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you hello and welcome to only connect a quiz so hard that it goes out in sub-zero temperatures wearing a sleeveless t-shirt and no coat what an idiot but there are no idiots within the idiot by which I mean the metaphorical idiot that's the quiz that goes out without a coat on and if you're confused now just wait till the questions start no idiots because this is a semi-final so the teams here have already proved that they're practically geniuses let's see if we can get through some simple hellos on my right The Hitchhiker's a trio of Douglas Adams enthusiasts who beat the Philosopher's then the breeze knows postgraduates to earn their place in this semi-final Fiona Constantine a mezzo soprano who sings with the yorkshire Bart choir Chris White a politics and economics student and a big railway fanatic he's planning a master's in railways studies and transport history and their captain Tom Scott a web and video designer and aspiring television producer Tom you've done two rounds of the quiz now you discovered any weak points we've we've been really inconsistent on the connecting wall so we're hoping we can we hope we're hoping we can defeat it this time I've got to tell you in the semi-final the connecting wall yes it's pretty horrible we'll do our best your opponents are the strategists Chris Cummins a linguistic student and keen Scrabble player Sarah Higgins a political science graduate and former rugby player in training for her first triathlon and their captain Michel de Nez a civil servant who enjoys urban walking and baking in his spare time Michel you beat the polymaths and the neuro scientists to get here what's your strategy for the semi Oh what I think we should try and do as well as we can on every round possible and then hopefully um doesn't make mistakes that sounds like an excellent strategy did what last year times well good luck with it let's press on with round one this is the easy one while the questions aren't easy but the principle is I simply want to know what connects for clues the teams will see the clues one by one and the fewer clues they see before giving me the correct answer the more points they get hitchhikers you won the toss and you're going to go first please select a Greek letter from the board Epsilon please epsilon your first clue is coming up time starts now London's burning television series Oh psych song folk songs any any other connections can be sung as around okay next please someone has a round of them very sandwiches and they're all runs Bernie could be something around jonard jo sung it round you wanna take a hint do you wanna take a punt on 3x I think so yeah okay Ryan Wilson yeah can I tell you gas up round brilliant after just two clues you get three points ammunition and applause came next things that come in rounds I think we should have a round of applause that early success ugly now I know how it would feel to presenter Saturday night show on ITV strategists please pick a letter can we have beta please yes you can first one is coming up time starts now Chalmers computers about how does it be on any coins I mean yeah I thought so anything that's not good okay next please this isn't efficient she's so hopefully uh cheap Chris when you told the next door named guys yeah I hate street musician I don't know is it something with calculating making pie next please yeah boys chief back pocket they will make pie I'm afraid that is not the correct answer I am going to have to show the last clue to the Hitchhiker's Armel I can't leave you a long time to debate um they're all in that they all are in pies they all ended up in pies I'm afraid that's not right either no now some of the things involve pies it is simply they were all baked in ovens while alive yes Charles Babbage and if you know the mathematician puts himself into an oven to see what would happen thought I was a brilliant man Charles Babbage but that sounds all the idiotic to me apparently this was what he found from the experiment perspiration commenced immediately and was very copious he didn't make herself into a pie though mrs. Lovett the lover of Sweeney Todd also cooked in an oven the witch in Hansel and Gretel she's shoved into the oven and the Blackbirds of course but heís not the right answer so no point for their hitchhikers please pick a letter alpha please alpha first clue coming up now translation any ideas I mean perfect and spirit well with the faction spirit mr. mater of something as a one-man it sounds like mom I don't know what it next please Adama they're not ours of something they must be good well that could be able to football clubs or or colleges off but car army army iris could be um I got news crisis I know next please uh okay that's the number seven Roman numerals yeah it doesn't mean anything and this they're not then the next please Oakley um I still reset next Mary's for me no no you haven't got it I'm gonna throw it over to the strategist for a possible bonus until they're all tattoos on David Beckham they are David Beckham's tattoos verse one means in spiritual perfection like you said so that I love and cherish number seven is his Manchester United number he's also apparently got the name Victoria miss spelt in Santa heartwarming isn't it lovely so that's a bonus point to you strategists you may now pick your own letter I come here gala please yes you can oh that is going to be the music or sound question you don't look happy shout next when you're ready to hear the next clue time starts now when our son Glen next please and what about Thailand yeah next please it's a lunch mother wanna boys know Georgia always on my mind yeah this is it with countries on the by dan-o stressful lullabies retake it lullabies they were fertile otherwise they do not refer to lullabies so hitchhikers I'm gonna play your little snatch of the fourth clue so what's the song oh um right that's enough of that do you have an answer to the question I cannot remember the life that last song is so should we