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00:00We need men, said President Kennedy, who can dream of things that never were.
00:27Like, for example, a time when I wasn't presenting Only Connect.
00:32Was there such a time?
00:33I honestly don't remember.
00:35Joining me this evening, on my right, Ruth Erdle, an innovation manager who enjoys country
00:41music.
00:43Jess Volpe, a PR account director who celebrates Christmas each year by staging a murder mystery.
00:50And their captain, Steve Erdle, the co-founder of a tech start-up who abseils from a building
00:55dressed as Chewbacca, or coastal dwellers, they are the Whitley Bays.
01:00Steve, it's been a while since we saw you, you were in our first episode.
01:04What's a question that stayed in your mind from that match?
01:07Ruth did an amazing job of parsing a really erudite version of the Hokey Cokey, which as
01:14team captain I was then asked to perform.
01:15Yeah, that will definitely stay with me.
01:17I hope it stays with you for life.
01:20You won that game outright, and this time you are facing, on my left, Lizzie Reilly,
01:26a linguistics student whose favourite film is Shaun of the Dead.
01:30George Dickinson, a maths student who has performed ballet in a pair of Wellingtons.
01:36And their captain, Diyashar, a linguistics graduate who moonlights as a tarot card reader.
01:42United by a keenness on comedy, they are Oh No They Didn't.
01:47We haven't seen you for a while either, because both these teams won your first matches and
01:51got straight to round two.
01:52You've only had one game.
01:53What haunts you, or delights you, when you remember your first game?
01:56Well, we forgot how to count.
01:58We forgot what odd numbers were, and we thought 1-3-5-6 would make sense.
02:04But I think we've worked on our maths since then, you're studying it, so, you know.
02:10Yes, I still am.
02:13Well, let's hope you can lance that boil in this evening's match.
02:17Whitley Bays, you won the toss, so you'll be going first.
02:19Please choose an Egyptian hieroglyph.
02:21The Twisted Flax, please, Victoria.
02:23Twisted Flax.
02:24It's the music question, what do these clues have in common?
02:27Here's the first.
02:28My girlfriend, she said yes, she just started to cry, let me go on.
02:35Next, please.
02:36I'm not ready to make nice.
02:38I'm not ready to make nice.
02:41I'm not ready to make nice.
02:43Chicks, Femmes, so just girls and Femmes.
02:45Shall we go?
02:46We're only here once, right?
02:47Yes.
02:48Is it Females?
02:51It is Females.
02:53Very well done.
02:54What did we hear?
02:55We are Blister in the Sun by Violent Femmes and then The Chicks.
02:59I'm not sure what's on.
03:00Not ready to make nice.
03:01Exactly right.
03:02It's just the names, obviously, the Violent Femmes are actually women singing, but the names
03:06of the bands.
03:07What else do you think we might have heard?
03:09Bare Naked Ladies?
03:10No.
03:11Spice Girls?
03:12No.
03:13We would have heard from Scissor Sisters and Girls Aloud.
03:17Very well done for three points.
03:19Oh no, they didn't.
03:20What would you like?
03:21Lion, please.
03:22Lion.
03:23What is the connection between these clues?
03:24Here's the first.
03:30Next, please.
03:37Next, please.
03:38Are they translations of chocolate bars?
04:03Translations of chocolate bars?
04:05They are not translations of chocolate bars, so a bonus chance for you, Whitley Bays.
04:10Translations of...
04:13Alcoholic drinks.
04:15No.
04:16Try translating them into Italian.
04:18What do you get?
04:19Livro?
04:20Something like that.
04:21Libretto is a little book.
04:23Air would be aria.
04:25First Lady, prima donna.
04:26Opera.
04:27And deep bass, you might translate as basso profondo, terms from opera.
04:33No points there, Whitley Bays, but you may have a question.
04:36What would you like?
04:37Two reeds, please.
04:38Two reeds.
04:39What is the connection between these picture clues?
04:41Here's the first.
04:48Next, please.
04:49Paisley.
04:50Paisley.
04:51Are you all Scottish?
04:52Oh.
04:53Shall we?
