Episode 4 Celebrity Mastermind

First in the spotlight tonight is the CBeebies presenter Andy Day.

And his specialist subject is the Back To The Future films.

The writer and creator of the Shetland crime series, Ann Cleeves.

She answers questions on the Shetland Islands.

Next, the actor and comedian Tom Rosenthal on flags of the world.

And the BBC's economics editor Robert Peston on David Bowie.

Hello, and welcome to Celebrity Mastermind

with me, John Humphrys,

and four contenders who are all experts in their own fields.

But tonight, we'll find out what else they know

or don't know

and they're doing it for charity.

The rules are the same though, 90 seconds of questions

on their specialist subject and then two minutes on general knowledge.

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

-LAUGHTER

-That won't help.

And your name is?

Your chosen charity?

And your chosen subject?

90 seconds on Back To The Future, starting now.

The film Back To The Future opens in 1985 in which fictional

Californian city where Doc Brown and Marty McFly both live?

-Hill Valley.

-What chemical element is used as the fuel to take

the time-travelling De Lorean car back to 1955 the first time?

-Plutonium.

-At the beginning of the second film, Doc Brown travels

forward in time with Marty and his girlfriend Jennifer to sort out

the lives of their future children. To which year do they travel?

-2015.

-What is the name of the school teacher whom Doc Brown agrees

to pick up from the station in Back To The Future III?

-Clara Clayton.

-At which cafe in Hill Valley, where it is "always morning in America",

does Marty first meet Biff after travelling forward to 2015?

-Lou's Cafe.

-No, Cafe '80s.

In 1955, Marty has to make sure his father, George,

kisses his mother, Lorraine, at the dance

because otherwise they won't fall in love. What's the name of the dance?

-The Enchantment Under The Sea dance.

-Enchantment Under The Sea, yes.

When Doc and Marty are taking over the train in Back To The Future III,

the engineer asks, "Is this a hold-up?"

Doc replies, "It's a..." what?

"It's a science experiment."

Doc Brown's dog in 1985 is named Einstein.

What's the name of the dog he has in 1955?

-Copernicus.

-Which song is playing when Marty skateboards to high school?

His band The Pinheads start to play it at the Battle Of The Bands audition.

-Power Of Love.

-After Doc Brown has apparently decided to stay with

Clara in the Old West, Marty leaves 1885 in the time machine

at the Shonash Ravine. What is the ravine's name...

-BEEP

-..when he lands in 1985?

-Eastwood.

-The Eastwood Ravine, absolutely right.

No passes, Andy. You have scored 9 points.

APPLAUSE

And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Your chosen charity?

And your chosen subject?

In 90 seconds, here we go.

The Shetland Islands lie to the northeast of Orkney.

What's the name of the largest island in the group,

the capital Lerwick is there?

-Mainland.

-Which bird with a colourful beak and black and white plumage

is known as a tammie norrie in Shetland?

-Puffin.

-What word, meaning an inlet or bay, is in many Shetland

place names, and is the name of a village at the head of Olna Firth?

-Voe.

-Which plant with tiny blue flowers is found growing

on cliffs along with sea pinks or thrift from late May through to early July?

It's a member of the asparagus family.

-Spring squill.

-Two species of seal breed in Shetland,

the common or harbour seal and another species that have their pups

in the autumn on exposed and accessible beaches. Which species?

-Grey.

-The large predatory sea bird the great skua is known in Shetland

and other parts of Scotland by what local name that means 'dumpy'?

-Bonxie.

-The Shetland pony's sometimes known by a name that is also

commonly used for the Shetland sheepdog. What name?

-Sheltie.

-What's the name of the excavation site near the southern

tip of Mainland that contains relics from the Bronze Age, Iron Age,

the Viking period and Medieval times?

-Jarlshof.

-Which peninsula in the northwest of Mainland contains

the spectacular sandstone cliffs of Eshaness and Ronas Hill,

the highest point of the Shetlands?

-Northmavine.

-One of the best preserved examples of a large dry-stone

circular building that dates back to the Iron Age

is found on the island of Mousa. What is this type of building called?

-Broch.

