0:00:02 > 0:00:06Here are the nine contestants preparing for today's show.
0:00:06 > 0:00:09Only one will win up to £10,000.
0:00:09 > 0:00:14The 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 > 0:00:38Any of the nine people in the studio here today could win up to £10,000.
0:00:38 > 0:00:44They've only just met, but to get the prize money they'll have to work together.
0:00:44 > 0:00:48However, eight will leave with nothing as, round by round,
0:00:48 > 0:00:52we lose the player voted the weakest link. Let's meet the team.
0:00:52 > 0:00:58I'm Andy, I'm 19, I'm from Northern Ireland and I'm a primary education student.
0:01:00 > 0:01:04I'm Mel, I'm 43, from Kent and I'm a treasury assistant.
0:01:05 > 0:01:11I'm Paul, I'm 24, from Essex and I'm a team leader at a mental health clinic.
0:01:12 > 0:01:18I'm Barbara, I'm 72, I'm from Wirral in Merseyside and I'm a retired printer.
0:01:19 > 0:01:24I'm Peter, I'm 37, from Cardiff, and I'm an architectural aluminium fabricator.
0:01:25 > 0:01:31I'm Liela, I'm 27, from St Albans, and I'm a customer services co-ordinator.
0:01:31 > 0:01:36I'm Trevor, I'm 58, from Weymouth and I'm a plumbing and heating engineer.
0:01:37 > 0:01:41I'm Kathy, I'm 34, from Brighton and I'm a property manager.
0:01:43 > 0:01:48I'm Steve, I'm 48, I'm in the Royal Air Force and I'm from Manchester.
0:01:50 > 0:01:56OK, in each round, there's £1,000 to be won. The fastest way is to create a chain of nine correct answers.
0:01:56 > 0:02:00Break the chain and you lose all the money in it.
0:02:00 > 0:02:04Say "Bank!" before the question is asked and the money is safe.
0:02:04 > 0:02:11Round 1. Three minutes on the clock. We'll start with the person whose name is first alphabetically.
0:02:11 > 0:02:15That's you, Andy. Let's play the Weakest Link.
0:02:16 > 0:02:20The first question is for £20. Start the clock.
0:02:20 > 0:02:25In the animal kingdom, a stallion is a horse of which sex?
0:02:25 > 0:02:31- Male.- Correct. In the modern English alphabet, what is the first vowel letter?
0:02:31 > 0:02:38- A.- Correct. According to one of its nicknames, New York is the city that never what - eats or sleeps?
0:02:38 > 0:02:45- Sleeps.- Correct. In art, canary, mustard and lemon are all shades of which colour?
0:02:45 > 0:02:49- Yellow.- Correct. In maths, what is 80 minus 20?
0:02:49 > 0:02:57- 60.- Correct. In British food, mint sauce is traditionally served with which roast meat?
0:02:57 > 0:03:04- Lamb.- Correct. On a compass, the four main directions are north, east, west and which other?
0:03:04 > 0:03:12- South.- Correct. In childhood, what B is the usual male equivalent of the word "girl"?
0:03:12 > 0:03:18- Boy.- Correct. In time measurement, a century is divided into one hundred what?
0:03:18 > 0:03:20- Years.- Correct.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23- Andy...- Bank.
0:03:25 > 0:03:29OK, you've reached and banked your £1,000 target
0:03:29 > 0:03:35in that first round where the questions were pathetically simple.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37But who's worrying you?
0:03:37 > 0:03:42If brains were illegal, who do you think would have a clear conscience?
0:03:43 > 0:03:47If knowledge is wealth, who might well be broke?
0:03:47 > 0:03:50Time to vote off the weakest link.
0:03:52 > 0:03:58In an impressive first round, Andy is the strongest link as he banked all the money.
0:03:58 > 0:04:03Statistically, Mel is the weakest link, but whose game is over?
0:04:04 > 0:04:09Voting over. It's time to reveal who you think is the weakest link.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11Liela.
0:04:12 > 0:04:13Paul.
0:04:14 > 0:04:16Peter.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18Steve.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21Kathy.
0:04:22 > 0:04:24Barbara.
0:04:25 > 0:04:26Barbara.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28Peter.
0:04:29 > 0:04:31Barbara.
0:04:33 > 0:04:37- Liela, what do you do? - I sell lighting.- In a shop?
0:04:37 > 0:04:42- No, over the phone.- Are you in a call centre?- Well, yeah.
0:04:42 > 0:04:47It's a big office with lots of people in it, on the phone.
0:04:47 > 0:04:51- Yeah.- So a call centre, yeah. - Does the phone keep going?
0:04:51 > 0:04:55- Yeah.- Ever think of answering it? - I'm always on the phone.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57Are you? How do you answer?
0:04:57 > 0:05:03- Good morning! Aurora, Liela speaking...- Aurora?- That's the name of the company that I work for.
0:05:03 > 0:05:07- Won't people think they're talking to Aurora?- Em...
0:05:07 > 0:05:11- Yeah, they know it's Aurora. They've rung Aurora.- Have they?
0:05:11 > 0:05:19- Why Barbara?- Just because... Barbara's probably got a lot more experience than I have.
0:05:19 > 0:05:24- You mean she's old?- Yeah. I don't mean it that way!- Which way?
0:05:24 > 0:05:27She's got more experience than me, so she's competition.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30Oh, I see.
0:05:30 > 0:05:34- What do you do, Steve?- I'm in the RAF, Anne.- Are you flying planes?
0:05:34 > 0:05:40- No, I don't.- Too afraid, are you? - Not of flying, no. Just not clever enough to fly.
0:05:40 > 0:05:44- So why did you join the RAF? - It was a challenge.
0:05:44 > 0:05:51- What can you do?- I can cook. - Is cooking for the RAF different from cooking normally?
