Episode 28 Mastermind

First in the spotlight tonight is Andries Van Tonder,

a graduate student from Oxford.

He'll be answering questions on the rock band Black Sabbath.

Next, Beth Webster, a health and safety advisor from Watford.

Her specialist subject, the novels of Barbara Vine.

Colin Foster is an accountant from Warrington,

and he'll be answering questions on the life and times of William II.

Ben Holmes, a customer service agent from Salford.

He answers questions on Adolf Hitler.

And Hamish Cameron, from Elgin.

His subject, the artist Paolo Veronese.

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

Not long to go now, because we are in the semifinal stage,

which is why we have five contenders instead of the usual four tonight.

And one of them will go through to the grand final

and maybe become the nation's Mastermind.

The rules are the same - two sets of questions,

90 seconds on their specialist subject, and then two minutes on general knowledge.

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

And your name is...?

Your occupation?

Last time around, your subject was the history of Rhodesia.

Tonight it is...?

Black Sabbath in 90 seconds, starting now.

Immediately before they changed their name to Black Sabbath in 1969,

Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Bill Ward and Terence 'Geezer' Butler

had performed under what name?

-Earth.

-Yes.

On what day and date in February 1970

was the debut album Black Sabbath released in the United Kingdom?

-25th January.

-No - Friday the 13th.

Black Sabbath had two albums that reached number one in the UK charts.

The most recent is 13, released in 2013.

What's the name of the other album, released in 1970?

-Paranoid.

-Yes.

Who was the producer of the band's first three albums?

He also produced for Judas Priest.

-Rodger Bain.

-Correct.

After releasing Paranoid in 1970,

it was nearly eight years before Black Sabbath issued another single.

What's the title of that?

-Never Say Die.

-Yes.

In which London recording studio was the band's debut album recorded

with a budget of £600?

-Regent.

-Yes, Regent Sound.

On what record label

were Black Sabbath's first four albums released in the UK?

-Vertigo.

-Correct.

The designer Ernie Cefalu devised the cover of a Black Sabbath album

with the artwork produced by Drew Struzan. Which album?

-Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.

-Correct.

On the 1978 Never Say Die tour, the band was predominately supported

on dates in Europe and America by which rock band?

-Van Halen.

-Correct.

Which keyboard player made a guest appearance with the band

on the track Sabbra Cadabra from the Sabbath Bloody Sabbath album?

-Rick Wakeman.

-Yes.

In which country is the Sounds Interchange recording studio,

where the Never Say Die album was made in 1978?

-Canada.

-Yes.

The band decided not to produce the album Heaven And Hell themselves,

and instead hired a producer who had worked with

Deep Purple, Wishbone Ash and Fleetwood Mac.

-BEEP

-What was his name?

-Bill Anderson.

-It was Martin Birch.

No passes. You have scored, Andries, 10 points.

And our next contender, please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation?

In the first round, you took the Muppet films as your specialist subject.

Tonight you are taking...?

Barbara Vine's books in 90 seconds. Here we go.

Ruth Rendell has written 14 psychological thrillers

under the pen name Barbara Vine.

What's the title of the first book, published in 1986?

-A Dark-Adapted Eye.

-Yes.

When Kerstin Kvist acts as a nurse to John Cosway in The Minotaur,

she finds he's given a strong sleeping tablet each night

by his mother.

What does his mother tell him the tablets are?

-Vitamin.

-Yes.

In The Brimstone Wedding, Richard is found to have which blood type?

-B.

-Yes.

In King Solomon's Carpet, the house where Jarvis Stringer lives

while working on his history of the London Underground

overlooks the Metropolitan line, and which other line?

-Jubilee.

-Yes.

In The Chimney Sweeper's Boy, who wants Sarah to write a memoir

of her father, the successful author Gerald Candless?

-A publicist... Publisher.

-The name?

Pass.

In Gallowglass, Sandor and Joe are staying at the Railway Arms

when they start observing their potential victim.

They then move into a more convenient guesthouse.

What's it called?

-Willows?

-The Lindsey.

In The Birthday Present, Jane Atherton takes a job

as a resident nanny, hoping to ensnare her widowed boss Gerry.

Who rents her flat, meets Gerry and becomes engaged to him?

-Pandora Flint.

-Yes.

In Grasshopper, how much money is thought to have been stolen

when Liv's father is mugged?

£200,000. £2,000.

