0:00:02 > 0:00:07Four celebrities who hope they know everything there is to know about their specialist subject.
0:00:07 > 0:00:15But can they cut it on TV's toughest quiz? They've put themselves in the hot seat for their chosen charity,
0:00:15 > 0:00:22but only one person can be the winner. Who will be crowned tonight's Celebrity Mastermind?
0:00:39 > 0:00:46The first celebrity tonight is the actor Neil Dudgeon. His subject - the life and work of Philip Larkin.
0:00:46 > 0:00:52Comedian Stewart Francis - his subject the Toronto Blue Jays.
0:00:52 > 0:00:57Broadcaster and journalist Andrew Collins on disaster movies of the '70s.
0:00:57 > 0:01:05And singer and '60s icon Sandie Shaw has chosen Nichiren Buddhism as her specialist subject.
0:01:15 > 0:01:19Hello, I'm John Humphrys and welcome to Celebrity Mastermind.
0:01:19 > 0:01:25Tonight our contenders will have one and a half minutes of questions on their specialist subject
0:01:25 > 0:01:31and two minutes on general knowledge. Whoever scores highest has not only the great prestige
0:01:31 > 0:01:35of being the winner, but will also take home this lovely trophy.
0:01:35 > 0:01:40So let's get on with it and ask our first contender to join us, please.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46And your name is...?
0:01:46 > 0:01:48Your chosen charity?
0:01:50 > 0:01:53And your chosen subject?
0:01:54 > 0:02:01Philip Larkin, starting now. Which post did he turn down when offered it after the death of John Betjeman?
0:02:01 > 0:02:07- Poet Laureate.- In '55, he became the librarian at which university, where he remained for 30 years?
0:02:07 > 0:02:13- Hull.- In his '79 poem The Mower, what animal does the narrator inadvertently kill?
0:02:13 > 0:02:19- A hedgehog.- Which well-known poem is inspired by a train journey he took from Hull to London
0:02:19 > 0:02:22on a Bank Holiday in May, '55?
0:02:22 > 0:02:25- The Whitsun Weddings.- He first met which fellow writer at Oxford
0:02:25 > 0:02:30when he gave a dramatic performance of being shot in the quadrangle?
0:02:30 > 0:02:34- Kingsley Amis.- The last lines of poetry he wrote are thought to be,
0:02:34 > 0:02:40"You may get drunk or dry half hours may pass, it seems to turn on where you are. Or who." For which poem?
0:02:40 > 0:02:47- Party Politics?- Yes. In which Shropshire town did he meet Ruth Bowman? They later became engaged.
0:02:47 > 0:02:51- Wellington.- When he chaired the Booker Prize committee in '77,
0:02:51 > 0:02:55Staying On won, but Quartet In Autumn was his choice. Who wrote it?
0:02:55 > 0:03:01- Barbara Pym.- Which of his female companions was the model for Margaret Peel in Lucky Jim?
0:03:01 > 0:03:03Larkin advised on the novel.
0:03:03 > 0:03:10- Monica Jones.- Who was his secretary with whom he had an affair and who helped to destroy his diaries?
0:03:10 > 0:03:14- Betty Mackereth.- He wrote the words for A Bridge For The Living,
0:03:14 > 0:03:17a cantata for the opening of what in 1981?
0:03:17 > 0:03:25- The Humber Bridge.- In his letters to Monica Jones, he addresses her as what animal in letters of early '61?
0:03:25 > 0:03:28- Bun.- Yes. - BEEP
0:03:28 > 0:03:33And we're out of time. A perfect round, Neil. 12 points.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44And our next contender, please.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51And your name is...?
0:03:57 > 0:04:02The Toronto Blue Jays. In what year did they begin playing in the American League?
0:04:02 > 0:04:10- 1977.- In '89, they moved to the Sky Dome. What was the name of the stadium that they left?
0:04:10 > 0:04:13- Exhibition Stadium. - Who was their first manager?
0:04:13 > 0:04:21- Roy Hartsfield.- In September '87, they scored a single-game record 10 home runs against which team?
