Episode 7 Celebrity Mastermind

First in the spotlight tonight is the actress Lisa Maxwell.

Her specialist subject, Judy Garland.

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The comedian Gary Delaney answers questions on

the zombie films of George Romero.

Next, the actor Simon Greenall on the D-Day landings.

And the BBC commentator Conor McNamara on Irish whiskey.

Hello and welcome to Celebrity Mastermind with me,

John Humphrys, and four people who have achieved a lot over the years.

And now, well, they could be putting it all at risk depending on how

they equip themselves in that black chair.

But they are doing it all for charity.

So that's all right.

The rules are the same - 90 seconds of questions on their

specialist subject and then two minutes on general knowledge.

So let us ask our first contender to join us please.

And your name is?

Your chosen charity?

And your chosen subject?

Judy Garland in 90 seconds.

Garland was born Frances Ethel Gumm in June 1922,

the youngest of three sisters. By what nickname was

she known early in her professional career?

Baby.

Garland made her solo debut at the age of two and a half

in December 1924 at her father's cinema, singing which seasonal song?

Jingle Bells.

Which recording company had Garland under contract between 1937 and 1947

where she recorded some of her biggest hits

such as Over The Rainbow and The Trolley Song?

Decca.

In The Wizard Of Oz, who is the first person to join Dorothy and Toto's journey?

The Scarecrow.

What was the name of Garland's first psychoanalyst whom she began seeing in

about 1942 at the suggestion of Joseph Mankiewicz and the psychiatrist Karl Menninger?

Uh...

Pass.

With which swashbuckling hero of films such as Mark of Zorro

and The Black Swan did Garland have an early affair?

Her later lovers included Yul Brynner, Orson Wells and Frank Sinatra.

Otto Preminger.

Tyrone Power.

In which city did Garland get married to the

first of her five husbands, the musician David Rose,

in the small hours of the 28th of July 1941?

Nevada. Las Vegas.

What is the name of the teenage girl,

in love with the boy next door, whom Garland plays in Meet Me In St Louis?

A role she had been reluctant to accept.

Betsy...

-No. Esther.

-Esther.

-Smith.

What was the name of the venue in Copenhagen where

Garland gave the last concert of her career on the 25th of March 1969?

Pass.

Garland was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her

relatively small part in which 1961 film...

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..whose stars included Spencer Tracy, Marlene Dietrich and Burt Lancaster?

Something At Nuremberg.

-Yes.

-Oh... Um...

Oh, goodness! What is it?

I can't... Pass.

No, you'll have to pass. What a shame.

-Judgment At Nuremberg.

-Judgment At Nuremberg.

Yeah, nearly there. Anyway, the other passes.

The name of that venue in Copenhagen was the Falkoner Centre.

-And her first psychoanalyst was Ernst Simmel.

-OK.

Lisa, you have 5 points.

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And our next contender, please.

And your name?

Your chosen charity?

And your chosen subject?

The zombie films in 90 seconds. Here we go.

In which Romero zombie film does the SWAT police officer

Peter say, "When there's no more room in Hell,

"the dead will walk the earth?"

Dawn Of The Dead.

In Night Of The Living Dead, the zombies, or ghouls,

can be finally killed with a gunshot or a heavy blow to what part of the body?

The head.

In Diary Of The Dead, Jason Creed makes a film documenting his

classmates' escape from the zombies. What is its title?

The Death Of Death.

In Land Of The Dead, the zombies are referred

to as walkers and by what other derogatory name?

Stenches.

Barbra and Johnny have just laid a wreath on their father's grave

when they are attacked by a zombie in Night Of The Living Dead.

What's the message on the wreath?

See you soon.

We still remember. Patrick O'Flynn plans to execute all

the zombies on an island off the coast of Delaware,

he calls it "putting the dead to sleep." What is the island called?

Plum.

Which actor was responsible for the make-up and cosmetic special effects

in Day Of The Dead and Dawn Of The Dead,

in which he also appears as a motorcycle raider?

