Test yourself: how would you fare in the Only Connect quiz

Test yourself: how would you fare in the Only Connect quiz

On Monday, last year's University Challenge winners Emmanuel College, Cambridge, captained by Alexander Guttenplan, will appear in a special edition of the BBC Four quiz show Only Connect. Here are the sort of questions they can expect.

6:06PM GMT 14 Jan 2011

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Answers found at the bottom.

ROUND ONE: WHAT CONNECTS….?

1. What connects:

(1) He’s my brother

(2) Well, nobody’s perfect

(3) Mein Fuhrer, I can walk

(4) It was Beauty killed the Beast

2. What connects:

(1) Epistle to the Ephesians

(2) De Profundis

(3) Don Quixote

(4) Pilgrim’s Progress

ROUND TWO: WHAT’S NEXT IN THE SEQUENCE?

1. What’s next in the sequence:

(1) Laconicum

(2) Caldarium

(3) Tepidarium

(4) ?

2. What’s next in the sequence:

(1) Herbert

(2) Jefferson

(3) Walker

(4) ?

ROUND THREE: MISSING VOWELS

Regroup these consonants and reconnect them with their missing vowels:

1. Winter Olympic events:

(1) LPNS KNG

(2) S NWB R DNG

(3) C HC KY

(4) LG

2. Fictional suicides:

(1) MMB VRY

(2) JL TCP LT

(3) JX

(4) C CS N

Round One answers: 1) Last lines in movies (Return of the Jedi, Some Like It Hot, Dr. Strangelove, King Kong). 2) Answer: They were all written in prison (St. Paul, Oscar Wilde, Cervantes, John Bunyan).

Round Two answers: 1) Frigidarium (Bathing rooms at a Roman baths, from hottest to coldest). 2) Hussein (Second names of U.S. Presidents – George Herbert Bush, William Jefferson Clinton, George Walker Bush Junior, Barack Hussein Obama)

Round Three answers: 1) Alpine Skiing, Snow Boarding, Ice Hockey, Luge. 2) Emma Bovary, Juliet Capulet, Ajax, Cio-cio Sanqtdz
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