0:00:23 > 0:00:25In the spotlight tonight, Gareth Kingston,
0:00:25 > 0:00:27a marketing manager from Flitwick.
0:00:27 > 0:00:31His subject, the legendary football manager Herbert Chapman.
0:00:31 > 0:00:33Next, Malcolm Sumner, a teacher from Cheltenham.
0:00:33 > 0:00:36His subject, Benjamin Disraeli.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39Andrew Hunter, a computer consultant from Grimsby,
0:00:39 > 0:00:42will be answering questions on the railways of Great Britain.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44John Snedden, a teacher from the Forest of Dean.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47His subject, the scientist Edward Jenner.
0:00:47 > 0:00:49And Nick Reed, a house-husband from Crowborough.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52His subject, the Blandings stories of PG Wodehouse.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55APPLAUSE
0:00:59 > 0:01:03Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05Five contenders are about to compete for a place
0:01:05 > 0:01:07in this year's Grand Final.
0:01:07 > 0:01:10From the black chair, they will face a minute and a half of questions
0:01:10 > 0:01:12on their specialist subject,
0:01:12 > 0:01:14and then two minutes on general knowledge.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18The winner will take a step closer to owning the famous glass bowl
0:01:18 > 0:01:21and, much more importantly, becoming the nation's Mastermind.
0:01:21 > 0:01:26So, let's get on with it and ask our first contender to join us, please.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33And your name is?
0:01:33 > 0:01:35Your occupation?
0:01:35 > 0:01:36And your specialist subject.
0:01:37 > 0:01:40Herbert Chapman. 90 seconds starting now.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43Chapman was the manager of which football club when he won
0:01:43 > 0:01:45the first of his two FA Cups and four league titles?
0:01:45 > 0:01:48- Huddersfield Town. - Who turned down the manager's post
0:01:48 > 0:01:49at Northampton Town in 1907
0:01:49 > 0:01:51and advised Chapman, his team mate at the time,
0:01:51 > 0:01:53to apply for the position instead?
0:01:53 > 0:01:55- Walter Bull. - What was the occupation
0:01:55 > 0:01:58of Chapman's wife, Annie, who sparked a controversy in 1905
0:01:58 > 0:02:00when she continued to work despite having a husband
0:02:00 > 0:02:02earning four pounds a week?
0:02:02 > 0:02:04- Teacher.- Which player did Chapman recruit
0:02:04 > 0:02:06from Aston Villa in 1921?
0:02:06 > 0:02:07He became captain at Huddersfield Town.
0:02:07 > 0:02:09- Clem Stephenson. - In which publication
0:02:09 > 0:02:12did he see the advert placed by Arsenal on 11th May 1925
0:02:12 > 0:02:15asking for applications for the position of team manager?
0:02:15 > 0:02:17Athletic News.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20In 1928, he signed a player for £10,890.
0:02:20 > 0:02:22Chapman described it as "one of the best bargains I ever made."
0:02:22 > 0:02:23Who was the player?
0:02:23 > 0:02:25- David Jack.- In which subject did he gain
0:02:25 > 0:02:28a First Class Diploma while he was playing football as an amateur,
0:02:28 > 0:02:30so that he always had a trade to fall back on?
0:02:30 > 0:02:32- Mining engineering. - At which ground
0:02:32 > 0:02:36did Huddersfield Town defeat Preston North End to win the FA Cup in 1922?
0:02:36 > 0:02:38- Stamford Bridge. - Which Leeds City full back
0:02:38 > 0:02:41informed the authorities of illegal payments to players
0:02:41 > 0:02:44which led to Chapman receiving a life ban from the game in 1919?
0:02:44 > 0:02:47- Charles Copeland. - For which company did he work as a superintendent
0:02:47 > 0:02:50from 1919 till shortly before his ban from football was lifted
0:02:50 > 0:02:52and he became the manager of Huddersfield Town?
0:02:52 > 0:02:55The Olympia Oil and Coke Plant.
0:02:55 > 0:02:56Yes, or Joseph Watson and Sons.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59Which French team did Chapman's Arsenal play
0:02:59 > 0:03:01on Armistice Day each year from 1930 onwards?
0:03:01 > 0:03:03Erm...Racing Club de Paris.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06Which cup final tradition involving the players
0:03:06 > 0:03:09did Chapman convince the FA to introduce for the 1930 match
0:03:09 > 0:03:10between Arsenal and Huddersfield Town?
0:03:10 > 0:03:12Teams walking out together.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14The teams walking out together is absolutely right.
0:03:14 > 0:03:16You had no passes. You got 'em all correct.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19Gareth Kingston, you have 12 points.
0:03:19 > 0:03:21APPLAUSE
0:03:26 > 0:03:28And our next contender, please.
0:03:34 > 0:03:36And your name is?
0:03:36 > 0:03:38Your occupation?
0:03:38 > 0:03:39And your specialist subject.
0:03:42 > 0:03:45Benjamin Disraeli in a minute and a half, starting now.
0:03:45 > 0:03:46For which constituency was Disraeli
0:03:46 > 0:03:48first elected to Parliament in 1837?
0:03:48 > 0:03:50- Maidstone. - What title did he take
0:03:50 > 0:03:53when he was ennobled by Queen Victoria in 1876?
0:03:53 > 0:03:56- Earl of Beaconsfield. - What was the name of the wealthy older widow
0:03:56 > 0:03:58whom he married in August 1839?
