Episode 10 Celebrity Mastermind

Four celebrities who hope they know everything there is to know about their specialist subjects,

but can they cut it on television's toughest quiz?

They've agreed to put themselves in the hot seat for their chosen charity

and only one person can be the winner. Who will be crowned tonight's Celebrity Mastermind?

The first celebrity in the spotlight tonight is the presenter and Bucks Fizz star, Cheryl Baker,

her specialist subject, the Life and Music of James Taylor.

The Archers actor, Tim Bentinck, David Archer no less, has chosen AA Milne and Winnie The Pooh.

The Stargazing Live astronomer Mark Thompson will answer questions on Coffee

and the actor Guy Henry of Holby City, his specialist subject, the Life and Films of Peter O'Toole.

APPLAUSE

Hello, I'm John Humphrys and welcome to Celebrity Mastermind.

Tonight, our four famous folk have agreed to risk their reputations

by taking television's toughest test of nerves and knowledge.

They will have to answer 1½ minutes on their specialist subject and 2 minutes on general knowledge.

The winner will take home this very handsome trophy,

secure in the knowledge that they are now one of the nation's Masterminds.

So let's put them out of their misery and ask our first contender to join us, please.

And your name is...?

90 seconds. James Taylor had his biggest UK hit single in 1971

with a song written by Carole King. What was it called?

-You've Got A Friend.

-Paul McCartney played bass on which track on Taylor's debut album?

It was first released as a single in 1969.

-Fire And Rain?

-Carolina In My Mind.

-Damn!

-By what nickname has Taylor been known since his youth

because his long, lean build resembles a type of vegetable?

-Green Bean.

-Stringbean. Which Canadian singer-songwriter, with whom he had a relationship,

released her classic album Blue in '71 with Taylor playing guitar on three tracks?

-Joni Mitchell.

-What was the profession of Taylor's father Isaac

who left the family in 1955 to work at the McMurdo base in Antarctica?

-Was he a scientist?

-He was a doctor, a physician.

In the 1971 road film Two-Lane Blacktop, Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys plays The Mechanic.

What credited role does Taylor play?

-Pass.

-In November 1972, which fellow singer and songwriter did Taylor marry in her Manhattan apartment?

They divorced in 1983.

-Carole King.

-Carly Simon.

-Carly Simon!

-Which track reached No.3 in the American charts in 1970,

partly written as a tribute to a friend, Suzanne Schnerr, who had committed suicide?

-Fire And Rain.

-In which US state is Chapel Hill where Taylor spent much of his childhood during the '50s?

-South... North Carolina.

-Which of his brothers wrote the song Boatman

that Taylor sings on his album Hourglass?

-Oh... Livingston.

-Taylor first met which guitarist...

-BEEP

..in the early '60s at Martha's Vineyard where they won a local folk contest together?

They went on to form the band The Flying Machine.

-Danny Kortch...mar.

-Yes, Danny Kortchmar or even Danny Kootch would have done. You've got it.

One pass.

In that road film he played The Driver.

You have, Cheryl, 6 points.

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And our next contender, please.

And your name is...?

90 seconds. Alan Alexander Milne was born in January 1882 in a building in Kilburn

which was the family home and a school where his father was the headmaster. Name the building.

-Henley House.

-AA Milne's son was known as Billy Moon,

but his real first two names were shared by which central character in Winnie The Pooh?

-Christopher Robin.

-It is said that Winnie The Pooh lives alone in a forest under what name,

in so much as "he had the name over the door in gold letters and lived under it"?

-Sanders.

-Which artist and contributor to Punch became the illustrator of Milne's children's books?

-EH Shepard.

-Pooh and Piglet set a cunning trap using a jar of honey

left at the bottom of a pit to try to catch what beast?

-A heffalump.

-In Winnie The Pooh, at what exact time does Pooh claim in his song he found Eeyore's tail?

It was being used as a bell-rope by Owl although it was three hours earlier.

A quarter to el... A quarter to two.

When Pooh invents his new game of Poohsticks,

what does he drop into the water before using sticks "because they were easier to mark"?

