Episode 25 The Code

Hello, and welcome to The Code.

Locked in this safe is £4,500.

To open the safe and win the money,

contestants just need to crack a three-digit code.

But every time someone fails,

more money goes into the safe and the jackpot gets higher and higher.

Now, last time, our solo player from Thirsk, Cornelius,

was progressing brilliantly with one number - the number three -

before we ran out of time. So, let's welcome him back on.

-Cornelius, wonderful to see you again.

-Good to be back.

-How are you? How are you feeling?

-Very well, thank you.

-Relaxed after a good night's sleep.

-Wonderful.

Let's remind ourselves about you.

You are a maths teacher from North Yorkshire,

-but London originally.

-Correct, yes.

-Third generation of Corneliuses in your family...

-I am.

..but the first to appear on The Code.

-THEY LAUGH

-So far!

-It's lovely to have you on the programme.

-Thank you.

Before we go any further, let us introduce ourselves -

reintroduce ourselves - to Lesley Brewis, our oracle.

-Oh, thank you.

-It sounds nice

until you know it's also a shopping centre in Reading.

-THEY LAUGH

-Welcome back, Cornelius.

Excellent school report so far. Top marks for effort,

and I'm hoping you'll equal that in achievement today.

-Good luck.

-Thank you.

-Thank you so much.

That means a lot from Lesley, let me tell you, Cornelius.

Let's remind ourselves where we are.

Well, we've formed this beautiful cross shape

out of odd numbers - one, three, five, seven and nine.

Half the numbers have gone, Cornelius.

We're at the stage of the game where we can open two of the answers to have a look at the questions.

Slightly trickier, but it hasn't seemed to faze you yet.

Cornelius, are you ready for your next three answers?

-Ready, thank you.

-Here they come.

-Do you mind if we go for John le Carre?

-Don't mind at all.

Let's have a look at the question behind John le Carre.

He wrote them under the pseudonym John le Carre.

You feel like you've identified the correct answer straightaway?

-I believe so.

-OK. We're going to open one other.

-Thank you.

Which one would you like to go for?

-HE EXHALES

-Erm, Kevin.

I feel like I should know this.

He was the one that sang

Halfway Down The Stairs Is A Stair Where I Sit.

The funny thing is, Kevin kind of sounds familiar,

but, no, as soon as I saw the David Cornwell name...

I'm convinced that is his real name.

In spite of my second thought, yes,

I'll go with my gut feeling, please -

-David Cornwell, John le Carre.

-Interesting.

We want to lock that in as our correct answer,

-then, Cornelius.

-Thank you.

But seeing that second

question there maybe shook you a little bit.

-Muddied the waters a bit, yeah.

-Well, we don't like that.

-HE CHUCKLES

-No.

-Let's see if we can put you back

on terra firma with the question behind Brittany.

It could be any region of France.

-That question doesn't help me at all, anyway. No.

-OK.

-So, that doesn't help you with any knowledge?

-Not really,

-I'm afraid. Sorry.

-OK.

Let's find out.

Is John le Carre the correct answer?

HE EXHALES

I'm relieved, as well, there.

Lesley, put us out of our misery, please.

Well, the Kevin question didn't really matter

because you were so confident about the top one.

John le Carre - the correct answer.

There are various explanations as to why he chose that name.

It's possibly because he saw the name of a shop from a bus.

That was one story. Brittany - not the correct answer.

-He was also known as William of Normandy.

-Oh, yes.

William was the grandson of Edward the Confessor's

maternal uncle, Richard.

Kevin - not the right answer.

You remembered Halfway Down The Stairs,

but not the name of Kermit's nephew, which was Robin.

Do you have The Muppets album

-from 1977?

-HE LAUGHS

No, but my son is very fond of a Muppet Christmas Carol.

-It's the definitive version.

-It IS the definitive version.

-It's one of my favourite films.

-It's one of the finest films ever made.

I think we can all agree upon that.

Well, what do we do now, maths whizz Cornelius?

-Because we've run out of odd numbers.

-We have!

I mean, we can carry on with a pattern or something.

What would you like to do?

May I keep the symmetry going and go for zero?

I had a feeling you might do that. Zero - is it there in our code?

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

No zero there.

Is there a zero in the third and final box?

There is no zero. HE EXHALES

So, there are only four numbers left,

and there are two left to find in the code -

two, four, six, eight.

Let's see if we appreciate

the next questions coming up for Cornelius. Here they come.