0:04:21 > 0:04:28- Baltimore Orioles?- Yes. They retired the number worn by Roberto Alomar. What number was it?
0:04:29 > 0:04:35- Oh, 12.- Who was the first player they signed, acquired from the White Sox in October '76?
0:04:35 > 0:04:42- Bill Singer?- Phil Roof. In their first post-season games in '85, they lost to which team?
0:04:43 > 0:04:50- Kansas City.- By what score did they beat the Chicago White Sox in their first MLB home game in 1977,
0:04:50 > 0:04:53Doug Ault scoring two home runs?
0:04:53 > 0:04:57- 9-5?- Yeah. Who only managed 13 home runs in his first full season,
0:04:57 > 0:05:01but then hit a total of 97 in the following two seasons?
0:05:01 > 0:05:07- Jose Bautista.- Before the start of the '99 season, the Cy Young Award-winning pitcher Roger Clemens
0:05:07 > 0:05:14was traded to the NY Yankees for David Wells, Graeme Lloyd and which infielder?
0:05:15 > 0:05:23- Er, pass.- Which team did they beat in the '92 League Championship series to reach the World Series?
0:05:23 > 0:05:29- Oakland Athletics.- In which Caribbean city did they open the 2001 season with a win over Texas?
0:05:29 > 0:05:34- BEEP Can you repeat that, John?- I can't because we're out of time.- Rats.
0:05:34 > 0:05:37- Take a guess.- I love you.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40- LAUGHTER - That'll do.
0:05:40 > 0:05:44The actual answer, I'll take it as a pass, was San Juan.
0:05:44 > 0:05:52- Your other pass - Roger Clemens was traded in return for David Wells, Graeme Lloyd and Homer Bush.- Oh!
0:05:52 > 0:05:56- You have, Stewart, 9 points. - Thank you, sir. Thank you.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06And our next contender, please.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12And your name is...?
0:06:18 > 0:06:25Which producer of several big-budget disaster movies was nicknamed the Master of Disaster?
0:06:25 > 0:06:33- Irwin Allen.- The shark catcher Quint in Jaws reveals that he was torpedoed on which US Navy cruiser?
0:06:33 > 0:06:38- The USS Indianapolis. - Which 1974 film begins with a dedication to firefighters?
0:06:38 > 0:06:43- The Towering Inferno.- Whose novel was the basis for The Medusa Touch?
0:06:43 > 0:06:47- Jack Gold.- Peter Van Greenaway. In which '74 Richard Lester film
0:06:47 > 0:06:51do a team try to defuse explosives planted on a luxury ocean liner?
0:06:51 > 0:06:58- Juggernaut.- What sort of contraband does Colonel Ritter find concealed in a pen in The Hindenburg?
0:06:58 > 0:07:05- Explosives?- Diamonds. David Cronenberg's Shivers was released in America as They Came From where?
0:07:05 > 0:07:09- Within.- The title of a '79 film refers to a worst-case scenario
0:07:09 > 0:07:15in which an exposed nuclear reactor core melts through the Earth. What's it called?
0:07:15 > 0:07:22- The China Syndrome.- Who appears as a taxi driver in the '78 remake of his 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers?
0:07:22 > 0:07:29- Don Siegel.- LB Abbott and AD Flowers received a Special Achievement Oscar for their work on which film?
0:07:29 > 0:07:36- Towering Inferno?- Poseidon Adventure. When Brodie and Hooper perform an autopsy in Jaws,
0:07:36 > 0:07:40- they find a licence plate from where?- Denver.
0:07:40 > 0:07:46Louisiana. Who played the father of Ava Gardner in Earthquake, despite being only seven years her senior?
0:07:46 > 0:07:50- Lorne Greene.- What does Matthias in The Omega Man define as a man... - BEEP
0:07:50 > 0:07:55- ..who understood nothing until there was nothing left to understand? - Pass.
0:07:55 > 0:08:01- It was a scientist.- Right. - And you have, Andrew, 8 points. - Thank you.
0:08:08 > 0:08:11And our final contender, please.
0:08:14 > 0:08:18- They're all so clever, aren't they? - Well, here's your chance.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20Your name...?
