0:00:02 > 0:00:04I know my specialist subject at the moment
0:00:04 > 0:00:07but whether I freeze or not in that chair, I just do not know, and that is the fear.
0:00:07 > 0:00:08I'm not really nervous
0:00:08 > 0:00:13because I'm sort of resigned to the fact that I'm going to be useless.
0:00:13 > 0:00:15I don't think one ever gets over Mastermind,
0:00:15 > 0:00:17even if you get the trophy.
0:00:17 > 0:00:22If I come third I'll be very happy. Just not last. Please!
0:00:22 > 0:00:24Four celebrities who hope
0:00:24 > 0:00:27they know everything there is to know about their specialist subject.
0:00:27 > 0:00:31Who will be crowned tonight's Celebrity Mastermind?
0:00:48 > 0:00:51First in the spotlight tonight is the presenter Gail Porter.
0:00:51 > 0:00:55She's answering questions on Number One Singles.
0:00:55 > 0:00:56Next, the actor Danny John Jules.
0:00:56 > 0:01:00His specialist subject, the choreographer Bob Fosse.
0:01:00 > 0:01:02The food critic Prue Leith will be answering questions
0:01:02 > 0:01:05on Cooking During The War,
0:01:05 > 0:01:10and BBC Breakfast's Mike Bushell and his subject, Alan Partridge.
0:01:10 > 0:01:12APPLAUSE
0:01:24 > 0:01:29Hello, I'm John Humphrys, and welcome to Celebrity Mastermind.
0:01:29 > 0:01:32Our four contenders have already done rather well for themselves
0:01:32 > 0:01:36one way or the other, but this is a test of a different sort
0:01:36 > 0:01:39and they might well be wondering at this stage what they've let
0:01:39 > 0:01:41themselves in for, especially given
0:01:41 > 0:01:43that there is no great prize at the end
0:01:43 > 0:01:46unless, of course, you count the honour of becoming
0:01:46 > 0:01:49the Celebrity Mastermind champion.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52To claim that honour they must face one and half minutes
0:01:52 > 0:01:55on their specialist subject, two minutes on general knowledge.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58So, let's ask our first contender to join us, please.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05And your name is?
0:02:06 > 0:02:08Your chosen charity?
0:02:10 > 0:02:11And your chosen subject?
0:02:14 > 0:02:16In 90 seconds, starting now.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19Robbie Williams's first UK number one was in September 1998.
0:02:19 > 0:02:20What was it called?
0:02:20 > 0:02:21- Feel. - Millennium.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24Who performed the song Saturday Night that ended Wet Wet Wet's
0:02:24 > 0:02:2715-week run at number one in September 1994?
0:02:27 > 0:02:29Whigfield.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31Whitney Huston starred in the film The Bodyguard
0:02:31 > 0:02:32and topped the chart in '92
0:02:32 > 0:02:34with I Will Always Love You from the soundtrack.
0:02:34 > 0:02:36Which other singer wrote the song?
0:02:36 > 0:02:40- Pass.- Which new Kids On The Block single provided them
0:02:40 > 0:02:43with their second UK number one and the first new number one of 1990?
0:02:43 > 0:02:45Hanging Tough.
0:02:45 > 0:02:49Isaac Taylor and Zac are members of which Oklahoma boyband
0:02:49 > 0:02:52that topped the charts with MMMBop in June 1997?
0:02:52 > 0:02:53Hanson.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56Westlife had the Christmas number one in 1999
0:02:56 > 0:02:59with a double A side, a cover of Abba's I Have A Dream
0:02:59 > 0:03:02and which other song that topped the chart for Terry Jacks in '74?
0:03:02 > 0:03:03Seasons In The Sun.
0:03:03 > 0:03:07Which group, whose name derives from that of a Native American tribe
0:03:07 > 0:03:12topped the charts only once in July 1998 with Deeper Underground?
0:03:12 > 0:03:13Jamiroquai.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16Stay was a number one hit in 1992 for Siobhan Fahey
0:03:16 > 0:03:18and Marcella Detroit. What name did they record under?
0:03:18 > 0:03:20Shakespeares Sister.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23Setting Sun reached number one for the DJs Tom Rowlands
0:03:23 > 0:03:25and Ed Simons, better known as The Chemical Brothers.
0:03:25 > 0:03:28Who co-wrote the lyrics and performed lead vocals on the track?
0:03:28 > 0:03:30Noel Gallagher.
0:03:30 > 0:03:34The Tom Cruise film Days Of Thunder features which song by Maria McKee?
0:03:34 > 0:03:36It was her only UK number one.
0:03:36 > 0:03:38Oh... Pass.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40Christina Aguilera topped the charts
0:03:40 > 0:03:42for the first time in October 1999.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44What was the name of the song?
0:03:44 > 0:03:45Genie In A Bottle.
0:03:45 > 0:03:47- Which song from the Lloyd Webber and Rice musical...? - BEEP
0:03:47 > 0:03:51..Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat gave Jason Donovan
0:03:51 > 0:03:54a number one single in '91?
