Episode 16 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 Lauren,

a deputy marketing manager from Hemel Hempstead,

Alun, a retired bookmaker from South Wales,

and Winston, a deputy restaurant manager from Ayrshire.

This is Think Tank.

Welcome to the show.

Welcome, as ever, to the Think Tank -

hi, guys -

our slice of the nation, with toppings including

history buff Max,

well-travelled Jackie

and online shopaholic Anisha.

Let's hope their knowledge suits the tastes of our contestants.

Lauren, lovely to see you.

You're a mortgage adviser.

Would you lend to this lot?

I think so. They all look pretty nice.

Obviously you haven't done enough in-depth research just yet,

but there you are.

What do you like to do in your spare time?

Shoe shopping. I can't get enough of it.

Ladies like shoe shopping, but how many pairs do you have?

I think it's probably in three figures now.

Do you wear them all in turn, or what happens?

Well, you know, you rotate them,

you don't want to get one pair worn out,

and keep some for special occasions.

I bet you've got at least one pair you've never worn.

I've probably got more than one pair that I've never worn.

Any of you lot got a shoe thing?

-Anisha?

-I have, like, just-in-case shoes.

So you buy them just in case you might need them.

So I have just-in-case shoes that

I bought when I was 16. I'm 27.

What sort of in-case occasion?

When you're going out and you'd be like,

"That heel would be excellent for that."

So, just in case, they're there.

OK, lovely to have you with us.

Alun, you're retired now. So what do you do?

Well, I do a lot of walking, gardening,

when it's not raining,

and I've just reformed a duo,

an entertaining duo, with a sax player

that I used to play with 40-odd years ago in a band.

And what's your signature tune?

Easy.

Well, it's not Sunday morning, but we want to hear a little bit.

# I know it sounds funny but I just can't stand the pain

# Girl, I'm leaving you tomorrow. #

Enough?

That was brilliant, well done. Give him a round of applause.

Len, you like a bit of karaoke, don't you?

Well, I've been told if I had to sing for my supper I'd starve,

-but I don't believe them anyway.

-LAUGHTER

OK. So you'll be strong on music.

What would you not be so good at?

-Popular culture.

-OK. Anisha, you can help him out on popular culture.

Yeah, I can indeed.

Kardashian based, anything like that, I'm your girl.

-That'll do for me.

-Good.

All right.

Winston, what kind of food is it that you're managing in the restaurant?

It's a vast menu.

And when you're not at work do you cook or what do get up to?

I do all the cooking in my house myself and for my girlfriend.

My girlfriend has got a thing for getting hangry.

What's that?

That's hungry and angry at the same time.

What do you do to make her not quite so hangry?

-Move out the way.

-LAUGHTER

Do you do a bit of modelling? Is that right?

Yeah, that's correct, yeah.

So, out of these eight fair people,

which one of them do you think might have done

some modelling in the past?

-Abi.

-Oh, thanks.

No, but you're quite right, she'd be a very good model.

In fact, Mark has done modelling, haven't you, Mark?

I have, but the fact that Winston overlooked me

probably proves the fact it was a long time ago.

-OK, Winston, welcome to the show.

-Thank you.

Thanks for joining us.

So, over three rounds, our contestants will try to tap

into the Think Tank's knowledge 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, though, will walk away with a cash prize.

So let's play the first round.

Now, 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 is always there somewhere but there are

any number of mistakes in the mix as well.

So pick out the right answer,

£200 is added to your prize fund, OK?

You get two questions each. Lauren, you're up first.

Here's a question we asked the Think Tank.

Here are the answers. that the Think Tank gave,

starting with Max.

Apocalypse.

Apocalypse.

Revenge.

Return.

Return.

Return.

Apocalypse.

Unplugged.

A whole different set of answers there.

What do you think? Have you seen the film?

I have seen this film.

This sort of movie, it's right up my alley.

So I think I know the answer to this one.

Which is?

-Apocalypse.

-OK.

You say that the title of the 2016 film

starring James McAvoy and Jennifer Lawrence

is X-Men Apocalypse.