-Fir cones.

-Christopher Robin gives Winnie The Pooh a pencil case

which includes pencils marked B for Bear, HB for Helping Bear and BB meaning...?

-Brave Bear.

-Milne stated he owed a great deal to a science master at his prep school

who became a famous author. Who was he?

-HG Wells.

-For whom do Winnie the Pooh and Piglet build a house out of sticks

that they had taken from his previous house?

-Eeyore.

-In The House At Pooh Corner,

what name does Owl choose for his new house even before he finds it with Eeyore's help?

-BEEP The Wolery.

-Yes, The Wolery.

-No passes, all of them right. Tim Bentinck, you have 11 points.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

And our next contender, please.

No pressure at all. None at all.

And your name is...?

According to a popular theory, the coffee plant originated in the Kaffa region of which African country?

-Ethiopia.

-What Italian term meaning "pressed out" is used

for strong, black coffee made by forcing hot water through finely ground coffee?

-Espresso.

-There are two main commercial types of coffee plant -

the Robusta and which species more suited to higher altitude?

-Arabica.

-After which historic event of December 1773, in protest against Crown taxes,

did it become a patriotic act for American citizens to drink coffee?

-Boston Tea Party.

-Which island was the first in Indonesia to have coffee planted by the Dutch

and is the name of a coffee variety and an American slang term for coffee itself?

-Pass.

-In which university city was England's first coffee house opened in around 1650 at the Angel Inn?

-Pass.

-What Italian term for coffee made with a head of frothy milk

is derived from an order of Franciscan friars because it looks like the colour of their robes?

-Cappuccino.

-Which major financial institution, founded in 1698,

originated in Jonathan's Coffee-House that opened in Cornhill, London, around 1680?

-Stock Exchange.

-What Italian word for a bartender is now the term for a person employed

to prepare and serve coffee drinks?

-Barista.

-Which German composer wrote the humorous Coffee Cantata, first performed in 1734,

in praise of the popular beverage?

-Johann Sebastian Bach.

-What name is generally given to professional coffee tasters

who test for aroma, body, acidity and flavour?

-Cuppers.

-Which port in Yemen at the entrance to the Red Sea...

-BEEP

-..was the world's main supplier of coffee

and gives its name to a rich blend of coffee and a coffee style?

-Pass.

-It is Mocha.

You had three passes, including that one.

The other two - Oxford is where the first coffee house opened

-and Java...

-Ah!

-..is the slang name for coffee in the States. Mark, you got 9 points.

-Oh!

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And our final contender, please.

And your name is...?

In 1982, O'Toole received his seventh Oscar nomination for his performance

in which film directed by Richard Benjamin?

-My Favorite Year.

-O'Toole said, "I'm not from the working class, I'm from the criminal class,"

a comment prompted by his father's occupation. What was it?

-Bookmaker.

-In 1959, O'Toole married a Welsh-born actress

who later appeared with him in films like Goodbye, Mr Chips. Who is she?

-Sian Phillips.

-Who allegedly quipped after the release of Lawrence Of Arabia in 1962

that if O'Toole had been any more beautiful, the film would have had to be called Florence Of Arabia?

-Noel Coward.

-In tribute to his Irish heritage, O'Toole never leaves the house

without wearing an item of clothing, usually his socks, in what colour?

-Green.

-In the 2006 film Venus, which actor appears as Donald?

He describes a fight in a cafe between elderly characters played by O'Toole and Leslie Phillips

as a case of "catheters at dawn".

-Richard Griffiths.

-What was the title of O'Toole's memoir

whose two volumes were subtitled The Child and The Apprentice?

-Loitering With Intent.

-In 1980, a disastrous production of which Shakespeare play

led to one critic describing O'Toole's performance

as "not so much downright bad as heroically ludicrous"?

-Macbeth.

-In the 1980 film The Stunt Man, a crew member is accidentally killed

after which O'Toole's character says to a colleague, "Telephone my mother and have her convince me" what?

-Pass.

