Episode 22 The Code

Hello, and welcome to The Code. £6,000 is locked inside the safe.

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

Each time someone fails, though, more money is added,

so the jackpot goes up and up.

Last time, Martin, Rob and Phil, from South Wales had picked one

number which wasn't in the code before we ran out of time.

So, let's welcome them back.

Here they are. Good to see you back,

-Rob...

-Thanks, Matt. Nice to see you.

..Martin and Phil.

Lovely to have you back in the studio.

We'll remind ourselves, you're from South Wales,

Pencoed and Llanharan.

-Well done, excellent.

-Second time, not quite as good as the first.

THEY LAUGH

And a cashier, local government solicitor and business advisor.

-That's correct, yes.

-Doing well so far.

Now, I assume, when I see three fine Welshmen like yourselves

together, that there's going to be a song at some point.

Is that part of your repertoire?

No, never has been, never will be and never going to be.

Regardless of what time in the evening it is, no singing.

You think that you resemble The Dreamboys, the dancing troupe...

Dreamboyos.

There we go and that's why we are calling you now The Dreamboyos.

I can live with that. That's fine.

I don't want to see the act, I don't want to see the act.

And we hope the dream can continue for you today

because it's going ever so well.

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

-Hiya, Lesley.

-Welcome back.

I hope you can open that safe today, cracking that code.

Welsh blood, Lesley?

I have, yes, my dad is Welsh and my mum is part Welsh so...

-Excellent.

-Good.

-I thought I liked you.

I'm a bit of a gooseberry, here. Right. Right, gentlemen,

if you are ready, let's remind ourselves where we are.

There is the keypad, just the number zero has been taken from that.

Nothing in your code so far.

But the good news is we are at the stage where we get to see all

three questions at the same time. We get the whole picture.

Dreamboyos, £6,000 is locked inside the safe.

Are you ready?

-We're ready.

-Let's go for it.

Martin, Rob, Phil, let's have a look at the next three answers.

Only one of those

is correct.

That's the one you're trying to find.

At this point, as we've said,

you can open all three answers to

reveal the questions.

That's palindrome, isn't it?

We know that River Cottage is

something to do with that

-Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.

-Yeah.

Do you want to take that one first?

And see if it helps.

-Where shall we go first?

-We'll

take River Cottage first, please.

Let's have a look at the

question behind River Cottage.

I don't know the answer, but it doesn't seem right.

It's not that, I know the answer.

-That's definitely not right?

-No.

Phil's got a feeling about that one.

Which one do we want

-to look at next?

-£88.88? £88.88.

Let's reveal the question behind that.

Shall I go through them?

-50, 20.

-70.

-10.

-80.

-Five.

-85.

-Pound coin.

-Pound coin. TWO pound

-coin.

-Ooh, yeah.

-87.

-Two pound coin. Pound coin.

-88.

-50p.

-£88.50.

-10p.

-£88.60.

-5p.

-£88.65.

-2p.

-£85.67.

-1p.

£87.68, isn't it?

What about the 20p?

Do it backwards.

£50, £20, that's 70.

£10, 80, 85, 87, 88.

-88.50.

-BOTH:

-88.70. 88.85.

It's 87, 88, that's right.

That's the correct answer.

We may as well see the last one,

anyway. We'll see the last one.

As long as you're not all fooling

yourselves there.

Let's have a look at Thiswai-thatwai.

-That's wrong, that's wrong.

-That's completely wrong.

-It's not River Cottage.

-It's the last one, £88.88.

That two-headed animal is

pushmi-pullyu. Correct answer, Rob?

-£88.88.

-Let's lock it in as a correct answer.

If it's right, you get to choose another number to see

if it sticks in the code.

If it's wrong, I'm afraid

you're on the way back to the Valleys.

We don't want that. Let's see it go green.

-Got it, got it. Took a little while.

-It did.

-Sorry about that.

Beautifully worked out, Martin, with all the correct denominations.

There are some commemorative coins with other denominations,

but they are not in normal circulation.

And the fictional character Dr Doolittle is friends,

not with a thiswai-thatwai, but as Martin said, with a pushmi-pullyu.

In the 1967 film, it's shown as a double-headed llama.

Jamie Oliver once worked, not at the River Cottage,

you recognised this straightaway, Phil,

you sussed that that was the wrong answer.

Jamie Oliver worked at the River Cafe in Hammersmith.

The River Cottage is near Axminster

and is associated with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.

OK, and that means

you get to choose a digit to enter into the code.

-Where would you like to go next?

-We'll try with number two.

-OK.

