0:00:24 > 0:00:27First in the spotlight tonight is the DJ Mary Anne Hobbs
0:00:27 > 0:00:30on the late, great motorcyclist, Barry Sheene.
0:00:30 > 0:00:34APPLAUSE
0:00:35 > 0:00:37Next, the actor and comedian Neil Fitzmaurice
0:00:37 > 0:00:39on the films of Robert De Niro.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42APPLAUSE
0:00:44 > 0:00:47The CBBC presenter Katie Thistleton answers questions
0:00:47 > 0:00:50on the life and work of Rachel Green from Friends.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53APPLAUSE
0:00:54 > 0:00:58And Johnny Ball, the man who put maths on the telly.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01His subject - the scientist, Michael Faraday.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04APPLAUSE
0:01:12 > 0:01:17Hello and welcome to Celebrity Mastermind with me, John Humphrys
0:01:17 > 0:01:19and four celebrities who were persuaded
0:01:19 > 0:01:22to put their dignity on the line a few weeks ago
0:01:22 > 0:01:26but may well now be having second thoughts as the terror
0:01:26 > 0:01:28of the black chair becomes a reality.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31They get 90 seconds of questions on their Specialist Subject
0:01:31 > 0:01:34and two minutes on General Knowledge.
0:01:34 > 0:01:36Their fee goes to charity but one of them wins the trophy
0:01:36 > 0:01:39and the honour of becoming a Mastermind.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41So let's ask our first contender to join us, please.
0:01:48 > 0:01:49And your name is?
0:01:49 > 0:01:50Mary Anne Hobbs.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52Your chosen charity?
0:01:52 > 0:01:53Shelter.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55And your chosen subject?
0:01:55 > 0:01:56Barry Sheene.
0:01:56 > 0:01:58Barry Sheene in 90 seconds.
0:01:58 > 0:02:01Sheene was a British World Champion Grand Prix motorcycle racer.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04Which cartoon character was featured on the front of Sheen's famous
0:02:04 > 0:02:05black and gold helmet?
0:02:05 > 0:02:06- Donald Duck.- Yes.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09Which American rider beat Sheene by just three one-hundredths
0:02:09 > 0:02:12of a second at Silverstone in 1979?
0:02:12 > 0:02:13- Kenny Roberts.- Yeah.
0:02:13 > 0:02:15What was Sheene's favourite number with which he raced after
0:02:15 > 0:02:18being allocated it for the Daytona 200 in 1974?
0:02:18 > 0:02:20- Seven.- Yes.
0:02:20 > 0:02:23In 1977, in which country did Sheene set a long-standing record
0:02:23 > 0:02:25for the fastest lap in a Grand Prix at an average speed
0:02:25 > 0:02:27of over 135 miles per hour?
0:02:27 > 0:02:28- Belgium.- Yes.
0:02:28 > 0:02:32On which Suzuki bike did Sheene make his debut in the 1974 500cc World
0:02:32 > 0:02:37Championships? He went on to win the World title with it in 1976 and '77?
0:02:37 > 0:02:38Pass.
0:02:38 > 0:02:41At which fashionable London nightclub did Sheene first meet
0:02:41 > 0:02:43the model Stephanie McLean, whom he married many years later?
0:02:43 > 0:02:45- Stringfellows.- No, Tramps.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48Which former Beatle became a close friend of Sheene after they met at
0:02:48 > 0:02:50the '77 Formula One Grand Prix at Long Beach, California?
0:02:50 > 0:02:51- George Harrison.- Yes.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54At which Grand Prix did Sheene ride his last World Championship race
0:02:54 > 0:02:56in '84? He didn't complete the race
0:02:56 > 0:02:58because of ignition problems.
0:02:58 > 0:02:59- San Marino.- Yes.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02What was the name of the former boxing champion who appeared
0:03:02 > 0:03:04alongside Sheene in adverts for a body scent,
0:03:04 > 0:03:07encouraging users to splash it all over?
0:03:07 > 0:03:08- Henry Cooper.- Yes.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11In 2002, at which venue did Sheene win his last race in Britain
0:03:11 > 0:03:12to clinch the Lennox Cup?
0:03:12 > 0:03:15He had been diagnosed with cancer and died the following year.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18- Goodwood Festival of Speed 2002.- Yes.
0:03:18 > 0:03:20What was the name of the eight-times world champion
0:03:20 > 0:03:22who became one of his bitterest rivals?
0:03:22 > 0:03:25They fell out both professionally and personally?
0:03:25 > 0:03:26- Carl Fogarty.- Phil Read.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29Which famous racing event did Sheene consider...
0:03:29 > 0:03:30BUZZER SOUNDS
0:03:30 > 0:03:32..too dangerous for World Championship competition?
0:03:32 > 0:03:34He competed in it only once but failed to finish?
0:03:34 > 0:03:37- The TT Races. - Indeed. One pass.
0:03:37 > 0:03:41The Suzuki bike was the RG500.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44- Of course it was, John. - Of course it was. We all knew that.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47- You have 9 points. - Thank you very much.
0:03:47 > 0:03:50APPLAUSE
0:03:55 > 0:03:58And our next contender, please.
0:04:02 > 0:04:03And your name is?
