Only Connect

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

Three rowers take on a team of microbiologists in finding connections between apparently random clues. For example: Germany, HM Treasury, the Galactic Republic and the Duchy of Lancaster. What connects them?

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

A team keen on science fiction take on three fans of science fact, facing such questions as: what connects question hard, comically criticise, illegally hunt and pus-filled swelling?

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

It's Scotland versus Southport, with the teams clashing over such fiendish questions as: what would come fourth in the following sequence, 7: 1111111, 5: SEVEN, 3: VII…?

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

A line-up formed from the members of rival quiz teams takes on three Douglas Adams fans, trying to establish the connection between four apparently random clues.

For example: any light, see copy, peaty blonde and Effie Maiden – what connects them?

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

Three Rocky Horror fans take on a team of New Zealanders, trying to establish the connection between such clues as back save, leg help, face accept the reality and knees party.

One of the teams worked it out after three clues – but what is the answer?

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

A high-scoring game, but since nobody goes home tonight, you could say it's just for fun.

And if your idea of fun is questions such as: what connects Gladiator Kim Betts, David Bowie, Pikachu and The Flash, then you've definitely come to the right place.

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

Two vegans and a carnivore take on three teachers who are hoping to kill off an annoying classroom meme. They face such questions as: what connects swelling/bottom, burden/street, Roman detachment/area, and not heavy/correct?

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

There's an EastEnders-style revelation as a family team face three former work colleagues, all trying to find connections between such apparently random clues as Kite's Nest, Ravenseat, Duchy Home and Diddly Squat.

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

The microbiologists are back, this time facing a returning family of stargazers. The series has reached the knockout stage: one team will go home, but not before they've pondered the link between such clues as fore, dog, anti and woebe.

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

Three fans of a paranoid android take on a team of Merseysiders – only one team can progress to the next round, and they get there by connecting clues such as lop, urve, cheron, and actrian camel humps.