Only Connect

Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far – the vital extra ingredients are logic and lateral thinking.

It's the first of the semi-finals – the questions are tough, but so are the teams after surviving the gruelling earlier rounds.

Arsenal, Ghetto, Lagoon, Lido – what's the connection between those four apparently random clues?

Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far – the vital extra ingredients are logic and lateral thinking.

These teams have met before, and revenge is in the air. But it's a semi-final, and the difficulty of the questions has gone up a notch. For example: grotesque figure, evil spirit of the dead, tribe of hairy women and man of the forest – what's the connection?
Victoria has the answers.

Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far – the vital extra ingredients are logic and lateral thinking.

These teams have met before, and revenge is in the air. But it's a semi-final, and the difficulty of the questions has gone up a notch. For example: grotesque figure, evil spirit of the dead, tribe of hairy women and man of the forest – what's the connection?

Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far – the vital extra ingredients are logic and lateral thinking.

After 28 weeks of brain-to-brain combat, it's the final at last, and it all comes down to this: twenty-nine minutes of such challenging questions as: NATO (2,11), RSPB (4,13), WWE (7,7) and www (9,3).