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First in the spotlight tonight is the Blue Peter presenter Radzi.

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APPLAUSE

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He's answering questions on that great sitcom The Office.

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Next, the singer and songwriter Damon Gough,

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otherwise known as Badly Drawn Boy.

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His subject, Bruce Springsteen.

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The actress Rebecca Root answering questions on the novels of Graham Greene.

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And the Olympic athlete Kriss Akabusi on West Ham United.

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Hello and welcome to Celebrity Mastermind,

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with me, John Humphrys, and four celebrities who think

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they know everything they need to know about their specialist subjects,

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but what they don't know is what affect the black chair will have on them

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when they finally get to sit in it.

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Their fees go to charity, but the prize for one of them

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is the trophy, and the honour of becoming a Mastermind.

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The rules are the same, though.

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90 seconds of questions on their specialist subject, and then two minutes on general knowledge.

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So, let us get on with it, and ask our first contender to join us, please.

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-And your name is...

-Radzi.

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-And your chosen charity.

-Blesma.

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And your chosen subject.

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The TV series The Office.

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The Office. Here we go. 90 seconds.

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The mockumentary sitcom The Office was written and directed

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by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant,

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and depicts the day-to-day lives of employees

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at the paper merchants Wernham Hogg.

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What is the title of the show's theme song?

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It is...

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-Handbags and Gladrags.

-Yes.

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At the start of the second series, the Slough branch of Wernham Hogg

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incorporates the staff of another branch in which town?

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-Swindon.

-Yep. After the office quiz,

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Finchy forces David Brent to admit that instead of Fidel Castro,

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he gave a ridiculous answer to the question, "Name the Cuban leader

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"who's been in power since the Revolution of 1959."

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What answer did he give?

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-Fray Bentos.

-Yes!

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When Brent is made redundant and sues Wernham Hogg,

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the UK manager, Neil Godwin makes it clear that Brent's social calls

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are no longer welcome. What is the name of Brent's dog,

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who's also barred from the office?

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-Nelson.

-It is.

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To raise money for Comic Relief, Brent gives an impromptu demonstration

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of his dance moves, which he describes as a fusion of MC Hammer with which film?

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-Flashdance.

-Yep.

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Which actress plays Helena,

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who interviews Brent for the trade magazine Inside Paper?

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-Helen Scott.

-No, Olivia Colman.

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When Brent sees that Gareth is wearing a holster to

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hold his mobile phone, he does an impression of which film actor?

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-Clint Eastwood.

-Yes, playing Dirty Harry.

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When Brent is preparing for his motivational talks,

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he asks Gareth to throw insults at him,

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and he discovers that because of his appearance, his nicknames around the office

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are Mr Toad and also which cartoon character?

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-Pluto.

-Yeah.

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On Keith from accounts' appraisal form,

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he lists accounts as his only strength.

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What does he put under weaknesses?

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-Eczema.

-Yes!

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What Secret Santa gift does Dawn get from Tim

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at the Christmas party, together with a note saying, "Never give up."

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-Oil paints.

-BEEP... Yep.

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Oil painting set is correct.

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No passes, Radzi. 9 points.

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APPLAUSE

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And our next contender, please.

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-And your name is...

-Damon Gough.

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-Your chosen charity.

-The WESC Foundation.

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-And your specialist subject.

-The career and life of Bruce Springsteen.

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Bruce Springsteen, in 90 seconds, here we go.

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Which music critic, who later became Springsteen's manager and producer,

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saw him perform live in 1974

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and wrote "I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen?"

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-Jon Landau.

-Yeah.

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At which London venue did Springsteen make his UK debut in November 1975?

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-Er...Hammersmith Odeon.

-Yeah.

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Springsteen was reputedly inspired to become a musician

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after watching a performance by Presley,

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on which Sunday night television variety show?

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-Ed Sullivan.

-Yep.

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Who replaced Ernest Boom Carter as the drummer in Springsteen's backing group,

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The E Street Band, in the summer of 1974?

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-Max Weinberg.

-Yep.

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Which track on Springsteen's 1975 album Born To Run was originally called The Heist

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and depicts two small-time criminals preparing for a robbery?

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-Meeting Across The River.

-Yeah.

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Who was Springsteen's manager with whom he had a long legal dispute

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which seriously limited his recording output in 1976 and '77?

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-Mike Appel.

-Yep.

