0:00:23 > 0:00:26First in the spotlight tonight is Audrey Williams,
0:00:26 > 0:00:28a retired music teacher from Exmouth.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Her subject, the English composer William Yeates Hurlstone.
0:00:32 > 0:00:34Next, Quentin Holt, a tax consultant from London.
0:00:34 > 0:00:39His subject, the London Olympics in 1908 and 1948.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42Julie Aris, a service quality manager from Westham,
0:00:42 > 0:00:45answers questions on the What Katy Did novels.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48And finally, Paul Maddern, a retired bank trainer from Epping,
0:00:48 > 0:00:51on the life of one of the great Romantic poets, Lord Byron.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54APPLAUSE
0:01:01 > 0:01:04Hello. Welcome to Mastermind, with me, John Humphrys.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07Four more Contenders are about to take television's ultimate test
0:01:07 > 0:01:10of nerve and knowledge. In the famous black chair,
0:01:10 > 0:01:12they will answer two minutes of questions
0:01:12 > 0:01:16on their specialist subject and two and half minutes on general knowledge.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18The winner goes through to the semi-finals
0:01:18 > 0:01:21and takes a step closer to owning the great glass bowl.
0:01:21 > 0:01:25But the real prize, the honour of becoming the nation's Mastermind.
0:01:25 > 0:01:30Let's get on with it and ask our first Contender to join us, please.
0:01:36 > 0:01:37And your name is?
0:01:38 > 0:01:40Your occupation?
0:01:41 > 0:01:42And your specialist subject.
0:01:45 > 0:01:48William Yeates Hurlstone in two minutes, starting now.
0:01:48 > 0:01:51What was Hurlstone's second study subject after composition
0:01:51 > 0:01:55during his period as a student at the Royal College Of Music in the late 19th century?
0:01:55 > 0:01:56Piano.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59The young Hurlstone became a chorister in the parish church
0:01:59 > 0:02:01of which village, now part of Salisbury?
0:02:01 > 0:02:05- Bemerton.- Which of his friends provided the information that Hurlstone composed
0:02:05 > 0:02:09"two or three books of piano sonatas" and other chamber works
0:02:09 > 0:02:10between the ages of 9 and 12?
0:02:12 > 0:02:14- His father?- Fritz Hart.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16On which fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm
0:02:16 > 0:02:18did he base his orchestral suite The Magic Mirror?
0:02:18 > 0:02:20Snow White And The Seven Dwarves.
0:02:20 > 0:02:23In 1896, while a student at the Royal College Of Music,
0:02:23 > 0:02:26Hurlstone performed the solo part of his Piano Concerto,
0:02:26 > 0:02:30with Holst on the trombone. Which other composer played the triangle?
0:02:30 > 0:02:32- Fritz Hart.- No, Vaughan Williams.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35Which work by his friend, the composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor,
0:02:35 > 0:02:38did Hurlstone conduct with the Anerley Musical Society?
0:02:40 > 0:02:43- Pass.- What is the name of the cantata by Alexander Beaumont
0:02:43 > 0:02:48that he orchestrated or expanded? It was published by Charles Woolhouse in 1900.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50- King Alfred.- No, Poppies In The Corn.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52To which conductor of the Crystal Palace Orchestra
0:02:52 > 0:02:55was Hurlstone introduced, leading to a performance of movements
0:02:55 > 0:02:58from The Magic Mirror in November 1905?
0:02:58 > 0:03:01- Walter Hedgcock.- What title did Hurlstone give to the second
0:03:01 > 0:03:04of the Four Characteristic Pieces For Clarinet And Piano,
0:03:04 > 0:03:06also arranged for viola by Lionel Tertis?
0:03:06 > 0:03:09- Scherzo.- Croon Song.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12In 1904, which newspaper carried a feature on Hurlstone
0:03:12 > 0:03:15and four other "promising young composers" under the heading
0:03:15 > 0:03:17"Are we on the eve of a great musical triumph?"
0:03:17 > 0:03:18The Daily Mail.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21Although published as a Sonata For Cello And Piano,
0:03:21 > 0:03:23for which solo instrument was Hurlstone's mature
0:03:23 > 0:03:26Sonata In F Major of 1904 intended?
0:03:26 > 0:03:29- Bassoon.- What was the title of the children's magazine
0:03:29 > 0:03:31that he wrote and illustrated when he was a boy?
0:03:31 > 0:03:33The Boy's Half-Holiday.
0:03:33 > 0:03:37According to his own account, in whose book, called The National Music Of The World,
0:03:37 > 0:03:41was the Swedish Air on which he based his Fantasie-Variations?
0:03:42 > 0:03:44- Pass.- Hurlstone died aged 30, in 1906.
0:03:44 > 0:03:48What lifelong medical condition was cited on his death certificate?
