Next Episode of Only Connect is
Season 21 / Episode 23 and airs on 22 December 2025 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.
A place in the quarter-finals is at stake – one of the teams will have to leave the competition.
But not before facing such questions as: Tom Jones, Andy McNab, Ruby Sunday and Moses – what connects them all?
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far – the vital extra ingredients are logic and lateral thinking.
Another quarter-final place is on offer, and it looks to be another tight game, featuring such questions as: Thailand -4, Malaysia -3, Slovakia -2… what might come next in the sequence?
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far – the vital extra ingredients are logic and lateral thinking.
The semi-finals loom, and the questions are getting trickier. For example, what would come fourth in this sequence: South Africa: 4/8, New Zealand 3/10 and Australia 2/10?
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far – the vital extra ingredients are logic and lateral thinking.
Another place in the semi-finals is decided, and the questions are as demanding as ever. For example: Ross, Stoke, Henley... what might come fourth in the sequence?
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?
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