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What is the title of Springsteen's 1998 four-CD box set of rare outtakes

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and other previously unreleased material from recording sessions?

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-Tracks.

-Yep.

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Who does Springsteen pull up on stage and dance with

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in Brian De Palma's video for Dancing In The Dark?

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She went on to star in Friends.

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-Courteney Cox.

-Yes.

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Which song on Springsteen's debut album, Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ,

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includes the lyrics,

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"I was the king of the alley, mama, I could talk some trash.

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"I was the prince of the paupers, crowned downtown at the beggar's bash."

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-It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City.

-Yes.

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The title song of which '95 album was inspired by, and makes references to,

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John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath?

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-The Ghost of Tom Joad.

-Yeah.

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What is the title of Springsteen's album, released in January 2014,

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which contains outtakes, covers and reworkings... BEEP ..of his own songs?

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-A Promise.

-Oh, what a shame, no. High Hopes.

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-But, nonetheless, you've got, Damon, 10 points.

-Thank you.

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APPLAUSE

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And our next contender, please.

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-And your name is...

-Rebecca Root.

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Your chosen charity?

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The Actors' Benevolent Fund.

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And your chosen subject.

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The novels of Graham Greene.

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Graham Greene's novels, in 90 seconds. Here we go.

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In Our Man In Havana, the everyday occupation of James Wormold who was offered work with

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the British Secret Services selling what household item?

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-Vacuum cleaners.

-Yep.

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In Brighton Rock, what's the name of the older gang member who was uncomfortable with

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the growing violence of the mob?

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Pinkie kills him so the murder of Charles Hale can't be reported.

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-Spicer.

-Yep.

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In the Heart of the Matter, Edward Wilson and his housemate Harris

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quarrel about the rules of engagement for hunting what insects?

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-Cockroaches.

-Yeah.

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What's the profession of Mr Tench, who befriends a nameless priest

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after meeting him at the quayside in The Power and the Glory?

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-He's a dentist.

-He is. In The End of the Affair, after Sarah Myles dies from a fever,

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her husband, Henry, invites Sarah's lover Morris to take any memento from her desk.

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What does he take?

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-A stone.

-Yeah.

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In The Heart of the Matter, Major Scobie tries to arrange for his wife

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to travel for another country where she thinks she'll be happier.

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What country does she want to go to?

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-South Africa.

-Yep. In Travels With My Aunt, what flower does Henry Pulling

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tell his Aunt Augusta he spends his time cultivating when he meets her

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at his mother's funeral after many years separation?

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-Dahlias.

-Yeah. In Dr Fisher of Geneva, at the first party that Alfred Jones attends,

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he's told the guests who obey instructions received expensive gifts

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at the end of the meal. What must they eat to get their prize?

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-Cold porridge.

-Yes.

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What does Pinkie Brown tell Rose was splashed in the eyes and face

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of Peggy Barton to spoil her looks?

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-Acid.

-Yeah, vitriol.

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In The Human Factory, Davis's secretary appears upset at her boss's funeral,

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causing Dr Percival to explain to Morris that Davis was in love with her.

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What's her name?

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-Cynthia.

-Yep.

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Detective Sgt Sparrow confiscates Henry Pulling's mother's ashes

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and has them tested, revealing that something has been mixed in

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with them in the urn. What?

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-Marijuana.

-Yeah, cannabis.

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Alfred Jones attends... BEEP ..Dr Fisher's last party where guests must

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pick a cracker. One has a bomb in it.

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The others each contain a cheque for how many francs?

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-Two million Swiss francs.

-Yeah. Absolutely.

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You got them all right. 12 points.

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APPLAUSE

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And our final contender, please.

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-And your name.

-Kriss Akabusi.

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Your chosen charity?

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The Who Cares Trust.

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-And your chosen subject.

-The mighty West Ham!

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West Ham, in 90 seconds. Starting now.

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What position of the First Division did West Ham finish at the end of the 1985-86 season?

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It's their highest position in the top division.

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-Third.

-Yeah.

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What was the score after extra time of the 2006 FA Cup final against Liverpool?

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The Hammers lost the penalty shoot out by three penalties to one.

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-Er...3-3.

-Yep.

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Which club did West Ham beat at Wembley in the Championship play-off final

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in 2012 after finishing third in the league?

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-Black...Blackpool.

-Yes.

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Which Argentinian international signed for the club in August 2006

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at the same time as Carlos Tevez?

