0:00:21 > 0:00:23Hello.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Do you ever think that Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
0:00:26 > 0:00:28simply hasn't been adapted,
0:00:28 > 0:00:31televised, filmed and staged enough times in different forms?
0:00:31 > 0:00:33Well, I've got good news for you.
0:00:33 > 0:00:36Tonight, on A Connectmas Carol,
0:00:36 > 0:00:38three festive spirits will go up against
0:00:38 > 0:00:40another three festive spirits.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43But enough about what I'm drinking. As the show unfolds,
0:00:43 > 0:00:45I will, like Ebenezer Scrooge,
0:00:45 > 0:00:49be waking up sporadically during a night of horrible surprises.
0:00:49 > 0:00:53We've got six semifinalists here, shivering at the gruesome prospect
0:00:53 > 0:00:55of questions yet to come.
0:00:55 > 0:00:56They are...
0:00:56 > 0:01:00on my right, Margaret Gabica, an accomplished linguist who was
0:01:00 > 0:01:03once falsely arrested at gunpoint in France.
0:01:03 > 0:01:07Chris Hern, an enthusiastic globetrotter, who is afraid of
0:01:07 > 0:01:09theme park rides and was once trapped on a road
0:01:09 > 0:01:13by a herd of buffaloes owned by Kevin Costner.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16And their captain, Stuart Hern,
0:01:16 > 0:01:18a keen hiker, who has a black belt in judo
0:01:18 > 0:01:22and used to work inside a shipping container in Morocco.
0:01:22 > 0:01:24They are keen students of God's own language,
0:01:24 > 0:01:26they are the Welsh Learners.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28So, Stuart, you've made the semifinals.
0:01:28 > 0:01:29How has your experience been so far?
0:01:29 > 0:01:32Well, I don't think any of us have slept for several weeks now.
0:01:32 > 0:01:36So, to be honest, reality in general is starting to slip away.
0:01:36 > 0:01:39So, it's about what we expected.
0:01:39 > 0:01:40Good luck tonight.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43You will be facing, on my left,
0:01:43 > 0:01:47Hamish Galloway, a keen marathon runner who has 30 differently sized
0:01:47 > 0:01:51and shaped Rubik cubes and got lost yesterday when he went for a run.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55Nick Latham, a lighting director who once pretended he could play
0:01:55 > 0:01:59the French horn in order to appear in a television commercial.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01And their captain, Davina Galloway,
0:02:01 > 0:02:04a Scrabble enthusiast who lived in Australia for five years
0:02:04 > 0:02:08and was proposed to by husband Hamish at Blackfriars Station
0:02:08 > 0:02:10because the train was late.
0:02:10 > 0:02:11United by family ties,
0:02:11 > 0:02:13they are the Relatives.
0:02:13 > 0:02:15Davina, you're in the semifinals!
0:02:15 > 0:02:18How's your team going to approach the game ahead?
0:02:18 > 0:02:22With trepidation, I think. Up against a good side.
0:02:22 > 0:02:26OK. Let's move on with our gruesome semifinal Round One.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29What is the connection between four apparently random clues?
0:02:29 > 0:02:30You won the toss, Relatives,
0:02:30 > 0:02:33but you've elected to put the Welsh Learners in first.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36So, please choose your Egyptian hieroglyph.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38Two Reeds, please. Two Reeds.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40That will be the first question of the semifinal.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42What is the connection between these clues?
0:02:42 > 0:02:43Here's the first.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47THEY CONFER
0:02:47 > 0:02:49Waterloo...
0:02:49 > 0:02:51That was Belgium, wasn't it? So...
0:02:51 > 0:02:53Yes... Rubbish.
0:02:53 > 0:02:54Next, please.
0:02:56 > 0:02:571993, Cambodia.
0:02:59 > 0:03:00Were you there?
0:03:00 > 0:03:02Not quite then, no.
0:03:02 > 0:03:03It's not when they became
0:03:03 > 0:03:05independent from...
0:03:06 > 0:03:08We'll have to go next. Next, please.
0:03:10 > 0:03:131975, Spain...
0:03:13 > 0:03:16They're not the liberation from...?
0:03:16 > 0:03:18Monarchy. Yeah.
0:03:20 > 0:03:21BELL
0:03:21 > 0:03:23They're all dates when
0:03:23 > 0:03:26these countries were returned to being monarchies.
0:03:26 > 0:03:27Correct.
0:03:27 > 0:03:28These are monarchy restorations.
0:03:28 > 0:03:30Last clue would have been 1660
0:03:30 > 0:03:32England, Scotland and Wales.
0:03:32 > 0:03:33Years when countries restored
0:03:33 > 0:03:35their monarchies after a period without one.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37Very well done. Two points
0:03:37 > 0:03:39for coming in after three clues.
0:03:39 > 0:03:40Relatives, your turn.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42Twisted Flax, please.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44Twisted Flax. What is the connection
0:03:44 > 0:03:46between these clues? Here's the first.
0:03:48 > 0:03:50Next, please.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55He didn't wear glasses, did he?
0:03:55 > 0:03:58No... No? Take next, then.
0:03:58 > 0:03:59Next, please.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07THEY CONFER
0:04:07 > 0:04:09Collect newts? I don't know...
