Only Connect: The Official Quiz Book

Now in paperback, the first official quiz book Only Connect, with over 200 challenging questions

RY CLV RNGH? Can you find the connection between Gandalf, Sherlock Holmes, David Brent and Ford Perfect? 
 
 Only Connect is the ultimate test of knowledge and lateral thinking. Since 2008 the fiendishly difficult quiz show has been challenging contestants to find connections between apparently unrelated clues. 
 
 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.

The All-New Official Quiz Book

Only Connect

Jack Waley-Cohen (Author) 
Jack Waley-Cohen featured on the first ever episode of Only Connect, with his team – the Lapsed Psychologists – reaching the final. He runs various businesses – including, of course, a quiz company – and started writing questions for the show in 2014. In 2017, he took on the role of Question Editor with his colleague, David McGaughey. 
 
Victoria Coren Mitchell (Introducer) 
Victoria Coren Mitchell is a writer, presenter and professional poker player. She has been the host of Only Connect since its inception in 2008.

Whts th c nnct n b twn ths cls 
 
If you want to know… you’re in the right place. 
 
From the hit BBC series Only Connect comes the all-new official quiz book, packed with the kind of glorious lateral-thinking puzzles that have made it the most challenging quiz on television for almost twenty years. 
 
Compiled by Only Connect question editors Jack Waley-Cohen (himself a former finalist) and David McGaughey, this brand-new volume features 200 questions, including never-before-broadcast material and puzzles exclusive to the book. 
 
Featuring an introduction and jaw-dropping personal revelation by host Victoria Coren Mitchell, this is the ultimate quiz book, whether you’re playing with a team or, like most of the show’s fans, alone in a room. Not necessarily the loo. 
 
So fingers on buzzers, players. This is a perfectly respectable present for anyone who’s gone on about this show. That’ll teach them!

Jack Waley-Cohen

Victoria Coren Mitchell

The Difficult Second Quiz Book

WHT CNNCTS THS CLS? 
 
Britain's most fiendishly difficult quiz is back. Do you have what it takes to make it to the grand final? 
 
With their first bestselling quiz book, the Only Connect team tested your lateral thinking with killer connections, challenging sequences and byzantine walls. Now, Only Connect question-setter (and former champion) Jack Waley-Cohen returns with a NEW collection of 200 cryptic, brain-busting questions, including many never-before-broadcast and all-new ones exclusive to the book. 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. 
 
So limber up your frontal lobes, and get ready to pit your wits against the toughest quiz on TV.

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