Sleb Mastermind - Show 8

Celebrity Mastermind – show 8 – Wednesday 6th January

Another day, another 4 celebrities. We are, according to John Humphrys, a nation obsessed with celebrities. Well, maybe so. I’m not going to lie, I’ve certainly enjoyed this series. Tonight’s contenders were Michael Winner, Mishal Husain, Dom Joly and John Bird. Michael Winner kicked off the specialist rounds. Answering on behalf of the Police Memorial Trust, he offered us British films of the 60s. Considering that he was responsible for some British film in the 60s himself, I was surprised that he didn’t do just a little bit better than this, since this was I thought a pretty gentle round in terms of the level of the questions that were asked. He scored 7 and 4 passes, and I’m afraid a certain amount of scorn from the Clark sofa for not knowing that Sid James played Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond in Carry on Up The Khyber – where, incidentally the Llanberis Pass stood in for the Khyber.

Mishal Husain offered us something different in the way of a charity in the shape of the Burma Star Association. Good on you ! she offered something a little more traditional in her choice of specialist subject, namely, C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia.She put on a pretty decent showing as well . Last year 12 points would have given her a shout. This series, though, the scores have been higher. Still, a praiseworthy performance.

TV Prankster Dom Joly , whose fee was donated to the Friends of Paternoster School, was answering on the Presidency of Jimmy Carter. Yes, for all of us who mainly remember Carter for a grin so full of teeth that it could put an Osmond to shame, there was quite a bit more to the man than met the eye. So Dom Joly can be pleased with his score of 13. All together now – anything in the teens on specialist is a good performance.

John Bird brought the Specialist rounds to a close tonight. His chosen charity was the Blue Cross, and his chosen specialist subject was the Life and Works of Igor Stravinsky. I’m sorry, but I’m so used to John Bird’s brilliantly deadpan delivery in all of those sketches with John Fortune that I kept thinking that this must be a send up. It clearly wasn’t though, since John Bird really knew his stuff on Stravinsky. I’m afraid that all I really know about Stravinsky can be summed up as – Stravinsky – Rite of Spring – Riot on first performance – Dinosaurs sequence in Disney’s Fantasia. John Bird scored 15 and no passes, and looked a good bet at the halfway stage.

Twinkly wrinkly Michael Winner returned to the chair to explain that in a battle between the star and the director, the star always wins. He did give the example of Steve Macqueen, who himself was the subject of a specialist round in my Mastermind final ! Michael caused a generous round of laughter, since, when asked a question about the workings of a theatre, he replied “I don’t do theatre !” Would it be very rude of me to say that a couple of his films aren’t much to write home about either. Probably, so lets just say that he took his total to 13. Mishal Husain explained how she came to present the news really by accident, since there was no one else to do it at the time. I’m sure there was a little more to it than that. A pretty good round saw her get into double figures, and I’m sure that Jilly Cooper, if she was watching, was amused by the suggestion that her novel Riders may have been written by H. Rider Haggard !

The order for the GK round was the same as the specialist, so Dom Joly followed. He explained that Trigger Happy TV never worked in the USA, because people don’t have the same awkward reserve that we Brits do. He’s probably got a point. This was definitely the pick of the GK rounds tonight, as he scored a very impressive 16 and 3 passes. That’s what you have to do if you want to put pressure on the guy in the lead. At one stage, too, it looked as if the pressure was going to tell. This was not a comfortable round, as he struggled on some, passed a couple, but just about clawed his way there to the 14 he needed for 29 on the very last question. On countback, his three passes to Dom’s 6 was enough to do it. Well done guys – good show !


The Details

Michael Winner	British films of the 1960s	7 - 4	6 - 3	13 - 7
Mishal Husain	The Chronicles of Narnia	12 - 4	11 - 4	23 - 8
Dom Joly	The Presidency of Jimmy Carter	13 - 3	16 - 3	29 - 6
John Bird	The Life and Work of Igor Stravinsky	15 - 0	14- 3	29 – 3

Sleb Mastermind - Show 7

Celebrity Mastermind – Show 7 – Tuesday 5th January 2010

Show seven provided us with a typically wide cross-section of specialist subjects. First up was Tony Parsons, whose fee was being donated to Scope. Cards on the table, I like Tony Parsons’ novels a lot, so perhaps I didn’t do too much for his chances by supporting him from the infamous Clark sofa.Tony was answering questions on British Punk, which is hardly surprising since I believe that he cut his teeth as a young music journalist writing about the punk scene. I did know one of his passes myself, that it was the Boomtown rats who took their name from a phrase in Woody Guthrie’s autobiography. Still, a score of double figures is always pretty respectable. 11 points set the mark for the rest.

