0:00:25 > 0:00:30First in the spotlight tonight is Tony Marwood, a retired firefighter from Thornaby-on-Tees.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32His subject, Lester Piggott.
0:00:32 > 0:00:36Next, Adrian Gorst, a consultant ergonomist from Ayrshire. His subject is Robert the Bruce.
0:00:36 > 0:00:40Euan McCulloch, an enforcement manager from Blairgowrie.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43He'll be answering questions on Hugh Gaitskell.
0:00:43 > 0:00:47And Julie Aris, a service quality manager from East Sussex.
0:00:47 > 0:00:50Her subject, the Simon Serrailler novels of Susan Hill.
0:00:59 > 0:01:03Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.
0:01:03 > 0:01:07Tonight's contenders will each make the short but daunting walk
0:01:07 > 0:01:12to the black chair, where they will answer two minutes of questions on their specialist subject,
0:01:12 > 0:01:14then two and a half minutes on general knowledge.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17The winner will go through to the next round
0:01:17 > 0:01:21and take a step closer to being crowned the nation's Mastermind,
0:01:21 > 0:01:24an honour so much more precious than mere baubles.
0:01:24 > 0:01:28Let's get on with it and ask our first contender to join us, please.
0:01:34 > 0:01:36And your name is...?
0:01:42 > 0:01:44..Lester Piggott in two minutes.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46Who trained The Chase,
0:01:46 > 0:01:50the horse that gave Piggott his first ride in 1948 and his first win at Haydock Park?
0:01:50 > 0:01:54- Keith Piggott.- In 1981, Piggott rode Shergar to victory
0:01:54 > 0:01:59in which classic race, as the horse's regular jockey, Walter Swinburn, was suspended?
0:01:59 > 0:02:03- Irish Derby.- Piggott rode Carrozza to victory in the Oaks in 1957,
0:02:03 > 0:02:05completing a Derby and Oaks double.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08Who led the horse into the winner's enclosure?
0:02:08 > 0:02:11- Jim Gunning.- No, the Queen. What is Piggott's nickname,
0:02:11 > 0:02:15because he's unusually tall to be a flat race jockey, at five feet eight?
0:02:15 > 0:02:18- The Long Fella. - Which horse ridden by Charlie Smirke
0:02:18 > 0:02:22beat Piggott's horse Gay Time by three quarters of a length in the '52 Derby,
0:02:22 > 0:02:25the first time Piggott finished in the first three?
0:02:25 > 0:02:28- Tulyar. - On which now defunct racecourse
0:02:28 > 0:02:31did Piggott have the biggest success of his 20 wins over hurdles,
0:02:31 > 0:02:34when he road Prince Charlemagne in the 1954 Triumph Hurdle?
0:02:34 > 0:02:40- Hurst Park. - In 1977, Piggott completed a hat trick of Ascot Gold Cup wins.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42On which horse did he win?
0:02:42 > 0:02:46- Sagaro.- Piggott was convicted of tax evasion in 1987
0:02:46 > 0:02:51and released from which prison after one year and a day on 24 October 1988?
0:02:51 > 0:02:55- Highpoint.- In '96, the gates next to the Queen's stand at a racecourse
0:02:55 > 0:02:59were named after Piggott, which racecourse?
0:02:59 > 0:03:05- Newmarket.- Epsom. Which Derby runner-up did Piggott breed from his own mare Limuru?
0:03:05 > 0:03:10- Cavo Doro. - Piggott retired in '85, but made a comeback at the age of 55.
0:03:10 > 0:03:15On which racecourse did he ride Lupescu into second place on his return?
0:03:15 > 0:03:18- Leicester. - Which horse did Piggott ride in the special match race
0:03:18 > 0:03:21in Warwick in May '85 against John Francome,
0:03:21 > 0:03:25just after Francome had retired and Piggott announced his retirement?
0:03:25 > 0:03:29- The Liquidator. - Which horse did Piggott ride to victory in the '73 Coronation Cup,
0:03:29 > 0:03:32having won the Derby on the same horse the previous year?
0:03:32 > 0:03:38- Roberto.- Piggott considers his tenth Derby winner to have been a winning colt of 1996,
0:03:38 > 0:03:42which he did not ride himself, but it was trained by his son-in-law with Piggott's assistance.
0:03:42 > 0:03:46- What was the horse's name? - BUZZER
0:03:49 > 0:03:51Take a guess.
