0:00:02 > 0:00:04The rush of adrenaline of being in the chair opposite John Humphrys
0:00:04 > 0:00:07and that music playing is akin to something like a bungee jump.
0:00:07 > 0:00:08This is going to be...
0:00:08 > 0:00:11all different shades of terrifying, isn't it?
0:00:11 > 0:00:14What I'm worried about is even though I know it,
0:00:14 > 0:00:17I'm not going to be kicking myself afterward saying,
0:00:17 > 0:00:20"Because I was so nervous, it went out of the window."
0:00:20 > 0:00:25At this point, I am feeling as nervous as a bag of cats.
0:00:25 > 0:00:28Four celebrities who claim to know everything there is to know
0:00:28 > 0:00:30about their specialist subject.
0:00:30 > 0:00:34Who will be crowned tonight's Celebrity Mastermind?
0:00:34 > 0:00:36THEME MUSIC PLAYS
0:00:51 > 0:00:53First in the spotlight tonight
0:00:53 > 0:00:56is the BBC Radio 6 Music presenter, Shaun Keaveny.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59He's answering questions on Led Zeppelin.
0:00:59 > 0:01:01Next, the comedian Mark Watson.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04His specialist subject - The Canterbury Tales.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06The Antiques Roadshow expert, Bunny Campione,
0:01:06 > 0:01:10will be answering questions on the film star, Stewart Granger.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13And the writer Frank Cottrell Boyce and his subject,
0:01:13 > 0:01:15the animator Oliver Postgate.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19APPLAUSE
0:01:27 > 0:01:31Hello, I'm John Humphrys and welcome to Celebrity Mastermind,
0:01:31 > 0:01:34the show where they risk their reputations
0:01:34 > 0:01:37and all they stand to gain is a glass trophy
0:01:37 > 0:01:39and the admittedly huge honour
0:01:39 > 0:01:43of winning the Celebrity Mastermind title.
0:01:43 > 0:01:44They get a minute and a half
0:01:44 > 0:01:46of questions on their specialist subject
0:01:46 > 0:01:49and two minutes on their general knowledge.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52So let's ask our first contender to join us, please.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01And your name is...?
0:02:02 > 0:02:04Your chosen charity?
0:02:05 > 0:02:06And your chosen subject?
0:02:08 > 0:02:11Led Zeppelin in 90 seconds. Starting now.
0:02:11 > 0:02:13Who was Led Zeppelin's founder and lead guitarist
0:02:13 > 0:02:15who developed the unusual technique
0:02:15 > 0:02:17of sometimes playing solos using a violin bow?
0:02:17 > 0:02:18Jimmy Page.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20Which classic eight-minute song on their fourth album,
0:02:20 > 0:02:22is widely regarded as the group's anthem
0:02:22 > 0:02:24and a landmark in rock history?
0:02:24 > 0:02:25Stairway To Heaven.
0:02:25 > 0:02:27Led Zeppelin's first concert appearance in America
0:02:27 > 0:02:29was supporting Vanilla Fudge
0:02:29 > 0:02:32in December 1968 in which Colorado city?
0:02:32 > 0:02:33Denver.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35The tracks You Shook Me and I Can't Quit You Baby,
0:02:35 > 0:02:37on Led Zeppelin's debut album,
0:02:37 > 0:02:40were both written by which American blues singer-songwriter?
0:02:40 > 0:02:41Willie Dixon.
0:02:41 > 0:02:42Living Loving Maid was the B-side
0:02:42 > 0:02:44to which well-known Led Zeppelin song,
0:02:44 > 0:02:46released as a single in the US in 1969
0:02:46 > 0:02:47where it reached number four?
0:02:47 > 0:02:48Whole Lotta Love.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50Which '75 Led Zeppelin album
0:02:50 > 0:02:53was the first to be released on their own Swan Song record label
0:02:53 > 0:02:56and went on to top the charts in both America and the UK?
0:02:56 > 0:02:58Physical Graffiti.
0:02:58 > 0:02:59The track Bron-Y-Aur Stomp,
0:02:59 > 0:03:01named after a holiday cottage in Wales,
0:03:01 > 0:03:03is a tribute to the dog, Strider,
0:03:03 > 0:03:05who belonged to which member of the band?
0:03:05 > 0:03:06Robert Plant.
0:03:06 > 0:03:09Jimmy Page developed the tune for The Battle Of Evermore
0:03:09 > 0:03:13on the Led Zeppelin IV album while sitting around the fire with Robert Plant
0:03:13 > 0:03:16and experimenting on which stringed instrument for the first time?
0:03:16 > 0:03:17Mandolin.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19On their seventh album, Presence,
0:03:19 > 0:03:21the drummer, John Bonham, and the bassist, John Paul Jones,
0:03:21 > 0:03:25have a co-writing credit on which song, named after a hotel in Louisiana?
0:03:25 > 0:03:27Royal Orleans.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29Which Led Zeppelin song from the Physical Graffiti album
0:03:29 > 0:03:32contains the lyrics "Oh, pilot of the storm
0:03:32 > 0:03:35"who leaves no trace, like thoughts inside a dream?"
0:03:35 > 0:03:36Kashmir.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39At which major outdoor festival venue in Hertfordshire
0:03:39 > 0:03:42did Led Zeppelin top the bill on the 4th and 11th of August 1979...
0:03:42 > 0:03:43BEEP
0:03:43 > 0:03:46..while promoting their album, In Through The Out Door?
0:03:46 > 0:03:47Knebworth.
0:03:47 > 0:03:48..is correct. No passes.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51A perfect round, Shaun, you got 11 points.