0:04:03 > 0:04:05- Neil Fitzmaurice.- Chosen charity?
0:04:05 > 0:04:06Zoe's Place in Liverpool.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08And your chosen subject?
0:04:08 > 0:04:09The Films of Robert De Niro.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11Robert De Niro's films. Here we go.
0:04:11 > 0:04:14De Niro won his first Oscar for his performance
0:04:14 > 0:04:17in which 1974 film sequel directed by Francis Ford Coppola?
0:04:17 > 0:04:18- Godfather II.- Yes.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20In The Deer Hunter, Michael, played by De Niro,
0:04:20 > 0:04:23returns to Vietnam in search of his friend who has gone AWOL
0:04:23 > 0:04:25and finds him playing Russian roulette in a bar.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27What's his friend's name?
0:04:27 > 0:04:29Christopher Walken. Not sure what his name is in it. Pass.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32In Angel Heart, what's the name of De Niro's character who
0:04:32 > 0:04:35hires the private investigator, Harry Angel, to track down a singer
0:04:35 > 0:04:37- called Johnny Favorite? - Louis Cyphre.- Yes.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40Which Oscar-winner has directed De Niro in eight films since the '70s,
0:04:40 > 0:04:43including Mean Streets, Taxi Driver and New York, New York?
0:04:43 > 0:04:45Martin Scorsese.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47In Once Upon A Time In America, Noodles phones the police
0:04:47 > 0:04:50with a tip-off that Max is going to rob which bank?
0:04:50 > 0:04:52Er, pass.
0:04:52 > 0:04:56In Cape Fear, Max Cady has "My Time Is At Hand" tattooed on one forearm
0:04:56 > 0:04:58and a quote from the Book of Romans tattooed on the other.
0:04:58 > 0:05:00What's it read?
0:05:00 > 0:05:03- Pass.- The climactic shoot-out in Heat between Neil McCauley
0:05:03 > 0:05:07and Lieutenant Vincent Hanna takes place at which airport?
0:05:07 > 0:05:10- Er, JFK. - No, Los Angeles International.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13At the end of Raging Bull, the washed-up former boxer Jake La Motta
0:05:13 > 0:05:15recites a speech from a Marlon Brando film
0:05:15 > 0:05:17to warm up for his stage act. What film?
0:05:17 > 0:05:19- On The Waterfront.- Yes.
0:05:19 > 0:05:22In Meet the Parents, Jack Byrnes used to work for the CIA
0:05:22 > 0:05:24but, as a cover, says he worked in what business?
0:05:24 > 0:05:26Er, pass.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28What is the full name of the senator whose campaign
0:05:28 > 0:05:32Travis Bickle offers to join in order to meet Betsy, whom he's admired from afar?
0:05:32 > 0:05:37- Pass.- In which 1990 film, based on Nicholas Pileggi's book Wiseguy,
0:05:37 > 0:05:39does De Niro play the career criminal Jimmy Conway?
0:05:39 > 0:05:42- Goodfellas.- Yes. In The King of Comedy, who stands in...
0:05:42 > 0:05:43BUZZER SOUNDS
0:05:43 > 0:05:46..as the host of The Jerry Langford Show when Langford is kidnapped
0:05:46 > 0:05:48by aspiring comedian Rupert Pupkin?
0:05:48 > 0:05:50Er... pass.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53I can tell you, because your time is up, Tony Randall.
0:05:53 > 0:05:54And your other passes,
0:05:54 > 0:05:58Charles Palantine was the full name of that senator.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01Flowers is what Jack Byrnes used as a cover.
0:06:01 > 0:06:06"Vengeance Is Mine" was what Cady had tattooed on the other arm.
0:06:06 > 0:06:10The bank they wanted to raid was the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
0:06:10 > 0:06:14And in The Deer Hunter, Nicky was his friend's name.
0:06:14 > 0:06:16Neil, you have 5 points.
0:06:16 > 0:06:20APPLAUSE
0:06:24 > 0:06:26And our next contender, please.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31And your name is?
0:06:31 > 0:06:33- Katie Thistleton. - Your chosen charity?
0:06:33 > 0:06:36- FOP Friends. - And your chosen subject?
0:06:36 > 0:06:39- The life and times of Rachel Green. - Rachel Green, here we go.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42Rachel Green is a character from the hit American sitcom Friends.
0:06:42 > 0:06:46At the start of the series she lives off credit cards funded by her father
0:06:46 > 0:06:48before finding a job at which coffee shop?
0:06:48 > 0:06:50- Central Perk.- Yes.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52In series two, Rachel dates a man who looks a lot like Ross,
0:06:52 > 0:06:55prompting Chandler to say if they ever lose Ross they'll have a spare.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57- What is the man called?- Russ.
0:06:57 > 0:06:59Yes. In The One At The Beach, what is the name of Ross's girlfriend
0:06:59 > 0:07:03whom Rachel persuades to shave her head so that Ross will go off her?
0:07:03 > 0:07:04- Bonnie.- Yeah.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07Which actor plays Ross's old friend Will Colbert? He hates Rachel
0:07:07 > 0:07:10because she was horrible to him in high school when he was fat?