-On which island, the most westerly of the Shetland Islands,

is Christmas celebrated as Old Yule on the 6th of January?

-Foula.

-The nature reserve at Hermaness, known for its puffins and great skuas,

is also the site of the Shetland Islands' biggest colony...

-BEEP

-..of which large sea bird,

whose wingspan can reach almost six feet?

-Um, great skua.

-Oh...

-Oh, gannet.

It's the gannet, otherwise you had an absolutely perfect round.

-Anyway, Ann, you've still scored 11 points.

-Thank you very much.

APPLAUSE

And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Your chosen charity?

And your chosen subject?

Right, flags of the world in 90 seconds.

The white background of the flag of Finland represents

the country's winter snows. What common features of its landscape

are represented by the blue of the Scandinavian cross?

-The sea.

-The lakes.

Which Himalayan kingdom's flag is the only national flag

that is not rectangular or square?

-Nepal.

-By what name are the colours red, green and yellow known

when they appear on the tricolour flags of countries such as Mali and Senegal?

-Pan-African.

-Which constellation is represented by the stars

on the flags of Australia, New Zealand and Samoa?

-The Southern Cross.

-The black, gold and red stripes of an EU country's flag

were originally horizontal. They became vertical when an official flag

was adopted in 1830 prior to independence. Which country?

-Belgium.

-What is the name of the 12th-century temple that is

pictured in white in the centre of the flag of Cambodia?

-Pass.

-Which country has its national coat of arms,

a red and white checkerboard shield, at the centre of its flag?

-Croatia.

-What river is represented by the blue triangle on the hoist

side of the flag of South Sudan?

-Pass.

-Which astronomical and navigational instrument is pictured in the centre

of the Portuguese flag beneath the country's former royal arms?

-Compass.

-No, armillary sphere.

In 2011, which country reverted to its original 1951

post-independence flag of three horizontal bands of red, black and green

with a white star and crescent in the centre?

-Libya.

-The Cypriot flag features a copper-coloured map of the island.

What emblem below it symbolises the hopes for peace

between the Turkish and Greek communities?

-Olive branch.

-Which revolutionary commander designed the original

-Argentine flag in 1812?

-BEEP

The ship that was sunk during the Falklands Conflict

was named after him.

-Something like Federico...

-No.

-I just made that up.

You'll be really cross - Belgrano.

-Soz.

-You had two passes and you'll be cross about this one as well.

It was the River Nile.

Right, yeah, standard.

-And you'll be cross about this as well. Angkor Wat was the Cambodian answer.

-Sure, yeah.

-Tom, still, you've scored 7 points.

-Cheers.

APPLAUSE

And our final contender, please.

And your name is?

Your chosen charity?

And your chosen subject?

David Bowie, in 90 seconds, here we go.

What was the title of David Bowie's first UK chart entry?

It twice reached the top five, once on its release in '69

and then again in '75 when it reached number one?

-Space Oddity.

-At a concert on the 3rd of July '73, Bowie announced

the retirement of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars.

At which venue was the concert?

-Hammersmith Odeon.

-It was. Bowie released a single on the 28th of April '72,

that reached the top ten in the UK.

Starman was on the A-side, what was on the B-side?

-Hang On To Yourself.

-Suffragette City.

What new Bowie persona was introduced on the title track

of the album Station To Station?

-Thin White Duke.

-Which photographer shot the covers for both Hunky Dory

and The Rise and Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars?

-Brian Ward.

-In addition to providing backing vocals on Lulu's version

of his song The Man Who Sold The World, Bowie also

performed a solo on which instrument?

-Saxophone.

-Who appears on the cover of Pin-Ups alongside Bowie?

-Twiggy.

-What was the name of the backing group,

including his girlfriend Ava Cherry, that recorded The 1980 Floor Show

with Bowie for the American TV Midnight Special programme?

-Pass.

-What is the name of David and Angie Bowie's son, born in 1971,

who directed the film Moon, for which he received a BAFTA in 2010?

-Duncan Jones.

-Which record label, established by Decca in '66,

released Bowie's self-titled first album?

-DERAM.

