The BBC quiz show "Only Connect," hosted by Victoria Coren Mitchell. In this second episode of the series, the Globetrotters and the Board Gamers play for their first win. All rights and thanks belong to BBC.
Thanks for the upload. As a fan of Wile E. Coyote (genius) for nearly fifty years I'm glad I recognized the zany ACME products he used to buy to catch that elusive roadrunner. Beep beep.
Cheers. My favourite invention of Coyote's was a fridge strapped to his back with a mincer making snow from the ice cubes to form a snowy path to ski upon, of course he falls off a ludicrously high cliff. The clincher is in its death throes amid the wreckage the fridge coughs out one last flurry of snow, capping the pathetic head of Coyote, who resignedly holds up a sign wishing all a 'Merry Xmas' before keeling over. 'Only Connect' is a very clever quiz with fiendish questions & combinations.
Absolutely. When you see "Jet-propelled unicycle", you have to ask yourself if there really could be any other category it might be. You get 5 points (and good for you for adding 'genius' after his name, but remember, mud spelled backwards is dum)
I don't think it was. They just played it very badly. Right at the start they saw a group of bands and tried 4 candidates. They then immediately saw a 5th (Buzzcocks, which couldn't be anything else). Yet they didn't systematically try excluding 1 each time. Instead, someone (their captain) got obsessed with Sikorsky (even though he thought it might be a murderer or a jar or a scientist) and started throwing it in to every attempt. They also knew there was a group of jars and knew it had to include Jam. Yet they didn't try their bands with it excluded. Eventually someone asked whether they'd tried Buzzcocks with the bands and started trying it out. But THEN the captain ruined that by saying Jam and Clash meant the same thing (which they don't) and tried other random guesses to find match (usually with Marr, as though it were Mar). The captain also wasted time on the bizarre idea that there was a group of Anns, Annies and Andrews(!). It was quite gettable, and it was gettable by that team, if only they hadn't done it so badly (or they had gagged their captain). They had the groups. They saw the bands straightaway and the jars soon after. They saw the tv presenters near the end. They'd even mentioned helicopters. (I thought Sikorsky, Bell and Robinson were well-known, but it was the other one they recognised apparently, which was too particular to be in any other group.)
Lady Bird Johnson had the nickname from infancy and was either named after a ladybird beetle (ladybug) or a lady (female) bird (I always thought it was the beetle). The name isn't related at all to a noble title so I don't think she should be an example for the question.
She also did eventually become "Lady". Maybe not by U.K standards but First Lady is as close as you can get to royalty in the U.S and is considered a title.
@@mousedresden604Yes, it’s like some people are named Earl by their parents. That isn’t using a title you haven’t earned. Although I think the answer could be reworded; “title you haven’t earned” seems a bit of a stretch for something many people are simply born to in the first place. :)
I saw her wink at me at the 8:47 mark.. I think we had a special connection at that moment, though she did get shy about it and immediately avert her gaze away.
Swansea was founded by Normans, within the Kingdom of England (specifically, the Welsh Marches). About 200 years later, Edward I conquered the rest of Wales. He called his conquests the "Principality of Wales", as he took them from Llewelyn ap Gruffudd of Gwynedd, who had gained authority over the other remaining Welsh polities and styled himself "Prince of Wales". This new territory did not include the Welsh Marches, which were only added to the dominion in the 16th century (under Henry VIII). The whole of Wales was officially within the Kingdom of England from its conquest until said Kingdom ceased to exist, after the Acts of Union (being replaced by the Kingdom of Great Britain). Wales wasn't officially recognised as its own country within the UK until 2011 (though it had, of course, been popularly recognised for much longer). As for the others: - Monaco was part of the HRE until 1215, when it was ceded to Genoa. After this, it flitted back and forth between Genoese and French rule until Charles VIII of France granted the seigneur d Monaco (Lamberto Grimaldi, who achieved the position by marrying a distant cousin, whose great-grandfather had recaptured his ancestral home of Monaco while admiral of France and been allowed to keep it) independence in 1489. It was then reconquered by France for a brief stint between 1793 and 1814. - Berwick was taken by Scotland in 1018, returned in 1174, reclaimed in 1189, sacked, but not counter-reclaimed in 1296, being counter-reclaimed instead in 1333, only to be lost again in 1355, but reclaimed in 1366, but given away again in 1461 and finally taken back in 1482. Apparently there were a bunch of other brief back and forths too. I can confirm that it has been a part of Scotland. - Büsingen has never been under Swiss authority, dearly as it might like to be. Kind of ignorant to quibble over Swansea, which assuredly has been part of the Kingdom of England, rather than over Büsingen. I guess the host wasn't paid enough to lightly research the dozen questions that she was overseeing that week. Probably volunteer work. Too bad for the public - if the BBC had offered her a salary, she may have had the means to avoid frequently spewing misinformation on public television, rather than having to spend the intervening hours down in the mines or what have you.
