Episode 19 The Code

Hello and welcome to The Code.

Locked in this safe is £3,500.

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, Jonathan, Ben, and Ricky

had picked four numbers that weren't in their code.

So, let's welcome them back.

Hello, good afternoon. How are you doing, Jonathan?

-Very well, thank you.

-Good to see you again.

-Ben...

-Hello.

-..and Ricky.

-Hi.

-How are you?

Risk assessor, a council visiting officer, and a supply teacher.

That's right. Peterborough, Spalding, and Spalding.

Am I correct?

-Correct!

-Oh, phew! What do I get? Did you have a good evening?

-A very good evening.

-Did you use it wisely, opening quiz books?

-Lots of revision.

-Quizzing each other.

-Of course.

Fantastic. Good to hear.

Listen, you are making great progress

and we want you to keep doing that.

But, before we go any further,

let's reintroduce ourselves to the person shedding light

on the questions and answers, the wonderful Lesley Brewis.

Welcome back.

Now, you were quick and decisive in your decisions yesterday.

If you carry on in this vein,

-you stand a big chance of winning the money. Good luck.

-Thank you.

Now, let's remind ourselves exactly where we are.

2, 4, 6, 8, all gone from the digital keypad.

However, nothing up there in the code to show for it.

Means we're still playing the quiz at the easiest stage.

Now, if you are ready, Jonathan, Ben and Ricky,

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

Let's start at the top with the question behind Jack Kerouac.

I don't know if he did that. I know he wrote On The Road,

-which would be about that era.

-Yeah, as one of the Beat Generation,

sort of thing they would do.

OK. We'll have a look at the next one.

The question behind Jive Talking.

-Well, that's definitely not that. It's Staying Alive.

-Right.

-There we are. That's a no.

-That's definitely wrong.

And, finally, the question behind Playfully, please.

I have nothing to contribute to that bottom one at all.

-That's a tricky one, isn't it?

-OK. So, where are we at with these?

We need to find the one correct answer.

I think... I would be more inclined to go for the bottom one.

-As correct. Scherzando.

-But I'm not... I'm not certain at all.

-We're agreed it's Italian, yes?

-Yeah, yeah.

It's definitely not presto, or forte, or fortissimo

or anything like that. Playfully is definitely not any of those.

Or legato.

So, it could be. Process of elimination.

Trying to remember my Latin and I just can't see a stem in that.

I just can't see a beat poet, Kerouac,

being nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature.

-Shall we go bottom one?

-I would.

-Yeah.

-We haven't got nothing to lose, so...

-We're going to lock in Playfully.

-Correct.

-OK. It's locked in.

Feels like the first bump in the road for Team Turbo Quiz -

the first time you've been anything other than 100% confident.

Is Playfully the correct answer?

-Well played, Rick. Well played.

-The relief is tangible.

-We didn't know that one.

-I had no idea. Wow! Lesley...

-What a relief.

Well done. I'm glad you settled on that as the correct answer.

Yes, playfully, coming from the Italian "scherzare" to joke.

Let's look at the other answers.

Now, I wondered whether Jack Kerouac might catch you out

because you knew that he was about that era,

having written On The Road in the 1950s.

He was never offered the Nobel Prize for literature

so couldn't decline it. The correct answer is Jean-Paul Sartre.

Jean-Paul Sartre said that he declined the prize because

he didn't want to become an institution.

Let's have a look at the other answer on board there. Jive Talking.

Now, Ricky, you said the correct answer to this one straight away.

You knew that was Staying Alive, rather than Jive Talking.

The film Staying Alive was co-written, co-produced,

and directed by... Anyone, for a Lesley point?

-John Schlesinger.

-Not the right answer. It's Sylvester Stallone.

-Oh, really!

-Wow!

-He was very heavily involved in that film.

-Good progress. Playfully, well done.

-Yes, well done, indeed.

Now, let's have a look at the keypad.

2, 4, 6, 8, all gone.

Are we going to knock these numbers down and get them out of the way

before we even have to bother with the harder levels of the quiz?

-We're going to try and eliminate zero.

-Zero.

Is it there? In the first box.

There is no zero.

Is there a zero in the second box?

No! Is it there in the third and final box?

Oh!

-There is no zero.

-Amazing.

Wow, we are halfway through the numbers in the code,

halfway through the questions that you've got.

Still nothing up there in the code.

This much is certain,

your code is made up of odd numbers.

Yes.

Answer five more correct questions, whatever happens,

the prize will be yours.

£3,500 we're talking about.

-Team Turbo Quiz, are you ready for your next three answers?

