Episode 5 Celebrity Mastermind

First in the spotlight tonight

is the Sky News political editor Faisal Islam.

His specialist subject - Manchester United.

CHEERING

Next, the comedian Lloyd Langford.

He'll be answering questions on the blues musician Robert Johnson.

The presenter of CBBC'S Saturday Mash-Up, Yasmin Evans,

takes as her subject the singer Luther Vandross.

And Made In Chelsea's Ollie Locke on The Big Bang Theory -

the television series, that is.

Hello and welcome to Celebrity Mastermind

with me, John Humphrys,

and four people who may have achieved a lot in their lives,

but have not yet scaled this particular peak -

the heady heights of becoming a Celebrity Mastermind champion.

They don't get paid for doing it, their fee goes to charity,

and to earn the title, they have to answer 90 seconds

of specialist subject questions 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?

Man United in 90 seconds - here we go.

Who began the 1996/97 season

by scoring an outstanding goal from inside his own half

in a 3-0 win against Wimbledon?

Pass.

Which television pundit remarked that

"you can't win anything with kids" after United's young side

was beaten 3-1 by Aston Villa

on the opening day of the 1995/96 season?

Alan Hansen.

Against which Italian side did United have their only defeat

in the group stage of the 1997/98 Champions League?

-Fiorentina.

-Juventus.

During a match in '95, which United player attacked

a Crystal Palace fan called Matthew Simmons?

-Eric Cantona.

-In '92, against which club

did United become the first top flight team

to lose an FA Cup tie in a penalty shoot-out

after a fourth-round replay ended in a 2-2 draw?

-Southampton.

-Who scored twice for Crystal Palace

against United in the 1990 FA Cup final?

-Ian Wright.

-Whose last-minute penalty

was saved by Peter Schmeichel

in United's '99 FA Cup semifinal against Arsenal?

The game went to extra time

and was decided by Ryan Giggs' famous goal.

Dennis Bergkamp.

Which club's fans greeted United's visit

for a European Cup second leg tie in '93

with a banner that declared in English "Welcome to Hell"?

-Galatasaray.

-When United were 1-0 down

in the '99 Champions League final against Bayern Munich,

which player was replaced

by Teddy Sheringham, who equalised

and then set up the winner?

-Cole.

-No, Blomqvist.

Which side pipped Manchester United

to the league championship in 1991/'92?

-Leeds.

-Who scored five goals...

BEEP ..in United's record 9-0 win

over Ipswich Town at Old Trafford in March '95?

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

It was Andy Cole.

Yeah, your one pass -

the 1996/'97 outstanding goal from inside his own half...

-Beckham.

-It was Beckham. Weird, isn't it? It's the black chair.

Anyway, Faisal, you did very well. You've got seven points.

-Thank you.

-APPLAUSE

And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Your chosen charity?

And your chosen subject?

Robert Johnson in 90 seconds - here we go.

According to legend, who did Johnson meet one night

at a crossroads near Clarksdale in the Delta?

The meeting is said to have resulted

in his mastery of the guitar and subsequent fame.

-The Devil.

-Early in his career before settling on the guitar,

Johnson played the diddley bow, Jew's harp

and what other instrument?

Harmonica.

Which eminent blues musician did Johnson first meet

in Robinsonville at the beginning of the 1930s?

He immediately became an unofficial apprentice.

Son House.

In which Texan town did Johnson make

his first studio recordings of 16 songs in late 1936,

beginning with Kind Hearted Woman Blues?

San Antonio.

Which photographic studio in Memphis

is famous for its studio portrait of Robert Johnson?

It's one of only two confirmed photographs of him.

-Brooks Brothers.

-Hooks Brothers.

Which song, named after a model of Hudson automobile,

did Johnson record at his first session?

It became his first release.

It was his biggest seller during his lifetime.

Terraplane Blues.

Which record label issued the first recordings of Johnson in 1937?

It was part of the American Record Company.

-Vocalion.

-Johnson and other blues players

used a guitar technique historically known as bottleneck,

which involves placing a metal

or glass tube against the strings.

What's the name of that technique?

-Slide guitar.

-Which blues guitarist

was the only player taught by Johnson?

He became known as Robert Jr.

-Robert Lockwood Jr.

-Johnson is recognised as a master

of the Delta blues style that prospered

in the southern United States

in an area bordered to the west by which river?

-Mississippi.

-What name was given

to the ramshackle buildings, often of ill repute

and sometimes called barrel houses, BEEP

where Johnson and other musicians played?