0:03:58 > 0:04:00- Mary Anne Wyndham Evans. - Yes, or Mary Anne Lewis.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02Whose sudden death in September 1848
0:04:02 > 0:04:04ultimately led to Disraeli becoming the leader
0:04:04 > 0:04:07of the Conservative Party in the House of Commons?
0:04:07 > 0:04:09- Lord Derby.- Lord Bentinck. What was the title
0:04:09 > 0:04:10of Disraeli's first novel,
0:04:10 > 0:04:13which he wrote in 1824 but never published?
0:04:13 > 0:04:14Vivian Grey.
0:04:14 > 0:04:16The Adventures of Mr Aylmer Papillon.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19By what fanciful name did he sometimes refer to Queen Victoria
0:04:19 > 0:04:21in a romantic allusion to Edmund Spenser?
0:04:21 > 0:04:23- The Faery.- After standing unsuccessfully for Taunton,
0:04:23 > 0:04:25Disraeli challenged which Irish MP to a duel?
0:04:25 > 0:04:28He then challenged his son, but neither would accept.
0:04:28 > 0:04:30- O'Connell. - When Disraeli lay dying
0:04:30 > 0:04:32and was asked if he'd like Queen Victoria to visit him,
0:04:32 > 0:04:35he replied, "Better not. She'd only ask me to take a message to..." who?
0:04:35 > 0:04:38- Prince Albert.- In his last novel, Endymion,
0:04:38 > 0:04:40who is portrayed as Count Ferroll?
0:04:40 > 0:04:43- Bismarck.- In 1875, when Disraeli arranged for Britain
0:04:43 > 0:04:47to buy the Khedive of Egypt's shares in the Suez Canal,
0:04:47 > 0:04:49which banker agreed to loan the money to the government?
0:04:49 > 0:04:51Rothschild.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54Whom did he appoint as Viceroy of India in 1876?
0:04:54 > 0:04:56- Mayo.- Earl Lytton. What did Disraeli say
0:04:56 > 0:04:59he hoped he'd brought back from the Congress of Berlin,
0:04:59 > 0:05:02in a famous phrase that would later be used by another Prime Minister?
0:05:02 > 0:05:05- Peace with honour. - Lord Derby's 1852 government was known by what name,
0:05:05 > 0:05:08from the response of the elderly and increasingly deaf Duke of Wellington
0:05:08 > 0:05:10when he was told the names of its members?
0:05:10 > 0:05:11The "Who? Who?" Ministry.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13After the death of his wife in 1872,
0:05:13 > 0:05:15Disraeli fell in love with Lady Selina Bradford,
0:05:15 > 0:05:19a 54-year-old married woman, though he eventually proposed
0:05:19 > 0:05:21to her older sister. What was her name?
0:05:21 > 0:05:22Lady Chesterfield.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24Is correct. No passes.
0:05:24 > 0:05:26Michael Sumner, you have 11 points.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29APPLAUSE
0:05:35 > 0:05:36And our next contender, please.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47And your name is?
0:05:47 > 0:05:48Your occupation?
0:05:49 > 0:05:51And your specialist subject.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57Railways in the 20th century, minute and a half starting now.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00The Railways Act of 1921 grouped railways into four companies.
0:06:00 > 0:06:02Which of these was the only one in existence at the time?
0:06:02 > 0:06:04- Great Western.- Which tunnel through the Pennines
0:06:04 > 0:06:06was completed in 1954,
0:06:06 > 0:06:09only to become redundant in '81 when the line was closed?
0:06:09 > 0:06:12- Woodhead.- What is the name of the incline between Grantham and Peterborough
0:06:12 > 0:06:15down which Mallard set a record of 126 mph
0:06:15 > 0:06:17for a steam engine in 1938?
0:06:17 > 0:06:19- Stoke Bank.- Britain's worst railway disaster
0:06:19 > 0:06:22involved five trains and the deaths of over 200 people in 1915.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24It took place at which signal box?
0:06:25 > 0:06:28- Quintinshill.- In which city was the so-called
0:06:28 > 0:06:29Docker's Umbrella, the first elevated
0:06:29 > 0:06:32urban electric railway in Britain? It closed in 1956.
0:06:32 > 0:06:33Liverpool.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35What was Dr Beeching's first report
0:06:35 > 0:06:37on the railways' future that came out in March '63?
0:06:37 > 0:06:40It led to large-scale line closures.
0:06:40 > 0:06:42The Reshaping of British Railways.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44Who was successively Chairman of the Highland Railway,
0:06:44 > 0:06:46the North British Railway and the LNER?
0:06:46 > 0:06:48- William Whitelaw. - British Railways' emblem that appeared
0:06:48 > 0:06:50on locomotives after nationalisation
0:06:50 > 0:06:52featured what animal standing over a wheel?
0:06:52 > 0:06:53A lion.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56The general manager of the Southern Railway from 1923 to '37
0:06:56 > 0:06:59drove forward the railway's electrification programme. What was his name?
0:06:59 > 0:07:02- Herbert Walker.- Who designed City of Truro, the locomotive
0:07:02 > 0:07:04unofficially credited with being the first
0:07:04 > 0:07:07to haul a train at over 100 mph, in 1904?
0:07:07 > 0:07:09- Churchward.- Which company, whose main line ran
0:07:09 > 0:07:11from Carnforth to Whitehaven
0:07:11 > 0:07:13was the smallest of the companies
0:07:13 > 0:07:14that formed the LMS in 1923?
0:07:14 > 0:07:17- Maryport & Carlisle. - Furness Railway.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19In which town was Evening Star completed in 1960?