0:05:51 > 0:05:55- Probably not, no.- You don't call the puddings "Chocs Away"?
0:05:55 > 0:06:00- Er, no.- Have you got a nickname? - Have I?- Yeah.- OB.
0:06:00 > 0:06:07- What's that for?- My surname is hyphenated. It's Owen-Brown. - And you're from Manchester.- Correct.
0:06:07 > 0:06:13- Are you self-hyphenated.- Yes, I am. - To make yourself more interesting. - That's one way of putting it.
0:06:13 > 0:06:19- Why Barbara? - Cos Barbara's had a long day. She needs to go and sit down.
0:06:19 > 0:06:23- Oh, you can be patronising as well. - Sorry, Barbara.
0:06:23 > 0:06:28- What do you do, Trevor? - I'm a plumbing and heating engineer.
0:06:28 > 0:06:33- Got your own company?- Yes.- Ooh! - I'm the chief executive officer.
0:06:33 > 0:06:41- Is that what your wife calls you? - No, she calls me other things. - Does she?- Yeah.
0:06:41 > 0:06:47- What's Mrs Plumber called?- Carol. - Carol?- Yeah.- You've been married for years and years?- 16.
0:06:47 > 0:06:50Does she like your fast brain?
0:06:52 > 0:06:56- And your wit?- I amuse her sometimes. - Do you?- Yeah, yeah.- Oh.
0:06:56 > 0:07:02- You can be funny, can you? - Em, sometimes, yeah. - We haven't seen any evidence of it.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05- Oh, all right. - Can you tell me a plumbing joke?
0:07:05 > 0:07:10What do you get if you swallow a ball valve and an immersion heater?
0:07:10 > 0:07:13- I've no idea.- A hot flush.
0:07:15 > 0:07:20- Why Barbara?- Em...she's a little bit older...- Take your time, Trevor(!)
0:07:20 > 0:07:22Pardon?
0:07:22 > 0:07:27She's a little bit older than me and I thought she won't need the money.
0:07:27 > 0:07:31Barbara, you are the weakest link. Goodbye.
0:07:38 > 0:07:45My friends and family will be absolutely devastated that I've been voted off in the first round.
0:07:45 > 0:07:48I'll never live it down!
0:07:50 > 0:07:55Round 2. In the bank, £1,000. We now take 10 seconds off your time.
0:07:55 > 0:08:00We start with the strongest link. That's little Andy. Let's play the Weakest Link.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02Start the clock.
0:08:02 > 0:08:09The part of a standard bicycle tyre that's inflated with a pump is known as the inner what?
0:08:09 > 0:08:12- Inner ring?- Tube.
0:08:12 > 0:08:16In medicine, the word "gastric" refers to which organ of the body?
0:08:16 > 0:08:22- Stomach.- In cinema, the actor whose films include Tango and Cash, Demolition Man and Judge Dredd
0:08:22 > 0:08:24is Sylvester who?
0:08:24 > 0:08:30- Stallone.- In superstitions, someone who claims to be able to tell people their destinies
0:08:30 > 0:08:33is a future smeller or fortune teller?
0:08:33 > 0:08:40- Fortune teller.- Correct. In comics, the character in the Dandy who eats cow pie has what alliterative name?
0:08:43 > 0:08:44- Desperate Dan.- Correct.
0:08:44 > 0:08:51In geography, the Lipari Islands in the Mediterranean to the north of Sicily belong to which country?
0:08:51 > 0:08:53- Italy.- Correct.
0:08:53 > 0:08:59A proposed Act of Parliament introduced by someone other than a government minister
0:08:59 > 0:09:01is a private member's what?
0:09:01 > 0:09:03- Law?- Bill.
0:09:03 > 0:09:08In entertainment, what C is the name of a high-locking dance made famous
0:09:08 > 0:09:11by performers at the Moulin Rouge nightclub in Paris?
0:09:11 > 0:09:14- Cheerleading.- Can-can.
0:09:14 > 0:09:18The author who created the spy James Bond was Ian who?
0:09:18 > 0:09:21- McKellen?- Fleming.
0:09:21 > 0:09:27In definitions, an accumulation of uncompleted work is called a backlog or an epilogue?
0:09:27 > 0:09:33- Backlog.- Correct.- Bank!- In finance, the abbreviation APR stands for Annual Percentage what?
0:09:35 > 0:09:41- Pass.- Rate. In Western art, which word meaning innocent or gullible is applied to painting
0:09:41 > 0:09:45that is unsophisticated and childlike?
0:09:45 > 0:09:49- Kid?- Naive. In expressions, a person who is delighted with something
0:09:49 > 0:09:53is often said to be over which celestial object?
0:09:53 > 0:09:57- The Moon.- Correct. In engineering, what W is the word used
0:09:57 > 0:10:03to describe the heavy ball that is swung from a crane to demolish old buildings?
0:10:03 > 0:10:05- Wrecking.- Correct.- Bank!
0:10:05 > 0:10:10The name of which Brazilian city translates as River of January?
0:10:10 > 0:10:17- Rio de Janeiro.- Correct. In science fiction, the Star Trek character Mr Spock was born on which planet?
0:10:20 > 0:10:28- Pass.- Vulcan. In filmmaking, fake glass used in stunts to avoid injury is made from jelly or sugar?
0:10:28 > 0:10:35- Sugar.- In Scrabble, when placed on a standard square, a letter of the highest value is worth how much?
0:10:35 > 0:10:43- 10.- Correct.- Bank!- The woman who was a judge on Pop Idol and has hosted Sunday Style and This Morning
0:10:43 > 0:10:45is Nicki who?
0:10:46 > 0:10:53- Pass.- Chapman. In classical mythology, what J is the name of the Roman equivalent of Greek god Zeus?
