Cruciverbalists v Ortographobes Hive Minds

Welcome to a new series of Hive Minds,

the quiz where simply knowing the answers isn't enough,

you've got to find them, as well.

Let's meet this week's Hive Minds. Cruciverbalists,

would you like to introduce yourselves, please?

Hi, I'm David. I'm a finance manager from Glasgow.

I'm Jane. I'm an information design consultant from York.

And I'm Dave. I'm an enquiry officer for the ombudsman.

Welcome to you, Cruciverbalists.

Cruciverbalists, meaning...?

Crossword lovers. Crossword lovers. And, actually, Jane,

there's a rather romantic story about you and crosswords. Yes.

Your husband's a crossword setter. He is,

and on the day of our wedding, every one of the broadsheet newspapers

had a wedding-themed crossword set by John.

How wonderful and how romantic. It was.

Did you then do all the crossroads on your honeymoon?

I solved them pretty quickly. THEY LAUGH

Right. Well, no challenge there,

then, Ortographobes. Would you like

to introduce yourselves, please? My name is Ravi.

I'm a commercial accountant from London. I'm James.

I'm an admin assistant from Mirfield in West Yorkshire.

I'm Claudia. I'm a customer supply executive from Weymouth.

And Ortographobes is...?

People who have a hatred of making spelling mistakes.

A hatred of misspelling. Right.

Now, I read all about you before you came on here, and, Claudia,

one thing that struck me particularly about you

is you won Miss Charisma in 2015, which made me chuckle.

What did you have to do to win Miss Charisma,

and was it a big area that you won in?

Weymouth's not an enormous place. Miss Charisma, Weymouth.

And what did you have to do?

I had to strut my stuff on the catwalk,

raise a lot of money for charity

and basically explain what I planned to do in the future

to make the town a better place.

Well, come on Hive Minds, obviously. THEY CHUCKLE

Ortographobes and Cruciverbalists, welcome to both of you.

Let's play Hive Minds.

All the answers are hidden in a hive, which looks like this.

If the answer to my question was,

"What are the names of this week's teams?"

you'd be looking for Cruciverbalists

and Ortographobes.

And as you can see,

the answers use adjoining cells,

they can go in any direction

and no cell is used more than once.

In round one,

as you're looking for answers in the hive,

letters will start to disappear, and as they do, the points go down.

So, the faster you answer, the more you score.

But be careful - we've set a few traps,

we've laid some false trails for you.

Cruciverbalists, here's your first question,

and when you think you've found the answer,

hit the first letter to stop the clock.

Find...

Reveal the hive.

Charlie or James. Yeah.

Charlie isn't there. Charlie, no.

No James, either.

George. George.

George. Your answer is George.

Let's see if you're right.

Well done.

George from...?

George's Marvellous Medicine.

Of course, for 4 points. Ortographobes, over to you.

Find the...

Reveal the hive.

Yes, the... The Gherkin.

It's not quite there.

Oh, is it?

Not quite. No, it's not quite.

I'm looking for Shard,

but it's not there.

Yeah, is Shard...? No, not quite.

What else is there?

Oh, I know.

Ah, Cheesegrater! Yeah.

Yeah, Cheesegrater. Cheesegrater.

Let's see if you're right.

Well done. Yeah.

It is Cheesegrater.

It's called the Cheesegrater cos of its distinctive wedge shape.

3 points.

Cruciverbalists, over to you. Find a...

Reveal the hive.

Dunedin.

Dunedin, no? Dunedin, yeah.

Your answer is...? Dunedin.

No, you haven't found

the right answer. I can throw it

over to you, Cruciverbalists.

Let's see what you'd have been left

with for a bonus point. Yeah, yeah.

Hamilton. Hamilton.

Let's see if you're right.

Hamilton, yes indeed. Hamilton for

1 point. Dunedin is on the South Island. Yes.

Ortographobes, find a...

Reveal the hive.

THEY MUMBLE

King. Is King there? No. Oh. Ooh!

No, nearly. 2012? Yes.

There's... Oh, what's her name?

Is there a Trott?

Oh, no, she's not quite there.

No, she's not there.

There's Pendleton. No.

3 points now. Oh, no.

Oh, yes, yes. Yeah. Yes, yes, sorry.

Pendleton. Your answer's Pendleton.

Let's see if you're right.

Very good. Yeah. Correct.