0:07:19 > 0:07:22It was the last steam engine built for British Railways.
0:07:22 > 0:07:25- Swindon. - Which company, part of the English Electric group,
0:07:25 > 0:07:26built the Deltic diesel engines
0:07:26 > 0:07:29fitted to locomotives that operated on the East Coast main line
0:07:29 > 0:07:31from 1961 to 1982?
0:07:31 > 0:07:33Napier.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35Napier is correct.
0:07:35 > 0:07:39You have no passes and 12 points.
0:07:39 > 0:07:41APPLAUSE
0:07:48 > 0:07:50And our next contender, please.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57And your name is?
0:07:57 > 0:07:59Your occupation?
0:07:59 > 0:08:02And your specialist subject.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04Edward Jenner, starting now.
0:08:04 > 0:08:07Jenner was a pioneer of vaccination against smallpox
0:08:07 > 0:08:09by inoculating people with which other disease?
0:08:09 > 0:08:12- Cowpox.- From which institution did Jenner
0:08:12 > 0:08:14obtain his medical degree in 1792?
0:08:14 > 0:08:17- St Andrews.- Who was his tutor at St George's Hospital
0:08:17 > 0:08:19from 1770, and wrote to him for years afterwards?
0:08:19 > 0:08:22At his request Jenner carried out experiments
0:08:22 > 0:08:24such as measuring the temperature of hedgehogs.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26- John Hunter.- What was the name of the dairymaid
0:08:26 > 0:08:28from whom Jenner took the cowpox matter
0:08:28 > 0:08:32with which he vaccinated an 8-year-old boy in May 1796?
0:08:32 > 0:08:34- Sarah Nelmes. - As a student in the 1770s,
0:08:34 > 0:08:36he helped Joseph Banks to classify specimens
0:08:36 > 0:08:39collected during the voyage of which ship?
0:08:39 > 0:08:41- The Endeavour.- The first edition of Jenner's
0:08:41 > 0:08:45"Inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolae vaccinae"
0:08:45 > 0:08:46was dedicated to which physician?
0:08:46 > 0:08:48Caleb Parry.
0:08:48 > 0:08:49Whose dairy in Gray's Inn Road
0:08:49 > 0:08:52did Dr William Woodville visit in January 1799
0:08:52 > 0:08:54in order to collect cowpox to test
0:08:54 > 0:08:56Jenner's vaccination claims?
0:08:56 > 0:08:58- Robert Tanner? - Mr Harrison's.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01From what disease did his son Edward die in 1810, at the age of 21?
0:09:01 > 0:09:02Tuberculosis.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04The fossil remains of which prehistoric reptile
0:09:04 > 0:09:06were discovered by Jenner at the foot
0:09:06 > 0:09:08of Stinchcombe Hill, Gloucestershire, in 1819?
0:09:08 > 0:09:11- Plesiosaurus.- In 1783 at Berkeley Castle,
0:09:11 > 0:09:13Jenner staged a demonstration
0:09:13 > 0:09:16of a recently developed form of transport. What was it?
0:09:16 > 0:09:17It was a hot air balloon.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19In 1802, the House of Commons voted
0:09:19 > 0:09:21to grant Jenner a payment in recognition
0:09:21 > 0:09:23of his work on vaccination.
0:09:23 > 0:09:24What amount of money was he given?
0:09:24 > 0:09:26- £10,000.- At which tavern in Alveston
0:09:26 > 0:09:28did he meet with colleagues and friends
0:09:28 > 0:09:30in the Convivio-Medical Society?
0:09:30 > 0:09:33- The Ship Inn.- In 1787, Jenner presented a paper
0:09:33 > 0:09:36to the Royal Society on the nesting habits of which bird?
0:09:36 > 0:09:38Cuckoo?
0:09:38 > 0:09:41Is correct. No passes for you either.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43You also, John Snedden, have 12 points.
0:09:43 > 0:09:46APPLAUSE
0:09:52 > 0:09:55And our final contender, please.
0:09:59 > 0:10:00And your name is?
0:10:00 > 0:10:02Your occupation?
0:10:02 > 0:10:04And your specialist subject.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08The Blandings stories, starting now.
0:10:08 > 0:10:11Blandings Castle, described as "a noble pile of early Tudor building,"
0:10:11 > 0:10:12is in which English county?
0:10:12 > 0:10:14- Shropshire.- In Lord Emsworth Acts For The Best,
0:10:14 > 0:10:16butler Beach considers handing in his notice
0:10:16 > 0:10:17after 18 years of service.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19What's the Earl done that's upset him so much?
0:10:19 > 0:10:22- Grown a beard. - Ashe Marson, Lavender Briggs,
0:10:22 > 0:10:24Monty Bodkin and Joan Valentine have all worked
0:10:24 > 0:10:26for which publishing house off Fleet Street?
0:10:26 > 0:10:28- Mammoth.- For what reason is Gladys's brother Ern
0:10:28 > 0:10:31banned from the Blandings Parva School Treat?
0:10:31 > 0:10:32Biting Lady Constance in the leg.
0:10:32 > 0:10:35Who is the author of The Care of the Pig,
0:10:35 > 0:10:37a book that Lord Emsworth turns to when he is stressed?
0:10:37 > 0:10:40- Whiffle.- In Service With A Smile, Lord Ickenham says
0:10:40 > 0:10:43he's not seen his friend James Schoonmaker for many years,
0:10:43 > 0:10:45because of what unfortunate habit
0:10:45 > 0:10:46that many Americans develop?
