0:00:26 > 0:00:29First in the spotlight tonight is Lauren White from Beckley.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32Her specialist subject is Catherine Howard.
0:00:32 > 0:00:35Next, Andrew Forsyth, a civil servant from Belfast.
0:00:35 > 0:00:38He'll be answering questions on the Green Lantern comics.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41Brian Daugherty is a postman from Portsmouth
0:00:41 > 0:00:45and he'll be answering questions on the 17thC scientist Robert Hooke.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48And Colin Foster, an accountant from Warrington,
0:00:48 > 0:00:51and his subject - British Summer Olympic medallists.
0:00:51 > 0:00:53APPLAUSE
0:01:01 > 0:01:04Hello and welcome to Mastermind, with me, John Humphrys.
0:01:04 > 0:01:08Tonight, four contenders take what they hope will be their first step
0:01:08 > 0:01:12towards the Grand Final, where they could win this glass bowl,
0:01:12 > 0:01:16and, infinitely more importantly, the title of Mastermind.
0:01:16 > 0:01:20The rules are the same as ever - two minutes on their specialist subject,
0:01:20 > 0:01:22then two and a half minutes on general knowledge.
0:01:22 > 0:01:27So let's get on with it and ask our first contender to join us, please.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33- And your name is?- Lauren White.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36- Your occupation?- Homemaker.
0:01:36 > 0:01:40- And your chosen subject? - Catherine Howard.- Catherine Howard - two minutes, starting now.
0:01:40 > 0:01:45Catherine married Henry the Eighth on 28th July 1540 at which palace near Weybridge?
0:01:45 > 0:01:47- Oatlands.- Yes. On the same day,
0:01:47 > 0:01:51one of Henry's advisers, who had been made Earl of Essex, was executed. What was his name?
0:01:51 > 0:01:53Thomas Cromwell.
0:01:53 > 0:01:57While Catherine was living with her step-grandmother, Agnes Dowager Duchess of Norfolk,
0:01:57 > 0:02:00she had a relationship with her music tutor. What was his name?
0:02:00 > 0:02:03- Henry Mannox. - Stephen Gardiner was the bishop
0:02:03 > 0:02:06who enabled Henry to divorce Anne of Cleves and marry Catherine.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08Of which see was he the bishop?
0:02:08 > 0:02:11- York.- Winchester. What was the name of the French ambassador
0:02:11 > 0:02:15whose writings are the source of much information about Catherine?
0:02:15 > 0:02:16Marillac.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19Francis Dearham, Catherine's lover whilst she was living at Horsham,
0:02:19 > 0:02:24was arrested in 1540 for interrogation about their relationship.
0:02:24 > 0:02:26On what charge was he arrested?
0:02:26 > 0:02:27- Treason.- No, piracy.
0:02:27 > 0:02:32Name Catherine's cousin, who unwisely kept an affectionate letter from her,
0:02:32 > 0:02:35which played a key role in her downfall and his own.
0:02:35 > 0:02:36Thomas Culpeper.
0:02:36 > 0:02:41Henry and Catherine entered which city on 18th September 1541,
0:02:41 > 0:02:44where Henry had arranged to meet King James the Fifth of Scotland?
0:02:44 > 0:02:46York.
0:02:46 > 0:02:49To which former monastery was Catherine taken in November 1541,
0:02:49 > 0:02:51after she and her associates were charged with treason?
0:02:51 > 0:02:54- Sion. - Who informed Archbishop Cranmer
0:02:54 > 0:02:56about Catherine's youthful indiscretions?
0:02:56 > 0:03:01He learned of them from his sister, a bedfellow of Catherine's at the Dowager's home.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03- John Laskells.- Lascelles, yes.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06Catherine's uncle, also uncle to Ann Boleyn
0:03:06 > 0:03:08was third duke of which English county?
0:03:08 > 0:03:11- Norfolk.- What is the type of Act of Parliament called
0:03:11 > 0:03:15by which Henry proceeded against Catherine in 1542?
0:03:15 > 0:03:18No defence was possible against such an Act.
0:03:18 > 0:03:19Act of Attainder.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22Name Queen Catherine's lady of the privy chamber,
0:03:22 > 0:03:26the sister-in-law of Ann Boleyn and executed with Catherine,
0:03:26 > 0:03:28for acting as a go-between.
0:03:28 > 0:03:33- Lady Rochester. Jane Parker.- Lady Jane Rochford, but Jane Parker, yes.
0:03:33 > 0:03:37Henry gave Catherine confiscated lands and goods in April 1540.
