0:00:25 > 0:00:32First in the spotlight tonight is Katy Bateman, a housewife. Her subject is the Red Dwarf TV series.
0:00:32 > 0:00:38Next, Didier Bruyere, a scientist from Bristol. His subject, Marie Curie.
0:00:38 > 0:00:44Tim Jarvis is a commercial manager from Newbury, answering questions on the novels of Jasper Fforde.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47And Michael Webb, a risk consultant from Chippenham.
0:00:47 > 0:00:52His subject is the First World War commander Field Marshal Douglas Haig.
0:01:02 > 0:01:05Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.
0:01:05 > 0:01:10If you ever wonder why anyone would put themselves through this ordeal,
0:01:10 > 0:01:16well, becoming a Mastermind champion is the greatest honour the quiz world has to offer.
0:01:16 > 0:01:22All they need do is answer two sets of questions - on their specialist subject and on general knowledge.
0:01:22 > 0:01:28But the pressure comes from the clock. Two minutes on one and two and a half on the other,
0:01:28 > 0:01:35and no help from anyone. So let's get on with it and ask our first contender to join us, please.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43And your name is...?
0:01:47 > 0:01:53In two minutes. In the first episode, the entire crew are wiped out by a radiation leak,
0:01:53 > 0:01:59except for Dave Lister. How many years later is Lister revived by Holly, the ship's computer?
0:01:59 > 0:02:05- 3,000,000.- His companions include a creature evolved from the ship's cat and a hologram of Arnold Rimmer.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08What is Rimmer's middle name?
0:02:08 > 0:02:13- Judas.- Red Dwarf was created by Rob Grant and which other writer?
0:02:13 > 0:02:20- Doug Naylor.- In Back In The Red, what does Holly tell Lister is situated on the secret 13th floor,
0:02:20 > 0:02:22reconstructed by nanobots?
0:02:22 > 0:02:24- The tank?- Yes, the tank or the brig.
0:02:24 > 0:02:29What song has George McIntyre asked to be played at his funeral in the first episode?
0:02:29 > 0:02:34- See You Later, Alligator.- In Tikka To Ride, where is the release catch on Kryten's head
0:02:34 > 0:02:39that allows Lister to disable his behaviour protocols?
0:02:39 > 0:02:44- Behind his right ear. - According to the Cat's holy book,
0:02:44 > 0:02:48two rival factions of cat fought a holy war over the colour of...?
0:02:48 > 0:02:55- Their hats.- In the video game Better Than Life, which detects players' fantasies and makes them come true,
0:02:55 > 0:02:59Rimmer ends up with a mortgage and how many children?
0:02:59 > 0:03:02- Seven?- Yes. In Demons and Angels, when the Cat meets his higher self,
0:03:02 > 0:03:06he tells him, "No part of me would ever be seen alive wearing..." what?
0:03:06 > 0:03:12- Sandals.- Which big band leader does Lister recognise as a member of the waxwork firing squad
0:03:12 > 0:03:15that executes Winnie the Pooh?
0:03:15 > 0:03:21- James Last.- Whose hologram builds a dimension cutter that sends the crew through a portal to Earth,
0:03:21 > 0:03:24arriving in a department store?
0:03:24 > 0:03:28- Katerina Bartikovski.- Arriving on an Earth that runs backwards,
0:03:28 > 0:03:33Kryten and Rimmer form which novelty act that eats a boiled egg and drinks water?
0:03:33 > 0:03:39- The Sensational Reverse Brothers. - Whose amputated arm does Kochanski inject to trick the Epideme virus,
0:03:39 > 0:03:42thereby saving Lister's life?
0:03:42 > 0:03:48- Caroline Carmen.- In DNA, Lister is changed into a chicken when the Cat programs the DNA Modifier.
0:03:48 > 0:03:52- BEEP - What does Kryten change him into when he tries to reverse this?
