Welsh Learners v Record Collectors Only Connect

Hello, and welcome to a brand-new episode of Only Connect.

Well, I say brand new. The rounds are the same, the set is the same,

I haven't really done anything new with my hair.

But if you pay close attention,

you'll notice that the content of the questions is slightly different.

Yes, like bar codes and snowflakes,

each episode of Only Connect is unique.

Although, I'll be honest, once the show starts,

if we don't have flags, jazz, and Olympic opening ceremonies,

I'll have lost a sizeable bet.

Let's meet the teams.

On my right, Margaret Gabica, a modern languages graduate

who conducts a children's choir

and can sing The Happy Wanderer in Latin.

Chris Hern, a retired teacher

who once hid from a black bear in Colorado,

and Stuart Hern, a maths graduate

who works as a business analyst

and once broke up a fight between two camels.

All students of the heavenly Welsh language,

they are the Welsh Learners.

Captain Stuart, welcome back.

-Thank you very much.

-You beat the Software Engineers in your heat.

What was your secret to success there?

I think we survived basically with a controlled panic,

so we're hoping that's going to pull us through this time as well.

Having won that, you can't be

knocked out tonight, even if you lose.

So there's nothing to panic about.

I think we can probably manage

to pull together a little bit of panic regardless.

Well, good luck. Let's meet your opponents.

On my left, Adam Barr, an astrophysics student

who was once falsely accused of setting a naval vessel on fire.

Richard Gilbert, a postgraduate student

and part-time book-seller who enjoys song-writing and playing cricket.

And their captain, Rachael Neiman,

a PhD student who collects snow globes,

Japanese dolls and ceramic cakes.

United by a love of vinyl,

they are the Record Collectors.

So, how have the Record Collectors been preparing for their new heat?

Mainly been sleeping and trying not to panic too much.

That sounds like excellent preparation strategy.

Good luck to you, too.

On with Round One,

what is the connection between four apparently random clues?

Welsh Learners, you won the toss so will be going first.

Please choose your Egyptian hieroglyph.

-Two Reeds, please.

-OK.

What is the connection between these four apparently random clues?

Your time starts...now.

-New Objectivity...

-THEY WHISPER

Next, please.

Absolutely nothing at all.

Next, please.

-Well, the same.

-Norwegian...

Norwegian, Scandinavian...

-Are they TV programmes translated from...

-Yes.

-Scandinavian programmes.

-Yeah.

Do we want to go for the last one? We've only got one.

We need the bridge, so... Next, please.

-I don't know.

-No.

-Three seconds.

BELL Scandinavian dramas.

I think that's an absolutely brilliant guess.

It's completely wrong.

You mean a show where people wear interesting jumpers

-and murder each other?

-Absolutely, yeah.

It's not what it is. Although it certainly could be.

Record Collectors, a chance for a bonus point.

We'll go for art movements.

They are all German art movements.

Does anybody want to have a go at translating these words into German?

-Neue...

-The Blue Rider was Das Blaue Reiter.

-Yeah,

-Der

-Blaue Reiter.

The first one, you're not far off there, Rachael.

Neue Sachlichkeit is New Objectivity,

that was a 1920s challenge to Expressionism.

-Bauhaus?

-House of Construction is Bauhaus, and The Bridge, Die Brucke.

All German art movements.

So, well done.

You get the bonus point, and your chance to choose a question.

-Horned Viper, please.

-OK. Horned Viper.

What is the connection between these clues?

Here's the first.

-The Grasshopper Lies Heavy...

-So that's a fictional novel in the...

-Are they just fictional novels? Shall we go for that?

-Take next.

Next, please.

-The Dancing Cavalier.

-Are they fictional novels?

-Novels within novels.

-Shall we say that? Shall we risk it?

-Yes.

OK. BELL

We're going to say fictional novels within novels.

I'm going to give you another go.

-So, alternate history novels...

-OK, alternate history novels

within novels.

I can't accept that, so Welsh Learners,

the chance of a bonus point.

I'm going to show you the other two clues.

They are all plays within plays, or films within films.

-Or programmes within programmes.

-It's a range of genres, that's right.

They're stories within stories. You'd already seen

The Dancing Cavalier, that's in the film musical Singing In The Rain.

The Grasshopper Lies Heavy is a novel within a novel

by Philip K Dick. The Mouse-trap, what's that?

-It's in Hamlet.

-It's the play in Hamlet.

-It's the play in Hamlet.

-And the Itchy & Scratchy Show, of course...

-The Simpsons.

