{"id":3746,"date":"2011-05-30T00:45:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T23:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=3746"},"modified":"2011-05-30T16:04:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T15:04:48","slug":"bank-holiday-question-too-esoteric-for-only-connect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=3746","title":{"rendered":"BANK HOLIDAY Question Too Esoteric For Only Connect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well it&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve done this, but as we&#8217;re here let&#8217;s do it again. The times in the square brackets are roughly the time you can expect the clue to go up (although it might be a bit earlier\/later depending on circumstance), you\u00a0should ignore them when it comes to making your guesses.<\/p>\n<p>Here are four things, what connects them?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sharpe<\/strong><strong>\ufeff<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Spellbound<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Button Moon<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Watchdog<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Bonus clues for half a point or something:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fame Academy<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Crackerjack<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>This Morning<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Paul Daniels Magic Show<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>And the answer is&#8230; hidden behind a cut.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The connection is they are <strong>all TV programmes that prominently feature\/d a real life married couple:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sharpe &#8211; <\/strong>Sean Bean and Abagail Cruttenden (this might not have been a very good clue in retrospect &#8211; they met playing husband and wife on the show\u00a0and married in 1997 where three episodes went out. Divorced a few years later.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Spellbound<\/strong> &#8211; Yes, not the dance troupe but the Sky One quiz show hosted by Paul Coia and later with his wife Debbie Greenwood.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Button Moon<\/strong> &#8211; theme song by Peter Davison and Sandra Dickinson.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Watchdog<\/strong> &#8211; hosted for years by Lynn Faulds Wood and John Stapleton.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the bonus clues, easier to figure out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fame Academy <\/strong>&#8211; David and Carrie Grant (<em>The Heaven and Earth Show<\/em> might have been a more accurate clue, I think).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Crackerjack &#8211; <\/strong>Ian and <del>Jimmy<\/del> Jeanette Krankie. I do not know if Stu Francis and Sara Hollamby were ever married but I suspect not.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bruce Forsyth and The Generation Game<\/strong> &#8211; Wording very important here of course, he met Anthea Redfern, they married.<\/li>\n<li><strong>This Morning <\/strong>&#8211; With Richard Madeley and his wife Judy Finnegan.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Paul Daniels Magic Show<\/strong> &#8211; Paul Daniels and The Lovely Debbie McGee.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So there we are. Mark D was oh so close but really his answer didn&#8217;t quite fit the other clues, so that means the winner is Smogo! Well done Smogo.<\/p>\n<p>Join us next time for another round of Questions Too Esoteric For Only Connect. Goodbye!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well it&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve done this, but as we&#8217;re here let&#8217;s do it again. The times in the square brackets are roughly the time you can expect the clue to go up (although it might be a bit earlier\/later depending on circumstance), you\u00a0should ignore them when it comes to making your guesses.\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=3746\">Read More: BANK HOLIDAY Question Too Esoteric For Only Connect &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions-that-are-a-bit-too-esoteric-for-only-connect"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-Yq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}