Episode 15 Think Tank

Meet our Think Tank.

They've answered hundreds of general knowledge questions

under exam conditions before the show.

Their answers are in

but how helpful will they be to the three contestants?

Playing the game are Carl, an operations manager from Kent,

Brenda, a distribution administrator from Tyne and Wear,

and Harry, a music student from Doncaster.

This is Think Tank.

Welcome to the show.

Welcome, as ever, to our Think Tank,

which contains the likes of doctor Abi,

chemistry teacher Arminel

and retired holiday rep Ken.

Ahead of filming,

we put this fine cross section of Britain in exam conditions,

presented them with hundreds of questions

and gave them one simple mission -

to provide as many correct answers as possible

to assist our contestants.

Mission impossible? You might think so. Let's find out.

Welcome to all three of you. Carl, you're an operations manager.

What sort of operations are you managing?

I make sure everything works

and ticks according to what the business requires.

Things running on time,

cos timing is important to you in your spare time.

What do you do?

I'm a dance instructor. Are you? Yeah.

I teach ballroom, Latin American and salsa.

I could have used you a few years ago!

What's your favourite dance? I like the tango.

It takes two to tango, of course... It does.

..and, Arminel, you're a dancer, aren't you? Well, I was.

I did actually get as far as doing the bronze medal for a few

in ballroom and disco, which was quite fun.

I do have my disco moves, yes.

Well?

LAUGHTER

I can do this sort of thing.

That's good. You see - once a dancer, always a dancer.

Well done. Welcome to the show. Glad to have you with us.

Brenda, you're an administrator.

You can administrate this lot for us, to be honest.

It takes quite a handle. I'll give it try.

And in your spare time, what do you like to do?

Mainly walk the dogs. Do lots of walking.

The dogs, what are their names? Harry and Sally.

What happened when Harry met Sally?

He didn't particularly like her very much, to tell you the truth.

They love each other now. OK.

You collect pens. Pens.

How many have you got? Hundreds.

Why? I don't know.

Every time someone goes away, I ask them to bring us a pen back.

What's the most unusual pen you've got?

I've got one that plays the French anthem.

The Eiffel Tower and the flag goes up and down.

LAUGHTER

What are your best subjects? I do like a bit of human biology.

Human biology?

Abi should be good at that because she's in the medical profession,

aren't you? Yes.

You know your arm from your leg and your left from your right? Yes.

All right, well, lovely to have you with us, Brenda.

And Harry. Hi, Bill.

You're a music student, so play many instruments yourself?

I play the guitar, ukelele and drums. Fantastic.

Have you recorded any music of your own?

I've written a few songs here and there but nothing recorded.

Have you? What did you write about?

There's one bloke who walks round my town and we see him.

Every time he has two Alsatians, so I wrote a song called Alsatian Man.

LAUGHTER

OK, what will you need help on? Art and literature.

I'm not very good at that.

Max has read a book or two in his time, haven't you, Max?

I hope so, yes.

As a former literature student,

I definitely had to read at least one book.

I think it was Very Hungry Caterpillar(!) OK.

LAUGHTER

So you're going to be in safe hands.

Welcome to all three of you.

So, over three rounds,

our contestants will try and tap into the knowledge of the Think Tank

to build up as much money as possible.

Don't forget, the Think Tank have tried

to answer all the questions to the best of their ability,

whether right or wrong.

The two highest scorers go through to the final.

Ultimately, just one will walk away with a cash prize,

so let's play the first round.

So, in this round I'm going to ask you a question

and then every member of the Think Tank

will reveal the answer they gave before the show.

The correct answer's always there somewhere.

Any number of mistakes, though, will be in the mix as well.

Pick out the right answer, ?200 is added to your prize fund.

Two questions each.

Carl, you're up first, so here's a question we asked the Think Tank.

You don't have to answer just yet.

Let's see what the Think Tank thought about this,

starting with Arminel.

Three pandas, three tigers,

a lion and a bagheera.

What do you think?

I'm drawn towards one of them,

and I'm going to go with panda.

