The top 10 hardest Only Connect questions ever aired
Before the Only Connect Christmas Special, can you get these questions right?
Only Connect is one of the toughest game shows on TV – and these are the hardest questions the series has ever aired.
While the likes of The Chase and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire are general knowledge-based, Only Connect is all about lateral thinking.
It occupies the same head-scratching, infuriating league as University Challenge (and not just because university teams take part in it). You can stare at the screen and desperately try to formulate connections, only to be completely wrong when Victoria Coren-Mitchell reveals the answer.
To mark the Only Connect Christmas Special on BBC Two tonight, we’ve rounded up the hardest questions in the history of the show.
These are the most difficult Only Connect questions
There are four rounds in Only Connect: connections, sequences, the connecting wall, and missing vowels. This list will include a mixture of all of them.
10. Can you figure out the missing vowels and words?
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Bear in mind that the contestants on Only Connect need to do this as fast as they can. How long did it take you?
9. What connects these images, and can you guess the fourth picture?
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The images show characters who are all foundlings – also known as orphans and children whose parents have abandoned them (in Superman and Moses’ case, for noble reasons).
8. What connects each row of tiles in this Only Connect wall?
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We made this one a bit easier for you, because they’re usually jumbled up in a different order and you need to group them together. Don’t worry, we won’t afford you that courtesy for the rest of the list.
7. Who could come next, and what connects these images?
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Admittedly, this is the kind of question that makes people turn off Only Connect. Or, if you get it correct, you lord it over everyone else in the room.
6. What connects these three tiles, and what could the fourth clue be?
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The Property of a Lady was intended to be Timothy Dalton’s third movie as James Bond after Licence to Kill. The Hildebrand Rarity, Risico, and 007 in New York are three of Ian Fleming’s short stories featuring the secret agent.
5. What is the next event in this sequence, and why are they connected?
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You could also cite the death of American golfer Orville Moody and Russia’s invasion of Georgia, as they both happened on August 8, 2008.
4. What connects these two images?
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It’s simpler than it sounds. Just follow the line your finger draws between each letter, and that’s the flightpath. Victoria Coren Mitchell said it had to be explained to her 87 times.
3. What comes next in this sequence, and what connects all of the tiles?
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It’s simpler than it sounds. Just follow the line your finger draws between each letter, and that’s the flightpath. The answer had to be explained to Victoria Coren Mitchell 87 times.
2. What comes next in this sequence of letters, and what is the connection between them?
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If you managed to get this one right but you don’t know why, you aren’t alone. The team that faced this question knew the correct letters, but couldn’t explain what connected them.
1. What is the final tile in this sequence, and what connects them?
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In Victoria Coren Mitchell’s words, “this is the most difficult question we’ve ever had”. The host even admitted she lost a “large bet” that anyone would get it.
All four of these places are part of the lyrics of ‘Panic’ by The Smiths. Specifically these lines: “But there’s panic on the streets of Carlisle, Dublin, Dundee, Humberside.”
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