I'm sorry - I'll have to take the first answer. It WAS £2,000.

What genetic disorder does Martin Nanther discover

he and his wife Jude both carry the gene for?

-Muscular atrophy.

-Spinal muscular atrophy, yes.

In Gallowglass, Tilly accidentally discovers...

BEEP

..that Sandor and Joe are planning to kidnap a famous former model,

whom they refer to as "the princess". What's her name?

-Nina Abbot.

-Nina Abbot is correct.

You had just one pass, Beth.

In The Chimney Sweeper's Boy, it was Robert Postle

who wanted Sarah to write a memoir of her father.

Er, you have scored 7 points.

And our next contender, please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation?

In the first round, you took British Summer Olympic medallists as your subject.

Tonight it is...?

William II, in 90 seconds.

On the death of William the Conqueror in 1087,

his third son, William Rufus,

succeeded to the English throne as William II.

What dukedom was inherited by Rufus's older brother Robert?

-Normandy.

-Yes.

Who was Archbishop of Canterbury at the start of William II's reign?

He'd been his father's main advisor,

but died in 1089 and was not replaced for four years.

-Lanfranc.

-Yes.

An older brother of William died

in a hunting accident in the New Forest while still in his teens.

-Who was he?

-Richard.

-Yes.

Which Bishop, a half-brother of the Conqueror,

led a rebellion against William that planned

to put Duke Robert of Normandy on the English throne in 1088?

-Odo.

-Yes.

William invaded Wales

and the king of South Wales was killed in battle in 1093.

-What was his name?

-Rhys ap Tewdwr.

-Yes.

In what region, disputed between Normandy and the French kingdom,

did William II fight successful campaigns

while Duke Robert was on crusade?

-Vexin.

-Yes.

During William's reign,

the Pope called for the First Crusade in 1095.

-Which Pope was he?

-Urban II.

-Yes.

Where was a council held in February 1095

to resolve the dispute between William and Archbishop Anselm,

who wanted the King's permission to visit the Pope

to receive his pallium, a sign of office?

-Rockingham.

-Yes.

What was the name of the Bishop of Rochester,

a Master Mason responsible for the White Tower in London,

who William employed to rebuild Rochester Castle?

-Gundulf.

-Yep.

What did William do to his brother Robert on campaign,

which is said to have provoked Robert

into rebellion against their father in l'Aigle?

-Urinated over him.

-Yeah, they poured urine over him.

In 1097, William commissioned the building of the Great Hall,

the largest surviving medieval hall in Europe. What's it called today?

-Westminster Palace.

-Yes, or Westminster Hall.

-How many...

-BEEP

Just started, so I'll finish.

How many silver marks did William loan his older brother

to cover his outgoings on the First Crusade?

In return, Robert pledged the Duchy of Normandy as security.

-10,000.

-10,000 silver marks, indeed.

No passes, Colin.

A perfect round - 12 points.

And our next contender, please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation?

In the first round, you took the Manic Street Preachers as your subject.

Tonight it is...?

There's a change.

Adolf Hitler in 90 seconds - starting now.

Hitler became chancellor in 1933.

Who helped persuade President Hindenburg

to appoint Hitler to the post and himself as vice chancellor?

-Von Papen.

-Yes.

In August 1914, Hitler volunteered for the German army,

and was assigned to which Bavarian regiment?

-The List Regiment.

-Yes - the 16th.

In which military hospital was Hitler recovering from a gas attack

when he learned of Germany's defeat in November 1918?

-Pasewalk.

-Yes.

Hitler was born in Austria, but gave up his Austrian citizenship in 1925.

In what year did he become a German citizen,

which meant he could contest the presidential election?

-1932.

-Correct.

Hitler led an uprising in Munich in 1923,

and was sent to jail, where he wrote Mein Kampf.

He dictated the first volume to two other prisoners.

-One was Rudolf Hess. Who was the other?

-Pass.

Which journalist co-founded the German Workers' Party

with Anton Drexler?

Hitler was sent by the army to investigate them,

and ended up becoming a member.

-Eckart.

-Karl Harrer.

Many of Hitler's opponents were murdered by the SS

during the Night of the Long Knives in 1934,

including his predecessor as Chancellor.

Who was he?

-Bruening?

-Von Schleicher.

Which statesman did Hitler first meet

at the Berghof on 15th September 1938,

and then on the 22nd at Bad Godesberg?

-Chamberlain.

