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First in the spotlight tonight

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is Laurence Rickard from Horrible Histories.

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His specialist subject - the Indiana Jones films.

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APPLAUSE

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Next, a wildlife presenter, Martin Hughes-Games.

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He will be answering questions on Evelyn Waugh.

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APPLAUSE

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The model Vogue Williams takes as her subject Kim Kardashian.

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APPLAUSE

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And the BBC's deputy political editor John Pienaar

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on William Gladstone.

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APPLAUSE

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Hello, and welcome to Celebrity Mastermind with me,

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John Humphrys, and four contenders

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about to take a step into the unknown.

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They may think they've mastered their specialist subjects,

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but they can't possibly know how they will react to lights

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and the clock and the black chair -

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and, of course, the general knowledge questions.

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Two minutes on that,

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but first, 90 seconds on their specialist subjects.

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

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And your name is?

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Your chosen charity?

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Is the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.

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And your chosen subject?

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Is advanced astrophysics.

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In 90 seconds, starting now. Who...?

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What did you say?!

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LAUGHTER

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So nearly got away with that!

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What if I'd asked you questions on advanced astrophysics?

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Have you got some? I can give it a go.

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I think we'd both come unstuck quite quickly.

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I tell you what, we'll do something else a bit easier instead.

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-All right, go on.

-Take your choice.

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Um, let's try the Indiana Jones films.

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-All right, we'll do Indiana Jones instead.

-OK.

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Here we go, 90 seconds, starting now.

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Who plays the young Indiana

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in the opening sequences of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

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where he tries to save the Cross of Coronado from treasure hunters?

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-River Phoenix.

-Yep.

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Who composed the music for all four Indiana Jones films?

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-John Williams.

-Yeah.

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What's the name of the secret place where the Ark of the Covenant

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was kept in ancient Tanis?

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It could only be found by holding the Staff of Ra

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in the correct position in the map room.

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-Well of Souls.

-Yeah.

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What does Indy hide in to save himself from a nuclear test blast

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in the Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?

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-A fridge.

-Yeah.

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In Raiders of The Lost Ark,

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what does one of Indy's students have written on her eyelids

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when he is telling his class about the Neolithic barrow at Turkdean?

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-"Love you".

-Yeah.

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Which song does Willie Scott sing, mostly in Mandarin,

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in the Obi Wan nightclub over the opening credits

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of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom?

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-Anything Goes.

-Yes.

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Indy's hatred of what creatures is mentioned in all the films?

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It possibly stems from when he fell into a box of them as a young man

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on a circus train in the Last Crusade.

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-Snakes.

-Yep.

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What is served as the dessert

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after dishes including snake surprise and eyeball soup

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at the maharajah's banquet in The Temple of Doom?

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-Chilled monkey brains.

-Yes - what else?!

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-Delicious.

-What does Shorty use

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to break Indy out of his "Black Sleep of Kali Ma" state

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in The Temple of Doom?

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He later does the same for the maharajah.

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-A flaming torch.

-Yeah.

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Who autographs the Grail Diary

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after Indy and his father retrieve it from Elsa

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in Berlin in The Last Crusade?

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-Hitler.

-Yeah.

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What is the name of the Russian colonel doctor

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played by Cate Blanchett

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in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?

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-Spalko.

-Yeah. BEEP

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In The Last Crusade it is revealed that Indy's real name

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is Henry Jones Junior.

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Who or what does his father say originally had the name Indiana?

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-The dog.

-The dog, the family dog.

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It was indeed. No passes, and you have scored, Laurence -

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I don't know if you would have done better with astrophysics -

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but you've got 12 points.

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APPLAUSE

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And our next contender, please.

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And your name is?

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Your chosen charity?

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And your chosen subject?

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The great Evelyn Waugh in 90 seconds, starting now.

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The hero of Waugh's first novel, Decline and Fall,

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is a young man who is sent down from Oxford

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after his trousers are stolen by members of the Bollinger Club.

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What is his name?

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-Paul Pennyfeather.

-Yes.

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William Boot, the writer of the Lush Places nature column

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is mistakenly sent to Ishmaelia as a war correspondent.