0:10:46 > 0:10:47Living in America.
0:10:47 > 0:10:50How many times is the unpopular Baxter shot with an air gun
0:10:50 > 0:10:52by various members of the household, including the butler?
0:10:52 > 0:10:54- Four.- In The Go-Getter,
0:10:54 > 0:10:55what's the name of the Crooning Tenor,
0:10:55 > 0:10:57whose only means of livelihood
0:10:57 > 0:10:59consists of "intermittent engagements with the BBC"?
0:10:59 > 0:11:00- Orlo Watkins. - What's the title
0:11:00 > 0:11:03of the Blandings novel Wodehouse was working on when he died?
0:11:03 > 0:11:05It was published posthumously in 1977?
0:11:05 > 0:11:07Sunset At Blandings.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09What sight distracts Edward Cootes long enough
0:11:09 > 0:11:12for Smith to hit him over the head and take his pistol?
0:11:12 > 0:11:15Er, Freddie Threepwood's leg coming through the ceiling.
0:11:15 > 0:11:17What "gruesome sound" does Beefy Bingham hear
0:11:17 > 0:11:19that makes him think Lord Emsworth is in trouble?
0:11:19 > 0:11:20Him singing.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23On Visitors' Day the prize pig is thought to have swine fever.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25What's actually wrong with her?
0:11:25 > 0:11:26- She's drunk. - What does Baxter do
0:11:26 > 0:11:28in Leave It To Smith that finally
0:11:28 > 0:11:30causes Lord Emsworth to fire him?
0:11:30 > 0:11:31Throw flowerpots through his window.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33Tubby Parsloe realises that Maudie Stubbs
0:11:33 > 0:11:36is still the woman for him when he sees her enjoying a dessert
0:11:36 > 0:11:38of whipped cream, egg white, powdered sugar,
0:11:38 > 0:11:41seeded grapes, shredded coconut and orange gelatin.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44What is the name of the dessert?
0:11:46 > 0:11:50- Orange Passion.- Well, it was a noble attempt.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53It was actually Ambrosia Chiffon Pie.
0:11:53 > 0:11:56Nonetheless, no passes. 13 points.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59APPLAUSE
0:12:05 > 0:12:08Well, a very close round there. Let's have a look at those scores.
0:12:08 > 0:12:10In fifth place, with 11 points, Malcolm Sumner.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13Joint second place, 12 points apiece,
0:12:13 > 0:12:16Gareth Kingston, Andrew Hunter and John Snedden.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19In the lead, just, 13 points. Nick Reed.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22APPLAUSE
0:12:22 > 0:12:24Round Two now, General Knowledge.
0:12:24 > 0:12:27If there is a tie at the end of this round, which there might well be,
0:12:27 > 0:12:31the way we're going, then the number of passes is taken into account,
0:12:31 > 0:12:34and the contender with the fewer passes is the winner.
0:12:34 > 0:12:38If they're tied on passes as well, there will be a tie-break.
0:12:38 > 0:12:40So, let's get on with it and ask Malcolm Sumner
0:12:40 > 0:12:43to join us again, please.
0:12:43 > 0:12:47And you scored 11 points with your knowledge of Disraeli.
0:12:47 > 0:12:50Let's see how you do with your general knowledge.
0:12:50 > 0:12:54In Greek mythology, which Olympian god was king of the sea?
0:12:54 > 0:12:57- Poseidon.- Which reggae star, born in Jamaica in 1945,
0:12:57 > 0:12:58had the middle name Nesta?
0:12:58 > 0:13:01- Bob Marley.- Who wrote the poems Buckingham Palace,
0:13:01 > 0:13:03King John's Christmas and Us Two?
0:13:03 > 0:13:04- AA Milne?- Yes.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07Joaquin Rodrigo composed his Concierto De Aranjuez
0:13:07 > 0:13:10for which solo stringed instrument with orchestra?
0:13:10 > 0:13:12- Guitar. - In theoretical physics,
0:13:12 > 0:13:15a theory that unifies the fundamental forces of nature
0:13:15 > 0:13:17is known as a TOE. What do these letters stand for?
0:13:17 > 0:13:21- Theory of Everything. - What name is shared by a freshwater fish
0:13:21 > 0:13:23of the salmon family and a species of brownish butterfly?
0:13:23 > 0:13:25- Skipper?- Grayling.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28Which range of hills, that extend north-west
0:13:28 > 0:13:30from near Taunton to the Bristol Channel,
0:13:30 > 0:13:32reach their highest point at Will's Neck,
0:13:32 > 0:13:33some 1260 feet above sea level?
0:13:33 > 0:13:36- Quantocks.- Who, controversially, did not win
0:13:36 > 0:13:40the Pulitzer Prize in '74 with Gravity's Rainbow, set in the devastated Europe
0:13:40 > 0:13:42of the Second World War?
0:13:42 > 0:13:45- Pynchon.- Which country is almost entirely surrounded by India,
0:13:45 > 0:13:47except in its south-eastern corner
0:13:47 > 0:13:48where it has a border with Burma?
0:13:50 > 0:13:53- Bangladesh.- Which Irish-born former sports commentator
0:13:53 > 0:13:56was the first subject of the television show This Is Your Life,
0:13:56 > 0:13:58a show he went on to present?
0:13:58 > 0:14:00- Eamonn Andrews.- Whom did Henry V marry in 1420,
0:14:00 > 0:14:03after the Treaty of Troyes had acknowledged him
0:14:03 > 0:14:05as the heir to the French throne?
