0:00:02 > 0:00:05There's a little part of everyone that wants to be on Mastermind.
0:00:05 > 0:00:08A strange, masochistic little part of everyone.
0:00:08 > 0:00:11I just hope that I get the questions that I want.
0:00:11 > 0:00:15I'm worried about appearing a fool and sweating on my top lip.
0:00:15 > 0:00:18There are worse things than making a complete idiot of yourself.
0:00:18 > 0:00:19Watch this space.
0:00:19 > 0:00:24Four celebrities who hope they know everything there is to know about their specialist subject.
0:00:24 > 0:00:29Who will be crowned tonight's Celebrity Mastermind?
0:00:45 > 0:00:48First in the spotlight tonight is the presenter, Tony Livesy.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51He answers questions on The Jam.
0:00:51 > 0:00:52Next, the comedian, Ava Vidal.
0:00:52 > 0:00:56She's answering questions on Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
0:00:56 > 0:01:01The television presenter Monty Halls on the explorer and conservationist, Jacques Cousteau.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04And Rev Richard Coles on his subject,
0:01:04 > 0:01:07the Mapp and Lucia novels of EF Benson.
0:01:21 > 0:01:25Hello, I'm John Humphrys and welcome to Celebrity Mastermind.
0:01:25 > 0:01:30Our four, brave contenders may think they've done pretty well with their careers so far
0:01:30 > 0:01:34but what they haven't done yet is sit in that infamous black chair
0:01:34 > 0:01:38and panicked as the clock counts down just one and a half minutes
0:01:38 > 0:01:42on their specialist subject and two minutes on general knowledge.
0:01:42 > 0:01:47Only then can one of them claim the title Celebrity Mastermind Champion.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50So, let us ask our first contender to join us please.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00And your name is?
0:02:00 > 0:02:02Your chosen charity?
0:02:02 > 0:02:05And your chosen subject?
0:02:05 > 0:02:07The Jam in 90 seconds. He we go.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10The Jam released their debut single in April 1977.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13It was also the title track from their first album. What was it called?
0:02:13 > 0:02:17- In- The City. Which single gave The Jam their first UK top five hit
0:02:17 > 0:02:22and eventually reached number three in the UK charts in 1979?
0:02:22 > 0:02:23- Tube Station.- The Eton Rifles.
0:02:23 > 0:02:26The B-side of the band's third single, The Modern World,
0:02:26 > 0:02:29featured live versions of Sweet Soul Music, Bricks and Mortar,
0:02:29 > 0:02:34and Back In My Arms Again that had been recorded at which club?
0:02:34 > 0:02:36- The Vortex Club. - No, The Hundred Club.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39Three of the group's signals entered the UK charts at number one.
0:02:39 > 0:02:41The double A side, A Town Called Malice,
0:02:41 > 0:02:45Precious and Beat Surrender were two, what was the other one?
0:02:45 > 0:02:46Going Underground.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48Who produced A Town Called Malice with the band
0:02:48 > 0:02:50and subsequently produced their sixth studio album, The Gift?
0:02:50 > 0:02:51Pete Wilson.
0:02:51 > 0:02:55Which song with lyrics by Paul Weller and music credited to the whole band
0:02:55 > 0:03:00was released in May 1981 and reached number four in the UK singles charts?
0:03:00 > 0:03:02- Absolute Beginners. - Funeral Pyre.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05The band's third single which was released in October '77
0:03:05 > 0:03:08only reached number 36 in the UK charts, what was its title?
0:03:08 > 0:03:10- All Around The World. - The Modern World.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12The band's first album included the song, Slow Down,
0:03:12 > 0:03:16which had previously been covered by The Beatles. Who wrote the song?
0:03:16 > 0:03:17Pass.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19The B-side to the single That's Entertainment
0:03:19 > 0:03:23featured the live version of a previous Jam hit. What was its title?
0:03:23 > 0:03:24Oh, pass.
0:03:24 > 0:03:27In 1978, the band reached number 25 in the UK singles chart
0:03:27 > 0:03:29with a cover of a Kinks song. What was its title?
0:03:29 > 0:03:33- David Watts.- In July 1982, a song from the album The Gift
0:03:33 > 0:03:37that hadn't been released as a single in the UK entered the UK singles chart as an import
0:03:37 > 0:03:39- and reached number eight? - BEEP
0:03:39 > 0:03:41Which song was it?
0:03:41 > 0:03:43- Just Who Is The Five O'Clock Hero? - Exactly right.
0:03:43 > 0:03:44You had two passes.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47That B side to the single, That's Entertainment,
0:03:47 > 0:03:50was Down In The Tube Station At Midnight.
0:03:51 > 0:03:55And the writer of the song Slow Down, Larry Williams.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58Tony, you got five points!
0:04:07 > 0:04:09And our next contender please.
0:04:16 > 0:04:17And your name is?
0:04:17 > 0:04:19Your chosen charity?
0:04:21 > 0:04:23And your chosen subject?
0:04:25 > 0:04:28Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Here we go. 90 seconds.
0:04:28 > 0:04:30In the series, Buffy The Vampire Slayer,
0:04:30 > 0:04:33the mysterious stranger who tells Buffy to be ready for the harvest
0:04:33 > 0:04:36is later revealed to be a vampire with a soul, what's his name?
