Episode 9 Celebrity Mastermind

First in the spotlight tonight is the Radio 1 DJ Gemma Cairney.

She's answering questions on the Spice Girls.

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Next, the boxer Anthony Ogogo

on the British middleweight boxers of the 1990s.

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The actress Tina Malone answers questions on Barbra Streisand.

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And BBC Breakfast's Dominic Laurie and his specialist subject,

the London Underground.

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Hello and welcome to Celebrity Mastermind with me,

John Humphrys, and four people who have volunteered to be

put to the test on Britain's toughest quiz

and who may now be wondering why they decided to do it.

They don't get a fee, it goes to charity.

But they do get a chance of winning the glass trophy

and the great honour of becoming a Mastermind.

To do it they get 90 seconds of questions on their subject

and two minutes on general knowledge.

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

And your name is?

Your chosen charity?

And your chosen subject?

The Spice Girls, in 90 seconds. Here we go.

What was the title of the Spice Girls' debut single?

Number one in over 30 countries, including Britain and the US?

-Wannabe.

-What were the band originally called

before changing their name to Spice and then eventually to the Spice Girls?

-Touch.

-Which music magazine's editor, Peter Loraine,

suggested each of the Spice Girls should have a nickname?

Top Of The Pops magazine.

With which music manager and his 19 Management company did the group sign in 1995?

-Simon Fuller.

-Who Do You Think You Are was the official Comic Relief song in 1997.

What was the name of the spoof group, featuring French and Saunders,

that appeared on the video with the Spice Girls?

-Pass.

-With what song did the Spice Girls have a UK number one hit in December 1998?

It was their last release for almost two years as two of them were pregnant.

-Goodbye.

-At the Brit Awards in 2000, Will Smith praised

the Spice Girls for their numerous tattoos, shoes and news headlines.

What award was he presenting them with at the time?

-Best Single.

-The Outstanding Contribution to Music.

Which song became the group's third consecutive UK number one single,

and was also the Christmas number one for 1996?

-2 Become

-1. At what venue were the Spice Girls performing for the 21st anniversary

of the Prince's Trust in May 1997 when Geri Halliwell pinched Prince Charles' bottom?

-Earl's Court.

-Manchester Opera House.

What is the title of the Spice Girls' second album?

It sold nearly 200,000 copies in the first week

after its release in November '97?

Spiceworld. Which Spice Girls song was the official

-Children in Need single in 2007?

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It saw the return of Geri to the group after her departure nine years previously?

-Viva Forever.

-No, it was Headlines.

One pass, Gemma.

That French and Saunders spoof group was The Sugarlumps. There we are.

-Gemma, you have scored 7 points.

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And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

And your chosen charity?

And your chosen subject?

In 90 seconds, starting now.

What version of the World Middleweight Championship

did Nigel Benn hold in 1990 until Chris Eubank defeated him

in the November of that year?

-WBO.

-Which British fighter became the WBC Super Middleweight Champion

in October 1996 when he beat Vincenzo Nardiello in Milan?

-Nigel Benn.

-Robin Reid.

Herol "Bomber" Graham has been described

as the best British fighter never to win a world title.

In whose Sheffield gym did he train for most of his career?

-Brendan Ingle.

-What tag line was used to promote the Super Middleweight unification

contest between Benn and Eubank at Old Trafford in October '93?

-Two Warriors Collide.

-Judgment Day.

Which Super Middleweight boxer beat both Nigel Benn

and Chris Eubank twice in World Championship bouts?

-Steve Collins.

-At which football stadium did the second fight

between Chris Eubank and Michael Watson take place in September 1991?

It left Watson in a coma with serious brain damage.

-White Hart Lane.

-Who became the WBC Super Middleweight Champion

in his home town of Telford in March 1998

when he beat the South African Thulani Malinga?

Richie Woodhall.

Nigel Benn was injured during his WBO Super Middleweight Title

fight against Steve Collins in July 1996

and Collins won by technical knockout.

What was the injury?

-Shoulder?

-No. Ankle. Twisted ankle.