Tom Savini.

What nickname have the soldiers given to Dr Logan in Day Of The Dead

due to his horrific experimentation on captured zombies?

Frankenstein.

In Night Of The Living Dead it's suggested that the

destruction of which space probe returning from Venus may have

caused the phenomenon of the dead returning to life?

The Explorer.

What is the name of the deaf Amish farmer who lets the students use his barn,

but then has to kill himself and a zombie with a scythe in Diary Of The Dead?

Samuel.

Who plays Kaufman, the head of the group that controls Fiddler's Green

and runs the various illicit activities that support its upkeep in Land of the Dead?

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-Dennis Hopper.

Dennis Hopper is correct.

No passes, Gary. You have scored 10 points.

Thank you.

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And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Your chosen charity?

And your specialist subject?

The D-Day landings in 90 seconds. Here we go.

What was the codename for the Allied invasion of France on D-Day

and subsequent capture of Normandy?

The plan was presented by Field Marshal Montgomery

in St Paul's School in London in the spring of 1944.

Overlord.

What was the name of the portable temporary harbours developed

to help the rapid off-loading of cargo onto the beaches?

Mulberry.

Which German field marshal was put in charge of improving

the Atlantic Wall of Channel defences,

under the Commander-in-Chief Gerd von Rundstedt?

Erwin Rommel.

Which of the Normandy beaches was the US Seventh Corps designated to take?

It was the most westerly of the Allied landing zones.

Omaha.

Utah. Which British admiral was placed in overall command of Operation Neptune,

the complex naval and landing operations of D-Day?

Admiral Ramsay.

What name was given to the mass of tall hedges in Normandy which made

progress difficult for attacking forces but were a great aid to defence?

Bocage.

What acronym was used for the system of oil pipelines

laid in the English Channel to support the invasion?

Pluto.

Which air chief marshal of the RAF was appointed Deputy Supreme Commander

of the Allied invasion forces in December 1943 under General Eisenhower?

Tedder.

From which battle cruiser did Omar Bradley,

the commander of the US First Army, observe the D-Day landings?

Texas.

Augusta. What nickname did Allied infantry give to the German Nebelwerfer

rocket launcher, due to the noise the incoming rockets made?

Moaning Minnie.

Which American general was named as the commander of the fictitious

First US Army Group, deceiving German commanders into thinking that

an invasion would take place in the Pas-de-Calais region?

Patton.

The US forces landed at Utah and Omaha beaches...

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..while British and Canadian forces landed at Gold, Juno and which other beach?

Sword.

Is correct.

No passes, Simon. You too have scored 10 points.

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And our final contender please.

And your name is?

Your chosen charity?

And your chosen subject?

Irish whiskey in 90 seconds.

What three-letter term is given to the traditional type of still used

in making certain Irish whiskeys, from which they get their distinctive flavour?

Pot.

Which peated malt whiskey, launched in the mid-90s by the Cooley Distillery,

shares its name with a scenic area and national park in County Galway?

Connemara.

Which new, small distillery in County Kerry

filled its first cask of new make spirit in December 2012?

Dingle.

Which historic Antrim distillery claims its heritage back to at least 1608

when Sir Thomas Phillips was granted a distilling licence in the town?

Bushmills.

What was the name of the Capuchin priest,

known as the Apostle of Temperance, whose campaign around Cork

in the 1830s and '40s forced the closure of many distilleries?

Pass.

Which Ulster distillery, that closed in '78,

supplied whiskey to the House of Commons and so put HC on its labels?

Coleraine.

Which whiskey, named after the family's celebrated racehorse was formerly

the premium brand of Andrew A Watt's distillery?

Pass.

Which whiskey takes the second part of its name from the initials of Daniel E Williams,

the general manager of the original distillery?

Tullamore Dew.

What was the name of the famous Cork Distilleries salesman

after whom the company's popular Old Irish Whiskey was named?

Paddy Flaherty.

Which 12-year-old, single pot still whiskey, released in 2011

under the Powers label, takes its name from the location of the former

Powers distillery in Dublin?

