Episode 2 Mastermind

First in the spotlight tonight is Lauren White from Beckley.

Her specialist subject is Catherine Howard.

Next, Andrew Forsyth, a civil servant from Belfast.

He'll be answering questions on the Green Lantern comics.

Brian Daugherty is a postman from Portsmouth

and he'll be answering questions on the 17thC scientist Robert Hooke.

And Colin Foster, an accountant from Warrington,

and his subject - British Summer Olympic medallists.

APPLAUSE

Hello and welcome to Mastermind, with me, John Humphrys.

Tonight, four contenders take what they hope will be their first step

towards the Grand Final, where they could win this glass bowl,

and, infinitely more importantly, the title of Mastermind.

The rules are the same as ever - two minutes on their specialist subject,

then two and a half minutes on general knowledge.

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

-And your name is?

-Lauren White.

-Your occupation?

-Homemaker.

-And your chosen subject?

-Catherine Howard.

-Catherine Howard - two minutes, starting now.

Catherine married Henry the Eighth on 28th July 1540 at which palace near Weybridge?

-Oatlands.

-Yes. On the same day,

one of Henry's advisers, who had been made Earl of Essex, was executed. What was his name?

Thomas Cromwell.

While Catherine was living with her step-grandmother, Agnes Dowager Duchess of Norfolk,

she had a relationship with her music tutor. What was his name?

-Henry Mannox.

-Stephen Gardiner was the bishop

who enabled Henry to divorce Anne of Cleves and marry Catherine.

Of which see was he the bishop?

-York.

-Winchester. What was the name of the French ambassador

whose writings are the source of much information about Catherine?

Marillac.

Francis Dearham, Catherine's lover whilst she was living at Horsham,

was arrested in 1540 for interrogation about their relationship.

On what charge was he arrested?

-Treason.

-No, piracy.

Name Catherine's cousin, who unwisely kept an affectionate letter from her,

which played a key role in her downfall and his own.

Thomas Culpeper.

Henry and Catherine entered which city on 18th September 1541,

where Henry had arranged to meet King James the Fifth of Scotland?

York.

To which former monastery was Catherine taken in November 1541,

after she and her associates were charged with treason?

-Sion.

-Who informed Archbishop Cranmer

about Catherine's youthful indiscretions?

He learned of them from his sister, a bedfellow of Catherine's at the Dowager's home.

-John Laskells.

-Lascelles, yes.

Catherine's uncle, also uncle to Ann Boleyn

was third duke of which English county?

-Norfolk.

-What is the type of Act of Parliament called

by which Henry proceeded against Catherine in 1542?

No defence was possible against such an Act.

Act of Attainder.

Name Queen Catherine's lady of the privy chamber,

the sister-in-law of Ann Boleyn and executed with Catherine,

for acting as a go-between.

-Lady Rochester. Jane Parker.

-Lady Jane Rochford, but Jane Parker, yes.

Henry gave Catherine confiscated lands and goods in April 1540.

What more personal gift did he give her on 18th May?

BEEP

-A pearl.

-Well, it's a good guess, but it wasn't, actually.

More unlikely than a pearl - sarcanet quilts or silk quilts.

Unusual gifts. No passes, Lauren. You have 11 points.

Thank you. APPLAUSE

And our next contender, please.

-And your name is?

-My name's Andrew Forsyth.

-Your occupation?

-I'm a civil servant.

-And your specialist subject?

-Green Lantern comics.

-Green Lantern comics for two minutes, starting now

Name the first Green Lantern to appear in a story by Bill Finger and Martin Nodell,

published in All American Comics in July 1940.

-Alan Scott.

-The Green Lantern Corps was formed billions of years ago

as an intergalactic police to protect life in every form. Who created it?

The Guardians of the Universe.

The final chapter of Cosmic Revelations in the book of Oa

warns of the prophecy of the Blackest Night and destruction of the Green Lantern Corps.

What is this chapter usually called?

-Pass.