0:04:36 > 0:04:37Angel.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39When Buffy first meets Rupert Giles,
0:04:39 > 0:04:42he is employed as the librarian at Sunnydale High.
0:04:42 > 0:04:46For which secretive London-based organisation does he also work?
0:04:46 > 0:04:47The Watcher's Council.
0:04:47 > 0:04:52In The Puppet Show, Buffy suspects that a ventriloquist's dummy is harvesting human organs.
0:04:52 > 0:04:55- What's the name of the dummy? - Pass.
0:04:55 > 0:04:59Which club that Buffy is told is "the scene" in Sunnydale when she first arrives
0:04:59 > 0:05:02becomes one of the regular hangouts for Buffy and her friends?
0:05:02 > 0:05:03The Bronze.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05In Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered,
0:05:05 > 0:05:07a love spell goes wrong and makes Xander irresistible
0:05:07 > 0:05:09to the female population of Sunnydale.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11Who is the only person to be immune?
0:05:11 > 0:05:12Cordelia Chase.
0:05:12 > 0:05:16In Halloween, which member of staff orders Buffy to oversee a group of young trick-or-treaters?
0:05:16 > 0:05:18Principal Snyder.
0:05:18 > 0:05:21Instead of the foreign exchange student they are expecting,
0:05:21 > 0:05:25Buffy and her mother unsuspectingly play host to a mummy from which civilisation?
0:05:25 > 0:05:26Pass.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28In the season two episode, Surprise,
0:05:28 > 0:05:32what is the name of the supposedly unstoppable demon that is reassembled
0:05:32 > 0:05:34by Drusilla, Buffy later kills him with a rocket launcher?
0:05:34 > 0:05:35The Judge.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38In Out Of Mind, Out Of Sight, Cordelia is injured
0:05:38 > 0:05:42on the evening of her coronation as May Queen by an invisible attacker.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44What is the name of the person who attacks her?
0:05:44 > 0:05:47- Amy?- No, Marcy Ross.
0:05:47 > 0:05:51In the episode I Robot, You Jane, how is Willow contacted by a demon
0:05:51 > 0:05:53who pretends to be a human called Malcolm?
0:05:53 > 0:05:55Via the internet.
0:05:55 > 0:05:59Which vampire who has already killed two slayers first arrives in Sunnydale
0:05:59 > 0:06:01- in the season two episode, School Hard... - BEEP
0:06:01 > 0:06:04..when he attacks Buffy at parent teacher night?
0:06:04 > 0:06:05- Spike.- Is correct.
0:06:05 > 0:06:11You had two passes. That mummy came from the Inca civilisation.
0:06:11 > 0:06:14And the name of the dummy was Sid.
0:06:14 > 0:06:18What else could it be, when you think about? You have eight points.
0:06:18 > 0:06:19Thank you.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29And our next contender please.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37And your name is?
0:06:37 > 0:06:38Your chosen charity?
0:06:40 > 0:06:42Chosen subject?
0:06:44 > 0:06:45Jacques Cousteau. In 90 seconds.
0:06:45 > 0:06:50In the early '40s, Jacques Cousteau developed breathing apparatus with Emile Gagnan
0:06:50 > 0:06:52so that they could explore underwater.
0:06:52 > 0:06:56- What name did they give to the apparatus?- Scuba.- Aqualung.
0:06:56 > 0:07:00In 1918, his father started working for an American businessman
0:07:00 > 0:07:04who advised the sickly young Jacques to take up a more active life and learn to swim.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06- What was his name?- Higgins.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09What was the name of the French Navy training ship on board which
0:07:09 > 0:07:11Cousteau sailed the world in the 1930s?
0:07:11 > 0:07:15The... Oh, no, the Jeanne d'Arc.
0:07:15 > 0:07:20Cousteau married his first wife in July 1937 at the church of Saint-Louis-des-Invalides in Paris.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23- What was her name?- Simone Melchior.
0:07:23 > 0:07:27Cousteau won an Emmy award in 1985 for this two-part documentary
0:07:27 > 0:07:30about a river described as reluctant ally and friendly foe.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33- Which river?- Mississippi.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36What generic name was given to the series of experiments in which
0:07:36 > 0:07:40aquanauts spent periods living in capsules anchored to the seabed between 1962 and 1965?
0:07:40 > 0:07:44They lived in Conshelf but it was pre-continent I think.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46Conshelf is the generic name, indeed.
0:07:46 > 0:07:49What is the name of the spring and cave system near Avignon
0:07:49 > 0:07:54whose exploration by Cousteau and his team in August '46 nearly ended in disaster?
0:07:54 > 0:07:56Fontaine de Vaucluse.
0:07:56 > 0:08:00Cousteau developed a wind ship in '85 that was powered by two turbo sails
0:08:00 > 0:08:02comprising towers that drew in the wind.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04- What was the name of the ship? - Alcyone.
0:08:04 > 0:08:10Who narrated the English language version of the 1966 National Geographic television special,
0:08:10 > 0:08:11The World of Jacques Cousteau?
0:08:11 > 0:08:12Pass.
0:08:12 > 0:08:16Cousteau resigned from the French Navy in 1957 after 27 years
0:08:16 > 0:08:22- and became Director of the Oceanographic Museum in which principality?- Monaco.
0:08:22 > 0:08:23Is correct.
