0:00:25 > 0:00:28First in the spotlight tonight is Matthew Bradshaw,
0:00:28 > 0:00:30a registration executive from Blackpool.
0:00:30 > 0:00:33His specialist subject - the sitcom Rising Damp.
0:00:33 > 0:00:37Next, Michael Wright, a retired risk manager from Chelmsford.
0:00:37 > 0:00:41He'll be answering questions on American military aircraft of the Second World War.
0:00:41 > 0:00:45Aiden McQuade, a charity director from South Armagh,
0:00:45 > 0:00:48will be answering questions on the novels of Dennis Lehane.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51Kathryn Palmer, an archivist from Market Harborough.
0:00:51 > 0:00:56Her specialist subject - the St John's Wood Clique of Victorian artists.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59And Mark Grant, an accountant from Bromley.
0:00:59 > 0:01:03His subject - the films of Dietrich and von Sternberg.
0:01:12 > 0:01:16Hello, and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18We're in the semifinal stage now,
0:01:18 > 0:01:22which means all tonight's contenders have made it through the heats.
0:01:22 > 0:01:26So there is just one hurdle to clear before the grand final itself,
0:01:26 > 0:01:29and the chance to become the nation's Mastermind.
0:01:29 > 0:01:33A minute and a half on their specialist subject and two minutes on general knowledge.
0:01:33 > 0:01:37Easy! Except for the clock and the pressure.
0:01:37 > 0:01:41Let's get on with it and ask our first contender to join us, please.
0:01:46 > 0:01:48And your name is...
0:01:51 > 0:01:56..In the last round, you answered questions on the Epsom Derby.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59- Tonight, you're answering questions on...?- Rising Damp.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02Rising Damp in a minute and a half, starting now.
0:02:02 > 0:02:06What was the title of the play by Eric Chappell on which he based the television series?
0:02:06 > 0:02:07The Banana Box.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10The pilot episode was originally called Rooksby,
0:02:10 > 0:02:14until a real landlord complained about the use of his name.
0:02:14 > 0:02:18What title was used when the episode was broadcast in September '74?
0:02:18 > 0:02:20- Rooksby.- The New Tenant.
0:02:20 > 0:02:22The landlord Rigsby, played by Leonard Rossiter,
0:02:22 > 0:02:27is forced to reveal his first name to Miss Jones in Great Expectations, what is it?
0:02:27 > 0:02:30- Rupert.- In The Permissive Society, when Alan played by Don Warrington
0:02:30 > 0:02:33and Philip played by Richard Beckinsale ask Rigsby
0:02:33 > 0:02:36where the erogenous zones are, he replies they're near where?
0:02:36 > 0:02:40- The equator.- Where in Hammersmith were the rehearsals for the first series held
0:02:40 > 0:02:44before the Sulgrave Boys Club became the venue for the other three series' rehearsals?
0:02:44 > 0:02:48- St Paul's Church Hall. - In The Prowler, the burglar gains entry
0:02:48 > 0:02:52by claiming to be a detective constable. What does he say his surname is?
0:02:52 > 0:02:56- Baker. - When Philip holds the sexometer gauge in Under The Influence
0:02:56 > 0:03:00it reads "passionate", what did it read when Rigsby holds it?
0:03:00 > 0:03:04- Pass.- What is the name of Rigsby's cat, which Philip calls "a fat greasy thing"
0:03:04 > 0:03:08in Food Glorious Food - he claims Rigsby spends a fortune on it?
0:03:08 > 0:03:14- Vienna.- What perfume does Rigsby give to Miss Jones as a birthday present in A Night Out?
0:03:14 > 0:03:16- Ritual Of The Night. - Ritual In The Dark.
0:03:16 > 0:03:21In the pilot episode, what does Rigsby say is the cause of Alan's suits turning green
0:03:21 > 0:03:24when he complains about rising damp in his attic room?
0:03:24 > 0:03:26- Condensation. - What is Spooner's wrestling name?
0:03:26 > 0:03:31He has it written on his sweatshirt as he lies on the couch in All Our Yesterdays?
0:03:31 > 0:03:33- The Animal.- In Suddenly At Home... - BUZZER
0:03:33 > 0:03:36I've started, so I'll finish. ..which tenant does Rigsby claim
0:03:36 > 0:03:41spends so much time at the doctor's that they consulted him on the colour scheme?
0:03:41 > 0:03:44- Osbourne.- Is correct. You had just one pass.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47When Rigsby held that sexometer gauge,
0:03:47 > 0:03:49it read "Made in Hong Kong".
