0:00:02 > 0:00:06Here are the nine contestants preparing for today's show.
0:00:06 > 0:00:08Only one will win up to £10,000.
0:00:09 > 0:00:15The others will leave with nothing when voted off as the Weakest Link.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Welcome to the Weakest Link.
0:00:32 > 0:00:37Any of the nine people here today could win up to £10,000.
0:00:37 > 0:00:43They've only just met, but to get the prize money, they'll have to work together.
0:00:43 > 0:00:47However, eight will leave with nothing as, round by round,
0:00:47 > 0:00:52we lose the player voted the Weakest Link. Let's meet the team.
0:00:52 > 0:00:58I'm Steve, I'm 37, I come from Guernsey and I'm a commercial insurance broker.
0:00:58 > 0:01:04I'm Clare, I'm 28, from Maidenhead and I'm a software developer.
0:01:04 > 0:01:09I'm Jack, 55, from Devizes in Wiltshire. I'm a magician.
0:01:10 > 0:01:17My name's Jan, I'm 62, I live in Surrey and I'm a part-time civil servant.
0:01:18 > 0:01:22I'm Terry, I'm 40, from Sidcup in Kent, and I'm a fire fighter.
0:01:23 > 0:01:27I'm Gill, I'm 50, from Cardiff, and I'm an English teacher.
0:01:27 > 0:01:33I'm Michael, I'm 34, from Larne in Northern Ireland, and I'm a quality manager.
0:01:33 > 0:01:39I'm Mags, 42, from Mid Calder, and I'm a project manager currently on maternity leave.
0:01:40 > 0:01:45I'm Noel, I'm 22, from St Albans, and I'm a recent graduate.
0:01:47 > 0:01:52OK. Just to remind you, in each round there's £1,000 to be won.
0:01:52 > 0:01:56The fastest way is a chain of nine correct answers.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59Get a question wrong, you break the chain and lose the money.
0:01:59 > 0:02:03Say, "Bank!" before the question and the money is safe.
0:02:03 > 0:02:09Round 1 - three minutes on the clock. We'll start with the person who is first alphabetically - Clare.
0:02:09 > 0:02:16Let's play the Weakest Link. The first question is for £20. Start the clock.
0:02:16 > 0:02:20The word "knife", meaning an item of cutlery, begins with which letter?
0:02:20 > 0:02:26- K.- A sign saying "Quiet, Please" is more likely to be displayed
0:02:26 > 0:02:30in a public library or a boxing ring?
0:02:30 > 0:02:36- Public library.- In motoring, the usual term for a passenger who gives unwanted advice
0:02:36 > 0:02:39to the person behind the wheel is a backseat...?
0:02:39 > 0:02:44- Driver.- What P is the name of the curly hairstyle
0:02:44 > 0:02:49popularised in the 1970s by celebrities such as Kevin Keegan?
0:02:49 > 0:02:53- Perm.- The boys' names Christopher and Christian
0:02:53 > 0:02:57are commonly shortened to which five-letter form?
0:02:57 > 0:03:05- Chris.- In art, a broad decorated horizontal band on a wall is a frieze or a defrost?
0:03:05 > 0:03:11- A frieze.- In the country, large rocks in a stream that can be used for crossing to the other side
0:03:11 > 0:03:14are known by the alliterative name stepping what?
0:03:14 > 0:03:18- Stones.- Correct.- Bank!
0:03:18 > 0:03:24Which red gem stone is the birth stone of July and marks a 40th wedding anniversary?
0:03:24 > 0:03:28- Ruby.- In maths, what is 63 plus 7?
0:03:28 > 0:03:32- 70.- At the time of their first UK number one single,
0:03:32 > 0:03:37the members of Take That were called Jason, Gary, Mark, Howard and what?
0:03:42 > 0:03:45- Pass.- Robbie.
0:03:45 > 0:03:51What's the three-letter name for a type of liquid soap typically used in the shower?
0:03:51 > 0:03:56- Gel.- In a 2008 survey by a British wildlife magazine,
0:03:56 > 0:04:00which animal was voted favourite mammal - rat or otter?
0:04:00 > 0:04:07- Otter.- In childhood torments, twisting the skin of someone's arm in opposite directions
0:04:07 > 0:04:10to inflict pain is a Chinese what?
0:04:10 > 0:04:16- Burn.- What G precedes Year in the name for a break from formal education
0:04:16 > 0:04:19taken between school and college?
0:04:19 > 0:04:25- Gap.- In TV, the title of which music programme that ran from 1964 to 2006
0:04:25 > 0:04:29was commonly abbreviated to TOTP?
0:04:29 > 0:04:36- Top of the Pops.- Which type of oven is named after the type of electromagnetic radiation
0:04:36 > 0:04:39that it uses to cook food?
0:04:39 > 0:04:42- Microwave.- Correct.- Bank!
0:04:42 > 0:04:46OK, you've reached and banked your £1,000 target.
0:04:46 > 0:04:50That money will go through, but one of you will not.
0:04:50 > 0:04:54Who thinks Lucozade is a concert for charity?
0:04:54 > 0:05:00Who couldn't get a job in a workhouse? Time to vote off the Weakest Link.
0:05:00 > 0:05:04In an impressive first round, Mags is the Strongest Link.
0:05:04 > 0:05:12The Weakest Link statistically is Clare, but who will the players vote off at this early stage?
0:05:12 > 0:05:17Voting over. It's time to reveal who you think is the Weakest Link.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19Clare.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21- Noel.- Clare.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25- Clare.- Clare.
0:05:25 > 0:05:27Clare.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31- Clare.- Clare.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33Clare.
0:05:36 > 0:05:41- So, Gill, what do you do? - An English teacher.- Where?
0:05:41 > 0:05:47- In Cardiff.- Oh. To Welsh people. - No, to foreigners. People from all over the world.
