0:00:03 > 0:00:06Here are the nine contestants preparing for today's show.
0:00:06 > 0:00:09Only one of them 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.
0:00:33 > 0:00:38Any of the nine people in the studio here today could win up to £10,000.
0:00:38 > 0:00:42They've only just met, but to get the money have to work together.
0:00:42 > 0:00:49However, eight will leave with nothing as, round by round, we lose the player voted the weakest link.
0:00:49 > 0:00:51Let's meet the team.
0:00:53 > 0:00:59My name is Michael, I'm 61, from West Glamorgan and I'm a litter warden.
0:01:00 > 0:01:05My name's Denise, I'm 30, from Bury St Edmunds, and I'm an office manager.
0:01:06 > 0:01:12I'm Gareth, I'm 28, from Plymouth and I'm a catering student in the Royal Navy.
0:01:12 > 0:01:18I'm Ann, I'm 69, from Wrexham and I'm a retired local government officer.
0:01:18 > 0:01:25My name is David, I'm 47, from Cromer, Norfolk, and I'm a pitch and putt attendant.
0:01:26 > 0:01:31I'm Claire, I'm 26, from Nottingham, and I'm a journalist.
0:01:32 > 0:01:37I'm Mark, 54 years old, from Derby, and I'm a plumber.
0:01:38 > 0:01:44I'm Karen, 49, from Sunbury, Middlesex, and I'm a hotel services manager.
0:01:45 > 0:01:49I'm James, I'm 35, from London, and I'm a banker.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55OK, just to remind you, in each round there's £1,000 to be won.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59The fastest way is to create a chain of nine correct answers.
0:01:59 > 0:02:07Break the chain and you lose the money in it. Say "Bank!" first and the money is safe.
0:02:07 > 0:02:12Round 1. Three minutes on the clock. We'll start with the person whose name is first alphabetically.
0:02:12 > 0:02:16That's you, Ann. Let's play the Weakest Link.
0:02:16 > 0:02:21The first question is for £20. Start the clock.
0:02:21 > 0:02:27In underwear, lingerie is primarily designed to be worn by members of which sex?
0:02:28 > 0:02:33- Female.- Correct. In maths, what is 4,000 plus 3,000?
0:02:33 > 0:02:38- 7,000.- Correct. In animal behaviour,
0:02:38 > 0:02:45giant pandas spend over 12 hours each day doing what - eating bamboo or going to the loo?
0:02:45 > 0:02:47- Eating bamboo.- Correct.
0:02:47 > 0:02:51In the children's rhyme used to choose between people or things,
0:02:51 > 0:02:55which word goes between eeny and miney moe?
0:02:55 > 0:03:00- Meeny.- Correct. In British society,
0:03:00 > 0:03:07a person from a socially privileged background is said to be born with which silver item in their mouth?
0:03:08 > 0:03:10- Spoon.- Correct.
0:03:10 > 0:03:15In personal cleanliness, what B is the large basin-like fitting
0:03:15 > 0:03:19in which one can wash by submerging the whole body?
0:03:19 > 0:03:25- Bath.- Correct. In geography, Danish is the main official language
0:03:25 > 0:03:28of which European Union country?
0:03:28 > 0:03:31- Denmark.- Correct.- Bank!
0:03:31 > 0:03:38In appearances, someone who is unattractive is often described as no oil painting or oil platform?
0:03:38 > 0:03:44- Oil painting.- Correct. In the garden, a glass building used to protect plants from the cold
0:03:44 > 0:03:46is a green what?
0:03:46 > 0:03:50- House.- Correct. In the terminology of time,
0:03:50 > 0:03:56what T is the word meaning the 24 hours beginning at midnight last night?
0:03:59 > 0:04:01- Pass.- Today.
0:04:02 > 0:04:08In a traditional British meal of pie and mash, the mash is made from which vegetable?
0:04:08 > 0:04:10- Potato.- Correct.
0:04:10 > 0:04:15In religion, St David is the patron saint of which country of the UK?
0:04:16 > 0:04:18- England.- Wales!
0:04:18 > 0:04:25Mark, in design, which of these is specifically intended to seat several people at once -
0:04:25 > 0:04:28a three-piece suit or a three-piece suite?
0:04:28 > 0:04:31- Three-piece suite.- Correct.
0:04:31 > 0:04:35Karen, in fairy tales, which animal is the main antagonist
0:04:35 > 0:04:39of Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs?
0:04:39 > 0:04:43- Wolf.- Correct. In the Gregorian calendar,
0:04:43 > 0:04:48in a leap year an extra day is added before the first of which month?
0:04:49 > 0:04:54- March.- Correct. In the home, what V precedes "cleaner"
0:04:54 > 0:04:58for an appliance that uses suction to remove dust?
0:04:58 > 0:05:04- Vacuum.- Correct.- Bank! - In science, which word rhyming with solution
0:05:04 > 0:05:10is the general term for the contamination of the environment by harmful substances?
0:05:13 > 0:05:15- Pass.- Pollution.
0:05:15 > 0:05:21In a lift, to select a particular floor, a passenger pushes a button or pulls a cord?
0:05:21 > 0:05:23Push a button.
0:05:23 > 0:05:28Time's up. Your answer was out of time and you won £800.
0:05:29 > 0:05:33So, who is this season's must not have?
0:05:34 > 0:05:36Who's got an energy-saving brain?
0:05:37 > 0:05:40Time to vote off the weakest link.
0:05:41 > 0:05:45According to the statistics, the strongest link is Michael.
0:05:45 > 0:05:53Ann is the weakest link, but who will the players vote off at this early stage of the game?