0:03:49 > 0:03:52- LAUGHS - Just that one pass, Matthew.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55- You have nine points. - APPLAUSE
0:04:02 > 0:04:05And our next contender, please.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12And your name is...?
0:04:15 > 0:04:20..In the first round, you took the Hornblower novels as your specialist subject. This time, it is...?
0:04:23 > 0:04:26..Military aircraft in a minute and a half starting now.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28What name, coined by Seattle Times reporter Richard Williams,
0:04:28 > 0:04:33did Boeing register as the trademark for the aircraft originally build as model 299?
0:04:33 > 0:04:39- Flying Fortress.- Which type of aircraft dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in '45?
0:04:39 > 0:04:44- B-29.- Which Consolidated bomber was the most produced US multi-engine aircraft,
0:04:44 > 0:04:48and proved effective against U-boats in the Atlantic?
0:04:48 > 0:04:52- B-24.- Which Rolls-Royce engine, built under licence by Packard,
0:04:52 > 0:04:56replaced the Allison engines in the North American B-51 Mustang?
0:04:56 > 0:04:59- The Merlin.- Which twin-engine pursuit fighter built by Lockheed
0:04:59 > 0:05:03was designed to a specification that it could climb to 20,000 feet in six minutes?
0:05:03 > 0:05:09- B-38.- Which large American transport glider, called the Hadrian in British service,
0:05:09 > 0:05:12was used to great effect in the Chindit campaign in Burma
0:05:12 > 0:05:15and other European operations, such as the D-Day landings?
0:05:15 > 0:05:18- The Haig.- Yes, or the CG-4.
0:05:18 > 0:05:23In 1939, 44 modified Brewster F2A Buffalo fighters, originally ordered by the Navy,
0:05:23 > 0:05:28were reallocated to which country which was at war with the Soviet Union?
0:05:28 > 0:05:31- Pass.- The R-4, introduced in 1942,
0:05:31 > 0:05:36was the first helicopter built for military service in the war - which company designed it?
0:05:36 > 0:05:39- Sikorsky.- In 1942, the American Navy placed an order
0:05:39 > 0:05:43for 200 Budd RB-1 Conestogas to be made from what material?
0:05:43 > 0:05:46- Stainless steel.- Which was the biggest single-seat combat fighter
0:05:46 > 0:05:49to serve in the American Air Force,
0:05:49 > 0:05:52and included among its nicknames "The Jug" and "Razorback"?
0:05:52 > 0:05:56- The P-47. - Which Grumman fighter was Butch O'Hare flying when he shot down...
0:05:56 > 0:06:02- BUZZER - ..five Japanese bombers in under six minutes on 20 February 1942?
0:06:02 > 0:06:05- The Wildcat.- The Wildcat is correct. You had one pass.
0:06:05 > 0:06:10Those modified Brewster fighters were reallocated to Finland,
0:06:10 > 0:06:13which was at war with the Soviet Union at the time.
0:06:13 > 0:06:17- One pass, Michael. You have ten points.- Thank you.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20APPLAUSE
0:06:24 > 0:06:27And our next contender, please.
0:06:31 > 0:06:34And your name is...?
0:06:36 > 0:06:39You chose Michael Collins as your subject last time.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42- What is it to be tonight? - The novels of Dennis Lehane.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45The novels of Dennis Lehane in a minute and a half, starting now.
0:06:45 > 0:06:51In which American city are Lehane's private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro based?
0:06:51 > 0:06:56- Boston.- What's the full name of the police squad referred to in Gone, Baby, Gone as the CAC,
0:06:56 > 0:06:59which often worked with narcotics and vice?
0:06:59 > 0:07:03- Crimes Against Children. - In Mystic River, who had twice been released
0:07:03 > 0:07:08after robberies at liquor stores in the year after his son Brendan Seamus was born?
0:07:08 > 0:07:12- Er... Ray...Harris. - In what neighbourhood,
0:07:12 > 0:07:16said to be "five miles from the centre of Boston proper" was Kenzie born and raised?
0:07:16 > 0:07:21- Dorchester. - In Sacred, Jay Becker directs Kenzie to a locker at the Greyhound station
0:07:21 > 0:07:26in St Petersburg, Florida, using a cryptic clue referring to an album by which musician?
0:07:26 > 0:07:30- Bob Dylan.- What's the name of the 1916 Thomson strike veteran
0:07:30 > 0:07:34whose identity is assumed by the undercover police officer Coughlin in The Given Day?
