Episode 14 Mastermind

First in the spotlight tonight is Charlie Tinsley,

a doctor from London, his subject, Geoffrey Boycott.

Next, Mark Kirby, a student from Maidstone, his subject, the animated series Futurama.

Aileen Lucas is a teacher from Louth and she'll be answering questions on Graham Greene.

And Sean Howley, a garage proprietor from Cambridgeshire, his subject, US Military Aircraft.

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Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.

This is the quiz show that does not take prisoners.

The rules are simple, but no quarter is given.

The contenders get 2 minutes on their specialist subject and 2½ minutes on general knowledge.

Hesitation can prove fatal. The prize is modest, just a glass bowl,

but the honour of becoming the nation's Mastermind is priceless,

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

Two minutes. In 1977, at which ground did Boycott reach his 100th first class century,

the first to do so in a Test match?

-Headingley.

-In which government office in Barnsley did Boycott work as a clerical officer

before he became a professional cricketer?

-Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance.

-He twice had a batting average of over 100 in a season,

in 1971 and in which other year?

-1983.

-1979. Who was sacked as Yorkshire's captain at the end of the 1970 season,

leading to Boycott being appointed to the position?

-Brian Close.

-As a teenager, Boycott played a handful of games for which football club's under-18 team?

-Leeds.

-Who was Chairman of Selectors when Boycott was dropped from the Test team for scoring too slowly

in his 246 not out in the first Test against India in 1967?

-Brian Bolus.

-Doug Insole.

In his match commentary for a Test played in January 2012,

Boycott said he would sell his three houses if England did not win. They did lose to which country?

-West Indies.

-Pakistan. He lived with his mother in a terraced house

in the former mining village of Fitzwilliam until her death in 1978.

What was the name of the street they lived on?

-Milton Terrace.

-Boycott was famously out for a duck against the West Indies at Bridgetown in 1981

when he was bowled by the final ball of a rapid over from which bowler?

-Michael Holding.

-In 2008, Boycott stated in The Daily Telegraph

that team huddles before play should stop.

He said, "It's cosmetic and done for the cameras, it's like big girls before" what?

Pass.

In 1998, Boycott was found guilty in a French court

of assaulting which ex-girlfriend, an accusation he denied?

-Margaret Moore.

-Which South African team did Boycott briefly play for in the 1971-72 season,

for whom he scored a century against Rhodesia?

-Northern Transvaal.

-In December 1981, whose record of most runs in Test matches did he beat

while he was playing in the Third Test against India?

BEEP

Take a guess. You're out of time.

-Sunil Gavaskar.

-It was Garry Sobers.

One pass you had. He said, "It is cosmetic," the huddles,

"and done for the cameras. It's like big girls before a hockey match."

One pass, Charlie, you have 8 points.

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And our next contender, please.

Two minutes. In the animated sitcom Futurama, what is the intergalactic delivery company

owned by Professor Farnsworth for which Fry, the one-eyed alien Leela and the robot Bender work?

-Planet Express.

-Where does Fry deliver a pizza on New Year's Eve 1999?

It results in him accidentally being frozen for 1,000 years.

-Applied Cryogenics.

-In the film The Beast With A Billion Backs,

what game does Farnsworth's crew play against Wernstrom's students

to decide who can explore the cosmic anomaly?

-Murderball.

-Deathball. Who created and co-developed the series Futurama with David X Cohen?

-Matt Groening.

-In the episode Jurassic Bark, what is the name of Fry's dog who has become fossilised?

His attempt to clone it makes Bender jealous.

-Seymour.

-The lobster-like ship's doctor, John Zoidberg, comes from which planet?

-Decapod 10.

-In the episode A Big Piece Of Garbage, Fry finds a pile of dolls in the "garbage ball"

that was launched into space in the 21st century. Which cartoon character do the dolls look like?

-Bart Simpson.

-In the film Into The Wild Green Yonder, what is the name of the janitor

who with the Professor, Hermes and Zoidberg frees Leela, Amy and LaBarbara from prison?

-Scruffy.

-In the episode The Luck Of The Fryrish, what move does Fry perform to outdo his brother Yancy

and show off to the beat-boxer Noticeably F.A.T and the crew?

-Is it a sextuple head spin?

-A septuple head spin, but I'll accept that.

Professor Farnsworth takes the Planet Express crew on holiday

on the "most luxurious space cruise ship ever built". What's it called?

