Episode 28 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 Zhenya,

a marketing contractor from Southwark in London,

Christopher, a sales ledger controller from Chilwell in Nottingham,

and Pauline, a local government officer from Leeds.

This is Think Tank.

Welcome to the show. Welcome, as ever, to our Think Tank.

They're a well travelled bunch, you know.

Jackie has cruised the seven seas.

Max has visited 15 cities in America.

And in a single day, Mark has had breakfast in Slovenia,

lunch in Vienna and dinner in Berlin.

I hope he didn't get indigestion!

Hopefully, they picked up some wisdom on their travels

that'll prove useful to our three contestants.

Welcome to you all.

Zhenya, are you good at quizzes?

I'm not sure. We'll soon find out anyway.

But I do run a local quiz at my pub every Sunday,

so I go through lots of questions,

but there are some bad areas for me as well.

All right, well, we'll try to get you some help with those.

What do you think you'll be good at?

I'm hopefully going to be good at history,

because I did ancient history at university.

Geography, because I learnt a lot of the capitals when I was a little

girl, and potentially politics.

Well, Mark is very good at geography, he's done a lot of travelling.

-Right.

-So you could team up with him. But where will you really need help?

I've already sort of thought about this.

I think Cleve can help me with my music.

I'm going to need help with soap operas,

so I'm not sure which one yet,

but maybe Jackie can help me with that.

And pop music, I don't know.

I'll need a lot of help. I'll think about it later.

OK, but you've done your homework on the Think Tank!

Yes, I have. Bit of a swot.

Zhenya, lovely name. Where does it come from?

It's Russian. It means sweet and gentle.

-Are you?

-No, I'm not. I used to play rugby,

so my parents definitely got that wrong.

And yeah, I've got a very, very bad temper.

-So, I hope I win today, otherwise my husband will get it.

-We're all in trouble.

-Yeah, you're in trouble, too, of course.

-OK!

-So, £200 to you for that correct...

-Excellent! Stick it in!

-Stick it in!

-OK, Zhenya.

Lovely to meet you. Christopher, a sales ledger controller -

what do you do when you are not controlling sales ledgers?

Generally, I go to watch Derby County.

I've been going since I was four years old.

-Gosh.

-That's, like, 46 years now.

-Have you ever met any famous people?

I have. I once met Elizabeth Taylor

when I was working at an airport bar.

All right. Max, you've had an encounter with a famous person.

I did. Yes, when I was about ten years old,

I had a run-in with my then hero, Jeremy Clarkson.

We ended up playing Scalextric against each other.

And of course, he absolutely thrashed me,

but I feel like he did have an unfair advantage, really.

Yeah, OK. Anybody else met some famous people?

-We've all met the lovely Bill as well.

-Oh, yes!

-Absolutely!

-Could there be a finer celeb?

And there's £200 for you.

I'm giving it away today.

Christopher, what are you going to be good at?

I'm going to be good at sport, entertainment,

maybe a little bit of history.

And what's your weakest point?

Definitely geography. I cannot find my way out of my street

without a satnav.

OK, good to have you with us.

-Thank you.

-And Pauline, a local government officer.

We've got one of those in the Tank, of course, with Jackie.

-Hi, Jackie.

-Hiya. You're Yorkshire, aren't you?

-I am.

-I'm Lancashire. Yeah, so...

Don't let that come between you.

You were a teenage bride, weren't you?

-17.

-How old were you when you got married?

-18.

-Are you sure you're not related?

We're quicker in Lancashire!

You've met a very famous person, haven't you?

I have. I've met the Queen.

We do a lot of work with the veterans,

and we were invited to Buckingham Palace.

And there were 8,000 people there.

So we just enjoyed the day, and to our surprise, we were pulled out

and said, "Come with me."

And I thought, "They're going to throw me out,

"they've realised I shouldn't be there",

and walking towards us was Her Majesty,

and we were presented to her and had a conversation with her.

-Did you have a nice chat?

-Oh, yes.

It was fabulous, and it's on film, so it's a day we'll never forget.

All right, well, welcome to all three of you.

Now, over three rounds,

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

build up as much money as possible.

Don't forget, they have tried to answer all questions to the best of their ability,

whether right or wrong.

The two highest scorers among you, then, will go through to the final.

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

OK? Let's play the first round.

So I'm going to ask you a question, then every member of the Think Tank

will reveal the answer that they gave

before the show. The correct answer is always there somewhere,

but there are also any number of mistakes there, too.

