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 this week's hive minds.
Lutrophiles, introduce yourselves, please.
I'm Ned, a professional gambler on football from Northamptonshire.
I'm Oliver, I'm a designer from Surrey.
I'm Marianne, I'm a quantitative analyst from London.
Pascallywags, over to you. Hello, I'm Rob and I'm from Torquay.
My name's Andy, I'm a data analyst from London.
And my name's Dorian, I'm a private mathematics and English tutor from Bath.
Well, welcome to both of you,
these are pretty esoteric names for teams, I have to say.
Lutrophiles, a love of...? Otters.
Why? Er, I was badgered into it.
THEY LAUGH
Go on, why have you chosen otters? There has to be some reason.
I quite like otters really, and I pushed for it a bit.
They really like otters too,
but they're just pretending they're indifferent.
I was told that it was a lover of Paris.
But I think that's a Lutetia-phile.
My goodness! And Pascallywags, why is that?
Well, because the two of us over here studied mathematics
and we have a philosopher to my right and Pascal was a very
famous and influential mathematician and philosopher. Blaise Pascal? Yes, indeed.
Rob, I have to ask you because a little bird told me
that as a teenager you had lessons in lion taming. I did.
So what did you learn? I didn't learn an awful amount.
Or an awful lot, to be honest. But I had a couple of informal lessons.
And did you ever get into the ring with them? No, I'm afraid not.
I always stayed outside the cage.
And what's the most important thing a lion tamer needs to know?
More than the lion. More than the lion, I'll say.
Well, we are in esteemed company, welcome to you both.
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 Lutrophiles, that's how you spell it
and Pascallywags, and as you can see, answers use adjoining cells,
they 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,
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 but be careful,
we've set a few traps. We've laid a few false trails.
So, Pascallywags, here's your first question,
buzz in when you think you've found the answer.
You are looking for a UK motorway service area that shares
its name with a 17th-century battle.
Reveal the hive.
Agincourt...
17th century, never mind.
Hang on, so...
17th-century battle... Nasby?
Oh, Naseby. Is that...? I can see it.
What's your answer? -Naseby. -Show me your first letter.
No, I'm afraid Naseby is a battle but not a service station. -Oh.
So I can throw it over to you, Lutrophiles,
let's see what you would have been left with.
For one bonus point, do you know it? Edgehill.
I'm afraid not. Edgehill is also a battle, not a service station.
I can't think why but your knowledge of service stations
just isn't that great!
The answer was Battle of Sedgemoor,
climax of the Monmouth Rebellion, 1685.
The last pitched battle on English soil.
The battle between the Duke of Monmouth
and troops loyal to King James II. So no points to either of you, I'm afraid.
OK, Lutrophiles, let's see if you can do better.
You are looking for...
Reveal the hive. -What is it?
THEY CONFER
Casterbridge... Wilkinson, Johnson, is it any of those?
What Thomas Hardy novels are there?
Three points now. Greenwood Tree.
Oh, yeah, Greenwood.
Your answer? Greenwood.
For the three points, let's see if you are correct.
Yes, indeed. Will Greenwood, who
played centre in the 2003 World Cup final against Australia.
And the novel? Under The Greenwood Tree. By Thomas Hardy. Excellent.
Very well done.
OK, Pascallywags - I might just have to call you Wags, actually,
because that's such a mouthful. Wags, over to you.
You're looking for a...
Reveal the hive.
Mendeleev. But is it in there? Yes!
Your answer? Mendeleev. Mendeleev.
Show me your first letter.
For five points,
let's see if you're correct.
Yes, indeed,
Mendeleev, who created a periodic table of elements
in 1869, Mendel after Gregor Mendel, father of genetics.
Tell me what was so brilliant about Mendeleev.
Not only did he create a periodic table, but also...
Is it the fact that he left gaps for unknown elements?
Exactly, he was such a genius that he left gaps,
he knew that there were things he didn't know, that there
were properties he didn't know
but he did actually suggest what those properties could be,
he left five gaps and three of them later were discovered.