0:03:51 > 0:03:54- No?- Morston.- No. It was Shaamit.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57Or Sh-ar-mit, however you pronounce it.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00- No passes, Tony, you have 11 points. - Thank you.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02APPLAUSE
0:04:08 > 0:04:10And our next contender, please.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18And your name is...?
0:04:22 > 0:04:24Robert the Bruce in two minutes.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27Robert the Bruce was King of Scots from 1306 till 1329
0:04:27 > 0:04:31and led Scotland during the Wars of Scottish Independence against England.
0:04:31 > 0:04:34In which castle in southwest Scotland is he thought to have been born?
0:04:34 > 0:04:37- Turnberry. - Whose death in the Orkneys in 1290
0:04:37 > 0:04:42reignited the rivalry between the Bruce and Balliol families as claimants to the Scottish throne?
0:04:42 > 0:04:46- Maid of Norway.- In April 1296, the Scots were defeated in a battle
0:04:46 > 0:04:49after which John Balliol was dethroned
0:04:49 > 0:04:52and Bruce was required to swear an oath to Edward I of England.
0:04:52 > 0:04:54Where was the battle?
0:04:54 > 0:05:00- Falkirk.- Dunbar. Who crowned Bruce as Robert I of Scotland on 25 March, Lady Day, 1306?
0:05:00 > 0:05:04- Isabella of Fife. - In April 1312, Bruce captured Dundee from the English.
0:05:04 > 0:05:07Which nearby city did he take the following January,
0:05:07 > 0:05:10where he was the second to scale the wall, behind a French knight?
0:05:10 > 0:05:14- Perth. - What's the document presented at Bruce's first parliament,
0:05:14 > 0:05:16held in St Andrews in March 1309,
0:05:16 > 0:05:20where the churchmen of Scotland affirmed their support for his right to be King?
0:05:20 > 0:05:26- Pass.- Edward II's invasion of Scotland in 1314 led to his defeat at Bannockburn.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29A major objective was to relieve which castle?
0:05:29 > 0:05:34- Stirling.- The daughter of the Lord of Garmoran helped Bruce to return to mainland Scotland
0:05:34 > 0:05:38after he fled following his defeats of 1306 - she's known by what name?
0:05:38 > 0:05:44- Christina of the Isles. - The castle at which town was captured by the Scots in June 1318
0:05:44 > 0:05:46to complete Bruce's conquest of his kingdom?
0:05:46 > 0:05:49- Berwick. - What name of Old English origin
0:05:49 > 0:05:53was given to the close-knit massed formations of infantry deployed by Bruce at Bannockburn?
0:05:53 > 0:05:57- Schiltrom.- The Castle of Rushen was captured in 1313
0:05:57 > 0:06:01by Bruce's army, which gave the Scots control of the Isle of Man.
0:06:01 > 0:06:04Who was the commander of the garrison of the castle?
0:06:04 > 0:06:06- Bisset.- No, Dougal McDougal.
0:06:06 > 0:06:11Bruce's raids into the north of England forced the English to sign a treaty in May 1328
0:06:11 > 0:06:15which recognised the independence of Scotland with Bruce as King. Which treaty?
0:06:15 > 0:06:19- Northampton-Edinburgh. - Edinburgh-Northampton, yeah.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22After Bruce died, his heart was carried into battle
0:06:22 > 0:06:25- against the Moors in Spain by which of his allies? - BUZZER
0:06:25 > 0:06:27- James Douglas.- Is correct.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29You had just one pass.
0:06:29 > 0:06:35The name of that document presented at his first Parliament was the Declaration of the Clergy.
0:06:35 > 0:06:38- Thank you.- You have scored, Adrian, ten points.- Thank you very much.
0:06:38 > 0:06:40APPLAUSE
0:06:47 > 0:06:49And our next contender, please.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57And your name is...?
0:07:02 > 0:07:04Hugh Gaitskell in two minutes.
0:07:04 > 0:07:08Hugh Gaitskell first stood at the 1935 General Election
0:07:08 > 0:07:12as Labour candidate for which constituency - he lost to the Conservative candidate?
0:07:12 > 0:07:14- Chatham. - Gaitskell was Chancellor from 1950.
0:07:14 > 0:07:18In his budget in 1951, he opposed charges on dentures
0:07:18 > 0:07:21and what item in the NHS, leading to major disagreements in the party?
