Logophiles v Ortographobes Hive Minds

Welcome to Hive Minds, the quiz where simply knowing the answers

isn't enough, you've got to find them as well.

Today's two teams both won their first matches, so the winners

of this game go straight through to the semifinals.

Let's meet the teams. Logophiles, let's start with you.

Would you like to introduce yourselves, please?

Hello, my name is Emma, I'm an assistant director of studies

from Hove in East Sussex.

Hello again, I'm David, I'm a subtitler for the deaf,

and I live in Ealing.

Hi, I'm Nick, I'm an educational publisher,

and I come from Oxford.

Well, welcome back to you, Logophiles.

It's good to see you again. Over to you, Ortographobes.

Let's learn a little bit about you.

My name is Ravi, I'm from London, I'm a commercial accountant.

I'm James, I'm from Mirfield in West Yorkshire,

and I'm an admin assistant.

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

Very good to have you back on the show.

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...

Logophiles

and Ortographobes.

As you can see, 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,

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

So the faster you answer, the more you score.

We've set a few traps, as always.

It wouldn't be Hive Minds if we hadn't.

We've laid some false trails, so beware.

So, Logophiles, 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.

-Um...

-Trudeau?

No, it's... No, Trudeau wouldn't be a first name.

No, it wouldn't be.

Um...

-Can't get anything from that.

-No.

-Chat...

-No.

OUT OF TIME NOISE

No. Let's throw it over to you, Ortographobes, for a bonus point.

No... Oh, I think...

No, no, it's not, no.

I was going to say Dupre,

but no, it's not, that's not right.

No, that's not right.

What you were after was...

Harper.

-Oh!

-Oh!

Oh! So Stephen Harper...

-Stephen Harper!

-No good now!

So Stephen Harper,

who was Prime Minister of Canada from 2006-15,

-and then Harper Lee, the US novelist.

-Course.

OK, Ortographobes, we're with you.

Reveal the hive.

Can you see anything there...?

Well, I was going to say Starkey,

-but obviously, that's not right, either.

-No.

Historian...

Don't know too many of those...

Oh, hang on... Oh, no.

Uh...

-Um...

-Um...

-Any ideas?

-No.

OUT OF TIME NOISE

No. We have you stumped.

What about you, Logophiles?

-We think Taylor.

-Taylor.

-Show me first letter?

-Yeah.

There it is. T for Taylor.

Correct.

AJP Taylor.

And who was the American singer-songwriter, there?

-ALL:

-Taylor Swift!

Swiftie! We don't want to get too highbrow, here.

Taylor Swift, of course.

Right. Logophiles, I'm back with you.

Reveal the hive.

-Medoc? No, it's...

-No.

-There's...?

-No, it's not.

Guiraud... Duc...

Three points, now.

Oh, gosh. It's wine again.

Um, Chateau...

..Lafite?

-No, there's no...

-That would need two Fs.

-No, no, not enough...

-No.

OUT OF TIME NOISE

No. Let me throw it over to you, Ortographobes.

Have you spotted it?

No, doesn't look like it, I'm afraid.

No. Let me put you out of your misery.

Latour.

Oh! Chateau Latour.

Chateau Latour.

And very yummy it is too.

Ortographobes.

Reveal the hive.

Yeah, I was thinking...

No, not quite.

Um, have we got...? No.

Peter...?

No. What else is there?

Three points remaining now.

Could it be...? No, not quite.

Stevenson...?

No. Dear me.

OUT OF TIME NOISE

-Ortographobes, this is not your moment.

-No, it's not.

But there's plenty of time, don't worry. Logophiles?

It's P for Pembroke.

P for Pembroke.

Correct, for a bonus point.

Well stolen from the Ortographobes.

So where are we now?

Logophiles, you're on two.

-Ortographobes, need to get you in the game.

-Yep.

You still have no points, I'm afraid.

Going to make it a little bit more complicated now.

Logophiles, I'm now looking to you for two answers,

and you must spot both to score the points.

Reveal the hive.

Is it LaGuardia?

Yes, there's...