John's Lane.

In which town in County Cork is there both a former distillery founded by

the Murphy family and a state-of-the art distillery opened in '75?

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Midleton.

Is correct. You had two passes.

That whiskey that was formerly the premium brand of Andrew A Watt

was Tyrconnell. However you pronounce it.

And it was Father Theobald Mathew who was that Capuchin priest

who didn't like whiskey very much, I think.

-Anyway, Conor, you've scored 9 points.

-Thank you very much.

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A close round there.

Let's have a look at all the scores.

In fourth place, with 5 points, Lisa.

Third place, 9 points, Conor.

Joint first place, 10 points a piece, Gary and Simon.

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So, it is the general knowledge round now.

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.

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

Lisa, you are about, I think, aren't you,

-to start playing the lady herself?

-Yes.

-I mean, for heaven's sake!

Judy Garland. How scary is that?

It's terrifying. It's a play called End Of The Rainbow.

So I'm playing her in the last two weeks of her life.

And in concert as well.

So I need to go home and actually read a bit more about her.

And she was, it's an overused word, but she was - or is - a legend.

She is a proper bona fide legend. I think it was her vulnerability.

I think she wore her heart on her sleeve and when you see her perform,

you can see that she is actually giving you absolutely everything.

-Which, you know, is no pressure.

-Exactly.

She paid a price for it, didn't she?

She did. I mean, she was taking pep pills from the age of 12,

-given to her by her mother.

-The age of 12?!

-Age 12.

So that she could do the late nights in the theatre.

And then diet pills and so on.

I think, from everything I've read, she was only truly happy when

she was in front of an audience, which is kind of sad really.

-Isn't it? Well, good luck with the role.

-Thank you, John.

Should be brilliant. Here we go now with your general knowledge.

You get two minutes so plenty of time to catch up.

Starting now.

Queens, drones and workers are the three

classes of which social insects that live in a hive?

Ants. No, bees.

Bees. Which Canadian teen idol topped the UK singles charts

for the first time in September 2015 with What Do You Mean?

Justin Bieber.

In the Bible, the story of a fight between two unequal opponents is

told of the First Book of Samuel. One fighter is David, who is the other?

Goliath.

High Force and Cauldron Snout on the River Tees

are examples of what geographical feature?

Pass.

What word for a frame of parallel bars used for grilling meat over an open fire

is applied to an American football pitch because of the markings on it?

Grid... Gridiron.

Which play by JM Barrie, first performed in 1904,

has the alternative title The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up?

Peter Pan.

Leslie Halliwell is best known for writing guides and companions on which subject?

Pass.

What activity did Jerome K Jerome say in Three Men In A Boat

fascinated him - he could sit and look at it for hours?

Boating.

Work. In which war did the Battle of Gallipoli

and the Dardanelles Campaign take place?

Pass.

What surname has been shared by more than 50 Welsh international footballers,

making it the most common, ahead of Davies and Williams?

Um... Morgan.

Jones.

Who finally won the Best Director Oscar in 2007 for The Departed,

after five unsuccessful nominations for films such as

Raging Bull and The Aviator?

Oh, God. Scorsese.

The name of which character of horror fiction comes from the Romanian for

son of the Devil or son of the dragon?

Pass.

Which capital city is served by the Indira Gandhi International Airport?

Delhi.

Who won her first major senior title in August 2009, when she became the first

British woman to win a Heptathlon Gold medal

at the World Athletics Championships?

Pass.

Which substances, necessary for a normal healthy life, are usually designated by the

letters A, B, C, D, E and K and, in some cases, an additional number?

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-Vitamins.

Vitamins it is. Exactly right.

Let's have a look at your passes.

-It was Jessica Ennis-Hill.

-Yes.

-I know you knew that.

Count Dracula was the horror fiction character.

The Gallipoli and Dardanelles Campaign were in the First World War.

Leslie Halliwell wrote guides to films.

-High Force and Cauldron Snout are waterfalls.

