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  • In the last experiment in this run of the Game Garage, it is time for a proper quiz show.

  • One player against the game, all or nothing questions, and for me personally,

  • the challenge of fitting a very tall man inside a not very tall space.

  • Welcome to the Game Garage.

  • Thank you very much for joining us, we are playing Keep It or Dump It,

  • but before we start, do you want to introduce yourself to our audience?

  • Okay, thanks Tom. My name is Matthew.

  • I am a developer, professionally.

  • I used to work for a glamorous international record label and now, I make insurance software.

  • In my spare time, I enjoy crosswords and competitive quizzing, and competitive crosswords.

  • So you are a competitive quizzer as well, so...

  • -Yes. -How confident are you?

  • How much do you want to stake your claim that you're going to win this, versus hedge your bets?

  • Well, it's a very different format so I'm slightly nervous about that.

  • So am I! I've never tested this.

  • Where I come from, you get asked a question, you give the answer.

  • Here, it's a little bit more complex than that, so we'll have to see how it pans out,

  • but hopefully, I can translate some of the skills to this format.

  • There are seven questions between you and 5,000 pence.

  • Erm, the...

  • -That's a lot of pence. -It is, it is.

  • It's not a shovel and pennies.

  • The first two questions are going to be on the same category.

  • -Yeah. -And you get to choose.

  • It is Geography, Science, Pop Culture or Sport.

  • What do you want your first two questions to be on?

  • I'm going to rule out sport for probably the whole thing.

  • Erm, I think...

  • let's start with something I'm moderately confident on

  • but not necessarily my strongest subject.

  • -Let's go for science. -Let's go for science. Alright.

  • Some shows have a fancy graphics display board and big projections.

  • We have David.

  • David, it's science, please.

  • Antimony, carbon, copper, gold, iron, lead, magnesium, mercury,

  • neon, potassium, silver, sodium, tin, silicon, sulphur.

  • Those are the fifteen elements we've got for you.

  • Can I please have the bowl of scrolls?

  • Thank you very much.

  • Extremely high budget here today; pick a bowl from the scroll.

  • No!

  • Our catchphrase has gone, that's gonna make the edit as well, isn't it?

  • Please pick a scroll from the bowl.

  • What have you got?

  • 'Elements where the name and the chemical symbol start with different letters.'

  • Alright, so your choice is keep the elements

  • where the name and the chemical symbol start with different letters or dump them.

  • As long as there's one left on the board, you've passed the question.

  • -More is better though. -I am thinking that I want to keep elements

  • where the name and chemical symbols start with different letters

  • because I think that will keep more than half of the things on this board.

  • Okay. Anything you recognise up there?

  • Antimony is going to be Sb.

  • Iron is Fe, Gold is Au, Lead is Pb.

  • Mercury is Hg.

  • Potassium, I hope, is K.

  • Silver is Ag, Tin is Sn.

  • You have picked a home category here, haven't you?

  • So... Sodium is Na, so I'm hoping to get maybe nine left over.

  • Yeah, whatever happens, first question, you are going to lose some and that's fine.

  • As long as you've got one left on the board, you're still in the game.

  • I'm pretty confident of having one left there, Tom.

  • So final decision?

  • You want to...

  • I'm keeping the elements where the name and chemical symbol start with different letters;

  • dumping anything where the name and chemical symbol are the same.

  • David, please keep the elements

  • where the name and the chemical symbols start with different letters.

  • -Carbon is gone. -Yeah.

  • Copper is gone.

  • Magnesium is gone.

  • Neon... you've got a lot left here.

  • And silicon's gone, and sulphur is gone.

  • That's good. You couldn't have done any better on that.

  • One, two, three, four, five, six gone

  • but that means you've got nine left for the next question, it's a great start.

  • That was what I was expecting, so it is a good start.

  • That's good.

  • I was gonna tell you more about that, but I think you named all those elements, so excellent.

  • We're past the first question now, which means you also have a new option,

  • -which is to just burn a scroll. -Oh yes.

  • Once during your game, if you really don't like that question,

  • we can burn it, throw it away and you get the choice to pick another.

  • But obviously after that, you're taking whatever's coming out of there.

  • It may happen in this round.

  • We'll see.

  • -Or maybe I should save it till the end. -Please, pick another scroll from the bowl.

  • Let's just try this one on the top.

  • Question two, and the last one in this category.

  • Elements usually regarded as non-metallic.

  • I am seeing a lot of metallic-type elements there,

  • so I am going to dump the non-metals and keep the metals.

  • Okay, that was a quick decision.

  • It's your home category.

  • Look at this board, there's quite a few obvious metals there, Tom.

  • -Yes. -David, please dump the non-metals.

  • Oh. Oh right.

  • That's... there's nothing?

  • -That's flawless. -Okay.

  • That's, both... so that's both a great pick from here...

  • I realise that was, that was pure luck

  • but you picked one where there was a correct option and you went for it.

  • If you'd have got that wrong, everything on that board would have fallen

  • and you'd have been out of the game.

  • That would have been embarrassing.

  • That is a really good first category, so that's great.