-Juke joints.

-Lloyd, no passes -

you've got ten points.

APPLAUSE

And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Your chosen charity?

And your chosen subject?

In 90 seconds, starting now,

which musician met Vandross at Philadelphia's Sigma Studios

in 1974 and collaborated with him

on the track Fascination?

David Bowie.

Which single that Vandross wrote with Richard Marx

includes the lyric

"I'd play a song that would never, ever end"?

-A House Is Not A Home?

-Dance With My Father.

In 1969, Vandross appeared

on a children's television programme as part

of the youth performance group Listen My Brother.

What programme?

-Sesame Street.

-Which disco group,

headed by Jacques Fred Petrus,

hired Vandross to record vocals on the title track

for the 1980 album The Glow of Love?

-Chic?

-Change.

What record label that was an offshoot of Atlantic

aimed at nurturing up-and-coming talent

signed up Vandross' band Luther

for their first album in 1976?

-Epic.

-Cotillion.

In 1979, Vandross arranged backing vocals

for No More Tears (Enough Is Enough).

It was recorded by Donna Summer

and which other superstar female singer?

-Cheryl Lynn.

-Barbra Streisand.

Which song that had been recorded previously

by The Sandpebbles did Vandross pair

with his track Power Of Love to create a medley

that won a Grammy Award in 1992?

Pass.

What is the title of Vandross' 1992 duet with Janet Jackson

that features on the soundtrack of the Damon Wayans film Mo' Money?

The Best Things In Life Are Free.

On which tropical island was the luxurious AIR Studio

where Vandross and his band recorded

the album The Night I Fell In Love?

Pass.

At which London venue did Vandross stage

a series of concerts in the spring of 1989

that were later released on video?

-The Royal Albert Hall.

-Wembley.

What is the title of Vandross' festive '95 album... BEEP

..that includes the songs The Mistletoe Jam

and I Listen To The Bells?

Pass.

Well, I can tell you cos you're out of time -

This Is Christmas is what that one was.

And your other two passes -

Montserrat was that tropical island with the luxurious AIR Studio

and Love Power was the song

previously recorded by The Sandpebbles.

You've scored, Yasmin, three points.

APPLAUSE

And our final contender, please.

And your name is?

Your chosen charity?

And your chosen subject?

The Big Bang Theory in 90 seconds.

Leonard, Sheldon, Howard and Raj work at which institute?

-CalArts.

-Caltech.

What special word does Sheldon use

when someone falls for one of his jokes,

such as in The Monopolar Expedition...

-Bazinga.

-..when he tells Leonard

he has got an equation wrong?

Bazinga.

Which actress played Howard's mother Mrs Wolowitz

in 39 episodes before her death in 2014?

She was never seen,

but her bellowing voice was heard off-screen.

-Pass.

-Sheldon's girlfriend Amy is upset

when he is not impressed by her latest scientific paper.

What item of jewellery does he buy her to patch things up?

-A tiara.

-Which scientist has acted

as the programme's scientific consultant since 2007?

-Pass.

-Sheldon explains Leonard's attraction

to their neighbour Penny using a hypothesis from a book

that Leonard's mother wrote about his childhood.

What's the book called?

Pass.

When Howard is getting ready to go into space,

he hopes the other astronauts

will give him the nickname Rocket Man.

What nickname do they actually give him?

-Fruit Loops.

-Which actor from Star Trek: The Next Generation,

who makes many appearances in the show as himself,

first meets Sheldon at a tournament

in the comic book store?

He usually acts as Sheldon's nemesis.

-Wil Wheaton.

-When Sheldon is trying to work out

when he's going to die in The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification,

he makes a chart of his family history,

which has the letters KBB against his uncle Carl's name.

What do those letters stand for?

Killed by badger?

When Penny invites Sheldon, Howard, Leonard and Raj

to a Halloween party, they all initially dress up

as which superhero?

-The Flash?

-What piece of high specification equipment...

BEEP ..did Howard design

for the International Space Station?

-A loo.

-Yeah. A little bit more detail?

-Erm, a space loo?

-Yes, that'll do, that'll do.

-It was actually a zero gravity one.

-Perfect.

The thought of that is slightly unpleasant,

but, anyway, there we are.

Three passes.

Needy Baby, Greedy Baby - that's what that book was called.

David Saltzberg was the scientific consultant

and Carol Ann Susi was the actress

who played Howard's very strange mother.

-You have, Ollie, seven points.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

So, that's the end of the first round.

