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Only Connect - Season 21 Episode 24 -
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00:00Time, please. Time, ladies and gentlemen. It's time for the Only Connect pub quiz.
00:23Tonight we are having a lock-in. Knock on the back door three times, code word quadratic.
00:30I will be serving up some ice-cold questions in my role as barmaid who's somehow doing the pub quiz
00:37to some favourite old teams from Only Connect of yore, and they are on my right.
00:44Lee Knowles, a senior improvement advisor and West Bromwich Albion season ticket holder.
00:49Gareth Cottes, an online merchandising manager whose first concert was Meatloaf.
00:55And their captain, Ushwini Karmath, a solicitor who spent her 40th birthday on a frozen lake.
01:01United by brewed beers, they are the Hopsters.
01:05Welcome back, Hopsters. We last saw you last year.
01:08Now, Ushwini, back in the day, we always said on this show we didn't have enough women contestants
01:12because quizzing comes from pub culture. You are a one-woman symbol of changing times.
01:20But you told us on your last visit you're a one-pint quizzer.
01:23I mean, this is going to last all night.
01:25What happens on the second pint?
01:27We don't want to go there.
01:29Welcome back, all of you. Nice to see you. You are playing On My Left.
01:34Dean Riley, a software engineer who directs local amateur theatre.
01:40Simon Gibbons, a software engineer who featured in a documentary
01:44as the fastest pickled egg eater in England.
01:47And their captain, Mickey Alexander, a research fellow who took part
01:51in a pirate-themed rave in the Greenwich foot tunnel.
01:55United by their love of a traditional pub, they are the Taverners.
01:59Mickey, you're back all the way from 2016.
02:03So lovely to see you. Are you... I should have asked before, are you still a couple?
02:07We are still married, despite me overruling him on the last one.
02:11Do you still play together as a pub quiz team?
02:13Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
02:15Would you say that since you were last here, your quizzing skills have got sharper or weaker?
02:20Ooh.
02:23Age is catching up with us, I think.
02:25Yeah, maybe we'll touch weaker.
02:27Well, we are actually going to be playing a slightly different sort of quiz tonight
02:31because this is a pub quiz.
02:33We're not going to have buzzers or any of that high-tech TV jiggery-pokery.
02:37The teams have got pens and paper.
02:39They're going to be playing all the questions at the same time,
02:42just like in a standard old-school quiz.
02:45So, pens and paper at the ready teams.
02:48Your first question is going to be the two reads.
02:52I will tell you when the next clue is coming up.
02:55Here's the first.
03:01Next.
03:07Next.
03:13Next.
03:15Next.
03:16One.
03:18Yes, yes.
03:19And your time is up.
03:20Hopsters, what have you got?
03:22Uh, pH levels.
03:23That is the right answer.
03:26Tavenes, did you have that as well?
03:27We concur.
03:28We did.
03:29Let me see you're working.
03:30pH, very well done.
03:32That is one point each.
03:35Your second question will be the lion.
03:38First clue coming up now.
03:41Next.
03:43Next.
03:45Next.
03:49Next.
03:51Next.
03:53Next.
03:55Next.
03:57Next.
03:59Next.
04:01Next.
04:03Next.
04:05And we'll stop there.
04:09I'll ask you this time, Taverners, do you have an answer?
04:13Things that you're not allowed to do during an election.
04:15Is the right answer.
04:17Hopsters, what have you got?
04:19Politicians.
04:21Can't do.
04:23I'll let you have it.
04:25These are electoral law offences.
04:27They changed the rules in 1985.
04:29You couldn't use a pub as an office.
04:31I don't really know why it wouldn't be allowed and then allowed.
04:35These two middle clues, you wouldn't think it was two different things, would you?
04:37There's two separate offences.
04:39So there's bribery in general,
04:41but then giving drinks which is considered treating.
04:45So politicians who want to be elected can't do that kind of thing.
04:49Time for the twisted flax.
04:51What is the connection?
04:53It's a music question.
04:55Let me just reach for my old tinny tape recorder to play you the music clues.
04:59Here's the first.
05:01Next.
05:03Next.
05:05Next.
05:07Next.
05:09Next.
05:11Next.
05:13Next.
05:15Next.
05:17That's enough music.
05:19Hopsters, what do you think the answer is?
05:21We think that the surnames are also first names of the singers.
05:23Not it.
05:25Taverners, what have you got?
05:27We think maybe it's something to do with opening hours, with pubs being open on the holidays, Saturday night.
05:39Also wrong.
05:40Yeah.
