Episode 3 Celebrity Mastermind

First in the spotlight tonight, the Game Of Thrones actor John Bradley.

His specialist subject - Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.

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Next, Olympic gold medal winner Crista Cullen.

She'll be answering questions on African mammals.

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The BBC Radio 1Xtra presenter Nick Bright

takes as his subject UK grime.

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And the Hollyoaks actress Anna Passey on Wilfred Owen.

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Hello and welcome to Celebrity Mastermind

with me, John Humphrys, and four brave souls who volunteered

to risk their reputations in the black chair.

It probably seemed a good idea at the time.

Facing them, 90 seconds of questions on their specialist subject,

two minutes on general knowledge,

and all in the name of charity.

So let's ask our first contender to join us, please.

And your name is?

Your chosen charity?

And your chosen subject?

In 90 seconds, starting now.

What is the name of the actor who plays the belligerent Irish

worker Magowan who Oz allows to move into the gang's hut

in Dusseldorf when he's thrown out of the worker's hostel?

-Michael Elphick.

-Yep.

In what British overseas territory are Barry and Oz

shown working together at the start of Series 2?

-The Falkland Islands.

-Yep.

The landlord Arthur Pringle runs a pub whose front door is bricked up

by the boys because of the number

of times he's refused to serve them. Which pub?

-The Barley Mow.

-Yes.

Who plays the dodgy businessman Ally Fraser?

He employs the gang to convert Thornley Manor,

a listed building in Derbyshire,

into a nursing home.

-Bill Paterson?

-Yep.

What song does Oz sing at the country-western pub

as a special guest artist called Big Willie Osborne

-in the episode Cowboys in Series 2?

-I ca...

-Sorry. I Can't Be Myself.

-Yep.

What job is Dennis doing when he's summoned to Middlesbrough,

ostensibly for Oz's funeral, at the start of Series 3?

-Taxi driver.

-Yep.

In the episode Scoop,

what society does Barry tell a nosy journalist

the gang belonged to in order to maintain the pretence

that they're in Malaga on holiday

rather than to work?

The journalist immediately suspects the gang

of the so-called Sheffield Payroll robbers.

-The Wolverhampton and District Aqualung Society.

-Exactly.

What is the name of the fussy manager of the building site

in Dusseldorf, played by Michael Sheard?

-Herr Grunwald.

-Yep.

At what quasi-religious festival does Barry eat

a hallucinogenic herb whose effects cause him

to crash the gang's van?

Pass.

What is Fidel Castro's valuable antique gift

to the British Embassy that the boys

have to collect from Fidel's country residence?

-A painting?

-No, a bath.

In the episode Moonlighting,

what animals do the boys bet on

when they see them being raced in a form of roulette?

Moxie gets one himself and calls it Seymour.

-Cockroaches?

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A guinea pig.

-Oh!

-I know! Difference, isn't there?

Cockroaches, guinea pigs, yeah.

John, you had one pass.

That quasi-religious festival where Barry ate

the dodgy drug was Santeria Festival.

-Oh, OK.

-You have scored eight points.

OK, thank you.

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And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Your chosen charity?

And your chosen subject?

African mammals in 90 seconds, here we go.

What name is given to mature male gorillas because of the colour

that the middle of their backs,

known as the saddle, become as they age?

-Silverback.

-Yep.

Which burrowing members of the mongoose family that

live in the dry regions of Southwest Africa

have become famous for the upright stance they use

to survey their surroundings for predators?

-Meerkat.

-Yep.

Hook-lipped and square-lipped

are alternative names for the two African species

of what large mammal?

-Rhinoceros.

-Yep.

The galagos are nocturnal primates with long tails,

soft woolly fur and large forward-facing eyes and ears.

What's their more common name?

Pass.

In what country are the Simian Mountains

that are the home of very rare species

such as the long-haired gelada baboon and

the Walia ibex?

-Ethiopia.

-Yeah.

Which animal whose basic diet consists of ants and termites

has a long snout that ends in a hairy disc,

robust limbs with spade-like claws

for digging and tubular teeth?

-Aardvark.

-Yes.

