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Ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong.

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Ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong.

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Bong-bong-bong.

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We all know the tune,

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but who among us has paused, even for a second,

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to think about the lyricist?

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Hoping to escape that poor fellow's obscurity tonight are, on my right,

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Jeremy Partington,

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a history graduate who spent six months living in France

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dressed as a cowboy.

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Chris James, a software developer with a degree in civil engineering,

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who received a naked autograph from an England cricket captain.

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And their captain, Jonathan Carter,

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a former barrister who has twice reached the final of

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The Times crossword competition

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and once crashed a boat on the Norfolk broads.

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United by a love of melty clocks and Monty Python,

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they are the Surrealists.

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Now, you won your first game against the Genealogists,

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then you beat the Part-Time Poets to get to this round.

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How important is it to you to keep winning?

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Well, I think we consider ourselves fortunate that we've got this far,

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so if we can go a bit further, then all to the good, I think.

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You'll be trying to beat this time around, on my left - Phyl Styles,

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a secondary school teacher who woke up one day to find her car had been

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buried beneath the market stalls of a village fete.

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Tom Cappleman, a software engineer with an interest in Japanese anime,

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who owns a significant collection of 3D jigsaws.

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And their captain, Graham Cole,

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a computer science graduate who loves a puzzle and had his brain

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experimented on as an infant.

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United by a love of languages, they are the Verbivores.

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Now, Graham, you lost your opening game against the Smiths.

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You're here as one of the highest-scoring losers.

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You beat the Channel Islanders and the Taverners to get through to

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Round Three. What do you think about tonight's opposition?

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Jonathan, by all accounts, is pretty good at the missing vowels.

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So our previous strategy of fall behind on the wall and then win by

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one point in the last round, might not work this time.

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Well, let's see. Why don't we kick off with Round One and see how

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you fare? You won the toss,

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but you've decided to put the Surrealists in first.

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So, Surrealists, what would you like?

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The Twisted Flax, please.

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The Twisted Flax. OK.

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What is the connection between these apparently random clues?

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Here is the first.

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Next, please.

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Is it the actor...?

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Charlotte Gray?

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-It's not...

-Next, please.

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They've all played Doctor No?

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No, it's Blofeld.

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Blofeld, that's it.

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-Yeah?

-Yeah.

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They have all played Blofeld in the James Bond films.

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They have all played Ernst Blofeld in the James Bond films.

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You didn't need the last and greatest one, Telly Savalas,

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On Her Majesty's Secret Service, of course.

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Which films did these actors appear in?

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Gray must be the recent one.

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Waltz was Spectre, which was the last one.

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Christoph Waltz was in Spectre.

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Pleasance was...

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Gray was the original, wasn't he, in Doctor No?

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Savalas was Diamonds Are Forever?

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No. Charles Gray is Diamonds Are Forever.

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-Oh, right.

-Right.

-Telly Savalas, On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

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Donald Pleasance was in

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You Only Live Twice.

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Blofeld. If you were going to play a Bond villain, let me ask you this,

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Jonathan, what would be

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your weird thing?

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A cat, a glass eye, what would be your thing?

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-What would be my weird thing?

-What animal would you be

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stroking in the opening scene?

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Oh, probably an Alsatian.

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That would be a good one.

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Really stroking an Alsatian would be quite sinister.

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Cos it's quite relaxing anyway.

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If you make the final, we'll try to arrange to have one here!

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It's worth getting there just for that.

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There are plenty that work on the production,

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so I think it can be arranged.

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Verbivores, what would you like?

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-Horned Viper, please.

-The Horned Viper.

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What is the connection between these clues?

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These musical clues.

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First one coming in now.

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# I need somebody to be my baby

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# Someone to tell... #

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Next, please...

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# Her name is Noelle

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# I have a dream about her

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# She rings my bell... #

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Wheatus...

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Next...

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# Before you met me...

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Baby, teenage...

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-I think it's all just teenage.

-Teenage.

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-Teenage?

-That is the connection.

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-What did we hear?

-The last one was Teenage Dream.

