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Melanie Bracewell, Ruth Madeley, Jenny Powell, Mark Steel  Series 9, Week 1, Day 1  Every day this week, celebrity contestants Melanie Bracewell, Ruth Madeley, Jenny Powell and Mark Steel take on a series of quiz rounds selected by the host, quiz legend Richard Osman.  A daily winner is declared following a quickfire round at the end of each show, and the scores are tallied across the week, resulting in an overall champion being crowned on Friday.  Will the winning stars opt for the coveted House of Games dartboard, or will they be tempted with the House of Games custom beanie hat?  -----  Series 9 Episode 1 (m002k8jr) (hd)

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00:00Hello everybody, how nice to see you. Welcome to a brand new week of House of Games. You know how it works. Four famous faces all playing for the worst trophy on television.

00:21Shall we meet our four players today? They are Melanie Bracewell, Mark Steele, Ruth Mabley and Jenny Powell. Welcome one, welcome all. Melanie, I was in Australia last year and I came on your show. You do a topical show. It's comedic, funny and I said the second you're in the UK you've got to come on House of Games and now we have you here for a week. But how is your UK knowledge?

00:51Yes, my fear is that I will say something that is so incorrect that I get deported. That's my fear. That's something to look forward to, isn't it? By Thursday, Melanie will no longer be here. Mark, welcome. From a New Zealand stand-up to a British stand-up, your British knowledge, surely.

01:08Well, I'm hoping that all the questions are about obscure towns. And then I reckon I'm probably slight favourite.

01:19How many episodes of Mark Steele's In Town have you done?

01:22We're on the 13th series. People write to us quite a lot to say, please, please come to our town and be as savage and horrible about it as you can be, which is quite endearingly, charmingly British, I think.

01:36Please be horrible to Loughborough.

01:37Yeah, yeah, exactly.

01:39Ruth, welcome along. How are you feeling about this week? Are you nervous? Are you confident?

01:43Confidently nervous.

01:46Oh.

01:47Yeah.

01:47Because you look nervously confident.

01:49Thank you so much.

01:50But that's because you're such a great actor. You see what I mean? You're showing the exact opposite of what you are.

01:55I too might get deported.

01:57So we'll see.

01:58That would be quite... As a British national, imagine what you'd have to do to be deported.

02:03I mean, let's see, shall we? Let's find out.

02:05Literally, Friday, it's just Jenny and Mark.

02:06Jenny, welcome along.

02:09Hello.

02:10Now, you know how this show works. You know that at the end of every show, someone wins points.

02:15But there are also prizes on every show. Would you like to take a look at today's prizes?

02:20Would I? Are you telling me I need to look at the prizes?

02:22Oh, my God, no. Jenny, if you say you don't want to look at the prizes...

02:25I'm not bothered.

02:26OK, fine.

02:27Yeah.

02:28Mel, would you like to look at the prizes?

02:30Oh, not for me, really.

02:31Not for you? Not for you, Mark?

02:33I'd love to look at the prizes, please.

02:34There we go. Finally.

02:35So, your prizes today are these.

02:40There are the House of Games salt and pepper grinders, toolbox, laptop case, playing cards and beeswax wraps.

02:48What are beeswax wraps?

02:50You use it instead of cling film, someone just said in my ear.

02:53Yeah, a bit chew, wouldn't they? With a bit of tunery.

02:54Beeswax...

02:54This tortilla is disgusting.

02:59Well, listen, beeswax food wrap.

03:02That is fun to say.

03:03Mark, which of those would you take home, do you think, if you were to win?

03:07The laptop case, I think.

03:08Yes, useful, isn't it?

03:09Mel, what would you go for?

03:10Well, the toolbox could serve as an extra carry-on luggage on my way home.

03:14Oh, yeah.

03:15Salt and pepper, I don't know if I'd get through.

03:17We'll send them.

03:18That would be the furthest we've ever had to send prizes.

03:20Yeah, OK.

03:21So, don't choose anything heavy or you're a banker up to the BBC.