The okapi, the giraffe's sole living relative

that was unknown to Western science until 1901,

is found only in the rainforests

in the upper regions of a major African river

and its tributaries.

Which river?

-Nile.

-The Congo.

By what name of African origin is the pygmy chimpanzee,

a native of the Central African rain forest,

often known?

-The Congo.

-Bonobo.

Which endangered species of zebra,

native to East Africa,

is the largest of the zebras?

It's named after a president of France who received one

in about 1882 as a present from the Emperor of Ethiopia.

-Grevy's.

-Yes.

What sound made by humans

has the shrill cry characteristically made

by the spotted hyena been likened to?

Pass.

The caracal and the serval... BEEP

..are found in many parts of Africa.

Of what family are they members?

Carnivores.

The cat family.

Um, you had a couple of passes.

-The spotted hyena has a laugh or almost a giggle.

-A cackle, yeah.

Cackle, that'll do it.

And, um, the galagos are bushbabies.

-Oh.

-Yeah, I know.

Those very, very sweet things that everybody goes, "Aw!"

They are bushbabies.

-Crista, you've scored six points.

-Thank you.

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And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Your chosen charity?

And your chosen subject?

UK grime in 90 seconds.

What is the title of Dizzee Rascal's debut studio album that

features the tracks Just A Rascal and Fix Up, Look Sharp?

-Boy In The Corner.

-Yep.

What is the title of the compilation battle series

released by Jammer?

-Lord Of The Mics.

-Yep.

What's the name of the pirate radio station that provided

a platform for grime music when it was founded

by DJs Genius and Slimzee in 1994?

-Rinse FM.

-Yep.

Which rapper released the song whose lyrics state that "if you're talkin' the hardest,"

he'd "better pop up in your thoughts as an artist?"

-Giggs.

-Yep.

Which Liberal Democrat MP is credited with helping to

launch the career of Tinchy Stryder

because he re-mortgaged his house to provide funds

for his son to set up Takeover Entertainment,

who managed Tinchy?

Argh...

It's Jack and Archie. Pass.

Who's 2004 single Pow reached number 11

in the UK's singles charts?

-Lethal Bizzle.

-Yep.

What word refers to an early form of the grime genre

and is used specifically in relation to the works of Wiley?

It's based on the title of one of his records.

-Eskimo.

-Eski beat.

Who founded the Boy Better Know collective

and record label with his brother Jme in 2005?

-Skepta.

-Yep.

Which grime MC released a video to his track

I Can C U on Channel U

that's considered one of the earliest

grime music videos,

along with Dizzee Rascal's I Love You

and Wiley's What Do You Call It?

-Crazy Titch.

-Yep.

Which English rapper has released albums called Home Sweet Home,

London Town and Made In The Manor,

all of which reached the top 40 of the UK album charts?

-Kano.

-Yep.

Stormzy, Krept and Konan all grew up in which district

in the London borough of Croydon?

-Eh... Thornton Heath.

-Yes. BEEP

And that's it, we're out of time.

You had one pass.

It was Norman Lamb.

That was the politician's name we were after, the Liberal MP.

Nick, you've scored nine points.

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And our final contender, please.

And your name is?

Your chosen charity?

And your chosen subject?

Wilfred Owen. The great Wilfred Owen in 90 seconds.

Which poem was drafted while he was recovering from shell shock?

It begins with an image of trudging soldiers

"bent double like old beggars under sacks".

-Dulce Et Decorum Est.

-Yes.

The Show begins with a misquoted epigraph

from a play by an Irish poet

who was a considerable influence on Owen, who was he?

-WB Yeats.

-Yes.

Which poem about psychologically damaged veterans sitting

in twilight in a hospital ward

had a working title of The Deranged?

-Mental Cases.

-Yes.

The eyes of a member of Owen's unit are described as

"huge-bulged like squids" after he's blinded by a severe

bombardment of the trench in which poem?

-The Sentry.

-Yes.

Owen uses para - or half - rhymes,

in his poem Strange Meeting,

where he half rhymes groined

with what word at the end of the next line?

-Pass.

-Which poem reflects on a dead soldier

and begins with a wish to "move him into the sun"?

-Futility.

