Episode 15 Impossible

I'm Rick Edwards and this is Impossible.

Welcome to Impossible, the quiz where the questions aren't

impossible, but some of the answers are.

They're not just wrong.

They couldn't possibly be right.

Hoping to avoid those impossible answers are our 24 players.

Hello, players!

-ALL:

-Hi Rick!

-One more time - hello, players! ALL:

-Hi Rick.

-It's just good fun.

Every day, one of them will have the chance to unlock this.

AUDIENCE OOHS

Our glorious exclamation mark filled with 10,000

freshly minted pound coins.

And, at the end of each show, one of our players will face the

£10,000 question. Here it is.

PLAYERS OOH

Get this right and all of that money will come cascading down.

Yesterday, Janade left us with £900 and our new player is Laura.

-Hello, Laura.

-Hello.

Friendly round of applause for Laura.

-What do you do, Laura?

-I'm a teacher.

-OK, what do you teach?

-Primary school, year four at the moment.

Nice class you've got at the moment?

Lovely.

I mean, the head movement was interesting there, Laura.

-It kind of went...

-They are lovely. Bit cheeky, but lovely.

-Cheeky's good though, isn't it?

-Cheeky's brilliant.

What would you spend the £10,000 on, if you were to win it?

-Probably spend a bit on wine and going out.

-Yeah, fair enough.

And I need a new carpet as well, so I need to spend it on that.

A new carpet, Laura.

Dream big, Laura, dream big.

You will have that new carpet.

-Well, great having you here. Best of luck.

-Thank you.

-Alyssa, how are you getting on up there?

-I'm good, thank you. How are you?

Very well, thank you. What do you do, Alyssa?

I'm just in my second year of university now.

-What are you studying?

-I do maths.

What's your favourite equation?

I don't know, but I quite like algebra.

You don't like the quadratic formula, Alyssa?

I mean, it's all right.

It's lovely.

If you were to win the £10,000, what would you spend it on?

I'd like to save it because I wanna like save for the future

cos obviously I'm a uni student, I don't have much money right now, but...

Yeah, and you never know when you're gonna need a new carpet,

-as Laura will tell you.

-True.

But... Well, I feel like drinks would be on me

when I get back to uni.

I think they might be, yeah.

-Well, best of luck on the show today, Alyssa.

-Thank you.

Just to remind you, this is Ian, who is our British Sign

Language interpreter, who's going to be working with Ciaran.

You'll face five multiple choice questions.

The right answer scores you a point, the wrong answer gets you nothing,

but the impossible answer...

Eliminates you from today's show.

At the end of the round, the highest scorer gets the first chance to bag

a place in today's final.

-Are we ready? ALL:

-Yes.

Here comes your first question.

The majority of you have gone with A - Annie.

Let's see if that's the right answer.

It is, so a point to all of you.

-Franklyn?

-I know that Annie and Matilda are musicals,

-so I was going with one of them.

-Oh, dear, Sam.

The impossible answer...

..is B, Harry Potter And The Cursed Child. It's not a musical,

as Franklyn said. Annie and Matilda are. So, Sam, we'll see you next week.

Question number two.

All answers out there.

Eddie, do you follow the hats of Princess Beatrice?

Not religiously, no.

I know Tom Ford is a designer and I think Tim Westwood is, but Tom Ford

mostly does men's clothes.

Laura. You have also gone with C, Tim Westwood.

-The same as Eddie.

-I know it's wrong, it's impossible.

-Oh.

-I was waiting for something like Alexander McQueen to come up, so I

was convinced it was going to be C and then I pressed it,

and now I look stupid.

-How come?

-Tim Westwood's a DJ...

-I think.

-Well, let's find out the impossible answer.

It is C - Tim Westwood.

Tim Westwood presented the Radio 1 Rap Show for years.

Doesn't do hats, as far as we know.

So Franklyn, Yvonne, Angela, Laura and Eddie, see you all next week.

Short but sweet, Laura.