Let's have a look at all of the scores.

In fourth place, Yasmin.

Joint second place, Faisal and Ollie.

First place, Lloyd.

So, Round 2 and the general knowledge 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. Let us get on with it

and ask Yasmin to join us again, please.

And your sort of day job, as it were,

-you've been doing it for a while - Radio 1Xtra.

-Yes.

But you also have a telly job, Saturday morning telly.

Yes, Saturday Mash-Up on CBBC and BBC TWO.

-And you presented, I know, with Jonny Nelson and also...

-Your mate.

-Yes.

-Hello, Yasmin!

-Oh, hi, Hacks!

-Hiya, cockers! I've been watching.

-You're doing well, cocker.

-Thank you very much!

-Don't encourage him.

-Now, Yasmin, I've got a sure-fire way you can win this show.

-OK.

Know all the answers.

-LAUGHTER

-Cheers, mate.

Anyway, how are you, Hacker, apart from all that? Are you well?

Oh, I'm very well, thanks, John.

It's been seven years in dog years since I was last here, innit?

Yeah, I know. You did rather well, didn't you?

-You came fourth or something.

-I was second! I was beaten by a TV chef!

-And?

-Thank you for letting me on the chair.

Well, it wasn't my idea, I'm bound to say.

I went lav-lav on it.

-Be careful there.

-Anyway, very nice to see you.

-Thank you, John.

-Have a lovely evening.

-Yes, thank you, Hacker.

He is a lot of fun to work with and so's Jonny

and there's plenty of gunge as well so it's very nostalgic, yeah.

Well, let's see how you do now with your general knowledge questions.

-OK.

-Starting now.

According to legend, a magician was the advisor

to King Arthur. Who was he?

-Pass.

-What fruit juice is mixed with champagne

or sparkling wine to make a Buck's Fizz?

-Orange juice.

-Which British swimmer

who won gold medals

in the women's 400m and 800m freestyle events

at the Beijing Olympics won bronze medals

in the same events at the London Games?

-Pass.

-According to a Biblical proverb,

what animal cannot change its spots?

-Leopard.

-Which of Henry VIII's wives

was the mother of Queen Elizabeth I?

Pass.

The Gare Montparnasse and the Gare d'Austerlitz

are main railway termini in which city?

Pass.

What is the name of the 2017 film

based on a Stephen King novel in which a group of children

fight an evil child-killing shapeshifter

who appears as a clown?

-It.

-The long-leaved Romaine lettuce

takes its alternative name from which Greek island?

Pass.

Which Canadian rap singer,

whose real name is Aubrey Graham,

won the International Male Solo Artist award

at the 2017 Brits ceremony?

-Drake.

-What is the fruit of the oak tree called?

Pass.

On what planet did the astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli

observe a series of straight lines in 1877

that he called canali, meaning "channels"?

The word was widely mistranslated

into English as "canals".

Pass.

Which annual dog show, now held at the NEC in Birmingham,

was founded by and named after

a former travelling dog biscuit salesman?

Crufts?

The five-novel Emperor series

that begins with The Gates of Rome

and ends with The Blood of Gods

is about the rise and the fall

of which famous Roman statesman?

Pass.

Jessica Hayes and the former Durham cricketer Max Morley

were the first winners of a reality television series

when it returned to screens in 2015.

Which series was that?

-Pass.

-What common name is given...

BEEP ..to the complex joint

consisting of eight small bones

that connects the hand to the arm?

The wrist.

You had nine passes.

Love Island was that television series.

Julius Caesar was the famous Roman statesman.

Mars is the planet where they thought there were canals

-and weren't. The fruit of the oak tree is called the acorn.

-Oh!

The lettuce is a cos. Those stations are in Paris.

Anne Boleyn was the mother of Queen Elizabeth I.

Rebecca Adlington was the British swimmer and Merlin was the magician.

You've got, Yasmin, now a total of nine points.

APPLAUSE

And now, Faisal again, please.

And a political editor in these extremely interesting times.

Interesting, partly, because we now have something

-that we didn't have - at least we didn't call it fake news.

-Mmm.

Do you think people actually do believe this fake news?

I mean, some of it is just so fantastical

that it is obviously rubbish.

Aren't we getting a bit too excited about it?

I think what happened, like, maybe five or ten years ago

was that technology companies started to take on

the role of editor - your bosses, my bosses -

and we didn't quite realise that shift,

and they're using computer programs to decide what's important

and relevant and that gets you so far, but I think the kind of role

of somebody who knows what they're talking about, an expert, is...

