0:00:22 > 0:00:26First in the spotlight tonight is Charlie Tinsley,
0:00:26 > 0:00:30a doctor from London, his subject, Geoffrey Boycott.
0:00:30 > 0:00:35Next, Mark Kirby, a student from Maidstone, his subject, the animated series Futurama.
0:00:35 > 0:00:40Aileen Lucas is a teacher from Louth and she'll be answering questions on Graham Greene.
0:00:40 > 0:00:46And Sean Howley, a garage proprietor from Cambridgeshire, his subject, US Military Aircraft.
0:00:47 > 0:00:49APPLAUSE
0:01:00 > 0:01:03Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.
0:01:03 > 0:01:07This is the quiz show that does not take prisoners.
0:01:07 > 0:01:10The rules are simple, but no quarter is given.
0:01:10 > 0:01:15The contenders get 2 minutes on their specialist subject and 2½ minutes on general knowledge.
0:01:15 > 0:01:19Hesitation can prove fatal. The prize is modest, just a glass bowl,
0:01:19 > 0:01:23but the honour of becoming the nation's Mastermind is priceless,
0:01:23 > 0:01:27so let's get on with it and ask our first contender to join us.
0:01:41 > 0:01:46Two minutes. In 1977, at which ground did Boycott reach his 100th first class century,
0:01:46 > 0:01:48the first to do so in a Test match?
0:01:48 > 0:01:53- Headingley.- In which government office in Barnsley did Boycott work as a clerical officer
0:01:53 > 0:01:56before he became a professional cricketer?
0:01:56 > 0:02:02- Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance.- He twice had a batting average of over 100 in a season,
0:02:02 > 0:02:04in 1971 and in which other year?
0:02:04 > 0:02:09- 1983.- 1979. Who was sacked as Yorkshire's captain at the end of the 1970 season,
0:02:09 > 0:02:12leading to Boycott being appointed to the position?
0:02:12 > 0:02:18- Brian Close.- As a teenager, Boycott played a handful of games for which football club's under-18 team?
0:02:18 > 0:02:24- Leeds.- Who was Chairman of Selectors when Boycott was dropped from the Test team for scoring too slowly
0:02:24 > 0:02:28in his 246 not out in the first Test against India in 1967?
0:02:30 > 0:02:32- Brian Bolus.- Doug Insole.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35In his match commentary for a Test played in January 2012,
0:02:35 > 0:02:41Boycott said he would sell his three houses if England did not win. They did lose to which country?
0:02:41 > 0:02:45- West Indies.- Pakistan. He lived with his mother in a terraced house
0:02:45 > 0:02:49in the former mining village of Fitzwilliam until her death in 1978.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52What was the name of the street they lived on?
0:02:52 > 0:02:58- Milton Terrace.- Boycott was famously out for a duck against the West Indies at Bridgetown in 1981
0:02:58 > 0:03:02when he was bowled by the final ball of a rapid over from which bowler?
0:03:02 > 0:03:05- Michael Holding.- In 2008, Boycott stated in The Daily Telegraph
0:03:05 > 0:03:08that team huddles before play should stop.
0:03:08 > 0:03:13He said, "It's cosmetic and done for the cameras, it's like big girls before" what?
0:03:14 > 0:03:16Pass.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19In 1998, Boycott was found guilty in a French court
0:03:19 > 0:03:23of assaulting which ex-girlfriend, an accusation he denied?
0:03:23 > 0:03:29- Margaret Moore.- Which South African team did Boycott briefly play for in the 1971-72 season,
0:03:29 > 0:03:32for whom he scored a century against Rhodesia?
0:03:32 > 0:03:37- Northern Transvaal.- In December 1981, whose record of most runs in Test matches did he beat
0:03:37 > 0:03:41while he was playing in the Third Test against India?
0:03:42 > 0:03:44BEEP
0:03:45 > 0:03:47Take a guess. You're out of time.
0:03:47 > 0:03:50- Sunil Gavaskar.- It was Garry Sobers.