-O'Toole was nominated for Oscars for playing which historical character

in Becket in 1964 and The Lion In Winter in 1968?

-King Henry II.

-In the 1976 film Rogue Male...

-BEEP

..O'Toole plays Sir Robert Thorndyke,

a man whose life is put in danger when he fails in an attempt to assassinate whom?

-Adolf Hitler.

-Correct. You had just one pass.

After that terrible accident, O'Toole's character says to a colleague,

"Telephone my mother and have her convince me it wasn't my fault."

You have, Guy, 10 points.

APPLAUSE

A close first round. Let's look at all of those scores.

In fourth place, Cheryl Baker.

Third place, Mark Thompson.

Second place, Guy Henry.

In the lead, just, Tim Bentinck.

APPLAUSE

It's the general knowledge round now and if there is a tie at the end,

the number of passes is taken into account and the person with the fewer passes is the winner,

so let us ask Cheryl to join us again, please.

-It's very difficult to walk with these shoes.

-I'll take your word for it, yeah.

-Now then, Bucks Fizz, you won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981.

-Correct.

It's very different now. The whole thing's different.

-Yes, I think the show itself is better.

-Do you?

-Yes.

-You mean as a performance?

The whole show is more extravagant, more spectacular, fantastic lighting and special effects.

It's just that we don't win any more.

There is that. But it's different in the sense that when you won, you weren't terribly famous.

We were nobody. Nobody knew us. And it did make us stars around the world, literally,

and now it does quite the reverse, unfortunately.

Why do people want to do it now? I suppose you get a big fee for it.

No, I don't think we got any fee at all.

We even only got one trophy that Mike Nolan's got and says he's going to leave me in his will.

-LAUGHTER

-That's nice. They didn't share it out or give you one each?

-No.

-If you want another one, you've got to pay for another one to be made.

-No?

-So we didn't.

You've got 6 points and you have 2 minutes of general knowledge, so let's see how you do with that.

Who co-starred with Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman and in the 1999 film Runaway Bride?

-Richard Gere.

-In which city do the ruins of the Parthenon stand on the Acropolis?

-Athens.

-What sticky substance was most commonly used in England

for sweetening before sugar was widely available?

-Syrup.

-Honey. Whose music career spans almost 50 years?

His hit records include It's Not Unusual and Delilah.

-Tom Jones.

-Which sign of the Zodiac is also known as the Scales?

-Libra.

-In Victoria Wood's Acorn Antiques,

Julie Walters plays the part of an eccentric, elderly tea lady. What's her name?

-Pass.

-The name of which flower is used for a girl who has not been asked to dance

and is sitting at the side of the dance floor?

-Wallflower.

-What is the principal ingredient in the Greek dip taramasalata?

-Roe.

-Fish roe, yeah. Which chart duo's line-up comprises Neil Tennant on vocals

and Chris Lowe on keyboards?

-Pet Shop Boys.

-What term for the design and manufacture of exclusive, custom-made clothes

literally means "high sewing" in French?

-Haute couture.

-Who hosts the Channel 4 comedy chat show known as Chatty Man?

Thingy. LAUGHTER

-Amplify?

-I can see his face, but not his name.

-We'll make it a pass.

Which words from Chinese philosophy translate as "dark and light",

one being negative and feminine, the other positive and masculine?

-I don't know what you're talking about.

-We'll take it as a pass.

What part of the body is affected by conjunctivitis?

-Eyes.

-Which song that was a chart-topper for Shirley Bassey in 1961

was sung by the Mother Abbess in The Sound Of Music?

Oh, Mother Abbess... Climb Ev'ry Mountain.

The Victoria is one of the best-known varieties of which fruit

that was first discovered in a garden in Sussex in 1840?

-Plum.

-Which comedienne took on the role as the clumsy Camilla Fortescue-Cholmondeley-Browne,

known as Chummy, in the TV series Call The Midwife?

I can't remember... Oh, Miranda. Miranda Hart!

-Whose diary...

-BEEP

We've got time for another one.