0:05:47 > 0:05:51- They go to Cardiff?- They do. - Are you qualified?- I am.- How?
0:05:51 > 0:05:56- I've got a degree.- Which university? - I went to Oxford.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59- And how well did you do?- All right.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02- What?- I got a Third, Anne. - A Third?- Yes.
0:06:02 > 0:06:07- Do you lead a wild life in Cardiff? - Not really, no.
0:06:07 > 0:06:13- I'm guessing you're single.- I am. - And not dating? - No, not interested.
0:06:13 > 0:06:19- Really?- Really.- So what do you do? Do you live alone? - No, I live with my mother.- Yes.
0:06:19 > 0:06:25- So you live with your mother in Cardiff...- Yes. - ..and you don't date.
0:06:25 > 0:06:31No. I had my own language school for 13 years and didn't have time.
0:06:31 > 0:06:36- Doesn't your mother try to make you date?- Em, she does. And my sister and my friends.
0:06:36 > 0:06:43- What sort of man would your mother like you to marry?- Em... - Or has she given up?- I think so.
0:06:43 > 0:06:48- Why Clare?- Unfortunately, Clare got a question wrong.
0:06:48 > 0:06:53- What do you do, Noel?- Me? - Well, who else? Hang on a second.
0:06:53 > 0:06:57- Just have a look round quickly. It won't take you long.- OK.
0:06:57 > 0:07:01- Is there anyone else called Noel? - Em, no.- No.
0:07:01 > 0:07:06- So why do you have to say, "Me?"? - Why not?- What do you do, Noel?
0:07:06 > 0:07:13- Em, I graduated from university recently.- How long have you been unemployed?- Unemployed?
0:07:13 > 0:07:18- Two months.- Have you started looking for a job?- I have, yeah.
0:07:18 > 0:07:25I'm planning on maybe doing a bit of travelling in January, or something, so finding a job for a few months...
0:07:25 > 0:07:32- Have you got a bit of ink on your chin?- I hope not.- What is it? - Dunno. Something that grew there.
0:07:32 > 0:07:36- Oh, it's a little something! Does that go with the hairdo?- I hope so.
0:07:36 > 0:07:40- Have you any skills? - Well, I've got a degree.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43- No, have you any skills?- Oh, skills!
0:07:43 > 0:07:47I've done a bit of acting, I used to sing...
0:07:47 > 0:07:50- You can sing?- Yeah. I hope so.
0:07:50 > 0:07:54- You hope you can sing?- Yeah. - Are you in a band?- No.
0:07:54 > 0:07:59- Have you been in a band?- Sort of. - Sort of. A band called what?
0:07:59 > 0:08:06- We called ourselves Fortune. - What did you sing?- Songs. - OK. Put your board down.
0:08:06 > 0:08:14- Let's hear a Fortune song. - # Now we've come to the end of the road
0:08:14 > 0:08:18# Still I can't let you go
0:08:18 > 0:08:24# It's unnatural You belong to me And I belong to you. #
0:08:24 > 0:08:30- Did you write the lyrics? - A very well-known band wrote that. Boyz II Men.
0:08:30 > 0:08:35- Go back behind your podium. - Thank you.- Board up.- OK.
0:08:35 > 0:08:40- Why Clare?- She got a question wrong, which was about a boy band as well.
0:08:40 > 0:08:47- Where are you from, Jack? - I live in Devizes in Wiltshire. Originally from South Africa.
0:08:47 > 0:08:53- And what do you do?- I'm a magician. - You were a magician in South Africa? - Yes.- Fabulous.
0:08:53 > 0:08:59- What sort of tricks can you do? - I entertain children with magic, balloons and puppets.
0:08:59 > 0:09:05I also do adult table magic during a meal and entertain with close-up magic.
0:09:05 > 0:09:13- Yeah.- I do a lot of high-profile dinner parties.- What sad people have dinner parties with a magician?
0:09:13 > 0:09:18- Plenty.- What's your best trick? - The best trick is where I turn paper into money.
0:09:18 > 0:09:24- What sort of paper? - I can take an old Lottery ticket and turn it into cash.
0:09:24 > 0:09:29- How much cash?- I don't like to be too greedy, so usually about £20.
0:09:29 > 0:09:37- What's the use of £20? You want £3 million. Not much of a magician! - I can do it a lot of times.
0:09:37 > 0:09:41- Why Clare?- Sadly, Clare was the only one to get a question wrong.
0:09:41 > 0:09:45Clare, you are the Weakest Link. Goodbye.
0:09:50 > 0:09:57The question I got wrong was about Take That. I really should have known the answer, being a girl,
0:09:57 > 0:10:01but I couldn't pluck it out of the air with Anne glaring at me.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07Round 2. In the bank, £1,000. We take 10 seconds off.
0:10:07 > 0:10:13We'll start with the Strongest Link, Mags. Let's play the Weakest Link. Start the clock.
0:10:13 > 0:10:19According to the lyrics of a song from Mary Poppins, a spoonful of what helps the medicine go down?
0:10:19 > 0:10:25- Sugar.- In astronomy, which body experiences the greater extremes of surface temperature -
0:10:25 > 0:10:28the Earth or the Moon?
0:10:28 > 0:10:30- Earth.- The Moon.
0:10:30 > 0:10:38The supermodel born in the German town of Rheinberg in 1970 is known as Claudia who?
0:10:38 > 0:10:44- Schiffer.- What T is the name for many species of large hairy spider
0:10:44 > 0:10:49that despite being mildly venomous have become popular as pets?
0:10:49 > 0:10:55- Tarantula.- Which five-letter word meaning short is the document used by a solicitor
0:10:55 > 0:10:58to instruct a barrister?
