Welsh Learners v Software Engineers Only Connect

Hello and welcome to Only Connect.

If you think you're doing well in a pub quiz

because you've managed to secretly Google an answer

without spilling your pint, then welcome to the brainiest pub ever.

This is less The King's Head, more The Scientist's Cerebral Cortex.

Although I shudder to think what the sign looks like.

But our teams look delightful, so let's meet them.

On my right, Margaret Gabica, a primary school teacher

and keen linguist who once served an elephant in a supermarket,

Chris Hern,

a retired teacher who enjoys fell walking

and is the mother of their captain,

Stuart Hern, a business analyst

who once spent three weeks teaching English to a Tibetan monk.

They are keen students of the wonderful Welsh language.

They are the Welsh Learners.

-Croeso cynnes, Stuart.

-Diolch yn fawr.

You've brought your mum and a friend today.

How did you pick your team-mates?

Well, I met Maggie online through

a quiz site a few years ago

and we thought together

we might rope in my mum

-and that's pretty much how it went.

-Is your mum actually a quizzer

or you just thought it would be nice to bring her along?

-We were just lacking a third number, third member.

-Fair enough.

You will be playing tonight, on my left, Stephen Mcintosh,

a software developer with a degree in computer sciences

who was once the subject of a tweet by Stephen Fry,

Anne Harrison, an engineer

who has lived on three continents

and enjoys woodwork,

and their team captain,

Chris Howlett, a software engineer who has taught

his five-year-old daughter the correct use of the world

sesquipedalian.

United by a passion for programming,

they are the Software Engineers.

So, have you designed a computer programme, Chris,

to help you prepare for a quiz?

I did my best, but the questions are a bit beyond modern technology,

-I think.

-What do you think of our hi-tech Only Connect website?

It's, um, very nicely done.

Very good. Although Stephen's

the man for websites.

Well, perhaps we'll get him to have a look at it later.

But first, we must play the quiz. You've all come here.

We might as well play. Round One, I simply want to know,

what's the connection between four apparently random clues?

The fewer clues you need to see before giving me the right answer,

the more points you get. Welsh Learners, you won the toss,

so you'll be going first.

Please choose an Egyptian hieroglyph.

Eye of Horus, please.

Eye of Horus is going

to kick off this episode.

What is the connection

between these clues?

Here's the first.

999?

Next, please.

Beeping noise.

Is it a type of siren?

Yes. Er...

-Go for another one, is it?

-Next, please.

Black and white.

It's not black-and-white reversing.

Light when reversing.

Well, licensed taxi drivers

have got an orange sign,

-haven't they?

-Do you not want

-another quickly?

-Five seconds.

BELL CHIMES

They're all identified by a coloured light.

They are not all identified

by a coloured light.

So, I'm going to show the last clue

to the Software Engineers.

A bonus point could be yours.

Allowed to drive without seat belts.

That's it. Seat-belt exemptions.

Yes, I do think a coloured light particularly identifies

reversing in all vehicles. But these are times

when you can take off the seat belt.

Why do licensed taxi drivers

not have to wear seat belts?

Because otherwise they'd be really annoyed.

I think that probably is it.

Officially, so they can hop out

and help with luggage. They always

-do that, don't they?

-Of course.

Can't get to the door quick enough

to help us with those bags. That's the reason.

So, well done, Software Engineers. You get a bonus point

and it's your chance to choose a question.

-Lion, please.

-Lion. OK.

These are going to be picture clues. What connects them?

Here's the first.

WHISPERING

Next, please.

Ariel from The Little Mermaid.

-So, what might he be?

-I can't think.

Next.

-Boyband of some sort.

-I'm not up on my modern music.

Any ideas who they are?

-I think they're a boy band, but I've no idea.

-Next.

That's Miranda Hart.

Five seconds.

TV shows in their own name.

BELL CHIMES

They are all known mostly by their first name.

That's nice, but I'm looking at it

and I think I can't accept it for

reasons I'll explain in a moment.

Welsh Learners, do you know?

-Are they all from The Tempest?

-They are all characters

from Shakespeare's The Tempest. That is Ariel

from The Little Mermaid

and Miranda Hart

in the sitcom Miranda.

-You don't know the third one?

-No.

They are in fact Franz Ferdinand.

