Episode 9

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0:00:24 > 0:00:28First in the spotlight tonight is Barbara Bell, a lecturer from Knutsford.

0:00:28 > 0:00:31Her subject, the National Parks of England and Wales.

0:00:31 > 0:00:34Next, Nick Gunatilleke, a police officer from the Wirral,

0:00:34 > 0:00:38he'll be answering questions on the battles of the American Civil War.

0:00:38 > 0:00:41John Chadwick, a company director from Durham.

0:00:41 > 0:00:45His subject is the American fantasy author, HP Lovecraft.

0:00:45 > 0:00:49And Xavier Woodward, a private equity investor from West Yorkshire.

0:00:49 > 0:00:52His subject is World Title fights since 2000.

0:01:01 > 0:01:04Hello, and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.

0:01:04 > 0:01:08Tonight, once again, four contenders will put their knowledge to

0:01:08 > 0:01:11the test in their bid to become the nation's Mastermind -

0:01:11 > 0:01:14the highest honour the quiz world has to offer, and the toughest.

0:01:14 > 0:01:17Two rounds, two minutes on their specialist subject and

0:01:17 > 0:01:19two and a half minutes on general knowledge.

0:01:19 > 0:01:23That's the one they fear the most, so let's get on with it

0:01:23 > 0:01:26and ask our first contender to join us, please.

0:01:33 > 0:01:36- And your name is?- Barbara Bell.

0:01:36 > 0:01:39- Your occupation?- Lecturer.

0:01:39 > 0:01:42- And your chosen subject? - The Nationals Parks of England and Wales.

0:01:42 > 0:01:44National Parks in two minutes, starting now.

0:01:44 > 0:01:48In which year was the National Parks And Access To The Countryside Act passed?

0:01:48 > 0:01:50It led to the creation of Britain's National Parks,

0:01:50 > 0:01:52with the Peak District the first.

0:01:52 > 0:01:531949.

0:01:53 > 0:01:55The north of the Peak District is known as the

0:01:55 > 0:01:58Dark Peak because of its millstone grit and moorland landscape.

0:01:58 > 0:02:00What name is given to the southern part of the

0:02:00 > 0:02:01park which is mostly limestone?

0:02:01 > 0:02:02The White Peak.

0:02:02 > 0:02:05What is the name for the peaks in the Lake District

0:02:05 > 0:02:07which include Pike of Stickle and Loft Crag?

0:02:09 > 0:02:10Pass.

0:02:10 > 0:02:13Young Ralph Cross, one of the ancient markers used to guide

0:02:13 > 0:02:17travellers across its landscape is the symbol of which National Park?

0:02:17 > 0:02:18Pass.

0:02:18 > 0:02:20What is the name of the pass between Yr Wyddfa,

0:02:20 > 0:02:23the main summit of Snowdon and Y Lliwedd, where, according to

0:02:23 > 0:02:26one version of the legend, King Arthur was fatally wounded?

0:02:29 > 0:02:30Pass.

0:02:30 > 0:02:34Which Yorkshire born architect's report of 1945 was

0:02:34 > 0:02:37pivotal in the establishment of Britain's National Parks?

0:02:38 > 0:02:40Michael Dower.

0:02:39 > 0:02:40John Dower.

0:02:40 > 0:02:43On the side of which Lake District mountain is Napes Needle,

0:02:43 > 0:02:47whose ascent in 1886 by Walter Parry Haskett Smith

0:02:47 > 0:02:50is considered to mark the birth of British rock climbing?

0:02:50 > 0:02:51Great Gable.

0:02:51 > 0:02:53What's the name of the line of chalk cliffs and hanging valleys

0:02:53 > 0:02:56at the eastern end of the South Downs National Park

0:02:56 > 0:02:58between Cuckmere Haven and Birling Gap near Beachy Head?

0:03:02 > 0:03:04Pass.

0:03:04 > 0:03:06Which national park includes the forest Fawr,

0:03:06 > 0:03:09a geopark that is part of the global network assisted by UNESCO?

0:03:13 > 0:03:15Brecon Beacons.

0:03:15 > 0:03:17What three-letter name is given to a fjord-like drowned river

0:03:17 > 0:03:20valley open to the sea, such as Solva Harbour and

0:03:20 > 0:03:23Milford Haven Waterway, both in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park?

0:03:25 > 0:03:26Haven.

0:03:25 > 0:03:26Ria.

0:03:26 > 0:03:30What name is used for the type of ancient stone slab bridges such as

0:03:30 > 0:03:33those found at Postbridge in Dartmoor and at Tarr Steps in Exmoor?

0:03:37 > 0:03:38Pass.

0:03:38 > 0:03:41Which river and its estuary form a major part of the southern

0:03:41 > 0:03:43boundary of the Snowdonia national park?

0:03:44 > 0:03:45BEEP

0:03:45 > 0:03:47- Dyfi.- The Dyfi, yes.

0:03:47 > 0:03:50You had five passes.

0:03:50 > 0:03:53Those ancient stone slab bridges are called clapper bridges,

0:03:53 > 0:03:55oddly enough.

0:03:55 > 0:03:58The Seven Sisters is the line of chalk cliffs, and you knew that as well, I expect.

0:03:58 > 0:04:03Bwlch Ciliau is the name of the pass between, well, you know,

0:04:03 > 0:04:04that Welsh bit.