0:03:54 > 0:03:56- I Have A Dream?- Nearly!
0:03:56 > 0:04:00- I Had A Dream. - Nearly.- I Had A Nightmare?
0:04:00 > 0:04:02LAUGHTER
0:04:02 > 0:04:05No, but you probably will afterwards! Any Dream Will Do!
0:04:05 > 0:04:09- I knew there was a dream in there somewhere.- Nearly got it.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11Well, you didn't do badly. You did very well. Two passes.
0:04:11 > 0:04:15That Tom Cruise song featured the song Show Me Heaven.
0:04:15 > 0:04:20- That's the one!- The writer of I Will Always Love You, Dolly Parton.
0:04:20 > 0:04:21- I didn't know that.- Yeah.
0:04:21 > 0:04:24- Anyway, Gail, you've got 8 points. - Thank you very much.
0:04:24 > 0:04:26APPLAUSE
0:04:32 > 0:04:34And our next contender, please.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42And your name is?
0:04:42 > 0:04:43Your chosen charity?
0:04:46 > 0:04:48And your chosen subject?
0:04:50 > 0:04:52Bob Fosse. In 90 seconds, here we go.
0:04:52 > 0:04:54Bob Fosse was a choreographer and director.
0:04:54 > 0:04:58His largely autobiographical film of 1979 takes its title
0:04:58 > 0:05:00from which number that opens the musical Chicago?
0:05:00 > 0:05:01All That Jazz.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04As young teenagers, Fosse and his school friend Charles Grass
0:05:04 > 0:05:08formed a tap dancing duo that performed for a number of years.
0:05:08 > 0:05:09What did they call themselves?
0:05:09 > 0:05:10The Riff Brothers.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13With which Hollywood studio did Fosse sign a short-lived
0:05:13 > 0:05:16contract in 1952 before returning to the theatre?
0:05:17 > 0:05:18MGM?
0:05:18 > 0:05:21Fosse won his Oscar for Best Director for the film that
0:05:21 > 0:05:23gave him his big Hollywood breakthrough.
0:05:23 > 0:05:25What's the title of the film?
0:05:25 > 0:05:26Cabaret.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29Which touring show about ex-army veterans readjusting to
0:05:29 > 0:05:32civilian life did Fosse join as a dancer in October 1946,
0:05:32 > 0:05:34soon after he had left the Navy?
0:05:34 > 0:05:35Dance Me A Song?
0:05:35 > 0:05:38Call Me Mister. What was the name of the Broadway musical star who
0:05:38 > 0:05:41became Bob Fosse's third wife in April 1960?
0:05:41 > 0:05:43Gwen Verdon.
0:05:43 > 0:05:45Fosse has an acting credit in the 1974 film musical
0:05:45 > 0:05:47The Little Prince, directed by Stanley Donen.
0:05:47 > 0:05:48What part does he play?
0:05:48 > 0:05:49A snake.
0:05:49 > 0:05:53Fosse developed Fellini's film Nights Of Cabiria
0:05:53 > 0:05:56into a musical that opened on Broadway in 1966.
0:05:56 > 0:05:57What is the musical called?
0:05:57 > 0:05:58Sweet Charity.
0:05:58 > 0:06:02Who was originally cast to play the part of Joe Gideon in All That Jazz
0:06:02 > 0:06:05until artistic differences made him pull out, replaced by Roy Scheider?
0:06:07 > 0:06:09Sorry, can you repeat that?
0:06:09 > 0:06:12Who was originally cast to play the role of Joe Gideon in All That Jazz
0:06:12 > 0:06:15until artistic differences made him pull out,
0:06:15 > 0:06:17to be replaced by Roy Scheider?
0:06:17 > 0:06:18Richard Dreyfuss.
0:06:18 > 0:06:21Hermes Pan was the choreographer of a 1953 Cole Porter film musical...
0:06:21 > 0:06:23BEEP
0:06:23 > 0:06:25..and allowed Fosse to choreograph his own sequence
0:06:25 > 0:06:27in the number From This Moment On.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29What was the title of the film?
0:06:29 > 0:06:31Kiss Me Kate.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33No passes, Danny. You've got 9 points.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36APPLAUSE
0:06:41 > 0:06:44And our next contender, please.
0:06:50 > 0:06:51And your name is?
0:06:53 > 0:06:54Your chosen charity?
0:06:56 > 0:06:57And your chosen subject?
0:07:00 > 0:07:01In 90 seconds, here we go.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04A campaign was set up in 1941 to persuade people to grow
0:07:04 > 0:07:07vegetables in their garden or allotment. What was its slogan?
0:07:07 > 0:07:08Dig For Victory.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11During the war, a vegetable that contains a lot of vitamin A
0:07:11 > 0:07:13was marketed as helping people see in the dark.
0:07:13 > 0:07:16A useful benefit in the blackout! What was the vegetable?