The cartoon inside The Simpsons, yes. A range of genres.

And these are all stories within stories.

So you got that bonus, Welsh Learners.

-Which question?

-Twisted Flax, please.

-Twisted Flax.

-CHIME

-Ah, the music question.

What connects these lovely audible clues? Here's the first.

MUSIC: "Resurrection Symphony" by Mahler

Next, please.

MUSIC: "I Am The Resurrection" by The Stone Roses

Next, please.

MUSIC: "Christ The Lord Is Risen Again" by Charles Wesley

Next, please.

MUSIC: "Thriller" by Michael Jackson

-Thriller.

-Five seconds....

BELL

They're all books by Stephen King.

Ooh, my goodness me.

You're guessing very well today. I mean, wrongly, but inspired.

No, that's not it. Collectors. Another bonus chance.

-Shall we say resurrection?

-Film directors, maybe?

-Oscar-winning...?

-Film directors? OK.

-We'll say film directors.

-Film directors is not the answer.

You were closer with what you were going to guess.

-They all feature a return from the dead.

-Oh!

We heard Mahler's 2nd Symphony, the Resurrection Symphony.

The second one was I Am The Resurrection.

I think The Stone Roses, is that?

And then the Wesley hymn, Christ The Lord Is Risen Today, and Thriller.

So, three about Jesus and one about zombies.

Please address your complaints to the BBC, Manchester.

No points there, then.

Record Collectors, choose a question.

-Eye of Horus, please.

-OK, the Eye of Horus.

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

-Wee. Scottish for small.

-Shall we go next?

Next, please.

Unhyphenated...

-Next, please.

-Penultimate.

-Wee, unhyphenated...

Penultimate...

-I think, yeah, next.

-Next, please.

-Pentasyllabic.

-Oh, all five... So...

Um...

Antepenultimate...

Five seconds.

I think we're going to have to pass...

I'm afraid the time is up. Didn't buzz in time.

So, Welsh Learners, do you want to have a guess?

-We'll go for games consoles.

-That's not it.

I suppose Wee would be, but it's spelt differently, isn't it? Yes.

No, I rather love this question.

I rather love it, although you spot it or you don't.

They are autological words. Words that describe themselves.

Wee is a tiny little wee word.

Unhyphenated is unhyphenated, penultimate is the penultimate

word you see, and pentasyllabic has five syllables.

So they describe themselves. That was that one.

-Welsh Learners, your chance to choose.

-Lion, please.

-OK.

What connects these four clues? Here's the first.

Rainfall, something to do with rainfall, isn't it?

OK. Next, please.

Yeah, they're all things that go with ice,

maybe meteorological terms or something.

-Do you want to try the next one?

-Yes, yeah.

BELL They are all meteorological isos.

You look very nervous there, Margaret.

But coming in after two clues, you get three points.

Meteorological isopleths. There are the other two clues.

-Can you tell me what you mean by that?

-Apparently...

Isohyet is rainfall. Isohel is the sunshine.

Isobar, pressure, and therm, temperature.

That's absolutely right. Lines on a weather map.

Meteorological isopleths was the connection. Very well done.

Back to you, then, Record Collectors,

for the last question, Water.

These will be picture clues, obviously,

because we haven't seen any of those.

What connects these pictures?

Here's the first.

It's a picture of...Panama.

And I think it's highlighting the canal or the city.

-So, next one.

-OK, next, please.

Mexico... So, capital cities

that are...named after the country they are in.

-OK, so eponymous... OK. Yeah.

-You know what I mean.

BELL

-Um, countries...

-Cities.

Sorry, cities that have the capital city that has the same

name as the country.

You didn't need to see Guatemala City or Kuwait City.

Coming in after two clues, you also get three points.

Capital cities that share their name with the country. Very well done.

So that means that the end of Round One, the Welsh Learners have

four points, and the Record Collectors have four points.

Let's see if we get some clear blue water in round two. Sequences.

You still have to work out the connection between four clues,

but you won't see the fourth one, cos I want to know what that is.

Welsh Learners, you're first again. Which would you like?

-Let's hope for some clear blue Water, please.

-OK.

I'll give you the Water question.

What would be the next clue in this sequence?

Here's the first.

Yekaterinburg... No?

-No, that was where they were assassinated, wasn't it?

-Who?

The Russian... The Romanovs. They were assassinated.

-Next?

-Yes.

-Next, please.

-I've never heard of that one.

-We'll have to go next.

Next, please.

