I've Started So I'll Finish

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Specialist subjects that will delight, amaze and frankly baffle some, which is exactly how it should be. I’m a foreign correspondent, I’m all over the world, I’m winning awards everywhere … were my parents impressed?

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And, for the show’s final, Gary admits he tried to select pop band Girls Aloud as his specialist subject – so that he could meet one of the girl group’s sexy singers. Gascoigne’s contribution to television was extended indirectly when his residence was used to film TV shows, including Ghosts and Enola Holmes.The winner was Daniel Parker, whose specialist subjects were the Volkswagen Beetle (heat) and James Bond villains (final).

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For the first round, each contestant in turn is given a set length of time, usually two minutes (one minute and a half in semi-finals), to answer questions on a specialised subject which they have chosen. Instead, there is now a brief monologue from the winner at the end of each episode about how pleased they are to have won.

Mastermind champion Gary Grant, whose hobbies include sky-diving and rally-driving, is now planning to climb one of the world’s most-challenging mountains. His catchphrase, which one of his successors John Humphrys continued to use, was "I've started, so I'll finish". The son of a lieutenant colonel and grandson of a brigadier general, Gascoigne was born in London and educated at Eton and Cambridge (“Magdalene, English Literature” would have been his tag if competing on University Challenge).