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First in the spotlight tonight is Peter Gaskell,

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a teacher from Caerphilly. His subject, The Grateful Dead.

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Next, Terence Saunders, a musician from Essex,

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and his subject is the novels of Wilkie Collins.

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Lindsay Ashford's a novelist from Aberystwyth and she'll be answering

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questions on the history of Bedlam, Bethlem Hospital.

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And James Maple, a chemistry teacher from Tring.

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His subject, the English Civil Wars.

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AUDIENCE APPLAUDS

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Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.

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Tonight's contenders will each make the short

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and very daunting walk to the black chair where

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they will answer two minutes of questions on their specialist subject

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and then two and a half minutes on general knowledge, and the winner

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will go through to the next round, the semifinal,

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and take a step nearer to being crowned the nation's Mastermind,

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an honour so much more precious than mere baubles.

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

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-And your name is?

-Peter Gaskell.

-Your occupation?

-Teacher.

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-And your specialist subject.

-The Grateful Dead.

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The Grateful Dead, in two minutes. Which singer and founding member of the band suggested the name

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-Grateful Dead after finding the words together in a dictionary entry?

-Jerry Garcia.

-Yes.

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On which major record label was their first self-titled album released on the 17th of March, 1967?

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-Warner Brothers.

-Yes. What name did the band, then consisting of Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir

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and Ron McKernan perform under when they played their first

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show at the Tangent in Palo Alto on the 25th of January 1964?

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-The Warlocks.

-Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions.

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Which author best known for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest invited

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-the Grateful Dead to be the house band at his drug-fuelled parties?

-Ken Kesey.

-Yes.

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What is the name of the band's part-live second album

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released in July 1968?

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-Anthem of the Sun.

-Yes.

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On which small independent label was the band's first single

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Don't Ease Me In released in the summer of '66?

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Pass.

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What music festival did the band play at on the 16th of August, '69,

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-a performance they thought of as one of their worst ever?

-Woodstock.

-Yes.

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After Brent Mydland's death of a drug overdose,

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the Grateful Dead had two stand-in keyboardists.

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One was Vince Welnick, who became the permanent replacement.

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-Who was the other?

-Bruce Hornsby.

-Yes.

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What nickname was given to the original band member Ron McKernan

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-because of his unkempt appearance? He died in March '73, aged 27.

-Pigpen.

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Yes. The Grateful Dead's early posters and album cover artwork

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including their trademark skull and roses motif was created by Stanley Mouse and which other artist?

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-Alton Kelley.

-Yes.

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Which single from the band's '87 studio album In The Dark,

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their first new album for seven years,

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-gave them their only American top ten hit single?

-Touch of Grey.

-Yes.

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What was the name of the band's manager, the father of their drummer,

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-who made off with a record advance of over 150,000?

-Lenny Hart.

-Yes.

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At which free concert in December '69 did the Grateful Dead refuse to

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go on stage after trouble with the Hells Angels who had been

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-hired as security?

-Altamont.

-Yes.

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In which country did the Grateful Dead play three open air benefit concerts in September '78?

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The last of them coincided with a lunar eclipse. TIMER BEEPS

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Egypt. Egypt is correct. You had just one pass.

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That small independent label on which they released Don't Ease Me In was

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Scorpio Records.

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Peter, you scored 12 points. AUDIENCE APPLAUDS

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And our next contender, please.

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-And your name is?

-Terence Saunders.

-Your occupation?

-Musician.

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-And your chosen subject?

-The novels of Wilkie Collins.

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The novels of Wilkie Collins, in two minutes.

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John Herncastle stole the sacred diamond

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known as the Moonstone during the storming of an Indian city in 1799. What was the city?

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-Seringapatam.

-Yes. In Armadale, Allan Armadale and Ozias Midwinter spent a night on board

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a wrecked ship off the coast of the Isle of Man. What's the ship's name?

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-La Grace de Dieu.

-Yes.

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In The Woman In White, Count Fosco is at an opera

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-when he recognises Professor Pesca. What is the opera?

-Traviata.