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The one before that was Teenage Dirtbag.

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-I don't know about the first one.

-Yeah, Teenage Dream, Katy Perry.

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Teenage Dirtbag, Wheatus.

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The first one? Teenage Idol by Ricky Nelson.

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What do you think the fourth clue would have been?

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Oh, come on, what's the most famous

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song with teenage in the title?

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-Kicks.

-Teenage Kicks, The Undertones.

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That's what that would have been, but we didn't need that one.

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You came in after three clues. You get two points. Well done.

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Surrealists, what would you like?

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-The Eye of Horus, please.

-The Eye of Horus, OK.

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What is the connection between these clues?

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Here is the first.

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Next, please.

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Are they Humphrey Bogart films with a letter changed?

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Yeah?

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Try that.

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-Shall we go next?

-Go on.

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Next, please.

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-Yeah.

-Yeah.

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So, they're films with one letter changed,

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all starring Humphrey Bogart.

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They are Humphrey Bogart films with one letter changed.

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Capablanca would have been the last one.

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I think you spotted that after two clues, Chris.

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-Yeah, I did, yeah.

-What should these film titles be?

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In A Lonely Place. Dark Passage.

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The Big Sleep. And Casablanca.

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I'd quite like to see The Big Sheep.

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I think that would be a really good version.

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Verbivores, what would you like?

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-Two Reeds, please.

-Two Reeds, OK.

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These are going to be picture clues.

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What connects them? Here's the first.

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Maybe a Rolls-Royce?

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You think it's Rolls-Royce?

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Next, please.

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A painting. Some kind of name?

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Could it be the artist?

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Next.

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Oh...

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The tomb of the

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unknown soldier? Could be?

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Is it a Rolls-Royce soldier?

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Or Phantom, I don't know? Next.

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A stamp.

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I don't know.

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Oh, we're just going to have to say something, aren't we?

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Erm...

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They all face to the left.

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They all face to the left?

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Well, it's true of the last one.

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And maybe the unknown soldier is facing to the left.

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I think that is not something that

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connects all four clues, I'm afraid.

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Though not a bad guess. Surrealists,

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would you like to have a go for a bonus?

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Led Zeppelin.

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No, that's not it either, but tell

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me about the second clue.

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The album cover for one of their albums, isn't it?

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It is the album cover for their fourth album,

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which doesn't have a title.

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And neither does it feature the name of the band.

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The tomb of the unknown soldier you recognised.

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That is one of the Queen's cars in

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the first clue, no numberplate.

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The Queen's cars don't have a numberplate.

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And stamps, they do not say British stamps,

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the country of origin,

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so they are all things that lack

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the traditional identification.

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You would normally see numberplates on a car, a title on an album,

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a name on a tomb or a country on a stamp,

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but not in the case of these four.

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So, no bonus point, but you may choose a question.

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-Lion, please.

-Lion, OK.

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What is the connection between these clues?

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Here's the first.

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Next, please.

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-Is it in Russian?

-The equivalent?

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I don't know, go for the third.

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..In the USSR, wasn't it?

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Yeah, yeah, so should we go for it?

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What was the year, though?

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Shall we go for it?

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-One more.

-One more? Next, please.

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Yeah?

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Yeah.

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It's the Cyrillic alphabet and their equivalent in...

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-Latin alphabet.

-In the... Yeah.

-Or the Roman alphabet.

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That's absolutely right. So these are Cyrillic letters and the way you

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would pronounce them so...

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Suh, ruh, nuh, vuh.

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It's a pronunciation thing.

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Again, I think you spotted it after two clues.

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Because I remembered the Russian road signs have "CTOP" with C-T.

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Oh, good memory.

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-Did you obey them?

-I wasn't driving.

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LAUGHTER

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All right, Verbivores, back to you for the last question of the round,

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Water. What is the connection between these clues?

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Here's the first.

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James Watson's Nobel medal...

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-What happened?

-Is that Crick and Watson?

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I think so.

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Next, please.

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Yeah, holding company?

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Next.

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Is it something to do with a certain metal?

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Erm...