Let's see if you're right.

-Apocalypse it is. Well done.

-Yay.

It's the eighth film in the X-Men franchise.

Arminel, X-Men Unplugged, interesting idea.

Obviously I hadn't got a clue.

A bit unplugged myself at the time!

I liked it.

It was good. OK.

Lauren, well done.

£200 goes into your prize fund for that correct answer.

-And we come to Alun. You've seen how it works....

-Yes.

..so let's see your question.

Where did the Think Tank go with this?

Rio de Janeiro.

Palm Springs.

Singapore.

Amsterdam.

Southampton.

San Francisco.

Venice.

Istanbul.

Eight different cities to choose from.

That's quite a journey you'd go on there, isn't it, Alun?

That's a toughie, yeah.

I'm not sure of the answer of this.

I've discounted Venice straightaway because I've been there,

and Amsterdam.

The others don't sound right to me.

-I'll go for Istanbul.

-OK.

So you're saying the waterway called the Golden Horn

forms part of Istanbul.

Let's see if you're in the right place.

You are indeed. Istanbul it is. Well done.

It's a curved inlet of the Bosporus, which forms part of

the harbour of Istanbul.

And well done, Arminel.

-The only one who got that right.

-Thank you.

-OK.

£200, then, to your prize fund, Alun.

And we move on to Winston.

Here's your question.

While you work that one out,

let's see what the Think Tank came up with. Max.

Six.

Seven.

Six.

Seven.

Eight.

Seven.

Six.

Eight.

Well, it's as easy as one, two, three,

it's just there's six, seven, eight to choose from, Winston.

Well, I'm not too familiar with netball as a sport myself,

so I'm going to have to take a stab in the dark.

I'm going to go with...

..seven.

OK. You say there are seven players in a standard netball team.

Let's see if you've got the right number.

You have indeed. Well done.

Anisha, Jackie and Abi all got the right number.

-I suspect that one or two of you may have played it, have you?

-I did.

-Yeah.

-I was goal attack,

which is a shooter, but I can barely shoot,

so I don't know why they made me that. We never won.

Arminel, netball not your thing?

Well, oddly enough, I was reserve once for a netball team but that...

-With you on the pitch then there would have been eight.

-Yes.

It was 50 years ago though,

-so I'm entitled to forget.

-All right.

Thanks very much for that. Well done, Winston.

£200 is added to your prize fund.

And we come back to Lauren for your second question.

Let's see what clangers the Think Tank dropped on this one.

Soup Dragons.

Wham!

The Farm.

Dr No.

The Singing Ringing Tree.

George And The Whistle.

Bronski Beat.

Soup Dragons.

Well, that's a fair old collection to choose from, isn't it?

Do you remember the song at all?

No, unfortunately not.

So I'm going to go with

-the Soup Dragons because it's there twice.

-OK.

So you're saying it's the Soup Dragons who were the pop band

who had a hit with I'm Free in 1990,

named after a character from The Clangers.

Let's see if you're right.

You are indeed. Soup Dragons it is.

It's a cover of a Rolling Stones song.

-Max, were you surprised that you got that one right?

-Very surprised.

That is the only character from the Clangers that I could name so,

-yeah, I'm quite pleased with that one. Well done.

-OK.

And Dr No, Jackie, was definitely a character in the Clangers.

I'd lost it by then.

But, I tell you what, musical questions,

Arminel is the person for you.

Well done. OK, Lauren, £200 for you.

Well done. Alun, here's your second question.

While you work that one out

let's see what the Think Tank came up with.

Max.

Mandarin.

Emperor.

Mandarin.

Peking.

Mallard.

Hoisin.

Peking.

Mandarin.

Well, several different types of cooking ducks there.

I think I might know this one, Bill.

I do believe it's a mandarin.

-You're going with mandarin...

-Yeah, definitely.

...as the type of duck which shares its name with a term

-for a high-ranking Chinese bureaucrat?

-Yes.

Let's see if you have the right kind of bird.

Mandarin it is. Well done.

