Prime v Belgae Hive Minds

Welcome to 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.

Prime, would you like to introduce yourselves, please? I am Will.

I'm a retired maths teacher from North London.

I'm John. I'm a barman from Aldershot.

I'm Jill, I'm a dyslexia coach from North London.

Well, that's an interesting team, right there.

And, John, as well as a barman, you're a composer of limericks?

Yes. Got one for us? I've written one in preparation,

for anyone who doesn't know what Hive Minds is about. Right.

Hive Minds is that show where you

Must find words in hives to get through

And if they elect to can Only Connect

It might move to BBC TWO. LAUGHTER

Very good. Love it very much.

Belgae, over to you.

I'm Helen and I'm an actuary from Winchester.

And I'm Richard. I am also an actuary living in Winchester.

And I'm Linda, I'm a writer and also in Winchester.

And Richard and Linda, you are married.

Yes, that's right. 20 years.

I have to ask you - Belgae, what's that all about?

Well, Belgae were the British tribe that lived in the Winchester area

when the Romans came to Britain.

So, that was our inspiration.

And are you feeling suitably warrior-like today? Of course.

Yes. All fired up.

Well, Belgae, welcome to you.

Prime, welcome to you as well.

Very good luck.

Let's play Hive Minds.

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

And if the answer to my question

was what are the names of this week's teams,

you'd be looking for Prime - there it is - and Belgae.

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 look 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.

There are a few red herrings in there. Watch out!

So, Prime, here's your first question, and when you think

you've found the answer, hit the first letter to stop the clock.

Reveal the hive.

Has anyone got any ideas on this?

No. Don't know any RAF...

This isn't my...

Really isn't my area.

See if we can find anything.

Vulcan? Is Vulcan there?

Vulcan is there.

Try Vulcan. The V. Vulcan.

I think we'll try Vulcan.

Your answer's Vulcan.

Let's see if you're right.

There we are, Vulcan,

for three points. Well done.

Over to you, Belgae.

Reveal the hive.

Virginia Woolf...

She's not there. Who else is there?

Woolf's nearly there, isn't she?

But that's a cheat. OK.

Which other ones were there?

So, I know there was Bell,

but she wasn't a writer, was she?

She was an artist.

Three points now.

Who else is there?

Was there a Fletcher?

Fletcher isn't there, is it?

Oh, no...

You haven't found the answer.

I can throw it over to you, Prime,

for a bonus point.

Woolf's not there. Erm...

Can we think of anything at all? No.

No, you clearly haven't found it.

You were looking for Strachey.

THEY GROAN Lytton Strachey.

Famous for? Lives of the Victorians.

Eminent Victorians, that's it. Eminent Victorians. That's it.

A writer in the Bloomsbury group. Yeah.

Prime, I'm back with you.

Reveal the hive.

OK. Othello and Hello.

Well done! Let's find our O, then.

That'll be there.

Well done!

Your answer is?

Othello. Othello.

Let's see if you're right.

Straight away, John.

Five points to you.

Belgae...

Reveal the hive.

Do we have Aldi and...

Lidl... No, it could be Aldi.

It's not Asda.

It's easier to think of supermarkets than...

Tesco? Anglesey's not there.

No.

Right. A British island?

Is it... Sark?

Is there Tresco there? Sorry?

Is Tresco...

Your answer is?

Tresco. Tresco.

Let's see if you're right.

In the nick of time!

Tresco.

Of course, you remove one letter, you get Tesco.

Tresco in the Isles of Scilly, of course.

So that leaves us, Belgae, with one point.

Prime racing ahead, at the moment, with eight.

We're going to make things a little bit more complicated now.

I'm looking for two answers and you must spot BOTH to score the points.

Prime, I'm starting with you.

Reveal the hive.

Let's look for some bones.

Ulna, radius, tibia, fibula...

Erm, cranium...

scapula,

femur... No.

