0:00:23 > 0:00:27First in the spotlight tonight, the Game Of Thrones actor John Bradley.
0:00:27 > 0:00:29His specialist subject - Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31APPLAUSE
0:00:31 > 0:00:34Next, Olympic gold medal winner Crista Cullen.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36She'll be answering questions on African mammals.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38APPLAUSE
0:00:38 > 0:00:41The BBC Radio 1Xtra presenter Nick Bright
0:00:41 > 0:00:43takes as his subject UK grime.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45APPLAUSE
0:00:45 > 0:00:50And the Hollyoaks actress Anna Passey on Wilfred Owen.
0:00:50 > 0:00:52APPLAUSE
0:00:59 > 0:01:02Hello and welcome to Celebrity Mastermind
0:01:02 > 0:01:06with me, John Humphrys, and four brave souls who volunteered
0:01:06 > 0:01:09to risk their reputations in the black chair.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12It probably seemed a good idea at the time.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15Facing them, 90 seconds of questions on their specialist subject,
0:01:15 > 0:01:17two minutes on general knowledge,
0:01:17 > 0:01:19and all in the name of charity.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22So let's ask our first contender to join us, please.
0:01:28 > 0:01:29And your name is?
0:01:30 > 0:01:32Your chosen charity?
0:01:33 > 0:01:35And your chosen subject?
0:01:36 > 0:01:38In 90 seconds, starting now.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40What is the name of the actor who plays the belligerent Irish
0:01:40 > 0:01:43worker Magowan who Oz allows to move into the gang's hut
0:01:43 > 0:01:45in Dusseldorf when he's thrown out of the worker's hostel?
0:01:45 > 0:01:46- Michael Elphick.- Yep.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49In what British overseas territory are Barry and Oz
0:01:49 > 0:01:51shown working together at the start of Series 2?
0:01:51 > 0:01:52- The Falkland Islands.- Yep.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55The landlord Arthur Pringle runs a pub whose front door is bricked up
0:01:55 > 0:01:56by the boys because of the number
0:01:56 > 0:01:58of times he's refused to serve them. Which pub?
0:01:58 > 0:01:59- The Barley Mow.- Yes.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01Who plays the dodgy businessman Ally Fraser?
0:02:01 > 0:02:04He employs the gang to convert Thornley Manor,
0:02:04 > 0:02:05a listed building in Derbyshire,
0:02:05 > 0:02:06into a nursing home.
0:02:08 > 0:02:09- Bill Paterson?- Yep.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11What song does Oz sing at the country-western pub
0:02:11 > 0:02:14as a special guest artist called Big Willie Osborne
0:02:14 > 0:02:16- in the episode Cowboys in Series 2?- I ca...
0:02:16 > 0:02:17- Sorry. I Can't Be Myself. - Yep.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20What job is Dennis doing when he's summoned to Middlesbrough,
0:02:20 > 0:02:23ostensibly for Oz's funeral, at the start of Series 3?
0:02:23 > 0:02:24- Taxi driver.- Yep.
0:02:24 > 0:02:25In the episode Scoop,
0:02:25 > 0:02:28what society does Barry tell a nosy journalist
0:02:28 > 0:02:30the gang belonged to in order to maintain the pretence
0:02:30 > 0:02:32that they're in Malaga on holiday
0:02:32 > 0:02:33rather than to work?
0:02:33 > 0:02:35The journalist immediately suspects the gang
0:02:35 > 0:02:37of the so-called Sheffield Payroll robbers.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40- The Wolverhampton and District Aqualung Society.- Exactly.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43What is the name of the fussy manager of the building site
0:02:43 > 0:02:45in Dusseldorf, played by Michael Sheard?
0:02:45 > 0:02:46- Herr Grunwald.- Yep.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48At what quasi-religious festival does Barry eat
0:02:48 > 0:02:51a hallucinogenic herb whose effects cause him
0:02:51 > 0:02:53to crash the gang's van?
0:02:53 > 0:02:54Pass.
0:02:54 > 0:02:56What is Fidel Castro's valuable antique gift
0:02:56 > 0:02:58to the British Embassy that the boys
0:02:58 > 0:03:00have to collect from Fidel's country residence?
0:03:00 > 0:03:01- A painting?- No, a bath.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03In the episode Moonlighting,
0:03:03 > 0:03:04what animals do the boys bet on
0:03:04 > 0:03:06when they see them being raced in a form of roulette?
0:03:06 > 0:03:08Moxie gets one himself and calls it Seymour.
0:03:08 > 0:03:09- Cockroaches? - BEEP
0:03:09 > 0:03:11A guinea pig.
0:03:11 > 0:03:13- Oh!- I know! Difference, isn't there?
0:03:13 > 0:03:15Cockroaches, guinea pigs, yeah.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17John, you had one pass.
0:03:17 > 0:03:20That quasi-religious festival where Barry ate
0:03:20 > 0:03:23the dodgy drug was Santeria Festival.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25- Oh, OK. - You have scored eight points.
0:03:25 > 0:03:27OK, thank you.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29APPLAUSE
0:03:35 > 0:03:38And our next contender, please.