03:24I'll take the playing cards just because I don't want to be difficult.

03:25Thank you. There you go.

03:26Ruth?

03:27Either the toolbox or the salt and pepper.

03:29Salt and pepper.

03:30I think, yeah.

03:31Jenny, I am not going to insult you by asking.

03:33Unless, having looked at them, you think, oh, I actually am interested.

03:37But no.

03:37I'm slightly tempted.

03:38I might take the beeswax wraps just because I feel sorry for the bees.

03:42Lovely.

03:43Shall we get on play?

03:44Yeah, go on.

03:44Let's have a go.

03:45Let's have a go, shall we, Ruth?

03:46Listen, what's the worst that can happen?

03:48We'll find out.

03:49We will find out.

03:50A couple of deportations.

03:52Yeah.

03:52Let's find out what our first round is today.

03:54It's almost always rhyme time, but you never know.

03:59Whoa.

04:00It's rhyme time.

04:01It is rhyme time.

04:02Fingers on buzzers, please.

04:03Already on buzzer.

04:04Oh, they've got to be competitive.

04:05I've got to put glasses on.

04:06That's what we do in Great Britain.

04:08OK.

04:09Not lackadaisical, polite New Zealand now.

04:11This is competitive.

04:12Yes.

04:13Two questions at a time.

04:14The answers rhyme with each other.

04:15Let's score our first point of the week, shall we?

04:16Here are your first two.

04:19European country with the capital Paris.

04:21And one of two types of card in Monopoly,

04:25alongside community chest.

04:29Mel.

04:31France chance.

04:32Oh, very clever.

04:32France chance.

04:33Oh.

04:34Absolutely.

04:35France chance chance.

04:35Well done, Mel.

04:36That was quick on the buzzer, Mel.

04:38That was very quick.

04:39Next two.

04:42Small bone at the base of the spine,

04:43also known as the tailbone.

04:46And group that won the X Factor in 2011

04:48and had a hit with shout-out to my ex.

04:51Yes, Ruth.

04:55Cock 6, Little Mix.

04:56Cock 6, Little Mix.

04:57I got one right.

04:58It is.

04:59Cock 6 and Little Mix.

05:00Well done.

05:02What are the two rhyming answers to these, please?

05:061980s TV show featuring Hannibal, B.A., Face and Murdoch.

05:11And what is this?

05:15That is Mark.

05:16A-team and strawberries and cream.

05:18A-team and strawberries and cream.

05:19Nice.

05:20Of course it is.

05:21A-team and strawberries and cream.

05:23Next two.

05:26Collective name for the football clubs Celtic and Rangers.

05:30And destructive larvae of the furniture beetle.

05:32I know the second bit.

05:35What's that, then?

05:36Can we collaborate and share a point?

05:40Listen, you can do whatever you need to do.

05:42Isn't that termite?

05:43Would that be termite?

05:44It is not.

05:46It's a collective name.

05:47It's old firm.

05:48What's the termite?

05:49Oh, OK.

05:50Oh, OK.

05:51Old firm.

05:51What's the big one?

05:52What sort of worm would burrow into wood?

05:55Oh.

05:56Ruth.

05:57Old firm woodworm.

05:58Old firm woodworm.

05:59Well, but we have to share something, because I'm just being nice.

06:02Sorry, is it Ruth made this house of games?

06:04It could be.

06:06No, there's a point to Ruth.

06:07If you buzz in, you get the point.

06:09OK.

06:09You can just...

06:10You help him for an hour.

06:11I will, I will.

06:12Right, next two.

06:15Original name of the landmark moments of the London Eye.

06:19And car driven by the superhero alter ego, Bruce Wayne.

06:26Yes, Mel.

06:26Ah, Millennium Wheel Betmobile.

06:31Just a right answer.

06:33Well done.

06:34Well played.

06:36Next two.

06:38Bodily action with the sound represented by the word achoo.

06:42And what are these?

06:47Yes, Ruth.

06:48Sneeze and dungarees.