-His '74 album, which included Rebel Rebel, was his third

in succession to reach the top of the UK Album Charts,

following Aladdin Sane and Pin-Ups. What was the album called?

-Diamond Dogs.

-What is the name of the song written by Bowie that was

released as a single by Billy Fury in 1968?

-Sorrow.

-Silly Boy Blue.

-In December '67...

-BEEP

..he made his theatrical debut at the Oxford New Theatre

in a production of Pierrot In Turquoise.

Which mime artist, actor and dancer

ran the company responsible for staging the show?

-Lindsay Kemp.

-Is correct.

You had one pass. The name of that backing group was The Astronettes.

-Oh, yes.

-You've scored, Robert, 10 points.

APPLAUSE

Well, a very high-scoring round there. Let's have a look at all the scores.

In fourth place, with 7 points, Tom Rosenthal.

Third-place, 9 points, Andy Day.

Second place, 10 points, Robert Peston.

First place, 11 points, Ann Cleeves.

So the General Knowledge Round now.

And if there is a tie at the end of it, then the number of passes

is taken into account and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.

Let's get on with it and ask Tom to join as again, please.

You are an actor and comedian.

Friday Night Dinner and Plebs.

Both highly successful, both sitcoms.

Could you, sort of, take the plot for a modern sitcom,

as in Friday Night Dinner,

transpose it back a couple of millennia,

to ancient Rome, and use the same gags?

Yeah, you'd hope so. I think the stuff that we talk about in Plebs

is quite, sort of, universal.

Just three guys trying to, you know,

get with girls and stuff and,

I think they did the same stuff in Rome as we do now, really.

That's basically what we're hoping to do in Plebs.

Just do the normal stuff but just wear togas

and pretend that it's original. And, um...

But what is the secret of a sitcom, then, of a successful...?

Cos there's been hundreds of them that flop. What makes a good one?

I think just stories that people, you know, can identify with.

If you get characters that people like and put them in situations

when they're exposed and their frailties

are, you know, brutally shown -

pretty much like me in this seat right now -

people will hopefully enjoy watching that.

Right, here we go, you've got 7 points, so far.

-I'm happy with one.

-Let's see how you...

You get two minutes of general knowledge now, here we go.

Near which Australian city are Bondi and Manly beaches?

Both beaches famous for their surfing.

-Sydney.

-The short humorous poem known as a limerick consists of how many lines?

-Five.

-Which artist of the pop art movement had

a studio in New York that he called The Factory?

-Andy Warhol.

-Pandora Braithwaite is the neighbour and girlfriend of a teenage

diarist created by Sue Townsend. What's his name?

-Adrian Mole.

-Whose Grammy award-winning single No More 'I Love You's'

entered the charts at number two in February '95?

-Pass.

-Which German composer wrote the music to his own

libretti for the four operas known as The Ring Cycle?

-Mozart.

-Wagner.

In 1966, which member of England's World Cup winning team became

the first player to be transferred between British clubs

for a fee of more than £100,000

when he joined Everton from Blackpool?

-Alan Ball.

-What was the name of the series of American space missions

that landed men on the moon?

-Apollo.

-Which river's ferry services include a peak hour service between Liverpool

and Seacombe and an explorer cruise also departing from Liverpool?

-P&O.

-Mersey, river.

What word can mean the two in a deck of cards or a tied score in tennis?

-Deuce.

-Who addressed the 1977 Conservative Party Conference

as a 16-year-old warning them of the dangers of socialism

and telling them, "Half of you won't be here in 30 or 40 years' time"?

-John Major.

-William Hague.

Which comedian and chat show host is described as

'Chatty Man' in the title of his show?

-Alan Carr.

-Which Spanish city was relatively small and obscure

until Philip II moved his court there in 1561?

-Madrid.

-What was the first name of the British naval hero

Viscount Nelson of the Nile and of Burnham Thorpe?

-Horatio.

-Which Paralympic-style event

designed for wounded servicemen and women

was opened at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London

by Prince Harry in September 2014?

-Pass.

-Which furry, green misanthropic creature, voiced by Jim Carrey

in a 2000 film, was created by Dr Seuss,

the author of The Cat In The Hat?

-Pass.