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Platinum or... I don't know.

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Next.

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I think it's going to be some kind of metal.

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Or shared ownership?

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Two seconds.

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Er... Platinum.

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Not the answer, I'm afraid.

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So another bonus chance for the Surrealists.

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They've all had to be sold.

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No, they've all been...

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I'm afraid it doesn't work like that.

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Once you've given an answer, I have

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to take that as your answer.

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I think you can say that pretty

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much everything in the world has had

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to be sold. I know I have.

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So I can't really take that.

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It is to do with buying and selling though.

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Specifically, they've all been bought by Alisher Usmanov,

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a Russian oligarch who is part owner of Arsenal, and he also bought

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James Watson's Nobel medal in order to give it back to him, actually.

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Quite a nice thing to do. He bought holdings in Facebook and mines in

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Russia were the source of his income.

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Have you heard of him?

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-Rings a bell, I think.

-I mean, that's my kind of oligarch.

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Owns pretty much everything and people don't really know his name.

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That's definitely the kind of oligarch I'd be.

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So, no bonus points.

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At the end of Round One...

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On to Round Two, the sequences round.

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The teams must work out the connection and then tell me what would come fourth.

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You'll be going first again, Surrealists.

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So, please pick a hieroglyph.

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-Horned Viper, please.

-The Horned Viper, OK.

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You'll be seeing the first in a sequence.

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What would come fourth? Time starts now.

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I know who that is...

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Next, please.

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-That's the Tailor of Gloucester.

-So it's Peter Rabbit,

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-the Tailor of Gloucester...

-But what the hell is the sequence?

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What was the fourth one? Oh, God, no....

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-What was the third one?

-Next, please.

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-Squirrel Nutkin. Is it...

-No, it's not Jeremy Fisher.

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-Is it not Jeremy Fisher?

-It might be.

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I don't know. Mrs Tiggy-Winkle? Madame Tiggy-Winkle?

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-I've got nothing else.

-Yeah, go one, then.

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Madame Tiggy-Winkle.

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Not the answer, I'm afraid, so

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there's a bonus point for you now,

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-Verbivores.

-Pierre Lapin?

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Pierre Lapin is the right answer.

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What is the sequence?

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They're Beatrix Potter stories in French but I'm not sure what the

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-sequence is.

-Publishing order in reverse?

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In reverse, so the first one, Pierre Lapin,

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Peter Rabbit and then we're going backwards,

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so we started at The Tale Of Benjamin Bunny,

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then The Tailor Of Gloucester, then The Tale Of Squirrel Nutkin.

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Mrs Tiggy-Winkle is... I think is

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Madame Piquedru la blanchisseuse.

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Ah! That was what I was going to say!

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Yes, indeed. I probably would have taken Madame Tiggy-Winkle

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if that was the answer in translation.

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But, yes, the laundress.

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Mrs Tiggy-Winkle is a laundress in the French title.

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But Peter Rabbit or Pierre Lapin is the answer.

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So, well done, you get a bonus point and you may choose a question.

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-Eye of Horus, please.

-The Eye of Horus.

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OK. What would come fourth in this sequence?

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Here's the first.

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-Song?

-Something in antiques...

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Next.

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It was a show in the '80s.

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They can't be just shows in...

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Next. It's Michael Aspel, isn't it? Isn't it?

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What's Michael Aspel present now?

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Does he do Antiques Roadshow?

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I think he did.

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So...

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-Yeah.

-If that's all we know.

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Shall we go that? Yeah.

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-Antiques Roadshow?

-Not the answer, I'm afraid.

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So, Surrealists, you have a chance for a bonus point.

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-Michael Parkinson?

-No, it's a programme.

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Oh, is it Give Us A Clue?

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-Ask Aspel.

-No, that's not it.

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You see, they're not all about Michael Aspel.

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-No.

-Right.

-Although they are all about the Antiques Roadshow.

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These are successive Antiques Roadshow presenters.

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Arthur Negus was a presenter of Going For A Song.

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Michael Aspel never presented Nationwide.

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Hugh Scully did, though.

