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  • Warning: Spoilers
    This edition of the show that plays out like a pub quiz was part of the series of programmes for the 30th anniversary of Channel 4, with questions about events in the 1980s, the 1990s and the 2000s, and this was a great show to watch and have fun with. Hosted by Jimmy Carr, with celebrity panellists in three teams: Alan Davies and Phil Jupitus, Dara O'Briain and Claudia Winkleman, and Denise Van Outen and Jack Whitehall. This quiz focused on the 1990s with all sorts of questions to answer about the decade of headlines, music, lifestyle (fads, fashions, technology, trends and toys), television, movies, sport, toys and games and people. These questions are asked as they are, with video and sound clips, with pictures (including Say What You See), and by celebrity and mystery guests on screen or in the studio, so it really does feel like a proper quiz that you can take part in. Events in the 1990s that were questioned and joked about, and mentioned (or pictured) included: John Major and Tony Blair as Prime Ministers, Deidre arrested in Coronation Street for a crime she did not commit ("Free Deidre"), Jurassic Park, the death of Princess Diana, the Channel Tunnel opening in 1994, the police chasing O.J. Simpson (suspected of the murder of his wife) on the highway which was broadcast live on the news, the repair of the Hubble Space telescope, the breakout of BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) aka "mad cow disease" and politician John Gummer proving beef was safe to eat by making his daughter eat a burger, Nelson Mandela released from prison after 27 years and meeting the Spice Girls, Tamagotchi, The Shawshank Redemption, Chumbawamba, Sinead O'Connor, Vengaboys, the breakup of Take That with a Samaritans phone line opened to help people, Vanilla Ice, the Madonna coffee table book Sex, Steps, a1, Cleopatra, B*Witched, Irish river dancer Michael Flatley insuring his legs, "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred, "Macarena" by Los Del Rio, Boyzone, Westlife, East 17, Five, Roseanne Barr, the launch of lads' mags FHM and Loaded, Viagra, Danny Dyer, Leonard Nimoy in 1999 warning of the consequences of Y2K aka "The Millennium Bug", the invention of the internet/world wide web, Eva Herzigová appearing in the Wonderbra advertising campaign with the slogan "Hello Boys", Chat Back - 0891 50 50 50 (a gay chatline), Teletubbies, docusoap Airport, The Cruise with Jane McDonald, Noel's House Party, The Crystal Maze, Pride and Prejudice, TFI Friday, Gladiators, Changing Rooms, The Naked Chef, Byker Grove with Ant and Dec, The Fast Show, Friends, Driving School, Cracker, Father Ted, The X-Files, Ghostwatch, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air with Will Smith, Pulp Fiction, Home Alone, Basic Instinct, WWF wrestling, Frankie Dettori, Eric Cantona, Gary Lineker defecating at the 1990 World Cup, Andre Agassi, the wife of John Wayne Bobbitt calling 911 to say that she had thrown her husband's penis out of a moving car which was later sewn back on and he went on to do pornography, environmental activist and campaigner Daniel Hooper better known as Swampy, artwork The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (a tiger shark in a glass and steel box filled with formaldehyde solution) by artist Damien Hirst, the autobiography of Melanie Brown aka Mel B of the Spice Girls, Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding being the biggest-selling book of the decade, Titanic being the highest-grossing film of the decade, and (What's the Story) Morning Glory? by Oasis being the bestselling album of the decade. Other celebrity and special mystery guests in the show included the children of Mitchell Brook Primary School in Neasden who act out well known news stories, Charles Dance who reads passages from a celebrity autobiography of the decade, B*Witched members Lindsay Armaou and Keavy Lynch, Mr Blobby who was a star on children's TV and had the Christmas Number One in 1993, Michael Buerk who reads news related to lyrics from a song of the decade, Chesney Hawkes who had the one-hit wonder Number One single "The One and Only", Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Linford Christie, Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, mystery guests John Simmit (Dipsy) and Nikky Smedley (Laa-Laa) in Teletubbies, and Zig and Zag. The jokes and the questions are what make this show so much fun, they always choose the right celebrity panellists, and it works as a funny way to reminisce on the events of the decade, a great comedy quiz show. Very good!