Whose diary was first published in Dutch in June 1947

with the title that translates into English as The Secret Annex?

-Oh, I don't know.

-I'll tell you. It's Anne Frank.

-Oh!

-Yes.

-It's Anne Frank!

-That was one of your passes.

-The others - the Chinese philosophy, in English "light and dark", yin and yang.

-Yin and yang, yeah.

Alan Carr hosts the Channel 4 comedy show The Chatty Man.

-And Julie Walters plays the part of Mrs Overall.

-I never watched it.

-But you shot up, Cheryl. You're now at 18 points.

-Thank you.

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And now Mark Thompson, please.

-And things have changed in the stargazing world, haven't they?

-Yes.

They have. It's become popular. It's accessible to everyone and I think that's why it's so wonderful.

Stargazing Live covers some really hardcore subjects, but we do it in a way that people can understand it.

You have to tell us the story about the comet, I mean the meteor.

I was live on air to four million viewers. Where I was looking, I could see cloud.

There was no star in the sky and I said it was cloudy outside with nothing to see.

Just at that time, in a beautiful piece of choreography, a meteor went straight past my head.

The cameraman was waving at me, but with low-light cameras I couldn't see a thing.

The entire nation saw it, except me. I just said it was cloudy and you couldn't see a thing.

-Live television!

-That's the beauty of live TV.

-That's one way of putting it. Now, you have 9 points.

Here we go, two minutes of general knowledge.

What have been painted gold in the home towns of British 2012 Olympic and Paralympic gold medal winners?

-Pass.

-The Champs-Elysees, the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe are all in which European capital city?

-Paris.

-In September 2012, who left the Radio One Breakfast Show after eight years?

He was succeeded by Nick Grimshaw.

-Chris Moyles.

-H2O is the chemical formula for...?

-Water.

-Who starred as Axel Foley in the Beverly Hills Cop series of films?

I can see him. Can I describe him? No. Pass.

What name for a type of luncheon meat is given to electronic junk mail?

-Spam.

-Which football club played home games at Roker Park for 99 years

before moving to the Stadium of Light in '97?

-Arsenal.

-Sunderland. The summit of which mountain is the highest point on Earth?

It's in Hawaii? Thingy. K1.

-No, Mount Everest!

-Oh!

What French word for a species of fish is given to deep-fried strips of fish or chicken?

Uh... No idea.

Which virtual band created by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett entered the charts in 2001

with the top ten single Clint Eastwood?

Again no idea. You're safe, Cheryl.

-What is "la playa" in a Spanish resort?

-What is what?

-"La playa" in a Spanish resort?

-No idea.

-Which American TV series, set in a bar in Boston, featured Ted Danson and Shelley Long?

-Cheers.

-Errol Brown was the lead singer with which band

whose hit You Sexy Thing was used in the 1997 film The Full Monty?

-No idea.

-In meteorology, what word can come after the terms "cold", "warm" or "occluded"?

-Front.

-Which country was generally known as Persia until the mid-'30s?

-Pass.

-The mandible and the maxilla form the upper and lower bones in which part of the human body?

-Mouth.

-Jaw, yes. What was the name of the German-born physicist

who published his Theory of Special Relativity in 1905?

-Einstein.

-Which native British tree is threatened with extinction

because of a fungus that causes leaf loss and lesions on the branches?

-BEEP Elm.

-The ash.

-The elm already got it.

-Time for one more?

-Frankly, Mark, it wouldn't do you any good.

-LAUGHTER

-Is that it?

-I'm now going to spend an hour reading you all the passes that you had!

The country generally known as Persia was Iran. Errol Brown's band was Hot Chocolate.

-"La playa" means "the beach". Gorillaz was the virtual band.

-Yeah, I knew that one.

-"Goujon" is the species of fish.

-Yeah, I knew that one.

-Eddie Murphy was Beverly Hills Cop.

-Yeah.

-And they painted the post boxes gold.

-Did they really?

-Yeah.

Look, here's the bad news - 17 points.

-Ohh!

-Yeah.