0:05:53 > 0:05:58Voting over. It's time to reveal who you think is the weakest link.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00Claire.
0:06:00 > 0:06:02Ann.
0:06:03 > 0:06:04Claire.
0:06:04 > 0:06:06Claire.
0:06:07 > 0:06:09Claire.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11Denise.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14Ann.
0:06:15 > 0:06:16Claire.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18Ann.
0:06:21 > 0:06:25- Where are you from, David? - I'm from Cromer, in Norfolk.
0:06:25 > 0:06:32- What's your hairstyle based on? - 1950s, Anne. I'm into rock and roll and rockabilly.- Really?
0:06:32 > 0:06:35Who's your hero from the 1950s?
0:06:35 > 0:06:39- Billy Fury. - I love Billy Fury.- So do I.
0:06:39 > 0:06:45- Can you sing Halfway To Paradise? - I could do a little bit of it of you really want me to.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48Yeah. Put your board down.
0:06:48 > 0:06:53# I want to be your lover
0:06:53 > 0:06:57# But your friend is all I'll stay
0:06:58 > 0:07:01# I'm only... # There you go.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04No, I like this bit that comes now!
0:07:04 > 0:07:06# Halfway to paradise
0:07:06 > 0:07:11- # So near, yet so far away. # - Oh, lovely.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14Put your board up. Why Claire?
0:07:14 > 0:07:20Claire got one wrong. I think Ann got one wrong and I just voted for Claire.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23- What do you do, Ann?- I'm retired.
0:07:23 > 0:07:30- And before that?- I was a local government officer. - In?- The housing department.- Where?
0:07:30 > 0:07:34- Wrexham, Chester. - Are you from Wrexham?- No.
0:07:34 > 0:07:41- Why did you go to Wrexham? - Well, the property is cheaper over the border.
0:07:41 > 0:07:46- It's very expensive to live in Chester. - You get on with Welsh people?
0:07:46 > 0:07:51- Reasonably well. - What do you mean "reasonably"?
0:07:51 > 0:07:55- There are cultural differences. - Why Claire?
0:07:55 > 0:08:03I felt - no offence, Claire - that she should have known St David wasn't the patron saint of England.
0:08:03 > 0:08:10- What do you do, Gareth?- I'm a catering student in the Royal Navy. - So you're a waiter?- In a sense.
0:08:10 > 0:08:16- Where are you from?- I was actually born in Scotland. We moved because my dad was in the navy, too.
0:08:16 > 0:08:21- So what's that accent you've got? - I think it's a bit of a mix.
0:08:21 > 0:08:26- I pick up bits from wherever I go. - So you can sound like anyone?
0:08:26 > 0:08:28I can sometimes mimic.
0:08:28 > 0:08:35- Can you be a Liverpudlian? - Do you want me to sound like you from way back in Birkenhead?
0:08:35 > 0:08:41- Or like a Liverpudlian now? - What do you mean? - You're from Birkenhead way.
0:08:41 > 0:08:46- I'm not, no. - Oh, really? I was informed wrong, then. That's what I heard.
0:08:46 > 0:08:53- I can't understand a word you're saying.- I can't, either! You're scaring me.- Why Claire?
0:08:53 > 0:08:59- Because she got a question wrong. - Claire, you are the weakest link. Goodbye.
0:09:05 > 0:09:09I actually went to Cardiff and did my post-grad there,
0:09:09 > 0:09:15so thinking St David was the patron saint of England might not do me any favours with my friends now!
0:09:17 > 0:09:21Round 2. In the bank, £800. We now take 10 seconds off your time.
0:09:21 > 0:09:26We'll start with the strongest link. That's Michael.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29Let's play the Weakest Link. Start the clock.
0:09:29 > 0:09:35The familiar phrase of American origin that means, "That's how it goes,"
0:09:35 > 0:09:37is that's the way the cookie...?
0:09:37 > 0:09:42- Crumbles.- Correct. On the TV show Over The Rainbow in 2010,
0:09:42 > 0:09:48Danielle Hope was chosen to play which part in a West End production of The Wizard of Oz?
0:09:51 > 0:09:53- The Tin Man.- Dorothy.
0:09:53 > 0:10:00In sport, participants are matched against each other according to body weight in boxing or badminton?
0:10:00 > 0:10:03- Boxing.- Correct.
0:10:03 > 0:10:10In human anatomy, the central nervous system consists of the spinal cord and which major organ?
0:10:13 > 0:10:15- Pass.- The brain.
0:10:15 > 0:10:21In economics, which word meaning a forceful request is the usual opposite of the term supply?
0:10:26 > 0:10:28- Pass.- Demand.
0:10:28 > 0:10:34In the original UK version of Cluedo, the victim who is discovered in his home in Tudor Close
0:10:34 > 0:10:38has the title Doctor and which colour as his surname?
0:10:38 > 0:10:41- Scarlet.- Black.
0:10:41 > 0:10:45In celebrities, the entertainer born in Middlesbrough in 1938
0:10:45 > 0:10:49who sold his grocery business to become a magician is Paul who?
0:10:49 > 0:10:54- Daniels.- Correct. The 17th-century diarist Samuel Pepys
0:10:54 > 0:10:58was an administrator of which of the armed forces?
0:10:58 > 0:11:01- Army?- The navy.
0:11:01 > 0:11:06Michael, the 2008 UK number one single entitled Sex On Fire,
0:11:06 > 0:11:11which re-entered the Top 10 a year later, was by which US group?
0:11:11 > 0:11:14- Scissor Sisters.- Kings of Leon.
0:11:14 > 0:11:21In politics, the room in a town hall in which the local council meets is known as the council what?