Can't see any bones at all.

Any body parts? Can we see any body parts?

Erm... Costal?

Cost...

You're out of time.

You haven't found the answers.

Let me throw it over to you, Belgae,

for a bonus point.

So, shall we dare say foot?

Foot and ferus?

No. I think...

There's a fair amount of guessing going on, I think it's fair to say.

No, what we were looking for was calcaneus,

in the heel and foot.

Right, let's see how you get on with the next one.

Reveal the hive.

OK, so...

Section of the orchestra,

there's... Strings... Brass, wind...

So, string is in there.

OK. String is in there.

So, let's get...

Oboe's there as well.

Is oboe in string?

Oh, but oboe is there.

Oboe's in the wind.

Three points now.

Oboe has disappeared.

So, brass is not there. Is percussion there?

Percussion could...

Percussion is there,

let's get percussion locked in. Yup.

Oh...

You haven't found the right answers.

I'm going to throw it to Prime

for a bonus point. We'll have...

Triangle and percussion.

Let's see if you're right.

Triangle and percussion.

There it is, triangle

and percussion.

And I think you got stuck there

because strings was in there... Yes.

But there was no corresponding instrument.

So you try to look for something to go with strings

and then, of course, you couldn't do it.

So one point to you, Prime.

I'm still with you.

Reveal the hive.

We'll start looking for cities,

because I'm not too good on hotels.

London, Paris?

We can't do London,

it doesn't... Paris?

Paris doesn't go.

What other cities have we got?

New York? No.

Munich, Berlin...

I can't see any cities at all.

Erm...

Cities...

One point now. Ooh...

Oh, Belgae, spotted it?

No, I'm afraid not.

Oh, my goodness me!

With those letters left, it could only be...

Singapore.

Singapore. So easy when you know!

And Raffles, the hotel Raffles.

Anyone been there? Yes.

It's very nice. Had a Singapore sling? Oh, yes.

On the terrace? Yes. Very nice indeed.

OK, Belgae...

Reveal the hive.

So, there's Cumberbatch and...

Cumberbatch and Martin...

What's the other...? Freeman.

Martin Freeman.

So, can you see them?

Freeman is not there.

There must be some others.

Well, so there's Robert Downey Jr...

That's a good point. Downey.

Downey. No.

Jude Law has done it.

He's not there.

Two points now.

Was there somebody Bruce?

So, there must be...

I just...

Out of time.

Prime, have you spotted them?

Well, I can get Rathbone.

And in that case,

we're going to make up...

Quickly, quickly!

I'm not going to make anything up.

No, you're guessing. You're guessing.

Rathbone is correct.

And if it was Rathbone,

who else would it be?

Bruce? Bruce, Nigel Bruce.

So, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.

Of course, you're so creatures of the modern age,

you're all thinking about Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman.

And, in fact, Cumberbatch and Freeman were almost in there,

but not quite.

Yeah, we like to, you know...

Make it hard. We like to make it hard for you if we can.

So, where does that leave us at the end of the round?

Prime, in your prime with nine.

Belgae, a little bit of work to do with one.

In Round Two, you'll each face two hives

containing three answers relating to a specific topic.

You've 45 seconds to complete each hive

and score a maximum five points.

Prime, you're in the lead

so you get to choose first from...

Right. We all like... Literature. Not Popular Music.

Not Popular Music. No.

Literature... Music's out.

OK. Literature's probably the best bet, yeah.

OK. We'll have Literature, please.

Literature. OK.

When I reveal the question, you will have 10 seconds

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

You've got two passes. But one wrong answer, remember -

your team will be locked out of the hive.

So, you've chosen Literature.

You'll be looking for...

Ten seconds to confer.

Who wants to pull rank on this? Starbuck. Starbuck, of course.

Queequeg. Captain Ahab. Ahab. And there's...

There's the chap who's the Maori harpoon thrower,

but I can't remember his name. But he might... Time's up.