0:04:04 > 0:04:09Young Ralph Cross is the symbol of the North York Moors.

0:04:09 > 0:04:12And Langdale Pikes, that's the name of the group of peaks

0:04:12 > 0:04:17in the Lake District including Pike of Stickle and Loft Craig.

0:04:17 > 0:04:19You have, Barbara, five points.

0:04:28 > 0:04:30And our next contender, please.

0:04:36 > 0:04:39- And your name is?- Nick Gunatilleke.

0:04:39 > 0:04:41- Your occupation?- Police officer.

0:04:41 > 0:04:44- And your chosen subject?- Battles of the American Civil War.

0:04:44 > 0:04:47Battles of the American Civil War in two minutes, starting now.

0:04:47 > 0:04:51Known in the south as First Manassas, how was the first major battle of the Civil War

0:04:51 > 0:04:53fought in July 1861 known in the north?

0:04:53 > 0:04:54Bull Run.

0:04:54 > 0:04:56Which federal commander was propelled to hero status

0:04:56 > 0:04:59and ultimately took command of the Army of the Potomac

0:04:59 > 0:05:01by minor victories such as Philippi, Rich Mountain

0:05:01 > 0:05:03and Corrick's Ford early in the war?

0:05:03 > 0:05:04Meade.

0:05:04 > 0:05:07McClellan. The capture of which fort on the Cumberland River earned

0:05:07 > 0:05:10Ulysses S Grant the nickname Unconditional Surrender?

0:05:10 > 0:05:11Vicksburg.

0:05:11 > 0:05:12Fort Donelson.

0:05:12 > 0:05:15A Union corporal found Robert E Lee's strategic

0:05:15 > 0:05:18plan for the Maryland campaign wrapped around what items

0:05:18 > 0:05:20shortly before the battle of Antietam?

0:05:20 > 0:05:22Cigar box.

0:05:22 > 0:05:24By what name was the sunken road that ran across the Antietam

0:05:24 > 0:05:27battlefield later known, reflecting the high casualty rate?

0:05:27 > 0:05:28Bloody Lane.

0:05:28 > 0:05:31In which battle in Virginia on the 9th May 1864 did the Union

0:05:31 > 0:05:34commander John Sedgwick utter his last words, "They couldn't hit an

0:05:34 > 0:05:38"elephant at this distance," seconds before he was killed by a bullet?

0:05:38 > 0:05:39Spotsylvania.

0:05:39 > 0:05:42Which Confederate cavalry commander's

0:05:42 > 0:05:45attack on Holly Springs, Mississippi in December 1862 seriously

0:05:45 > 0:05:48disrupted Ulysses S Grant's first Vicksburg campaign plans?

0:05:48 > 0:05:50Nathan Bedford Forest.

0:05:49 > 0:05:50Earl Van Dorn.

0:05:50 > 0:05:52Who was the highest ranking officer,

0:05:52 > 0:05:55Union or Confederate to be killed during the entire war

0:05:55 > 0:05:59when he was shot on the first day of the battle of Shiloh in April 1862?

0:05:59 > 0:06:01Pass.

0:06:01 > 0:06:04At which battle of November 1864 were six Confederate generals,

0:06:04 > 0:06:06including Pat Cleburne

0:06:06 > 0:06:09and States Rights Gist killed or mortally wounded?

0:06:11 > 0:06:13Gettysburg.

0:06:12 > 0:06:13Franklin.

0:06:13 > 0:06:15Which Union brigadier general spent virtually

0:06:15 > 0:06:18the whole of the battle of Gettysburg hiding in a barn after

0:06:18 > 0:06:22he'd taken a wrong turn trying to avoid capture by Confederate troops?

0:06:25 > 0:06:27Pass.

0:06:27 > 0:06:30In December 1864 the surrender of which city

0:06:30 > 0:06:33was the culmination of William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea?

0:06:33 > 0:06:36He offered it as a Christmas gift to President Lincoln.

0:06:36 > 0:06:37Atlanta.

0:06:37 > 0:06:39Savanna.

0:06:39 > 0:06:41Grant's troops unsuccessfully attacked

0:06:41 > 0:06:44which strongpoint in Vicksburg's defences on Graveyard Road in

0:06:44 > 0:06:46May 1863 at the beginning of the siege of the city?

0:06:46 > 0:06:48Champions Hill.

0:06:48 > 0:06:52Stockade Redan is what I've got there.

0:06:52 > 0:06:53You had two passes.

0:06:53 > 0:06:56It was Schimmelfennig who spent almost the whole of the battle

0:06:56 > 0:06:59of Gettysburg in a barn because he was trying to avoid capture.

0:06:59 > 0:07:03And the highest ranking officer killed during the entire war

0:07:03 > 0:07:06was General Albert Sydney Johnston.

0:07:06 > 0:07:08You have, Nick, four points.

0:07:16 > 0:07:18And our next contender, please.

0:07:27 > 0:07:29- And your name?- John Chadwick.

0:07:29 > 0:07:32- Your occupation?- Company director.

0:07:32 > 0:07:36- And your specialist subject?- The Life and Works of HP Lovecraft.

0:07:36 > 0:07:38HP Lovecraft in two minutes.

0:07:38 > 0:07:40In which New England city was Lovecraft born on August

0:07:40 > 0:07:42the 20th 1890?

0:07:42 > 0:07:43Providence, Rhode Island.

