Weakest Link (2000)

on bbc2 seeking out the weakest link of the nine people preparing for today's show only one can win up to ten thousand pounds the other eight will be sent away with nothing because their own teammates vote them the weakest link 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 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 i'm heather 43 from liverpool and i'm a volunteer nursery nate i'm anne 36 part-time student and housewife from anstrother and fife i'm neil 23 working marketing for an oil company and i live in london i'm derek age 39 from warrington and cheshire and i work for a chemical company i'm andrew 26 a psychiatric nurse from bailey in worcestershire i'm june a semi-retired bookkeeper and i'm from the little village of lea in leicestershire i'm syed i'm 36 years old and i'm a local government officer from birmingham i'm sandra i'm 31 and i'm a corporate treasurer from willing in kent i'm adrian i'm a middle-aged country gentleman from raglan in south wales [Music] 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 question wrong and you break the chain and of course 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 in round one there are three minutes on the clock we'll start with the person whose name is first alphabetically that's you adrian let's play the weakest link [Music] start the clock adrian which cartoon dog has a friend called shaggy uh scooby-doo correct heather in space what does a light year measure no idea distance and in which oscar wilde played as the character lady bracknell appear the importance of being earnest correct neil how many players on the bowling side are on the field during a cricket match 11. correct derek in which country was mozart born austria correct andrew which month of the year was named after janus the roman god of beginnings january correct june bank what do you call the beads that are counted during catholic prayer a rosary correct syed which plant is the national symbol of ireland shamrock correct sandra which cartoon character was smarter than the average bear yogi correct adrian bank what is the capital of wales cardiff correct heather in food is tarragon a herb or a spice ahead correct am what is the equivalent of a rugby try in american football touchdown correct neil which hat was abolished as part of turkish national dress in 1925 pass bears derek which calendar is traditionally given to children the weeks before christmas advent correct andrew what type of bees lava feast on royal jelly pass the honeybee june who is the host of the cookery program masterchef uh pass lloyd graceman saeed what was the name of the air force of nazi germany luftwaffe correct sandra in which dance do participants form a chain and march in a one two three kick pattern conga correct adrian the channel tana begins in which english county kent correct heather what pop star released the single let me entertain you in march 1998. robbie williams correct what are the only two numbers that will divide evenly into 17 past 1 and 17. neil which a is an american state as well as a baked dessert alaska correct derek what is the name of the queen's country home in norfolk sandra correct andrew what do the letters sas stand for in britain secret arms services special air service june what name is given to steel with added chromium which does not rust um platinum stainless steel saeed who played the presidential hopeful in the film primary colors michael douglas john travolta sandra was king henry viii a tudor or a stuart a tudor correct okay your time is up now you banked only 500 pounds so you've fallen short of the thousand you could have had one of you is about to leave with nothing it's time to vote off the weakest link statistically andrew is the weakest link in this round the strongest link is adrian who answered all his questions correctly and managed to bank a hundred pounds but have our players picked up on those details okay pens down voting over please reveal who you think is the weakest link [Music] andrew heather andrew heather um [Music] june neil [Music] well quite a variety there in fact what we have there is a four-way tie june andrew heather and neal two boats each heather why june she got two answers wrong when you've got one wrong i know i won't have already kicked myself forward good andrew what did heather do to upset you i think she got a bit flummoxed with a few of the questions um but she answered most of them right i must admit you've got a big plan as to some of the questions she got more right than you did she did yes okay well in the event of a tie the strongest link has to cast the deciding vote adrian oh my god it's entirely up to you whether you want to get rid of june andrew neil or heather well i voted for for neil originally so i'm going to stick with neil why well he got rather an easy question wrong i thought about the fez which i thought the order got right okay the strongest link has decided neil you are the weakest link goodbye [Music] it's pretty humbling to be the first person off i mean to win is one thing but to be first off is something completely different when and says goodbye it's it's a bit of a walk of shame it's uh yeah very very embarrassing i think that either andrew or syed are going to go off next i think i should have voted for andrew anyway round two team you've won 500 pounds so far out of a possible thousand pounds eight players left we are now taking 10 seconds off the clock and we'll start with the strongest link from the last round that's adrian let's play the weakest link start the clock adrian which group of islands has a pony named after them shetland correct heather in the film did robert redford play butch cassidy or the sundance kid the sundance kid correct anne bank tom stoppard is a leading name in which are the arts plea writing correct derek which snooker