User Reviews

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 Adam Buxton (Two Great Guys Trying Their Best / The Ancient F words), Ailing Bea and Rob Beckett (Tits and Teeth), and Richard Ayoade and Noel Fielding (The Sultans of Bhunai). This quiz focused on all sorts of factual information from history, science and technology, music, crime and punishment, food and drink, and film and TV 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: 15th century ruler Vlad the Impaler, Martin Luther King arrested 30 times during his civil rights campaigning, Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife Joséphine, the War of the Roses, the Neanderthal voice, Pandora's Box, the Nobel Peace Prize founded in 1895, the largest organ in the human body being the skin, the theory of natural selection and evolution by Charles Darwin, the life of Isaac Newton, "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred, "Copacabana" by Barry Manilow, "Love Shack" by The B-52's, John Lennon saying The Beatles were "bigger than Jesus", Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Psycho, Trainspotting, the Krays and their gang The Firm, the 1962 escape from Alcatraz, the Guillotine which was nicknamed the Hungry Lady and the National Razor, famous hairstyles (Curtains, Victory Rolls, Mullet, The Rachel, Bob and Beehive), the sandwich named after John Montague the 4th Earl of Sandwich, the Carolina Reaper (the world's hottest chilli), Scientology founder L. Ronald Hubbard testing the theory that plants can feel pain (on tomatoes), George Bush Sr. banning broccoli from the White House and Air Force One, Kopi Luwak the world's most expensive coffee from Indonesia (made from palm civet poo), Casu Marzu cheese a delicacy in Sardinia (made containing maggots), Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock, Star Trek, young Sir Charlie Chaplin, the call sign nicknames of the pilots in Top Gun, the tagline "In space no-one can hear you scream" from Alien, and TV theme tunes (Game of Thrones, The Crystal Maze, Mastermind). 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, Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards, Joey Essex describing a historical figure, Dr. Christian Jessen, Ronan Keating, Jodie Kidd, Joey Essex, The Mariachis from the Doritos adverts, and Jerry Springer. 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!