0:00:02 > 0:00:06From the 96 contenders in this series, six finalists have emerged.
0:00:06 > 0:00:10One of them is about to be crowned the nation's Mastermind.
0:00:34 > 0:00:39The first finalist is Mark Wyatt, a chartered accountant from Birmingham.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42He'll answer on JMW Turner.
0:00:42 > 0:00:46Next, Maya Davis, a retired teacher from Brighton, on alchemy.
0:00:46 > 0:00:51David Love, a financial planner from Wolverhampton, on Tom Lehrer.
0:00:51 > 0:00:57Next, Nick Reed, a househusband from North Yorkshire, on The Diggers.
0:00:57 > 0:01:01Gary Grant, a GP from Bury, on whales, dolphins and porpoises.
0:01:01 > 0:01:08And Andy Tucker, a former diplomat from Winchester, on the history of Azerbaijan.
0:01:17 > 0:01:22Hello and welcome to the Mastermind Grand Final with me, John Humphrys.
0:01:22 > 0:01:27It's been a long road for these six finalists, but the end is in sight.
0:01:27 > 0:01:33Having seen off all challengers, they must now face the black chair one more time. They know the rules.
0:01:33 > 0:01:38Two minutes on their specialist subject, 2½ on general knowledge.
0:01:38 > 0:01:42The winner will take home this glass bowl and, far more importantly,
0:01:42 > 0:01:49the title of Mastermind Champion. So let's get on with it and ask our first finalist to join us, please.
0:01:56 > 0:01:58And your name is...?
0:02:00 > 0:02:07In the heats, you took the life and music of Nick Drake and Band of Brothers.
0:02:07 > 0:02:09Tonight you are taking...?
0:02:38 > 0:02:43I used to drop into Birmingham Art Gallery on my lunch hour and got interested in painting.
0:02:43 > 0:02:50One of the artists that most fascinates me is Turner because of the change that he represents
0:02:50 > 0:02:52and the way that he paints.
0:02:52 > 0:02:58Tate Britain is home to the largest collection of Turner works including Snowstorm Steamboat,
0:02:58 > 0:03:00The Shipwreck and Norham Castle.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06One of the interesting things I've found out is
0:03:06 > 0:03:13that his mother was admitted to the Bethlehem mental hospital. That's where we get the word bedlam.
0:03:13 > 0:03:18Since the semi-final, I've been trying to prepare as best I can.
0:03:18 > 0:03:22I don't think there's much you can do to prepare for general knowledge,
0:03:22 > 0:03:28but for the specialist subject round I've been reading as many biographies of Turner as I can
0:03:28 > 0:03:33and trying to learn about his paintings - not an unpleasant task.
0:03:33 > 0:03:39From the earlier rounds I've learnt that it's really important to answer as quickly as you can.
0:03:39 > 0:03:43And a really strong black coffee 10 minutes before the show helps.
0:03:43 > 0:03:47I don't think I'll ever forget the first walk to the black chair.
0:03:47 > 0:03:53My biggest concern was I'd sit in it and it would tip backwards like some office chairs I've known.
0:03:53 > 0:03:57I'm quite excited about the final. In earlier rounds, I was nervous.
0:03:57 > 0:04:01Hopefully in the final I'll just enjoy it.
0:04:01 > 0:04:07I think my friends and family are quite surprised. We've done a lot of pub quizzes and don't often win,
0:04:07 > 0:04:11so I think it's quite a shock for them.
0:04:13 > 0:04:18I used to enjoy watching Mastermind as a kid. As I grew up, I started doing pub quizzes.
0:04:18 > 0:04:22This brings the whole thing full circle.
0:04:33 > 0:04:37Two minutes on JMW Turner starting now.
0:04:37 > 0:04:42In which year was he baptised on 14th May in Covent Garden?
0:04:42 > 0:04:48- 1775.- Whose painting Seaport With The Embarkation of The Queen of Sheba so profoundly effected Turner
0:04:48 > 0:04:53that he burst into tears on first seeing it?
0:04:53 > 0:04:57- Claude.- In which town west of London did Turner first attend school
0:04:57 > 0:05:03after he was sent to stay with an uncle, possibly to escape the stress of his mother's mental instability?
0:05:03 > 0:05:07- Brentford.- What major event of October, 1834, did Turner witness,
0:05:07 > 0:05:10making a series of quick watercolours?
0:05:10 > 0:05:16- Burning of the Houses of Parliament. - In which London street did he open his own gallery in 1804 until 1816?
0:05:16 > 0:05:24- Queen Anne Street.- Yes. What was the first oil painting he exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1796?
0:05:24 > 0:05:28- Fishermen At Sea.- Which artist did he upstage at Somerset House in 1832
0:05:28 > 0:05:32by changing the colour scheme of his own work with a daub of red?
0:05:32 > 0:05:38- Constable.- Which figure painting, a rare theme for Turner, was strongly influenced by Titian
0:05:38 > 0:05:44- and first exhibited in 1803?- Pass. - With which other student artist was he employed on Friday evenings
0:05:44 > 0:05:46at the home of Dr Thomas Munro?
0:05:46 > 0:05:54- Girtin.- Which North Wales castle did he paint in 1800, submitting it to the Royal Academy two years later?
0:05:54 > 0:06:01- Dolbadarn.- What widow of a composer was said by some to be the mother of two daughters by Turner?
0:06:03 > 0:06:07- Sarah Danby.- He left two paintings to the National Gallery in his will
0:06:07 > 0:06:13on condition they be displayed beside Claude. One was Sun Rising Through Vapour and the other...?
0:06:13 > 0:06:20- Er, Dido Building Carthage.- In which city did he set up a studio in 1828 and receive much criticism?
0:06:20 > 0:06:27- Rome.- Who offered Turner the post of illustrator on his expedition to Greece, but disagreed over terms?
0:06:27 > 0:06:33- Elgin.- What's the title of his oil painting of 1832 which, 12 years later, became his first work
0:06:33 > 0:06:35to enter an American collection?
0:06:35 > 0:06:37- Staffa, Fingal's Cave.- His huge... - BEEP
0:06:37 > 0:06:45..canvas, Rome From The Vatican, was painted in 1820. Which Renaissance artist is depicted working in it?
0:06:45 > 0:06:49- Raphael.- Is correct. You had one pass.
0:06:49 > 0:06:53The title of the figure painting was Holy Family.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56You have, Mark Wyatt, 15 points.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09And now our next finalist, please.
0:07:16 > 0:07:18And your name is...?
0:07:21 > 0:07:28In previous rounds, you chose Gerard Hoffnung and British owls. Tonight it is...?
0:07:39 > 0:07:45Alchemy is a sort of early chemistry. What a lot of alchemists were interested in doing
0:07:45 > 0:07:48was exploring how to change one substance into another.
0:07:48 > 0:07:53The Wellcome Institute in London is all about the history of medicine.
0:07:53 > 0:07:57A lot of early alchemists had a background in medicine,
0:07:57 > 0:08:01were doctors, were interested in finding out more about life.
0:08:01 > 0:08:06Some of the equipment here looks very like what you see in pictures of alchemists.
0:08:06 > 0:08:11They were really interested in how to make gold, for obvious reasons.
0:08:11 > 0:08:18The ideas go right back to the Ionian Greeks who wanted to know what everything was made of
0:08:18 > 0:08:26and led to the ideas of Aristotle that everything is a balance of fire, water, earth, air,
0:08:26 > 0:08:29hot, cold, wet, dry.
0:08:29 > 0:08:36When I was doing A Level English at school, our Chaucer set text was the Canon's Yeoman's Tale,
0:08:36 > 0:08:40which is about an alchemist. I wanted to find out more about it
0:08:40 > 0:08:46and thought it would be nice to go back and look at something I last read about 40 years ago.
