"Welcome to Hive Minds, the quiz where simply knowing the answers isn't enough, you've got to find them as well." "Let's meet with this week's Hive Minds." "Mavericks, would you please introduce yourselves." "Hi, I'm Alan, I'm from St Helens in Lancashire, and I work in the field of drug research." "I'm Michael, I'm a civil servant from Middlesbrough." "I'm Dee, I live in Chester, and I teach circle dance." "Pascallywags, over to you." "I'm Rob, I'm from Torquay." "I'm Andy, I'm from London, and I'm a data analyst." "Hi, I'm Dorian, I'm from Bath, and I'm a mathematics and English tutor." "Well, welcome back to both of you." "I think the Mavericks is a name that speaks for itself." "Just remind us about Pascallywags." "These two are mathematicians, I'm a philosopher, so Pascal was both a mathematician and a philosopher." "Blaise Pascal?" "Yeah, so we thought Pascallywags." "I might just shorten it to Wags again, if that's all right." "OK, so, we are playing for a place in the semifinals, so best of luck to both of you." "Let's play Hive Minds." "All the answers are hidden in a hive which looks like this." "And if the answer to my question was" "'What are the names of this week's teams?" "'" "You'd be looking for Mavericks..." "There it is." "..and Pascallywags." "And as you can see, answers use adjoining cells, can go in any direction and no cell is used more than once." "In Round One, as you're looking for answers in the hive you know this already, but after two seconds, letters will start to disappear and as they do, the points go down, so the faster you answer the more you score." "Be careful, as always, we've set a few traps." "We've laid a few false trails." "So, Mavericks, here's your first question." "Buzz in when you think you've found the answer." "Reveal the hive." "Dear Prudence." "Can you think of any of the other ones?" "No, it's got to be Prudence." "Your answer?" "Prudence." "Show me your first letter." "Let's see if you're right." "For five points, yes..." "And you were straight in there." "Dear Prudence just popped into my head straight away." "So what are the other cardinal virtues, do you know?" "Temperance, fortitude and charity, is it?" "Justice." "Justice." "Justice." "And who was Prudence in the song?" "Was she a dog?" "No!" "LAUGHTER" "She was Mia Farrow's sister." "And she speaks very highly of you, Dee, I have to say." "I'm sure!" "Lovely." "And it wasn't Ringo playing the drums, it was Paul McCartney." "So it's 1968, things were getting a bit fraught on the White Album, they had a bit of a row, Ringo walked out so Paul McCartney had to step in and play the drums." "Anyway, five points to you." "Very well done." "Pascallywags, over to you." "Reveal the hive." "Psalms." "Psalms, yes." "Psalms, yes, yes." "Psalms." "Psalms." "You are getting too good." "You're straight in there." "Your answer is Psalms." "Show me you first letter." "We just did that." "Let's see if you were right." "Yes, you were." "Psalms straightaway for five points." "How many Psalms are there?" "A lot of them. 150?" "There are 150." "Right, OK, Mavericks, over to you." "Reveal the hive." "Thomas Hardy title characters..." "Tess?" "Tess D'Urberville." "Erm..." "Oh, gosh." "Jude?" "Jude The Obscure." "What's Jude's surname?" "Erm..." "Don't know." "For three points." "We're looking for the sitcom character, though." "I know." "Yeah." "For two points." "Down to one." "Down to one." "I can't think of any..." "I can't think of anything, I'm afraid." "No." "Oh, we stumped you there, Mavericks." "Pascallywags, I can throw it over to you for a bonus point." "So are we looking for the character?" "The character." "It's Fawlty." "Fawlty." "Show me your first letter." "Let's see if you're right." "You're right." "So Fawlty is the sitcom character," "Basil Fawlty, of course." "And Fawley is the surname of Jude in Jude The Obscure, the Thomas Hardy