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Quiz show in which connections must be made between apparently unconnected things.

Deliciously devious and maddeningly abstract. Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the brain-teasing quiz where knowledge only gets you so far.

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Only Connect: Series 11

Victoria Coren Mitchell

Jenny Hawker

Siân G Lloyd

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Richard Heald

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Only Connect: Series 11: Episode 1: Cluesmiths v Operational Researchers

Cluesmiths v Operational Researchers

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Episode 1: Cluesmiths v Operational Researchers

Series 11

BBC Two - Only Connect, Series 11, Cluesmiths v Operational Researchers

Three crossword compilers take on a trio of operational researchers.

Victoria Coren Mitchell presents the quiz show about making connections. Three crossword compilers take on a trio of operational researchers.

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

Three crossword compilers take on a trio of operational researchers in the first of the eleventh series. They'll compete to draw together the connections between things which, at first glance, seem utterly random.

So join Victoria Coren Mitchell if you want to know what connects Quintuple Troth, Distress Signal, 1963 Lincoln Memorial Speech and 1815 Belgian Battle.

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Quiz show in which patience and lateral thinking are as vital as knowledge

Quiz show in which connections must be made between apparently unconnected things, where patience and lateral thinking are as vital as knowledge

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