-Why number two?

-It was on the hotel door room.

It seemed as good as anything.

Right, if we are ready, let's have a look. Is number two in your code?

Is it in the first box?

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

No number two. Is there a number two in the third box?

There, that's fine.

It doesn't matter because we get to carry on playing the game here

at its easiest.

Let's see your next three answers.

-I like it.

-Good.

-Gretl, Hansel and Gretl. Sebastian Vettel.

-Which one shall we go for first?

-I think the sport one.

Do you want to take Vettel first? We'll go Vettel first.

OK, we're going to have

a look at the question behind Sebastian Vettel.

'15, '14 was Hamilton.

Before that, it would have been Vettel, wouldn't it?

Yeah. And he did win it four times on the bounce, didn't he?

-OK, let's park it. We'll park that one for a moment.

-Let's park it.

Park Sebastian Vettel. Which one do

-you want to try next?

-Metal.

-Try metal.

-We'll go with metal.

-Metal.

Let's see the question behind metal.

-They're not metal, so that's wrong.

-They're wood.

-Glockenspiel...

Is metal. Xylophone is wood.

Xylophone is from the Greek for xylo, which is wood.

So, that, we can discard that straightaway.

-So that is not the correct answer.

-We're happy with that.

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

-Gretl's the youngest, not the oldest.

-Yeah, yeah.

-So that's wrong.

-She is one of them.

-She is one of

them, but she's the youngest.

-It's not the oldest?

-Gretl is the youngest child.

Which one is it going to be, then?

-ALL:

-Sebastian Vettel, please.

Right. Sebastian Vettel, let's lock it in.

If it is the correct answer,

it's your third chance of choosing

a number from the code.

We want it to go green.

-Fantastic.

-No doubt at all in your minds. Lesley.

You were very confident with this one, yes, driving for Red Bull,

Sebastian Vettel, one of the most successful drivers of all time.

Having a look at the other questions,

as soon as xylophone came up, you sussed that out right away.

Martin, you even knew that xylo was Greek for wood.

You also remembered that a glockenspiel is the one with

the metal bars.

Wood, the correct answer, then, instead of metal.

And in The Sound Of Music, the eldest of the Von Trapp children,

-Liesl, was the eldest.

-That's the one.

Good stuff, good stuff.

It is impressive, Dreamboyos.

And it buys us the chance to pick another number from the keypad.

Two and zero have gone, eight other digits left.

Why don't we stick with the room number that we had? And hopefully,

that will be a no go either, and we can stick with the easy questions.

-That may be a good strategy, we'll go with that.

-245, I was in.

-You were in 245, then?

-Which one do you want?

-Do you want go down like you said?

-Let's go down to five.

We'll go with five, then.

I want to know why Phil was in a room all by himself.

-He snores like...

-He's the tallest.

-He's the tallest.

-We had an arm wrestling competition for it, and I won.

-You won?

-Yeah.

-Right. OK.

Which number are we going to go for next, then?

-Five, please.

-We'll go for five.

Number five, says Phil. OK. Is five in the first box?

It's not there.

Is it in the second box?

It's not there.

Is the number five in the third box?

-Game on.

-You need to go back and choose different rooms.

Or something like that.

Two, five, zero, none of them are there in your code. So, happy?

-Happy.

-Happy.

Brace yourselves, gentlemen, for the next three answers.

Tamagotchi is that little sort of game... The puppy thing, the dog...

-Yeah.

-It's a Japanese virtual pet.

-A could be anything.

-Bubble & squeak is potato and cabbage, isn't it?

-Yeah.

So, shall we go with A just to see what that is?

OK, let's see the question behind A.

-E is a single dot.

-That's the ATC

comments with him.

That's the Air Cadets from 40-odd

years ago, that is.

Well, I was in it, but I don't remember.

-Well, Martin was paying attention, apparently.

-Obviously.

-That's why he got to sergeant.

-I think...I think E is a single dot.

OK.

-Right, we'll hold on to that one.

-Yes, we'll hold on to that one.

Which one do you want to look at

-next?

-We'll go with bubble & squeak.

Try bubble & squeak.

Yeah, it is similar, actually.

-You're the cook.

-Similar, yeah.

-So what's rumbledethumps in Scotland?

-Bubble and squeak.

THEY LAUGH

It's potato and swede

and turnips. It's a neeps and tattie-type thing.

OK, so we think we might be on to something with rumblededumps,

as far as Phil's concerned.

We still get to have a look at the question behind Tamagotchi.

Yes, please.

-BOTH:

-No, the Cabbage Patch dolls.

