Relatives v Record Collectors Only Connect

Hello and welcome to Only Connect.

Both teams tonight have already lost one game, so the stakes are high

because on this show it's two strikes and you're out,

which makes us harsher than the Californian legal system.

Although, like that system, everyone involved is appealing

and it often comes to an electrifying end.

I'm sorry.

That was an absolutely outrageous thing to say.

Please don't write in,

I do know of course that in California

they use lethal injection.

But enough of this levity. Let's meet the teams.

On my right, Hamish Galloway,

a Cambridge maths graduate who works as an actuary

and once visited an oil rig in the North Sea as a competition prize.

Nick Latham, a lighting director who follows Welsh football,

Welsh rugby and the British Grand Prix

and is the son of the team captain Davina Galloway.

A magistrate who loves '70s music and went to

the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo dressed as Geri Halliwell.

United by family ties,

they are the Relatives.

Davina, you lost to the Europhiles and beat the Exhibitionists.

What advice have you been giving your team-mates

in advance of this match?

They'll be walking home if they don't do well.

Terrific.

Tonight, you are meeting, on my left, Adam Barr, an astrophysics

student who enjoys sailing and can speak a little Russian.

Richard Gilbert, an enthusiastic banjo player who once locked himself

in a cupboard to avoid a violent group of guests

from the Jeremy Kyle Show.

And their captain Rachael Neiman,

an English graduate who loves Christmas decorations,

Christmas music and visiting foreign countries for Christmas.

United by their love of vinyl,

they are the Record Collectors.

Rachael, you beat the Erstwhile Athletes in your first heat

and then lost to the Welsh Learners.

What have you learnt from your Only Connect visit?

If in doubt, it's probably horses that the Queen has ridden.

Horses that Queen Elizabeth has ridden, yes.

An obvious group that you sadly missed.

Time to press on with Round One.

Now, you won the toss, Relatives,

but you decided to put the Record Collectors in first.

Gamesmanship afoot, Record Collectors,

so please choose a hieroglyph.

Twisted Flax, please.

I want to know in this round what is the connection between

four apparently random clues. Here's the first.

-S-C-E-N-T?

-Yes.

Next, please.

S, C, capitalised...

S-C...

-It's "scent" again, but with the C capitalised.

-Oh.

Next, please.

"Knight" as in...

Yeah, with a capital K. What do you think?

Next, please.

"reiGn" with G capitalised.

Is it the silent letters?

BELL

They all have silent letters.

They are words with a silent letter,

with the silent letter capitalised.

You're going to have to tell me something more.

Without the...

They mean something else, homophones.

-By removing that letter from the word.

-That's basically it.

You are stumbling your way towards the answer there.

If you take away the capitalised letter,

you get a new word that's a homophone.

Yes, it's a silent letter, but you can also make a whole new word.

Take the S off "Scent" and you have "cent".

Take the C out of "sCent", you've got "sent".

You can make "night" from "Knight" and "rein" from "reiGn".

If you take out the capitalised letters which are silent,

you get a new homophonic word.

That was a fun explanation, my brain's already on the floor,

we've barely even started.

You get a point there, Record Collectors.

Relatives, it's your turn to choose a question.

Eye of Horus, please.

What is the connection between these clues?

They're all pictures, I'll tell you that before we start,

but there's another connection, what is it? Your time starts now.

Next, please.

-Christopher Reeves.

-No, it's not.

It's Man of Steel, it's the new guy, Henry Cavill.

Next, please.

I don't know.

Next, please.

It's Moses.

Yeah, with the Ten Commandments.

-Five seconds.

-Who do you think it is?

BELL

Should we just go with Moses? We'll go with Moses as a connection.

The connection is not Moses.

This is a bonus opportunity for the Record Collectors.

They all have awards named after them.

They do not all have awards named after them.

You're right that Moses is the person in the last picture,

who else do you recognise?

I'm guessing you know Superman.

Do you know the other two people?

