Episode 18 Mastermind

First in the spotlight tonight is Allan Nicholas from Bristol.

His subject is the Bee Gees.

Mark Cooper, a civil servant from Brighton.

He will be answering questions on the American filmmaker Kevin Smith.

Tony Ryan is a retail manager from Neath

and he answers questions on the Falklands War.

And Rob White from Retford on Thomas Hardy.

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Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.

This is the quiz show where the contenders can swot up on their

specialist subject as much as they like,

but what they can't prepare for is the way they will react

under the pressure of the lights and the clock.

Then there's the general knowledge round,

the one that really sorts them out.

Two minutes on one, two-and-a-half on the other and the big prize,

the honour of becoming the nation's Mastermind.

Let's ask our first contender to join us, please.

-And your name is?

-Allan Nicholas.

-Your occupation?

-Retired.

-And your chosen subject?

-The Bee Gees.

The Bee Gees in two minutes.

Where were Barry Gibb and his twin brothers Robin and Maurice born?

The family later moved to Manchester and then to Australia.

Isle of Man.

Which song written by all three brothers became the first

UK number one single for the Bee Gees in 1967?

Massachusetts.

In 1967 who was made their tour manager and contact between them

and the pop promoter Robert Stigwood?

He became their personal manager for many years.

Dick Ashby.

Robin temporarily left and reached number two

in the UK charts with which solo single in 1969?

Saved By The Bell.

Who produced their Mr Natural album

and revived their career by steering them towards

their hugely successful disco sound with hits such as Jive Talkin'?

Arif Mardin.

Which tribute song on the Bee Gees 1989 album One is dedicated

to their youngest brother Andy who had died the previous year?

It features on Robin's solo album Magnet.

Wish You Were Here.

In '97 the Bee Gees caused a stir by walking off a chat show

because they found the host's style of interviewing rude.

Who was the host?

Clive Anderson.

Which song written by all three brothers reached number two

in the UK singles charts for Dionne Warwick in 1982?

Heartbreaker.

Who directed Staying Alive, the sequel to Saturday Night Fever

featuring music by the Bee Gees and the director's brother Frank?

Pass.

Which pop star played a major part

in the Bee Gees' growing popularity in Australia in the early '60s,

getting them a recording contract

and recording Barry's song Underneath The Starlight Of Love?

Pass.

What is the title of their number one UK single of '87

from the album E.S.P on which they were reunited with Arif Mardin?

Er...You Win Again?

In the 1970 television film comedy Cucumber Castle

Barry Gibb played the role of Prince Frederick, King of Cucumber.

Which part did Maurice play?

The Knight.

Prince Marmaduke, King of Jelly.

Who reached number five in the UK charts in '98

with Immortality on which the Bee Gees sang the backing vocals?

It was written for the stage production of Saturday Night Fever.

Celine Dion.

What did the Bee Gees call their recording studio in Miami Beach...

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..that was in operation from 1980?

Middle Ear.

You had two passes.

The pop star who played a big part in their growing

popularity in Australia was Col Joye.

And Sylvester Stallone directed Staying Alive.

So, two passes, Allan, you have scored 11 points.

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And our next contender, please.

-And your name is?

-Mark Cooper.

-Your occupation?

-Civil servant.

-And your chosen subject?

-The life and films of Kevin Smith.

Kevin Smith in two minutes.

In which New Jersey town was Kevin Smith born in August 1970?

He went on to become a film actor, writer and director.

Red Bank.

What's the name of the Kevin Smith-Scott Mosier production company

that produced a number of his films including Dogma and Mallrats?

View Askew.

In Smith's 2011 film Red State what is the name of the church

led by the extremist evangelical Albin Cooper, a man described as

so right-wing even neo-Nazis distance themselves from him?

Five Points Trinity Church.

Who plays Jay,

the foulmouthed companion of the recurring character Silent Bob?

Silent Bob is played by Smith.

Jason Mewes.