0:03:51 > 0:03:54One pass you had. He said, "It is cosmetic," the huddles,
0:03:54 > 0:03:59"and done for the cameras. It's like big girls before a hockey match."
0:03:59 > 0:04:02One pass, Charlie, you have 8 points.
0:04:02 > 0:04:04APPLAUSE
0:04:11 > 0:04:13And our next contender, please.
0:04:28 > 0:04:33Two minutes. In the animated sitcom Futurama, what is the intergalactic delivery company
0:04:33 > 0:04:39owned by Professor Farnsworth for which Fry, the one-eyed alien Leela and the robot Bender work?
0:04:39 > 0:04:43- Planet Express. - Where does Fry deliver a pizza on New Year's Eve 1999?
0:04:43 > 0:04:47It results in him accidentally being frozen for 1,000 years.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50- Applied Cryogenics.- In the film The Beast With A Billion Backs,
0:04:50 > 0:04:54what game does Farnsworth's crew play against Wernstrom's students
0:04:54 > 0:04:57to decide who can explore the cosmic anomaly?
0:04:57 > 0:05:02- Murderball.- Deathball. Who created and co-developed the series Futurama with David X Cohen?
0:05:02 > 0:05:08- Matt Groening.- In the episode Jurassic Bark, what is the name of Fry's dog who has become fossilised?
0:05:08 > 0:05:11His attempt to clone it makes Bender jealous.
0:05:11 > 0:05:16- Seymour.- The lobster-like ship's doctor, John Zoidberg, comes from which planet?
0:05:16 > 0:05:22- Decapod 10.- In the episode A Big Piece Of Garbage, Fry finds a pile of dolls in the "garbage ball"
0:05:22 > 0:05:27that was launched into space in the 21st century. Which cartoon character do the dolls look like?
0:05:27 > 0:05:32- Bart Simpson.- In the film Into The Wild Green Yonder, what is the name of the janitor
0:05:32 > 0:05:37who with the Professor, Hermes and Zoidberg frees Leela, Amy and LaBarbara from prison?
0:05:37 > 0:05:43- Scruffy.- In the episode The Luck Of The Fryrish, what move does Fry perform to outdo his brother Yancy
0:05:43 > 0:05:47and show off to the beat-boxer Noticeably F.A.T and the crew?
0:05:48 > 0:05:53- Is it a sextuple head spin? - A septuple head spin, but I'll accept that.
0:05:53 > 0:05:57Professor Farnsworth takes the Planet Express crew on holiday
0:05:57 > 0:06:00on the "most luxurious space cruise ship ever built". What's it called?
0:06:00 > 0:06:06- Titanic.- In Series 3, Leela and Amy go on a double date that Leela calls a half date with Zapp and Kif.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08To which restaurant do they go?
0:06:08 > 0:06:12- Elzar's?- Le Palm D'Orbit. What is the name of the ceremony on Decapod 10
0:06:12 > 0:06:16in which Decapodians fight to the death over matters of honour
0:06:16 > 0:06:20and over questions like "do abbreviations count in Scrabble"?
0:06:20 > 0:06:24- Claw-Plach.- Which ancient, sunken city does the crew of the Planet Express discover
0:06:24 > 0:06:28when Fry meets a mermaid called Umbriel in The Deep South?
0:06:28 > 0:06:31- Atlanta.- In which pizzeria... - BEEP
0:06:31 > 0:06:33did Fry work in the 20th century?
0:06:33 > 0:06:37In Bender's Big Score, Bender burns it down to try to kill Fry.
0:06:37 > 0:06:41- Panucci's.- Panucci's Pizza is correct. No passes, Mark.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43You have scored 12 points.
0:06:44 > 0:06:46APPLAUSE
0:06:54 > 0:06:57And our next contender, please.
0:07:10 > 0:07:15Two minutes. Graham Greene was born in 1904 in St John's, a boarding house of which school
0:07:15 > 0:07:18where his father was a teacher and then headmaster?
