Belgae v Doosras 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.

Belgae, you Winchester Warriors, welcome back.

Would you like to tell us a bit more about yourselves?

Hi, I'm Helen, I'm an actuary from Winchester.

I'm Richard, and I'm also an actuary, living in Winchester.

I'm Linda, I'm a writer, from Winchester.

Richard and Linda, you are our married couple of the team.

You've got a challenge which you are doing together, the Tough Mudder.

Which, when you see all those people belly-deep in mud...

-Getting electrocuted, and dipped into frozen water...

-What?

I think there's dangling bits of wire.

And you either try and avoid them or crawl under them.

If you don't, you get zapped.

-Are you mad, you pair?

-Yes, I think so!

-Yes, I think.

-OK.

Doosras, over to you. Good to see you again.

Introduce yourselves, please.

I'm Iwan, I'm a freelance science editor and I'm from Nottingham.

I'm Andy, I'm a retired diplomat, also from Winchester.

I'm Dave, I'm a retired transport manager, from Sunderland.

Good to see you all again. And you are Iwan Thomas,

so you share a name with a 400-metre champion.

-I do.

-And I gather someone once mistook you for him?

I was playing in a golf tournament,

there were some celebrities also playing.

Iwan Thomas wasn't playing, but my name was on the starting list

and a lady walked halfway across the golf course to meet me

and then was very, very disappointed!

-Did she not even pretend to be pleased to see you?

-No!

Welcome to both teams.

We are certainly very pleased to see you.

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 Belgae,

there it is, and Doosras.

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 are 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.

But watch out - the hives are full of traps, and cul-de-sacs.

Be careful! Belgae, here's your first question.

When you think you've found the answer,

hit the first letter to stop the clock.

Find a James Bond film whose theme tune

was performed by a Welsh-born singer.

Reveal the hive.

Shirley Bassey...

Goldfinger.

CONFERRING

No. The I has disappeared.

-Thunderball?

-Go for it!

-Your answer?

-Thunderball.

Let's see if you're right.

Thunderball! Which was performed by?

-Shirley Bassey?

-Tom Jones.

Oh!

I don't think Shirley Bassey'd be too chuffed about that!

She did quite a few others, but not that one!

OK. Doosras, we're with you.

Find a layer of the Earth's atmosphere

that lies between the troposphere and the exosphere.

Reveal the hive.

Is there a thermosphere?

Thermosphere, yeah.

-Three points.

-Go for it.

-Your answer?

-Thermosphere.

I'm afraid you haven't found the right answer.

Let me throw it over to you, Belgae, for a bonus point.

-Mesosphere?

-OK.

-M for...

-Mesosphere.

Mesosphere. There we are.

Mesosphere that's about 50 to 80km in altitude.

So, well stolen.

Belgae, I'm still with you.

Find a Labour Prime Minister whose real first name was James.

Reveal the hive.

Now, the trap is Callaghan.

Callaghan is there.

I know.

Shall we just say Callaghan?

Or is it...

Which one could it be?

What others have we got? Baldwin?

-No, we haven't.

-No.

-Is Callaghan still there?

-Callaghan's still there.

-OK.

-Your answer?

-Callaghan.

No, you haven't found the right answer.

Doosras, let's see if we can get you in the game for a bonus point.

-Wilson.

-Wilson?

-Correct.

-James Harold Wilson.

James Harold Wilson, of course known as Harold Wilson.

James Callaghan - real first name, Leonard.

-Same as me!

-Leonard James Callaghan.

So, Doosras, you stole that point, very well done to you.

I'm still with you. A country whose flag

consists of the same three colours as that of Italy.

-Reveal the hive.

-Hungary!

-Bulgaria.

-Hungary or Bulgaria.

No, it's not that.

-Bulgaria.

-Bulgaria.

-Your answer?

-Bulgaria.

Let's see if you are right.

It is indeed Bulgaria.

So, Bulgaria's flag is white, green and red, and it's horizontal.

Whereas the Italian flag is the same colours, but it's vertical.

Right, so where have we got to? It's close.

Doosras in the lead with five. Belgae just behind with four.

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

Belgae, I'm looking for two answers

and you must spot both to score the points.

Find a pen name and the real surname of a writer.

Reveal the hive.

-You've got Zola there.

-What was...?

-What was the real...?

-Zola has disappeared.

-OK.

-It's not there yet.

Well, is there.

Orwell is there.

OK.

And, then, what is his real name?

Smith?

No, you've run out of time.

Doosras, I can throw it over to you for a bonus point.

Got it?

We were going for Orwell and Blair, but I'm not sure it's there.