-Absolutely.

Once again, we'll start at the top.

-Toulouse-Lautrec?

-Yeah. Renoir's the wrong era.

-OK.

-1920s. So...

Feel confident about that.

So, let's open the question behind Hamish McHamish.

I thought that's a Blackadder character, so...

No, I don't think it's that.

-I don't know this.

-No, that's...

-I don't know this at all.

-It's possible.

-I would think that's more like a dog's name but...

-Yeah, well.

-That's a guess. I don't know.

-Well, we're going to move on.

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

I didn't know Birmingham had a mayoral election.

I didn't remember hearing it on the news.

You'd think it would ring a bell, wouldn't you?

I think Manchester did.

-Yeah.

-And Liverpool.

-So, we're going to rule out the top one.

Yeah, that's definite. We can all about that one.

-Greyfriars Bobby is Edinburgh, isn't it?

-Yeah, that's not St Andrews.

I'm leaning towards the middle one.

Well, if you're happy to go with the middle one...

I think that's the way that we're leaning, isn't it?

-But we don't know.

-Again, we're struggling. We don't know.

Another bump in the road. We're going middle.

The votes of the Spalding jury are in,

we're going to go and lock in Hamish McHamish.

Didn't feel like complete confidence,

which is what we've had up till now.

We need Hamish McHamish to be the right answer.

We need it to go green.

-I don't know how we got away with that!

-Well done, chaps.

Yeah, I think, getting away with it...

Team Getting Away With It might be a better name. Lesley.

Yes, getting there through a process of elimination.

Hamish McHamish, which, Ricky,

you said sounded more like a dog's name,

had to be the right answer

because you knew that Renoir and Birmingham weren't correct.

You mentioned Greyfriars Bobby, as well.

Exactly as you said, a dog associated with Edinburgh.

Hamish McHamish,

famous in St Andrews, had his own section in Waterstones,

Hamish Recommends, which was full of cat-related literature.

Renoir not the correct answer

and you gave the right answer to this one,

which is Toulouse-Lautrec.

The actor had to wear prosthetics on his legs and walk on his knees

with his real legs covered by blue socks, to be edited out later on.

Birmingham not the right answer here. Jonathan,

you remembered that there's not yet a mayor of Birmingham,

though the West Midlands and Manchester, which you mentioned,

will have mayoral elections later this year.

The correct answer is Bristol.

-Oh, we scraped through that one, didn't we?

-We did, yes.

You know, don't underestimate the power of little bits

of information coming together to give you the correct answers.

So, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, which one is going to be?

-3.

-Are you happy with 3?

Yes, absolutely. Let's go for it.

-For some reason we're going 3.

-We're going 3.

Will it be there or will we avoid the code once again?

Is it there in the first box?

It's not, is it there in the second box?

It's not.

Is the number 3 there in your third and final box?

-Oh!

-Oh!

-Well, Hallelujah.

-Got there eventually.

-We got there eventually.

There is a number 3. Blank, blank, 3.

It does mean things become a little bit trickier.

As before, you'll all see all three answers.

This time, you'll only see two questions

before you have to make a decision and commit.

It does become rather more difficult.

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

Blimey.

Reads like a sentence. That's irrelevant.

The order in which you pick these now does become more important.

-I'd rather leave Cream Pie till last.

-OK.

-Do you want it first, Ricky?

-No. I don't care.

They all mean nothing to me.

-Yeah.

-Just choose whichever one.

-Bill Bailey.

-OK, let's have a look

at the question behind Bill Bailey.

-That rings true to me.

-That could be a possible.

It does me, especially that middle one - Noodlemeister.

He's got wild hair, hasn't he?

Tangentleman, he does like to do

-plays on words and things, doesn't he?

-He does.

That sort of rings true at the minute,

but we need to pick another one,

-I guess.

-We do.

I picked Bill Bailey, somebody else pick one.

-Lifts.

-Lifts.

-Lifts.

-Well, again, a lot of lifts are called Otis.

-Are they?

-Yeah.

Well, there you go then. Job done.

I'm happy with that.

-You've seen Otis on lifts.

-You seem very confident on that point.

-Yeah.

What do you want to do? We're looking for the one correct answer.

Let's lock it in.

We're going to lock in Lifts.

We're going to lock in Lifts as our correct answer.

-You seemed very certain about Bill Bailey earlier.

-We did as well.

That rang a bell as well.

I tell you what we can do,

we can have a look now at

the question behind Cream pie.

It's not going to change anything but it might make us feel

either better or worse.

