Episode 12 The Code

Hello and welcome to The Code.

Locked in this safe is £3,000.

To open the safe and win the money,

contestants just need to crack a three-digit code.

Every time someone fails, more money goes into the safe

and the jackpot gets higher and higher.

Now, last time, Nick, Waheeza and Matt were tantalisingly close,

having found two numbers in the code.

The numbers zero and three, before we ran out of time.

So, let's welcome them back on.

Back again for fun and games.

-Good to see you, Nick.

-All right.

-Waheeza.

-Hi.

-And Matt.

-All right?

-Lovely to have you back.

-Now, we know that you come from Northamptonshire.

-That's it, yeah.

-And Staffordshire?

-That's it.

-And you work together in a builder's merchant?

-That's it.

I understand there's a cinema club, is that right?

There is a cinema club, yeah.

Is it difficult to agree on a film that you all want to see?

-No, I pick them.

-Yeah, she's the office social secretary, yeah.

-Right, you make things happen.

-I do.

-Did you organise this little group here as well?

-Kind of, yeah. Mainly.

Right, are you going to organise for them to win as well?

-That's up to him.

-No pressure, yeah.

OK, let us reintroduce ourselves to our

-hyper intelligent sage supreme, Lesley Brewis.

-Hello, welcome back.

You've made a good start with two numbers in the code

and I hope you can get that third and open the safe. Good luck.

Yes, indeed.

Zero and three are there. There's a blank to fill.

And if we look at the keypad, well, there is some work to do.

Six numbers to choose from at the trickiest bit of the game,

but it's a roll of the dice.

One in six, all you have to do is keep getting the questions right.

-OK, guys, are you ready? ALL:

-Yes.

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

At this stage of the game,

the trickiest bit, you only get

to see them one at a time before

you have to make your decision.

So, choose very carefully.

Well, so, I only know Johnny Rotten

from I'm A Celeb and...

Well, he was in a band,

do you know the band that he was in?

And not sure if that was

-The Clash or...

-Best Mate.

It could be anything because it

could be like Best Mate in films

or Best Mate in real life.

-Best Mate.

-Best Mate.

-OK.

Let's open the question behind Best Mate.

-I have heard of a horse called Best Mate, but...

-Did he die in 2005?

Ringing any bells at all for you?

-Oh, no.

-Whether that happened, I don't know.

-My mate is a massive horse racing fan.

-My cousin is a jockey.

-Really?

Yeah. I don't anything about horses.

You've got a vested interest in it.

Shall we just jack that answer and go to Johnny Rotten or Rebels?

-Yeah.

-Yeah, OK.

-Let's do that.

-We want to discard that?

-Yeah.

Discard that as an incorrect answer, OK. That's out of the game now.

We may have hit a weak spot there,

-but let's find out by looking at one of the others.

-Rebels...

I know Johnny Rotten did the

butter adverts as well.

He did do the butter.

-He did, yes.

-Oh, yeah.

-Johnny Rotten?

-It's up to you.

-Let's do it.

-Yeah, Johnny Rotten.

OK, the question behind Johnny Rotten, please.

I reckon that's a good chance it's that.

You reckon there's a good chance it's that?!

That would be my guess.

True, because people would probably

pay a high price if he is saying

"No, I don't want it."

Why would he not want to be an MBE?

He was antiestablishment so he...

He would probably reject that.

Yeah, he would have rejected it.

He was a bit of a rebel.

Shall we go for it or...

Let's go for Johnny Rotten.

Happy to lock that in or as happy

-as we can be?

-Happy as we can be.

OK, we're going to lock in

Johnny Rotten as our correct answer.

It means we can have a look now at the question behind rebels.

Hopefully, that's going to feel like an incorrect answer.

Let's have a look.

What is the English meaning of the word Bolsheviks? What do you think?

You're good at foreign languages. Any idea?

I wouldn't have known that. Bolshy?

Does that make you

feel better, worse? Does it make

you feel anything at all?

-No, it doesn't, no.

-I don't know.

Well, it's academic because you've

locked in Johnny Rotten as your correct answer.

That's the one that we want

to go green to give you

a chance to try one of those

six digits up there in the code.

If not, if it turns red,

then I'm afraid you will be going

back with nothing.

Is Johnny Rotten our correct answer?

-ALL:

-Aw!

I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.

Let's find out which WAS the correct answer.

-It was Best Mate.

-No way!

-Oh, no!

First one you discarded. Lesley.

Yes, the first one you opened there was the correct answer but

you rejected it because you weren't on firm ground with your horses.