-Titanic.

-In Series 3, Leela and Amy go on a double date that Leela calls a half date with Zapp and Kif.

To which restaurant do they go?

-Elzar's?

-Le Palm D'Orbit. What is the name of the ceremony on Decapod 10

in which Decapodians fight to the death over matters of honour

and over questions like "do abbreviations count in Scrabble"?

-Claw-Plach.

-Which ancient, sunken city does the crew of the Planet Express discover

when Fry meets a mermaid called Umbriel in The Deep South?

-Atlanta.

-In which pizzeria...

-BEEP

did Fry work in the 20th century?

In Bender's Big Score, Bender burns it down to try to kill Fry.

-Panucci's.

-Panucci's Pizza is correct. No passes, Mark.

You have scored 12 points.

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And our next contender, please.

Two minutes. Graham Greene was born in 1904 in St John's, a boarding house of which school

where his father was a teacher and then headmaster?

-Berkhamsted.

-In Greene's 1938 novel Brighton Rock,

how old is the main protagonist, the thuggish gang leader Pinkie Brown?

-17.

-Greene's second and third novels, in his words, "deservedly failed".

The second was The Name Of Action. What was the third?

-Pass.

-Greene worked in Section Five of MI6 during the Second World War

with which agent who was a Soviet spy?

-Kim Philby.

-In Ways Of Escape, Greene relates how he was detained on a Caribbean island

because of his supposed Communist sympathies. Which island?

-Cuba.

-Puerto Rico. What was the name of the group of Balliol students,

including Robert Scott and Joseph Gordon Macleod, that Greene belonged to?

-Pass.

-What was the maiden name of Greene's wife Vivien? They were married on October 15th, 1927.

-Duffield-Smith.

-Dayrell-Browning.

Which of Greene's novels was banned in the Republic of Ireland in 1948

-on the grounds that it was "indecent in tendency"?

-Could you repeat that?

Which of Greene's novels was banned in the Republic of Ireland in 1948

on the grounds that it was "indecent in tendency"?

-The Power And The Glory.

-The Heart Of The Matter. Of which film-maker did Greene write,

-"As a producer, he had no sense of continuity, and as a writer, no sense of life"?

-Pass.

In A Sort Of Life, Greene says he used the excuse of extra coaching

in what subject to avoid cricket practice?

-Latin.

-Mathematics. Who took the part of the "whisky priest"

in Peter Brook's 1956 theatre version of The Power And The Glory?

-Alec Guinness.

-Paul Scofield.

What was the Brighton-based company, established by Denis Loraine,

that was part of a fraudulent scheme that nearly ruined Greene in the 1960s?

-Pass.

-Which director, along with Greene and Alexander Korda,

brought The Fallen Idol and The Third Man to the screen?

-Carol Reed.

-With which ballerina did Greene "almost have an affair"

after meeting her on Alexander Korda's yacht?

-Margot Fonteyn.

-In his biography of Greene, Norman Sherry suggests...

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-..Eckman in Stamboul Train is based on whom?

-JB Priestley.

-Andre Raffalovich, in fact.

You had four passes.

It was the Royal Victoria Sausage Company. That was the name that nearly brought about his ruin.

Alfred Hitchcock was the film-maker about whom he was so rude.

The Mantichorean Society was that group of Balliol students

and Rumour At Nightfall was the other novel that he thought deservedly failed.

You have scored, Aileen, 5 points.

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And our final contender, please.

Here we go. In October 1962, the US Air Force pilot Richard Heyser photographed the installation

of Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba from the air that precipitated the Cuban Missile Crisis.

In which reconnaissance aircraft was he flying?

-U2.

-Which US company began building the Harrier jump-jet

under licence in the 1970s for the American US Marine Corps?

-McDonnell Douglas.

-The first operational sortie by the F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter

was against the forces of which Panamanian military ruler in Operation Just Cause in 1989?

-Noriega.

-What nickname, taken from a 1960s pop song, was given to the Douglas AC-47D

when they were adapted into heavily armed gunships in Vietnam?

-Puff the Magic Dragon.

-A Douglas VC-118, nicknamed Independence,

was commissioned into the US Air Force in 1947 and chiefly used for what?

As personal transport for President Truman.

What is the name of the HH-60J variant of the Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopter

in service with the American Coast Guard since 1990?

-Seahawk.

-Jayhawk. The D-variant of the Convair B-36 bomber had a 230-foot wing span,

the largest of any combat aircraft.

