Episode 2 Celebrity Mastermind

I know my specialist subject at the moment

but whether I freeze or not in that chair, I just do not know, and that is the fear.

I'm not really nervous

because I'm sort of resigned to the fact that I'm going to be useless.

I don't think one ever gets over Mastermind,

even if you get the trophy.

If I come third I'll be very happy. Just not last. Please!

Four celebrities who hope

they know everything there is to know about their specialist subject.

Who will be crowned tonight's Celebrity Mastermind?

First in the spotlight tonight is the presenter Gail Porter.

She's answering questions on Number One Singles.

Next, the actor Danny John Jules.

His specialist subject, the choreographer Bob Fosse.

The food critic Prue Leith will be answering questions

on Cooking During The War,

and BBC Breakfast's Mike Bushell and his subject, Alan Partridge.

APPLAUSE

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

Our four contenders have already done rather well for themselves

one way or the other, but this is a test of a different sort

and they might well be wondering at this stage what they've let

themselves in for, especially given

that there is no great prize at the end

unless, of course, you count the honour of becoming

the Celebrity Mastermind champion.

To claim that honour they must face one and half minutes

on their specialist subject, two minutes on general knowledge.

So, let's ask our first contender to join us, please.

And your name is?

Your chosen charity?

And your chosen subject?

In 90 seconds, starting now.

Robbie Williams's first UK number one was in September 1998.

What was it called?

-Feel.

-Millennium.

Who performed the song Saturday Night that ended Wet Wet Wet's

15-week run at number one in September 1994?

Whigfield.

Whitney Huston starred in the film The Bodyguard

and topped the chart in '92

with I Will Always Love You from the soundtrack.

Which other singer wrote the song?

-Pass.

-Which new Kids On The Block single provided them

with their second UK number one and the first new number one of 1990?

Hanging Tough.

Isaac Taylor and Zac are members of which Oklahoma boyband

that topped the charts with MMMBop in June 1997?

Hanson.

Westlife had the Christmas number one in 1999

with a double A side, a cover of Abba's I Have A Dream

and which other song that topped the chart for Terry Jacks in '74?

Seasons In The Sun.

Which group, whose name derives from that of a Native American tribe

topped the charts only once in July 1998 with Deeper Underground?

Jamiroquai.

Stay was a number one hit in 1992 for Siobhan Fahey

and Marcella Detroit. What name did they record under?

Shakespeares Sister.

Setting Sun reached number one for the DJs Tom Rowlands

and Ed Simons, better known as The Chemical Brothers.

Who co-wrote the lyrics and performed lead vocals on the track?

Noel Gallagher.

The Tom Cruise film Days Of Thunder features which song by Maria McKee?

It was her only UK number one.

Oh... Pass.

Christina Aguilera topped the charts

for the first time in October 1999.

What was the name of the song?

Genie In A Bottle.

-Which song from the Lloyd Webber and Rice musical...?

-BEEP

..Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat gave Jason Donovan

a number one single in '91?

-I Have A Dream?

-Nearly!

-I Had A Dream.

-Nearly.

-I Had A Nightmare?

LAUGHTER

No, but you probably will afterwards! Any Dream Will Do!

-I knew there was a dream in there somewhere.

-Nearly got it.

Well, you didn't do badly. You did very well. Two passes.

That Tom Cruise song featured the song Show Me Heaven.

-That's the one!

-The writer of I Will Always Love You, Dolly Parton.

-I didn't know that.

-Yeah.

-Anyway, Gail, you've got 8 points.

-Thank you very much.

APPLAUSE

And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Your chosen charity?

And your chosen subject?

Bob Fosse. In 90 seconds, here we go.

Bob Fosse was a choreographer and director.

His largely autobiographical film of 1979 takes its title

from which number that opens the musical Chicago?

All That Jazz.

As young teenagers, Fosse and his school friend Charles Grass

formed a tap dancing duo that performed for a number of years.

What did they call themselves?

The Riff Brothers.

With which Hollywood studio did Fosse sign a short-lived

contract in 1952 before returning to the theatre?