go for US states no now it's not actually about the songs you heard I'll fly away lullaby of Birdland Georgia on my mind and superstition it is about the performers though they were performed by the first piece Blind Boys of Alabama you're shearing Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder all the performers are lined glad is the connection we were looking for hitchhikers ah Delta please okay these are going to be picture clues you've got the picture question right and the first one is coming up now that is any ideas Kenny that is there's a man with a beard next please oh that's that's little bird isn't it is it that's the land speed record car if you say so um oh that's not leonard skin and doing three birdies agents don't it could be next please that's the Lone Ranger is it okay um yeah Vail had other things named the same like train those on ten-second ice please then that's oh well I mean else a werewolf I don't know why we'll fly they're all the names of trains they are not trained in fact I think none of them is the name worth assuring so I'm gonna give it to the strategist for a possible bonus they will reconstruct it after crashes how is the Lone Ranger reconstructed after a crash I don't know no now that second picture is the Sunbeam Silver Bullet car first one not Lynyrd Skynyrd but Bob Seger use backing group was of course the Silver Bullet Band The Lone Ranger used silver bullet and so well we couldn't be killed with a silver bullet okay that's why the Lone Ranger never had a problem with them strategists that leaves only one question fuse eater and your first clue is coming up now next please there's a student image the sweeping of novel pseudonyms of popper authors are very different genres we have that because that Stephen King's pseudonym was working in his 20s and outside with Christie okay pseudonyms of authors for writing in different genre that is absolutely right I will show you the to lose that you didn't see can you talk me through them um well wish back when you said was Stephen King when he's writing something other than when he's writing just normal thrillers not actually about Mary Westmacott was Agatha Christie as a romantic novelist exactly so Barbara vine is Ruth Rendell writing things that aren't psychological thrillers I suppose general crime fiction the Barbara vine and Iain M banks is a clever disguise for Ian banks yes who who would know yes no he takes away the M when he's writing fiction coming in after two clues you get three points very well done so the schools at the end of round one see The Hitchhiker's with three points but the strategists just in the lead with four points round two is about sequences there are still four clues that come up one by one but the teams will not see the fourth clue because I want to know what it is hitchhikers you will be going first again please pick a lesson Epsilon please Epsilon it will reveal the first in a sequence now these are going to be picture clues I want to know what you'd expect to see in the fourth picture first one coming up now that's comfor ah great any other ideas Oh specific yes that's a black panther something anything oh no it's tonight obvious connection next please at the time fo tiger then um like names in alphabetical order or anything like that I tell them um are we gonna get anything from a third I don't wanna take a punt on leopard or something oh I think names of Mac operating systems oh there aren't that leopard a Snow Leopard it's gonna be snow like a lot I guess Snow Leopard why they're the names of Mac operating system Mac OS 10 versions you are absolutely right Mac OS 10 operating systems third would be leopard fourth would be Snow Leopard absolutely right three points to you strategists pick a letter I can hear the squiggly one on the bottom right please azita I think I understand what you mean Zita is what you have the first clue coming up now yes obvious they didn't see something else next please smell them could be bigger it can be no kamae yesterday this workers could be see me as a huff but I'm not convinced by them I'm in season time to get the film is a thousand mummy lineage there's no team at one more please 50s MLS was a sweet Expo oh yes mother cos I get it till the close of 50 what about Excel is 40 mod would be room in your rules by side yes baby yes um Excel equals 40 why would you expect to see that a small medium large extra large extra large Excel and Roman numerals is 40 you are absolutely right I'm very impressed you got this they are clothing sizes in Roman numerals now the first one is interesting because many people don't know that you have the symbol s the Romans used fractions of 12 did you know this in their counting system parts of 12 and s signified 6 out of 12 what we would call a half so clothing sizes in Roman numerals very well done ok hitchhikers what would you like alpha please alpha first one coming up time starts now anger it's not Yoda qualities it fairly strong let's do I really did something know what we need that we thought help me fear first anger oh I feel I have next please I get to come over is the stage of grief it is your anger bargaining in it does not there's denial and bardet it lets denied there's a fifth one what's the fourth for the fifth is acceptance third is denial was fourth and is it Bobby miles 10 seconds no um brief um denial the reasons denial I'm afraid that is not all right answer I'm going to show the third clue to the strategists um compensation I'm afraid not now I'll tell you what foiled you hear hitchhikers it is the kubler-ross model of grief but what I was looking for is acceptance we didn't start at the beginning denial is first then anger bargaining depression acceptance and that's why I couldn't think of the third yeah as written by Elisabeth kubler-ross the process of dying strategists pick a letter come here gamma please yes you can first one coming up time starts now Oh people's will be better like the next place Regional College only civilizations I know that's quite