This edition of the show that plays out like a pub quiz was a special with questions about many famous facts from recorded history since the dawn of man, a surprisingly factual and as usual funny show to watch and have fun with. Hosted by Jimmy Carr, with celebrity panellists in three teams: Jonathan Ross and Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Chelsea Peretti (Cops and Wobbers), Mel Giedroyc and Jack Whitehall (The Custard Junkies), and Richard Ayoade and Noel Fielding (The Ladder Collars / Team Falafel / Russell Brand Not Available). This quiz focused on all sorts of factual information from history, film, science and technology, music, sport and games, culture and the natural world to answer about. These questions are asked as they are, with video and sound clips, with pictures (including Say What You See), and by celebrity and mystery guests on screen or in the studio, so it really does feel like a proper quiz that you can take part in. Events from history that were questioned and joked about, and mentioned (or pictured) included: William Shakespeare, Albert Einstein and his theory E=mc², Charles Darwin, the Dodo, Marilyn Monroe, Henry VII, Bill Gates, Sir Winston Churchill, the Leaning Tower of Piza, the Roman Colosseum, Rocky Balboa, Concorde, the Wright Brothers and first powered flight, man (Neil Armstrong) landing on the Moon, Tiger Woods, Isaac Newton and the theory of gravity, Steve Jobs and Apple technology, Sir Charlie Chaplin, Ludwig Beethoven, President Abraham Lincoln, the first female British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria, Cleopatra played by Dame Elizabeth Taylor, Andy Worhol, Michael Jackson, Mahatma Gandhi, The Rat Pack (Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Frank Sinatra), The Beatles, E.T. the Extra- Terrestrial, U.F.O. paranoia, the prophet Muhammad, Who are we and why are we are, quantum mechanics, Ancient Greek, Genghis Khan, Queen Victoria crowned in1837, methods for identifying witches (floating in water, urine in a cake, pricking fingers for blood, if they talked to themselves, if another witch said you were a witch then they are, pets), Tutankhamun, The Great Fire of London and the diary of Samuel Pepys, the sinking of the Titanic, Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson the king of Denmark and Norway, Citizen Kane often cited as the greatest film of all time, The Goonies, Rocky, The Expendables, famous movie lines misquoted ("Luke, I am your father", "Mrs. Robinson are you trying to seduce me", and "Do you feel lucky punch?"), a sword fight scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark sword cut short because Harrison Ford had dysentery, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (the first kind is a sighting and the second kind is physical evidence), Steamboat Bill Jr. with Buster Keaton, water phone instrument used for scary movie music, Alexander Fleming discovering Penicillin, James Watson and Francis Crick mapping DNA, space travel, Morse code, Alfred Malone inventing dynamite, Neil Armstrong being the first person to walk on the Moon followed by Buzz Aldrin who peed in his spacesuit, Sir Patrick Moore talking to a man who claims to speak alien languages, the life of Leonardo da Vinci, Sir Tim Berners-Lee inventing the World Wide Web, artworks - "The Creation of Adam" (God Creating Man) by Michelangelo, "Girl with a Pearl Earring" by Johannes Vermeer, and "American Gothic" by Grant Wood, Bob Dylan going from folk music to electric music, the death of Elvis Presley, Kym Marsh leaving Hear'Say, musicians dying aged 27 (Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix), "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen, the musician Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Elvis Presley coining the acronym TCB (Taking Care of Business), "Tubthumping" by Chumbawumba, The Beatles and Beatlemania, England winning the World Cup in 1966, Fred Perry being the most successful tennis player, the board game Monopoly, the Ancient Greeks competing with no clothing, Muhammad Ali saying "I make medicine sick", the largest muscle in the human body being the gluteus maximus, 1988 National Aerobics Championships, Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Angry Birds, the board game Twister, signals in sports, cave art from 40,00 years ago, pop artist Andy Warhol saying "everyone will be famous for 15 minutes", the Eiffel Tower, the first photograph taken of a human being in 1838, the musical Cats by Lord Sir Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Salvador Dali and the painting "Hitler Masturbating", the classification of animals, Charles Darwin and his novel "The Origin of Species", whale vomit used in perfumes, Jane Goodall discovering chimps like humans can use tools, Aurora Borealis aka Mount Everest, Myotonic Goat, and when dinosaurs ruled the earth a single continent existed called Pangea. Other celebrity and special mystery guests in the show included the children of Mitchell Brook Primary School in Neasden who act out well known news stories, Jon Snow who reads news related to lyrics from songs of history and dances to it, Darcey Bussell, Alesha Dixon, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Joey Essex describing a historical figure, Chris Kamara, Little Mix (Perrie Edwards, Jesy Nelson, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Jade Thirlwall), Gareth Malone, Kevin McCloud, Gogglebox stars Steph and Dom Parker, Paul Whitehouse, and a Tyrannosaurus Rex. The jokes and the questions are what make this show so much fun, they chose the right celebrity panellists, and it also works as a funny way to find out and reflect on things you may or not know from history, a great comedy quiz show. Very good!
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