-Yes.

Hitler specified that the French armistice in June 1940

be signed in the same railway carriage where the Germans

had signed an armistice at the end of the Great War.

-In which forest was the carriage?

-Pass.

In a speech on 11th December 1941, Hitler declared war on a country

that he said was set on the destruction of Germany,

supported by the "entire satanic insidiousness" of the Jews.

-Which country?

-BEEP

-The United States.

-The United States of America is correct.

Er, you had two passes.

It was in the forest of Compiegne that Armistice was signed.

And Emil Maurice was the other prisoner to whom he dictated Mein Kampf.

You have, Ben, 6 points.

And our final contender, please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation?

In the first round, you took James Ramsay MacDonald as your subject.

Tonight...?

Paolo Veronese in 90 seconds. Here we go.

Veronese was born in Verona in 1528,

and moved to which city in the 1550s,

where he painted the majority of his great works?

-Venice.

-Yes.

Around 1541, Veronese became the pupil of a local artist,

whose daughter he married many years later.

-Who was the artist?

-Badile.

-Yes.

Veronese's father Gabriele was known by the surname Spezapreda,

because of his profession. What job was this?

-Stonecutter.

-Yes.

Veronese was questioned by the Inquisition on the grounds

that some of the detail of his painting The Last Supper

was considered inappropriate.

What alternative title did he give the work

to avoid being charged with irreverence and indecorum?

-Feast In The House Of Levi.

-Yes.

Before Veronese renamed The Last Supper,

it was suggested by the Inquisition that the dog in the picture

be replaced by a New Testament figure. Which one?

-Mary Magdalene.

-Yes.

Who was his colleague from Badile's school,

with whom Veronese was commissioned to paint frescoes

at the Villa Soranzo in Treville in 1551?

-Zelotti.

-Yes - or Battista.

Which of his major works measures 32 by 22 feet,

contains over 100 figures and is now housed in the Louvre?

-Wedding At Cana.

-Yes.

Veronese's painting The Family Of Darius Before Alexander

shows the family mistakenly petitioning someone for clemency,

thinking it to be Alexander the Great himself.

-Who was it?

-Hephaestus.

-Yes - Hephaestion.

Which sea battle of October 1571

is commemorated in Veronese's fresco in the Doge's Palace

showing Sebastiano Venier giving thanks for victory?

-Lepanto.

-Correct.

Which Venetian family commissioned and featured in Veronese's painting

The Family Of Darius Before Alexander?

-Pisani.

-Yes.

Veronese reputedly turned down an invitation by Philip II of Spain...

BEEP

..to help decorate a monastery palace near Madrid

then under construction. What was it?

-Escorial.

-Escorial is correct.

No passes, Hamish. 11 points.

So, that's the end of the first round. Some very high scores there. Let's have a look at them all.

In fifth place, with 6 points, Ben Holmes.

Fourth place, 7 points, Beth Webster.

Third place, 10 points, Andries Van Tonder.

Second place, 11 points, Hamish Cameron.

First place, with 12 points, Colin Foster.

So, the general knowledge round now.

And if there is a tie at the end of it, then the number of passes is taken into account,

and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.

And if they're tied on passes as well, there will be a tie-break.

So let's ask Ben to join us again, if he would, please.

And, er, you start out with 6 points, with your knowledge of Adolf Hitler.

Let's see how you do with general knowledge.

And it's two minutes, now, for this round.

Jacques Sauniere, the curator at the Louvre Museum, is murdered

at the start of a 2003 novel by Dan Brown.

-What's the novel called?

-The Da Vinci Code.

-Yes.

The green basilisk is sometimes known as the Jesus Christ lizard

because of its ability to run on what surface?

-Water.

-Yeah.

Which Italian city-state ruled Corsica

from the Middle Ages until the middle of the 18th century?

-Milan?

-Genoa.

Which actor and comedian is well known

for his roles as Father Dougal McGuire in Father Ted

and as the superhero Thermoman in My Hero?

-Ardal O'Hanlon.

-Yeah.

What word describes a leaf with two or more colours

or that has pale patches as a result of mutation or infection?

-Variegated.

-Yes.

Which Australian cricketer,

in a test career lasting from 1928 to 1948,

finished with a batting average of 99.94 - the highest in test cricket?

-Donald Bradman.

-Yes.

What common name is given to magnesium sulphate heptahydrate,

a white crystalline substance used as a laxative?