player is nicknamed the whirlwind because of his rapid style of play should be white correct andrew which small thin sausage takes its name from the italian word for an onion correct june in which country were rottweilers originally bred germany correct saeed which swedish scientists invented dynamite the prophets from which went to create a famous prize fund alfred noble correct sandra bank who directed and starred in the film citizen kane orson welles correct adrian at which race course is the derby held epsom correct heather in a game of chess which piece can move two squares forwards and one square across in a single turn and eight correct and bank what queen's name is also a london station and a type of sponge cake victoria correct derek who is the eldest daughter in the novel little women amy meg or joe meg correct andrew in politics is tory mp francis maude a man or a woman woman a man june which was the last act to win the eurovision song contest for the united kingdom um i can't remember katrina and the wave saeed to which group of flowers does the pansy belong violet or rose violet correct sandra which radio play caused mass panic in 1938 when its american audience believed it was a news broadcast war of the worlds correct adrian in which country did the 1916 easter rising take place um czechoslovakia ireland heather who was the drummer in the beatles immediately before ringo starr best correct anne is it the male or female human who has an x and a y sex chromosome the meal correct derek bank the driver and vehicle licensing agency had has its headquarters in which city swansea correct andrew in which country would you find the black forest germany correct june aspirin is produced on the bark of which tree are you willow syed who is karen keating's presenter mother gloria that is correct but your time was up so another thousand pounds has gone begging you managed again to bank 500 pounds who's got to go one of you is about to leave the studio with nothing it's time to vote off the weakest link the weakest link statistically is june who got the least questions right the strongest link is anne who answered all her questions correctly and backed 150 pounds for the team but will the votes follow the facts okay pens down voting over it's time to reveal who you think is the weakest link [Music] jude june andrew june derek june june and heather that was a very close call on that beatles question it was are you not a born and bred scouser yes well don't like the beatles right that's a very brave thing to say in your part of the world it is why did you vote for june because i think she knows the answers but she's too hesitant right andrew not interested in politics i hate it with a passion my worst subject really have you ever seen francis maude no and i do apologize to francis june there's not much doubt about it with five votes you are the weakest link goodbye get rid of the old ones [Music] you sort of stand there and you can answer most of the other people's questions i mean especially andrew next door to me i could have answered his questions and then you get ones that you just absolutely stumped with i think in the next round that perhaps either heather or ann may have to go round three team in the bank you have one thousand pounds when you could have had two thousand pounds you are down to seven players we are taking another 10 seconds off the clock and we are starting with the strongest link from the last round that's anne let's play the weakest link start the clock and in shakespeare whose skull does hamlet find in a graveyard yorick's correct derek which keyboard instrument has pipes bellows and stops an organ correct andrew which jockey's derby winners includes paddy crapello and sir ival frankie de torre lester pickett syed which l is a fabric woven with flat gold or silver threads lyrics lame sandra what is britain's busiest railway station clapham junction correct adrian which country was ruled by peter the great russia correct heather which group of puppets have appeared in their own film version of a christmas carol and treasure island come up correct blanket what is the name of the paris underground system metro correct derek which british royal holds the title duke of cornwall prince charles correct andrew what substance was banned under prohibition in the usa in 1919 alcohol correct saeed brian ferry was the lead singer of witch pop bag roxy music correct sandra bank which two oceans does the panama canal connect past well banked atlantic and pacific adrian if you were withdrawing a hundred from the bank and asked for it in five pound notes how many notes would you expect to receive 20. correct heather who played colonel steve austin in the tv series the six million dollar man lee mages correct and mahatma gandhi campaign for the independence of which country india correct derek gettysburg was the decisive battle of which 19th century war the american civil war correct andrew bank which country changed its name from british honduras in 1973. jamaica belize syed what name is given to a young seal pop correct sandra which ex-neighbors actress had a hit single in 1997 with the song torn and nasty and brudia correct adrian which resort area of venice has given its name to public open-air swimming pools the lido heather harold and dennis are the real first names of which former cricket umpire in which novel does the hero race chariots against his enemy masala ben correct derek bank in which u.s city did the famous tea party of 1773 occur boston correct andrew i'm sorry the time is up and your thousand pounds has gone unclaimed again you won 550 pounds that time who needs to go one of you is about to leave with nothing it's time to vote off the weakest link the statistics show that andrew is the weakest link for the second time anne is the strongest link again after getting all her