Episode 20 Mastermind

First in the spotlight tonight is Phil Bennion from Wrexham, his subject, Marilyn Monroe.

Next, Tim Parry, a lecturer from Basingstoke, he answers questions on David Lloyd George.

Nell Whiteway, a researcher from Cambridge, her subject, Swallows And Amazons.

And Peter Gibbs from London, his subject, the First Duke of Wellington.

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Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.

As you will know by now, this is the quiz show that does not take prisoners.

The rules are simple, but no quarter is given.

The contenders get two minutes on their specialist subject and two-and-a-half on general knowledge

and hesitation can prove fatal.

The prize is modest, 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, please.

Your name is...?

Two minutes. Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson on the 1st of June, 1926,

in the General Hospital of which American city?

-Los Angeles.

-What was the name of the sports star Monroe married in San Francisco in January 1954?

-Joe DiMaggio.

-At which venue did Monroe sing Happy Birthday to President John F Kennedy

on the 19th of May 1962, less than three months before her death?

-Madison Square Garden.

-In which '53 film does Monroe perform the number Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend?

-Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

-What was the surname of Ida and Albert,

the deeply religious couple who fostered the young Norma Jeane from 1926 until around 1933?

-Bolender.

-On which New York thoroughfare at the junction with 52nd Street

did Monroe pose above a subway vent with the air blowing up her white skirt

during the production of The Seven Year Itch, although the scene was re-shot in the studio?

-Lexington Avenue.

-Arthur Miller, Monroe's third husband, broke a Writers' Guild strike

to help re-work the screenplay of which 1960 film starring Monroe and Yves Montand?

-Let's Make Love.

-What incriminating object falls from Monroe's dress

when, as the ukulele player Sugar Kane in Some Like It Hot,

she gives an energetic performance of Running Wild?

-A flask of bourbon.

-Yes, a hip flask. With which screen comedian who plays Sam Grunion

does Monroe exchange her few lines of dialogue in the film Love Happy?

-Groucho Marx.

-Monroe made a brief appearance in a 1948 film called Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!

Under what alternative title was the film also released in the UK?

-Pass.

-Which of Monroe's co-stars allegedly described his love scenes with her as "like kissing Hitler"?

-Tony Curtis.

-According to her biographer Daniel Spoto,

a reporter once challenged her to spell the name of Grushenka,

the female character in The Brothers Karamazov whom she was interested in playing on screen.

What was her three-word response?

-"Yes, can you?"

-No, it was, "Look it up."

With which teacher, a major exponent of "method acting", did Monroe study at the Actors Studio in 1955?

-BEEP

-He became a close friend and read the eulogy at her funeral.

-Lee Strasberg.

-Correct. Just one pass.

That brief appearance in Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!,

that was the film that was released here as Summer Lightning.

You have, Phil, 11 points.

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And our next contender, please.

And your name is...?

Lloyd George was born in Manchester in 1863,

but in which Caernarvonshire village was he brought up?

-Llanystumdwy.

-During the 1918 General Election, Lloyd George gave a speech in Wolverhampton

and said it was the country's task to make Britain "a fit country for" who "to live in"?

-Heroes.

-What was the title of his 1929 pamphlet, popularly known as the Orange or Little Yellow Book?

-We Can Conquer Unemployment.

-What name is given to Lloyd George's Finance Bill of 1909

that introduced new taxes to pay for old age pensions and increased naval expenditure?

-The People's Budget.

-He tried to speak in opposition to the Boer War at Birmingham Town Hall in 1901,

but the meeting was broken up by an armed mob and he had to escape, disguised as what?

-A policeman.

-Lloyd George's sale of honours became a public scandal

when a South African mining magnate was nominated for a peerage in the 1922 Birthday Honours List,

in spite of a conviction for fraud. Who was he?

-Robertson?

-Sir Joseph Robinson.

In his 1909 budget speech, what did Lloyd George say "costs as much to keep up as two dreadnoughts"?

-A duke.

-Yes, "a fully equipped duke".

In 1917, who did Lloyd George appoint as the commander of the Allied army in Egypt

to capture Jerusalem, a task he fulfilled later that year?

-Allenby.

-In 1888, Lloyd George represented the Roberts family

who had buried their father in consecrated ground despite the opposition of the local rector.

By what name is this case known?

-Pass.

