Oenophiles v Bakers Only Connect

Hello, and welcome to Only Connect,

the quiz with questions so challenging, they need their own social worker.

Honestly, these questions -

all they do is hang around on street corners all day, wearing hoodies and scrounging for drugs.

Luckily, I've managed to lure some of them onto the show,

using crack.

The teams facing them tonight have also been here once before and won.

So tonight's winners will be going straight through to the semifinal,

while the losers will have to win their way there via a slightly trickier route.

They are, on my right,

Didier Bruyere, a scientist from Lyon,

who enjoys hiking, running, juggling and playing board games.

Scott Dawson, a sabermetrics enthusiast

with a degree in computing and an interest in astronomy.

And their captain, Jamie Dodding,

a cricket fan and failed linguist,

who enjoys listening to music by Half Man Half Biscuit

and drinking New World wines.

United in their belief that a bottle of red a day keeps the doctor away,

they are the Oenophiles.

Let's talk about wine.

Any recommendations for me?

Well, you can't go wrong with a Cotes du Rhone, I think.

That's been a big part of our preparation.

They do an excellent Cotes du Rhone at the corner shop near me for only 97p.

Imagine how much of that you can get through.

Sounds good stuff to me!

You are facing, on my left,

Tim Spain,

an atmospheric physicist

and collector of Asterix comics,

who once won a Milky Bar speed-eating contest.

Matt Rowbotham, a tax lawyer

with a talent for drawing life art and baking ginger cake.

And their captain, Peter Steggle,

an Oxford French and Russian graduate

who enjoys watching Scandinavian crime drama

and reading novels by JD Salinger.

United by a passion for cake,

they are the Bakers.

Peter, you beat the Press Gang in your first heat.

What have you done in advance of this one?

Would you believe more baking?

You know about Matt's ginger cake. I made some fruit cake

and Tim was up quite late last night, making some lovely brioche.

Have you ever tried making a cake out of Cotes du Rhone?

Ooh!

Something we'll think about now, I'm sure.

It can be done. I made one.

I mean, it was basically just a glass of Cotes du Rhone,

but if you call it a cake, it's a cake. That's my view.

Let's get on with the quiz.

Round 1, I simply want to know what is the connection between four apparently random clues.

Bakers, you won the toss.

You're going to go first.

Please choose your Egyptian hieroglyph.

Water, please. OK.

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

THEY CONFER

Next, please.

DRS challenge?

Means very little to me.

I think we need another. Next, please.

Oh! Is it...

THEY CONFER

Crossed arms? OK.

BELL

Crossed arms.

That is right, after three clues.

You get two points. Arms crossed across the chest.

Last clue - funeral pose of Egyptian royalty.

It's a sign you make when a volleyball match is finished

and show you don't want to receive communion,

just a blessing from the priest.

Tell me about that second clue.

We have no idea. We have no idea.

It's a cricket umpire showing that a TV umpire has over-ruled

an original decision. Well done, Bakers.

It is your turn, Oenophiles,

to choose a question.

Can we have Lion, please? I don't see why not.

CHIME It's there, after all.

The music question is indicated by that little sound.

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

# They told you not to meddle with the bass and the treble... #

Robbie Williams.

Go for next. Next, please.

# Got to ask yourself the question

# Where are you now? #

James Blunt.

Wisemen.

BELL Next, please.

Sorry! I'm afraid you've pressed the bell,

so I'm going to have to ask you for an answer. Biblical characters?

Yeah. Biblical characters.

Well, you got very lucky there

because having pressed in too early,

you've actually given me a correct answer.

They are all characters from the nativity story in the Bible.

Do you know what you heard?

The first one was Robbie Williams. I can't remember the name of the song.

The second one was Wisemen by James Blunt.

That's brilliant - so you actually only recognised one of the clues.

The first one, yes, Robbie Williams, Jesus In A Camper Van.