-In Owen's description of the long grass "swirled" by the breeze,

he reveals the month that the Spring Offensive takes place. Which month?

-May.

-The poem that opens on a scene in which soldiers line

the train on their way to the front ends with

"too few for drums and yells" creeping back "up half-known roads"?

Which poem?

-The Send-Off.

-Which creatures, seen on the ground from above

in the poem The Show, "slowly uncoiled"

and seemed to push "themselves to be as plugs of ditches"?

-Caterpillars.

-Which poem, written after Owen read accounts

of the Minnie Pit Disaster of 1918, ends,

"But they will not dream of us poor lads, lost in the ground"?

-Miners.

-In Disabled, what was the false age that the recruiting officers

"smilingly" wrote on the young soldier's enlistment form?

-19.

-Which ironically titled poem consists of three five-line stanzas...

BEEP ..that all begin with the final

exclamations of three anonymous soldiers

as they're suddenly killed?

-The Last Laugh.

-Yes, The Last Laugh.

You had one pass, that half-rhyme, "groined" and "groaned".

Thank you.

-But, Anna, you have scored 11 points.

-Oh, wow. Thank you!

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Well, a close first round. Let's have a look at all of the scores.

In fourth place, six points, Crista.

Third place, eight points, John.

Second place, nine points, Nick.

First place, 11 points, Anna.

It's the general knowledge round now

and if there's a tie at the end of it,

then the number of passes is taken into account

and the person with the fewer passes is the winner,

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

And, Crista, impossible to think of you without that

wonderful game which won us the gold medal.

What has it done for the game of hockey?

We've had an 80% increase in participation in our sport

-off the back of the Olympic gold.

-80%?

Yeah, with kids, boys and girls,

and it's our job now to nurture that and make sure,

but, you know, a lot of women's sports have been really successful -

-rugby, football to name a few.

-Yeah.

-Cricket.

You know, it's really important that we keep these kids playing

hockey for as long as we possibly can, but I'm always

encouraging them to do a bit of everything and enjoy themselves.

When you're playing in a game like that, it is going to decide

whether you win the gold or not,

-do you approach it differently in any way at all?

-No, not at all.

We actually just do the same things.

It sounds so monotonous, cos everyone is, like,

"But it's the Olympic final!"

But it was exactly that, we just literally rocked up,

sat next to the same people on the bus,

listened to the same music, prepared the same way,

but the Dutch were obviously world number one

and we were world number seven,

so it was firmly in their court, and the way they played,

obviously, they were the better team on the day, but we just were able

to convert when we needed to in that sport, and I think we did well.

Well, let's see how you do with this competition.

You've got six points, plenty of time to catch up to the others...

-Right.

-..because you've got two minutes of general knowledge starting now.

On which London common did the Wombles live?

-Wimbledon.

-In what 2017 West End stage musical does Miranda Hart

play the orphanage boss Ms Hannigan?

-Anne Frank.

-Annie.

Which Canadian city takes its name from the 233-metre high Mount Royal

that it was built up and around?

-Ottawa.

-Montreal.

What word, originally used for someone who steers a ship out of port,

is also used now for someone who operates the controls of an aircraft?

-Captain.

-Pilot. In what Olympic sport has the women's singles gold medal

been won by Chinese competitors from its introduction

in 1988 to the 2016 Rio Games?

-Badminton.

-Table tennis.

The asteroid 2602, discovered in 1982,

is named in honour of a very famous television presenter and astronomer.

Who was he?

-Richard Almond.

-Patrick Moore.

What name of African origin is given to the religion practised

in many parts of the Caribbean, especially in Haiti, that combines

elements of Roman Catholicism with traditional African rituals?

-War dance.

-Voodoo.

Which mainline railway station was opened in 1852 as the London terminus

of the Great Northern Railway?

It serves destinations such as Leeds and York.

-London.

-King's Cross.

The name of which form of musical entertainment means "works" in Italian?

-Pass.

-Who wrote the play Peter Pan, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up?

-I've no idea.

-JM Barrie.

Which American composer's film scores include the Indiana Jones series,

the Star Wars films and the first three Harry Potter films?

-Pass.