04:54Yes.
04:55Shall I start with towns and then narrow down to Scottish avast?
04:56Yeah, we could try that, yeah.
04:57Or we can always get a fourth.
04:58Shall we get a fourth?
04:59Yeah.
05:00Next one, please.
05:01They're like tringles, is there?
05:02Yeah.
05:03Oh my goodness.
05:04I think I'll go for patterns named after places.
05:05Two seconds.
05:06We're going to go patterns named after places.
05:07I need something more specific than that.
05:08Specifically Scottish places?
05:09Named after places in Scotland.
05:10What are those places?
05:11We recognise Fair Isle and Paisley.
05:12Mm-hm.
05:13I don't know the other.
05:14Do we have any other places?
05:15Yes.
05:16Shall I start with towns and then narrow down to Scottish avast?
05:17Yeah, we could try that, yeah.
05:18Or we can always get a fourth.
05:19Shall we get a fourth?
05:20Yeah.
05:21Next one, please.
05:22The Argyle socks.
05:23Oh, yeah.
05:24And that first image, the pattern is Sanka, which is a type of knitting and it would normally
05:41be used, I think, on ceremonial gloves, but Sanka is the pattern at the first clue.
05:46Well done.
05:47Oh, no, they didn't.
05:48What would you like?
05:49I've got the water, please.
05:50Water, yes, you could.
05:51What is the connection between these clues?
05:53Here's the first.
05:59Next, please.
06:00Next, please.
06:04Snips.
06:06Snips.
06:07Snips.
06:08It's, yeah.
06:09Next, please.
06:10Copy.
06:11Copy.
06:12Exactly right.
06:13C.
06:14A.
06:15A.
06:16B.
06:17C.
06:18No.
06:19Copy.
06:20Yeah.
06:21Yeah.
06:22Yeah.
06:23Next, please.
06:24Oh, elements.
06:25Yeah.
06:26Yeah.
06:27So they start with...
06:28Yeah, like, yeah.
06:29They're missing a chemical element symbol before the word.
06:32I will take that answer.
06:33One of the nice things about this question is you could do even more.
06:36So, yes, you add the symbols.
06:38Can you go through all the clues?
06:40You put the name of the elements before it.
06:42Yeah.
06:43The name and the symbols, so calcium CA at that last clue to make calcium carbonate.
06:49Carbon, C for copy.
06:51And then, yes, snips and scissors, but tin snips.
06:54Tin, S-N.
06:55Oh.
06:56And what's AG?
06:57Is it silver age?
06:58Yeah.
06:59Oh, yeah.
07:00Silver age, yes.
07:01I mean, there's also a golden age of comic books, but obviously if you choose the silver age,
07:03you can have silver and AG going before.
07:06Very well done.
07:07Well calculated.
07:08Whitley Bays, what would you like?
07:10Could you have the Eye of Horus, please?
07:11Yes, you could.
07:12What connects these clues?
07:14Here's the first.
07:17Is he an opera singer?
07:18OK.
07:19Horus, I don't know his name.
07:21Next, please.
07:22I don't know if you have a championship wins.
07:26It could be contested.
07:28I don't know.
07:29OK.
07:30OK.
07:31Next, please.
07:32Oh.
07:33So he played Jesus in The Passion of Christ.
07:36I don't know anything else that he did there.
07:38I don't know, disciples or anything like that.
07:40I'm just going to go for it.
07:41Next, please.
07:44Oh.
07:45There's a question.
07:47Um, so, he was famously really badly hurt when he was passionate of Christ.
07:52OK, so...
07:53Two seconds.
07:55They sustained injuries.
07:57I don't think they all sustained injuries in the context of these clues.
08:03So a bonus chance for you now.
08:04Oh, no, they didn't.
08:05These were, um...
08:06They had a lovely time.
08:07Yeah.
08:10Final answer.
08:11They might have had a lovely time.
08:12But, uh, no.
08:14This is to do with achievements in languages that people don't speak.
08:21Now, I don't really want to talk about the first clue, because I can't say Bryn Ter Vell's name right, and that drives our director mad.
