world in 80 days because of the book

That's right, it is journeys taken by a celebrity.

Lasletts, do you know who? Michael Palin.

Michael Palin. It's Michael Palin who kicked off his adventures

by travelling around the world like the Jules Verne book

and then Pole to Pole and around the Pacific rim.

Do you know what that was called? Ring Of Fire?

Full Circle it was called.

And then Hemingway Adventure. Michael Palin adventures.

So well done. Lasletts, your turn to choose.

Water, please. OK.

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

Can we have the next one, please?

Is it the...

No because, it'd be erm...

Next one, please.

Marvellous.

I think it might be. I don't know.

If you want to go for it you can. I'm not sure what the link would be.

Is it...

Is it rose bud?

That is not the answer, I'm afraid. There's a bonus chance for the Board Gamers.

Play it again, Sam? That's not it either.

Do you recognise any of the films these lines come from?

First one's Dirty Harry.

I do know but I can't remember it at all

The second one is Magnum Force The third is The Enforcer.

They are lines from successive Dirty Harry films.

I wanted to hear a line from the fourth one, Sudden Impact.

And the line in that film most people attribute to the wrong film is...

Go ahead, make my day!

I would have taken any line that appears in Sudden Impact.

Luckily I know the script in my head but rose bud is the wrong film.

And play it again, Sam is a different journey so no points there.

Board Gamers, your chance to choose.

Lion, please. Lion.

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

Next.

Next.

TALK QUIETLY TO EACH OTHER

Three seconds.

Go ahead, make my day.

Ringo Starr!

I'd be so happy if that were the answer. It so isn't.

Lasletts, do you know?

We're going to take a punt at Wayne Gretsky.

The answer is Wayne Gretzky!

Why is that that the answer?

I recognise Mark Messier as an ice hockey player.

So we're guessing NHL players of the year.

It's to do with points. The people who've scored the most career points in NHL history.

The highest scoring hockey player is not unfortunately Ringo Starr!

Mind you, we can't be certain, we can't be certain.

But on the official points system it's Wayne Gretzky.

So well done, Lasletts, you get a bonus point and the chance to choose.

I think we'd like to go for two reeds, please.

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

Next one, please.

They're terms for something.

Next one, please.

Are they in a normal curve?

Median, baseline. Origin?

Are you sure? No.

Not at all sure but we're going to say origin.

That is not the answer, I'm afraid. So it's your chance for a bonus Board Gamers.

We can explain it but we don't know the technical term.

It's whatever means under the line in typography typeface.

Yeah, I'll take it. I was hoping to hear descender height or descender.

In typography when measuring letters it's the part that comes down from the baseline.

Measuring that would be known technically as the descender height

but I'll take the bit that comes down from the letter

I'm sure that's what many sub editors call it in a weak moment.

So you get a bonus point, Board Gamers.

And your chance to choose although the choice is limited.

Horned viper. Why not have the horned viper? It's there.

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

Lift off. I think...

Next.

Keys! No, no, it's a sequence.

Oh, pants.

TALK QUIETLY TO EACH OTHER

Next.

Three seconds.

The lack of a key.

No keys. Something with no keys

A keyboard with all of its keys taken off.

Yes, I see what you're saying but I'm afraid that's not the answer.

So Lasletts, you have the chance of a bonus

We think it's two keys, three keys, four keys and five keys.

We think the Florida Keys.

I'm afraid you're not right either. You're both so close.

Even if you were a team of six you wouldn't have got this.

Nuclear missile launch in the two man system requires four keys.

That is two people turning two keys simultaneously.

The UBS logo, it's a bank, three crossed keys.

The sign of Saint Peter is two keys. Course it is!

So it's four, three and two. And the last clue should be something with one key.

A car, a front door.

If it was my car, no keys, cos I've always lost them,

but one key, I wanted to hear someone had that.

At the end of round two, then, the Board Gamers have six points,

the Lasletts have 13.

Time now for connecting wall, the 16 clues that need to be separated into linked groups of four.

Board Gamers, it'll be your turn to go first this time. You've got a choice, lion or water.

I think lion sounds a bit more exciting than water.

We'll go lion. Lion.

OK, you have two and a half minutes to solve it.

Starting now.

Corona is a lager. Skol is a lager.

Sol is a lager. Asahi is a lager.

Quick.

First contact is Star Trek movie.

Mockingbird, To Kill A Mockingbird.

Diamond ring.

That's an effect when there's a solar eclipse.

Diamond ring is something from. . The solar eclipse.

As is totality. And sol? No.

First contact when it first touches.

Three strikes and you're out. Plenty of time.

Looking glass, mockingbird and Billy goat are all literature, sort of.

Frigid. Honor without the U.

Honor is a name maybe.

Planet means wonder in Greek.

Rigid without the F.

That has king in it.

Mummy's going to buy you a diamond ring.

Mockingbird, yeah.

If the mockingbird doesn't sing

Yeah. It's something like that, isn't it?

So it must be out of these five

Then you're left with planet, sol and frigid.

Planet. It's not what you buy.

I think I like these four if we don't get anything else.

Sol and frigid.

That's plane.

Rigid, plane, yeah.

No, we haven't got a wordy one

Dishonour?

Red planet.

Dishonor? Dissol?

That's it, you've solved the wall.

