September 5, 2008 • 30m
New series John Humphrys quizzes on Simon Raven, Newcastle United, Edward IV and Laurence Olivier.
September 12, 2008 • 30m
Specialisms tonight are Billy the Kid, the Short Stories of Saki, the Great Western Railway and the films of John Carpenter. With John Humphrys.
September 19, 2008 • 30m
John Humphrys asks about Noor Inayat-Khan, Ferdinand Magellan, Edith Wharton and Mods
September 26, 2008 • 30m
Questions on the late Stuart age, Steely Dan, boxer Joe Frazier and Robert Parker's Spenser novels.
October 3, 2008 • 30m
John Humphrys asks questions on subjects including Arthur Conan Doyle's Challenger novels.
October 10, 2008 • 30m
Specialist subjects this week include Rasputin, the Gospels of the New Testament, and West Indies Test cricket. John Humphrys asks the questions.
October 17, 2008 • 30m
John Humphrys poses the questions as four contestants test their specialist knowledge of Stax Records, the Romney Marsh novels of ...Read more
October 24, 2008 • 30m
Specialist subjects include Scottish mathematician James Clerk Maxwell and the Mitford sisters.
October 31, 2008 • 30m
Tonight's specialist topics include the Harry Palmer novels and folk singer Tom Paxton.
November 7, 2008 • 30m
Tonight's specialist topics comprise the Victoria Cross, chess player Bobby Fischer, the Le Mans 24-hour race, and the life of Thomas Cochrane.
November 14, 2008 • 30m
Tonight's specialist subjects include the Coventry blitz and the Merthyr Rising of 1831.
November 21, 2008 • 30m
Specialist topics comprise the cricketer Ian Botham, the Munros of Scotland, Pyotr Tchaikovsky and the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming.
November 28, 2008 • 30m
Topics tonight include rare breeds of British farm animals, Ghenghis Khan and Gothic architecture.
December 5, 2008 • 30m
Topics comprise WC Fields, Jonathan Creek, Tacitus and the life and career of Keith Moon.
January 30, 2009 • 30m
Tonight's four specialist subjects are the Ashes series of 1902, AE Housman, British punk rock and the Trans-Siberian Railway. With John Humphrys.
February 6, 2009 • 30m
Tonight's specialist subjects are the Peninsular War, pop singer Morrissey, the history of Chichester Cathedral in West Sussex, an...Read more
February 13, 2009 • 30m
Tonight's specialist subjects are actor Sidney Poitier, British Trotskyism, number one hit singles, and the life and career of mod...Read more
February 20, 2009 • 30m
John Humphrys presents the general knowledge quiz, in which the specialist subjects tonight are the history of Chester Zoo, the Fa...Read more
February 27, 2009 • 30m
Tonight's four specialist subjects are John Wesley, Seinfeld, Kazimir Malevich and the Wars of the Roses. John Humphrys poses the questions.
March 6, 2009 • 30m
Specialist subjects are the Battle of Coronel and the Falklands War, British birds, sculptor Barbara Hepworth, and Anglo-Saxon kings 871-1016.
March 13, 2009 • 30m
In the first semi-final John Humphrys asks questions on Scott's last expedition, Blake's 7, the School stories of PG Wodehouse and the Popish Plot.
March 20, 2009 • 30m
Tonight's specialist subjects are Jackie Stewart, the novels of Wendy Holden, Honore de Balzac and Kraftwerk. John Humphrys poses the questions.
April 3, 2009 • 30m
Tonight's specialist subjects are the novels of George Orwell, musician Gram Parsons, Italian politics and composer Dmitri Shostakovich.
April 10, 2009 • 30m
Tonight's subjects are the Battle of Coronel and the Falklands War, British birds, sculptor Barbara Hepworth , and Anglo-Saxon kings from 871 to 1016.
April 17, 2009 • 30m
In tonight's semi-final the specialised subjects are Scott's last expedition, cult TV series Blake's 7, the School stories of PG W...Read more
May 8, 2009 • 30m
Four contenders compete for a place in the final. Tonight's specialist subjects comprise film director Fritz Lang, tennis legend ...Read more
May 22, 2009 • 30m
Tonight's specialist subjects for the four semi-finalists comprise the Bonaparte dynasty, former prime minister Herbert Asquith, g...Read more
May 29, 2009 • 30m
Tonight's specialist subjects for the four semi-finalists comprise the life and works of Mozart, the ghost stories of MR James, pl...Read more
June 5, 2009 • 30m
Specialist subjects in the fifth semi-final are Doctor Who in the 1970s, former US president John F Kennedy, singer/songwriter Bil...Read more
June 12, 2009 • 30m
Tonight's specialist subjects are poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, the life of Paddy Mayne, Northampton Town FC and the life and work o...Read more
June 19, 2009 • 1h
Six contenders battle it out to be crowned champion. Their specialist subjects comprise the Lewis and Clark expedition across Amer...Read more