0:07:21 > 0:07:27- Spectacles.- In what ministry did Gaitskell start working as a civil servant in 1939?
0:07:27 > 0:07:32- Economic Warfare. - Gaitskell was ousted as Chancellor by the Conservative victory in '51.
0:07:32 > 0:07:35The supposedly similar policies of his successor
0:07:35 > 0:07:39led The Economist to blend their two names and invent what term?
0:07:39 > 0:07:43- Butskellism.- Gaitskell became Labour leader in 1955.
0:07:43 > 0:07:47What was the name of the controversial domestic policy document on nationalisation
0:07:47 > 0:07:50endorsed by the '57 Party Conference?
0:07:50 > 0:07:55- Industry And Society. - After leaving Oxford, Gaitskell took a post as a tutor
0:07:55 > 0:07:58with the Workers' Educational Association in which city?
0:07:58 > 0:08:02- Nottingham.- After Gaitskell's 1951 budget, three ministers resigned -
0:08:02 > 0:08:05Harold Wilson, John Freeman and which other,
0:08:05 > 0:08:09whose resignation speech condemned the Chancellor for arms expenditure, including in Korea?
0:08:09 > 0:08:13- Nye Bevan.- What was the name of the dining club founded in 1932
0:08:13 > 0:08:18to encourage links between the Labour Party and the City - Gaitskell joined two years later?
0:08:18 > 0:08:20- XYZ.- In a BBC broadcast in November 1956,
0:08:20 > 0:08:25Gaitskell called for the resignation of the Prime Minister, Anthony Eden, over what?
0:08:25 > 0:08:29- Suez.- Who became Gaitskell's agent in his South Leeds constituency,
0:08:29 > 0:08:32replacing George Brett, in 1950?
0:08:32 > 0:08:37- George Murray.- At the Party Conference in 1959, a month after defeat in the General Election,
0:08:37 > 0:08:43Gaitskell proposed to revise a clause that advocated nationalisation - which clause?
0:08:43 > 0:08:48- Clause 4.- On what issue were Gaitskell and the Labour leadership defeated by the left of the party
0:08:48 > 0:08:52at the 1960 Conference on a motion proposed by the Amalgamated Engineering Union?
0:08:52 > 0:08:57- Unilateral disarmament. - In which town did Gaitskell deliver his speech of '52,
0:08:57 > 0:08:59referring to the Bevanites with,
0:08:59 > 0:09:03"It is time to end the attempt at mob rule by a group of frustrated journalists"?
0:09:03 > 0:09:06- Stalybridge.- During his last speech at Conference... - BUZZER
0:09:06 > 0:09:11..in '62, where he stated his opposition to the Common Market, what policy did Gaitskell refer to
0:09:11 > 0:09:15as "one of the most devastating pieces of protectionism invented"?
0:09:15 > 0:09:18- Common Agricultural Policy. - Is correct.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21- A perfect round. No passes, 14 points.- Thank you.
0:09:21 > 0:09:23APPLAUSE
0:09:30 > 0:09:33And finally, our last contender.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41And your name is...?
0:09:46 > 0:09:49Simon Serrailler novels in two minutes.
0:09:49 > 0:09:54In which fictional cathedral city does Simon Serrailler live in the detective novels of Susan Hill?
0:09:54 > 0:09:58- Lafferton. - What is the name of the policewoman whom Serrailler became fond of
0:09:58 > 0:10:01and who's killed in the first novel, The Various Haunts Of Men?
0:10:01 > 0:10:04- Freya Graham.- Freya Graffham. In The Various Haunts Of Men,
0:10:04 > 0:10:07what alias does the quack doctor Colin Davison use
0:10:07 > 0:10:11as the psychic surgeon at the Spiritual Sanctuary?
0:10:11 > 0:10:14- Dava.- In The Vows Of Silence, when the police are occupied
0:10:14 > 0:10:17with the security of Prince Charles in the cathedral,
0:10:17 > 0:10:20the Lafferton gunman opens fire at what other event?
0:10:20 > 0:10:24- A wedding fair.- What name do the prostitutes give to Miles Hurley,
0:10:24 > 0:10:27the Canon who attacks Cat Deerbon and who speaks in a whispery voice?