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Which newspaper does he write for?

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-The Beast.

-Yes - The Daily Beast.

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What piece of household equipment

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does Colonel Blount think Adam Sykes has come to demonstrate

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when he first arrives at Doubting Hall?

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-A hoover.

-Yeah, a vacuum cleaner.

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Which of Waugh's novels, first published in 1953,

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depicts a dystopian state

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and is subtitled A Romance of the Near Future?

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-Love Among The Ruins.

-Yeah.

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What reason did Waugh give to John Freeman

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for agreeing to be interviewed by him

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on the BBC television programme Face To Face?

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-Money.

-Yeah - poverty.

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In Brideshead Revisited,

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when Charles Ryder first sees Sebastian Flyte,

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Flyte's holding a large teddy bear.

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What is the bear called?

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-Aloysius.

-Yes.

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In Black Mischief, the Emperor Seth is overthrown

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in a coup that takes place during a pageant.

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What is the pageant promoting?

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-Birth control.

-Yeah.

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In 1944, Waugh was second-in-command to a British Army officer

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on a diplomatic mission to Croatia,

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during which they were both in a plane crash.

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Who was the other officer?

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Pass.

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Major Ludovic goes to see a famous sword

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on display in Westminster Abbey

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and later writes a sonnet about it.

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What is the name of the sword?

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-Er, the Sword of Honour?

-Sword of Stalingrad.

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What was the name of Waugh's history tutor at Oxford?

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He used it for a series of foolish characters

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in some of his early novels.

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-Cruttwell.

-Yeah.

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William Boot's sister mischievously inserted the name of a bird

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instead of the word badger

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throughout one of his nature columns.

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BEEP Which bird?

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-The grebe.

-Yes, the crested grebe.

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You had one pass, Martin.

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In 1944, Waugh was second-in-command to Randolph Churchill.

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-Oh, of course he was!

-Mm.

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You have scored nine points.

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APPLAUSE

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And our next contender, please.

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And your name is?

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Your chosen charity?

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And your chosen subject?

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In 90 seconds, here we go.

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In May 2014, Kim Kardashian married Kanye West

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at a 16th century fortress in which Italian city?

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-Florence.

-Yeah.

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What's the name of the fashion store,

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branded as "a one stop contemporary women's boutique"...

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-Dash.

-..that the Kardashian sisters opened

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in Calabasas, California in 2006?

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-Dash.

-Yeah.

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For which magazine's Winter 2014 cover

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was she photographed with a champagne glass

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balanced on her bottom,

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next to a tag line that said "Break The Internet"?

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-Paper.

-Yeah.

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What is the name of Kardashian and Kanye West's son,

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who was born in December, 2015?

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-December 5th - Saint.

-Yes.

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Who designed the Givenchy floral gown

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that she wore at the 2013 Met Gala?

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It's been described as a "frumpy Mrs Doubtfire dress".

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-Riccardo Tisci.

-Yeah.

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Kardashian was robbed in a luxury guest apartment

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on the 3rd of October, 2016 in which city?

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-Paris.

-Yeah.

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For which 2008 film was Kardashian nominated

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for her first Golden Raspberry Award,

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in the category of Worst Supporting Actress?

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She lost to Paris Hilton.

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Pass.

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Some of her father's ancestors are from which country?

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She visited there in April 2015 and met the Prime Minister.

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-Armenia.

-Yeah. Before Kim Kardashian found fame

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with Keeping Up With The Kardashians,

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she briefly appeared in another reality series

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that starred Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie.

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What was it called?

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-The Simple Life.

-Yes.

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In May 2011, who proposed to her in her candle-lit bedroom,

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with a message written in red rose petals

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that said "will you marry me"?

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-Kris Humphries.

-Yes.

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Which long-term executive producer of Keeping Up With The Kardashians

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hosted the programme's ten year anniversary special episode

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in September 2017?

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-Ryan Seacrest.

-Correct.

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In March 2012, she was flour-bombed on the red carpet

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at the London West Hollywood Hotel

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during the launch event for which of her fragrances?

