Only Connect

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

It's semi-final time, and a coveted place in the third-place play-off is at stake. The teams are on form, with this sequence question being answered after just two clues: 13: Anne of Austria, 14: Maria Theresa of Spain... what comes fourth?

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

The second semi-final goes to the wire in the Missing Vowels round, but before that, some tricky Sequence questions must be dealt with.

For example – BBC: M&S, C4: N&S, C4: N&M... what comes next?

Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far – logic and lateral thinking are the vital extra ingredients.
It's the third place play-off, and the questions have grown suitably difficult. For example: Pelham and Hope, Curb and Fosse, Gag and Marley, and Snaffle and Geldof – what's the connection?

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

The winners of the series are crowned – and, as can be expected, it's a close contest.