0:04:09 > 0:04:11Collect newts?
0:04:11 > 0:04:13That's only one. Ken Livingstone.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15Next, please.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21Well, they were killed,
0:04:21 > 0:04:23but that's a... Three seconds.
0:04:24 > 0:04:26BELL
0:04:26 > 0:04:28They have strange pets.
0:04:29 > 0:04:30Amphibians.
0:04:30 > 0:04:32They do not all have strange
0:04:32 > 0:04:34amphibian pets, more's the pity.
0:04:34 > 0:04:35So there's a bonus
0:04:35 > 0:04:36chance for you, Welsh Learners.
0:04:36 > 0:04:38They were all replaced by Johnsons.
0:04:38 > 0:04:40They were all replaced by Johnsons.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42What can you tell me
0:04:42 > 0:04:43about these people?
0:04:43 > 0:04:44Er... Well, Kennedy was
0:04:44 > 0:04:46followed by Lyndon Baines Johnson,
0:04:46 > 0:04:49and Lincoln by Andrew Johnson,
0:04:49 > 0:04:51obviously Ken Livingstone by Boris.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54And I can never remember the name
0:04:54 > 0:04:56of the guy who replaced Bon Scott...
0:04:56 > 0:04:57Brian Johnson.
0:04:57 > 0:04:59Brian Johnson. And Dennis Taylor,
0:04:59 > 0:05:01no idea. Joe Johnson.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03Yes, very dapper dresser.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05Oh, so you're the snooker fan,
0:05:05 > 0:05:06are you, Margaret?
0:05:06 > 0:05:08Yes, dapper Joe Johnson,
0:05:08 > 0:05:09very well done.
0:05:09 > 0:05:10All succeeded by Johnsons.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13So you get the bonus point, and the chance to choose your own question.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15Eye of Horus, please.
0:05:15 > 0:05:16Eye of Horus.
0:05:16 > 0:05:17These are going to be picture clues.
0:05:17 > 0:05:18Something connects them all.
0:05:18 > 0:05:21What is it? Your time starts now.
0:05:23 > 0:05:25THEY CONFER
0:05:25 > 0:05:27Is that from Love Story?
0:05:29 > 0:05:31Next, please.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34David Tennant.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36THEY CONFER
0:05:38 > 0:05:40Tennant...
0:05:42 > 0:05:43Next, please.
0:05:46 > 0:05:47No idea.
0:05:47 > 0:05:49He's not a chef or something, is he?
0:05:49 > 0:05:51No... No?
0:05:51 > 0:05:52Next, please.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55Oh, is that Billy Twelvetrees?
0:05:59 > 0:06:00Three seconds.
0:06:00 > 0:06:01BELL
0:06:03 > 0:06:06They've all played Hamlet.
0:06:06 > 0:06:07Wow. That last production
0:06:07 > 0:06:09is something I would very much
0:06:09 > 0:06:11like to see. But they have not
0:06:11 > 0:06:12all played Hamlet.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14Relatives, a bonus chance for you.
0:06:14 > 0:06:15Er... Drinks?
0:06:15 > 0:06:17Like Ryan O'Neal, David Tennant...
0:06:17 > 0:06:19It's Ryan gin and tonic.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21It's not, it's Ryan O'Neal.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24And the third one is the journalist Martin Sixsmith.
0:06:24 > 0:06:25Do you start to see it?
0:06:25 > 0:06:27If you write out O'Neal you get
0:06:27 > 0:06:28one at the beginning.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31David TENnant. Martin SIXsmith.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33And Billy TWELVEtrees.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35Their names start with numbers.
0:06:35 > 0:06:36Does anybody know why
0:06:36 > 0:06:38Billy Twelvetrees was nicknamed 36
0:06:38 > 0:06:40when he was at Leicester?
0:06:40 > 0:06:41I can't remember the name
0:06:41 > 0:06:43but his coach was Irish,
0:06:43 > 0:06:45so he had said, for him
0:06:45 > 0:06:46twelve trees is 36.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49Exactly right. Very well done.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51But no points on that question.
0:06:51 > 0:06:53Relatives. Your chance to choose.
0:06:53 > 0:06:55Horned Viper, please.
0:06:55 > 0:06:56The Horned Viper.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59What is the connection between these clues?
0:06:59 > 0:07:00Here's the first.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03THEY LAUGH
0:07:03 > 0:07:04Next, please.
0:07:07 > 0:07:11THEY CONFER
0:07:11 > 0:07:13Well, New York doesn't have a... There's Albany, but...
0:07:13 > 0:07:14Next, please.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19Oh... Yeah, it's um...
0:07:19 > 0:07:23Because Sheffield and Philadelphia are the Blades.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25BELL
0:07:25 > 0:07:27Er... The football teams, like Sheffield and...
0:07:27 > 0:07:29Sports teams have the same nicknames.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31That's absolutely right.
0:07:31 > 0:07:32The sports teams share names.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34It's actually Rugby League and American football.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36London and Denver, do you know
0:07:36 > 0:07:37over there?
0:07:37 > 0:07:39Broncos. The Broncos.
0:07:39 > 0:07:40Huddersfield and New York,
0:07:40 > 0:07:41it's the Giants.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43Sheffield and Philadelphia, anyone?