-Money.

-It was, yes.

-Yes.

-Definitely not a cream pie.

Right, so we're absolutely categorical,

-we think 'cream pie' is an incorrect cancer.

-Yep.

Lifts is locked in, that can't go anywhere, so, for us to progress,

is 'lifts' our correct answer?

Well done, John.

Well done, John. No silly mistakes there.

Too busy looking at the inside of lifts.

Looking like this, "Oh, yes, Otis."

-Lesley.

-Yes, well done, Jonathan, remembering that Otis is one of

the largest elevator companies in the world

helped you with this question.

This is specifically passenger elevators.

Otis invented a safety hoist,

a device to stop the lift from falling.

Bill Bailey not the right answer there.

He does have some interesting names for his tours such as Part Troll,

Tinsel Worm and Limboland,

but these titles belong to Ross Noble.

No two Ross Noble shows are the same

as he gets derailed and interrupted by the audience and himself

during the course of his discussions.

And 'cream pie' not the right answer there.

Jonathan, you remembered that this was to do with throwing money.

He threw bundles of cash, and that's the correct answer.

600, he says, of his own money.

Simon Brodkin also known in the guise of Lee Nelson,

his comedy character, and as Lee Nelson, in 2015,

he joined Kanye West on stage at Glastonbury

before being bundled off by security.

Well done, fantastic.

We've had two or three questions now where you've not been sure but

a combination of knowledge, a little bit of luck

and some informed guesswork has got you there.

This is where it has got you.

Here we go, 1, 5, 7, 9.

There's only two to find.

So, your odds all the time are getting better and better.

Which number do you want to try next?

You choose. You got the question right, you choose.

Erm, let's go...5.

Is the number 5 there in our code? Let's have a look.

Is it there in the first box?

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

Wow! Your real skill is avoiding numbers in the code!

There are two left

and you've only got three numbers left to choose from.

Three correct answers, that's it, you've got the money.

-Are you ready for your next three answers?

-Bring it on.

-We are.

-Yep.

Bring it on.

Well, of those three, we all know where Preston is probably.

If it's the town. But Aussie Open, tennis?

Probably. And Woodrow Wilson, you're pretty good at Presidents.

Not too bad, but I think we should go with Australian Open because

-we're all pretty good at sport, aren't we?

-Yes, let's go for that.

We'll have a look at the question behind Australian Open.

-That's the French Open.

-Are you sure?

-Yeah, absolutely.

-What about the US Open?

-Oh! I beg your pardon. Erm, no.

The... Let's get this right.

They've built a roof now over...

But the point is it's not the Australian?

It's not the Aussie one, that's right.

Yeah, we were getting side-tracked.

-OK.

-It's not the Aussie Open.

We can open another before we have to make a decision.

Woodrow Wilson?

Woodrow Wilson, please, Matt.

I'm struggling with that one.

-Well, you're looking at the right sort of era, I guess.

-Yeah.

He was president in the '20s.

She'd have been around there.

-She anything to do with Lionel Barrymore?

-Yeah,

the whole Barrymore family I think.

-I just don't know.

-What do you think about possible answers to Preston?

That could be anything, couldn't it?

Yeah. So we have to go, we have to go with the bottom one?

I think, because we've no idea what Preston is,

we might as well lock in Woodrow Wilson.

We're going to have to because we know it's not the Australian Open.

-Yeah.

-OK, let's do that.

Let's see how it makes us feel when we open the question behind Preston.

Preston!

-Really?

-The M6.

-Yeah.

-You're absolutely sure about that?

-I think so, yeah.

-We're done.

If you'd opened that one first...

-Yeah, exactly...

-You'd have jumped for that without a doubt.

-OK, well, you may be wrong.

-Maybe.

Let's keep it positive. You may be wrong. It may be Woodrow Wilson.

Let's find out now.

Is Woodrow Wilson the correct answer?

Aw!

Oh, no. Let's find out what was the correct answer.

I think we pretty much know.

-Yep.

-Just the order in which you opened them up, guys, I'm so sorry.

-Lesley.

-Oh, bad luck.

I think if you'd opened the Preston question,

you'd have been on very comfortable ground with that one,

remembering Preston and the story of the bypass.

Apparently the shoulders of the Preston bypass were hardened

with gravel but not paved, and that's reflected in the term

hard shoulder on British motorways to this day.

Australian Open, Jonathan, when this came up you were pretty sure

Australian Open was the wrong answer.

The correct answer is the French Open.

The Roland Garros court is planned to have

a roof in the next few years.