0:07:34 > 0:07:36- Daniel Sante.- In Shutter Island,
0:07:36 > 0:07:39Trey Washington claims to know what makes people crazy,
0:07:39 > 0:07:43reasoning, "if it can jerk the ocean around, think what it can do to the head". What is it?
0:07:43 > 0:07:48- The moon. - Amanda McCready was four when she disappeared in Gone, Baby, Gone.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50What's her age when she goes missing in Moonlight Mile?
0:07:50 > 0:07:54- 16.- Who, alongside an unnamed Baldwin brother,
0:07:54 > 0:08:00plays the lead vampire slayer in the film that Dave and Celeste discuss in Mystic River?
0:08:00 > 0:08:05- Um...James Wood.- What is Gennaro's nickname for Kenzie,
0:08:05 > 0:08:09because he wrapped his father's car around a lamppost when she was a passenger?
0:08:09 > 0:08:12- Skid.- What is the church where Kenzie and Gennaro are revealed
0:08:12 > 0:08:15to have set up offices in A Drink Before The War?
0:08:15 > 0:08:17St Bart's. BUZZER
0:08:17 > 0:08:21And I nearly started another question, but I didn't. No passes.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24- Aiden McQuade, you have 11 points. - APPLAUSE
0:08:31 > 0:08:34And our next contender, please.
0:08:39 > 0:08:41And your name is...?
0:08:42 > 0:08:46You won the last round with your answers to questions on Duran Duran.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49Tonight, your specialist subject is...?
0:08:51 > 0:08:53Here we go.
0:08:53 > 0:08:56In the 1860s, a group of artists in the St John's Wood area of London
0:08:56 > 0:09:00formed a loose association known as the St John's Wood Clique.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02How many made up the group?
0:09:02 > 0:09:05- Seven.- At which painter's art school in Newman Street
0:09:05 > 0:09:11did five members of the Clique study before graduating to the Royal Academy schools?
0:09:11 > 0:09:15- Pass.- What is the title of the work by William Frederick Yeames,
0:09:15 > 0:09:17inspired by a stay at Hever Castle,
0:09:17 > 0:09:21which shows two women in riding dress in Anne Boleyn's bedroom?
0:09:21 > 0:09:25- The Haunted Chamber. - What object in the design of the Clique's badge of membership,
0:09:25 > 0:09:28reflected the grillings the artists gave to each other's work?
0:09:28 > 0:09:33- Gridiron.- Who was the only member not to attain the status of Royal Academician,
0:09:33 > 0:09:35although he had work accepted?
0:09:35 > 0:09:39- David Wilkie Wynfield. - The Clique often chose events considered too trivial
0:09:39 > 0:09:41to be recorded by historians.
0:09:41 > 0:09:45Which English critic described these subjects as "the lost pages of history"?
0:09:45 > 0:09:49- Palgrave.- Which member of the Clique finally gained popularity
0:09:49 > 0:09:52by adopting the style of Dutch 17th-century painters,
0:09:52 > 0:09:55evident in works such as The Duet of 1869?
0:09:55 > 0:09:59- George Adolphus Storey. - Which volunteer military regiment, formed around 1860
0:09:59 > 0:10:02in response to threat of invasion from France, did most of the Clique join?
0:10:02 > 0:10:07- The Artist Rifles.- What name did the Clique give the whisky and water they shared in the evening?
0:10:07 > 0:10:10- A mallet. - At which exhibition of 1867
0:10:10 > 0:10:15did Philip Hermogenes Calderon win the only gold medal given to an English artist that year
0:10:15 > 0:10:18with Her Most High, Noble And Puissant Grace?
0:10:18 > 0:10:22- The Paris Universal Exhibition. - Which member worked with his father in St Petersburg,
0:10:22 > 0:10:25- but after studying at the Hermitage returned to England... - BUZZER
0:10:25 > 0:10:27..in 1853 to train as an artist?
0:10:27 > 0:10:30- Hodgson.- Is correct. You had one pass.
0:10:30 > 0:10:35That art school where five of the members studied was the James Matthew Leigh school.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38- You have, Kathryn, ten points. - APPLAUSE
0:10:45 > 0:10:48And our final contender, please.
0:10:52 > 0:10:54And your name is...?
0:10:55 > 0:11:02..In the last round, you chose Henry Mayhew's London Labour And The London Poor. Tonight, it is what...?
0:11:04 > 0:11:06A minute and a half. Here we go.
0:11:06 > 0:11:09Which 1930 film takes its title from the name of a seedy club
0:11:09 > 0:11:13in which a professor becomes infatuated with burlesque performer Lola-Lola,
0:11:13 > 0:11:18played by Marlene Dietrich, the first film she made with the director Josef von Sternberg?
