Only Connect - Series 9 - Episode 8

The BBC quiz show "Only Connect", hosted by Victoria Coren Mitchell. In this eighth game of the series, the Welsh Learners and the Record Collectors attempt to go 2-0 for the series, and not 1-1.
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[@oldmoviemusic]

I don't think any other team has ever gotten ALL FOUR of the wall sections so close to the end of their time. I totally thought they were going to get none of the sections, and then they suddenly just pulled it out of nowhere! Amazing. Likeable team too.

[@Knappa22]

Two really likeable teams. Glad it was close as they both deserved it.

[@mesovogue]

Absolutely, I adore both teams.

[@standingorderme]

It takes some guts to go on a quiz like this when visually impaired.

[@johnking5174]

In many series of the show, there have been contestants who have poor eyesight and have to use an ipad type screen in front of them on the desk for the first two rounds. I noticed it from Series 2.

[@pygiana16]

With respect, she’s blind, not visually impaired. There’s an important difference.

[@ProuvaireJean]

She's appeared on a number of quiz shows, including University Challenge, Mastermind, Impossible, and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

[@suzysheep149]

@@pygiana16 no theres not

[@seantimmons5900]

​@suzysheep149 They could be different or the same. So there we go.
Blind can mean complete blindness. It can also mean legal blindness, which would be synonymous with visually impaired.
To reduce confusion, it would likely.be best to specify legally blind when not referring to complete blindness. Good luck forcing everyone to agree.

[@paulcooper8818]

Thanks for uploading this back in June of 2014 wheelsongenius

[@JungianHeights]

I am so happy that I got the autological question on two!

[@Kronologik]

You'd think in the capital city question that they would give the tougher countries to identify first. Panama and Mexico before Kuwait and Guatemala made it so much easier to guess

[@KanjoosLahookvinhaakvinhookvin]

This is one of those that makes you feel good about yourself - got the one about coming back to life and the autology.

[@paulkennedy8701]

I got the autological words at the 2nd (but I couldn't see how the 3rd fitted). Got the isopleths at the 1st.

[@steviebudden3397]

@@paulkennedy8701 Because it was the third word in the shown series.

[@paulkennedy8701]

@@steviebudden3397
I don't remember writing that.
I guess the reason I might not have made that connection is that it is true only in that context, whereas the others have the stated property intrinisically. 'Wee' IS a wee word, 'unhyphenated' IS an unhyphenated word, 'pentasyllabic' IS a pentasyllabic word, whereas 'penultimate is not by its nature penultimate; it is not a penultimate word. However, the 3rd clue (which happens to be the word "penultimate") IS the penultimate clue.

[@steviebudden3397]

@@paulkennedy8701 Fair play, it took me a little while longer to work out why that was autological for just that reason.

[@hgjfkd12345]

I got that music question from Mahler's synphony. One of my favs!

[@CompletelyDifferentToBefore]

4:34 this happens quite often, that the answer they give is too specific - if a team give a broader answer then Victoria gives them the option to be more specific and detailed, but when they start too specific they rarely (I can't think of an example) get given the chance to broaden it out.

[@MrXyzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz]

But Victoria did give them the chance to be less specific.

[@cyprel]

Also, when Victoria gives them a chance to be more specific, she always mentions that she would have accepted the original answer, since it does actually cover all 4 clues in a satisfying way. But she just wants to hear a more precise one as well. It wouldn't have mattered for the points.
Whereas when you're too specific, the problem is simply that the answer doesn't cover all 4 clues. 'A novel within a novel' doesn't work for a 'novel within a film'.

[@oagersnap]

@@cyprel Not true. It's correct that sometimes she accepts the answer and then gives them a free guess at being more specific, but there are also cases where she tells them to be more specific, and if they can't manage to, she won't give them the point.

[@frpetermark]

Well done to the Brits (or Poms as we say Down Under) for guessing the Australian Prime Ministers. Oddly enough, the last two named, Abbott and Gillard, our most recent PMs, are both Pommie migrants; Abbott was born in London, and Julia Gillard is from Wales (boyo). Just off the boat as my granny would say. Thank you WonG for the upload.

[@Michaelthekiwi]

However, they initially went with Hawk, when it was Hawke - trickery from the quiz setters

[@johnmanning5568]

How on Earth could Rachel possibly guess the answers to the missing vowels round? Apparently someone was telling her all the consonants in the lineup. That would take forever!

[@blairosh_]

Adam Barr looks like a young Mark E Smith.

[@Hedghog6666]

OOOOHHHH... She gets an EARPIECE... that had bothered me

[@readwriteteach]

I'm here for the horse-related questions. i.e. the names of the queen's horses and horse-drawn vehicles for the win.

[@davidconnell1959]

Rachael is rules. Yaas.

[@applejuicefool69]

On the first question, why didn't they need to identify that they were *German*?

[@sidarthur8706]

13 points, my personal best

[@icarus-wings]

Rachael collects snowglobes?

[@sidarthur8706]

these are obviously picture clues since we haven't SEEN any of those