06:50Sneeze and dungarees.

06:51Absolutely.

06:53Final question in this round.

06:55Jenny, we're going to get you off the market.

06:56Final question in the round.

06:57Come on, Jenny.

07:05Yes, Mark.

07:11Plato and NATO.

07:12This is Plato and NATO.

07:14Very nicely done.

07:15Mark.

07:16That's the end of that round.

07:19Shall we take a look at our first leaderboard of the week?

07:21Jenny, yet to look for Mark, but we will put that right.

07:24Melanie and Mark have two points each.

07:26Our early leader is Ruth with three.

07:28You know what, can someone take a picture of that?

07:30That's the only time I'm going to be in the lead.

07:32Shall we play our first pairs game of the week?

07:34It is going to be...

07:35...distinctly average.

07:40Jenny, you're in fourth, so you get to choose your partner for this round.

07:43Great.

07:43Who would you like to play with?

07:45I'm going to go with Mel.

07:47You're going to go with Mel.

07:48So, Mark and Jenny, if you will swap seats, please.

07:50Mark and Ruth are a team.

07:51I feel like I should, because Mel's like,

07:53come all the way over from Australia.

07:55Welcome.

07:56Hi.

07:56Welcome to the UK.

07:57You've come all the way from over the years.

07:59OK, tablets out, everybody.

08:00I am going to ask you a question that will have a number as the answer.

08:05Oh, my.

08:05Everyone writes down an answer, or I take the average for each pair.

08:08And whichever pair is closest to the real answer, scores a point.

08:11Your first question is...

08:12At the 2024 US presidential election,

08:17how many votes were cast in Dixville-Notch,

08:19the first township to declare their result?

08:23Have a lot to think at home on this one as well.

08:24Where on earth is Dixville-Notch?

08:30I don't think it's going to help you even to...

08:32I mean, I mean, yeah, I like how I asked that question.

08:34Like, it's going to make an answer difference.

08:36Our brains can't accept that we don't know something.

08:39We have to go, there must be something I can...

08:41I have absolutely no idea.

08:47Yeah.

08:48I don't think you're alone on that.

08:49I mean...

08:50Pick a number.

08:52Everybody is in.

08:53Mel, what do you reckon?

08:55What have you gone with?

08:55OK, I've gone quite low.

08:56My theory is, first result, surely there's not that many,

09:00and it'll be, like, the smallest town.

09:02I see that, because it's the first one to be counted.

09:04I've gone, like, 203.

09:06203.

09:07Wow.

09:07Yeah.

09:09We may have gone quite...

09:11Jenny, have you...

09:12Have you...

09:12I've surpassed myself here.

09:13I've gone 40,000.

09:1540,000.

09:16Yeah, because I thought, well...

09:17Dixville-Notch.

09:17There's more people in Dixville than you think.

09:20Let's take a look at your average.

09:21It is 20,101 and a half.

09:25I wonder who the half voted for.

09:27Ruth, what have you gone for here?

09:29I went for something incredibly specific.

09:3317,972.

09:36I think that is pretty specific.

09:38It is.

09:39Very close to our average.

09:40Imagine if Mark's written the same thing.

09:41I have absolutely no idea.

09:43Mark, you kept quiet.

09:44You look like you might have some...

09:46Mark probably knows the exact...

09:47I've got the worst possible thing,

09:50because I've got a vague feeling

09:52that I sort of remember seeing this,

09:55but this might be absolutely stupid.

09:57But I think it was six.

09:59Whoa!

09:59I have completely ruined it.

10:01Yeah, I think it's one of those ceremonial things, isn't it,

10:04that there's one little place

10:05when they count their votes first

10:07and it sort of kicks off the whole election.

10:09So, Mark has said six.

10:11Ruth and Mark, your average is 8,989.

10:15So, we've got 20,000.

10:16We've got about 9,000.

10:17What have you got at home?

10:19Who has scored the first point of the round?

10:22Six, Mark.

10:23How about that?

10:24I said, what did I say?