-A Green Lantern ring gives the wearer incredible powers.

The rings are fuelled by what energy from the wearer?

-Willpower.

-The five survivors of the Massacre of Sector 666 by the Manhunters

were dedicated to destroying the Guardians of the Universe.

By what name are the five known?

-Pass.

-Whose first day as a Green Lantern is also his last

when a planet he is trying to evacuate in Sector 1417

is unexpectedly sucked into a black hole?

-Chip.

-Tarkus Whin. After fatally crashing his spaceship onto Earth,

Abin Sur, the protector of Sector 2814 uses his ring to choose a successor.

-Name the pilot who is selected.

-Hal Jordan.

In Secret Origin, romance between Carol Ferris and test pilot, Hal Jordan,

is hampered because of Carol's refusal to do what?

Er, to... er, to employ him?

No. To date employees.

In Green Lantern Corps Recharge, Kyle Rayner is seen with which team of superheroes

in their watchtower, in Sector 2814?

-The Titans.

-The Justice League of America.

In Green Lantern issue 81, after the funeral of Hal Jordan,

what half-plant, half-human creature creates a paradise

in the once-desolate coast city, using his mastery of plant life?

-Medphyll.

-Swamp Thing.

During the Sinestro Corps war, the Lanterns' home base is ambushed,

Parallax is released and Cyborg Superman is freed from jail along with which other villain?

-The Anti-Monitor.

-Superman Prime.

As the war between the Green Lantern and Sinestro Corps reaches a climax,

-the four Green Lanterns of Earth are told about...

-BEEP

I'll finish. Are told about the Blackest Night prophecy by two former Guardians.

One is called Ganthet. Who is the other?

-Sayd.

-Is correct. Two passes.

It's the Five Inversions - that's how those five survivors are known.

And the Lost or Forbidden Chapter is the final chapter of Cosmic Revelations.

-You have, Andrew, five points.

-APPLAUSE

And our next contender, please?

-And your name is?

-Brian Daugherty.

-Your occupation?

-Postman.

-And your chosen subject?

-Life and work of Robert Hooke.

Robert Hooke in two minutes, starting now.

Hooke was a 17thC English scientist and inventor. Name the church in Freshwater, Isle of Wight,

where his father John was curate and where Hooke was baptised?

-All Saints.

-At 13, Hooke served apprenticeship with a Dutch painter,

before enrolling in Westminster School. What was the painter's name?

Peter Lely.

What did Hooke try to show by observations of the brightest star in the constellation Draco

taken from his lodgings in Gresham College in 1669?

The fact that the sun is the centre of the solar system.

Earth's motion around the sun, yes.

Which work of 1665 has the subtitle

"Or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses"?

Micrographia.

The Latin form of Hooke's law of elasticity is ut tensio sic vis,

or the extension is proportional to the force.

What is the alternative Latin form for "the weight is proportional to the extension"?

-Pass.

-Name the estate near Epsom, the country seat of Lord Berkeley,

where Hooke moved in 1665 when the Great Plague broke out in London?

-Durdans.

-Hooke and Sir Isaac Newton had a long dispute over the publication

of which mathematical law stating the relationship between gravitational force and distance?

-The inverse square law.

-Name the warden of Wadham College, Oxford

who was an important early influence on Hooke's scientific career.

-John Wilkins.

-After observing the honeycomb structure of cork,

what term is Hooke credited with as having introduced to biology?

The use of the word has developed considerably.

-Cell.

-What annual salary was Hooke given

when he was appointed as a city surveyor in 1667, after the Great Fire of London?

-150 pounds.

-Yes. In which church in Bishopsgate was Hooke buried in March 1703?

There was a memorial window to him in the church.

-St Helen.

-Yes. Hooke's first major scientific project

was to help Boyle design an air pump.

Whose earlier design did Hooke dismiss as too gross to perform any great matter?

-Pass.

-Name Hooke's niece, who came to live with him at Gresham College in 1672,

-..when she was 12...

