Only Connect is getting serious, and so are the questions. Here's this week's poll, now completely devoid of any pretense that I may ever find time to express much opinion about the show beyond our favourite question. This week that honour falls to 6 seconds, 7 minutes, 8 hours, 9 days. While Piphilological Mnemonics gets an honourable mention for being deliciously work-outable, I appreciate I may be in a slight minority when it comes to maths-themed questions, so have deferred to the doctor's judgement. We were also particularly impressed with the Linguists not only picking up the bonus on this, but coming up with the excellent Lady Jane Grey answer to fit it perfectly (the doctor, ever the decisive captain, went with "a very long poo").
What did you think? Let us know!
Income tax question definitely worthy of a 'all info correct at time of recording' disclaimer. Next year's amount went up from £10,500 to £10,600 in Autumn Statement!
ReplyDeleteHa, well-spotted :)
DeleteGlad to see no love so far for the "against the" question. The pictures of ropes and grain were not things you can go "against the", not being ropes round a boxing ring and grain in wood. The connection "pictures that could among other things represent words that can complete the phrase 'against the...'" is not great in my view.
ReplyDeleteThey've tried a few picture/wordplay sets like that this series, and I don't think any of them have really worked well enough for my tastes. It seems a very tough format, because you have to have *some* ambiguity in the clues (so that you're not just showing the actual object and may as well just show them the word) but as soon as some ambiguity creeps in the number of possible lines of thought shoots up incredibly quickly.
DeleteMy main gripe with that one was the picture of ropes seeming very obviously pictures of knots, making it quite hard to see past that to have a chance at the answer. As always though, horses for courses - I've never been particularly good at visual clues. (Like the Linguists, I was thinking units of measurement, as we had knots, seconds and grain.)
This week was particularly good I thought, although I may be bias as I managed Hollywood sign & Dwarf planets for 5 points (Although I said "Xena/Eris" as soon as I saw Makemake, I think the size sequence was way more valid)
ReplyDeleteThe Pi connection was devilish, felt like it belonged in a third place playoff if we still had those, it was one anyone probably would've got given a few hours.
Really not getting behind the whole "overlapping" sequences we've had this series, I think this is the second specifically to do with countries. They're not rewarding to work out, and they seem a little flimsy.
I must admit I quite liked the pi one, and was frustrated not to get it sooner from the fact they all had identical word length structures (the last clue is a giveaway if you're familiar with the mnemonic, and obviously not much help otherwise) - but as I mentioned in the post I can sympathize that it could seem impenetrable.
DeleteYou're right about the overlapping countries - they did it in episode one with Suriname -> Mexico -> Costa Rica (-> Canada) - and I'm not entirely sold on them either. I got this one after two clues, but only because I'd seen exactly the same format of question before (which, presumably, the contestants hadn't). While I don't subscribe to the view that all questions should be possible for 5, I think these slip into "impossible for 3" territory which tend to be a touch underwhelming (to get one of these after 2 clues would require either one hell of a punt, or having seen the format before). That said, they do have the pleasant property of 'simple on the surface', which I quite like. I'd take one of these over 'Rugby World Cup winning captains' any day.