0:00:24 > 0:00:27First in the spotlight tonight is Peter Gaskell,
0:00:27 > 0:00:30a teacher from Caerphilly. His subject, The Grateful Dead.
0:00:30 > 0:00:33Next, Terence Saunders, a musician from Essex,
0:00:33 > 0:00:36and his subject is the novels of Wilkie Collins.
0:00:36 > 0:00:40Lindsay Ashford's a novelist from Aberystwyth and she'll be answering
0:00:40 > 0:00:43questions on the history of Bedlam, Bethlem Hospital.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45And James Maple, a chemistry teacher from Tring.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48His subject, the English Civil Wars.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52AUDIENCE APPLAUDS
0:00:59 > 0:01:03Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06Tonight's contenders will each make the short
0:01:06 > 0:01:08and very daunting walk to the black chair where
0:01:08 > 0:01:12they will answer two minutes of questions on their specialist subject
0:01:12 > 0:01:15and then two and a half minutes on general knowledge, and the winner
0:01:15 > 0:01:18will go through to the next round, the semifinal,
0:01:18 > 0:01:21and take a step nearer to being crowned the nation's Mastermind,
0:01:21 > 0:01:25an honour so much more precious than mere baubles.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28Let's get on with it and ask our first contender to join us, please.
0:01:34 > 0:01:38- And your name is?- Peter Gaskell. - Your occupation?- Teacher.
0:01:38 > 0:01:41- And your specialist subject. - The Grateful Dead.
0:01:41 > 0:01:46The Grateful Dead, in two minutes. Which singer and founding member of the band suggested the name
0:01:46 > 0:01:50- Grateful Dead after finding the words together in a dictionary entry? - Jerry Garcia.- Yes.
0:01:50 > 0:01:55On which major record label was their first self-titled album released on the 17th of March, 1967?
0:01:55 > 0:02:00- Warner Brothers.- Yes. What name did the band, then consisting of Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir
0:02:00 > 0:02:03and Ron McKernan perform under when they played their first
0:02:03 > 0:02:06show at the Tangent in Palo Alto on the 25th of January 1964?
0:02:06 > 0:02:10- The Warlocks. - Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13Which author best known for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest invited
0:02:13 > 0:02:17- the Grateful Dead to be the house band at his drug-fuelled parties? - Ken Kesey.- Yes.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20What is the name of the band's part-live second album
0:02:20 > 0:02:22released in July 1968?
0:02:24 > 0:02:26- Anthem of the Sun.- Yes.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29On which small independent label was the band's first single
0:02:29 > 0:02:32Don't Ease Me In released in the summer of '66?
0:02:33 > 0:02:34Pass.
0:02:34 > 0:02:38What music festival did the band play at on the 16th of August, '69,
0:02:38 > 0:02:42- a performance they thought of as one of their worst ever?- Woodstock.- Yes.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44After Brent Mydland's death of a drug overdose,
0:02:44 > 0:02:47the Grateful Dead had two stand-in keyboardists.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50One was Vince Welnick, who became the permanent replacement.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52- Who was the other? - Bruce Hornsby.- Yes.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55What nickname was given to the original band member Ron McKernan
0:02:55 > 0:03:00- because of his unkempt appearance? He died in March '73, aged 27.- Pigpen.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03Yes. The Grateful Dead's early posters and album cover artwork
0:03:03 > 0:03:09including their trademark skull and roses motif was created by Stanley Mouse and which other artist?
0:03:09 > 0:03:10- Alton Kelley.- Yes.
0:03:10 > 0:03:13Which single from the band's '87 studio album In The Dark,
0:03:13 > 0:03:15their first new album for seven years,
0:03:15 > 0:03:19- gave them their only American top ten hit single? - Touch of Grey.- Yes.
0:03:19 > 0:03:23What was the name of the band's manager, the father of their drummer,
0:03:23 > 0:03:27- who made off with a record advance of over 150,000?- Lenny Hart.- Yes.
0:03:27 > 0:03:31At which free concert in December '69 did the Grateful Dead refuse to
0:03:31 > 0:03:34go on stage after trouble with the Hells Angels who had been
0:03:34 > 0:03:36- hired as security?- Altamont.- Yes.
0:03:36 > 0:03:41In which country did the Grateful Dead play three open air benefit concerts in September '78?
0:03:41 > 0:03:44The last of them coincided with a lunar eclipse. TIMER BEEPS
0:03:44 > 0:03:48Egypt. Egypt is correct. You had just one pass.
0:03:48 > 0:03:53That small independent label on which they released Don't Ease Me In was
0:03:53 > 0:03:55Scorpio Records.
0:03:55 > 0:03:59Peter, you scored 12 points. AUDIENCE APPLAUDS
0:04:07 > 0:04:09And our next contender, please.