-BEEP

-and stayed until her death in 1687.

-She also became his mistress.

-Grace.

-Grace is correct.

You had two passes.

Greatorex was the man whose design Hooke dismissed as being too gross et cetera.

And the alternative Latin formulation, listen carefully -

ut pondus sic tensio.

I thought everybody knew that(!)

Two passes. Brian, you've got 11 points.

APPLAUSE

And our final contender, please.

-And your name is?

-Colin Foster.

-Your occupation?

-Accountant.

-And your chosen subject?

British Summer Olympics Medallists, 1960-2008.

Medallists up till 2008. Two minutes, here we go.

Which British athlete won a gold medal in the decathlon

at the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980 and again in LA in 1984?

-Daley Thompson.

-Yes. Whose gold-medal-winning long jump in Tokyo

was voted the greatest moment in world sporting history in 1999?

-Lynn Davies.

-In which sailing event did submarine officer Rodney Pattisson

win gold medals in Mexico City and Munich and a silver in Montreal?

-Flying Dutchman.

-What's the surname of the couple who both won athletics medals

in 1968 in the 400m hurdles and long jump, respectively?

-Sherwood.

-Which member of Britain's shooting team

took part in four Olympics between '72 and '88

and won gold at Los Angeles and Seoul

in the small-ball rifle three positions competition?

-Malcolm Cooper.

-Yes. Rebecca Romero won gold for cycling in Beijing,

four years after collecting a silver medal in which sport?

-Rowing.

-When she won the long jump in Tokyo,

Mary Rand became the first British female athlete to win Olympic gold.

-Who became the second at the same Games?

-Ann Packer.

In what event did Don Thompson win gold in Rome and Paul Nihill silver in Tokyo?

-Britain hasn't won a medal in it since!

-50 kilometres walk.

Who was Steve Redgrave's partner when he first won the coxswain's pairs in Seoul?

They won bronze in the coxed pairs the next day.

-Andy Holmes.

-Name the newsagent from Stoke-on-Trent

who scored two of Britain's goals when they beat West Germany 3-1,

in the final of the men's hockey in Seoul?

-Imran Sherwani.

-In 1980,

who became Britain's first 100m gold medallist since Harold Abrahams in 1924?

At 28, he was the oldest winner of the event at the time.

-Alan Wells.

-Name the horse that Pippa Funnell rode

to win individual bronze and team silver in the three-day event in Athens.

-Sunsalve.

-Primmore's Pride.

In '96, who partnered Neil Broad to the silver in the men's doubles tennis in Atlanta?

It was Britain's first medal in tennis since it was reintroduced to the Olympics in 1988

-Tim Henman.

-Whose bronze medal on the pommel horse in Beijing

made him the first British gymnast to win an individual medal

since Walter Tyzel in 1908?

-Smith.

-Louis Smith.

-17-year-old Amir Khan was the only..

-BLEEP

..British boxer to compete in Athens.

In which weight division did he win the silver medal?

-Lightweight.

-Is correct.

No passes. Colin, you've leapt into the lead with 14.

APPLAUSE

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

In fourth place, with five points, Andrew Forsyth.

Joint second place, 11 points - Lauren White and Brian Daugherty.

In the lead, 14 points - Colin Foster.

APPLAUSE

So it is the general knowledge round now.

If there's a tie, the number of passes is taken into account,

and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.

If they've tied on passes as well, there is a tie break.

And, by the way, the six highest-scoring runners up will claim a place in the semifinal.

So, plenty to play for. Let's get on and ask Andrew to join us again, please.

And, er... You chose a big subject with your specialist round.

You got five points. Let's see how you do with your general knowledge.

Two and a half minutes, starting now

Who wrote and played the title role in the Rocky films?

Sylvester Stallone.

In 2013, the skeleton of Richard the Third was found

under a council car park in which English city?

-Leicester.