0:03:48 > 0:03:49BEEP
0:03:49 > 0:03:52- Bronchial asthma.- It was indeed.
0:03:52 > 0:03:57You had two passes. It was Henry Chorley who wrote the book The National Music Of the World.
0:03:57 > 0:04:01And Hiawatha's Wedding Feast was the work
0:04:01 > 0:04:06by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor that he conducted with the Anerley Musical Society. Two passes,
0:04:06 > 0:04:09Audrey Williams, you have eight points.
0:04:09 > 0:04:10APPLAUSE
0:04:18 > 0:04:20And our next Contender, please.
0:04:25 > 0:04:26And your name is?
0:04:26 > 0:04:28Your occupation?
0:04:29 > 0:04:31And your specialist subject.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37Two minutes, starting now.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40Who was the manager of the Great Britain football team at the '48 Olympic Games?
0:04:40 > 0:04:43- Matt Busby.- Which American athlete, known as "the human frog",
0:04:43 > 0:04:47won the last of his ten Olympic standing jump titles at the 1908 Games?
0:04:47 > 0:04:51- Ray Ewry.- What part did the veteran British hurdler Donald Finlay play
0:04:51 > 0:04:52in the opening ceremony in '48?
0:04:52 > 0:04:54He took the Olympic oath.
0:04:54 > 0:04:58In 1908, the Americans officially protested about their opponents
0:04:58 > 0:05:01supposedly wearing illegally heavy footwear to weigh them down.
0:05:01 > 0:05:05In what sport had they been defeated by a team of Liverpool police?
0:05:05 > 0:05:06Tug of war.
0:05:06 > 0:05:10Which 19-year-old South African athlete, coached by Sam Mussabini,
0:05:10 > 0:05:13was the surprise winner of the 100 metres at the 1908 Games?
0:05:13 > 0:05:17- Reggie Walker.- Which French athlete, who won two gold medals at the '48 Games,
0:05:17 > 0:05:19was also a celebrated concert pianist?
0:05:19 > 0:05:21Micheline Ostermeyer.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24In what sport, introduced at the '08 Games, did Nikolai Panin
0:05:24 > 0:05:27become the first Russian to win an Olympic title?
0:05:27 > 0:05:28Ice skating, special figures.
0:05:28 > 0:05:32Which Australian, who lost to the future England cricket captain Johnny Douglas
0:05:32 > 0:05:37in the middleweight final, was the only non-British boxing medallist at the 1908 Games?
0:05:38 > 0:05:39Reginald Snowy Baker.
0:05:39 > 0:05:44After the American John C Carpenter was disqualified from the 400 metres final in 1908,
0:05:44 > 0:05:46both of his teammates withdrew from the re-run,
0:05:46 > 0:05:49leaving which British athlete to contest it alone?
0:05:49 > 0:05:54- Wyndham Halswelle.- In 1908, Britain's Emil Voigt became the last winner
0:05:54 > 0:05:57of which athletics event that was dropped from future Games?
0:05:57 > 0:06:01- Five miles.- Which American weightlifter, who won a silver medal at the '48 Games,
0:06:01 > 0:06:03later played Oddjob in the film Goldfinger?
0:06:03 > 0:06:06- Harold Sakata.- Sophus Nielsen scored ten of Denmark's goals
0:06:06 > 0:06:10in their victory over France in the football tournament at the 1908 Games.
0:06:10 > 0:06:11What was the final score?
0:06:11 > 0:06:15- 17-1.- What was the venue for the 120-mile road race,
0:06:15 > 0:06:18the longest cycling event at the '48 Games?
0:06:18 > 0:06:21- Windsor Great Park.- Who was the American flag-bearer
0:06:21 > 0:06:23who failed to dip his flag to salute King Edward VII
0:06:23 > 0:06:26at the opening ceremony of the 1908 Games?
0:06:26 > 0:06:29- Ralph Rose. - Which Danish fencer who made his Olympic debut in 1908
0:06:29 > 0:06:32also competed in six more Olympics,
0:06:32 > 0:06:35including his final appearance at the 1948 Games, aged 59?
0:06:36 > 0:06:38Ivan Osiier. BEEP
0:06:38 > 0:06:41Ivan Osiier is correct. No passes, a perfect round,
0:06:41 > 0:06:44Quentin Holt, 15 points.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47APPLAUSE
0:06:52 > 0:06:53Our next Contender, please.
0:07:00 > 0:07:01And your name is?
0:07:02 > 0:07:03Your occupation?
0:07:05 > 0:07:07And your specialist subject.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11What Katy Did, in two minutes.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14The What Katy Did novels were written in the latter part of the 19th century
0:07:14 > 0:07:17about the characters Katy and her siblings. What's their surname?
0:07:17 > 0:07:21- Carr.- The Carr children grew up in which fictional Midwest American town,
0:07:21 > 0:07:24described as being "a thousand miles from the sea" and "not very big"
0:07:24 > 0:07:26"but growing as fast as it knew how"?