08:28But that first great Welsh singer sang in Russian, even though it's not one of his languages.
08:35Ted Hughes, you know, he couldn't speak the original classics' languages, but he did the translation anyway.
08:41Nigel Richards at Clue 2, I mean, this would be amazing.
08:43He won the World Scrabble Championship in French, and again in Spanish, despite the fact that he can't really speak those languages.
08:51He learned the words, he learned the two-letter words, and he sort of approached it as a discipline.
08:55And that third clue, this is actors in The Passion of the Christ, the Mel Gibson film.
09:00The dialogue is in Aramaic and Latin, and they didn't speak the language.
09:05Back to you, oh, no, they didn't, for the last question of the round.
09:08The Horned Viper, what's next?
09:10These clues.
09:11Here's the first.
09:13I don't know who either of those people are.
09:15Next, please.
09:20It's like, oh, it's like a period of time.
09:22Yeah.
09:23Next, please.
09:30Oh, is it five years?
09:31I can't remember.
09:32Next.
09:33Next, please.
09:37Is it five years?
09:38Yeah, should we say five years?
09:39Yeah.
09:41These lasted for five years?
09:42They lasted for five years.
09:43Well done.
09:44Well done.
09:45Tell me about these clues.
09:46So the Coalition lasted for five years.
09:49Yes.
09:50Captain James Tiberius Kirk, five-year mission.
09:53Five-year mission.
09:54Yes, it was in the original series of five-year mission.
09:56What about the first two clues?
09:58Not too sure.
09:59Yeah, take a stab at them being five years long.
10:01The first clue refers to a film, a romantic comedy called The Five-Year Engagement.
10:06Oh.
10:07Do you know Norman Fletcher over there?
10:08Yeah, from Porridge.
10:09Yes.
10:10What if I were to call him Norman Stanley Fletcher?
10:13Have you ever seen Porridge?
10:14I've seen bits of it.
10:16I'm literally, I'm tempted to abandon this quiz at this point and send them off to watch
10:21it, like the judge who speaks those words.
10:23And that judge is played by...
10:24I don't know.
10:25I don't know.
10:26Sorry.
10:28Robert De Niro.
10:29It's Ronnie Barker.
10:30It's Ronnie Barker, who plays Norman Stanley Fletcher, is also his voice.
10:34Is he also...
10:35I didn't know that.
10:36He's blank.
10:37We'd better press on with the quiz, because the cameras are here now.
10:41But the second it's over, I want you all to go away and watch Porridge.
10:45Could be the greatest series ever made.
10:48That means, at the end of round one, Oh No They Didn't have two points.
10:52The Whitley Bays have four.
10:57Round two, sequences round.
10:58Whitley Bays will be going first again.
11:00Which hieroglyph would you like?
11:02The water, please.
11:03Water.
11:04Excellent.
11:05I would like to know what comes forth in a sequence.
11:07The first clue is this.
11:11The fourth, Drake Passage fifth, so we're going to have second something first.
11:14Yeah.
11:15Next, please.
11:19Is it between content sizes?
11:22Yeah, well that's good.
11:23So, it would be...
11:26Between Africa and...
11:29Asia?
11:31Should we try it?
11:32Try it, yeah.
11:33Do you think we're going to get anything from the third clue?
11:36No.
11:37I don't recognise anything, so...
11:38No.
11:39Yeah.
11:40Go for it.
11:42Second, Suez Canal first.
11:45Would be an acceptable answer.
11:47Very well done.
11:48A nice early buzz.
11:49What's happening here?
11:50These are bodies of water that separate the continents by these sizes?
11:56Yeah, that's right.
11:57I mean, they're not all bodies of water.
11:58You know, the Isthmus of Panama is a bit of land.
12:00It's something that comes between the continents that are ranked in size,
12:05fifth, fourth, third, second, and between Africa and Asia,
12:08the Gulf of Suez, the Suez Canal, the Isthmus of Suez,
12:11all acceptable answers.
12:12Well done.
12:14Oh, no, they didn't.
12:15What would you like?
12:16Two reads, please.
12:17Two reads.
12:18What would come forth in this sequence?
