Episode 9 Mastermind

First in the spotlight tonight is Barbara Bell, a lecturer from Knutsford.

Her subject, the National Parks of England and Wales.

Next, Nick Gunatilleke, a police officer from the Wirral,

he'll be answering questions on the battles of the American Civil War.

John Chadwick, a company director from Durham.

His subject is the American fantasy author, HP Lovecraft.

And Xavier Woodward, a private equity investor from West Yorkshire.

His subject is World Title fights since 2000.

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 subject and

two and a half minutes on general knowledge.

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?

-Barbara Bell.

-Your occupation?

-Lecturer.

-And your chosen subject?

-The Nationals Parks of England and Wales.

National Parks in two minutes, starting now.

In which year was the National Parks And Access To The Countryside Act passed?

It led to the creation of Britain's National Parks,

with the Peak District the first.

1949.

The north of the Peak District is known as the

Dark Peak because of its millstone grit and moorland landscape.

What name is given to the southern part of the

park which is mostly limestone?

The White Peak.

What is the name for the peaks in the Lake District

which include Pike of Stickle and Loft Crag?

Pass.

Young Ralph Cross, one of the ancient markers used to guide

travellers across its landscape is the symbol of which National Park?

Pass.

What is the name of the pass between Yr Wyddfa,

the main summit of Snowdon and Y Lliwedd, where, according to

one version of the legend, King Arthur was fatally wounded?

Pass.

Which Yorkshire born architect's report of 1945 was

pivotal in the establishment of Britain's National Parks?

Michael Dower.

John Dower.

On the side of which Lake District mountain is Napes Needle,

whose ascent in 1886 by Walter Parry Haskett Smith

is considered to mark the birth of British rock climbing?

Great Gable.

What's the name of the line of chalk cliffs and hanging valleys

at the eastern end of the South Downs National Park

between Cuckmere Haven and Birling Gap near Beachy Head?

Pass.

Which national park includes the forest Fawr,

a geopark that is part of the global network assisted by UNESCO?

Brecon Beacons.

What three-letter name is given to a fjord-like drowned river

valley open to the sea, such as Solva Harbour and

Milford Haven Waterway, both in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park?

Haven.

Ria.

What name is used for the type of ancient stone slab bridges such as

those found at Postbridge in Dartmoor and at Tarr Steps in Exmoor?

Pass.

Which river and its estuary form a major part of the southern

boundary of the Snowdonia national park?

BEEP

-Dyfi.

-The Dyfi, yes.

You had five passes.

Those ancient stone slab bridges are called clapper bridges,

oddly enough.

The Seven Sisters is the line of chalk cliffs, and you knew that as well, I expect.

Bwlch Ciliau is the name of the pass between, well, you know,

that Welsh bit.

Young Ralph Cross is the symbol of the North York Moors.

And Langdale Pikes, that's the name of the group of peaks

in the Lake District including Pike of Stickle and Loft Craig.

You have, Barbara, five points.

And our next contender, please.

-And your name is?

-Nick Gunatilleke.

-Your occupation?

-Police officer.

-And your chosen subject?

-Battles of the American Civil War.

Battles of the American Civil War in two minutes, starting now.

Known in the south as First Manassas, how was the first major battle of the Civil War

fought in July 1861 known in the north?

Bull Run.

Which federal commander was propelled to hero status

and ultimately took command of the Army of the Potomac

by minor victories such as Philippi, Rich Mountain

and Corrick's Ford early in the war?

Meade.

McClellan. The capture of which fort on the Cumberland River earned

Ulysses S Grant the nickname Unconditional Surrender?

Vicksburg.

Fort Donelson.

A Union corporal found Robert E Lee's strategic

plan for the Maryland campaign wrapped around what items

shortly before the battle of Antietam?

Cigar box.

By what name was the sunken road that ran across the Antietam

battlefield later known, reflecting the high casualty rate?

Bloody Lane.

In which battle in Virginia on the 9th May 1864 did the Union

commander John Sedgwick utter his last words, "They couldn't hit an

"elephant at this distance," seconds before he was killed by a bullet?

Spotsylvania.

Which Confederate cavalry commander's

attack on Holly Springs, Mississippi in December 1862 seriously

disrupted Ulysses S Grant's first Vicksburg campaign plans?

Nathan Bedford Forest.

Earl Van Dorn.

Who was the highest ranking officer,

Union or Confederate to be killed during the entire war

when he was shot on the first day of the battle of Shiloh in April 1862?

Pass.

At which battle of November 1864 were six Confederate generals,

including Pat Cleburne

and States Rights Gist killed or mortally wounded?