0:04:15 > 0:04:19- And your name is?- Terence Saunders. - Your occupation?- Musician.
0:04:19 > 0:04:22- And your chosen subject? - The novels of Wilkie Collins.
0:04:22 > 0:04:24The novels of Wilkie Collins, in two minutes.
0:04:24 > 0:04:26John Herncastle stole the sacred diamond
0:04:26 > 0:04:31known as the Moonstone during the storming of an Indian city in 1799. What was the city?
0:04:31 > 0:04:36- Seringapatam.- Yes. In Armadale, Allan Armadale and Ozias Midwinter spent a night on board
0:04:36 > 0:04:39a wrecked ship off the coast of the Isle of Man. What's the ship's name?
0:04:39 > 0:04:41- La Grace de Dieu.- Yes.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43In The Woman In White, Count Fosco is at an opera
0:04:43 > 0:04:47- when he recognises Professor Pesca. What is the opera?- Traviata.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49Lucrezia Borgia.
0:04:49 > 0:04:52In No Name, who is described as having a bilious brown eye on the
0:04:52 > 0:04:56lookout for employment and a bilious green eye in a similar predicament?
0:04:56 > 0:04:59- Captain Wragge.- Yes. What is the number of the room in the sanitorium
0:04:59 > 0:05:03where Lydia Gwilt is killed by the poison gas she intended for Allan Armadale?
0:05:03 > 0:05:07- Nine?- Four. An ancestor of the central character in The Black Robe
0:05:07 > 0:05:10was given Vange Abbey and its lands by Henry VIII.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13What was the ancestor's name?
0:05:13 > 0:05:15- Romayne.- Yes, Lewis Romayne.
0:05:15 > 0:05:19In Collins' detective story, The Law and the Lady, what verdict was passed
0:05:19 > 0:05:22on Eustace Macallan at his trial for the murder of his first wife?
0:05:22 > 0:05:26- It's referred to in the novel as the Scotch Verdict.- Not proven.- Correct.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28In the historical novel, Antonina,
0:05:28 > 0:05:32Goisvintha and her child are the only survivors of a massacre of Goth hostages by the Romans.
0:05:32 > 0:05:36- In which city did that massacre take place?- Rome.- Aquileia.
0:05:36 > 0:05:40Which of the characters in The Moonstone is introduced as a grizzled
0:05:40 > 0:05:42elderly man, so miserably lean that he looked as
0:05:42 > 0:05:45if he'd not got an ounce of flesh on his bones in any part of him?
0:05:45 > 0:05:47- Sergeant Cuff.- Yes.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50In The Evil Genius, Mrs Presty suggests the bad temper of the judge
0:05:50 > 0:05:55presiding over the divorce of her daughter is probably caused by an illness that she calls
0:05:55 > 0:05:58- "a constitutional infirmity." What is it?- Pass.
0:05:58 > 0:06:02What does Franklin Blake find along with a letter in the tin case
0:06:02 > 0:06:06- hidden by Rosanna Spearman at the Shivering Sand?- Some chains.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08No, his own nightgown.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11In I Say No, what is the name of the landlord of the Hand-in-Hand Inn who
0:06:11 > 0:06:16- testifies at the inquest into the death of Emily Brown's father? - Mr Rook.- Yes.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18Which of Collins' novels is considered to be
0:06:18 > 0:06:22an attack on vivisection, which is described by one character
0:06:22 > 0:06:24as "useless and detestable cruelty"?
0:06:24 > 0:06:26- Heart and Science.- Yes. Correct. TIMER BEEPS
0:06:26 > 0:06:28You had just one pass.
0:06:28 > 0:06:35That illness that Mrs Presty calls a constitutional infirmity is gout.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37Terence, you have eight points.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47And our next contender, please.
0:06:56 > 0:07:00- And your name is?- Lindsay Ashford. - Your occupation?- Novelist.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03- And your chosen subject? - The history of Bedlam.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05Bedlam, in two minutes. Starting now.
0:07:05 > 0:07:09Bethlem or Bethlehem Hospital also became commonly known as Bedlam.
0:07:09 > 0:07:13What was the name of the London alderman who founded the priory that
0:07:13 > 0:07:17- became Bethlem Hospital in Bishopsgate in 1247?- Simon Fitzmary. - Yes.
0:07:17 > 0:07:21Which architect and polymath designed the new Bedlam Hospital in Moorfields
0:07:21 > 0:07:23that accepted its first patients in 1676?
0:07:23 > 0:07:25- Robert Hooke. - Yes. Who was the physician
0:07:25 > 0:07:28who took over as keeper of Bethlem Hospital in 1619?
0:07:28 > 0:07:31He was accused of embezzlement and neglect of the patients
0:07:31 > 0:07:34- and was dismissed in 1634? - Helkiah Crooke.- Yes.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37In 1547, Bethlem was granted to the city of London.
