The Weakest Link - 14th August 2000 - The First Episode.

of the nine people preparing for today's show only one can win and take home up to ten thousand pounds the other eight teammates will leave the studio with nothing why because they'll each be voted the weakest link [Music] welcome to the weakest link any of the nine people in the studio today could win up to ten thousand pounds they don't know each other however if they want the prize money they'll have to work as a team but eight of them will leave with nothing as round by round we lose the player voted the weakest link let's meet the team [Music] my name is anna i'm 32 and i'm a police officer in plymouth i'm bob i'm 69 i'm a retired probation officer from norwich i'm melanie i'm 28 and i'm a student from birmingham i'm lee i'm 33 i'm from chippenham wiltshire and i'm in the royal air force i'm david 36 from leicestershire and i'm an inserts manager i'm manju i'm 34 from selby and i'm a surveyor i'm tony i'm 33 from birmingham and i work for the local education authority i'm chris i'm 41 i'm a bank clerk from newcastle i'm steve 46 from manchester unemployed now the rules in each round the aim is to answer enough questions correctly to reach your thousand pound target within the time limit the fastest way is to create a chain of nine correct answers get your questions wrong and you break the chain and you lose all the money in that chain but if you say bank before the question is asked the money is safe however you start a new chain from zero remember at the end of the round only money that has been banked can be taken forward you get three minutes in round one we'll start with the person whose name is first alphabetically that's joanna let's play the weakest link start the clock anna actress joan and novelist jackie collins are what relation to each other sisters correct bob which planet is nearest to the sun saturn nope mercury melanie with which sport is vijay singh particularly associated cricket or golf qriket golf lee according to the bible how many days did jesus spend alone in the wilderness 40. correct david the brandenburg gate is in which city berlin correct manju which bruce willis film features an asteroid on collision course with earth pass armageddon tony which british country do rock band the stereophonics hail from wales correct chris what is hydrophobia a fear of water correct steve what do the letters hb stand for on lead pencils [Music] hard black anna who played the male lead in the film notting hill hugh grant correct bob what color are the flowers of the buttercup yellow correct melanie charlie watts is the drummer with which legendary british band pass the rolling stones lee which american city is the home of lakers basketball team detroit los angeles david in eden blyton's famous five what was the name of the dog pass timmy manju who became the british monarch in 1901 victoria edward vii tony name the major waterfalls which stand between lake erie and lake ontario niagara niagara falls chris which british fashion designer popularized the miniskirt in the 1960s very quant correct steve reginald dwight is better known as which british prop superstar elton john correct anna which ancient rome city did mount vesuvius famously destroy [Music] pompeii correct bank the opera singer maria kallis was born in which country greece united states melanie cuba gooding jr won an oscar for his role in which tom cruise film jerry maguire lee at the beginning of the 20th century british women who fought for women's right to vote were known as what so for jets correct david which pop group comprises dave stewart and annie lennox the eurythmics correct manju which greek mathematician the time is up i can't complete the question and you've banked only 200 pounds uh you missed your thousand pound target by a long way who's letting you down someone is costing you money one of you is about to leave with nothing it's time to vote off the weakest link the statistics show that melanie is the game's first weakest link she got the most questions wrong the strongest link with the most questions right is anna but how will the team vote okay pens down voting over please reveal who you think is the weakest link melanie melanie steve bob bob melanie melanie steve bob tony why melanie well i i hate to do this to a fellow brony but unfortunately it just comes down to the fact that she got three questions wrong out of three well melanie with four votes you are the weakest link goodbye [Music] to be the first one to go it's really um it knocks you a bit i'm not surprised i'm the first one to go because i had the questions i just couldn't answer was i'm lucky with the questions i think the next person to go is manju because she couldn't answer her first three questions either right team round two now you've won 200 pounds so far when you could have won a possible thousand pounds there are eight players left we are now taking 10 seconds off the clock we will start with the strongest link from the last round that's anna let's play the weakest link start the clock anna which booker prize winner wrote the novel the commitments roddy doyle bob which soap opera answered the question who shot j.r dallas correct lee how many years of marriage does the golden wedding anniversary celebrate 50. correct david which bird can run the fastest the ostrich correct manju bank what is the longest river in the world the amazon the nile tony if something is translucent can you see light through it yes correct chris who was prime minister of britain between 1951 and 1955. harold wilson winston churchill steve what is the second most widely spoken language in the usa chinese spanish anna what was the princess of wales family name before she married prince charles spencer correct bob what a is a