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Four celebrities who hope they know everything there is to know

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about their specialist subject.

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

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They've agreed to put themselves in the hot seat

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for their chosen charity.

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And only one person can be the winner.

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Who will be crowned tonight's Celebrity Mastermind?

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Our first celebrity in the spotlight tonight

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is the comedian and actor Steve Punt.

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His specialist subject, the great Tony Hancock.

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The Proms presenter Clemency Burton-Hill

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is next in the firing line.

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Her specialist subject, Downton Abbey.

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The actor Michael Obiora takes on Arsenal Football Club.

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And the BBC weatherman John Hammond

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has chosen Status Quo as his specialist subject.

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APPLAUSE

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

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Tonight, four famous folk have chosen to put themselves

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in the hot seat for their chosen charities.

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They will have to answer one and a half minutes

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of questions on their specialist subject

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and two minutes on general knowledge.

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What they get if they win is this handsome trophy

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and, infinitely more importantly, the huge honour

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of becoming one of the nation's Masterminds.

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So let's put them out of their misery

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and ask our first Contender to join us, please.

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And your name is?

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Your chosen charity?

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And your specialist subject?

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Tony Hancock in 90 seconds.

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In which city was the English comedian Tony Hancock born in May 1924,

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though his family moved to Bournemouth when he was three?

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-Birmingham.

-In his sketch The Blood Donor,

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when he was told to give a pint of blood,

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what is his much-quoted response after saying,

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"I don't mind giving a reasonable amount,

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"but a pint..."?

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"That's very nearly an armful!"

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In which area of Greater London is 23 Railway Cuttings,

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Hancock's address in his radio and television shows?

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East Cheam.

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After failing to get into the Entertainments National Service Association,

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Hancock got his break when the leader of The Gang Show

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asked him to join his entertainment group. Who was he?

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Er, Ralph Reader.

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In which film does Hancock play an artist

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who tells his landlady he is from the Impressionist school,

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to which she replies "Well, it doesn't impress me"?

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Er, The Rebel.

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Hancock's Half Hour, which first aired on radio in November 1954,

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was written by Ray Galton and which other writer

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whom he met when they were teenagers in a sanatorium?

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Alan Simpson.

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Which episode of Hancock's Half Hour

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begins with him saying, "Oh dear, Oh dear, oh dear.

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"Cor dear me. Stone me, what a life. What's the time?"

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Um, Sunday Afternoon At Home.

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In which 1965 film comedy does Hancock appear

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as the scatter-brained inventor, Harry Popperwell?

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Um... Er, The-The-The...

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The Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines.

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In which television episode of Hancock's Half Hour

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does Hancock, as the foreman of a jury, ask,

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"Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain?"?

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Twelve Angry Men.

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Which Lancashire-born comedian, who died in July 2012,

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wrote many of Hancock's lines in Educating Archie?

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Oh! Eric... Eric Sykes.

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Tony's appearance on a television programme in 1960

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was later described by his brother, Roger,

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as "the biggest mistake he ever made"

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as he was forced to answer searching questions about himself.

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-What was the programme?

-BEEP

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Face To Face.

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With John Freeman, which is exactly right.

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No passes, Steve - you got them all right!

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11 points.

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APPLAUSE

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And our next Contender, please.

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That's quite a tough act to follow!

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-JOHN CHUCKLES

-No pressure.

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No pressure now(!)

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Your name is?

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Your chosen charity?

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And your specialist subject?

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Downton Abbey in 90 seconds.

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Which Oscar-winning writer created Downton Abbey?

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Julian Fellowes.

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In the opening episode, the Earl of Grantham reads of a major disaster

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with far-reaching consequences for his family.

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What is the disaster?

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The sinking of the Titanic.

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What is the full name of the solicitor from Manchester

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who, as a distant cousin of the Earl,

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becomes the heir to the Downton Estate?

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Matthew Crawley.

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Who is the cook at the Abbey?

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Her failing eyesight causes a problem for dinner guests

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when she sprinkles salt rather than sugar

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over the raspberry meringue.

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Mrs Patmore.

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Which house and estate does the newspaper proprietor Sir Richard Carlisle buy

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to live in with Lady Mary once they are married?

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Haxby Park.

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What is the name of the Turkish attache

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whose death in Lady Mary's bedroom threatens to cause a scandal?