MGM?

Fosse won his Oscar for Best Director for the film that

gave him his big Hollywood breakthrough.

What's the title of the film?

Cabaret.

Which touring show about ex-army veterans readjusting to

civilian life did Fosse join as a dancer in October 1946,

soon after he had left the Navy?

Dance Me A Song?

Call Me Mister. What was the name of the Broadway musical star who

became Bob Fosse's third wife in April 1960?

Gwen Verdon.

Fosse has an acting credit in the 1974 film musical

The Little Prince, directed by Stanley Donen.

What part does he play?

A snake.

Fosse developed Fellini's film Nights Of Cabiria

into a musical that opened on Broadway in 1966.

What is the musical called?

Sweet Charity.

Who was originally cast to play the part of Joe Gideon in All That Jazz

until artistic differences made him pull out, replaced by Roy Scheider?

Sorry, can you repeat that?

Who was originally cast to play the role of Joe Gideon in All That Jazz

until artistic differences made him pull out,

to be replaced by Roy Scheider?

Richard Dreyfuss.

Hermes Pan was the choreographer of a 1953 Cole Porter film musical...

BEEP

..and allowed Fosse to choreograph his own sequence

in the number From This Moment On.

What was the title of the film?

Kiss Me Kate.

No passes, Danny. You've got 9 points.

APPLAUSE

And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Your chosen charity?

And your chosen subject?

In 90 seconds, here we go.

A campaign was set up in 1941 to persuade people to grow

vegetables in their garden or allotment. What was its slogan?

Dig For Victory.

During the war, a vegetable that contains a lot of vitamin A

was marketed as helping people see in the dark.

A useful benefit in the blackout! What was the vegetable?

Carrot.

What colour were the RB2 ration books issued for children

under five, babies and expectant mothers in January 1940?

-Blue.

-Green.

Which brand of canned meat imported from America

and made from spiced chopped pork and ham

became the mainstay of the war timetable?

Um, corned beef?

Spam!

Who was the Scottish Unionist MP who'd been

instrumental in launching the Milk For Schools scheme in the 1930s

and was Minister of Health at the start of the war?

Um...Hudson?

Walter Elliot.

The greyish-brown wholemeal bread that was compulsory

from March 1942 was nicknamed Hitler's Secret Weapon.

What was it officially called?

-The National Loaf.

-Meat was added to the ration list in March 1940.

Instead of being restricted by weight,

the allowance was measured by what?

Price.

How many ounces of butter did each adult have per week

when food rationing was first introduced in January 1940?

Six.

No, only four ounces.

The Dig For Victory campaign published posters featuring

Dr Carrot and a potato-based character with what name?

Potato Pete.

After canteens were introduced for factory workers,

a scheme was set up for rural areas

operated by the Women's Voluntary Service,

that distributed thousands of what food items to farm workers?

Pies.

-The comedians Elsie and Doris Waters...

-BEEP

..gave nutrition advice on the radio in The Kitchen Front

as which two comic charladies?

-The Buggins?

-No, it was Gert and Daisy.

-Gert and Daisy.

-Well, you're not old enough...

-Prue, you scored 6 points.

-SHE GROANS

APPLAUSE

And our final contender, please.

And your name is?

Your chosen charity?

And your chosen subject?

In 90 seconds, here we go.

In the first series of I'm Alan Partridge, which budget hotel

does Alan stay at after his chat show, Knowing Me Knowing You,

comes to a catastrophic end?

Linton Travel Tavern.

Following the demise of his TV show, Alan Partridge

is working at a local radio station, usually hosting phone-ins.

What is the name of the station?

Radio Norwich.

On St Valentine's Day, Alan takes Jill from his production company

out on a date to which unusual venue?

Owl sanctuary.

Who is the special guest in the first episode

of Knowing Me Knowing You, who fails to turn up even though a special chatroom has been set up?

Roger Moore.

In The Colour Of Alan he is organising a sales conference

for a Reading-based fireplace company that

advertises itself as "The Ferrari of the coal effect fire industry". What is the company called?