0:03:37 > 0:03:41What more personal gift did he give her on 18th May?
0:03:41 > 0:03:42BEEP
0:03:43 > 0:03:47- A pearl.- Well, it's a good guess, but it wasn't, actually.
0:03:47 > 0:03:51More unlikely than a pearl - sarcanet quilts or silk quilts.
0:03:51 > 0:03:55Unusual gifts. No passes, Lauren. You have 11 points.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58Thank you. APPLAUSE
0:04:03 > 0:04:06And our next contender, please.
0:04:12 > 0:04:15- And your name is?- My name's Andrew Forsyth.- Your occupation?
0:04:15 > 0:04:17- I'm a civil servant. - And your specialist subject?
0:04:17 > 0:04:21- Green Lantern comics.- Green Lantern comics for two minutes, starting now
0:04:21 > 0:04:25Name the first Green Lantern to appear in a story by Bill Finger and Martin Nodell,
0:04:25 > 0:04:28published in All American Comics in July 1940.
0:04:28 > 0:04:32- Alan Scott. - The Green Lantern Corps was formed billions of years ago
0:04:32 > 0:04:37as an intergalactic police to protect life in every form. Who created it?
0:04:37 > 0:04:39The Guardians of the Universe.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41The final chapter of Cosmic Revelations in the book of Oa
0:04:41 > 0:04:45warns of the prophecy of the Blackest Night and destruction of the Green Lantern Corps.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47What is this chapter usually called?
0:04:48 > 0:04:52- Pass.- A Green Lantern ring gives the wearer incredible powers.
0:04:52 > 0:04:56The rings are fuelled by what energy from the wearer?
0:04:57 > 0:05:01- Willpower.- The five survivors of the Massacre of Sector 666 by the Manhunters
0:05:01 > 0:05:04were dedicated to destroying the Guardians of the Universe.
0:05:04 > 0:05:07By what name are the five known?
0:05:07 > 0:05:10- Pass.- Whose first day as a Green Lantern is also his last
0:05:10 > 0:05:13when a planet he is trying to evacuate in Sector 1417
0:05:13 > 0:05:16is unexpectedly sucked into a black hole?
0:05:16 > 0:05:20- Chip.- Tarkus Whin. After fatally crashing his spaceship onto Earth,
0:05:20 > 0:05:25Abin Sur, the protector of Sector 2814 uses his ring to choose a successor.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28- Name the pilot who is selected. - Hal Jordan.
0:05:28 > 0:05:33In Secret Origin, romance between Carol Ferris and test pilot, Hal Jordan,
0:05:33 > 0:05:36is hampered because of Carol's refusal to do what?
0:05:36 > 0:05:39Er, to... er, to employ him?
0:05:39 > 0:05:41No. To date employees.
0:05:41 > 0:05:46In Green Lantern Corps Recharge, Kyle Rayner is seen with which team of superheroes
0:05:46 > 0:05:48in their watchtower, in Sector 2814?
0:05:48 > 0:05:51- The Titans. - The Justice League of America.
0:05:51 > 0:05:55In Green Lantern issue 81, after the funeral of Hal Jordan,
0:05:55 > 0:05:58what half-plant, half-human creature creates a paradise
0:05:58 > 0:06:02in the once-desolate coast city, using his mastery of plant life?
0:06:02 > 0:06:04- Medphyll.- Swamp Thing.
0:06:04 > 0:06:08During the Sinestro Corps war, the Lanterns' home base is ambushed,
0:06:08 > 0:06:13Parallax is released and Cyborg Superman is freed from jail along with which other villain?
0:06:13 > 0:06:16- The Anti-Monitor.- Superman Prime.
0:06:16 > 0:06:20As the war between the Green Lantern and Sinestro Corps reaches a climax,
0:06:20 > 0:06:23- the four Green Lanterns of Earth are told about... - BEEP
0:06:23 > 0:06:28I'll finish. Are told about the Blackest Night prophecy by two former Guardians.
0:06:28 > 0:06:30One is called Ganthet. Who is the other?
0:06:30 > 0:06:33- Sayd.- Is correct. Two passes.
0:06:33 > 0:06:38It's the Five Inversions - that's how those five survivors are known.
0:06:38 > 0:06:43And the Lost or Forbidden Chapter is the final chapter of Cosmic Revelations.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46- You have, Andrew, five points. - APPLAUSE
0:06:54 > 0:06:56And our next contender, please?
0:07:02 > 0:07:05- And your name is?- Brian Daugherty. - Your occupation?- Postman.
