Episode 25 Mastermind

Our first contender tonight is Steve Lacey,

a mortgage advisor from Corby.

He's answering questions on the popular sitcom,

Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?

Next, Alan Morgan, a recruitment manager from Buckinghamshire.

He's answering questions on the great athlete Steve Ovett.

Isabelle Heward is a voluntary worker from Lincolnshire.

Her subject, the six daughters of King George III.

Our next contender, Rob Hemming, a writer from Evesham, on Al Capone.

And Daniel Adler, an IT consultant from Farnham,

on the novels of Robert Harris.

APPLAUSE

Hello and welcome to Mastermind, with me, John Humphrys.

Five contenders tonight, and that's because this is a semifinal.

Slightly different timings -

a minute and a half on their specialist subject,

and then two minutes of general knowledge.

So let's get on with it,

and ask our first contender to join us please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject...

The Likely Lads in 90 seconds, here we go. In the first episode,

Terry Collier gets off the train from London

followed by Bob Ferris, who mistakenly thinks

they've arrived in Newcastle.

Which station are they actually at?

-Doncaster.

-In No Hiding Place,

the lads take sanctuary in a church to avoid hearing

a football match result.

What game do they play to pass the time

till Bob accuses Terry of cheating?

-I Spy.

-Bob tells Terry that his workmates sent off

50 postcard requests to try and get

a Doris Day song played for him on

Two-Way Family Favourites. What was the song?

-Que Sera, Sera.

-The producer for the first series was James Gilbert.

Who produced the second series?

-Bernard Thompson.

-In Birthday Boy,

what's the name of Terry's aftershave that,

according to the bottle, makes him "dangerous to be with"?

-Quiver.

-Terry complains that all he has to show

for his time in the army is

a broken marriage, a gammy leg,

and a tattoo on what part of his body?

-Left buttock.

-In The Go-Between,

what appliance does Terry use to try and defrost meat chops

when he takes over the cooking duties at Bob's house?

-Toaster.

-In the Christmas special,

Bob's careful attitude behind the wheel

causes Terry to comment that he drives like whom?

-Mary Poppins.

-The skiffle group that featured Bob on the washboard

and Terry on the tea-chest

was called Rob Ferris and the...?

-Wildcats.

-In the episode, In Harm's Way,

what job does Terry take after he's told that his

unemployment benefit will stop?

-Hospital porter.

-Which musician, who rose to fame

in the band Manfred Mann, wrote the signature tune

for the series with Ian La Frenais?

-Mike Hugg.

-Which episode in the second series

opens with an almost dialogue-free sequence

that highlights the contrast between Bob and Terry's

lifestyles and attitudes to work?

The Ant and the Grasshopper.

BEEP In Birthday Boy,

Bob proudly reveals that

he shares his birthday with which celebrity?

-Bruce Forsyth.

-Is correct.

No passes, no mistakes, you got 'em all right, Steve. 13 points.

-Thank you.

-APPLAUSE

And our next contender please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation?

And your specialist subject...

In 90 seconds, starting now.

Ovett first broke the world one-mile record in 1980

at the annual Dream Mile event

at the Bislett Stadium in Oslo.

Whose record did he beat?

-Walker.

-Seb Coe.

What is the name of Ovett's long-term mentor,

whom he first met in 1973 after he moved to the

Southern Counties Middle Distance training group?

-Harry Wilson.

-In what position did Ovett finish

in the final of the 800m at the Montreal Olympics?

The Cuban athlete Alberto Juantorena won the gold medal.

-Fifth.

-In which West German city

did Ovett set his personal best times

for the 1,000m in 1979 and the mile in '81?

Koblenz.

At what event in '72 did Ovett finish second and Coe tenth

when the two rivals competed against each other for the first time?

English Schools Cross Country.

Which member of the royal family presented Ovett with the

'78 BBC Sports Personality Of The Year award?

-Prince Philip.

