I have been on some great quiz shows which never made it beyond two or three series and whatever anyone tells you it’s impossible to tell which are going to be hits and which will flop. People forget, but shows such as Pointless and The Chase, whose brilliance we all now take for granted, weren’t brilliant in the beginning.

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Organized into a series of discrete 4-round games, each game increases in difficulty, as you try to reach the grand final. I’ve been using the same two scratchy old saucepans for about 20 years, just because they aren’t literally broken. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Covering each of the show’s four rounds – Connections, Sequences, the Connecting Wall and Missing Vowels – and with introductions from presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell, here is your chance to put your own sleuthing and quizzical knowledge to the Only Connect test. Sidenote -- anyone else feeling miffed that the subtitle consonants (on the book cover) are not re-spaced, in true form to the show?April 1st-12th [the numbers are the positions of the first and last letters in the alphabet of each month. It follows a “same but slightly different” format to the first book: it’s packed full of question from the show, and includes plenty of brand new material as well. For every question that has been on the show, we tell you how the teams managed, so you can compare yourself to them.

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As you may know, Jack and David from QuizQuizQuiz are the Question Editors for Only Connect, and have put together the book, complete with a brilliant (of course) introduction from Victoria Coren Mitchell. She used to read him quiz books instead of bedtime stories and when the Waley-Cohens set off on long car journeys, those in the back knew they wouldn’t be allowed to nod gently off to sleep.Quiz shows are relatively cheap to produce, but finding a format that’s not just different to what has gone before, but has a great host and gets the right slot, also involves a huge amount of luck.