Yes, Best Mate won the Cheltenham Gold Cup

in 2002, 2003 and 2004 and died,

suspected heart attack in 2005.

Let's look at the other answers on the board.

Johnny Rotten, wrong answer, we know. The correct answer was...

-Anyone want to have a guess for a Lesley point?

-John Lennon.

John Lennon is the right answer.

Yes, so John Lennon rejected his MBE, wrote a letter and what is

thought to have been a draft of that letter found in a record sleeve.

And the question there, Rebels not the correct answer.

Matt, you said you'd heard of the word "bolshy" which comes from

Bolsheviks, doesn't mean rebels though, it means "majority".

And that comes from members

of the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party

who took power in the Russian Revolution in 1917.

Thank you, Lesley. Well, what can I say, team?

You did fantastically up to that point, particularly in the way that

you were choosing the numbers, you were knocking them down and it did

mean you got to the tricky stage of the quiz very, very quickly indeed.

I'm very much looking forward to cinema club.

Just drop me the line, Waheeza, and I will be there. OK!

Let's find out,

what was the next number you would have gone for do you think?

-ALL:

-Seven.

-Seven!

Let's find out, is the number seven up there in your code?

Is it 0-3-7?

It was a 2. So, you would have had to do a bit more work anyway.

Listen, it's been an absolute pleasure having you on the programme

and, unfortunately, at this stage, I have to say that Nick, Waheeza,

Matt, you failed to crack the code and we have to say goodbye to you.

Lovely to meet you, Nick.

-Lovely to meet you.

-Cheers.

-Take care.

-Take care, cheers.

Goodbye.

Yes, rapid progress brought to a sudden stop, unfortunately.

But their loss is our next team's gain because the jackpot

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

And here they are. Lovely to see you, Anthony. How are you?

-Very well, thank you.

-And Michael?

-Yes.

Tell me where you guys come from, Anthony?

So, I'm from Derby, or just outside Derby.

-And you?

-I'm from Rochdale.

From Rochdale? So how did you come to know each other?

Well, until I heard him speak, I didn't actually know it was him.

-We've never actually physically met before.

-We do a podcast together.

-What's the subject of the podcast?

-We cover reality TV shows and

Michael and I tend to cover the British shows.

I have done about 135 episodes or something like that now.

Wow! When you're not making the podcasts, what do you do, Anthony?

Well, so, I'm also a big Rugby League fan,

-I like going camping with my family...

-So, you're married?

-I am, I'm married to Tara, I have two boys, Joe and Tom.

-Fantastic.

And how about you?

And I work in student and client services for

a company that provides accountancy qualifications.

Well, this is a TV show, it's also reality

so this should have all your favourite things in there.

Let's just tell you where we are.

Last time, unfortunately for them,

our team didn't win the jackpot, that's better news for you,

though, because it means another £500 goes into the safe

making a total of £3,500.

-How would that work out for you guys?

-That would be really good.

-Great.

-Very nice indeed.

OK, if you're ready, let's reset the code.

Three blanks that we're trying to turn into three numbers

if you're going to get your hands on the money inside the safe.

Anthony, Michael, 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.

At this point of the game, you can open all three answers to have

a look at the questions behind them. So, we'll start at the very top.

The question behind chicken, please.

-It's ham, isn't it?

-Yeah, some kind of ham, bacon.

You're happy with that one?

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

France or Spain, wouldn't it?

Yeah, I would have thought Spain.

France or Spain

would be in the middle.

It's not jutting out that far.

You're not going to get to Africa.

Right, let's have a look at the question behind Solo Males.

-Yeah, that sounds about right.

-Yeah,

it does sound right, doesn't it?

-Steve Brookstein.

-Steve Brookstein.

Matt Cardle, James Arthur...

Leon Jackson.

Whoever won it this year.

-Shayne Ward.

-Shayne Ward, yep.

So that's more than six.

There's not going to be many others.

That has to be right, then.

OK, that's the one you're feeling

like the correct answer.

-Yeah.

-OK, let's lock in

Solo Males as our correct answer.

We need this to turn green.

If it does, it gives you your first chance to enter

a digit into the keypad to see if it's there in your code,

so is Solo Males our correct answer?

-It is, well done.

-Yes, Solo Males the correct answer there.

I think you listed almost all the solo male winners of the X Factor.

The only ones I think you missed were Ben Haenow and Matt Terry,

the most recent. And let's look at the wrong answers on the board.

When you saw chicken, you not only knew that that was wrong,

but you also gave us the correct answer which is pancetta,

bacon, anything like that.