0:03:43 > 0:03:44And your name is?
0:03:46 > 0:03:47Your chosen charity?
0:03:48 > 0:03:50And your chosen subject?
0:03:51 > 0:03:53African mammals in 90 seconds, here we go.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56What name is given to mature male gorillas because of the colour
0:03:56 > 0:03:57that the middle of their backs,
0:03:57 > 0:03:59known as the saddle, become as they age?
0:03:59 > 0:04:00- Silverback.- Yep.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02Which burrowing members of the mongoose family that
0:04:02 > 0:04:04live in the dry regions of Southwest Africa
0:04:04 > 0:04:07have become famous for the upright stance they use
0:04:07 > 0:04:09to survey their surroundings for predators?
0:04:09 > 0:04:10- Meerkat.- Yep.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12Hook-lipped and square-lipped
0:04:12 > 0:04:14are alternative names for the two African species
0:04:14 > 0:04:15of what large mammal?
0:04:15 > 0:04:17- Rhinoceros.- Yep.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20The galagos are nocturnal primates with long tails,
0:04:20 > 0:04:23soft woolly fur and large forward-facing eyes and ears.
0:04:23 > 0:04:24What's their more common name?
0:04:24 > 0:04:25Pass.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27In what country are the Simian Mountains
0:04:27 > 0:04:29that are the home of very rare species
0:04:29 > 0:04:32such as the long-haired gelada baboon and
0:04:32 > 0:04:33the Walia ibex?
0:04:33 > 0:04:34- Ethiopia.- Yeah.
0:04:34 > 0:04:37Which animal whose basic diet consists of ants and termites
0:04:37 > 0:04:40has a long snout that ends in a hairy disc,
0:04:40 > 0:04:42robust limbs with spade-like claws
0:04:42 > 0:04:43for digging and tubular teeth?
0:04:43 > 0:04:45- Aardvark.- Yes.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47The okapi, the giraffe's sole living relative
0:04:47 > 0:04:50that was unknown to Western science until 1901,
0:04:50 > 0:04:51is found only in the rainforests
0:04:51 > 0:04:53in the upper regions of a major African river
0:04:53 > 0:04:55and its tributaries.
0:04:55 > 0:04:56Which river?
0:04:57 > 0:04:58- Nile.- The Congo.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01By what name of African origin is the pygmy chimpanzee,
0:05:01 > 0:05:03a native of the Central African rain forest,
0:05:03 > 0:05:04often known?
0:05:04 > 0:05:05- The Congo.- Bonobo.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07Which endangered species of zebra,
0:05:07 > 0:05:09native to East Africa,
0:05:09 > 0:05:10is the largest of the zebras?
0:05:10 > 0:05:12It's named after a president of France who received one
0:05:12 > 0:05:15in about 1882 as a present from the Emperor of Ethiopia.
0:05:15 > 0:05:16- Grevy's.- Yes.
0:05:16 > 0:05:17What sound made by humans
0:05:17 > 0:05:20has the shrill cry characteristically made
0:05:20 > 0:05:22by the spotted hyena been likened to?
0:05:22 > 0:05:24Pass.
0:05:24 > 0:05:25The caracal and the serval... BEEP
0:05:25 > 0:05:27..are found in many parts of Africa.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29Of what family are they members?
0:05:29 > 0:05:31Carnivores.
0:05:31 > 0:05:32The cat family.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34Um, you had a couple of passes.
0:05:34 > 0:05:39- The spotted hyena has a laugh or almost a giggle.- A cackle, yeah.
0:05:39 > 0:05:41Cackle, that'll do it.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44And, um, the galagos are bushbabies.
0:05:44 > 0:05:45- Oh.- Yeah, I know.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48Those very, very sweet things that everybody goes, "Aw!"
0:05:48 > 0:05:49They are bushbabies.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51- Crista, you've scored six points. - Thank you.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54APPLAUSE
0:06:00 > 0:06:02And our next contender, please.
0:06:09 > 0:06:10And your name is?
0:06:12 > 0:06:14Your chosen charity?
0:06:14 > 0:06:15And your chosen subject?
0:06:17 > 0:06:18UK grime in 90 seconds.
0:06:18 > 0:06:21What is the title of Dizzee Rascal's debut studio album that
0:06:21 > 0:06:23features the tracks Just A Rascal and Fix Up, Look Sharp?
0:06:23 > 0:06:25- Boy In The Corner.- Yep.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27What is the title of the compilation battle series
0:06:27 > 0:06:28released by Jammer?
0:06:28 > 0:06:29- Lord Of The Mics.- Yep.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32What's the name of the pirate radio station that provided
0:06:32 > 0:06:34a platform for grime music when it was founded
0:06:34 > 0:06:37by DJs Genius and Slimzee in 1994?
0:06:37 > 0:06:38- Rinse FM.- Yep.
0:06:38 > 0:06:42Which rapper released the song whose lyrics state that "if you're talkin' the hardest,"
0:06:42 > 0:06:44he'd "better pop up in your thoughts as an artist?"