0:07:26 > 0:07:29- Burnet.- What name do the children give to the thicket at the bottom of the field,
0:07:29 > 0:07:32reached via the Pilgrim's Path and the Hill Of Difficulty?
0:07:32 > 0:07:34- Paradise.- At the beginning of In The High Valley,
0:07:34 > 0:07:37Elsie Carr is already married to her cousin Clarence Page,
0:07:37 > 0:07:39but which of her sisters did he propose to first?
0:07:39 > 0:07:43- Clover.- In her childhood, what was the name of the religious newspaper
0:07:43 > 0:07:45that Katy compiled and edited on Sundays?
0:07:45 > 0:07:49- The Sunday Visitor. - In the second novel, What Katy Did At School,
0:07:49 > 0:07:53the two oldest girls are sent to boarding school at Hillsover on the Connecticut river.
0:07:53 > 0:07:54How is the school popularly known?
0:07:54 > 0:07:58- The Nunnery.- Which nursery game, a mixture of Blind Man's Buff and Tag,
0:07:58 > 0:08:00is banned forever in What Katy Did
0:08:00 > 0:08:02after a boisterous and late-running session?
0:08:02 > 0:08:06- Kikeri.- At which boarding house in Nice does Katy run into
0:08:06 > 0:08:09Lilly and Olivia Page, who are distinctly unfriendly?
0:08:09 > 0:08:13- Pension Suisse.- Katy's husband Ned Worthington is a lieutenant colonel
0:08:13 > 0:08:15on board which naval frigate?
0:08:15 > 0:08:17- Natchitoches.- In the novel In The High Valley,
0:08:17 > 0:08:21which show do Imogen and Lionel Young go to see on their first night in America?
0:08:21 > 0:08:24- Rip Van Winkle.- What is the name of the place in the country
0:08:24 > 0:08:26where Elsie and John go to visit the Worretts at the beginning
0:08:26 > 0:08:28of the second novel, What Katy Did At School?
0:08:28 > 0:08:32- Conic Section.- Which friend of Clover's from St Helen's is nicknamed "Poppy"
0:08:32 > 0:08:34because she used to wear a bunch of them in her hat?
0:08:34 > 0:08:38- Marian Chase.- From whom does Johnnie Carr inherit 30,000 dollars
0:08:38 > 0:08:40at the end of In The High Valley?
0:08:40 > 0:08:43- Miss Inches.- Which society, with the object of combining a good time
0:08:43 > 0:08:47with the pursuit of virtue, does Katy establish at The Nunnery?
0:08:47 > 0:08:50The Society For The Suppression Of Unladylike Conduct.
0:08:50 > 0:08:53For what reason is Amy Ashe sent to stay at the Carr house
0:08:53 > 0:08:55for more than two months in What Katy Did Next?
0:08:55 > 0:08:57Because Walter has scarlet fever.
0:08:57 > 0:09:01Rose Red likens Lilly Page to which character from David Copperfield,
0:09:01 > 0:09:03on account of her "fondness for bad feelings"?
0:09:03 > 0:09:07- Mrs Gummidge.- What is Katy's final word to Clover, who is en route to St Helen's,
0:09:07 > 0:09:10when they part at Denver in the fourth novel?
0:09:10 > 0:09:11Remember.
0:09:11 > 0:09:12- In what... - BEEP
0:09:12 > 0:09:13I've started, so I'll finish.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16In What Katy Did Next, what is the last European city
0:09:16 > 0:09:20that Katy spends several days in before Mrs Ashe cuts short their tour?
0:09:20 > 0:09:23- Venice.- Is correct.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26Another perfect round, no passes, and 18 points.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28APPLAUSE
0:09:35 > 0:09:36And our final Contender, please.
0:09:42 > 0:09:43Your name is?
0:09:43 > 0:09:45Your occupation?
0:09:46 > 0:09:48And your specialist subject?
0:09:49 > 0:09:51Lord Byron, two minutes.
0:09:51 > 0:09:54Byron's quoted as saying that he awoke one morning to find himself famous.
0:09:54 > 0:09:56This was after the publication of which poem?
0:09:56 > 0:10:00- Childe Harold.- To which title, from the family lands in Lancashire,
0:10:00 > 0:10:03did Byron succeed in 1798, at the age of ten?
0:10:03 > 0:10:04Baron Byron of Rochdale.
0:10:04 > 0:10:08Under what title was Byron's first volume of poetry privately printed in 1806?
0:10:10 > 0:10:13- Fugitive Pieces.- The young chorister John Edleston,
0:10:13 > 0:10:15for whom Byron had an early and intense passion,
0:10:15 > 0:10:19gave him what heart-shaped gemstone, which the poet commemorated in verse?
