Episode 23 Mastermind

First in the spotlight tonight is Jonathan Payton, an IT technician from Birmingham.

His subject is the band Joy Division.

Next, Kimberley Rescorl, a support worker from Plymouth,

and her subject, the Battle of the River Plate.

Marcus Hake is an IT consultant from London

and he'll be answering questions on the Ashes.

And Mick Judge, a customer service officer from Sale,

his subject, the British film actor Tod Slaughter.

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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,

two and a half on general knowledge, and hesitation can prove fatal.

The prize is modest, just a glass bowl,

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

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

-And your name is?

-Jonathan Payton.

-Your occupation?

-I'm an IT technician.

-And your chosen subject?

-Joy Division.

-Joy Division in two minutes.

What is the title of Joy Division's first EP?

They released it themselves in 1978.

-An Ideal For Living.

-Who became the band's manager in April 1978?

He was played by Paddy Considine in the film 24 Hour Party People.

-Rob Gretton.

-At which studio in Stockport, run by members of the band 10cc,

did Joy Division record their first album, Unknown Pleasures?

-Strawberry Studios.

-Under what name did Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner,

Tony Tabac and Peter Hook first perform in 1977?

They'd recently changed their name from Stiff Kittens.

-Warsaw.

-Which single, that did not appear on either of the band's albums,

was originally released only in France on the Sordide Sentimental label in 1980?

-Atmosphere.

-The iconic cover photo for the band's second studio album, Closer,

was taken at a cemetery in which city?

-Genoa.

-Who was the vocalist with Crispy Ambulance

who took over vocal duties at a gig in Bury in April 1980

when Ian Curtis was ill and was only able to perform two songs?

-Alan Hempsall.

-At which legendary Liverpool music venue

did Joy Division play on the 15th of July 1978,

the first of a number of appearances there under their new name?

-Cavern Club.

-Eric's. Who produced the band's two tracks

on Factory Records' first release, A Factory Sampler?

-Tony Wilson.

-Martin Hannett.

What's the name of the drummer replaced by Stephen Morris in August 1977,

thus completing the best-known line-up of the band?

-Steven Brotherdale.

-Ian Curtis first appeared on the cover of a magazine

in January 1979. What was the name of the magazine?

-NME.

-5,000 copies of the 1981 compilation album Still

came as a deluxe version with the cover being made of what material?

-Hessian.

-Who directed the 2007 film Control about Ian Curtis and Joy Division,

having previously directed the video for Atmosphere?

-Anton Corbijn.

-At which university did the band play their last gig

on 2nd May 1980, 16 days before Ian Curtis committed suicide?

-Birmingham University.

-Which Joy Division track appeared on

the 10-inch Virgin Records LP Short Circuit: Live At The Electric Circus,

released in 1978?

-Everything Must Break?

-No, At A Later Date.

-BEEPING

And we're out of time. You have no passes. Jonathan, you've scored 12 points.

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And our next contender, please.

-And your name is?

-Kimberley Rescorl.

-Your occupation?

-Support worker.

-And your chosen subject?

-The Battle of the River Plate.

The Battle of the River Plate in two minutes.

The Battle of the River Plate, the first major naval engagement

of the Second World War, took place in the Plate estuary

off the coasts of Argentina and which other country?

-Uruguay.

-Who commanded the German pocket battleship, the Admiral Graf Spee,

which was targeted because of its sinking of many allied merchant ships

between September and December 1939?

-Hans Langsdorff.

-On 17th December 1939,

over 700 officers and crew of the Graf Spee

were transferred to a German merchant vessel

shortly before the Graf Spee was scuttled to prevent her capture by the British.

-What was the name of the vessel?

-Pass.

Who commanded Force G, the Royal Navy hunting party

that engaged the Graf Spee in the Battle of the River Plate?

-Commodore Harwood.

-Who was the captain of HMS Exeter?

He used a chain of messengers to maintain helm control

after the ship's bridge had been damaged

and he had moved to the aft control position.

-FS Bell.