0:11:18 > 0:11:22- The Blue Angel.- Which actor portrayed the Chinese rebel leader Chang in Shanghai Express
0:11:22 > 0:11:24and the Austrian Von Hindau in Dishonored?
0:11:24 > 0:11:29- Warner Oland.- For which film were Dietrich and Von Sternberg nominated for Oscars,
0:11:29 > 0:11:31though neither would ever win one?
0:11:31 > 0:11:35- Shanghai Express.- Morocco. In Blonde Venus, the chemist Ned Faraday
0:11:35 > 0:11:37tells his doctor he's been poisoned by exposure to what?
0:11:37 > 0:11:40- Radiation. - The music for which '35 film
0:11:40 > 0:11:44is based partly on Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio Espagnol,
0:11:44 > 0:11:47which was also the working title of the film?
0:11:47 > 0:11:51- The Devil Is A Woman. - Von Sternberg decided to cast Dietrich in The Blue Angel
0:11:51 > 0:11:54after seeing her on stage in Berlin in which musical comedy?
0:11:54 > 0:11:57- The Two Ties. - Yes, or Zwei Krawatten.
0:11:57 > 0:12:00In a 1934 film, Dietrich plays Sophia Frederica, renamed Catherine,
0:12:00 > 0:12:05described in the opening titles as "the ill-famed Messalina of the North" - what's the film?
0:12:05 > 0:12:10- The Scarlet Empress. - Which cameraman worked with von Sternberg on Morocco and Dishonored
0:12:10 > 0:12:12and won an Oscar for his work on Shanghai Express?
0:12:12 > 0:12:17- Lee Garmes.- In The Devil Is A Woman, Antonio tells Concha that he could kill her in cold blood.
0:12:17 > 0:12:21What, with his soothing company, would she like before she dies?
0:12:21 > 0:12:24- Coffee.- According to Dietrich's character in Shanghai Express,
0:12:24 > 0:12:28many lovers come to railway stations to do what without attracting attention?
0:12:28 > 0:12:33- Kiss.- In The Scarlet Empress, which lady, after recovering one of Grand Duke Peter's toys,
0:12:33 > 0:12:38is asked, "How long have you been at this court picking up soldiers?"
0:12:38 > 0:12:41- BUZZER Elizabeth. - Yeah, Countess Elizabeth is correct!
0:12:41 > 0:12:44No passes. Mark Grant, you have ten points.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46APPLAUSE
0:12:53 > 0:12:56So, that's the end of a thrillingly close first round.
0:12:56 > 0:13:01Let's have a look at all the scores. In fifth place, Matthew Bradshaw.
0:13:01 > 0:13:04Joint second place, ten points apiece,
0:13:04 > 0:13:08Michael Wright, Kathryn Palmer and Mark Grant.
0:13:08 > 0:13:12In the lead - just in the lead - Aiden McQuade.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21It's the general knowledge round now and if there's a tie,
0:13:21 > 0:13:26the number of passes are taken into account and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.
0:13:26 > 0:13:31And if they're tied on passes, there will be a tie-break.
0:13:31 > 0:13:35Let's get on with it and ask Matthew to join us again, please.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41You scored nine points in that very close first round.
0:13:41 > 0:13:45Let's see how you do with general knowledge. Two minutes, starting now.
0:13:45 > 0:13:50In computing, what does the abbreviation ISP stand for?
0:13:50 > 0:13:54- Universal Serial Bus. - Internet Service Provider.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57Which 1992 film about a botched diamond heist and its aftermath
0:13:57 > 0:14:01follows gangsters who use false names such as Mr Pink and Mr Orange?
0:14:01 > 0:14:05- Reservoir Dogs.- What type of cap traditionally worn by Basques,
0:14:05 > 0:14:09was adopted by the military and worn in a celebrated image by Che Guevara?
0:14:09 > 0:14:11- Kepi?- A beret.
0:14:11 > 0:14:16What educationalist published his Dictionary Of Phrase And Fable in 1870, revising it in 1895?
0:14:16 > 0:14:22- Aesop.- Brewer. The USA was the last country to win an Olympic gold medal in which team sport
0:14:22 > 0:14:25before it was discontinued after the 1924 games?
0:14:25 > 0:14:28A form of the game will be played at the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
0:14:28 > 0:14:32- Tug-of-war.- Rugby. In Greek mythology, who stole fire from the gods?
0:14:32 > 0:14:37He was chained to a rock where an eagle ate his liver, which was constantly renewed.
