Episode 25 Mastermind

First in the spotlight tonight, Nick Duffy, a retail worker from Washington,

his subject, the Novels of Martin Amis.

Next, Julie Aris, service quality manager from West Ham, her subject, Lady Jane Grey.

Steve Watson, a retail manager from Sittingbourne, his subject, The Who.

David Love from Wolverhampton, his subject, British Birds of Prey.

And Stuart Reid, a writer from Solihull, he'll answer questions on the Roman Emperor Caligula.

APPLAUSE

Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.

Five contenders are about to compete for a place in this year's final.

They may have been here before, but that doesn't make the ordeal any less daunting.

They will face a minute and a half of questions on their specialist subject,

then two minutes on general knowledge.

The winner will take a step closer to owning the famous glass bowl

and, much more importantly, becoming the nation's Mastermind.

Let's get on with it and ask our first contender to join us, please.

A minute and a half. Which of Amis's novels is dedicated to his late father, the writer Kingsley Amis?

-The Information.

-London Fields.

In Yellow Dog, what natural event happens at the same time as the crash landing of Flight 101?

-A comet nearly collides with it.

-Why does Gregory's sister Ursula Riding come to London in Success?

-To go to secretarial college.

-In The Rachel Papers, what age does Charles describe as,

"If not the start of maturity," then "the end of youth"?

-20.

-What is the subject of the only book that Keith Talent has read?

-Darts.

-When Gwyn Barry appeared on the TV programme The Seven Vital Virtues, which virtue did he pick?

-Uxoriousness.

-In Other People, what does Mary Lamb describe

as "extravagantly lovely, white creatures, fat, sleepy things that hovered, cruised and basked"?

-Clouds.

-On what charge was Lev arrested and sent to join his brother at the Arctic Gulag in 1948?

-Praising the Americas.

-In Night Train, lithium is found in Jennifer Rockwell's body.

Which of her friends had she taken the drug from?

-Stephanie.

-Phyllida Trounce.

What realistic tattoo does Clint Smoker have around his neck?

-A chain.

-A noose. When John Self earned a lot of money,

his father invoiced him for what he had spent on his upbringing? How much did he claim?

-£15,000.

-£19,000. Quentin Villiers is the editor

of London University's satirico-politico-literary magazine. What's it called?

-Yes.

-The wife of the beer-crate operative and freelance bouncer Fat Vince is said

to have died from what condition?

-Cancer.

-No, being too lower class.

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No passes, Nick Duffy, you have 8 points.

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And our next contender, please.

90 seconds. Jane was the great-granddaughter of which English King?

-Henry VII.

-How many days is Jane said to have reigned for,

although 13 days passed between King Edward's death and Mary's accession?

-Nine.

-She tried to resist the plan to marry her to Guildford Dudley, saying she was betrothed to whom?

-Earl of Hertford.

-Which Duke tried to put Jane on the throne, but failed due to his own unpopularity?

-Northumberland.

-When Henry VIII died, Jane lived with Catherine Parr and her husband. What was his name?

-Thomas Seymour.

-In 1551, Jane went to a state banquet in honour of which dowager queen of Scotland?

-Mary of Guise.

-After she accepted the throne, Jane decided her husband should be a Duke.

What title did she intend to give him?

-Clarence.

-In 1548, she accompanied Catherine Parr to which estate where Catherine died shortly afterwards?

-Sudeley.

-Who came to England in 1553 as Emperor Charles V's new ambassador

and urged Mary to execute Jane?

-Renard.

-Name her first tutor to whom she wrote an irate letter from the Tower after he became a Catholic.

-Harding.

-Who led a rebellion in Kent against Mary's proposed marriage to Philip of Spain?

It led to the execution of Jane and her husband.

-Wyatt.

-At her execution, Jane tied her own blindfold, then panicked as she couldn't find what?

-The block.

-Who was Jane's Italian teacher and author of a biography of her, only published in 1607?

-Florio.

-When the Greys visited Mary at Newhall,

Jane asked how the consecrated bread on the altar could be the body of Christ when it was made by whom?

-The baker.

-On the scaffold before her execution...

-BEEP

-..Jane recited Psalm 51. By what name is this psalm also known?

-Miserere.

-Miserere is correct.

A perfect round, Julie Aris, you have 15 points.

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And our next contender, please.

Name Roger Daltrey's band when John Entwistle and Pete Townshend joined

after they had been at Acton County Grammar School.

