Episode 6 The Code

Hello and welcome to The Code.

Locked in the safe is £14,500, the highest prize we have ever had.

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.

Last time, our student team from the University of Bath -

Roberto, Kieran and Marcus - had picked two numbers, eight and zero,

which were in their code,

so let's welcome them back to see if they can find that last number

and win £14,500.

Here they are, back again.

-Welcome back. Roberto, Kieran and Marcus.

-Good to see you.

-Good to see you.

Good to see you. Good to see you.

Let's remind ourselves who you are.

Three students, all from the University of Bath, and crucially, good mates.

-That's right, isn't it? Yes.

-That's right.

-Still good mates?

-Yeah, not lost yet.

-Good.

Glad to hear it. The subjects you study, Roberto?

Politics of international relations.

-Kieran?

-Pharmacy.

-Psychology.

-There we go.

Three quite different subjects.

Are you feeling confident?

Are you ready to have another go,

try and find the final digit in your code?

-Absolutely.

-Yeah, let's go for it.

-Yeah.

-Fantastic.

Well, before we start, let's reintroduce ourselves

to the wonderful Lesley who will be shedding light

on questions and answers for us, scholarly.

-Lesley Brewis.

-Welcome back. Keep playing the way you're playing.

It's working. You've got good information, guts,

instinct and trust between friends.

If you win today, you'll be the second trio to do that,

but the first male trio.

Good luck.

Let's remind ourselves where we are.

Have a look up there. You can see your code.

8-0-blank.

Just one digit remaining.

That digit will open the safe

and give you £14,500 to split between you.

On the keypad, 1, 6, 7 and 9 remain.

One of those must be the final digit in the code.

If you answer four questions correctly

then you will be taking the prize home.

But you could do it even more quickly than that.

Roberto, Kieran, Marcus, are you ready?

-Yeah.

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

We are looking for the one correct answer that is in there,

but we only get to see one question at a time before you have to commit

that it's right or wrong,

so the order in which you choose them is crucial.

Where do you want to go first, gentlemen?

None of those stand out to me.

No idea what Amarillo Slim is.

-Chase the Sun?

-Sounds like a cocktail.

-Sounds like a song.

-Chase the Sun does sound like a song.

It's probably a really famous song.

-Yeah.

-No adjectives.

I think we should go with the top one.

Yeah. No adjectives.

OK, let's have a look at the question behind no adjectives.

How difficult would it be to write a book with no adjectives?

Quite difficult, but it wouldn't be impossible.

-It wouldn't be impossible, no.

-Let's think about the title, Solar Bones.

Does that suggest anything in particular?

Well, solar, surely there is an adjective.

I'm trying to think desperately what else it could be.

-It could be no adverbs.

-Yeah.

Why would you win a prize for no adjectives?

That would be a really boring book, wouldn't it?

It would be, yeah. But then because it's quite unusual...

that's what might make it...

-But who would buy it?

-Yeah.

-Discard it?

-Yeah, let's.

-You believe that's an incorrect answer?

So we're going to discard it.

That's now out of the game.

Which question do you want to see next?

No idea.

-Amarillo Slim.

-Yeah, let's go with Amarillo Slim.

Let's see the question behind Amarillo Slim.

-Is Amarillo in Texas?

-It is in Texas.

How is a Texan...?

You play poker.

I know, but I haven't heard of Thomas Preston Junior.

But then it might be like Amarillo Large.

Amarillo is definitely in Texas, yeah.

THEY TALK OVER EACH OTHER

We'll go for this answer, please.

This is a hunch, but we want to lock this in as the correct answer.

Yes, please.

No going back now. But we can open the question

behind Chase the Sun

and let's see how that makes us feel.

I know the cult football song, but...

How does it go? Do you want to give a rendition?

Not really.

But On Fire replaces the word desire so I think the song title is

something desire.

Is that making you feel better

-about your choice of Amarillo Slim?

-It is slightly.

-Still not 100%.

-It is academic as that is the one you have chosen,

Amarillo Slim.

Is Amarillo Slim the correct answer?

Yes!

-My goodness.

-That was inspired,

absolutely inspired. Lesley.

You trusted your gut,

that little golden nugget of information from Roberto

that Amarillo is in Texas.