0:14:37 > 0:14:42- Prometheus. - Which former Neighbours actress entered the charts in November 1997
0:14:42 > 0:14:45with the single Torn, one of the UK's all-time top 100 best-sellers?
0:14:45 > 0:14:50- Natalie Imbruglia.- The name of which German city comes from the German for "home of the monks"
0:14:50 > 0:14:53after a Benedictine monastery in the 8th century?
0:14:53 > 0:14:56- Hamburg.- Munich. What literary form did Wordsworth describe
0:14:56 > 0:15:00as "taking its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity"?
0:15:00 > 0:15:03- Poetry.- Which comedian and television presenter born in 1972,
0:15:03 > 0:15:08has a degree in mathematical physics from University College, Dublin?
0:15:08 > 0:15:12- Dara O'Briain.- Which village near Rochester in Kent gives its name
0:15:12 > 0:15:15to a type of juvenile corrective institution abolished in 1982
0:15:15 > 0:15:18and replaced by young offender institutions?
0:15:18 > 0:15:23- Borstal.- The bony labyrinth and the membranous labyrinth are parts of which organ of the body?
0:15:23 > 0:15:27- Ear.- What general term for farm animals, especially cows and bulls,
0:15:27 > 0:15:30comes from the late Latin for "personal wealth" or "property"?
0:15:30 > 0:15:34- Pass. - Which British horror writer created the sceptical detective David Ash
0:15:34 > 0:15:37who appears in Haunted and The Ghosts of Sleath?
0:15:37 > 0:15:42- Pass. - The American civil engineer Joseph B Strauss is chiefly remembered
0:15:42 > 0:15:45for the design of which bridge, completed in 1937?
0:15:45 > 0:15:48- BUZZER Brooklyn Bridge. - The Golden Gate Bridge!
0:15:48 > 0:15:53You have two passes. That British horror writer who created David Ash was James Herbert.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56And the general term for farm animals...
0:15:56 > 0:16:00You'll be cross with yourself! ..cows and bulls - cattle.
0:16:00 > 0:16:04- MATTHEW LAUGHS - However, Matthew, you now have a total of 16 points.
0:16:04 > 0:16:06APPLAUSE
0:16:13 > 0:16:16And Michael Wright again now, please.
0:16:18 > 0:16:22You are one of three contenders who start this round with ten points.
0:16:22 > 0:16:26Let's see how you do with your general knowledge. Two minutes, starting now.
0:16:26 > 0:16:29Which politician had a guide dog called Sadie,
0:16:29 > 0:16:32who retired in November 2011, when she was replaced by Cosby?
0:16:32 > 0:16:37- Blunkett.- The Italian dish Zuppa Inglese, containing cake or macaroons soaked in alcohol,
0:16:37 > 0:16:40- is similar to which popular British dessert?- Pass.
0:16:40 > 0:16:44What judge presided over the trial of the Duke of Monmouth's followers
0:16:44 > 0:16:48in 1685 in what was known as the Bloody Assizes?
0:16:48 > 0:16:51- Jeffreys.- In 2004, the children's author Geraldine McCaughrean
0:16:51 > 0:16:53was commissioned by Great Ormond Street Hospital
0:16:53 > 0:16:56to write the sequel to which classic book?
0:16:56 > 0:17:01- Peter Pan. - Which music hall performer, who specialised in male impersonations,
0:17:01 > 0:17:05was born Matilda Alice Powles in Worcester in May 1864?
0:17:05 > 0:17:08- Vesta Tilley.- In which Australian state is the Daintree National Park,
0:17:08 > 0:17:11believed to contain the oldest virgin rainforest in the world?
0:17:11 > 0:17:14- Queensland.- Who succeeded his stepfather Augustus
0:17:14 > 0:17:17to become the second Roman emperor in 14AD?
0:17:17 > 0:17:22- Claudius.- Tiberius. Which city's rise as a bicycle making centre began in 1887,
0:17:22 > 0:17:27when Sir Frank Bowden bought into a small bicycle factory in Raleigh Street?
0:17:27 > 0:17:32- Nottingham.- What term for a narrative picture or work of art to be understood symbolically
0:17:32 > 0:17:35comes from the Greek for "speaking otherwise"?
0:17:35 > 0:17:38- Pass.- Queen Mary I said that when she was "dead and opened"
0:17:38 > 0:17:41a French city would be found lying in her heart, which one?
0:17:41 > 0:17:47- Calais.- Who co-starred with his wife Sheila Sim in The Mousetrap when it opened in 1952?