Gettysburg.

Franklin.

Which Union brigadier general spent virtually

the whole of the battle of Gettysburg hiding in a barn after

he'd taken a wrong turn trying to avoid capture by Confederate troops?

Pass.

In December 1864 the surrender of which city

was the culmination of William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea?

He offered it as a Christmas gift to President Lincoln.

Atlanta.

Savanna.

Grant's troops unsuccessfully attacked

which strongpoint in Vicksburg's defences on Graveyard Road in

May 1863 at the beginning of the siege of the city?

Champions Hill.

Stockade Redan is what I've got there.

You had two passes.

It was Schimmelfennig who spent almost the whole of the battle

of Gettysburg in a barn because he was trying to avoid capture.

And the highest ranking officer killed during the entire war

was General Albert Sydney Johnston.

You have, Nick, four points.

And our next contender, please.

-And your name?

-John Chadwick.

-Your occupation?

-Company director.

-And your specialist subject?

-The Life and Works of HP Lovecraft.

HP Lovecraft in two minutes.

In which New England city was Lovecraft born on August

the 20th 1890?

Providence, Rhode Island.

In an essay on writing, Lovecraft used what two-word phrase

to describe his chosen genre, saying that,

"Atmosphere, not action is the great desideratum of it"?

Supernatural horror.

No, weird fiction.

What is the name of the horrific, winged squid dragon that dwells

in the lost city of R'lyeh in one of Lovecraft's best-known stories?

It's awoken by the ill-fated crew of the Emma?

Cthulhu.

For whom did Lovecraft ghost-write Imprisoned With The Pharaohs

published in the magazine Weird Tales in 1924?

Harry Houdini.

In which town, beyond the River Skai, are an old man

and his wife apparently killed and eaten by vengeful cats,

in a story written in 1920?

The Cats Of Ulthar.

Lovecraft used the pseudonym Lewis Theobald Junior when

he collaborated on two stories with Winifred Virginia Jackson.

One story is The Green Meadow, what's the title of the other?

The Crawling Chaos.

Which mad Arab does Lovecraft attribute

the authorship of the dreaded grimoire The Necronomicon to?

Abdul Alhazred.

What disease strikes the town of Arkham, providing fresh

corpses for the title character in Herbert West - Reanimator?

Typhus.

No, typhoid.

Which novella of 1936 was Lovecraft's only book to be

published and distributed in his lifetime?

The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

What was the name of the sales executive

and amateur journalist whom Lovecraft married in March 1924?

Sonia Green.

What words complete the rhyming couplet attributed

to Abdul Alhazred that begins,

"That is not dead which can eternal lie and with strange eons..?"

"Death itself may die."

"Even death may die."

Which of his friends

appeared to Lovecraft in a dream that provided him

with the plot for The Statement Of Randolph Carter?

In the dream his friend dies horribly while exploring a cemetery.

-RH Barlow.

-Sam Loveman.

In what borough of New York City did the newly-wed Lovecrafts

settle shortly after their marriage in 1924?

Brooklyn.

Which writer of hard-boiled crime fiction

included Lovecraft's story The Music Of Erich Zann in his 1931

anthology, Creeps By Night?

Pass.

When the scientists are studying...

BEEP

I've started, so I'll finish.

When the scientists are studying the Antarctic landscape

in At The Mountains Of Madness, two works by Edgar Allan Poe

are mentioned, one is the poem Ulalume, what is the other?

The Raven.

No, it's The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym.

The one pass you had was the celebrated writer who

included Lovecraft's story The Music Of Erich Zann was Dashiell Hammett.

One pass, John, you have ten points.

And our final contender, please.

-And your name is?

-Xavier Woodward.

-Your occupation?

-Private equity investor.

-And your chosen subject?

-World Title fights since 2000.

World Title fights, a bit of boxing. Two minutes, starting now.

On the 5th of June 2004, Oscar de la Hoya and which other fighter

won World Middleweight title fights on the same bill in Las Vegas?

Bernard Hopkins.

Who fought Evander Holyfield three times in 16 months

for the WBA heavyweight title, the last of them

was a draw, and as a consequence he retained the title?

John Ruiz.

How many World Title bouts did Julio Cesar Chavez contest,

including his final challenge for a World Title fight against

Kosya Tszyu for the WBC light welterweight title in July 2000?

35.

37. Close.

When Ricky Hatton lost his IBO light welterweight title to

Manny Pacquiao in May 2009 he was trained by the father

of which of his former opponents?

Floyd Mayweather.

At which weight did Israel Vazquez

and Rafael Marquez meet for the WBC title in 2007 and 2008

when both contests were voted fight of the year?

