0:00:03 > 0:00:07Here are the nine contestant preparing for today's show.
0:00:07 > 0:00:09Only 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.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31Welcome to the Weakest Link.
0:00:31 > 0:00:37Any of the nine people in the studio here today could win up to £10,000.
0:00:37 > 0:00:42They've only just met, but to get the money have to work together.
0:00:42 > 0:00:46However, eight will leave with nothing as, round by round,
0:00:46 > 0:00:51we lose the player voted the Weakest Link. Let's meet the team.
0:00:51 > 0:00:57My name is Simon, I'm 48, from Knutsford in Cheshire and I'm a chartered loss adjuster.
0:00:58 > 0:01:03I'm Heather, I'm 23, from Sheffield, and I'm an aftercare co-ordinator.
0:01:05 > 0:01:09I'm David, I'm 68, I'm from Stonehouse in South Lanarkshire,
0:01:09 > 0:01:13and I'm a freelance geotechnical engineer.
0:01:13 > 0:01:18I'm Alexis, I'm 45, from Manchester, and I'm an internet marketing manager.
0:01:19 > 0:01:24I'm Joe, I'm 29, I'm from London and I'm a relocation consultant.
0:01:25 > 0:01:29I'm Kathy, I'm 54, and I'm a staff nurse.
0:01:30 > 0:01:35I'm Mark, I'm 36 from East Sussex and I'm airline cabin crew.
0:01:37 > 0:01:41I'm Caz, I'm 64, I'm from Lowestoft
0:01:41 > 0:01:43and I'm a retired school teacher.
0:01:44 > 0:01:49I'm Martin, I'm 18, from Halesowen, and I'm an optical lab technician.
0:01:51 > 0:01:56Just to remind you, in each round there's £1,000 to be won.
0:01:56 > 0:02:03The fastest way is a chain of nine correct answers. Break the chain and you lose all the money in it.
0:02:03 > 0:02:07Say "Bank!" first and the money is safe. Round 1 - three minutes.
0:02:07 > 0:02:13We'll start with the person whose name is first alphabetically - Alexis. Let's play the Weakest Link.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18First question is for £20. Start the clock.
0:02:18 > 0:02:24In hot beverages, tea is usually made by infusing plant leaves in which liquid?
0:02:24 > 0:02:31- Water.- Correct. In nationalities, the word Chinese refers to a person from which country?
0:02:31 > 0:02:38- China.- After the First World War, which flower was chosen as a symbol of remembrance -
0:02:38 > 0:02:40a red poppy or a black orchid?
0:02:40 > 0:02:46- A red poppy.- The short hairs called eyelashes grow from the flaps of skin
0:02:46 > 0:02:49commonly known by what name?
0:02:49 > 0:02:51Eyelids.
0:02:51 > 0:02:59In New York City, 350 5th Avenue is the address of the landmark called the Empire State what?
0:02:59 > 0:03:01- Building.- Correct.
0:03:01 > 0:03:07- Bank!- What I is the single word term for the web of computer networks
0:03:07 > 0:03:12that allows global access to databases and email systems?
0:03:12 > 0:03:13- Internet.- Correct.
0:03:13 > 0:03:20In farming, the terms cow, sow and ewe all refer to animals of which sex?
0:03:23 > 0:03:25- Male.- Female.
0:03:26 > 0:03:33When used to describe a style of popular music, the abbreviation MOR means middle of the what?
0:03:33 > 0:03:39- Road.- Correct. In medicine, a drug administered to a patient to counteract a poison
0:03:39 > 0:03:42is an antidote or an antelope?
0:03:42 > 0:03:49- Antidote.- A UK travel scheme that allows motorists to leave their cars on the outskirts of a town
0:03:49 > 0:03:53and continue their journey by bus is called what and ride?
0:03:53 > 0:03:59- Park.- The scales that people stand on to weigh themselves are named after which room of the house?
0:04:01 > 0:04:04- The...bathroom.- Correct.
0:04:04 > 0:04:10In popular psychology, the description of a personality with good and evil sides
0:04:10 > 0:04:12is Jekyll and who?
0:04:12 > 0:04:19- Hyde.- In British national newspapers, The Observer is published on which day of the week?
0:04:20 > 0:04:22- Sunday.- Correct.
0:04:22 > 0:04:30In the 2008 animated film Wall-E, the title character is a whale or a robot?
0:04:31 > 0:04:38- A robot.- In sport, the name of which item of tennis equipment is also a term for a loud commotion?
0:04:38 > 0:04:42- Racket.- Correct. Simon... - Bank!
0:04:42 > 0:04:50OK, you've reached and banked your £1,000 target. That money will go through to the next round,
0:04:50 > 0:04:55but one of you will not. Whose New Year's resolution was to give up thinking?
0:04:55 > 0:05:01Who's as good as a gift voucher for Woolworth's? Time to vote off the Weakest Link.
0:05:04 > 0:05:08As the only player to get an answer wrong, Simon is the Weakest Link.
0:05:08 > 0:05:14Martin is, statistically, the Strongest Link, but will the voting reflect reality?
0:05:14 > 0:05:19Voting over. It's time to reveal who you think is the Weakest Link.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21Caz.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23Simon.
0:05:24 > 0:05:26Simon.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29Simon.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32Simon.
0:05:32 > 0:05:33Simon.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36Simon.
0:05:36 > 0:05:38Simon.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40Simon.
0:05:42 > 0:05:48- How old are you, Martin?- 18. - Are you?- Yeah.- Put your board down.
0:05:48 > 0:05:55- Did you come on your own or did your mummy bring you?- Came on my own. She let me come on my own today.