0:03:51 > 0:03:53APPLAUSE
0:03:59 > 0:04:01Not a bad start. Our next contender, please.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08And your name is?
0:04:08 > 0:04:09Your chosen charity?
0:04:11 > 0:04:13And your chosen subject?
0:04:14 > 0:04:16The Canterbury Tales in 90 seconds.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18What's the title of the first tale
0:04:18 > 0:04:19that Chaucer himself tries to tell?
0:04:19 > 0:04:21He's interrupted by the Host, who says,
0:04:21 > 0:04:23"Namoore of this, for Goddes dignitee!"
0:04:23 > 0:04:24The Tale Of Sir Thopas.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27In The Summoner's Tale, when the Friar describes his sermons
0:04:27 > 0:04:30to Thomas the householder, what word does he use for his interpretation
0:04:30 > 0:04:33of the Scriptures, which he describes as "a glorious thing"?
0:04:33 > 0:04:34Pass.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36What affectation in his speech does the Friar, Hubert, adopt
0:04:36 > 0:04:39to make his English "Sweet upon his tongue"?
0:04:39 > 0:04:40A lisp.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42According to the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales,
0:04:42 > 0:04:44what sport does the Monk love?
0:04:44 > 0:04:45Hunting.
0:04:45 > 0:04:48Whose tale, about an apprentice known as Perkin the Reveller,
0:04:48 > 0:04:50breaks off abruptly, soon after it is begun?
0:04:50 > 0:04:51The Cook's.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53The Reeve's Tale, about a dishonest miller,
0:04:53 > 0:04:55is set in a village near Cambridge. What's it called?
0:04:55 > 0:04:56Trumpington.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58In the Wife Of Bath's Tale, the old woman
0:04:58 > 0:04:59says that the answer to the question,
0:04:59 > 0:05:02"What do women want more than anything in the world?" is what?
0:05:02 > 0:05:03Sovereignty.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06Well, yes, to be in charge of their husbands and lovers, yeah.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09Who joins the pilgrims, with his master, after the Second Nun's Tale
0:05:09 > 0:05:12and tells them about his master's experiments with alchemy?
0:05:12 > 0:05:13The Canon's Yeoman.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15In the introduction to the Man of Law's Tale
0:05:15 > 0:05:17the Host calculates the time of day by the length of the shadows -
0:05:17 > 0:05:19what time does he say it is?
0:05:19 > 0:05:21- Nine o'clock? - Ten of the clock.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24In the Merchant's Tale, an old man wants to marry a young woman.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27she's called May, what month of the year is he named after?
0:05:27 > 0:05:28January.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30In the prologue to the Cook's Tale,
0:05:30 > 0:05:32the name of the host of the inn is revealed. What is it?
0:05:32 > 0:05:33Harry Bailey.
0:05:33 > 0:05:37In the Manciple's Tale, what is the first thing that the white crow
0:05:37 > 0:05:40says to Phoebus after his wife has been unfaithful in his absence?
0:05:40 > 0:05:41Cuckoo.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43In the Miller's Tale, what is the name of John the carpenter's
0:05:43 > 0:05:45beautiful 18-year-old wife?
0:05:45 > 0:05:46Alison.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49- What letter of the alphabet, with a crown above it... - BEEP
0:05:49 > 0:05:52..does the Prioress have on the gold brooch she is wearing?
0:05:52 > 0:05:53A.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55The letter A is exactly right.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57You had one pass, Mark.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00The word the Friar uses for his interpretations
0:06:00 > 0:06:02of the Scriptures - "glossing".
0:06:02 > 0:06:03Ah.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06Mark, you have a total of 12 points.
0:06:06 > 0:06:10APPLAUSE
0:06:13 > 0:06:15And our next contender, please.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23And your name is?
0:06:23 > 0:06:24Your chosen charity?
0:06:26 > 0:06:28And your chosen subject?
0:06:31 > 0:06:33Stewart Granger.
0:06:33 > 0:06:3590 seconds starting now.
0:06:35 > 0:06:38In 1935, the British actor Stewart Granger
0:06:38 > 0:06:41made his stage debut with a repertory theatre, earning £3 a week
0:06:41 > 0:06:43in which Yorkshire city?
0:06:43 > 0:06:44Hull.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47After the success of his first American film, King Solomon's Mines,
0:06:47 > 0:06:49he signed a seven-year contract with which studio?
0:06:49 > 0:06:50MGM.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52In which theatre did he make his London stage debut
0:06:52 > 0:06:55in 1938 in the play The Sun Never Sets?
0:06:55 > 0:06:57- The Theatre Royal? - Yeah, Drury Lane Theatre.
0:06:57 > 0:07:01In Adam And Evelyne, to which exclusive school does Adam Black
0:07:01 > 0:07:05send Evelyne, having promised her late father he would look after her?
0:07:05 > 0:07:08- A Swiss school. - No, Ecole Alsacienne.
0:07:08 > 0:07:12Granger played the title role in the '54 film Beau Brummell.
0:07:12 > 0:07:13Who played the Prince of Wales?
0:07:14 > 0:07:16Peter Ustinov.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19With which regiment did Granger serve in the Second World War
0:07:19 > 0:07:21before gaining a commission in the Black Watch?
0:07:21 > 0:07:23Um, the Gordon Highlanders.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26Which 1953 film, directed by George Sidney,
0:07:26 > 0:07:30was the second to co-star Granger and his second wife, Jean Simmons?
0:07:30 > 0:07:31Um...
0:07:32 > 0:07:34Young Bess.