-What blend of tea, named after a British statesman,

is flavoured with oil of bergamot, a small acidic orange?

-Earl Grey.

-Alain Delon, Terence Stamp and Rita Tushingham

have all appeared on the sleeves of records by which Manchester band?

-The Smiths.

-Name the metaphysical poet

whose work The Canonisation begins "For God's sake, hold your tongue and let me love"?

-Pass.

-What word for a person who introduces and links items of entertainment

comes from an old French term for a godfather or companion?

-Pass.

-Which port on Tokyo bay was only a small village

when Matthew C Perry arrived there in 1854 with his American warships

but has become one of Japan's largest cities?

-Tokyo.

-Yokohama.

Which hymn with words by William Blake and music by Hubert Parry

is traditionally sung at the Last Night of the Proms?

-Pomp and Circumstance.

-Jerusalem. What is the Greek name

of the ancient Egyptian capital, covering Karnaka and Luxor and the Valley of the Kings?

-Cairo.

-Thebes.

The coastal area of which Welsh county was designated a national park in 1952?

Pembrokeshire.

Name the programme of modernisation of agriculture and industry

undertaken by the Chinese Communist Party in the '50s and early '60s?

-The Cultural Revolution.

-The Great Leap Forward.

Which comedy actor appeared in two series of Blackadder

-as the dashing Lord Flashheart?

-Rick Mayall.

At Lord's, what name is given to the bowling end opposite the pavilion,

because in 1877 the MCC bought some acres of cultivated land from a Mr Henderson?

-Henderson's End?

-The Nursery End.

In which 1984 film does Arnold Schwarzenegger first use the catchphrase "I'll be back"?

-The Terminator.

-Which soldier is remembered for his purge of Presbyterians and Royalists

from the House of Commons in 1648 during the English Civil Wars?

-Cromwell.

-Thomas Pride.

Whose 1991 artwork, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living,

consists of a tiger shark in formaldehyde?

Damien Hirst.

Which chemical element, whose isotope 90 is a major health hazard in radioactive fallout,

is named after the village in west Scotland where it was found in 1790?

-Strontium.

-Which large beetle that breeds in rotting timber

gets its name from the male's antler-like jaws?

-Stag beetle.

-In Arabian legend, name the sailor

who finds the Valley of Diamonds and Egg of the Monstrous Rock.

-Aladdin.

-Sinbad.

The end credits of the BBC comedy series "Extras" featured

-BEEP

-..the song "Tea for the Tillerman",

by which British singer-songwriter?

-Alison Moyet.

-Cat Stevens. But it might've been Alison Moyet.

You had two passes. You'll kick yourself for this -

the compere is the person who introduces... you know, all that.

And John Dunn was that great metaphysical poet.

You score has gone up now, Andrew, to 15.

APPLAUSE

And now, Lauren White again, please.

And you begin this round with 11 points with your knowledge of Catherine Howard.

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

Two and a half minutes, starting now.

Whose first novel for adults, published in 2012, was called The Casual Vacancy?

J K Rowling.

The name of which political party translates into English as "party of Wales"?

Plaid Cymru.

Which anise-flavoured Italian liqueur is served with coffee beans

and sometimes set alight for effect?

Sambuca.

Name the temple of all the gods in Rome that was completely rebuilt

between 118 and 128 AD, during the reign of Hadrian.

-Parthenon.

-The Pantheon.

Which song by Coldplay, a top-ten hit in 2003 was voted the best song of the previous 10 years

by listeners to Radio 6 Music in 2013?

-The Scientist.

-Clocks.

Which scaly insect, whose name comes from its grey colour,

often forages in bathrooms and kitchens, but can live without food for a year?

Silverfish.

In astrology, what sign is represented by a centaur with a bow and arrow?

-Sagittarius.

-In 1903, the trade unionist and pacifist,

Sir Randolph Cremer, became the first British winner of which prestigious international award?

-The Nobel Peace Prize.