0:03:52 > 0:03:54- A hamster.- Is absolutely right,
0:03:54 > 0:03:59- as were all your other answers. No passes - 14 points.- Thank you.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09And our next contender, please.
0:04:14 > 0:04:16And your name is...?
0:04:21 > 0:04:26In two minutes. She won her second Nobel Prize in 1911 for the discovery of polonium
0:04:26 > 0:04:29and the isolation of which element?
0:04:29 > 0:04:34- Radium.- What word did the Curies coin to describe "the new element found in pitchblende"
0:04:34 > 0:04:38- in their paper announcing the discovery of polonium?- Pass.
0:04:38 > 0:04:46In 1897, Curie's first published article was printed. What was the article's subject?
0:04:48 > 0:04:56- Magnetic properties of steels. - Yes. Curie attended an illegal educational institution for women.
0:04:56 > 0:05:00What name was given to it because classes were in various locations?
0:05:00 > 0:05:06- Flying University.- Or Floating. In 1911, which elderly scientist narrowly beat Curie
0:05:06 > 0:05:11in her attempt to be elected to the French Academy of Sciences?
0:05:11 > 0:05:15- Edouard Branly.- In the town hall of which commune in the Paris suburbs
0:05:15 > 0:05:19did Pierre and Marie Curie get married in July, 1895?
0:05:19 > 0:05:24- Sceaux.- At the outbreak of WWI, France's entire stock of radium was a single gram.
0:05:24 > 0:05:28To which city did Curie take it for safekeeping?
0:05:28 > 0:05:34- Bordeaux.- Whom did Curie engage as an assistant at the Radium Institute? He married her daughter.
0:05:34 > 0:05:39- Joliot. - Which British university awarded Curie an honorary degree in 1913,
0:05:39 > 0:05:43- describing her as "the greatest woman of science of all time"?- Yale.
0:05:43 > 0:05:48Birmingham. In 1995, in which mausoleum were her ashes reburied?
0:05:48 > 0:05:52She was the first woman honoured this way for her own achievements.
0:05:52 > 0:05:58- Pantheon.- What name is given to the electrometer, invented by Curie's husband and his brother?
0:05:58 > 0:06:03Marie Curie used it to measure the ionisation produced by radiation coming from pitchblende.
0:06:03 > 0:06:09- Piezoelectric quartz.- What was the sanatorium at St Gervais-les-Bains in the Savoy mountains
0:06:09 > 0:06:15where Curie died in 1934 of pernicious anaemia, probably brought on by long exposure to radiation?
0:06:15 > 0:06:22- Sancellemoz.- In January, 1886, Curie left Warsaw to work as a governess to which family?
0:06:22 > 0:06:25- BEEP - She fell in love with their oldest son.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28- Zorawski.- Is correct. One pass.
0:06:28 > 0:06:35The word coined to describe the new element found in pitchblende was radioactive.
0:06:35 > 0:06:38You have, Didier, 11 points.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49And our next contender, please.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57And your name is...?
0:07:03 > 0:07:09In two minutes. Thursday Next is a detective able to enter novels and interact with fictional characters.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11What is the first book about her?
0:07:11 > 0:07:17- The Eyre Affair.- In The Big Over Easy, who was the first officer promoted out of Nursery Crimes?
0:07:17 > 0:07:21He falsely claimed credit for catching the Gingerbreadman.
0:07:21 > 0:07:27- Friedland Chymes.- When Mrs Hathaway 34 shows Thursday a copy of Shakespeare's lost play, Cardenio,
0:07:27 > 0:07:30what indicates it's a forgery?
0:07:30 > 0:07:34- It's got lines on it.- In which novel is there a threat of genre war
0:07:34 > 0:07:38with Speedy Muffler of Racy Novel claiming to have a dirty bomb
0:07:38 > 0:07:43capable of hurling scenes of gratuitous sex into Women's Fiction?
0:07:43 > 0:07:47- First Among Sequels. - One Of Our Thursdays Is Missing.