Yes, Amarillo Slim - famous in the 1970s as a poker player,

a very colourful, large personality, who wore a cowboy hat.

Spoke in a broad Texas accent.

No adjectives.

Kieran, you came through with the key piece of information here

which is that solar is an adjective.

Why would a book with no adjectives

have a title with an adjective in it?

The correct answer is it is one sentence.

Chase the Sun not right.

Again, Kieran, you came with the correct information

because you knew it was "desire" at the last word of the song.

It is based on Freed From Desire.

Matt, do you remember who that's by? It's a 1990s hit.

Freed From Desire, it's a big dance club hit.

A really big dance hit. Yeah. By Gala.

-Ah, wouldn't have got that.

-Very well done. Excellent gameplay.

You're not kidding. You were taking the scrapings of your knowledge

and piecing them together.

Now, here we go. Let's have a look at the code.

8-0-blank.

One digit remaining that needs to be found if you are going to take home

£14,500 between you.

On the keypad, 1, 6, 7 and 9 remaining.

One of them must be up there.

Which one is to be?

-Going 7?

-Yeah.

-We'll go number 7.

Last time, Marcus, you came up and joined me at the safe.

Who's going to do it this time?

-Solar, I think you should do it.

-Go on, yeah.

-I'll do it.

-Kieran, join me at the safe.

OK, Roberto, Kieran, Marcus, you've chosen the number 7.

If 7 is that final number,

you will go home today with £14,500 between you.

How much difference is that going to make to you guys?

Well, as students, quite a lot of difference.

You will be leaving university with debt like most students.

This will take a chunk out of that, will it?

I don't know. I think we were planning on going to Vegas with the winnings.

OK, well, that's one way to deal with it.

OK, Kieran,

if you're ready, punch in the number 7.

Round and round it goes.

We are looking for 807.

If it is a 7,

the safe will open and you guys are taking home £14,500.

It's our highest ever jackpot on The Code.

Is it 807?

It's another blank.

Let's go back and see the boys.

OK. So it's not 7, it turns out.

However, if you do answer the next three questions correctly,

you will be walking home with £14,500.

-Can you do that?

-Yeah.

-Let's go for it.

-We'll try.

-You'll try. Deep breaths.

OK, are you ready for your next three answers?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-Here they are.

-I want to go for Andrea Leadsom.

-I think with your knowledge...

I think, for that reason, we'll go for it.

You feel that one of those is shouting out at you to take it?

-Yeah. Andrea Leadsom.

-We're going to look at the question

behind Andrea Leadsom.

-It is Andrea Leadsom.

-Is it?

-Yeah.

-Yes!

You feel like you've found the right question here for you?

I think you couldn't have picked a more perfect question at this point.

Studying politics, international affairs.

-It's the correct answer.

-We'll lock it in.

We'd like to lock in

Andrea Leadsom as the correct answer.

OK, now we've done that, we can have a look at the other two.

Let's start with the Addams Family.

-No.

-I wouldn't have any idea.

Not the first clue on that one.

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

I didn't realise there was an artist called Botticelli.

OK, so, academic, really, those other two questions,

because you have committed to Andrea Leadsom, which you always felt,

Roberto, was going to be your strongest suit.

Let's find out, shall we?

If Andrea Leadsom turns red,

so will your face, Roberto.

You would just be going home with what you've got.

We don't want that. Let's find out.

-Yes!

-Well done. Good work, Roberto.

Well done, gentlemen. Lesley.

Very fortunate that this came up for you.

Andrea Leadsom challenged for the leadership of the Conservative Party

but dropped out in the second round having failed, she said,

to get enough support, leaving the path open for Theresa May.

The Addams Family - not the right answer.

They lived on Cemetery Lane. It is the Munsters.

Botticelli was an Italian artist but he had been dead for almost

a century by 1606, so definitely not Botticelli.

The correct answer is Caravaggio.

OK, so, another green answer,

another correct answer from you guys,

means at this most difficult level of the game you get another crack

at putting the final digit into the code.

1, 6 and 9 still remain.

This is your third go at completing the code.

Is it third time lucky?

And crucially, which number is it going to be?

The only one that strikes me is, I don't know why, but 6.

-Why not?

-Number 6.

