0:00:03 > 0:00:06Over the past 30 weeks, 96 brave contenders have battled
0:00:06 > 0:00:09against the pressure of the spotlights
0:00:09 > 0:00:11and the clock and the tough questions
0:00:11 > 0:00:14in the biggest challenge the quiz world has to offer.
0:00:16 > 0:00:20And from those 96 only six remain.
0:00:21 > 0:00:25Tonight, one of them will be crowned the nation's Mastermind.
0:00:27 > 0:00:29MASTERMIND THEME
0:00:41 > 0:00:44The first finalist in the spotlight tonight
0:00:44 > 0:00:45is Hamish Cameron, from Elgin.
0:00:45 > 0:00:49His specialist subject, Scottish lighthouses.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52Next, Daniel Adler, an IT consultant from Farnham.
0:00:52 > 0:00:54He's taking on Richard Wagner.
0:00:54 > 0:00:57Brian Chesney, from Malvern. He'll be answering questions
0:00:57 > 0:00:59on the Italian front in the First World War.
0:00:59 > 0:01:04Next, Clive Dunning, a teacher from Stockton on Tees, on Philip Larkin.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07Roderick Cromar, a chartered accountant from Aberdeen,
0:01:07 > 0:01:09takes questions on French cinema.
0:01:09 > 0:01:13And Michael McPartland, a civil servant from Middlesbrough.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17His specialist subject - the Salem witch trials.
0:01:17 > 0:01:19APPLAUSE
0:01:30 > 0:01:35Hello and welcome to the Mastermind grand final, with me, John Humphrys.
0:01:35 > 0:01:39If you ever wonder why anyone would put themselves through this ordeal,
0:01:39 > 0:01:41well, this is the answer - tonight's grand final,
0:01:41 > 0:01:44knowing that they might be the lucky contender
0:01:44 > 0:01:46who walks away with the title
0:01:46 > 0:01:49and the glass bowl to remind them of their triumph.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51Not that luck is really anything to do with it.
0:01:51 > 0:01:52It's knowledge and nerve.
0:01:52 > 0:01:54They have to answer two sets of questions,
0:01:54 > 0:01:58one on their specialist subject and one on general knowledge.
0:01:58 > 0:02:01Two minutes on one, two and a half minutes on the other.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04So, let's get on with it and ask our first finalist to join us, please.
0:02:12 > 0:02:13And your name is?
0:02:13 > 0:02:16Your occupation?
0:02:16 > 0:02:18And your specialist subject?
0:02:30 > 0:02:33I chose this subject because about two years ago
0:02:33 > 0:02:36I watched a programme on the BBC about Scottish lighthouses,
0:02:36 > 0:02:38and I became fascinated about the work
0:02:38 > 0:02:40that went into building these lighthouses
0:02:40 > 0:02:42and the Stevenson family,
0:02:42 > 0:02:45who built most of the lighthouses in Scotland.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50Today, we're in the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses
0:02:50 > 0:02:52in Kinnaird Head, Fraserburgh.
0:02:52 > 0:02:53This is the first lighthouse built
0:02:53 > 0:02:57by the Northern Lighthouse Board in 1787.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01I feel very excited being here.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03All lighthouses are now automatic,
0:03:03 > 0:03:06but this one has still got a manual operation
0:03:06 > 0:03:09and I believe they're going to let me light it tonight.
0:03:09 > 0:03:10Fantastic.
0:03:14 > 0:03:16These are the lighthouses,
0:03:16 > 0:03:20and when they were erected by the Northern Lighthouse Board.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23Quite a daunting prospect, trying to learn all of these.
0:03:25 > 0:03:27I certainly have a lot to think about.
0:03:30 > 0:03:34It has been an ongoing passion of mine to reach the Mastermind final.
0:03:34 > 0:03:35I first applied in 1990.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38Those were the days of Magnus Magnusson.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40Your name, please?
0:03:40 > 0:03:41Occupation?
0:03:41 > 0:03:45'And I've been on the BBC Two version
0:03:45 > 0:03:49'about every three years since 2002.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51The reason I keep applying is that
0:03:51 > 0:03:52'I've been so close, so often.'
0:03:52 > 0:03:54Pass.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57I just had to try again, one more time!
0:03:57 > 0:03:59This year in the semifinal,
0:03:59 > 0:04:02I decided to keep a very straight face.
0:04:02 > 0:04:04Inside, my heart was jumping up and down.
0:04:04 > 0:04:08In first place with 22 points, Hamish Cameron.
0:04:15 > 0:04:18When I first heard I was going to be allowed to pull the switch,
0:04:18 > 0:04:20I was extremely excited.
0:04:20 > 0:04:24And when I told my grandson, he was even more excited.
0:04:24 > 0:04:29Welcome to the lens room of the Kinnaird Head Lighthouse.
