0:00:24 > 0:00:25First in the spotlight tonight
0:00:25 > 0:00:27is Laurence Rickard from Horrible Histories.
0:00:27 > 0:00:30His specialist subject - the Indiana Jones films.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32APPLAUSE
0:00:32 > 0:00:35Next, a wildlife presenter, Martin Hughes-Games.
0:00:35 > 0:00:37He will be answering questions on Evelyn Waugh.
0:00:37 > 0:00:39APPLAUSE
0:00:39 > 0:00:44The model Vogue Williams takes as her subject Kim Kardashian.
0:00:44 > 0:00:46APPLAUSE
0:00:46 > 0:00:50And the BBC's deputy political editor John Pienaar
0:00:50 > 0:00:53on William Gladstone.
0:00:53 > 0:00:55APPLAUSE
0:01:00 > 0:01:02Hello, and welcome to Celebrity Mastermind with me,
0:01:02 > 0:01:04John Humphrys, and four contenders
0:01:04 > 0:01:07about to take a step into the unknown.
0:01:07 > 0:01:10They may think they've mastered their specialist subjects,
0:01:10 > 0:01:13but they can't possibly know how they will react to lights
0:01:13 > 0:01:16and the clock and the black chair -
0:01:16 > 0:01:18and, of course, the general knowledge questions.
0:01:18 > 0:01:19Two minutes on that,
0:01:19 > 0:01:23but first, 90 seconds on their specialist subjects.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25So, let's ask our first contender to join us, please.
0:01:32 > 0:01:33And your name is?
0:01:33 > 0:01:35Your chosen charity?
0:01:35 > 0:01:37Is the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.
0:01:37 > 0:01:38And your chosen subject?
0:01:38 > 0:01:40Is advanced astrophysics.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43In 90 seconds, starting now. Who...?
0:01:43 > 0:01:45What did you say?!
0:01:45 > 0:01:46LAUGHTER
0:01:46 > 0:01:48So nearly got away with that!
0:01:48 > 0:01:51What if I'd asked you questions on advanced astrophysics?
0:01:51 > 0:01:53Have you got some? I can give it a go.
0:01:54 > 0:01:57I think we'd both come unstuck quite quickly.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59I tell you what, we'll do something else a bit easier instead.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01- All right, go on.- Take your choice.
0:02:01 > 0:02:03Um, let's try the Indiana Jones films.
0:02:03 > 0:02:04- All right, we'll do Indiana Jones instead.- OK.
0:02:04 > 0:02:06Here we go, 90 seconds, starting now.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08Who plays the young Indiana
0:02:08 > 0:02:10in the opening sequences of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
0:02:10 > 0:02:14where he tries to save the Cross of Coronado from treasure hunters?
0:02:14 > 0:02:15- River Phoenix.- Yep.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18Who composed the music for all four Indiana Jones films?
0:02:18 > 0:02:19- John Williams.- Yeah.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22What's the name of the secret place where the Ark of the Covenant
0:02:22 > 0:02:24was kept in ancient Tanis?
0:02:24 > 0:02:26It could only be found by holding the Staff of Ra
0:02:26 > 0:02:28in the correct position in the map room.
0:02:28 > 0:02:29- Well of Souls.- Yeah.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32What does Indy hide in to save himself from a nuclear test blast
0:02:32 > 0:02:35in the Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?
0:02:35 > 0:02:36- A fridge.- Yeah.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38In Raiders of The Lost Ark,
0:02:38 > 0:02:40what does one of Indy's students have written on her eyelids
0:02:40 > 0:02:44when he is telling his class about the Neolithic barrow at Turkdean?
0:02:45 > 0:02:46- "Love you".- Yeah.
0:02:46 > 0:02:49Which song does Willie Scott sing, mostly in Mandarin,
0:02:49 > 0:02:51in the Obi Wan nightclub over the opening credits
0:02:51 > 0:02:53of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom?
0:02:53 > 0:02:55- Anything Goes.- Yes.
0:02:55 > 0:02:58Indy's hatred of what creatures is mentioned in all the films?
0:02:58 > 0:03:01It possibly stems from when he fell into a box of them as a young man
0:03:01 > 0:03:03on a circus train in the Last Crusade.
0:03:03 > 0:03:04- Snakes.- Yep.
0:03:04 > 0:03:06What is served as the dessert
0:03:06 > 0:03:09after dishes including snake surprise and eyeball soup
0:03:09 > 0:03:12at the maharajah's banquet in The Temple of Doom?
0:03:12 > 0:03:14- Chilled monkey brains. - Yes - what else?!
0:03:14 > 0:03:15- Delicious. - What does Shorty use
0:03:15 > 0:03:18to break Indy out of his "Black Sleep of Kali Ma" state
0:03:18 > 0:03:19in The Temple of Doom?
0:03:19 > 0:03:21He later does the same for the maharajah.
0:03:21 > 0:03:22- A flaming torch.- Yeah.
0:03:22 > 0:03:24Who autographs the Grail Diary
0:03:24 > 0:03:27after Indy and his father retrieve it from Elsa
0:03:27 > 0:03:28in Berlin in The Last Crusade?
0:03:28 > 0:03:29- Hitler.- Yeah.
0:03:29 > 0:03:31What is the name of the Russian colonel doctor
0:03:31 > 0:03:33played by Cate Blanchett
0:03:33 > 0:03:35in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?