The name comes from the Surrey town

where it occurs naturally in spring water.

-Epsom salt.

-Yes.

The so-called BRICS countries with rising economic growth

consist of Russia, India, China, South Africa and...?

-Brazil.

-Yes.

Which 1966 film starring Michael Caine was remade in 2004

with Jude Law in the title role?

-Alfie.

-Yes.

Ernest Hemingway took the title of one of his novels

from John Donne's work Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions.

What is the novel called?

-The Sun Also Rises?

-For Whom The Bell Tolls.

What is the name of the Chinese communist leader

who was born in the village of Shaoshan in Hunan province

on 26th December 1893?

-Mao Tse-tung.

-Yes.

Which resort on the North Wales coast

lies on a bay between the headlands of Great Orme and Little Orme?

-Llandudno.

-Yes.

The official rules of a game specify

that it must be played on a mat six feet by three feet,

with the egg-cup-shaped target 38mm high.

What's the game?

-Tiddlywinks?

-Yes.

Which major city in America's South

was known as Terminus when it was laid out in 1837

at the end of a proposed railroad to Chattanooga?

It was renamed Marthasville

before being given its present name in 1845.

-Jacksonville?

-Atlanta.

Which band released the chart-topping double album

Rattle And Hum in 1988?

-U2.

-Yes.

Which former director-general of the BBC

was appointed chairman of the Football Association in March 2013?

-BEEP

-He succeeded David Bernstein.

-Greg Dyke.

-Is correct.

Well, you rattled away in that round, Ben.

Your score has now gone up to 19 points.

And now Beth again, please.

And, er, you start out with 7 points,

with your knowledge of the Barbara Vine books.

Let's see how you do with general knowledge. Two minutes. Here we go.

Anne Hathaway sang I Dreamed A Dream

in the 2012 film version of a well-known musical.

-What's the musical called?

-Les Miserables.

-Yes.

Which deer takes its name from the powerful scent it produces,

much sought after for use in perfumes and alternative medicine?

-Musk.

-Yes.

In a poem by John Milton Hayes, who paid with his life for stealing

the green eye of the yellow idol to the north of Kathmandu?

-Kubla Khan.

-Mad Carew.

Which city in South West England was built on the site

of the Roman settlement of Glevum?

-Bath.

-Gloucester.

Which singer's debut solo album Life Thru A Lens

entered the charts in October '97?

-Robbie Williams.

-Yes.

What name is given to the dark brown substance made by heating sugar

that's used as colouring and flavouring in food and drinks?

-It's also the name of a chewy sweet.

-Caramel.

-Yes.

Which figure in Celtic legend was the father of Fionnuala?

He was later the central figure in a Shakespearean tragedy.

-Macbeth.

-King Lir.

In which island group is La Gomera?

It was Columbus's last port of call

before sailing across the Atlantic in 1492.

-Spain.

-The Canary Islands.

What's the name of the Scottish architect

whose works included the Glasgow School of Art

and the interior designs for Miss Cranston's chain of tearooms,

also in Glasgow?

Pass.

Which improvisational comedy series of the late 1980s and '90s

had games called Party Quirks, Scenes From A Hat and Hoedown?

-Whose Line Is It Anyway?

-Yes.

Which seal is so named because it has a black mark on its back

that resembles a musical instrument?

It's been controversially harvested for fur

in Russia, Norway and Canada.

Pass.

The Rainbow was the first novel by DH Lawrence

to feature the sisters Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen.

What was the title of the second?

-Sons And Lovers?

-Women In Love.

Which hormone was first isolated in 1921

by the Canadian scientists Frederick Banting and Charles Best?

-Adrenaline?

-Insulin.

In the film Alien,

what is the name of the character played by Sigourney Weaver?

By the end, she's the only survivor of the spaceship Nostromo,

along with her cat, Jones.

-Ripley.

-Yes.

What name is given to the practice in Parliament

of surrounding a speaker with members of his party

-BEEP

-to give the impression on television

of a packed House of Commons?

-Pass.

-Why, it's doughnutting!

-Oh!

-Is what they call it, for obvious reasons.

You had two other passes.

That seal with the funny mark on it is the harp seal. Yep.

-And Charles Rennie Mackintosh...

-Of course.

-..was of course the Scottish...

-Whenever you think Scottish architecture...

-Yeah.

-I knew it - couldn't grab it.

-Of course you did. Of course you did.

