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31 Episodes 2017 - 2018
Episode 1
Paul Simon, the feature films of Hayao Miyazaki, Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, and the life and poetry of John Donne are the specialist subjects as four contenders brave the black chair.
Episode 2
The Four Gospels, Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy, World Flags, and The Colour Films Of Danny Kaye are the specialist subjects as four contenders brave the black chair.
Episode 3
Clint Eastwood, The Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, Duran Duran, and Eleanor of Aquitaine are the specialist subjects as four contenders brave the black chair.
Episode 4
The television series M*A*S*H, John George Lambton - 1st Earl of Durham, English League Football Stadiums and U2 are the specialist subjects as four contenders brave the black chair.
Episode 5
The FIFA World Cup, Alexander the Great, the films of Rupert Everett and the Battle of Agincourt are the specialist subjects as four contenders brave the black chair.
Episode 6
Australian Test Cricket 1945 - Date, James Elroy's L.A. Quartet, Life and Music of Kirsty MacColl and the Life of King Henry the VI are the specialist subjects as four contenders brave the black chair.
Episode 7
The television series 'Green Wing', Rumi, Julius Caesar and Lancashire County Cricket Club are the specialist subjects as four contenders brave the black chair.
Episode 8
The lives and comic operas Gilbert and Sullivan, the history of the Tour De France, Thomas Becket and Coronation Street are the specialist subjects as four contenders brave the black chair.
Episode 9
RMS Lusitania, the Life and Paintings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Everton Football Club and British Oscar Winning Actors and Actresses are the specialist subjects as four contenders brave the black chair.
Episode 10
The band Crowded House, World Super Middleweight Boxing, the sitcom Parks and Recreation, and Claude Monet are the specialist subjects as four contenders brave the black chair.
Episode 11
The films of James Cameron, the life and works of Georgia O'Keeffe, the band Guns N' Roses, and the life of King Henry IV are the specialist subjects as four contenders brave the black chair.
Episode 12
Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, the life and career of Tony Hancock, Eva Peron, and the life and career of Muhammad Ali are the specialist subjects as four contenders brave the black chair.
Episode 13
The sitcom Porridge, Peggy Guggenheim, the rock group Deep Purple, and Bernard Cornwell's The Warlord Chronicles are the specialist subjects as four contenders brave the black chair.
Episode 14
Elvis Presley, the Glorious Revolution, the Foundation Novels of Isaac Asimov, and the sitcom Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em are the specialist subjects as four contenders brave the black chair.
Episode 15
The Simpson's, Venomous Snakes of the World, Sherlock Holmes, and the life and times of Alfred the Great are the specialist subjects as four contenders brave the black chair.
Episode 16
The television series The Vicar of Dibley, the novels of George Orwell, Roman Coinage in Britain AD 41 - AD 402, and the life of Harold Wilson are the specialist subjects as four contenders brave the black chair.
Episode 17
The UEFA Champions League 1992 - Date, the Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell, the life and times of Hatshepsut, and the US TV Series House of Cards are the specialist subjects as four contenders brave the black chair.
Episode 18
The Discworld Novels of Terry Pratchett, Mahatma Gandhi, the History of the Boston Marathon, and UK Top Ten Singles 1963 - 1973 are the specialist subjects as four contenders brave the black chair.
Episode 19
The Harry Potter books, the Battle of the Bulge, the scientist Rosalind Franklin, and the Waterloo Campaign are the specialist subjects as four contenders brave the black chair.
Episode 20
Dr Who 2005 - Date, the Concorde plane, the band The Clash, and the life of Sir Francis Walsingham are the specialist subjects as four contenders brave the black chair.
Episode 21
The Royle Family television series, William Lamb 2nd Viscount Melbourne, The Beach Boys, and British General Elections 1945 - 2017 are the specialist subjects as four contenders brave the black chair.
Episode 22
The Life and Works of Leonardo Da Vinci, The Dreyfus Affair, the Life and Works of Johann Sebastian Bach, and the sitcom The Inbetweeners are the specialist subjects as four contenders brave the black chair.
Episode 23
The band Blur, the Thursday Next novels by Jasper Fforde, the American Civil War, and the short stories of David Foster Wallace are the specialist subjects as four contenders brave the black chair.
Episode 24
The sitcom Red Dwarf, British Overseas Territory (St Helena, Ascension Island, Tristan Da Cunha), the History of Kentucky 1792 - present, and the Roman Emperor Tiberius are the specialist subjects as four contenders brave the black chair.
Episode 25
Olympic Track and Field 1976 -1992, the Tolpuddle Martyrs, Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt, Graphic Novels of Daniel Clowes and U.S. President Andrew Jackson are chosen as the specialist subjects by the five contestants testing their knowledge on the black chair in the first semi-final.
Episode 26
The sitcom Frasier, Warrington RLFC 1895 - Date, the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, the life and works of Jane Austen and the life and music of Erik Satie are chosen as the specialist subjects by the five contestants testing their knowledge on the black chair in the second semi-final.
Episode 27
The films of Paul Thomas Anderson, the novels of Virginia Woolf, the Wines of Burgundy, the band Motley Crue and the life and works of Kazuo Ishiguro are chosen as the specialist subjects by the five contestants testing their knowledge on the black chair in the third semi-final.
Episode 28
The band Pink Floyd, Marshall Georgy Zhukov, Footballer and Manager Stan Cullis, the works of H.P. Lovecraft and the films of Tom Hanks are chosen as the specialist subjects by the five contestants testing their knowledge on the black chair in the fourth semi-final.
Episode 29
The Music of Manchester 1978 - Date, the Battle of Clontarf, the television series E.R., the life and works of Augustus Pitt Rivers and the Giordano Bruno Novels of S.J. Parris are chosen as the specialist subjects by the five contestants testing their knowledge on the black chair in the fifth semi-final.
Episode 30
The sitcom Peepshow, the Nazi Architect Albert Speer, the X-Men Films, King Henry III and the Christopher Brookmyre's Jack Parlabane Novel's are chosen as the specialist subjects by the five contestants testing their knowledge on the black chair in the sixth semi-final.
Episode 31
In the Grand Final, specialist subjects are Major Championship Golf 1997 - Date, the Revolt of the Netherlands 1568 - 1609, the Hannibal Lecter novels, US Constitutional Amendments, Indian Premier League Cricket and Hadrian's Wall.