0:10:19 > 0:10:23- Cornelian.- In 1812, Byron made his maiden speech in the House Of Lords,
0:10:23 > 0:10:26opposing harsh measures for the breaking of what machinery?
0:10:26 > 0:10:28- Frames.- Yes, weaving frames.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31In which villa in Cologny on Lake Geneva did Byron lodge in 1816?
0:10:31 > 0:10:34He had various visitors there, including the Shelleys.
0:10:35 > 0:10:39- Diodati.- At a party given in 1812, Byron first saw Lady Caroline Lamb,
0:10:39 > 0:10:43who declined to be introduced to him because he was surrounded by too many women.
0:10:43 > 0:10:45Which countess hosted the party?
0:10:45 > 0:10:47- Edington?- No, Westmorland.
0:10:47 > 0:10:51What title did Byron give to the poem in which he immortalised Teresa Macri,
0:10:51 > 0:10:55the youngest daughter of the widow with whom he lodged on his first visit to Athens?
0:10:55 > 0:10:58- The Maid Of Athens. - Which lifelong friend was the best man
0:10:58 > 0:11:01at Byron's wedding to Annabella Milbanke in 1815?
0:11:01 > 0:11:05- John Cam Hobhouse.- What was the name of the brig that Byron chartered
0:11:05 > 0:11:08for his final trip from Genoa to the Ionian Islands in 1823?
0:11:08 > 0:11:10- Bolivar?- Hercules.
0:11:10 > 0:11:13On the 3rd May, 1810, Byron swam across the Hellespont.
0:11:13 > 0:11:15Which lieutenant accompanied him on the swim?
0:11:15 > 0:11:19- Ekenhead.- In The Vision Of Judgment, Byron ridiculed
0:11:19 > 0:11:22another poet's fulsome eulogy of George III. Who was the poet?
0:11:22 > 0:11:25- Southey.- By what whimsical name did Byron refer
0:11:25 > 0:11:29to his and Annabella's honeymoon at her father's property, Halnaby Hall in Yorkshire?
0:11:29 > 0:11:34- Treacle-moon.- What is the title of the story written and published by Dr John Polidori
0:11:34 > 0:11:37in 1819, and based on a tale that Byron related to him
0:11:37 > 0:11:40and the Shelleys at the Villa Diodati in 1816?
0:11:40 > 0:11:44- The Vampyre.- By what name, translated as "little baker girl",
0:11:44 > 0:11:47was Byron's Venetian mistress Margarita Cogni known,
0:11:47 > 0:11:49in reference to her husband's profession?
0:11:49 > 0:11:52- La Fornarina. - Byron's final poems...
0:11:52 > 0:11:53- BEEP - I'll finish the question.
0:11:53 > 0:11:57..refer to his unreciprocated love for which Greek boy,
0:11:57 > 0:12:01whom he had brought as a page from Cephalonia to Missolonghi?
0:12:02 > 0:12:06- Lukas. - Lukas Chalandritsanos, indeed.
0:12:06 > 0:12:10No passes. Paul Maddern, you have 14 points.
0:12:10 > 0:12:11APPLAUSE
0:12:17 > 0:12:21Well, some very big scores there. Let's have a look at all of them.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24In fourth place, eight points, Audrey Williams.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26Third place, 14 points, Paul Maddern.
0:12:26 > 0:12:29Second place, 15 points, Quentin Holt.
0:12:29 > 0:12:33In the lead, 18 points, Julie Aris.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35APPLAUSE
0:12:38 > 0:12:41Round 2 now, general knowledge. If there's a tie
0:12:41 > 0:12:44at the end then the number of passes is taken into account
0:12:44 > 0:12:47and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.
0:12:47 > 0:12:49If they're tied on passes as well,
0:12:49 > 0:12:51there will be a tiebreak.
0:12:51 > 0:12:54The six highest-scoring runners-up will also claim a place
0:12:54 > 0:12:57in the semi-finals. Let's get on with it and ask Audrey Williams
0:12:57 > 0:12:59to join us again, please.
0:13:02 > 0:13:06And you start out this round with eight points.
0:13:06 > 0:13:11Let's see how you do with general knowledge. Two and half minutes, starting now.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14What kind of folding chair, commonly made of wood and canvas,
0:13:14 > 0:13:17gets its name because it was originally used on passenger liners?
0:13:17 > 0:13:20- Deckchair.- Which vegetable, also known as zucchini,
0:13:20 > 0:13:24is a variety of marrow usually eaten when it is young and immature?
0:13:24 > 0:13:28- Courgette.- The artist Millais depicted which Elizabethan adventurer as a child,
0:13:28 > 0:13:31sitting with his brother on the Devon seafront,
0:13:31 > 0:13:34listening intently to a sailor recounting tales of the sea?
0:13:34 > 0:13:37- Pass.- What name was given to the early type of bicycle
0:13:37 > 0:13:41that had a very large front wheel underneath where the rider sat, and a small rear wheel?