We used to have one, didn't we?

We used to have a Cabbage Patch

-doll.

-I'm very happy for you both.

Still got the certificate of adoption.

It's probably worth a lot of money

-now.

-So we're going to go

with rumblededumps.

Gentlemen, we are going to lock in bubble & squeak.

Is this going to be more progress

with the keypad or will this

be The Dreamboyos'

Last Tango In Powys?

We want it to go green.

-Love it.

-Well done, Philip.

-Love it, that's all Phil, that was.

-Brilliant work.

-I'm not drunk all the time.

Well done, Phil.

You led the way with this one, bubble and squeak, the equivalent.

It's a dish involving, usually,

potatoes, cabbage and other leftovers.

There are equivalents in many different types of cuisine.

And in Morse code, the letter represented by a single dot.

Martin, you not only dismissed A as the wrong answer -

A is a dot and then a dash -

but you also knew that E was the

correct answer. And Matt,

you've got a really interesting musical fact about Morse code.

Well, this is almost my favourite fact.

It's that the theme tune to the

television programme,

Some Mothers Do Have 'Em,

is "some mothers do have them" in Morse code.

Great!

And in Babyland General Hospital, you knew this straightaway,

Phil, you've got your certificate of adoption at home.

They were never sold, they were always put up for adoption,

Cabbage Patch Kids.

Tamagotchi's came from eggs.

Thank you, Lesley. Yes, full marks to Phil there

and a special commendation to Flight Sergeant Oram

for the interesting information we had there.

What we are missing still, though, is any numbers in the code.

Two, five, zero, all gone. Which one are you going to choose next?

Well, the only one which is left from the hotel rooms is four.

We are going to go with four.

Right, number four, is it going to be there?

Is it there in the first box?

No. How about the second box?

-It's there. We've got one.

-Oh, right, OK.

Number four, key to the door.

-Our strategy was good.

-Well, yes.

Eventually, eventually, we got there.

Right, great stuff. We have got a number four in that middle box.

Four numbers down now, we're making good progress.

But because you've found your first number,

that means we are on to the next level,

where things do get a bit trickier.

As before, you're going to see all three answers, but now

you only get to see two questions at a time,

before you have to commit.

It's going to be a bit more testing.

Are you ready for your next three answers?

It does become important, the

order in which you pick these.

Evil Under The Sun is Hemingway.

OK, what's the other two, do you think?

Madison Square Garden?

What about new bridge?

Look at the way it's done, it's

new bridge. It's not the place name.

No, it's not a name.

It's not a name.

Looks like it could be a bridge.

Something to do with a bridge.

What do you want to look at, then?

Evil Under The Sun, so Hemingway?

Philip's good at literature,

-so shall we go with that?

-Yeah.

OK, we'll try Evil Under The Sun, please, Matt.

There's an Agatha Christie novel called Evil Under The Sun?

-Is it, or...?

-Is it?

Or is it similar sounding?

-Try another one?

-Hm.

Not sure about that at all.

We can still have a look at one

of the others before you have to

dismiss one as incorrect.

OK, we'll go with Madison, then, please.

-I think it is the Madison.

-It is the Madison.

Cycling discipline involves riding along behind a motorised

-vehicle...

-I think it is called

-the Madison.

-It is.

We feel like we might have found

the correct answer.

I think we've got the correct

-answer.

-OK.

We are rejecting Evil Under The Sun.

OK, let's get rid of

Evil Under The Sun as an incorrect answer.

If it is incorrect, we get to look

at the question behind new bridge

and we get to carry on playing.

Good stuff. Good stuff.

Well done, Phil.

A great start to this set of questions.

Yes, the correct answer, not Evil Under The Sun which was

set in a secluded Devon hotel, but And Then There Were None.

There was a version shown at Christmas, 2015, by the BBC.

-I remember it, yeah.

-We can lose that

as an incorrect answer. We can open up

the question behind new bridge.

What is the bridge, then, across the

-Seine?

-Is the Pont Neuf in Paris?

-I'm not sure.

-You were fairly

certain about Madison to start with.

-Has that changed now?

-Pont Neuf is new.

It means new bridge, doesn't it?

-Is the Madison...?

-I'm not sure if the Madison...

There is one with motorised bicycles, but I'm not sure

if it's called the Madison now.

I should know this.

The oldest surviving bridge to cross the Seine in Paris has a name

that means what? New bridge?

Pont Neuf does mean new bridge, doesn't it?

Is that the oldest surviving bridge? Is that the oldest?

We're caught, aren't we? We're stuck between these two here.