0:07:16 > 0:07:17Carrot.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20What colour were the RB2 ration books issued for children
0:07:20 > 0:07:23under five, babies and expectant mothers in January 1940?
0:07:23 > 0:07:25- Blue. - Green.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28Which brand of canned meat imported from America
0:07:28 > 0:07:30and made from spiced chopped pork and ham
0:07:30 > 0:07:32became the mainstay of the war timetable?
0:07:32 > 0:07:34Um, corned beef?
0:07:34 > 0:07:35Spam!
0:07:35 > 0:07:37Who was the Scottish Unionist MP who'd been
0:07:37 > 0:07:40instrumental in launching the Milk For Schools scheme in the 1930s
0:07:40 > 0:07:43and was Minister of Health at the start of the war?
0:07:45 > 0:07:46Um...Hudson?
0:07:46 > 0:07:48Walter Elliot.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50The greyish-brown wholemeal bread that was compulsory
0:07:50 > 0:07:53from March 1942 was nicknamed Hitler's Secret Weapon.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55What was it officially called?
0:07:55 > 0:07:59- The National Loaf.- Meat was added to the ration list in March 1940.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01Instead of being restricted by weight,
0:08:01 > 0:08:02the allowance was measured by what?
0:08:02 > 0:08:04Price.
0:08:04 > 0:08:07How many ounces of butter did each adult have per week
0:08:07 > 0:08:09when food rationing was first introduced in January 1940?
0:08:09 > 0:08:11Six.
0:08:11 > 0:08:12No, only four ounces.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15The Dig For Victory campaign published posters featuring
0:08:15 > 0:08:18Dr Carrot and a potato-based character with what name?
0:08:18 > 0:08:19Potato Pete.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22After canteens were introduced for factory workers,
0:08:22 > 0:08:24a scheme was set up for rural areas
0:08:24 > 0:08:26operated by the Women's Voluntary Service,
0:08:26 > 0:08:29that distributed thousands of what food items to farm workers?
0:08:29 > 0:08:30Pies.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32- The comedians Elsie and Doris Waters... - BEEP
0:08:32 > 0:08:36..gave nutrition advice on the radio in The Kitchen Front
0:08:36 > 0:08:38as which two comic charladies?
0:08:40 > 0:08:42- The Buggins? - No, it was Gert and Daisy.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45- Gert and Daisy. - Well, you're not old enough...
0:08:45 > 0:08:48- Prue, you scored 6 points. - SHE GROANS
0:08:48 > 0:08:50APPLAUSE
0:08:58 > 0:09:00And our final contender, please.
0:09:04 > 0:09:06And your name is?
0:09:06 > 0:09:08Your chosen charity?
0:09:09 > 0:09:10And your chosen subject?
0:09:12 > 0:09:14In 90 seconds, here we go.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17In the first series of I'm Alan Partridge, which budget hotel
0:09:17 > 0:09:19does Alan stay at after his chat show, Knowing Me Knowing You,
0:09:19 > 0:09:21comes to a catastrophic end?
0:09:21 > 0:09:22Linton Travel Tavern.
0:09:22 > 0:09:25Following the demise of his TV show, Alan Partridge
0:09:25 > 0:09:27is working at a local radio station, usually hosting phone-ins.
0:09:27 > 0:09:29What is the name of the station?
0:09:29 > 0:09:30Radio Norwich.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33On St Valentine's Day, Alan takes Jill from his production company
0:09:33 > 0:09:35out on a date to which unusual venue?
0:09:35 > 0:09:36Owl sanctuary.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38Who is the special guest in the first episode
0:09:38 > 0:09:42of Knowing Me Knowing You, who fails to turn up even though a special chatroom has been set up?
0:09:42 > 0:09:44Roger Moore.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46In The Colour Of Alan he is organising a sales conference
0:09:46 > 0:09:49for a Reading-based fireplace company that
0:09:49 > 0:09:53advertises itself as "The Ferrari of the coal effect fire industry". What is the company called?
0:09:53 > 0:09:54Dante.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57How does Alan take advantage of the eat-as-much-as-you-like breakfast
0:09:57 > 0:10:00provided at the Linton Travel Tavern?
0:10:00 > 0:10:01He's got a 12-inch plate.
0:10:01 > 0:10:06Alan is so annoyed when The Times television critic uses a derogatory word
0:10:06 > 0:10:10about Knowing Me Knowing You, he uses the word throughout the show. What word?
0:10:10 > 0:10:11Moribund.
0:10:11 > 0:10:15In Watership Alan, what do a group of farmers who he has insulted earlier
0:10:15 > 0:10:18throw off a bridge onto the boat that he is using for a commercial?
0:10:18 > 0:10:20A dead cow.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23Which German-made tropical fruit drink does Alan try to promote
0:10:23 > 0:10:27with unsubtle product placement throughout the series of Knowing Me Knowing You?
0:10:27 > 0:10:29- Spunt.- Sprunt, yeah.