0:13:41 > 0:13:44- Penny Farthing.- Which British monarch wrote articles
0:13:44 > 0:13:48in the magazine Annals Of Agriculture, under the pen-name Ralph Robinson?
0:13:49 > 0:13:51- Edward VII.- George III. The name of which plant
0:13:51 > 0:13:55that produces large showy flowers, comes ultimately
0:13:55 > 0:13:58from the name of the ancient Greek physician to the gods?
0:14:00 > 0:14:03- Pass.- What symbol of authority is carried in procession
0:14:03 > 0:14:07in and out of the chamber of House Of Commons by the Serjeant at Arms
0:14:07 > 0:14:09at the beginning and end of each working day?
0:14:09 > 0:14:13- The mace.- Which town in Australia's Northern Territory is referred to
0:14:13 > 0:14:17in the title of Nevil Shute's novel about an Englishwoman who settles in nearby Willstown?
0:14:17 > 0:14:21- Alice Springs.- Which hymn entered the pop charts in the 1970s
0:14:21 > 0:14:22with versions by Judy Collins
0:14:22 > 0:14:27and The Pipes And Drums And Military Band Of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards?
0:14:27 > 0:14:31- Amazing Grace.- What name is given to the clarified and evaporated butter,
0:14:31 > 0:14:34made from cow or buffalo milk, that is widely used in Indian cookery?
0:14:34 > 0:14:37- Ghee.- In the poem by TS Eliot, which character says,
0:14:37 > 0:14:42"I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottom of my trousers rolled"?
0:14:42 > 0:14:46- Pass.- Which strait is 53 miles across at its narrowest point,
0:14:46 > 0:14:50between Cape Dezhnev in Russia and Cape Prince Of Wales in Alaska?
0:14:51 > 0:14:54- Bering Strait.- What term for the body of priests and singers
0:14:54 > 0:14:57who serve the spiritual needs of the sovereign has come to mean
0:14:57 > 0:15:00places of worship used over the centuries by monarchs?
0:15:02 > 0:15:05- Pass.- In 1976, who began as a reporter on the Today programme
0:15:05 > 0:15:10and has presented the Radio 4 chat show Midweek since 1983?
0:15:12 > 0:15:16- Pass.- By which organ is the foetus attached to the wall of the uterus
0:15:16 > 0:15:19of the mother in most mammals, through the umbilical cord?
0:15:19 > 0:15:25- Placenta.- What general term is used for small antique domestic objects made from wood?
0:15:26 > 0:15:27- Bric-a-brac?- Treen.
0:15:27 > 0:15:31In which Puccini opera do the court officials Ping, Pang and Pong appear?
0:15:31 > 0:15:35- Turandot.- Which London park, that gets its name from its landscape
0:15:35 > 0:15:38of grass and trees, was once used as a duelling ground?
0:15:38 > 0:15:41- Green Park.- What was the name of the list of forbidden books...
0:15:41 > 0:15:43- BEEP - I'll finish the question.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46..formerly published by the Roman Catholic Church?
0:15:47 > 0:15:53- The Apocrypha.- No, the Index Librorum Prohibitorum - Index of Prohibited Books.
0:15:53 > 0:15:54You had five passes altogether.
0:15:54 > 0:15:59Libby Purves presents Midweek. Chapels Royal is the term
0:15:59 > 0:16:04for that body of priests and singers and it's now used for places of worship.
0:16:04 > 0:16:11J Alfred Prufrock, as you know, "I grow old, I grow old..."
0:16:11 > 0:16:14The name of that plant that produces those big, showy flowers
0:16:14 > 0:16:18is the peony. And Sir Walter Raleigh, Millais depicted
0:16:18 > 0:16:22that Elizabethan adventurer. Five passes, Audrey Williams, 19 points.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24APPLAUSE
0:16:32 > 0:16:34And now Paul Maddern again, please.
0:16:37 > 0:16:41And you start off with 14 points with your knowledge of Byron.
0:16:41 > 0:16:43Let's test you now on your general knowledge.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46What shade of red is added to the name of the common variety
0:16:46 > 0:16:48of runner bean because of the colour of its flowers?
0:16:48 > 0:16:52- Scarlet.- Which semi-autobiographical novel by Jack Kerouac describes
0:16:52 > 0:16:57the wanderings across America of a writer named Sal Paradise and his friend, Dean Moriarty?
0:16:57 > 0:17:02- Pass.- Which circus performers are known as "Joeys" after Joseph Grimaldi's famous character?
0:17:02 > 0:17:06- Clowns.- The name of an old-fashioned short gun with a wide bore
0:17:06 > 0:17:08comes from the Dutch for "thunderbox". What is it?