0:08:23 > 0:08:25Your chosen charity?
0:08:26 > 0:08:29And your chosen subject?
0:08:32 > 0:08:38Starting now. Which body, founded in 1975 by Daisaku Ikeda, is a worldwide movement
0:08:38 > 0:08:42based on Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism and its teaching?
0:08:42 > 0:08:47- Soka Gakkai.- Characters inscribed by Nichiren on the Dai-Gohonzon scroll
0:08:47 > 0:08:50are from Chinese and which language?
0:08:50 > 0:08:58- Sanskrit.- In which work of 1255 did he expound the view that the Buddhas of the universe lie within?
0:08:58 > 0:09:05- Nichiren?- On Attaining Buddhahood In This Lifetime. In the chant, "Nam myoho renge kyo,"
0:09:05 > 0:09:09renge means lotus flower. What law does it represent?
0:09:09 > 0:09:13- The Simultaneity of Cause and Effect.- According to Nichiren,
0:09:13 > 0:09:17if other forms of Buddhism represent harvest, what does his represent?
0:09:17 > 0:09:23- Sowing.- The Sixth World is characterised by short-term pleasure. What's it called?
0:09:23 > 0:09:29- Rapture.- Which of his writings opens with the command that all human beings should respect
0:09:29 > 0:09:33- the sovereign, the teacher and the parent?- No idea!
0:09:33 > 0:09:39According to his letter thanking a disciple for a gift of rice, it was not merely rice, but what?
0:09:39 > 0:09:45- Life itself.- On which island was he exiled for over two years, writing some of his most important works?
0:09:45 > 0:09:52- Sado.- Which fisherman gave him food and shelter at the beginning of his exile on the Izu peninsula?
0:09:52 > 0:10:00- Ohhh...I can't remember.- To whom did he send the letter The Heritage of the Ultimate Law of life?
0:10:01 > 0:10:06- I don't know. - Which specific proposal... - BEEP
0:10:06 > 0:10:12..to further world peace and harmony was proposed by the Soka Gakkai president in 1957 and is supported
0:10:12 > 0:10:15by Soka Gakkai International?
0:10:15 > 0:10:21- It would be for the abolition of nuclear weapons. - Exactly right. That's what it was
0:10:21 > 0:10:28You had three passes - the convert to whom he sent that letter was Sairen-Bo.
0:10:28 > 0:10:33The name of the fisherman who gave food and shelter was Funamori Yasaburo.
0:10:33 > 0:10:39And the writing that opens with the command to respect three categories of people
0:10:39 > 0:10:46- is The Opening Of The Eyes. You had three passes and eight points.- Thank you!
0:10:52 > 0:10:56So that's the end of the first round. Let's look at the scores.
0:10:56 > 0:11:00Joint third place, Andrew Collins and Sandie Shaw.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02Second place, Stewart Francis.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05In the lead, Neil Dudgeon.
0:11:10 > 0:11:16Which means it is the general knowledge round now. If there's a tie, passes are taken into account.
0:11:16 > 0:11:23The person with fewer passes is the winner. So let's ask Andrew to join us again, please.
0:11:25 > 0:11:31You've been a film reviewer for a while now. What's happening in the movies?
0:11:31 > 0:11:35Nowadays you have to have a franchise?
0:11:35 > 0:11:39This happened with the disaster movies. Jaws and Jaws 2...
0:11:39 > 0:11:43They'll make part 2 and 3 at the same time to save money.
0:11:43 > 0:11:50- They literally do that? - They filmed parts 2 and 3 of Pirates of the Caribbean.
0:11:50 > 0:11:55You've got the cast there. You might as well do two films.
0:11:55 > 0:12:01- But what if the first one is rubbish and nobody goes? - They let the first one be a success.
0:12:01 > 0:12:07- Then they'll make the second and third.- So you wouldn't make one and two together.
0:12:07 > 0:12:11- That would be bad economics. - Because you couldn't be sure.
0:12:11 > 0:12:18- They've got to be relied on. - Jaws is brilliant. Jaws 2 is rubbish. Jaws 3 is even worse.