0:14:05 > 0:14:09- Catherine of Valois. - The name of which small, thin sausage is derived
0:14:09 > 0:14:11from the Italian word for onion?
0:14:11 > 0:14:13- Mortadella.- Chipolata.
0:14:13 > 0:14:15In the 1978 film The Boys from Brazil,
0:14:15 > 0:14:18which Nazi war criminal was played by Gregory Peck?
0:14:20 > 0:14:22- Hitler.- Mengele. What is traditionally the last event
0:14:22 > 0:14:24of the Wimbledon Tennis fortnight?
0:14:26 > 0:14:28- The Men's Singles. - No, the Mixed Doubles Final.
0:14:28 > 0:14:30Which country's flag consists of a blue cross
0:14:30 > 0:14:32outlined in white on a red background,
0:14:32 > 0:14:34with the vertical part of the cross
0:14:34 > 0:14:36shifted to the hoist side?
0:14:38 > 0:14:39- Iceland.- Norway.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42In Gulliver's Travels, what is the name of the ship
0:14:42 > 0:14:45on which Gulliver is shipwrecked on Lilliput?
0:14:45 > 0:14:48- The Antelope.- What position did the appropriately named
0:14:48 > 0:14:51Sir Igor Judge take up on the 1st of October 2008?
0:14:51 > 0:14:53BEEP Lord Chief Justice.
0:14:53 > 0:14:55Is correct.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58No passes. You have a total, Malcolm Sumner, of 23 points.
0:14:58 > 0:15:01APPLAUSE
0:15:07 > 0:15:10And Gareth Kingston again now, please.
0:15:12 > 0:15:16And you start out with 12 points with your knowledge of Herbert Chapman.
0:15:16 > 0:15:2023 the score to beat. Two minutes of general knowledge starting now.
0:15:20 > 0:15:21The femur is the medical term for which bone?
0:15:21 > 0:15:25- The thigh.- What colour does litmus paper turn in acid solutions?
0:15:25 > 0:15:29- Red.- What word for a building in a sports ground in which players change their clothes
0:15:29 > 0:15:32and store equipment comes from the Latin for a butterfly?
0:15:32 > 0:15:35- Pavilion.- Which Scottish musician who's commissioned
0:15:35 > 0:15:38dozens of new works for percussion became profoundly deaf?
0:15:38 > 0:15:41- Glennie.- What common metal was introduced to the public
0:15:41 > 0:15:45at the Paris Exposition of 1855 where it was regarded as a new precious metal?
0:15:45 > 0:15:48- Stainless steel. - Aluminium. Which box-like structure used in
0:15:48 > 0:15:50underwater construction work gives its name
0:15:50 > 0:15:53to an alternative term for decompression sickness?
0:15:53 > 0:15:57- Bends.- Caisson. Which Formula One team, one of the oldest in the sport today,
0:15:57 > 0:16:00is named after the New Zealand driver who founded it in 1963?
0:16:00 > 0:16:02- Lotus.- McLaren.
0:16:02 > 0:16:05What term used to describe the virtual reality generated by computers
0:16:05 > 0:16:08was coined by the science fiction writer William Gibson
0:16:08 > 0:16:10and popularised in his 1984 novel, Neuromancer?
0:16:10 > 0:16:12- Cyberspace.- Which London-born actor
0:16:12 > 0:16:16played the part of the electrician Barry Taylor in Auf Wiedersehen Pet
0:16:16 > 0:16:18and features as Peter Pettigrew in the Harry Potter films?
0:16:18 > 0:16:22- Spall.- The first three letters of which alphabet are
0:16:22 > 0:16:25Aleph, Beth and Gimmel?
0:16:25 > 0:16:28- Jewish.- Or Hebrew. What name for the war of 1739 between England and Spain
0:16:28 > 0:16:32referred to an incident in 1731 where a British sea captain had a part
0:16:32 > 0:16:36of his anatomy removed by Spanish coastguards who'd boarded his ship?
0:16:36 > 0:16:39- Jenkins' ear. - Which heavy metal band formed in the mid-70s
0:16:39 > 0:16:43by Steve Harris is named after a mediaeval instrument of torture?
0:16:43 > 0:16:44Iron Maiden.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47In Thomas Gray's poem lamenting the death of his favourite cat Selima,
0:16:47 > 0:16:49what fish were in the tub in which she drowned?
0:16:49 > 0:16:52- Perch.- Goldfish. Vaclav is the Czech form of what name,
0:16:52 > 0:16:55that of the patron saint of the Czech Republic?
0:16:55 > 0:16:58- Wenceslas.- Which marine snails have highly-coloured shells
0:16:58 > 0:17:02widely used as money in parts of Africa and Asia and also as decoration?
0:17:02 > 0:17:06- Escargot.- Cowries. Which historic city on the Adriatic coast
0:17:06 > 0:17:08has a name meaning "oak forest" in Croatian?
0:17:08 > 0:17:11- Dubrovnik.- What name's given to a painting or carving on three panels
0:17:11 > 0:17:13hinged together to form a single work of art?
0:17:13 > 0:17:17- Triptych.- The shop steward Derek Robinson, also named as Red Robbo,
0:17:17 > 0:17:19achieved notoriety in the 1970s for his activities...
0:17:19 > 0:17:23- BEEP - ..at which car plant in the Midlands?
0:17:23 > 0:17:26- Longbridge.- Is correct. No passes.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29Gareth Kingston, you now have 25 points.
0:17:29 > 0:17:33APPLAUSE
0:17:37 > 0:17:39And Andrew Hunter again now, please.