0:05:55 > 0:06:00- Is that why your tie's not done up properly?- I think it looks trendy.
0:06:00 > 0:06:05- Really? Have you got shoelaces? - No, I haven't.- Just as well.
0:06:05 > 0:06:09- She's not here to do them up.- No. - Are your gloves on elastic?
0:06:09 > 0:06:14- No, but I have got mittens. - Have you? And what do you do?
0:06:14 > 0:06:19- I'm an optical lab technician. - Really? What's your particular job?
0:06:19 > 0:06:25- I basically make people's glasses for them.- And does Mummy take you to work?- No, no, I can drive now.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28You can drive? What sort of car?
0:06:28 > 0:06:33- I've got a Renault Megane. - You passed your test?- Sixth time.
0:06:33 > 0:06:40- So your eyes aren't too good? - No, my eyes are fine.- And your brain?- It was my driving skill!
0:06:40 > 0:06:48- Put your board up. Why Simon? - Well, he got the question wrong. The only question we got wrong.
0:06:49 > 0:06:55- What do you do, Caz?- I'm a retired schoolteacher.- You're at home all day?- Yes.- You don't work at all?
0:06:55 > 0:07:02No. Well, I go out voluntarily and work at the drama department in a high school.
0:07:02 > 0:07:09- Is that a charity scheme to help old people? Put your board up. Is it too heavy for you?- Sorry!
0:07:09 > 0:07:14- Is it to keep you off the streets? - Possibly.- Yeah.- Possibly.
0:07:14 > 0:07:20- And what do you actually do? - I help the students to perform their own plays
0:07:20 > 0:07:25- and they sit a Trinity exam. - What's a Trinity exam?
0:07:25 > 0:07:30- It's...- Make it interesting, Caz! Let it sing.
0:07:30 > 0:07:36It's a private sort of drama scheme whereby students are encouraged to go into this business
0:07:36 > 0:07:44- that you're in.- What business? - Entertainment.- You train people to do my job?- Yes.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46Is it Method acting you teach?
0:07:46 > 0:07:53I teach them how to look after themselves and how to know what to say at the right time.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55How should I look after myself?
0:07:55 > 0:08:01- You should stay just as you are. - Good answer! - You're doing really well.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04- Why Simon?- He got a question wrong.
0:08:06 > 0:08:11- What do you do, Mark? - I work for an airline. - Doing what?- I work as cabin crew.
0:08:11 > 0:08:16- Really? Who do you work for? A top airline?- A holiday airline.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19So you're chavs' cabin crew.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22On occasion.
0:08:22 > 0:08:28I see. So put your board down. Where's an average place you go?
0:08:28 > 0:08:33- Could be anywhere. Short haul, long haul. Where would you like?- Tell me.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36- OK, today let's go to Malaga. - All right.
0:08:36 > 0:08:43- A flock of geese have come across the airline's nose.- Mm-hm. - You've got to prepare these chavs.
0:08:43 > 0:08:50As they're chavs, do you put them in the brace position or do you suggest they open their duty free?
0:08:50 > 0:08:54Well, my job would be to put them in the brace position.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57- Would it?- Yes.- Don't be dirty, Mark.
0:08:59 > 0:09:03Put your board up. OK.
0:09:03 > 0:09:09- So just give me your soothing talk as we're going to hit the sea. - I'd repeat the captain's commands
0:09:09 > 0:09:13- and shout, "Brace! Brace!"- A chav wouldn't know what that meant!
0:09:13 > 0:09:21- Most people... We show a safety video and they can see from that...- None of us ever watch the safety video!
0:09:21 > 0:09:27- You know, I think you're probably right. - I'm always right. Why Simon?
0:09:27 > 0:09:29He got a question wrong, I'm afraid.
0:09:29 > 0:09:32Simon, you are the Weakest Link. Goodbye.
0:09:39 > 0:09:45It was a shame to be off first. I'm not proud of my performance. It was a straightforward question.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48I just froze on the moment.
0:09:48 > 0:09:54My friends and family when they see it will have a good laugh and rightly so.
0:09:54 > 0:09:58Round 2 and you have £1,000. We take 10 seconds off.
0:09:58 > 0:10:05We'll start with the Strongest Link. That's Martin. Let's play the Weakest Link. Start the clock.
0:10:06 > 0:10:11What C is the American term for the sweet snack item known in the UK as a biscuit?
0:10:11 > 0:10:17- Cracker.- Cookie. According to the proverb, what is the mother of invention?
0:10:17 > 0:10:19- Pass.- Necessity.
0:10:19 > 0:10:25The stage surname of the singer Donna who had a UK number one single in 1977 with I Feel Love
0:10:25 > 0:10:28is also the name of which season?
0:10:29 > 0:10:31- Summer.- Correct.
0:10:31 > 0:10:36A Swiss army knife often includes a corkscrew or a cuckoo clock?
0:10:36 > 0:10:43- A corkscrew.- Which African mammal has a neck that makes up about half of its height?
0:10:43 > 0:10:51- Giraffe.- It's customary for a film director to stop a scene by shouting which three-letter word?
0:10:51 > 0:10:58- Cut.- On the beach, what B follows sun to give the usual term for the reddening of the skin
0:10:58 > 0:11:03- caused by overexposure to ultraviolet light? - Can you repeat that?
0:11:03 > 0:11:10What B follows sun to give the usual term for the reddening of the skin caused by ultraviolet light?
0:11:10 > 0:11:14- Burn.- Correct.- Bank!
0:11:14 > 0:11:20The phrase for which period of a person's life describes the spread of an expanding waistline?
0:11:20 > 0:11:22- Middle age.- Correct.
