Only Connect - Series 7 - Episode 13 and Finals

[@timmartindale75]

28:49 Floor manager: "You three sit there. We're going to turn the lights down. Don't move for the next 20 seconds while Victoria congratulates the winning team."

[@hemmojito]

I was just about to say the exact same thing. How cruel. But then again, this is supposedly the toughest quiz on British Television ... To be expected?...

[@ComeJesusChrist]

Sam Goodyear was the quiet star of the winning team.

[@john16j3]

Thanks so much for putting all the episodes of this series up.

[@Joeobrown1]

10:15 "it's to do with the flag, and the wording on the flag" well, yes, of course it is...

[@bbrockert]

I've read a completely unreasonable amount of PG Wodehouse and I still didn't get that one. The variety and memory required for this show is crazy.

[@hyperreality6606]

*Spoilers* It's interesting how much the difficulty of the questions varies in the final. The Wikipedia question seemed fiendish whereas the flags question that followed it should have been a relatively gettable 5 pointer. I can say this with confidence because learning all the country flags is something that every serious quizzer does (although apparently not these contestants!); you only need to know that's a Somalia flag and you've almost got the connection. But the Wikipedia editing wars are just not common knowledge nor do they readily spring to the mind of a guesser.

[@rodrigomarinho1807]

I believe if they had said "things that are argued about" or "things whose real claim is disputed" would've been accepted. Btw I got it right at the first clue.

[@dubliam8064]

The flag question was so easy how did they not get the 5 points

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

27:00 Random brag: I've met Jedward once. Lovely fellows. One of them complimented my beard.

[@frontrowgirl]

thank you so much for posting this season! i love this show.

[@timmartindale75]

I would be interested to see evidence of "Qu" as an abbreviation for "question". Its always "Q" or "q". Maybe the fact checker from QI was doing a stint on Only Connect.

[@stricklandpropane7090]

Origin: Early 17th century; earliest use found in Thomas Draxe (d. ?1619), author and Church of England clergyman. Shortened from question (as graphic abbreviation). Source: Lexico

[@D4Mathur]

I'm sorry to inform you but i have used the abbreviation Qu or sometimes Que for most of my school life. It was pretty common during my schooltimes here in India

[@icarus-wings]

Exactly this. There are fiendish questions, and then there is nonsense. This clue definitely falls into the latter.

[@famousprophets703]

@@D4Mathur Same here - I went to school in the southeast US and had multiple teachers abbreviate "question #1" as "Qu. 1" Definitely a small percentage overall though

[@Magelord79]

The only quiz that connects Adolf Hitler and Elizabeth II. I love it. Thanks for sharing!

[@Muscleduck]

How on earth did they miss the Time magazine person of the year one?! Even on the solved wall.

[@Miniyana]

Yes! Thank you again!

[@nithinmanne]

I immediately got the Time person of the year, mainly from You and The Protester, and then also Hitler.

[@JustOneAsbesto]

What the hell are "'U' terms"? I have no idea what that's supposed to mean.

[@Pjotoror]

Upper class (and non upper class..) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_and_non-U_English

[@BarbaraBastron]

Pjotoror Thanks for the explanation. We don’t have classes in my country.

[@gwishart]

@@BarbaraBastron Communism has some benefits.

[@sam08g16]

@@gwishart everyone equally starving

[@gwishart]

@@sam08g16 But before they all starve, their quiz programmes have easier questions.

[@Shmiguelly]

I don't even know what declension means :/ this show is ridiculous. Love it though.

[@JohnDoe-rx2pr]

thanks man!

[@bb.and.b]

Why does the big dude get a Euro kiss at the end, but the other two merely handshakes? Friend of Victoria perhaps?

[@TheFriendoftheFunk]

Ben Bass shefound it so horrible she wasn't prepared to repeat the experience?

[@syxp]

Sigh, Erdos was pronounced wrongly >

[@ericminch]

And to correct this, you offer...what? How about something like: "air-dursh"?

[@b33p]

Pedagogy too.

[@yugsuomynona]

Given that the format was double elimination and neither team had lost before this, I think they should play a rematch. Great series, though.