The right answer...

..is B. Philip Treacy designed the hat, so a point to all of you, and

we move on to question three.

Just As and Bs.

Let's see if you've all managed to avoid the impossible answer.

You have. C - flappers, not 19th-century campaigners.

Flappers were fun-loving young women of the 1920s.

And the points are going to...

..everyone who went for A - Luddites.

The Chartists were a political movement who campaigned for all men

to have the right to vote.

17 of you left in play.

Question number four.

Full house of answers.

Linda, you're the only one who's gone with A - "You've got your love

-"online".

-Yeah. I suspect it might be a bit impossible, that one,

-though.

-Do you? Why did you go for it, then, Linda?

I don't know. It just... Guessed and pressed.

-Guessed and pressed.

-Yeah.

-Your motto, Linda.

Alyssa, you've gone for C - "Your job's a joke."

Yeah. I know that's right, so...

Oh! Very good. Say no more, Alyssa, say no more.

Not to sound too confident, but...

Yeah, I know the song.

Let's see if you're right.

You are. A point to everyone who went for C.

Let's see if your guess and press has worked, Linda.

The impossible answer...

..is A, "You've got your love online."

-Yeah.

-Not lyrics from the Friends theme song, I'm afraid.

-Those words feature in the theme tune to Scrubs.

-Oh!

-Ooh, there you go.

-Now I know!

Have a think about that this weekend, Linda.

We'll see you next week.

Going into the last question,

four of you are on a maximum of four points -

Alyssa, Jordan, Abigail and Theresa.

Question five.

All answers out there.

Anyone feel confident in their answer?

No-one? No confidence? Theresa, no confidence?

I went for B.

But I'm wondering if it's a bird.

Could be. Andrew.

You went for "mutton-headed mugwump".

I think I've got the wrong answer.

Looking at it now, I think it's February face.

Seemed right to Abigail.

I don't know, cos it's the beginning of the year, winter blues,

miserable, that was my line of thinking.

I had no idea with this one.

The right answer...

..is A - February face.

-Well deduced, Abigail.

-Thanks!

Abigail, Eve, Jordan and Matthew get a point.

"February face" is from Much Ado About Nothing.

Let's see what the impossible answer is.

PLAYERS GROAN

LAUGHTER

"Mutton-headed mugwump" is not a Shakespearean term.

It's what Boris Johnson called Jeremy Corbyn.

LAUGHTER

Annie, Andrew, Terry, Kathryn, Alyssa and Andy, see you next week.

-ALL:

-Bye!

"Cream-faced loon" is in Macbeth and describes someone who's gone pale

with fear. So at the end of that round, just two of you finish on a

maximum of five points and they are Abigail and Jordan.

But the quickest to lock in their answers across the round...

..was Jordan.

Congratulations, Jordan, you have the chance to grab a place in today's final.

Hello, Jordan, how you feeling?

-Nervous, excited.

-Exactly how you should be feeling.

That's the right answer. You're off to a good start.

How is it in the middle row, settling in well?

Yeah. Been really good so far, so

I wanna do it for the middle row, but do it for everyone as well.

CHEERING

You've mentioned that you've got a ten-week-old baby?

That's right, yeah, he's called Noah.

-How much sleep are you getting with old Noah at the moment?

-Oh, not a lot.

I guess he won't really be watching, but you can show it to him on tape

-at a later date, maybe.

-Yeah, yeah, hopefully, yeah.

-If you do well.

-Yeah.

-And if you don't do well,

just pretend it never happened. He'll never know.

All right. Well, let's focus.

This is your chance to put up to £500 into our daily prize pot and

take a big step towards playing the £10,000 question.

I'm going to give you a choice of four topics.

-Any of those grab you?

-Ooh...

-There's some that don't grab me. I'll go with pop music, take a stab at that.

-Pop music? OK.

-Let's go for it.

-This is how it'll work.

I'm going to reveal nine answers -

all related to pop music - here they are.

