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Melanie Bracewell, Ruth Madeley, Jenny Powell, Mark Steel  Series 9, Week 1, Day 2  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 2 (m002k8hy) (hd)

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00:00Hello, everybody. Welcome along to Tuesday's House of Games.

00:12I can exclusively reveal that everybody has come back.

00:15It's because they want this, don't they?

00:17They want the trophy. They are hungry for it.

00:19Let's meet this week's players one more time.

00:21They are Melanie Bracewell,

00:24Mark Steele,

00:26Ruth Mabley,

00:27and Jenny Powell.

00:30Hi, everyone. Thanks for coming back.

00:32Mark, a win yesterday. Congratulations.

00:35Thank you, but, you know, it's just one game.

00:37Take some positives. We move on.

00:39We move on, exactly.

00:41Mark, we go again.

00:42We go again. We go again.

00:43Mark won a laptop case yesterday.

00:46Shall we take a look at today's prizes?

00:48See what we could win today.

00:50Oh, wow.

00:52There is the House of Games reusable coffee mug,

00:55the fondue set, of course,

00:56the welcome mat,

00:57the scented candle,

00:59and a House of Games beanie.

01:01Nice.

01:01Which is a new one.

01:03Melanie, which one of those would you like to take back to Australia with you?

01:06Oh, well, I've been trying to do fondue in my hotel room,

01:09just in the jug that they provide,

01:11so this will make it way easier.

01:13So, fondue set.

01:14Ruth, what would you go for?

01:15I would take the doormat.

01:18You'd take the doormat.

01:19Jenny, what would you go for?

01:20I think I'd go for the beanie, without a doubt.

01:21Is that supposed to be you, Richard?

01:23No, it's a plastic head.

01:25Oh, right.

01:26Yeah, yeah.

01:28Mark Steele, what would you go for?

01:30The mat.

01:30I'm going to be challenging Ruth for the mat.

01:33Let's take a look at our weekly leaderboard.

01:35Mark won yesterday, so he is at the top of it.

01:37Four days still to go.

01:39Shall we get straight on?

01:40Yeah, yes.

01:40Our first round on Tuesday's House of Games.

01:42Our first round is...

01:47Highbrow, lowbrow.

01:49Mel, we're going to start with you.

01:50What I'm going to do, I'm going to ask each of you two questions.

01:52The first one will be a very highbrow question,

01:54very highfalutin.

01:54The second one will be a lowbrow question,

01:56but get this, plot twist, the answers are the same.

02:00What? Yeah.

02:01If you get it from the highbrow question,

02:03I'm going to give you two points.

02:04If you get it from the lowbrow question,

02:05I'll give you one point.

02:07Mel, we start with you.

02:08Your highbrow question is this.

02:12In Sergei Prokofiev's symphonic tale, Peter and the Wolf,

02:15which creature is represented by the clarinet part?

02:21Okay, I'm just trying to think of something

02:23that would match the sound of a clarinet.

02:25Yeah.

02:26And when I learned of the clarinet,

02:27very squeaky and annoying.

02:30But I'm just going to say a squirrel.

02:36Squirrel.

02:37I really wondered where you were going to go with it.

02:39A squirrel.

02:39That sentence had a good ending.

02:41Yeah.

02:43Mel's gone with a squirrel.

02:44What do you think at home?

02:45I'm now going to give you a lowbrow question.

02:47So you can change your mind when you look at this question,

02:48or you can stick with squirrel.

02:50In the Austin Powers films,

02:52what kind of animal is Dr Evil's Mr Bigglesworth?

02:56Oh, er...

02:58A cat.

02:59Is cat the answer to those two questions?

03:02It is.

03:03You get yourself a point, Mel.

03:04Well done.

03:05Cat.

03:07Mark, I have a highbrow question for you.

03:11Derived from a line in a Shakespeare soliloquy,

03:14the title of a 2022 novel by Gabrielle Zevin

03:16features which word three times?