0:07:37 > 0:07:41Which nearby hospital used as a prison subsequently took over its
0:07:41 > 0:07:45management and continued to jointly administer it until 1948?
0:07:45 > 0:07:46- Bridewell.- Yes. A seamstress
0:07:46 > 0:07:50who attacked George III with a dessert knife in 1786 was
0:07:50 > 0:07:53- committed to Bethlem for life. What was her name?- Margaret Nicholson.
0:07:53 > 0:07:57Yes. What was the name of the periodical published by the satirist
0:07:57 > 0:08:00Ned Ward in which he described his visits to the hospital with other
0:08:00 > 0:08:04- tourists who paid a penny to look at the patients?- The London Spy.
0:08:04 > 0:08:07Yes. Who were the medical practitioners who were the physicians
0:08:07 > 0:08:09at Bethlem Hospital for four generations?
0:08:09 > 0:08:13- The first, Dr James, took up his appointment in 1728.- Monro.- Yes.
0:08:13 > 0:08:18Which major London railway terminus is built on the site of the original Bethlem Hospital?
0:08:18 > 0:08:21- Liverpool Street.- Yes. Which Victorian artist became an inmate
0:08:21 > 0:08:25after stabbing his father to death in 1843, convinced he was the devil?
0:08:25 > 0:08:28- Richard Dadd.- Yes. The death of a young woman in Bethlem in 1851
0:08:28 > 0:08:31led to the Home Secretary granting permission to the lunacy
0:08:31 > 0:08:34commissioners to inspect the hospital. What was her name?
0:08:34 > 0:08:38- Hannah Hyson.- Yes. Which facility that opened in Berkshire in 1863 took over care
0:08:38 > 0:08:42- of the criminally insane from the criminal asylum at Bethlem? - Broadmoor.- Yes.
0:08:42 > 0:08:47James Tilly Matthews was diagnosed with paranoid delusions and committed to Bethlem in 1797.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50What did he call the machine that he claimed was being
0:08:50 > 0:08:53- used by a gang of villains to control his mind?- The Air Loom.- Yes.
0:08:53 > 0:08:58In 1930, Bethlem Hospital moved from St George's Fields, Southwark, to Beckenham in Kent.
0:08:58 > 0:09:02What institution now occupies the remains of the former hospital building in Southwark?
0:09:02 > 0:09:06- The Imperial War Museum.- Yes. From the mid-1700s, the holder of which post...
0:09:06 > 0:09:10TIMER BEEPS ..at Bethlem Hospital made most of the medical decisions
0:09:10 > 0:09:13and was responsible for formulating medicines for patients?
0:09:13 > 0:09:16- The Apothecary. - The Apothecary is correct.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19Lindsay, no passes. A perfect round. 14 points.
0:09:19 > 0:09:22AUDIENCE APPLAUDS
0:09:31 > 0:09:33And our last contender please.
0:09:40 > 0:09:44- And your name is?- James Maple. - Your occupation?- Chemistry teacher.
0:09:44 > 0:09:49- And your chosen subject?- The English Civil Wars, 1642 to 1651.
0:09:49 > 0:09:51The English Civil Wars.
0:09:51 > 0:09:55What was the first major battle of the civil wars, fought on the 23rd of October 1642,
0:09:55 > 0:09:58two months after Charles I had formally declared
0:09:58 > 0:10:01- war on parliament by raising his standard in Nottingham?- Edgehill.
0:10:01 > 0:10:05Yes. Who commanded the parliamentary army at the Battle of Edgehill?
0:10:05 > 0:10:08- He was defeated at Lostwithiel in 1644.- The Earl of Essex.- Yes.
0:10:08 > 0:10:11What act of parliament, passed in 1645, stripped peers
0:10:11 > 0:10:14and MPs of their military or naval commands?
0:10:14 > 0:10:17- Um, the Self-denying Ordinance.- Yes.
0:10:17 > 0:10:21In which battle of July 1644 did Newcastle's Whitecoats stand their
0:10:21 > 0:10:25- ground, allowing other Royalists to flee, but were wiped out as a result? - Marston Moor.- Yes.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28What was the nickname given to the cavalry regiment
0:10:28 > 0:10:31of Sir Arthur Haselrig because of his heavy plate armour?
0:10:31 > 0:10:34- Lobsters.- Yes. What was the name of the governor of Hull
0:10:34 > 0:10:39who refused Charles' entry into the city in April 1642 and was proclaimed a traitor by the king?
0:10:39 > 0:10:42- He was executed by parliament in 1645.- Sir John Hotham.- Yes.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45What was the agreement between the English parliament
0:10:45 > 0:10:48and the Scottish Covenanters in 1643 by which the Scots would give
0:10:48 > 0:10:52military support against the king in return for church reform?