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-Oh, right!

-Michael Aspel. So we

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wanted a show presented by Fiona Bruce.

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The next Antiques Roadshow presenter.

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For example, Hive Minds, the BBC Four quiz.

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BBC Four! Who would want to present

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a quiz on BBC Four?

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Who'd want to do that?

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Who would want to be on BBC Four?

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Something presented by Fiona Bruce,

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I wanted to hear.

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So you're all in the right area, but not the answer.

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So, Surrealists, what would you like next?

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-Twisted Flax, please.

-Twisted Flax.

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What would come fourth in this picture sequence? Here's the first.

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Next, please.

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-That's Mariel Hemingway.

-Are you sure?

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-I think.

-It's not her. No, it's not.

-Next, please.

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That's Jake Gyllenhaal.

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Is it siblings?

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Is that Imogen Stubbs?

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You're right...

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-Kissinger.

-Stubbs...

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Three seconds.

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-Anything?

-No.

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Is it Shakespeare or something?

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I can't let you chat.

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Erm... Kenneth Branagh.

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No. That wouldn't be an acceptable answer,

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although I'm interested you say it. I'll come back to you.

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Verbivores, do you want to have

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-a go for a bonus?

-Someone ending with -inger?

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-Schlessinger?

-Something Schlessinger?

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Someone called Schlessinger?

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And why would that be?

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Well, we think... We could have got this completely wrong,

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but we think the first one might be Henry Kissinger and then

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Kim Basinger...

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Oh, right, OK.

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And then Jake Gyll-inger?

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Erm... No, it is Henry Kissinger.

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But that's not the answer. Now, I'm coming back to you.

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Why did you say Kenneth Branagh?

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-Shakespeare.

-For no reason whatsoever.

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-To be honest.

-Shakespearean actors.

-Oh, OK,

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so you hadn't noticed it was alphabetical?

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It's Henry Kissinger, Imogen Stubbs,

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Jake Gyllenhaal.

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So we are going H-I-J.

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I wanted someone whose name began with a K, but it's got to be Katie.

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For example, Katie Durham.

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These are UK storms.

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You know they're given names? And these are successive storms.

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They're all from 2016.

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Storm Henry, Storm Imogen,

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Storm Jake and they named it after

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someone with a K, but it wasn't Kenneth,

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I'm afraid. It was Katie.

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Interesting coincidence.

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So, Verbivores, you don't get the bonus,

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but you may choose a question.

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-Lion, please.

-Lion.

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OK. What would come fourth in this sequence?

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Here's the first.

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Right. Brown in green.

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Next.

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Green in yellow.

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What's the sequence here?

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No, it's not snooker balls.

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No. Next.

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Yellow in orange. Oh, it is snooker balls, but it's...

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It could be red in red. It's the rainbow and snooker balls.

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So it's red in the colour red.

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-Isn't it?

-They don't have orange in snooker.

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No, but it's part of the rainbow.

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It's red, yellow, green, brown for snooker, and...

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Yeah.

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The word red in red.

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Is the right answer.

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And I can hear that you know two

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sequences are going on here.

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Snooker and the rainbow and both are going backwards,

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so it is snooker balls in reverse

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order of potting them and then

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reversed colours of the rainbow in

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the way we normally remember them.

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So red in red is the fourth one.

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Well done. So, Surrealists,

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please choose a question.

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-Two Reeds, please.

-Two Reeds.

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What is a fourth in this sequence?

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Here's the first.

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OK.

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Next, please.

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Oh, that's...

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-Tea For Two.

-OK.

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-So is that...

-I don't know.

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What was the connection, then?

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Next, please.

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Oh, so that's...

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So, tea. They're going backwards.

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So, tea, lunch, so something with breakfast?

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So, Breakfast At Tiffany's.

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A film starring Audrey Hepburn.

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-And why would that be?

-Breakfast At Tiffany's.

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That's absolutely right. Breakfast At Tiffany's would be a good one.

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We went with a Kurt Vonnegut novel of 1973, Breakfast Of Champions.

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What's the sequence?