0:10:29 > 0:10:33In the episode, Basic Alan, what does he try to steal in an attempt
0:10:33 > 0:10:36to be spontaneous and it gets him into trouble with the police?
0:10:36 > 0:10:37A traffic cone.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39In A Room With An Alan, he tries to get the go-ahead
0:10:39 > 0:10:43for a second series from the chief commissioning editor of the BBC. What's his name?
0:10:43 > 0:10:45- Tony Hayers.- Which...? - BEEP
0:10:45 > 0:10:47I've started so I'll finish.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49Which famous person does Alan claim to know in order
0:10:49 > 0:10:51to impress his Ukrainian girlfriend Sonja?
0:10:51 > 0:10:53He even gets someone to pretend to be the celebrity.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55Bono from U2.
0:10:55 > 0:10:59Absolutely right, as were all the other answers.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01No passes. 12 points.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03APPLAUSE
0:11:10 > 0:11:13Well, some very good scores there. Let's have a look at all of them.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16In fourth place, 6 points, Prue Leith.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Third place, 8 points, Gail Porter.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21Second place, 9 points, Danny John Jules.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24In the lead, 12 points, Mike Bushell.
0:11:30 > 0:11:33The General Knowledge Round now, and if the scores are level
0:11:33 > 0:11:37at the end of it, the person with the fewer passes is the winner.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40Let's get on with it and ask Prue to join us again, please.
0:11:40 > 0:11:47And talking about wartime cooking, what a difference from today.
0:11:47 > 0:11:49And the big difference, I suppose,
0:11:49 > 0:11:52is that now we can buy any food any time, anywhere.
0:11:52 > 0:11:56Then, it was strictly restricted.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59Hardly any meat, hardly any fat, awful lot of veg,
0:11:59 > 0:12:02- horrible lot of bread and potatoes.- Yes!
0:12:02 > 0:12:06This idea that food is no longer seasonal -
0:12:06 > 0:12:08if we want strawberries in December we have strawberries -
0:12:08 > 0:12:11- is that good or bad, do you think? - Well, I think it's bad
0:12:11 > 0:12:17because I think if you have strawberries from California in the middle of winter,
0:12:17 > 0:12:21it's huge food miles, they don't taste of anything but cardboard.
0:12:21 > 0:12:25Why not wait until June and get the best English strawberries?
0:12:25 > 0:12:27That's what I think.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30The trouble is, on that basis, you wouldn't even have, say,
0:12:30 > 0:12:33bananas, and we couldn't live without bananas every day, could we?
0:12:33 > 0:12:37Just after the war, children got bananas, and children
0:12:37 > 0:12:41and pregnant mums and very old people. You wouldn't have qualified.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44Maybe you would, nearly. LAUGHTER
0:12:46 > 0:12:47Thanks, Prue! You've got 6 points.
0:12:47 > 0:12:50You've got two minutes of General Knowledge to catch up,
0:12:50 > 0:12:56so nil desperandum. Here we go. How many deadly sins are there?
0:12:56 > 0:12:58- How many deadly things are there? - Deadly sins.
0:12:58 > 0:13:00Oh, seven.
0:13:00 > 0:13:03Whose collection of verses for children, When We Were Very Young
0:13:03 > 0:13:06and Now We Are Six, were first published in 1924 and 1937?
0:13:06 > 0:13:08AA Milne.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11Which of The Beatles, who released his latest album New
0:13:11 > 0:13:14in October 2013, plays the guitar left-handed?
0:13:16 > 0:13:17Don't know.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20Which palace built for the Duke of Marlborough is England's only
0:13:20 > 0:13:22non-royal, non-ecclesiastical palace?
0:13:22 > 0:13:24Blenheim.
0:13:24 > 0:13:27What word can be applied to a variety of common butterfly
0:13:27 > 0:13:31and to a cat with a mottled coat of black, cream and reddish-brown markings?
0:13:31 > 0:13:33- Marmalade?- Tortoiseshell.
0:13:33 > 0:13:35Chuck Wepner, a boxer known as the Bayonne Bleeder,
0:13:35 > 0:13:40who was defeated in the 15th round by Muhammad Ali in 1975, is often
0:13:40 > 0:13:44credited with being the inspiration for which fictional film character?
0:13:44 > 0:13:46Frazier?
0:13:46 > 0:13:49Rocky. Which US state gives its name to a dish of fried chicken
0:13:49 > 0:13:51often served with fried bananas and sweetcorn?
0:13:51 > 0:13:53Maryland.
0:13:53 > 0:13:55Whose first crime novel, The Cuckoo's Calling,
0:13:55 > 0:13:59was published in April 2013 under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith?
0:14:02 > 0:14:04- Agatha Christie? - JK Rowling.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07Which islands hold an annual public holiday on June 14
0:14:07 > 0:14:10to commemorate their liberation in 1982?
0:14:10 > 0:14:11Pass.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14Which writer and broadcaster famous for his travel programmes
0:14:14 > 0:14:20on television was president of the Royal Geographical Society from 2009 until 2012?