0:12:18 > 0:12:22- The law of diminishing returns. - Is it always like that?
0:12:22 > 0:12:28- Not if it's based on a series of books.- With Pirates of the Caribbean, isn't 2 better than 1?
0:12:28 > 0:12:32But 3's worse than 2 and 1. LAUGHTER
0:12:32 > 0:12:39All right. You've got eight points on disaster movies. Let's see how you do with general knowledge.
0:12:39 > 0:12:43The Bolshoi and Maryinsky perform what sort of theatrical dance?
0:12:43 > 0:12:48- Ballet.- Which prehistoric stone circle stands on Salisbury Plain?
0:12:48 > 0:12:52- Stonehenge.- Which actor, who plays Snape in the Harry Potter films,
0:12:52 > 0:12:55was Hans Gruber in Die Hard?
0:12:55 > 0:12:59- Alan Rickman.- What colour is the Northern Line in the Underground?
0:12:59 > 0:13:06- Black.- Which mountain is considered to be 33 feet higher than the first 1856 estimate of 29,002 feet?
0:13:06 > 0:13:12- Snowdon.- Everest.- Oh, well! - Who formed High Flying Birds after the break-up of Oasis?
0:13:12 > 0:13:16- Noel Gallagher.- Which royal residence was hit by fire in 1992?
0:13:16 > 0:13:21- Windsor Castle. - Which designer and founder of the Arts and Crafts movement
0:13:21 > 0:13:24first produced his wallpaper designs in the 1860s?
0:13:24 > 0:13:27- Em...Blake.- William Morris.
0:13:27 > 0:13:33Who married his third wife, Nancy Shevell, at Old Marylebone Town Hall in October 2011?
0:13:33 > 0:13:41- Paul McCartney. - Which British monarch has a type of sponge cake named after her?
0:13:41 > 0:13:47- Victoria.- What word is used for the backbone in mammals and for the back of a book?
0:13:47 > 0:13:54- Spine.- Which BBC conspiracy thriller shown in Autumn 2011 starred Philip Glenister as solicitor Harry Venn?
0:13:54 > 0:13:59- Hidden.- The name of which single, unified currency was agreed at a summit in Madrid in 1995?
0:13:59 > 0:14:06- Euro.- What Cambridge University dramatic club's presidents include Clive Anderson and Hugh Laurie?
0:14:06 > 0:14:13- Footlights.- Which term for a loutish young person is thought to come from a Romany word for child?
0:14:13 > 0:14:20- Chav.- The third of which series of horror films, written and directed by Oren Peli, was released in 2011?
0:14:20 > 0:14:22- Saw.- Paranormal Activity 3.
0:14:22 > 0:14:27What post did Gordon Brown hold from '97 until he became Prime Minister in 2007?
0:14:27 > 0:14:33- Chancellor.- Which football pundit began with Partick Thistle in '73 before moving to Liverpool in '77?
0:14:33 > 0:14:37- Alan Hansen.- Which entertainer's son, named Zachary Jackson Levon,
0:14:37 > 0:14:40was born to a surrogate mother on Christmas Day 2010?
0:14:40 > 0:14:42BEEP
0:14:42 > 0:14:46- Michael Jackson.- Sir Elton John.
0:14:46 > 0:14:48- Yeah.- Close.- Very close.
0:14:48 > 0:14:52Andrew, you've got a total now of 23 points.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54APPLAUSE
0:14:59 > 0:15:03- And Sandie, would you join us again now, please?- Yes.
0:15:04 > 0:15:10You must be fed up to the back teeth with this, but you did win the Eurovision Song Contest.
0:15:10 > 0:15:14- Yeah, when it was worth winning. - Ah! I wondered about that?
0:15:14 > 0:15:19Lots of songs have won Eurovision and they disappear, but Puppet On A String just...
0:15:19 > 0:15:22I don't know. I wish it would disappear sometimes.
0:15:22 > 0:15:27- You still do it?- Yeah. I'm in the middle of a Jools Holland tour.
