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 David Walliams (Walliams), Katherine Ryan and Aisling Bea (Foreign Twerkers), and Noel Fielding and Richard Ayaode (Humanity's Last Hope). This quiz focused on all sorts of factual information from history, science, music, words and language, film and sport and games 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: Tom Hiddleston & Taylor Swift (Hiddleswift) and Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie (Brangelina) splitting, King of France Louis XVI beheaded during the French Revolution in January 1793, the sinking of Titanic in 1912 (and the movie starring Kate Winslet), William the Conqueror dieting by only drinking alcohol, the shutdown of music download website Napster after being sued by Metallica due to copyright infringement, the job of the knocker-upper (employed to knock on workers' windows for their shifts), King Edward abdicating, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, John Lennon, Elvis Presley, "It's Raining Men" by The Weather Girls, "Life" by Des'ree in a poll voted "worst ever pop lyric" ("I don't want to see a ghost, it's a sight that I fear most, I'd rather have a piece of toast, and watch the evening news"), banned songs ("When I'm Cleaning Windows" by George Fornby, "God Save the Queen" by The Sex Pistols and "Love to Love You Baby" by Donna Summer), rock band Kiss bringing out merchandise coffins called Kiss Kaskets, "It Wasn't Me" by Shaggy feat. Ricardo "Rikrok" Ducent, Enema of the State by Blink-182, 21 by Adele, Bridge over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel, famous Doctor Who enemies apart from the Daleks and the Cybermen (including the Sontarans, The Master, The Weeping Angels, Ice Warriors, Weng-Chian, the Sea Devils, and the Rani), Scream and the three rules to survive a horror film (Never have sex. Never drink and do drugs. Never say "I'll be right back"), Commando with Arnold Schwarzenegger and one of his famous quips, Miss Great Britain 1980 with Tony Monopoly singing "Girls Girls Girls", March of the Penguins, Schindler's List, The Wolf of Wall Street, Lance Armstrong formerly the world's greatest cyclist winning the Tour de France seven times but stripped of the titles when admitting to doping, gangster and criminal mastermind Al Capone sent to prison for tax evasion, 18-year-old Joan of Arc leading an army in a military campaign, Calendar Girls (the Rylstone Women's Institute charity nude calendar), the life of Andy Warhol, Alan Steadman as the voice of the speaking clock service on the telephone, Salman Rushdie in hiding, the terrifying original incarnation of Ronald McDonald, items of clothing worn by celebrities (the pink conical bra of Madonna, the swan dress of Björk, the trousers of MC Hammer from "U Can't Touch This", the meat dress of Lady Gaga, the paper bag saying "I Am Not Famous Anymore" worn by Shia LeBeouf, the outfit and albino Burmese python of Britney Spears), Dolly the sheep being the first mammal to be cloned, tooth enamel being the hardest thing in the human body, Francis Crick and James Crick discovering DNA, Isaac Asimov and the Three Laws of Robotics (A robot may not harm a human or allow a human to come to harm. A robot must obey orders given by a human, unless it contradicts the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence, unless it contradicts the First or Second Law), the distance from your elbow to your wrist is the same length as your foot, a newborn baby having instinctive grip reflex, sporting celebrations (by Usain Bolt, Peter Crouch and Novak Djokovic), the Magic 8-Ball fortune telling toy, tennis players wearing white to hide sweat patches, the Pez Dispencer originally made to help stop smoking, the original Valentine's Day "Rose are red, violets are blue"poem, the O. J. Simpson murder trial, John Wayne Bobbitt having his penis cut off then reattached and him becoming a porn star, former NASA intern Thad Roberts stealing Moon rocks to have sex on, the 999 emergency telephone service launched in 1937, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle assisting the case of the disappearance of Agatha Christie, the Cottingley Fairies, and R&B and rap classic performed in a classical style ("In da Club" by 50 Cent, "SexyBack" by Justin Timberlake, "Super Bass" by Nicki Minaj, and "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice). 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, Charles Dance who reads online negative film reviews, Derren Brown, Darcey Bussell, Neville Creed and the London Philharmonic Choir, Joey Essex describing a historical figure, Countdown host (and former star of The Apprentice) Nick Hewer, Olympics Gold medal winners Laura and Jason Kenny, Made in Chelsea's Ollie Locke, Paralympics Gold medal winner Jonnie Peacock, and fitness guru Joe Wicks. 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!