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So, they're meals of the day going backwards, so we think...

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-Louis Malle is...

-That's probably dinner.

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-What is that?

-My Dinner With Andre

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is that Louis Malle film.

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-And then...

-Tea For Two, is it?

-Mm.

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Dejeuner sur l'herbe.

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Or Luncheon On The Grass.

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I mean, I have a problem with this question in that I eat at least

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eight meals between breakfast and lunch,

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but they've missed out elevenses and tenses and nineses and all the

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various other ones, but you thought like the question writers,

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so well done. You get the points.

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Verbivores, one question remains for you, Water.

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What would come fourth in this sequence?

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Here's the first.

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-OK.

-Next.

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-Er... Conference.

-Football flights?

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Is there something below conference?

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No, it's not summer, is it? Next.

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Summer, conference... Oh, it's...

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Erm... Conference season, November is when they do...

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It's nothing to do with the Budget, is it?

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It would be recesses of Parliament.

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And when's the next one?

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-Christmas?

-I guess.

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-Yeah, it must be.

-Yeah. May as well go with that.

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-Christmas?

-Is the right answer,

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and why is that?

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Tom thinks it's recesses in Parliament.

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Well, Tom thinks rightly. You must

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have thought it was wrong or you

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wouldn't have blamed Tom so quickly, but that is correct.

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My evil plan foiled!

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They are House of Commons recesses going towards Christmas.

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Well done. So, at the end of Round Two...

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Connecting Wall time now and, Verbivores,

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you chose to go second in the earlier rounds, which means you've chosen to

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go first here. Would you like Lion or Water?

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-Lion, please.

-OK.

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Two and a half minutes to solve the Lion wall.

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Starting now.

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-Emmeline Pankhurst.

-Emily Davison, isn't it?

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The feminist.

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-Christabel, possibly.

-Possibly, I can't see any others.

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Annie.

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Parsley, dill is...

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Good, yeah.

0:20:030:20:05

-Angelica?

-And Angelica.

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What about carrot? Is that going to be...?

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Don't think you can call it a herb.

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Three strikes now.

0:20:160:20:20

Fourth gold, fourth cap and fourth paradise, perhaps?

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What are the others? Riser, parsley, nosing and tread.

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-Talk about an early riser.

-Tread water, riser...

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I think it has something to do with tyres,

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is there a riser in a tyre to tell you how high the wear is?

0:20:350:20:39

-Stairs. Stairs have risers.

-Stairs have tread.

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Or you can tread, is that right?

0:20:420:20:44

I'm pretty sure stairs don't have parsley, do they?

0:20:440:20:47

I'm not sure parsley would be...

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Depends what you're growing on your stairs, but... Nosing. Nosing.

0:20:490:20:51

Nosing, riser.

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It was wordy ones.

0:20:530:20:56

Players.

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Player, yeah.

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I think if we ignore parsley and just look at these.

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Nosing, tread, riser. I think it might be,

0:21:020:21:04

if we don't have anything else,

0:21:040:21:05

we could go with stairs. I mean, parsley might be some obscure thing.

0:21:050:21:09

We're going to have to try paradise in case it's wrong.

0:21:090:21:11

Go back, just. OK, it isn't parsley.

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So, paradise, parsley, errand and gold, cap would fit more.

0:21:170:21:21

Paradise, parsley, errand and gold.

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And then the rest is more like...

0:21:230:21:24

There you go, you solved the wall.

0:21:240:21:26

So that's all the points for the groups.

0:21:260:21:28

What about the connections?

0:21:280:21:30

Christabel, Emmeline, Emily, Annie.

0:21:300:21:33

They're the first names of feminist campaigners.

0:21:330:21:36

-Suffragettes.

-Suffragettes.

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They're campaigners for women's suffrage.

0:21:370:21:39

Yes. So what are their surnames?

0:21:390:21:41

Emmeline...Pankhurst.

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And Emily Davison.

0:21:430:21:45

Christabel Pankhurst.

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That's right, that's Emmeline Pankhurst's daughter.

0:21:460:21:49

-Annie...

