01. Al Frescans v Midlanders
Victoria Coren Mitchell returns with the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. In this opening heat, three fresh air fanatics take on a trio of Midlanders.
02. Hopsters v Sprouters
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. One of the teams likes beer, while the other has a bit of a thing for big vegetables.
03. Four Opinions v Bean Farmers
Victoria Coren Mitchell presents the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. The words peaceful, easy and normal – what do they have in common, and what would come fourth in that sequence?
04. Harmonics v Cat Cows
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. A love of classical music brought one team together, and a yearning for yoga unites the other.
05. Too Many Cookes v Pipe-Dreamers
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. A team of pipe-dreamers take on the Cooke family in another first-round match.
06. Bloomsbury Group v Tea Totallers
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Forster, Keynes and Woolf: all unavailable, sadly, but how will their stand-ins fare against a team of three tea devotees?
07. Third Agers v Introverts
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Three self-professed introverts take on three representatives of the University of the Third Age.
08. Uisge Beathas v Crunchers
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Three whisky drinkers take on three number crunchers.
09. Hopsters v Midlanders
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Three Midlanders take on a team of ale aficionados in trying to connect a series of clues.
10. Harmonics v Bean Farmers
Undeterred by having been beaten in the missing vowels round last time, the Harmonics are back to take on three devotees of a German card game.
11. Pipe-Dreamers v Tea Totallers
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Three surrealism fans take on a team of tea enthusiasts, trying to establish connections between apparently random clues.
12. Uisge Beathas v Third Agers
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. A team of whisky lovers returns to face a team from the U3A.
13. Al Frescans v Sprouters
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. The Al Frescans and the Sprouters return to slug it out for a place in the next round.
14. Four Opinions v Cat Cows
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far – logic and lateral thinking are the vital extra ingredients.
Two teams of talented quizzers wrestle with such questions as -1: OAT, -2: BAT, -3: BOT. What comes next in the sequence?
15. Too Many Cookes v Bloomsbury Group
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. What connects: evil, line manager, pleasantly cold and vomit?
16. Introverts v Crunchers
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Nobody goes home tonight: for the teams, it’s a question of how they get to the next round...
17. Harmonics v Cat Cows
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. The knockout stage has arrived, and it’s a rematch!
18. Hopsters v Al Frescans
It's the knockout stage, so one of the teams will be going home - but not before grappling with clues such as 1000 is ALL, 100 is CV, 10 is J. What’s next in the sequence?
19. Uisge Beathas v Crunchers
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. When these teams met before, the Crunchers barely won, so there’s a score to be settled.
20. Too Many Cookes v Tea Totallers
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. More high scores, but only one team can progress to the next round, and the clues are getting trickier.
21. Cat Cows v Sprouters
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far – logic and lateral thinking are the vital extra ingredients.
Yoga lovers and veg men vie for victory and a place in the next round. They face such questions as: what connects verb, abbreviated, monosyllabic and hyphenated?
22. Al Frescans v Four Opinions
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. The Four Opinions won their previous game on a tie-break, but what does fate have in store for them this time?
23. Bloomsbury Group v Crunchers
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far – logic and lateral thinking are the vital extra ingredients.
Two teams face off in an attempt to get through to the semi-finals. What connects the following: excels, robust, Liberec and Arabic?
24. Introverts v Tea Totallers
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. There’s a place in the semi-finals at stake, and as is only to be expected, the questions are getting more fiendish.
25. Semi Final - Four Opinions v Cat Cows
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. It’s semi-final time, and a coveted place in the third-place play-off is at stake.
26. Semi-Final - Tea Totallers v Crunchers
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. The second semi-final goes to the wire in the missing vowels round, but first up are some tricky sequence questions.
27. Third Place Play-Off
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. It’s the third place play-off, and the questions have grown suitably gnarly.
28. The Final
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far – logic and lateral thinking are the vital extra ingredients.
The winners of the series are crowned – and it’s as close a contest as can be expected.