Episode 4 Celebrity Mastermind

First in the spotlight tonight is the chef Tom Kerridge,

answering questions on Oasis.

Next, the England football captain, Steph Houghton.

Her subject, The Only Way Is Essex.

The actor and comedian Rob Delaney answers questions

on the actor and comedian John Belushi.

And the presenter Dom Wood on Harry Houdini.

Hello, and welcome to Celebrity Mastermind with me,

John Humphrys, and four brave souls who have bowed to pressure

and agreed to be tested on how much they know,

or rather how much they can remember under the glare of the spotlight,

and the pressure of the clock, and the black chair, and all of that.

They're doing it for charity, but the rules are the same.

90 seconds of questions on their specialist subject,

and then two minutes on general knowledge.

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

-And your name is?

-Tom Kerridge.

-Your chosen charity?

-Boxer Dog Rescue, Northern England.

-And your chosen subject?

-Oasis, the band.

-Oasis in 90 seconds, starting now.

The debut album of Oasis entered the albums chart at number one

in the UK when it was released in 1994. What is it called?

-Definitely Maybe.

-Which Noel Gallagher song includes the lyric,

"You said the brains I had went to my head"?

A line taken from a tape recording of notes by John Lennon.

-Pass.

-At which Manchester club did the band play

their first gig under the name Oasis?

It was before Noel joined them,

though he watched them from the audience.

-Boardwalk.

-When the band played an acoustic performance

at a Marble Arch record shop to promote the release

of the album Definitely Maybe,

an American performer made a cameo appearance with them...

-Evan Dando.

-Evan Dando is correct.

In December '93, the band recorded Supersonic

at an early recording session for the album Definitely Maybe,

in which studio in Liverpool?

Pass.

Which Oasis single was their first to reach

the top five in the UK singles chart?

It peaked at number three in Christmas 1994.

Whatever.

The band's final studio album released in October 2008 ends

with the track Soldier On. What's the album's title?

-Dig Out Your Soul.

-The majority of the tracks on the live album

Familiar To Millions were recorded at which venue?

Wembley.

The album cover for Definitely Maybe features the band

lounging around in the front room

of which band member's house in Didsbury?

-Bonehead's.

-Paul Arthurs'. Yeah, Bonehead's.

Oasis played a concert at the Southend Cliffs Pavilion

in April '95 supported by The Verve.

The concert was recorded

and later released as a video under what name?

Pass.

Before a short tour of America in '94...

BEEP ..Oasis played a number of gigs

at Quattro's club in a country

that the drummer Tony McCarroll

later said "had seriously blown our minds."

Which country?

Japan.

Yes, it was Japan,

and you had three passes there, Tom.

That concert was Live By The Sea.

The Pink Museum was where they recorded Supersonic.

And Don't Look Back In Anger was the Noel Gallagher song.

But you've scored, Tom, eight points.

APPLAUSE

And our next contender, please.

-And your name is?

-Steph Houghton.

-Chosen charity?

-Future Dreams.

-And your chosen subject?

-The Only Way Is Essex, reality TV show.

-Right.

In 90 seconds, starting now, which Essex born actress

and television presenter provides the voice-over for the constructed

reality television programme The Only Way Is Essex,

otherwise known as TOWIE?

-Pass.

-What was the name of the girl group

that sacked Mark Wright as their manager after they were

persuaded to sign up with a new management team?

-Pass.

-Who made a grand entrance

at his 1980s themed 22nd birthday party

on a bike with The Final Countdown

by Europe playing over the soundtrack?

-Joey Essex.

-In series five, who ate a full English breakfast

hours before he successfully ran the London Marathon?

James Argent.

At a red, white and blue themed Diamond Jubilee party,

Diags became involved in a heated argument

partly over comments that had been made on Twitter.

Who did he have the argument with?

Mario.

What is the name of Billie and Sam's new boutique?

On its opening day, Lydia Bright's pet micro-pig,

Mr Darcy, urinated on the floor.

Minnies Boutique.

On their first date,

Joey Essex took Sam on a bike ride.

What local landmark that had been an important part

of Joey's childhood did they visit first?

-It was a dump.

