Only Connect viewers divided over 'posh' question controversy

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Only Connect has divided viewers with a controversial question that some claimed only worked for "posh" people.

The super-tough BBC Two quiz show included a question that left many viewers complaining that it was impossible to get the right answer unless you came from a particular area of the country.

What, how, and why?

Only Connect often divides the audience with its tricky questions, but this week's episode left many complaining that it wasn't possible to get the right answer unless you were "posh".

Victoria Coren Mitchell showed the teams a tough picture round question that neither were able to get, which began with a photo of a sun, followed by a shoe and a queue, and then a tree, bee and knee.

Guesses included one player wondering whether the third clue was supposed to spell out "Tribbiani" and referred to Friends characters.

But Coren Mitchell explained that it was a little simpler - one picture of something rhyming with one, two pictures of things rhyming with two, and so on. However, many viewers felt that whether "sun" rhymed with "one" depended on where you came from.

One person commented: "In what world does "one" rhyme with "sun"?" as someone else added: "sun doesn't rhyme with one unless you're posh."

Another viewer wrote: "Words that rhyme with 'One': con, Don, gone, John, Ron Word that doesn't rhyme with 'One': Sun."

Someone else commented: "Sun doesn't rhyme with one." Another viewer wondered: "Sun and One though?"

What else has been happening on Only Connect?

Last week, viewers shared how stunned they were by a huge gap in the general knowledge of the contestants, admitting it left them "feeling old".

While the Harmonics and the Cat Cows had some impressively quick answers to questions on maths, languages and acronyms, they were left stumped by any cultural knowledge from earlier than the Noughties.

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In one question, a clue included a catchphrase from Bruce Forsyth gameshow Play Your Cards Right where the audience would shout out "not in this game", but the teams looked blank as host Victoria Coren Mitchell asked them about it.

Other moments that surprised viewers were teams not recognising Keith Harris and his puppet Cuddles the Monkey in the picture round, and the Harmonics admitting that they had never watched classic sitcom Cheers.

Only Connect airs on BBC Two at 8pm on Monday.