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. This year, we’re very nervously and proudly watching Robert Webb in it, but he’s a fantastic dancer. Of the people I’ve played who are famous for other things, Zac Goldsmith was probably the best at poker. If you enjoy the show, you'll enjoy the book but a few reasons why I couldn't give it any more than 3 stars: most of the content is lifted directly from the shows or slightly adapted with few new questions, so if you have seen most shows, unlikely to be new to you.

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He runs various businesses – including, of course, a quiz company – and started writing questions for the show in 2014. Respect to all who managed to score any points on such an evil genius game show (especially the Wall). But I am proud of the brilliant people who work on it, by which I don’t mean myself, and I think there’s a lesson in its surprising popularity. If I have learnt anything about the show from Twitter it’s that everyone thinks they are amazing at the final missing vowels round,” he says.

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. However, what really keeps Only Connect viewers coming back for more is the vain hope they might solve the notoriously difficult ‘wall’ before the contestants or answer a question in the sequences round after just the first clue.

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Only Connect beat EastEnders in last week’s ratings and regularly pulls in close to 3 million viewers. Also, last week Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all went down and people were stuck for something to do.Finally, VCM gives advice on how to use the book in a way to replicate the show (and to avoid doing all connections, then all sequences etc), however her 6,6,2,4 advice for how many to do from each section is incorrect and leaves you left with loads of connecting walls and missing vowels sections. She used to read him quiz books instead of bedtime stories and when the Waley-Cohens set off on long car journeys, those in the back knew they wouldn’t be allowed to nod gently off to sleep. It was on Challenge TV, which I didn’t have at the time, so I’ll never know whether I was any good at it,” he says, adding his only real regret is never making it to the hot seat of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

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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. For every question that has been on the show, we tell you how the teams managed, so you can compare yourself to them.But in terms of sitting across the table and thinking “Wow” for other reasons, that would be Steve Martin. April 1st-12th [the numbers are the positions of the first and last letters in the alphabet of each month. People forget, but shows such as Pointless and The Chase, whose brilliance we all now take for granted, weren’t brilliant in the beginning.

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She hosts BBC Two quiz Only Connect and is competing in the current series of Channel 4’s Taskmaster.