And the next one there again, you dismissed Morocco as incorrect

and give the correct answer which is Spain.

You'd end up on the Bay of Biscay.

To get Morocco going due south, you'd have to come

-from the south-west of Ireland.

-Thank you, Lesley.

Yes, a little bit of luck there,

finding a subject that's so close to your shared passion.

Let's see if you're as lucky here with the keypad.

Now, the numbers range from zero through to nine.

-Which one do you want to start with first?

-You can have first choice.

Well, seeing as eight was in that question, we'll go for eight.

As good a reason as any.

Is eight there in the code? Let's have a look in the first box.

-Wow.

-OK. I can't believe that.

-Have you guys got somewhere to be?

You're trying to get through this as quickly as possible, clearly.

That wasn't the plan.

Well, nobody has ever completed the code in just three questions.

You're on track to do that.

The slightly trickier bit is what happens with the quiz now

because, as before, you see all three answers but this time,

you will only get to see two of the questions before you have to

make a decision about which one is right.

Let's carry on. Have a look at your next three answers, please.

Of course, at this stage, it becomes much more important the order

in which you pick these questions.

My instinct would be to say June first.

-OK...

-Because June is probably the most vague of those answers.

-OK.

-Do you want to go for that, then?

-Yeah.

-We'll go for June first, please.

-OK.

Let's see the question behind June.

-It's July, I think.

-It is July, I'm pretty sure it's July.

-It's my wife's birthday, I think.

-OK.

So, there's one we think we can discard.

We can open another one before we make any decision at all.

You're the man who says he knows a lot about geography.

-Will we go for Iraq?

-Oh, we'll go for Iraq, go on, then.

The question behind Iraq.

-Afghanistan.

-That's definitely Afghanistan.

I know that.

You're happy with that, so we have two questions out,

we have to now identify which one is the correct answer.

-Confident Single then.

-We're going to have to.

Plump for Single, I think.

OK, we're going to lock in Single as the correct answer despite

the fact we have not seen the question behind it.

Let's do it. There it is.

Now, let's have a look at the question and see how it makes

us feel.

-Yeah.

-Single Transferable Vote.

-Single Transferable Vote.

-You're happy with that.

-Yes, very.

-Can you go two for two?

Is Single the right answer?

Yes. All the way. Lesley.

Yes, well done, picking Single there by elimination.

Single Transferable Vote, STV, a means of selecting candidates

by transferring excess votes to the next preference.

And June, when this came up, you said it definitely isn't June,

you said it might be in July.

It's actually in September, usually on the second Saturday in the

Royal Albert Hall and screened all over the UK in various parks.

And the next question, you got this one straightaway,

Iraq not the right answer - Afghanistan.

Good stuff, not just finding the right answer but supplying

-some of the correct answers for the wrong ones as well.

-Yes.

And now we get the chance to try and complete our code, or make it

a little bit more complete, anyway.

-Which one do you want to try next?

-Your turn.

-Three.

The number three, is it up there in our code? Let's have a look.

In the second box, is there a three?

Seriously?!

-Oh, my goodness.

-OK.

-What is it? Is it a dentist appointment?

Right, 8-3-blank.

As I said, no-one has ever completed the code in just three

questions and you are on track to do that right now.

The flipside of it is, this is the trickiest part of the quiz.

This is the bit where you see all three answers as before but

you only see the questions one at a time.

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

Anthony and Michael, here they are.

I think we've got to go for wonderful Indonesia.

Wonderful Indonesia.

You're going to say Indonesia, why Indonesia?

The last show I covered on the podcast was sponsored by the

Indonesian tourist board.

We made a lot of fun of their advertising campaign,

-they call it Wonderful Indonesia.

-This is not all part of that, is it?

-No.

-No.

-Not that I know of.

-OK, the question behind Indonesia, please.

Indonesia was a colony,

so I can't imagine that would have its own colonies.

Yeah, but unless that and Papua New Guinea broke off separately.

What would Papua New Guinea likely to have been independent from?

It's probably going to be Britain, because most things were Britain.

Yeah. Actually, yeah, and they've got a good relationship with the UK.

-I can't imagine that Indonesia would have had...

-Its own colonies?

-No.

-I think we're going to have to say it's wrong.

-Yes, I think it's wrong.

We're going to say it's wrong.

-We want to discard this as an incorrect answer?

-Yeah.

OK, let's do that.

That's out of the game now. Which one do you want to try next?

-50, I'm saying.

-Yeah.