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-Mascherano.

-Yep.

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In 2008, the number six shirt famously worn by Bobby Moore was retired.

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Which defender, who then took the number 15 shirt,

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was the last to wear number six?

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Pass.

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Who was West Ham's leading Premier League goal-scorer

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with 47 goals scored between '99 and 2003.

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-Cottee?

-No, Paolo di Canio.

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Which defender joined West Ham from Fiorentina in September 2001,

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but was sent off on his debut against Middlesbrough

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and then received another red card in his third game for the club

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against Blackburn Rovers?

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Pass.

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At which stadium in April 2007 did West Ham become the first

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away team to win a competitive game?

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Their next victory, though, was in the first game

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of the 2015-16 Premier League season.

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Pass.

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Which club bought Rio Ferdinand from West Ham in 2000 for £18 million,

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a record for a defender at the time?

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-Leeds.

-Yeah.

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West Ham played in the Premier League for ten seasons in a row

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following promotion in '93. Who was the manager for seven of those seasons?

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-Harry Redknapp.

-Yep.

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In 2010, who was appointed vice-chairman of West Ham

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by the club's... BEEP ..new owners David Sullivan and David Gold,

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and also joined the board of the television programme The Apprentice?

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-Karren Brady.

-Is correct.

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You had a few passes, Kriss.

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It was the Emirates Stadium where they became the first away team to win a competitive game.

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The rather naughty defender who got all those red cards was Tomas Repka,

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and Matthew Upson wore the number 6 and then the number 15 shirt.

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-You've scored, Kriss, 7 points.

-Thank you very much.

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APPLAUSE

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Well, some very good scoring there.

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Let's have a look at all the scores.

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In fourth place, 7 points, Kriss Akabusi.

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Third place, 9 points, Radzi.

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Second place, 10 points, Damon Gough.

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First place, 12 points, Rebecca Root.

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APPLAUSE

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And it is the general knowledge round now,

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and if there is a tie at the end of it,

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then the number of passes is taken into account,

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and the person with the fewer passes is the winner,

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

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And, something I've always wanted to ask you,

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you were the third-best sprinter in the world.

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Not in Britain, in the world. And you seemed to be disappointed with that?

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Yeah, I know.

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I mean, certainly when you start off in your career, you know,

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you want to be the best in your country,

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then you become the best in Europe, and it's great,

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and then you try to be the best in the world.

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Every now and again, you look up, no-one's there, everyone's down there.

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For me, I got to third, looked up, there's two people, I said,

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"OK, I've done my best."

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Just a quick word about athletics.

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Very, very different world today to what the amateur world was.

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What's better?

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Better for the sport, I mean.

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Well, I mean, obviously, there's been a lot of scandal this year. Um...

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You know, you want to be pure, but you also... I think...

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It is a good idea that someone who dedicates 15 years of life to

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something, that they actually can make a living out of it too,

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so I don't begrudge the people who are making good money today.

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If you're someone like Usain Bolt for example,

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and you bring so much joy and you do such phenomenal stuff,

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you shouldn't have to work again when you finish your sport.

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Indeed.

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Right, well, now, you already have 7 points, and you now have

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a whole two minutes to zoom ahead with your general knowledge.

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Here we go. Starting now.

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John Lydon, better known as Johnny Rotten,

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was the lead singer with which punk band from 1975 to '78?

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-The Sex Pistols.

-Yes.

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Which variety of English blue cheese traditionally accompanies port?

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-Gorgonzola?

-Stilton.

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In which five-a-side sport are players not allowed to run with the ball

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without bouncing it? If they do, the offence is called travelling.

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-Basketball.

-Yep.

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Whose struggles with her love life and her weight are catalogued in her diaries

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written by the novelist Helen Fielding?

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Oh, erm...

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Oh...

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Pass.

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In which 1993 film is it always 2nd February for Bill Murray's character, Phil?

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He wakes up every morning to Sonny and Cher singing I Got You Babe

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on his clock radio.

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Oh, gosh...

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-Back To The future?

-Er...Groundhog Day.

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In which English county do the town of Matlock and the village of Matlock Bath

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lie on the River Derwent?

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-Pick a county.

-Erm...

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-Wiltshire?

-Derbyshire.

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In Greek mythology, who was given 12 labours as a punishment

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for killing his wife and children in a fit of madness?