-Which comedy, set on a Manchester housing estate,

launched the careers of Anne-Marie Duff, Maxine Peake and James McAvoy?

Shameless.

Who won a fourth Ballon d'Or

as World Footballer of the Year in January 2013?

-Lionel Messi.

-Which loch at the north-eastern end of the Great Glen

contains the largest volume of fresh water of any lake in Great Britain?

-Pass.

-In which Shakespeare play does Antigonus abandon the infant Perdita

before following the stage direction "Exit pursued by a bear"?

-Richard the Third.

-The Winter's Tale.

On Twitter, usernames appear with what symbol before the name?

-At.

-Which opera with music and libretto by Leoncavallo

has a name meaning "The Strolling Players" or "Clowns"?

-Pass.

-An isohel is a line on a map connecting places that receive equal amounts of what?

Sunlight.

Which film that has been made into a musical tells of Elle Woods,

a sorority girl who goes to Harvard Law School to win back her ex-boyfriend?

Legally Blonde.

The Hall of Mirrors, the Orangerie and the Grand Trianon feature in which palace?

-Versailles.

-In Greek mythology,

name the sorceress who turned Odysseus' companions into pigs.

She was the daughter of Helios.

-Pass.

-Which ballet star was born on a train

on the Trans-Siberian railway near Lake Baikal in March 1938?

He defected to the West in 1961?

-Pass.

-What word for supplementary text at the end of a book...

-BEEP

-..or other publication comes from the Latin for "to add"?

-Appendices.

-No, it's addendum or addenda.

But you were close. You had four passes. Nureyev was the ballet star.

The name of the sorceress who turned Odysseus' companions into pigs was Circe.

I Pagliacci is the strolling players, or clowns, if you prefer.

And you WILL be cross about this, because that loch...

-I mean, think of any old loch.

-Ness!

-It's always worth a guess.

-So those are your passes, but you have, Lauren, a total of 23 points.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

And Brian Daugherty again, please.

And you also start with 11 points,

with your knowledge of the scientist, Robert Hooke.

23 is the score to beat.

Two and a half minutes for your general knowledge - here we go.

Jim Hawkins is the narrator of which story by Robert Louis Stevenson?

-Treasure Island.

-The TV series The Likely Lads and its sequel were set in which city?

-Newcastle.

-Name the cold, dry wind that blows down the Rhone valley

and south coast of France in winter and spring?

-Sirocco.

-The Mistral.

Which Labour politician was defeated by Hugh Gaitskell

in the 1955 leadership election?

-Bevan.

-Which prestigious American university

is named after the son of the railroad magnate

on whose land at Palo Alto it was established in 1885?

-Vanderbilt.

-Stanford.

Who composed the music for the ballets Billy The Kid, Rodeo and Appalacian Spring?

-Copeland.

-Which Greek philosopher founded the Academy in Athens,

for philosophical and scientific research, in 387 BC?

-Aristotle.

-Plato.

The first novel to feature which character opens with the line

"The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning"?

-Pass.

-What adjective describing informal or idiomatic speech

comes from the Latin for conversation?

-Patois.

-Colloquial.

Which snooker player whose nicknames include the "Essex Exocet"

beat John Higgins to become world champion for the first time in 2001?

-Pass.

-Which element has the highest melting point of any metal?

One of its first uses was in incandescent lamp filaments.

-Tungsten.

-What archaic word for a serving of semi-liquid foods, such as soup,

relates to the portion of potage for which Esau sold his birthright in the Book of Genesis?

-Pass.

-Which song, that gave Elvis Presley his first UK chart hit,

begins "Well, bless my soul, what's wrong with me?"

"I'm itchin' like a man on a fuzzy tree"?

-Pass.

-Which 1951 Hitchcock film, based on a Patricia Highsmith novel

has its climatic scene in an amusement park?

-Pass.

-In what year was Decimal Day,

when new coinage was officially introduced in Britain?

-Sorry, did you say what day?

-In what year?

-'71.