0:10:58 > 0:11:04- Brief. - In entertainment, Andrew Castle, who began presenting GMTV in 2000,
0:11:04 > 0:11:07represented Britain in which sport?
0:11:07 > 0:11:14- Tennis.- Which of these is a variety of potato - maris piper or maris drummer?
0:11:14 > 0:11:18- Maris piper.- Which term, originally from French,
0:11:18 > 0:11:24is commonly used in English to refer to a person who is engaged to be married?
0:11:25 > 0:11:32- Fiance.- Correct.- Bank! - The 1999 film in which Brad Pitt and Edward Norton set up
0:11:32 > 0:11:36a secret combat society is entitled Fight what?
0:11:36 > 0:11:42- Club.- What G is the informal three-letter American name for petrol?
0:11:42 > 0:11:48- Gas.- In royal customs, which ceremony is scheduled to take place at Buckingham Palace
0:11:48 > 0:11:52every day during the summer at 11.30?
0:11:52 > 0:11:58- Trooping the colour.- Changing of the guard. Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes and Juliette Lewis
0:11:58 > 0:12:02have all publicly embraced the Church of what?
0:12:02 > 0:12:07- Scientology.- According to the title of a best-selling 1982 book,
0:12:07 > 0:12:11which sort of people don't eat quiche - real men or vegetarians?
0:12:11 > 0:12:17- Real men.- Which term is used for the two imaginary circles on the Earth's surface
0:12:17 > 0:12:20known as Cancer and Capricorn?
0:12:20 > 0:12:24- Tropics.- In Indian restaurants, what B is a style of dish
0:12:24 > 0:12:28once described as "born in Birmingham, unheard of in India"?
0:12:28 > 0:12:33- Balti.- The veteran American singer-songwriter
0:12:33 > 0:12:38who had a UK number one album in 2008 entitled Home Before Dark is Neil who?
0:12:38 > 0:12:46- Diamond.- In hospital terminology, in the abbreviations A&E and ER, the letter E stands for which word?
0:12:46 > 0:12:50- Emergency.- Correct.- Bank! - In the past it was said
0:12:50 > 0:12:54that unmarried couples checked in to hotels as Mr and Mrs who?
0:12:54 > 0:13:02- Smith.- In Ancient Greece and Rome, what O was the name given to a holy place such as Delphi
0:13:02 > 0:13:05where a god was believed...
0:13:06 > 0:13:11Time's up. You won £900. Who stopped you getting to £1,000?
0:13:11 > 0:13:17Who's the star of Strictly Come Off It? Who thinks Dragons' Den is a Welsh wildlife programme?
0:13:17 > 0:13:20Time to vote off the Weakest Link.
0:13:21 > 0:13:25Mags is the Strongest Link as she answered the most correctly.
0:13:25 > 0:13:30Statistically, Steve is the Weakest Link, but will the team notice that?
0:13:31 > 0:13:36Voting over. It's time to reveal who you think is the Weakest Link.
0:13:36 > 0:13:38Noel.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42- Steve.- Steve.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45- Steve.- Noel.
0:13:45 > 0:13:47Noel.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49Noel.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51Steve.
0:13:51 > 0:13:56We have a tie, team. Steve and Noel have four votes each.
0:13:56 > 0:14:02- Steve, what do you do? - I'm an insurance broker. - Where?- In Guernsey.
0:14:02 > 0:14:08- What do you insure?- Anything commercial.- Are you tax dodging? - No, I pay my income tax.
0:14:08 > 0:14:12- What percentage of your income goes on income tax?- 20p in the pound.
0:14:12 > 0:14:17- Is that why you live there?- It's one benefit, but I was born there.
0:14:17 > 0:14:21- Are you a typical insurance broker? - What do you mean by typical?
0:14:21 > 0:14:27- Think you're quite flash with a flash car?- I've not got a Ferrari, but I'm working on it!
0:14:27 > 0:14:30What sad imitation of a Ferrari have you got?
0:14:30 > 0:14:36- A Hyundai.- Has it got the spoiler on the back?- It has.- Of course. What does the spoiler do?
0:14:36 > 0:14:43- Makes it look flash.- Why Noel? - Because he banked too early.- Did he? - In my view, anyway.- So, Noel...
0:14:43 > 0:14:49- Hi, Anne.- You know I'm talking to you now.- I do.
0:14:49 > 0:14:55- What's all this posing with the board?- We're all doing it. - No, nobody else is posing...
0:14:55 > 0:15:01- in an idiot way like you.- Thanks(!) I just thought I was holding my board so you could see it well.
0:15:01 > 0:15:08- You're not modelling?- Not trying to. - Can you model?- I don't know. What are you getting at?- Nothing.
0:15:08 > 0:15:12- Just put your board down. - Oh, here we go...- I'm sorry?
0:15:12 > 0:15:16- Come on, then. - What did you say to me?- Come on.
0:15:16 > 0:15:21- What does that mean?- Bring it on. - Turn round.
0:15:21 > 0:15:27- That is wonderful.- Is it better? - Like a vanilla whip! How do you get your hair looking like that?
0:15:27 > 0:15:31- Did your mummy do it for you? - Of course not.
0:15:31 > 0:15:36- Put your board up. Why Steve? - Because he got a question wrong.
0:15:36 > 0:15:41- The Strongest Link was Mags. She decides. What do you do, Mags? - I work in a bank.
0:15:41 > 0:15:47- But you're on maternity leave.- I am. - Which bank is it? - Royal Bank of Scotland.
0:15:47 > 0:15:53- Will there be a job when you get back?- I'm hoping so!- You've been off how long?- Four months, Anne.
0:15:53 > 0:15:58- When will you be going back?- Next year.- So how much maternity leave?
0:15:58 > 0:16:02- A year.- A year. No wonder they're in bad straits.
0:16:02 > 0:16:06- Why Noel?- He got a question wrong.