0:07:47 > 0:07:54In Lost In A Good Book, where does Thursday travel to find Mrs Nakajima to learn how to enter books?
0:07:54 > 0:08:00- Osaka.- Which literary character is described as being "of an indeterminate age
0:08:00 > 0:08:05"and might once have been plain before the rigours of artistic interpretation worked on her"?
0:08:05 > 0:08:08- Miss Havisham.- The Lady of Shalott.
0:08:08 > 0:08:13In The Well Of Lost Plots, what unpublished crime novel does Thursday move into,
0:08:13 > 0:08:16replacing a police sergeant?
0:08:16 > 0:08:22- Caversham Heights.- In First Among Sequels, what have the Prime Minister and the Commonsense Party
0:08:22 > 0:08:25allowed to build up to a dangerous level?
0:08:25 > 0:08:29- Stupidity Surplus.- What pointless task is given to Eddie Russett
0:08:29 > 0:08:34after he has played a prank on the Head Prefect's son Bertie Magenta?
0:08:34 > 0:08:41- Chair Census.- What compulsory session does Miss Havisham lead for characters in Wuthering Heights?
0:08:41 > 0:08:45- Rage Counselling.- In Lost In A Good Book, if all the generators fail,
0:08:45 > 0:08:50the nanodevice will convert all organic matter to what type of food?
0:08:50 > 0:08:55- Pink goo. Angel Delight. - No, pudding mix. Dream Topping.
0:08:55 > 0:08:59Who informs Thursday that her punishment for changing the ending of Jane Eyre
0:08:59 > 0:09:03is to wear blue gingham for 20 years and read the ten most boring books?
0:09:03 > 0:09:07- The Gryphon.- Yes. Thursday Next's... - BEEP
0:09:07 > 0:09:13..father had been a colonel in Spec Ops 12, the Office for Special Temporal Stability.
0:09:13 > 0:09:15How is it more commonly known?
0:09:15 > 0:09:17- The Chronoguards.- Correct.
0:09:17 > 0:09:21- No passes, Tim. You have 10 points.- Thank you.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30And our final contender, please.
0:09:37 > 0:09:39And your name is...?
0:09:45 > 0:09:51In two minutes. To what post did Haig succeed Sir John French in December, 1915?
0:09:51 > 0:09:55- Commander-in-Chief.- Of...? - The British Expeditionary Force.
0:09:55 > 0:10:00In July, 1916, he wrote that the figure of 40,000 casualties the previous day
0:10:00 > 0:10:06"could not be considered severe in view of the numbers engaged". It had been the first day of which battle?
0:10:06 > 0:10:11- Somme.- In 1893, he applied to the Staff College at Camberley, but was rejected with colour blindness
0:10:11 > 0:10:16and scoring poorly in the exam for which compulsory subject?
0:10:16 > 0:10:23- Maths.- Which relatively new public school did he attend, although his mother wanted him to go to Rugby?
0:10:23 > 0:10:28- Clifton College.- From which town did he escape on the last train
0:10:28 > 0:10:32before it was surrounded by the Boers in November, 1899?
0:10:32 > 0:10:38- Pass.- Which German offensive, part of the Kaiserschlacht, began on the 9th April, 1918?
0:10:38 > 0:10:44It led to his famous order, "With our backs to the wall, each one of us must fight to the end".
0:10:45 > 0:10:49- Michael.- Georgette. At which battle of September, 1915,
0:10:49 > 0:10:55did he order the use of chlorine gas for the first time, to supplement having insufficient ammunition?
0:10:55 > 0:11:02- Second Ypres.- Loos. In January, 1919, when soldiers mutinied over living conditions and demobilisation
0:11:02 > 0:11:09Haig suggested the ringleaders be shot, but was dissuaded by Churchill. Where was that mutiny?
0:11:09 > 0:11:15- Etaples.- Calais. The Haig ancestral home was bought for him by public subscription after the war.
