0:00:24 > 0:00:27First in the spotlight tonight is the Emmerdale actor Liam Fox.
0:00:27 > 0:00:30His specialist subject - Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34Next, the cyclist Jon-Allan Butterworth
0:00:34 > 0:00:35on the Terminator films.
0:00:36 > 0:00:40The comedian Nick Helm answers questions on Alice Cooper.
0:00:43 > 0:00:48And the actress Kimberley Nixon on Agatha Christie's Poirot novels.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03Hello, and welcome to Celebrity Mastermind with me,
0:01:03 > 0:01:07John Humphrys, and four people who may at this stage be wondering
0:01:07 > 0:01:09why they said yes to being here tonight.
0:01:09 > 0:01:15Risking their reputations in the hope of becoming a Celebrity Mastermind.
0:01:15 > 0:01:17They don't get a fee, it goes to charity.
0:01:17 > 0:01:21But they do get the chance of winning a glass trophy and the title.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24And to do it they get 90 seconds of questions on their special subject,
0:01:24 > 0:01:26and then two minutes on general knowledge.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29So let's get on with it and ask our first contender to join us please.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37Your name is?
0:01:37 > 0:01:39Your chosen charity?
0:01:41 > 0:01:43And your chosen subject?
0:01:44 > 0:01:46Auf Wiedersehen, Pet in 90 seconds.
0:01:46 > 0:01:50Seven British builders share a hut on the Beco building site in which German city
0:01:50 > 0:01:52in series one of Auf Wiedersehen Pet?
0:01:52 > 0:01:53Dusseldorf.
0:01:53 > 0:01:57In series two, Dennis has to work for a dodgy character, played by Bill Paterson,
0:01:57 > 0:02:00because he owes him £6,000 not including interest. What is his name?
0:02:00 > 0:02:01Ally Fraser.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04What's the name of the Grade II listed building in Derbyshire that
0:02:04 > 0:02:07the gang are asked to convert into an old people's home in series two?
0:02:07 > 0:02:09Thornley Manor.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11The gang travels to Spain to work on Ally's villa,
0:02:11 > 0:02:13posing as tourists, but are widely suspected of being
0:02:13 > 0:02:16responsible for a payroll robbery in which city?
0:02:16 > 0:02:17Sheffield.
0:02:17 > 0:02:21What German word meaning slow down do the German workers shout
0:02:21 > 0:02:25at Bomber because the fast pace of his bricklaying is showing them up?
0:02:25 > 0:02:26Uh... Achtung.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28No, langsam.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31What term, based on a boy's name, do the British workers use for
0:02:31 > 0:02:34their German co-workers so they can refer to them without giving offence?
0:02:34 > 0:02:36Pass.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39Dennis and Oz travel from Dusseldorf to which Belgian city to see
0:02:39 > 0:02:42Sunderland play a football match that ends in a draw?
0:02:42 > 0:02:43Liege.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46What female name does Neville have tattooed on his
0:02:46 > 0:02:49arm after a drunken night out in Dusseldorf?
0:02:49 > 0:02:50Lotte.
0:02:50 > 0:02:53After the football match in Liege, Oz drunkenly
0:02:53 > 0:02:55ends up on a plane back to Newcastle.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57What do the rest of the gang agree to say
0:02:57 > 0:03:00he is suffering from to cover for his absence from work?
0:03:00 > 0:03:01Pass.
0:03:01 > 0:03:05What brand of schnapps served in the club at the Dusseldorf building site is
0:03:05 > 0:03:07Bomber's drink of choice, he calls it Bomber's Ruin?
0:03:07 > 0:03:08Pass.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11What is the name of the young British soldier gone AWOL,
0:03:11 > 0:03:14played by Ray Winstone, whom the gang persuade to go back to his unit?
0:03:14 > 0:03:15Colin.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18At which hotel do the gang stay while working in Spain,
0:03:18 > 0:03:19BEEP posing as fellow tourists
0:03:19 > 0:03:22with the Spennymoor & District Senior Citizens Society?
0:03:22 > 0:03:24The Bella Vista.
0:03:24 > 0:03:26Is correct. Three passes, Liam.
0:03:26 > 0:03:30Williams is that brand of schnapps. Williams Schnapps. Yeah.
0:03:30 > 0:03:35The gang said Oz was suffering from toxic shock syndrome when, in fact,
0:03:35 > 0:03:36he was drunk.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39Erics is that term based on a boy's name that they
0:03:39 > 0:03:41used for their German co-workers.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43You scored 8 points.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46APPLAUSE
0:03:51 > 0:03:53And our next contender please.
0:04:00 > 0:04:03And your name is?
0:04:03 > 0:04:05Your chosen charity?
0:04:05 > 0:04:07And your chosen subject?
0:04:08 > 0:04:10The Terminator series. 90 seconds. Here we go.
0:04:10 > 0:04:13Which film-maker directed the first two films in the series,
0:04:13 > 0:04:15The Terminator and Terminator 2 Judgment Day?
0:04:15 > 0:04:17James Cameron.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19In Terminator Salvation, John Connor
0:04:19 > 0:04:21and the resistance destroy Skynet Central in which city?