03:22Question.

03:23Question is your answer.

03:25Let's see if you want to stick with that

03:26or change your mind, Mark, as I ask you this.

03:28Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal

03:31starred in the 2004 disaster film

03:34The Day After What?

03:39I don't know.

03:39Tomorrow?

03:41Let's take a look.

03:41Is tomorrow the right answer?

03:43It is.

03:44Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.

03:48Ruth, I have a highbrow question for you, I'm afraid.

03:51Okay.

03:52Here is yours.

03:53In Greek mythology,

03:56Selene was the daughter of Titans Hyperion and Theia

03:59and a goddess of which celestial object?

04:06Moon.

04:07The moon.

04:07It's a celestial object.

04:09Mm-hmm.

04:09And there's loads of lowbrow answers that could be moon.

04:12I mean, okay.

04:13Let's take a look, shall we?

04:14Your lowbrow question is...

04:17The 80s animated TV show featuring the Spoon family

04:20is called button what?

04:22Moon.

04:23Are you going to stick with moon for two points?

04:27It is moon.

04:28Well played, Ruth.

04:29Two points.

04:30I got a highbrow question, guys.

04:31Nicely done.

04:32Oh, my goodness.

04:33Jenny.

04:34Yes.

04:34A highbrow question for you.

04:35Here we go.

04:38Dating from the 13th century,

04:40the oldest secular building in the German capital Berlin,

04:43the Julius Tower forms part of a citadel

04:45in which district of the city.

04:47That's a lot of words.

04:49Oh, my gosh.

04:49Essentially, name a district of Berlin.

04:51Just do, yeah, a district of Berlin.

04:54The artist district.

04:56We say the artist district.

04:58Your lowbrow question is...

04:59What comes before ballet in the name of the group

05:04that had a 1983 UK number one hit true?

05:09Spandau.

05:10Spandau.

05:10Goodness me.

05:11There we go.

05:12Spandau.

05:12Spandau is the answer.

05:13It's a bit to Spandau.

05:15Mel, we come back to you with a highbrow question.

05:18In 1990, the coloratura soprano Joan Sutherland

05:23gave her last full-length performance

05:25at the opera house in which city?

05:31Sydney?

05:32You have to say Sydney, don't you?

05:33Yeah.

05:34I just, yeah.

05:35I'll have to say Sydney.

05:36You have to say Sydney.

05:38Lowbrow question.

05:39In Muriel's wedding, the title character

05:43leaves her hometown of porpoise spit

05:45and moves to which city?

05:48I'm going to say Sydney.

05:50I mean, we genuinely do not apportion

05:51these questions out.

05:52Yeah.

05:52I promise you that.

05:53It does feel...

05:54Is the answer Sydney?

05:57Very well done, Mel.

05:58Two points for that.

06:00Wow.

06:01Mark, I have a highbrow question for you.

06:03Which 1923 coming-of-age novel

06:07by Austrian author Felix Salton

06:09is subtitled A Life in the Woods?

06:15I think on this program,

06:18we have to expect that you're going to say

06:19at least one thing that is really stupid.

06:22Oh, great.

06:22Go for it.

06:23So, The Railway Children?

06:25The Railway Children?

06:26Mm.

06:27Why not?

06:28Let's take a look at your lowbrow.

06:31Ex-Love Island stars Molly Mae Haig

06:33and Tommy Fury

06:35named their first daughter

06:36after which Disney character?

06:41The others can buzz in, by the way,

06:43if Mark doesn't get it.

06:44Oh, can you?

06:44Oh, what now?

06:47Shall we time you out?

06:49Yeah, I'm not going to...

06:50OK.

06:50Anybody?

06:54Ruth.

06:54Bambi.

06:55Bambi?

06:56Oh, no!

06:58Oh, I didn't know that.

07:00Bambi.

07:01Oh, no!

07:02I actually knew it from the highbrow.

07:03Did you?