And you didn't hear Berlioz's Shepherd's Farewell

or Proud Mary from Ike and Tina Turner.

You gave me the right answer - Bible characters from the nativity story.

Well done.

Bakers, it's your turn to choose.

Two Reeds, please. Two Reeds. OK.

You're going to be seeing picture clues.

What do they have in common? Here's the first.

THEY CONFER

Next, please.

THEY CONFER

Next, please.

It's SIs, isn't it? Sorry? It's SIs, isn't it?

THEY CONFER

What's the correct term for that? SI units.

BELL

SI units. They all represent SI units.

Very good. You didn't need to see old Henry VIII

we would have shown you at the end there.

What are we looking at in those first three clues?

Tim reliably informs me that the second thing is an Apple Newton.

The third thing is a mole. Yes.

And on the first...?

We're stumped.

It's a boxing second. That's what it is.

So well done. Coming in after three clues, you get two points.

Back to you wine-drinkers. What would you like?

That's very kind of you! Horned Viper, please.

Horned Viper.

What do these clues have in common? Here's the first.

Next, please.

Nicknames or...?

Nothing to do with flags.

Next, please.

Mexico, weight...

It's nothing to do with the flags.

Nothing to do with national flowers.

Next, please.

Two seconds.

BELL

Well done, Scott, coming in with the bell there. Do you have an answer?

Translations of currencies into English.

That's exactly what it is.

It's what the currency names mean translated into English.

What would they be called in their native languages? Krone, isn't it,

in Danish? Yes.

Is it the peso in Mexico? Peso, that's right.

Zloty in Poland. Meaning golden

And yen. Japanese yen.

That's absolutely it.

Well done for the point. Bakers it's your turn to choose.

Eye of Horus, please. OK.

What do these clues have in common? Here's the first.

That doesn't mean anything to me.

Next, please.

Pieces of shortbread...

Next, please.

THEY CONFER

Triangular pieces of shortbread. .

Next, please.

Middlesex street market.

Three seconds.

BELL

These are all terms that end in "gate".

For example?

Well, Middlesex street market might be Fishgate.

Right.

Scandals sometimes end in "gate",

although Jackson might be a little bit before Nixon.

Mmm, so none of them actually end in "gate".

Other than that, it's a brilliant guess.

Not it. So Oenophiles, your chance of a bonus.

They're all petticoats.

Petticoat is the connection.

What can you tell me about the clues?

Middlesex street market is Petticoat Lane.

That's right. Not in Petticoat Lane any more -

it's spread out into other streets.

Political control was petticoat rule?

Petticoat government. I think it's a bit of a snide old term,

suggesting that women have undue influence over a government.

Petticoat tails is the shortbread,

and the first one - know anything about that?

Was President Andrew Jackson found wearing a petticoat?

If only!

Now, it was the Peggy Eaton affair,

also known as the Petticoat Affair.

It was, of course, shall we say, a romantic scandal

in that Cabinet.

Well done. You get the bonus,

and the final question - the Twisted Flax.

Let's see how twisted it is. Here's your first clue.

THEY CONFER

Next, please.

HE WHISPERS

Shall we go for it now? What do you think the answer is

Tom, Dick and Harry. Yeah, OK.

BELL

Is it Tom, Dick and Harry?

It absolutely is Tom, Dick and Harry.

The third clue would have been presidents

Jefferson, Nixon and Truman,

and the last one, absolutely anybody.

Coming in after two clues, three points for Tom, Dick and Harry

Very well done.

This means, at the end of Round 1,

the Bakers have got four points

The Oenophiles are ahead with eight.

As sure as night follows day, it's time for Round 2,

though "day" would be misleading, as it's a sort of clear thing where you can see things,

whereas our nights and days are all as obscure as each other.

Bakers, it'll be your turn to go first again.

Lion, please. OK.

You will remember that this time

I simply want to know what's fourth in the sequence.

So work out the connection first, then please tell me the fourth clue.

Here's the first.