0:08:46 > 0:08:53I'm going through it in detail and thinking about how I would teach it and set an exam on it.
0:08:53 > 0:08:58That's helping me focus on what I think are the basic ideas.
0:08:58 > 0:09:04Mastermind is THE big challenge of a quiz, the one where you're competing against yourself.
0:09:04 > 0:09:10I'm really pleased to get to the final. I can be thrown by left-field questions.
0:09:10 > 0:09:13I can have the odd senior moment,
0:09:13 > 0:09:19but the important thing is to get it out of your mind and concentrate on John Humphrys and doing your best.
0:09:20 > 0:09:27As far as general knowledge is concerned, I'm not sure whether age is a good factor or a bad factor.
0:09:27 > 0:09:33Experience is an important thing and if your mind is a cross between a dustbin and a filing cabinet
0:09:33 > 0:09:38with a random access memory, that possibly works best.
0:09:39 > 0:09:44My friends and family are divided about me taking part in Mastermind.
0:09:44 > 0:09:50Some are backing me all the way, particularly my husband. Others just think I'm completely mad.
0:09:50 > 0:09:54Either way, I'm going to try to not let them down.
0:09:58 > 0:10:01Two minutes on alchemy starting now.
0:10:01 > 0:10:05According to Chaucer, in alchemy sol and lunar refer to which metals?
0:10:05 > 0:10:11- Sulphur and mercury.- Gold and silver. What equipment was used by amateurs, derided as "puffers"?
0:10:11 > 0:10:19- Furnaces.- Bellows. According to Avicenna, metals were mainly formed from which two elements?
0:10:19 > 0:10:25- Sulphur and mercury!- What name meaning "the royal water" was given to hydrochloric and nitric acids?
0:10:25 > 0:10:30- Aqua Regia.- Which 17th-century antiquarian collected many alchemical texts
0:10:30 > 0:10:33in his Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum?
0:10:33 > 0:10:40- Ashmole.- Geber's Chest of Wisdom includes "the most important single piece of information" in his books,
0:10:40 > 0:10:43which was a recipe for what?
0:10:44 > 0:10:51- Pass.- Which Pope issued a decree against alchemists and anyone claiming to turn metals into gold?
0:10:51 > 0:10:59- John XXII.- In which city did the physician Helvetius and his wife experiment with transmutatory powder
0:10:59 > 0:11:01and apparently turn lead into gold?
0:11:01 > 0:11:06- Basel.- The Hague. Which element was sometimes called "the grey wolf"?
0:11:06 > 0:11:10- Mercury?- Antimony. In 1597, a German Lutheran published Alchemia,
0:11:10 > 0:11:16often regarded as the first modern chemistry textbook. What was his name?
0:11:16 > 0:11:17- Paracelsus.- Libavius.
0:11:17 > 0:11:24Which 13th-century Dominican bishop known as Doctor Universalis, tested alchemical gold and found it false?
0:11:26 > 0:11:33- Pass.- Which alchemical apparatus now used in cookery is said to be named after a Jewish prophetess?
0:11:33 > 0:11:38- Bain-Marie.- As described by George Ripley, which animal stood rotting for over 80 days
0:11:38 > 0:11:40before he began to experiment on it?
0:11:40 > 0:11:47- Cow.- A toad. What term, probably coined by Paracelsus, was used for liquid to dissolve all substances?
0:11:47 > 0:11:52- Elixir.- Alkahest. Which notorious English alchemist, mentioned by Ben Jonson,
0:11:52 > 0:11:57worked with John Dee for Emperor Rudolf II and died near Prague?
0:11:57 > 0:12:02- Kelley.- What word of Arabic origin meant an alchemical furnace... - BEEP
0:12:02 > 0:12:04..with a deep ash pan?
0:12:04 > 0:12:07- Alembic.- Athanor.
0:12:07 > 0:12:14You had two passes. That 13th-century Dominican bishop was Albertus Magnus
0:12:14 > 0:12:21and in Geber's Chest of Wisdom, the most important single piece of information his books contained
0:12:21 > 0:12:24was a recipe for nitric acid.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26You have, Maya Davis, six points.
0:12:33 > 0:12:36And our next finalist, please.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45And your name is...?
0:12:48 > 0:12:55Your earlier specialist subjects were Ralph Vaughan Williams and British birds of prey. Tonight...?
0:13:04 > 0:13:10We're in Boston. It's the largest city in Massachusetts.
0:13:10 > 0:13:14Also the state capital. One of the oldest cities in America.
0:13:14 > 0:13:21This is Storyville, a music venue in Boston that's been a home to some of the greats
0:13:21 > 0:13:25such as Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong,
0:13:25 > 0:13:27Billie Holiday
0:13:27 > 0:13:33and, in 1954, it was the place where Tom Lehrer made his professional debut.
0:13:33 > 0:13:38# First we got the bomb and that was good cos we love peace and motherhood
0:13:38 > 0:13:43# Then Russia got the bomb but that's OK cos the balance of power... #
0:13:43 > 0:13:49Tom Lehrer's material proved just a little too hot for the radio stations to broadcast.
0:13:49 > 0:13:57You can understand it when you realise he was dealing with civil rights, racial persecution...
0:13:57 > 0:14:01# France got the bomb but don't you grieve...
0:14:01 > 0:14:08# China got the bomb but have no fears, they can't wipe us out for at least five years... #
0:14:08 > 0:14:12Also quite a few strange things not to be mentioned in polite company.
0:14:12 > 0:14:16# Egypt's gonna get one, too
0:14:16 > 0:14:20# Just to use on you know who... #
0:14:20 > 0:14:24Lehrer's got a reputation for being a great ad libber,
0:14:24 > 0:14:30but the wonderfully hilarious and urbane introductions to the songs on the live recordings
0:14:30 > 0:14:35were very carefully calculated. He knew where the laughs were.
0:14:35 > 0:14:39I don't know why, but people in London take me for an American...
0:14:39 > 0:14:43- He knew where to pause... - # Hey ho and hi diddle diddle
0:14:43 > 0:14:46# Aunt Isobel's shingles have met in the middle. #
0:14:46 > 0:14:49He didn't leave anything to chance.
0:14:49 > 0:14:56# There's no such thing as a fifth of a penny So you call it seven pence... #
0:14:56 > 0:15:02I used to steal his songs with an old university friend of mine. His material supplemented ours.
0:15:02 > 0:15:08I thought as I already know quite a few of the songs, he might make a decent subject for Mastermind.
0:15:08 > 0:15:15- National Brotherhood Week. - Walking to the black chair must feel like jumping out of an aircraft.
0:15:15 > 0:15:22No amount of panic will do any good and all you can do is hope that your parachute is going to open.
0:15:22 > 0:15:25# And that is the end of the news! #
0:15:35 > 0:15:37Tom Lehrer, two minutes.
0:15:37 > 0:15:41He was born in 1928 to a Jewish family in which borough of New York?
0:15:41 > 0:15:48- Manhattan.- At what age did he go to Harvard to study mathematics "due to the lack of labs and smells"?
0:15:48 > 0:15:53- 15.- In Lobachevsky, what is the secret of success in mathematics?
0:15:53 > 0:15:57- Plagiarise.- In the notes of his first album, which song is dedicated
0:15:57 > 0:16:03"to that member of the community who goes modestly...about his job of spreading happiness...
0:16:03 > 0:16:05"but is never properly recognised"?
0:16:05 > 0:16:12- The Old Dope Peddler.- In Smut, what line follows, "Who needs a hobby like tennis or philately"...?
0:16:12 > 0:16:18- "I'm re-reading Lady Chatterley." - On what day does Poisoning Pigeons In The Park routinely take place?