0:07:34 > 0:07:35Towards the end of The Prisoner Of Zenda,
0:07:35 > 0:07:37King Rudolf apologises to a loyal officer
0:07:37 > 0:07:40for having struck him on the night before the Coronation.
0:07:40 > 0:07:41What was the officer's name?
0:07:41 > 0:07:43Um...
0:07:43 > 0:07:44Pass.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46In which '52 swashbuckler does Granger
0:07:46 > 0:07:48have a duelling scene all round a theatre?
0:07:48 > 0:07:50It lasts 6.5 minutes.
0:07:50 > 0:07:51Scaramouche.
0:07:51 > 0:07:53Which American tycoon was successfully sued by Granger
0:07:53 > 0:07:57and Jean Simmons after he bought out Simmons' contract against her wishes?
0:07:57 > 0:07:58Howard Hughes.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01In Footsteps In The Fog, Lily's brother-in-law, Herbert,
0:08:01 > 0:08:03mistakes the barrister David MacDonald for the murderer, Lowry.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06How much money does he try to blackmail him for?
0:08:06 > 0:08:07BEEP
0:08:07 > 0:08:08- £100?- No, it was £500.
0:08:08 > 0:08:11He was a bit greedy, I think, probably.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14You had one pass. In the Prisoner Of Zenda,
0:08:14 > 0:08:17Rudolf struck Colonel Sapt.
0:08:17 > 0:08:18You had one pass, Bunny.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20You have scored eight points.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23APPLAUSE
0:08:28 > 0:08:30and our final contender, please.
0:08:36 > 0:08:37And your name is?
0:08:38 > 0:08:40Your chosen charity?
0:08:41 > 0:08:43And your chosen subject?
0:08:45 > 0:08:47Oliver Postgate. In 90 seconds.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49Postgate had his first major
0:08:49 > 0:08:50television success in 1959
0:08:50 > 0:08:53with an animated series about a small, Welsh steam train.
0:08:53 > 0:08:54What was it called?
0:08:54 > 0:08:55Ivor The Engine.
0:08:55 > 0:08:58Postgate created most of his popular children's television programmes
0:08:58 > 0:09:01in collaboration with an artist and puppet maker, who was...?
0:09:01 > 0:09:02Peter Firmin.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05Postgate and Firmin started their own independent production company
0:09:05 > 0:09:07in the '50s to develop their ideas. What was it called?
0:09:07 > 0:09:09Smallfilms.
0:09:09 > 0:09:11What musical instruments were used to make the speech sounds
0:09:11 > 0:09:14for Postgate's cartoon characters The Clangers?
0:09:14 > 0:09:16Kazoos and swannee whistles.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19In the mid-1980s, Postgate developed Tottie - The Story Of A Doll's House'
0:09:19 > 0:09:21into a television series.
0:09:21 > 0:09:23Which novelist was the author of the stories?
0:09:23 > 0:09:24Rumer Godden.
0:09:24 > 0:09:27A Smallfilms production about an old, saggy, cloth cat
0:09:27 > 0:09:29owned by a girl called Emily,
0:09:29 > 0:09:32topped a 1999 BBC poll of all-time favourite children's shows.
0:09:32 > 0:09:33What was it called?
0:09:33 > 0:09:34Bagpuss.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36After the war, Postgate spent time in Germany,
0:09:36 > 0:09:38working with the Save The Children fund,
0:09:38 > 0:09:40but returned in 1947 and went to which drama school?
0:09:40 > 0:09:41LAMBDA.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44Smallfilms' first series using 3D stop-motion puppet animation
0:09:44 > 0:09:47was made in the early '60s and featured a family of knitted animals.
0:09:47 > 0:09:48What was it called?
0:09:48 > 0:09:49Pingwings.
0:09:49 > 0:09:51The animation for the television series,
0:09:51 > 0:09:54The Saga Of Noggin The Nog, was inspired by an exhibit
0:09:54 > 0:09:56Postgate had seen at the British Museum.
0:09:56 > 0:09:57What exhibit was it?
0:09:57 > 0:09:58The Lewis chessmen.
0:09:58 > 0:10:01Postgate collaborated with Naomi Linnell to produce a book
0:10:01 > 0:10:04subtitled "The Triumphant Failure" about which explorer?
0:10:04 > 0:10:05Christopher Columbus.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08Postgate's 1958 series, The Journey Of Master Ho,
0:10:08 > 0:10:10was made specifically for children with what disability?
0:10:10 > 0:10:11Deafness.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14Whom did Postgate marry in November 1957?
0:10:14 > 0:10:16He became stepfather to her three children.
0:10:16 > 0:10:17Prue Myers.
0:10:17 > 0:10:20- Postgate's first children's television series... - BEEP
0:10:20 > 0:10:23..went out live in 1958 and was about a mouse born to be king.
0:10:23 > 0:10:24What was his name?
0:10:24 > 0:10:26- Alexander. - It WAS Alexander.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29Which means that you, too, have a perfect round.
0:10:29 > 0:10:33No passes, you got them all right and you have now 13 points.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35APPLAUSE
0:10:40 > 0:10:43Well, a very high-scoring round there.
0:10:43 > 0:10:44Let's have a look at all of the scores.
0:10:44 > 0:10:46In fourth place, with eight points, Bunny Campione.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49Third place, 11 points, Shaun Keaveny.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52Second place, 12 points, Mark Watson.
0:10:52 > 0:10:55In the lead - just - 13 points, Frank Cottrell Boyce.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58APPLAUSE
0:10:59 > 0:11:01So it's the general knowledge round now,
0:11:01 > 0:11:04and if the scores are level at the end of this round,
0:11:04 > 0:11:07then the person with the fewer passes will be the winner.