07:04No.

07:06I forget she's an actor.

07:08Yeah.

07:08I forget.

07:10Ruth, you've already got a highbrow one.

07:12Shall we see if you can get another one?

07:13I mean, it's not going to happen,

07:15but let's go for it.

07:18First performed in 1987,

07:19the title of Liz Lockhead's critically acclaimed play

07:22states that which historical figure

07:24got her head chopped off?

07:27I don't know it,

07:28but I'm just going to go for somebody

07:30who I know has had her head chopped off,

07:31so I'll just say Anne Boleyn.

07:33Anne Boleyn.

07:33What do we think at home on this?

07:34Let's take a look at a lowbrow question,

07:36see if Anne Boleyn's the answer to that.

07:38In which 2019 film

07:40does Saoirse Ronan star

07:42as the title character

07:43opposite Margot Robbie

07:44as Elizabeth I?

07:49Is it Mary?

07:51Queen of Scots.

07:53Yeah, I'll go with that.

07:55You're going to go Mary, Queen of Scots.

07:56Is that the answer?

07:59Point to Ruth.

08:00It is Mary, Queen of Scots.

08:01APPLAUSE

08:02Jenny, final question of the round.

08:05Goes to you.

08:07In mathematics,

08:08what is defined as

08:09a complete turn of a full angle

08:11or a cycle of a periodic motion?

08:18360.

08:21Yeah, why not?

08:21360.

08:22Yeah.

08:23Your lowbrow question is this.

08:24The band that was formed by Prince

08:28and served as his backing band

08:29on hits such as Purple Rain

08:31and Raspberry Beret

08:32is called the what?

08:34The backing band?

08:35Oh, gosh.

08:36Prince and the...

08:39Oh, I should so know this as well.

08:43Wow.

08:44I have to say, er,

08:45Prince and the...

08:46Do you want to stick with 360?

08:49Yeah, I'll just have to stick with 360.

08:50Then you get two points.

08:52360, is that the answer?

08:53It is not.

08:55Anyone want to buzz in?

08:58Nobody.

08:58Let's take a look.

09:00Revolution.

09:01Oh!

09:01Prince and the Revolution

09:02we were looking for.

09:03Very well done if you said that at home,

09:05particularly if you got it

09:05from the first one.

09:06Yeah.

09:07End of the round.

09:07End of our first round.

09:08Everybody off the mark today.

09:11Mark and Jenny,

09:12you have one point each.

09:14Mel, you've got three.

09:15She's done it again.

09:16Leading off to the first round

09:17is Ruth with four points.

09:19Come on, Ruth.

09:19Come on.

09:20Well done, Ruth.

09:21You've been here before, haven't we?

09:22I didn't have told you

09:24it goes dramatically downhill.

09:25Shall we play a pairs game?

09:27Our pairs game today is...

09:29You felt terrible.

09:33Mark, you were tied for third

09:35after that round

09:35so you get to choose your partner.

09:36Who would you like to play this round with?

09:38With Mel.

09:41You're going to play with Mel.

09:42Everyone stays where they are.

09:43Mel and Mark are a team.

09:45Ruth and Jenny, you are a team.

09:46Now, in this round,

09:47I'm going to ask you a question.

09:49Buzz in and give me the correct answer.

09:50If you do that,

09:51your partner will then have to spell that answer

09:53for you to get a point.

09:55Oh!

09:56Great.

09:57And the answer is usually quite hard to spell as well.

10:01Should we get it over with?

10:02Yes.

10:02Yes, yes, yes.

10:03OK.

10:03Fingers on buzzers.

10:05Here is your first question.

10:07Which fruit, also known as an alligator pear,

10:09is the main ingredient in guacamole?

10:10Yes, Mel.

10:15Avocado.

10:16Avocado is the correct answer.

10:18Mark, for a point,

10:19can you spell avocado?

10:21A-V-O-C-A-D-O.

10:30Very nicely done.