-Is Dallas the city?

-Yes.

No, it's...

-We need the city as well.

-Yes.

-Dallas?

-That's LaGuardia, isn't it?

-There isn't the double L.

-Oh, yes.

All right, Washington...?

-Oh, yes.

-And what's the...?

What's the airport for Washington?

-Oh, no, it's not in there.

-Gosh.

OUT OF TIME NOISE

Sorry.

Ortographobes, this could be your moment.

Yeah. It would be, if we could know what it was. But...

-OK, you haven't got it?

-Afraid not, no.

-Logan!

-Logan.

Logan. That's what we needed.

Boston and Logan. Right.

Right, come on. Let's get this one.

Ortographobes.

Reveal the hive.

I don't know what an allotrope is.

I think I know what it is,

but I'm not sure exactly... Let's see.

No, not quite oxygen.

Is it... Or is there...?

Yes, oxygen and ozone, yes!

Yeah.

Oh, no!

-Your answers?

-Er... Well.

It's oxygen and...

but I've pressed the wrong letter.

But what were they? Oxygen, and...?

It was oxygen and ozone.

Let's throw it over.

So ozone there, and oxygen there, yeah.

Your answers?

The same answer, oxygen and ozone.

Oxygen and ozone.

Correct. A bonus point. Very bad luck, Ortographobes.

You got oxygen and ozone,

but you just didn't get it in the right place.

Bad luck. Logophiles.

Reveal the hive.

-Iliad?

-Iliad, maybe?

No, there's not...

No, it can't be the Iliad.

What else is there...?

Three points, now.

-Beowulf?

-Beowulf, yeah, it's definitely Beowulf.

-Translator?

-And, um...

-Yes, there's Beowulf.

-..Tolkien. Beowulf and Tolkien.

OK, go for that. And then... T for Tolkien.

-Your answers?

-Beowulf and Tolkien.

Let's see if you're right.

-Beowulf and Tolkien...

-Well done.

..in the nick of time, for one point.

Ortographobes. Over to you.

Let's see if we can break the duck.

Reveal the hive.

Let's see.

Oh, there... I thought I saw Overlord,

but no, that's not quite right.

Dynamo?

Yes, Dynamo.

Oh, no, it's not dynamo.

What else is there? What's the...?

-Operation...

-Oh, blast.

What are they called?

OUT OF TIME NOISE

Over to you, Logophiles, for a bonus point.

OK, so Dunkirk and...

Um...

Your answers?

Dunkirk, and the mission was...?

Um, meaning?

-Something beginning with M.

-Yes, exactly.

-You don't know?

All right, I can't...

No, I'm afraid we can't take that.

-You were so close, Ortographobes.

-Yeah, the other way round, yes.

Dynamo, Operation Dynamo, which was the evacuation of...

-The Allied Forces...

-..of Dunkirk.

..at Dunkirk, yeah.

So that's the end of the round.

Logophiles, you're on four.

Ortographobes,

you still need to get a point,

you're on zero at the moment.

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.

You can score a maximum of five points.

Logophiles, you're in the lead, you start first.

Which topic would you like?

Which will it be?

-OK.

-We like music.

Yeah, we do like music.

I'd much rather choose sport.

If we don't choose sport they will choose sport. It won't be left.

-That's true.

-That's true.

-OK, we'll go for classical music.

Classical music, please.

You're going for classical music? OK, Logophiles.

When I reveal the question,

you'll have ten seconds to confer as a team,

but then you're answering 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 classical music.

You're looking for...

You've ten seconds to confer.

-Faure.

-Durufle.

-Berlioz?

-Yeah, Berlioz.

Faure, Durufle, um...

-Ravel, maybe?

-Possibly.

-Maybe Messiaen, I think?

-Messiaen.

-Messiaen, sounds good.

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

Emma, we're going to start with you.

Reveal the hive.

-You can pass.

-Er... OK.

Berlioz.

Berlioz. David?

Durufle.

Durufle. Nick?

-Faure.

-Faure.

I'm afraid it's the wrong F.

So what did you get?