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Lucrezia Borgia.

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In No Name, who is described as having a bilious brown eye on the

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lookout for employment and a bilious green eye in a similar predicament?

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-Captain Wragge.

-Yes. What is the number of the room in the sanitorium

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where Lydia Gwilt is killed by the poison gas she intended for Allan Armadale?

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-Nine?

-Four. An ancestor of the central character in The Black Robe

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was given Vange Abbey and its lands by Henry VIII.

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What was the ancestor's name?

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-Romayne.

-Yes, Lewis Romayne.

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In Collins' detective story, The Law and the Lady, what verdict was passed

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on Eustace Macallan at his trial for the murder of his first wife?

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-It's referred to in the novel as the Scotch Verdict.

-Not proven.

-Correct.

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In the historical novel, Antonina,

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Goisvintha and her child are the only survivors of a massacre of Goth hostages by the Romans.

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-In which city did that massacre take place?

-Rome.

-Aquileia.

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Which of the characters in The Moonstone is introduced as a grizzled

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elderly man, so miserably lean that he looked as

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if he'd not got an ounce of flesh on his bones in any part of him?

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-Sergeant Cuff.

-Yes.

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In The Evil Genius, Mrs Presty suggests the bad temper of the judge

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presiding over the divorce of her daughter is probably caused by an illness that she calls

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-"a constitutional infirmity." What is it?

-Pass.

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What does Franklin Blake find along with a letter in the tin case

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-hidden by Rosanna Spearman at the Shivering Sand?

-Some chains.

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No, his own nightgown.

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In I Say No, what is the name of the landlord of the Hand-in-Hand Inn who

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-testifies at the inquest into the death of Emily Brown's father?

-Mr Rook.

-Yes.

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Which of Collins' novels is considered to be

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an attack on vivisection, which is described by one character

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as "useless and detestable cruelty"?

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-Heart and Science.

-Yes. Correct. TIMER BEEPS

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You had just one pass.

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That illness that Mrs Presty calls a constitutional infirmity is gout.

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Terence, you have eight points.

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And our next contender, please.

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-And your name is?

-Lindsay Ashford.

-Your occupation?

-Novelist.

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-And your chosen subject?

-The history of Bedlam.

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Bedlam, in two minutes. Starting now.

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Bethlem or Bethlehem Hospital also became commonly known as Bedlam.

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What was the name of the London alderman who founded the priory that

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-became Bethlem Hospital in Bishopsgate in 1247?

-Simon Fitzmary.

-Yes.

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Which architect and polymath designed the new Bedlam Hospital in Moorfields

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that accepted its first patients in 1676?

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-Robert Hooke.

-Yes. Who was the physician

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who took over as keeper of Bethlem Hospital in 1619?

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He was accused of embezzlement and neglect of the patients

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-and was dismissed in 1634?

-Helkiah Crooke.

-Yes.

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In 1547, Bethlem was granted to the city of London.

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Which nearby hospital used as a prison subsequently took over its

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management and continued to jointly administer it until 1948?

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-Bridewell.

-Yes. A seamstress

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who attacked George III with a dessert knife in 1786 was

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-committed to Bethlem for life. What was her name?

-Margaret Nicholson.

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Yes. What was the name of the periodical published by the satirist

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Ned Ward in which he described his visits to the hospital with other

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-tourists who paid a penny to look at the patients?

-The London Spy.

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Yes. Who were the medical practitioners who were the physicians

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at Bethlem Hospital for four generations?

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-The first, Dr James, took up his appointment in 1728.

-Monro.

-Yes.

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Which major London railway terminus is built on the site of the original Bethlem Hospital?

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-Liverpool Street.

-Yes. Which Victorian artist became an inmate

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after stabbing his father to death in 1843, convinced he was the devil?

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-Richard Dadd.

-Yes. The death of a young woman in Bethlem in 1851

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led to the Home Secretary granting permission to the lunacy

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commissioners to inspect the hospital. What was her name?

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-Hannah Hyson.

