As you may know, Jack and David from QuizQuizQuiz are the Question Editors for Only Connect, and have put together the book, complete with a brilliant (of course) introduction from Victoria Coren Mitchell. I love Only Connect deeply but also find the trappings of a TV quiz inherently silly, which our contestants and viewers never mind me making clear. Only Connect beat EastEnders in last week’s ratings and regularly pulls in close to 3 million viewers. Phil Ivey is one of the most famous players in professional poker and probably the best I’ve played against, in terms of skill and flair.

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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. 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. And for the show’s new found fans, being able to lose themselves in a gentle and unashamed celebration of geekery, discovering Only Connect might just be one of the few upsides in a year when we were all forced to stay at home. Organized into a series of discrete 4-round games, each game increases in difficulty, as you try to reach the grand final.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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Here, you only have to do physical things, like make an omelette with garden tools or teach an oyster to speak. And yet we can’t possibly change it because, I don’t mind telling you, that name is engraved on the cup. 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’ve been using the same two scratchy old saucepans for about 20 years, just because they aren’t literally broken. 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. Only Connect quiz questions: Try your hand at brainteasers set by the fiendish BBC show’s mastermind Jack Waley-Cohen’s mother used to read him quiz books instead of bedtime stories, so it is no wonder he became the question editor on Only Connect. Photograph: Charlie Clift/Camera Press Victoria Coren Mitchell, who is taking part in the latest series of Channel 4’s Taskmaster.

Only Connect: The Difficult Second Quiz Book (Paperback) Only Connect: The Difficult Second Quiz Book (Paperback)

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.This year, we’re very nervously and proudly watching Robert Webb in it, but he’s a fantastic dancer.

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Biography: JACK WALEY-COHEN featured on the first ever episode of Only Connect, with his team - the Lapsed Psychologists - reaching the final. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Sidenote -- anyone else feeling miffed that the subtitle consonants (on the book cover) are not re-spaced, in true form to the show? Coupons are only redeemable against the promotional Only Connect: The Difficult Second Quiz Book offer as described in RT. That, having previously imagined myself to be a fairly anxious person, I didn’t have the first idea.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.