History Series / OnlyConnect

-->'''Victoria''': And teams, to mark our hundredth, we've got seven lovely glasses of sherry here. So I'm just going to give out the trophy, and then get on with drinking them.

!!GameShow Tropes in use:
* Personnel:
** GameShowHost: Victoria Coren Mitchell.
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* '''Sequences''': Identify the fourth item in a sequence of items revealed in a similar manner to the above (again including one picture question).

** Victoria herself has appeared in at least two clues - "People named Victoria", and when "OC trivia" was used as an anagram as part of a cryptic crossword clue (the connection was that all four clues had "Victoria" as their answers).

* HeavyMetalUmlaut: The connection in a musical question in series 9, where the answer was ''Grätüïtöüs Ümläüts''.

** Victoria's father, Alan Coren, has also been a clue on the show; one set of clues in the 2011 ChildrenInNeed special was "Lemon, Coren, Muggeridge, Bird":

The quiz is unapologetically [[NintendoHard difficult]] and tests both knowledge and lateral thinking.

* '''Missing Vowels''': Reinsert the vowels into a word, phrase or name from which the vowels have been removed and spaces have been arbitrarily inserted or deleted.

** A January 2011 special pitted ''Only Connect'' Series 1 and "Champion of Champions" winners the Crossworders with the 2010 ''UniversityChallenge'' champions from Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The Crossworders won.

* NerdsAreSexy: Victoria counts herself among those who see ''UniversityChallenge'' ace Alex Guttenplan as an example of this; when he and two of his Emmanuel College, Cambridge teammates appear in a 2011 special against ''Only Connect'' Champion of Champions winners the Crossworders, Victoria keeps trailing off during her opening interview with Guttenplan.

* HeavyMetalUmlaut: The connection in a musical question in series 9.

* CrossOver: A January 2011 special pitted the reigning ''Only Connect'' champions with the current ''UniversityChallenge'' champions. The ''Only Connect'' champions won.

** Victoria herself has appeared in at least two clues - "People named Victoria", and when "OC trivia" was used as an anagram as part o a clue

-->'''Victoria Coren Mitchell''': "Hello, and welcome to ''Only Connect'' -- the show described by the ''[[BritishNewspapers Daily Mirror]]'' as "weird". It ''is'' a bit strange -- There are two teams; I ask them questions, and if they get the answers right they get points, and at the end of the quiz, whichever team has the most points, they're the winners. It's a revolutionary idea, but someone had to try it."

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Victoria Coren Mitchell is wonderful at this.
-->'''Victoria Coren Mitchell:''' "Now we're into the semi-finals the questions get harder, though because it's only a semi not much harder."

-->'''Victoria Coren Mitchell''': "Join us again for the quiz with more twists and turns than the route from the bar to the studio. I swear they keep on adding more corners".

* SmallReferencePools: Inverted. There have been questions involving knowledge of everything from the Kubler-Ross [[FiveStagesOfGrief model of grief]] and the odes of Creator/JohnKeats to the creator of ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'', the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' novels, and types of Franchise/{{Pokemon}}.
** This kind of behaviour is actively encouraged on the website's "Create Your Own Connecting Wall" feature.

-->'''Victoria Coren Mitchell:''' "Watch us next us unless you have a social engagement. If you do have a social engagement, don't worry about it, I'll understand. I'll be surprised, but I'll understand."

* WikiWalk: WordOfGod, courtesy of the question editor, is that this is a useful tool for question writing Only Connect questions. Complete with a link to the relevant Webcomic/{{xkcd}} strip. ThatOtherWiki, however, is not accepted as a credible source for OC question writers.

* Victoria herself has appeared in at least two clues - "People named Victoria", and when "OC trivia" was used as an anagram as part o a clue

** Victoria's father, Alan Coren, has also been a clue on the show; one set of clues in the 2011 ChildrenInNeed special was "Lemon, Coren, Muggeridge, Bird", as has her brother Giles Coren.

** Victoria's father, Alan Coren, has also been a clue on the show; one set of clues in the 2011 ChildrenInNeed special was "Lemon, Coren, Muggeridge, Bird".

* RedHerring: The Connection Wall will almost invariably have a couple of items that could belong to multiple themes but will only be accepted as one.

* BilingualBonus: In the first appearance of the Celts, a team whose common connection is that they're from Wales, Victoria conducts the pre-game chat with the team captain entirely in Welsh, with no subtitles nor any other concession to audience members who don't know the language.

* BaitAndSwitch: From the end of the 100th episode:

* AuthorAppeal: Victoria is a professional TabletopGame/{{poker}} player. Several questions and clues on the show have been related to poker. Music theory also seems to come up in a rather disproportionate number of questions, although there's not quite such an obvious reason for it.