0:07:43 > 0:07:45Eagles. Eagles.
0:07:45 > 0:07:46Widnes and Minnesota?
0:07:46 > 0:07:47Vikings. OK, that's it.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49So, while the ladies watch snooker
0:07:49 > 0:07:51you're on the old American football?
0:07:51 > 0:07:52Very well done, Relatives.
0:07:52 > 0:07:54And back to you Welsh Learners.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56You're on a 50-50 for the music question now, good luck.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58Lion. Lion.
0:07:59 > 0:08:00A happy silence.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02It's not the music question.
0:08:02 > 0:08:06I simply want to know, what's the connection between these clues?
0:08:06 > 0:08:07Here's the first.
0:08:11 > 0:08:12Next, please.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18My dame has got my shoe,
0:08:18 > 0:08:21there's a nursery rhyme starts like that...
0:08:21 > 0:08:23Next, please.
0:08:23 > 0:08:26Brian Whittle.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28Ah, ah, ah!
0:08:28 > 0:08:29He lost his shoe.
0:08:29 > 0:08:30They all lost their shoes.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32OK. Jason?
0:08:32 > 0:08:35I don't know Jason. He definitely did.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37OK, well, tell me about this later.
0:08:37 > 0:08:38BELL
0:08:38 > 0:08:40They've all lost shoes.
0:08:40 > 0:08:41Yes, they have.
0:08:41 > 0:08:43Last one would have been Cinderella.
0:08:43 > 0:08:45They've all lost footwear.
0:08:45 > 0:08:46You didn't know about the first one.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49Jason of Argonaut and Golden Fleece
0:08:49 > 0:08:51fame lost a sandal in a river.
0:08:51 > 0:08:52What about "My dame,"
0:08:52 > 0:08:53where's that from?
0:08:53 > 0:08:55It's "My dame has lost her shoe,"
0:08:55 > 0:08:56it's a nursery rhyme, poem.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58That's it, yes. It goes... Cock-a-doodle-doo
0:08:58 > 0:09:00My dame has lost her shoe
0:09:00 > 0:09:01My master's lost his fiddle stick
0:09:01 > 0:09:02And doesn't know what to do.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04But apparently there's debate
0:09:04 > 0:09:06whether it's fiddle stick or fiddling stick.
0:09:06 > 0:09:07Which is a debate I'd very much
0:09:07 > 0:09:10like to witness. I'd like to see it very seriously done,
0:09:10 > 0:09:12Dawkins on one side, Bragg on the other.
0:09:12 > 0:09:14Fiddle stick or fiddling stick. Let's debate.
0:09:14 > 0:09:15Very well done for the points,
0:09:15 > 0:09:17and bad news, Relatives, you know
0:09:17 > 0:09:19that the music question remains.
0:09:19 > 0:09:20It's nobody's favourite. BELL
0:09:20 > 0:09:24Ah, the music question. What is the connection between these clues?
0:09:24 > 0:09:25Here's the first.
0:09:25 > 0:09:31# O Rose, thou art sick... #
0:09:31 > 0:09:32Next, please.
0:09:32 > 0:09:34# Father, Father
0:09:34 > 0:09:36# Where are you going?
0:09:36 > 0:09:38# Ah, do not walk so fast
0:09:38 > 0:09:40# Speak, Father
0:09:40 > 0:09:41# Speak to your little boy
0:09:41 > 0:09:42# Or else I shall be lost. #
0:09:42 > 0:09:43Next, please.
0:09:43 > 0:09:47MUSIC PLAYS: "The Lamb" by John Tavener
0:09:49 > 0:09:50No, still nothing.
0:09:51 > 0:09:52Next, please.
0:09:52 > 0:09:55# And did those fields... #
0:09:55 > 0:09:57Is that Jerusalem?
0:09:57 > 0:09:59THEY CONFER
0:09:59 > 0:10:00Cities? Go with it?
0:10:00 > 0:10:03# Walk on England's... #
0:10:03 > 0:10:04BELL
0:10:04 > 0:10:07Erm...cities, towns.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09Not cities and towns, I'm afraid.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11Your bonus chance, Welsh Learners.
0:10:11 > 0:10:13William Blake.
0:10:13 > 0:10:14It is William Blake!
0:10:14 > 0:10:15You looked so confused,
0:10:15 > 0:10:17but that's absolutely the answer.
0:10:17 > 0:10:18Did you only recognise Jerusalem?
0:10:18 > 0:10:19Yes.
0:10:19 > 0:10:22You also heard Benjamin Britten's
0:10:22 > 0:10:24O Rose, Thou Art Sick,
0:10:24 > 0:10:25second one Jah Wobble's
0:10:25 > 0:10:27Songs Of Innocence,
0:10:27 > 0:10:29and the third one was The Lamb
0:10:29 > 0:10:31all adaptations Of William Blake.
0:10:31 > 0:10:32Very well done.
0:10:32 > 0:10:34Meaning at the end of Round One,
0:10:34 > 0:10:36the Relatives have two points,
0:10:36 > 0:10:38the Welsh Learners have six.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42Round Two is the sequences round, of course,
0:10:42 > 0:10:43what comes fourth in a sequence.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46The teams must work out the connections and then tell me
0:10:46 > 0:10:47what the last clue would be.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49Welsh Learners, you'll be first.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51Which hieroglyph would you like?