0:07:10 > 0:07:11- Brad Pitt.- Yes.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14In The One With The Ball, Rachel owns a cat called Mrs Whiskerson.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16- What breed is it? - Sphinx.- It is.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19In The One With Rachel's Inadvertent Kiss, she is over familiar with
0:07:19 > 0:07:21Mr Zelner, the man interviewing her for a job
0:07:21 > 0:07:23at a famous fashion house. Which one?
0:07:23 > 0:07:25- Um, Ralph Lauren.- Yeah.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28Which Oscar-winning actress plays Rachel's spoiled sister, Jill,
0:07:28 > 0:07:31who comes to stay with Rachel to learn how to survive without
0:07:31 > 0:07:33- her father's money? - Reese Witherspoon.- Yeah.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35To which city, where Ross is about to marry Emily,
0:07:35 > 0:07:37does Rachel make a last-minute dash
0:07:37 > 0:07:38after realising she still loves him?
0:07:38 > 0:07:40- London.- Yes.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42When Rachel tries to tell her father she's pregnant,
0:07:42 > 0:07:46she loses her nerve and instead blurts out she has got what device?
0:07:47 > 0:07:49Pass.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51After Rachel has a baby girl following a long and tedious labour,
0:07:51 > 0:07:53she rejects Ross's ideas for baby names
0:07:53 > 0:07:56and finally settles on one suggested by Monica. What is it?
0:07:56 > 0:07:59- Emma.- Yes. In The One With The Late Thanksgiving,
0:07:59 > 0:08:01what type of event are Phoebe and Rachel attending with Emma
0:08:01 > 0:08:04that prevents them from arriving on time for Monica's dinner?
0:08:04 > 0:08:06- A baby pageant. - Yes, a beauty pageant.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09What dessert from Momma's Little Bakery do Rachel and Chandler eat
0:08:09 > 0:08:11- after it is accidently delivered... - BUZZER SOUNDS
0:08:11 > 0:08:15..to their door instead of to their neighbour, Mrs Braverman?
0:08:15 > 0:08:17- A cheesecake. - Cheesecake is correct.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19You had one pass. The rather bizarre answer to that,
0:08:19 > 0:08:23in telling her father she was pregnant, she says she's got a TiVo.
0:08:23 > 0:08:26- Yes.- Anyway, Katie, you got 11 points.- Thank you.
0:08:26 > 0:08:30APPLAUSE
0:08:33 > 0:08:37And our final contender, please.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42- And your name is?- Johnny Ball.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45- And your chosen charity? - Action For Children.
0:08:45 > 0:08:46Chosen subject?
0:08:46 > 0:08:49- Michael Faraday. - Michael Faraday in 90 seconds.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52Faraday was a 19th-century scientist famed for his
0:08:52 > 0:08:54contributions to the fields of electricity and magnetism.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57What was the name of the chemist who gave Faraday his first scientific job
0:08:57 > 0:08:59at the Royal Institution as a lab assistant?
0:08:59 > 0:09:00- Humphry Davy.- Yeah.
0:09:00 > 0:09:03Which gaseous element did Faraday succeed in liquefying in 1823?
0:09:03 > 0:09:04- Chlorine.- Yes.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07What was the name of the clergyman at Trinity College, Cambridge,
0:09:07 > 0:09:12with whom Faraday devised the words anode and cathode, electrolysis and ions?
0:09:12 > 0:09:13Pass.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16In 1825, he joined a Royal Society sub-committee
0:09:16 > 0:09:18for the improvement of what?
0:09:20 > 0:09:23- Pass.- In a letter of November 1831 to Richard Phillips,
0:09:23 > 0:09:26Faraday says he has discovered two kinds of induction.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28One is magneto-electric. What is the other?
0:09:28 > 0:09:30- Alternate. - No, Volta-Electric.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33Who endowed the Professorship of Chemistry at the Royal Institution
0:09:33 > 0:09:37in 1833 on the condition that its first holder should be Faraday?
0:09:38 > 0:09:40Ooh, pass.
0:09:40 > 0:09:44Which award did the Royal Society give to Faraday in 1832?
0:09:44 > 0:09:45He received it again in 1838.
0:09:45 > 0:09:47Copley.
0:09:47 > 0:09:51To which organisation was Faraday appointed scientific adviser in 1836?
0:09:51 > 0:09:52He stayed in that post until 1865.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54Trinity House.
0:09:54 > 0:09:58Faraday died in 1867 in a grace and favour house that he had been given
0:09:58 > 0:10:01in 1858. The house was on a green near which historic royal palace?
0:10:01 > 0:10:03Hampton Court.
0:10:03 > 0:10:07In 1861, Faraday delivered his last series of Christmas lectures for children
0:10:07 > 0:10:10and allowed them to be published. What was their title?
0:10:10 > 0:10:11Chemical History Of The Candle.
0:10:11 > 0:10:15What name did Faraday give to the weak form of magnetism he investigated in 1845?
0:10:15 > 0:10:17He concluded it was present in all substances,
0:10:17 > 0:10:19unlike paramagnetism and ferromagnetism.
0:10:19 > 0:10:21BEEP
0:10:21 > 0:10:23I pass!
0:10:23 > 0:10:25Ha-ha!