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No, pass.

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In 1954, Christopher Chataway became the first winner of

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which annual television award?

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Pass.

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Which semiaquatic mammal which belongs to the weasel family

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lives in a den called a halt?

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-And otter?

-Yeah.

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In 2014, the billionaire Steve Wynn paid a reported 28 million

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for Jeff Koons' sculpture of a spinach-eating sailor.

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What's his name?

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No, pass.

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What did the letter U stand for in the name of the German

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submarine warships known as U-boats?

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-Take a guess.

-Um...

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-Unter?

-Yeah, go on.

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Unter...Untervagen?

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No, well, Untersee, but there we are.

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In literature, by what collective name are

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Athos, Porthos and Aramis known?

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-The Three Musketeers?

-Yes.

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The name of which branch of science, which includes zoology and botany,

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comes from the Greek for life and the word or reason.

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-Biology?

-Yes.

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Sir Frederick Ashton, who was born in Ecuador in 1904

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and died in England in 1988, was a leading figure in which area of the arts?

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Pass.

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Who became the youngest Chancellor of the Exchequer for more than 100 years

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when he was appointed to the position... BEEP ..after the 2010 general election?

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-Ed Balls?

-George Osborne.

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Ed Balls?

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Really wanted it to be him, but it wasn't to be.

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Your passes, Kriss,

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it was ballet that Sir Frederick Ashton was a bit of a star at.

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-Popeye eats spinach, yeah?

-Oh!

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Chris Chataway became BBC Sports Personality Of The Year, the first one.

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Hercules was the bloke who was given 12 labours for killing his wife and children.

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And Bridget Jones wrote the famous diary, but you knew that.

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It's sitting in the chair that does it, I tell you.

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-Kriss, you now have a total of 12 points.

-Thank you very much.

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APPLAUSE

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And now, Radzi, again, please.

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And you start out with 9 points, Radzi.

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Blue Peter presenter.

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Um... Some things have changed, but most things haven't.

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I mean, you still make things and you still do challenges.

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Yeah, it's 57 years old

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and it's kind of the stalwart of Children's BBC, I guess,

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and it's a privilege to be on it,

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but it's still fundamentally the same, we hope to inspire kids and...

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You don't still have sticky back plastic and loo rolls,

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though, do you? Or do you?

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Loo rolls, we do, sticky back plastic, we sometimes do!

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But, yeah, the makes really vary -

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Anthea Turner's legendary Tracy Island,

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we make things similar to that and try and keep it a legendary show.

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And the challenges, are they more daring than they were?

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Although they were pretty daring in the old days!

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Yeah, I think we have been daring throughout.

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For me personally, I have got to swim Lake Windermere,

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I have climbed the tallest man-made climbing wall in the world,

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which is a dam in Switzerland called the Diga di Luzzone.

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-Crumbs! How high is that?

-165 metres.

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-Ooh!

-Pretty high.

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So, yeah, there was little old me, ten training sessions,

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off I go to Switzerland and hopefully scale this big wall.

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And is there one challenge you think, they are going to ring me

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one day and say, "We want you to..."

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and you're going to say, "Uh-uh, no, couldn't do that"?

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-I've got a thing about sharks.

-Ah!

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That's my big thing,

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I don't really want to get in any water with any sharks.

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I really like the land, I like how gravity works on my body,

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I will leave sharks to what they do, so, I don't want that call,

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-but anything else, I'm game for.

-Well, long may it last.

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Well, then, Radzi, you've got nine points already in the can, let's

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see how you do with your general knowledge, two minutes of questions.

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Which author's most famous creation

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is the detective, Sherlock Holmes?

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CS Carroll?

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Arthur Conan Doyle. What name for the strong, black coffee,

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usually served in very small cups, comes from the Italian for "pressed out"?

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Mocha.

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Espresso. What must you be able to read at 20 metres in good daylight

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as part of the UK driving test?

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Licence plate.

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The hero of a 1940 Disney animated film is a puppet brought to life

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and is later turned into a real boy by the Blue Fairy. Which film?

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Pinocchio.

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Which mountain arose on a single night in 286 BC,

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according to local Japanese tradition?

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Oh, Sinai?

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Mount Fuji. Buster Merryfield played which character

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in Only Fools and Horses from 1985-96?

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Trigger.

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Uncle Albert. How many lines does the poetic verse form the sonnet traditionally have?

