Episode 22 Mastermind

First in the spotlight tonight is Katy Bateman, a housewife. Her subject is the Red Dwarf TV series.

Next, Didier Bruyere, a scientist from Bristol. His subject, Marie Curie.

Tim Jarvis is a commercial manager from Newbury, answering questions on the novels of Jasper Fforde.

And Michael Webb, a risk consultant from Chippenham.

His subject is the First World War commander Field Marshal Douglas Haig.

Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.

If you ever wonder why anyone would put themselves through this ordeal,

well, becoming a Mastermind champion is the greatest honour the quiz world has to offer.

All they need do is answer two sets of questions - on their specialist subject and on general knowledge.

But the pressure comes from the clock. Two minutes on one and two and a half on the other,

and no help from anyone. So let's get on with it and ask our first contender to join us, please.

And your name is...?

In two minutes. In the first episode, the entire crew are wiped out by a radiation leak,

except for Dave Lister. How many years later is Lister revived by Holly, the ship's computer?

-3,000,000.

-His companions include a creature evolved from the ship's cat and a hologram of Arnold Rimmer.

What is Rimmer's middle name?

-Judas.

-Red Dwarf was created by Rob Grant and which other writer?

-Doug Naylor.

-In Back In The Red, what does Holly tell Lister is situated on the secret 13th floor,

reconstructed by nanobots?

-The tank?

-Yes, the tank or the brig.

What song has George McIntyre asked to be played at his funeral in the first episode?

-See You Later, Alligator.

-In Tikka To Ride, where is the release catch on Kryten's head

that allows Lister to disable his behaviour protocols?

-Behind his right ear.

-According to the Cat's holy book,

two rival factions of cat fought a holy war over the colour of...?

-Their hats.

-In the video game Better Than Life, which detects players' fantasies and makes them come true,

Rimmer ends up with a mortgage and how many children?

-Seven?

-Yes. In Demons and Angels, when the Cat meets his higher self,

he tells him, "No part of me would ever be seen alive wearing..." what?

-Sandals.

-Which big band leader does Lister recognise as a member of the waxwork firing squad

that executes Winnie the Pooh?

-James Last.

-Whose hologram builds a dimension cutter that sends the crew through a portal to Earth,

arriving in a department store?

-Katerina Bartikovski.

-Arriving on an Earth that runs backwards,

Kryten and Rimmer form which novelty act that eats a boiled egg and drinks water?

-The Sensational Reverse Brothers.

-Whose amputated arm does Kochanski inject to trick the Epideme virus,

thereby saving Lister's life?

-Caroline Carmen.

-In DNA, Lister is changed into a chicken when the Cat programs the DNA Modifier.

-BEEP

-What does Kryten change him into when he tries to reverse this?

-A hamster.

-Is absolutely right,

-as were all your other answers. No passes - 14 points.

-Thank you.

And our next contender, please.

And your name is...?

In two minutes. She won her second Nobel Prize in 1911 for the discovery of polonium

and the isolation of which element?

-Radium.

-What word did the Curies coin to describe "the new element found in pitchblende"

-in their paper announcing the discovery of polonium?

-Pass.

In 1897, Curie's first published article was printed. What was the article's subject?

-Magnetic properties of steels.

-Yes. Curie attended an illegal educational institution for women.

What name was given to it because classes were in various locations?

-Flying University.

-Or Floating. In 1911, which elderly scientist narrowly beat Curie

in her attempt to be elected to the French Academy of Sciences?

-Edouard Branly.

-In the town hall of which commune in the Paris suburbs

did Pierre and Marie Curie get married in July, 1895?

-Sceaux.

-At the outbreak of WWI, France's entire stock of radium was a single gram.

To which city did Curie take it for safekeeping?

-Bordeaux.

-Whom did Curie engage as an assistant at the Radium Institute? He married her daughter.

-Joliot.

-Which British university awarded Curie an honorary degree in 1913,

-describing her as "the greatest woman of science of all time"?

-Yale.

Birmingham. In 1995, in which mausoleum were her ashes reburied?

She was the first woman honoured this way for her own achievements.

-Pantheon.

-What name is given to the electrometer, invented by Curie's husband and his brother?

Marie Curie used it to measure the ionisation produced by radiation coming from pitchblende.

-Piezoelectric quartz.