0:07:18 > 0:07:21- Berkhamsted.- In Greene's 1938 novel Brighton Rock,
0:07:21 > 0:07:25how old is the main protagonist, the thuggish gang leader Pinkie Brown?
0:07:25 > 0:07:29- 17.- Greene's second and third novels, in his words, "deservedly failed".
0:07:29 > 0:07:32The second was The Name Of Action. What was the third?
0:07:32 > 0:07:36- Pass.- Greene worked in Section Five of MI6 during the Second World War
0:07:36 > 0:07:39with which agent who was a Soviet spy?
0:07:39 > 0:07:44- Kim Philby.- In Ways Of Escape, Greene relates how he was detained on a Caribbean island
0:07:44 > 0:07:47because of his supposed Communist sympathies. Which island?
0:07:47 > 0:07:51- Cuba.- Puerto Rico. What was the name of the group of Balliol students,
0:07:51 > 0:07:56including Robert Scott and Joseph Gordon Macleod, that Greene belonged to?
0:07:56 > 0:08:02- Pass.- What was the maiden name of Greene's wife Vivien? They were married on October 15th, 1927.
0:08:02 > 0:08:05- Duffield-Smith.- Dayrell-Browning.
0:08:05 > 0:08:09Which of Greene's novels was banned in the Republic of Ireland in 1948
0:08:09 > 0:08:13- on the grounds that it was "indecent in tendency"?- Could you repeat that?
0:08:13 > 0:08:17Which of Greene's novels was banned in the Republic of Ireland in 1948
0:08:17 > 0:08:20on the grounds that it was "indecent in tendency"?
0:08:20 > 0:08:25- The Power And The Glory. - The Heart Of The Matter. Of which film-maker did Greene write,
0:08:25 > 0:08:30- "As a producer, he had no sense of continuity, and as a writer, no sense of life"?- Pass.
0:08:30 > 0:08:34In A Sort Of Life, Greene says he used the excuse of extra coaching
0:08:34 > 0:08:36in what subject to avoid cricket practice?
0:08:36 > 0:08:40- Latin.- Mathematics. Who took the part of the "whisky priest"
0:08:40 > 0:08:44in Peter Brook's 1956 theatre version of The Power And The Glory?
0:08:44 > 0:08:46- Alec Guinness.- Paul Scofield.
0:08:46 > 0:08:50What was the Brighton-based company, established by Denis Loraine,
0:08:50 > 0:08:55that was part of a fraudulent scheme that nearly ruined Greene in the 1960s?
0:08:55 > 0:08:58- Pass.- Which director, along with Greene and Alexander Korda,
0:08:58 > 0:09:02brought The Fallen Idol and The Third Man to the screen?
0:09:02 > 0:09:05- Carol Reed.- With which ballerina did Greene "almost have an affair"
0:09:05 > 0:09:08after meeting her on Alexander Korda's yacht?
0:09:08 > 0:09:12- Margot Fonteyn.- In his biography of Greene, Norman Sherry suggests...
0:09:12 > 0:09:15- BEEP - ..Eckman in Stamboul Train is based on whom?
0:09:15 > 0:09:19- JB Priestley. - Andre Raffalovich, in fact.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21You had four passes.
0:09:21 > 0:09:27It was the Royal Victoria Sausage Company. That was the name that nearly brought about his ruin.
0:09:27 > 0:09:31Alfred Hitchcock was the film-maker about whom he was so rude.
0:09:31 > 0:09:35The Mantichorean Society was that group of Balliol students
0:09:35 > 0:09:41and Rumour At Nightfall was the other novel that he thought deservedly failed.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44You have scored, Aileen, 5 points.
0:09:45 > 0:09:47APPLAUSE
0:09:55 > 0:09:57And our final contender, please.
0:10:11 > 0:10:17Here we go. In October 1962, the US Air Force pilot Richard Heyser photographed the installation
0:10:17 > 0:10:22of Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba from the air that precipitated the Cuban Missile Crisis.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25In which reconnaissance aircraft was he flying?
0:10:25 > 0:10:28- U2.- Which US company began building the Harrier jump-jet
0:10:28 > 0:10:32under licence in the 1970s for the American US Marine Corps?
