0:00:24 > 0:00:28First in the spotlight is Andy Bowman, a teacher from St Ives.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31His specialist subject, the classic sitcom Porridge.
0:00:31 > 0:00:33Next, Mary Bucknall from Kent.
0:00:33 > 0:00:36She'll be answering questions on Queen Victoria's family.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39David Buckle, a college vice-principal from Nuneaton,
0:00:39 > 0:00:41on the golfing stories of PG Wodehouse.
0:00:41 > 0:00:44And Rebecca Ridolfo, a writer and editor from Brighton.
0:00:44 > 0:00:49Her subject, the Irish-born woman who became a Paraguayan legend,
0:00:49 > 0:00:51Eliza Lynch.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54APPLAUSE
0:01:00 > 0:01:04Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.
0:01:04 > 0:01:08Four more contenders are about to take television's ultimate test
0:01:08 > 0:01:09of nerve and knowledge.
0:01:09 > 0:01:13Sat in the famous black chair, they will answer two minutes of questions
0:01:13 > 0:01:16on their specialist subject and two and a half minutes
0:01:16 > 0:01:20on general knowledge. The winner will go through to the semi-final
0:01:20 > 0:01:24and take a step closer to owning the great glass bowl.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27And far more importantly, to becoming the nation's Mastermind.
0:01:27 > 0:01:31So, let's get on with it and ask our first contender to join us, please.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40And your name is...?
0:01:40 > 0:01:42Your occupation?
0:01:42 > 0:01:44And your specialist subject.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49Porridge in two minutes, starting now.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51What is the title of the pilot episode,
0:01:51 > 0:01:52first broadcast on 1st April 1973
0:01:52 > 0:01:54as part of the series Seven of One?
0:01:54 > 0:01:55Prisoner And Escort.
0:01:55 > 0:01:57The judge who sentenced Fletcher
0:01:57 > 0:02:00to his five-year stretch becomes an inmate
0:02:00 > 0:02:02of Slade himself. What's his name?
0:02:02 > 0:02:03- Rawlings.- No, Rawley.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05In Happy Release, one of the items
0:02:05 > 0:02:08Norris steals from Blanco is a music box that plays what tune?
0:02:08 > 0:02:09Waltzing Matilda.
0:02:09 > 0:02:12Mr MacKay reveals that he was a drill sergeant
0:02:12 > 0:02:13in which Scottish regiment?
0:02:13 > 0:02:16Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
0:02:16 > 0:02:18What does Fletcher give Godber in exchange
0:02:18 > 0:02:20for a pink Liquorice Allsort in A Night In?
0:02:20 > 0:02:22A squeeze of toothpaste.
0:02:22 > 0:02:24In Prisoner And Escort, with which warder
0:02:24 > 0:02:27does Fletcher share a small bottle of Scotch
0:02:27 > 0:02:29after the van breaks down on their way to Slade?
0:02:29 > 0:02:32- Barrowclough. - What song do the inmates begin singing
0:02:32 > 0:02:35after their first meeting with Mr Wainwright
0:02:35 > 0:02:36in Disturbing The Peace?
0:02:36 > 0:02:39- Happy Days Are Here Again? - In A Night In, Fletcher confesses
0:02:39 > 0:02:43that his daughter, Ingrid, was conceived in which London cemetery?
0:02:43 > 0:02:46- Highgate.- What's the name of the character who gives Fletcher a passport
0:02:46 > 0:02:49while he's at the hospital for a knee x-ray?
0:02:49 > 0:02:50Sandra.
0:02:50 > 0:02:55Which character was found as a baby in an alley in Greenock
0:02:55 > 0:02:57wrapped in a copy of the Glasgow Herald?
0:02:57 > 0:03:00- McLaren.- In A Storm In A Teacup, Harry Grout tells Fletcher
0:03:00 > 0:03:03he must return the stolen pills to the Infirmary
0:03:03 > 0:03:06while the medical officer is doing what to Mrs Barrowclough?
0:03:06 > 0:03:11- Lancing her boils.- Who is the last person to disturb Fletcher's Saturday
0:03:11 > 0:03:12in No Peace For The Wicked?
0:03:12 > 0:03:15- The vicar. - The chaplain, yes. In Men Without Women,
0:03:15 > 0:03:17Fletcher helps inmates write to their loved ones.
0:03:17 > 0:03:20What is the name of Lukewarm's partner,
0:03:20 > 0:03:21to whom he sends a letter?
0:03:21 > 0:03:24- Trevor. - In The Desperate Hours, Fletcher reports
0:03:24 > 0:03:28that Mr Barrowclough had been standing in a bucket singing what song,
0:03:28 > 0:03:31after sampling the inmates' Christmas food parcels?
0:03:31 > 0:03:32Pass.
0:03:32 > 0:03:35In Final Stretch, a fight between Jarvis and Crusher
0:03:35 > 0:03:38keeps Godber out of trouble and safeguards his parole.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40What does Fletcher shout to the heavens
0:03:40 > 0:03:42as he walks away from the brawl?
0:03:42 > 0:03:43I owe you one?
