Episode 4 Celebrity Mastermind

First in the spotlight tonight, the singer Rachel Stevens.

Her specialist subject, another Rachel, the one from Friends.

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Next, the actor Asim Chaudhry.

He'll be answering questions on the rapper The Notorious B.I.G.

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The presenter and author Anita Anand takes as her subject

Emmeline Pankhurst. APPLAUSE

And the comedian Andy Zaltzman on the great Australian

cricketer Victor Trumper. APPLAUSE

Hello and welcome to Celebrity Mastermind, with me, John Humphrys,

and four people well used to the spotlight and well used to

pressure, but not this spotlight and not this kind of pressure.

There's the ticking clock and the black chair

and they're doing it for charity.

They'll get 90 seconds of questions on their specialist subject

and two minutes of general knowledge.

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

And your name is?

Your chosen charity?

And your chosen subject?

In 90 seconds, starting now.

In The One Where Rachel Finds Out, who lets slip to Rachel on her

birthday that Ross is secretly in love with her?

Chandler.

Rachel receives a letter from her mother telling her that

the family dog has been killed by an ice cream truck.

What is the dog's name?

LaPooh.

In The One With The Fake Party, Rachel's lucky dress fails to

impress Joshua, so she wears another outfit from her student days

to try to get his attention. What outfit?

Cheerleading outfit.

What is the name of the weird old man who dies

and leaves all his possessions to Monica and Rachel,

"the noisy girls in the apartment above"?

Mr, erm...

Pass.

To which Caribbean island was Rachel supposed to go on honeymoon

with Barry, the man she left at the altar?

Erm, Baham... Bahamas?

Aruba. In The One On The Beach,

what does Ross' girlfriend Bonnie do to drastically alter her

appearance with much encouragement from a scheming and jealous Rachel?

Shaves her head.

Which actress plays the sorority sister Melissa,

whose obsession with Rachel is revealed after the two girls

run into each other at the Central Perk coffee house?

-Winona Ryder.

-In The One With The List,

what specific part of Rachel's body does Joey say is chubby

when he helps Ross to assess Rachel's pros and cons...

-Her ankles.

-..as a potential girlfriend? Her ankles, absolutely right.

What is the name of the fashion company where Rachel

works for Mr Kaplan and performs menial jobs,

such as untangling large piles of coat hangers

and walking the arthritic seamstress to the bathroom?

Fortunata Fashion.

In The One With Rachel's Dream, Rachel imagines kissing Joey

while he practises his lines for which television soap?

Erm...

Oh!

BEEP Go on, take a guess.

-Erm...

-Take a guess.

-You don't get penalised for guessing.

-Erm...

-It's gone.

-I'll have to give it to you, won't I?

-We'll take that as a pass, all right.

-Pass.

-Days Of Our Lives.

-Days Of Our Lives.

-You knew it, didn't you? I know.

But you don't get half a point, I'm afraid.

And the other pass, the name of the weird old man was Heckles.

-Heckles, that's it.

-Knew that too, didn't you?

-Yep.

It's sitting in the black chair that does it.

Anyway, you've done very well, Rachel. You have seven points.

-Thank you. Thank you!

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And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Your chosen charity?

And your chosen subject?

In 90 seconds, starting now.

What is the title of Notorious B.I.G or Biggie's first studio

album that was released in September 1994?

Ready to Die.

In which of the five boroughs of New York City was Biggie raised?

He was later drawn into the local drug trade.

Brooklyn.

Before he was Biggie Smalls, or the Notorious B.I.G.,

Christopher Wallace started his solo rapping career under what emcee name?

-MC Quest.

-What is the name of the singer

and songwriter who married Biggie in August '94?

Faith Evans.

Biggie first came to the attention of the record label executive

Sean Combs after he was featured in the Unsigned Hype section of what magazine?

The Source magazine.

For which Grammy Award-winning rapper did Biggie record

a brief rap section for the remix of her hit single Real Love in 1992?

Mary J Blige.