Who is going to join me at the safe?

-I think it has to be you.

-It has to be Roberto.

-I'll do it.

-It feels like you've earned the right.

Roberto, join me at the safe.

Roberto, Kieran and Marcus, together you have chosen the number 6.

If the number 6 is the final number in your code, you will,

finally today, be going home with £14,500.

You remember when Kieran first met you, he thought you were a lecturer

rather than a student?

It's time to teach him a lesson.

-Oh, dear.

-Are you ready, Roberto?

-I'm ready. Let's go for it.

-OK.

Punch the number 6.

We want 806.

Third time lucky.

Come on. We've had two goes at this digit.

This time it's going to stick.

If it does, £14,500 is going back to Bath.

Is it 806?

-No.

-It's another blank.

You are doing it the hard way, guys.

OK, let's go back and join them.

You are being brilliant with the questions.

It's just luck that you're struggling with.

1 and 9 are left.

It has to be one of those two.

-We are going to do this, aren't we?

-Yeah. Let's go for it.

Roberto, Kieran, Marcus, are you ready for your next three answers?

-Yeah.

-Yes.

Remember only one answer is correct. That's the one we want to find.

-What did we say before we came?

-You're the pharmacist.

-I'm thinking malaria.

-Malaria, I've done a little bit on malaria.

-I don't want to say too much.

-I think before we came, we said

we'd try to avoid old ancient royals.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-Urban music, though.

-Urban music could be all right.

I think malaria.

-Yeah, I think so as well.

-OK.

We're going to have a look at the question behind malaria.

-By the female Anopheles.

-Yeah, it's the female Anopheles mosquito.

I don't think it is tsetse fly.

-It can't be...

-That would be like yellow fever or dengue something.

It might be dengue or yellow fever. It might be yellow fever...

We know it's definitely not malaria.

OK. What do we want to do with this answer?

-We'll discard it.

-Yeah.

We want to discard that as incorrect.

OK, let's do that.

It's gone.

That's out of the game. Which question do you want to see next?

What do you class as urban?

This could be a Skepta question.

The London grime scene, Big Narstie, that kind of thing.

Oh, this would be good.

I'd say our chances of that are a bit better than,

but if we go out on a question of urban music.

There's certain friends who would not forgive us.

-We'll get...I think we have to.

-Yeah, urban music.

Let's have a look at the question behind urban music.

-Do you think that's R&B?

-Shorty's an artist, presumably, or?

I just think Shorty would be an R&B award, maybe.

Yeah, but that, would that still be classed as urban music?

Is it...are they British awards or international, do you know?

-Shorty is an urban phrase as well, so maybe...

-Yeah.

With regards to Edward I as well, I mean, I don't know...

-I don't know.

-..anything about Edward I. No, so it's not like...

-No, neither do I.

-So it's not like we might be able to get that one.

OK, what do we want to do with this answer, urban music?

-I think we'll lock it in.

-Yeah, let's lock it in.

We're going to lock that in as correct.

-Yeah.

-OK, let's do it.

Right. Very exciting.

Weren't terribly sure about that one, were we?

-No.

-We weren't sure. At all.

OK, well, will this make us feel more or less confident?

Let's see the question behind Edward I.

Hammer of the Scots.

So "Hammer" would suggest that, in my mind, English versus the Scots.

Battles, yeah.

Was King James Scottish, was he?

King James, I think...

-..Was Scottish.

-May have been, yeah.

That's the first thing that came to my mind, but...

OK, well, there we are, it's academic.

We've made our decision with urban music being the correct answer.

We want that to go green.

You've only got two digits left

on the keypad.

We've got £14,500 that's desperate to leap into your arms.

Is urban music the correct answer?

Oh!

-It had to give.

-Oh, well.

That's really, really harsh.

Let's find out the correct answer.

It was Edward I.

Lesley, talk us through those.

Yes, the correct answer

hiding behind the set that you couldn't see.

Edward I, Hammer of the Scots

because of the campaigns that he led against Scotland during his reign.

Urban music not the right answer,

Shorty is a term relevant to urban music.

The correct answer here is social media,

categories such as best use of emojis.

And malaria, you knew straightaway

that malaria is spread by mosquitoes,

gave us a comprehensive rundown of that.