12:20Here's the first.
12:21Hang on, hang on.
12:22Can you hear this?
12:23No, yeah, because it was Henry 7 before him, so...
12:24Yeah.
12:25Next, please.
12:26OK.
12:27Eight, seven, six.
12:28Is it Ed with the six?
12:29Oh, yes, yes.
12:30Or is it Ed with the six?
12:31And then...
12:32Oh, yes.
12:33Very good.
12:34So, aye, aye, aye.
12:35Are you sure?
12:36Yeah.
12:37So, it was...
12:38Should we get the next one or should we just go now?
12:40I don't know.
12:41I'm not going now.
12:42I'm not going now.
12:43I'm not going now.
12:44I'm not going now.
12:45So, aye, aye, aye, aye.
12:46Are you sure?
12:47Yeah.
12:48So, it was...
12:49Should we get the next one or should we just go now?
12:50Should we go now?
12:51Should we go two to three?
12:52No, two to three.
12:53Yes, please.
12:54Is it aye, aye, arrow, aye, aye, aye?
12:57Yes, it is.
12:59And why is that?
13:00These are monarchs in order of ascension to the throne.
13:04So, you'd have Queen Elizabeth II to Charles III.
13:07And then before that, George VI to Elizabeth II.
13:10Exactly.
13:11It's just the regnal numbers.
13:13So, we're starting with George V.
13:15So, it went George V, Edward VIII, George VI,
13:18Elizabeth II, Charles III.
13:20So, those are the regnal numbers with the names removed.
13:23Whitley Bays, what's next?
13:25Eye of Horus, please.
13:26Eye of Horus.
13:27These are going to be picture clues.
13:28What would you expect to see in the fourth picture?
13:30Here's the first.
13:31Next, please.
13:32Blue and grey.
13:33Blue and grey.
13:34Blue and grey.
13:35Starry and grey.
13:36Next, please.
13:37Is that...?
13:38Is that...?
13:39Is that...?
13:40Is that...?
13:41Is that...?
13:42Would it just be indicating a green?
13:44A green, maybe?
13:45So, green.
13:46So, starry, blue, grey, green.
13:48Is it...?
13:49Periods?
13:50Okay, so...
13:51Two seconds.
13:52A sugar cube.
13:53I don't think that would work.
13:54So, there's a bonus chance for you.
13:55Oh, no, they didn't.
13:56A picture of a big dolphin.
13:57Saying yippee.
13:58Do you know, that's a lot closer.
13:59I'm not going to give it to you.
14:00I thought you were going to get that when you were talking about the second clue.
14:02Starry, starry, night.
14:04Paint your palette blue and grey.
14:05Mmm.
14:06Look out on a...
14:07Sunny.
14:08Sunny.
14:09Sunny.
14:10Sunny.
14:11Sunny.
14:12Sunny.
14:13Sunny.
14:1450.
14:15Sunny.
14:16Two seconds.
14:17A sugar cube.
14:18I don't think that would work.
14:19So, there's a bonus chance for you.
14:20Oh, no, they didn't.
14:21Picture of a big dolphin.
14:22Sь and kippee.
14:23Oh, you know, that's a lot closer.
14:24I'm not going to give it to you.
14:25I thought you were going to get that when you were talking about the second clue.
14:28Starry, starry, night.
14:29Paint your palette blue and grey.
14:31Look out on a...
14:32Sunny.
14:33day with eyes that see the darkness in my soul darkness in my soul the question just came up
14:40with this which reflects the darkness in their souls i don't know what it is a sort of horned
14:45creature it is the great vincent by don mclean a song about van gogh and those are the you're
14:53looking blank is he never heard of it okay i mean how you're gonna get the jokes in porridge when
14:59you've got don mclean in your ears at the same time i don't know i was born in 2004.
