Episode 7 Mastermind

First in the spotlight tonight is Kevin Baker,

a bank employee from Alvechurch.

His subject is Sir Ian Botham.

Next, Andrew Hunt from Fulham. He'll be answering questions

on the Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich.

Nina Fetherston, a student from Chester.

Her subject - the rock band Guns N' Roses.

And Michael Wright, a retired risk manager.

His subject - the Hornblower novels.

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Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.

Tonight, once again, four contenders will put their knowledge to the test

in their bid to become the nation's Mastermind -

the highest honour the quiz world has to offer.

And the toughest!

Two rounds, two minutes on their specialist subjects,

two and a half minutes of general knowledge.

And that's the one they fear the most,

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

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your specialist subject?

Ian Botham in two minutes.

For which County did Ian Botham

make his first-class cricket debut against Lancashire in 1974?

Somerset.

Who was Botham's predecessor

as Captain of the England Test team in 1980?

He also succeeded Botham in the following year.

Mike Brearley.

Which comprehensive school in Yeovil did Botham attend

until leaving at the age of 15 in 1971

without any formal qualifications?

Buckler's Mead.

Between '89 and '96,

he was a Captain on BBC Television's A Question Of Sport.

Who was his opposing Captain?

-Bill Beaumont.

-It was.

In 1979, Botham was in the first Somerset side to win a major trophy.

They won two trophies on consecutive days, but what was the first?

-Natwest Trophy.

-Gillette Cup.

He completed his spell of five wickets for one run

in the '81 Edgbaston Test match

by clean-bowling which Australian opening bowler?

Terry Alderman.

With which County did he complete his career

after playing for Somerset and Worcestershire?

Durham.

England failed to win any of the 12 Test matches with Botham as captain,

but won four of the One Day Internationals with him at the helm.

One win was against West Indies -

against which team were the other three?

Australia.

In the famous Headingley Test of '81, Graham Dilley and Ian Botham

started the fight-back with England at 135 for seven wickets.

Who continued the assault with Botham

after Dilley had been dismissed,

adding 67 runs for the ninth wicket?

Chris Old.

His first charity walk in 1985 from John O'Groats to Land's End

was inspired by seeing children with leukaemia

in which hospital some years earlier?

Musgrove Park.

Who was the England Captain run out while batting with Botham

in a Test Match in New Zealand in '78?

It was deliberate, according to some observers.

Geoffrey Boycott.

With which club did Botham play Grade cricket

in the '76 to '77 Australian season?

Melbourne University.

Which New Zealand batsman did Botham dismiss, leg before wicket,

in the Oval Test of '86 to beat Dennis Lillee's record

of most Test match wickets?

Crowe.

What did Botham score in his last Test innings

before losing the England captaincy

after the '81 Lord's Test Match?

A duck.

What record did Botham break in the 1985 season

that had previously been held

by former Somerset player Arthur Wellard?

BEEP Most sixes in a season - 80.

Yes, indeed.

No passes.

Kevin, you have 14 points.

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And our next contender, please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject?

The Life and Works of Caspar David Friedrich in two minutes.

Friedrich was born in 1774 in the Baltic town of Greifswald.

Which kingdom was it a part of at the time?

Swedish Pomerania.

What was the title of the companion piece Friedrich exhibited

with The Abbey In The Oak Wood at a Berlin show of 1810,

resulting in instant fame when the Prussian Crown Prince bought both works?

Monk By The Sea.

Which German city's Kunsthalle holds several paintings by Friedrich,

including the major works Wanderer Above The Sea Of Fog

and The Sea Of Ice?

Hamburg.

What was the name of the woman

whom Friedrich married in 1818

and who became a regular model for his paintings?

Caroline Bommer.

The carved frame for The Tetschen Altar was designed by Friedrich

and carved by his friend, the sculptor Gottlieb Kuhn.

What religious symbol is at the centre of the base panel?

-A cross?

-The Eye Of God.

