Only Connect Themed Weekend Quiz

Quiz devotees like your good selves will no doubt be overjoyed to hear that Only Connect is back on TV very soon. Having said that, if you enjoy Only Connect, it might be possible that you are a bit of a masochist. Mastermind usually bills itself as the hardest quiz on the box, but on Mastermind half of your trouble is a round where you have an opportunity to revise your specialist subject. There's none of that nonsense on Only Connect, and you can easily expose the creaking machinery in your brain with hopeless guesses and bold forays into your knowledge void. That said, my questions will not be quite as tough as in the upcoming series. It might be better to think of them as a warm up. Notionally you have 30 seconds for each question, but to be honest, it's more fun to get it correct. Shall we begin?

Round 1

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the show, in Round 1 you have to guess what it is that connects the four clues. You get all the clues in one go on this blog, so each question is only worth one point, for the competitors amongst you.

Question 1

1) Albert Einstein
2) Thor
3) Uranus
4) Ytterby

Question 2

1) This Week (2014)
2) Will and Grace (2005 & 2006)
3) The West Wing (2005)
4) Eastenders (2010)

Question 3

1) Ros Jones - Doncaster
2) Lutfur Rahman - Tower Hamlets
3) George Ferguson - Bristol
4) Joe Anderson - Liverpool

Question 4

1) Eve of Destruction - Barry Maguire
2) Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds - The Beatles
3) Je t'aime... moi non plus - Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin
4) God Save the Queen - The Sex Pistols


Round 2

In this round it's your job to get the fourth answer in the sequence. Sounds easy enough, doesn't it? 2 points for each one you get.

Question 1

1) George VI
2) Douglas Fairbanks and John Gilbert
3) Abraham Lincoln
4) ?

Question 2

1) Geoffrey Howe
2) Michael Heseltine
3) John Prescott
4) ?

Question 3

1) 4 - So long, and thanks for all the fish
2) 3 - Life, the universe and everything
3) 2 - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
4) 1 - ?

Question 4

1) Eve White
2) Janus
3) A Mobius Strip
4) ?

Rounds 3 & 4

I haven't got the time (or patience) to make a Connecting Wall at the moment, so let's go straight to the Missing Vowels Round. You can only give yourself 1 point for each one you get in roughly 20 seconds. The spaces are also in the wrong places. Here we go...

Italian Artists

1) CRV GG
2) BT TCLL
3) GTT
4) LNR DD VNC

Mark Twain Novels

5) THP RNC NDT HPPR
6) TMS WYR BRD
7) CNN CTC TYN KNK NGR THR'S CRT
8) DVN TRSF HCKL BR RYF NN

Cliches

1) THRLY BRD GTST HWRM
2) STTC HNT MSV SNN
3) CRS TY KIL LD TH CT
4) TMR RW SNT HRDY

European Monarchs and Their Epithets

1) CHR LST HFT
2) HRL DBL T TH
3) LSTH NVR SLS PDR
4) THL RD THN RDY

Answers

Round 1

1) They all have chemical elements named after them.

2) These shows all broadcast live episodes (in the years shown).

3) They are all British elected mayors.

4) These songs were all banned by the BBC for various reasons.


Round 2

1) I will accept either Ron Woodroof or Solomon Northup. They are the real people whose lives are the basis for Best Actor Oscar or BAFTA winning performances from 2010 - 2013.

2) Nick Clegg. They are the politicians who have held the role of Deputy Prime Minister of the UK since 1989.

3) The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy. They are the books going backwards in the sequence.

4) A sphere is my answer but any answer is acceptable as long as it has no faces (counting down from The Three Faces of Eve). If you have a quibble with sphere, the clarification I received when revising this question is that a sphere's surface does not count as a face, since it has no edges.

Round 4

1) Caravaggio
2) Botticelli
3) Giotto
4) Leonardo da Vinci

5) The Prince and the Pauper
6) Tom Sawyer Abroad
7) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
8) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

9) The early bird gets the worm
10) A stitch in time saves nine
11) Curiosity killed the cat
12) Tomorrow is another day

13) Charles the Fat
14) Harald Bluetooth
15) Louis the Universal Spider
16) Ethelred the Unready


You enjoyed those didn't you? Well, I hope you did anyway. Let me know how you did, as always and I hope this was adequate preparation for the show. Until next time.