Little Dorrit is a Dickens book,

-that's pretty much all I know about it.

-Yes, I would say 50, then.

-OK.

-We're going for 50.

-Let's have a look at the question behind 50.

-64.

-Is it?

-Eight by eight, I think.

-Let's just check.

-I'm reasonably confident it's square.

-Are you? I'm not.

It's not five by ten, is it? Which would be the...

-It's not ten high, is it?

-No. It's eight by eight, I think.

-Are you confident it's not 50?

-Yes.

So we'd have to disregard 50, I think.

Yes, I'm going to trust Michael's gaming knowledge.

-Lock in Little Dorrit as the correct answer.

-Let's lock it in.

OK, there it is locked in, we cannot change it,

but we can have a look at the question behind it.

-I'm pretty sure Dorrit is female.

-Well, yes.

It's whether it's the only one. I can't think of any others.

-Well, there's only got to be one.

-Yeah, absolutely.

If we know Little Dorrit is Charles Dickens. We know Dorrit's female.

-You're absolutely right.

-How is that making you feel right now?

-Happy.

-Better.

-Good. You weren't too sure about Indonesia.

-No.

This gives you the chance now to complete the code in just

three questions.

Something that has never been done before.

Is Little Dorrit the correct answer?

-Yes!

-Yes, well done.

Little Dorrit, little Amy Dorrit,

the daughter of an imprisoned debtor.

Let's look at the wrong answers which you dismissed.

Indonesia, not correct. Indonesia, exactly as you said,

doesn't have any colonies. The correct answer is Australia.

You mentioned British colonialism, and, yes,

Papua New Guinea has previously been under German and British rule.

Various parts of Papua New Guinea. And the Connect Four question. 50.

Michael, you quickly said that it couldn't be 50 because it wasn't

a five by ten grid. That's right, but it's not eight by eight.

It's actually six by seven. It's six high, seven wide.

And the correct answer, then, is 42. Very well done, nicely dealt with.

Yeah, good bits of deduction in there as well as bits of knowledge,

-piecing it altogether.

-Now the important bit.

-Now, our last winner, Paul, took ten questions.

-Wow.

If you do this in three, then you are something else,

because it hasn't been done.

It all rides on whether you can choose the right number to

-put into that last box to complete the code.

-It's your choice.

So I will leave it all in your capable hands.

-For no reason whatsoever, I'm want to choose four.

-Four.

-So who's going to join me at the safe?

-That would be Anthony.

-It's my number, I have to take the burden.

-Your number is up, Anthony.

Right. Join me at the safe.

Anthony and Michael, you've chosen the number four.

If four is the final number in your code,

you will go home today with £3,500.

-Anthony, are you ready?

-I think so.

-Punch in the number four.

Round and round it goes.

Is it going to be 834?

That's what we are looking for.

To complete the code in just three questions,

the first time it's ever been done.

-It couldn't be that easy.

-No.

And listen, I was only just getting to know you.

So, come on, let's have another go. We can do this.

Now, reality is just kicking in a little bit here now,

which you guys... You're fans of reality. This is the reality.

You don't get quite that lucky.

Four wasn't up there, but every number that goes in now

gives you a shot at that money, OK?

-Are you ready for your next three answers?

-Yes.

-Here they are.

So, Uhuru, original series of Star Trek.

But a question for that one could be something like,

"Who was the female in the first interrace relationship...?"

-That's exactly what I was thinking. First interrace kiss on TV.

-Yes.

It's got to be about Star Trek.

-If your instinct is saying Uhuru, we'll go for Uhuru.

-Yeah.

-I think we'll go for Uhuru.

-OK,

let's open the question behind Uhuru.

It's Harambe. "Justice for Harambe."

An internet campaign, so I'm pretty confident about that one.

Are you with us, Anthony? You're confident?

-I'm confident that he's confident.

-OK, good.

-So we want to discard this as an incorrect answer?

-We do.

Let's do that.

-Where do you want to go next?

-We'll go John.

-OK.

The question behind John, please.

-Yeah.

-We're reasonably confident with that one.

-I think so.

From the Walt Disney Robin Hood film. I think we'll lock that in.

I think we're pretty confident on that one.

-OK, we're going to lock in John as our correct answer.

-Yeah.

Taking as our text Robin Hood, the Disney film.

-That famous historical text.

-Absolutely.

Let's have a look now at the question behind Colonel.

-It's not Colonel.

-It's not Colonel.

-You're happy with that question...

-Yeah.

-..as incorrect? Good. Team reality. Here we go.

