The BEST episodes of Only Connect season 20
Every episode of Only Connect season 20, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Only Connect season 20!
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the series where knowledge will only take you so far. Patience and lateral thinking are also vital.
#1 - Introverts v Crunchers
Season 20 - Episode 16 - Aired 11/25/2024
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...
#2 - Uisge Beathas v Third Agers
Season 20 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/28/2024
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.
#3 - The Final
Season 20 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/3/2025
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, as can be expected, it’s a close contest.
#4 - Harmonics v Bean Farmers
Season 20 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/14/2024
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.
#5 - Pipe-Dreamers v Tea Totallers
Season 20 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/21/2024
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.
#6 - Third Agers v Introverts
Season 20 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/23/2024
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.
#7 - Four Opinions v Cat Cows
Season 20 - Episode 14 - Aired 11/11/2024
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?
#8 - Semi-Final - Four Opinions v Cat Cows
Season 20 - Episode 25 - Aired 2/10/2025
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.
#9 - Semi-Final - Tea Totallers v Crunchers
Season 20 - Episode 26 - Aired 2/17/2025
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.
#10 - Four Opinions v Bean Farmers
Season 20 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/26/2024
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?
#11 - Al Frescans v Sprouters
Season 20 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/4/2024
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.
#12 - Al Frescans v Four Opinions
Season 20 - Episode 22 - Aired 1/20/2025
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. The Four Opinions won their previous game on a tiebreak, but what does fate have in store for them this time?
#13 - Harmonics v Cat Cows
Season 20 - Episode 17 - Aired 12/2/2024
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. The knockout stage has arrived, and it’s a rematch!
#14 - Cat Cows v Sprouters
Season 20 - Episode 21 - Aired 1/13/2025
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?
#15 - Uisge Beathas v Crunchers
Season 20 - Episode 19 - Aired 12/16/2024
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.
#16 - Too Many Cookes v Bloomsbury Group
Season 20 - Episode 15 - Aired 11/18/2024
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. What connects: evil, line manager, pleasantly cold and vomit?
#17 - Al Frescans v Midlanders
Season 20 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/12/2024
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.
#18 - Hopsters v Al Frescans
Season 20 - Episode 18 - Aired 12/9/2024
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 - Too Many Cookes v Tea Totallers
Season 20 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/6/2025
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.
#20 - Bloomsbury Group v Crunchers
Season 20 - Episode 23 - Aired 1/27/2025
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?
#21 - Introverts v Tea Totallers
Season 20 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/3/2025
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.
#22 - Hopsters v Sprouters
Season 20 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/19/2024
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the 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.
#23 - Too Many Cookes v Pipe-Dreamers
Season 20 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/9/2024
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.
#24 - Bloomsbury Group v Tea Totallers
Season 20 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/16/2024
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?
#25 - Uisge Beathas v Crunchers
Season 20 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/30/2024
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Three whisky drinkers take on three number crunchers.