therapeutic use of plant oils aromatherapy correct lee in what country was the red cross founded switzerland correct bank david with which sport would you associate steve redbrow rowan correct manju in food bree is a type of what cheese correct tony simon labon is the lead singer of witch pocket duran correct chris in which year did queen elizabeth ii celebrate her silver jubilee pass 1977 steve between which two countries does the island of jersey lie england and france britain and france i'll take england anna is the currency of pakistan the rupee yes correct bob who kept a famous diary of london throughout the 1660s dr johnson samuel peeps lee who is ian hislop's opposing team captain on the tv show have i got news for you paul merton correct david harold mcmillan was leader of which political party conservative correct mandu in which ancient city were the hanging gardens built babylon correct tonight name the green skin comic book and tv character dr bruce banner turned into when enraged the incredible hulk chris what is 70 percent of 200 plus 140 steve how many legs does a spider have six eight [Music] times up now you've backed 300 pound that means you fell short of the thousand pounds you could have won again who's getting all the answers wrong one of you is about to leave the studio with nothing it's time to vote off the weakest link getting all her questions wrong makes chris the weakest link statistically with all his questions right and a hundred pounds banked for the team tony is the strongest link but will the voting follow the facts pens down voting over it's time to reveal who you think is the weakest link chris david chris chris steve bob steve manju chris you're a bank clerk aren't you i haven't got my calculator with us so you weren't able to work out 70 percent of 200 no really sad not quickly on your fingers no [Music] the question on 70 oh i'll never live that i'm working in a bank they'll just say give us a give her a calculator give her a calculator and she'll cope with it then i think in the next round it may be bob who goes he's sort of been wavering getting a couple of questions wrong round three you've won 500 pounds so far but of course you could have won 2 000. down to seven players we're taking another 10 seconds off the clock we'll start with the strongest link from the last round so that's tony let's play the weakest link start the clock tony which annual british pop festival is organized by dairy farmer michael evis glastonbury correct steve what is the capital of the republic of ireland dublin correct anna what cali is the center of a standard british archery target red gold bob which american city was originally named new amsterdam new york correct lee which famous valley features the dance of the sugar plum fairy swan lake the nutcracker david which fruit is a smooth-skinned variety of peach plum nectarine manju in which steven spielberg films as tom hanks play an army captain top gun saving private ryan tony ascorbic acid is better known as which vitamin b vitamin c steve is there more nitrogen or oxygen in air more nitrogen is the answer anna excluding jokers how many playing cards are there in a standard pack 50 52 bob which percussion instrument has a name meaning wood voice glockenspiel the xylophone lee linguini is a variety of which food pasta correct david who was the last british sovereign to marry while on the throne queen victoria correct manju in which sport would you stand behind an okie dance correct tony during world war ii d-day occurred on the duke on june the sixth of which year 1944 correct steve who wrote the book a brief history of time past stephen hawking is it the male or the female cuckoo that makes the cuckoo call female male bob what was the name of the boy in kipling's the jungle book kim no mowgli lee what was the name of south africa's policy of racial segregation apartheid correct david who preceded charles kennedy as leader of the liberal liberal democrats um [Music] which battle is depicted on the bayer tapestry norman hastings tony simon and garfunkel sang about affair in which yorkshire scarborough the time is up so i can't accept that answer well another thousand pounds has gone begging you managed to bank just 50 that time one of you is about to leave with nothing it's time to vote off the weakest link [Music] steve lost 200 pounds for the team in this round but it's anna who's the weakest link statistically as she got all her questions wrong but will she collect the votes as well okay pens dahm voting over it's time to reveal who you think is the weakest link bob steve manju steve steve steve manju [Music] bob why steve i think i can see his confidence ebbing away and i think he'd probably struggle in the rounds to come okay anna you got every single question wrong did i so statistically you were the weakest link but steve with four votes you are the weakest link goodbye [Music] i think the weakest link in the next round will be manju she was struggling like i was she might have looked confident but you could actually see the pressure that she was under round four you've won 550 pounds so far that's out of potential prize money of 3 000 pounds there are six of you left we are taking another 10 seconds off the clock you now have just two and a half minutes we'll start with the strongest link from the last round that's tony let's play the weakest link start the clock tony what t is the medical term for ringing or buzzing in the ears correct anna what did thomas edison invent to help people see in the dark the lighthouse the light bulb bob after which world wars the save the children fund established second world war one lee what name is given to a stag with 12 or more points on its antlers the monaco glenn royal david what is the name of the biannual