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Oh, um...

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Three.

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14. Published in 2000, Down Under is an account of

0:17:200:17:23

which American travel writer's visit to Australia?

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Steve Irwin.

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Bill Bryson. Which financial institution has been based

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in London's Threadneedle Street since 1734?

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Pass.

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What type of drinking vessel originally had a rounded base

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and so, as its name suggests, it couldn't stand upright?

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Oh, um, pass.

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Which British bird, a member of the crow family,

0:17:450:17:48

has distinctive black and white colouring and a long tail?

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Blackbird.

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Magpie. A group of show business friends that included Dean Martin,

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Peter Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr

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were known as the Rat Pack. Who was the group's leader?

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Um... Frank Sinatra.

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Which musical, written by Willy Russell, is set in Liverpool

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and features the songs Easy Terms, Marilyn Monroe and Tell Me It's Not True?

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Pass.

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In education, the A in A-levels stands for what?

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Academic.

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Advanced. Which British rock band entered the UK album charts

0:18:160:18:19

at number one for the first time in June 1997 with OK Computer?

0:18:190:18:23

Stereophonics.

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Radiohead. In which month does the Queen celebrate her official birthday...

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BEEP ..with the Trooping of the Colour?

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-Which day?

-Month.

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Which month? July.

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Close, it was June. Or rather, it is June, because she still does it.

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Your passes - that musical by Willy Russell was Blood Brothers.

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The Bank of England has been in Threadneedle Street since 1734.

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-Oh!

-And here is the fascinating one, that drinking vessel...

-Yeah?

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-..is a tumbler!

-Oh, of course!

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But who knew that tumblers were called tumblers because...

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This chair does strange things to the brain!

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It does, no question about that!

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-Radzi, you've got a total now of 12 points.

-Thank you.

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And now, Damon again, please.

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Yup, it's you.

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I don't know whether to call you Badly Drawn Boy or what!

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I mean, why Badly Drawn Boy? I'm sure everyone has asked you that.

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-Call me what you like, John.

-Yeah?

-You are the presenter of Mastermind!

0:19:240:19:27

I know, but I still don't know why you're called Badly Drawn Boy.

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It was just a name that I made up, um,

0:19:300:19:33

over a bottle of wine one night...

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I think it had gone off, the bottle of wine, this name just came

0:19:350:19:39

out of nowhere, and I hated it, but it kind of served me well for

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a few years and I won the Mercury Prize and things like that, which...

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Didn't want to just sneak that in there!

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Well, no need to sneak it in, because I was going to ask about that.

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-You won it for The Hour of Bewilderbeest.

-That's right.

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What does it do to you when you are setting out on a career,

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as it were, and you win THE prize, the big prize?

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It just makes you really big headed and unbearable to be around!

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It was just...

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It was like, you couldn't really plan for something like that

0:20:040:20:07

to happen. I was dead proud of it.

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In fact, you are now touring again, aren't you, with Bewilderbeest?

0:20:090:20:12

Yeah, this year was the 15th anniversary of the first album,

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that won the Mercury Prize, so I wanted to sort of pay

0:20:160:20:20

reverence to it, because I think at the time I was just...

0:20:200:20:22

I was bowled over by it all,

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so it's been a really nice year in terms of playing that record again

0:20:240:20:28

at some gigs and say thanks to people for keeping

0:20:280:20:31

-it in their lives.

-Well, it made a mark, that's for sure.

0:20:310:20:35

Now, talking about making marks, you have 10 points as we start, so,

0:20:350:20:41

it's going to be a fight to the death, I think,

0:20:410:20:43

with our final contender.

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So, here we go, two minutes of general knowledge, starting now.

0:20:450:20:48

In which American states are the cities of Dallas and Houston?

0:20:480:20:51

Texas.

0:20:510:20:53

Which Roman leader was murdered in a conspiracy led by Brutus and Cassius?

0:20:530:20:56

Caesar.

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Which designer dog breed is a cross between a cocker spaniel and a miniature poodle?

0:20:570:21:01

A cockapoodle.

0:21:010:21:03

Yup, cockapoo! What name is used both for a group of singers

0:21:030:21:06

and for the part of the church where they sit in stalls?

0:21:060:21:09

Pews?

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Choir! In a Grimm's fairy story, who finds a cottage with

0:21:110:21:15

the table laid for seven after she's abandoned in a forest?