0:08:23 > 0:08:27One pass, the narrator of that '66 television special was Orson Welles.
0:08:27 > 0:08:30- Of course. - You, Monty, have eight points.
0:08:30 > 0:08:31Thank you.
0:08:39 > 0:08:41And our final contender please.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48And your name is?
0:08:48 > 0:08:49Your chosen charity?
0:08:51 > 0:08:52And your chosen subject?
0:08:55 > 0:08:56In 90 seconds.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59The fictional town that appears in most of the Mapp and Lucia books
0:08:59 > 0:09:01is based on the Sussex resort of Rye.
0:09:01 > 0:09:04- What name does the author EF Benson give it?- Tilling.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07The Inspector of Police calls to speak to Lucia during a game of bridge
0:09:07 > 0:09:09causing the players to hide their cards in panic.
0:09:09 > 0:09:11At whose teashop is the game being played?
0:09:11 > 0:09:12Diver.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15After Lucia plays a practical joke, who gets his own back
0:09:15 > 0:09:19by inserting a real pear into a dish of stone fruit and then eating it?
0:09:19 > 0:09:20Georgie Pillson.
0:09:20 > 0:09:23Miss Mapp warns Lucia to always knock before going into the studio
0:09:23 > 0:09:27- of which artist because she might be painting a nude?- Irene Coles.
0:09:27 > 0:09:28After trying Christian Science,
0:09:28 > 0:09:31Daisy Quantock seeks the services of an Indian man
0:09:31 > 0:09:34who becomes her guru and apparently cures her of what?
0:09:34 > 0:09:36- Sciatica?- No, a cold.
0:09:36 > 0:09:39Lucia decides to invest in the stock exchange after reading the obituary
0:09:39 > 0:09:41of a former governess whose spectacular success
0:09:41 > 0:09:44had enabled her to become a wealthy benefactor. What was her name?
0:09:44 > 0:09:47- Dame Caroline Winterglass. - No, Catherine Winterglass.
0:09:47 > 0:09:51While attending a bridge party, Mrs Poppet opens a secret door in a bookcase
0:09:51 > 0:09:54to reveal a large horde of food stored in case of what?
0:09:54 > 0:09:55A coal strike.
0:09:55 > 0:09:57Although known to her friends as Lucia,
0:09:57 > 0:09:59- what is Mrs Lucas' actual first name?- Emmeline.
0:09:59 > 0:10:04What new and delicious malaprop invented by Lucia did Mapp bring to Tilling from Riseholme?
0:10:04 > 0:10:05Reservoir.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07When Lucia's husband inherits a house in London,
0:10:07 > 0:10:11it makes the residents fearful that they will move there permanently.
0:10:11 > 0:10:12What's the address of the house?
0:10:12 > 0:10:1325 Brompton Square.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15What honour was bestowed upon Mrs Poppitt
0:10:15 > 0:10:17for her services to Tilling Hospital
0:10:17 > 0:10:19in letting them occasionally use her motorcar?
0:10:19 > 0:10:20MBE.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23Yes. How much per week does Mapp charge Lucia for renting her house,
0:10:23 > 0:10:25Mallards, during August and September?
0:10:25 > 0:10:27Three guineas?
0:10:27 > 0:10:2815 guineas. Mapp...
0:10:28 > 0:10:29- BEEP - Just started, so I'll finish.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31Mapp misses seeing a member of the royal family
0:10:31 > 0:10:33when he passes through Tilling on a Saturday,
0:10:33 > 0:10:35and embarrassingly ends up
0:10:35 > 0:10:36curtsying to the wrong person!
0:10:36 > 0:10:38Who was the Royal she missed?
0:10:38 > 0:10:40The Prince of Wales.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42Indeed. No passes, Richard.
0:10:42 > 0:10:43Ten points.
0:10:43 > 0:10:44APPLAUSE
0:10:51 > 0:10:54Well, the scores crept up there, didn't they?
0:10:54 > 0:10:55Let's have a look at all of them.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58In fourth place with five points, Tony Livesey.
0:10:58 > 0:11:02In joint second place, eight points apiece, Ava Vidal and Monty Halls.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05In the lead with ten points, Richard Coles.
0:11:05 > 0:11:07APPLAUSE
0:11:10 > 0:11:13It is the general knowledge round now and, if the scores are level at
0:11:13 > 0:11:17the end of it, then the person with the fewer passes will be the winner.
0:11:17 > 0:11:22Let's get on with it and ask Tony to join us again, please.
0:11:22 > 0:11:25And, you are pretty bonkers about The Jam, aren't you?
0:11:25 > 0:11:27Well, it wouldn't appear so, after that first round!
0:11:27 > 0:11:29LAUGHTER
0:11:29 > 0:11:32- A lot of pressure, John.- Sitting in that chair, everything is different.
0:11:32 > 0:11:35But you still knew a lot about them. And the fact is, I don't know
0:11:35 > 0:11:39whether you've made this public or not, but I'm told that,
0:11:39 > 0:11:42when they stopped doing what they were doing, you wept.
0:11:42 > 0:11:46I did. Me and a good friend of mine. And we were 18 years old.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48It was pretty embarrassing.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50What is it about them, then?
0:11:50 > 0:11:54I think at some point... It probably happened to you with The Seekers...
