Episode 19 Mastermind

First in the spotlight tonight is Katie Johnston,

a marketing manager from London. Her subject is the band Pulp.

Next, Allan MacPherson, a postman from Devon,

and he will be answering questions on FC Barcelona.

Brian Chesney is a retired librarian from Malvern.

His subject - Catherine the Great.

And Tony Richardson, a teacher from Newcastle.

His subject - the novels of David Peace.

APPLAUSE

Hello and welcome to Mastermind,

with me, John Humphrys.

Four more contenders put themselves to the test tonight

in the hope that they might be crowned the nation's Mastermind,

than which there is no greater honour in the world of quizzing.

To get through to the next round, they will be subjected

to two sets of questions under the tyranny of the clock -

the first two minutes on their specialist subject,

followed by two and a half minutes of general knowledge.

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

-And your name is?

-Katie Johnston.

-Your occupation?

-Marketing manager.

-And your chosen subject?

-Pulp.

Pulp in two minutes. Here we go.

Pulp were formed by Jarvis Cocker and Peter Dalton

while still at school in Sheffield.

What was the band's original name, said to be

inspired by the title of a Michael Caine film and the name of a coffee bean?

Arabicus Pulp.

What was the nickname of the band's bass player,

David Lockwood, who left soon after the band's formation?

-Fungus.

-Pulp had their first chart entry in November 1993,

13 years after the band was formed.

What was the title of the single that reached

number 50 in the charts that year?

-Lipgloss.

-Which song gave the band their first top 40 hit?

They used it to open sets in 2011 such as at venues in Hungary and Serbia.

Do You Remember The First Time?

What is the name of the studios in Goldhawk Road, London,

where Pulp's first chart-topping album Different Class

was recorded and mixed?

The Townhouse.

Common People gave the band one of their biggest hits, reaching No 2 in the charts.

Where did it have its first public performance in August '94?

Um, Bristol.

No, the Reading Festival.

On which indie label was the original vinyl version

of their debut mini-LP, It, released in 1983?

Red Rhino.

Which song written for the compilation album Hits opens with the lines

"kids are spitting on the town hall steps

"and frightening old ladies.

"I dreamt that I was living back in the mid-1980s"?

Last Day Of The Miners' Strike.

David Hinkler joined in 1982 and left the following year.

What instrument did he play in addition to guitar and keyboards?

-Drums.

-Trombone.

The monologue Duck Diving appears on Pulp's 2001 Peel session.

The words are from a story in a '70s English textbook by which writer?

Philippa Pearce.

What song was Michael Jackson performing at the Brit Awards

when Jarvis Cocker jumped on the stage?

Cocker ended up spending a night in the cells.

-Earth Song.

-What's the name of the former keyboard player

with Psychedelic Furs, who produced several of their records,

including the Sisters EP and the His 'N' Hers album?

-Ed Buller.

-Pulp were the headline act

at Glastonbury as a replacement for a band

who pulled out because one member broke his collarbone. What was that band?

-Stone Roses.

-Pulp submitted a song...

-BEEP

I've started, so I'll finish.

Pulp submitted a song to be the theme

for a '97 Bond film, but it was rejected.

Under what title was it released as a B-side

of the single Help The Aged?

Tomorrow Never Lies.

No passes, Katie, you've scored 12 points.

APPLAUSE

And our next contender, please.

-And your name is?

-Allan MacPherson.

-Your occupation?

-Postman.

-And your specialist subject?

-FC Barcelona.

FC Barcelona in two minutes.

Who was the world's most expensive footballer at the time,

when he moved from Barcelona to Real Madrid

for a reported fee of 37 million in 2000?

-Luis Figo.

-Which striker did Barcelona and Real Madrid

claim to have signed in '53?

The Spanish FA decreed he should play for each team

on alternate years, but Barca sold their share in him?

-Di Stefano.

-In which Barcelona newspaper

did Swiss-born businessman Joan Gamper place an advert in 1899

asking for anyone interested in forming a football club to get in contact?

-Er, Deportivo.

-Los Deportes.

Barcelona were the first winners of the Fairs Cup in '58.