Biggie was shot by an unknown

assailant in Los Angeles in March 1997 after he'd attended

a party co-hosted by which music and entertainment magazine?

Vibe magazine.

What is the name of the medical center where Biggie died after the shooting?

Pass.

What track from Biggie's first album contains the lines

"I had the master plan, I'm in the caravan, on my way to Maryland"?

Pass.

With which member of Junior M.A.F.I.A.

did Biggie form a very close personal relationship?

He provided additional vocals on her album Hard Core.

Lil' Kim.

Two tracks from the Life After Death album gave Biggie posthumous

number one singles on the Billboard chart.

One was Hypnotize, what was the other?

Mo Money Mo Problems.

What tribute song did Faith Evans record with

Sean Combs as Puff Daddy in '97 after Biggie's death?

-I'll Be Missing You.

-Is correct.

You had a couple of passes, Asim.

Everyday Struggle was that track that contains the lines

"I had the master plan etc, etc..."

And after he was shot, he was taken to the Cedars-Sinai hospital,

which is where he died.

-Those two passes, Asim, you've scored ten points.

-Thank you.

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And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

And your chosen charity?

And your chosen subject?

Emmeline Pankhurst in 90 seconds, here we go.

What was the name of the organisation founded by Emmeline

and Richard Pankhurst in 1889?

The Women's Franchise League.

What was the name of Pankhurst's eldest daughter, who co-founded

the Women's Social and Political Union, the WSPU, with her mother?

Christabel.

Which anti-slavery novel that was published in 1852 was read to

Pankhurst as a bedtime story by her mother?

Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Pankhurst was elected to a position in 1894 as a representative

of the Independent Labour Party that involved visits to workhouses.

What was the position?

Poor Law Guardian.

In 1896, Pankhurst was summonsed for collecting

donations at an illegal meeting of the Independent Labour Party.

In which park in north Manchester was the meeting held?

-Boggan's Clough.

-Close, Boggart Hole Clough.

What was the occupation of Richard Pankhurst,

whom Emmeline married in 1879?

He was a barrister.

What was the three-word motto of the WSPU that Pankhurst announced

to founder members as an illustration of their more

militant stance towards women's suffrage?

Deeds Not Words.

At which prison did Pankhurst go on hunger strike in 1913?

Holloway Prison.

What name was given to the events of the 18th of November 1910,

when Pankhurst led a large group of protesters who were

assaulted by police outside Parliament?

Black Friday.

Who was the first chairman of the Independent Labour Party who

supported women's suffrage and was a good friend of Pankhurst?

-Keir Hardie.

-Which of Pankhurst's daughters was initially involved in the

WSPU but became estranged from her family and was sent to Australia in 1914,

never to return?

Adela.

A painting by Velazquez was slashed by Mary Richardson

in the National Gallery in 1914.

She explained her actions as a protest against the

government for destroying Mrs Pankhurst. What was the painting?

-Rokeby Venus.

-It was indeed. No passes, Anita.

You've got 11 points. APPLAUSE

And our final contender, please.

And your name is?

Your chosen charity?

-And your chosen subject?

-The cricketer Victor Trumper.

There's a surprise. Here we go. 90 seconds, starting now.

For which Australian state side did Victor Trumper play many

first class games between 1895 and 1914?

New South Wales.

Which English player presented Trumper with a bat after

the 1899 Lord's Test, saying to him,

"From the present champion to the future champion"?

-WG Grace.

-In January 1901,

Trumper won an athletics event at the Federation Carnival in Sydney.

What competition did he win?

Throwing a cricket ball.

Which accolade was bestowed on Trumper in 1903

and started with the words "Victor Trumper, at the present time,

"by general consent, the best batsman in the world"?

One of Wisden's Cricketers of the Year.

What name was given to the disagreement between some

leading players, including Trumper,

and the Australian Cricket Board, which meant that he and the other

players did not travel to England for the 1912 triangular tournament?

The Big Six.

Trumper scored six of his eight Test centuries against England.

