0:00:21 > 0:00:23Hello, and welcome to Only Connect,
0:00:23 > 0:00:26the closest BBC Four gets to the X Factor.
0:00:26 > 0:00:29There's no singing, but people do come from all over the country
0:00:29 > 0:00:32to have their dreams crushed and their confidence shattered.
0:00:32 > 0:00:34But it's all done from love, because like Simon Cowell,
0:00:34 > 0:00:37we're looking for that certain indefinable something.
0:00:37 > 0:00:39And when I say "indefinable",
0:00:39 > 0:00:43I mean completely definable, precise, exact, correct clues.
0:00:43 > 0:00:47So, let's see whose soul might be broken forever tonight.
0:00:47 > 0:00:51On my right, it's Jason Gray, an Oxford History graduate
0:00:51 > 0:00:54and former rowing coach who now works as a marketing manager.
0:00:54 > 0:00:57Dominic Guinness, an IT development manager who enjoys gardening
0:00:57 > 0:01:00and attends the Henley Regatta each year.
0:01:00 > 0:01:04And their captain, Chris Harrison, a software developer who enjoys
0:01:04 > 0:01:07rowing, running and cycling in his spare time.
0:01:07 > 0:01:09Did you spot the hidden connection?
0:01:09 > 0:01:11Yes, they are the Rowers,
0:01:11 > 0:01:14and they've all been in a boat together for over ten years.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16Presumably you've got the teamwork sorted.
0:01:16 > 0:01:17What are your other strengths?
0:01:17 > 0:01:19Well, we are used to being told what to do
0:01:19 > 0:01:21by a short, shouty person at the other end,
0:01:21 > 0:01:23so hopefully we can survive without them.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26I can be the short, shouty person in this crew.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28I've had plenty of practise.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30Let's see who you're rowing against tonight.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33On my left, Joanne Edwards,
0:01:33 > 0:01:35a subject librarian for Hispanic Studies
0:01:35 > 0:01:39and accomplished ballroom dancer who's learning Portuguese.
0:01:39 > 0:01:43Jo Moore, an MSc student at UCL who speaks French, Italian,
0:01:43 > 0:01:47Mandarin Chinese, and is learning Spanish in her lunchtimes.
0:01:47 > 0:01:49And their captain, Charlie Lythgoe,
0:01:49 > 0:01:52an assistant at the Taylor Institute library in Oxford, who volunteers
0:01:52 > 0:01:55for Amnesty International and speaks fluent German.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59They speak seven languages between them, they are the Linguists.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01Now, most of our questions tend to be in English here.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04How confident are you that you've got the bases covered?
0:02:04 > 0:02:07Er, I think between us we've got all the bases covered.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10My degree's in English, so I think that'll help.
0:02:10 > 0:02:12And you know, a good grounding in languages helps at least
0:02:12 > 0:02:15understand most of the words, even if we can't understand the connections.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17I don't mean you to get complacent, Rowers.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20The questions aren't DEFINITELY in English.
0:02:20 > 0:02:22There might be a Chinese one coming up.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25Usually not till the quarter-final stage, but you never know.
0:02:25 > 0:02:27Round one comes first, they usually do in these things.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29Here, I want to know what is the connection
0:02:29 > 0:02:30between four clues, although if you see
0:02:30 > 0:02:32fewer than four and give me the right answer,
0:02:32 > 0:02:34you'll get more points.
0:02:34 > 0:02:37Linguists, you won the toss so you'll be going first.
0:02:37 > 0:02:39Please choose...ah, here's a new language! An Egyptian hieroglyph.
0:02:40 > 0:02:44- Twisted Flax, please.- Twisted Flax. OK. The first one's coming up now.
0:02:47 > 0:02:521970 Australian nickel. Is that a currency rather than a metal?
0:02:52 > 0:02:54It's got a small N, though.
0:02:54 > 0:02:56Next.
0:02:57 > 0:02:591846, railways?
0:02:59 > 0:03:02Things that were made out of certain things,
0:03:02 > 0:03:04and when they changed to be made out of something else?
0:03:04 > 0:03:07It's a bit vague, isn't it? Next?
0:03:08 > 0:03:13- 1637, tulips?! - When they came to Britain, or...?
0:03:13 > 0:03:14OK, that's excellent, yeah!
0:03:14 > 0:03:16When they first came to Britain. OK, yup.
0:03:16 > 0:03:20We think this is the year that these first came to Britain.
0:03:20 > 0:03:21I'm afraid it's not the year
0:03:21 > 0:03:23they first came to Britain.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26I'm going to show the first clue to the Rowers,
0:03:26 > 0:03:28a possible bonus point available.
0:03:28 > 0:03:31Yeah, um, bubbles. Stock market crashes.
0:03:31 > 0:03:32They are economic bubbles.
0:03:32 > 0:03:36They're the years that economic bubbles burst.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39The dot com I think was the giveaway, the last one there.