-So £200 for you, Alun.

-Thank you.

Winston, here's your second question.

Which direction is the Think Tank pointing on this? Max.

Sagittarius.

Virgo.

Sagittarius.

Aries.

Aries.

Aries.

Capricorn.

Sagittarius.

So, three with Sagittarius,

three with Aries, and a couple of others there.

Are you good at your astrology?

I think so.

I have got a symbol for my own star sign tattooed to my wrist.

So, as it's just after mine,

I'm going to go with Sagittarius.

-You're going with Sagittarius?

-Yes.

-OK.

Sagittarius, you say,

is the sign of the Zodiac sometimes called the Archer.

What's the right answer?

Sagittarius it is. Well done.

-When's your birthday?

-November 14th.

That makes you...?

-Scorpio.

-Scorpio. A sting in the tail.

-A sting in the tail.

All right. Well, £200 to you, Winston. Well done.

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

at your prize fund.

You are all tied on £400.

So everything still to play for.

It could change in the next round.

Every member of the Think Tank is holding two questions which

they answered correctly before the show.

You're going to take it in turns to pick someone in the Tank

whose knowledge you think you can match.

For every correct answer you get another £200 in your prize fund.

The range of questions reflects

their varied interests and knowledge.

So once a Think Tanker has asked both of their questions

they can't be picked again. OK? Lauren, you get to go first.

You've got them all to choose from,

so who would you like to go with?

I think, for our shared love of shoes,

I'd like to have one of Anisha's questions, please.

-So you're going to go with our office assistant, Anisha.

-OK.

I'm so happy you chose me because we love shoes, obvs,

and I think we like the same type of music as well.

So I'm, like, a proper '90s child,

like, best decade ever.

So this is my question.

-I definitely have their Best Of album.

-Oh, yes.

I think that's Steps.

Steps is the answer that Lauren's given.

-It's Steps. Well done!

-Well done.

-Yay!

£200 added to your running total.

-Thank you.

-And we come to Alun.

-Everybody still available. Who would you like to choose?

-Right.

I think I'll go as close to home as I can,

so I'll go with Len.

So you're going with our retired engineer Len.

I am indeed.

I think you should get this one, really.

I remember this was like a regular thing on

a Sunday evening, where it was,

"Come on. In, bath, and get ready to watch the London Palladium."

1958?

We're really showing our age now, aren't we?

Young at heart.

Well, 1958, I seem to remember

a very, very young-looking Bruce Forsyth.

So that's my answer.

-You're absolutely right.

-Thank you.

Well done, Alun. £200 added to your running total.

And, Winston, you're up next.

You can still pick anyone you like.

As you said you were born in the '90s

I'm going to go with you, Anisha.

Anisha again. OK.

So this isn't a music question but this is right up your alley

cos you work in a restaurant and this is to do with food.

So there we go.

Do you cook Japanese food in your restaurant?

Cos you cook any number of other things.

Not quite.

The closest we get to it is noodles.

Noodles.

I'm going to go with...

..won ton.

-Won

-ton. Won ton.

Is won ton the answer?

It's not, unfortunately. It's tempura.

Tempura is the answer we were looking for. Yes, indeed.

Winston, sorry, no money won on that question.

And, Lauren, we come back to you.

You can't choose Anisha, but you can have everybody else.

I'm going to go with Abi and hope there's

no geography questions in there.

Yeah, if it was geography, too,

I wouldn't have answered it correctly either.

However, this is more biology and medical based,

so I really hope you get this.

Not something I know.

I think it's quite a few.

The number 23 is jumping out at me, so I'm going to go with 23.

23 is jumping out at you.

Are they jumping in the right direction?

Oh, I so want to jump and give you a high five. Well done.

Oh, yay!

23 indeed. Well done, Lauren.

£200 for you.

And, Alun, who would you like to choose?

Anyone apart from Anisha still.

Well, my wife is from Morecambe,

so this time I'm going to go

for Jackie, who I believe is from Morecambe as well.

Yes, I am. Yes.