0:16:18 > 0:16:24- Sunday.- Lehrer said something he invented out of necessity when alcohol was banned at a party
0:16:24 > 0:16:28was his single contribution to the war effort. What was it?
0:16:28 > 0:16:34- The vodka Jell-o shot.- His album That Was The Year That Was was recorded in which night club?
0:16:34 > 0:16:41- The Hungry I.- In 1997, which of his songs did he describe as being probably the most controversial?
0:16:41 > 0:16:47- Vatican Rag.- The last time he was a paid performer in a live concert was on September 12th, 1967,
0:16:47 > 0:16:50in which European capital city?
0:16:50 > 0:16:56- Copenhagen.- The fourth verse of Clementine is reworked in the style of which British musical pairing
0:16:56 > 0:17:00whom Lehrer once described as his earliest musical memory?
0:17:00 > 0:17:05- Gilbert and Sullivan.- In the introduction to Tom Lehrer Revisited
0:17:05 > 0:17:12he claims that his translation of which book into Latin remains the standard version of that work?
0:17:12 > 0:17:19- Wizard of Oz.- Who was the owner of Ciro's, the nightclub on Sunset Strip, where Lehrer played?
0:17:19 > 0:17:26- George...Homer.- Herman Hover. What is the name of the musical revue based on Lehrer's songs
0:17:26 > 0:17:30written and produced by Cameron Mackintosh in 1980?
0:17:30 > 0:17:36- Tomfoolery.- In The Irish Ballad, the maid admits to killing her family. Why doesn't she deny it?
0:17:36 > 0:17:39- Lying would be a sin.- Yes! - BEEP
0:17:39 > 0:17:43Murder's fine, but lying is a sin. Exactly. No passes.
0:17:43 > 0:17:45David Love, you have 14 points.
0:17:53 > 0:17:56And our next finalist, please.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05And your name is...?
0:18:06 > 0:18:12In previous rounds you took English Football Leagues and PG Wodehouse as your specialist subject.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14Tonight...?
0:18:24 > 0:18:31"Take notice that England is not a free people until the poor that have no land have a free allowance to dig
0:18:31 > 0:18:33"and the Earth must be set free
0:18:33 > 0:18:39"from entanglements of lords and landlords and become a common treasury for all..."
0:18:39 > 0:18:43Diggers described land and property as being under the Norman yoke,
0:18:43 > 0:18:50looking back nearly 600 years and blaming the Normans for changing the way land was allocated.
0:18:51 > 0:18:57The Digger movement emerges from the English Civil War and Revolution and that's no coincidence.
0:18:57 > 0:19:02The Civil War is a time when accepted ideas are up in the air for the first time in centuries
0:19:02 > 0:19:09and a radical movement with a coherent idea and commitment can really seize the day.
0:19:10 > 0:19:14"Everyone talks of freedom, but few act for freedom
0:19:14 > 0:19:20"and the actors for freedom are oppressed by the talkers and verbal professors of freedom."
0:19:21 > 0:19:25We're here in St Mary's Church, a key site of the Surrey Diggers.
0:19:25 > 0:19:30In April, 1649, after renegade soldiers stormed into the church,
0:19:30 > 0:19:36one of the more excitable Diggers took up a bundle of thorns and briars to drive the parson away.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39"True religion and undefiled is this.
0:19:39 > 0:19:46"To make restitution of the Earth, which hath been held from the common people, and set the oppressed free."
0:19:46 > 0:19:52The Digger movement lasted barely a year and had, across the country, no more than 200 adherents.
0:19:52 > 0:19:56Despite that, of all the radical movements of the 1650s,
0:19:56 > 0:20:04and there were plenty of them, the Diggers and the Levellers are the ones whose ideas still resound.
0:20:04 > 0:20:10I blame Billy Bragg for my final specialist subject. I've always loved his version of a song
0:20:10 > 0:20:16about the Diggers. By the time I'd got to the final, I'd run out of subjects at which I am specialist,
0:20:16 > 0:20:23so I thought I'd try to learn some more about these people set in a time about which I know little.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25Thanks for that, Billy.
0:20:25 > 0:20:32I'm quite surprised to be in the final, especially as somebody who doesn't do organised quizzes.
0:20:32 > 0:20:38How would it feel to win the Grand Final? I haven't got the faintest idea. Ask me again if it happens.
0:20:38 > 0:20:44"And here I end, having put my arm as far as my strength will go to advance righteousness."
0:20:49 > 0:20:56Two minutes. On which common ground near Cobham did a group of landless labourers begin to dig in 1649?
0:20:56 > 0:21:03- St George's Hill.- The first digging experiment was led by Gerrard Winstanley and which ex-soldier?
0:21:03 > 0:21:11- William Everard.- In 1650, Winstanley and the Diggers retreated to Pirton, home of which eccentric woman?
0:21:11 > 0:21:16- Lady Eleanor Davies. - In A Vindication of Those Called Diggers, which controversial sect
0:21:16 > 0:21:19are called "the Devouring Beast"?
0:21:19 > 0:21:23- Ranters.- What Digger poet in A Mite Cast Into The Common Treasury argued
0:21:23 > 0:21:27that increasing land for cultivation would bring down the cost of living?
0:21:27 > 0:21:32- Robert Coster.- The teachings of a sect led by Christopher Vittels
0:21:32 > 0:21:36is said to be a possible influence on Winstanley. What was it called?
0:21:38 > 0:21:45- The Fifth Monarchists.- The Family of Love. Under what title was The Diggers Christmas Caroll published?
0:21:46 > 0:21:51- The Diggers Mirth. - What anonymous 1648 pamphlet called for equality of property
0:21:51 > 0:21:54and other principles of Winstanley?
0:21:54 > 0:22:00- Light Shining In Buckinghamshire. - What man from Walton-on-Thames informed on the Diggers' activities?
0:22:01 > 0:22:06- Henry Gerard.- Henry Sanders. In A New Year's Gift For The Parliament and Army,
0:22:06 > 0:22:10what does Winstanley describe as "the true saviour"?
0:22:10 > 0:22:16- Religion.- The power of love. Which soldier with two troops of horse was sent to Kingston
0:22:16 > 0:22:18to investigate the Diggers?
0:22:18 > 0:22:24- John Gladman.- In his Law of Freedom, what does Winstanley say is a breeder of wars?
0:22:24 > 0:22:29- Religion.- The Government of Kings. According to Henry Sanders,
0:22:29 > 0:22:32the Diggers at St George's Hill sowed carrots, beans and...?
0:22:32 > 0:22:36- Parsnips.- In 1652, two years after the collapse of his Digger colony,
0:22:36 > 0:22:40Winstanley published a proposed constitution. What was it called?
0:22:40 > 0:22:46- The Law of Freedom In A Platform. - What pseudo-science does he recommend be taught,
0:22:46 > 0:22:51along with physics, surgery, astronomy, navigation and husbandry?
0:22:51 > 0:22:53- Astrology.- What was... - BEEP
0:22:53 > 0:22:56..the name of the common land of the Wellingborough Diggers?
0:22:56 > 0:22:58- Bareshanke.- Is correct. No passes.
0:22:58 > 0:23:02Nick Reed, you have 12 points.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12And our next finalist, please.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20And your name is...?
0:23:21 > 0:23:28In previous rounds you have taken the Seven Wonders of the World and the Monaco Grand Prix. Tonight...?
0:23:39 > 0:23:44We are here in Cromarty near Inverness, looking for dolphins.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46It's the most peaceful place I know.
0:23:48 > 0:23:54Cromarty is home to the most northerly population of bottle-nosed dolphins in the world,
0:23:54 > 0:23:58one of only two permanent populations in the whole of the UK.
