Originally Posted by davestoke:
“ I'm surprised that last weeks "wedding" question provoked so much debate”
“ I'm surprised that last weeks "wedding" question provoked so much debate”
Oh don't start that one again!!!
Only Connect (BBC4) [Part 2]
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Originally Posted by degsyhufc:
“Going back to the snooker 155. That relies on the opposing player fouling and leaving the free ball on the black.
That's why the 147 is counted as the maximum break in snooker.
Theoretically, although practically impossible, you can achieve a 147 without the other player leaving their seat.”
“Going back to the snooker 155. That relies on the opposing player fouling and leaving the free ball on the black.
That's why the 147 is counted as the maximum break in snooker.
Theoretically, although practically impossible, you can achieve a 147 without the other player leaving their seat.”
Disagree entirely. 155 is the maximum break possible in snooker, likely or not. No ambiguity there whatsover. Any snooker buff (in fact, sports buff) would have seen 155 and made the connection instantly.
Originally Posted by charliesays:
“Disagree entirely. 155 is the maximum break possible in snooker, likely or not. No ambiguity there whatsover. Any snooker buff (in fact, sports buff) would have seen 155 and made the connection instantly.”
“Disagree entirely. 155 is the maximum break possible in snooker, likely or not. No ambiguity there whatsover. Any snooker buff (in fact, sports buff) would have seen 155 and made the connection instantly.”
Agreed. And 155 fits in with the devilish ethos of Only Connect. 147 belongs on Junior Only Connect.
Originally Posted by degsyhufc:
“When did she say they'd been on before?
I thought it must have been a second round match as i'd seen them recently but it must have been a repeat on Dave.
But then again I think I would have remembered a girl with blue hair called La Carbonara.
Still, VCM was back in all her glory last night.”
“When did she say they'd been on before?
I thought it must have been a second round match as i'd seen them recently but it must have been a repeat on Dave.
But then again I think I would have remembered a girl with blue hair called La Carbonara.
Still, VCM was back in all her glory last night.”
At the start of the wall round. Very disappointed to see that they are recycling teams from previous series now that it is on BBC2. I find Pertinez and Pearson both quite smug and annoying and was hoping that when they lost at least that would be the last we'd see of them. Sadly I was wrong, forgetting that there is a rather complex system that gives them additional chances to get through despite losing.
Originally Posted by degsyhufc:
“When did she say they'd been on before?
I thought it must have been a second round match as i'd seen them recently but it must have been a repeat on Dave.
But then again I think I would have remembered a girl with blue hair called La Carbonara.
Still, VCM was back in all her glory last night.”
“When did she say they'd been on before?
I thought it must have been a second round match as i'd seen them recently but it must have been a repeat on Dave.
But then again I think I would have remembered a girl with blue hair called La Carbonara.
Still, VCM was back in all her glory last night.”
I think I saw the same Dave repeat haha!
If you put you TV screen ratio to 4:3 Vicky looks way less podgy and a bit taller.
A son leans in towards his mother to talk and suddenly all sorts of oedipal malarkey is
remarked upon by our resident amateur psychoanalysts.
I do love all you DS members , even the Cat Ladies [ not in that way, purely platonic you understand ]
A son leans in towards his mother to talk and suddenly all sorts of oedipal malarkey is
remarked upon by our resident amateur psychoanalysts.
I do love all you DS members , even the Cat Ladies [ not in that way, purely platonic you understand ]
Originally Posted by Monty Fuque:
“If you put you TV screen ratio to 4:3 Vicky looks way less podgy and a bit taller.
A son leans in towards his mother to talk and suddenly all sorts of oedipal malarkey is
remarked upon by our resident amateur psychoanalysts.
I do love all you DS members , even the Cat Ladies [ not in that way, purely platonic you understand ]”
“If you put you TV screen ratio to 4:3 Vicky looks way less podgy and a bit taller.
A son leans in towards his mother to talk and suddenly all sorts of oedipal malarkey is
remarked upon by our resident amateur psychoanalysts.
I do love all you DS members , even the Cat Ladies [ not in that way, purely platonic you understand ]”
Yes, but where were his hands?
Surely this is why his girlfriend is wearing blue hair, she is saying "Look at me, not her" but also subconsciously she knows her blue hairs will be easy to spot by SOCOs once she has "gone missing"
So am I right in thinking this episode was filmed before some of the previous ones? Because we saw "Oliver Award Winners for Best New Musical" briefly appear in missing vowels without any clues appearing, a category we've already seen this series.
Makes me hopeful the "Characters in Cheers" group will be showing up again.
Makes me hopeful the "Characters in Cheers" group will be showing up again.