0:03:43 > 0:03:45When Mr MacKay interrupts a group of inmates
0:03:45 > 0:03:47gathered in a cell in Just Desserts...
0:03:47 > 0:03:51Fletcher says it is a meeting of which club?
0:03:51 > 0:03:53- The Cowboy Club. - The Cowboy Club is correct.
0:03:53 > 0:03:55You had one pass.
0:03:55 > 0:03:59In The Desperate Hours, the song was The Desert Song.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02You had that one pass. Andy Bowman, you have 14 points.
0:04:02 > 0:04:06APPLAUSE
0:04:11 > 0:04:15Our next contender was born profoundly deaf,
0:04:15 > 0:04:19so she will be reading the questions from the monitor beside me
0:04:19 > 0:04:22as I read the questions from the card.
0:04:22 > 0:04:26So, if I can ask her to join us, please.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35And your name is...?
0:04:36 > 0:04:37Your occupation?
0:04:39 > 0:04:41And your specialist subject.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47Queen Victoria's family in two minutes, starting now.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50Queen Victoria's father, Edward, Duke of Kent, was the fourth son
0:04:50 > 0:04:52of which British monarch?
0:04:52 > 0:04:54King George III.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57Victoria and Albert's first child was born in 1840,
0:04:57 > 0:05:00the first of how many children born to the couple?
0:05:00 > 0:05:01Nine.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04In which British overseas territory did the military career
0:05:04 > 0:05:07of Victoria's father, the Duke of Kent, come to an end
0:05:07 > 0:05:09in 1803 after the mutiny of his men
0:05:09 > 0:05:11because of his strict behaviour?
0:05:11 > 0:05:12Gibraltar.
0:05:12 > 0:05:15What was the name of her daughter, after whose birth
0:05:15 > 0:05:18the queen commented, "Never mind, the next will be a prince?"
0:05:18 > 0:05:20Victoria.
0:05:20 > 0:05:21Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales
0:05:21 > 0:05:23had a brief affair with a young woman
0:05:23 > 0:05:26whilst at the Curragh in Ireland. Who was she?
0:05:26 > 0:05:28Nelly Clifton.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31Which hereditary disorder did Victoria's daughters
0:05:31 > 0:05:33Alice and Beatrice carry,
0:05:33 > 0:05:35and her younger son Prince Leopold suffer from?
0:05:35 > 0:05:37Haemophilia.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39Victoria's son Arthur was named
0:05:39 > 0:05:41in honour of which military leader,
0:05:41 > 0:05:43on whose 81st birthday he had been born?
0:05:43 > 0:05:45The Duke of Wellington.
0:05:45 > 0:05:47In 1896, Victoria's son-in-law,
0:05:47 > 0:05:50Prince Henry of Battenberg, died of malaria
0:05:50 > 0:05:53after taking part in an expeditionary force
0:05:53 > 0:05:54to which African kingdom?
0:05:54 > 0:05:56Ashanti.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58Which of Victoria's daughters is said
0:05:58 > 0:06:00to have threatened to enter a nunnery
0:06:00 > 0:06:02unless she were allowed to marry
0:06:02 > 0:06:04the husband of her choice,
0:06:04 > 0:06:06John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne?
0:06:06 > 0:06:07Princess Louise.
0:06:07 > 0:06:11In March 1868, the Irishman Henry James O'Farrell
0:06:11 > 0:06:13tried to assassinate Prince Alfred
0:06:13 > 0:06:16while he was visiting which country?
0:06:16 > 0:06:17Australia.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20In 1878, Princess Alice embraced her sick son Ernest
0:06:20 > 0:06:22to comfort him, which led to her death
0:06:22 > 0:06:25from diptheria shortly afterwards.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27What phrase was used by Prime Minister Disraeli
0:06:27 > 0:06:29to describe this embrace?
0:06:29 > 0:06:32- The kiss of death.- Which of Victoria's daughters,
0:06:32 > 0:06:34known by the name Lenchen, in family circles,
0:06:34 > 0:06:38was the first president of the Royal British Nurses' Association?
0:06:38 > 0:06:40Princess Helena.
0:06:40 > 0:06:43After the forced abdication of its monarch, King Otto,
0:06:43 > 0:06:45which country offered its throne
0:06:45 > 0:06:47to Victoria's second son, Alfred?
0:06:47 > 0:06:50It was eventually given to Prince William of Denmark
0:06:50 > 0:06:52after the British declined the offer.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54- The throne of Greece. - That is correct.
0:06:54 > 0:06:59You have no passes, Mary Bucknall. You got them all right. 13 points.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02APPLAUSE
0:07:09 > 0:07:11And our third contender, please.
0:07:17 > 0:07:18And your name is...?
0:07:19 > 0:07:20Your occupation?
0:07:22 > 0:07:25And your specialist subject.
0:07:26 > 0:07:27PG Wodehouse. Starting now.
0:07:27 > 0:07:31By what title does Wodehouse refer to the white-whiskered gentleman
0:07:31 > 0:07:33who narrates most of his golfing short stories?
0:07:33 > 0:07:35The Oldest Member.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37In High Stakes, Bradbury Fisher loses his butler
0:07:37 > 0:07:40in a golf game. What's the name of the butler?