0:11:15 > 0:11:17What was its name?
0:11:17 > 0:11:24- Cameron House.- Bemersyde House. What post did Haig take up when he was brought back from India
0:11:24 > 0:11:27in 1906 to serve in the War Office?
0:11:27 > 0:11:33- Director of Military Training. - What was the maiden name of Haig's wife, whom he married in 1905?
0:11:33 > 0:11:37He proposed to her 36 hours after meeting her for the first time.
0:11:37 > 0:11:44- Lady Dorothy Vivian.- Which fellow corps commander died of a heart attack alongside Haig in 1914?
0:11:44 > 0:11:49- Jimmy Grierson.- In which year was the British Legion founded with Haig as its first President?
0:11:49 > 0:11:52- BEEP 1921.- Is correct. One pass.
0:11:52 > 0:11:57The town that Haig escaped from in 1899 was Ladysmith.
0:11:57 > 0:12:01You have, Michael, eight points.
0:12:09 > 0:12:15Well, a clear winner at the moment, but there's a long way to go. Let's look at the scores so far.
0:12:15 > 0:12:17In fourth place, Michael Webb.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20In third place, Tim Jarvis.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22Second place, Didier Bruyere.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25In the lead, 14 points, Katy Bateman.
0:12:31 > 0:12:37The general knowledge round now. If there is a tie at the end, passes are taken into account.
0:12:37 > 0:12:43The person with the fewer passes wins. If tied on passes as well, there will be a tie break.
0:12:43 > 0:12:48The six highest-scoring runners-up also go to the semi-finals. So lots to play for.
0:12:48 > 0:12:53Let's ask Michael Webb to join us again, please.
0:12:53 > 0:13:00And you begin with eight points with your knowledge of Earl Haig.
0:13:00 > 0:13:04Let's see how you do with your general knowledge. 2½ minutes now.
0:13:04 > 0:13:09At which sporting venue is Aorangi Terrace, nicknamed Henman Hill?
0:13:09 > 0:13:13- Wimbledon.- The people of which island were awarded the George Cross
0:13:13 > 0:13:17in 1942 for their heroic struggle against enemy attack?
0:13:17 > 0:13:21- Malta. - What flowers did Wordsworth see when wandering lonely as a cloud?
0:13:21 > 0:13:28- Daffodils.- Rubber News was the original title of which satirical television series?
0:13:28 > 0:13:32- Pass.- The works of which Manchester-born architect include Terminal 3
0:13:32 > 0:13:37of the Beijing Capital International Airport, one of the world's largest buildings?
0:13:37 > 0:13:40- Pass.- By what name is Haydn's Symphony No.101 known
0:13:40 > 0:13:44due to the tick-tock accompaniment that opens the Second Movement?
0:13:44 > 0:13:49- Metronome.- The Clock Symphony. Which Prime Minister was MP for Bromley from 1945 to 1964,
0:13:49 > 0:13:52having previously served as MP for Stockton-on-Tees?
0:13:52 > 0:13:56- Harold Macmillan.- The diversity of animal life on a group of islands,
0:13:56 > 0:14:02famously visited by Charles Darwin in 1835, contributed to his ideas on natural selection. Which islands?
0:14:02 > 0:14:06- Galapagos.- What does the first numbe stand for in the designation
0:14:06 > 0:14:09of a pair of binoculars such as "7 times 50"?
0:14:09 > 0:14:15- Magnification.- Which trophy is made from rupees melted down from an Indian rugby club's remaining funds
0:14:15 > 0:14:17when it closed down in 1878?
0:14:17 > 0:14:21- The Calcutta Cup.- Which cocktail of vodka and tomato juice
0:14:21 > 0:14:25is said to have been invented at Harry's Bar in Paris in 1921?
0:14:25 > 0:14:30- Bloody Mary.- Whose first novel Saturday Night And Sunday Morning tells of Arthur Seaton,
0:14:30 > 0:14:33a rebellious Nottingham factory worker?
