Only Connect: The Official Quiz Book

Oct 9, 2024 2:24 PM

Author:Jack Waley-Cohen,Victoria Coren Mitchell

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.

With games to play on your own or in teams (clever names, please), The Only Connect Quiz Book will take your quizzing achievements to a new level.

Reviews

Brilliant and accessible

—— Suranne Jones, actress and television Producer

Top 20 audio books of 2019

—— The Guardian

A probing and page-turning study… full of original insights and freshly decoded material… the best one-volume intro to the astonishing Anne Lister

—— Emma Donoghue, International best selling author of ‘Room', screen writer and Academy Award Winner

Exquisite

—— DIVA Magazine

Fascinating

—— Radio Times Book Club Choice

How often I have wished for a book like this, which goes deep into the real life of a historical figure portrayed on the screen.

—— Caroline Donahue, The Secret Library Podcast

Brilliant and funny . . . educational as well as entertaining. A rare but valuable combination.

—— Huffington Post

Hugely enjoyable . . . this tome is just right: deadpan, sharp and disarmingly offbeat.

—— Event

If you love funny facts as much as we love funny facts then you should get your funny fact-loving faces in front of The Book of the Year.

—— Comedy Central (via @ComedyCentralUK)

QI is such an institution that even the programme’s researchers are taking over the world. Fully justified that is too, as anyone who’s heard their podcast, No Such Thing As A Fish, will confirm. It’s packed with killer facts – and so is this book.

—— Daily Mail

Absolutely ideal for the Christmas holidays.

—— Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 6

A bumper anthology of ridiculous but true facts from the anoraks (and QI researchers) behind hit podcast No Such Thing As A Fish.

—— Metro

Bitesize chunks of truth in a year of fake news. If you love fact-based trivia, you'll get a kick out of this.

—— Funniest Books for Christmas , Irish Times

Since 2003, the Elves have unearthed countless weird and wonderful truths and gems of general ignorance for QI, their 100-million-times-downloaded weekly podcast No Such Thing as A Fish, topical TV spin-off No Such Thing as the News and their many books, such as their newly released Book of the Year.

—— Radio Times

Expect to be amazed.

—— Daily Telegraph

Both fantastically absorbing and entertaining.

—— The Bookseller

The Book Of The Year will prove the perfect Christmas gift, the ideal conversation starter (and stopper), and the ultimate source of wisdom for all lovers of trivia.

—— The British Comedy Guide

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