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Kemal Pamuk.

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In the first episode,

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what modern convenience does the Dowager Countess

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say that she could not have in her house

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as she "wouldn't sleep a wink"?

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Electricity.

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Lady Sybil becomes an auxiliary nurse during the First World War.

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In which city does she do her training course?

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York.

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Mr Bates is imprisoned for poisoning his first wife.

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What was her name?

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Vera.

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After his fight with Matthew, Sir Richard Carlisle

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tells the Dowager Countess that he is leaving

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and doubts they will meet again.

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What is her tart reply?

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"Do you promise?"

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While Mr Bates is not working at Downton,

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which other member of staff tries to get closer to Anna,

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giving her a book and hoping to discuss their views on it together?

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She eventually tells him

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that her feelings are still too strong for Bates.

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Molesley.

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Who plays Cora's brash American mother, Martha Levinson,

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who visits Downton for the wedding of Lady Mary to Matthew Crawley?

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Shirley MacLaine. BEEP

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Correct. And you got them all right as well.

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And you have 12 points.

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APPLAUSE

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And our next Contender, please.

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And the pressure's building.

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Pfft, I'm telling you. JOHN CHUCKLES

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Your name?

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Your chosen charity?

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And your chosen subject?

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The Arsenal. 90 seconds.

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For how many games did Arsenal go unbeaten

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from the 7th of May 2003 to the 24th of October '04,

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to set a new Premier League record?

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49.

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Which player captained The Invincibles in the '03-'04 season

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and scored the winner in Arsenal's 2-1 defeat

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of Leicester City in the last game of the season?

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Patrick Vieira.

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Against which team did Thierry Henry's brace of goals

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break Ian Wright's scoring record for the club

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in a Champions League match in October '05?

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Sparta Prague.

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What landmark did Arsene Wenger achieve

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when Norwich City visited the Emirates

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in the penultimate game of the '11-'12 season?

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Pass.

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Who captained Arsenal for the first time in a Third Round FA Cup tie

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against Plymouth Argyle in January '09?

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Thierry Henry.

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No, Robin van Persie.

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Jens Lehmann was given a straight red card

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in the 2006 Champions League Final

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when he brought down which player?

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Samuel Eto'o.

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Arsenal won their last major trophy in 2005 when they won the FA Cup.

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how many times have they won that trophy?

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-13.

-10.

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Who joined Arsenal on a free transfer in July 2001,

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played for the club for five years

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and briefly returned again in January 2010 at the age of 35?

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Pass.

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In what year did Arsene Wenger's signings include

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Philippe Senderos, Gael Clichy and Cesc Fabregas?

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Er...

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2004.

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Ah, 2003.

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Which team did Arsenal beat 1-0 in the 2003 FA Cup Final

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to lift the trophy for the second year in succession?

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Southampton.

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Who awarded Manchester United a controversial penalty

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in the game at Old Trafford,

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-when the Gunners' 49-match unbeaten run came to an end?

-BEEP

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Howard Webb.

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It was Mike Riley.

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-But it's close.

-It was close.

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Yeah, very close.

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Your two passes - it was Sol Campbell

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-who went away and came back.

-Of course he did.

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And that Arsene Wenger landmark was the 900th game in charge as manager.

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You have, Michael, 5 points.

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APPLAUSE

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And our final Contender, please.

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So the pressure's off you a little bit, John.

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And your name is?

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Your chosen charity?

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And your chosen subject?

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The greatest boogie rock band in the world.

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Otherwise known as?

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Status Quo, in 90 seconds, starting now.

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Which guitarist joined the newly-named Status Quo in 1967?

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He'd previously been in the Highlights.

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Rick Parfitt.

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What is the title of the first single they released?

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It reached the UK top ten in February 1968.

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Pictures Of Matchstick Men.

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In 1990, Status Quo began their 25th anniversary tour

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with a special show at the holiday camp

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where Rick Parfitt and Francis Rossi had first met.

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Which holiday camp?

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Butlins.

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After Status Quo left the record company Pye,

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which progressive rock subsidiary of the Philips Record Company

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did they sign with in the summer of 1972?

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Vertigo.

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With which song did Status Quo kick off

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the '85 Live Aid concert at Wembley Stadium?