0:14:33 > 0:14:36- Pass.- Which English city has an Anglican Cathedral Church of Christ
0:14:36 > 0:14:40and a Roman Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King?
0:14:40 > 0:14:44- Liverpool.- Which 1968 film starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway
0:14:44 > 0:14:48was remade in 1999 with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo?
0:14:48 > 0:14:51- Thomas Crown Affair.- What word is used for the attribution
0:14:51 > 0:14:55of human characteristics to any non-human object, especially animals?
0:14:55 > 0:15:00- Anthropomorphism. - Which Second World War song was composed by Norbert Schultze
0:15:00 > 0:15:03and popularised by Lale Andersen and Marlene Dietrich?
0:15:03 > 0:15:08- Lili Marlene.- Members of which group of soft-bodied insects that feed on plant sap
0:15:08 > 0:15:12are also known as greenflies, plant lice or ant cows?
0:15:12 > 0:15:19- Aphids.- What basic tenets of Judaism and Christianity appear in Exodus chapter 20, verses 2 to 17?
0:15:19 > 0:15:24- Ten Commandments.- Which agriculturalist is best remembered for inventing the seed drill
0:15:24 > 0:15:26that he perfected in about 1701?
0:15:26 > 0:15:31- Townshend.- Jethro Tull. What name is given to a triangle with three unequal sides?
0:15:32 > 0:15:35- Pass.- Which particles with a mass...
0:15:35 > 0:15:39- BEEP - ..roughly the same as the proton but no electric charge,
0:15:39 > 0:15:42are found in all atomic nuclei except hydrogen?
0:15:42 > 0:15:44- Neutrons.- Is correct. You had four passes.
0:15:44 > 0:15:48That triangle with three unequal sides is a scalene.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51Alan Sillitoe wrote Saturday Night And Sunday Morning.
0:15:51 > 0:15:57Norman Foster was the architect who did that vast building at Beijing Airport.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59And Rubber News became Spitting Image.
0:15:59 > 0:16:02You have, Michael, a total of 23 points.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06APPLAUSE
0:16:12 > 0:16:15And Tim Jarvis again now, please.
0:16:16 > 0:16:20And you start with 10 points with your knowledge of Jasper Fforde.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23And 23 is, at the moment, the score to beat. Here we go.
0:16:23 > 0:16:29Priscilla Maria Veronica White, once a cloakroom attendant in Liverpool, is better known by what name?
0:16:29 > 0:16:34- Cilla Black.- Which novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe on the cruelty suffered by black slaves
0:16:34 > 0:16:37precipitated the American Civil War?
0:16:37 > 0:16:41- Uncle Tom's Cabin. - Which building, designed for the Great Exhibition of 1851,
0:16:41 > 0:16:45did Joseph Paxton base on the Lily House at Chatsworth?
0:16:45 > 0:16:50- Crystal Palace.- What is the main ingredient of the soup borsch? It gives it its strong red colour.
0:16:50 > 0:16:56- Beetroot.- Which country singer, whose ballads include I Fall To Pieces and Walkin' After Midnight,
0:16:56 > 0:16:58died in a plane crash in 1963?
0:16:58 > 0:17:03- Buddy Holly.- Patsy Cline. What word for a newspaper comes from the Italian for a small coin
0:17:03 > 0:17:06or the diminutive of the Italian for a magpie?
0:17:06 > 0:17:11- Tabloid.- Gazette. The gas nitrous oxide, formerly used as an anaesthetic,
0:17:11 > 0:17:15has what more common name relating to the effect it sometimes produces?
0:17:15 > 0:17:19- Laughing gas.- Which noblewoman and claimant to the English throne
0:17:19 > 0:17:22was born at Bradgate Park near Leicester in October 1537?
0:17:22 > 0:17:25- Mary Queen of Scots.- Lady Jane Grey.