0:10:52 > 0:10:57- The Solemn League and Covenant.- Yes. What was the political movement behind the 1647 manifesto
0:10:57 > 0:11:02called "an agreement of the people which advocated religious toleration and electoral reform"?
0:11:02 > 0:11:06- The Levellers.- Yes. Charles I was executed in January 1649.
0:11:06 > 0:11:09Which executive body of 41 members was established in February to
0:11:09 > 0:11:13- implement domestic and foreign policy?- The committee of the...
0:11:13 > 0:11:15No, pass.
0:11:15 > 0:11:19On the 21st of March 1646, where was the last Royalist field army
0:11:19 > 0:11:22commanded by Sir Jacob Astley defeated by a parliamentary force?
0:11:22 > 0:11:24- Stow-on-Wold.- Yes.
0:11:24 > 0:11:28On 3 December 1651, a Royalist army under the future Charles II was
0:11:28 > 0:11:32defeated by Oliver Cromwell in the last major battle of the civil wars.
0:11:32 > 0:11:36- What was it called?- Worcester.- Yes. Who was the governor of Pembroke
0:11:36 > 0:11:40who instigated a rebellion in March 1648 by refusing to hand over the town's castle to
0:11:40 > 0:11:44a new model army garrison cos his men were owed back pay by parliament?
0:11:44 > 0:11:45- Colonel Poyer.- Yes.
0:11:45 > 0:11:49On the 6th of December 1648, MPs who were willing to continue negotiations
0:11:49 > 0:11:52with the king were excluded from the Commons.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55TIMER BEEPS What name was given to this action after the army colonel
0:11:55 > 0:11:59- who carried it out?- Pride's Purge. - Pride's Purge is correct.
0:11:59 > 0:12:00You had just one pass.
0:12:00 > 0:12:06That executive body of 41 members was known as the Council of State.
0:12:06 > 0:12:10- James, you have 12 points.- Thank you. - AUDIENCE APPLAUDS
0:12:18 > 0:12:19A good high-scoring round there.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22Let's have a look at all of the scores.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25In fourth place, eight points, Terence Saunders.
0:12:25 > 0:12:29Joint second place, 12 points apiece, Peter Gaskell and James Maple.
0:12:29 > 0:12:34In the lead with 14 points, Lindsay Ashford.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41So the general knowledge round now,
0:12:41 > 0:12:43and if there's a tie at the end of it,
0:12:43 > 0:12:45the number of passes is taken into account
0:12:45 > 0:12:48and the person with the fewer passes is the winner,
0:12:48 > 0:12:51and if they're tied on passes as well there has to be a tie-break.
0:12:51 > 0:12:56The six highest scoring runners-up in this round will also be able to claim
0:12:56 > 0:12:59a place in the semifinal. Plenty to play for.
0:12:59 > 0:13:03Let's get on with it and ask Terence to join us again, please.
0:13:04 > 0:13:09You start with eight points with your knowledge of Wilkie Collins' books.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11A lot of them to choose from.
0:13:11 > 0:13:16And let's see how you do with your general knowledge. 2.5 minutes now. Here we go.
0:13:16 > 0:13:19Which Swedish tennis player won 11 Grand Slam singles titles between
0:13:19 > 0:13:231974 and '81 but never won the Australian or United States Opens?
0:13:23 > 0:13:28- Bjorn Borg.- Yes. Which 1936 romantic epic by Margaret Mitchell is reputed to have sold
0:13:28 > 0:13:31- a million copies six months after its publication?- Gone With The Wind.
0:13:31 > 0:13:36- Yep. Who was the lead singer, chief songwriter and rhythm guitarist of the Kinks?- Pass.
0:13:36 > 0:13:38Which word for "crudely-made alcoholic drink"
0:13:38 > 0:13:41comes from the name of an Alaskan people who made strong
0:13:41 > 0:13:44- liquor from fermented dough and sugar?- Vodka.- Hooch.
0:13:44 > 0:13:48Which river that reaches the sea near Rhyl gave its name to the former
0:13:48 > 0:13:52- county of northeast Wales that was formed in 1974?- Dee?- Clwyd.
0:13:52 > 0:13:56What small, grey crustacean often found under stones or in decaying
0:13:56 > 0:14:00timber has regional names such as parsons pig, billy button and cheesy bob?
0:14:00 > 0:14:01- Crab.- Woodlouse.
0:14:01 > 0:14:04According to their titles, the set of dances composed by Brahms
0:14:04 > 0:14:08- and the rhapsodies composed by Liszt originated in which country?- Hungary.
0:14:08 > 0:14:12Yes. Which First World War field marshal was president of Germany
0:14:12 > 0:14:15- from 1925 to '34?- Hindenburg.- Yes.