0:11:54 > 0:11:56LAUGHTER
0:11:56 > 0:11:59Hang on, I'll just try and look for some more difficult questions.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01LAUGHTER
0:12:01 > 0:12:02A band speaks to you, doesn't it?
0:12:02 > 0:12:04At some point in your life, a band speaks to.
0:12:04 > 0:12:06A lyricist like Paul Weller speaks to you.
0:12:06 > 0:12:08And he just spoke for my generation.
0:12:08 > 0:12:10And I've pretty much, to my shame, stopped it there.
0:12:10 > 0:12:14I go and see him now, and when he doesn't sing a Jam song, I'm disappointed.
0:12:14 > 0:12:18But I enjoyed what they did and they spoke for people of my age.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20In what way did they?
0:12:20 > 0:12:23Well, they advised me not to go down in the tube station at midnight.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25- There is that! - That's always stuck with me.
0:12:25 > 0:12:27Basically, his songs were always of hope,
0:12:27 > 0:12:29but it was hope for people who didn't necessarily manage to
0:12:29 > 0:12:32live in London at the time when punk rock was huge,
0:12:32 > 0:12:34when we all thought that was the place to be.
0:12:34 > 0:12:36We didn't have much punk rock in Burnley till about 1997.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38Aww. That's very sad.
0:12:38 > 0:12:40It never occurred to you to leave Burnley, then?
0:12:40 > 0:12:42- No.- And go in search of something different?
0:12:42 > 0:12:44It just has, now you've mentioned it.
0:12:44 > 0:12:45LAUGHTER
0:12:45 > 0:12:47A wee bit late now, really.
0:12:47 > 0:12:50Right, you've got five points and you've got two minutes,
0:12:50 > 0:12:52now, on your general knowledge.
0:12:52 > 0:12:53So, let's see how you do with that.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55In which country was the guillotine first used
0:12:55 > 0:12:57to execute a criminal in 1792?
0:12:57 > 0:12:58France.
0:12:58 > 0:13:00Yes. In '94, who became the first actor since
0:13:00 > 0:13:03Spencer Tracy in '38 to receive the Best Actor Oscar
0:13:03 > 0:13:06two years running when he won for his role in Forrest Gump?
0:13:06 > 0:13:07Tom Hanks.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10What kind of soup is known as "Jewish penicillin"
0:13:10 > 0:13:12because of its supposed healing qualities?
0:13:12 > 0:13:13Gazpacho.
0:13:13 > 0:13:15Chicken soup. According to the American composer
0:13:15 > 0:13:19Aaron Copland, composers tend to assume that everyone loves what?
0:13:19 > 0:13:20Them.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22- Ha! Music.- Oh.
0:13:22 > 0:13:25On television, who has presented Long Lost Family with
0:13:25 > 0:13:27Nicky Campbell, Big Brother and Million Pound Drop.
0:13:27 > 0:13:29Oh... Err...
0:13:29 > 0:13:30Davina McCall.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33Which Manchester City goalkeeper
0:13:33 > 0:13:35who died in July 2013 aged 89,
0:13:35 > 0:13:37broke a bone in his neck in the '56 FA Cup final,
0:13:37 > 0:13:38but carried on playing?
0:13:38 > 0:13:40Bert Trautmann.
0:13:40 > 0:13:42Which group fronted by Lionel Richie before he went solo
0:13:42 > 0:13:45had their only number one in '78 with Three Times a Lady?
0:13:45 > 0:13:46Commodores.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48Yes. What general name is applied
0:13:48 > 0:13:49to the breeds of sporting gun dogs
0:13:49 > 0:13:51such as the Labrador that were developed to find
0:13:51 > 0:13:54and bring in dead or wounded game?
0:13:54 > 0:13:55Go on.
0:13:55 > 0:13:56Oh, pass.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58Which muscle in the shoulder region
0:13:58 > 0:14:00takes its name from the Greek letter D?
0:14:01 > 0:14:02Pass.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05Which former pop star founded the Monster Raving Loony Party
0:14:05 > 0:14:08in 1983 as a protest against the stupidity of politics?
0:14:08 > 0:14:09Screaming Lord Sutch.
0:14:09 > 0:14:13Yes. Kaffeklubben Island off the coast of Greenland is generally
0:14:13 > 0:14:16considered the nearest land to what geographical point?
0:14:16 > 0:14:17North Pole?
0:14:17 > 0:14:20What term associated with Hunter S Thompson in America in
0:14:20 > 0:14:24the '70s describes a type of exaggerated subjective journalism?
0:14:24 > 0:14:25Gonzo.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27Whose novel An Officer And A Spy
0:14:27 > 0:14:29published in September 2013 retells the story
0:14:29 > 0:14:32of the Dreyfus affair, one of the great miscarriages of justice?
0:14:32 > 0:14:33Robert Harris.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36The artist and sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi
0:14:36 > 0:14:38designed the mosaics in a central London tube station.
0:14:38 > 0:14:40What's the name of the station?
0:14:40 > 0:14:41Bond Street.
0:14:41 > 0:14:42Tottenham Court Road.
0:14:42 > 0:14:45According to the Bible, who survived a night in the lions' den?
0:14:45 > 0:14:46Daniel.
0:14:46 > 0:14:49Which broad-brimmed hat derives its name from the Spanish for shade?