What is the title of Friedrich's patriotic work, finished in 1824,

commemorating the 300th anniversary of the death of a German knight

and the tenth anniversary of the French defeat?

Graves Of The Old Heroes.

Hutten's Tomb.

On which island did Friedrich and his wife honeymoon in 1818?

While there, he painted them both

visiting the chalk cliffs at Stubbenkammer.

Rugen.

Friedrich's first major success came in 1805

when he won joint first prize at the annual Weimar competition,

partly organised by which famous German poet?

Goethe.

What is the name of the ruined Cistercian abbey close to Greifswald

that became a recurring motif in many of Friedrich's works?

Eldena.

Of which Art Academy was Friedrich appointed a Member in 1816

and an Associate Professor in 1824?

Dresden.

Which mountain near Berchtesgaden in Bavaria

did Friedrich paint between 1824 and 1825?

He never visited the area, but was inspired by a pupil's watercolour.

-Watzmann.

-The painting entitled Winter Landscape With Church

shows a man lying in the snow,

praying before a crucifix set among conifers.

What has he discarded to reach the crucifix?

A crutch.

Which future Russian ruler visited Friedrich in 1820

and, over the following years, bought a number of the artist's works?

Nicholas I.

What creature does Friedrich depict mocking a doomed French soldier

in his politically charged work of 1814 entitled

The Chasseur In The Woods?

-A crow.

-Yes, a bird.

Councillors of a German town

gave Friedrich a chance to use his early training...

-BEEP

-I'll finish the question.

..in architectural drawing when they asked him

to submit plans for the restoration of the local Marienkirche.

Which town was it?

-Straslund.

-Is correct.

No passes. Andrew, you have 13 points.

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And our next contender, please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject?

Guns N' Roses in two minutes, starting now.

Which record label signed Guns N' Roses in 1986

and released their debut album,

Appetite For Destruction, the following year?

-Geffen.

-What was the title of the long-awaited Guns N' Roses album

that was finally released in 2008 after a decade in production?

Chinese Democracy.

Which keyboard player joined the band before their 28-month world tour

that began in 1991?

Dizzy Reed.

Guns N' Roses' biggest UK hit

was a live version of Bob Dylan's Knockin' On Heaven's Door

that reached number two in the charts.

It was recorded at a tribute concert for which singer?

Freddie Mercury.

Which of the band's songs

reached the UK top ten singles chart twice in 1992 -

the second time as a double A-side with Yesterdays?

-Sweet Child Of Mine?

-No, it was November Rain.

Axl Rose chose an artwork called Use Your Illusion for the titles and covers

of the two albums Guns N' Roses released in '91.

What was the name of the artist?

Mark Kostabi.

What is the name of the band's drummer,

who played on the Appetite For Destruction album,

but was fired in 1990, reportedly because of his drug problems?

Steven Adler.

In which film in the Dirty Harry series

did Guns N' Roses make a cameo appearance in 1988?

The Dead Pool.

Alice Cooper sings guest vocals on which track

from the album Use Your Illusion Part One?

The Garden.

Which famed London club - then on Wardour Street -

hosted Guns N' Roses for three nights in June '87

for the band's first UK gigs?

Hammersmith Odeon?

No, the Marquee Club.

In August 1987, Guns N' Roses began a tour of North America

as support to which British band?

-Iron Maiden.

-The Cult.

In 1988, Welcome To The Jungle

reached the UK top 30 singles chart

as a double A-side with which other song?

-It's So Easy.

-No, Nightrain.

Axl Rose's former girlfriend, Erin -

the daughter of Don Everly of the Everly Brothers -

was the inspiration for which song from Appetite For Destruction?

Sweet Child O' Mine.

Which of the band's albums gained notoriety

for including a song written by Charles Manson?

The Spaghetti Incident.

Guns N' Roses played their first UK gig

for almost a decade at a festival in which city, in August 2002,

although Axl Rose was the only surviving member

of the band's original line-up?