0:16:06 > 0:16:12- OK, you've got a choice now. Stick with Noel or move on to Steve. - I think I'll stick with Noel.
0:16:12 > 0:16:16Noel, you are the Weakest Link. Goodbye.
0:16:23 > 0:16:27Anne had a dig at my hair, calling it a vanilla whip,
0:16:27 > 0:16:33but I think she should look at her dead squirrel before she looks at mine.
0:16:35 > 0:16:40Round 3. In the bank, £1,900. Another 10 seconds off.
0:16:40 > 0:16:46We'll start with Mags. Let's play the Weakest Link. Start the clock.
0:16:46 > 0:16:53Crimes such as fraud that require intellectual effort, but no violence are described as white what?
0:16:53 > 0:17:01- Pass.- Collar. A Celtic dance in which participants stand face to face is a bobbin or a reel?
0:17:02 > 0:17:09- A reel.- The US TV sitcom about four aliens who arrive on Earth and assume the surname Solomon
0:17:09 > 0:17:11was Third Rock From the what?
0:17:11 > 0:17:16- Sun.- In chess, which piece can move only diagonally?
0:17:18 > 0:17:24- The bishop.- In a 2004 film based on a comic book and its 2008 sequel,
0:17:24 > 0:17:28what H is the name of the red demon character played by Ron Perlman?
0:17:28 > 0:17:36- Pass.- Hellboy. The chef Gordon Ramsay was once briefly a professional footballer for which Scottish club?
0:17:36 > 0:17:42- Rangers.- The story of which type of catastrophic weather event appears in the Bible,
0:17:42 > 0:17:46the Koran and Ancient Sumerian legend?
0:17:48 > 0:17:54- Sorry. Can you repeat that? - Which catastrophic weather event appears in the Bible, the Koran
0:17:54 > 0:17:56and Ancient Sumerian legend?
0:17:56 > 0:17:59- Plague?- Flood.
0:17:59 > 0:18:03Scurvy is a disease caused by a lack of which vitamin?
0:18:03 > 0:18:09- C.- Before they anglicised their original surname,
0:18:09 > 0:18:13the Mountbatten family were called Battenberg or Pavlova?
0:18:13 > 0:18:16- Battenberg.- Correct. - Bank!
0:18:16 > 0:18:22Which term for an item of correspondence also means a basic element making up a word?
0:18:26 > 0:18:28- Brief.- Letter.
0:18:28 > 0:18:35In the novel by Bram Stoker, Dracula is capable of changing himself into which flying creature?
0:18:35 > 0:18:43- Bat.- What D is the term used for the result when one number is subtracted from another?
0:18:43 > 0:18:45- Divide.- Difference.
0:18:45 > 0:18:52For several years the comedian Julian Clary was accompanied onstage by his pet, Fanny the what?
0:18:52 > 0:18:57- Wonderdog.- According to the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung,
0:18:57 > 0:19:01the two main personality types are the introvert and which other?
0:19:01 > 0:19:07- Extrovert.- Correct.- Bank! - The 2008 UK number one single entitled Dance With Me
0:19:07 > 0:19:10is by which British rapper?
0:19:11 > 0:19:14- Pass.- Dizzee Rascal.
0:19:14 > 0:19:20What A is a stone fruit with soft, juicy, orange yellow flesh which can be made into jam?
0:19:21 > 0:19:26- Apricot.- Correct. In horse racing, colts called...
0:19:28 > 0:19:33Time's up. You won £100. Whose thinking is shrinking?
0:19:33 > 0:19:36Time to vote off the Weakest Link.
0:19:39 > 0:19:43With no correct answers, Terry is the Weakest Link.
0:19:43 > 0:19:49Steve is, statistically, the Strongest Link, but will the votes follow the facts?
0:19:49 > 0:19:54Voting over. It's time to reveal who you think is the Weakest Link.
0:19:54 > 0:19:56Terry.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59Mags.
0:19:59 > 0:20:02- Mags.- Michael.
0:20:02 > 0:20:03Terry.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05Mags.
0:20:05 > 0:20:07Terry.
0:20:11 > 0:20:15Another tie, team. Terry and Mags, three votes each.
0:20:15 > 0:20:22- Michael...- Hello, Anne.- The wrong person has the hat on. It would have covered Noel's vanilla whip.
0:20:22 > 0:20:28- Maybe.- Have you got a vanilla whip? - I don't.- OK. Put your board down.
0:20:28 > 0:20:30Let's see you without your hat.
0:20:30 > 0:20:34- Oh, now we know why you've got a hat on!- Yes, you do.
0:20:34 > 0:20:39- Put your hat back on.- Thank you. - Do you always wear a hat?- A lot.
0:20:39 > 0:20:44- What do you do?- Quality manager in a construction laboratory.
0:20:44 > 0:20:48- What do you have to do for that? - We go around building sites
0:20:48 > 0:20:53and test all the materials used to build the buildings.
0:20:53 > 0:20:59- What building are you testing now? - Possibly the biggest contract is the Obel Building.
0:20:59 > 0:21:03- The what?- Obel Building. - The Obel Building?- Yes.
0:21:03 > 0:21:09- Belfast's tallest building. - Will you be able to see the whole of Belfast from it?- That's the theory.
0:21:09 > 0:21:14- Would anyone want to?- Belfast's a very up and coming city.- Why Mags?
0:21:14 > 0:21:19We all had a bad round, but she got a couple wrong there.
0:21:19 > 0:21:25- Gill, can your mother and you not go out double dating? - I'm really not interested, Anne.
0:21:25 > 0:21:29Although one of her friends has invited me on a cruise.
0:21:29 > 0:21:35- You're going cruising?- I am. - Why Terry?- I had nothing to bank when it came to my turn.