Let's find out. If it's not correct, I'm afraid that's it,

you're going home, back to the podcast.

Is John our correct answer?

-Yes!

-Well done on finding the correct answer.

And your Disney knowledge helping you there.

Yes, John Lackland and Richard Lionheart, sons of Henry II.

It was in the reign of King John the Magna Carta was agreed.

And Colonel, not correct. The correct answer is Major.

And the last one, Uhuru, not to be confused with UHURA from Star Trek.

Michael, you said this straightaway, the correct answer is

Harambe, as in "Justice for Harambe",

shot after a three-year-old climbed into

-the enclosure at Cincinnati Zoo.

-Good answers, good knowledge,

carrying you through that relatively painlessly, it felt like.

-Yeah, it was better.

-Here we are. The keypad.

Which could be a source of continuing pain if we don't

get this right.

Eight and three are up there, we know that,

-there's an empty slot there. We know it's now not four. Where next?

-Zero.

-Zero.

-OK.

-Who is going to join me at the safe?

-Got to be me this time, I think.

-Go on, then.

Michael, let's make our way down to the safe.

Anthony, Michael, you've chosen the number zero.

If zero is the final number, you will go home today with £3,500.

If you're ready, hit zero.

Round and round it goes. 830 we are now looking for.

It wasn't four, we know that. We want it to be zero,

to give Anthony and Michael £3,500 to take home with them today.

It's not zero. We soldier on, we keep going.

Back across the ocean.

You're doing brilliantly with the questions.

I know you said your strategy was to try and...

Stay on round one as long as possible was the strategy.

To stay on round one for as long as possible.

But you can't do that when it's random numbers.

-It just doesn't work that way. Let's see your next three answers.

-OK.

-My instinct would be Barcelona.

-OK.

-Because I've been there.

If you're feeling good about Barcelona,

-geography's been OK with us so far.

-Yes, we'll go Barcelona.

The question behind Barcelona, please.

-When did you go to Barcelona?

-About 2004, 2005.

Did you go to the Guggenheim?

-I didn't, we were there for the day.

-Because it wasn't there?

-No.

-I think you'd be aware of it. If you'd been after it had opened.

Even if you didn't go, I think you'd have been aware.

It's what the alternatives are, though, isn't it? It's not Madrid.

-Is it definitely not?

-I don't think. Seville.

It might be Seville, actually. Seville rings a bell. Discard it?

Yeah, I think we'll have to let that one go.

OK, we're going to discard that as an incorrect answer.

There it is, it's gone, it's out of the game.

Now we have O'Malley and Reign of Terror to choose from.

Which one of those do you want to see the question for?

I can't remember what the Reign of Terror was.

Was that around...? Is that Spanish Inquisition, is that...?

Might very well be.

But if we open that one, we'll probably instinctively know

whether it's the Reign of Terror or not.

I don't know, because I'm not sure what it is.

HE LAUGHS

-I'm going to overrule you. We'll go for O'Malley.

-Yes?

-Yeah.

Let's have a look at the question behind O'Malley.

-Mulligan, I think.

-Mulligan is a do-again in golf.

-Is it?

-Yeah.

-Instinctively I'd say no.

Because I've never heard it.

I know there's a reverse of that, it's called somebody's revolver.

Where if you see a gun early in a play,

it's because it's going to be used later.

-But it's not quite the same as that.

-No.

-It doesn't feel right.

-It doesn't feel right, does it?

-No.

We're going to get rid of it and we're going to lock in

-Reign of Terror.

-OK, let's lock it in. Brave, I like this.

So we can have a look at the question behind

Reign of Terror and see how that makes you feel.

-Plausible.

-Yes, it's as good an answer as any.

All of these feel like they're on shaky ground.

The plus side of that,

it wouldn't have mattered which order we looked at it.

That is a really positive way to look at it.

Right, Reign of Terror is locked in as your correct answer.

You've done so well so far.

Let's keep it going, let's keep the Reign of Terror rolling.

Is it the correct answer?

-Yes! How did we do that?

-LAUGHTER

-Wow.

-How did you do that indeed? Yes, the Reign of Terror.

Anthony, when you saw Reign of Terror as an option there,

-you discussed the Spanish Inquisition.

-Yeah.

That was established in the 15th century,

so a long time before the Reign of Terror.

Reign of Terror was a period in the French Revolution that was

particularly bloody. Robespierre, "the sea-green incorruptible",

a main figure in that.

O'Malley, not the right answer.

You were dancing around the correct answer.

Michael, you nearly got there.