0:03:39 > 0:03:42Tulips, in the Netherlands in 1637, that was the first one.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44First recorded economic bubble, boom and bust.
0:03:44 > 0:03:45Well done. You may now
0:03:45 > 0:03:46choose your own question.
0:03:46 > 0:03:51- I think we should start with Water, please.- OK, you probably should!
0:03:51 > 0:03:55Let's see if you can sail along this one. First clue coming up now.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59SS-GB. That was a Len Deighton novel, wasn't it?
0:03:59 > 0:04:01It was an alternative future.
0:04:01 > 0:04:04THEY CONFER
0:04:04 > 0:04:06Shall we go...next!
0:04:06 > 0:04:09Peace In Our Time. That's going to be a quote from...
0:04:09 > 0:04:12But isn't it novels with alternative futures?
0:04:12 > 0:04:15- SS-GB was where the Germans won the war.- Oh, OK.
0:04:15 > 0:04:20- But is it specifically German? - Er...do we want another one?- Yeah.
0:04:20 > 0:04:22Another one, please. Next.
0:04:22 > 0:04:24Never heard of it.
0:04:24 > 0:04:28- Never heard of that one.- Ten seconds.- Should we get the last one?
0:04:28 > 0:04:31- Should we get the last one? - Let's get the last one.- Next. Yes.
0:04:31 > 0:04:32Three seconds.
0:04:32 > 0:04:38Um, novels with alternative futures, or based on an alternative future.
0:04:38 > 0:04:42So in Fatherland and SS-GB, the Germans won the war.
0:04:42 > 0:04:44And the novel is based subsequent to that.
0:04:44 > 0:04:48So maybe in this one, the Germans won the war in all of these novels.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50I'll take that. Not all novels,
0:04:50 > 0:04:51but I'll give it to you
0:04:51 > 0:04:53for that specific bit. They are all stories
0:04:53 > 0:04:56with an alternative vision of what would have happened
0:04:56 > 0:04:58if the Axis powers had won the war.
0:04:58 > 0:05:00SS-GB you knew, that's the Len Deighton novel.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02The second one's a play by Noel Coward.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04The Man In The High Castle is a novel by Philip K Dick
0:05:04 > 0:05:07and the last one, Robert Harris. But all stories
0:05:07 > 0:05:10which are alternative histories of World War II. So well done.
0:05:10 > 0:05:14- Back to you, Linguists, to pick your own question.- Lion, please.- Lion.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16OK, these are going to be picture clues.
0:05:16 > 0:05:19What's the connection. First one coming up now.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24- Some kind of... Is it a lily? - I'm not sure...
0:05:24 > 0:05:26It looks like a lily pad. Yeah, it does, doesn't it?
0:05:26 > 0:05:28Next.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31Is that a Lotus... Lotus?
0:05:31 > 0:05:33- Flowers...- Or aquatic flower, maybe?
0:05:33 > 0:05:37- Shall we try another one?- Next.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41- What's that? - Some sort of vegetable?
0:05:41 > 0:05:43Is it a vegetable or a fruit?
0:05:43 > 0:05:47- It could be... I don't know. - Should we see the fourth one?
0:05:47 > 0:05:50- Next.- Ten seconds.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52- That's the lotus position. - BELL
0:05:52 > 0:05:53Lotuses.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56Lotus is the connection, I wish you'd come in after two clues.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59You're looking at a lotus flower, Lotus sports car,
0:05:59 > 0:06:02a lotus root is that third one, and the lotus position.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05So you're off the blocks with a point
0:06:05 > 0:06:08- and back to you, Rowers, to pick a hieroglyph.- Two Reeds, please.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11OK. First clue coming up now.
0:06:13 > 0:06:15It's a Judo throw.
0:06:15 > 0:06:20It ends the bout. So is it going to be Judo...
0:06:20 > 0:06:22Next.
0:06:22 > 0:06:27Erm, that's when you check out in cribbage.
0:06:27 > 0:06:31- It's the end of the game. - So it ends a hand, or wins the game.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33BELL
0:06:33 > 0:06:37Are they things that end a round, or end a hand,
0:06:37 > 0:06:38or end a move in games?
0:06:38 > 0:06:41That's not the answer, but it ends your round on this question.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43Your opponents have a chance of a bonus.
0:06:43 > 0:06:47I'll show you two more clues, Linguists.
0:06:47 > 0:06:50THEY CONFER
0:06:50 > 0:06:52Ah, yes.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54You get the lowest points...
0:06:54 > 0:06:56for that particular move.
0:06:56 > 0:06:58That is not the case either.
0:06:58 > 0:07:02I'm sad to discover that none of you really are cribbage players.
0:07:02 > 0:07:03- It's just one point.- One point.