-What was the sanatorium at St Gervais-les-Bains in the Savoy mountains

where Curie died in 1934 of pernicious anaemia, probably brought on by long exposure to radiation?

-Sancellemoz.

-In January, 1886, Curie left Warsaw to work as a governess to which family?

-BEEP

-She fell in love with their oldest son.

-Zorawski.

-Is correct. One pass.

The word coined to describe the new element found in pitchblende was radioactive.

You have, Didier, 11 points.

And our next contender, please.

And your name is...?

In two minutes. Thursday Next is a detective able to enter novels and interact with fictional characters.

What is the first book about her?

-The Eyre Affair.

-In The Big Over Easy, who was the first officer promoted out of Nursery Crimes?

He falsely claimed credit for catching the Gingerbreadman.

-Friedland Chymes.

-When Mrs Hathaway 34 shows Thursday a copy of Shakespeare's lost play, Cardenio,

what indicates it's a forgery?

-It's got lines on it.

-In which novel is there a threat of genre war

with Speedy Muffler of Racy Novel claiming to have a dirty bomb

capable of hurling scenes of gratuitous sex into Women's Fiction?

-First Among Sequels.

-One Of Our Thursdays Is Missing.

In Lost In A Good Book, where does Thursday travel to find Mrs Nakajima to learn how to enter books?

-Osaka.

-Which literary character is described as being "of an indeterminate age

"and might once have been plain before the rigours of artistic interpretation worked on her"?

-Miss Havisham.

-The Lady of Shalott.

In The Well Of Lost Plots, what unpublished crime novel does Thursday move into,

replacing a police sergeant?

-Caversham Heights.

-In First Among Sequels, what have the Prime Minister and the Commonsense Party

allowed to build up to a dangerous level?

-Stupidity Surplus.

-What pointless task is given to Eddie Russett

after he has played a prank on the Head Prefect's son Bertie Magenta?

-Chair Census.

-What compulsory session does Miss Havisham lead for characters in Wuthering Heights?

-Rage Counselling.

-In Lost In A Good Book, if all the generators fail,

the nanodevice will convert all organic matter to what type of food?

-Pink goo. Angel Delight.

-No, pudding mix. Dream Topping.

Who informs Thursday that her punishment for changing the ending of Jane Eyre

is to wear blue gingham for 20 years and read the ten most boring books?

-The Gryphon.

-Yes. Thursday Next's...

-BEEP

..father had been a colonel in Spec Ops 12, the Office for Special Temporal Stability.

How is it more commonly known?

-The Chronoguards.

-Correct.

-No passes, Tim. You have 10 points.

-Thank you.

And our final contender, please.

And your name is...?

In two minutes. To what post did Haig succeed Sir John French in December, 1915?

-Commander-in-Chief.

-Of...?

-The British Expeditionary Force.

In July, 1916, he wrote that the figure of 40,000 casualties the previous day

"could not be considered severe in view of the numbers engaged". It had been the first day of which battle?

-Somme.

-In 1893, he applied to the Staff College at Camberley, but was rejected with colour blindness

and scoring poorly in the exam for which compulsory subject?

-Maths.

-Which relatively new public school did he attend, although his mother wanted him to go to Rugby?

-Clifton College.

-From which town did he escape on the last train

before it was surrounded by the Boers in November, 1899?

-Pass.

-Which German offensive, part of the Kaiserschlacht, began on the 9th April, 1918?

It led to his famous order, "With our backs to the wall, each one of us must fight to the end".

-Michael.

-Georgette. At which battle of September, 1915,

did he order the use of chlorine gas for the first time, to supplement having insufficient ammunition?

-Second Ypres.

-Loos. In January, 1919, when soldiers mutinied over living conditions and demobilisation

Haig suggested the ringleaders be shot, but was dissuaded by Churchill. Where was that mutiny?

-Etaples.

-Calais. The Haig ancestral home was bought for him by public subscription after the war.

What was its name?

-Cameron House.

-Bemersyde House. What post did Haig take up when he was brought back from India

in 1906 to serve in the War Office?

-Director of Military Training.

-What was the maiden name of Haig's wife, whom he married in 1905?

He proposed to her 36 hours after meeting her for the first time.

-Lady Dorothy Vivian.

-Which fellow corps commander died of a heart attack alongside Haig in 1914?