And, Anthony, you mentioned someone's revolver.

I think you might be thinking of Chekhov's gun.

The idea that nothing should be included unless it's later

-relevant. The correct answer, the MacGuffin.

-Oh, of course.

Famous MacGuffins include the Maltese Falcon and the skull in

Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull.

Let's look at the Barcelona question.

-Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

-Bilbao?

A collection of contemporary art, a titanium clad building.

Thank you, Lesley.

And thank you, gentlemen, for keeping this whole thing moving.

Which number are we going to go for next? Is it your turn, Anthony?

It is my turn.

OK, so this week has been quite significant for my rugby team,

-Bradford Bulls.

-Yeah.

Our top points scorer is Paul Deacon, who is our number seven.

-Oh, that was my number.

-Number seven.

Anthony, let's make our way to the safe.

Anthony and Michael, you've chosen the number seven.

Is this starting to feel a bit familiar?

It's starting to feel like I want it to be the right number.

LAUGHTER

If seven is the correct number,

then the safe will open and you will be taking £3,500 home.

Punch in the number.

837, that's what we're looking for.

We love this, we love being here, but we're quite happy if it now

stops and the guys can take home the money they've worked so hard for.

-OK, come on, then, back we go.

-It was both our faults.

You'd have gone for it as well.

There's a book someone's written somewhere

called The Code: The Hard Way. Anthony and Michael,

it's got your names at the bottom.

This is the hard way to do it.

Very early progress, and then clawing your way through

these numbers to try and get the cash inside that safe.

Anthony, Michael, are you ready for your next three answers?

-Bring it on.

-Here they are.

Apart from the weights and measures,

ounce is an alternative name for a...animal.

Like a cat, some kind of wildcat, OK?

I'm sure I'll know if it is the animal, so shall we go for that one?

-Yeah.

-We'll go for Ounce.

-The question behind Ounce, please.

-Is that the right answer, though?

-Well...

If it's not, that's really harsh,

because ounce is definitely an alternative name for a wildcat,

so if we go out on that,

then at least I can say, "Well, I was close."

-Yeah.

-OK? We'll lock that in.

We're going to lock that in as our correct answer,

without having seen the other two at all. There we are.

Now, we can have a look at the other two questions,

we can't change that one, but let's see how they make us feel.

The question behind Grover Cleveland.

-Not a clue.

-No, but he's well-known,

so he'd have to have done something pretty significant in 31 days to...

There's only about four of them who have actually died on the job,

-I think.

-Yeah... So maybe that's why we know his name.

So, how does that make you feel, that one?

-Eh...

-Yeah. A bit uneasy.

-OK.

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

-That's the north-east.

-Yeah. It is.

-Northumberland, I think, isn't it?

-Is it?

-That one, we are happy with that one.

-Yeah.

We've got it down to a 50-50.

-Yeah.

-I don't want a 50-50, I want 100%.

I want this to be the right answer for you guys.

You are doing so well at such a tricky stage of the quiz,

it is got to be worth something.

So is ounce our correct answer?

Yes!

-Come on!

-Somewhere in the back of your mind maybe just won us money.

That was very impressive.

Anthony, not only knowing the correct answer,

but writing the question for us.

Yes, the word ounce comes from old French,

and originally referred to the European lynx.

I don't think you were quite as happy with Grover Cleveland,

when that came up.

The correct answer is William Henry Harrison.

William Henry Harrison died on the 4th of April, 1841,

the first ever death of a president in office and the shortest tenure.

Grover Cleveland, famous for serving

-two non-consecutive terms.

-That's it.

The only one so far to do that.

And Norfolk, when this one came up,

you both knew that that wasn't correct.

And exactly as you said, the correct answer is Northumberland.

Very well worked out.

That correct answer, once again, has bought you the right

to choose another digit, try it there in the code.

I'm guessing, Michael, it's your turn.

-It is.

-Which one is it going to be?

-I think we've got to complete that bottom row and go nine.

-Mm-hm.

OK, Michael, let's make our way to the safe.

Anthony, Michael, you've chosen the number nine.

If the number nine is the final number in your code, you will walk

home today, finally,

with £3,500.

Michael, are you ready?

-Yes.

-Punch the number nine.

Eight, three, nine,

that is what we are looking for to complete the code,

to open the safe

and to give these guys the biggest sigh of their lives.

A sense of relief.

Is it 839?

-Still not there.

-Unbelievable.

-It's still not there.

-OK.

-Four to go.

-But listen, four to go, and it could be any one of those.