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Rockin' All Over The World.

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Status Quo had their second top ten hit in '68

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with the song Ice in the Sun,

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written by Ronnie Scott and which pop star who found fame in the '50s?

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Marty Wilde.

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Which band member had to be represented by a life-size puppet

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for the video promoting the single Rockin' All Over the World

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as he was living in Australia when it was shot?

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-Alan Lancaster.

-What was the band's earlier name

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when they released their first single,

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a recording of the Leiber and Stoller song called I Who Have Nothing?

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The Spectres.

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At which city's airport were Parfitt, Rossi and Lancaster

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arrested in May '76 following an incident?

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It led to a night in prison.

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Er...

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Hamburg?

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Vienna. Which single gave Status Quo

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their first and so far only UK number one in January '75?

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Down Down.

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At which city's Apollo Theatre

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had the '77 double album Status Quo Live!

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been recorded the previous October?

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Glasgow.

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In which television soap opera

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did Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt

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-appear as themselves for three episodes in 2005?

-BEEP

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-Coronation Street.

-Is correct.

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No passes, John.

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-You have 11 points.

-Thank you.

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APPLAUSE

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Well, that's a high-scoring round.

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Let's have a look at all of the scores.

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In third place, with 5 points, Michael Obiora.

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Second place, 11 points apiece, are Steve Punt and John Hammond.

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In the lead, 12 points, Clemency Burton-Hill.

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APPLAUSE

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So it's the General Knowledge Round now

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and if there is a tie at the end of it,

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then the number of passes is taken into account

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and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.

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So let's get on with it and ask Michael to join us again,

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if he would.

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And, um, you started in acting very young.

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You were in Grange Hill at...nine, was it?

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-Yeah, that's right. Yeah.

-What was it like?

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I mean, being a child on telly - going back to and people saying,

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"Ooh..." You know?

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Yeah, it was strange. It had pros and cons.

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It had its pros and cons, but I wouldn't change a thing.

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It was such a great experience.

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I see those five years I spent on Grange Hill

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as the best youth club in the world.

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-It's good fun.

-And now you're in Casualty.

-Yes, I am.

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Another great institution to be proud of, proud to be part of.

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You write - you write novels. At least, you've written A novel.

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I have written a novel, called Black Shoes, yeah.

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Yeah? Why?

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I've always been into books and stories.

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And, being an actor, I appreciate how important words are.

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And, just in between scenes, I started jotting down some ideas

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and, lo and behold, I had a novel.

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So you've got a choice, right - a few years' time -

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-between an Oscar for your acting...

-Mm-hm.

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..or the Nobel Prize for your books.

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Ooh, it's tough, it's tough. I would say I'd always go for the Oscar.

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Acting is what I enjoy most.

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And to have, you know,

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your peers and hopefully people you respect acknowledge what you did,

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um...I think it would just be a lovely feeling.

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Right, let's see how you do with your General Knowledge Round.

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Two minutes, starting now.

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Which country issued its Declaration of Independence

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on the 4th of July 1776?

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Australia.

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-JOHN LAUGHS

-America.

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The United States of America.

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Knackwurst, Bratwurst and Weisswurst

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are German varieties of what food?

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Sausages.

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What is the name of the Hong Kong-born actor and martial arts expert,

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who starred as Chief Inspector Lee

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in the Rush Hour series of films?

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Jackie Chan.

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Will.i.am is a judge on the television show The Voice

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and a member of which pop group?

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The Black Eyed Peas.

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What name is given to a straight line

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from one side of a circle to the other, passing through its centre?

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-Circumference.

-Diameter.

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In September 2012, which British Formula One racing driver

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announced he was leaving McLaren

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to join Mercedes for the 2013 season?

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Lewis Hamilton.

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Since 1937, Fort Knox in Kentucky has been home

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to America's reserves of what?

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-Oil.

-Gold.

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Prince Andrew abseiled from the 87th floor

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of which new London landmark in 2012 to raise money for charity?

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-Nelson's Column.

-The Shard.

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What completes the title of the West End comedy play,

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'No Sex, Please, We're.....'?

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Married. Oh!

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-British!

-LAUGHTER

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-Who reprises...?

-JOHN LAUGHS

-Yours is funnier.