0:10:32 > 0:10:37- McDonnell Douglas. - The first operational sortie by the F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter
0:10:37 > 0:10:42was against the forces of which Panamanian military ruler in Operation Just Cause in 1989?
0:10:42 > 0:10:47- Noriega.- What nickname, taken from a 1960s pop song, was given to the Douglas AC-47D
0:10:47 > 0:10:51when they were adapted into heavily armed gunships in Vietnam?
0:10:51 > 0:10:55- Puff the Magic Dragon.- A Douglas VC-118, nicknamed Independence,
0:10:55 > 0:11:00was commissioned into the US Air Force in 1947 and chiefly used for what?
0:11:00 > 0:11:02As personal transport for President Truman.
0:11:02 > 0:11:07What is the name of the HH-60J variant of the Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopter
0:11:07 > 0:11:10in service with the American Coast Guard since 1990?
0:11:10 > 0:11:16- Seahawk.- Jayhawk. The D-variant of the Convair B-36 bomber had a 230-foot wing span,
0:11:16 > 0:11:18the largest of any combat aircraft.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21How many engines in total did it carry on its wings?
0:11:22 > 0:11:28- Ten.- What is the Longbow from which the Longbow Apache AH-64D attack helicopter gets its name?
0:11:28 > 0:11:30It is a radar targeting system.
0:11:30 > 0:11:34Which British bomber was selected for the US Air Force in the 1950s
0:11:34 > 0:11:38and entered service with some modifications as the Martin B-57?
0:11:38 > 0:11:42- Canberra.- Under what name did the McDonnell Douglas C-9 enter service
0:11:42 > 0:11:46with the 375th Aeromedical Wing of Military Airlift Command in 1968?
0:11:46 > 0:11:51- Nightingale.- What innovation for increasing the operational range of jet aircraft
0:11:51 > 0:11:55was pioneered by Republic Thunderjets during the Korean War?
0:11:55 > 0:12:00- In-flight refuelling.- On November 6th, 1945, a Ryan aircraft made what is often described
0:12:00 > 0:12:04as the first successful jet-powered landing on an aircraft carrier
0:12:04 > 0:12:09- following the failure of its radial piston engine. What was the aircraft?- Could you repeat that?
0:12:09 > 0:12:12On November 6th, 1945, a Ryan aircraft made...
0:12:12 > 0:12:16- BEEP - ..the first successful jet-powered landing on an aircraft carrier
0:12:16 > 0:12:20following the failure of its radial piston engine. What's the aircraft?
0:12:20 > 0:12:23- Skyraider.- No, it was the Fireball, FR-1 Fireball.
0:12:23 > 0:12:27- No passes, Sean. You have 10 points.- Thank you.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29APPLAUSE
0:12:36 > 0:12:40That's the end of the first round. Let's have a look at the scores.
0:12:40 > 0:12:42In fourth place, Aileen Lucas.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45Third place, Charlie Tinsley.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47Second place, Sean Howley.
0:12:47 > 0:12:50In the lead, Mark Kirby.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52APPLAUSE
0:12:55 > 0:12:59The general knowledge round now. If there is a tie at the end of it,
0:12:59 > 0:13:04the number of passes is taken into account and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07If they're tied on passes, there will be a tie-break.
0:13:07 > 0:13:12The six highest-scoring runners-up from the heats also claim a place in the semi-finals.
0:13:12 > 0:13:17Plenty to play for. Let's get on with it and ask Aileen Lucas to join us again, please.
0:13:18 > 0:13:25And you start this round with 5 points with your knowledge of Graham Greene. Let's see how you do.
0:13:25 > 0:13:32Two and a half minutes this time. The stems and leaves of which plant are the diet of the giant panda?
0:13:32 > 0:13:37- Bamboo.- In which city did the trials of the former Nazi war leaders by the international military tribunal
0:13:37 > 0:13:40begin on 20th November, 1945?