-No.

-You are seeing Heathcliff, Superman, Tom Jones and Moses.

And what they have in common is they were foundlings.

All abandoned as babies or children and found.

Back to you, Record Collectors.

Horned Viper, please.

What is the connection between these clues?

Here's the first.

Oh, he's in the Dan Brown novels. Next, please.

-Lisbeth Salander.

-Right, so they've all been in trilogies.

-Shall we say next?

-Yeah.

-Next, please.

Sheldon Cooper. Big Bang Theory.

Are they all, um...

Professors? No.

Next, please.

Will Hunting.

All mentored by professors, I guess.

They're all students.

No cos Robert Langdon...

They were mentored by professors?

-Yeah, go for it.

-OK.

BELL

They were all mentored by professors.

No, I think they are not all mentored by professors.

That is not a true connection between all four.

Relatives, there's a bonus chance for you.

Have they all got eidetic memories?

They have all got eidetic or photographic memories.

That is absolutely right.

You get the bonus point, Relatives,

and your chance to choose a question.

Two Reeds, please.

What is the connection between these clues?

Here's the first.

Next, please.

-They're all split up into small companies.

-Next, please.

Columbia record labels. Telecommunications.

KFC, Kentucky Fried Chicken. Could be something Football Club as well.

Next, please.

British Petroleum.

They are now only known by initials.

BELL

-Hello.

-Hamish.

They are an acronym that used to stand for something,

but now it doesn't stand for anything.

That's the company name in total.

That is absolutely it.

Orphan initialisms,

I see the question editor has decided to call it.

They are all companies that used to have longer names for which

these were initials,

but now the company name is just the initials by themselves.

Very well done for the point. Back to you, Collectors, for a choice.

Water, please.

-BELL

-There it is, the music question.

What is the connection between these audio clues?

Here's the first.

MUSIC: "Doctorin' The TARDIS" by The Timelords

Oh, yes. Delia Derbyshire. Next, please.

# Guess I should have closed my eyes... #

-Oh, it's Prince.

-It's...Little Red Corvette.

Next, please.

# She's my best friend's girl... #

Oh, this is The Cars.

Must be cars then.

-What do you think?

-Go for it.

-Shall I go for it?

-Yeah.

BELL

Cars.

The connection is cars.

What can you tell me about the first piece of music?

Wasn't it a remix by somebody? But I can't work out who that remix was.

You're working along the right lines.

It was The Timelords.

Oh, KLF.

It was an early prank by them, but it was Doctorin' the TARDIS,

it was called.

It was performed by a car.

-Oh, right.

-That was the link there.

Little Red Corvette by Prince. And The Cars - My Best Friend's Girl.

Sadly you came in, depriving us

all of a chance to hear the theme from Knight Rider.

Relatives, back to you for the last question.

Lion. I want to know what is the connection between these clues.

Here's the first.

That's been the Championship.

Next, please.

Don't know what that was called.

-Take another one.

-Next, please.

..Football League.

..thousand legs, but it doesn't.

5ive's Big Reunion.

5ive's Big Reunion, only four of them came back.

Go for it.

Nicholas will answer.

It's basically, a millipede is meant to have a thousand legs,

but it doesn't.

5ive, when they came back, only four of them came back.

That's basically it, they're misleading numbers.

You didn't need to see the last one.

Which naturally lasts for 100 years, but that lasted longer than that.

It's misleading numbers.

Football League One, I believe is the old Division Three, is it?

Yes. It was Division Three, now it's...

It's basically the top apart from the two above it.

5ive's Big Reunion, there were only four of them.

Who was missing?

J.

It's more, J something else, apparently.

-Oh, he had a surname?

-Yes.

J Brown.

The producer told me this at lunch,

I only knew there were four of them

when they came back and the producer who's otherwise extremely

brilliant said, "Yes, it was J Brown." Hidden shallows, that woman.

At the end of Round One, the Record Collectors have three points,

the Relatives have four.