-Yes. Which facility that opened in Berkshire in 1863 took over care

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-of the criminally insane from the criminal asylum at Bethlem?

-Broadmoor.

-Yes.

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James Tilly Matthews was diagnosed with paranoid delusions and committed to Bethlem in 1797.

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What did he call the machine that he claimed was being

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-used by a gang of villains to control his mind?

-The Air Loom.

-Yes.

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In 1930, Bethlem Hospital moved from St George's Fields, Southwark, to Beckenham in Kent.

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What institution now occupies the remains of the former hospital building in Southwark?

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-The Imperial War Museum.

-Yes. From the mid-1700s, the holder of which post...

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TIMER BEEPS ..at Bethlem Hospital made most of the medical decisions

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and was responsible for formulating medicines for patients?

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-The Apothecary.

-The Apothecary is correct.

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Lindsay, no passes. A perfect round. 14 points.

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AUDIENCE APPLAUDS

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And our last contender please.

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-And your name is?

-James Maple.

-Your occupation?

-Chemistry teacher.

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-And your chosen subject?

-The English Civil Wars, 1642 to 1651.

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The English Civil Wars.

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What was the first major battle of the civil wars, fought on the 23rd of October 1642,

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two months after Charles I had formally declared

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-war on parliament by raising his standard in Nottingham?

-Edgehill.

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Yes. Who commanded the parliamentary army at the Battle of Edgehill?

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-He was defeated at Lostwithiel in 1644.

-The Earl of Essex.

-Yes.

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What act of parliament, passed in 1645, stripped peers

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and MPs of their military or naval commands?

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-Um, the Self-denying Ordinance.

-Yes.

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In which battle of July 1644 did Newcastle's Whitecoats stand their

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-ground, allowing other Royalists to flee, but were wiped out as a result?

-Marston Moor.

-Yes.

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What was the nickname given to the cavalry regiment

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of Sir Arthur Haselrig because of his heavy plate armour?

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-Lobsters.

-Yes. What was the name of the governor of Hull

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who refused Charles' entry into the city in April 1642 and was proclaimed a traitor by the king?

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-He was executed by parliament in 1645.

-Sir John Hotham.

-Yes.

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What was the agreement between the English parliament

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and the Scottish Covenanters in 1643 by which the Scots would give

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military support against the king in return for church reform?

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-The Solemn League and Covenant.

-Yes. What was the political movement behind the 1647 manifesto

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called "an agreement of the people which advocated religious toleration and electoral reform"?

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-The Levellers.

-Yes. Charles I was executed in January 1649.

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Which executive body of 41 members was established in February to

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-implement domestic and foreign policy?

-The committee of the...

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No, pass.

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On the 21st of March 1646, where was the last Royalist field army

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commanded by Sir Jacob Astley defeated by a parliamentary force?

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-Stow-on-Wold.

-Yes.

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On 3 December 1651, a Royalist army under the future Charles II was

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defeated by Oliver Cromwell in the last major battle of the civil wars.

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-What was it called?

-Worcester.

-Yes. Who was the governor of Pembroke

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who instigated a rebellion in March 1648 by refusing to hand over the town's castle to

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a new model army garrison cos his men were owed back pay by parliament?

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-Colonel Poyer.

-Yes.

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On the 6th of December 1648, MPs who were willing to continue negotiations

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with the king were excluded from the Commons.

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TIMER BEEPS What name was given to this action after the army colonel

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-who carried it out?

-Pride's Purge.

-Pride's Purge is correct.

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You had just one pass.

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That executive body of 41 members was known as the Council of State.

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-James, you have 12 points.

-Thank you.

-AUDIENCE APPLAUDS

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A good high-scoring round there.

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Let's have a look at all of the scores.

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In fourth place, eight points, Terence Saunders.

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Joint second place, 12 points apiece, Peter Gaskell and James Maple.

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In the lead with 14 points, Lindsay Ashford.

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So the general knowledge round now,

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and if there's a tie at the end of it,

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the number of passes is taken into account

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and the person with the fewer passes is the winner,

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and if they're tied on passes as well there has to be a tie-break.