05:41Who do you think we heard from?
05:42So we had Elton John for the first one and Cliff Richard for the last one.
05:45Mm-hm.
05:46Was it Noel Coward at some point?
05:48It was Noel Coward at clue two, and I let that third clue run on a bit in the hope you'd recognize the voice.
06:05Can we listen to clue three again?
06:07From serpentine to scoundrel.
06:09Right.
06:10Not it.
06:11We think maybe it's something to do with opening hours, with pubs being open on the holidays, Saturday night.
06:13From Serberton to Scanthorpe, Inverness to Belfast,
06:18Everybody wants to lend a helping hand.
06:21Now imagine that voice saying,
06:22Nice to see you, to see you.
06:25Nice. It's Sir Bruce Forsyth, Sir Elton John, Sir Noel Coward
06:30and Sir Cliff at the end all nights.
06:33Here's a nice bit of triv about Noel Coward.
06:35He lived in a cottage next to the Star Inn,
06:39which was E Nisbet's local.
06:41You don't think of E Nisbet as a regular drinker in the pub.
06:45Noel Coward was such a big fan of hers.
06:47As a child, he once stole a coral necklace belonging to his mother's friend,
06:52pawned it for five shillings and spent it on E Nisbet books.
06:56And in later years, he lived in a cottage right next to her local pub
06:59and they were able to hang out, so that was nice.
07:02Now, before the next question,
07:04I can see you're getting low on drinks taverners, but that's all right,
07:07because it is that moment in any pub quiz
07:09where somebody has got to go to the bar to get a round in,
07:13even if they have to miss a question.
07:15So I'm going to have to ask for a volunteer from your team
07:17who's going to go to the bar.
07:18Well, I guess I'm closest, so...
07:21I'll take the short straw for that.
07:22Simon, I'm going to ask you to leave the stage.
07:27Right, now, I'm sorry you're going to be a man down.
07:28I hear there's a big queue for the bar, but let's get on with it.
07:31It'll be the Horned Viper.
07:32And here's your first clue.
07:39Next.
07:45Next.
07:53Next.
07:54And we'll stop there.
08:01Taverners, the two-man team, what's your answer?
08:04We believe these are...
08:06According to these people, these are the greatest Yorkshiremen.
08:09And what do you think, Hopsters?
08:10Greatest Yorkshiremen.
08:12They are nominated as the greatest living Yorkshiremen.
08:17Who do you think Dickie Bird nominated?
08:20I hope he said himself.
08:22Dickie Bird said William Wilberforce, quote,
08:26as he did a magnificent job for the slaves, but he's dead.
08:29So then he said,
08:30I'll go for Judi Dench if you want a lady.
08:33LAUGHTER
08:34Surprising answers there.
08:36Oh, look, it's Simon coming back with the drinks.
08:39In you come, Simon.
08:40You help yourselves to drinks.
08:42You'll be glad to hear they managed the point without you, Simon.
08:45Excellent.
08:46Next question.
08:47Water.
08:48Water.
08:49What is the connection between these clues?
08:51Here's the first.
09:02Next.
09:08Next.
09:09And that's the giveaway clue, so I'm going to stop you there.
09:22Yeah.
09:23Hopsters, what do you think?
09:24These are giant works of art in these places.
09:28What do you mean by giant works of art?
09:30Big things drawn on the ground.
09:32What would you have said, Taverners?
09:33We were also struggling for what they're called.
09:35I've written Neolithic earthworks, which I'm certain is wrong,
09:37but that's what we're thinking of.
09:39I will give you all a point each.
09:41You weren't fox, they're not pubs, they are hill figures.
09:44And, of course, common pub names as well.
09:47Let us move on to the next question.
09:49The Eye of Horus will be the last one of the round.
09:51The picture question.
09:52Your first picture clue coming in now.
09:56Next.
09:58Next.
10:00Next.
10:01Next.
10:02Next.
10:03Next.
10:04Next.
10:05Next.
10:06Next.
10:07Next.
10:08Time's up.
10:21Taverners, what can you tell me?
10:23They're all synonyms for fast.
10:26So you've got Pacey from Dawson's Creek, Taylor Swift, Speedy Gonzalez.
10:31And I think he's called Fast Eddie something in the hustle.
10:35Fast Eddie Felsen.
10:36Nice.
10:37Fast Eddie Felsen.
10:38And we wrote fast.
10:39Very nice.
10:40You all get one point.
10:42Very good.
10:43Who is Speedy Gonzalez?
10:45He's the quickest mouse in Mexico.