  • Two questions down, two questions to go in the next category and then you're going for the money.

  • So it's time to pick the next category.

  • You have Pop Culture, Geography and Sport left on the board.

  • Now, you want; I suspect sport isn't going to get used here, from what you said.

  • Not my category.

  • So pop culture or geography?

  • The one I'm slightly worried about still is pop culture,

  • so I'm going to try and get it out of the way.

  • The magical display board has somehow changed.

  • The nine you had left are now nine celebrities.

  • John Cusack, Drew Carey, Kim Cattrall, Oprah Winfrey, Rachel McAdams,

  • Nicki Minaj, Hugh Grant, Kylie Minogue, Damian Lewis.

  • Nine is perhaps a good position to be in here,

  • because I suspect that pop culture is not your strongest subject here.

  • Well, well, I recognise most of these people but er, I don't know how they all fit together so,

  • so let's find out.

  • Well, it might be better to have this here, before you get into the all or nothing at the end.

  • You could still lose this all in one question, we know that.

  • -Could do. -And it's gonna depend on which scroll you pick.

  • So for question three, please pick a scroll from the bowl.

  • I'm taking straight from the top, let's have a look.

  • -Alright. -Ooh!

  • What have you got?

  • Celebrities that have acted for a Simpsons TV cartoon.

  • Ooh, any of those celebrities that have ever acted in the Simpsons on TV?

  • Ah, this seems like such a big pot luck question,

  • because a lot of celebrities have been on the Simpsons

  • and my ability to identify which ones is not great.

  • So it could go either way here, couldn't it?

  • I think I might just burn this one, you know.

  • Yeah? First one on pop culture is going?

  • It's too much of a...

  • Too much of an either-or?

  • -I don't wanna... I wanna see this catch fire. -Alright.

  • I mean, I don't know how you'll feel about the other pop culture ones, but...

  • -Well. -I imagine sport would have been worse?

  • -I'd burn them all. -Haha.

  • There you go, it's gone.

  • That question is burned.

  • So that's gone, that's absolutely gone.

  • Just for the folks at home, here are the celebrities that were on a Simpsons TV show.

  • Pick another scroll.

  • Alright, let's hope this one isn't even worse.

  • Celebrities born in the USA.

  • Right, that's a simple one.

  • Do you want to keep the celebrities born in the USA or dump the celebrities born in the USA?

  • Oh, this one's going to be quite close, I think.

  • Erm... I think I'm going to keep the born in the USA celebrities.

  • I think it's close but I think the majority of these are probably American.

  • If they all turn out to be Canadian, I'll be very sad.

  • Do you want to talk it through?

  • Alright, well we've got Kylie there who is probably Australian.

  • Hugh Grant, I hope he's British, otherwise he's been lying to us all these years.

  • Damian Lewis could be British, but I've seen people like John Cusack,

  • Rachel McAdams, Drew Carey, Kim Cattrall, Oprah Winfrey,

  • all of whom are if not necessarily born in the USA, at least associated with America.

  • So I'm hoping for at least four or five Americans here, and out of nine.

  • Alright, so what are you going to do?

  • -Are you going to... -I'm keeping the Americans.

  • -Okay. -Keep the celebrities from the USA.

  • Alright, David, please keep the ones that were born in the USA.

  • Okay, Kim Cattrall. Liverpool, UK, apparently.

  • Rachel McAdams. London, Ontario, Canada.

  • Ah, Canadian!

  • Nicki Minaj, Trinidad and Tobago.

  • Yes, yes, yes.

  • Obviously, Hugh.

  • Hugh Grant, London, UK.

  • Oh, getting on.

  • Damian Lewis, I think he's British, isn't he?

  • Yes, he is!

  • Oh no! It's a tough round.

  • It was a tough round, but you've still got three on the board.

  • There's only one pop culture question left.

  • You've got John Cusack, Drew Carey, Oprah Winfrey.

  • Pick a scroll from the bowl.

  • -Oh, come on, scroll. -You can't burn this one.

  • Be kinder.

  • Oh, goodness me.

  • What have you got?

  • Celebrities that are practicing vegetarians.

  • Whoo! Any thoughts, or is it going to be a stab in the dark?

  • My first instinct was to say, well, there aren't that many vegetarians and get rid of them,

  • but I don't know.

  • Oprah's a lovely lady, isn't she?

  • She might easily be a vegetarian.

  • John Cusack, I wouldn't put it past him at all.

  • -So don't forget, this could be three and zero. -I know.

  • It could be two and one.

  • Oh yeah, I don't know.

  • You only need one to go through.

  • Alright, I'll play against the... the goodness of my fellow human beings

  • and hope that at least one of them is a meat eater.

  • I will dump the vegetarians, much though it pains me to do this.

  • Alright.

  • David, please... and this sounds like bad relationship advice: dump the vegetarians.

  • Oh no.

  • You're clear.

  • -Ah! -You're absolutely clear!

  • Am I?

  • All three of those are meat eaters.

  • John Cusack is a meat eater, Drew Carey, meat eater.