Bantam.

Super bantamweight.

In which city did the WBO lightweight champion

Artur Grigorian fight Zoltan Kalocsai in June 2000 to make

the first successful defence of his title outside Germany?

Tashkent.

Budapest.

At what venue in Panama City did Anselmo Moreno successfully

defend his WBA bantamweight title against Nehomar Cermeno in August 2010?

Pass.

In what round did Antonio Tarver stop Roy Jones Junior to

become world light heavyweight champion in what was voted

knockout of the year for 2004?

Round 5.

Round 2.

Which referee deducted two points from Amir Khan

for pushing during his controversial light welterweight title fight

with Lamont Peterson in December 2011?

Pass.

In October 2006, Enzo Maccarinelli stopped Mark Hobson in round one

of his first successful defence of which WBO title?

Cruiserweight.

In June 2002 Lennox Lewis beat Mike Tyson to retain the WBC

IBF and IBO heavyweight belts.

Who was the WBO heavyweight champion at the time?

BEEP

Well, your time's up, so if you don't know...

No.

I'll tell you. Vladimir Klitschko.

And you had two other passes.

The referee who deducted two points from Amir Khan for pushing

was Joseph Cooper, and the venue in Panama City was Roberto Duran Arena.

You have four points.

So, that's the end of the first round. Let's look at the scores.

In joint third place,

four points apiece, Nick Gunatilleke

and Xavier Woodward.

Second place, five points, Barbara Bell.

In the lead with ten points, John Chadwick.

Round Two now, the general knowledge round,

and if there's a tie at the end then the number of passes

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

If they are tied on passes as well there will be a tie-break.

So, let's get on and ask Nick Gunatilleke to join us

again, if you would, please?

And you start off with four points with your knowledge

of the battles of the American Civil War,

let's see how you do with general knowledge.

Two and a half minutes instead of two minutes. Here we go.

Which Hollywood actor and politician

was born in the village of Thal bei Graz in Austria on the 30th of July 1947?

Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Which river of northern India is regarded by Hindus

as the world's most sacred?

Ganges.

In Boris Pasternak's novel, Dr Zhivago,

with whom does the title character fall in love,

although they're both married to other people?

Pass.

In which country was Charles the Fifth The Wise

succeeded by Charles the Sixth the Mad in 1380?

France.

Which New Zealand born physicist's experiments scattering alpha

particles led him to the concept of the nuclear atom in 1911?

Pass.

What word used to describe an animal that has lapsed into the wild

after being domesticated comes from the Latin for a wild beast?

Feral.

Which BBC religious programme celebrated its 50th anniversary

in October 2011 with performances by LeAnn Rimes and Andrea Bocelli?

Songs Of Praise.

Which Shropshire born war poet was killed in action

a week before Armistice Day?

His volume of collected poems was published posthumously in 1920?

Wilfred Owen.

What word derived from Old High German for a ring or

a bracelet is used for a circular bread roll that is briefly

boiled before it's baked?

Bagel.

Which Turner Prize winning artist designed the spiralling sculpture

called the ArcelorMittal Orbit for the Olympic Park in London?

Pass.

Who was the first British Labour Prime Minister

born in Moray, Scotland in 1866?

He was the illegitimate son of a farm labourer and maid servant.

Ramsay MacDonald.

Which rocky outcrop in the mouth of the Firth of Clyde is said to

be the source of the best granite for curling stones?

Pass.

Which 1996 novel by Alex Garland is about backpackers who find

a utopian island fringed with marijuana fields?

Pass.

What was the name of the Greek sun god who

drove his chariot daily across the skies.

He became identified with Apollo, and was later replaced by him?

Aries.

Helios.

Which composer's last opera, William Tell,

was premiered in Paris in 1829, nearly 40 years before his death?

Rossini.

In which sport is the most popular amateur scoring system named

after Dr Frank Stableford who devised it in 1932?

Golf.

The 2011 film, The Lady, stars Michelle Yeoh as Aung San Suu Kyi,

a pro-democracy crusader from which country?

Burma.

What instrument does the leader of a symphony orchestra play?

Violin.

Which official who oversees the running of the Royal Household, was the censor...

BEEP

..for theatre performances until censorship was abandoned in 1968?

The Chamberlain.

Yes, the Lord Chamberlain.

You have five passes.

The Beach was the name of that novel by Alex Garland.

Ailsa Craig is the rocky outcrop in the Firth of Clyde.

Anish Kapoor was the architect behind the ArcelorMittal Orbit.

Sir Ernest Rutherford was the physicist,

and Lara was the lady whom everybody loved in Dr Zhivago.