-London's second...

-BEEP

..international airport's about three miles

north of Crawley, in West Sussex. What's it called?

-Gatwick.

-Is correct.

-Your passes, it's the Grinch.

-I knew.

-You know, of course you do.

-Those last two ones I knew, I didn't hear what you said.

-I'll give you the other one anyway...

-Sorry.

-..for the benefit of the audience. That's the Invictus Games, which you knew.

-And Annie Lennox, No More 'I Love You's'.

-No, I didn't know that one.

You didn't know that one? All right. Never mind.

Tom, your total is now 18 points.

Thank you very much, cheers.

APPLAUSE

And now, Andy.

Again, please.

And, Andy, you have, in a way,

I suppose everybody who's had kids will think this.

You've got to entertain children all the time.

How? What is the secret to entertaining children?

I, kind of, see kids like mini adults, you know what I mean?

You don't want to talk down to them. You want to engage them on their level.

It's a different kind of communication, that's all it is.

-It's like speaking a different language.

-Really? Mini adults?

I made that up, and it sounded really intelligent, didn't it? LAUGHTER

-No idea.

-I was just so impressed by that, I can't tell you.

I think, for me, I just enjoy what I do and hope that they enjoy it too.

But don't you say, at some point,

I wish I was talking to adults and I could say, kind of, other stuff?

Actually, when I'm speaking to adults, sometimes I'd rather be talking to kids.

LAUGHTER

You've got 9 points, so far.

Yeah, I can't see it increasing but carry on.

-Well, you've got two minutes to do it in, so here we go, starting now.

-OK.

A four-poster, sometimes with curtains round it,

is a type of what item of furniture?

-Curtains.

-A bed. What is the American equivalent of the British postcode?

-Pass.

-Which English comedian, author, playwright,

actor and director has written several novels including

Gridlock, Popcorn and Dead Famous?

-Pass.

-What name is given to the horn-like growth,

comparable to the human fingernail, that encases the ends of the feet

of animals such as horses and cattle?

-Um, hooves, claws.

-The Suzuki method, named after its

Japanese creator, was originally devised as a way of teaching young people

to play which musical instrument?

It's since been extended to cover a range of instruments.

-Violin.

-The zloty, whose name means 'golden',

is the monetary unit of which East European country?

-Poland.

-In athletics, what do the initials PB stand for

in regard to an individual performance?

-Personal best.

-By what name is the teenage pop singer Jasmine van den Bogaerde

better known. It was also the title of her 2011 debut album?

-Britney Spears.

-Birdy.

Which brotherhood of artists was formed in 1848

by Holman Hunt, Rossetti and Millais?

-Pass.

-Which Cornish city is the southernmost on the British mainland?

-Lizard.

-Truro.

In a 2014 animated sequel set in the Amazon rainforest, Blu, Jewel

and their three children go in search of a tribe of blue macaws.

What is the film's title?

-Pass.

-The French word for which vegetable

translates into English as 'earth apple'?

-Pass.

-Which television priest, played by Dermot Morgan, was exiled to Craggy

Island for embezzling money given so that a sick child could go to Lourdes?

He spent the funds on a trip to Las Vegas.

-Pass.

-Greenmantle is the second novel by John Buchan

about the gentlemanly hero Richard Hannay.

What is the name of the first?

-Pass.

-Which English king was killed...

-BEEP

..by an arrow while he was hunting in the New Forest in 1100?

Whether it was accidental or not is unknown.

-King Richard.

-Well, no, not quite,

but it was William II.

-You were very close.

-LAUGHTER

The other passes, John Buchan's first novel, The 39 Steps.

-Father Ted was that...

-Oh, I was going to say that.

-..disgusting priest.

-I was going to say it.

Earth apple is a potato, pomme de terre.

Rio 2 was the name of that animated sequel.

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were those artists.

-Ben Elton did all those things.

-Yes, of course.

And the Americans have a zip code.

And you have, Andy, 13 points.

APPLAUSE

And Robert again now, please.

And, Robert, we've...

We've been having fun on the programme so far and now we get...

-Yes, it's all going to end now.

-But we're going to talk about bankers.