Going to go with panda

as the Asian animal whose name translates into English

as "large cat bear".

Let's see if you are right.

You are indeed. Panda's the answer. Well done.

APPLAUSE

Abi. Bagheera? That's nice.

I watched The Jungle Book recently and my nickname's Mowgli

cos I normally have a big, blunt fringe, so I love The Jungle Book

which is why I went for bagheera.

There you go. Carl, ?200 for you in your prize fund. Well done.

We come to Brenda.

You've seen how it works, so let's see your question.

Let's see what the Think Tank thought about this one. Arminel.

Well that's a fair range, isn't it, Brenda? Quite a varied response.

I know there's two Hugh Lauries.

I always say you look really clever. Who looks really clever?

Max looks really clever.

Sounds really clever, but I think I'm going to go with Lucy.

Tom Hiddleston. You're going to go with Tom Hiddleston

as the arms dealer Richard Roper in the TV drama The Night Manager.

Ooh, Hugh Laurie! Here we go.

Hugh Laurie it was. I said you were clever, didn't I?

LAUGHTER

I was just copying Diane(!)

Tom Hiddleston was also in The Night Manager, of course,

but in the title role.

Brenda, no money for you, there. Plenty of other chances, though.

And, Harry, we come to you. Let's see your question.

Want to have a look at what the Think Tank thought? Here we go.

It's a fair geographic spread there, as well.

Harry, Formula 1 your topic at all?

Not really, no, but I know a few of the places have had it.

I'm torn between Max's and Cleve's and it's just something

that's in the back of my head that it's Cleve and Bahrain, I think.

Going to go with Cleve and Bahrain as the city which hosted

its very first Formula 1 race in June 2016.

Let's see if you're right.

It's Baku. You should have gone with Max.

Told you he was clever, didn't I?

LAUGHTER

Ah, well, Baku in Azerbaijan had its first Grand Prix in 2016

and was won by Nico Rosberg.

Harry, no money for you there but still other chances to come

and we come back to Carl and your second question.

Let's see what the Think Tank had to say about this one.

Well, you couldn't get a much more varied spread than that.

That has thrown a curveball.

I'm drawn to one, just reading the names.

I'm going to go with moustache.

Going to go with moustache.

Got two votes, which is more than anything else did.

The Fu Manchu, the Dali and Toothbrush are all types of,

you say, moustache.

Let's see if you're along the right lines, there.

Moustache it is. Well done indeed.

APPLAUSE

You see, you sided with Max and, third time running,

you got it right.

Well, I would say I have experience in this,

but not for lack of trying, unfortunately.

LAUGHTER

Well, well done, Carl. That's ?200 to your prize fund.

Brenda, your second question coming up.

A varied recipe possibly for this question from the Think Tank.

Arminel.

A fair old vegetable stew we've got there, haven't we, Brenda? Yeah.

My son absolutely loves Indian food.

Goes out all the time. I could do with him here now.

What I first thought was peas,

but I don't know whether it's chickpeas or peas.

I'm going to say peas.

So you're saying peas are the vegetable

which are the chief ingredient of the Indian dish Chana Masala.

Let's see if you cooked up the right answer.

Chickpeas it was. Chickpeas.

Close, but not quite close enough.

Abi. Yes. Do you like cooking?

Yes, absolutely love cooking, actually.

So have you cooked Chana Masala? Yeah, I make chickpeas.

My mother makes the best Paneer chicken curry ever,

so every time I make my own curries I never think they're quite right

and she's like, "Just add salt," and then it gets a bit better.

Tell you what, we're all round to yours tonight(!) Definitely.

Peter, you're a pizza waiter, of course,

so does that mean you're good at cooking?

Sometimes, but I eat a lot of pizza.

So better eating it than cooking it? Yes.

And, Brenda, sorry, nothing for you there.

Harry, we move on to your second question.

Let's see what the Think Tank had to say about this one. Arminel.

Well, a distinguished cast, there, for you to choose from, Harry.

