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We are all petrified.

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All of us on the show are petrified of doing it.

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Feel like I'm about to take my driving test.

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But you won't get another chance if you muck it up.

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I want that trophy. I want it real bad.

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As long as they stay clear of nuclear physics,

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I think I'm in with a shout on the general knowledge.

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Four celebrities who hope they know everything there is to know

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about their specialist subject.

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Who will be crowned tonight's Celebrity Mastermind?

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First in the spotlight tonight is the poet John Cooper Clarke.

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He's answering questions on the films of Elvis Presley.

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Next, the actor Ben Faulks, otherwise known as Mr Bloom.

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His specialist subject,

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Ernest Shackleton's epic trans-Antarctic expedition.

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The writer and comedian Roy Hudd will be answering questions

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on the great music hall star Dan Ledo.

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And the singer-songwriter Frank Turner and his subject,

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Iron Maiden.

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APPLAUSE

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

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With four contenders who thought it was a good idea when they agreed

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to do it, but may well be having second thoughts now they are here.

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Well, too late to back out now. In the next half-hour,

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they must each face one and a half minutes on their specialist subject

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and two minutes of questions on general knowledge.

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And one of them will then become a Celebrity Mastermind champion.

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

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And your name is?

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Your chosen charity?

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Add your chosen subject?

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The films of Elvis in 90 seconds. Here we go.

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Elvis Presley's first film, Love Me Tender,

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is set in the aftermath of which conflict?

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The American Civil War.

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The song Can't Help Falling In Love appears on the soundtrack of a '61 film

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in which Presley plays the former soldier Chad Gates. What is the film?

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-Blue Hawaii.

-A close friend of Presley and a member of his inner circle,

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the Memphis Mafia, appeared in 16 of Presley's films in the '60s,

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usually playing extras or supporting parts. Who was he?

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Joe Esposito.

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No, Red West. What is the occupation of Dolores Gomez,

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one of the two women in Mike Windgren's life in the film Fun In Acapulco?

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-The occupation?

-Yes.

-She's a tour guide.

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No, a bull-fighter, actually. In Jailhouse Rock, what is the name of the record label

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that Presley's character Vince Everett signs up to

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after leaving prison, before forming Laurel Records?

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Can't remember.

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In which 1964 film does Presley play

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the twin roles of Josh Morgan and Jodie Tatum?

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Kissin' Cousins.

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In King Creole, Walter Matthau plays a crooked nightclub owner

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who forces Danny Fisher to sing in his club.

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What is the name of Matthau's character?

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Maxie Fields.

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In Charro!, Presley's character Jess Wade is being pursued

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by the Mexican government for the theft of a historical object. What is it?

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The victory cannon.

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Whom does Presley's character Kid Galahad fight and beat

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in what was supposed to be a fixed boxing match against a superior opponent?

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Crusher Jenkins.

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No, Ramon "Sugar Boy" Romero.

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In G.I. Blues, Presley's character Tulsa McLean sings a song,

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partly in German, to a puppet. What's the song?

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Wooden Heart. BEEP

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Yes. Time is up. You had one pass.

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In Jailhouse Rock, the name of the record label was Deltona Records.

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John, you've scored six points.

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APPLAUSE

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And our next contender, please.

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And your name is?

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Your chosen charity?

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And your chosen subject?

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In 90 seconds, starting now.

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Ernest Shackleton's 1914 endurance expedition aimed to be

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the first across Antarctica crossing from the Weddell Sea through the South Pole

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to which sea at the Southern Ocean?

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-The Ross Sea.

-What was the name of the Australian-born photographer

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who joined the expedition in Buenos Aires?

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-Frank Hurley.

-To which newspaper did Shackleton sell the rights

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to the story of the expedition before they set off in August 1914?

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-The Daily Chronicle.

-What name was given to the quarters between decks

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that the men moved into in March 1915

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when Endurance became stranded in the ice?

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-The Ritz.

-After the expedition abandoned Endurance and left Dump Camp,

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where they'd thrown away a lot of their belongings,

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the men stayed nearly two months on a floating lump of ice.

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What name did they give their settlement?

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-Ocean Camp.