0:07:40 > 0:07:42- Blizzard.- In which story do John Gooch
0:07:42 > 0:07:45and Frederick Pilcher find themselves playing
0:07:45 > 0:07:46for Agnes Flack, despite the fact
0:07:46 > 0:07:48that neither of them wants to marry her?
0:07:48 > 0:07:50Those in Peril on the Tee.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53What does Legs Mortimer give to Evangeline Brackett
0:07:53 > 0:07:56when she asks for the new ball on the 18th tee?
0:07:56 > 0:07:58A soap ball.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00The mother of which character believes her son
0:08:00 > 0:08:03to be a fine golfer, because he regularly scores 128,
0:08:03 > 0:08:05whereas the best golfer at the club
0:08:05 > 0:08:06rarely manages to score 80?
0:08:06 > 0:08:08Rollo Podmarsh.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10In There's Always Golf, what is the occupation
0:08:10 > 0:08:14of Ernest Plinlimmon, who wins the heart of Clarice Fitch
0:08:14 > 0:08:16through his demonstration of manliness?
0:08:16 > 0:08:18Average adjuster.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20What disturbance from adjoining meadows
0:08:20 > 0:08:22was known to cause Mitchell Holmes
0:08:22 > 0:08:24to miss his short putts?
0:08:24 > 0:08:27It was munching an apple, by a caddy.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29No, it was the uproar of the butterflies.
0:08:29 > 0:08:33Which retired golfer had children named Sandwich, Hoylake,
0:08:33 > 0:08:35St Andrew, Troon and Prestwick?
0:08:35 > 0:08:38- John Rocket. - What collective name is given to the golfers
0:08:38 > 0:08:41whose nicknames are First Gravedigger, the Man With The Hoe,
0:08:41 > 0:08:43Old Father Time and Consul, the Almost Human?
0:08:43 > 0:08:45- The Wrecking Crew. - In Tangled Hearts,
0:08:45 > 0:08:48Smallwood Bessemer tries to give Agnes Flack advice,
0:08:48 > 0:08:50causing her to top her shot.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52With which club does she then prepare to attack him?
0:08:52 > 0:08:53Niblick.
0:08:53 > 0:08:56What is the name of Bradbury Fisher's new butler,
0:08:56 > 0:09:00who persuades Mrs Fisher to give up playing golf?
0:09:00 > 0:09:01Vosper.
0:09:01 > 0:09:04Rollo Podmarsh thinks that his niece, Lettice,
0:09:04 > 0:09:08has tried to poison him. What food does he think the poison was in?
0:09:08 > 0:09:10- Arrowroot.- In Scratch Man,
0:09:10 > 0:09:12whom does Harold Pickering push into the water
0:09:12 > 0:09:14to avoid being torn limb from limb
0:09:14 > 0:09:16because he has stolen the man's fiancee?
0:09:16 > 0:09:18Sidney McMurdo.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20What's the occupation of Rodney Spelvin,
0:09:20 > 0:09:22whom Jane Packard falls for?
0:09:22 > 0:09:25- Poet.- The publisher, Cyril Grooly,
0:09:25 > 0:09:27is under instructions not to offer
0:09:27 > 0:09:30Professor Pepperidge Farmer, I'll finish the question,
0:09:30 > 0:09:32a book advance of more than 200.
0:09:32 > 0:09:35What happens that makes him offer 5,000 instead?
0:09:35 > 0:09:38- He gets hypnotised.- He does. The Professor hypnotises him.
0:09:38 > 0:09:42No passes. Only one wrong. 14 points.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44APPLAUSE
0:09:51 > 0:09:54And our final contender, please.
0:09:58 > 0:10:00And your name is?
0:10:01 > 0:10:02Your occupation?
0:10:03 > 0:10:05And your specialist subject.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09Eliza Lynch. Starting now.
0:10:09 > 0:10:12Eliza Lynch first met Francisco Solano Lopez,
0:10:12 > 0:10:14the future President of Paraguay, in 1854.
0:10:14 > 0:10:17He was to become her lover.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19In which European city did they meet?
0:10:19 > 0:10:22- Paris.- The War of the Triple Alliance
0:10:22 > 0:10:24played a major part in Lynch's life.
0:10:24 > 0:10:26The conflict broke out in the mid-1860s
0:10:26 > 0:10:29when Brazil, Uruguay and which other country
0:10:29 > 0:10:30went to war with Paraguay?
0:10:30 > 0:10:33- Argentina.- Many details of Lynch's childhood
0:10:33 > 0:10:36are not known, but it's accepted that she was born
0:10:36 > 0:10:38in which Irish county in about 1833?
0:10:38 > 0:10:40- County Cork. - What was the name
0:10:40 > 0:10:43of the French officer whom the teenage Lynch married
0:10:43 > 0:10:45in Folkestone in June 1850?
0:10:45 > 0:10:48- Xavier Quatrefages.- What was the name of the sixth child
0:10:48 > 0:10:49that she bore to Lopez?
0:10:49 > 0:10:51He died in London at the age of eight.