10:47He's the fastest mouse in Mexico.
10:49Exactly.
10:50Well, they're all doing very well.
10:51That means at the end of round one, the Taverners have five points,
10:54the Hopsters have five points.
10:59Round two.
11:00The sequence is round.
11:02I might actually have a little scratching.
11:05I'll be telling you the clues in sequence again.
11:09You'll all be playing together.
11:11First one is going to be the two reads.
11:13Here's your first clue.
11:15Next.
11:20Next.
11:22Oh, no.
11:23It's Farage.
11:24It's Farage.
11:25It's Farage.
11:26It's Farage.
11:27It's Farage.
11:28It's Farage.
11:29Yes.
11:30And we'll stop there.
11:31Hopsters.
11:32What have you got for me as fourth in the sequence?
11:34Clacton.
11:35Tick.
11:36Brackets.
11:372024.
11:38The last election.
11:39Is the right answer.
11:40Taverners.
11:41Clacton.
11:42You've got the same thing.
11:43Very well done.
11:44What is the reason, Hopsters?
11:45So, the first three are where Nigel Farage lost in the elections and the last one is where he won.
12:00It is successive elections for Nigel Farage leading up to Clacton.
12:02And what's it doing in this show?
12:03He famously likes being pictured in pubs.
12:04He's often pictured in the pub, isn't he?
12:05And there was actually a poll which said he was the leader that people would most want to have a pint with.
12:22But you obviously have to factor in that if you have to have a pint in a pub with a political leader.
12:27I think they have to ask people of everybody in the world who would you want to have a pint with?
12:34want to have a pint with and see how long it took before they got to any politician
12:38i think would be the thing next question is going to be the lion what would come forth
12:44in this sequence here's the first
12:51next
12:57next is it where the pub is
13:04and time's up taverners what can you tell me we can tell you little to nothing yeah this one
13:20stumped us are you stumped hopsters the village i grew up in for what reason it had four pubs
13:25that would be an acceptable answer we had the arctic monkey song cornerstone so talk us through
13:30the sequence please well albert square is east enders and there's one pub of course which is
13:35the queen vic that's it hogsmeade uh the names of the pubs and the three broomsticks yeah but the
13:43leaky cauldron is not in hogsmeade i don't think that's in diagonally but the the three broomsticks
13:49is right and the hogs head harry potter pubs of course and um what's going on at clue three so
13:55griffin park is the former home of brentford and they used to have three pubs
13:59on the corner of the ground on these dates they did and until 2015 there was a pub on each corner
14:06one closed so for four years there were just three sadly brentford don't play there anymore it's been
14:11demolished so well done hopsters you get two points there but the bad news is i think it's time someone
14:17went to the bar who's volunteering i'll take the hit off you go lee you go and get the drinks in
14:25we'll play the next question it's going to be the twisted flax we'll wait until lee is
14:33fine that's it get it down what comes forth in this sequence here's the first
14:38next
14:58isn't it a triangle
14:59and let's stop there nastily hopsters you're the two-man team now someone ask you um so we think
15:11it's the equal sign followed by the number 30. and what do you think it is we didn't really get to
15:16we've got triangle 25. not it i'm afraid equals 30 is the right answer talk me through it please um so
15:24the mathematical symbols are the ed sheeran albums i think in succession and the numbers are adele
15:31albums again in succession that's right so ed sheeran's albums go plus multiply divide and then
15:40there's another one i would have taken but equals is the next maths one and the adele 19 21 25 30.