10:32Avocado.

10:32Well played.

10:33Mel and Mark, you get to spell a point.

10:34Next one.

10:37Baku is the capital of which country?

10:42Yes, that is Mark.

10:45Azerbaijan.

10:46It is Azerbaijan.

10:48Mel, you flew over it to get here.

10:50Oh, of course.

10:51But how do you spell it?

10:51I don't even watch the movies.

10:52I just watch the map the whole time.

10:54OK.

10:57A-Z-E-R-B-A-I-J-A-N.

11:13Oh, how about that?

11:16That's amazing.

11:18I want to say congratulations to Mel

11:19and congratulations to the school system of New Zealand as well.

11:22I would not spell that right.

11:25Next question.

11:26Is this still for us two?

11:27It's for everyone, Mark.

11:28Everyone can buzz it.

11:29Only one can buzz it.

11:30Feel free after every single question to say,

11:32is this still for us two?

11:33The answer will always be, no, it's for everyone.

11:37Here we go.

11:39For all four of you.

11:42What type of sledge which curves upwards and backwards at the front

11:45has a name that's also a southern US term

11:48for a style of knitted hat?

11:52Yes, Mel.

11:53This is a wild guess, but toboggan?

11:55It is toboggan.

11:57Oh, I've never heard that.

11:58I've never heard that as a hat.

12:00Can you spell toboggan, please?

12:02I'd go for T-O-B-O-G-G-A-N.

12:15Wow, that's how you play this round.

12:17Very impressive.

12:18There it is toboggan, nice to have you done.

12:19Another point, three from three so far.

12:21Here's your next one.

12:22It's for everyone, Mark.

12:26The British actor and Oscar-winning director

12:28who played Chris Kringle in the 1994 film

12:30of Miracle on 34th Street

12:32was Richard who?

12:36Yes, that is Ruth.

12:37Oh, no.

12:38It's Richard Armitage.

12:40It is not Armitage, I'm afraid.

12:42Is it not?

12:43Yeah.

12:45Yes, Mark?

12:47Attenborough.

12:47Yeah, it is Attenborough.

12:48Attenborough is the right answer.

12:50Mel, for a point, can you spell Attenborough?

12:52A-T-T-E-N-B-O-R-O-U-G-H.

13:10I mean, you have to sit back and admire it, don't you?

13:12You do!

13:12I said Armitage, I'm so annoyed at myself

13:14because I love that film.

13:15Next one.

13:16So far, it's a masterclass.

13:18It really is.

13:19Well done, guys.

13:20This is for everyone, Mark.

13:22The National Anthem of France

13:26is called La What?

13:32Yes, Mark?

13:33Should I have done this?

13:34Are you stitching me up?

13:35I had such a good run.

13:37Marseillaise.

13:38It is La Marseillaise.

13:39Now, they've got four out of four.

13:41Come on, you can do this.

13:42There's no way in a million years

13:44you're going to get five out of five.

13:45There is.

13:46She's going to get it.

13:47Marseillaise.

13:47She is.

13:48I can tell she's going to do it.

13:50M-A.

13:52A-R-S-I.

14:00Oh!

14:01Is it E-I?

14:03It's E-I.

14:03It's not for E.

14:04Oh, shit.

14:05I-L-L-E-S.

14:07Would you have got Marseillaise?

14:08A-I-S.

14:10Oh, there's no way.

14:11Oh, there's no way.

14:12Absolutely no way.

14:13Would you have got Marseillaise if I hadn't buzzed it?

14:16Oh, absolutely not.

14:17So it's fine.

14:17It's all right.

14:18Would you have known how to spell Marseillaise?

14:20Yeah.

14:21Well, I speak French, so I'm...

14:22Are we?

14:23Oh!

14:24I love the way I just dropped that in.

14:25Final question in the round.

14:27Which 2024 vampire film stars Bill Skarsgård, Lily-Rose Depp and Willem Dafoe?