0:10:51 > 0:10:52Twisted Flax, please.
0:10:52 > 0:10:54The Twisted Flax. What would come
0:10:54 > 0:10:55fourth in this sequence?
0:10:55 > 0:10:56Here's the first.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02Well, it divides with nine...
0:11:02 > 0:11:03As far as powers go...
0:11:03 > 0:11:04Next, please.
0:11:10 > 0:11:12Have to go... Next, please.
0:11:15 > 0:11:17THEY CONFER
0:11:20 > 0:11:21Nah, there's obviously
0:11:21 > 0:11:23a sequence in there...
0:11:28 > 0:11:30I have no idea...
0:11:33 > 0:11:34Three seconds.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36BELL
0:11:36 > 0:11:3952 (4).
0:11:39 > 0:11:41The answer is not 52 (4).
0:11:41 > 0:11:43So, Relatives, a bonus chance
0:11:43 > 0:11:44for you, if you know the answer.
0:11:44 > 0:11:48Erm... We'll go for 44 (11).
0:11:48 > 0:11:50That's not it either. No.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53Now, these are Harshad numbers.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55Do you know what I mean by that? No.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57They're numbers where if you add up
0:11:57 > 0:11:59the digits, they're divisible
0:11:59 > 0:12:01by it, so 3 and 6, you add up and get 9,
0:12:01 > 0:12:04divide 36 by that, you get 4.
0:12:04 > 0:12:0640. 4 and 0 added up makes 4,
0:12:06 > 0:12:074 divided by that you get 10.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10Next in the sequence would be 45 (5).
0:12:10 > 0:12:12The next time you get a number
0:12:12 > 0:12:16which is divisible by the sum of its own digits is 45, and if you divide
0:12:16 > 0:12:19it by the sum of 5 and 4, you get 5.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21After that, you'll be delighted to know that Harshad is
0:12:21 > 0:12:23a Sanskrit word meaning "joy giver."
0:12:23 > 0:12:26What a joyful question that was.
0:12:26 > 0:12:29OK, Relatives, your turn for a Round Two question.
0:12:29 > 0:12:30Eye of Horus, please.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32Eye of Horus.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34What is the fourth in this sequence?
0:12:34 > 0:12:35Here's the first.
0:12:37 > 0:12:38Elementary charge...
0:12:38 > 0:12:40Well, it's to do with physics...
0:12:40 > 0:12:41Next, please.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46They are the major
0:12:46 > 0:12:49constants in the universe...
0:12:49 > 0:12:51I think, but what... Are we going to go next?
0:12:51 > 0:12:52Next, please.
0:12:54 > 0:12:57Well, that's the one that I might
0:12:57 > 0:13:00have gone for fourth. So, erm...
0:13:00 > 0:13:02E, F, G what comes after G?
0:13:02 > 0:13:04H...
0:13:07 > 0:13:08It could be
0:13:08 > 0:13:10but is that Planck's constant?
0:13:12 > 0:13:13Three seconds.
0:13:13 > 0:13:14BELL
0:13:14 > 0:13:16We'll go for Planck's constant.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18The answer is Planck's constant.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20And that is because, I think
0:13:20 > 0:13:21you were saying, it's E, F and G.
0:13:21 > 0:13:22It is alphabetical.
0:13:22 > 0:13:25But the constant, the fundamental constant,
0:13:25 > 0:13:27indicated by an H is Planck's constant.
0:13:27 > 0:13:30Do you know what that is, Planck's constant?
0:13:30 > 0:13:31It is something to do with
0:13:31 > 0:13:33some very small unit of length,
0:13:33 > 0:13:35the Planck length is something very, very small,
0:13:35 > 0:13:38but what the constant is I'm...
0:13:38 > 0:13:40It's to do with the probability
0:13:40 > 0:13:42of finding a quantum particle in a different location
0:13:42 > 0:13:45at a certain amount of weight, within a certain time,
0:13:45 > 0:13:47according to Brian Cox's book,
0:13:47 > 0:13:49which I was reading last night.
0:13:49 > 0:13:50Or, to put it another way,
0:13:50 > 0:13:51the energy of a photon
0:13:51 > 0:13:54related to the frequency of its associated electromagnetic wave!
0:13:54 > 0:13:56Of course! Simple as that.
0:13:56 > 0:13:57They will be laughing at home as
0:13:57 > 0:13:59they recite the words along with me.
0:13:59 > 0:14:01Very well done. Back to you,
0:14:01 > 0:14:02Welsh Learners, for a choice.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05Lion, please. Lion. What would be the fourth in the sequence?
0:14:05 > 0:14:06Here's the first.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11OK, capitals but er...
0:14:12 > 0:14:14Next, please.
0:14:15 > 0:14:19Are the countries going east to west?
0:14:19 > 0:14:21No, it's not in alphabetical order.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23Capital cities, so you want
0:14:23 > 0:14:25the capital cities in alphabetical order...
0:14:25 > 0:14:27Yeah... Erm, should we go next?