So pick out the right one, £200 is added to your prize fund.

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

Here's a question we put to the Think Tank.

Think on that while the Think Tank get their colouring set out.

Starting with Jackie.

Blue.

Blue.

Red.

Blue.

Green.

Red.

Purple.

Purple.

Half of the rainbow there to choose from.

-What do you think?

-Well, I used to love Cluedo as a child,

so I think Colonel Mustard is yellow,

I think Reverend Green is green,

I think Miss Scarlet is red,

and I think Miss Peacock is blue.

-Blue is what you're going for?

-I'm going to go for blue, yeah.

OK. What colour is Mrs Peacock in the board game Cluedo?

You say she's blue. Let's see if you're right.

Blue it is. Well done.

In the original board game Cluedo,

Mrs Peacock was an elderly, aristocratic lady,

but she's been given a makeover.

OK, £200 for you, Zhenya.

-Well done.

-Thank you.

-Christopher, that's how it works.

Let's see your first question.

What did the Think Tank come up with there?

David Attenborough.

Ben Elton.

JK Rowling.

JK Rowling.

Guy Ritchie.

Roald Dahl.

JK Rowling.

Sam Mendes.

JK Rowling comes up three times. But also a few others there as well.

Got any ideas, Christopher?

No. Not at all.

I mean, wow. Sam Mendes is a director,

so I think he's out.

Guy Ritchie's a director, so he's out.

David Attenborough, maybe, has not written a film script.

I think I'm going to go with JK Rowling,

because I think it's a departure from her Harry Potter books.

-So I'm going to go for JK Rowling.

-OK. Who wrote the script for

the 2016 film Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them?

You say it's JK Rowling. Let's see if you're right.

JK Rowling it is. Well done.

And it stars Eddie Redmayne,

and it's set in the same magical world as Harry Potter.

So well done, Christopher. £200 is added to your prize fund.

And Pauline, let's see your first question.

Here's what the Think Tank made of that one.

Steve Davis.

Stephen Hendry.

John Virgo.

Ronnie O'Sullivan.

Ronnie O'Sullivan.

John Virgo.

Phil Taylor.

Mark Selby.

That's a fair old number to choose from there, Pauline.

Yes.

I'm going to discount Stephen Hendry.

I think he's from Scotland.

John Virgo, I don't think he's from Leicester.

I'm just going to go with a wild guess with Ronnie O'Sullivan.

I'll agree with Cleve.

Which snooker player is nicknamed the Jester From Leicester?

You say it's Ronnie O'Sullivan. Let's see if you are right.

-It's Mark Selby.

-Oh.

Mark Selby, 2016 World Snooker champion.

And Mark, you were the only one to get it right.

-How do you have that?

-I think he won the same weekend as Leicester City

won the Premiership,

and therefore, didn't get his fair percentage of the press.

But he's got it now from you. Well done.

OK, so nothing for you there, Pauline.

Plenty of other chances to come.

Zhenya, here is your second question.

Let's see what the Think Tank made of that.

-Jackie?

-Brotherhood of Man.

Steps.

Lulu.

Cliff Richard.

Brotherhood of Man.

Bucks Fizz.

Sandie Shaw.

Bucks Fizz.

Two for Brotherhood of Man, two for Bucks Fizz,

and a few others in the mix there.

-Zhenya?

-Yeah, so I'm a bit worried.

I was dreading this sort of question coming up.

I would normally trust Cleve, because he's my music guy.

But then I'm thinking to myself, you know,

Steps, I don't think, were in the Eurovision.

I don't think Cliff Richard would ever do it.

He's far too big.

I'm going to go for Bucks Fizz.

But with not a great deal of confidence.

Bucks Fizz, you say, is the third British act

to win the Eurovision Song contest.

Let's see if you're on the money there.

Brotherhood of Man it was.

Sandie Shaw and Lulu were the first two.

Cliff Richard did, in fact, take part in Eurovision, twice. He came second and third.

-Oh, right.

-Sadly, no congratulations for you this time.

-No.

Christopher, here's your second question.

What did the Think Tank tot up with that one?

£80.

£40.

£170.

£70.

£90.

£80.

£80.

£70.

That's a fair old spread, isn't it? It's about £130 between them all.

Wow. I've got to discount the 170.

I think that's too high.

I've got to discount the 40, because I think that's too low.

I think it's something around the £80 or £90 mark.

I'm going to go for £90.

-£90?

-Yeah.

-OK.