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Who reprises the role of Alfred, the faithful butler to Bruce Wayne,

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in The Dark Knight Rises?

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Michael Caine.

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What name is given to the tendons of the three long, spindle-shaped muscles

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on the back of the thigh?

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Footballers are often injured by pulling them.

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-Achilles.

-Hamstrings.

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Which 2012 BBC drama series, set in England's first department store,

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is based on Emile Zola's Au Bonheur Des Dames?

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-Trollied.

-The Paradise.

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The rapper Stephen Paul Manderson,

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who topped the charts with the single Read All About It,

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is better known by what name?

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Pass.

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At the 2012 Games, Nicola Adams from Leeds

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became the first woman to win an Olympic Gold medal in which sport?

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Boxing!

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What snack is made by heating the kernels of certain varieties of maize

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until they swell up and burst?

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-Marshmallows.

-Popcorn.

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Who wrote the play Look Back In Anger?

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It premiered at the Royal Court in London in 1956

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-and made him the first of the so-called Angry Young Men?

-BEEP

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-Pass.

-Well, that was John Osborne.

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I can tell you that, cos you're out of time.

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And that rapper - Professor Green.

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-Don't like him.

-Oh, well, there we are.

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Two passes, Michael, you've got a total of 11 points.

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APPLAUSE

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And now, Steve Punt again, please.

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And I described you in the introduction as "actor and comedian",

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-but maybe satirist would be better?

-"Satirist"?

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-Ooh, that sounds posh, doesn't it?

-It does, doesn't it?

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I've ended up doing a lot of topical comedy.

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Topical comedy isn't necessarily satirical.

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So it's about the news and about politics,

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but that doesn't necessarily mean it challenges very much

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and I think real satire should challenge people a bit,

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which it often doesn't.

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But if you listen to The Now Show,

0:14:580:15:00

which obviously all intelligent people do, you do challenge, you...

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Well, challenge - you poke fun at institutions, individuals, ideas.

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Well, I think, er...

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We try to do the jokes upwards.

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-So... To institutions that are powerful...

-Yes.

0:15:150:15:19

Things that have control over people's lives -

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things that I think you're entitled to have an opinion about

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if you are a taxpayer and a voter,

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rather than directing the jokes downwards

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at people who can't really answer back.

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Quick thought - how often are you wrong about a joke?

0:15:320:15:34

-I'm wrong about jokes all the time.

-Really?

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Um, there are always jokes, every week, where everyone's going,

0:15:370:15:40

"Mm, not sure about that," which are great.

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And then there are other jokes, everyone thinks,

0:15:430:15:46

"Yeah! That's a certainty!" And it's...

0:15:460:15:48

HE WHISTLES SOFTLY

0:15:480:15:49

Really? So the brilliant thing about it is, you can never tell.

0:15:490:15:52

-That's quite reassuring.

-You can never tell, yeah.

-Yeah.

0:15:520:15:56

Right, Steve, you have 11 points.

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We're testing you on your general knowledge. Two minutes, here we go.

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The television series Bergerac was set on which island?

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Jersey.

0:16:030:16:04

What was the name of the French currency before the introduction of the Euro?

0:16:040:16:07

The franc.

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Which Royal broadcast was first made in 1932?

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it was written by Rudyard Kipling and began,

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"I speak now from my home and from my heart to you all"?

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The Christmas Message?

0:16:160:16:17

The Imagine mosaic in New York's Central Park is a memorial to whom?

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Er, John Lennon.

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Who famously went on the pitch at half-time during a Norwich City game

0:16:240:16:27

to encourage the crowd to give the home team more support,

0:16:270:16:30

shouting, "Where are you? Let's be having you!"

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Delia Smith.

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Which gas, produced by digestion in cattle,

0:16:330:16:35

is thought by many to be a significant factor in global warming?

0:16:350:16:38

Methane.

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Major Dennis Bloodnok, Henry Crun and Minnie Banister

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were characters in which 1950s radio comedy series?

0:16:420:16:44

The Goon Show.

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Who was Edwina Currie referring to when she wrote in her diary,

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"I wish my flat was filled with one big man in his blue underpants"?

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Ooh. Pass.

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In Greek mythology, the people of which city took in a wooden horse

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left for them by the besieging Greek army?

0:16:560:16:58

-Troy.