golf tournament between europe and the usa the ryder cup correct mandu david hockney is a leading british name in which field painting correct tony in which year did the titanic sink 1912 correct anna bank sugar ray robinson and sugar ray leonard have been world champions in which sports boxing correct bob the planet mars is named after the roman god of what war correct lee who was the second person to set foot on the moon buzz aldrin correct david bank where in the human body are the bicep muscles in your arm correct manju in fashion what is polyvinyl chloride more commonly known as pvc correct tony which author wrote the satanic verses simon rushdie correct anna bank in which european city would you find the rialto bridge mexico venice bob in modern day farming a lester is a breed of what pig sheep lee which political party was led by benjamin disraeli labor conservative david in the arthurian legends which knight was famous for his affair with queen guinevere silence a lot correct manju winchester and which are the cathedral city are connected by the pilgrims way lincoln canterbury tony in which month of the year is the summer solstice june correct anna how many times has sir cliff richard represented britain in the eurovision song contest four twice bob thomas chippendale was best known for designing what furniture correctly which political figure was assassinated in new delhi in 1948 gandhi correct david bank which country are redwood trees native to north america correct mangu and the time is up you won 340 pounds you could have won another thousand of course [Music] who's out stayed there welcome it's time to vote off the weakest link [Music] anna is the weakest link statistically for the second time again she got the most questions wrong in that round but can she survive another vote okay pennstone voting over it's time to reveal who you think is the weakest link david david anna anna anna anna [Music] let me tell you team that you got nine consecutive right answers in that round and if you'd banked wisely you could have reached your target of a thousand pounds so maybe you are banking too early and you you got two questions right that time dippy why anna because she she's um i think she's going down a bit and she's getting a lot more questions wrong which she should get right anna with four votes you are the weakest link goodbye [Music] obviously very disappointed i'd hoped that it wasn't me and then i could go into the next round because although my performance on the last couple of rounds hasn't been very good i felt that i still had the confidence to keep going i think probably lee should go next there doesn't seem to be any consistency with his answers or with his banking and he doesn't seem very confident round five your total is 890 pounds if you'd hit your targets it would be 4 000 pounds there are five of you left another 10 seconds is coming off the clock we start with the strongest link from the last round let's play the weakest link start the clock david what is the value of the playing card sometimes referred to as a juice two correct manju which indian river is known as the holy river of the hindus the ganges correct tony what is the name of radio 4's early morning news programme this morning the today programme bob in tv which actor played magnum pi tom selleck lee what is the name of britain's tallest building canary wharf building wrecked david which country did footballer diego maradona captain to victory in the 1986 world cup finals argentina correct mandu which star sign bridges the months of february and march aquarius pisces tony shakespeare was alive during the reign of which queen elizabeth the first correct bob in which country did the kiwi fruit originate new zealand china lee which singer was dancing in the street with mick jagger in 1985 pink dragon david bowie correct david peter alice is the tv commentator famously associated with which sport golf correct mandy what kind of boat has two hulls pass catamaran tony apart from on earth where in the solar system is there a mountain called mark blanc [Music] on the surface of the moon correct bob name the 16th century english warship which was raised in 1982 mary rose correct lee what are the positive and negative ends of a magnet called don't know pass polls david which cuban dance music takes its name from a spanish word meaning source some salsa correct manju according to legend who rode naked on a horse through coventry um pass lady godiva tony who was the last title british prime minister sir winston churchill sir alec douglas hume bob coconuts growing what kind of tree correct lee bank what is the currency of south africa rand correct david which are right your time is up and another thousand pound target passes you by you won 70 pounds that round one of you is about to leave with nothing it's time to vote off the weakest link [Music] the strongest link is david who once again got all his questions right manju answered the most questions wrong so statistically she's the weakest link but how will the players vote okay pens down voting over it's time to reveal who you think is the weakest link manju bob bob lee [Music] we have a tie man you and bob have two votes each bob why manju well i'd vote myself off if it was in the rules but i think manju is struggling it's an interesting vote david slightly isn't it yeah just take us through it i chose bob because of the amount of questions he got wrong basically not because he tried to get rid of you in the last round part of the game isn't it well interestingly when the boat is tied the strongest link has the casting boat david you are the strongest link would you rather get rid of bob or manju i'll stick my convictions bob you are the weakest link goodbye when i realized i was i had