Smith went to see an independent film by Richard Linklater

in a Manhattan cinema on his 21st birthday which inspired him

to begin making films. Which film was it?

Slacker.

On what street in Red Bank, New Jersey, is the comic book store,

owned by Kevin Smith, called Jay & Silent Bob's Secret Stash?

Brood Street.

Broad Street.

For which film did Smith win in the Best Screenplay category

at the '98 Independent Spirit Awards?

The female lead, Joey Lauren Adams,

was nominated for a Golden Globe Best Actress Award.

Chasing Amy.

What is the name of the character

played by Smith in Len Wiseman's 2007 film Diehard 4.0?

The Hacker.

No, Frederick Kaludis, Warlock.

Cop Out, released in 2010, was the first film Smith directed

but did not also write.

What is the surname of the brothers Rob and Mark who did write it?

Cullen.

Which Kevin Smith film takes place almost entirely

in the Quick Stop convenience store in Leonardo, New Jersey,

where Smith worked as a cashier?

Clerks.

Which cartoonist made an unaccredited appearance in, and drew the artwork for,

Bluntman & Chronic in Smith's '97 film Chasing Amy?

Mike Allred.

In Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back Dante is disgusted

when he finds out he's been played in the Bluntman & Chronic film by whom?

Kathy Bates.

Judi Dench.

In Clerks, Dante and Randal discuss the morality and fate of the

independent contractors who worked on which fictional construction project?

The Death Star.

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I've started, so I'll finish.

What three-word instruction does Rufus shout to Jay when God,

played by Alanis Morissette, emerges at the climax of Dogma?

Er...Show some respect.

Not quite. Bow down, stupid.

No passes, Mark, you have ten points.

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And our next contender, please.

-And your name is?

-Tony Ryan.

-Occupation?

-Retail manager.

-And your chosen subject.

-The Falklands conflict.

The Falklands conflict in two minutes.

Who was ousted as the Argentine president in December 1981?

His replacement, General Galtieri,

hoped to silence dissent against military rule by reclaiming

the Falkland Islands after 150 years of British occupation.

Pass.

What was the number of the United Nations Security Council resolution

adopted on 3rd April, 1982, that demanded a complete

withdrawal by Argentine forces from the island?

Resolution 502.

At around 4:30am on 2nd April, 1982,

Argentine commanders began the invasion by landing at which Creek?

Mullett Creek.

Which P&O cruise liner was modified to take helicopters

and sailed with the task force on 9th April as a troop carrier?

Canberra.

What was the name of the Argentine submarine that was severely damaged

by a helicopter attack during the British recapture

of South Georgia and eventually beached near Grytviken?

The Santa Fe.

Members of the Mountain Troop of D Squadron SAS landed on a glacier

on South Georgia on 21st April in what proved to be an abortive mission.

What was the name of the glacier?

Fortuna.

What nickname was given to the San Carlos Bay area

because of repeated Argentine air attacks on the British fleet

in the days after the troop landings?

Bomb Alley.

Who was in command of HMS Sheffield

when she was struck by an Exocet anti-ship missile on 4th May, 1982?

She sank six days later.

Sam Salt.

What name was given to the operation to land 3 Commando Brigade

unopposed on the Falkland islands?

San Carlos Bay was eventually chosen as a suitable location.

Operation Sutton.

The Spanish-speaking Marine Captain Rod Bell

accompanied a Special Forces team that attacked an Argentine position

on a ridge overlooking the approach to San Carlos water.

What was the ridge called?

Fanning Head.

Which British submarine sank the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano

with the loss of 368 lives

even though it was outside the Total Exclusion Zone?

HMS Conqueror.

Who was the first Falkland Islander to welcome British troops

after their landing at San Carlos on 21st May?

C company of 40 Commando raised the Union flag outside his house.

Pass.

British Sea Harriers were equipped with which American-supplied

air-to-air missile that was effective against the Argentine air force?

The version nine Sidewinder.

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I've started, so I'll finish. Which frigate was bombed and damaged

minutes before the attack

on the Sir Tristram and Sir Galahad at Fitzroy on 8th June?

