Episode 1 Impossible

Hello. I'm Rick Edwards and this is !mpossible.

# Impossible

# Impossible - impossible! #

Welcome to !mpossible, the quiz with the third dimension.

Most quiz shows just have right answers and wrong answers

but here, we also have impossible answers.

For example, if I were to ask...

..the right answer is Madonna, the wrong answer is Cher,

but Alice Cooper is a man, so that's an impossible answer

to a question starting, "Which female singer...?"

Hoping to get lots of right answers,

while dodging those pesky impossible answers,

are 30 players.

-Hello, players. PLAYERS:

-Hello, Rick!

Friendly bunch. They'll be with us throughout the series,

competing not only for a daily prize pot of up to £1,500...

-PLAYERS:

-Whoo!

..but, also, for a shot at the £10,000 question.

-PLAYERS:

-Whoo!

You are right to "Whoo!" like that, because this exclamation mark

is filled with 10,000 shimmering pound coins.

At the end of every show, our winner faces one final question.

Here it is. Today's £10,000 question.

Get this right, and all of that cash will come flooding out.

You'll face five multiple-choice questions,

each with three answers.

The right answer scores you a point,

the wrong answer scores you nothing,

but if you choose the impossible answer...

Oh, dear - that immediately knocks you out of today's show.

You'll have to try again tomorrow.

After five questions,

the highest scorer gets the first chance

to bag a place in today's final.

Do answer as quickly as you can because, if there's a tie,

whoever locked in their answers the fastest will qualify.

OK. Are you ready?

-PLAYERS:

-Yes.

-All right. Good luck everyone.

Here's your first question...

Let's get your answers locked in.

So, the majority of you think it's B.

So, let's find out the right answer.

It's B. 1944.

Well done, all of you who went for B.

You get a point. However, we have got As and Cs.

That means that at least a couple of you

are going to be eliminated at this early stage

cos you have given an impossible answer.

Penny, you went with C.

Yes. I should know better, really.

I volunteer at Bletchley Park and this is a bread and butter question.

That's right in the wheelhouse of Bletchley, isn't it, Penny?

Let's see.

What was the impossible answer?

It was C. 1946.

The war finished in 1945,

which I think you probably knew, Penny.

Yes, absolutely.

I'm sorry. And Megan, you also put C.

I'm afraid the two of you are eliminated

but you will be playing again tomorrow.

We'll see you then.

Question number two for the rest of you.

So, we've got a fairly even split between As and Cs

and we've got a few rogue Bs.

Let's find out the right answer. Let's reveal it.

That means, again, we are going to lose some people.

Gerard.

I listen to a lot of music cos I volunteer at hospital radio.

We play a lot of it, but we don't get asked for rap all that often.

I guess it's not all that soothing, is it? Rap.

True!

-Carol?

-They look like anagrams to me.

I'll let you have a free pass if you come up with a good anagram.

LAUGHTER

All right. We're going to find out what the impossible answer was.

It was Triple H.

Sorry, Carol and Gerard. Any idea now who Triple H is?

-He's a wrestler!

-He is a wrestler.

Gerard and Carol, we say goodbye to you for now.

But we will see you tomorrow.

Question number three.

So, a fairly even split between As and Bs.

No-one has gone for C.

Let's reveal the right answer.

It's A, Mercedes.

Well done if you put A - a point is added to your tally.

We're hoping that B isn't the impossible answer.

Cos if it is, it's going to be an absolute massacre.

LAUGHTER

Ritchie?

McLaren, I've heard of them as a Formula 1 racing team.

-So...

-Yeah, McLaren, right?

-Formula 1. Seems to make sense.

-Yeah.

Let's reveal the impossible answer.

It's C, BMW.

So, you all escape.

Question number four now.

Big spread here.

A lot of As, but then quite a few Bs and Cs.

Some of you are going to be eliminated

because you have given the impossible answer.

First of all, let's reveal the right answer.

It's A - A Passage To India.

Well done if you put A.

A point on the scoreboard.

Now, to the thorny issue of the impossible.

Jo, you went with B.

I don't think Brideshead Revisited was written by EM Forster,

but I don't know who it was, so it may have been.

