Quotation of the Day

The God of Quiz has eaten his own young, and we will now all scrabble in his droppings for formats. Praise be to the posed question, to which the answer may or may not be known, for by his grace may our endless evenings be marginally foreshortened.

Victoria Coren Mitchell, closing remarks, Only Connect special, first broadcast 25.12.18

There is something off-key about Victoria Coren Mitchell's sense of humour, which sometimes leaves me baffled, and which sometimes just makes me wish she wouldn't. Occasionally, though, it is completely wonderful.

Or maybe this just struck a nerve, because we have for the past several evenings settled down for an hour of happy quizzing with University Challenge and Only Connect Christmas specials...