The correct answer is sleeping sickness.

I'm sorry you came unstuck there.

You played brilliantly, you used the information that each had,

you trusted yourselves, you can go home feeling really confident

that you gave this your best and that it was an excellent performance. Well done.

Just for pig iron, tell me,

what is the next number you would have chosen for the code?

-1. Yeah, number 1.

-I think we would have gone for 1.

Let's have a look, the number 1, was it there?

What was the last number?

Don't do this to us now!

I have to, we have to know.

No. You would have had to go the whole way, all ten questions.

But listen, you did play absolutely brilliantly.

Roberto, Kieran, Marcus, you failed to break the code,

so I have no option but to say goodbye to you.

-Thank you.

-Lovely to see you.

-Thank you, Matt.

-Take care.

-Thank you.

-Safe journey home.

-Thank you, Lesley.

I thought they had everything you need to break the code,

but, unfortunately, it didn't happen.

Their loss, however, is our next team's gain once again

because the jackpot goes even higher,

now £15,000.

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

Here they are. Mind your step as you come down, Jane.

-Matt.

-Lovely to meet you.

-Pleased to meet you.

-And Mick, how are you?

-Good to see you.

-I'm fine, thank you.

-Both from Derbyshire, is that right?

-Yes.

-Where?

-Chesterfield.

Chesterfield. How do you guys know each other?

We've been married 36 years.

No, we haven't, no, we haven't,

we've been married 30 years, but we've known each other 36 years.

-Whoops!

-OK, I'm glad we sorted that out nice and early.

First question wrong, yeah!

Well, we won't send you off just yet, don't worry, don't worry,

-we'll let you get that one away.

-Right.

So 36 years together, what's the secret of that?

For me, it's learning to say yes.

Learning to say yes.

Is that how it's going to work today, is Jane the boss here?

-No, no, Mick definitely is.

-She normally is, but today,

I think we need to be a team.

-Yeah, we are very Mick and Jane.

-You are... You're Mick-and-Jane?

-Yes.

-Is that how you're referred to?

-It's not Mick and Jane, it's Mick-and-Jane.

-Mick-and-Jane.

Wow, OK, well...

And I'm actually on the wrong side.

It shouldn't be Jane and Mick, it should be Mick and Jane.

Hold on, I'll just check, can they swap?

-OK, swap.

-You sure?

-Go for it, go for it.

You've got to feel comfortable.

-I feel better now.

-You've got to feel comfortable.

-It's like Ant and Dec.

-It's exactly like Ant and Dec.

Well, listen, now we expect great things from you, OK,

because you're on the right side, you are Mick-and-Jane.

-Yes.

-Let's just remind ourselves where we are.

The jackpot was not won by Roberto, Kieran and Marcus,

despite their tremendous efforts.

Not great news for them,

but terrific news for you because another £500

is added to the jackpot,

making a total of £15,000.

Are you ready, Mick-and-Jane?

-Yes.

-We're ready, yes, thank you.

-In that case, we will reset the code.

Three blanks - and you want to turn

those three blanks into three numbers.

Are you ready to have a look at your first three answers?

-Yes.

-We are.

-Here we go.

Now, remember,

you can open all three answers to see the questions behind.

Let's go from the top, Blueberry Delta.

I've had a long career in IT but I don't know that one,

not heard of that one.

-OK.

-Let's just hope the other questions help.

-Shall we move the others?

-Yes, please.

-Maybe they'll help you out.

The question behind punt, please.

I think it might be that, I think that might be right.

-You think that's right?

-Yeah.

OK.

Let's have a look at the question behind a small ship.

-Yeah, I know that one.

-That's not, that's not...

-A cat o' nine tails

I believe, was, um...

-like a whip...

-A whip, yeah, yeah.

-..they used for punishing sailors.

I agree with you on that one.

OK. One of those must be the correct answer.

Which one do you want to go for?

Listen, the main goal for us today was getting past the first question,

-so...

-Well.

-Here we go.

We want that too, just so we're clear.

I would go for, I'd take a punt, forgive the pun, at punt.

I hope you're right, dear.

-Want to lock it in?

-Yes.

-Yes, please.

-We'll lock that one in.

OK, we're going to take a punt on punt.

Let's lock it in as our correct answer.