0:11:07 > 0:11:08Let's get on with it and ask Bunny
0:11:08 > 0:11:11to join us again if she would, please.
0:11:11 > 0:11:16And, obviously, we know you very, very well from Antiques Roadshow.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18When you look at those things, how much of it is rubbish?
0:11:18 > 0:11:19LAUGHTER
0:11:19 > 0:11:21A lot. LAUGHTER
0:11:21 > 0:11:22Well, it's bound to be, isn't it?
0:11:22 > 0:11:25When you say, "A lot," do you mean 70%, 80%?
0:11:25 > 0:11:28Well, it depends on which queue they're in.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31Because Miscellaneous, which is what I do, as you can imagine,
0:11:31 > 0:11:36I call myself "Miss Ellanneous" because it could be anything
0:11:36 > 0:11:38and a lot of it is, um...
0:11:38 > 0:11:40not great stuff and you have to find
0:11:40 > 0:11:42a new way of letting someone down lightly
0:11:42 > 0:11:44who's been queueing for hours.
0:11:44 > 0:11:47Do you ever kind of follow it up? You know, when somebody...
0:11:47 > 0:11:50When you say to somebody, "That's worth quite a lot of money..."
0:11:50 > 0:11:52Very good point. In particular, there was a teddy bear
0:11:52 > 0:11:55I saw in Northern Ireland at Mount Stewart
0:11:55 > 0:11:58and a darling old man came over and he said,
0:11:58 > 0:12:01"I've been told it is worth about £200,"
0:12:01 > 0:12:03and I told him what it was and I said,
0:12:03 > 0:12:05"What would you say if I put a nought on it?" And he said...
0:12:05 > 0:12:08NORTHERN IRISH ACCENT: "Oh, will you take me home in a wheelchair?"
0:12:08 > 0:12:09LAUGHTER
0:12:09 > 0:12:14And that came up at an auction house in London
0:12:14 > 0:12:17and, luckily, I went behind a pillar and watched the sale.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19- What, to the actual auction? - Yes! And I was...
0:12:19 > 0:12:20SHE JUDDERS
0:12:20 > 0:12:24..almost as bad as tonight and it stopped at 10,000
0:12:24 > 0:12:26and then I thought, "Oh, my goodness, this is terrible."
0:12:26 > 0:12:28- And then it went on and it went to 22,000.- Wow.
0:12:28 > 0:12:30So...phew!
0:12:30 > 0:12:31Right, you have eight points.
0:12:31 > 0:12:33Two minutes now of general knowledge.
0:12:33 > 0:12:36Plenty of time to catch up and overtake. Here we go.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38According to the Book of Genesis,
0:12:38 > 0:12:40who did God create from one of Adam's ribs?
0:12:40 > 0:12:42Pass.
0:12:42 > 0:12:44What was a prairie schooner, used by American pioneers
0:12:44 > 0:12:47to transport their possessions westward?
0:12:47 > 0:12:48Pass.
0:12:48 > 0:12:49The English variety of which herb
0:12:49 > 0:12:52is cultivated widely for its essential oil
0:12:52 > 0:12:53and for its narrow, fragrant leaves
0:12:53 > 0:12:57and spikes of purple flowers that are dried and used in sachets?
0:12:57 > 0:12:58- Rosemary?- Lavender.
0:12:58 > 0:13:01Who starred opposite Penelope Keith as Richard DeVere,
0:13:01 > 0:13:03a self-made millionaire grocer
0:13:03 > 0:13:05in the television series To The Manor Born?
0:13:05 > 0:13:06Pass.
0:13:06 > 0:13:08Which mythical bird, thought to be a cross
0:13:08 > 0:13:10between the Eagle of St John and a cormorant,
0:13:10 > 0:13:12has become the symbol of a Northern English city?
0:13:13 > 0:13:14Pass.
0:13:14 > 0:13:16Which 16th-century Scottish author
0:13:16 > 0:13:19wrote the poem To A Louse, which has the subtitle
0:13:19 > 0:13:22On Seeing One On A Lady's Bonnet, At Church?
0:13:22 > 0:13:23Pass.
0:13:23 > 0:13:25What do you traditionally throw over your left shoulder
0:13:25 > 0:13:27for luck if you happen to spill some?
0:13:27 > 0:13:28Salt.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30Which fashion magazine was first published
0:13:30 > 0:13:33in America in 1892 and in Britain in 1916?
0:13:33 > 0:13:34Vogue?
0:13:34 > 0:13:37Which member of Queen has a guitar that he and his father
0:13:37 > 0:13:40carved out of wood from an old fireplace surround?
0:13:40 > 0:13:41Pass.
0:13:41 > 0:13:43In 79 AD, the eruption of a volcano
0:13:43 > 0:13:46destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48What is the volcano called?
0:13:48 > 0:13:49Vesuvius.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51What light, fluffy, baked dish,
0:13:51 > 0:13:53made by adding stiffly-beaten egg whites to yolks
0:13:53 > 0:13:57and other ingredients, has a French name meaning "puffed up"?
0:13:57 > 0:13:58Souffle.
0:13:58 > 0:14:00What term was coined in the 1990s to describe
0:14:00 > 0:14:02light fiction aimed at young women?
0:14:02 > 0:14:05It's often about romance, infidelity and body image.
0:14:05 > 0:14:06Pass.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09In 2009, who succeeded Sir Terry Wogan as the host
0:14:09 > 0:14:11of the UK's Eurovision Song Contest?