Who did they beat in a match in '71

to decide who would permanently keep the trophy

from the now-discontinued competition?

-Leeds United.

-What was the name of the first stadium

owned by the club -

a 6,000-capacity ground they moved into in 1909?

Carrer de la Industria.

Who became Barcelona's longest-serving president

after he was elected in '78 and served until 2000?

Nunez.

In 2009, a statue of the Hungarian forward

who became one of the club's leading goal-scorers

was unveiled outside the Camp Nou. Who was he?

-Kubala.

-How many goals did Lionel Messi score

in competitive matches in the 2011-12 season

to set a new European scoring record?

-47.

-No, it's 73.

By what nickname, a reference to the Catalan

for their shirts' colour is the team sometimes known?

Blaugrana.

Which Hungarian goalkeeper's heroics in a cup match

against Real Sociedad in '28

inspired the poet Rafael Alberti to write a poem about him?

-Nunez?

-Platko.

Who followed Bobby Robson to Barcelona as his assistant from FC Porto,

but stayed on to work under Robson's successor, Louis Van Gaal?

-Terry Venables?

-Mourinho.

Who made the claim that Barcelona is "more than a club"

when he was appointed club president in '68?

-Pass.

-By what aggregate score were Barcelona beaten...

-BEEP

I'll finish the question.

..by Bayern Munich in the semifinal of the 2013 Champions League?

-Bizarrely, 7-0.

-It was indeed 7-0, as you say. Just one pass.

The guy who made the claim that Barcelona is more than a club -

"mas que un club" - when he was appointed president was De Carreras.

You have, Allan, eight points.

Thank you.

APPLAUSE

And our next contender, please.

-And your name is?

-Brian Chesney.

-Your occupation?

-Retired librarian.

-And your specialist subject?

-Catherine the Great.

Catherine the Great. Two minutes. Here we go.

By which of Catherine's lovers did she have a child, Alexei,

who was born before the coup that brought her to power in 1762?

Gregory Orlov.

In which Moscow cathedral was Catherine crowned Empress of Russia

in 1762, three months after she usurped husband Peter III?

Assumption Cathedral.

What is the art museum founded by Catherine 1764,

it stands behind the Winter Palace in St Petersburg

and has been frequently extended?

The Hermitage.

Catherine commissioned a dinner service from Wedgwood

of over 900 pieces, decorated with scenes of England.

What creature featured in an emblem on each piece?

Pass.

In 1763, whom did Catherine appoint to carry out her foreign policy?

He'd previously been ambassador to Denmark and Sweden.

Panin.

A French astronomer, the Abbe Chappe d'Auteroche, wrote A Journey To Siberia,

in which he described Russia as a "barbarous" country.

What is the title of the work Catherine wrote in reply?

The Antidote.

Catherine recruited a Scottish American naval officer

as a rear-admiral during the second Russo-Turkish War. What was his name?

John Paul Jones.

What name was given to Catherine's plan that aimed to restore

the old Byzantine Empire with one of her grandsons as its ruler?

The Greek Project.

Which great port did Catherine have constructed

after the annexation of the Crimea in 1783?

-Sebastopol.

-What was the name of the editor of the

Correspondance litteraire whom Catherine appointed as her agent in Paris?

-Grimm.

-Yes, Von Grimm.

The rebel Cossacks led by the pretender Pugachev

were finally defeated by Catherine's forces

under Colonel Michelson in August 1774.

Outside which city did this take place?

Tsaritsyn.

Catherine wrote three plays that satirised mysticism and freemasonry.

Which features the character Kalifalkzherston,

who embezzles gold from gullible victims?

Pass.

Catherine ordered a marble bust made

of a British politician for display in the Hermitage.

A bronze copy was displayed between

Demosthenes and Cicero in her sculpture gallery. Who was he?

BEEP Charles James Fox.

Is correct. And you had two passes.

The play that Catherine wrote that featured the character Kalifalkzherston

was The Deceiver.

And on that dinner service, every one of the 900 pieces

had a green frog.

-Brian, you've scored 11 points.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

And our final contender, please.

-And your name is?

-Tony Richardson.