Next, please.

Next, please.

They're all seas.

THEY CONFER

I think it's a good one to go for.

BELL

Andaman.

Not the answer, I'm afraid, so a bonus chance for Oenophiles.

Tasman? Tasman.

It is Tasman. That is absolutely right.

You're correct in thinking these are seas around Australia,

but do you know what the sequence is, Oenophiles?

Going south, aren't they? Going clockwise.

They're simply going clockwise around the coast of Australia.

Tasman Sea would be next. Very well done.

OK, Oenophiles, you've got the bonus. What about your own question?

Eye of Horus, please. Eye of Horus.

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

Any ideas? Next, please.

Getting independence?

Which was the last one to...?

Or is it joining the EU?

Or independence?

Next, please.

Joining the EU. Yes.

Who's the next one?

THEY CONFER

Three seconds.

BELL

What do you think? Not Estonia It's up there.

5: Romania. Not the answer, I'm afraid.

Now it's your chance for a bonus, Bakers.

5: Greece. That's not it either

Although I loved all of that,

because it made me feel like I was in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Just hearing you say Romania, Greece.

Now, it's really hard to spot what this is about,

because it's so hidden.

It is numbers of MEPs.

So, those small nations, it's the number of MEPs

they send, and Latvia has eight Slovenia has seven.

Cyprus, Estonia and Luxembourg all six.

The only country with five MEPs is...do you know? Malta?

It's Malta. 5: Malta.

It was spotting what the connection was that was tricky there.

Bakers, your chance to choose a question.

Horned Viper, please. The Horned Viper.

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

Next, please.

Next, please.

Looks like organisational terms of some kind.

Plan?

THEY CONFER

BELL

Function. I'm afraid not.

Do you know it, Oenophiles?

Delivery. That's not it either

Now, this is an acronym. Are you familiar with the TILE acronym

It's for approaching a heavy job.

It obviously begins with E - it's environment.

It's a manual handling risk assessment.

So before starting a heavy job, you would consider the task in hand,

the individual, the person doing the job - their capability - the load,

the shape and size, that sort of thing,

and the environment - the terrain it will be going across.

Not manual workers, any of you

No, all libraries

and glasses of wine - I thought as much!

So no points there.

Oenophiles, you have the chance to choose a question. Water, please.

OK. What would be the fourth in this little sequence?

Here's the first.

Next, please.

A series of seven?

A religious hymn?

Next, please.

Is it the Seven Dwarves?

Yes.

Alphabetically?

So it's Sleepy...

Sneezy?

BELL

Sneezy.

I'm going to give you the points,

but I'd like you to have another go at phrasing that.

Sorry, 7 of 7: Sneezy.

Or another word meaning sneezy

Yes, all right, it's a word meaning sneezy.

We've gone with synonyms.

You correctly see it's the Seven Dwarves.

But we've gone with interesting ways of saying

Grumpy, Happy and Sleepy - prone to sternutation,

we thought, for Sneezy.

But I can tell you had a drop of wine at lunchtime.

We'll take Sneezy.

Well done. Back to you, Bakers, to choose a question.

Twisted Flax, please. The Twisted Flax.

OK, what is the fourth in this sequence? Here's the first.

Next, please.

THEY CONFER

Say brain?

BELL

Brain.

Not the answer, I'm afraid, so I'm going to show the third

in the sequence to the Oenophiles, for a possible bonus point.

Synapse?

That's not it either, I'm afraid.

What was your logic? What was the sequence you were thinking of?

Sensors going from the receptor through the sensory nerve

to the spinal cord, to the brain.

You're in the right area.

It's stages in a reflex action,

so it is to do with the brain's responses.

Next would be motor neuron.

So, before receptor, you have stimulus

and after motor neuron, effector.

So it's between the stimulus and effector stages in a reflex action.

Right thinking, but wrong answer, I'm afraid.

Oenophiles, there is one remaining question - Two Reeds.