0:03:35 > 0:03:36- Spalko.- Yeah. BEEP
0:03:36 > 0:03:39In The Last Crusade it is revealed that Indy's real name
0:03:39 > 0:03:41is Henry Jones Junior.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44Who or what does his father say originally had the name Indiana?
0:03:44 > 0:03:46- The dog. - The dog, the family dog.
0:03:46 > 0:03:51It was indeed. No passes, and you have scored, Laurence -
0:03:51 > 0:03:54I don't know if you would have done better with astrophysics -
0:03:54 > 0:03:56but you've got 12 points.
0:03:56 > 0:03:57APPLAUSE
0:04:05 > 0:04:07And our next contender, please.
0:04:13 > 0:04:14And your name is?
0:04:15 > 0:04:16Your chosen charity?
0:04:18 > 0:04:20And your chosen subject?
0:04:22 > 0:04:25The great Evelyn Waugh in 90 seconds, starting now.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27The hero of Waugh's first novel, Decline and Fall,
0:04:27 > 0:04:29is a young man who is sent down from Oxford
0:04:29 > 0:04:31after his trousers are stolen by members of the Bollinger Club.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33What is his name?
0:04:36 > 0:04:37- Paul Pennyfeather.- Yes.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40William Boot, the writer of the Lush Places nature column
0:04:40 > 0:04:43is mistakenly sent to Ishmaelia as a war correspondent.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45Which newspaper does he write for?
0:04:45 > 0:04:46- The Beast. - Yes - The Daily Beast.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48What piece of household equipment
0:04:48 > 0:04:51does Colonel Blount think Adam Sykes has come to demonstrate
0:04:51 > 0:04:53when he first arrives at Doubting Hall?
0:04:53 > 0:04:54- A hoover. - Yeah, a vacuum cleaner.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57Which of Waugh's novels, first published in 1953,
0:04:57 > 0:04:59depicts a dystopian state
0:04:59 > 0:05:01and is subtitled A Romance of the Near Future?
0:05:01 > 0:05:03- Love Among The Ruins.- Yeah.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05What reason did Waugh give to John Freeman
0:05:05 > 0:05:06for agreeing to be interviewed by him
0:05:06 > 0:05:09on the BBC television programme Face To Face?
0:05:09 > 0:05:10- Money.- Yeah - poverty.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12In Brideshead Revisited,
0:05:12 > 0:05:14when Charles Ryder first sees Sebastian Flyte,
0:05:14 > 0:05:15Flyte's holding a large teddy bear.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17What is the bear called?
0:05:17 > 0:05:18- Aloysius.- Yes.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20In Black Mischief, the Emperor Seth is overthrown
0:05:20 > 0:05:22in a coup that takes place during a pageant.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24What is the pageant promoting?
0:05:24 > 0:05:25- Birth control.- Yeah.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28In 1944, Waugh was second-in-command to a British Army officer
0:05:28 > 0:05:30on a diplomatic mission to Croatia,
0:05:30 > 0:05:32during which they were both in a plane crash.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34Who was the other officer?
0:05:34 > 0:05:35Pass.
0:05:35 > 0:05:37Major Ludovic goes to see a famous sword
0:05:37 > 0:05:38on display in Westminster Abbey
0:05:38 > 0:05:40and later writes a sonnet about it.
0:05:40 > 0:05:41What is the name of the sword?
0:05:41 > 0:05:43- Er, the Sword of Honour? - Sword of Stalingrad.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46What was the name of Waugh's history tutor at Oxford?
0:05:46 > 0:05:48He used it for a series of foolish characters
0:05:48 > 0:05:49in some of his early novels.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51- Cruttwell.- Yeah.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54William Boot's sister mischievously inserted the name of a bird
0:05:54 > 0:05:55instead of the word badger
0:05:55 > 0:05:57throughout one of his nature columns.
0:05:57 > 0:05:59BEEP Which bird?
0:05:59 > 0:06:02- The grebe. - Yes, the crested grebe.
0:06:02 > 0:06:04You had one pass, Martin.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07In 1944, Waugh was second-in-command to Randolph Churchill.
0:06:07 > 0:06:09- Oh, of course he was!- Mm.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11You have scored nine points.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13APPLAUSE
0:06:19 > 0:06:21And our next contender, please.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29And your name is?
0:06:29 > 0:06:31Your chosen charity?
0:06:32 > 0:06:33And your chosen subject?
0:06:35 > 0:06:36In 90 seconds, here we go.
0:06:36 > 0:06:39In May 2014, Kim Kardashian married Kanye West
0:06:39 > 0:06:42at a 16th century fortress in which Italian city?
0:06:42 > 0:06:43- Florence.- Yeah.
0:06:43 > 0:06:44What's the name of the fashion store,
0:06:44 > 0:06:47branded as "a one stop contemporary women's boutique"...
0:06:47 > 0:06:49- Dash.- ..that the Kardashian sisters opened
0:06:49 > 0:06:51in Calabasas, California in 2006?
0:06:51 > 0:06:52- Dash.- Yeah.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54For which magazine's Winter 2014 cover
0:06:54 > 0:06:56was she photographed with a champagne glass
0:06:56 > 0:06:57balanced on her bottom,
0:06:57 > 0:06:59next to a tag line that said "Break The Internet"?