14:34Yes, that is Mel.

14:39Nosferatu.

14:40Nosferatu.

14:42Nosferatu is correct.

14:44Oof!

14:45Mark, can you spell that, please?

14:47I would say that's N-O-S-F-E-R-A-T-U.

15:01Great.

15:02And to a great round.

15:03Very well played.

15:04Nosferatu.

15:04Well done.

15:05Very, very nicely done.

15:07Your leaderboard looks like this.

15:11Jenny has one.

15:12Ruth has four.

15:13Mark has six.

15:14Mel's smashing it.

15:15Mel, eight points.

15:17How about that?

15:18Two-point lead.

15:20Our third round today is...

15:25Two clues in one.

15:27Fingers on buzzers, please, everybody.

15:29I'm going to give you a category.

15:31Your first category this round is...

15:33I'm going to show you a clue to a U.S. city.

15:36We call it two clues in one because that clue will have the same initials as the answer.

15:41Which U.S. city, please, is this?

15:43Live vivaciously.

15:49Ruth.

15:51Las Vegas.

15:53It is.

15:54Well done.

15:56Well played, Ruth.

15:57On the comeback trail.

15:59Next, U.S. city.

16:01Silicon Fortunes.

16:05Mark.

16:05San Francisco.

16:06San Francisco.

16:07Correct.

16:09Very well played.

16:11Next one.

16:17Mark.

16:18Salt Lake City.

16:19It is Salt Lake City, yes.

16:20Oh, my gosh.

16:21Well played.

16:23Your next category...

16:26Here's your first one.

16:29Blue Blaze.

16:34Mark.

16:34Bunsen burn.

16:35It's the only piece of lab equipment I could think of.

16:37Yeah.

16:38Right, answer.

16:39Well done.

16:41Next one.

16:42Which lab equipment is this?

16:43Splash-proof glasses.

16:49Yes, Mel.

16:50Safety goggles.

16:51Safety goggles.

16:52Oh, wreck.

16:54Yeah, very nice, very nice, very nice.

16:55That felt like it was already the answer.

16:57Yeah.

16:58Yeah.

16:58Splash-proof, yeah.

16:59Yeah.

17:00Next one.

17:02Penicillin developer.

17:06Yes, Ruth.

17:07Petri dish.

17:08The other one I remember from school.

17:09Yeah.

17:09It is a petri dish or petri dish, absolutely.

17:12Next category.

17:13Beatrix Potter characters.

17:21Yes, Mark.

17:22Peter Rabbit.

17:23Peter Rabbit.

17:24Right answer.

17:26Well done.

17:27Next one.

17:31Oh.

17:32Yes, Ruth.

17:33Jeremy Fisher.

17:34Jeremy Fisher.

17:35It is Jeremy Fisher.

17:38And final question.

17:39Final Beatrix Potter character.

17:41Bratish Buck.

17:46Yes, Ruth.

17:46Benjamin Bunny.

17:47Benjamin Bunny.

17:49Nicely done.

17:50Great end to the round.

17:50I like Beatrix Potter.

17:52That is the end of the round.

17:54Good round for Ruth.

17:56She's on the comeback trail there.

17:57Mel was in the lead going into this round.

17:59Let's see who's in the lead now.

18:02Mark again.

18:03Oh, well done, Mark.

18:03Just two points between the top three.

18:06Eight, nine and ten there.

18:07But Mark Steele heading for his second win in a row.

18:10Yes.

18:10Two rounds between him and another prize.

18:12Two prizes at the end of the week amongst the blue.

18:14You are two points behind him.

18:17This is not a hugely dominant performance.

18:20If you spent more time thinking about winning some more points,

18:24less time about thinking, is Mark clever?

18:26OK, you could be winning a prize.

18:28That's what I think.

18:29That's excellent advice.

18:30I see it so many times on this show.

18:31I'm going to see what happens.

18:32Let's find out.

18:33Round four is...