0:13:41 > 0:13:46- Berlin?- Nuremberg. The American Melvil Dewey devised a system named after him
0:13:46 > 0:13:48for classifying what items?
0:13:48 > 0:13:54- Books in libraries.- Which Greek island group has a name meaning 12 islands, although there are more?
0:13:54 > 0:14:00- Dodecanese.- Which Spanish-born artist's Rose Period began in around 1904, following his Blue Period?
0:14:00 > 0:14:06- Picasso.- What is the title of the BBC series set in the East End in 1957,
0:14:06 > 0:14:09based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth?
0:14:09 > 0:14:13- Call The Midwife.- Early members of which socialist organisation founded in the 1880s,
0:14:13 > 0:14:17included George Bernard Shaw, Sidney Webb and his wife Beatrice?
0:14:17 > 0:14:24- The Fabians.- The lace used in the wedding dress of Queen Victoria is named after which Devon town?
0:14:24 > 0:14:30- Honiton.- What general term for blood poisoning comes from the Greek for "putrefying blood"?
0:14:30 > 0:14:36- Septicaemia.- Jean Rhys's 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea tells of Edward Rochester's visit to the West Indies
0:14:36 > 0:14:40to marry an heiress. To which novel is this regarded as a prequel?
0:14:40 > 0:14:45- Jane Eyre.- Which fortified wine is produced on an Atlantic island?
0:14:45 > 0:14:48The driest variety is Sercial, the sweetest is Malmsey.
0:14:48 > 0:14:53- Madeira.- Whose film roles include Iris Murdoch's husband in Iris
0:14:53 > 0:14:55and Denis Thatcher in The Iron Lady?
0:14:55 > 0:15:00- Jim Broadbent.- Which sea bird got its name because it was believed to be a harbinger of bad weather?
0:15:00 > 0:15:06- Albatross?- Stormy petrel. Which Italian composer and violinist, who entered the church in 1703,
0:15:06 > 0:15:08was known as the Red Priest?
0:15:08 > 0:15:15- Vivaldi.- Who, in 1953, became the first woman to complete the tennis Grand Slam?
0:15:16 > 0:15:20- Pass.- In which London thoroughfare is the Cenotaph?
0:15:20 > 0:15:25- Pall Mall. - Whitehall. Which of the Queen's children went on safari in Kenya
0:15:25 > 0:15:28with Valerie Singleton from Blue Peter in 1971?
0:15:28 > 0:15:32- Prince Charles?- Princess Anne. What name of medieval Latin origin
0:15:32 > 0:15:36is given to bending the knee in worship?
0:15:36 > 0:15:40- Genuflect.- Which singer and actress who was brought up in Australia
0:15:40 > 0:15:43teamed up with ELO on the hit song Xanadu in 1980?
0:15:43 > 0:15:49- Olivia Newton-John.- What two-word phrase for a hair colouring has been used as a disparaging term
0:15:49 > 0:15:53for a middle-aged, middle-class woman and Tory supporter?
0:15:53 > 0:15:57- Blue rinse.- Which popular singer turned DJ and radio presenter
0:15:57 > 0:16:02- closed his long-running show with a catchphrase BFN - "Bye for now!"? - BEEP
0:16:05 > 0:16:09- Pass.- All right, I'll tell you in that case.
0:16:09 > 0:16:11It was Jimmy Young.
0:16:11 > 0:16:17And the first woman to complete the Grand Slam - Maureen Connolly, better known as Little Mo.
0:16:17 > 0:16:21Two passes. You've now gone up to 20 points.
0:16:29 > 0:16:33And now Charlie Tinsley again, please.
0:16:33 > 0:16:38And you start out with 8 points with your knowledge of Geoffrey Boycott.
0:16:38 > 0:16:44The score to beat is 20. Let's see how you do. Here we go.
0:16:44 > 0:16:48Michael Jackson transforms into a werewolf in the video of which song?
0:16:48 > 0:16:53- Thriller.- Whose work, My Bed, was shown at the 1999 Turner Prize?