0:04:21 > 0:04:22Los Angeles.
0:04:22 > 0:04:23San Francisco.
0:04:23 > 0:04:27According to Sarah Connor's voiceover at the start of Terminator 2,
0:04:27 > 0:04:31three billion human lives were ended by a nuclear fire on August 29th of what year?
0:04:31 > 0:04:321997.
0:04:32 > 0:04:35Which resistance fighter persuades Sarah Connor to
0:04:35 > 0:04:39time travel to 2017 instead of 1997 in order to prevent Judgment Day?
0:04:39 > 0:04:41He is convinced the future has changed
0:04:41 > 0:04:44because of the warning he received in a childhood vision.
0:04:44 > 0:04:45Kyle Reese.
0:04:45 > 0:04:49What is the name of the bar and nightclub where the cyborg Terminator,
0:04:49 > 0:04:53played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, first tries to kill Sarah Connor,
0:04:53 > 0:04:55played by Linda Hamilton?
0:04:55 > 0:04:56Pass.
0:04:56 > 0:05:00In Terminator 3, which model of advanced Terminator, played by Kristanna Loken,
0:05:00 > 0:05:04has been sent back in time by Skynet to eliminate members of the resistance?
0:05:04 > 0:05:05T-X.
0:05:05 > 0:05:09Who composed the original music score for both The Terminator and Terminator 2?
0:05:09 > 0:05:10Pass.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13In Terminator Genisys, Sarah Connor is played as a child
0:05:13 > 0:05:15by Willa Taylor. Who plays her as an adult?
0:05:15 > 0:05:16Emilia Clarke.
0:05:16 > 0:05:20In Terminator 2, the advanced liquid metal, shape-shifting T-1000
0:05:20 > 0:05:23Terminator sent from the future to kill John Connor spends
0:05:23 > 0:05:26most of the time in the form of a police officer played by whom?
0:05:26 > 0:05:28Robert Patrick.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31At the beginning of Terminator Salvation, at which prison is the
0:05:31 > 0:05:34death row inmate Marcus Wright convinced by Cyberdyne Systems
0:05:34 > 0:05:38to sign over his body for medical research an hour before his execution?
0:05:38 > 0:05:39Sam Worthington.
0:05:39 > 0:05:41Longview. In Terminator 3, what is buried instead of
0:05:41 > 0:05:45BEEP Sarah Connor's body in her coffin at Greenlawn cemetery?
0:05:45 > 0:05:46Arms and ammunition.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49Yep. Weapons, guns and all that.
0:05:49 > 0:05:50You had two passes.
0:05:50 > 0:05:54Brad Fiedel composed that original music score.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57And Tech Noir. At least I assume it's pronounced that.
0:05:57 > 0:05:59That's the name of the bar
0:05:59 > 0:06:02and nightclub where they did all those things.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05- You have scored 7 points. - Thank you.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08APPLAUSE
0:06:13 > 0:06:15And our next contender please.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23And your name is?
0:06:23 > 0:06:24Your chosen charity?
0:06:25 > 0:06:28And your chosen subject?
0:06:28 > 0:06:30Alice Cooper. Here we go.
0:06:30 > 0:06:31The band called Alice Cooper,
0:06:31 > 0:06:35led by the rock singer born Vincent Furnier, had their first number one
0:06:35 > 0:06:39in the UK singles chart in August 1972 with which song?
0:06:39 > 0:06:41School's Out.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44Following the break-up of the band, Furnier, who had by now become
0:06:44 > 0:06:47known as Alice Cooper, released his first solo album in 1975. What is it called?
0:06:47 > 0:06:49Welcome To My Nightmare.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51In which 1992 feature film does Cooper appear
0:06:51 > 0:06:54and give the main characters a brief history lesson about Milwaukee?
0:06:54 > 0:06:55Wayne's World.
0:06:55 > 0:06:59Who took over as the band's producer in '71 and guided them to their early success?
0:06:59 > 0:07:00Bob Ezrin.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03Which 1982 live single was a cover version of
0:07:03 > 0:07:06a song originally recorded by the band Love?
0:07:06 > 0:07:07Clones.
0:07:07 > 0:07:11Seven And Seven Is. Cooper credits his recovery from addiction to alcohol
0:07:11 > 0:07:14and drugs to a sport that he plays many times a week. Which sport?
0:07:14 > 0:07:15Golf.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18What's the name of the super-group, formed by Cooper,
0:07:18 > 0:07:19Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry,
0:07:19 > 0:07:22and actor Johnny Depp that released its first album
0:07:22 > 0:07:25and performed its first concerts in September 2015?
0:07:25 > 0:07:26Hollywood Vampires.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28Which satirical song by the Alice Cooper band
0:07:28 > 0:07:31reached number four in the UK singles chart in 1972?
0:07:31 > 0:07:33John Lennon told Cooper it was a great song,
0:07:33 > 0:07:35but added, "Paul would have done it better."
0:07:35 > 0:07:36Elected.