0:11:22 > 0:11:29An instrument called a Geiger counter measures levels of rainfall or radiation?
0:11:29 > 0:11:32- Radiation.- Correct.- Bank!
0:11:32 > 0:11:38In blackjack, which rank of playing card is worth either 1 or 11 points depending on the gambler's choice?
0:11:38 > 0:11:44- Ace.- The former boy band member who played a character called Duncan from Blue
0:11:44 > 0:11:49in the 2009 sitcom entitled Plus One is Duncan who?
0:11:50 > 0:11:57- Pass.- James. What H is the name of a tool that can be used to break rock, to beat metal and drive in nails?
0:11:57 > 0:12:03- Hammer.- In US schools, what's the name of the annual publication intended as a keepsake
0:12:03 > 0:12:09that includes photographs of students and details of their achievements?
0:12:11 > 0:12:13- Journal?- Yearbook.
0:12:13 > 0:12:17Memo is an abbreviation of which word?
0:12:17 > 0:12:24- Memorandum.- Which heroine pierces her hand with a spindle, loses consciousness
0:12:24 > 0:12:28and is awoken 100 years later by a prince?
0:12:29 > 0:12:33- Snow White. - Even Sleeping Beauty.
0:12:33 > 0:12:39What D is a period of time taken by the Earth to complete one full turn on its axis?
0:12:39 > 0:12:45- Day.- The terms thumbs up and thumbs down are believed to derive from crowd signals
0:12:45 > 0:12:48in the amphitheatres of which ancient civilisation?
0:12:48 > 0:12:55- Rome.- Bank! - In the Sondheim musical A Little Night Music...
0:12:58 > 0:13:02Time's up. You won £400. Who's the mountaineer with vertigo?
0:13:02 > 0:13:05Who's the static caravan in Caernarfon?
0:13:05 > 0:13:08Time to vote off the Weakest Link.
0:13:09 > 0:13:13According to the statistics, the Strongest Link is Caz.
0:13:13 > 0:13:18David is the Weakest Link, but will the other players realise that?
0:13:18 > 0:13:23Voting over. It's time to reveal who you think is the Weakest Link.
0:13:23 > 0:13:25David.
0:13:25 > 0:13:27Martin.
0:13:27 > 0:13:29Martin.
0:13:29 > 0:13:31Mark.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33Martin.
0:13:33 > 0:13:35David.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37David.
0:13:37 > 0:13:39David.
0:13:41 > 0:13:44- Heather.- Hi.- Put your board down.
0:13:47 > 0:13:51- Where did you get your top? I'd like one like that.- Primark.
0:13:51 > 0:13:58- Where did you get your hair done? - A friend does it for me.- I want to steer clear of there. Board up.
0:13:58 > 0:14:05- What do you do? - I'm an aftercare co-ordinator.- You think I know what that means?- No.
0:14:05 > 0:14:11- Come on, then.- I work for a company called A4E.- A4E?- Yes, that's right.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14But A is for A, not A for E.
0:14:14 > 0:14:17- It stands for Action For Employment. - Yeah?
0:14:17 > 0:14:24Clients come to us, or customers. When they're out of work, we provide them with training...
0:14:24 > 0:14:29- People on benefits?- That's right. - You give them support to stay on benefits?
0:14:29 > 0:14:33I'm offering them support to get back into work.
0:14:33 > 0:14:40- You won't send any of them to your friend for a haircut, will you? - She'll be very offended.- Why David?
0:14:40 > 0:14:46David, I think he got a question wrong and he was the only one I could remember.
0:14:46 > 0:14:50So, Mark, you and I are on the chavs' air coach to Malaga
0:14:50 > 0:14:55- and we've come down in the Mediterranean.- Nice.- Yeah.
0:14:55 > 0:14:59- Can you remember that? That's where you're going.- Yes.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02- Because of the flock of geese. - Yes.
0:15:02 > 0:15:09And we're leaving the aircraft and there's only one lifejacket left.
0:15:09 > 0:15:14- There's you and me. Who gets the lifejacket?- Me.
0:15:15 > 0:15:21- I don't think so. - I'd take you with me, Anne. I don't think you could carry me.
0:15:21 > 0:15:24- Why David?- He got a question wrong.
0:15:24 > 0:15:29David, you are the Weakest Link. Goodbye.
0:15:35 > 0:15:41I was told before I came down here that I was to return with £3,000 or not return at all.
0:15:41 > 0:15:48I will now have to sneak back over the Scottish border without anyone knowing I've arrived home!
0:15:48 > 0:15:53Round 3. In the bank, £1,400. Another 10 seconds off the time.
0:15:53 > 0:15:57We'll start with Caz. Let's play the Weakest Link.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59Start the clock.
0:16:00 > 0:16:06What K goes before the word Stages to mean the four age-based levels of the National Curriculum?
0:16:07 > 0:16:09- I don't know.- Key.
0:16:09 > 0:16:15The cities of Rio de Janeiro, Lima and Caracas are all in which continent?
0:16:15 > 0:16:18- South America.- Bank!
0:16:18 > 0:16:25In 1989, as a safety measure, an act was passed to control dangerous dogs or ferocious fish?
0:16:25 > 0:16:29- Dangerous dogs.- What's the official currency of Spain?
0:16:29 > 0:16:32- The Euro.- Correct.
0:16:32 > 0:16:39Someone who is calm and composed in highly pressurised situations has nerves of which alloy?
0:16:39 > 0:16:44- Steel.- In the 2001 census, what J is the science fiction belief system
0:16:44 > 0:16:50that nearly 400,000 people in England and Wales claimed as their religion?
0:16:50 > 0:16:53- Jehovah.- No, Jedi.