It might be Queequeg. Time's up. OK. Will, I'm going to start with you.

You're looking for characters from Moby-Dick. Reveal the hive.

Pass.

John?

Starbuck?

Correct. Jill?

Ishmael. Ishmael.

Correct. Will?

You have one pass remaining.

Well, I guess...

Pass. John?

You can't pass. No, I can't. Erm...

It's... No, I'm... Time's up. Might be Cashal.

Bad luck there, John. Two out of three. Can you see the other one?

Cashal? Cashal?

Tashtego. Oh, that was the guy...

That was that harpooner you were thinking of, the Maori harpooner.

You very quickly got Starbuck, the first mate

of Captain Ahab's boat, the Pequod,

Ishmael, the narrator -

"Call me Ishmael," the opening line to the novel -

and then Tashtego was the one you couldn't quite find.

So, at the end of that, two points.

Belgae, your turn now. Which topic would you like to choose? We have...

Right. I think Chemistry. Science is safe. Yeah. OK

OK. We're going to go for Chemistry. You're going for the sciences.

OK. I can tell you that you will be looking for...

You've ten seconds to confer.

We've got oxygen, nitrogen, carbon...

Hydrogen, helium...

Is chlor...? Neon. Oh, yes, argon, neon...

Yeah. Xenon? Yes.

Time's up. Well, lots of elements there.

Let's see if you can find any of those in the hive.

Helen, we're starting with you. You're looking for...

Reveal the hive.

Pass.

Richard?

One pass remaining.

H. Hydrogen. Hydrogen.

Correct. Linda?

Fluorine. Fluorine.

Correct. Helen?

One pass remaining.

Pass.

Richard?

Radon. Radon.

Correct.

Good tactical pass there, I think we can say, Helen.

So, you got all three there,

hydrogen, radon and fluorine.

Where you struggling, Helen?

I thought this was a walk in the park for you.

I kept seeing nearly argon or nearly oxygen, and...

We nearly put argon, nearly put krypton, nearly put nitrogen,

nearly put oxygen, just to fox you.

But you got all three for five points.

Prime, your turn now. Which topic would you like? We're left with...

I'd want to avoid Technology at all costs.

I think that would be our inclination.

History, probably... And we've ruled out Popular Music before,

so it's probably going to be History. It's going to be History.

History? OK. You will be looking for...

You've ten seconds. Reel 'em off.

Naseby, Edgehill, Worcester...

Marston Moor. Marston Moor. Except it's two words.

Not that one, then. Oxford? Was there a battle of Oxford?

I think there was. Yeah. Can you think of any others?

I think you've said all... Time's up. Did you say Edgehill?

Time's up. Edgehill, yeah. That was quite a brain dump from you, Jill.

We're starting with you. Let's see how you get on.

You're looking for English Civil War battles. Reveal the hive.

Edgehill. Edgehill.

Correct. Will?

Two passes remaining.

You can pass.

Pass. John?

I'm going to pass again. Jill?

No. Can't find it.

Time's up. Time's up. I think you slightly let yourself in for that,

Jill, didn't you? I did rather.

You were so impressive there, when you were conferring.

So, you found one, Edgehill,

first major battle of the English Civil Wars, in 1642.

What else could you have found? Spot them now?

There's something ending in Bury.

Shrewsbury. Newbury. Newbury. And then the final one?

Stratton, also known as the Battle of Stamford Hill.

At the end of that, you have one point,

which leaves you with a total of 12.

Belgae, we're back with you. Now, Prime are on 12,

so you could do with repeating your stellar performance.

Let's see which topic you're going to choose. You're left with...

Which is it going to be? Popular Music's probably too broad.

Let's go Technology. Yeah.

Technology? Technology it is.

No-one's keen on Popular Music, that's for sure. OK, technology.

You will be looking for...

You've ten seconds to confer.

Nokia, Samsung, Motorola...