0:23:58 > 0:24:02Dolphins have produced sonic booms in excess of 230 decibels.
0:24:02 > 0:24:06This is so loud, it stops fish in their tracks.
0:24:06 > 0:24:10They're the only animal apart from humans to give each other names.
0:24:12 > 0:24:17I've always had a massive passion for wildlife, wild animals and wild places
0:24:17 > 0:24:23and there's something about the way dolphins look and their intelligence has always fascinated me.
0:24:26 > 0:24:30I actually first applied for Mastermind four years ago.
0:24:30 > 0:24:36I didn't think I'd even get on the programme, but I amazed myself by getting to the semi-finals.
0:24:36 > 0:24:41Now I want to get back and, hopefully, win the whole thing.
0:24:42 > 0:24:48My family and friends are delighted that I've got to the final. They can finally join the studio audience.
0:24:48 > 0:24:52Up to this stage, I've banned them. Now I've no choice.
0:24:56 > 0:24:59From previous shows I've learnt three important things.
0:24:59 > 0:25:04Answer quickly, never pass and, most important, don't panic.
0:25:04 > 0:25:10Having got to the final, I may as well be honest and say I want to win.
0:25:10 > 0:25:18I'm against five tough competitors, but my heart is set on it. Anything less will be a disappointment.
0:25:20 > 0:25:24Winning Mastermind has actually been one of my life's ambitions,
0:25:24 > 0:25:30so it would probably be the biggest thing I've ever achieved. It's the pinnacle of quiz,
0:25:30 > 0:25:34so if I won it, I'd have to find a new hobby as well.
0:25:52 > 0:25:55Whales, dolphins and porpoises.
0:25:55 > 0:26:00To which group of aquatic mammals do whales, dolphins and porpoises belong?
0:26:00 > 0:26:05- Cetaceans.- There are two main types of whale - toothed and which other?
0:26:05 > 0:26:10- Baleen.- The Baiji dolphin, possibly extinct, is native to which river?
0:26:10 > 0:26:15- Yangtze. - What two fin-like structures form the tail of cetaceans?
0:26:15 > 0:26:22- Flukes.- The Amazon River dolphin is also known by what common name due to the colour of many adults?
0:26:22 > 0:26:29- Pink dolphin.- To which genus do the beaked whales such as Blainville's and Sowerby's belong?
0:26:29 > 0:26:34- Mesoplodon. - In the breeding season, the males of one whale species are noted
0:26:34 > 0:26:38for their long and complex songs. What's the species?
0:26:38 > 0:26:44- Humpback.- What name is given to the bulbous forehead of many toothed cetaceans,
0:26:44 > 0:26:46important to echolocation?
0:26:46 > 0:26:51- Melon. - The endangered Vaquita porpoise is only found in which body of water?
0:26:51 > 0:26:57- Sea of Cortez.- What name is commonly given to the forceful tail-slapping of the surface of the water
0:26:57 > 0:26:59while the animal is under water?
0:26:59 > 0:27:05- Lobtailing.- Which dolphins of the genus Stenella get their general name from their acrobatic displays
0:27:05 > 0:27:07in which they leap out of the water?
0:27:07 > 0:27:13- Spinners.- What general name is given to the family to which the largest whales belong, such as Blue and Fin?
0:27:13 > 0:27:20- Rorquals.- Which large whale can be identified at a distance by its forward-angled blowhole?
0:27:20 > 0:27:26- Sperm whale.- What name is given to the habit of many cetaceans of raising their heads out of the water
0:27:26 > 0:27:28and seeming to slowly look around?
0:27:28 > 0:27:33- Spyhopping. - Which dolphin shares the alternative name Grampus with the Killer Whale?
0:27:33 > 0:27:39- Risso's.- What alternative name for the Blue Whale comes from its yellowish underside?
0:27:39 > 0:27:45- Sulphur Bottom.- How many longitudinal ridges does Bryde's Whale have on the top of its head?
0:27:45 > 0:27:51- Three.- The Beluga is sometimes known by what name after a bird because of the variety of sounds it makes?
0:27:51 > 0:27:57- Sea Canary.- The Right Whales got their name because they were the right whales for what?
0:27:57 > 0:28:02- BEEP Whaling. Or killing. - Yes, killing, hunting, catching.
0:28:02 > 0:28:06Absolutely right. No passes. Gary Grant, you have 19 points.
0:28:14 > 0:28:17And our... our final finalist, please.
0:28:24 > 0:28:26And your name is...?
0:28:29 > 0:28:35In previous rounds, your subjects were Robert Bruce Lockhart and the East Africa Campaign of WWI.
0:28:35 > 0:28:37Your subject tonight is...?
0:28:53 > 0:29:00This is Baku, capital of Azerbaijan. We're on the Caspian Sea, where the wind blows for much of the year.
0:29:02 > 0:29:08I had the honour to be Britain's Ambassador in Azerbaijan for three years and was inspired
0:29:08 > 0:29:12by its rich culture and history to offer it as a specialist subject.
0:29:12 > 0:29:17In 1991, it regained its independence from the Soviet Union.
0:29:17 > 0:29:23President Gorbachev appealed for an end to the insane civil war in Azerbaijan.
0:29:23 > 0:29:28At the time it was fighting a bitter war with Armenia and when it stopped in 1994
0:29:28 > 0:29:35it had lost control of more than 10% of its territory and almost one million people were refugees.
0:29:37 > 0:29:41Azerbaijan is "the land of fire" because of its rich resources
0:29:41 > 0:29:44of natural gas and petroleum.
0:29:44 > 0:29:48In 1900, more oil was produced in Baku than in the whole US
0:29:48 > 0:29:55and in the 1990s techniques developed in the North Sea were used to help develop the Caspian Basin.
0:29:56 > 0:30:01I was taken aback to find myself in the final because many good people don't get this far,
0:30:01 > 0:30:04then you feel you must do your subject justice in the final.
0:30:04 > 0:30:08I don't think age is a big factor in the general knowledge rounds.
0:30:08 > 0:30:14You may have read or seen more, but it's all about mental organisation and speed of recall.
0:30:14 > 0:30:17I would be very proud if I won the grand final.
0:30:17 > 0:30:22It would be a great honour to be in the company of names such as Kevin Ashman, Sir David Hunt
0:30:22 > 0:30:25and the more recent winners.
0:30:30 > 0:30:36Azerbaijan, two minutes. After the Russian Revolution, which nation formed a Trans-Caucasian Federation
0:30:36 > 0:30:39with Azerbaijan and Armenia?
0:30:39 > 0:30:44- Georgia.- In which now autonomous region of Azerbaijan was Geidar Aliyev born on May 10th, 1923?
0:30:44 > 0:30:50- Nakhchivan.- Who was replaced by Aliyev as First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party in 1969
0:30:50 > 0:30:53after being accused of letting corruption develop?
0:30:53 > 0:30:56- Akhundov.- What name did Stalin give to the city of Ganja in 1935?
0:30:56 > 0:31:00It regained its former name when the Soviet Union collapsed.
0:31:00 > 0:31:05- Kirovabad.- Who became President of Azerbaijan after it declared independence from the USSR?
0:31:05 > 0:31:10- Mutallibov.- In 1945, who founded an autonomous Azeri state in Soviet-occupied northern Iran,
0:31:10 > 0:31:14but was forced to flee after the withdrawal of Soviet support?
0:31:14 > 0:31:20- Pisarani.- Pishevari. Which ancient walled city in Baku was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000?
0:31:20 > 0:31:23Ichari Shahar or the Old Town.
0:31:23 > 0:31:29The BTC oil pipeline, which opened in 2005, runs from Baku via Tbilisi to which Turkish city?