18:36I'm terrible at dating.

18:38Tablets out, please, everybody.

18:40Oh.

18:41I'm going to give you some events from history.

18:44Things that have happened.

18:44And we have to write down the year in which we think they happened.

18:47All we have to do is be nearer than other people.

18:50OK.

18:50All we've got to do.

18:51Have a little go at home.

18:52See if you can beat everyone in the studio here.

18:54The first year I'd like you to write down, please, is...

18:57The year that Al Capone is born.

19:02When was Al Capone born?

19:06Does everyone know who Al Capone is?

19:08Yeah.

19:09Yeah.

19:09That boxer, isn't he?

19:11I'm joking.

19:14Again, I have to...

19:15Are you still business alone?

19:17I'm thinking, yeah, so that's just alone, really.

19:20Is he still alive?

19:24Al Capone, you'll find out soon enough.

19:29I think I've gone too early.

19:31OK, everyone's in.

19:33Melanie, you've got the look of someone who doesn't know who Al Capone is.

19:37Well, I do know the name, but I just feel like I've got him confused with other people.

19:42Who do you think he might be?

19:43I feel like he's like a gangster.

19:45Yeah.

19:46Yeah.

19:47Yeah.

19:47Let's just listen to a little bit over with.

19:50I've gone too late.

19:50I think I've had 1938.

19:511938.

19:52Born in 1938.

19:53Yeah.

19:54OK.

19:54That's not quite right, I know.

19:55Mark, what have you gone for?

19:58I've said 18...

19:59Yeah.

20:01...86, but thinking about it, I think that's a bit...

20:03I think it was a bit earlier than that.

20:05Ruth, what have you gone?

20:06I went 1918, so I went...

20:091918, says Ruth.

20:10Jenny, where are you?

20:11I was just thinking 1942, but that's when he was probably in his prime.

20:15Yeah, I think that's what I was thinking too.

20:17Not back when he was born.

20:18So, we're very much Second World War-y on the seats one of four.

20:22Mark, 1886.

20:231918 from Ruth, what do you think at home?

20:26Let's find out, when was Al Capone born?

20:28Very well done at home.

20:28If you said...

20:301899 was the answer.

20:34Mark, you just get the point there very well done.

20:371898.

20:38He was quite young then, wasn't he?

20:39When he was at the peak of his powers.

20:41And he died in 1947.

20:43Your next question is...

20:46Oh, gosh.

20:55What do we reckon on this?

21:03The clean air act.

21:06Almost certain I was taught this at school.

21:08Now, how old do I think you are?

21:11That's the real question.

21:12Oh, no, that's...

21:13I didn't even think that was a clue.

21:15I've got to the age now where that's a clue.

21:19Everybody is in.

21:20What do we think at home?

21:21Mark, where have you gone on this?

21:22Right, I think I could well be 150 years out in either direction.

21:27Yeah.

21:28I've got a feeling it'd be sort of 1834 when...

21:311834.

21:32My name is.

21:32..the first sort of stenches were coming out of the factories.

21:35Yeah, yeah.

21:36Ruth, there's consternation on the top end of the studio.

21:39Ruth...

21:39I completely went the opposite way.

21:411984 says...

21:43Ruth, thank you for thinking that that was when I was being taught...

21:46You're so welcome.

21:47Actually, I was at school in 1984, to be fair.

21:50Jenny, what have you said?

21:50Yeah, we were both thinking about you at school, you see.

21:53See, oh, I shouldn't have said it.

21:54You shouldn't have said it.

21:55You've, like, really thrown us.

21:561982.

21:57I was taught it at school, but it was from...

21:59It was in history.

21:59It wasn't, you know, in tutor group.

22:031982.

22:04Amel, you're saying?

22:04Yeah, I've gone pretty recent as well.

22:06I just thought it was like, you know, the 60s,

22:09we're getting into, like, all the environment.

22:11I seem to remember learning in, yeah, Industrial Revolution type.