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Um... Gold.

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-True Reflection.

-True Reflection.

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That's what it says here.

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One pass, Vogue. That 2008 film for which she was nominated

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for the Golden Raspberry Award - Disaster Movie.

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-Yes.

-How appropriate.

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-You have scored, Vogue, 10 points.

-Whoo!

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-APPLAUSE

-Thank you!

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And our final contender, please.

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And your name is?

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Your chosen charity?

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And your chosen subject?

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William Gladstone in 90 seconds, starting now.

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Gladstone served four times as Prime Minister.

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He was first elected to parliament in 1832,

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aged only 22, as a Tory MP for which constituency?

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-Newark.

-Yep.

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Queen Victoria famously complained that during their audiences

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Gladstone addressed her as though she was a...?

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-Public meeting.

-Yes.

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Who described Gladstone in April 1839

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as "the rising hope of those stern and unbending Tories"?

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-Thomas Macaulay.

-Yep.

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In 1852, Gladstone became the Chancellor of the Exchequer

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for the first time in a coalition government.

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Who was the Prime Minister?

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-Lord Aberdeen.

-He was.

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What painful and debilitating skin infection

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did Gladstone have an attack of in September 1853?

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His daughter Agnes had also had the condition.

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-Epysineas.

-Yes - erysipelas.

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Gladstone resigned as the President of the Board of Trade in 1845

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over his objections to a grant to which Irish Catholic Seminary?

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-The Maynooth seminary.

-Yeah.

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What government bill did Gladstone make 73 speeches against

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in parliament in 1857?

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Would you repeat the question?

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What government bill did Gladstone make 73 speeches against

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in parliament in 1857?

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Pass.

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Which radical reformer did Gladstone appoint

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as the President of the Board of Trade

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when he became Prime Minister for the first time in December 1868?

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Oh...

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-Chamberlain.

-John Bright.

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When Gladstone left the Tories

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and joined Lord Palmerston's Liberal government of 1859,

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he supported Richard Cobden's proposal

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for a free trade agreement with which country?

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-France.

-Yes.

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Which Irish Nationalist leader denounced Gladstone in 1881

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as "this masquerading knight errant,

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"this pretending champion of the rights of every nation

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"except those of the Irish nation"?

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-BEEP

-Charles Stewart Parnell.

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It was indeed -

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and that one you passed on, he made 73 speeches

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against the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill, it says here.

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John, you got eight points.

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APPLAUSE

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Well, a very close first round -

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let's have a look at all of those scores.

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In fourth place, eight points, John.

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Third place, nine points, Martin.

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Second place, 10 points, Vogue.

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First place, 12 points, Laurence.

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APPLAUSE

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So, it is the general knowledge round now,

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and if there is tie at the end of it,

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then the number of passes are taken into account,

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and the person with fewer passes is the winner.

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Let's get on with it, ask John to join us again, please...

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..and, John, you've been a political correspondent,

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now deputy editor, of course, for a very long time,

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and I wonder how many times you've heard people say,

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as everybody is saying now,

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"God, we've never gone through a period like this before."

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Yes, they're all saying it now. We haven't.

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I've covered politics for 35 years,

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and, at a certain point, two, three years ago,

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you think you've more or less seen everything.

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Now I'm seeing things I've never seen almost every week...

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-Such as?

-..that passes.

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The condition of the premiership, the condition of the government,

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the condition of the opposition, the state of public opinion,

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the next thing that's going to happen,

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the amount that's at stake -

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and more is at stake at this time in our politics, easily,

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-than at any time since World War II.

-Because of Brexit?

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Because of Brexit - also, something that's going on around the world,

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of which Brexit may conceivably be a part -

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but, in this country, we haven't seen anything like this,

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and we really don't know where we are going.

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Right, John. You've got eight points.

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Plenty of time to catch up and overtake the field,

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because you have two minutes of general knowledge, starting now.

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In Doctor Who, which of the Doctor's adversaries

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say "Exterminate" before doing just that to their enemies?

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-The Daleks.

-Yeah. What battle of 1066

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is depicted in the final existing sections of the Bayeux tapestry?