Russell Grant, supporting the Alzheimer’s Society, answered on the County of Middlesex. This was of particular interest to Yours Truly, since I was born in 1964, the year before Greater London came into being, and I was born in an area which was still a part of Middlesex until that time. My folks always insisted on writing Middlesex as part of their address, long after it had officially ceased to exist. However, since this is LAM and not All Our Yesterdays, I shall curtail this digression now. I loved the question Russell was asked about the Bruce Castle Museum. This is literally within walking distance of my Mum’s home in Tottenham ! Enough of the personal details. Suffice it to say that this was an extremely wide ranging round, and I thought that Russell Grant did well to score 13.

The actress Diane Parish, probably best known for being one of Lovejoy’s last sidekicks, and then for her current role in Eastenders, was representing the African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust. She offered us the TV series Frasier. She snapped up all the straightforward questions, but floundered somewhat on a set of questions which asked for what looked like a very detailed knowledge of the minutiae of specific episodes. I thought that this was a bit mean, especially when you consider that were no less than 264 episodes made ! The pass spiral has been pretty rare during this series, but unfortunately Diane fell into one, and scored 5.

Paul Gambaccini , who donated his fee to Stonewall, answered questions on DC comics. This was the pick of the rounds. I would venture to say that between 8 and 10 of these questions were relatively straightforward, since I’m not a DC comics fanatic myself, but managed to get 9 of them. However Mr. Gambaccini did considerably better, and scored a near perfect 16, only one answer getting way from him in the whole round.

Diane Parish explained how the fact that Eastenders is recorded anything up to 10 weeks in advance means that they sometimes use the artifice of sticking blossom to the trees. Unfortunately Diane fell into another pass spiral, in a set of GK questions that just didn’t seem to suit. She finished with 11. Tony Parsons apologetically explained to John Humphrys that his own books sold much better than John Humphrys’ because success always goes to the idiots who don’t deserve it. He’s being self deprecating. He mentioned his book “Man and Boy” and I can thoroughly recommend it. Fair play, he gave it a lash, and scored 10, although he’ll be kicking himself for not realising that Poly Vinyl Chloride is known by the abbreviation PVC.

Russell Grant boasted of his Welsh ancestry before his GK round, but whether this was an attempt to curry favour with Sion Bach, is not for me to say. This was a rather entertaining GK round, with Russell Grant identifying Ally McCoist as “Alex something or other “, and Ian Paisley as “Oh – T – T – T – Trimble. “ He didn’t quite manage double figures, but his nine was enough to give him the lead, with only Paul Gambaccini to go. John had hardly let Paul sit down before he said, “Paul, we have to talk about X Factor. “ Really ? Just because the man doesn’t like it ? I don’t like brussels sprouts, John, but you never forced me to talk about them when I was in the chair. Still, on the subject of the X Factor, Paul suggested that a Bob Dylan would never have taken part in the X Factor. Well, true, but then a Bob Dylan would never have won the X Factor either. Still, lets not go there for now. Paul’s score of 12 was unimpressive by the standards of this series, but it brought him a praiseworthy 28, and a comfortable win of 6 points.

As he picked up his trophy Paul Gambaccini paid tribute to the show, which he said he had always watched since he used to watch as a student back in the days of Magnus Magnusson. Without wishing to be harsh, it must have been in the very earliest days of Mastermind if he was still a student, since his radio 1 career began in 1973, I believe. Still, I’m all for paying tribute to the history and tradition of the show, so full marks for that. Well done, sir.


The Details

Tony Parsons	British Punk	11 - 4	10 - 3	21 - 7
Russell Grant	The County of Middlesex	13 - 3	9 - 1	22 - 4
Diane Parish	Frasier	5 – 9	6 - 5	11 – 14
Paul Gambaccini	DC Comics	16 - 0	12 - 0	28 – 0

TV Watch - Only Connect

OnlyConnect – Round One – The Archers v. The Music Lovers.

