OK, so, back for two weeks only, it's my usual OC write-ups. In all honesty, I've enjoyed this series quite a lot, I think not watching it back and disecting it in great deal has maybe gone some way towards that, oddly. Yeah, I still think last series was better, but this has been a good one too. The return to the old format has helped the last two I think.
On with the third place play-off on Monday: playing were the Forrests, Jenny Forrest, Belinda Weir and captain Oliver Forrest, and the Turophiles, Bob Wolstenholme, Katie McCorkindale and captain Jascha Elliot.
Round 1. The Forrests immediately opened with Two Reeds and the music set: we heard The Temperance Seven, then The Doobie Brothers, then Barenaked Ladies, and finally Mumford and Sons. They didn't spot the link, nor did their opponents: all their names are misleading. The Turophiles started their game with Lion, and the picture set: we saw the designer Sir Jony Ive alongside the word 'Dance', then Steve Cram alongside 'Go away'; they buzzed at this point and suggested that adding an S to their surnames gives a word meaning those things, which wasn't quite right. Their opponents saw Teri Hatcher alongside 'Roof installer' and Tom Hawks alongside 'Expression of gratitude'; they posited that adding the first letter of their forename to their surname gives a word meaning that, which gave them a bonus. For their own question, the Forrests chose Twisted Flax: 'YouTube in Belgium', then 'Google in Greenland', then 'Instagram in Armenia', and finally 'Bitly in Libya'. They didn't quite get close enough for the points, nor did their opponents: the short-form URLs of those websites are those countries' domain names. The Turophiles chose Water next: 'Aural meditation on 'Finnegans Wake'', then 'Solo to be performed by anyone in any way', then '20 works, with screws, nuts and bolts placed inside a piano'; they saw them to be descriptions of compositions by John Cage, and collected two points. The Forrests chose Horned Viper next: 'Euphorbia pulcherrima: cranberry juice and cointreau', then '1932 Hemingway book about bullfighting: absinthe', then '1990 Alannah Myles hit: Guinness', and finally '1981 Eurovision winners: orange juice'. They identified that adding champagne to the fluids gives a cocktail, which gave them a point. Left with Eye of Horus, the Turophiles saw 'G Mountain ranges in USA, Jamaica and Australia', then 'E Singer born Alecia Beth Moore', then 'SN Can precede gage, finch and fly'; they suggested them to be the first letters of Trivial Pursuit categories and clues to their respective colours, and collected the two points. At the end of the first round, the Turophiles led 4-2.
Round 2, What Comes Fourth? The Forrests started with Lion: 'Tie bin', then 'Dismiss fir'; they identified that adding D to 'bin' gives 'bind', which means 'tie', and E to 'fir' would give 'fire' meaning 'dismiss', so suggested 'Rattle clan', which was acceptable as an added G for the points. The Turophiles chose Eye of Horus next: 'The Band of the Coldstream Guards', then 'Status Quo', and then 'The Style Council'. They didn't get it, nor did their opponents: they are performers at Live Aid in 1985, so 'The Boomtown Rats' would come next. The Forrests chose Horned Viper next, and got a music sequence: we heard three versions of 'I Got You Babe', firstly by Avid Merrion, Davina McCall and Patsy Kensit, then by Cher with Beavis and Butt-Head, and finally by UB40 with Chrissie Hynd. They suggested the Sonny and Cher version, and were correct for the points. The Turophiles chose Two Reeds next: 'Peterborough United 8-7 Wolverhampton Wanderers', then 'Queen's Park Rangers 6-5 Charlton Athletic', and then 'Aston Villa 4-3 Blackpool'. They didn't offer an acceptable answer, their opponents did: 'Wrexham 2-1 York' would suffice, the sequence being the number of vowels in the teams' names. (On a point of pedantry, it's York CITY, so that wouldn't work!) For their own final choice, the Forrests chose Twisted Flax and got the picture set: we saw a skier, then a butterfly, and then someone getting their back stroked. They didn't get it, nor did their opponents: they are the fastest swimming strokes, so a breast (of any sort!) being stroked would be fourth. Left with Water, the Turophiles saw '4th: Choi' and a Korean letter I can't reproduce here, then '3rd: Park' and another; they saw them to be the most common family names in Korea, and offered '1st: Kim' for the points. At the end of the second round, the Forrests led 8-7.
On to the Walls. The Turophile went first, and chose the Lion wall. After a few wrong tries, they got two sets in succession about half way through: 'Jude', 'Eustacia', 'Michael' and 'Bathsheba' are Thomas Hardy characters, while 'Common', 'Martial', 'Natural' and 'Murphy's' can all precede 'law'. They couldn't resolve it in their three goes though, so had to go for bonuses: 'Harp', 'Porterhouse', 'Beamish' and 'Guinness' are Irish beers, while 'Athelstan', 'Kilkenny', 'Hysteric' and 'Ankyle' all end with the names of the leads in South Park, both of which they got. Six there then.
The Forrests thus set to work on the Water wall. They got a first set quite quickly: 'Moana', 'Mare', 'Mer' and 'Zee' are words meaning 'sea' in different languages. A second set, 'Jenny', 'Jill', 'Hen' and 'Eye', which are female animals, followed shortly, and they solved the rest on their second go: 'The Firm', 'New Day Co-op', 'Deadly Vipers' and 'Advanced Idea Mechanics' are fictional crime groups (and not, as they suggested, teams from Robot Wars! Which links nicely into something I may or may not talk about next week!), while 'Spectre', 'Nix', 'Hind' and 'Armour Trading' are homophones of the surnames of singer-songwriters. Seven points there then, which meant they led 15-13 going into the final round.
So, Missing Vowels to decide the game. 'Back-to-front culinary dishes', such as 'TOAST ON BEANS' and 'HOLE IN THE TOAD', went to the Turophiles 3-1. 'Bands and landmarks they loosely rhyme with', such as 'THE KINKS AND THE SPHYNX', went to the Forrests 4-0. 'Parts played by John Malkovich', including 'JOHN MALKOVICH' in the film 'Being John Malkovich(!), was split 2-each. 'Fantastic beasts and the books in which you'd find them' had one clue timed out. The Forrests won 22-18.
Good game, well played by both teams, both in the show tonight, and in the series as a whole! Thanks very much both teams!
Next week: the final, between the 007s and the Suits
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