0:07:05 > 0:07:09- And your chosen subject? - Life and work of Robert Hooke.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11Robert Hooke in two minutes, starting now.
0:07:11 > 0:07:16Hooke was a 17thC English scientist and inventor. Name the church in Freshwater, Isle of Wight,
0:07:16 > 0:07:19where his father John was curate and where Hooke was baptised?
0:07:19 > 0:07:24- All Saints.- At 13, Hooke served apprenticeship with a Dutch painter,
0:07:24 > 0:07:28before enrolling in Westminster School. What was the painter's name?
0:07:28 > 0:07:30Peter Lely.
0:07:30 > 0:07:36What did Hooke try to show by observations of the brightest star in the constellation Draco
0:07:36 > 0:07:40taken from his lodgings in Gresham College in 1669?
0:07:40 > 0:07:42The fact that the sun is the centre of the solar system.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44Earth's motion around the sun, yes.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46Which work of 1665 has the subtitle
0:07:46 > 0:07:51"Or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses"?
0:07:51 > 0:07:53Micrographia.
0:07:53 > 0:07:56The Latin form of Hooke's law of elasticity is ut tensio sic vis,
0:07:56 > 0:07:59or the extension is proportional to the force.
0:07:59 > 0:08:04What is the alternative Latin form for "the weight is proportional to the extension"?
0:08:05 > 0:08:09- Pass.- Name the estate near Epsom, the country seat of Lord Berkeley,
0:08:09 > 0:08:14where Hooke moved in 1665 when the Great Plague broke out in London?
0:08:14 > 0:08:18- Durdans. - Hooke and Sir Isaac Newton had a long dispute over the publication
0:08:18 > 0:08:23of which mathematical law stating the relationship between gravitational force and distance?
0:08:23 > 0:08:27- The inverse square law.- Name the warden of Wadham College, Oxford
0:08:27 > 0:08:29who was an important early influence on Hooke's scientific career.
0:08:29 > 0:08:33- John Wilkins.- After observing the honeycomb structure of cork,
0:08:33 > 0:08:37what term is Hooke credited with as having introduced to biology?
0:08:37 > 0:08:40The use of the word has developed considerably.
0:08:40 > 0:08:43- Cell. - What annual salary was Hooke given
0:08:43 > 0:08:47when he was appointed as a city surveyor in 1667, after the Great Fire of London?
0:08:47 > 0:08:53- 150 pounds.- Yes. In which church in Bishopsgate was Hooke buried in March 1703?
0:08:53 > 0:08:55There was a memorial window to him in the church.
0:08:55 > 0:08:58- St Helen.- Yes. Hooke's first major scientific project
0:08:58 > 0:09:01was to help Boyle design an air pump.
0:09:01 > 0:09:06Whose earlier design did Hooke dismiss as too gross to perform any great matter?
0:09:06 > 0:09:11- Pass. - Name Hooke's niece, who came to live with him at Gresham College in 1672,
0:09:11 > 0:09:15- ..when she was 12... - BEEP - and stayed until her death in 1687.
0:09:15 > 0:09:18- She also became his mistress. - Grace.- Grace is correct.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20You had two passes.
0:09:20 > 0:09:25Greatorex was the man whose design Hooke dismissed as being too gross et cetera.
0:09:25 > 0:09:31And the alternative Latin formulation, listen carefully -
0:09:31 > 0:09:34ut pondus sic tensio.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36I thought everybody knew that(!)
0:09:36 > 0:09:40Two passes. Brian, you've got 11 points.
0:09:40 > 0:09:41APPLAUSE
0:09:46 > 0:09:49And our final contender, please.
0:09:54 > 0:09:56- And your name is?- Colin Foster.
0:09:56 > 0:09:59- Your occupation?- Accountant. - And your chosen subject?
0:09:59 > 0:10:03British Summer Olympics Medallists, 1960-2008.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06Medallists up till 2008. Two minutes, here we go.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08Which British athlete won a gold medal in the decathlon
0:10:08 > 0:10:12at the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980 and again in LA in 1984?
0:10:12 > 0:10:15- Daley Thompson. - Yes. Whose gold-medal-winning long jump in Tokyo
0:10:15 > 0:10:18was voted the greatest moment in world sporting history in 1999?
0:10:18 > 0:10:22- Lynn Davies. - In which sailing event did submarine officer Rodney Pattisson
0:10:22 > 0:10:26win gold medals in Mexico City and Munich and a silver in Montreal?