0:14:49 > 0:14:51- Fedora.- Sombrero.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53Herbert George were the first names of a British
0:14:53 > 0:14:54novelist, essayist..
0:14:54 > 0:14:56- BEEP - ..socialist and historian
0:14:56 > 0:14:57who is now regarded as one of
0:14:57 > 0:14:59the fathers of science-fiction. Who was he?
0:14:59 > 0:15:00Wells.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03Yes. HG Wells. Two passes.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05That muscle in the shoulder region, the Greek letter D,
0:15:05 > 0:15:07is the deltoid.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09And, you won't like this one.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12The breed of sporting gun dogs et cetera, et cetera -
0:15:12 > 0:15:14- retrievers.- Yeah.- There we are.
0:15:14 > 0:15:19However, Tony, the good news is that your score has leapt up to 16.
0:15:19 > 0:15:20APPLAUSE
0:15:27 > 0:15:29And now, Ava again, please.
0:15:31 > 0:15:36And you do an awful lot of stand-up these days.
0:15:36 > 0:15:40And I was going to ask you
0:15:40 > 0:15:43whether they cut you slack cos you're a woman,
0:15:43 > 0:15:45you know, make it a bit easier for you.
0:15:45 > 0:15:48But, actually, having looked a bit at your history, you don't
0:15:48 > 0:15:52need any favours because you started out as a prison warden.
0:15:52 > 0:15:56Prison officer, yeah. They don't cut female comedians any slack.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58- They make it worse, actually. - Do they?- Yeah.
0:15:58 > 0:16:01The saying goes, "A woman's got one minute to prove she's funny,
0:16:01 > 0:16:03"a man's got three minutes to prove he's not."
0:16:03 > 0:16:05- It's very sexist.- Oh, oh...
0:16:05 > 0:16:09But it must have been pretty good preparation, being a prison officer?
0:16:09 > 0:16:12It was. I've been heckled by people with time on their hands.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14LAUGHTER
0:16:14 > 0:16:16So, pretty much anything that's shouted at me,
0:16:16 > 0:16:18there's nothing I haven't been called.
0:16:18 > 0:16:19Doesn't faze me at all.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21And you were in a woman's prison?
0:16:21 > 0:16:24- No, a men's prison. - In a men's prison?- Pentonville.
0:16:24 > 0:16:27You've got to have big, huge, strong men as well,
0:16:27 > 0:16:29haven't you, as prison officers?
0:16:29 > 0:16:31- Yeah, yeah, you do. - But not really?
0:16:31 > 0:16:35A few. It's all controlled. It's technique and stuff.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38So, there's certain pressure points
0:16:38 > 0:16:41and stuff that you can twist somebody's arm behind their back.
0:16:41 > 0:16:43It's control and restraint.
0:16:43 > 0:16:44I use it in the January sales.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46LAUGHTER
0:16:48 > 0:16:52Right, look, you've got eight points already.
0:16:52 > 0:16:54Let's see how you do with your general knowledge.
0:16:54 > 0:16:55Here we go. Two minutes.
0:16:55 > 0:16:56Which country's travelling
0:16:56 > 0:16:59football supporters are known as the Tartan Army?
0:16:59 > 0:17:00Scotland.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03Whose son Romeo made his modelling debut at the age of ten
0:17:03 > 0:17:06in an advertising campaign in the February 2013 edition of Vogue?
0:17:06 > 0:17:09David and Victoria Beckham's.
0:17:09 > 0:17:12The unfinished church of the Sagrada Familia and Parc Guell,
0:17:12 > 0:17:14both designed by Antoni Gaudi,
0:17:14 > 0:17:15are in which European city?
0:17:15 > 0:17:16Madrid?
0:17:16 > 0:17:18Barcelona. What name is given to the opening
0:17:18 > 0:17:21in the top of the head of mammals, such as the whale,
0:17:21 > 0:17:22through which the animal breathes?
0:17:22 > 0:17:24Oh... Pass.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26In November 2012, which boy band
0:17:26 > 0:17:28became the first British group to enter
0:17:28 > 0:17:29the American charts at number one with
0:17:29 > 0:17:31both of their first two albums?
0:17:31 > 0:17:32One Direction?
0:17:32 > 0:17:35Yes. According to the title of Sue Townsend's 2012 novel,
0:17:35 > 0:17:38Eva Beaver, a wife and mother who had as much as she could take,
0:17:38 > 0:17:40went to bed for how long?
0:17:40 > 0:17:4130 years?
0:17:41 > 0:17:44A year. Which South American country has a name that
0:17:44 > 0:17:46comes from its position on the equator?
0:17:46 > 0:17:48Ah...
0:17:48 > 0:17:49Argentina?
0:17:49 > 0:17:51No, Ecuador. What well-known phrase
0:17:51 > 0:17:53indicating that there's no chance at all
0:17:53 > 0:17:56of something happening prompted the aviation pioneer Lord Brabazon
0:17:56 > 0:17:59to take a small pig up in one of his aircraft in 1909?
0:17:59 > 0:18:02It was the world's first live cargo flight.
0:18:02 > 0:18:03Pass.
0:18:03 > 0:18:06What is the name of the nanny who took charge of
0:18:06 > 0:18:09Jane and Michael Banks and was able to slide up the banisters?
