Student Holly Franklin made BBC sitcom her specialist subject

Spoiler alert: Contains details of tonight’s results.

BBC sitcom Ghosts became a specialist subject on Mastermind tonight.

Holly Franklin scored a perfect 13 points – with no passes – after choosing the hit comedy as her area of expertise.

And after the general knowledge round, she won the whole episode, going through to the semi-final

Interviewed on the BBC Two show, she said:‘ I chose Ghosts just because I think as a work of comedy, it's just  the perfect comedy  in half an hour and I admire the creators so much and it just makes me laugh. It’s probably my favourite show.’

‘I thought I’d studied well but obviously I’d studied I think probably better than I thought I ever could have done to score a perfect  score.’

And she said she didn’t find it too stressful being grilled by host Clive Myrie as she sat in the show famous black chair.

‘I had this strange sort of calm just looking at Clive’s face and I felt all the nerves disappear and just focused on that one thing,’ she said.

Do you know the sitcom as well as Holly? Here are the questions Myrie asked her. Scroll right down for the answers.

• Mastermind is available on iPlayer.

Mastermind’s Ghost Questions

1. Alison Cooper gains the ability to see the ghosts of Button House after she's injured when which Ghost pushes her from an upstairs window?

2. Which Grade One listed medieval manor house near Guildford in Surrey is the main filming location for the show?

3. In Free Pass, the deceased Regency era poet Thomas Thorne complains that a period drama being filmed at Button House is wrong because although it's set in the 1820s the chair legs are in what style?

4. What’s the name of the restaurant where Alison and Mike confront the imposter Lucy after Fanny and the other Ghosts uncover her plan to con them out of their savings?

5. In The Ghosts Of Christmas, one of Mike's sisters plays a video from the previous Christmas of Mike angrily protesting, 'I don't want to wear a stupid elf costume. I look like a...' what?

6. In The Gray Lady, the ghost of the beheaded nobleman Humphrey Bone is reading a biography of which historical figure when he says, 'I do not like where this is going?'

7. Cast members Simon Farnaby and Ben Wilbond have been credited with co-writing the Christmas special The Ghosts Of Christmas and which other episodes from series two?

8. What’s the name of the Edwardian aristocrat Fanny’s beloved stuffed dog which goes missing after a party in the episode About Last Night?

9. When community groups use Button House in Something To Share, the caveman Robin is disappointed to find that which class is not running as he'd hoped to work on his core?

10. What’s the name of the composer who wrote the music for series one, including the show's theme, and co-wrote music for series two together with Ralegh Long?

11. When Mary – who was apparently burnt at the stake for witchcraft  –describes how to make a wicker basket in Who Do You Think You Are? she advises that it should be the height of five.. what?

12. What’s the name of the statue in the grounds of Button House that the Georgian noblewoman Kitty claims to be her best friend?

13. What’s the title of the poem that Thomas Thorne read aloud for two hours to a gathering on the day that he died in a duel in 1824?

Answers

1. Julian
2. West Horsley Place
3 Rococo
4. Sandrine’s
5. Lime
6. Charles I
7.  Redding Weddy
8. Dante
9. Zumba
10. Arthur Sharpe 
11. Potatoes
12. Florence
13. Hermione and Roger

Published: 17 Oct 2022