0:16:53 > 0:16:57The edible wafer cone that was patented in 1903
0:16:57 > 0:17:02was intended to be used as a receptacle for what type of frozen dessert?
0:17:02 > 0:17:07- Ice cream.- In the 1960s American TV series Bewitched,
0:17:07 > 0:17:12the character Samantha twitched her nose or her toes?
0:17:12 > 0:17:14- Her nose.- Bank!
0:17:14 > 0:17:18According to the opening line of Danny Boy, what are calling?
0:17:18 > 0:17:23- The pipes?- Correct.- Bank! - What's 32 divided by 8?
0:17:23 > 0:17:25Em...
0:17:27 > 0:17:29- Six.- Four.
0:17:29 > 0:17:35What P is an area of grassland used for grazing and a place to which people are put out on retiring?
0:17:35 > 0:17:42- Pasture.- In political history, the authors of the 1848 Communist Manifesto
0:17:42 > 0:17:44were Karl Marx and Friedrich who?
0:17:44 > 0:17:48- Nietzsche.- Engels!
0:17:48 > 0:17:52Bulgaria has a coastline on which body of water?
0:17:52 > 0:17:54- Mediterranean.- Black Sea.
0:17:54 > 0:18:01At a library, if borrowed items have not been returned on time, they are said to be overlong or overdue?
0:18:01 > 0:18:07- Overdue.- Bank!- The comedian who has been a co-presenter on The Friday Night Project
0:18:07 > 0:18:10is Justin Lee who?
0:18:11 > 0:18:14- I don't know.- Collins!
0:18:14 > 0:18:20The fandango is accompanied by a guitar and which instrument clicked together with the fingers?
0:18:20 > 0:18:23- Maracas.- Castanets.
0:18:23 > 0:18:29What H is a game similar to hockey that is one of the national sports of Ireland?
0:18:29 > 0:18:33- Em... Sorry, pass, Anne. - Hurling.
0:18:33 > 0:18:39In Birmingham city centre, a fountain depicting a naked woman has the rhyming nickname...
0:18:41 > 0:18:43Time's up. You won £110.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46Who couldn't top the paint charts?
0:18:46 > 0:18:51Who iTuned out? Time to vote off the Weakest Link.
0:18:54 > 0:18:58With no correct answers, Kathy is the Weakest Link.
0:18:58 > 0:19:04Statistically, the Strongest Link is Alexis, but who will the team want off?
0:19:04 > 0:19:09Voting over. It's time to reveal who you think is the Weakest Link.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11Caz.
0:19:12 > 0:19:13Kathy.
0:19:13 > 0:19:15Heather.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17Caz.
0:19:17 > 0:19:19Heather.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21Heather.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23Heather.
0:19:26 > 0:19:30- Joe...- Hello, Anne. - Put your board down.
0:19:32 > 0:19:38- No need to ask you where you got your shirt, is there? - Er, BHS, I believe it is.
0:19:38 > 0:19:44- Oh, I thought you'd been copying the people at Travelodge. - No! Not recently.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46Put your board up.
0:19:46 > 0:19:50- What do you do? - I'm a global relocation consultant.
0:19:50 > 0:19:56- In a Travelodge shirt?- Sometimes. I like Travelodge shirts.- Do you?
0:19:56 > 0:20:03- You're sort of Alan Partridge, are you?- I'm known to like a blue shirt.- What does your job involve?
0:20:03 > 0:20:08It involves moving people around from major companies.
0:20:08 > 0:20:12- Are you very strong, then? - We don't move them physically.
0:20:12 > 0:20:18I don't, personally. But we organise their immigration and their househunting.
0:20:18 > 0:20:24- And this is your life's ambition? To be in relocation? - I like what I'm doing.
0:20:24 > 0:20:28- Why Heather?- I think she got the most questions wrong.
0:20:28 > 0:20:33So, Mark...we're in the Mediterranean, off Malaga.
0:20:34 > 0:20:39We've only got one lifejacket. Two things happen, Mark.
0:20:39 > 0:20:43I'm feeling a bit frisky, so I go in for a snog.
0:20:43 > 0:20:48And then a shark comes towards us. Which one will you react to first?
0:20:49 > 0:20:53I don't think your bite would be as bad as a shark's. I'd go for you.
0:20:53 > 0:20:58- Why Heather?- Unfortunately, Heather got a couple of questions wrong.
0:20:58 > 0:21:02Heather, you are the Weakest Link. Goodbye.
0:21:06 > 0:21:11The most difficult part of the game was concentrating on my questions.
0:21:11 > 0:21:14The fact that I'm rubbish at maths let me down.
0:21:14 > 0:21:19Round 4 and you've banked £1,510. Another 10 seconds off the time.
0:21:19 > 0:21:24We'll start with Alexis. Let's play the Weakest Link.
0:21:25 > 0:21:27Start the clock.
0:21:27 > 0:21:33King Edward II was reputedly murdered with a red-hot poker or an ice-cold bath?
0:21:33 > 0:21:40- A red-hot poker.- In Indian food, curried lamb in a rich sauce of tomatoes and peppers
0:21:40 > 0:21:42is called rogan what?
0:21:42 > 0:21:48- Josh.- In the NATO phonetic alphabet, the first names of which pair of Shakespearean characters
0:21:48 > 0:21:51represent the letters R and J?
0:21:53 > 0:21:56- Pass.- Romeo and Juliet.
0:21:56 > 0:22:02The maxim, "Thou shalt not be found out," is popularly described as the 11th what?
0:22:04 > 0:22:07- L?- Commandment.
0:22:07 > 0:22:12Cashmere wool is obtained from the fleece of which animal?