-Oh, perhaps it's cities in order, so it will be Moscow.

-Moscow.

-Yeah.

THEY WHISPER

BELL

-First, Moscow.

-Ridiculous.

-No! It

-is

-first Moscow. That is the right answer.

They are Russian cities in order of population size.

And the biggest would be Moscow. Well done.

Over to you, Collectors. What would you like?

-Shall we have Two Reeds, maybe? Two Reeds, please.

-Two Reeds, OK.

What would be the fourth in this sequence?

Here's the first.

Highway from Tampa to Daytona Beach.

-Is it going to be numbers?

-Yeah, it's going to be numbers. So take next.

Next, please.

Triatomic hydrogen, so that's...

-Er, next.

-Next, please.

Ah, Weekday Guardian Supplement.

-G2.

-So we're looking for something one, then, are we?

So, what shall we say?

-H1, G2!.

-So, H3...

G, H...

So, F1. Formula One.

BELL Formula One?

That's it, we phrased it as top-level motor racing,

but you're right, Formula One would be an acceptable answer. And why?

They are letters of the alphabet going backwards with accompanying

-four, three, two, one.

-That's it.

You knew that triatomic hydrogen was H3

and the Guardian supplement is G2.

Highway from Tampa to Daytona Beach is the I4, the interstate 4, I4.

Well done, well done. Back to Welsh Learners, to pick a question.

-Eye of Horus, please.

-Eye of Horus.

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

-No idea.

-I mean, again, it's all lower case.

THEY WHISPER

Yeah. Next, please.

Next? Yeah. Next, please.

Oh, it was Kim Jong... Is it...?

Yeah, is it... What's his name now?

Kim Jong-un. Yeah. Yeah?

BELL Un.

Un is the right answer, yes.

I think you know this is the ruling family in North Korea.

Can you tell me their full names?

Well, I'm assuming they're all Kim Jongs.

If they were, I wouldn't really ask you. No, it's Kim Jong-jik...

I wish you had been able to.

Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il and Kim Jong-un.

I'd also have accepted

song, nam, chul and jong.

I have no idea why, but apparently I would have accepted those.

Record Collectors?

Flax, please. Twisted Flax.

Yes, you can't have an untwisted one.

We've only got twisted clues here. What is the fourth in this sequence?

Here's the first.

The zoo.

They're not... OK, we'll go next.

-Next, please.

-Legs & Co.

Yeah, it'll be Pan's People, then. Top Of The Pops dance troupes.

I thought that from Zoo, but...

-Shall we risk...?

-Is that the right one, at number four, though?

I don't know, but they are the most famous one, aren't they?

Do you want to go next or shall we risk it?

-I think we need to.

-Shall we risk it?

-Yeah, go for it.

BELL Pan's People.

Yes, the answer is Pan's People.

Next would have been Ruby Flipper.

They are dance troupes

on Top Of The Pops, going backwards through time.

Very well done, and back to you,

Welsh Learners, for a choice.

Horned Viper, please.

OK, Horned Viper.

These are going to be picture clues.

Tell me what you might see in the fourth picture.

Here's the first.

-Stripes.

-Stripes.

-Next, please.

What on earth is that?

A sponge of some sort? Coral?

Is it pasta?

Or it could be tripe.

-That would be an anagram, tripe-stripe.

-Yes!

So then it would be ripe. Hang on.

Shall we try and get another one or no?

Maybe take it.

Five seconds.

BELL

A tear. Or a rip.

I'm afraid that's not the answer,

so I'm going to have to throw it

over to the Record Collectors.

I'll show you the next in the sequence.

That's a rip. So, stripes...

So, rip, it's...

I can't give you long.

No, that's too long,

I'm sorry, for a bonus. No,

it would be just something

with the letter I.

So, the newspaper that has that title, or of course,

the square root of -1.

Because you're taking

a letter off each end.

So stripes, tripe...

It's not sponge or pasta,

it's even more delicious, tripe.

And then, take a letter off the end,

each side of that,

you get rip, and then I.

So close, but not quite right.

Back to you, then, Record Collectors,

for the last question. Lion.

What would come fourth in this sequence?

Here's the first.

-Elinor.

-Elinor, um...

Shall we go next? Next, please.

Elizabeth.

Oh, I think they are heroines

in Jane Austen novels,

going in the order they were written.

-Shall we get the next one?

-Yeah.

Oh, unless they are age, in which case it would be... Next, please.

Fanny.

Fanny.

So, I suppose it's going to be...

It's going to be, shall we say...

-Anne?