-We are caught, very much.

-What we need is a Chris Hoy

-on our team at the moment.

-There's another one called the Omni.

I think it's the Pont Neuf.

-I've got a feeling it's Paris.

-Yeah.

I think... We're feeling it might be Paris.

-You think it's the cycling?

-Well, no, I mean...

-You're not sure it's the cycling?

-I'm not sure 100%, no.

We know that it's a discipline but...

But I'm also not sure it's the Paris one either.

-This is a rock and a hard place at the minute.

-It is.

-But we've got to decide something.

-Pont Neuf, I want.

I can go for the bridge.

I think it could be something different, the bike.

-Two to one, we are saying what?

-Are we going to go for Paris in the end?

-New bridge, yes.

-We're going to go for the new bridge.

You are going to lock in

new bridge as the correct answer.

Whatever happens here, can I just

make sure, you guys...

40 years' friendship doesn't end here, does it?

No. We'll be all right.

Good, good. We're solid. That's all that matters, then.

We desperately want new bridge to be the correct answer.

We want it to go green. Is new bridge the correct answer?

-Yes!

-Yes!

THEY LAUGH

Sometimes it's lovely to be overruled, isn't it?

THEY LAUGH

Are you all right there?

You were going through it. You were going through it there, Martin.

-Jeepers creepers.

-Well done, Dreamboyos. ALL:

-Thank you.

-Lesley.

-We're keeping the dream alive.

Yes, I really thought for a moment you were going to

go in the wrong direction there.

Rob, you remembered that Pont Neuf means new bridge in French,

and the oldest surviving bridge, it is, to cross the Seine.

Although when it was first opened in the early 1600s under Henry Navarre,

Henry IV, it was named Pont Neuf to

separate it from two older bridges that crossed that river.

The cycling discipline which involves

riding along behind a motorised vehicle for several laps,

not the Madison, which is a two-person tag team race,

-absolute chaos, but the Keirin.

-The Keirin, yes!

-That's the Kierin.

-There we saw how a proper

friendship works. Being tough and honest

with each other if you think you've not got it right.

That was lovely to watch, gents.

Now, four numbers on the keypad have gone.

You've got one up there on your code.

Six still to choose from. Where are we going to go next?

So this is the hotel room...

It only had three digits, so that's the end of that.

That's the end of that strategy.

Well, statistically, eight should be one, shouldn't it? In that line,

if we do it by lines, there's a possibility that,

randomised, you're going to get one in each column.

OK, sounds good to me. What do you think, Matt, do you like it?

They're random numbers, they're unique numbers, that's all I know.

But, Phil, if you think you've got a strategy...

-We're going to go with the eight.

-Number eight? OK. Let's find out.

Is it in the first box?

No messing. Phil, it worked.

-Good strategy.

-Good strategy.

This is getting a bit intense now, isn't it?

We're getting close to £6,000, but we've still got five numbers

up there to try and fit into that slot.

We are at the most difficult level of the game.

One number left to find, but now you get to open just one

question at a time before you have to commit.

As always, three answers, only one of them is correct.

Dreamboyos, are you ready for your next three answers?

Bring it on.

-Parlez-vous francais?

-Of course, at this stage...

-No.

..this is crucial,

which one you're going to choose first.

-Shall we do...?

-No.

-What do you want to run with?

-I don't do French.

-No, we'll leave that one till last.

-Shall we run with five?

-We go five or orange.

-Five... Better go orange.

-Orange, was it,

you said?

Either way, because it's one of our five-a-day anyway, isn't it?

-THEY LAUGH

-Go with orange.

That's lovely logic. Are we're going to go for orange?

-Yeah, go for orange, yeah.

-OK.

-It's not orange, is it?

-No.

It's definitely not orange.

-It's red, isn't it?

-Yeah.

-It's red, isn't it?

We will reject that.

We're going to reject

orange as an incorrect answer.

OK. This is getting tense now.

It's got to go red.

If it goes green, then that is the end.

Is orange an incorrect answer?

-Great stuff.

-OK.

-Great stuff.

Well done for dismissing orange there.

Yes, the G is blue. In fact, both Gs are blue.

One of the Os is slightly orange.

It used to be yellow, but it shifted to a more orangey yellow

-in recent times.

-Right.

Let's get rid of that as an incorrect answer.

Two left. One of them, therefore,

must be correct. You've narrowed the odds. 50-50.

Which one are we going to look at next?

-We'll go with five.

-OK.

-Five now.

-It's either four or five.

-It's not four.

-Are you sure?