questions right and banking a hundred pounds for the team but who will the team vote for pens down voting over it's time to reveal who you think is the weakest link [Music] adrian andrew [Music] adrian adrian adrian andrew andrew [Music] interesting derek why adrian he could have banked a fair amount of money he hesitated over the question and then he got it wrong andrew statistically of course you were the weakest link so it's very lucky that adrian got four votes adrian you've been voted the weakest link when the first person turned her card over and my name was on it i was i was shocked really and then then several others did and i could hardly believe it really and i wasn't sure at the end whether it was me or andrew i think andrew should be voted off on the next round because um he's got questions wrong in all the rounds so far and uh to me he is the weakest link round four team there is 1 550 pounds bank so far 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 and we'll start with the strongest link from the last round that's anne let's play weakest link start the clock and which tree is a symbol of lebanon cedar correct derek in maths what is normally vulgar and sometimes improper pass fraction andrew in 1996 leonardo dicaprio appeared in a modern-day film version of which shakespeare play romeo and juliet correct saeed which acid can build up in the muscles during strenuous exercise causing cram lactic correct sandra which artist is famous for his paintings of swimming pools don't know david hockney heather in cockney rhyming slang what is the dog and bone the phone and which player took his son henry up to collect the trophy at football's fa cup final this year frank dennis wise derek what was the first name of stradivari who designed violins gustavo antonio andrew which is the longest river that flows only through england the thames correct saeed which king built windsor castle in the 11th century william the conqueror sandra who did film star elizabeth taylor married twice burton correct heather in which month of 1944 did the d-day landings occur june correct anne thank you what is the largest species of penguin empire correct derek in the comic book what superhero can peter parker turn into spiderman correct andrew which international organization is known by its initials who the world health organization correct fettuccine is a type of witch food pasta correct sandra bank belgrade is the capital city of which country pass flavia heather who when he beat trevor berbick in 1986 became the youngest ever world heavyweight boxing champion my taste is correct and who played the female lead in the film gone with the wind vivian lee correct derek you what nationality is the nobel prize winning poet seamus heaney irish correct andrew bank which female pop star's debut single was wuthering heights kate bush correct saeed what nationality was scientist isaac newton english correct sam tank well banked just before the time was up a thousand pounds available team a new bank just 370. who needs to be put out of their misery it's time to vote off the weakest link [Music] the statistics show that sandra is the weakest link she got the least correct answers and lost the most money for the team statistically andrew was the weakest link in the last round but he's the strongest link this time but whose game is over [Music] okay pens down voting over it's time to reveal who you think is the weakest link [Music] derek derek sandra derek derrick syed [Music] anne you very nearly got that football question didn't you yes but you didn't no why derek he got some questions wrong that you should have got right it's the first time he's got anything wrong derek you've done very well up till now but with four votes you are the weakest link goodbye [Music] the person who i think should have been voted off was andrew until this round he's been very lucky he hasn't got many questions right and he's looking the last round of voting i think the city gonna miss me round five your total so far is one thousand nine hundred and twenty pounds if you'd hit your targets it would be four thousand pounds there are five of you left another ten seconds is coming off the time we start with the strongest link from the last round that's andrew let's play the weakest link start the clock andrew which country was the tv soap the sullivan set australia correct saeed which street is the center of new york's theater district 42nd street broadway sandra what are the three colors of the irish national flag green white and orange correct heather in which athletics event did willie banks set a world record in 1985 which stood until jonathan edwards broke it 10 years later the triple jump correct am which planet's ring system was discovered in 1656 saturn correct andrew bank in what year was nelson bandela freed from imprisonment 94 1990 saeed which english actress won an oscar for her screen play of sense and sensibility emma thompson sandra in clothing what a plus fours trousers correct heather with which rock band does the father of actress liv tyler sing [Music] constant roses aerosmith anne william and butler were the first names of which irish poet keats w b yates andrew which bird lays the largest egg ostrich correct said in which ancient civilization was ra the god of the sun egyptian correct sandra which singer was married to and sang with sonny bono correct heather bank which religious day can fall at its earliest on the 22nd of march and at its latest on the 25th of april easter correct and what was the surname of the central family in the godfather films corleone correct andrew bank what natural disaster destroyed the colossus of roads a volcano earthquake saeed what position does michael portillo hold in the shadow cabinet he's a shadow chancellor correct sandra the dolomite mountain ranges in which european country correct