0:22:12 > 0:22:14- Llama?- Goat.
0:22:14 > 0:22:20The 2008 film drama set in Germany after WWII starring Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes
0:22:20 > 0:22:22was The Reader or The Writer?
0:22:22 > 0:22:25- The Writer.- The Reader.
0:22:25 > 0:22:31In the 1970s, the brightly-coloured inflatable toys with horn-like ears as handles used for bouncing
0:22:31 > 0:22:33were known as space what?
0:22:33 > 0:22:40- Hoppers.- In TV, a fictional village called Royston Vasey was the setting for which comedy series?
0:22:40 > 0:22:46- The League of Gentlemen.- Bank! - What B precedes English to make the term for the reduced vocabulary
0:22:46 > 0:22:49of 850 words used to teach it as a foreign language?
0:22:49 > 0:22:55- Basic.- The feast day of St Swithin, said to set the weather for the next 40 days,
0:22:55 > 0:22:58is on the 15th of which month?
0:22:58 > 0:23:04- March.- July. A collection of photographs of known criminals kept by the police
0:23:04 > 0:23:08to help identify suspects is known as a rogues' what?
0:23:08 > 0:23:14- Gallery.- Bank. - The 2008 UK hit album by Primal Scream had what title -
0:23:14 > 0:23:17Hideous Past or Beautiful Future?
0:23:17 > 0:23:19- Hideous Past.- Beautiful Future.
0:23:19 > 0:23:26What A is the usual British name for the purple fruit that is in the dish moussaka?
0:23:26 > 0:23:33- Aubergine.- In film, Jennifer Lopez starred as a professional organiser of marriage ceremonies
0:23:33 > 0:23:36in the 2001 comedy The Wedding what?
0:23:36 > 0:23:43- Planner.- Which English architect designed more than 50 London churches, including St Paul's?
0:23:43 > 0:23:50- Christopher Wren.- When it started in 1979, the miming game show Give Us A Clue had,
0:23:50 > 0:23:54as team captain, Una Stubbs and Lionel who?
0:23:54 > 0:23:57- Blair.- Bank!
0:23:58 > 0:24:06Time's up. Your bank was in time. You won £270. Who's as inappropriate as Madonna's outfits?
0:24:06 > 0:24:09Time to vote off the Weakest Link.
0:24:11 > 0:24:15Martin is the Weakest Link, as he gave the most wrong answers.
0:24:15 > 0:24:21The Strongest Link, statistically, is Joe, but who will lose out in the vote?
0:24:21 > 0:24:25Voting over. It's time to reveal who you think is the Weakest Link.
0:24:25 > 0:24:27Caz.
0:24:28 > 0:24:30Martin.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32Mark.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34Martin.
0:24:34 > 0:24:35Martin.
0:24:35 > 0:24:38Kathy.
0:24:39 > 0:24:46- Caz, why Martin? - Em, because I think he got more questions wrong than I did!
0:24:46 > 0:24:48OK, Mark...
0:24:50 > 0:24:54We're in the Mediterranean, and we've ducked the shark,
0:24:54 > 0:24:58you've rejected my advances and we have one lifebelt.
0:24:58 > 0:25:00OK?
0:25:00 > 0:25:05And then George Clooney comes along in a small plane. Who gets in first?
0:25:06 > 0:25:08- You or myself?- Yes.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14- That's a very difficult question. - Oh, get off!
0:25:14 > 0:25:20- I'd let you go first. Ladies first. - Would you push me in the water?- Yes.
0:25:20 > 0:25:24- Why Martin? - He got more wrong than I did.
0:25:24 > 0:25:31- No, he didn't, actually.- Did he not? - You got just as many wrong. - Well, I'm very sorry, Martin.
0:25:31 > 0:25:34Martin, you are the Weakest Link. Goodbye.
0:25:42 > 0:25:47I think Anne Robinson had a little bit of a dig at me because of my youth.
0:25:47 > 0:25:52Hers was quite a long time ago and I don't think she remembers it.
0:25:52 > 0:25:55I've still got mine in front of me.
0:25:55 > 0:26:00Round 5 and you've banked £1,780. Another 10 seconds off the time.
0:26:00 > 0:26:04We'll start with Joe. Let's play the Weakest Link.
0:26:04 > 0:26:06Start the clock.
0:26:06 > 0:26:12When people try to reach an impossible goal they are said to be chasing sunbeams or rainbows?
0:26:12 > 0:26:19- Rainbows.- The author and illustrator of the books When The Wind Blows and Fungus The Bogey Man
0:26:19 > 0:26:21is Raymond who?
0:26:21 > 0:26:27- Pass.- Briggs. The condition technically known as icterus has what other name
0:26:27 > 0:26:30derived from French for yellow?
0:26:30 > 0:26:32- Jaundice.- Correct.
0:26:32 > 0:26:37- Bank.- What L is the name for any fabric made from the flax plant?
0:26:37 > 0:26:42- Linen.- Because it's aimed at workers travelling home in the rush hour,
0:26:42 > 0:26:46the early evening slot is often known by what two-word name?
0:26:46 > 0:26:49- Drive time.- Correct.- Bank!
0:26:49 > 0:26:55The former butler Paul Burrell claimed Princess Diana regarded him as her rock or hard place?
0:26:55 > 0:27:03- Rock.- In geometry, which four-letter word means the amount of a flat surface, within given limits?
0:27:03 > 0:27:05Could you repeat that, please?
0:27:05 > 0:27:11In geometry, which four-letter word means the amount of a flat surface, within given limits?
0:27:11 > 0:27:19- Area.- In cinema, which nationality precedes Gangster, Psycho and Beauty in the titles of three films?