Dante.

How does Alan take advantage of the eat-as-much-as-you-like breakfast

provided at the Linton Travel Tavern?

He's got a 12-inch plate.

Alan is so annoyed when The Times television critic uses a derogatory word

about Knowing Me Knowing You, he uses the word throughout the show. What word?

Moribund.

In Watership Alan, what do a group of farmers who he has insulted earlier

throw off a bridge onto the boat that he is using for a commercial?

A dead cow.

Which German-made tropical fruit drink does Alan try to promote

with unsubtle product placement throughout the series of Knowing Me Knowing You?

-Spunt.

-Sprunt, yeah.

In the episode, Basic Alan, what does he try to steal in an attempt

to be spontaneous and it gets him into trouble with the police?

A traffic cone.

In A Room With An Alan, he tries to get the go-ahead

for a second series from the chief commissioning editor of the BBC. What's his name?

-Tony Hayers.

-Which...?

-BEEP

I've started so I'll finish.

Which famous person does Alan claim to know in order

to impress his Ukrainian girlfriend Sonja?

He even gets someone to pretend to be the celebrity.

Bono from U2.

Absolutely right, as were all the other answers.

No passes. 12 points.

APPLAUSE

Well, some very good scores there. Let's have a look at all of them.

In fourth place, 6 points, Prue Leith.

Third place, 8 points, Gail Porter.

Second place, 9 points, Danny John Jules.

In the lead, 12 points, Mike Bushell.

The General Knowledge Round now, and if the scores are level

at the end of it, the person with the fewer passes is the winner.

Let's get on with it and ask Prue to join us again, please.

And talking about wartime cooking, what a difference from today.

And the big difference, I suppose,

is that now we can buy any food any time, anywhere.

Then, it was strictly restricted.

Hardly any meat, hardly any fat, awful lot of veg,

-horrible lot of bread and potatoes.

-Yes!

This idea that food is no longer seasonal -

if we want strawberries in December we have strawberries -

-is that good or bad, do you think?

-Well, I think it's bad

because I think if you have strawberries from California in the middle of winter,

it's huge food miles, they don't taste of anything but cardboard.

Why not wait until June and get the best English strawberries?

That's what I think.

The trouble is, on that basis, you wouldn't even have, say,

bananas, and we couldn't live without bananas every day, could we?

Just after the war, children got bananas, and children

and pregnant mums and very old people. You wouldn't have qualified.

Maybe you would, nearly. LAUGHTER

Thanks, Prue! You've got 6 points.

You've got two minutes of General Knowledge to catch up,

so nil desperandum. Here we go. How many deadly sins are there?

-How many deadly things are there?

-Deadly sins.

Oh, seven.

Whose collection of verses for children, When We Were Very Young

and Now We Are Six, were first published in 1924 and 1937?

AA Milne.

Which of The Beatles, who released his latest album New

in October 2013, plays the guitar left-handed?

Don't know.

Which palace built for the Duke of Marlborough is England's only

non-royal, non-ecclesiastical palace?

Blenheim.

What word can be applied to a variety of common butterfly

and to a cat with a mottled coat of black, cream and reddish-brown markings?

-Marmalade?

-Tortoiseshell.

Chuck Wepner, a boxer known as the Bayonne Bleeder,

who was defeated in the 15th round by Muhammad Ali in 1975, is often

credited with being the inspiration for which fictional film character?

Frazier?

Rocky. Which US state gives its name to a dish of fried chicken

often served with fried bananas and sweetcorn?

Maryland.

Whose first crime novel, The Cuckoo's Calling,

was published in April 2013 under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith?

-Agatha Christie?

-JK Rowling.

Which islands hold an annual public holiday on June 14

to commemorate their liberation in 1982?

Pass.

Which writer and broadcaster famous for his travel programmes

on television was president of the Royal Geographical Society from 2009 until 2012?

Pass.

What do visitors to Rome traditionally

throw into the Trevi Fountain to ensure a return to the city?

A coin.