0:11:23 > 0:11:26- Congress?- Chamber.
0:11:26 > 0:11:32In sewing, what's the general name for the thin, pointed metal implement used with thread
0:11:32 > 0:11:34to make and mend clothing?
0:11:34 > 0:11:39- Needle.- Correct. In butchery, which word follows Barnsley,
0:11:39 > 0:11:43pork and chump to make the names of three cuts of meat?
0:11:49 > 0:11:53- Pass.- Chop. It's going very well(!)
0:11:53 > 0:11:59What Q is the name of a common mineral that has gem varieties called rock crystal and amethyst?
0:11:59 > 0:12:02Can you repeat the question, please?
0:12:02 > 0:12:09What Q is the name of a common mineral that has gem varieties called rock crystal and amethyst?
0:12:10 > 0:12:12- Pass.- Quartz.
0:12:12 > 0:12:18Because of their adhesive backing, cards with photos of soccer players that children put in albums
0:12:18 > 0:12:21are known as football what?
0:12:21 > 0:12:23- Cards.- Bank.
0:12:23 > 0:12:27I wouldn't bother to bank as he didn't know the answer,
0:12:27 > 0:12:29which was stickers.
0:12:30 > 0:12:33Time's up. Does it matter?
0:12:35 > 0:12:39In that round, you banked zero, zilch, nothing.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44Who's flying like a penguin?
0:12:44 > 0:12:50Who'd probably spend their winnings on a caravan? Time to vote off the weakest link.
0:12:53 > 0:12:57With the most correct answers, Gareth is the strongest link.
0:12:57 > 0:13:02Statistically, the weakest link is Ann, but will the team notice that?
0:13:02 > 0:13:07Voting over. It's time to reveal who you think is the weakest link.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10Ann.
0:13:10 > 0:13:12Ann.
0:13:12 > 0:13:14Ann.
0:13:15 > 0:13:16James.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18Ann.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22David.
0:13:22 > 0:13:23Ann.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26Ann.
0:13:28 > 0:13:33- What do you do, James? - I'm a banker.- Are you?
0:13:33 > 0:13:36- What sort of banker? - Investment banking.
0:13:36 > 0:13:41- Who with?- A big Scottish bank. - Called?- The Royal Bank of Scotland.
0:13:41 > 0:13:46- Oh! You work for us. - Er, kind of, yeah.
0:13:46 > 0:13:51- No, not "kind of".- 84%. - Well, what would you say that was?
0:13:51 > 0:13:57- Mostly.- A majority.- A majority. - And what did we pay you in a bonus this year?
0:13:57 > 0:14:04- I'd love to be able to tell you, but I don't want to scare you. - Why did you deserve any bonus?
0:14:04 > 0:14:08Because it wasn't necessarily everybody's fault.
0:14:08 > 0:14:14- Whose fault was it? - Em...I imagine it would be people higher up the organisation who...
0:14:14 > 0:14:20- You'd imagine?- Yeah.- Who do you imagine higher up the organisation? - Er, someone...
0:14:20 > 0:14:25- At the Royal Bank of Scotland. - Maybe Fred Goodwin is a good start.
0:14:25 > 0:14:32- Why Ann? - Sorry, she got a couple wrong in this round and the last round.
0:14:32 > 0:14:37- Where are you from, Denise? - London, but I live in Newmarket. - Didn't you like London?
0:14:37 > 0:14:44- Er, it's changed. I prefer Newmarket.- And what do you do there? - I'm an office manager.
0:14:44 > 0:14:47What sort of office?
0:14:47 > 0:14:51- It's for a flooring company. - So lino, cheap carpets...
0:14:51 > 0:14:57- Yeah. We can get the expensive stuff, too.- Have you got that?
0:14:57 > 0:15:02- I'm just getting it, Anne, yes. - Are you? Do you take a bit home every night?
0:15:02 > 0:15:09- That's it!- Why Ann? - Because as well as myself Ann got two wrong, too.
0:15:09 > 0:15:13Ann, you are the weakest link. Goodbye.
0:15:22 > 0:15:28It's nothing short of a miracle for me to have survived the first round.
0:15:28 > 0:15:34I'll settle for that. I thought it would be an ignominious departure to go off first,
0:15:34 > 0:15:38but that'll do me and it was lovely to chat to Ann.
0:15:40 > 0:15:45Round 3. In the bank, £800 still. Another 10 seconds off the time.
0:15:45 > 0:15:48We'll start with little Gareth.
0:15:48 > 0:15:52Let's play the Weakest Link. Start the clock.
0:15:52 > 0:15:58In vocabulary, referring to their curved shapes, which word is used to describe a type of bridge
0:15:58 > 0:16:02and is the name of a species of large whale?
0:16:03 > 0:16:06- Hump.- Incorrect. It's humpback.
0:16:07 > 0:16:14In magazines, in 1885 Thomas Gibson Bowles founded a weekly journal for gentlewomen
0:16:14 > 0:16:16called The Lady or The Tramp?
0:16:18 > 0:16:20- The Lady?- Correct!
0:16:20 > 0:16:24In law enforcement, in the acronym ASBO,
0:16:24 > 0:16:28the letters A and S stand for which term?
0:16:29 > 0:16:32- Anti...Social.- Correct.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34In British radio in 2010,
0:16:34 > 0:16:40for the first time since it was established in 1967, which national station began broadcasting
0:16:40 > 0:16:42a weekly music chart?
0:16:47 > 0:16:50- Pass.- Radio Three.
0:16:50 > 0:16:54In horticulture, if a herbicide is used to kill weeds,
0:16:54 > 0:17:00what I is the corresponding name for a substance used to kill pests such as black fly and wasps?