0:06:59 > 0:07:00- Paper.- Yeah.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03What is the name of Kardashian and Kanye West's son,
0:07:03 > 0:07:05who was born in December, 2015?
0:07:05 > 0:07:07- December 5th - Saint.- Yes.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09Who designed the Givenchy floral gown
0:07:09 > 0:07:12that she wore at the 2013 Met Gala?
0:07:12 > 0:07:15It's been described as a "frumpy Mrs Doubtfire dress".
0:07:15 > 0:07:16- Riccardo Tisci.- Yeah.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19Kardashian was robbed in a luxury guest apartment
0:07:19 > 0:07:22on the 3rd of October, 2016 in which city?
0:07:22 > 0:07:23- Paris.- Yeah.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25For which 2008 film was Kardashian nominated
0:07:25 > 0:07:28for her first Golden Raspberry Award,
0:07:28 > 0:07:30in the category of Worst Supporting Actress?
0:07:30 > 0:07:31She lost to Paris Hilton.
0:07:31 > 0:07:32Pass.
0:07:32 > 0:07:35Some of her father's ancestors are from which country?
0:07:35 > 0:07:38She visited there in April 2015 and met the Prime Minister.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40- Armenia.- Yeah. Before Kim Kardashian found fame
0:07:40 > 0:07:42with Keeping Up With The Kardashians,
0:07:42 > 0:07:44she briefly appeared in another reality series
0:07:44 > 0:07:46that starred Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie.
0:07:46 > 0:07:47What was it called?
0:07:47 > 0:07:48- The Simple Life.- Yes.
0:07:48 > 0:07:52In May 2011, who proposed to her in her candle-lit bedroom,
0:07:52 > 0:07:54with a message written in red rose petals
0:07:54 > 0:07:55that said "will you marry me"?
0:07:55 > 0:07:56- Kris Humphries.- Yes.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59Which long-term executive producer of Keeping Up With The Kardashians
0:07:59 > 0:08:02hosted the programme's ten year anniversary special episode
0:08:02 > 0:08:04in September 2017?
0:08:04 > 0:08:06- Ryan Seacrest.- Correct.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09In March 2012, she was flour-bombed on the red carpet
0:08:09 > 0:08:11at the London West Hollywood Hotel
0:08:11 > 0:08:14during the launch event for which of her fragrances?
0:08:14 > 0:08:16Um... Gold.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18- True Reflection. - True Reflection.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20That's what it says here.
0:08:20 > 0:08:24One pass, Vogue. That 2008 film for which she was nominated
0:08:24 > 0:08:26for the Golden Raspberry Award - Disaster Movie.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28- Yes.- How appropriate.
0:08:28 > 0:08:31- You have scored, Vogue, 10 points.- Whoo!
0:08:31 > 0:08:32- APPLAUSE - Thank you!
0:08:40 > 0:08:42And our final contender, please.
0:08:48 > 0:08:49And your name is?
0:08:50 > 0:08:52Your chosen charity?
0:08:53 > 0:08:55And your chosen subject?
0:08:56 > 0:08:58William Gladstone in 90 seconds, starting now.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01Gladstone served four times as Prime Minister.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03He was first elected to parliament in 1832,
0:09:03 > 0:09:06aged only 22, as a Tory MP for which constituency?
0:09:06 > 0:09:07- Newark.- Yep.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09Queen Victoria famously complained that during their audiences
0:09:09 > 0:09:11Gladstone addressed her as though she was a...?
0:09:11 > 0:09:12- Public meeting.- Yes.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15Who described Gladstone in April 1839
0:09:15 > 0:09:18as "the rising hope of those stern and unbending Tories"?
0:09:18 > 0:09:19- Thomas Macaulay.- Yep.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21In 1852, Gladstone became the Chancellor of the Exchequer
0:09:21 > 0:09:23for the first time in a coalition government.
0:09:23 > 0:09:24Who was the Prime Minister?
0:09:24 > 0:09:26- Lord Aberdeen.- He was.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28What painful and debilitating skin infection
0:09:28 > 0:09:31did Gladstone have an attack of in September 1853?
0:09:31 > 0:09:33His daughter Agnes had also had the condition.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36- Epysineas.- Yes - erysipelas.
0:09:36 > 0:09:40Gladstone resigned as the President of the Board of Trade in 1845
0:09:40 > 0:09:44over his objections to a grant to which Irish Catholic Seminary?
0:09:44 > 0:09:45- The Maynooth seminary.- Yeah.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48What government bill did Gladstone make 73 speeches against
0:09:48 > 0:09:51in parliament in 1857?
0:09:51 > 0:09:53Would you repeat the question?
0:09:53 > 0:09:56What government bill did Gladstone make 73 speeches against
0:09:56 > 0:09:58in parliament in 1857?
0:09:59 > 0:10:01Pass.
0:10:01 > 0:10:03Which radical reformer did Gladstone appoint
0:10:03 > 0:10:05as the President of the Board of Trade
0:10:05 > 0:10:08when he became Prime Minister for the first time in December 1868?
0:10:08 > 0:10:09Oh...
0:10:11 > 0:10:13- Chamberlain.- John Bright.
0:10:13 > 0:10:14When Gladstone left the Tories
0:10:14 > 0:10:17and joined Lord Palmerston's Liberal government of 1859,
0:10:17 > 0:10:19he supported Richard Cobden's proposal
0:10:19 > 0:10:21for a free trade agreement with which country?