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-Hastings.

-Yeah.

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What mild, crumbly cheese, named after a northern county,

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is one of the oldest in England?

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It is normally whitish in colour,

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but there is a red variety, coloured with annatto, and a blue variety.

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Um... Pass.

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Who won her third Best Actress Oscar

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for her role as Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine

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in the 1968 film The Lion in Winter?

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-Katharine Hepburn.

-Yes.

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Which town in the centre of Australia

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is named after a nearby waterhole,

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that was itself named for the wife of a government official?

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-Alice.

-Yes, Alice Springs.

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What instrument for listening to sounds in the chest cavity

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did the French doctor Rene Laennec invent in about 1816

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because putting an ear to somebody's chest caused him embarrassment?

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-Stethoscope.

-Yeah.

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In Tennyson's poem In Memoriam AHH,

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what follows the line "Tis better to have loved and lost"?

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-"Than never to have loved at all".

-Yes.

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With which chart-topping song

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did Brotherhood of Man win the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest?

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-Save Your Kisses For Me.

-Yes.

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What is the minimum age for a juror in a British court?

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-18.

-Yes.

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The Turner Prize winning British artist Chris Ofili

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has used the dried dung of a large mammal in many of his works.

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What mammal?

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-Cow.

-Elephant.

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The old part of which American city

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is known as the French Quarter or the Vieux Carre?

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-New Orleans.

-Yes.

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What was the name of the daredevil Blue Peter presenter

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whose constant companion on the programme from '71

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was his Border collie Shep?

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-John Noakes.

-Yeah.

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What small variety of chicken

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gives its name to a very light weight in boxing?

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-Bantamweight.

-Yes.

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In which Italian city

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does Donna Leon set her series of detective novels

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featuring Commissario Brunetti?

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-Naples.

-Venice.

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In the lyrics of a song, an iconic American highway runs

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"from Chicago to LA, more than 2,000 miles all the way".

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Which highway?

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-Highway 66.

-Yes, Route 66.

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Which tennis player became the youngest woman

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to be ranked world number one in 1997?

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She partnered Jamie Murray to win mixed doubles titles

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at Wimbledon and the US Open in 2017.

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-Pass.

-Martina Hingis. BEEP

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The Singapura is the smallest recognised overall breed

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of which domestic animal?

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A cat.

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-What?

-Cat?

-Cat! Is right, yeah, yeah.

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Look confident, John, as if you knew it all along.

0:14:440:14:46

Cat is absolutely right.

0:14:460:14:48

Your passes - Martina Hingis was the tennis player who did so well,

0:14:480:14:52

and that mild, crumbly cheese is Cheshire.

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You have scored, however, John, a total of 21 points.

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APPLAUSE

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And now Martin again, please.

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Before you even sit down, I have to ask you about that wonderful jacket.

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Or tunic - what do you call it?

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-It's a sherwani.

-Oh!

-It's a sherwani.

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I got married in it. It's a traditional Indian dress.

0:15:170:15:21

-It's beautiful.

-It's rather nice, isn't it?

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I thought I'd give it outing - special occasion, special coat.

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Right, let's talk about nature,

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and the contrast between your programme and, say, Blue Planet.

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We always call our programme a show, rather than a documentary,

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so we try to be entertaining as well, and it's very different,

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because, of course, it's live -

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there's no script, there's no autocue,

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we can pretty much say what we want - and Chris often does.

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LAUGHTER Yes.

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I should say, of course, it is called Springwatch,

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and you also have all the other seasons...watching.

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Which season is best to watch, from your point of view?

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It's got to be Springwatch, because it's taken ten years

0:15:570:16:00

to get this good at putting cameras on the little birds' nests.

0:16:000:16:04

There's real drama in those nests.

0:16:040:16:06

Martin, 21 is now the score to beat,

0:16:060:16:08

let's see how you will do in your general knowledge.

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Here we go.

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What type of shoes gave Elvis Presley

0:16:110:16:13

his second British chart entry in 1956?

0:16:130:16:16

-Blue suede shoes.

-Yes.