0:27:20 > 0:27:25- American.- Bank. - Which Sheffield football club is nicknamed the Blades?
0:27:25 > 0:27:27Sheffield United.
0:27:27 > 0:27:32In the books by AA Milne, what H is the term used by Winnie the Pooh and his friends
0:27:32 > 0:27:35for the creature like an elephant?
0:27:35 > 0:27:41- Heffalump.- The three ocean liners built for the White Star Line and launched 1910-1914
0:27:41 > 0:27:45were Olympic, Britannic and which other?
0:27:45 > 0:27:52- Titanic.- Bank.- In a 1980s and '90s TV drama series, Eric Catchpole and Tinker Dill were colleagues
0:27:52 > 0:27:55of which antiques dealer?
0:27:55 > 0:27:57- Pass.- Lovejoy.
0:27:57 > 0:28:04According to a song by Oscar Hammerstein, June is busting out all over or squeezing it all in?
0:28:04 > 0:28:12- Busting out all over.- Bank. - Two-spot and seven-spot are species of which type of beetle?
0:28:13 > 0:28:15- Pass.- Ladybird.
0:28:15 > 0:28:23What C is the professional first name shared by two iconic female performers, Miranda and Electra?
0:28:23 > 0:28:26- Carmen.- Correct.- Bank!
0:28:27 > 0:28:31Time's up. Your bank was in time and you won £310.
0:28:31 > 0:28:35But who's the Hugh Hefner in the nunnery?
0:28:35 > 0:28:39Which boob job should be surgically removed?
0:28:39 > 0:28:42Time to vote off the Weakest Link.
0:28:44 > 0:28:48For the second round in a row, Joe is the Strongest Link.
0:28:48 > 0:28:54Kathy is, statistically, the Weakest Link, but how will the votes go?
0:28:54 > 0:28:58Voting over. It's time to reveal who you think is the Weakest Link.
0:28:58 > 0:29:00Kathy.
0:29:01 > 0:29:03Kathy.
0:29:03 > 0:29:05Alexis.
0:29:05 > 0:29:07Kathy.
0:29:07 > 0:29:09Kathy.
0:29:11 > 0:29:15- Alexis, what do you do? - I'm an internet marketing manager.
0:29:15 > 0:29:22- Selling or buying?- Selling. - What are you selling?- We market UK investment property.
0:29:22 > 0:29:30- What sort of property? - Apartments and houses. Generally new builds, though.
0:29:30 > 0:29:35- New builds.- Yes. - All been built in the last what?
0:29:35 > 0:29:40- Five years.- The last five years. And now you're trying to sell them.
0:29:40 > 0:29:46- We have been selling them over the last five years. - How about the last few months?
0:29:46 > 0:29:54There are buyers out there and sellers, but the banks aren't giving any money, so it's down to people...
0:29:54 > 0:29:58Let me explain - if they don't have the money, they're not buying.
0:29:58 > 0:30:03- They're buying for cash. - To live in?- No.
0:30:03 > 0:30:09- They're buying them for investment. - So you're in the new property buying to let market?- Yes.
0:30:09 > 0:30:14- What fabulous timing(!) - I know. If we can survive this, we can survive anything.
0:30:14 > 0:30:20- Why Kathy?- She got more wrong than anybody else that round.
0:30:20 > 0:30:23- Joe, why Kathy? - I think she got the most wrong.
0:30:23 > 0:30:28She did. Kathy, you are the Weakest Link. Goodbye.
0:30:35 > 0:30:41I would have loved a bit of banter with Anne, but I think she knew she'd get better than she gave out,
0:30:41 > 0:30:43so she left me alone.
0:30:44 > 0:30:48Round 6. In the kitty, £2,090. Another 10 seconds off.
0:30:48 > 0:30:53We'll start with Joe. Let's play the Weakest Link.
0:30:53 > 0:30:55Start the clock.
0:30:55 > 0:31:01Conference, Onward and Concorde are all cultivated varieties of which edible fruit?
0:31:02 > 0:31:07- Grape.- Pear. In the 1988 film comedy A Fish Called Wanda,
0:31:07 > 0:31:11which former Monty Python star played Archie Leach?
0:31:11 > 0:31:19- John Cleese.- The road known as the A4 runs from London to which major port in the west of England?
0:31:20 > 0:31:22- Southampton.- Bristol.
0:31:22 > 0:31:29Kate Moss launched her second perfume in 2008, naming it Velvet Hour or Nylon Decade?
0:31:29 > 0:31:32Velvet Hour.
0:31:32 > 0:31:37Most of the Mojave Desert is in which west coast US state?
0:31:37 > 0:31:39- Nevada.- California.
0:31:39 > 0:31:45The Miliband brothers, appointed members of Gordon Brown's first Cabinet in 2007,
0:31:45 > 0:31:48have the first names Ed and what?
0:31:49 > 0:31:51- Joe.- David.
0:31:51 > 0:31:58What T means to separate grains of any cereal from the husks by beating with a flail?
0:31:58 > 0:32:04- Thresh.- Which Italian word for time is the term used for the pace of a musical composition?
0:32:04 > 0:32:10- Tempo.- Which land mass in the southern hemisphere was nicknamed The Lucky Country
0:32:10 > 0:32:14in a 1964 study of its lifestyle by the writer Donald Horne?
0:32:14 > 0:32:20- Australia.- In rugby, deceiving an opponent by pretending to pass the ball is known as
0:32:20 > 0:32:23selling a dummy or buying a raffle?
0:32:23 > 0:32:25- Selling a dummy.- Bank!
0:32:25 > 0:32:33Which poem by John Milton about how Satan comes to Earth has a title that means Heaven Mislaid?