These are going to be picture clues.

What would come fourth? Here's the first.

Harlequins.

Harlequins.

Next, please.

Triceps, are they?

Triceps...

Next, please.

THEY CONFER

They're quads.

Quins is five, so...

two of the last one.

Two seconds. BELL

It's a picture of something depicting...two.

Have another go. Twins. Twins, perhaps.

Twins I can accept. It is two, and it's twins.

You're not very good at thinking of what the example might be!

This time we went with the Thompson Twins.

Yes, now, what are you looking at in the sequence?

Well, it's Harlequins. Nicknamed the Quins.

Quadriceps and quads?

That's it. You thought they were triceps at first.

Triceps are in your arm, of course.

I don't go to the gym either.

Those are quads, and then triplets in music.

And then we wanted to see some twins.

At the end of Round 2,

the Bakers have got four points,

the Oenophiles have got 13.

Time for the Connecting Wall.

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

Oenophiles, your turn to go first this time.

Would you like Lion or Water?

We'll have Water, I think, please. Really? I'm surprised.

Two and a half minutes to solve this wall.

Starting now.

Provost, Reeves...

Provost, mayor,

they are all titles of people who...

OK.

Anything else?

Gluten and dough. Shortening, yeast...used in bread.

Yeast, shortening, gluten, dough.

BUZZ

Arrowroot is as well.

Keep looking, guys.

BUZZ

We got one.

Actors who've played Superman.

ALL TALK AT ONCE Superheroes.

Reeves.

Linda Carter.

What about Reeve?

BUZZ

Go Bale.

One, two...

Reeves and Carter.

Three strikes and you're out now.

Mayor, provost...

and grandee, they are titles...

OK, shall we put those in ready?

Damn, dough...

yew.

Are they words that mean something else? "Yew" could be "you".

Dough is...doe. A deer.

Damn would be...

Dam.

Reeve...

I think we should go for this now because reeve could fit into those.

Mayor, grandee...

Shall we go for that? Yeah. Yeah.

BUZZ

BUZZ One more go.

Grandee...

If you change a letter, mayor becomes major,

damn...becomes...dame.

Dough, maybe if you change another letter...

Shall we go for mayor, dough...?

What is a reeve? It's a bird.

Plus other things.

I'm sure mayor, provost and grandee are going together.

You've got ten seconds now.

Provost. Provost.

And that.

BUZZ

No, that's it. The grid has frozen. Your three lives are up.

But you found two groups, so that's two points.

What about the connections?

Yeast, shortening, gluten, arrowroot.

They're all things that are used in baking.

Baking anything in particular?

Bread and cakes. In baking bread. Absolutely right.

The bakers were a bit unlucky not to get this wall, weren't they?

What about the next one - Carter, Reeves, Maguire, Bale?

They're all actors who've played superheroes.

Actors who've played comic book heroes. That's right.

Of course, you can still get points for connections

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

That red group has solved itself.

Now what do you think the connection is?

I think if you change one letter for those words,

you get something else.

I can't give you too long. The word can't...

No, that's too long.

You don't know it. If we go through that group -

yew, mayor, dough, damn.

They sound like the names of female animals.

Female animal homophones.

And what about this last group grandee, provost, reeve, nazim?

They are title of people...rulers...

That's it. They're local dignitaries.

Reeve is a Canadian dignitary.

And nazim, I think, in Pakistan

Grandee from Spain or Portugal

and a provost is a local official in Scotland.

You found two groups and you got three bonus points

for the connections.

That is a total of five.

Time to bring back the bakers now.

And what's this I've just taken out of the oven?

Why, it's a lovely fresh new Connecting Wall,

all hot and delicious.

The Lion wall is what it is, because Water's been taken.

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

Three lions are on a shirt.

Ivanhoe...

is by that Scottish...

What else have we got?

Knights Templar.

Simon Templar.

Simon Templar was The Saint.

These look like books or works of fiction, don't they?