-A week before Midwinter's Day in 1915,

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the crew organised a racing day involving their animals. What did they call it?

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The Rollicking Dog Derby?

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Yes. When they left the ice, they headed to Elephant Island on the three lifeboats.

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What was the name of the cape where they landed seven days later?

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Cape Bloody Wild.

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Cape Valentine. In April 1916, Shackleton and the rescue party

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set sail for South Georgia, leaving his second-in-command in charge

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of the remaining 22 crew members on Elephant Island. Who was he?

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-Frank Wild.

-The rescue team built a camp on South Georgia

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from the upturned James Caird lifeboat and named it

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after a character from Dickens' David Copperfield. What name did they give the camp?

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Peggotty Camp.

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Shackleton's relief party eventually reached Stromness Bay on South Georgia,

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where they asked the manager of the whaling station for help. Who was he?

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Mattheus Andersson?

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-No, Thoralf Sorlle. Shackleton...

-BEEP

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I've started, so I'll finish. ..was finally able to rescue his stranded crew

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from Elephant Island after the tug steamer Yelcho was lent to him

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by the government of which country?

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Chile.

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Is correct. No passes, Ben. You've scored nine points.

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APPLAUSE

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And our next contender, please.

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LAUGHTER

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And your name is?

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Your chosen charity?

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And your chosen subject?

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Dan Leno in 90 seconds. The music hall and theatre performer Dan Leno

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performed in pantomimes at the Drury Lane Theatre for a number of years,

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having first been engaged to play there by which manager and producer?

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Sir Augustus Harris.

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What character did Leno play in the pantomime Bluebeard at Drury Lane?

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At Drury Lane... he played the Baroness.

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-He played Sister Anne.

-Ah.

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When the young Leno performed the song Pity The Poor Italian Boy,

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what creatures crawled all over him as part of the act?

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Rats.

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In 1902, Leno was invited to edit the April Fool's Day edition of which daily newspaper?

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Believe it or not, The Sun.

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Yes! As a child performer, Leno did a clog dancing act that was seen on stage

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by a famous writer who told him, "Good, little man. You'll make headway."

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Who was the writer?

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Charles Dickens.

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Leno beat the favourites to win the competition

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for champion clog dancer of the world for the first time

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at the Princess' Music Hall in...?

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-Leeds.

-Leno made his New York debut in 1897.

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Before his final encore of a monologue and the hornpipe,

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his last song was a request from one of the boxes. Which song?

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The Poppies.

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Yes, The Red Poppies. One of Leno's best friends performed alongside him

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in Humpty Dumpty at Drury Lane as King Solomon to Leno's Queen Spritely.

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What was his name?

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Herbert Campbell.

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In the song Our Stores, Leno plays a shop assistant and during the patter,

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he says, "There's something awfully artful, and a mystery in..." what?

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An egg.

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At which theatre did Leno give his last performance on October 20, 1904?

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Drury... No, it wasn't at Drury Lane. Sorry.

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-All right, I'll tell you. It was the London Pavilion.

-Ah!

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Leno edited a paper that first appeared in 1898

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and ran for two years, with the first issue selling 350,000 copies.

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Its title was Dan Leno's...?

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Comic Journal.

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Correct. Roy, no passes,

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-you scored nine points.

-Thank you.

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APPLAUSE

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And our final contender, please.

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And your name is?

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Your chosen charity?

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And your chosen subject?

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Iron Maiden in 90 seconds. Here we go.

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Iron Maiden was founded by Steve Harris on which day in 1975?

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Christmas Day.

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Who was the original lead singer with the band?

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He was soon replaced by Dennis Wilcock.

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-Paul Day.

-In August 2010, Iron Maiden released their 15th studio album.

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What is it called?

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The Final Frontier.

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Iron Maiden left Sanctuary Records in 2006.

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What was the name of the new company they joined,

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run by their manager Rod Smallwood?

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Pass.

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What was the nickname of Barry Graham Purkis,

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the drummer who appeared briefly with the band in 1977?

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Thunderstick.

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On what tour in 2008 did lead singer Bruce Dickinson first pilot the band

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and their entourage in a Boeing 757 named Ed Force One?

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Somewhere Back In Time.