0:17:25 > 0:17:30Which white wading bird spends much of its time in the company of cattle,
0:17:30 > 0:17:34feeding on insects they disturb and removing ticks from their hides?
0:17:34 > 0:17:37- Pass.- Who wrote the novel Wilt and sequels about Henry Wilt,
0:17:37 > 0:17:40a hen-pecked lecturer, and his formidable wife Eva?
0:17:40 > 0:17:46- Tom Sharpe.- Which North African country's major cities include Bizerte, Sfax and Sousse?
0:17:46 > 0:17:50- Pass.- On which TV quiz show, originally hosted by Bob Holness,
0:17:50 > 0:17:53could contestants win prizes by completing a Gold Run?
0:17:53 > 0:17:59- 3-2-1.- Blockbusters. In 1917, who, a Foreign Secretary, made a statement favouring British support
0:17:59 > 0:18:03for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people"?
0:18:03 > 0:18:06- Balfour.- Which annual show, now held in Birmingham,
0:18:06 > 0:18:11was founded by and is named after a former travelling dog biscuit salesman?
0:18:11 > 0:18:16- Crufts.- What is the name of the New England resort menaced by the shark in the film Jaws?
0:18:16 > 0:18:20- Pass.- Which country was part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
0:18:20 > 0:18:23from 1815 until 1830 when it declared independence?
0:18:23 > 0:18:28- Belgium.- What nickname was given to the American men's basketball team in the 1992 Olympics?
0:18:28 > 0:18:30- Harlem Globetrotters.- The Dream Team
0:18:30 > 0:18:35Enniskillen is the principal town in which traditional Northern Irish county?
0:18:35 > 0:18:38- Down.- Fermanagh. On which Shakespeare play
0:18:38 > 0:18:42was the 1956 science-fiction film The Forbidden Planet loosely based?
0:18:42 > 0:18:47- The Tempest.- The cells in a honeycomb, built from wax by worker bees, have how many sides?
0:18:47 > 0:18:50- Six.- Who was the last King of Italy?
0:18:50 > 0:18:55He reigned for just over a month in 1946 before the country voted to become a republic.
0:18:55 > 0:18:59- BEEP Umberto.- Umberto II is correct. You had three passes.
0:18:59 > 0:19:05The New England resort menaced by the shark was Amity Island.
0:19:05 > 0:19:08Tunisia is the country that has Bizerte, Sfax and Sousse.
0:19:08 > 0:19:14And it's the cattle egret that spends its time with cattle, picking ticks and all that sort of thing.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17You have now a total, Tim, of 22 points.
0:19:17 > 0:19:19APPLAUSE
0:19:25 > 0:19:28And now Didier Bruyere again, please.
0:19:28 > 0:19:33And you have 11 points to start with with your knowledge of Marie Curie.
0:19:33 > 0:19:39And the score to beat is still 23 if you're to make it into the next round, the semi-finals.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41Here we go, 2½ minutes.
0:19:41 > 0:19:47Who wrote The Communist Manifesto, first published in 1848, in collaboration with Friedrich Engels?
0:19:47 > 0:19:52- Karl Marx.- Which US sport originated from competitions between cowboys at the end of cattle drives?
0:19:52 > 0:19:55Its name comes from a Spanish word meaning "to go round".
0:19:55 > 0:20:00- Rodeo.- On television, Lynda Carter played which superhero and her alter ego Diana Prince?
0:20:00 > 0:20:05- Wonder Woman.- In 1968, the former German colony known as South-West Africa
0:20:05 > 0:20:08was renamed by the United Nations. What's it now called?
0:20:08 > 0:20:12- Namibia.- Which liver disease, caused by drinking too much alcohol,
0:20:12 > 0:20:18has a name that comes from the Greek for "tawny" because of the colour of the liver in many cases?
0:20:18 > 0:20:23- Cirrhosis.- How are Olga, Masha and Irina known in the title of a play by Chekhov?