0:32:34 > 0:32:42- Paradise Lost.- What B is the term for both a flat piece of wood and the directors of a company?
0:32:42 > 0:32:47- Board.- What's the title of the US drama series first shown in 2005
0:32:47 > 0:32:54about an FBI agent and his mathematician brother who helps him solve crimes?
0:32:54 > 0:32:56- Pass.- Numbers.
0:32:56 > 0:33:05According to its common name, a form of trout which never leaves fresh water is what colour?
0:33:08 > 0:33:11Time's up. The answer was brown.
0:33:11 > 0:33:13You won £200.
0:33:13 > 0:33:17Maybe Alexis hasn't marketed herself?
0:33:17 > 0:33:20Does Joe need relocating?
0:33:20 > 0:33:26Should Mark brace himself? Or has Caz turned a drama into a crisis?
0:33:26 > 0:33:29Time to vote off the Weakest Link.
0:33:31 > 0:33:36Joe goes from being the Strongest Link in the last two rounds to the Weakest Link in this.
0:33:36 > 0:33:42The Strongest Link, statistically, is Alexis, but will the votes follow the facts?
0:33:43 > 0:33:47Voting over. It's time to reveal who you think is the Weakest Link.
0:33:47 > 0:33:49Joe.
0:33:49 > 0:33:51Caz.
0:33:52 > 0:33:54Joe.
0:33:54 > 0:33:57Joe.
0:33:59 > 0:34:05- Mark, why Joe? - I think he did worse than I did in the last round.
0:34:05 > 0:34:12- Alexis, why Joe?- He had a bad round. He got three questions wrong. That was more than anybody else.
0:34:14 > 0:34:17Joe, you are the Weakest Link. Goodbye.
0:34:23 > 0:34:28I think Alexis has been the strongest throughout the game
0:34:28 > 0:34:32and if she doesn't get voted off tactically in the next round,
0:34:32 > 0:34:36and she doesn't have a bad round, she could win it.
0:34:36 > 0:34:41Round 7. In the bank, £2,290. Another 10 seconds off.
0:34:41 > 0:34:47We'll start with Alexis. Let's play the Weakest Link. Start the clock.
0:34:47 > 0:34:53The Danish group who had a 2008 UK hit single entitled Fascination
0:34:53 > 0:34:58also had a 2008 UK hit album entitled This Is who?
0:34:58 > 0:35:01- No idea.- Alphabeat.
0:35:01 > 0:35:07What J is the name of a small metal or glass measure used for mixing cocktails?
0:35:08 > 0:35:10- Jig?- No, jigger.
0:35:10 > 0:35:15The province of Nova Scotia is in which country?
0:35:16 > 0:35:23- Canada.- One of the catchphrases popularised by Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer
0:35:23 > 0:35:25was, "You wouldn't let it..." what?
0:35:25 > 0:35:28- Rain?- Lie.
0:35:28 > 0:35:34Zen and Tibetan are schools of thought within which system - Buddhism or paganism?
0:35:34 > 0:35:41- Buddhism.- In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Pip has a secret benefactor
0:35:41 > 0:35:45who is a former convict called Abel what?
0:35:45 > 0:35:50- I don't know.- Magwitch. A household battery known as a dry cell
0:35:50 > 0:35:54- uses a central rod made from which chemical element?- Copper.
0:35:54 > 0:36:00Carbon. What T goes before corner in the name of the last bend of the Derby course at Epsom?
0:36:01 > 0:36:07- Pass.- Tattenham. The British actress who played the secret agent Vanessa Kensington
0:36:07 > 0:36:11- in the first two Austin Powers films is Elizabeth who?- I don't know.
0:36:11 > 0:36:17Hurley. The village of Naseby, 11 miles west of Kettering,
0:36:17 > 0:36:23site of a major battle in the English Civil War, is in which shire county?
0:36:23 > 0:36:30- Northamptonshire.- In music, the Belfast-born instrumentalist who was knighted in 2001
0:36:30 > 0:36:34and is famed for his golden flute is James who?
0:36:34 > 0:36:40- Galway.- Correct.- Bank! - A car tyre with new rubber welded to the old casing
0:36:40 > 0:36:42is a rehash or a retread?
0:36:42 > 0:36:44Retread.
0:36:44 > 0:36:48- Bank!- In maritime geography, what D is...
0:36:49 > 0:36:55Time's up. You won £70. In Round 8 you get the chance to treble what you bank.
0:36:55 > 0:36:59Before that, time to vote off the Weakest Link.
0:37:00 > 0:37:04In a reversal of fortune, Alexis is now the Weakest Link.
0:37:04 > 0:37:11Statistically, Caz is the Strongest Link, but who will survive the final vote?
0:37:11 > 0:37:16Voting over. It's time to reveal who you think is the Weakest Link.
0:37:16 > 0:37:18Mark.
0:37:19 > 0:37:21Alexis.
0:37:22 > 0:37:24Alexis.
0:37:27 > 0:37:29Caz, why Alexis?
0:37:29 > 0:37:35- I think she was the Weakest Link. - She's been pretty good up to now. - She certainly has.
0:37:35 > 0:37:39Mark, you've chosen to go into the final with an old pensioner.
0:37:39 > 0:37:46- A wonderful old pensioner. - Why Alexis?- Alexis didn't have a good round.- Lucky for you.
0:37:46 > 0:37:50- Lucky for me.- Alexis, you are the Weakest Link. Goodbye.
0:37:57 > 0:38:04The one question I really should have got right and my two sons will rib me mercilessly about
0:38:04 > 0:38:12is the dry cell battery one. My background is in chemistry, so I won't live it down easily.