0:14:20 > 0:14:22Pass.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24What do visitors to Rome traditionally
0:14:24 > 0:14:27throw into the Trevi Fountain to ensure a return to the city?
0:14:27 > 0:14:28A coin.
0:14:28 > 0:14:31What British list, updated in July 2013,
0:14:31 > 0:14:35when a new name was added at number three, includes Miss Lyla Gilman
0:14:35 > 0:14:40at number 31, Mrs Michael Tindall at 15 and Miss Savannah Phillips at 13?
0:14:40 > 0:14:42Pass.
0:14:42 > 0:14:45Which perennial herb of the mint family is associated with
0:14:45 > 0:14:48remembrance because it was once believed to improve the memory?
0:14:48 > 0:14:50Rosemary?
0:14:50 > 0:14:52What was the name of the War Minister who first set
0:14:52 > 0:14:54eyes on Christine Keeler as she swam naked...
0:14:54 > 0:14:58- BEEP - ..at Lord Astor's Cliveden estate in 1961?
0:14:58 > 0:15:00Um...
0:15:02 > 0:15:04- Oh, God... - You'll be cross with yourself.
0:15:04 > 0:15:08- I'm furious with myself already! - Well, the chair does that to you.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11I'm stone last anyway, so it doesn't matter.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13No, no, you've done all right.
0:15:13 > 0:15:16Profumo is the answer to that one, of course.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18And that list, where I gave you all those names,
0:15:18 > 0:15:21was the order of succession to the throne.
0:15:21 > 0:15:25They all moved down one when George was born.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28Michael Palin was the writer famous for his travel programmes.
0:15:28 > 0:15:32The Falkland Islands hold their annual public holiday on June 14.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35Paul McCartney plays the guitar left-handed.
0:15:35 > 0:15:37Prue, you now have a total of 12 points.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40APPLAUSE
0:15:47 > 0:15:50And now, Gail again, please.
0:15:50 > 0:15:54And, um...Gail, you were presenter on Top Of The Pops in your 20s.
0:15:54 > 0:15:58I was, yes. I used to watch Top Of The Pops when I was a child
0:15:58 > 0:16:03and then suddenly I had the microphone - "Still number one". Very exciting.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05Fantastic. But we don't have Top Of The Pops now.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08- The whole thing has changed. - There's no real great music programmes.
0:16:08 > 0:16:11Jools Holland, of course. That's brilliant.
0:16:11 > 0:16:12But there's nothing mainstream any more.
0:16:12 > 0:16:18And I suppose the other thing is that the songs, good though
0:16:18 > 0:16:22they may be, simply don't stay in the charts for ever, do they?
0:16:22 > 0:16:25- Which they did at one point. They'd be there for months. - They did.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28I was talking about the charts to my daughter. I was going, "What's number one?"
0:16:28 > 0:16:32She's like, "Mum, really?" What do we say now? I don't know.
0:16:32 > 0:16:35I'm not very hip. It seems to be more about image nowadays.
0:16:35 > 0:16:37People seem to pay more attention to what people
0:16:37 > 0:16:40look like and the controversy that seems to surround them
0:16:40 > 0:16:42instead of actual good music.
0:16:42 > 0:16:45- That's a pity, isn't it? - It is a pity.
0:16:45 > 0:16:49Gail, you've got 8 points and you now have two minutes of General Knowledge.
0:16:49 > 0:16:51So, here we go.
0:16:51 > 0:16:53What does the abbreviated term "deli" mean
0:16:53 > 0:16:55when referring to a type of food shop?
0:16:55 > 0:16:56Delicatessen.
0:16:56 > 0:17:00Anastasia and Drizella are the sisters in which 1950 classic Disney film?
0:17:00 > 0:17:01Cinderella.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03What title, a form of the Latin "Caesar",
0:17:03 > 0:17:06was held by the rulers of Russia until the revolution?
0:17:06 > 0:17:07Pass.
0:17:07 > 0:17:10Which television comedian and actor married Victoria Coren
0:17:10 > 0:17:14in London in November 2012 with his comedy partner Robert Webb as best man?
0:17:17 > 0:17:18Pass. I've forgotten!
0:17:18 > 0:17:22Imelda Marcos, the wife of the former president of the Philippines, fled the country
0:17:22 > 0:17:26in 1986 famously leaving behind her a vast collection of what?
0:17:26 > 0:17:27Shoes.
0:17:27 > 0:17:29What is the name of the expensive honey from New Zealand
0:17:29 > 0:17:32and Australia, that is popular as a health supplement?
0:17:32 > 0:17:35- Akuna?- Manuka.
0:17:35 > 0:17:38The 16th century Italian painter Paolo Caliari
0:17:38 > 0:17:42was known as Paolo Veronese because he was born in which city in 1528?
0:17:42 > 0:17:44- Venice?- Verona.
0:17:44 > 0:17:48Which TV drama series set in rural Oxfordshire at the end of the 19th century
0:17:48 > 0:17:52is based on Flora Thompson's memoirs of her own childhood?