-I know the answer to this question cos I'm a Lancashire lass.

-Right.

Yeah, I think I know this one.

There was the old conflict, the Civil War,

against the White Rose of Yorkshire,

so the answer is red.

-Is that right?

-That's absolutely correct.

Well done.

And, as you mentioned, the House of York had the white rose,

the House of Lancaster was red.

-So well done to you.

-Thank you.

£200 for you, Alun.

And, Winston, your second question in this round.

Still seven of the eight to choose from.

I think I'm going to go with Mark.

Mark.

So, Winston, I have got a bit of knowledge.

I've been to this particular city, perhaps you have been, too.

River Ness...

I'm going to go with Inverness.

It's absolutely right. Well done. Well done.

And its name literally means,

"Mouth of the River Ness," Inverness.

Well done, Winston. £200 for you.

Lauren, we come back to you.

And you still have seven of the eight,

just not Anisha.

-I'd like to have a question from Arminel, please.

-Arminel.

Well, I am a chemistry teacher,

this is not a chemistry question.

-I do like geology and it's a rocks question.

-Oh, dear.

So I hope you can get it right.

What type of rock, formed by cooling volcanic magma,

takes its name from the Latin for fire?

I can't really think of many names for rocks,

but the word ignite is coming at me,

so I'm going to go for igneous.

-Igneous...

-Yes.

-..is your answer.

-Yes.

OK. Is she right?

Absolutely right. Brilliant.

Well done. That's fantastic.

So you weren't sure but you had the knowledge in there,

you just let it flow, like the lava.

-It came from somewhere.

-Well done.

£200 to you, Lauren. Alun, we come to you.

And still seven of the eight to choose from.

-I'll go for Cleve this time, please.

-Cleve.

Well, I'm a musician and this is a question referring to

a musical instrument.

The glockenspiel, the musical instrument

that belongs to what section of an orchestra?

Yeah.

Well, it's not a stringed instrument and it's not brass.

-I think the answer's percussion.

-Percussion.

It's a percussion instrument, Cleve?

-Absolutely correct.

-Well done.

Glockenspiel takes its name from the German for a set of bells.

Ding-dong, ding-dong. You know, they hammer them away. OK.

-Well done. £200 to you, Alun.

-Thank you.

Winston, we come to you.

And, remarkably,

you still have almost all of the Think Tank to choose from.

I'm going to go with Mark again,

since he gave me a nice question last time.

-Mark.

-OK.

Which fashion director directed A Single Man,

starring Colin Firth, in 2009?

I'm not familiar with the film,

I'm not familiar with which designer would be a director either,

but I'm going to go with...

Dior.

-Dior.

-Dior.

Dior is Winston's answer.

Is he right?

Unfortunately, no. It's Tom Ford,

who may have designed for Dior at some point but, yeah,

sadly, Tom Ford.

And Colin Firth received an Oscar nomination for his role in that film.

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

And, at the end of that round, let's catch up

with how your prize funds have changed.

Currently Winston has £600 in his fund,

Lauren and Alun are tied on £1,000.

So you selected three questions each. None of you, though,

chose to hear from Max.

And his feelings are easily hurt

because he needs the chance to show off his good knowledge.

Don't you Max?

So let's hear about a question that was correctly answered by you earlier.

Well, I don't know if any of the three of you are thesps at all,

but my question was, true to form, about Shakespeare.

So, the question is:

And maybe you can answer this one at home.

-Any ideas here?

-Merchant of Venice.

Yeah, I was thinking that, or Antony and Cleopatra.

All right. Just for fun.

-Hamlet.

-Hamlet.

-Of course. OK.

And he says it to his son, Laertes.

He does, yes, before he meets a rather sticky end behind a curtain.

LAUGHTER

Max, I'm very glad you were able to share that knowledge with us,

thank you very much indeed.

So, let's go back to the competition.

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

but there's still one last chance to take the lead, and Winston,

you can still catch up.

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

Two members of the Think Tank will then give you the answer they

gave before the show and their reason for giving it.

