No, it’s not Jester Bolofski’s Medieval Torture Hour, it is in fact
another edition of Sleb Mastermind. I think that there may be a couple still to
go after this one.
First up was former Blue Peter presenter Gethin Jones. Poor old
Gethin presented the awful 21 Questions last year, so at least it will have
been nice for him to have got to participate in a proper quiz show for once.
Miaow. He was answering on International Welsh rugby 2000 – 2010. As an
Englishman who has been living in Wales since 1900 and frozen to death you’ll
probably appreciate that this wasn’t necessarily my favourite subject of all
time. For all that, though, I managed 9 points on this round, which was one
more than Gethin’s 8.
Second up was Ben Bailey Smith. Ben is another of those actors whose
face you’d have recognised immediately without necessarily having been able to
put a name to it. He’s made appearences in many TV shows – some serious,
others, like the Inbetweeners, less so. Ben was answering on The Films of the
Marx Brothers, and shame though it is to admit it, my own knowledge of their
oeuvre is somewhat limited. Ben too managed 8 points, and in the context of
this sleb series that ain’t at all bad.
Aasmah Mir on the surface appeared to be this show’s sacrificial BBC
radio presenter. I can’t say that I was very familiar with her work before the
show. Aasmah was answering on the novels of Hanif Kureishi. I’m afraid that my
own knowledge of these begins and ends with the BBC adaptation of The Buddha of
Suburbia. Aasmah though wasn’t the least but shaken by what looked like some
fairly complicated in depth questions, and only just missed out on double
figures, scoring 9.
I’ll be honest, it must be quite a few years since I saw Mark Little
on TV – in the interim he’s gone grey and grown a beard, although not
necessarily in that order. As was highlighted by John in the half time chat,
Mark was first known in the UK in his role of Joe Mangel in Neighbours, and I’m
not entirely sure that he’s ever quite shaken it off – although a few years ago
he was a pretty well known face on the celebrity panel game circuit. He was
answering on Hunter S. Thompson – and he too faced his own barrage of what
seemed to be quite complicated stuff. He didn’t do quite so well with these,
and ended with 6.
No real pyrotechnics followed from any of the slebs on the GK
rounds. Mark Little managed to double his score to 12. Gethin started quite
well on his, but the gears ground to a halt some time before the halfway stage,
and in the end he couldn’t do more than increase the bar to 13, with 5 points
on general. After claiming not to have any general knowledge at all Ben Bailey-
Smith gave the lie to this suggestion by picking off another 8 points to add to
his own title. Yes, it’s not spectacular, but it’s a perfectly respectable sleb
score. All of which left Aasmah requiring 8 points for an outright win. It
never looked like she was going to smash this target over the boundary rope,
but to be fair it never looked like she wouldn’t get there either. She duly
did, with a couple of points daylight between herself and the chasing pack,
finishing with 18. Well done.
The Details
| Gethin Jones | Renewable World | Wales International Rugby 2000 – 2010 | 8 – 1 | 5 - 3 | 13 - 4 |
| Ben Bailey Smith | St. Stephen’s Canonbury | The films of the Marx Brothers | 8 - 2 | 8 - 3 | 16 - 5 |
| Aasmah Mir | Carerslink East Dunbartonshire | The Novels of Hanif Jureishi | 9 - 2 | 9 - 2 | 18 - 4 |
| Mark Little | Haringey Foodbank at the Trussell Trust | Hunter S. Thompson | 6 - 1 | 6 - 1 | 12 – 2 |
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