Episode 20 The Code

Hello and welcome to The Code.

£3,000 is locked inside this safe.

All our players have to do to open it is crack a three-digit code.

Each time someone fails, more money is added,

so the jackpot goes up and up.

Last time, Ahmed had just revealed the first number in the code,

the number eight, before we ran out of time.

So, let's welcome him back.

-Ahmed, good to see you. Welcome back.

-Thank you.

Now, let's remind ourselves a little bit about you.

-Ahmed, originally from Liverpool.

-Yep.

Would you class yourself as a Scouser?

Most definitely, born and bred.

A proud Scouser.

Although my friends back in Liverpool say my accent's gone.

Ten years travelling the globe and the Scouse definitely wears away.

I think it's alive and well.

I think it's there, most definitely.

Now, currently living and working in Hampshire

at a mixed boarding school.

-Yes.

-You teach biology, but you have taught other subjects, as well.

Yeah, well, general science.

I enjoy my coaching, as well.

I enjoy coaching students, whether it be football, tennis...

-At the moment, I'm currently a netball coach.

-Really?

Yeah, so the last three seasons, I've been taking on a netball team,

-which I've thoroughly enjoyed.

-Fantastic stuff.

As we spoke last time, like me, a big Liverpool fan.

Huge Liverpool fan.

Do you coach the kids in the Liverpool way - pass and move?

Well, I think Liverpool haven't passed and moved

for a number of years.

But we try and keep possession and press when we haven't got the ball.

OK, well, Liverpool's big motto, "you'll never walk alone".

You are walking alone, you're being brave, you're flying solo here.

How are you finding it so far?

The first couple of questions, opposite ends of the spectrum.

A few more of the bankers would be nice,

but we'll see what the board there reveals.

OK, we'll see what we can get you.

Before we start, let's say a big hello to Lesley.

Welcome, Ahmed, I hope you continue to make

-steady progress through the numbers on the keypad.

-Thank you.

OK, let's just remind ourselves of where we are.

On the keypad, two numbers down so far.

Five, nothing from that, but eight showed up in the centre of the code.

Blank, eight, blank, is what we've got.

As you found the first number, it gets a little bit harder.

As before, you have now three answers,

but you can only see the questions behind two of them

before you have to commit.

Ahmed, let's have a look at your next three answers.

How very touching.

We are looking for one correct answer here.

Which one would you like to look at first?

Right, I'll go with Never Let Me Go.

OK, let's have a look at the question behind Never Let Me Go.

I don't think I could read back in 1989.

You probably weren't reading Kazuo Ishiguro.

OK, literature is not my forte.

Not ringing any bells for you?

Absolutely not, no.

We can open another one, if that's going to help you.

Yep. Let's go with...

Hold My Hand.

Let's open the question behind Hold My Hand.

I've got the Beatles running through my head now.

And they want to hold my hand.

That would have made it easier, wouldn't it?

Got two there, one of those has to go.

Any instincts about these?

I haven't got an absolute clue about the Booker Prize for Fiction.

Jess Glynne, Hold My Hand...

doesn't ring any bells.

We've found two blind spots for you here, have we?

Yeah.

OK, I'm going to go with Jess Glynne as the wrong answer.

-As a wrong answer.

-As a wrong answer.

We want to reject Jess Glynne,

which means we can get rid of it,

open up the question behind Darling and progress,

try and find the correct answer.

We want that to go red.

A bit of a flyer here. It's a flip of the coin.

Come on, Ahmed. We can do this.

Is Hold My Hand the wrong answer?

Ahmed, I am so sorry.

I was really hoping for you there.

Let's have a look at the question behind Darling.

Would you have had a chance with that, do you think?

A better chance, geography?

Absolutely not. I didn't even know there was Alps in Australia.

Yes, Jess Glynne that has featured on five UK number one singles

but Hold My Hand was her first as a solo artist.

Five UK number one singles equalling the record set by Cheryl.

Rising in the Australian Alps,

the longest river in Australia, not Darling, but the Murray.

For the third answer, it's not Never Let Me Go,

which was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize,

but The Remains Of The Day.

None of which helps you now, I'm afraid.

But you still made progress, still got one number in your code.

You can go back with your head held high, Ahmed.

-It's great to meet a fellow red.

-Thank you.