0:31:29 > 0:31:32- Ceyhan.- Which famous musician was born in Baku in 1927
0:31:32 > 0:31:36and studied at the Moscow Conservatory between 1943 and '48
0:31:36 > 0:31:38before becoming Professor of Cello in '56?
0:31:38 > 0:31:41- Rostropovich.- In which month of 1994
0:31:41 > 0:31:46did a ceasefire agreed between the warring factions in Nagorno-Karabakh take effect?
0:31:46 > 0:31:49- April.- May. Which position in the Azerbaijan government was held
0:31:49 > 0:31:52by Vilayat Guliyev from October '99 until April 2004?
0:31:52 > 0:31:57- Foreign Minister. - Name the Armenian President who met Geidar Aliyev in 2001 and 2002
0:31:57 > 0:32:00to discuss the dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh.
0:32:00 > 0:32:04- Kocharyan.- In February 1988, in which town in Azerbaijan
0:32:04 > 0:32:08did ethnically motivated violence cause the deaths of many Armenians?
0:32:08 > 0:32:13- Sumgait.- Which chess world champion of Armenian-Jewish origin was born in Baku in '63?
0:32:13 > 0:32:15He became a prominent politician.
0:32:15 > 0:32:21- Garry Kasparov.- What cultural change imposed on Azerbaijan by Stalin in '39 was reversed in '91?
0:32:21 > 0:32:23The use of the Cyrillic alphabet.
0:32:23 > 0:32:27In the 2003 Presidential elections, who came second behind Ilham Aliyev,
0:32:27 > 0:32:30although the results were believed to be fraudulent?
0:32:30 > 0:32:34- Isa Gambar.- Who was leader of the Azerbaijan Communist Party...
0:32:34 > 0:32:37- BEEP - ..in 1988 when Armenians began campaigning
0:32:37 > 0:32:40for a transfer of sovereignty for Nagorno-Karabakh?
0:32:41 > 0:32:45- The Azeri Communist Party? - The Azerbaijani Communist Party.
0:32:46 > 0:32:51- Vezirov.- No, I've got it down here as Kamran Baghirov.
0:32:51 > 0:32:54You've no passes. You have, Andy Tucker, 14 points.
0:32:54 > 0:32:56APPLAUSE
0:33:02 > 0:33:07That's an opening round worthy of a grand final. Let's have a look at the scores.
0:33:07 > 0:33:09In sixth place, Maya Davis.
0:33:09 > 0:33:12Fifth place, Nick Reed.
0:33:12 > 0:33:16Joint third place, David Love and Andy Tucker.
0:33:16 > 0:33:19Second place, Mark Wyatt.
0:33:19 > 0:33:24In the lead with an enormous 19 points, Gary Grant.
0:33:24 > 0:33:26APPLAUSE
0:33:29 > 0:33:34This is the final leg of this journey, the general knowledge round.
0:33:34 > 0:33:38If there is a tie at the end of it, the number of passes is taken into account
0:33:38 > 0:33:41and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.
0:33:41 > 0:33:45If they're tied on passes as well, there will be a tie-break.
0:33:45 > 0:33:49Let's get on with it and ask Maya Davis to join us again, please.
0:33:53 > 0:33:58And you begin with six points. Let's see how you do with your general knowledge.
0:33:58 > 0:34:002½ minutes, starting now.
0:34:00 > 0:34:04The nectarine is a smooth-skinned variety of which fruit?
0:34:04 > 0:34:07- Citrus.- Peach. What is an embroidered test piece,
0:34:07 > 0:34:10typically containing the alphabet and some mottoes?
0:34:10 > 0:34:16- Sampler.- Whose book, Notes On Nursing: What It Is And What It Is Not, has been in print since 1859?
0:34:16 > 0:34:21- Florence Nightingale.- What dish consists of vine leaves wrapped around a stuffing?
0:34:21 > 0:34:24Its Turkish name means "something filled".
0:34:24 > 0:34:28- Dolmades.- Which small European republic is named after its founder,
0:34:28 > 0:34:32a Christian stonemason who settled there in the 4th century AD?
0:34:32 > 0:34:36- San Marino.- Which Romantic poet studied Armenian in Venice in 1816 and 1817
0:34:36 > 0:34:40and helped prepare the first Armenian-English dictionary?
0:34:40 > 0:34:44- Byron.- Who was nominated for a Best Leading Actress Oscar
0:34:44 > 0:34:48for her role as the ageing writer Iris Murdoch in the film Iris?
0:34:49 > 0:34:51No, it's gone. Sorry.
0:34:51 > 0:34:57Which river rises near the site of the Battle of Naseby and joins the River Severn near Tewkesbury?
0:34:57 > 0:35:03- Avon.- In the 1880s, Sir Leslie Stephen, the father of Virginia Woolf, became the first editor
0:35:03 > 0:35:07of which work detailing the lives of notable figures in British history?
0:35:07 > 0:35:09Dictionary of National Biography.
0:35:09 > 0:35:14What Italian name is given to the winged cherub-like figures in Renaissance and Baroque art?
0:35:14 > 0:35:20- Putti.- Which king, the son of Edward the Black Prince, succeeded his grandfather Edward III in 1377?
0:35:20 > 0:35:25- Richard II.- Which of Verdi's operas features an address to the people of Genoa
0:35:25 > 0:35:28by the title character beginning, "Plebe! Patrizi!"?
0:35:28 > 0:35:35- Simon Boccanegra.- In the human body, what can be raised or lowered by the "orbicularis oculi" muscle?
0:35:35 > 0:35:39- Eyelid.- Which newspaper cartoonist is commemorated in his home town of Ipswich
0:35:39 > 0:35:42with a statue featuring his character Grandma?
0:35:42 > 0:35:46- Giles.- Which flowering plant brought to Europe in the late 18th century
0:35:46 > 0:35:50has varieties including the pompon, cactus and peony-flowered?
0:35:50 > 0:35:56- Dahlia.- According to the poet Ogden Nash, what did "God in his wisdom" make, "then forget to tell us why"?
0:35:56 > 0:36:00- Donkey.- Fly. Which Christian martyr and saint was beheaded
0:36:00 > 0:36:05after the spiked wheel on which she was to have been executed miraculously broke?
0:36:05 > 0:36:07- St Andrew.- St Catherine.
0:36:07 > 0:36:12Which former head of state's revolutionary activities included a failed attempt
0:36:12 > 0:36:15to overthrow President Trujillo of the Dominican Republic in 1947?
0:36:17 > 0:36:23- Arias.- Castro. What word meaning "gaunt" or "wild-looking" originally referred to a hawk,
0:36:23 > 0:36:26caught after it had reached adulthood?
0:36:28 > 0:36:31- Pass.- In which Radio 4 programme...
0:36:31 > 0:36:36- BEEP - ..does Harriett Gilbert talk to two guests about their favourite books?
0:36:39 > 0:36:42- A Good Read?- A Good Read is correct.
0:36:42 > 0:36:47You had two passes. That word meaning "gaunt" or "wild-looking" is "haggard".
0:36:47 > 0:36:51And Dame Judi Dench, who else, played Iris Murdoch.
0:36:51 > 0:36:55Two passes - you have 20 points altogether.
0:36:55 > 0:36:57APPLAUSE
0:37:03 > 0:37:06And now Nick Reed again, please.
0:37:09 > 0:37:11And you begin with 12 points.
0:37:11 > 0:37:16Let's see how you do with your 2½ minutes of general knowledge, starting now.
0:37:16 > 0:37:19Which Bronte sister wrote the novel Jane Eyre?
0:37:19 > 0:37:23- Emily.- Charlotte. Which giant trees are named after the Native American
0:37:23 > 0:37:26who created the Cherokee Indian writing system?