0:10:27 > 0:10:32- Beanie Man. - When Serrailler is promoted to Detective Chief Superintendant,
0:10:32 > 0:10:36he tells Sam that he will be working more with SIFT - what does that acronym stand for?
0:10:36 > 0:10:41- Special Investigation...- No. Serious Incident Flying Taskforce.
0:10:41 > 0:10:46In A Question Of Identity, Serrailler takes his nephew Sam to the coast of which county,
0:10:46 > 0:10:48he'd been intending to do it since Sam's father died?
0:10:48 > 0:10:52- Norfolk.- Jane Fitzroy disappeared after leaving Cambridge
0:10:52 > 0:10:56and sent a postcard after six months out of touch - from where?
0:10:56 > 0:10:59- Nepal.- After the death of Simon's mother, Meriel,
0:10:59 > 0:11:02his father Richard later marries someone else. What's her name?
0:11:02 > 0:11:06- Judith.- In The Betrayal Of Trust, Chief Constable Paula Devenish
0:11:06 > 0:11:09is on sick leave after which emergency operation?
0:11:09 > 0:11:12- Appendectomy.- In which street is Serrailler's flat?
0:11:12 > 0:11:16It's where Jane Fitzroy is living when she's held hostage by Max Jameson,
0:11:16 > 0:11:19whose wife Lizzie has died of Variant CJD.
0:11:19 > 0:11:24- Cathedral Close.- On Detective Sergeant Ben Vanek's first day, in The Shadows In The Street,
0:11:24 > 0:11:28what door does he try to open while looking for the canteen?
0:11:28 > 0:11:32- Fire exit. - What is the full name of the boy who disappears in The Pure In Heart
0:11:32 > 0:11:35and whose story comes to a conclusion in The Risk Of Darkness?
0:11:35 > 0:11:39- David Angus. - In The Vows Of Silence, to which event does Phil invite Helen Creedy,
0:11:39 > 0:11:41whom he met through a dating agency?
0:11:41 > 0:11:45- The Jug Fair. - In The Pure In Heart, what's the name of the former prisoner
0:11:45 > 0:11:48who gets a job with Karin McCafferty after Serrailler recommends him?
0:11:48 > 0:11:51Andy Gunton. BUZZER
0:11:51 > 0:11:55No passes, Julie. You have 13 points.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57APPLAUSE
0:12:04 > 0:12:08Some big scores in that round. Let's have a look at them.
0:12:08 > 0:12:12In fourth place, with ten points, Adrian Gorst.
0:12:12 > 0:12:15Third place, 11 points, Tony Marwood.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18Second place, 13 points, Julie Aris.
0:12:18 > 0:12:22In the lead - just - 14 points, Euan McCulloch.
0:12:27 > 0:12:32So, this is the general knowledge round and if there is a tie at the end of it,
0:12:32 > 0:12:35the number of passes is taken into account
0:12:35 > 0:12:38and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41If they're tied on passes as well, there will be a tie-break.
0:12:41 > 0:12:45The six highest scoring runners-up during this round
0:12:45 > 0:12:48can claim a place in the semifinal.
0:12:48 > 0:12:54So, there is plenty to play for. Let's get on with it and ask Adrian to join us again, please.
0:12:54 > 0:13:00You have ten points with your knowledge of Robert the Bruce.
0:13:00 > 0:13:03Two and a half minutes of general knowledge.
0:13:03 > 0:13:06In which television series did Tom Good, played by Richard Briers,
0:13:06 > 0:13:10give up his job to try a self-sufficient lifestyle with Barbara?
0:13:10 > 0:13:16- The Good Life.- Which European country abolished its monarchy and became a republic in 1946,
0:13:16 > 0:13:19sending King Umberto II into exile?
0:13:19 > 0:13:23- Italy.- What's the name of the Poet Laureate who died in 1892,
0:13:23 > 0:13:26the first poet to be given a peerage for services to literature?
0:13:26 > 0:13:32- Tennyson.- Which county cricket club moved from Northlands Road to the Rose Bowl for the 2001 season?
0:13:32 > 0:13:35It hosted its first Test match ten years later.
0:13:35 > 0:13:39- Hampshire.- In which classic 1939 Western directed by John Ford
0:13:39 > 0:13:41does John Wayne play the Ringo Kid?
0:13:41 > 0:13:45- Stagecoach.- The Drachenfels is a mountain on the bank of the Rhine
0:13:45 > 0:13:50that was the home of a dragon slain by a hero of Germanic legend, who was he?