We kind of rule it out, we diminish it at our peril.

You've got seven points at the moment. Let's see how you do.

Two minutes of general knowledge - here we go.

How many holes are there on a standard golf course?

-18.

-What name, that comes from the Japanese

for "tray" and "planting", is given to the art

of cultivating dwarf trees in pots?

Bonsai.

In 1957, Patricia Bredin was the UK's first representative

in a musical competition held that year in Frankfurt.

Which competition?

-Eurovision.

-Which English novelist, poet

and dramatist set most of his work

in the fictional country of Wessex?

Thomas Hardy.

What is the name of the pig,

the title character of a '95 film,

who's been adopted by a sheepdog

and learns to herd sheep

with a little help from Farmer Hoggett?

Pass.

What type of very hot red pepper shares its name

with the capital of French Guiana?

-Chilli.

-Cayenne.

Which politician's grandfather Friedrich

was ordered to leave his native Germany in 1905

because he hadn't completed

his compulsory military service?

He had just returned from America,

where he'd gone to make his fortune.

Oh, pass.

What word for a noisy party

is now used for a large rally of Scouts or Guides?

Er...

Pass.

In April 1977, Charlotte Brew rode her own horse Barony Fort

to become the first woman to compete

in which classic steeplechase?

-Cheltenham.

-Grand National.

What is the name for the tufted cotton fabric

once commonly used for bedspreads and dressing gowns?

Pass.

Which character of a Shakespeare tragedy

was killed in battle by Macduff?

-Henry IV.

-Macbeth.

Much of the Georgian architecture

of a West Country city,

including the Assembly Rooms, Circus and Royal Crescent,

was designed by John Wood and his son. Which city?

-Bath.

-In evolution, the hypothetical creature

halfway between modern human beings

and our anthropoid ancestors

is popularly known as the missing...?

-Link.

-Which Harry Potter character

shares his name with an old word for a bumblebee

because JK Rowling imagined him

wandering around, humming music to himself?

Er, pass.

The metropolitan area of which west coast American city

includes the cities of Long Beach and Pasadena?

-BEEP

-Los Angeles.

You had five passes, Faisal.

It was Professor Dumbledore who wanders around humming to himself.

Tufted cotton fabric is candlewick.

That word for a noisy party, large rally of Scouts - jamboree.

President Trump, it was his grandfather Friedrich

was ordered to leave Germany and all that,

and the name off the pig in that '95 film was Babe.

Anyway, there we are. You now have a total of 14 points.

-Thank you.

-APPLAUSE

And now Ollie again, please.

-And you're the Made In Chelsea man, as it were.

-I am.

And it's meant to be structured reality -

that's the expression they use to describe it, isn't it?

What does that mean?

So, it kind of goes with your life in every single way.

Everything we say and do is real,

but sometimes we have to be placed into situations

so that there isn't a million people around and that kind of stuff.

Really, it's very difficult. It's all a big recipe.

But is it really telling us,

telling the viewer about you and your lives in any accurate sense?

My housemate once said that if you knew how real it was,

you'd like it more and actually it's surprisingly real in every manner.

Right, you have seven points so far.

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

Two minutes, starting now.

What does the abbreviation stand for in the title

of Roald Dahl's story The BFG?

-Big Friendly Giant.

-Cleopatra, the lover of Julius Caesar

and later the wife of Mark Antony,

was the queen of which country?

-Egypt.

-What term that comes from the French for "racetrack"

is given to a specially prepared area

of compacted snow used for skiing?

-Slope?

-Piste.

Salazar's Revenge, released in 2017,

is the sub-title of the fifth film in what series?

No idea.

What type of light rainfall is defined by meteorologists

as droplets of rain up to 0.5mm in diameter?

-Small rain?

-Drizzle.

Which indie pop band from Nottingham

topped the UK album charts in June 2017

with Truth Is A Beautiful Thing?

-Pass.

-What name is given to the thick cream,

a speciality of Devon and Cornwall,

made by heating ordinary cream

to evaporate some of the liquid?

Clotted.

Which country hosted the UEFA women's Euro 2017 tournament

and beat England in the semifinals

and Denmark in the final to win it for the first time?

-France?

-Holland.

With which political party

did the Conservatives form a loose alliance in June 2017

in return for an extra £1 billion

for the Northern Ireland economy

over the next two years?

-The Scottish...

-No, the Democratic Unionist Party.

Which Portuguese islands that lie off the coast of Africa

have Funchal as their capital?