heather what is the official name for the u.s national anthem star star spangled banner correct blanket derek hatton was the controversial deputy leader of which city council in the 1980s liverpool correct andrew the time is up okay you missed your thousand pound target this time you won 350 pounds one of you is about to leave with nothing it's time to vote off the weakest link the round's strongest link is sandra who answered all her questions correctly the weakest link statistically is syed with the most wrong answers and the most money lost but will the team have realized that okay pens down voting over it's time to reveal who you think is the weakest link [Music] andrew syed [Music] saeed hello saeed [Music] well sandra why saeed i just think he got quite a few wrong this time andrew because he got two questions wrong who else got two questions that'll be me then syed with three votes you are our weakest link goodbye [Music] well naturally i i'm devastated to be knocked off as the weakest link i just can't stand failure of any sort i don't take it very well i've got a good feeling that the next person to be knocked out might be andrew to be honest i think there's probably some sort of female solidarity amongst the other three but we'll see round 16 when you've won 2 270 pounds out of a possible 5 000. four players left three girls in andrew we are cutting another 10 seconds from your time we start with the strongest link from the last round that's sandra let's play the weakest link start the clock sandra in christianity what is the collective term for the father son and holy spirit the holy trinity correct heather which mountain in south dakota has the faces of four u.s presidents carved into it mount mckinley mount rushmore anne who sends a letter from america to radio 4 every week alistair cook correct andrew which pop star had a hit last year with millennium prayer cliff richard correct sandra sandy lyle became famous through playing witch sport golf correct heather which scottish song is traditionally sung on new year's eve oh lang syne correct and bank in literature which fictional land was created by l frank baum sanidou oz andrew the playmates of which children's tv character were teddy and looby lou big ted andy pandy sandra brothers michael and john whitaker compete in which sport show jumping correct heather which british city has the parliamentary constituencies of govern kelvin and mary hill glasgow correct anne what country was the philosopher confucius from china correct andrew bank what was the name of the winged horse of greek legend pegasus correct sandra which 1978 film had the tagline you'll believe a man can fly superman correct heather if a is alpha and zed is zulu what is v victor correct anne in pop music which brother and sister released the singles scream in 1995. plus michael and janet jackson andrew what is london's famous waxwork museum commonly known as madame tussauds correct sandra which part of a tortoise is its carapace don't know the shell heather what is the misery character called in charles dickens of christmas carol ebenezer screwed correct anne who was princess anne's first husband mark phillips correct andrew bank in the periodic table what is the symbol for aluminium correct okay your time is up 350 pounds banked so another thousand pound target missed who doesn't deserve to go any further one of you is about to leave with nothing it's time to vote off the weakest link [Music] with the most questions wrong and the most money lost for the team statistically anne is the weakest link the strongest link this time is andrew but how will the players actually vote okay pens down voting over it's time to reveal who you think is the weakest link [Music] anne sandra [Music] ann [Music] andrew andrew you've disappointed me i thought you'd know any answers about andy pandy no i'm afraid postman pat was more my era no one ever called you andy pandy when you were young no why anne why am she got too wrong well and statistically you were the weakest link and your team have voted you the weakest link goodbye [Music] couldn't believe that they could vote me off then having been the strongest link in two rounds plus i'd banked a lot more than anybody else i felt they should have just left it and i had another chance at least of another round sanders should have gone she didn't bank as much as i thought she could have and she hesitated on a few questions which lost her type the person who'd go off next is andrew because he's not been terribly clever with questions easy questions that you should have got right didn't round seven you have two thousand six hundred and twenty pounds out of the six thousand you could have won three of you left another ten seconds is coming off the clock we start with the strongest link from the last round that's andrew let's play the weakest link start the clock andrew in fashion what is tapita a type of material silk i'll accept material sandra what is the nickname of the comedian roy brown chubby correct heather which classical composer wrote the music for the german national anthem handel haydn andrew what is the fastest passenger played in the world concord correct sandra in which 80s tv series did david hasselhoff drive a car call kit knight rider correct heather how many pairs of walking legs does a crab have andrew the great barrier reef lies off the coast of which australian state new south wales queensland sandra which crop is destroyed by the colorado beetle don't know potato heather which author created the literary characters arthur dent and marvin the paranoid android legit adams douglas adams andrew which country was taken over by the kaima rouge in 1976 korea cambodia sandra of which security organization was j edgar hoover once the head the fbi correct heather which fortnightly satirical publication recently celebrated