-Prince Charles.

What vest number did Ovett wear when he won the 800 gold

and the 1,500m bronze at the 1980 Olympics?

-279.

-Ovett won his last major title in the 5,000m

at which '86 championships?

-Commonwealth Games.

-In how many successive

1,500m and one mile races had Ovett been unbeaten

before the 1980 Moscow Olympics?

-45.

-Ovett failed to qualify for the 1976 Olympic 1,500m final

when a Canadian athlete fell in front of him

in the semifinal. Who was he?

-David Hill.

-When Ovett broke the world 1,500m record

at Koblenz in 1980,

the two Germans who came second and third

also broke the old world record.

Thomas Wessinghage was one, who was the other?

Er, Kupek.

Hudak. In 1981... BEEP

..Ovett left the Brighton and Hove Athletics Club and formed

a new club along with his training partner, Matt Paterson.

-What was it called?

-Phoenix.

Is correct. No passes, Alan, you have nine points.

APPLAUSE

And our next contender please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject...

In 90 seconds, starting now.

What was the name of the official royal governess

appointed in 1762, who was responsible for

the education of George III's six daughters

throughout their childhoods?

Lady Charlotte Finch.

Who painted the portrait of the three elder princesses,

Charlotte, Augusta and Elizabeth,

with their arms linked together,

when they were teenagers in 1784?

Thomas Gainsborough.

In 1800, Princess Sophia gave birth to an illegitimate son

whose father was said to be

the soldier who gave the boy his name.

What was the soldier called?

Tommy Garth.

Which resort in Dorset did King George first visit

with the queen and the three elder princesses in June 1789

because "a few dips in the sea"

were recommended by his doctor?

-Weymouth.

-By what nickname

did the girls refer to Monsieur Rustan,

who taught them to draw human features using black chalk?

-Blackie.

-Count Smudge.

Which French exiled duke did Elizabeth hope to marry?

He wrote to her mother but received a firm no.

Duke of Orleans.

Charlotte married a widower who later became known as

King of Wurttemberg. What was his name?

-Frederick.

-Who was the King's Physician

who was called from London to see Princess Amelia,

and who was with her when she died?

-Er, Willis?

-Halford.

Which soldier did Amelia fall in love with in 1801?

She tried to leave him everything in her will?

-Charles Fitzroy.

-In a letter to the Prince of Wales,

Princess Mary referred to General Garth,

who had a birthmark on his face,

as the "Purple..."?

-Fright.

-"Light Of Love."

Towards the end of her life, Sophia came under the influence

of the controller of the Duchess of Kent's household.

What was his name?

-John Conroy.

-Which duke did Mary marry in 1816

after he'd been rejected by the daughter of the Prince Regent?

Gloucester and Cambridge.

-BEEP

-Er, Gloucester and Edinburgh.

Yep, Gloucester it was. No passes, Isabelle, you have nine points.

APPLAUSE

And our next contender please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation?

And chosen subject?

Al Capone in 90 seconds.

Al Capone started working at the Four Deuces club

in Chicago around 1921.

Which crime boss, who formerly headed the James Street Boys

in New York, ran the club at the time?

-John Torrio.

-Capone organised the so-called

St Valentine's Day Massacre in February 1929.

Who was the victims' boss?

He escaped being killed as he was late.

-Bugs Moran.

-What occupation did Capone have printed

on the business cards he used while he worked

at the Four Deuces club?

Antique dealer.

Yeah, second hand furniture dealer.

What nickname was given by the press

to the committee formed by Robert Randolph and five others

to fight local crime

and Capone's activities in particular?

-The Crime Commission.

-The Secret Six.

In a fight at the Harvard Inn, who gave Capone the facial

injuries that led to him being called "Scarface"?

-Frank Galluccio.

-Rather than being called "Scarface,"

Capone preferred another nickname meaning

"elegant" or "well dressed." What was it?