HE EXHALES

There's no clues, really, in any of these.

-Erm, may I start with Do You Want To?

-OK.

-HE EXHALES

-I'm very fond of popular music,

although this is slightly outside my comfort zone.

My son, however, certainly was and, I think, is a big Keane fan,

and I thought it was called...

Was it called Everyone's Changing or Everything's Changing?

-I don't think that's correct anyway.

-OK.

Well, we get the chance to look at another one.

Triumph, please.

I had a feeling that was Harley-Davidson.

I had a feeling. I may be wrong, but that was my...

As soon as I saw the question,

that was my immediate response.

Looking at those questions, I think I have to lock in The Big Issue.

OK, by the process of elimination,

we're going to lock in The Big Issue

as our correct answer.

We can't change that now, Cornelius,

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

I believe Gordon Roddick was the husband of the late...

..Anita Roddick, who founded The Body Shop.

Although John Bird was a satirist, I think.

Is that giving you a sniff of success?

-I'm beginning to start worrying now.

-OK.

Well, if you're worried, I'm worried.

I'm not as confident as I was yesterday, no.

OK. HE LAUGHS

Well, it's locked in, so it is kind of academic, a little bit like

your good self, Cornelius.

-HE LAUGHS

-Thank you.

If The Big Issue turns red, then all of this means nothing.

It stops here.

Is The Big Issue our correct answer?

-Ooh!

-Genuine relief.

-It is.

-Genuine relief there. Lesley.

Excellent breadth of knowledge showing through here,

though that one did give you a little bit of a wobble.

You were concerned about The Big Issue

being the correct answer. You had the right Gordon Roddick -

he is the husband of the late Anita Roddick -

but the wrong John Bird.

That's not John Bird, as in Bird and Fortune,

but John Bird, who's now Baron Bird.

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

Do You Want To was by Franz Ferdinand.

Nothing to do with Keane.

You were thinking about Everybody's Changing.

-That was their second top-five hit.

-Was it?

The first was Somewhere Only We Know,

which got to number three in 2005.

Triumph - this one caused you no trouble at all.

You came in with the correct answer, which is Harley-Davidson.

-Thank you.

-Fantastic stuff,

and it gives you the chance now, as we said,

probability - one-half. It's a one-in-two shot.

Where do you want to go next, Cornelius?

-May I pick number two, please?

-Number two. Of course.

Let's find out. Is the number two in your code?

Is it there in the second box?

It's not. Is two there in the third and final box?

HE LAUGHS No number two.

No number two. Three digits left.

Two spots. I'm sure I don't need to tell you

what the probability is now

-of finding one.

-It'll be two thirds.

-Thank you.

Thank you, Cornelius. Let's have a look at your next three questions.

That name, Stafford Cripps, rings a bell.

May I go for Stafford Cripps first?

Let's open the question behind Stafford Cripps.

I believe his name is synonymous with

a government post of some description,

but I'd be very grateful to see a second question anyway, yes.

OK. Which one would you like to choose from those two?

May I go for Firefighter?

I know nothing about Steve Buscemi's previous job, no.

But the name Stafford Cripps rings a bell.

I've come across it somewhere, and I have a feeling it is the NHS.

I think I really have to lock in the first one.

OK. Let's do that right now.

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

I had a feeling this was Bath,

so I think that question is wrong anyway,

or the answer is wrong.

-If your hunch, and it's not much more than a hunch...

-No.

..is correct - that Stafford Cripps

is credited with the formation of the NHS,

just like it says up there -

we'll have another stab at the keypad, the odds shortening

all the time.

Is Stafford Cripps our correct answer?

-Oh, no!

-Oh, no!

No!

I was absolutely convinced that was right.

HE LAUGHS

Cornelius, I'm so sorry. Let's find out.

What was the correct answer?

HE LAUGHS It was Firefighter.

Lesley, please talk us through the questions.

Really bad luck there, Cornelius.

You tripped up with the end in sight.

Yes, Firefighter - the correct answer.

Apparently, he rejoined his old watch in the aftermath of 9/11,

helping to look for survivors. Let's look at the wrong answers.

Stafford Cripps caught you out. He wasn't the Minister of Health.

From 1947 to 1950, he was the Chancellor.

-Ah.

-That's probably why you were thinking of him

in association with that period. The correct answer is Aneurin Bevan,

the Minister for Health from 1945 to 1951.

And you knew the next one.

The right answer here is Bath - the Recreation Ground.