0:17:47 > 0:17:50He's now better known as a film director.
0:17:50 > 0:17:54- Pass.- An early Florentine artist is said to have drawn a perfect circle
0:17:54 > 0:17:58when the Pope asked to see a sample of his work. Who was he?
0:17:58 > 0:18:01- Da Vinci.- Giotto. Which Royal Navy survey ship gives its name
0:18:01 > 0:18:05to the part of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific that, with a depth of 11,000 metres,
0:18:05 > 0:18:07is the deepest surveyed point in the ocean?
0:18:07 > 0:18:09- Discovery.- Challenger.
0:18:09 > 0:18:14Who in his Ode To Autumn described it as a "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness"?
0:18:14 > 0:18:17- Keats.- Chopin's solo piano compositions include mazurkas
0:18:17 > 0:18:20and at least 13 examples of another Polish dance
0:18:20 > 0:18:23where he expresses his patriotic feelings - which dance?
0:18:23 > 0:18:27- Pass.- In cricket, which Yorkshireman became the first bowler...
0:18:27 > 0:18:29- BUZZER - ..to take 300 Test wickets
0:18:29 > 0:18:32after he dismissed the Australian Neil Hawke in 1964?
0:18:32 > 0:18:35- Freddie Trueman.- Is correct. You had four passes.
0:18:35 > 0:18:40The Polonaise is that other Chopin Polish dance.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43Richard Attenborough co-starred with Sheila Sim.
0:18:43 > 0:18:49That term for a narrative picture or other work to be understood symbolically is an allegory.
0:18:49 > 0:18:54And Zuppa Inglese is a bit like sherry trifle.
0:18:54 > 0:18:59Yeah. Exactly. You have now, Michael, a total of 19 points.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01APPLAUSE
0:19:07 > 0:19:09And now, Kathryn Palmer again, please.
0:19:12 > 0:19:18You also start out with ten points. 19 is the score to beat.
0:19:18 > 0:19:22Let's see if you can get ten points in this round. Here we go, two minutes, general knowledge.
0:19:22 > 0:19:26Which four words end many of the entries in Samuel Pepys' diary?
0:19:26 > 0:19:30- And so to bed. - What structure, parts of which date back to the 3rd century BC,
0:19:30 > 0:19:34is one of the largest construction projects ever undertaken?
0:19:34 > 0:19:38- The Pyramids.- The Great Wall of China. Which song was the theme for the BBC comedy The Office?
0:19:38 > 0:19:42A version by the Stereophonics was later a hit.
0:19:42 > 0:19:46- Handbags And Gladrags.- Which bird, native to the southwestern states of America, gets its name
0:19:46 > 0:19:51because its flight is weak and it escapes its enemies by scuttling across the ground?
0:19:51 > 0:19:56- Crab Hopper?- The roadrunner. In Indian cuisine, what name of Persian origin meaning "fried"
0:19:56 > 0:20:01is given to a dish of rice with meat or fish coloured with turmeric or saffron?
0:20:01 > 0:20:04- Um...roti.- Biryani.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07Which author, born in a German refugee camp in 1946,
0:20:07 > 0:20:13first achieved literary success with her 2005 novel, A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian?
0:20:13 > 0:20:18- Marina Lewycka. - Which English city has an Anglican cathedral dedicated to St Philip
0:20:18 > 0:20:21and a Catholic cathedral dedicated to St Chad?
0:20:21 > 0:20:23- Liverpool.- Birmingham.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26What term for a gold-coloured alloy of copper, zinc and sometimes tin,
0:20:26 > 0:20:30used in decoration and ornaments, comes from the French for "ground gold"?
0:20:30 > 0:20:35- Gilt.- Ormolu. In which film did Holly Hunter play a Scottish woman who hasn't spoken since childhood
0:20:35 > 0:20:40and was sent to New Zealand to marry a landowner? She won a Best Actress Oscar.
0:20:40 > 0:20:43- The Piano.- Which infamous daughter of the future Pope Alexander VI
0:20:43 > 0:20:47was born in April 1480 to his mistress Vannozza Cattanei?
0:20:47 > 0:20:50- Lucrezia Borgia. - Who died in mysterious circumstances
0:20:50 > 0:20:54when he fell from his yacht Lady Ghislaine in November 1991?
0:20:54 > 0:20:57- Robert Maxwell.- What name was given to the television adaptation
0:20:57 > 0:21:02of four of Shakespeare's history plays broadcast on BBC2 during the summer of 2012?
0:21:02 > 0:21:06- Pass.- In Celtic folklore, the wailing of which supernatural being,
0:21:06 > 0:21:10whose name means "woman of the fairies" is supposed to foretell a death?