-Your occupation?

-Teacher.

-And your chosen subject?

-The novels David Peace.

The novels of David Peace in two minutes. Here we go.

What was the name of the man imprisoned for murder in 1974,

the first of David Peace's Red Riding Quartet?

In the last novel, 1983,

solicitor John Piggott visits him in Park Lane Special Hospital.

Michael Myshkin.

Which character in Tokyo Year Zero,

the first book in his Tokyo Trilogy,

is described as the Shogun of Shinbashi?

-Senju Akura.

-Akira, yes.

In The Damned Utd, in his first television interview

as manager of Leeds, Brian Clough is asked if he's superstitious.

What does Clough describe himself as in his reply?

A socialist.

What dispute is the subject of the 2005 novel GB84?

The miners' strike.

1980, the third book in the Red Riding Quartet,

has an epigraph taken from a poem by Edgar Allan Poe. Which poem?

The Raven.

Which celebrity is speaking about her husband's murder

on the radio shortly after Peter Hunter wakes up on 11th December, 1980?

Yoko Ono.

What is the name of the Wakefield pub

where the Christmas Eve shooting of Derek Box takes place in 1974?

Strafford.

Which Leeds footballer enrages Brian Clough in The Dammed Utd

when he asks, "Did you ever play at Wembley, did you, Mr Clough?"

Billy Bremner.

In the Red Riding Quartet, Eddie Dunford, and later Bob Fraser,

occupy room 27 in a motel on the Doncaster Road. Which motel?

Redbeck.

In GB84, what code name does Terry Winters say is to be used

by the NUM leadership for pickets, differentiating them from the police,

who are to be known as potatoes?

Pass.

Which Bury centre-half and future Sunderland manager

accuses Brian Clough of acting up, or codding,

when he's injured during a match in '62?

The injury ends Clough's playing career.

-Bob Stokoe.

-In Occupied City, a businessman and politician

delivers a series of lessons.

Lesson one is dog kills dog. What is the eighth and final lesson?

Pass.

What nickname does veteran journalist Jack Whitehead

use for Eddie Dunford throughout 1974?

-Scoop.

-What epithet does the crime reporter use repeatedly

-for the city of Tokyo in the novel Occupied City?

-BEEP

He often writes it in upper-case letters.

-The Black Door?

-No, the Fictional City.

You had two passes.

The eighth and final lesson in Occupied City was

dog is always hungry for more dog.

And, in GB84, the police were known as potatoes,

the pickets were known as apples.

Tony, you have scored 11 points.

APPLAUSE

Well, that was a close round.

Let's have a look at all the scores.

In fourth place with eight points Allan MacPherson,

joint second place, 11 points apiece,

Brian Chesney and Tony Richardson.

In the lead, just, with 12 points, Katie Johnston.

So, it's the general knowledge round now, and if there is a tie at the

end of it, then the number of passes is taken into account

and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.

And if they're tied on passes as well,

we have to have a tie-break, and the six highest-scoring runners-up

in this round will also be able to claim a place in the semi-finals.

So, still plenty to play for, let's get on with it

and ask Allan to join us again, please.

And you start this round with eight points,

with your knowledge of Barcelona FC.

Let's see how you do with two-and-a-half minutes

of general knowledge, here we go.

What is the surname of Graham and Damon, the only father

and son to have both won the Formula 1 World Championship?

-Hill.

-Yep. The emperors who ruled Germany

from 1871 to 1918 are known by what title?

It comes from the Latin word "Caesar".

-Kaiser.

-Which resort on the South Devon coast

famous for its red sandstone cliffs

is separated from the sea by the Main Line from Paddington?

-Teignmouth.

-Dawlish. What part of a rabbit's body is known as a "scut"?

-Its tail.

-Yeah.

Who is the star and co-producer of the film

Jack Reacher about the ex-military policeman created by Lee Child?

-Michael Caine?

-Tom Cruise.

Which French city, one of the busiest

ports on the Mediterranean, is the country's oldest major city?

-Marseille.

-Yes. What is the name of the American soul singer who

produced his own 1971 album What's Going On,

breaking with the producer-dominated Motown tradition?