Shall we have a look at the first half of our question?

-Yeah.

-So the first half of the question reads...

So five of those answers are impossible, and your first job is to

find those impossible answers and eliminate them from the board.

Every one you successfully eliminate will add £100 to the daily prize pot.

Do you know the song, first of all?

I know the chorus, "Vogue, Vogue."

That's about it, to be honest, yeah.

LAUGHTER

I think I'll go for first impossible - Ginger Rogers.

Is Ginger Rogers an impossible answer?

-No, she is mentioned in Vogue, I'm afraid.

-Right.

-Four goes left, though.

-Let's go for Lucille Ball.

Is Lucille Ball an impossible answer?

It is.

CHEERING APPLAUSE

-You were right.

-Indeed.

-£100 added to the prize pot.

-Where next?

-Let's go for Jean Harlow.

Is Jean Harlow an impossible answer?

No. Two goes left.

Fairly familiar with the rest of them.

Go for...

-Judy Garland.

-Is Judy Garland an impossible answer?

It is.

CHEERING APPLAUSE

£200 added to the daily prize pot.

One more go, let's get rid of one more impossible answer.

Go with Bette Davis.

Is Bette Davis an impossible answer?

-Ooh, no.

-Ooh.

Tough one, eh?

But nevertheless, £200 in the prize pot.

Need to find out if you're going to be playing for that money and for

a shot at the £10,000 question in today's final.

So in a moment I'll reveal the second half of the question

-and I'll be looking for the right answer.

-OK.

Give me the right answer, you're in the final.

Give me a wrong answer and the next best player will have the chance to

steal your place in the final and that was, of course, Abigail.

CHEERING

Hold tight, Abigail!

Jordan, if you were to give me an impossible answer, you will be

-eliminated from today's show.

-Right.

-Shall we have a look at the full question?

-Yeah, let's do it.

I don't know whether to play it safe or not.

Let's go for...

..Rita Hayworth.

-Rita Hayworth.

-Yeah.

Take a risk, eh?

Is Rita Hayworth the right answer?

Amazingly, Jordan...

..yes!

You've plucked that out of absolutely nowhere.

I do not know where from.

Very good, very good, Jordan.

-Would you have got that, Abigail?

-No. I was going to try Bette Davis.

So the impossible answers that you missed were Doris Day...

..Joan Crawford....

..and Audrey Hepburn.

All the others were mentioned in the song.

-None of that's important. You're through to the final, Jordan.

-Thank you.

We've still got two places left in today's final alongside Jordan.

Let's find out who's going to be claiming the next one.

Nine of you left in play. Good luck. Here's your first question.

All nine of you have stuck together.

Have you got the right answer?

Yes, you have. Tiramisu, so a point to everyone.

The impossible answer...

..is baba ganoush, which is an aubergine dip.

And clafoutis is a French sponge pudding.

So we all go on to question number two.

A full house of answers, so we are going to be losing some people here.

-Matthew.

-I'm hoping I've avoided the impossible there.

I know Che Guevara was definitely a Communist.

Karl Marx was as well, but I know Karl Marx was buried in London,

so I don't know why there'd be a statue of him in Manchester.

Let's see what the impossible answer is.

A - Che Guevara.

Did not write or co-write The Communist Manifesto, although he was

a Communist. Joe, Abigail, Eve and Matthew, we'll say goodbye.

We'll see you next week.

Let's see where the points are going.

C, Friedrich Engels.

So a point to Tracey, Kurtis and Ciaran.

Five of you left in play.

Let's move on to question three.

Just As and Bs.

The right answer...

..is C - Apocalypse Now.

So, no points going anywhere.

Tracey, happy on Platoon?

I think it is set in the Vietnam War,

which is what made me choose it, and

I've not seen either of the other two films.

The impossible answer...

..is A - Black Hawk Down, I'm afraid, Kurtis.

Black Hawk Down is set in Somalia.

-See you next week.

-See you next week.