If it is correct, it'll go green,

you get the chance to pick the first number for the code.

-I daren't look.

-If it's not correct

it'll go red and that means

that Mick-and-Jane are going back to Chesterfield.

Is punt the correct answer?

Good start, well done, that's it.

-Don't go home just yet.

-Well done, well done.

-Lesley.

-Mick, you liked that question as soon as you saw it.

Yes, the punt, also known as the Irish pound.

The euro was introduced there in 1999

with the coinage coming in 2002.

Blueberry Delta, not the name of a computer.

The answer is... Do you know this one, Matt?

-Is it the Pi?

-It's the Raspberry Pi.

The name's in homage to other fruity computers like the Apple and Pi

coming from Python, the programming language.

And not a small ship - Mick, you knew this one, it was a whip.

It had nine separate knotted strands

and used to be used as a judicial and military punishment.

Thank you, Lesley. Yes, smart as a whip there, Mick,

no flies on you at all.

So, your first correct answer means

you get your first chance at the keypad.

Your code contains three unique numbers

and the keypad has ten numbers.

Which one do you want to pick first?

Number 7. Would you say?

-Yes.

-The number 7.

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

It's not there.

And how about that little box?

And the third and final box?

There is no seven in your code.

Are you, Mick-and-Jane, ready for your next three answers?

-Yes, please.

-OK, here we go.

We get to see all the questions,

so let's start at the very top with Hastings, please.

-I thought it was in Normandy.

-Yeah, I thought it was in Normandy, yes.

So, yeah, I'm not sure about that one, we'll have a look at the others

-and see what we think with that.

-OK,

Let's look at the question behind Cumbria.

If it was on the western coast, it would be Cumbria, wouldn't it?

Yeah, and I have a feeling that Dumfries and Galloway

is the bit that sticks out.

-Yeah.

-I would say yeah, that's possible.

-That's possible.

-Very possible.

-Yeah.

-OK, well, we can stow it

for the moment and have a look at the question behind saxophone.

I think Wurlitzer made organs.

I thought, I was going to say the same, yeah.

-OK.

-The tapestry we both believe was in Normandy.

It's in Normandy, isn't it?

-Yeah.

-I think.

-Wurlitzer, we believe they were organs.

We both think that Dumfries and Galloway are on the western coast,

so it must be Cumbria, would you say on that one, yeah?

-Yeah.

-So, shall we lock that in?

Yes, we'll lock in Cumbria.

Let's lock in Cumbria as our correct answer.

Is Cumbria our correct answer?

-Yes.

-Yes.

-You knew it, knew it all the way through.

Yes, you seemed pretty happy with this selection of questions.

Cumbria the right answer. Cumbria and Northumberland being

-the English counties that border Scotland.

-Yes.

Let's look at the wrong answers.

Hastings, you dismissed that one straightaway.

The correct answer is Bayeux in Normandy.

And the last answer on the board there,

saxophone, not the correct answer,

it is, as you said, an organ.

They also made pianos.

And you're playing a beautiful tune at the moment, Mick and Jane.

Mick taking the lead, I think, I would say, very slightly.

-Yes.

-But he's doing it very, very well

because it's bought you the chance to choose another number

to try in the code.

7 is gone, nine others remain.

-What's going to be?

-I'll pick number 2.

-The number 2.

Is the number 2 in our code? Is it there in the first box?

No. Is it there in the second box?

It isn't. Is the number two there in the third and final box?

It's not.

Hard luck, but we don't worry too much about that.

-Yes.

-We're still working through those numbers

discounting them while it's nice and easy.

Are you ready, Mick and Jane, for your third set of answers?

-Yes.

-We are.

We'll start at the top with Graham Poll.

-Was it Howard Webb?

-No.

We think, yeah, we've actually spoken to this guy,

we think it was Howard Webb.

-Are you guys football fans?

-Yes. Yes, we are.

-OK, what's your team?

-Chesterfield, for our sins.

You think you've spoken to this...

I've certainly spoken to Howard Webb and I'm sure he's done the World Cup

final because we also briefly met Jack Taylor that did the 1974 one,

-he was the other Englishman.

-Do you actually prefer

-the referees to the players?

-Oh, no!

-Sometimes!