0:07:03 > 0:07:06Because obviously, you can get no points,
0:07:06 > 0:07:07that would be the lowest score.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09One for his nob, they say.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11That's when you've got the jack of the suit
0:07:11 > 0:07:12that the turn card is in.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14Ippon in Judo, you get one point,
0:07:14 > 0:07:18Z in Polish Scrabble only worth one, because they've got so many of them.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21And cleverly, look, this clue that is the one-point clue...
0:07:21 > 0:07:24It should be this question, because that clue takes a point away,
0:07:24 > 0:07:26but had you got as far as the fourth one,
0:07:26 > 0:07:28it would've been worth one point.
0:07:28 > 0:07:30You see the clever little trick there.
0:07:30 > 0:07:32But no points, as it turned out.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34Linguists, please, pick a hieroglyph.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37- Horned Viper.- The Horned Viper. - BELL
0:07:37 > 0:07:40Ah, that means it's going to be the music question.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43You'll be hearing your clues. The first one's going to come in now.
0:07:43 > 0:07:47LITURGICAL CHANTING
0:07:49 > 0:07:52- It's like a chant, isn't it? - Yeah. Next.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55JAZZ PIANO MUSIC PLAYS
0:07:55 > 0:07:57Piano.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01Yep, next.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04# It's a jungle out there
0:08:04 > 0:08:06# Disorder and confusion everywhere... #
0:08:06 > 0:08:08Is this from a Disney film?
0:08:08 > 0:08:10# No-one seems to care... # And next.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12# Ra-ra Rasputin
0:08:12 > 0:08:14- # Lover of the Russian Queen... # - Ten seconds.
0:08:14 > 0:08:18# There was a cat that really was gone... #
0:08:18 > 0:08:20BELL
0:08:20 > 0:08:22A bit of a guess. They're all about Russia.
0:08:22 > 0:08:25I'm afraid they're not all about Russia.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28- Possible bonus for you now, Rowers. - Are they all about monks.
0:08:28 > 0:08:31The connection is monks. They're not all about monks.
0:08:31 > 0:08:34The first one was sung by monks, you heard Angelus ad Pastores.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37Blue Monk was the second piece, by Thelonious Monk.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40Third one, not from a Disney film, it was The Monk TV series.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42That was a theme from Randy Newman.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45And the last one about Rasputin, the mad monk. Monks is the connection,
0:08:45 > 0:08:48so that was a bonus for the Rowers
0:08:48 > 0:08:52and you will now get the Eye Of Horus, the last remaining question.
0:08:52 > 0:08:53First clue coming up now.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57THEY CONFER
0:08:59 > 0:09:00Next, please.
0:09:05 > 0:09:06Is it a play on the letters in it?
0:09:10 > 0:09:12Hell's a place in Norway, isn't it?
0:09:15 > 0:09:16Next, please.
0:09:18 > 0:09:19Were. Werewolf?
0:09:23 > 0:09:25- You're under ten seconds now. - Next.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31Three seconds.
0:09:31 > 0:09:33I'm not sure on this one.
0:09:33 > 0:09:34Nope, you're out of time.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37See how nicely we follow the monks with whore and hell!
0:09:37 > 0:09:39- THEY LAUGH - Don't let things get too holy.
0:09:39 > 0:09:42Possible bonus for you now, Linguists.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44No.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46Now, this a very nasty, very Only Connect-type question.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48It's about the words -
0:09:48 > 0:09:50whore, hell, were and cant.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52If you insert apostrophes into them,
0:09:52 > 0:09:55they turn into completely different words.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58Who're, he'll, we're, can't.
0:09:58 > 0:10:00The putting in of that little piece of punctuation
0:10:00 > 0:10:03changes the pronunciation and the meaning.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06So, at the end of round one,
0:10:06 > 0:10:08the Linguists have got one point,
0:10:08 > 0:10:10but the Rowers are ahead with three points.
0:10:12 > 0:10:16Round two is all about sequences. This time, work out the connection,
0:10:16 > 0:10:19but then tell me what would be the fourth clue in a sequence.
0:10:19 > 0:10:22Linguists, you're first to choose.
0:10:22 > 0:10:23Eye Of Horus, please.
0:10:23 > 0:10:24OK, the Eye Of Horus.
0:10:24 > 0:10:29First in a sequence coming up. What will be forth? Starting now.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32What is that? It sounds Japanese.
0:10:32 > 0:10:36I'm not sure if it's a name or something. Next.
0:10:36 > 0:10:38Yoshihito.
0:10:38 > 0:10:39Again, no idea.
0:10:39 > 0:10:43Definitely Japanese, but not sure if these are Japanese islands, or...
0:10:43 > 0:10:44people, emperors...
0:10:44 > 0:10:46Next.
0:10:47 > 0:10:48Hirohito.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53No, I don't know.
0:10:53 > 0:10:57- The current emperor of Japan? - I can't remember his name.