-Snorky.

-To which Chicago hotel

did Capone transfer his headquarters

after he left the Metropol in July 1928?

-Lexington.

-Who was the head of the Special Intelligence Unit

of the IRS who, with his so-called T Men,

such as Frank Wilson,

helped bring Capone to justice for tax evasion?

Elmer Irey.

In October 1931, he was found guilty and given 11 years imprisonment.

Who was the judge who sentenced him?

-Wilkerson.

-On which island off Miami Beach, Florida,

was Capone's palatial home where he died in January 1947?

-Palm Island.

-What was the name of both the inn and the adjacent

smoke-shop-cum-gambling-casino in Cicero, Illinois, where Capone conducted

many of his criminal activities in the mid-'20s?

Hawthorne.

At which Brooklyn social club were Peg Leg Lonergan

and two others killed in a shootout...

BEEP ..that led to Capone's arrest on Boxing Day 1925?

Go on.

The Adonis.

-Yes! It was.

-Oh.

The Adonis Social Club is right.

No passes, Rob. You have 11 points.

APPLAUSE

And our final contender, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your special subject?

In 90 seconds starting now.

His first novel, Fatherland, is set in a world where Germany

has won the Second World War.

The story covers one week in April of which year?

1964.

In Pompeii, events prior to the eruption of Vesuvius

are witnessed by the water engineer Attilius.

What is the name of the aqueduct he's in charge of?

The Aqua Augusta.

What's the name of the foreign office official who's investigating

potential security breaches at Bletchley Park in Enigma?

-Wigram.

-In the first novel of the Cicero Trilogy, Imperium,

Cicero claims that a priceless object was given

to his archrival, Hortensius, as a bribe by Gaius Verres.

What object?

-A statue of Apollo.

-Ivory sphinx.

The Ghost centres on the supposed capture and handover to the CIA

of suspected British terrorists for interrogation. What's the operation called?

-Tempest.

-In Lustrum, who was elected Pontifex Maximus on the death of Metellus Pius?

Julius Caesar.

In Fatherland, March and Charlie find a painting by Leonardo da Vinci

in a Zurich bank vault. Which painting?

Lady With An Ermine.

What is the name of the senator who's elected as joint Roman Consul

along with Cicero for the year 63 BC?

Hybrida.

In An Officer And A Spy, Colonel Picquart's commanding officer in Tunis

grants him a week's leave so that he can pursue his enquiries in Paris.

What's the officer's name?

-Leclerc.

-What is the name of the family who live in a forest outside Archangel

and adopted Stalin's son?

Kelso remembers it was an alias Stalin used before his rise to power.

-Gizehkiev.

-Chizhikov.

In The Fear Index, Dr Hoffman receives a first edition of a book

that describes human emotions, particularly fear.

Who's the author of the book?

-Darwin.

-Attilius becomes infatuated with the daughter...

BEEP ..of the millionaire Ampliatus

and tries to save her from the ruins of Pompeii.

What's her name?

-Corelia.

-Is correct.

No passes, Daniel. You have 10 points.

APPLAUSE

Well, what a cracking round that was.

Let's have a look at all the scores.

In joint fourth place, nine point apiece,

Alan Morgan and Isabelle Heward,

third place, 10 point, Daniel Adler,

second place, 11 points,

Rob Hemming,

first place, 13 points, Steve Lacey.

So it's the general knowledge round now.

And if there's a tie at the end of it,

then the number of passes is taken into account

and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.

And if they are tied on passes as well, there has to be a tie-break.

So let's get on with it,

and ask Alan to join us again, please.

And you were one of the nine-pointers, as it were.

So you have two minutes of general knowledge now to storm ahead

or whatever.

Here we go.

Which fictional character was known as the Demon Barber of Fleet Street?

-Sweeney Todd.

-What name is given to an object in space

whose gravitational attraction is so great

even light cannot escape from it?