And Woodrow Wilson, not the correct answer. This one caught you out.

Very famous story about Ethel Barrymore

having turned down a proposal from Winston Churchill.

He said she didn't want to be married to a politician.

You were discussing the Barrymore family.

Yes, Ethel was a sister of Lionel Barrymore,

whom you mentioned, and the great aunt of Drew Barrymore.

Every day's a school day here.

We've certainly learned something today, but you know what?

Jonathan, Ben and Ricky, you played fantastically well.

Seven questions answered correctly.

One number up in your code,

you were tantalisingly close to breaking the code

but on this occasion, I have to say, Jonathan, Ben and Ricky,

you have failed to crack the code

and so we have to say goodbye to you.

Lovely to meet you, Jonathan. Cheers, Ben.

-Cheers.

-Bye-bye.

-Cheers.

Aw, they had it all. It all turned on just one question.

However, their loss is our next team's gain

because another £500 is added to the jackpot.

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

Come on down, lovely to see you.

-Helen, how are you?

-Very well, thank you.

-Good to see you.

-And Neil.

-Hi, Matt, nice to meet you.

-You too, you too.

So, you're both from Cheshire. How do you know each other?

Through a love of quizzing.

Do you play on the same team together

or do you play against each other?

-We play on the same team.

-How did you meet then?

I wanted to join a quiz team, way back in 1986,

and I'd heard there was an AGM of the Macclesfield quiz

and so I went along to see if anybody would have me in their team,

-and Neil had me.

-We're all guys,

so we thought it would be good to have a lady on the team.

-You definitely need a spread of knowledge.

-Correct.

A spread of different backgrounds, that really helps.

It certainly helps here on The Code as well.

We really hope you do well today.

The team before you, oh, my goodness, what a journey they had.

They were doing brilliantly well answering the questions,

avoiding numbers in the code,

which can work in your favour in some ways,

but unfortunately, the last couple of questions

were just too tough for them, and they didn't break the code.

Not great news for them, terrific news for you

because it means we add another £500 to the safe,

making a total of £4,000.

A very handy £2,000 each. It's nice and even, we like that.

If you're ready, let's reset the code.

Three blanks.

You're trying to turn those into three numbers,

the three unique numbers of your code.

That means that you can win the money.

-It's very straightforward, until you actually start to play.

-Yeah!

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

-Grumpy Cat.

-We'll start at the very top,

the question behind Jeremy Corbyn.

-I don't think that's right.

-Maybe not.

-No...

There was someone else before Jeremy Corbyn, I think, yes.

We're not too sure about that, we don't think it's right.

Let's see the other questions.

Let's move on and have a look at the question behind The Turner Prize.

-That's definitely wrong.

-Yeah.

-Eurovision.

-Eurovision, isn't it?

Eurovision Song Contest. Yeah.

OK, the question behind Grumpy Cat.

I think that's right.

You're our literary expert so...

That's not literary.

I think I've seen it, I think I've seen about Grumpy Cat,

I've got his face in my mind.

I think that's right.

-We know the middle one isn't right, for sure.

-Yeah.

-We don't think the top one is.

-I don't think so, no.

I've more of a feeling for the Grumpy Cat. Yes.

Shall we lock it in?

-Yeah, Helen?

-Yes, OK.

-We'll go for that one, please, Matt. Thanks.

Will Grumpy Cat put a smile on their faces?

Let's find out. Is it our correct answer?

-Well done.

-It is.

-Well done, Helen.

-You're out of the blocks. Lesley.

Yes, well done, Helen,

you thought you remembered a grumpy looking cat on the internet,

features in Lolcats types of memes...

-Yeah.

-..was once named the most influential cat and

has also been awarded Meme of the Year in 2013

by the Webby Awards.

-Right.

-Jeremy Corbyn not the right answer.

Now, Helen, you remembered there was somebody between Gordon Brown

and Jeremy Corbyn, but couldn't remember who that was.

-It was Ed Miliband...

-That's right. I knew there was a gap.

..Jeremy Corbyn having succeeded Miliband in 2015.

You remembered that there was someone in the middle there.

And the Turner Prize,

you knew straight away, both of you, that that was the wrong answers.

Boom Bang-a-Bang from 1969,

Making Your Mind Up from 1981,

winners, exactly as you said, from the Eurovision Song Contest,

Boom Bang-a-Bang having been a joint winner with three other songs.

Well done, good start to the game.

I didn't realise, there we go, it was a tie.

I'd forgotten all about that.

Anyway, Grumpy Cat,

that's the only one that's important because it's the correct answer.