0:16:53 > 0:16:58- Tracey Emin.- Which character did Robert Louis Stevenson base on his friend, WE Henley,
0:16:58 > 0:17:02who had lost a foot and had a very exuberant personality?
0:17:02 > 0:17:08- Robinson Crusoe?- Long John Silver. What name, from Turkish for appetizer, is given to a selection
0:17:08 > 0:17:10of small dishes in Middle Eastern cuisine?
0:17:10 > 0:17:16- Meze?- Yes. In which 2011 film does a fisheries expert played by Ewan McGregor
0:17:16 > 0:17:20try to fulfil a sheikh's dream of fly-fishing in the desert?
0:17:21 > 0:17:27- Salmon Fishing In The Yemen?- Yes. Which district of New York was named after a city in the Netherlands
0:17:27 > 0:17:29by Peter Stuyvesant in 1658?
0:17:29 > 0:17:34- New Amsterdam?- Harlem. Who became only the fifth England footballer to win 100 caps
0:17:34 > 0:17:38when he played in a friendly against France in March, 2008?
0:17:38 > 0:17:43- David Beckham.- What was the name of the last Pinta Island giant tortoise
0:17:43 > 0:17:47who died after 40 years in captivity in the Galapagos Islands in 2012?
0:17:47 > 0:17:53- Lonesome George.- Which atmospheric gas did Joseph Priestley call "dephlogisticated air"
0:17:53 > 0:17:55when he discovered it in 1774?
0:17:58 > 0:18:04- Nitrogen.- Oxygen. In the BBC comedy The Office, what is the name of the paper merchants?
0:18:04 > 0:18:08- Wernham Hogg.- Which mystic gained influence at the Russian court
0:18:08 > 0:18:13by his apparent ability to control the haemophilia of Alexei, heir to the throne?
0:18:13 > 0:18:18- Rasputin.- The third movement of Debussy's Suite Bergamasque for piano is known by what name?
0:18:18 > 0:18:24- Clair de Lune.- Which brother of Mary and Martha of Bethany did Jesus raise from the dead?
0:18:24 > 0:18:29- Lazarus.- Which church on Fleet Street, named after an Irish saint,
0:18:29 > 0:18:33- became known as the journalists' church, due to its location?- Pass.
0:18:33 > 0:18:39Which war was ended in the series of treaties known as the Peace of Westphalia in 1648?
0:18:39 > 0:18:43- Prussian War?- 30 Years' War. Mostly Harmless, published in 1992,
0:18:43 > 0:18:47is the fifth and last part of which "trilogy" by Douglas Adams?
0:18:47 > 0:18:54- Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy. - The South African athlete Oscar Pistorius, who runs on prostheses,
0:18:54 > 0:18:58has what nickname, taken from a 1982 science fiction film?
0:18:58 > 0:19:03- Blade Runner.- In mathematics, what is represented by a symbol like a figure 8 on its side?
0:19:03 > 0:19:10- Infinity.- Which novelist and magistrate founded the Bow Street Runners in about 1750?
0:19:10 > 0:19:15- Robert Peel.- Henry Fielding. Which river is formed by the confluence... - BEEP
0:19:15 > 0:19:19..of the Goyt and Tame at Stockport in Cheshire?
0:19:22 > 0:19:25- Quick guess?- Pass. - Well, I'll tell you.
0:19:25 > 0:19:28You'll kick yourself. The Mersey. Your other pass,
0:19:28 > 0:19:34that church on Fleet Street named after an Irish saint, known as the journalists' church, St Bride's.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37You have now, Charlie, 21 points.
0:19:46 > 0:19:49And Sean Howley again, please.
0:19:52 > 0:19:56You begin with 10 points on American military aircraft.
0:19:56 > 0:20:0221 is now the score to beat to get through to the semi-final. Here we go. 2½ minutes.
0:20:02 > 0:20:07Which TV comedy programme ended with, "Good night from me," "And good night from him"?
0:20:07 > 0:20:14- Two Ronnies.- Which future president of South Africa shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with FW de Klerk?