0:14:11 > 0:14:12Pass.
0:14:12 > 0:14:15Which road bridge that connects Lincolnshire with East Yorkshire
0:14:15 > 0:14:17near Hull was, for many years,
0:14:17 > 0:14:19the world's longest suspension bridge?
0:14:21 > 0:14:22Pass.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24In which soothing cream or lotion
0:14:24 > 0:14:27is the effective ingredient a zinc compound,
0:14:27 > 0:14:28tinted pink with ferric oxide?
0:14:28 > 0:14:30Pass.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32What was the nickname of the producer of the Bond films,
0:14:32 > 0:14:35Albert R Broccoli, who died in June 1996?
0:14:35 > 0:14:36Cubby.
0:14:36 > 0:14:37- In 1989... - BEEP
0:14:37 > 0:14:39..the underwater explorer Robert Ballard found
0:14:39 > 0:14:42the wreck of a German battleship lying at the bottom of the Atlantic
0:14:42 > 0:14:45some 600 miles west of the French port of Brest.
0:14:45 > 0:14:48What was the battleship called?
0:14:48 > 0:14:50Um...
0:14:50 > 0:14:51I can tell you.
0:14:51 > 0:14:52The Mary Rose? No.
0:14:52 > 0:14:53- No, it was the Bismarck.- Oh.
0:14:53 > 0:14:55And your other passes.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57That soothing cream is calamine lotion.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00It's the Humber Bridge that connects Lincolnshire with East Yorkshire.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03Graham Norton took over from Terry Wogan.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06Chick lit is the light, soppy fiction.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09Brian May was the Queen guitarist.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11Rabbie Burns' To A Louse.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13The liver bird is the mythical bird.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15Peter Bowles starred opposite Penelope Keith
0:15:15 > 0:15:17in To The Manor Born.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20A prairie schooner is a covered wagon or cart.
0:15:20 > 0:15:23And God created, from one of Adam's ribs, Eve.
0:15:23 > 0:15:27Oh! LAUGHTER
0:15:27 > 0:15:30I know. The brain goes zonk, doesn't it?
0:15:30 > 0:15:32Anyway, Bunny, you have 13 points.
0:15:32 > 0:15:37APPLAUSE
0:15:42 > 0:15:47And now Sean again, please.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49Now we have something in common, I suppose.
0:15:49 > 0:15:53- We both do a breakfast show, but you've got music in yours.- Yeah.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56I don't know if that makes it more difficult or easy, really.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58- A lot easier, I think. - Do you reckon?- Yes.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00When you play all these tracks...
0:16:00 > 0:16:02do you have to enjoy them yourself?
0:16:02 > 0:16:04If you don't enjoy them, if you think they're rubbish,
0:16:04 > 0:16:07are you allowed to say, "That was a load of old..."?
0:16:07 > 0:16:08We are lucky...
0:16:08 > 0:16:12On 6 Music we're lucky because we really enjoy the music we play.
0:16:12 > 0:16:15- That sounds like a party line now, doesn't it?- It does a bit.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17But it isn't. I mean, every so often you do...
0:16:17 > 0:16:21cos it's not just for me. It's not a specialist programme,
0:16:21 > 0:16:24so it's a bit more general than some of the specialist shows.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26But it's nearly all gold. It's brilliant.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28I suggest everybody listens. LAUGHTER
0:16:28 > 0:16:31In and out between the Today programme, obviously.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34We might have a disagreement about that just a little bit.
0:16:34 > 0:16:36- Sean, you've got 11 points...- Yes.
0:16:36 > 0:16:40..and everything to play for now cos they're all high scores.
0:16:40 > 0:16:42Here we go. Two minutes of general knowledge.
0:16:42 > 0:16:43Which television detective
0:16:43 > 0:16:46played by Telly Savalas sucked lollipops
0:16:46 > 0:16:48and had the catch phrase "who loves ya, baby"?
0:16:48 > 0:16:52- Kojak.- Which English author wrote stories about six honest servicemen
0:16:52 > 0:16:55called What, Why, When, How, Where and Who?
0:16:55 > 0:16:59- Pass.- What statement of English liberties, first issued in 1215,
0:16:59 > 0:17:02underwent revisions in 1216, 1217 and 1225?
0:17:02 > 0:17:04- Magna Carta.- Little, long eared and tawny
0:17:04 > 0:17:06are species of which bird native to Britain?
0:17:06 > 0:17:10- Owl.- Brad Pitt tore a tendon in his leg during the making of the 2004
0:17:10 > 0:17:15film Troy. Which aptly named character did he play in the film?
0:17:15 > 0:17:18- Achilles.- Which early '60s worldwide dance craze,
0:17:18 > 0:17:21performed by swivelling the hips, was popularised by Chubby Checker?
0:17:21 > 0:17:23- The twist.- What was the original purpose
0:17:23 > 0:17:25of the Parisian building that since
0:17:25 > 0:17:271986 has housed the Musee d'Orsay,
0:17:27 > 0:17:31where many Impressionist paintings are on display?
0:17:31 > 0:17:33- A cafe.- A railway station.
0:17:33 > 0:17:38The Ebro and the Guadalquivir are major rivers in which European country?
0:17:38 > 0:17:39- Portugal.- Spain.
0:17:39 > 0:17:42Which role played by Anne Bancroft in the film version of The Graduate
0:17:42 > 0:17:45was first performed on the London stage by Kathleen Turner in 2000?