Only one of them, though, will have the right answer,

so if you side with the correct person,

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

Only five questions remain before we do have to say goodbye to one of you.

So do choose your answers carefully. OK?

Here is the first question.

And we're going to hear answers from Max and Abi. Max first.

Well, as a young person myself I know how bad the property

market is at the moment in terms of how expensive everything is.

I know that this city has a toxic, combination of being within

commutable distance of London, full of lots of very well-paid

graduates, and being positioned in a way that is near lots of jobs.

So the answer is Cambridge, I think, for this.

And the property prices there have gone through the roof over

the last couple of years.

-Abi?

-So, I went with Edinburgh.

Because again, I heard that property prices were ridiculous in Edinburgh.

It's got lots of beautiful cathedrals,

there's lots of festivals and things go on.

The Scottish are lovely and friendly. So I went with Edinburgh.

OK. Max is saying Cambridge, Abi thinks it's Edinburgh.

Which one of them is right?

Contestants, lock in your answers, please.

Let's see what you came up with.

Lauren and Alan went for Cambridge, Winston went with Edinburgh.

Which one of you is right?

Cambridge it is.

So, apparently the average price of a property in London is £465,900.

In Cambridge it's £411,900.

Edinburgh - £196,500.

So, significantly less-expensive.

All right, prize funds of £200 go to Lauren and Alan,

and here is our next question.

Cleve and Jackie are going to answer this one for you. Cleve?

Well, I remember rightly while I was

a child and fireworks adverts were regularly on the TV,

I do remember getting some information, I learned

that the Chinese very early invented things like gunpowder,

and I think that fireworks was also a part of that as well.

So I'm going for China.

OK. China for Cleve. Jackie?

I went for India, and the reason was I started thinking about

countries that liked a good celebration,

and a bit of fireworks and a bit of colour going off.

And from things that I've seen about India,

and from what I know about it, they do certainly like that.

So I went with India.

OK, Jackie says it's India, Cleve says it's China.

What do you think, contestants? Please lock in your answers.

And let's see what you've come up with.

All three of you saying China.

Pretty confident with that.

Are you right?

China it is.

Fireworks invented so long ago in China there is no definite date.

No-one's quite sure when it actually happened. £200 to all of you.

And here's our next question.

Anisha and Len are up for this one. Anisha?

So, I was going to go for my default answer of Andy Murray.

LAUGHTER

And then I thought, "Come on, that's just silly."

So then I thought maybe ball boys,

because maybe it was just getting long for someone to keep grabbing

the balls, said, "We need a ball boy,"

-and they brought them in, and that was it.

-Len?

Well, yellow tennis balls.

Because these players are getting faster and faster with the

serves and that, it's a better visual effect

so they can see the balls better,

so I'm going for tennis balls as my answer - yellow tennis balls.

Len says yellow balls, Anisha says ball boys.

Who do you think has got the right answer there, contestants?

Please lock them in.

What have you come up with?

OK, two of you have gone with yellow balls, that's Lauren and Alan.

Winston is out on his own with ball boys.

Which one of you is right?

Yellow balls it is.

And up to that point they'd only used white balls.

So, as you say, Len, they were easier to see.

OK. So, £200 again go to Lauren and Alan.

Let's have a look at our next question, shall we?

And here with the potential answers are Max and Jackie. Max?

Well, chaps, this was a little bit of a stab in the dark for me.

I'm not a massive fan of tiny football clubs like Southport

and Hyde United, but I do believe, I think, that he fits about the

right age for this question, so I was going to say Paul Merton.

Paul Merton. OK. Jackie?

Well, I deducted this answer. Just call me Miss Marple.

Did a little bit of digging in my brain. Didn't take long.

And I thought about the time when he was born, 1966,

so what age he'd be, where he came from,

and I came up with John Bishop.

John Bishop, you say. All right.

John Bishop for Jackie, Paul Merton for Max as the comedian who

played semi-professional football for Southport and Hyde United.

What do you think, contestants? Please lock in your answers.

And all three of you have gone with John Bishop.

And let's see if you're right.