-I think so.

BELL Anne.

Not the answer, I'm afraid.

So, there's a bonus chance for you,

Welsh Learners.

Emma?

Emma would be the right answer.

It is Jane Austen heroines.

Do you know the sequence?

-I haven't a clue.

-We do now.

It's just in order of publications of the books.

If it was ages, that wouldn't be the right sequence.

But, yes, Anne would be...

Anne is an ancient crone of about 27, isn't she, in Persuasion?

The terrible tragedy -

she's three years off 30

and still no husband. Terrible!

But Emma would be next in the sequence that we've got here.

So, well done for the bonus.

Meaning at the end of Round Two,

the Welsh Learners have nine points,

the Record Collectors have

nine points.

Let's see if this close-run thing is going to be equally tied

after the Connecting Walls. I suspect it will be.

I've looked at the walls, I'm predicting nil-nil.

Record Collectors, it's your turn to go first this time.

Would you like Lion or Water?

Water, please.

OK. You've got the Braille wall there, Rachael.

You have two and a half minutes to solve this wall,

starting now.

OK, so...

So, Burmese, maybe python or something.

-There is going to be Italian car companies.

-Yeah.

-Fiat, Lancia, yeah.

-Maserati, Bul... Oh... Wrong.

-Watch manufacturers as well.

-Bulgari.

-And Cartier.

-Or jewellers.

-Yeah, of course.

Jewellers.

I've never heard of it, but we tried that.

Shall we try the jewellery manufacturers?

Who else would it be?

-Peggy maybe?

-No.

The only Graff I know is Steffi Graf.

-But is it spelt like that?

-Yeah, G-R-A-F-F.

OK.

-Nod... Fictional countries?

-The Land Of Nod, yeah.

Is there a land of...?

Bulgari, yeah.

-Winston.

-We tried that already.

-Smith...

You are halfway through the time.

Nod off.

Um...

Burmese Days is a George Orwell book.

I'm just doing random things on these.

-What about Lancia?

-Lancia is a car make, isn't it?

-Oh, is it, as well?

OK.

But, um, it could be something else, I don't know.

What about leave?

I mean, it could have something to do with Orwell. Winston Smith is...

45 seconds left.

Unless it is just Smith. We have got Peggy as well.

Yeah, we've got Peggy Smith.

Winston, Bulgari, Burmese, Peggy Smith.

Okay. The only thing I can think with Okay is OK Go, the...the band.

Or OK Computer.

-This is terrible.

-20 seconds.

OK, Lancia, Maserati, Bertone, Ferrari is gone.

They must be cars.

Shall we try Tiffany, Cartier?

Try jewellery, yeah.

Yes, we've got that.

Three strikes and you are out now,

in just a few seconds.

That's it!

You have solved the wall with just a second or two to go,

that's brilliant. Very well done.

So, four points immediately for the groups.

And what about the connections?

-They are luxury car-makers.

-Italian.

-Yeah, Italian.

They are Italian cars. Next one.

-Jewellers.

-Jewellery.

-Yeah, just jewellers.

-They are jewellers.

Graff Diamonds, that was one you weren't so sure about.

Next one.

-Are they all in...?

-Orwell.

Is George Orwell the connection?

George Orwell is not the connection there.

They are all, of course, horses ridden by Queen Elizabeth II.

-OK.

-Right.

-But of course.

The Queen's horses, of course.

And the last one.

-Um..

-Um... Oh, something you can give?

They are not all something you can give.

I suppose you can give someone a Fiat if it is a car.

You're close, it is to do with giving the nod.

-They're words meaning authorisation or permission.

-OK.

You give someone leave, to give something the nod,

to OK something.

And fiat is the obscure one from the Latin fiat for authorisation.

Yes.

But four points for the groups you found

and two more for the connections, that is a total of six.

Well done. Time to bring back the Welsh Learners

and give them a new connecting wall -

16 new clues all jumbled up, still need sorting in the same way.

Welsh Learners, it is

the Lion wall that is going to be baring its claws at you.

You have 2.5 minutes to solve it, starting now.

Teacakes, that's all I know of.

They're all part of...

What have we got here? What is Cheeryble?

-Cheeryble was a...

-Try Gride.

-OK, booze, drinks, right?

-No, Cheeryble was a character in...

-Squeers.

-Squeers, yes.

-OK, Dickens, is it?

-Dickens, yes.

-Tumbrel?

-No, that's a chariot.

-OK.

-Try Gillard?

-Nope.

Is it Menzies?

No.