Take a guess.

Ardent.

It was HMS Plymouth.

You had two passes. Pat Short was the first Falkland Islander to welcome them.

And General Roberto Viola

was ousted as the Argentine president in December 1981.

You have, Tony, 11 points.

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And our final contender, please.

-And your name is?

-Rob White.

-Your occupation?

-Retired.

And your chosen subject?

-The life and work of Thomas Hardy.

-Thomas Hardy.

Two minutes.

In Far From The Madding Crowd, what is the name of the farm

at which William Boldwood is the tenant?

Little Weatherbury.

What is the title of Hardy's first published novel,

the almost complete manuscript of which

he posted to Macmillan in March 1870?

Desperate Remedies.

Thomas Hardy was born in June 1840 in which Dorset village,

the son of a builder and a former domestic servant?

Higher Bockhampton.

At age of 16 in 1856 Hardy became articled to

and a pupil of which Dorchester architect?

Hicks.

What is the subtitle of his novel Under The Greenwood Tree

that he'd initially intended to call The Mellstock Quire?

A Rural Painting Of The Dutch School.

Which wounded creature does Tess kill while she is on

a journey to Flintcomb-Ash to start work on

the farm with Marian in Tess Of The D'Urbervilles?

A pheasant.

What is the title of Hardy's earliest surviving poem,

written between 1857 and 1860 that describes his family's cottage?

Domicilium.

At which remote Cornish village where he had been

sent by his employer George Crickmay to oversee

the restoration of the local church did Hardy

meet his future wife Emma Gifford In March 1870?

St Juliot.

What is the name of the district in Casterbridge

where the local lowlife congregates.

Mixen Lane.

Jude The Obscure had a harsh critical reception.

Which Bishop publicly burned a copy of the novel?

Wakefield.

Hardy wrote the 1912 poem The Convergence Of The Twain,

later included in Satires Of Circumstance about which historical event?

Sinking of the Titanic.

On which of his relatives whom he had met in Hatfield in the autumn of 1849

did Hardy later partly base the character

of Bathsheba Everdene in Far From The Madding Crowd?

His Aunt Martha.

What name does he give to the stretch of sombre wasteland that

is the setting for The Return Of The Native?

Egdon Heath.

In which poem did Hardy write about his parting from Emma during their courtship,

"But crimson one cheek of hers burned when we came in together?"

At The Word 'Farewell'.

After his death, Hardy's ashes were interred at Poets' Corner in

Westminster Abbey but which one of his organs was

buried in a casket in Stinsford Churchyard?

His heart.

In The Woodlanders, Sook Damson is singing a snatch of a local ballad

when Fitzpiers finally catches her...

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..after she's mistaken him for her lover Tim Tangs. Which ballad is it?

Earl Marshall.

No, it's The Foggy, Foggy Dew.

You would have had them all right apart from that.

Nonetheless, you have scored, Rob, 15 points.

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Well, a high-scoring round there. Let's have a look at all the scores.

In fourth place, 10 points, Mark Cooper. Joint second place,

11 points apiece, Allan Nicholas and Tony Ryan.

In the lead with 15 points, Rob White.

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So, it's the general knowledge round now and if there is a tie

at the end of it then the number of passes

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

And if they are tied on passes as well, there will be a tie-break.

The six highest-scoring runners up from these heats will also

be able to claim a place in the semifinals. So, plenty to play for.

Let's get on with it

and ask Mark Cooper to join us again, please.

And you scored 10 points with your knowledge of Kevin Smith.

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

You have two and a half minutes now. Here we go.

In which city are the Gare Du Nord and Gare De Lyon

two of the six main railway termini?

Paris.

Johnny Marr was the guitarist with which

Manchester band from 1982 until they broke up in '87?

The Smiths.

What nickname was given to the English king William II

because of his ruddy complexion?

Rufus.

Which undefeated former world heavyweight boxing

champion was killed in an air crash on 31 August '69,

the day before his 46th birthday?

