Episode 26 Mastermind

In the spotlight tonight, Gareth Kingston,

a marketing manager from Flitwick.

His subject, the legendary football manager Herbert Chapman.

Next, Malcolm Sumner, a teacher from Cheltenham.

His subject, Benjamin Disraeli.

Andrew Hunter, a computer consultant from Grimsby,

will be answering questions on the railways of Great Britain.

John Snedden, a teacher from the Forest of Dean.

His subject, the scientist Edward Jenner.

And Nick Reed, a house-husband from Crowborough.

His subject, the Blandings stories of PG Wodehouse.

APPLAUSE

Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.

Five contenders are about to compete for a place

in this year's Grand Final.

From the black chair, they will face a minute and a half of questions

on their specialist subject,

and 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.

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

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your specialist subject.

Herbert Chapman. 90 seconds starting now.

Chapman was the manager of which football club when he won

the first of his two FA Cups and four league titles?

-Huddersfield Town.

-Who turned down the manager's post

at Northampton Town in 1907

and advised Chapman, his team mate at the time,

to apply for the position instead?

-Walter Bull.

-What was the occupation

of Chapman's wife, Annie, who sparked a controversy in 1905

when she continued to work despite having a husband

earning four pounds a week?

-Teacher.

-Which player did Chapman recruit

from Aston Villa in 1921?

He became captain at Huddersfield Town.

-Clem Stephenson.

-In which publication

did he see the advert placed by Arsenal on 11th May 1925

asking for applications for the position of team manager?

Athletic News.

In 1928, he signed a player for £10,890.

Chapman described it as "one of the best bargains I ever made."

Who was the player?

-David Jack.

-In which subject did he gain

a First Class Diploma while he was playing football as an amateur,

so that he always had a trade to fall back on?

-Mining engineering.

-At which ground

did Huddersfield Town defeat Preston North End to win the FA Cup in 1922?

-Stamford Bridge.

-Which Leeds City full back

informed the authorities of illegal payments to players

which led to Chapman receiving a life ban from the game in 1919?

-Charles Copeland.

-For which company did he work as a superintendent

from 1919 till shortly before his ban from football was lifted

and he became the manager of Huddersfield Town?

The Olympia Oil and Coke Plant.

Yes, or Joseph Watson and Sons.

Which French team did Chapman's Arsenal play

on Armistice Day each year from 1930 onwards?

Erm...Racing Club de Paris.

Which cup final tradition involving the players

did Chapman convince the FA to introduce for the 1930 match

between Arsenal and Huddersfield Town?

Teams walking out together.

The teams walking out together is absolutely right.

You had no passes. You got 'em all correct.

Gareth Kingston, you have 12 points.

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And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your specialist subject.

Benjamin Disraeli in a minute and a half, starting now.

For which constituency was Disraeli

first elected to Parliament in 1837?

-Maidstone.

-What title did he take

when he was ennobled by Queen Victoria in 1876?

-Earl of Beaconsfield.

-What was the name of the wealthy older widow

whom he married in August 1839?

-Mary Anne Wyndham Evans.

-Yes, or Mary Anne Lewis.

Whose sudden death in September 1848

ultimately led to Disraeli becoming the leader

of the Conservative Party in the House of Commons?

-Lord Derby.

-Lord Bentinck. What was the title

of Disraeli's first novel,

which he wrote in 1824 but never published?

Vivian Grey.

The Adventures of Mr Aylmer Papillon.

By what fanciful name did he sometimes refer to Queen Victoria

in a romantic allusion to Edmund Spenser?

-The Faery.

-After standing unsuccessfully for Taunton,

Disraeli challenged which Irish MP to a duel?

He then challenged his son, but neither would accept.

-O'Connell.

-When Disraeli lay dying

and was asked if he'd like Queen Victoria to visit him,

he replied, "Better not. She'd only ask me to take a message to..." who?

-Prince Albert.

-In his last novel, Endymion,

who is portrayed as Count Ferroll?

-Bismarck.

-In 1875, when Disraeli arranged for Britain

to buy the Khedive of Egypt's shares in the Suez Canal,

which banker agreed to loan the money to the government?

Rothschild.

Whom did he appoint as Viceroy of India in 1876?

-Mayo.

-Earl Lytton. What did Disraeli say

he hoped he'd brought back from the Congress of Berlin,

in a famous phrase that would later be used by another Prime Minister?

-Peace with honour.

-Lord Derby's 1852 government was known by what name,

from the response of the elderly and increasingly deaf Duke of Wellington

when he was told the names of its members?