-Reading.

-Leeds.

Which Rolling Stones song did Guns N' Roses cover in '94?

It was on the soundtrack of the film Interview With A Vampire

and reached the UK top ten.

BEEP Sympathy For The Devil.

Sympathy For The Devil is correct. And you have no passes, Nina.

11 points.

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And our final contender, please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject?

The Hornblower novels in two minutes. Here we go.

After Hornblower's marriage,

what relation does he become to Arthur Wellesley,

better known as the Duke of Wellington?

Brother-in-law.

At which card game that he learned before going to sea

does Hornblower excel?

-Whist.

-What is the name of the actress

who pretends to be the Duchess of Wharfedale

and keeps two packages of dispatches

safe from capture by the Spanish by hiding them up her petticoats?

Kitty Cobham.

Whose funeral procession on the Thames

does Hornblower oversee in Hornblower And The Atropos?

Nelson.

At which port do Hornblower, Bush and Brown

recapture the Royal Navy cutter Witch Of Endor,

during their escape from captivity in France?

-Brest.

-Nantes.

In A Ship Of The Line, what unflattering nickname

does Captain Bolton use when referring to the admiral,

Sir Percy Leighton?

Mucho Pomposo.

On which island is Hornblower kidnapped by pirates

in Hornblower In The West Indies?

Jamaica.

Who is offered a reprieve from his death sentence,

in exchange for forging an order from Napoleon

to Admiral Villeneuve in Hornblower And The Crisis?

Doctor Claudius.

In Hornblower In The West Indies,

24 wooden cases are taken on board the Daring at New Orleans.

What does Lieutenant Harcourt say will be inside them?

-Muskets.

-And bayonets, yes.

How many days' water, at half rations,

does the Hotspur have left before it is forced

to end its blockade of the port of Brest?

-Four.

-Two.

What disease, common at the time, causes the early deaths

of Hornblower's two children, Horatio and Maria?

Smallpox.

In Hornblower And The Atropos, from which sunken ship

does he recover several tons of gold and silver coins,

using Sinhalese pearl divers?

-Speedwell.

-In The Commodore, who plans to assassinate the Tsar

and Crown Prince Bernadotte of Sweden

but is foiled by Hornblower's prompt action?

Braun.

In Hornblower And The Hotspur,

what shore installation does Hornblower burn

with the help of Lieutenant Cotard,

a native French speaker?

A semaphore station.

The Prince Regent makes Hornblower a Knight of the Bath

and gives him what honorary post?

Colonel of the Marines.

In The Commodore, who commands the Harvey,

one of the two bomb-ketches that are used in the defence of Riga

against the French army heading for St Petersburg?

Mound.

Hornblower and Lieutenant Bush capture a Spanish fort

and then use its heated shot against Spanish shipping.

-BEEP

-On which island is the fort?

-Ah, I have to pass.

-Well, I can tell you, because your time's up.

Hispaniola, which you knew, of course.

Doesn't matter, though. You have 14 points.

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So that's the end of the very close first round.

Let's have a look at the scores.

In fourth place, 11 points, Nina Fetherston.

Third place, 13 points, Andrew Hunt.

In the lead, 14 points apiece, Kevin Baker and Michael Wright.

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So it's the general knowledge round now,

and if there is a tie at the end of it, then the numbers of passes

is taken into account. The contender with the fewer passes is the winner.

And if they're tied on passes as well, there will be a tie-break.

And the six highest-scoring runners-up during the heats

will also be able to claim a place in the semifinals.

So lots to play for.

Let's get on with it and ask Nina to join us again, please.

And you scored 11 points with your knowledge of Guns N' Roses.

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

Two and a half minutes, starting now.

In which American comedy series do the main characters

meet at the Central Perk coffee shop?

Friends.

Which modern sport was developed

from the old children's game of battledore and shuttlecock?

Badminton.