0:18:09 > 0:18:10Mary Poppins.
0:18:10 > 0:18:14In Elizabethan theatre, what was a tiring-house or tiring-room?
0:18:16 > 0:18:17I don't know, pass.
0:18:17 > 0:18:20Which BBC Two drama series set in Birmingham after the First World War
0:18:20 > 0:18:24is about gangs who sewed razorblades in the peaks of their caps?
0:18:24 > 0:18:25Pass.
0:18:25 > 0:18:30Who served two terms as America's 42nd president from 1993 to 2001?
0:18:30 > 0:18:32Geor... Bill Clinton.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34In 1926, in which major sporting venue
0:18:34 > 0:18:38did the future King George VI partner Wing Commander Louis Greig
0:18:38 > 0:18:41in the Men's doubles?
0:18:41 > 0:18:42Wimbledon?
0:18:42 > 0:18:44What is the name of Francis Ford Coppola's daughter
0:18:44 > 0:18:46who became the first American woman
0:18:46 > 0:18:48to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar?
0:18:48 > 0:18:50It was for the 2003 film Lost in Translation.
0:18:50 > 0:18:51Sofia.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53Yes. Who wrote the book Sex And The City
0:18:53 > 0:18:55on which the television series and films are based?
0:18:55 > 0:18:57BEEP Candace Bergman.
0:18:57 > 0:18:59- Say again?- Candace Burt...
0:18:59 > 0:19:02- No. Bushnell.- Bushnell! - Yeah, you were nearly there.
0:19:02 > 0:19:04Nearly there. Your passes,
0:19:04 > 0:19:09Peaky Blinders was the name of that drama series on BBC Two.
0:19:09 > 0:19:10The tiring-house or tiring-room
0:19:10 > 0:19:13in Elizabethan theatre was the dressing room.
0:19:13 > 0:19:15Pigs might fly
0:19:15 > 0:19:19- was the phrase that...- Obvious. - ..no chance of something happening.
0:19:19 > 0:19:23And the hole in the top of the mammals' head, the blowhole,
0:19:23 > 0:19:25which you also knew.
0:19:25 > 0:19:27- 15 points.- Thank you.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30APPLAUSE
0:19:35 > 0:19:38Now, Monty again, please.
0:19:39 > 0:19:43And you're a marine biologist by profession.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45And you don't just kind of talk about things
0:19:45 > 0:19:49when you do your programmes, you do them.
0:19:49 > 0:19:52Yes. It's good to sort of get up close and personal
0:19:52 > 0:19:54with these animals.
0:19:54 > 0:19:55They're big, impressive animals,
0:19:55 > 0:19:57and often you need that idea of scale, as well.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59We don't realise quite how big these things are
0:19:59 > 0:20:01until you're alongside them.
0:20:01 > 0:20:03But I mean, the sort of things that you do -
0:20:03 > 0:20:06you became a trawlerman for how long?
0:20:06 > 0:20:08I was a trawlerman for eight days.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10A thoroughly memorable eight days.
0:20:10 > 0:20:13I worked as a Cornish fisherman for eight months, making a programme,
0:20:13 > 0:20:17but the eight days on that trawler will linger long in the memory.
0:20:17 > 0:20:20They have this extraordinary work ethic.
0:20:20 > 0:20:24And, also, I have an extraordinary capacity to be seasick, it turns out.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27So, it was a kind of memorable combination, I think.
0:20:27 > 0:20:28- Television history.- Oh, dear.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31So you spent an awful lot of time with your head over the side?
0:20:31 > 0:20:33A great deal of time.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35And did they laugh at you, or were they sympathetic?
0:20:35 > 0:20:36They were kind of sympathetic.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39One of them draped his arms round my shoulders and said,
0:20:39 > 0:20:41"I've got a cure for sea sickness. Just listen.
0:20:41 > 0:20:43"Just listen, and I'll tell you."
0:20:43 > 0:20:45I thought, "Wow, I'm going to be a millionaire",
0:20:45 > 0:20:46cos we all want a cure for sea sickness.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49And he said, "When it's rough, I don't go out."
0:20:49 > 0:20:51So, that was his cure for sea sickness.
0:20:51 > 0:20:53- Very helpful.- Yes.- Excellent.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55Right, now, Monty, you have eight points.
0:20:55 > 0:20:5816 is, as we speak, the score to beat,
0:20:58 > 0:21:00if you're in with a chance of the title.
0:21:00 > 0:21:03So, here we go. Two minutes of general knowledge.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05In schools, the name of which non-academic subject is often
0:21:05 > 0:21:07abbreviated to PE?
0:21:07 > 0:21:08Physical Education.
0:21:08 > 0:21:11In January 2013, JJ Abrams was named as the director of
0:21:11 > 0:21:15Episode VII of which long-running science fiction film franchise?
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Ooh... Err...
0:21:18 > 0:21:20Star Trek?
0:21:20 > 0:21:21Star Wars. What was Sir Thomas Bloodworth,
0:21:21 > 0:21:23the Lord Mayor of London,
0:21:23 > 0:21:26summoned to see at 3am on 2nd September 1666?
0:21:26 > 0:21:29He said, "Someone could urinate on it to put it out"
0:21:29 > 0:21:30and went back to bed.