I'm very sorry that that one tripped you up.

-Thank you.

-Yes, indeed, Cornelius. You did.

You were teaching us a lesson in how to play The Code,

and you can go back to your classroom with your head held high.

Cornelius, however, I have to say, on this occasion,

you've failed to crack The Code,

and so we have to say goodbye to you.

But it's been such a pleasure meeting you.

Thank you very much, Matt. Thank you. Thank you.

I thought we had our complete quizzer on our hands there,

and whatever we could throw at him, he'd take it and want more.

But no, it was not to be for Cornelius.

However, his loss is our next team's gain

because another £500 is now added to the jackpot.

Let's meet the next team hoping to crack The Code.

-Lovely to see you. How are you, Bernie?

-I'm fine, thank you.

Good to see you. You look great.

-And you, Nathan.

-Good to meet you.

-You look terrific.

It's lovely to have you both here.

Both from the Potteries, both from Newcastle-under-Lyme -

-is that right?

-Yes, that's right.

-And how do you guys know each other?

We worked in the same place. We both worked in the same college.

Nathan was the network manager and I was the librarian.

We now have set our own company up, and we're running an indie games studio.

I write the code for all of the games that we do,

so it's sort of mobile and web - that kind of thing.

Things for people to play while they're waiting for their boss.

-And Bernie's official job title is Everything But The Code.

-Yeah.

-Right.

-All the social media and all the advertising,

the press releases - all that kind of thing.

What I was probing gently to find out was - are you an item?

-Oh, we are, yes.

-We are.

-We're engaged.

-Oh, OK. Congratulations.

How exciting. That's terrific. Tell me what you're doing

when you're not developing apps and games.

We like going to pub quizzes, and we also like escape rooms.

Talk me through the idea cos there'll be people who don't know.

What you have to do is you have to solve different puzzles,

and, eventually, you get the code to get out of the door.

Well, I mean, it feels like we've arrived in exactly the right place.

-Exactly.

-Puzzle solving is what you do in your spare time for fun.

-Yeah.

-Coding is what you do professionally.

-Yeah.

It sounds like you're very well-placed to do very well.

-But then, so was Cornelius...

-Exactly. He was brilliant.

-Yes.

..who came before you. Very, very adept. Really knew his stuff.

Unfortunately, failed to crack The Code.

Not great for him, but great for you

because it means another £500 goes into the pot,

making a total of £5,000.

-Happy with that?

-Yeah, very happy.

-Very much so.

Let's reset the code.

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

We'll start at the very top - with the question behind 36,000.

-Can you work it out?

-Yeah,

that sounds about right, does it?

-Sound right, yeah?

-1,440 minutes in a day.

-OK.

I know that from having to code dates and times.

-No, it's in the right region.

-Sounds right? OK.

-OK.

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

-Not sure.

-OK.

-Possibly not.

-OK.

-OK.

-OK.

Let's open the question behind Falstaff.

-That's definitely wrong.

-OK. This is your department.

-Yeah, no,

-that's not right.

-OK, definitely not Falstaff.

It was Shylock - was the main character, yeah.

So, it's going to be either...

Seconds in one day, we can work this out, although this is mental

arithmetic, so this is again, your department.

-Not really!

-So, 60 seconds in a minute, so that's 3,600.

-Yeah.

-60 minutes in an hour, and then 24 hours in a day.

That's way too small, isn't it? So I would go for the middle one.

-So South is right?

-South is right, yeah.

Which of these do we want to lock in as our correct answer?

-South.

-South.

If it turns red, then, I'm afraid, Bernie and Nathan,

early days, you are out of here.

We don't want that.

So, is South our correct answer?

-Yay!

-Lesley.

Yes, being sure about the other two answers

helped you to fix on South as the correct answer.

The Costa Del Sol, meaning "coast of the sun".

36,000 - you worked out that could not be the correct answer for that.

That would be ten hours instead of 24. The correct answer is 86,400,

being 60 seconds times 60 minutes times 24 hours.

Then, with Falstaff, you gave an answer for this one,

you said Shylock. Shylock is not the correct answer.

The Merchant Of Venice is Antonio.

He is the merchant, though Shylock is a very prominent character.

-Thank you, Lesley.

-We got there.

-Yes, there we go.

We have all been schooled. There we go.

And Bernie and Nathan,

your first attempt didn't go south at all, it was perfect.

The right answer, which means you get to choose a number

from the keypad to enter into the code.

-Should we start with one?