Ferdinand. And knowing that they're all characters from The Tempest,

anyone want to have a go at the first one?

No? It's the racing driver Fernando Alonso.

Quite an obscure character.

Nobody's a fan of Formula One?

-A little bit.

-I actually have

a plan to watch some Formula One

the day my doctor tells me I've got 2,000 years to live.

I'll be tuning right in.

But well done. You get a bonus for that one.

All characters in The Tempest. Which question would you like?

-Two Reeds, please.

-Two Reeds.

What connects these clues?

The time starts now.

-I have no idea.

-Next, please.

Solar system.

WHISPERING

Next, please.

OK. Is it things which are on Voyager?

There was a picture of a man and a woman.

There was a picture of the solar system

and there was something about hydrogen.

Do you want the fourth clue just in case?

-I'd be tempted to go for this one.

-Go on, then.

BELL CHIMES

They're all things, which have been included in spaceships leaving

the solar system.

Well, they have.

Do you want to tell me specifically

which spacecraft it was?

Voyager...1?

No, it was actually Pioneer 10 and 11.

The last one was silhouette of the spacecraft itself.

But that's right, all things that have been put on

the spacecraft in case aliens

should find it wrecked

and be able to figure out something of civilisation.

They've rather based it on the principle that aliens

would look at pictures in the same way we do.

Best we've got to go on, really, isn't it?

Yeah, they haven't really thought about what if the aliens are a gas?

What if they don't see things in the same way?

Are they really aliens if they're a gas?

Yes, I think they are.

They're just in gas form. But a gas wouldn't be able to see those...

It's a bit Doctor Who.

How do you know a gas wouldn't be able to see those things?

Because I've imagined the gas

and the gas of my invention doesn't have normal eyesight like us.

Let's move on. Software Engineers,

your chance to choose a question.

-Horned Viper, please.

-Horned Viper.

The music question, you'll be delighted to hear.

What connects these pieces of music?

Here's the first.

MUSIC: "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" by Lester Young

No? Next.

# The man from Laramie

# He was a man with a peaceful turn of mind

# He was kind of sociable... #

Next.

# For I'm the type of boy

# Who is always... #

-I don't recognise any of these.

-# On the roam... #

Next.

# Think I'd better leave right now

# Before I fall any deeper

# I think I'd better leave right now

# Feeling weaker and weaker

Two seconds.

BELL CHIMES

They are all the man from something.

They are not all the man from something.

You'll forgive me for saying this, I think

-you might have neglected to bring a music person...

-Sadly so.

..to this particular pub quiz.

What about you, Welsh Learners, do you know?

-They are all young.

-They are all young. Their names are all young.

Who did we hear?

We heard Will Young last, Paul Young before that,

Jimmy Young was the second one and the third one...

-The first one, we have no idea.

-Lester Young we heard

to begin with, doing I Can't Give You Anything But Love. Lovely.

So, well done for the bonus, Welsh learners, and it's now your choice.

-Twisted flax, please.

-OK.

What is the connection between these clues?

Here's the first.

-Well, composer.

-Next.

-Next, please.

I have to say that back is small in Welsh, of course.

Next, please.

OK, anything in the words?

Next, please.

Are they married to Beatles?

Yeah.

BELL CHIMES

They are the names of women's who married Beatles.

That is absolutely right.

In fact, they are all second wives of Beatles.

Bit of a trick there with Bach and Aria, because it is Barbara Bach

who was married to Ringo Starr

and Olivia Aria was married to George Harrison.

Heather Mills was married to Paul McCartney

and Yoko Ono to John Lennon. All wives of Beatles.

Back to you, software engineers.

There's one question remaining, water. That will be yours.

Let's hope it is not a surprise second music question.

What connects these clues? Here's the first.

Next.

Agatha Christie, Denis...

Not necessarily, no.

Next.

Rhyming slang?

Next.

Oh, how they were killed.

-Bartholomew had his skin peeled off.

-Saints?

Three seconds.

BELL CHIMES

Saints and the way they were killed.

That's absolutely right.

It's the martyrdoms of saints.

St Denis, his head was cut off and he apparently picked it up

and walked to the street with it.

The others, simply too revolting for me to go through.

If you'd like to Google that at home, good luck to you.

