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Only Connect: Series 4: Episode 5: Fantasy Writers vs Bridge Players

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Episode 5: Fantasy Writers vs Bridge Players

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Fantasy Writers vs Bridge Players

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Three fantasy writers lock horns with a trio of ex-Oxford University bridge players.

Quiz show in which links must be made between seemingly random things. Three fantasy writers lock horns with a trio of bridge players.

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

Three fantasy writers, captained by a man who has written for Doctor Who, lock horns with a trio of bridge players, each with post-grad qualifications from Oxford University. 

They compete to draw together the connections between things which, at first glance, seem utterly random, from monocaine to the helmet of Perseus to Siegfried's cloak to James Bond's Aston Martin.

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Quiz show in which teams draw together the connections between seemingly random things

Quiz show in which patience and lateral thinking are as vital as knowledge, as teams compete to draw together the connections between things which seem utterly random

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