The Only Connect Quiz Book collects over 200 of the most entertaining and perplexing challenges from the team behind the BBC’s hugely popular quiz show - including many new (never broadcast) questions. 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. Are there any other TV contests you’d fancy taking part in? You know, Celebrity MasterChef , Strictly Come Dancing , I’m a Celebrity… , that SAS one… Organized into a series of discrete 4-round games, each game increases in difficulty, as you try to reach the grand final. It’s like having your very own full series of Only Connect at home. With a healthy dose of trivia between games (What are the greatest ever Only Connect questions? Who is the best team of all time?) and an introduction by presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell, The Only Connect Quiz Book will take you skills to a new level. You have a huge fanbase from hosting Only Connect . What’s the strangest thing a fan has ever done? Like any gambler, I’ll bet on anything at all. There is absolutely no way to answer the second bit without getting in trouble.

The Only Connect Quiz Book collects over 200 of the most entertaining and perplexing challenges from the team behind the BBC’s hugely popular quiz show - including many new (never broadcast) questions. 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. Read more Details That, having previously imagined myself to be a fairly anxious person, I didn’t have the first idea. For fans of the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle detective series comes a collection of puzzles inspired by Holmes' most popular cases and adventures. I came across a great work of literature recently which I hadn’t realised was split into multiple volumes, so if I can find another three of those that might work,” he says.So limber up your frontal lobes, and get ready to pit your wits against the toughest quiz on TV. Read more Details About (or anything that can mean ‘Re’). [The clues indicate: There, Here, Ere…taking off the first letter of each time]

Remember, when you choose your team members you will need people who not only have exceptional general knowledge but who have patience and are outstanding lateral thinkers too. Of course, your Only Connect withdrawal symptoms won’t go away just like that and you may find setting up a regular quiz night is easier than facing up to how empty your Mondays are without the show.And for the show’s new found fans, being able to lose themselves in a gentle and unashamed celebration of geekery, discovering Only Connect might just be one of the few upsides in a year when we were all forced to stay at home.

I’m not at all competitive, which surprises people because I play high-stakes poker. But that’s a very particular endeavour. I don’t have a competitive soul in general. I play all sorts of games with friends and family for the sheer joy of the thing and I usually want others to win so they feel happy and up for playing again. What I enjoy is playing. The thing I badly want to win at is poker. And there’s another I’m thinking about around words that all look the same but are pronounced differently. That’s the great thing about the show, no topic is off limits.” Does a saucepan count as a gadget? I bought one of those recently. I was delighted. I’ve been using the same two scratchy old saucepans for about 20 years, just because they aren’t literally broken. It’s a really liberating moment when you allow yourself to upgrade. You used to review hardcore porn for the Erotic Review . Are you scarred for life by the things you saw? I don’t think so. Those are quite serious shows with authoritative, grownup hosts. I love Only Connect deeply but also find the trappings of a TV quiz inherently silly, which our contestants and viewers never mind me making clear. If I hosted one of those big beasts, I’d end up undermining them and upsetting the audience.

You’re one of the top professional poker players. Who’s the best famous person you’ve played against? No, Only Connect is a show for people who don’t usually get to appear on TV. It’s for the nervous and ungainly, for people who’ve never quite managed to fit in. It’s for shy glances and problem hair. It’s a safe space, where a very specifically talented group of people get to show off in their own understated way for an audience of their peers. And this is what makes it so brilliant.