0:17:08 > 0:17:13- Blunderbuss.- What nickname's commonly given to Beethoven's fifth and last piano concerto,
0:17:13 > 0:17:16though it was not named so by the composer himself?
0:17:16 > 0:17:19- Emperor.- Which Anglo-Saxon kingdom, in the 7th century,
0:17:19 > 0:17:21extended across the whole of northern England
0:17:21 > 0:17:24and as far as the River Forth in Scotland?
0:17:24 > 0:17:27- Northumbria.- Hot spot and the Snickometer are examples
0:17:27 > 0:17:30of technology used in the adjudication of which sport?
0:17:30 > 0:17:34- Cricket.- Who was the American Attorney General from 1961 to '64,
0:17:34 > 0:17:38his tenure was marked by civil rights enforcement and a crackdown on organised crime?
0:17:38 > 0:17:43- Robert Kennedy.- Which letter of the Greek alphabet has a name that means "little O"?
0:17:43 > 0:17:44- Iota.- No, omicron.
0:17:44 > 0:17:47In the television comedy series Are You Being Served?,
0:17:47 > 0:17:52what was the name of the assistant in the menswear department, played by John Inman?
0:17:52 > 0:17:57- Er...pass.- Which city stands at the northern end of the Suez Canal?
0:17:58 > 0:18:00- Er...Alexandria.- No, Port Said. Who took the title
0:18:00 > 0:18:04of his 1978 solo album from a work by Marcel Duchamp
0:18:04 > 0:18:07called The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even?
0:18:07 > 0:18:12- Pass.- Which of the British Isles is known as "Ellan Vannin" in the local Gaelic language?
0:18:12 > 0:18:14- Ireland.- No, the Isle Of Man.
0:18:14 > 0:18:18Which Australian author, who achieved international success
0:18:18 > 0:18:22with the epic novel The Tree Of Man, won the 1973 Nobel Prize For Literature?
0:18:22 > 0:18:25- Pass.- In mathematics, what name's given to a line that touches a curve
0:18:25 > 0:18:27at a particular point, but does not intersect it?
0:18:27 > 0:18:32- Tangent.- In Jewish cuisine, what grated vegetable is the usual principal ingredient
0:18:32 > 0:18:34of the traditional pancakes known as "latkes"?
0:18:34 > 0:18:38- Pass.- Which cartoon character was "In The Land Of The Soviets"
0:18:38 > 0:18:41in the first serialised story to feature him in 1929?
0:18:41 > 0:18:44- Tintin.- The annual music writing awards presented
0:18:44 > 0:18:47by the British Academy Of Songwriters, Composers And Authors
0:18:47 > 0:18:50are named after which songwriter and actor?
0:18:50 > 0:18:53- Ivor Novello.- Who starred as Paul Kersey, an architect
0:18:53 > 0:18:56who turns into an avenging vigilante in the Death Wish films?
0:18:56 > 0:19:00- Charles Bronson.- What name is given to the Gospels according to Matthew, Mark and Luke,
0:19:00 > 0:19:03because of the similarity of their content regarding the life of Jesus?
0:19:03 > 0:19:07- Gnostic?- Synoptic. Which poet, who was born in 1759,
0:19:07 > 0:19:11gives his name to the Humanitarian Award of 1759 guineas,
0:19:11 > 0:19:13first presented in 2002?
0:19:13 > 0:19:14Pass.
0:19:14 > 0:19:15BEEP
0:19:15 > 0:19:18I can tell you it was Robert Burns.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21Six passes altogether. Potatoes are used to make latkes.
0:19:21 > 0:19:26Patrick White was the Australian author who won the Nobel Prize.
0:19:26 > 0:19:31Bryan Ferry took the title of his '78 solo album from that work by Duchamp.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34Mr Humphries, I regret to say...
0:19:34 > 0:19:35LAUGHTER
0:19:35 > 0:19:41..was the assistant in the menswear department, I'm rather glad you didn't remember that!
0:19:41 > 0:19:43And Jack Kerouac, On The Road.
0:19:43 > 0:19:48Six passes. You have now though, Paul Maddern, 25 points.
0:19:48 > 0:19:50APPLAUSE
0:19:55 > 0:19:57Quentin Holt again now, please.
0:20:00 > 0:20:05And 15 points is what you start this round with.
0:20:05 > 0:20:0825 is the score to beat to get to the semi-final.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10Let's see how you do with general knowledge.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12What name is given to the force of attraction
0:20:12 > 0:20:14exerted by the Earth or any other celestial body?
0:20:14 > 0:20:18- Gravity.- Which famous street in New York is named after an embankment
0:20:18 > 0:20:21built by Dutch settlers in about 1653 to repel attacking forces?
0:20:21 > 0:20:26- Wall Street.- In 2005, the children's author Geraldine McCaughrean was chosen
0:20:26 > 0:20:31by the trustees of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital to write a sequel to which story?