0:10:21 > 0:10:22- France.- Yes.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25Which Irish Nationalist leader denounced Gladstone in 1881
0:10:25 > 0:10:27as "this masquerading knight errant,
0:10:27 > 0:10:29"this pretending champion of the rights of every nation
0:10:29 > 0:10:31"except those of the Irish nation"?
0:10:31 > 0:10:33- BEEP - Charles Stewart Parnell.
0:10:33 > 0:10:34It was indeed -
0:10:34 > 0:10:37and that one you passed on, he made 73 speeches
0:10:37 > 0:10:41against the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill, it says here.
0:10:41 > 0:10:42John, you got eight points.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44APPLAUSE
0:10:52 > 0:10:54Well, a very close first round -
0:10:54 > 0:10:56let's have a look at all of those scores.
0:10:56 > 0:10:58In fourth place, eight points, John.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00Third place, nine points, Martin.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02Second place, 10 points, Vogue.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05First place, 12 points, Laurence.
0:11:05 > 0:11:07APPLAUSE
0:11:12 > 0:11:14So, it is the general knowledge round now,
0:11:14 > 0:11:16and if there is tie at the end of it,
0:11:16 > 0:11:18then the number of passes are taken into account,
0:11:18 > 0:11:20and the person with fewer passes is the winner.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23Let's get on with it, ask John to join us again, please...
0:11:24 > 0:11:30..and, John, you've been a political correspondent,
0:11:30 > 0:11:33now deputy editor, of course, for a very long time,
0:11:33 > 0:11:36and I wonder how many times you've heard people say,
0:11:36 > 0:11:38as everybody is saying now,
0:11:38 > 0:11:41"God, we've never gone through a period like this before."
0:11:41 > 0:11:44Yes, they're all saying it now. We haven't.
0:11:44 > 0:11:47I've covered politics for 35 years,
0:11:47 > 0:11:49and, at a certain point, two, three years ago,
0:11:49 > 0:11:52you think you've more or less seen everything.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55Now I'm seeing things I've never seen almost every week...
0:11:55 > 0:11:56- Such as?- ..that passes.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59The condition of the premiership, the condition of the government,
0:11:59 > 0:12:02the condition of the opposition, the state of public opinion,
0:12:02 > 0:12:04the next thing that's going to happen,
0:12:04 > 0:12:06the amount that's at stake -
0:12:06 > 0:12:09and more is at stake at this time in our politics, easily,
0:12:09 > 0:12:12- than at any time since World War II. - Because of Brexit?
0:12:12 > 0:12:15Because of Brexit - also, something that's going on around the world,
0:12:15 > 0:12:18of which Brexit may conceivably be a part -
0:12:18 > 0:12:20but, in this country, we haven't seen anything like this,
0:12:20 > 0:12:23and we really don't know where we are going.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25Right, John. You've got eight points.
0:12:25 > 0:12:28Plenty of time to catch up and overtake the field,
0:12:28 > 0:12:31because you have two minutes of general knowledge, starting now.
0:12:31 > 0:12:33In Doctor Who, which of the Doctor's adversaries
0:12:33 > 0:12:35say "Exterminate" before doing just that to their enemies?
0:12:35 > 0:12:38- The Daleks.- Yeah. What battle of 1066
0:12:38 > 0:12:41is depicted in the final existing sections of the Bayeux tapestry?
0:12:41 > 0:12:42- Hastings.- Yeah.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45What mild, crumbly cheese, named after a northern county,
0:12:45 > 0:12:46is one of the oldest in England?
0:12:46 > 0:12:48It is normally whitish in colour,
0:12:48 > 0:12:51but there is a red variety, coloured with annatto, and a blue variety.
0:12:51 > 0:12:53Um... Pass.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55Who won her third Best Actress Oscar
0:12:55 > 0:12:57for her role as Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine
0:12:57 > 0:13:00in the 1968 film The Lion in Winter?
0:13:00 > 0:13:01- Katharine Hepburn.- Yes.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03Which town in the centre of Australia
0:13:03 > 0:13:05is named after a nearby waterhole,
0:13:05 > 0:13:07that was itself named for the wife of a government official?
0:13:07 > 0:13:09- Alice.- Yes, Alice Springs.
0:13:09 > 0:13:12What instrument for listening to sounds in the chest cavity
0:13:12 > 0:13:14did the French doctor Rene Laennec invent in about 1816
0:13:14 > 0:13:18because putting an ear to somebody's chest caused him embarrassment?
0:13:18 > 0:13:19- Stethoscope.- Yeah.
0:13:19 > 0:13:21In Tennyson's poem In Memoriam AHH,
0:13:21 > 0:13:25what follows the line "Tis better to have loved and lost"?
0:13:25 > 0:13:26- "Than never to have loved at all".- Yes.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28With which chart-topping song
0:13:28 > 0:13:31did Brotherhood of Man win the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest?
0:13:31 > 0:13:32- Save Your Kisses For Me.- Yes.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35What is the minimum age for a juror in a British court?
0:13:35 > 0:13:36- 18.- Yes.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39The Turner Prize winning British artist Chris Ofili
0:13:39 > 0:13:41has used the dried dung of a large mammal in many of his works.
0:13:41 > 0:13:43What mammal?
0:13:43 > 0:13:44- Cow.- Elephant.