0:07:43 > 0:07:46In an essay on writing, Lovecraft used what two-word phrase

0:07:46 > 0:07:48to describe his chosen genre, saying that,

0:07:48 > 0:07:51"Atmosphere, not action is the great desideratum of it"?

0:07:51 > 0:07:53Supernatural horror.

0:07:53 > 0:07:54No, weird fiction.

0:07:54 > 0:07:57What is the name of the horrific, winged squid dragon that dwells

0:07:57 > 0:08:01in the lost city of R'lyeh in one of Lovecraft's best-known stories?

0:08:01 > 0:08:03It's awoken by the ill-fated crew of the Emma?

0:08:03 > 0:08:04Cthulhu.

0:08:04 > 0:08:07For whom did Lovecraft ghost-write Imprisoned With The Pharaohs

0:08:07 > 0:08:10published in the magazine Weird Tales in 1924?

0:08:10 > 0:08:11Harry Houdini.

0:08:11 > 0:08:14In which town, beyond the River Skai, are an old man

0:08:14 > 0:08:18and his wife apparently killed and eaten by vengeful cats,

0:08:18 > 0:08:19in a story written in 1920?

0:08:19 > 0:08:22The Cats Of Ulthar.

0:08:22 > 0:08:25Lovecraft used the pseudonym Lewis Theobald Junior when

0:08:25 > 0:08:28he collaborated on two stories with Winifred Virginia Jackson.

0:08:28 > 0:08:31One story is The Green Meadow, what's the title of the other?

0:08:31 > 0:08:32The Crawling Chaos.

0:08:32 > 0:08:34Which mad Arab does Lovecraft attribute

0:08:34 > 0:08:37the authorship of the dreaded grimoire The Necronomicon to?

0:08:37 > 0:08:39Abdul Alhazred.

0:08:39 > 0:08:41What disease strikes the town of Arkham, providing fresh

0:08:41 > 0:08:44corpses for the title character in Herbert West - Reanimator?

0:08:44 > 0:08:46Typhus.

0:08:46 > 0:08:47No, typhoid.

0:08:47 > 0:08:49Which novella of 1936 was Lovecraft's only book to be

0:08:49 > 0:08:52published and distributed in his lifetime?

0:08:52 > 0:08:53The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

0:08:53 > 0:08:55What was the name of the sales executive

0:08:55 > 0:08:58and amateur journalist whom Lovecraft married in March 1924?

0:08:58 > 0:08:59Sonia Green.

0:08:59 > 0:09:01What words complete the rhyming couplet attributed

0:09:01 > 0:09:03to Abdul Alhazred that begins,

0:09:03 > 0:09:08"That is not dead which can eternal lie and with strange eons..?"

0:09:08 > 0:09:09"Death itself may die."

0:09:09 > 0:09:11"Even death may die."

0:09:11 > 0:09:13Which of his friends

0:09:13 > 0:09:15appeared to Lovecraft in a dream that provided him

0:09:15 > 0:09:18with the plot for The Statement Of Randolph Carter?

0:09:18 > 0:09:20In the dream his friend dies horribly while exploring a cemetery.

0:09:20 > 0:09:22- RH Barlow.- Sam Loveman.

0:09:22 > 0:09:25In what borough of New York City did the newly-wed Lovecrafts

0:09:25 > 0:09:27settle shortly after their marriage in 1924?

0:09:27 > 0:09:29Brooklyn.

0:09:29 > 0:09:31Which writer of hard-boiled crime fiction

0:09:31 > 0:09:34included Lovecraft's story The Music Of Erich Zann in his 1931

0:09:34 > 0:09:36anthology, Creeps By Night?

0:09:36 > 0:09:37Pass.

0:09:37 > 0:09:39When the scientists are studying...

0:09:38 > 0:09:39BEEP

0:09:39 > 0:09:41I've started, so I'll finish.

0:09:41 > 0:09:44When the scientists are studying the Antarctic landscape

0:09:44 > 0:09:46in At The Mountains Of Madness, two works by Edgar Allan Poe

0:09:46 > 0:09:49are mentioned, one is the poem Ulalume, what is the other?

0:09:49 > 0:09:51The Raven.

0:09:51 > 0:09:55No, it's The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym.

0:09:55 > 0:09:58The one pass you had was the celebrated writer who

0:09:58 > 0:10:04included Lovecraft's story The Music Of Erich Zann was Dashiell Hammett.

0:10:04 > 0:10:06One pass, John, you have ten points.

0:10:14 > 0:10:16And our final contender, please.

0:10:23 > 0:10:25- And your name is?- Xavier Woodward.

0:10:25 > 0:10:28- Your occupation? - Private equity investor.

0:10:28 > 0:10:32- And your chosen subject? - World Title fights since 2000.

0:10:32 > 0:10:36World Title fights, a bit of boxing. Two minutes, starting now.

0:10:36 > 0:10:39On the 5th of June 2004, Oscar de la Hoya and which other fighter

0:10:39 > 0:10:42won World Middleweight title fights on the same bill in Las Vegas?

0:10:44 > 0:10:46Bernard Hopkins.

0:10:46 > 0:10:48Who fought Evander Holyfield three times in 16 months

0:10:48 > 0:10:51for the WBA heavyweight title, the last of them

0:10:51 > 0:10:53was a draw, and as a consequence he retained the title?

0:10:53 > 0:10:55John Ruiz.