Gallium, scandium, germanium. There we go.
Lutrophiles, over to you, you are looking for...
Reveal the hive.
Erotica.
Have you found it? Yes.
That was so quick. Your answer?
Eroica. Eroica.
Show me your first letter.
Let's see if you're right.
So, Eroica,
Beethoven's Third Symphony and Erotica,
one of Madonna's more memorable albums, forgettable albums,
what do we think?
It does have that song about Bill Oddie.
Does it? Yes.
It's a mondegreen, it's not actually what it is...
"Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, put your hands all over my body..."
Oh... THEY LAUGH
Well done, you got the full five points for that,
so, so far, Lutrophiles, you're in the lead with eight.
Wags, not too far behind with five.
This time, I'm looking for two answers to get the points.
Wags, over to you. Find...
Reveal the hive.
I can see femur there...
But I can't see leg...
Thigh... Thigh...
Femur... No, there's no thigh.
So, er, clavicle...
Three points now.
Shoulder is there.
Shoulder. Shoulder and...
What's the...? Scapula! Yeah.
Your answers?
It's shoulder and scapula.
Show me your first letters.
For two points...
Scapula and shoulder,
very well done, excellent.
Lutrophiles, over to you. Find...
What have we got? Minerva and Athena? Are they there, though?
Minerva and...
Oh, where's Athena? Athena...
It could be a distraction.
Athena... Yes. Three points now.
Your answers?
Athena and Minerva.
Let's see if you're right.
Athena, well done,
Minerva, well done.
So, Athena the Greek goddess of...?
Wisdom.
Wisdom, arts, crafts and later, war.
I mean, you were there straightaway.
You just couldn't find them.
OK, Wags, over to you. Find...
Reveal the hive.
THEY CONFER
ALL: Erm...
I can't see any at all.
For three points now...
For two... I don't see any.
No. Running out of time.
Wags, you're out of time, you are stumped,
I'll throw it to you, Lutrophiles, for a bonus point.
Fishguard and Rosslare.
Show me your first letters. Rosslare and there's Fishguard.
Let's see if you're right.
Correct. Rosslare,
Republic of Ireland,
Fishguard in Wales, very well done.
I actually have taken that route on a ferry before.
You've taken that route on a ferry before? That was so easy for you!
Right, OK, Lutrophiles, over to you. Find...
Reveal the hive.
Kissinger, Nixon...
Can you see Clinton and Albright? Clinton and Albright?
Clinton...
Actually, no, have we got two Ls to get it?
Is Albright there? Yes.
Very good, for three points, your answers?
Albright and Clinton.
Let's see if you're right.
Wow, Albright and Clinton.
Marianne, you were right on that.
I was hoping it was going to be that before it came up. I don't know why.
Those were the first two that came into your mind?
So obviously Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright
was his Secretary of State in his second term.
Do you know what she famously said about women who don't help
other women?
"There are is a special place in hell for women who don't help
"other women."
What a gal! Right, so where are we at the end of that round?
Lutrophiles, very good with 15,
Wags, still all to play for,
trailing a little bit with seven.
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 of five points.
Lutrophiles, you are in the lead so you get to choose first from...
Choose your topic. -Avoid musical theatre. -Yeah.
The Bible could be tempting.
What about European geography?
That's probably our baseline, so European geography.
European geography.
Now, when I reveal the exact question on European geography
you'll have ten seconds to confer as a team
and then you answer on your own.
You've got two passes, but remember, one wrong answer
and your team will be locked out of the hive,
so you have to be quick but you have to be careful.
So, you are looking for...
You have ten seconds to confer.
Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein... Czech Republic.
Slovakia. Hungary. Any others?
Erm... Serbia?
Moldova? Time's up. Bosnia.
Time's up.
Ned, we're going to be starting with you, you are looking for
landlocked European countries, you have 45 seconds, reveal the hive.
Erm...
HE GRIMACES
Moldova.
Correct.
Oliver.
Er...
You can pass.