It buys you the chance, Helen and Neil,

to put a number into the code and see if it sticks.

Which one would you like to try?

-Number 5.

-Here we go.

Is the number 5 there in your code? Let's have a look.

In the first box...

No number 5. How about the second box?

No number 5 there. How about the third and final box?

No number 5.

-Good stuff.

-Deliberately.

-There you go.

I knew you did, Helen, I could tell.

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

We get to see all three, so we'll start at the very top -

the question behind 'skiing'.

Yeah, I think he was a skier.

He was a slalom skier or a downhill skier.

-OK.

-I haven't got a clue.

-Oh, right.

Maybe these ones will help you, Helen.

Let's have the question behind Chile.

I think C was China, wasn't it?

I think so, I don't think it was Chile. I think you're right, Neil.

And the question behind 'hands'.

Only when it's very rainy would I put them on my hands.

-On your feet.

-You

-could

-wear them on your hands.

-You could.

OK, we have to lock in one of these as the correct answer.

-Yeah, I feel quite confident about skiing.

-OK, go for it, Neil.

-Yeah.

There it is, we can't change it now.

So, is 'skiing' our correct answer?

-Well done.

-Good job I got that right,

-I'd have been in trouble if I hadn't.

-Are you a skier?

-I have skied, yes.

-Right. With Alberto Tomba?

Unfortunately not. Too quick for me.

Lesley, talk us through these.

Yes, 'skiing' the correct answer.

He competed at four Winter Olympics, winning five medals.

Well remembered. Chile not the right answer. Neil,

you gave the correct answer to this question -

the BRIC countries, Brazil, Russia, India and China,

considered to be the emerging economies

at roughly the same stage of development.

And 'hands' not the right answer. You got this straight away,

you knew that was feet.

It's a kind of overshoe.

Yes, no-one really wears galoshes much any more, do they?

I haven't seen in a while.

There's nothing wet about you too at all.

We have got number 5 discounted.

Nine other digits remain.

-Nothing in your code so far. Who's going to choose next?

-Neil is.

-Neil.

-I'll go for lucky 7, Matt.

Lucky number 7.

Is it there in our code? Let's have a look.

Is it there in the first box?

No. Is it there in the second box?

No. Is it there in the third and final box?

Maybe not lucky 7.

Well, no, you say that, but it makes life easy

in the foothills of the quiz, which is where we still are.

Two questions down, you're doing brilliantly.

-Helen, Neil, are you ready for your next answers?

-We are.

-We are.

-Quite a good story.

-That would be a good story, wouldn't it?

-I'd watch that film.

-Traffic wardens.

OK, the order in which we open them up doesn't make any difference,

so we'll start at the top.

Well, she did a few Hitchcock films, didn't she?

Was she in The Birds, Tippi Hedren?

Tippi Hedren was in The Birds, that's right.

She could be because there's an acting tradition.

I can't remember Tippi Hedren's...daughter,

I can't remember her name, I know she was in films too.

-So it's possible.

-It's a possibility, yes.

Obviously I haven't read 50 Shades Of Grey, I don't know if you have.

-I read up to chapter six before I threw it at the wall.

-Really?

-How exciting.

-No, it wasn't, it was exasperating.

-Oh, OK.

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

I've not heard of an M96.

The 9s are not usually in the Gloucestershire area.

They're 5s in the Gloucestershire area, aren't they?

That's an interesting one, I'm not sure about that one.

Two could bes.

-Two could bes.

-Two could bes we have so far.

Let's have a look at the final one,

the question behind Hermann Goering.

Completely wrong, it wasn't Hermann Goering, it was the guy,

-the architect guy, whose name escapes my...

-The architect guy.

-The architect guy definitely wasn't Hermann Goering.

-Right.

No, it wasn't, so that one is definitely wrong.

So, it's between the other two.

I'm erring towards the top one, cos I seem to remember

something about Tippi Hedren being related to a current actress,

but I can't remember which one.

Yes, that's ringing a bell with me as well.

And she was in Alfred Hitchcock films.

I think her daughter is married to Antonio Banderas,

I'm not sure about that though.

It would be a wacky fact, if it was right, number two.

-So shall we go for our gut instinct, number one?

-Yeah, OK.

We're going to lock in number one,

Tippi Hedren, as our correct answer.

It's a percentage call, I'd say.

-Yeah.

-Rather than being absolutely certain.

Is Tippi Hedren the correct answer?

-Well done. Well done.

-Melanie Griffith, that was it.

That was Tippi Hedren's daughter.