novel." "Couldn't think of it." "I think probably one of his best novels." "And Basil Fawlty, of course, played by John Cleese, a hapless hotel owner." "And, in fact, you may know this, but the hotel owner was based on a real character, on Donald Sinclair." "He was a hotel owner in Torquay and John Cleese observed him when he stayed there when he was part of the Monty Python team." "So you got the extra point there." "Pascallywags, I'm still with you." "Panama." "Reveal the hive." "Panama and Manama, isn't it?" "Yeah, Panama." "Yeah?" "Your answer?" "Panama." "Show me your first letter." "Let's see if you're right." "Panama." "Indeed, and Manama, which is the capital of..." "MICHAEL:" "Bahrain." "Bahrain." "Bahrain, yes." "Well done." "Bahrain." "Cos you were straight in there, weren't quite sure what the capital was." "So Panama from Manama." "Very well done for the full five points." "OK, so where are we?" "Pascallywags, you're in the lead with 11." "Mavericks, still doing well, I have to say, with five." "And now we're going to make it just that bit harder, cos now I'm looking for two answers to get the points." "So..." "Mavericks." "Reveal the hive." "So..." "So where is..." "Acrophobia." "Heights." "That's heights, isn't it?" "That is heights." "Have you got the..." "Can you see heights?" "Heights goes up there." "For three." "Acrophobia." "H-E-I..." "Yes, acrophobia and heights." "Your answers?" "Acrophobia and heights." "Show me your first letters." "Let's see if you're right." "Correct for three points." "So acrophobia is a fear of heights, 'acro' from the Greek meaning 'highest' or 'top most'," "So acrobats, Acropolis, city at the top of a hill." "What are the other most common phobias?" "Er..." "Er..." "Arachnophobia?" "You are right." "And fear of being in a car." "In a car?" "That was my thought exactly." "ROB:" "Public speaking." "Fear of open spaces, a fear of public embarrassment." "But I think surely everyone's got a fear of public embarrassment, but maybe not a phobia about public embarrassment." "Anyway, you have nothing to be embarrassed about." "You got the three points there." "Very well done." "Wags, over to you." "Reveal the hive." "Monday is the moon, isn't it?" "Tuesday is..." "Odin is in there." "Odin is in there, so Odin is Wednesday." "Wednesday, isn't it, yeah?" "Let's just find the letter." "Yeah." "OK, so..." "Wednesday and Odin." "Your answers." "Oh, it's..." "Wednesday and Odin." "You pressed..." "What are the answers?" "Wednesday and Odin." "Show me your first letters." "Let's see if you were right." "Correct for four points." "Odin, the greatest of the Norse gods and Wednesday is named after him." "Very well done." "OK, Mavericks, over to you." "Reveal the hive." "Caesar..." "Caesar..." "Waldorf." "Waldorf." "Waldorf is good." "Oh, no, Waldorf is gone." "It was there." "It's gone." "Greek..." "Erm...." "For three points." "Don't really know any other types of salad." "No." "I'm not a salad expert, I'm afraid." "Coleslaw." "Is that there?" "That's a salad." "Down to one." "Erm..." "I can't see it." "No." "Out of time." "Not big salad eaters?" "Afraid not." "Right, for a bonus point to you, Wags." "Er..." "Quickly." "I don't see it, I'm afraid." "No?" "Goodness me." "I thought this was the easiest one." "You were looking for nicoise." "Salade nicoise." "And one of its ingredients, tuna." "Dear me." "Get some more salad." "Come on." "OK, Wags..." "Reveal the hive." "It could be Manet or something." "TEAM:" "Manet's in there!" "So it will be Olympia." "Yes, Olympia is there." "Yes, OK." "Manet and Olympia." "Show me your first letters." "So Manet first..." "And Olympia is that one, yeah." "Let's see if you're right." "For the full five points." "Very well done." "You were so quick with that." "Well..." "What do you know about Olympia?" "The painting Olympia." "It was very controversial, I know that." "And