The Link (game show)
The Link is a BBC quiz show that has aired on BBC One since 5 May 2014 and is hosted by Mark Williams.
Gameplay
First round
Three teams of two contestants attempt to answer general knowledge questions and identify links between the answers to each question. After correctly identifying the common bond between the answers, the team then removes a number of links attached to six cash amounts displayed on a screen: £125, £300, £500, £750, £1,000 and £2,000. The cash amounts are suspended by links, with higher cash values suspended by a larger number of links: only one link for the £125 value, and six links for the £2,000 value. The fewer answers it takes a team to identify the common bond, the more links the team is able to cut from the cash amounts.
All questions are toss-ups, and any member of a team can buzz-in and attempt to answer the question. If the contestant answers the question correctly, the team can confer before providing their guess to what links the specific set of answers. For example, connecting the answer "Harry" to the question "Name Prince William's younger brother" and the answer "Draco" to the question "Eltanin is the brightest star in which constellation?" would produce a link to Harry Potter (which features the characters Harry and Draco Malfoy). The fewer answers the team requires to decipher the common bond means the team can cut more links from the cash amounts suspended on the screen. If the team needs only one answer to decipher the common bond, the team can cut four links from the cash amounts. The number of links to cut reduces to three for needing two clues; two links for needing three clues; and one link if all four clues are needed.
Link
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The Link (album)
The Link is the second album released by the French metal band Gojira. A re-mastered edition of the album was released in 2005 by the band's former label, Listenable Records. The track "Indians" was released as a single.
In late September 2012, Listenable Records released the album in vinyl format. A strictly limited edition of 250 copies, available in two colors – black and red.
Track listing
Personnel
Album personnel adapted from the CD liner notes of the 2005 re-release.
References
The Link (organisation)
The Link was established in July 1937 as an 'independent non-party organisation to promote Anglo-German friendship'. It generally operated as a cultural organisation, although its journal, the Anglo-German Review, reflected the pro-Nazi views of Admiral Sir Barry Domvile, and particularly in London it attracted a number of anti-semites and pro-Nazis. At its height the membership numbered around 4,300.
The Link was opposed to war between Britain and Germany, and because of this attracted the support of some British pacifists. When The Link and the Anglo-German Review were included among a number of peace organisations across the political spectrum in the Peace Service Handbook(a publication put out by the Peace Pledge Union) the Daily Telegraph and The News Chronicle published articles accusing the PPU of supporting Nazism. In response, PPU member Stuart Morris wrote to the papers stating there was no connection between the PPU and The Link, and that the former organisation did not support the German demand for colonies or peace at the expense of smaller nations. The PPU also sent a letter to its group leaders dissociating The Link from the PPU, and ceased publishing the Peace Service Handbook.