0:06:44 > 0:06:45- Giggs.- Yep.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48Which Liberal Democrat MP is credited with helping to
0:06:48 > 0:06:50launch the career of Tinchy Stryder
0:06:50 > 0:06:53because he re-mortgaged his house to provide funds
0:06:53 > 0:06:55for his son to set up Takeover Entertainment,
0:06:55 > 0:06:56who managed Tinchy?
0:06:56 > 0:06:59Argh...
0:06:59 > 0:07:00It's Jack and Archie. Pass.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03Who's 2004 single Pow reached number 11
0:07:03 > 0:07:05in the UK's singles charts?
0:07:05 > 0:07:06- Lethal Bizzle.- Yep.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09What word refers to an early form of the grime genre
0:07:09 > 0:07:11and is used specifically in relation to the works of Wiley?
0:07:11 > 0:07:13It's based on the title of one of his records.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15- Eskimo.- Eski beat.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17Who founded the Boy Better Know collective
0:07:17 > 0:07:20and record label with his brother Jme in 2005?
0:07:20 > 0:07:21- Skepta.- Yep.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23Which grime MC released a video to his track
0:07:23 > 0:07:25I Can C U on Channel U
0:07:25 > 0:07:26that's considered one of the earliest
0:07:26 > 0:07:28grime music videos,
0:07:28 > 0:07:29along with Dizzee Rascal's I Love You
0:07:29 > 0:07:31and Wiley's What Do You Call It?
0:07:31 > 0:07:32- Crazy Titch.- Yep.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34Which English rapper has released albums called Home Sweet Home,
0:07:34 > 0:07:36London Town and Made In The Manor,
0:07:36 > 0:07:39all of which reached the top 40 of the UK album charts?
0:07:39 > 0:07:40- Kano.- Yep.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43Stormzy, Krept and Konan all grew up in which district
0:07:43 > 0:07:45in the London borough of Croydon?
0:07:45 > 0:07:47- Eh... Thornton Heath.- Yes. BEEP
0:07:47 > 0:07:48And that's it, we're out of time.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50You had one pass.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52It was Norman Lamb.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55That was the politician's name we were after, the Liberal MP.
0:07:55 > 0:07:56Nick, you've scored nine points.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59APPLAUSE
0:08:06 > 0:08:09And our final contender, please.
0:08:16 > 0:08:17And your name is?
0:08:18 > 0:08:20Your chosen charity?
0:08:20 > 0:08:22And your chosen subject?
0:08:24 > 0:08:27Wilfred Owen. The great Wilfred Owen in 90 seconds.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29Which poem was drafted while he was recovering from shell shock?
0:08:29 > 0:08:32It begins with an image of trudging soldiers
0:08:32 > 0:08:34"bent double like old beggars under sacks".
0:08:34 > 0:08:35- Dulce Et Decorum Est.- Yes.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37The Show begins with a misquoted epigraph
0:08:37 > 0:08:39from a play by an Irish poet
0:08:39 > 0:08:41who was a considerable influence on Owen, who was he?
0:08:41 > 0:08:42- WB Yeats.- Yes.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45Which poem about psychologically damaged veterans sitting
0:08:45 > 0:08:46in twilight in a hospital ward
0:08:46 > 0:08:48had a working title of The Deranged?
0:08:48 > 0:08:50- Mental Cases.- Yes.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52The eyes of a member of Owen's unit are described as
0:08:52 > 0:08:55"huge-bulged like squids" after he's blinded by a severe
0:08:55 > 0:08:57bombardment of the trench in which poem?
0:08:57 > 0:08:58- The Sentry.- Yes.
0:08:58 > 0:09:00Owen uses para - or half - rhymes,
0:09:00 > 0:09:02in his poem Strange Meeting,
0:09:02 > 0:09:03where he half rhymes groined
0:09:03 > 0:09:05with what word at the end of the next line?
0:09:07 > 0:09:10- Pass.- Which poem reflects on a dead soldier
0:09:10 > 0:09:12and begins with a wish to "move him into the sun"?
0:09:12 > 0:09:16- Futility.- In Owen's description of the long grass "swirled" by the breeze,
0:09:16 > 0:09:20he reveals the month that the Spring Offensive takes place. Which month?
0:09:20 > 0:09:22- May.- The poem that opens on a scene in which soldiers line
0:09:22 > 0:09:24the train on their way to the front ends with
0:09:24 > 0:09:28"too few for drums and yells" creeping back "up half-known roads"?
0:09:28 > 0:09:30Which poem?
0:09:30 > 0:09:32- The Send-Off.- Which creatures, seen on the ground from above
0:09:32 > 0:09:34in the poem The Show, "slowly uncoiled"
0:09:34 > 0:09:38and seemed to push "themselves to be as plugs of ditches"?
0:09:38 > 0:09:41- Caterpillars.- Which poem, written after Owen read accounts
0:09:41 > 0:09:43of the Minnie Pit Disaster of 1918, ends,
0:09:43 > 0:09:47"But they will not dream of us poor lads, lost in the ground"?