-Jimmy Grierson.

-In which year was the British Legion founded with Haig as its first President?

-BEEP 1921.

-Is correct. One pass.

The town that Haig escaped from in 1899 was Ladysmith.

You have, Michael, eight points.

Well, a clear winner at the moment, but there's a long way to go. Let's look at the scores so far.

In fourth place, Michael Webb.

In third place, Tim Jarvis.

Second place, Didier Bruyere.

In the lead, 14 points, Katy Bateman.

The general knowledge round now. If there is a tie at the end, passes are taken into account.

The person with the fewer passes wins. If tied on passes as well, there will be a tie break.

The six highest-scoring runners-up also go to the semi-finals. So lots to play for.

Let's ask Michael Webb to join us again, please.

And you begin with eight points with your knowledge of Earl Haig.

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

At which sporting venue is Aorangi Terrace, nicknamed Henman Hill?

-Wimbledon.

-The people of which island were awarded the George Cross

in 1942 for their heroic struggle against enemy attack?

-Malta.

-What flowers did Wordsworth see when wandering lonely as a cloud?

-Daffodils.

-Rubber News was the original title of which satirical television series?

-Pass.

-The works of which Manchester-born architect include Terminal 3

of the Beijing Capital International Airport, one of the world's largest buildings?

-Pass.

-By what name is Haydn's Symphony No.101 known

due to the tick-tock accompaniment that opens the Second Movement?

-Metronome.

-The Clock Symphony. Which Prime Minister was MP for Bromley from 1945 to 1964,

having previously served as MP for Stockton-on-Tees?

-Harold Macmillan.

-The diversity of animal life on a group of islands,

famously visited by Charles Darwin in 1835, contributed to his ideas on natural selection. Which islands?

-Galapagos.

-What does the first numbe stand for in the designation

of a pair of binoculars such as "7 times 50"?

-Magnification.

-Which trophy is made from rupees melted down from an Indian rugby club's remaining funds

when it closed down in 1878?

-The Calcutta Cup.

-Which cocktail of vodka and tomato juice

is said to have been invented at Harry's Bar in Paris in 1921?

-Bloody Mary.

-Whose first novel Saturday Night And Sunday Morning tells of Arthur Seaton,

a rebellious Nottingham factory worker?

-Pass.

-Which English city has an Anglican Cathedral Church of Christ

and a Roman Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King?

-Liverpool.

-Which 1968 film starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway

was remade in 1999 with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo?

-Thomas Crown Affair.

-What word is used for the attribution

of human characteristics to any non-human object, especially animals?

-Anthropomorphism.

-Which Second World War song was composed by Norbert Schultze

and popularised by Lale Andersen and Marlene Dietrich?

-Lili Marlene.

-Members of which group of soft-bodied insects that feed on plant sap

are also known as greenflies, plant lice or ant cows?

-Aphids.

-What basic tenets of Judaism and Christianity appear in Exodus chapter 20, verses 2 to 17?

-Ten Commandments.

-Which agriculturalist is best remembered for inventing the seed drill

that he perfected in about 1701?

-Townshend.

-Jethro Tull. What name is given to a triangle with three unequal sides?

-Pass.

-Which particles with a mass...

-BEEP

-..roughly the same as the proton but no electric charge,

are found in all atomic nuclei except hydrogen?

-Neutrons.

-Is correct. You had four passes.

That triangle with three unequal sides is a scalene.

Alan Sillitoe wrote Saturday Night And Sunday Morning.

Norman Foster was the architect who did that vast building at Beijing Airport.

And Rubber News became Spitting Image.

You have, Michael, a total of 23 points.

APPLAUSE

And Tim Jarvis again now, please.

And you start with 10 points with your knowledge of Jasper Fforde.

And 23 is, at the moment, the score to beat. Here we go.

Priscilla Maria Veronica White, once a cloakroom attendant in Liverpool, is better known by what name?

-Cilla Black.

-Which novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe on the cruelty suffered by black slaves

precipitated the American Civil War?

-Uncle Tom's Cabin.

-Which building, designed for the Great Exhibition of 1851,

did Joseph Paxton base on the Lily House at Chatsworth?

-Crystal Palace.

-What is the main ingredient of the soup borsch? It gives it its strong red colour.

-Beetroot.