0:07:36 > 0:07:40The Alice Cooper band played two concerts at the Rainbow in London in 1971,
0:07:40 > 0:07:42the first on the 6th of November
0:07:42 > 0:07:45as a support act to which iconic British band?
0:07:45 > 0:07:46Pass.
0:07:46 > 0:07:49Cooper's 1983 release Dada was his last album on
0:07:49 > 0:07:52which record label in America and the UK?
0:07:52 > 0:07:53Warner Bros.
0:07:53 > 0:07:56The 1986 song He's Back - The Man Behind The Mask
0:07:56 > 0:07:59was used as the theme song for the sixth film in which franchise?
0:07:59 > 0:08:01Friday 13th.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04The album Trash and its lead single both reached BEEP
0:08:04 > 0:08:08number two in the UK charts for Cooper in 1989. What was the name of the single?
0:08:08 > 0:08:09Poison.
0:08:09 > 0:08:11Is correct. Just one pass, Nick.
0:08:11 > 0:08:15That iconic British band was The Who.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17You have scored, Nick, 10 points.
0:08:17 > 0:08:21APPLAUSE
0:08:27 > 0:08:29And our final contender please.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37And your name is?
0:08:37 > 0:08:38Your chosen charity?
0:08:40 > 0:08:42And your chosen subject?
0:08:45 > 0:08:47Hercule Poirot novels. Here we go.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49Which of Agatha Christie's Poirot novels was
0:08:49 > 0:08:52published in 1934 and is set on board a train
0:08:52 > 0:08:55stuck in a snowdrift on a journey between Istanbul and Calais?
0:08:55 > 0:08:57Murder On The Orient Express.
0:08:57 > 0:09:00Whom does Inspector Japp initially suspect of murdering Lord Edgware
0:09:00 > 0:09:02by stabbing him in the neck with a knife?
0:09:02 > 0:09:03Jane Wilkinson.
0:09:03 > 0:09:06When Maggie Buckley is killed during a Guy Fawkes party at End House,
0:09:06 > 0:09:09her murder is at first assumed to be a case of mistaken identity
0:09:09 > 0:09:12as she is wearing what item of clothing that belongs to her cousin Nick?
0:09:12 > 0:09:14A red shawl.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17In his explanation of the murder of Arlena Marshall,
0:09:17 > 0:09:19what does Poirot deduce was in the bottle that was
0:09:19 > 0:09:22thrown from a window, narrowly missing Emily Brewster?
0:09:22 > 0:09:24- Suntan lotion... Suntan browning...- Indeed.
0:09:24 > 0:09:28In Hercule Poirot's Christmas, what is the name of the house where the
0:09:28 > 0:09:32unlovable Simeon Lee is murdered during a Christmas family gathering?
0:09:32 > 0:09:34Gorston Hall.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37In The ABC Murders, which character handled the murder weapon
0:09:37 > 0:09:39and is caught with blood on his coat,
0:09:39 > 0:09:41but is actually being framed by the murderer?
0:09:41 > 0:09:43Alexander Bonaparte Cust.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45Linnet Doyle is found shot in Death on the Nile.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48What letter is written in blood on the wall next to her body?
0:09:48 > 0:09:49J.
0:09:49 > 0:09:52Patricia Lane, one of the victims in Hickory Dickory Dock,
0:09:52 > 0:09:55is killed when she is struck on the back of the head with what heavy object?
0:09:55 > 0:09:57It's a rock in a sock.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59Yes, a marble paperweight in a woollen sock.
0:09:59 > 0:10:03At the end of The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd, the murderer confesses
0:10:03 > 0:10:06and says he intends to end his life by taking what poison?
0:10:06 > 0:10:07Veronal.
0:10:07 > 0:10:10Joyce Reynolds is found dead in the library in The Hallowe'en Party.
0:10:10 > 0:10:13In what metal object, "nearly full of water," had she been drowned?
0:10:13 > 0:10:14A bucket.
0:10:14 > 0:10:16In Murder On The Orient Express, Poirot hears
0:10:16 > 0:10:19a thump against his compartment door shortly
0:10:19 > 0:10:22after the conductor brings him a glass of water BEEP
0:10:22 > 0:10:25and looks out to see a woman walking down the carriage wearing what?
0:10:25 > 0:10:27A red kimono.
0:10:27 > 0:10:28Indeed she is.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Kimberley, full house. You got 11 points.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34APPLAUSE
0:10:39 > 0:10:41Well, it couldn't be much closer than that.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43Let's have a look at all the scores.
0:10:43 > 0:10:45In fourth place, 7 points, Jon-Allan Butterworth.
0:10:45 > 0:10:48Third place, 8 points, Liam Fox.
0:10:48 > 0:10:50Second place, 10 points, Nick Helm.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53First place, 11 points, Kimberley Nixon.
0:10:53 > 0:10:57APPLAUSE
0:10:57 > 0:10:59So, it is the general knowledge round now.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02And if there is a tie at the end of it, then the number of passes
0:11:02 > 0:11:05is taken into account and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.
0:11:05 > 0:11:09Let's get on with it and ask Jon-Allan to join us again please.