0:14:27 > 0:14:28Next, please.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32OK, maybe not. Are they capitals
0:14:32 > 0:14:33of earthquakes, maybe?
0:14:35 > 0:14:37Capital cities hit by earthquakes?
0:14:37 > 0:14:39Could be...
0:14:39 > 0:14:40Yeah, but what's it going to be?
0:14:40 > 0:14:42It's not a connection.
0:14:42 > 0:14:43Five seconds.
0:14:45 > 0:14:47BELL
0:14:47 > 0:14:49USA = San Francisco.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51Not the answer, I'm afraid.
0:14:51 > 0:14:52So, Relatives, you've got
0:14:52 > 0:14:54the chance for a bonus point.
0:14:54 > 0:14:56Er... The capital cities were...
0:14:56 > 0:14:58No, you've got to get the fourth.
0:14:58 > 0:15:00Oh, right, sorry. I don't know...
0:15:00 > 0:15:01I don't think you know it.
0:15:01 > 0:15:03No, we don't know.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05I wanted to hear Peru = Lima.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07And I'll tell you why.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09It is to do with the word lengths.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11These are countries where
0:15:11 > 0:15:15the capital city has the same number of letters as the country name.
0:15:15 > 0:15:18You'll see there's seven letters in Algeria and Algiers,
0:15:18 > 0:15:20six letters in Greece and in Athens,
0:15:20 > 0:15:21five letters in Japan and Tokyo,
0:15:21 > 0:15:23so a country where there are four
0:15:23 > 0:15:25letters in the country name and the capital.
0:15:25 > 0:15:29Peru = Lima is what I wanted to know. Relatives, your turn.
0:15:29 > 0:15:30Two Reeds, please.
0:15:30 > 0:15:32Two Reeds.
0:15:32 > 0:15:33These are going to be picture clues.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36What would you expect to see in the fourth picture?
0:15:36 > 0:15:37Here's the first.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41Biceps, triceps...
0:15:41 > 0:15:43Next, please.
0:15:43 > 0:15:44Liquid...
0:15:45 > 0:15:48Sternum, isn't it?
0:15:48 > 0:15:49Is it spine?
0:15:49 > 0:15:51Next, please.
0:15:53 > 0:15:57That's a Red Admiral. Butterfly...
0:15:57 > 0:15:58Oh!
0:15:59 > 0:16:01Backstroke, breast stroke,
0:16:01 > 0:16:03butterfly, front crawl.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05BELL
0:16:05 > 0:16:06A baby crawling?
0:16:06 > 0:16:07I'll take a baby crawling,
0:16:07 > 0:16:10because I know you're thinking of the front crawl.
0:16:10 > 0:16:11These are swimming strokes
0:16:11 > 0:16:13in a medley relay, and after the
0:16:13 > 0:16:14backstroke, breast stroke and
0:16:14 > 0:16:16butterfly, it's actually freestyle,
0:16:16 > 0:16:19but everybody does front crawl.
0:16:19 > 0:16:20So crawl or freestyle
0:16:20 > 0:16:23an acceptable answer. Very well done.
0:16:23 > 0:16:25OK, Welsh Learners.
0:16:25 > 0:16:26Horned Viper, please.
0:16:26 > 0:16:27Horned Viper. What would be
0:16:27 > 0:16:29the fourth in this sequence?
0:16:29 > 0:16:30Here's the first.
0:16:33 > 0:16:35THEY CONFER
0:16:41 > 0:16:42Go for the second so we can see
0:16:42 > 0:16:43what it is. Next, please.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48I don't know what they're called...
0:16:48 > 0:16:50Is it Hajj? For the pilgrimage?
0:16:50 > 0:16:52We're not going to get any better,
0:16:52 > 0:16:54are we? So fourth, fifth equals
0:16:54 > 0:16:55fifth Hajj.
0:16:57 > 0:16:59BELL
0:16:59 > 0:17:005th: Hajj
0:17:00 > 0:17:02Is the correct answer.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04These are the pillars of Islam,
0:17:04 > 0:17:06of Sunni Islam, as listed
0:17:06 > 0:17:08in the Hadith, the second, third and
0:17:08 > 0:17:10fourth pillars and the fifth would
0:17:10 > 0:17:12be Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca.
0:17:12 > 0:17:13Well done.
0:17:13 > 0:17:15One question left for you, then,
0:17:15 > 0:17:16Relatives. Water.
0:17:16 > 0:17:18What is the fourth in this sequence?
0:17:18 > 0:17:19Here's the first.
0:17:24 > 0:17:25Next, please.
0:17:27 > 0:17:29THEY CONFER
0:17:31 > 0:17:32Take the next one. Next, please.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40It's what they died of, but...
0:17:40 > 0:17:41But I don't know what
0:17:41 > 0:17:43the connections are between the people.
0:17:49 > 0:17:51Have you got anything?
0:17:51 > 0:17:53No, the only thing I can guess is...
0:17:55 > 0:17:56Three seconds.
0:17:56 > 0:17:58BELL
0:17:58 > 0:18:00Pandora and hope.
0:18:00 > 0:18:02Not the answer, I'm afraid,
0:18:02 > 0:18:04so, Welsh Learners, a bonus chance for you.
0:18:04 > 0:18:06Michael Spear.