0:17:52 > 0:17:53Pass.
0:17:53 > 0:17:55What is the name of the green pigment in plants that absorbs
0:17:55 > 0:17:59energy from light which is then used to convert carbon dioxide into carbohydrates?
0:17:59 > 0:18:01Pass.
0:18:01 > 0:18:04Which band was formed after two of its members, Alex Turner
0:18:04 > 0:18:07and Jamie Cook, were given guitars for Christmas in 2001?
0:18:07 > 0:18:09The Arctic Monkeys.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12Which city is the setting for the BBC crime series The Fall,
0:18:12 > 0:18:14starring Gillian Anderson as DSI Stella Gibson?
0:18:14 > 0:18:16- London.- Belfast.
0:18:16 > 0:18:20What word for a loan typically advanced by a bank or a building society to buy
0:18:20 > 0:18:22a property, comes from the old French for "death pledge".
0:18:22 > 0:18:24Mortgage.
0:18:24 > 0:18:27Which actress, who won an Oscar for her role in the film Shakespeare In Love
0:18:27 > 0:18:30has a website called Goop, to advise on lifestyle choices
0:18:30 > 0:18:32such as diet, exercise and fashion?
0:18:32 > 0:18:33Gwyneth Paltrow.
0:18:33 > 0:18:37What was the name of the mythical winged horse that sprang from the blood of the slain Gorgon Medusa?
0:18:37 > 0:18:39Pegasus.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42In what winter sport is the American Bode Miller a multiple
0:18:42 > 0:18:45world champion, World Cup winner and Olympic medallist?
0:18:45 > 0:18:47Skiing?
0:18:47 > 0:18:50What name is given to bars laid across a pit in the road that
0:18:50 > 0:18:51prevents animals from straying?
0:18:51 > 0:18:53BEEP Grate.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55Not quite. Grid.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58Oh, come on! LAUGHTER
0:18:58 > 0:19:01- If it was down to me you'd have the lot.- Challenge!
0:19:01 > 0:19:03LAUGHTER
0:19:03 > 0:19:05Anyway, you had four passes.
0:19:05 > 0:19:09Chlorophyll is the name of that pigment that... Yeah, you knew that.
0:19:09 > 0:19:13Lark Rise To Candleford is Flora Thompson's memoirs of her childhood.
0:19:13 > 0:19:17- David Mitchell married...- Oh! - Yeah, you were struggling with that.
0:19:17 > 0:19:22Married Victoria Coren. And the Tzar, the rulers of Russia,
0:19:22 > 0:19:24- comes from a form of "Caesar". - Of course.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27- But, Gail, you've now got 16 points. - Thank you.
0:19:27 > 0:19:29APPLAUSE
0:19:35 > 0:19:38And now, Danny again, please. And...
0:19:39 > 0:19:44Danny, we remember, many of us, anyway, Red Dwarf,
0:19:44 > 0:19:47which was great for you, I imagine.
0:19:47 > 0:19:49But you had another gig offered to you
0:19:49 > 0:19:52and I was wondering how you reacted to it when your agent said to you,
0:19:52 > 0:19:56"Danny, it's six months in a Caribbean idyll.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59"Could you force yourself to go?" What did you say?
0:19:59 > 0:20:02- "You're crazy!"- Yeah. - "What took you so long to ask me?"
0:20:02 > 0:20:04LAUGHTER
0:20:04 > 0:20:11Yeah. Yes, I got back in October. A new series starts in January.
0:20:11 > 0:20:15- And the new series is?- Death In Paradise.- Was it really paradise?
0:20:15 > 0:20:17Yes, it is.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19But obviously the heat does get to you
0:20:19 > 0:20:24and sometimes you do wish you were back in London, believe it or not.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27- I haven't asked you where you were, by the way.- I was in Guadalupe.
0:20:27 > 0:20:30- Guadalupe. - You should come and do a cameo.
0:20:30 > 0:20:33- I'm going to put your name up for it. - But no more than a fortnight, all right?
0:20:33 > 0:20:37That's roughly what everyone does. In the middle of winter. You're on.
0:20:37 > 0:20:41Right, that's a commitment. Danny, you've got 9 points. Here we go.
0:20:41 > 0:20:45Two minutes of General Knowledge. Who were described as a pair of star-crossed lovers
0:20:45 > 0:20:48in the prologue to act one of a Shakespeare play?
0:20:48 > 0:20:50Ooh...
0:20:50 > 0:20:51Romeo and Juliet?
0:20:51 > 0:20:53The four bronze animals that surround Nelson's Column
0:20:53 > 0:20:56in Trafalgar Square were modelled by Sir Edwin Landseer.
0:20:56 > 0:20:57What type of creatures are they?
0:20:57 > 0:21:00- Lions.- Which actor, well known for playing Doctor Who,
0:21:00 > 0:21:02was born David John McDonald in Bathgate, West Lothian,
0:21:02 > 0:21:05and took his acting surname from one of the Pet Shop Boys?