why was that?" "Oh, most of Manet's paintings were a bit controversial." "Well, no, this was particularly controversial because when it was hung in the Salon of Paris in 1865..." "Basically, it's of a naked woman lying on a sort of chaise lounge with her black servant next to her." "And it was considered so controversial there was fears it would be damaged by the public, so it had a public guard around it before it was hung, eventually, out of reach." "And because she was lying there..." "It wasn't her nudity that was offensive, it was because she was so brazen, and people thought she looked like a prostitute." "In 1865, that was very shocking." "So there we are." "The full five points." "Very well done." "So at the end of this round, Wags, you are racing ahead with 20." "Mavericks, you've got a bit of work to do, you're on eight." "In Round Two, you'll each face two hives containing three answers relating to a specific topic." "You have 45 seconds to complete each hive and score a maximum five points." "So, Wags, you're in the lead, you get to choose first from..." "So which topic are you going to choose?" "Well, I immediately like world geography and chemistry." "Yeah." "They're the two that spring out." "And he said he was a drug researcher, so he's probably a chemist in their team..." "Alan is a chemist, so..." "If we take chemistry, I reckon they'll take sport and that would leave us with world geography for our next round." "I'm happy with that." "OK." "Sure." "Ooh, tactical play." "So you're choosing?" "Chemistry." "Chemistry, OK." "When I reveal exactly what you'll be looking for in the topic of chemistry, you'll have 10 seconds to confer as a team, but then you're on your own." "You've got two passes, but remember, one wrong answer and you'll be locked out of the hive." "So you're looking for..." "You've 10 seconds to confer." "So alkaline, earth, that's metal." "I and..." "I don't know what?" "Is lithium in there?" "No, beryllium is one of them, I think." "Time is up." "It might be." "I don't know." "I don't know." "Rob, we're going to start with you." "We're looking for alkaline earth metals." "Reveal the hive." "Magnesium." "Magnesium." "Correct." "Andy." "You have two passes." "30 seconds." "Barium." "Barium." "Correct." "Dorian." "That's strontium." "Strontium." "Correct." "Full house." "Very well done." "Goodness me." "That was quick." "A guess." "And you didn't use any of your passes." "Did you guess?" "So let's see what you got there." "So, strontium, best known for the brilliant red it gives in fireworks." "Magnesium produces an intense white light used for flash photography, fireworks again, that kind of thing." "Barium." "Anyone had a barium enema?" "Doesn't sound fun." "I think the least said about that the better." "Anyway, very well done, you got the full five points." "Excellent." "OK, team Mavericks, it's your turn." "You could do with the points." "Which topic will you choose?" "You've got..." "Well, sport would be my absolute favourite." "I would go for sport, but..." "I'm not so good on sport, but if you two are happy with that." "Two out of there." "That's fine." "We can give it a go then." "Give it a go." "Two out of three." "You're going for...?" "Sport, please." "Sport." "OK, I can tell you you're looking for..." "You have 10 seconds to confer." "Judo..." "Karate..." "Ju-jitsu..." "Kendo." "Tae kwon do." "Aikido." "Boxing would count." "I suppose it would, yeah." "Erm..." "Any others." "Time's up." "I feel so bossy when I say that, but I rather enjoy it." "OK, Alan, we're going to start with you." "You're looking for martial arts." "You have 45 seconds." "Two passes, remember." "Reveal the hive." "Kendo." "Kendo." "Correct." "Michael." "30 seconds." "You've two passes." "You can pass. 20 seconds." "Pass." "Dee." "Karate." "Karate." "Correct." "Alan." "One pass left." "Ten seconds." "Pass." "Michael." "Muay