Max Schmeling.

Rocky Marciano.

Which television soap opera features the Carrington family

and was set in Denver, Colorado?

Dynasty.

In June 2012, Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood

was declared the first democratically-elected president of which country?

Egypt.

What common alternative name for the plant Antirrhinum

comes from its flowers which supposedly resemble the head

of a mythical creature?

Pass.

Frederick Forsyth took the title of his novel

The Dogs Of War from the line, "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war,"

in which of Shakespeare's plays?

Hamlet.

Julius Caesar. Which fellow scientist did

Maria Sklodowska marry in 1895? She went on to

share the 1903 Nobel Prize For Physics with him and Henri Becquerel.

Pierre Curie.

What poetic name is given to the A830, the road

that runs from Fort William to the ferry port of Mallaig

on the West Coast of Scotland?

Pass.

The Welsh speciality laverbread is prepared from a variety of what?

Seaweed.

The visible members of which clusters of stars are named

after the seven sisters of Greek mythology?

The Pleiades.

On which Mediterranean island is the ancient city

of Syracuse where St Paul stayed on his journey to Rome?

Sicily.

Who replaced Jodie Foster as FBI agent Clarice Starling

in Hannibal, the sequel to The Silence Of The Lambs?

Julianne Moore.

At which London art gallery was the Ondaatje Wing opened in May 2000?

It is named after the philanthropist Christopher Ondaatje.

National Gallery.

National Portrait Gallery.

What do the letters TT stand for in the motorcycle races

held in the Isle of Man?

Tourist Trophy.

At Christmas in 1492 which famous ship

ran aground off Haiti and was lost?

Amistad.

Santa Maria.

Who revealed he had read Katie Price's autobiographies

as background research for his novel

Lionel Asbo State Of England, first published in June 2012?

Pass.

In which North African country are the Spanish exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla?

Morocco.

What title in addition to Viscount Linley was conferred

on Anthony Armstrong Jones after his marriage to Princess Margaret?

Lord Snowdon.

What name is given to a word or sentence

that reads the same backwards as forwards?

Palindrome.

Which French composer, best known for his early opera Faust...

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..spent time in London in the early 1870s where he wrote popular drawing-room ballads?

Ravel.

No, it was Gounod.

Three passes. Martin Amis wrote Lionel Asbo.

The Road To The Isles is the rather more poetic name for the A830.

And Antirrhinums are snapdragons.

You have scored in total, Mark, 24 points.

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And now Allan Nicholas again, please.

And you begin this round with your 11 points

because of your knowledge of the Bee Gees

and 24 is the score to beat.

Let's see if you can do it. Here we go.

Who played Del Boy Trotter in the television series Only Fools And Horses?

David Jason.

In which country is the valley of the River Emme,

the original home of Emmental cheese?

Holland.

Switzerland.

Which events were held in Stockholm rather than Melbourne

at the 1956 Summer Olympics because of strict quarantine restrictions?

Pass.

What word comes after Dartford, Sedge and Willow

in the names of certain species of small songbirds?

Warbler.

Which city is the setting for many of Willy Russell's plays

including the musical Blood Brothers?

Liverpool.

Which country, united with Serbia in various ways for several decades,

finally became independent in 2006 after a referendum?

Bosnia.

Montenegro.

Stephen King's novel 11/22/63 published in November 2011 is about

a time traveller's attempt to prevent whose assassination?

Pass.

Boltardy is a popular variety of which vegetable used for pickling

and to add colour and flavour to salads?

Cabbage.

Beetroot.

Whose albums include Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player

and Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy?

Elton John.

In the Roman Catholic Church, what name is given to

the Assembly of cardinals who meet to elect the new Pope?

Pass.

In which film do Joe and Jerry, played by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon,

become Josephine and Daphne when they join an all-girl band?

Some Like It Hot.

The ruins of the Roman fort of Mediobogdum

stand partway up which pass in the Lake District?

It's one of the steepest in the country and famous for its hairpin bends.