One, two, five, six. They all look good up there.

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

-Total could be the petrol company.

-Yeah.

What could Nothing Else be?

The only thing I'm thinking of,

it could complete the Metallica tracks -

something, something matters,

which would be great cos I'm a metal fan,

so that would be good.

-Let's go nothing else, then.

-We'll go for Nothing Else, yeah.

-OK.

The question behind Nothing Else.

-I like your reasoning there.

-Come on, Metallica.

THEY LAUGH

-Well...

-I shall defer to my...

It is usually called The Black Album,

but it is also self-titled.

It's unusual cos it wasn't their first album.

So it's also called Metallica. It's definitely not called Nothing Else.

Nothing Else Matters is a track on the album, though.

-Right.

-So that is definitely wrong.

Happy with that, Michael?

I've got to be, he is the Metallica fan.

Well, that's what you picked out.

You, again, seem to know the question before it came up,

but let's discard that as an incorrect answer.

That's out of the game.

-OK.

-Which one you want to see the question for?

Can you just do what I just did?

That would be really handy.

-Yeah, you're right.

-MATT LAUGHS

-What's was our rule?

-The most vague.

What's the most vague, World Peace?

I would say, yeah. World Peace would be the one I'd pick.

Go for the most vague?

Yeah, it's a rule we have sort of..

-Made up.

-Yeah, made up.

-OK. The question behind World Peace.

World Peace is the right answer.

-You're happy with that as a correct answer?

-It is. Cos I remember.

-It's so stupid that I know it.

-I like it.

But Metta World Peace,

I'm 100% confident.

Let's lock it in.

You asked me to do that.

Well done, yeah.

It is locked in. We can't change that now.

It means we can have a look at the question behind Total.

Given that I went past The Hague a few weeks ago,

-I should probably know this.

-I haven't a clue.

Well, World Peace is locked in as our correct answer.

If it is correct, it gives you another chance

to try a figure in the code,

see if it sticks. Is World Peace our correct answer?

-Yes! Get in.

-Absolutely, nailed on.

Excellent complementary knowledge.

Yes, World Peace, the correct answer.

Michael, you knew this straightaway, no messing around.

He said it was designed to inspire and bring youth

together all around the world.

Metta is a word prominent in Buddhism.

Let's look at the wrong answers.

-Total, To-TAL, is a French company.

-Mm-hm.

The correct answer is Royal Dutch Shell.

Royal Dutch Shell, headquartered in The Hague,

-but has its registered office in London SE1.

-OK.

And, Anthony, again, you're writing the questions for us.

Would you like a job?

Nothing Else, not the right answer.

You gave a comprehensive rundown of why this isn't correct.

Metallica's first UK number one album,

not their first album, as you said, is called Metallica.

Self-titled album.

And Nothing Else Matters, exactly as you said, a track on that album.

Very well done. Good use of your knowledge.

Great album and great performance from you guys as well.

-I'm imagining, Anthony, this is your turn.

-It is my turn.

One, two, five, six are all up there, which one?

-I'm going to go for number one.

-The number one.

-OK, Anthony, let's make our way to the safe.

-OK.

-We must stop meeting like this.

-Yes. Please.

Anthony and Michael, you've chosen the number one.

If the number one is the final number in your code, you will,

finally today, be going home with £3,500.

-Punch in the number one.

-Let's do it.

-Come on!

-Is it there? 831 is what we're looking for.

Finally, to put us out of our misery and complete the code,

to give Anthony and Michael £3,500,

which - let's face it - they've earned.

Is our code 831?

-Oh!

-MATT LAUGHS

-Unbelievable.

-Only three more.

MATT LAUGHS

-It's...

-We're in for the long haul.

Originally, I thought you had somewhere to be,

now I am considering setting up camp beds.

Just two, five and six to choose from now.

A one in three shot if we can keep answering these questions.

-That's what we're going to do, aren't we?

-Yes.

-Absolutely.

Here are your next three answers.

-I think Frank Hornby is the model railway guy.

-Yeah.

Kingsley Amis, author.

-Yeah.

-But I can't think what he has written.

New Hampshire is the US state.

Yeah, one of the New England states, isn't it?

If I'm not mistaken, it has a village that is usually the

-first to cast their votes on election day.

-Ah!

-OK.

-That might be the question.

Could be. Do you want to go for it, then?

-New Hampshire is my choice, yeah.

-OK.

-Let's open the question behind New Hampshire.

-OK.

-No.

-No, I don't think it is.

-Isn't it still on the Hawaii flag?