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Which French scientist gives his name

0:16:170:16:19

to the heat treatment of liquids such as milk

0:16:190:16:21

so that harmful organisms are destroyed

0:16:210:16:23

without altering the flavour and nutritional value?

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-Pasteur.

-Yeah.

0:16:250:16:26

The Welsh speciality laverbread

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is prepared from a variety of what marine plant?

0:16:280:16:31

-Seaweed.

-Yep.

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Which English dramatist's works include

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How The Other Half Loves and The Norman Conquests?

0:16:340:16:38

Pass.

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Which spa town in Kent was granted the "Royal" prefix

0:16:390:16:41

by Edward VII in 1909

0:16:410:16:44

in recognition of its many past royal visitors?

0:16:440:16:46

-Tunbridge Wells.

-Yes.

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For what 2016 film,

0:16:470:16:49

set in the Pacific during the Second World War,

0:16:490:16:51

did Mel Gibson receive a Best Director nomination?

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-Pearl Harbor.

-Hacksaw Ridge.

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What name was coined by Paracelsus

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for a tincture of opium

0:16:580:17:00

that became popular in the 19th century

0:17:000:17:02

for medicinal and recreational purposes?

0:17:020:17:04

Pass.

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Which group had their first number one hit single

0:17:050:17:08

with Heart Of Glass in 1979?

0:17:080:17:11

Pass!

0:17:110:17:13

The last episode of a school drama created by Phil Redmond

0:17:130:17:16

was televised in September 2008,

0:17:160:17:18

some 30 years after the first episode.

0:17:180:17:20

Which school drama?

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-Hollyoaks.

-Grange Hill.

0:17:220:17:23

In which northern Indian city is the Taj Mahal mausoleum?

0:17:230:17:27

Er...

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It's all gone out my head now! I've been there!

0:17:300:17:32

-Agra.

-Yes!

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On which ship did the first Pilgrim Fathers

0:17:340:17:36

successfully set out from Plymouth in September 1620

0:17:360:17:39

on their way to the New World?

0:17:390:17:40

-The Mayflower.

-Yes.

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What French term is used for the ornamental style of art

0:17:420:17:44

that flourished in Europe and America

0:17:440:17:46

in the 1890s and early 1900s?

0:17:460:17:49

Er...

0:17:490:17:51

Pass.

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Which Surrey golf course has hosted the European Tour flagship event

0:17:540:17:57

the PGA Championship since 1984?

0:17:570:18:00

Pass!

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Which Conservative MP and Father of the House

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known for his love of cricket, Nottingham Forest and jazz

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released the book Kind of Blue: A Political Memoir in 2016?

0:18:060:18:10

BEEP I can tell you -

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look, I'll save you from yourself,

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because you're out of time.

0:18:150:18:16

-Once you start that passing, it can...

-It does, doesn't it?

0:18:160:18:19

-It's horrendous.

-It is strange, how it happens like that.

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-Anyway, Ken Clarke.

-Ken Clarke, of course it was.

0:18:210:18:23

Of course you knew that.

0:18:230:18:24

-Wentworth is the Surrey golf course.

-Yes, knew that, as well.

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-Art Nouveau.

-Art Nouveau, yeah.

-The French term.

0:18:270:18:29

-You knew that, as well.

-Yes.

-Blondie was the group.

0:18:290:18:31

-Don't know whether you knew that.

-Oh, yes, of course it was.

-Blondie.

0:18:310:18:34

-Laudanum, that tincture of opium...

-I knew that, as well.

0:18:340:18:37

..and Alan Ayckbourn was the English dramatist

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whose works included How the Other Half Loves and so on.

0:18:400:18:43

So, there you go. You could have got all of those,

0:18:430:18:45

and had it not been for the black chair, etc, you probably would have.

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-As it is, Martin, you have a total of 15 points.

-Thank you.

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APPLAUSE

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Now, Vogue, again, please.

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You chose Kim Kardashian as your subject.

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I do realise how ridiculous that seems.

0:19:070:19:10

Well, you sort of almost answered my first question, in a way,

0:19:100:19:12

because my first question was going to be, what is it about her...