Just four of you left in play as we go on to question four.

Got a couple of pigs and a couple of woodpeckers.

The right answer...

..is Porky Pig.

Theresa and Vicky, you get a point.

Now let's see if Tracey and Ciaran have avoided the impossible answer.

I'm afraid not.

Woody Woodpecker is not a Looney Tunes cartoon,

it's a Walter Lantz Productions cartoon.

Tracey and Ciaran, we'll see you next week.

Just two of you left in now. Ready for question five?

You have given different answers, which I'm pleased about.

-Theresa.

-They all sound Scottish.

LAUGHTER

It's almost as if we've done that deliberately!

-I know.

-So, any confidence in Shetland Isles?

None whatsoever, but thank you for asking!

No problem. Here to help.

-Vicky?

-Ditto.

They all sound Scottish, so I went for the first one.

I just hope it's not impossible.

The right answer...

..is C - Outer Hebrides.

So, no points, but one of you has given the possible answer.

The impossible answer is...

..A - the Aran Islands are in Ireland.

Not a Scottish island group.

-Not to be confused with the Isle of Arran, which is Scottish.

-Ah!

Vicky, you may have a chance to steal this grid in a few moments,

but for now it's lights out.

Which means, Theresa...

We won!

You have a chance to grab a place in today's final!

CHEERING APPLAUSE

-Hello, Theresa.

-Hello.

-How does it feel down here?

-Oh, my God, it's really nice. I love the disco.

-I just want to...

-It's quite, I mean, feel free.

I know, I'm a bit of a diva, I'm afraid.

Disco diva, it's my era.

Not a problem. Well, this is ideal for you then.

It is, I want one.

Remind me what you'd spend the money on, if you were to get the £10,000.

We'd really like to see the roller-coasters of Europe.

We've done a lot in America, so now it's Europe's turn.

OK, a little tour of European roller-coasters.

-Oh, yes, it would be fun, wouldn't it?

-So you've got a choice of three topics.

Here they are.

I'm going to go for America. I'm taking one for the team cos they

don't want America, so I'm going to take it.

-OK. Take America for us.

-I will.

Nine answers coming up, all related to America.

I have a feeling it might be what's on the dollar bills.

-Shall we have a look at the first half of the question?

-Yes, and I should know.

Oh!

-Oh! OK.

-Been there?

-No.

But you know what it is.

I know what it is, I've seen so many pictures.

-Five of those answers are impossible.

-Right.

So your first job is to identify those and eliminate them from the board.

For every one you successfully eliminate, you put £100 into the

daily prize pot, which currently stands at £200.

-All right.

-Where shall we start?

We're going to start with Woodrow Wilson.

Is Woodrow Wilson an impossible answer?

APPLAUSE

Yes, it is.

£100 in the prize pot. Where next?

Let's go for...

..Andrew Jackson.

Is Andrew Jackson an impossible answer?

Yes. Two from two.

We'll go for James Madison.

James Madison.

Is James Maddison an impossible answer?

Yes.

APPLAUSE CHEERING

Three from three.

I'm pretty sure John Quincy Adams isn't on there.

Is John Quincy Adams an impossible answer?

He is.

See if we can make it a clean sweep,

get the prize pot up to £700.

I'm going to say Franklin D Roosevelt.

He was later.

For a clean sweep, is Franklin D Roosevelt an impossible answer?

-It is.

-Oh, my God!

APPLAUSE CHEERING

You've nailed that, Theresa.

-Yeah, no problem!

-So the daily prize pot now stands at £700, but are you

going to be playing for that money

and for a shot at the £10,000 question in today's final?

I'm going to reveal the second half of the

question and I want you to give me the right answer.

If you give me the right answer, you're in the final with Jordan.

If you give me a wrong answer,

the next best player will have the chance to steal your place in the

final and that is Vicky.

-Today's your day.

-Ooh!

So you're in a very strong position.

No impossible answers left to trip you up.