0:17:46 > 0:17:49- Pass.- What was the nationality of Roald Amundsen,
0:17:49 > 0:17:52who raised his country's flag at the South Pole in December, 1911,
0:17:52 > 0:17:55a month before Scott and his team got there?
0:17:55 > 0:17:58- Norwegian.- On which BBC television show do aspiring entrepreneurs
0:17:58 > 0:18:00compete for the chance to win £250,000 investment
0:18:00 > 0:18:02in a partnership with Lord Sugar?
0:18:02 > 0:18:06- The Apprentice.- How many times did Red Rum win the Grand National?
0:18:06 > 0:18:07- Three.- The Emperor Fountain,
0:18:07 > 0:18:11build in 1844, shoots a jet of water over 250 feet in the air.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14In the grounds of which stately home in Derbyshire can it be found?
0:18:14 > 0:18:18- Pass.- The trachea is the medical name for which part of the human body?
0:18:18 > 0:18:20- The windpipe.- The Rats, published in 1974,
0:18:20 > 0:18:21was the first novel by an English
0:18:21 > 0:18:25horror writer who died in 2013. Who was he?
0:18:25 > 0:18:26- Ray Bradbury.- James Herbert.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29In an American restaurant, what term is often used for the dish
0:18:29 > 0:18:32containing both seafood and meat, typically shellfish and steak?
0:18:32 > 0:18:36- Surf and turf.- Whom did Princess Anne marry at Westminster Abbey
0:18:36 > 0:18:40on the 14th of November, 1973? They divorced in '92.
0:18:40 > 0:18:41Peter Townsend.
0:18:41 > 0:18:42Mark Phillips.
0:18:42 > 0:18:43BEEP
0:18:43 > 0:18:47..it is a waste of time to carry coals to...?
0:18:47 > 0:18:48- Newcastle.- Indeed.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50Three passes, Sean.
0:18:50 > 0:18:53Chatsworth House is where that fountain goes zoom.
0:18:53 > 0:18:56- Mrs Robinson.- Oh, yeah.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59And What, Why, When, Where, How, Who and all that -
0:18:59 > 0:19:01- that was Rudyard Kipling.- Oh, yeah.
0:19:01 > 0:19:04- But, Sean, you got 22 points. - Thank you.
0:19:04 > 0:19:06APPLAUSE
0:19:14 > 0:19:17And now, let's have Mark again, please.
0:19:17 > 0:19:23- And...you took The Canterbury Tales as your subject.- Yes.
0:19:23 > 0:19:24Why? I mean, why not? But...
0:19:24 > 0:19:27I've been wondering that for about the past six weeks. I...
0:19:27 > 0:19:29I thought I could do The Canterbury Tales
0:19:29 > 0:19:31because I studied it at university,
0:19:31 > 0:19:34but over the course of the quiz I remembered just how long ago
0:19:34 > 0:19:37I was at university. It's incredible how much of your entire degree
0:19:37 > 0:19:40- subject you can forget.- Well, there's a lot in The Canterbury Tales.
0:19:40 > 0:19:43Yes, that's another thing I learned quite early in the reading process.
0:19:43 > 0:19:46They're very long. But I think there is a joy in connecting with
0:19:46 > 0:19:48literature that is written so long ago.
0:19:48 > 0:19:51You think it would be impossible to find anything in common
0:19:51 > 0:19:53with them, something that's 600 years old, I get a buzz out of that.
0:19:53 > 0:19:56Having said that, I'm really pleased I won't be reading them
0:19:56 > 0:19:58- again for a long time.- I was about to ask you,
0:19:58 > 0:20:00are you going to pick up a copy on your way home tonight?
0:20:00 > 0:20:02I think I might read something else for a bit.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04Right, Mark, you've got 12.
0:20:04 > 0:20:06Let's see how you do. Two minutes, starting now.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09What term is used for well-developed abdominal muscles
0:20:09 > 0:20:11because they are resemble a set of beer cans?
0:20:11 > 0:20:14- Six pack.- Dame Edna Everage, who used to throw gladioli
0:20:14 > 0:20:17at members of the audience, is the alter ego of?
0:20:17 > 0:20:21- Barry Humphries.- The Shire is one of the largest breeds of which animal?
0:20:21 > 0:20:25- Horse.- About which film did the author Joanna Farrow write,
0:20:25 > 0:20:28"It couldn't be more historically inaccurate if a Plasticine
0:20:28 > 0:20:32"dog had been added and it had been called William Wallace and Gromit"?
0:20:32 > 0:20:34- Er...Braveheart. - Which English city claims
0:20:34 > 0:20:37to have more miles of canals than Venice?
0:20:37 > 0:20:38Birmingham.
0:20:38 > 0:20:41During a Downing Street photoshoot to celebrate
0:20:41 > 0:20:44the British and Irish Lions victory over Australia in 2013,
0:20:44 > 0:20:48the rugby player Manu Tuilagi used his fingers to give bunny ears to...
0:20:48 > 0:20:49David Cameron.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52Which mountain range is the supposed home of the yeti
0:20:52 > 0:20:53or the abominable snowman?
0:20:53 > 0:20:56Oh, the...Himalayas.
0:20:56 > 0:20:58What dish, a Swiss speciality,
0:20:58 > 0:21:01consists of melted cheese mixed with wine and other flavours?
0:21:01 > 0:21:03Fondue.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05Ian Curtis was the lead singer with which Manchester band?
0:21:05 > 0:21:08The title of their biggest hit, Love Will Tear Us Apart,
0:21:08 > 0:21:10is carved on his memorial stone.
0:21:10 > 0:21:11Joy Division.
