Only Connect viewers rage over ‘worst question ever’ on BBC show – but can you answer it?

ONLY Connect is known as being one of the hardest quiz shows on TV, but one question has been slammed by viewers as it proved difficult to figure out.

BBC show Only Connect, presented by Victoria Coren Mitchell, returned to TV screens with its usual intelligence testing questions.

The show sees two teams try to figure out how clues are connected with four seemingly unlinked answers.

With time running out the pressure is on for contestants, and this time one question was branded 'the worst ever'.

The question saw four clues on screen which were 'Swelling: on bones', 'Finger: at the tip of the middle finger', 'Mouse: throughout the body' and 'Pan: in the knees'.

The clues for the "little" question appeared impossible with the team members in the studio appearing baffled.

Viewers at home were left just as confused as one wrote on social media: "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 shared: "And suddenly, the 'little' question isn’t the worst one ever on #OnlyConnect."

"Little' Body Parts possibly a contender for worst question ever #onlyconnect," said a third.

Another posted: "The 'little' question was terrible. #OnlyConnect."

"I had LITTLE understanding of that one. #OnlyConnect," said another.

As the team struggled to work out the link, they eventually offered up an answer as they guessed: "Dead".

Victoria laughed before revealing it wasn't correct as she told them: "Not the answer, I'm afraid."

As the other team were also left stumped, Victoria then decoded the answer as she explained: "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."