How much is a standard adult non-FastTrack UK passport cost to the nearest £10?

-You're saying it's 90.

-Yeah.

-Let's see how close you are.

£70 it was.

£72.50, to be precise.

Abi, I'm going to get my passport from you.

I'm definitely not buying one from Len.

Or anything else for that matter!

If you're charging that much for a passport...

All right. Christopher, nothing for you there.

And we move on to Pauline's second question.

Where did the Think Tank go with this? Jackie?

Rome.

Athens.

Rome.

Syracuse.

Athens.

Athens.

Pompeii.

Athens.

Half of the Think Tank going for Athens.

But the choice is yours, Pauline.

Oh...

I'm going to discount Rome, Syracuse, and also Pompeii.

I think I'm going to go with the majority again, hopefully,

and say Athens.

You're going with Athens as the city of which the ancient philosopher

Socrates was a native.

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

Athens it is. Well done.

Socrates, the influential philosopher, who was Plato's teacher.

So well done, Pauline. £200 for you.

It brings us to the end of the first round,

so let's get a check on how you're doing.

And you're all tied on £200.

APPLAUSE

So, even-stevens. Now, in our second round,

every member of the Think Tank is holding two questions,

which they answered correctly before the show.

You'll 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 there are not experts, they are interested in different subjects,

so you might need to think carefully about who's going to be on your wavelength.

Once a Think Tanker has asked both of their questions,

they cannot be picked again.

Zhenya, you get to go first.

You've got the whole bunch to choose from,

so whose knowledge do you think you can meet there?

Max is somebody who knows a lot about literature.

I'm going to hope he's got a question for me that's suitable.

Well, Zhenya, you're right. I do love my literature,

and this is a series of quite serious novels

that are very close to my heart.

And hopefully, you've read them as well,

because they can be a bit of a challenge, but...

In the Thomas the Tank Engine stories,

what is the commonly used name for the character Sir Topham Hatt?

In the Thomas the Tank Engine stories,

what is the commonly used name for the character Sir Topham Hatt?

A deep literature question there for you.

Right, so, yeah!

That's not an ideal question for me.

The chap in it is fat, and I think he's called the Fat Controller.

So, Mr Top Hat...

I'm going to go for the Fat Controller and hope for the best.

The Fat Controller?

-OK.

-Fat chance - it is the Fat Controller.

The Fat Controller, well done.

He's the head of the railway, of course.

He features in the books by the Reverend W Awdry.

A very highbrow question, Max, there.

-Absolutely.

-Well done, Zhenya.

£200 added to your running total.

Christopher, you're up next.

And you can still choose any one of the eight.

I was thinking of picking Abi,

but I think I'm actually going to pick Cleve.

Hopefully, he might have a music question I like?

Yes, I guess it's musical,

or it's in a slightly different area and is also connected to television.

The question is,

who was the featured choirmaster in the 2006

BBC documentary series The Choir?

Who was the featured choirmaster in the 2006

BBC documentary series The Choir?

The only person that I can think of

is Aled Jones, in that sort of genre.

So I'm going to go for Aled Jones.

-Aled Jones, Cleve?

-I'm afraid not.

It was a good guess, though, but it's actually...

he's around television quite a lot recently,

around choirs, it's Gareth Malone.

Gareth Malone. And he has since

received an OBE for his services to music.

So nothing for you there, Christopher.

Pauline, you're up next. Who would you like to choose?

I think I'd like to choose Jackie.

-Be kind.

-Yeah, as kind as I can be.

I consider myself to be quite well travelled.

And I like to try different places,

but this is one place I haven't been,

and I can't get a brochure for it either.

In 1969, on stepping onto the moon, Neil Armstrong famously said,

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for..."?

Neil Armstrong famously said in 1969 as he stepped onto the moon,

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for..." what?

And I was old enough to watch it.

Mankind.

Mankind?

That's exactly right. Well done.

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

Zhenya, we come back to you, and you can still choose anyone you like.

I didn't really like Max's last question!

I'm going to give you another go. Please don't let me down.

-No pressure, Max.

-Well, I'm not sure whether you would consider this highbrow, though.

It is a programme that's very close to my heart.

The Radio 4 panel game Just A Minute

asks contestants to speak without hesitation, deviation or what else?

The Radio 4 panel game Just A Minute asks contestants to speak without hesitation, deviation or what?

I think I've tried to play this a couple of times

and always failed. But also, I always repeat myself.

So I'm going to go for repetition.

And... Yeah. Yeah, repetition.