0:10:57 > 0:10:58Ten seconds.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01THEY CONFER
0:11:04 > 0:11:06- Three seconds. Buzz in if you want to guess.- No.
0:11:08 > 0:11:09No, the time is up.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11Rowers, do you want to have a go?
0:11:11 > 0:11:12Is it Akihito?
0:11:12 > 0:11:13Yes, it is Akihito.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16Did you know what the connection was?
0:11:16 > 0:11:18- They're Japanese emperors. - They are the personal names
0:11:18 > 0:11:21of Japanese emperors going forwards,
0:11:21 > 0:11:23and Akihito would be the last one.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25Well done, Rowers, for the bonus point.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28- You may now choose your own question.- Lion, please.
0:11:28 > 0:11:33OK, what's the fourth in this sequence? First one coming up now.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36Fourth, Yangtze. Is it going to be rivers?
0:11:36 > 0:11:40The length river, or...
0:11:40 > 0:11:44THEY CONFER
0:11:44 > 0:11:45Is it by length, or by...
0:11:45 > 0:11:47Shall we get the next one?
0:11:47 > 0:11:50Next, please.
0:11:50 > 0:11:51Yeah.
0:11:51 > 0:11:53THEY CONFER
0:11:53 > 0:11:55Do you want to see one more?
0:11:55 > 0:11:57Next, please.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59Oh.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03- Yangtze...- Ten seconds.
0:12:04 > 0:12:06Or by capacity.
0:12:06 > 0:12:08Number of coasts?
0:12:09 > 0:12:11Three seconds.
0:12:11 > 0:12:13- First - Nile.- I'm afraid not.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15And ROWERS!
0:12:15 > 0:12:17You guessed a river incorrectly.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19Possible bonus for you, Linguists.
0:12:19 > 0:12:20- First - Amazon?- You know what?
0:12:20 > 0:12:22In a quiz, if it's not Nile
0:12:22 > 0:12:24it's usually Amazon.
0:12:24 > 0:12:27Amazon is the correct answer. Do you know why?
0:12:27 > 0:12:29Possibly longest by length,
0:12:29 > 0:12:31but I don't understand why Nile isn't on there.
0:12:31 > 0:12:34- I think there's a bit of a catch. - Well, there is a catch.
0:12:34 > 0:12:35It's measured by size,
0:12:35 > 0:12:37but not by length.
0:12:37 > 0:12:39- It's amount of water. - It's amount of water.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42By discharge - the volume of water
0:12:42 > 0:12:44emptied into the sea, and the first would be Amazon.
0:12:44 > 0:12:48- Fancy tackling that in a rowing boat - the Amazon?- Oh, all of it, yeah!
0:12:48 > 0:12:51- All four of those? - We could do a couple of widths.
0:12:51 > 0:12:54It would be fun, the bit where you're discharged into the sea
0:12:54 > 0:12:57with the greatest volume of water in the world. Worth a try.
0:12:57 > 0:13:00That was a bonus point for the Linguists
0:13:00 > 0:13:02- and you may now pick a question. - Twisted flax.
0:13:02 > 0:13:05First in a sequence coming up. What's fourth?
0:13:05 > 0:13:06Time starts now.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09Well...
0:13:09 > 0:13:11Next.
0:13:11 > 0:13:12H.
0:13:15 > 0:13:17It's not atoms or something? The periodic table.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19I mean, A...
0:13:19 > 0:13:22- It's not Scrabble?- Oh, Scrabble! That's quite nice.
0:13:22 > 0:13:26We're going to have to say next, though, aren't we? Next.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28I.
0:13:28 > 0:13:31Oh, it's symmetry! Look.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34They're all symmetrical, vertically symmetrical.
0:13:34 > 0:13:35So M... M?
0:13:35 > 0:13:36Ten seconds.
0:13:36 > 0:13:37BELL
0:13:37 > 0:13:41- M.- It is M. And the reason?
0:13:41 > 0:13:44They're going in order. They're letters that are symmetrical,
0:13:44 > 0:13:46around a vertical axis.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48Right. Letters with vertical symmetry
0:13:48 > 0:13:52going forward through the alphabet. Next is M. Well done.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54- And back to the Rowers. - Two Reeds, please.- OK.
0:13:54 > 0:13:56Another watery question for you.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59First in a sequence, coming up now.
0:13:59 > 0:14:01Proportion...
0:14:03 > 0:14:06- We need another one.- Next, please.
0:14:10 > 0:14:12Is it going to be a word one?
0:14:12 > 0:14:15Proportion's got two words in it. Therefore's got four in it.
0:14:15 > 0:14:18- Pro-portion.- Before...
0:14:19 > 0:14:21The fourth in the sequence, isn't it? So...
0:14:21 > 0:14:23Next, please.