But that's the one with the teddy bear, isn't it?

Brideshead Revisited.

Let's reveal the impossible answer.

Yes, Brideshead Revisited is the impossible answer.

Not an EM Forster novel.

It's by Evelyn Waugh.

You are eliminated, but we will see you again tomorrow.

Currently setting the pace - Gary, with four points, and Tracy.

So, our last question, question number five.

Let's first of all reveal the impossible answer.

It's B - Apollo 13.

Quite a few of you, actually, are eliminated at this stage

and we'll see you all again tomorrow.

Apollo 13 never got to the moon.

So, we know that either Gary or Tracy is going to win this round.

It all depends who gave the right answer.

-Gary?

-Yes.

You went with Apollo 15.

Apollo 11 was '69.

I think that was the one that got them to the moon first.

Apollo 13, I've seen the film. It didn't get there.

So, by the process of elimination, it had to be 15, I hope.

Good logic, again. Tracy?

I hope it's not.

LAUGHTER Of course.

I just wondered if they didn't go up as far as Apollo 15.

OK. Let's reveal the right answer.

It's C - Apollo 15.

Congratulations, Gary.

You now have the first chance to grab a place in today's final.

APPLAUSE

-Gary, here we are.

-Here we are.

What's it like up there? Tense?

Well, I'm very nervous standing here.

But I think it's OK. I think it's OK.

What do you do when you're not quizzing?

I'm a legal analyst in Belfast.

And in my spare time, I usually am, probably, quizzing.

If you won the money today, Gary, what would you do with it?

Well, I think, at 29, it's about time I own my own car.

I'm not even fussy - just something that goes from A to B.

-Now, let's focus.

-Mm-hm.

This is your chance, Gary, to put up to £500

in today's prize pot

and, crucially, take a massive step

towards playing for the £10,000 question.

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

Musical theatre, history, science, or politics.

Which you fancy?

I will go...history, please.

-History.

-Yes.

-OK.

So, here's how it works.

First, I'm going to reveal nine answers - here we go.

We've got...

Archibald Leach, Thomas Winter, Geoffrey Hayes, Guy Fawkes,

David Waddington, Thomas Catesby, Derrick Evans, Thomas Percy,

and James Stuart.

And we're going to see the first half of a question.

"Which participant in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot...?"

Now, five of those answers are impossible,

because they weren't part of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot.

Your first job is to find those impossible answers

and banish them into oblivion.

-OK.

-You will have five guesses.

Each impossible answer that you manage to eliminate

will add £100 to today's prize pot.

-Got it?

-Yeah.

-Where shall we start?

Well, I think Archibald Leach was Blackbeard,

so he's a pirate.

So I think he's a good place to start.

-OK.

-Please.

Is Archibald Leach an impossible answer?

It is an impossible answer.

It's the real name of Cary Grant.

LAUGHTER

All right. You have put £100 into the prize pot.

That is the important thing. Second guess.

I'll go Geoffrey Hayes, please.

Geoffrey Hayes.

Who do you think Geoffrey Hayes is?

I'm just going on the fact

that Geoffrey perhaps is a more modern name,

rather than a 17th century...

I'm clutching at straws, basically.

LAUGHING: I didn't want to say it.

Let's find out if you're clutching successfully at straws -

is Geoffrey Hayes an impossible answer?

Yes, it is. Another £100 in the prize pot.

Well clutched. Any idea who Geoffrey Hayes is?

Not a clue.

Geoffrey from Rainbow.

Not involved in the Gunpowder Plot.

Surprisingly not, no(!)

OK. Third guess.

-You are doing very well.

-I will clutch at more straws,

I will have another go at Derrick Evans.

-Derrick Evans.

-Yes.

Who do you think Derrick Evans might be?

Again, similar logic,

perhaps Derrick is a more modern type name.

That's literally all I've got to go on.

Is Derrick Evans an impossible answer?

It is.

£300 in the prize pot now.

Derrick Evans - you'll kick yourself when you hear this.

Mr Motivator.

Oh, yes, right. Yes.

Let's see if we can eliminate those final two impossible answers.