Marvin Gaye.

Yes. Churches dedicated to which saint, the patron of lepers

and the lame, are often outside the city's walls

because lepers were not permitted to enter the city?

-Saint Cecil.

-Saint Giles.

Which former jockey, who wrote

thrillers after his retirement,

was the author of a biography about Lester Piggott?

Dick Francis.

Yes. What did Andre Le Notre

design for the Palace of Versailles

and many other chateaux in the late 17th century?

Gardens.

Yes. Which spice that comes from a plant of the ginger family

consists of a green, dried pod containing black seeds?

It's often used in Asian cuisine,

and also in Scandinavia to flavour flans and stewed fruits.

-Vanilla?

-Cardamom.

What was the name of Christopher Columbus'

flagship on his first voyage to the New World in 1492?

The Santa Maria.

Who successively beat his Democrat opponents Hubert Humphrey

and George McGovern to be elected American President in 1968 and 1972?

Nixon.

What major traffic junction

in the London borough of Southwark

takes its name from a famous coaching inn?

-Swiss Cottage?

-Elephant and Castle.

What type of soft felt brimmed hat

with a lengthwise crease

in the crown is said to take

its name from the title

of a play by the French dramatist Victorien Sardou?

-Fedora.

-Yes.

In his poem Leisure, who wrote, "What is this life,

"if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?"?

-Keats.

-WH Davis.

Which English king is played by Rupert Everett in the

2003 film To Kill A King?

-Henry VIII?

-Charles I.

What is the name of the mysterious masked swordsman

who was the alter ego of Don Diego de la Vega in

a popular American television show of the 1950s?

-The Lone Ranger?

-It was Zorro.

In boxing, what name is given

to a punch delivered from below,

usually to an opponent's jaw?

-Uppercut.

-Yup. Which board game

played with black and white discs...

BEEP

..shares its name with the title

character in a Shakespeare play?

-Take a guess.

-Backgammon.

Well, why not? Othello.

-No passes, Allan, your score is now 19 points.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

And now Brian again, please.

And you begin with 11 points,

with your knowledge of Catherine the Great.

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

Which London street named after the wife of

the 3rd Earl of Burlington

has been associated with high-quality tailoring

since the mid 19th century?

Savile Row.

Yes, pecorino is an Italian cheese made from the milk of which animal?

-Goat?

-No, a ewe, a sheep.

In the famous Soviet leadership double-act of the 1950s

known as B&K, Bulganin was B, who was K?

-Khrushchev.

-Yep.

The American television series I Love Lucy starred which

red-headed comedy actress?

-Lucille Ball.

-Yes. Which West African country has one of the

world's largest shipping fleets?

Foreign ships are registered there under its flag of convenience.

-Liberia.

-Yes.

What name is usually given to

a war galley with three banks of oars?

They were used in the Mediterranean

by the 5th century BC.

-Trireme.

-Yes.

Which writer and occultist,

the author of the 1922 novel The Diary of a Drug Fiend, was famously

described by a British newspaper as "The wickedest man in the world"?

-Aleister Crowley?

-Yes.

In Greek myth, what's the name of the son of the god Helios?

He was struck down by Zeus for bringing his father's

fiery chariot too close to the Earth.

-Icarus?

-Phaeton.

Which racecourse on the banks of the River Dee is the oldest in Britain?

It dates back to 1539.

-Chester.

-Yep.

Which Polish astronomer advanced

the theory that the sun rather

than the Earth was the centre of the solar system

in his work De revolutionibus?

-Copernicus.

-Yes.

What insect has a name that means "Prophet" in Greek because it

folds its long forelegs as if in prayer while waiting for its prey?

Pass.

Which Liverpool band who topped the charts in 1963 with

their debut single Sweets For My Sweet took their name from the title

of a John Ford Western?

-The Searchers.

-Yes.

The council of the Roman Catholic Church met between 1545

and 1563 to define church doctrine.

What name is given to the council,

after the Italian city where the meeting was held?

-Council of Trent.

-Yes.

Which Carry On film had the alternative title

Let Sleeping Bags Lie?