0:14:24 > 0:14:26Ratio.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28THEY CONFER
0:14:28 > 0:14:30Ten seconds.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32THEY CONFER
0:14:32 > 0:14:33BELL
0:14:33 > 0:14:34Um, Jason.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37It's decimal point.
0:14:37 > 0:14:40A decimal point is an acceptable answer. Well done. Why is that?
0:14:40 > 0:14:43They are in descending order of the number of dots.
0:14:43 > 0:14:44- They're mathematical symbols. - Right.
0:14:44 > 0:14:48Mathematical symbols. Proportion is represented by four dots
0:14:48 > 0:14:49in a square.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51Therefore - three in a triangle.
0:14:51 > 0:14:52Ratio - a colon, of course, two dots.
0:14:52 > 0:14:56I wanted something with one dot as a mathematical symbol. Decimal point.
0:14:56 > 0:15:00Well done. Linguists, you've got two questions left to choose from.
0:15:00 > 0:15:02- Water, please.- OK.
0:15:02 > 0:15:05First in a sequence coming up. What's fourth?
0:15:05 > 0:15:06Time starts now.
0:15:06 > 0:15:08Suggestion.
0:15:08 > 0:15:09Well...
0:15:09 > 0:15:10OK.
0:15:10 > 0:15:11Next.
0:15:12 > 0:15:14Psychology.
0:15:14 > 0:15:18- That's a subject.- Titles of books? - That's what I thought.
0:15:18 > 0:15:20The Power Of Suggestion?
0:15:20 > 0:15:21Um...
0:15:21 > 0:15:24Next.
0:15:24 > 0:15:25Misdirection.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27Maybe they're...
0:15:27 > 0:15:29Go on.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31I don't know.
0:15:31 > 0:15:32Psychology's a subject,
0:15:32 > 0:15:35but suggestion and misdirection aren't.
0:15:35 > 0:15:37Ten seconds.
0:15:37 > 0:15:41- That game where you give somebody the wrong idea?- Oh, yes.- So...
0:15:41 > 0:15:42- Trick?- Three seconds.
0:15:42 > 0:15:43BELL
0:15:43 > 0:15:44Trick.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47Not the answer, I'm afraid. A possible bonus for the Rowers.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49Sleight of hand?
0:15:49 > 0:15:50That's not it either.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52You're both in the right universe
0:15:52 > 0:15:54but I need something very precise,
0:15:54 > 0:15:55which is showmanship.
0:15:55 > 0:15:58I think you're thinking about magic.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00These are specifically Derren Brown's techniques.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02Or, as he describes them,
0:16:02 > 0:16:04"magic we don't see", that's the the first one.
0:16:04 > 0:16:07According to Derren Brown, what comes next for him -
0:16:07 > 0:16:09suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship.
0:16:09 > 0:16:12Some would say it's all showmanship, obviously.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14But not me, I wouldn't, no, no,
0:16:14 > 0:16:17I'm sure it's all true, and it's mostly magic.
0:16:17 > 0:16:20Rowers, only one question remaining, the Horned Viper.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23It's going to slither over into your corner. These will be picture clues.
0:16:23 > 0:16:26What would you expect to see in the fourth picture?
0:16:26 > 0:16:28First clue coming up, now.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32A chef sign? Could be anything.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34Um, next, please.
0:16:35 > 0:16:37A hold-up?
0:16:37 > 0:16:39Um, he's a robber.
0:16:39 > 0:16:40Chef...
0:16:40 > 0:16:45Butcher, baker, baker, thief, baker, robber?
0:16:45 > 0:16:46Baker and thief.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48Yeah, but that's not...
0:16:48 > 0:16:51Yeah, then, thief is the last one. Next, please.
0:16:51 > 0:16:52- Cook...- Oh, yes! The Cook,
0:16:52 > 0:16:54The Thief, His Wife and...
0:16:54 > 0:16:55BELL
0:16:55 > 0:16:57Um, Her Lover,
0:16:57 > 0:17:02ie, some suitable-for-primetime- viewing depiction of her lover.
0:17:02 > 0:17:05You'll be relieved to hear we've kept it clean!
0:17:05 > 0:17:08It is The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover.
0:17:08 > 0:17:11It's so clean, it's actually a picture of the wife
0:17:11 > 0:17:12with a fellow with a briefcase.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15That's how polite it is. Absolutely right, though.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17That's how you identify lovers.
0:17:17 > 0:17:21Quite interesting to marry a thief, then take a businessman as a lover.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24Yes, it's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover,
0:17:24 > 0:17:25the Peter Greenaway film.
0:17:25 > 0:17:28So very well done. At the end of round two, then,
0:17:28 > 0:17:30the Linguists have got four points,
0:17:30 > 0:17:32but the Rowers are ahead with eight.
0:17:34 > 0:17:36Time for round three, the Connecting Wall,
0:17:36 > 0:17:38the fiendish grid with 16 clues on it
0:17:38 > 0:17:42that the teams have to sort into four connected groups of four.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45Rowers, it's your turn to go first and your first choice
0:17:45 > 0:17:46is Lion or Water.