-A newspaper article on Sunday, 3rd December 1916,

describing Lloyd George's plans for reorganising the government,

led to him becoming Prime Minister after Asquith's resignation. Which newspaper was it in?

-The News Chronicle?

-Reynold's News.

Lloyd George made a controversial speech in 1911 after Germany sent a gunboat to which Moroccan port?

-Agadir.

-In later years, Lloyd George specialised in growing which type of soft fruit,

including one named after him?

-Raspberry.

-Lloyd George made his last great speech in May 1940, calling for Chamberlain's resignation...

-BEEP

-..after the fall of which country to the Germans?

-It was the Norwegian debate.

-It was indeed. It was Norway.

You had one pass. That case when he represented the Roberts family

was called the Llanfrothen Burial Case.

-You have, Tim, 10 points.

-Thank you.

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And our next contender, please.

And your name is...?

What is the family name of the children who make up the crew of the good ship Swallow?

-Walker.

-The first book in the Swallows And Amazons series is dedicated by Arthur Ransome

to "the six for whom it was written in exchange for" what?

-A pair of slippers.

-What is the pirate name of Ruth Blackett, the tomboyish master of the Amazon?

-Nancy.

-The mysterious Timothy in Pigeon Post turns out to have been

Captain Flint's prospecting partner in South America.

What did the children expect him to be?

-An armadillo.

-Which of the Walker children brings the book Simple Cooking For Small Households

on the expedition to Wildcat Island in Swallows And Amazons?

-Susan.

-The Swallow is wrecked on what rock in high winds in Swallowdale?

The children haul the boat onto the beach to try and salvage it.

-Pike Rock.

-In Great Northern?, which of the children, a keen birdwatcher,

takes "the first five photographs ever taken of a Great Northern Diver nesting in the British Isles"?

-Dick.

-In what language is the writing in the mysterious notebook

Roger finds in a box in the Pict-house in Great Northern?

-Gaelic.

-Who, in the make-believe games played by the children in Secret Water, is sacrificed,

put in a cooking pot and reluctantly rescued after the Swallows are captured by the savage Eels?

-Bridget.

-In The Big Six, Dorothy takes down the Coot Club sign in the club shed

and writes a new sign saying what?

-Scotland Yard.

-According to the Swallow's Original Ship's Papers, what is the ship's home port?

-Holly Howe.

-In Pigeon Post, what is the first sea shanty the Swallows sing

while wheeling the handcart and their bicycles to the Tysons' farm?

-Hanging Johnny.

-An animal called Sinbad is rescued and nursed to health

with medicinal alcohol and Carnation milk in We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea. What type of animal is he?

-A cat.

-Who is the skipper of the Goblin who avoids a crash

thanks to John's knot-tying skills in We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea?

-Jim Brading.

-At what activity which "uses muscles that seem to be mostly on holiday"

are Dick and Dorothea surprisingly skilled in Winter Holiday?

-Rowing.

-Skating. The Death And Glory is a patrol boat of which organisation, part of the Coot Club?

-BEEP The Bird Protection Society.

-Correct.

No passes and, apart from that one "skating" error, you got them all right.

You got 15 points.

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And our final contender, please.

And your name is...?

Arthur Wellesley, future Duke of Wellington,

spent his early years in Dublin and at which family home near Trim?

-Langan Castle.

-Dangan Castle.

Which horse did he buy from Charles Stewart, his Adjutant-General during the Peninsular War?

-Copenhagen.

-Name the confederacy he defeated in the 1803 Battle of Assaye.

He described it as his finest accomplishment on the battlefield.

-The Maratha.

-After which battle did Wellington write,

"Our loss is immense, particularly in that best of all instruments, British infantry.

"I never saw the infantry behave so well"?

-Salamanca.

-The Battle of Waterloo.

Wellington was angered by British troops breaking ranks to loot rather than pursuing the beaten French

following which decisive victory in the Peninsular War in June 1813?

-That was Vitoria.

-What was the name of the publisher who tried to blackmail Wellington

over the forthcoming memoirs of the courtesan Harriette Wilson?

He declined with the reported comment, "Publish and be damned."

-Pass.

-Which political post did he accept in 1807

on condition it would not be allowed to interfere with his army career?

Chief Secretary of Ireland.

Wellington's immaculate appearance during his military years was the source of which of his nicknames?