-What was the name of the French liner

which, along with the cruiser Uruguay, witnessed the Graf Spee

firing two salvos at the Ajax at 1915 hours?

-Pass.

-Who was the captain of the Altmark, the Graf Spee's supply ship,

who ignored Langsdorff's orders and kept 299 British seamen prisoners on board

until they were rescued by HMS Cossack on 16th February 1940?

-No. Pass.

-What post did Fregattenkapitan Paul Ascher

hold on the Graf Spee?

-Radio...

-No, gunnery officer.

After the scuttling of their ship, most of the crew of the Graf Spee

were interned in dormitories of which building in Buenos Aires

while the officers and senior ratings were at the Naval Arsenal close by?

-Prison.

-No, in Immigrants' Hotel.

Which of the three cruisers that engaged the Graf Spee in the battle

was attached to the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy?

-Achilles.

-What three-letter code was transmitted by British merchant vessels

as the standard distress signal, indicating that they were under attack

by a surface raider such as the Graf Spee?

-RRR.

-Langsdorff committed suicide,

having left a note stating that he had scuttled his ship

to prevent her from falling into enemy hands.

Who attended his funeral as the representative of the Graf Spee's British prisoners?

-Francis Drake Millington.

-No, it was Captain Charles Pottinger.

You had three passes. The captain of the Altmark was Heinrich Dau.

The name of the French liner which saw the Graf Spee firing those salvos was Formose or Formosa.

And the name of the ship to which those officers and crew were transferred was the Tacoma.

You have, Kimberley, six points.

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And our next contender, please.

-And your name is?

-Marcus Hake.

-Your occupation?

-IT consultant.

-And your specialist subject?

-Ashes cricket series since 1981.

The Ashes since '81. Two minutes starting now.

In 2005, who captained England to their first Ashes series win

over Australia for nearly 20 years?

-Michael Vaughan.

-Which ground hosted the first match

of the 2009 series, the first test to be held there?

-Cardiff.

-Who won the Man of the Match award in the 1986 Boxing Day test

after dismissing five of the top seven Australians in the first innings

and taking a fine catch to complete England's victory?

-Norman Cowans.

-No, it was Gladstone Small.

With his first ball in an Ashes test, Shane Warne dismissed Mike Gatting

with the so-called Ball of the Century in 1993.

At which ground did this take place?

-Old Trafford.

-How did Terry Alderman get a shoulder injury

at the '82 Perth test that kept him out of the rest of the series?

-Tackling a pitch invader.

-Who made centuries in the last two tests

of the '94 to '95 series?

They were also his first two test matches.

-Greg Blewett.

-By what margin did England win the Headingley Test in '81

after they had been forced to follow on?

-18 runs.

-When did the last Ashes series to consist of six test matches take place?

-1997.

-Who scored 766 runs in the 2010-11 series,

the second highest total ever by an England batsman in Australia?

-Alistair Cook.

-Who captained England in the first test of the 1990 to '91 series

because Graham Gooch was recovering from an operation?

-Allan Lamb.

-Jack Richards made his debut

in the opening test of the 1986 to '87 series,

becoming only the second player from which county to play test cricket for England?

-Surrey.

-Cornwall.

Which England bowler took 17 wickets in the last two matches of the '85 series?

England won both games by an innings.

-Richard Ellison.

-Which Australian bowler,

who'd been playing for Fleetwood in the Northern Cricket League,

was called into the test squad for the '81 Old Trafford test

because other players were injured?

-Mike Whitney.

-On the 1998 to '99 tour,

Alec Stewart called heads at each of the five tosses.

How many of the tosses did he win?

-None.

-England won the '82 Boxing Day Test by three runs.

Which slip fielder deflected the ball,

allowing Geoff Miller to catch Jeff Thomson off Ian Botham to seal the victory?

-Chris Tavare.

-Is correct!

No passes, Marcus. You have 13 points.

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And our final contender, please.

-And your name is?

-Mick Judge.

-Your occupation?

-Customer service officer.