-When Ricky first saw

Lydia's hairdresser friend, Bobby, in serious four,

he mistook him for which television personality?

-Pass.

-What was the name of the team that won

the quiz night run by Gemma Collins?

The team consisted of Mark Wright,

his nan, Arg and Lauren.

Pass.

In series seven, in what sport

did Billie, Sam and some of the other women

play as Essex United against the England national team?

-Netball.

-In the Christmas special

episode of the climax of series seven... BEEP

..who told Lucy she was going to spend less time in Essex

in future to avoid her ex-boyfriend, Arg?

-Mario.

-It was Lydia.

Lydia Bright. You had four passes.

The actress who provided the voice-over

for The Only Way Is Essex was Denise van Outen.

The name of the girl group that sacked Mark Wright was Lola.

When Ricky first saw Lydia's hairdresser,

he mistook him for Gok Wan.

And the name of that team that won the quiz night was

Nanny Pat's Sausage Plaits.

Anyway, Steph, you have six points.

APPLAUSE

And our next contender, please.

-And your name is?

-Rob Delaney.

-Your chosen charity?

-Action For Children.

-And your specialist subject?

-John Belushi.

-John Belushi, here we go.

In which 1978 film does John Belushi appear as

the slobbish college student John "Bluto" Blutarsky?

Animal House.

What was the name of Belushi's girlfriend from high school

days whom he married on New Year's Eve 1976?

-Judy.

-What was the name of the Hollywood talent agent

and studio executive who became Belushi's manager in 1975?

Bernie Brillstein.

Belushi was known for his impression

of an English rock singer,

and performed it with the star himself on Saturday Night Live

in October 1976, singing Feelin' Alright. Which singer?

-Joe Cocker.

-Which magazine considered by some as a rival to Rolling Stone

published an in-depth profile of Belushi by Mitchell Glazer in June '77,

with a cover photo headlined, The Most Dangerous Man On TV?

Pass.

As which Japanese character did Belushi make several

appearances on Saturday Night Live in roles such as a hotelier,

optometrist, and delicatessen owner?

Samurai.

For which National Lampoon comedy stage show did Belushi

receive rave reviews as a mimic and comic?

It opened in January '73 at the Village Gate nightclub and theatre.

Pass.

Belushi appears as Eric Katz in which '79 serious film drama

directed by Joan Tewkesbury, and starring Talia Shire?

-Pass.

-What was the name of the bodyguard and former Secret Service agent

hired as Belushi's minder in 1980 to help curb his escalating drug use?

-Smoky.

-Is correct.

What is the title of the Blues Brothers' debut album?

It was released on Atlantic Records in 1978,

and featured such tracks as Hey Bartender, and Rubber Biscuit.

Briefcase Full Of Blues.

BEEP Which '79 film comedy directed by Spielberg stars

Belushi as the gung ho fighter pilot Captain Wild Bill Kelso?

1941.

1941 is correct, and those passes,

Belushi appeared as Eric Katz in Old Boyfriends.

The stage show for which he got rave reviews

was National Lampoon's Lemmings.

And Crawdaddy! was the magazine that published that in-depth

profile of Belushi.

You have scored, Rob, eight points.

APPLAUSE

And our final contender, please.

And...your name is?

Dominic Wood.

-And your chosen charity?

-Myeloma UK.

-And your chosen subject?

-Harry Houdini.

-Here we go in 90 seconds.

Houdini was born into a Hungarian-Jewish family in 1874.

What was his original name?

-Eric Weisz.

-How was Houdini billed when he made an appearance as an acrobat

in his friend Jack Hoeffler's five-cents circus...?

Ehrich, Prince Of The Air.

Harry Houdini took the latter part of his stage name after

he was inspired by the memoirs of a famous 19th century magician

considered the father of modern conjuring. What was his name?

-Jean-Eugene Robert-Houdin.

-What was the name of the Boston theatre where Houdini

escaped from inside the carcass of a sea creature in September 1911?

-Pass.

-Which member of the song and dance act, The Floral Sisters,

did Houdini marry in 1894 after a very brief courtship?

Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner.