James Stuart, please.

James Stuart.

I can't remember if it was Charles or James

that was on the throne at the time, so...

It might have been James.

Is James Stuart an impossible answer?

Yes.

And you were right.

-He was on the throne.

-Very good.

-They were trying to kill him.

-Ah.

-So he wasn't involved in the plot.

All right. Four from four, doing fantastically,

see if we can get that last impossible.

Just because there are two Thomases up there,

I will go for one of them.

Thomas Winter.

Just on the basis he's got the same name as someone else on the board.

It would get confusing if you were organising -

-"Thomas, you are going do this." "Which one?"

-Logistical nightmare.

Exactly. Exactly.

So, is Thomas Winter an impossible answer?

No. He was a participant in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot.

So four out of five means £400 in the prize pot.

The question is, will you be playing for that money

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

In a moment, I am going to reveal the second half of the question,

and I am now looking for the right answer.

-Got it?

-Got it.

-The right answer.

-The right answer.

Find it and a place in the final is yours.

Give a wrong answer

and the next best player will have the chance

to steal your place in the final.

I can reveal that the next best player is Tracy.

So, Tracy, get ready to steal.

-She looks pretty pumped.

-Yeah!

If you give me an impossible answer,

and we know there is one still up there that you didn't eliminate,

then I'm afraid you will be eliminated from today's show.

Let's reveal the full question.

Which participant in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot

was the ringleader of the group?

-Well...

-I am looking for the right answer.

The only participant I'm 100% sure of is Guy Fawkes.

I don't think he was the ringleader.

I'll go...Robert Catesby.

Was Robert Catesby the ringleader of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot?

He was!

David Waddington is the other impossible answer.

He was a former Home Secretary.

Ah.

Don't need to worry about that, though,

because you have made it through to the final.

-Well done, Gary.

-Thank you very much.

There are still two places left in today's final alongside Gary.

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

There are only 11 of you left, now. The pack is thinning out.

The odds are getting better.

-Are you ready? PLAYERS:

-Yes.

OK, same deal as before, five multiple-choice questions.

Here is your first question.

No-one's gone for A.

Let's reveal the right answer.

It is C, fouette.

A couple of you put B.

Deb, are you a ballet fan?

No, but I knew it couldn't be A,

because a croquembouche is a dessert.

So I definitely knew it's not that.

So it was between B and C.

Let's see what the impossible answer is.

It's A, croquembouche.

You were right, Deb, it is a dessert.

A delicious kind of choux pastry thing.

All 11 of you make it safely through to question two, which is...

So the majority of you think it's B.

Let's reveal the right answer.

It's B, Forrest Gump, so nine of you get a point.

Let's reveal the impossible answer.

It is C, Point Break.

Tom Hanks wasn't in either the original or the 2015 remake.

That means all of you safely progress through again.

OK. Question three.

So, six of you think it's argon,

five of you think it's helium.

Let's reveal the right answer.

It's A - argon.

All of the As get a point.

Now, Sarah, you put B.

I tried to apply logic.

Fluorine, I thought, was grouped with other chemicals.

I didn't think they were noble gases,

but I wasn't sure.

Jane, were you sure?

No, I'm not sure at all, but I think helium is a gas,

but whether it's a noble one or not,

maybe my luck is not as good as it has been.

Well, we'll see.

Let's reveal the impossible answer.

It's C, fluorine.

Once again, you all avoid the impossible.

Some good gameplay, here.

Question four...

Let's reveal the right answer.

It's All Along The Watchtower.

If you've put B, you get a point.

Let's reveal the impossible answer.

19th Nervous Breakdown is the impossible answer,

because it was a hit for the Rolling Stones,

not the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

I can tell you that going into the fifth and final question,

Kurtis, Andrew and Ash are all tied on four points,

so it may well come down to how quickly you lock in your answers.

Question number five, our final question.

First of all, let's reveal the impossible answer.

It was C - budenovka.

The budenovka is a Russian army hat.

Annie, Sarah and Jane, that means you're eliminated,

but the good thing about this show is you will be back again tomorrow.

-Andrew?

-Answer A looks most like a pom pom,

and therefore they have got stupid things on the ends of their feet.