How many engines in total did it carry on its wings?

-Ten.

-What is the Longbow from which the Longbow Apache AH-64D attack helicopter gets its name?

It is a radar targeting system.

Which British bomber was selected for the US Air Force in the 1950s

and entered service with some modifications as the Martin B-57?

-Canberra.

-Under what name did the McDonnell Douglas C-9 enter service

with the 375th Aeromedical Wing of Military Airlift Command in 1968?

-Nightingale.

-What innovation for increasing the operational range of jet aircraft

was pioneered by Republic Thunderjets during the Korean War?

-In-flight refuelling.

-On November 6th, 1945, a Ryan aircraft made what is often described

as the first successful jet-powered landing on an aircraft carrier

-following the failure of its radial piston engine. What was the aircraft?

-Could you repeat that?

On November 6th, 1945, a Ryan aircraft made...

-BEEP

-..the first successful jet-powered landing on an aircraft carrier

following the failure of its radial piston engine. What's the aircraft?

-Skyraider.

-No, it was the Fireball, FR-1 Fireball.

-No passes, Sean. You have 10 points.

-Thank you.

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

In fourth place, Aileen Lucas.

Third place, Charlie Tinsley.

Second place, Sean Howley.

In the lead, Mark Kirby.

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The general knowledge round now. If there is a tie at the end of it,

the number of passes is taken into account and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.

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

The six highest-scoring runners-up from the heats also claim a place in the semi-finals.

Plenty to play for. Let's get on with it and ask Aileen Lucas to join us again, please.

And you start this round with 5 points with your knowledge of Graham Greene. Let's see how you do.

Two and a half minutes this time. The stems and leaves of which plant are the diet of the giant panda?

-Bamboo.

-In which city did the trials of the former Nazi war leaders by the international military tribunal

begin on 20th November, 1945?

-Berlin?

-Nuremberg. The American Melvil Dewey devised a system named after him

for classifying what items?

-Books in libraries.

-Which Greek island group has a name meaning 12 islands, although there are more?

-Dodecanese.

-Which Spanish-born artist's Rose Period began in around 1904, following his Blue Period?

-Picasso.

-What is the title of the BBC series set in the East End in 1957,

based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth?

-Call The Midwife.

-Early members of which socialist organisation founded in the 1880s,

included George Bernard Shaw, Sidney Webb and his wife Beatrice?

-The Fabians.

-The lace used in the wedding dress of Queen Victoria is named after which Devon town?

-Honiton.

-What general term for blood poisoning comes from the Greek for "putrefying blood"?

-Septicaemia.

-Jean Rhys's 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea tells of Edward Rochester's visit to the West Indies

to marry an heiress. To which novel is this regarded as a prequel?

-Jane Eyre.

-Which fortified wine is produced on an Atlantic island?

The driest variety is Sercial, the sweetest is Malmsey.

-Madeira.

-Whose film roles include Iris Murdoch's husband in Iris

and Denis Thatcher in The Iron Lady?

-Jim Broadbent.

-Which sea bird got its name because it was believed to be a harbinger of bad weather?

-Albatross?

-Stormy petrel. Which Italian composer and violinist, who entered the church in 1703,

was known as the Red Priest?

-Vivaldi.

-Who, in 1953, became the first woman to complete the tennis Grand Slam?

-Pass.

-In which London thoroughfare is the Cenotaph?

-Pall Mall.

-Whitehall. Which of the Queen's children went on safari in Kenya

with Valerie Singleton from Blue Peter in 1971?

-Prince Charles?

-Princess Anne. What name of medieval Latin origin

is given to bending the knee in worship?

-Genuflect.

-Which singer and actress who was brought up in Australia

teamed up with ELO on the hit song Xanadu in 1980?

-Olivia Newton-John.

-What two-word phrase for a hair colouring has been used as a disparaging term

for a middle-aged, middle-class woman and Tory supporter?

-Blue rinse.

-Which popular singer turned DJ and radio presenter

-closed his long-running show with a catchphrase BFN - "Bye for now!"?

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-Pass.

-All right, I'll tell you in that case.

It was Jimmy Young.

And the first woman to complete the Grand Slam - Maureen Connolly, better known as Little Mo.

Two passes. You've now gone up to 20 points.

And now Charlie Tinsley again, please.

And you start out with 8 points with your knowledge of Geoffrey Boycott.