0:21:05 > 0:21:06David Tennant.
0:21:06 > 0:21:09What American term for illicitly distilled alcohol
0:21:09 > 0:21:13is thought to come from the fact that it was usually made or transported at night?
0:21:14 > 0:21:16- Bootleg.- Moonshine.
0:21:16 > 0:21:21Purim and Hanukkah are festivals in which religion?
0:21:21 > 0:21:24Hanukkah... Buddhism?
0:21:24 > 0:21:28Judaism. What is the nationality of the driver Mark Webber, who announced
0:21:28 > 0:21:31his retirement from Formula 1 at the end of the 2013 season?
0:21:31 > 0:21:32Australian.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35What long-running series of British comedies was revived to
0:21:35 > 0:21:39a critically hostile reception in 1992, with a film set in 1492,
0:21:39 > 0:21:42starring Jim Dale as Christopher Columbus?
0:21:42 > 0:21:44Um...
0:21:45 > 0:21:47Carry On Columbus.
0:21:47 > 0:21:52What has been described by Jay Leno as just "show business for ugly people"?
0:21:53 > 0:21:55Oh, God. Pass.
0:21:55 > 0:21:59In May 2013 who broke Tom Jones's record for the longest time
0:21:59 > 0:22:01between number one albums by a British act,
0:22:01 > 0:22:05when he topped the charts with his album Time after a gap of 34 years?
0:22:06 > 0:22:08- Cliff Richard?- Rod Stewart.
0:22:08 > 0:22:11Founded in 1818, the Leander Club, based in Henley-on-Thames,
0:22:11 > 0:22:14is one of the world's oldest clubs in which sport?
0:22:14 > 0:22:15Rowing?
0:22:15 > 0:22:18The name of what type of oval flat bread literally means
0:22:18 > 0:22:20"cake" in modern Greek?
0:22:20 > 0:22:22Pitta?
0:22:22 > 0:22:25The Vortex, in 1924, and Hay Fever in 1925, were among the early
0:22:25 > 0:22:28successful plays by a playwright, composer and actor.
0:22:28 > 0:22:29What was his name?
0:22:29 > 0:22:31Pass.
0:22:31 > 0:22:35Which volcano on the island of Sicily is known to locals as Montebello?
0:22:36 > 0:22:38- Vesuvius?- Mount Etna.
0:22:38 > 0:22:42The adult males of which great apes are known as silverbacks?
0:22:42 > 0:22:44Could you repeat that, sorry? BEEP
0:22:44 > 0:22:47The adult males of which great apes are known as silverbacks?
0:22:49 > 0:22:52Gorillas?
0:22:52 > 0:22:58Two passes. Sir Noel Coward was the playwright, composer and actor.
0:22:58 > 0:23:02And show business for ugly people is politics.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06Danny, you've now got 17 points.
0:23:06 > 0:23:08APPLAUSE
0:23:15 > 0:23:16And finally, Mike, please.
0:23:19 > 0:23:23And they tell me that there is television in the mornings nowadays.
0:23:23 > 0:23:27There is! While you're on-air. BBC Breakfast.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30You are remarkable - unique, possibly, among sports
0:23:30 > 0:23:33- journalists, because you don't just talk about it, you do it.- Yes.
0:23:33 > 0:23:36On Saturday mornings, we have this little feature going, seven years
0:23:36 > 0:23:40now, I think it is, in which we try and profile a different sport.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42The idea being to get mere mortals off the sofa
0:23:42 > 0:23:44trying something new, like myself.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46If I can do it, anyone can have a go.
0:23:46 > 0:23:50- And so we've featured 350 or so now.- You've done 350?- Yes.
0:23:50 > 0:23:53Sometimes bizarre, sometimes new initiatives by mainstream sports.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56- But some sports I've never even heard of.- Such as?
0:23:56 > 0:23:59Husky racing was one of the first that springs to mind.
0:23:59 > 0:24:01- Shin kicking, nurdling... - What's nurdling?
0:24:01 > 0:24:05It's like rugby along an alleyway, with bricks - well, little stones -
0:24:05 > 0:24:09and dustbin lids.
0:24:09 > 0:24:10Two teams. It's quite combative.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12A lot of rugby players like playing it.
0:24:12 > 0:24:14So you throw them at each other or something?
0:24:14 > 0:24:18No, you throw them to your team-mates along five or six miles down a country lane.
0:24:18 > 0:24:23And the other team have to knock your nurdle into the bushes with their dustbin lids.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26- And you have grouting sticks as well. - Obviously, yeah.
0:24:26 > 0:24:30It never ceases to amaze me how many new sports are out there
0:24:30 > 0:24:32that have been invented since I started this series.
0:24:32 > 0:24:35- It wouldn't work quite so well on radio, would it?- No.
0:24:35 > 0:24:38There is a purpose to it. Good.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40Mike, you've got 12 points already,
0:24:40 > 0:24:43but you never know with General Knowledge. Tricky, tricky.