-The Detours.

-Who signed the band before becoming involved in a legal case

about his right to future royalties?

-Shel Talmy.

-What word is spelled out on the American football helmets on the cover of Odds & Sods?

-R-O-C-K.

-Which song on Who's Next was the only one written and sung by John Entwistle?

-My Wife.

-In 1973, Keith Moon collapsed at a concert and a member of the audience completed the show.

In which city was the concert?

-Boston.

-San Francisco. Who is the central character in the rock opera and double album Quadrophenia?

-Jimmy.

-Which US music producer, who worked with The Eagles, produced the 1981 album Face Dances?

-Bill Szymczyk.

-Roger Daltrey is said to have developed pneumonia after sitting in a cold bath

filled with what for the cover shoot of The Who Sell Out album?

-Baked beans.

-At a concert in 1976, the band's sound was measured at 120 decibels,

making it the loudest concert ever recorded. What was the venue?

-Charlton Athletic football ground.

-What was the first single released from the Quadrophenia album?

-5:15.

-During a performance on Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1967,

Keith Moon set off a loud powder explosion in his drum kit.

Which actress allegedly fainted backstage as a result?

-Bette Davis.

-Which singer appeared as the Pinball Wizard

when the rock opera Tommy was staged at the Rainbow Theatre in 1972?

-Pass.

-Which group provided the backing vocals for the 1965 single I Can't Explain?

-BEEP Ivy League.

-Is correct.

You had one pass. Rod Stewart appeared as the Pinball Wizard.

You have, Steve Watson, 11 points.

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And our next contender, please.

90 seconds. Which British falcon can hang in the air for a long time, giving it the nickname "windhover"?

-Kestrel.

-Which bird, recorded as extinct in 1916,

returned to breed in Scotland in the '50s at Loch Garten?

-Osprey.

-What is the common name of Milvus milvus which incorporates man-made fabrics into its nest?

-Red kite.

-Which is Britain's smallest bird of prey? The male helps incubate the eggs.

-Merlin.

-Which bird's scientific name means "smaller than a buzzard" and has a silhouette like a large swift?

-A hobby.

-What is thought to be the main reason for the revival of the goshawk in the '60s and '70s?

-Escapees.

-Escaped from captivity, yes. The claws of which woodland bird of prey are straight and blunt

to allow it to dig out its food of insect larvae?

-Honey buzzard.

-Which rare harrier was first recognised as distinct from the hen harrier in the 19th century?

-Montagu's harrier.

-Special structures in the peregrine's nostrils allow it

to breathe at speed when stooping. What are they called?

-Baffles.

-In Scotland, which bird mistaken for a golden eagle is called the "tourist's eagle"?

-Buzzard.

-Which farm near Rhayader in Powys became the official Red Kite Rehabilitation Centre in 2003?

-Pass.

-Which bird associated with wetland habitats hovers over open water,

scaring its prey into diving repeatedly until it swoops to take the exhausted creature?

-Marsh harrier.

-The plumage of the male hen harrier is pale blue-grey. What is the female's main colour?

-Brown.

-On which nature reserve in central England

did ospreys breed in 2001 for the first time in over 150 years?

-BEEP Rutland Water.

-Correct. One pass.

That farm near Rhayader, Powys that became the Red Kite Rehabilitation Centre was Gigrin Farm.

One pass, nothing wrong, 13 points.

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And our final contender, please.

What is the meaning of the word Caligula which became the nickname of the Roman Emperor Gaius?

-Little Boots.

-Caligula lived with which relative

who believed he was "nursing a viper for the Roman people"?

-Tiberius.

-When he became Emperor, Caligula said which month

would be renamed Germanicus in honour of his dead father?

-September.

-Whose funeral oration did Caligula give at the age of 17?

-Livia.

-Name the King of Mauretania who was executed in the year 40,

supposedly for wearing a purple cloak in Caligula's presence?

-Ptolemy.

-Caligula issued a coin with a picture of his sisters

portrayed as Securitas, Concordia and which other figure?

-Fortuna.

-Name his favourite horse which he allegedly planned to appoint as a consul.

-Incitatus.

-Which young aristocrat stated publicly that Caligula had worn him out by his sexual demands?

-Pass.

-Which tragic poet was the author of the line sometimes quoted by Caligula,

"Let them hate me as long as they fear me"?

-Seneca.