-Beth, you have a total of 13 points.

-Thank you.

And now Andries again, please.

And you have 10 points already, with your knowledge of Black Sabbath.

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

The male and female of which large water bird

are known respectively as the cob and the pen?

-Swan.

-Yes.

Which traditional Spanish dish named after the two-handled pan

in which it's cooked consists of saffron-flavoured rice, vegetables

-and a variety of meats and shellfish?

-Paella.

-Yes.

Which West Indian island group was split between Britain and Denmark

until 1917, when Denmark sold its part to America?

-Virgin Islands.

-Yes.

What French term meaning "untying"

is used for the unravelling of mysteries and confusions,

usually in a final scene or chapter of a play or novel?

Pass.

The Dutch forger Han van Meegeren convinced art historians

that his painting Christ And The Disciples At Emmaus

was a lost work by a 17th-century artist. Who was the artist?

-Rembrandt?

-No, Vermeer.

Which television crime drama

starring David Tennant as Detective Inspector Hardy

takes its title from the fictional Dorset town in which it's set?

-Whitechapel?

-Broadchurch.

What name is given to the stone-like substance found on the seabed

that's made up of the skeletons of marine invertebrates?

-Coral.

-Yes.

In which city is the Church of the Holy Rude,

where the infant James VI was crowned King of Scotland in 1567?

-Edinburgh.

-Stirling.

Which composer wrote Moon River,

the Oscar-winning theme from the film Breakfast At Tiffany's,

in collaboration with the lyricist Johnny Mercer?

-Hammerstein?

-Henry Mancini.

In Slavic legend, what is the name of the ogress

who flies through the air in a cauldron and eats children?

-Brunhilde?

-Baba Yaga.

In New Zealand, the national rugby union team

is known as the All Blacks.

By what name is the rugby league team known?

-The Silver Ferns?

-Kiwis.

Songs Of Enchantment and Infinite Riches are sequels

to the 1991 Booker Prize-winning novel The Famished Road.

Who's the Nigerian author?

-Chinua Achebe?

-Ben Okri.

Which actor, who starred in Moonstruck, Wild At Heart

and Ghost Rider, is the nephew of the director Francis Ford Coppola?

-Nicolas Cage.

-Yes.

The town of Alghero became a Catalan colony in about 1354,

and a dialect of Catalan is still spoken there,

even though it's not part of Spain.

On which Mediterranean island is Alghero?

-Corsica?

-Sardinia.

Who said, of a historic 1955 bus journey in Montgomery, Alabama,

BEEP

"All I was doing was trying to get home from work"?

-Rosa Parks.

-Is correct.

Er, one pass, Andries.

That French term meaning "untying" is denouement.

So, one pass, Andries. You have a total of 16 points.

And Hamish again now, please.

And you already have 11 points in the bag, with your knowledge of Veronese.

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

And 19 is still the score to beat. Here we go.

Which revolution is sometimes known as the Revolution of 1789,

the year it's generally considered to have started?

-French.

-Yes.

What was the stage name of Leonard, the eldest of the Marx Brothers,

-who always spoke with an Italian accent?

-Chico.

-Yep.

Which stately home in North Yorkshire has stained glass

in the chapel that was commissioned from Edward Burne-Jones

and William Morris by the future 9th Earl of Carlisle?

-Leeds.

-Howard.

In 1982, which current affairs presenter provoked the defence

secretary John Nott to walk out of a live television interview,

by referring to him as a "here-today gone-tomorrow politician"?

-Barksman.

-Robin Day.

The desman, found both in Russia and the Pyrenees,

is an aquatic relative of an insect-eating, burrowing mammal

found widely in Britain.

-What mammal?

-Mole.

-Yep.

The title of which novel by Thomas Hardy

is taken from a line in Gray's Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard?

-Far From The Madding Crowd.

-Yes.

What word for the treeless grasslands of North America

comes from the Latin for "meadow"?

-Prairie.

-Yep.

The heckelphone and the cor anglais

both belong to which family of woodwind instruments?

-Tuba.

-Oboe.

The name of which biblical bread of heaven

comes from the Hebrew for "what is it?"

Because, when it appeared miraculously in the wilderness,

-the Israelites did not recognise it.

-Manna.

-Yes.

What is the name of the British general

who died in 1759 at the age of 32 on the battlefield

-of the Plains of Abraham?

-Wolfe.