We sort of expect, don't we,

that bankers are going to be different

from other people in commerce and trade and all the rest of it?

We expect, sort of, lots of other people to be on the fiddle

but not bankers.

Do you think we do expect different standards? I think we, in general...

-Do you not think?

-Well, I think we expect people not to be on the take.

I mean, we don't just see it in banking.

You know, wherever there's the opportunity to make vast amounts of money easily, people cut corners.

And it's sort of amazing to me that we have two relearn this lesson

every few years there's a crisis or a scandal.

I mean, you know, the truth is

that there are too many feeble, frail-minded people

who, you know, cross a line when they see a huge pot of gold.

-And to go back to the old banker, new banker, sort of thing.

-Yeah.

-If you think about Dad's Army.

-Yeah, yeah.

We expected Captain Mainwaring and we got Private Walker.

LAUGHTER

-I love both Private Walker and Captain Mainwaring...

-Private Walker was a crook.

He was a spiv, you know, yes, he dealt on the black market

but he would never have done what these people who run

some of our biggest banks have done.

I regard, I regard Walker as a model of probity

compared to many of these people.

Right, Robert, thank you for that.

You got 10 points.

18 is the score to beat.

So, here we go, with two minutes of general knowledge.

On which television motoring programme does the mysterious Stig

tests cars on the show's racing circuit at Dunsfold Aerodrome?

-Top Gear.

-On a Monopoly board, what colour are Old Kent Road

and Whitechapel Road, the two cheapest properties?

-Brown.

-Which golf course hosted the 2014 Ryder Cup?

-Pass.

-What is the alternative common name for scurf,

a condition of the scalp that produces flakes of dead skin?

-Dandruff.

-Which Liverpudlian comedian's 2013 autobiography

is entitled How Did All This Happen?

-Pass.

-Colonel Agoston Haraszthy

who opened the Buena Vista Winery in Sonoma County in 1857

is considered the father of the wine industry

in which American State?

-California.

-Who followed up her television series of

Wainwright Walks with a series of railway walks,

following some of Britain's disused railways and a series of canal walks?

-Pass.

-Grimethorpe Colliery and Brighouse And Rastrick

are the names of famous bands that perform what type of music,

particularly associated with northern England?

-Brass band.

-In 982, the Norseman Erik the Red

was banished from Iceland for murder.

On his return, what name did he give to the island where he had settled

to persuade Icelanders to move there?

Oh, blimey.

-Pass.

-The acorn is the fruit of which British native tree?

-Oak.

-Which British artist painted The Hay Wain

that was completed in 1821?

-Constable.

-Stella English,

the winner of a television reality programme, later unsuccessfully sued

the host of the show for constructive dismissal. Who was the host?

Lord knows. Pass.

What do the letters CIA stand for in the name of

the American Government organization?

-Central Intelligence Agency.

-What word for the decaying flesh of dead animals,

the staple diet of some creatures

such as vultures and hyenas,

probably comes from the Latin for 'flesh'?

Oh, God. Oh, I've completely forgotten.

Oh, God.

I'm going to have to pass.

Members of the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints

are better known by what name?

Members of the Jesus...

-They are not the Mormons, are they?

-Yes! They are the Mormons.

In Tenniel's celebrated illustrations for

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, who wears a top hat with

the price tag of ten shillings and sixpence on it?

The Mad Hatter.

-What number is originally...

-BEEP

..and still commonly equal to a million million in Britain

but only to a thousand million in North America?

-It's a billion, John.

-It is indeed a billion.

-I still get letters about it.

-It's extraordinary, isn't it?

We still can't... Yes, quite.

-Anyway, you had six passes. Carrion...

-Carrion.

..was the flesh...

Alan Sugar was the guy who was sued for constructive dismissal.

-Yeah, he's of no interest to me.

-No, no, of course not.

LAUGHTER

They settled on Greenland.

-Julia Bradbury did all those walks.

-Yes, I know.

-Yeah, you know.

-John Bishop was the comedian.

-John Bishop!

Yeah, and golf course, Gleneagles.

-Yeah, of course.

-Anyway, Robert, you have 21 points.