0:13:50 > 0:13:52- Mike Wazinski.- Siegfried.
0:13:52 > 0:13:56What word for a collection of stars comes from the Greek word for "milk"?
0:13:56 > 0:13:57- Constellation.- Galaxy.
0:13:57 > 0:14:01Who was Foreign Secretary at the beginning of the Falklands Crisis in 1982,
0:14:01 > 0:14:05he resigned after criticism that he had misread Argentina's intentions?
0:14:05 > 0:14:11- Lord Carrington.- Which novel by Franz Kafka opens with, "Someone must have slandered Josef K,
0:14:11 > 0:14:15"for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested"?
0:14:15 > 0:14:20- The Castle.- The Trial. Which mountain that has an electric railway to its summit
0:14:20 > 0:14:23is the highest point on the Isle of Man?
0:14:23 > 0:14:26- Pass.- Who started writing Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay
0:14:26 > 0:14:30while relaxing on a houseboat in California in 1967?
0:14:30 > 0:14:33- Otis Redding.- Which cocktail consists of two parts of vodka
0:14:33 > 0:14:35to one part Galliano topped up with orange juice?
0:14:35 > 0:14:37- Margarita.- Harvey Wallbanger.
0:14:37 > 0:14:41Which garden plant of the Saxifrage family, able to grow in urban environments,
0:14:41 > 0:14:44is celebrated in a Second World War song by Noel Coward?
0:14:44 > 0:14:46- Forget-me-not.- London Pride.
0:14:46 > 0:14:50In 1803, the United States bought 800,000 square miles from France.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52What name's given to the acquisition?
0:14:52 > 0:14:57- Louisiana Purchase.- Which composer was born near Worcester in 1857,
0:14:57 > 0:14:59the son of a music shop proprietor?
0:14:59 > 0:15:04- Elgar.- Terence Cuneo, famous for his trademark of putting a mouse in his paintings,
0:15:04 > 0:15:09was the official artist for what national event in 1953?
0:15:09 > 0:15:13- The...Festival of Britain. - No. Coronation of Elizabeth II.
0:15:13 > 0:15:17Waziristan is a mountainous region of which country on the border with Afghanistan?
0:15:17 > 0:15:22- Pakistan.- Ken Stott starred as the troubled DCI Red Metcalfe in which television drama
0:15:22 > 0:15:26notable for its explicit treatment of gruesome murders?
0:15:26 > 0:15:32- The Bill.- Messiah. What word describes a heavy substance loaded into a ship to make it more stable?
0:15:32 > 0:15:35- Ballast.- Robert Burke was the leader of the first expedition... - BUZZER
0:15:35 > 0:15:39..to cross which country from south to north with William Wills and Charles Gray?
0:15:39 > 0:15:42He died on the return journey in 1861.
0:15:42 > 0:15:45- Australia.- Is correct. You had just one pass.
0:15:45 > 0:15:51The mountain that has an electric railway, the highest point on the Isle of Man, is Snaefell.
0:15:51 > 0:15:56- You have a total, Adrian, of 22 points.- Thanks very much.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58APPLAUSE
0:16:03 > 0:16:06Tony Marwood again now, please.
0:16:06 > 0:16:11You start this round with 11 points with your knowledge of Lester Piggott.
0:16:11 > 0:16:15Let's see how you do with general knowledge. Here we go.
0:16:15 > 0:16:19Super Trouper was the ninth UK chart-topping single for which Swedish pop group?
0:16:19 > 0:16:24- Abba.- The Crimean War took place during the reign of which British monarch?
0:16:24 > 0:16:28- George III.- Victoria. What is the name of the stretch of sandbanks off the east Kent coast,
0:16:28 > 0:16:31notorious over the centuries for their shipwrecks?
0:16:31 > 0:16:35- Needles.- The Goodwin Sands. Which biopic starred Tom Cruise as Ron Kovic,
0:16:35 > 0:16:40who fought in the Vietnam War and became an anti-war activist after coming home in a wheelchair?
0:16:40 > 0:16:45- Born On The Fourth Of July. - In cricket, what is an over for which no runs are scored?
0:16:45 > 0:16:50- Maiden. - Which 14th-century Italian scholar wrote poems known as the Canzoniere,
0:16:50 > 0:16:53inspired by his unrequited love for a lady called Laura?