possible was a sequence like you know what it was if I was it one more place also people he's alone I feel better people super busy things where we have anguish groups younger members and by delta-t muskets much if you can go European but we take you shooting for something any Milton um indo-european for what reason groups of languages in ascending order of number of people speaking them you're absolutely right you sound completely uncertain but that is it they are major language families going up in size indo-european will be the biggest very well-done hitchhikers what would you like Peter please all right beta waters fourth in the sequence here time starts now george ii by 989 any ideas not deaths not obviously else well not Georgia Tech and Arden next please no you sure um ELISA sometimes University oh I know no you're right though them a second chance second Georgian America than the fourth way and Clinton is it going to Barack the first 2009 because it's not their election dates our inauguration date the combination yeah it's gonna be Barack 2009 I'll be right back yeah five seconds Barack or brac the first 2009 that is absolutely correct I must say I thought nobody would get this question it's so horrific lis complicated if American presidents had 15 British monarchs what would they be called with the date of the inauguration brilliant really well done strategists you are left with Delta and the first clue is coming up now what language it is okay because it wasn't less please you get walls no let's take another another one please okay so my dick is teased a lot only the control please for the season boys oh yes cuz it was a fast - other one and this one South Korea is the first time this gonna be in South Korea this year is there something here the first scene I'll be able to sing for my mom she just one decision to buy or well no it is the first time it's done all the first time its first of all so let's take about three seconds goodbye I'm afraid not hitchhikers don't have a go I'm gonna go with Taiwan for no valid reason whatsoever no reason at all nope not the right answer I was looking for Abu Dhabi these are Grand Prix races added to the Formula One calendar Singapore added in 2008 and next one Abu Dhabi in 2009 so at the end of a nevertheless very impressive round to the strategists have got eight points but the hitchhikers are in the lead with nine points round three is the connecting wall it's a grid of 16 clues that can be neatly sorted into four connected groups of four there are red herrings that are clues that come into more than one category but only one perfect solution very tough connecting walls for the semi-final but our brilliant teams may have no trouble you get to go first this time strategists and you have a choice the ALF wall or the beta wall oh let's have the alpha wall please okay you've got two and a half minutes to solve this wall starting now daniel-san thought big hearty customer guy doesn't benefit isn't in place initially this okay the place millon large room and back at all members of duos commenters acknowledges yes action the party enlarged both members of double axel comedy acts shuttle with a limit the others large brown case and hardly a medicine man demolition game um that's all anything else London with spider-man later man I got a notion to just manly man must like that much um it's it won't could be art inside Klondike man no but I've heard right boy I would climb might be in there yes you that's gold um okay so gold rush there's the big kind of beer there is in balloon miller is type yes that's true buzzers okay um some of these mountain man white monkeys just oh yes white man I think that's it sorry we're supposed to try the men just what you guys are thinking okay well then what was all this one compartment be white man Heath I'm seeing other names in there Miller um please Ted hey slavery yes I've done I wasn't - no here's what Lily Mary - Mary Whitehouse let's just try those and did you see the surname mate hey no it's this problem remember your e re lives with two boots there we're definitely on mass Amanda measurement on so what a man okay got a minute a man known as imaginary button let's go we try can't like man we didn't but let's go Golf Club master Lokar the golf walk fumble okay Chris as crystals crystal kind of spider is also cut but I didn't believe it this is your mother a super on too much bound to be happy so let's don't let them fancy I mean there are your three chances and might as well give it a go I think you're better off with the man to be on the surface you know with the militia medicine and didn't do some medicine and mask does anything about the other group golf man doesn't mean about crystals man you got plans no we didn't action are with us you've solved the wall that's an immediate four-point the groups that you found bonus points now available for the connections Hardy pace large bracket corner blocks seconds and honors these second bonus in the double axe Laurel and Hardy hair and paste little enlarged hinge in bracket second group Miller may Whiteman Heath connectional signatures I mean the computers all it could be it cook it is it completely wrong I'm afraid they are in fact Orchestra leaders museums weather always room Len Miller that's Simon may the Simon may walk astre and Ted Heath not the politician Haditha Ted Heath Orchestra and then Paul Whiteman and his orchestra next group crystal masked Medicine demolition well then what's think on be followed by man in film tight yes unfortunately though you were suspicious of crystal man and that's because there isn't one I'll tell you what you can put after all of them all crystal ball ball medicine ball demolition ball that is the connection lost and the last group spider golf klondike o'clock I'm not convinced I think reserve causes your toe trodden try cars yes no they are versions of solitaire or patients so you've got four points for the groups that you found sadly only one point for the connections that is a total of five points