At the end of round one, you, engineers, have two points

and the Welsh Learners have five.

On with round two, the sequences round.

This time, the teams may see only three clues at the most

because I want to know what comes forth.

They need to work out the connection first and then tell me

the fourth clue.

Welsh Learners, you're going first again. Which hieroglyph this time?

-Horned viper, please.

-OK.

You're going to see the first in a sequence.

I'd like to know what's fourth. Time starts now.

Next, please.

Professions of the judges...

Like a ballerina.

We need the fourth then...

It would be Bruno, which would be dancer, wouldn't it?

They haven't joined in that order, have they?

But it's the order they sit in.

-Right, yes.

-Yeah? Shall we take a chance?

We've only got one more anyway but shall we go for that?

-What do you want to do? I think it's probably correct.

-Yeah, OK.

BELL CHIMES

Dancer.

For what reason?

We think they're the original occupations of the judges

in Strictly Come Dancing, in the order they sit in.

I will accept that answer.

We put choreographer but dancer is also acceptable.

It is the specialities of the Strictly judges moving along

from left to right, Bruno Tonioli, a choreographer and dancer.

I'm just thinking of I'm Still Standing.

-That's all I've got on Bruno.

-Why are you thinking of I'm Still Standing?

-He's in the video for Elton John's I'm Still Standing.

-Is he, really?

-Really amusing.

-It's bad, really bad.

-Deeply, deeply funny.

Software engineers, your turn.

-Lion, please.

-What will be the fourth in this sequence?

Here's the first.

Kings of England.

-We've got George VI.

-Surely keep going? Next, please.

-No, it's not.

-It's...children of US presidents.

So what is Obama's eldest called?

Malia? Or is that the youngest?

He's got two, I think.

I think it's Malia and something else.

BELL CHIMES

Malia and one more.

Brilliant. Coming in after two clues. You also get three points.

Yes. Elder children of US presidents.

Elder or eldest and what came next. Sasha Obama is the little one.

But that's right. That's the elder daughter. Very well done.

Back to you, Welsh Learners, for a choice.

-Two reads, please.

-OK.

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

Could be anything, couldn't it? Did it happen on a particular day?

Next, please.

Next, please.

OK, they are things featured in...

The opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games.

So, it would be the Industrial Revolution for us.

BELL CHIMES

-The Industrial Revolution.

-I'll accept that answer.

We went for Queen jumps from a helicopter.

I rather prefer Industrial Revolution. And what's the reason?

They are all things featured

in progressive Olympic opening ceremonies.

That's absolutely right. Very well done.

-Software engineers, what would you like?

-Eye of Horus, please.

OK. What would come forth here? Your time starts now.

16 something, after the Great Fire of London.

Is it during the Great Fire of London?

Next.

It's 16 something but I've no idea of the years.

-Late 16...

-Next.

Oh, no.

56.

Have we got different centuries?

That was 16 or 17, that was...

Could be anything in the 21st-century.

-Five seconds.

-Have a shot at Olympics.

The London Olympics.

Not the answer, I'm afraid.

Welsh Learners, do you want to have a go for a bonus?

-The American Revolution.

-Not it, either.

Samuel Pepys stopped writing his diary in 1669.

Napoleon I was born in 1769.

The Suez Canal opened in 1869.

I want to hear something from 1969. The moon landing, that would do.

Nixon took office as president,

Prince Charles was invested as Prince of Wales.

I'd also have accepted the birth of that great novelist

and restaurant critic, Giles Coren. It happened in 1969.

Who my mum thinks is married to you!

He very much isn't, very much is not,

but he was born in 1969, just 20 years before his sister.

Next choice of the round goes to you, Welsh Learners.

Twisted flax, please.

OK, what would come forth in this sequence? Here's the first clue.

Languages.

It's one of the languages in Switzerland, isn't it?

Presumably...

In order of population...

Which would be the most, do you think French?

French, German... Most of the names are German, aren't they?

I think the... I think it will be Italian, won't it?

Do we go for all three and then guess or do we...

Up to you. You choose.

OK.

German.

I'm going to let you have another go.

Have a look at that first clue and have another go.

-Deutsch.

-Deutsch is a perfect answer.

I'd have had to reluctantly take German

but coming in after one clue, you get five points.