-Wellington Boots.

-No, the Beau.

During his first Premiership, over what issue

did Wellington and the Earl of Winchilsea go through the motions of a duel in 1829 at Battersea Fields?

-Catholic Emancipation.

-What was the name of the French soldier who tried to assassinate Wellington in 1818?

He was left 10,000 francs in the will of Napoleon Bonaparte for making the attempt.

-Pass.

-Over what issue did Wellington hold negotiations with the Russians in 1826?

It was referred to as the Protocols of St Petersburg.

-Pass.

-Wellington's government resigned in 1830,

the day before a scheduled debate on parliamentary reform,

following a proposal that a select committee should examine which government account?

BEEP

-Pass.

-I can tell you because your time is up. It was the Civil List.

The issue that he held negotiations with the Russians over,

these are your other passes, was Greek independence.

Marie-Andre Nicolas Cantillon was the name of the French soldier who tried to assassinate him.

And John Joseph Stockdale was the publisher who tried to blackmail him.

He had a pretty rough time of it at times.

Anyway, four passes, Peter, you have 5 points.

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

In fourth place, Peter Gibbs.

Third place, Tim Parry.

Second place, Phil Bennion.

In the lead, Nell Whiteway.

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It's the general knowledge round now. If there is a tie at the end,

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

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

The six highest scoring runners-up from the heats will also be able to claim a place in the semi-finals,

so lots to play for. Let's ask Peter Gibbs to join us again, please.

You have two-and-a-half minutes on general knowledge now, so let's see how you can do with that.

What popular name is given to the struggle for air supremacy

in the skies above south-east England in late summer 1940?

-Battle of Britain.

-Whose plays were first published collectively in 1623

in the so-called First Folio collated by the actors John Heminge and Henry Condell?

-Shakespeare.

-Which North American capital city hosted the 1968 Olympic Games?

-Mexico City.

-What name is usually given to a square or marketplace in an Italian town or city?

-Piazza.

-Which 1955 film musical opens with Gordon MacRae singing Oh, What A Beautiful Morning?

-Oklahoma!

-Since January 2010, jewellery made from the precious metal with the chemical symbol "Pd"

has required a hallmark. What is the metal?

-Silver.

-No, palladium.

St Michael's Cathedral, consecrated in 1962, contains works

by Jacob Epstein, John Piper, Graham Sutherland and Elisabeth Frink. In which city is it?

-Coventry.

-What name that comes from the Greek words meaning "horse" and "a course"

was often used for theatres and cinemas?

-Pass.

-Which reclusive writer's first novel was The Catcher In The Rye, published in 1951?

-John Schlesinger.

-JD Salinger.

It's Alright, sung by Dennis Waterman, is the theme tune

of which TV crime drama in which Waterman is also one of the stars?

-New Tricks.

-Who was elected leader of the Labour Party after James Callaghan resigned in 1980?

-Michael Foot.

-Which English artist, who died in 1898 aged 25,

drew the illustrations for Oscar Wilde's play Salome?

They brought him widespread notoriety.

-Pass.

-The blossoms of which fruit tree are an unofficial national emblem of Japan?

-Chrysanthemum.

-The cherry tree.

Which conductor of the BBC Dance Orchestra hosted his own Guest Night on the radio

and made a well-known recording of The Teddy Bears' Picnic in 1932?

-Victor Silvester.

-Henry Hall. The York cycle of Mystery Plays enact events from the Bible.

Whose story was traditionally performed by the carpenters or shipwrights?

-Pass.

-Water glass, or sodium silicate, was formerly used

as a household preservative, especially for which food?

-Eggs.

-Who was made Commander-in-Chief of the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War in February 1865,

surrendering to Ulysses S Grant on the 9th of April 1865?

-Robert E Lee.

-Which country is bordered by Tunisia and Algeria on the west and Egypt on the east?

-Libya.

-Which football cup competition takes place between the winners...

-BEEP

-..of the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League?

-The Charity Shield.

-No, it's the UEFA Super Cup.

You had three passes. The story of Noah was traditionally performed by the carpenters in the Mystery Plays.

Aubrey Beardsley was that English artist who drew the illustrations for Salome.

And that name that comes from the Greek words meaning "horse" and "course" was "hippodrome".

You have now, Peter, 16 points.

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And now Tim Parry again, please.