Pass. Pass. Marianne. Hungary.
Hungary.
Ah! You're locked out of the hive.
OK, so, you got Moldova.
Did you spot any of the other two?
It wasn't Hungary.
No, that was mine. Austria is there as well. Austria is there.
Let's see what you could have got.
So you got Moldova, well done.
And it was Belarus there,
it's down the bottom.
Ah! Moldova, Belarus?
And Austria.
You had one pass left as well.
You see how easy it is?
In your keenness to get the answer,
you got Moldova, so that's one point.
OK, Team Wags, over to you, which topic would you like?
We are left with...
We all know something about science. I think science. Definitely science?
OK. We'll go with science. Science, OK. You are looking for...
You have ten seconds to confer.
Rontgen... Who else?
Marie Curie won it once. Marie Curie.
Surnames only, remember. Erm...
Stop conferring. Oh, goodness!
FIONA CHUCKLES
Time is up. OK, Rob, we are going to start with you.
45 seconds, two passes, remember,
reveal the hive.
You can pass.
Er, Feynman.
Feynman.
Correct. Andy.
Pass. Pass. Dorian.
One pass left. 20 seconds to go.
Er, pass.
Rob.
Er, Higgs.
Higgs. Correct.
Andy.
No more passes.
Four seconds.
Time's up. Time's up, Andy, you were stumped there, weren't you?
Didn't want to guess
and get it wrong.
You might as well guess, then,
you've got nothing to lose,
have you? Well, let's see.
You got two, so let's see the two that you got.
So, Feynman, Richard Feynman,
Higgs, Peter W Higgs,
he was awarded jointly the
Nobel Physics Prize with Francois Englert.
What was he awarded it for? Higgs boson.
The Higgs boson, otherwise known as the God particle.
He came up with that theory,
what was the name you were missing?
Chadwick, James Chadwick.
The positron. He discovered the neutron.
Oh, the neutron, sorry. -Wags, you didn't get the full five points,
you got two, it takes you to nine, you have a bit of a way
to catch up the Lutrophiles, who are on 16.
Team Lutrophiles, your turn now, which topic would you like?
You've got sport, the Bible, musical theatre.
Let's hope that our glance at Old and New Testament books earlier
helps us out with the Bible.
I'll be relying on you two for that. So you're choosing...? The Bible.
You are choosing the Bible. You are looking for...
Ten seconds to confer.
What are the obvious ones? Judas.
Simon. Andrew. Matthias. Christopher.
Thaddeus?
Thaddeus, how do you spell that quickly? T-H-A-D... Time's up.
Time's up. Just before you get to the end of how to spell that.
Right, OK, Ned, we're going to start with you.
You're looking for apostles of Jesus, you have 45 seconds,
two passes. Reveal the hive.
You can pass. Hmm.
HE EXCLAIMS
Philip. Philip.
Correct. Oliver.
Er...
Pass. Marianne.
Andrew.
Correct.
Ned.
Er...
Six seconds.
I'll just have a go, Matthew.
Matthew... No.
So, you got two names there.
Matthew was not one of them,
you got Philip and you got Andrew,
patron saint of Scotland
and a fisherman, of course.
And what were you missing?
Have you spotted it now? Marianne?
Bartholomew. Bartholomew.
There, all wrapped around there.
So, did that reading of Old Testament
and possibly New Testament help you?
We only looked at the Old Testament!
We had all those obscure Old Testament books. All the prophets.
Well, two points nonetheless, very well done.
Wags, your turn now, we have two topics left, which will you go for?
Sport or musical theatre?
It's a bit of an optimist's choice,
but I know nothing about musical theatre. Neither do I.
Sport it is, then. OK. Sport.
Because I would hazard a guess,
neither of those are your preferred options. No.
But musical theatre was definitely going to be last on your list!
OK, so, sport. You will be looking for...
You've ten seconds to confer.
OK, Turnberry.
Erm... Oh, erm... St Andrews.
Carnoustie. Carnoustie.
It's got to be one word.
Stop conferring. Stop conferring.
