Stephen Fry on BBC Celebrity Mastermind (2003) answering questions about Sherlock Holmes

[@paulqueripel3493]

I'm surprised Giles managed to get 12 points, one answer normally takes him about 5 minutes what with him recounting a tale.

[@user-ks6ch9rw2d]

The general knowledge questions they aim at the celebrities have got MUCH easier in the 20 years since this was recorded!

[@parsnip5401]

I think this was around the time it first started but there's only so many brainy celebrities and they have to make it easier for the rest!

[@Stephen_Lafferty]

the celebreties are not really celebrites these days, more influencers on social media.

[@xanderlewis]

‘Celebrities’ have got thicker.

[@GnrMilligan]

That's because the general knowledge of celebrities has gotten much lower in the 20 years this was recorded.

[@terrytownsend5583]

MUCH

[@richardrussell7082]

When he was told to 'take the chair' I'd have loved it if he just walked off dragging it behind him 🤣

[@terrytownsend5583]

Naked

[@waynerussell6401]

- and keep the spittoon...

[@TheHutchy01]

These are some incredibly difficult questions. Even Arthur Conan Doyle couldn't have answered these, he couldn't even remember Dr. Watson's first name or injury...

[@user-ox9ep9ki6h]

People today who compete in general knowledge professionally (semi-pro to be fair) do learn all these things just for the action. Steven actually knows all this stuff just because he's incredibly clever, knowledgeable and believe it's important.

[@jage1559]

No, Stephen knows this because he has been a member of the Sherlock Holmes society of London since he was a teenager. It's a hobby of his.

[@Makrillo]

But it is really just because he's a nerd.

[@vantheman1238]

Even when he comes last he’s the cleverest man in the room

[@nialltomy15]

Thank you for sharing this, its been missing from KZbin for a while.

[@ThornOfSociety]

Well of course he struggled on questions about Sherlock Holmes, why would Mycroft even care about his brother's various comings and goings?

[@Isleofskye]

Andy Bradbury knew.

[@DurokSubaka]

Footlights Fry for five points, thanks Bambi.

[@mrman2415]

That is an incredibly difficult set of questions.

[@chap666ish]

I got two of them right and was dead chuffed!

[@JohnyG29]

Really?!

[@benwherlock9869]

It turns out he did even know who Supergrass were. 😁

[@shankarbalakrishnan2360]

I don't even remember the last time I was in my senses ❤❤🎉🎉

[@archie6945]

"His last bow" is surely not the kind associated with arrows?

[@ashroskell]

A fun curiosity. Thank you. Such a quintessentially, “British,” institution, made even more so by Fry, of all people, taking the trophy home. BTW, I got toboggan right, so that makes my mind officially more masterful than Stephen Fry’s . . . 😉

[@luapslev5826]

I can definitely believe that he is the principal ballerina with the Mariinski State Opera

[@balok63a40]

"The Word of our Epoch"

[@andnowi]

The snake came through a hole in the wall, NOT ceiling!

[@TomFynn]

"...what was the name of the school..." "...bugger" I say mostly correct.

[@HeggyC]

You missed the best part - the guy was an entomologist, or in other words, a guy who studies bugs (a bugger...)

[@audiowok5409]

A national treasure

[@ben_jamin197]

God I miss the VHS era.

[@alanmahoney167]

I got one right. I knew it was Supergrass

[@phrtao]

By the way - 'The youngest member of the House of Commons' was Sarah (Not 'Susan') Teather. Not so clever after all are we BBC !

[@HeggyC]

Oh my word, I knew something Stephen Fry didn't (the Supergrass question). My life has been vindicated!

[@Isleofskye]

This limey is good. I wonder if he ever made it across the pond?

[@LiamLewyShepherd]

🎣

[@iwanebbing2642]

After saying "Bugger" for a school-name he should have said "Oh, I heard faimed for entOmology".

[@Stephen_Lafferty]

...and it was not beeped or muted by the BBC, either!

[@nwgverified]

Hard questions

[@pcole980]

Amazing that Tanni Grey-Thompson got 14 considering the rest of the field scored 8. Wonder what her chosen subject was.

[@wungabunga]

The career of Tanni Grey- Thompson.

[@pcole980]

@@wungabunga was it actually? If so LMAO, thats smart af

[@hopebgood]

@@wungabunga Love it.

[@eltzrothm1]

I knew the sled thing. That sentence should let you know how I did on the other questions.

[@pauldrumwell4922]

Without being a smart arse,I thought he had , by his own admission, a photographic memory?

[@fransmith3255]

Photographic does not mean perfect. I have a friend who has a memory like him. She is amazing and bizarre like him, but occasionally not perfect. 🙂

[@thebagelsproductions]

I don't think he claims to have a photographic memory tbf. He also mentioned not reading Homes since he was a boy so he likely didn't revise the subject.

[@miriamgreen3973]

🇨🇦tobaggon!! 😮😅

[@Codex7777]

The fact that you spelt it incorrectly, even with spell-check available, means it isn't something to be TOO proud of, lol. :)

[@andreweccles8130]

Nice to see Davros from Dr Who doing the rounds !

[@hopebgood]

Yawn

[@andreweccles8130]

@@hopebgood if you tired then go to bed ! 😴🛏️

[@hopebgood]

@@andreweccles8130 Sad mate, just sad.

[@andreweccles8130]

@@hopebgood if U are then perhaps you need to speak to some one 🤔

[@hopebgood]

@@andreweccles8130 You really need to get out more mate

[@afischer8327]

Only God is perfect ;-)

[@Codex7777]

If you believe the god of the bible is 'perfect' you obviously haven't read the book, or read it whilst wearing rose-tinted spectacles, or have had it 'interpreted' for you by some self-proclaimed 'spokesman for god' religious charlatan. The god of the bible is the most despicable character in all of literature!

[@J.E.W.]

Except when she makes mistakes, but I forgive her for that.

[@chrismachin2166]

He claims to be wise,but the Bible says he is a fool.

[@fransmith3255]

Page number?

[@chrismachin2166]

@@fransmith3255 Proverbs chapter 1 verse 7 . The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

[@fransmith3255]

@@chrismachin2166 I don't see Steven's name here, let alone the bible particularly stating that he is a fool...

[@chrismachin2166]

@@fransmith3255 ..does he fear the Lord? By the mockery to his Creator,I think not.

[@fransmith3255]

@@chrismachin2166 Ah....ha... I hope you get the help you need without damaging anyone else...

[@windyworm]

What was Fry’s topic “the Balfour declaration and the right of Z10nists to ethically cleanse a region”?

[@alexanderrose1071]

Do recognize, you’re the bad human being here

[@salamalkebab8377]

No, it was "insufferable tw**s in KZbin comments".

[@FreddieCox-fs9wb]

no it was Sherlock Holmes

[@andrewleah1983]

So he's asking questions about m'colleague?

[@Isleofskye]

No,the carer of Minnie Driver..