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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 and is a former president of the Oxford University Quiz Society.

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Quiz career

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

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.

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, and his team – the Lapsed Psychologists – made it to the final 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".

Business

Waley-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.

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 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.

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