-Annie Kennedy.

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Yes, she worked with Christabel Pankhurst.

0:21:520:21:54

She was arrested for disrupting a Liberal meeting.

0:21:540:21:57

And she refused to pay her fines.

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And the Green group. Carrot, dill, cicely, angelica.

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-These are herbs.

-Now, you see, they're not all herbs,

0:22:060:22:10

I'm afraid. What they are all,

0:22:100:22:12

and you could have just looked at it and said carrot and said they're all

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carrots. They are all types of parsley, types of celery, types of

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carrot. They're members of the same family.

0:22:180:22:20

-Ah.

-But they're not all herbs.

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And the pink or purple group, starting paradise.

0:22:230:22:26

Fool's, you can put fool's in front of all of them.

0:22:260:22:28

That's right. Fool's paradise,

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fool's parsley, fool's errand, fool's gold.

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Parsley, of course, red herring for the previous group.

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And the last one, riser, tread, nosing, cap.

0:22:350:22:39

They're staircases or something with a shaft.

0:22:390:22:42

Shall we say... We'll do it with a shaft,

0:22:420:22:47

a mineshaft or something.

0:22:470:22:48

A riser can be a mineshaft, you can cap a shaft.

0:22:480:22:52

-It's wrong, isn't it?

-Phyl is shaking her head with a noise,

0:22:520:22:55

because you know they are parts of the staircase.

0:22:550:22:57

Unlucky.

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But four points for the groups and two points for the connections,

0:22:590:23:02

that is a total of six.

0:23:020:23:04

I'm going to bring in the Surrealists now,

0:23:040:23:05

give them a new Connecting Wall and see what they can do about solving it.

0:23:050:23:09

It will be the Water wall for you.

0:23:090:23:11

Two and a half minutes to solve it, starting now.

0:23:110:23:14

So, these are...

0:23:160:23:19

Didcot, Bristol...

0:23:200:23:21

Liverpool South

0:23:210:23:23

is a station,

0:23:230:23:25

but be careful, because it...

0:23:250:23:27

These are aeroplanes, aren't they?

0:23:270:23:29

-Bristol.

-Bristol is an aeroplane.

0:23:290:23:33

Eaves, flashing, dormer,

0:23:370:23:41

gable.

0:23:410:23:43

-Yeah. Bristol...

-Leigh, Liverpool.

0:23:430:23:45

-Shorts.

-And there's airports in there.

0:23:450:23:47

Warwick Castle, Howard, Warwick Castle.

0:23:470:23:50

Leigh, Howard.

0:23:510:23:53

Trevor Howard, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland.

0:23:540:23:56

Oh, yeah.

0:23:560:23:58

And Rutherford, possibly.

0:23:580:23:59

-OK.

-Three strikes now.

0:23:590:24:02

So, we've got aircraft, Hawker Siddeley, Vickers Armstrong.

0:24:020:24:05

Bristol. Shorts.

0:24:050:24:08

What are the other ones? These...

0:24:080:24:10

-Railways?

-No, that's an airport.

0:24:100:24:12

That's possibly an airport.

0:24:120:24:14

-Yeah.

-That's an airport. That leaves us three airports.

0:24:140:24:17

Bristol's an airport, is it? There's three airports.

0:24:170:24:19

We're going to have to start doing something soon.

0:24:190:24:21

So, shall I do...

0:24:210:24:23

Which one? East Midlands, Liverpool South, Bristol...

0:24:230:24:25

I don't know what the other one would be.

0:24:250:24:28

-Didcot's not that.

-Didcot can't be an air...

-No.

0:24:280:24:30

Let's do the aircraft manufacturers.

0:24:320:24:35

Vickers, Bristol. Which was the other one, East Midlands?

0:24:350:24:37

-Shorts.

-Shorts.

0:24:370:24:39

So what would these be? Stations, or power stations?

0:24:390:24:42

No.

0:24:420:24:44

-Didcot Parkway?

-East Midlands Parkway, Warwick Parkway, yes,

0:24:440:24:47

Liverpool South Parkway. Yeah, they're Parkway stations.