The "Who? Who?" Ministry.

After the death of his wife in 1872,

Disraeli fell in love with Lady Selina Bradford,

a 54-year-old married woman, though he eventually proposed

to her older sister. What was her name?

Lady Chesterfield.

Is correct. No passes.

Michael Sumner, you have 11 points.

APPLAUSE

And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your specialist subject.

Railways in the 20th century, minute and a half starting now.

The Railways Act of 1921 grouped railways into four companies.

Which of these was the only one in existence at the time?

-Great Western.

-Which tunnel through the Pennines

was completed in 1954,

only to become redundant in '81 when the line was closed?

-Woodhead.

-What is the name of the incline between Grantham and Peterborough

down which Mallard set a record of 126 mph

for a steam engine in 1938?

-Stoke Bank.

-Britain's worst railway disaster

involved five trains and the deaths of over 200 people in 1915.

It took place at which signal box?

-Quintinshill.

-In which city was the so-called

Docker's Umbrella, the first elevated

urban electric railway in Britain? It closed in 1956.

Liverpool.

What was Dr Beeching's first report

on the railways' future that came out in March '63?

It led to large-scale line closures.

The Reshaping of British Railways.

Who was successively Chairman of the Highland Railway,

the North British Railway and the LNER?

-William Whitelaw.

-British Railways' emblem that appeared

on locomotives after nationalisation

featured what animal standing over a wheel?

A lion.

The general manager of the Southern Railway from 1923 to '37

drove forward the railway's electrification programme. What was his name?

-Herbert Walker.

-Who designed City of Truro, the locomotive

unofficially credited with being the first

to haul a train at over 100 mph, in 1904?

-Churchward.

-Which company, whose main line ran

from Carnforth to Whitehaven

was the smallest of the companies

that formed the LMS in 1923?

-Maryport & Carlisle.

-Furness Railway.

In which town was Evening Star completed in 1960?

It was the last steam engine built for British Railways.

-Swindon.

-Which company, part of the English Electric group,

built the Deltic diesel engines

fitted to locomotives that operated on the East Coast main line

from 1961 to 1982?

Napier.

Napier is correct.

You have no passes and 12 points.

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And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your specialist subject.

Edward Jenner, starting now.

Jenner was a pioneer of vaccination against smallpox

by inoculating people with which other disease?

-Cowpox.

-From which institution did Jenner

obtain his medical degree in 1792?

-St Andrews.

-Who was his tutor at St George's Hospital

from 1770, and wrote to him for years afterwards?

At his request Jenner carried out experiments

such as measuring the temperature of hedgehogs.

-John Hunter.

-What was the name of the dairymaid

from whom Jenner took the cowpox matter

with which he vaccinated an 8-year-old boy in May 1796?

-Sarah Nelmes.

-As a student in the 1770s,

he helped Joseph Banks to classify specimens

collected during the voyage of which ship?

-The Endeavour.

-The first edition of Jenner's

"Inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolae vaccinae"

was dedicated to which physician?

Caleb Parry.

Whose dairy in Gray's Inn Road

did Dr William Woodville visit in January 1799

in order to collect cowpox to test

Jenner's vaccination claims?

-Robert Tanner?

-Mr Harrison's.

From what disease did his son Edward die in 1810, at the age of 21?

Tuberculosis.

The fossil remains of which prehistoric reptile

were discovered by Jenner at the foot

of Stinchcombe Hill, Gloucestershire, in 1819?

-Plesiosaurus.

-In 1783 at Berkeley Castle,

Jenner staged a demonstration

of a recently developed form of transport. What was it?

It was a hot air balloon.

In 1802, the House of Commons voted

to grant Jenner a payment in recognition

of his work on vaccination.

What amount of money was he given?

-£10,000.

-At which tavern in Alveston

did he meet with colleagues and friends

in the Convivio-Medical Society?

-The Ship Inn.

-In 1787, Jenner presented a paper

to the Royal Society on the nesting habits of which bird?

Cuckoo?

Is correct. No passes for you either.

You also, John Snedden, have 12 points.

APPLAUSE

And our final contender, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your specialist subject.

The Blandings stories, starting now.

Blandings Castle, described as "a noble pile of early Tudor building,"

is in which English county?

-Shropshire.

-In Lord Emsworth Acts For The Best,

butler Beach considers handing in his notice

after 18 years of service.

What's the Earl done that's upset him so much?

-Grown a beard.

