Only Connect

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

Nobody goes home after this episode – that's just how the series structure rolls. The questions are as quirky as ever, for example: what connects panorama, accountant, unalive and seggs?

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

There's plenty of early buzzing going on in what proves to be a high-scoring contest. The teams don't need the fourth clue to work out what connects the following: Indo-Aryan languages (possibly), Mongolia and ear. And what was that fourth clue?

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

Neither team is leaving the tournament this time, but the questions are as challenging as ever. What connects the following: impossible question, unexpectedly blue, safe woods and uninformed loop?

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

It's a knockout round, and only one of the two returning teams can go through after trying to establish what connects such apparently random clues as Bradypus tridactylus, ‘Sunflower Seeds' artist, Anguilla and Grok.