Victoria Pendleton,

who, of course, is now famous for a different sport.

Horse racing. Horse racing indeed. Successful amateur jockey.

Very successful, I would say.

Ortographobes, that confirms your lead with 7.

Cruciverbalists, a little bit to make up with 4.

And I'm now looking for two answers

and you must find both to score the points.

Cruciverbalists, find a...

Reveal the hive.

There's a stunned silence. Yeah.

Some sort of nut. Something nut.

It's not nut. A crocus? No.

3 points remaining. Oh, dear.

Five seconds to go.

I can't see anything.

Oh, that had you stumped. Let's

throw it over to you, Ortographobes.

I see B for blackthorn,

but I don't know

what the other one is. Right, OK.

Let's see what the answer

should have been.

Blackthorn, yes, and the fruit?

Sloe. Sloe. Sloe, sloe. Sloe.

As in delicious sloe gin. Gin, ah! So, no points for either of you.

Ortographobes, let's see if you can get a point in this one.

Find a...

Reveal the hive.

Right.

Dana. Yeah, there's Dana.

There's Dana.

Is it Ireland or Israel?

Israel, she's from. Yeah.

Yeah, well, the other one,

Dana International is.

No, it doesn't look like it. Erm...

Or maybe Rihanna. Rihanna.

Yeah, but where's...? Barbados.

Barbados. Barbados.

Yeah, Barbados. Yeah.

Your answers? Rihanna and Barbados.

Let's see if you're right.

There we are. Rihanna and Barbados

for 2 points. Rihanna's full name? Robyn Fenty.

Yeah. Robyn Rihanna Fenty.

And I must say, I've never heard Dana

compared to Dana International before.

LAUGHTER I don't ever think

you'd put those in the same sentence.

Cruciverbalists, over to you. Find a...

Reveal the hive.

Whaam - A-A-M. Whaam is there. Yeah.

Is there anyone...? Lichtenstein.

There's Lichtenstein there.

That one and that one?

Your answers?

Whaam and Lichtenstein.

Let's see if you're right.

Whaam, the painting by

Roy Lichtenstein. Well done.

You went straight for it.

Warhol was in there, but there was no corresponding painting.

Well done. Ortographobes, find a...

Reveal the hive.

Let's see. Cook is certainly there

and maybe Endeavour. Let's see.

No. No, not quite.

Oh, it was Endurance.

Endurance? No. No.

Shackleton! Shackleton?

No, no. No, Shackleton is not there.

No, no, he isn't.

Who else is there?

I think it's Cook,

but it's another one we don't know.

Or is it...? No, Endeavour.

Yes, it is there. Yes.

Yes, there. There it goes.

Just the other way round. Yeah.

Your answers? Cook and Endeavour.

Cook and Endeavour. Let's see if you're right.

Cook and Endeavour for 1 point.

You could have got that for 5. You were so good.

You went straight for it.

Unfortunately, I was looking at the top instead of the bottom.

That's where you went wrong. Yeah.

But nonetheless, you're in the lead, Ortographobes, with 10.

Cruciverbalists, not far behind now with 8.

In round two, you'll each face two hives containing three answers

relating to a specific topic.

You have 45 seconds to complete each hive

and you can score a maximum of 5 points.

Ortographobes, you're in the lead, so you get to choose first from...

So, which would you like to go for? What do you fancy more? Mythology.

Yeah, we could save some of them. We could save...

Maybe hope Geography stays around later and then go for Mythology now?

Yeah. Yeah, let's do that now. All right, OK. So, Mythology?

Mythology, please.

Mythology, with fingers crossed for Geography later? Yes. OK.

When I reveal the question, you will have ten seconds to confer

as a team, but then, you answer on your own.

You've got two passes, but remember,

one wrong answer and your team will be locked out of the hive.

So, you chose Mythology. You're looking for...

You've ten seconds to confer.

Minotaur. Gorgon. Yeah, Gorgon.

Harpy. Yeah. Poseidon.

No, he's not a creature. He's a god. Muses, Graces.

Muse, yeah. Fates. Fates. Graces. Yes.

Time is up. Stop conferring.

Ravi, we're going to start with you. Creatures from Greek mythology.

Reveal the hive.

Pass.

James. Minotaur.

Minotaur, correct. Claudia.

There's one pass remaining.

Got 20 seconds. You can pass.

Pass. Ravi.

You have to find an answer.

Five seconds.