-Oh.

You always know it afterwards, don't you?

That's the thing about this quiz.

Anyway, Lisa, you've now scored a very respectable total of 12 points.

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And now Conor again, please.

And you do the lot in terms of sports commentary.

You do football, you do rugby, you do golf.

-Jack of all trades.

-Jack of all trades.

-Master of none.

-And master of all.

What's the most difficult?

Most difficult?

What I do find challenging is in golf, you've got to whisper.

Because you are right there.

In a football ground, you are up in the stand, you're 100m away.

But in golf, you are beside the green.

Have you got people listening to you around you?

It's the golfers I'm worried about.

There's a famous story of a commentator who got caught

a little bit too close to the green.

He's describing the putt and goes, "It's 14ft, it's downhill,

"he sends it on its way.

"Oh, it's edged right to the left. It's a drop shot, it's a bogey."

And the golfer turns round and he says, "Oy, you. Shut it!

"And by the way, it was right to left, not left to right."

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I thought perhaps you would have said rugby

because the rules are now so complicated.

What's great with rugby is,

even the people who play it don't fully understand the rules.

-That's true.

-Absolutely, it's a very complicated game.

I actually think, though, it's an attraction of rugby, particularly

watching it on television, is the discussion you have.

Why was that a penalty? Let's discuss it.

It's not always straightforward. But that's actually part of what

draws people into the game, to understand it.

Indeed. Anyway, look, you've got 9 points.

You have got two minutes now on general knowledge.

Let's see how you do. Here we go.

The jack-o-lantern, a pumpkin carved with a face

and a candle inside, is a symbol of which autumn celebration?

Halloween.

Which of the world's oceans has a name that means peaceful?

Pacific.

Which sign of the zodiac is considered to

lie between March 21st and April 19th?

Aries.

What precious stone is the Great Star of Africa, which is set in the royal sceptre?

Emerald.

Diamond. In which 1968 sci-fi film does a computer called HAL sing

"Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do

"I'm half crazy all for the love of you"?

2001: A Space Odyssey.

Crepe is the French word for what type of food,

which can be either savoury or sweet?

Pancake.

In which South American country are Flamengo, Palmeiras and Santos

among the leading football clubs?

Brazil.

Autumn Rhythm and Lavender Mist are early examples of

which American painter's so-called poured works

where he dripped paint onto a flat canvas in stages?

Jackson Pollock.

Which duo's first hit single Young Guns (Go For It)

reached number three in the UK charts in 1982?

Bangles.

Wham! What term dating back to Medieval times is applied

especially to a dog of no identifiable breed?

Mongrel.

David Lagercrantz's 2015 novel The Girl In The Spider's Web

is a continuation of the Millennium trilogy, featuring Lisbeth Salander.

Who wrote the original trilogy?

Lars... Niel... Lars...

Lars Nielssen.

Close. Stieg Larsson. Which former London police headquarters building

is said to have got its name because it stood on part of Whitehall Palace

reserved for Scottish royalty when they visited London?

Scotland Yard.

In Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, which creature does Alice

find sitting on top of a giant mushroom and smoking a hookah?

Rabbit.

Caterpillar. Who wrote the music and lyrics for the '60s musical Oliver?

Pass.

Which common metal with the chemical symbol Al

often has the second letter I omitted in the American spelling of its name?

Pass.

What name is given to trees that shed their leaves in winter

unlike evergreens that keep their leaves all year round?

Nevergreen.

Deciduous trees. Who played...

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..Inspector Morse's sidekick, Detective Sergeant Lewis,

who later had his own series after he had been promoted?

Taggart.

It was Kevin Whately.

But there we go. Look, two passes. Aluminium...

-Aluminium.

-..was that metal.

-Aluminum.

-Aluminum, aluminium.

And Lionel Bart wrote Oliver!

I wouldn't have got that right.

-You have a total now though, Conor, of 18 points.

-Thank you very much.

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And now Gary again, please.

And...

Can anybody tell a joke or is it true that it's the way you tell 'em?