Isn't it funny how, as soon as it goes green, all the facts,

-all the facts come down.

-Amazing.

-Lesley?

Yes, well done.

I wondered if you were going to go in the wrong direction for that one,

but you settled on Tippi Hedren as the correct answer.

You correctly remembered that Tippi Hedren had been in Hitchcock films.

Tippi Hedren's daughter is Melanie Griffith, exactly as you said...

-I remembered.

-..and Melanie Griffith is the mother of Dakota Johnson.

from the 50 Shades Of Grey films.

Let's look at Traffic Wardens now.

Each of the questions on the board must have a correct answer,

so we know that the M96 motorway is in Gloucestershire.

It's not an open motorway, it's a training motorway.

Not for training traffic wardens,

traffic wardens don't need to work on motorways,

-the correct answer is firefighters.

-Firefighters.

They practise dealing with traffic accidents.

I've just never seen a signpost to it, you see.

Nor is there one, cos it's a private stretch of motorway

which is just used for firefighting training.

-Very secret.

-A secret motorway.

-Yeah.

And Hermann Goering, you knew the story of this.

You remembered that this relates to an architect,

and Goering - not an architect.

Hermann Goering committed suicide the night before his execution.

The correct answer to this is Albert Speer.

-Albert Speer, which you had an inkling about.

-I remembered.

Well done, lots of information about the questions

-leading you to the correct answer.

-Yes, Helen and Neil,

fantastic composite answer construction.

That's what I liked about that.

We can see a pattern emerging. Are we going to carry on with that?

So far, it's been very effective avoiding the numbers in the code.

Where are you going to go next?

-We'll go for 3.

-The number 3, I had a sneaky feeling you might.

Is the number 3 there in the first box?

No number 3. Is it there in the second box?

No number 3. How about the third and final box?

Still no number 3.

-Three numbers out of the way, haven't tickled the code yet.

-No.

-Are you ready, Helen and Neil?

-Yes.

-Yes.

Your next three answers, please.

-What a terrific headline that would make.

-It would, wouldn't it?

-Yes.

At this stage, it doesn't matter which order we open them in,

-so we'll start at the top...

-Yep.

-..the question behind Fiona Bruce.

I don't know about that one, Matt.

-I've got a feeling it's not her.

-No, yeah.

-Is she not the lady who does the antiques?

-Yes.

So, a bit of an inkling there.

Let's move on and have a look at the question behind Knickerbocker.

Isn't that the Knicks?

They keep talking about it on television

about how you can have tickets for the Knicks.

It's one of Joey's big pulls, wasn't it, in Friends?

And maybe Knicks is short for Knickerbocker.

-It does sound a bit Dutch.

-Yeah.

-Yeah, could be.

-Maybe we might be going Dutch.

We might be going Dutch on this one.

Let's look at the question behind Madness.

-No idea.

-I've heard of the group Madness.

I've heard of Madness, but never in connection with the word Ambrose.

-Another one, Matt, we're not 100% sure about.

-OK.

I think the middle one's what we're tending towards.

Yes, we're tending towards the middle one, I think.

-We think Knickerbocker.

-Happy to lock that in?

Yes, we're not 100%, but I think that's our best guess,

-is it, Helen?

-I think so, yes.

-OK, we're locking in Knickerbocker

as our best guess.

We want it to be our correct answer,

therefore all those hours of Helen watching Friends

is going to be worth something at least.

So, fingers crossed. Everything crossed.

Is Knickerbocker our correct answer?

-You and Joey.

-Like that.

-Like that.

"How you doin'?" Lesley?

Yes, key recollections and pieces of information leading you

to the correct answer, Knickerbocker.

You remembered people getting tickets to the Knicks

in TV shows like Friends.

They used to be called the New York Knickerbockers, now just the Knicks.

Fiona Bruce, not the right answer.

You associated Fiona Bruce with antiques programmes.

She's on The Antiques Roadshow.

The correct answer is Laura Kuenssberg.

She took over from Nick Robinson in 2015.

And Madness not correct.

Never been Ambrose Madness.

They did have some other names in their history,

like the North London Invaders and Morris And The Minors,

but they've never been called Ambrose anything.

The correct answer... Matt, do you know this one?

I knew you were going to ask me that.

I knew about Madness, but I have no idea what the answer is.

The correct answer is Ambrose Slade,

and their first album, Beginnings, was released as Ambrose Slade.

There you go. Well, I know now.

-Thank you, Lesley.

-We've learned something as well, haven't we?

-Ambrose Slade!

-Every day is a school day.