0:21:10 > 0:21:14- Banshee.- What word for a severe pain in the lower back comes from the Latin for "loin"?
0:21:14 > 0:21:18- Lumbago.- In which American city is the Juilliard School of Music,
0:21:18 > 0:21:22named after the cotton merchant who endowed a musical foundation in 1919?
0:21:22 > 0:21:25- Philadelphia.- New York. Which hill in Surrey... - BUZZER
0:21:25 > 0:21:30..the destination of a picnic in Jane Austen's Emma, is named after the trees that grow there?
0:21:30 > 0:21:32- Box Hill.- Is correct. You have one pass.
0:21:32 > 0:21:37That television adaptation of four of Shakespeare's plays was The Hollow Crown.
0:21:37 > 0:21:40You have, Kathryn, 19 points.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42APPLAUSE
0:21:48 > 0:21:51Staying close! Mark Grant again, please.
0:21:54 > 0:21:59You also begin with ten points and 19 is still the score to beat.
0:21:59 > 0:22:04Here we go. What name is given to the Japanese art of cultivating dwarf trees in pots?
0:22:04 > 0:22:08- Bonsai.- Which cat did TS Eliot describe as "the Napoleon of crime"
0:22:08 > 0:22:11in his Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats?
0:22:11 > 0:22:15- Deuteronomy?- McCavity. Which island, the southernmost of the Inner Hebrides,
0:22:15 > 0:22:18is famous for the smokey flavour of its malt whiskies?
0:22:18 > 0:22:21- Dura?- Islay. The political prisoner who died in the Bastille in 1703
0:22:21 > 0:22:25is known by what name, his true identity is still uncertain?
0:22:25 > 0:22:30- Man in the iron mask.- Which square lies diagonally opposite "Go" on a standard Monopoly board?
0:22:30 > 0:22:32- "Go to jail".- "Free parking".
0:22:32 > 0:22:36What was the name of the first purpose-built jet airliner,
0:22:36 > 0:22:39its maiden flight was from London to Johannesburg on 2 May 1952?
0:22:39 > 0:22:43- Comet.- Which director has received five Oscar nominations
0:22:43 > 0:22:45for films including M.A.S.H. and Gosford Park?
0:22:45 > 0:22:49- Altman. - What branch of alternative medicine that uses manipulative therapy
0:22:49 > 0:22:51rather than drugs to cure illness
0:22:51 > 0:22:55was founded by the 19th-century American physician Andrew Still?
0:22:55 > 0:22:58- Osteopathy.- Which poem by Alexander Pope is based on a real incident
0:22:58 > 0:23:01where Arabella Fermor had a piece of hair cut off by a suitor,
0:23:01 > 0:23:04Lord Peter, without her permission?
0:23:04 > 0:23:07- Rape Of The Lock. - In 2011, which former Monty Python
0:23:07 > 0:23:10was commissioned by the English National Opera
0:23:10 > 0:23:13to direct a performance of Berlioz' Damnation Of Faust?
0:23:13 > 0:23:16- Gilliam.- According to the Gospel of St Matthew, for how much money
0:23:16 > 0:23:19did Judas Iscariot betray Jesus to the Chief Priest and elders?
0:23:19 > 0:23:22- 30 pieces of silver. - The common name for which aster,
0:23:22 > 0:23:25often with petals in shades of lilac or purple,
0:23:25 > 0:23:28comes from the feast day at the end of September around which time it blooms?
0:23:28 > 0:23:31- Lily of the valley? - Michaelmas daisy.
0:23:31 > 0:23:34Which South African mountain range noted for its jagged peaks
0:23:34 > 0:23:37has the Zulu name uKhahlamba, meaning Barrier of Spears?
0:23:37 > 0:23:41- Drakensberg.- In 1967, which team became known as the Lisbon Lions
0:23:41 > 0:23:45after it became the first British football club to win the European Champions' Cup?
0:23:45 > 0:23:51- Aberdeen.- Celtic. What is a windowed wall of a building raised above the surrounding roofs
0:23:51 > 0:23:53to create light in the enclosed space?
0:23:53 > 0:23:56- Enclave?- Clerestory. Which Labour leader born in Lanarkshire
0:23:56 > 0:24:00entered Parliament in 1892 when he was returned for West Ham South...
0:24:00 > 0:24:03- BUZZER - ..as the Independent Labour candidate?
0:24:03 > 0:24:06- MacDonald?- Keir Hardie.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09And that was an important one.
