Only Connect: Bloomsbury Group v Tea Totallers

September 16, 2024 10:36 PM - Season 20, Episode 6

Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Forster, Keynes and Woolf: all unavailable, sadly, but how will their stand-ins fare against a team of three tea devotees?
posted by Carillon (4 comments total)

The teams were very impressive! I also don't know if the questions were easier, or just more in my wheel house, but I was also able to get a lot of them at 3 points, which I find never happens. The most fun one was Carcharodon carcharias which I only knew was great white shark because we just watched a movie this weekend where one character asks another for one. (James Bond in License to Kill). So when phonology came up I knew it was Great. I would have gotten my first 5 of the season on the descriptions of ABCD too.

I love that you can always tell when teams speed through questions or the wall, or both in this case, because you get to see Victoria vamping with the teams. I imagine she always does that but we only see it when things are moving too quickly.
posted by Carillon at 10:41 PM on September 16

This is exactly the kind of matchup that makes me glad for their bracket style. I want to see both these teams again!
posted by The demon that lives in the air at 9:24 PM on September 18

Wow what a great game! I play in an online trivia league (COQL) where the team playing as the Bloomsbury Group in this episode is one of the best regular teams, but online they play as the Zoomsbury Group. Because we're all on zoom. They had to un-pun their name to be on the show. So, I was rooting for them.

I never thought to put OC on fanfare! This is great. I don't have that many people to talk about it with.

I loved the shapes of letters clue and I got it on A. It would have been much harder if they started in the middle of the alphabet!
posted by Tesseractive at 9:26 PM on September 18 [1 favorite]

I try and talk to my partner sometimes about his and she's happy I'm excited, but very much not something she's interested in. So I'm always looking to find others who are interested!
posted by Carillon at 9:06 PM on September 22