-Yes. I was thinking one.

-Yeah.

-Starting with the number one.

OK, the number one.

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

No. Is it there in the second box?

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

-No number one in the code.

-OK.

-Not a bad thing to whittle down some numbers.

-Keep it easy.

-True.

OK, Bernie and Nathan, are you ready for your next three answers?

We are.

OK, we are going to start at the top.

-Vasa does sound like water in German, doesn't it?

-Yeah, could be.

It might be something to do with water.

-Sweden has spas.

-Yes.

-So, plausible.

-Possibly, yeah.

OK, let's open the second question, the one behind Roald Dahl.

Definitely.

Yeah, totally.

-Snozzcumber was The BFG.

-Yes, that's right.

Oompa-loompa was Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.

Gobblefunk, I'm not sure.

-But it does sound...

-But the other two...

-That would be right, yeah.

-Pretty confident that's right.

-Yeah.

-OK.

Let's open the question behind TLDR.

-That's, "Too long, didn't read".

-Oh!

So if someone writes a massive wall of text,

it is polite to say TLDR, and a summary at the bottom.

-OK, right.

-So definitely not that.

Roald Dahl, I'm confident on that.

Yes, definitely, we'll go with Roald Dahl this time.

We will lock in Roald Dahl as our correct answer.

If it is correct, it will go green,

it will give Bernie and Nathan a chance to put in another digit

into the code to see if it is there.

Is Roald Dahl the correct answer?

Of course it is. Lesley.

Yes, well remembered.

You recalled snozzcumber, the foodstuff from The BFG.

Gobblefunk, you were not so sure about,

that is from The BFG as well, it is the giants' language in that book.

And oompa-loompa,

Willy Wonka's workforce in the books about Charlie.

Geothermal spa, you weren't too sure about this one.

The correct answer here is a ship.

It is a 17th-century ship that was recovered from its sinking place,

and it's now on display with beautiful wooden sculptures

that were recovered with the wreckage.

TLDR, you were on firm ground here.

You knew that TLDR did not mean anything to do with

the question there. "Too long, didn't read."

The correct answer, FYI, "For your information".

I did not know that. Thank you, Lesley.

That really stood you in good stead there,

your experience of coding, knowing those abbreviations, Nathan.

You were bang on the money with that. Terrific stuff.

Now, the keypad awaits.

-One is down, what is the plan?

-Two - or an eight?

-Two.

-Yeah, go for two first.

OK, the number two, 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?

-Bull's-eye!

-There we go.

Number two is there in the middle.

Only two numbers down, you have already found one in the code.

-However, that does mean...

-Uh-oh.

Uh-oh, indeed, we are now moving to the next stage.

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

two questions before you have to make a decision

about which one is the correct answer. OK?

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

Tesco, I assume, is going to be

something to do with the supermarket.

Shall we go with that? What is Tresco? Have you heard that word?

I don't know.

I mean, it sounds vaguely familiar, but I have got no idea what it is.

-Tedesco?

-Have you heard of that? No.

-Shall we go for Tesco first, just to see?

-Let's go Tesco.

OK, let's go Tesco.

-That's Asda.

-Asda, definitely. Definitely Asda.

Yes, so we think that's definitely wrong.

Confident with that one, that that's incorrect.

Where would you like to go next?

I've kind of heard of Tresco.

Shall we go for that?

Yeah, maybe it'll jog our memory.

OK. The question behind Tresco...

Have you ever heard of him?

I haven't heard of him

or an island called Tresco.

Erm, I think it might be one of

the, like, Scilly Isles,

maybe, or...

is it one with Jersey and Guernsey?

One of those?

So, do you think not...

Do you think that's either too close to France or...

-Yeah.

-..it would have been Isle of Wight or something like that?

-Yeah.

Yeah, maybe.

So, we have to go for the last one, do you think?

So we're going to say Tedesco is right...

-Whatever that is.

-..but do it blind?

OK.

-Fingers crossed. Yeah? Tedesco?

-Yeah.

OK.

So we're going to lock in Tedesco.

OK, it's locked in.

Nothing we can do to change that, but we can

-have a look at the question behind it.

-OK.

-See how it makes us feel.

Well, that doesn't sound right, does it?

-That doesn't sound right at all.

-It's got the O on the end -

it could be slightly Italian.

If you'd seen all three of those, which one would you be going with?

Tresco.

It could still be the correct answer.

You might be on shaky ground here. Who knows?

This could be the end of it.