No misleading numbers here. Round Two is the second round of the quiz.

It's the sequences, I want to know what comes fourth in a sequence.

Record Collectors, you'll be going first again.

Which hieroglyph would you like this time?

Eye of Horus, please.

What would come next in this sequence?

Here's your first clue.

Next, please.

Oh, are they referendums?

So it's got to be the AV, I guess?

-Is that definitely?

-I don't know.

Shall we say next? Shall we say AV then?

BELL

AV.

I'm afraid that is not correct.

You could not put that next in the sequence.

I'm going to show the third clue to the Relatives

for a possible bonus point.

Scottish independence.

That's not the answer.

You're all thinking about referendums, aren't you?

But that's not it.

Certainly wasn't a referendum on the age of consent.

These are things enabled by the Parliament Act.

When the Commons and the Lords disagree,

in extreme circumstances the Commons can invoke the Parliament Act

to get a law through anyway.

And that has not happened very often.

Most recently was in 2004 with the hunting ban.

And we're going back in time for the other clues.

Relatives, no bonus, but you can choose your own question.

Two Reeds, please.

What is the fourth in this sequence?

These ones are going to be picture clues.

What sort of thing would you expect to see in the fourth picture?

Here's the first.

-Any idea who that is?

-Yes, one of the royal family.

-OK.

-Next, please.

Stiletto shoes.

The first one was, not the first one, the other one...

The sister of...

-I don't know. Next one.

-Next, please.

That's Beth Ditto.

Stiletto. Beth Ditto. E-T-T-O. I-T-T-O. Go motto.

OK.

BELL

Motto.

Motto would be the right answer.

I would also accept a lovely risotto.

Motto is right. You get the points. And why is that?

I'm not sure who the first one is, but...

The second one is stiletto which is E-T-T-O.

The third one is Beth Ditto which is I-T-T-O.

The first one's Lady Chatto.

That's it. It's Lady Sarah Chatto.

Was Lady Sarah Armstrong Jones, daughter of Princess Margaret.

She married Daniel Chatto, the actor you can still sometimes

see in old episodes of To The Manor Born.

I spotted him once there.

Chatto, Etto, Itto, something that ended O-T-T-O, motto.

Very acceptable. Well done.

Over to you Record Collectors, to choose a question.

Horned Viper, please.

What would be the fourth in this sequence?

Here's the first.

OK. Next, please.

'94. I'm trying to think.

Next, please.

It's something in LA.

So what do we think? What's the first one again?

-So Stockton, 2012.

-Stockton...

So 1st...

-2010, what are we looking at?

-No, it's not...

-Five seconds.

-What shall we say?

MUSIC DROWNS OUT SPEECH

BELL

Hollywood, 2008.

1st - Hollywood, 2008.

Not the right answer, I'm afraid.

There's another bonus opportunity for you, Relatives.

-Absolutely nothing.

-Absolutely nothing.

I'll tell you the answer.

It's 1st - Detroit, 2013.

That's what I was about to say...

The reason is, this is municipal bankruptcies in America.

I'm going to tell you the amounts.

When Stockton, California declared bankruptcy in 2012,

they were looking for 1 billion.

That was their debt.

Orange County, that was next. Two billion.

Jefferson County, 2011, four billion.

What was the amount for which Detroit, Michigan went bankrupt?

-What was it?

-Ten billion?

I'd say 12 billion.

18 billion. 18 billion.

That was a massive bankruptcy.

That was some expensive binmen they had in Detroit.

Anyway, nobody spotted that fiendish little connection,

so Relatives, it is your turn

to choose a question.

-Twisted Flax, please.

-Twisted Flax.

OK, what would be the fourth in this sequence? Time starts now.

-Next.

-Next, please.

Now, this is the code system for...

Do you want to go for it now? Or wait?

It has to be fourth, so...

-Go for another one?

-Take another one.

Next, please.

So red, Impact, we'll take.