What was the name of the Egyptian miracle worker whose challenge

Houdini beat in August '26, when he remained underwater in a sealed

box in a hotel swimming pool for some 90 minutes?

Rahman Bey.

Jenny was an animal whom Houdini first made disappear from

the stage at the New York Hippodrome Theatre

7th January, 1918. What sort of animal?

-Elephant.

-What was the name of the bridge from which Houdini

jumped on the 27th November, 1906?

He leapt into the freezing cold Detroit River wearing handcuffs.

-Bell Island Bridge.

-What was the name of the Boston medium,

wife of a prominent doctor, who failed to win the Scientific

American award after Houdini exposed her as a fraud in 1924?

-Mina Crandon.

-What name derived from a Greek word meaning "to transform"

is given to the illusion Houdini originally performed

with his brother in which they swap places after one of them

was bound with ropes...?

-Metamorphosis.

-The apparatus consisting of a glass fronted

tank of water into which Houdini was lowered headfirst with his ankles

in wooden stocks was popularly known as the Chinese...?

-Water torture.

-What was the name of the hospital... BEEP

..in Detroit where Houdini died in October 1926

following a ruptured appendix?

-Pass.

-Well, I can tell you because you're out of time.

It was Grace Hospital.

Yup, and your other pass, the name of the Boston theatre where

he escaped from inside the carcass of a sea creature

was Keith's Theatre.

Dom, you have ten points.

APPLAUSE

Well, a close contest. Let's have a look at all the scores.

In fourth place, six points, Steph Houghton.

Joint second place, eight points apiece, Tom Kerridge and Rob Delaney.

First place, ten points, Dominic Wood.

And it is the General Knowledge round now,

and if there's 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,

so let us get on with it and ask Steph to join us again, please.

And...you start this round, Steph, with six points.

And...everybody knows about the Lionesses, I imagine,

and how close you came to the World Cup. You came third.

That awful goal at the end. What was it, in the last minute? Own goal.

That must have been shattering.

Yeah, I think the journey we'd been on, and to be

so close to getting into the final, but heartbreaking when it happened.

But so happy to come home with a bronze medal.

And now women's football has really been transformed.

The game itself hasn't been, but your status has been completely

-transformed in the last few years, hasn't it?

-Yeah, I think so.

I think the Olympics was a massive watershed moment for us,

to be able to play at Wembley,

and play in front of 70,000 live on telly, I think

that kick-started a lot of people's interest in women's football.

And now we've got a lot more respect for us as footballers and athletes.

But, I suppose, a while before you earn 100,000 quid a week,

-or something.

-Yeah. A while yet.

-Just a little while.

-Yeah.

-Well, anyway, good luck with that. Now, you have six points.

-Yeah.

You have two minutes for general knowledge now,

so plenty of time to catch up, here we go with your general knowledge.

What name is given to the female equivalent of a stag night

when the bride and her friends get together for a party?

Hen party.

What colour carpet is traditionally put down for celebrities to

walk on at prestigious events?

-Red.

-In which 1995 film did Morgan Freeman

and Brad Pitt play a pair of mismatched cops on the trail

of a serial killer who was a religious fanatic?

Pass.

Which boy band topped the UK singles charts

for the fourth time in August 2015 with Drag Me Down?

-One Direction.

-The ingredients of a spicy vegetable relish

usually include cauliflower, onions and gherkins,

all given a bright yellow colour by the inclusion of turmeric.

What relish?

-Mustard?

-Piccalilli.

In which country were the Man Booker Prize-winning authors

Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai,

and Aravind Adiga all born?

Pass.

The tom-tom is a variety of which percussion instrument?

-Pass.

-Which painting by Leonardo da Vinci is also known as La Gioconda,

which means "the happy one"?

-Pass.

-Vulcan, the Roman god of fire,

gives his name to what type of geographical feature?

Pass.

The tomb of a boy Pharaoh was discovered

intact by Howard Carter in November 1922. What was the Pharaoh's name?

-Tutankhamen?

-Yes. Which paste normally used for covering cakes

is made from ground almonds, sugar and egg?

Pass.

In Hans Christian Andersen's story,

what could the princess feel from 20 mattresses and 20 feather beds

thereby proving her royal status?

