Viewers of Celebrity Mastermind were treated to the sight of professional footballer, Troy Deeney, scoring no points on his specialist subject in yesterday's (22 December) episode.
Look, it's a stressful show with some very tight time pressure, and things can feel very different when you're sitting in that chair yourself instead of watching along at home.
All it takes is for some of the important details to slip your mind and suddenly that clock is ticking down, while the questions take forever to read out.
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Deeney was first up in the iconic black chair of Mastermind and had picked Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy as his specialist subject, but unfortunately scored no points in the round.
The thing is, this being Mastermind the questions were long and focused on some very niche topics, which we're sure plenty of dedicated Spider-Man fans wouldn't know off the top of their heads - let alone with just 90 seconds to get them.
Tell you what, see how well your friends do with the actual questions from the episode in a 90 second window, with a bit of an allowance at the end since the final question was one of those 'I've started so I'll finish' jobs, answers will be at the bottom of the article.
- In the first film of the trilogy a young Peter Parker is bitten by a genetically modified spider while on a school trip visiting which university?
- When Peter volunteers to wrestle 'Bonesaw' McGraw for $3,000 he gives himself what name to disguise his true identity?
- In Spider-Man 2 the nuclear physisict Dr Otto Octavius tells Peter he thinks which poet is more complicated than advanced science?
- In Spider-Man 3 Peter's on-off girlfriend Mary Jane Watson gets a job as a singing waitress at what nightclub?
- Which actor who has regularly collaborated with Sam Raimi makes cameo appearances in all three films as a wrestling announcer, a snooty theatre user and a French maître d respectively?
- When Peter meets the industrialist Norman Osborn for the first time he tells him that he's a big fan of his and has written a paper on Osborn's research into what subject?
- In Spider-Man 2 Peter disappoints Mary Jane by breaking his promise to watch her perform in what stage play after he gets involved in an armed car chase?
Fortunately, Troy took it in good humour as he laughed, while getting out of the dreaded Mastermind chair, when he'd been told he'd scored no points.
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He later joked that he was 'not very good at questions', and on a couple of occasions said he'd known the answer but it had just eluded him in the moment.
Viewers joked it was 'quite remarkable' and that Troy had 'played a blinder' by not getting any of his specialist subject questions right. But in his defence, who watches Spider-Man movies to remember which play Mary Jane was in?
As for his performance in the general knowledge round, Deeney did a bit better and got some questions right. However, he did have to ask Clive Myrie to repeat a question as he has joking about one of his answers, while it was being read out to him.
The footballer ended on a total of six points, and he didn't come last in the overall competition either.
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Eurovision winner Dana scored five, while A Place in the Sun presenter Jasmine Harman racked up a dozen points. The winner, however, was BBC Radio 2's OJ Borg with 16.
The answers to those questions were: Columbia, The Human Spider, T.S. Eliot, The Jazz Room, Bruce Campbell, Nanotechnology and The Importance of Being Earnest.
Did you do better than Deeney? Be honest, now.
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