-Which rock star, who's said to have influenced

0:16:580:17:01

Bradley Wiggins's style and dress sense, is known as The Modfather?

0:17:010:17:04

Paul Weller.

0:17:040:17:05

Before 1979 the capital of China, Beijing,

0:17:050:17:07

was more familiarly known in English by what name?

0:17:070:17:09

Peking.

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Whose marriage to the playwright Arthur Miller in 1956

0:17:110:17:13

led to the headline "Egghead weds Hourglass"?

0:17:130:17:15

Marilyn Monroe.

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What is the name of the collection of comedy shows,

0:17:160:17:19

originally conceived by John Cleese,

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that have been raising funds for Amnesty International since the '70s?

0:17:200:17:23

The Secret Policeman's Ball.

0:17:230:17:25

Uggie the Jack Russell terrier is one of the stars

0:17:250:17:27

of which award-winning silent film set in 1927?

0:17:270:17:29

The Artist.

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What is measured in amperes or amps in relation to electricity?

0:17:310:17:34

Er, current.

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Which American travel writer, who wrote several books

0:17:350:17:38

while living in the Yorkshire Dales,

0:17:380:17:40

was born in Des Moines, Iowa?

0:17:400:17:41

Um, Bill Bryson?

0:17:410:17:43

The founder of a company famous for making a particular condiment

0:17:430:17:45

is said to have declared the amount left

0:17:450:17:47

on the side of the plate made his fortune.

0:17:470:17:49

What's the condiment?

0:17:490:17:50

-Um...Lea & Perrins?

-Mustard.

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What word for a list of matters to be discussed at a meeting

0:17:530:17:55

comes from the Latin for "things to be done"?

0:17:550:17:57

Agenda.

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-In 1875, Captain Matthew Webb became the first person...

-BEEP

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..to swim across which stretch of water without a buoyancy aid?

0:18:010:18:05

-The English Channel.

-Is correct.

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You had one pass, and you will regret this, Steve,

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I have to tell you, partly because you make me say it again.

0:18:090:18:14

And once was enough, really.

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Edwina Currie - "I wish my flat was filled with one big man

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"in his blue underpants" - was referring to John Major.

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-John Major. Ah!

-Yeah.

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Eurgh!

0:18:250:18:26

-Well, there you go - your fault!

-LAUGHTER

0:18:260:18:28

Anyway, anyway, anyway, allowing for that one pass, you got 28 points.

0:18:280:18:32

APPLAUSE

0:18:320:18:36

And now John Hammond again, please.

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And I'd like to talk to you about the weather, John,

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because obviously you're to blame for it, or your lot, clearly.

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BUT I have to talk to you about Status Quo.

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Of course.

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Yeah. Well, tell us why - I mean, you've met them.

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You went into the green room, you're a fan, you're nuts for them.

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Been a fan since I was 11, 12.

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-And you said...

-I said, "I really love you."

0:19:020:19:04

-"I want to play my guitar with you."

-Exactly right.

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And instead of saying, "Clear off..."

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I meekly went back to my office and carried on doing the weather

0:19:090:19:12

and then, the next day, the manager emailed me and said,

0:19:120:19:15

"No, Francis would really love to play guitar with you. At Wembley."

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-It was the greatest moment of my life, John, honestly.

-I bet!

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Did you actually stand on stage with Status Quo

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and play guitar at Wembley?

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I did.

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Not during the concert, folks, but during the sound check.

0:19:260:19:30

-Well, there you go.

-But to me it's the pinnacle of my life.

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Better than any weather forecast I ever do.

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As you say, we always get it wrong.

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-The trouble is, we only remember when you get it wrong.

-Of course.

0:19:370:19:40

Yeah, but what I don't like, John, is these people who,

0:19:400:19:43

just before we're going to go on air, want a free forecast, asking,

0:19:430:19:46

"Will there be any rain for my garden?"

0:19:460:19:48

I'm looking at you, sir.

0:19:480:19:49

-Do they really do that on the Today programme?

-Yes, you do.

0:19:490:19:51

LAUGHTER

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-And one other one - look, is the weather changing?

-Yes. Seriously.

0:19:530:19:57

I mean, the weather has changed in the last, let's say, 10 to 20 years.

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And it does tie in with the theory of climate change, global warming.

