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Polymaths v Strategists

BBC Two - Only Connect, Series 3, Polymaths v Strategists

Three polymaths take on a team of board games players in the connections quiz.

Quiz show with Victoria Coren in which connections must be made between seemingly unconnected things. Three polymaths take on a team of board games players.

Quiz show presented by Victoria Coren in which knowledge will only take you so far, as patience and lateral thinking are also vital. 

The Polymaths pool their disparate skills in chicken husbandry, musical theatre and urban geography to challenge the brainpower of the Strategists, a team unified by their love of sophisticated strategy board games.

They compete to draw together the connections between things which, at first glance, seem utterly random, including Cakes and Ale, The Dogs of War, Brave New World and The Darling Buds of May.

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