0:10:56 > 0:11:01Time's up. The answer was Jupiter. That wasn't very impressive.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03You only banked £120.
0:11:03 > 0:11:08Who's the tailor-made tragedy? Who's a space-age simpleton?
0:11:10 > 0:11:13Time to vote off the weakest link.
0:11:15 > 0:11:19Having answered the most questions, Mel is the strongest link.
0:11:19 > 0:11:25The weakest link, statistically, is Steve, but will the other players realise that?
0:11:25 > 0:11:30Voting over. It's time to reveal who you think is the weakest link.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33Paul.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36Andy.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39Andy.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42Andy.
0:11:43 > 0:11:44Andy.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47Andy.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50Steve.
0:11:51 > 0:11:53Andy.
0:11:55 > 0:11:59- What do you do, Paul?- I work at a mental health clinic.
0:11:59 > 0:12:03- And you're a team leader.- Yes. - What team?
0:12:03 > 0:12:06I manage the domestic staff.
0:12:06 > 0:12:12- Not the surgeons? Or the nurses? - No. I'm not that smart, Anne. - How many cleaners are under you?
0:12:12 > 0:12:16- Only four. - How old are you?- 24, Anne.
0:12:16 > 0:12:20- And how old are they? - I have no idea.- Any of them 24?
0:12:20 > 0:12:24- No. Definitely all older than me. - You must know a lot about cleaning.
0:12:24 > 0:12:30- I don't, I'm afraid. - Is team leading your life? - No, I have a social life, Anne.
0:12:30 > 0:12:35- What do you really want to be? - I'd like to be in a band. - A rock star?
0:12:35 > 0:12:40- Yes, something like that.- Put your board down. What can you do?
0:12:40 > 0:12:44- I Play the drums.- Can you sing?- No.
0:12:44 > 0:12:48- Move over. What can you drum to? - Anything you like.
0:12:48 > 0:12:52- What do you like drumming to? - Heavy metal.- Do a bit of drumming.
0:12:52 > 0:12:55- I can't...- Air drum!- Air drum.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57OK.
0:12:57 > 0:13:00- I could do that, Paul.- Probably.
0:13:00 > 0:13:03- It wouldn't be in time, though. - Move back.
0:13:03 > 0:13:06Put your board up.
0:13:06 > 0:13:10- Why Andy?- He got two questions wrong in that round.
0:13:10 > 0:13:16- What do you do, Peter?- I'm an architectural aluminium fabricator. - You aren't!- I am.
0:13:16 > 0:13:20- Where?- Cardiff. - So, being Welsh, you're creative.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23- Oh, yeah.- And you can sing as well?
0:13:23 > 0:13:25Ohh...well, no.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28- What can you do?- Impressions.
0:13:28 > 0:13:31- Oh, can you?- Yeah.- Who can you do?
0:13:31 > 0:13:35- You have to guess. - OK. Put your board down.
0:13:37 > 0:13:38Go on.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41One million dollars.
0:13:41 > 0:13:46I will get you, Austin...Powers.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49- Is that Cheryl Cole?- Close!
0:13:49 > 0:13:55- Who was that?- That was Dr Evil from the Austin Powers films. - OK, do another one.
0:13:55 > 0:13:59Shomebody mentioned Connery? Oshcar-winning actor and golfer?
0:13:59 > 0:14:02- Who's that?- Sean Connery.
0:14:02 > 0:14:08- A Welsh Sean Connery.- Well, maybe. - Can you do any girls?- No.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11- Can you do me?- ..No.
0:14:11 > 0:14:13Very wise. Put your board up.
0:14:13 > 0:14:18- Why Andy?- I just remembered him getting two wrong at the beginning.
0:14:18 > 0:14:21Andy, you are the weakest link. Goodbye.
0:14:26 > 0:14:32I thought the reasons they gave for voting me off were quite fair,
0:14:32 > 0:14:39but it was because I answered first that they thought I was the weakest link and I wasn't, so...robbed.
0:14:41 > 0:14:45Round 3. In the bank, £1,120. Another 10 seconds off the time.
0:14:45 > 0:14:49We'll start with Mel. Let's play the Weakest Link.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51Start the clock.
0:14:51 > 0:14:58In food, the cheese named after an area in the East Midlands is called Red what?
0:14:58 > 0:15:04- Leicester.- In human appearance, brown marks on the skin, mainly appearing in older people,
0:15:04 > 0:15:06are liver spots or kidney beans?
0:15:06 > 0:15:10- Liver spots.- Correct. - Bank!
0:15:10 > 0:15:16At the 2010 ceremony, which R&B singer became the first female solo artist to win six Grammy awards
0:15:16 > 0:15:18- in a single year?- Rihanna?
0:15:18 > 0:15:24No, Beyonce. In expressions, which abbreviated boy's name precedes the word "foolery"
0:15:24 > 0:15:27to make a term for silly behaviour?
0:15:27 > 0:15:34- Tom.- Correct. In history, until 1868 the shoguns were the military rulers of which Asian country?
0:15:34 > 0:15:39- Japan.- Correct.- Bank!- In reptiles, what T is a type of aquatic turtle
0:15:39 > 0:15:43that is sometimes referred to as a water tortoise?
0:15:43 > 0:15:49- Terrapin.- Correct. In UK geography, Donny is a nickname for which town in South Yorkshire?
0:15:49 > 0:15:55- Doncaster.- Correct. In sport in 2009, the former Wales rugby captain Gareth Thomas
0:15:55 > 0:15:59publicly revealed that he was gay or English?
0:15:59 > 0:16:02- Gay.- Correct.- Bank!
0:16:02 > 0:16:08A case where a lawyer does not charge a fee is described by the Latin phrase pro what?
0:16:08 > 0:16:10- Brava.- Bono.