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Which best of album, released in 2002, includes the track

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The Wicker Man, inspired by the cult classic horror film?

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Best Of The Beast?

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Edward The Great. What's the title of the 2009 feature length documentary

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and live album recorded during the Somewhere Back In Time tour?

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Rock In Rio.

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Flight 666. The band's longest single to date,

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The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, appears on which '84 album?

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Powerslave.

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The chart-topping 1988 album Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

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was inspired by a book by which American science-fiction writer?

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Orson Scott Card.

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Which song, said to be the first written by Steve Harris,

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was used as the B-side of the Running Free single in 1980?

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Invasion?

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Burning Ambition. On the Final Frontier tour of 2010-11,

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what did the band's mascot Eddie appear as during the song Iron Maiden?

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Pass.

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Bruce Dickinson and Adrian Smith returned to the band on July 11, 1999,

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in a concert at which venue in Saint John, New Brunswick?

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Montreal Molson Amphitheatre.

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-It's actually Harbour Station.

-Damn!

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Two passes. During the song Iron Maiden,

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Eddie appeared as an alien mutant.

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And the name of the new company they joined

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was Phantom Music Management.

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You scored, Frank, seven points.

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OK. Thank you.

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APPLAUSE

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Well, a good close round there. Let's have a look at all the scores.

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In fourth place, six points - John Cooper Clarke.

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Third place, seven points - Frank Turner.

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Joint first place, nine points apiece - Ben Faulks and Roy Hudd.

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APPLAUSE

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Round 2 now, the general knowledge round,

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and if the scores are level at the end of it

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then the person with the fewer passes is the winner.

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

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Right. Now, a performance poet.

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That's me.

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The difference between poetry that you read...

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That you write for somebody to read in the sort of...

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You know, quietly with contemplation and all that -

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the difference between that and performance poetry?

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Well, I don't think any poetry's really meant to be read

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-quietly in contemplation.

-Do you not?

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No, I'd say that all poetry is written in order to sound good.

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So even if you are on your own, you should read it aloud, I think.

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-Ah, right. So there's no difference between...

-No.

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I mean, in what sense in that case are you a performance poet?

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It's a... Well, in that I read it in public places for money.

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LAUGHTER

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SCATTERED APPLAUSE

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But I think it all benefits from being heard.

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I mean, Shakespeare, you can't think of a better poet than him,

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he wrote for actors.

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He would have been very surprised, I think,

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to imagine that people ever read it out of a book.

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So when you write your poetry,

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do you read it to yourself as you're going through,

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do you say each bit aloud,

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each line aloud or something as you go through?

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I finish it off, then I read it aloud.

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-Then I tweak the bits that don't sound too good.

-Give us a flavour.

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-Do us a bit of your...

-Well, here's a quick one.

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This one's called Home, Honey, I'm High!

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Frontal lobes just get a trim?

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Or did you meet the Moonies?

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Wrong on both counts, Jim

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Tee many Martoonis.

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LAUGHTER

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APPLAUSE DROWNS SPEECH

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And, erm, are they all that serious?

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-Yeah.

-John, you've got six points.

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Two minutes of general knowledge coming up now. Let's see how you do.

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Here you go. What is the name of the pair of ice dancers

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who performed their 1984

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Olympic gold medal-winning routine to Bolero by Ravel?

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-Torvill and Dean.

-Yes.

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Who uses the name @Pontifex

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to communicate with his Twitter followers?

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-Jim Broadbent.

-The Pope!

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The opening of a canal in 1914

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meant that ships travelling

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between the east and west coast of America

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no longer had to round Cape Horn. Which canal?

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-The Panama Canal.

-Yep.

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What term is used for the seasonal loss

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of hair, fur or feathers that occurs in mammals and birds

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to make way for new growth?

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-Moulting.

-Yes.

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According to the King in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2,

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-"uneasy lies the head that wears a..."

-Crown.

-Yes.

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What is the title of the 2012 Quentin Tarantino film

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starring Jamie Foxx and Leonardo DiCaprio

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in which a freed slave

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sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal plantation owner?

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Django Unchained.

