03. Vincent

05/20/22 • 19 min

This week, Trivia Detectives Helen and Bill begin their journey of discovery with Vincent van Gogh, which leads them to Clive Dunn and a hand grenade down his trousers to Christina Aguilera and Ben Elton, via Eastenders and Abba’s performance at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest.

Related Links:

The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh, MOMA New York City:

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-starry-night/bgEuwDxel93-Pg?hl=en-GB

Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night: Great Art Explained on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk9L1N9bRRE

You can visit the house Vincent lodged at, in Brixton 1873–74

https://vangoghhouse.co.uk/

Don MacLean performs Vincent live:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wrNFDxCRzU

Vincent’s The Red Vineyard, the only painting he sold while alive:

https://joyofmuseums.com/museums/russian-federation/moscow-museums/pushkin-museum/the-red-vineyard-by-vincent-van-gogh/

Vincent’s most expensive painting, The Portrait of Dr. Gachet:

https://www.vincentvangogh.org/portrait-of-dr-gachet.jsp

List of most expensive paintings ever sold:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_paintings

Dad’s Army episode The Deadly Attachment, featuring a hand grenade down Lance Corporal Jones’ trousers:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5sdx1f

Ethel Skinner is having trouble with her Willy in Eastenders:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCmNgaSqX9Y

Clive Dunn performs Grandad on Top of the Pops. The song was written by Herbie Flowers (who played the iconic bass line in Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wildside), and features Rick Wakeman on keyboard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC5fqzKxau8

One of the funniest answers ever given on Pointless, featuring Alexander Armstrong:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjTTvn2muRM

Opening theme tune to the original Danger Mouse, written by folkie/comedian, Mike Harding sung by Sheila Gott (not Myfanwy Talog), featuring Penfold (hamster, not mole):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMXYJwjL51w

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Related Links:

The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh, MOMA New York City:

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-starry-night/bgEuwDxel93-Pg?hl=en-GB

Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night: Great Art Explained on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk9L1N9bRRE

You can visit the house Vincent lodged at, in Brixton 1873–74

https://vangoghhouse.co.uk/

Don MacLean performs Vincent live:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wrNFDxCRzU

Vincent’s The Red Vineyard, the only painting he sold while alive:

https://joyofmuseums.com/museums/russian-federation/moscow-museums/pushkin-museum/the-red-vineyard-by-vincent-van-gogh/

Vincent’s most expensive painting, The Portrait of Dr. Gachet:

https://www.vincentvangogh.org/portrait-of-dr-gachet.jsp

List of most expensive paintings ever sold:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_paintings

Dad’s Army episode The Deadly Attachment, featuring a hand grenade down Lance Corporal Jones’ trousers:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5sdx1f

Ethel Skinner is having trouble with her Willy in Eastenders:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCmNgaSqX9Y

Clive Dunn performs Grandad on Top of the Pops. The song was written by Herbie Flowers (who played the iconic bass line in Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wildside), and features Rick Wakeman on keyboard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC5fqzKxau8

One of the funniest answers ever given on Pointless, featuring Alexander Armstrong:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjTTvn2muRM

Opening theme tune to the original Danger Mouse, written by folkie/comedian, Mike Harding sung by Sheila Gott (not Myfanwy Talog), featuring Penfold (hamster, not mole):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMXYJwjL51w

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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02. Die Hard

In this second instalment of When One Thing Leads To Another, the film Die Hard sends Helen and Bill down the garden path to Bruce Willis, Frank Sinatra, and Orson Welles via Taxi Driver, sweary words and Jonah Hill. They also discover what detrimental effect can happen if you take too much Vitamin B.

Related Links:

Die Hard trailer featuring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman in his first feature film appearance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaJuwKCmJbY

The Detective trailer featuring Frank Sinatra:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9odRuy4D-VA

Bruce Willis with The Temptations with their version of The Drifter’s Under the Boardwalk. There is a good reason you don’t hear this very often on the radio:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2zk56DDjGc

Moonlighting opening and closing titles, featuring the vocals of Al Jarreau

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPZI9aQLhgk

Glenn Gordon, creator of Moonlighting talks about Orson Welles’ appearance on the show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJs3VSVFYCk

and that Orson Welles’ appearance itself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZ_x_XEQU8

Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) goes on a disastrous date with Betsy (Cybill Shepherd) in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw0ZybzuGcE

The famous “You talking to me” scene from Martin Scorses’s Taxi Driver, starring Rober De Niro as Travis Bickle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QWL-FwX4t4

Top drawer swears from Robert De Niro playing the role of Jake La Motta in Marting Scorsese’s Raging Bull:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ownaVsRHTk0

Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse performing their hilarious Goodfellas parody, Badfellas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHKBlLyrRMI

Trailer to the world’s sweariest film ever made, Swearnet, The Movie (not for those with sensitive ears):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul19Dx8CKJk

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04. University Challenge

Fun fact finders Helen and Bill discover something curiously interesting about the former University Challenge Question Master Bamber Gascoigne, and before you know it, they are stumbling across Paddington Bear, David Bowie, Diana Dors and the last woman to be hanged in the UK.

Related Links:

A classic incorrect answer on University Challenge answer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47SnI5GGqY8

The house that Bamber Gascoigne inherited:

https://www.westhorsleyplace.org/

Outtakes from BBC’s comedy series Ghosts (shot on location in Bamber Gascoigne’s inherited house):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m6DOPitdVU

Bamber Gascoigne penned Share My Lettuce listing

http://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_s/sharelettuce.htm

Paddington 2 trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52x5HJ9H8DM

Paddington 2 was co-written and directed by Paul King, but not this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlXtrnh-Ejo

Clip from Lady Godiva Rides Again, the 1951 film featuring Diana Dors and uncredited appearances from Joan Collins and the last woman to be hanged in the UK, Ruth Ellis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waH0HyzKC7I

Channel Four Television’s Who Got Diana Dors’ Millions?

https://vimeo.com/130444535

Adam and the Ants, Prince Charming video featuring Diana Dors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p__WmyAE3g

Rolf Harris performs War Canoe which Prince Charming is a clear rip off of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2SOEVbKsTE

Rolf Harris performs Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport with The Beatles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd14NxZuvGg

Connie Francis performs Lipstick on Your Collar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8x5cUFoDnU

Johnny Cash, Fuego D’Amor (Ring of Fire in Spanish)