We don't want that to happen, Bernie and Nathan.

Is Tedesco the correct answer?

Oh, my God!

I think you're more shocked

than anybody else here!

-Absolutely!

-Well done.

Lesley, talk us through them, please.

Bernie and Nathan, you were right to say that Tedesco sounds Italian.

It comes from the same root as "Deutsch" and "Dutch".

Tresco's not the right answer here.

Tresco, as Bernie said, is in the Scilly Isles.

The correct answer here is Lundy,

Lundy being off the north coast of Devon.

He set up a currency with the puffin and the half puffin,

which was used in the local area.

-Oh!

-Tesco not correct.

You were very happy about this one. You both knew that this was Asda.

Thank you, Lesley. Yes, very good indeed.

Now, the keypad. Two is up front and centre

in the middle of your code there.

One we know has nothing to do with it.

-Which one is it going to be next?

-I think of those eight, number eight.

-Number eight, yes.

-Number eight.

Is the number eight up there in your code? Is it there in the first box?

No number eight there.

Is there a number eight in the third and final box?

-OK.

-No number eight.

So, blank, two, blank.

Three numbers down. It's looking quite good.

Bernie and Nathan,

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

Joseph McCarthy - was he the one who did the McCarthy witch hunts?

-Er, could be. I don't know.

-I don't know a lot about it, though.

-Crewe is quite close to us.

-Yeah, it is, actually.

We're not far from Crewe. Shall we go for Crewe first?

-Stick close to home.

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

It's, "Oh, Mr Porter, what am I going to do?"

which does rhyme with Crewe.

-I don't know what the rest of it is.

-That works for me.

I don't know the song at all. But, yeah. Do, Crewe.

But there might be other places that rhyme with "do".

Well, there probably are but, you know, Crewe's quite snappy,

-you know, single syllable.

-OK.

-Yeah?

-Maybe?

-OK.

-Well, we can open one more before we have to make a decision.

-Fish sauce?

-Yeah.

-Yeah, let's go Fish sauce.

-OK. Fish sauce...

-Have you had that?

-Er...no.

-I've not heard of that.

-Nam pla.

But I've never had fish when we've gone out for a Thai. So...

Yeah, but a lot of sauces

have fish in, don't they?

I'm quite fond of Crewe now,

-cos it kind of rhymes.

-Crewe?

"What am I to do?" Crewe.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, Crewe.

I can vote for that.

Which one do we want to lock in as our correct answer?

I think we'll go for Crewe.

There we are. It's locked in.

Not quite sure about all of the lyrics.

-No.

-But we know

that "Crewe" rhymes with "do".

-Exactly.

-And that's where it's taken us.

Let's have a look at the question behind Joseph McCarthy...

-I don't think that's right.

-You think that one is wrong?

-No.

-I think it's wrong, yeah. I'm pretty sure.

-OK. Well, you know...

I think we... Yeah, I'm quite happy with Crewe, still.

-You're happy with Crewe?

-Yeah.

-I believe in you.

-Is Crewe our correct answer?

-Oh, no!

-I'm so sorry.

-It sounded so right...

-It did, yeah.

..from the way you were saying that. And you were so sure, Bernie.

Let's find out which was the correct answer.

Fish sauce. You should have had the fish dish there, Nathan.

-That would have made all the difference.

-Oh, sorry!

-Lesley, talk us through these answers.

-I'm very sorry.

Yes, not having had fish sauce in a Thai restaurant causing you

trouble there. It's typically made with anchovies.

Delia Smith once said

that it's the Eastern version of Worcestershire sauce.

Joseph McCarthy - this rang a bell for you when the answer came up.

You remembered that he was involved in some sort of investigations,

which is correct. He was involved in the investigations into Communism

in the US government. The correct answer is Richard Nixon.

Crewe - not the correct answer. You remembered the song.

Good thinking about it rhyming but that's not the correct answer.

The lyrics say, "Oh, Mr Porter! What shall I do?

"I want to go to Birmingham and they're taking me on to Crewe."

It was in the song,

so it was a 50/50, basically, Birmingham or Crewe.

-It WAS the rhyme.

-Mm.

-Unfortunately, it was the wrong one.

Bernie and Nathan, what can I say?

You have failed to crack The Code and sadly, therefore,

-we have to wish you all the best back to the Potteries.

-OK.

-Lovely to meet you. Cheers, Bernie.

-Thank you so much. Thank you.

-Lovely to meet you.

-Thank you.

