Name: Lateral Game 4: The Fast Route to the Final
Uploaded: 2020-04-01T01:07:04.000Z
Duration: 19 min 34 s
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With a murder rate of 9.1%, what is sometimes said to be

the most dangerous desk job in the world?

we are in the second round and both of our teams won their first games,

which means one of them is going straight through to the grand final.

And it's a choice between, welcome back, team Viva.

Hi, I'm Simon Clark and I just finished my PhD in atmospheric physics.

I am Sally Le Page, and I am doing my PhD in evolutionary biology.

Now, it was really close in the first game, it was down to the wire.

-Yes. -Any tactics, anything you've learned from it?

-I think if I sit on my hands… -Don't let Simon buzz, I think is our tactic.

I caused that problem, and I also kind of fixed it.

You are playing against team Off Peak Only.

I'm Vicki, I work in museum education, but I also make videos about trains.

I'm Geoff, hello, I make those videos about trains with Vicki,

travelling to all the stations in the country.

Now, you had about 15 or 17 seconds left on your clock at the end of the last one,

-It came down to you knowing WD40. -WD40, yeah.

There was a moment I was like, if this is wrong then I knew that we were out,

so I just went for it, and I was very relieved, yes.

Alright, well best of luck to both teams, we start as ever, with round one.

There are six lateral thinking questions on the buzzer,

60 seconds for each question and the earlier you buzz,

I'll read out clues if you don't know it as time goes on.

it will go over to the other team to see if they can get it.

During the Victorian era, why did hard-up home owners

occasionally climb onto their roof with several live geese?

I wonder if a goose lands on your property,

But that implies that you're going up with the geese,

or were the geese there when they arrived?

-Oh no, I think they're going. -There's not much reason to do this today.

Something to do with geese that isn't used very much these days.

-No, I don't... feathers. -Feathers for, like, pillows.

To block the... no, they wouldn't use live geese for that, to block the chimneys.

-They shoved the geese down the chimney. -Down the chimney, yeah.

-Yes. -Did they use them as chimney sweeps?

You're absolutely right, sweep the chimney.

which means team Off Peak, next question's for you.

There are over thirty million pairs of these in the UK.

Half are black and white, the others are black and yellow.

Some are worth tens of thousands of pounds.

Even though they're stolen occasionally, they can be replaced for about £20.

-What are they? -I think it's something to do with road signs.

I was thinking fire hydrant signs, the H - they're black and yellow, aren't they?

Road signs, or a transport sign, or a street sign.

-Sorry? -Criminals sometimes misuse these.

They do, rock up in a hi-vis and you can get away with anything.

No, but they wouldn't be worth tens of thousands of pounds.

It's clothing, it's some kind of clothing.

It's some kind of... it's a clothing that is a disguise.

-I feel like we were closer with... -Fire hydrants.

Some form of clothing that's worn by a government...

a council official and the criminals are trying to pose as these people

No, I'm going to pass this over, if you can answer immediately for a point.

-Why are they worth so much? -Some of are prestige licence plates.

They might just be A1 or personalised names, or something like that.

-We don't drive, we don't have a car. -Yeah, we're on trains.

-That wasn't a train question. -No, exactly.

-Can we have more train questions? -Trains are your downfall.

So that's one point to you, and the next question is yours as well.

An artist spends most of the day sketching in a different room to her subjects.

The artist is not famous, and the picture is worthless.

Nevertheless, the client gratefully shows the artwork to thousands of people soon after.

-A forensic artist. -What was that, sorry?

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