Next Episode of Only Connect is
Season 21 / Episode 27 and airs on 19 January 2026 20:00
Quiz show in which connections must be made between apparently unconnected things, where patience and lateral thinking are as vital as knowledge.
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far – the vital extra ingredients are logic and lateral thinking.
Once again there's a place in the semi-finals on offer, with two teams facing ever more testing questions, such as: 19/2=50, 10/4=100, 30/5=150… what would come fourth in this sequence?
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far – the vital extra ingredients are logic and lateral thinking.
It's nip and tuck and touch and go as another place in the semi-finals is decided. Here's an example of the sort of question the teams are up against: 4. Saint Francis, 3. Saint Joseph, 2. Saint James… what comes fourth in this sequence?
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).
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