Were any Chesterfield players involved

in the Fifa World Cup final in 2010?

Not that I'm aware of, no!

OK, let's have a look at the next question behind A Third.

It's a ninth of a ninth so that's 1/81, I believe.

Yeah. It's got to be.

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

-I can tell you for definite...

-Yeah?

-..that Jamaica's got yellow.

-Jamaica's got yellow.

Ukraine, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, it's yellow and blue, isn't it?

-I think so, yeah.

-But is Vietnam?

Well, we think the other two are wrong, don't we?

Yeah, so you agree with that, we think the other two are wrong,

-so we'll lock in yellow. Yeah, the bottom one?

-Yeah, yes.

We want to lock in yellow as the correct answer.

Let's do that. There we are.

If it is the correct answer

we get the chance to put a third digit into the code.

Let yellow turn green, let it be our correct answer.

Well done. Well done.

You were all over that one.

Lesley.

Yes, you were very decisive there.

Yellow the correct answer.

Jamaica is black, gold and green,

Ukraine is blue and yellow

and Vietnam is a gold star on a field of red,

so yellow, gold, uniting those flags.

Graham Poll retired in 2007, so couldn't have refereed that match.

Mick, you've met Howard Webb, you knew that that was the right answer.

Howard Webb not only refereed the Fifa World Cup final,

but also the Champions League final in 2010.

And a third, not the right answer, again,

you came in here not only knowing that a third was wrong,

but also with the correct answer, too,

which is 1/81, so very well done,

your mathematical knowledge,

-your football knowledge all coming into play.

-We liked that a lot.

What it does is it gives us a chance to put a third figure

into the code to see if it sticks.

2 and 7 have gone, eight others remain. What do you fancy?

For no other reason that it's right in the middle,

-we'll go for number 5.

-The number 5.

Is it there in our code in the first box?

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

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

-Is this part of the strategy, to avoid the numbers in the code?

-No!

No, the strategy was to get three right and have them all in there!

Three questions right, go straight through.

Yeah, well, it's not working but, you know, it's not a negative thing.

You're doing brilliantly. Are you ready for your next three answers?

-Yes, yes, please.

-Here they are.

So, let's start at the very top.

The question behind Scotland, please.

Unfortunately, politics is one of my weaknesses.

-What about yourself?

-And mine.

This may have to be dependent

-upon the answers of the other two questions.

-Yeah.

OK, let's have a look at the question behind The Muppet Show.

-I think that's right.

-You think that's right?

-I think that's right, yes.

-Do you? I know you used to watch The Muppets.

I still do, when I go to the football, yes!

Yeah, I think that's right, but we'll have a look at the other one.

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

-To be honest, that's one I've never heard of.

-No, me neither.

I'm happy with The Muppet Show.

-Yes.

-Yeah.

-We're going to lock in The Muppet Show.

-Yeah.

-OK, this for a chance to put in the fourth digit

and see if it sticks in your code.

Is The Muppet Show correct?

-Yes!

-It is, well done.

Good knowledge, Mick, well done, Jane.

Still my favourite band, Lesley.

-Really, who's your favourite player?

-It's probably Animal.

Animal, Animal's everyone's favourite, the drummer, of course.

Muppet Show the correct answer to that question.

And the top one, Scotland.

Alun Michael was the first First Secretary of Wales

from 1999 to 2000.

China, they have a separate search engine, that's called Baidu.

-Yandex is in Russia.

-Oh, right.

That's why you wouldn't have come across it, Mick, cos it's in Russia.

There you go, so you can cut yourself some slack.

-Thank you.

-It means we can now choose another number

to go into the code.

2, 5 and 7 have gone.

There are seven remaining.

Which one tickles your fancy?

Number 3, please.

The number 3.

Is the number 3 there in our code or are we going to keep avoiding them?

Is the number 3 in the first box?

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

It's not.

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

Wow! How are you doing this?

-I'm not sure.

-From now on, you've got a kind of 50-50 chance.

OK, Mick and Jane, let's have a look at your next three answers.

Somehow, we're still at the stage

where you can open all three questions,

so let's start at the very top, the question behind 17th.

-The great Fire of London wiped it out and that was in...

-1666.

-..1666, wasn't it?

-Wasn't it?