-Ashe Marson, Lavender Briggs,

Monty Bodkin and Joan Valentine have all worked

for which publishing house off Fleet Street?

-Mammoth.

-For what reason is Gladys's brother Ern

banned from the Blandings Parva School Treat?

Biting Lady Constance in the leg.

Who is the author of The Care of the Pig,

a book that Lord Emsworth turns to when he is stressed?

-Whiffle.

-In Service With A Smile, Lord Ickenham says

he's not seen his friend James Schoonmaker for many years,

because of what unfortunate habit

that many Americans develop?

Living in America.

How many times is the unpopular Baxter shot with an air gun

by various members of the household, including the butler?

-Four.

-In The Go-Getter,

what's the name of the Crooning Tenor,

whose only means of livelihood

consists of "intermittent engagements with the BBC"?

-Orlo Watkins.

-What's the title

of the Blandings novel Wodehouse was working on when he died?

It was published posthumously in 1977?

Sunset At Blandings.

What sight distracts Edward Cootes long enough

for Smith to hit him over the head and take his pistol?

Er, Freddie Threepwood's leg coming through the ceiling.

What "gruesome sound" does Beefy Bingham hear

that makes him think Lord Emsworth is in trouble?

Him singing.

On Visitors' Day the prize pig is thought to have swine fever.

What's actually wrong with her?

-She's drunk.

-What does Baxter do

in Leave It To Smith that finally

causes Lord Emsworth to fire him?

Throw flowerpots through his window.

Tubby Parsloe realises that Maudie Stubbs

is still the woman for him when he sees her enjoying a dessert

of whipped cream, egg white, powdered sugar,

seeded grapes, shredded coconut and orange gelatin.

What is the name of the dessert?

-Orange Passion.

-Well, it was a noble attempt.

It was actually Ambrosia Chiffon Pie.

Nonetheless, no passes. 13 points.

APPLAUSE

Well, a very close round there. Let's have a look at those scores.

In fifth place, with 11 points, Malcolm Sumner.

Joint second place, 12 points apiece,

Gareth Kingston, Andrew Hunter and John Snedden.

In the lead, just, 13 points. Nick Reed.

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Round Two now, General Knowledge.

If there is a tie at the end of this round, which there might well be,

the way we're going, then the number of passes is taken into account,

and the contender with the fewer passes is the winner.

If they're tied on passes as well, there will be a tie-break.

So, let's get on with it and ask Malcolm Sumner

to join us again, please.

And you scored 11 points with your knowledge of Disraeli.

Let's see how you do with your general knowledge.

In Greek mythology, which Olympian god was king of the sea?

-Poseidon.

-Which reggae star, born in Jamaica in 1945,

had the middle name Nesta?

-Bob Marley.

-Who wrote the poems Buckingham Palace,

King John's Christmas and Us Two?

-AA Milne?

-Yes.

Joaquin Rodrigo composed his Concierto De Aranjuez

for which solo stringed instrument with orchestra?

-Guitar.

-In theoretical physics,

a theory that unifies the fundamental forces of nature

is known as a TOE. What do these letters stand for?

-Theory of Everything.

-What name is shared by a freshwater fish

of the salmon family and a species of brownish butterfly?

-Skipper?

-Grayling.

Which range of hills, that extend north-west

from near Taunton to the Bristol Channel,

reach their highest point at Will's Neck,

some 1260 feet above sea level?

-Quantocks.

-Who, controversially, did not win

the Pulitzer Prize in '74 with Gravity's Rainbow, set in the devastated Europe

of the Second World War?

-Pynchon.

-Which country is almost entirely surrounded by India,

except in its south-eastern corner

where it has a border with Burma?

-Bangladesh.

-Which Irish-born former sports commentator

was the first subject of the television show This Is Your Life,

a show he went on to present?

-Eamonn Andrews.

-Whom did Henry V marry in 1420,

after the Treaty of Troyes had acknowledged him

as the heir to the French throne?

-Catherine of Valois.

-The name of which small, thin sausage is derived

from the Italian word for onion?

-Mortadella.

-Chipolata.

In the 1978 film The Boys from Brazil,

which Nazi war criminal was played by Gregory Peck?

-Hitler.

-Mengele. What is traditionally the last event

of the Wimbledon Tennis fortnight?

-The Men's Singles.

-No, the Mixed Doubles Final.

Which country's flag consists of a blue cross

outlined in white on a red background,

with the vertical part of the cross

shifted to the hoist side?

