As you may know, Jack and David from QuizQuizQuiz are the Question Editors for Only Connect, and have put together the book, complete with a brilliant (of course) introduction from Victoria Coren Mitchell. JACK WALEY-COHEN featured on the first ever episode of Only Connect, with his team - the Lapsed Psychologists - reaching the final. I have been on some great quiz shows which never made it beyond two or three series and whatever anyone tells you it’s impossible to tell which are going to be hits and which will flop. and an introduction by presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell, The Only Connect Quiz Book will take you skills to a new level. Quiz shows are relatively cheap to produce, but finding a format that’s not just different to what has gone before, but has a great host and gets the right slot, also involves a huge amount of luck.

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The edition I had included photo rounds as per the show, but the photos are small and in black and white which made some almost impossible to decipher. Waley-Cohen learnt his trade partly by being a serial quiz contestant, who once picked as a specialist subject the history of British quiz shows. Phil Ivey is one of the most famous players in professional poker and probably the best I’ve played against, in terms of skill and flair. I hate to burst anyone’s bubble, but you have to be even better to do well under the pressure of competing against another team and the buzzer.It has been going for 12 years and while the ratings have grown steadily they jumped during the first lockdown when we all had a lot more time to scroll through the TV channels. I love Only Connect deeply but also find the trappings of a TV quiz inherently silly, which our contestants and viewers never mind me making clear. It’s perfect, because when the answer is revealed it seems so obvious, but the journey to it is not straightforward.

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With games to play on your own or in teams (clever names, please), The Only Connect Quiz Book will take your quizzing achievements to a new level. It’s true that few other quiz shows can boast a long-running gag about Michael Portillo as part of their appeal. April 1st-12th [the numbers are the positions of the first and last letters in the alphabet of each month. Among his claims to fame are winning three episodes of Countdown, triumphing on The Weakest Link and being the original Richard Osman as the stats man on the short-lived Totally Top Trumps.I play all sorts of games with friends and family for the sheer joy of the thing and I usually want others to win so they feel happy and up for playing again. Having never missed an episode of Only Connect I was thrilled when the book came out, it's just as good as the programme and just as perplexing, would make a great after dinner game at Christmas, good value for money. Those who stumbled across the show have stayed and I think that’s because it has a sense of fun that isn’t a natural part of the appeal of other Monday night quiz favourites – University Challenge and Mastermind.