Episode 6 Celebrity Mastermind

First in the spotlight tonight is the Emmerdale actor Liam Fox.

His specialist subject - Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.

Next, the cyclist Jon-Allan Butterworth

on the Terminator films.

The comedian Nick Helm answers questions on Alice Cooper.

And the actress Kimberley Nixon on Agatha Christie's Poirot novels.

Hello, and welcome to Celebrity Mastermind with me,

John Humphrys, and four people who may at this stage be wondering

why they said yes to being here tonight.

Risking their reputations in the hope of becoming a Celebrity Mastermind.

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

But they do get the chance of winning a glass trophy and the title.

And to do it they get 90 seconds of questions on their special subject,

and then two minutes on general knowledge.

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

Your name is?

Your chosen charity?

And your chosen subject?

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet in 90 seconds.

Seven British builders share a hut on the Beco building site in which German city

in series one of Auf Wiedersehen Pet?

Dusseldorf.

In series two, Dennis has to work for a dodgy character, played by Bill Paterson,

because he owes him £6,000 not including interest. What is his name?

Ally Fraser.

What's the name of the Grade II listed building in Derbyshire that

the gang are asked to convert into an old people's home in series two?

Thornley Manor.

The gang travels to Spain to work on Ally's villa,

posing as tourists, but are widely suspected of being

responsible for a payroll robbery in which city?

Sheffield.

What German word meaning slow down do the German workers shout

at Bomber because the fast pace of his bricklaying is showing them up?

Uh... Achtung.

No, langsam.

What term, based on a boy's name, do the British workers use for

their German co-workers so they can refer to them without giving offence?

Pass.

Dennis and Oz travel from Dusseldorf to which Belgian city to see

Sunderland play a football match that ends in a draw?

Liege.

What female name does Neville have tattooed on his

arm after a drunken night out in Dusseldorf?

Lotte.

After the football match in Liege, Oz drunkenly

ends up on a plane back to Newcastle.

What do the rest of the gang agree to say

he is suffering from to cover for his absence from work?

Pass.

What brand of schnapps served in the club at the Dusseldorf building site is

Bomber's drink of choice, he calls it Bomber's Ruin?

Pass.

What is the name of the young British soldier gone AWOL,

played by Ray Winstone, whom the gang persuade to go back to his unit?

Colin.

At which hotel do the gang stay while working in Spain,

BEEP posing as fellow tourists

with the Spennymoor & District Senior Citizens Society?

The Bella Vista.

Is correct. Three passes, Liam.

Williams is that brand of schnapps. Williams Schnapps. Yeah.

The gang said Oz was suffering from toxic shock syndrome when, in fact,

he was drunk.

Erics is that term based on a boy's name that they

used for their German co-workers.

You scored 8 points.

APPLAUSE

And our next contender please.

And your name is?

Your chosen charity?

And your chosen subject?

The Terminator series. 90 seconds. Here we go.

Which film-maker directed the first two films in the series,

The Terminator and Terminator 2 Judgment Day?

James Cameron.

In Terminator Salvation, John Connor

and the resistance destroy Skynet Central in which city?

Los Angeles.

San Francisco.

According to Sarah Connor's voiceover at the start of Terminator 2,

three billion human lives were ended by a nuclear fire on August 29th of what year?

1997.

Which resistance fighter persuades Sarah Connor to

time travel to 2017 instead of 1997 in order to prevent Judgment Day?

He is convinced the future has changed

because of the warning he received in a childhood vision.

Kyle Reese.

What is the name of the bar and nightclub where the cyborg Terminator,

played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, first tries to kill Sarah Connor,

played by Linda Hamilton?

Pass.

In Terminator 3, which model of advanced Terminator, played by Kristanna Loken,

has been sent back in time by Skynet to eliminate members of the resistance?

T-X.

Who composed the original music score for both The Terminator and Terminator 2?

Pass.

In Terminator Genisys, Sarah Connor is played as a child

by Willa Taylor. Who plays her as an adult?

Emilia Clarke.

