Only Connect: The Official Quiz Book: Jack Waley-Cohen

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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. Only Connect beat EastEnders in last week’s ratings and regularly pulls in close to 3 million viewers.

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and an introduction by presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell, The Only Connect Quiz Book will take you skills to a new level. 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 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. The Only Connect Quiz Book collects over 200 of the most entertaining and perplexing challenges from the team behind the BBC’s hugely popular quiz show - including many new (never broadcast) questions.It follows a “same but slightly different” format to the first book: it’s packed full of question from the show, and includes plenty of brand new material as well. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. 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. Here, you only have to do physical things, like make an omelette with garden tools or teach an oyster to speak.

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The Only Connect Quiz Book collects over 200 of the most entertaining and perplexing challenges from the team behind the BBC's hugely popular quiz show - including many new (never broadcast) questions.People forget, but shows such as Pointless and The Chase, whose brilliance we all now take for granted, weren’t brilliant in the beginning. He runs various businesses - including, of course, a quiz company - and started writing questions for the show in 2014.

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Of the people I’ve played who are famous for other things, Zac Goldsmith was probably the best at poker. It is the very definition of a slow burn,” says Waley-Cohen, who studied experimental psychology at Oxford University before settling on a career playing with people’s minds.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. Waley-Cohen, who also happened to be a contestant on the pilot for Only Connect, has just finished signing off the questions for the next series. 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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He runs various businesses – including, of course, a quiz company – and started writing questions for the show in 2014. But in terms of sitting across the table and thinking “Wow” for other reasons, that would be Steve Martin.

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