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But does that mean the UK's going to get warmer? Not necessarily.

0:20:050:20:09

Wetter?

0:20:090:20:10

Er, the theory at the moment is that we are likely to get

0:20:100:20:12

a series of wetter summers, and quite possibly colder winters.

0:20:120:20:16

So there you go, folks.

0:20:160:20:17

-Well, thanks for cheering us up(!)

-LAUGHTER

0:20:170:20:20

-Right. 11 points. 28 is the score to beat now.

-OK.

0:20:200:20:24

Hm, that's a big ask, as they say. Here we go.

0:20:240:20:27

Which Disney cartoon elephant

0:20:270:20:28

was delivered to his mother on a circus train by a stork?

0:20:280:20:31

Pass.

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What name is given to the strip of tarmac or other hard material

0:20:330:20:35

from which aircraft take off or land at an airport?

0:20:350:20:37

-Runway.

-Who is the Patron Saint of Scotland?

0:20:370:20:40

His feast day is the 30th of November.

0:20:400:20:41

Saint Andrew.

0:20:410:20:42

In which city does The G-Mex Exhibition Centre

0:20:420:20:45

occupy the site of the former Central Railway Station?

0:20:450:20:47

-Manchester.

-In cheese-making, what name is given to the watery part

0:20:470:20:51

of the coagulated milk after the removal of the curds?

0:20:510:20:53

Er, rennet?

0:20:530:20:54

Whey.

0:20:540:20:55

Who was appointed as England's Test Cricket captain in August 2012?

0:20:550:20:59

Alastair Cook.

0:20:590:21:01

Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

0:21:010:21:03

is the autobiography of which actor turned politician?

0:21:030:21:06

Arnold Schwarzenegger.

0:21:060:21:07

What name for a series of interconnected rabbit burrows

0:21:070:21:10

originally meant a plot of land where rabbits, hares and other game were bred?

0:21:100:21:13

Warren.

0:21:130:21:14

Whose 1972 album, Transformer, was co-produced by David Bowie

0:21:140:21:18

and includes Walk on the Wild Side?

0:21:180:21:20

Um... Lou Reed.

0:21:200:21:22

Which great Asian mountain range has a name

0:21:220:21:24

that is thought to come from the Sanskrit for "abode of snow"?

0:21:240:21:27

Himalayas.

0:21:270:21:28

In physics what term is used for a space completely empty of matter?

0:21:280:21:31

Vacuum.

0:21:310:21:32

When Roy Hodgson became the England football manager,

0:21:320:21:35

he appointed a former Man United defender

0:21:350:21:37

and current TV analyst to his coaching team. Who is he?

0:21:370:21:40

Gary Neville.

0:21:400:21:41

Which adviser to Lord Sugar on The Apprentice

0:21:410:21:43

took over from Jeff Stelling as the presenter of Countdown in January 2012?

0:21:430:21:47

Pass.

0:21:470:21:48

Which country did Germany invade on the 1st of September 1939?

0:21:480:21:51

It led to Britain and France declaring war.

0:21:510:21:53

Poland.

0:21:530:21:54

Which punk rocker from the Sex Pistols

0:21:540:21:56

was played by Gary Oldman in a film about his life and early death?

0:21:560:21:59

Sid Vicious.

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What is the first of the series of books by Arthur Ransome

0:22:000:22:03

featuring the adventures of the Walker and Blackett children?

0:22:030:22:05

-Pass.

-Which Italian-style village in North Wales,

0:22:050:22:08

created by the architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis,

0:22:080:22:10

provided the setting for the '60s television series The Prisoner?

0:22:100:22:14

P-P-P-P-Pass.

0:22:160:22:18

Fry, parr, smolt and grilse

0:22:180:22:20

are successive stages in the development of which fish?

0:22:200:22:23

Pass.

0:22:240:22:25

Which inert or noble gas takes its name from the Greek for "hidden"?

0:22:250:22:29

BEEP

0:22:290:22:30

N-N-N-N-N-Nitrogen?

0:22:300:22:33

Krypton.

0:22:330:22:35

I thought it was only Superman who...

0:22:350:22:36

Anyway, there we are - Krypton.

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And your passes - fry, parr, smolt and all that

0:22:380:22:41

are stages in the development of salmon.