0:16:53 > 0:16:58- Dante.- Petrarch. In which American state capital is the Iolani Palace,
0:16:58 > 0:17:04the official residence of Queen Lili'uokalani in the late 19th century?
0:17:04 > 0:17:09- Pennsylvania.- Honolulu. The tough perennial grass native to Africa known as Napier grass
0:17:09 > 0:17:13gets its common name from its association with a large mammal, which one?
0:17:13 > 0:17:17- Elephant.- Which singer-songwriter was briefly in a super group
0:17:17 > 0:17:21with David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash in the '60s and '70s?
0:17:21 > 0:17:23- Neil Young.- Which town, now part of the borough of Bromley,
0:17:23 > 0:17:28gives its name to a breed of chickens introduced there in the 19th century?
0:17:28 > 0:17:30The most famous is the buff.
0:17:30 > 0:17:32- Bunting.- Orpington.
0:17:32 > 0:17:34What three-word term for a public outcry
0:17:34 > 0:17:39comes from a historical call for the pursuit and capture of a criminal?
0:17:39 > 0:17:41- Quick, stop, thief.- Hue and cry.
0:17:41 > 0:17:46David Dinkins served from 1990 to '93 as the first black mayor of which American city?
0:17:46 > 0:17:51- New York.- Which 18th-century earl gives his name to a mechanical model of the solar system
0:17:51 > 0:17:55designed to show the motions of the planets around the sun?
0:17:55 > 0:17:59- Orrery.- Who created the characters Sky Masterson, Harry the Horse and The Seldom Seen Kid
0:17:59 > 0:18:04in a series of comic stories published in 1931 as Guys And Dolls?
0:18:04 > 0:18:09- Mel Blanc.- Damon Runyon. What name is given to the republic that ruled Germany from 1919 to '33
0:18:09 > 0:18:14because of the city where its constitution was agreed in 1919?
0:18:14 > 0:18:16- Bavaria.- The Weimar Republic.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19To which apostle did Jesus promise the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven?
0:18:19 > 0:18:25- Peter.- The name of which tapestry factory comes from a family of dyers from the 15th century
0:18:25 > 0:18:29whose dye works were next to a small stream in Paris?
0:18:29 > 0:18:32- Bayeux.- Gobelins. In which Mozart opera does a musical instrument
0:18:32 > 0:18:36shield the lovers Pamina and Tamino from harm?
0:18:36 > 0:18:38- Cosi Fan Tutti.- The Magic Flute.
0:18:38 > 0:18:41H.A.P.P.Y. was the theme song to a television sitcom
0:18:41 > 0:18:45that starred James Bolam and Peter Bowles as long-stay patients in hospital.
0:18:45 > 0:18:48- What was the sitcom called? - BUZZER
0:18:48 > 0:18:51- Only When I Laugh. - Only When I Laugh is correct!
0:18:51 > 0:18:54Not quite enough points to laugh, I'm afraid, Tony.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57No passes. Your total is 20.
0:18:57 > 0:18:59APPLAUSE
0:19:05 > 0:19:08Now Julie again, please.
0:19:08 > 0:19:14You scored 13 points with your knowledge of the Simon Serrailler novels.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16The score to beat is 22.
0:19:16 > 0:19:20Let's see if you can do it with your general knowledge.
0:19:20 > 0:19:26In which novel by Louisa M Alcott do the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, make their first appearance?
0:19:26 > 0:19:29- Little Women.- The White Countess, released in 2006,
0:19:29 > 0:19:34was the last film directed by James Ivory to be produced by which long-time collaborator?
0:19:34 > 0:19:39- Merchant. - What is added to a veloute sauce to turn it into a sauce aurore,
0:19:39 > 0:19:41a pinkish-red accompaniment to eggs or chicken?
0:19:41 > 0:19:44- Tomato.- Tomato puree, yes.
0:19:44 > 0:19:49Which shallow glass dish used for culturing bacteria is named after its German inventor?
0:19:49 > 0:19:52- Petri.- What is the capital of the American state of Montana
0:19:52 > 0:19:57where gold was discovered in 1865 in Last Chance Gulch, now the site of the city's main street?
0:19:57 > 0:20:00- Helena.- The pop star and actor David Essex played Jesus
0:20:00 > 0:20:03in which stage musical that opened in London in 1971?