Berlioz, Durufle,

and you so nearly got Faure.

You got two points.

Ortographobes, we're with you.

Now, you could really do with some points here.

You can absolutely make it up.

Let's see if you can get the full five. Which topic would you like?

We're left with...

I think we're going to go with our big guns, and go for sport, I think.

You two would really like to do sport, wouldn't you?

-Yeah, sport.

-Yeah, I think so. Sport please, Fiona.

Sport for you two? You'll be looking for...

You've ten seconds to confer.

-OK, Banks, Wilson, Cohen, Hurst, Peters...

-Robson?

..Charlton... No, not Robson. Ball.

-Who else?

-Charlton?

-Yeah, Charlton, yes. Moore.

Time's up.

That's what you call a brain dump. OK.

Ravi, we're starting with you.

Reveal the hive.

You can pass.

-Pass.

-James?

Cohen.

Cohen. Correct.

Claudia?

One pass remaining.

-Banks.

-Banks.

Correct. Ravi?

You still have one pass.

-Pass.

-James?

OUT OF TIME NOISE

Oh, so close.

And you said it when you were conferring, as well.

Oh, no. Please say I didn't.

So, you got Cohen, George Cohen.

Banks, Gordon Banks.

Oh, I just... It's Nobby Stiles!

It's Nobby Stiles!

Who could forget Nobby Stiles?

Well, I saw "Stil" at the top there,

but I didn't see the bit down the middle there, in between. Oh.

-And then, other names mentioned were nearly...

-Yeah.

I don't know if you spotted them, Charlton was nearly there.

Yeah, that was nearly there, yes.

-Ball was nearly there.

-Mm-hm.

-Still. You're in the game.

-Yes. Yes.

Two points out of a possible five. Not bad.

Better than zero.

Right, Logophiles, we're back with you.

So of the topics remaining, you can choose...

I think animals is probably...

Animals might be friendly to us.

-It's going to have to be animals.

-Yeah, I think so, animals, yeah.

So, animals. You will be looking for...

-You've ten seconds to confer.

-OK.

-Mule.

-Tigon. Liger.

-Zedonk.

Um... Mule.

Yeah, mule, tigon... What else is there?

Is there a donkey and an ass...?

Time's up.

OK, so you're looking for hybrid animals.

You've 45 seconds, two passes.

Emma, starting with you.

Reveal the hive.

-Pass.

-David.

-Liger.

-Liger.

Correct. Nick?

-Pass.

-Emma.

No passes remaining.

Can't see it.

Five seconds.

No.

OUT OF TIME MUSIC

No?

Tricky one. Do you think you should have gone for fashion?

-I've seen one.

-What do you think you've seen?

-Hinny.

-Hinny is in there.

Which is...?

It's an ass and a donkey.

A male horse and a female donkey.

Right, OK.

And you got a liger, which is a male lion

-combined with a female tiger.

-Female tiger, yeah.

And then beefalo,

-a cow and a north American buffalo.

-Oh, right.

Those were the three you needed.

You've got one, so you've got one extra point,

taking your score up to seven.

Ortographobes, we're back with you.

Now, you're trailing by five, so if you get a full house here,

-it's even stevens.

-Ooh.

You've got...

I think we should buck the trend and go fashion.

-I think fashion as well.

-Right. OK. We're with you, Claudia.

I don't know an awful lot about geology, so...

Yeah. OK. We'll go with you, Claudia.

-OK. Fashion, please.

-Fashion.

So last time, you went with the chaps on the sport,

and this time, they're going with you on fashion. So, fashion.

You will be looking for...

You've ten seconds to confer.

-Bowler.

-Trilby.

-Homburg. Fez.

-Baseball.

-Top. Stetson.

-Sou'wester.

-Yeah. Cowboy.

-Yeah, cowboy. Yeah, Stetson.

Top hat...

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

Fashion, it's what you wanted.

SHE LAUGHS

Reveal the hive.

You can pass.

Pass.

Ravi?

There's one pass remaining.

-Pass.

-James?

Deerstalker.

Deerstalker, correct.

Claudia?