0:17:00 > 0:17:02- Insecticide.- Correct.
0:17:02 > 0:17:09In celebrities, which broadcaster is the father of children named Honey Kinney, Betty Kitten
0:17:09 > 0:17:12and Harvey Kirby?
0:17:12 > 0:17:14- No idea.- Jonathan Ross.
0:17:14 > 0:17:21In quotations, in 1971 the US National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger described what
0:17:21 > 0:17:24as the great aphrodisiac - power or lager?
0:17:24 > 0:17:29- Power.- Correct.- Bank! - In boundaries, a fencing material
0:17:29 > 0:17:34made of two twisted strands of metal with spikes a few inches apart has what name?
0:17:34 > 0:17:37- Barbed wire.- Correct. - Bank!
0:17:37 > 0:17:44In the films Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, which actor played Luke Skywalker?
0:17:45 > 0:17:48- Harrison Ford?- Mark Hamill.
0:17:48 > 0:17:54In English grammar, in the sentence, "Sally brushed her hair," which word is the common noun?
0:17:57 > 0:17:59- Brushed.- Hair.
0:17:59 > 0:18:05In motoring, a device consisting of a rubber blade fitted to an electrical arm
0:18:05 > 0:18:08is called a windscreen what?
0:18:08 > 0:18:12- Wiper.- Correct.- Bank. - In the animal kingdom,
0:18:12 > 0:18:18- what P is any member of the order of mammals that includes apes and humans?- Can you repeat it?
0:18:18 > 0:18:24What P is any member of the order of mammals that includes apes and humans?
0:18:28 > 0:18:30- Pass.- Primate.
0:18:30 > 0:18:33In pop music, since...
0:18:36 > 0:18:38Time's up.
0:18:38 > 0:18:41You won just £60.
0:18:42 > 0:18:47So who's on the warpath and who's on a cycle path?
0:18:49 > 0:18:57Who's in such a deep hole they've nearly reached Australia? Time to vote off the weakest link.
0:18:59 > 0:19:03Denise is the strongest link as she didn't get an answer wrong.
0:19:03 > 0:19:08Michael is, statistically, the weakest link, but how will the votes go?
0:19:08 > 0:19:13Voting over. It's time to reveal who you think is the weakest link.
0:19:13 > 0:19:15David.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17David.
0:19:18 > 0:19:19James.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23James.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26Michael.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28David.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30Mark.
0:19:33 > 0:19:37- Where are you from, Michael? - Wales, Anne.- Whereabouts?- Baglan.
0:19:37 > 0:19:43- What do you do in Baglan? - I'm a litter picker. - Have you got a stick?- I have.
0:19:43 > 0:19:50- And you walk round picking up litter?- Yes.- Is there a Mrs Michael? - There is.- What's her name?- Helen.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53So you're sitting in your sitting room
0:19:53 > 0:19:58and Helen wants the channel changed. Do you get out your big stick?
0:19:58 > 0:20:04- No, Anne.- Why not?- I leave it outside.- But you could use it for so many things.- I know, Anne.
0:20:04 > 0:20:10- Will you take it in now? - No, Anne. I'll get Helen to turn the channel over.
0:20:10 > 0:20:14- Can you sing? - Well, all Welsh people can sing.
0:20:14 > 0:20:20- Good.- Not very well, though.- Put your board down. What can you sing?
0:20:20 > 0:20:22- Your song.- OK.
0:20:22 > 0:20:27# You build up my senses Like a night in the forest
0:20:27 > 0:20:34- # Like a mountain in springtime... # - Oh, you must be the one Welsh person who makes the exception!
0:20:34 > 0:20:39- Put your board up. Why David? - I feel he had two questions wrong.
0:20:39 > 0:20:45- Karen, what do you do? - I'm a hotel services manager. - What's the hotel called?
0:20:45 > 0:20:52- It's the headquarters of the Salvation Army. - Presumably no alcohol?- None at all.
0:20:52 > 0:20:58- No hanky panky?- No. - What else isn't there? A bar? - There's no bar.
0:20:58 > 0:21:05- Yes...- They drink a lot of grape juice, though. - Do they? That must be fun.- Yeah.
0:21:05 > 0:21:09And presumably there's somewhere to hang your tambourine.
0:21:09 > 0:21:15- No one has tambourines. - Why David?- Because we all had a really bad round. Sorry, David.
0:21:15 > 0:21:19David, you are the weakest link. Goodbye.
0:21:31 > 0:21:35I think Anne was shocked by my singing! I sang a little bit
0:21:35 > 0:21:38and then she wanted a bit more.
0:21:38 > 0:21:44So I really burst into song then and I think I had the old girl in the palm of my hand.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46She was like butter.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49She's a babe.
0:21:50 > 0:21:54Round 4. In the bank, £860. Another 10 seconds off the time.
0:21:54 > 0:21:58We'll start with Denise. Let's play the Weakest Link.
0:21:58 > 0:22:00Start the clock.
0:22:00 > 0:22:04In maths, what is 60 multiplied by 4?
0:22:04 > 0:22:11- 240.- Correct. In entertainment, the comedian who starred in the TV sitcom Outnumbered
0:22:11 > 0:22:17and is known for his long partnership with Steve Punt is called Hugh what?
0:22:20 > 0:22:22- Grant.- Dennis.
0:22:22 > 0:22:28In English cricket, which county team plays its home games at the Oval?
0:22:29 > 0:22:31- Don't know.- Surrey.
0:22:31 > 0:22:38In classical mythology, killing the many-headed monster called the Hydra was one of whose 12 labours?