-Which country singer, whose ballads include I Fall To Pieces and Walkin' After Midnight,

died in a plane crash in 1963?

-Buddy Holly.

-Patsy Cline. What word for a newspaper comes from the Italian for a small coin

or the diminutive of the Italian for a magpie?

-Tabloid.

-Gazette. The gas nitrous oxide, formerly used as an anaesthetic,

has what more common name relating to the effect it sometimes produces?

-Laughing gas.

-Which noblewoman and claimant to the English throne

was born at Bradgate Park near Leicester in October 1537?

-Mary Queen of Scots.

-Lady Jane Grey.

Which white wading bird spends much of its time in the company of cattle,

feeding on insects they disturb and removing ticks from their hides?

-Pass.

-Who wrote the novel Wilt and sequels about Henry Wilt,

a hen-pecked lecturer, and his formidable wife Eva?

-Tom Sharpe.

-Which North African country's major cities include Bizerte, Sfax and Sousse?

-Pass.

-On which TV quiz show, originally hosted by Bob Holness,

could contestants win prizes by completing a Gold Run?

-3-2-1.

-Blockbusters. In 1917, who, a Foreign Secretary, made a statement favouring British support

for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people"?

-Balfour.

-Which annual show, now held in Birmingham,

was founded by and is named after a former travelling dog biscuit salesman?

-Crufts.

-What is the name of the New England resort menaced by the shark in the film Jaws?

-Pass.

-Which country was part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

from 1815 until 1830 when it declared independence?

-Belgium.

-What nickname was given to the American men's basketball team in the 1992 Olympics?

-Harlem Globetrotters.

-The Dream Team

Enniskillen is the principal town in which traditional Northern Irish county?

-Down.

-Fermanagh. On which Shakespeare play

was the 1956 science-fiction film The Forbidden Planet loosely based?

-The Tempest.

-The cells in a honeycomb, built from wax by worker bees, have how many sides?

-Six.

-Who was the last King of Italy?

He reigned for just over a month in 1946 before the country voted to become a republic.

-BEEP Umberto.

-Umberto II is correct. You had three passes.

The New England resort menaced by the shark was Amity Island.

Tunisia is the country that has Bizerte, Sfax and Sousse.

And it's the cattle egret that spends its time with cattle, picking ticks and all that sort of thing.

You have now a total, Tim, of 22 points.

APPLAUSE

And now Didier Bruyere again, please.

And you have 11 points to start with with your knowledge of Marie Curie.

And the score to beat is still 23 if you're to make it into the next round, the semi-finals.

Here we go, 2½ minutes.

Who wrote The Communist Manifesto, first published in 1848, in collaboration with Friedrich Engels?

-Karl Marx.

-Which US sport originated from competitions between cowboys at the end of cattle drives?

Its name comes from a Spanish word meaning "to go round".

-Rodeo.

-On television, Lynda Carter played which superhero and her alter ego Diana Prince?

-Wonder Woman.

-In 1968, the former German colony known as South-West Africa

was renamed by the United Nations. What's it now called?

-Namibia.

-Which liver disease, caused by drinking too much alcohol,

has a name that comes from the Greek for "tawny" because of the colour of the liver in many cases?

-Cirrhosis.

-How are Olga, Masha and Irina known in the title of a play by Chekhov?

-The Three Sisters.

-On what day during a church service does the priest wash the feet

of some of those present in memory of Christ's washing of his disciples' feet?

-Thursday.

-Yes, Maundy Thursday.

Which Bavarian town stages an annual festival principally devoted to the operas of Richard Wagner?

-Bayreuth.

-Which fish is distinguishe from its close relative the cod

by a dark, rather than light lateral line and a black spot on each side behind the gills?

-Plaice.

-Haddock. In 2012, who became the first British athlete to win an Olympic gold medal

in both the 5,000 and 10,000 metres?

-Mo Farah.

-Which actor, who starred in The Matrix, has a first name

taken from a Hawaiian word for "cool breeze over the mountains"?

-Keanu Reeves.

-The wine Tokaji has been produced for 400 years in which Central European country?

-Hungary.

-In 1931, what was adopted by Congress

as the official national anthem of the United States of America?

-The Star Stripes.

-The Star Spangled Banner.

Which tribe, who lived in northern Germany and along the Baltic coast,

gave their name to a former kingdom of Germany and three states of modern Germany?

