Early Career
Ashman, who comes from Winchester, Hampshire, had his first major television quiz success on Fifteen to One, winning series three in 1989, and returned to win the special 'Millennium Edition' between past champions on New Year's Eve 1999. In 1995 he won a Mastermind-show, scoring 41 with 0 passes in his heat, which remains a record to this day. His specialist subject on that occasion was the life and work of Martin Luther King. He later also won the yearly final. The following year he won Brain of Britain, scoring 38 in his semi final, which remains the highest individual score ever made on the show. He then went on to win Brain of Brains (contested between the previous three years' Brains of Britain) and Top Brain (contested every nine years between the previous three Brain of Brains). Ashman also twice won Master Brain, a radio competition for winners and runners-up of Mastermind and Brain of Britain.
He also won Sale of the Century, Screen Test, Quiz Night, Trivial Pursuit and The Great British Quiz.
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