-Pretty sure it's not four.

I'm pretty sure. It could be more than five.

No, I don't think it's more than five.

Could be six, actually.

I don't think that's the right answer.

-Just...

-You think it's wrong anyway?

You think there's more and I think there's less.

So... You think it is five, do you?

I think it could be six, actually.

Picturing it in my mind.

It's either five or six, it's going to be.

This makes the decision for us, obviously.

If this is wrong, French must

be right, if this is right, French must be wrong.

-So what are we going to do?

-Reject it.

-We'll reject it.

-We'll reject it, Matt.

We're going to reject five as an incorrect answer.

Although, let's face it, I don't think we're terribly sure.

-ALL:

-No.

-One way or the other.

-This could go any way.

It's a bit of a flyer.

-Now, that's locked in. We can't change that.

-Yeah, OK.

It does mean we can have a look at the question behind French.

We want this to look like a correct answer.

-Not French.

-Not French, is it?

-It's not French.

-Definitely not French.

-I think it's...

-German?

No, I think it's English, cos it was an ex-British Commonwealth country.

-It's not French.

-So I think we've got it wrong.

-Argh!

OK. We can find out now.

We want five to go red.

-We knew it. We knew.

-Absolutely gutted.

If we'd have gone for the French, we'd have been all right,

cos I'd have rejected that straightaway.

I'm so sorry. Four and six.

If you'd split the difference, you would've been there,

but, you know, it was a brave shout, you had to make a decision. Lesley.

I'm really sorry. This is where the game really starts to crunch.

Yes, the rows of benches, there are five.

650 MPs having to squeeze their bottoms onto those seats,

which is why in Prime Minister's Questions

so many have to stand.

And the official national language of Zambia.

Rob, if you'd seen this question to start with,

you would've known cos you remember the history of Zambia

and would've known that it was English,

exactly as you said, which is the official language.

It doesn't help us, I'm afraid, knowing. We know those things now.

It was just a matter of which...

-Order they came out in, yeah.

-..order they came out.

And it often is, you know? But you're not to know that.

Those questions are wide open.

OK, you had one number remaining

before you'd get the chance to open the safe.

Phil, you were in charge of the numbers.

Which one would you have chosen next?

-Six.

-OK. Let's have a look.

Was your final number six?

Oh.

THEY CHUCKLE

I've got to laugh. I'm so sorry, but that is an absolute sickener.

It was a 50-50, the right number,

the safe would've sprung open and...do you know what?

You can certainly go back to Pencoed and Llanharan

with your heads held SO high because you've done a brilliant job.

And such fun to have in the studio with us. You've worked so hard.

-Really nice people. Thanks, Matt.

-Thank you for having us.

Sadly on this occasion, Martin, Rob, Phil, The Dreamboyos.

-It's time to go.

-Turned into a nightmare.

-Hardly.

The dream has come to an end, though.

You've failed to break the code. We have to wish you goodbye...

-Thanks, Matt.

-..but with our best wishes.

-Thank you very much.

-Absolute pleasure to meet you.

-Cheers.

-Thank you.

-Thank you, mate.

HE SIGHS I was so wishing

that didn't go that way.

But it did.

Back to the Valleys. Tonight, not a happy valley, I don't think.

But The Dreamboyos' loss is our next contestants' gain

because the jackpot now goes up by £500.

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

-Hello, hello. Ann, how are you?

-Hello. Very well, thank you.

-Nice to meet you. And Chris.

-Hello, Matt.

-Good to see you.

-Now, you're both from Boston, in Lincolnshire. BOTH:

-We are.

And how do you know each other? How did you meet?

Basically, we've known each other years.

20 years ago we formed a - with other people -

a competition club.

So we meet regularly on that, and I know Chris.

Local gym, we meet there regularly.

-Pump iron?

-Oh, yes, we do.

-Oh, well...yes.

I don't literally pump iron, but, yes.

-So we've known each other many years.

-OK.

And what's your background?

What have you done with yourself over the years?

I've worked in insurance, estate agent,

I've done a part-time hypnotherapy, working for myself,

-and for the last ten years, I've been retired.

-Right.

-So a lot of knowledge to bring to us today.

-Ooh, well, I hope so.

-How about you, Chris?

-Well, after I left college,

I was...I'm a teacher. I was a teacher.

I married a Sri Lankan and went to live in Sri Lanka.

And after we came back, I taught in all kinds of schools

from diplomatic to special needs schools.

And I retired about 15 years ago,

and I just don't know how I found time to go to work.

-True.

-You've been busier since you've stopped teaching.