-Iceland.

-Norway.

In Gulliver's Travels, what is the name of the ship

on which Gulliver is shipwrecked on Lilliput?

-The Antelope.

-What position did the appropriately named

Sir Igor Judge take up on the 1st of October 2008?

BEEP Lord Chief Justice.

Is correct.

No passes. You have a total, Malcolm Sumner, of 23 points.

APPLAUSE

And Gareth Kingston again now, please.

And you start out with 12 points with your knowledge of Herbert Chapman.

23 the score to beat. Two minutes of general knowledge starting now.

The femur is the medical term for which bone?

-The thigh.

-What colour does litmus paper turn in acid solutions?

-Red.

-What word for a building in a sports ground in which players change their clothes

and store equipment comes from the Latin for a butterfly?

-Pavilion.

-Which Scottish musician who's commissioned

dozens of new works for percussion became profoundly deaf?

-Glennie.

-What common metal was introduced to the public

at the Paris Exposition of 1855 where it was regarded as a new precious metal?

-Stainless steel.

-Aluminium. Which box-like structure used in

underwater construction work gives its name

to an alternative term for decompression sickness?

-Bends.

-Caisson. Which Formula One team, one of the oldest in the sport today,

is named after the New Zealand driver who founded it in 1963?

-Lotus.

-McLaren.

What term used to describe the virtual reality generated by computers

was coined by the science fiction writer William Gibson

and popularised in his 1984 novel, Neuromancer?

-Cyberspace.

-Which London-born actor

played the part of the electrician Barry Taylor in Auf Wiedersehen Pet

and features as Peter Pettigrew in the Harry Potter films?

-Spall.

-The first three letters of which alphabet are

Aleph, Beth and Gimmel?

-Jewish.

-Or Hebrew. What name for the war of 1739 between England and Spain

referred to an incident in 1731 where a British sea captain had a part

of his anatomy removed by Spanish coastguards who'd boarded his ship?

-Jenkins' ear.

-Which heavy metal band formed in the mid-70s

by Steve Harris is named after a mediaeval instrument of torture?

Iron Maiden.

In Thomas Gray's poem lamenting the death of his favourite cat Selima,

what fish were in the tub in which she drowned?

-Perch.

-Goldfish. Vaclav is the Czech form of what name,

that of the patron saint of the Czech Republic?

-Wenceslas.

-Which marine snails have highly-coloured shells

widely used as money in parts of Africa and Asia and also as decoration?

-Escargot.

-Cowries. Which historic city on the Adriatic coast

has a name meaning "oak forest" in Croatian?

-Dubrovnik.

-What name's given to a painting or carving on three panels

hinged together to form a single work of art?

-Triptych.

-The shop steward Derek Robinson, also named as Red Robbo,

achieved notoriety in the 1970s for his activities...

-BEEP

-..at which car plant in the Midlands?

-Longbridge.

-Is correct. No passes.

Gareth Kingston, you now have 25 points.

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And Andrew Hunter again now, please.

You also start out with 12 points with your knowledge of railways.

As you know, you have 25 to beat. Let's see if you can do it.

Two minutes, general knowledge. What name's given

to the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse?

-Mule.

-Which river, the longest in Ireland,

enters the Atlantic Ocean through an estuary below Limerick?

-Shannon.

-Which bravery award was originally made from the metal of guns

captured at the siege of Sebastopol during the Crimean War?

-Victoria Cross.

-In painting and decorating, what word of French origin

is used to describe a dull, non-glossy finish?

-Matt.

-Which Norwegian National Park and mountain range

is named after the Land of the Giants in Norse mythology?

-Fjordland.

-Jotunheimen. Which actor, best known for his television role

as an overweight detective, played the gang member Dim

in A Clockwork Orange earlier in his career?

-Frank Cannon.

-Warren Clarke. What's the title and the first line of the poem

by Dylan Thomas that continues, "Dead men naked

"they shall be one with the man in the wind and the west moon?"

Pass.

In which European city are the Charlottenburg Palace

and the Tivoli Pleasure Gardens?

-Copenhagen.

-Which outlaw's square helmet that featured in paintings of him

by Sidney Nolan is an iconic image in Australia?

-Ned Kelly.

-What name for a variable resistor used to adjust electrical current

comes from a combination of the Greek for stream and "to cause to stand"?

-Rheostat.

-Alfred the Great was the king of which Anglo-Saxon kingdom?

-Wessex.

-Which singer and actress starred

in the musical films Calamity Jane and Young At Heart?