Well, nearly everybody. Five passes, Nick, you have 17 points.

And now Xavier Woodward again, please.

World Title fights scored you four points,

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

Two and a half minutes starting now.

Which Parisian museum houses Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa?

The Louvre.

Which goalkeeper who ended his career with Manchester City has a son, Caspar,

who began his own career as a goalkeeper at the same club?

Pass.

What name thought to come from the Hebrew for "to desist",

or "cease" is given to the Jewish day of rest

celebrated from sunset on Friday until nightfall the following day?

Sabbath.

Which Irish poet and playwright set several of his poems

at Coole Park, the estate of his close friend, Lady Gregory,

with whom he was a co-director of the Abbey Theatre?

WB Yeats.

Known as the Iron Chancellor,

who became the first chancellor of a unified Germany in 1871?

Bismarck.

Jean-Paul Sartre was a leading exponent of which

philosophical movement which has its origins in the works of Kierkegaard?

Jean-Paul Sartre...

No, existentialism.

Former Miss Great Britain Leila Williams

and former army officer Christopher Trace were the original

presenters of which long-running children's TV programme?

Blue Peter.

In the game of contract bridge what's the lowest

ranked of the four suits?

Clubs.

Organic chemistry is concerned with

the study of compounds of which element?

Carbon.

The common name of which insect eating plant

comes from the drops of sticky fluid on the ends of the tiny

tentacles that it uses to trap its prey?

Pass.

What did the 7 refer to in the title of the 1998 film

starring Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt?

Seven deadly sins.

Which major Russian port,

the capital of Primorsky Province lies on the shores of the Sea of Japan,

giving the country access to the Pacific Ocean?

Vladivostok.

Which mammals belong to the order chiroptera,

a name meaning "hand-wings"?

Bats.

What title was held by the hereditary military dictators

who ruled Japan almost continuously from 1192 to 1868?

Pass.

Knots And Crosses, published in 1987, is the first

novel by Ian Rankin to feature which Scottish detective?

Rebus.

In 2001, Robbie Williams and which actress topped the charts

with a cover version of Something Stupid,

originally a hit for Frank and Nancy Sinatra?

Nicole Kidman.

The size of champagne bottle equivalent to eight standard

bottles is named after which Biblical patriarch?

Methuselah.

Who wrote incidental music for a Cambridge University

production of the play The Wasps in 1909,

the overture is the most frequently performed part?

Stravinsky.

No, Vaughan Williams.

Which Oxfordshire town has a cross that was

destroyed by the Puritans in 1602...

BEEP

..and replaced by a replica in 1859?

Banbury.

Is correct. You had three passes.

The Shogun, that's what all those military rulers,

dictators were called in Japan.

Sundew is the common name for that insect-eating plant.

Peter Schmeichel was the goalkeeper whose son also became

a goalkeeper at the same club.

You have, Xavier, 18 points.

And now Barbara Bell again, please.

And you start out with five points with your knowledge of the National Parks,

-of which there are an awful lot...

-HE LAUGHS

..as you discovered.

Let's see how you do on general knowledge. Two and a half minutes starting now.

Scrumpy, made in the West Country, is strong drink, a form of what?

Cider.

The 2011 film Anonymous is based on the theory that the

Earl of Oxford actually wrote the plays ascribed to whom?

William Shakespeare.

The name of which port city in central Chile means

"valley of paradise"?

Pass.

The song There's No Business Like Show Business first

featured in which musical set in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show?

Pass.

What Tibetan name is given to the large,

shaggy-haired ox-like animal native to the high plateau of Central Asia?

Yak.

Which saint was born in about 1181 and given the baptismal name

Giovanni was changed to one meaning "little Frenchman",

possibly because of his mother's origins?

Pass.

In which TV crime drama have the leading pathologists

included Professor Sam Ryan, played by Amanda Burton,

and Professor Leo Dalton, played by William Gaminara?

Silent Witness.

In test cricket a fielding side can request a new ball after

the old one has been in use for how many overs?

35.

80.

PD James' novel Death Comes To Pemberley is a crime sequel

to which Jane Austen novel?

Pride And Prejudice.

Aurora is the name of the title character in which ballet

with music by Tchaikovsky?

Sleeping Beauty.

Which West Midlands town, known as the capital

of the Black Country, has a zoo in the grounds of its medieval castle?

Birmingham.

Dudley.

What's the name of the food encyclopaedia

created by Prosper Montagne and Dr Alfred Gottschalk?

It was first published in France in 1938?

Escoffier.

Larousse Gastronimique.

Which song did Cliff Richard perform in the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest?