0:21:35 > 0:21:40The Strongest Link was Steve so he gets to decide. Why have you voted for Terry?
0:21:40 > 0:21:48He struggled, got a couple wrong and Mags was equally bad, but she saved me the last time.
0:21:48 > 0:21:54- So you'll stick with Terry?- I am. - Terry, you are the Weakest Link. Goodbye.
0:21:59 > 0:22:04I was expecting to win today and win about £5,000.
0:22:04 > 0:22:09I've unfortunately already spent the money, and need to talk to the wife.
0:22:12 > 0:22:16Round 4. You've won £2,000. Another 10 seconds off.
0:22:16 > 0:22:22We'll start with Steve. Let's play the Weakest Link. Start the clock.
0:22:23 > 0:22:28The name of which pair of facial features is also a slang term for the buttocks?
0:22:28 > 0:22:34- Cheeks.- The vocal style usually involving four men singing in close harmony
0:22:34 > 0:22:38without musical accompaniment is sweatshop or barbershop?
0:22:38 > 0:22:43- Barbershop.- In politics, which job title for a childcare expert
0:22:43 > 0:22:48is often applied to a state that interferes in citizens' lives?
0:22:48 > 0:22:55- Nanny.- The 1998 action adventure film that starred Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins
0:22:55 > 0:22:58was called The Mask of whom?
0:22:58 > 0:23:06- Zorro.- When the name of a writer is unknown, it is usually represented by which four-letter abbreviation?
0:23:06 > 0:23:13- Anon.- What V is the term for a plantation where grapes are grown for wine making?
0:23:13 > 0:23:20- Vineyard.- In the British Army in wartime, the rank immediately above General is Field what?
0:23:20 > 0:23:24- Marshal.- Correct. - Bank!
0:23:24 > 0:23:28Inhabitants of which Egyptian city are known as Cairines?
0:23:28 > 0:23:36- Cairo.- In 1961, the Soviet spacecraft called Vostok 1 carried the first what to go into orbit -
0:23:36 > 0:23:39man or monkey?
0:23:39 > 0:23:41- Monkey.- Man.
0:23:41 > 0:23:47The pasta name vermicelli translates into English as little what?
0:23:47 > 0:23:52- Worms.- In the TV sitcom Father Ted, the housekeeper with the catchphrase,
0:23:52 > 0:23:56"Have a cup of tea. Go on, go on, go on," was Mrs what?
0:23:56 > 0:24:03- Doyle.- The part of a drum kit called a high hat consists of a pair of which percussion instruments?
0:24:03 > 0:24:06- Cymbals.- Correct.- Bank!
0:24:06 > 0:24:12What name is given to followers of a Jamaican-based religious movement based on the ideas of Marcus Garvey?
0:24:12 > 0:24:18- Don't know.- Rastafarian. On the speaking clock, what P is the word meaning exactly
0:24:18 > 0:24:22that is used to describe what the time will be at each new minute?
0:24:22 > 0:24:30- Could you repeat the question? - On the speaking clock, what P is the word meaning exactly that is used?
0:24:30 > 0:24:36- Precisely.- What's the four-letter name of the mammal similar to the rabbit,
0:24:36 > 0:24:39but with long ears with black tips?
0:24:39 > 0:24:46- Hare.- According to Guinness World Records, the oldest brand in Britain is tinned syrup or instant coffee?
0:24:46 > 0:24:52- Tinned syrup.- Correct.- Bank! - The abbreviation OHP...
0:24:54 > 0:25:01Time's up. You won £800. Who thinks NATO is a discount supermarket? Time to vote off the Weakest Link.
0:25:03 > 0:25:07According to the statistics, Jack is the Strongest Link.
0:25:07 > 0:25:11The Weakest Link is Jan, but can she survive the vote?
0:25:13 > 0:25:18Voting over. It's time to reveal who you think is the Weakest Link.
0:25:18 > 0:25:19Jan.
0:25:20 > 0:25:23- Jan.- Steve.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26Steve.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28Steve.
0:25:29 > 0:25:31Jan.
0:25:31 > 0:25:36Another tie, team. Steve and Jan - three votes each.
0:25:36 > 0:25:43- What do you do, Jan?- I'm a civil servant.- How old are you?- 62. - Are you full-time?- Part-time now.
0:25:43 > 0:25:51- You could be a part-time Camilla Parker Bowles lookalike.- I was here first. She looks like me.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53- Where do you work?- In a prison.
0:25:53 > 0:25:59So do you put the sensitive material onto the discs or do you take the discs on the train to lose them?
0:25:59 > 0:26:04- I don't do any of that.- What do you do?- I work for Learning and Skills,
0:26:04 > 0:26:08- education and training for prisoners.- Where is this prison?
0:26:08 > 0:26:14- In Surrey.- And they're retraining for life outside?- We hope so.
0:26:14 > 0:26:23- Tunnel digging? Pole vaulting? - No, no...- Hang gliding? - That would help them get outside.
0:26:23 > 0:26:27- They don't want to escape, do they? - No, it's much too comfortable.
0:26:27 > 0:26:33- Probably the only time they're going to have a Surrey postcode. - For most, yes.- Why Steve?
0:26:33 > 0:26:39- I thought he might have been the Weakest Link.- Steve, why Jan? - She got a question wrong.
0:26:39 > 0:26:45- I can't vote for myself. - The Strongest Link was the David Copperfield of Devizes,
0:26:45 > 0:26:51- so he gets to decide. Why Jan? - Her and Steve were the only two who got one wrong.
0:26:51 > 0:26:58- And I just had to quickly make a decision.- Do you want to stick with Jan or move to Steve?
0:26:58 > 0:27:05I promised to play this game fairly if I ever came on, so I think I have to stick with my choice.
0:27:05 > 0:27:10- Jan's a lovely lady...- Oh, stop. Just say Jan.- I do feel bad.
