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]. He read Experimental Psychology at St John's College, Oxford and was president of the Oxford University Quiz Society in 2000-2001.[2]

Quiz career

Waley-Cohen won three Countdown shows and is also a former Weakest Link winner.[3]

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.[3]

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,[4] and his team – 'the Lapsed Psychologists' – made it to the final[5] 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".[6]

Business

Waley-Cohen was a director of UK translation company Lingo24 from 2003-2012. He is currently a director of two companies: what3words and QuizQuizQuiz.[7]

Personal

Jack 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 composer Freya 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.

References
  1. UK Game Shows, Totally Top Trumps
  2. "Committee". Oxford University Quiz Society. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
  3. QuizPlayers.com, Jack Waley-Cohen
  4. IMDB.com, Jack Waley-Cohen
  5. "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.
  6. "The Museum of Curiosity: Series 10: Episode 3". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  7. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/MJBaMp52RQf-m1EFdKALs_Y5nc8/appointments
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