Thai." "Muay Thai." "No, you are locked out of the hive, I'm afraid." "Muay Thai, is that even a martial art?" "It's practised in Thailand." "Practised in Thailand." "Not practised on our hive, I'm afraid." "You can't form that word there." "OK, so you got two points out of a possible five." "Dee, well done, cos I know you didn't want to do sports, but you got in there." "So let's see what you did get." "And what you could have got... ..was aikido." "Yeah, we did mention that." "Familiar with those?" "Familiar with that?" "We did mention it, but didn't spot it." "You didn't spot it." "Of course, martial art comes from 'the arts of Mars' after the Roman god of war, hence martial art." "So we're halfway through this round." "Mavericks, you're on 10, the Wags are on 25." "OK, Wags, your turn." "Which topic are you going to go for?" "You're left with..." "We'll do exactly as we said, so world geography." "Agreed." "OK." "World geography, please." "So your tactics worked." "Yeah." "World geography." "You are looking for..." "You have 10 seconds to confer." "OK, Snake, Mississippi..." "Missouri." "Anymore with native..." "Where else?" "Colorado." "Yeah." "Colorado River." "The..." "Colombia." "Time is up." "OK, Rob, we're starting with you." "You've 45 seconds." "Two passes, remember." "Rivers in North America." "Reveal the hive." "Erm..." "Yeah, er, Missouri." "Missouri." "Correct." "Colorado." "Oh!" "No, it's not there." "Bad luck, Andy." "'Colorad'. 'Colorad'." "You can't get Colorado out of that." "Sorry." "It's all right." "And you so wanted world geography as well." "Yeah, I saw Potomac." "Potomac, but you didn't get a chance to put it in there." "Look, I'll put you out of your misery, so let's see." "You got Missouri." "Yeah, be very careful." "Missouri, the second longest river in North America." "Then you could have got..." "Oh, bad luck." "So you got one point there." "Potomac, I've got to tell you an interesting fact about the Potomac cos it's tickled me." "John Quincy Adams who was the sixth president of the USA used to swim naked in the Potomac every morning." "And there was one female journalist who was desperate to get an interview with him and he kept refusing." "So in the end, she forced him to do it by standing on his clothes on the riverbank and refusing to move until he gave her the interview." "Oh!" "What a girl." "What a way to get an interview." "Anyway, one point." "Mavericks, over to you now." "Let's see if you can catch up a bit here." "You have two topics left." "Which will you choose?" "Technology or radio?" "We'll leave it up to you." "I don't mind really." "I'd rather do radio, but it depends what channel it is." "You're first in, aren't you?" "So it might be worthwhile..." "Yes, OK." "We'll try that." "OK." "So you're going for radio." "Yes." "OK." "You are looking for..." "You have ten seconds to confer." "Grundy." "Grundy." "And I'm out." "Aldridge, Aldridge." "OK." "Hebden Lloyd." "Woolley." "That will be hyphenated, so they won't have that." "OK." "Woolley." "Time is up." "Aldridge, Woolley." "You look very chuffed with that, Dee, I have to say." "Yes." "Dee, we're starting with you." "You're looking for families in The Archers." "You have 45 seconds." "Reveal the hive." "Aldridge." "Correct." "Alan." "Grundy." "Grundy." "Correct." "Michael." "Pass." "Pass." "Dee." "Pargetter." "Pargetter." "Correct." "Full house." "Your confidence was well placed." "Well passed, Michael, I would say there." "Good tactical play." "Well done, Alan." "So let's see the three names you got." "So you are obviously a big fan of The Archers." "Yes." "So which is your favourite out of those three?" "I think the Grundys." "The Grundys?" "Yes." "What, the tenant farmers?" "Yes." "Hard pressed against adversity." "Yes." "What is it that you particularly like about them?" "Well, I like them cos they're funny." "They're really