Why are we looking at Rumantsch, Italiano, Francais and Deutsch?

We think they are the, they are the languages of Switzerland,

hopefully in order of population, the number that speak them.

That is absolutely right. I couldn't have put it better myself

and that's because I'm slightly drunk.

But well done for summing that up.

They are the languages of Switzerland in order

of the number of speakers. Very well done.

Goodness me, software engineers,

let's hope for a great water question for you.

The first in a sequence is coming up.

You'll know that these will be picture clues

because you haven't done that yet.

What would you expect to see in the fourth picture?

Here's the first.

I'm not sure who that is.

Next.

It's a YouTube video of the guy passing the frame round...

OK.

Next.

I think this is over to you, Stephen.

(I haven't got a clue.)

(The second one is the U2 video where they pass the frame around.)

Three seconds.

Gangnam Style.

Not the answer, although I rather love it.

Welsh Learners, there's a bonus chance for you.

Horton Hears A Who!

Goodness me.

-No. But that's cos you recognised the first picture.

-Pretty much.

You won't know, Software Engineers,

that that's The Who in the first picture.

The Who, a picture being framed. Next one is Roger Rees.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Or, as we've gone for, a delicious rabbit stew.

At the end of Round Two,

the Software Engineers have five points,

the Welsh Learners have 15.

Onwards to the Connecting Wall - 16 jumbled up clues that need

sorting into four connected groups of four.

There are points for finding the groups

and points for the connections.

Software Engineers, it'll be your choice to go first this time.

Please choose - lion or water?

Lion, please.

OK. You have two-and-a-half minutes to solve this wall, starting now.

-We've got chocolate companies. Hershey, Thornton, Mars.

-Godiva.

Any others?

Not Leonidas, I don't think.

Have we got characters from Are You Being Served?

Inman, Sugden... Who else?

Actors.

Richard.

-Then put every single one in.

-That could take a while.

-What else have we got while I'm doing this?

-Five...

-Cos there's...

This will take a while.

Lady Godiva.

I'm running out of choices here.

Nope.

-30.

-I did 30.

-No, you didn't.

OK, it'll be one of those and two others.

What else have we got?

King's Speech, King's English. King's Counsel.

No. What else?

-Richard.

-King Scout?

It's got to be King's.

-Is there a King's Every?

-King's Thirty?

I've done that.

Queen's Counsel. It's Queen's Counsel, not King's Counsel.

That's true. And the Queen's English.

The Queen's Speech.

Queen's...

-Shall we go back to the chocolate?

-Queen's Scout.

-Queen's Scout.

-Isn't that an award in scouting?

No.

-Mars, Thornton, Hershey, who else?

-40 seconds.

Leonidas.

Or Godiva. I bet there's something about...

I bet some of these are either telescopes or...

30 seconds.

OK, what else?

Put Thornton with the...

Who else? Inman.

There's got to be Queen's in there somewhere.

Ten seconds.

Bench?

And that's it. Your time's up. The wall has frozen.

but you found a group, so there's a point.

What can you tell me about the connection

Leonidas, Hershey, Godiva, Mars?

-They are chocolate companies.

-They're chocolate companies.

There are still connection points available

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

There we are.

Richard, Divorced, Every, Thirty.

-It's a mnemonics for something.

-I'll take it.

It's all different mnemonics. That's what it is.

Richard of York gave battle in vain.

Divorced, beheaded, died. Every good boy deserves favour.

Thirty days hath September.

It's the first words in a selection of famous mnemonics.

What about this one - Sugden, English, Inman, Thornton.

They are actors in Are You Being Served?

Yes. Now, they were nightmarish for you.

It's Frank Thornton and Arthur English.

You were putting them in all sorts of other groups,

but those are also characters in Are You Being Served?

The last one - speech, bench, scout, counsel.

Can all be preceded by Queen's.

You can put Queen's in front of all of them.

One point for the group you found

and four more points for the connections.

That is a total of five.

Time to bring back the Welsh Learners and see

if they can learn their way around a new Connecting Wall,

16 fresh clues jumbled up need sorting in the exact same way.

The water wall remains for you.

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

Brian Boitano is a skater.

Tabasco sauce, curry sauce, HP sauce and Tartar sauce.

Can we find any other sauces?