0:10:25 > 0:10:28I can tell you it was diamagnetism.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30You had four passes altogether.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34The chap who endowed the professorship of chemistry
0:10:34 > 0:10:35was John Fuller.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37He joined the Royal Society sub-committee
0:10:37 > 0:10:39for the improvement of optical glass.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42The Reverend William Whewell was the clergyman with whom
0:10:42 > 0:10:44he devised those words such as anode.
0:10:44 > 0:10:45You've scored 6 points.
0:10:45 > 0:10:48APPLAUSE
0:10:54 > 0:10:58That's the first round done. Let's have a look at the scores.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00In fourth place, Neil Fitzmaurice.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02In third place, Johnny Ball.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04In second place, Mary Anne Hobbs.
0:11:04 > 0:11:07In first place, Katie Thistleton.
0:11:07 > 0:11:11APPLAUSE
0:11:12 > 0:11:14It is now the General Knowledge Round.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17If there is a tie at the end of it, the number of passes
0:11:17 > 0:11:20is taken into account. The person with the fewer passes is the winner.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23Let us get on with it and ask Neil to join us again.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29- No avoiding it, Neil! - There isn't, is there?!
0:11:29 > 0:11:32You've been in The Office, Phoenix Nights
0:11:32 > 0:11:34and Peep Show,
0:11:34 > 0:11:37arguably, three of the most successful sitcoms...ever.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39What is the thing that made them work?
0:11:39 > 0:11:41You're not allowed to say me.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44HE LAUGHS
0:11:44 > 0:11:45Good writing. Great writing, I think.
0:11:45 > 0:11:49Phoenix Nights, I was lucky enough to co-write with Pete and Dave.
0:11:49 > 0:11:51I think it starts with a script
0:11:51 > 0:11:53and then it goes on from there.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55Phoenix Nights was a joy. It was fantastic.
0:11:55 > 0:11:58It was stand-up comedians taking the mickey out of each other all day.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00The Office was interesting.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03I'm in the first scene of the first episode of The Office.
0:12:03 > 0:12:04If you look at that scene again,
0:12:04 > 0:12:06you only see my shoulder
0:12:06 > 0:12:07and I'm chuckling.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10No-one had ever seen this, vis a vis
0:12:10 > 0:12:13touching his tie and this character that came to life in front of me.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16It was fantastic to watch. Great to watch him do that role.
0:12:16 > 0:12:18What a great show. Well, three great shows.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20You've got 5 points.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22You've now got two minutes of general knowledge. Here we go.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25What name is used for a period or cycle of 1,000 years?
0:12:25 > 0:12:26A millennium.
0:12:26 > 0:12:30What West Country dialect name for rough cider comes from a word for stunted apples?
0:12:30 > 0:12:32Scrumpy.
0:12:32 > 0:12:35In the 2013 TV film Burton And Taylor, Dominic West played Richard Burton.
0:12:35 > 0:12:37Who played Taylor?
0:12:37 > 0:12:38Oh, pass.
0:12:38 > 0:12:42Springboard and platform are the two main types of which Olympic discipline?
0:12:42 > 0:12:43Diving board.
0:12:43 > 0:12:48Which Jamaican reggae star born Orville Burrell had his first UK number one album in 2001
0:12:48 > 0:12:49with Hot Shot?
0:12:49 > 0:12:51Erm...Shabba Ranks.
0:12:51 > 0:12:52Shaggy.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54What is the term used for the unauthorised accessing
0:12:54 > 0:12:58of a computer system or gaining of information stored on another person's phone,
0:12:58 > 0:12:59especially voicemail?
0:12:59 > 0:13:00Hacking.
0:13:00 > 0:13:03Which biblical character, who has a book named after him,
0:13:03 > 0:13:06was renowned for his patience in enduring the sufferings that afflicted him?
0:13:08 > 0:13:09Don't know. Pass.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11What was the real surname of the three literary sisters
0:13:11 > 0:13:15who published their first work under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell?
0:13:17 > 0:13:19Bronte.
0:13:19 > 0:13:20What is mined at Winsford in Cheshire?
0:13:20 > 0:13:23The mine is said to be Britain's oldest working example of its type.
0:13:23 > 0:13:24Slate.
0:13:24 > 0:13:27Salt. What part of a plant produces food by photosynthesis
0:13:27 > 0:13:30and allows for the loss of water through transpiration?
0:13:30 > 0:13:31The stem.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33The leaves. Which dystopian novel by George Orwell
0:13:33 > 0:13:36has been adapted for the stage by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan?
0:13:36 > 0:13:371984.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40What French word for the training of horses is applied to
0:13:40 > 0:13:42the first stage of the equestrian three-day event?
0:13:42 > 0:13:44Erm...
0:13:45 > 0:13:46Dressage.
0:13:46 > 0:13:50Which Irish humorist's war memoirs include Monty, His Part In My Victory
0:13:50 > 0:13:52and Adolf Hitler, My Part In His Downfall?
0:13:52 > 0:13:54Spike Milligan.
0:13:54 > 0:13:58What name is shared by 18 French kings who ruled between 814 and 1824?
0:13:58 > 0:13:59Louis.