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Yes. Which Irish boy-band

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entered the charts at number one

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with each of their first seven releases,

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starting with Swear It Again in 1999?

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-Westlife.

-Yes.

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In 2013 who left Everton after 11 years in charge

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to take over from Sir Alex Ferguson

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as the manager of Manchester United?

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-David Moyes.

-Which street in the West End of London

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was designed by John Nash for his employer,

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the future George IV?

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It originally incorporated a fashionable shopping area

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known as the Quadrant.

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-Burlington...

-Regent Street.

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Which television astronomy series

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is presented by Brian Cox and Dara O Brian?

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Erm...

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Erm...

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-Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

-Stargazing!

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The whale-like profile of Mount Greylock in Massachusetts

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is said to have inspired the writer Herman Melville

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to create what monstrous sea creature?

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-Moby Dick.

-Yes. Which Scottish river

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was famous for the shipyards along its banks

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that produced liners such as the Queen Elizabeth and the QE2?

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-Clyde.

-Yes.

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Which future American President

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worked as a radio sports broadcaster

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first in Davenport, Iowa,

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and then in the state capital Des Moines during the 1930s?

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Erm...

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-Jimmy Carter.

-Ronald Reagan.

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A well-known variety of prosciutto, or raw cured ham,

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often served with melon

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is named after an Italian city. What is the city called?

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Parma. BEEP

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Parma, you got in just in time. Parma is correct.

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John, you now have a total of 16 points.

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APPLAUSE

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And now Frank, again, please.

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And, Frank, your most memorable -

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in the sense that it will always be remembered - act,

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was the opening act for the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics.

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We were the warm-up act.

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Well, all right. Warm-up, if you like.

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But you were seen by a huge audience.

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Yeah, there was a lot of people there,

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both in the stadium, and just before we went on

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a guy with a headset and a clipboard told us

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how many people were watching on the TV.

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And I said, "You could have told me that afterwards."

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-How many was it?

-27 million, apparently.

-Wow.

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Which is a few. It's more than I usually play to.

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Just a bit, yeah. Some warm-up act, eh?

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What was it like? It must have been an amazing sensation.

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It was a very weird, well, couple of months actually.

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It was very surreal, there was kind of giant Harry Potter monsters

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and people dressed as ninjas and stuff like this,

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and almost the weirdest thing

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was that you kind of got totally used to being in Danny Boyle's world

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and you just would be having a fag

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with somebody dressed as a carnival queen

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and just chatting away and it wasn't odd any more.

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Yeah. Right, you got seven points.

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And two minutes of general knowledge now. Here we go.

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According to the proverb,

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what comes before a fall?

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-Pride.

-Yes. The Rialto Bridge and the Bridge of Sighs

0:16:330:16:35

are famous landmarks in which Italian city?

0:16:350:16:37

-Venice.

-Yes. The England cricketers

0:16:370:16:39

Jonathan Trott, Matt Prior and Kevin Pietersen -

0:16:390:16:41

members of the team that beat Australia

0:16:410:16:43

to retain the Ashes in 2013 -

0:16:430:16:44

were all born in which country?

0:16:440:16:46

-Pass.

-In which cult American television series

0:16:460:16:49

does a high-school chemistry teacher

0:16:490:16:50

turn to a life of crime after being diagnosed

0:16:500:16:53

-with a terminal illness?

-Breaking Bad.

0:16:530:16:55

Yes, the stream known as the Water of Leith

0:16:550:16:57

runs close to the centre of which British city?

0:16:570:16:59

-Edinburgh.

-Yes, what is the name of the mythological hero

0:16:590:17:01

whose first exploit was to strangle two serpents

0:17:010:17:04

sent by Hera to kill him

0:17:040:17:05

while he was still in his cradle?

0:17:050:17:07

-Hercules.

-Yes.

0:17:070:17:08

In 2012, who topped the UK album charts

0:17:080:17:10

for the first time in 22 years

0:17:100:17:11

with Good Morning To The Night,

0:17:110:17:13

a collaboration with the Australian electro-pop duo Pnau?

0:17:130:17:17

Pass.

0:17:170:17:18

What type of bear was first seen in Britain in 1251

0:17:180:17:21

when Henry III received one as a present

0:17:210:17:22

from the King of Norway?