0:27:10 > 0:27:13- Know what? I don't care. Just say Jan.- Jan.
0:27:13 > 0:27:21So much quicker when people don't try to be nice. Jan, you are the Weakest Link. Goodbye.
0:27:29 > 0:27:34Anne said that I was quite old, but I think she's older than me
0:27:34 > 0:27:39and she said I look like Camilla Parker Bowles. That's not a bad way to look.
0:27:42 > 0:27:46Round 5. Your total is £2,800. Another 10 seconds off.
0:27:46 > 0:27:53We'll start with Jack. Let's play the Weakest Link. Start the clock.
0:27:53 > 0:28:00The Irish singer and charity campaigner whose names are Robert Frederick Zenon has what surname?
0:28:03 > 0:28:06- Bob Geldof. Geldof.- I'll accept.
0:28:06 > 0:28:13What B is a heavy fabric with a raised, often floral design introduced in the weaving process?
0:28:13 > 0:28:18- Brocade.- In the opening of every episode of a 1970s TV series,
0:28:18 > 0:28:24a character played by James Garner introduced himself on an answer phone as Jim who?
0:28:28 > 0:28:30- Maverick.- Rockford.
0:28:30 > 0:28:36In the 16th century, William Tyndale translated the New Testament from Greek into which language?
0:28:36 > 0:28:38- English.- I'll accept.
0:28:38 > 0:28:44A disposable battery produces approximately what percentage of the power used
0:28:44 > 0:28:46in its manufacture - 2 or 92?
0:28:46 > 0:28:53- 92.- 2. In the War of the Roses, the red rose was the symbol of the royal house
0:28:53 > 0:28:56that shares its name with which English city?
0:28:56 > 0:29:03- York.- Lancaster. Published in 1995, the first book in the Philip Pullman trilogy His Dark Materials
0:29:03 > 0:29:05was called Northern what?
0:29:05 > 0:29:11- Lights.- What G is the term used by butchers for the internal organs of poultry,
0:29:11 > 0:29:15including the heart, liver and kidneys, that are sometimes sold?
0:29:15 > 0:29:21- Gizzard?- Giblets. The 1970s films American Graffiti and Star Wars
0:29:21 > 0:29:24were both directed by George who?
0:29:26 > 0:29:28- Pass.- Lucas.
0:29:28 > 0:29:34The pick used to pluck the strings of a guitar is known as a spectrum or plectrum?
0:29:34 > 0:29:40- Plectrum.- In maths, if one side of a right-angle triangle measures three centimetres
0:29:40 > 0:29:45and another is four centimetres, how many centimetres is its longest side?
0:29:45 > 0:29:52- 12.- 5. In Greek mythology, the god of forests, depicted as part-man, part-goat, had what name?
0:29:52 > 0:30:00- Pan.- Correct.- Bank.- In the UK, which digit is turned up to indicate approval and down for disapproval?
0:30:00 > 0:30:07- Thumb.- Bank!- The US pioneer who encouraged settlers to grow orchards in the 1800s
0:30:07 > 0:30:11had what nickname - Jimmy Peachstone or Johnny Appleseed?
0:30:11 > 0:30:15- Johnny Appleseed. - Correct.- Bank!- Time's up.
0:30:15 > 0:30:19Your bank was in time. You got £60.
0:30:19 > 0:30:25Who deserves early release for bad behaviour? Who's grasping at the short straw?
0:30:25 > 0:30:28Time to vote off the Weakest Link.
0:30:28 > 0:30:32With all her answers right, Gill is the Strongest Link.
0:30:32 > 0:30:39Jack is, statistically, the Weakest Link, but how will the votes go?
0:30:39 > 0:30:44Voting over. It's time to reveal who you think is the Weakest Link.
0:30:44 > 0:30:45Michael.
0:30:45 > 0:30:47Michael.
0:30:48 > 0:30:51- Michael.- Jack.
0:30:52 > 0:30:54Jack.
0:30:57 > 0:31:03- Gill, why Michael?- I just remember the questions he had wrong, so I voted for him.
0:31:03 > 0:31:10- Steve, why Michael?- He had a shocker.- He wasn't the worst, actually, as he banked £20.
0:31:10 > 0:31:14Our magician friend didn't bank anything, but it's votes that count.
0:31:14 > 0:31:18Michael, you are the Weakest Link. Goodbye.
0:31:22 > 0:31:28I wanted to get to the end, win the money, help with wedding plans and stuff.
0:31:28 > 0:31:36But as long as I didn't go out in the first round, I can feel reasonably proud of myself.
0:31:38 > 0:31:43Round 6. In the bank, £2,860. Another 10 seconds off the time.
0:31:43 > 0:31:49We'll start with Gill. Let's play the Weakest Link. Start the clock.
0:31:50 > 0:31:55Which term meaning socially awkward is also the French for left?
0:31:55 > 0:32:01- Gauche.- In a 1901 novel by Rudyard Kipling set in British India,
0:32:01 > 0:32:06the title character is known by what three-letter name?
0:32:06 > 0:32:07- Pass.- Kim.
0:32:07 > 0:32:14What C is the technical name for the formation of water droplets in a steamy bathroom?
0:32:15 > 0:32:18- Crystals?- Condensation.
0:32:18 > 0:32:23In a famous incident in 1980s politics, Edwina Currie resigned as a Minister
0:32:23 > 0:32:27over comments she had made about which foodstuff?
0:32:27 > 0:32:34- Eggs.- A person admitted to Casualty with injuries referred to as fractures of the tib and fib
0:32:34 > 0:32:36has broken bones in which limb?
0:32:36 > 0:32:39- Leg.- Correct. - Bank!
0:32:39 > 0:32:44The golf course in Lancashire that hosted the 2008 Open is Royal what?