0:13:44 > 0:13:45The old part of which American city
0:13:45 > 0:13:48is known as the French Quarter or the Vieux Carre?
0:13:48 > 0:13:49- New Orleans.- Yes.
0:13:49 > 0:13:52What was the name of the daredevil Blue Peter presenter
0:13:52 > 0:13:54whose constant companion on the programme from '71
0:13:54 > 0:13:56was his Border collie Shep?
0:13:56 > 0:13:57- John Noakes.- Yeah.
0:13:57 > 0:13:59What small variety of chicken
0:13:59 > 0:14:01gives its name to a very light weight in boxing?
0:14:02 > 0:14:04- Bantamweight.- Yes.
0:14:04 > 0:14:05In which Italian city
0:14:05 > 0:14:07does Donna Leon set her series of detective novels
0:14:07 > 0:14:10featuring Commissario Brunetti?
0:14:10 > 0:14:12- Naples.- Venice.
0:14:12 > 0:14:15In the lyrics of a song, an iconic American highway runs
0:14:15 > 0:14:18"from Chicago to LA, more than 2,000 miles all the way".
0:14:18 > 0:14:19Which highway?
0:14:19 > 0:14:21- Highway 66.- Yes, Route 66.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23Which tennis player became the youngest woman
0:14:23 > 0:14:26to be ranked world number one in 1997?
0:14:26 > 0:14:28She partnered Jamie Murray to win mixed doubles titles
0:14:28 > 0:14:32at Wimbledon and the US Open in 2017.
0:14:32 > 0:14:33- Pass.- Martina Hingis. BEEP
0:14:33 > 0:14:37The Singapura is the smallest recognised overall breed
0:14:37 > 0:14:39of which domestic animal?
0:14:39 > 0:14:41A cat.
0:14:41 > 0:14:44- What?- Cat?- Cat! Is right, yeah, yeah.
0:14:44 > 0:14:46Look confident, John, as if you knew it all along.
0:14:46 > 0:14:48Cat is absolutely right.
0:14:48 > 0:14:52Your passes - Martina Hingis was the tennis player who did so well,
0:14:52 > 0:14:54and that mild, crumbly cheese is Cheshire.
0:14:54 > 0:14:57You have scored, however, John, a total of 21 points.
0:14:57 > 0:14:59APPLAUSE
0:15:07 > 0:15:10And now Martin again, please.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13Before you even sit down, I have to ask you about that wonderful jacket.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15Or tunic - what do you call it?
0:15:15 > 0:15:17- It's a sherwani.- Oh! - It's a sherwani.
0:15:17 > 0:15:21I got married in it. It's a traditional Indian dress.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23- It's beautiful. - It's rather nice, isn't it?
0:15:23 > 0:15:26I thought I'd give it outing - special occasion, special coat.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28Right, let's talk about nature,
0:15:28 > 0:15:33and the contrast between your programme and, say, Blue Planet.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36We always call our programme a show, rather than a documentary,
0:15:36 > 0:15:40so we try to be entertaining as well, and it's very different,
0:15:40 > 0:15:41because, of course, it's live -
0:15:41 > 0:15:43there's no script, there's no autocue,
0:15:43 > 0:15:47we can pretty much say what we want - and Chris often does.
0:15:47 > 0:15:48LAUGHTER Yes.
0:15:48 > 0:15:50I should say, of course, it is called Springwatch,
0:15:50 > 0:15:54and you also have all the other seasons...watching.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57Which season is best to watch, from your point of view?
0:15:57 > 0:16:00It's got to be Springwatch, because it's taken ten years
0:16:00 > 0:16:04to get this good at putting cameras on the little birds' nests.
0:16:04 > 0:16:06There's real drama in those nests.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08Martin, 21 is now the score to beat,
0:16:08 > 0:16:10let's see how you will do in your general knowledge.
0:16:10 > 0:16:11Here we go.
0:16:11 > 0:16:13What type of shoes gave Elvis Presley
0:16:13 > 0:16:16his second British chart entry in 1956?
0:16:16 > 0:16:17- Blue suede shoes.- Yes.
0:16:17 > 0:16:19Which French scientist gives his name
0:16:19 > 0:16:21to the heat treatment of liquids such as milk
0:16:21 > 0:16:23so that harmful organisms are destroyed
0:16:23 > 0:16:25without altering the flavour and nutritional value?
0:16:25 > 0:16:26- Pasteur.- Yeah.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28The Welsh speciality laverbread
0:16:28 > 0:16:31is prepared from a variety of what marine plant?
0:16:31 > 0:16:32- Seaweed.- Yep.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34Which English dramatist's works include
0:16:34 > 0:16:38How The Other Half Loves and The Norman Conquests?
0:16:38 > 0:16:39Pass.
0:16:39 > 0:16:41Which spa town in Kent was granted the "Royal" prefix
0:16:41 > 0:16:44by Edward VII in 1909
0:16:44 > 0:16:46in recognition of its many past royal visitors?
0:16:46 > 0:16:47- Tunbridge Wells.- Yes.
0:16:47 > 0:16:49For what 2016 film,
0:16:49 > 0:16:51set in the Pacific during the Second World War,
0:16:51 > 0:16:55did Mel Gibson receive a Best Director nomination?
0:16:55 > 0:16:56- Pearl Harbor.- Hacksaw Ridge.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58What name was coined by Paracelsus
0:16:58 > 0:17:00for a tincture of opium
0:17:00 > 0:17:02that became popular in the 19th century
0:17:02 > 0:17:04for medicinal and recreational purposes?
