| 词条 | Jack Waley-Cohen |
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Jack Waley-Cohen (born 1979) 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] and is a former president of the Oxford University Quiz Society. Quiz careerWaley-Cohen won three Countdown shows and is also a former Weakest Link winner.[2] In 2000, he competed at the British Quiz Championship and also won some of Jeremy Beadle's money on Win Beadle's Money, recording the second highest score ever on the show.[2] In 2002, he won £1,000 on an episode of Challenge TV gameshow Defectors, presented by Richard Orford. In 2008, he competed on the BBC Four lateral thinking quiz Only Connect,[3] and his team – the Lapsed Psychologists – made it to the final[4] of the first series, where they lost to the Crossworders. In 2014, he became a senior question writer on Only Connect and in 2017 took over from Alan Connor as Question Editor (alongside David McGaughey). 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".[5] BusinessWaley-Cohen was a director of UK translation company Lingo24 from 2003-2012. He is currently a director of three companies: what3words, Property Detective and QuizQuizQuiz.[6] PersonalJack Waley-Cohen is the grandson of former Lord Mayor of London Sir Bernard Waley-Cohen, cousin of successful amateur jockey Sam Waley-Cohen, son of impresario Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen, brother of violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen, and nephew of the sinologist Joanna Waley-Cohen. Waley-Cohen is a good amateur tennis player, beating former Wimbledon winner Pat Cash in a doubles match at a Save the Children corporate tennis tournament in December, 2008. References1. ^UK Game Shows, Totally Top Trumps 2. ^1 QuizPlayers.com, Jack Waley-Cohen 3. ^[https://us.imdb.com/name/nm3141769/ IMDB.com, Jack Waley-Cohen] 4. ^Low Culture.co.uk, Somehow a Vital Connection is Made (December 22, 2008) 5. ^{{cite web|title=The Museum of Curiosity: Series 10: Episode 3|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08b7t22|publisher=BBC Radio 4|accessdate=25 January 2017}} 6. ^https://www.duedil.com/director/909324952/jack-david-waley-cohen External links
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