Against which country did he score the other two?

South Africa.

Which first class cricketer took the 1905 photograph of Trumper

playing a straight drive?

George Beldam.

Which Australian Test player wrote in his book Ten For 66

And All That of the time he had Trumper stumped

while he was playing for Redfern in a grade match?

Arthur Mailey.

Which England cricketer said of Trumper, "He has no style

"and yet, he is all style"?

CB Fry.

At which ground did Trumper reach his century before lunch

on the first day of the Test match in 1902?

Old Trafford.

On Trumper's first tour of England in 1899,

of his first seven dismissals, five were by which method?

Bowled.

Trumper was awarded nearly £3,000 from a benefit match in his honour

in February 1913, but when he died two years later,

his estate was only worth how much? BEEP

£5.

Yeah. Give you some idea of how he lived, eh?

Anyway, Andy, you've scored 12 points.

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Well, a very close first half. Let's have a look at all the scores.

In fourth place, seven points, Rachel.

Third place, ten points, Asim.

Second place, 11 points, Anita.

First place, 12 points, Andy.

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So it is the general knowledge round now

and if there's a tie at the end of it, then the number of passes are

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

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

And S Club 7, you'll have heard of that.

Manufactured band, right?

That was a sort of post-Monkees, was it,

because the Monkees did so well...?

It was a similar sort of concept to the Monkees, yeah, where we

had a TV show and we recorded albums and had our music as well.

So, yeah, very similar.

And which came first, the singing or the TV show?

-I mean...

-It came together, actually.

It was always kind of...

We recorded the album, then we went out to Miami to record...

To film the first series.

We were travelling all the time and we recorded loads of albums

and we were constantly working.

-It was an amazing time to be in music.

-Mm.

Interesting. Right, here we go.

Two minutes of general knowledge questions, starting now.

Celine Dion's song My Heart Will Go On features in which

'97 multi Academy Award-winning film?

Titanic.

The first draft of a classic 1908 novel for children was

entitled The Mole And The Water Rat. Which novel?

Erm...

-Wind In The Willows?

-Yes. What alcoholic drink, made from fermented rice

and often served warm, is the national...

-Sake.

-..national drink of Japan? Sake, yeah.

Which operatic heroine takes the bullfighter Escamillo as her

lover after she ends a relationship with the soldier Don Jose?

Pass.

What word is used for the illegal shortening of the tail

of an animal, especially a dog, for cosmetic or other reasons?

-Clipping?

-Docking.

Which television sequel to The Good Wife follows

the fortunes of the lawyer Diane Lockhart,

who has to start afresh in a new law firm after her savings have

been lost in a fraudulent investment scheme?

Pass.

Who succeeded Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister in 1940?

Pass.

Which British rower won a total of six Olympic medals,

five gold and one bronze, between 1984 and 2000?

Pass.

The River Tamar forms the boundary between Devon

and another county for most of its length.

Which other county?

-Erm...

-Guess a county.

-Um...

Pass. Geography's never been my strong point.

Which American author and former lawyer published

the first of his bestselling legal thrillers A Time To Kill in 1988?

Pass.

What general name was given to substances such as sal volatile

and spirit of hartshorn that were once used to revive people who had fainted?

Erm...

-Smelling salts?

-Yes! Smelling salts!

Which former member of One Direction topped the UK

charts in April 2016 with his debut album Mind of Mine?

-Zayn.

-Yes, Zayn Malik.

What name is given to the imaginary line around the Earth

at zero degrees latitude that separates it into the northern

-and southern hemispheres?

-Erm...

BEEP

-Pass.

-I'll tell you, you'll be so cross with yourself.

-I know.

The Equator. Yeah.

And the others -

that American author, Time To Kill, John Grisham.

Cornwall is the other county, the River Tamar.

Steve Redgrave was the rower,

which you knew as well.

-Churchill succeeded Neville Chamberlain.

-Oh!

The Good Fight was the television sequel to The Good Wife.