0:13:59 > 0:14:03Which song that gave Elvis Presley a number two UK hit in 1956 features
0:14:03 > 0:14:07the closing lyrics "Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit, you ain't no friend of mine"?
0:14:07 > 0:14:08You Ain't Nothing But A Hound Dog.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11Which British cyclist first came to the public's attention
0:14:11 > 0:14:14when he won the 4,000 metres individual pursuit gold medal
0:14:14 > 0:14:17on his revolutionary Lotus bicycle at the Barcelona Olympics?
0:14:17 > 0:14:18Chris Hoy.
0:14:18 > 0:14:19Chris Boardman.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22What type of large brass instrument is Tubby,
0:14:22 > 0:14:25the title character of a song recorded by Danny Kaye in the 1940s?
0:14:25 > 0:14:26A tuba.
0:14:26 > 0:14:27Tubby the tuba is right.
0:14:27 > 0:14:28Two passes.
0:14:28 > 0:14:32Job was the biblical character and Helena Bonham Carter
0:14:32 > 0:14:36was Elizabeth Taylor, albeit briefly.
0:14:36 > 0:14:39- Neil, you've got a total of a very respectable 16 points.- Thank you.
0:14:39 > 0:14:41APPLAUSE
0:14:47 > 0:14:50Now, Johnny again, please.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53I'm sorry to remind you of this fact
0:14:53 > 0:14:57but your career in telly does go back a long way.
0:14:57 > 0:14:58What on earth made you think
0:14:58 > 0:15:02you could make maths entertainment?
0:15:02 > 0:15:04It was just what I wanted to do.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06I was writing with Play Away then
0:15:06 > 0:15:09and I was writing almost all the comedy.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11They said, "If you had your own series, what would you do?"
0:15:11 > 0:15:13I said, "Maths." I'd planned it, in a way.
0:15:13 > 0:15:17I felt there was so much to talk about in maths.
0:15:17 > 0:15:19It became maths and science.
0:15:19 > 0:15:22We could get anything and everything into the shows.
0:15:22 > 0:15:23That's what we did.
0:15:23 > 0:15:28What are you? Are you a television presenter or a teacher?
0:15:28 > 0:15:31- Never a teacher.- You could be both. - I failed at school.
0:15:31 > 0:15:34- So you're completely self-taught? - Yeah.
0:15:34 > 0:15:36I became a drummer, then a comedian.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38I got into children's television.
0:15:38 > 0:15:40I found the integrity of the people I worked with
0:15:40 > 0:15:42was so fabulous,
0:15:42 > 0:15:43I was more comfortable there.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46You started it and it ended with you.
0:15:46 > 0:15:50It was your whole... Well, it was your television life.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53It was so sad that nobody else did it after I'd done it,
0:15:53 > 0:15:54produced shows like that.
0:15:54 > 0:15:56I've got a maths book that I want to do.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58The history of maths. It's called
0:15:58 > 0:16:00Tales Of Maths And Legends.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02I just want that to work.
0:16:02 > 0:16:03Good luck with it.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06You got 6 points. Here we go.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08General knowledge. Two minutes.
0:16:08 > 0:16:11In education, two of the three Rs are reading and writing. What is the third?
0:16:11 > 0:16:12Arithmetic.
0:16:12 > 0:16:15In which '60s television show, originally hosted by David Jacobs,
0:16:15 > 0:16:18did a panel of music experts vote records hits or misses?
0:16:18 > 0:16:20Er...
0:16:20 > 0:16:21Oh, good heavens!
0:16:21 > 0:16:24How can I pass on that?! Pass!
0:16:24 > 0:16:27What is the French equivalent of the Italian antipasto?
0:16:29 > 0:16:30Hors d'oeuvre.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33Which American author created the characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn?
0:16:35 > 0:16:37Of course I know!
0:16:38 > 0:16:40Ah! Oh! Pass!
0:16:40 > 0:16:45In gardening, what name that comes from a German dialect word meaning soft,
0:16:45 > 0:16:48is given to a layer of organic material placed on the soil around plants to provide...
0:16:48 > 0:16:50Mulch.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52..insulation and to keep weeds down?
0:16:52 > 0:16:55Which long-running radio programme features a pub called The Bull
0:16:55 > 0:16:56and a hotel called Grey Gables?
0:16:56 > 0:16:57The Archers.
0:16:57 > 0:17:01Which Swiss resort gets its name from its position between
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Lake Brienz and Lake Thun?
0:17:03 > 0:17:05Ah...
0:17:05 > 0:17:07I've been there!
0:17:07 > 0:17:08Hazard a guess.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10Oh... No. Pass.
0:17:10 > 0:17:14In July 2014, who announced his retirement from international football,
0:17:14 > 0:17:18after making 114 appearances for England, a number only bettered by Peter Shilton
0:17:18 > 0:17:19and David Beckham?
0:17:19 > 0:17:20Steven Gerrard.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23Which Scottish author wrote The Crow Road,
0:17:23 > 0:17:25that was made into a television series in 1996?
0:17:25 > 0:17:27Louis Stevenson.