-I can't think who it is.

-What about...? Abbott.

OK, shall we go for chariot?

Cheeryble...

-No, not...

-Stagecoach.

-Take that one off.

-Sorry, Tumbrel.

-And, um, what's the other one?

-Gig.

Isn't Gillard one?

I know she is a prime minister as well.

-Oh, it's Australia's...

-Yes.

Menzies, Hawk, Gillard, Howard.

Wasn't Abbott one as well?

Leave Menzies out. Leave Hawk out... Great.

-Got somewhere. What's M&Co?

-Isn't...? That a ladies' shop.

That has something to do with birds.

Drambuie, Tunnock's...

M&Co is a ladies' shopping... Tunnock's is teacakes.

I know, I'm just mixing it.

M&Co, M&Co...

That's a ladies' shopping...

Tonga. OK, Tonga is the Friendly Islands.

Stagecoach...

Shall we try and get...?

You've got a minute left.

Gig, chariot, stagecoach, tumbrel.

Stagecoach may be a bit obvious,

-so what else have we got?

-Try hawk, gride...

Tunnock's?

It might not be a teacake, it might be some sort of bird.

I wonder if M&Co is a drink.

Try...

Gride, Tunnock's and...

-OK.

-Drambuie...

You've got 30 seconds.

Cheeryble and Squeers, they go together.

Squeers...

What else could go?

Tumbrel and...

-Gig?

-You've got ten seconds.

OK, um...

No, that's it, the time's up.

The wall's frozen, but you found a group, you get a point for that.

What about the connection?

Australian Prime Ministers.

They're Australian Prime Ministers.

You can still get more points for connections,

so let's resolve the wall.

Those are the groups you should have found.

So, what about the second one?

-Are they Dickens characters?

-Hard Times?

They're Dickens characters.

I'll take it, they are Dickens characters.

-Do you want to be more specific?

-Is it Hard Times?

-It's not.

Wackford Squeers...

Wackford Squeers... Nicholas Nickleby, that's it.

Dickens characters there. And the next group...

Are they all...?

Oh, they're all bus companies.

All bus companies?

-Probably, I don't know.

-Shall we go for that? Yeah?

OK, they're all bus companies.

Now, as much Drambuie as I drink on a bus,

I'm afraid it's not the official sponsor of the transport.

No, they're Scottish companies.

A range of things. It is Tunnock's teacakes.

Drambuie is booze, of course.

Stagecoach is a transport group.

M&Co is actually a clothing chain from Renfrew.

So, Scottish companies there. And the last one.

They are horse-drawn carriages.

Horse-drawn carriages or carts or generally horse-drawn vehicles.

So, that's a point for the group that you found

and three points for the connections. That's a total of four.

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

If you think those walls had no

redeeming characteristics

whatsoever, then go to our website

where you can write your own

and also find plenty of others

you can play.

On with Round Four - Missing Vowels.

We've taken well-known names,

phrases and sayings,

taken out the vowels

and squidged up the consonants,

and I want to know what are those disguised clues.

Rachael, you've got your ear piece there, you're going

to have consonants read out to you.

They will, of course, come in connected groups of four.

Fingers on buzzers, teams.

The first group.

Learners.

-Nelson Piquet.

-Correct.

-Collectors.

-Frank Bridge.

-Correct.

-Learners.

-Noddy Holder.

-That's right.

Noddy's an old form of cribbage.

-Learners.

-Patience Strong.

That's right. Next category...

-Learners.

-Why the long face?

That's right.

-Learners.

-To get to the other side.

That's right.

Collectors.

-No, she went of her own accord.

-That's it.

-Collectors.

-No need to cry, it's only a joke.

-That's right.

A lot of laughs in that round. Next category...

-Learners.

-To remain fresh.

That's right.

Learners.

-Shoemaker's model.

-Correct.

This is a tricky one.

It's immediately before the present.

Next clue.

BUZZER

That last one was - most unlikely,

as in, "It's the last thing I'd do."

But it's the end of the quiz,

and the Record Collectors finish

with 18 points, but the winners,

with 20, it's the Welsh Learners.

Very well done, Welsh Learners.

You are through to the semifinal.

Record Collectors, you can still make the semifinal,

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

Good luck, we'll see you again. And that's it for this week.

Not just for the show, that's it for this week.

In a new move, due to the recession and inspired by some of Ted Heath's

special ideas, Tuesday to Sunday have been completely cancelled

to stop the country getting further into debt.

So, it's straight on with the next show. Roll credits.