-Bye-bye.

Oh, dear, oh, dear.

Yes, an express train back to the Potteries for Bernie and Nathan.

Do not pass "Go" and certainly do not collect £5,000.

However, their loss is our next team's gain,

because another £500 is now added to the jackpot,

so let's meet the next team hoping to crack The Code.

-Lovely to see you. How are you, Jason?

-Very good, Matt. How are you?

-Yeah, very well, thank you. And Adrian?

-Yes, hi.

Lovely to see you, too. How do you guys know each other?

So, we went to university together, Matt, back in the '90s...

Almost 20 years ago. 20 years ago next year, I think it is.

-Oh, my goodness.

-..at Northampton.

We both did European business and German,

so we spent three years in the UK and a year overseas.

-Right, fantastic. That sounds like a lot of fun.

-Yes.

-And the German - how is the German these days?

-Er, sehr gut.

THEY CHUCKLE

-Very rusty!

-That much? That much?

-Yeah, very rusty.

-And you, Adrian?

-You still keeping the German up?

-No. I do a lot of travelling but not to Germany any more.

Most of mine's to the Middle East, so it's not spoken very widely in the Middle East.

That's part of your job now, then? What is it exactly you do?

So, I run a recruitment desk for projects in the Middle East,

so mainly in Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Qatar - those sorts of places.

How about you, Jason? What are you up to these days?

I'm a procurement specialist for an energy company.

Is it the energy that you're procuring or other things?

It's other things, yeah. I don't want to get too complicated,

but it's not the actual energy itself.

OK. Now, the team before you...

Unfortunately, Bernie and Nathan failed to crack The Code.

Not great news for them but terrific news for you,

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

which takes us to a total of...

-Pretty tasty.

-That'd be nice.

-Yeah, wouldn't it?

-Yeah.

Let's reset the code.

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

We'll start at the top, with the question behind Maine Road.

-Well, that's Highbury.

-Yeah, it's Highbury.

Maine Road - Manchester City. Yeah, yeah.

Confident about that one?

-We're pretty confident that's incorrect, yeah.

-Good stuff.

Let's look at the question behind Butterfly.

-That's beetle.

-I think they're beetles, aren't they?

-They certainly are.

-Stag's definitely a stag beetle.

Deathwatch sounds like a beetle.

Let's make sure we know, though.

-Yeah, yeah.

-OK. And the question behind Lighthouse...

Yeah. So, Lighthouse. Eddystone...

Bishop Rock's the one that Richard Branson was trying to rush for,

wasn't it, when he was trying to do the transatlantic thing?

If it was, he didn't tell me about it. Er...

-You don't have coffee with him?

-Does he not ring?

-He doesn't ring me any more.

-I think we're happy with Lighthouse.

I've not heard of Eddystone but let's lock in the correct answer

as being Lighthouse. I think so.

If it is correct,

then it'll go green and it means you guys get to choose

a number to try in the code.

Is it the correct answer?

-Great start. Well done.

-Makes you doubt yourself, doesn't it?

-It does that. Lesley?

-Yes, well done, Jason and Adrian.

You were all over this set of questions. Adrian, you remembered

that Richard Branson passed Bishop Rock Lighthouse,

the finishing line, in the Virgin Atlantic Challenger II.

Maine Road - this one caused you no trouble.

You remembered that Maine Road was the stadium for Man City

before they moved to the Etihad Stadium in 2003.

The correct answer, exactly as you said, is Highbury.

And Butterfly, not right.

You remembered that stag is a type of beetle, stag beetle,

and the deathwatch beetle.

Deathwatch beetle also known as the woodboring beetle

because its larva is able to bore through old wood. Good start.

Yes, the boring beetle - never invited to parties. Tragic!

Well done, chaps. You've got your first correct answer.

It buys you the chance to choose a number. What's the thought?

-Any method here?

-Very little method in any of our stuff, is there?

-Let's face it.

-Let's go for four.

-Four? Yeah.

Let's find out - is four up there in the code?

Is it there in the first box?

No number four. How about the second box?

Still no number four.

Is it there in the third box?

No number four, but getting rid of the numbers early on

is a great thing to do.

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

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

-Mustard, isn't it?

-Yeah, I was going to say, Colman's mustard -

it's got to be the thing for that. Ketchup is American, I would say.

Yeah, I think you're right.

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

Dover's in Kent but that's about as far as I would go on that one.

I'm just trying to think what other town in Kent

-could be spelt similar to Dover, and I really can't think.