Four points immediately. What about the connections?

Corona, Brahma, Skol, Asahi.

They're all things that I don't drink.

By which I mean lagers. Sorry! Don't worry, I'll have them.

All international beers.

Totality, Baily's beads, diamond ring, first contact.

They are all things that are described in a solar eclipse.

First contact is when the sun first hits the moon or whatever it is in a solar eclipse.

And then diamond ring is... I don't have to explain all that, do I

There's no need. I accept they're all aspects of a solar eclipse

Right. And the next one.

Looking glass, Billy goat, cart and bull, mockingbird.

What do we think? It's from a children's rhyme.

About if your mockingbird doesn't sing.

Things like that. And in the rhyme they're all things that...

Mummy's going to buy you?

That's right, although I think if you were small enough to need a lullaby,

I'm not sure you'd want any of those things.

I'm sure there are things you'd rather be bought than a goat and a mirror.

Makes milk, cheese. Children need cheese.

Bones and stuff. Doctor.

Wouldn't you rather just be got some cheese?

Yeah but give a man a cheese and he has cheese there and then.

Give him a Billy goat, potential cheese for ever, depending on..

If you got a Billy goat then 2 years later when he's old enough to milk the goat,

that goat's no longer around.

I'm presuming you're not just leaving the baby and goat, saying,

Don't worry, I'm sure cheese will happen eventually.

I'll give you the point.

And the last group. Planet, honor, sol, frigid.

What could honor be without the U? That's significant.

It's a name. I can't give you long.

Red. That's not it.

It is about the words as I think you know.

What if after all of those words, you put arium?

Planetarium, honorarium, solarium, frigidarium.

That was a word one.

But you get four points for the groups you found and three for the connections. A total of seven.

What about the water wall? It remains unsolved!

They're all jumbled up. Who's going to do something about that?

The Lasletts. Welcome back, Lasletts.

Water wall for you. You've got two and a half minutes to solve it

Starting now.

Servalan, Avon... It's erm...

Cally. And...

Tarrant?

Car key, things you can lose.

Isle of Wight.

Isle of Dogs.

Isle of Man!

Isle of Grain? Yes.

Car key, read, wight and rows are colours.

Three strikes and you're out. Plenty of time.

Grimshaw, Cox, Blackburn and Mayo are Radio 1 DJs.

Yes.

These are all isles.

Cox, Grimshaw, Mayo.

Goodness me, quick wall work. That's four immediate points.

What about the connections?

Cally, Tarrant, Servalan and Avon.

From Blake's 7.

See how I pretend that all of us on this quiz aren't very familiar with Blake's 7.

What about this next green group?

It's car key, rows, read and wight, they're homophones of colours.

That's exactly it. Khaki. What a sneaky little clue.

Khaki, rose, red and white. Very good.

And the next one, the red group Mayo, Cox, Grimshaw, Blackburn

All Radio 1 DJs.

They are all breakfast hosts on Radio 1. Can you tell me their first names?

Simon Mayo, Sara Cox, Nick Grimshaw and Tony Blackburn. That is right.

And the final group. Bute, dogs, grain, man.

All isles. They are isles.

In the UK. Isles in the UK.

Very well done.

What a wall master class.

Four quick points for the groups, four points for the connections The bonus two for getting them all.

That is a maximum of ten.

Let's see how the scores are looking as we go into the last round.

The Board Gamers have 13 points and the Lasletts have 23.

If you were going, khaki, that's clever, I'd never have found it

why not have a practise on our website?

You'll find plenty of walls and if it's not enough you can write your own.

We're going to play round four, the missing vowels round, for a place in the semi-final.

Fingers on buzzers, teams.

The first group are all Rhodes scholars.

Lasletts. Edwin Hubble.

Correct.

Board Gamers? Naomi Wolf.

Correct.

Don't know this one. It's Edward De Bono. Next clue

Board Gamers? Bill Clinton.

Correct. Next category. Monty Python quotes.

Lasletts?

This is.. Oh no.

I'm afraid you lose a point. Board Gamers? This is an ex parrot.

That's right. Next clue.

Board Gamers? What have the Romans ever done for us?

Correct.

Lasletts. Spam spam spam spam.

That's it.

Lasletts. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

You were expecting that. Next category.

Lasletts. Quicksilver and mercury.

Correct.

Lasletts. Spelter and zinc.

Correct.

Board Gamers.

Wolfram and tungsten. Very good.

Lasletts. Natrium and sodium.

Yes, it is. Next category.

Lasletts? Victor Lewis-Smith.

I'm afraid so.

Lasletts. Brian Waugh?

I'm afraid that's not it. You lose a point. Board Gamers

MUSIC

No time, Board Gamers, for you to come in with the name of Auberon Waugh, as you might have done.

It is the end of the quiz.

Looking at the final scores, finishing with 18 points it's the Board Gamers.

But with 28 and through to the semi-final it's the Lasletts.

Very well done to you. Straight through to the semis.

Board Gamers, you're still with us,

you just have to win another game to make it to the semi-finals.

So we'll be seeing all of you again.

Nobody goes home. Figuratively speaking.

Obviously everyone goes home. It's not Big Brother.

The teams go home and then they come back to do another show.

Everyone goes home. The producer, the director, the crew.

They all go home. And then I'm so, so lonely.

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