0:20:31 > 0:20:33- Goodnight Mister Tom.- Peter Pan.
0:20:33 > 0:20:37What sort of biscuits, sometimes referred to as "sweetmeal" or "wholemeal",
0:20:37 > 0:20:40got their name because they were thought not to irritate the stomach?
0:20:40 > 0:20:44- Digestive.- Which computer programming language, built into most Web browsers,
0:20:44 > 0:20:47was developed in the 1990s by Sun Microsystems?
0:20:48 > 0:20:54- Er, BASIC.- Java. Which town did Thomas Hardy call Casterbridge in his Wessex novels?
0:20:54 > 0:20:57- Dorchester.- Who, with his brother Chico, created the firm of shady lawyers,
0:20:57 > 0:21:01Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel for American radio in the early '30s?
0:21:01 > 0:21:06- Groucho Marx.- From which country did America make the Gadsden Purchase in 1853,
0:21:06 > 0:21:09adding nearly 30,000 square miles of territory in the south-west
0:21:09 > 0:21:11for a price of 10 million dollars?
0:21:11 > 0:21:15- Mexico.- Which jazz trumpeter, who was one of the leading figures in bebop,
0:21:15 > 0:21:17had the forenames "John Birks"?
0:21:18 > 0:21:22- Thelonius Monk.- No, Dizzy Gillespie. In the Western Christian calendar,
0:21:22 > 0:21:25what name is usually given to the Sunday after Pentecost?
0:21:25 > 0:21:29- Whitsun.- Trinity. Which common early flowering wild plant,
0:21:29 > 0:21:34whose stems each carry a single yellow flower, has the scientific name "primula vulgaris"?
0:21:35 > 0:21:38- Primrose.- Which South Pacific island is the largest
0:21:38 > 0:21:41and best known of the Society Islands?
0:21:42 > 0:21:46- Tonga.- Tahiti. Whose trilogy of novels House Of Cards, To Play The King, and The Final Cut
0:21:46 > 0:21:50feature the Machiavellian prime minister Francis Urquhart?
0:21:50 > 0:21:54- Michael Dobbs.- Which of its former allies declared war on Germany
0:21:54 > 0:21:56on the 13th of October, 1943?
0:21:56 > 0:22:01- Italy.- Which painting by Hans Holbein the Younger, that hangs in the National Gallery,
0:22:01 > 0:22:05shows Jean de Dinteville accompanied by the French Bishop Georges de Selve?
0:22:06 > 0:22:10- The Ambassadors.- Whose Symphony No.44 is nicknamed the "Trauer" or "Mourning" -
0:22:10 > 0:22:14apparently the composer wanted the slow movement played at his own funeral?
0:22:14 > 0:22:18- Haydn.- Which rugby union touring club, whose membership is by invitation only,
0:22:18 > 0:22:23was founded in 1890 in a Bradford restaurant by Percy Carpmael, a Blackheath forward?
0:22:23 > 0:22:25- Barbarians.- Which Welsh city lies on the River Usk,
0:22:25 > 0:22:29a few miles above its entry into the Severn estuary?
0:22:29 > 0:22:34- Newport.- In the film Mrs Brown, who played Queen's Victoria's Scottish retainer John Brown?
0:22:34 > 0:22:37- Billy Connolly.- Which English navigator commanded the ships
0:22:37 > 0:22:40Endeavour and Resolution on successive voyages of exploration?
0:22:40 > 0:22:42BEEP
0:22:42 > 0:22:45- Captain Cook.- Is correct, James Cook. No passes,
0:22:45 > 0:22:49you've now shot up, Quentin Holt, to 30 points.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51APPLAUSE
0:22:57 > 0:23:01And finally, Julie Aris, please, again.
0:23:01 > 0:23:07And you scored an enormous 18, that's the good news.
0:23:07 > 0:23:11The bad news is you have to beat 30 to get through, a very high score.
0:23:11 > 0:23:14Here we go, your general knowledge in two and a half minutes.
0:23:14 > 0:23:18The cities of York and Parma are famous for which type of cured meat?
0:23:18 > 0:23:23- Ham.- Which pack of cards usually consists of 56 suit cards and 22 pictorial cards?
0:23:23 > 0:23:26- Tarot.- What general term of French origin is used for a strong,
0:23:26 > 0:23:29usually sweet, alcoholic drink, flavoured with aromatics?
0:23:29 > 0:23:33- Liqueur.- Which traditional English folk song features the line,
0:23:33 > 0:23:35"Singing, singing, buttercups and daisies"?
0:23:36 > 0:23:39- Pass.- In which West African country did a civil war break out
0:23:39 > 0:23:42following President Laurent Gbagbo's refusal to stand down
0:23:42 > 0:23:45after losing an election in November 2010?
0:23:46 > 0:23:49- Gambia.- Ivory Coast. In Greek legend, who was the younger brother
0:23:49 > 0:23:51of Agamemnon and husband of Helen of Troy?