In Terminator 2, the advanced liquid metal, shape-shifting T-1000

Terminator sent from the future to kill John Connor spends

most of the time in the form of a police officer played by whom?

Robert Patrick.

At the beginning of Terminator Salvation, at which prison is the

death row inmate Marcus Wright convinced by Cyberdyne Systems

to sign over his body for medical research an hour before his execution?

Sam Worthington.

Longview. In Terminator 3, what is buried instead of

BEEP Sarah Connor's body in her coffin at Greenlawn cemetery?

Arms and ammunition.

Yep. Weapons, guns and all that.

You had two passes.

Brad Fiedel composed that original music score.

And Tech Noir. At least I assume it's pronounced that.

That's the name of the bar

and nightclub where they did all those things.

-You have scored 7 points.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

And our next contender please.

And your name is?

Your chosen charity?

And your chosen subject?

Alice Cooper. Here we go.

The band called Alice Cooper,

led by the rock singer born Vincent Furnier, had their first number one

in the UK singles chart in August 1972 with which song?

School's Out.

Following the break-up of the band, Furnier, who had by now become

known as Alice Cooper, released his first solo album in 1975. What is it called?

Welcome To My Nightmare.

In which 1992 feature film does Cooper appear

and give the main characters a brief history lesson about Milwaukee?

Wayne's World.

Who took over as the band's producer in '71 and guided them to their early success?

Bob Ezrin.

Which 1982 live single was a cover version of

a song originally recorded by the band Love?

Clones.

Seven And Seven Is. Cooper credits his recovery from addiction to alcohol

and drugs to a sport that he plays many times a week. Which sport?

Golf.

What's the name of the super-group, formed by Cooper,

Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry,

and actor Johnny Depp that released its first album

and performed its first concerts in September 2015?

Hollywood Vampires.

Which satirical song by the Alice Cooper band

reached number four in the UK singles chart in 1972?

John Lennon told Cooper it was a great song,

but added, "Paul would have done it better."

Elected.

The Alice Cooper band played two concerts at the Rainbow in London in 1971,

the first on the 6th of November

as a support act to which iconic British band?

Pass.

Cooper's 1983 release Dada was his last album on

which record label in America and the UK?

Warner Bros.

The 1986 song He's Back - The Man Behind The Mask

was used as the theme song for the sixth film in which franchise?

Friday 13th.

The album Trash and its lead single both reached BEEP

number two in the UK charts for Cooper in 1989. What was the name of the single?

Poison.

Is correct. Just one pass, Nick.

That iconic British band was The Who.

You have scored, Nick, 10 points.

APPLAUSE

And our final contender please.

And your name is?

Your chosen charity?

And your chosen subject?

Hercule Poirot novels. Here we go.

Which of Agatha Christie's Poirot novels was

published in 1934 and is set on board a train

stuck in a snowdrift on a journey between Istanbul and Calais?

Murder On The Orient Express.

Whom does Inspector Japp initially suspect of murdering Lord Edgware

by stabbing him in the neck with a knife?

Jane Wilkinson.

When Maggie Buckley is killed during a Guy Fawkes party at End House,

her murder is at first assumed to be a case of mistaken identity

as she is wearing what item of clothing that belongs to her cousin Nick?

A red shawl.

In his explanation of the murder of Arlena Marshall,

what does Poirot deduce was in the bottle that was

thrown from a window, narrowly missing Emily Brewster?

-Suntan lotion... Suntan browning...

-Indeed.

In Hercule Poirot's Christmas, what is the name of the house where the

unlovable Simeon Lee is murdered during a Christmas family gathering?

Gorston Hall.

In The ABC Murders, which character handled the murder weapon

and is caught with blood on his coat,

but is actually being framed by the murderer?

Alexander Bonaparte Cust.

Linnet Doyle is found shot in Death on the Nile.

What letter is written in blood on the wall next to her body?

J.

Patricia Lane, one of the victims in Hickory Dickory Dock,

is killed when she is struck on the back of the head with what heavy object?