John Bishop it is. Well done.

John Bishop in 2012 also famously completed that very long

-triathlon for Sport Relief. 290 miles.

-Yeah.

Max, you may have been thinking of Paul MERSON, the footballer...

-Almost certainly.

-..who wasn't actually a comedian.

LAUGHTER Not far off, though.

Reasonable stab. OK. Good.

So, £200 goes into the prize funds of all of you.

This is the final question in this round.

We're going to hear answers now from Mark and Arminel. Mark.

I've actually travelled extensively through this continent,

and my answer is Ecuador.

Ecuador. Arminel?

Well, I play a game of Flags with my sons,

and so you have to come up with a lot of different countries.

And the name that I came up with is Equatorial Guinea in Africa.

-Because it has the name...

-Equatorial in it.

-OK.

Ecuador or Equatorial Guinea, those are your choices, contestants,

please lock in your answers.

And let's see what you've put.

Lauren and Winston say Equatorial Guinea,

Alan is on his own with Ecuador.

What's the right answer?

It is indeed Ecuador.

Equatorial Guinea features the name of the equator,

but the equator doesn't actually pass through it.

-Cheats! That's all I can say.

-LAUGHTER

-CLEVE:

-Fakes, man.

OK, so £200 for you, Alan, in your prize fund. Well done.

And that brings us to the end of the main game.

So, let's take a look at your totals.

In the lead is Alan with £2,000,

followed by Lauren with 1,800,

and trailing behind with £1,000 is Winston.

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

Thanks very much for playing. Have you enjoyed it?

Yes, I've really enjoyed it. Great contestants, great Think Tank.

-And you've been great, too, thank you very much.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

So, Alan and Lauren, you two will now compete to take home

the money you've earned in our final.

So, Lauren, if you win today, how do you think

you would spend your prize money?

Well, my 30th birthday is coming up,

so I'd actually love to use it to just have a massive party for all my

family and friends, and celebrate in style.

-That sounds lovely, doesn't it?

-Yes.

-OK.

Alun?

Well, my wife's got a big birthday coming up.

I won't tell you how old she was, but she was 69 last year.

LAUGHTER

And we're going to Barcelona next week to celebrate.

So it will...it'll go a long way to paying for that.

-Well, good luck. Good luck to you both.

-Thank you.

Our final is a general knowledge battle.

I'm going to ask you five questions each.

Whoever gives the most correct answers

takes home that money that they've built up so far.

You're not alone, though, because the Think Tankers are still here

to help you out if they can.

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

Each member can only be picked once, though.

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

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

So they know as little about them as you do this time.

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

Now, Alun, you built up the most money in the main game,

so we are going to start with you,

-and here is your first question.

-Right.

All eight members of the Think Tank to choose from.

Who would you like to go with?

Um...

I'll go with Arminel, please.

-I am, of course, old enough to remember...

-Yeah, me, too.

..before.

I've got an idea.

Have you got an idea as well?

-I think it's the Netherlands.

-So do I.

So we agree.

We agree, that's my answer.

Holland or the Netherlands, yeah.

OK, you're saying that the guilder was the official currency

of the Netherlands before the introduction of the euro.

Let's see if you're right.

You are indeed.

The Netherlands, it is. Well done.

So you're off the mark, Alun.

Lauren, here is your first question.

Who would you like to go with on that one?

Anyone but Arminel.

I'd like to ask Len what he thinks.

Oh!

NASA?

So it's the National Space Agency.

American Space Agency?

That sounds like a good answer to me.

-National...?

-Aeronautical?

-Aero? National Aero... Space Agency?

-Aeronautical?

Obviously, it's to do with flying. But it's to do with space, isn't it?

So...

we've been thrown off the scent of it here somewhere now.

Aero...? So what was that you said, sorry?

-Aeronautical?

-Aero... Yeah,

I'll go with aeronautical.

-Aeronautical is your answer?

-Yeah.

As the first A in the abbreviation NASA,

you're saying aeronautical.

Let's see if you get lift-off with this one.