0:22:38 > 0:22:41- Hercules.- Correct.
0:22:41 > 0:22:47- Bank!- In the media, the phrase "five o'clock shadow" was used in 20th-century advertising
0:22:47 > 0:22:49for sunglasses or razor blades?
0:22:49 > 0:22:53- Razor blades.- Correct. In a Shakespeare play,
0:22:53 > 0:22:59what B is murdered on the orders of Macbeth and returns to haunt him at a feast?
0:23:02 > 0:23:05- Pass.- Banquo.
0:23:05 > 0:23:10In emblems, following correspondence in the Times newspaper in 1960,
0:23:10 > 0:23:14which creature was adopted as Britain's national bird?
0:23:15 > 0:23:17- Puffin.- The robin.
0:23:17 > 0:23:22Which chemical element used in nuclear reactors has the symbol PU?
0:23:22 > 0:23:25- Plutonium.- Correct. - Bank!
0:23:25 > 0:23:31In books, which words for a stretch of sand or shingle by the sea shore appears in the titles of novels
0:23:31 > 0:23:35- by Alex Garland, Nevil Shute and Ian McEwan?- Pass.
0:23:35 > 0:23:39Beach. In botany, Traveller's Joy and Old Man's Beard
0:23:39 > 0:23:45are alternative names for the British species of which perennial shrub?
0:23:45 > 0:23:48- Pass.- Clematis.
0:23:48 > 0:23:55Which of these is generally regarded as a fundamental legal right - trial by jury or trial by television?
0:23:55 > 0:23:57- Trial by jury.- Correct.
0:23:57 > 0:24:03- Bank!- In South America, a huge concrete statue known in English as Christ the Redeemer
0:24:03 > 0:24:07stands on Corcovado Mountain and overlooks which city?
0:24:07 > 0:24:09- Rio de Janeiro.- Correct.
0:24:09 > 0:24:15In forensic medicine, what A is the term for the dissection of a body to determine the cause of death?
0:24:20 > 0:24:23- Pass.- Autopsy.
0:24:23 > 0:24:28In cinema, in which 1995 film does James Cromwell play a farmer
0:24:28 > 0:24:33who says to the title character, "That'll do, pig. That'll do."?
0:24:33 > 0:24:35Babe.
0:24:35 > 0:24:40Too late. Correct answer. You won £60.
0:24:40 > 0:24:44Whose absence would now make your heart grow fonder?
0:24:44 > 0:24:49Who's playing hard to keep? Time to vote off the weakest link.
0:24:51 > 0:24:55With all his answers right, James is the strongest link.
0:24:55 > 0:25:02The weakest link, statistically, is Mark, but who will the team want off?
0:25:02 > 0:25:07Voting over. It's time to reveal who you think is the weakest link.
0:25:07 > 0:25:08Mark.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11Mark.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14Denise.
0:25:16 > 0:25:17James.
0:25:18 > 0:25:20Michael.
0:25:20 > 0:25:22Mark.
0:25:24 > 0:25:31- James, why Mark? - He had a very bad round and got his questions wrong.- So, Michael,
0:25:31 > 0:25:35- why Mark? - He didn't get a question right.
0:25:35 > 0:25:39Mark, you are the weakest link. Goodbye.
0:25:46 > 0:25:51I think as a team we were struggling from the beginning. They still are.
0:25:51 > 0:25:56We've only just got over £1,000 so, yes, it's been a tough game for all of us.
0:25:58 > 0:26:03Round 5. In the bank, £920. Another 10 seconds off the time.
0:26:03 > 0:26:08We'll start with James. Let's play the Weakest Link.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10Start the clock.
0:26:10 > 0:26:16In UK politics, in 1847 Lionel Nathan de Rothschild became the first person of which religion
0:26:16 > 0:26:18to be elected as an MP?
0:26:18 > 0:26:21- Jewish.- Correct.
0:26:21 > 0:26:27In music, the popular song composed by Burt Bacharach and Hal David asks Do You Know The Way To where?
0:26:27 > 0:26:32- San Jose.- Correct. In sport, in 2010 in Sheffield,
0:26:32 > 0:26:38Neil Robertson beat Graeme Dott to become the first Australian in the modern era
0:26:38 > 0:26:41to win the world title in which indoor game?
0:26:41 > 0:26:44- Boxing.- Snooker.
0:26:44 > 0:26:50In Swiss cuisine, a large pot holding a melted cheese mixture that serves as a dip for pieces of bread
0:26:50 > 0:26:54speared onto long forks is known by what name?
0:26:56 > 0:26:58- Fondue set.- Correct.
0:26:58 > 0:27:06In maths, in the formula Pi R squared used to calculate the area of a circle, R represents what?
0:27:06 > 0:27:08- Radius.- Correct.
0:27:08 > 0:27:13- Bank!- In fish, which type of large eel found in the coastal waters of Britain
0:27:13 > 0:27:18has a name that sounds like a dance performed by a long line of people?
0:27:19 > 0:27:22- Sorry, can't remember.- Conger.
0:27:22 > 0:27:28In children's TV, what W is the first name of the pony-tailed business partner of Bob the Builder?
0:27:31 > 0:27:33- William.- Wendy.
0:27:34 > 0:27:41The phrase for a blank expression that originally referred to the gaze of a battle-weary soldier
0:27:41 > 0:27:43is a thousand-yard what?
0:27:43 > 0:27:49- Stare.- Correct. In IT, the number of computers connected worldwide by the internet
0:27:49 > 0:27:53passed the one million mark in which decade of the 20th century?
0:27:53 > 0:27:551990.
