Fifteen-to-One - Children in Need

On Friday 16 November 2001, there was a celebrity Fifteen to One slot on the annual BBC Children In Need fundraising night. This is a rundown on what happened.

Three teams of five:

1) Gaby Roslin
2) Philip Schofield
3) Suggs
4) Tim Vine
5) Dale Winton

6) Anthea Turner
7) John Leslie
8) Jeremy Beadle
9) Vanessa Feltz
10) Des O'Connor

11) Ainsley Harriott
12) Bradley Walsh
13) Emma Forbes
14) Nicholas Parsons
15) Terry Wogan

There are 40 questions. One hundred pounds is sponsored for each one answered correctly.

Round one, based on people's names.

QUESTIONS:

1) Which Gaby had a famous ex-footballer dad and now hosts football shows for ITV?
2) Which rock star Philip played Buster in a famous film?
3) [Suggs] Which Graham was a Goodie?
4) Which Tim in the 1960s tiptoed through a field of flowers - tulips?
5) Which Dale played Dr. Nookie in Carry On Again Doctor?

6) Which Anthea was regularly asked to "Give Us A Twirl"?
7) Which Leslie ran a TV pub and in real life is supposedly a wine expert?
8) Which Jeremy made his TV debut on the children's show Play Away?
9) Who is the most famous and loved Vanessa to ever appear in TV/films?
10) Which Des has just been let down by a Blind Date?

11) Which Harriott played piano for Bob Monkhouse and Bruce Forsyth?
12) Which Bradley (or Brad) recently married a Friend? [For an extra hundred pounds, what is his real first name?]
13) Which Emma did Diana Rigg play in The Avengers?
14) Which Nicholas is the nephew of the director of the Godfather? [For an extra hundred pounds, who was the director of the Godfather?]
15) Name either of the two Terrys who were famous Pythons. [For an extra hundred pounds, who was the other one?]

ANSWERS:

1) Yorath.
2) Collins.
3) Garden.
4) Tiny Tim. (Someone shouted out from the audience - Tim didn't know!)
5) Jim Dale.

6) Redfern.
7) Grantham.
8) Irons.
9) Redgrave.
10) Lynam.

11) Chester Harriott (Ainsley's Dad!)
12) Pitt [William Pitt!]
13) Peel.
14) Cage. [Francis Ford Coppola.]
15) Gilliam [Wogan refuses to name the other one (Jones) because IT'S HIS SHOW AND HE'LL DO WHAT HE LIKES.]

Total from the first round: GBP 1600, split 500-500-600.

Second round: the contestants can confer with the rest of their team. Mainly on quiz and game shows, but some personal ones chucked in from WGS as well.

QUESTIONS:

1) Which game show host had a cameo role in Trainspotting?
6) Who hosted a BBC game show after Bruce but before Jim?
11) Who hosted a game show based on the Spanish show Uno Dos Tres?

2) Whose father was family doctor to Nicholas Parsons?
7) Name one of the rudest ten people on TV, according to a poll in TV Times, apart from Anne Robinson.
12) Who of the 15 people here today has a name which, when scrambled up, spells WANTER ORGY?

3) Which show connects the names Monkhouse, Bygraves and Dennis?
8) Which Channel 5 game show was hosted by a nude Keith Chegwin?
13) In 1985, comedian Duncan Norvelle was banned from presenting a game show by the IBA because he was too camp. Who got the job and still hosts the show?

4) Who now hosts Mastermind on the Discovery channel?
9) What's the buzzer catchphrase on Reeves and Mortimer's "Shooting Stars"?
14) On what programme did a tub of lard replace a guest? [For an extra hundred, which guest did it replace?]

5) Who of the 15 people here today made a guest appearance on "Bless This House" in the 1970s?
10) And who of the 15 people here today has appeared on 15-to-1 as a contestant for real before tonight?
15) Who of the 15 people here today once persuaded me to put GBP 40 on a racehorse he owns and it came in well down the field at Cheltenham?

ANSWERS:

1) Dale Winton.
6) Larry Grayson.
11) Ted Rogers.

2) Nicholas Parsons.
7) Jeremy Paxman. [Or Eamonn Holmes, Jeremy Clarkson, Ian Hislop, Ruby Wax, Clive Anderson, Anne Morris, Nick Hancock or Mark Lamarr. WGS reads the whole list out to confirm nobody here tonight's on it.]
12) Terry Wogan. [William G. points out that it's a good job that Terry wasn't called Kerry. People take far too long to get this. Wogan: "I'm going to give you such a slap..." WGS: "The penny's just dropped, has it?"]

3) Family Fortunes.
8) Naked Jungle.
13) Cilla Black - Blind Date.

4) Clive Anderson.
9) We really want to see those fingers!
14) Have I Got News For You? [Extra: Roy Hattersley.]

5) Terry Wogan. [The director was one W. G. Stewart.]
10) Nicholas Parsons.
15) Des O'Connor. (who collapses laughing)

Scores: GBP 800 - GBP 800 - GBP 1100. They don't seem quite right somehow. There is much moaning that team C - and Parsons in particular - seem to get more extra questions than the rest.

Round Three: on the buzzer. Philip is playing for team A, Jeremy for team B, Nicholas for team C. Much hoo-ha as the celebs change places. Philip and Nicholas don't have a clue what's going on. (Philip even makes reference to this the next day on the live lottery inserts in Winning Lines?)

1) On which BBC programme are a snooker player, a tennis player and a footballer are the regular participants?
[Jeremy correctly answers "A Question Of Sport".]

2) Which programme on Channel 4 was the first on British television to give away a million pounds?
[Philip wrongly answers "The Big Breakfast" - it's "TFI Friday". Though I do note that BB did announce million-pound premium bond winners on air.]

• HORN*

3) Which quiz show had many of its contestants asking to be...

• HORN*

Mitch interrupts forcibly and asks WGS how much they have made. WGS says 800... 900... 2700 pounds. This should be 800... 900... and 2800 pounds