-A pin?

-No, a pea.

What was the family name of the German born composer Johann Sebastian,

and his sons Johann Christian,

and Carl Philipp Emanuel?

Mm...

-Pass.

-Which Liberal politician was

Prime Minister of Great Britain four times between 1868 and 1894?

-Pass.

-In which sport are Castleford Tigers

and Wakefield Wildcats among leading teams?

-BEEP

-Rugby union.

-Rugby league.

-Ah.

-They won't like you for that(!)

You had a few passes there.

Gladstone was the Prime Minister many, many times over.

Johann Sebastian Bach etc, etc,

that paste was marzipan, made from almonds and all that.

Vulcan gave his name to a volcano.

Mona Lisa was La Gioconda.

A drum is a tom-tom.

All those prize-winning authors came from India

and that Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt film was Seven.

-You now have a total, Steph, of 10 points.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

And now Tom again, please.

Now, you are a... I was going to say "a," but it's "the"

-two-Michelin-Star-pub man.

-We are the only ones.

Why? What do you do right?

Well, I think the key to most things,

especially in the restaurant industry and the service industry,

is consistency, and I think that's what we try to drive... We

just aim for consistency and really good produce and provenance

of where it comes from, supporting British farming and all that

sort of stuff, and that kind of, that ethos comes through

-and goes onto the table.

-Right.

And as a quick thought about some of this modern stuff, this food

that nobody understands whether it's meant to be food or what, really.

I think that in those terms of people that are pushing

the boundaries of food, we always need them

because something somewhere may come out that's really good.

For example, triple-cooked chips -

the best thing in the world - comes from a drive for science, so...

Wow. Well, there you go.

Now, Tom, you've got eight points, and general knowledge, two minutes.

Here we go.

What mythical creature appears on the flag of Wales on a

green and white background?

-Dragon.

-Yes.

The holder of which office has an

official residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC?

-The President.

-Yep.

Which veteran Motown singer topped the UK album charts

in July 2015 for the first time in 23 years when sales of his

Definitive Collection were boosted by his appearance at Glastonbury?

-Lionel Richie.

-Yep.

In geography, an archipelago is a group of or chain of what?

-Mountains?

-Islands.

Which breed of dog takes its name from the 19th-century clergyman

who developed a terrier specifically to enter foxes' layers

and flush them out?

-Jack Russell?

-Yep.

Florence Nightingale, Charles Darwin and Charles Dickens have all

been portrayed on the reverse of a Bank of England note.

Which note?

-£10.

-Yup.

The campanile of the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta in Pisa

is generally known by what name?

-Leaning Tower.

-Yes.

Lucy Worsely's 2015 television documentary

Cake Bakers And Trouble Makers was about the centenary of which organisation?

-The Women's Institute?

-Yes.

Eyes Wide Shut, starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, is the

last film of a reclusive American-born director who died in March 1999.

What was his name?

-Stanley Kubrick?

-Yep.

In which Caribbean country were the England footballers John Barnes

and Raheem Sterling born?

-Trinidad?

-Jamaica.

Which literary castaway was created by Daniel Defoe

in 1719 in a story that was based on a real incident?

-Robinson Crusoe.

-Yes.

What descriptive name is given to a meteor that becomes incandescent

and flashes across the sky on entering the Earth's atmosphere?

-Asteroid.

-A shooting star or falling star sometimes.

What type of cloak of South American origin consists of a piece

of woollen cloth with a hole in the middle for the head to go through?

-Poncho.

-Yep. A fictional cannibalistic serial killer

created by Thomas Harris made his second

appearance in the 1988 novel The Silence Of The Lambs. What's his name?

-Hannibal Lecter.

-Yeah.

Which Greek hero was detained on his journey... BEEP

..home from the Trojan War by the nymph Calypso?

Achilles?

Odysseus. Yeah.

But I tell you what, no passes and now a total of 19 points.

APPLAUSE

And now, Rob again, please.

And you also start out with eight points.

-Now, this Channel 4 sitcom Catastrophe...

-Yes.

Tell us how you met your co-star.