0:27:55 > 0:28:01- I'll accept.- Bank!- In exploration, the Englishman who discovered a large bay
0:28:01 > 0:28:05in northern Canada in 1610 was Henry who?
0:28:05 > 0:28:10- Hudson.- Correct. In Scotland, the Cairngorm mountains are home
0:28:10 > 0:28:17to the only free-ranging British herd of which animals, popularly associated with Christmas?
0:28:19 > 0:28:22- Deer.- No, reindeer.
0:28:23 > 0:28:30In comparing experimental results, if zero degrees Celsius is called standard...
0:28:32 > 0:28:34Time's up. You won £100.
0:28:35 > 0:28:41But who probably thinks draughts is just chess with wind?
0:28:41 > 0:28:44Time to vote off the weakest link.
0:28:46 > 0:28:49The statistics show that Karen is the strongest link.
0:28:49 > 0:28:57The weakest link is James, but will the other players consider that when casting their votes?
0:28:57 > 0:29:01Voting over. It's time to reveal who you think is the weakest link.
0:29:01 > 0:29:03James.
0:29:04 > 0:29:06James.
0:29:06 > 0:29:08Denise.
0:29:11 > 0:29:12Michael.
0:29:13 > 0:29:15Michael.
0:29:15 > 0:29:22We have a tie, team - Michael and James, two votes each. James, why Michael?
0:29:22 > 0:29:26I remember him getting a question wrong.
0:29:26 > 0:29:30- Michael, why James? - The reindeer question.
0:29:30 > 0:29:34The strongest link was Karen. Why have you voted for Michael?
0:29:34 > 0:29:40It was unfortunate between the two, but Michael's in my eye line. Sorry, Michael.
0:29:40 > 0:29:44Well, you can stick with Michael or have another think.
0:29:44 > 0:29:46I'll stick with Michael.
0:29:46 > 0:29:50Michael, you are the weakest link. Goodbye.
0:29:56 > 0:30:00I was a bit annoyed at being voted off after the tie
0:30:00 > 0:30:04because James had more questions wrong than I did overall.
0:30:04 > 0:30:08I think I might have gone on to win it, but that's the vote.
0:30:09 > 0:30:14Round 6. Your total so far is £1,020. Another 10 seconds off.
0:30:14 > 0:30:19We'll start with Karen. Let's play the weakest link.
0:30:19 > 0:30:22Start the clock.
0:30:22 > 0:30:28In literature, the collection of poems entitled Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats was written by whom?
0:30:28 > 0:30:36- TS Eliot.- Correct.- Bank!- In anatomy, the soft tissue at the hollow centre of bones is called bone what?
0:30:36 > 0:30:38- Cartilage.- Marrow.
0:30:38 > 0:30:43In food science, what L is the sugar that occurs naturally in milk?
0:30:44 > 0:30:47- Lucose.- No, lactose.
0:30:47 > 0:30:53The actress born in Liverpool in 1956 who played Samantha Jones in the TV series Sex and The City
0:30:53 > 0:30:56and its film versions is Kim who?
0:30:56 > 0:30:59- Cattrall.- Correct.
0:30:59 > 0:31:05- Bank.- In writing, which three-letter Latin word is shown in brackets after text that is incorrect
0:31:05 > 0:31:08or unusually spelt?
0:31:08 > 0:31:10- S-I-C.- Correct.
0:31:10 > 0:31:16- Bank!- The British swimmer who won a gold medal in the 100 metres breaststroke at the 1988 Olympics
0:31:16 > 0:31:18is Adrian who?
0:31:18 > 0:31:25- Moorhouse.- Correct. In pop music, what E is the name of the Irish female solo singer
0:31:25 > 0:31:29who originally performed with members of her family in Clannad?
0:31:30 > 0:31:33- Erin.- Enya.
0:31:33 > 0:31:39Which type of public building is sometimes jokingly referred to as being located in Letsby Avenue?
0:31:41 > 0:31:44- Pass.- A police station.
0:31:44 > 0:31:50In chemistry, the mineral called saltpetre that's used in gunpowder and curing meat
0:31:50 > 0:31:53is known to chemists as potassium what?
0:31:53 > 0:31:57- Nitrate.- Correct.- Bank!- Named after a former French president,
0:31:57 > 0:32:04what P is the Museum of Modern Art in Paris that in 2010 opened a branch in the city of Metz?
0:32:07 > 0:32:09- Louvre?- Pompidou.
0:32:09 > 0:32:15In food, which word derived from Portuguese is the name of a citrus fruit preserve
0:32:15 > 0:32:19with varieties called fine cut, thick cut and shredless?
0:32:19 > 0:32:21- Bread.- Marmalade.
0:32:21 > 0:32:28A parliamentary candidate who has been selected by a constituency is said to be fostered or adopted?
0:32:29 > 0:32:32- Adopted.- Correct. Karen...- Bank!
0:32:34 > 0:32:38Time's up. Your bank was in time and you won, collectively, £100.
0:32:38 > 0:32:43But maybe there's no salvation for Karen.
0:32:43 > 0:32:46Is Denise about to be floored?
0:32:47 > 0:32:51Will Gareth sink without trace?
0:32:51 > 0:32:55Or perhaps James isn't a sound investment.
0:32:55 > 0:32:58Time to vote off the weakest link.
0:32:59 > 0:33:03With all her answers wrong, Denise is the weakest link.
0:33:03 > 0:33:09Statistically, Karen is the strongest link, but will the votes reflect reality?
0:33:10 > 0:33:15Voting over. It's time to reveal who you think is the weakest link.
0:33:16 > 0:33:18James.
0:33:18 > 0:33:20James.