-Let's give it a go.

-Repetition?

-Absolutely right. Well done.

-Well done.

Wonderful game. Hosted for more than 40 years by Nicholas Parsons.

OK, £200 for you, Zhenya.

Well done. Christopher, we come to you and you cannot choose Max.

I feel guilty, so I'm going to go with Abi.

OK, this is related to my job again,

so it's another medical question, I'm afraid.

The otoscope is an instrument designed for the examination of

which part of the human body?

The otoscope is an instrument

designed for the examination of which part of the human body?

Otoscope...

So, something that you might put down somewhere, or in somewhere.

I'm just going to have to pluck something out of the air here.

And I'll say the ear.

The ear?

You're so right! Well done!

Good guess, Christopher. Well done.

£200 for you. And Pauline, we move on to you again.

And seven out of the eight, just not Max.

Why spoil a winning formula? Jackie again, please.

Thank you. This is a lovely part of our country.

The Lake District is in which English county?

The Lake District is in which county in England?

I come from West Yorkshire.

North Yorkshire would argue,

but I think it's...

I think it's Cumbria.

Cumbria?

Dead right. Dead right. Well done.

All right, well done, Pauline. £200 for you.

Zhenya, we come back to you.

Max and Jackie are off-limits, but anybody else you can have.

OK, I'm going to go for Mark, please.

OK, this question is political, and it relates back to my time

running around the cloisters of Westminster

when I was a parliamentary researcher.

What four-letter word starting with H

is normally used to describe a Parliament

where there is no overall majority?

The four-letter word to describe a Parliament where there's no overall majority.

I'm pretty confident that it's a hung parliament.

That's the four-letter word, hung?

Absolutely right, yes. Well done.

Yes, the last hung parliament was 2010,

and that was resolved with a coalition between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.

So well done, £200 for you. Christopher, we move on to you.

And still six of the eight to go.

Abi, as much as I think you're great,

I'm going to have to just let you sit this one out.

-OK.

-And I'm going to give Diane a chance.

-OK.

-Because I love your earrings, Diane.

-Thank you. Thank you.

My question is...

In 2015, a helicopter crash wrecked a wedding party in which soap?

In 2015, a helicopter crash wrecked a wedding party in which soap?

Right, soap is something that I would only bathe with.

I know the names of things like, you know, Coronation Street, EastEnders,

and whatever. I'm thinking that

this might have something to do

with a farm.

-And I'm going to go with Emmerdale.

-Emmerdale?

-You're absolutely right.

-Well done.

In fact, it was Pete Barton and Debbie Dingle's wedding.

-Were you there?

-No, I wasn't invited.

All right. Emmerdale is a really dangerous place to go, isn't it?

-It is, yes. I reckon.

-All sorts of things happening there all the time. OK.

£200 for you, Christopher. Well done. And Pauline, we come to you.

Again, not Jackie and not Max.

I think I'd like to try Len, please.

There we are. Welcome to the party, Len.

LAUGHTER

Being from Wales, this was an easy question for me to answer.

What stretch of water divides the Welsh mainland

from the island of Anglesey, Pauline?

I don't know. Narrow stretch seems to me something like a strait.

So the only strait I can think of is perhaps the Menai Strait.

The Menai Straits?

It's right up your street, it's there. Menai Strait.

Well done. APPLAUSE

A narrow stretch of tidal water about 25km long.

So well done.

£200 for you, Pauline. That brings us to the end of the round.

You've all done very well, actually, in that round.

Let's see how your prize funds have changed.

Christopher has £600.

But in the lead, and tied on £800, are Zhenya and Pauline.

APPLAUSE

So you chose three questions each.

None of you picked poor Lucy,

and she's very easily hurt.

-Yeah.

-You don't want to be left out.

So just for fun, so that she can show us how much she actually knows,

let's hear a question that you got correct earlier, Lucy.

OK. Well, this question goes back to 1994,

when I received the then cutting-edge technology

of a CD player for Christmas.

And, with it, this group's album, so I know the answer to this.

And hopefully, someone out there does.

Who's the lead singer of The Corrs?

You might know this one at home.

Let's throw it open.

I think it's Andrea Corr.

Straight off there, Zhenya.

Andrea Corr?

-Fabulous. Andrea Corr.

-Well done.

-And it's a music question as well!

-APPLAUSE

Well done, Zhenya. Just for the glory of it.

-Just for fun.

-Just for fun.

Thanks, Lucy, for sharing that with us.