0:09:47 > 0:09:51- Miners.- In Disabled, what was the false age that the recruiting officers
0:09:51 > 0:09:54"smilingly" wrote on the young soldier's enlistment form?
0:09:54 > 0:09:58- 19.- Which ironically titled poem consists of three five-line stanzas...
0:09:58 > 0:10:00BEEP ..that all begin with the final
0:10:00 > 0:10:02exclamations of three anonymous soldiers
0:10:02 > 0:10:04as they're suddenly killed?
0:10:05 > 0:10:08- The Last Laugh. - Yes, The Last Laugh.
0:10:08 > 0:10:14You had one pass, that half-rhyme, "groined" and "groaned".
0:10:14 > 0:10:15Thank you.
0:10:15 > 0:10:19- But, Anna, you have scored 11 points.- Oh, wow. Thank you!
0:10:19 > 0:10:21APPLAUSE
0:10:30 > 0:10:33Well, a close first round. Let's have a look at all of the scores.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36In fourth place, six points, Crista.
0:10:36 > 0:10:38Third place, eight points, John.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40Second place, nine points, Nick.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42First place, 11 points, Anna.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52It's the general knowledge round now
0:10:52 > 0:10:53and if there's a tie at the end of it,
0:10:53 > 0:10:55then the number of passes is taken into account
0:10:55 > 0:10:58and the person with the fewer passes is the winner,
0:10:58 > 0:11:01so let us get on with it and ask Crista to join us again, please.
0:11:03 > 0:11:09And, Crista, impossible to think of you without that
0:11:09 > 0:11:13wonderful game which won us the gold medal.
0:11:13 > 0:11:15What has it done for the game of hockey?
0:11:15 > 0:11:18We've had an 80% increase in participation in our sport
0:11:18 > 0:11:20- off the back of the Olympic gold. - 80%?
0:11:20 > 0:11:22Yeah, with kids, boys and girls,
0:11:22 > 0:11:24and it's our job now to nurture that and make sure,
0:11:24 > 0:11:27but, you know, a lot of women's sports have been really successful -
0:11:27 > 0:11:30- rugby, football to name a few. - Yeah.- Cricket.
0:11:30 > 0:11:33You know, it's really important that we keep these kids playing
0:11:33 > 0:11:35hockey for as long as we possibly can, but I'm always
0:11:35 > 0:11:38encouraging them to do a bit of everything and enjoy themselves.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41When you're playing in a game like that, it is going to decide
0:11:41 > 0:11:43whether you win the gold or not,
0:11:43 > 0:11:47- do you approach it differently in any way at all?- No, not at all.
0:11:47 > 0:11:48We actually just do the same things.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50It sounds so monotonous, cos everyone is, like,
0:11:50 > 0:11:51"But it's the Olympic final!"
0:11:51 > 0:11:54But it was exactly that, we just literally rocked up,
0:11:54 > 0:11:55sat next to the same people on the bus,
0:11:55 > 0:11:58listened to the same music, prepared the same way,
0:11:58 > 0:12:00but the Dutch were obviously world number one
0:12:00 > 0:12:02and we were world number seven,
0:12:02 > 0:12:06so it was firmly in their court, and the way they played,
0:12:06 > 0:12:09obviously, they were the better team on the day, but we just were able
0:12:09 > 0:12:12to convert when we needed to in that sport, and I think we did well.
0:12:12 > 0:12:15Well, let's see how you do with this competition.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18You've got six points, plenty of time to catch up to the others...
0:12:18 > 0:12:21- Right.- ..because you've got two minutes of general knowledge starting now.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24On which London common did the Wombles live?
0:12:24 > 0:12:28- Wimbledon.- In what 2017 West End stage musical does Miranda Hart
0:12:28 > 0:12:30play the orphanage boss Ms Hannigan?
0:12:32 > 0:12:33- Anne Frank.- Annie.
0:12:33 > 0:12:37Which Canadian city takes its name from the 233-metre high Mount Royal
0:12:37 > 0:12:40that it was built up and around?
0:12:40 > 0:12:41- Ottawa.- Montreal.
0:12:41 > 0:12:45What word, originally used for someone who steers a ship out of port,
0:12:45 > 0:12:48is also used now for someone who operates the controls of an aircraft?
0:12:48 > 0:12:52- Captain.- Pilot. In what Olympic sport has the women's singles gold medal
0:12:52 > 0:12:54been won by Chinese competitors from its introduction
0:12:54 > 0:12:57in 1988 to the 2016 Rio Games?
0:12:57 > 0:12:58- Badminton.- Table tennis.
0:12:58 > 0:13:02The asteroid 2602, discovered in 1982,
0:13:02 > 0:13:05is named in honour of a very famous television presenter and astronomer.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07Who was he?
0:13:07 > 0:13:09- Richard Almond. - Patrick Moore.
0:13:09 > 0:13:12What name of African origin is given to the religion practised
0:13:12 > 0:13:15in many parts of the Caribbean, especially in Haiti, that combines
0:13:15 > 0:13:18elements of Roman Catholicism with traditional African rituals?