-And your specialist subject?

-The films of Tod Slaughter.

Tod Slaughter in two minutes. Tod Slaughter, best known for playing villains

in adaptations of macabre Victorian melodramas,

began his screen career in which film, released in 1935?

-Maria Marten.

-Murder at Scotland Yard,

a sequel to the 1952 film King of the Underworld,

depicts the continuing battle between the master criminal Terence Reilly,

played by Slaughter in his last feature film,

and which former Scotland Yard policeman?

-Pass.

-What is the number of the young prisoner Matthew Josephs

in It's Never Too Late To Mend? He dies as a result of extra punishment

ordered by Squire Meadows, the sadistic visiting magistrate.

-19.

-15. Paul Hartwright poses as a solicitor

and rescues Lady Glyde from an asylum in Crimes At The Dark House.

In what capacity had he been employed before her marriage?

-Her drawing tutor.

-What alliterative two-word term

is used for low-budget films of the '20s and '30s,

such as those producer/director George King made with Slaughter,

following legislation aimed at helping the British film industry?

-Quota Quickies.

-Who wrote in an enthusiastic review of The Face At The Window

that it's "one of the best English pictures I've seen

"and leaves the American horror films far behind"?

-Graham Greene.

-Joshua Gibson, the bill broker in The Ticket Of Leave Man,

offers Bob Brierley a job, thinking that he is the brother of May Edwards

and that he has served in which of Her Majesty's services?

-Navy.

-Yes, the Royal Marines.

What role was played by Slaughter's wife, Jenny Lynn,

-in the '48 film The Greed of William Hart?

-Pass.

In Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street,

Mark Ingestre, helped by Mrs Lovatt, escapes from Todd's cellar

through a secret passage to emerge in the porch of which church?

-St Dunstan's.

-What did the farmer's daughter Maria Marten

tell her mother she was going to do

on the first night she was actually visiting Squire Corder?

-Go to choir practice.

-On board which ship

does George Fielding return from Australia

in time to prevent the marriage of his sweetheart

to the evil Squire Meadows in It's Never Too Late To Mend?

-Pass.

-Slaughter's film career resumed after the war

at which studios, where he played the Chief in The Curse Of The Wraydons

for Ambassador Films in 1946?

-Bushey.

-In The Face At The Window,

when the young bank clerk Lucien Cortier visits the Blind Rat tavern,

he pretends to be a convict newly escaped from which prison?

-The Bastille.

-No, La Roquette.

You had three passes. The name of that ship that Fielding returned from Australia in was The Sunflower.

Helen Moore was the role played by Slaughter's wife Jenny Lynn in The Greed Of William Hart.

And the former Scotland Yard policeman in Murder At Scotland Yard was John Morley.

Three passes. Mick, you have eight points.

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So that's the end of the first round, the specialist subjects. Let's have a look at the scores.

In fourth place with six points, Kimberley Rescorl.

Third place, eight points, Mick Judge.

Second place, 12 points, Jonathan Payton.

In the lead with 13 points, Marcus Hake.

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Round two now, general knowledge, 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're tied on passes, there will be a tie-break.

The six highest-scoring runners-up from the heats will also claim a place in the semi-final,

so there's plenty to play for. Let's get on with it and ask Kimberley to join us again, please.

And you begin this round with six points with your knowledge of the Battle of the River Plate.

And this being the general knowledge round, you have two and a half minutes.

So let's see how you do. Here we go.

Which country's perpetual neutrality was recognised and guaranteed

by the Second Treaty of Paris of November 1815?

-Switzerland.

-Which Birmingham-born rocker

was the original lead vocalist with heavy metal band Black Sabbath?

-Ozzy Osbourne.

-What Italian word for frothing is used to denote sparkling wine,

as opposed to frizzante, which is semi-sparkling?

-Frizcarte?

-Spumante.

Which Dublin theatre, that takes its name from the street it is on,

grew out of the Irish Literary Theatre founded in 1899

by Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory and WB Yeats?

-Pass.