0:17:04 > 0:17:05Pass.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08Which group had their first number one hit single
0:17:08 > 0:17:11with Heart Of Glass in 1979?
0:17:11 > 0:17:13Pass!
0:17:13 > 0:17:16The last episode of a school drama created by Phil Redmond
0:17:16 > 0:17:18was televised in September 2008,
0:17:18 > 0:17:20some 30 years after the first episode.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22Which school drama?
0:17:22 > 0:17:23- Hollyoaks.- Grange Hill.
0:17:23 > 0:17:27In which northern Indian city is the Taj Mahal mausoleum?
0:17:27 > 0:17:28Er...
0:17:30 > 0:17:32It's all gone out my head now! I've been there!
0:17:32 > 0:17:34- Agra.- Yes!
0:17:34 > 0:17:36On which ship did the first Pilgrim Fathers
0:17:36 > 0:17:39successfully set out from Plymouth in September 1620
0:17:39 > 0:17:40on their way to the New World?
0:17:40 > 0:17:42- The Mayflower.- Yes.
0:17:42 > 0:17:44What French term is used for the ornamental style of art
0:17:44 > 0:17:46that flourished in Europe and America
0:17:46 > 0:17:49in the 1890s and early 1900s?
0:17:49 > 0:17:51Er...
0:17:52 > 0:17:54Pass.
0:17:54 > 0:17:57Which Surrey golf course has hosted the European Tour flagship event
0:17:57 > 0:18:00the PGA Championship since 1984?
0:18:00 > 0:18:01Pass!
0:18:01 > 0:18:03Which Conservative MP and Father of the House
0:18:03 > 0:18:06known for his love of cricket, Nottingham Forest and jazz
0:18:06 > 0:18:10released the book Kind of Blue: A Political Memoir in 2016?
0:18:11 > 0:18:13BEEP I can tell you -
0:18:13 > 0:18:15look, I'll save you from yourself,
0:18:15 > 0:18:16because you're out of time.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19- Once you start that passing, it can...- It does, doesn't it?
0:18:19 > 0:18:21- It's horrendous.- It is strange, how it happens like that.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23- Anyway, Ken Clarke. - Ken Clarke, of course it was.
0:18:23 > 0:18:24Of course you knew that.
0:18:24 > 0:18:27- Wentworth is the Surrey golf course. - Yes, knew that, as well.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29- Art Nouveau.- Art Nouveau, yeah. - The French term.
0:18:29 > 0:18:31- You knew that, as well.- Yes. - Blondie was the group.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34- Don't know whether you knew that. - Oh, yes, of course it was.- Blondie.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37- Laudanum, that tincture of opium... - I knew that, as well.
0:18:37 > 0:18:40..and Alan Ayckbourn was the English dramatist
0:18:40 > 0:18:43whose works included How the Other Half Loves and so on.
0:18:43 > 0:18:45So, there you go. You could have got all of those,
0:18:45 > 0:18:48and had it not been for the black chair, etc, you probably would have.
0:18:48 > 0:18:51- As it is, Martin, you have a total of 15 points.- Thank you.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53APPLAUSE
0:19:00 > 0:19:03Now, Vogue, again, please.
0:19:03 > 0:19:07You chose Kim Kardashian as your subject.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10I do realise how ridiculous that seems.
0:19:10 > 0:19:12Well, you sort of almost answered my first question, in a way,
0:19:12 > 0:19:15because my first question was going to be, what is it about her...
0:19:15 > 0:19:17- I just think... - ..that we're all so fascinated by?
0:19:17 > 0:19:19..she's just incredible. She...
0:19:19 > 0:19:21People might call her talentless, or whatever,
0:19:21 > 0:19:23but she has a talent for business.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26She is able to keep people interested in a reality show
0:19:26 > 0:19:28going on a decade now, and everyone loves that kind of thing.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30And doing nothing, really.
0:19:30 > 0:19:34- I just think that they're quite a normal family. I mean...- Normal?!
0:19:34 > 0:19:36Well, like... Normal in a way...
0:19:36 > 0:19:39The way they interact with each other, everything like that -
0:19:39 > 0:19:41nothing, obviously, about their life is normal,
0:19:41 > 0:19:43but the way the act with each other
0:19:43 > 0:19:45would remind me of, like, me and my sisters.
0:19:45 > 0:19:47Even her bum is interesting,
0:19:47 > 0:19:49I mean, it's like, "How is your bum like that?!"
0:19:49 > 0:19:52Why is...? Like, I'm fascinated by everything about her.
0:19:52 > 0:19:56Well, you did very well with her, you got ten, you got ten points.
0:19:56 > 0:19:58So 21 still the score to beat.
0:19:58 > 0:20:00- Let's see how we do.- Ooh! - Here we go.
0:20:00 > 0:20:01In English pantomime,
0:20:01 > 0:20:04what name is given to the leading comic female role,
0:20:04 > 0:20:06traditionally played by a man?
0:20:07 > 0:20:08Pass.
0:20:08 > 0:20:11The 2017 biographical drama Babs
0:20:11 > 0:20:13featured Samantha Spiro and Jaime Winstone
0:20:13 > 0:20:16as an older and a younger version of a comedy actress.
0:20:16 > 0:20:17Which actress?