0:10:51 > 0:10:54- Leopoldo.- As which figure did she appear dressed
0:10:54 > 0:10:57at the masked ball in 1862
0:10:57 > 0:10:59to mark the inauguration of Lopez as president?
0:10:59 > 0:11:01- Marie Antoinette? - Queen Elizabeth I.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03By what pet name did she call Lopez
0:11:03 > 0:11:05and their first son, Juan Francisco?
0:11:05 > 0:11:08- Panchito.- To whom did Lopez write
0:11:08 > 0:11:11about the possibility of marriage to his daughter,
0:11:11 > 0:11:14even though Lynch was by then living in Paraguay?
0:11:14 > 0:11:16Don Pedro II of Brazil.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18There are opposing views about Lynch's role
0:11:18 > 0:11:20during the War of the Triple Alliance.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22Which 1869 book by George Masterman
0:11:22 > 0:11:24was one of the first to portray Lynch
0:11:24 > 0:11:27as actively urging Lopez towards war?
0:11:27 > 0:11:30- Pass. - What lively European dance
0:11:30 > 0:11:33is Eliza said to have popularized in Paraguay?
0:11:33 > 0:11:35- The London carape. - Yes, or the polka.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38In February 1868, she led a pilgrimage of women
0:11:38 > 0:11:41in an expedition by train to pray at a cave
0:11:41 > 0:11:44where which Apostle was believed to have lived?
0:11:44 > 0:11:47- Pass.- Which Paraguayan town rose to prominence
0:11:47 > 0:11:50as the temporary national capital during the war?
0:11:50 > 0:11:53- Luque.- In March 1870, Lynch dug out a grave
0:11:53 > 0:11:56for Lopez and their eldest son with her bare hands.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59At which decisive battle had they been killed?
0:11:59 > 0:12:01- Cerro Cora.- After Lopez was killed
0:12:01 > 0:12:02and Paraguay had lost the war,
0:12:02 > 0:12:04Lynch took her children
0:12:04 > 0:12:06and returned to Europe in July 1870,
0:12:06 > 0:12:08on board which Royal Mail packet ship?
0:12:08 > 0:12:10- City of Limerick. - What is the title,
0:12:10 > 0:12:12I'll finish the question,
0:12:12 > 0:12:13of the pamphlet Lynch wrote
0:12:13 > 0:12:15vindicating her life and actions?
0:12:15 > 0:12:18It was published in Buenos Aires in 1875.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20Exposition y protesta.
0:12:20 > 0:12:24Indeed, or Declaration and Protest. Two passes.
0:12:24 > 0:12:30The Apostle who lived in that cave was St Thomas, reputedly.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32And Seven Eventful Years In Paraguay
0:12:32 > 0:12:36was the book written by George Masterman in 1869.
0:12:36 > 0:12:40Those two passes, you have a total, Rebecca of 12 points.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43APPLAUSE
0:12:48 > 0:12:51Well, what a good round that was. Very close.
0:12:51 > 0:12:53Let's have a look at the scores.
0:12:53 > 0:12:57In fourth place, with 12 points, Rebecca Ridolfo.
0:12:57 > 0:13:00Third place, 13 points, Mary Bucknall.
0:13:00 > 0:13:05Joint first place, 14 points apiece, Andy Bowman and David Buckle.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07APPLAUSE
0:13:09 > 0:13:13Which means it's the general knowledge round now, of course,
0:13:13 > 0:13:17and if there is a tie at the end of it, then the number of passes
0:13:17 > 0:13:18is taken into account, and the person
0:13:18 > 0:13:20with the fewer passes is the winner.
0:13:20 > 0:13:25And if they're tied on passes as well, then there is a tie break.
0:13:25 > 0:13:27The six highest scoring runners-up
0:13:27 > 0:13:30will also claim a place in the semi-finals.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33So, let's get on with it and ask Rebecca Ridolfo
0:13:33 > 0:13:35to join us again, please.
0:13:35 > 0:13:40And you begin this round, 12 points with your knowledge of Eliza Lynch.
0:13:40 > 0:13:44Let's see how you do. Two and a half minutes, starting now.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47The Marseillaise is the national anthem of which country?
0:13:47 > 0:13:50- France.- Eve's pudding consists of which fruit
0:13:50 > 0:13:52baked with a sponge topping?
0:13:52 > 0:13:54- Strawberries.- Apple. Who plays Hagrid,
0:13:54 > 0:13:57keeper of keys and grounds in the Harry Potter films?
0:13:59 > 0:14:02- Pass.- Which terrier breed that originated in Scotland
0:14:02 > 0:14:04gets its name from the pile of stones from which it
0:14:04 > 0:14:07- originally chased vermin and other animals?- Cairn.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10Which fictional town in Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times
0:14:10 > 0:14:14is said to have been based on his impressions of Preston?
0:14:14 > 0:14:15Pass.
0:14:15 > 0:14:17What term for the training centres for American marine
0:14:17 > 0:14:20and naval recruits has also been applied to young offenders' institutions
0:14:20 > 0:14:22run on strict military lines?