0:20:23 > 0:20:28- The Three Sisters.- On what day during a church service does the priest wash the feet
0:20:28 > 0:20:33of some of those present in memory of Christ's washing of his disciples' feet?
0:20:33 > 0:20:35- Thursday.- Yes, Maundy Thursday.
0:20:35 > 0:20:41Which Bavarian town stages an annual festival principally devoted to the operas of Richard Wagner?
0:20:41 > 0:20:45- Bayreuth.- Which fish is distinguishe from its close relative the cod
0:20:45 > 0:20:50by a dark, rather than light lateral line and a black spot on each side behind the gills?
0:20:50 > 0:20:56- Plaice.- Haddock. In 2012, who became the first British athlete to win an Olympic gold medal
0:20:56 > 0:20:58in both the 5,000 and 10,000 metres?
0:20:58 > 0:21:02- Mo Farah.- Which actor, who starred in The Matrix, has a first name
0:21:02 > 0:21:05taken from a Hawaiian word for "cool breeze over the mountains"?
0:21:05 > 0:21:11- Keanu Reeves.- The wine Tokaji has been produced for 400 years in which Central European country?
0:21:11 > 0:21:14- Hungary.- In 1931, what was adopted by Congress
0:21:14 > 0:21:18as the official national anthem of the United States of America?
0:21:18 > 0:21:21- The Star Stripes. - The Star Spangled Banner.
0:21:21 > 0:21:25Which tribe, who lived in northern Germany and along the Baltic coast,
0:21:25 > 0:21:30gave their name to a former kingdom of Germany and three states of modern Germany?
0:21:30 > 0:21:34- Saxony.- Yes, Saxons. George Milton and Lennie Small are the central characters
0:21:34 > 0:21:38in which John Steinbeck novel set in California during the 1930s?
0:21:38 > 0:21:44- Of Mice And Men.- Which Latin phrase implying it is the purchaser's responsibility to check on goods
0:21:44 > 0:21:47before buying them means "let the buyer beware"?
0:21:47 > 0:21:53- "Caveat emptor."- What did the architect Le Corbusier describe as "a machine for living in"?
0:21:53 > 0:21:57- Building.- A house. Bushido, meaning "the way of the warrior",
0:21:57 > 0:22:01is the code of conduct of which Japanese military caste?
0:22:01 > 0:22:06- Samurai.- George RR Martin's series of novels A Song Of Ice And Fire provides the basis
0:22:06 > 0:22:12for which American medieval fantasy television series starring Sean Bean in the first season?
0:22:12 > 0:22:14BEEP
0:22:16 > 0:22:20- Game Of Thrones.- Yes, Game Of Throne is right. No passes, Didier.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22You have 27 points.
0:22:23 > 0:22:26APPLAUSE
0:22:32 > 0:22:35And finally Katy Bateman again, please.
0:22:36 > 0:22:41And you scored a hefty 14 points in the first round with your knowledge of Red Dwarf.
0:22:41 > 0:22:48You now have to beat 27. Let's see if you can do that with your general knowledge, starting now.
0:22:48 > 0:22:53The salad consisting of raw apples, walnuts and celery in a mayonnaise dressing
0:22:53 > 0:22:55is named after which New York hotel?
0:22:55 > 0:22:59- Waldorf.- What is the annual half-marathon between Newcastle and South Shields?
0:22:59 > 0:23:02It claims to be the world's most popular half-marathon.
0:23:02 > 0:23:08- Great North Run.- Juan Carlos I, who ascended the Spanish throne in 1975, is a member of which royal house?
0:23:08 > 0:23:11It has ruled Spain intermittently since 1700.
0:23:11 > 0:23:17- Pass.- The Palme d'Or is awarded at a film festival that has been held in which French city since 1946?
0:23:17 > 0:23:22- Cannes.- In the Bible, who was the wife of King Ahab? She is the archetype of a wicked woman.