0:13:18 > 0:13:20- War dance.- Voodoo.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23Which mainline railway station was opened in 1852 as the London terminus
0:13:23 > 0:13:25of the Great Northern Railway?
0:13:25 > 0:13:28It serves destinations such as Leeds and York.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30- London.- King's Cross.
0:13:30 > 0:13:35The name of which form of musical entertainment means "works" in Italian?
0:13:35 > 0:13:39- Pass.- Who wrote the play Peter Pan, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up?
0:13:41 > 0:13:42- I've no idea.- JM Barrie.
0:13:42 > 0:13:46Which American composer's film scores include the Indiana Jones series,
0:13:46 > 0:13:49the Star Wars films and the first three Harry Potter films?
0:13:50 > 0:13:54- Pass.- Which film star, who was born in Paris in 1934, became
0:13:54 > 0:13:56an outspoken animal-rights activist and established
0:13:56 > 0:14:01an animal welfare organisation named after her in the 1980s?
0:14:02 > 0:14:03Erm...
0:14:03 > 0:14:05- Fossey.- Brigitte Bardot.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07Carol Decker was the vocalist with a popular '80s band
0:14:07 > 0:14:10who took their name from a Star Trek character. Which band?
0:14:12 > 0:14:13Pass.
0:14:13 > 0:14:15What blend of tea owes its distinctive flavour to the
0:14:15 > 0:14:19use of the oil of the bergamot, a small, acidic orange?
0:14:20 > 0:14:23- Tangerine.- Earl Grey. Tony Fletcher's 2017 book...
0:14:23 > 0:14:24BEEP ..In The Midnight Hour
0:14:24 > 0:14:26is a biography of which soul singer?
0:14:28 > 0:14:30Name a soul singer, any soul singer.
0:14:30 > 0:14:34- Tracy Chapman.- No, not quite. Wilson Pickett.
0:14:34 > 0:14:39Three passes, Crista. T'Pau was that popular '80s band.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42John Williams was the American composer who wrote
0:14:42 > 0:14:44the score for Indiana Jones, etc,
0:14:44 > 0:14:47and that form of musical entertainment
0:14:47 > 0:14:50that means "works" in Italian, opera. Opera.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52You've now got, Crista, seven points.
0:14:54 > 0:14:55APPLAUSE
0:15:04 > 0:15:06And now John again, please.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09And you start out, John, with eight points,
0:15:09 > 0:15:12and you are famous for Game Of Thrones
0:15:12 > 0:15:17and your character, Sam Tarly, who's one of the nice characters.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20Yeah, which isn't difficult, to be fair!
0:15:20 > 0:15:23No, that's true, they're a pretty tough lot, aren't they?
0:15:23 > 0:15:25Yeah, I think part of the reason of the success of the show is
0:15:25 > 0:15:28that all humanity is there.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30You get very, very bad people, you get good people,
0:15:30 > 0:15:33but you get a lot of people in the middle who are quite conflicting
0:15:33 > 0:15:35and I think that's true for most people.
0:15:35 > 0:15:38And most dramas these days... It's very rare you find a drama
0:15:38 > 0:15:41where you 100% like or dislike somebody.
0:15:41 > 0:15:43There's conflict with all of them.
0:15:43 > 0:15:47And your success was really quite extraordinary.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49I mean, you'd hardly left drama school.
0:15:49 > 0:15:52I auditioned for the show, the first round of auditions,
0:15:52 > 0:15:55while I was at drama school and then it was my first job when I got out.
0:15:55 > 0:15:59People say, "Were you nervous auditioning for a big show like that as your first audition?"
0:15:59 > 0:16:02But I would have been nervous no matter what the audition was.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04Right, well, in this game, you've got eight points
0:16:04 > 0:16:06and you've now got two minutes of general knowledge.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08- OK.- Let's see what you do with that. Here we go.
0:16:08 > 0:16:10In the Bible, who built an ark
0:16:10 > 0:16:13and took on board pairs of animals to escape the Flood?
0:16:13 > 0:16:16- Noah.- Which stage and film musical by Lerner and Loewe is an adaptation
0:16:16 > 0:16:19of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion?
0:16:19 > 0:16:22- My Fair Lady.- What name, popularised in a wartime song, is given to the
0:16:22 > 0:16:25line of chalk cliffs where the North Downs meet the English Channel?
0:16:25 > 0:16:27White Cliffs of Dover.
0:16:27 > 0:16:30Whose work of art Impression, Sunrise, painted at Le Havre in 1872,
0:16:30 > 0:16:33gave the Impressionist movement its name?
0:16:33 > 0:16:36- Pass. - What six-a-side game that developed in Canada is
0:16:36 > 0:16:40divided into three 20-minute periods with each period started by a face-off?
0:16:42 > 0:16:44- Netball.- Ice hockey.
0:16:44 > 0:16:48Aoraki is the original Maori name for a mountain in New Zealand's Southern Alps.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50- Which mountain?- Pass.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53On which planet, named after a goddess, do the main geographical features
0:16:53 > 0:16:56have the names of real or mythological women?