Orwell and Blair used the same L on the same R.

And that's why you can't get them as a pair.

What we're actually after was...

-Munro.

-Saki.

Hector Hugh Munro, Burmese-born British writer, and Saki.

That was his pen name, Saki.

So, there we are. Doosras, let's see if you can get this one.

A toy and its inventor.

Reveal the hive.

CONFERRING

Q.

-No.

-Oh, wait a minute.

The kaleidoscope, is it?

No.

Meccano.

-Your answer?

-Meccano and Hornby.

Meccano and Hornby. Let's see if you are right.

There we are. Frank Hornby invented Meccano,

originally called Mechanics Made Easy.

Also pretty well-known for his modern railways.

Belgae, let's see if you can make up the points.

Find a pigment and the animal from which it is derived.

Reveal the hive.

So, there's blue, isn't there?

Blue is a shellfish.

-Need an L, yes.

-And it's really strong.

Red?

-Celtic.

-So what could the animal be?

-I can't see any animals.

-Fish?

-Cuttlefish?

-And...?

-It's purple, isn't it?

Cuttlefish and...?

No, Belgae. You couldn't make it.

Doosras, I am coming to you for a bonus point.

Sepia and cuttlefish.

Sepia and cuttlefish. Let's see if you are right.

Of course you are. Sepia and cuttlefish.

Sepia was what you were looking for, wasn't it?

-Yes.

-Sepia, the inky secretion from the cuttlefish's rich brown pigment.

Close, but not close enough, Belgae, I'm afraid. Doosras.

A Bob Dylan album, and a song that appears on it.

-Reveal the hive.

-Freewheeling?

Delivery?

One word.

-The three points now, Doosras.

-No idea.

Don't know any Dylan songs, I'm afraid.

Hurricane?

Belgae, I am going to throw it over to you.

Rise. And...?

I don't know. Just get it.

-What is your answer?

-Rise and Higher?

Rise and Higher? You don't sound utterly convinced.

Rise and Higher.

I have a feeling that's not going to be right.

Let's see if you are right.

No, of course you're not. Rise and Higher.

-Have you spotted it now?

-Well, the song is Hurricane,

but I couldn't think of what album it's on.

OK, the song is Hurricane, which is a protest song against

the imprisonment of the boxer Rubin Carter. Nicknamed the Hurricane.

-The album, Desire.

-Ah!

You were talking about Delivery, Deliverance.

Close, but you didn't quite get it.

Where have we got to at the end of that round?

Doosras in the lead with seven.

Very respectable. Belgae, not far behind with four.

In round two, you will each face two hives containing three answers

relating to a specific topic.

You have 45 seconds to complete each hive.

You can score a maximum of five points.

Doosras, you are in the lead, so you get to choose first from...

What do you think, guys?

Architecture could be styles of architecture?

Could be famous architects.

-Or famous buildings.

-That could be quite...

Those can be quite small areas. Let's take a punt on Architecture.

-Yeah,

-go on, then. We will take a punt on Architecture, Fiona.

OK, Architecture it is.

When I reveal what exactly you will be looking for within architecture,

you will have ten seconds to confer as a team.

But then you are answering on your own. You've got two passes.

But remember one wrong answer, your team will be locked out of the hive.

So, you are looking for...

Part of a church.

You've got ten seconds to confer.

Nave, chancel.

-Vestibule.

-Choir.

Chantry, spire.

-Belfry.

-Belfry.

-Transept.

-Time is up.

Stop conferring.

Iwan, we're going to start with you. Parts of a church. Reveal the hive.

-Apse.

-Apse.

Correct. Andy.

Hm.

Pass.

Dave...

..there's one pass remaining.

It's to you, Iwan.

-Pass.

-Pass, Iwan.

Five seconds.

When you were conferring, you did say them all.

You just couldn't find them in the hive.

-Yeah.

-So, you found apse. So that's one point.

-What you were also looking for was aisle.

-Oh.

Transept was the third.

So, out of a possible five,

you scored one point, and that takes your score up to eight.

Belgae, this is the time for you to make up the points.

Let's see which topic you're going to choose. You've got...

Space is about science, yeah.

-Let's go for space.

-Yeah, let's do space.

Space it is.

Now, I can tell you that you will be looking for...

Nasa space shuttles.

You've ten seconds to confer.

-Voyager, Columbia, Discovery.

-Discovery.

-Endeavour.

-What's the fifth one?

-Voyager. Discovery. Columbia.

-OK.

-Time's up.

Helen, we're going to be starting with you. You looking for Nasa space shuttles. You've 45 seconds.

Reveal the hive.