0:11:09 > 0:11:10And...
0:11:12 > 0:11:16I know you lost your arm when you were blown up serving in Iraq.
0:11:16 > 0:11:20What I find really hard to believe is that you became a phenomenal
0:11:20 > 0:11:24cyclist and you had never ridden a bike without
0:11:24 > 0:11:27stabilisers in your life before. Is that right?
0:11:27 > 0:11:29Yes. It surprised me, to be honest, yeah.
0:11:29 > 0:11:32And from when I started cycling to competing,
0:11:32 > 0:11:33it was less than two years.
0:11:33 > 0:11:37And London was three and a half years from taking it up to winning.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40- Yeah.- You had only three and a half years to prepare for the Olympics?
0:11:40 > 0:11:43- From when I started cycling, yeah. - From when you started cycling?- Yeah.
0:11:43 > 0:11:47Exactly. And how come you realised, or who realised and how,
0:11:47 > 0:11:50that you were going to be a brilliant cyclist?
0:11:50 > 0:11:53I did a talent day at Loughborough University with Paralympics GB.
0:11:53 > 0:11:56And I got identified there as having potential talent.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59I had a choice of one sport to choose from cos
0:11:59 > 0:12:00I was rubbish at everything else.
0:12:00 > 0:12:02So it all worked out well in the end.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05But cycling you can manage without any trouble?
0:12:05 > 0:12:08It still comes with its challenges, you know?
0:12:08 > 0:12:11Obviously 70K around the track with one arm is quite scary at times.
0:12:11 > 0:12:13- Trying to handle a bike.- Quite!
0:12:13 > 0:12:15But I can compete with some of the best cyclists
0:12:15 > 0:12:17in the country so I'm happy with that.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19Well, you did it fantastically.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21Now, you've got 7 points.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24Plenty of time to catch up with your general knowledge. Two minutes.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26Here we go.
0:12:26 > 0:12:29Percolators and cafetieres are usually used to make what hot drink?
0:12:29 > 0:12:30Coffee.
0:12:30 > 0:12:33On which celestial body have only 12 men walked,
0:12:33 > 0:12:35between from 1969 and 1972?
0:12:35 > 0:12:36Antarctica.
0:12:36 > 0:12:37The moon.
0:12:37 > 0:12:40The 2015 film subtitled Rogue Nation starring Tom Cruise
0:12:40 > 0:12:43as Ethan Hunt, is the fifth instalment of which film franchise?
0:12:43 > 0:12:44Mission: Impossible.
0:12:44 > 0:12:47What name is given to a small jug or mug in the form of a squat old man
0:12:47 > 0:12:50wearing a three-cornered hat, one corner of which forms the lip?
0:12:50 > 0:12:51Toby jug.
0:12:51 > 0:12:56Which actress played the betrayed wife in the 2015 TV drama series Doctor Foster?
0:12:56 > 0:12:58Pass.
0:12:58 > 0:13:01Which member of the cat family is the fastest land mammal on Earth?
0:13:01 > 0:13:02Leopard.
0:13:02 > 0:13:06Cheetah. William I, who ruled England from 1066 to 1087,
0:13:06 > 0:13:10was usually known by what name because of his successes on the battlefield?
0:13:10 > 0:13:11Pass.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14In which northern city is there a branch of the Tate Gallery,
0:13:14 > 0:13:17opened in 1988, that displays one of the largest collections of modern
0:13:17 > 0:13:19and contemporary art outside Liverpo...outside London?
0:13:19 > 0:13:21Liverpool.
0:13:21 > 0:13:22LAUGHTER
0:13:22 > 0:13:26Which explorer's name in Spanish is Cristobal Colon?
0:13:26 > 0:13:27Pass.
0:13:27 > 0:13:30In the theatre, what name, sometimes synonymous with monologue,
0:13:30 > 0:13:33is given to a passage in a drama in which a character expresses
0:13:33 > 0:13:37his or her thoughts or feelings aloud while usually alone upon the stage?
0:13:37 > 0:13:38Play.
0:13:38 > 0:13:39A soliloquy.
0:13:39 > 0:13:43In August 2015, who beat the Ukrainian former pole-vaulter Sergey Bubka
0:13:43 > 0:13:48to be voted president of the governing body for athletics, the IAAF?
0:13:48 > 0:13:49Coe.
0:13:49 > 0:13:52Which river flows through the centre of Glasgow?
0:13:52 > 0:13:54Pass.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57Which bestselling 1974 novel by Peter Benchley opens with the line,
0:13:57 > 0:13:59"The great fish moved silently through the night water,
0:13:59 > 0:14:02"propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail"?
0:14:02 > 0:14:03Pass.
0:14:03 > 0:14:07The wood of which tree, used in furniture making, veneering and for
0:14:07 > 0:14:09musical instrument parts, is almost black in colour?
0:14:09 > 0:14:10Mahogany.
0:14:10 > 0:14:11Ebony.
0:14:11 > 0:14:15Which tax on the sale of some goods was introduced at a standard rate of 10%
0:14:15 > 0:14:20when it first came into force in Britain on the 1st of April 1973?