0:24:09 > 0:24:13I'll tell you why because you have no passes but, Mark, you have...
0:24:13 > 0:24:1519 points!
0:24:15 > 0:24:17APPLAUSE
0:24:23 > 0:24:26And, finally, Aiden McQuade, please.
0:24:27 > 0:24:30And you start out with 11 points,
0:24:30 > 0:24:34which may or may not be the advantage that decides this game.
0:24:34 > 0:24:3919 is still the score to beat. Two minutes starting now.
0:24:39 > 0:24:42In the Bond films, which character has been played by Lois Maxwell,
0:24:42 > 0:24:44Caroline Bliss and Samantha Bond?
0:24:44 > 0:24:49- Moneypenny. - Whom did Napoleon Bonaparte marry in a civil ceremony in 1796?
0:24:49 > 0:24:54He remarried her in a religious ceremony in 1804, on the eve of his coronation as Emperor of France.
0:24:54 > 0:25:00- Josephine.- Which tall birds get their pink colouring from the pigments in the organisms they eat?
0:25:00 > 0:25:03- Flamingo.- On which Scottish course on the Ayrshire coast
0:25:03 > 0:25:07was the Open Golf Championship held 24 times between 1860 and 1925,
0:25:07 > 0:25:09and not held there since?
0:25:09 > 0:25:12- St Andrews.- Prestwick. What pair of letters is sometimes used,
0:25:12 > 0:25:19especially by academics, instead of AD to avoid a Christian reference when expressing dates?
0:25:19 > 0:25:23- CE.- Which British band had a Number Two hit with Gold in 1983?
0:25:23 > 0:25:29The song was used by the BBC for its Olympic coverage the following year.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34Spandau Ballet.
0:25:34 > 0:25:39On which of the Canary Islands is the Timanfaya National Park and the Montanas del Fuego,
0:25:39 > 0:25:42where heat from fissures in the rock is enough to cook a meal?
0:25:42 > 0:25:47- Lanzarote.- Who served three terms as Britain's Prime Minister in the '20s and '30s?
0:25:47 > 0:25:49- Ramsay MacDonald.- Baldwin.
0:25:49 > 0:25:53Which travel writer's memoir The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid
0:25:53 > 0:25:56is about his life growing up in Des Moines, Iowa?
0:25:56 > 0:25:58- Jack Kerouac.- Bill Bryson.
0:25:58 > 0:26:03Which powerful explosive was discovered by the Italian chemist Ascanio Sobrero in 1846,
0:26:03 > 0:26:07but was not commercially exploited until Alfred Nobel used it in dynamite in 1867?
0:26:07 > 0:26:12- Nitroglycerin. - By what nickname is Schubert's Eighth Symphony in B-minor known?
0:26:12 > 0:26:16- Unfinished.- Which condiment made from fruit or vegetables
0:26:16 > 0:26:21cooked with sugar and spices takes its name from the Hindi for "strong spices"?
0:26:21 > 0:26:23- Worcestershire sauce!- Chutney.
0:26:23 > 0:26:28Which American oil billionaire opened a museum in California to hold his art collection in 1953?
0:26:28 > 0:26:33- Getty.- What word for a secret dungeon with no opening except for a trap door in its ceiling
0:26:33 > 0:26:37comes from the French for "to forget"?
0:26:37 > 0:26:39- Pass.- In which television comedy series...
0:26:39 > 0:26:43- BUZZER - ..is Adam Smallbone, played by Tom Hollander,
0:26:43 > 0:26:48the vicar of St Saviour's, an inner city church with a depleted motley congregation?
0:26:48 > 0:26:50- Rev.- Is correct.
0:26:50 > 0:26:56One pass, that word for a special dungeon with no opening except for a trap door is "oubliette".
0:26:56 > 0:27:00Didn't matter, though, Aiden, you have 21 points.
0:27:00 > 0:27:02APPLAUSE
0:27:12 > 0:27:16We have a winner, but was it close? Let's have a look at those scores.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19In fifth place, Matthew Bradshaw.
0:27:19 > 0:27:26Joint second place, Michael Wright, Kathryn Palmer and Mark Grant.
0:27:26 > 0:27:31First place, he just pulled it off, Aiden McQuade.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49Which means, of course, that Aiden McQuade is the winner.
0:27:49 > 0:27:53He claims a place in the grand final. Congratulations to him.
0:27:53 > 0:27:56And if you'd like to be a contender on the next series,
0:27:56 > 0:27:59then do go to our website:
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0:28:04 > 0:28:06Thanks for watching. Goodbye.
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