THEY GROAN

Well, not quite Aeronautics,

but we think you're close enough.

Aw! Yeah.

It is, in fact, the

National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

-BOTH:

-Administration?

Well done.

OK, 1-1.

Alun, here's your second question.

-OK.

-You are...

-A retired bookie.

-..a retired bookmaker.

-Yeah.

LAUGHTER

So who could help you here, apart from Len and Arminel?

I'll go with Max.

Well, I mean, Alun, obviously I know this one as well.

But I think I'll let you just chuck your idea out.

LAUGHTER

It's the oldest Classic of all the five.

And it's the longest Classic of all the five.

And it's run on the Town Moor of Doncaster.

And they use horses, don't they?

-LAUGHTER

-That's the one.

So you need any more help with that answer?

You're taking the words right out of my mouth.

There we go. Doncaster.

You're saying the St Leger Stakes horse race is run annually

at Doncaster Racecourse.

Let's see if that gets you closer to the finish line.

It does - Doncaster is the answer.

Well done, mate.

Well, I think...I think your help was invaluable on that.

It's all your own work, Alun - don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Confirmed it for me, yes.

Alun, you're quite right, of course,

it is the oldest of the five Classics, established in 1776.

-Right.

-A long, long time it's been running.

So 2-1 to you, Alun.

Here's your second question, Lauren.

Who might be weird enough amongst this lot to help you?

I'm going to ask Anisha again.

What do you think it is?

Think it might be Little Mix.

I think it's Little Mix as well.

Yeah? I'll go with Little Mix, please.

So you're saying Little Mix is that the band which produced the album

Get Weird in 2015.

Let's have a look.

Well done.

It included the singles Black Magic and Love Me Like You.

-OK, 2-2, tension cranking up a little bit, then.

-Yeah.

Alun, here's question number three.

You have just half of the Think Tank to go with now.

Yeah. I'll go with Cleve.

Cleve, our musician.

I wish you didn't.

LAUGHTER

In honesty, it would have to be a total guess.

That's the truth.

I wouldn't pretend I know this one.

Have you any ideas at all?

None at all.

Perhaps Not Going Out or something like that?

I don't know. What would be your guess?

Thinking about it now, the names look as if it might be

an American series.

The American series I'm thinking of,

they tend to have the names of

the characters actually as part of the show...

-Yeah.

-..like Bill and Jane or something like that.

-Or Liz and Jack?

-Yeah!

That probably would be appropriate!

-I'm pretty sure I can't remember a show by that name.

-No.

-I think I'm just going to go with my first thought.

-Yeah.

I'm so sorry.

-I'm sorry I couldn't help you there.

-It's OK, Cleve, it's not a problem.

-Obviously not our cup of tea.

-No, it's not, this one.

I'll go with Not Going Out.

Not Going Out is your answer as the TV comedy series in which...

Let's see if you're right.

Yeah. Never seen it.

It's an American series...

I thought so.

..and the characters are played by Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin.

So nothing for you there, Alun.

-Lauren, you can take the lead...

-I can.

-..with your third question.

Mark, Jackie or Abi to help you.

I'd like to ask...

Jackie for her help.

Anything to do with sport might as well be written in Swahili!

LAUGHTER

Swimmer, 1980?

I was thinking there is the lady who is a presenter now,

but I can't think what her name is.

-I can see her...

-Yeah.

-..but I can think of what her name is.

-No!

Is it Sue?

Is it Sharron Davies?

I'll go with that, I don't know.

I don't know whether I am right - I'm sorry if I'm not right.

Sharron Davies, please. Yeah.

..in the 400m individual medley at the 1980 Olympics.

This to take you into the lead, 3-2, Lauren.

Let's see if you're right.

You are.

I'm shocked and stunned!

You've got it buried in there somewhere...

Somewhere, somewhere.

-..it's just a question of digging it out.

-Somewhere in there's an athlete.

-Waiting to come out.

-Alun, pressure's on you now, I'm afraid.

-OK.

-Fourth question for you.

Just the two left to choose from -

Abi and Mark.

