2024/25

1. Episode 1

In the first of 24 heats, Clive Myrie puts four contenders to the test on their specialist subjects, which include Dad's Army, Liverpool FC under Jurgen Klopp, and Shania Twain.

2024-08-12 • 28 min

2. Episode 2

Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take to the famous black chair. The specialist subjects are orchids of the British Isles, Schitt's Creek, Tom Lehrer and Operation Mincemeat.

2024-08-19 • 28 min

3. Episode 3

Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take to the famous black chair. The specialist subjects include the novels of Zadie Smith and the history of Shetland hand-knitting.

2024-08-26 • 28 min

4. Episode 4

Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take on the famous black chair. Specialist subjects include the films of Martin Scorsese and Mary Tudor.

2024-09-16 • 28 min

5. Episode 5

Four more contenders brave the famous black chair in another heat of the classic quiz. Specialist subjects include Horatio Nelson, Michael Kiwanuka and the films of Sofia Coppola.

2024-09-23 • 28 min

6. Episode 6

The search for the nation's Mastermind continues as Clive Myrie tests four more contenders on their specialist subjects and general knowledge. The specialist subjects are The Ghost Stories of M R James, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Thunderbirds and renowned painter and portraitist Hans Holbein the Younger.

2024-09-30 • ? min

7. Episode 7

Clive Myrie hosts another heat of the classic quiz where contenders take the black chair. The specialist subjects include the Star Wars sequel trilogy, the band Elbow and Edward VI.

2024-10-07 • 28 min

8. Episode 8

Clive Myrie asks the questions as four more contenders brave the black chair. Subjects include Alan Partridge, Madhuri Dixit and English wine in the 21st century.

2024-10-14 • 28 min

9. Episode 9

Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take on the famous black chair. Specialist subjects include the Roman emperor Claudius, the Watergate Scandal and futurism.

2024-10-21 • 28 min

10. Episode 10

Clive Myrie tests four more contenders on their specialist subjects and general knowledge in another heat of the classic quiz. The specialist subjects are the poetry of John Keats, the award-winning musician PJ Harvey, the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV and the films of David Fincher.

2024-10-28 • 29 min

11. Episode 11

Clive Myrie asks the questions in another heat, where the contenders answer questions on subjects including Sergei Rachmaninoff, Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing, and Red Rum.

2024-11-04 • 28 min

12. Episode 12

Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take to the black chair. The specialist subjects include New Order, the James Bond books of Ian Fleming and Amy Johnson.

2024-11-11 • 28 min

13. Episode 13

Four more contenders take to the black chair under the spotlight and the ticking clock to answer questions on their specialist subjects and general knowledge. Clive Myrie asks the questions, which are on The Two Ronnies, Richard Feynman, the Toronto Blue Jays and badgers.

2024-11-18 • 28 min

14. Episode 14

Clive Myrie hosts as four more contenders answer questions on specialist subjects, which this time are Winston Churchill's wartime premiership, Mariah Carey, seals and Wassily Kandinsky.

2024-11-25 • 28 min

15. Episode 15

Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take on the famous black chair. Specialist subjects include the solo career of Robbie Williams, and the fauna of Madagascar.

2024-12-02 • 28 min

16. Episode 16

Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take to the black chair. The specialist subjects include Sir Mark Cavendish, The Day Today and Sylvia Townsend Warner.

2024-12-09 • 28 min

17. Episode 17

Clive Myrie presents another heat of the classic quiz with four contenders answering questions on A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin, whales and Emily Brontë.

2024-12-16 • 28 min

18. Episode 18

Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take on the famous black chair. Subjects include the life of Harold Pinter and the Savoy operas of Gilbert and Sullivan.

2025-02-03 • 28 min

19. Episode 19

Clive Myrie hosts another heat of the classic quiz as four more contenders take on the black chair. The specialist subjects include Emmeline Pankhurst and David Tennant's years on Doctor Who.

2025-02-10 • 28 min

20. Episode 20

Clive Myrie hosts as four more contenders answer questions on their specialist subjects, including George Washington, Taylor Swift and the BBC radio series I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

2025-02-17 • 28 min

21. Episode 21

Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take on the famous black chair. The specialist subjects include the Isles of Scilly, Wham! and Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

2025-02-24 • 28 min

22. Episode 22

Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take on the famous black chair. The specialist subjects include the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Mad Men and the 1944 Battle of Arnhem.

2025-03-03 • 28 min

23. Episode 23

Clive Myrie hosts as four more contenders answer questions on their specialist subjects, including Henry II, Wales rugby union Test matches from 2000 to the present, and Friday Night Dinner.

2025-03-10 • 29 min

24. Episode 24

Clive Myrie hosts, and contenders answer questions on Audrey Hepburn, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the DCI Ryan novels by LJ Ross, and John Barry.

2025-03-17 • 28 min

25. Episode 25

Clive Myrie asks the questions in the first semi-final. The specialist subjects include The Clash, the films of Marilyn Monroe and Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

2025-03-24 • 29 min

26. Episode 26

Clive Myrie asks the questions in another semi-final. The specialist subjects are Blackadder, Joseph Chamberlain, Gregory Peck and The Legend of Zelda video games.

2025-03-31 • 28 min

27. Episode 27

Clive Myrie asks the questions in another semi-final. Specialist subjects include The Films of Mel Brooks, Homer's Odyssey and LL Cool J.

2025-04-07 • 29 min

28. Episode 28

Clive Myrie asks the questions in another semi-final. The specialist subjects include wild cats of the world, the Battle of Gettysburg, and West Ham United from 1992 to the present.

2025-04-14 • 28 min

29. Episode 29

Clive Myrie asks the questions in another semi-final. Specialist subjects are Caravaggio, Premier League Darts, Inside No. 9 and Grace Hopper.

2025-04-21 • 28 min

30. Episode 30

Clive Myrie asks the questions in the last semi-final. The specialist subjects include the war memoirs of Spike Milligan and the career of Novak Djokovic.

2025-05-12 • 28 min

31. The Final

Clive Myrie asks the questions in the grand final. The specialist subjects include the stage plays of Sir Tom Stoppard, the music of Led Zeppelin, penguins, and the Empire State Building.

2025-05-19 • 59 min