0:17:41 > 0:17:46You also start out with 12 points with your knowledge of railways.
0:17:46 > 0:17:50As you know, you have 25 to beat. Let's see if you can do it.
0:17:50 > 0:17:52Two minutes, general knowledge. What name's given
0:17:52 > 0:17:55to the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse?
0:17:55 > 0:17:57- Mule.- Which river, the longest in Ireland,
0:17:57 > 0:18:00enters the Atlantic Ocean through an estuary below Limerick?
0:18:00 > 0:18:03- Shannon.- Which bravery award was originally made from the metal of guns
0:18:03 > 0:18:06captured at the siege of Sebastopol during the Crimean War?
0:18:06 > 0:18:09- Victoria Cross. - In painting and decorating, what word of French origin
0:18:09 > 0:18:12is used to describe a dull, non-glossy finish?
0:18:12 > 0:18:15- Matt.- Which Norwegian National Park and mountain range
0:18:15 > 0:18:17is named after the Land of the Giants in Norse mythology?
0:18:17 > 0:18:21- Fjordland.- Jotunheimen. Which actor, best known for his television role
0:18:21 > 0:18:23as an overweight detective, played the gang member Dim
0:18:23 > 0:18:26in A Clockwork Orange earlier in his career?
0:18:26 > 0:18:29- Frank Cannon.- Warren Clarke. What's the title and the first line of the poem
0:18:29 > 0:18:31by Dylan Thomas that continues, "Dead men naked
0:18:31 > 0:18:34"they shall be one with the man in the wind and the west moon?"
0:18:34 > 0:18:35Pass.
0:18:35 > 0:18:38In which European city are the Charlottenburg Palace
0:18:38 > 0:18:39and the Tivoli Pleasure Gardens?
0:18:39 > 0:18:43- Copenhagen.- Which outlaw's square helmet that featured in paintings of him
0:18:43 > 0:18:46by Sidney Nolan is an iconic image in Australia?
0:18:46 > 0:18:50- Ned Kelly.- What name for a variable resistor used to adjust electrical current
0:18:50 > 0:18:54comes from a combination of the Greek for stream and "to cause to stand"?
0:18:54 > 0:18:58- Rheostat.- Alfred the Great was the king of which Anglo-Saxon kingdom?
0:18:58 > 0:19:00- Wessex.- Which singer and actress starred
0:19:00 > 0:19:03in the musical films Calamity Jane and Young At Heart?
0:19:03 > 0:19:08- Doris Day.- What's the common name for the allergic skin condition urticaria?
0:19:08 > 0:19:12- Impetigo.- Nettle rash. Which female novelist wrote Castle Rackrent,
0:19:12 > 0:19:15first published in 1800? It has been described as
0:19:15 > 0:19:17the first true, historical novel in English.
0:19:17 > 0:19:18Pass.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21Which Surrey and England fast bowler had a grandfather Morris who played
0:19:21 > 0:19:24for Somerset and England and a father Tim who played for Hampshire?
0:19:24 > 0:19:26- Bedser.- No, Chris Tremlett.
0:19:26 > 0:19:30Allan Sherman's 1963 hit about a boy at summer camp writing to his parents
0:19:30 > 0:19:34is sung to Ponchielli's Dance Of The Hours. What is the song's title?
0:19:34 > 0:19:36- Pass.- The light, young wine, vino verde,
0:19:36 > 0:19:38is produced in the north of which country?
0:19:38 > 0:19:42- Italy.- Portugal. The Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool
0:19:42 > 0:19:45is mainly constructed from which locally quarried stone?
0:19:45 > 0:19:48- Granite.- Sandstone. What title now held by the elder son of the monarch
0:19:48 > 0:19:52was originally created for the feudal rulers of the Hebridean islands?
0:19:52 > 0:19:54- Lord of the Isles. - Lord of the Isles is correct.
0:19:54 > 0:20:00You had three passes. Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah was that Alan Sherman hit.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03Maria Edgeworth is often described as the first
0:20:03 > 0:20:06true historical novelist in English.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09And the Dylan Thomas poem, And Death Shall Have No Dominion.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12You have, Andrew Hunter, 22 points.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15APPLAUSE
0:20:21 > 0:20:23And John Snedden again now, please.
0:20:26 > 0:20:30And you also start with 12 points with your knowledge
0:20:30 > 0:20:35of Edward Jenner. Still 25 to beat. Two minutes, here we go.
0:20:35 > 0:20:39Which Australian-born opera singer has a peach dessert named after her?
0:20:39 > 0:20:42- Ellie Melba.- Which camel found in Central Asia has two humps?
0:20:42 > 0:20:46- Bactrian.- What's the literal meaning of the Latin expression "tempus fugit"?
0:20:46 > 0:20:50- Time flies.- Which type of nut has Spanish varieties
0:20:50 > 0:20:52including Valencia and Jordan?
0:20:52 > 0:20:54- Almond.- What expression for technicians and scientists
0:20:54 > 0:20:57who work anonymously was coined by Lord Beaverbrook
0:20:57 > 0:21:01in a speech in March 1941 to honour the unsung heroes of the war effort?
0:21:01 > 0:21:04- Pass.- The singer and pianist born in 1919 with the forenames
0:21:04 > 0:21:06Nathaniel Adams is better known by what name?
0:21:06 > 0:21:08- Nat King Cole.- Inveraray Castle in Scotland
0:21:08 > 0:21:10was the ancestral seat of which dukedom?