Don't say that to their face, Andrew!

-Ash?

-Yeah, they wear these cute little shoes

with the white pom poms on the end, don't they?

When the question came up, I just thought "pom pom shoe",

and that looks like pom pom shoe, a bit.

That's how you should describe them.

"Cute little shoes",

not "stupid things on the end", Andrew.

Let's reveal the right answer.

Ooh!

It's B - tsarouhi.

Tracy, were you sitting there

quite smug cos you knew about the tsarouhi?

I have an in-depth knowledge of the uniform

of the Greek Presidential Guard, yes, absolutely(!)

I had you pegged for somebody who'd know that stuff, Tracy.

Was it a guess?

-Maybe it was a lucky guess.

-You get a point, nevertheless.

-Even though it was a guess.

-Thank you.

The pampootie is actually a kind of sandal or moccasin

traditionally worn on the Aran Islands.

Now, we have three people still tied on four points.

Ash, Kurtis, and Andrew.

But the fastest person to lock in their answers was...

Andrew.

Congratulations, Andrew.

You have the chance to grab a place in today's final alongside Gary.

Andrew, what do you do when you're not on quiz shows?

I've got a small, four-piece, pub-rock blues band.

Oh, right. Do you just sing? Or do you play any instruments?

Erm, since I have ended up in a wheelchair,

I've taught myself the harmonica.

-Ah!

-So, I try and sing and play harmonica.

What would you do if you won the £10,000?

Oh, I would love to take my wife away on a cruise.

I'd love to go on a cruise.

You could probably squeeze a couple of cruises out of ten grand.

Oh, but you've got to buy the uniforms

and the clothes and the...

The uniforms?

-The ballgowns. Ballgowns.

-Ah, OK.

Not necessarily for myself.

I was thinking you were going to go dressed as sailors.

Which is also a big look!

Quite possibly, but not one I'm going for.

OK. We're going to get down to the serious business now.

You have the chance to add £500 to today's prize pot,

which already stands at £400, thanks to the sterling work of Gary.

Of the three remaining topics...

..which do you fancy?

Musical theatre, science, or politics?

I'll have a stab at musical theatre, please, Rick.

OK. I'm going to reveal your nine answers.

They are...

And the first half of the question is...

"Which song from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom Of The Opera...?"

Now, five of those answers are impossible

because they are not in Phantom Of The Opera.

You need to find those impossible answers and get rid of them.

Each impossible answer you eliminate will add £100 to today's prize pot.

You've got five guesses. Where shall we start?

Erm, we'll go for Memory.

Memory.

Have you seen a lot of Andrew Lloyd Webber?

I've seen Phantom, yeah.

-That might well stand you in good stead here.

-Hopefully.

Is Memory an impossible answer?

It is. £100 in prize pot.

Do you know what Memory is from?

It is from Cats, I think.

It is from Cats. Next guess.

Love Changes Everything.

Why are you going for that?

I think it is in Aspects Of Love.

Is it an impossible answer?

Yes, it is.

And, as you rightly say, it is in Aspects Of Love.

It is going well so far.

I Don't Know How To Love Him.

Let's get it locked in.

Where do you think that's from?

-Jesus Christ Superstar.

-OK.

Is I Don't Know How To Love Him an impossible answer?

It is.

It's from Jesus Christ Superstar.

Fourth guess.

Oh, What A Circus.

Where have you heard that?

I believe it is in Evita.

It is!

You have one more to try and eliminate.

-Which are you going to go for?

-This is a difficult one.

I'll try for The Perfect Year. I don't know... This is a guess.

Is The Perfect Year an impossible answer?

It is!

All five identified.

Fantastic. £500 added to the prize pot.

Now, £900.

The Perfect Year is from Sunset Boulevard.

-Right.

-Now, when I reveal the second half of the question,

I need you to tell me the right answer.

Find it, you're in the final with Gary.

Give a wrong answer, and the next best player,

who was Kurtis,

gets the chance to steal your place in the final.

The full question is...

Which song from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom Of The Opera

is a duet performed by the characters Christine and Raoul?

All I Ask Of You.