10:26I said, Mark will know it exactly.

10:28Mark, I have to give you two points for that.

10:30I have to do it.

10:30You have to.

10:33Ordinary, Ruth, I'd give you two points as well,

10:35but I think given the point he gave you in the first round...

10:37And he got it exactly at 1,000%.

10:39Um, next question.

10:41How many people worldwide speak English as their first language?

10:46Do not write down six, anybody.

10:49Oh.

10:49How many people worldwide speak English as their first language?

11:01Everyone in?

11:02What do we think at home?

11:03It feels like something...

11:04You just take all the countries that speak English,

11:05just add them together.

11:07Ruth, what have you put?

11:07767 million.

11:12I don't think that's crazy.

11:13I mean, hopefully not.

11:15767 million, says Ruth.

11:17Mark, are you up or down?

11:19Down a little bit, but I'm sort of guessing not far from...

11:24Oh!

11:24...what Ruth said.

11:25Oh!

11:26600 million, says Mark.

11:28So your average?

11:29I should have put...

11:30I've done it.

11:31It's 683 million.

11:33That was supposed to be six.

11:33Like, when they were revealing it, you two have not stopped talking.

11:36No, sorry.

11:36I put six...

11:37Like, you're white.

11:38No, I just...

11:38Normally, I'd go to Melanie.

11:40Let's start with you, Jenny, because it feels like you've got something you want to tell us.

11:43I know.

11:43I put it...

11:43Look, it should see six billion, not 60.

11:47Six billion?

11:48Yeah.

11:48Oh, good.

11:48Yeah, that's okay.

11:49I mean, it's the entire population of the world.

11:52Including babies.

11:55Including babies.

11:57As soon as I sort of...

11:58I should have...

11:59I kind of glimpsed, and I should have just made my answer negative.

12:05But I went sort of very similar to those guys.

12:06700 million.

12:07700 million.

12:08So your average?

12:103.35 billion.

12:12We've got 683 million.

12:14We've got 3.3 billion.

12:16How many people speak English as their first language?

12:19380 million.

12:22380 million.

12:23Mark and Ruth, you get yourself a point.

12:25245 million of those are in the US.

12:28Final question in this round.

12:30Okay.

12:30We're going to get Jenny a point here.

12:32Come on, Jenny.

12:34I'm not going to think so big.

12:35I know Jenny's barometer, so I just need to adjust myself down.

12:40And so then we can...

12:41Whatever it is, write zero.

12:43Yeah.

12:45Here is your final question.

12:46When he retired in April 2024 from the guide dog breeding programme,

12:52how many puppies have been fathered by star stud dog?

12:56We'll be the judge of that, mate.

12:57Wow.

12:58Trigger.

12:59How many puppies had Trigger fathered?

13:03He doesn't have to be pregnant.

13:05Now you've got to sort of think this through.

13:07How many...

13:08Did he have weekends off?

13:10Did he have a union?

13:12Did dogs have weekends off?

13:14Did he have a union?

13:15The poor lad shattered.

13:16Look at him.

13:18You know, it's going to be quite hefty, isn't it?

13:20It's a good question, though, isn't it?

13:22In his years, how many prime years has he got?

13:25Ugh.

13:26Ah.

13:27I don't know whether I've gone way too much or nowhere near enough.

13:31Yeah, it's like...

13:32I mean, yeah, it's like we know dogs, but do we really know them?

13:37OK, listen, whatever it is, whoever gets the point,

13:39we're all going to learn something.

13:42Melanie, what have you put?

13:43OK, I've gone 8,560.

13:47Trigger.

13:48I know it's a lot, but I think, you know,

13:50like he probably had about maybe 10 years of breeding,

13:53you know, potentially.

13:54Yeah, 100 years.

13:55Yeah, yeah.

13:55And then, you know, that's maybe...

13:57A litter would be like six dogs.

13:59Yeah.

13:59And then he'd just have to go hard, you know.

14:03Like...

14:04Sorry?