-Black hole.

-Which of Henry VIII's wives was the mother

of his only surviving legitimate son, the future Edward VI?

-Jane Seymour.

-Which close relative of the crocodile has a name

that comes from the Spanish for "the lizard"

-Alligator.

-What name of Latin and Greek origin is traditionally given

to the prayers said at sunset in the Roman Catholic cycle of canonical hours?

-Banana.

-Vespers.

Which author, best known for his children's books, wrote a series of short stories called

Tales Of The Unexpected that formed the basis of a 1980s television series?

-Roald Dahl.

-What other fruit juice is mixed with grapefruit juice and vodka

to make a sea breeze cocktail?

-Redcurrant.

-Cranberry.

Which Government department was formed in 2007 by the merger

of the Department of Constitutional affairs with part of the Home Office?

-Justice.

-The English rapper and record producer Elliot Gleave

has had UK chart success under a stage name that comes from his initials EG.

What name?

-Example.

-What is the largest city in Quebec Province and Canada's

second-most populous metropolitan area after Toronto?

-Montreal.

-The last words of a Russian ballerina who died in January 1931

included a request to get her swan costume ready. Who was she?

-Anna Pavlova.

-Which Flemish artist was commissioned by Charles I in around 1629

to decorate the ceiling of the Royal Banqueting House in Whitehall?

-Van Dyck.

-Rubens.

Aggie MacKenzie and Kim Woodburn presented a television programme

where they tried to help to clean up Britain's most dirty households.

What was it called?

-How Clean Is Your Home?

-No, How Clean Is Your House?

Which 1886 novel by Henry James is a satirical account of female emancipation

in the American city of its title?

-Baltimore.

-The Bostonians.

In the 2007 film Spider-Man 3, Flint Marko is the real name

of which shape-shifting character?

-Sandman.

-Who became only the eighth tennis player

to complete a career Grand Slam...

BEEP ..in the men's singles when he defeated Andy Murray

to claim his first French Open title in June 2016?

-Djokovic.

-Is correct.

No passes, Alan. You now have a total of 20 points.

APPLAUSE

And now Isabelle, again, please.

And you also start out with nine points, Isabelle.

And the score to beat, as you have just heard, is,

at the moment, anyway, 20 points.

So you've got to get 11 or more to draw equal or win. Here we go.

They terms topside and silverside usually refers to a cut of which meat?

-Beef.

-Who returned to the role of the clinical psychologist Eddie Fitzgerald

after a ten-year absence in a television film in October 2006?

-Robbie Coltrane.

-The title given to a Nobel prize-winner or the holder of other

honorary positions refers to the wreaths given to victors in ancient Greece and Rome

made from the leaves of which tree?

-Laurel.

-What's the name of the older married women that Benjamin Braddock

has an affair with in Charles Webb's novel The Graduate?

-Mrs Robinson.

-The first written reference to a particular capital city

dates back to 1459 in a document issued by the court of Vlad III The Impaler.

Which city?

-Moscow.

-Bucharest.

How is the plant Rosa canina more commonly known?

-Dog-rose.

-Which Briton became the Olympic figure skating champion

at Innsbruck in 1976, the first Englishman to do so?

He also won the world and European Championships the same year.

-Robin Cousins.

-John Curry.

The French town of Aubusson is famous for the production of a type of

ornamental textiles that are typically used for wall coverings

and have designs painted, woven or embroidered on them. What are they called?

-Tapestries.

-What common name is given to the receptors on the human tongue

that can identify flavours such as bitter, sweet and sour?

-Taste buds.

-The Martello tower at Sandycove near Dublin is now home to

a museum dedicated to an Irish writer who made it the setting for the first chapter

of one of his best-known works? Which writer?

-James Joyce.

-The songs The Surrey With The Fringe On Top

and People Will Say We're In Love come from which musical?

-Oklahoma.

-In the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and John,

the site of Christ's crucifixion is called Golgotha.

