Carol Vorderman stumped by 'easy' showbiz question on new quiz show Celebrity Puzzling - but can YOU solve it?
Hosted by Jeremy Vine, the new Channel 5 quiz show sees stars take on mind-bending puzzles with Sally Lindsay and Carol as team captains.
During Wednesday's instalment, Carol was teamed up with Ore Oduba and found herself stuck during the Cinema Cipher round.
The segment had the stars figure out the title of the film from a code consisting of symbols.
Carol and Ore were presented with animal pictures that could be deciphered into the title of a Jack Black film.
Ore asked the TV star: 'Do you know any Jack Black movies?'
'No,' she replied.
After deliberating for some time, they were given a clue that butterflies symbolised the letter O.
Ore exclaimed: 'Oh, I was just listening to it this morning!'
He then gave the correct answer, School Of Rock.
It was revealed earlier this year that Celebrity Puzzling would be hitting screens.
Puzzling first launched last year and was hosted by Lucy Worsley before being shelved.
Since then, Jeremy has fronted the new series with Carol and Sally.
Carol commented on her new TV role and revealed she 'loves' brainteasers.
'I'm so excited to be a team captain on Celebrity Puzzling,' she said.
'Finally, all those years of loving numbers, words and brainteasers are about to pay off! Well, I hope that they are.'
The broadcaster added: 'Joining forces with my brilliant and really good mate Sally Lindsay, and with the ever-clever Jeremy Vine keeping us all in line, it's going to be a battle of brains… and I'm going to be fighting all the way, of course!'
Host Jeremy said: 'It's amazing to do a quiz that's so simple and yet feels so fresh in every way.
'Celebrity Puzzling is one of those shows where, from the very first edition, everything fell into place with our amazing 5 team, with Carol and with Sally, and we just had the greatest fun in the studio.
'Not to mention burning through quite a few brain cells as we all tried to solve those beastly puzzles!'
While Sally admitted she was apprehensive at first and shared: 'I was honestly a bit nervous about this challenge as I'm more your general knowledge type but even though it was really competitive at times I surprised myself on some rounds!
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