0:20:03 > 0:20:07- Godspell.- In March 2012, former local TV news presenter Mike Nesbitt
0:20:07 > 0:20:11was elected as the leader of which political party?
0:20:11 > 0:20:12- Green.- Ulster Unionist.
0:20:12 > 0:20:16In EB White's book Charlotte's Web, what animal is Wilbur,
0:20:16 > 0:20:18the devoted friend of the spider, Charlotte?
0:20:18 > 0:20:21- Pig.- Which 15th-century Lancastrian King founded Eton College
0:20:21 > 0:20:23and King's College, Cambridge?
0:20:23 > 0:20:26- Henry II.- Henry VI. What day in the Christian calendar
0:20:26 > 0:20:29commemorates Christ's last supper with his disciples,
0:20:29 > 0:20:33often marked by the distribution of alms to the poor?
0:20:33 > 0:20:37- Maundy Thursday. - Through which county do the rivers Taw, Teign and Torridge flow?
0:20:37 > 0:20:40- Devon.- What is the name of the tennis coach appointed captain
0:20:40 > 0:20:45of Great Britain's Women's Fed Cup tennis team in December 2011?
0:20:45 > 0:20:49- Pass. - Sea wasps, which live off the coast of northern Australia
0:20:49 > 0:20:52and have tentacles containing deadly poison, are a type of what creature?
0:20:52 > 0:20:57- Jellyfish. - The English composer John Dowland wrote for which stringed instrument,
0:20:57 > 0:20:59of which he was an accomplished performer?
0:20:59 > 0:21:03- Lute. - What name is given to the small bones of fingers, thumbs and toes?
0:21:03 > 0:21:08- Carpals.- Phalanges. Which fictional county, celebrating its 60th anniversary on radio in 2011,
0:21:08 > 0:21:12lies betwixt and between Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire?
0:21:12 > 0:21:16- Borsetshire.- What expression for a success that lasts a short time
0:21:16 > 0:21:21originally referred to a musket failing to fire because only the primer had ignited?
0:21:21 > 0:21:25- Flash in the pan. - The artist Domenikos Theotokopoulos was born in Crete in 1541.
0:21:25 > 0:21:29He worked mainly in Spain. By what name is he better known?
0:21:29 > 0:21:31- El Greco. - Which actress and author,
0:21:31 > 0:21:35noted for sympathetic explorations of the lives of British Asian women,
0:21:35 > 0:21:39wrote Anita And Me and Life Isn't All Haha Hehe?
0:21:39 > 0:21:44- Pass. - What is the name of the soprano who was born in Camberley in 1949
0:21:44 > 0:21:47and who's been associated with the Early Music Movement?
0:21:47 > 0:21:52- Pass.- Which 19th-century novelist's works include The History Of Henry Esmond Esquire...
0:21:52 > 0:21:55- BUZZER - ..and its sequel The Virginians?
0:21:55 > 0:21:58- Smith.- Thackeray.
0:21:58 > 0:22:06Three passes, Julie. The name of that soprano born in Camberley in 1949 was Dame Emma Kirkby.
0:22:06 > 0:22:11Meera Syal wrote Anita And Me and Life Isn't All Haha Hehe.
0:22:11 > 0:22:15And Judy Murray was the name of the tennis coach
0:22:15 > 0:22:21who was appointed captain of Great Britain's Women's Fed Cup tennis team in 2011.
0:22:21 > 0:22:25You have, however, a total of 27 points.
0:22:25 > 0:22:27APPLAUSE
0:22:34 > 0:22:37And finally, Euan McCulloch again, please.
0:22:38 > 0:22:42And you scored 14 points with your knowledge of Gaitskell.
0:22:42 > 0:22:47The score to beat now has, as you've just seen, shot up to 27.
0:22:47 > 0:22:51Let's see if you can make it through to the next round.
0:22:51 > 0:22:56According to the title of a 1953 film starring Marilyn Monroe, gentlemen prefer...
0:22:56 > 0:23:01- Blondes.- Freddy Krueger is the central character in which series of horror films?
0:23:01 > 0:23:03- Halloween. - A Nightmare On Elm Street.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06William Hogarth's print Beer Street shows wholesome beer drinkers,
0:23:06 > 0:23:12in contrast with which of his other works that shows the dreadful effects of drinking a strong spirit?