0:32:44 > 0:32:50- Birkdale?- Correct. In Dad's Army, the put down regularly used by Captain Mainwaring
0:32:50 > 0:32:53was, "You stupid..." what?
0:32:53 > 0:32:59- Boy.- What T is the name of the African country that is closest, as the crow flies,
0:32:59 > 0:33:02to the island of Sicily?
0:33:08 > 0:33:11- Tangier.- Tunisia.
0:33:11 > 0:33:17Which song made famous by The Doors begins with the line, "You know that it would be untrue"?
0:33:24 > 0:33:28- Set my light on fire... - Light My Fire.
0:33:28 > 0:33:34According to the Gospel of St Matthew, Judas received 30 pieces of what?
0:33:34 > 0:33:40- Gold.- Silver. Which word that means upside down is used to describe
0:33:40 > 0:33:44an upturned comma above the letter line which introduces a quotation?
0:33:46 > 0:33:48- Speech marks.- Inverted.
0:33:48 > 0:33:55When a space rocket is launched, what I is the word for the firing of the motor at lift off?
0:33:55 > 0:33:59- Ignition.- Correct.- Bank. - In drinks, the annual...
0:34:01 > 0:34:07Time's up. You won £70. But have you had your fill of Gill?
0:34:07 > 0:34:12Do you have a claim against Steve? Is Jack "sleight" of talent? Should Mags take her leave?
0:34:12 > 0:34:15Time to vote off the Weakest Link.
0:34:16 > 0:34:19Gill is the Strongest Link.
0:34:19 > 0:34:23The Weakest Link is Steve, but whose game is over?
0:34:24 > 0:34:29Voting over. It's time to reveal who you think is the Weakest Link.
0:34:29 > 0:34:31Gill.
0:34:31 > 0:34:33Steve.
0:34:34 > 0:34:36Mags.
0:34:37 > 0:34:39Steve.
0:34:42 > 0:34:48- Jack, why Steve? - Trying to be fair, he was the only one who got two questions wrong.
0:34:48 > 0:34:52- Is that right, Mags?- No.- Did someone else get two questions wrong?
0:34:52 > 0:34:56- I think I did as well, Anne. - You did. Why Steve?
0:34:56 > 0:35:01I couldn't vote for me. I had to vote for someone else.
0:35:01 > 0:35:06You actually banked £50. Steve, you are the Weakest Link. Goodbye.
0:35:11 > 0:35:15The Walk of Shame is not as bad as it's perceived on the TV screen.
0:35:15 > 0:35:20If you are the Weakest Link, you have to do it. Live with it.
0:35:23 > 0:35:27Round 7. You've won £2,930. Another 10 seconds off.
0:35:27 > 0:35:34We'll start with Gill. Let's play the Weakest Link. Start the clock.
0:35:35 > 0:35:41The early Hollywood star Lon Chaney Senior was The Man of how many Faces?
0:35:41 > 0:35:43- 100.- 1,000.
0:35:43 > 0:35:49In the human body, bronchioles are small tubes located within which pair of organs?
0:35:49 > 0:35:54- Lungs.- In 1950s books, A King's Story and The Heart Has Its Reasons
0:35:54 > 0:35:59were the autobiographies of the Duke and Duchess of where?
0:35:59 > 0:36:01- York.- Windsor.
0:36:01 > 0:36:06In football, simulating a foul by falling to the ground in an exaggerated way
0:36:06 > 0:36:10is usually known by the name of which aquatic activity?
0:36:10 > 0:36:12- Dive?- I'll accept.
0:36:12 > 0:36:18- Bank.- An old saying relating rainfall to tree leaves goes, "Oak before ash, in for a splash,
0:36:18 > 0:36:21"ash before oak, in for a..."?
0:36:21 > 0:36:28- Soak.- Correct. The gas methane is a compound of hydrogen and which other element?
0:36:28 > 0:36:30- Oxygen.- Carbon.
0:36:30 > 0:36:36The TV presenter who rose to fame as a Page Three model in the 1990s is Melinda who?
0:36:36 > 0:36:39- Messenger.- Correct. - Bank!
0:36:39 > 0:36:46In Beijing, what is the large public square that became renowned in 1989 as a site of mass demonstrations?
0:36:48 > 0:36:55- Ho Chi Minh...- Tiananmen. In rhymes, Solomon Grundy and a child that is described as fair of face
0:36:55 > 0:36:59were both born on which day of the week?
0:36:59 > 0:37:02- Tuesday.- Monday.
0:37:02 > 0:37:08The epidemic known as the Black Death occurred in which century?
0:37:08 > 0:37:11- 14th?- Correct. - Bank.
0:37:11 > 0:37:17In the US, what suspension bridge crosses the strait linking San Francisco Bay to the Pacific?
0:37:17 > 0:37:23- Golden Gate Bridge?- Correct. Plays such as Out of Order and Run For Your Wife
0:37:23 > 0:37:26are known as bedroom what?
0:37:26 > 0:37:29- Farce.- Correct.- Bank!
0:37:29 > 0:37:33Used as a garnish for soup, croutons are made from what?
0:37:33 > 0:37:35- Bread.- Correct. - Bank!
0:37:38 > 0:37:42Time's up. You won £130. In Round 8, you get to treble what you bank.
0:37:42 > 0:37:49Think very carefully. You can raise that amount considerably. Time to vote off the Weakest Link.
0:37:49 > 0:37:54For the third round in a row, Gill is the Strongest Link.
0:37:54 > 0:38:00Statistically, the Weakest Link is Jack, but who will be taking the final Walk of Shame?
0:38:01 > 0:38:06Voting over. It's time to reveal who you think is the Weakest Link.
0:38:06 > 0:38:08Mags.
0:38:10 > 0:38:12Jack.