0:21:150:21:18

Sounds like Snow White.

0:21:180:21:20

It is. Which of the planets of the solar system is the only one not named after

0:21:200:21:24

a Greek or Roman god or goddess?

0:21:240:21:26

Earth.

0:21:260:21:27

The 1955 film The Trouble With Harry is a black comedy by a director

0:21:270:21:31

nicknamed The Master Of Suspense. Which director?

0:21:310:21:34

Can you repeat that, sorry?

0:21:340:21:35

The '55 film The Trouble With Harry is a black comedy by a director

0:21:350:21:39

nicknamed The Master Of Suspense. Who was he?

0:21:390:21:41

Hitchcock.

0:21:410:21:43

What annual ladies' race has been run at Olney

0:21:430:21:45

in Buckinghamshire on Shrove Tuesday since 1445?

0:21:450:21:48

Pancake race.

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In the TV series Doc Martin, who plays the socially challenged Cornish GP

0:21:490:21:53

Martin Ellingham, who has an unfortunate phobia of blood?

0:21:530:21:58

Martin...

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Thingy!

0:22:000:22:01

Martin Clunes. In French cuisine,

0:22:010:22:03

what is the usual meat content of a stew known as a navarin?

0:22:030:22:07

Oh...beef?

0:22:080:22:11

Lamb. In internet and text-messaging slang, what expression,

0:22:110:22:14

denoting amusement, does the abbreviation LOL usually stand for?

0:22:140:22:19

Lot of laughs?

0:22:190:22:20

Laugh out loud. In Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book,

0:22:200:22:23

what is the name of the sleepy brown bear who protects the man cub, Mowgli?

0:22:230:22:26

Oh...

0:22:270:22:29

I'm laughing at the question before!

0:22:290:22:31

Just get on with this one, you're wasting time!

0:22:310:22:35

Yogi.

0:22:350:22:36

Baloo! What is the title of Slade's 1973 Christmas number one,

0:22:360:22:40

which has been reissued every decade since?

0:22:400:22:43

So Here It Is, Merry Christmas.

0:22:430:22:45

No, Merry Xmas Everybody.

0:22:450:22:46

Which narrow sea extends about 1,400 miles in a southeasterly direction...

0:22:460:22:50

BEEP ..from the Egyptian port of Suez?

0:22:500:22:53

Um...

0:22:540:22:56

The lead singer of Coldplay.

0:22:560:22:58

-Close(!)

-Just so I don't pass, that's all I'm saying that for.

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No, I recognised that tactic!

0:23:010:23:03

Anyway, it's wrong, as you will not be surprised to hear. The Red Sea!

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Damon, you've got 17 points.

0:23:070:23:10

And our final contender, Rebecca.

0:23:210:23:25

And 17 is the score you've got to beat

0:23:250:23:29

if you're going to become our Mastermind,

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but let's talk about your sitcom, BBC Two sitcom, Boy Meets Girl,

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and you've done something no actor's ever done before,

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you are a transgender person playing a transgender role.

0:23:410:23:45

Remarkable that's never happened before!

0:23:450:23:48

Um, it has, but not to the extent that my character in this show has,

0:23:480:23:53

she is a lead role, one of the key characters in the series,

0:23:530:23:59

and hitherto, trans characters have been relegated somewhat to

0:23:590:24:05

the sidelines and maybe only appeared in one or two episodes,

0:24:050:24:08

and even then, just as a very small part.

0:24:080:24:11

Usually the butt of the joke, actually, so...

0:24:110:24:13

And you're not, I mean, in this case, and anyway,

0:24:130:24:16

it's not a cruel comedy, is it? It's a gentle sitcom.

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Yeah, very much, yes, we describe it as a rom-com or a comedy drama,

0:24:200:24:25

and I think it is our intention to make people laugh

0:24:250:24:30

and maybe cry a little bit or hold their breath and go, "Ah!"

0:24:300:24:33

and, you know, just take them on a little rollercoaster.

0:24:330:24:36

And Boy Meets Girl is coming back?

0:24:360:24:37

We hope so, yes, fingers crossed!

0:24:370:24:39

Fingers crossed, absolutely.

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Now, then, the latest challenge is to beat the score of 17,

0:24:410:24:45

which is up there at the moment,

0:24:450:24:48

and you have two minutes of general knowledge in which to do it.