I think '63 was before Margaret Thatcher's time.

It could be the Queen but I would think

she wouldn't need an honorary citizenship.

I just have a feeling it's Winston Churchill,

so I'm going to go with Max and Peter

and Winston Churchill, I think.

OK, you're saying that Winston Churchill

became the first British person, in 1963,

to be declared an honorary citizen of the United States.

Let's see if you've chosen the right one.

You have indeed. Winston Churchill it is. Well done.

APPLAUSE

Very well deduced.

The honorary citizenship given to him by President John F Kennedy,

so well done. ?200 to you.

So, at the end of the first round, let's take a look at the prize fund.

Currently, Brenda has yet to get off the mark.

Harry is on ?200.

In the lead at the moment, though, Carl with ?400. Well done.

APPLAUSE

That could all change in our next round, though.

Every member of the Think Tank is holding two questions

which they answered correctly before the show.

Now, you're going to take it in turns

to pick someone in the Think Tank

whose knowledge you think you can match.

And for every correct answer,

another ?200 will be added to your prize fund.

Although they are not experts, you'd never have guessed,

they are interested in different subjects.

So think carefully about who might be on your wavelength.

Once a Think Tanker's asked both of their questions,

they can't be picked again, OK?

Carl, you get to go first. You've got all eight to choose from,

so whose knowledge do you think you can match?

I think I'm going to go with Lucy.

I haven't heard too much of her talking today.

Ah, well, that might be an advantageous decision there

because I am also a dance teacher, which is how I knew the answer

to this question, so hopefully this might help you a little bit.

Thinking through different styles of dance,

I'm trying to eliminate a few of them immediately in my head.

So...it won't be hip-hop.

LAUGHTER

I'm going to go with ballet.

Carl thinks Sylvie Guillem is a ballet dancer. Is he right?

He's absolutely right. Well done.

APPLAUSE

Sylvie Guillem was a top-ranking ballet dancer with the Paris Ballet

from 1984 to 1989, so good guess.

?200 added to your running total and, Brenda, you are up next.

For the time being, you still have everybody to choose from.

I'll go with you, Cleve, and hopefully it's a music question.

Actually, I knew the answer to this

because I've listened to this song many, many times

and hopefully it's something in the era

that we can both relate to.

Well, the music's going through my head cos it's...

SINGS BLOCKBUSTERS THEME

..isn't it, I think?

The only one I know from Gerry Rafferty is Baker Street.

Baker Street? Yeah. OK. # Winding your way down... #

That one. Go on, give us a burst of it.

# Baker Street. # That one.

She knows the words but has she got the right song, Cleve?

Well, because you sang it so beautifully,

I might recruit you for the choir,

and the answer is Baker Street.

APPLAUSE

I can go home happy now!

LAUGHTER

So the broadcaster Stuart Maconie is thought to be responsible

for starting that myth about Bob Holness playing the solo.

In fact, it was played by Raphael Ravenscroft

and right now the Think Tank are going to give us

a representation of that saxophone solo, starting...

CLEVE SINGS

Keep going, Cleve.

LAUGHTER

Brenda, well done. ?200 to you.

Well done. Harry, you are up next.

Whose knowledge do you think you can match?

Um, Peter is quite into his films,

so I'm hoping he's got a film question for me,

so I'm going to go with Peter, please.

Peter. Well, you're lucky. It's a film question.

My question for you, Harry, is...

I didn't see the film but I did see it advertised and I think

he was playing Steve Jobs, so I'm going to say Steve Jobs, please.

Steve Jobs is your answer. Is it the right one, Peter?

He's correct. Well done.

APPLAUSE

OK, ?200 added to your running total, Harry.

We come back to you, Carl. You can still choose anyone you like.

I think I'm going to stick with Lucy and hopefully we'll get lucky

second time again.

This is a question relating to the 2012 Olympics

and I knew the answer to this cos I actually went to see this event,

so I hope you were glued to your screens back then.

I do know exactly where this is.

It's close to where a big ship is.

The name is sitting on the tip of my tongue.