It's a rock in a sock.

Yes, a marble paperweight in a woollen sock.

At the end of The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd, the murderer confesses

and says he intends to end his life by taking what poison?

Veronal.

Joyce Reynolds is found dead in the library in The Hallowe'en Party.

In what metal object, "nearly full of water," had she been drowned?

A bucket.

In Murder On The Orient Express, Poirot hears

a thump against his compartment door shortly

after the conductor brings him a glass of water BEEP

and looks out to see a woman walking down the carriage wearing what?

A red kimono.

Indeed she is.

Kimberley, full house. You got 11 points.

APPLAUSE

Well, it couldn't be much closer than that.

Let's have a look at all the scores.

In fourth place, 7 points, Jon-Allan Butterworth.

Third place, 8 points, Liam Fox.

Second place, 10 points, Nick Helm.

First place, 11 points, Kimberley Nixon.

APPLAUSE

So, it is the general knowledge round now.

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

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

Let's get on with it and ask Jon-Allan to join us again please.

And...

I know you lost your arm when you were blown up serving in Iraq.

What I find really hard to believe is that you became a phenomenal

cyclist and you had never ridden a bike without

stabilisers in your life before. Is that right?

Yes. It surprised me, to be honest, yeah.

And from when I started cycling to competing,

it was less than two years.

And London was three and a half years from taking it up to winning.

-Yeah.

-You had only three and a half years to prepare for the Olympics?

-From when I started cycling, yeah.

-From when you started cycling?

-Yeah.

Exactly. And how come you realised, or who realised and how,

that you were going to be a brilliant cyclist?

I did a talent day at Loughborough University with Paralympics GB.

And I got identified there as having potential talent.

I had a choice of one sport to choose from cos

I was rubbish at everything else.

So it all worked out well in the end.

But cycling you can manage without any trouble?

It still comes with its challenges, you know?

Obviously 70K around the track with one arm is quite scary at times.

-Trying to handle a bike.

-Quite!

But I can compete with some of the best cyclists

in the country so I'm happy with that.

Well, you did it fantastically.

Now, you've got 7 points.

Plenty of time to catch up with your general knowledge. Two minutes.

Here we go.

Percolators and cafetieres are usually used to make what hot drink?

Coffee.

On which celestial body have only 12 men walked,

between from 1969 and 1972?

Antarctica.

The moon.

The 2015 film subtitled Rogue Nation starring Tom Cruise

as Ethan Hunt, is the fifth instalment of which film franchise?

Mission: Impossible.

What name is given to a small jug or mug in the form of a squat old man

wearing a three-cornered hat, one corner of which forms the lip?

Toby jug.

Which actress played the betrayed wife in the 2015 TV drama series Doctor Foster?

Pass.

Which member of the cat family is the fastest land mammal on Earth?

Leopard.

Cheetah. William I, who ruled England from 1066 to 1087,

was usually known by what name because of his successes on the battlefield?

Pass.

In which northern city is there a branch of the Tate Gallery,

opened in 1988, that displays one of the largest collections of modern

and contemporary art outside Liverpo...outside London?

Liverpool.

LAUGHTER

Which explorer's name in Spanish is Cristobal Colon?

Pass.

In the theatre, what name, sometimes synonymous with monologue,

is given to a passage in a drama in which a character expresses

his or her thoughts or feelings aloud while usually alone upon the stage?

Play.

A soliloquy.

In August 2015, who beat the Ukrainian former pole-vaulter Sergey Bubka

to be voted president of the governing body for athletics, the IAAF?

Coe.

Which river flows through the centre of Glasgow?

Pass.

Which bestselling 1974 novel by Peter Benchley opens with the line,

"The great fish moved silently through the night water,

"propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail"?

Pass.

The wood of which tree, used in furniture making, veneering and for

musical instrument parts, is almost black in colour?

Mahogany.

Ebony.

Which tax on the sale of some goods was introduced at a standard rate of 10%

when it first came into force in Britain on the 1st of April 1973?