0:14:15 > 0:14:18What term describes words such as "bang", "cuckoo" and "sizzle"
0:14:18 > 0:14:21- that imitates the sound they describe?- Onomatopoeic.- Yes.
0:14:21 > 0:14:25Which organisation was founded in Chicago in 1905 to do good in local
0:14:25 > 0:14:28communities and to promote a world fellowship of business
0:14:28 > 0:14:30- and professional men?- Rotary.- Yep.
0:14:30 > 0:14:33Which ancient Greek physician gives his name to the oath sworn by
0:14:33 > 0:14:36- medical students on graduating? - Hippocrates.- Yes.
0:14:36 > 0:14:39In a story about Washington Irving, who falls asleep as a subject of
0:14:39 > 0:14:43King George III and wakes up 20 years later as a free American citizen?
0:14:43 > 0:14:47- Rip Van Winkle.- Yes. Which British writer and producer directed the
0:14:47 > 0:14:50- films Bugsy Malone, Evita and Midnight Express?- Pass.
0:14:50 > 0:14:54Which political anthem became the Labour Party's theme song in 1925
0:14:54 > 0:14:56and is sung at the end of the party's conference?
0:14:56 > 0:14:57- The Red Flag.- Yes.
0:14:57 > 0:15:01The epic Sanskrit poems, The Mahabharata and The Ramayana,
0:15:01 > 0:15:06- form part of the literary tradition of what religion?- Hinduism.- Yes.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09Which country was known as British Honduras until 1973
0:15:09 > 0:15:13- and was a British colony until its independence in '81?- Pass.
0:15:13 > 0:15:17Which American classic horse race is known as the Run for the Roses
0:15:17 > 0:15:19because the winner is draped with a blanket of them?
0:15:19 > 0:15:23- Kentucky Derby.- Yes. What is the title of Richard Hooker's 1968 novel
0:15:23 > 0:15:25set in the Korean War that led to a TV series and a film
0:15:25 > 0:15:28based on his experience working as a war surgeon?
0:15:28 > 0:15:29- M*A*S*H.- Yes.
0:15:29 > 0:15:33An arts centre opened in Malibu in 1997 funded by the estate
0:15:33 > 0:15:36of an American industrialist said to have been the richest man
0:15:36 > 0:15:38at the time of his death in 1976.
0:15:38 > 0:15:40- Who was he?- Paul Getty.- Yes.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43What name's given to the drugs that treat allergies
0:15:43 > 0:15:46- such as hay fever and to prevent travel sickness?- Antihistamine.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49TIMER BEEPS Yes. Started so I'll finish.
0:15:49 > 0:15:52Smithy, Danny and Plug are among pupils at which school that first
0:15:52 > 0:15:56- appeared in the Beano comic in the 1950s?- The Bash Street Kids.- Yes.
0:15:56 > 0:16:00The Bash Street was the name of the school. You had three passes.
0:16:00 > 0:16:04Belize became independent in 1981. Used to be British Honduras.
0:16:04 > 0:16:09Sir Alan Parker produced and directed those films, Bugsy Malone, etc.
0:16:09 > 0:16:12And Ray Davies was the lead singer of The Kinks
0:16:12 > 0:16:14and all those other things as well.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17You've scored now, Terence, a total of 23 points.
0:16:25 > 0:16:27And now Peter again, please.
0:16:29 > 0:16:33And you begin this round with 12 points.
0:16:33 > 0:16:36You have to beat 23 at this stage of the game.
0:16:36 > 0:16:38Can you do it with your general knowledge?
0:16:38 > 0:16:42In which US state is the Napa Valley renowned for its wine production?
0:16:42 > 0:16:46- California.- Yes. Which Beatle cofounded the production company HandMade films
0:16:46 > 0:16:50responsible for such films as The Missionary and A Private Function?
0:16:50 > 0:16:53- George Harrison.- Yes. In what sport did the Putney rules, drawn up in 1878,
0:16:53 > 0:16:56prevent people such as mechanics, artisans and labourers
0:16:56 > 0:16:59- from taking part in amateur competition?- Pass.
0:16:59 > 0:17:03Which real-life 19th-century heroine lived on Longstone,
0:17:03 > 0:17:08- one of the outermost of the Farne Islands where her father was the lighthouse keeper?- Pass.
0:17:08 > 0:17:12Which left-wing MP did Harold Wilson say "immatures with age"?
0:17:14 > 0:17:15- Dennis Skinner.- Tony Benn.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18In Greek mythology, who was the king of Corinth
0:17:18 > 0:17:21condemned to role a huge stone up a hill for eternity?
0:17:21 > 0:17:24Some legends claim this was as punishment for trying to cheat death.
0:17:27 > 0:17:28Pass.