Yeah, I'll go with Mark, please.

Well, I mean, obviously I'd know nothing about this answer...

LAUGHTER

but I am pretty convinced that it's Narciss.

Narciss, yeah, yeah.

That's exactly what I was thinking, even as...

That's where we get the term "narcissistic" from.

So I'll go with Narcissus.

You're saying Narcissus was the youth from Greek mythology

who fell in love with his own reflection in a pool of water.

Let's have a look.

Well done.

And you're absolutely right, it's where we get the term

"narcissism" from. So you are now on level pegging but, Lauren,

you can take the lead again with question number four.

Just Abi left to ask,

and she is a doctor.

Yes, I really, really hope that we get it. Do you...?

-Do you have any idea?

-I don't know at all.

But you would have been my pick for this question anyway.

Right, well, I really, really hope

I can help, and I'm pretty sure it's your sacrum.

OK. I'll go with sacrum.

-You're going with sacrum?

-Yes, please.

OK, as that triangular bone in the lower back,

sacrum is your answer.

This to go into the lead at 4-3.

Thank you.

The sacrum, thought to be sacred by

the Ancient Greeks because they thought that the soul resided there.

So 4-3.

Here is your fifth question - no Think Thankers left to help you out.

So from here, you are on your own.

And, Alun, you have to get this right

in order to stay in the competition.

Right.

Here's question number five.

I'm thinking it's either North America or Africa.

I'm going to go with Africa.

You're saying that Africa is the continent

where the Nazca Lines are found.

There's representations of birds and animals.

This, Alun, to stay in the competition.

Is Africa the right answer?

Which means, Lauren, you are today's winner, congratulations.

Alun, very difficult question to end up on...

-Yes, it was.

-..especially with no help.

-Yeah, yeah.

-Yeah.

-And you were doing so well earlier on.

-Yeah.

Sorry you're not taking anything home,

-but thanks for playing so well.

-It's been a lovely day. Great.

Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you to the Think Tankers as well.

You're welcome.

So, Lauren, as our winner, you're definitely taking home your prize

of £1,800, and shortly you'll 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 this show?

And it was...

Max! Well done, Max.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Lauren, you now have one last chance to boost your prize

quite significantly as you face our Question: Impossible.

This is the toughest question of the whole show, Lauren,

because no-one in our Think Tank answered it correctly.

So if you can achieve what none of them could

and give us the right answer, an extra £1,000 will be yours.

-Wow.

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

-OK.

Now, before you give your answer, we'll give you a bit of help.

We're going to take a look at all the wrong answers

given by the Think Tank.

As this will help you rule a few things out.

So what did they come up with?

So they've knocked out a fair old number for you.

Does that help you at all?

Absolutely not at all.

Um...

it's well before I was born.

And I can't think of any actors

of that age, apart from some

of the ones that are on the board.

So I'm going to go with somebody

that's in one of my favourite movies that's quite old.

Dick Van Dyke? Cos he was in Mary Poppins and I love that film.

And he's the only person I can think of that might

have been acting at that age.

OK.

So this would be to take your total to £2,800.

You're saying Dick Van Dyke is your answer

to the Question: Impossible.

The oldest man to win the Best Actor...

Fingers crossed.

Let's see if you're right.

I've never even heard of Henry Fonda.

-I was never going to get that.

-Ah.

The film was called On Golden Pond and also starred Katharine Hepburn.

But Dick Van Dyke was a pretty good shout, actually, really.

So, sorry you didn't conquer the Question: Impossible.

Still leaving, though, with £1,800.

-I hope you're happy with that?

-Definitely, yes.

Still going to have a party?

I think that will be a really good party,

and I'll invite you and all the Think Tankers to come as well.

Oh, not them as well! LAUGHTER

Everybody's welcome.

-Lauren, thanks very much for joining us and playing so well.

-Thank you for having me.

Thanks for watching.

Do join us next time when three more contestants will see

whether they can bank on the Think Tank.

-Until then, it is goodbye from them...

-Bye.

..and it is goodbye from me. Bye-bye.