It's where time starts.

I just can't get the name. It slipped my mind.

Erm... I could kick myself.

I'm going to go with Green. I know it's not Green Park. Green?

I know where it is. OK. I picnicked there before. All right.

I just can't get the name in my head. Green Park is your answer.

Lucy? You were so on the right lines. I know.

You are going to kick yourself. I know. It's Greenwich Park.

That's it. I knew it was Gre...something.

Near the Cutty Sark, you were thinking of. Where time begins.

I just forgot the name Greenwich. It slipped my mind. Oh, kick myself.

Hard lines. OK, Brenda, your choice.

You can choose anybody apart from Lucy.

I think I'm probably going to ask Ken.

I know the answer to this, because, like most musical fans,

we also go to bingo, and I'm sure you do.

How did you know?

LAUGHTER

Yes, I go to the bingo. Well done.

Two little ducks, 22. Quack! Quack!

Well done. 22 is the answer. Well done.

APPLAUSE

All those trips to the bingo hall have paid off.

I knew I'd picked the right person.

On my wavelength. ?200 for you, Brenda.

Harry, you can choose anybody apart from Lucy again.

Right, I think Peter served me well last time

so I think I'm going to go with Peter again, please.

Sadly it's not a film question, but I think it's pretty easy.

I got this one right, so you should as well.

NEC, I'm trying to think what it could stand for.

I think I'll go with electronic.

Electronic in NEC. A venue in Birmingham.

Has he got his wires crossed?

I'm afraid he has, sadly. It's for exhibition.

Exhibition. It's National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham

so nothing for you there, Harry. Carl, we come back to you.

Third question and you have six of them left to choose from.

Just not Peter or Lucy.

I like the chickpeas so I'm going to go with Abi. OK, sweet.

So, good luck.

I know this mainly just cos it's in my field of medicine.

A plantar wart? Hmm.

Just going to go with perhaps a mole? A mole.

He's saying mole, Abi. Is he right?

It's a verruca.

Yeah, it's what little kids pick up in the swimming pools all the time.

A wart that affects the feet and is highly contagious, OK.

So, sorry, Carl, nothing for you there.

Brenda, who would you like to go with now?

You can't go with Peter or Lucy again.

Someone who has an easy question, put your hand up.

LAUGHTER

I'll not change my luck cos you are lucky for us, Ken,

so I'm going to try you again. Thank you.

My father actually met this man and the man in question was

President Dwight D Eisenhower.

I have no idea, but I'm trying to work it out -

what would be a sort of a strange, funny name.

It's probably not going to be right, but...

I'm trying to work it out. DD...

It's too ridiculous to say that,

but I'll probably just say his initials, just DDE.

Oh, sadly, bad luck.

It's Ike. Ike.

Ike Eisenhower. I did know it.

Nothing for you there, I'm afraid, Brenda.

Harry, we come to you,

and Ken, Lucy and Peter are the ones you cannot choose any more.

I think I'll ask Diane, please. Diane.

I think you will know this question. Hopefully.

The particular programme started in the year I was born.

I know I only look 25(!)

My family do watch it,

and they won't be happy if I get this wrong.

I have something in my head, it's something like...

It's either something like The Cabin, The Cavern or The Tavern.

I don't know why. I'm going to say The Cavern, I think, please.

The Cavern? Cavern, yeah, please.

Is The Cavern the right one?

You talked yourself out of it. It was The Kabin.

ALL: Aw! Sorry.

The Kabin, more likely, to be honest,

to be a corner shop than a cavern or a tavern. Yeah.

And Rita, of course, played by Barbara Knox.

She's been a regular since 1972.

So, a long time to be in The Kabin.

So nothing for you there, Harry, I'm afraid.

At the end of that round, let's see how your prize funds have changed.

Brenda and Harry both have ?400.

In the lead, though, still Carl

with ?600. Well done.

So, contestants, you selected three questions each.

None of you, though, chose to hear from Arminel or Max.

Were you a bit worried about them being too clever for you?