0:10:26 > 0:10:30- Flying Dutchman. - What's the surname of the couple who both won athletics medals
0:10:30 > 0:10:33in 1968 in the 400m hurdles and long jump, respectively?
0:10:33 > 0:10:36- Sherwood.- Which member of Britain's shooting team
0:10:36 > 0:10:39took part in four Olympics between '72 and '88
0:10:39 > 0:10:41and won gold at Los Angeles and Seoul
0:10:41 > 0:10:44in the small-ball rifle three positions competition?
0:10:44 > 0:10:48- Malcolm Cooper.- Yes. Rebecca Romero won gold for cycling in Beijing,
0:10:48 > 0:10:51four years after collecting a silver medal in which sport?
0:10:51 > 0:10:54- Rowing. - When she won the long jump in Tokyo,
0:10:54 > 0:10:58Mary Rand became the first British female athlete to win Olympic gold.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01- Who became the second at the same Games?- Ann Packer.
0:11:01 > 0:11:06In what event did Don Thompson win gold in Rome and Paul Nihill silver in Tokyo?
0:11:06 > 0:11:09- Britain hasn't won a medal in it since!- 50 kilometres walk.
0:11:09 > 0:11:13Who was Steve Redgrave's partner when he first won the coxswain's pairs in Seoul?
0:11:13 > 0:11:16They won bronze in the coxed pairs the next day.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19- Andy Holmes.- Name the newsagent from Stoke-on-Trent
0:11:19 > 0:11:22who scored two of Britain's goals when they beat West Germany 3-1,
0:11:22 > 0:11:24in the final of the men's hockey in Seoul?
0:11:24 > 0:11:27- Imran Sherwani.- In 1980,
0:11:27 > 0:11:32who became Britain's first 100m gold medallist since Harold Abrahams in 1924?
0:11:32 > 0:11:35At 28, he was the oldest winner of the event at the time.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38- Alan Wells.- Name the horse that Pippa Funnell rode
0:11:38 > 0:11:42to win individual bronze and team silver in the three-day event in Athens.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45- Sunsalve.- Primmore's Pride.
0:11:45 > 0:11:49In '96, who partnered Neil Broad to the silver in the men's doubles tennis in Atlanta?
0:11:49 > 0:11:54It was Britain's first medal in tennis since it was reintroduced to the Olympics in 1988
0:11:54 > 0:11:58- Tim Henman.- Whose bronze medal on the pommel horse in Beijing
0:11:58 > 0:12:00made him the first British gymnast to win an individual medal
0:12:00 > 0:12:03since Walter Tyzel in 1908?
0:12:03 > 0:12:04- Smith.- Louis Smith.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07- 17-year-old Amir Khan was the only.. - BLEEP
0:12:07 > 0:12:09..British boxer to compete in Athens.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11In which weight division did he win the silver medal?
0:12:11 > 0:12:14- Lightweight.- Is correct.
0:12:14 > 0:12:17No passes. Colin, you've leapt into the lead with 14.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19APPLAUSE
0:12:27 > 0:12:31So, that's the end of the first round. Let's look at all the scores.
0:12:31 > 0:12:34In fourth place, with five points, Andrew Forsyth.
0:12:34 > 0:12:38Joint second place, 11 points - Lauren White and Brian Daugherty.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41In the lead, 14 points - Colin Foster.
0:12:41 > 0:12:42APPLAUSE
0:12:46 > 0:12:49So it is the general knowledge round now.
0:12:49 > 0:12:53If there's a tie, the number of passes is taken into account,
0:12:53 > 0:12:55and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.
0:12:55 > 0:12:59If they've tied on passes as well, there is a tie break.
0:12:59 > 0:13:04And, by the way, the six highest-scoring runners up will claim a place in the semifinal.
0:13:04 > 0:13:09So, plenty to play for. Let's get on and ask Andrew to join us again, please.
0:13:11 > 0:13:16And, er... You chose a big subject with your specialist round.
0:13:16 > 0:13:19You got five points. Let's see how you do with your general knowledge.
0:13:19 > 0:13:21Two and a half minutes, starting now
0:13:21 > 0:13:24Who wrote and played the title role in the Rocky films?
0:13:24 > 0:13:25Sylvester Stallone.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28In 2013, the skeleton of Richard the Third was found
0:13:28 > 0:13:30under a council car park in which English city?
0:13:30 > 0:13:34- Leicester.- What blend of tea, named after a British statesman,
0:13:34 > 0:13:36is flavoured with oil of bergamot, a small acidic orange?