14:04A couple times a week, and then that would be...

14:07Yeah, that's 8,560.

14:08Jenny, what have you said?

14:09I've gone the other way now because I'm so cautious.

14:12Oh, no.

14:12One.

14:13I just thought of a round figure for Trigger.

14:15I thought he's probably done it about 100 times

14:18and there's probably eight in a litter, so I've gone for 800.

14:20Oh, 800.

14:21OK, that's OK.

14:21So it might even everything out.

14:23This is where the team might work.

14:24Possibly.

14:25Possibly.

14:25So your average is 4,600 and...

14:30Oh, that's still a lot, isn't it?

14:31Trigger.

14:32Yeah, that is a lot.

14:33Mark, what have you gone for?

14:34I think this is too low.

14:36I've got 1,100.

14:38I've sort of forgot that there's more than one puppy in a litter.

14:41Someone in my ear just said,

14:43it's worth remembering he was also a working guide dog all this time.

14:48Ruth, what have you gone for?

14:49I went...

14:50I got really good vibes from Trigger, so I went 79,000.

14:54Wow.

14:55That's 79,000.

14:56That's a lot.

14:57That's all the guide dogs in the world.

14:59I know, I know.

15:00I just...

15:01It said star stud, so I just felt like it was...

15:04Star stud.

15:04Yeah.

15:05Ruth, just in a quick bit of maths,

15:06there would be 22 puppies a day for 10 years.

15:10It's doable.

15:11He's busy.

15:11It's doable.

15:12It's doable.

15:12Oh, listen, it's doable.

15:13But did he do it?

15:14Your average is 40,000.

15:18So we've got 4,000 and we've got 40,000.

15:20How many puppies did he father?

15:23Who scored the last point of the round?

15:24I mean, I think it might be...

15:28323 was the answer.

15:31We've gone too much.

15:32323.

15:33Jenny and Mel, you get the point.

15:35And Jenny, you were the closest.

15:37That's the end of the round.

15:38Tablets away, please, everybody.

15:39Jenny and Mark, if you will swap back over, please.

15:43Welcome back, Mark.

15:46And let's take a look at what that has done to the leaderboard.

15:48We know it's given Jenny Powell a point.

15:50Well, Jenny.

15:53Jenny has one.

15:55Melanie has three.

15:56We have joint leaders now.

15:58Mark, Steele, Ruth Madeley, five points each.

16:02How about that?

16:02Still in the lead, Ruth.

16:03Still in the lead.

16:05Our next round is...

16:09The backwards round.

16:10The backwards round.

16:11So in this round, you have to give all your answers backwards.

16:14If I were to ask your name, you'd have to say Steele Mark.

16:17Oh, no.

16:17I read out the questions backwards as well.

16:20So buzzers on fingers.

16:22Here we go.

16:24Now, right, leave and fire my light with hits one number UK

16:29had an 2002 in idle pop show TV, the one singer, which?

16:37Jenny.

16:38Take that.

16:39It's incorrect for so many reasons.

16:41Oh, sorry.

16:42I didn't even look at the question, did I?

16:44Will Young.

16:46It's incorrect as well.

16:47Is it?

16:47Oh.

16:50Yes, Mel.

16:51Young Will?

16:52Young Will.

16:52There you go.

16:53I'm so sorry.

16:54It is Young Will.

16:55It's OK.

16:55Don't worry.

16:56It's all good.

16:57I understand now.

16:58Is everybody happy?

16:59Yes.

17:00Now we know what we're doing.

17:01Very happy.

17:01Question next.

17:03Ballet Tchaikovsky, which in Bird A Into Turned, is Odette named Princess A.

17:10Mel.

17:11Lake Swan.

17:12Lake Swan.

17:13It is.

17:15Swan Lake becomes a lake swan.

17:16Oh, my goodness me.

17:18OK.

17:19Song this of title, thee, is what?

17:27Mel.

17:29Two song.

17:30Two song.

17:31Is that right?

17:33It is.

17:34Well done.