BELL

We'll go for red, Impact.

Impact Imminent or something.

I'll accept that, yes.

Red is absolutely the colour

and it's collisions of any kind or impact.

So red and some sense of impact or collision is right.

What's the reason?

It's the warning system for asteroids which may be

on a collision course with Earth.

That's it. Matter from space

and the various colours of warning

for what the problem might be.

I'm delighted to see the note

that with Certain Collisions,

if it's a red warning, it might be fine but in worst cases,

may threaten the future of civilisation.

That would be relaxing, wouldn't it?

It might be fine, or threaten the

future of civilisation completely.

Record Collectors.

Back to you to make a choice.

-Lion, please.

-Lion.

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

-Do you want this?

-No, take the next.

Next, please.

Oh, it's round two, quarterfinals, 13.

So it's the amount of teams in something, maybe.

Round one, 10. No, wait...

Round two, quarterfinals - 13.

So, shall we say next or...

-Yeah...

-Next, please.

Can we take this one?

Is it the cumulative number of

matches that have been played in something??

-OK.

-Wait, wait.

-F - 18.

-F - 18?

BELL

-F - 19.

-No, F - 18... F - 19.

F - 19.

Not the answer, I'm afraid.

So another bonus chance

for you, Relatives.

F - 18. F - 18, then.

F - 18 is the answer.

Which you nearly said, sorry, guys.

This is frames in the World Snooker Championship.

It's not the number that you play,

it is the number that you need

to win, because obviously they are

playing a best of a certain number.

So you need to win ten frames

to get through Round One,

13 for Round Two in the quarterfinals,

17 for the semifinal and for the final you've got to win 18 frames.

It's a slightly baffling system.

Not as baffling as the Only Connect system, how you get through that.

Well done for the bonus point

and you get the last question,

which is Water.

So what would be the last in this sequence?

Here's the first.

-Take the next one.

-Next, please.

Still don't know, still got nothing.

No, take the next.

Next, please.

-I still don't know.

-I've heard of Greenacre...

Places where cartoon characters live, maybe?

-But what would the sequence be?

-I don't know.

What is?

Where animals live?

Rupert Bear or something like that?

But I've no idea, I'm just clutching at straws.

-Hundred Acre Wood?

-I'd go with that.

-Or Springfield.

Five seconds.

BELL

We're going to have a stab at Hundred Acre Wood.

Lovely.

Nothing to do with this,

but lovely Hundred Acre Wood.

Not the answer, though, so

Record Collectors, a bonus chance.

-Hollyoaks?

-Hollyoaks.

-Hollyoaks?

No, it's not that. Though I could see how it would fit in.

The answer is Longmeadow.

Does that help if I tell you that?

-No.

-In that case, nobody here is

-a fan of Gardeners' World.

-Oh...

The BBC show.

And these are the gardens in which Gardeners' World is made.

And the most recent one, Longmeadow. Monty Don's home.

So, at the end of Round Two,

the Record Collectors have three points,

the Relatives have nine.

Time for the Connecting Wall.

16 jumbled clues that need sorting

into four connected groups of four.

Relatives, you'll be going first this time,

so please choose Lion or Water.

Lion, please.

OK, two and a half minutes to solve the Lion wall.

Starting now.

Stan Laurel, Accrington Stanley,

Stanley Livingstone...

Give me another Stanley.

Can't give you another Stanley.

Stanley Hale?

No, I can give you wrestling moves.

Hang on a second.

Yeah, go on...

Boston Crab, Crucifix,

Nelson's another, Sharpshooter, I hope.

BUZZ

Go for three other ones.

Accrington Stanley?

No, another wrestling move.

Have you got four wrestling?

There's a fair few.

Well done.

Right, now, can we get a Stanley?

Accrington Stanley, Stan Laurel.

Stanley Livingstone.

Stanley Livingstone, I presume.

We've done Hale.

BUZZ

Let's try something else.