to go i thought well that's it should have gone probably two rounds before and didn't capitalize on my good luck so i felt that i got what i deserved really [Music] i think probably manju will be the next one to fall by the wayside i think she's lost the confidence of the remaining players round six you've won 960 pounds so far but of course you could have won 5 000 by now we are cutting another 10 seconds from your time we start with the strongest link from the last round that's david let's play the weakest link start the clock david which art gallery opened a new site in london in may 2000. the tate correct manju what is the surname of the five sisters in the jane austen novel pride and prejudice tony in mythology on top of which mountain were the ancient greek gods said to live olympus correct lee in the human mouth what name is given to the fallback molars which are often removed in later life wisdom teeth correct david what number is meant by the term a score 20. correct manju in which us in which australian state is sydney cumbra new south wales tony who is the male star of the tv series the x-files david duchovny correct lee what is the name of britain's leading annual dog show correct david in which shakespeare played at yorick scallop here hamlet correct mandy which compo which composer wrote the water music handle correct tony which football club's ground is known as loftus road queen's park rangers correct lee jodhpurs are a type of what clothing trousers correct david which actress played the female lead in the film the mask of zorro catherine zeta jones correct manju bank in the human body what is the proper name for the gullet the throat esophagus tony who wrote the novel of clockwork orange anthony burgess correctly in which tv series does nicholas lindhurst have a secret life in wartime britain good night sweetheart correct david in which english county would you find the city of norwich anglia norfolk manju in which sport is the speed of the ball denoted by the color of the dot on it who squash tony what is the name given to a tight strap applied to a limb to stop arterial bleeding uh a plaster a tourniquet lee three members of which pop band made their acting debut in the film honest the both sides time is up i cannot accept your answer you didn't win a thousand pounds that round you won 400. one of you is about to leave with nothing it's time to vote off the weakest link [Music] manju banked all the money the team won in that round but she got the most questions wrong so statistically she's the weakest link but will her banking save her from being voted off okay pens down voting over it's time to reveal who you think is the weakest link [Music] [Music] tony have you ever been in a situation where you've needed to administer first aid it's not funny is it no no because you suggested to stop arterial bleeding you put on why manju in terms of overall consistency she was logical choice i'm afraid okay manju with three votes you are the weakest link [Music] goodbye i've helped to bank over 600 pounds and i'm gonna walk away with nothing now and uh although it makes me feel a bit bad that's the name of the game i suppose but i would have liked to have gone away with something well tony were really getting on my nerves at the end because he was like all laffy and jerky and saying oh never mind and i just said oh shut up and that's when you sort of realized he might have gone a bit too far but we'll just see how he does well in the next round i think that um david and lee are going to vote tony off because i think they've got some sort of collusion bit going and i don't think they're going to like him anyway round seven out of the six thousand pounds you could have won by now you have a not very impressive 1 360. just three of you left another 10 seconds is coming off the clock we start with the strongest link from the last round that's tony let's play the weakest link start the clock tony who was the first female british astronaut helen sharman correct lee mother teresa founded the missionaries of charity in which indian city calcutta correct david in which sport did princess am represent great britain at the olympic games show jumping correct tony what's the name of the building that serves as the headquarters of the united states defense department the pentagon correctly what fruit did isaac newton use in his experiments to understand gravity correct david in which film did john travolta first play the character tony monero saturday night fever correct tony the london orbital motorway is better known by which name m25 correctly what type of food is gazpacho soup correct david how long how long is the normal playing time in a game of rugby league or rugby union 80 minutes correct tony who directed and starred in the film braveheart mel gibson correct lee how many official bank holidays does england get in the month of may two correct david who played cj parker in the tv series baywatch david hasselhoff pamela anderson tony which british major which major british ferry port is situated on holy island pass hollyhead lee who played bass guitar in the beatles john lennon paul mccartney david what do entomologists study insects tony who is credited with the invention of the mercury thermometer faraday fahrenheit lee which hollywood actor won an oscar for his film as good as it gets al pacino jack nicholson david what name is given to the rubber disk used instead of a ball in ice hockey a chuck a puck tony what is a young elephant called the time is up the answer was calf the correct answer and you did not reach your thousand pound target you banked 400 pounds now in round eight you get the chance to treble what you bank that means in the next round there's three thousand pounds to be won the question is who is