0:19:120:19:15

-I just think...

-..that we're all so fascinated by?

0:19:150:19:17

..she's just incredible. She...

0:19:170:19:19

People might call her talentless, or whatever,

0:19:190:19:21

but she has a talent for business.

0:19:210:19:23

She is able to keep people interested in a reality show

0:19:230:19:26

going on a decade now, and everyone loves that kind of thing.

0:19:260:19:28

And doing nothing, really.

0:19:280:19:30

-I just think that they're quite a normal family. I mean...

-Normal?!

0:19:300:19:34

Well, like... Normal in a way...

0:19:340:19:36

The way they interact with each other, everything like that -

0:19:360:19:39

nothing, obviously, about their life is normal,

0:19:390:19:41

but the way the act with each other

0:19:410:19:43

would remind me of, like, me and my sisters.

0:19:430:19:45

Even her bum is interesting,

0:19:450:19:47

I mean, it's like, "How is your bum like that?!"

0:19:470:19:49

Why is...? Like, I'm fascinated by everything about her.

0:19:490:19:52

Well, you did very well with her, you got ten, you got ten points.

0:19:520:19:56

So 21 still the score to beat.

0:19:560:19:58

-Let's see how we do.

-Ooh!

-Here we go.

0:19:580:20:00

In English pantomime,

0:20:000:20:01

what name is given to the leading comic female role,

0:20:010:20:04

traditionally played by a man?

0:20:040:20:06

Pass.

0:20:070:20:08

The 2017 biographical drama Babs

0:20:080:20:11

featured Samantha Spiro and Jaime Winstone

0:20:110:20:13

as an older and a younger version of a comedy actress.

0:20:130:20:16

Which actress?

0:20:160:20:17

Ooh, it's the girl from EastEnders...

0:20:170:20:19

I forget her name - pass.

0:20:190:20:21

-OK.

-Barbara Windsor! Damn!

-Too late.

0:20:210:20:22

Which is the most southerly of the mainland states

0:20:220:20:25

of the United States of America?

0:20:250:20:27

What? I didn't hear what you said.

0:20:270:20:29

Which is the most southerly of the mainland states

0:20:290:20:31

of the United States of America?

0:20:310:20:34

Er, Pass.

0:20:340:20:35

With which song did Eric Prydz top the UK singles charts

0:20:350:20:39

for five weeks in 2004?

0:20:390:20:42

Mm... Pass.

0:20:420:20:45

What is the name of Bob Cratchit's sickly son

0:20:450:20:47

in Dickens' Christmas Carol?

0:20:470:20:48

Scrooge changes his ways after he sees the child's death in a dream.

0:20:480:20:52

Pass.

0:20:520:20:53

What region of the Outer Hebrides,

0:20:530:20:55

often thought of as a separate island,

0:20:550:20:57

is famous for the tweed traditionally made there?

0:20:570:20:59

-Arran.

-Harris.

0:21:020:21:03

Which actor, best known for his film portrayal of a boy wizard,

0:21:030:21:06

played Rosencrantz in a 2017 London production

0:21:060:21:09

of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead?

0:21:090:21:12

-Daniel Radcliffe.

-Yes.

-Yes!

0:21:120:21:14

Master James of Saint George designed many buildings for Edward I

0:21:140:21:18

that are still standing in North Wales. What are those buildings?

0:21:180:21:22

Not a clue, pass.

0:21:220:21:23

What alteration to clocks, abbreviated to BST,

0:21:230:21:26

was introduced in 1916?

0:21:260:21:28

-GST?

-British Summer Time.

0:21:290:21:31

The rediscovered wreck of a liner that sank in 1912

0:21:310:21:35

was explored in 1986 by a submarine called Alvin

0:21:350:21:38

and a robot called Jason Junior. Which liner?

0:21:380:21:42

-Pass!

-In which city was Adrian Mole living

0:21:420:21:45

when he wrote his first diary at the age of 13 and three quarters?

0:21:450:21:48

-Dublin.

-Leicester.

0:21:480:21:50

What name that came into use in the 18th century

0:21:500:21:52

is given to the Scottish broth of chicken and leeks?