0:14:20 > 0:14:21Pass.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24The holiday resorts of Puerto del Carmen and Playa Blanca
0:14:24 > 0:14:27are on which of the Canary Islands?
0:14:27 > 0:14:29BEEP
0:14:30 > 0:14:31Pass.
0:14:31 > 0:14:34I can tell you cos you're out of time. Lanzarote.
0:14:34 > 0:14:38And your other passes. VAT is the tax on sales.
0:14:38 > 0:14:41That first line came from Jaws.
0:14:41 > 0:14:44It's the River Clyde that flows through Glasgow.
0:14:44 > 0:14:47Christopher Columbus' name in Spanish is Cristobal Colon.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50William the Conqueror was William I.
0:14:50 > 0:14:54And Suranne Jones played the betrayed wife in Doctor Foster.
0:14:54 > 0:14:57Jon-Allan, I know you knew the answer anyway to the Liverpool one.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00- You have scored a total now of 12 points.- Thank you.
0:15:00 > 0:15:04APPLAUSE
0:15:10 > 0:15:13And now Liam again please.
0:15:13 > 0:15:18And Emmerdale, you've been playing in it for...?
0:15:18 > 0:15:20- Four years nearly now.- Four years.
0:15:20 > 0:15:22That's an awful lot of episodes. Cos you do six a week.
0:15:22 > 0:15:25- Yeah. I think I've done about 450 in four years.- Good grief!
0:15:25 > 0:15:28- 450 episodes!- Yeah.
0:15:28 > 0:15:31And what is it about Emmerdale? It's really stuck with us, hasn't it?
0:15:31 > 0:15:36It's got a strong core of devoted followers.
0:15:36 > 0:15:37Well, yeah. I think so.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40I watched it as a kid back in the day, when it was very different.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43But even now, all my family still watch it.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45You know, it's very popular out there with the audience.
0:15:45 > 0:15:49And I think... Generally, it's about characters, great stories.
0:15:49 > 0:15:54And I think it's still a place where people would like to live.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57Apart from the odd air crash and the odd shooting.
0:15:57 > 0:16:01- Yeah. Look, you chose Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.- Yeah.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03Is that cos your father was a brickie?
0:16:03 > 0:16:04Partly, yeah.
0:16:04 > 0:16:07Because in the '80s when all the builders were going off to
0:16:07 > 0:16:08Holland and Germany,
0:16:08 > 0:16:11my dad was getting phone calls every week from a guy in Holland saying,
0:16:11 > 0:16:15"You want to come over to Holland or Germany, Mr Fox, and build houses?"
0:16:15 > 0:16:17And he was always tempted to go.
0:16:17 > 0:16:19He never went, but a lot of his mates did.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22So watching that programme kind of reflected my dad's life
0:16:22 > 0:16:24and his mates' really.
0:16:24 > 0:16:28It was very apt and very on the ball and very real at the time.
0:16:28 > 0:16:30I'll bet.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32Liam, you've got 8 points already.
0:16:32 > 0:16:35And you've got two minutes for your general knowledge.
0:16:35 > 0:16:36So here we go.
0:16:36 > 0:16:39According to the title of John Gray's bestselling book,
0:16:39 > 0:16:41women are from Venus, men are from?
0:16:41 > 0:16:42Mars.
0:16:42 > 0:16:45Which sport is featured in the stage and film musical Damn Yankees?
0:16:45 > 0:16:46Pass.
0:16:46 > 0:16:49In which 1967 film is the title character Benjamin Braddock
0:16:49 > 0:16:51played by Dustin Hoffman?
0:16:51 > 0:16:52The Graduate.
0:16:52 > 0:16:54According to the popular rhyme,
0:16:54 > 0:16:57what is the particular attribute of Monday's child?
0:16:57 > 0:16:58Full of grace.
0:16:58 > 0:16:59Fair of face.
0:16:59 > 0:17:04Michelle and Norwegian Wood are tracks on which '65 Beatles album?
0:17:04 > 0:17:06Pass.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08John Boy and Mary Ellen were some of the children
0:17:08 > 0:17:11of which TV family who lived in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia
0:17:11 > 0:17:14during the Great Depression and the WWII?
0:17:14 > 0:17:15The Waltons.
0:17:15 > 0:17:19In which continent did the monkey puzzle tree originate?
0:17:19 > 0:17:20Africa.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23South America. In Greek mythology, anyone looking
0:17:23 > 0:17:26directly at the heads of the Gorgons would be turned into what?
0:17:26 > 0:17:28Pillars of salt.
0:17:28 > 0:17:32No, stone. Which small Yorkshire fishing village between Scarborough
0:17:32 > 0:17:35and Whitby is named after a legendary English outlaw and hero?
0:17:35 > 0:17:36Grimsby.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38Robin Hood. Robin Hood's Bay.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41Which item of police uniform, first used by the Metropolitan Police
0:17:41 > 0:17:44in 1863, was based on that worn by the Prussian army?
0:17:44 > 0:17:45Truncheon.