0:16:10 > 0:16:17What is the English name for the northern European language known by its own speakers as Dansk?
0:16:19 > 0:16:21- Pass.- Danish.
0:16:21 > 0:16:27The host of the 1950s and '60s TV shows The 6-5 Special and Juke Box Jury,
0:16:27 > 0:16:32who later presented Open House on radio in the '70s was Pete who?
0:16:34 > 0:16:36- Pass.- Murray.
0:16:36 > 0:16:42In vocabulary, what B means to smile radiantly and is also a term for a shaft of light?
0:16:44 > 0:16:46- Bright?- Beam.
0:16:46 > 0:16:52In beverages, the drink that is traditionally made by fermenting two plants native to the British Isles
0:16:52 > 0:16:54is called dandelion and what?
0:16:54 > 0:17:00- Burdock.- Correct. In the Royal Navy, which word derived from the French for small
0:17:00 > 0:17:05is applied to an officer equivalent in rank to a sergeant in the Army?
0:17:05 > 0:17:07Could you repeat that, sorry?
0:17:07 > 0:17:11In the Royal Navy, which word derived from the French for small
0:17:11 > 0:17:15is applied to an officer equivalent in rank to a sergeant in the Army?
0:17:15 > 0:17:17- Petty.- Correct.- Bank!
0:17:17 > 0:17:24Which infection of the large intestine occurs in two forms called bacterial and amoebic?
0:17:25 > 0:17:27- Pass.- Dysentery.
0:17:27 > 0:17:32In the Gregorian calendar, the four months of the year...
0:17:34 > 0:17:37Time's up and you won £250.
0:17:39 > 0:17:46But who's the finger painting at the Royal Academy? Which gnome is leading you up the garden path?
0:17:46 > 0:17:50Who's losing you money? Time to vote off the weakest link.
0:17:51 > 0:17:55According to the statistics, Kathy is the strongest link.
0:17:55 > 0:18:00The weakest link is Peter, but will the voting reflect reality?
0:18:01 > 0:18:06Voting over. It's time to reveal who you think is the weakest link.
0:18:06 > 0:18:08Peter.
0:18:09 > 0:18:10Peter.
0:18:12 > 0:18:13Liela.
0:18:13 > 0:18:15Paul.
0:18:16 > 0:18:18Paul.
0:18:19 > 0:18:21Peter.
0:18:22 > 0:18:23Peter.
0:18:25 > 0:18:33- What do you do, Mel?- I'm a treasury assistant for an insurance company. - Is that all?- At the moment, yeah.
0:18:33 > 0:18:39- Oh.- Work-wise. - Oh, you do lots of things leisure-wise, do you?
0:18:39 > 0:18:44- I was running, until I had a bit of an accident.- Who do you run with?
0:18:44 > 0:18:49- My friends.- You haven't got a husband?- He won't run with me.
0:18:49 > 0:18:55- He says he couldn't keep his eyes on where he was going.- Is he a new husband?- He's not my husband
0:18:55 > 0:19:01- and he's not new.- Is he somebody else's husband?- No, he's my own, but we're just not married.- Oh.
0:19:01 > 0:19:06- We've been together nearly 20 years, though.- Is he older?- No, younger.
0:19:06 > 0:19:12- Really? How old is he?- 38. - And you're what?- 43. - So how did you get him, Mel?
0:19:12 > 0:19:17- I was a barmaid and he was a customer.- Yeah. And?
0:19:17 > 0:19:21He'll kill me for saying this, but he liked me and I quite liked him,
0:19:21 > 0:19:26- but he didn't have the courage to come to me, so I went to him.- How?
0:19:26 > 0:19:32- Actually, I had a friend who was a mediator. - And what did the friend say to him?
0:19:32 > 0:19:38We all just met up round at her flat one night for a meal and stuff and it went from there.
0:19:38 > 0:19:42- Did it? Where did it go to? - You wouldn't want to know, Anne.
0:19:42 > 0:19:47- Why Peter?- I just remember him getting two questions wrong.
0:19:47 > 0:19:53- What do you do, Kathy? - I'm a property manager. - Oh. What sort of property?
0:19:53 > 0:19:58- Rental properties.- And who do you work for?- The family business.
0:19:58 > 0:20:03Oh, I see. So have Mummy and Daddy got lots of properties?
0:20:03 > 0:20:09- They might have, if I called them Mummy and Daddy.- What do you call them?- Dad and Mum.
0:20:09 > 0:20:14- Do you collect the rents?- I do. - Yeah? In an armoured van?
0:20:14 > 0:20:20- With a rolling pin.- Why Peter? - I believe he was the title character in that round.
0:20:20 > 0:20:23He didn't answer a single question.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26Peter, you are the weakest link. Goodbye.
0:20:31 > 0:20:36Anne asked me if I could sing and I said I can do impressions.
0:20:36 > 0:20:42She asked me who I do and I said you'd have to guess. And she didn't know any of them.
0:20:42 > 0:20:49Then she said, "Can you do me?" I stumbled for a minute and thought, "I don't think I should do Anne."
0:20:50 > 0:20:55Round 4. In the bank, £1,370. Another 10 seconds off the time.
0:20:55 > 0:20:59We'll start with Kathy. Let's play the Weakest Link.
0:20:59 > 0:21:01Start the clock.
0:21:01 > 0:21:06In insects, a honey bee hive usually contains how many Queen Bees?
0:21:06 > 0:21:13- One.- Correct. In housework, a triangular fold of bed linen tucked securely under a mattress
0:21:13 > 0:21:17is called a hospital corner or surgical plait?
0:21:17 > 0:21:20- Hospital corner.- Correct.- Bank.
0:21:20 > 0:21:26Jim Carrey starred as a lawyer who is cursed to tell only the truth in which 1997 comedy?