-Accius. Suetonius said when the people at the Games cheered for the team Caligula opposed,

he cried out that he wished they had a single what?

-Neck.

-In the last year of his reign, which building did he order to be turned into an imperial shrine

with a statue of himself in the guise of Jupiter?

-Pass.

-What spoils of war did he order his troops to gather during his abortive invasion of Britain?

-Sea shells.

-Which historian described the assassination of Caligula

as a practical demonstration "that he was not God"?

-Tacitus.

-Cassius Dio. The philosopher Philo...

-BEEP

-..led a delegation of Jews from which city

to meet with Caligula near the end of his reign?

-Alexandria.

-Correct. Two passes.

It was the temple in Jerusalem that he ordered to be turned into an imperial shrine.

And that young aristocrat who said that Caligula had worn him out with his sexual demands was Catullus.

You have, Stuart Reid, 10 points.

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That's the end of the first round. Let's look at the scores.

In fifth place, Nick Duffy.

Fourth place, Stuart Reid.

Third place, Steve Watson.

Second place, David Love.

In the lead with a very high 15 points, Julie Aris.

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It's general knowledge now. If there is a tie at the end, the number of passes is taken into account

and the person with the fewer passes is the winner. If they're tied on passes as well, there's a tie-break.

Let's ask Nick Duffy to join us again, please.

And you begin with 8 points with your knowledge of Martin Amis's novels.

General knowledge, two minutes.

Who was the lead vocalist in the band Queen from 1971 until his death in 1991?

-Freddie Mercury.

-The Mekon was the enemy of which comic strip space hero?

-Dan Dare.

-The sequel to which film had the tagline,

"Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water"?

-Jaws.

-Name the cocktail of vodka and tomato juice with a dash of Worcestershire sauce.

-Bloody Mary.

-Who stated his Law of Elasticity in an anagram of the Latin phrase, "Ut tensio, sic vis",

which means "as the extension, so the force"?

-Newton.

-Hooke. Which castle north of Dundee has been owned by the late Queen Mother's family since 1372?

-Glamis.

-In which TV comedy series do Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith play characters

including Mr Jelly, Oscar Lomax, the Silent Singer and David and Maureen Sowerbutts?

-Psychoville.

-What is the English translation of Bahia de los Cochinos

where 1,500 Cuban exiles landed in April 1961 in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro's regime?

-Bay of Pigs.

-Who lost his job as manager of Chelsea in May, 2011,

in spite of guiding them to their first League and FA Cup double?

-Mourinho.

-Ancelotti. Which channel, separating Africa from Madagascar, shares its name

with the country on its western shore?

-Mozambique Strait.

-Which novel by Sir Walter Scott takes its name from Edinburgh's old Tolbooth Prison?

-Ivanhoe?

-Heart of Midlothian. What title did Pope Leo X bestow on Henry VIII in 1521

as a reward for his pamphlet against Martin Luther?

-Defender of the Faith?

-Correct. Which US composer has won five Oscars for film scores

including Schindler's List and ET?

-John Williams.

-Which yucca plant got its name because its branches reminded Mormon settlers

of a Biblical leader?

-Joshua Tree.

-Who managed The Beatles from '61 until 1967?

-Brian Epstein.

-In November 2003, which Northern Hemisphere country won the Rugby Union World Cup?

-England.

-The Parthenon was the chief temple of which Greek goddess?

-Aphrodite.

-Athena. What was...

-BEEP

..the opera that opened at Covent Garden in February 2011

in which a glamour model marries an octogenarian millionaire?

-Anna Nicole Smith.

-Or Anna Nicole. You have no passes, Nick Duffy. You have 22 points.

And Stuart Reid again now, please.

And you begin with 10 points on Caligula. Two minutes on general knowledge, starting now.

Which Shakespearean lovers are subjects of a Berlioz symphony, a Gounod opera and Prokofiev ballet?

-Romeo and Juliet.

-Who played straight man to Lou Costello in comedy films of the '40s and '50s?

-Abbott.

-Which British boxer lost his WBA world heavyweight title to Wladimir Klitschko

in Hamburg in July, 2011?

-David Haye.

-Which author began using a pseudonym, a Mississippi riverman's expression,

while he was working as a reporter in Virginia City, Nevada, in 1863?

-Mark Twain.

-What process produces the energy radiated by the Sun and most other stars?

-Radiation?