funny." "And they've got great accents." "They have, they have." "Very well done." "Well, you stormed through that for the full five points." "Excellent." "So that leaves us with the Wags still in the lead on 26, but you have caught up, Mavericks, on 15." "In Round Three, you're faced with a super hive." "You're looking for a number of answers that fit a certain category but your challenge is to use every letter to find one perfect solution." "So team Pascallywags, it's your turn." "Would you like the A hive or the B hive?" "Got to be the B hive." "It's got to be the B hive." "OK." "You are looking for Booker prize winners." "Ooh, OK." "You have two minutes." "Reveal the hive." "Yes, it's surnames only, so..." "OK, I'm not going to be that useful..." "That's fine." "Mamet is there but don't know whether Mamet won it or not." "Is Bate?" "Bake?" "Bakerman?" "Bakerman, is that one?" "I don't know." "Erm..." "Nadine Gordimer is there." "Gordimer?" "But, yeah..." "Shall I put that in?" "Yeah." "Oh, which one..." "We don't know." "There's loads of ways to do it." "Rushdie is there as well, so you need to... do Gordimer in a way that's not getting Rushdie..." "Oh, OK. ..assuming Rushdie isn't a red herring." "I think it's going to leave an 'I' there." "Yeah, it is." "Unless it's 'Iley'?" "Is there 'Iley'?" "Or..." "That's going to leave that 'G' there, so I don't think Rushdie is actually there." "OK, yeah, so take Rushdie out then." "Do I have to undo the letters individually?" "I think I do." "Do you want me to do Gordimer?" "You just hold it, you don't need to do..." "So if I do Gordimer like that, that leaves 'ORL', which is unlikely." "Um, yeah." "So how do you want me to do Gordimer?" "Um..." "I can do it down here." "One minute to go." "I can do that." "Is that best?" "I think that's best." "OK for now." "Are there any up there?" "Um, well, how does this work down here?" "Bartell, is that one?" "Martel, Martel, Yann Martel." "Yeah, Martel is right." "You've got 'K' there." "You need to..." "Sorry, thank you." "Kel..." "Bateman comes out of this, but then leaves a bit down here that doesn't work." "Yeah, just ignore that for now." "OK." "Rushdie still works, but then we've got 'GOR'." "But there's Barker." "Is that one?" "Yes, Ishiguro, at the top, Ishiguro." "30 seconds." "Ishiguro, OK." "And this is then, that's going to be Barker, do you think?" "Roker, is there a Roker?" "I think it's Barker, isn't it?" "Barker?" "Worker is there." "No, Barker." "Yeah, that's right." "Barker." "Down there." "Doyle?" "Wood?" "Yes, Doyle." "Roddy Doyle." "OK." "Um... 10 seconds." "Quick." "Um..." "You can get Mantell in there." "Yes." "We've already got..." "No, we've got Man..." "No, put it in quickly." "Hillary Mantell." "Oh, no." "Oh." "Sorry." "Time's up." "Too slow." "Oh, dear." "Time's up." "Didn't quite get there." "Right." "It was a tricky one, wasn't it?" "Let's see how you got on." "You found five answers." "You tried to get a sixth in, you just couldn't quite make it." "So let's look at the five answers you did find." "So, Gordimer, Nadine Gordimer." "So they are all Booker prize-winners." "But do they all form part of the perfect solution?" "So, Doyle, Roddy Doyle, of course is a Booker Prize winner, but if you put Doyle, you couldn't get the rest of it." "So let's see which answers you could have got." "Penelope Lively for Moon Tiger." "Margaret Atwood for Blind Assassin." "Ian McEwan, Amsterdam." "Oh!" "And the last one, James Kelman." "Won in 1994." "And for Nadine Gordimer, of course, it was the conservationist," "Yan Martel..." "Life Of Pi." "Life Of Pi, terrific novel." "Kazuo Ishiguro for..." "TEAM:" "Remains Of The Day." "Remains Of The Day, which he wrote in 1989 and he wrote it in four weeks flat." "Pat Barker for The Ghost Road." "So you got five there out of the full ten." "Not bad." "Team Mavericks, over to you." "You're left