Christmas Special: Whitcombes v Gardners

Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far – the vital extra ingredients are logic and lateral thinking.

It’s Christmas, and two families from series gone by have battled traffic jams and rail replacement bus services to come together and play an exasperating game. So far, so Christmassy.

Here’s a question: Sharon Horgan, JB Gill, Farmer Bean, Bernard Matthews – what’s the connection?