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The six highest scoring runners-up in this round will also be able to claim

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a place in the semifinal. Plenty to play for.

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Let's get on with it and ask Terence to join us again, please.

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You start with eight points with your knowledge of Wilkie Collins' books.

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A lot of them to choose from.

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And let's see how you do with your general knowledge. 2.5 minutes now. Here we go.

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Which Swedish tennis player won 11 Grand Slam singles titles between

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1974 and '81 but never won the Australian or United States Opens?

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-Bjorn Borg.

-Yes. Which 1936 romantic epic by Margaret Mitchell is reputed to have sold

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-a million copies six months after its publication?

-Gone With The Wind.

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-Yep. Who was the lead singer, chief songwriter and rhythm guitarist of the Kinks?

-Pass.

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Which word for "crudely-made alcoholic drink"

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comes from the name of an Alaskan people who made strong

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-liquor from fermented dough and sugar?

-Vodka.

-Hooch.

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Which river that reaches the sea near Rhyl gave its name to the former

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-county of northeast Wales that was formed in 1974?

-Dee?

-Clwyd.

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What small, grey crustacean often found under stones or in decaying

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timber has regional names such as parsons pig, billy button and cheesy bob?

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-Crab.

-Woodlouse.

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According to their titles, the set of dances composed by Brahms

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-and the rhapsodies composed by Liszt originated in which country?

-Hungary.

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Yes. Which First World War field marshal was president of Germany

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-from 1925 to '34?

-Hindenburg.

-Yes.

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What term describes words such as "bang", "cuckoo" and "sizzle"

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-that imitates the sound they describe?

-Onomatopoeic.

-Yes.

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Which organisation was founded in Chicago in 1905 to do good in local

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communities and to promote a world fellowship of business

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-and professional men?

-Rotary.

-Yep.

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Which ancient Greek physician gives his name to the oath sworn by

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-medical students on graduating?

-Hippocrates.

-Yes.

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In a story about Washington Irving, who falls asleep as a subject of

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King George III and wakes up 20 years later as a free American citizen?

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-Rip Van Winkle.

-Yes. Which British writer and producer directed the

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-films Bugsy Malone, Evita and Midnight Express?

-Pass.

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Which political anthem became the Labour Party's theme song in 1925

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and is sung at the end of the party's conference?

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-The Red Flag.

-Yes.

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The epic Sanskrit poems, The Mahabharata and The Ramayana,

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-form part of the literary tradition of what religion?

-Hinduism.

-Yes.

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Which country was known as British Honduras until 1973

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-and was a British colony until its independence in '81?

-Pass.

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Which American classic horse race is known as the Run for the Roses

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because the winner is draped with a blanket of them?

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-Kentucky Derby.

-Yes. What is the title of Richard Hooker's 1968 novel

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set in the Korean War that led to a TV series and a film

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based on his experience working as a war surgeon?

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-M*A*S*H.

-Yes.

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An arts centre opened in Malibu in 1997 funded by the estate

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of an American industrialist said to have been the richest man

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at the time of his death in 1976.

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-Who was he?

-Paul Getty.

-Yes.

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What name's given to the drugs that treat allergies

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-such as hay fever and to prevent travel sickness?

-Antihistamine.

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TIMER BEEPS Yes. Started so I'll finish.

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Smithy, Danny and Plug are among pupils at which school that first

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-appeared in the Beano comic in the 1950s?

-The Bash Street Kids.

-Yes.

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The Bash Street was the name of the school. You had three passes.

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Belize became independent in 1981. Used to be British Honduras.

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Sir Alan Parker produced and directed those films, Bugsy Malone, etc.

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And Ray Davies was the lead singer of The Kinks

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and all those other things as well.

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You've scored now, Terence, a total of 23 points.

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And now Peter again, please.

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And you begin this round with 12 points.

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You have to beat 23 at this stage of the game.

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Can you do it with your general knowledge?

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In which US state is the Napa Valley renowned for its wine production?

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-California.