Anyway, we don't want them to feel left out,

cos they are easily upset,

and we want them to show off their good knowledge,

so shall we here a question correctly answered by Arminel?

Just for a bit of fun, Arminel. Ah, yes, great.

Thank you. So, I'm a chemistry teacher.

It is, of course, a chemistry question.

Have you got any ideas at home? Or anyone in the studio here?

Contestants?

I would have said lead. Just a guess.

Completely. Lead? Lead?

I think that it's really easy,

and it's an element everybody has heard of and everyone depends on

for their life. It is, of course, oxygen. Oxygen. OK.

Oxygen-ate. THEY LAUGH

Very good. Makes sense, doesn't it? When you put it like that...

Well, contestants, probably a good thing you didn't ask Arminel.

Yes, it is. Arminel, thanks ever so much.

And let's get back to the competition.

So, one of you is going to have to leave the game shortly,

but there is one last chance for any of you to take the lead.

All of you are going to be asked the same question.

Two members of the Think Tank

will then tell you the answers they gave before the show

and their reasons for giving it.

Only one of them will have the right answer.

Now, if you side with the correct person,

you'll add an all-important ?200 to your prize fund.

Just five questions remain

before we have to say goodbye to one of you,

so do choose your answers carefully, OK?

Here is the first question.

We are going to hear answers from Diane and Max.

Diane, what did you say?

OK, I said Canada because I think they probably thought

that if Russia held onto it,

they might be able to expand the USSR

and sort of encroach on America, you see.

OK, Max.

I'd say that the country that the USA purchased from Russia

was Alaska, which obviously is very close to America.

So, yes, the answer, I think, is actually Alaska.

OK, Diane says Canada, Max says it's Alaska.

Which one of them is right? Please lock in your answers.

So let's see what you've gone for.

All three of you saying it's Alaska.

Let's see if you got the right place.

You have indeed. Well done.

So, well done all three of you.

You all get an extra ?200 added to your prize fund.

And here is the next question.

Arminel and Peter, let's have your answers.

I thought that it was Angelina Jolie.

And my reasoning was not for her humanitarian work,

but it was because recently the LSE,

a very esteemed academic institution,

made her a visiting lecturer, so I deduced that, from this,

she must be held in high regard.

So I went for Angelina Jolie.

Peter, what do you think?

I went for Beyonce

because she's like the daughter of a church

person and she always tries to live a really clean life.

She writes good music and she is quite an interesting lady.

All right.

So, Arminmel says it is Angelina Jolie

and Peter says it is Beyonce.

Contestants, please

lock in your answers.

All three of you have gone with Angelina Jolie.

Let's see if it is the right answer.

And it is. Well done.

Well done.

And on the list of the most admired women in the world,

you know who was second?

Her Majesty the Queen.

ALL: Aw. Good. OK.

So well done, all three of you again. ?200 for each of you.

And here is your third question.

Max and Lucy, let's hear from you.

Max.

Well, I said the thigh,

and I do remember from my school science days

that the gluteus maximus, or the bottom,

is the largest muscle in the human body,

but I believe that it is the thigh muscle that is the strongest,

for all those high kicks that both Lucy and I can pull off

with equal panache.

Yes, and slapping your thigh at the same time. Absolutely!

All right, Lucy.

OK, well, I went down more of a linguistics route to solving this.

So I was thinking to masticate is to chew,

so I went linguistically

rather than leg-kick-ically,

and I went for the jaw.

Lucy says it is the jaw,

Max says the Masseter is located in the thigh.

Where do you think it is,

contestants? Please lock in your answers.

All three of you have gone with the jaw, so on Lucy's side.

But has she got the right answer?

She has indeed.

Well done.

Linguistically correct. Physically correct. Yes.

It is one of the main muscles involved in chewing.

Abi, I bet you were just itching to answer that question,

with your medical background.

Exactly.

It can't be that big a muscle, can it? No, but you know,

your jaw is powerful.

Yeah, all the talking we do.

I know. And some must have stronger jaw muscles than others.