On this occasion, you have failed to break the code.

Unfortunately, we have to ask you to walk alone,

all the way down the steps and back home.

Thank you so much playing, Ahmed. Goodbye.

Didn't even ask to see if he could get me tickets.

But, Ahmed's loss is our next contestants' gain.

Because the jackpot goes up by £500.

Let's meet the next team hoping to crack the code.

Here they are. Come on down, Graham - lovely to meet you.

Pleased to meet you.

-Megan.

-Hiya.

-And Michael. Good to see you.

-Right, we are family, Is that right?

-Yes.

-Fantastic. So, as I understand it, you, sir, are Dad?

-Yes.

-Megan's dad. And, Megan, you and Mike are married.

-We are.

Graham, tell me about yourself, what do you do for a living?

I'm a minister in the United Reformed Church.

OK, whereabouts is that?

I've got two churches, just outside Brighton...

One in Brighton and one just outside Brighton, a place called Saltdean.

Right, so, a minister? It must be fascinating.

Because you're there to look after your flock

and hear all their problems and try and help them out.

Yes, some good days, some bad days, like any other job, I guess.

-But I do enjoy it.

-I'd imagine so.

-Megan, what do you do?

-I'm a home carer,

so I go to old people's houses, dress them, wash them,

that kind of thing.

-You can make a real difference in people's lives.

-Yeah.

Right, OK, how about you, Michael, what do you do?

I'm banksman, which directs cranes.

I'm the man on the ground that connects the load to the crane,

sends it up, banks it down when it's blind and stuff.

Do you know what, I've seen signs on building sites that say,

not to reverse without a banksman...

Yeah, you also have traffic banksmen, as well.

So, you're watching their back, telling them...

That's a big responsibility.

Yeah, there is responsibility involved, yeah.

Great to have you here. Before you, Ahmed failed.

I'm afraid to say. That means another £500 goes into the safe,

making a total of £3,500.

We're going to reset the code.

Three blanks that we need to turn into three numbers

if you're going to be successful. Are you ready?

-Yes.

-As we'll ever be.

Let's have a look at your first three answers.

Remember, only one of those is correct,

that's the one you're trying to find right now.

And at this point, you could open all three questions.

We'll start from the top, work down.

OK, we're going to start with Liverpool.

Mike Ashley was never the majority of Liverpool.

He was...Carlisle United, I think.

He was the one who went for Manchester United.

So I don't think that's right.

OK, we can see all of them. Which one do you want to move to next?

-We'll work our way down.

-That's straightforward, OK.

The question behind Israel, please.

-That was Australia.

-That was Australia, definitely.

That's definitely wrong.

Our Eurovision correspondent there, Megan.

Straight in with the answer.

OK, we got a good steer on that.

-Shall we have a look at Queen Victoria now?

-Yep.

That is correct.

Definitely 1901 - that's the only thing I remember.

Queen Victoria is the right answer.

-Are you happy with that?

-Yeah.

-Are you sure?

-Yes.

OK, we'll go for Queen Victoria.

Let's lock it in.

That's the one we want to be the correct answer of the three.

We want that to show green.

It gives you all the chance to choose a number

to slot into the code and see if it sticks.

Is it the right answer?

-Great stuff.

-Yay!

-It's the correct answer.

That's right, you are very happy with this one, Megan.

1901 rang a very big and loud bell with you.

Queen Victoria is the right answer.

Queen Elizabeth II recently surpassed Queen Victoria's record

as the longest-serving British head of state.

Now, Mike Ashley, the majority owner of which football club in 2007?

Matt, I'll let you tell us who owns Liverpool?

Well, it's currently owned by the FSG Fenway Sporting Group.

I don't think Mike Ashley has ever come anywhere near us.

I don't think so. I think you more closely associate John W Henry,

also owner of the Boston Red Sox, with them.

The correct answer is Newcastle United.

Of course, yeah.

And a non-European country which appeared

in the Eurovision Song Contest of the first time in 2015,

you were straight in there with the right answer to this,

it's Australia. The song by Guy Sebastian,

which came fifth in the competition.

Good stuff. Thank you, Lesley.

Yes, you were all over those questions, no problem at all.

A really good start.

It means we can choose any one of the numbers

between zero and nine to try and fit into the code.

Where shall we start?

-Two.

-The number two.