0:16:56 > 0:16:59- Venus.- What term for an equestrian event, typically for children,
0:16:59 > 0:17:02comes from a Hindi or Urdu word for "ball house"?
0:17:02 > 0:17:06- Gymkhana.- What cocktail is often said to have got its name from the tool
0:17:06 > 0:17:09used to stir it after vodka had been added to canned orange juice?
0:17:09 > 0:17:14- Screwdriver.- What is the title of Ed Sheeran's chart-topping 2017 album?
0:17:14 > 0:17:17Tracks from it filled nine of the top ten places in the singles chart.
0:17:19 > 0:17:23- Pass!- What type of small, hairy-footed creature is Bilbo Baggins,
0:17:23 > 0:17:24created by JRR Tolkien?
0:17:24 > 0:17:28- Hobbit.- Robin Williams and Pam Dawber played the title characters
0:17:28 > 0:17:31in a television comedy series about an alien living in America. What's it called?
0:17:31 > 0:17:32Mork and Mindy.
0:17:32 > 0:17:36Of which African country was Robert Mugabe the first Prime Minister
0:17:36 > 0:17:38from 1980 to 1987 when he became Executive President?
0:17:42 > 0:17:45- Zimbabwe.- The name of what period of the Christian church calendar
0:17:45 > 0:17:48that leads up to Christmas comes from the Latin for "arrival"?
0:17:48 > 0:17:51- Advent.- Who wrote The Dark Tower series of novels?
0:17:51 > 0:17:53He's famous for writing horror fiction.
0:17:53 > 0:17:54- Philip Pullman. - Stephen King.
0:17:54 > 0:17:57What's the title of the Scottish song which is traditionally sung
0:17:57 > 0:18:00at midnight on New Year's Eve in many English-speaking countries?
0:18:00 > 0:18:03- Auld Lang Syne.- Which Scottish comedian stars as a former lawyer turned
0:18:03 > 0:18:07fisherman called Steve Myers in the 2001 film The Man Who Sued God?
0:18:07 > 0:18:08- BEEP - Billy Connolly.
0:18:08 > 0:18:11Billy Connolly is correct. And you had three passes.
0:18:11 > 0:18:16- OK.- The title of that Ed Sheeran album, the big one, was Divide.
0:18:16 > 0:18:18- Divide, yeah.- Yeah, you knew it.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21Aoraki is the Maori name for Mount Cook,
0:18:21 > 0:18:26- and Monet was the Impressionist in the question.- Of course, yeah.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29- But, John, you've now got a total of 20 points.- Thank you.
0:18:29 > 0:18:30APPLAUSE
0:18:39 > 0:18:41And now Nick again, please.
0:18:42 > 0:18:48- You are the expert on grime. - I wouldn't go that far.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50- I know my stuff.- Well, it's all relative, isn't it?
0:18:50 > 0:18:54Give me and all our viewers the bluffer's guide to grime.
0:18:54 > 0:18:58It's music that was made by people in their bedrooms through
0:18:58 > 0:19:01frustration, not getting supported anywhere else.
0:19:01 > 0:19:05There was UK garage, which people may know or may not know,
0:19:05 > 0:19:09it's kind of like a dance music genre, but that was more about kind
0:19:09 > 0:19:11of blingy things, champagne, nightclubs,
0:19:11 > 0:19:13whereas grime is more about...
0:19:13 > 0:19:17- Street?- Yeah, council estates and kids with no money.
0:19:17 > 0:19:20But you're not meant to hum along with it, are you, really?
0:19:20 > 0:19:23- Well, I find myself doing it in my car quite a bit, you know.- Do you?
0:19:23 > 0:19:26- Give us a bit, go on. Give us a bit of grime.- You want me to sing on TV?
0:19:26 > 0:19:28- Yeah!- Well, not really sing. - Go on, just give us a flavour.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30I'll do the start of Too Many Man.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32# Shorty, yeah, I rep BBK
0:19:32 > 0:19:33# Monday to Sunday, I'm like BBK
0:19:33 > 0:19:35# Jme, Skepta, Wiley, Frisco,
0:19:35 > 0:19:37# Maximum, yeah, that's BBK
0:19:37 > 0:19:39# Add me to the list, that's BBK
0:19:39 > 0:19:41# Can't forget Sam, that's BBK
0:19:41 > 0:19:42# I've seen a lot of guys doing this ting
0:19:42 > 0:19:45# But none of them flex like BBK. #
0:19:45 > 0:19:48APPLAUSE Yeah!
0:19:51 > 0:19:55- Do you know what? I'm not going to try to top that.- I was about to ask!
0:19:55 > 0:20:01No! No. Brilliant. Thank you for that. You've got nine points.
0:20:01 > 0:20:02In this particular game, Nick,
0:20:02 > 0:20:04let's see how you do with your general knowledge.
0:20:04 > 0:20:0620 is the score to beat as it stands. Here we go.
0:20:06 > 0:20:11In which American state is Houston the largest city and Austin the capital?
0:20:11 > 0:20:14- Texas.- What's the name of Bertie Wooster's resourceful manservant
0:20:14 > 0:20:16in the stories by PG Wodehouse?
