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. I did once have a postman who was a foot fetishist and he asked if I would mind answering the door barefoot when there were parcel deliveries. But in terms of sitting across the table and thinking “Wow” for other reasons, that would be Steve Martin.

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Waley-Cohen runs a company that organises corporate quiz events which has recently seen a rash of Covid-inspired team names such as “Professor Quiz Whitty” and the “Wuhan Clan” and has just gone back into the studio to film the next series of Only Connect. As with the first book, there is even a special Connecting Wall on the back cover so you don’t even have to open the book (though the answers to that one are inside the book).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.

Only Connect: The Official Quiz Book: Jack Waley-Cohen

Covering each of the show's four rounds - Connections, Sequences, the Connecting Wall and Missing Vowels - and with introductions from presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell, here is your chance to put your own sleuthing and quizzical knowledge to the Only Connect test. Photograph: Charlie Clift/Camera Press Victoria Coren Mitchell, who is taking part in the latest series of Channel 4’s Taskmaster.Among his claims to fame are winning three episodes of Countdown, triumphing on The Weakest Link and being the original Richard Osman as the stats man on the short-lived Totally Top Trumps. It was a stupid joke name we took 20 years ago but I get terrified now that newcomers will think we’ve chosen it with some level of genuine self-description, especially now my husband’s joined the team.

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He runs various businesses – including, of course, a quiz company – and started writing questions for the show in 2014.

Respect to all who managed to score any points on such an evil genius game show (especially the Wall). It’s true that few other quiz shows can boast a long-running gag about Michael Portillo as part of their appeal.