0:23:51 > 0:23:56- Menelaus.- Which ancient province of Ireland consisted of the six historic counties
0:23:56 > 0:23:59of Northern Ireland and three counties of the Republic of Ireland?
0:23:59 > 0:24:01- Leinster.- Ulster. The film The Talented Mr Ripley,
0:24:01 > 0:24:04starring Matt Damon, is based on a novel by which author?
0:24:04 > 0:24:10- Patricia...Ward.- Highsmith. What acid is secreted into the stomach
0:24:10 > 0:24:13by the parietal cells, also known as the oxyntic cells?
0:24:14 > 0:24:18- Hydrochloric.- Which French composer won Oscars for the musical scores
0:24:18 > 0:24:21of Lawrence Of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and A Passage To India?
0:24:21 > 0:24:23His son, Jean Michel, is also a composer.
0:24:23 > 0:24:25- Jarre.- Yes, Maurice Jarre.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28New York State lies on one side of the Niagara Falls,
0:24:28 > 0:24:30which Canadian province lies on the other?
0:24:30 > 0:24:33- Ontario.- What is the proper name of the plant grown for its papery seed-pods
0:24:33 > 0:24:35used in dried flower arrangements,
0:24:35 > 0:24:39whose popular names include honesty, the money plant and the satin pod?
0:24:39 > 0:24:43- Pass.- The Archers radio series is set in which fictional county?
0:24:43 > 0:24:47- Ambridge.- Borsetshire. In which F Scott Fitzgerald novel does the title character
0:24:47 > 0:24:51fall in love with a married socialite, Daisy Buchanan, the cousin of narrator Nick Carraway?
0:24:51 > 0:24:56- The Great Gatsby.- From 1936, what could be accessed on telephones
0:24:56 > 0:24:58by dialling the three-letter code, "TIM"?
0:24:59 > 0:25:03- The speaking clock.- What musical term is used for the elaborate ornamentation
0:25:03 > 0:25:06of a vocal melody, especially in operatic singing by a soprano?
0:25:06 > 0:25:10- Pass.- What is the name of the region of southern and south-western Cumbria
0:25:10 > 0:25:13that was a detached part of Lancashire until 1974?
0:25:14 > 0:25:17- Pass.- Who, in his best-known work The Autobiography Of A Super-Tramp,
0:25:17 > 0:25:21recounts injuring his leg boarding a moving train in America
0:25:21 > 0:25:22and the subsequent amputation?
0:25:22 > 0:25:27- Pass.- Which sport's derby has been run at Wimbledon since 1985?
0:25:27 > 0:25:30- Greyhound?- Yes. In which city is the Nawab of Bengal
0:25:30 > 0:25:34said to have imprisoned some 146 British subjects
0:25:34 > 0:25:38in a cell less than 20 feet square in June 1756?
0:25:38 > 0:25:41- Calcutta.- In what type of bridge, spanning a stretch of water,
0:25:41 > 0:25:45does the roadway hang from cables attached to towers and anchored on each bank?
0:25:45 > 0:25:48- BEEP Suspension?- Suspension is correct.
0:25:48 > 0:25:55You have five passes. WH Davies wrote The Autobiography Of A Super-Tramp.
0:25:55 > 0:25:59Furness is the region of southern and south-western Cumbria.
0:25:59 > 0:26:03The musical term for the elaborate ornamentation is "coloratura".
0:26:03 > 0:26:08Lunaria is the proper name for the plant with its papery seed-pods.
0:26:08 > 0:26:12"Singing, singing, buttercups and daisies" - Strawberry Fair.
0:26:12 > 0:26:16You have a total score, Julie Aris, of 30 points.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18APPLAUSE
0:26:26 > 0:26:30Well, I told you passing was important, didn't I?
0:26:30 > 0:26:32Let's have a look at those scores.
0:26:32 > 0:26:34In fourth place, with 19 points, Audrey Williams.
0:26:34 > 0:26:39Third place, 25 points, a big score, Paul Maddern.
0:26:39 > 0:26:43Second place with 30 points and five passes, Julie Aris.
0:26:43 > 0:26:48First place, 30 points and no passes, Quentin Holt.
0:26:48 > 0:26:50APPLAUSE
0:26:58 > 0:27:03Which means, of course, Quentin Holt is tonight's winner.
0:27:03 > 0:27:06He goes through to the semi-finals. Congratulations to him.
0:27:06 > 0:27:11And congratulations as well to Julie Aris, because with her score of 30,
0:27:11 > 0:27:15it's pretty certain, indeed it is certain, that we'll see her again
0:27:15 > 0:27:18in the semi-finals which begin next week.
0:27:18 > 0:27:22Do join us then for the first of the semi-finals and more Masterminds.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25Thanks for watching, goodnight.
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