Only Connect: The Official Quiz Book: Jack Waley-Cohen

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So limber up your frontal lobes, and get ready to pit your wits against the toughest quiz on TV. Read more Details So limber up your frontal lobes, and get ready to pit your wits against the toughest quiz on TV. Read more Look Inside Details It’s incredibly tough,” he adds. “ Only Connect launched on BBC4 and had a few years to find its feet. People forget, but shows such as Pointless and The Chase, whose brilliance we all now take for granted, weren’t brilliant in the beginning. Only Connect is the ultimate test of knowledge and lateral thinking. Since 2008 the fiendishly difficult quiz show has been challenging contestants to find connections between apparently unrelated clues. And for the show’s new found fans, being able to lose themselves in a gentle and unashamed celebration of geekery, discovering Only Connect might just be one of the few upsides in a year when we were all forced to stay at home.

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You have a huge fanbase from hosting Only Connect . What’s the strangest thing a fan has ever done?That, having previously imagined myself to be a fairly anxious person, I didn’t have the first idea.

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About (or anything that can mean ‘Re’). [The clues indicate: There, Here, Ere…taking off the first letter of each time] I came across a great work of literature recently which I hadn’t realised was split into multiple volumes, so if I can find another three of those that might work,” he says. It’s hard for me to go to a normal pub quiz now because people expect me to know everything and I can’t risk them finding out the truth. I won’t go on Celebrity Mastermind for much the same reason. Every year, I do the brilliant Christmas pub quiz run by my friends [comedy writers] Shaun Pye and Alan Connor, as part of a team that goes by the hideous name of The Funnymen. It was a stupid joke name we took 20 years ago but I get terrified now that newcomers will think we’ve chosen it with some level of genuine self-description, especially now my husband’s joined the team. It sounds awful. And yet we can’t possibly change it because, I don’t mind telling you, that name is engraved on the cup. SEVERAL TIMES OVER. And there’s another I’m thinking about around words that all look the same but are pronounced differently. That’s the great thing about the show, no topic is off limits.” I love the concept and it's captivating to watch, but I guess running on quite random bits of (often British) culture and drawing those connections is simply out of my league.. Tom Scott was great at it though. Respect to all who managed to score any points on such an evil genius game show (especially the Wall).

The Only Connect Quiz Book collects over 200 of the most entertaining and perplexing challenges from the team behind the BBC’s hugely popular quiz show - including many new (never broadcast) questions. Covering each of the show’s four rounds – Connections, Sequences, the Connecting Wall and Missing Vowels – and with introductions from presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell, here is your chance to put your own sleuthing and quizzical knowledge to the Only Connect test. Dennis Taylor (World Snooker champion) -- Bon Scott (Lead singer of AC/DC) -- Ken Livingston (Mayor of London) -- Lincoln and Kennedy (US presidents) USA [These are the lengths of presidential terms of office in these countries, in decreasing lengths of terms. Accept any country that has a 4 -year presidential term – there are several] You often joke about how you and David aren’t very tech-savvy. What was the last gadget you bought? Having never missed an episode of Only Connect I was thrilled when the book came out, it's just as good as the programme and just as perplexing, would make a great after dinner game at Christmas, good value for money.