0:17:28 > 0:17:32Which spectacular mountain range of northern Italy takes its name
0:17:32 > 0:17:35from the 18th-century French geologist who studied the region?
0:17:35 > 0:17:36- Dolomites.- Yes.
0:17:36 > 0:17:40"Dance, then, wherever you may be" is a line of a song
0:17:40 > 0:17:43- with lyrics by folk musician Sydney Carter. What is the song?- Pass.
0:17:43 > 0:17:46Which play by Oliver Goldsmith has the alternative title
0:17:46 > 0:17:50- The Mistakes of a Night?- Pass.
0:17:50 > 0:17:53What name is given to the class of opiate-like chemicals
0:17:53 > 0:17:58in the brain that reduce pain as well as producing a feel-good sensation?
0:18:02 > 0:18:05- Pass.- Which foodstuff, a staple of the cowboy's diet, became
0:18:05 > 0:18:09popular in Britain, canned in tomato sauce in the early 20th century?
0:18:09 > 0:18:13- Beans.- Yes. Baked beans. Which county on Ireland's west coast
0:18:13 > 0:18:16is bounded by Galway on the north, Tipperary on the east and Limerick
0:18:16 > 0:18:18and the Shannon Estuary on the south?
0:18:18 > 0:18:21- Sligo.- Clare. Who wrote the Just William stories,
0:18:21 > 0:18:24first published as a collection in 1922?
0:18:26 > 0:18:28Pass.
0:18:28 > 0:18:32Which British sculptor created Single Form, unveiled in 1964,
0:18:32 > 0:18:34in memory of friend Dag Hammarskjold,
0:18:34 > 0:18:37the former Secretary General of the United Nations?
0:18:42 > 0:18:46- Pass.- The redwing and fieldfare are both winter visitors to Britain.
0:18:46 > 0:18:49Which family of songbirds that includes the blackbird
0:18:49 > 0:18:51- are they the members of?- Thrush.- Yep.
0:18:51 > 0:18:54What name from the colour of part of their uniform was given to
0:18:54 > 0:18:56Mussolini's armed squads of fascists
0:18:56 > 0:19:00and to members of Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists?
0:19:00 > 0:19:01- Blackshirts.- Yes.
0:19:01 > 0:19:05An 18th-century Austrian composer's works were catalogued chronologically
0:19:05 > 0:19:08by Ludwig von Kochel, each work being identified by a K-number.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11- TIMER BEEPS Who was the composer?- Mozart.
0:19:11 > 0:19:13Mozart it was. You had eight passes.
0:19:13 > 0:19:17Barbara Hepworth was that sculptor who created Single Form.
0:19:17 > 0:19:19Richmal Crompton wrote the Just William stories.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22Endorphins are what the brain creates.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25- Yes. You know them all afterwards, don't you?- Yep.- Strange.
0:19:25 > 0:19:30She Stoops to Conquer was the Oliver Goldsmith play.
0:19:30 > 0:19:34Lord of the Dance. "Dance, then, wherever you may be" and all that.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37Sisyphus kept rolling the rock up the hill.
0:19:37 > 0:19:42Grace Darling was the 19th-century heroine who lived on Longstone.
0:19:42 > 0:19:46- And that rather posh sport, certainly in those days, was rowing.- OK.
0:19:46 > 0:19:49Eight passes. Peter, you scored 19 points.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01And now James again, please.
0:20:02 > 0:20:06And you also start out with 12 points with your knowledge
0:20:06 > 0:20:10of the Civil Wars, and 23 is still the score to beat.
0:20:10 > 0:20:14So let's see how you get on. 2.5 minutes of general knowledge.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16In chapter two of the book of Genesis, God created
0:20:16 > 0:20:18woman from what part of Adam's anatomy?
0:20:18 > 0:20:21- A rib.- Yep. Large parts of an upland area in Wiltshire
0:20:21 > 0:20:25owned by the Ministry of Defence is used for military training.
0:20:25 > 0:20:27- What is the area called? - Salisbury Plain.- Yes.
0:20:27 > 0:20:30Which Ravel one-act ballet based on a Spanish dance brought him
0:20:30 > 0:20:33- great success after its first performance in 1928?- Pass.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36Who was the chief TV commentator in Westminster Abbey
0:20:36 > 0:20:38at the coronation of the Queen in 1953?
0:20:38 > 0:20:41- Richard Dimbleby.- Yes. Which north African city
0:20:41 > 0:20:44and sea port takes its name from the Arabic for "the islands"
0:20:44 > 0:20:49- because of several small islands that once existed in the bay?- Tunis?
0:20:49 > 0:20:53Algiers. Which artist born in Crete in 1541 painted elongated figures
0:20:53 > 0:20:56that led some 20th-century critics
0:20:56 > 0:20:59to think he had the optical disorder astigmatism?