-Shall we have a look at the whole question?

-Please.

I'm going to have a wild...

I know a couple aren't, but I'll

have a guess at Thomas Jefferson.

Now, excitingly, for you and for

everyone else, if you get this right,

everyone comes back into play.

Go, guys!

How confident are you feeling in Thomas Jefferson?

Pretty good. I think...

I know when the others were.

-OK.

-I'm going to get it so wrong now!

Was Thomas Jefferson the third

President of the United States?

Yes!

Well done, Theresa.

APPLAUSE CHEERING

That was what I like to call a perfect grid.

-Thank you very much, thank you.

-You're through to the final.

Well, well, well. Thanks to Theresa's perfect grid, you are all

back in play. Let there be lights!

CHEERING APPLAUSE

Let's find out who's going to be claiming the last place in today's final.

-Are we ready? ALL:

-Yes.

Good luck, everyone, here's your first question.

The right answer...

is A - The College Dropout.

Point to all of you.

The impossible answer...

is C, The Graduate.

The Graduate is not an album by Kanye West,

it's a film starring Dustin Hoffman.

Well, I thought it might be an album as well.

-Yeah, but it isn't!

-No, I know!

-LAUGHTER Bye, Vicky.

-Bye!

Question number two.

Ciaran, unfortunately, you didn't lock

your answer in quite quickly enough.

I know. I was thinking too much about the £10,000, wasn't I?

I wasn't concentrating on the question!

I've got to say, it is very distracting having it right there,

-I agree.

-Yeah, it looks marvellous, doesn't it?

And I just want to take it home, thanks.

Well, you're not going to be today, I'm afraid.

Well, not today. Maybe next time.

We'll see you next week.

The right answer...

..is B - Chicago Cubs, so a point for everyone who went for B.

Eve, does it make you feel better to know that Sam also went for

-Detroit Lions?

-No, not really.

It's not looking good, is it?

LAUGHTER

You can't diss your neighbour like that!

The impossible answer...

..is A - Detroit Lions.

Detroit Lions are not a baseball team,

they're an American football team.

Eve and Sam, go and sort out your differences over the weekend.

LAUGHTER

We'll see you next week.

18 of you left in play, question number three.

The right answer...

..is A - Alexandra of Denmark, so a point to all the As.

Andrew, I always enjoy your logical deduction on these things.

How did you arrive at Marion of Leaford?

Mary of Teck, I've...

Teck, it sounds a place that doesn't even exist.

Marion of Leaford has got a certain ring about it.

A royal ring.

It has got a bit of a royal ring.

But is that enough?

Have you avoided the impossible answer?

-Ooh!

-You haven't, I'm afraid.

Marion of Leaford was Maid Marion,

Robin Hood's girlfriend in the TV show Robin Of Sherwood.

Yvonne, Andrew and Kurtis, we'll have to say goodbye.

See you next week.

Mary of Teck not made up, actually, Andrew, the wife of George V.

15 of you left in play, question number four.

All answers out there.

Joe, you've gone with impala.

I know impala's an animal, I know antelopes are animals,

that is my deduction.

Let's see what the right answer is.

It's C - Dik-dik.

The impossible answer...

..is A - Quokka. Quokka is a type of Wallaby, I'm afraid.

Annie and Eddie, we'll see you next week.

Going into our final question, we have six people

on a maximum four points.

Question five.

A full house of answers.

Angela, you went for Don Jose.

You an opera fan?

I know Carmen.

I don't know what the toreador was called,

I only know that she's called Carmen.

I'm not going to give you any bonus points, here, Angela.

LAUGHTER

Terry, been to any operas?

I know Rigoletto is an Italian opera,

and I've gone for Escamillo because a Don is normally a high-up,

whereas a toreador is...

..just in the bullring, so...

Let's see if your reasoning has led you to the right answer, Terry.

-It has.

-Well done.

-Escamillo.

Point to everyone who went for B.

And the impossible answer...