What was the name of the boxer who beat Ian Strudwick to take the

vacant British Super Middleweight Title in September '91?

He was also known as Slugger O'Toole.

Pass. BEEP

Who won the WBO Super Middleweight title in October 1997 by beating Chris Eubank?

-Joe Calzaghe.

-That is correct.

You had one pass.

The name of that boxer who beat Ian Strudwick was Fidel Castro Smith.

-You have, Anthony, 6 points.

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And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Your chosen charity?

And your chosen subject? Barbra Streisand in 90 seconds.

Streisand was a joint winner of the Best Actress Oscar for 1968, with Katharine Hepburn,

for her portrayal of Fanny Brice in which film?

-Funny Girl.

-Who finally agreed to star opposite Streisand in The Way We Were

after the script had been rewritten?

-Robert Redford.

-What is the name of the secretary whom Streisand played

in her first Broadway show, I Can Get It For You Wholesale?

-Pass.

-Who was Streisand's first husband? They married in Carson City, Nevada in 1963.

-Elliot Gould.

-What two words are the first uttered by Fanny Brice in Funny Girl?

Streisand said them to the Oscar statuette

when she collected it for playing the part?

-"I'm the greatest star."

-"Hello, gorgeous."

Which film, based on a story by Isaac Bashevis Singer,

did Streisand finally bring to the screen in '83?

She directed and co-wrote it, and also played the title role?

-Yentl.

-Which '71 studio album was produced by Richard Perry

and features songs by Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, among others?

Its title track was a top ten hit in America.

-Pass.

-On whose television show did Streisand make a guest appearance in '63?

The two sang Be My Guest together.

-Judy Garland.

-For one of the songs in her 1966 television special,

Colour Me Barbra, Streisand appears next to

a bust of which ancient Egyptian queen?

-Cleopatra.

-Nefertiti.

Streisand wrote the music for the love theme of A Star is Born

which won an Oscar for Best Original Song. What is its title?

-Evergreen.

-With which Canadian Prime Minister did Streisand have a relationship

while she was filming The Owl and the Pussycat in '69?

-Pass.

-Which song did Streisand record with Neil Diamond in 1978?

She put it on her album Memories after it topped the American singles chart?

-You Don't Bring Me Flowers.

-That is correct.

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You had three passes. Pierre Trudeau was the Canadian Prime Minister

she had that fling with. That '71 studio album was Stoney End.

And Miss Marmelstein was the name of the secretary that she played.

-Tina, you have 7 points.

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And our final contender, please.

And your name is?

Your chosen charity?

And your chosen subject?

The London Underground in 90 seconds.

Which Underground line is coloured brown on the standard Tube map?

-Bakerloo.

-An extension to which Underground line brought passengers

-to Heathrow Airport for the first time in December 1977?

-Piccadilly.

What is the name of the modernist architect who was

commissioned by Frank Pick to design station buildings

for the new Morden Line in the '20s?

-Charles Holden.

-What term for the suburbs and countryside north-west of London

made accessible by the Metropolitan Railway after the First World War

was used as the title of a railway publicity handbook?

-Metroland.

-What's the name of the inventor of a travelling shield that made

the cutting of deep level tunnels possible,

who went on to be the chief engineer of the City and South London Railway?

-The Gladiator.

-No, Greathead.

Which electronic smart card for ticketing was

launched by Transport for London in June 2003?

-Oyster.

-During the war a series of posters was created by cartoonist David Langdon

featuring a city gent who advised passengers on safety. What was his name?

-Pass.

-What was installed and put into service for the first time

on the London Underground at Earl's Court

station between the District and Piccadilly Lines in 1911?

First escalator.

Which American financier was largely responsible for the rapid electrification

of the Underground System in Central London in the early 20th century?

He'd previously put together the syndicate of companies that built the Chicago transport system.

-Yerkes.

-What feature of the landscape on Harry Beck's 1931 map

was removed in 2009 and quickly reinstated after a public outcry?

-The Thames.

-Who was appointed by Ken Livingstone

as his Commissioner for Transport in 2000?

-Bob Kiley.