Carmen was the operatic heroine.

But, Rachel, you're in double figures - you got 12 points.

-Amazing. Thank you!

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And now Asim again, please.

And, erm...

..you did something that is becoming quite common,

but is pretty remarkable nonetheless.

You made a programme, just a couple of you, for YouTube,

and it became a big television hit.

How easy is it to do that?

We started on YouTube and we got picked up quite quick by the BBC, so

we did four "webisodes" and then

Ash Atalla, the producer of The Office -

we do a mockumentary so it's quite in the vein of The Office,

dry and very British...

-Yes.

-So we weren't on YouTube for too long, but we still upload

stuff to YouTube, and I think it's a brilliant way to gauge your audience.

And you are a bit of a... Thinking about The Office,

you are a bit of a sort of, you know...

-..a failure, aren't you?

-Yeah.

-I think all the great...

-With the best will in the world, you know.

All the greatest comedy characters, if it's Brent or if it's Coogan...

..Partridge, I think they're lovable losers. Del Boy...

And my character, Chabuddy G, is in the vein of all of those greats.

So I'm kind of paying homage to that.

Anyway! At the moment you've got 10 points which is a good score.

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

two minutes starting now.

In which series of films starring Michael J Fox

is a DeLorean car used to travel through time?

Back To The Future.

Red Admiral and White Admiral

are species of which colourful winged insect?

Erm... Sorry, pass.

Which of Britain's National Parks

lies entirely within the county of Cumbria?

Pass.

Who had her second UK number one album

with Lioness: Hidden Treasures?

It was released posthumously in December 2011.

Amy Winehouse?

Which country won the women's Rugby World Cup for the fifth time in August 2017

when they beat England 41-32 in the final?

Australia?

New Zealand. In the university course PPE,

the first two Ps stand for Politics and Philosophy.

What does the E stand for?

Economics?

What decoration for bravery, the highest

in the British Armed Forces,

was first awarded in the Crimean War?

General?

The Victoria Cross.

Which veteran football commentator

announced in September 2017

that he'd be retiring at the end of the season,

after 50 years with the BBC?

John Motson.

What planet became the furthest in the solar system from the Sun

after Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet?

Jupiter?

Neptune. James Joyce's novel Ulysses

deals with the events of the 16th of June 1904,

in which Irish city?

Dublin?

What French name is used for a small choux pastry bun

filled with whipped cream and served with a chocolate sauce?

Profiterole?

Which American showman, noted for his sensational escape tricks,

took his stage name from a 19th-century French magician

who was considered the father of modern conjuring?

Houdini?

In what 2017 film, partly set in a Middle Eastern desert,

does Tom Cruise play a treasure hunter called Nick Morton?

Oh...

Pass.

Which is the only one of the 50 American states

named after a president?

Washington?

Who wrote the 1976 novel Wilt and its sequels, about Henry Wilt,

an unfulfilled and henpecked liberal studies lecturer?

Pass.

Which historic and picturesque city on the Adriatic coast is

a popular tourist destination,

and has a name... BEEP

..that comes from the Croatian for "oak grove"?

Could you repeat the question?

-No, cos you're out of time, it's not allowed.

-Erm...

Just think of a... you know, an Adriatic coast thingy.

-No? All right...

-No, sorry!

I'll give it to you. It's Dubrovnik.

-OK.

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

And your other passes - Tom Sharpe wrote Wilt.

Very funny writer.

That 2017 film - Tom Cruise, treasure hunter and all that,

-was The Mummy.

-Right.

The National Park that's in Cumbria is

the Lake District, and you'll be cross about this one -

Red Admiral and White Admiral...

-Butterfly.

-Oh!

JOHN LAUGHS I know!

-However, Asim, you now have...18 points.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

And now Anita again, please.

And, erm...

..you took a great suffragette as your subject.

And you've written a book about a suffragette of whom

-we'd never heard.

-I hadn't even, I came across her by accident.