Ah, the return of the powerhouse University Challenge and Only Connect Monday Night Double Whammy ! Our cup runneth over ! I think I may have told you already that I did get as far as joining a team to apply for this series, but the filming date was, alas, a date which I absolutely could not manage due to Mum’s 70th birthday, and our team captain moving house on the same day. Such is life. Still, it means that I can watch this series with my usual neutral(ish) dispassionate eye, and enjoy it as much as ever.

Kicking off the series we had the Archers Admirers and The Music Lovers. The Archers admirers were a team I’m not familiar with , consisting of Paul Peters, Andrew Bull and captain Min Lacey. I have met two of the Music Lovers, however. Don Purdey I don’t know, but in this company he’ll be no mug, you can be sure of that. Steve Kidd has been on a large number of shows. He’s a dedicated quiz fanatic, who has appeared on many shows in his time, and is the man behind 2007’s prestigious Qu12 competition. Diane Hallagan is also a very well known quizzer. She was the Di of Di’s Diamonds, the first ever winners of the first series of Battle of the Brains. I believe she was also a member of the team that won the last running of Radio 4’s Masterteam competition.

Round One – what’s the connection ?

The Music Lovers surprisingly gave away a bonus on Blue Peter Pets in round one. They redeemed themselves with a very difficult connection on hybrids. Archers Admirers came close to getting their second clue – they could see they were postcodes in Belfast, Edinburgh, Cardiff etc. but picked out National Rugby stadia rather than parliaments. Still the Music Lovers failed to pick up the bonus, leaving the Archers in contention. Still, they failed to spot a music connection of all performed by married couples, which the Music Lovers were happy to snap up for a 5 – 2 lead. Pretty much as you might have expected.

Round Two – predict the 4th in the sequence

Music Lovers picked up their first connection as coming from the song – A, You’re Adorable, but both teams failed to remember that D would be – You’re a Darling. On two clues the Archers predicted that Member, and Officer would eventually lead to Knight, these being the successive ranks of the Order of the British Empire. However the music lovers then got their own on only two clues, predicting that D would be the third letter on the middle row of a typewriter. The Archers took their next for a single point. They also took a bonus by predicting that John Constable, Sergeant Wilson and The Hotel Inspector would be followed by a Chief Inspector when this stumped the Music Lovers. So at the end of the round it was all square on 8 points. The unfancied Archers were making a real fist of it.

Connections Wall

Last series we found that the connections wall were more fiendish than they had seemed to be in the first series. I personally found both walls gettable tonight, and before you start to think that this sounds arrogant I will freely admit that this is something of a personal record for me. Archers Admirers went first , and though there was a lot of faffing about they got all four sets before the time went out. They solved the connections as well, so whatever happened they were still going to be at least the joint leaders at the end of the round. To their credit the Music Lovers also managed this feat too.Full marks to the setters. I felt that both walls were of a very similar level of difficulty, and that’s not always easy to achieve. I will admit, I have never heard of the satirical magazine The Onion myself, but then that’s another good reason for tuning in – learning something you never knew before.

Missing Vowels

As so often, the last round was going to be decisive. The Archers Admirers took the first 8 points without reply. The first set were on French phrases commonly used in English. Déjà vu cropped up twice – geddit ! Actually I thought that was clever, and also pretty funny too, in a radio 4 sort of way. The Music Lovers fought a valiant rearguard action, but were clearly second best at this stage, and lost by 24 points to 35. So well done Archers ! You don’t get any mugs in Only Connect anyway, but the Music Lovers were a serious scalp to take.

Welcome back Only Connect. Its only been a few months, but I’ve missed you.

TV Watch - University Challenge

University Challenge – Quarter Final Match 1 – St. John’s College Oxford v. Girton College Cambridge

At last the quarter finals begin. In my last post I did try to explain the rather complicated system being used this year. I’m not going o try to explain it all over again, as I’m sure it will all become clear over the next few weeks. Whatever happens I’m sure the principle of it being generally a good idea to score more points than the opposition will still hold good.

St. John’s College Oxford have been one of the blue chip teams of this series so far. Not including Emmanuel, a special case since they lost their first round match, St. Johns have scored more points than any other team, and have scored an impressive 65% of all the points in their two matches so far. Girton on the other hand have won through some quite close matches, winning 53% of the points in their two matches. So they at least know how to grit it out when the going is tight.