0:21:10 > 0:21:15- Argyll.- Which work by Giovanni Boccaccio consists of 100 tales
0:21:15 > 0:21:17told over ten days by ten young people
0:21:17 > 0:21:20who have fled plague-stricken Florence?
0:21:20 > 0:21:24- The Decameron.- Who painted the landscape Dedham Vale: Morning in 1811?
0:21:24 > 0:21:27- Constable.- Which city has two clubs in the rugby league super league
0:21:27 > 0:21:30and a football club that played in the Premier League
0:21:30 > 0:21:32for two seasons between 2008-2010?
0:21:32 > 0:21:34- Hull.- Which American president was born in 1833,
0:21:34 > 0:21:37seven years before the election of his grandfather,
0:21:37 > 0:21:39William Henry, to the Presidency?
0:21:39 > 0:21:43- McKinley.- Harrison. Who is the lover of Harlequin in the Harlequinade
0:21:43 > 0:21:47which is based on the Italian Commedia dell'Arte?
0:21:47 > 0:21:49- Pass.- Which dramatist wrote the plays
0:21:49 > 0:21:51Entertaining Mr Sloane, Loot and What The Butler Saw?
0:21:51 > 0:21:55- Joe Orton.- What name for the toxic substance used by South American Indians
0:21:55 > 0:21:59to tip arrows for hunting comes from an Indian word for poison?
0:21:59 > 0:22:00Pass.
0:22:00 > 0:22:04Who played the title role in the historical drama television series I, Claudius?
0:22:04 > 0:22:08- Derek Jacobi.- In which European country did women first win the right
0:22:08 > 0:22:12to vote in national elections in 1971 and in all local elections in 1990?
0:22:12 > 0:22:16- Ireland.- Switzerland. In geology, what name of Spanish origin is given to
0:22:16 > 0:22:20a large crater formed by the collapse of the central part of a volcano after eruption?
0:22:20 > 0:22:23- Cantera.- The Feast of the Annunciation on 25th March,
0:22:23 > 0:22:27one of the English quarter days, is known by what alternative name?
0:22:27 > 0:22:31- Lady Day.- Which 1963 film stars Jack Lemmon as a Paris policeman
0:22:31 > 0:22:33who tries to save the soul of the title character,
0:22:33 > 0:22:35a streetwalker, played by Shirley MacLaine?
0:22:35 > 0:22:38- BEEP Gigi.- No, Irma La Douce.
0:22:38 > 0:22:44And you have three passes. Curare is the name for that poison.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47Columbine or "Colum-bein" is the lover of Harlequin.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50And Beaverbrook came up with "backroom boys"
0:22:50 > 0:22:55to describe the unsung heroes. You have 25 points.
0:22:55 > 0:23:00APPLAUSE
0:23:04 > 0:23:09And finally, Nick Reed again, please.
0:23:09 > 0:23:13And you start out with 13 points with your knowledge of Wodehouse.
0:23:13 > 0:23:1525 is still the score to beat.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18Here we go. Two minutes, starting now. In athletics,
0:23:18 > 0:23:21which track event is sometimes known as the metric mile?
0:23:21 > 0:23:24- 1500 metres.- What Italian term is used for the speed
0:23:24 > 0:23:25at which piece of music is performed?
0:23:25 > 0:23:29- Tempo.- Which form of corporal punishment takes its name from the tree
0:23:29 > 0:23:32whose bundled twigs were generally used to carry it out?
0:23:32 > 0:23:35- Lynching.- Birching. Which organisation was founded
0:23:35 > 0:23:38when a group of environmental activists set sail from Vancouver
0:23:38 > 0:23:40to bear witness to American nuclear tests in Alaska?
0:23:40 > 0:23:43- Greenpeace. - Sir Henry Newbolt wrote a patriotic poem about a drum
0:23:43 > 0:23:46that would be heard again when England was in peril. Whose drum?
0:23:46 > 0:23:50- Drake's.- In which country are the cities of Kerman and Tabriz,
0:23:50 > 0:23:55particularly noted for the manufacture of carpets and floorcoverings?
0:23:55 > 0:23:58- Turkmenistan.- Iran. Which football club ended its 35-year period
0:23:58 > 0:24:00without a trophy when Yaya Toure scored
0:24:00 > 0:24:04the only goal in the 2011 FA Cup final against Stoke city?
0:24:04 > 0:24:07- Manchester City.- What's the order of aquatic mammals including whales, dolphins
0:24:07 > 0:24:09and porpoises and comes from the Latin for whale?
0:24:09 > 0:24:13- Cetaceous.- Which 19th-century American author, often referred to as
0:24:13 > 0:24:16the father of the detective story, wrote Murders In The Rue Morgue?
0:24:16 > 0:24:19- Raymond Chandler.- Poe. In which north African country
0:24:19 > 0:24:21did the Jasmine Revolution begin in January, 2011?
0:24:21 > 0:24:23The name was taken from the country's national flower.
0:24:23 > 0:24:28- Egypt.- Tunisia. Who sang You Can Call Me Al on his 1986 album, Graceland?
0:24:28 > 0:24:31- Paul Simon.- In The Iliad, which Trojan hero killed by Achilles
0:24:31 > 0:24:35was the son of King Priam and the husband of Andromache?
0:24:35 > 0:24:37- Paris.- Hector. In June 2011,
0:24:37 > 0:24:41which Nobel Peace Prize winner and pro-democracy campaigner revealed that she listened
0:24:41 > 0:24:44to Dave Lee Travis on the World Service while under house arrest?