0:13:36 > 0:13:40- Earl Grey.- Alain Delon, Terence Stamp and Rita Tushingham
0:13:40 > 0:13:43have all appeared on the sleeves of records by which Manchester band?
0:13:43 > 0:13:46- The Smiths. - Name the metaphysical poet
0:13:46 > 0:13:50whose work The Canonisation begins "For God's sake, hold your tongue and let me love"?
0:13:50 > 0:13:56- Pass.- What word for a person who introduces and links items of entertainment
0:13:56 > 0:13:59comes from an old French term for a godfather or companion?
0:13:59 > 0:14:02- Pass.- Which port on Tokyo bay was only a small village
0:14:02 > 0:14:06when Matthew C Perry arrived there in 1854 with his American warships
0:14:06 > 0:14:09but has become one of Japan's largest cities?
0:14:09 > 0:14:11- Tokyo.- Yokohama.
0:14:11 > 0:14:15Which hymn with words by William Blake and music by Hubert Parry
0:14:15 > 0:14:17is traditionally sung at the Last Night of the Proms?
0:14:17 > 0:14:20- Pomp and Circumstance.- Jerusalem. What is the Greek name
0:14:20 > 0:14:26of the ancient Egyptian capital, covering Karnaka and Luxor and the Valley of the Kings?
0:14:26 > 0:14:27- Cairo.- Thebes.
0:14:27 > 0:14:32The coastal area of which Welsh county was designated a national park in 1952?
0:14:32 > 0:14:33Pembrokeshire.
0:14:33 > 0:14:38Name the programme of modernisation of agriculture and industry
0:14:38 > 0:14:40undertaken by the Chinese Communist Party in the '50s and early '60s?
0:14:40 > 0:14:43- The Cultural Revolution. - The Great Leap Forward.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45Which comedy actor appeared in two series of Blackadder
0:14:45 > 0:14:49- as the dashing Lord Flashheart? - Rick Mayall.
0:14:49 > 0:14:53At Lord's, what name is given to the bowling end opposite the pavilion,
0:14:53 > 0:14:59because in 1877 the MCC bought some acres of cultivated land from a Mr Henderson?
0:14:59 > 0:15:01- Henderson's End?- The Nursery End.
0:15:01 > 0:15:05In which 1984 film does Arnold Schwarzenegger first use the catchphrase "I'll be back"?
0:15:05 > 0:15:10- The Terminator.- Which soldier is remembered for his purge of Presbyterians and Royalists
0:15:10 > 0:15:14from the House of Commons in 1648 during the English Civil Wars?
0:15:14 > 0:15:16- Cromwell.- Thomas Pride.
0:15:16 > 0:15:21Whose 1991 artwork, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living,
0:15:21 > 0:15:23consists of a tiger shark in formaldehyde?
0:15:23 > 0:15:25Damien Hirst.
0:15:25 > 0:15:30Which chemical element, whose isotope 90 is a major health hazard in radioactive fallout,
0:15:30 > 0:15:33is named after the village in west Scotland where it was found in 1790?
0:15:33 > 0:15:37- Strontium.- Which large beetle that breeds in rotting timber
0:15:37 > 0:15:40gets its name from the male's antler-like jaws?
0:15:40 > 0:15:44- Stag beetle. - In Arabian legend, name the sailor
0:15:44 > 0:15:47who finds the Valley of Diamonds and Egg of the Monstrous Rock.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49- Aladdin.- Sinbad.
0:15:49 > 0:15:51The end credits of the BBC comedy series "Extras" featured
0:15:51 > 0:15:54- BEEP - ..the song "Tea for the Tillerman",
0:15:54 > 0:15:56by which British singer-songwriter?
0:15:56 > 0:16:00- Alison Moyet.- Cat Stevens. But it might've been Alison Moyet.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03You had two passes. You'll kick yourself for this -
0:16:03 > 0:16:06the compere is the person who introduces... you know, all that.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09And John Dunn was that great metaphysical poet.
0:16:09 > 0:16:12You score has gone up now, Andrew, to 15.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14APPLAUSE
0:16:21 > 0:16:23And now, Lauren White again, please.
0:16:25 > 0:16:30And you begin this round with 11 points with your knowledge of Catherine Howard.
0:16:30 > 0:16:34And let's see how you do with your general knowledge.
0:16:34 > 0:16:36Two and a half minutes, starting now.
0:16:36 > 0:16:40Whose first novel for adults, published in 2012, was called The Casual Vacancy?
0:16:40 > 0:16:42J K Rowling.