-Fusion. Yellow buns, known as Lucia Cats, are eaten around St Lucia's Day in Sweden.

-What spice are they flavoured with?

-Pass.

Which Central Asian republic became the largest land-locked country with the Soviet Union's break-up in 1991?

-Uzbekistan?

-Kazakhstan. Who succeeded his father John to the English throne in 1216 aged nine?

-Stephen?

-Henry III. Sharleen Spiteri is the singer with which Scottish group?

Their UK hits include Black-Eyed Boy and Halo.

-Texas.

-In which British national park are the mountains of Glaramara and Blencathra?

-Grampian?

-Lake District. In Islamic law, what general term is used for foods that are unlawful?

-Pass.

-Which poet and critic, eldest son of a celebrated headmaster,

described Oxford as "that sweet city with her dreaming spires"?

-Shakespeare?

-Matthew Arnold. What other name for the European Wolf Spider

-comes from a city in southern Italy where it's found?

-Pass.

In 1957, Kwame Nkrumah became the first Prime Minister of which country?

-Nigeria?

-Ghana. Which Cardiff-born broadcaster was appointed BBC's Middle East Editor in 2005?

-Jeremy Bowen.

-Whose novel, Solar, about climate change

won the 2010 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction?

-Pass.

-Which bird...

-BEEP

..appears on the flag of Papua New Guinea and is native to there?

-Pass.

-I can tell you it's the Bird of Paradise.

Your other passes - Ian McEwan wrote Solar, the tarantula is the other name for the European Wolf Spider,

in Islamic law, foods that are unlawful are haram,

and that spice in yellow buns in Sweden is saffron.

You have a total, Stuart Reid, of 16 points.

And now Steve Watson again, please.

And you begin with 11 points with your knowledge of The Who.

22 is still the score to beat. Let's see if you can do it. Two minutes, starting now.

Which day of the week is the Jewish Sabbath?

-Saturday.

-A gorget, a brassard and a gauntlet were all parts of what protective clothing?

-A suit of armour.

-Who was nominated for an Oscar for the screenplay of A Fish Called Wanda?

-John Cleese.

-Which Greek playwright's seven surviving complete works include Oedipus Rex?

-Aeschylus?

-Sophocles. The name of which Irish sea port means Fort of the Foreigners,

said to refer to the Danes who settled there in the 9th century?

-Limerick?

-Donegal. Who is widely accepted as the first Prime Minister of Britain?

-Walpole.

-Which Premier League football club was taken over by billionaire Randy Lerner in 2006?

-Manchester City?

-Aston Villa. In 1843, Daniel McNaughton was acquitted of the murder

of Robert Peel's secretary. On what grounds was he acquitted?

-Insanity.

-Which pop duo joined forces with Sadler's Wells

-to present the ballet The Most Incredible Thing, based on a story by Hans Christian Andersen?

-Pass.

Which desert in Arizona is named for the multi-coloured rocks there?

-Painted Desert.

-What name is used in England for the once-fashionable closed vehicle with seating for one

carried on two poles by bearers?

-Sedan chair.

-Which Polish composer's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs became a global hit after a version

by the London Sinfonietta and Dawn Upshaw was released in 1992?

-Chopin.

-Gorecki. St Paul made his final journey as a prisoner to which city, where he was probably executed

some time between 62 and 67AD?

-Rome?

-Yes. What's the family surname of the First Earl of Snowdon, former husband of Princess Margaret?

-Armstrong-Jones.

-What is the process whereby heat is transferred by the mass movement of a fluid?

-Convection.

-Which smoked fish product has a name derived from a fishing village south of Aberdeen?

-Er, Arbroath?

-No, Finnan Haddock. Who started writing Room At The Top

-while convalescing from tuberculosis in a sanatorium?

-BEEP

-Pass. I don't know.

-I can tell you it was John Braine.

Your other pass - that pop duo that joined up with Sadler's Wells was The Pet Shop Boys.

You have, Steve Watson, 21 points.

Now David Love again, please.

And you begin with 13 points with your knowledge of the birds of prey.

22 is still the score to beat. Let's see if you can do it. Two minutes, starting now.

What section of a symphony orchestra includes violins, violas and cellos?

-Strings.

-Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon wrote poetry during which conflict?

-World War One.

-Danny Boy is a vocal version of which Irish folk tune?

-Londonderry Air.

-In Roman numerals, what letter represents 500?

-D.