0:20:17 > 0:20:19Ooh, it's the girl from EastEnders...
0:20:19 > 0:20:21I forget her name - pass.
0:20:21 > 0:20:22- OK.- Barbara Windsor! Damn! - Too late.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25Which is the most southerly of the mainland states
0:20:25 > 0:20:27of the United States of America?
0:20:27 > 0:20:29What? I didn't hear what you said.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31Which is the most southerly of the mainland states
0:20:31 > 0:20:34of the United States of America?
0:20:34 > 0:20:35Er, Pass.
0:20:35 > 0:20:39With which song did Eric Prydz top the UK singles charts
0:20:39 > 0:20:42for five weeks in 2004?
0:20:42 > 0:20:45Mm... Pass.
0:20:45 > 0:20:47What is the name of Bob Cratchit's sickly son
0:20:47 > 0:20:48in Dickens' Christmas Carol?
0:20:48 > 0:20:52Scrooge changes his ways after he sees the child's death in a dream.
0:20:52 > 0:20:53Pass.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55What region of the Outer Hebrides,
0:20:55 > 0:20:57often thought of as a separate island,
0:20:57 > 0:20:59is famous for the tweed traditionally made there?
0:21:02 > 0:21:03- Arran.- Harris.
0:21:03 > 0:21:06Which actor, best known for his film portrayal of a boy wizard,
0:21:06 > 0:21:09played Rosencrantz in a 2017 London production
0:21:09 > 0:21:12of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead?
0:21:12 > 0:21:14- Daniel Radcliffe.- Yes.- Yes!
0:21:14 > 0:21:18Master James of Saint George designed many buildings for Edward I
0:21:18 > 0:21:22that are still standing in North Wales. What are those buildings?
0:21:22 > 0:21:23Not a clue, pass.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26What alteration to clocks, abbreviated to BST,
0:21:26 > 0:21:28was introduced in 1916?
0:21:29 > 0:21:31- GST?- British Summer Time.
0:21:31 > 0:21:35The rediscovered wreck of a liner that sank in 1912
0:21:35 > 0:21:38was explored in 1986 by a submarine called Alvin
0:21:38 > 0:21:42and a robot called Jason Junior. Which liner?
0:21:42 > 0:21:45- Pass!- In which city was Adrian Mole living
0:21:45 > 0:21:48when he wrote his first diary at the age of 13 and three quarters?
0:21:48 > 0:21:50- Dublin.- Leicester.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52What name that came into use in the 18th century
0:21:52 > 0:21:55is given to the Scottish broth of chicken and leeks?
0:21:56 > 0:21:58Chicken... Pass.
0:21:58 > 0:22:00What is the common name for either of the triangular bones
0:22:00 > 0:22:02known as the scapula... BEEP
0:22:02 > 0:22:04..in the upper part of the human body?
0:22:04 > 0:22:07- Collar bone. - The shoulder blade.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10- Yeah, right, well, you had a few passes there.- Just a few!
0:22:10 > 0:22:11Quite a few.
0:22:11 > 0:22:14Cock-a-leekie is the name of that Scottish broth,
0:22:14 > 0:22:17- the Titanic was the ship... - Oh, that's desperate!- Yeah, I know.
0:22:17 > 0:22:22Edward I built lots of castles, Tiny Tim was Bob Cratchit's son,
0:22:22 > 0:22:24Call On Me was Eric Prydz's song,
0:22:24 > 0:22:27Florida is the most southerly state of America
0:22:27 > 0:22:30and in English pantomime, it's the dame.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32- You know, the...- No, I didn't know that.- ..the man who plays the...
0:22:32 > 0:22:34Well, you're not English, are you?
0:22:34 > 0:22:37Yeah, you asked me loads of English questions, that's what happened.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39LAUGHTER I knew there was a reason for it.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42Anyway, look, you're in double figures, so there you go.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44- Thankfully.- 11 points.- Thank you!
0:22:44 > 0:22:46APPLAUSE
0:22:54 > 0:22:57And finally, Laurence again, please...
0:22:58 > 0:23:03..and Horrible Histories has been going for eight years on the telly.
0:23:03 > 0:23:07- A lot longer in books.- Yes. I think over 20 years, now, in books.
0:23:07 > 0:23:12What's the balance between making them laugh and helping them learn?
0:23:12 > 0:23:15It was very tricky initially, when the show was being developed,
0:23:15 > 0:23:18finding that balance, cos it's very easy to make a punch line -
0:23:18 > 0:23:21normally, the punch line of a joke is the ridiculous thing at the end,
0:23:21 > 0:23:22but, if we make something up,
0:23:22 > 0:23:25then kids grow up knowing the wrong facts,
0:23:25 > 0:23:27so we had to find a brand of humour
0:23:27 > 0:23:30that was very funny, hopefully, for a family audience,
0:23:30 > 0:23:32but which didn't lie at the end.
0:23:32 > 0:23:33And teachers like it, do they?
0:23:33 > 0:23:35There are a few who kind of go,
0:23:35 > 0:23:38"Well, you're just teaching kids about the stuff with poo,"
0:23:38 > 0:23:42and you go, "Well, yeah," but if we give them the silly bits,
0:23:42 > 0:23:44and we give them the bits with all the gore in,
0:23:44 > 0:23:46and then, if that develops an interest in the subject,
0:23:46 > 0:23:49they read around, and find the broader context.