Honestly, I think timing is a little bit of a myth.

People talk it up as being the epitome of everything.

I think the secret to timing is actually relatively simple.

You don't speak too fast, you do a little pause before the funny bit.

I don't think that's a great difficulty. The main thing about

being a comedian is just having the nerve to get up there and do it.

-If you can get through that...

-It can't be that simple.

Yeah, I genuinely think it is.

I think it's just... Just to make you practice.

As long as you can get up there then you can bang

-out some gags.

-Even people who we'd think of as just naturally funny?

I don't know, Ken Dodd or Eric Morecambe or somebody.

You know, you would assume that they've got that particular gift

of just being able to stand there and make people laugh.

They still had to learn it.

Lots of people are funny but you have to learn how to do

it on a stage, but that's just practice.

So I don't think it's as rare a skill as it...

I shouldn't say that. It's bad for business.

I was going to say... THEY TALK OVER EACH OTHER

-..very few of us who can do this.

-You should hire me and pay me a fortune.

-Well, exactly.

-But no, I genuinely think that pretty much any skill,

apart from maybe athletics where you have to be tall or strong,

pretty much anything else I think can be learnt.

There is one exception to that, general knowledge.

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-I'll draw an exception on that.

Well, we are about to find out, aren't we?

Here we go. General knowledge. Two minutes.

Texas Hold 'Em, Draw and Stud are forms of which gambling card game?

Poker.

The national emblems of Wales are the leek and which flower?

Pass.

Which British Formula One racing driver won his third World Championship in 2015?

Jenson Button.

Lewis Hamilton. By what name meaning Robert the Red was the

Scottish outlaw Robert MacGregor better known?

Pass.

Which system of writing for the visually impaired, first published in 1829,

consists of 63 characters, each made up of

one to six raised dots in a two-by-three cell?

Braille.

Sunny Afternoon, which won four Olivier Awards in 2015

including Best New Musical, is based on the music of which English pop group?

The Kinks.

My Animals And Other Family is the 2012 autobiography of which female

television presenter, journalist and retired amateur jockey?

Pass.

What name is given to the Sunday before Easter,

commemorating Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem?

Palm Sunday.

In a Charlotte Bronte novel, which character marries Mr Rochester, she was formerly

a governess at Thornfield Hall and taught Rochester's ward?

Pass.

The haka is a ceremonial dance performed by rugby

teams from which country at international matches?

New Zealand.

In which English national park does the Hardknott Pass,

with its Roman remains, look down on the Eskdale Valley?

Pass.

What word is used to describe a catchy song used to advertise a product

and is the surname of a character in Dickens' Pickwick Papers?

Jingle.

Which electronic system developed in the 1930s and 1940s uses radio waves

to find the distance and location of objects at sea and in air?

Radar.

Which beautiful woman in Greek mythology has been

described as having "a face that launched a thousand ships"?

Aphrodite.

Helen of Troy. In August 2015,

which Radio 1 DJ joined the judging panel of The X Factor?

Nick Grimshaw.

What word, particularly associated with Indian cuisine, comes from

the Tamil word for sauce?

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Curry.

Yeah, curry it is.

-Thank you.

-Your passes.

It's the Lake District in which the Hardknock Pass is.

Jane Eyre was the Charlotte Bronte novel.

-Clare Balding was that...

-Ah!

-Yeah, she's done everything, hasn't she?

Including being an amateur jockey.

Rob Roy is otherwise Robert the Red.

And shame on you, the leek and the daffodil.

I'm sorry. My apologies to Wales.

My next tour will not be going to Wales.

That's it if I've offended them.

Very wise. But, Gary, you've got 19 points.

Thank you very much.

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And finally, Simon again, please.

And...

Now then, this thing about voices.

-You played Mike the porter in Alan Partridge.

-Michael, yes.

-Michael the Geordie.

-Yeah. He was a Geordie.

-Aye.

Exactly. But you don't do Geordie.

-NEWCASTLE ACCENT:

-I'm not Geordie in real life, like.