0:38:12 > 0:38:17Round 8. In the bank, £2,360. In this round, 90 seconds.
0:38:17 > 0:38:23Whatever you win is trebled. We'll start with Caz. Let's play the Weakest Link.
0:38:23 > 0:38:25Start the clock.
0:38:25 > 0:38:32Which blue-coloured characters were performers on two 1978 UK hit singles with Father Abraham?
0:38:32 > 0:38:35- Don't know.- Smurfs.
0:38:35 > 0:38:40The bridge on the River Kwai is in which country?
0:38:42 > 0:38:44- China.- Thailand.
0:38:44 > 0:38:50Which 1990 thriller starred Kathy Bates as an obsessive fan of an author she holds captive?
0:38:52 > 0:39:01- No.- Misery. The British bird famous for singing loudly and continuously is the mudlark or skylark?
0:39:01 > 0:39:07- Skylark.- Bank!- In the American Revolution, volunteer militia were known by what name
0:39:07 > 0:39:11that indicated their readiness for action at 60 seconds' notice?
0:39:11 > 0:39:17- Don't know.- Minute men. The system of interlocking planks used to make a panel surface
0:39:17 > 0:39:20without any gaps is tongue and what?
0:39:20 > 0:39:25- Groove.- Bank!- What C is the specific name for partly-digested contents
0:39:25 > 0:39:28of the first stomach of a ruminant?
0:39:30 > 0:39:38Cud. the historical figures Turpin and Whittington are both known by which shortened first name?
0:39:38 > 0:39:44- Dick.- Bank!- A person who once rebelled against authority but now works on its behalf
0:39:44 > 0:39:47is a poacher turned what?
0:39:49 > 0:39:51- Don't know.- Gamekeeper.
0:39:51 > 0:39:55In the 1830s, what P was the surname...
0:39:58 > 0:40:02Time's up. You won £60. We'll treble that. It gives you prize money of:
0:40:05 > 0:40:12There can only be one winner. Now up to five questions each. If there's a tie, Sudden Death.
0:40:12 > 0:40:17Mark and Caz, for £2,540, let's play the Weakest Link.
0:40:18 > 0:40:24- Mark, you have the choice of who goes first. - I'd like to go first, please.
0:40:29 > 0:40:37In 1990s TV, David Jason played Pop Larkin, head of a happy-go-lucky family, in which drama series?
0:40:38 > 0:40:40- The Darling Buds of May.- Correct.
0:40:40 > 0:40:45In the names of the towns of Nantwich, Droitwich and Northwich,
0:40:45 > 0:40:51the suffix -witch refers to the extraction and processing of which mineral?
0:40:52 > 0:40:55- Tin?- The correct answer is salt.
0:40:55 > 0:41:00The Colour of Magic, published in 1983, was the first novel
0:41:00 > 0:41:04in the Discworld sequence by which author?
0:41:04 > 0:41:09- JK Rowling.- The correct answer is Terry Pratchett.
0:41:09 > 0:41:13To mark the 250th anniversary of his birth,
0:41:13 > 0:41:17a new bust of which admiral was unveiled in 2008
0:41:17 > 0:41:20at the naval base in Portsmouth?
0:41:20 > 0:41:22- Nelson.- That is correct.
0:41:23 > 0:41:31Zagreb is the capital city of which country, that declared independence from Yugoslavia in 1991?
0:41:31 > 0:41:36- Czechoslovakia. - The correct answer is Croatia.
0:41:36 > 0:41:41In 1950s pop music, the four men who were the Million Dollar Quartet
0:41:41 > 0:41:46were Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and which country singer?
0:41:46 > 0:41:50- Hank Williams?- Johnny Cash.
0:41:50 > 0:41:56In the football season that began in 2008, which English Premier League club promoted
0:41:56 > 0:42:00a children's hospice on its shirts, rather than a commercial sponsor?
0:42:02 > 0:42:06- Manchester United? - The correct answer is Aston Villa.
0:42:06 > 0:42:13Which French fashion designer provided the film costumes for Audrey Hepburn for over 30 years
0:42:13 > 0:42:17including her outfits in Breakfast At Tiffany's?
0:42:17 > 0:42:21- Amies? - The correct answer is Givenchy.
0:42:21 > 0:42:26The rival to Barbie launched in the UK in 1963
0:42:26 > 0:42:32and marketed as "the doll you love to dress" was given what five-letter name?
0:42:32 > 0:42:35- Sindy.- That is correct.
0:42:35 > 0:42:37During the reign of Henry VIII,
0:42:37 > 0:42:43which word meaning disintegration was used for the destruction of the monasteries?
0:42:43 > 0:42:46- Dissolution.- That is correct.
0:42:46 > 0:42:52After five questions each, your scores are tied. Let's play Sudden Death.
0:42:55 > 0:43:02The police psychologist Alex Cross has appeared in best-selling novels by which writer?
0:43:05 > 0:43:09- I don't know.- James Patterson.
0:43:09 > 0:43:15Which word meaning nearly is spelt with six letters that appear in alphabetical order?
0:43:18 > 0:43:20- Almost.- That is correct.
0:43:23 > 0:43:29That means, Caz, you are today's Strongest Link and you go away with:
0:43:29 > 0:43:33Mark, you leave with nothing.
0:43:34 > 0:43:38Join us again for the Weakest Link. Goodbye.
0:43:39 > 0:43:45Anne has a penchant for men in uniform. That's why she came back to me for banter.
0:43:45 > 0:43:49It feels absolutely wonderful to win. I am thrilled to bits
0:43:49 > 0:43:54and my family and friends will be very proud of me, I'm sure.
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