0:10:55 > 0:10:59How many World Title bouts did Julio Cesar Chavez contest,

0:10:59 > 0:11:02including his final challenge for a World Title fight against

0:11:02 > 0:11:06Kosya Tszyu for the WBC light welterweight title in July 2000?

0:11:08 > 0:11:1035.

0:11:09 > 0:11:1037. Close.

0:11:10 > 0:11:14When Ricky Hatton lost his IBO light welterweight title to

0:11:14 > 0:11:16Manny Pacquiao in May 2009 he was trained by the father

0:11:16 > 0:11:18of which of his former opponents?

0:11:20 > 0:11:22Floyd Mayweather.

0:11:22 > 0:11:24At which weight did Israel Vazquez

0:11:24 > 0:11:29and Rafael Marquez meet for the WBC title in 2007 and 2008

0:11:29 > 0:11:32when both contests were voted fight of the year?

0:11:32 > 0:11:34Bantam.

0:11:33 > 0:11:34Super bantamweight.

0:11:34 > 0:11:36In which city did the WBO lightweight champion

0:11:36 > 0:11:40Artur Grigorian fight Zoltan Kalocsai in June 2000 to make

0:11:40 > 0:11:44the first successful defence of his title outside Germany?

0:11:44 > 0:11:45Tashkent.

0:11:45 > 0:11:46Budapest.

0:11:46 > 0:11:49At what venue in Panama City did Anselmo Moreno successfully

0:11:49 > 0:11:55defend his WBA bantamweight title against Nehomar Cermeno in August 2010?

0:11:55 > 0:11:56Pass.

0:11:56 > 0:11:59In what round did Antonio Tarver stop Roy Jones Junior to

0:11:59 > 0:12:02become world light heavyweight champion in what was voted

0:12:02 > 0:12:04knockout of the year for 2004?

0:12:04 > 0:12:07Round 5.

0:12:06 > 0:12:07Round 2.

0:12:07 > 0:12:09Which referee deducted two points from Amir Khan

0:12:09 > 0:12:12for pushing during his controversial light welterweight title fight

0:12:12 > 0:12:14with Lamont Peterson in December 2011?

0:12:14 > 0:12:15Pass.

0:12:15 > 0:12:18In October 2006, Enzo Maccarinelli stopped Mark Hobson in round one

0:12:18 > 0:12:22of his first successful defence of which WBO title?

0:12:22 > 0:12:24Cruiserweight.

0:12:24 > 0:12:28In June 2002 Lennox Lewis beat Mike Tyson to retain the WBC

0:12:28 > 0:12:30IBF and IBO heavyweight belts.

0:12:30 > 0:12:33Who was the WBO heavyweight champion at the time?

0:12:35 > 0:12:37BEEP

0:12:37 > 0:12:39Well, your time's up, so if you don't know...

0:12:39 > 0:12:41No.

0:12:41 > 0:12:43I'll tell you. Vladimir Klitschko.

0:12:43 > 0:12:46And you had two other passes.

0:12:46 > 0:12:48The referee who deducted two points from Amir Khan for pushing

0:12:48 > 0:12:55was Joseph Cooper, and the venue in Panama City was Roberto Duran Arena.

0:12:57 > 0:12:58You have four points.

0:13:07 > 0:13:11So, that's the end of the first round. Let's look at the scores.

0:13:11 > 0:13:12In joint third place,

0:13:12 > 0:13:14four points apiece, Nick Gunatilleke

0:13:14 > 0:13:16and Xavier Woodward.

0:13:16 > 0:13:18Second place, five points, Barbara Bell.

0:13:18 > 0:13:21In the lead with ten points, John Chadwick.

0:13:26 > 0:13:28Round Two now, the general knowledge round,

0:13:28 > 0:13:30and if there's a tie at the end then the number of passes

0:13:30 > 0:13:34is taken into account and the contender with the fewer passes is the winner.

0:13:34 > 0:13:38If they are tied on passes as well there will be a tie-break.

0:13:38 > 0:13:40So, let's get on and ask Nick Gunatilleke to join us

0:13:40 > 0:13:44again, if you would, please?

0:13:45 > 0:13:49And you start off with four points with your knowledge

0:13:49 > 0:13:52of the battles of the American Civil War,

0:13:52 > 0:13:54let's see how you do with general knowledge.

0:13:54 > 0:13:57Two and a half minutes instead of two minutes. Here we go.

0:13:57 > 0:13:59Which Hollywood actor and politician

0:13:59 > 0:14:04was born in the village of Thal bei Graz in Austria on the 30th of July 1947?

0:14:04 > 0:14:05Arnold Schwarzenegger.

0:14:05 > 0:14:07Which river of northern India is regarded by Hindus

0:14:07 > 0:14:09as the world's most sacred?

0:14:09 > 0:14:10Ganges.

0:14:10 > 0:14:12In Boris Pasternak's novel, Dr Zhivago,

0:14:12 > 0:14:14with whom does the title character fall in love,

0:14:14 > 0:14:16although they're both married to other people?

0:14:16 > 0:14:17Pass.

0:14:17 > 0:14:20In which country was Charles the Fifth The Wise

0:14:20 > 0:14:23succeeded by Charles the Sixth the Mad in 1380?

0:14:23 > 0:14:25France.