Your ten seconds are up. Dorian, we are going to start with you. OK.
You are looking for British Open Golf Championship venues.
You have 45 seconds, your time starts now, reveal the hive.
Erm...
You have two passes. Pass.
Pass. Rob. Er...
Carnoustie. Carnoustie.
Correct. Andy.
Turnberry.
Turnberry, correct. Dorian.
You have one pass left.
Oh, Muirfield.
Muirfield.
Correct. Wow!
Dorian, I thought you were going to have to pass again there.
It was touch and go. Very well done. So glad it was golf!
So you found all three, you got the full five points.
Let's take a look again at what you got there.
So, Muirfield, near Edinburgh.
Carnoustie in Angus, in Scotland, they're all in Scotland.
Turnberry, very well done. Now known as Trump's Turnberry.
Oh. -After Donald Trump.
Donald Trump bought it in 2014, he renamed it Trump Turnberry.
I think he renames everything he owns after himself. Trump Turnberry.
Trump Towers. Trump Towers. Trumpton. Top Trumps? No idea.
Anyway, you needed those points and that's taken you up to 14,
so you're just four behind the Lutrophiles now, who have 18.
In round three, you're faced with a super hive,
so 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.
Team Lutrophiles, it's your turn. Would you like A hive or the B hive?
I think it's unanimous, we'll go for the B hive.
Go for the B hive just because it's such a great word.
I can tell you that you are looking for...
You've two minutes. Reveal the hive.
I can see Sergeant there. -Constable, I can see.
Constable's on the right there. -That's good.
Where's Columbus going? -Shall I do Constable?
And then you've got Teacher. Right order, please.
So, Columbus and then you've got Teacher next to it.
Teacher down there. OK, I see.
Constable's there. -Yes. -OK. -Cowboy is there as well.
I think. Yes, Cowboy, yes, it is.
Cowboy is on there. It's quite hard to see. -Matron. -Yes.
THEY ALL TALK AT ONCE
Sergeant you have in there...
Sergeant's not there.
No, it can't be. What's the V one?
That's got to be Loving.
Loving, yes. Which leaves...
So that is...
Grease... No.
Less, something less? Regardless.
Yes! Yes, well done.
Yes! Oh, my goodness,
you've done it.
How do you know so much
about Carry On films?
I would have bet money that
you wouldn't have got all those.
I liked them when I was a kid.
Before I knew better.
OK, so let's see
which ones you got in the order you found them.
So, Carry On Columbus.
Carry On Teacher.
Carry On Constable, the first
Carry On film to feature Sid James.
Carry On Cowboy.
Carry On Matron,
that's a classic with most
of the Carry On regulars in it.
Carry On Loving, set at a marriage
bureau run by Sid James
and Hattie Jacques.
And Carry On Regardless.
Wow, that was absolutely
extraordinary.
There were 31 films in total that you could have chosen,
we put some red herrings in there like Carry On Clio,
"Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me!"
But you didn't go for that,
very well done, tremendous,
the full ten points.
Right, Team Wags, that's quite an act to follow,
you will be looking for...
You have two minutes. Reveal the hive.
OK.
OK, I can see Vivaldi here, that leaves a B there,
so that can't be right.
Potentially Verdi across the top.
Albinoni. Yes, Albinoni.
Shall we put that? Yeah.
Which one?
There's two possibilities. O-N-I.
They can go there though. -OK. -I think this one's more likely.
Do that for now and then we can see.
Er... And what is the Z for?
Pergolesi is his name?
That would fit across... -Donizetti is there as well.
Do you want to put that in? -Again, there's two ways of doing that.
Erm... Oh, that's true but then this leaves this, which...
There's Verdi there, which has got to be right
because that's next to there, yeah?
You've also got a potential Verdi at the top, just to let you know.
Yeah, that's the trouble. We'll keep that for now. -Right, OK.
What was this one over here? -I think... Is his name Pergolesi?
And does that... -A minute to go. -What does this become?
..the next guy you said here, what was the one that you said?