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And now Guy again, please.

And, um... Yeah.

Well, now, your acting, you didn't have a choice really because your mother and father, both in showbiz?

Um, yes, my father was an actor,

and then he became a straight man to comedians like Charlie Drake, Al Read and Arthur Haynes.

My mother was a dancer and they met in...I think it was in Great Yarmouth

-when my dad was with Charlie Drake and my mother was dancing with Benny Hill, so to speak.

-As it were.

Did they put pressure on you?

No, I think they did everything they could to try to persuade me that it perhaps wasn't a very good idea.

So how did it happen that you became an actor?

I had a very successful run in Highcliffe-on-Sea with the Charity Players amateur company

as Thor the Raven, King of the Dark,

with my lovely legs in spangly tights and a cardboard beak.

It was a huge success and from there on, there's been no looking back, really.

But you haven't repeated that ground-breaking performance with the spangly legs?

I've worn quite a few spangly tights up at Stratford-on-Avon with the RSC.

-But that was, as it were, legit?

-Very.

-Yes.

Is that terribly different from doing something populist on the telly? It's all acting, isn't it?

It is. I think it is very much the same.

You try to get the bubble for the character, try to mean what you say,

do your flies up and hope the wig's all right.

-Simple really then?

-As Peter O'Toole said, "Largely a matter of farting about in disguises."

Right, what you have got is 10 points.

And you have to beat 18 with your general knowledge.

Which Scottish city holds an annual international music and arts festival beginning in August?

-Edinburgh.

-Who "floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee"?

-Muhammad Ali.

-Stilton, Emmental and Brie are types of...?

-Cheese.

-What do the letters UFO stand for in the context

of possible sightings of extra-terrestrial space vehicles?

-Unidentified Flying Objects.

-Which plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament was discovered

as a result of a warning letter sent to Lord Monteagle, probably by Francis Tresham?

-Gunpowder Plot.

-"If music be the food of love, play on" opens which Shakespeare play?

-Twelfth Night.

-What colour are the benches in the House of Lords?

-Red.

-Which singer's biggest hits include Papa Don't Preach, Vogue and 4 Minutes?

-Madonna.

-John Hurt provides the voice of which mythological creature in the BBC television series Merlin?

-Pass.

-Which American state has a border only with Canada?

It does not have a land border with any part of the United States.

-Alaska.

-In Greek mythology, who blinded himself

when he discovered he had married his mother after killing his father?

-Odysseus.

-Oedipus. What kind of flour has all the original bran and germ,

making it more nutritious than white flour?

-Wholemeal.

-Which character has been played by Dame Judi Dench

in the James Bond films since Goldeneye in 1995?

-M.

-Whom did John Lennon marry in Gibraltar in 1969?

-Yoko Ono.

-Philip Seymour Hoffman won the Best Actor Oscar in 2006

for his portrayal of which writer, best known for his book In Cold Blood?

-Truman Capote.

-In theatre stage directions, what do the initials OP stand for?

-Opposite prompt.

-Which animal and its young are featured cut in half

in a work by Damien Hirst with the name Mother And Child Divided?

-Sharks.

-Cow and calf. In which ancient empire's army was a legion made up from ten cohorts?

-Pass.

-In Dickens' Oliver Twist, what is the name of Bill Sikes' devoted shaggy white dog

which he treats very badly?

-Brian.

-Bull's Eye. Which Leeds businessman, created by Leigh Francis, moves to London...

-BEEP

-..in an attempt to emulate his hero Richard Branson in a 2012 film?

-I don't... Liam Neeson.

-It was not. It was Keith Lemon.

-Lemon.

You had two passes. That ancient army made up from ten cohorts was a Roman army.

And John Hurt provides the voice of the dragon in Merlin.

However, Guy, you may hold your head up high because you have 24 points.

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And finally, Tim again, please.

And I'm going to need my glasses to read this, Tim, because you are Tim Bentinck.

You are also Timothy Charles Robert Noel Bentinck,

12th Earl of Portland, 8th Count Bentinck und Waldeck Limpurg, ja?