0:21:11 > 0:21:15What was the nationality of 19th-century novelists Ivan Turgenev and Nikolai Gogol?
0:21:15 > 0:21:16Russian.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18Which athletic track event raced at the Olympics over
0:21:18 > 0:21:22a distance of 3,000m incorporates hurdles and a water jump?
0:21:22 > 0:21:23Steeplechase.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26Which chapel in the Vatican Palace was built in 1473 by the architect
0:21:26 > 0:21:31Giovanni dei Dolci for Pope Sixtus IV, after whom it is named?
0:21:31 > 0:21:32Sistine Chapel.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34Which film star's autobiography
0:21:34 > 0:21:35is called "What's It All About?",
0:21:35 > 0:21:37taken from the opening lyric of a song
0:21:37 > 0:21:39written by Bacharach and David for the film Alfie?
0:21:39 > 0:21:40Michael Caine.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42What name is traditionally used for
0:21:42 > 0:21:44- a dealer in candles and soap?- Pass.
0:21:44 > 0:21:47The theme song of which TV comedy series starring
0:21:47 > 0:21:51Richard Wilson and Annette Crosbie was sung by Eric Idle?
0:21:51 > 0:21:52One Foot In The Grave.
0:21:52 > 0:21:54What famous New York landmark is formally referred to
0:21:54 > 0:21:58- as Liberty Enlightening The World?- The Statue of Liberty.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01In Lewis Carroll's novel Through The Looking Glass,
0:22:01 > 0:22:03what did the White Queen tell Alice could be had tomorrow
0:22:03 > 0:22:05and yesterday but never today?
0:22:05 > 0:22:06Jam.
0:22:06 > 0:22:07BEEP
0:22:07 > 0:22:10Which instrument used widely in jazz and dance bands is named
0:22:10 > 0:22:14after the Belgian instrument maker who patented it in 1846?
0:22:14 > 0:22:16- Saxophone.- Correct.
0:22:16 > 0:22:19Wow. You had one pass, the name traditionally
0:22:19 > 0:22:21used for a dealer in candles and soap is a chandler.
0:22:21 > 0:22:24Would not have got that. Didn't get it!
0:22:24 > 0:22:26LAUGHTER
0:22:26 > 0:22:28That's undeniably true, but you got everything else,
0:22:28 > 0:22:31and you've now got a total of 29 points!
0:22:31 > 0:22:34APPLAUSE
0:22:41 > 0:22:45Oh, boy. Frank, if you feel up to it,
0:22:45 > 0:22:48come and join us again, please.
0:22:48 > 0:22:50Absolutely.
0:22:50 > 0:22:54That is not the one you want to follow. Wow.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56LAUGHTER
0:22:58 > 0:23:01You've done an awful lot of things, but the thing you're going to
0:23:01 > 0:23:06be remembered for, for ever and ever and ever, is the Olympic ceremony.
0:23:06 > 0:23:09What was it like when they said to you, "Will you write it?"
0:23:09 > 0:23:11- It wasn't they, it was Danny. - Just Danny Boyle?
0:23:11 > 0:23:13Yes, he asked me out for a cup of tea and he said,
0:23:13 > 0:23:16he was going to do the Olympics and would I like to join him,
0:23:16 > 0:23:20and I thought he was talking about a sports movie.
0:23:20 > 0:23:23It took me about an hour to figure out that he was actually
0:23:23 > 0:23:26- talking about the Olympics' opening ceremony.- Really? And you said?
0:23:26 > 0:23:29- Yes, instantly. - Without even thinking about it?
0:23:29 > 0:23:33Yes, it was only when I got home I thought, "What have I said yes to?"
0:23:33 > 0:23:36I rang him up and I said, "What does it actually involve?"
0:23:36 > 0:23:37He said, "I have no idea."
0:23:37 > 0:23:39Honestly?
0:23:39 > 0:23:44So, you... How did it work? He had the... You don't know?
0:23:44 > 0:23:46He had the idea, obviously,
0:23:46 > 0:23:50the overall idea for the theme of the thing, I suppose,
0:23:50 > 0:23:52and he said to you, "Put words to it," or was it more collaborative?
0:23:52 > 0:23:54It was not about words, he had a small team,
0:23:54 > 0:23:59he had a brilliant designer called Mark Tildesley, Suttirat Larlarb
0:23:59 > 0:24:02and myself, Rick Smith - who did the music.
0:24:02 > 0:24:03There were five of us.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05He put together the team he would have put together to make
0:24:05 > 0:24:07a movie, because that is how he knew what to do.
0:24:07 > 0:24:10I remember you telling me about the Queen and her part in it.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13That is what I meant about it being organic.
0:24:13 > 0:24:17Mark had this idea we could fake up the Queen jumping
0:24:17 > 0:24:21out of a helicopter, and we called Buckingham Palace and we asked,
0:24:21 > 0:24:23"Could we represent the Queen in that way?
0:24:23 > 0:24:26"Could we know what she was wearing on the day?"
0:24:26 > 0:24:28When the message came back, it was, "That's absolutely fine,
0:24:28 > 0:24:31"and she is available for filming on the following dates."
0:24:31 > 0:24:35- We were like... - What?!- .."That's not what we meant!"
0:24:35 > 0:24:37LAUGHTER
0:24:37 > 0:24:40Right. Here we go.
0:24:40 > 0:24:4113 points,
0:24:41 > 0:24:4529 is the score to beat. 2 minutes.
0:24:45 > 0:24:49The Russian spacecraft Luna 2, launched September 1959,
0:24:49 > 0:24:51became the first man-made object to land where?
