Education
University of Oxford.
University of Oxford.
In 2008, he competed on the British Broadcasting Corporation 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. Waley-Cohen was a director of United Kingdom translation company Lingo24 from 2003-2012.
He is currently a director of three companies: what3words, Property Detective and QuizQuizQuiz.
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 television gameshow Defectors, presented by Richard Orford.