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Jack Waley-Cohen
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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. Education Waley-Cohen went to Eton College, and was on the school chess team alongside fellow what3words co-founder Chris Sheldrick. He read Experimental Psychology at St John's College, Oxford, and was president of the Oxford University Quiz Society in 2000-2001. Quiz career Waley-Cohen was a frequent contestant on game shows, winning episodes of Countdown, Weakest Link. Win Beadle's Money and Defectors 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, a show which he had appeared on in 2007 with his team - 'the Lapsed Psychologists' - reaching the final 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". 
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