And you begin with 10 points with your knowledge of David Lloyd George.

General knowledge, starting now.

Which part of Achilles did his mother Thetis hold him by

when she dipped him into the River Styx, so he would be immortal?

-Heel.

-The Chiltern Hills are primarily composed of which rock, a form of limestone?

-Chalk.

-The mutual defence treaty signed by the Soviet Union and its East European allies in May 1955

is generally known by what name?

-The Warsaw Pact.

-In which 1977 sci-fi film does Richard Dreyfuss try

to create a model of Devils Tower, Wyoming, out of mashed potato?

-Pass.

-In 1930, which country became the first winners of the football World Cup

when they beat Argentina 4-2 in the final?

-Uruguay.

-By what title was William Basie known

that associated him with other members of the "jazz aristocracy" like Duke Ellington and Earl Hines?

-Louis Armstrong.

-Count Basie.

The term "may blossom" refers to the white or pink flowers of which common thorny shrub?

-Cherry.

-Hawthorn. The north and south branches of which river join near Hexham in Northumberland?

-Aire.

-The Tyne. Which spirit is used to make a Planter's Punch cocktail along with fruit juices and sugar?

-Pass.

-In the novel by Evelyn Waugh, adapted for television in 1981,

what is the name of the Flyte family's country house?

-Brideshead.

-In which Italian city is the Palace of Capodimonte?

A royal factory to produce fine porcelain was established there in 1743.

-Padua.

-Naples. In psychoanalysis, which mental disorder characterised by extreme self-absorption

is named after a youth in Greek mythology who fell in love with his own reflection?

-Pan... Neurosis.

-Narcissism.

In the UK, what system of income tax collection came into force in 1944,

replacing annual or twice yearly collections?

-PAYE.

-In the TV series based on the novels of Elizabeth George,

the 8th Earl of Asherton is known in the police force by what name?

-Pass.

-Which Cornish engineer built the first steam locomotive

to run successfully on rails in 1804 at Penydarren Ironworks near Merthyr Tydfil?

-Trevithick.

-What nickname did King John acquire because he was left with little inheritance?

-Lackland.

-From which US city has the country music show the Grand Ole Opry been broadcasting since 1925?

-Memphis.

-Nashville. The 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to which Russian author

who turned it down because of political pressure?

-Boris Pasternak.

-In Judaism, name the wooden chest

that housed the two stone tablets containing the Ten Commandments given to Moses by God.

-The Ark.

-Which Scottish city will host the 2014 Commonwealth Games...

-BEEP

-..having seen off the challenge of the Nigerian capital Abuja?

-Glasgow.

-Glasgow is correct. You had three passes.

In that TV series, the Earl of Asherton is better known as Detective Inspector Lynley.

Rum is what you need to make a Planter's Punch.

And the movie in which he tried to make Devil's Tower out of mashed potatoes

-was Close Encounters of the Third Kind. You have now, Tim, 21 points.

-Thank you.

And now Phil Bennion again, please.

And you start out with 11 points with your knowledge of Marilyn Monroe.

Let's see how you do with general knowledge. 2½ minutes starting now.

At what London sporting venue is the Mound Stand topped by Father Time?

-Lord's.

-The influenza pandemic that wiped out millions of people in 1918 was given what popular name,

in spite of probably originating in America?

-Spanish Flu.

-Which early blooming spring flower is also known as the Fair Maid of February?

-Pass.

The River Witham flows through which city on its course to the Wash?

-Norwich.

-Lincoln. What name is given to the tall headdress worn by archbishops and bishops

as a symbol of their office?

-Mitre.

-Which writer bought an estate in the San Fernando Valley, California, in 1919,

and renamed it the Tarzana Ranch?

-Hearst?

-Edgar Rice Burroughs. Which crustacean is cooked with Irish whiskey and cream in Dublin Lawyer?

-Prawns?

-Lobster. Who won the men's French Open tennis championship in 2012 for a record seventh time?

He was beaten at Wimbledon shortly afterward by the world number 100.

-Nadal.

-Which leading French revolutionary was described by Victorian historian Thomas Carlyle

as the Seagreen Incorruptible?

-Robespierre.

-Which work by Carl Orff opens and closes with the dramatic chorus O Fortuna?

-Carmina Burana.

-What is the particular characteristic of German towns whose names begin with Bad?