0:18:06 > 0:18:08You're thinking of Billy Twelvetrees' production
0:18:08 > 0:18:09of Hamlet, aren't you?
0:18:09 > 0:18:11But, no, Nick, what were
0:18:11 > 0:18:12you muttering during that?
0:18:12 > 0:18:14I had a feeling it might have been
0:18:14 > 0:18:15Cleopatra and the asp.
0:18:15 > 0:18:18The answer is Cleopatra (asp).
0:18:18 > 0:18:19These are deaths
0:18:19 > 0:18:20in Antony and Cleopatra.
0:18:20 > 0:18:22The manner of the deaths
0:18:22 > 0:18:23of characters in chronological
0:18:23 > 0:18:25order of their deaths,
0:18:25 > 0:18:28and after Antony dies by the sword,
0:18:28 > 0:18:30it's Cleopatra with the asp. Nearly.
0:18:30 > 0:18:32At the end of Round Two, then,
0:18:32 > 0:18:33the Relatives have six points,
0:18:33 > 0:18:35the Welsh Learners have nine.
0:18:38 > 0:18:39Connecting Wall time.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42Four groups of connected clues all jumbled up into a blizzard
0:18:42 > 0:18:47of 16 visions of something that the teams have to sort back out.
0:18:47 > 0:18:49Relatives, you'll be going first this time.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51Would you like the Lion Wall or the Water Wall?
0:18:51 > 0:18:53Er... Lion, please.
0:18:53 > 0:18:56OK. Two and a half minutes to solve the Lion Wall.
0:18:56 > 0:18:57Starting now.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03Flying picket, flying lizard.
0:19:03 > 0:19:06THEY CONFER
0:19:06 > 0:19:07Flying...
0:19:08 > 0:19:09OK, go on, go on.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12Right, work to rule, go-slow, overtime ban.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16Picket?
0:19:16 > 0:19:18Yeah, we'll that's stand-down, picket.
0:19:20 > 0:19:21Cycle through them...
0:19:25 > 0:19:28These are points, like lizard point, needle point...
0:19:28 > 0:19:31Is Cromer a point? Bardsey's a point, Cromer's a point...
0:19:31 > 0:19:34OK, no, it's not. Try Eddystone.
0:19:36 > 0:19:38That's five.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41Uh... Dog-ear.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43There must be another one.
0:19:43 > 0:19:44Cyclone goes...
0:19:49 > 0:19:51They rotate.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54Eh... Don't know. Right.
0:19:54 > 0:19:55Caparison, is that a point?
0:20:01 > 0:20:03Without lizard....
0:20:03 > 0:20:05Without needles...
0:20:05 > 0:20:07Without... We've done that one.
0:20:08 > 0:20:09OK, so dog-ear is...
0:20:09 > 0:20:12There's something wrong with...
0:20:12 > 0:20:14Erm... What else is wrong with it?
0:20:15 > 0:20:17What if you irrigate...
0:20:17 > 0:20:18OK. Water flows through it.
0:20:20 > 0:20:22Wonder if they're...
0:20:22 > 0:20:25techniques or something?
0:20:25 > 0:20:26Eddystone.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29Eddystone rock, lizard rock.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31A minute left.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33Bardsey... Needles is a rock.
0:20:35 > 0:20:37Three strikes and you're out, now.
0:20:37 > 0:20:39I think those two go round...
0:20:39 > 0:20:42Currents? Currents, yeah.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44And you can irrigate something with a current.
0:20:45 > 0:20:48But I don't know what caparison is...
0:20:48 > 0:20:49Do we start taking chances?
0:20:49 > 0:20:51There's one gone, so let's just see
0:20:51 > 0:20:53if we can see anything...
0:20:53 > 0:20:55Are there any anagrams there, or...?
0:20:55 > 0:20:57Well, that's a good thing to think of.
0:20:57 > 0:20:59Or anything inside the word.
0:20:59 > 0:21:00Erm...
0:21:05 > 0:21:0620 seconds.
0:21:06 > 0:21:09Oh, there's Paris, Rome...
0:21:09 > 0:21:12Oslo and one other...
0:21:12 > 0:21:15Capital cities... Riga.
0:21:16 > 0:21:17That's it. With ten seconds left,
0:21:17 > 0:21:20you've solved the wall. Well done.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22Four points, of course, for the groups you've found,
0:21:22 > 0:21:24and what about the connecting points?
0:21:24 > 0:21:25Picket, work to rule,
0:21:25 > 0:21:27stand-down, overtime ban.
0:21:27 > 0:21:30All to do with unions and working to rule, standing-down,
0:21:30 > 0:21:33overtime ban's all work-related, union-related.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35Types of industrial action.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37That's what we wanted to hear, but that's right.
0:21:37 > 0:21:40Needles, Lizard, Eddystone, Bardsey.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42Yeah, we'll go for lighthouses.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45I will accept that they are all lighthouses.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47And the next one, caparison,
0:21:47 > 0:21:49Cromer, irrigate, go-slow.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51They've got European capitals.
0:21:51 > 0:21:53Paris, Rome, Riga and Oslo.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55That was well-spotted by you right at the end, there.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58They contain the names of European capitals.