-Very busy, yes.

-Fantastic.

It's lovely to have you with us on the show all the way from Boston.

-BOTH:

-Yes.

-One of my favourite places.

-And Martin, Rob and Phil who went before you...

-Right.

Oh, they were so good, they were great guys.

-But unfortunately...

-Oh.

-..at literally the last hurdle,

they failed to complete the code, which is terrible news for them,

but it is good news for you

because another £500 goes into the safe.

And that means that the jackpot now stands at £6,500.

-Right.

-That'll do us.

The first thing we have to do is reset the code.

There we go. Three blanks.

We want to turn those into three unique numbers.

-So, Ann, Chris, are you ready? BOTH:

-Yes.

Let's look at your first three answers.

Remember, only one of those

can be correct.

-That's the one that you're trying to find.

-Right.

At this point, you can open all three answers to reveal

the questions. Where would you like to start?

We'll start at the top, shall we?

-We'll start at the top and move down.

-Sounds a good plan.

What African country has a coast

on both the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean?

The Indian Ocean is on the east, Algeria is on the west of Africa.

-So I think it...

-Just Atlantic, then, isn't it?

-Yes.

-Yes.

-Won't be Algeria.

-Only Atlantic.

-Don't think so.

-OK.

Let's move on. Let's have a look

at one of the other answers.

Let's have a look at Edna.

-Can we see...

-Hope it's Edna Everage.

-..the question behind Edna, please?

-Yes.

Oh.

Now, I think

that possibly could be right.

My daughter lives in Grantham, so I've

-heard a lot about Margaret Thatcher over the years.

-Oh, have you?

-No. We'll have a look at spaghetti.

-Yes.

-Yes.

-OK.

-Now, that is true.

-They did...

-Because Richard Dimbleby, on Panorama...

-Yes.

..did present a programme,

and it showed you spaghetti hanging down from trees.

-And it was an April fool, and I think we believed it.

-It was.

-And...

-But Margaret Thatcher...

Margaret Thatcher's middle name was Hilda.

-Oh.

-I'm sure it was. Margaret Hilda Thatcher.

-I'm sure about the Panorama one.

-Yeah.

-OK.

-Are we coming to a decision?

-Yes.

-We are.

Which one would you like to lock in as the correct answer?

-We'd like to lock...

-Spaghetti.

No. No.

It's not correct. Margaret...

Oh, sorry, sorry. Beg your pardon.

-Oh, dear.

-Are we clear?

-Yes.

-Spaghetti.

We're going to lock in spaghetti as our correct answer

after a tiny wobble at the end there.

Is spaghetti

the correct answer?

-It is.

-Yes!

Well done. We are off the blocks.

Yes, Ann and Chris, you remembered the Panorama programme

presented, exactly as you said, by Richard Dimbleby, Ann,

in which spaghetti bushes were harvested to produce spaghetti.

So many people believed it that there were calls to the BBC

asking where people could buy spaghetti bushes

to grow in their own gardens.

And the African country which has a coast

on both the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean.

You immediately dismissed this.

Algeria, coast on the Mediterranean.

The correct answer is South Africa.

And Margaret Thatcher's middle name.

-You had an epiphany, Chris, about this one.

-Yes.

Not Edna, but Hilda.

Born Margaret Hilda Roberts in Grantham in Lincolnshire.

Yes, thank you, Lesley.

That was a good question for you guys, geographically,

-being from Boston, Grantham just down the road.

-Yes.

It means that you get the chance to put one digit into the code

to see if it sticks.

They're all there at the moment, between zero and nine.

-Which one would you like to start with?

-Three.

-They call it the magic number.

-They do.

Is it going to be magic for you? Is it there in the first box?

No number three. How about the second box?

No number three there.

Is there a number three in the final box?

-No number three.

-No.

-Not magic for us today.

Not magic, but it does do a job of work.

-It eliminates it.

-You've eliminated it.

You can carry on playing the game at the stage

where you can see all three questions at the same time.

-Shall we have a look at your next three answers?

-Yes.

-Shall we go from the top again?

-Yes.

Oh, gosh, I'm not a...Doctor Who...

I'm not a Doctor Who... Haven't watched it much.

-Shall we open one of the others?

-Yes, please.

-Can we have a look at bingo?

-Yeah.

No, it's not Bingo, is it?

I've read them all, and it's so long ago I can't remember.

It's not Bingo. No, it's not Bingo.

You're certain it's not Bingo.

Trying to think of its name, but...

Let's look at the other question.

OK. Let's have a look at the question behind eureka.