..is A, exactly as you said, Terry.

Rigoletto is an Italian opera by Verdi.

So, Abigail and Matthew, see you next week.

Meaning just two of you finish on a maximum five points.

They are Terry and Linda.

The quickest to lock in their answers across the round...

..was Terry.

CHEERING APPLAUSE

You have the chance to grab the last place in today's final.

-Hello, Terry.

-Hello, Rick.

-How are you feeling?

-Very good actually, nervous,

cos I can remember the two left.

-Shall we have a look at those last two topics, Terry?

-Please.

Books & Literature and Science.

I know you're not keen on either, but you're going to have to pick one.

Yeah, OK, well, I'll take...

..Science.

Nine answers coming up,

all related to science.

Doesn't look too bad at the moment.

Shall we see if it improves with the first half of the question?

Please.

So five of those answers are impossible.

Your first job is to get rid of those answers.

For each one you successfully eliminate,

we'll put £100 into the daily prize pot

that currently is standing at £700.

-Where would you like to start?

-Not a

lot of traffic on the roads in those

days, I wouldn't have thought, so

let's go with traffic light.

Is traffic light an impossible answer?

Yes.

CHEERING APPLAUSE

-Any idea what century the traffic light was invented in?

-Early 20th.

No, it was the 13th.

I'm joking.

I was going to say, is there some guy hanging lamps?

19th century, in fact.

£100 into the prize pot. It now stands at £800.

I think I'm fairly certain on this one, that it was...

..early 19th century - steam engine.

Is steam engine an impossible answer?

It's not, actually.

It was late 18th, then.

I'll go with the telegraph.

Telegraph?

Any idea when that might have been invented?

That would probably have been around about the 1830s.

So is telegraph an impossible answer?

Yes.

And, impressively, it was invented in 1837.

Very good, Terry.

Phew! Reading all those cowboy books has done that.

I'll go with the electric light bulb.

Is the electric light bulb an impossible answer?

Yes.

Invented in the 19th century.

Last go...to see if we can get rid of one more impossible from the board.

On the basis I think it was probably before the 18th century,

I'll go with the printing press.

Printing press. Is the printing press an impossible answer?

Yes, much earlier, the 15th century.

So we've added £400 to the daily prize pot. It now stands at £1,100.

Very respectable. For the second half of the question,

I'm going to want the right answer.

-Sure.

-Give me the right answer, you're in the final.

Give me a wrong answer,

the next best player will have the chance to steal.

And that player is Linda!

APPLAUSE

Hold tight, Linda.

If you were to give me an impossible answer, Terry...

-Yep.

-..and we know there is still one remaining up there,

you will be eliminated from today's show.

Would you like to see the full question?

Please, yeah.

-Spinning jenny.

-I like that - no thought, Terry.

Just straight in, spinning jenny.

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

Is spinning jenny the right answer?

It's not, I'm afraid, Terry...

-Yeah.

-..which does mean that we throw over to Linda.

Linda.

What have you got for me?

Well, I'm not going to press and

guess, but I am going to guess.

-Yes.

-So I'm going to go with steam engine.

-Steam engine?

-Yeah.

If this is right, you will have stolen Terry's place in the final.

Is steam engine the right answer?

-No.

-It's not.

I'm afraid that's wrong, Linda.

-OK.

-Terry, you've dodged a bullet.

What do you reckon? Have another go.

Well, if it's not that one, then I would have to go with the...

Arkwright...

Probably, oh, I don't know, pendulum clock.

Not the pendulum clock, I'm afraid.

That was the remaining impossible answer - 17th century invention.

Go on, Terry.

-Water frame.

-Yes, the water frame.

The water frame was a revolutionary water-powered spinning frame.

The spinning jenny was invented by James Hargreaves,

the mercury thermometer was invented by Daniel Fahrenheit,

and the steam engine was James Watt.

So, a lucky escape. Take your place in the final.

-Thank you very much, Rick.

-Cheers, Terry.