What British list, updated in July 2013,

when a new name was added at number three, includes Miss Lyla Gilman

at number 31, Mrs Michael Tindall at 15 and Miss Savannah Phillips at 13?

Pass.

Which perennial herb of the mint family is associated with

remembrance because it was once believed to improve the memory?

Rosemary?

What was the name of the War Minister who first set

eyes on Christine Keeler as she swam naked...

-BEEP

-..at Lord Astor's Cliveden estate in 1961?

Um...

-Oh, God...

-You'll be cross with yourself.

-I'm furious with myself already!

-Well, the chair does that to you.

I'm stone last anyway, so it doesn't matter.

No, no, you've done all right.

Profumo is the answer to that one, of course.

And that list, where I gave you all those names,

was the order of succession to the throne.

They all moved down one when George was born.

Michael Palin was the writer famous for his travel programmes.

The Falkland Islands hold their annual public holiday on June 14.

Paul McCartney plays the guitar left-handed.

Prue, you now have a total of 12 points.

APPLAUSE

And now, Gail again, please.

And, um...Gail, you were presenter on Top Of The Pops in your 20s.

I was, yes. I used to watch Top Of The Pops when I was a child

and then suddenly I had the microphone - "Still number one". Very exciting.

Fantastic. But we don't have Top Of The Pops now.

-The whole thing has changed.

-There's no real great music programmes.

Jools Holland, of course. That's brilliant.

But there's nothing mainstream any more.

And I suppose the other thing is that the songs, good though

they may be, simply don't stay in the charts for ever, do they?

-Which they did at one point. They'd be there for months.

-They did.

I was talking about the charts to my daughter. I was going, "What's number one?"

She's like, "Mum, really?" What do we say now? I don't know.

I'm not very hip. It seems to be more about image nowadays.

People seem to pay more attention to what people

look like and the controversy that seems to surround them

instead of actual good music.

-That's a pity, isn't it?

-It is a pity.

Gail, you've got 8 points and you now have two minutes of General Knowledge.

So, here we go.

What does the abbreviated term "deli" mean

when referring to a type of food shop?

Delicatessen.

Anastasia and Drizella are the sisters in which 1950 classic Disney film?

Cinderella.

What title, a form of the Latin "Caesar",

was held by the rulers of Russia until the revolution?

Pass.

Which television comedian and actor married Victoria Coren

in London in November 2012 with his comedy partner Robert Webb as best man?

Pass. I've forgotten!

Imelda Marcos, the wife of the former president of the Philippines, fled the country

in 1986 famously leaving behind her a vast collection of what?

Shoes.

What is the name of the expensive honey from New Zealand

and Australia, that is popular as a health supplement?

-Akuna?

-Manuka.

The 16th century Italian painter Paolo Caliari

was known as Paolo Veronese because he was born in which city in 1528?

-Venice?

-Verona.

Which TV drama series set in rural Oxfordshire at the end of the 19th century

is based on Flora Thompson's memoirs of her own childhood?

Pass.

What is the name of the green pigment in plants that absorbs

energy from light which is then used to convert carbon dioxide into carbohydrates?

Pass.

Which band was formed after two of its members, Alex Turner

and Jamie Cook, were given guitars for Christmas in 2001?

The Arctic Monkeys.

Which city is the setting for the BBC crime series The Fall,

starring Gillian Anderson as DSI Stella Gibson?

-London.

-Belfast.

What word for a loan typically advanced by a bank or a building society to buy

a property, comes from the old French for "death pledge".

Mortgage.

Which actress, who won an Oscar for her role in the film Shakespeare In Love

has a website called Goop, to advise on lifestyle choices

such as diet, exercise and fashion?

Gwyneth Paltrow.

What was the name of the mythical winged horse that sprang from the blood of the slain Gorgon Medusa?

Pegasus.

In what winter sport is the American Bode Miller a multiple

world champion, World Cup winner and Olympic medallist?

Skiing?

What name is given to bars laid across a pit in the road that

prevents animals from straying?

BEEP Grate.

Not quite. Grid.