0:17:45 > 0:17:49The helmet. The name of a dessert consisting of ice cream typically served with
0:17:49 > 0:17:52a topping of whipped cream, syrup, nuts and crushed fruit is thought
0:17:52 > 0:17:56to come from the day of the week on which it was originally eaten. Which day?
0:17:56 > 0:17:57Wednesday.
0:17:57 > 0:17:58Sunday.
0:17:58 > 0:18:02The word seismic, used to describe anything of large proportions,
0:18:02 > 0:18:07also refers to what natural phenomenon?
0:18:07 > 0:18:08Earthquake.
0:18:08 > 0:18:11What is the unit of currency in Japan, made up of 100 sen?
0:18:11 > 0:18:12Pass.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14Which Shakespeare character speaks the lines
0:18:14 > 0:18:16"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio,
0:18:16 > 0:18:19"a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy"?
0:18:19 > 0:18:20Pass.
0:18:20 > 0:18:23How many vocalists or instrumentalists are needed
0:18:23 > 0:18:25to form a group known as a septet?
0:18:25 > 0:18:26Seven.
0:18:26 > 0:18:28Amsterdam is the official capital of the Netherlands
0:18:28 > 0:18:32but which city is the home of its government and the Supreme Court?
0:18:32 > 0:18:33Pass.
0:18:33 > 0:18:35Which American president was murdered by the actor
0:18:35 > 0:18:37John Wilkes Booth in 1865?
0:18:37 > 0:18:38Lincoln.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40What fuel does a first-footer BEEP
0:18:40 > 0:18:42traditionally bring to a house at Hogmanay for luck
0:18:42 > 0:18:44along with black bun and whisky?
0:18:44 > 0:18:46Coal.
0:18:46 > 0:18:48Yeah, a piece of coal. Let's give you your passes, Liam.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50The home of the government
0:18:50 > 0:18:53and the Supreme Court in the Netherlands is The Hague.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55Hamlet says, "Alas, poor Yorick!" etc.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58The yen is the unit of currency in Japan.
0:18:58 > 0:19:00Rubber Soul was that Beatles album.
0:19:00 > 0:19:03And baseball featured in Damn Yankees.
0:19:03 > 0:19:06- You now have a total, Liam, of 15 points.- OK.
0:19:06 > 0:19:09APPLAUSE
0:19:16 > 0:19:17And now Nick again please.
0:19:20 > 0:19:28- Now, tell me about Uncle, because music and comedy.- Yeah.- Combined.
0:19:28 > 0:19:33- Difficult?- Um, no. Well, I mean, I do... I don't write Uncle.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36I just write the songs on Uncle.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39But I do stand up and I do music with my stand-up
0:19:39 > 0:19:40and I find that quite good.
0:19:40 > 0:19:43Cos you have a five-minute chunk where you don't actually have to
0:19:43 > 0:19:47be funny. You can just make a lot of noise and that takes care of itself.
0:19:47 > 0:19:49Presumably, it's got to be quite nice noise?
0:19:49 > 0:19:52Well, if you finish a song people generally clap at the end of it
0:19:52 > 0:19:55and you feel like you've achieved something. So that's good.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57Oh. What, they clap even if it's rubbish?
0:19:57 > 0:19:59Yeah, tends to be. It's great.
0:19:59 > 0:20:02And actually, if we go back a bit,
0:20:02 > 0:20:05there were a lot of comedians who sang.
0:20:05 > 0:20:09Are we going back to those days of, you know, the singer/comedian?
0:20:09 > 0:20:11It's sort of like a music hall tradition, I suppose.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13But I don't think we're going back to it.
0:20:13 > 0:20:14I don't think it ever went away.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16Victoria Wood was around, wasn't she?
0:20:16 > 0:20:19- That's true.- She still is around. So yeah, it's just an extra,
0:20:19 > 0:20:22it's just another element of something that you can do.
0:20:22 > 0:20:24I think that, you know, if you're going to go on stage
0:20:24 > 0:20:27you should just draw on all the things that you can do
0:20:27 > 0:20:29to a certain standard and then just put it all in.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31I do a bit of everything to keep people
0:20:31 > 0:20:35distracted from the fact that it's all fairly rubbish.
0:20:35 > 0:20:37LAUGHTER
0:20:37 > 0:20:40You've got 10 points. 15 is the score to beat.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42Two minutes of general knowledge coming up.
0:20:42 > 0:20:45According to the traditional proverb, what breeds contempt?
0:20:45 > 0:20:46Pass.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49Which large rodents that live mainly in rivers and streams,
0:20:49 > 0:20:51build dams of sticks, stones and mud?
0:20:51 > 0:20:53Beavers.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55In August 1958, the US Navy submarine Nautilus
0:20:55 > 0:20:59became the first vessel to sail under what part of the globe?
0:20:59 > 0:21:00Pass.
0:21:00 > 0:21:04Which of the three major classic cycle races has not been won by a Frenchman
0:21:04 > 0:21:07since 1985, when the winner was Bernard Hinault?
0:21:07 > 0:21:08Tour de France.