0:20:16 > 0:20:19- Pass.- What vegetable, known in America as zucchini,
0:20:19 > 0:20:23is a variety of marrow usually eaten when it's young and immature?
0:20:23 > 0:20:26- Courgette.- Which of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas is set in Cornwall
0:20:26 > 0:20:29and has the alternative title The Slave Of Duty?
0:20:29 > 0:20:32- Pass.- What name for someone who typically installs
0:20:32 > 0:20:33and mends pipes for the supply of water,
0:20:33 > 0:20:37gas and household drainage originally meant a worker in lead?
0:20:37 > 0:20:40- Plumber.- Who won the Best Actress Oscar in 2002 for her role in the film
0:20:40 > 0:20:43Monster's Ball as the wife of an executed prisoner?
0:20:43 > 0:20:45Oh, I know that...
0:20:45 > 0:20:48- Pass.- What popular term for the entrance to heaven
0:20:48 > 0:20:51has its origin in chapter 21, verse 21 of the Book of Revelation?
0:20:51 > 0:20:53Er, the gates of heaven.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55- Pearly Gates.- Pearly Gates.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57Under what pen name has Harry Patterson written thrillers
0:20:57 > 0:20:59such as The Eagle Has Landed?
0:20:59 > 0:21:03- Pass.- Which American singer and songwriter had a third UK number one album
0:21:03 > 0:21:06in August 2017 with Lust For Life?
0:21:08 > 0:21:11- Pass.- What is the title of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical
0:21:11 > 0:21:14based on a 2003 film in which a musician called Dewey Finn
0:21:14 > 0:21:18poses as a substitute teacher at a prestigious prep school
0:21:18 > 0:21:20and tries to turn a class of students into a successful band?
0:21:20 > 0:21:25- School Of Rock.- What sculpture by Rodin was inspired by the passionate love affair
0:21:25 > 0:21:29between Francesca da Rimini and her husband's brother Paolo Malatesta?
0:21:29 > 0:21:31- The statue of David. - The Kiss.
0:21:31 > 0:21:37What painful condition of the toe, especially the big toe, is known as onychocryptosis?
0:21:37 > 0:21:40- Ingrown toenail.- What name is given to the flexible stick strung with fibres that
0:21:40 > 0:21:44produces sound when it is drawn across the strings of a musical instrument?
0:21:47 > 0:21:48It's a bow.
0:21:48 > 0:21:52Which river that rises in the Andes and flows into the Atlantic Ocean
0:21:52 > 0:21:55is the largest in South America and one of the longest in the world?
0:21:55 > 0:21:58- Oh, erm... I know this. Pass. - Who was announced as the first woman to play
0:21:58 > 0:22:02the Doctor in the Doctor Who television series in July 2017?
0:22:02 > 0:22:03- Anna Foster.- Jodie Whittaker.
0:22:03 > 0:22:06The name of which Apache chieftain was used as a battle cry...
0:22:06 > 0:22:08BEEP ..by American paratroopers
0:22:08 > 0:22:10leaping from their aircraft in the Second World War?
0:22:13 > 0:22:15- You'll be cross.- I will be.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17All right. "Geronimo!"
0:22:17 > 0:22:20- Ah!- Yes.- Geronimo. - There you go.
0:22:20 > 0:22:23The other passes, Amazon is the big river,
0:22:23 > 0:22:27- Lana Del Rey was the American singer and songwriter, which you knew.- Yep.
0:22:27 > 0:22:29Jack Higgins wrote The Eagle Has Landed,
0:22:29 > 0:22:33Halle Berry won the Best Actress Oscar for Monster's Ball,
0:22:33 > 0:22:36Pirates Of Penzance was the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta,
0:22:36 > 0:22:41and Jeeves was the name of Bertie Wooster's resourceful manservant.
0:22:41 > 0:22:44You've now got a total, Nick, of 15 points.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47APPLAUSE
0:22:54 > 0:22:55And finally, Anna again, please.
0:22:57 > 0:22:58And, erm...
0:22:59 > 0:23:04..you play the bad... Well, I don't know whether she's a bad person...
0:23:04 > 0:23:07- She is.- ..but she's not very nice, is she, in Hollyoaks?
0:23:07 > 0:23:08No, she's a bit of a villain.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11I imagine it's more fun playing a villain, isn't it?
0:23:11 > 0:23:13Yeah, everyone says it is and it definitely is,
0:23:13 > 0:23:17especially in a soap, you get the soapy storylines,
0:23:17 > 0:23:20you get to do the really awful things that you're not allowed
0:23:20 > 0:23:23to do in real life for your job, so, yeah, it's a lot of fun.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26And Hollyoaks, presumably, is going to go on for ever? It seems to be...
0:23:26 > 0:23:29- Yeah, it seems to be. - ..doing the business.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32It's been going for 21 or 22 years, I can't remember.
0:23:32 > 0:23:34- Before you were born.- Yeah. And it's... Well...