-I think it is, yeah.

-I think you're right.

-Because it's a former British territory..

That was the last one to join the Union.

There must only be one, so if I'm right that it's on Hawaii,

then it can't also be on New Hampshire.

I've got a feeling New Hampshire is a light blue background,

-but I can't remember what else is on it.

-I wouldn't have a clue.

-We think that's wrong.

-You think that's wrong.

-So tell me, what am I going to do with that answer?

-Discard it.

-Yep.

-We are going to discard that answer as an incorrect answer.

There we are. That is out of play now.

Which one do you want to go for next?

Thinking of where you're going to go?

I'm going to have to...

There's a thing in the back of my mind, before it comes up and the

question sways me, I think they did Hornby Railway, also Scalextric?

-Correct.

-Yeah? OK, we'll go for Frank Hornby.

OK, let's open the question behind Frank Hornby.

Do you know who it was?

No, I don't, but Frank Hornby is well known for being model railways.

-Yeah.

-So... No.

-It won't be both.

-That's it.

I can't remember the name, but Meccano,

I think he was an engineer

that created it for his kids or something like that,

-whereas Frank Hornby is really well-known for the trains.

-OK.

Well, where we are at now, we need to select one correct answer.

-Kingsley Amis.

-Yeah, we're going to lock in Kingsley Amis.

You're going to lock it in without having seen it. Let's do that.

-Worked well in the past.

-It has.

It's locked in. Kingsley Amis must be our correct answer.

We can't change it, so we can have a look at the question.

-I don't know.

-Massive shrug.

We wouldn't have got that, had we opened it, so...

-Wouldn't have got that.

-OK.

Kingsley Amis must be the correct answer if we are going to

progress any further, guys.

You have done terrifically well at answering these.

Three numbers left on the keypad.

We want a chance to enter one of those in.

But it's only going to happen

if Kingsley Amis is our correct answer.

Oh!

-New Hampshire.

-Oh, man!

-It's got to be.

-I can't believe it.

Let's have a look, let's find out which is the correct answer.

It was Frank Hornby.

Oh, I'm so sorry.

Yes, Anthony, you had the right story there about the dad making

toys for his sons, but that dad was Frank Hornby -

very, very famous inventor of what was initially called

Mechanics Made Easy, but then better known, very famously, as Meccano.

He was also associated with model railways,

and I think that's what distracted you from that as the correct answer.

Let's look at the other answers on the board, then.

New Hampshire, Michael,

you knew that that was the wrong answer because you remembered

New Hampshire's flag was a blue background.

It has the seal of New Hampshire on there as well.

The correct answer, exactly as you said, Hawaii.

Hawaii, the last state to join the Union,

but not, as you suggested, a British territory.

Never has been a British territory.

It had the Union flag on there because of

a relationship between the British and Hawaii.

Kingsley Amis, not the correct answer. He wrote Lucky Jim.

Lord Jim was by Joseph Conrad.

-Wouldn't have had a clue.

-Wouldn't have got that.

I'm so worried.

You guys have only actually just met face to face,

so you're never going to see each other again after this?

-It's not going to happen, is it?

-No.

-No.

I'm really pleased because the way you played the game

was absolutely fantastic up until that point.

I'm sorry we can't send you away with more than a handshake.

However, we ought to find out what the last number in the code was.

What was going to be the next one you chose?

Well, it would've been my choice. I would've gone five.

Five. I almost don't want to see it up there.

But let's find out what was the last number in the code.

Six, OK, so you may have gone the whole way to get it.

But you certainly did it the hard way,

the toughest part of the quiz. You did brilliantly.

It has been such a pleasure getting to know you

and watching you getting to know each other at last.

Anthony, Michael, on this occasion, I have to say,

you have failed to crack the code, so we have to send you on your way

with our best wishes. Lovely to meet you.

-Great to meet you.

-Great to meet you, Matt.

-Well done, Michael.

-Thanks, Lesley.

-Well done.

Wow. I tell you what, what a fantastic game.

An easy game to play, this, but a very hard game to win,

especially the way that Anthony and Michael had to do it.

Good news for our next contestants, though,

as the jackpot goes up by another £500,

making a total of...

That's all we have time, though, for today.

Lesley, what about that?

Thank you so much for all your wisdom today,

but that hurt.

Yes, I was really disappointed for them. They had such good

complementary knowledge, I really wanted them to win.

Thank you so much.

And be sure to join us next time when a new team will

discover if they have what it takes to crack the code and win the cash.

Thank you so much for watching. Bye-bye.