In Indian religious thought, what name,

that comes from the Sanskrit for extinction,

is given to the ending of individual existence

that comes as a result of meditation?

Nirvana.

In which city is the constituency where Caroline Lucas

became Britain's first Green Party MP at the 2010 General Election?

Brighton.

In the 2011 film My Week with Marilyn,

which actress plays Marilyn Monroe?

Pass.

What French term is used for a dish coated with bread crumbs

or grated cheese, forming a crust when cooked?

Escalope.

Au gratin. In the novel Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott,

which of the four March sisters dies?

Beth.

Which future King of England was born in the gatehouse tower

of Monmouth Castle? He succeeded

his father to the throne on 21 March 1413.

Henry III.

Henry V. What is the name of the botanical tourist attraction

opened in March 2001, based in a disused claypit

near St Austell in Cornwall?

The Eden Project.

Which monsters of Greek mythology

were portrayed as winged, female creatures

whose hair consisted of snakes?

Gorgons.

Which French composer is known for The Sorcerer's Apprentice,

featured in Walt Disney's Fantasia?

Dukas.

What word of French and Latin origin

is used to describe a reddish-brown horse,

usually with a black mane and tail?

Roan.

Bay.

Which English singer's cover of the '60s hit Our Day Will Come

appeared on her posthumous album in 2011?

Amy Winehouse.

Which Irish playwright was an advocate of spelling reform,

leaving money in his will for the development of a new system

based on phonetic principles?

George Bernard Shaw.

Lloret de Mar is one of the most popular holiday resorts

on which Spanish Costa?

Costa Del Sol.

No, Costa Brava.

Who was ruler of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964,

as First Secretary of the Communist Party and then as Premier?

Khrushchev.

Which tendon which joins the muscles of the calf to the heel bone

is also known as the calcaneal tendon?

The hamstring.

The Achilles.

Which American-born crime novelist

and forensic anthropologist's first novel,

Deja Dead, was published in 1997?

Kathy Reichs.

What organisation was founded by Jean Henri Dunant

in 1864 after seeing the plight of the wounded

in the battle of Solferino?

Red Cross.

In which television series when it was revived in 2010

did Sir Hallam Holland and his wife, Lady Agnes,

move into 165 Eaton Place?

BEEP Upstairs, Downstairs.

You had only one pass.

It was Michelle Williams who played Marilyn.

You have made a total of 25 point

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And now Andrew Hunt again, please.

And you have a score of 13 points

with your knowledge of Caspar David Friedrich.

Two and a half minutes, starting now.

Whose great work on the origins of species

by means of natural selection

was first published in November 1859?

Charles Darwin.

What is the name of the pirate ship

in the first Pirates Of The Caribbean film

that gives the film its subtitle?

Mayflower.

The Black Pearl.

Which Italian family provided the Roman Catholic Church

with four Popes and the French monarchy with two queens?

The Borgias.

The Medici.

Bubbles of gas are released in the blood

in the condition known as the bends or decompression sickness.

What is the gas?

Carbon dioxide.

Nitrogen.

Who wrote the novel Les Miserables,

on which the stage musical is based?

Victor Hugo.

The Kalahari is situated in South Africa, Namibia

and a large part of which other country?

Botswana.

James Gandolfini plays the head of a gangster family

in which television series set in New Jersey?

The Sopranos.

What type of head covering, worn extensively

by all women from the 12th to the early 14th century,

continued to be worn for many centuries

by those in religious orders?

Habit.

The wimple.

Which island at the mouth of the Bristol Channel

takes its name from the old Norse word for puffin?

Lundy.

Which legendary lover made his first appearance

in the 17th century play The Seducer Of Seville,

attributed to the Spanish dramatist Tirso de Molina?

Don Juan.

Where did Supertramp have breakfast, according to the title

of their 1979 top 10 single and album?

America.

Which painter, born an albino in 1483,

is particularly noted for his madonnas,

including the Madonna Of The Pinks,

now in The National Gallery.