-Doris Day.

-What's the common name for the allergic skin condition urticaria?

-Impetigo.

-Nettle rash. Which female novelist wrote Castle Rackrent,

first published in 1800? It has been described as

the first true, historical novel in English.

Pass.

Which Surrey and England fast bowler had a grandfather Morris who played

for Somerset and England and a father Tim who played for Hampshire?

-Bedser.

-No, Chris Tremlett.

Allan Sherman's 1963 hit about a boy at summer camp writing to his parents

is sung to Ponchielli's Dance Of The Hours. What is the song's title?

-Pass.

-The light, young wine, vino verde,

is produced in the north of which country?

-Italy.

-Portugal. The Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool

is mainly constructed from which locally quarried stone?

-Granite.

-Sandstone. What title now held by the elder son of the monarch

was originally created for the feudal rulers of the Hebridean islands?

-Lord of the Isles.

-Lord of the Isles is correct.

You had three passes. Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah was that Alan Sherman hit.

Maria Edgeworth is often described as the first

true historical novelist in English.

And the Dylan Thomas poem, And Death Shall Have No Dominion.

You have, Andrew Hunter, 22 points.

APPLAUSE

And John Snedden again now, please.

And you also start with 12 points with your knowledge

of Edward Jenner. Still 25 to beat. Two minutes, here we go.

Which Australian-born opera singer has a peach dessert named after her?

-Ellie Melba.

-Which camel found in Central Asia has two humps?

-Bactrian.

-What's the literal meaning of the Latin expression "tempus fugit"?

-Time flies.

-Which type of nut has Spanish varieties

including Valencia and Jordan?

-Almond.

-What expression for technicians and scientists

who work anonymously was coined by Lord Beaverbrook

in a speech in March 1941 to honour the unsung heroes of the war effort?

-Pass.

-The singer and pianist born in 1919 with the forenames

Nathaniel Adams is better known by what name?

-Nat King Cole.

-Inveraray Castle in Scotland

was the ancestral seat of which dukedom?

-Argyll.

-Which work by Giovanni Boccaccio consists of 100 tales

told over ten days by ten young people

who have fled plague-stricken Florence?

-The Decameron.

-Who painted the landscape Dedham Vale: Morning in 1811?

-Constable.

-Which city has two clubs in the rugby league super league

and a football club that played in the Premier League

for two seasons between 2008-2010?

-Hull.

-Which American president was born in 1833,

seven years before the election of his grandfather,

William Henry, to the Presidency?

-McKinley.

-Harrison. Who is the lover of Harlequin in the Harlequinade

which is based on the Italian Commedia dell'Arte?

-Pass.

-Which dramatist wrote the plays

Entertaining Mr Sloane, Loot and What The Butler Saw?

-Joe Orton.

-What name for the toxic substance used by South American Indians

to tip arrows for hunting comes from an Indian word for poison?

Pass.

Who played the title role in the historical drama television series I, Claudius?

-Derek Jacobi.

-In which European country did women first win the right

to vote in national elections in 1971 and in all local elections in 1990?

-Ireland.

-Switzerland. In geology, what name of Spanish origin is given to

a large crater formed by the collapse of the central part of a volcano after eruption?

-Cantera.

-The Feast of the Annunciation on 25th March,

one of the English quarter days, is known by what alternative name?

-Lady Day.

-Which 1963 film stars Jack Lemmon as a Paris policeman

who tries to save the soul of the title character,

a streetwalker, played by Shirley MacLaine?

-BEEP Gigi.

-No, Irma La Douce.

And you have three passes. Curare is the name for that poison.

Columbine or "Colum-bein" is the lover of Harlequin.

And Beaverbrook came up with "backroom boys"

to describe the unsung heroes. You have 25 points.

APPLAUSE

And finally, Nick Reed again, please.

And you start out with 13 points with your knowledge of Wodehouse.

25 is still the score to beat.

Here we go. Two minutes, starting now. In athletics,

which track event is sometimes known as the metric mile?

-1500 metres.

-What Italian term is used for the speed

at which piece of music is performed?

-Tempo.

-Which form of corporal punishment takes its name from the tree

whose bundled twigs were generally used to carry it out?

-Lynching.

-Birching. Which organisation was founded

when a group of environmental activists set sail from Vancouver

to bear witness to American nuclear tests in Alaska?

-Greenpeace.

-Sir Henry Newbolt wrote a patriotic poem about a drum

that would be heard again when England was in peril. Whose drum?