Donizetti... Doniz... It does, yeah.
And that leaves... And then it could be either of those two.
And then it leaves Mont... Monteverdi. -Monteverdi.
Again, it could be either I. -It doesn't make any difference.
It makes no difference which one it is. That's a problem there.
That E... Salieri. -Yes. -30 seconds.
Sali... No, it's not. It's fine.
It has to be there so we have to cancel... Get rid of it.
Get rid of that. I'll do Donizetti.
We've got 20 seconds.
OK. So then, Salieri. 15 seconds.
Salieri.
What's the last one, Nono? Nono.
Wey! You did it. You did it.
You can wipe the sweat off your brows.
Very well done at Italian composers with six seconds still to go.
What an impressive pair of teams you are, my goodness.
OK, you got the full ten points, let's go through the composers
you found the order you found them.
So, Albinoni, famous for Adagio in G Minor, Verdi, operas primarily,
I'd say, Aida, Rigoletto, Nabucco and of course, his Requiem.
Pergolesi, composer of comic opera but also Stabat Mater,
one of my favourites. Monteverdi, Claudio Monteverdi,
composer of operas amongst other things.
Donizetti, prolific composer,
75 operas, 16 symphonies,
all sorts of other things.
Salieri, great rivalry with Mozart.
And Nono, Luigi Nono, one of the most prominent avant garde
classical composers of the 20th century.
Any favourite composers in there? Do you like any of that music?
Yeah, Verdi. Verdi for me, definitely.
You can't go wrong with a bit of Giuseppe Verdi.
Very well done. That was absolutely terrific from both teams.
So that leaves us with the scores, Lutrophiles,
you're still in the lead with 28.
Wags, not too far behind, 24.
Terrific play.
Final round and this time, the hives are filled with answers
and if you pay attention you might spot an answer to a question
you haven't even heard yet.
Are you ready? Fingers on buzzers.
Reveal the hive.
You're looking for...
Wags. Maigret. Maigret. Correct.
One point.
You are looking for...
(Can you see it?)
Chinchilla. Chinchilla.
Correct, one point.
Come on.
THEY QUIETLY CONFER
Lutrophiles. Eccles. Eccles.
Correct, one point.
Gavel.
Wags. Gavel.
Gavel, correct, one point.
Catching up here.
Wags. Machiavelli.
Machiavelli, correct.
Lutrophiles. Pavlova. Pavlova,
Anna Pavlova, correct, one point.
Refresh the hive.
Wags. Medusa.
Medusa, correct, one point.
There is just one between you now.
Come on.
Wags. Brando. Brando, Marlon Brando,
correct. One point. You have
caught up, you are neck and neck.
(What's that, Clare? Kildare?)
Lutrophiles. Kildare.
Kildare, correct, one point.
You have edged in the lead.
Lutrophiles. Saunders. No.
You lose a point.
Neck and neck, Saunders may have been many things,
he was not
a Metropolitan Police Commissioner.
We were after Paul Condon. Next...
Wags. I'm sorry. Beck, but...
No. You lose a point! Whoops.
You're now one behind.
We were after Bream, Julian Bream.
OK. You can't afford to make mistakes like that.
A character from Othello.
(Desdemona...)
Wags. Desdemona.
Desdemona, correct!
Oh, we are into a tie-break.
Oh, what? Sorry! Don't worry.
30 each. Calm down.
You are such good game players, you really are tremendous.
This is sudden death, Lutrophiles and Wags. Find...
Wags. Snowdon. Snowdon, correct.
Oh!
You have made it into the lead, well done.
Very bad luck, Lutrophiles, so, Wags,
just ahead, in the nick of time, with 31.
Lutrophiles, a tremendous game from you with 30 points, really,
really well done. So, Wags, you are the winners,
you go through to the next round,
bad luck, Lutrophiles, well fought and you will have another chance
to get through to the next round later in the series.
You were tremendous teams, you really were.
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 UK city whose railway station shares its name with an 1814 novel.
Bye-bye.