0:20:14 > 0:20:19- Nelson Mandela.- The giant trees native to the coastal regions of California and Southern Oregon
0:20:19 > 0:20:21have what name from their colour?
0:20:21 > 0:20:27- Redwood.- Which author and former intelligence officer married his long-time mistress Ann Rothermere,
0:20:27 > 0:20:30the former wife of the owner of the Daily Mail?
0:20:30 > 0:20:35- Ian Fleming.- Which King of England was known as Longshanks because he was over six feet tall?
0:20:35 > 0:20:41- Edward I.- Who won a Best Actor Oscar for The Godfather, but refused to accept the award?
0:20:41 > 0:20:45- Marlon Brando.- In which county are Malmesbury and Melksham?
0:20:45 > 0:20:50- Wiltshire.- Which American-born artist known for his butterfly signature
0:20:50 > 0:20:54painted his most famous work, a portrait of his mother, in the 1870s?
0:20:54 > 0:21:00- Whistler.- In the Western Christian calendar, Lent is a fast of how many days, excluding Sundays?
0:21:00 > 0:21:07- 40.- Plaka, famous for its tiny squares and tavernas, is an old part of which European capital city?
0:21:07 > 0:21:13- Madrid.- Athens. Which football club's badge features a canary resting on a football?
0:21:13 > 0:21:19- Norwich.- Which Victorian novelist wrote Silas Marner about a reclusive weaver who adopts a little girl?
0:21:19 > 0:21:25- George Eliot.- What's the well-known chemical name of the compound of potassium used as an antiseptic
0:21:25 > 0:21:28whose crystals are a purple colour?
0:21:28 > 0:21:33- Potassium permanganate.- In which opera by Puccini does Rodolfo sing the aria Che Gelida Manina,
0:21:33 > 0:21:35meaning, "Your tiny hand is frozen"?
0:21:35 > 0:21:42- Don Giovanni?- La Boheme. Char siu, meaning fork-roasted, is a Chinese method of cooking what sort of meat?
0:21:42 > 0:21:48- Pork.- What was the original STD code for London when dialling codes were allocated in the late 1950s?
0:21:48 > 0:21:54- 01.- Which dinosaur, which had a sickle-shaped claw on each foot to slash its prey,
0:21:54 > 0:21:58has a name created from the Latin words meaning swift and plunderer?
0:21:58 > 0:22:00- Tyrannosaurus Rex?- Velociraptor.
0:22:00 > 0:22:04Which small European state adds "la Vella" to its name for its capital?
0:22:04 > 0:22:12- Andorra.- Who became the first woman to travel in space, launched in Vostok 6 on 16th June, 1963?
0:22:12 > 0:22:19- Valentina Tereshkova.- Which Paul Simon song opens with, "I'm sitting in the railway station..."?
0:22:19 > 0:22:26- Homeward Bound.- Which area in Gloucestershire became Britain's first national forest park in 1938?
0:22:26 > 0:22:31- Forest of Dean.- What do the initials REM stand for to describe a stage of sleep?
0:22:31 > 0:22:34- Rapid Eye Movement.- Which saint... - BEEP
0:22:34 > 0:22:41..whose feast day is 6th December, is a patron saint of Russia, Greece, pawnbrokers and children?
0:22:42 > 0:22:49- St Dennis?- Ah, St Nicholas. I only say "ah" because you have no passes
0:22:49 > 0:22:53- and you nearly made it to 30. You've got 29 points!- Thank you.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03And, finally, Mark Kirby, please.
0:23:06 > 0:23:12And you led the last round. 12 points with your knowledge of Futurama.
0:23:12 > 0:23:19You've now got 29 points to beat. You've got to make it to 30 to get into the semi-finals.
0:23:19 > 0:23:26Here we go. What kind of dance is performed by a line of high-kicking women in frilly skirts?
0:23:26 > 0:23:33- Can-Can.- The hero Richard Hannay makes his first appearance in which novel by John Buchan?
0:23:33 > 0:23:39- The Thirty-Nine Steps.- Which classic American whiskey is named after a county in Kentucky?
