Where is airing: BBC Two
For what age: 19+
How many episodes in 18 season: 28 episodes
Victoria Coren Mitchell returns with the quiz based on patience and lateral thinking, with data-lovers the Statisticals taking on Terry Pratchett fans the Morporkians in the first match. The two teams of three try to draw together the connections between things that at first glance seem utterly random, with one set of clues asking what links Micro-eon, Guinea-tail, Greedy-let, and Peppa-ment
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts another first-round match as Jilly Cooper fans the Jillies take on running enthusiats the Road Runners. The teams must use patience, lateral thinking and sheer inspiration to make connections between four things that may appear at first not to be linked
Three followers of fashion take on a team comprising a mother, a daughter, the daughter's cousin and the mother's niece. No, the format hasn't changed: that's still only a team of three.
Three puzzle fans compete against a team of mature students - yes, there is such a thing.
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Three teachers from Brighton take on three Blackadder addicts in another opening heat.
One of the teams has a former MP, but her political knowledge can only take them so far.
One team are rugby supporters, and their opponents are admirers of crustaceans.
As the series reaches the knock-out stage, can the teams find the link between West and Exotic, Diane and Elvis, Moll and Graeme, and Liston and Lloyd?
Two bird-named teams take part in an avian stand-off to establish a pecking order.
When presented with a sequence of three clues, can the teams work out what the fourth would be? They're faced with this apparently random list: New Zealand Parrott, Alias, Small Ford Model.
In another knockout match, one of the teams works out what connects the four clues after only seeing two of them: Narnian donkey and Edinburgh-based detective.
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. She asks what connects the following: Black and White, X and Y, Sun and Moon, and Sword and Shield.
Three sitcom fans take on a team with a passion for the performing arts.
It could be covered with duct tape, rubbed with raw meat, have dandelion milk dripped on it, or be frozen. But why would anyone want to? Victoria is on hand to explain.
Two returning teams fight for a place in the next round. To get there, all they have to do is answer a series of questions, including working out what comes next in this sequence: The Bosphorous, The Menai Stait and The Golden Gate...
This is a rematch: the fiendish series structure means these teams met in a previous round. As ever, the trick is finding connections - for example, between Hotel Marbez, Mount Everest, Horseshoe Falls and Chester Football Club.
Two family teams battle it out to stay in the competition, tackling questions such as: Underchamber, Equine sea monster, Pod of the temples and Little brain - what is the connection?
There's a place in the next round on offer, and all the teams have to do is answer questions like this: Obel Tower / The Tower, Meridian Quay / Glasgow Tower / The Shard. What's the connection?
A semi-final place awaits one of the two returning teams, but to get there, they have to answer a series of diabolical questions, such as working out what comes next in this sequence: Diaballik, Chess and Sudoku...
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far - logic and lateral thinking are the vital extra ingredients.
The semi-finals are looming. All the teams need to do to book their place is answer questions such as: 7 March 2021, 3 July 2021, 22 January 2022. What comes next in the sequence?
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Six contestants in search of a semi-final place must deal with a series of tricky questions.
It's the first of the semi-finals, and the pressure is on. What connects On Top of Spaghetti, Pinocchio's time inside Monstro, Adelaide's Lament and the cocaine scene in the film Annie Hall?
It's the second semi-final, but the series structure means the teams have met before. The final beckons, but first there's the small matter of finding the connections between things like this: spread out, heap, lock of hair and heap of rainstorm.
The final can wait, because this episode is the third place play-off! Featuring such questions as what comes next in this sequence: Mc/Ball, Nu/Bell, Gg/Bone...
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. It's the grand final, and Victoria and the teams are joined in the studio by two sparkling guests.