Miss Cawley of Girton claimed the first starter, recognising that a huge number of different items on a list had all been tried as cures for scurvy. Only one bonus was taken. St. John’s hit back immediately, and impressed with the way they understood two out of three bonuses on definitions from Johnson’s Dictionary. 10 minutes into the show and both teams were finding it difficult to answer a full set of bonuses. St. John’s had a lead of 55 to Girton’s 25.

During the second third of the show I found myself becoming increasingly distracted by Mr. Townsend of St. John’s magnificent set of what appeared to be mutton chop whiskers. Maybe this was because they were shutting Girton out during this mid period of the match. On just over the halfway mark they passed the 100 point barrier, with some good buzzing from Captain Woodhuysen. St. John’s dominance was not quite as impressive as Corpus Christi’s last year,since a number of starters did go unclaimed by either team. Nonetheless, St. John's had so completely shut out Girton for much of the contest that Girton were still stuck on 25 by the 20 minute mark, as we moved into the last third of the contest. Then Miss Cawley recognised the painting Impression Soleil Levant as being by Monet. Their 40 points looked a lot more healthy than 25. Another starter and a bonus took them to 55. However it should be said that St. John’s had already passed the 200 point mark, and the game was long finished as a serious contest. Lets not underestimate the relentless nature of St. John’s performance tonight. They won by 280 points to Girton’s 55.That means that St. John's scored a little over 83% of all the points won by either team in the contest, a measure of their dominance over Girton tonight. Of course that doesn’t mean that Girton are out of the semis. It doesn’t mean that St. John’s are in the semis either, but you’d be a brave person to bet against them after this.

Jeremy Paxman Watch

Ah, the return of the fearless Paxman who doesn't care who he upsets with what he says. This is what we have been waiting for ! On the subject of the format changes he suggested that any team who can understand the Byzantine complications of qualification for the semis is over qualified for next year’s series. Couldn’t have put it better myself !
Our Jeremy also impressed with a triple whammy on a set of bonuses about instrumental hits of the 1960s - before any of the contestants, and possibly any of their parents, were born. When St. John’s made a speculative guess that the song Apache was by the Eagles he sighed
“Where Are Your Grandparents when you need them ? “
The very next saw them fail to identify Albatross by Fleetwood Mac, which prompted our man to say what a shame it is that this piece of music is only known for an M and S advert nowadays. Who said the Beeb don’t advertise? Finally, he completed his hattrick, when st. John’s apologised for not knowing “Telstar” by the Tornados, to which he replied
“No need to apologise for not knowing that rubbish !”


Interesting Fact That I Didn’t Already Know Of The Week

Jack Nicklaus is ( or was ) on the back of a Scottish £5 note.

Sleb Mastermind Show 6

Celebrity Mastermind – Show 6 – Monday 4th January

The second week of slebs in the chair started with comedian Stewart Lee. Actually, I say comedian, but there’s more to Stewart Lee than just that. Did you know that he co-wrote “Jerry Springer, the Opera “ ? Well, if you watched this show you did. Stewart Lee offered us the only subject about which I knew absolutely nothing. Derek Bailey , who died five years ago, was a great British jazz guitarist. It sounds obvious to say it, but Stewart Lee is obviously a huge fan, since he scored a massive 17 points, representing the Motor Neurone Disease Association.

John Thompson offered us a seriously popular culture subject , in the shape of James Bond Villains. He says that he would desperately love to play a Bond villain himself, and suggested that a northern English son of Hugo Drax might be in order. We’ll see. This round was particularly on Bond movie villains, rather than the originals from the books themselves. A bit of a dodgy start held him up a bit, but when he got into hi stride he virtually rattled them off, and finished with a fine 14 points. John was donating his fee to Cancer Research UK

Paralympian swimmer Sasha Kindred was representing the Fire Fighters Charity tonight. He offered us the subject of Manchester United from 1990 to the Present Day. This was a surprisingly wide ranging round considering the relatively narrow twenty year time frame, and the fact we were only dealing with one club. Sasha Kindred was equal to the task, though, and got into double figures, scoring 10 points and 3 passes.

Matthew Lewis , as John Humphrys pointed out on at least three separate occasions, is best known for playing Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter films. Nuff said. He showed impeccable musical taste by picking Oasis as his specialist subject. He didn’t do a bad job either, considering that this was another wide ranging round which went some way beyond the songs and the records themselves. He donated his fee for the show to CAFOD.