-No.

And for that reason,

I would suggest at this stage that Dover is incorrect.

Let's have a look at Bad Hombres and see if that enlightens us.

It sounds like something that Donald Trump would say.

He's obviously been doing a lot about Mexicans and the border

and things like that, wasn't he? So it was one of those things that

he was talking about.

So the late 19th century - that's

going to be, like, the 1890s, isn't it?

Yeah. I think,

on the basis of probability,

my view would be that the third option would be the correct one.

-Let's go with Bad Hombres.

-OK, we're going to lock in Bad Hombres.

If it's the wrong answer, it'll be red and that's the end of that.

Is Bad Hombres the correct answer?

Oof!

-Sighs of relief all round. Lesley?

-A little bit of a wobble there.

You weren't by any means confident

that that would be the correct answer but it is, Bad Hombres.

He said, "We've had some bad hombres and we're going to get them out."

Ketchup, not the right answer.

You said the correct answer to this question - mustard.

You were right in thinking that ketchup's better associated

-with America, though it does have Asian origins.

-Oh.

Dover - not the right answer.

Good thinking with this one, Jason, on trying to work out

whether there was another place in Kent that sounded similar to Dover.

You couldn't think of anything,

therefore it had to be the wrong answer.

The correct answer is Tonbridge -

spelt with an O, used to be spelt with an U,

to avoid confusion with the nearby Tunbridge Wells.

Good thinking, good work, and excellent progress so far.

-Thank you.

-Yes, indeed.

So far, we have two questions down.

The chance now to choose another number. Four's gone.

-What would you like to do?

-So, let's go with five.

Let's see if it's up there. 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?

No number five. No number four, no number five.

Jason, Adrian, let's have a look

at your next three answers.

We'll start at the very top with the question behind Cook.

I've not read the book, so...

Well, clearly, I've not got a clue. Er...

I was looking to you to hope you had then, at that point.

-Do you want to make something up?

-Yeah.

No, I don't think we know that one at all. So we'd have to go...

-Move on quickly.

-Let's move on quickly.

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

-Now, that's tough.

-So, Roar is a Katy Perry song.

-Yes.

# Roar, do-do-do... #

-Yeah, it...

-I think that's earlier than 2016.

-What single was released...

-I don't think that was the one released

-for the Olympics.

-Was it released by Katy Perry as an anthem...

Was it released before that but released again as an anthem

for the 2016 Summer Olympics?

Maybe. Maybe.

OK, well, we can open the last one there. The question behind Meat.

OK. Well...

He does his quick calculations on this

but that's not right, cos he took...

-He's gone gluten-free. That was his change of diet.

-Was it?

Yeah, he went... I mean, I don't know whether he...

Whether he took meat out before that but he was definitely...

Gluten was what he suggested was

-the reason for his upsurge in his performance.

-Good shout.

My gut feeling is we don't know enough about

Treasure Island to know it's not that answer.

I don't think they would have rereleased a song as an anthem

that's been rereleased before. They might have done

and I might be completely proven wrong, but I think

Long John Silver was a cook.

So, let's go with Cook, shall we?

-Yeah.

-Going to lock that in as our correct answer?

-Yeah, go on.

-Yes, please.

-Before we talk ourselves out of it.

OK. Can't change that now.

It's a bit of a logical jumble sale we've got going on here,

Jason and Adrian, but that's the answer that we've got.

We want Cook to turn green and be our correct answer.

THEY CHUCKLE

-How did we do that?

-I have no idea! But you did it. Lesley?

-Indeed.

I thought you were going to fall out over that, for a moment.

Cook is the correct answer.

He begins the book as this kindly cook and then, gradually,

is revealed to be the villain of the piece. Roar, not the right answer.

I think you might have come unstuck on this set of questions had not

Adrian been Katy Perry's biggest fan.

The correct answer - not Roar, which was released earlier,

as you said, in 2013 - but Rise. Let's look at the Meat question.

Novak Djokovic didn't remove meat from his diet.

You were quite right in saying that it was gluten. He went gluten-free.

The story is that there was a nutritionist who watched

Novak Djokovic have one of his mid-match slumps,

managed to get in touch with him, encouraged him to go gluten-free.

He tried it, it worked and he credits that with his

improvement in performance.

There we go. That's what we all need, perhaps -

cut the gluten out - but your performance, although random,

a bit random at times, is doing the job.

That's the only important thing. We need to focus on that, the positive.

