North and South: Scunthorpe Scholars v Oxonians
Victoria Coren Mitchell is back in the host's chair for a one-off special of Only Connect: the series where knowledge will only take you so far. Patience and lateral thinking are also vital.
Two favourite teams from previous series – one from the north and one from the south - return for a very special episode with a geographical flavour. They'll compete to draw together the connections between things which at first glance, seem utterly random.
So join Victoria Coren Mitchell if you want to know what connects Hong Kong and La Quiaca, Rock of Gibraltar and Mangawha, Jakarta and Bogota [almost] and North Pole and South Pole.
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