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?