-Saxony.

-Yes, Saxons. George Milton and Lennie Small are the central characters

in which John Steinbeck novel set in California during the 1930s?

-Of Mice And Men.

-Which Latin phrase implying it is the purchaser's responsibility to check on goods

before buying them means "let the buyer beware"?

-"Caveat emptor."

-What did the architect Le Corbusier describe as "a machine for living in"?

-Building.

-A house. Bushido, meaning "the way of the warrior",

is the code of conduct of which Japanese military caste?

-Samurai.

-George RR Martin's series of novels A Song Of Ice And Fire provides the basis

for which American medieval fantasy television series starring Sean Bean in the first season?

BEEP

-Game Of Thrones.

-Yes, Game Of Throne is right. No passes, Didier.

You have 27 points.

APPLAUSE

And finally Katy Bateman again, please.

And you scored a hefty 14 points in the first round with your knowledge of Red Dwarf.

You now have to beat 27. Let's see if you can do that with your general knowledge, starting now.

The salad consisting of raw apples, walnuts and celery in a mayonnaise dressing

is named after which New York hotel?

-Waldorf.

-What is the annual half-marathon between Newcastle and South Shields?

It claims to be the world's most popular half-marathon.

-Great North Run.

-Juan Carlos I, who ascended the Spanish throne in 1975, is a member of which royal house?

It has ruled Spain intermittently since 1700.

-Pass.

-The Palme d'Or is awarded at a film festival that has been held in which French city since 1946?

-Cannes.

-In the Bible, who was the wife of King Ahab? She is the archetype of a wicked woman.

-Jezebel.

-Sir Peter Blake is a leadin pioneer of which art movement

that uses objects such as soup cans and road signs as subject matter?

-Pop art.

-Helle Thorning-Schmidt became Denmark's first female Prime Minister in 2011.

She is the daughter-in-law of which former leader of the British Labour Party?

-Pass.

-Name the tropical cyclone that devastated the south-eastern coast of the United States in August 2005.

-Hurricane Katrina.

-Suranne Jones and Lesley Sharp play Rachel and Janet,

detectives with the Manchester Major Incidents Team, in which television crime drama?

-Blue Murder.

-Scott And Bailey. Which town is the administrative centre of the Isle of Wight?

-Douglas.

-Newport. What system of exercise, designed to improve fitness

through increased oxygen consumption, was pioneered by Kenneth H Cooper?

-Aerobics.

-James Dean Bradfield is th lead singer with which rock band?

-Manic Street Preachers.

-The leaves of a laurel tree are used for flavouring soups and stews.

By what name are they popularly known?

-Pass.

-What German word means "the spirit of the age"?

-Zeitgeist.

-Which city in New Mexico was founded in 1610

with a Spanish name meaning Royal City of the Holy Faith of St Francis of Assisi?

-Pass.

-The name of which bird, famous for its ability to kill snakes,

possibly comes from the resemblance of its crest feathers to a row of quill pens?

-Mongoose.

-Secretary bird.

What is the surname of the mother and daughter, Anita and Kiran,

who have respectively been nominated for and won the Booker Prize?

-Pass.

-Pablo Casals was a virtuoso on which instrument,

as well as being an accomplished composer and conductor?

-Piano.

-Cello. What items, seen on main roads in built-up areas,

are named after the Minister of Transport who introduced them in 1934?

-Belisha beacon.

-The Society of Artists, formed in London in the 1750s

and incorporated by Royal Charter in 1765, was the main forerunner of which body?

-BEEP Can you repeat that?

-No, we're out of time. The Royal Academy of Arts.

You had five passes. The surname of those writers, Anita and Kiran, was or is Desai.

Sante Fe is that city in New Mexico founded in 1610.

Bay leaves are laurel leaves. They come from the laurel tree.

Neil Kinnock is the father-in-law of the first female Prime Minister of Denmark.

And Juan Carlos is a member of the Bourbon royal house.

You have, Katy, 24 points.

Thank you. APPLAUSE

He held on to that lead, so let's have a look at all the scores.

In fourth place, Tim Jarvis.

Third place, Michael Webb.

Second place, Katy Bateman.

First place, 27 points, Didier Bruyere!

APPLAUSE

So Didier Bruyere is tonight's winner and he goes through to the semi-finals. Congratulations to him.

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