By what Greek name is it called in traditional translations

of St Luke's Gospel?

-Calvary.

-Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton's rival for the Democratic Party's

nomination for the 2016 American presidential election,

was first elected as senator for which state in 2006?

-New York.

-Vermont.

What term is used in Indian cuisine for

a dish of small pieces of chicken or other meat,

similar to tandoori, marinated in spices and yoghurt,

threaded on skewers and grilled or cooked in a clay oven?

-Kebab.

-Tikka.

In the 2007 film The Hoax, Richard Gere plays Clifford Irving,

who forges the autobiography of which reclusive billionaire?

Howard Hughes.

BEEP Which character in a story by the Brothers Grimm

gives a queen three days to guess his name

or she'll be forced to give up her child to him?

Rumpelstiltskin. Yes.

And that was a rather important point.

No passes, you now have 21 points.

Thank you.

APPLAUSE

And now Daniel again, please.

And you start out with 10, Daniel.

And the score has now shot up to 21.

That's the one you have to beat.

Here we go.

What type of natural phenomenon is Old Faithful,

a tourist attraction in Yellowstone National Park?

-Geyser.

-Which basic foodstuff was the first sliced and wrapped commercially

in 1928 with a device invented by Otto Rohwedder?

-Bread.

-Elizabeth Blackwell and her sister, Emily, were female pioneers

in the practice of which profession?

-Medicine.

-What is the nationality of Carlos Acosta, who joined the Royal Ballet

in 1998 and became a principal guest artist five years later?

-Mexican.

-Cuban.

Which turtles have a unique shell composed of the thick flexible

dark brown or blackish hide which gives the species its name?

-Saddleback.

-Leatherback.

Port-au-Prince is the capital, chief port and commercial centre

of which Caribbean country?

-Trinidad.

-Haiti.

Which Welsh singer who is usually only known by her surname

released the debut album Rockferry that became the bestselling album of 2008?

-Duffy.

-In 18th century, Britain the Tories

were one of the two main political parties. What was the other,

that was broadly the predecessor of the Liberal Party?

-Whigs.

-Cars are forbidden on Herm and another of the Channel Islands

where you can visit La Seigneurie Gardens. Which island?

-Sark.

-Which small stand-up collar that is usually open at the front

takes its name from its supposed resemblance to those worn by members

of the civil service in the Chinese Imperial Court?

-Mandarin.

-What name was given to the original shipment of British convicts

that left Portsmouth for Botany Bay, Australia, in 11 ships on 13th May 1787?

-Brian Blessed.

-The First Fleet.

Which planet comes closer to the earth during its orbit than any other large body

except the moon?

-Mars.

-Venus.

Which work by Lytton Strachey includes writing on the lives of

Cardinal Manning and Florence Nightingale and is

a critique of the era in which they lived?

-Great Victorians.

-Eminent Victorians.

Who was nominated for the 2015 Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of the real life

Miracle Mop inventor Joy Mangano in the film biopic Joy?

-Lawrence.

-Jennifer Lawrence

On which motorway are the Gloucester, Sedgemoor and Michaelwood service stations?

-M6.

-M5.

What word is usually said to derive from the Latin for between and kill?

It's come to mean mutually destructive...

BEEP ..or involving conflict within a group.

-Interstitial.

-It's a killer that one, isn't it?

-Internecine.

-Yeah.

No passes, Daniel. 18 points.

APPLAUSE

And now Rob again, please.

And you start out with 11 points, Rob,

and 21 is still the score to beat at the moment.

Here we go.

Persian and Turkish knots are used in the production of what type of floor covering?

-Rugs.

-Yeah, rugs and carpets.

In 2010, Gareth Malone trained the chorus

for Knight Crew, an opera by Julian Philips,

for performances at a prestigious English Opera house in Sussex.

Which opera house?

-Glyndebourne.