The score to beat is 20. Let's see how you do. Here we go.

Michael Jackson transforms into a werewolf in the video of which song?

-Thriller.

-Whose work, My Bed, was shown at the 1999 Turner Prize?

-Tracey Emin.

-Which character did Robert Louis Stevenson base on his friend, WE Henley,

who had lost a foot and had a very exuberant personality?

-Robinson Crusoe?

-Long John Silver. What name, from Turkish for appetizer, is given to a selection

of small dishes in Middle Eastern cuisine?

-Meze?

-Yes. In which 2011 film does a fisheries expert played by Ewan McGregor

try to fulfil a sheikh's dream of fly-fishing in the desert?

-Salmon Fishing In The Yemen?

-Yes. Which district of New York was named after a city in the Netherlands

by Peter Stuyvesant in 1658?

-New Amsterdam?

-Harlem. Who became only the fifth England footballer to win 100 caps

when he played in a friendly against France in March, 2008?

-David Beckham.

-What was the name of the last Pinta Island giant tortoise

who died after 40 years in captivity in the Galapagos Islands in 2012?

-Lonesome George.

-Which atmospheric gas did Joseph Priestley call "dephlogisticated air"

when he discovered it in 1774?

-Nitrogen.

-Oxygen. In the BBC comedy The Office, what is the name of the paper merchants?

-Wernham Hogg.

-Which mystic gained influence at the Russian court

by his apparent ability to control the haemophilia of Alexei, heir to the throne?

-Rasputin.

-The third movement of Debussy's Suite Bergamasque for piano is known by what name?

-Clair de Lune.

-Which brother of Mary and Martha of Bethany did Jesus raise from the dead?

-Lazarus.

-Which church on Fleet Street, named after an Irish saint,

-became known as the journalists' church, due to its location?

-Pass.

Which war was ended in the series of treaties known as the Peace of Westphalia in 1648?

-Prussian War?

-30 Years' War. Mostly Harmless, published in 1992,

is the fifth and last part of which "trilogy" by Douglas Adams?

-Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

-The South African athlete Oscar Pistorius, who runs on prostheses,

has what nickname, taken from a 1982 science fiction film?

-Blade Runner.

-In mathematics, what is represented by a symbol like a figure 8 on its side?

-Infinity.

-Which novelist and magistrate founded the Bow Street Runners in about 1750?

-Robert Peel.

-Henry Fielding. Which river is formed by the confluence...

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..of the Goyt and Tame at Stockport in Cheshire?

-Quick guess?

-Pass.

-Well, I'll tell you.

You'll kick yourself. The Mersey. Your other pass,

that church on Fleet Street named after an Irish saint, known as the journalists' church, St Bride's.

You have now, Charlie, 21 points.

And Sean Howley again, please.

You begin with 10 points on American military aircraft.

21 is now the score to beat to get through to the semi-final. Here we go. 2½ minutes.

Which TV comedy programme ended with, "Good night from me," "And good night from him"?

-Two Ronnies.

-Which future president of South Africa shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with FW de Klerk?

-Nelson Mandela.

-The giant trees native to the coastal regions of California and Southern Oregon

have what name from their colour?

-Redwood.

-Which author and former intelligence officer married his long-time mistress Ann Rothermere,

the former wife of the owner of the Daily Mail?

-Ian Fleming.

-Which King of England was known as Longshanks because he was over six feet tall?

-Edward I.

-Who won a Best Actor Oscar for The Godfather, but refused to accept the award?

-Marlon Brando.

-In which county are Malmesbury and Melksham?

-Wiltshire.

-Which American-born artist known for his butterfly signature

painted his most famous work, a portrait of his mother, in the 1870s?

-Whistler.

-In the Western Christian calendar, Lent is a fast of how many days, excluding Sundays?

-40.

-Plaka, famous for its tiny squares and tavernas, is an old part of which European capital city?

-Madrid.

-Athens. Which football club's badge features a canary resting on a football?

-Norwich.

-Which Victorian novelist wrote Silas Marner about a reclusive weaver who adopts a little girl?

-George Eliot.

-What's the well-known chemical name of the compound of potassium used as an antiseptic

whose crystals are a purple colour?

-Potassium permanganate.

-In which opera by Puccini does Rodolfo sing the aria Che Gelida Manina,

meaning, "Your tiny hand is frozen"?

-Don Giovanni?