0:24:480:24:51

Which dramatist's works include the tragedies Hamlet and Macbeth?

0:24:510:24:55

Shakespeare.

0:24:550:24:56

The title of Billy Ocean's 1986 number one hit single

0:24:560:24:58

is When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get...?

0:24:580:25:00

Going.

0:25:000:25:01

What word for a regular payment to an employee

0:25:010:25:03

comes from the Latin for the money a Roman soldier was given to buy salt?

0:25:030:25:07

Salary.

0:25:070:25:08

Which 2015 Pixar film features a girl called Riley, who has been uprooted from

0:25:080:25:12

the Midwest to San Francisco, and her emotions, Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear and Anger?

0:25:120:25:17

Frozen.

0:25:170:25:18

Inside Out. Which English singer-songwriter wrote

0:25:180:25:20

the music for the stage version of the film Billy Elliott?

0:25:200:25:23

Elton John.

0:25:230:25:24

What sporting event was spread over five months between May and October 1900

0:25:240:25:28

as a sideshow to the Paris World Fair?

0:25:280:25:31

The Olympics.

0:25:310:25:32

In which country did the Impressionist movement in art begin in the late

0:25:320:25:36

19th century, taking its name from a painting called Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet?

0:25:360:25:40

-Sorry, in which country?

-Yup.

0:25:400:25:42

France.

0:25:420:25:43

Gian Carlo Menotti's opera Amahl and the Night Visitors

0:25:430:25:46

and Benjamin Britten's opera Owen Wingrave were both written specially for what medium?

0:25:460:25:51

Opera.

0:25:510:25:52

Television. Three of the five original Nobel prizes are awarded for science subjects.

0:25:520:25:56

Physics and chemistry are two, what is the third?

0:25:560:25:59

Chemistry.

0:25:590:26:00

Physiology, or medicine. Which fruit with a creamy, yellow flesh,

0:26:000:26:04

that is native to South America, is also called the alligator pear?

0:26:040:26:07

Avocado.

0:26:090:26:10

Who wrote the novels Jurassic Park and The Lost World,

0:26:100:26:12

which were later made into successful films?

0:26:120:26:14

Michael Crichton.

0:26:140:26:15

The series of earthworks known as Offa's Dyke marked

0:26:150:26:18

the traditional boundary between which two modern countries?

0:26:180:26:21

Um... Scotland and England.

0:26:210:26:23

England and Wales. What first name was shared by the television detectives

0:26:230:26:27

Taggart, Rockford and Bergerac?

0:26:270:26:29

Jim.

0:26:290:26:30

Which large, semiaquatic African animal produces a pinkish-red secretion from

0:26:300:26:33

its skin that acts as a sunblock, and this led to

0:26:330:26:36

the ancient myth that it sweats blood?

0:26:360:26:38

Pass.

0:26:380:26:39

Which King of England was married to Catherine of Aragon for 24 years?

0:26:390:26:42

Henry V.

0:26:420:26:44

Henry VIII. In politics, the letters PR stand for proportional...?

0:26:440:26:47

Representation.

0:26:470:26:49

Which lawyer was created by author Erle Stanley Gardner and defended his first client...

0:26:490:26:53

BEEP ..in the 1933 novel, The Case of the Velvet Claws?

0:26:530:26:57

Clarence Darrow.

0:26:570:26:59

It was Perry Mason.

0:26:590:27:01

That animal, your pass, the animal that they thought sweats blood,

0:27:010:27:05

is a hippo, a hippopotamus.

0:27:050:27:08

Rebecca, you've done it with something to spare,

0:27:080:27:11

you have scored 22 points!

0:27:110:27:13

Ho-ho-ho!

0:27:130:27:14

So, that's it, let's have a look at all the scores.

0:27:270:27:30

In joint third place, 12 points apiece, Radzi and Kriss.

0:27:300:27:33

Second place, 17 points, Damon.

0:27:330:27:36

First place with 22 points, no doubt about that, Rebecca!

0:27:360:27:40

Rebecca...

0:27:540:27:55

Congratulations!

0:27:570:27:59

-Thank you very much.

-And you don't need an Oscar now!

-No!

0:27:590:28:03

That's it, I mean, where does that rank in terms of...

0:28:030:28:06

-That's really up there.

-That's it, isn't it? Well done.

0:28:060:28:08

A great winner, if I may say so.

0:28:080:28:11

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0:28:110:28:14

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