-Which film star, who was born in Paris in 1934, became

an outspoken animal-rights activist and established

an animal welfare organisation named after her in the 1980s?

Erm...

-Fossey.

-Brigitte Bardot.

Carol Decker was the vocalist with a popular '80s band

who took their name from a Star Trek character. Which band?

Pass.

What blend of tea owes its distinctive flavour to the

use of the oil of the bergamot, a small, acidic orange?

-Tangerine.

-Earl Grey. Tony Fletcher's 2017 book...

BEEP ..In The Midnight Hour

is a biography of which soul singer?

Name a soul singer, any soul singer.

-Tracy Chapman.

-No, not quite. Wilson Pickett.

Three passes, Crista. T'Pau was that popular '80s band.

John Williams was the American composer who wrote

the score for Indiana Jones, etc,

and that form of musical entertainment

that means "works" in Italian, opera. Opera.

You've now got, Crista, seven points.

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And now John again, please.

And you start out, John, with eight points,

and you are famous for Game Of Thrones

and your character, Sam Tarly, who's one of the nice characters.

Yeah, which isn't difficult, to be fair!

No, that's true, they're a pretty tough lot, aren't they?

Yeah, I think part of the reason of the success of the show is

that all humanity is there.

You get very, very bad people, you get good people,

but you get a lot of people in the middle who are quite conflicting

and I think that's true for most people.

And most dramas these days... It's very rare you find a drama

where you 100% like or dislike somebody.

There's conflict with all of them.

And your success was really quite extraordinary.

I mean, you'd hardly left drama school.

I auditioned for the show, the first round of auditions,

while I was at drama school and then it was my first job when I got out.

People say, "Were you nervous auditioning for a big show like that as your first audition?"

But I would have been nervous no matter what the audition was.

Right, well, in this game, you've got eight points

and you've now got two minutes of general knowledge.

-OK.

-Let's see what you do with that. Here we go.

In the Bible, who built an ark

and took on board pairs of animals to escape the Flood?

-Noah.

-Which stage and film musical by Lerner and Loewe is an adaptation

of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion?

-My Fair Lady.

-What name, popularised in a wartime song, is given to the

line of chalk cliffs where the North Downs meet the English Channel?

White Cliffs of Dover.

Whose work of art Impression, Sunrise, painted at Le Havre in 1872,

gave the Impressionist movement its name?

-Pass.

-What six-a-side game that developed in Canada is

divided into three 20-minute periods with each period started by a face-off?

-Netball.

-Ice hockey.

Aoraki is the original Maori name for a mountain in New Zealand's Southern Alps.

-Which mountain?

-Pass.

On which planet, named after a goddess, do the main geographical features

have the names of real or mythological women?

-Venus.

-What term for an equestrian event, typically for children,

comes from a Hindi or Urdu word for "ball house"?

-Gymkhana.

-What cocktail is often said to have got its name from the tool

used to stir it after vodka had been added to canned orange juice?

-Screwdriver.

-What is the title of Ed Sheeran's chart-topping 2017 album?

Tracks from it filled nine of the top ten places in the singles chart.

-Pass!

-What type of small, hairy-footed creature is Bilbo Baggins,

created by JRR Tolkien?

-Hobbit.

-Robin Williams and Pam Dawber played the title characters

in a television comedy series about an alien living in America. What's it called?

Mork and Mindy.

Of which African country was Robert Mugabe the first Prime Minister

from 1980 to 1987 when he became Executive President?

-Zimbabwe.

-The name of what period of the Christian church calendar

that leads up to Christmas comes from the Latin for "arrival"?

-Advent.

-Who wrote The Dark Tower series of novels?

He's famous for writing horror fiction.

-Philip Pullman.

-Stephen King.

What's the title of the Scottish song which is traditionally sung

at midnight on New Year's Eve in many English-speaking countries?

-Auld Lang Syne.

-Which Scottish comedian stars as a former lawyer turned

fisherman called Steve Myers in the 2001 film The Man Who Sued God?

-BEEP

-Billy Connolly.

Billy Connolly is correct. And you had three passes.

-OK.

-The title of that Ed Sheeran album, the big one, was Divide.

-Divide, yeah.