OUT OF TIME NOISE

Did you spot anything or not?

No. I thought you looked as if you were...

-There were so many in my head!

-..about to.

-No, I saw another one, yeah.

-What did you spot?

Fedora, bottom right.

Fedora was lurking down there on the bottom right.

So what did you get?

Deerstalker, of course,

made famous by Sherlock Holmes.

Fedora was another one we were looking for.

And then the other one...

Think Mexicans, think big hats...

-Sombrero!

-Sombrero!

-Sombrero!

Look, there it is.

You needed the full five,

but you've got one. Still,

that brings you up to three points.

Logophiles on seven.

Time for round three.

And you're each faced with a superhive.

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.

Would you like the A-hive or the B-hive?

Well, it worked well last time,

so I think we'll have another buzz for the B-hive!

Buzz for the B-hive.

You have two minutes.

And you are looking for...

Reveal the hive.

-Right.

-Vanessa Redgrave.

Dench.

Might be a red herring.

Leave it in there for the moment.

Is there a Redgrave anywhere?

There's a G down there, but...

No, can't fit it in.

Shout out some names.

-Melba?

-Oh, Rigg.

Diana Rigg.

Is there a Melba in there?

What was that? Melba?

Dame Nellie Melba?

-But there's no M there.

-No.

-Um...

-Um...

Who else is there?

Dame... Maggie Smith?

Oh, there's Thorndike!

There's a Thorndike, isn't there?

Oh, yes. There is, yeah.

That's Smith.

S there, where's Maggie Smith?

No, there's no...

There's no M.

Oh, Lansbury.

Oh, yes.

-Angela Lansbury.

-Yes.

Um...

I think one of these is probably wrong,

possibly, I think.

Yeah, I think so as well.

No, um...

What about old-time ones?

Oh! Joan Plowright.

That one's wrong.

Minute to go.

Walter?

G, H, T. Walter?

Oh, no, hang on,

we've got two Gs there, though,

that can't...

Oh, I know, hang on.

Yeah.

-P, L, O, W...

-Walter?

Oh, no...

There. So Rigg is right.

OK, perfect.

So get Rigg back in.

Is there a Walter?

Is there a Walter?

There might be.

Leave it in there for the moment.

Yeah, OK.

Oh, Atkins, Dame Eileen Atkins.

-Terry?

-Terry.

Yeah, that's it.

T, E...

-Lock it in.

-Yeah.

Yeah, that's it!

Ha-hey!

Considering you started with Dench, and then,

"Who else is there?"

LAUGHTER

That's not bad!

-Yeah!

-So you found the perfect solution.

Let's go through them one by one.

So, Judi Dench.

And then what did you have next?

Thorndike, Sybil Thorndike.

Lansbury, Angela Lansbury.

Plowright, Dame Joan Plowright,

who was married to Laurence Olivier.

Rigg, Diana Rigg.

Walter, Harriet Walter,

that's who we were after.

Atkins, Eileen Atkins.

Mm-hm, yes.

And Ellen Terry.

-There were a few red herrings in there...

-Yeah.

..which we put in, but actually,

-you didn't fall for them.

-Yeah.

-Andrews.

-Oh!

Julie Andrews.

-We put Keith, thinking you might...

-Penelope Keith, oh, yeah.

-Penelope Keith.

-Didn't see that.

And then Hird. Thora Hird.

Oh, Thora... That was one I was thinking of originally,

-Thora Hird, but...

-Dame Thora Hird.

-But you didn't fall for them.

-Yeah, thankfully.

So you needed the ten points, you've got them,

that brings you up to 13.

-Mm-hm. Good.

-Right, Logophiles, over to you.

Let's see if you can get the full ten points as well.

You have the A-hive.

You will be looking for...

Reveal the hive.

-OK. Kathmandu.

-Tashkent.

-Um...

-Is that...

No, that's not Tashkent.

Bangkok, um..

-Beijing?

-Beijing...

Can you see any that you want to put in?

Kathmandu there?

-Yeah, try it.

-Yeah.

Yeah, start that one.