0:22:410:22:43

-Portmeirion.

-Yeah!

-Yeah, when you were saying, "P-P..."

0:22:430:22:46

I thought you were going to say it and you said, "Pass."

0:22:460:22:48

Swallows And Amazons was Arthur Ransome. Yes.

0:22:480:22:52

Nick Hewer was the adviser to Alan Sugar.

0:22:520:22:55

And Dumbo?

0:22:550:22:57

I know.

0:22:570:22:58

I know. That's it, you see - it's the black chair, I tell you.

0:22:580:23:01

Anyway, you did very well. Not quite well enough - 23 points.

0:23:010:23:04

Thank you.

0:23:040:23:05

APPLAUSE

0:23:050:23:09

And finally, Clemency again, please.

0:23:120:23:16

I'm not quite sure how to, um... describe you.

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I mean, you're a violinist, a musician, a presenter.

0:23:190:23:22

I mean, you do all sorts of stuff. And you seem to be rather good at all of it.

0:23:220:23:25

What made you want to play the violin so badly when you were little?

0:23:250:23:29

Normally, it's the parents saying to the child, "You must play the violin!"

0:23:290:23:32

Such a weirdo. I mean, such a little freak.

0:23:320:23:35

Clearly, my mum was like, "What does this mean?"

0:23:350:23:37

Cos she, by her own admission, is tone deaf.

0:23:370:23:39

My two older half-brothers, who I grew up with,

0:23:390:23:42

neither of them either learnt an instrument, so who knows what it was?

0:23:420:23:45

It was a great mystery.

0:23:450:23:47

And you did the Suzuki Method?

0:23:470:23:49

Yeah, I was incredibly lucky - my mum heard about this organisation

0:23:490:23:53

and had rung, you know, endless motorcycle dealerships

0:23:530:23:56

and then she was about to give up and say, "Right, that's it."

0:23:560:23:59

Hang on, she rang endless motorcycle...?

0:23:590:24:01

Someone said, "There's this thing called Suzuki,"

0:24:010:24:03

she looked it up in the phone book -

0:24:030:24:05

endless motorcycle dealerships, she was thinking, "This is clearly a run to nothing."

0:24:050:24:08

And then got through to this absolutely magical woman

0:24:080:24:11

called Helen Brunner, who really, totally changed my life.

0:24:110:24:14

And Helen's philosophy is just that, you know,

0:24:140:24:16

you learn when you're very young cos it's like a language

0:24:160:24:19

and music is like a language.

0:24:190:24:20

And if you learn it when you're little

0:24:200:24:22

and you're learning how to speak and communicate,

0:24:220:24:24

then music will be part of your life, all your life.

0:24:240:24:27

And did you ever see yourself as the...

0:24:270:24:29

-you know, the great soloist on the, er...?

-Oh, goodness, no.

0:24:290:24:33

No, no. And I always was interested in other things.

0:24:330:24:36

There you go.

0:24:360:24:37

Now, you won the first round - you got 12 points.

0:24:370:24:40

-Now, you've got to do rather well.

-It's all downhill from now!

0:24:400:24:42

-28 still the score to beat.

-I know!

-A big score.

-Unbelievably.

0:24:420:24:45

Let's see if you can do it. Here we go.

0:24:450:24:47

Mayfair and Park Lane are the most expensive properties

0:24:470:24:49

in the standard British version of which game?

0:24:490:24:51

-Monopoly.

-In which Italian city

0:24:510:24:53

is Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet principally set?

0:24:530:24:56

Verona.

0:24:560:24:57

Whom did Barack Obama beat in November 2012

0:24:570:24:59

to win a second term as the American president?

0:24:590:25:01

Mitt Romney.

0:25:010:25:02

With which boy band did Justin Timberlake begin his career

0:25:020:25:05

before going solo in 2002?

0:25:050:25:07

'N Sync.

0:25:070:25:08

According to her poem,

0:25:080:25:09

what does the children's writer Rose Fyleman

0:25:090:25:11

have at the bottom of her garden?

0:25:110:25:12

Don't know.

0:25:150:25:16

Tom Cruise and John Travolta

0:25:160:25:17

are among the famous members of which controversial movement?

0:25:170:25:20

-Scientology.