0:21:30 > 0:21:32The Great Fire of London.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34Yes. What is the name of the former Life Guards officer who topped
0:21:34 > 0:21:37the singles and album charts in 2005 with You're Beautiful
0:21:37 > 0:21:39and Back To Bedlam.
0:21:39 > 0:21:40James Blunt.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42The city of Kimberley is the centre of
0:21:42 > 0:21:44the diamond mining industry in which country?
0:21:44 > 0:21:45South Africa.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47Yes. In Moscow in August 2013,
0:21:47 > 0:21:50who became the first British woman to win two athletics outdoor
0:21:50 > 0:21:54world titles when she won gold in the 400m in a photo finish?
0:21:54 > 0:21:55Christine Ohura?
0:21:55 > 0:21:57No, Christine Ohuruogu.
0:21:57 > 0:22:00What is the name of the villainous one-legged pirate
0:22:00 > 0:22:02in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island?
0:22:02 > 0:22:04Long John Silver?
0:22:04 > 0:22:06Yes. Which stone below the ramparts of an Irish castle
0:22:06 > 0:22:08is said to give eloquence to those who kiss it?
0:22:08 > 0:22:10The Blarney Stone.
0:22:10 > 0:22:11Yes. Spotted, striped and brown
0:22:11 > 0:22:14are the three species of a dog-like animal native to Africa and Asia.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16What's the animal called?
0:22:16 > 0:22:17Sorry, can you repeat the question?
0:22:17 > 0:22:19Yes. Spotted, striped and brown
0:22:19 > 0:22:20are the three species of a dog-like
0:22:20 > 0:22:22animal native to Africa and Asia.
0:22:22 > 0:22:23What's the animal called?
0:22:23 > 0:22:25A hyena.
0:22:25 > 0:22:28In The Simpsons, what is the name of Mr Burns' personal assistant?
0:22:28 > 0:22:30Oh... Smithers.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32Yes. Sir Robert Walpole is generally considered to be the first
0:22:32 > 0:22:36person to be referred to by what title as head of the government,
0:22:36 > 0:22:39although, at the time, it was considered a term of abuse?
0:22:39 > 0:22:40Prime Minister.
0:22:40 > 0:22:41Yes. Irish stew traditionally
0:22:41 > 0:22:44consists of alternate layers of potatoes, onions and...
0:22:45 > 0:22:47Lamb.
0:22:47 > 0:22:48Yeah, or mutton.
0:22:48 > 0:22:49Alexander McCall Smith's book
0:22:49 > 0:22:52The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
0:22:52 > 0:22:56is the 13th in the series of novels about what organisation?
0:22:56 > 0:22:57The Ladies' Detective Agency.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59Yeah, I'll give you that.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.
0:23:01 > 0:23:03What name, shared by several medieval kings of England,
0:23:03 > 0:23:05- features in the titles... - BEEP
0:23:05 > 0:23:08..of seven of Shakespeare's history plays?
0:23:08 > 0:23:10Oh... Um...
0:23:11 > 0:23:12Pass.
0:23:12 > 0:23:14- Henry.- Of course.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16- You knew it, didn't you?- Yeah.
0:23:16 > 0:23:19That was your only pass. Monty, you've now gone up to 19 points.
0:23:19 > 0:23:21Thank you.
0:23:21 > 0:23:22APPLAUSE
0:23:29 > 0:23:31And, finally, Richard, again, please.
0:23:31 > 0:23:35And I'm so unused to seeing you in a dog collar, Richard,
0:23:35 > 0:23:39cos we meet in the studio at half past eight on Saturday mornings
0:23:39 > 0:23:41before you go to do your radio programme,
0:23:41 > 0:23:43and you're not wearing a dog collar then.
0:23:43 > 0:23:45I wonder whether you really are a reverend, at times.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47Some of my parishioners wonder the same thing.
0:23:47 > 0:23:49So, you've got a parish?
0:23:49 > 0:23:51Yes, the parish of Finedon in Northamptonshire.
0:23:51 > 0:23:52A lovely parish.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55But you do lots and lots of broadcasting and other things?
0:23:55 > 0:23:57Well, a fair bit, yes. I'm half-time.
0:23:57 > 0:24:00- I'm paid for half-time. - Really? Literally?
0:24:00 > 0:24:03- You get paid for half-time? - Yeah. Lots of us do now.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06- More and more of us are servants of two masters.- Really?
0:24:06 > 0:24:09And which one is the more important master? God or the BBC?
0:24:09 > 0:24:10Is there a difference?
0:24:10 > 0:24:13LAUGHTER
0:24:13 > 0:24:14The answer would be God, John.
0:24:14 > 0:24:18But God moves in mysterious ways, which has always suited me very well.
0:24:18 > 0:24:19LAUGHTER
0:24:19 > 0:24:21- Gives a perfect excuse, doesn't it?- Yeah.
0:24:21 > 0:24:22Richard, thank you for that.
0:24:22 > 0:24:26Now, you've got ten points and 19 is the score to beat.
0:24:26 > 0:24:27So, two minutes.
0:24:27 > 0:24:30You might have the title, or you might not. Here we go.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32What type of hat is traditionally worn with white tie
0:24:32 > 0:24:34and tails in full evening dress?
0:24:34 > 0:24:35A top hat.