OK. So, well done. All three of you are right again. You each get ?200.

Here is the next question.

We're going to hear answers from Peter and Ken. Peter.

I went for Africa because it's got lots of little ditty countries,

and I imagine they all have a UN representative,

so my answer was Africa.

Africa, OK. Ken?

I have travelled extensively throughout Europe,

and there seems to be lots of very small countries, similar to Africa,

but I think basically there are just more of them in Europe,

so that's my answer. Europe.

Ken says Europe, Peter says Africa.

What do you think, contestants?

Please lock in your answers.

Two of you have gone with Africa,

Brenda, in the middle, has gone with Europe.

Who's in the right place?

Africa it is. Well done.

54 member states of the UN in Africa, 47 in Europe.

So you weren't that far off, Ken. Carl and Harry both get ?200.

And final question in this round.

We're going to hear answers from Cleve and Abi. Cleve.

I'm not sure why they would lie about it,

but the book I was thinking of was The Railway Children.

The Railway Children.

OK. Abi?

So I went with Alice In Wonderland.

I think a lot of people have seen the film and therefore can make up

that they've actually read the book.

So I went with Alice In Wonderland.

So Cleve says it's The Railway Children

and Abi says it is Alice In Wonderland.

Which of them are you going to side with?

Contestants, please lock in your answers.

Two of you have gone with Alice. Brenda,

on her own in the middle, with The Railway Children.

Who's got the right answer?

And it's Alice In Wonderland.

OK, Think Tank.

Hands up, who's read it?

No, who's really read it?

OK.

All right, so it is ?200 to you, Carl and Harry. Hard lines, Brenda,

I'm afraid. Nothing for you there.

So, contestants, that's the end of the main game.

Let's take a look at your totals.

In the lead is Carl with ?1,600, followed by Harry with ?1,400.

Trailing behind, with ?1,000, is Brenda.

So, sadly, Brenda, we have to say goodbye to you.

Thanks very much, though. It's been great fun having you with us.

It's been nice being here. Good. Been exciting, very exciting.

THINK TANKERS: Aw! Thank you.

Well done, Carl and Harry.

You two will now compete

to take home the money that you've earned in our final.

So, Carl, if you win today,

how do you think you might spend your prize money?

My wife and I are saving up to buy a house,

so it will go towards a home for us.

Oh, that's nice. Where do you think you might buy a house?

I hear Greenwich is very nice. LAUGHTER

That was cruel. That was cruel.

Harry, what would you do with your winnings?

I'd like to spend it on a holiday somewhere

with my family and girlfriend,

just to give something back after they've helped me

through school and all that. All right.

Well, good luck to you both. Our final is a general knowledge battle.

I'm going to ask you five questions each.

Whoever gives the most correct answers

takes home the money they built up so far.

Now, you are not on your own.

The Think Tankers, still here to help you if they can.

You can pick someone to consult with before you answer the questions.

Each member can only be picked once.

The difference in the final, compared to the rest of the show,

is that they haven't seen any of these questions before,

so they are just as much in the dark as you are this time. OK?

OK. All right, let's play the final.

So, Carl, you built up the most money in the main game,

so the final starts with you.

And here's your first question.

Who would you like to help you with that?

I think I'll go with Peter.

I can't really picture the actor myself, but I remember Spider-Man!

Have you seen the film itself? I have.

I have. And I think he was the only real English person there, really,

wasn't he?

The others, none of their names, I know, are Tom,

so I think I will go with Spider-Man, yeah.

So you're going to go with Peter and say that Spider-Man

was the superhero played by Tom Holland

in Captain America - Civil War.

Let's see if you're along the right lines.

You are indeed, well done.

Spider-Man is the answer.

Thank you.

Good teamwork, there. Well done.

You are off the mark, then, Carl. Harry, your first question.

Who do you want to go with for that one?

I'd like to ask Diane, please.

So you're going to ask our retired HR adviser Diane.

It's not a programme that I watch,

but recounting the accents when they do the clips,

it's obviously set in Ireland.