Raphael.

What is the largest living lizard?

Its name comes from an Indonesian island

where it is found in the wild.

Er, no. Pass.

Which English explorer was knighted

by Queen Elizabeth I in 1585

and executed by her successor James I in 1618?

Walter Raleigh.

In October 2011, Sebastian Vettel was the winner

of the inaugural Formula One Grand Prix

in which Asian Commonwealth country?

Qatar.

India.

Which ancient Greek hero slew the Minotaur,

a monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull?

Theseus.

The Yellowstone National Park is situated principally

in which American state?

Wyoming.

Who was emperor of Rome in 64AD, when the city was badly damaged

by a fire that many thought he had started himself?

Nero.

Angelica seed and hyssop are among the known ingredients of which liqueur

made by Carthusian monks near Grenoble?

-Anise?

-No, Chartreuse.

Who began his study of pendulums

after watching a lamp swinging

in the cathedral of his native Pisa?

BEEP

Pass.

Well, I can tell you it was Galileo.

And your other pass, the largest living lizard, is the Komodo dragon.

-You have, Andrew, 25 point.

-Thank you.

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And now Kevin Baker again, please.

You begin with 14 points with your knowledge of Ian Botham.

Let's test you out on your general knowledge. 25 is the score to beat.

Let's see if you can do it, starting now.

What term for words or pictures

scribbled on walls in public places

comes from the Italian word for a scratch?

Graffiti.

Which river rising near St Quentin and flowing westward

for 150 miles to the English Channel

was the scene of major battles during the First World War?

-Seine.

-The Somme.

Which Welsh football club was the first to reach the Premier League

when they beat Reading 4-2 in the final in May 2011?

Swansea.

Who took the German development patent

for his compression ignition internal combustion engine in 1892?

Diesel.

In which cult film does Bruce Willis

play a boxer named Butch Coolidge on the run for his life?

Pass.

Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie

have all been members of which rock group?

-Supertramp.

-Fleetwood Mac.

What name of Turkish origin is given

to a dish of shavings from a large compressed cone of marinated meat,

usually lamb, roasting on a vertical spit?

Doner kebab.

Which member of the grouse family

from the top of the Scottish mountains

has an almost completely white winter plumage?

-Capercaillie.

-The ptarmigan.

What is the normal maximum break

in a game of snooker?

147.

Which female crime writer's first novel, Cover Her Face,

published in 1962, takes its title

from a line in the play The Duchess of Malfi?

-Ruth Rendell.

-PD James.

Which television comedy featured a computer called Holly,

played by Norman Lovett and Hattie Hayridge?

Red Dwarf.

What is the name of the Stone Age village in the Orkneys

exposed by a storm in the 1850s after hundreds of years?

-Scapa Flow?

-Skara Brae.

The sale of which flower bulb caused a speculative frenzy

in 17th-century Holland until the price collapsed in 1637?

Tulip.

Which saint, mother of the Emperor Constantine,

is credited with the discovery of the True Cross of Christ?

-St Luke.

-St Helena.

Who was re-elected as the First Minister

of Northern Ireland in May 2011?

-Gerry Adams.

-Peter Robinson.

Which Australian island state is named after the Dutch sailor

and explorer who became the first European to sight it in 1642?

Tasmania.

Who was adopted as an honorary member

of the Sioux nation after he directed and starred

in the film Dances With Wolves?

Kevin Costner.

Which Scottish cream cheese, dating back to the 15th century,

is formed into small logs and rolled in oatmeal?

-Cracknel.

-Caboc.

What name is given to the arteries

running up either side of the neck and supplying blood to the head?

-Jugular vein.

-The carotid arteries.

Which 19th-century war was fought between the Russians

and the British, French and Ottoman Turks

with support from the kingdom of Sardinia?

BEEP

-Crimean War.

-You have one pass.

That cult film in which Bruce Willis plays a boxer

named Butch Coolidge was Pulp Fiction.