0:17:46 > 0:17:48Lion, please.
0:17:48 > 0:17:51OK, the Lion wall, beware the red herrings.
0:17:51 > 0:17:55You've got two and a half minutes to solve it, starting now.
0:17:57 > 0:18:01- 64, 127...- Danny Boyle films.
0:18:01 > 0:18:03The Beach is a Danny Boyle film.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05Sunshine is a Danny Boyle film,
0:18:05 > 0:18:07Millions, I think, is a Danny Boyle film?
0:18:07 > 0:18:08Well done. Well done.
0:18:08 > 0:18:10We've got world, galaxy...
0:18:10 > 0:18:13um...soliflore?
0:18:14 > 0:18:18Picasso is a make of car, as is Galaxy. Alhambra.
0:18:18 > 0:18:20As is a Scenic, they're all Renaults.
0:18:20 > 0:18:24They're all SUVs, aren't they, they're all people movers and stuff.
0:18:24 > 0:18:25OK, Bros is a band.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28- Not with a dot, though. - That's true.
0:18:28 > 0:18:30Is it Warner? Disney?
0:18:30 > 0:18:34No. Fixative is used in...
0:18:34 > 0:18:38photography and such, isn't it? Absolute zero?
0:18:38 > 0:18:40Er...64...
0:18:40 > 0:18:44Remember, three strikes and you're out now.
0:18:44 > 0:18:4764 is eight squared, the number of a chessboard.
0:18:47 > 0:18:51- Er, it's...- 64...
0:18:51 > 0:18:52I don't know - here we go.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57I've got, I can't even pair any of them, let alone make a four.
0:18:57 > 0:18:59Note...perfect?
0:18:59 > 0:19:00You've used a minute.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02Note, is it note perfect?
0:19:02 > 0:19:05- Erm...- This is...
0:19:05 > 0:19:07New world? New, um...
0:19:10 > 0:19:13- I can only think of the Beatles song.- When I'm 64.
0:19:13 > 0:19:16Absolute...vodka? Absolute zero.
0:19:16 > 0:19:17Warner Bros?
0:19:17 > 0:19:19Land grab?
0:19:19 > 0:19:22I feel like fixative and soliflore because that sounds light-based,
0:19:22 > 0:19:25and if fixative is camera-based as well...
0:19:25 > 0:19:29That could be, 64 could be something along those lines.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32- And then absolute, it'd be absolute, I think.- Absolute and 64.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34What's the rest of it going to be?
0:19:34 > 0:19:35It's not that anyway.
0:19:35 > 0:19:37- So...- Two more attempts.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39Well, New World...
0:19:39 > 0:19:43Land of something, World of...
0:19:43 > 0:19:45You have 40 seconds left.
0:19:45 > 0:19:48- Absolute Beginners... - Musical note, Musical World?
0:19:51 > 0:19:54This is... I can't even pair most of these.
0:19:54 > 0:19:57- Something brothers. - Brothers Karamazov? No. The, the...
0:19:57 > 0:19:59Warner Brothers? Is there a...
0:19:59 > 0:20:03Disneyland, Disney World, Disney Brothers?
0:20:03 > 0:20:05No, is it Disney Brothers? It's not Disney Brothers.
0:20:05 > 0:20:09No. Yeah, Disneyland, Disney World, but, uh, yeah.
0:20:09 > 0:20:11Absolute zero...
0:20:11 > 0:20:13About 10 seconds for your last attempt.
0:20:13 > 0:20:17- End of the world.- Land's End. World's end.
0:20:17 > 0:20:20Absolute end. And endnote.
0:20:20 > 0:20:21BUZZER
0:20:21 > 0:20:24I am afraid that's it. The grid is frozen.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27You got two groups. That's two points immediately.
0:20:27 > 0:20:33What about the connection? Sunshine, Millions, 127 Hours, The Beach.
0:20:33 > 0:20:37- Films. Danny Boyle films. - Absolutely right.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40Next one. Galaxy, Scenic, Picasso, Alhambra.
0:20:40 > 0:20:46Cars. Or specifically, large cars, family cars. People carriers.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48I'll take it. MPVs, I believe they're called.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50Multipurpose vehicles.
0:20:50 > 0:20:52That is correct, so that's the two bonus points.
0:20:52 > 0:20:56You can get points for connections in the groups you didn't find.
0:20:56 > 0:20:58Let's resolve the wall.
0:20:58 > 0:20:59World. 64. Land. Bros.
0:21:02 > 0:21:03I still don't have much of a clue.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05It's the kind of thing that if you don't know, you don't know.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07Disney World? Or...
0:21:07 > 0:21:11All boy bands. Yeah, no.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13It is unlucky if it's outside your radar.