0:24:44 > 0:24:47- Aung San Suu Kyi.- What's the most abundant element in the Earth's crust,
0:24:47 > 0:24:48consisting of nearly half of its mass?
0:24:48 > 0:24:54- Iron.- Oxygen. The RPS, founded in 1853, specialises in which art form?
0:24:54 > 0:24:58- Photography.- Which award-winning actor is the son of the man
0:24:58 > 0:25:00who was Poet Laureate from 1968 to '72?
0:25:00 > 0:25:03- Daniel Day Lewis. - What form of bread raised without yeast has been
0:25:03 > 0:25:06an Irish speciality since the late 19th century?
0:25:06 > 0:25:08- Soda bread.- Which comedian's novel The Death Of Eli Gold
0:25:08 > 0:25:10tells of family members gathering round
0:25:10 > 0:25:12the hospital bed of an eminent elderly novelist?
0:25:12 > 0:25:17- David Baddiel.- On which island is Kealakekua Bay where Captain Cook was killed...
0:25:17 > 0:25:19- BEEP - ..on 14th February, 1779?
0:25:21 > 0:25:25- Tahiti.- Hawaii.
0:25:25 > 0:25:28An important point, that. No passes.
0:25:28 > 0:25:29Nick Reed, you have...
0:25:29 > 0:25:32You know what I'm going to say, 25 points.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35APPLAUSE
0:25:41 > 0:25:44Well, I said it was going to be close.
0:25:44 > 0:25:48Let's have a look at those scores. In fifth place, with 22 points, Andrew Hunter.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51Fourth place, 23 points, Malcolm Sumner.
0:25:51 > 0:25:56Third place with 25 points and three passes, John Snedden.
0:25:56 > 0:26:01Joint first place with 25 points and no passes,
0:26:01 > 0:26:03Gareth Kingston and Nick Reed.
0:26:03 > 0:26:08APPLAUSE
0:26:08 > 0:26:11Which means, most unusually, we have a tie-break.
0:26:11 > 0:26:15So, I'll read the same five questions to each of the contenders
0:26:15 > 0:26:18and the one with the highest score will win
0:26:18 > 0:26:20and we're not against the clock this time.
0:26:20 > 0:26:22So, let me ask Nick Reed to leave the studio
0:26:22 > 0:26:24so he can't hear the questions
0:26:24 > 0:26:28and Gareth Kingston to come to the chair, if he would, please.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38So five questions. As I say, you're not against the clock,
0:26:38 > 0:26:41but you do have to answer the question immediately,
0:26:41 > 0:26:43otherwise it's considered to be the wrong answer. Here we go.
0:26:43 > 0:26:47The popular Humming Chorus is from which opera by Puccini?
0:26:48 > 0:26:51- Turandot.- No, Madame Butterfly. Who served as George Washington's
0:26:51 > 0:26:53vice president during his two terms of office?
0:26:53 > 0:26:57- Johnson.- John Adams. Noble rot is a form of fungus that can affect which fruit,
0:26:57 > 0:26:59shrivelling it, rather than rotting it?
0:26:59 > 0:27:02- Apple.- Grapes. Which island in the mouth of the Firth of Clyde
0:27:02 > 0:27:06is sometimes called "Scotland in miniature" because of the variety of its scenery?
0:27:06 > 0:27:10- Staffa.- Arran. Who won the 1995 Booker Prize with the Ghost Road,
0:27:10 > 0:27:13the third in her trilogy of First World War novels?
0:27:13 > 0:27:16- Pat Barker.- Is correct. Those are your five questions.
0:27:16 > 0:27:18Can I ask you please to go back to your seat?
0:27:18 > 0:27:21APPLAUSE
0:27:25 > 0:27:28And now Nick Reed, who's been waiting outside,
0:27:28 > 0:27:29join us again, please.
0:27:31 > 0:27:34Your five questions. You're not allowed to pause,
0:27:34 > 0:27:35even though you're not against the clock.
0:27:35 > 0:27:39The popular Humming Chorus is from which opera by Puccini?
0:27:39 > 0:27:42- Tosca.- Madame Butterfly. Who served as George Washington's
0:27:42 > 0:27:45vice president during his two terms of office?
0:27:45 > 0:27:48- John Adams.- Noble rot is a form of fungus that can affect which fruit,
0:27:48 > 0:27:51shrivelling it, rather than actually rotting it?
0:27:52 > 0:27:56- Answer, please.- I don't know. - Which island at the mouth of the Firth of Clyde
0:27:56 > 0:27:59is sometimes called "Scotland in miniature" because of the variety of its scenery?
0:27:59 > 0:28:02- Arran.- Who won the 1995 Booker Prize with the Ghost Road,
0:28:02 > 0:28:05the third in her trilogy of first world war novels?
0:28:07 > 0:28:11- Barker.- Pat Barker is correct. Nick Reed, thank you.
0:28:11 > 0:28:15APPLAUSE
0:28:19 > 0:28:23So, at the end of that tie-break, we have a winner.
0:28:23 > 0:28:26With 26 points, Gareth Kingston.
0:28:26 > 0:28:30But with 28 points, Nick Reed.
0:28:30 > 0:28:33APPLAUSE
0:28:38 > 0:28:43Which means that Nick Reed claims a place in the grand final.
0:28:43 > 0:28:45Congratulations to him.
0:28:45 > 0:28:48And do please join us next time for another semi-final
0:28:48 > 0:28:51and more masterminds. Thanks for watching. Goodbye.
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