0:21:08 > 0:21:11The name of which colour is given to the room in a theatre
0:21:11 > 0:21:14or TV studio where actors can relax when not performing?
0:21:14 > 0:21:15Green.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Which British singer recorded Writing's On The Wall,
0:21:17 > 0:21:19the theme song for the James Bond film Spectre?
0:21:19 > 0:21:20Pass.
0:21:20 > 0:21:24What name is given to the drink consisting of a mixture of beer and lemonade?
0:21:24 > 0:21:25Shandy.
0:21:25 > 0:21:29Which freshwater relative of the lobster has a British variety, the white-clawed,
0:21:29 > 0:21:32that has almost been wiped out by larger, more aggressive American varieties?
0:21:32 > 0:21:34Crayfish.
0:21:34 > 0:21:37Which island, lying off the south coast of Australia, has Hobart as its capital?
0:21:37 > 0:21:39Pass.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41Kelsey Grammer plays the title character in which
0:21:41 > 0:21:44TV series based on his psychiatrist character in Cheers?
0:21:44 > 0:21:45Frasier.
0:21:45 > 0:21:49What name is given to the type of smooth road surface that was invented by the
0:21:49 > 0:21:51Nottinghamshire county surveyor Edgar Hooley
0:21:51 > 0:21:54in 1901 and consists of tar and iron slag?
0:21:54 > 0:21:55Tarmac.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58In Ireland, which service is called the Garda Siochana?
0:21:58 > 0:21:59Pass.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02Who was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his
0:22:02 > 0:22:04portrayal of Muhammad Ali in the 2001 film Ali?
0:22:04 > 0:22:06Will Smith.
0:22:06 > 0:22:09Which fictional teenage journalist was created by the Belgian cartoonist Herge
0:22:09 > 0:22:12and has a faithful dog called Snowy?
0:22:12 > 0:22:13Tintin.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16In which play by Tennessee Williams, set in New Orleans,
0:22:16 > 0:22:18are the faded Southern belle Blanche Du Bois and her
0:22:18 > 0:22:22crude brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski two of the principal characters?
0:22:22 > 0:22:23A Streetcar Named Desire.
0:22:23 > 0:22:27What is the name of the sea that extends from southern Denmark almost to the
0:22:27 > 0:22:30Arctic Circle and separates most of Scandinavia from the rest of Europe?
0:22:30 > 0:22:32Baltic.
0:22:32 > 0:22:37What is the general term for the premium paid for the use of or borrowing of money?
0:22:37 > 0:22:38Pass.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41During which month of the Islamic calendar do Muslims
0:22:41 > 0:22:44break their fast after sunset with a meal called Iftar?
0:22:44 > 0:22:45BEEP
0:22:45 > 0:22:46Diwali.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48No. Ramadan.
0:22:48 > 0:22:50Your passes. You'll be cross about this one.
0:22:50 > 0:22:53- The term for the premium when you borrow money is interest.- Oh!
0:22:53 > 0:22:57- The Garda Siochana is the police force.- Right.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00Tasmania is the island that lies off the south coast of Australia.
0:23:00 > 0:23:04Sam Smith recorded Writing's On The Wall.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06The Nautilus sailed under the North Pole.
0:23:06 > 0:23:10- And familiarity breeds contempt. - Yeah, that's right.
0:23:10 > 0:23:14Anyway, Nick, you now have a total of 21 points.
0:23:14 > 0:23:17APPLAUSE
0:23:23 > 0:23:28And now Kimberley, finally, once again please.
0:23:28 > 0:23:33You did well. You got them all right with Agatha Christie.
0:23:33 > 0:23:37What is it about her books?
0:23:37 > 0:23:39I don't know. I can only say why I like them.
0:23:39 > 0:23:42The first one, the first Poirot book she wrote,
0:23:42 > 0:23:45The Mysterious Affair At Styles, was in 1920.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48And the last Poirot book was 1975.
0:23:48 > 0:23:52So, you know, that character alone had a huge span.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55I don't know, they are perfect. The stories are perfect.
0:23:55 > 0:23:59Everything gets wrapped up and everything gets taken care of.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02They are cunning and clever.
0:24:02 > 0:24:06I find that any detective show or books,
0:24:06 > 0:24:10anything else that I read or watch, Christie did it first.
0:24:10 > 0:24:14Somewhere, it's in one of her books first.
0:24:14 > 0:24:17It's really hard to come up with something original.
0:24:17 > 0:24:20Do you always guess whodunnit?
0:24:20 > 0:24:22- Usually. - LAUGHTER
0:24:22 > 0:24:24- Yes.- How early in the book?
0:24:24 > 0:24:26SHE LAUGHS
0:24:26 > 0:24:28Um...
0:24:28 > 0:24:30I'd say sort of a third in, I'd know.
0:24:30 > 0:24:33- And that doesn't spoil it for you? - No, I love them.
0:24:33 > 0:24:37I mean, I reread them all the time, rewatch the TV shows.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40I know who did it but it's still fun watching it.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43Well, you certainly did well with your 11 points.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45Let's see how you do now with your general knowledge,
0:24:45 > 0:24:48because 21 is the score to beat.