You have, Kevin, 24 points.

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And Michael Wright again, finally.

You also start this round with 14 points,

with your knowledge of the Hornblower novels.

25 is still the score to beat

if you want to get through to the semifinals.

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

In the comedy series, what does Rab C Nesbitt wear under his jacket?

String vest.

Which insect, related to the grasshopper

and known for its chirping noises,

has a name that comes from old French?

-Cicada.

-Cricket.

In what event did Britain's Daley Thompson

win Olympic gold in 1980 and 1984?

Decathlon.

Which poem by Milton concludes with the angel Michael

telling Adam of the eventual coming of the Messiah,

leading Adam and Eve out of the garden of Eden?

-Paradise Regained.

-Paradise Lost.

According to the title of the marching song

popular during the First World War, which county is by the sea?

Sussex.

Who became known as "Milk Snatcher"

when, as education secretary, she ended free milk

for over seven-year-olds in state schools?

Margaret Thatcher.

Which part of San Francisco became a centre of hippie culture in the mid-1960s?

Haight-Ashbury.

In 1936, whose voice was heard for the first time in a film,

singing in the mostly silent Modern Times?

-Al Jolson.

-Charlie Chaplin.

Which playwright's works for TV include

Blue Remembered Hills, Pennies From Heaven and Brimstone And Treacle?

Dennis Potter.

Which Moroccan port was the centre

of an international crisis in 1911,

when the German gunboat Panther

was sent there to challenge the French?

Agadir.

What expression for something that's unreasonably held

to be above criticism comes from an animal honoured by Hindus?

Pass.

Bryher, St Agnes, St Martin's, St Mary's and Tresco

are five inhabited islands of which British Island group?

The Scilly Islands.

Which Australian animal gets its name

because its snout resembles the bill of a certain bird?

Duck-billed platypus.

The statue known as Eros in Piccadilly Circus

was one of the first to be cast in which metal?

Aluminium.

What expression for the struggle to get on in life dates back to the 1930s?

One of its earliest uses is in the American writer

Christopher Morley's 1939 novel Kitty Foyle.

Pass.

Which funnel-shaped mushroom, noted for its apricot aroma

and golden yellow colour, is also known as a girolle?

Pass.

The world's first public railway to use steam traction opened on 27 September 1825.

It ran between Stockton and which neighbouring town?

Darlington.

What is the temperature of absolute zero

on the Celsius scale to the nearest whole number of degrees?

-273.

The first of Hercules' 12 labours was to slay which creature?

He wore its skin afterwards as protection.

Pass.

What was the name of the ghillie at Balmoral who became Queen Victoria's

personal manservant after the death of Prince Albert?

John Brown.

Which bell at Lloyd's of London

used to be rung when any important news was received?

Lutine Bell.

Which singer-songwriter collaborated with

the American Carl Davis

on the Liverpool Oratorio in 1991?

BEEP

Paul McCartney.

It was indeed Paul McCartney. You had four passes.

The first Hercules' 12 labours was to slay the Mayan Lion.

That funnel-shaped mushroom is also known as a chanterelle.

The rat race was the expression for life's struggle.

And - you will be cross with yourself -

the expression for something that is unreasonably held

to be above criticism is a sacred cow.

Ah, yes.

Doesn't matter though. Four passes but, Michael, 29 points.

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So he left the pack behind in the end.

Let's have a look at all the scores.

In fourth place, 24 points, Kevin Baker.

Joint second place, 25 points apiece,

Andrew Hunt and Nina Fetherston.

In first place, 29 points, Michael Wright.

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Which means that Michael Wright is tonight's winner

and goes through to the semi-final.

Congratulations to him.

Commiserations to Andrew and Nina, but with a score of 25,

we might just see them again in the semifinal.

If you would like to be a contender on the next series,

then do go to our website.

Do join us again next time for more Mastermind. Thanks for watching.

Goodbye.

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