0:21:13 > 0:21:16They are Super Mario games.
0:21:16 > 0:21:17- Oh!- Do you know what?
0:21:17 > 0:21:21Healthy lads like yourself, out rowing in all weathers -
0:21:21 > 0:21:24what do you want with computer games? Last group.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27Note. Absolute. Fixative. Soliflore.
0:21:27 > 0:21:30I just thought of some kind of adhesive. But that's all I had.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33- Type of glues?- No, I'm afraid not.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35They are terms used in perfumery.
0:21:35 > 0:21:39In perfume-making. Tricky couple of last categories there.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41But you found two groups and you got two points
0:21:41 > 0:21:43for the connections, a total of four.
0:21:43 > 0:21:46Time to bring back the Linguists and see what they can do with
0:21:46 > 0:21:48the Connecting Wall. It's a completely new wall.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51Linguists, you must sort it into four connected groups of four.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54It's going to be the Water wall, because the Lion's gone already.
0:21:54 > 0:21:58You've got two and a half minutes, starting now.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02OK, Jam Tarts you can obviously eat. Sheridan is a playwright.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05- We've got Wilde as well.- Shaw. - And Beckett.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07Oh, look, there's...
0:22:07 > 0:22:10Some more.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13- Obviously plants.- Yeah. There's Murphy's law.
0:22:13 > 0:22:17- Yeah.- Yeah. Violet and daisy. Bairns is children. It's Scottish.
0:22:17 > 0:22:19- Shall we try the four...?- Yeah.
0:22:19 > 0:22:20The plants?
0:22:20 > 0:22:23Daisy? Where's the other one?
0:22:23 > 0:22:25Hyacinth. No.
0:22:25 > 0:22:27What's Caley Thistle? Do you think they're all...?
0:22:27 > 0:22:28Could be, yeah.
0:22:30 > 0:22:33- Or Rose of England. Caley Thistle could be for Scottish.- Yes.
0:22:33 > 0:22:35Welsh flag?
0:22:35 > 0:22:38Radar is a palindrome. Nothing else is.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40And it's also short for something.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42- It's an acronym.- Yeah.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44Jags could be...
0:22:46 > 0:22:49Jags is also a nickname of a politician.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52Yeah, Two Jags. Tommy Sheridan is...
0:22:52 > 0:22:56I wish I could get the playwrights. We've got Beckett, Wilde, Shaw...
0:22:56 > 0:23:00- Sheridan...- Shall we try some more? - We tried that.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02Murphy's also plausible.
0:23:02 > 0:23:05A plausible surname.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07- Oh!- Excellent.
0:23:07 > 0:23:09Thumb... Tom Thumb?
0:23:09 > 0:23:11- Tom Thumb.- Tommy Sheridan, Tom Thumb.
0:23:11 > 0:23:16- Ooh, excellent.- Any more Toms? Not sure.
0:23:16 > 0:23:20- Hyacinth Bucket was a character... - Rose bouquet?- Yeah, OK.
0:23:20 > 0:23:23But we are just going down flowers again.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28- Is Caley Thistle perhaps like a dance?- Yes, could be.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30Ceilidh is a dance, but it's spelt differently to that.
0:23:30 > 0:23:35- Weather man, weather... - Jam Tarts.- Is it rhyming slang?
0:23:35 > 0:23:39- Yeah... - Yeah, Jam Tarts, Caley Thistle...
0:23:39 > 0:23:41Er...
0:23:41 > 0:23:45- Hyacinth doesn't rhyme with anything.- OK.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48Er...
0:23:48 > 0:23:50Tom Thumb... Er... Tom Thumb...
0:23:50 > 0:23:53- Yeah.- Silent letter at the end.
0:23:53 > 0:23:55Oh, that's interesting. Silent letter, yeah.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58- I don't think so, though.- No.
0:23:58 > 0:24:01- Daisy chain.- Excellent.
0:24:01 > 0:24:05You have a weather... Weather forecast. Weather report.
0:24:05 > 0:24:07What's jags, why's it plural...? Is that short for...?
0:24:07 > 0:24:10Unless it's... It's not an anagram of anything.
0:24:18 > 0:24:20- 10 seconds now. - Shall we just...?- Yeah.
0:24:27 > 0:24:29- BUZZER - That's it. Your time is up.
0:24:29 > 0:24:31But you found a group, so that's a point.
0:24:31 > 0:24:35You get a bonus for the connection - Wilde, Beckett, Murphy, Shaw.
0:24:35 > 0:24:40- They are all playwrights.- They are, specifically Irish playwrights.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43And you can get more points for the connection in the other groups.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45Let's resolve the wall.
0:24:45 > 0:24:49Hyacinth, Sheridan, Daisy, Violet.