-In which television crime drama series

does Helen Mirren play the tenacious policewoman Jane Tennison?

-Above Suspicion.

-No, Prime Suspect.

The radical French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat

was murdered by Charlotte Corday in 1793?

What was he doing at the time to ease the pain from a skin disease?

-Bathing.

-Yes, he was having a medicinal bath.

Wheaton College in Illinois houses which item of furniture

that belonged to the family of CS Lewis

and is featured in the title of one of his books?

-A looking glass.

-A wardrobe. Which land where Cain went to live

immediately after killing Abel is described in the book of Genesis

as "on the east of Eden"? The name is now used in a phrase meaning asleep.

-Land of Nod.

-In gardening, what term is used for a plant

that completes its life cycle in two years or growing seasons?

-Biennial.

-Which genre of fiction,

popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries,

consists of stories of terror and suspense,

usually set in a gloomy old castle or monastery?

-Horror.

-Gothic. In which country is the Angkor Archaeological Park,

a large area of ruins famous for its temple complexes

of Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom?

-No idea.

-I'll take that as a pass.

The Prix du Jockey Club, first run in 1836,

is the French equivalent of which English classic horse race?

-The Derby.

-At the end of which Oscar-winning '97 film is a fabulous blue diamond,

known as the Heart of the Ocean, tossed into the Atlantic?

-Titanic.

-Which scientist, best-known for his contributions

to the field of electromagnetism, started his working life

apprenticed to a bookbinder before becoming Sir Humphry Davy's assistant?

-Pass.

-What name is given to the period of time

taken off from study by a student,

typically between leaving school and starting university or college?

It's usually an academic year in length.

-Gap year.

-Which German dish was called liberty cabbage

in America during the First World War?

-Sauerkraut.

-Who became president of the new, post-Soviet Union Russia

on the 25th of December 1991 and resigned on New Year's Eve 1999?

-Boris Yeltsin.

-Which ship canal that runs inland

-from the Mersey estuary was opened in 1894?

-BEEPING

-The Grand Canal.

-The Manchester Ship Canal.

You had three passes. It was Michael Faraday

who made those contributions to the field of electromagnetics.

Cambodia is where Angkor Wat and all that is, as you knew.

And Abbey Theatre was the name of that Dublin theatre that WB Yeats helped to form.

You now have, Kimberley, a total of 16 points.

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And now Mick Judge again, please.

And you begin with eight points with your knowledge of Tod Slaughter,

about whom, I suspect, we didn't know very much at all before you answered those questions.

You now have two and a half minutes of general knowledge starting now.

After starting his literary career as a novelist and playwright,

who became famous when he published the verses he had written

for his son, Christopher Robin?

-AA Milne.

-Which island did China cede to Britain by the Treaty of Nanking of 1842?

-Honk Kong.

-Which actor, whose film credits include When Harry Met Sally

and City Slickers, hosted the Oscar ceremony for the ninth time in 2012?

-Billy Crystal.

-Who sculpted the Little 14-Year-Old Dancer,

a wax figure on a wooden base wearing a real tulle tutu?

It caused uproar when it was first exhibited in 1881.

-Rodin.

-Degas.

Which rank comes immediately above captain in the British army?

-Major.

-Which vegetable, frequently eaten raw,

has trench-grown varieties including Giant White

and self-blanching varieties including Ivory Tower?

-Cabbage.

-Celery. What is the modern name of the body of water

that the Romans called mare nostrum?

-North Sea.

-The Mediterranean Sea.

Whom did Muhammad Ali knock out in the Rumble in the Jungle

in Kinshasa in October 1974 to regain the World Heavyweight title?

-George Foreman.

-What name was given to the early 19th century rioters

who smashed the textile machinery they thought was a threat to their livelihoods?

It is now used for anyone who opposes technological change.

-Luddites.

-What is the anatomical name for the thigh bone?

It comes from the Latin for thigh.

-Femur.

-Which remote moorland farmhouse is the home of the Earnshaw family

in the classic 1847 novel by Emily Bronte?