0:21:58 > 0:22:00And the last one, dog-ear,
0:22:00 > 0:22:02cyclone, lattice, electric.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05Have they all got currents in them,
0:22:05 > 0:22:07are they all...?
0:22:07 > 0:22:09They haven't. This is a pretty obscure one,
0:22:09 > 0:22:10they're actually all fences.
0:22:10 > 0:22:12They're types of fence, but you
0:22:12 > 0:22:13got four points for the groups
0:22:13 > 0:22:15you found and three more for the connections.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17That's an excellent total of seven.
0:22:17 > 0:22:21Time to etch-a-sketch that wall, throw 16 new, devious clues
0:22:21 > 0:22:23on to it, and give it to the Welsh Learners.
0:22:23 > 0:22:26That'll be the Water Wall, that's what remains for you.
0:22:26 > 0:22:27Two and a half minutes to solve it.
0:22:27 > 0:22:29Starting now.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34OK, erm... Traditional...
0:22:34 > 0:22:36Welsh...
0:22:36 > 0:22:40Er... Flint... Cardigan...
0:22:40 > 0:22:41Montgomery...
0:22:43 > 0:22:45Eyebrow. Anything with eyebrow?
0:22:45 > 0:22:46Robert Mitchum...
0:22:46 > 0:22:47Robert Mitchum. Robert Powell?
0:22:49 > 0:22:50Oh, that's Humphrey Bogart.
0:22:52 > 0:22:53Elliott Gould...
0:22:54 > 0:22:56Lavender...
0:22:56 > 0:22:58Ian lavender.
0:22:58 > 0:22:59Doily...
0:23:01 > 0:23:02Bogart. Different sort of doily.
0:23:02 > 0:23:05Humphrey. Erm... Are we talking about
0:23:05 > 0:23:07rugs or something, Afghan rugs?
0:23:07 > 0:23:09Or dogs?
0:23:09 > 0:23:12Loom... Brow... What's... What's that?
0:23:13 > 0:23:15No. OK. Erm... Afghan rugs...
0:23:15 > 0:23:16Sorry, what were you thinking
0:23:16 > 0:23:18with doily, loom? Well, a doily
0:23:18 > 0:23:20is a doily. It is a doily.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22OK. Mitchum, and also the film noir...
0:23:23 > 0:23:24Montgomery...
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Montgomery Clift's the first name...
0:23:26 > 0:23:28Ooh, hang on a minute!
0:23:28 > 0:23:30Have they all played the same character? Might be, yeah.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32Because they played, um, Philip Marlowe. OK.
0:23:32 > 0:23:34Oh, yes, Robert Mitchum. Mitchum,
0:23:34 > 0:23:35Humphrey Bogart. Elliott Gould.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37And somebody else.
0:23:37 > 0:23:39What about Montgomery Clift?
0:23:39 > 0:23:41Halfway through the time.
0:23:41 > 0:23:42Keep going with that.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44Have we got anything else to go on?
0:23:44 > 0:23:46Might be a....
0:23:46 > 0:23:48Three strikes and you're out, now.
0:23:48 > 0:23:49Erm... Candle, candle...
0:23:49 > 0:23:51Candlestick? Candlestick, candle...
0:23:53 > 0:23:54Afghan, Afghan rug...
0:23:54 > 0:23:57Mmm-hmm. Lavender...
0:23:57 > 0:23:58OK, Afghan's also a dog.
0:23:58 > 0:24:00Yes.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04Candles, candlelight...
0:24:04 > 0:24:06Lavender and lace...
0:24:06 > 0:24:08Four candles...
0:24:08 > 0:24:09Are they things, is that it?
0:24:10 > 0:24:12Eyebrow, eyebrow...
0:24:15 > 0:24:17OK, we'll start...
0:24:24 > 0:24:25No. OK, two left.
0:24:26 > 0:24:2720 seconds.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32THEY CONFER
0:24:32 > 0:24:34OK, er... What about rugs?
0:24:39 > 0:24:41BUZZ No, that's it, you've had your
0:24:41 > 0:24:43three strikes and the wall has frozen.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45But you found two groups, so that's two points,
0:24:45 > 0:24:48and I'll give you more if you can tell me the connection.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50Cardigan, Monmouth, Flint, Radnor.
0:24:50 > 0:24:52Traditional Welsh counties.
0:24:52 > 0:24:54That's right, they're historic Welsh counties
0:24:54 > 0:24:56that are not Welsh counties any more.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58You were quick to find that one, I'm not surprised to see.
0:24:58 > 0:25:00And the next one,
0:25:00 > 0:25:02Mitchum, Gould, Powell, Montgomery.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04They all played Philip Marlowe.
0:25:04 > 0:25:05Very well spotted.
0:25:05 > 0:25:06You can also get points
0:25:06 > 0:25:09for connections in the groups you didn't find,
0:25:09 > 0:25:10so let's resolve the wall.
0:25:10 > 0:25:15OK. Candle, lavender, Bogart, loom.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17Humphrey.
0:25:17 > 0:25:18No, you see, you spot it or you don't.
0:25:18 > 0:25:23Look at the beginnings of those words. Can, lav, bog, loo.
0:25:23 > 0:25:24Oh!