So, that's looking promising at the moment.

I think that's looking promising.

OK, let's have a look at the next one,

the question behind the Kennedys.

That's not one that I remember myself.

-No, me neither.

-Shall we move on to the last one?

-Yeah.

-The question behind Judaism, please.

Personally that's not one I've heard of before,

-I don't know about you, Jane.

-No.

I would tend to go with the top one as being the right answer.

-The top one, please.

-On a wing and a prayer,

we're going to lock in 17th as the correct answer.

Is 17th our correct answer?

Oh!

-Yeah.

-We were pushing our luck anyway.

-We were, yeah.

-You weren't sure, I'm so sorry, Mick and Jane,

you were playing so brilliantly there.

Let's find out which is the correct answer.

-Middle one.

-I think the bottom one.

-Yeah.

-Yeah, Judaism was the correct answer.

I'm really sorry that you came unstuck there.

Yes, Judaism the correct answer.

The celebration of the saving of the Jewish people from Haman,

who was planning to kill the Jews as recorded in the Book of Esther.

Let's have a look at the wrong answers.

17th century rang true for you

but that's not the right time for the Black Death.

There have been many, many outbreaks of plague.

The one that you were thinking of is the Great Plague of London.

The Black Death was in the 1340s and '50s, so it was the 14th century.

And the Kennedys, not the right answer there.

It's The Simpsons.

Yes, he said that the American people needed to be a lot more like

The Waltons and less like The Simpsons.

Thank you, Lesley. Well, Mick and Jane, what can I say?

You battled through there brilliantly.

You played fantastically and you've been so much fun as well.

You know, the jackpot might end up with somebody else

but no-one can take your 36 years together away from you!

That much remains.

Mick and Jane,

you have failed to break the code, and so I have to bid you farewell.

-Thank you, Matt.

-Lovely to meet you.

-Thank you.

-Jane.

-Thank you.

-Thank you.

-Thanks, Lesley.

Mick and Jane, no joy.

At the end of the day, if you want to crack the code,

you have to put in some of the correct numbers.

However, their loss is our next team's gain

because the jackpot goes even higher.

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

Julian, how are you?

-How are you doing?

-Lovely to meet you.

-Yes, you too, you too.

Tell me about yourself, where do you come from?

Well, my name's Julian, I'm from West Horton in Lancashire.

-I'm a geologist.

-OK, you're a geologist.

-Yes, yes.

-So you're dealing with the Earth's crust, with rocks,

-that sort of thing?

-I work in the mining industry,

specifically looking for gold and other metals in the ground.

I spent about ten years, actually,

out in the field doing exploration and reconnaissance

in parts of Africa and the Middle East.

That must be terribly exciting,

I mean, you're out there and there comes a day when suddenly

you dig something up and you say, this is the place.

-Is that how it works?

-Oh, yes, absolutely, absolutely,

that's the whole point of prospecting, it's, you know,

if you like rocks it's the best job in the world.

Well, we are hunting for gold here ourselves

in a slightly different way.

Now, as you know, Mick and Jane, the team before you,

failed to crack the code, unfortunately.

Bad news for them, great news for you,

because it adds another £500 to the jackpot,

bringing the total now to £15,500.

That's amazing, yeah, to take home that sort of money.

You will have struck gold if you manage to make it through.

-Yeah, absolutely.

-Julian, we'll reset the code.

There we are, three blanks.

And we want to turn those into three numbers,

that's what will give you access to the jackpot that's behind the safe.

If you're ready, Julian,

we will have a look at your first three answers.

And at this stage you get to see all three questions,

so we'll start at the very top.

The question behind Andes.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that alpacas are native to the Andes.

They are, they're certainly native to South America.

Somewhere you've been on your travels, the Andes?

No, it isn't, actually, it's somewhere I'd love to visit,

Machu Picchu in particular.

OK, let's have a look at the next one.

The question behind Vintage Fair.

I must say I don't know this one.

Let's have a look at the next one, maybe that'll help you.

The question behind Jones.

I think that's Hearn.

I'm not certain.

To be honest with you, I'm happy to go with alpacas

as being the right answer there.

OK, let's lock it in.

If that is the correct answer, Julian, it's going to go green

and you'll get to choose a number for your code.