0:14:22 > 0:14:23- Boot camp.- Yes.
0:14:23 > 0:14:25Which tick-borne bacterial disease is named after
0:14:25 > 0:14:30the town in Connecticut where it was first identified in 1975?
0:14:30 > 0:14:31Pass.
0:14:31 > 0:14:33Cerys Matthews was the lead singer with which band
0:14:33 > 0:14:39from its formation in the early '90s until they broke up in 2001?
0:14:39 > 0:14:40Pass.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43In Greek mythology, what type of bush was the nymph Daphne
0:14:43 > 0:14:46turned into to allow her to escape the attentions of Apollo?
0:14:46 > 0:14:47- Laurel.- Yes.
0:14:47 > 0:14:51Above which Dorset village is there a carving of a naked giant,
0:14:51 > 0:14:52cut into the chalk hillside,
0:14:52 > 0:14:55traditionally believed to be about 1,500 years old?
0:14:55 > 0:14:57- Piltdown.- No, Cerne Abbas.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00Which Verdi opera features the characters Zaccaria,
0:15:00 > 0:15:04the high priest of the Hebrews, and the King of Babylon?
0:15:04 > 0:15:06- Tosca.- Nabucco.
0:15:06 > 0:15:08Who presented the television programme Time Team
0:15:08 > 0:15:10and the series The Worst Jobs In History?
0:15:10 > 0:15:11- Tony Robinson.- Yes.
0:15:11 > 0:15:15Which government department was formed in June 2001 from parts of
0:15:15 > 0:15:16the former Department of Social Security,
0:15:16 > 0:15:20the Department of Education and Employment and the Employment Service?
0:15:20 > 0:15:21- The Department for Work and Pensions.- Yes.
0:15:21 > 0:15:26Which racecourse lies about three miles north-east of Chichester?
0:15:26 > 0:15:27- Epsom.- Goodwood.
0:15:27 > 0:15:31The Anglo-French agreement of April 1904, aimed ultimately at curbing
0:15:31 > 0:15:33growing German power, is known by what name?
0:15:33 > 0:15:35- Entente Cordiale.- Yes.
0:15:35 > 0:15:38The male of which game bird, common in Britain, has a distinctive
0:15:38 > 0:15:43glossy dark-green head and neck, a long-pointed tail and a red face?
0:15:43 > 0:15:44- Pheasant.- Yes.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47Which European First Lady has a cameo role as a museum guide
0:15:47 > 0:15:51in Woody Allen's 2011 film Midnight In Paris?
0:15:51 > 0:15:53Pass.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56What type of resin, hardened to give a glossy finish,
0:15:56 > 0:15:59is derived from the so-called varnish tree, indigenous to China?
0:16:01 > 0:16:02- Lacquer.- Yes.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04In the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett,
0:16:04 > 0:16:08the Hogfather is the equivalent of which seasonal figure?
0:16:08 > 0:16:09- Santa Claus.- Yes.
0:16:09 > 0:16:11The American anthem, My Country, 'Tis Of Thee,
0:16:11 > 0:16:14is usually sung to which well-known equally patriotic tune?
0:16:14 > 0:16:17BEEP
0:16:18 > 0:16:20Star-Spangled Banner.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23No, God Save The Queen.
0:16:23 > 0:16:25Very patriotic. Don't get more patriotic than that.
0:16:25 > 0:16:26Right, I'll give you your passes.
0:16:26 > 0:16:30Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the wife of the President,
0:16:30 > 0:16:32played that little role in Woody Allen's film.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34Cerys Matthews was the lead singer of Catatonia.
0:16:34 > 0:16:39Lyme disease is what you can get from ticks.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42Coketown, the fictional town in Charles Dickens's novel Hard Times.
0:16:42 > 0:16:45And Robbie Coltrane plays Hagrid.
0:16:45 > 0:16:49You have a total now, Rebecca Ridolfo, of 22 points.
0:16:49 > 0:16:50Thank you.
0:16:50 > 0:16:55APPLAUSE
0:16:58 > 0:17:02And now, would Mary Bucknall join us again, please?
0:17:08 > 0:17:12And you begin with 13 points for this round.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14Let's see how you do with your general knowledge.
0:17:14 > 0:17:16Two and a half minutes starting now.
0:17:16 > 0:17:19What is the title of Anna Sewell's book about a horse which
0:17:19 > 0:17:22she claimed was translated from the original equine?
0:17:22 > 0:17:24- Black Beauty.- Yes.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27What name of French origin is given to a large enclosed space
0:17:27 > 0:17:29typically used for storing aircraft?
0:17:29 > 0:17:31- Hangar.- Yes.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34What is the sole diet of the vampire bat?
0:17:34 > 0:17:35- Blood.- Yes.
0:17:35 > 0:17:39Which mountain-dwelling people, culturally related to Tibetans,
0:17:39 > 0:17:41are renowned for their skills as mountaineers and guides?
0:17:41 > 0:17:43- Sherpas.- Yes.
0:17:43 > 0:17:46In January 1937, which Russian revolutionary
0:17:46 > 0:17:50arrived in Mexico in secret aboard the Norwegian oil tanker Ruth?