Oh, come on! LAUGHTER

-If it was down to me you'd have the lot.

-Challenge!

LAUGHTER

Anyway, you had four passes.

Chlorophyll is the name of that pigment that... Yeah, you knew that.

Lark Rise To Candleford is Flora Thompson's memoirs of her childhood.

-David Mitchell married...

-Oh!

-Yeah, you were struggling with that.

Married Victoria Coren. And the Tzar, the rulers of Russia,

-comes from a form of "Caesar".

-Of course.

-But, Gail, you've now got 16 points.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

And now, Danny again, please. And...

Danny, we remember, many of us, anyway, Red Dwarf,

which was great for you, I imagine.

But you had another gig offered to you

and I was wondering how you reacted to it when your agent said to you,

"Danny, it's six months in a Caribbean idyll.

"Could you force yourself to go?" What did you say?

-"You're crazy!"

-Yeah.

-"What took you so long to ask me?"

LAUGHTER

Yeah. Yes, I got back in October. A new series starts in January.

-And the new series is?

-Death In Paradise.

-Was it really paradise?

Yes, it is.

But obviously the heat does get to you

and sometimes you do wish you were back in London, believe it or not.

-I haven't asked you where you were, by the way.

-I was in Guadalupe.

-Guadalupe.

-You should come and do a cameo.

-I'm going to put your name up for it.

-But no more than a fortnight, all right?

That's roughly what everyone does. In the middle of winter. You're on.

Right, that's a commitment. Danny, you've got 9 points. Here we go.

Two minutes of General Knowledge. Who were described as a pair of star-crossed lovers

in the prologue to act one of a Shakespeare play?

Ooh...

Romeo and Juliet?

The four bronze animals that surround Nelson's Column

in Trafalgar Square were modelled by Sir Edwin Landseer.

What type of creatures are they?

-Lions.

-Which actor, well known for playing Doctor Who,

was born David John McDonald in Bathgate, West Lothian,

and took his acting surname from one of the Pet Shop Boys?

David Tennant.

What American term for illicitly distilled alcohol

is thought to come from the fact that it was usually made or transported at night?

-Bootleg.

-Moonshine.

Purim and Hanukkah are festivals in which religion?

Hanukkah... Buddhism?

Judaism. What is the nationality of the driver Mark Webber, who announced

his retirement from Formula 1 at the end of the 2013 season?

Australian.

What long-running series of British comedies was revived to

a critically hostile reception in 1992, with a film set in 1492,

starring Jim Dale as Christopher Columbus?

Um...

Carry On Columbus.

What has been described by Jay Leno as just "show business for ugly people"?

Oh, God. Pass.

In May 2013 who broke Tom Jones's record for the longest time

between number one albums by a British act,

when he topped the charts with his album Time after a gap of 34 years?

-Cliff Richard?

-Rod Stewart.

Founded in 1818, the Leander Club, based in Henley-on-Thames,

is one of the world's oldest clubs in which sport?

Rowing?

The name of what type of oval flat bread literally means

"cake" in modern Greek?

Pitta?

The Vortex, in 1924, and Hay Fever in 1925, were among the early

successful plays by a playwright, composer and actor.

What was his name?

Pass.

Which volcano on the island of Sicily is known to locals as Montebello?

-Vesuvius?

-Mount Etna.

The adult males of which great apes are known as silverbacks?

Could you repeat that, sorry? BEEP

The adult males of which great apes are known as silverbacks?

Gorillas?

Two passes. Sir Noel Coward was the playwright, composer and actor.

And show business for ugly people is politics.

Danny, you've now got 17 points.

APPLAUSE

And finally, Mike, please.

And they tell me that there is television in the mornings nowadays.

There is! While you're on-air. BBC Breakfast.

You are remarkable - unique, possibly, among sports

-journalists, because you don't just talk about it, you do it.

-Yes.

On Saturday mornings, we have this little feature going, seven years

now, I think it is, in which we try and profile a different sport.

The idea being to get mere mortals off the sofa

trying something new, like myself.