0:17:220:17:23

It was kept in the tower but given a long chain

0:17:230:17:25

so it could fish in the Thames.

0:17:250:17:27

-Grizzly bear.

-It was a polar bear!

0:17:270:17:28

What title is held by the person

0:17:280:17:30

who presides over debates in the House of Commons?

0:17:300:17:32

-The Speaker.

-Yes, in America,

0:17:320:17:34

by what name is the 25 cent coin more popularly known?

0:17:340:17:36

-Quarter.

-Yes. Which author lists his places of education

0:17:360:17:39

as Cambridge University, where he learned English,

0:17:390:17:41

and Highbury, where he learned about football

0:17:410:17:43

-and the facts of life?

-Pass.

0:17:430:17:45

The name of which fresh, white soft Greek cheese,

0:17:450:17:47

traditionally made only from sheep and goat's milk,

0:17:470:17:50

-means "slice".

-Feta.

-Yes.

0:17:500:17:51

The tympanic membrane

0:17:510:17:52

which separates the outer ear from the middle ear

0:17:520:17:55

is commonly known by what name?

0:17:550:17:56

-Eardrum.

-Yep. Which long-running musical

0:17:560:17:58

is described as "lovingly ripped off"

0:17:580:18:00

from the film Monty Python And The Holy Grail?

0:18:000:18:02

Erm... Eh, pass.

0:18:020:18:03

Which prison in Berlin was demolished

0:18:030:18:06

after the death of its last inmate, Rudolf Hess, in 1987?

0:18:060:18:08

-Spandau.

-Yes.

0:18:080:18:10

In mathematics, what Greek letter is used

0:18:100:18:12

to denote the ratio of a circle's circumference

0:18:120:18:14

-to its diameter?

-Pi.

-Yes.

0:18:140:18:16

The shipping forecast area Fair Isle

0:18:160:18:17

includes the Orkneys and which other group of islands?

0:18:170:18:20

-The Shetlands.

-Yes.

0:18:200:18:21

By what name is the United States Military Academy

0:18:210:18:23

in New York State generally known?

0:18:230:18:25

-Green Point.

-West Point.

0:18:250:18:26

The singer born Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson,

0:18:260:18:29

who first topped the UK single charts in 2008

0:18:290:18:31

with I Kissed A Girl, is better known by what name?

0:18:310:18:33

-Katy Perry.

-Is correct.

0:18:330:18:35

You had four passes.

0:18:350:18:37

-Spamalot.

-Spamalot! Argh!

0:18:370:18:39

From The Holy Grail. Yeah.

0:18:390:18:41

Nick Hornby learned about football and the facts of life

0:18:410:18:44

at Arsenal and all that.

0:18:440:18:45

-Yep.

-Elton John topped the album charts in 2012.

0:18:450:18:49

And all those cricketers, Jonathan Trott etc,

0:18:490:18:52

were from South Africa.

0:18:520:18:54

But you've now got, Frank, 20 points.

0:18:540:18:56

APPLAUSE

0:18:560:18:59

And now, Ben again, please.

0:19:060:19:08

And I know you'll be bored stiff with it,

0:19:090:19:13

-but Mr Bloom is how you are known by an awful lot of people.

-Yeah, yeah.

0:19:130:19:16

And you've been doing it a while and, for those who don't watch it,

0:19:160:19:21

it's introducing small children to...

0:19:210:19:24

-fruit and vegetables and stuff like that.

-Yeah, yeah.

0:19:240:19:27

So it's about a gardener and the Veggies,

0:19:270:19:30

who are a group of baby vegetables who live in his shed.

0:19:300:19:33

-As you do.

-As you do, as you do!

0:19:330:19:36

And do you get the sense...?

0:19:360:19:38

Because you've been doing it for how long now on CBeebies?

0:19:380:19:40

Erm, well, we've just done our fourth series.

0:19:400:19:43

Do you get the sense that the children...

0:19:430:19:45

You talk to lots of kids during the making of it, obviously,

0:19:450:19:48

do you get the sense they don't much...

0:19:480:19:50

They don't know very much about vegetables nowadays?