0:17:52 > 0:17:53Pass.
0:17:53 > 0:17:55Who was appointed as the Secretary of State for Health
0:17:55 > 0:17:59when the coalition government took office in May 2010?
0:17:59 > 0:18:01- Alan Johnson.- Andrew Lansley.
0:18:01 > 0:18:04Which former Borough Treasurer of Kendal is
0:18:04 > 0:18:07best remembered for his Pictorial Guides To The Lakeland Fells?
0:18:07 > 0:18:09- Alfred Wainwright.- Correct.
0:18:09 > 0:18:11The name of which popular rockery plant,
0:18:11 > 0:18:14grown for its pleasantly scented white or yellow flowers,
0:18:14 > 0:18:17comes from the Greek for "without madness",
0:18:17 > 0:18:19cos it was supposedly a cure for insanity?
0:18:19 > 0:18:21Pass.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23In the human body, what is the name
0:18:23 > 0:18:25of the long bone of the upper arm?
0:18:28 > 0:18:29- Humerus.- Yes.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32In the Bible, which book tells the story of the beautiful Jewish wife
0:18:32 > 0:18:35of the Persian king who risked her life in persuading him not to
0:18:35 > 0:18:37massacre the Jews in his empire?
0:18:37 > 0:18:39- Esther.- Yes.
0:18:39 > 0:18:41The greater part of the Peak District National Park
0:18:41 > 0:18:43lies in which county?
0:18:43 > 0:18:44- Derbyshire.- Correct.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46Reticule is an old name for what item?
0:18:46 > 0:18:50They were originally made of soft knitted fabric with a drawstring?
0:18:50 > 0:18:53- A kind of handbag.- Yes.
0:18:53 > 0:18:54In female mammals,
0:18:54 > 0:18:57the fallopian tubes join the ovaries to which organ of the body?
0:18:57 > 0:18:59- The womb.- Yes.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01Who wrote the novel Brave New World?
0:19:01 > 0:19:05He took the title from Shakespeare's The Tempest?
0:19:05 > 0:19:07- H. G. Wells.- No, Aldous Huxley.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10Which multi-purpose tool was designed at the end
0:19:10 > 0:19:13of the 19th century by the Swiss cutler Karl Elsener?
0:19:13 > 0:19:16- The penknife. - No, the Swiss Army knife.
0:19:16 > 0:19:20Dishes containing or garnished with which member of the cabbage family
0:19:20 > 0:19:23are sometimes known as du Barry, after Louis XV's mistress?
0:19:23 > 0:19:25Pass.
0:19:25 > 0:19:27What title was held by Thomas Bruce,
0:19:27 > 0:19:30who shipped a collection of ancient Greek sculptures
0:19:30 > 0:19:33to the British Museum in the early 19th century?
0:19:33 > 0:19:34- The Earl of Elgin.- Yes.
0:19:34 > 0:19:38Which crime writer's holiday home, Greenway House, appears
0:19:38 > 0:19:43thinly disguised in her novels Dead Man's Folly and Five Little Pigs?
0:19:43 > 0:19:45- Daphne du Maurier. - Agatha Christie.
0:19:45 > 0:19:46Which city was governed...
0:19:46 > 0:19:48BEEP
0:19:48 > 0:19:49..by papal legates
0:19:49 > 0:19:52until 1791 when the French National Assembly annexed it?
0:19:52 > 0:19:54The Papal State.
0:19:54 > 0:19:56Avignon is the correct answer.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59You had three passes.
0:19:59 > 0:20:05The dish sometimes known as du Barry is garnished with cauliflower.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08The plant, the popular rockery plant is the sweet alyssum.
0:20:08 > 0:20:14And the revolutionary who arrived in secret in 1937
0:20:14 > 0:20:18aboard the Norwegian oil tanker was Leon Trotsky.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21You have, Mary Bucknall, a total of 24 points.
0:20:21 > 0:20:22Thank you.
0:20:22 > 0:20:28APPLAUSE
0:20:32 > 0:20:34And now, Andy Bowman again, please.
0:20:39 > 0:20:43And you begin with 14 points with your knowledge of Porridge.
0:20:43 > 0:20:45Let's see how you do with your general knowledge.
0:20:45 > 0:20:47Two and a half minutes starting now.
0:20:47 > 0:20:48On 20th July 1969, who said,
0:20:48 > 0:20:51"That's one small step for man,
0:20:51 > 0:20:52"one giant leap for mankind?"
0:20:52 > 0:20:53- Neil Armstrong.- Yes.
0:20:53 > 0:20:56Bashed neeps are a traditional accompaniment to which Scottish dish?
0:20:56 > 0:20:58- Haggis.- Yes.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00Which country joined the Rugby Union Five Nations
0:21:00 > 0:21:03championships in 2000 to make it into the Six Nations?
0:21:03 > 0:21:04- Italy.- Yes.
0:21:04 > 0:21:08In the early 1920s, what was classified into A and B categories
0:21:08 > 0:21:11followed in the late 1950s by the M category?
0:21:11 > 0:21:12Pass.