0:20:59 > 0:21:02- El Greco.- Yes. The controversial process of extracting gas or
0:21:02 > 0:21:05petroleum by injecting a high-pressure fluid into
0:21:05 > 0:21:08- underground rock is commonly known by what name?- Fracking.- Yes.
0:21:08 > 0:21:12In which 1925 film does Charlie Chaplain play a tramp who
0:21:12 > 0:21:16- tucks into a Thanksgiving Day meal of a boiled boot?- Pass.
0:21:16 > 0:21:20Which financial and trading organisation originated in 1698
0:21:20 > 0:21:23when the businessman John Castaing began listing commodity prices
0:21:23 > 0:21:27- at Jonathan's Coffee-House in Cornhill?- The stock exchange.- Yes.
0:21:27 > 0:21:30The seeds of which plant when crushed and sweetened
0:21:30 > 0:21:33make the traditional Middle Eastern confection halva?
0:21:33 > 0:21:37- Pass.- What name was given to the seven-inch vinyl records
0:21:37 > 0:21:39introduced by RCA Victor in 1948?
0:21:39 > 0:21:43- It came from the speed that they revolved on the turntable.- 45s.- Yes.
0:21:43 > 0:21:46In 1901, who became American president just six weeks
0:21:46 > 0:21:50short of his 43rd birthday? The youngest man to have held the office.
0:21:50 > 0:21:51- Hoover.- No. Teddy Roosevelt.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54Theo Walcott, Gareth Bale and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
0:21:54 > 0:21:58began their professional playing careers with which football club?
0:21:58 > 0:21:59- Southampton.- Yes.
0:21:59 > 0:22:03In Victorian sideshows, what insects were exhibited in circuses
0:22:03 > 0:22:06and performed tricks such as pulling wagons and walking on high wires?
0:22:06 > 0:22:10- Fleas.- Yes. Whose novel, Cakes and Ale, first published in 1930,
0:22:10 > 0:22:13is about the wife of a distinguished author
0:22:13 > 0:22:15widely thought to be based on Thomas Hardy?
0:22:15 > 0:22:17- Laurie Lee.- Somerset Maugham.
0:22:17 > 0:22:21Which French department's attractions include the cave at Lascaux
0:22:21 > 0:22:24and the medieval towns of Sarlat and Brantome?
0:22:24 > 0:22:25Pass.
0:22:25 > 0:22:28Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz both claimed to be
0:22:28 > 0:22:31- the inventor of which branch of mathematics?- Calculus.- Yes.
0:22:31 > 0:22:34In Norse mythology, who is the cunning and mischievous god
0:22:34 > 0:22:37who tricked the blind god Hod into killing his brother Baldr
0:22:37 > 0:22:39- with a piece of mistletoe?- Pass.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42The best-known work by author and journalist Hunter S Thompson
0:22:42 > 0:22:45is about fear loathing in which American city?
0:22:45 > 0:22:47- TIMER BEEPS. - Las Vegas.- Las Vegas is correct.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49You had five passes.
0:22:49 > 0:22:54That cunning and vicious god who tricked his brother was Loki,
0:22:54 > 0:22:55or "Lo-kee".
0:22:55 > 0:23:00The Dordogne is where the cave at Lascaux and all the rest of them are.
0:23:00 > 0:23:05Sesame gives you halva if you crush the seeds.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08The Chaplain film was The Gold Rush.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11- And Ravel's Bolero.- No!- Yes.
0:23:11 > 0:23:14Always worth taking a guess. There you go.
0:23:14 > 0:23:17But, James, you have 23 points.
0:23:25 > 0:23:29And finally, Lindsay again, please.
0:23:29 > 0:23:36And you start out with 14 points with your knowledge of Bedlam.
0:23:36 > 0:23:4023 is still the score to beat. Here we go. 2.5 minutes.
0:23:40 > 0:23:41Under what pseudonym
0:23:41 > 0:23:45did Charles Lutwidge Dodgson publish his Alice books?
0:23:45 > 0:23:46- Lewis Carroll.- Yes.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48Which lobster dish shares its name
0:23:48 > 0:23:50with a month in the French revolutionary calendar?
0:23:50 > 0:23:54- Lobster thermidor.- Yes. Which series of two-man space missions was
0:23:54 > 0:23:58launched by the United States in 1965 and '66 preceding the three-man
0:23:58 > 0:24:01- Apollo missions?- Pass.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04The 1990s drama series The House Of Eliott starring Louise Lombard
0:24:04 > 0:24:08and Stella Gonet as proprietors of a fashion house was set in what
0:24:08 > 0:24:10decade of the 20th century?
0:24:10 > 0:24:11- The 1920s.- Yes.