-In the Tour de France,

0:25:200:25:22

what colour jersey is awarded to the overall leader of the race?

0:25:220:25:25

Yellow.

0:25:250:25:26

Which composer's five Oscars include the film scores

0:25:260:25:28

for Born Free, Dances With Wolves and Out of Africa?

0:25:280:25:31

He also wrote the title songs for several Bond Films.

0:25:310:25:34

Er, John Barry.

0:25:340:25:35

What name was given to the dress designed by Coco Chanel

0:25:350:25:38

and launched in 1926 that became a staple in women's fashion?

0:25:380:25:42

Don't know.

0:25:420:25:43

In which television comedy series, written by Richard Curtis,

0:25:430:25:46

do the parishioners worship at St Barnabas's Church?

0:25:460:25:49

-Rev.

-The Vicar Of Dibley.

0:25:490:25:50

The so-called "Mud Pie" dessert,

0:25:500:25:52

made principally with chocolate,

0:25:520:25:54

is named after which river?

0:25:540:25:55

Mississippi.

0:25:550:25:56

In what parliamentary role did John Bercow

0:25:560:25:59

succeed Michael Martin in 2009?

0:25:590:26:00

Speaker of the House of Commons.

0:26:000:26:01

Which capital city is the largest in Africa,

0:26:010:26:04

with an estimated urban population of ten million?

0:26:040:26:06

-Nairobi?

-Cairo.

0:26:070:26:09

In which opera by Puccini does the Japanese heroine

0:26:090:26:12

marry Lieutenant Pinkerton?

0:26:120:26:13

Madam Butterfly.

0:26:130:26:15

What name is given to wallpaper that has a raised velvety pattern

0:26:150:26:18

produced by applying fibres of wool?

0:26:180:26:20

Don't know.

0:26:220:26:23

Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith and Helen Mirren

0:26:230:26:26

are among the cast members of which 2001 murder mystery film

0:26:260:26:29

set in an English country house in 1932?

0:26:290:26:32

Pass.

0:26:330:26:34

Which rock star married the model Jerry Hall

0:26:340:26:37

and had children called Elizabeth, James, Georgia and Gabriel?

0:26:370:26:39

Mick Jagger.

0:26:390:26:40

Which tragic heroine, created by Tolstoy,

0:26:400:26:42

is played in a 2012 film by Keira Knightley?

0:26:420:26:45

Anna Karenina.

0:26:450:26:46

The theatre awards for the best plays and musicals on Broadway,

0:26:460:26:49

instituted in 1947, are known by what name?

0:26:490:26:52

-The Tonys.

-The Tonys. That is correct.

0:26:520:26:55

You had four passes - Gosford Park, as you now know,

0:26:550:26:58

was the name of that film with Michael Gambon, et cetera.

0:26:580:27:01

Flock is the name of the wallpaper.

0:27:010:27:02

Little black Dress, the LBD.

0:27:020:27:06

And at the bottom of Rose Fyleman's garden were fairies.

0:27:060:27:11

Of course.

0:27:110:27:13

Didn't quite make it, Clemency - 25 points.

0:27:130:27:16

APPLAUSE

0:27:160:27:19

Well, he held on to that lead. Let's have a look at all of the scores.

0:27:260:27:29

In fourth place, 11 points, Michael Obiora.

0:27:290:27:32

Third place, 23 points, John Hammond.

0:27:320:27:35

Second place, 25 points, Clemency Burton-Hill.

0:27:350:27:38

First place, 28 points, Steve Punt.

0:27:380:27:41

APPLAUSE

0:27:410:27:44

Steve, come and get it.

0:27:580:28:01

-Congratulations.

-I am...honoured.

0:28:030:28:06

-There we are.

-Thank you very much.

0:28:060:28:08

Means you'll never be able to poke fun at Mastermind on The Now Show, doesn't it?

0:28:080:28:11

It's true, actually. Yes, that is true.

0:28:110:28:13

-Exactly. Well, well done.

-Thank you.

0:28:130:28:16

And thank you all for watching.

0:28:160:28:18

And do join us again for more Celebrity Masterminds.

0:28:180:28:21

Goodnight.

0:28:210:28:22

-Steve.

-Thank you very much.

0:28:220:28:24

APPLAUSE

0:28:240:28:26

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0:28:300:28:33

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