-Yeah, you knew it.

Aoraki is the Maori name for Mount Cook,

-and Monet was the Impressionist in the question.

-Of course, yeah.

-But, John, you've now got a total of 20 points.

-Thank you.

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And now Nick again, please.

-You are the expert on grime.

-I wouldn't go that far.

-I know my stuff.

-Well, it's all relative, isn't it?

Give me and all our viewers the bluffer's guide to grime.

It's music that was made by people in their bedrooms through

frustration, not getting supported anywhere else.

There was UK garage, which people may know or may not know,

it's kind of like a dance music genre, but that was more about kind

of blingy things, champagne, nightclubs,

whereas grime is more about...

-Street?

-Yeah, council estates and kids with no money.

But you're not meant to hum along with it, are you, really?

-Well, I find myself doing it in my car quite a bit, you know.

-Do you?

-Give us a bit, go on. Give us a bit of grime.

-You want me to sing on TV?

-Yeah!

-Well, not really sing.

-Go on, just give us a flavour.

I'll do the start of Too Many Man.

# Shorty, yeah, I rep BBK

# Monday to Sunday, I'm like BBK

# Jme, Skepta, Wiley, Frisco,

# Maximum, yeah, that's BBK

# Add me to the list, that's BBK

# Can't forget Sam, that's BBK

# I've seen a lot of guys doing this ting

# But none of them flex like BBK. #

APPLAUSE Yeah!

-Do you know what? I'm not going to try to top that.

-I was about to ask!

No! No. Brilliant. Thank you for that. You've got nine points.

In this particular game, Nick,

let's see how you do with your general knowledge.

20 is the score to beat as it stands. Here we go.

In which American state is Houston the largest city and Austin the capital?

-Texas.

-What's the name of Bertie Wooster's resourceful manservant

in the stories by PG Wodehouse?

-Pass.

-What vegetable, known in America as zucchini,

is a variety of marrow usually eaten when it's young and immature?

-Courgette.

-Which of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas is set in Cornwall

and has the alternative title The Slave Of Duty?

-Pass.

-What name for someone who typically installs

and mends pipes for the supply of water,

gas and household drainage originally meant a worker in lead?

-Plumber.

-Who won the Best Actress Oscar in 2002 for her role in the film

Monster's Ball as the wife of an executed prisoner?

Oh, I know that...

-Pass.

-What popular term for the entrance to heaven

has its origin in chapter 21, verse 21 of the Book of Revelation?

Er, the gates of heaven.

-Pearly Gates.

-Pearly Gates.

Under what pen name has Harry Patterson written thrillers

such as The Eagle Has Landed?

-Pass.

-Which American singer and songwriter had a third UK number one album

in August 2017 with Lust For Life?

-Pass.

-What is the title of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical

based on a 2003 film in which a musician called Dewey Finn

poses as a substitute teacher at a prestigious prep school

and tries to turn a class of students into a successful band?

-School Of Rock.

-What sculpture by Rodin was inspired by the passionate love affair

between Francesca da Rimini and her husband's brother Paolo Malatesta?

-The statue of David.

-The Kiss.

What painful condition of the toe, especially the big toe, is known as onychocryptosis?

-Ingrown toenail.

-What name is given to the flexible stick strung with fibres that

produces sound when it is drawn across the strings of a musical instrument?

It's a bow.

Which river that rises in the Andes and flows into the Atlantic Ocean

is the largest in South America and one of the longest in the world?

-Oh, erm... I know this. Pass.

-Who was announced as the first woman to play

the Doctor in the Doctor Who television series in July 2017?

-Anna Foster.

-Jodie Whittaker.

The name of which Apache chieftain was used as a battle cry...

BEEP ..by American paratroopers

leaping from their aircraft in the Second World War?

-You'll be cross.

-I will be.

All right. "Geronimo!"

-Ah!

-Yes.

-Geronimo.

-There you go.

The other passes, Amazon is the big river,

-Lana Del Rey was the American singer and songwriter, which you knew.

-Yep.

Jack Higgins wrote The Eagle Has Landed,

Halle Berry won the Best Actress Oscar for Monster's Ball,

Pirates Of Penzance was the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta,

and Jeeves was the name of Bertie Wooster's resourceful manservant.