-Pass.

-The parents of which fashion designer, whose work includes the Queen's Coronation dress,

ran the Crown and Sceptre public house?

-Norman Hartnell?

-Yes. In the poem by Longfellow, what is the name of Hiawatha's lover?

-Minnehaha.

-In 1971, who became the first actor to refuse an Oscar? He was awarded it for Patton.

-George C Scott.

-In medicine, what's considered to be normal at or about 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit

or 37 degrees Celsius?

-Er, 99.

-The body temperature.

Which former head of the Royal Bank of Scotland was stripped of his knighthood in 2012?

-Fred Goodwin.

-Which Jerome Kern musical is set on the paddle steamer Cotton Blossom?

-Show Boat.

-In pre-decimal currency, the coin known as the florin, first minted in 1849,

was worth how many old pence?

-24.

-Clayton Moore, who never appeared in public without a mask, played which Western hero on TV?

-Lone Ranger.

-Which Simon and Garfunkel song opens with, "When you're weary, feeling small"?

-BEEP Bridge Over Troubled Water.

-Yes, indeed.

You had two passes. Bad in front of a German town means that they are spa towns.

And that early-blooming spring flower is the snowdrop.

It came to you too late. Nevertheless, Phil, you now have a total of 25 points.

And, finally, Nell Whiteway again, please.

And you scored 15 points with your knowledge of Swallows and Amazons.

The score to beat to get into the semi-finals is 25. 2½ minutes starting now.

Kylie Minogue played Charlene Mitchell in which soap opera about the residents of Ramsay Street?

-Neighbours.

-The writer Alice Walker won a Pulitzer Prize for which 1982 novel

about the life of a poor, uneducated black woman in Georgia?

-Secret Life of Bees?

-The Color Purple. On which West Midlands spa town did Queen Victoria confer

the title Royal in 1838?

-Leamington Spa.

-What's the anatomical name of the fleshy muscles of the buttock

from the pelvic girdle to the femur?

-Thigh?

-Gluteus. Which of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world was on an island at Alexandria, Egypt?

-The Pharos.

-Which dark-coloured tea has a Chinese name meaning black dragon?

-Bohea?

-Oolong. Whose film roles include the history teacher Hector in The History Boys

and Uncle Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter films?

-Pierce Brosnan.

-Richard Griffiths.

What term from the Latin for to trample down or pound is given to an area of compacted snow for skiing?

-Piste.

-Which American President's great-grandfather set sail for America from County Wexford in 1848?

-George Bush.

-John F Kennedy. Which of the world's oceans is the smallest in area?

-Antarctic.

-The Arctic. What is the common name of the wild dog brought to Australia from Asia?

-Dingo.

-Which Bolton-born encyclopaedist is well-known for his Filmgoer's Companions?

The first appeared in 1965.

-Peter Bradshaw?

-Halliwell. Which singer, who uses her middle name as a stage name,

reached number 2 in the UK charts in 2005 with her debut single Pon De Replay?

-Adele?

-Rihanna. Who is the Greek god of love? His Roman counterpart is Cupid.

-Eros.

-Which 19th-century writer's novel North and South contrasts the values of rural southern England

with the industrial north?

-Elizabeth Gaskell.

-Which British 11-times Paralympic gold medallist was made a Dame in 2005?

-Tanni Grey-Thompson.

-Two of Henry VIII's wives outlived him. Anne of Cleves and...?

-Catherine Parr.

-In 2012, the Belgian Raf Simons was chosen to succeed John Galliano

as designer for which fashion house?

-Ralph Lauren?

-Dior. In which TV series do the writers Beverly and Sean Lincoln go to Hollywood

to remake a successful comedy and are forced to cast Matt LeBlanc?

-Episodes.

-James Bay, situated between Northern Ontario and Quebec, is an extension of which larger bay?

-Hudson.

-In music, what word for the highest voice in choral singing...

-BEEP

..is mainly used for a boy soprano?

-Treble.

-Is correct. No passes.

You needed 26 points. You have 27.

Well, what a close-run thing. Let's look at all the scores.

In fourth place, Peter Gibbs.

Third place, Tim Parry.

Second place, Phil Bennion.

In first place, 27 points, Nell Whiteway.

Which means that Nell Whiteway is tonight's winner and goes through to the semi-finals. Congratulations.

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