He took part again in 1973 with Power To All Our Friends.

Congratulations.

Catherine of Aragon was the mother of which English monarch?

Elizabeth.

Mary.

What was the name of the boutique opened by Barbara Hulanicki

and her husband Stephen Fitzsimon in Kensington in 1964?

Biba.

Which Radio 4 series hosted by Sue McGregor brings together

people who have been involved in a momentous event,

such as Olympians from the 1948 games?

Pass.

Which bone in the body is known as the patella?

Kneecap.

The artist Paul Gauguin lived on which Polynesian island from 1891 to 1893?

He returned there in 1895 before moving to the Marquesas Islands.

Tahiti.

Which word...

BEEP

..meaning to shut out from all social or commercial contact comes from

the name of a British land agent in Ireland who was so treated in 1880?

Sent to Coventry?

Boycott.

Close, yeah.

You had four passes. Sue McGregor hosts The Reunion on Radio 4.

St Francis of Assisi was that saint who was originally given

the baptismal name Giovanni.

Annie Get Your Gun for There's No Business Like Show Business.

And the name of that port city in central Chile is Valparaiso.

You have, Barbara, 15 points.

And finally, John Chadwick, please.

You start out with ten points with your knowledge of HP Lovecraft.

The score to beat is 18.

Let's see if you can do it and get through to the semifinals.

Here we go, two and a half minutes.

What event of 1666 is commemorated in the City of London by the Monument?

The Great Fire.

Which award reputedly got its nickname in 1931

when a librarian at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

said it reminded her of an uncle?

Oscar.

Which sea separates the Arabian Peninsula from

the coast of north-east Africa?

The Red Sea.

In 1871, who described man as descended from a hairy

quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears,

probably arboreal in its habits?

Darwin.

Which horse ridden by Lester Piggott won the

triple crown of the 2000 guineas, Derby and the St Ledger in 1970?

Red Rum.

Nijinsky.

What is the lightest of the inert or noble gases?

Argon.

Helium.

On which island are the jagged hills known as the Black Cuillins

and a more rounded range known as the Red Cuillins?

Skye.

Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian immigrant to America,

is the biological father of which computer designer

and entrepreneur who died in October 2011?

Jobs.

Yes, Steve Jobs.

What title for RAF pilots from the Battle of Britain

comes from a speech by Churchill with the words,

"Never in the field of human conflict...?"

The Few.

Former lifeguard Gregory J Bonann was the co-creator of which

television series about the Los Angeles County lifeguards?

Baywatch.

Whose painting of job centre supervisor, Sue Tilly, naked

and asleep on a sofa was sold at auction in 2008 for £17.2 million?

Bacon.

No, Lucien Freud.

What's the name of the small building in

the Great Mosque in Mecca containing

the Black Stone that is Islam's holiest shrine?

The Holy of Holies.

The Kaaba.

Which commercial radio station that began in 1933 that was famously

broadcast on 208 metres medium wave launched the careers of many

top DJs, including Sir Jimmy Young?

Caroline.

Radio Luxembourg.

Who was Chancellor of the Exchequer during Gordon Brown's premiership?

Darling, Alistair Darling.

According to Alexandre Dumas, pere's novel, Cornelius van Baerle

lives only to cultivate a tulip of which colour?

Black.

Which Scottish singer performed the theme song for the Bond film

The Man With The Golden Gun?

Pass.

Which vegetable was popularised in 18th century

France by Antoine-Augustin Parmentier?

Potato.

What is the name of the march normally played at formal

American events to honour the President?

Star-Spangled Banner.

Hail To The Chief.

What is Europe's largest wading bird,

it's found in river estuaries and moorland

and has a long downward curling bill and a distinctive, plaintive call?

Curlew.

The Second Labour Of Heracles was to kill which many-headed monster?

As soon as he cut off one head, two grew in its place?

The Hydra.

What's the source of the fibre coir used to make matting...

BEEP

..marine cordage and ropes?

Pass.

I'll tell you. It's the coconut, the outer shell of the coconut.

Lulu sang The Man With The Golden Gun. A clear winner, John, you've got 23 points.

APPLAUSE

So, a clear winner as I say. Let's have a look at all the scores.

In fourth place, 15 points, Barbara Bell.

In third place, 17 points, Nick Gunatilleke .

Second place, 18 points, Xavier Woodward,

and in first place, with 23 points, John Chadwick.

Which means, of course, that John Chadwick is tonight's winner

and he goes through to the semifinals.

Congratulations to him, and if you would like to be a contender

on the next series, do go to our website...

and do join us again next time for more Mastermind.

Thank you for watching, goodbye.

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