Is two in your code? Let's have a look.

In the first box...

No number two.

How about the second box?

No number two there.

How about the third and final box?

-Not safe-crackers.

-Yeah.

-It's good though,

you can count out another number,

and you're still playing the game where you get to see

all three questions and answers. So don't be dismayed.

Let's see your next three answers.

-Just do it the way again?

-Yeah, we'll just work our way down then.

Top to bottom again? OK, let's see the question behind Language.

There was one chimpanzee that used sign language.

He used it as a tool.

But I don't know if that was a chimp or an ape.

-I'm not sure.

-Not sure that one.

-Shall we try the next one?

-Yeah.

Let's open the question behind Eclair.

That's wrong, that's croissant.

-Yeah.

-Sure that's wrong?

-OK.

OK, Let's have a look at the question behind Blow It.

A lute is a string instrument, you certainly wouldn't blow it.

-It's like a...

-Are you really sure?

-Yeah.

-Are you really sure, though?

-I'm positive.

-Because I've never heard that before.

-Then, say the chimpanzee...

-Oh, OK.

So I would think the right answer is the top one then.

-OK, then.

-Graham taking control there of this.

-Very brave.

-The lute is definitely not a blowing instrument.

I was thinking of Nim Chimpsky actually.

We want to lock in one of those answers as correct.

Lock in that one.

-Yeah, language.

-Language.

Lock in language as our correct answer.

We want Nim Chimpsky to have been

spectacularly skilled in language.

-Yes!

-Yes, it is.

Yes, this was a case where knowing the wrong answers

helped you to decide what the correct pairing was.

Nim Chimpsky, a pun on the name of the linguist and philosopher

Noam Chomsky.

And the pastry which takes its name from the French word for

crescent - not eclair, which comes from a flash of lightning -

but croissant, which you said when you were deliberating that one.

And how would you usually play the musical instrument the lute?

Graham, you said that this was a stringed instrument, you plucked it,

and that's the correct answer.

Thank you, Lesley.

Yes, you pluck a lute and can you pluck another number

from your code? Only the number 2 is gone.

There are nine more remaining.

Which one are you going to go for? Choose this time.

-9.

-The number 9.

Let's see if we can find a number in your code.

Is the number 9 in your first box?

No.

Is it there in your second box?

It's not there. Is there a 9 in your third and final box?

No number 9, but we are knocking them down one by one, this is good.

Even though we haven't got any numbers in the code,

that means we are staying at the easiest level of the game.

We see all of those questions at the same time.

Are you ready for your next three answers?

-Yes, let's go.

-Let's go.

Here we go.

We'll just carry on the same order.

Yes. Just work down.

First, the question behind Spain.

I'm fairly sure that wasn't Spain.

Spain has been in fairly early on so

-I think that's wrong.

-You think.

Let's carry on to the question behind Florence.

That's Venice, definitely.

-Are you sure?

-I'm almost certain.

Oh, I don't like "almost".

Yeah, but Ponte Vecchio

was the one over the canal,

-I'm sure.

-Oh, Dad.

-Yeah.

-OK.

Shall we have a look at the question behind Turnip?

Sauerkraut is definitely cabbage,

but is turnip in it, as well?

"Features"? It's not a main...

Sauerkraut, it's like coleslaw.

I mean, sauerkraut is pickled

cabbage and I don't think...

I don't think it would be turnip.

It may well be Spain.

So you were thrown a little bit by turnip, were we, at the end?

Yes, go for Spain.

OK, all right.

OK, we're happy to lock in Spain as our correct answer?

We're going well, we go rid of two numbers already.

Nothing in the code so far.

But we need this to be right if

we are going to carry on.

Is Spain our correct answer?

Oh!

I'm so sorry, let's find out the correct answer.

Florence. There you go.

The one that you said...

-I...

-I'm so sorry about that.

Yes, Ponte Vecchio is in Florence.

It means "Old Bridge"

and it's not in Venice.

The country that joined the European

Economic Community in 1973...

Graham, I heard you saying

Spain was earlier than that,

it was actually later, in 1986.

The correct answer is Denmark.

And the vegetable that features in

the German speciality of sauerkraut,

you had this answer, you knew it was

pickled cabbage and not turnip.

And, Michael, you mentioned that it

was a bit like coleslaw.