Let's get back to the competition, then.

All of you will now be asked the same question.

Two members of the Think Tank will then tell you the answer

that they gave before the show, and why they gave it.

Only one of them will have the correct answer.

So if you side with the correct person,

you'll get an all-important £200 for your prize fund.

Just five questions remain, though,

before we do have to say goodbye to one of you,

so do choose your answers carefully.

OK? Here's the first question.

We're going to get answers from Cleve and Diane.

-Cleve.

-I've spent hours and hours, and hours, studying chemistry.

Actually, not true. Not true at all.

I've spent no time studying chemistry.

But I do believe...

..when I've heard about greenhouse gases,

that the answer to this is actually helium.

-OK, Diane?

-In 30 years of marriage,

my husband tries to educate me by leaving a broadsheet newspaper

where I can see it. And one day, I was reading it,

and it said that cows were the greatest producers of methane gas,

and that was affecting the ozone.

So I believe that it's methane gas, because they chew their cud,

it goes through the four stomachs, and then... Hmm!

LAUGHTER

Which gas with the symbol CH4

is often considered to be

the second most significant

greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide?

Diane says it's methane.

Cleve is saying helium.

What do you think, contestants?

Lock in your answers.

What have you said?

All three of you have come up with methane.

Is that the right answer?

It is methane, indeed.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

So £200 to you all, well done.

Here's our next question:

Jackie and Mark are going to tackle this.

-Jackie.

-Well, I think that it's New York,

and there is some reasoning behind this.

I've visited New York, and it is a place that I'd go to again.

There's lots and lots to see there, lots of interest,

and when you do go there, you feel like you've been before,

cos it's like a film set.

The other thing that I based it on was

a lot of people that I've spoke to who haven't been to New York

still want to go.

OK. Mark?

I went for London. I work a lot in London.

You see the masses of tourists, all the way from Greenwich, Westminster,

Soho, out in the West End,

all having a wonderful time.

I also think that because it's 2014,

London got a significant bounce off the back of the Olympics,

so I've gone for London.

So Jackie says New York.

Mark says London.

What do you think, contestants?

Please lock in your answers.

Where have you gone with this one?

All three of you, again, delivering the same answer.

And London, are you in the right place?

London it is. Well done.

APPLAUSE

18 million visitors for London.

11 million for New York.

Very well argued there, Mark.

Thank you. OK, £200 for you all.

And here's question number three.

Abi and Diane are up for this one.

Abi.

Recently taken an interest in Greek mythology.

I like reading about it all. But I thought about

the part of the body that probably has the most different colours,

and I think it's your iris.

I meet lots of wonderful people,

and they all have great different variety of eye colours,

so I went with the iris.

Diane?

I'm in that part of the body,

but I went for the eyes,

because the eyes are supposed to be the window to your soul.

And when you look into somebody's soul,

you can see the different colours of their auras.

And I believe that it's the eyes.

Which part of the human body

shares its name with

the goddess of the rainbow

in Greek mythology?

Abi says the Iris.

Diane is saying it's the eyes.

What do you think, contestants?

Let's see what you're looking at.

All three of you, again, the same thing.

The iris. Are you right?

Iris it is. Well done.

APPLAUSE

And as you know, Abi,

the iris is the muscular curtain near the front of the eye,

between the cornea and the lens.

Well done again to all of you, £200 for you.

And question number four:

Let's see what Lucy and Len have cooked up with this.

-Lucy.

-I'm expecting at the moment,

and I've had a tricky pregnancy,

so I've been in and out of hospital,

and while I was in hospital,

every day they would bring me a slice of cake. A very nice nurse.

I'm gluten-free, so she would make it for me.

She said, "This is my favourite cake to bake".

And it was Madeira cake, and it was very tasty, and very lovely.

And I thought, "Well...Madeira!"

Len?

Well, if my wife was here today,

she'd be shaking her head at Lucy over there,

-saying, "No, no, no".

-LAUGHTER

It's actually a Victoria sponge.

OK. Lucy says Madeira.

Len says Victoria sponge.

What do you think, contestants?

Lock in your answers.

What have you said?

Unanimous again! It's amazing! LAUGHTER

All getting the same answers all the time!

You've all come up with Victoria sponge.

Are you right?

You are. Well done.

APPLAUSE

Victoria sponge, named after Queen Victoria, Len, of course.

You do a bit of baking, don't you?

Yes, I'm a dab hand at making scones, bread as well.

Well, it's about that time of day.

Where are they?