No idea.

On what day of the week do Muslims gather in a mosque

to say the prayer known as the jumu'ah?

Fridays?

What nickname was given to Jamie Oliver

because he promised to strip food

down to its bare essentials

in his first television programme?

The Naked Chef.

Stephen Baxter's 2017 novel The Massacre Of Mankind

is a sequel to which HG Wells classic?

Pass.

Which village in Essex was confirmed as the site

of London's third airport in 1967?

-Heathrow?

-Stansted.

What name that originally meant

"in the Bengali style"

is given to a single storey house,

often with a veranda?

-Pass.

-BEEP

Well, you're out of time so I can tell you -

it's a bungalow.

-That'll do.

-A Bengali bungalow.

And your other passes - Stephen Baxter's novel

The Massacre Of Mankind was a sequel to War Of The Worlds.

The Madeira Islands has Funchal as their capital.

London Grammar was the name of that indie pop band

and Salazar's Revenge was part of the Pirates of the Caribbean series.

-You have, Ollie, 12 points.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

And finally Lloyd again, please.

Now, then, here's a nice easy question for you.

If you're an actor, you want to play Hamlet and if you're a band,

you want to play Wembley Stadium.

If you're a comedian, what do you want to do?

I don't know.

I've played a lot of big venues that people would want to play,

-like the Hammersmith Apollo.

-Yeah.

But I think there's a certain size room for comedy that's best,

-probably about 1,000 seats.

-Yeah.

What's the scariest thing that's ever happened to you on stage?

I did a gig in New Zealand this year

and I was making some slightly cheeky jokes about New Zealand

and a man that was built like an All Black got up

and started running towards the stage

and my life flashed before my eyes

and then he put down a fresh beer

and he said, "I saw that you ran out of beer so I've got you..."

LAUGHTER Aw!

-Aw!

-So...

-Right, you've got ten points, Lloyd.

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

Two minutes - here we go.

Jersey and Guernsey are the largest

of which group of islands?

Channel Islands.

What famous portrait by Leonardo da Vinci

is also known as La Gioconda?

The Mona Lisa.

In the novels of Terry Pratchett,

the Hogfather is the Discworld equivalent

of what seasonal figure?

Father Christmas.

In August 2017, which footballer was transferred from Barcelona

to Paris Saint-Germain for a reported fee of £198 million?

-Lionel Messi?

-No, Neymar Jr.

Who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar

for her role as Lynn Bracken

in the '97 film LA Confidential?

Pass.

What spirit is used in a Moscow mule

and owes its modern style to a professor in St Petersburg

in the late 18th century who developed

a method of purifying alcohol using charcoal filtration?

Vodka.

Natalie and Nicole Appleton, Melanie Blatt

and Shaznay Lewis were all members of a British pop group.

Which one?

All Saints.

Who is washed ashore on the island of Lilliput

when his ship, the Antelope, sinks

at the start of the book about his travels?

Gulliver.

The glands that secrete the hormone adrenaline

lie just above which organs?

Pass.

What name is given to the symbol used

before a word or phrase used to mark key items

in a message on social media such as Twitter?

Hashtag.

Which peninsula in south Wales was designated

Britain's first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

in 1956?

I'm going to get in trouble for getting that wrong.

You are!

-Llyn?

-No, the Gower.

Which early woodwind instrument

with a whistle mouthpiece was revived

by the British instrument maker Arnold Dolmetsch

and is now widely used in primary schools?

-Recorder.

-In space exploration,

what historic event took place at 2.56am GMT

on the 21st of July 1969?

Man landing on the moon.

What is the only mythological creature among the 12 animals

representing the years in the Chinese calendar?

Dragon.

What term that literally means

"to the seeing again"

is used by the French for "goodbye"?

Au revoir.

In which television comedy series,

first shown in 1999... BEEP

..do the husband and wife Tubbs and Edward Tattsyrup

run a local shop for local people?

The League of Gentlemen.

It has to be, doesn't it? You had two passes.

The glands that secrete adrenaline are above the kidneys

and Kim Basinger won Best Supporting Actress for LA Confidential.

You have a total now, Lloyd, of 22 points.

-Thank you.

-APPLAUSE

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

In fourth place, Yasmin.

Third place, Ollie.

Second place, Faisal.

First place, Lloyd.

Lloyd?

-Thank you.

-And I tell you what, if it's not useful for anything else,

-when they do storm the stage, you can hit them with that.

-Thank you!

Anyway, congratulations. Well done!

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