-Which engineering project that was completed in 1999

-was known by the initials JLE?

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-Jubilee Line Extension.

-Is correct.

Just one pass, Dominic.

The character who gave a bit of safety advice

was Billy Brown of London Town.

-But you scored 10 points.

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That's the specialist round. Let's have a look at the scores.

In fourth place, 6 points, Anthony Ogogo.

Joint second place, 7 points apiece, Gemma Cairney and Tina Malone.

First place, 10 points, Dominic Laurie.

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Round 2, the general knowledge round.

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

into account and the person with the fewest passes is the winner.

So, let's get on with it and ask Anthony to join us again, please.

You won bronze at the London Olympics and then you turned pro.

Now, the difference between being an amateur and being a pro.

-Is there any difference in the approach to the fight?

-Definitely.

I think amateur boxing is a bit more stylistic, if you will.

You need to score points so less emphasis is on power

and trying to hurt your opponent, more on scoring the points.

And pro boxing is...essentially it's the entertainment business.

You need to sell tickets and you want to win fights by knockout so it's more power.

They hit harder, you hit harder, the gloves are smaller, it hurts more.

Because pro boxing is all about the razzmatazz, I enjoy it a bit more.

So you don't ever say to yourself, "This is going to hurt me long-term."

What are you trying to do to me, John?! LAUGHTER

Nah, look...

Obviously, every boxer, they're trained to defend themselves

and to win boxing matches. I'm no different.

And I just want to leave the sport and to have touched the sport

and touched people's lives and to inspire them

to make something of themselves, to do great things with their lives.

That's what I'm trying to do.

I'm trying to forge a successful career for myself and

if I can help other people do that in a different walk of life, great.

What does your mum think?

She doesn't like it.

There's a surprise(!)

Right. OK. You have 6 points, Anthony.

We now have two minutes of general knowledge questions

so let's see how you do. Here we go.

Which villainous count was famously played in a 1931 film

by the Hungarian actor, Bela Lugosi?

When Lugosi died he was buried in the character's full costume, including a cape?

-Dracula.

-What name is given to the traditional food

of the Australian aboriginal people?

It's also used in the name of the trials

that occur in the television series I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!

-Bush Tucker.

-The shape of which European country is sometimes described as a boot?

-Italy.

-Which 2006 film has the subtitle Cultural Learnings of America

for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan?

-Borat.

-Town criers traditionally begin their announcements with a repeated

word that comes from the Old French for "to hear". What is it?

-Hear ye.

-No. Oyez! Oyez!

Which Roman Emperor ordered the building of a defensive

wall across northern Britain in about 122AD?

-Caesar.

-Hadrian.

In anatomy, what name is given to the joint between the femur and the pelvis?

-Hip.

-Who described himself as the Happy One

when he returned to Chelsea in June 2013?

-Jose Mourinho.

-What is the original literal meaning of the names

of the alcoholic drinks aquavit, eau-de-vie and whisky?

-Booze.

-Water of life!

What name is given to the part of the White House

that includes the Oval Office and the Cabinet Room?

-Pentagon.

-The West Wing.

In the band Fleetwood Mac, what instrument does Mick Fleetwood play?

-A flute.

-Drums.

What is the name of the schooner, under the command of Captain Smollett,

in which the principal characters go to sea in Treasure Island?

-Pass.

-Which iconic building in Beijing, first used in 2008,

was designed by a team including the dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei?

-Bird's Nest.

-What word was used by native North Americans for a baby or young child?

-Nipper.

-Papoose. Which Latina singer and film actress first entered the UK Singles

charts in July 1999 with If You Had My Love?

If you had... Erm... BEEP

-Jennifer Lopez.

-Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.

You had only one pass.

The name of the schooner that Captain Smollett commanded

was the Hispaniola. You have, Anthony, 14 points.

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And now Gemma again, please.

And you're a DJ and I suppose I've always assumed that DJs go to

all the music festivals, all the time.

-You've been going to Glastonbury for five years.

-Yeah. I'm a big fan.

-I'm obsessed. It's like Christmas, Glastonbury.