with the A Hive, and I can tell you you're looking for..." "You've two minutes." "Reveal the hive." "Zambia is at the top there." "Yeah, that sounds OK." "Or it could be Gambia." "It's got to be Zambia because you block the 'Z' off." "Gabon." "Botswana?" "No." "Yes, Botswana." "Botswana." "Yeah." "Yeah." "Nigeria." "Yeah, I can see Nigeria." "Erm..." "Ethiopia around here?" "Yeah, I think it is." "There's Swaziland in the middle, but that might not be right." "Get Ethiopia." "Yes." "Swaziland's got to be right." "Yes, Swaziland, yes." "So where does this leave us?" "Um..." "One minute." "Probably leaves us with a wrong answer." "Yeah." "Yes." "I think we've..." "Yeah." "We've missed something somewhere." "Yeah." "Mali is here." "Oh, yeah." "But that would leave us with a rogue..." "Yeah." "OK, let's get rid of..." "How long have we got?" "40." "Cos that's Benin." "Yes." "Algeria." "We've still got Algeria." "Spot on." "Brilliant." "You got it." "Very well done." "You found the perfect solution." "Once you took Nigeria out, cos that was what was stumping you, wasn't it?" "Yeah, Nigeria, Niger, Nigeria all use very similar letters." "Yeah, so you took that out." "You got the full 10 points." "Right, let's see the answers in the order you enter them into the hive." "Gabon, west coast of Africa." "Largest producer of diamonds, Botswana." "Swaziland in southern Africa." "Mali, West Africa." "Benin, again in West Africa." "And Algeria in North Africa." "And of course, Ethiopia, where some of the oldest evidence has been found for anatomically modern humans, in Ethiopia." "Very well done." "And you did in such quick time." "The full 10 points." "Excellent." "So that leaves us at the end of the Super Hive Round..." "Pascallywags, you're still in the lead with 31," "Mavericks, you're catching up with 25." "Well, we're now coming into the final round and there's everything to play for." "This time, the hives are filled with answers." "If you pay attention, you might spot an answer to a question you haven't even heard yet." "So, for a place in the semifinal, fingers on buzzers." "Reveal the hive." "You are looking for..." "BUZZ Mavericks." "Sinatra." "Sinatra, Frank Sinatra." "Correct." "One point." "Next." "BUZZ Mavericks." "Epsom." "No." "You lose a point." "You can't get Epsom." "It's Lingfield." "Lingfield, I was after." "Next." "BUZZ Mavericks." "Langoustine." "Langoustine, correct." "You regain that point." "Next." "BUZZ Mavericks." "Delta." "Delta, correct." "You are on fire." "Come on, Wags." "Get in the game." "Come on." "Anybody?" "Out of time for the both of you." "It's the Flatiron." "Oh..." "Next." "BUZZ Mavericks." "Bueno." "Bueno." "Maria Bueno." "They just beat you there, Wags." "Refresh the hive." "RING Wags." "Marjory." "No, it's marjoram and you said marjory." "You lose a point." "I'm so sorry." "It's so close." "Next." "BUZZ Mavericks." "Grimaldi." "Grimaldi of Monaco." "Correct." "Next." "Come on." "RING Westmorland." "Wags." "Westmorland, correct." "One point." "Next." "BUZZ Mavericks." "Eland." "Eland." "Correct." "Next." "Come on." "Aw, you're after the Battle of Alma." "1854." "RING Wags." "Marley." "Marley." "Marley, of course from Dickens' Christmas Carol." "END-OF-ROUND JINGLE And there we are." "Oh, my goodness." "That was close." "That was very close indeed." "Pascallywags, you have won with 32." "Excellent." "You're through to the semifinal." "Mavericks, you absolutely fought through to the end there." "I thought you were just going to eclipse them, but you're just behind with 30." "You live to fight another day, so you'll make it through to another round." "You are through to the semifinal." "Very well done indeed." "Join us for more brilliance and bewilderment in Hive Minds next time." "But before we go, here's one just for you at home." "Find a boys' name that appears in the NATO phonetic alphabet." "Bye-bye."