Originally Posted by charliesays:
“Disagree entirely. 155 is the maximum break possible in snooker, likely or not. No ambiguity there whatsover. Any snooker buff (in fact, sports buff) would have seen 155 and made the connection instantly.”
“Disagree entirely. 155 is the maximum break possible in snooker, likely or not. No ambiguity there whatsover. Any snooker buff (in fact, sports buff) would have seen 155 and made the connection instantly.”
I accept the reason why you would expect it on OC but just querying it because some clues have been ambiguous.
If you were on a quiz show and asked what the maximum break was in snooker 99.9 times out of 100 147 would be the accepted asnwer.
I've commented on it on quiz show threads before as being a snooker fan I know about the 155 break.
I also got the connection. Could have had a lucky guess on the first clue but would have been almost certain when 300 came up.
Yep, it's been asked on 15-2-1 and The Chase.
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...9&postcount=80
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...&postcount=150
Anyway, I almost forgot the unfairly rewarded wrong answer from this week's show. The Linguist/Hitchcock characters' answer "a triangle with the point pointing down" was accepted even though they couldn't come up with a single example when pressed.
As has been pointed out loads of times, the point of that round is not to show you know the connection but to say what you would see in the 4th box.
Since any fool could see that the other things were triangles and this is supposed to be a difficult quiz, they should have had to do some work to get the point.
Isn't it unfair on the other team if they could have said "give way sign" for a bonus point, especially as they were so diligent in doing so on their questions? This would have made all the difference at the end.
And she was a bit lenient on the Spinal Tap sequence if those are supposed to be quotes from the film.
As has been pointed out loads of times, the point of that round is not to show you know the connection but to say what you would see in the 4th box.
Since any fool could see that the other things were triangles and this is supposed to be a difficult quiz, they should have had to do some work to get the point.
Isn't it unfair on the other team if they could have said "give way sign" for a bonus point, especially as they were so diligent in doing so on their questions? This would have made all the difference at the end.
And she was a bit lenient on the Spinal Tap sequence if those are supposed to be quotes from the film.
Originally Posted by atg:
“And she was a bit lenient on the Spinal Tap sequence if those are supposed to be quotes from the film.”
“And she was a bit lenient on the Spinal Tap sequence if those are supposed to be quotes from the film.”
I believe they were instances rather than quotes.
Originally Posted by atg:
“Anyway, I almost forgot the unfairly rewarded wrong answer from this week's show. The Linguist/Hitchcock characters' answer "a triangle with the point pointing down" was accepted even though they couldn't come up with a single example when pressed.
As has been pointed out loads of times, the point of that round is not to show you know the connection but to say what you would see in the 4th box.”
“Anyway, I almost forgot the unfairly rewarded wrong answer from this week's show. The Linguist/Hitchcock characters' answer "a triangle with the point pointing down" was accepted even though they couldn't come up with a single example when pressed.
As has been pointed out loads of times, the point of that round is not to show you know the connection but to say what you would see in the 4th box.”
Not really - the point is not to show that you know the connection, but to show that you know the sequence. That's a very different thing, and they demonstrated that they did indeed have the sequence sorted. If they'd just said, "a triangle", I'm sure it would rightly have been rejected, but "a triangle with the point pointing down" is a perfectly valid fourth answer, if not the most creative ever.
Originally Posted by SimonK01:
“Not really - the point is not to show that you know the connection, but to show that you know the sequence. That's a very different thing, and they demonstrated that they did indeed have the sequence sorted. If they'd just said, "a triangle", I'm sure it would rightly have been rejected, but "a triangle with the point pointing down" is a perfectly valid fourth answer, if not the most creative ever.”
“Not really - the point is not to show that you know the connection, but to show that you know the sequence. That's a very different thing, and they demonstrated that they did indeed have the sequence sorted. If they'd just said, "a triangle", I'm sure it would rightly have been rejected, but "a triangle with the point pointing down" is a perfectly valid fourth answer, if not the most creative ever.”
No sorry, that is not true at all. I might have said connection, that obviously means sequence in this round.
It has been pointed out over and over again on the programme that it is not enough to show you know what the sequence is, but you have to say what you would expect to see in the 4th box. And in this case it isn't "a triangle with the point down", but the thing which is represented by that symbol, as in the other boxes. Like I said, listen to how the other team answered their questions, they came up with proper examples in each case and should have been given the chance to do so for this one, which could have led to a tie at the end.
Unfortunately the makers of the programme seem to have a similar lack of understanding of their own rules.
Originally Posted by atg:
“No sorry, that is not true at all. I might have said connection, that obviously means sequence in this round.
It has been pointed out over and over again on the programme that it is not enough to show you know what the sequence is, but you have to say what you would expect to see in the 4th box. And in this case it isn't "a triangle with the point down", but the thing which is represented by that symbol, as in the other boxes. Like I said, listen to how the other team answered their questions, they came up with proper examples in each case and should have been given the chance to do so for this one, which could have led to a tie at the end.