Sasha Kindred started the GK round a daunting 7 points behind Stewart Lee, and never looked as if he was going to make a huge impression on the lead. He finished with 14 points. Matthew Lewis is probably the youngest person to take part in this series, and I’m sorry, but someone this young is at a disadvantage in a general knowledge round. So his 9 points was actually a pretty good performance, all things being considered, and it did at least mean that he had set a score that the others would have to try to beat.

John Thompson never looked 100% convincing in his general knowledge round. Still, as the man who gave us ‘Welcome to Jazz Club . . . Grrreeeaaattttt ‘ in the Fast Show I was rooting for him to do well. At the end he was asked which actress is the mother of actor Sam West. He knew who it was, at one point telling us that it was the actress who played Sybil Fawlty. Well, quite right John. Unfortunately he didn’t quite manage to mention that her name is Prunella Scales, and so missed the point. Still, at least 25 meant that Stewart Lee had to score 9 to win, and going by tonight’s rounds, maybe that wasn’t going to be a foregone conclusion.

So it proved. Stewart rattled along comfortably for the first minute . However, once he reached 25, and only needed one more, he embarked upon a spiral of passes and wrong answers that he only managed to extricate himself from on the penultimate question. Still, a win by a point is still a win, and his score of 26, while more modest by the standards of this particular series, was enough to bring him the trophy.

The Details

Stewart Lee	The Life and Work of Derek Bailey	17- 0	9 – 7	26 - 7
John Thompson	James Bond Villains	14 – 0	11 – 4	25 – 4
Sasha Kindred	Manchester United 1990 – present	10 – 3	4 – 7	14 - 10
Matthew Lewis	Oasis	13 – 1	9 – 3	22 – 4

Radio Listen - Brain of Britain

Brain of Britain – Semi Final 1

Well, here we are at the start of the semi final stage. Today’s contest was between : -
Ali Arnold
Marie Coyle
Rob Hannah
Roger Johnson

Marie Coyle was, I believe, the high scoring runner up from the first round in this semi final. According to Russell Davies, at the start of the show, for this series the four runners up have been spread between the 4 semi finals, rather than having a semi all to themselves. Oh well, it doesn’t matter who you’re playing against in the semis, you either score higher than everyone else does, or you don’t get to the final.

Ali Arnold made an electrifying start to the contest, getting the first five questions of the night all correct to add a bonus. Not only that, but she buzzed in correctly for another bonus as well. This gave her a remarkable 7 points, and a lead of five as we went into the second round. In this round Roger Johnson opened his account, Ali Arnold added another point, but Marie Coyle cut back her lead , taking her own score to five. In the last round before the break Ali Arnold slowed to a halt, while Marie Coyle managed her own set of five to take the lead. Rob Hannah had his best set of his own questions in this round, just missing out on the bonus, but still taking 4 to narrow the gap between himself and second place to 1 point. So at the break, Marie Coyle led with 12 points, from Ali Arnold with 8, Rob Hannah with 7, and Roger Johnson with three.

The listener’s questions were a little bit kinder than they have been of late. The first one asked which of which office Sir John Houblon had been the very first holder. The panel gave the answer “Head of the Bank Of England “ and I think they were just about allowed this one, since the correct answer was the Governor of the Bank of England. The second question asked who had preceded him on the £50 note, and I was a little surprised that none of the panel remembered that it was Sir Christopher Wren. Well, I know that Rob is too young, so I guess that the others must be as well.

So coming back to the contest, Marie Coyle looked to be in the driving seat, but she hadn’t broken the elastic between herself and the chasing pack yet. Rob managed to cut the lead to 3 points with a set of 3. Meanwhile Roger Johnson was mounting a late charge, scoring no less than five points in the round to draw level with Ali Arnold. In the next round Marie and Rob were the only ones to score at all, and both added 2 points. So, going into the last round Marie Coyle had 15, Rob Hannah had 12, and both Ali Arnold and Roger Johnson had 8.

Amazingly, Ali Arnold reproduced her splendid form of the first round, and scored her second set of five, and another bonus to take her to 15. Heartbreakingly for Marie Coyle she failed to score during the round for the first time in the whole competition. Roger Johnson stayed on 8. Rob Hannah though scored two on his own questions, and took two good bonuses, and for the first time in the competition, he took the lead. Well, if you’re going to be leading at the end of any round, the last round is the one to do it in.

So well done Rob for winning, and reaching the final – great performance of keeping your nerve, and battling on. Very bad luck to three splendid competitors as well.

