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In this opening heat, three fresh air fanatics take on a trio of Midlanders.

One of the teams likes beer, while the other has a bit of a thing for big vegetables.

A love of classical music brought one team together, and a yearning for yoga unites the other.

A team of pipe-dreamers take on the Cooke family in another first-round match.

Forster, Keynes and Woolf: all unavailable, sadly, but how will their stand-ins fare against a team of three tea devotees?

Three self-professed introverts take on three representatives of the University of the Third Age.

Three whisky drinkers take on three number crunchers.

Three Midlanders take on a team of ale aficionados.

Undeterred by having been beaten in the missing vowels round last time, the Harmonics are back to take on three devotees of a German card game.

Three surrealism fans take on a team of tea enthusiasts.

A team of whisky lovers returns to face a team from the U3A.

The Al Frescans and the Sprouters return to slug it out for a place in the next round.

Nobody goes home tonight: for the teams, it’s a question of how they get to the next round.

The knockout stage has arrived, and it’s a rematch.

It's the knockout stage, so one of the teams will be going home.

When these teams met before, the Crunchers barely won, so there’s a score to be settled.

Only one team can progress to the next round, and the clues are getting trickier.

Yoga lovers and veg men vie for victory and a place in the next round.

The Four Opinions won their previous game on a tie-break, but what does fate have in store for them this time?

Two teams face off in an attempt to get through to the semi-finals.

There’s a place in the semi-finals at stake, and as is only to be expected, the questions are getting more fiendish.

It’s semi-final time, and a coveted place in the third-place play-off is at stake.

The second semi-final.

It’s the third place play-off, and the questions have grown suitably gnarly.

The winners of the series are crowned.