-LAUGHING:

-No.

I can dae it if ye wanna dae it.

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I can dae it like easy.

Right.

That was just noise.

So look, what is the difference? Obviously you're a skilled actor.

What is the difference between being an impressionist

and an actor who can do voices the way you can do them?

-The money.

-LAUGHTER

-You mean they get more than you?

-Yes.

No, come on. What's the difference?

I don't really know the difference. It's a different...

It's to do with your ears. It's to do with hearing.

Impressionists are kind of a blank canvas and they can take people on.

Whereas doing character voices, you kind of invent the character

and then build the voice onto it.

So it's a different process. It's a slight tic in the brain.

-Anybody you can't do?

-Pffft!

I mean, some obviously are easier than others.

I'd really like to be able to do a good Northern Ireland accent.

-But I can't.

-You can't?

-No, I can't. I've tried.

-IRISH ACCENT:

-I've tried really hard but it's so difficult.

LAUGHTER

-Well, you had me fooled.

-Yeah. I'm not happy with it.

Like I say, you could have fooled me.

And that is the object of the exercise, isn't it?

Let's see if I can fool you now in general knowledge.

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All right. The score you've got to beat is 19.

You have at the moment 10.

Here we go. In whichever dialect you prefer.

Two minutes.

Which former England cricketer's nicknames include Beefy?

Ian Botham.

The musical of Mamma Mia is set on a Greek island

and features songs by which pop group?

ABBA.

In London, a red ball has been dropped every day at 1pm since 1833,

originally to set world time. Where in London?

Greenwich.

The first published example of what type of puzzle

appeared in 1913 in the New York World newspaper?

Crossword.

According to folklore, what breed of cat lost its tail when

Noah accidentally slammed the door of the Ark on it?

Manx.

Which actor starred as Worzel Gummidge in the '79-'81 TV series

and previously played at the third Doctor in Doctor Who?

Jon Pertwee.

Which American novelist first created Tarzan in 1912?

Jane Burroughs?

Edgar Rice Burroughs. In the Bible, to which people did

Uriah the first husband of Bathsheba belong?

The Canaanites.

Hittites. What part of the body are plates in Cockney rhyming slang?

Feet.

What name is given to one-60th part of an hour

or one-60th part of a degree in the measurement of latitude and longitude?

Second.

Minute. Which extremely large mammal is thought to be

the closest surviving land relative of the hyrax,

an African mammal that resembles a well-fed short-eared rabbit?

Pass.

Which British naval hero was killed at the Battle of Trafalgar in October 1805?

Nelson.

Which American state that borders Oregon and Idaho

lies at the north-western corner of the country?

Washington.

The 2015 film Legend tells the story of which pair of twins,

both played by Tom Hardy,

who became two of the most notorious gangsters in British history?

Krays.

The head of which animal was often served with an apple or

orange in its mouth at Olde English Christmas banquets?

A hog.

Or boar. Which 1951 JD Salinger novel begins with the line,

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably

"want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like."

Catcher In The Rye.

Who sang with Queen on their 1981 UK number one hit Under Pressure?

Pass.

In which Sheffield theatre is the World Professional Snooker Championship held?

The Crucible.

Which venomous creature...

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..particularly associated with desert areas has a pair of grasping pincers

and a segmented curved tail ending in a sting?

Scorpion.

Is correct. You had two passes.

David Bowie sang with Queen on Under Pressure.

And that very small mammal is very closely related to the elephant.

How about that?

You've scored a total, Simon, of 24 points.

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Well, a clear winner there. Let's have a look at the scores.

Fourth place, 12 points, Lisa Maxwell.

Third place, 18 points, Conor McNamara.

Second place, 19 points, Gary Delaney.

First place, 24 points, Simon Greenall.

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Simon.

-Congratulations.

-Thank you very much.

Tell me, what would a meerkat have said if it had won the prize?

Not simples, because it wasn't simples.

Yeah, but it's skill.

THEY LAUGH

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