0:17:27 > 0:17:29Iain Banks. What word for a stone that unites
0:17:29 > 0:17:32two intersecting walls of a building has come to mean something of prime importance
0:17:32 > 0:17:35on which an enterprise or set of ideas is based?
0:17:37 > 0:17:38Pass.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40What four letters normally appear before a colon
0:17:40 > 0:17:43at the start of web addresses on the internet?
0:17:45 > 0:17:47I don't understand the question! Pass!
0:17:47 > 0:17:49All right. A London theatre associated with Shakespeare
0:17:49 > 0:17:52was burned down in 1613 when its thatch caught fire
0:17:52 > 0:17:56after the discharge of a cannon during a performance of Henry VIII.
0:17:56 > 0:17:57Which theatre?
0:17:57 > 0:17:59I'm in panic mode!
0:17:59 > 0:18:00It happens!
0:18:00 > 0:18:02Oh. Oh, that is terrible. Pass.
0:18:02 > 0:18:03I'll take that as a pass.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05Which comedian accompanied The Wonder Stuff
0:18:05 > 0:18:08on the '91 chart-topping single Dizzy?
0:18:08 > 0:18:09Pass.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12Well, you're put out of your misery because I can tell you
0:18:12 > 0:18:13that one - it was Vic Reeves.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16- The Globe.- The Globe. Exactly.
0:18:16 > 0:18:18I could ask them all again and you'd get them all.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21HTTP are the letters on the internet.
0:18:21 > 0:18:22I didn't understand it.
0:18:22 > 0:18:26The cornerstone is the word for stone....
0:18:26 > 0:18:29Interlaken is the Swiss resort.
0:18:29 > 0:18:31I got that wrong. The one I couldn't think of was wrong.
0:18:31 > 0:18:33You'll be very cross with Mark Twain,
0:18:33 > 0:18:35which you didn't get.
0:18:35 > 0:18:37Who wrote Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39Even more cross - Jukebox Jury.
0:18:40 > 0:18:41Ha! Ha!
0:18:41 > 0:18:43Blame the chair, Johnny.
0:18:43 > 0:18:44BOTH TALK AT ONCE
0:18:44 > 0:18:46You're into double figures. You got 11 points.
0:18:46 > 0:18:49Thank you very much! APPLAUSE
0:18:55 > 0:18:58Mary Anne again, please.
0:19:00 > 0:19:04You've gone through an interesting sort of musical...life.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07Punk, heavy metal, electronica,
0:19:07 > 0:19:08dubstep.
0:19:08 > 0:19:10I have. It's all true.
0:19:10 > 0:19:14I guess I'm kind of a child of John Peel, really.
0:19:14 > 0:19:18When I was a kid, I had a radio about as big as a sardine can.
0:19:18 > 0:19:20In the dead of night, I used to sit in my bed
0:19:20 > 0:19:23with the blankets all the way over my head like this
0:19:23 > 0:19:27and scroll across the dial looking for John Peel's programme.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30I guess Peel always stood at a kind of gateway
0:19:30 > 0:19:32to an alternate universe for me.
0:19:32 > 0:19:33Is it true to say
0:19:33 > 0:19:37that it's relatively easy to be a generalist pop DJ,
0:19:37 > 0:19:40but if you've got to specialise, as you've done,
0:19:40 > 0:19:43you've got to get it right because you'll be sussed out otherwise
0:19:43 > 0:19:46by those people who really know, the real enthusiasts, is that fair?
0:19:46 > 0:19:48Yes. I think that's fair.
0:19:48 > 0:19:50It's a really delicate specialist subject
0:19:50 > 0:19:53and you kind of have to be on top of your game, really.
0:19:53 > 0:19:56But I'm lucky because I'm supported by an absolutely incredible team.
0:19:56 > 0:19:58I think when you get that chemistry right,
0:19:58 > 0:20:01you can create a kind of real magic, I hope,
0:20:01 > 0:20:05that resonates with an audience on a global level, really.
0:20:05 > 0:20:07Well, you've done very well at it.
0:20:07 > 0:20:11- You've got 9 points in this particular programme.- Yes.
0:20:11 > 0:20:14Let's see how you do with your general knowledge.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16Here we go. In Alice's Adventure In Wonderland,
0:20:16 > 0:20:20which cat slowly disappears, tail first, leaving only its grin?
0:20:20 > 0:20:24- Pass.- Which Australia word for the cut-off loop of a river
0:20:24 > 0:20:27is mentioned in the song Waltzing Matilda?
0:20:27 > 0:20:28Pass.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31What name for the tightly fitting bell-bottomed trousers that were
0:20:31 > 0:20:35in fashion in the '70s comes from a slang term for "to be a layabout"?
0:20:35 > 0:20:36- Flares.- Loons.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39Who topped the UK singles chart for the first time in 1988
0:20:39 > 0:20:41with I Should Be So Lucky?
0:20:45 > 0:20:49- Pass.- How was the Greek hero Odysseus known to the Romans?
0:20:49 > 0:20:51- Evil.- Ulysses.
0:20:51 > 0:20:56Russian Roulette, the story of an assassin, is the 10th and final book
0:20:56 > 0:21:00in the series by Anthony Horowitz featuring which boy agent?
