Only Connect 2012/2013 - Round 1 - Heat 5
I must have been a bit carried away last week as I seem to have listed the wrong episode number. Anyway, tonights Only Connect was heat 5 of the first round and saw the Trenchermen take on the Numerists.
Trenchermen
Steve Donnelly
Bob Hughes
Gareth Williams
vs
Numerists
Hannah Twitchell
James Wilson
Dorian Lidell
The Trenchermen got Only Connect on the road tonight landing what everyone seems to fear, the music question. And based on this I could see why! I could have listened to these pieces in full all day and would still not have known the Solider connection but a good spot got the team the point. Hannah Twitchell, who was the teams popular culture expert, got a great spot with connections based on the use of certain sounds by effects teams. Again another one I was completely baffled by! I think this was perhaps my favourite questions of the night.
Not to be outdone though Bob Hughes got the first 5-pointer I have seen in a long time when the clue Miss World-1973 came up and he immediately identified this as being people/teams stripped off titles. The Trenchermen clearly meant business! The Numerists landed the pictures and were a tad unlucky in saying double "j" for the starting letters of each picture when all that was required was "double letters". i.e. Llama, Aardwolf but they got the point back when they identified the clues to things divided into 4 parts.
By the end of the first round it was 7-4 to the Trenchermen who were impressive and looking very strong indeed.
Round 2 started off with a good football question on the path to the league of AFC Wimbeldon, no trouble for James Wilson here and indeed the Bob Hughes was straight in with a question on Tarot Cards, they spent time discussing this one which most teams fail to do being too quick to pass! James Wilson spotted the Bennett Sisters, the Trenchemen got the pictures and this was shaping up to be a close game indeed. 11-10 the Numerists trail heading into the wall.
An almost perfect round kicked things off for the Numerists. This is definitely the way to succeed! James Wilson had barely finished pressing the answers for the Winter Olympic hosts when Hannah Twitchell spotted the Theatres (great spot as possibly the hardest of the connections to match). That gave them time to work out the next answers and they eased the pressure of this last section by thinking long and hard before going for the answer they knew all along. 4 links, 3 connections...game on!
The Trenchermen to be fair got a harder wall. My other half who is rarely interested in quizzes of this nature spotted The Only Way is Essex clues straight away, which I would never have got to be fair, and one a very tough wall the team managed just the one link. They were unlucky in the sense that they knew fairground rides were there but never linked the four together!
17-15 the Numerists lead going into the final round and they were simply awesome in this round. James Wilson was dominant on the buzzer racking up points early that gave the Trenchermen an uphill task. Hannah Twitchell chipped in with a buzz and by that point it was all over. 26-18 was the final score.
Congratulations to the Numerists and you have to think that if they are that strong in the final round every episode they will take some beating if they can stay within touching distance. By far the strongest team on the buzzer in the series so far but whether or not this will take them into the Semi Finals I have no idea but it will be interesting to see.
In saying that the Numerists also only lost one round so it was not just the buzzer domination that won it for them.
Roll on next week!
The Trenchermen got Only Connect on the road tonight landing what everyone seems to fear, the music question. And based on this I could see why! I could have listened to these pieces in full all day and would still not have known the Solider connection but a good spot got the team the point. Hannah Twitchell, who was the teams popular culture expert, got a great spot with connections based on the use of certain sounds by effects teams. Again another one I was completely baffled by! I think this was perhaps my favourite questions of the night.
Not to be outdone though Bob Hughes got the first 5-pointer I have seen in a long time when the clue Miss World-1973 came up and he immediately identified this as being people/teams stripped off titles. The Trenchermen clearly meant business! The Numerists landed the pictures and were a tad unlucky in saying double "j" for the starting letters of each picture when all that was required was "double letters". i.e. Llama, Aardwolf but they got the point back when they identified the clues to things divided into 4 parts.
By the end of the first round it was 7-4 to the Trenchermen who were impressive and looking very strong indeed.
Round 2 started off with a good football question on the path to the league of AFC Wimbeldon, no trouble for James Wilson here and indeed the Bob Hughes was straight in with a question on Tarot Cards, they spent time discussing this one which most teams fail to do being too quick to pass! James Wilson spotted the Bennett Sisters, the Trenchemen got the pictures and this was shaping up to be a close game indeed. 11-10 the Numerists trail heading into the wall.
An almost perfect round kicked things off for the Numerists. This is definitely the way to succeed! James Wilson had barely finished pressing the answers for the Winter Olympic hosts when Hannah Twitchell spotted the Theatres (great spot as possibly the hardest of the connections to match). That gave them time to work out the next answers and they eased the pressure of this last section by thinking long and hard before going for the answer they knew all along. 4 links, 3 connections...game on!
The Trenchermen to be fair got a harder wall. My other half who is rarely interested in quizzes of this nature spotted The Only Way is Essex clues straight away, which I would never have got to be fair, and one a very tough wall the team managed just the one link. They were unlucky in the sense that they knew fairground rides were there but never linked the four together!
17-15 the Numerists lead going into the final round and they were simply awesome in this round. James Wilson was dominant on the buzzer racking up points early that gave the Trenchermen an uphill task. Hannah Twitchell chipped in with a buzz and by that point it was all over. 26-18 was the final score.
Congratulations to the Numerists and you have to think that if they are that strong in the final round every episode they will take some beating if they can stay within touching distance. By far the strongest team on the buzzer in the series so far but whether or not this will take them into the Semi Finals I have no idea but it will be interesting to see.
In saying that the Numerists also only lost one round so it was not just the buzzer domination that won it for them.
Roll on next week!
Hannah Twitchell is really cute. Ahem - as well as obviously very intelligent too, of course.
ReplyDeleteJames Wilson - what a clever guy. Well done!
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