17:35Well done.

17:36Song two by Blair.

17:38Question next.

17:39Wine in chicken, as translates dish, a French classic, which of name, thee?

17:47Yes, Mark.

17:48Van O'Cock.

17:50Van O'Cock?

17:51It is Van O'Cock.

17:53Very well played.

17:54Question next.

18:06Yes, Ruth.

18:08Horse pommel.

18:09Horse pommel?

18:10Point to Ruth.

18:11Absolutely.

18:11Horse pommel.

18:12Horse pommel.

18:12I can't waste that.

18:13Like, say it the wrong way, Ruth.

18:15Say it the wrong way.

18:15Yeah, it's good.

18:16Like, how I was like...

18:16Just make sure of yourself.

18:17Yeah.

18:19Name what by known commonly most is 1666 in Bakery Lane Pudding.

18:24A in began that inferno major, thee.

18:30Mark.

18:31London of Fire Great.

18:34Correct.

18:35London of Fire Great, the Great Fire of London.

18:37Question final.

18:38Question final.

18:41Song this of title, thee, is what?

18:43Jenny.

18:44Better get only can things.

19:01Better get only can things?

19:03Yeah.

19:03Let's take a little listen.

19:06Correct answer, Jenny.

19:08Wrong place.

19:10Things can only get better by Reem D.

19:12That is the end of the round.

19:14Let's take a look at our leaderboard.

19:16Good round there for Mel.

19:18Jenny has two.

19:20Ruth and Mel have six points each.

19:22Mark Steele now in the lead with seven.

19:24Go on, Mark.

19:25Two rounds to go.

19:27There's a one-point lead, but it is super close.

19:29Let's play our next round.

19:31It is...

19:33Where is Kazakhstan?

19:36Tablets out, please, everybody.

19:38This is our geography round.

19:39This is good for a world traveller.

19:40Let's take a look at our map today.

19:45UK and Ireland.

19:46UK and Ireland.

19:49Fresher now, isn't it?

19:51So what I'm going to do is find various things on the map.

19:53Whoever is closest will score themselves a point.

19:55Oh, my goodness.

19:56The first thing I'd like you to find is this.

20:03Where is that?

20:04Not a good sign I wasn't aware I had it upside down at first.

20:08Um, OK.

20:09Anyone here been to Waterford?

20:11I don't know.

20:13Listen, we'll find out.

20:14I've actually never heard of it, so it's just going to go...

20:16You probably haven't been there, then, if you've never heard of it.

20:19Probably not.

20:23Everybody is in.

20:25Mel, this was slightly unfair to ask you,

20:29but do you have a guess as to where Waterford might be on that map?

20:31No, I'm leaving.

20:32This is an outrage.

20:33Uh, I, my logic is Waterford, probably near the water.

20:38Oh, that's clever.

20:39Uh, glass making, sand.

20:42Yes.

20:42You know, you know sand to make glass.

20:44Yeah, sort of near Bournemouth-y.

20:45Yeah, of course.

20:46Yeah, sure, yeah.

20:47Yeah, Bournemouth, sure.

20:48Bournemouth.

20:48Uh, Mark, what are you thinking?

20:51Uh, it's on the east coast, southeast coast of Ireland.

20:55Ah!

20:56Sorry!

20:57Whoa!

20:58All this time, I thought you were an amazing actor,

21:00but it's actually just you.

21:01No, it's genuinely just me.

21:03Oh!

21:04Wow, let's see where Mark is.

21:07Yeah, southeast coast of Ireland.

21:09Ruth, where have you gone on this one?

21:10I went in, like, Southern Ireland, I don't know very well at all,

21:15and so I thought, I've not heard of it.

21:17Yeah.

21:17So I kind of put it not right where, but not far.

21:21OK.

21:21You could love it if you beat Mark on this.

21:23Jenny, where have you put it?

21:24Not in Ireland.

21:25Not in Ireland.

21:26I've kind of gone Cotswolds way.

21:29Sort of North Cotswolds there.