0:24:49 > 0:24:54- They are all characters from the TV show.- Keeping Up Appearances.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57- Yes, they are. Well done. You spotted Hyacinth.- Yes.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00I wouldn't have got that category myself in 15 years.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02Characters in Keeping Up Appearances.
0:25:02 > 0:25:06Next one. Radar, rose, thumb, weather.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14- I can't give you too long.- No.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16This is one of those tricky language ones.
0:25:16 > 0:25:19They are all things you can be under.
0:25:19 > 0:25:21Under the radar.
0:25:21 > 0:25:25Under the rose. Under the thumb. Under the weather. Under the rose
0:25:25 > 0:25:28is the more obscure one - it means in confidence, secret.
0:25:28 > 0:25:30And the last one.
0:25:30 > 0:25:35Caley Thistle, Jam Tarts, Jags and Bairns...
0:25:35 > 0:25:38- Rhyming slang?- I'm afraid not. This is another one of those ones,
0:25:38 > 0:25:42if you don't know, you don't know. And I wouldn't either.
0:25:42 > 0:25:44They are the nicknames for Scottish football clubs.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46You are evidently not familiar with
0:25:46 > 0:25:49Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52And the others - Partick Thistle, Falkirk and Heart Of Midlothian.
0:25:52 > 0:25:54A lovely football question for us all to enjoy.
0:25:54 > 0:25:59But you found one group and you got two more connections.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01That's a total of three.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04Let's see what that does to the scores going into round four.
0:26:10 > 0:26:13Too easy? You thought the connecting walls were too easy?
0:26:13 > 0:26:15Maybe you'd like to make your own.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17You can do that now on the website
0:26:17 > 0:26:20as well as playing walls if you so choose.
0:26:20 > 0:26:22We are going to play round four -
0:26:22 > 0:26:23the missing vowels round.
0:26:23 > 0:26:27The vowels have been removed from well-known names, phrases or sayings
0:26:27 > 0:26:28and the consonants squidged up.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31You have to tell me what those disguised words are.
0:26:31 > 0:26:34Fingers on buzzers, teams.
0:26:34 > 0:26:38The first category are all TV spin-offs.
0:26:45 > 0:26:46Too long. This is the spin-off
0:26:46 > 0:26:47from Doctor Who -
0:26:47 > 0:26:48The Sarah Jane Adventures.
0:26:48 > 0:26:50Next clue.
0:26:50 > 0:26:51BELL
0:26:51 > 0:26:53- Joey.- From Friends. Correct.
0:26:57 > 0:26:59Don't know this one?
0:26:59 > 0:27:01It's Mr Don And Mr George,
0:27:01 > 0:27:02a spin-off from Absolutely.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04Next clue.
0:27:05 > 0:27:06BELL
0:27:06 > 0:27:07The Green Green Grass?
0:27:07 > 0:27:09Correct. From Only Fools And Horses.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11Next category.
0:27:13 > 0:27:14BELL
0:27:14 > 0:27:16- Latin America.- You're right.
0:27:18 > 0:27:20BELL
0:27:20 > 0:27:22- Indian Subcontinent?- Yes, it is.
0:27:24 > 0:27:25BONG
0:27:25 > 0:27:27- Australasia.- Yes, it is.
0:27:29 > 0:27:30BELL
0:27:30 > 0:27:31- Basque Country?- Correct.
0:27:31 > 0:27:33Next category.
0:27:36 > 0:27:37BELL
0:27:37 > 0:27:39- Running shoe.- Yes.
0:27:44 > 0:27:45BONG
0:27:45 > 0:27:47- Newspaper story?- Yes, it is.
0:27:50 > 0:27:51BELL
0:27:51 > 0:27:53- Alcoholic drink. - I will, thank you very much.
0:27:54 > 0:27:55BONG
0:27:55 > 0:27:57- Volleyball.- Yes, it is.
0:27:57 > 0:27:58Next category.
0:28:00 > 0:28:01BONG
0:28:01 > 0:28:03- Tackle box.- Correct.
0:28:05 > 0:28:06END-OF-ROUND JINGLE
0:28:08 > 0:28:11That next clue was artificial fly.
0:28:11 > 0:28:12But that's it.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14The fat lady is singing.
0:28:14 > 0:28:17Well, I'm not actually singing, but I will give the final scores.
0:28:17 > 0:28:20After a very hot round four, the Linguists improved to 14 points,
0:28:20 > 0:28:25but the Rowers have pipped it with 16.
0:28:25 > 0:28:28Well done, Rowers. You will be coming back for a quarter-final.
0:28:28 > 0:28:32Sadly, we have to say goodbye to you Linguists. You've been a great team.
0:28:32 > 0:28:36The good news for everyone is that we can all now go home.
0:28:36 > 0:28:37I say that, I don't have a home.
0:28:37 > 0:28:41When the contestants leave and you switch off, I just sit here.
0:28:43 > 0:28:45Waiting.
0:28:45 > 0:28:46Goodbye.
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