0:23:39 > 0:23:45- Er, Jack Daniels?- Bourbon. Which school of fine art at University College, London, is named after
0:23:45 > 0:23:49the benefactor whose bequest helped found it?
0:23:49 > 0:23:54- Slade?- Yes. Who had a series of visions of the Virgin Mary at a grotto in Lourdes in 1858?
0:23:56 > 0:24:00- Pass.- The American cartoonist Thomas Nast is credited
0:24:00 > 0:24:05with popularising the donkey as the symbol of the Democrat Party. Which animal is for Republicans?
0:24:05 > 0:24:10- Elephant. - What word meaning a malicious pleasure at others' misfortunes
0:24:10 > 0:24:13comes from German for "harm" and "joy"?
0:24:13 > 0:24:20- Schadenfreude.- In which cult TV series of the 1960s did secret agents fight against THRUSH?
0:24:20 > 0:24:25- Man from UNCLE.- Leonard Read, the Scotland Yard detective who arrested the Kray twins,
0:24:25 > 0:24:27was known by what nickname?
0:24:27 > 0:24:32- Pass.- Which song gave The Righteous Brothers a UK number one hit in 1965
0:24:32 > 0:24:36while Cilla Black's version only reached number two?
0:24:37 > 0:24:44- Oh, pass.- Bairro Alto and Alfama are among the oldest parts of which European capital city?
0:24:45 > 0:24:51- Zurich?- Lisbon. Under what name did the American writer James Oliver Rigney Junior write
0:24:51 > 0:24:53the Wheel of Time fantasy novels?
0:24:53 > 0:24:59- James MacDonald?- Robert Jordan. Ling is an alternative name for which purple-flowered evergreen plant
0:24:59 > 0:25:01found on British moorlands?
0:25:01 > 0:25:07- Heather?- Yes. Which of Batman's opponents, played by Jack Nicholson in the 1989 film,
0:25:07 > 0:25:11sells a range of products with the toxic ingredient Smilex?
0:25:11 > 0:25:15- The Joker.- In Ancient Greece, the Isthmian, Nemean and Pythian
0:25:15 > 0:25:21- were three of the four most important celebrations of their type. What was the fourth?- Pass.
0:25:21 > 0:25:26Footballers Didier Drogba and Kolo and Yaya Toure play for which country?
0:25:26 > 0:25:34- Em...Spain?- Ivory Coast. The process of galvanising involves coating iron or steel with a layer of what?
0:25:34 > 0:25:41- Zinc.- Who was assassinated by a Stalinist agent in Coyoacan, a suburb of Mexico City, in 1940?
0:25:41 > 0:25:47- Leon Trotsky.- Which monthly BBC TV series has been presented by Patrick Moore since 1957?
0:25:47 > 0:25:52- The Sky At Night. - The Tigris and Euphrates flow through which country...
0:25:52 > 0:25:56- BEEP - ..before merging?- Iraq. - Correct. You had four passes.
0:25:56 > 0:26:01The Olympic Games was the fourth big celebration.
0:26:01 > 0:26:05You've Lost That Loving Feeling was the song you couldn't find.
0:26:05 > 0:26:13Nipper was Leonard Read's nickname and St Bernadette saw the visions at Lourdes. You didn't make it, Mark.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16- 24 points.- Thank you.
0:26:27 > 0:26:31A very hard score to beat, that. Now let's look at all the scores.
0:26:31 > 0:26:34In fourth place, Aileen Lucas.
0:26:34 > 0:26:36Third place, Charlie Tinsley.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39Second place, Mark Kirby.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41First place - he held on -
0:26:41 > 0:26:4329 points, Sean Howley.
0:26:54 > 0:27:00Which means, of course, that Sean Howley is tonight's winner and goes through to the semi-finals.
0:27:00 > 0:27:06Congratulations to him. If you would like to be a contender on the next series, go to our website:
0:27:07 > 0:27:11And do join us again next time for more Masterminds.
0:27:11 > 0:27:14Thanks for watching. Goodbye.
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