0:15:27 > 0:15:33- And we redo it. It's like a really heartfelt ballad now. It's very wistful.- Really?
0:15:33 > 0:15:36- Yeah, it would make you cry. - Would it?
0:15:36 > 0:15:40- Hmm.- Aw! And you still do it barefoot, I mean, sing?
0:15:40 > 0:15:47- Yeah, I sing barefoot. I should try answering questions barefoot. I migh get more points.- You didn't do badly
0:15:47 > 0:15:49- So you still tour?- Yeah.
0:15:49 > 0:15:51Why?
0:15:51 > 0:15:54- (I'm 64.)- Yes...
0:15:54 > 0:15:57- It's all right.- There were things I wanted to tidy up.
0:15:57 > 0:16:02I wanted to go back on stage and jus sing the songs people wanted to hear
0:16:02 > 0:16:07and to say "hi" to them again, let's get close again,
0:16:07 > 0:16:10and, um, just not be nervous.
0:16:10 > 0:16:15Well, I wish you well with that. Let's see how you do with general knowledge.
0:16:15 > 0:16:18You've got 8 points. You've got to beat 23.
0:16:18 > 0:16:21- Ohh!- 23.
0:16:21 > 0:16:27Here we go, two minutes. What name is given to the footway that models walk down at a fashion show?
0:16:27 > 0:16:33- Catwalk.- The male members of which '70s pop group collaborated with Tim Rice on the musical Chess?
0:16:33 > 0:16:39- Abba.- Which iconic American actress converted to Judaism on her marriage to the playwright Arthur Miller?
0:16:39 > 0:16:41- Marilyn.- Yes, Marilyn Monroe.
0:16:41 > 0:16:47Which former Conservative MP was the first contestant to be voted out of Strictly Come Dancing 2011
0:16:47 > 0:16:50after her foxtrot failed to impress?
0:16:50 > 0:16:52- Vincey Cable!- No, Edwina Currie.
0:16:52 > 0:16:57What cured meat is traditionally used in the dish spaghetti carbonara?
0:16:57 > 0:16:59- Cream and bacon?- Bacon.
0:16:59 > 0:17:02Which best-selling novelist has written books
0:17:02 > 0:17:06including The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous, Riders, Polo and Jump?
0:17:06 > 0:17:10- Jilly Cooper.- Pauline Collins received her only Oscar nomination
0:17:10 > 0:17:14- for playing a middle-aged Liverpool housewife in which 1989 film?- Pass.
0:17:14 > 0:17:19Alencon, Brussels and Chantilly are types of which decorative fabric?
0:17:20 > 0:17:26- Silk.- Lace. What is supposed to have crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947?
0:17:27 > 0:17:30- A meteor.- A flying saucer or UFO.
0:17:30 > 0:17:35In which Jane Austen novel does the heroine imagine herself to be gifted at match-making?
0:17:35 > 0:17:38She eventually marries Mr Knightley.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40Oh, you know, that silly one.
0:17:40 > 0:17:45- Give it a name. - I'm not an Austen fan. - All right, I'll take it as a pass.
0:17:45 > 0:17:51Which US singer/songwriter was booed at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 for using an electric guitar?
0:17:51 > 0:17:56- Oh, Bob Dylan! - In pastry-making, what term is used for pre-baking an empty pastry case,
0:17:56 > 0:18:01lined with greaseproof paper and weighted down with rice or dried beans?
0:18:01 > 0:18:05- I do it all the time! I don't know. - I'll take that as a pass.
0:18:05 > 0:18:10In which film about a gorilla who terrorises New York has the leading female role been played
0:18:10 > 0:18:14by Fay Wray in '33, Jessica Lange in '76 and Naomi Watts in 2005?
0:18:14 > 0:18:20- What's the gorilla one? You know this one!- You've got to tell me, not them. Take a guess.
0:18:20 > 0:18:24- King Kong.- What did you say? - King Kong?- Yes. Which party won...
0:18:24 > 0:18:28- BEEP - Which party won their first Parliamentary seat
0:18:28 > 0:18:34when Caroline Lucas was elected as the MP for Brighton Pavilion in the last General Election?
