Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the BBC quiz show (Image: BBC)
One question on left both teams and fans at home completely stumped on Monday evening – with some viewers even branding it as “the worst ever”.
was back as she welcomed two teams back to the quiz show, where knowledge only gets you so far. The contestants were offered up to four clues as they had to find the hidden links before time ran out.
But one question had fans at home fuming as they played along. Posting to social media they shared their frustration over one “little” question in particular.
Posting to X (formerly ), one fan wrote: “It’s not often I simply say ‘NO. NOPE. ABSOLUTELY NOT. TERRIBLE QUESTION’ on #OnlyConnect, but that ‘little’ question was one of those times.”
Another penned: “And suddenly, the ‘little’ question isn’t the worst one ever on #OnlyConnect,” while a third echoed: “‘Little’ Body Parts possibly a contender for worst question ever #onlyconnect.”
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The teams and fans at home were stumped (Image: BBC)
“I had LITTLE understanding of that one. #OnlyConnect,” one more added while someone else echoed: “The ‘little’ question was terrible. #OnlyConnect.”
The offending question actually turned out to be body parts. As always the contestants had to find a link in the four clues given.
The answers were: ‘Swelling: on bones’, ‘Finger: at the tip of the middle finger’, ‘Mouse: throughout the body’ and ‘Pan: in the knees’.
The team conferred before settling on the answer: “Dead”. Victoria laughed before sharing: “Not the answer, I’m afraid.”
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The other team seemed to have absolutely no idea either, so the host explained the answer saying: “What it is, is if you put the word ‘little’ before the first word, you are getting body parts.
“We might start with clue four. We surely all know the great crossword clue ‘two girls, one on each knee’? Pat. Ella. Patella. The kneecaps are little pans.”
She went on to explain the remaining clues, adding: “Mouse from the latin ‘mus’. Musculus. Little muscles, we have those throughout the body.
“The dactylion – that’s a little dactyl, little finger and little swelling – a tubercle from the latin ‘tuberculum’, which means little swelling.”