Oh, well, Sharon Horgan, who I write the show with,

I was a fan of her television shows and I noticed she followed me

on Twitter, so I wrote her one day and said,

"You must be following me by mistake,"

and it turns out she wasn't and we became friendly

and started hanging out and batting around ideas for TV shows

and now, miraculously, we have one.

Is that important, that you get on with somebody you're starring with?

It is for me, you know, because the writing is the most fun part for...

Really? The most fun part?

Yeah, because you're just imagining things and saying wacky things

and throwing them at the wall and seeing what sticks.

You know, we're constantly reading what we write to make sure

that it's stuff that would come out of a human mouth.

We want you to be laughing at them, with them,

as they sort of discover things along the way.

-Right, Rob, you've got eight points, as I say. 19's the score to beat.

-OK.

Two minutes in which to do it. Here we go.

In which sport do competitors start with a set score of 501

and finish on a double or a bull's-eye?

-Archery?

-Darts.

Lonsdale is a fictional Oxford college

created by Colin Dexter for which series of novels?

Pass.

The Pyg Track and the Watkin Path are popular walking routes up

which Welsh mountain?

-Pass!

-LAUGHTER

Which fish that can grow up to nine feet in length

get their name for the whisker-like feelers present around their mouths?

-Catfish.

-Yes. In Dickens' A Christmas Carol,

the ghost of Scrooge's former partner appears to him

on Christmas Eve, warning him that he will be visited by three spirits.

What is that partner's name?

-Jacob Marley.

-Yes.

Whom do the Australians sometimes describe as poms with

the epithet "whingeing" often added?

-I mean, I didn't even understand that.

-LAUGHTER

Whom do the Australians describe as poms?

-They also call them whingeing?

-Pass.

Which Norwegian group's 1985 album Hunting High And Low

reached number two in the UK charts?

They reunited in 2015 with a new album and a world tour?

SHOCKED LAUGHTER

-Pass!

-For what medical - don't blame me! - what medical

term for loss of memory comes from the Greek for forgetfulness?

-Amnesia.

-Yes! Roquefort cheese is made from the milk of which animal?

-Cow.

-Sheep.

Shall We Dance? and Getting To Know You are songs from the '51

Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical later made into a film.

What is its title?

-My Fair Lady?

-The King And I.

Delia Smith, Rick Stein and Marco Pierre White are all well-known for their

books and television appearances for having what occupation?

-Pass!

-Who composed the oratorio the Messiah,

first performed in Dublin in 1742?

-Handel.

-Yes.

What post was held by the former Labour MP Ken Livingstone

from its creation in 2000 until 2008?

-Pass.

-Which television detective played by Telly Savalas

works in the Manhattan South precinct of the New York Police Department?

-Kojak.

-Yes.

What name is given to a series of black lines of varying width

on a white background representing the binary digits

zero and one that are read by an optical scanner in a shop?

Pass.

In which Russian city was the Hermitage founded in 1764...

BEEP ..by Catherine the Great as a court museum?

-Moscow?

-St Petersburg. HE SIGHS

LAUGHTER

-Right, well, you had a few passes there.

-Yeah, a couple.

-Here we go.

-Barcode is what...you know?

-Oh, yeah.

The post held by Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London.

-Delia Smith, Rick Stein, etc, are cooks, or chefs if you prefer.

-Sure.

-That Norwegian group was A-ha.

-Yep, of course.

-Yeah, you knew that.

The Australians call the British poms.

-Actually, mostly the English, not the Welsh.

-Mm-hm.

-The Pyg Track and the Watkin Path, they go up Snowdon.

-Yeah.

A mountain in Wales.

And Inspector Morse is the character created by Colin Dexter

-for his novels.

-Fantastic!

Yeah, and you don't live in Britain, do you?

-I sure... Well, I do now.

-You do now, but you didn't... Yeah, right.

-Anyway, look, you've got 13 points.

-Super.

APPLAUSE

And finally, Dom, join us again, please.

And you start out with 10 points.

Now, you're still doing it, you and Dick are still doing CBBC.

We certainly are, yeah. Next year we celebrate 20 years...

-No!

-..for CBBC. Yeah.

I started out as an independent presenter called Dominic Wood

and then on one of my first few days at the BBC, met that fellow there.