-Endeavour.

-Endeavour, correct.

Richard.

-Discovery.

-Discovery, correct.

Linda.

-You can pass.

-Pass.

Helen.

And there's one pass remaining.

-Pass.

-Richard.

-Columbia.

-Columbia, no.

Good effort. Columbia is nearly there.

And Columbia is what you said when you were conferring.

Let's see what you did get. So, you found Endeavour,

which first flew in May 1992.

Discovery, which first flew in 1984.

The one you were missing, Atlantis.

First flew in October 1985.

But, nonetheless, out of a possible five,

you got two points, which takes you to six.

Doosras, we're back with you. Which topic would you like to choose?

We're left with...

-Best of a bad job - history for me.

-History.

Very broad. But going narrow didn't help us last time.

We'll risk history, please.

OK, Doosras.

You will be looking for...

You have ten seconds to confer.

Marengo. Waterloo. Magenta.

Jena. Austerlitz. Leipzig.

Tilsit. Borodino.

-That's all I've got.

-Trafalgar.

-Time's up.

Andy, we're going to start with you.

We want three Napoleonic battles.

Reveal the hive.

-Borodino.

-Borodino.

Oh!

-Sorry, guys.

-It's all right.

Borodino was a battle in the Napoleonic Wars.

-But you can't quite spell it, can you?

-No, I see that now.

Have you spotted any of the ones you could have got?

-Waterloo.

-Waterloo's in there.

The battle of Wagram.

And then the battle of the Nile.

Oh, yeah. Of course.

-That was one of Nelson's greatest victories.

-Yeah.

You didn't get any. So, I'm afraid out of a possible five, you scored no points.

That leaves you still on eight.

Belgae, we're back with you. There's only two points between you and Doosras.

Let's see if you can pull into the lead.

We've two topics left to choose from. Which will you go for?

-Well, we don't...

-TV comedy.

-Yes.

-Definitely not musical theatre.

-Definitely not musical theatre. So, TV comedy.

-I hear you.

TV comedy it is. Right, let's see what you'll be looking for.

You've ten seconds to confer.

-What was the name of the... Andrew somebody?

-Prunella Scales.

Andrew Sachs.

Both.

Is it Scales?

Oh, what was the one? His wife.

Scales.

Time's up.

Linda, we're starting with you.

Actors who appeared in Fawlty Towers.

Reveal the hive.

You've got two passes.

-You can pass.

-Pass.

-Helen.

-Pass.

-Richard.

You had so many names when you were conferring.

Sachs is nearly there, Cleese is nearly there.

-Both.

-But they're not there, are they?

-Not there, no.

-Shall we see what was there?

-Yes.

-Cribbins.

Bernard Cribbins. He was the spoon salesman

famously mistaken by Basil Fawlty for a hotel inspector.

Then, Palmer, Geoffrey Palmer.

He played a doctor in the episode The Kipper And The Corpse.

And, then, finally, Berkeley.

Ballard Berkeley, who played the major.

So, out of a possible five, I'm afraid you didn't score any there.

You're not too far behind, Belgae.

Don't be too downhearted. You're on six.

Doosras in the lead with eight.

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

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.

Doosras, it's your turn. Which hive will you go for?

The A hive or the B hive?

We would like the A hive, please, Fiona.

The A hive. You will have two minutes and you are looking for...

Reveal the hive.

-Capablanca.

-Capablanca.

Carlsen. Kasparov.

Kasparov. Kasparov is there.

Karpov is also there, so that could be a red herring.

-Yeah.

-Carlsen. You got Carlsen?

How do you spell him?

You haven't got the N.

OK.

Take it out again.

-Start again.

-OK.

Anand.

Yeah.

OK. Start again.

-You happy with that?

-Yeah.

Do we want...? Are we happy with Karpov?

Spassky. OK.

-Let's take that one out.

-Yeah.

Is Volt a...?

30 seconds to go.

Petrosian.

-Spassky's wrong.

-Right, take it out.

I thought Spassky might be wrong.

-And the N.

-N, here.

No, it doesn't want it.

No, don't leave it!

-Oh, we haven't got time. We missed it.

-Oh, sorry.

Time's up.

Right, let's see where we are with that, because there were names that were in and out and in and out.

Now, there's one rather interesting name there, almost in the middle,

which I think is trying to be Petrosian.

-It is.

-I think you've got Petrosi, or something.

So, let's just get rid of that.

Because that's not a name at all.

OK. So, what did you have? You had a Carlsen.

Anand. Vishy Anand. And Karpov. Anatoly Karpov.

They are all world chess champions, so you've got three points.