0:19:500:19:53

Erm... Well, you always get surprised.

0:19:530:19:56

You ask kids about vegetables and they tell you about

0:19:560:19:59

how they prepare the butternut squashes or the fennels

0:19:590:20:01

and they're very up on it,

0:20:010:20:03

but then sometimes, vegetables, they can look a bit alien.

0:20:030:20:06

They arrive on your plate, you don't know how they've been prepared

0:20:060:20:09

or where they've come from, they've just arrived.

0:20:090:20:11

So it introduces children to, you know, the origins

0:20:110:20:14

and how they can grow them themselves.

0:20:140:20:18

Right, Ben. You have nine points.

0:20:180:20:20

General knowledge coming up, and 20 is the score to beat.

0:20:200:20:24

Can you do it? Here we go.

0:20:240:20:26

The yen is the unit of currency in which country?

0:20:260:20:28

-China.

-Japan. Which comic-book superhero

0:20:280:20:31

was played by the British actor Henry Cavill

0:20:310:20:33

in the 2013 film Man Of Steel?

0:20:330:20:35

Superman.

0:20:350:20:36

Yes, who appeared in school uniform

0:20:360:20:38

on the video of her first number-one single

0:20:380:20:40

Baby, One More Time in '99?

0:20:400:20:41

Britney Spears.

0:20:410:20:42

Yes. Which substance

0:20:420:20:43

used to intensify the natural flavour of certain foods

0:20:430:20:46

is said to cause an allergic reaction in some people,

0:20:460:20:48

often known as Chinese-restaurant syndrome?

0:20:480:20:51

-MSG.

-Yeah, monosodium glutamate.

0:20:510:20:53

In traditional pantomime,

0:20:530:20:54

what is the name of the washer woman who is Aladdin's mother?

0:20:540:20:57

-Widow Twankey.

-Yes. The faces of past American Presidents

0:20:570:20:59

are carved into the hillside of Mount Rushmore.

0:20:590:21:02

Each about 60 feet tall,

0:21:020:21:03

how many faces are there?

0:21:030:21:05

-Four.

-Yes. Who stopped working

0:21:050:21:06

on a PhD in quantum physics at Cambridge in 1991

0:21:060:21:09

to concentrate on comedy

0:21:090:21:11

and teamed up with Alexander Armstrong?

0:21:110:21:13

Erm... No idea.

0:21:130:21:16

Which English football club formerly known as The Rokerites

0:21:160:21:18

adopted the nickname the Black Cats

0:21:180:21:21

following a poll of supporters?

0:21:210:21:23

-Wolves.

-Sunderland.

0:21:230:21:25

The designer and restaurant owner Terence Conran

0:21:250:21:28

has a son born in 1959

0:21:280:21:29

who is a fashion designer. What's his name?

0:21:290:21:31

-No idea.

-Napoleon and Snowball the pigs and Boxer the horse

0:21:310:21:35

appear in which novel by George Orwell?

0:21:350:21:37

-Animal Farm.

-Yes.

0:21:370:21:38

Which king secretly married

0:21:380:21:40

the widowed Lady Elizabeth Woodville in May 1464

0:21:400:21:43

much to the annoyance of his cousin, the Earl of Warwick,

0:21:430:21:46

who wanted him to marry a French princess.

0:21:460:21:48

Pass.

0:21:480:21:50

The former editor of the Manchester Guardian, CP Scott,

0:21:500:21:52

once said about a form of entertainment,

0:21:520:21:54

"The word is half Greek and half Latin.

0:21:540:21:56

"No good will come of it."

0:21:560:21:57

What was he referring to?

0:21:570:21:59

-Pass.

-What word is used

0:21:590:22:01

to describe either a filed-down key that

0:22:010:22:03

can open many different locks,

0:22:030:22:05

or the minimum number of staff required to operate a service?

0:22:050:22:08

-Skeleton.

-Yes.

0:22:080:22:09

In which European capital city is St Vitus cathedral?

0:22:090:22:12

It contains the tomb of St Wenceslas.

0:22:120:22:15

-Paris?

-Prague.