0:21:26 > 0:21:31- Liar Liar.- Correct. In geography, which canal, completed in 1869,
0:21:31 > 0:21:36lies on the shortest maritime route between London and India?
0:21:36 > 0:21:42- Suez Canal.- Correct.- Bank! - In broadcasting, the former British number one tennis player
0:21:42 > 0:21:45who joined GMTV as a presenter in 2000 is Andrew who?
0:21:45 > 0:21:52- Castle.- Correct. In food, prosciutto is an uncooked dried meat that is obtained from which animal?
0:21:55 > 0:22:01- Pig?- Correct.- Bank!- In maths, which is the only number between 80 and 90 wholly divisible by 11?
0:22:04 > 0:22:10- 88.- Correct. In pop music, the influential American R'n'B producer Timothy Mosley
0:22:10 > 0:22:14uses what professional name - Timberlake or Timbaland?
0:22:16 > 0:22:18- Justin Timberlake.- Timbaland.
0:22:18 > 0:22:25In religious festivals, Easter takes place in the northern hemisphere during which of the four seasons?
0:22:25 > 0:22:30- Spring.- Correct. In measurements, what D is a unit equal to one eighth of a fluid ounce
0:22:30 > 0:22:34and is commonly used as a term for a small alcoholic drink?
0:22:36 > 0:22:43- Pass.- Dram. In achievements, in 1926 Gertrude Ederle became the first woman
0:22:43 > 0:22:45to swim across which body of water?
0:22:45 > 0:22:48- The Channel.- Correct.
0:22:48 > 0:22:53According to the last line of the poem entitled The Hollow Men by TS Eliot,
0:22:53 > 0:22:57the world ends not with a bang, but with a what?
0:22:58 > 0:23:01- A whisper?- Whimper.
0:23:01 > 0:23:07In sport, cities in which country hosted the summer Olympic Games in 1956 and 2000?
0:23:09 > 0:23:12- Athens?- Australia.
0:23:12 > 0:23:18In cinema, Johnny Depp played JM Barrie in the 2004 film entitled Finding what?
0:23:19 > 0:23:22- Nemo.- Neverland.
0:23:22 > 0:23:28In geography, the two US states that are not physically connected to others are Hawaii and which other?
0:23:28 > 0:23:31- Alaska?- Correct.- Bank!
0:23:33 > 0:23:38Time's up. Your bank was in time and you won £170.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41Who'd need water wings in the bath?
0:23:41 > 0:23:45Who thinks a Cabinet minister is in charge of the furniture?
0:23:45 > 0:23:48Time to vote off the weakest link.
0:23:50 > 0:23:53Statistically, Mel is the strongest link.
0:23:53 > 0:23:59With the most answers wrong, Steve is the weakest link, but will the team notice that?
0:23:59 > 0:24:05Voting over. It's time to reveal who you think is the weakest link.
0:24:05 > 0:24:07Steve.
0:24:08 > 0:24:09Steve.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13Steve.
0:24:14 > 0:24:16Steve.
0:24:17 > 0:24:18Steve.
0:24:19 > 0:24:21Trevor.
0:24:23 > 0:24:28- Paul, from Rainham.- Hello, Anne. - You want to be Ringo, do you?
0:24:28 > 0:24:33Em, not quite Ringo, but yeah, in a manner of speaking.
0:24:33 > 0:24:39- Why Steve?- I think he was the only one to get two questions wrong. Sorry, Steve.
0:24:39 > 0:24:44- So, Trevor, why Steve? - Em, sadly, he got a couple wrong.
0:24:44 > 0:24:47Steve, you are the weakest link. Goodbye.
0:24:53 > 0:24:58I think the highlight of coming on the programme is just coming on it.
0:24:58 > 0:25:02You can say you've done it, been there, failed abjectly
0:25:02 > 0:25:05and walked away on the Walk of Shame.
0:25:07 > 0:25:11Round 5. In the bank, £1,540. Another 10 seconds off the time.
0:25:11 > 0:25:18We'll start with the strongest link from the last round. That's Mel.
0:25:18 > 0:25:22Let's play the Weakest Link. Start the clock.
0:25:22 > 0:25:29In TV, in 1990 Paul Merton and Ian Hislop became the regular team captains on which quiz show?
0:25:29 > 0:25:35- Have I Got News For You.- Correct. The medieval illuminated manuscript called the Book of Kells
0:25:35 > 0:25:38is housed in which Irish city?
0:25:38 > 0:25:42- Dublin.- Correct.- Bank! - In magazines,
0:25:42 > 0:25:48the British journalist who became editor-in-chief of the US edition of Vogue in 1988 is Anna who?
0:25:49 > 0:25:54- Pass.- Wintour. In Ancient Greece, what P was the name of the philosopher who,
0:25:54 > 0:25:59in about 387BC founded a school called the Academy?
0:25:59 > 0:26:02- Plato?- Correct.
0:26:02 > 0:26:06- Bank!- According to the proverb, a change is as good as a what?
0:26:07 > 0:26:13- Pass.- Rest! In the marine world, the dogfish is a member of which family of sea creatures -
0:26:13 > 0:26:15eels or sharks?
0:26:15 > 0:26:22- Eels.- Sharks. In materials, which cotton fabric has a name reflecting its origin in Nimes?
0:26:23 > 0:26:25- Nylon.- Denim.
0:26:25 > 0:26:30In classical music, what G was the first name of the English composer called Holst,
0:26:30 > 0:26:34whose best-known work is the Planets Suite?
0:26:34 > 0:26:37- Greg.- Gustav.
0:26:37 > 0:26:44In 19th-century literature, Samuel Pickwick, Wackford Squeers and Martin Chuzzlewit
0:26:44 > 0:26:46were all created by which author?
0:26:46 > 0:26:49- Charles Dickens.- Correct.- Bank!