0:21:00 > 0:21:03- Pass.- In gardening, what name is given to herbaceous plants
0:21:03 > 0:21:05that live for more than two years?
0:21:08 > 0:21:10- Biannual.- Perennial. Close.
0:21:10 > 0:21:13A Japanese alcoholic drink, sometimes known as rice wine,
0:21:13 > 0:21:16comes in several basic types depending on the method of brewing
0:21:16 > 0:21:18and the different percentage of milling in the rice used.
0:21:18 > 0:21:20Which drink?
0:21:20 > 0:21:22- Saki.- Which city is Germany's financial centre.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24It's the home of its main stock exchange,
0:21:24 > 0:21:26the country's central Bank, the Bundesbank,
0:21:26 > 0:21:27and the European Central bank?
0:21:27 > 0:21:28- Berlin.- Frankfurt.
0:21:28 > 0:21:32Whom did Andy Murray appoint as his new coach in June 2014
0:21:32 > 0:21:35in succession to Ivan Lendl, who parted company with him in March?
0:21:35 > 0:21:37She was female, but I don't know her name.
0:21:37 > 0:21:40Which department store's clothing section featured
0:21:40 > 0:21:43in the television series Are You Being Served?
0:21:46 > 0:21:47I don't know, pass.
0:21:47 > 0:21:50Which former member of the Beatles collaborated on Liverpool Oratorio
0:21:50 > 0:21:52with the American composer Carl Davis?
0:21:52 > 0:21:54It was first performed in 1991.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56- John Lennon.- Paul McCartney.
0:21:56 > 0:21:59Whom did the nightclub owner Jack Ruby shoot dead
0:21:59 > 0:22:02in the Dallas Police headquarters on 24 November 1963?
0:22:02 > 0:22:05- A bad man. - Lee Harvey Oswald.
0:22:05 > 0:22:10By what the name is the mountainous area of the north of Scotland known?
0:22:14 > 0:22:16- Pass.- Well, I can tell you
0:22:16 > 0:22:18because you are out of time. The Highlands.
0:22:18 > 0:22:22- Oh!- I know, I know.- I think I'm in the wrong chair, John.
0:22:22 > 0:22:26Well, you're not alone in being jinxed by the chair.
0:22:26 > 0:22:29- Here are your passes. The Grace Brothers, that was the...- Of course.
0:22:29 > 0:22:30In Are You Being Served?
0:22:30 > 0:22:35Amelie Mauresmo was appointed by Andy Murray as his new coach.
0:22:35 > 0:22:39Alex Rider was the hero in the Anthony Horovitz series.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42Kylie Minogue topped the UK singles chart,
0:22:42 > 0:22:45- but that's not your sort of music. - Not really.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48Billabong is the cut-off loop of a river.
0:22:48 > 0:22:52And the Cheshire Cat disappeared leaving just the grin.
0:22:52 > 0:22:56- You now have a total, Mary Anne, of 10 points.- Thank you.
0:22:56 > 0:23:00APPLAUSE
0:23:05 > 0:23:07And finally, Katie again, please.
0:23:09 > 0:23:11Now, CBBC,
0:23:11 > 0:23:15and you have a sort of co-presenter.
0:23:15 > 0:23:20I do. Usually I co-present with a dog, which is a bit unusual.
0:23:20 > 0:23:24- Dogs aren't terribly bright, are they?- Er, no.
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Thanks for that!
0:23:26 > 0:23:31- This, I'm assuming, is Dodge. - This is Dodge, my co-star.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33- Hi, Mr Humphrys. - Hello, Dodge, how are you?
0:23:33 > 0:23:36Listen, I've brought my phone, so I'll text you the answers, OK?
0:23:36 > 0:23:40- Oh, thanks.- Do that with your eyebrows again, with your fringe.
0:23:40 > 0:23:43- Do we get extra points if I do that? - Yes, of course you do.
0:23:43 > 0:23:47Oh, thanks. Katie, give him the pig, he might let you through.
0:23:47 > 0:23:50OK, we've got a present for you, John.
0:23:50 > 0:23:53I'm not trying to butter you up, but it's Pig with 'tache,
0:23:53 > 0:23:55one of our popular characters.
0:23:55 > 0:23:57- It's just a pig with a moustache basically.- I can see that.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59Do you take bribes?
0:23:59 > 0:24:02Rather more handsome, if I may say so, than the dog.
0:24:02 > 0:24:06- Sorry, dog, nothing...- Next time we'll go on Celebrity MasterChef.
0:24:07 > 0:24:11I think we'd better move on, really. Thank you very much indeed, Dodge.
0:24:11 > 0:24:12Thanks, Dodge.
0:24:12 > 0:24:14APPLAUSE
0:24:14 > 0:24:16- Katie, you've been upstaged. - That too.
0:24:16 > 0:24:19Nonetheless, this is... Your moment has come
0:24:19 > 0:24:22because the score to beat is 16.
0:24:22 > 0:24:26You begin with a score of 11. Here we go. Two minutes.
0:24:26 > 0:24:30Noddy Holder was the lead singer of which chart-topping group?
0:24:30 > 0:24:31Oh, pass.
0:24:31 > 0:24:34Which area in west London gives its name to a sweet currant bun
0:24:34 > 0:24:36first made there in the 17th century?