Laurel and Hardy, Morecambe and Wise

Hinge and Bracket, Hale and Pace.

-OK.

-There's six of those.

French and Saunders

-Hinge and Bracket.

-Cannon and Ball.

Three strikes and you're out now.

Stan Laurel, Accrington Stanley.

Hang on a second.

I'm not sure if that's going to be one.

Let's take it off, then.

How about something to do with the Falkland Islands?

Well, Falkland Islands, owned by Britain.

So there's the Falklands War, Bacup...

-We need a word one in here, as well.

-What do you mean?

Well, there's normally a word clue

-in here.

-I don't know what you mean.

Find another word inside the words or you can take...

Not necessarily.

Not necessarily, but...

Accrington Stanley... Oh, Stanley!

Stanley, the Falkland Islands.

That's it. You have solved the wall.

Very well done.

That is four points, then, for finding the groups.

And there are more points available for the connections.

So Crucifix, Gogoplata,

Boston Crab, Sharpshooter.

-They're wrestling holds.

-They are.

-Are you a wrestling fan?

-Yes.

I've been to see that many a time.

What about the next group?

Hinge, Hale, Cannon, French.

Comedy partnerships.

Hinge and Bracket, Hale and Pace,

Cannon and Ball, French and Saunders.

That's it. They're the first halves of comedy duos.

Laurel, Accrington,

Livingstone, Falklands.

-That was...

-Stanley. Sorry. Stanley.

That's it, the connection is Stanley.

Can you talk me through them?

Stan Laurel,

Accrington Stanley Football Club,

Stanley Livingstone the explorer...

But it's not, you see.

It's Livingstone the explorer meets Henry Stanley.

Who's the one who says, "Dr Livingstone, I presume?"

Dr David Livingstone.

The capital of the Falkland Islands is Port Stanley.

In the Falkland Islands. That's it.

And the last group -

Nelson, Morecambe, Bacup, Preston.

Morecambe and Preston are places in Lancashire.

-So we'll say they're all towns in Lancashire.

-That's it.

Towns or urban settlements in Lancashire. That is right.

Four points for the groups you found,

four more for the connections.

You get the bonus two of getting it all right.

That's a maximum of ten points. Very well done.

Time to bring back the Record Collectors

and see what they can do with the Connecting Wall.

16 new clues jumbled up in a similarly fiendish way.

It's the Water wall that remains for you, Collectors.

You've got it there in Braille, Rachel.

Two and a half minutes, as always, to solve it.

And that time starts now.

HE READS BOARD

We've got types of tyres.

Goodyear, Dunlop, Pirelli.

Bridgestone.

Dunlop, Pirelli.

I just tried that.

No, you didn't. Because I had Michelin.

We've got American state capitals...

We've got Oklahoma City and Salt Lake City.

-Salt Lake, Jefferson, Oklahoma and Phoenix?

-Yes.

No, because Phoenix is...

Salt Lake City.

Oh, I see. Carson. Carson City.

-Has that gone?

-Yes, that's gone.

-That's done.

Bridgestone, Dunlop, Pirelli, Goodyear. We've done that.

Try Michelin, Pirelli, Dunlop, Bridgestone?

BUZZ

You try that, Adam,

I'll have a look at the others.

Caboc, Speed, Dawn, Yokohama, Lanark Blue.

Lanark Blue. I've heard Lanark Blue.

What is Yokohama? A city?

Yokohama is a city in Japan.

Michelin stars, Dawnstar...

Oh, yes, Dawnstar.

Golden Star? No.

You're halfway through the time.

Lanark Blue Star?

I can't remember what Lanark Blue is.

-I've heard of it.

-It's not cheese?

-No.

-Speedway, Dawn way.

-No.

Is Yokohama a tyre manufacturer, maybe?

Maybe, try it.

BUZZ

What's Crowdie?

That's two groups, so it's three strikes and you are out.

-We've got tyres to get, have we, still?

-Tyres has gone.