APPLAUSE

And, finally, Ann again, please.

Right. The Shetland crime series.

Why are the Shetland Isles...?

I must say the Shetland Islands, mustn't I?

Of all places, why them?

I love Shetland.

And I first went there 40 years ago.

Dropped out of university,

met somebody in a pub who said he was going to be assistant warden

in the bird observatory at Fair Isle,

and I said, "Have they got any other jobs?"

And he said, "Oh, I think they're desperate for an assistant cook."

So I went.

Fair Isle is very small.

It's only three and a half miles by a mile and a half.

-Exactly.

-But beautiful.

And sea birds and flowers and lots and lots of gossip,

which if you're a writer...

-Ah...

-..is fantastic.

And is it easier, when you're in a small enclosed community like that,

because, as it were, all human life is then in a very enclosed area.

Yeah, and it matters if something dreadful happens

in a community where people have...

Are very close to each other and suspicion, then, is important.

And from a crime writer's point of view, you know,

it's like Agatha Christie killing people off in a train in the snow

or on a boat down the Nile.

Only the people who were there could have committed the crime.

And do they like you for what you've done to them?

-They're very, very good to me.

-Excellent.

Right, Ann, you have 11 points. The score to beat now is 21.

-This is the difficult bit.

-If you dare beat Robert Peston.

-I'm not sure I do.

-Well, you know...

Here we go, two minutes.

Which mythological fire-breathing creature

has been slain by Beowulf, Siegfried, St George and other champions

in medieval literature?

-Dragon.

-What name has been given to the fundraising day

that has accompanied Comic Relief since it began in 1988?

-Red Nose Day.

-What is fermented with

water, yeast and herbs or spices to produce the drink mead?

-Honey.

-Which country has a border

with every country in South America except Ecuador and Chile?

Brazil.

Georges Braque and a Spanish painter were instrumental

in developing the art form known as Cubism. Which painter?

-Dali.

-Picasso.

What is the title of Salman Rushdie's 1988 novel

that caused the Ayotollah Khomeini to issue the fatwa

of a sentence of death on him the following year?

-Midnight's Children.

-The Satanic Verses.

Which weatherman assured viewers in October 1987

there would be no hurricane just hours before

the country was devastated by one?

Michael Fish.

A composer's symphonies include number three, The Eroica,

and number six, The Pastoral. Which composer?

-Beethoven.

-Which sport has its roots

in a game played on the 6th of November 1869

in New Brunswick, New Jersey, between Rutgers and Princeton Universities?

-Baseball.

-No, American Football.

Rubbing the affected area with dock leaves

is a traditional way of alleviating

the sting produced by what plant?

-Nettle.

-Which national park in North Wales

was the first to be designated in Wales

and the third in the UK?

It is also Britain's third largest.

Snowdonia.

For which American group was Love Shack a UK number two hit in 1990?

They share their name with a bomber plane.

-Pass.

-According to the biblical Book Of Judges,

Samson slew 1,000 Philistines with the jawbone of what animal?

-A lion.

-No, an ass or a donkey.

Clyde, the mascot of the 2014 Commonwealth Games,

was green with purple hair and wore a T-shirt

with a Scottish saltire on it and yellow pants.

What type of plant was Clyde?

Thistle.

The late Terry Major-Ball wrote an autobiography called Major Major...

-BEEP

-..about growing up in his unorthodox household.

Who is his more famous younger brother?

-John.

-Indeed, Sir John Major.

You had one pass. That American group was The B-52s.

You've scored, Ann, 21 points.

APPLAUSE

Can't get much closer than that.

Let's have a look at all those scores.

In fourth place, 13 points, Andy Day.

Third place, 18 points, Tom Rosenthal.

But second place, with 21 points and 7 passes, Robert Peston.

First place, with 21 points and one pass, Ann Cleeves.

APPLAUSE

Ann.

-Congratulations.

-Thank you.

Well done. Are you going to take it with you to Shetland?

I'll show them the trophy, yes.

-Well done. Very well played.

-Thank you very much.

And you proved the fewer times you pass, the better.

Well, beating Robert is far more important than winning the trophy.

LAUGHTER

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