Yes, it's shredded cabbage.

Thank you, Lesley.

Well, guys, what can I say here?

That's all right.

Two very successful questions and then just a wrong

steer at the end.

Never mind. I hope you've had a good day.

-We've loved having you.

-Thank you.

OK, lovely to meet you.

Graham, Megan and Mike.

-Cheers.

-Unfortunately, on this occasion, you have failed

to break the code

-and so...

-I now know where the Ponte Vecchio bridge is.

Well, maybe that's your next trip.

It's been lovely to meet you but sadly on this occasion

we have to say bye.

-Thank you.

-Thank you. Bye.

Cheers.

Three of them, but between them, unfortunately,

they couldn't get past the third question.

Their loss, however, is our next contestants' gain because,

as always, the money goes up.

So, let's meet the next team hoping to crack the code.

Lovely to see you. Come on down. Lovely to see you, Margot.

-Hello.

-How are you? And Rob.

-Hi.

Good to see you. Now, tell me a bit about yourself.

You are a couple, is that right?

Yes, we are, we're married.

And where are you living right now?

-Manchester.

-You're in Manchester?

-Yeah.

-But originally not from Manchester, I'm thinking, Margot.

I am from Hawaii originally, Maui.

What are you doing here?!

Some days I don't know!

But presumably lured here by Rob, is that right?

Yeah, that's right. I was working out in Hawaii,

managing a restaurant out there,

and I met Margot and we moved back together four years ago.

The same question, Rob. What on earth are you doing here?

You could have stayed out in Hawaii, what drew you back to Manchester?

I was finishing my degree at university

so we came back mainly for that reason.

But we are looking to go back, as well, soon.

I haven't been home since I left.

Really? How many years is that?

-Years or months or...

-Yeah, four years.

So, I can't wait.

That's a very long time.

You must be very deeply in love, that's all I can say.

Yes, he's worth it.

Oh, good. Can you describe to me the moment that you first met?

-Do you remember?

-Yeah, I remember it very clearly.

I was doing the typical Hawaiian thing, selling flowers,

and I saw him across the room in the restaurant that he was working in.

-You remember?

-Yeah, Margot walked over,

asked me for some change and asked me when I was...

And then I said, "So, when are you taking me out for dinner?"

Really, you were that forward?

-I was, yeah.

-Tell me a bit about yourself.

What do you do now?

We've been running a pub in the Staffordshire moorlands

for a couple of years, a real local village pub.

We've enjoyed it, but we decided to take a break for the summer.

-We're going back to Hawaii for a visit.

-And hard work running a pub?

Really, really hard work.

We lived above it, so we were there all the time.

It was kind of stressful and a very, very hard-working environment.

-Constant, you know?

-An amazing thing to have done.

-Oh, yeah.

-A great experience. We met some lovely people.

Right, well, we wish you the very best of luck.

We hope we can help to get you back over to Hawaii to see your folks.

-Thank you.

-That would be wonderful.

Graham, Megan and Mike,

who were just before you, unfortunately failed.

But that is good for you, it means another £500 goes in to the safe

making a total of £4,000

Let's reset the code.

Three blanks, we want to turn those into three numbers.

That opens the safe and gives you the money.

If you're ready, let's have a look at your first three answers.

Remember, only one is correct,

the one you're trying to find.

At this point, you can open all

answers to reveal the questions.

The order doesn't matter too much right now.

Which one would you like first?

Well, the European Union we know is

a group of countries...

Think we would do OK on that.

The Great Bear probably...

Bees could be anything,

so shall we go for the question for

The Great Bear first since that we

-know the least about?

-Yes.

OK, let's have a look at the question behind The Great Bear.

I'm not quite sure.

I'm not sure.

We don't have to commit.

No, we don't have to commit till we see the rest.

Let's see behind another question.

-Probably bees.

-OK.

It's definitely bees, I think.

Pretty sure with bees, because they

had a big problem with bees.

Yeah, there's been loads of problems

with bees recently.

We think that could be correct.

We're not 100% sure, so we'd like to see the other question,

but we know that there's been a lot of trouble with beekeeping.

Let's have a look at the question behind the European Union.

Is Woodrow Wilson American?

Yeah, so it wouldn't be

the European Union, I don't think.

He was American.

I'm pretty positive he was.

