Please ensure you have the new results telephone number (see below) stored in your mobile, replacing the old number. The old number was disconnected by the telephone operator because it had been used to receive calls only, not to make them. In future, Sally will dial out once a month to ensure the number stays in use.

May I remind you all that we now have a Quiz mobile phone waiting to take your results on the night of the quiz BY TEXT ONLY please.

I ask that both teams text in the result so that I may verify the result.

The number is 07827 513839 (from 25-Jan-2012).

Please ensure that any results from Wednesday 25th sent to the old number are sent again to our new number. Updated results will be published as soon after as possible.

(This is a re-listing of our message first published in October 2010).

On our Fixtures page you will find the table for the 2011-2012 season Knock-Out Cup Round One draw to be played on February 1st.  Three teams have excluded themselves.

Who needs luck when you have talent? Good luck, everybody.

• The Royal Oak, Ockbrook
• Plough Inn, Two Dales

Start time: 8:00 PM

Good beer to be had at both from personal experience.

You have been kind enough in the past to forward on the details of our appeal for contestants and we wondered if you would help us again. Attached is a flyer with details of how to apply for the coming 6^th series of Only Connect.

In whichever way you feel appropriate, please feel free to…

• ·         Forward on to friends, family, colleagues and quiz loving friends
• ·         Copy details on to your website/blogspot(I’ve copied the text below if you are unable to copy this from the flyer)
• ·         Print off a copy to put on your workplace notice board or to pass around at your next quiz event.

(If we can help by printing off flyers and posting them to you then please let me know).

If you would like more information please call or email me direct.Some further information about the show as well as the online game can be found here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/onlyconnect/quiz/

The closing date for receiving applications is Tuesday 31^st January 2012, so please pass this along as soon as you can.Thanks in advance for your help with this. We wish you well for this coming new year ahead and hope to hear from you and/or your friends very soon to apply for Only Connect.

Best wishes
Rachel

Contestant call for BBC Four’s quiz Only Connect – the quiz where general knowledge meets lateral thinking enters its sixth series.

Victoria Coren presents the 6th series of the popular BBC Four quiz show Only Connect where, as in life itself, knowledge will only take you so far: patience and lateral thinking are also vital. It’s all about making connections between things which may appear, at first glance, not to be connected at all.

We’re looking for teams of three players who share a common passion, ability or profession, to pool their combined wits to solve fiendish conundrums and vexing puzzles.

Only Connect is produced for the BBC by Presentable Ltd.

APPLICANT LIMITATIONS:

All applicants must be 18 years of age and over on the 31^st January 2012.

All applicants must be resident in the UK or Channel Islands.

Past contestants and employees of Presentable, Zodiak Group of companies, the BBC or close relations are ineligible to apply.  

INSTRUCTIONS:

To request an application form please email onlyconnect@presentable.co.uk including a contact telephone number.

J Bonnington Jagworth and I raise a brimming hubcap to them in their new home.

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I am working on the new series of the classic 80s quiz show Blockbusters for Sky Challenge.

We are currently looking for people to take part in the series, so I hoped it might be possible to forward to attached info and application form on to the members of the Derbyshire Pub Quiz League to see anyone would be keen to get involved?

If anyone is interested then they simply need to send the application form back to us at blockbusters@talkbackthames.tv

It would also be a great help if you were able to mention us on Facebook/Twitter should you use them. This is the text we update our statuses with – BLOCKBUSTERS IS BACK! If you are interested in applying for the brand new series of the popular TV quiz show ‘Blockbusters’ then email blockbusters@talkbackthames.tv for an application form!

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You all know that it is an urban legend that Bob Holness played the saxophone solo on Gerry Rafferty’s ‘Baker Street’, but did you know that the story was invented by the pop journalist Stuart Maconie? Or that while Bob was recording the original ‘Blockbusters’ at Central TV’s Nottingham studios I held the door open for him several times, and vice versa, without either of us saying a word as I recall?

Our Sample Quiz page now includes all quizzes from this season up to November 2nd (if not later, if Tim has slipped in while I’ve not been looking).

Incidentally, you were right. The second Mrs De Winter was nameless, but did you know that the Daphne Du Maurier’s novel is inconsistent as to where Rebecca met her death? Or have you ever wondered why Dickens gave the favourite of his novels the title David Copperfield when Copperfield spends most of the novel known as Trotwood Copperfield? Perhaps not but the book is full of strange names, and Trotwood is only one of twelve names by which the eponymous character is known. Not as strange as Wilkie Collins’ 1866 novel Armadale, though, which features five characters all called Allan Armadale.

Iwan Thomas