0:24:38 > 0:24:39I don't know, sorry.
0:24:39 > 0:24:44Sally Ride became the first American woman to make what journey in 1983?
0:24:44 > 0:24:47- Across the Amazon?- No, into space.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49In which capital city's harbour is there a bronze statue
0:24:49 > 0:24:51of Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid?
0:24:51 > 0:24:53Liverpool.
0:24:53 > 0:24:55Copen... Copenhagen.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58Which author, whose first novel was White Teeth won
0:24:58 > 0:25:01the 2006 Orange Prize with On Beauty,
0:25:01 > 0:25:04a loose, contemporary reworking of EM Forster's Howards End?
0:25:04 > 0:25:05Oh, pass.
0:25:05 > 0:25:08What is the usual number of balls bowled in a cricket over,
0:25:08 > 0:25:10not counting wides and no-balls?
0:25:10 > 0:25:11- Three.- Six.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13In which American city's French quarter
0:25:13 > 0:25:16is the traditional jazz centre the Preservation Hall?
0:25:16 > 0:25:17- Paris?- New Orleans.
0:25:17 > 0:25:21The word "bovine" refers to cows and oxen.
0:25:21 > 0:25:24To what animals does the word "ovine" refer?
0:25:24 > 0:25:26Think of an animal.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28- Sheep.- Yes. What takes place in the House of Commons
0:25:28 > 0:25:31every Wednesday afternoon when the House is sitting?
0:25:31 > 0:25:33It starts at 12 noon and lasts about half an hour.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36- Pass.- Part of Mendelssohn's Incidental Music
0:25:36 > 0:25:38To A Midsummer Night's Dream is traditionally played
0:25:38 > 0:25:42at what type of ceremonial occasion, usually in church?
0:25:42 > 0:25:43- A christening.- A wedding.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46Which actress found fame as Vivian Ward
0:25:46 > 0:25:49in the title role of the 1990 film Pretty Woman?
0:25:49 > 0:25:50Julia Roberts.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53What is the first name of Bertie Wooster's manservant Jeeves,
0:25:53 > 0:25:56the gentleman's gentleman created by PG Wodehouse?
0:25:56 > 0:25:58Oh, pass.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01Whose first three UK solo hits, Got To Be There, Rockin' Robin
0:26:01 > 0:26:05and Ain't No Sunshine came from his 1972 debut album Got To Be There?
0:26:05 > 0:26:08- Bill Withers. - Michael Jackson.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11Which actress and comedian, now a clinical psychologist,
0:26:11 > 0:26:14wrote a bestselling biography about her husband Billy Connolly?
0:26:15 > 0:26:17I can't remember her name, I'm sorry.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20Which Asian special administrative region has hosted
0:26:20 > 0:26:24a prestigious annual rugby union sevens tournament since 1976?
0:26:24 > 0:26:27- Pass.- Which noisy and aggressive bird
0:26:27 > 0:26:28commonly found in gardens has
0:26:28 > 0:26:30a glossy green-black summer plumage
0:26:30 > 0:26:33and emits a variety of chuckles and whistles
0:26:33 > 0:26:35along with many imitations of other birds?
0:26:35 > 0:26:37- Think of a bird.- Crow.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40- No, starling. - Oh, that was terrible.
0:26:40 > 0:26:43Well, you know, it happens.
0:26:43 > 0:26:45Let's give you your passes, there were seven of them.
0:26:45 > 0:26:49Hong Kong is where the rugby union sevens have been playing for a long time.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51- Pamela Stephenson, Billy Connolly's husband.- I knew that.
0:26:51 > 0:26:55Bertie Wooster's manservant's first name was Reginald.
0:26:55 > 0:26:59Prime Minister's Questions happens on Wednesdays.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02The author, White Teeth and all that, Zadie Smith.
0:27:02 > 0:27:05- Chelsea, the Chelsea bun.- Oh!
0:27:05 > 0:27:08And Slade, Noddy Holder.
0:27:08 > 0:27:12- I can't believe I didn't get Slade. - I know, I know. No explaining it.
0:27:12 > 0:27:14- Anyway, Katie, you've got 13 points.- Thank you.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17APPLAUSE
0:27:21 > 0:27:24So Neil held the lead. Let's look at all the scores.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26In fourth place with 10 points, Mary Anne Hobbs.
0:27:26 > 0:27:29In third place with 11 points, Johnny Ball.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32Second place, 13 points, Katie Thistleton.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35First place, 16 points, Neil Fitzmaurice.
0:27:35 > 0:27:38APPLAUSE
0:27:48 > 0:27:52- Congratulations. - Thank you very much. Wow.- I know.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54What are you going to do with it?
0:27:54 > 0:27:57I don't know, it'd be good for cutting pizza maybe.
0:27:57 > 0:28:01- I wondered about shaving.- Maybe. No, it's going to take pride of place.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03- Somewhere.- And it's going to go down as a memorable day
0:28:03 > 0:28:06when I managed to con an award out of someone.
0:28:06 > 0:28:10- I don't know how I won that. - There'll be many more. Well done.
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0:28:29 > 0:28:31Thanks for watching, goodbye.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33APPLAUSE