-Really?

And yet a lot of people - and I did do it last year myself, for the first time -

a lot of people look at it and think,

"My God, people actually pay to suffer that mud and the row and..."

I compared it to Christmas but it's a very specifically muddy Christmas.

It is incredible.

I feel like it's really for the people with a hippy spirit within.

It's about coming together, listening to music

and having a really good time and wearing what you want

and feeling quite free and just being ridiculous.

But you can't sleep at night because of the noise.

-You're dancing instead, John.

-Oh. Nobody told me that.

Aren't there too many music festivals now?

I mean, there's Glastonbury, Reading, Leeds, Latitude. I mean, every week.

I think there's a lot, yeah, but I think there's something for everyone

so whether Glastonbury's for you,

you might be able to find something a bit smaller.

I think it's nice there are so many and it really is a coming together of people and I love that.

A lovely atmosphere at Glastonbury, I must say. Right, Gemma.

You have 7 points. Let's see if you can beat 14.

That's the highest score at the moment.

With two minutes of general knowledge starting now.

Which former tennis player took over from David Coleman

as the presenter of A Question of Sport in 1997?

Sue... Sue... Ah! Pass!

Which Texan city became a centre for America's space programme

when the command post for flights by astronauts

was opened near there in 1961?

-Houston.

-Which sign of the zodiac is personified by Castor

-and Pollux, said to be the twin sons of Leda?

-Gemini.

In the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz,

what does the scarecrow hope that the Wizard will be able to give him?

-Courage.

-A brain. Which member of the cat family has black lines that curve

from the inner corner of each eye to the outer corner

of the mouth, like a black tear mark?

-The cat from the adverts.

-Cheetah!

What name was given to seven Egyptian queens,

the last of whom died in August 30BC?

-Cleopatra.

-Which television cartoon builder has a partner called Wendy

-and a cat called Pilchard?

-Bob.

The Kentish seaside town of Whitstable holds an annual

festival that celebrates which shellfish?

-Oysters.

-What is the name of Sven-Goran Eriksson's former partner

whose debut show Rainbows from Diamonds

opened at the Edinburgh Fringe in August 2014?

-Nancy Dollielio.

-Close enough. Dell'Olio.

What is the title of the 2013 animated film prequel in which

Billy Crystal and John Goodman provide the voices of Mike and Sulley,

student "scarers" learning how to terrify small children?

-Despicable Me?

-Monsters University.

In which event did Kriss Akabusi set a British National Record at the Barcelona Olympics

while Kevin Young set a World Record that still stands?

-Ugh! Athletics.

-Yeah. I need to be a bit clearer.

It was the 400m hurdles.

What's the surname of Daniel and Natasha who became the first brother and

sister to top the UK charts separately as solo artists?

-Pass.

-In which city is the Everyman Theatre where actors

such as Bill Nighy and Julie Walters began their careers?

-Cambridge.

-Liverpool.

Which author, best remembered for Wuthering Heights, used the pseudonym Ellis Bell?

Oh, man. I'm going to get rinsed for this but I don't know.

Which county's tourist attractions include Woburn Abbey

-and Whipsnade Zoo? Name a county.

-BEEP

-Durham.

-No. Bedfordshire.

-OK. SHE LAUGHS

-The Wuthering Heights author, Emily Bronte.

-Yes, I thought that!

Ah, you should have said it. Always say it.

-The surname of Daniel and Natasha - Bedingfield.

-Oh, of course.

And you'll be cross with yourself for this one. It's Sue Barker.

-You nearly...you were half saying it, weren't you?

-Yeah.

-Anyway, Sue Barker.

-I love Sue Barker.

-Took over from David Coleman.

There you are.

-Gemma, you've a total of 13 points.

-Thank you.

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And now Tina again, please.

Now, Tina. An actress who didn't exactly go the sort of RADA route.

No, no. I kind of did it the proper way.

I did community theatre and did a bit of stand up comedy

so I kind of did it, I feel, maybe like the back door. The hard way.

But you bashed on front doors. Having done that, you then...

I did, yeah.