22:15It's the night time.

22:16I had that written down.

22:17But we'll find out, when was the first Clean Air Act passed?

22:21Who scored the points?

22:24Oh, wow!

22:251956.

22:27Well done.

22:28It turns out I wasn't taught that at school.

22:31Well played, Mel.

22:32Well done, Mel.

22:32If you got that at home, I absolutely went down a blind alley there.

22:37Next date we want is...

22:39When did Henry Cavendish discover hydrogen?

22:42When was that?

22:45He was the first one to discover it.

22:46He wasn't...

22:47It wasn't...

22:47Like, when did Henry Cavendish discover it?

22:50Like, loads of people have discovered it before

22:51and Henry Cavendish went,

22:53Oh, look at that.

22:53That's that.

22:54Yeah, yeah, no, mate, mate, it's been there for ages.

22:56It's just under the sink.

22:57Yeah.

22:59Oh, God, these are horrible.

23:01Yeah.

23:03Who knows?

23:06Ah.

23:07Everybody in?

23:11Ruth, what are we saying on this one?

23:12I said 1932.

23:14I've got no idea.

23:151932, says Ruth.

23:17Jenny, where have you gone?

23:19I've gone for an 1800-er.

23:21Yeah.

23:21I've gone for 1802.

23:22I live down a road that's just next door to a Cavendish road

23:25and that's got a lot of Victorian houses on it.

23:28Oh, God.

23:28That's my thinking.

23:29Oh, that's smart.

23:30So you've gone heavily pre-Victorian.

23:32Mm-hmm.

23:33Mm-hmm.

23:33Nearly Georgian, but not quite.

23:35Yeah.

23:35Mel.

23:35I've gone quite early.

23:37I feel like, I feel like Newton was around the 1700s or something

23:42and I just thought maybe around those kind of big scientific discoveries.

23:46Yeah, maybe they knew each other.

23:47That could be, yeah.

23:471692.

23:48I could be wrong, though.

23:49That might be late 1700s.

23:50So we're in three entirely different centuries so far.

23:51Yes.

23:52Mark, where are you?

23:53I mean, mine's wrong.

23:53I've gone even earlier.

23:55I think that the sort of first sort of scientists of that time,

24:00Newton and stuff.

24:01So you think that hydrogen would be one of the first to be found?

24:04It's got, like, a low number on the periodic table.

24:07Yeah, low atomic waste.

24:09Well, we're covered.

24:10We're covered in all centuries here, aren't we?

24:12Aren't we just?

24:121635.

24:13Listen.

24:13Right, we don't know.

24:14None of us know.

24:15Put us out of our misery.

24:16Yeah, shall we do that?

24:16Yeah.

24:17Yeah.

24:17You know what?

24:18It's very much the catchphrase of this show, put us out of our misery.

24:20Yeah.

24:21Let's do it.

24:22Let's find out.

24:22When did Henry Cavendish discover hydrogen?

24:25Who scored a point?

24:27Wow.

24:28Jenny gets the point.

24:30Well done, Jenny.

24:31Nicely done.

24:32Very nicely done, indeed.

24:33About time, to be fair.

24:34That is the end of that round.

24:35Tablets away, please.

24:37Oh, I'm very happy that one's over.

24:39We got through it.

24:39We have one round to go.

24:40We know it's answer smashed, but who is leading going into it?

24:43Yesterday's winner, Mark Steele, takes a one-point lead into that final round.

24:51Shall we play our final round?

24:52Shall we?

24:53See if Mark's going to win two in a row.

24:54Can Mel win her first one?

24:55Can Ruth win her first one?

24:57Maybe Jenny could win her first one.

24:59I think my day's tomorrow.

25:01I've got a few.

25:01Do you?

25:02Wednesday.

25:03Briefy Wednesdays.

25:04Hump day.

25:05Let's do it.

25:06Our final round is...

25:07Here's your first answer, smash.