What's...? Android? What's the H...?

What's the name that begins with an H? Huwaisai?

OK. Time's up.

OK, Linda, mobile-phone manufacturers.

We're looking for three of them. Reveal the hive.

Samsung. Samsung.

Correct. Helen?

Nokia. Nokia.

Correct. Richard?

You've got two passes remaining.

20 seconds to go.

Pass. Linda?

Ten seconds.

One pass left.

Pass. Helen?

There's just one outstanding,

as you passed it along yourselves, trying to

find it, but nobody could! Let's see what you did get.

Samsung and Nokia you found pretty quickly.

Have you spotted the other one? No.

Begins with M.

Motorola.

I thought Motorola! Oh, it didn't go the right way. No, I did the same.

So you got two points, which leaves you, I'm

afraid, still trailing, with 8. Prime have 12.

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. Belgae, it's your turn.

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

Let's go for the B hive. Go for the B hive, OK.

You have two minutes, and you are looking for...

Reveal the hive.

So, I can see rook at the top.

Shall we put that in, to start with?

Put it in to start us off.

And we've got a wing here...

That's a lapwing or a...

Yeah, cos of lap there.

OK. Or that... No, there.

Now, let's see. Curlew, or...?

Gos...

There's a...

There's a nuthatch.

Oh, have we locked in lapwing?

Oh, yeah, we had. There we go.

That's starling, on the edge. OK.

Keep looking.

And I keep going round here.

Swift?

Yeah.

Locked in. OK.

So something bill here.

Gold... There's gold something.

There's bill, isn't there?

That rook may be a distraction.

Is there a crossbill?

Got a minute to go. Yes, crossbill.

OK. All right, hang on.

There's cuckoo across the top.

Cross...

So shall we take off rook?

You sort of hold it down.

Yeah. Cuckoo. Right.

OK, 40 seconds left to see...

Goldcrest? Yes.

You've done it, with more than 30 seconds to go.

When you started with rook, I thought,

"This is going to be interesting - let's see where this ends up,"

because rook was the red herring. Let's see what you did get.

You could also have had - but they would not have been part of

this perfect solution -

robin, that was hiding in there,

goldfinch, and finch, of course, rook, as you

know, crossbill...

And starling.

You spotted starling very early on as well.

So what made you decide not to go for starling?

We're just lucky. LAUGHTER

Well, I don't know if it was luck exactly,

but you've got the full 10 points.

You're now in the lead.

So, Prime, come on, then. No pressure.

You are left with the A hive.

You will be looking for...

Reveal the hive.

Right, OK, so... Penne is there.

Penne across the top.

That could be our Rook, though. You never know.

Yep. OK. Lasagne's there as well.

Lasagne. Where's it going?

L-A-S-A-G... No, there's no N. ..N-E.

Oh, OK. So it could be...

So we can have...

Fusilli.

Is it...

Tortellini? Is tortellini there?

Tortellini...

It goes to a dead end, sort of, doesn't it?

Is linguine there? Ling...

I mean, that seems to be a dead end as well.

OK.

There's lots of Ns. And Ls. Zitti.

I think that's a sort of pasta.

Is it? Yeah, but it's not there.

OK. What is there?

Sorry, I don't want to cover you up, there.

Vermicelli?

Is vermicelli there?

Can't see a V.

Right.

Farfalle?

Fusilli doesn't even go...

No. Farfalle. Farfalle.

No. Is that there?

A minute to go.

No, it's a dead end.

Tortellini comes, I mean, it goes right

through the middle, but we might want some points.

Tortellini. Yeah.

That's the correct spelling, isn't it?

Yeah, that's right... Shall we just...

Press enter if you want it.

Just take penne out for a second and see what

happens when we... Still got to put lasagne in.

And then just see what lasagne does.

Might make things look a bit nicer.

So we've got, like... Fusilli.

What about cannelloni?