Well, they are in the oven upstairs waiting to come out.

LAUGHTER

Silver-tongued devil, you are!

OK, all right.

Thanks very much. £200 to you all,

and here's the last question in this round.

Jackie and Max are going to

-measure this one up. Jackie.

-When I first read this question,

I thought it was in my lounge when I was having a tropical moment,

because that's the highest temperature I've ever recorded.

But then I realised it said county.

And I think it's Kent.

And the reason I think it's Kent is it's our garden in England,

that's what they call it. It's also very open.

They grow hops there, and lots of produce there.

So I think Kent.

-Max?

-Well, I'm a proud Home Counties boy myself,

and I've spent many a halcyon day in the summers of my youth,

capering across the fields of Surrey and Sussex,

and Hampshire, particularly.

And I can say, speaking from experience,

it can get very, very warm there,

particularly when you're slogging it out on a cricket pitch,

-I'll tell you that.

-So which county is it?

-Hampshire it is.

-Hampshire. All right.

Jackie says Kent.

Max is saying Hampshire.

What do you think, contestants?

Lock in your answers.

This time it is a split verdict.

Zhenya and Christopher have gone for Kent.

Pauline has gone for Hampshire.

Who's right?

Kent is the answer.

APPLAUSE

It was in 2003.

-The temperature reached 38.5 Celsius.

-Wow!

What a scorcher that must have been.

OK, then, that's £200, then, for Zhenya and Christopher.

And that brings us to the end of the round.

That's the end of the main game, so shall we take a look at your totals?

In the lead is Zhenya with £1,800.

Tied in second place are

Christopher and Pauline, on £1,600.

Only two contestants can go through to the final,

so we'll have a tie-break

to determine which of you two

will make it through

to join Zhenya, OK?

This deciding question, then, has a numerical answer.

Whoever is closest to the correct answer will be in the final, OK?

Here's the question:

Have a think about that...

and then lock in your answers, please.

Let's take a look at the answers you've given, then.

Christopher says it's 36,

and Pauline says 40.

How many episodes of the TV sitcom Dad's Army were there?

Let's find out.

It's 80 in total.

So Pauline, you're just closer.

It means you are going through to the final.

Unfortunately, then, we have to say goodbye to you, Christopher.

I have to say, we've never had it this tight before,

so you've really done very well. I hope you've enjoyed playing with us.

-I've had a great time. Thank you very much.

-Thanks very much.

Well done, Zhenya and Pauline.

You two will now compete to take home the money you've earned

in our final.

So that was dramatic, wasn't it, eh?

Zhenya, if you win, how do you think you'll spend your prize money?

Well, I need to do lots of bits and pieces to the house.

And we went to Thailand for my honeymoon,

but we really didn't get to travel as much,

and spent too much on the wedding,

so I'd like to go back to Thailand

-and do the areas that we hadn't covered.

-That sounds like fun.

Pauline, are you going to have fun with your winnings?

Yes, it's going to be nothing sensible.

It's not going to see the inside of a bank!

LAUGHTER

I think I'll eat and drink my way through Italy

-if I'm fortunate enough to win.

-Wow, that's a really nice trip.

All right, well, good luck to you both.

The final is a general knowledge battle.

I'm going to ask you five questions each.

Whoever gives the most correct answers then takes home the money

they've built up so far. You're not on your own, though,

the Think Tank are still here to help you if they can.

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

Each member, though, 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're just as much in the dark as you are this time.

-Ready to play the final?

-Absolutely.

-OK, let's do it.

Zhenya, you built up the most money in the main game,

so the final starts with you.

Here's your first question:

Who could help you with that, do you think?

-I'm going to ask Max.

-Surprise.

Yes, I was worried you were going to do this,

I have definitely studied this one.

The first name that popped into my head was Gerard Manley Hopkins.

I could be wrong, though.

And I have been wrong before!

Yeah, In Memoriam, I...

No, I'm thinking it's a war poet

so I was thinking someone like Siegfried Sassoon,

Wilfred Owen, Rupert Graves...

Yes, I think that a fair point.

Yes, or maybe even later, and going TS Eliot, perhaps?

-I'm not sure.

-I've heard of it, so...

-OK.

Well, Manley Hopkins is there if you'd like to take him.

-How confident are you?

-Well, I mean,

the more that you press me on it, the less confident I am.

OK, I'm going to go with Max, then.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins is what you want to say?

-Yes.