0:26:49 > 0:26:55The word bibulous describes someone who is inclined to do a great deal of cleaning or drinking?
0:26:57 > 0:27:01- Drinking.- Correct. - Bank!
0:27:01 > 0:27:05The headquarters of the news channel CNN are in which city in Georgia?
0:27:05 > 0:27:09- Atlanta?- Correct.- Bank. - In expressions,
0:27:09 > 0:27:15a period of leave spent in an activity similar to one's work is called a busman's what?
0:27:15 > 0:27:17- Pass.- Holiday.
0:27:17 > 0:27:21What T is a metallic element that is strong but lightweight
0:27:21 > 0:27:26and is used to make aircraft parts and as a pigment in inks and paints?
0:27:28 > 0:27:31- Tin.- No, titanium.
0:27:31 > 0:27:38In cinema, what is the title of the 1941 Oscar-winning film written by and starring Orson Welles?
0:27:40 > 0:27:43The 39 Steps.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48Time's up. The correct answer was Citizen Kane.
0:27:48 > 0:27:54And you won £130. So whose brain has got an ASBO?
0:27:54 > 0:28:01Who needs a personal thickness trainer? Time to vote off the weakest link.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06With no correct answers, Liela is the weakest link.
0:28:06 > 0:28:13The strongest link, statistically, is Mel, but who will lose out in the vote?
0:28:13 > 0:28:18Voting over. It's time to reveal who you think is the weakest link.
0:28:18 > 0:28:20Liela.
0:28:21 > 0:28:22Liela.
0:28:24 > 0:28:26Paul.
0:28:28 > 0:28:29Paul.
0:28:30 > 0:28:32Paul.
0:28:34 > 0:28:39- So, Liela, you thought Paul was the worst player, did you? - I did, yeah.
0:28:39 > 0:28:44- And did you have any help choosing Paul?- No.
0:28:44 > 0:28:51- So that's not the reason you've voted the same way as Trevor all the way?- I don't know why we have.
0:28:51 > 0:28:56- Don't you?- No, honestly.- You didn't have a little agreement?- No!
0:28:56 > 0:29:00I'm not like that. I voted Paul because I think,
0:29:00 > 0:29:04after me, he got the next amount of questions wrong.
0:29:04 > 0:29:08So how come, Trevor, you've been voting the same as Liela?
0:29:08 > 0:29:12- I can't answer that one. - I bet you can't.
0:29:12 > 0:29:17It's votes that count. Paul, you are the weakest link. Goodbye.
0:29:21 > 0:29:25Anne asked me to do some mime drumming for her.
0:29:25 > 0:29:31She didn't give me a chance to complete it. She said she could do it.
0:29:31 > 0:29:36But I'm sure I could impress her further if she came and listened.
0:29:38 > 0:29:43Round 6. In the bank, £1,670. Another 10 seconds off the time.
0:29:43 > 0:29:48We'll start with Mel. Let's play the Weakest Link.
0:29:48 > 0:29:50Start the clock.
0:29:50 > 0:29:54In maths, what is 18 plus 36?
0:29:55 > 0:30:01- 54.- Correct. In pop music, Weather With You, Four Seasons In One Day and It's Only Natural
0:30:01 > 0:30:05were UK hit singles in 1992 for which group?
0:30:05 > 0:30:09- Crowded House.- Correct. In trees, which animal precedes "puzzle"
0:30:09 > 0:30:15in the common English name of an ornamental conifer native to South America?
0:30:17 > 0:30:20- Redwood?- Monkey.
0:30:20 > 0:30:26In a game of volleyball, in any point each side is allowed a maximum of how many consecutive hits?
0:30:26 > 0:30:30- Three?- Correct. Because they lived in Cumbria,
0:30:30 > 0:30:36Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey are known collectively as the Valley Poets or Lake Poets?
0:30:38 > 0:30:40- Lake Poets.- Correct. - Bank!
0:30:40 > 0:30:46In TV, after an absence of almost 10 years, which comedy series starring Gregor Fisher
0:30:46 > 0:30:51was revived for a Christmas special in 2008 and a new series in 2010?
0:30:53 > 0:30:56- Pass.- Rab C Nesbitt.
0:30:56 > 0:31:01In British politics, before Gordon Brown was appointed in 1997,
0:31:01 > 0:31:05the last Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer was Denis who?
0:31:06 > 0:31:08- Skinner?- Healey.
0:31:08 > 0:31:14In legend, what T is the name of the Cornish castle said to have been the birthplace of King Arthur?
0:31:17 > 0:31:20- Pass.- Tintagel.
0:31:20 > 0:31:27The bi-plane used in WWI and named for the fact that it has a hump in front of the cockpit
0:31:27 > 0:31:29is the Sopwith what?
0:31:29 > 0:31:31- No idea, Anne.- Camel.
0:31:31 > 0:31:37"They're digging in the wrong place," comes from which Harrison Ford film -
0:31:37 > 0:31:40Raiders of the Lost Ark or What Lies Beneath?
0:31:40 > 0:31:46- Raiders of the Lost Ark.- Correct. - Bank!- What is the West London prison known informally as the Scrubs?
0:31:47 > 0:31:49- Brixton.- Wormwood Scrubs.
0:31:49 > 0:31:55In celebrities, the controversial PR consultant whose clients have included Simon Cowell,
0:31:55 > 0:32:00Shilpa Shetty and Kerry Katona is Max who?
0:32:00 > 0:32:02- Clifford.- Correct. - Bank!
0:32:02 > 0:32:07Time's up. And your bank was in time.
0:32:07 > 0:32:09As a result,
0:32:09 > 0:32:11you won £90.
0:32:11 > 0:32:16But consider... maybe Mel's no treasure?
0:32:16 > 0:32:19Is Liela about to see the light?
