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Victoria Coren hosts the fiendishly difficult quiz in which two teams of three contestants have to find the connection between seemingly unrelated clues.

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Only Connect: Too Many Cookes v Tea Totallers  Season 20, Episode 20

More high scores, but only one team can progress to the next round, and the clues are getting trickier. For example, what connects: Tamaulipas, British Hong Kong, Seychelles, and British Columbia?
posted by Carillon on Jan 9 at 10:42 AM - 1 comment

Only Connect: Uisge Beathas v Crunchers   Season 20, Episode 19

When these teams met before, the Crunchers barely won, so there's a score to be settled. Gwen Stefani, Ryan Reynolds and Alexis Carrington, what do they have in common, and who might come fourth in the sequence.
posted by Carillon on Dec 17, 2024 at 9:55 AM - 3 comments

Only Connect: Hopsters v Al Frescans  Season 20, Episode 18

It's the knockout stage, so one of the teams will be going home, but not before grappling with clues such as 1000 is ALL, 100 is CV, 10 is J. What's next in the sequence?
posted by Carillon on Dec 9, 2024 at 8:06 PM - 2 comments

Only Connect: Harmonics v Cat Cows  Season 20, Episode 17

The knockout stage has arrived, and it's a rematch. Yes, thanks to the series structure, these teams have played each other before. They're facing such questions as Arkana, Astana, Nur-Sultan, what comes fourth in the sequence.
posted by Carillon on Dec 2, 2024 at 11:44 PM - 1 comment

Only Connect: Introverts v Crunchers  Season 20, Episode 16

Nobody goes home tonight: for the teams, it’s a question of how they get to the next round... The questions are getting tougher. For example: German 'yes’, the bassist Pastorius and actor Sir Derek – what comes next in the sequence?
posted by Carillon on Nov 30, 2024 at 3:45 PM - 2 comments

Only Connect: Too Many Cookes v Bloomsbury Group  Season 20, Episode 15

In another tight match, the team that wins goes straight through to the next round, while the other team will have to play again to stay in the competition.
posted by Carillon on Nov 22, 2024 at 9:17 AM - 2 comments

Only Connect: Four Opinions v Cat Cows  Season 20, Episode 14

Two teams of talented quizzers wrestle with such questions as -1: OAT, -2: BAT, -3: BOT. What comes next in the sequence?
posted by Carillon on Nov 15, 2024 at 12:10 AM - 3 comments

Only Connect: Al Frescans v Sprouters  Season 20, Episode 13

The Al Frescans and the Sprouters return to slug it out for a place in the next round - the winners go straight through, the losing team takes a more scenic route. Bearded, ancient and bearded, Sunday and trinity and tobacco. What connects them all?
posted by Carillon on Nov 9, 2024 at 4:12 PM - 2 comments

Only Connect: Uisge Beathas v Third Agers  Season 20, Episode 12

A team of whisky lovers returns to face a team from the U3A, all aiming to establish connections between apparently random clues.
posted by Carillon on Oct 28, 2024 at 11:59 PM - 8 comments

Only Connect: Pipe-Dreamers v Tea Totallers  Season 1, Episode 11

Three surrealism fans take on a team of tea enthusiasts, trying to establish connections between apparently random clues.
posted by Carillon on Oct 26, 2024 at 12:17 AM - 1 comment

Only Connect: Harmonics v Bean Farmers  Season 20, Episode 10

Undeterred by having been ppp dtth pst in the missing vowels round last time, the Harmonics are back to take on three devotees of a German card game.
posted by Carillon on Oct 17, 2024 at 10:19 PM - 1 comment

Only Connect: Hopsters v Midlanders  Season 20, Episode 9

Three Midlanders take on a team of ale aficionados in trying to connect a series of clues.
posted by Carillon on Oct 8, 2024 at 11:25 PM - 1 comment

Only Connect: Uisge Beathas v Crunchers  Season 20, Episode 8

Three whisky drinkers take on three number crunchers this week, all seeking the link between apparently random clues. For example: Black (from Australia), Bewick’s and Whooper – what do they have in common?
posted by Carillon on Sep 30, 2024 at 11:08 PM - 2 comments

Only Connect: Third Agers v Introverts  Season 20, Episode 7

Three self-professed introverts have ventured as far as Cardiff to take on three representatives of the University of the Third Age, all seeking the link between apparently random clues. For example: Barbados, Club Med, Maserati and Britannia – what do they have in common?
posted by Carillon on Sep 24, 2024 at 12:36 PM - 4 comments

Only Connect: Bloomsbury Group v Tea Totallers  Season 20, Episode 6

Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Forster, Keynes and Woolf: all unavailable, sadly, but how will their stand-ins fare against a team of three tea devotees?
posted by Carillon on Sep 16, 2024 at 10:36 PM - 4 comments

Only Connect: Too Many Cookes v Pipe Dreamers  Season 20, Episode 5

A team of pipe-dreamers take on the Cooke family in another first-round match.
posted by Carillon on Sep 10, 2024 at 11:38 AM - 1 comment

Only Connect: Harmonics v Cat Cows  Season 20, Episode 4

A love of classical music has brought one team together and a yearning for yoga unites the other - but both teams are bound up in their devotion to quizzing. Victoria Coren Mitchell presents this match from the opening round.
posted by Carillon on Sep 2, 2024 at 7:27 PM - 2 comments

Only Connect: Four Opinions v Bean Farmers  Season 20, Episode 3

Four Opinions are a team of three people who like to agree to disagree. In this first round match they take on the Bean Farmers - a trio of friends united by their love of the German card game Bonanza (in which players farm beans).
posted by Carillon on Aug 30, 2024 at 9:27 AM - 3 comments

Only Connect: Hopsters v Sprouters  Season 20, Episode 2

As Victoria Coren Mitchell presents the second heat from the opening round of the twentieth series - one of the teams likes beer while the other has a bit of a thing for big vegetables - the bigger the better, apparently.
posted by Carillon on Aug 30, 2024 at 9:23 AM - 1 comment

Only Connect: Al Frescans v Midlanders  Season 20, Episode 1

Victoria Coren Mitchell returns with the opening heat from the twentieth series of the quiz as three fresh air fanatics take on a trio of Midlanders.
posted by Carillon on Aug 30, 2024 at 9:20 AM - 1 comment