Sleb Mastermind - Show 5

Celebrity Mastermind – Show 5 – Friday 1st January, 2010

According to my research this is a 10 show series of sleb MM, as opposed to the usual run of 5. So I shall refrain from posting the stats of the series until after the last show has been aired. This is interesting, since I believe that we are only just over a week away from the recommencement of the current series of proper Mastermind. Will the two overlap ? Surely not.

On to tonight’s show, then. Ed Byrne is a well known Irish comedian, with many appearances on panel games such as Mock The Week and Never Mind the Buzzcocks under his belt. Tonight he offered us the Star Trek Movies, a sort of companion piece to Darren Bennett earlier in the week who took the Star Wars movies. I think there’s more Trek films to revise. Ed’s fees were going to Console – Living with Suicide.No need for Ed to feel suicidal about this performance either, since 13 is a good score, and at least gave him a shout in the next round.

Remember Anneka Rice ? Not if you’re under 30, doubtless. Still, a significant number of us probably quite fondly remember the Challenge Anneka programme. Tonight her challenge was to answer questions on Jean Rhys. Jean Rhys is best known for writing “Wide Sargasso Sea”, a sort of prequel to one of my less favourite books. I have a theory that the world is divided up between Jane Eyre people and Wuthering Heights people, and I’m a Wuthering Heights person. Alright its not much of a theory, but there you go. Coming back to Anneka, her fee was being donated to Chase Hospice for Children.This was a magnificent round of 18, with no slip ups until 2 of the last three questions.

Tristan Gemmill plays a doctor in Casualty, and has also been in Eastenders at one time. He’s certainly a man after my own heart, choosing the Apollo Moon Programme as his specialist. I was got up by my parents at some ungodly hour in the night when I was five years old to watch Neil and Buzz make their first ever moon walk, and I’ve always been fascinated by the Apollo programme ever since. Tristan’s fee for the show was donated to The Forever Friends Appeal of the Royal United Hospital Bath . This was another very good round. As I said, I’m fascinated by the Apollo programme myself, but I only managed half the number that Tristram Gemmill managed – he certainly had done his homework, and at the halfway stage 15 at least meant that he was in contention, even if there was a bit of daylight between himself and Anneka.

John Bishop , comic and actor, is not someone I knew of before the show. Still, we at LAM try to give everyone a fair crack of the whip. Answering on the Irish Potato Famine, John’s fees were donated to The Smile Train. The Potato Famine turns out to be a much wider subject than you might expect, and so John Bishop didn’t manage to put himself up amongst the chasing pack, scoring 9. This ensured a swift return to the chair. In the inter round chat he explained that 3 years ago he decided to give everything up to become a comedian, and the rest is history. A flying start to the round looked good, but a failure to identify Major Major as being a character in Catch 22 stopped him dead in his tracks, os in the end he managed 9 , to equal Anneka’s 18.

Ed Byrne explained how he may get hate mail for getting some of his Star Trek questions wrong. Surely not. He might get hate mail from Alan Carr for not remembering that he co-presents the Friday / Sunday Night project with JLC. Still, as we always say, anything in the teens is a good GK score, and Ed scored 14 to give himself at least an outside chance of the trophy. Tristan Gemmill soon put paid to Ed’s chances, though, with a great score of 16, even though he’ll be kicking himself for not getting the nut named after a country of South America – the Brazil Nut. Still, he deserves credit for becoming the latest member of the 30 plus club.

The challenge facing Anneka in the last of the GK rounds, then, was to score 13 points and 1 pass or better. It became pretty clear within a short space of time that Anneka wasn’t going to do it. There’s nothing wrong with the score that she got, but there were just too many questions where the answer wouldn’t come, and the flippant answer threw the correct one out of her mind – eg – Bedlington and Skye are examples of which species of dogs – answer – fierce ones. Well, sometimes, yes, but not the kind of thing to bring you the poins you need for the win. So, Well done Tristan Gemmill.


The details

Ed Byrne	Star Trek Movies	13 - 4	14 - 2	27 - 6
Anneka Rice	Life and Career of Jean Rhys	18 - 1	10 - 7	28 - 8
Tristan Gemmill	The Apollo Moon Programme	15 – 0	16 - 3	31 - 3
John Bishop	The Irish Potato Famine	9 - 5	9 - 3	18 - 8