Bad luck. It all came down to you, Ravi, in the end, didn't it? It did.

Too much pressure. Sorry, Ravi.

Too much pressure. Well, let's see what you got.

So, you found a Minotaur, of course.

Have you spotted any of the others?

I thought I saw Hydra,

but that's not quite there.

No, Hydra's not quite there.

Medusa was nearly there, but not.

So, what you could have chosen

was Cerberus... Oh!

..the many-headed dog guarding

the underworld, and Charybdis.

Ooh. You were caught between

Scylla and Charybdis,

as they say in mythological circles.

So, out of a possible 5, you got 1 point.

Cruciverbalists, your turn now.

Which topic would you like to choose? We're left with...

If it's for me, I would do Biology,

but I don't know how you feel about it. Go with it.

All right with that? That sounds OK. OK.

All right. They're easy-going, aren't they, Jane?

Hope so. Biology. Biology.

OK, I can tell you, your question

is find...

You have ten seconds to confer.

All right, smallpox... Smallpox. ..polio...

Influenza. Tuberculosis. ..tuberculosis.

Sleeping sickness, does it...?

Yellow fever.

Time's up. No more conferring, I'm afraid. OK.

David, we're going to start with you.

You are looking for diseases that have

vaccines. Reveal the hive.

Pass.

Jane.

You have one pass remaining.

30 seconds.

Mumps.

Mumps, correct. Dave.

Diphtheria.

Diphtheria, correct. David.

You still have one pass.

Pass. Jane.

Ooh! That was quite a mean pass, wasn't it, Jane?

You got about three seconds to get it. Sorry.

So, you found two out of three, which gives you 2 points

out of a possible 5.

You found mumps and diphtheria.

Can you see the other one?

Polio's not there. It's not there.

You can nearly spell it,

but it's not there.

Typhoid. Oh! Yes.

There it is. 2 points out of 5,

which takes your score up to 10.

Ortographobes, you're on 11.

Let's see what you will pick of the remaining topics.

You could choose...

It's still there. SHE LAUGHS

Well, it would be rude not to go with it.

Should we go for that one? We've said it, so...

Yeah, I think so. Yeah, World Geography, please, Fiona.

OK, World Geography. I can tell you

that you will be looking for...

Ten seconds to confer.

Quebec. Newfoundland. Yeah, Newfoundland. Labrador.

Nova Scotia. Yeah. Yellowknife, I think is one. Or is that a city?

I can't remember now. Nunavut. Nunavut. Yes, Nunavut.

Ontario. Ontario. Toronto. Time is up.

No, Toronto's a city. Time's up.

James, we're going to start with you.

Canadian provinces and territories. Reveal the hive.

Ontario.

Ontario, correct. Claudia.

And you still have two passes.

Pass. Ravi.

Pass. James.

Nunavut.

Nunavut, correct.

Claudia, over to you. You can't pass.

Five seconds.

Timed out. You got Ontario

and Nunavut. And the one

you were missing was Manitoba.

Oh, Manitoba.

Oh, you know it now. Oh, dear.

That's what you needed for the full

5 points, but you got 2 points with Ontario and Nunavut,

so your score is now 13.

Cruciverbalists, we're back with you.

The remaining topics are...

Absolutely not European Politics. THEY LAUGH

You're good on TV comedy, aren't you? I'll give it a go.

Yeah, we'll give it a go, comedy. Yeah, we'll go TV Comedy.

Comedy over politics.

I'm sure that's what most people would choose.

You will be looking for...

You have ten seconds to confer.

Loadsamoney. Loadsamoney. Mr Cholmondley-Warner.

I thought they were single-word answers. No, well...

Loadsamoney's one word. Yeah. Loadsamoney's one word.

Tim Nice But Dim. That's not...

Time's up. Time's up. Dave, we're going to be starting with you.

You're looking for characters played by Harry Enfield.

Reveal the hive.

No.

Oh! Did you mean to press that? No, I meant to press the L.

Well, you pressed S. What were you trying to get? Loadsamoney.

Loadsamoney is, indeed, in there... Sorry, guys.

..but I'm afraid you pressed S

and that has taken you out of this round.

Bad luck. Let's see what you could have got.

So, Loadsamoney.

You could also have got...? Stavros.

Stavros. There's Stavros.

And then finally...

..Nicey of Smashie and Nicey.

That was probably not your finest hour. No. Very bad luck.