Unfortunately the makers of the programme seem to have a similar lack of understanding of their own rules.”
“No sorry, that is not true at all. I might have said connection, that obviously means sequence in this round.
It has been pointed out over and over again on the programme that it is not enough to show you know what the sequence is, but you have to say what you would expect to see in the 4th box. And in this case it isn't "a triangle with the point down", but the thing which is represented by that symbol, as in the other boxes. Like I said, listen to how the other team answered their questions, they came up with proper examples in each case and should have been given the chance to do so for this one, which could have led to a tie at the end.
Unfortunately the makers of the programme seem to have a similar lack of understanding of their own rules.”
May be "Nazi Concentration Camp Symbols" would have been inappropriate though. I would have said a Martellato mark (from music)
Originally Posted by atg:
“No sorry, that is not true at all. I might have said connection, that obviously means sequence in this round.
It has been pointed out over and over again on the programme that it is not enough to show you know what the sequence is, but you have to say what you would expect to see in the 4th box. And in this case it isn't "a triangle with the point down", but the thing which is represented by that symbol, as in the other boxes. Like I said, listen to how the other team answered their questions, they came up with proper examples in each case and should have been given the chance to do so for this one, which could have led to a tie at the end.
Unfortunately the makers of the programme seem to have a similar lack of understanding of their own rules.”
“No sorry, that is not true at all. I might have said connection, that obviously means sequence in this round.
It has been pointed out over and over again on the programme that it is not enough to show you know what the sequence is, but you have to say what you would expect to see in the 4th box. And in this case it isn't "a triangle with the point down", but the thing which is represented by that symbol, as in the other boxes. Like I said, listen to how the other team answered their questions, they came up with proper examples in each case and should have been given the chance to do so for this one, which could have led to a tie at the end.
Unfortunately the makers of the programme seem to have a similar lack of understanding of their own rules.”
I was half expecting the old Barry Humphries gag about the 'map of Tasmania'!
Interesting that teams that have already appeared on earlier series of OC are being allowed to come back, as it seems this also applies to previous solo contestants
Simon Spiro, on the Orienteers (?) last night has also been on as the captain of the "Cambridge Quiz Society" (not a problem, just saying!)
Simon Spiro, on the Orienteers (?) last night has also been on as the captain of the "Cambridge Quiz Society"
(not a problem, just saying!)
Originally Posted by cedricthedog:
“Interesting that teams that have already appeared on earlier series of OC are being allowed to come back, as it seems this also applies to previous solo contestants
Simon Spiro, on the Orienteers (?) last night has also been on as the captain of the "Cambridge Quiz Society" (not a problem, just saying!)”
“Interesting that teams that have already appeared on earlier series of OC are being allowed to come back, as it seems this also applies to previous solo contestants
Simon Spiro, on the Orienteers (?) last night has also been on as the captain of the "Cambridge Quiz Society"
(not a problem, just saying!)”
They offered all series one teams the chance to go on this first series on BBC2. I guess as a thanks for helping to get OC off the ground
I'm ashamed to say that I got the 5 points on the Eurovision question 
The walls seemed a bit easier this week though, I got the Harry Potter connections straight away (although can't remember for the life of me where Carrow fits into the staff), and a couple of the others were obvious to me as well.
The walls seemed a bit easier this week though, I got the Harry Potter connections straight away (although can't remember for the life of me where Carrow fits into the staff), and a couple of the others were obvious to me as well.
Originally Posted by degsyhufc:
“I thought the team from last week were on Sereis 2?”
“I thought the team from last week were on Sereis 2?”
Was that the "Chessmen"? If so, yes they were indeed in Series 2 as well as the current one!
The word 'touchstone' popped into my head when I saw the test for metals clue but I don't think I'd have gone for the 5-pointer. And I got the Orwell one after two clues, and the same for the stripes one.
In the missing vowels round they had non-Olympic sports and showed the letters PL. The answer given was Polo which was correct but surely Pool would also have been a valid answer?
Btw, nice dress on VCM last night.
Shame it was covered up at the top.
She could pull off this famous one
https://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=e...w&ved=0CCcQsAQ
Shame it was covered up at the top.
She could pull off this famous one
https://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=e...w&ved=0CCcQsAQ
Originally Posted by degsyhufc:
“Btw, nice dress on VCM last night.
Shame it was covered up at the top.
She could pull off this famous one
https://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=e...w&ved=0CCcQsAQ”
“Btw, nice dress on VCM last night.
Shame it was covered up at the top.
She could pull off this famous one
https://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=e...w&ved=0CCcQsAQ”
She wouldn't be the only one pulling something off.
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