  • Oprah Winfrey does promote vegetarian eating, but doesn't practice it herself.

  • -Yeah. -You're absolutely clear.

  • You are through pop culture with three still on the board.

  • -So the next question is... -Ah!

  • What category do you want to play for the money for?

  • You've got three questions left.

  • Get through the first one, 1,000 pence.

  • Get through the second, 2,000.

  • Get through all three, 5,000 pence.

  • That's a lot of pence. I'm going to have to go for geography.

  • As I've said all along, sport is not my bag.

  • It's going to be enough.

  • I've been intimidated by this, so come on, geography, you can do it for me.

  • David, can we have the geography question, please?

  • Athens, New York, Paris.

  • You had three celebrities on the board; you're now left with three cities on the board.

  • This is the first question where you're going for money.

  • If one of those cities is still standing after this question...

  • Let me rephrase that.

  • If one of these cities is still on the board after this question, 1,000 pence.

  • -Best of luck to you! -Thank you.

  • For 1,000 pence, pick a scroll.

  • Alright, let's see.

  • Er, cities that have chosen to change their name.

  • Cities that have chosen to change their name, so they've ever been known by a different name.

  • -We're not counting translations here. -Okay.

  • But we're talking name change.

  • Oh, I know New York has changed its name, I think.

  • I think I know that, and I think Paris has been known by different names thousands of years ago,

  • a long time ago.

  • So I'm going to keep cities that have changed their name at some point

  • because I think there's one to two of those.

  • Okay.

  • David, please, for 1,000 pence,

  • please keep the cities that have chosen to change their name.

  • We just need one to stay on the board.

  • Athens has gone.

  • Okay. And that's it.

  • -That's what I thought, good. -That's it.

  • Congratulations, that is 1,000 pence.

  • Oh, I wanted it in pence. Aww!

  • So it's your choice. You can now take the money....

  • Or you can hand that back to me,

  • and take another scroll for 2,000 pence and maybe a shot at 5,000.

  • -I've got two on the board, I've got this far. -You've got two on the board.

  • I'm going to... I'm going to keep going for at least one more.

  • That is gone.

  • That is back in my pocket.

  • There's a perfectly good chance that this could just be a one-each-way.

  • Or it could be a two-nil.

  • Yeah, yeah, yeah.

  • So question six of seven, for 2,000 pence, pick a scroll from the bowl.

  • Cities that are national capitals.

  • Now, we're using the United Nations definition here.

  • I think you might be in luck here.

  • Hmm.

  • This seems like a quizzer's dream, this does.

  • If I go out on this one, something's gone wrong.

  • So I'm pretty sure that Paris is the capital of France, as most people probably are.

  • I'm pretty sure that New York is not, in fact, the capital of the USA which is Washington DC.

  • So I've got to decide which one stays and which one goes, really.

  • Yeah, that's an important question because if, if you're sure that's one all,

  • you know what you're going for then it's whether you want to take that shot at fifty,

  • seeing which one you want to keep.

  • As an interesting side point; I was born in New York

  • so I'm going to keep that one and dump the city that is a national capital.

  • Alright, David.

  • Please dump the national capitals.

  • I think we know what's going to happen here.

  • Yeah, there goes Paris; New York is left.

  • 2,000 pence.

  • Congratulations, I will hand that over to you again.

  • So you have the same choice.

  • Oh, that's gone in the pocket.

  • That's gone straight in the pocket.

  • So, it is your choice.

  • 2,000 pence: take it away with you or one more scroll and one more capital, go for 5,000 pence.

  • I'm on the knife edge here, aren't I, with one thing left on the board?

  • But with more than double the prize money at stake, I've got to go for it, I think.

  • Alright, can I have my money back, please?

  • -Oh man! -Haha!

  • Very best of luck to you.

  • It all comes down to this: there is one thing left on the board; it is New York.

  • It could be easy. This could be easy, this could be not.

  • What have you got?

  • Cities that have hosted a modern Olympic Games, Winter or Summer.

  • So we're looking for anything that has hosted any modern Olympic Games, Winter or Summer.

  • You can keep it or you can dump it.

  • Even though New York is a really big city,

  • I think it might not have hosted an Olympic Games, though I'm really not sure.

  • I think there was a 'might' in there.

  • Yeah, so it's a bit edgy for me, but I'm going to dump hosts of modern Olympic Games

  • because I can't remember if New York has done it.

  • But I think based on what I know, I'm not sure it has.

  • So dump the Olympic hosts, please.

  • Alright.

  • David, for 5,000 pence, please dump the Olympic host cities.

  • You're clear!

  • 5,000 pence.

  • Congratulations, you nailed it with just one left!

  • Wow!

  • Put the scroll away, you don't need it anymore.

  • That is...

  • Ah!

  • Fifty quid, 5,000 pence.

  • You've made it through with just one remaining at the end; that's all you needed.

  • It was exciting till the very end, because I would have rather had a different question on that.

  • Congratulations, that's all yours.

  • That's been the Game Garage; we'll see you next time.

  • Thank you.

In the last experiment in this run of the Game Garage, it is time for a proper quiz show.

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