It's easily done, isn't it? Press the wrong letter and you're out.

So, I'm afraid no points in that

and that leaves you, Cruciverbalists, at 10.

Ortographobes in the lead with 13.

In round three, you're each faced with a super hive

and you're looking for a number of answers that fit a certain category,

but your challenge is to use every letter to find one perfect solution.

Ortographobes, it's your turn.

Which hive would you like - the A hive or the B hive?

Well, Fiona, I think we're going to buzz for the B hive.

Good for you. Then I can tell you that

you have two minutes

and you're looking for vegetables.

Reveal the hive.

OK. Radish. Erm...

Spinach. Spinach.

There's artichoke there, nearly.

That could be a red herring there.

Asparagus. Oh, asparagus.

Asparagus? Yes, yes, yes.

Yeah. Courgette. Mm-hm.

Courgette.

I thought I saw beetroot

or something like that.

Yeah, just putting it round.

Where are we? There's leek.

That's probably too obvious. Yeah.

Let's put it in anyway.

Leek. I'd put leek, yeah.

Why is it too obvious?

Because then it would leave

that gap there.

Yeah, that's true. Yeah.

It could be artichoke up there, though.

That's the problem.

Yeah, it's a bit too obvious.

Let's go for artichoke.

Go for artichoke. OK.

OK, what's up there, then?

Turnip. Oh, yeah.

One minute to go.

Ah! You do that,

I'll check the other way.

OK, there we go. Yeah.

What's...? What's up there, then?

Citroella?

What have we got here?

It's skirret or something like that.

Skirret? Try it.

Um... Um...

I think I...

Oh, I thought I saw celeriac.

Yeah, I do. It's not quite there.

I think we've gone wrong somewhere here.

Oh, is celeriac spelled this way?

No, celeriac's there, so..

Let's try? Yeah, let's do that.

20 seconds to go now.

Celeriac.

Oh, kohlrabi. Kohlrabi, yes.

And, erm...

Chard. Oh, chard.

Oh, it's that one? Chard.

I don't know what that is.

THEY LAUGH

BELL RINGS

And what's that last answer? It's skirret. Skirret? Yeah.

Skirret, that's correct. Phew! Yes! You found the perfect solution.

If you pronounced it a different way, you wouldn't have.

Yeah, sweet. Well, that was a close-run thing, actually,

because you started off with spinach.

Yeah. And we were a bit mean about spinach

because, in fact, we put spinach in

several different ways.

We also hid parsnip in there. Oh.

Artichoke, as you know.

You found artichoke, but then you,

quite rightly, took it out again.

Lettuce. Oh, yeah, lettuce. Leek.

You talked about leek,

but decided not to go for it.

And okra, that was in there, as well.

I don't know if you didn't see them or didn't want to go for them.

Didn't see them? Well, just as well.

It would have taken you down a blind alley. Let's go through

what you did get...

And do you know what skirret is, just out of interest?

Erm...no. A root vegetable.

It is a root vegetable. Well done.

Similar to a parsnip. Very popular in Tudor times.

Oh, good. So, you learn something every day.

The full 10 points to you. You obviously know your vegetables.

Cruciverbalists, it's your turn.

Feeling confident? Can you follow that act?

Full 10 points? A hard act to follow.

Well, you have two minutes and I can tell you

that you are looking for wind instruments.

Reveal the hive.

Ocarinas. Oboes. Yeah.

Ocarina is there,

but it might be too obvious.

Oboe. Sackbut. Where's that?

It's that button, yeah.

No. Oh, no? No, take that one out.

It's that one. Oh, yeah.

No, no, no. No, you've missed the A.

You've gone wrong. Just put the A.

That's it. And take the S out. Oh.

SHE MUMBLES

But then... You must press enter

if you want to lock that in.

I think maybe that S

because it's going to make that...

You can always take it out again

later if you want to.

Anyway, let's go for it.

Ocarina's up here. Right.

No, it's not. Yes, it is.

Ocarina's that way, yeah. Bugle.

Bugle's there. Flute,

or is that too obvious?

It seems...

I bet it's a red herring.

Yeah, bugle is there,

but it could be a red herring, as well.

One minute remaining. Yeah.

Euphonium. Yeah, euphonium.

Is that there? Yeah.

Euphonium.

Ah. Oh, no.

No, we've got the wrong S for sackbut.