let's bring in the hitchhikers and see what they can do with the connecting wall they get a new wall sixteen fresh clues but just the same it can only be sorted into for discrete unique groups or for no choice view you're going to get the betta walkers that's the one that remains you've got two and a half minutes to solve it starting now okay ah drums composer yep there's proms yep Jenkins yep ah I don't see any others - no I don't either okay we've got the letter um degree dad Oh on a calculator and you get degrees radians degree Radian arm there's a comma I don't uh know yunji um Manik Manik Airlines monarch on a monarch butterfly peacock butterfly um REMS don't butterfly yeah is there another one you could say huh skipper or Brahms I'll try it's not skipper okay so that's fun Manik peacock moonstone and Brahms no okay Florence Foster Jenkins um yep Genki Mars uh clearly Austin Healey Austin oz neither crap it's a car there are others that's a monitor type of car yep so isn't Morrison I think you think Morris Minor bloke a call that um and I'm gonna go take a shot at stiffer but no I'm use one bucket at Alma nove yeah bro Hayate Harmon Harriet Harman Beckett ease and I Haley and there's another Jenkins Jenkins know I'll try those foreign Morrison okay um okay degree get back to the calculator I'm sure you're right no cuz it's a solution what what I'll still an architect what else is Brahms what grounds are you Nova isn't an Oxford comma Oxford no sorry that's no comma monetizable fluorine peacock no um grace a grace boys no I don't think so I'll get a truck uh unity and Oh Beckett in harm in Moscow together I'm not necessarily um okay unity unity device unity um duties is a word for one uh yes but come honey Congress Harriet some like it here I'm having a me any other Harriet Jenkins no I'm gonna try that I have it Ron's you've got 30 seconds good grief alright mom I don't know um but it does raise out cricketers Oh grace um perhaps I don't think so but the three stooges the three well yeah I looked um bringing a fire and brimstone which is definitely a brimstone butterfly yeah um find no um fine brimstone fire and I have no idea unfortunately the time is up foiled by the grid and I think you're going to kick yourself when you see the wall resolved because you were dancing slow son away wow you can still get bonus points for the connection though so let's see what those groups should have been bronze peacock Harmon grace any thoughts do you think so I said cricket is if you want to try that but I don't know what else it's worth it not cricketers they are characters from are you being served miss Brahms mr. grace mr. Harmon Captain peacock yes that's that one unity degree stooge are we complaining me are three you were talking about the number three they are famous in threes the three unities of Aristotle the three degrees of course the group three stooges and the three RS reading writing and arithmetic Jenkins Healy Beckett Morrison well then let's go for creditors again my dad we cricketers no I know people at home will be banging their heads on the television sexy con so close they're deputy leaders of the Labour Party boss Harriet Harman of course could have gone in the group but was a red herring but no Roy Jenkins Denis Healey Margaret Beckett Herbert Morrison deputy leaders the Labour Party and the last group brimstone monarch skipper comma butter balls they are the boss earth eyes that you just couldn't nail down so no points for the groose I'm afraid but you have got two points for the connections that you identified let's see how that leaves the overall scores at the end of Round three hitchhikers have improved to 11 points the strategists have a slight lead with 13 points if you think you could have handled those grids better than our contestants well thank you you should be on the show but in the meantime we've got some connecting walls up on the website so you can have a go round four is the missing vowels round this is where we take well-known names or phrases like only connect without the vowels and then switch together the consonants teams you must tell me what those hidden names or phrases are the scores are close so good luck the first group are all world currencies strategists polish lucky one point strategist Turkish lira one point Hitchhiker's Vietnam dong I'm afraid you lose a point there's a possible bonus for the strategist Vietnamese dong one point to you next flew strategist Danish kroner one point next category physical constants hitchhikers being a white one point hitchhike acceleration in free fall I'm afraid you lose a point and I'm going to throw it to this dress just for possible bonus acceleration of free for me yes every consonant import double fried one point you next clue strategist does a mystery charge one point strategist Avogadro's number one point next category heraldic terms strategist is your one point strategist courant one point this is a tough one caduceus next clue justice field one point next category characters who committed suicide strategists Madame Bovary I'm afraid you lose a point throat to the hitchhiker's puzzle bonus Emma Bovary it's Emma Bovary one point you next clue hitchhikers do not company lost one point at the end of the quiz what around for you there Chris Tommy you are very unlucky but every continent is vital looking at the final scores the hitchhiker's have got 12 points but with 22 points it's the strategists who win and really great quizzing from both sides strategists you're through to the final congratulations hitchhiker's very sadly it's goodbye please join me next time which will be the final and questions so difficult they'll make their North Face of the Eiger look like the South Face of the Eiger which I personally found a much easier route to the summit goodbye and the only connect final is here next Monday on BBC four at half past eight next tonight stay with us for a Bank Holiday Monday movie little voice Oh

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Published: Sat Jul 27 2013