0:16:42 > 0:16:46The name of which political party translates into English as "party of Wales"?
0:16:46 > 0:16:48Plaid Cymru.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51Which anise-flavoured Italian liqueur is served with coffee beans
0:16:51 > 0:16:54and sometimes set alight for effect?
0:16:54 > 0:16:56Sambuca.
0:16:56 > 0:17:00Name the temple of all the gods in Rome that was completely rebuilt
0:17:00 > 0:17:03between 118 and 128 AD, during the reign of Hadrian.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05- Parthenon.- The Pantheon.
0:17:05 > 0:17:10Which song by Coldplay, a top-ten hit in 2003 was voted the best song of the previous 10 years
0:17:10 > 0:17:13by listeners to Radio 6 Music in 2013?
0:17:13 > 0:17:15- The Scientist.- Clocks.
0:17:15 > 0:17:19Which scaly insect, whose name comes from its grey colour,
0:17:19 > 0:17:23often forages in bathrooms and kitchens, but can live without food for a year?
0:17:23 > 0:17:25Silverfish.
0:17:25 > 0:17:29In astrology, what sign is represented by a centaur with a bow and arrow?
0:17:29 > 0:17:33- Sagittarius.- In 1903, the trade unionist and pacifist,
0:17:33 > 0:17:38Sir Randolph Cremer, became the first British winner of which prestigious international award?
0:17:38 > 0:17:41- The Nobel Peace Prize.- Which comedy, set on a Manchester housing estate,
0:17:41 > 0:17:46launched the careers of Anne-Marie Duff, Maxine Peake and James McAvoy?
0:17:46 > 0:17:47Shameless.
0:17:47 > 0:17:49Who won a fourth Ballon d'Or
0:17:49 > 0:17:52as World Footballer of the Year in January 2013?
0:17:52 > 0:17:56- Lionel Messi.- Which loch at the north-eastern end of the Great Glen
0:17:56 > 0:18:00contains the largest volume of fresh water of any lake in Great Britain?
0:18:00 > 0:18:06- Pass. - In which Shakespeare play does Antigonus abandon the infant Perdita
0:18:06 > 0:18:10before following the stage direction "Exit pursued by a bear"?
0:18:10 > 0:18:12- Richard the Third. - The Winter's Tale.
0:18:12 > 0:18:16On Twitter, usernames appear with what symbol before the name?
0:18:16 > 0:18:20- At.- Which opera with music and libretto by Leoncavallo
0:18:20 > 0:18:23has a name meaning "The Strolling Players" or "Clowns"?
0:18:23 > 0:18:29- Pass.- An isohel is a line on a map connecting places that receive equal amounts of what?
0:18:29 > 0:18:30Sunlight.
0:18:30 > 0:18:34Which film that has been made into a musical tells of Elle Woods,
0:18:34 > 0:18:38a sorority girl who goes to Harvard Law School to win back her ex-boyfriend?
0:18:38 > 0:18:40Legally Blonde.
0:18:40 > 0:18:45The Hall of Mirrors, the Orangerie and the Grand Trianon feature in which palace?
0:18:45 > 0:18:47- Versailles.- In Greek mythology,
0:18:47 > 0:18:50name the sorceress who turned Odysseus' companions into pigs.
0:18:50 > 0:18:52She was the daughter of Helios.
0:18:52 > 0:18:55- Pass.- Which ballet star was born on a train
0:18:55 > 0:18:59on the Trans-Siberian railway near Lake Baikal in March 1938?
0:18:59 > 0:19:01He defected to the West in 1961?
0:19:02 > 0:19:06- Pass. - What word for supplementary text at the end of a book...
0:19:06 > 0:19:09- BEEP - ..or other publication comes from the Latin for "to add"?
0:19:09 > 0:19:13- Appendices. - No, it's addendum or addenda.
0:19:13 > 0:19:18But you were close. You had four passes. Nureyev was the ballet star.
0:19:18 > 0:19:23The name of the sorceress who turned Odysseus' companions into pigs was Circe.
0:19:23 > 0:19:27I Pagliacci is the strolling players, or clowns, if you prefer.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30And you WILL be cross about this, because that loch...
0:19:30 > 0:19:34- I mean, think of any old loch. - Ness!- It's always worth a guess.
0:19:34 > 0:19:40- So those are your passes, but you have, Lauren, a total of 23 points. - Thank you.
0:19:40 > 0:19:41APPLAUSE
0:19:46 > 0:19:49And Brian Daugherty again, please.