0:37:26 > 0:37:32- Pass.- What name was given to the sho business friends associated with Frank Sinatra in the '50s and '60s?
0:37:32 > 0:37:36- Rat Pack.- Which drink, consisting of dry white wine and a dash of cassis,
0:37:36 > 0:37:40is named after a former Mayor of Dijon, a hero of the Resistance?
0:37:41 > 0:37:46- Pass.- Which Palestinian political and military organisation
0:37:46 > 0:37:50was founded by Yasser Arafat and Khalil al-Wazir in the late '50s?
0:37:50 > 0:37:53- Hamas.- Al-Fatah. Who wrote the verse play Cyrano De Bergerac,
0:37:53 > 0:37:57based on the life of the 17th century satirist and dramatist?
0:37:57 > 0:38:03- Montand.- Rostand. In 2010, the Australian Neil Robertson became the world champion in which sport?
0:38:03 > 0:38:10- Snooker.- Which TV programme about new inventions and advances in science was first broadcast in 1965
0:38:10 > 0:38:12with Raymond Baxter as presenter?
0:38:12 > 0:38:17- Tomorrow's World.- What major fault line runs across Scotland from Fort William to Inverness
0:38:17 > 0:38:20and underlies the Caledonian Canal and Loch Ness?
0:38:20 > 0:38:26- Pass.- Which former Chief Constable of Merseyside became Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police
0:38:26 > 0:38:29in succession to Sir Paul Stephenson in 2011?
0:38:29 > 0:38:34- Bernard Hogan-Howe. - Rodin's 1905 sculpture The Thinker was commissioned
0:38:34 > 0:38:39by the new Museum of Fine Arts in Paris. It was originally meant to represent which poet?
0:38:40 > 0:38:44- Byron.- Dante. Which ballistic missil early warning station was built
0:38:44 > 0:38:47on the North York Moors during the Cold War?
0:38:47 > 0:38:51- Fylingdales.- Which South African promontory was so called
0:38:51 > 0:38:55as its discovery was seen as an omen that India could be reached by sea from Europe?
0:38:55 > 0:38:59- Cape of Good Hope.- The working title of which manifesto translates
0:38:59 > 0:39:04as Four And A Half Years Of Struggle Against Lies, Stupidity And Cowardice?
0:39:04 > 0:39:09- Das Kapital.- Mein Kampf. What name given to the powerful whirlpool off the coast of Norway
0:39:09 > 0:39:12has come to mean a state of turbulence or confusion?
0:39:12 > 0:39:16- Pass.- Name the prophet Muhammad's daughter by his first wife,
0:39:16 > 0:39:20the object of deep veneration by many Muslims, especially Shi'ites.
0:39:20 > 0:39:26- Fatima.- Which Latin word meaning "le him or her rest" is usually abbreviated to the letter R
0:39:26 > 0:39:29as the first part of an inscription on gravestones?
0:39:29 > 0:39:32- Pass.- What are the long, narrow, high-speed air currents
0:39:32 > 0:39:36that flow horizontally in a eastward direction in the upper troposphere?
0:39:36 > 0:39:40- Pass.- Which American state was at the centre of the three wars
0:39:40 > 0:39:44fought against the Seminole Indians between 1817 and 1858?
0:39:44 > 0:39:48- Louisiana.- Florida. The opera Sir John In Love by Vaughan Williams...
0:39:48 > 0:39:51- BEEP - ..is based on which of Shakespeare's plays?
0:39:51 > 0:39:54- Merry Wives Of Windsor.- Correct.
0:39:54 > 0:39:57You had six passes. The jet stream is up in the troposphere.
0:39:57 > 0:40:02That Latin word meaning "let him or her rest" - "requiescat".
0:40:02 > 0:40:06The maelstrom is that powerful whirlpool off the coast of Norway.
0:40:06 > 0:40:12The name of that major fault line running across Scotland is Great Glen or Glen More.
0:40:12 > 0:40:17The drink, dry white wine and a dash of cassis, is kir.
0:40:17 > 0:40:20And those big trees named after the Native American - sequoia.
0:40:20 > 0:40:25You have a total, Nick Reed, of 20 points.
0:40:25 > 0:40:27APPLAUSE
0:40:33 > 0:40:37And our third finalist now - David Love, please.
0:40:41 > 0:40:45And you start out with 14 points. As we speak,
0:40:45 > 0:40:4820 is the score to beat. Here we go.
0:40:48 > 0:40:54What word can follow Blenheim, Sturmer, Golden and Orange in the names of varieties of apple?
0:40:54 > 0:40:57- Pippin.- In which card game is scoring recorded on a board
0:40:57 > 0:41:01with four parallel lines of 30 holes each, plus two game holes?
0:41:01 > 0:41:06- Crib.- Yes, cribbage. Under what title, used while a monarch was a minor or absent,
0:41:06 > 0:41:10did Oliver Cromwell and son Richard rule Britain from 1653 to 1659?
0:41:10 > 0:41:15- Protectorate.- What word for a hill topped with rocks is applied to the summits of Dartmoor?
0:41:15 > 0:41:19- Tor.- Which English writer won the Military Cross in the First World War?
0:41:19 > 0:41:25He was sent to Craiglockhart Hospital where his pacifist views were attributed to shell-shock.
0:41:25 > 0:41:30- Siegfried Sassoon.- What was Britain's first national newspaper printed in colour?
0:41:30 > 0:41:32Launched in 1986, it closed in '95.
0:41:32 > 0:41:36- Today.- The island of Nosy Be, a popular tourist destination,
0:41:36 > 0:41:41lies about five miles off the coast of which much larger island in the Indian Ocean?
0:41:41 > 0:41:46- Sri Lanka.- Madagascar. Which grouse family member was reintroduced to Scotland in the 1830s
0:41:46 > 0:41:50after becoming extinct due to deforestation or excessive shooting?
0:41:50 > 0:41:55- Capercaillie.- In 1962, who was the first US astronaut to orbit the Earth?
0:41:55 > 0:41:58- John Glenn.- Which radio and TV presenter, who died in 2011,
0:41:58 > 0:42:03wrote the detective novel Landscape With Dead Dons, first published in 1956?
0:42:04 > 0:42:07- Peter Snow.- Robert Robinson.
0:42:07 > 0:42:12Which Roman road ran from East Devon to join Ermine Street just south of Lincoln?
0:42:12 > 0:42:17- Fosse Way.- In the Sherlock Holmes stories, which street children does Holmes call on for assistance?
0:42:17 > 0:42:21- Baker Street Irregulars.- Which military leader died in 323 BC
0:42:21 > 0:42:25after being taken ill following a banquet and a long drinking bout?
0:42:25 > 0:42:31- Alexander the Great.- Which word for the use of violence to bring about political change was first used
0:42:31 > 0:42:36in the French Revolution to describe methods used by revolutionaries against opponents?
0:42:36 > 0:42:41- Terrorism.- What title is given to the holder of a Chair at a British university
0:42:41 > 0:42:44where the post is filled by a Crown appointment?
0:42:44 > 0:42:46- Chancellor.- Regius Professor.
0:42:46 > 0:42:52Which artist described his 1941 Self-Portrait With Fried Bacon as an "anti-psychological self-portrait"?
0:42:52 > 0:42:56- Freud.- Dali. Which former Kent and England cricket captain,
0:42:56 > 0:42:59born in 1932, played with a broken arm at Lord's in '63?
0:42:59 > 0:43:02- Colin Cowdrey.- What name is given to the French military cap
0:43:02 > 0:43:06with a flat top and horizontal peak, worn by the Foreign Legion?