0:24:51 > 0:24:53On the moon.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56What do the initials HD stand for in the digital TV broadcasting
0:24:56 > 0:24:58system that offers a better picture than a standard system?
0:24:58 > 0:25:00High definition.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02The puffling is the young of which sea bird,
0:25:02 > 0:25:05distinguished by its large, brightly-coloured triangular beak?
0:25:05 > 0:25:07A puffin.
0:25:07 > 0:25:09Olympus is the highest mountain in which mainland European country?
0:25:09 > 0:25:11Greece.
0:25:11 > 0:25:12Which film starring Julia Roberts and
0:25:12 > 0:25:15Richard Gere shares its title with a Roy Orbison song?
0:25:15 > 0:25:16Pretty Woman.
0:25:16 > 0:25:19The novel A Parliamentary Affair was written by a former MP.
0:25:19 > 0:25:23One critic said, "Anyone supposing it's the usual kill-an-hour-on-the-beach
0:25:23 > 0:25:27"codswallop had best think again - it's much, much worse." Who wrote the novel?
0:25:27 > 0:25:29- Jeffrey Archer? - Edwina Currie.
0:25:29 > 0:25:31Which motor racing circuit alternated with Silverstone
0:25:31 > 0:25:35as the British Grand Prix location between 1964 and '87?
0:25:35 > 0:25:36Brooklands?
0:25:36 > 0:25:40Brands Hatch. What were the military expeditions launched by western Christians
0:25:40 > 0:25:43beginning in the late 11th century, to retake Jerusalem and the Holy Land?
0:25:43 > 0:25:44The Crusades.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47Which English composer appeared on £20 notes for several years,
0:25:47 > 0:25:49partly because his bristling moustache was
0:25:49 > 0:25:51difficult for counterfeiters to reproduce?
0:25:51 > 0:25:52Elgar.
0:25:52 > 0:25:55What fiery sauce that shares its name with a Mexican state is
0:25:55 > 0:25:58made from a kind of chilli pepper with spirit, vinegar and salt?
0:25:58 > 0:25:59Tabasco.
0:25:59 > 0:26:03In which Shakespeare play does the moneylender Shylock demand a pound of flesh?
0:26:03 > 0:26:05The Merchant Of Venice.
0:26:05 > 0:26:09Which Scottish city lies between the mouths of the Dee and the Don?
0:26:09 > 0:26:11- Edinburgh?- Aberdeen.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13Whose Radio 2 afternoon show includes the items Ask Elvis
0:26:13 > 0:26:15and Non-Stop Oldies chosen by a listener?
0:26:15 > 0:26:16Pass.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18Which Bob Dylan song opens with the lines
0:26:18 > 0:26:20"Come gather round people, wherever you roam
0:26:20 > 0:26:22"And admit that the waters around you have grown"?
0:26:22 > 0:26:24The Times They Are A-Changin'.
0:26:24 > 0:26:27In which American city is there a district known as Foggy Bottom?
0:26:27 > 0:26:29- Tennessee?- Washington, DC.
0:26:29 > 0:26:32In which winter sport does a four-man team consist of a brakeman,
0:26:32 > 0:26:33a pilot and two crewmen or pushers?
0:26:33 > 0:26:35- Toboggan.- Bobsleigh.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38Which actress's five husbands include the singer and songwriter
0:26:38 > 0:26:40Anthony Newley and the Swedish pop star Peter Holm?
0:26:40 > 0:26:42- Elizabeth Taylor? - Joan Collins, close.
0:26:42 > 0:26:45Which of the English romantic poets wrote Ode To A Nightingale?
0:26:45 > 0:26:46Keats.
0:26:46 > 0:26:47- BEEP - The world championship
0:26:47 > 0:26:49for throwing an electronic device
0:26:49 > 0:26:52has been held annually since 2000 in Savonlinna, Finland,
0:26:52 > 0:26:55a country noted for the device's manufacture. What was it, or is it?
0:26:55 > 0:26:59- A mobile phone.- Mobile phone is of course correct.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01And that one you passed on,
0:27:01 > 0:27:04- the Radio 2 afternoon show - Steve Wright.- Oh, God...
0:27:04 > 0:27:06Yes, I know.
0:27:06 > 0:27:09- You nearly got there though, Frank - 25 points.- Oh.
0:27:10 > 0:27:11APPLAUSE
0:27:21 > 0:27:24What a great contest. Let's have a look at the scores.
0:27:24 > 0:27:27In fourth place, 13 points, Bunny Campione.
0:27:27 > 0:27:31Third place, 22 points, Shaun Keaveny.
0:27:31 > 0:27:34Second place, usually a guaranteed winner, 25 points,
0:27:34 > 0:27:35Frank Cottrell Boyce.
0:27:35 > 0:27:39In first place, 29 points - Mark Watson.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41APPLAUSE
0:27:51 > 0:27:54Mark, come and get it.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59There we go. Congratulations.
0:27:59 > 0:28:03Brilliant score. What are you going to do with the trophy?
0:28:03 > 0:28:07Erm...I'll try and put it somewhere in the house where it doesn't look like I'm showing off,
0:28:07 > 0:28:09but people will nonetheless see it.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12- Yes.- Perhaps I could answer the door holding it.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14- Wear it on your head.- Yeah.- We'll arrange a little thing for you.
0:28:14 > 0:28:17That would be great - if I could have a hat with it.
0:28:17 > 0:28:19- No problem, consider it done. - Thanks very much.
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0:28:36 > 0:28:38Thanks for watching, goodbye.
0:28:38 > 0:28:40APPLAUSE