-La Boheme. Char siu, meaning fork-roasted, is a Chinese method of cooking what sort of meat?

-Pork.

-What was the original STD code for London when dialling codes were allocated in the late 1950s?

-01.

-Which dinosaur, which had a sickle-shaped claw on each foot to slash its prey,

has a name created from the Latin words meaning swift and plunderer?

-Tyrannosaurus Rex?

-Velociraptor.

Which small European state adds "la Vella" to its name for its capital?

-Andorra.

-Who became the first woman to travel in space, launched in Vostok 6 on 16th June, 1963?

-Valentina Tereshkova.

-Which Paul Simon song opens with, "I'm sitting in the railway station..."?

-Homeward Bound.

-Which area in Gloucestershire became Britain's first national forest park in 1938?

-Forest of Dean.

-What do the initials REM stand for to describe a stage of sleep?

-Rapid Eye Movement.

-Which saint...

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..whose feast day is 6th December, is a patron saint of Russia, Greece, pawnbrokers and children?

-St Dennis?

-Ah, St Nicholas. I only say "ah" because you have no passes

-and you nearly made it to 30. You've got 29 points!

-Thank you.

And, finally, Mark Kirby, please.

And you led the last round. 12 points with your knowledge of Futurama.

You've now got 29 points to beat. You've got to make it to 30 to get into the semi-finals.

Here we go. What kind of dance is performed by a line of high-kicking women in frilly skirts?

-Can-Can.

-The hero Richard Hannay makes his first appearance in which novel by John Buchan?

-The Thirty-Nine Steps.

-Which classic American whiskey is named after a county in Kentucky?

-Er, Jack Daniels?

-Bourbon. Which school of fine art at University College, London, is named after

the benefactor whose bequest helped found it?

-Slade?

-Yes. Who had a series of visions of the Virgin Mary at a grotto in Lourdes in 1858?

-Pass.

-The American cartoonist Thomas Nast is credited

with popularising the donkey as the symbol of the Democrat Party. Which animal is for Republicans?

-Elephant.

-What word meaning a malicious pleasure at others' misfortunes

comes from German for "harm" and "joy"?

-Schadenfreude.

-In which cult TV series of the 1960s did secret agents fight against THRUSH?

-Man from UNCLE.

-Leonard Read, the Scotland Yard detective who arrested the Kray twins,

was known by what nickname?

-Pass.

-Which song gave The Righteous Brothers a UK number one hit in 1965

while Cilla Black's version only reached number two?

-Oh, pass.

-Bairro Alto and Alfama are among the oldest parts of which European capital city?

-Zurich?

-Lisbon. Under what name did the American writer James Oliver Rigney Junior write

the Wheel of Time fantasy novels?

-James MacDonald?

-Robert Jordan. Ling is an alternative name for which purple-flowered evergreen plant

found on British moorlands?

-Heather?

-Yes. Which of Batman's opponents, played by Jack Nicholson in the 1989 film,

sells a range of products with the toxic ingredient Smilex?

-The Joker.

-In Ancient Greece, the Isthmian, Nemean and Pythian

-were three of the four most important celebrations of their type. What was the fourth?

-Pass.

Footballers Didier Drogba and Kolo and Yaya Toure play for which country?

-Em...Spain?

-Ivory Coast. The process of galvanising involves coating iron or steel with a layer of what?

-Zinc.

-Who was assassinated by a Stalinist agent in Coyoacan, a suburb of Mexico City, in 1940?

-Leon Trotsky.

-Which monthly BBC TV series has been presented by Patrick Moore since 1957?

-The Sky At Night.

-The Tigris and Euphrates flow through which country...

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-..before merging?

-Iraq.

-Correct. You had four passes.

The Olympic Games was the fourth big celebration.

You've Lost That Loving Feeling was the song you couldn't find.

Nipper was Leonard Read's nickname and St Bernadette saw the visions at Lourdes. You didn't make it, Mark.

-24 points.

-Thank you.

A very hard score to beat, that. Now let's look at all the scores.

In fourth place, Aileen Lucas.

Third place, Charlie Tinsley.

Second place, Mark Kirby.

First place - he held on -

29 points, Sean Howley.

Which means, of course, that Sean Howley is tonight's winner and goes through to the semi-finals.

Congratulations to him. If you would like to be a contender on the next series, go to our website:

And do join us again next time for more Masterminds.

Thanks for watching. Goodbye.

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