0:43:06 > 0:43:12- Beret.- Kepi. Which economist born in 1883 is best known for advocating recovery from recession
0:43:12 > 0:43:14by a policy of job creation?
0:43:14 > 0:43:19- Maynard Keynes.- The name of which metallic element comes from the German for "goblin"...
0:43:19 > 0:43:23- BEEP - ..because of the effect it supposedly had on miners' health?
0:43:27 > 0:43:29Quick guess?
0:43:29 > 0:43:32Come on, you did well with your last guess.
0:43:32 > 0:43:36- Rubidium.- All right, it was the wrong guess, unfortunately.
0:43:36 > 0:43:38- It's cobalt.- Cobalt.
0:43:38 > 0:43:40You have, David Love, 28 points.
0:43:40 > 0:43:43APPLAUSE
0:43:49 > 0:43:52And now Andy Tucker again, please.
0:43:55 > 0:43:58And you also start out with 14 points.
0:43:58 > 0:44:0428 is the score to beat. Let's see how you do with your general knowledge. 2½ minutes, starting now.
0:44:04 > 0:44:09What name is given to a book that lists words in groups of synonyms or related meanings?
0:44:09 > 0:44:14- Thesaurus.- The Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar is known by what title, meaning "Lord"?
0:44:14 > 0:44:18- El Cid.- Which liqueur, originally made in a French monastery,
0:44:18 > 0:44:21comes in two varieties - green and the sweeter yellow?
0:44:21 > 0:44:28- Chartreuse.- Which slave pulled the thorn from a lion's paw and later met the same lion in a Roman arena?
0:44:28 > 0:44:32- Androcles.- Which writer, the creator of hard-boiled detective fiction,
0:44:32 > 0:44:36worked at Pinkerton's where he got many ideas for his stories?
0:44:36 > 0:44:40- Dashiell Hammett. - The name of which bridge in Florence means "old bridge"?
0:44:40 > 0:44:46- Ponte Vecchio.- Whom did the English writer Robert Whittington describe as "a man for all seasons"?
0:44:46 > 0:44:50- Thomas More.- Which European dictator survived an assassination attempt
0:44:50 > 0:44:53by the Irish aristocrat Violet Gibson in 1926?
0:44:53 > 0:44:58- Mussolini.- The 1906 Olympic Games in Athens are the only ones outside the four-year cycle.
0:44:58 > 0:45:01What name are they given because of this?
0:45:01 > 0:45:05- Pass.- Which people formed the majority of the population of Biafra
0:45:05 > 0:45:08that broke away from Nigeria between 1967 and 1970?
0:45:08 > 0:45:11- Igbo.- In the 1990s, Andrew Wiles announced a solution
0:45:11 > 0:45:15to the Last Theorem of which 17th century French mathematician?
0:45:15 > 0:45:19- Fermat.- What term is applied to listening to sounds from the body,
0:45:19 > 0:45:22typically with a stethoscope, as part of a diagnosis?
0:45:23 > 0:45:25- Entendation.- Auscultation.
0:45:25 > 0:45:30Who submitted two paintings for exhibition to the Royal Academy in 1947
0:45:30 > 0:45:32under the pseudonym David Winter?
0:45:32 > 0:45:35- Hockney.- Churchill. Which conservation body was founded
0:45:35 > 0:45:39in 1895 by Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley?
0:45:39 > 0:45:43- National Trust.- Which opera singer was born in Naples in 1873?
0:45:43 > 0:45:46He was his parents' 18th child, the first to survive infancy.
0:45:46 > 0:45:52- Caruso.- What word for making discoveries by accident was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754?
0:45:52 > 0:45:56- Serendipity.- Which philanthropist, the son of immigrants from Poland,
0:45:56 > 0:45:59has colleges at Oxford and Cambridge named after him?
0:45:59 > 0:46:03- Wolfson.- Which British island gives its name to a disease
0:46:03 > 0:46:07that almost wiped out our honey bees in the early 20th century?
0:46:07 > 0:46:12- Lundy.- Wight. Who published a periodical called The Rambler between 1750 and '52?
0:46:12 > 0:46:17He described it as "pure wine" compared with his other works that were "wine and water".
0:46:17 > 0:46:23- Dickens.- Johnson. What dish is made of sliced aubergines, layered with minced meat, tomatoes and onions,
0:46:23 > 0:46:25and topped with a bechamel sauce?
0:46:25 > 0:46:31- Moussaka.- Which prehistoric monument is the focal point of the 30-acre plot bought by Sir Cecil Chubb
0:46:31 > 0:46:33at auction for £6,000 in 1915?
0:46:33 > 0:46:35- BEEP - It was given to the nation in 1918.
0:46:35 > 0:46:39- Stonehenge.- Is correct. You had one pass.
0:46:39 > 0:46:43The 1906 Olympic Games, the only ones to fall outside the cycle,
0:46:43 > 0:46:49the name generally given to those sort of games is the Intercalated or Interim Games.
0:46:49 > 0:46:53You have, Andy Tucker, 30 points in total.
0:46:53 > 0:46:56APPLAUSE
0:47:02 > 0:47:07Now the pace is hotting up. Let's ask Mark Wyatt to join us again, please.
0:47:08 > 0:47:13And you start out with 15 points and you have to beat 30 now.
0:47:13 > 0:47:18Let's see if you can do it. 2½ minutes, general knowledge, starting now.
0:47:18 > 0:47:24Which ox-like antelopes are known for their annual migration in huge herds in search of new pasture?
0:47:24 > 0:47:30- Zebu.- Wildebeest. Which writer's coffin was taken for reburial in the Pantheon in Paris in 2002,
0:47:30 > 0:47:34draped in velvet, with the legend, "Tous pour un, un pour tous"?
0:47:34 > 0:47:40- Voltaire.- Dumas. What is the name of the small target ball in the game of crown green or lawn bowls?
0:47:40 > 0:47:45- Jack.- In 2002, Michael R Bloomberg succeeded Rudy Giuliani to which civic post?
0:47:45 > 0:47:47He was re-elected in 2005 and '09.
0:47:47 > 0:47:53- Mayor of New York.- Which Scottish physicist established a link between light and electromagnetic waves?
0:47:53 > 0:47:56- Pass.- What word for a code of diplomatic etiquette
0:47:56 > 0:48:01originally meant the first sheet of a roll of papyrus bearing the maker's name?
0:48:01 > 0:48:06- Pass.- Which organisation is sometimes known by police and Whitehall officials as Box 500,
0:48:06 > 0:48:09a reference to a former postal address?
0:48:09 > 0:48:14- MI5.- Who claimed the land around present-day St John's in Newfoundland in 1583,
0:48:14 > 0:48:17making it the first British colony in North America?
0:48:17 > 0:48:22- Cabot.- Gilbert. The sacred fig tree under which the Buddha sat when he gained Enlightenment
0:48:22 > 0:48:25is known by what name meaning "wisdom"?
0:48:25 > 0:48:27- Dharma.- The Bo Tree or Bodhi.
0:48:27 > 0:48:32Which naval officer who created Germany's Second World War U-Boat fleet succeeded Adolf Hitler
0:48:32 > 0:48:35as German head of state until the German surrender?
0:48:35 > 0:48:39- Pass.- Which French blue cheese, made from sheep's milk,
0:48:39 > 0:48:43is sold wrapped in foil with a picture of a red sheep on the label?
0:48:43 > 0:48:47- Gruyere.- Roquefort. Harold Macmillan was given what title in addition
0:48:47 > 0:48:50to Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden when he became a peer?
0:48:50 > 0:48:56- Lord Home.- Earl of Stockton. Which composer's ballad opera Hugh The Drover is set in the Cotswolds
0:48:56 > 0:48:58during the Napoleonic Wars?