0:21:520:21:55

Chicken... Pass.

0:21:560:21:58

What is the common name for either of the triangular bones

0:21:580:22:00

known as the scapula... BEEP

0:22:000:22:02

..in the upper part of the human body?

0:22:020:22:04

-Collar bone.

-The shoulder blade.

0:22:040:22:07

-Yeah, right, well, you had a few passes there.

-Just a few!

0:22:070:22:10

Quite a few.

0:22:100:22:11

Cock-a-leekie is the name of that Scottish broth,

0:22:110:22:14

-the Titanic was the ship...

-Oh, that's desperate!

-Yeah, I know.

0:22:140:22:17

Edward I built lots of castles, Tiny Tim was Bob Cratchit's son,

0:22:170:22:22

Call On Me was Eric Prydz's song,

0:22:220:22:24

Florida is the most southerly state of America

0:22:240:22:27

and in English pantomime, it's the dame.

0:22:270:22:30

-You know, the...

-No, I didn't know that.

-..the man who plays the...

0:22:300:22:32

Well, you're not English, are you?

0:22:320:22:34

Yeah, you asked me loads of English questions, that's what happened.

0:22:340:22:37

LAUGHTER I knew there was a reason for it.

0:22:370:22:39

Anyway, look, you're in double figures, so there you go.

0:22:390:22:42

-Thankfully.

-11 points.

-Thank you!

0:22:420:22:44

APPLAUSE

0:22:440:22:46

And finally, Laurence again, please...

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..and Horrible Histories has been going for eight years on the telly.

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-A lot longer in books.

-Yes. I think over 20 years, now, in books.

0:23:030:23:07

What's the balance between making them laugh and helping them learn?

0:23:070:23:12

It was very tricky initially, when the show was being developed,

0:23:120:23:15

finding that balance, cos it's very easy to make a punch line -

0:23:150:23:18

normally, the punch line of a joke is the ridiculous thing at the end,

0:23:180:23:21

but, if we make something up,

0:23:210:23:22

then kids grow up knowing the wrong facts,

0:23:220:23:25

so we had to find a brand of humour

0:23:250:23:27

that was very funny, hopefully, for a family audience,

0:23:270:23:30

but which didn't lie at the end.

0:23:300:23:32

And teachers like it, do they?

0:23:320:23:33

There are a few who kind of go,

0:23:330:23:35

"Well, you're just teaching kids about the stuff with poo,"

0:23:350:23:38

and you go, "Well, yeah," but if we give them the silly bits,

0:23:380:23:42

and we give them the bits with all the gore in,

0:23:420:23:44

and then, if that develops an interest in the subject,

0:23:440:23:46

they read around, and find the broader context.

0:23:460:23:49

And great fun, the stories.

0:23:490:23:51

Anyway, you have 12 points. Here we go, two minutes.

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What's the name of the prehistoric stone circle monument

0:23:530:23:56

that stands on Salisbury Plain and is visible from the A303?

0:23:560:23:59

-Stonehenge.

-Yeah.

0:23:590:24:00

What name of Spanish origin

0:24:000:24:01

is given to the violent tropical cyclones

0:24:010:24:03

that occur especially in the Caribbean and western Atlantic?

0:24:030:24:06

-Hurricanes.

-Yeah.

0:24:060:24:07

The Humber Bridge, the Verrazano-Narrows

0:24:070:24:09

and the Golden Gate are all a particular type of bridge.

0:24:090:24:12

What type?

0:24:120:24:13

-Suspension.

-Yeah.

0:24:130:24:14

Watching The Wheels, published in 2016,

0:24:140:24:16

is the autobiography of a British former world motor racing champion

0:24:160:24:19

whose father Graham also won the title. Who is he?

0:24:190:24:22

-Damon Hill.

-Yeah. Which breed of short-legged dog

0:24:220:24:24

whose name means "badger hound" in German

0:24:240:24:26

was originally bred to pursue badgers into their burrows?

0:24:260:24:29

-Dachshund.

-Yeah.