Pass.

The holiday resorts of Puerto del Carmen and Playa Blanca

are on which of the Canary Islands?

BEEP

Pass.

I can tell you cos you're out of time. Lanzarote.

And your other passes. VAT is the tax on sales.

That first line came from Jaws.

It's the River Clyde that flows through Glasgow.

Christopher Columbus' name in Spanish is Cristobal Colon.

William the Conqueror was William I.

And Suranne Jones played the betrayed wife in Doctor Foster.

Jon-Allan, I know you knew the answer anyway to the Liverpool one.

-You have scored a total now of 12 points.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

And now Liam again please.

And Emmerdale, you've been playing in it for...?

-Four years nearly now.

-Four years.

That's an awful lot of episodes. Cos you do six a week.

-Yeah. I think I've done about 450 in four years.

-Good grief!

-450 episodes!

-Yeah.

And what is it about Emmerdale? It's really stuck with us, hasn't it?

It's got a strong core of devoted followers.

Well, yeah. I think so.

I watched it as a kid back in the day, when it was very different.

But even now, all my family still watch it.

You know, it's very popular out there with the audience.

And I think... Generally, it's about characters, great stories.

And I think it's still a place where people would like to live.

Apart from the odd air crash and the odd shooting.

-Yeah. Look, you chose Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.

-Yeah.

Is that cos your father was a brickie?

Partly, yeah.

Because in the '80s when all the builders were going off to

Holland and Germany,

my dad was getting phone calls every week from a guy in Holland saying,

"You want to come over to Holland or Germany, Mr Fox, and build houses?"

And he was always tempted to go.

He never went, but a lot of his mates did.

So watching that programme kind of reflected my dad's life

and his mates' really.

It was very apt and very on the ball and very real at the time.

I'll bet.

Liam, you've got 8 points already.

And you've got two minutes for your general knowledge.

So here we go.

According to the title of John Gray's bestselling book,

women are from Venus, men are from?

Mars.

Which sport is featured in the stage and film musical Damn Yankees?

Pass.

In which 1967 film is the title character Benjamin Braddock

played by Dustin Hoffman?

The Graduate.

According to the popular rhyme,

what is the particular attribute of Monday's child?

Full of grace.

Fair of face.

Michelle and Norwegian Wood are tracks on which '65 Beatles album?

Pass.

John Boy and Mary Ellen were some of the children

of which TV family who lived in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia

during the Great Depression and the WWII?

The Waltons.

In which continent did the monkey puzzle tree originate?

Africa.

South America. In Greek mythology, anyone looking

directly at the heads of the Gorgons would be turned into what?

Pillars of salt.

No, stone. Which small Yorkshire fishing village between Scarborough

and Whitby is named after a legendary English outlaw and hero?

Grimsby.

Robin Hood. Robin Hood's Bay.

Which item of police uniform, first used by the Metropolitan Police

in 1863, was based on that worn by the Prussian army?

Truncheon.

The helmet. The name of a dessert consisting of ice cream typically served with

a topping of whipped cream, syrup, nuts and crushed fruit is thought

to come from the day of the week on which it was originally eaten. Which day?

Wednesday.

Sunday.

The word seismic, used to describe anything of large proportions,

also refers to what natural phenomenon?

Earthquake.

What is the unit of currency in Japan, made up of 100 sen?

Pass.

Which Shakespeare character speaks the lines

"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio,

"a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy"?

Pass.

How many vocalists or instrumentalists are needed

to form a group known as a septet?

Seven.

Amsterdam is the official capital of the Netherlands

but which city is the home of its government and the Supreme Court?

Pass.

Which American president was murdered by the actor

John Wilkes Booth in 1865?

Lincoln.

What fuel does a first-footer BEEP

traditionally bring to a house at Hogmanay for luck

along with black bun and whisky?

Coal.

Yeah, a piece of coal. Let's give you your passes, Liam.

The home of the government

and the Supreme Court in the Netherlands is The Hague.

Hamlet says, "Alas, poor Yorick!" etc.