-Wuthering Heights.

-What type of dreamy or romantic composition for the piano,

inspired by the night, was created by the Irish composer John Field

around 1814 and later popularised by Chopin?

-Sonata.

-Nocturne.

Who stars as the straight-laced Detective Inspector Richard Poole

in the television series Death In Paradise?

He always wears his suit and tie despite being on a Caribbean island.

-Pass.

-In Classical mythology, over which river were the souls of the dead

ferried into the Underworld by Charon? Its name comes from the Greek for hated.

-Styx.

-In what position did Albert Camus,

Pope John Paul II and Luciano Pavarotti

normally play when they appeared on the football field?

-Goalkeeper.

-Flick Colby choreographed which dance group

on Top of the Pops from 1968 to 1976?

-Pan's People.

-The males of which species of crab

have one claw much larger than the other? The name is said to come from

the way the crab holds the claw like a violinist holds a violin.

-Fiddler.

-What word did the Liberal party add to their official name

in October 1989 following their merger with the majority of the former SDP?

-Democratic.

-Yes, Liberal Democrats.

The 11th century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman,

the wife of Leofric, the Earl of Mercia, is more generally known by what name?

-Lady Godiva.

-Lady Godiva is correct.

You had one pass. It's Ben Miller who stars as Detective Inspector Richard Poole.

You have, Mick, a total of 22 points.

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And now Jonathan Payton again, please.

And you begin with 12 points with your knowledge of Joy Division.

22 is the score to beat at the moment.

Let's see if you can do it with your general knowledge. Here we go.

In ten-pin bowling, what term is used

when all ten pins are knocked down with the first ball?

-Strike.

-Who had an affair with the Soviet intelligence agent Yevgeny Ivanov

and Britain's Secretary of State for War

during a celebrated scandal of the 1960s?

-Christine Keeler.

-What's the name of the popular television series

set in the early 20th century that is filmed at Highclere Castle near Newbury?

-Poldark.

-Downton Abbey. Which car designed by Alec Issigonis

made its first appearance at the 1948 London Motor Show?

It was originally going to be called the Mosquito.

-The Morris Minor.

-What name for a single-storey house

derives from a Hindi word meaning "in the Bengali style"?

-Bungalow.

-Which town north-east of Manchester

has been represented in Parliament by William Cobbett and Winston Churchill?

It's also the birthplace of the composer William Walton.

-Bury.

-Oldham. Which golfer was born on 30th December 1975,

the son of a retired American army officer and his Thai-born wife, Kultida?

-Tiger Woods.

-Who became the patron saint of Venice

after his relics were smuggled there from Alexandria

by merchants in about 828?

-St Mark.

-Which 80s pop duo took their name from

a concept of rhythm and musical expression using movement

that had been developed in the early 20th century by Emile Jaques-Dalcroze?

-Yazoo?

-Eurythmics.

Which high-grade coffee takes its name from the historic port in Yemen

that was once the centre for its export?

-Pass.

-Whose coronation in Abyssinia

inspired Evelyn Waugh's novel Black Mischief?

-Haile Selassie.

-Which common wildflower has a variety called Goldilocks

reflecting the second part of its scientific name,

auricomus, meaning golden hair?

-Daisy.

-Buttercup. Which American actress was fired

from the set of the film Something's Got To Give

a month before her untimely death in 1962?

-Natalie Wood.

-Marilyn Monroe.

What term that comes from the Greek words meaning earth and heat

is used for energy obtained from the earth's interior?

-Geothermal.

-Louis XIV transformed a royal hunting lodge

into an elaborate palace surrounded by a stylised park and gardens.

In which city on the outskirts of Paris was this?

-Versailles.

-In which opera by Bizet

does the gypsy heroine perform the Habanera "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle"?

-Carmen.

-At the end of David Copperfield,

who emigrates with his family to Australia

-where he becomes a much-respected colonial magistrate?

-Pass.

What term for a flat-sided container for storing liquids,

especially motor fuel, comes from a type originally used in Germany

and adopted by the allies during the Second World War?