OK, as the poet who described nature

as being "red in tooth and claw" in his poem In Memoriam,

is it Gerard Manley Hopkins?

-Aww!

-Alfred, Lord Tennyson it was.

Well, I wasn't right, either, so that's fine!

SHE CHUCKLES

Max, it also contains the lines,

"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all".

-There you go.

-Words to live by, Bill.

-Indeed!

LAUGHTER

Trust me, it's happened to me.

LAUGHTER

OK, so you're still to get off the mark there on that one.

Pauline, here's your first question.

Who would you like to choose for that one?

I'm going to choose Cleve.

-Cleve.

-I do remember those,

they're like little bears.

I think it was the third...

..of the old films.

I'm thinking the first was The Empire Strikes Back.

So it would be Return Of The Jedi, then.

That was the...

the third one made, I think,

and that's what I remember.

But would that be the Return Of The Jedi?

90% sure it was Return Of The Jedi was the third one.

Let's go with that one.

Yeah, that's the one I would go for.

I'm not sure, Pauline.

-Let's go with that.

-Yeah?

-Because if it isn't that one,

-then I don't know the third one.

-Yeah.

Yeah. We'll go with Return Of The Jedi.

Return Of The Jedi, you say,

is the film in which the Ewoks appear for the first time

in the Star Wars series.

Let's see if you're right.

It is Return Of The Jedi. Well done. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Well done!

Because the first three went Star Wars, the Empire Strikes Back,

-and Return Of The Jedi.

-Yeah.

Got there in the end. Well done.

OK, Zhenya.

Your second question coming up now.

Who can help you here?

I'm going to ask Mark.

-Mark.

-Yeah, good film, actually.

Even better the second time I watched it.

I'm pretty confident it's 300.

I'm pretty sure it's about Thermopylae and I...agree with Mark.

I think it's 300.

So you think the Gerard Butler film depicting the Spartans' struggle

against the Persians at that battle

-was called 300?

-Yeah.

That's your answer.

Let's see if you're right.

APPLAUSE

Indeed. Well done.

It was about a small band of Greek fighters,

who held back a huge Persian army for several days. So 1-1.

Well done, Zhenya. Pauline, here's your second question:

-Who would you like to help you with that one?

-Jackie, please.

-Nice fish and chips.

-Are we thinking the same?

-Yeah.

-I'm thinking...

-They actually call it Padstein, don't they?

-They do. They do now.

-Cornwall.

-Cornwall, yes.

-I agree with Jackie entirely.

-You're going for Cornwall?

-Cornwall.

As the county in which Padstow is a seaside town.

Let's see if you've got the right place here.

Cornwall it is. Well done.

APPLAUSE

And referred to as Padstein because?

Rick Stein obviously has quite a few outlets there.

Yeah, OK. Well done, Pauline.

2-1 to you. Zhenya, your turn for your third question.

So half of the Think Tank left to help you.

I'm going to ask Diane, please.

I can't think of a series with somebody called Bill.

We have to think of famous couples that's got Bill in it.

-OK.

-A famous TV series.

It's obviously an old TV series...

Well, I think it might be that's been rejuvenated.

It wouldn't be another Happy Valley or something,

where they're bringing back another third part of it, or...?

I've no idea.

I thought initially, something, Bill Sykes, Oliver,

but I really don't watch a lot of telly so...

-OK.

-I'm going to say I'm going to go with you and say Happy Valley.

-I'm sorry.

-I don't know.

All right, you're saying

Happy Valley is the TV series

that Pearl Mackie is going to play Bill in.

Let's see if you're right.

It's Doctor Who.

Doctor Who. Pearl Mackie had been on stage

-in the Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time.

-Right.

She's also played a character in Doctors as well. So,

sorry, Zhenya.

And it's still 2-1 to Pauline.

Here's your next question.

Abi, Len or Lucy to help you here.

I think I'll go with Len, please.

Len, I'm thinking...

Rasputin.

Wouldn't have been one of the Russian royal family?

No, I think it's linked with that.

I'm thinking it's Rasputin.

I'm thinking it's probably fast where you think you are.

It's as good a guess as any.

-Rasputin.

-Rasputin?

-I think we will... Yeah.

You're saying Rasputin

was the figure said to have been poisoned, shot, and finally drowned

in late December, 1916. Let's see if you've got the right person.

Rasputin it is. Well done. APPLAUSE

Rasputin a figure of great influence over the Russian royal family.

And he was said to have been murdered by a group

of concerned Russian nobleman. OK, all right.