HE SIGHS

-Pass.

-How many stars make up the group known as

the Plough or the Big Dipper?

It's part of the larger constellation of Ursa Major.

-Seven?

-Yes.

What is the name of land of giants where Gulliver is

stranded in the second part of Gulliver's Travels?

-Brobdingnag.

-Yes.

In Britain, Elsanta is a widely-grown variety of

which soft fruit?

-Strawberry.

-Yep.

Which country's monarchy is descended from one of

Napoleon's marshalls, Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte,

who ruled as Charles XIV John from 1818 to 1844?

Sweden. Yes.

What is the name of the limestone

escarpment in Shropshire made

famous in AE Houseman's A Shropshire Lad?

-Wenlock Edge.

-Yes.

The dome of the Cathedral of

Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence

is the most celebrated work of which architect?

-Michelangelo?

-Brunelleschi.

Operation Nestegg was launched on VE Day...

BEEP

..to liberate which part of

the British Isles from German rule?

-Channel Islands.

-Is correct. You had two passes.

The Carry On film that had the alternate title

Let Sleeping Bags Lie was Carry On Camping.

Ha-ha.

And that insect name that means "Prophet",

folds its long forelegs - praying mantis.

-Oh, right.

-There you go.

-However, Brian, you have scored 27 points in total.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

And now Tony Richardson again, please.

And, erm...

You have 11 points as well to start with, with your knowledge

of the books of David Peace, and 27 is the score to beat.

Big one. Here we go.

What word for a hereditary blood feud

comes from the Italian for "revenge"?

-Vendetta.

-Yes.

A famous statue of Robin Hood unveiled in 1952

stands outside which castle?

-Nottingham.

-Yes.

Which 1995 film stars Clint Eastwood as a photographer

sent on an assignment to Iowa by National Geographic Magazine, where

he falls in love with a farmer's wife played by Meryl Streep?

-Bridges of Madison County.

-Yes.

Part II of Handel's Messiah is brought to a close by which chorus?

-The...Slaves' Chorus.

-The Hallelujah Chorus.

What was the principal title held by James II

and George VI before they ascended the throne?

-Prince of Wales.

-Duke of York.

Which Irish wit and dramatist

wrote a book of short stories for children called

The Happy Prince and Other Tales,

published early in his literary career in 1888?

-Oscar Wilde.

-Yes.

The comedy drama series El C.I.D starring Alfred Molina

and John Bird followed the adventures of two former

Scotland Yard officers in which European country?

-Holland.

-Spain.

In John Charles Dollman's painting A Very Gallant Gentleman,

who is pictured walking out to his death in March, 1912?

-Erm, Oates.

-Yes, Captain Oates.

Which Irish political party

founded in 1933 by an amalgamation

of other parties is also known

as the United Ireland Party?

-Fianna Fail?

-Fine Gael.

What name is given particularly in Cornwall to the

small fish of the herring family whose young are called sardines?

-Sprats.

-Pilchards.

In the newspaper comic strip by Bill Watterson, Hobbes,

the best friend of Calvin is what type of stuffed toy animal?

-Dog.

-A tiger.

Which city on the Ganges where devout Hindus hope to die is

also known as Benares or Kashi?

-Varanasi.

-Yes.

Which cricketing reference book celebrated its 150th edition

with its 2013 publication?

-Wisden.

-Yes.

What term for a charitable or helpful person

comes from the parable in

chapter ten of the Gospel of Saint Luke?

-Good Samaritan.

-Yes.

Which Nobel prize-winning novelist

admitted in his 1996 memoir

Peeling the Onion that as

a young man in Nazi Germany he'd been

recruited by the Waffen SS?

-Gunter Grass.

-Yes. Which Scottish city's

motto is "Bon Accord"?

Legend says it was the password for the local people's

attack on its castle, held at the time by the English.

-Aberdeen.

-Yes.

Whose '64 chart hit You Never Can Tell reached a new audience

when John Travolta and Uma Thurman

danced the twist to it in the '94 film Pulp Fiction?

-Chuck Berry.

-Yes. To which bird of prey does the word "aquiline" refer?