0:23:34 > 0:23:37- HE CHUCKLES - Yeah, and it's going from strength to strength,
0:23:37 > 0:23:39- so I don't see why it would go anywhere.- Good.
0:23:39 > 0:23:44- Now, then, you have 11 points.- Yes. - The score to beat is 20.- OK.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46Let's see if you can do it.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49Here we go with your general knowledge questions.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52Which river separates Liverpool from Birkenhead and Wallasey?
0:23:52 > 0:23:55- The Mersey.- What sign of the zodiac is represented as a ram
0:23:55 > 0:23:59and marks the beginning of the astrological year on about the 21st of March?
0:23:59 > 0:24:03- Taurus.- Aries. Which group's album Relaxer was shortlisted
0:24:03 > 0:24:07for the 2017 Mercury Music Prize? They won the award in 2012.
0:24:07 > 0:24:11- Alt-J.- Who became the first British cyclist to win the Vuelta a Espana
0:24:11 > 0:24:15in September 2017 and only the third rider to win the Tour de France
0:24:15 > 0:24:17and the Vuelta in the same year?
0:24:17 > 0:24:20- Mr Cycleman.- Chris Froome.
0:24:20 > 0:24:24Rhinology is a branch of medicine concerned with what part of the body?
0:24:24 > 0:24:26Mmm...
0:24:26 > 0:24:28- The...nose.- Yes!
0:24:28 > 0:24:32Which American actress, born in 1994, appeared in The Twilight Saga,
0:24:32 > 0:24:35The War Of The Worlds and American Pastoral?
0:24:35 > 0:24:37- Kristen Stewart. - Dakota Fanning.
0:24:37 > 0:24:41In what musical do Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly end up forming a joint nightclub act?
0:24:41 > 0:24:45- Chicago.- Which game, played on a mat with small plastic discs is
0:24:45 > 0:24:46started with a squidge-off?
0:24:46 > 0:24:51- Tiddlywinks.- An Orcadian is a native inhabitant of which islands?
0:24:51 > 0:24:54- Pass.- What pasta, made in the form of narrow ribbons,
0:24:54 > 0:24:57takes its name from the Italian for "little tongues"?
0:24:57 > 0:24:58- Tagliatelle.- Linguine.
0:24:58 > 0:25:01Whose 2017 novel A Legacy Of Spies features the
0:25:01 > 0:25:04former spy master George Smiley?
0:25:04 > 0:25:06- Dan Brown.- John le Carre.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09What work did Handel compose for an outdoor festival ordered by George II
0:25:09 > 0:25:14in 1749 to celebrate the end of the War of the Austrian Succession?
0:25:14 > 0:25:19- Pass.- Who appeared in a vision several times in 1858 to 14-year-old
0:25:19 > 0:25:23Bernadette Soubirous in a grotto on the banks of the River Gave de Pau near Lourdes?
0:25:23 > 0:25:28- Pass.- Who is the new host of the television dating game show Blind Date,
0:25:28 > 0:25:30which was revived in 2017?
0:25:30 > 0:25:33Oh, I'm going to kick myself, but I don't know. Pass.
0:25:33 > 0:25:37What features of country houses did Capability Brown famously design?
0:25:37 > 0:25:41- Pass.- Which large, flightless bird appears on the Australian coat of arms
0:25:41 > 0:25:43opposite the kangaroo?
0:25:43 > 0:25:45- An ostrich.- Emu, close.
0:25:45 > 0:25:49After which British monarch was the American state of Virginia named?
0:25:49 > 0:25:50- James I. - BEEP
0:25:50 > 0:25:54- Elizabeth I. - Mm.- Yeah, I know.
0:25:54 > 0:25:57There you go, five passes altogether, Anna.
0:25:57 > 0:25:59Capability Brown was famous for his landscape gardens,
0:25:59 > 0:26:03- Paul O'Grady is famous for Blind Date...- Of course.- ..as you know.
0:26:03 > 0:26:08The Virgin Mary appeared to Bernadette in that grotto,
0:26:08 > 0:26:11Music For The Royal Fireworks was the piece that Handel wrote,
0:26:11 > 0:26:15and if you're an Orcadian, you come from the Orkneys.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18- You have scored, Anna, 16 points.- Thank you.
0:26:18 > 0:26:19APPLAUSE
0:26:28 > 0:26:32So, we have a clear winner. Let's have a look at all of those scores.
0:26:32 > 0:26:33In fourth place with seven points, Crista.
0:26:33 > 0:26:36Third place, 15 points, Nick.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38Second place, 16 points, Anna.
0:26:38 > 0:26:40First place, 20 points, John.
0:26:43 > 0:26:44APPLAUSE
0:26:55 > 0:26:59- Well done.- Thank you very much. - I must say...- Beautiful.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02Tempting to say all of those awards Game Of Thrones has won,
0:27:02 > 0:27:04- how does that compare? - This is the one that matters!
0:27:06 > 0:27:07- Really?- This is the one.
0:27:07 > 0:27:11I think it's the first solo award I've ever won in my life.
0:27:11 > 0:27:14- It's a good start.- Anyway, well done, congratulations.- Thank you.
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