I'm obsessed with the "Four Opinions," the kippah wearing team on BBC game show "Only Connect" ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Monday, January 27, 2025

I'm obsessed with the "Four Opinions," the kippah wearing team on BBC game show "Only Connect"

TheJC wrote in August:

There are certain jokes that only make sense to Jews, a sort of coded language that only members of the Tribe understand.

And that trademark Jewish humour was on full display this week after a screenshot of a very Jewish team name on the BBC game show Only Connect.

The Four Opinions team - made up of three Jews named Jacob Epstein, Rafi Dover and Aron Carr.

One fan of the show wrote on X/Twitter: “What a name,” while another said “I cannot express how much I love this.”

The team went through to the next round having beat opponents the Bean Farmers.

Only Connect is a British television quiz show presented by Victoria Coren Mitchell, in which teams compete in a tournament to find connections between seemingly unrelated clues.

The Four Opinions team members each wear a kippah. So I spent way too much time this weekend trying to watch the three episodes they have appeared in so far, all of which they have won. They are now going to the semifinals.

Here is their first appearance, against the Bean Farmers.

And their most recent show, against the Al Frescans, shown last week:

I could not find a (legal) copy of their second match against the Cat Cows, but here is a screenshot of one of the clues that they solved (the goal is to figure out the fourth in the sequence.)

Answer on the bottom of the post.

This is without a doubt the most challenging game show I have ever seen. I am stunned at how good these contestants are. The show requires not only an encyclopedic knowledge of trivia but also the ability to think way outside the box to find very non-obvious connections between the trivia answers. The three "Four Opinions" have studied Talmud together (they considered the name "The Talmudics") so that was good training for them. But it doesn't hurt that they also know Minesweeper.

I would be happy to blame my inability to answer nearly every question on the subjects being heavily British, but I watched an episode that had half of the questions about the United States and I did just as poorly.

In other words, The Four Opinions are wicked smart, as are their opponents.

I don't know when the semi-finals will air, but I'm looking forward to watching them and rooting for the Jews.

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Answer: -4: BOA. Each word is the result of removing successive letters from the word BOAT.