-Eagle.

-Yes.

Which gate that stands at the western end of the

Unter den Linden is the only surviving town gate of Berlin?

-Brandenburg.

-According to

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy,

what is the answer to the ultimate question

of life, the universe and everything?

BEEP 42.

Is correct, and we're out of time. No passes.

You didn't quite get there, Tony. 25.

APPLAUSE

And finally, Katie again, please.

And you start out with 12 points with your knowledge of Pulp.

27 is still the score to beat.

So, here we go. Two-and-a-half minutes, general knowledge.

The '96 chart-topping song Wannabe was the first

hit single for which pop group?

-Spice Girls.

-Yes.

David Garrick's Catharine and Petruchio, written in 1754,

was a reworked version of which Shakespearean comedy?

-Midsummer Night's Dream.

-Taming Of The Shrew.

What name is shared by the principal island

in both the Orkneys and the Shetlands?

Pass.

A politician who was partly paralysed by polio in 1921

went on to become Governor of New York from 1929 to '33

and American President from '33 until his death in '45 - who was he?

-Hoover.

-Franklin Roosevelt.

Montana, which flowers profusely in early spring,

is a variety of which genus of climbing plants?

-Ivy.

-Clematis.

In the film Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, who plays

the part of the defence against the dark arts teacher Gilderoy Lockhart?

-Kenneth Branagh.

-Yes.

Which classic French apple desert, named after the two sisters

who made it famous, is inverted to serve

so that the apples sit on top of the rich pastry base?

-Tarte Tatin.

-Yes.

Which English king was imprisoned for ransom in Duke Leopold's

castle at Durnstein on the Danube

when he was returning from the Crusades in 1192?

-Richard the Lionheart.

-Yes.

In women's lawn tennis, what

match score is known as a "double bagel"?

-Pass.

-Sarah Burton designed the

Duchess of Cambridge's wedding dress

after she became the creative director of which

London fashion house on the death of its founder?

-Alexander McQueen.

-Yes.

Who wrote in a draft preface to his poetry,

"My subject is war and the pity of war.

"The poetry is in the pity."

-Siegfried Sassoon.

-Wilfred Owen.

What collective name is given to the Canadian provinces

of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba that

lie in the Northern Great Plains region of North America?

Pass.

Which screenwriter who won

an Oscar for the film Gosford Park

also writes the television series Downtown Abbey?

-David Hare.

-Julian Fellowes.

In Norse mythology, Skinfaxi, who pulls the god Dagr

across the sky every morning, is what kind of creature?

-Er, eagle.

-It's a horse.

What term is used for the amount of C02 emitted through

the combustion of fossil fuels by an organisation or

an individual as part of their everyday activities?

Carbon footprint.

Yes, Quechua, a language still spoken today in Peru

and elsewhere, was the chief language of which ancient empire?

-Mayan.

-The Inca.

Whose painting Liberty Leading The People

shows a young woman waving a flag?

It was inspired by an incident during the revolution

in France of July, 1813.

Pass.

The Puerta del Sol is the traditional centre of which

European capital city?

-Madrid.

-Yes. Which Roman soldier

who was beheaded in around 300 AD...

BEEP

..is believed to be the first British Christian martyr?

A monastery was built in his honour

in the Hertfordshire city

-that bears his name.

-Don't know that one.

Well, I'll tell you, we'll take

that as a pass, it was Saint Alban.

And your other passes - Delacroix,

it was his painting Liberty Leading the People,

those Canadian provinces, Alberta etc, are the Canadian Prairies,

and a double bagel in women's lawn tennis is 6-0, 6-0.

Logical when you think about it!

And the name shared by the principal island in both the Orkneys

and Shetlands is Mainland.

You've scored a total now, Katie, of 19 points.

APPLAUSE

So, Brian held on to the lead. Let's have a look at all the scores there.

In joint third place, 19 points apiece, Katie Johnston

and Allan Macpherson.

Second place, 25 points, Tony Richardson.

In first place with 27 points, Brian Chesney.

Which means, of course, that Brian is tonight's winner,

and he goes through to the semifinal, congratulations to him.

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