Now, the digital keypad. Four and five have gone already.

-What would you like next?

-Go on, mate. Down to you.

-Let's go...

Let's go up to the top, number one.

Number one - is it there in our code? Let's have a look.

Number one - is it there in the first box?

No number one. How about the second box?

-There is.

-Oh, oh.

-Things now become a little bit trickier.

-As if they weren't already!

-Well, yes.

I mean, you were making them tricky, to be fair.

But no, they get trickier now of their own accord.

Three answers there. You only get to look at two of the questions

behind them before you have to make a decision.

It does make a big difference.

We really have to put our heads together now.

Our first three answers, please. Jason and Adrian, here they come.

Which one first?

Well, Having Six Legs would seem to scream out things like insects

and what defines an insect.

Shall we try Having Six Legs and see if we can work out whether that...?

-Yeah, why not?

-Having Six Legs, please.

Ooh!

Ee, mm...

I'm trying to think of...

..Italian,

and whether that "sesqu" is...

"Ses" sounds...six in Spanish or Italian, doesn't it?

Uno, dos, tres,

-cuatro, cinco, seis.

-Hmm.

-Seis.

OK, potentially on that one, shall we go for...

OK, we can open one of the others.

You could give me a list of ZZ Top songs and I still wouldn't know...

So, let's go Suits and see what we get on that one.

The question behind Suits, please.

Right, well, I've got no idea

what that actual television programme is but it's not Suits.

Oh, really? OK. So, I wouldn't have a clue about that question.

Suits is a legal drama from the States but it's...

If it's not running now, it's been running very recently,

so I'd say that's wrong.

Let's focus more on that top one, then.

My first thing when that came out was, I think that means six.

Six-legged. In Italian, in Latin.

-Yes, doesn't help in Korean.

-No, no.

-That was Korean?

-Eins, zwei, drei, vier, funf, sechs...

-We knew that one.

-Seis. I think that's right.

-Yeah.

We're firmly expecting this to go red but let's hope, anyway,

that it's going to go green for us. So we'll lock in Having Six Legs.

There we go. It's locked in.

We can't change it.

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

-Well...

-I've only ever known them to have beards.

That's the point, because they've all got...

The two lead singers have got beards, but then...

Well, it's wrong... If it's right, it's wrong... We could be wrong.

-It's kind of academic at this stage.

-You're right.

-We're locked in.

Sesquipedalian is the word we've got to focus in on now

and hope that that means having six legs.

Is Having Six Legs

our correct answer?

Come on!

-No.

-No. No.

-Oh, well.

-Never mind.

-Just ran out...

-Never mind.

-..out of luck.

-Let's find out which is the correct answer.

It was...

-OK.

-..Beard. No beard.

-Well, we would... Yeah.

-Yeah.

-Lesley?

-Really bad luck.

Yes, ZZ Top, or Zed Zed Top, as they should be called in the UK...

Frank Beard, the only clean-shaven member.

The other members, in 1984,

were offered 1 million each by Gillette to shave their beards.

They said no, cos they said they were too ugly without them.

Having Six Legs - the wrong answer.

Sesquipedalian comes from sesquipedalis,

meaning a foot-and-a-half long, so a different derivation.

And the correct answer is using long words, like sesquipedalian.

Suits, not the right answer. You had a good feeling about this one.

-The correct answer is Damages.

-Jason and Adrian, what can I say?

You did brilliantly but, unfortunately,

the logical jumble sale is now closed. We can't carry on.

You have failed to crack The Code and, therefore,

we have to let you go on your way. But lovely meeting you.

-Had a great day, thank you. Thank you, Lesley.

-Cheers, Adrian.

-Thank you very much.

-Bye-bye.

-Bye-bye.

-Bad luck.

Ah, Jason and Adrian - what fantastic contestants.

In fact, we've had fantastic contestants all series,

because that's all we've got time for today - AND for this series.

Lesley, a pleasure, as always, working with you.

Brain the size of a planet. What stood out for you this series?

We've had six winners this series, including Julian,

who took home £15,500 - our biggest jackpot ever.

Lots of really intelligent quizzing - from you, as well.

-How many Lesley points do you think you had?

-I think I might be up to around four or five.

Well, four or five Lesley points - that is good enough for me.

Thank you very much.

Yes, it's been a collection of brainboxes and cunning foxes.

Thank you for watching.

And if you think you've got what it takes to crack The Code,

well, maybe we'll see you next time.

Goodbye.