0:14:25 > 0:14:28Which New Zealand born physicist's experiments scattering alpha

0:14:28 > 0:14:31particles led him to the concept of the nuclear atom in 1911?

0:14:33 > 0:14:34Pass.

0:14:34 > 0:14:37What word used to describe an animal that has lapsed into the wild

0:14:37 > 0:14:41after being domesticated comes from the Latin for a wild beast?

0:14:41 > 0:14:42Feral.

0:14:42 > 0:14:45Which BBC religious programme celebrated its 50th anniversary

0:14:45 > 0:14:51in October 2011 with performances by LeAnn Rimes and Andrea Bocelli?

0:14:51 > 0:14:52Songs Of Praise.

0:14:52 > 0:14:55Which Shropshire born war poet was killed in action

0:14:55 > 0:14:56a week before Armistice Day?

0:14:56 > 0:15:00His volume of collected poems was published posthumously in 1920?

0:15:00 > 0:15:01Wilfred Owen.

0:15:01 > 0:15:04What word derived from Old High German for a ring or

0:15:04 > 0:15:07a bracelet is used for a circular bread roll that is briefly

0:15:07 > 0:15:09boiled before it's baked?

0:15:09 > 0:15:10Bagel.

0:15:10 > 0:15:14Which Turner Prize winning artist designed the spiralling sculpture

0:15:14 > 0:15:17called the ArcelorMittal Orbit for the Olympic Park in London?

0:15:17 > 0:15:18Pass.

0:15:18 > 0:15:21Who was the first British Labour Prime Minister

0:15:21 > 0:15:23born in Moray, Scotland in 1866?

0:15:23 > 0:15:26He was the illegitimate son of a farm labourer and maid servant.

0:15:26 > 0:15:27Ramsay MacDonald.

0:15:27 > 0:15:30Which rocky outcrop in the mouth of the Firth of Clyde is said to

0:15:30 > 0:15:33be the source of the best granite for curling stones?

0:15:35 > 0:15:36Pass.

0:15:36 > 0:15:40Which 1996 novel by Alex Garland is about backpackers who find

0:15:40 > 0:15:44a utopian island fringed with marijuana fields?

0:15:44 > 0:15:45Pass.

0:15:45 > 0:15:48What was the name of the Greek sun god who

0:15:48 > 0:15:50drove his chariot daily across the skies.

0:15:50 > 0:15:53He became identified with Apollo, and was later replaced by him?

0:15:55 > 0:15:56Aries.

0:15:56 > 0:15:57Helios.

0:15:57 > 0:15:59Which composer's last opera, William Tell,

0:15:59 > 0:16:02was premiered in Paris in 1829, nearly 40 years before his death?

0:16:02 > 0:16:04Rossini.

0:16:04 > 0:16:07In which sport is the most popular amateur scoring system named

0:16:07 > 0:16:10after Dr Frank Stableford who devised it in 1932?

0:16:10 > 0:16:11Golf.

0:16:11 > 0:16:15The 2011 film, The Lady, stars Michelle Yeoh as Aung San Suu Kyi,

0:16:15 > 0:16:17a pro-democracy crusader from which country?

0:16:17 > 0:16:18Burma.

0:16:18 > 0:16:21What instrument does the leader of a symphony orchestra play?

0:16:21 > 0:16:22Violin.

0:16:22 > 0:16:26Which official who oversees the running of the Royal Household, was the censor...

0:16:26 > 0:16:28BEEP

0:16:28 > 0:16:31..for theatre performances until censorship was abandoned in 1968?

0:16:35 > 0:16:36The Chamberlain.

0:16:36 > 0:16:37Yes, the Lord Chamberlain.

0:16:37 > 0:16:40You have five passes.

0:16:40 > 0:16:42The Beach was the name of that novel by Alex Garland.

0:16:42 > 0:16:46Ailsa Craig is the rocky outcrop in the Firth of Clyde.

0:16:46 > 0:16:51Anish Kapoor was the architect behind the ArcelorMittal Orbit.

0:16:51 > 0:16:55Sir Ernest Rutherford was the physicist,

0:16:55 > 0:17:00and Lara was the lady whom everybody loved in Dr Zhivago.

0:17:00 > 0:17:04Well, nearly everybody. Five passes, Nick, you have 17 points.

0:17:12 > 0:17:16And now Xavier Woodward again, please.

0:17:19 > 0:17:21World Title fights scored you four points,

0:17:21 > 0:17:23let's see how you do with your general knowledge.

0:17:23 > 0:17:25Two and a half minutes starting now.

0:17:25 > 0:17:28Which Parisian museum houses Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa?

0:17:28 > 0:17:30The Louvre.

0:17:30 > 0:17:34Which goalkeeper who ended his career with Manchester City has a son, Caspar,

0:17:34 > 0:17:36who began his own career as a goalkeeper at the same club?

0:17:36 > 0:17:38Pass.

0:17:38 > 0:17:40What name thought to come from the Hebrew for "to desist",

0:17:40 > 0:17:43or "cease" is given to the Jewish day of rest

0:17:43 > 0:17:46celebrated from sunset on Friday until nightfall the following day?

0:17:46 > 0:17:48Sabbath.

0:17:48 > 0:17:50Which Irish poet and playwright set several of his poems

0:17:50 > 0:17:53at Coole Park, the estate of his close friend, Lady Gregory,

0:17:53 > 0:17:57with whom he was a co-director of the Abbey Theatre?

