Coren Victoria - Only Connect: the difficult second quiz book

• Oscar the Grouch is a character in Sesame Street.
• In the 1964 Disney film, Mary Poppins produces a hat stand, mirror, plant and floor-standing lamp from her bag.
• Snoopy is in Peanuts.
• The TARDIS is in Doctor Who.

The Mountain Men got this on the last clue, for 1 point.

These peoples surnames can all be suffixed by berry to give the name of a fruit

• Rabbi Lionel BLUE, who was a regular on Radio 4s Thought for the Day.
• Jack BLACK, actor and musician.
• Jack STRAW, former Home Secretary.
• Gabby LOGAN, former gymnast and presenter of sport on television.

No points for either the Orienteers (who went on to win series 10) or the Romantics.

These are all things Im too sexy for in the hit song by Right Said Fred, Im Too Sexy

• Im too sexy for Milan, New York and Japan.
• Im too sexy for your party, no way Im disco dancing.
• Im too sexy for my shirt, so sexy it hurts.
• Im too sexy for this song (this is the last line of the song, naturally).

An impressive 3 points for the Scientists on this one.

It is sometimes baffling to the question editors when Only Connect is described as a highbrow show

• The word consonants has 7 consonants.
• The word vowels has 2 vowels.
• The word syllables has 3 syllables.
• The word letters has 7 letters in it.

Both the Road Trippers and the Builders drew a blank on this one.

• The V of the Eurovision Song Contest logo is a stylised heart.
• Cow & Gate is a company that produces formula milk for babies. Its logo is a red heart with the companys name in the middle.
• The ice cream companys logo is a swirling white heart on a red background.
• The slogan to promote tourism in New York has the word Love replaced by a heart, and New York written as NY.

The Cosmopolitans picked this up for 1 point as a bonus after the Taverners couldnt quite pin it down.

• The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, thought to be in modern-day Iraq.
• The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, both in modern-day Turkey.
• The Pharos or Lighthouse of Alexandria and the Great Pyramid of Giza, both in Egypt.
• The Statue of Zeus at Olympia and the Colossus of Rhodes, both in modern-day Greece.

Only the Great Pyramid of Giza, by far the oldest of the seven, survives today.

This question was picked by the Taverners, but they failed to spot the connection. Their opponents, the Bardophiles, nabbed a bonus point.

ACCEPT: anything that means Re, such as religious education, second musical note, rhenium, Royal Engineers, again, regarding, etc.

Remove the first letter from the word defined in one clue and you get the word defined in the next

• That place = There
• This place = Here
• Before = Ere
• Ancient Egyptian sun-god = Re (also known as Ra)

The Maltsters drew a blank on this one, and the Policy Wonks picked up a bonus point.

ACCEPT: 6-a-side foot 6 (i.e. a football variant!)

• Baseball: 9-a-side.
• Korfball: 8-a-side. A sport invented in Holland (it means basket ball) with similarities to netball and basketball. Played internationally with mixed teams.
• Netball: 7-a-side, played throughout British Commonwealth countries.
• Volleyball: 6-a-side.

In this series 12 match, neither the Networkers nor the Cousins saw the sequence, so well done if you did at home.

DONT ACCEPT: Lands End or anything offshore, e.g. the Channel Islands

These are the four extreme points of the British mainland, going clockwise from westernmost to southernmost

• Corrachadh Mr in Highland, Scotland, is the westernmost.
• Dunnet Head in Caithness, Scotland, is the northernmost.
• Lowestoft Ness in Suffolk, England, now known officially as Ness Point, is the easternmost.
• Lizard Point in Cornwall, England, is the southernmost.

The Bookworms spotted this early, and picked it up for 3 points in their series 11 match against the Wayfarers.

ACCEPT: any anagram of Mercury

• arMs = Mars
• hEart = Earth
• neVus = Venus (nevus is the American spelling of naevus, a congenital pigmented area on the skin)
• curry Me = Mercury

The Linguists solved this on Clue 2 to score 3 points in their match against the Oxonians.