The sable belongs to the family of mammals that includes the stoat, wolverine and badger.

What's the family called?

-Ermine.

-Weasel.

Which reclusive aviator and filmmaker built a flying boat known as the Spruce Goose?

He piloted it on its only flight in 1947.

-Howard Hughes.

-Which Lancashire town once had old coal-mining slag heaps

known as the Alps or the Three Sisters?

-Accrington.

-Wigan. What colour is at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum?

-BEEP Violet.

-Red is the answer.

You had five passes. Strangers On A Train - that was the '51 Hitchcock film.

I'm All Shook Up was the Presley song.

Mess is that archaic word for semi-liquid food.

Ronnie O'Sullivan was the Essex Exocet.

And that first novel - it was James Bond, 007.

You have, Brian, 18 points.

APPLAUSE

And finally, Colin Foster again, please.

And you already have 14 points.

23 is the score to beat.

Let's see if you can do it with your general knowledge.

What do the letters AI stand for in computer science?

Artificial intelligence.

Which pizza, named after a queen of Italy,

has the colours of the Italian flag - red, white and green?

-Margherita.

-In 1798, who wrote the poem

A Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour?

-Pope.

-Wordsworth. The American outlaw Harry Longbaugh had what nickname?

-Calam...

-It was from a town in Wyoming where he went to jail for stealing a horse.

-Buffalo Bill.

-The Sundance Kid.

Who held the offices of Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary,

before succeeding Harold Wilson as Prime Minister in 1976?

Jim Callaghan.

At which Glasgow police station are the officers in TV series Taggart based?

Maryhill.

What surname was shared by 19thC French painters Henri and Theodore,

though they were not related?

-Matisse.

-Rousseau.

Which king of Wessex became king of all England, except for areas under Danish rule,

when he captured London in 886?

Alfred.

Eric Morecambe was a director of which football club in the '70s?

A suite is named after him at the Kenilworth Road ground.

-Luton Town.

-Name the world's first industrial-scale nuclear power station,

which opened in Britain in 1956, adjacent to Windscale.

-Sellafield.

-Calder Hall.

Which American bandmaster wrote the marches

The Stars And Stripes Forever and The Washington Post?

-Sousa.

-What word of Tamil origin,

the name of a lower Indian caste, is now used for any social outcast?

-Parsi.

-Pariah.

Pied, grey and yellow are species of which bird

whose name comes from the constant movement of its tail?

Wagtail.

The greatest part of which American state lies on a peninsula

with the Gulf of Mexico on the west and the Atlantic on the east?

-Florida.

-Whose novel Midnight's Children, about post-colonial India,

won the 1981 Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker award in 2008?

-Salman Rushdie.

-Which four-stringed guitar was developed in Hawaii,

from a Portuguese instrument brought there in the 1870s?

-Ukelele.

-In which '87 Kubrick film did the Beckton gasworks in London

double for the Vietnamese city of Hue

and the Isle of Dogs stand in for Da Nang?

-Full Metal Jacket.

-In the Bible, who led the Israelites, after the death of Moses?

-Aaron.

-Joshua.

Victoria Glendinning's biography Raffles and the Golden Opportunity

describes the meeting between Raffles and which exiled emperor

in 1816 on an island in the South Atlantic?

-Jahan. BEEP

-No, Napoleon.

Colin, no passes. 26 points.

APPLAUSE

So, a clear victor. Let's have a look at the scores.

In fourth place, 15 points, Andrew Forsyth.

Third place, 18 points, Brian Daugherty.

Second place, climbing up,

23 points, Lauren White, but it wasn't enough.

In first place, 26 points, Colin Foster.

APPLAUSE

Which means Colin Foster is tonight's winner and goes through to the semifinals.

Congratulations to him, commiserations to Lauren White,

but with 23, it's possible we'll see her in the semifinals.

If you'd like to be a contender on the next series, go to our website,

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next time, for more Masterminds.

Thanks for watching. Goodbye.

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