BUZZ

But it's not that.

Sense and Sensibility... Pure?

Pure, perfect... Is that what you're saying?

No? OK.

Those are surnames.

I don't know what they are,

but they're surnames!

The life of Riley

is living the good life...

Nothing else goes with that.

Sense, pains, food...

BUZZ

BUZZ

What's elchi when it's at home

No idea.

Shop...

Chain mail, chain of food...

Shop chain...

BUZZ

Labour pains, painstaking...

Three Lions was a song.

Life Of Riley was also by the Lightning Seeds.

So was Pure, so was Sense.

BUZZ

So was Perfect...

BUZZ

Let's take out Life Of Riley.

BUZZ

Let's take out Pure.

30 seconds and three strikes.

Right.

Shop, mail, food...

Pains? BUZZ

Be careful. We're on three lives.

That's it. You've solved the wall.

What do you know? Four points immediately.

Let's look for the connections.

Ivanhoe, Maverick, Sinclair, Templar.

These are the surnames of epic heroes.

They are in a way, but I can't possibly accept it

I'm amazed you got that group without knowing it.

They are characters played by Roger Moore.

Ivanhoe in an ITV TV series.

Beau Maverick in an old Western.

Not to be confused with Bret Maverick,

who was James Garner.

Sinclair is from the TV series The Persuaders.

He co-starred with Tony Curtis. And Simon Templar from The Saint.

All characters played by Roger Moore.

Next group - Sense, Perfect, The Life Of Riley and Three Lions.

I believe they're songs by the Lightning Seeds.

They are songs by the Lightning Seeds.

What about this one - food, bond, mail, shop?

Junk. You can put junk in front of all of them.

Very well done.

And the last group - elchi, pains, laity, pure?

Yeah, we were really stuck on that one.

Things you can take? No.

If you don't see it, you don't see it.

Hold on to your hats. They are anagrams of countries.

We're looking at Chile, Spain,

Italy, Peru.

Anagrams of countries mischievously hid themselves in that wall.

But you found four groups and you got two points for the connections,

so that's a total of six. Let's have a look at the scores

going into the final round.

You can play Connecting Walls on our website,

where you can also write your own.

But it's Round 4 here, the Missing Vowels round.

You know how this works. We've taken the vowels out of certain sentences, names or phrases.

We want to know what they'd be with the vowels put back in.

Fingers on buzzers, teams.

The first group are all impressionists.

Oenophiles. Rory Bremner. Correct.

Oenophiles. Mike Yarwood. That's right.

Bakers. Ronni Ancona. Correct.

Oenophiles. Debra Stephenson. That's right.

Next category - landlocked countries.

Oenophiles. Ethiopia. Correct.

Oenophiles. Laos. Correct.

Oenophiles. Central African Republic. That's right.

Bakers. Austria. That's right.

Next category - outer garments

Oenophiles. Windjammer. Correct

Bit of an obscure one. Ulsterette.

Next clue.

Bakers. Chasuble. That's right.

Bakers. Poncho. Correct.

Next category - folk music groups.

Oenophiles. The Chieftains. Correct.

Oenophiles. Capercaillie. Right.

Bakers. Steeleye Span. Correct.

END OF QUIZ JINGLE

You don't need to give me the answer to the last one.

Fairport Convention, it would have been.

But that bell means it's the end of the quiz.

The Bakers finished with 15 points,

but tonight's winners with 27 points,

it's the Oenophiles.

Very well done. Oenophiles, you are straight through to the semifinal.

Bakers, you can still get to the semifinal,

but you'll have to win another game to get there.

Good luck with that - we'll see you again.

Please join me next time for more clues so elusive

you could put them in a fur coat and call them a yeti.

Then again, better hope they're not the same clues

that are hanging around on street corners, scrounging drugs,

or they'll just shout, "Who are you calling a yeti?!" and run away in a fur coat, giggling.

Goodbye.

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