I know, but it doesn't define me.

Everyone has preconceptions and they all think I live in the country and wear tweeds and shoot a lot.

-You do live in the country. We hear you every evening on The Archers.

-That's the fictitious part.

Great being David Archer. It must be that when you go into shops or pubs, wherever they hear your voice...

-Do you know what? It has never happened.

-No?

-I am unrecognisable because it's just the voice.

You've got five million people listening to it, but nobody knows what I look like,

so when my voice is out of context, nobody puts two and two together.

-I'm shutting my eyes. Say something now.

-Ruth, it's about time I got the cows in.

-Exactly! That's it.

-Yes, yes. Absolutely.

-There you go.

-Right, Tim, you've got 11 points.

-And now the score to beat is 24.

-I know, I know.

-The barrier has been raised.

In which American city would you find the Rockefeller Center and Madison Square Garden?

-New York.

-Whose statue, complete with pipe and deerstalker hat,

stands outside Baker Street underground station in London?

-Sherlock Holmes.

-What is the name of the group of reptiles

that appeared in the Middle Triassic Period, but mostly died out by the end of the Cretaceous Period?

-Dinosaurs.

-Who had No.1 hit singles in the UK with the songs Sailing and Maggie May?

-Rod Stewart.

-Which film starring Jane Fonda popularised over-the-knee vinyl boots in the 1960s?

-Barbarella.

-What name is used for meat from a calf?

-Veal.

-Which British navigator and explorer was killed

by Polynesian natives in Hawaii on the 14th of February, 1779?

-Cook.

-Luke Donald, Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood are all professional British players in what sport?

-Golf.

-Which TV series set in Surbiton featured Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal and Penelope Keith?

-The Good Life.

-Which hero of the Trojan War was King of Ithaca? His journey home was recounted by Homer.

-Paris.

-Odysseus. Monastir is a major city in which country?

-I didn't hear it. Sorry?

-Monastir is a major city in which country?

-Russia.

-Tunisia. In the 1970s, which British TV personality conducted a series of interviews

with the former American President Richard Nixon?

-Pass.

-Which Parisian arts centre was initially notorious

for having its infrastructure of brightly coloured ducts and pipes on the outside?

-The Lloyd's Building.

-No, the Pompidou Centre.

During the English Civil War, the Royalist supporters of Charles I were known by what name?

-Cavalier.

-Who has presented the television programme A Question Of Sport since 1997?

The tennis player. I can't remember. Pass.

A "liquorice stick" is a nickname for which woodwind instrument?

-Clarinet.

-How is Sally Boazman, who presents travel reports on Radio 2's shows, known to listeners?

-Sally Traffic.

-In art, what name is given to a portrait of a group

in a domestic setting, chatting to each other?

-Conversation.

-Conversation...?

-Conversation piece.

-Which oil...

-BEEP

-Which oil, traditionally used to treat wood including cricket bats,

is made from a common variety of the flax plant?

-Linseed.

-Linseed oil is correct. Two passes.

Sue Barker presents A Question Of Sport

and David Frost interviewed Richard Nixon.

But that last one, "linseed oil", mattered quite a lot because you have, Tim, 25 points.

APPLAUSE

Well, what a finish! Let's have a look at those scores.

In fourth place, Mark Thompson.

Third place, Cheryl Baker.

Second place, Guy Henry,

but in first place, Tim Bentinck!

APPLAUSE

Tim...

-Congratulations.

-Thank you very much indeed.

-I take it you'll be keeping it in the cowshed?

-I might keep it in my house, rather than in David's house.

-Otherwise it would be with the BBC.

-That's very true. You want to have it at home. Congratulations.

-Well done.

-Thank you.

-Thank you for watching Celebrity Mastermind.

Do join us again next time. Good night.

Well done, Tim.

You don't have to be a celebrity to take part in the regular Mastermind programme,

so if you'd like to appear in the next series of Mastermind on BBC-2,

then do visit us online at: bbc.co.uk/mastermind

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