Friar, Canon, Chaplain...

Canon, Friar...

Brian Boitano is a skater. Cousins, Curry and... Was there a Hamilton?

Let's maybe leave that one.

Tabasco, Tartar, Epson...

Epson is a printer.

Oh, Epson, HP. Of course.

Brother, was there a Brother printer?

Great.

Three strikes and you're out now.

Cousins, Hamilton, Boitano... Don't press a thing, no.

You could have a curry sauce, couldn't you?

Oh, of course, Breton sauce, isn't it?

-I don't know. Maggie?

-Yes.

Or is it Tare sauce. Tare.

Let's go for it.

Try that, cos that's a name we don't know.

Maybe it's not curry, is it?

Cousins, Boitano, Hamilton...

Those aren't going to be skaters, are they?

Tabasco is definitely a sauce, isn't it?

We could just go for Breton. Is that the one we went for before?

How many chances have we got now?

We've got two chances left.

Go.

One more turn.

You've got about 30 seconds.

Is there a Curry skater maybe?

-Yes, there is, yes.

-John Curry, John Curry.

We tried him before, didn't we?

Did we try those together? I don't think we did.

That's it, you've solved the wall. Very well done.

Four points immediately. What about the connections?

-Chaplain, Friar, Oblate, Dean.

-They're religious ranks.

Religious professions. That's it.

Brother, Canon, Epson, HP.

Computer hardware manufacturers, particularly printers.

They're printers, really. Printer manufacturers.

Cousins, Curry, Boitano, Hamilton.

-They're all skaters.

-Yes.

Old John Curry, you just remembered at the last there.

-Can you tell me any more about them?

-Not personally, no.

-Gold medal winners.

-Gold-medal winning figure skaters.

Tabasco, Tartar, Tare or Ta-re and Breton.

-Sauces.

-They're all types of sauce.

Yes, the Japanese dipping sauce is the Tare, but that's very good.

Four points for finding the groups,

four more points for the connections.

I'll give you a bonus two points for getting it all right.

That is the maximum of ten.

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

The Software Engineers have 10 points, the Welsh Learners have 25.

Now why are you just slobbing around watching TV when you could be

doing something fit and healthy, like sitting in front of a computer.

On our website, you'll find plenty of walls that you can play,

or you can even write your own.

Over here, it's Round Four, Missing Vowels.

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

and sayings, squidged up the consonants.

I want to know what are those disguised clues?

Remember, this time you lose a point if you get it wrong,

so buzz with care.

Fingers on the buttons, teams. The first group are all...

-BUZZER

-Engineers.

-Works hard for a living.

-Correct.

-BUZZER

-Engineers.

-Has far to go.

-That's right.

-BUZZER

-Engineers.

-Is loving and giving.

-Correct.

-BUZZER

-Engineers.

Is bonny and blithe, good and gay.

I'm afraid that's not right, you lose a point. Welsh Learners?

Is bonny and blithe and...

No, too long, I'm afraid.

Next group are things that are all...

-BUZZER

-Engineers.

Too long, I'm afraid. Welsh Learners?

Rain on your wedding day.

That's right. Next clue.

-BUZZER

-Learners?

A black fly in your chardonnay.

That's right.

-BUZZER

-Engineers.

A traffic jam when you're already late.

That's it.

-BUZZER

-Welsh Learners.

-10,000 spoons.

-When all you need is a knife.

That's right. Next category...

-BUZZER

-Welsh Learners.

-Tabasco.

-That's right.

-BUZZER

-Engineers.

-Baja California.

-Correct.

-BUZZER

-Engineers.

-Veracruz.

-That's right.

-BUZZER

-Welsh Learners.

-Chihuahua.

-Lovely.

-Next category...

-END-OF-ROUND JINGLE

But there's no time for the next category cos that's the bell.

It's the end of the show.

After a terrific Round Four, the Software Engineers finish

with 14 points, but the winners with 30 are the Welsh Learners.

So well done, Welsh Learners.

You are straight through to the next round.

You must try to win another game to get through to the next round.

Thank you all very much for coming.

Join me again for another round of fun in the pub where brain

food is always the daily special.

Next week we'll have more to chew on than a defrosted wholesale

burger with extra gristle.

So...appetites whetted, I'll see you then.