0:33:23 > 0:33:25Denise.
0:33:26 > 0:33:28Denise.
0:33:29 > 0:33:36- Another tie, team - James and Denise this time. James, why Denise? - She got all her questions wrong.
0:33:36 > 0:33:38Denis, why James?
0:33:38 > 0:33:42I think he got one wrong, Anne, and with his bonus
0:33:42 > 0:33:49- the winnings don't mean much to him. - I'm hoping if he wins he'll give it back to the rest of us!
0:33:49 > 0:33:51Let's hope so!
0:33:51 > 0:33:57Well, Karen decides again. She was the strongest link. Why have you voted for Denise?
0:33:57 > 0:34:03- Because Denise got a couple wrong. - Do you want to stick with Denise? - I won't change my mind.
0:34:03 > 0:34:07Denise, you are the weakest link. Goodbye.
0:34:14 > 0:34:19The highlight today was obviously getting to meet Anne in the flesh.
0:34:19 > 0:34:25And...getting as far as I did, even though I would have liked to have won.
0:34:27 > 0:34:32Round 7. You have £1,120. Another 10 seconds off the time.
0:34:32 > 0:34:36We'll start with Karen. Let's play the Weakest Link.
0:34:36 > 0:34:38Start the clock.
0:34:38 > 0:34:44In history, in the early 1950s, British servicemen posted to the region known as the Canal Zone
0:34:44 > 0:34:48guarded the area around which major waterway?
0:34:48 > 0:34:54- Suez Canal.- Correct.- Bank.- In TV, in The Simpsons, the violent cartoon enjoyed by Bart and Lisa
0:34:54 > 0:34:57featuring a warring cat and mouse is called Itchy and what?
0:34:57 > 0:35:04- Scratchy.- Correct. According to legend, what U was the first name of the father of King Arthur?
0:35:04 > 0:35:07Can you repeat the question?
0:35:07 > 0:35:13- According to legend, what U was the first name of the father of King Arthur?- Ulysses.
0:35:13 > 0:35:19Uther. In vocabulary, which word is both a tennis term for the player who starts a game
0:35:19 > 0:35:23and an IT term for a computer that manages access to a network?
0:35:23 > 0:35:29- Server.- Correct.- Bank.- At which festival do most attendees usually bring a tent, a sleeping bag
0:35:29 > 0:35:32and wellingtons - Edinburgh or Glastonbury?
0:35:32 > 0:35:35- Glastonbury.- Correct. - Bank!
0:35:35 > 0:35:41In art, which surveyor of the Queen's pictures confessed in 1964 to once being a Soviet agent,
0:35:41 > 0:35:43- a fact made public 15 years later? - Pass.
0:35:43 > 0:35:51Anthony Blunt. In action cinema, the US actor who has appeared in Hard To Kill and Under Siege
0:35:51 > 0:35:53is Steven who?
0:35:54 > 0:35:56- Pass.- Seagal.
0:35:56 > 0:36:02In African geography, the Livingstone Falls are part of which major river?
0:36:02 > 0:36:05- Nile.- The Congo.
0:36:05 > 0:36:11In pop music, Paul Weller had a UK hit album in 2010 entitled Wake Up The what?
0:36:11 > 0:36:13- Neighbourhood?- Nation.
0:36:13 > 0:36:20In Iran, derived from Arabic for "sign of God", what A is the title given to eminent religious scholars?
0:36:21 > 0:36:23- Pass.- Ayatollah.
0:36:23 > 0:36:30The multi-volume reference book published from 1885 that contains more than 57,000 life stories
0:36:30 > 0:36:33is the Dictionary of National what?
0:36:33 > 0:36:35- Sound?- Biography.
0:36:35 > 0:36:38In crime and punishment...
0:36:41 > 0:36:46Time's up. You won £60. In Round 8, you treble what you bank.
0:36:46 > 0:36:50It's an opportunity to raise the bank balance.
0:36:50 > 0:36:53Time to vote off the weakest link.
0:36:55 > 0:36:59With no correct answers, Gareth is the weakest link.
0:36:59 > 0:37:05The strongest link, statistically, is James, but who will lose out in the final vote?
0:37:06 > 0:37:12Voting over. It's time to reveal who you think is the weakest link.
0:37:12 > 0:37:13James.
0:37:17 > 0:37:18James.
0:37:19 > 0:37:21Gareth.
0:37:23 > 0:37:31- Karen, why James? - We all did terribly, Anne, and it was really difficult to decide.
0:37:31 > 0:37:33Little Gareth...
0:37:33 > 0:37:39- Yes, Anne?- Did you think everyone did as bad as each other? - No, I think I was the worst.
0:37:39 > 0:37:41But someone's got to go.
0:37:41 > 0:37:45James, you are the weakest link. Goodbye.
0:37:49 > 0:37:54I definitely surpassed my expectations. I'd not done any preparation.
0:37:54 > 0:37:58I came into it for a good time and to take it as it came.
0:37:58 > 0:38:01To get into the last three, I was chuffed.
0:38:03 > 0:38:09Round 8. In the bank, £1,180. In this round, 90 seconds.
0:38:09 > 0:38:14Whatever you win is trebled. You voted off the strongest link. We'll start with the second strongest.
0:38:14 > 0:38:19That's Karen. Let's play the Weakest Link. Start the clock.
0:38:19 > 0:38:24The small moth with wing markings resembling the face of a witch
0:38:24 > 0:38:29was named after a 15th-century prophetess known as Mother who?
0:38:30 > 0:38:32- Pass.- Shipton.