So, Knickerbocker, the correct answer,

gives you the chance to try another number in your code.

7, 5 and 3 - that diagonal is gone.

-Shall we go for 4?

-What are we thinking next?

-It's your turn.

-Zero?

-We'll go for zero, please, Matt.

-Zero. Is zero there in our code?

Let's find out. Is it there in the first box?

-Oh!

-Well, it had to end eventually.

If you keep answering correct questions,

you're going to find numbers in your code.

0-blank-blank.

We are moving on.

Six digits left to choose from,

and now things do become a little bit trickier.

That wonderful composite question answering that you're doing

gets trickier now because, as before,

we get to see all three answers,

but only two questions before you have to commit

and identify which one is correct.

-OK.

-It's a lot harder. Let's have a look at your next three answers.

Now, the order in which you choose to uncover these does become

more important. Where would you like to start?

With your literary knowledge, Watership Down might be a good one.

-No, it's not one of my literaries.

-Oh, right.

-I like Michael Portillo.

-OK.

And woolly mammoth?

Michael Portillo, I'm not bothered, you choose.

-We'll try Michael Portillo.

-OK.

The question behind Michael Portillo, please.

I'd be surprised if Michael Portillo was up here,

cos that's local, isn't it? That's Knutsford, Tatton?

-Yeah.

-Has Michael Portillo been up here? Isn't he more a southern guy?

I saw Michael Portillo interviewed not so long back about his

part in the...the Carlisle to Settle railway thing

and he said something about being beaten...

in an election...

Oh, right.

..but I'm not sure it's Martin Bell.

-Oh. Oh, right.

-Yeah.

-OK.

We can open one of them before we have to make a decision and commit.

Which do you want to do, Helen?

You obviously want to do Watership Down.

We'll try Watership Down.

OK, the question behind Watership Down.

-I told you.

-You did tell me. Cor blimey!

We should really know Martin Bell, shouldn't we,

with him being fairly local, in Knutsford.

Yes, I've met him, actually.

He didn't talk about Michael Portillo.

I don't know. I really don't know.

-Watership Down, that's with all the rabbits, was it?

-Yes.

-Lord Frith.

-I don't remember ever hearing that name

in connection with Watership Down.

Right.

I've got more of an inkle for Michael Portillo,

but then that could just be Michael Portillo, couldn't it?

It could be, yes.

Because Michael Portillo to me sounds like somebody who was

more of a Conservative MP for down south.

If Martin Bell stood against somebody,

-it would have been whoever was the current one.

-Right.

So, you want to go for woolly mammoth, then?

-I think we're edging that way, yeah.

-OK.

-Shall we?

-Yeah.

-Yeah, we're struggling a bit with this one.

-OK.

We'll go for woolly mammoth, even though we don't see the question.

We're going to lock in 'woolly mammoth' as our correct answer.

Everything crossed.

There we go, it's locked in.

That means we can have a look at the question behind it now,

because we can't change it.

No. Wrong. It's the tiger, that great big tiger.

-Sabre-toothed tiger.

-Sabre-toothed tiger.

We think that's the tiger rather than...

We think we might have selected the wrong one.

-We do.

-Well, let's not give up hope just yet

because we can still find out.

Is woolly mammoth our correct answer?

No, you knew as soon as you'd seen it,

-didn't you, Helen?

-You were right.

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

It was Watership Down. Lesley, talk us through them.

I think, if you'd opened woolly mammoth first,

you would have been on safer ground.

Watership Down, not the one you picked,

but it was the correct answer. You remembered it was

to do with rabbits.

Lord Frith is the son whom the rabbits revere as a deity,

-as the creator, in Watership Down.

-Oh, OK.

Let's look at the wrong answers.

Michael Portillo, not the correct answer. You were discussing

Martin Bell, you remembered he was an independent candidate.

He was the man in the white suit who stood to defeat Neil Hamilton.

-Yeah.

-Though Michael Portillo did lose his seat the same night

to Stephen Twigg. And the other answer on the board there,

woolly mammoth. Now, woolly mammoth,

if you'd opened this one first, you'd have known straight away,

as Helen said, the correct answer is sabre-toothed tiger.

-The upper canines are long teeth.

-Yeah.

-I'm really sorry, but well played.

-Thank you.

Yes, unfortunately, the code certainly got its teeth

-into you today.

-It did.

But listen, this won't affect our quizzing team here, will it?

-No.

-It's not going to break you up?

-Not at all.

-I shouldn't think so.

-Oh, that's lovely. It's lovely to see.

Helen and Neil, I have to say,

on this occasion you've failed to crack the code

and so we have to say goodbye to you.