It wasn't eureka.

-I thought eureka was...

-That was Archimedes.

-..Archimedes.

-When he was sat in the bath.

I think it was.

Of the three, possibly the top one is...

I think it's going to be the top because I'm sure bingo is not...

-Doesn't sound...

-So it's the process

-of elimination, is it?

-It is, really.

You're not certain about Geronimo.

No, we're not certain. But...

I'm almost certain about eureka and Ann is fairly certain about bingo.

I'm certain about...I'm certain about eureka.

So I think we have to go for Geronimo.

We're going to lock in Geronimo as

the correct answer.

We want Geronimo to be the word

linking an American Apache

leader and Matt Smith's Doctor Who.

-Yes!

-It's there. Well done, Ann.

Yes, well done.

A classic case here of deciding on the correct answer

because you had information about the wrong ones.

The word which links the Native American Apache leader

who died in 1909 and Matt Smith's Doctor Who is Geronimo.

According to Steven Moffat, the show runner,

Matt Smith just liked the word and kept saying it during filming.

And in Enid Blyton's Famous Five, the name of the dog.

Ann, you remembered having read Enid Blyton books,

and this one didn't ring true for you.

-No.

-The correct answer is Timmy.

-Of course.

There's also a Scamper in The Secret Seven.

And meaning the die is cast.

You decided immediately, both of you very confident

that eureka was to do with Archimedes.

The correct answer is alea iacta est.

-Oh, yes.

-Oh.

-Yeah.

Alea iacta est. I'd never heard that before

and certainly never tried to pronounce it.

The right choice, Chris and Ann,

means that you get to choose another number from the keypad.

-Which one would you like next?

-I will try number eight, please.

With Ann, she wants number eight.

Is it there in the code? Is it in the first box?

No. Is it in the second box?

-It is.

-Oh, good.

-We've got one.

-Got one.

-Brilliant.

The first number in the code, slap bang in the middle, is number eight.

Well done, Ann.

Good choice. You've found your first number.

You're onto the next level of the game, though,

-and it does get a little bit harder.

-Yes.

As before, you see all three answers,

but this time you can only see the questions

behind two of them before you have to make a choice.

-Right.

-You have to commit.

-Shall we have a look at your next three answers?

-Yes.

-Well...

-E17, I think, is Leyton or

Leytonstone where I used to live...

-Postcode, are you talking about?

-Postcode.

-Yes.

-There's also,

-I think, a pop group, is there? East 17.

-East 17.

Now, at this stage, it does become

more important which one you choose

-first as you go through.

-Right.

So where would you like to start?

I know nothing about an E17. So if you've got...

EDDY, we know quite a bit about, we think.

-We think we know a bit...

-We'll E17, please.

Let's have a look at the question behind E17.

Now, I'm not sure that Stratford is E17.

I'm not sure about that.

We can open one other one

before we have to make a decision

and reject one.

-Well, I would go with EDDY.

-Right.

-Because I don't know much about ET.

-No, no.

-OK.

Let's open the question behind EDDY.

Edward David maybe.

-No. He wouldn't...he wouldn't be a Yorick or a...

-No.

-Would he?

-"Alas, poor Yorick..." No.

-No.

We have to reject one of those

before we can see the question behind ET.

Well, unlike you, I would reject EDDY.

-Reject EDDY.

-Yes, we'll reject EDDY, please.

-OK.

We are going to mark down

EDDY as an incorrect answer.

We want that to go red.

We want our Boston belles to carry on

sailing through the code.

-Yes!

-Well done.

-Yes.

-Great stuff.

Yes, well done, Ann, for spotting that Y would be an unlikely initial.

He is Edward Anthony Richard Louis, spelling E-A-R-L, earl.

Yes, his name is

EARL. And we can get rid of that. It's an incorrect answer.

We don't have to worry about it.

It also means that we can have a look at the question behind ET.

Could possibly. It's so unlikely it could possibly be right.

So, one of these must be the correct answer.

That's the one we're looking for.

I think E17 is Leyton

or Leytonstone.

Not Stratford,

which is where the Olympic Park is.

I'm sure when I... It's a long time since

I lived there, but...

-Well, I'll be happy to go with that, Chris, because...

-Right.

We'll reject the top one.

OK, we're looking for the one correct answer.

We think the elderly lady

named Pat Welsh did provide the voice for ET.

OK. We are going to

lock in ET as our correct answer.

We want it to go green.

-Great work.

-Yes, very good decision. The elderly lady named Pat Welsh.

Apparently, she had a raspy voice,

supposedly because she was a chain smoker.

