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This edition of the show that plays out like a pub quiz celebrated 10 years of the Big Fat Quiz, since starting in 2004, and all the news events in the world over those 10 years in entertainment, TV, film, music, sport, technology and science, politics and much more, this is a great show to watch and have fun with. Hosted by Jimmy Carr, with celebrity panellists in three teams: Jonathan Ross and Warwick Davis (the Leprechaun films are mentioned), Jack Whitehall and Claudia Winkleman, and Noel Fielding and Russell Brand (The Goth Detectives). This quiz focused on ten years of news with all sorts of questions 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 in the ten years of Big Fat Quiz that were questioned and joked about included: Lady Gaga in the meat dress, Prince Harry playing naked billiards in Las Vegas, Jedward, Jamie Oliver changing school meals, #YOLO (You Only Live Once), the jump of Felix Baumgartner above the Earth's stratosphere, Leona Lewis, the BP oil spill, Daniel Craig becoming James Bond 007, George Michael crashing his car, the closure of Woolworths, Harry Potter, the Smoking Ban in 2007, the Iceland volcanic ash cloud, the rescue of the Chilean Miners watched by over a billion viewers, the discovery of the Higgs boson with the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator, the large clean up following the London Riots, a stale piece of the Royal Wedding cake sold for over $4,000 at auction, Spanish 80-year-old Cecilia Giménez who attempted to restore the church painting of Jesus called Ecce Homo (Behold the Man) by Elías García Martínez and making it look ridiculous, TV box sets becoming all the rage, The Wire, Deal or No Deal, Ashes to Ashes, Mrs. Brown's Boys, Supernanny, Strictly Come Dancing, The Thick of It, I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, Sherlock, Skins, Gunther Von Hagens documentaries, The Inbetweeners, The Great British Bake Off, The IT Crowd, Bears Grylls: Born Survivor including giving himself an enema to keep himself hydrated, "This is not just food, this is M&S food" Marks & Spencer food porn adverts, Susan Boyle losing Britain's Got Talent to Diversity and One Direction losing The X Factor to Matt Cardle, the Red Wedding in Game of Thrones, the Daleks voted greatest Doctor Who villain (the Weeping Angels were second, The Master was third), Juno, Twilight, The Iron Lady, "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt, "Sex on Fire" by Kings of Leon, the song and dance for "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) by Beyoncé, "The Fox (What Does the Fox Say)" by Ylvis, the raunchy video for "Call on Me" by Eric Prydz, mobilised fandom - One Direction fans called "Directioners", Justin Bieber fans called "Beliebers" and Lady Gaga fans called "Little Monsters", online grocery deliveries, Chatroulette, Gary Brolsma becoming a viral superstar with the "Numa Numa Song", "Baby" by Justin Bieber being the most disliked video on YouTube and "Friday" by Rebecca Black being the second, Australian teenager Corey Worthington using MySpace to invite hundreds of people to his house party, Ed Balls tweeting his own name and it being retweeted thousands of times, World of Warcraft, Lewis Hamilton becoming famous in Formula One, John Terry resigning from the England squad, Team GB performing brilliantly at the Beijing Olympics, Chris Kamara going viral on live Sky Sports missing a red card send off during a Portsmouth / Blackburn football match at Fratton Park, the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Freddie Flintoff dropped as vice captain during the Cricket World Cup 2007, the Lance Armstrong doping scandal, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes marrying and divorcing, Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills divorcing, the Paris Hilton sex tape, Charlie Sheen in a mad interview saying he was "winning", Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger landing a plane on the Hudson River, Christian Bale ranting on the set of Terminator: Salvation to a lighting technician, Anna Chapman revealed as a Russian spy, the autobiography of Jay-Z, the horse meat scandal, Zumba becoming a dance exercise craze, celebrity perfumes - David Beckham with "Instinct", Britney Spears with "Curious" and Cheryl Cole with "Stormflower", fox hunting being banned, "Stay Calm and Carry On" becoming a popular slogan, charity wristbands for support causes, SatNav blamed for crashes in rivers, British Airways staff forbidden from doing Suduko puzzles, Garra rufa fish used for feet pedicure spa treatments, Adele - 21 being the biggest-selling album in the ten years, Skyfall being the highest-grossing film in the ten years, and Angry Birds being the best-selling app in the ten years. 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 the ten years, Charles Dance who reads passages from a celebrity autobiography, Peter Andre, The X Factor star Chico Slimani, Abbey Clancy, Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry, Sir Ian McKellen, mystery guest Jon Morter who created the Facebook campaign get "Killing in the Name" by Rage Against the Machine to Christmas Number One in a protest against The X Factor, Paralympic champion Ellie Simmonds, Pineapple Dance Studios star Louie Spence, Masterchef presenter Gregg Wallace, and a Dalek (voiced by Nicholas Briggs) from Doctor Who. The jokes and the questions are what make this show so much fun, they always choose the right celebrity panellists, and it works as a funny way to reminisce on the recent events you remember, a great comedy quiz show. Very good!