0:24:43 > 0:24:44Here we go. Two minutes.
0:24:44 > 0:24:48Muscat and Merlot are varieties of which fruit?
0:24:48 > 0:24:49Um, grapes?
0:24:49 > 0:24:52The comedy panel show presented by Jimmy Carr, based on opinion
0:24:52 > 0:24:54polls, is called 8 Out Of 10 what?
0:24:54 > 0:24:55Cats.
0:24:55 > 0:25:00Anthony Charles Lynton are the forenames of which Prime Minister who resigned in June 2007?
0:25:01 > 0:25:03Oh, Tony Blair.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05What sport did Winston Churchill describe as,
0:25:05 > 0:25:09"An ineffectual attempt to direct an uncontrollable sphere into an
0:25:09 > 0:25:12"inaccessible hole with instruments ill adapted for the purpose"?
0:25:12 > 0:25:16- Golf.- On a bird, what are primaries, secondaries and coverts?
0:25:16 > 0:25:20- Feathers?- Which historic city on the coast of Croatia was formerly
0:25:20 > 0:25:21known by the Italian name of Ragusa?
0:25:21 > 0:25:24- Zagreb?- Dubrovnik.
0:25:24 > 0:25:27What did God tell Noah to build from gopher wood 300 cubits long,
0:25:27 > 0:25:2950 cubits wide and 30 cubits high?
0:25:29 > 0:25:31Ark?
0:25:31 > 0:25:34Which Lancashire painter was described by the art critic Brian Sewell
0:25:34 > 0:25:36as a "cloth-capped nincompoop"?
0:25:36 > 0:25:39- Lowry?- What is the name of the two American space probes
0:25:39 > 0:25:42launched in 1977 to send information back to
0:25:42 > 0:25:45Earth as they travel beyond the outer planets of the solar system?
0:25:45 > 0:25:49- Apollo...?- No, I'll stop you there. Voyager 1 and 2.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52Who stars as Captain Phillips in the 2013 film based on the true
0:25:52 > 0:25:55story of an American cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates?
0:25:55 > 0:25:59- Tom Hanks.- Which ingredient of black pudding traditionally gives
0:25:59 > 0:26:00the pudding its dark colour?
0:26:00 > 0:26:02- Blood?- Yeah, pig's blood.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05Which North Yorkshire town introduced its first bathing machine in 1735
0:26:05 > 0:26:08and claims to be Britain's oldest seaside resort?
0:26:08 > 0:26:09- Whitby.- Scarborough.
0:26:09 > 0:26:11Who was the hero of William Boyd's novel Solo,
0:26:11 > 0:26:14first published in September 2013?
0:26:14 > 0:26:15- Tom Sawyer.- James Bond.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18The Australian musical instrument known as a lagerphone is
0:26:18 > 0:26:21made from objects that are loosely nailed onto a wooden pole to
0:26:21 > 0:26:25produce a jingling sound when they are shaken. What are the objects?
0:26:25 > 0:26:27- Tambourines?- Beer bottle tops.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29Who led the Chinese Communist revolution that overthrew
0:26:29 > 0:26:31the nationalist government in 1949?
0:26:31 > 0:26:33Mao?
0:26:33 > 0:26:35Which car firm which became part of British Leyland made models
0:26:35 > 0:26:39called the TR7, the Herald and the Stag?
0:26:39 > 0:26:41- Triumph. - Which children's author
0:26:41 > 0:26:44and illustrator created A Very Hungry Caterpillar?
0:26:44 > 0:26:45Pass. BEEP
0:26:45 > 0:26:49And that's it. I nearly got on to another one but not quite.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51The answer to that last one, the Hungry Caterpillar,
0:26:51 > 0:26:53was written by Eric Carle.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56But you got there, Mike. 23 points.
0:26:56 > 0:26:59APPLAUSE
0:27:07 > 0:27:11So, he stormed away in the end. Let's have a look at all the scores.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13In fourth place with 12 points, Prue Leith. Third place,
0:27:13 > 0:27:1916 points, Gail Porter. Second place, 17 points, Danny John Jules.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22First place, 23 points, Mike Bushell.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24APPLAUSE
0:27:33 > 0:27:35Mike...
0:27:37 > 0:27:41- Congratulations! - Thank you very much, John.- Well done.
0:27:41 > 0:27:45How does that experience compare with some of your scarier sports?
0:27:45 > 0:27:47I think it's right up there with it
0:27:47 > 0:27:50because the Mastermind chair is an icon of British television.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53It goes back so far. I watched as a child, and so sitting in it
0:27:53 > 0:27:56I didn't know what effect it would have on my mind.
0:27:56 > 0:27:59- Luckily, in the end, the homework paid off and it was OK.- Yeah.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01But it was the proudest moment of my career.
0:28:01 > 0:28:02The proudest moment of your career?
0:28:02 > 0:28:05Thanks a lot, Mike. Well done.
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