-What name was given to the series of acts beginning in 1549

that established liturgical conformity in the Church of England

and the use of the Book of Common Prayer?

-Reformation.

-Uniformity.

Which Texas-born model was the subject of the '97 painting Eight Months Gone

by Lucian Freud in which she was pregnant with her fourth child?

-Jerry Hall.

-Which city, the largest in Tanzania,

has a name that means "haven of peace" in Arabic?

-Dar es Salaam.

-Compounds of which metallic elements with the chemical symbol CO

have been used for centuries to impart a blue colour to glazes and ceramics?

-Cobalt.

-What French term is used for little appetisers, typically consisting of

a small piece of bread or toast with a savoury topping

served with drinks or as hors d'oeuvre.

-Hors d'oeuvre.

-Canapes.

How is Becky Bloomwood described in the titles of a series

of bestselling novels by Sophie Kinsella since 2000?

-Little Miss Dynamite.

-Shopaholic.

Grevy's, plains and mountain are three species of which member of the horse family?

-Zebra.

-To what cabinet position

did Bill Clinton appoint Madeline Albright in 1996?

She was the first woman to hold the post.

-Secretary Of State.

-The ruins of Tintern Abbey, which are the subject of

a poem by Wordsworth, stand on the bend of which River?

-Ouse.

-The Wye.

Which Mercury prize-winning band released their second chart-topping album

Favourite Worst Nightmare in April 2007?

-Mumford and Sons.

-Arctic Monkeys.

Which Bond villain has been played by Donald Pleasance, Telly Savalas,

Charles Gray and most recently Christoph Waltz?

-Blofeld.

-In woman's cricket, who beat the three-times defending champions Australia

in the final of the 2016 ICC World Twenty20?

-New Zealand.

-West Indies.

Which town on the Lincolnshire coast 15 miles south-east of Hull

was once one of the world's largest fishing ports?

Grimsby.

In the Bible, which sea dried up to allow the Israelites to pass through

on their way to the Promised Land, and then closed over...

BEEP ..and drowned the pursuing Egyptians?

-Red.

-Yes, the Red Sea is correct.

No passes, Rob. You have 21 points.

APPLAUSE

And finally Steve again, please.

And you start out with 13,

and the score to beat is 21.

Two contenders with 21.

So here we go. Starting now.

The name of what type of wooden shoe

can also be a verb that means to block or obstruct?

-Clog.

-Runt and whinnock are terms used for the smallest member of a litter

of which farm animal?

-Pigs.

-What name that's shared by an ocean was commonly given to

a class of steam locomotives with the wheel arrangements 4-4-2.

-Ocean.

-Atlantic.

What is the name of the prolific author whose first published novel, Carrie,

was made into a film in 1976 and again in 2013?

Stephen King.

Which country was known as Upper Volta until President Thomas Sankara gave it

a name that means land of incorruptible people, in August 1984?

Burkina Faso.

In Prokofiev's Peter And The Wolf,

the wolf is depicted by which brass instrument?

-Flute.

-French horn.

What is the scientific name for the breastbone,

which is found in most vertebrates, including humans?

-Sternum.

-What peppery plant of the nasturtium genus grows in running water?

Its leaves are chiefly used in green salads as a garnish or in soups.

-Watercress.

-Which painter's nickname was originally given to his older brother,

Giovanni, and came to be adopted as the family surname?

It means little barrel.

-Tintoretto.

-Botticelli.

Which Canadian singer's third album, entitled The Best Damn Thing,

topped the UK album charts in April 2007?

-Bryan Adams.

-Avril Lavigne.

In 1553, who was proclaimed Grand Prince of Moscow at the age of three

on the death of his father, Grand Prince Vasili III,

he later became the first to adopt the title of Tsar?

-Peter the Great.

-Ivan IV.

Near the suburbs of which south coast city is Explorer House,

the headquarters of the Ordnance Survey, Britain's national mapping agency?