You said that very confidently, Andrew.

I've sung it with my sister.

Were you Christine or Raoul?

-I was Christine.

-OK, good, good.

Is All I Ask Of You the right answer?

Spot-on. You've sung it, you knew it,

you're going to play in the final with Gary later.

Please take your place.

So, just one place left in today's final alongside Gary and Andrew.

Let's see who it's going to be. Only seven surviving now.

-Are you ready? PLAYERS:

-Yes.

OK. Here are your five multiple-choice questions,

starting with...

OK, so we've got five As and a couple of Bs.

Let's reveal the right answer.

It is A, 1.

So, a point to everyone who said A.

Helen, any bingo?

I've been a few times with my mum.

But they don't do the fun calls any more,

they just say the numbers as fast as possible.

Are you kidding me?

-That's the whole fun of bingo!

-I know.

Let's hope, though, that you haven't given the impossible answer.

The impossible answer is...

It is 100.

Because traditional UK bingo numbers only go up to 90.

All seven of you go on to question two, which is...

So we've got six Bs.

And just the one A - Kurtis.

Let's reveal the right answer.

It is B, Titian.

Well done to the six of you that put B.

You get a point.

Kurtis.

Neither Italian artists or shades of red hair are a specialty of mine.

I don't like the way you're looking at me.

I'm trying to be inscrutable here.

LAUGHTER

Let's reveal the impossible answer.

Sorry, Kurtis.

It is Rubens, because Rubens is not an Italian artist,

he's a Dutch artist.

We'll see you again tomorrow.

The rest of you, let's move on to question three.

Two think it's the hammer,

two think it's the triathlon,

and two think it's the triple jump.

That means two of you will be eliminated at this stage.

Let's reveal the right answer.

It's B, hammer.

Well done, Helen. Well done, Ash.

Now, As and Cs, some of you are going to be eliminated.

Diane?

I was hoping triathlon isn't classed as track and field,

so...my guess is triple jump.

OK. Let's reveal the impossible answer.

It is A - triathlon.

You are right, Diane, triathlon

is not track and field.

Sorry, Tracy. Sorry, Deb.

You are eliminated but we will see you again tomorrow.

So, we're whittling them down.

Four of you left going on to question four.

Linda, Diane, Ash and Helen.

And question four is...

So we have got three Cs, and a B.

Let's reveal the right answer.

It is C, the M69.

So, Linda, Diane and Helen all get a point.

Ash, have you ever driven

between Coventry and Leicester on the motorway?

-No.

-You must.

-Why?

-Beautiful route, Ash.

Let's reveal the impossible answer.

It's M8.

The M8 is entirely in Scotland.

All four of you go on to our final question.

Let's reveal the impossible answer.

It's C, Shane Lynch.

I'm sorry, Linda.

Shane Lynch, of course, was in...

Boyzone.

-Boyzone.

-Right.

-But we will be seeing you again tomorrow.

So, Ash, Helen and Diane, you all said A.

Let's see if you gave the right answer.

You did.

Simon Webbe was in the 2014 series of Strictly Come Dancing.

You all get a point.

Ash, you are on three points.

Helen and Diane, both on four points.

But I can reveal that the quickest to lock their answers in was...

Diane.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Congratulations, Diane.

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

alongside Gary and Andrew.

Diane, well done.

-I had to do it for the back row.

-< Yeah!

Do it for the back row. The back row are delighted.

-Yeah.

-Very quick with the answers as well, Diane.

Yeah. I surprised myself, actually, yeah.

I think I saw your keypad smoking.

Oh. Yeah.

What do you do when you are not

answering quiz questions very quickly?

I enjoy watching sports. I'm a big Liverpool fan.

Oh, very good. Yes, yes.

Married to an Arsenal fan,

which is very unfortunate, but never mind.

I'm married to an Arsenal fan as well.

-I feel your pain.

-Thank you, yeah.

If you won the £10,000, what would you do with it?

I would love to go to Russia. That would be great.

I would love to go to the Hermitage Museum

and have a look around there.

-Well, Russia, here we come.

-Yeah.

Of the remaining topics, science and politics,

which do you want to go for?