-Oh, he's in the audience, of course!

-Yeah, he's there!

-Hi!

-Dick, welcome.

-Hello. Thank you.

-Yeah. Is he any good?

Well, he was good at Houdini, wasn't he?

-He was!

-Well, do you know, Rich has been fantastic on revision.

-Oh, you call him Rich?

-Yeah, I call him Rich, yeah, yeah.

And he's been messaging me, texting me messages about Houdini,

nonstop questions about Houdini.

So, hang on a minute, you're not... This isn't a confession,

you didn't have a little...? LAUGHTER

Listen, well done, mate. Brilliant.

HE COUGHS, LAUGHTER

-Yes.

-One buzz for yes, two for no.

Right, here we go.

Two minutes of general knowledge, starting now.

Captain James T Kirk, played by William Shatner, first

appeared in the original series of which television show?

-Star Trek.

-Yep, a King Edward is a variety of which vegetable?

-Potato.

-What name is given to the chain of mountains that

extends from the Mediterranean near Nice through

parts of France, Switzerland and Austria to the Danube near Vienna?

-The Alps.

-Yep, the ageing silent movie queen Norma Desmond is the leading character

in a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber based on a 1950 Billy Wilder film.

Which musical?

Pass.

What is the alcoholic ingredient that gives a Moscow Mule cocktail its kick?

-Vodka?

-Yep. Which 1818 novel by Mary Shelley contains the words,

"I beheld the wretch, the miserable monster whom I had created"?

-Pass.

-Which American rapper, whose real name is Andre Young, topped the UK

album charts in August 2015 with Compton featuring guest

appearances from Eminem and Snoop Dogg?

Er... Pass.

Who wrote The Female Eunuch, which was published in 1970

and became a very important work in the feminist movement?

Pass.

The name of which English theatrical company is often abbreviated to RSC?

-Er, Royal Shakespeare Company.

-Yep.

The resorts of Blackpool and Morecambe lie on the coast of which county?

Erm, it's, erm...

It's, erm... Pass.

A BBC national radio network that specialises in live news,

phone-ins, interviews and sports commentaries is found on medium wave 909 and 693 kHz.

-What is its name?

-Repeat the question, please.

A BBC national radio network that specialises in live news, phone-ins,

interviews and sports commentaries is found on medium wave 909...

-5 Live.

-Radio 5 Live.

The Great North Road, which for centuries linked the capitals

of England and Scotland followed a similar route to which modern A-road?

Erm, pass.

Which Scandinavian country remained neutral throughout the two world wars?

-Sweden.

-Yep. Which celestial body was formerly regarded as the smallest

and outermost planet of the solar system,

but was reclassified as a dwarf planet at a meeting

of the International Astronomical Union in 2006?

-Mercury.

-Pluto.

Who won a Best Actor Oscar for the second time for

title role in the '94 film Forrest Gump?

-Tom Hanks.

-Tom Hanks is correct. BEEP

And your passes, the Great North Road follows, or rather,

it's the A1 that follows the route of the old Great North Road.

-Lancashire is where Blackpool and Morecambe are.

-Sorry, everybody!

Yeah. Better not go there soon!

Germaine Greer wrote The Female Eunuch.

Dr Dre was that American rapper.

Mary Shelley - Frankenstein.

-Frankenstein! I knew it as soon as I said "pass"!

-"The wretch, the monster," all that.

And Norma Desmond was the leading character in Sunset Boulevard.

Dom, you have...18 points.

-APPLAUSE

-Thank you very much.

That's it. Let's have a look at all the scores.

In fourth place, 10 points, Steph Houghton,

third place, 13 points, Rob Delaney,

second place, 18 points, Dominic Wood,

first place, 19 points, Tom Kerridge.

APPLAUSE

Tom.

Well done. So, how does winning that compare with winning a Michelin star?

It's equal. It's equal with a Michelin star.

It'll probably earn you a little bit less money,

but it's the honour that counts.

Now, you don't have to be a celebrity, of course,

to take part in the regular Mastermind programme.

If you'd like to appear in the next series on BBC Two

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Thanks for watching. Goodbye.

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