You've now got a total, Nick, of 15 points.

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And finally, Anna again, please.

And, erm...

..you play the bad... Well, I don't know whether she's a bad person...

-She is.

-..but she's not very nice, is she, in Hollyoaks?

No, she's a bit of a villain.

I imagine it's more fun playing a villain, isn't it?

Yeah, everyone says it is and it definitely is,

especially in a soap, you get the soapy storylines,

you get to do the really awful things that you're not allowed

to do in real life for your job, so, yeah, it's a lot of fun.

And Hollyoaks, presumably, is going to go on for ever? It seems to be...

-Yeah, it seems to be.

-..doing the business.

It's been going for 21 or 22 years, I can't remember.

-Before you were born.

-Yeah. And it's... Well...

-HE CHUCKLES

-Yeah, and it's going from strength to strength,

-so I don't see why it would go anywhere.

-Good.

-Now, then, you have 11 points.

-Yes.

-The score to beat is 20.

-OK.

Let's see if you can do it.

Here we go with your general knowledge questions.

Which river separates Liverpool from Birkenhead and Wallasey?

-The Mersey.

-What sign of the zodiac is represented as a ram

and marks the beginning of the astrological year on about the 21st of March?

-Taurus.

-Aries. Which group's album Relaxer was shortlisted

for the 2017 Mercury Music Prize? They won the award in 2012.

-Alt-J.

-Who became the first British cyclist to win the Vuelta a Espana

in September 2017 and only the third rider to win the Tour de France

and the Vuelta in the same year?

-Mr Cycleman.

-Chris Froome.

Rhinology is a branch of medicine concerned with what part of the body?

Mmm...

-The...nose.

-Yes!

Which American actress, born in 1994, appeared in The Twilight Saga,

The War Of The Worlds and American Pastoral?

-Kristen Stewart.

-Dakota Fanning.

In what musical do Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly end up forming a joint nightclub act?

-Chicago.

-Which game, played on a mat with small plastic discs is

started with a squidge-off?

-Tiddlywinks.

-An Orcadian is a native inhabitant of which islands?

-Pass.

-What pasta, made in the form of narrow ribbons,

takes its name from the Italian for "little tongues"?

-Tagliatelle.

-Linguine.

Whose 2017 novel A Legacy Of Spies features the

former spy master George Smiley?

-Dan Brown.

-John le Carre.

What work did Handel compose for an outdoor festival ordered by George II

in 1749 to celebrate the end of the War of the Austrian Succession?

-Pass.

-Who appeared in a vision several times in 1858 to 14-year-old

Bernadette Soubirous in a grotto on the banks of the River Gave de Pau near Lourdes?

-Pass.

-Who is the new host of the television dating game show Blind Date,

which was revived in 2017?

Oh, I'm going to kick myself, but I don't know. Pass.

What features of country houses did Capability Brown famously design?

-Pass.

-Which large, flightless bird appears on the Australian coat of arms

opposite the kangaroo?

-An ostrich.

-Emu, close.

After which British monarch was the American state of Virginia named?

-James I.

-BEEP

-Elizabeth I.

-Mm.

-Yeah, I know.

There you go, five passes altogether, Anna.

Capability Brown was famous for his landscape gardens,

-Paul O'Grady is famous for Blind Date...

-Of course.

-..as you know.

The Virgin Mary appeared to Bernadette in that grotto,

Music For The Royal Fireworks was the piece that Handel wrote,

and if you're an Orcadian, you come from the Orkneys.

-You have scored, Anna, 16 points.

-Thank you.

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So, we have a clear winner. Let's have a look at all of those scores.

In fourth place with seven points, Crista.

Third place, 15 points, Nick.

Second place, 16 points, Anna.

First place, 20 points, John.

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-Well done.

-Thank you very much.

-I must say...

-Beautiful.

Tempting to say all of those awards Game Of Thrones has won,

-how does that compare?

-This is the one that matters!

-Really?

-This is the one.

I think it's the first solo award I've ever won in my life.

-It's a good start.

-Anyway, well done, congratulations.

-Thank you.

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