Only Connect Season 19, Episode 27: Third Place Play-Off

Cribbagers v Gunners

Victoria Coren Mitchell returns to the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. In the opening heat, three keen cribbage players face a team of Arsenal supporters.

29 min

Roadies v Stitchers

Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts another series of the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Three rock music fans face a team of enthusiastic embroiderers in another first-round heat.

28 min

Antiphons v Drop of Red

Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Three devotees of choral music come up against a team of red wine connoisseurs.

29 min

Thrifters v Suncatchers

Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Three lovers of all things pre-loved compete against a team of warm-weather worshippers.

28 min

Isotopes v Academicals

Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Three Matt Groening fans take on a trio of teachers in another opening heat.

29 min

Also Rans v Gardners

Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Three former Mastermind contenders are in the spotlight, facing a family team.

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Mercians v Volunteers

Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Three willing volunteers take on a team from the Midlands to establish the connection between apparently random clues

Video Nasties v Solomons Family

In another first-round contest, a fearless family faces fervent film fans. As ever, it’s all about connections – what links Green monster, Small chandelier, Stone sausage and Merrygold robin?

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Roadies v Cribbagers

Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. The series reaches the knock-out stage tonight, and only one of the teams can progress to the next round.

28 min

Drop of Red v Suncatchers

Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. It’s the knock-out stage, and the next round beckons for one of the teams.

28 min

Academicals v Gardners

Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Having lost their first game, both teams need a win to stay in.

28 min

Solomons Family v Volunteers

Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Once again, one of the teams will be saying goodbye from the competition.

29 min

Stitchers v Gunners

Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. It’s a ‘winner-winner’ game, so everyone survives to quiz another day.

29 min

Antiphons v Thrifters

It's another ‘winner-winner’ heat, which means one team motors straight through to the next round, while the other has to take a more scenic route.

28 min

Isotopes v Also Rans

Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Everyone’s a winner in this episode - in the sense that the losing team can play another game later in the series.

29 min

Mercians v Video Nasties

The Mercians became the second highest scorers in the programme’s history in their last appearance: they finished with 36 points. But how will they do against the Video Nasties?

28 min

Antiphons v Suncatchers

Only one team can progress to the next round, after wrestling with clues such as: Patch (dog), Jason (cat), Fred/Freda (tortoise). What comes next in the sequence?

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Roadies v Stitchers

It’s a rematch tonight – the teams have met before, but once again, fate has intervened to bring them face to face to face. Posidriv, Torx, Phillips… what comes next in the sequence?

28 min

Solomons Family v Video Nasties

It's another rematch – the Video Nasties won last time these teams met. What will the Solomons Family have to do to beat them?

28 min

Isotopes v Gardners

All that stands between the teams and a place in the quarter finals is… well, questions, obviously. Questions such as this: aua (J), eua (F), a (M). What’s next?

29 min

Gunners v Suncatchers

Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. It’s another fiercely fought contest, but one of the teams will have to head home.

28 min

Thrifters v Stitchers

It's a quarter-final, and the teams have go grapple with such important questions as: what connects Meng Po soup, Lacuna Inc, the waters of Lethe and Superman’s kiss?

28 min

Also Rans v Video Nasties

It’s a quarter-final, and the questions are getting trickier. For example: various, gaseous, caesium... what might come next in the sequence?

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Isotopes v Mercians

A look at just how far some people will go to commemorate their participation in the show. And what comes fourth in the following sequence: The Snow ____, Under the ____ Sun and The ____ In Winter?

28 min

Semi-Final 1

It's the first semi-final of the series, with the teams facing such questions as: what connects gender reveal parties, Dune (1984 film), Creep and pop-up ads?

28 min

Semi-Final

A coveted place in the third place play-off is at stake: one team will have to settle for being in the final.

28 min

The Final

Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the series final of the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. It’s an exciting episode: everyone will remember where they were when they watched the drama unfold.

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