0:24:35 > 0:24:36The Teal is the smallest
0:24:36 > 0:24:38European member of which species of birds?
0:24:38 > 0:24:39Ducks.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41The island of Murano, celebrated for glassmaking,
0:24:41 > 0:24:43lies just to the north of which Italian city?
0:24:43 > 0:24:44Venice.
0:24:44 > 0:24:45The tenor Sir Peter Pears,
0:24:45 > 0:24:47a co-founder of the Aldeburgh music festival,
0:24:47 > 0:24:50was for many years the partner of an English composer. What was his name?
0:24:50 > 0:24:52Britten.
0:24:52 > 0:24:55Which Spaghetti Western of 1966 had the original Italian title
0:24:55 > 0:24:57'Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo'?
0:24:57 > 0:24:58The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.
0:24:58 > 0:25:00Norman Foster and Richard Rogers
0:25:00 > 0:25:02are famous for work in which profession?
0:25:02 > 0:25:03Architecture.
0:25:03 > 0:25:06In Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, what's all that's left behind
0:25:06 > 0:25:07of the Cheshire Cat after it informs Alice,
0:25:07 > 0:25:09"We're all mad here," and vanishes?
0:25:09 > 0:25:10Its grin.
0:25:10 > 0:25:15Which 74-year-old country singer appeared in the Sunday afternoon legend spot on the Pyramid Stage
0:25:15 > 0:25:16of the Glastonbury in 2013?
0:25:16 > 0:25:18- Tammy Wynette.- Kenny Rogers.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21Which salad, consisting of Romaine lettuce and crouton,
0:25:21 > 0:25:24with a dressing of Parmesan cheese, egg and garlic vinaigrette
0:25:24 > 0:25:25is named after the chef who was said
0:25:25 > 0:25:28to have created it in his restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico in 1924?
0:25:28 > 0:25:30Caesar salad.
0:25:30 > 0:25:31What is the common name for the star Sirius,
0:25:31 > 0:25:33the brightest star in the heavens
0:25:33 > 0:25:35and in the constellation Canis Major?
0:25:35 > 0:25:36The Dog Star.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39Which seaside resort in North West England holds an annual
0:25:39 > 0:25:41flower show in Victoria Park in August?
0:25:41 > 0:25:43Blackpool.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46Southport. Which instrument, the largest member of the violin family,
0:25:46 > 0:25:48is usually played by plucking with the fingers
0:25:48 > 0:25:50when it's part of the rhythm section of a jazz band?
0:25:50 > 0:25:51The double bass.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54In the celebrated comedy sketch about a blood donor,
0:25:54 > 0:25:56who objected to giving a pint of blood with the comment,
0:25:56 > 0:25:57"That's very nearly an armful!"
0:25:57 > 0:25:58Tony Hancock.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01Which detective fiction writer was born in Torquay in 1890 with
0:26:01 > 0:26:02the maiden name Miller,
0:26:02 > 0:26:06but is known by the surname of her first husband, who divorced her in 1928.
0:26:06 > 0:26:07Agatha Christie.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10In what athletics event did Great Britain's Greg Rutherford
0:26:10 > 0:26:12win gold at the 2012 London Olympics?
0:26:12 > 0:26:13- Triple jump.- Long jump.
0:26:13 > 0:26:17What word does the Speaker of the House of Commons traditionally
0:26:17 > 0:26:19say twice to gain control of unruly MPs during a debate?
0:26:19 > 0:26:20Order.
0:26:20 > 0:26:23Yes. Which mythological monster with a head of a bull
0:26:23 > 0:26:26and the body of a man was annually fed with seven youths
0:26:26 > 0:26:28and seven maidens, sent as tribute from Athens?
0:26:28 > 0:26:29The Minotaur.
0:26:29 > 0:26:32In which Commonwealth country was the one dollar coin...
0:26:32 > 0:26:34- BEEP - ..introduced in 1987,
0:26:34 > 0:26:36known as a loonie after the bird
0:26:36 > 0:26:38that appears on its reverse?
0:26:38 > 0:26:40Would that be Ghana?
0:26:40 > 0:26:42No, it wouldn't be,
0:26:42 > 0:26:43- it would be Canada.- Oh.
0:26:43 > 0:26:45However, doesn't really matter,
0:26:45 > 0:26:48Richard, because you have 24 points.
0:26:48 > 0:26:50APPLAUSE
0:26:57 > 0:26:58Well, a very clear victor there.
0:26:58 > 0:27:00Let's have a look at the scores.
0:27:00 > 0:27:04In fourth place, with 15 points, Ava Vidal.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06Third place, 16 points, Tony Livesey.
0:27:06 > 0:27:09Second place, 19 points, Monty Halls.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12First place, with 24 points, Richard Coles.
0:27:12 > 0:27:15APPLAUSE DROWNS OUT SPEECH
0:27:24 > 0:27:26Richard, come and get it.
0:27:27 > 0:27:31- Thank you very much.- Congratulations. - Thank you. That's lovely.
0:27:31 > 0:27:32So, quizzer? New career?
0:27:32 > 0:27:35Tempting. I enjoyed it very much.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37I enjoyed it rather more than is good for me, I'm sure.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39LAUGHTER
0:27:39 > 0:27:42With due humility, exactly. Well done. Congratulations.
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0:28:02 > 0:28:05APPLAUSE