-Yes. Which Beatle cofounded the production company HandMade films

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responsible for such films as The Missionary and A Private Function?

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-George Harrison.

-Yes. In what sport did the Putney rules, drawn up in 1878,

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prevent people such as mechanics, artisans and labourers

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-from taking part in amateur competition?

-Pass.

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Which real-life 19th-century heroine lived on Longstone,

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-one of the outermost of the Farne Islands where her father was the lighthouse keeper?

-Pass.

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Which left-wing MP did Harold Wilson say "immatures with age"?

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-Dennis Skinner.

-Tony Benn.

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In Greek mythology, who was the king of Corinth

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condemned to role a huge stone up a hill for eternity?

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Some legends claim this was as punishment for trying to cheat death.

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Pass.

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Which spectacular mountain range of northern Italy takes its name

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from the 18th-century French geologist who studied the region?

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-Dolomites.

-Yes.

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"Dance, then, wherever you may be" is a line of a song

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-with lyrics by folk musician Sydney Carter. What is the song?

-Pass.

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Which play by Oliver Goldsmith has the alternative title

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-The Mistakes of a Night?

-Pass.

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What name is given to the class of opiate-like chemicals

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in the brain that reduce pain as well as producing a feel-good sensation?

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-Pass.

-Which foodstuff, a staple of the cowboy's diet, became

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popular in Britain, canned in tomato sauce in the early 20th century?

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-Beans.

-Yes. Baked beans. Which county on Ireland's west coast

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is bounded by Galway on the north, Tipperary on the east and Limerick

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and the Shannon Estuary on the south?

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-Sligo.

-Clare. Who wrote the Just William stories,

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first published as a collection in 1922?

0:18:210:18:24

Pass.

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Which British sculptor created Single Form, unveiled in 1964,

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in memory of friend Dag Hammarskjold,

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the former Secretary General of the United Nations?

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-Pass.

-The redwing and fieldfare are both winter visitors to Britain.

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Which family of songbirds that includes the blackbird

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-are they the members of?

-Thrush.

-Yep.

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What name from the colour of part of their uniform was given to

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Mussolini's armed squads of fascists

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and to members of Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists?

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-Blackshirts.

-Yes.

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An 18th-century Austrian composer's works were catalogued chronologically

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by Ludwig von Kochel, each work being identified by a K-number.

0:19:050:19:08

-TIMER BEEPS Who was the composer?

-Mozart.

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Mozart it was. You had eight passes.

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Barbara Hepworth was that sculptor who created Single Form.

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Richmal Crompton wrote the Just William stories.

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Endorphins are what the brain creates.

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-Yes. You know them all afterwards, don't you?

-Yep.

-Strange.

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She Stoops to Conquer was the Oliver Goldsmith play.

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Lord of the Dance. "Dance, then, wherever you may be" and all that.

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Sisyphus kept rolling the rock up the hill.

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Grace Darling was the 19th-century heroine who lived on Longstone.

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-And that rather posh sport, certainly in those days, was rowing.

-OK.

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Eight passes. Peter, you scored 19 points.

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And now James again, please.

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And you also start out with 12 points with your knowledge

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of the Civil Wars, and 23 is still the score to beat.

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So let's see how you get on. 2.5 minutes of general knowledge.

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In chapter two of the book of Genesis, God created

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woman from what part of Adam's anatomy?

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-A rib.

-Yep. Large parts of an upland area in Wiltshire

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owned by the Ministry of Defence is used for military training.

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-What is the area called?

-Salisbury Plain.

-Yes.

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Which Ravel one-act ballet based on a Spanish dance brought him

0:20:270:20:30

-great success after its first performance in 1928?

-Pass.

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Who was the chief TV commentator in Westminster Abbey

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at the coronation of the Queen in 1953?

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-Richard Dimbleby.

-Yes. Which north African city

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and sea port takes its name from the Arabic for "the islands"

0:20:410:20:44

-because of several small islands that once existed in the bay?

-Tunis?

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Algiers. Which artist born in Crete in 1541 painted elongated figures

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that led some 20th-century critics

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to think he had the optical disorder astigmatism?