0:32:19 > 0:32:21Has Trevor gone down the plughole?
0:32:23 > 0:32:25Or is Kathy's tenancy over?
0:32:25 > 0:32:29Time to vote off the weakest link.
0:32:30 > 0:32:35Liela has gone from the weakest link in the last round to the strongest.
0:32:35 > 0:32:42Statistically, Trevor is the weakest link, but will the votes follow the statistics?
0:32:42 > 0:32:47Voting over. It's time to reveal who you think is the weakest link.
0:32:47 > 0:32:49Trevor.
0:32:53 > 0:32:54Trevor.
0:32:55 > 0:32:57Liela.
0:32:58 > 0:32:59Trevor.
0:33:01 > 0:33:04Liela, you've changed your tune.
0:33:04 > 0:33:09- I feel bad for that. I really do.- I wouldn't do so.
0:33:09 > 0:33:13- He's voted for you. - I thought he might.
0:33:13 > 0:33:17After him, I probably was worst, so I knew he would.
0:33:17 > 0:33:22- You thought you were the worst, did you?- Yeah. After Trevor.
0:33:22 > 0:33:24You were the strongest link.
0:33:24 > 0:33:28- Really?- Yeah.
0:33:28 > 0:33:34- Mel, why Trevor?- Great guy and all that, but he got all his questions wrong.- He was hopeless!
0:33:34 > 0:33:38- He was.- Trevor, you are the weakest link. Goodbye.
0:33:43 > 0:33:49There was no tactical voting. I think Anne was trying to stir up trouble with Liela and myself.
0:33:49 > 0:33:55She's quite a pretty girl and maybe there was a little bit of jealousy there.
0:33:56 > 0:34:01Round 7. In the bank, £1,760.
0:34:01 > 0:34:03Another 10 seconds off the time.
0:34:03 > 0:34:08We'll start with Liela. Let's play the Weakest Link.
0:34:08 > 0:34:10Start the clock.
0:34:10 > 0:34:16In football, which manager of Liverpool whose surname is also a town in Scotland,
0:34:16 > 0:34:19became the first to win three European Cups?
0:34:19 > 0:34:23- Rafael Benitez?- Bob Paisley.
0:34:23 > 0:34:28In pop music, what C is the name of the female American singer who has had UK hit singles
0:34:28 > 0:34:32entitled Goodies, Oh and Love Sex Magic?
0:34:37 > 0:34:39- Chantelle?- Ciara.
0:34:39 > 0:34:45In geographical locations, the Portuguese capital Lisbon is on the coast of which ocean?
0:34:45 > 0:34:48- The...Atlantic.- Correct.
0:34:48 > 0:34:54- Bank!- In botany, the largest flower in the world, Rafflesia, attracts insects
0:34:54 > 0:34:58by mimicking the smell of what - apple pie or rotting flesh?
0:34:59 > 0:35:04- Rotting flesh.- Correct.- Bank! - In the media since 1927,
0:35:04 > 0:35:08the abbreviation BBC has stood for the British Broadcasting what?
0:35:08 > 0:35:11- Corporation.- Correct. - Bank!
0:35:11 > 0:35:18The man born in Poland in 1920 who was elected Pope in 1978 became known by which name and number?
0:35:18 > 0:35:20- John Paul II.- Correct.
0:35:20 > 0:35:27- Bank.- In US politics, which large land animal is the symbol of the Republican Party?
0:35:29 > 0:35:33- A...tiger.- A...elephant.
0:35:33 > 0:35:39In the Harry Potter books, what J is the middle name of the title character?
0:35:40 > 0:35:42- Julius?- James.
0:35:42 > 0:35:48In pop music, A Message To You, Rudy, Rat Race, Do Nothing and Ghost Town were UK hit singles
0:35:48 > 0:35:52for which group formed in 1977 in Coventry?
0:35:52 > 0:35:54- Fun Boy Three.- The Specials.
0:35:54 > 0:36:00In motor sport, the French driver who in 2009 won his sixth successive World Rally championship
0:36:00 > 0:36:02is Sebastian who?
0:36:02 > 0:36:07- Shankar.- Loeb. After being expelled from the Soviet Union
0:36:07 > 0:36:10in 1929, Leon Trotsky...
0:36:13 > 0:36:18Time's up and you won £80. In Round 8, you treble what you bank.
0:36:18 > 0:36:20Time to vote off the weakest link.
0:36:23 > 0:36:27For the fourth time in the game, Mel is the strongest link.
0:36:27 > 0:36:33The weakest link, statistically, is Liela, but who will lose out in the final vote?
0:36:33 > 0:36:38Voting over. It's time to reveal who you think is the weakest link.
0:36:38 > 0:36:40Liela.
0:36:43 > 0:36:44Kathy.
0:36:46 > 0:36:48Liela.
0:36:50 > 0:36:57- Mel, why Liela?- It's getting harder, but I think she got more questions wrong than everybody else.
0:36:57 > 0:37:02- It's not because she's younger, thinner and taller?- In that case, I'd be voting Kathy as well.
0:37:02 > 0:37:08- Kathy, why Liela? - Mel has been consistently brilliant throughout the game,
0:37:08 > 0:37:13- and deserves a place in the final. - And Liela was the worst player.
0:37:13 > 0:37:16You are the weakest link. Goodbye.
0:37:20 > 0:37:24My biggest mistake maybe was passing on quite a lot of questions.
0:37:24 > 0:37:31I didn't really give them much thought and I could have maybe answered them if I'd thought,
0:37:31 > 0:37:37but at the time your mind goes a bit blank, so the easiest thing to say is "Pass".
0:37:38 > 0:37:43Round 8. In the bank, £1,840. In this round, 90 seconds.
0:37:43 > 0:37:48Whatever you win is trebled. We'll start with Mel.