0:38:32 > 0:38:38What T is the name of the tinned fish often mixed with mayonnaise and sweetcorn
0:38:38 > 0:38:40to make a sandwich filling?
0:38:40 > 0:38:43- Tuna.- Correct.- Bank. - In medical history,
0:38:43 > 0:38:50the large respirator invented in the 1920s that enclosed the entire body except the head was the iron what?
0:38:50 > 0:38:57- Lung.- Correct.- Bank!- In the English alphabet, what is the sixth letter as well as the fourth consonant?
0:38:57 > 0:38:59- F.- Correct.
0:38:59 > 0:39:06- Bank.- The classical Japanese art of ikebana involves the arrangement of flowers or marriages?
0:39:06 > 0:39:13- Flowers.- Correct.- Bank. - The songs Rock The Casbah and Should I Stay Or Should I Go
0:39:13 > 0:39:19were UK hit singles in 1982 and on their re-release in 1991 for which group?
0:39:19 > 0:39:22- I can't remember.- The Clash.
0:39:22 > 0:39:26In money, the slang term pony refers to how many pounds?
0:39:26 > 0:39:32- 25.- Correct.- Bank.- In UK geography, what L is the small island off the coast of Northumberland
0:39:32 > 0:39:34sometimes known as Holy Island?
0:39:34 > 0:39:37- Linney?- Lindisfarne.
0:39:37 > 0:39:44At the gym, a piece of exercise equipment with a sliding seat resembling a boat is a what machine?
0:39:44 > 0:39:50- Rowing.- Correct.- Bank. - In the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens...
0:39:52 > 0:39:58Time's up. I can't complete the question. You won £120, which we will treble.
0:39:58 > 0:40:03It gives you prize money today of:
0:40:03 > 0:40:08There can only be one winner. Now up to five questions each.
0:40:08 > 0:40:15If there's a tie, sudden death. So Gareth and Karen, for £1,540, let's play the Weakest Link.
0:40:17 > 0:40:23- Karen, you have the choice of who goes first. - I'd like to go first, please.
0:40:27 > 0:40:30In a radio address in 1939,
0:40:30 > 0:40:34which UK Prime Minister said, "I have to tell you now
0:40:34 > 0:40:38"that no such undertaking has been received and that, consequently,
0:40:38 > 0:40:42"this country is at war with Germany"?
0:40:42 > 0:40:45- Macmillan? - The answer is Neville Chamberlain.
0:40:45 > 0:40:48In food, which type of cabbage
0:40:48 > 0:40:55is named after a historical region that now straddles the border of France and Italy?
0:40:55 > 0:40:57- Savoy?- That is the correct answer.
0:41:00 > 0:41:04Karen, in modern literature, Bulldust Mountain, Whiskey Mountain
0:41:04 > 0:41:08and Swill-Swallow Mountain were working titles
0:41:08 > 0:41:12- for which short story by Annie Proulx?- Pass.
0:41:12 > 0:41:15The answer is Brokeback Mountain.
0:41:15 > 0:41:20In music, which number followed the word Live to make the name
0:41:20 > 0:41:25of a series of 10 concerts held around the world on July 2nd, 2005,
0:41:25 > 0:41:30as part of the Make Poverty History campaign?
0:41:30 > 0:41:32- Eight.- That is correct.
0:41:32 > 0:41:35In money,
0:41:35 > 0:41:39a famous investment bank established in New York in the 19th century
0:41:39 > 0:41:46was named after its founder Marcus Goldman and his son-in-law who had what surname?
0:41:46 > 0:41:49- Sachs.- That is the correct answer.
0:41:49 > 0:41:55In 1992, which astronomer was finally cleared of heresy by the Vatican
0:41:55 > 0:42:00more than 350 years after it persecuted him for proving
0:42:00 > 0:42:03that the Earth moves around the Sun?
0:42:05 > 0:42:09- I don't know. - The correct answer is Galileo.
0:42:09 > 0:42:11In UK geography,
0:42:11 > 0:42:17in terms of surface area, which is the largest natural lake in England?
0:42:17 > 0:42:20- Lake Windermere. - That is the correct answer.
0:42:20 > 0:42:24In endangered species, which marine reptile
0:42:24 > 0:42:28is one of the largest living hard-shelled turtles
0:42:28 > 0:42:32and was named for its massive skull and strong jaws?
0:42:32 > 0:42:38- I don't know.- The correct answer is the loggerhead turtle.
0:42:38 > 0:42:40In TV, which three-word prefix
0:42:40 > 0:42:45was added to the title of the 1960s sitcom The Likely Lads
0:42:45 > 0:42:49for the sequel series that began in 1973?
0:42:52 > 0:42:56- Whatever Happened To. - That is the correct answer.
0:42:56 > 0:43:00The 2010 book entitled Spoken From The Heart
0:43:00 > 0:43:04is a collection of memoirs of the former US First Lady,
0:43:04 > 0:43:09who is credited on the cover with what full name?
0:43:09 > 0:43:13- I don't know. - The correct answer is Laura Bush.
0:43:16 > 0:43:22That means, Karen, you are today's strongest link and you go away with:
0:43:22 > 0:43:26Little Gareth, you leave with nothing.
0:43:27 > 0:43:30Join us again for the Weakest Link. Goodbye.
0:43:32 > 0:43:35Mixed emotions after the final.
0:43:35 > 0:43:42Absolutely devastated that I didn't win. Really pleased for Karen and very proud to have got as far.
0:43:42 > 0:43:45It's absolutely fantastic to win.
0:43:45 > 0:43:49I came onto the programme with none of my family having any faith in me
0:43:49 > 0:43:54and I just can't believe it myself. I'm really, really pleased.
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