0:22:150:22:17

What name is given to the sharp conical teeth

0:22:170:22:19

in carnivorous mammals such as dogs

0:22:190:22:21

that have developed for tearing meat?

0:22:210:22:23

-Incisors.

-Canines.

0:22:230:22:25

-BEEP

-The Bat, published in English in 2012,

0:22:250:22:28

is the first novel to feature the detective Harry Hole.

0:22:280:22:31

What is the name of the Norwegian writer

0:22:310:22:33

who created him?

0:22:330:22:35

Oh... No idea.

0:22:350:22:36

I'll tell you then, it's Jo Nesbo.

0:22:360:22:38

Ooh.

0:22:380:22:39

And your other passes -

0:22:390:22:41

CP Scott was referring, when he said, "Half Greek and half Latin,

0:22:410:22:44

"no good will come of it", he was referring to television.

0:22:440:22:47

Edward IV secretly married Lady Elizabeth Woodville.

0:22:470:22:50

Jasper Conran is Terence's son.

0:22:500:22:53

And Ben Miller stopped working in Quantum physics,

0:22:530:22:57

teamed up with Alexander Armstrong.

0:22:570:22:59

You have now, Ben, a total of 16 points.

0:22:590:23:02

APPLAUSE

0:23:020:23:06

And finally, Roy, again, please.

0:23:120:23:15

-And Dan Leno.

-Mm.

0:23:160:23:18

Now, what a star in his day. He was massive, wasn't he?

0:23:180:23:22

He was an enormous star.

0:23:220:23:24

When you think, really, recording was in its infancy,

0:23:240:23:29

films were in their infancy,

0:23:290:23:31

yet he was known by millions and was hugely popular.

0:23:310:23:35

And people say about Victorian audiences

0:23:350:23:39

that they liked simple things and simple humour.

0:23:390:23:42

Wasn't so with Dan, he was very off-the-wall,

0:23:420:23:46

I mean, people say he was the forerunner, really, of the Goons

0:23:460:23:49

and Monty Python and all those things,

0:23:490:23:52

and you can believe it, some of the phrases he used.

0:23:520:23:55

But that kind of humour that was...

0:23:550:23:57

I'm tempted to say innocent and much less slick than now.

0:23:570:24:01

Now it's got to be terribly slick and fast

0:24:010:24:03

and relatively crude compared with how it was,

0:24:030:24:06

or have I got that wrong as well?

0:24:060:24:07

No, I think you've got it absolutely right.

0:24:070:24:09

The thing is that people do think about music hall and they say,

0:24:090:24:12

well, of course, it was all very mother-in-laws

0:24:120:24:15

and all that sort of stuff.

0:24:150:24:16

It wasn't. Certainly wasn't as far as Leno was concerned.

0:24:160:24:19

I think that sort of...

0:24:190:24:21

To try and describe what an individual comedian like Leno was,

0:24:210:24:25

totally original to all the other comedians around at that time.

0:24:250:24:29

But it's like trying to describe Frankie Howerd to somebody today.

0:24:290:24:32

How can you describe that? Or Tommy Cooper.

0:24:320:24:35

You can say, OK, he did tricks wrong,

0:24:350:24:38

-but there was a lot more to Tommy Cooper than that.

-Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

0:24:380:24:41

A genius.

0:24:410:24:42

Roy, you have nine points.

0:24:420:24:44

This is where it all crumbles, but there we are.

0:24:440:24:47

This is the tricky bit. 20 is the score to beat.

0:24:470:24:49

Let's see if you can do it and become the Celebrity Mastermind.

0:24:490:24:52

Here we go.

0:24:520:24:54

What medical term is used

0:24:540:24:55

to describe an irrational fear of enclosed spaces?

0:24:550:24:58

Oh... Claustrophobia.

0:24:580:24:59

Yes, in which county is the seaside resort

0:24:590:25:01

-of Clacton-on-Sea?

-Essex.

0:25:010:25:03

Yes. In the festive 1822 poem by Clement Clarke,

0:25:030:25:06

commonly known as Twas The Night Before Christmas,

0:25:060:25:08

"No creatures were stirring, not even a..."?

0:25:080:25:10

Mouse.