No, no, sorry, no, it doesn't. Doesn't go.

It still doesn't go. What about cannelloni?

It would go... If we didn't have tortellini. Is cannelloni in there?

20 seconds to go.

Sorry.

Is cannelloni in there? Is your question.

Yeah, shall we... C-A-N-N...

It is.

N-N-E-L... If we didn't have...

Hang on a sec. Shall we...

I'll leave tortellini in... Five seconds...

Oh, gosh. Just because... Yeah.

Yeah. Capelli?

That's awful.

No, not very good. Dear, oh, dear.

Not good at all.

I think the tricky thing was you were, your minds

seemed to be reeling with lots of different types of

delicious pasta. Yes, I think so.

Lots of double Ls... Yeah.

Lots of double Ns,

and where were you going to fit them in?

Done better with the birds.

LAUGHTER

Let's see what you did find.

So they are both, of course,

two types of pasta.

So that's two points, there.

Which of those, if either,

would have been part of the perfect solution?

I apologise for that. Just lasagne.

What you could have found,

if you were going to get the perfect solution,

the full 10 points, was...

Cappellini, right.

I tried fusilli.

I said cannelloni.

Ziti, but I thought it had two Ts.

Ziti. Yeah.

No, if it has two Ts it means shut up,

and that's definitely not what you wanted.

So you definitely didn't want that.

And that's what you needed for the full 10 points.

Now there are a few others masquerading in there -

tortelloni was in there as well.

And I liked the way Johnny said that penne

could be "our rook".

Which, of course, it would have been.

So, we now have a rather interesting reversal of fortune.

Belgae, you're in the lead with 18.

Prime, trailing a little bit there, with 14.

Well, there is everything to play for now,

in our final buzzer round.

This time the hives are filled with answers and, if you pay attention,

you might spot an answer to a question you haven't even heard yet.

Are you ready? You've got your fingers on your buzzers.

Reveal the hive.

You're looking for...

Prime? Pachyderm.

Pachyderm. Correct.

One point.

OK, moving on.

Prime? Baldwin.

Baldwin. Correct. Stanley Baldwin.

You are catching up, Prime.

Prime? Emery.

Emery. Correct.

There's just one point between you now.

Belgae? Windermere.

Windermere. Yes.

Correct.

You're inching ahead again.

Belgae? Blaine.

Blaine. Correct.

For one point, David Blaine.

Let's refresh the hive.

It's very close.

Belgae? Winchester.

Winchester. Correct.

That fell nicely for you, given that you're

the team Belgae from Winchester.

Come on, Prime!

Prime? Reich.

Reich?

No. You lose a point.

You can't afford to do that, at this stage.

Bernstein, Leonard Bernstein.

Belgae? Chablis.

Chablis. Correct.

Belgae? Foster.

Foster. Yes, Norman Foster.

Correct.

Prime? Elba.

Elba, the island of Elba.

Well done. Let's refresh the hive.

OK.

Prime?

Press too soon?

Osaka?

I'm sorry, guys. Nagasaki...

is what we were after.

It's OK.

You've lost a point, there. Sorry.

Belgae? Agamemnon.

Agamemnon. Correct.

One point.

Should have said it.

Belgae? Botha.

Botha. PW Botha.

Correct.

Prime? Tosh.

Tosh! Correct.

Peter Tosh.

It's the rather brilliantly named...

boomslang.

So no points for anyone there.

Prime? Botham.

Botham. Correct.

Oh, that was tense, wasn't it?

It certainly was.

We'll need to wipe you down afterwards, Jill. Yeah.

Prime, you've one more chance to stay in the competition.

Belgae, I salute you. You go through to the next round.

Very well done. Thank you.

Join us for more brilliance and bewilderment in Hive Minds next time.

But before we go, here's one for you, just at home.

A country where tigers live in the wild.

Bye-bye.

Well done, you guys. You did brilliantly.

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