Rosie decides to quite while she’s ahead

When Alex asks Rosie how far she thinks she just walked, she estimates 25 metres. When he asks her how she is, she simply responds “Good”. When Alex asks her how she’d slept the previous night, she responds “Ten hours”. When Alex asks her if she’d had any peculiar dreams, she claims that she does not dream.

After she’s read the task brief, Alex informs Rosie that she has 6 minutes and 8 seconds to complete the task, prompting her to state that “This is where the palsy comes in handy”, before celebrating.

In the studio, when Greg confirms with Rosie that she never dreams, she claims it’s because “I’m already living the dream”, prompting a retch of disgust from Greg.

Rosie throws a 5 with the die, and then moves on to barrel 2. When Alex asks her if humans have the same number of neck bones as giraffes, she incorrectly answers “False”. When Alex asks her if all the electricity powering the internet weighs the same as a school bus, she incorrectly answers “True”, and so has to return to barrel 1.

Rosie throws a 3 with the die, and moves on to barrel 2. When Alex asks her whether one in every 15 people has a third nipple, she incorrectly answers “True”. When he asks her whether Wayne Rooney’s middle name is ‘Paul’, she correctly answers “False”, and so moves on to barrel 3. She then draws two black cards from the deck of playing cards, so has to again return to barrel 1.

Rosie again rolls a 3 with the die, and moves on to barrel 2. When Alex asks her whether the high-five was invented in 1977, she incorrectly answers “False”. She then apparently answers the next ‘true’ or ‘false’ question incorrectly, also, and has to return to barrel 1 again.

It’s unclear from the edit, but it appears that Rosie struggles with several more of Alex’s questions (including incorrectly answering “True” to Alex’s question about whether lobsters are “biologically immortal”) , and has to repeatedly return to barrel 1. She eventually correctly answers Alex’s question about whether pineapples take two years to grow by saying “True”, and gets to move on to barrel 3 again.

After successfully drawing a red card from the deck of playing cards, she moves on to barrel 4 and successfully guesses in which hand Alex is holding his whistle on her second attempt.

Having reached barrel 5 for the first time, Rosie decides that she’s happy to remain there, despite having 1 minute and 30 seconds remaining.

In the studio, Rosie says she had been “shit” at the task, but Greg insists that she not talk herself down, just because she believed that “lobsters can live forever”.

Alex confirms that Rosie and Babatunde had both ended up on barrel 5, so they both earn 3 points.

(Written by Karl Craven and proofread by M3 / Andres Sanchez)

(Illustrations collected and adjusted by: David Fuller)