@quizquizquiz
Professional quiz people, overall responsible for the questions on Only Connect + some on shows incl. The 1% Club and Riddiculous. We host awesome quiz nights, write quiz books and set our famous Friday Quiz: qqq.vc/friday. More at quizquizquiz.com
5Ks: P5 W4. Average score: 23. Out perform Pitchers on average on R2.
Pitchers are the favourites on paper, but slight underperformance by them and a good match for the 5Ks and we will have a very tight final. Good luck everyone (for the recording that was sometime last year!)
#onlyconnect
It's the Only Connect series 21 final tonight, Monday 26th Jan. 8pm BBC2
Pitchers vs 5Ks.
Series stats so far:
Pitchers: P4 W4. Average score: 28. Among the heaviest most consistently high scoring teams across all rounds for many years
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4. Tied players are safe, and everybody votes for someone else
5. Everyone blindfolded. Traitors unblinfold themselves to secretly select someone to have a double vote, then revote
6. Both players banished, and there is no murder.
Options available would vary on the game situation.
#traitorsuk
...options for resolving the tie instead of pure chance:
1. Total number of banishment votes in previous roundtables
2. Discuss and vote again, but each tied vote loses £10k from the prize pot
3. Discuss and vote again, but another tie results in no banishment but an extra murder
#traitorsuk
Instead of a shield in the "Chests of Chance" they should contain resolution methods. Three chests. Those in the tie choose one, and host keeps the remaining one. All get read out, but the one left with the host is used to resolve the tie. Producers decide which options are in the mix... #traitorsuk
Also, now we know that your first name is “The” and surname is “Secret Barrister”, at least according to the alphabetisation method chosen by the production.
In what might be the most exciting thing to have ever happened in my entire anonymous existence, Only Connect has a Law-themed Christmas special at 8pm tonight…
… AND I GOT TO CONTRIBUTE A QUESTION!
Assuming it wasn’t cut for obscenity.
(Non-tangible) prizes for correctly guessing which is mine.
It used to be a Christmas tradition for our whole family to go down the pub, come home after a few hours and deck the halls. To be honest I’m surprised the Halls carried on living next door for as long as they did.
Some reading for the post-Quizzy Mondays crowd.
Alex McMillan, writer on a show you've just loved, explains the difference between Korean and Dutch shows, the long shadow of Nasty Nick, and why "The Traitors" is A Bit Different.
bsky.app/profile/und...
#OnlyConnect #TheTraitors #GameShows
Sport FACT: Tennis star Coco Gauff’s full name is Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio Coco Gauff.
THE FAILED CARTOGRAPHER (Palindrome)
Demand a hill, at solid nadir….
Damn it!
One morn,
I saw I was in Rome,
not in Madrid,
and I lost all I had named....
BREAKING: BBC announces CELEBRITY PUPPET TRAITORS for 2026. Claudia Winkleman will host but never acknowledge that everyone else is a puppet. #celebritytraitors
THE YETI SPEAKS (whose two halves use the same letters, in the same order):
I'm biased but I genuinely think this is the best quiz book ever. www.amazon.co.uk/Big-Pub-Quiz...
Closely followed by our new one: www.amazon.co.uk/Daily-Quiz-B...
Or, if you prefer a slight Irish vs British angle to your quiz questions then: www.amazon.co.uk/Daily-Quiz-B...
"Helluva lotta work building a motte and bailey castle"
"Keep on top of it?"
"That's the standard design, yes"
Tech issues at QQQ HQ today so we’re putting The Friday Quiz on a google form to replicate the normal experience as best we can: forms.gle/pHqzm6AjY7Jb...
Ooh. A new quiz book. From the people behind questions on Only Connect, The 1% Club, and The Big Pub Quiz Book. Available to pre-order now: www.amazon.co.uk/Daily-Quiz-B...
Only Connect is back! Tonight, 8pm, BBC2. Nice easy episode to get the series underway as usual.
Photo of, on the left, a single weetabix, labelled ‘a weetabix’ and on the right three weetabixes, labelled ‘some weetabices’.
Photo of, on the left, nine weetabixes labelled ‘weetabix’ and on the right six weetabixes labelled ‘weetabvi’.
Weet
I've put together a sometimes opinionated list of tips for setting cryptic crosswords. Hopefully it's useful. I certainly found it useful to try to put some of my setting instincts into words. charliemethven.com/tips
A RECIPE FOR EVIL (Palindrome)
Evil:
Oats.
Apple.
Kiwi.
Kelp.
Pasta.
Olive.
WAR ENDS WAR: A pair of palindromic sonnets that are perfect anagrams of each other.
Beware: Venom mustn’t summon ever a web.
#palindrome
Who, in their right mind, would write palindromes?
Oh, we're who.
I've only just spotted the Four Opinions' #OnlyConnect themed kippahs!
Brilliant!
I got = 2
This is the greatest moment of my life #OnlyConnect
Only Connect series 20 final, and the 500th ever episode. Tonight, 8pm on BBC2.
Four Opinions vs Tea Totallers
Four Opinions: P4 W4. Average score: 23.75. Highest score 29
Tea Totallers: P5 W4. Average scores 25.8. Highest score 31
Monday’s Only Connect is the Grand Final, the last in the series and THE 500th EPISODE! To mark the occasion, my TV column this week is a quiz…
(sorry about the paywall)
www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/500-epi...
It’s the third place play off. General merriment and bamboozlement for all.
I did a thing.