0:18:34 > 0:18:36- Green.- Yes, the Green Party.
0:18:36 > 0:18:40Now, you have three passes. Baking blind is what you...
0:18:40 > 0:18:42- Oh, yes!- That's what it was.
0:18:42 > 0:18:47Emma is the name of the book by that person you don't like very much.
0:18:47 > 0:18:52- Shirley Valentine was what Pauline Collins...- I should have got that.- You didn't do badly.
0:18:52 > 0:18:56- You've got a total now of 16 points. - Can I go?- Yeah.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58APPLAUSE
0:19:03 > 0:19:07And now Stewart again, please.
0:19:07 > 0:19:09And you have 9 points, Stewart.
0:19:10 > 0:19:15You are a stand-up comedian who doesn't do those big riffs...
0:19:15 > 0:19:20- Yeah, boring.- Just boring stuff. You do joke after joke after joke.
0:19:20 > 0:19:24- You have 30 seconds to do ten jokes. - No.- All right, 20 jokes.- No.
0:19:24 > 0:19:28- 50?- No, I'm not going to do any because I'm not getting paid.
0:19:28 > 0:19:32- You won't do any jokes at all? - I've changed.- Into what?
0:19:32 > 0:19:37- Into a money-grubbing son of a gun. - I thought you said you'd changed?
0:19:37 > 0:19:39Ah! Touche!
0:19:39 > 0:19:43- You are Canadian.- I am.- Why did you leave Canada to come here?
0:19:43 > 0:19:48- To pursue my career professionally. This is where I need to be.- Why?
0:19:48 > 0:19:52The best audiences in the world. LAUGHTER
0:19:52 > 0:19:57- Is that really why you came here? - Yeah, I had done everything I could do in Canada.
0:19:57 > 0:20:01I was a game show host, I was in a sitcom, bunch of television wor
0:20:01 > 0:20:04and it was time for me to move on.
0:20:04 > 0:20:10So I came to the UK, which I'd been coming to for about 15 years. I knew this is where I needed to be.
0:20:10 > 0:20:16Honestly, it's the best audiences in the world. I've travelled the world, but the UK is phenomenal.
0:20:16 > 0:20:19- Really?- Absolutely. - What's behind that?- I don't know.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22It's where humour was invented.
0:20:22 > 0:20:28- Was it?- Yeah, I think so. You go to the corner pub, there's half a dozen comedians there
0:20:28 > 0:20:32just having a chat. It's where it originated.
0:20:32 > 0:20:36- I love running with the big dogs over here.- Stewart, you got 9 points
0:20:36 > 0:20:40- This is general knowledge?- Yes. - I'll do bad here.
0:20:40 > 0:20:43I know nothing about generals. LAUGHTER
0:20:43 > 0:20:49Two minutes, starting now. What is the name of the house in Memphis where Presley lived and died?
0:20:49 > 0:20:55- Graceland.- Which famous Knightsbridg department store was founded as a grocery shop in 1849?
0:20:55 > 0:21:00- Harrods.- Calvados is a brandy distilled in Normandy. From which fruit is it fermented?
0:21:00 > 0:21:05- Apple.- Who became the Duchess of Cambridge on the 29th of April, 2011?
0:21:06 > 0:21:09- Camilla...Parker... - Close, but it was Kate.
0:21:09 > 0:21:13Which crime drama set in Atlantic City during the Prohibition era
0:21:13 > 0:21:19stars Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson? The pilot was the most expensive ever made for television.
0:21:19 > 0:21:23- I don't know.- Which city, famed for its architecture by Gaudi,
0:21:23 > 0:21:26is the capital of the Spanish region of Catalonia?
0:21:28 > 0:21:30- Bamber Gascoigne.- Close(!) Barcelona
0:21:30 > 0:21:34Who directed the films Vertigo, Dial M For Murder and North By Northwest?
0:21:34 > 0:21:38- Hitchcock.- The Power Of Love, Think Twice and My Heart Will Go On
0:21:38 > 0:21:42have all been hit singles for which French-Canadian singer?