-Pass.

-Which actress, best-known for the TV series Cagney and Lacey,

has appeared on stage as Maria Callas

in Terrence McNally's play Master Class?

-Tyne Daly.

-Is correct! Now your passes.

Three of them. It's a Jerry can. I know.

Mr Micawber was the man in David Copperfield who went to Australia.

And that high-grade coffee, mocha.

Three passes, Jonathan, 23 points.

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And finally, Marcus Hake again, please.

And you begin with 13 points with your knowledge of the Ashes.

So now, as we know, you've got to score 24 points.

Let's see if you can do it with your general knowledge. Here we go.

Which annual rowing event, first held at Henley in June 1829,

now begins in Putney and ends in Mortlake?

-The University Boat Race.

-Who began his political career when he served as president

of the American Screen Actors Guild from 1947 to 1952?

-Ronald Reagan.

-What does the abbreviation stand for

in the title of Roald Dahl's story The BFG?

-Big, Friendly Giant.

-Sheikh Mansour, who bought Manchester City Football Club

in 2008, is a member of the ruling family of which Arab Emirate?

-Dubai.

-Abu Dhabi.

What is the title of The Crystals' 1963 top ten hit

that begins, "I met him on a Monday and my heart stood still"?

-Da Doo Ron Ron.

-Which cake, named after a Scottish city,

is covered with whole blanched almonds before baking?

-Dundee.

-In the Harry Potter films, the exterior of which neighbouring station

doubles for King's Cross, the departure point of the Hogwarts Express?

-St Pancras.

-What name of old French origin

is given to the muscular second stomach of a bird

which grinds food down into small particles?

-Pass.

-8a Victoria Street, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire

is a museum dedicated to which writer born there in 1885

to a coalminer and a former schoolmistress?

-DH Lawrence.

-Which mountaineer was commissioned in the Royal Tank Regiment

and later trained to be a margarine salesman

before he became a professional climber in 1962?

-Chris Bonington.

-In architecture, what name is given to a support,

usually of masonry, projecting from the outer wall of a building?

-Flying Buttress.

-Which English king was buried

along with his father Henry II and his mother Eleanor of Aquitaine

in the Abbey Church of Fontevraud in the Loire Valley?

-Edward I.

-No, Richard I.

Which Chinese-American martial arts expert and actor

died shortly before the release of his 1973 film Enter The Dragon?

-Bruce Lee.

-The flag of which Canadian province

is based on the royal arms of Scotland and features the cross of St Andrew

with the colours reversed and a shield with a red lion rampant at its centre?

-Alberta.

-Nova Scotia.

What word, thought to have been coined by a 20th century French dietician,

describes the subcutaneous fat, especially on the thighs and buttocks,

which gives a dimpled appearance on the skin?

-Cellulite.

-Which 1938 work by George Orwell tells of his experiences

fighting on the Republican side in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War?

-Homage To Catalonia.

-What's the name of the place

at the foot of the Mount of Olives where Christ and his disciples

are said to have gone to pray on the night before his crucifixion?

-Gethsemane.

-Which metal became recognised as

a precious hallmarkable metal in 1975?

-Platinum.

-The career of which controversial American newspaper publisher

began when he took over the struggling San Francisco Examiner

from his father in 1887?

-WR Hearst.

-It was William Randolph Hearst indeed. You had one pass.

That second stomach of a bird is the gizzard.

Didn't matter, though, because you now have a total of 28 points.

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So, we have a clear winner. Let's have a look at all the scores.

In fourth place with 16 points, Kimberley Rescorl.

Third place, 22 points, Mick Judge.

Second place, 23 points, Jonathan Payton.

First place, 28 points, Marcus Hake.

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Which means, of course, that Marcus Hake is tonight's winner

and he goes through to the semi-finals. Congratulations to him.

Now, if you would like to be a contender in the next series,

then do go to our website:

And do join us again next time for more Masterminds.

Thanks for watching. Goodbye.

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