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-El Greco.

-Yes. The controversial process of extracting gas or

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petroleum by injecting a high-pressure fluid into

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-underground rock is commonly known by what name?

-Fracking.

-Yes.

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In which 1925 film does Charlie Chaplain play a tramp who

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-tucks into a Thanksgiving Day meal of a boiled boot?

-Pass.

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Which financial and trading organisation originated in 1698

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when the businessman John Castaing began listing commodity prices

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-at Jonathan's Coffee-House in Cornhill?

-The stock exchange.

-Yes.

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The seeds of which plant when crushed and sweetened

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make the traditional Middle Eastern confection halva?

0:21:300:21:33

-Pass.

-What name was given to the seven-inch vinyl records

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introduced by RCA Victor in 1948?

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-It came from the speed that they revolved on the turntable.

-45s.

-Yes.

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In 1901, who became American president just six weeks

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short of his 43rd birthday? The youngest man to have held the office.

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-Hoover.

-No. Teddy Roosevelt.

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Theo Walcott, Gareth Bale and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

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began their professional playing careers with which football club?

0:21:540:21:58

-Southampton.

-Yes.

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In Victorian sideshows, what insects were exhibited in circuses

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and performed tricks such as pulling wagons and walking on high wires?

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-Fleas.

-Yes. Whose novel, Cakes and Ale, first published in 1930,

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is about the wife of a distinguished author

0:22:100:22:13

widely thought to be based on Thomas Hardy?

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-Laurie Lee.

-Somerset Maugham.

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Which French department's attractions include the cave at Lascaux

0:22:170:22:21

and the medieval towns of Sarlat and Brantome?

0:22:210:22:24

Pass.

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Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz both claimed to be

0:22:250:22:28

-the inventor of which branch of mathematics?

-Calculus.

-Yes.

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In Norse mythology, who is the cunning and mischievous god

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who tricked the blind god Hod into killing his brother Baldr

0:22:340:22:37

-with a piece of mistletoe?

-Pass.

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The best-known work by author and journalist Hunter S Thompson

0:22:390:22:42

is about fear loathing in which American city?

0:22:420:22:45

-TIMER BEEPS.

-Las Vegas.

-Las Vegas is correct.

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You had five passes.

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That cunning and vicious god who tricked his brother was Loki,

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or "Lo-kee".

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The Dordogne is where the cave at Lascaux and all the rest of them are.

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Sesame gives you halva if you crush the seeds.

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The Chaplain film was The Gold Rush.

0:23:050:23:08

-And Ravel's Bolero.

-No!

-Yes.

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Always worth taking a guess. There you go.

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But, James, you have 23 points.

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And finally, Lindsay again, please.

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And you start out with 14 points with your knowledge of Bedlam.

0:23:290:23:36

23 is still the score to beat. Here we go. 2.5 minutes.

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Under what pseudonym

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did Charles Lutwidge Dodgson publish his Alice books?

0:23:410:23:45

-Lewis Carroll.

-Yes.

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Which lobster dish shares its name

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with a month in the French revolutionary calendar?

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-Lobster thermidor.

-Yes. Which series of two-man space missions was

0:23:500:23:54

launched by the United States in 1965 and '66 preceding the three-man

0:23:540:23:58

-Apollo missions?

-Pass.

0:23:580:24:01

The 1990s drama series The House Of Eliott starring Louise Lombard

0:24:010:24:04

and Stella Gonet as proprietors of a fashion house was set in what

0:24:040:24:08

decade of the 20th century?

0:24:080:24:10

-The 1920s.

-Yes.

0:24:100:24:11

Which river is the second-longest in Africa after the Nile?

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-The Congo.

-Yes. What British government department

0:24:150:24:17

did Patrick McLoughlin, who has a fear of flying,

0:24:170:24:20

take over from Justine Greening in 2012?

0:24:200:24:22

-The Home Office.

-The Department for Transport.

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Renishaw Hall and the village of Eckington in Derbyshire was

0:24:250:24:28

-the inspiration for locations in which novel by DH Lawrence?