SHE SIGHS

It's the lesser of two evils for me, so I'm going to go with politics.

Politics, the lesser of two evils.

Your nine answers are...

Roy Hattersley, Denis Healey, James Callaghan, David Steel...

And the first half of the question is...

"Which leader of the Labour Party...?"

As before, five of those are impossible,

they couldn't possibly be the answer to a question starting like that

because they aren't a leader or weren't a leader

of the Labour Party.

You need to find those impossible answers.

Each impossible answer you eliminate adds £100 to today's prize pot.

You've got five guesses.

Where would you like to start?

OK. I'll go with David Steel first, please.

He was the leader of the Liberal Party, or Lib Dems.

Is it an impossible answer?

Yes, it is. £100 into the prize pot.

Spot-on. He was the Liberal leader.

Next guess.

Uh...Paddy Ashdown, please.

Liberal again, I think.

All right - let's see if Paddy Ashdown

was not a leader of the Labour Party,

and therefore an impossible answer.

Leader of the Liberal Democrats.

So that is two from two.

I'm going to go with Roy Hattersley.

Feel confident that he was never Labour leader?

Ish. I think he might have been deputy, maybe,

but I don't think he was leader outright.

So I'll go with that.

OK. Is Roy Hattersley an impossible answer?

Yes. £300 added to the prize pot.

Two guesses remaining.

Um...I'm going to go with Tony Benn.

He was a prominent politician, but again,

I don't think he was a leader of the Labour Party.

All right. Is Tony Benn an impossible answer?

Yes, it is. £400 added to the prize pot.

Just one more impossible answer up there.

Denis Healey, please.

I think he was Chancellor of the Exchequer

but I don't think he was leader of the Labour Party,

so that's why I'm going with him.

OK.

Is Denis Healey an impossible answer?

Excellent stuff, Diane.

£500 added to the prize pot, which now stands at £1,400.

-Good stuff.

-But are you going to be playing for that money

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

You need to give me the right answer when I reveal the whole question.

Now, remember, the next best player from that round, who was Helen,

is waiting to steal your place in the final

if you give a wrong answer.

There are no impossibles left to trip you up, though,

so that is good.

The full question is...

Which leader of the Labour Party was defeated by Margaret Thatcher

at the 1979 general election?

I'm going to go with James Callaghan.

It didn't take you too much time to arrive at that.

Gaitskell is too early.

And I think Kinnock and Foot are a bit too late

so I think James Callaghan was around that time

-so that's why I'm going for James Callaghan.

-OK.

So, for your place in the final alongside Andrew and Gary...

..was James Callaghan defeated by Margaret Thatcher

at the 1979 general election?

Yes, he was.

-Well done, Diane.

-Thank you, thank you.

-You have grabbed the last place in today's final.

-Thank you.

And for the rest of you, I'm afraid victory today proved impossible,

but we will see you all again tomorrow.

But for Gary, Andrew and Diane, it's time for the final.

APPLAUSE

Well, £1,400 in today's prize pot,

but only one of you can win that money

and get the chance to face the £10,000 question.

You each start with ten lives.

There they are. Questions are on the buzzer.

Get one right, you knock a life off both of your opponents.

Get one wrong, it's you that loses a life.

However, some of the questions are impossible.

For example, what colour is the cross on the Italian flag?

There is no cross on the Italian flag.

Buzz in and say, "Impossible",

and that will mean double trouble for your opponents

as they'll both lose two lives.

If you say a question is impossible when it isn't

or give any other answer to an impossible question,

it is you who will be losing the two lives,

so you need to be careful.

The last surviving player takes the £1,400.

Good luck to you all.

Which Jubilee did Queen Elizabeth II celebrate in 2012?

-Gary.

-Golden.

It was Diamond. I'm afraid you lose a life, Gary.

In which English city is Lime Street the principal railway station?

-Andrew.

-Liverpool.

It is Liverpool.

Peter Grimes and Billy Budd are operas by which...? Diane.

Benjamin Britten.

The end of the question was, "..by which British composer?"

And it was by Benjamin Britten.

Which supersonic aircraft was withdrawn from commercial service...