15:07oh my word let's move on what would you like for your own question the lion please
15:15lion what will come forth in this sequence is the first
15:22next please
15:29first diary and what's this yeah the bridget jones movies oh yeah what comes forth in the
15:47sequence mad about the boy something like that first diary first diary is the answer and talk
15:53me through the other clues so the second film or book is the edge of reason third one is bridget
15:58jones's baby and then mad about the boy this is the sequence of the film and we're going backwards so
16:03the first bridget jones's diary second edge of reason and so on very well done back to you whitley
16:09bays what would you like twisted flax please twisted flax what will come forth in this sequence
16:14here's the first for unicef for peace because no no next please
16:24so yeah yep i don't know what the sequence would be next please
16:30was it so that was maybe so that was mercury's second yeah
16:38so literature feels yeah medicine should we just go for a random
16:42literature winner or do you see any other so that was her second yeah or i don't know it was
16:52winston for literature not it i'm afraid so a bonus chance for you bob dylan for literature
17:00that did happen didn't it oh yeah so weird but no that's not it either what do you think the
17:06sequence is we assume that the the the marie in the third one is marie curie obviously won two
17:13nobel prizes well they are all curies
17:20henry la hoose in 1965 won the nobel prize for peace and he was the son-in-law of murray and pierre
17:28curie he was married to their daughter eve irene curie another daughter married frederick joliot and
17:34they won for chemistry so we're going backwards through the curies arriving at of course marie
17:38and pierre for physics back to you oh no they didn't for the last questions around horn viper
17:44what will come forth in this sequence here's the first
17:50is it conversion
17:56next please
17:59yeah it must be
18:04next please
18:0410p equals 0.8333
18:18not the right answer i'm afraid whitley babe do you want to have a go is it just 10p equals 8.3333
18:24no that's wrong as well now i'm sorry about this george oh not again i mean look it is a math
18:30question they are coin values and we're dividing them by the number of sides they have exactly or
18:38sides so a one pound coin has 12 edges so we've divided 100 pence by 12 and 50 pence by 7 and 20
18:47pence by 7 so a 10p has just the one edge so it would be 10p equals 10. is it too late to change
18:56discipline i'm quite good at karate that means at the end of round two oh no they didn't have seven
19:06points the whitley bays have seven points time for the connecting wall oh no they didn't you'll
19:14be going first this time would you like lion or water lion please lion two and a half minutes to
19:20solve that wall starting now um okay it could maybe not be silent okay um so uh on the verge on the
19:42rim on the border on the lip yes um definitely has to be oohed definitely has to well if we try and
19:59work out the other ones and then we just can um master and the master and santa run let's say okay
20:06what's nesting is that an anagram the nesting consciousness the autumns oh the autumns that's
20:11a deep cut um um chimney sweep chimney sweep hair sweep um um international yeah hairspray
20:23woman winter winter winter winter winter winter winter yeah yeah okay so you've got
20:36so then chimney nesting oh silence as well so silence yeah garlic and also so should we what do you think
20:43hair spray hair has a musical has the film chimney sweep um i guess the father christmas lives there
20:52in the in the in the north he doesn't live in the chimney what does that mean um also you can alter
20:57something but not like that yeah you've got 30 seconds okay um should we try a doctor who block
21:03yeah yes are there any others like any of these which could also be uh apart from nesting
21:10not sure but that's a deep cut okay yeah so should we try should we try the the doctor who one first
21:15yeah so dalek master silence and time yeah 10 seconds okay so let's try the steam nesting and
21:24suntaran one life oh that's it you've used your three lives the wall has frozen but if you found
21:31two groups tell me what connects border rim lip and verge these are all edges the boundaries synonyms
21:37exactly and the next group oud oman and so on you can add w in front of them you can to make wood woman
21:44winter and wedge and you can get points for the connections in the groups you didn't find so
21:48let's resolve the wall there we are what about that third group dalek silence and so on those are
21:54doctor who uh aliens exactly so and the last group master hair chimney and so on i'd sweep after them
22:02or shifu not really what you can put after all of them is peace masterpiece hairpiece chimney piece
22:11all to peace but you found two groups and you gave me three connections that is a total of five