0:17:57 > 0:17:58WB Yeats.

0:17:58 > 0:18:00Known as the Iron Chancellor,

0:18:00 > 0:18:03who became the first chancellor of a unified Germany in 1871?

0:18:03 > 0:18:04Bismarck.

0:18:04 > 0:18:06Jean-Paul Sartre was a leading exponent of which

0:18:06 > 0:18:11philosophical movement which has its origins in the works of Kierkegaard?

0:18:11 > 0:18:13Jean-Paul Sartre...

0:18:13 > 0:18:14No, existentialism.

0:18:14 > 0:18:16Former Miss Great Britain Leila Williams

0:18:16 > 0:18:19and former army officer Christopher Trace were the original

0:18:19 > 0:18:21presenters of which long-running children's TV programme?

0:18:25 > 0:18:26Blue Peter.

0:18:26 > 0:18:29In the game of contract bridge what's the lowest

0:18:29 > 0:18:30ranked of the four suits?

0:18:30 > 0:18:31Clubs.

0:18:31 > 0:18:34Organic chemistry is concerned with

0:18:34 > 0:18:37the study of compounds of which element?

0:18:37 > 0:18:38Carbon.

0:18:38 > 0:18:40The common name of which insect eating plant

0:18:40 > 0:18:43comes from the drops of sticky fluid on the ends of the tiny

0:18:43 > 0:18:46tentacles that it uses to trap its prey?

0:18:47 > 0:18:48Pass.

0:18:48 > 0:18:51What did the 7 refer to in the title of the 1998 film

0:18:51 > 0:18:54starring Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt?

0:18:54 > 0:18:56Seven deadly sins.

0:18:56 > 0:18:57Which major Russian port,

0:18:57 > 0:19:01the capital of Primorsky Province lies on the shores of the Sea of Japan,

0:19:01 > 0:19:03giving the country access to the Pacific Ocean?

0:19:03 > 0:19:04Vladivostok.

0:19:04 > 0:19:07Which mammals belong to the order chiroptera,

0:19:07 > 0:19:08a name meaning "hand-wings"?

0:19:08 > 0:19:10Bats.

0:19:10 > 0:19:12What title was held by the hereditary military dictators

0:19:12 > 0:19:16who ruled Japan almost continuously from 1192 to 1868?

0:19:16 > 0:19:17Pass.

0:19:17 > 0:19:20Knots And Crosses, published in 1987, is the first

0:19:20 > 0:19:23novel by Ian Rankin to feature which Scottish detective?

0:19:23 > 0:19:24Rebus.

0:19:24 > 0:19:28In 2001, Robbie Williams and which actress topped the charts

0:19:28 > 0:19:30with a cover version of Something Stupid,

0:19:30 > 0:19:32originally a hit for Frank and Nancy Sinatra?

0:19:32 > 0:19:33Nicole Kidman.

0:19:33 > 0:19:36The size of champagne bottle equivalent to eight standard

0:19:36 > 0:19:38bottles is named after which Biblical patriarch?

0:19:38 > 0:19:40Methuselah.

0:19:40 > 0:19:42Who wrote incidental music for a Cambridge University

0:19:42 > 0:19:45production of the play The Wasps in 1909,

0:19:45 > 0:19:48the overture is the most frequently performed part?

0:19:48 > 0:19:49Stravinsky.

0:19:49 > 0:19:50No, Vaughan Williams.

0:19:50 > 0:19:53Which Oxfordshire town has a cross that was

0:19:53 > 0:19:55destroyed by the Puritans in 1602...

0:19:55 > 0:19:56BEEP

0:19:56 > 0:19:58..and replaced by a replica in 1859?

0:19:58 > 0:19:59Banbury.

0:19:59 > 0:20:00Is correct. You had three passes.

0:20:00 > 0:20:02The Shogun, that's what all those military rulers,

0:20:02 > 0:20:06dictators were called in Japan.

0:20:06 > 0:20:09Sundew is the common name for that insect-eating plant.

0:20:09 > 0:20:13Peter Schmeichel was the goalkeeper whose son also became

0:20:13 > 0:20:16a goalkeeper at the same club.

0:20:16 > 0:20:18You have, Xavier, 18 points.

0:20:25 > 0:20:28And now Barbara Bell again, please.

0:20:30 > 0:20:36And you start out with five points with your knowledge of the National Parks,

0:20:36 > 0:20:39- of which there are an awful lot... - HE LAUGHS

0:20:39 > 0:20:40..as you discovered.

0:20:40 > 0:20:44Let's see how you do on general knowledge. Two and a half minutes starting now.

0:20:44 > 0:20:47Scrumpy, made in the West Country, is strong drink, a form of what?

0:20:47 > 0:20:48Cider.

0:20:48 > 0:20:51The 2011 film Anonymous is based on the theory that the

0:20:51 > 0:20:54Earl of Oxford actually wrote the plays ascribed to whom?

0:20:54 > 0:20:56William Shakespeare.

0:20:56 > 0:20:58The name of which port city in central Chile means

0:20:58 > 0:20:59"valley of paradise"?

0:21:01 > 0:21:02Pass.

0:21:02 > 0:21:04The song There's No Business Like Show Business first

0:21:04 > 0:21:08featured in which musical set in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show?

0:21:11 > 0:21:12Pass.