-Is it...?

-It's with an H, yeah.

An H, yeah.

OK. So, what about...

Is it... No, it's not.

What about the top, here?

Uh... Oh, gosh.

Well, Baku, perhaps.

Yeah. That's...

Good.

Azerbaijan, I think.

Aga...?

-Agadir.

-Agadir, yeah.

-No, no G.

-Oh, no.

-Um...

-Gosh.

Oh, gosh, um...

That's not Tripoli, no?

Gosh, um...

Asian...

A minute to go.

Think of small capitals.

-Yes, um...

-Um... Yeah.

Um...

What about the P and the N up there?

Oh, Seoul.

-Korea.

-Seoul, yes.

Seoul, yeah.

Oh, yes, it's there, yeah.

S, E, O, U, L.

Yeah. That's it.

Is there a Marmaris?

No, that's something else completely.

15 seconds.

OK, well, Tokyo's not on there.

What's up there?

OUT OF TIME MUSIC

No.

Time's up. I think we had you pretty stumped there, I think.

-Tricky, yeah.

-Yeah, it's always tricky.

Right. Asian capital cities. Well, let's see what you did get.

So, Kathmandu.

The capital of Nepal.

Baku, capital of Azerbaijan.

And Seoul, the capital of South Korea.

So that's three Asian capital cities,

you got three points.

Let's see which of those were

part of the perfect solution.

Once you'd got Baku in there,

-it made life very difficult.

-Yeah.

So what you could have got is Dhaka,

capital of Bangladesh, of course.

Thimphu, capital of Bhutan...

Yeah, I was trying to make something up there.

Beirut, capital of Lebanon.

Oh, yes, of course.

Amman, capital of Jordan.

There it is, there.

Islamabad, yeah.

Islamabad.

I thought you might see Islamabad, cos it's such a long word,

-and so distinctive.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-Capital of Pakistan.

And Tehran.

Tehran, capital of Iran.

Couple of others in there,

I don't know if you spotted them.

Kabul, capital of Afghanistan.

And Manila,

the capital of the Philippines.

So where does that leave us?

Well, when we started round three,

you were trailing, you were leading.

It's reversed.

Logophiles, you're on ten.

Ortographobes, you're in the lead with 13.

Ortographobes, you may be in the lead, but it's very close,

just three points between you.

It's the final buzzer round.

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

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

Fingers on buzzers.

Reveal the hive.

Parsifal.

Parsifal. Correct.

Lithograph.

Lithograph. Correct.

You're catching up,

just one point between you now.

Alfie.

Alfie. Correct.

Fado.

Fado. Correct.

Thinker.

Thinker. Correct.

Hanging on to the lead there.

Dolphin.

-Dolphin. Correct.

-Well done!

Let's take a breath and refresh the hive.

Brunei.

Brunei. Correct.

I think Asia's sort of like a bad word for you over there, Logophiles.

LAUGHTER

Absolutely.

Numbers.

Numbers. Correct.

Flush.

Flush. Correct.

Handicap.

Handicap. Correct.

Let's refresh the hive.

Blackbeard.

Blackbeard. Correct.

Racing ahead at the moment.

Booth.

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated...?

LAUGHTER

-Lincoln.

-Yeah.

He was just at a trip to the theatre, poor chap.

Melbourne.

Correct. You get a point.

OUT OF TIME MUSIC

Just too late!

Grammer. Kelsey Grammer.

It IS Grammer, Kelsey Grammer.

But you buzzed just after we ended, there.

Well, that was quite tense, wasn't it?

-Ortographobes, you have won...

-YEAH!

-..with 21 points.

HE LAUGHS

Logophiles, commiserations,

but well-played with 15.

Logophiles, we very much enjoyed having you in the game.

We will see you again, when you have one more chance

-to stay in the competition.

-Look forward to it.

-Ortographobes, we'll see you in the semifinal.

-Thank you, Fiona.

Join us for more brilliance and bewilderment

in Hive Minds next time.

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

Find a rower who won Olympic gold in a boat with Steven Redgrave.

Bye-bye.