Clive Anderson, Russell Davies

Season 1, Episode 7, Aired
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Episode Recap

TEAMS: Ian Hislop & Clive Anderson; Paul Merton & Russell Davies

ROUND ONE - FILM CLIPS:

Ian & Clive - BSB and Sky merge

Paul & Russell - The Sun's 'two-fingers at France' campaign

Ian & Clive - Heseltine's public popularity level increases

Paul & Russell - Terry Marsh acquitted of attempting to murder boxing promoter

Scores: Ian & Clive 4; Paul & Russell 4

ROUND TWO - TABLOID HEADLINES:

Paul: 'THE 'BANANA BANDIT' WHO SLIPPED UP'

Man holds up bank with a banana

Russell - EXEMPT: THE HOLY CHURCH OF GNOME - postman sets up 'gnome church'

to avoid paying poll tax

Clive: 'I KNOW HOW IT FEELS TO BE A WOMAN'

Pete Townshend claims to be female

Ian: 'OIL LOOKS WELL FOR PRINCE FILL-UP!'

Oilwell found in Windsor Castle grounds

Scores: Ian & Clive 6; Paul & Russell 10

ROUND THREE - CONNECTIONS:

Ian & Clive - Tory MP complains about Gulf hostages' families

Paul & Russell - survey shows more people know the seven dwarves than they do the Cabinet

Scores: Ian & Clive 8; Paul & Russell 12

ROUND FOUR - ARCHIVE:

Ian & Clive - Geoffrey Howe sings taxman song

Paul & Russell - Heseltine announces reductions in paper usage

Scores: Ian & Clive 10; Paul & Russell 13

ROUND FIVE - ODD ONE OUT:

Paul - Norman Willis; Norman Tebbit; Lord Hailsham; Kenneth Baker

(Tebbit, as all the others are amateur poets)

Russell - David Sheppard; Princess Anne; Anthony Blunt; Jeffrey Archer

(Blunt, as all the others represented England at sport)

Clive - John Lennon; Paul McCartney; Ringo Starr; Derek Hatton

(Starr, as all the others attended the Liverpool Institute)

Ian - Enoch Powell; Neil Kinnock; David Owen; Winston Churchill

(Kinnock, as all the others changed political party)

Scores: Ian & Clive 13; Paul & Russell 15

ROUND SIX - MISSING WORDS:

Ian & Clive:

VOTERS WANT THATCHER TO __________

ATTENTION DRIFTS AS KINNOCK SPEAKS TO HIS __________

LET THEM EAT __________ FOR SCHOOL DINNER

WIFE OF SADDAM SNAPS UP £350M __________

Paul & Russell:

FLYING DOCTOR PRESCRIBES A TWO-WEEK __________ FOR FERGIE

CLIFF IS STILL A BIG __________ AT 50

SOOTY'S SECRET HOLD ON __________

LOCAL PARTY PUTS A __________ UP HESELTINE

Final Scores: Ian & Clive 19; Paul & Russell 21
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