0:21:12 > 0:21:14What Tibetan name is given to the large,

0:21:14 > 0:21:18shaggy-haired ox-like animal native to the high plateau of Central Asia?

0:21:18 > 0:21:19Yak.

0:21:19 > 0:21:22Which saint was born in about 1181 and given the baptismal name

0:21:22 > 0:21:25Giovanni was changed to one meaning "little Frenchman",

0:21:25 > 0:21:27possibly because of his mother's origins?

0:21:30 > 0:21:32Pass.

0:21:32 > 0:21:34In which TV crime drama have the leading pathologists

0:21:34 > 0:21:37included Professor Sam Ryan, played by Amanda Burton,

0:21:37 > 0:21:39and Professor Leo Dalton, played by William Gaminara?

0:21:39 > 0:21:41Silent Witness.

0:21:41 > 0:21:44In test cricket a fielding side can request a new ball after

0:21:44 > 0:21:47the old one has been in use for how many overs?

0:21:48 > 0:21:4935.

0:21:49 > 0:21:5080.

0:21:50 > 0:21:53PD James' novel Death Comes To Pemberley is a crime sequel

0:21:53 > 0:21:54to which Jane Austen novel?

0:21:57 > 0:21:59Pride And Prejudice.

0:21:59 > 0:22:02Aurora is the name of the title character in which ballet

0:22:02 > 0:22:04with music by Tchaikovsky?

0:22:04 > 0:22:05Sleeping Beauty.

0:22:05 > 0:22:07Which West Midlands town, known as the capital

0:22:07 > 0:22:10of the Black Country, has a zoo in the grounds of its medieval castle?

0:22:10 > 0:22:11Birmingham.

0:22:11 > 0:22:13Dudley.

0:22:13 > 0:22:14What's the name of the food encyclopaedia

0:22:14 > 0:22:18created by Prosper Montagne and Dr Alfred Gottschalk?

0:22:18 > 0:22:20It was first published in France in 1938?

0:22:20 > 0:22:21Escoffier.

0:22:21 > 0:22:23Larousse Gastronimique.

0:22:23 > 0:22:27Which song did Cliff Richard perform in the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest?

0:22:27 > 0:22:30He took part again in 1973 with Power To All Our Friends.

0:22:30 > 0:22:31Congratulations.

0:22:31 > 0:22:35Catherine of Aragon was the mother of which English monarch?

0:22:36 > 0:22:37Elizabeth.

0:22:37 > 0:22:38Mary.

0:22:38 > 0:22:42What was the name of the boutique opened by Barbara Hulanicki

0:22:42 > 0:22:45and her husband Stephen Fitzsimon in Kensington in 1964?

0:22:45 > 0:22:46Biba.

0:22:46 > 0:22:49Which Radio 4 series hosted by Sue McGregor brings together

0:22:49 > 0:22:52people who have been involved in a momentous event,

0:22:52 > 0:22:54such as Olympians from the 1948 games?

0:22:54 > 0:22:56Pass.

0:22:56 > 0:22:58Which bone in the body is known as the patella?

0:22:58 > 0:23:00Kneecap.

0:23:00 > 0:23:04The artist Paul Gauguin lived on which Polynesian island from 1891 to 1893?

0:23:04 > 0:23:08He returned there in 1895 before moving to the Marquesas Islands.

0:23:09 > 0:23:10Tahiti.

0:23:10 > 0:23:12Which word...

0:23:12 > 0:23:13BEEP

0:23:13 > 0:23:16..meaning to shut out from all social or commercial contact comes from

0:23:16 > 0:23:20the name of a British land agent in Ireland who was so treated in 1880?

0:23:20 > 0:23:21Sent to Coventry?

0:23:21 > 0:23:22Boycott.

0:23:22 > 0:23:24Close, yeah.

0:23:24 > 0:23:29You had four passes. Sue McGregor hosts The Reunion on Radio 4.

0:23:29 > 0:23:33St Francis of Assisi was that saint who was originally given

0:23:33 > 0:23:36the baptismal name Giovanni.

0:23:36 > 0:23:40Annie Get Your Gun for There's No Business Like Show Business.

0:23:40 > 0:23:44And the name of that port city in central Chile is Valparaiso.

0:23:44 > 0:23:47You have, Barbara, 15 points.

0:23:55 > 0:23:59And finally, John Chadwick, please.

0:23:59 > 0:24:04You start out with ten points with your knowledge of HP Lovecraft.

0:24:04 > 0:24:07The score to beat is 18.

0:24:07 > 0:24:09Let's see if you can do it and get through to the semifinals.

0:24:09 > 0:24:12Here we go, two and a half minutes.

0:24:12 > 0:24:15What event of 1666 is commemorated in the City of London by the Monument?

0:24:15 > 0:24:16The Great Fire.

0:24:16 > 0:24:19Which award reputedly got its nickname in 1931

0:24:19 > 0:24:22when a librarian at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

0:24:22 > 0:24:23said it reminded her of an uncle?

0:24:23 > 0:24:25Oscar.

0:24:25 > 0:24:27Which sea separates the Arabian Peninsula from

0:24:27 > 0:24:29the coast of north-east Africa?

0:24:29 > 0:24:30The Red Sea.

0:24:30 > 0:24:33In 1871, who described man as descended from a hairy

0:24:33 > 0:24:36quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears,

0:24:36 > 0:24:38probably arboreal in its habits?

0:24:38 > 0:24:39Darwin.