0:21:12 > 0:21:17Blackfish is an alternative name for which small whales of the genus Globicephala
0:21:17 > 0:21:22that because of their cohesive, gregarious nature are prone to mass strandings?
0:21:22 > 0:21:24- Sperm whale.- Pilot whale.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27The name of which Berkshire town is given to a wooden chair with
0:21:27 > 0:21:30a hooped back, upright rods as support and often with arms?
0:21:30 > 0:21:31Pass.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34What title did J. S. Bach give to his set of 24 preludes and fugues
0:21:34 > 0:21:37for keyboard in each of the major and minor keys
0:21:37 > 0:21:40and also to a second set composed later in Leipzig?
0:21:40 > 0:21:41Pass.
0:21:41 > 0:21:45In which country did the Second World War battles of El Alamein take place?
0:21:50 > 0:21:51- Tunisia.- Egypt.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54Which legendary European national hero is first mentioned in a folk song
0:21:54 > 0:21:59and the White Book of Sarnen, both written in about 1470,
0:21:59 > 0:22:02more than 150 years after his exploits are said to have taken place?
0:22:02 > 0:22:04- Robin Hood.- William Tell.
0:22:04 > 0:22:06What common name is given to glass to which lead oxide has been
0:22:06 > 0:22:09added to give it a high degree of brilliance and clarity?
0:22:09 > 0:22:11Pass.
0:22:11 > 0:22:14Which river flows for around 70 miles in an approximately
0:22:14 > 0:22:18northern direction before reaching the Thames at Sheerness?
0:22:18 > 0:22:19- Severn.- Medway.
0:22:19 > 0:22:22Which author's last novel, The Girl In The Polka Dot Dress,
0:22:22 > 0:22:26was based on her diary notes about a journey she took across America?
0:22:26 > 0:22:28The book was unfinished when she died in 2010.
0:22:30 > 0:22:31- Beryl Bainbridge.- Yes.
0:22:31 > 0:22:33What alternative name from a blacksmith
0:22:33 > 0:22:35comes from the Latin meaning iron or horseshoe?
0:22:35 > 0:22:36- Farrier.- Yes.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39The fat that runs out from meat during roasting, and which can be
0:22:39 > 0:22:42spread on bread when it's cold, is known by what name in Britain?
0:22:42 > 0:22:43- Dripping.- Yes.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46Which Radio Four news programme presented by Eddie Mair
0:22:46 > 0:22:48goes out at five o'clock in the afternoon?
0:22:48 > 0:22:50- This Evening.- PM.
0:22:50 > 0:22:52In 1781, where did the British force,
0:22:52 > 0:22:54commanded by General Cornwallis, surrender?
0:22:54 > 0:22:57This virtually secured American victory in the War of Independence?
0:22:57 > 0:22:59- Philadelphia.- Yorktown.
0:22:59 > 0:23:02Which novel by Tolstoy takes its title from a treatise
0:23:02 > 0:23:05by the French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
0:23:05 > 0:23:06Pass.
0:23:06 > 0:23:10Which groundbreaking film that mixes live action with cartoon characters
0:23:10 > 0:23:12stars Bob Hoskins as a detective hired to spy
0:23:12 > 0:23:15on the wife of a cartoon superstar suspected of infidelity?
0:23:15 > 0:23:16- Who Framed Roger Rabbit.- Yes.
0:23:16 > 0:23:18Which Cyndi Lauper...
0:23:18 > 0:23:19BEEP
0:23:19 > 0:23:20I've started so I'll finish.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22Which Cyndi Lauper hit did the jazz trumpeter Miles Davis
0:23:22 > 0:23:24feature on his album You're Under Arrest?
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28No, it was Time After Time.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30And the passes.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32You'll really kick yourself with this one.
0:23:32 > 0:23:36That Tolstoy book, War And Peace.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38If you add lead oxide to glass,
0:23:38 > 0:23:42you get crystal glass or flint glass, you can call it.
0:23:42 > 0:23:47Those pieces by Bach became known as the Well-Tempered Clavier.
0:23:47 > 0:23:50That wooden chair with the hooped back and all the rest of it is a Windsor chair.
0:23:50 > 0:23:53And, you'll kick yourself with this too,
0:23:53 > 0:23:55A and B and then M - roads.
0:23:55 > 0:23:56Oh!
0:23:56 > 0:23:59Ha-ha-ha! I know. I know.
0:23:59 > 0:24:00That's what happens in that chair.
0:24:00 > 0:24:04- Andy, you have a total now of 21 points.- Thank you.
0:24:04 > 0:24:09APPLAUSE
0:24:12 > 0:24:15And finally, David Buckle again, please.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22And you start out with 14 points as well.
0:24:22 > 0:24:24And you have 24 as the score to beat,
0:24:24 > 0:24:27if you're to get through to the next round, to the semifinals.
0:24:27 > 0:24:30Let's see if you can do it in two and a half minutes, starting now.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32In the UK, what name is given to a strip of countryside
0:24:32 > 0:24:35around a town or city intended to limit urban sprawl?
0:24:35 > 0:24:36- Green belt.- Yes.