-Pirelli, Bridgestone, Yokohama...

-OK.

-Caboc...

-40 seconds now.

I think Caboc is something

to do with Lanark Blue.

I don't know...

-Have you heard of Lanark Blue before, Rachel?

-No.

Goodyear. Julie Goodyear?

Have we still got Speed?

Yes, Speeds, Dawn, Crowdie,

Caboc and Goodyear, Dunlop.

-Shall we guess?

-Yes.

-Let's try that.

-No, not that one.

15 seconds.

And one more go.

I think we're going to need to guess.

That's it. You have used your three

strikes and the wall has frozen.

But you found two groups.

That's two points and I'll give you more

if you can tell me the connections.

The first one - Jefferson, Carson, Oklahoma, Salt Lake.

When followed by City, they are all US state capitals.

That's right.

And the next one - Pirelli,

Bridgestone, Yokohama, Michelin.

Are they tyres? Tyre manufacturers.

They are the tyre manufacturers. You didn't know the Yokohama,

but that is a Japanese tyre manufacturer.

And you can still get points for the connections

and the groups you did not find.

So let's resolve the wall.

OK, Goodyear, Phoenix, Speed, Dawn.

-What shall we say?

-Arizona?

No, you don't know.

It's a thing you either know or you don't.

They are all actresses from Coronation Street.

And what about the last one?

Dunlop, Crowdie, Caboc, Lanark Blue.

-So they're not cheeses? Cats, maybe they're cats.

-Go for that.

Are they cats?

I'm afraid they're not.

And Rachel, you have my permission to thump your team-mates when

you leave, because Lanark Blue

and all the others are indeed cheeses.

Oh, sorry!

They are in fact Scottish cheeses.

That's what they all are.

But you get two points for the groups you found

and two points for the connections there. So that is a total of four.

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

The Record Collectors have seven points,

the Relatives have 19.

And if you've run out of amusing cat videos to Google,

why not try our website, where you can find plenty of

Connecting Walls to play and you can also write your own.

But we're going to play the missing vowels round.

So, fingers on buzzers, teams.

The first group are all

cheesy chat-up lines.

-Relatives.

-Do you come here often?

Correct.

Relatives?

Your place or mine?

Yes.

Collectors?

-You must be...

-Tired.

You've been flying around my heart all day.

Lovely, but not right, I am afraid.

So the Relatives, you have a go.

You must be a model.

Tripping off your tongue, Hamish.

It's "You must be a model." Next clue.

Relatives?

Get your coat, you've pulled.

Very good. Next category,

titles of Prince Charles.

Collectors?

-Admiral of the Fleet.

-Correct.

Relatives?

-Duke of Rothesay.

-Correct.

Collectors.

-Lord of the Isles.

-Correct.

Collectors.

Duke of Cornwall.

Of course. Next category,

Left-handed sportspeople.

Relatives.

-Martina Navratilova.

-Correct.

Relatives.

-Brian Lara.

-Yes.

Collectors.

-Phil Mickelson.

-Indeed.

Collectors.

-Babe Ruth.

-Yes, it is.

Next category,

Eric Morecambe catchphrases.

MUSIC

Oh, no, you're pressing the bell.

But that sound means it is the end

of the quiz. What were you going to say?

What do you think of it so far?

That is the answer.

What do you think of it so far?

Very good indeed.

Well, let's find out when we look

at the closing scores.

After an excellent run in the series,

the Record Collectors finish with 11 points,

because the winners, with 26, are the Relatives.

So, very well done to you, Relatives.

And Collectors, sorry to see you go.

Excellent quizzing,

but out-pipped tonight.

That's the end of the programme, but before we go,

I should say to anyone who's upset about my earlier

reference to lethal injection in California, that I'm very sorry.

And I should of course have said that they also have

the option of lethal gas.

As will our teams, when they see the canapes on offer in the green room.

But, to be fair, that is just wind,

not institutionalised murder.

Goodbye.