And the postcode which

links the fictional Albert Square with the Olympic Park.

Well, Chris, you remembered that

this didn't quite ring true for Stratford.

East 17 is associated with the band from Walthamstow,

and that's indeed the postcode for Walthamstow.

The correct answer is E20.

-The Olympic Park's postcode is E20 2ST.

-It means that

we get the chance now to put in another number.

Two slots remaining to fill. Where would we like to go next?

-Four.

-The number four. Is it in our code?

Not in the first box.

Is the number four in the third and final box?

-Oh!

-It's not there. We've got rid of three now.

We still get to play the game where

you can see two questions at a time before it gets any more difficult.

-OK, are you ready for your next three answers?

-Yes.

You're doing brilliantly, ladies. Let's see if we can carry that on.

Here they are.

-Peach is a colour and fruit.

-..a peach and a fruit.

Carey Mulligan is an actress.

Far from the Madding Crowd, I saw. She was in that.

-Brands Hatch is the motor racing...

-Circuit.

I think it's one of the oldest in Britain, certainly.

-Let's go from the top down.

-OK.

We want to look at peach.

-It's not a peach.

-It's not a peach, is it?

-No.

-It's a plum.

-Yeah.

Where would you like to go next?

-Carey Mulligan.

-Go Carey Mulligan. We'll go down in order.

I did see it

and I can't remember the young actress' name.

But she was dark haired

and I think she was an American actress. I'm not sure.

Or was that one who played Queen Padme?

All we're looking to do

is eliminate an incorrect answer

at this stage.

That's what will allow us to see behind Brands Hatch.

-Well, the top one...

-Yes.

-The top one is incorrect.

We're going to eliminate peach.

We're confident that a greengage

is not a type of peach.

We want that to go red.

Good stuff.

-Knew that one.

-Well done, Chris.

I heard you say the correct answer to this one as well.

You said plum, and that is right.

Greengages became popular in England

having been imported from France in the 18th century

-by Sir William Gage.

-Oh, yes.

-Thank you, Lesley.

It means we can eliminate that and discard it as an incorrect answer.

We can also look at the question behind Brands Hatch,

see if that helps us.

I would be inclined to go with Brands Hatch as possibly...

-The right one.

-..correct.

-Yes.

The face, Carey Mulligan's face

doesn't seem to fit with the character I'm thinking of.

-We'll have to go for Brands Hatch.

-There certainly is a Dingle Dell.

-Yes.

-I've heard of that. And I've heard of Druids Bend.

-But it could've been...

-Yeah.

-..another race track.

-We'll go for Brands Hatch.

-We'll go for Brands Hatch.

We're going to look in Brands Hatch

as the correct answer.

If it is, we get to put another digit into the code.

Is Brands Hatch our correct answer? We want to see it go green.

Green. Green. Please.

-We are very lucky today.

-Aren't we?

-You are riding your luck.

-We are.

-We are.

-We are.

But there's a lot of knowledge there.

-That's not your subject, is it?

-No, not at all.

-Absolutely not.

-Brilliant work.

Lesley.

Yes, Ann, you recognised some of these features of Brands Hatch.

Brands Hatch hosted the British Grand Prix 12 times

between 1964 and 1986.

And the English actress who played

the handmaiden and decoy of Queen Padme.

Well, straightaway, you identified Carey Mulligan as having been in

Far from the Madding Crowd before you even saw the question.

The correct answer is Keira Knightley.

Keira Knightley played Sabe, the handmaiden and decoy

for Natalie Portman, who was Queen Padme.

It was Natalie Portman I was trying to think of.

Ann and Chris,

which number would you like to choose next?

I will go for number two.

The number two. Is it in Ann and Chris' code?

Is it up there in the first box?

It's not.

Is the number two there in your third and final box?

It's not there either. But the number two has gone.

Two, three, four and eight, all gone from your keypad.

One number in your code.

It just means you have to answer six questions maximum...

KLAXON BLARES

But unfortunately, you won't be doing it today

because that sound means we have run out of time.

You're working really well, good momentum.

No reason why it can't happen.

-Lesley, thank you for your magnificent facts.

-You're welcome.

Ann and Chris, I've been really impressed with your clear thinking,

and I'm looking forward to seeing you continue your progress tomorrow.

-BOTH:

-Thank you.

-Thank you.

Yes, Ann and Chris just two numbers away from opening the safe

and taking home £6,500,

one of the biggest jackpots we've had.

Join us tomorrow to find out if they have

what it takes to crack the code.

Thanks for watching and goodbye.