-What local name of Old English origin is given to a steep-sided ravine cut by a stream

descending into the sea?

-Bourne?

-Chine. Which genus of plants gets its name from the Greek for "to mimic"?

-Pass.

-The lead character in the film Death In Venice is based on which composer?

-Mahler.

-What term is used for winning all five games in rugby union's Six Nations?

-Grand Slam.

-Which novel by Nicholas Monsarrat tells of the crew of the corvette HMS Compass Rose?

-The Cruel Sea.

-Who was the first person to renounce his title,

22 minutes after the passage of the Peerages Act in July, 1963?

-Pass.

-What is the official radio broadcasting network of the American Government,

which first broadcast on 24th February, 1942?

-Radio America?

-Voice of America. Borsch, Ukraine's national soup, is made from which root vegetable?

-Beetroot.

-On 13th February, 1692, 38 innocent people were murdered in the Scottish Highlands.

What name is given to this event?

-The...Massacre of... The Glencoe Massacre.

-Yes.

What term for a person who is paying for the misdeeds of another comes from a Jewish Biblical ritual?

-Scapegoat.

-Whose History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was published between 1776 and 1788?

-Gibbon.

-Which 1967 film stars Julie Christie as Bathsheba Everdene and Terence Stamp as Sgt Troy?

-Far From The Madding Crowd.

-Which group of Roman Catholic clergy are properly addressed as Your Eminence

and wear distinctive red attire?

-Bishop.

-Cardinals. The Nipkow disk was a scanning device used...

-BEEP

..in the 1920s in early mechanical forms of what invention?

-X-ray?

-No, you're on it right now. Television!

-Telly!

You have two passes. Tony Benn was... You knew it all the time! ..the first to renounce his peerage.

-And that plant that gets its name from the Greek for "to mimic" is the mimosa.

-Mimosa.

You have, however, David Love, 25 points.

And, finally, Julie Aris again, please.

And 15 is your score already with your knowledge of Lady Jane Grey.

25 is now the score to beat. Two minutes, starting now.

What German name is given to a crisp savoury snack baked in the form of a knot, covered with coarse salt?

-Kohler?

-Pretzel. Long-case, carriage and cuckoo are types of what?

-Clocks.

-The so-called Poll Tax, introduced in Scotland in 1989 and in England and Wales in 1990,

had officially what name?

-Council Tax.

-Community Charge. In which musical does Bloody Mary sing about the mystical Bali Ha'i?

-South Pacific.

-Which serious disease of sheep that arrived in Britain in 2007 is spread by certain midges?

-Pass.

-On what everyday items did Queen Elizabeth's head first appear in 1960?

-Coins.

-Notes. Chicago stands on the south-western shores of which of the Great Lakes?

-Superior.

-Michigan. In 2011, who became the first Asian player to win a Grand Slam singles tennis title

-when she beat Francesca Schiavone in the French Open final?

-Pass.

Which writer, best known for The Gruffalo, became the new Children's Laureate in June, 2011?

-Pass.

-Which Greek islands became a British protectorate after the fall of Napoleon,

then ceded back to Greece in 1864?

-Dodecanese.

-Ionian. In Japanese architecture, a shoji is a sliding door or window

consisting of a wooden lattice covered with what substance?

-Paper?

-Yes, rice paper. Which composer dedicated his Piano Sonata Number 21

-to Count Ferdinand von Waldstein, who had supported him?

-Mozart?

Beethoven. Which organisation campaigns against the use of jargon and awards a Crystal Mark?

-Plain English.

-What's the surname of the family in Louisa M Alcott's semi-autobiographical Little Women?

-Pass.

-Which port at the mouth of the Loire is the site of extensive shipyards

where the liners France and Normandie were both built?

BEEP

-Shall I tell you?

-Yes.

-It's Saint-Nazaire.

And your other passes - March was the family in Little Women,

Julia Donaldson took over as Children's Laureate,

Li Na became the first Asian player to win a Grand Slam singles

and Bluetongue is the name of the disease that sheep get.

You have a total now, Julie Aris, of 19 points.

Well, a clear winner. Let's look at all the scores.

In fifth place, Stuart Reid.

Fourth place, Julie Aris.

Third place, Steve Watson.

Second place, Nick Duffy.

First place, 25 points, David Love.

Which means, of course, that David Love is the winner and he claims a place in the Grand Final.

Congratulations to him.

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