0:25:100:25:11

Yes. What term, possibly derived from the word recruit,

0:25:110:25:14

is used particularly in American sports for a player during his

0:25:140:25:18

first season in a given competition or league?

0:25:180:25:20

-Dan Leno.

-Rookie.

0:25:200:25:22

Which Scottish singer, once promoted as Britain's answer to Bob Dylan,

0:25:220:25:25

had seven top ten hits in the '60s, starting with Catch The Wind in '65?

0:25:250:25:29

Donovan.

0:25:290:25:30

In the Second World War, Operation Dynamo was the codename

0:25:300:25:33

for the evacuation of British troops from the beaches near which port?

0:25:330:25:37

-Not Dover, no?

-No, Dunkirk.

0:25:380:25:40

During the production of the '63 Hitchcock film starring

0:25:400:25:43

Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren, seagulls were reportedly fed with a mixture of

0:25:430:25:46

wheat and whisky to stop them moving around too much. What was the film?

0:25:460:25:50

The Birds.

0:25:500:25:51

What expression for excessive bureaucracy

0:25:510:25:53

comes from the binding used to tie up official documents?

0:25:530:25:55

Red tape.

0:25:550:25:56

Who was appointed as the first artistic director

0:25:560:25:59

of Britain's National Theatre in 1962?

0:25:590:26:01

Laurence Olivier.

0:26:010:26:02

What is the name of the author whose novels The Hunt For Red October,

0:26:020:26:05

Patriot Games and Clear And Present Danger have been made into films?

0:26:050:26:08

-Dan Leno.

-Tom Clancy.

0:26:080:26:10

In 1989, which politician used the royal we

0:26:100:26:12

when she announced, "We have become a grandmother?"

0:26:120:26:15

Margaret Thatcher.

0:26:150:26:16

What name is given to the Chinese dish that's

0:26:160:26:18

made from the upper part of the pork belly, cut into

0:26:180:26:20

narrow strips on the bone and often barbecued?

0:26:200:26:23

Dan Leno Stew.

0:26:230:26:24

Spare ribs.

0:26:240:26:26

The damselfly is a smaller relative of which colourful insect?

0:26:260:26:28

They both have two pairs of narrow transparent wings.

0:26:280:26:31

Dragonfly.

0:26:310:26:32

In which country is Maastricht, where

0:26:320:26:34

the treaty establishing the European Union was signed in 1992?

0:26:340:26:37

-Belgium.

-Holland.

0:26:370:26:39

What is the name of the artist whose 1872 painting of Le Havre Harbour

0:26:390:26:43

called Impression Sunrise gave the Impressionist movement its name?

0:26:430:26:46

-Turner.

-Monet.

0:26:500:26:51

Which song from the Gershwin musical Porgy And Bess

0:26:510:26:53

-includes the line...

-BEEP

0:26:530:26:55

.."The things that you're liable to read in the Bible?"

0:26:550:26:58

It Ain't Necessarily So.

0:26:580:27:00

Exactly.

0:27:000:27:02

Roy, 19 points.

0:27:020:27:04

APPLAUSE

0:27:060:27:07

Well, close but not quite there.

0:27:180:27:19

Let's have look at the scores.

0:27:190:27:21

In joint third place, 16 points apiece,

0:27:210:27:24

John Cooper Clarke and Ben Faulks.

0:27:240:27:26

Second place, 19 points, Roy Hudd.

0:27:260:27:29

First place, 20 points, Frank Turner.

0:27:290:27:32

Well done.

0:27:350:27:36

-Congratulations.

-Thank you.

0:27:500:27:52

So, how does that compare with the opening act at the Olympic...?

0:27:520:27:55

I think this is way better.

0:27:550:27:57

It's been on my bucket list to be on Mastermind since I was a kid

0:27:570:28:00

-and I'm very, very proud to be holding this.

-Excellent.

0:28:000:28:02

-Well, well done.

-Thank you very much.

0:28:020:28:04

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0:28:040:28:05

to take part in the regular Mastermind programme.

0:28:050:28:07

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0:28:070:28:11

do visit us online at bbc.co.uk/mastermind,

0:28:110:28:14

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0:28:140:28:18

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0:28:180:28:22

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0:28:220:28:23

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