0:23:12 > 0:23:15- Pass. - What is the name of the mountainous peninsula of southern Greece
0:23:15 > 0:23:18joined to the country by the Isthmus of Corinth?
0:23:18 > 0:23:22- Peloponnese. - The cathedral in which English city is home to the Cross Of Nails,
0:23:22 > 0:23:27a symbol of reconciliation constructed after the cathedral's destruction by the Luftwaffe?
0:23:27 > 0:23:31- Coventry.- What is the name of the party leader who was an MEP for the East Midlands
0:23:31 > 0:23:34before choosing to concentrate on domestic politics?
0:23:34 > 0:23:41- Nick Clegg.- Which American rock singer of the 1960s and '70s called himself the Lizard King?
0:23:41 > 0:23:44- Alice Cooper.- Jim Morrison.
0:23:44 > 0:23:49Which small gull that normally nests on sea cliffs has taken to colonising manmade constructions,
0:23:49 > 0:23:55notably the Baltic Flour Mills in Gateshead and the Tyne Bridge in Newcastle?
0:23:55 > 0:23:57- Black-headed gull.- The kittiwake.
0:23:57 > 0:24:02What explosive was named by its inventor from a Greek word meaning "power" or "force"?
0:24:02 > 0:24:06- Could you repeat the question?- What explosive was named by its inventor
0:24:06 > 0:24:08from a Greek word meaning "power" or "force"?
0:24:08 > 0:24:13- Dynamite.- Which actor born Richard Walter Jenkins in a South Wales mining community in 1925
0:24:13 > 0:24:17took his professional name from that of the teacher who introduced him to acting?
0:24:17 > 0:24:20- Richard Burton.- What name was given to the groups of foreign volunteers
0:24:20 > 0:24:23who fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War?
0:24:23 > 0:24:27- International Brigade. - Get Shorty and Out Of Sight are among the films
0:24:27 > 0:24:32adapted from the crime novels of an American author - what's his name?
0:24:32 > 0:24:37- Pass.- Which geological period was named after the mediaeval Latin word for Wales
0:24:37 > 0:24:39by the English geologist Adam Sedgwick?
0:24:39 > 0:24:43- Cambrian.- Which round yellowish orange fruit often used to make jam
0:24:43 > 0:24:52has a name that comes from the Latin "praecox" meaning "early ripening"?
0:24:57 > 0:25:00- Pass.- What did the civil engineer John Brody invent
0:25:00 > 0:25:02after watching a football match in 1889,
0:25:02 > 0:25:09where there was dispute over whether the ball had passed between the goalposts?
0:25:12 > 0:25:16- Pass.- Which ballet with music by Herold features the clog dance
0:25:16 > 0:25:20performed by the Widow Simone, a comic role taken by a male dancer?
0:25:20 > 0:25:22- La Fille Mal Gardee.- Which city... - BUZZER
0:25:22 > 0:25:26..on the River Irrawaddy is the second largest in Burma
0:25:26 > 0:25:31and was the country's last royal capital until its capture by the British in 1885?
0:25:31 > 0:25:34- Mandalay.- Is correct.
0:25:34 > 0:25:36You had four passes. Nets!
0:25:36 > 0:25:41That's what John Brody invented cos they couldn't tell whether the ball had passed...
0:25:41 > 0:25:45- CHUCKLING:- Obvious when you think of it! Easy afterwards.
0:25:45 > 0:25:49The fruit, the round yellowish orange fruit, that's an apricot.
0:25:49 > 0:25:54Elmore Leonard wrote the books on which Out Of Sight and Get Shorty are based.
0:25:54 > 0:25:58And the Hogarth print, Gin Lane.
0:25:58 > 0:26:02- Didn't quite do it, Euan. 24 points. - Thank you.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04APPLAUSE
0:26:10 > 0:26:15So, she managed to hold on to that lead until the bitter end. Let's look at the scores.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18In fourth place, 20 points, Tony Marwood.
0:26:18 > 0:26:22In third place, 22 points, Adrian Gorst.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25Second place, 24 points, Euan McCulloch.
0:26:25 > 0:26:30But in first place with 27 points, Julie Aris.
0:26:43 > 0:26:47And that means, of course, that Julie Aris is tonight's winner
0:26:47 > 0:26:51and goes through to the semifinals. Congratulations to her.
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