Snake pass.

Hardknott Pass.

The opera Dido And Aeneas was first performed at

Josiah Priest's School For Gentlewomen in Chelsea in about 1689.

Who wrote it?

Gilbert and Sullivan.

No, it was Purcell.

Which '60s television pop music show was

introduced by Manfred Mann's theme tune 5-4-3-2-1?

Oh Boy!

Ready Steady Go!

Which town on Mounts Bay, Cornwall is the terminus

of the railway line from Paddington

and the main ferry port for the Scilly Islands?

Penzance.

The Duke of Lancaster who was the fourth son of Edward III

and the father of Henry IV is generally known by what name?

Pass.

Which French sculptor was commissioned in 1884 to make

the bronze monument of The Burghers Of Calais

for a site in front of the port's town hall?

Pass.

Who invented the hovercraft in the 1950s after he

experimented with a small industrial fan, a coffee tin and a cat food tin?

Christopher Cockerell.

Which novelist's works include Lord Jim And Nostromo?

BEEP

Amis.

It was Conrad.

Five passes.

Rodin is the sculptor who did The Burghers Of Calais.

John of Gaunt was the Duke of Lancaster.

Conclave is the assembly of cardinals who elect the Pope.

John F Kennedy is the chap who the time traveller tried to stop

being killed in the Stephen King novel

and it was the equestrian events that were transferred to

Stockholm rather than Melbourne in 1956.

You have a total now, Allan, of 18 points.

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And now Tony Ryan again, please.

And you also begin this round with 11 points

with your knowledge of the Falklands War.

Let's see if you can beat 24 points with your general knowledge.

Here we go. Who said in 1938,

"This is the second time in our history that there has

"come back from Germany to Downing Street, peace with honour?"

Chamberlain.

How do actors refer to Shakespeare's Macbeth inside the theatre

as to say its name is thought to be unlucky?

The Scottish play.

"You put the boom-boom into my heart,"

is the opening line of which Wham! chart-topper?

Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go.

The name of which spring flower comes from that of

the Greek youth killed while Apollo was teaching him to throw the discus?

Crocus.

Hyacinth.

Who wrote the horror stories The Fall Of The House Of Usher

and the Pit And The Pendulum among others?

Pass.

William the Conqueror was succeeded by two of his sons as the King of England,

William II in 1087 and then which other in 1100?

William III.

Henry I.

Which British actor played the human-hating mutant

Magneto in the 2000 film X-men?

Ian McKellen.

Who scored the winning penalty for Chelsea against

Bayern Munich in the 2012 Champions League Final?

It was his last goal for the club.

Didier Drogba.

The pecan, butternut and hickory nut are all

relatives of which common English nut that is sometimes pickled?

Walnut.

Which religious reformer, born in Eisleben,

was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church

by the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem

issued on 3 January 1521?

Martin Luther.

What name of Anglo Irish origin is given to a shop

where illicit liquor is sold,

especially in Ireland or more recently in South Africa?

Speakeasy.

Shebeen.

Which television programme,

relaunched in 2012 with Frank Skinner as presenter,

takes its title from a place in George Orwell's novel 1984?

Room 101.

Which busy port stands at the north-western tip

of the Isles of Sheppey?

Ramsgate.

Sheerness.

What Latin name meaning brain is given to the largest

and uppermost part of the human brain that

accounts for about two thirds of its total weight?

Pass.

Which independent principality has a land border

only with mainland France?

San Marino.

Monaco.

Which type of long-barrelled infantry gun in wide use

between 16th and 18th centuries has a name said

to come from the old French for a sparrowhawk?

Pass.

Which business organisations is known by the initials CBI?

Confederation of British Industry.

The Chorus Of The Hebrew Slaves comes from which opera by Verdi?

Aida.

Nabucco.

For which Sussex Cathedral did Marc Chagall design

a stained-glass window inspired by the theme of

Psalm 150, "Let everything that has breath praise the Lord?"

Chichester.