25:31Yes, Jenny.

25:32Slap sticky tape.

25:33Slap sticky tape?

25:34Oh, my...

25:35It's the right answer.

25:37Well done.

25:38Next clue, next picture.

25:43I know the band.

25:48I don't know what that is.

25:49Yes, Mark?

25:49Soft cellophane?

25:51Oh, soft cellophane.

25:52Yeah.

25:53It is.

25:53That's cellophane, of course it is.

25:55I'm thinking, what cellophane?

25:56I know.

25:57Soft cell and cellophane.

25:59Next category.

26:02Insects.

26:02Those will be the pictures.

26:03Which band's UK top 40 hits in the 90s included All Right, Going Out and Pumping on Your Stereo?

26:13Mark.

26:14Super Grasshopper.

26:15Super Grasshopper?

26:16Oh, Super Grasshopper.

26:17It is Super Grass and Grasshopper.

26:19Super Grasshopper.

26:20Well done.

26:21Next clue.

26:22Next, Insect.

26:23Which Renaissance artist is known particularly for his frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

26:28and his marble sculpture of David?

26:34Mark.

26:37Michelangelocus.

26:38Oh, come on.

26:39Well done.

26:40It is.

26:40Well done.

26:41Michelangelocus.

26:42Michelangelo-moth.

26:44Michelangelo-moth.

26:45I was thinking, is that a moth?

26:46Yeah.

26:47Yeah.

26:47Next clue.

26:48Next, Insect.

26:50Which song written by Paul Anker was the first of two UK top 40 hits in 1971 for Tom Jones?

26:59Yes, Ruth.

27:00She's a ladybird.

27:01She's a ladybird?

27:02Brilliant.

27:03Here, She's a Lady, Ladybird, She's a Ladybird.

27:07Are we done?

27:09We are done.

27:10I think he's pulled it back.

27:12He's completely slashing it again.

27:14Now I don't mind you saying that Mark's going to win because I think he has.

27:17I think he has.

27:18Exactly.

27:18Absolutely.

27:19Has he done two in a row?

27:20Yes, he has.

27:21Yes.

27:21Yes, he has.

27:23But has he?

27:24Yes, he has.

27:2614 points for Mark Steele.

27:28Nicely played, Mark.

27:29You got yourself another prize.

27:31What did you, did you want the match?

27:33Oh, no, you don't have to give me a prize.

27:35I'm going to give you a prize because it was the fondue.

27:37The fondue because that was a sort of joint effort, really, with the spelling.

27:42Aw.

27:42So you're going to take the fondue set and give it to Mel to take back to Australia?

27:46I am, yeah.

27:47Lovely.

27:48Melanie Bracewell wins the House Against Fondue set.

27:50Let's take a look at our leaderboard.

27:52Good news for Mark Steele.

27:54He is right at the top there with eight.

27:57Melanie sits to Ruth, five, and Jenny, two.

28:00Well played, Mark.

28:01It's been close, though.

28:02There are weeks when people run away with it.

28:03This is not going to be one of those weeks.

28:05I know that.

28:05Shall we try and beat him tomorrow?

28:06Excellent.

28:07I look forward to seeing all of you here.

28:08I'd love to.

28:09And I look forward to seeing you here as well on the House of Games.

28:11APPLAUSE

28:12Mark, will you present it to Mel?

28:18Oh, my God.

28:24I would, and I hope this cements friendship between our two nations.

28:29It's about time, isn't it?

28:48Australia, a fondue night, for sure.

28:50Oh, my God.

28:51How are you going to get that home?

28:53I don't know.

28:54I don't know.

28:55I don't know.

28:56I don't know.

28:57I don't know.

28:58I don't know.

28:59I don't know.

29:00I don't know.

29:01I don't know.

29:02I don't know.

29:03I don't know.

29:04I don't know.

29:05I don't know.

Richard Osman's House of Games - S09E02 (30 Sep 2025)

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