-Plymouth.

-Southampton.

Which Oscar-winning actor plays the freed slave Django

in the Quentin Tarantino film Django Unchained?

-Samuel Jackson.

-Jamie Foxx.

Into which fictional school was Horace Henry Samuel Quelch

made the form master of the Remove?

Greyfriars.

What word for the disguise of an object to make it appear to blend in

with its surroundings came into English from French during the First World War?

-Camouflage.

-Which German engineer invented

one of the first petrol engine motorcycles...

BEEP ..in 1885, though he was more famous as the founder

of a car manufacturing company?

-Benz.

-Daimler.

-Daimler.

And you have no passes, and you also have 21 points.

-OK.

-APPLAUSE

Well, I don't remember that happening before.

Let's have a look at all of the scores.

In fifth place,

18 points, Daniel Adler,

fourth place, 20 points,

Alan Morgan,

joint-first place,

21 points apiece,

Steve Lacey, Isabelle Heward

and Rob Hemming.

So a three-way tie break. And here's how it'll work.

I'll read the same five questions to each contender

and the one with the highest score will win.

We are not against the clock this time, by the way.

So let me ask Isabelle and Rob to leave the studio

so they can't hear the questions, of course,

and Steve to come to the chair again.

So, five questions, Steve. Here we go.

Which cartoon cat is named after

the grandfather of his creator, Jim Davis?

-Garfield.

-The former Indian Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi,

who was killed in 1984, was the only child of which Indian statesman?

Mohandas Gandhi.

Which 1969 novel by Kurt Vonnegut has the alternative title

The Children's Crusade - A Duty-Dance With Death?

Slaughterhouse-Five.

The convicted murderer Hamida Djandoubi was the last person

to be executed by what method at Marseille on 10th September 1977?

Guillotine.

Until 1856, the island of Tasmania

was named after a governor of the Dutch East Indies.

What was that name?

Van Diemen's Land.

I'm not going to give you your scores because we shall save that.

-Thank you, Steve.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

And now Isabelle again, please.

And, Isabelle, you get five questions

and I shan't be telling you

whether your answers are right or wrong. Here we go.

Which cartoon cat is named after

the grandfather of his creator, Jim Davis?

Garfield.

The former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi,

who was killed in 1984, was the only child of which Indian statesman?

Pandit Nehru.

Which 1969 novel by Kurt Vonnegut has the alternative title

The Children's Crusade - A Duty-Dance With Death?

Slaughterhouse-Five.

The convicted murderer Hamida Djandoubi was the last person

to be executed by what method at Marseille on 10th September 1977?

Guillotine.

Until 1856, the island of Tasmania

was named after a governor of the Dutch East Indies.

What was that name?

-Van Diemen's Land.

-Thank you, Isabelle.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

And finally Rob again, please.

Five questions for you, Rob.

I shan't be telling you whether you got the answers right or wrong. Here we go.

Which cartoon cat is named after

the grandfather of his creator, Jim Davis?

Garfield.

The former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi,

who was killed in 1984, was the only child of which Indian statesman?

Nehru.

Which '69 novel by Kurt Vonnegut has the alternative title

The Children's Crusade - A Duty-Dance With Death?

Slaughterhouse-Nine.

The convicted murderer Hamida Djandoubi was the last person

to be executed by what method at Marseille on 10th September 1977?

Guillotine.

Until 1856, the island of Tasmania

was named after a governor of the Dutch East Indies.

What was that name?

-Van Dieman.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

So, at the end of that tie-break, we do have a winner.

In joint-second place,

Steve Lacey and Rob Hemming,

both of them with 25 points.

With 26 points, tonight's winner,

Isabelle Heward.

APPLAUSE

Thank you!

Which means, of course, that Isabelle goes through to the final.

And what a fight it was. Congratulations to her.

Please join us next time for more Masterminds.

Thanks for watching, goodbye.