0:21:42 > 0:21:46- Celine Dion.- Who became the first President of the US in 1789
0:21:46 > 0:21:50when he took his oath of office on the balcony of Federal Hall, New York?
0:21:50 > 0:21:56- George Washington.- In the '96 film Evita, which Spanish actor stars as the narrator Che
0:21:56 > 0:21:59who tells the story of Eva Peron's rise to power?
0:21:59 > 0:22:01- Madonna?- Antonio Banderas.
0:22:01 > 0:22:07The Australian bird the kookaburra can be called by what name because of its fiendish chuckling call?
0:22:07 > 0:22:10- Bamber Gascoigne.- Laughing jackass.
0:22:10 > 0:22:17He might sue! What type of dancing involves wearing special shoes with metal plates on the soles and heels?
0:22:17 > 0:22:23- Tap.- Which mythical creature that wa on the flag of China until 1911 was the symbol of the Chinese Emperor?
0:22:23 > 0:22:29- Dragon.- Who wrote The Invisible Man and War Of The Worlds, published at the end of the 19th century?
0:22:29 > 0:22:33Oh, uh... Him. That guy. With the pen. I don't know.
0:22:33 > 0:22:39In the Bible, which sea dried up to let the Israelites pass through on their way to the Promised Land
0:22:39 > 0:22:42and then closed over the pursuing Egyptians?
0:22:42 > 0:22:48- Lake Ontario.- Red Sea. What title, a form of the Roman "Caesar" was held by the rulers of Russia...
0:22:48 > 0:22:52- BEEP - ..until 1721 and commonly used up to the 1917 Revolution?
0:22:52 > 0:22:56- Bamber Gascoigne.- Bamber Gascoigne is true... No, it's Tsar.
0:22:56 > 0:23:00The Czar or Tsar, whatever you want to call it. You had two passes.
0:23:00 > 0:23:05The Invisible Man, War Of The Worlds were written by HG Wells.
0:23:05 > 0:23:09And that crime drama set in Atlantic City was Boardwalk Empire.
0:23:09 > 0:23:14You will doubtless be hearing from Bamber Gascoigne, but you have, Stewart, 17 points.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16APPLAUSE
0:23:22 > 0:23:25And finally, Neil Dudgeon again, please.
0:23:26 > 0:23:30And you start out with a pretty impressive 12,
0:23:30 > 0:23:32a very impressive 12, you got them all right.
0:23:32 > 0:23:37But let's talk about what you're doing in Midsomer Murders.
0:23:37 > 0:23:41I've taken over as the Detective Chief Inspector, yeah.
0:23:41 > 0:23:46Was it slightly intimidating because John Nettles had been doing it for a heck of a time?
0:23:46 > 0:23:50I just thought it was something I might be able to have a go at.
0:23:50 > 0:23:54Like this. Somebody said, "Do you want to have a go at this?"
0:23:54 > 0:23:58You think, "No," then another bit of you thinks, "Go on, have a go."
0:23:58 > 0:24:02- So I thought I could make some sort of fist of it.- Is it fun?
0:24:02 > 0:24:06It's very good fun. A great thing is whenever I used to watch the show
0:24:06 > 0:24:10I'd see these beautiful shots of lovely little English villages
0:24:10 > 0:24:16and the village green and the ivy-clad pub and the Norman church, which I think again is...
0:24:16 > 0:24:19The show sells to 250 territories around the world
0:24:19 > 0:24:25and when you speak to foreign journalists and say, "Why is it popular in Hong Kong or Canada,"
0:24:25 > 0:24:31they say, "We like your English sense of humour and we love your English countryside."
0:24:31 > 0:24:36But there are so many great facts about Midsomer. 2,850 people have been killed.
0:24:36 > 0:24:39You'd think there wouldn't be many people left.
0:24:39 > 0:24:45People keep moving there because of the beautiful countryside and there' so much cheap property available.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48- People keep moving there. - Yeah, exactly.
0:24:48 > 0:24:51You've got 12 points, as I said.
0:24:51 > 0:24:5624, if you're going to be a Mastermind, which is a huge privilege and honour.