-Diane?

-Concorde.

..in 2003?

It was Concorde.

Dilma Rousseff was president of which...

-Gary.

-Brazil.

Very quick to answer. The end of the question was,

"..of which South American country from January 2011

"until August 2016?"

And it was Brazil.

In which year of the 1970s did the Falklands War take place?

-Diane.

-Impossible.

Yes, it's impossible,

cos the Falklands War wasn't in the '70s,

it was in 1982.

You also knew that, Andrew, but you lose two lives,

as does Gary.

For which infectious disease, also known as German measles...

-Diane.

-Rubella.

Absolutely right.

I was going to say, "..does the R in MMR vaccine stand?"

Spot-on, Diane.

Which star of Downton Abbey plays teacher Minerva McGonagall in...

Andrew.

Oh...!

It's a hesitation, I'm afraid, Andrew.

You lose a life.

The answer was Dame Maggie Smith.

In which US city was Charlie Chaplin born?

-Andrew.

-Impossible.

It is impossible, he was born in London.

Gary, that means you are down to just one life.

-Clinging on.

-Yes.

Which of Prince Andrew's sons got married...

-Diane.

-Impossible.

It is impossible, because he doesn't have any sons, just two daughters,

meaning, Gary, I'm sorry, commiserations, you are out.

But we will be seeing you again tomorrow.

Andrew, you are hanging on by a thread.

One life.

Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan were stars...

-Andrew.

-Basketball.

..stars of which sport?

It is basketball.

Which letter comes immediately after the A

when spelling the word "CEMETERY"?

-Diane.

-Impossible.

There is no A in CEMETERY.

That means you are also eliminated, Andrew.

I'm sorry, we will see you tomorrow.

But, Diane, you are going to face the £10,000 question.

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So, Diane, you are today's winner with £1,400.

That is lovely, but you could be leaving with a whole lot more

if you can answer the £10,000 question.

We know that you fancy a trip to Russia to go to the museums.

If you get it, who would you take? Or go solo?

I would probably have to take the husband, but we'll see.

You probably would.

-He would be fuming if you didn't.

-He would.

He wouldn't like being alone.

He would have seen this as well and be like,

-"I know you won the money, Diane!" LAUGHING:

-Yes!

This is how it works.

I'll show you nine answers and then ask 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 the good news.

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

Pick any of those and you won't win the £10,000.

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

If you give me any of those answers, you will lose the £1,400 as well.

I can only accept the first three answers that you give.

So, take care. Yeah.

All right. Here it is.

Today's £10,000 question. I hope it's fallen kindly for you.

It's about television.

-Are you ready?

-Yes.

-Good luck.

-Thank you.

Here are your nine answers.

Jones, Fraser, Wilson, Walker, Fletcher, Leadbetter,

Godfrey, Rigsby, and Hodges.

You will have ten seconds to lock your answers in.

And you are looking for...

..characters in the TV sitcom Dad's Army

who held the rank of private and your time starts now.

Walker, Godfrey, Wilson.

Walker, Godfrey and Wilson.

We want those to be three right answers.

Is Walker a right answer? Was Private Walker in Dad's Army?

Yes. One down.

The next answer you gave was Godfrey.

Was it Private Godfrey? Let's see...

..if it was indeed Private Godfrey in Dad's Army?

It's another right answer.

You are now tantalisingly close to that £10,000.

So, was it Private Wilson in Dad's Army?

For £10,000.

-Ooh. I'm afraid not.

-No.

With a bit more time to look at the names,

do you know which was the other private?

-Yeah, Private Frazer.

-It was Private Frazer.

Thinking about it now, do you know what rank Wilson was in Dad's Army?

-He was Sergeant Wilson.

-He was Sergeant Wilson, I'm afraid.

And the impossible answers, just to clear those up,

Fletcher, the lead character in Porridge,

Leadbetter was Margot and Jerry's surname in The Good Life.

And Rigsby was, of course, the landlord in Rising Damp.

You managed to avoid those.

You got so close to £10,000, but you have won £1,400.

-Great!

-And we will see you next time.

This has been !mpossible, the quiz where anything is possible.

Goodbye.

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