Were they all part of the perfect solution, though?

-No.

-It was Anand that was causing you the problems.

So, let's see what would have been the perfect solution.

Carlson, Karpov, as you know.

Anand. Now you can see that's where it needs to go.

Tal. Mikhail Tal.

Petrosian.

-There it is.

-Alekhine.

Alekhine. Alexander Alekhine.

Smyslov. Vasily Smyslov.

Kramnik. Vladimir Kramnik.

Now, one of the names you put in straightaway was Kasparov.

If you'd put it, it would have led you even further astray.

So, very wisely, you took it out.

-There are some other red herrings in there. Spassky.

-Yeah.

-That was another name you were saying.

Boris Spassky. Lasker.

Emanuel Lasker.

-Mm.

-Topalov, the Bulgarian.

And Alekhine, but spelt in a slightly different way.

It's deceptively difficult.

So, at the end of that super hive, Doosras, you have scored three points.

That takes you up to 11.

Belgae, over to you.

You will be looking for...

Reveal the hive.

OK. Right, so, we got pearl up here.

Shall we get that in? It might be wrong, but...

-We've got...

-Hang on, let me... Let me...

-You've got diamond here. Diamond.

-Where's diamond?

-Do want to just...?

Doesn't matter, does it?

I'll lock that in.

Is there beryl here? Yeah, there's beryl.

Oh, hang on.

Beryl. Jasper, jasper.

-OK.

-That's pearl.

-We've already got pearl.

-Have we?

-Yeah.

Yeah, but shall we... Let's just put this one in and we can

take the other one out.

-Right.

-So, zirconian.

Oh, maybe not.

-Oh, zircon. Yeah.

-OK.

-What else have we got?

-What do we have down here?

Right.

-Peridot. Peridot.

-OK.

OK, 50 seconds left.

Malachite. Malachite, yes.

I-T-E.

Oh, it's citrine.

You've done it.

You have filled the hive

with all those gemstones.

Let's see how you did it.

So, you started off with diamond.

After diamond, you found beryl.

Jasper. This is where you were smart.

Because pearl, you put in the wrong place.

You saw you'd put it in the wrong place, you took it out.

Zircon. Not zirconian.

I thought you were going to come a cropper there.

Peridot.

Malachite. And then it could only be citrine.

That was the only thing left.

Now, you didn't fall for any of our traps.

In one sense, I'm very pleased for you.

It's a little bit disappointing, as well. We put emerald in there.

Didn't even see it. And amethyst.

Oblivious. Jade.

And amber. And topaz.

You didn't see any of those, did you?

No. No. Well, you've got the full ten points.

Belgae, that takes you into the lead with 16.

Doosras, on 11, not that far behind.

It could all change now, though, in our final buzzer round.

There's everything to play for.

This time the hives are filled with answers.

If you pay attention, who knows,

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

Fingers on buzzers.

Reveal the hive.

You are looking for a region of Spain.

-Belgae.

-Andalusia.

-Andalusia, yes.

-Doosras.

-Gandalf.

Gandalf, correct.

-Doosras.

-Fylingdales.

Fylingdales. Correct.

-Doosras.

-Mingus.

Mingus. Charles Mingus.

You're catching up.

-Belgae.

-Fibula.

-Fibula, correct.

-Doosras.

-Figaro.

Figaro from the Barber of Seville.

Correct.

Let's refresh the hive.

There are three points between you.

-Doosras.

-Dorrit.

Dorrit, Little Dorrit.

Correct. Just two points between you now.

Tirana. Capital of Albania, that's what we were looking for.

Doosras. Letterman.

Letterman, correct. David Letterman.

One point between you now.

-Belgae.

-Eyeliner.

-Eyeliner, correct.

Let's refresh the hive.

Belgae.

-Guinevere.

-Guinevere, correct.

-Doosras.

-Battle.

Battle, correct.

Catching up.

No? Annie.

Let's see if you can get this one.

A breed of cattle.

-Doosras.

-Guernsey.

Guernsey, correct.

You're back to one point between you. This is so close.

-Doosras.

-Gangnam.

Gangnam.

Gangnam Style.

It's neck and neck.

-Belgae.

-Borat.

-Borat, correct.

You have stolen the lead!

At the last minute!

-Well done.

-Belgae on 21.

Doosras, commiserations.

You played valiantly...

-Bad luck.

-..on 20.

We will see you in the semifinals.

I look forward to that.

And, Doosras, you've got one more chance to stay in the competition.

Join us for more word-based wizardry in Hive Minds next time.

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

Find a biblical character

and the old Testament book in which he appears.

Bye-bye.