The yen is the unit of currency in Japan.

Rubber Soul was that Beatles album.

And baseball featured in Damn Yankees.

-You now have a total, Liam, of 15 points.

-OK.

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And now Nick again please.

-Now, tell me about Uncle, because music and comedy.

-Yeah.

-Combined.

-Difficult?

-Um, no. Well, I mean, I do... I don't write Uncle.

I just write the songs on Uncle.

But I do stand up and I do music with my stand-up

and I find that quite good.

Cos you have a five-minute chunk where you don't actually have to

be funny. You can just make a lot of noise and that takes care of itself.

Presumably, it's got to be quite nice noise?

Well, if you finish a song people generally clap at the end of it

and you feel like you've achieved something. So that's good.

Oh. What, they clap even if it's rubbish?

Yeah, tends to be. It's great.

And actually, if we go back a bit,

there were a lot of comedians who sang.

Are we going back to those days of, you know, the singer/comedian?

It's sort of like a music hall tradition, I suppose.

But I don't think we're going back to it.

I don't think it ever went away.

Victoria Wood was around, wasn't she?

-That's true.

-She still is around. So yeah, it's just an extra,

it's just another element of something that you can do.

I think that, you know, if you're going to go on stage

you should just draw on all the things that you can do

to a certain standard and then just put it all in.

I do a bit of everything to keep people

distracted from the fact that it's all fairly rubbish.

LAUGHTER

You've got 10 points. 15 is the score to beat.

Two minutes of general knowledge coming up.

According to the traditional proverb, what breeds contempt?

Pass.

Which large rodents that live mainly in rivers and streams,

build dams of sticks, stones and mud?

Beavers.

In August 1958, the US Navy submarine Nautilus

became the first vessel to sail under what part of the globe?

Pass.

Which of the three major classic cycle races has not been won by a Frenchman

since 1985, when the winner was Bernard Hinault?

Tour de France.

The name of which colour is given to the room in a theatre

or TV studio where actors can relax when not performing?

Green.

Which British singer recorded Writing's On The Wall,

the theme song for the James Bond film Spectre?

Pass.

What name is given to the drink consisting of a mixture of beer and lemonade?

Shandy.

Which freshwater relative of the lobster has a British variety, the white-clawed,

that has almost been wiped out by larger, more aggressive American varieties?

Crayfish.

Which island, lying off the south coast of Australia, has Hobart as its capital?

Pass.

Kelsey Grammer plays the title character in which

TV series based on his psychiatrist character in Cheers?

Frasier.

What name is given to the type of smooth road surface that was invented by the

Nottinghamshire county surveyor Edgar Hooley

in 1901 and consists of tar and iron slag?

Tarmac.

In Ireland, which service is called the Garda Siochana?

Pass.

Who was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his

portrayal of Muhammad Ali in the 2001 film Ali?

Will Smith.

Which fictional teenage journalist was created by the Belgian cartoonist Herge

and has a faithful dog called Snowy?

Tintin.

In which play by Tennessee Williams, set in New Orleans,

are the faded Southern belle Blanche Du Bois and her

crude brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski two of the principal characters?

A Streetcar Named Desire.

What is the name of the sea that extends from southern Denmark almost to the

Arctic Circle and separates most of Scandinavia from the rest of Europe?

Baltic.

What is the general term for the premium paid for the use of or borrowing of money?

Pass.

During which month of the Islamic calendar do Muslims

break their fast after sunset with a meal called Iftar?

BEEP

Diwali.

No. Ramadan.

Your passes. You'll be cross about this one.

-The term for the premium when you borrow money is interest.

-Oh!

-The Garda Siochana is the police force.

-Right.

Tasmania is the island that lies off the south coast of Australia.

Sam Smith recorded Writing's On The Wall.

The Nautilus sailed under the North Pole.

-And familiarity breeds contempt.

-Yeah, that's right.

Anyway, Nick, you now have a total of 21 points.

APPLAUSE

And now Kimberley, finally, once again please.