[@b33p]

You'd have more of a point if the winners lost once previously. Since neither used their chance to lose once, it was a fine match up.

[@johnmanning5568]

I love how the History graduate knew that Edd the duck’s name was spelt with two Ds.😊

[@timmartindale75]

Those were insect orders, not genera. Yep, it must be the QI fact checker. (And they have 6 legs, not 2, but I think that was just a slip up by Victoria).

[@The_Wandering_Hobbit]

Yeah that was a pretty glaring error for this show. And I suspect Victoria meant to say wings, not legs. Either way, that was one of the few connections I actually figured out XD

[@timmartindale75]

Well done! (Most insects have four wings. Flies, mosquitoes and strepsipterans have two)@@The_Wandering_Hobbit

[@lutonmale1983]

Funnily enough, Goodyear was the only member of that team I found intolerably smug.

[@stricklandpropane7090]

I've heard this before. I'm rooting for Mark tho.

[@eggmayonnaise325]

I found his captain Mark Walton much more annoying. For a start he didn't say please when selecting the hieroglyphs (unlike most other players) and often in the series Goodyear had either the right answer or right idea but Mark ignored him and lost the question.

[@troybadoo]

Did anyone notice that throughout the duration of the show Victoria's glass had a distinct hue of the French flag. The Francophiles win, hmmmm

[@DagothUrEnjoyer]

Got the flag 1 first time. Easy clap. 5 points.

[@PhantomObserver]

How often do they do this series, twice a year?

[@immaleaf4964]

Some of the answers, I donno if they should have counted, seemed a little unfair. 'it's to do with the flag and the wording on the flag.' you're just describing the clue, and the empty chairs answer all they said was you're talking to someone that's not there, seems like empty chairs was pretty integral to the answer considering one of them was just a reserved seat for an award

[@Kernel15]

I went for Chaotic Evil ahahaha

[@JeopardyandWheelFan]

Doesn't it seem that the way the teams' podiums are facing each other and the host in the middle make the set similar to Eggheads in the way the podiums are set up?

[@Ulkomaalainen]

Well, that's a staple, not necessarily connected to the Eggheads (or any other for that matter), you will find this set up in many a quiz show.

[@slobodanreka1088]

Qu & A? Huh?

[@gwishart]

Qu is a common abbreviation for question, typically used in exams.

[@dominickmancine6033]

QQu: Didn't you read it in the FAQu? I have NEVER seen it abbreviated "Qu".

[@staxter6]

One of my best individual showings during this final, perhaps I overthink the 'less' intense rounds.

[@martinfoster5763]

Beverley is a laugh a minute

[@danielmorrisonrhymes]

I GOT SEQUENCE WOOP

[@josephlawrence5938]

Sam Goodyear seems to get even more handsome. Is that possible? Hey, doesn't matter the man is cute as all get out.

[@emer157]

He looks like a stereotypical lesbian

[@ikemoon127]

27:28 "y" functions as a vowel there

[@MrXyzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz]

In the missing vowels round, Y is *ALWAYS* classed as a consonant.

[@ikemoon127]

@@MrXyzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Even in instances where it's a vowel, got it.

[@mitchweiner]

I'm beginning to wonder now if Victoria legitimately hates America or it's part of her sarcasm...

[@EightThreeEight]

Probably both.

[@logicismight102]

Don't we all hate America?

[@FloraWest]

I think I'll become a Sam Goodyear groupie.

[@chelseafcrocks82]

wales vs france. better than football

[@Ptaku93]

Just like rugby

[@nolans11]

Still dont understand what "U terms and their non U equivalents" mean.

[@chookaschookas444]

U = Upper class and non-U = not upper class

[@hazyorange]

11:51 E

[@icarus-wings]

Ummmm…I’m halfway through the episode and Beverly Downes hasn’t said a word. LOL! edit: holy shit she finally spoke! 18:54. edit 2: she got a missing vowel clue to end up contributing a whole point to the Celts’ 14-point showing. Wow…

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

At 7:01, she reminds the others of Empty Chairs at Empty Tables.