If I can do it, anyone can have a go.

-And so we've featured 350 or so now.

-You've done 350?

-Yes.

Sometimes bizarre, sometimes new initiatives by mainstream sports.

-But some sports I've never even heard of.

-Such as?

Husky racing was one of the first that springs to mind.

-Shin kicking, nurdling...

-What's nurdling?

It's like rugby along an alleyway, with bricks - well, little stones -

and dustbin lids.

Two teams. It's quite combative.

A lot of rugby players like playing it.

So you throw them at each other or something?

No, you throw them to your team-mates along five or six miles down a country lane.

And the other team have to knock your nurdle into the bushes with their dustbin lids.

-And you have grouting sticks as well.

-Obviously, yeah.

It never ceases to amaze me how many new sports are out there

that have been invented since I started this series.

-It wouldn't work quite so well on radio, would it?

-No.

There is a purpose to it. Good.

Mike, you've got 12 points already,

but you never know with General Knowledge. Tricky, tricky.

Here we go. Two minutes.

Muscat and Merlot are varieties of which fruit?

Um, grapes?

The comedy panel show presented by Jimmy Carr, based on opinion

polls, is called 8 Out Of 10 what?

Cats.

Anthony Charles Lynton are the forenames of which Prime Minister who resigned in June 2007?

Oh, Tony Blair.

What sport did Winston Churchill describe as,

"An ineffectual attempt to direct an uncontrollable sphere into an

"inaccessible hole with instruments ill adapted for the purpose"?

-Golf.

-On a bird, what are primaries, secondaries and coverts?

-Feathers?

-Which historic city on the coast of Croatia was formerly

known by the Italian name of Ragusa?

-Zagreb?

-Dubrovnik.

What did God tell Noah to build from gopher wood 300 cubits long,

50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high?

Ark?

Which Lancashire painter was described by the art critic Brian Sewell

as a "cloth-capped nincompoop"?

-Lowry?

-What is the name of the two American space probes

launched in 1977 to send information back to

Earth as they travel beyond the outer planets of the solar system?

-Apollo...?

-No, I'll stop you there. Voyager 1 and 2.

Who stars as Captain Phillips in the 2013 film based on the true

story of an American cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates?

-Tom Hanks.

-Which ingredient of black pudding traditionally gives

the pudding its dark colour?

-Blood?

-Yeah, pig's blood.

Which North Yorkshire town introduced its first bathing machine in 1735

and claims to be Britain's oldest seaside resort?

-Whitby.

-Scarborough.

Who was the hero of William Boyd's novel Solo,

first published in September 2013?

-Tom Sawyer.

-James Bond.

The Australian musical instrument known as a lagerphone is

made from objects that are loosely nailed onto a wooden pole to

produce a jingling sound when they are shaken. What are the objects?

-Tambourines?

-Beer bottle tops.

Who led the Chinese Communist revolution that overthrew

the nationalist government in 1949?

Mao?

Which car firm which became part of British Leyland made models

called the TR7, the Herald and the Stag?

-Triumph.

-Which children's author

and illustrator created A Very Hungry Caterpillar?

Pass. BEEP

And that's it. I nearly got on to another one but not quite.

The answer to that last one, the Hungry Caterpillar,

was written by Eric Carle.

But you got there, Mike. 23 points.

APPLAUSE

So, he stormed away in the end. Let's have a look at all the scores.

In fourth place with 12 points, Prue Leith. Third place,

16 points, Gail Porter. Second place, 17 points, Danny John Jules.

First place, 23 points, Mike Bushell.

APPLAUSE

Mike...

-Congratulations!

-Thank you very much, John.

-Well done.

How does that experience compare with some of your scarier sports?

I think it's right up there with it

because the Mastermind chair is an icon of British television.

It goes back so far. I watched as a child, and so sitting in it

I didn't know what effect it would have on my mind.

-Luckily, in the end, the homework paid off and it was OK.

-Yeah.

But it was the proudest moment of my career.

The proudest moment of your career?

Thanks a lot, Mike. Well done.

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