That's what I was thinking. Yeah?

I think I'm going to say Ireland. Ireland is your answer. Please.

Have you got the right place?

You have indeed, Ireland it is.

So, one each at the moment. Carl, we come to your second question.

Sporting question for you, there. You can choose anybody,

apart from Peter or Diane.

I think I'm going to go with Cleve on this one.

I'm going towards something, but I want to get your take on this,

basically.

OK, I'm a big cricket fan, and I'm pretty sure...

Yeah, he's an England cricketer, I'm fairly convinced.

He is a middle-order batsman, anyway,

and I think he is an England cricketer too.

That's exactly what I was thinking,

so I'm going to go with cricket. OK.

Let's find out the answer.

Cricket it is, indeed. Well done.

OK. Carl, 2-1 to you.

Harry, your chance to equalise

with this question.

A chemical question for you there, scientific.

Who would you like to go with?

I think Arminel. LAUGHTER

What a surprise(!)

What a surprise, Arminel. What a surprise!

Of course I know.

Do you know? I'm not 100% sure, but I have a feeling that it is nickel.

Yes! Is it nickel? It's nickel.

Excellent! So nickel is your answer?

Yes, I'm going to go with nickel.

OK. Let's see if you're right.

It is the right answer, of course, nickel.

2-2, neck and neck, everything is still to play for here.

Carl, your third question.

Now then, you can choose Lucy, Abi, Ken or Max.

I'm going to go with

Max on this one.

I think I know he was born in one of the southern states,

I'm just trying to determine in my head which one.

Well, I have to say,

The Donald is not someone I necessarily know a great deal about,

but he, I do know,

made a lot of money in New York and around that area, and in Manhattan.

And, obviously, his father was a big property dealer in Brooklyn.

But I have to say, I'm not totally sure where he was born.

You've slightly thrown me off by saying he was born in the South.

I'd had it in my mind he was

either born in New York State or New Jersey.

All right, well, it is up to you, Carl.

I know he spends a lot of his time in New York State and

New Jersey state.

I'm going to go with New York and see what happens with that.

You're going to go with New York... Yeah.

..as the state in which Donald Trump was born?

Here's the answer.

New York State it is indeed.

Well done!

You're on the money with Max, aren't you?

Born in 1946 in New York State. Well done, Max, very good.

And well done, Carl, for going with him.

OK. So, Harry, this is your third question.

Just Lucy, Ken and Abi to ask now.

Any thoughts on that?

I think I know who it is. OK.

Who would you like to help you with it, though?

Just to be sure, Abi, please.

I wish I had read it. I'm not really sure. Who are you going to go for?

I'm sure it is Sherlock Holmes. OK.

That makes sense.

I'm sorry, I haven't read many of the books,

but if you are certain, sure,

then I would go with your gut instinct.

Yeah. Sherlock Holmes, I'm going to go with, please.

OK. You think Sherlock Holmes. Let's see if you're right.

Sherlock Holmes it is.

Well done.

Mycroft is seven years older than Sherlock and is said to

possess even greater powers of deduction, as if that were possible.

OK, 3-3.

It's getting pretty exciting here, now.

Carl, here is question number four for you. Thank you.

Lucy or Ken.

Who do you want to go for?

Although I would say Ken, cos he's musical,

I'm keen to go with Lucy, unfortunately, on this one.

Or fortunately.

So, do you have any...? I do know this.

I choreographed a routine to this,

and it was at the finale in our show,

and I know it's from the film Trolls.

Yes. And it is Justin Timberlake. And I am 100% certain of that.

I'm going to go with Lucy's answer, Justin Timberlake.

Even though she's not entirely sure she got the right answer? I think...

I'm sure. OK. All right.

So you're saying that Can't Stop The Feeling

was a UK hit single for Justin Timberlake

in 2016.

Let's see if you are along the right lines.

Justin Timberlake it is. Well done.

To be honest, a recommendation doesn't get much stronger than that,

does it? Yeah. OK, all right.