its thousandth edition private eye correct andrew thank you which infamous celebrity is known by the nickname madam sin no pass cynthia payne sandra which fruit is used as a basis for the french liqueur cassis cherries black currant heather in pop music what nationality are the members of the band the cause irish correct andrew what are traditionally planted on arbor day in the usa pumpkins trees sandra the real name of which american film actor was marion morrison john wayne correct [Music] well your time is up what a dreadful round you won just 70 pounds out of a possible thousand never mind 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 it's time to vote off the weakest link andrew is the weakest link because he got the most questions wrong but heather lost the most money for the team will one of them be voted off or will the tide turn for sandra okay pens down voting over it's time to reveal who you think is the weakest link [Music] andrew heather heather [Music] so sandra why heather because she got a few few wrong and she seemed to hesitate andrew that was a close one wasn't it certainly was you got more wrong than heather didn't you i did but i used tactics because sandra voted for me last time so i thought she would vote for me this time and it worked heather why andrew because i thought he got as many wrong as i had we got more wrong than you heather with two votes you are the weakest link goodbye i think andrew should be here instead of me because he got more wrong than i did and i thought with me and sandra both being women that it would have been gail power and we would have voted andrew off i think sandra's going to be the final winner because she seems to have a little bit more confidence than andrew and he has got some questions wrong that it should have really got right and she hasn't missed that many questions andre [Music] round eight team you've won 2 690 pounds so far you could have won 7 000 sandra and andrew just you two left this time 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 three thousand pounds is at stake in this round we'll start with the strongest link from the last round that's sandra let's play the weakest link the clock sandra what was the score when england beat west germany in the 1966 world cup final four nil four two andrew what was the central character in the player man for all seasons pass thomas moore sandra in host the planet sweet which planet is the bringer of jollity jupiter correct andrew the beatles used to play at which famous pop venue that was opened in january 1957 as a jazz club the cavern correct sandra who was president of the united states directly before bill clinton ronald reagan george bush andrew in e.m foster's novel what is howard's end cliff a country house sandra the shoguns were military rulers of which country japan correct andrew who plays the male lead in the film the english patient [Music] ralph fines correct sandra bank what is the name of the country house of lord bath which also serves as an animal park don't know longleat andrew which country is the world's largest producer of maize brazil united states sandra in drink assam is a type of what correct andrew bank which highly poisonous chemical element has the symbol a s astatine arsenic right the time is up and you didn't make it to a thousand pounds you want a hundred and twenty we'll treble that and add it to the winnings from the previous rounds that means prize money today of three thousand and fifty pounds but only one of you can take that money away you'll be playing against each other now head to head i'll ask alternate questions it is the best of five whoever answers the most correctly wins as simple as that so sandra and andrew for 350 pounds let's play the weakest link sandra is the strongest link in the last round you have the choice of who goes first andrew andrew step forward [Music] we are playing for 350 pounds andrew who is the first female in line to the throne princess beatrice that is the correct answer sandra step forward how many hulls does a trimaran boat have two three andrew you're now leading what currency does the russian federation use rubles that's the correct answer sandra on which bbc radio station would you listen to the archers radio 4 that is the correct answer andrew what premiership football ground shares its name with a test cricket ground old trafford that is the correct answer sandra richards watts and wood are the surnames of three members of which band the rolling stones that is the correct answer andrew you are still ahead who in monty python played the character whose catchphrase was nudge nudge wink wink say no more michael palin the answer is eric idol sandra this is your chance to catch up which u.s city has the highest population new york that is the correct answer andrew rybee's negrum is the latin name for which fruit blackcurrant that is the correct answer sandra you need to correctly answer this question to stay in the game if you get it wrong andrew walks away with three thousand and fifty pounds james ferrymore cooper wrote which novel which was also a film starring daniel day lewis my beautiful laundrette the last of the mohicans [Music] that means andrew you are today's strongest link and you go away with three thousand and fifty pounds sandra you leave with nothing you've been watching the weakest link goodbye well at the moment i'm just a blithering wreck like it hasn't really sunk in yet i cannot believe i got that far i was so bad in the first few rounds overall i thought my general knowledge was better than andrew's i just think in the last round he focused more and stayed calmer maybe i think i deserve to win but i'm a nice guy i'll spend the money wisely

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Length: 44min 14sec (2654 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 01 2020