Yeah, that's all right.

Just do euphonium first.

And then change the S.

I think you need to hold it.

Yeah, there you go.

That gives us bassoon. Yeah.

And flugelhorn. Flugelhorn.

And then you're left with...

Ten seconds to go. Erm...

Press enter if you want that to count.

Serpent. Serpent.

No, it's gone wrong here.

It's all right.

Take your time. Serpent.

MUSIC PLAYS

Time's up, I'm afraid, and there was a lot of toing and froing there.

Words coming in, coming out. Yeah. Let's see what you got.

So, we were looking for wind instruments and you found...

That little-known

French trombone-like instrument.

The other word you found

was flugelhorn.

Inside, I was rejoicing,

but you didn't... Press it.

..lock it in, so it didn't count.

And while you were excited

you found flugelhorn,

but not noticing you hadn't locked

it in, you then found serpent,

and didn't lock that one in either.

Yeah. That's what you needed to get the full 10 points. Little

red herrings we stuck in there.

Cornet. Yeah. Did you spot that one?

Clarinet. Flute, you were looking.

We saw flute. Saw flute.

You thought that was too obvious,

didn't you? And oboe.

Oboe, that's right. Tuba.

Yeah, there was lots. Sousaphone.

Wow. Oh, yeah. Didn't see that one.

Yeah, that was there.

Well, I'm glad you didn't see that cos you would have come a cropper.

And the simple horn.

Yeah, we saw that. Yeah, yeah.

So, they were all hidden

in there cunningly. Very clever.

Commiserations for that, but nonetheless,

5 points. That takes you to 15, Cruciverbalists. Ortographobes,

you are in the lead with 23.

It's our final buzzer round. Cruciverbalists, you can still win.

Ortographobes, you can pull even further ahead or be overtaken.

There's everything to play for.

This time, the hives are filled with answers.

If you pay attention, you might spot an answer

to a question I haven't even asked yet.

Are you ready? Fingers on buzzers, both teams. Reveal the hive.

You are looking for...

Cruciverbalists. Pythagoras.

Pythagoras, correct. 1 point.

You're looking for...

Cruciverbalists. Sleepy. There's nothing sleepy

about this game. Well done.

You're catching up.

You're looking for a...

Cruciverbalists. Axolotl.

Axolotl. Well done. Next, find a...

Ortographobes. Prop.

Prop, correct. 1 point.

Find a...

Cruciverbalists. Piper.

Piper. Billie Piper. 1 point.

There's now just 5 between you.

Find an...

Pituitary, is that there?

Cruciverbalists. Thyroid.

Thyroid, correct.

Let's refresh the hive.

Right, you're looking for a...

Ortographobes. Halle.

Halle, correct.

Find a...

Cruciverbalists. Pineapple.

Pineapple indeed.

Find an...

Sanskrit, is that there?

I don't know. No.

Anyone? Susu? No.

That had both teams stumped.

It was Hittite.

Hittite is what we were after.

Find a...

Cruciverbalists. Phobos.

Phobos, correct.

Find a...

Ortographobes. Pipette.

Pipette, correct.

Just keeping the lead there.

Find a...

Cruciverbalists. Whitehall.

Whitehall, correct.

It's getting neck and neck,

nearly. Let's refresh the hive.

Find an...

Can't see at all.

Leonard, we were after.

Elmore Leonard.

It's easy when you know the answer. OK, moving on,

find a...

Cruciverbalists. Bracken.

Bracken indeed.

Just 2 points between you now.

I'm looking for a...

Cruciverbalists. Mafeking.

Mafeking.

25 to 26 now.

Ortographobes. Dracula. Dracula. FIONA LAUGHS

Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Cruciverbalists. Cardigan.

Cardigan, correct.

Nickel?

Ortographobes. Nickel.

Nickel, correct. MUSIC PLAYS

Oh! Oh! We've done it.

You were getting anxious there, Ortographobes, weren't you?

Oh, my hands. Cruciverbalists nearly caught up with you.

Very well done, both teams. That was extremely close and very exciting.

So, Ortographobes, you are the winners.

You go through to the next round.

Bad luck indeed, Cruciverbalists, but you'll have another chance.

We shall see you again. Look forward to that.

Join us for more brilliance and bewilderment

in Hive Minds next time, but before we go,

here's one for you just at home.

Find a Russian playwright and one of his title characters. Bye-bye.

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