21:30Yes.

21:31What do you think at home?

21:32Do you live in Waterford?

21:34In which case, I hope you got this right.

21:36It is in Ireland.

21:37Oh, thank goodness.

21:37That's for sure.

21:38So it's between Ruth and Mark.

21:40Where in Ireland is it?

21:41Who scored the point?

21:43Ooh!

21:44Mark scores the point.

21:45Well done, Mark.

21:46You're all for it, though.

21:47I'll take that.

21:48Yeah.

21:49I'm taking that.

21:50That was pretty good.

21:50Next one.

21:51Where is this, please?

21:52Andy Scott's Kelpies sculptures completed in 2013.

21:58Where are they?

22:01What do you think at home?

22:02Anyone know this?

22:03Oof.

22:03This is no idea.

22:12Mark, where have you gone on this one?

22:13Oh, just a guess that Kelpies sounds Scottish.

22:19Yeah.

22:19So either Edinburgh or Glasgow, but that's how I've put Edinburgh.

22:24Yep.

22:25Absolutely.

22:26It does sound Scottish.

22:28Doesn't it?

22:28Ruth, what were you thinking?

22:29I went to Scotland.

22:30You went to Scotland as well, just because of the name?

22:32Andy Scott.

22:33Oh, Andy Scott.

22:34It's another.

22:35So I just put anywhere in Scotland.

22:37Yeah.

22:38Oh, my goodness gracious me.

22:40You're a kid.

22:41Jenny, what were you thinking here?

22:43I've gone sort of near the coast, but for the Lake Districts.

22:47And Mel, what are you saying?

22:50I went Scotland because of Scott.

22:53I wish there was more logic to it, but that was it.

22:57Let's see where Mel is.

22:59Dumfries and Galloway, that kind of area.

23:02They are in Scotland.

23:03I think they're horses.

23:04Are they?

23:04I think they're sort of beautiful.

23:05I went past them on a train once, I'm sure.

23:07Like, really beautiful kind of tileward horses, but massive.

23:12But where are they and who scored a point?

23:15I think we're all pretty close.

23:18Wow.

23:19That is Ruth by 0.1 of a pixel.

23:21Oh, nice.

23:22Yeah.

23:23I got a geography question, right?

23:25Nice.

23:26Final question in this round.

23:27The Jane Austen's House Museum.

23:31Where is the museum of Jane Austen's house, please?

23:37She wrote her six major novels.

23:39Mm-hmm.

23:45Everybody in?

23:48Ruth.

23:49I just went bottom left a bit.

23:52Bottom left a bit.

23:53Just around there, I've got no idea.

23:55Sort of Gloucestershire-y.

23:56Yeah.

23:57Fairly Cotswolds-y.

23:59Jenny, any clues on this one?

24:01I've gone for Yorkshire way.

24:03Yeah, sort of Leeds kind of area.

24:05Yeah, Leeds up that way.

24:06Yorkshire.

24:07Mm-hmm.

24:07Mel, where are you?

24:09I've just gone around London.

24:12Why not?

24:13Yeah, sort of north-west-y of London.

24:15Mark, have you been to this place?

24:17I might have done, but I can't remember.

24:20But I think it's sort of west.

24:22I think Ruth's going to just win this again.

24:25No, no.

24:26It's about there.

24:28It's about there.

24:30Somerset, kind of.

24:31Yeah, you'd only miss it by 40 miles if you went to where I went.

24:34So, if it's down south, we've got a real three-way battle here.

24:38If it's up north, Jenny, you're going to get yourself a point.

24:40Let's find out, shall we?

24:41Do you know this one at home?

24:43Where is Jane Austen's House Museum?

24:47It is in Hampshire.

24:49Melanie, you get yourself a point.

24:51Very nicely done.

24:52That is the end of that round.

24:54Very well played, Mel.

24:54You know what, I've not disgraced myself.

24:55That was the one that I thought, oh.

24:57Tablets away, please, everybody.

24:59We only have one round to go.