Who was appointed as the last British Viceroy of India

in 1946, administering the transfer of power from Britain?

Louis Mountbatten.

Which corrosive substance was formerly known as oil of vitriol?

BEEP

Sulphuric acid.

Sulphuric acid is correct. You had three passes.

That gun, the long-barrelled infantry gun, was the musket.

Cerebrum is the bit of the brain that I was looking for there.

And The Fall Of The House Of Usher and The Pit And The Pendulum,

written by Edgar Allan Poe.

You have, Tony, 23 points.

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And finally, Rob White again, please.

And you begin this round with 15 points

with your knowledge of Thomas Hardy. And the score to beat is still 24.

Let's see how you get on. Here we go.

According to the proverb,

a long spoon is needed by the person who sups with whom?

Pass.

In which present-day country did the Aztec civilisation

flourish before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors?

Mexico.

Which large bird of prey found in the Scottish Highlands

and northern England gets its name from the colours

of the feathers on its head and neck?

Golden eagle.

Following a green paper,

what name is given to a government publication presented to Parliament

outlining policy or proposed legislation on a particular matter?

White Paper.

Which fictional character lived with her wheelchair-bound husband

Sir Clifford at Wragby Hall near the mining village

of Tevershall in the East Midlands?

Pass.

St Anne is the capital of which of the Channel Islands?

Can you repeat the question, please?

St Anne is the capital of which of the Channel Islands?

Alderney.

In the television comedy The Royle Family,

who starred as Jim, the lazy, grumpy and uncouth head of the family?

Pass.

The first historical record of which famous religious relic dates

back to about 1350 when it was said to have

been in the possession of a French knight Geoffroi De Charny?

Turin shroud.

Which Gilbert and Sullivan opera has the alternative

title The Witch's Curse?

Ruddigore.

What word for an unorthodox person also means an unbranded calf

in America, coming from the name of a Texas rancher who

had a large herd of calves?

Maverick.

Which 1992 film starred Sharon Stone

as Catherine Tramell, the prime suspect in the

murder of a rock star who had been killed with an ice pick?

Pass.

The title of which John Steinbeck novel is

taken from a line in the Battle Hymn Of The Republic?

Grapes Of Wrath.

What was the standard rate

of VAT when it was introduced into Britain on 1 April 1973?

10%.

Which prominent British architect

born in Florence in 1933 has his offices next door to

the River Cafe in London where his wife Ruth is the chef?

Pass.

With which club did Jose Mourinho first

win the UEFA Champions League final in 2004?

Porto.

Who resigned as leader of the Labour Party in October 1980?

Foot.

Callaghan.

According to Islamic tradition,

from which city did Muhammad make his ascent to heaven?

Mecca.

Jerusalem.

Manchester's principal Symphony Orchestra was

founded by and is named after which 19th century

German-born pianist and conductor?

Halle.

Which battle of 1805 is also known as the Battle Of The Three Emperors

because the emperors of France, Austria and Russia were all in the field?

Austerlitz.

What name is given to the pair of oval-shaped masses...

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..of lymphatic tissue normally visible on the back

of the throat either side of the soft palate?

Epiglottis.

Tonsils.

Five passes. Richard Rogers was that architect.

Basic Instinct was Sharon Stone's film.

Ricky Tomlinson was the lazy head of the Royle family.

Lady Chatterley... Yeah. ..was Wragby Hall.

And if you sup with the devil, you need a long spoon.

It happens like that. Five passes but still, Rob, 27 points.

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So, he held onto his lead. Let's have a look at all the scores.

In fourth place with 18 points, Allan Nicholas.

Third place, 23 points, Tony Ryan.

Second place, 24 points, Mark Cooper.

In first place, 27 points, Rob White.

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Which means that Rob White is tonight's winner

and goes through to the semifinals.

Congratulations to him.

But if you would like to be a contender on the next series,

do go to our website bbc.co.uk/mastermind.

And do join us again next time for more Mastermind.

Thanks for watching. Goodbye.

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