0:23:49 > 0:23:51And great fun, the stories.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53Anyway, you have 12 points. Here we go, two minutes.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56What's the name of the prehistoric stone circle monument
0:23:56 > 0:23:59that stands on Salisbury Plain and is visible from the A303?
0:23:59 > 0:24:00- Stonehenge.- Yeah.
0:24:00 > 0:24:01What name of Spanish origin
0:24:01 > 0:24:03is given to the violent tropical cyclones
0:24:03 > 0:24:06that occur especially in the Caribbean and western Atlantic?
0:24:06 > 0:24:07- Hurricanes.- Yeah.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09The Humber Bridge, the Verrazano-Narrows
0:24:09 > 0:24:12and the Golden Gate are all a particular type of bridge.
0:24:12 > 0:24:13What type?
0:24:13 > 0:24:14- Suspension.- Yeah.
0:24:14 > 0:24:16Watching The Wheels, published in 2016,
0:24:16 > 0:24:19is the autobiography of a British former world motor racing champion
0:24:19 > 0:24:22whose father Graham also won the title. Who is he?
0:24:22 > 0:24:24- Damon Hill.- Yeah. Which breed of short-legged dog
0:24:24 > 0:24:26whose name means "badger hound" in German
0:24:26 > 0:24:29was originally bred to pursue badgers into their burrows?
0:24:29 > 0:24:30- Dachshund.- Yeah.
0:24:30 > 0:24:33What nickname was shared by the jazz pianist and composer
0:24:33 > 0:24:37Thomas Wright Waller and the rhythm and blues singer Antoine Domino?
0:24:37 > 0:24:38- Fats.- Yeah.
0:24:38 > 0:24:41Which actress plays the human rights lawyer Emma Banville
0:24:41 > 0:24:46in the 2017 British crime thriller television drama Fearless?
0:24:46 > 0:24:47Pass.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49Chou-fleur is the French word
0:24:49 > 0:24:51for a variety of the cabbage plant family,
0:24:51 > 0:24:52usually served cooked. What's it called?
0:24:52 > 0:24:54- Cauliflower.- Yeah.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56Who was elected South Africa's President in 1994,
0:24:56 > 0:24:58after the country held its first elections
0:24:58 > 0:25:00in which all races were allowed to vote?
0:25:00 > 0:25:01- Nelson Mandela.- Yes.
0:25:01 > 0:25:04The Bulgarian holiday resorts of Burgas and Varna
0:25:04 > 0:25:07lie on the coast of which large inland sea?
0:25:07 > 0:25:09- Aegean?- The Black Sea.
0:25:09 > 0:25:12Which Shakespeare play that features two sets of twins
0:25:12 > 0:25:15was the inspiration for the stage musical The Boys From Syracuse?
0:25:16 > 0:25:19Oh... Pass.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22What name is given to an open square in an Italian town or city?
0:25:22 > 0:25:24- Piazza.- Yes.
0:25:24 > 0:25:27Frederick William Pomeroy's gilt-bronze statue of Justice
0:25:27 > 0:25:30stands on top of a London court building. Which building?
0:25:30 > 0:25:31- The Old Bailey.- Yes.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33In which American city in Utah
0:25:33 > 0:25:36are the headquarters of the Mormon religion?
0:25:36 > 0:25:37Um...
0:25:38 > 0:25:39Pass.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42Whose major achievements, before she turned to marathon running,
0:25:42 > 0:25:45include a silver medal in the Women's 10,000 metres
0:25:45 > 0:25:48at the 1999 World Athletics Championships?
0:25:48 > 0:25:49- Paula Radcliffe.- Yeah.
0:25:49 > 0:25:51Which British writer, actor and comedian
0:25:51 > 0:25:53made his directorial debut in 2003
0:25:53 > 0:25:56with a screen version of Evelyn Waugh's novel Vile Bodies...
0:25:56 > 0:25:59BEEP ..called Bright Young Things?
0:26:01 > 0:26:04- Pass.- I shall tell you, because you are out of time -
0:26:04 > 0:26:06- Stephen Fry.- Oh, of course!- Yes.
0:26:06 > 0:26:07And the other passes -
0:26:07 > 0:26:11that city that's the headquarters of the Mormon religion,
0:26:11 > 0:26:13- Salt Lake City.- Salt Lake City. - Yeah. Salt Lake City.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16The Comedy Of Errors was the Shakespeare play,
0:26:16 > 0:26:20and Helen McCrory played Emma Banville.
0:26:20 > 0:26:24You have scored, Laurence, 23 points.
0:26:24 > 0:26:26APPLAUSE
0:26:36 > 0:26:39Well, it stayed very close. Let's have a look at all of the scores.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41In fourth place, 11 points, Vogue.
0:26:41 > 0:26:44Third place, 15 points, Martin.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46Second place, 21 points, John.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49First place, 23 points, Laurence.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51APPLAUSE
0:27:02 > 0:27:05- Congratulations. - Thank you very much.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07- I don't know...- That's brill.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09I don't know whether it has any historic value -
0:27:09 > 0:27:11you might be able to talk about it one day.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13It will do in time. I'll bury it in the garden,
0:27:13 > 0:27:15and make sure somebody digs it up
0:27:15 > 0:27:18- in a couple of hundred years. - Well done.- Thank you very much.
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0:27:37 > 0:27:39APPLAUSE