0:23:22 > 0:23:26- Jezebel.- Sir Peter Blake is a leadin pioneer of which art movement
0:23:26 > 0:23:30that uses objects such as soup cans and road signs as subject matter?
0:23:30 > 0:23:35- Pop art.- Helle Thorning-Schmidt became Denmark's first female Prime Minister in 2011.
0:23:35 > 0:23:40She is the daughter-in-law of which former leader of the British Labour Party?
0:23:40 > 0:23:46- Pass.- Name the tropical cyclone that devastated the south-eastern coast of the United States in August 2005.
0:23:46 > 0:23:50- Hurricane Katrina.- Suranne Jones and Lesley Sharp play Rachel and Janet,
0:23:50 > 0:23:55detectives with the Manchester Major Incidents Team, in which television crime drama?
0:23:55 > 0:24:01- Blue Murder.- Scott And Bailey. Which town is the administrative centre of the Isle of Wight?
0:24:01 > 0:24:05- Douglas.- Newport. What system of exercise, designed to improve fitness
0:24:05 > 0:24:10through increased oxygen consumption, was pioneered by Kenneth H Cooper?
0:24:10 > 0:24:14- Aerobics.- James Dean Bradfield is th lead singer with which rock band?
0:24:14 > 0:24:19- Manic Street Preachers.- The leaves of a laurel tree are used for flavouring soups and stews.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22By what name are they popularly known?
0:24:22 > 0:24:25- Pass.- What German word means "the spirit of the age"?
0:24:25 > 0:24:28- Zeitgeist.- Which city in New Mexico was founded in 1610
0:24:28 > 0:24:34with a Spanish name meaning Royal City of the Holy Faith of St Francis of Assisi?
0:24:34 > 0:24:37- Pass.- The name of which bird, famous for its ability to kill snakes,
0:24:37 > 0:24:42possibly comes from the resemblance of its crest feathers to a row of quill pens?
0:24:44 > 0:24:47- Mongoose.- Secretary bird.
0:24:47 > 0:24:51What is the surname of the mother and daughter, Anita and Kiran,
0:24:51 > 0:24:55who have respectively been nominated for and won the Booker Prize?
0:24:56 > 0:24:59- Pass.- Pablo Casals was a virtuoso on which instrument,
0:24:59 > 0:25:02as well as being an accomplished composer and conductor?
0:25:02 > 0:25:06- Piano.- Cello. What items, seen on main roads in built-up areas,
0:25:06 > 0:25:10are named after the Minister of Transport who introduced them in 1934?
0:25:10 > 0:25:14- Belisha beacon. - The Society of Artists, formed in London in the 1750s
0:25:14 > 0:25:19and incorporated by Royal Charter in 1765, was the main forerunner of which body?
0:25:19 > 0:25:24- BEEP Can you repeat that?- No, we're out of time. The Royal Academy of Arts.
0:25:24 > 0:25:30You had five passes. The surname of those writers, Anita and Kiran, was or is Desai.
0:25:30 > 0:25:34Sante Fe is that city in New Mexico founded in 1610.
0:25:34 > 0:25:38Bay leaves are laurel leaves. They come from the laurel tree.
0:25:38 > 0:25:44Neil Kinnock is the father-in-law of the first female Prime Minister of Denmark.
0:25:44 > 0:25:51And Juan Carlos is a member of the Bourbon royal house.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54You have, Katy, 24 points.
0:25:54 > 0:25:57Thank you. APPLAUSE
0:26:03 > 0:26:07He held on to that lead, so let's have a look at all the scores.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09In fourth place, Tim Jarvis.
0:26:09 > 0:26:11Third place, Michael Webb.
0:26:11 > 0:26:14Second place, Katy Bateman.
0:26:14 > 0:26:18First place, 27 points, Didier Bruyere!
0:26:19 > 0:26:21APPLAUSE
0:26:30 > 0:26:36So Didier Bruyere is tonight's winner and he goes through to the semi-finals. Congratulations to him.
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