For the rest of you, I'm afraid that victory today proved impossible,

but we'll see you all again next week.

-Goodbye! ALL:

-Bye!

But for Jordan, Theresa and Terry, it's time for the final.

Jordan, Theresa and Terry, there's £1,100 in today's prize pot,

but only one of you can win that money and the right to face the

£10,000 question.

So this is the world tour of roller-coasters against the trip to

New Zealand to watch the rugby.

What would you spend the money on, Jordan?

Going to take my wife away for a holiday and

save the rest for my son.

Ah, yeah, this is basically your son's future.

-Yeah, basically.

-OK, so no pressure.

You'll each start with ten lives.

Questions are on the buzzer.

A right answer will knock a life off both your opponents.

A wrong answer and you will lose a life of your own.

But look out for those impossible questions.

You can knock two lives off each of your opponents, but if you mess

up, you will lose two lives of your own.

The last player standing will take the £1,100.

Best of luck. You ready?

-ALL:

-Yeah.

-OK.

Which Duran Duran single has the opening line, "Let me take you

"to the place where membership's a smiling face"?

-Theresa.

-Impossible.

It is impossible, that's Club Tropicana by Wham!.

Terry and Jordan, you both lose two lives.

Who scored England's fifth goal in the 1966 Fifa World Cup Final?

-Jordan.

-Geoff Hurst?

I'm afraid it's impossible.

They won 4-2 versus West Germany, so there wasn't a fifth goal.

-Yeah.

-Jordan, you lose two lives.

How many atoms of hydrogen are there in a molecule of water?

-Theresa.

-Two.

-There are two.

Which famous jazz musician is played by Forest Whitaker in the film Bird?

-Terry.

-Bird Johnson.

It's not. It's Charlie Parker. Terry, you lose a life.

Which European country's flag is square and features a white cross on

a red...? Jordan.

Switzerland.

White cross on a red background, it is Switzerland.

Jordan, you have five lives, Terry, you have five, Theresa,

sitting pretty on nine lives.

Which board game takes its name from the Latin for "I play"?

-Jordan.

-Ludo.

-It is Ludo.

Theresa and Terry lose a life.

Which letter comes immediately after the I

when spelling the word "playwright"?

-Jordan?

-G.

It is the G.

Terry, you're now down to three lives.

Theresa, you have seven. Jordan, still on five.

In 2016, who became the UK's third female Prime Minister?

-Jordan.

-Impossible. It is impossible.

Theresa May was the UK's second female Prime Minister.

Meaning that Jordan and Theresa are tied on five lives.

Terry, you're clinging on with just the one life.

The attack on Fort Sumter was the opening engagement in which war?

-Theresa.

-American Civil War.

It was the American Civil War.

Jordan, you lose a life.

Terry, you lose your last remaining life, I'm afraid, and you're out.

Theresa, you have five lives. Jordan has four.

Which band had a 2005 UK number one single

with I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor?

-Jordan.

-Arctic Monkeys.

-It was the Arctic Monkeys.

Theresa, you lose a life, meaning you now have four lives each.

According to superstition,

a clover with how many leaves is said to bring...?

-Jordan.

-Four.

To bring good luck, it is four.

Theresa, you lose a life.

The term "vulpine" means relating to which animal?

-Theresa.

-Wolf.

-It's not the wolf.

That's lupine. This is fox.

-Fox.

-You lose a life, Theresa.

COD is a common acronym for which popular series of video games?

-Jordan.

-Call Of Duty.

It is Call Of Duty. Theresa, you lose a life.

Theresa, you now have one life remaining.

Jordan has four.

Of which citrus fruit is the quince a variety?

-Theresa.

-Impossible.

It is impossible.

The quince is a member of the rose family.

Feel like that might have been a lucky guess.

-Very.

-Jordan, you lose two lives.

Meaning, Jordan, you now have two.

Theresa, you still have one.

Which instrument is Carlos Santana most famous for playing?

