For ten points...

Imagine Iain Banks watching TV last night (inevitably with a glass of malt in hand). First he's chuffed with his winning performance on University Challenge (and he's also on Mastermind at 7 tonight), then he turns over and watches Channel 4's 50 Greatest Comedy Films, and sees not only the movie but the precise gag in Dr. Strangelove that he correctly identified on BBC2 not an hour earlier.

Then later he sees another movie up there in the top 10 with which he had an even more personal connection.

Your starter for ten: What was the movie, and what was his connection with it?

Come on, it's easy...

Banks TV

Hardly surprising he wins Celebrity Mastermind with a subject he also wrote a book about (malt whiskey) when at the other extreme we have Myleen Klass, whose specialist subject 'Sex and the City series 3' is so narrow she can't fail to win the first round but then crashes with an embarrassing solitary point on general knowledge... it's so unsurprising it begs the question why she put herself up for it (oh hang on, her last album tanked and she needs the appearance fees).

Then Banks's team has an impressive win on University Challenge, though this time around he had a few very lucky guesses.

Good on the guy, I'm pleased for him.

Rather better television was the useful new series Balderdash and Piffle on etymology and the OED. The exploration of Polari slang was good... now knowing where 'naff' comes from and what its old Polari meaning was I shall probably be rather less liberal with it...