0:24:11 > 0:24:15Which river is the second-longest in Africa after the Nile?
0:24:15 > 0:24:17- The Congo.- Yes. What British government department
0:24:17 > 0:24:20did Patrick McLoughlin, who has a fear of flying,
0:24:20 > 0:24:22take over from Justine Greening in 2012?
0:24:22 > 0:24:25- The Home Office. - The Department for Transport.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28Renishaw Hall and the village of Eckington in Derbyshire was
0:24:28 > 0:24:33- the inspiration for locations in which novel by DH Lawrence?- Pass.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35In Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals,
0:24:35 > 0:24:38which creatures amble along to a version of Offenbach's Can-can
0:24:38 > 0:24:40played extremely slowly?
0:24:40 > 0:24:43- Elephants?- Tortoises. What name that comes from the six demands
0:24:43 > 0:24:46drafted by the radical William Lovett was given to the movement
0:24:46 > 0:24:49- in favour of working class rights founded in 1838?- Pass.
0:24:49 > 0:24:53The greyish specks on the inside of the cheek known as Koplik's spots
0:24:53 > 0:24:56are an early sign of which childhood illness?
0:24:56 > 0:24:57- Measles.- Yes.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00Which US state gets its nickname "the Bluegrass State"
0:25:00 > 0:25:02from the grass found there?
0:25:02 > 0:25:03- Tennessee.- Kentucky.
0:25:03 > 0:25:06In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Imelda Staunton plays
0:25:06 > 0:25:08a professor installed at Hogwarts
0:25:08 > 0:25:12as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. Who is the professor?
0:25:12 > 0:25:14- Professor McGonagall.- Umbridge.
0:25:14 > 0:25:17Which racquet game known as poona was played by British Army
0:25:17 > 0:25:19officers in India in the 19th century?
0:25:19 > 0:25:21- Tennis.- Badminton.
0:25:21 > 0:25:24What mythological bird burns itself to ashes on a pyre
0:25:24 > 0:25:26and is reborn from the flames?
0:25:26 > 0:25:27- The phoenix.- Yes.
0:25:27 > 0:25:31Whose 1971 album Tapestry is one of the bestselling albums of all time?
0:25:31 > 0:25:33- Carole King.- Yes. Which TV executive,
0:25:33 > 0:25:35a former controller of BBC One and BBC Two,
0:25:35 > 0:25:38hosts the Imagine series of arts documentaries?
0:25:38 > 0:25:43- Alan Yentob.- Yes. Which 1941 novel by James M. Cain that was typical of
0:25:43 > 0:25:47the hard-boiled school of writing was turned into a TV miniseries starring
0:25:47 > 0:25:51- Kate Winslet in 2011?- Pass.
0:25:51 > 0:25:55The town of Lyndhurst in Hampshire is the capital of which woodland area?
0:25:55 > 0:25:58- The New Forest.- Yes. What name from the Latin for "tongue"
0:25:58 > 0:26:01is given to a dictionary of technical terms or words
0:26:01 > 0:26:03- found at the end of a specialised text?- Pass.
0:26:03 > 0:26:08The Danish designer Georg Jensen worked particularly with which metal?
0:26:08 > 0:26:10- Steel.- Silver. Which fairground ride...
0:26:10 > 0:26:14TIMER BEEPS ..with a revolve vertical wheel with seats suspended from its rim
0:26:14 > 0:26:18is named after it American inventor, a bridge builder from Pittsburgh?
0:26:18 > 0:26:20- Ferris wheel. - Ferris wheel is correct.
0:26:20 > 0:26:22You had five passes.
0:26:22 > 0:26:26Glossary is the name for a dictionary of technical terms.
0:26:26 > 0:26:31Mildred Pierce became the TV miniseries in 2011.
0:26:31 > 0:26:37Chartism comes from the list of six demands drafted by William Lovett.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40Lady Chatterley's Lover was... HE LAUGHS
0:26:40 > 0:26:43..Renishaw Hall and Eckington and all that.
0:26:43 > 0:26:47And Gemini was the series of two-man space missions.
0:26:47 > 0:26:51And that last answer really mattered, Lindsay.
0:26:51 > 0:26:52You have scored 24 points.
0:26:52 > 0:26:56AUDIENCE APPLAUDS
0:27:04 > 0:27:09Well. What a tight contest that was. Let's look at the scores.
0:27:09 > 0:27:13In fourth place with 19 points, Peter Gaskell.
0:27:13 > 0:27:18Joint second place, 23 points apiece, Terence Saunders and James Maple.
0:27:18 > 0:27:22In the lead, in first place with 24 points - Lindsay Ashford.
0:27:30 > 0:27:34Which means of course that Lindsay is tonight's winner
0:27:34 > 0:27:38and she goes through to the semifinals. Congratulations to her.
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