0:24:56 > 0:25:02Let's see if you can do it. What geographical feature is described as being active, dormant or extinct?
0:25:02 > 0:25:06- Volcano.- Which comedy actor, who starred in Porridge, retired in 1987
0:25:06 > 0:25:10to run an antiques shop called The Emporium in Chipping Norton?
0:25:10 > 0:25:15- Ronnie Barker.- Most of America's reserves of what have been stored at Fort Knox since 1937?
0:25:15 > 0:25:19- Gold.- The 2011 film Midnight In Paris is by which American director,
0:25:19 > 0:25:23famed for Hannah And Her Sisters and Annie Hall?
0:25:23 > 0:25:27- Woody Allen.- Which raid on Germany in May 1943 by 617 Squadron
0:25:27 > 0:25:30was officially codenamed Operation Chastise?
0:25:30 > 0:25:32The Dam Busters.
0:25:32 > 0:25:39Which tidy, furry creatures lived on Wimbledon Common in a '70s children's television series?
0:25:39 > 0:25:43- The Wombles.- What title did Philip Pullman give to a trilogy of novels
0:25:43 > 0:25:47comprising Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass?
0:25:47 > 0:25:53- Pass.- Which former county in north-west England gives its name to a type of long, unlinked sausage?
0:25:53 > 0:25:59- Cumberland.- In the traditional song The Twelve Days Of Christmas, how many gold rings are there?
0:25:59 > 0:26:05- Five.- Which city's railway station a Temple Meads was designed by Brunel and is a Grade One listed building?
0:26:05 > 0:26:10- Bristol.- Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips are two of the ingredients in a witches' spell
0:26:10 > 0:26:13that appears in which Shakespeare play?
0:26:13 > 0:26:18- Macbeth.- In 2011, who won the Rugby Union World Cup for the first time since 1987,
0:26:18 > 0:26:21beating France by 8 points to 7?
0:26:21 > 0:26:25- New Zealand.- Which canal connects th Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea?
0:26:25 > 0:26:31- Suez Canal.- Gary Oldman plays George Smiley in the 2011 film version of which spy novel by John Le Carre?
0:26:31 > 0:26:35- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. - Who won the '95 Turner Prize
0:26:35 > 0:26:40after his exhibition called Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away, which included a lamb in formaldehyde?
0:26:40 > 0:26:44- Damien Hirst.- Achilles could only be wounded in which part of his body?
0:26:44 > 0:26:50- Heel.- Which dog, the largest of the terriers, is named after the area of Yorkshire where it was bred?
0:26:50 > 0:26:54- Doncaster.- Airedale. Which member of The Who had a top ten hit
0:26:54 > 0:26:58as a solo artist with Giving It All Away in 1973?
0:26:58 > 0:27:00- Roger Daltrey. - Darbies or bracelets...
0:27:00 > 0:27:04- BEEP - ..are slang for what type of equipment used by policemen?
0:27:04 > 0:27:09- You should know this one.- Handcuffs. - Handcuffs it is. One pass.
0:27:09 > 0:27:14The Philip Pullman trilogy - His Dark Materials.
0:27:14 > 0:27:18But you didn't need that because, Neil, you have a total of 29 points.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21APPLAUSE
0:27:28 > 0:27:32A high-scoring contest in the end. Let's look at all the scores.
0:27:32 > 0:27:34In fourth place, Sandie Shaw.
0:27:34 > 0:27:37Third place, Stewart Francis.
0:27:37 > 0:27:40Second place, Andrew Collins.
0:27:40 > 0:27:44First place, a big 29 points, Neil Dudgeon.
0:27:44 > 0:27:47APPLAUSE
0:27:59 > 0:28:01Neil...
0:28:03 > 0:28:05Well done.
0:28:05 > 0:28:08Thank you very much.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11Are you going to be taking that to Midsomer with you?
0:28:11 > 0:28:17- Yes, I shall be polishing it up and taking it to work to prove that I've been here.- I think they'll know that
0:28:17 > 0:28:21- I hope I haven't brought shame on th county.- A worthy winner.- Thank you.
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