He's remembered for his role in securing the end

-of French rule in Canada.

-Wolfe.

-Yes.

Which cricket ground hosted the archery competition of the 2012 Olympics?

-Lord's.

-Yep.

Which river rises on the Tibetan Plateau and flows in a generally

south-easterly direction through Laos and Cambodia,

before emptying into the South China Sea in southern Vietnam?

-Mekong.

-Yes.

What Italian term is used for a variety of chicory

that has red leaves veined with white?

Pass.

Which puppet family that featured on the BBC's Watch With Mother

segment in the 1950s owned the very biggest spotty dog you ever did see?

-Bill and Ben?

-The Wooodentops.

The comedies of an Athenian playwright

include The Wasps, The Birds and The Frogs.

-What was his name?

-Aristophanes.

-Yes.

Which bravery award, the highest for civilians, was instituted in 1941,

and replaced the Empire Gallantry Medal,

the Albert Medal and the Edward Medal?

-George Cross.

-Yes.

-The 1998 film Hilary And Jackie...

-BEEP

..is about a musician's life, as told by her sister.

Who is the musician?

-Barenboim.

-No. It was... sort of close in a way.

-It was Jacqueline du Pre.

-That's who I meant.

Well, exactly - the other half of Barenboim.

There we are. Erm, one pass.

Radicchio is that chicory that has red leaves veined with white.

But you've scored, Hamish, 22 points.

And finally, Colin Foster again, please.

And, er, you start out with 12 points, Colin,

with your knowledge of William II.

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

And now, as you've just heard, 22 is the score to beat. Here we go.

"Tora-tora-tora", meaning "Tiger-tiger-tiger" in Japanese,

was the signal for the attack on an American naval base

in December 1941.

-Which base?

-Pearl Harbor.

-Yes.

In which novel by Thomas Hughes

is the title character bullied by Flashman and his cronies?

-Tom Brown's School Days.

-Yes.

The tin whistle and pipe player Paddy Moloney

was one of the founders of an Irish folk group

established in Dublin in the early '60s.

-What's the group?

-The Chieftains.

-Yes.

Which tree, a member of the poplar family,

is notable for the almost constant trembling motion of its leaves?

Erm...

-Pine?

-The Aspen.

Which world-famous horse race forms part of the Spring Double

with the Lincoln Handicap for betting purposes?

-Cesarewitch.

-The Grand National.

Who was the last leader of the Conservative Party to be chosen

by a select few party grandees, rather than to be elected?

He succeeded Harold Macmillan in 1963.

-Alec Douglas-Home.

-Yes.

Which nostalgic American comedy drama series

first broadcast in the UK in 1989, used Joe Cocker's

version of With A Little Help From My Friends as its theme music?

-Thirtysomething?

-The Wonder Years.

Which island off the Cornish coast near Penzance

is named after the archangel

who is said to have appeared to some local fishermen in 495 AD?

-St Mary's?

-St Michael's Mount.

What name is given to the weak glue used mainly in art,

for filling the porous surface of wood or canvas before priming?

-Er, balsa glue?

-Size.

What French cheese, similar to Camembert but often milder,

is named after the district between the rivers Seine and Marne

where it was originally made?

-Erm, Brie?

-Yes.

In which classic 1962 Western

does John Wayne play the rancher Tom Doniphon,

who shoots the local villain, played by Lee Marvin,

in the town of Shinbone?

-Rio Bravo?

-The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

Which island country's largest glacier, the Vatna, is equal in area

to the total area of all the glaciers in continental Europe?

-Norway.

-Iceland.

What Latin word meaning "I forbid" has come to mean

the exercising of the right to prevent

legislation or action by others?

-Veto.

-Yes.

The works of which Liverpool horror writer

include the 1987 novel Weaveworld

and the story collection Books Of Blood?

-Michael Smith.

-Clive Barker.

What period of fasting in the Church was once known as Quadragesima?

-It is also the traditional name...

-BEEP

..for the first Sunday of the period?

-Lent.

-Lent is correct.

No passes. You didn't quite make it, Colin. 19 points.

So, at the end of the contest, let's have a look at all the scores.

In fifth place, with 13 points, Beth Webster.

Fourth place, 16 points, Andries Van Tonder.

Joint second place, 19 points apiece, Colin Foster and Ben Holmes.

In first place, with 22 points, Hamish Cameron.

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

and he goes through to the grand final.

Congratulations to him.

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