0:24:48 > 0:24:51And you've got two minutes in which to do it. Here we go.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54What alcoholic drink is popularly known as a G&T?
0:24:54 > 0:24:57Gin.
0:24:57 > 0:24:58- And?- Tonic. Sorry!
0:24:58 > 0:25:02In a well-known fantasy novel by CS Lewis, first published in 1950,
0:25:02 > 0:25:06the land of Narnia can be reached through a gateway in which item of furniture?
0:25:06 > 0:25:07Wardrobe.
0:25:07 > 0:25:09Which Parisian art gallery houses the celebrated
0:25:09 > 0:25:12sculpture of Aphrodite, called the Venus de Milo?
0:25:12 > 0:25:13The Louvre.
0:25:13 > 0:25:15What name is given to the energy collecting devices,
0:25:15 > 0:25:18seen for example on the roofs of houses designed to use
0:25:18 > 0:25:21the sun's rays to generate electricity or heat water?
0:25:21 > 0:25:22Solar pads.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24Which English singer and actress became a star
0:25:24 > 0:25:27after playing the stage role of Evita in 1978?
0:25:27 > 0:25:28Pass.
0:25:28 > 0:25:32In which northern Italian city is the Via Monte Napoleone
0:25:32 > 0:25:35at the centre of its most exclusive shopping streets?
0:25:35 > 0:25:36Milan.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38What BBC comedy panel show with difficult questions,
0:25:38 > 0:25:40that has been hosted by Stephen Fry,
0:25:40 > 0:25:43awards points for clever and inventive answers?
0:25:43 > 0:25:44QI.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47Who plays the title role in the '98 comedy film There's Something About Mary?
0:25:47 > 0:25:49Cameron Diaz.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52Three types of surface are used in Grand Slam tennis tournaments.
0:25:52 > 0:25:54Grass and hard court are two, what is the other?
0:25:54 > 0:25:55Clay.
0:25:55 > 0:26:00What word can mean both a crudely-built shack and a work song sung by sailors?
0:26:00 > 0:26:01Shanty.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04What name is given to the chain of islands in the Caribbean Sea,
0:26:04 > 0:26:05many former British colonies,
0:26:05 > 0:26:09that extends from the Bahamas in the north to Trinidad in the south?
0:26:09 > 0:26:10Pass.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12In which Halloween custom do children knock at doors
0:26:12 > 0:26:14to ask for sweets, with the threat of
0:26:14 > 0:26:16playing a practical joke if nothing is given?
0:26:16 > 0:26:18Trick or treat.
0:26:18 > 0:26:21The salted roe of the sturgeon is the premium form of which expensive appetiser?
0:26:21 > 0:26:22Caviar.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25What was the name of Henry VIII's heavily armed ship that sank
0:26:25 > 0:26:29in the Solent in 1545 and was raised to the surface in 1982?
0:26:29 > 0:26:31The Mary Rose.
0:26:31 > 0:26:33The equation E equals mc-squared,
0:26:33 > 0:26:37stating that mass is a form of energy, comes from the theory
0:26:37 > 0:26:39of Special Relativity written by which scientist?
0:26:39 > 0:26:40Einstein.
0:26:40 > 0:26:42The musical Wicked reveals the untold
0:26:42 > 0:26:44story of the witches from which classic film?
0:26:44 > 0:26:45The Wizard Of Oz.
0:26:45 > 0:26:49In soft furnishings, what can be vertical, roller or Venetian?
0:26:49 > 0:26:50Blinds.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53Which tree has sweet-smelling white flowers that can be used to make a cordial
0:26:53 > 0:26:54BEEP
0:26:54 > 0:26:58and purplish-black berries that can be used to make wine?
0:26:58 > 0:26:59Elderflower.
0:26:59 > 0:27:03- Yes. Elder.- Yeah, that's... Yeah.
0:27:03 > 0:27:07- Two passes. That cluster of islands was the West Indies.- Yes.
0:27:07 > 0:27:10And Elaine Paige was Evita.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12SHE GROANS
0:27:12 > 0:27:16I tell you, it doesn't matter. Cos you have a total of 27 points.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19APPLAUSE
0:27:26 > 0:27:28Well, no doubt about that win.
0:27:28 > 0:27:29Let's have a look at the scores.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32In fourth place, 12 points, Jon-Allan.
0:27:32 > 0:27:34Third place, 15 points, Liam.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36Second place, 21 points, Nick.
0:27:36 > 0:27:38In first place,
0:27:38 > 0:27:40a storming 27 points, Kimberley.
0:27:40 > 0:27:43APPLAUSE
0:27:52 > 0:27:54Kimberley.
0:27:57 > 0:27:58- Congratulations.- Thank you.
0:27:58 > 0:28:01Do you know what, Agatha Christie could use that,
0:28:01 > 0:28:03couldn't she, as a murder weapon?
0:28:03 > 0:28:06- Yeah, it's perfect.- Yeah. Beats having an Oscar, doesn't it?
0:28:06 > 0:28:09- Yeah, absolutely. I don't need one of those.- Absolutely. Well done.
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