We think Woodrow Wilson may have

been American so it'd seem slightly

obscure if he founded the European Union.

I think we should lock in bees.

-Yeah, we're going to lock in bees.

-Lock in bees?

If it is the right answer,

you get to choose a digit to try in the code.

Let bees go green

and be the correct answer.

You've got it. Well done!

Inspiration, luck, call it what you will.

It doesn't matter. Lesley.

Perhaps if we could lock in the bees, they wouldn't be leaving.

Yes, Colony Collapse Disorder.

Margot, you had a gut feeling

about that straightaway.

There's a problem with bees

departing the hive,

specifically the worker bees leaving

the queen and the brood behind.

And Woodrow Wilson was awarded

the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in establishing,

not the European Union -

Rob, you said that might be a little

odd giving you thought Woodrow Wilson was American,

if he were involved in the European Union.

Your instinct was right on that.

Woodrow Wilson was the US president

from 1913-1921.

He was instrumental in the establishment

of the League Of Nations.

A common name for the bright star,

Sirius, not the Great Bear,

but the Dog Star.

The dog days, a common term to refer

to those hot days of summer that

coincide with Sirius rising at dawn.

Thank you, Lesley.

OK, guys, took a little bit of a struggle to get there.

But you can see when you've got different questions

to compare with each other, it really helps.

And that's where we're at.

We're at the stage where you can choose a digit to try in the code

-to see if that sticks.

-We have some favourite numbers that we've decided

-to go with.

-That makes it a lot easier.

We'd like to go with number 7 first.

Number 7. Lucky number 7.

Is it lucky, is it in the code?

Let's find out - is 7 in the first box of the code?

No. Is it in the second box?

It's not there.

Is it in the third box of the code?

It's not in the third box of the code.

Don't be downhearted.

Are you ready for your next three answers?

-Yep.

-Yes.

-Here we go.

Now, remember, there's only one correct answer,

but you can see all three questions.

Why don't we start at the top

and work our way down?

OK, yeah. We'll start with October.

OK, let's see the question behind October.

October not ringing any bells.

What was the Roman god of war?

If you want to park that for a minute?

We'll park it, yes.

Let's try basketball.

Luckily, we know this one.

We're pretty sure that's right.

But we'll just have a look at

the last one, as well.

Let's have a crack on and have

a look at the question behind Foreign Secretary.

She's...?

Homeland Security, something?

She deals with the police force.

She's not the Foreign Secretary.

So, we'll probably go basketball.

Happy to go with basketball as the correct answer.

That feels like a great question

-for you guys.

-Yeah!

Let's lock it in

as our correct answer.

Is basketball the correct answer?

Of course it is, well done.

Margot and Rob, your knowledge of

American culture and sport helping

with this one.

The Chicago Bulls and

the Golden State Warriors

professional teams in basketball.

The Warriors are based in

Oakland, California.

And the month of the named after

the Roman god of war is Mars,

the answer is March.

October is named because

it used to be the eighth

month of the year.

And in 2010,

Theresa May appointed to which post?

You knew straightaway that

Theresa May was the Home Secretary.

She's the MP for Maidenhead.

Foreign Secretary right now is

Philip Hammond.

Thank you, Lesley. Well done, guys.

Much more self-assured on that one.

And it means we get to choose another digit from the keypad.

7 already gone.

Any more lucky numbers?

I'm going to pick number 8.

-Number 8?

-That's Rob's lucky number,

and he's usually much luckier than me.

7 not so good, let's see if 8 is any better?

Is it in the code?

It's not there. Is the number 8 in the second box?

It's not there. How about in box number three?

No number 8 either.

Well, whittling them down at least.

Well, it's good point, you know, it's not a bad place to be.

If you can get rid of them,

before you get to the harder levels of the game...

Let's have a look at your next three answers.

You want to go bottom to top this time?

-Yeah, why not?

-Let's mix it up!

We're going to go from bottom to top

the question behind Cape Wrath.

-This is your subject.

-I mean...

There's the drive,

Land's End to John O'Groats.

Cape Wrath doesn't sound like that.

I've not heard of it before.

I thought I should have heard of it

if it was then northernmost point of

-the UK.

-So, you call it "Cape Rath"?

Yeah, we would say "Cape Rath".