-It's been lovely meeting you.

-Thank you.

-Bye-bye.

-Cheers, Matt, thank you.

-Bye-bye.

-Bye, Lesley.

-Bye.

Yes, as soon as Helen and Neil failed to have the bigger picture,

it stopped working for them, unfortunately.

However, their loss is our next contestant's gain

because another £500 is added to the jackpot.

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

-Brendan, how are you?

-Good to see you.

-Good to see you too. Good to have you on the programme.

-Thank you.

-From Tunbridge Wells...

-That's right.

-..and flying solo today.

-Absolutely, yes.

-Why is that? That's quite a brave thing to do.

Well, when I saw the application,

I had to get it in quite quickly

and just didn't really find anybody in time to come along with.

-You searched around for anyone good enough to join you!

-Well, yeah.

What do you do in Tunbridge Wells?

I'm a radiographer, I work at my local hospital.

I always thought that must be absolutely fascinating.

-You get to see inside people...

-Absolutely.

..and then hopefully give them either good

or not so good news afterwards.

I'll be honest, we tend not to give them the news,

we let other people do that. We just say, "I just take the pictures,"

and let somebody else do that.

Tell me about your strengths

when it comes to general knowledge and quizzing.

I was always into kind of classical mythology, that sort of thing,

as a child, so that's probably something I'm quite strong at.

It's one of the subjects a lot of our teams don't like.

-They actively try and avoid them.

-OK.

-So, there you go.

You've got that in your armoury anyway.

The team before, Helen and Neil, did brilliantly, but unfortunately

came unstuck when we got to the second stage of the quiz.

Not such great news for them, but terrific news for you

because it means we add another £500 to the pot...

..and that makes a total of £4,500.

-Very nice.

-Brendan, if you are set, we will reset the code.

-If you are ready...

-I am.

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

Only one is correct, that's the one you're trying to find.

Let's start at the top, the question behind Russia, please.

I don't think that was Russia, I think that was France,

because I think it was Napoleon's army.

OK, let's have a look at the question behind 'mushroom'.

-That sounds very plausible to me.

-You like the sound of that one.

-I do.

-Let's have a look at the question behind Jack the Ripper,

see if that changes things.

There's been a TV series on recently about

10 Rillington Place and I can't remember who the murderer is,

but I know it's not Jack the Ripper cos they didn't know where he lived.

As far as I'm aware, they didn't know who he was.

-We've got to lock in one as the correct answer.

-Lock in 'mushroom'.

Mushroom, let's lock that in as our correct answer.

So, if it's right, he gets to choose a number,

see if it's there in the code. If it's wrong, I'm afraid, Brendan,

back to Tunbridge Wells with our very best wishes, but nothing else.

Is mushroom our correct answer?

Yes, it is.

Well done, Brendan. Good start.

-Lesley...

-Yes, these questions caused you no trouble at all.

Oyster, portobello and shiitake, all types of mushroom.

Russia, wrong answer and you knew the correct answer, too, was France.

It's Napoleon's First French Empire.

Wellington said that the battle was the nearest run thing

you ever saw in your life,

so it was by no means certain that Wellington would defeat Napoleon.

Jack the Ripper, wrong answer.

Good thinking on that one because Jack the Ripper,

they don't know who he is, so how would they know where he lives?

The correct answer - John Christie.

John Christie murdered several people, including his wife,

and was hanged in 1953.

Thank you, Lesley.

Yes, John Christie - you didn't know it, it didn't matter,

you chose the right answer.

That's what you have to keep doing, Brendan.

Now, you've earned yourself the chance to choose a number

and see if it's there in your code. Which one do you want to try?

-Number 6, please.

-Number 6. Is it there in our code?

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

No number 6. Is it there in the second box?

No number 6 there.

How about in the third and final box?

There we go. So, number 6, not there, but still not bad news

because you're getting to work your...

KLAXON SOUNDS

Brendan, what can I say? Just as we've started,

we have to finish, but you're doing absolutely brilliantly.

First question out of the way.

That sound means we have come to the end of the show, unfortunately.

More from Brendan coming up, though, I'm sure.

Lesley, thank you for spreading the joy of knowledge.

You're welcome, and Brendan, we've had two solo male winners

on this series so far. Let's see if tomorrow we can make it a hat-trick.

-Good luck.

-Fingers crossed.

-Fingers crossed indeed.

Please join us tomorrow to find out

if Brendan can work his way to unlocking that safe

and taking home £4,500.

Thank you for watching, and goodbye.