I saw a picture in a magazine, of a woman protesting outside

Hampton Court, and something just kicked in, I thought -

"She's Indian, she looks a bit like one of my aunties."

So I started to sort of dig in,

and it came out her name was Sophia Duleep Singh,

she was an Indian princess, she lived at Hampton Court,

she was Queen Victoria's goddaughter, and she was

a feisty old broad who battled with policemen on the streets.

So I fell in love.

But when we talk about the suffragettes and what

they achieved, it wasn't as if every woman was allowed to vote, was it?

-I mean, A, you had to be 30...

-Yes.

-..B, you had to be a householder.

This was like pulling a tooth from the British establishment.

They thought that, you know, ovaries made us all

a bit too hysterical to make decisions.

But there's also this sort of idea at the time

which was very prevalent, that if you give women the vote,

then the colonies will lose respect for you

cos you're listening to your women.

And so there were all sorts of these barmy arguments

which stopped men -

very powerful men, and otherwise people like Asquith who were quite forward-thinking -

from considering women worthy.

Extraordinary, isn't it, when you think about it now? Anyway -

you have 11 points as it stands, Anita.

18 is the score to beat,

and you have two minutes of general knowledge questions

in which to do it - or not, as the case may be.

Here we go. At what temperature

does water freeze on the Celsius scale?

Zero.

In golf, what name is given to a gentle stroke

made on the green with the intention of rolling the ball into the hole?

Putt.

The 117-mile-long London Orbital Motorway

is the second longest city bypass in Europe.

By what name is it better known?

M25?

Who held the post of Secretary-General of the Communist Party

of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1953,

and ruled the country as a dictator?

Stalin.

What's the title of Kylie Minogue's first UK single release?

It held the number one position in the singles charts

for five weeks in 1988?

I Should Be So Lucky?

What branch of mathematics has a name that comes

from the Greek for "triangle" and "measurement"?

Trigonometry.

What name is now commonly used for a small decorative headpiece,

often comprising flowers and feathers,

worn by women on occasions such as weddings?

Er, fancy...

-Fascinator.

-That's it.

Which American state has its only land border

with Canada, and no other American state?

Alaska?

Sweetmeal and wheatmeal are alternative names

for a type of biscuit that was once thought to help settle the stomach.

What biscuit?

A rusk?

Digestive. What word is used to describe a single and often brief

dramatic appearance by a well-known actor

in a film or play?

Cameo.

Who played the successful interior designer Jan Morrow

opposite Rock Hudson in the 1959 comedy film Pillow Talk?

Diana... Doris Day.

What surname is shared by the Viennese father and son composers

Johann the Elder and Younger,

as well as the German composer Richard?

Strauss.

The works of an American novelist who is

famed for his portrayal of the Jazz Age in America

include The Great Gatsby and Tender Is The Night. Which novelist?

F Scott Fitzgerald.

The site of which South American city

was given a name meaning "River of January",

by the Portuguese sailors who arrived there on the 1st of January, 1502?

Rio de Janeiro.

Which actress played Bet Lynch, later Bet Gilroy,

in Coronation Street?

Pass.

What term is used for nouns that are the names of people or places,

and usually written with an initial capital letter?

A proper noun.

Which Test cricket ground's Media Centre

won the Stirling Architecture Prize in 1999? BEEP

It's been described as a digital alarm clock, a barcode reader

and an alien starship.

Lord's.

Lord's is correct!

You had one pass - it was Julie Goodyear...

-Course it was...

-..who played Bet Lynch, as you know.

You've now got 25 points.

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And now Andy again, please.

And you've still got your cricket gloves - do you take them

-everywhere with you?

-Yes, John. You never know when you might need them.

You never know when you might, no. Because you are, as it were,

a walking cricketing almanac, aren't you?

Well, cricket's way better than reality, so I figured -

better to know about cricket than actual stuff.

-Than the real world.

-Yeah.

So does that mean you don't know anything about the real world?

-I try to avoid it as much as possible.

-Do you?

-Yup.

-And why...?