0:19:49 > 0:19:52And you also start with 11 points,
0:19:52 > 0:19:55with your knowledge of the scientist, Robert Hooke.
0:19:55 > 0:19:5823 is the score to beat.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01Two and a half minutes for your general knowledge - here we go.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04Jim Hawkins is the narrator of which story by Robert Louis Stevenson?
0:20:04 > 0:20:10- Treasure Island. - The TV series The Likely Lads and its sequel were set in which city?
0:20:10 > 0:20:14- Newcastle.- Name the cold, dry wind that blows down the Rhone valley
0:20:14 > 0:20:17and south coast of France in winter and spring?
0:20:17 > 0:20:18- Sirocco.- The Mistral.
0:20:18 > 0:20:22Which Labour politician was defeated by Hugh Gaitskell
0:20:22 > 0:20:25in the 1955 leadership election?
0:20:25 > 0:20:27- Bevan.- Which prestigious American university
0:20:27 > 0:20:30is named after the son of the railroad magnate
0:20:30 > 0:20:34on whose land at Palo Alto it was established in 1885?
0:20:34 > 0:20:35- Vanderbilt.- Stanford.
0:20:35 > 0:20:41Who composed the music for the ballets Billy The Kid, Rodeo and Appalacian Spring?
0:20:41 > 0:20:45- Copeland.- Which Greek philosopher founded the Academy in Athens,
0:20:45 > 0:20:48for philosophical and scientific research, in 387 BC?
0:20:48 > 0:20:50- Aristotle.- Plato.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53The first novel to feature which character opens with the line
0:20:53 > 0:20:57"The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning"?
0:20:57 > 0:21:01- Pass. - What adjective describing informal or idiomatic speech
0:21:01 > 0:21:04comes from the Latin for conversation?
0:21:04 > 0:21:07- Patois.- Colloquial.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10Which snooker player whose nicknames include the "Essex Exocet"
0:21:10 > 0:21:14beat John Higgins to become world champion for the first time in 2001?
0:21:14 > 0:21:18- Pass. - Which element has the highest melting point of any metal?
0:21:18 > 0:21:21One of its first uses was in incandescent lamp filaments.
0:21:21 > 0:21:26- Tungsten.- What archaic word for a serving of semi-liquid foods, such as soup,
0:21:26 > 0:21:32relates to the portion of potage for which Esau sold his birthright in the Book of Genesis?
0:21:32 > 0:21:35- Pass. - Which song, that gave Elvis Presley his first UK chart hit,
0:21:35 > 0:21:38begins "Well, bless my soul, what's wrong with me?"
0:21:38 > 0:21:41"I'm itchin' like a man on a fuzzy tree"?
0:21:42 > 0:21:47- Pass. - Which 1951 Hitchcock film, based on a Patricia Highsmith novel
0:21:47 > 0:21:50has its climatic scene in an amusement park?
0:21:50 > 0:21:53- Pass. - In what year was Decimal Day,
0:21:53 > 0:21:56when new coinage was officially introduced in Britain?
0:21:56 > 0:22:00- Sorry, did you say what day? - In what year?- '71.
0:22:00 > 0:22:05The sable belongs to the family of mammals that includes the stoat, wolverine and badger.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07What's the family called?
0:22:07 > 0:22:09- Ermine.- Weasel.
0:22:09 > 0:22:14Which reclusive aviator and filmmaker built a flying boat known as the Spruce Goose?
0:22:14 > 0:22:17He piloted it on its only flight in 1947.
0:22:17 > 0:22:21- Howard Hughes. - Which Lancashire town once had old coal-mining slag heaps
0:22:22 > 0:22:25known as the Alps or the Three Sisters?
0:22:26 > 0:22:32- Accrington.- Wigan. What colour is at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum?
0:22:32 > 0:22:34- BEEP Violet.- Red is the answer.
0:22:34 > 0:22:40You had five passes. Strangers On A Train - that was the '51 Hitchcock film.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43I'm All Shook Up was the Presley song.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46Mess is that archaic word for semi-liquid food.
0:22:46 > 0:22:50Ronnie O'Sullivan was the Essex Exocet.
0:22:50 > 0:22:55And that first novel - it was James Bond, 007.
0:22:56 > 0:22:58You have, Brian, 18 points.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00APPLAUSE
0:23:06 > 0:23:09And finally, Colin Foster again, please.
0:23:11 > 0:23:13And you already have 14 points.
0:23:13 > 0:23:1623 is the score to beat.
0:23:16 > 0:23:18Let's see if you can do it with your general knowledge.