That doesn't work. You can't have sloth, Hoth and then "Cape Rath".

You're right!

-OK.

-We should try and eliminate

the other two, I think.

Shall we try one of the others?

Yes. Hoth?

Let's try Hoth.

I've only seen

The Empire Strikes Back once.

So, to be honest, I have no idea if

that's right or not.

Let's hope that the sloth is a very

slow-moving animal.

Let's give it a go, let's have a look at the question behind Sloth.

Hmm... I think it is a rodent?

I'm not sure if it's the largest.

-How big are they?

-Quite big.

Like, small human size?

I've got a feeling that Hoth could be right.

But I'm not sure.

We're not big Star Wars fans, so...

You really need to sort that out.

Yeah!

-It's brilliant.

-There are people at home screaming at us, I'm sure.

I think it could be the sloth.

I think it could be Hoth.

Hoth or sloth?

What else could be the largest rodent?

A possum of some sort?

A kangaroo? But, in South America, so...

I think that could be right, babe.

-I trust you.

-OK.

We're going to lock in sloth.

We're going to lock in sloth as the correct answer.

You've come all the way from Hawaii

to get here.

We want this to be right.

-Yes!

-Otherwise, it's aloha, goodbye.

Is sloth the correct answer?

Oh...

Let's find out the correct answer.

It's Hoth, isn't it?

You really got to see those films.

-I'm so sorry.

-It's horrible!

Hoth, there, the correct answer.

The site of the Rebel Alliance's

Echo Base.

And, you really must watch it.

And the South American mammal which

is the largest rodent in the world,

not the sloth but the capybara.

Closely related to the guinea pig.

And then we come to Cape Wrath -

Margot, you say "rath",

Rob says "roth",

let's call the whole thing off.

Not the right answer anyway.

That's Dunnet Head.

Well, it's done my head in.

You guys are gorgeous, it's so lovely to have you with us.

We just wish you could have stayed a bit longer.

You're a little dose of Hawaiian sunshine.

-Thank you.

-Wherever life takes you next,

I hope that you have a wonderful time together.

You have failed to break the code, so we have to say goodbye.

But really lovely to meet you.

-Thank you.

-Thank you, it was great. Thank you.

Aw, they're going thick and fast.

Sadly, Rob and Margot, they had to go.

It's sad. I think they'll be OK, though.

Their loss, however, our next contestants' gain.

Because the jackpot goes up by £500.

So, let's meet the next team hoping to crack the code.

Lovely to see you, how do you do, Sally?

Good to see you, Richard. And Simon.

-Nice to see you.

-Lovely.

What we have here is a team, definitely, from Manchester.

-That's right.

-How do you all know each other?

Through Ultimate Frisbee. We play in a frisbee club together.

Wow, Ultimate Frisbee?

-Yeah.

-Does it involve a dog at any stage?

Not at any stage, no.

Some weeks it does!

OK, how does Ultimate Frisbee work?

It's a team game, seven on seven.

It's non-contact.

Kind of like American football, so you score in an endzone.

Just pass it to your team-mates to work it up the pitch.

Right. So who among you is the best Ultimate Frisbee player?

-Come on, let's be honest.

-Probably Rich.

- He's been playing the longest. - Thank you!

Playing the longest doesn't necessarily make me best.

I like the fact you didn't put your hand up there.

-How about work?

-I work for a bank, I'm a bank clerk,

currently working on a PPI remediation project.

OK. Hold on, haven't you called me about 100 times?

No, nothing to do with me, nothing to do with me.

-Sally, how about you?

-I work as a medical writer.

Which basically means I write about pharmaceutical drugs,

results of clinical trials or marketing stuff.

-It's quite varied.

-Great stuff.

-How about you, Tom?

-I'm software engineer.

I make software that is used by councils and utility companies,

people like that, to schedule jobs and send workers

-out to do remote jobs and things.

-Make us all a bit more efficient?

-That's the idea, yeah.

-Let's see how efficient you are today as a team.

Margot and Rob failed, unfortunately, to crack the code.

That means another £500 goes into the safe...

..making a total of £4,500.

We'll reset the code.

Three blanks that we want to turn into three unique numbers.

Have you got a team name?

No!

Team No. Let's have a look at your first three answers.

Now, remember that only one of those is correct.

That is the one you're trying to find.