0:24:470:24:50

-Yes.

-So take those off.

-Yeah, it must be that one. We can go for it.

0:24:500:24:53

-Yeah, go on, then.

-There you go. You solved the wall.

0:24:530:24:56

Very well done. So that's four for the groups.

0:24:560:24:58

What about the connections?

0:24:580:25:00

What about the top group? Flashing, dormer, gable, eaves.

0:25:000:25:03

They're all parts of a roof.

0:25:030:25:06

It's all roofing terminology, that's right.

0:25:060:25:08

And the next green group starting Howard.

0:25:080:25:12

They're all actors who have starred in Gone With The Wind.

0:25:120:25:16

They are all in Gone With The Wind.

0:25:160:25:18

What about the next group, starting Hawker Siddeley?

0:25:180:25:22

They are all aircraft manufacturers.

0:25:220:25:24

Aviation companies, that's right.

0:25:240:25:25

And the last one. Warwick, Didcot, East Midlands, Liverpool South.

0:25:250:25:29

Parkway stations.

0:25:290:25:31

You put Parkway after all of them to become railway stations,

0:25:310:25:34

that's absolutely right. So that's another four points for

0:25:340:25:37

the connections. You get a bonus of two for getting it all right.

0:25:370:25:39

That's the maximum of ten.

0:25:390:25:41

Let's have a look at the overall scores.

0:25:410:25:44

We're now going to play the missing vowels round.

0:25:500:25:52

This will determine who goes through and who goes through.

0:25:520:25:56

Because of course, in our new structure, nobody goes home.

0:25:560:25:58

I don't think anyone ever goes home,

0:25:580:26:00

we just play and play and play and play.

0:26:000:26:02

So, we've taken the vowels out of well-known names, phrases and sayings.

0:26:020:26:06

What are the disguised clues?

0:26:060:26:08

Fingers on buzzers, teams.

0:26:080:26:10

I can tell you that the first group are all works of literary criticism.

0:26:100:26:15

No? People at home will be shouting at the screen.

0:26:240:26:26

Seven Types Of Ambiguity.

0:26:260:26:28

Next clue.

0:26:280:26:30

-Verbivores?

-Against Interpretation?

0:26:350:26:37

Well done. Next clue.

0:26:370:26:38

-Verbivores?

-The Signifying Monkey.

0:26:430:26:45

Very good.

0:26:450:26:47

What is this, the final? This one is, Is There A Text In This Class?

0:26:580:27:02

You will be relieved to hear it's a new category.

0:27:020:27:04

Surrealists.

0:27:130:27:14

Soul Limbo And Cricket.

0:27:140:27:16

Correct.

0:27:160:27:17

Verbivores.

0:27:190:27:21

The Chain And Formula One.

0:27:210:27:22

Correct.

0:27:220:27:23

Surrealists.

0:27:270:27:29

Pop Looks Bach And Skiing.

0:27:290:27:31

Well done. Next clue.

0:27:310:27:32

END OF ROUND JINGLE

0:27:370:27:38

No time to give me that last one, which is of course...

0:27:400:27:43

Because the bell has gone for the end of the quiz.

0:27:450:27:47

That was a nasty couple of categories, wasn't it?

0:27:470:27:50

Starting to wonder if you even want to make the final!

0:27:500:27:53

I can tell you at the end of the quiz,

0:27:530:27:56

the Verbivores finish with 16 points,

0:27:560:27:59

but the winners with 20 are the Surrealists.

0:27:590:28:02

Very well done to you, you are through to next round.

0:28:020:28:05

Verbivores not out,

0:28:050:28:06

you will get to play again, to try and make the next round.

0:28:060:28:09

So, we will see all of you again.

0:28:090:28:10

And I hope we'll see you again, although we're not on next week.

0:28:100:28:14

We're being replaced by a Panorama special,

0:28:140:28:17

looking into rumours of corruption on quiz show Only Connect.

0:28:170:28:20

Rumours that first surfaced during these ill-advised closing remarks.

0:28:200:28:25

Still, no smoke without fire.

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