March 30, 2006 • 30m
The forbidding black chair awaits its next nervous occupants as the demanding quiz returns for its 30th season. Tonight's quartet...Read more
April 6, 2006 • 30m
The forbidding black chair awaits its next nervous occupants. The quartet of contenders tonight will be grilled for two minutes on...Read more
April 13, 2006 • 30m
The black chair awaits another quartet of contestants. Specialist subjects are Verdi's operas, Inspector Morse, Anne Boleyn and th...Read more
April 20, 2006 • 30m
Specialist subjects tonight are the Marlow family books by Antonia Forest, India v Pakistan Test cricket, British dreadnoughts, an...Read more
May 4, 2006 • 30m
Specialist subjects are mountaineering in the UK; US military aircraft of the Second World War; Ian Rankin's Rebus novels; and the...Read more
May 11, 2006
Specialist subjects are the history and geography of enclaves and exclaves; the life and works of Caravaggio; British TV sitcoms 1...Read more
May 18, 2006 • 30m
Specialist subjects are the life and films of Cary Grant, reformation in England 1500-1600, British track and field athletics, and...Read more
May 25, 2006 • 30m
Another eclectic mix of specialist subjects includes the history of metal mining in Britain, Kettle's Yard and its artists, the li...Read more
June 1, 2006 • 30m
Another eclectic mix of specialist subjects features the films of Stanley Kubrick, Anglo-Scottish warfare, the life and music of D...Read more
June 8, 2006 • 30m
The specialist subjects tonight are the history of the crossword, civic heraldry of the Russian Empire, the life and work of the V...Read more
June 15, 2006 • 30m
Sir Ernest Shackleton's expedition aboard the Endurance, the life and works of W. Eugene Smith, the California sound 1965-1975 and...Read more
June 22, 2006 • 30m
The American Revolution 1775-1783 and the lives and careers of Sir Richard Goodwin Keats, Bette Davis, and Douglas Adams are tackl...Read more
June 29, 2006 • 30m
Specialist subjects tonight comprise 20th-century Liechtenstein, the life and work of singer/songwriter Bruce Springsteen, the Tit...Read more
July 6, 2006 • 30m
Specialist subjects tonight comprise NBA (National Basketball Association) finals from 1985 to 2005, Napoleonic Wars 1796-1815, an...Read more
July 13, 2006 • 30m
Specialist subjects tonight comprise the life and work of acclaimed Argentinian writer and critic Jorge Luis Borges, the history a...Read more
July 17, 2006 • 30m
Tonight's eclectic range of specialist subjects comprises the philosophy of existentialism, the Little Women novels by Louisa May ...Read more
July 24, 2006 • 30m
Brain-boxes in the black chair are quizzed on the life and work of Hunter S Thompson, Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds, the life and ...Read more
July 31, 2006 • 30m
Specialist subjects tonight comprise venomous snakes, the life of British naval officer and colonial governor Robert FitzRoy, Henr...Read more
August 7, 2006 • 30m
Prehistoric art up to 8,000 BC, the novels of Charles Dickens, the life and music of Edith Piaf, and the life and films of James D...Read more
August 14, 2006 • 30m
The political and physical geography of Europe, the rock band Ash, 15th-century Florentine ruler Lorenzo de Medici, and the life a...Read more
August 21, 2006 • 30m
The history of the modern marathon, Dawn French's show The Vicar of Dibley, the life and times of Anne Frank, and Middle Egyptian ...Read more
August 28, 2006 • 30m
Croatian geography, George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman novels, the life and films of Powell and Pressburger and the life and caree...Read more
September 4, 2006 • 30m
Tackling the history of the Hammer films 1945-1983, the Little House novels by Laura Ingalls, the British motorcycle industry from...Read more
September 11, 2006 • 30m
Contestants opt for the band REM, the Roger Brook novels of Dennis Wheatley, the Summer Olympics from 1896 to the present day, and...Read more
September 18, 2006 • 30m
Fascist propagandist William Joyce, the Sandman graphic novels of Neil Gaiman, the Nobel Prize and the novels of Jilly Cooper are ...Read more
September 25, 2006 • 30m
John Humphrys asks questions on M.C. Beaton's Agatha Raisin thrillers, the life and gospel of St Mark, the history of cryptography...Read more
October 16, 2006 • 30m
Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels, German anarchist Gustav Landauer, rock band Led Zeppelin and the writings of HP Lovecraft...Read more
October 23, 2006 • 30m
Specialist subjects include Hercule Poirot novels of Agatha Christie, Gustav Landauer, Led Zeppelin and the fiction of HP Lovecraf...Read more
October 30, 2006 • 30m
The Bernard Samson novels of Len Deighton, the life and music of Stevie Wonder, the life and reign of Elizabeth I, and the Reginal...Read more
November 6, 2006 • 30m
The final batch of semi-finalists answer questions on the Regency novels of Georgette Heyer, the work of physician Edward Jenner, ...Read more
November 13, 2006 • 1h
The remaining six contenders, whittled down from 96, answer questions on the life of painter Thomas Girtin, Margaret Mitchell and ...Read more