At this point you can open all three answers to look at the questions.

So which one do you want to try first?

Straight down the middle,

try nuclear weapons to start?

-OK!

-Nuclear weapons it is.

I don't know about the dates or the places,

but the French did a lot of

testing in the South Pacific.

Yeah.

Greenpeace and others were not

very happy about it.

Sounds right, doesn't it?

Let's open another one, shall we?

-Murphy's Law?

-Yes, please.

Let's have a look at the question behind Murphy's Law.

That is definitely not right.

It is Moore's Law.

It is named after Gordon Moore.

We are happy with that.

Let's have a look at the question behind Nine.

OK. Seven.

The magnificent seven was based on it.

OK, it is definitely that.

I'm glad you are both here.

We've got a sketchy answer and two solid ones there.

Which one of those is our correct answer?

So we think the middle one is right,

we know the other two are wrong.

Happy?

We are going to lock in nuclear weapons as your correct answer.

If it is correct, you get the chance to pick your first digit into the

code to see if sticks.

It is the correct answer.

France tested at Mururoa and Fangataufa nuclear weapons

until they stopped under increasing international pressure in 1996.

How many samurai were there?

As soon as this question came up,

Richard, you came up and said the

Magnificent Seven was a film

based on Seven Samurai.

Seven is the correct answer.

And the observation in computing

which suggest the speed of

processors doubles every two years,

used to be 18 months

but they've increased that,

Simon, you knew not only that this

was wrong, but you knew the correct

answer was Moore's Law.

Murphy's Law is the one that goes,

anything that can go wrong

will go wrong.

Thank you, Lesley.

Great start, guys, very confident.

It gives you the opportunity to choose a number from the code.

Which one do you want to choose?

-You guess first.

-4.

Let's see if the number four is in our code.

Is it there in the first box?

It's not there. Is it in the second box?

Well done. Wow, straight out of the traps, you guys.

You found the first number, and we are straight onto the next level

where things can get a bit harder, bit of a mixed blessing this

getting a number early.

As before, you get to see three answers, but this time,

you can only see the questions

behind two of them before you have to commit.

Shall we have a look at those three answers?

It does become more important which order you choose these in.

Never even heard of Eto'o.

Eto'o, he's a footballer, plays for Everton.

Right, OK.

A could be anything.

-Brut.

-Is that a champagne thing?

It's an aftershave.

-You seem to know who Eto'o is.

-OK.

Eto'o.

We are going to have a look at the question behind Eto'o.

Cameroon is plausible.

And I think there are two of them.

Other than that, don't know.

Given that A is quite a wild card,

should we go for Brut and see if we can,

and see if it is something we actually know?

-OK.

-Can we have a look at the question behind Brut?

I thought it might be an aftershave.

You did say that.

And I had an image of green, but Faberge, 1964,

don't know.

It was famous in the '70s, early '80s.

Brut, green packaging does ring a bell to me, as well.

Because of the green packaging,

and the men's grooming products, I'm leaning towards...

What do you think?

I'm leaning towards it, as well.

OK, what we are looking to do is discard an incorrect answer.

That will give us the chance to open A and look at the question.

Let's discount Eto'o.

You want to discount Eto'o?

-Yes, please.

-As an incorrect answer.

We want it to go red.

Is Eto'o an incorrect answer?

-Nice one.

-Lesley.

That's right, you recognised

the name Eto'o as a player in

the Cameroon team,

but that is Samuel Eto'o,

no relatives in the same squad.

The correct answer is Song,

as in Rigobert Song and Alex Song.

Thank you, Lesley. We can get rid of that as an incorrect answer.

We can open the question behind A.

I would say that's E.

Yes, I had a guess it was E.

Feeling a bit better now.

I do crosswords and stuff like that.

A lot of Es?

What are we going to do here, we are looking for the one incorrect answer

from the two remaining questions?

I think I'm happy to go for Brut.

We are going to lock in Brut as our correct answer.

We want Brut to go as green as its packaging.

Is Brut our correct answer?

-Well done.

-I think you got steadily more confident as you went on.

You had a great instinct

about that question. Yes, Brut,

is the famously green-packaged set of grooming products.

Traditionally advertised by

sportsmen like Kevin Keegan

and Henry Cooper.

And the most frequently used letter

in the alphabet, not A but E,

A is the third most frequently used.

