Jack Waley-Cohen
Jack Waley-Cohen (born 1979) is a British quizzer and company director. He was a co-host on the UK Game Show Totally Top Trumps, which was hosted by Sky Sports presenter Andy Goldstein, alongside regular panellists Rob Deering and Dan Clark.[1]
Education[edit]
Waley-Cohen went to Eton College, and was on the school chess team alongside fellow what3words co-founder Chris Sheldrick.[2] He read Experimental Psychology at St John's College, Oxford, and was president of the Oxford University Quiz Society in 2000–2001.[3]
Quiz career[edit]
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Waley-Cohen was a frequent contestant on game shows, winning episodes of Countdown, Weakest Link. Win Beadle's Money and Defectors [4]
In 2017, after a stint as a senior question writer, he took over from Alan Connor as the Question Editor (alongside David McGaughey) of the BBC Two lateral thinking quiz Only Connect,[5] a show which he had appeared on in 2007 with his team – 'the Lapsed Psychologists' – reaching the final[6] of the first series, where they lost to the 'Crossworders'.
In January 2017 Waley-Cohen appeared on BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity; his hypothetical donation to this imaginary museum was "A Book of Tom Swifties".[7]
References[edit]
- ↑ UK Game Shows, Totally Top Trumps
- ↑ Davidson, Lauren (22 February 2016). "Three words that say 'I know just where you are'". The Daily Telegraph.
- ↑ "Committee". Oxford University Quiz Society. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
- ↑ QuizPlayers.com, Jack Waley-Cohen
- ↑ IMDB.com, Jack Waley-Cohen
- ↑ "Low Culture.co.uk, Somehow a Vital Connection is Made (December 22, 2008)". Archived from the original on March 27, 2009. Retrieved March 24, 2009. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "The Museum of Curiosity: Series 10: Episode 3". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
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