15:46does he have a pub in his back garden ed sheeran oh he's very wealthy that's what i would have
15:50oh but look lee's coming back with a celebratory round of drinks you see when i'm doing a pub quiz
15:58i always deliberately go of the music round because i wouldn't be able to answer it anyway so then i can
16:02come back and go oh i would have got that it is the albums of ed sheeran and adele successively but
16:08good news your team got two points next question is going to be the horn viper picture clues here's the
16:16first next
16:34yeah red line red what's the
16:37and we'll stop there is there a more revolting snack than the pork scratching i mean genuinely is
16:45there a more i mean i'm eating them but is there anything more disgusting some of them have hair
16:49on if anything was going to make me go vegan it would be that okay taverners what do you think comes
16:56next we're lost yeah yeah no no sorry i love this one it's staring you in the face oh look at the word
17:06pint four letters red lion three then four ho chi min two then three then four i want to hear one two
17:15three four letters for example tea in the park why is ho chi min in this question i'll throw pork
17:23scratching to anyone who gets this right i mean that in a positive way is there a pub called the
17:27ho chi minh no ho chi minh apparently worked in the kitchen at the drayton court in west ceiling
17:34which apparently has the largest beer garden in london and ho chi minh worked there i mean how can that
17:39be right apparently it is let's go on with the next question water what would come forth in this
17:45sequence here's the first just a second uh succeeding next next
17:59henry the fourth so is it going to be change of reginald and there's one if he was before
18:05henry the third time's up popsters can you give me an answer steven and nothing in the bracket one
18:22in brackets because there's only been one king steven not it i'm afraid taverners what do you think
18:29well we think it's the same thing for a different reason
18:31what do you think it's steven steven who followed richard the first oh no you you've got the rhyme
18:39wrong it's willy willy harry steve damn it harry dick john don't you worry i'm gonna give you
18:47i'm gonna give you the points because i think you've done some brilliant quizzing this is really
18:51tough tell your opponents what the sequence is so these are the people who succeeded richards
18:56with in brackets so charles ii on the restoration replaced richard cromwell that's it because oliver
19:02cromwell died his son richard so for a richard cromwell henry the seventh followed uh richard
19:09the third that's it henry the fourth followed richard the second so i want to know who followed richard
19:14the first and it was john and even though you didn't give me that answer immediately i'm so impressed
19:19that you solved this difficult puzzle you can have two points thank you we'll take it last question of
19:24the round is the eye of porus first in a sequence is this
19:41swept away that was the madonna film where she was like you should feel sorry for this next
19:45and we'll stop there taverners do you have an answer dean would like to give it sure
20:00we think it's lock stock one colon and what do you think hopsters one colon uh lock stock and two
20:05smoking barrels is the right answer you all get the points and what is the sequence um the guy richie
20:12films going backwards in order and why is guy richie in this show he he has a pub he has a pub doesn't
20:21he he likes a bit of pub culture has anybody seen swept away yeah it's not good people were very mean
20:26about that film but i reckon everyone on it was trying their best to do an entertaining thing what more
20:31can you ask trying their best to do an entertaining thing you do it if you think it's so easy lock stock
20:37and two smoking barrels is the right answer two points all round that means at the end of round
20:42two the taverners have 11 points the hopsters have 13.
20:49time for the connecting wall amazing burst of high-tech play in this particular pub
20:55would you like lion or water i think it's time for a hydration break so we will take the water
21:00tour but aha you're both going to get the same wall two and a half minutes starting now okay so what
21:11do we see words for pub local tavern bar pub saloon in so there are plenty of those
21:17features and events like key that's music terms but not easy a cleft rest tie and bar we've also got
21:26habitant native local okay so i'm going to start with the music ones yes yes um so resident native
21:34and had person local wow we and we've not talked about so we said saloon yep should we try it
21:43No, no, no, we need to hold off, don't we?
21:45Yeah, so we've got demo, re, and eng,
21:49feel like shortenings of something,
21:52so pub or inn could go with those, but what are they?
21:55Why don't you take pub off for a moment,
21:57because maybe speakeasings happen.
22:00Yeah, does anything go in front of them?
22:03Yeah.
22:04Erm...
22:06We're fairly confident that it's either pub or inn with this,
22:10so we should hopefully be able to get it,
22:11then what's the connection to, like, engineering, English...
22:17Publish, relish, demolish.
22:20Yes.
22:21You've solved the wall. Very well done.
22:24Tell me about the connections, bar, rest and so on.
22:27So, the first group are musical...
22:30It's musical terminology. It's musical notation.
22:33And the next group, local, resident, native and inhabitant.
22:37They're all sort of synonyms to describe somebody who lives somewhere.
22:41People from round here.
22:43In, tavern, saloon and speakeasy.
22:46Drinking establishments.
22:47Those are the four drinking establishments.
22:49And the last group, pub, eng and so on.
22:52Erm, so it can be followed by lish, to make a word.
22:56Yes, it can.
22:57All four groups, all four connections,
23:00and the bonus that is the maximum of ten points.
23:02Very well done.
23:03Let's bring in their opponents now and give them the exact same wall.
23:08Let's see how much you remember.
23:09I bet you still can't solve it.
23:11Hello, taverners.
23:13You will be getting the water wall,
23:15and your time starts...
23:17now.
23:18Oh, right, what have we got?
23:20Uh...
23:21Tavern.
23:22Oh, yeah.
23:23So...
23:24Pub...
23:25Tavern.
23:26Tavern.
23:27Where's tavern?