0:24:290:24:30

What nickname was shared by the jazz pianist and composer

0:24:300:24:33

Thomas Wright Waller and the rhythm and blues singer Antoine Domino?

0:24:330:24:37

-Fats.

-Yeah.

0:24:370:24:38

Which actress plays the human rights lawyer Emma Banville

0:24:380:24:41

in the 2017 British crime thriller television drama Fearless?

0:24:410:24:46

Pass.

0:24:460:24:47

Chou-fleur is the French word

0:24:470:24:49

for a variety of the cabbage plant family,

0:24:490:24:51

usually served cooked. What's it called?

0:24:510:24:52

-Cauliflower.

-Yeah.

0:24:520:24:54

Who was elected South Africa's President in 1994,

0:24:540:24:56

after the country held its first elections

0:24:560:24:58

in which all races were allowed to vote?

0:24:580:25:00

-Nelson Mandela.

-Yes.

0:25:000:25:01

The Bulgarian holiday resorts of Burgas and Varna

0:25:010:25:04

lie on the coast of which large inland sea?

0:25:040:25:07

-Aegean?

-The Black Sea.

0:25:070:25:09

Which Shakespeare play that features two sets of twins

0:25:090:25:12

was the inspiration for the stage musical The Boys From Syracuse?

0:25:120:25:15

Oh... Pass.

0:25:160:25:19

What name is given to an open square in an Italian town or city?

0:25:190:25:22

-Piazza.

-Yes.

0:25:220:25:24

Frederick William Pomeroy's gilt-bronze statue of Justice

0:25:240:25:27

stands on top of a London court building. Which building?

0:25:270:25:30

-The Old Bailey.

-Yes.

0:25:300:25:31

In which American city in Utah

0:25:310:25:33

are the headquarters of the Mormon religion?

0:25:330:25:36

Um...

0:25:360:25:37

Pass.

0:25:380:25:39

Whose major achievements, before she turned to marathon running,

0:25:390:25:42

include a silver medal in the Women's 10,000 metres

0:25:420:25:45

at the 1999 World Athletics Championships?

0:25:450:25:48

-Paula Radcliffe.

-Yeah.

0:25:480:25:49

Which British writer, actor and comedian

0:25:490:25:51

made his directorial debut in 2003

0:25:510:25:53

with a screen version of Evelyn Waugh's novel Vile Bodies...

0:25:530:25:56

BEEP ..called Bright Young Things?

0:25:560:25:59

-Pass.

-I shall tell you, because you are out of time -

0:26:010:26:04

-Stephen Fry.

-Oh, of course!

-Yes.

0:26:040:26:06

And the other passes -

0:26:060:26:07

that city that's the headquarters of the Mormon religion,

0:26:070:26:11

-Salt Lake City.

-Salt Lake City.

-Yeah. Salt Lake City.

0:26:110:26:13

The Comedy Of Errors was the Shakespeare play,

0:26:130:26:16

and Helen McCrory played Emma Banville.

0:26:160:26:20

You have scored, Laurence, 23 points.

0:26:200:26:24

APPLAUSE

0:26:240:26:26

Well, it stayed very close. Let's have a look at all of the scores.

0:26:360:26:39

In fourth place, 11 points, Vogue.

0:26:390:26:41

Third place, 15 points, Martin.

0:26:410:26:44

Second place, 21 points, John.

0:26:440:26:46

First place, 23 points, Laurence.

0:26:460:26:49

APPLAUSE

0:26:490:26:51

-Congratulations.

-Thank you very much.

0:27:020:27:05

-I don't know...

-That's brill.

0:27:050:27:07

I don't know whether it has any historic value -

0:27:070:27:09

you might be able to talk about it one day.

0:27:090:27:11

It will do in time. I'll bury it in the garden,

0:27:110:27:13

and make sure somebody digs it up

0:27:130:27:15

-in a couple of hundred years.

-Well done.

-Thank you very much.

0:27:150:27:18

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0:27:180:27:20

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0:27:200:27:21

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0:27:210:27:24

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0:27:240:27:27

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0:27:290:27:31

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0:27:320:27:35

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0:27:350:27:37

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