22:16points let's bring in their opponents now give them the other wall and see how they get on welcome
22:21back whitley bays you have two and a half minutes to solve your wall starting now okay guys anything we've
22:31got banished cities but yes yes how many have we got luna granada bilbao sabadell valencia's obviously
22:39victoria dalishers any other um victoria's no seville's a spanish city as well yeah
22:49oranges seville orange blood orange oh i love it yeah navel orange
22:53navel orange bergamot and there's a type of orange is it no no no no any other valencia is that an orange
22:59no yeah yeah we are try it um sorry it's navel definitely an orange yes yes um shall i go around
23:08then what was the other one we said possibly bergamot oh they're great um so element derbyshire cordon
23:14pamplona granada schumann wall and sabadell seville weir bilbao have we got enough um uh we've taken out
23:20spanish cities so i might just have a quick run through of seville granada pamplona bilbao
23:25sabadell um okay um so darbyshire schumann gordon sound like surnames they do and weir weir
23:36wallen could also be that could it be gordon rishi like something to do with oh gordon brown keir starmer
23:43brilliant and neville chamberlain yes so then we've got wallen element derbyshire schumann
23:51any thoughts
23:55schumer yeah anything in got human in the middle of schumann any other
24:01we've got derbyshire shire bill shire wall element i'm gonna press the bell just in case it's not
24:11it's not um is there another um could a double l e n be yeah okay
24:17one life what should we go for 10 seconds sorry not it that's your third life the wall has frozen
24:29but you found two groups tell me what connects valencia blood and so on these are oranges we
24:33think yeah oranges and the next group pamplona bilbao granada sabadell they're spanish cities
24:40they are the spanish cities and you can get points for the connections in the groups you didn't find
24:44so let's resolve the wall there we are weir derbyshire and so on you see anything no no victoria's
24:53no it's not even victoria derbyshire it's delia derbyshire they're all composers judith weir was
24:59master of the queen's music for a time delia derbyshire erilyn wallen and clara schumann
25:05and the last group seville element and so on we didn't spot clement these are last names of prime
25:11ministers oh sorry first names of prime ministers apologies um and if you change the first letter
25:17exactly so to get neville clement as in clement attley gordon brown and rishi sunak but you did
25:23find two groups and you gave me three connections that's a total of five points let's have a look
25:28at the overall scores oh no they didn't have 12 points the whitley bays have 12 points
25:35and if you know your ouds from your nestines why don't you come along and play the next series of
25:40only connect go to the website bbc.co.uk only connect to find out how to apply meanwhile we have got to
25:48sort out a winner in this match come what may so fingers on buzzers teams for the missing vowels round
25:53the first group of disguised clues are all this will be no good for you lizzie structures which are over
25:592 000 years old oh no they didn't stonehenge correct
26:09oh no they didn't the great pyramid of diva yes it is
26:15oh no they didn't the palace of canostos correct
26:22whitley bays yes it is next group musical acts after white has been removed
26:29oh no they didn't snake as in white snake
26:38oh no they didn't the stripes yes it is
26:43whitley bays correct
26:48whitley bays sorry oh no they didn't do you know red floyd red floyd
26:53because the whites come out from pink next group fictional teachers and what they teach
27:01oh no they didn't walter white and chemistry yes it is
27:03oh no they didn't mr miyagi and karate yes it is
27:13oh no they didn't dolores umbridge and the defense against the dark arts
27:17i'm afraid that's not it you lose a point whitley bays do you know dolores umbridge and defense
27:21against the dark arts
27:22that's right you threw in a rogue thee but the bell has gone for the end of the quiz and looking
27:31at the final scores the winners with 19 points are oh no they didn't very well done you are through
27:38to the next round whitley bays you finished with 14 you haven't lost a match before so you are not out we
27:44will see you again later in the competition now it is time to end the show with another reading from
27:49lovely paradise lost by john milton we've still yet to get to the end of it but we are providing the
27:56added value the bbc asked for it's a sort of cut out to keep if you edit all the endings of the shows
28:01together you'll have a full audio book of paradise lost completely free courtesy of bbc2
28:08nine times the space that measures day and night to mortal men he with his horrid
28:14crew lay vanquished rolling in the fiery gulf confounded though immortal but his doom
28:20his doom what find out next week goodbye
28:44you
28:50you
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