0:24:39 > 0:24:41Which horse ridden by Lester Piggott won the

0:24:41 > 0:24:44triple crown of the 2000 guineas, Derby and the St Ledger in 1970?

0:24:44 > 0:24:46Red Rum.

0:24:45 > 0:24:46Nijinsky.

0:24:46 > 0:24:49What is the lightest of the inert or noble gases?

0:24:49 > 0:24:52Argon.

0:24:50 > 0:24:52Helium.

0:24:52 > 0:24:55On which island are the jagged hills known as the Black Cuillins

0:24:55 > 0:24:57and a more rounded range known as the Red Cuillins?

0:24:57 > 0:24:58Skye.

0:24:58 > 0:25:01Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian immigrant to America,

0:25:01 > 0:25:03is the biological father of which computer designer

0:25:03 > 0:25:06and entrepreneur who died in October 2011?

0:25:06 > 0:25:07Jobs.

0:25:07 > 0:25:09Yes, Steve Jobs.

0:25:09 > 0:25:11What title for RAF pilots from the Battle of Britain

0:25:11 > 0:25:14comes from a speech by Churchill with the words,

0:25:14 > 0:25:15"Never in the field of human conflict...?"

0:25:15 > 0:25:17The Few.

0:25:17 > 0:25:20Former lifeguard Gregory J Bonann was the co-creator of which

0:25:20 > 0:25:23television series about the Los Angeles County lifeguards?

0:25:23 > 0:25:25Baywatch.

0:25:25 > 0:25:28Whose painting of job centre supervisor, Sue Tilly, naked

0:25:28 > 0:25:31and asleep on a sofa was sold at auction in 2008 for £17.2 million?

0:25:31 > 0:25:32Bacon.

0:25:32 > 0:25:34No, Lucien Freud.

0:25:34 > 0:25:36What's the name of the small building in

0:25:36 > 0:25:38the Great Mosque in Mecca containing

0:25:38 > 0:25:40the Black Stone that is Islam's holiest shrine?

0:25:40 > 0:25:41The Holy of Holies.

0:25:41 > 0:25:42The Kaaba.

0:25:42 > 0:25:45Which commercial radio station that began in 1933 that was famously

0:25:45 > 0:25:49broadcast on 208 metres medium wave launched the careers of many

0:25:49 > 0:25:51top DJs, including Sir Jimmy Young?

0:25:51 > 0:25:52Caroline.

0:25:52 > 0:25:53Radio Luxembourg.

0:25:53 > 0:25:56Who was Chancellor of the Exchequer during Gordon Brown's premiership?

0:25:56 > 0:25:58Darling, Alistair Darling.

0:25:58 > 0:26:02According to Alexandre Dumas, pere's novel, Cornelius van Baerle

0:26:02 > 0:26:04lives only to cultivate a tulip of which colour?

0:26:04 > 0:26:05Black.

0:26:05 > 0:26:09Which Scottish singer performed the theme song for the Bond film

0:26:09 > 0:26:10The Man With The Golden Gun?

0:26:10 > 0:26:11Pass.

0:26:11 > 0:26:14Which vegetable was popularised in 18th century

0:26:14 > 0:26:16France by Antoine-Augustin Parmentier?

0:26:16 > 0:26:17Potato.

0:26:17 > 0:26:20What is the name of the march normally played at formal

0:26:20 > 0:26:22American events to honour the President?

0:26:22 > 0:26:23Star-Spangled Banner.

0:26:23 > 0:26:24Hail To The Chief.

0:26:24 > 0:26:26What is Europe's largest wading bird,

0:26:26 > 0:26:28it's found in river estuaries and moorland

0:26:28 > 0:26:31and has a long downward curling bill and a distinctive, plaintive call?

0:26:31 > 0:26:32Curlew.

0:26:32 > 0:26:35The Second Labour Of Heracles was to kill which many-headed monster?

0:26:35 > 0:26:38As soon as he cut off one head, two grew in its place?

0:26:38 > 0:26:39The Hydra.

0:26:39 > 0:26:42What's the source of the fibre coir used to make matting...

0:26:42 > 0:26:43BEEP

0:26:43 > 0:26:44..marine cordage and ropes?

0:26:44 > 0:26:46Pass.

0:26:46 > 0:26:50I'll tell you. It's the coconut, the outer shell of the coconut.

0:26:50 > 0:26:54Lulu sang The Man With The Golden Gun. A clear winner, John, you've got 23 points.

0:26:54 > 0:26:55APPLAUSE

0:27:05 > 0:27:09So, a clear winner as I say. Let's have a look at all the scores.

0:27:09 > 0:27:11In fourth place, 15 points, Barbara Bell.

0:27:11 > 0:27:14In third place, 17 points, Nick Gunatilleke .

0:27:14 > 0:27:17Second place, 18 points, Xavier Woodward,

0:27:17 > 0:27:21and in first place, with 23 points, John Chadwick.

0:27:30 > 0:27:34Which means, of course, that John Chadwick is tonight's winner

0:27:34 > 0:27:36and he goes through to the semifinals.

0:27:36 > 0:27:39Congratulations to him, and if you would like to be a contender

0:27:39 > 0:27:41on the next series, do go to our website...

0:27:44 > 0:27:47and do join us again next time for more Mastermind.

0:27:47 > 0:27:49Thank you for watching, goodbye.

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