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Only Connect called ‘the hardest quiz on TV’ – so can you get any of these difficult questions right?

Published on April 07, 2025 at 10:28 AM

BBC Two's Only Connect has been labelled the trickiest quiz show on the box – but can you answer the top 10 of their most mind-boggling questions?

The popular show, presented by , 52, has just celebrated its 500th episode – and it isn't slowing down the pace any time soon.

Victoria Coren Mitchell on the set of Only Connect.
Only Connect presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell
Victoria Coren Mitchell holding game cards on a game show set.
It's one of TV's toughest quizzes, but can you get any of these 10 questions right?

It was recently crowned the most difficult quiz on TV in a survey conducted by Spin Genie AR's Treasure Quest launch.

So can you get your head around any of these hard-hitting quiz questions?

1. What is the connection?

Beethoven's 7th

Centre of Gravity

3rd of November

Very beginning

2. What connects these famous people?

Julian Clary

George Elliot/ Dick Van Dyke

3. What connects these four things?

The Rio Olympic diving pool

Oxidised paper

17th century carrots

An embarrassed person

4. What links these four clues?

‘Grindelwald is the younger of the two main characters'

‘Fleur Delacour dates Grindelwald'

‘Mad-Eye Moody is the older of the main characters'

‘Lord Voldermort is the boss of Grindelwald and Mad-Eye Moody'

5. Can you spot the connection between these phrases?

Languages

Acronyms

Keyboards

6. What connects these English counties?

3 in Cambridgeshire

2 in Staffordshire

1 in Hertfordshire

0 in

7. What is the connection that links this sequence?

Dactyl = D

Anapest = U

Trochee = N

Iamb = A

8. What is the connection from this missing vowels round?

BGB GBGB GBG

PTTN GPTT NGPT TNGPT TNGP TTNG

MSS SMS SSM SS SMS SSM SSS

LS TL ST LST LS TL ST

9. What is the connection in Victoria Coren Mitchell's ‘most hated' question?

Farm land

The Wurzles

10. What is the connection? Try (if you see only this), B (if you see also this), Yellow (if you also see this), A loss (if you see this)

Pelican crossings

Eye tests

Tom McKechnie, Danielle Cope, and Mel Gibbons on Only Connect.
The BBC show has been called the hardest quiz on TV

Answers

1. The position of the letter V in each phrase.

2. They all share their names with Enid Blyton's The Famous Five.

3. They are all colour changes in the order of the rainbow. The pool at the Rio Olympics turned green, oxidised paper changes to yellow, carrots were originally purple before orange ones were grown in the 17th century and an embarrassed person's face turns red.

4. In Bruges. All are actors who also starred in the In Bruges. Colin Farrell, Clemence Poesy, and Ralph Fiennes.

5. The first letters of each of the phrases spell out QWERTY in French, German, Russian and English.

6. The English counties by the number of cities. Cambridge, Ely, and Peterborough are in Cambridgeshire, Stoke-on-Trent and Lichfield are in Staffordshire and St Albans is in Hertfordshire. While there are no cities in Dorset.

7. Morse code in metric feet. A dactyl is a metric foot that consists of a stressed syllable as well as two unstressed syllables. When translated to morse code it becomes dash dot, dash dot dot. D would be dash dot dot while Anapest becomes U as it is dot dot dash.

8. They are all five words in alphabetical order. BAG BEG BIG BOG BUG / PATTING PETTING PITTING POTTING PUTTING / MASSES MESSES MISSES MOSSES MUSSES and LAST LEST LIST LOST LUST.

9. The Wurzles' song, ‘I've Got A Brand New Harvester'. It goes ‘I got 20 acres and you got 43, now I got a brand new combine harvester and I'll give you the key.'

10. The scoring system on Only Connect. A Try in rugby scores five, B wins three in Scrabble, yellow is two in while red is one, and you score zero if you read all of the four clues and don't know the answer.

Lee Knowles, Ashwini Kamat, and Gareth Cottiss on Only Connect.
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Only Connect airs on BBC Two and is available to stream on iPlayer.

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