3-1 to you, Pauline.

Zhenya, though, you're still in it. Here is your fourth question.

So, you have Lucy and Abi to help you here.

I'm going to go with Lucy.

I was born in 1981, so I wasn't reading much at that time.

I'm trying to think maybe...

maybe broadsheet.

-I'm trying to think.

-I think it's one of the red tops.

-Oh, really?

-I think it's...

-What are the other red tops? The Sun...

-The Sun, The Mirror.

I don't know why I think it's a red top.

You immediately thought broadsheet, did you?

Well, who's had long...

Because that's a considerable stretch as editor.

Think about The Sun, for example,

how long do they have editors in situ for?

OK, so if we do go for a broadsheet, so we've got The Times,

The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian.

The Daily Telegraph I'm not convinced about.

The Times was the first thing that sprung to my mind.

But I do go back to the fact that that was the very early stage

of my life, and I was delivering them by 1994,

but I wasn't reading them, per se. So...

-OK, well.

-I don't want to lead you down the garden path.

I'm thinking about what you said about the long tenure.

So...

I've got The Times or The Guardian.

And I'm going to go for The Times.

I'll cross them tightly for you.

The Times, I'm going to go for.

All right. Zhenya, I have to tell you,

you have to get this answer right.

-I know, or I'm out.

-Or else, Pauline will have won.

So, you're saying Kelvin MacKenzie was the editor of The Times

between 1981 and 1994.

This to stay in the competition,

otherwise Pauline will be today's winner.

Let's see if you're right.

-It was The Sun.

-Oh, no!

Well done, Pauline.

You are today's winner.

-Well done!

-Congratulations.

APPLAUSE

-LUCY:

-I'm so sorry.

-No problem!

-SHE CHUCKLES

They weren't helpful at all!

LAUGHTER

I was doing really well up until they helped!

LAUGHTER

Well, here's the thing, you thought it was a red top,

-and you mentioned The Sun.

-Yeah.

And then you both skipped off it, so there you are.

There you are. Anyway,

and Kelvin MacKenzie was the editor responsible for the famous headline

"Freddie Starr ate my hamster".

Do you remember that? OK, hard luck, Zhenya.

I'm afraid you're not taking anything home.

But you've been a great competitor.

-Thank you very much.

-Thanks so much for being along with us.

And, Pauline, as our winner you'll definitely take home

your prize of £1,600.

Shortly, you'll have the chance to add an extra £1,000

-to your winnings.

-Thank you.

First, though, let's pause to congratulate the Think Tanker

who gave the most correct answers during the show, shall we?

And it was...

..Mark. Well done, Mark.

All right, Pauline. You now have one last chance, then,

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

Well done, you pretty much cruised through the final there, didn't you?

This is the toughest question of the whole show now,

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

If you can achieve what none of them could and give us a right answer,

an extra £1,000 will be yours.

-All right?

-OK.

-Shall we take a look, then, at your Question: Impossible?

Have a think about that,

and we're going to give you a little bit of help.

And take a look at the wrong answers

that the Think Tank gave earlier,

and this will rule some things out.

So here's what they came up with.

Jonathan Ross, Keith Chegwin,

Chris Evans, Ed Sheeran, Fearne Cotton, Geri Halliwell,

Jeremy Clarkson and Tim Peake.

So there are eight names that you can knock off the list.

Who does that leave you with?

I'm thinking...

I may be totally wrong,

but I think it's somebody older,

Rusty.

That's just how I look at that.

I've no idea why, but I'm just going to say Patrick Moore.

-Patrick Moore?

-Yes.

-OK.

-I've no idea.

With no enthusiasm.

UK celebrity whose Twitter name is @rustyrockets.

This for an extra £1,000

to be added to your prize fund.

Let's see if you're right.

It's Russell Brand.

-Oh!

-Russ, Rusty, Rusty Rockets,

12 million followers on Twitter, he has.

Patrick Moore passed away in 2012.

-So you didn't conquer the Question: Impossible.

-No.

Still leaving with £1,600,

so that's going to buy you a meal or two in Italy, isn't it?

-Oh, yes.

-What's your favourite meal?

Meal? Carpaccio.

Lovely. Washed down with...?

-Chianti.

-Chianti, sounds delicious.

All right, well, I hope I bump into you on the road in Italy.

-I hope so!

-All right, thanks very much for joining us.

-Thank you very much.

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's goodbye from them.

-ALL:

-Bye!

-And it's arrivederci from me.

Bye-bye.