I kind of hounded people like Willie Russell and Phil Redmond

-and Jimmy McGovern until they gave me a job.

-When you say hounded...

-Wrote all the time.

-All the time?

-Yeah.

Talent will out, but persistence and tenacity is most important.

And you did terribly well in Shameless.

-I mean, you were a bit of a pain in the wotsit, weren't you?

-Yeah.

I mean, I did five years in Brookside and I've done 12 films,

a lot of period dramas for the BBC.

But I ended up ten years playing Mimi Maguire in Shameless.

And it was incredible.

And I don't think if I live to be 100, unless I get to play

Lady Macbeth or Mother Courage, will I ever play a woman as strong.

-Terrific part, wasn't it? So, Lady Macbeth next.

-Hopefully.

I just don't think the RSC will ask me, but who knows?

Who knows? They may be watching,

thinking, "That's the one we want." Right, Tina. You have 7 points.

16 is the score to beat. Here we go.

Two minutes of general knowledge.

In 1956, the actress Grace Kelly abandoned her Hollywood career

and married the hereditary ruler of which European principality?

-Monaco.

-What word for trespassing to illegally hunt game or fish

is also used for a method of cooking eggs?

-Poaching.

-Which author's novel The Silmarillion

was first published in 1977, four years after his death?

-Pass.

-Who got to her second Grand Slam final

but lost in straight sets to Serena Williams in the 2014 US Open?

-Erm...Venus Williams.

-No, Caroline Wozniacki.

Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner, and Pooh-Bah, the Lord High Everything Else,

are among the characters in which Gilbert and Sullivan operetta?

-Pirates of Penzance.

-The Mikado.

The domestic turkey is descended from the wild turkey that's native to which continent?

-Asia.

-North America.

Who plays the title role in Stanley Kubrick's 1960 film Spartacus?

-Michael Dougl... Kirk Douglas!

-Kirk Douglas.

Kirk Douglas, you got it right.

What was the nationality of the surrealist painter

Rene Magritte, whose works are characterized by symbols

-such as the bowler hat and the bourgeois little man?

-French. French.

-Belgian.

Which British playwright was born Tomas Straussler in Zlin,

now in the Czech Republic, in July 1937?

-Pass.

-Which city succeeded Auckland as the capital of New Zealand in 1865?

-Pass.

-The celebrated final scene of a television

series about the mafia was filmed in Holsten's Ice Cream

parlour in Bloomfield, New Jersey. What was the series?

-Sopranos.

-Which band made the original of Love Is All Around?

The cover by Wet, Wet, Wet was used in the film

Four Weddings and a Funeral.

-The Yardbirds.

-The Troggs.

In Germany, what general name is given to any strong alcoholic

spirit, especially one resembling Holland gin?

-Beer.

-Schnapps.

Which village in North Yorkshire gives its name to a racecourse and a major garrison?

-Pass.

-In chemistry, what name is given to substances such as water

and common salt that consist of two or more chemical elements?

-Nitrates.

-Compounds.

A NIMBY is a term for someone who objects to a development

because it's close to where they live.

-What do the letters stand for?

-I haven't got a clue. BEEP

Yes, you do. When I tell you, you'll be cross.

-NIMBY - not in my back yard.

-Oh!

-Yeah, you knew it.

-Still didn't know!

-There we are. All right.

The other passes.

Catterick's the village in North Yorkshire with a racecourse

and garrison. Wellington is the capital of New Zealand.

Tom Stoppard was born in what's now the Czech Republic.

JRR Tolkein wrote The Silmarillion.

Those were your five passes. Your score, Tina, is 11.

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And finally Dominic again, please.

And you're fairly rare amongst business journalists

cos most of them started out as hacks and then stayed in journalism but you didn't.

-You started out doing something rather different.

-Yeah.

My first job was selling biscuits and crisps

-out the back of a Ford Escort estate to corner shops.

-Really?

-Literally?

-Yeah.

I had to persuade them to buy it from a cash and carry afterwards.

I had to go into shops and say, "Want to buy a packet of crisps?"

-And did they always say yes?

-Pretty much.