0:38:13 > 0:38:15Jack.
0:38:18 > 0:38:24- Gill, why Jack?- I think he was the Weakest Link that time. I didn't have any money to bank.
0:38:24 > 0:38:28- You scraped through again, Mags. Why Jack?- We didn't have a good round.
0:38:28 > 0:38:33He was the worst player. Jack, you are the Weakest Link. Goodbye.
0:38:39 > 0:38:45As I'm a magician, if Anne was my assistant, it would be expected for me to saw her in half.
0:38:45 > 0:38:50I'd go one better than that and make her disappear completely!
0:38:50 > 0:38:56Round 8. In the bank, £3,060. In this round, 90 seconds. Whatever you win is trebled.
0:38:56 > 0:39:03We'll start with Gill. Let's play the Weakest Link. Start the clock.
0:39:03 > 0:39:10The kind of artificial Christmas tree with flickering coloured lights uses technology called fibre what?
0:39:10 > 0:39:17- Optic.- I'll accept. Which slang term for a person who runs errands sounds like a small rodent?
0:39:17 > 0:39:24- Gopher.- In TV, which detective, played by John Nettles in Midsomer Murders,
0:39:24 > 0:39:28has been assisted by partners named Troy, Scott and Jones?
0:39:30 > 0:39:32- Pass.- Tom Barnaby.
0:39:32 > 0:39:35What is 71 multiplied by 2?
0:39:35 > 0:39:43- 142.- Which term means the shedding of feathers by birds as part of the process of renewing them?
0:39:46 > 0:39:52- Moulting.- Bank!- In the name of the body set up in 1940 to support resistance in Occupied Europe,
0:39:52 > 0:39:56the letters SOE stood for Special Operations what?
0:39:56 > 0:39:58- Pass.- Executive.
0:39:58 > 0:40:05- Matador and Muggins are names of variations of which game played with tiles?- Ludo.
0:40:05 > 0:40:10Dominoes. A tall plant with sweet, scented white flowers
0:40:10 > 0:40:14that grows in damp fields is known as Queen of the what?
0:40:14 > 0:40:19- Meadow?- Correct.- Bank.- In Thailand, what is the main religion?
0:40:19 > 0:40:22Er, Buddhism.
0:40:22 > 0:40:27- Bank!- Cheddar cheese is named after a village in which English county?
0:40:27 > 0:40:32- Gloucestershire.- Somerset. A word meaning "at no time used twice"...
0:40:35 > 0:40:42Time's up. You won £90. We will treble that. It means prize money today of...
0:40:42 > 0:40:46There can only be one winner. Now, up to five questions each.
0:40:46 > 0:40:54If there's a tie, Sudden Death. Gill and Mags, for £3,330 let's play the Weakest Link.
0:40:56 > 0:41:01- Mags, you have the choice of who goes first.- Me, please.
0:41:03 > 0:41:09Mags, in 2008, which cricketer, who won the 2006 series of Strictly Come Dancing,
0:41:09 > 0:41:15became only the 25th player to score 100 first class centuries?
0:41:18 > 0:41:21- Ramprakash?- I'll accept. Mark Ramprakash.
0:41:21 > 0:41:26Gill, the three Bs was a phrase coined by conductor Hans von Bulow
0:41:26 > 0:41:30to refer to the composers Bach, Brahms and which other?
0:41:30 > 0:41:32- Beethoven?- Correct.
0:41:32 > 0:41:37What is the lowest prime number with two digits?
0:41:38 > 0:41:41- Eleven.- That is correct.
0:41:41 > 0:41:45The motto, "Which ever way you throw me, I will stand," is depicted
0:41:45 > 0:41:49on the three-legged coat of arms of which island in the Irish Sea?
0:41:49 > 0:41:56- Isle of Man.- Correct. The fashion designer born Donna Fask in New York State in 1948
0:41:56 > 0:42:00who launched the DKNY label in the 1980s
0:42:00 > 0:42:05is better known by what married name?
0:42:05 > 0:42:08- Karan.- I'll accept. Donna Karan.
0:42:08 > 0:42:13In the names of the 12 signs of the Zodiac, Virgo's last alphabetically.
0:42:13 > 0:42:16Which one comes first?
0:42:16 > 0:42:19- Aries? - No, the answer is Aquarius.
0:42:19 > 0:42:24Mags, which aquatic mammal has fresh water species
0:42:24 > 0:42:29named after the Amazon, Ganges, and Yangtze Rivers?
0:42:29 > 0:42:32- Otter?- No, it is the dolphin.
0:42:32 > 0:42:38In 2008, impresario Bill Kenwright claimed that Elvis Presley made a secret visit to England
0:42:38 > 0:42:43in the 1950s and was shown around London by which entertainer?
0:42:47 > 0:42:50- Pass.- The answer is Tommy Steele.
0:42:50 > 0:42:55Which word derived from the Latin for tree bark is the name
0:42:55 > 0:43:00for the outer layer of an organ, especially that of the brain?
0:43:00 > 0:43:03- Membrane? - The correct answer is the cortex.
0:43:03 > 0:43:07In Scotland, the name of which town south-east of Glasgow
0:43:07 > 0:43:11sounds like a bulletin on the health of a female relative?
0:43:11 > 0:43:14- Pass.- The answer is Motherwell.
0:43:18 > 0:43:23Mags, you are today's Strongest Link and you go away with:
0:43:23 > 0:43:26Gill, you leave with nothing.
0:43:26 > 0:43:30Join us again for the Weakest Link. Goodbye.
0:43:31 > 0:43:37I don't mind losing to Mags. She's got a new baby and can do with the money!
0:43:37 > 0:43:41It feels absolutely fantastic to win. I didn't think I'd get this far.
0:43:41 > 0:43:46I didn't want to be voted off in the first round. It's fantastic to win.
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