0:25:24 > 0:25:27I mean, it's possible that you're
0:25:27 > 0:25:29simply too elegant and polite to spot.
0:25:29 > 0:25:31Ty bach wasn't there. It wasn't.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33It's words for facilities or toilets...
0:25:33 > 0:25:36or lavatories, I won't go on.
0:25:36 > 0:25:40And the last one brow, bones,
0:25:40 > 0:25:42doily, Afghan.
0:25:42 > 0:25:44They're all erm...
0:25:44 > 0:25:46types of decorative lace.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49They are not all types of decorative lace.
0:25:49 > 0:25:51These are things that can be knitted.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53Obviously you can knit a doily or
0:25:53 > 0:25:54an Afghan is a knitted shawl,
0:25:54 > 0:25:56but you knit your brow, you know,
0:25:56 > 0:25:58when you frown and knitted bones,
0:25:58 > 0:25:59that's when they're healing.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01The bones are knitting, so they're
0:26:01 > 0:26:03all things that can be knitted.
0:26:03 > 0:26:04Two points for the groups you found,
0:26:04 > 0:26:06two points for the connections.
0:26:06 > 0:26:07That is a total of four.
0:26:07 > 0:26:11Let's have a look at the scores going into the final round.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13The Relatives have 13 points,
0:26:13 > 0:26:16the Welsh Learners have 13 points.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18And if you'd like to play a Connecting Wall,
0:26:18 > 0:26:20you'll find some on our website,
0:26:20 > 0:26:21where you can also write your own,
0:26:21 > 0:26:23but we will be deciding
0:26:23 > 0:26:25the outcome of this very close quiz,
0:26:25 > 0:26:28and the first place in the final by Missing Vowel.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31Fingers on buzzers, teams.
0:26:31 > 0:26:32The first group are all...
0:26:40 > 0:26:41BELL Relatives?
0:26:41 > 0:26:42Germany and Deutschland.
0:26:42 > 0:26:44Correct.
0:26:45 > 0:26:47BELL Welsh Learners?
0:26:47 > 0:26:48Ireland and Eire.
0:26:48 > 0:26:50Correct.
0:26:55 > 0:26:56BELL
0:26:56 > 0:26:58Relatives?
0:26:58 > 0:26:59Estonia and Eesti.
0:26:59 > 0:27:00That's right.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03BELL Learners?
0:27:03 > 0:27:05Spain and Espana.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07Correct. Next category...
0:27:12 > 0:27:13BELL Learners?
0:27:13 > 0:27:15The Cat Who Walked By Himself.
0:27:15 > 0:27:17Not the answer, I'm afraid.
0:27:17 > 0:27:19You lose a point. Relatives?
0:27:19 > 0:27:20The Cat That Walked By Himself.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22The Cat THAT Walked By Himself.
0:27:22 > 0:27:23Next clue.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27BELL Learners?
0:27:27 > 0:27:28How The Leopard Got His Spots.
0:27:28 > 0:27:29Correct.
0:27:35 > 0:27:36No. This one is too late,
0:27:36 > 0:27:38I'm afraid. I can give you the answer.
0:27:38 > 0:27:40The Crab That Played With The Sea.
0:27:40 > 0:27:42Next clue.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46BELL Relatives?
0:27:46 > 0:27:49How The Camel Got His Hump.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51Correct. Next category...
0:27:56 > 0:27:58BELL Relatives?
0:27:58 > 0:27:59Wooden Heart Of Glass.
0:27:59 > 0:28:00Correct.
0:28:03 > 0:28:07END`OF-ROUND JINGLE PLAYS
0:28:07 > 0:28:11That one was Son Of A Preacher Man In The Mirror.
0:28:11 > 0:28:13It was those two titles,
0:28:13 > 0:28:18but at the end of a very close and brilliantly fought semifinal,
0:28:18 > 0:28:20the Welsh Learners finish
0:28:20 > 0:28:22with 15 points, but the winners,
0:28:22 > 0:28:24and through to the final
0:28:24 > 0:28:26with 18 points are the Relatives.
0:28:26 > 0:28:27Very well done to you, and a very
0:28:27 > 0:28:29well done to you, Welsh Learners,
0:28:29 > 0:28:32you've played brilliantly and that was an incredibly close one.
0:28:32 > 0:28:34Not to go through, you were unlucky there.
0:28:34 > 0:28:36Thank you all very much for coming.
0:28:36 > 0:28:39So that's the end of A Connectmas Carol.
0:28:39 > 0:28:40That means it's time for me to see
0:28:40 > 0:28:42the error of my ways,
0:28:42 > 0:28:45rush out into the street and give the first person I see
0:28:45 > 0:28:47a big goose. Goodbye.
0:29:17 > 0:29:20'It's a story of palatial ambition.'
0:29:21 > 0:29:24Magnificent! The power base of Medieval England.
0:29:24 > 0:29:26Palaces achieved...
0:29:26 > 0:29:30Charles's ceiling was a piece of breathtaking arrogance.
0:29:30 > 0:29:32'..palaces abandoned...'
0:29:32 > 0:29:34You get a sense of the people who made the palaces. Yes.
0:29:34 > 0:29:36'..and palaces killed off.
0:29:36 > 0:29:37'Join me, Dan Cruickshank,