If it's wrong, I'm afraid you are on your way home.

Is Andes the correct answer?

It is. Green all the way. Lesley.

You were very happy when you saw the Andes question come up,

confident that alpacas are native to the Andes and indeed they are.

They're sometimes used as guard alpacas to protect sheep as well as

being bred for meat and their fleece.

Vintage Fair not the right answer there. Matt, do you know this one?

I have no idea, I'm ashamed to say, I don't.

It's the Desert Trip. The average age of the audience, 51.

-Wow.

-It's held near Palm Springs in California in the Coachella Valley.

There's another festival...

It's an amazing line-up. Amazing line-up.

And Jones not the right answer,

Julian, you said the correct answer here, that's Hearn.

Barry Hearn, the famous snooker manager,

features in the video for Chas and Dave

and the Matchroom Mob's Snooker Loopy.

Well, Julian, you knew two out of three,

it didn't matter anyway, you got the right one,

that's all that counts here because it buys you the chance to pick

a number to enter into the code, see if it's there.

-Where do you want to start?

-I would like to go with number 1.

OK. There are three unique numbers there in the code.

Is the number 1 amongst them?

Is it there in the first box?

It isn't. Is it there in the second box?

Is it in the third and final box?

No number 1. Hard luck.

Number 1 is not part of your code.

I'm happy to get a few out of the way in the first round

-where I get to see all three of the answers.

-Good stuff.

Are you now ready to move on

-and have a look at your next three answers?

-Yes, I am.

OK, let's do it, here we go.

Again, you get to see all three questions here.

So we'll start at the top, the question behind Cracker.

I don't know the answer to this one but I am aware that Cracker's first

name, the character Cracker, is Fitz,

so it's plausible that that's the right answer.

OK, let's see the question behind thrush.

Again, I have absolutely no idea with this one.

-Yes, no idea either way.

-But a strong feeling about the first one?

-Yeah.

-OK. Let's have a look at the final one. The question behind Iran.

Well, that's Japan. The sort of the dictators in Iran

prior to the '79 overthrow, they were the Shahs,

so yes, so that's definitely false.

OK. Which way are you going to go, Julian?

It's a tough one. Think I'll go, as a guess, with Cracker.

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

There we are.

Is Cracker our correct answer?

-Oh.

-It is.

-Fantastic.

-Spot on.

-Fantastic.

-Well done, Julian.

Yes, very well done, Julian.

You said that you thought Fitz was the first name of the character,

it's not, it's Fitzgerald is his surname.

In the US version he's called Gerry Fitzgerald.

In the English one he's Edward Fitzgerald,

played by Robbie Coltrane.

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

A yaffle's not a thrush. Do you know this, Matt?

Only cos of Professor Yaffle from Bagpuss...

That's what I thought you'd say.

-..is a woodpecker.

-A woodpecker, exactly, so Professor Yaffle,

one of the most famous woodpeckers in popular culture.

And Iran, Julian, you were much more comfortable with this one.

Iran, the wrong answer, you gave the correct answer, it's Japan.

They were nominally appointed by the Emperor

but they were de facto rulers of Japan.

Thank you, Lesley and well done, Julian.

You cracked that one and it buys you the chance for another number from

the keypad to try in the code.

1 is down, nine remain.

-Which one will it be?

-I think 2.

The number 2. Is it there in the code?

Let's have a look in the first box.

No. The second box.

It's not there. How about the third box?

There is no number 2 in your code.

No 1, no 2, either, but we're whittling those numbers...

KLAXON

We were whittling those numbers away, but sadly, that sound means

that we have run out of time just when, Julian,

you were getting into your stride.

Do you think you can keep this up again tomorrow?

Absolutely, absolutely.

Get a good night's rest and then I'll be ready to go.

Good, it's a good, strong, confident start.

Well done. Lesley, thank you so much for helping us out.

You're welcome. I was thinking about Colin,

our single winner from the last series,

proved that it can be done solo.

I'm looking forward to you becoming our second solo winner.

-So, see you next time.

-Fingers crossed.

-Fingers crossed indeed.

Thank you, Lesley. And please join us again tomorrow.

Find out if Julian can work his way to unlocking that safe

and taking home £15,500.

Thank you for watching and goodbye.