0:23:18 > 0:23:21What do the letters AI stand for in computer science?
0:23:21 > 0:23:22Artificial intelligence.
0:23:22 > 0:23:26Which pizza, named after a queen of Italy,
0:23:26 > 0:23:28has the colours of the Italian flag - red, white and green?
0:23:28 > 0:23:31- Margherita. - In 1798, who wrote the poem
0:23:31 > 0:23:35A Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour?
0:23:35 > 0:23:39- Pope.- Wordsworth. The American outlaw Harry Longbaugh had what nickname?
0:23:39 > 0:23:44- Calam...- It was from a town in Wyoming where he went to jail for stealing a horse.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46- Buffalo Bill.- The Sundance Kid.
0:23:46 > 0:23:51Who held the offices of Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary,
0:23:51 > 0:23:54before succeeding Harold Wilson as Prime Minister in 1976?
0:23:54 > 0:23:56Jim Callaghan.
0:23:56 > 0:24:00At which Glasgow police station are the officers in TV series Taggart based?
0:24:00 > 0:24:01Maryhill.
0:24:01 > 0:24:05What surname was shared by 19thC French painters Henri and Theodore,
0:24:05 > 0:24:07though they were not related?
0:24:07 > 0:24:09- Matisse.- Rousseau.
0:24:09 > 0:24:13Which king of Wessex became king of all England, except for areas under Danish rule,
0:24:13 > 0:24:16when he captured London in 886?
0:24:16 > 0:24:17Alfred.
0:24:17 > 0:24:20Eric Morecambe was a director of which football club in the '70s?
0:24:20 > 0:24:24A suite is named after him at the Kenilworth Road ground.
0:24:24 > 0:24:28- Luton Town.- Name the world's first industrial-scale nuclear power station,
0:24:28 > 0:24:32which opened in Britain in 1956, adjacent to Windscale.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35- Sellafield.- Calder Hall.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Which American bandmaster wrote the marches
0:24:37 > 0:24:40The Stars And Stripes Forever and The Washington Post?
0:24:40 > 0:24:43- Sousa.- What word of Tamil origin,
0:24:43 > 0:24:47the name of a lower Indian caste, is now used for any social outcast?
0:24:47 > 0:24:49- Parsi.- Pariah.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52Pied, grey and yellow are species of which bird
0:24:52 > 0:24:55whose name comes from the constant movement of its tail?
0:24:55 > 0:24:57Wagtail.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00The greatest part of which American state lies on a peninsula
0:25:00 > 0:25:04with the Gulf of Mexico on the west and the Atlantic on the east?
0:25:04 > 0:25:08- Florida.- Whose novel Midnight's Children, about post-colonial India,
0:25:08 > 0:25:12won the 1981 Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker award in 2008?
0:25:12 > 0:25:16- Salman Rushdie. - Which four-stringed guitar was developed in Hawaii,
0:25:16 > 0:25:20from a Portuguese instrument brought there in the 1870s?
0:25:20 > 0:25:25- Ukelele. - In which '87 Kubrick film did the Beckton gasworks in London
0:25:25 > 0:25:28double for the Vietnamese city of Hue
0:25:28 > 0:25:30and the Isle of Dogs stand in for Da Nang?
0:25:30 > 0:25:35- Full Metal Jacket.- In the Bible, who led the Israelites, after the death of Moses?
0:25:35 > 0:25:37- Aaron.- Joshua.
0:25:37 > 0:25:41Victoria Glendinning's biography Raffles and the Golden Opportunity
0:25:41 > 0:25:44describes the meeting between Raffles and which exiled emperor
0:25:44 > 0:25:48in 1816 on an island in the South Atlantic?
0:25:48 > 0:25:50- Jahan. BEEP - No, Napoleon.
0:25:50 > 0:25:54Colin, no passes. 26 points.
0:25:54 > 0:25:55APPLAUSE
0:26:04 > 0:26:07So, a clear victor. Let's have a look at the scores.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10In fourth place, 15 points, Andrew Forsyth.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12Third place, 18 points, Brian Daugherty.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15Second place, climbing up,
0:26:15 > 0:26:1723 points, Lauren White, but it wasn't enough.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20In first place, 26 points, Colin Foster.
0:26:20 > 0:26:22APPLAUSE
0:26:29 > 0:26:34Which means Colin Foster is tonight's winner and goes through to the semifinals.
0:26:34 > 0:26:38Congratulations to him, commiserations to Lauren White,
0:26:38 > 0:26:42but with 23, it's possible we'll see her in the semifinals.
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