-Drake's.

-In which country are the cities of Kerman and Tabriz,

particularly noted for the manufacture of carpets and floorcoverings?

-Turkmenistan.

-Iran. Which football club ended its 35-year period

without a trophy when Yaya Toure scored

the only goal in the 2011 FA Cup final against Stoke city?

-Manchester City.

-What's the order of aquatic mammals including whales, dolphins

and porpoises and comes from the Latin for whale?

-Cetaceous.

-Which 19th-century American author, often referred to as

the father of the detective story, wrote Murders In The Rue Morgue?

-Raymond Chandler.

-Poe. In which north African country

did the Jasmine Revolution begin in January, 2011?

The name was taken from the country's national flower.

-Egypt.

-Tunisia. Who sang You Can Call Me Al on his 1986 album, Graceland?

-Paul Simon.

-In The Iliad, which Trojan hero killed by Achilles

was the son of King Priam and the husband of Andromache?

-Paris.

-Hector. In June 2011,

which Nobel Peace Prize winner and pro-democracy campaigner revealed that she listened

to Dave Lee Travis on the World Service while under house arrest?

-Aung San Suu Kyi.

-What's the most abundant element in the Earth's crust,

consisting of nearly half of its mass?

-Iron.

-Oxygen. The RPS, founded in 1853, specialises in which art form?

-Photography.

-Which award-winning actor is the son of the man

who was Poet Laureate from 1968 to '72?

-Daniel Day Lewis.

-What form of bread raised without yeast has been

an Irish speciality since the late 19th century?

-Soda bread.

-Which comedian's novel The Death Of Eli Gold

tells of family members gathering round

the hospital bed of an eminent elderly novelist?

-David Baddiel.

-On which island is Kealakekua Bay where Captain Cook was killed...

-BEEP

-..on 14th February, 1779?

-Tahiti.

-Hawaii.

An important point, that. No passes.

Nick Reed, you have...

You know what I'm going to say, 25 points.

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Well, I said it was going to be close.

Let's have a look at those scores. In fifth place, with 22 points, Andrew Hunter.

Fourth place, 23 points, Malcolm Sumner.

Third place with 25 points and three passes, John Snedden.

Joint first place with 25 points and no passes,

Gareth Kingston and Nick Reed.

APPLAUSE

Which means, most unusually, we have a tie-break.

So, I'll read the same five questions to each of the contenders

and the one with the highest score will win

and we're not against the clock this time.

So, let me ask Nick Reed to leave the studio

so he can't hear the questions

and Gareth Kingston to come to the chair, if he would, please.

So five questions. As I say, you're not against the clock,

but you do have to answer the question immediately,

otherwise it's considered to be the wrong answer. Here we go.

The popular Humming Chorus is from which opera by Puccini?

-Turandot.

-No, Madame Butterfly. Who served as George Washington's

vice president during his two terms of office?

-Johnson.

-John Adams. Noble rot is a form of fungus that can affect which fruit,

shrivelling it, rather than rotting it?

-Apple.

-Grapes. Which island in the mouth of the Firth of Clyde

is sometimes called "Scotland in miniature" because of the variety of its scenery?

-Staffa.

-Arran. Who won the 1995 Booker Prize with the Ghost Road,

the third in her trilogy of First World War novels?

-Pat Barker.

-Is correct. Those are your five questions.

Can I ask you please to go back to your seat?

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And now Nick Reed, who's been waiting outside,

join us again, please.

Your five questions. You're not allowed to pause,

even though you're not against the clock.

The popular Humming Chorus is from which opera by Puccini?

-Tosca.

-Madame Butterfly. Who served as George Washington's

vice president during his two terms of office?

-John Adams.

-Noble rot is a form of fungus that can affect which fruit,

shrivelling it, rather than actually rotting it?

-Answer, please.

-I don't know.

-Which island at the mouth of the Firth of Clyde

is sometimes called "Scotland in miniature" because of the variety of its scenery?

-Arran.

-Who won the 1995 Booker Prize with the Ghost Road,

the third in her trilogy of first world war novels?

-Barker.

-Pat Barker is correct. Nick Reed, thank you.

APPLAUSE

So, at the end of that tie-break, we have a winner.

With 26 points, Gareth Kingston.

But with 28 points, Nick Reed.

APPLAUSE

Which means that Nick Reed claims a place in the grand final.

Congratulations to him.

And do please join us next time for another semi-final

and more masterminds. Thanks for watching. Goodbye.

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