0:48:58 > 0:49:00- Britten.- Vaughan Williams.
0:49:00 > 0:49:04The train known as the Ghan, named after Afghan camel trains,
0:49:04 > 0:49:07runs south to north across which country?
0:49:07 > 0:49:11- Pass.- What is the more common name of the "cast-iron" house plant
0:49:11 > 0:49:14that has long, stiff, pointed evergreen leaves?
0:49:14 > 0:49:18- Christmas tree.- Aspidistra. Which detective, created by Jo Nesbo,
0:49:18 > 0:49:22made his first appearance in the 1997 novel The Batman?
0:49:22 > 0:49:27- Pass.- Which woodcarver included a distinguishing peapod on many carvings?
0:49:27 > 0:49:31If the pod was open, it was said to mean he had been paid for the work.
0:49:32 > 0:49:38- Durer.- Gibbons. What term of French origin is given to a person who infiltrates a group or organisation
0:49:38 > 0:49:40to induce them to commit an incriminating act?
0:49:40 > 0:49:44- Agent provocateur.- Which fishing port on Loch Broom in the Highlands
0:49:44 > 0:49:47is a terminus for ferry services to the Outer Hebrides?
0:49:47 > 0:49:51- Tobermory.- Ullapool. Which son of a flour miller... - BEEP
0:49:51 > 0:49:57..became one of the most important figures in the British film industry and owned hundreds of cinemas?
0:49:57 > 0:49:59Um...
0:50:01 > 0:50:03- Pass.- Well...- Rank.
0:50:03 > 0:50:08- What did you say?- J Arthur Rank. - Sadly, you did say "pass", but yes, it was Rank.
0:50:08 > 0:50:14Your other passes - Harry Hole was that detective created by Jo Nesbo.
0:50:14 > 0:50:17Australia is where the Ghan train runs.
0:50:17 > 0:50:21Doenitz took over very briefly from Adolf Hitler.
0:50:21 > 0:50:25Protocol is that word for a code of diplomatic etiquette.
0:50:25 > 0:50:28And James Clerk Maxwell was the Scottish physicist.
0:50:28 > 0:50:33And with those passes, Mark Wyatt, you have a total of 19 points.
0:50:33 > 0:50:35APPLAUSE
0:50:42 > 0:50:45And finally, Gary Grant.
0:50:51 > 0:50:56And you start this round with a pretty enormous 19 points.
0:50:56 > 0:51:00The score to beat is 30. Let's see if you can do it with general knowledge.
0:51:00 > 0:51:04What property in Belfast is home to the Northern Ireland government?
0:51:04 > 0:51:09- Stormont.- The Spanish football match El Clasico is between Real Madrid and which club?
0:51:09 > 0:51:14- Barcelona.- What name from Jungle Boo is given to the leader of a Cub Scout pack?
0:51:14 > 0:51:20- Akela.- What did Karl Marx describe as "the heart of a heartless world, the opium of the people"?
0:51:20 > 0:51:24- Religion.- Andy and Frank Schleck are competitors in which sport?
0:51:24 > 0:51:28- Cycling.- In Judaism, what name from the Hebrew for "learning" is given
0:51:28 > 0:51:32to the writings that form the basis of Jewish law and customs?
0:51:32 > 0:51:38- Mishnah.- Talmud. In which 2011 film, directed by JJ Abrams, does an alien devastate a small town in America
0:51:38 > 0:51:41with a group of child film-makers on its trail?
0:51:41 > 0:51:47- Signs.- Super 8. The African hunting dog called the "barkless dog" is generally known by what Bantu name?
0:51:47 > 0:51:50- Basenji.- Who made the first theoretical calculation of pi,
0:51:50 > 0:51:54the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter?
0:51:54 > 0:52:00- Pythagoras.- Archimedes. Which war began after the death in 1740 of the Habsburg monarch Charles VI
0:52:00 > 0:52:02who died without a male heir?
0:52:02 > 0:52:07- War of the Austrian Succession. - Who wrote That Day We Sang about the children's choir who became famous
0:52:07 > 0:52:11for their rendition of Nymphs And Shepherds? It premiered in 2011.
0:52:11 > 0:52:15- Rattle.- Victoria Wood. Which dessert consists of sheets of filo pastry,
0:52:15 > 0:52:19filled with chopped nuts, soaked in honey and cut into triangles?
0:52:19 > 0:52:24- Baklava.- What name is given to splitting a heavy atomic nucleus into two equal parts?
0:52:24 > 0:52:28The process is the source of energy in nuclear reactors and atom bombs.
0:52:28 > 0:52:34- Fission.- Which military corps was founded as the Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot?
0:52:34 > 0:52:38- Marines.- Who was looked after by the homeopathic doctor Paul Gachet,
0:52:38 > 0:52:41producing two celebrated paintings of him?
0:52:41 > 0:52:45- Van Gogh.- What name for unidentified objects seen by pilots in the war
0:52:45 > 0:52:48was adopted by a 1990s American rock band?
0:52:48 > 0:52:53- Foo Fighters.- In 2011, which former French Finance Minister became Managing Director of the IMF,
0:52:53 > 0:52:55the first woman to hold the post?
0:52:55 > 0:53:00- D'Estaing.- Christine Lagarde. Which term, referring to proceedings that have been adjourned
0:53:00 > 0:53:04without a date for resumption, means "without a day" in Latin?
0:53:04 > 0:53:08- Sine die.- Which Asian country has a flag that combines two pennants,
0:53:08 > 0:53:11the only national flag not rectangular or square?
0:53:11 > 0:53:17- Nepal.- Who incurred the wrath of the gods by trying to ride the winged horse Pegasus up to Mount Olympus?
0:53:17 > 0:53:21- Bellerophon.- In his 1624 work Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions,
0:53:21 > 0:53:25who wrote, "Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee"?
0:53:25 > 0:53:31- Gray.- John Donne. What word for the personal property of a married woman means various items of adornment...
0:53:31 > 0:53:34- BEEP - ..or pieces of equipment?
0:53:34 > 0:53:39- Paraphernalia.- Is correct, even though you doubted it.
0:53:39 > 0:53:42Gary Grant, you have 35 points.
0:53:42 > 0:53:45APPLAUSE
0:53:52 > 0:53:55Let's look at all of those scores.
0:53:55 > 0:53:58In sixth place, Mark Wyatt.
0:53:58 > 0:54:02Joint fourth place, Maya Davis and Nick Reed.
0:54:02 > 0:54:05Third place, David Love.
0:54:05 > 0:54:09Second place with a normally victorious 30 points, Andy Tucker,
0:54:09 > 0:54:14but in first place with a huge 35 points, Gary Grant!
0:54:14 > 0:54:17APPLAUSE
0:54:32 > 0:54:34Gary, come and collect it.
0:54:35 > 0:54:38- Well done. Congratulations. - Thank you.
0:54:38 > 0:54:44There you go. You're a GP, so you will demand extra respect from your patients now.
0:54:44 > 0:54:48Yes. This will be prominent, so they can all see it in my surgery room.
0:54:48 > 0:54:52They will expect you to answer every question they have about everything.
0:54:52 > 0:54:57I'm glad I didn't get a medical question as I would have got it wrong!
0:54:57 > 0:55:01You did well enough without that. Brilliant performance. Well done.
0:55:01 > 0:55:06If you would like to become Mastermind champion or you would just like to play the game
0:55:06 > 0:55:11because it is fun, quite apart from actually winning the trophy,
0:55:11 > 0:55:15you can apply at the website address you can see here.
0:55:15 > 0:55:20And do join us next time for more Masterminds. Good night. Gary...
0:55:20 > 0:55:22APPLAUSE
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