0:37:48 > 0:37:52Let's play the Weakest Link. Start the clock.
0:37:52 > 0:37:58In dogs, which word that means horseman forms part of the name of a breed developed
0:37:58 > 0:38:01from the King Charles spaniel?
0:38:02 > 0:38:04- Cocker.- Cavalier.
0:38:04 > 0:38:11In medicine, sciatica is a condition that is more likely to affect the ears or the legs?
0:38:11 > 0:38:13- The ears.- The legs.
0:38:13 > 0:38:19In heavy industry, until 1980 the town of Consett in County Durham was a major centre
0:38:19 > 0:38:22for the production of which alloy?
0:38:22 > 0:38:24- Tin.- Steel.
0:38:24 > 0:38:28If a person to whom a cheque is made out is the payee,
0:38:28 > 0:38:33what is a similar term for someone on the front of an envelope?
0:38:33 > 0:38:39- Addressee.- Correct.- Bank! - In maths, what is 4 multiplied by 2 multiplied by 2?
0:38:39 > 0:38:42- 16.- Correct.- Bank!- In transport,
0:38:42 > 0:38:47the vehicles owned and used by a railway company are its rocking store or rolling stock?
0:38:47 > 0:38:50Rolling...rocking stock.
0:38:50 > 0:38:52No, rolling stock.
0:38:52 > 0:38:58In celebrities, what's the Italian first name of the outspoken chef born in Leeds in 1961
0:38:58 > 0:39:00with the other names Pierre White?
0:39:00 > 0:39:07- Marco.- Correct.- Bank!- The American humorist James Thurber once said, "A woman's place is in the..." what?
0:39:07 > 0:39:09- Home.- No, in the wrong.
0:39:09 > 0:39:15In heraldry, the native species of swan depicted on the coat of arms of Australia is what colour?
0:39:15 > 0:39:21- White.- Black. What B is the name of an event that combines cross-country skiing...
0:39:21 > 0:39:23Biathlon!
0:39:25 > 0:39:27Time's up.
0:39:28 > 0:39:33You won £60, which we will treble.
0:39:33 > 0:39:39That means prize money today of:
0:39:39 > 0:39:41There can only be one winner.
0:39:41 > 0:39:47Now up to five questions each. If there's a tie, sudden death.
0:39:47 > 0:39:51So, Mel and Kathy, for £2,020, let's play the Weakest Link.
0:39:53 > 0:39:57Kathy, you have the choice of who goes first.
0:39:57 > 0:39:59I'll go first, please.
0:40:01 > 0:40:08In history, throughout the American Civil War, the Crimean War and the Anglo-Zulu War,
0:40:08 > 0:40:12which monarch was on the British throne?
0:40:16 > 0:40:17Oh...
0:40:19 > 0:40:23- Charles the... - The answer is Queen Victoria.
0:40:23 > 0:40:30When the former model Sandra Paul married a future leader of the Conservative Party in 1975,
0:40:30 > 0:40:33she took what married surname?
0:40:35 > 0:40:38- McMillan.- The answer is Howard.
0:40:38 > 0:40:40In landmarks,
0:40:40 > 0:40:43the 100-storey building in Chicago
0:40:43 > 0:40:48that was renamed the Willis Tower in 2009
0:40:48 > 0:40:53had been known since its opening in 1973 by what other name?
0:41:02 > 0:41:06- It's gone.- The correct answer is the Sears Tower.
0:41:06 > 0:41:10The only three countries in the Americas
0:41:10 > 0:41:14whose names in English contain the letter Z
0:41:14 > 0:41:17are Brazil, Belize and which other?
0:41:17 > 0:41:20- Venezuela.- That is correct.
0:41:20 > 0:41:25In pop music, what's the single-word title of the debut album by Coldplay
0:41:25 > 0:41:28that was a UK number one in 2000
0:41:28 > 0:41:34and then re-entered the Top 40 in 2002, 2003 and 2005?
0:41:39 > 0:41:44- Yellow. - The correct answer is Parachutes.
0:41:44 > 0:41:50The 2009 book Mad Dogs And Englishmen: An Expedition Round My Family
0:41:50 > 0:41:56is a personal history of his ancestors by which famous British explorer?
0:42:02 > 0:42:07- Ranulph Scott.- The correct answer is Ranulph Fiennes.
0:42:07 > 0:42:13In art, what was the professional name of the US painter born in 1887
0:42:13 > 0:42:19and known for her sensuous close-up paintings of flowers such as Black Iris?
0:42:21 > 0:42:25- Em, pass.- The correct answer is Georgia O'Keeffe.
0:42:26 > 0:42:31In cinema, the songs Let's Stay Together, Son of a Preacher Man
0:42:32 > 0:42:34and Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon
0:42:34 > 0:42:39featured on the soundtrack of which controversial 1994 film?
0:42:41 > 0:42:44- I don't know, Anne.- Pulp Fiction.
0:42:44 > 0:42:49In education, which branch of science explores cultural diversity
0:42:49 > 0:42:51and human evolution
0:42:51 > 0:42:57and has a single-word name that literally means the study of humankind?
0:43:00 > 0:43:02Palaeontology?
0:43:02 > 0:43:04The correct answer is anthropology.
0:43:07 > 0:43:13That means, Mel, you're today's strongest link and you go away with:
0:43:14 > 0:43:17Kathy, you leave with nothing.
0:43:18 > 0:43:22Join us again for the Weakest Link. Goodbye.
0:43:23 > 0:43:27If I had Mel's questions, I don't think I'd have done any better.
0:43:27 > 0:43:31I knew my answers, but I couldn't roll them off my tongue.
0:43:31 > 0:43:37I'm hoping to go back out to Australia next year or the year after so it's paid for the flights.
0:43:37 > 0:43:40My kids will be ecstatic.
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