Monday 10 September 2012

Only Connect 2012/2013 - Round 1 - Heat 3

Only Connect 2012/2013 - Round 1 - Heat 3

After a great opening to show with two tight episodes it was onto the next heat of Only Connect tonight..

Footballers
Barry Humphrey
Michael Mcpartland
Jamie Turner

Second Violinists 
Agnes Henson
Rosie Howarth
Sophie Howarth

A very tough episode tonight I thought with some really bruising questions!

The footballers had a few familiar names from the quizzing world which is a common occurrence on Only Connect. Michael Mcpartland has been on various quiz shows, including Eggheads, and has beaten the top UK quizzers in a Last Man standing event at last years World Quiz Championships. Barry Humphrey recently triumphed on Cleverdicks too so I imagined this was going to a hard team to beat.

And that proved to be the case. Taking the lead early on the Footballers never let it slide. I learned plenty tonight as well including the lovely fact that Three Men and a Baby is a remake of a French film and that Mondegreens is the term used for Misheard lyrics. Either way the latter was lapped up by the Footballers who took an 8-7 lead after the first two rounds.

The wall round defeated the Second Violinists who had a very tough wall scoring no points on the matches and only 2 on the connections. The only one I spotted was the Mel Gibson movies! The Footballers on the other hand had an equally tough wall but managed to score 2 connections and 2 matches to take them into a 12-8 lead.

We have seen the games totally turn on the missing vowels round in recent weeks and anything could happen. Indeed the Second Violinists pulled it back a little but once the Racecourse round hit the Footballers build up a solid lead, Barry Humphrey firing in answers on both this and famous feminists.

It ended up 18-11 and a good win for the Footballers who will take some beating indeed!

Another entertaining show!

2 comments:

  1. I wrote the "French remakes" question, and until I researched it, I didn't know that "True Lies" was originally French. I wonder what a Gallic Arnie is like...

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