25:01We've got our first game of Answer Smash of the week.

25:03It's going to decide our first winner.

25:04The leaderboard going into it takes this form.

25:09Jenny with two.

25:10I've got some catching up to do there, haven't I?

25:11One point between the three of you there.

25:14Melody and Ruth with seven.

25:16Mark Steele with eight.

25:17How about that?

25:18Nice work, guys.

25:19One point and one round to go.

25:22We know what that round is.

25:24We always finish with it.

25:27Answer Smash.

25:28Fingers on buzzers, please.

25:30Point for a correct answer.

25:31Don't forget, in this round, I will deduct a point if you buzz in and give me an incorrect answer.

25:36Oh, no.

25:36There will be a clue, there will be a picture.

25:39Please smash them together.

25:40Your first category is wheeled vehicles.

25:43Those will be the pictures.

25:44Here is your first question.

25:54That is Mark.

25:56Bingo cart.

25:57Bingo cart?

25:58It is bingo and go-kart, bingo cart.

26:02Next one.

26:03Which mythical creature is famously said to reside in a lake in the Scottish Highlands

26:08and has been the subject of many unconfirmed sightings?

26:15Yes, Ruth.

26:16Loch Ness Monster Truck.

26:17Loch Ness Monster Truck?

26:19It is the Loch Ness Monster and a Monster Truck.

26:22Loch Ness Monster Truck.

26:23I love Monster Trucks.

26:25Next clue, next picture.

26:26Which 90s English girl group shared their name with the last Queen of Egypt?

26:33Yes, Jenny.

26:36Cleopatram.

26:37Cleopatram is absolutely right.

26:41Cleopatram, come on up tram.

26:42Come on up tram.

26:43Gotcha.

26:43Next category is writers.

26:47Those will be the pictures.

26:50What is the stage name of the lead singer of Culture Club?

26:56I don't know if this is right, but Boy George Orwell.

26:59It is not Boy George Orwell, I'm afraid.

27:01It's a good shout.

27:02Boy George Elliot.

27:03Boy George Elliot.

27:04Of course it's woman, yes, of course.

27:06Yes.

27:07Boy George Elliot.

27:08Boy George.

27:08George Elliot.

27:10Next one.

27:12Which seabird has species named Arctic and Sandwich?

27:17Oh, I don't know his name, though.

27:19But I know what...

27:20You got it at home?

27:22I'm looking for Ternist Hemingway.

27:24Tern and Ernest Hemingway, Ternist Hemingway.

27:26Oh, no, I didn't get it.

27:26OK.

27:27Are we done?

27:29We are done.

27:31We are done.

27:32Let's take a look at our leaderboard, see who our first winner of the week is.

27:37With ten points, it's Mark Steele.

27:39Well played, Mark.

27:40Very nicely done.

27:42Mark, you've won yourself a prize.

27:43Ooh.

27:44Yeah.

27:44Which of these would you like?

27:49Well, that laptop thing.

27:51Sticking with it?

27:51Going to go with the laptop case?

27:52Yeah, yeah, yeah.

27:53Mark Steele wins the House of Games laptop case.

27:56Our first leaderboard of the week.

27:58All week, it'll be four, three, two, one.

28:00And Mark starts with four points there.

28:02Mark, congratulations.

28:03It's going to be a close week.

28:04I think it's going to be a competitive week as well.

28:06Shall we team up again tomorrow?

28:07Excellent.

28:08Look forward to seeing you all here.

28:09Yeah, why not?

28:10What else would you be doing?

28:11No, apart from Mark.

28:12Mark's like, I've won now.

28:13Yes, that would be.

28:14Yeah, exactly.

28:14Call it.

28:15Yeah, leave on a high.

28:17I'll see the rest of you here tomorrow.

28:18I'll see you as well on the House of Games.

28:43Is it everything you imagined it to be, Mark?

28:51And more.

28:52Yeah.

28:52Can you believe we've given you a laptop in it as well?

28:54I'll see you as well.

28:55No.

28:56No.

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