0:24:36 > 0:24:39In May 2011, the Queen became the first British reigning monarch
0:24:39 > 0:24:42to visit which country in almost a hundred years?
0:24:45 > 0:24:46- India.- Ireland.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48The cor anglais or English horn is a close relative
0:24:48 > 0:24:50of which musical instrument?
0:24:50 > 0:24:51- French horn.- The oboe.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54What name was given to the question originally posed by the MP Tam Dalyell
0:24:54 > 0:24:58that asked whether Scottish MPs at Westminster could justifiably vote
0:24:58 > 0:25:00on purely English matters after devolution?
0:25:00 > 0:25:01Pass.
0:25:01 > 0:25:04Which filmmaker came to attention with Mean Streets in 1973,
0:25:04 > 0:25:06his first film with Robert De Niro?
0:25:06 > 0:25:07- Martin Scorsese.- Yes.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10What name for the tool in the shape of an L-shaped hexagonal rod that
0:25:10 > 0:25:13fits into a socket or the head of a special screw or bolt
0:25:13 > 0:25:16comes from an American company that manufactured them?
0:25:16 > 0:25:18- Ratchet.- The Allen key.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21Which band leader and maestro of strict tempo ballroom dancing
0:25:21 > 0:25:24became associated with the expression, "Slow, slow, quick, quick, slow?"
0:25:25 > 0:25:27- Benny Goodman.- Victor Silvester.
0:25:27 > 0:25:29Which London club did the Argentinian footballers
0:25:29 > 0:25:32Javier Mascherano and Carlos Tevez joined
0:25:32 > 0:25:34when they first arrived in England in August 2006?
0:25:34 > 0:25:36- West Ham.- Yes.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39Unless otherwise stated, what's the speed limit outside built-up areas
0:25:39 > 0:25:42for cars and motorbikes on ordinary single-carriageway roads in Britain?
0:25:42 > 0:25:44- 70.- 60.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46In which village to the north of Perth is the site where
0:25:46 > 0:25:49Scottish kings were traditionally crowned?
0:25:49 > 0:25:50- Scone.- Yes.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53Flowers In The Rain by The Move was the first song played on which
0:25:53 > 0:25:57radio station when it began broadcasting on the 30th of September 1967?
0:25:57 > 0:25:58- Radio One.- Correct.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01What painting medium was neglected for about 400 years in favour
0:26:01 > 0:26:05of oil paint but was revived in the 20th century by Andrew Wyeth and others?
0:26:05 > 0:26:06- Watercolours.- Tempera.
0:26:06 > 0:26:10Which Hungarian composer and pianist has been portrayed on film
0:26:10 > 0:26:13by Dirk Bogarde in 1960 and Roger Daltrey in 1975?
0:26:15 > 0:26:17- Liszt.- Yes.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20In which country do the rivers Tigris and Euphrates both rise?
0:26:20 > 0:26:22- Iraq.- Turkey.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25Until 1871, what name was given to the lowest commissioned rank
0:26:25 > 0:26:30in the British infantry whose duties included carrying the regimental colours?
0:26:30 > 0:26:32- Bombardier.- No, ensign.
0:26:32 > 0:26:34The classic white wine Chablis is produced from
0:26:34 > 0:26:37the Chardonnay grape in which region of France?
0:26:37 > 0:26:39- Bourgogne.- Yes, or Burgundy.
0:26:39 > 0:26:42In the 1930s, the American electrical engineer Edwin H. Armstrong
0:26:42 > 0:26:45invented what form of radio wave transmission which reduced interference
0:26:45 > 0:26:48by varying the number of cycles per second?
0:26:48 > 0:26:49- FM.- Yes.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51In the television series New Tricks,
0:26:51 > 0:26:53who plays Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman,
0:26:53 > 0:26:55who heads the team of three ageing detectives?
0:26:55 > 0:26:56- Amanda Redman.- Correct.
0:26:56 > 0:26:57BEEP
0:26:57 > 0:26:59Which first...I've started so I'll finish.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02Which first-century soldier took part in the Jewish revolt
0:27:02 > 0:27:05before retiring to Rome, where he wrote The Antiquities Of Jews?
0:27:08 > 0:27:09David.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11Josephus.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13You had one pass.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16It was the West Lothian question that Tam Dalyell asked.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19It became known as that anyway.
0:27:19 > 0:27:21You have, David, 23 points.
0:27:21 > 0:27:26APPLAUSE
0:27:30 > 0:27:33Well, it couldn't have been much closer, could it?
0:27:33 > 0:27:34Let's have a look at the scores.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36In fourth place with 21 points,
0:27:36 > 0:27:37Andy Bowman.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39Third place, 22 points,
0:27:39 > 0:27:41Rebecca Ridolfo.
0:27:41 > 0:27:42Second place, 23 points,
0:27:42 > 0:27:45David Buckle.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47In first place, with 24 points,
0:27:47 > 0:27:48Mary Bucknall.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51APPLAUSE
0:28:00 > 0:28:03Which means, of course, that Mary Bucknall is tonight's winner
0:28:03 > 0:28:05and goes through to the semifinals.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07Congratulations to her.
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