23:28At the bottom.
23:29Okay, in.
23:30Okay, that's going to be quite a lot.
23:31What else have we got here?
23:32So, we've got...
23:33Local as well.
23:34Yeah.
23:35Do, re, mi, fa, mi, fa, mi, fa, mi, fa.
23:38Inhabitant, native...
23:39Yes.
23:40Local.
23:41Resident.
23:42Resident, thank you.
23:44Um, ray, clef, that's a musical thing, yes?
23:47Yeah.
23:48Demo...
23:49There's something that you add to the end of these.
23:52Yeah.
23:53England or ing something.
23:55Okay, let's, I'm going to do this for a bit.
23:57Leave out bars.
23:59Leave out pub.
24:01Leave out saloon.
24:04Have I done all of them?
24:08You've had Tavern.
24:10Oh, interesting.
24:12Okay, there's too many options.
24:14Tavern.
24:18Restaurant.
24:20Democracy.
24:22Demographics.
24:28Demosthenes.
24:30D-mob.
24:32Come on, say things. Keep talking.
24:34Engineering.
24:40Oh, English.
24:46Demolish. English. Publish.
24:48Yes, very good.
24:50Relish. And then we've got Thai,
24:52clef, bar and rest.
24:54Oh, all musical things.
24:58You've solved the wall.
25:00Very well done, but do you know why?
25:02Tell me about local, resident and so on.
25:04They are synonyms from people who are from around here.
25:08Quite right.
25:10The next group, in Tavern and so on.
25:12Drinking holes.
25:14Of the many drinking holes, those are the four.
25:18Next group, pub, eng and so on.
25:20Things that end with Lish.
25:22Or that you can follow with Lish.
25:24You can put Lish after all of them.
25:26And the final one, bar, rest, clef and Thai.
25:28All for musical notation.
25:30That is musical notation.
25:32You get the maximum of ten points.
25:34What did you get?
25:36I thought so.
25:38Let's have a look at the scores going into the final round.
25:40The Taverners have 21 points.
25:44The Hopsters have 23.
25:48Time now for the missing vowels round.
25:50Unfortunately, a kindly benefactor has donated to the pub some buzzers.
25:54Because I have no idea how we'd have done this round otherwise.
25:57Fingers on buzzers, teams.
25:59I can tell you that the first group of disguised clues are all good topics to memorise for a pub quiz.
26:11Taverners.
26:12British Mollocks.
26:13Correct.
26:17Taverners.
26:18Football World Cup winners.
26:19Well done.
26:23Hopsters.
26:24Chemical elements.
26:25Yes, it is.
26:29Taverners.
26:30Best Picture Oscar winners.
26:31Correct.
26:32And keep all of that in mind when I tell you that the next group are all examples within the aforementioned topics.
26:39Off we go.
26:42Taverners.
26:43Queen Anne.
26:44Yes, she is.
26:48Hopsters.
26:49Argentina.
26:50It's Argentina.
26:54Taverners.
26:55Argon.
26:56Chemical elements.
26:59Hopsters.
27:00Argo.
27:01A Best Picture Oscar winner.
27:02Next group, bar snacks.
27:07Taverners.
27:08Pork scratching.
27:09Don't mind if I do.
27:13Hopsters.
27:14Dry roasted peanuts.
27:15With that faint tang of urine.
27:20Taverners.
27:21Pickled onions.
27:22Correct.
27:25Hopsters.
27:26Scotch eggs.
27:27Yes, indeed.
27:28Next category.
27:29TV pubs and bars and the shows they're in.
27:34Taverners.
27:35The Woolpack and Emmerdale.
27:36Correct.
27:39Oh, the landlord has rung the bell.
27:42No time to tell me.
27:44Moe's Tavern and The Simpsons.
27:46Why the landlord's ringing your bell.
27:47I thought we were having a lock-in.
27:49But TV scheduling is a cruel mistress.
27:51They've had a word with the landlord.
27:52And by landlord, I mean our head of production's husband, Phil.
27:56Thanks for that, Phil.
27:58It's the end of the quiz.
27:59And looking at the final scores.
28:01Finishing with 28 points, it's the Hopsters.
28:05The Taverners have 29.
28:06You just squeaked it.
28:09Very well done.
28:10What a lovely evening it's been.
28:11Really nice to see you all again.
28:13Cheers.
28:15And thanks very much for watching the Only Connect pub special.
28:18Please do be quiet when leaving as we're in a residential area.
28:22Good night.
28:23Good night.
28:24Good night.
28:26Good night.
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