Great stuff. What's the name of your frisbee team?

-DUFFA.

-DUFFA?

-Didsbury Ultimate Frisbee For Amateurs.

We can call you Team DUFFA.

-That works.

-We got a name.

Good. Listen, we already have one number in the code.

This buys you the chance to choose another one.

4 has gone, which one do you want to go for next?

You did a pretty good job last time.

-9, please.

-Going to go for the number 9.

Is it in the first box?

No number 9 there.

Is it in the third and final box?

No number 9 there, but we've discounted number 9.

Just think, if that had been in the code,

you'd have eight questions to answer, possibly,

at the highest level of the quiz, so it's quite nice to get rid of one.

OK. You're doing really well, Team DUFFA.

Not duffers at all.

Let's have a look at your next three answers.

Alan Bennett wrote plays.

-He did.

-And there was the old lady with the van.

-History Boys.

-I know a bit about poker...

-..Ish.

-She's got a terrible poker face, I know that.

Queen Mary. Could be the lady, could be the boat.

I think potentially poker would be easy to say if it wrong answer,

it would be fairly obvious...

Which one do we want to start with?

-Poker, please.

-OK, let's see the question behind Poker.

I would have thought...

It's Go, I remember it.

I've never even heard of the game Go.

We don't have to make a decision about that just yet,

although you seem very confident, Simon, let's face it,

it's very much in your ballpark, isn't it?

It is, yes.

I'm pretty sure I remember the news article.

OK, before we make a decision,

we can choose one other question to have a look at.

Alan Bennett. Seemed to get a few titbits between us.

-OK.

-Alan Bennett, please.

Let's see the question behind Alan Bennett.

OK, well, he wrote it,

and I'm sure someone does play him in it.

I don't know the name of the actor,

but it was definitely out last year.

I don't know the name of the actor

who played Alan Bennett in the film.

OK, we need to discard one of these as an incorrect answer.

I think we'll discard poker, please.

OK, we want to lose poker.

If it's the correct answer,

I'm afraid we are going home.

If it's incorrect, we get to look behind Queen Mary.

We want this to turn red, we want

this to be an incorrect answer.

Yes. Simon knows his stuff.

Absolutely. Yes, the answer to this

was in the question AlphaGo,

and Simon, you knew that straightaway.

There are poker bots that play

humans in online poker.

They're not great at bluffing.

Thank you, Lesley. It means we can get rid of that answer completely.

And we are going to reveal the question behind Queen Mary.

Well, that's definitely not Queen Mary,

they are sister ships of the Titanic.

OK, that sounds pretty reasonable to me.

So we are happy with Alan Bennett?

-Brilliant.

-We are going to put down

Alan Bennett as our correct answer.

-Yes, please.

-Let's lock it in.

Seems like for each question, one of you knows what's going on.

It's working out very well.

Let's just hope that carries on.

So far, yes, exactly, Simon.

Let's see, we want Alan Bennett to be the correct answer.

We want this to go green.

Yes. Knew it all along.

Richard, you remembered that Alan Bennett wrote The Lady In The Van.

Simon, you had seen it as well,

but you weren't quite sure who

played the English author Alan Bennett.

And the Olympic and Britannic sister ships, you knew it immediately,

Richard, good knowledge. Titanic,

the ship that sank on the 15th of April 1912.

Thank you, Lesley, Team DUFFA is not encountering any icebergs.

It means you get to choose another number.

4 and 9, both out of contention, eight left to choose from.

Which one you going to go for?

Number 2, please.

Is number two in the first box?

It's not there in the first box.

How about the third and final box?

It's not there either, but we've discounted another number.

The number 2 is gone.

If you answer the next seven questions correctly,

the door will open.

£1,500 each.

KLAXON

Oh, that sounds means we've run out of time,

so we can't finish up today.

You're happy with the way you're working as a team?

So far, it seems to be working.

-I think so far.

-Ready to continue next time?

-Absolutely.

-OK.

Lesley, impressive progress, isn't it?

Solid work so far, well done to Richard, Sally and Simon.

Thank you for your facts today.

-It's been a pleasure.

-Sally, Richard and Simon,

they need two more right numbers to win £4,500.

Will they do it?

Join us next time to find out.

Thanks for watching. It's goodbye from me.