You did well. You got them all right with Agatha Christie.

What is it about her books?

I don't know. I can only say why I like them.

The first one, the first Poirot book she wrote,

The Mysterious Affair At Styles, was in 1920.

And the last Poirot book was 1975.

So, you know, that character alone had a huge span.

I don't know, they are perfect. The stories are perfect.

Everything gets wrapped up and everything gets taken care of.

They are cunning and clever.

I find that any detective show or books,

anything else that I read or watch, Christie did it first.

Somewhere, it's in one of her books first.

It's really hard to come up with something original.

Do you always guess whodunnit?

-Usually.

-LAUGHTER

-Yes.

-How early in the book?

SHE LAUGHS

Um...

I'd say sort of a third in, I'd know.

-And that doesn't spoil it for you?

-No, I love them.

I mean, I reread them all the time, rewatch the TV shows.

I know who did it but it's still fun watching it.

Well, you certainly did well with your 11 points.

Let's see how you do now with your general knowledge,

because 21 is the score to beat.

And you've got two minutes in which to do it. Here we go.

What alcoholic drink is popularly known as a G&T?

Gin.

-And?

-Tonic. Sorry!

In a well-known fantasy novel by CS Lewis, first published in 1950,

the land of Narnia can be reached through a gateway in which item of furniture?

Wardrobe.

Which Parisian art gallery houses the celebrated

sculpture of Aphrodite, called the Venus de Milo?

The Louvre.

What name is given to the energy collecting devices,

seen for example on the roofs of houses designed to use

the sun's rays to generate electricity or heat water?

Solar pads.

Which English singer and actress became a star

after playing the stage role of Evita in 1978?

Pass.

In which northern Italian city is the Via Monte Napoleone

at the centre of its most exclusive shopping streets?

Milan.

What BBC comedy panel show with difficult questions,

that has been hosted by Stephen Fry,

awards points for clever and inventive answers?

QI.

Who plays the title role in the '98 comedy film There's Something About Mary?

Cameron Diaz.

Three types of surface are used in Grand Slam tennis tournaments.

Grass and hard court are two, what is the other?

Clay.

What word can mean both a crudely-built shack and a work song sung by sailors?

Shanty.

What name is given to the chain of islands in the Caribbean Sea,

many former British colonies,

that extends from the Bahamas in the north to Trinidad in the south?

Pass.

In which Halloween custom do children knock at doors

to ask for sweets, with the threat of

playing a practical joke if nothing is given?

Trick or treat.

The salted roe of the sturgeon is the premium form of which expensive appetiser?

Caviar.

What was the name of Henry VIII's heavily armed ship that sank

in the Solent in 1545 and was raised to the surface in 1982?

The Mary Rose.

The equation E equals mc-squared,

stating that mass is a form of energy, comes from the theory

of Special Relativity written by which scientist?

Einstein.

The musical Wicked reveals the untold

story of the witches from which classic film?

The Wizard Of Oz.

In soft furnishings, what can be vertical, roller or Venetian?

Blinds.

Which tree has sweet-smelling white flowers that can be used to make a cordial

BEEP

and purplish-black berries that can be used to make wine?

Elderflower.

-Yes. Elder.

-Yeah, that's... Yeah.

-Two passes. That cluster of islands was the West Indies.

-Yes.

And Elaine Paige was Evita.

SHE GROANS

I tell you, it doesn't matter. Cos you have a total of 27 points.

APPLAUSE

Well, no doubt about that win.

Let's have a look at the scores.

In fourth place, 12 points, Jon-Allan.

Third place, 15 points, Liam.

Second place, 21 points, Nick.

In first place,

a storming 27 points, Kimberley.

APPLAUSE

Kimberley.

-Congratulations.

-Thank you.

Do you know what, Agatha Christie could use that,

couldn't she, as a murder weapon?

-Yeah, it's perfect.

-Yeah. Beats having an Oscar, doesn't it?

-Yeah, absolutely. I don't need one of those.

-Absolutely. Well done.

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