You know the news! It's really awful.

Whereas, you know, cricket's the greatest thing that's ever been invented by humanity.

-Is it? Can you prove that?

-I don't need to prove it, John.

It's just a fact.

-LAUGHTER

-Just have to trust me on that one!

You sound just like many of the politicians that I've interviewed...

"Answer the question!"

You sit in that box during Test Match Special, don't you?

I do for one-day internationals.

And have you ever been asked a question

to which you did not know the answer?

I've found that if you answer with enough confidence,

people will just believe it anyway.

Again, we can learn from politics. These are transferable skills.

Right. Now, you've got 12 points -

the score to beat is 25.

So... Yeah.

-And they're not all about cricket.

-Oh, no!

-Yeah. Here we go -

two minutes, general knowledge, starting now.

How many years are there in a millennium?

1,000.

What term for writing or drawing scratched on a surface

has come to mean words or images marked on public places,

especially using aerosol paints?

Graffiti.

What Spanish equivalent of "goodbye" literally means "to God"?

Adios.

Which actress became famous in the 1960s

when she played the spy Emma Peel in The Avengers?

Diana Rigg.

The Prisoners' Chorus comes from the only opera by Beethoven.

What's it called?

-Pass.

-In France, what form of

high-speed transport is the TGV?

Train.

A statue of which legendary figure,

with his bow and arrow

aimed at the gates of Nottingham Castle,

was unveiled in July 1952?

Robin Hood.

What sauce traditionally served with fish

typically consists of mayonnaise

mixed with capers, herbs, and other ingredients?

Tartare sauce.

Who lost the Formula 1 Drivers' Championship

by one point in his debut season in 2007,

but won it by one point in the following year?

Lewis Hamilton.

Whose Just So Stories For Little Children,

first published in 1902,

were originally intended for his own children?

Rudyard Kipling.

The film Three Men And A Little Lady

was the sequel to a film that starred

Tom Selleck, Ted Danson and Steve Guttenberg. What was it called?

Three Men And A Baby.

Kuala Lumpur is the capital of which country?

-Malaysia.

-Which Irish group

reached number one in the UK in 1998

with the album Talk On Corners?

Westlife.

The Corrs. What battle of June 1815

do the French call the Battle of Mont-Saint-Jean?

It saw the final defeat of Napoleon.

Er...Waterloo.

Whose 2017 novel Death Of A She Devil

is the sequel to her 1983 classic

The Life And Loves Of A She-Devil,

that became a successful television series?

-Pass.

-Which 2014 animated film

features the voices of Morgan Freeman,

Liam Neeson and Elizabeth Banks,

with all the characters and sets apparently made from a child's construction toy?

Pass.

The rock musical Here Lies Love,

by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim,

first staged off-Broadway in 2013,

chronicles the rise and fall

of a former First Lady of the Philippines. What's her name?

Imelda Marcos.

The Fantasia On British Sea Songs,

often performed on the Last Night of the Proms,

was arranged by which conductor,

who also founded the concerts?

-Pass.

-BEEP

Ah! I'll have to tell you,

it's Sir Henry Wood.

And it's really annoying that you didn't answer that.

I'll tell you why in a minute, I'll give you your passes first.

The Lego Movie was that animated film.

Fay Weldon wrote Death Of A She Devil.

Fidelio was the name of Beethoven's one and only opera.

And you've scored...

..25 points.

APPLAUSE Same as her!

Well! How close was that? Let's have a look at all the scores.

In fourth place, 12 points, Rachel.

Third place, 18 points, Asim.

Second place, 25 points and...

..four passes, Andy.

First place, 25 points

and one pass - Anita!

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Anita!

Well done.

-Thank you so much.

-What are you going to do with it?

I'm actually going to put it in our bedroom...

..which, erm, sounds more weird than it needs to be

but I have got a very, very clever husband,

and if we have an argument I'm just going to say, "Talk to the trophy,

"cos I'm not listening."

-Anyway, congratulations.

-Thank you.

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