Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the series where knowledge will only take you so far. Patience and lateral thinking are also vital.

Two teams who won their opening heats return for the next stage of the competition. They try to draw together the connections between things which, at first glance, seem utterly random.

So join Victoria if you want to know what connects John Eales and a 1976 US presidential candidate to Odysseus, Polyphemus and Mr Pooter. Show less