Only Connect has been dubbed as the ‘most difficult quiz on TV’ and its hardest ever questions have been revealed – but how many can you answer correctly?
The BBC show first broadcast in 2008 and consists of a tournament-type format in which teams compete by finding connections between seemingly unrelated clues.
It is presented by Victoria Coren Mitchell, 52, and has so far seen over 500 episodes spanning across 20 series.
Naturally, there have been countless questions on the show that have left both fans and contestants alike baffled.
And the show was recently named one of the most difficult quiz programmes on television, in a survey part of Spin Genie AR’s Treasure Quest launch.
Here are ten of the trickiest questions seen on Only Connect so far:
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Only Connect has been dubbed as the ‘most difficult quiz on TV’ and its hardest ever questions have been revealed – but how many can you answer correctly?
1. What is the connection?
Beethoven’s 7th
Centre of Gravity
3rd of November
Very beginning
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The BBC show first broadcast in 2008 and consists of a tournament-type format in which teams compete by finding connections between seemingly unrelated clues
2. What connects these famous people?
Julian Clary
George Elliot/ Dick Van Dyke
Anne Hathaway
Timmy Mallet
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What connects these famous people? Julian Clary, George Elliot/ Dick Van Dyke, Anne Hathaway (pictured), Timmy Mallet
3. What connects these four things?
The Rio Olympic diving pool
Oxidised paper
17th century carrots
An embarrassed person
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What connects these four things? The Rio Olympic diving pool (pictured), Oxidised paper, 17th century carrots, An embarrassed person
4. What links these four clues?
‘Grindelwald is the younger of the two main characters’
‘Fleur Delacour dates Grindelwald’
‘Mad-Eye Moody is the older of the main characters’
‘Lord Voldermort is the boss of Grindelwald and Mad-Eye Moody’
What links these four clues? ‘Grindelwald is the younger of the two main characters’, ‘Fleur Delacour dates Grindelwald’, ‘Mad-Eye Moody is the older of the main characters’, ‘Lord Voldermort is the boss of Grindelwald and Mad-Eye Moody’
5. Can you spot the connection between these phrases?
Languages
Acronyms
Keyboards
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Can you spot the connection between these phrases? Languages, Acronyms, Keyboards
6. What connects these English counties?
3 in Cambridgeshire
2 in Staffordshire
1 in Hertfordshire
0 in Dorset
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What connects these English counties? 3 in Cambridgeshire, 2 in Staffordshire, 1 in Hertfordshire, 0 in Dorset. Pictured: Trinity College in Cambridge
7. What is the connection that links this sequence?
Dactyl = D
Anapest = U
Trochee = N
Iamb = A
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Only Connect is presented by Victoria Coren Mitchell (pictured), 52, and has so far seen over 500 episodes spanning across 20 series
8. What is the connection from this missing vowels round?
BGB GBGB GBG
PTTN GPTT NGPT TNGPT TNGP TTNG
MSS SMS SSM SS SMS SSM SSS
LS TL ST LST LS TL ST
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Naturally, there have been countless of questions on the show that have left fans and contestants baffled
9. What is the connection in Victoria Coren Mitchell’s ‘most hated’ question?
Farm land
The Wurzles
Clarkson’s Farm
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What is the connection in Victoria Coren Mitchell’s (pictured) ‘most hated’ question?
10. What is the connection? Try (if you see only this), B (if you see also this), Yellow (if you also see this), A loss (if you see this)
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Pelican crossings
Eye tests
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And the show recently was named as one of the most difficult quiz programmes on television , in a survey part of Spin Genie AR’s Treasure Quest launch
Answers
1. The position of the letter V in each phrase.
2. They all share their names with Enid Blyton’s The Famous Five.
3. They are all colour changes in the order of the rainbow. The pool at the Rio Olympics turned green, oxidised paper changes to yellow, carrots were originally purple before orange ones were grown in the 17th century and an embarrassed person’s face turns red.
4. In Bruges. All are Harry Potter actors who also starred in the film In Bruges. Colin Farrell, Clemence Poesy, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes.
5. The first letters of each of the phrases spell out QWERTY in French, German, Russian and English.
6. The English counties by the number of cities. Cambridge, Ely, and Peterborough are in Cambridgeshire, Stoke-on-Trent and Lichfield are in Staffordshire and St Albans is in Hertfordshire. While there are no cities in Dorset.
7. Morse code in metric feet. A dactyl is a metric foot that consists of a stressed syllable as well as two unstressed syllables. When translated to morse code it becomes dash dot, dash dot dot. D would be dash dot dot while Anapest becomes U as it is dot dot dash.
8. They are all five words in alphabetical order. BAG BEG BIG BOG BUG / PATTING PETTING PITTING POTTING PUTTING / MASSES MESSES MISSES MOSSES MUSSES and LAST LEST LIST LOST LUST.
9. The Wurzles’ song, ‘I’ve Got A Brand New Harvester’. It goes ‘I got 20 acres and you got 43, now I got a brand new combine harvester and I’ll give you the key.’
10. The scoring system on Only Connect. A Try in rugby scores five, B wins three in Scrabble, yellow is two in snooker while red is one, and you score zero if you read all of the four clues and don’t know the answer.