That was Justin's Timberlake's 18th UK top-ten hit single.

All right, Harry,

your fourth question, to equalise.

You just have Ken to help you.

Well, I can see her in front of me on the screen.

She always wore big hats in the film.

Do you have any idea? Not really,

I've never seen it. She's American, obviously.

Goodness me.

What does she look like? How would you describe her?

Beautiful girl, very tall.

What colour hair does she have? Black. Black.

Eh...

She was very popular around this time when the film was made.

I'm trying to think of anybody who's an American actress

who has got black hair. Well, you're going to have to come to a decision

of some sort.

So, can you make any recommendation at all, Ken?

No, I can't really, I'm sorry. I just don't know any answers

for you. That's all right.

I'll just say Julia Roberts. I don't think it is.

Julia Roberts? Yeah. OK.

So, have you got the right answer?

No, Andie McDowell. It's Andie McDowell, I'm afraid.

I probably wouldn't have got that anyway, actually.

We could all see her in the film. I could see her with her big hats...

Yeah. She played opposite Hugh Grant. OK. Now,

this is your fifth question coming up. No Think Tankers

left to help you out, so, from here on,

you are on your own. And, Carl,

if you get this one right, you will be our winner today.

OK? All right. Here is your fifth question.

Any ideas?

Football your subject at all? Yes. It's my team.

LAUGHTER

And his name just slipped my head. My mind.

Um... When you are put under pressure, everything disappears.

Louis Van Gaal.

Louis Van Gaal? Yes.

So, Carl, if you're right,

you will be today's winner

and take home ?1,600, and possibly more.

Let's see if you're right.

You are, Louis Van Gaal it is indeed. And you are today's winner.

Congratulations.

Well done.

So, well done, Carl.

Your memory came back and served you properly this time. This time.

Yeah, Louis Van Gaal won the FA cup

and then got the sack and was replaced by Jose Mourinho.

Commiserations, Harry. You tried really hard.

I'm afraid nothing for you today,

but thanks very much for playing with us.

Thank you. Good job. Thank you.

APPLAUSE

So, Carl is our winner.

You're definitely taking home your prize of ?1,600, but you will surely

have the chance to add an extra ?1,000 to your winnings.

First, shall we take a moment to congratulate the Think Tanker

who gave the most correct answers during the show? And it was...

Hm... I wonder who.

THEY LAUGH

Max! Well done, you.

How many did you get right today?

Oh, I lost count, sorry. THEY LAUGH

So modest, isn't he? Well done.

OK. Carl, you have one last chance, then,

to boost your prize as you face our Question: Impossible.

So this is the toughest question of the whole show because

no-one in our Think Tank answered it correctly.

So, Carl, if you can achieve what none of them could

and give us the correct answer, that extra ?1,000 will be yours.

Let's take a look, then, at your Question: Impossible.

Now, before you give an answer,

we can give you a little bit of help

because we'll look at the Think Tank's wrong answers,

and that could help you rule a few things out.

So here's what they had to say.

Those are the four that they've knocked out.

So what could Melba sauce then be made of

if it's not one of those?

I'm thinking it is a sweet sauce.

I'm thinking of fruit that is quite sweet.

I'm just going to go with a simple...

I'm going to go with apple because apple...

Lots of sauces are made from apple.

Apple is your answer? Yeah. OK.

HE READS QUESTION

You're saying apple.

This for an extra ?1,000, Carl... Yeah.

We wish you the very best of luck.

Let's see if that is the right answer.

It's raspberries, I'm afraid.

So that wasn't it, Carl.

You didn't conquer the Question: Impossible.

Still leaving, though, with ?1,600,

which is a very respectable total, to be honest.

Thank you very much. Hope you feel good about that.

I will and I do. Thank you very much.

All right, well, thanks very much for playing so well. Thank you.

Thanks for watching. Do join us next time.

Three more contestants, then, will see

whether they can bank on the Think Tank.

Until then, it's goodbye from them. THINK TANKERS: Bye!

And it is goodbye from me. Bye-bye.