most likely to let you down it's time to vote off the weakest link [Music] very little between the three players in that round but david got one more question wrong than the others so statistically he's the weakest link but will the votes reflect the reality okay pens down voting over it's time to reveal who you think is the weakest link tony tony lee [Music] from the start of that round you got 11 answers correct on the trot so actually if you've been more confident and banked when you should have done you would have won a thousand pounds and reached your target well tony with two votes you are the weakest link goodbye [Music] obviously when i realized i've been voted off yeah my heart did sink it's inevitable um so i'm going all over nothing but yeah of the two that are left i think it's fair to say dave is going to be the one to go on to win i'm very confident about that i just hope he gets quite a bit of money out of it [Music] round eight you've won one thousand seven hundred and sixty pounds so far you could have won seven thousand you have only 90 seconds but whatever you win in this round will be troubled and added to your total to make up your final prize money we'll start with the strongest link from the last round that's lee let's play the weakest link start the clock lee which english king was given the title defender of the faith in 1521. richard henry viii david in which year did the falklands war take place 83 1982 lee the city of san francisco in the usa lies on the coast of which ocean pacific correct david in bowls what is the name of the target ball jack correct lee who was the last of the queen's children to marry andrew prince edward david in the christian religion what is commemorated on good friday easter the crucifixion lee what scientist pioneered the pasteurization process in the 17th century fleming louis pasteur david they in the scottish village which is renowned for runaway marriages pat gretna green lee which word for cheap wine is derived from the corruption of the french van blanc planck correct david what does phd stand for after a graduate's name diploma personal a diploma doctor of philosophy lee in monetary terms what does gnp stand for national profit gross national product david matt lebron plays jerry and which american sitcom friends correct lee what is the sequel to alice's adventures in wonderland through the looking glass alice through the looking gas correct david what number do you get [Music] you've banked in time and you didn't make it to a thousand pounds you won just 40 pounds pretty pitiful however we'll treble it and add it to the winnings from the previous rounds that means prize money today of one thousand eight hundred and eighty pounds but only one of you can take that money away you'll be playing against each other head to head i'll ask alternate questions it's the best of five whoever answers the most correctly wins it is as simple as that if there's a tie after five we'll go for sudden death until we have a winner so lee and david for one thousand eight hundred and eighty pounds let's play the weakest link [Music] lee is the strongest link in the last round you have the choice of who goes first david go first david step forward [Music] david the mont blanc tunnel links which two countries england and france and italy lee where in the human body would you find the pituitary gland near the ice the brain david what is the name of the actress who plays the female lead in the tv show buffy the vampire slayer is it keller i need the full name marianne keller sarah michelle gellar lee which him is traditionally sung before the fa cup final played with me correct david lee is now ahead of you idi amin was president of which country uganda correct lee who was the mother of queen elizabeth the first mary quinn scots and berlin david salt lake city is associated with which religious sect mormons that is the correct answer lee lee who wrote the canterbury tales chaucer that is the correct answer david on which river does the city of worcester stand the avon the seven is the correct answer lee if you answer this question correctly you have won the 1880 pounds in the film of the same name who is the giant rabbit friend of elwood p dowd books bunny movie the answer is harvey after five questions we have a tie we now go into a sudden death situation the questions will continue in pairs if david gets his question correct then lee will have to answer his question correctly or he'll lose and if david gets his question wrong then lee will have to answer his question correctly to win so david and lee let's play sudden death [Music] david tripoli is the capital city of which north african country libya that is the correct answer so lee to stay in the game what is the computer term email short form electronic mail that is the correct answer david what kind of mammal is a kangaroo marsupial that is the correct answer lee you must answer this question correctly to stay in the game what nationality is pope john paul ii swiss he is polish [Applause] [Music] that means david you are today's strongest link and you go away with 1880 pounds lee you leave with nothing [Music] you've been watching the weakest link goodbye it should have been me with the money i made the wrong decision to go second i should have gone first i could have answered those questions once you didn't get that last question right about the pope you know i wanted to shout out for him but i was just so elated when he didn't get it it's fantastic fantastic feeling and we're celebrating 10 years of the weakest link all week on bbc one scotland tomorrow at 5 15 you can see the celebrity 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Length: 44min 10sec (2650 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 12 2020