All right, here's the killer question -

-why aren't you a billionaire now, then?

-Because I wanted to...

I was listening to people like you on the radio

-and I wanted to learn how to be a journalist.

-Why?

Because I wanted to learn more about the world every day that I went into work,

rather than to push, perhaps, one product.

-I wanted to open out rather than to narrow in.

-That is very brave.

Well, a lot of people told me at the time I was pretty brave, as well.

-You have to go on your hunch.

-I suppose.

And now you are competition for the Today Programme.

-I believe it's on television, is it?

-It is.

If you want pictures then that's what you tune into.

Although you can get you on a webcam now, can't we?

Yes. Yes, you can. Right, Dominic.

You got 10 points, already a high score.

Let's see how you do with your general knowledge.

Two minutes, starting now. Which cartoon character expresses his rebellious attitude

to authority figures by inviting his critics to "eat my shorts"?

-Desperate Dan.

-Bart Simpson!

Which of the Gospels is the first book of the New Testament?

-Matthew.

-A term for Sir Alex Ferguson's method of giving players

a dressing-down is now defined in a dictionary as

"the practice of shouting at someone at close quarters in order to

"express one's displeasure at something". What term?

-Hairdryer treatment.

-Who was first given the name the Iron Lady

by the Soviet Defence Ministry newspaper, Red Star,

after she made a speech in 1976 accusing the Soviet Union of seeking world domination?

-Margaret Thatcher.

-Which country's national parks and game reserves

include Maasai Mara Reserve and the Tsavo National Parks?

-Kenya.

-Which athlete's autobiography Faster Than Lightning was published in 2013?

Usain Bolt.

Who won a Best Actress Oscar for the title role of a headstrong young teacher

-in the film The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie?

-Pass.

Which Scottish singer-songwriter topped

the UK Album Charts for three weeks in 2014 with Caustic Love?

-Pass.

-The rook is a member of which family of birds?

-Crow.

-The principal foodstuff of koala bears are the leathery leaves of which tree?

-Eucalyptus.

-Which French leader was often depicted by the cartoonist and caricaturist

James Gillray as a belligerent midget?

-De Gaulle.

-Napoleon. In geology, what name is given to the hot molten or semi-molten material

in the earth's interior that is thrown out as lava when a volcano erupts?

-Magma.

-What is the name of the Warrior Princess

played on television by the New Zealand-born actress Lucy Lawless?

-Boudicca.

-Xena.

-In 1694, Sir John Houblon became the first person to be appointed

governor of which financial institution?

-The Bank of England.

-Which virtuoso flute player had a UK number three hit in 1978

with an instrumental version of Annie's Song?

-James Galway.

-Which popular autumn-flowering garden plant has a name that

comes from the Greek for golden flower?

-Peony.

-Chrysanthemum. Whose album Closer to the Truth, released in Britain in October 2013,

is her first studio album since Living Proof in 2002?

-Annie Lennox.

-Cher.

-Which EastEnders character, played by Shane Richie...

-BEEP

..has an on-off relationship with Kat Slater, played by Jessie Wallace?

-Ah! I can feel about 25,000 people...

-They're all saying it.

-Shall I tell you?

-I don't know.

-All right. Alfie Moon.

And the other two that you probably knew but couldn't bring to mind

was the Scottish singer-songwriter, that was Paolo Nutini.

And this will make you cross.

-The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Maggie Smith.

-Oh!

-Yeah.

-But, Dominic, it didn't matter cos you've got 20 points.

-Good stuff.

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So, we have a clear winner. Let's have a look at all the scores.

In fourth place with 11 points, Tina Malone.

Third place, 13 points, Gemma Cairney.

Second place with 14 points, Anthony Ogogo.

In first place with 20 points, Dominic Laurie.

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-Congratulations.

-Thank you, John. That's very kind of you.

And I bet you never got an award for flogging biscuits.

I wasn't the best in my region, by any means.

I was never a champion biscuit seller.

-I don't think I'll ever be a champion Mastermind.

-Once is all it takes.

-Thank you very much.

-Well done.

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