-Theresa.

-Guitar.

It is guitar.

Bit of pressure now. You both have one life left.

Which scientist wrote the book A Brief History Of Time?

-Jordan.

-Albert Einstein.

-It's not Albert Einstein, it's Stephen Hawking.

-Aw!

-Oh!

Jordan, you lose your last remaining life.

Jordan and Terry, commiserations. We'll see you in the pack next week.

But Theresa, it's time to face the £10,000 question!

CHEERING APPLAUSE

Very well done, Theresa, you are today's winner with £1,100.

£1,100 is very nice,

but you could be leaving with a whole lot more if you can answer the

£10,000 question.

Here's how it's going to work. I'll show you nine answers and then

ask you a question. Three of the nine answers are correct.

And if you can find them all within ten seconds, you win that £10,000.

That's your good news.

The less good news is that three of those answers are wrong.

If you pick any of those, you won't win the ten grand.

The bad news is that three of the nine answers are impossible.

Give me any of those answers and you will lose the daily prize pot.

I want you to be leaving with all that money, of course I do.

-I think you probably want the same thing.

-Yes.

-Any subject you're particularly hoping for?

Well, if you could do Disney princesses.

-Disney princesses?

-Yes, I have an 11-year-old daughter,

so we've done the Disney princesses.

You've done the whole gamut of Disney princesses.

-Yes, I have.

-OK, is the mascot going to bring you luck, Little Richardina?

He's done pretty well so far.

Yeah, Richardina has really...

I'm down here and I'm going to win the 10,000, so...

Yes, yes, you are.

Great attitude.

-Shall we have a look and see what the topic is?

-Yes, please.

-So we're hoping for...

Disney princesses.

Disney princesses.

No?

Not a million... No, it is quite a way off, actually.

Food and Drink.

-OK.

-You eat?

-I do.

-You drink?

-I do.

We're fine. Do you feel ready?

I am, yes. This is good.

-Best of luck.

-Thank you so much.

Here come your nine answers.

You'll have ten seconds to lock in your answers

and you're looking for...

..sparkling wines that are produced in Italy.

And your time starts now.

Prosecco, asti...

..and Franciacorta.

No.

-How are you feeling?

-I know the first two.

Had a few of them. But the last one, no.

That was the only one that sounded Italian, I'm afraid.

Manzanilla kind of sounded Italian.

Shall we start with Asti?

Yes, please.

-Is Asti a sparkling wine produced in Italy?

-Please...

It is.

CHEERING APPLAUSE

-One down...

-One down.

-..two to go.

-Mmm.

Also felt pretty good about Prosecco.

Yeah.

Is Prosecco a sparkling wine produced in Italy?

Yes.

CHEERING APPLAUSE

With a bit more time...

..where else might you have gone, if you hadn't gone for Franciacorta?

Well, I think...

Well, ouzo's Greek and Champagne's French.

Clairette de Die sounds kind of French.

Oloroso, I think, is a sherry, so that's kind of Portugal, Spain.

So, I don't know, Cava might be.

Manzanilla kind of sounds Italian.

But I bet you it's Cava, isn't it?

And I've totally missed it.

If Franciacorta is a sparkling wine produced in Italy,

you've just won £10,000, Theresa.

It is!

That's a lot of money!

All yours, Theresa!

Drinks on me, in the bar, 20 minutes.

-Loads of Franciacorta, I'm guessing.

-Oh, my God!

Thank you so much.

Congratulations.

£10,000, Teresa.

The impossible answers that you so cleverly avoided -

ouzo, which is a Greek spirit.

Oloroso and Manzanilla are both sherries.

Those things don't really matter,

what matters is you've just won £10,000.

CHEERING APPLAUSE

-Thank you.

-You could go on so many roller-coasters for that.

So Theresa leaves with £10,000.

The rest of us will be back next week,

when someone else will have the chance to win ten grand.

This has been Impossible, the quiz where actually anything is possible.

Goodbye.