-Pass.

0:24:280:24:33

In Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals,

0:24:330:24:35

which creatures amble along to a version of Offenbach's Can-can

0:24:350:24:38

played extremely slowly?

0:24:380:24:40

-Elephants?

-Tortoises. What name that comes from the six demands

0:24:400:24:43

drafted by the radical William Lovett was given to the movement

0:24:430:24:46

-in favour of working class rights founded in 1838?

-Pass.

0:24:460:24:49

The greyish specks on the inside of the cheek known as Koplik's spots

0:24:490:24:53

are an early sign of which childhood illness?

0:24:530:24:56

-Measles.

-Yes.

0:24:560:24:57

Which US state gets its nickname "the Bluegrass State"

0:24:570:25:00

from the grass found there?

0:25:000:25:02

-Tennessee.

-Kentucky.

0:25:020:25:03

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Imelda Staunton plays

0:25:030:25:06

a professor installed at Hogwarts

0:25:060:25:08

as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. Who is the professor?

0:25:080:25:12

-Professor McGonagall.

-Umbridge.

0:25:120:25:14

Which racquet game known as poona was played by British Army

0:25:140:25:17

officers in India in the 19th century?

0:25:170:25:19

-Tennis.

-Badminton.

0:25:190:25:21

What mythological bird burns itself to ashes on a pyre

0:25:210:25:24

and is reborn from the flames?

0:25:240:25:26

-The phoenix.

-Yes.

0:25:260:25:27

Whose 1971 album Tapestry is one of the bestselling albums of all time?

0:25:270:25:31

-Carole King.

-Yes. Which TV executive,

0:25:310:25:33

a former controller of BBC One and BBC Two,

0:25:330:25:35

hosts the Imagine series of arts documentaries?

0:25:350:25:38

-Alan Yentob.

-Yes. Which 1941 novel by James M. Cain that was typical of

0:25:380:25:43

the hard-boiled school of writing was turned into a TV miniseries starring

0:25:430:25:47

-Kate Winslet in 2011?

-Pass.

0:25:470:25:51

The town of Lyndhurst in Hampshire is the capital of which woodland area?

0:25:510:25:55

-The New Forest.

-Yes. What name from the Latin for "tongue"

0:25:550:25:58

is given to a dictionary of technical terms or words

0:25:580:26:01

-found at the end of a specialised text?

-Pass.

0:26:010:26:03

The Danish designer Georg Jensen worked particularly with which metal?

0:26:030:26:08

-Steel.

-Silver. Which fairground ride...

0:26:080:26:10

TIMER BEEPS ..with a revolve vertical wheel with seats suspended from its rim

0:26:100:26:14

is named after it American inventor, a bridge builder from Pittsburgh?

0:26:140:26:18

-Ferris wheel.

-Ferris wheel is correct.

0:26:180:26:20

You had five passes.

0:26:200:26:22

Glossary is the name for a dictionary of technical terms.

0:26:220:26:26

Mildred Pierce became the TV miniseries in 2011.

0:26:260:26:31

Chartism comes from the list of six demands drafted by William Lovett.

0:26:310:26:37

Lady Chatterley's Lover was... HE LAUGHS

0:26:370:26:40

..Renishaw Hall and Eckington and all that.

0:26:400:26:43

And Gemini was the series of two-man space missions.

0:26:430:26:47

And that last answer really mattered, Lindsay.

0:26:470:26:51

You have scored 24 points.

0:26:510:26:52

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Well. What a tight contest that was. Let's look at the scores.

0:27:040:27:09

In fourth place with 19 points, Peter Gaskell.

0:27:090:27:13

Joint second place, 23 points apiece, Terence Saunders and James Maple.

0:27:130:27:18

In the lead, in first place with 24 points - Lindsay Ashford.

0:27:180:27:22

Which means of course that Lindsay is tonight's winner

0:27:300:27:34

and she goes through to the semifinals. Congratulations to her.

0:27:340:27:38

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0:27:380:27:41

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