0:04:29 > 0:04:33In the old days, I know that the keepers had to wind up a chain
0:04:33 > 0:04:36every half hour to keep the whole system going.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43- Good workout.- Yes, good workout.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45You would feel it by the end of the night.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48I feel very privileged,
0:04:48 > 0:04:53because this is something that very few people are allowed to do.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55So, now time to turn on the lights.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57Just put your hand over there and push it up
0:04:57 > 0:05:00in three, two, one...
0:05:02 > 0:05:04Fantastic.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11To win Mastermind would be the culmination of my dream
0:05:11 > 0:05:13after all those years trying.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15And on the plus side, I would not have to apply again.
0:05:22 > 0:05:26Scottish lighthouses, in two minutes, starting now.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28The first permanently manned lighthouse in Scotland
0:05:28 > 0:05:30was built in 1636 on which island
0:05:30 > 0:05:31at the mouth of the Firth of Forth?
0:05:31 > 0:05:32The Isle of May.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34JMW Turner was commissioned to do a painting
0:05:34 > 0:05:36that was used in Robert Stevenson's book
0:05:36 > 0:05:37about which lighthouse?
0:05:37 > 0:05:38Bell Rock.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41The lighthouse lying six miles south-west of Canna
0:05:41 > 0:05:43was famous for its vegetable garden
0:05:43 > 0:05:46and even a tiny golf course. What was its name?
0:05:46 > 0:05:47- Hyskith?- No, Hyskeir.
0:05:47 > 0:05:49In 1814, which author described the site
0:05:49 > 0:05:51of the future Skerryvore Lighthouse
0:05:51 > 0:05:54as "a most desolate position for a lighthouse,
0:05:54 > 0:05:56"the Bell Rock and Edison a joke to it"?
0:05:56 > 0:05:57Walter Scott.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00Scottish lighthouse keepers became known as paraffin oilers
0:06:00 > 0:06:02because this fuel was used for the lights
0:06:02 > 0:06:04after a burner had been devised
0:06:04 > 0:06:07in about 1868 by an American ship's captain. Who was he?
0:06:07 > 0:06:08Doty.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11Britain's most northerly lighthouse at North Unst
0:06:11 > 0:06:14was built by David and Thomas Stevenson in the 1850s.
0:06:14 > 0:06:16It's now known by what name, meaning great precipice?
0:06:16 > 0:06:18Muckle Flugga.
0:06:18 > 0:06:19The design of Ardnamurchan Lighthouse
0:06:19 > 0:06:21on mainland Britain's most westerly point
0:06:21 > 0:06:24was influenced by what style of architecture?
0:06:24 > 0:06:25Egyptian.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28In December 1900, in an incident reminiscent of the Mary Celeste,
0:06:28 > 0:06:31all three keepers disappeared without trace from which lighthouse?
0:06:31 > 0:06:32Flannan.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34The first lighthouse built as an all-electric station
0:06:34 > 0:06:37was completed in 1958 on the north coast of Scotland.
0:06:37 > 0:06:38What's its name?
0:06:38 > 0:06:39Strathy Point.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42The credit for the design of the Bell Rock lighthouse
0:06:42 > 0:06:43is disputed between Robert Stevenson
0:06:43 > 0:06:45and which other eminent engineer?
0:06:45 > 0:06:46John Rennie.
0:06:46 > 0:06:48In 1876, the lighthouse at St Abb's Head
0:06:48 > 0:06:49was the first Scottish lighthouse
0:06:49 > 0:06:52to be fitted with what type of warning device?
0:06:52 > 0:06:53Foghorn.
0:06:53 > 0:06:54On 31 March 1998,
0:06:54 > 0:06:56the occupation of lighthouse keeper
0:06:56 > 0:06:58in Scotland was brought to an end
0:06:58 > 0:07:00when the last lighthouse was fully automated.
0:07:00 > 0:07:01What's its name?
0:07:01 > 0:07:03Fair Isle South.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05The Rua Reidh lighthouse stands close to the entrance
0:07:05 > 0:07:07to a sea loch in Wester Ross
0:07:07 > 0:07:09that was a base for the Russian Arctic convoys
0:07:09 > 0:07:11of the Second World War. Which loch?
0:07:11 > 0:07:13- Broom?- Loch Ewe.
0:07:13 > 0:07:16A retired judge wrote a report following the Braer disaster
0:07:16 > 0:07:18and oil spill in 1993 recommending the use
0:07:18 > 0:07:21of a deep water route west of the Hebrides.
0:07:21 > 0:07:22As a result, three new lighthouses,
0:07:22 > 0:07:24including one at Hyskeir, were built.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26What was the name of the judge?
0:07:26 > 0:07:28Don't know. BEEP
0:07:28 > 0:07:29I can take that as a pass
0:07:29 > 0:07:32and tell you that it was Lord Donaldson.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34Hamish, you have 11 points.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36APPLAUSE
0:07:45 > 0:07:47And our next finalist, please.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55Your name is?
0:07:55 > 0:07:57Your occupation?
0:07:57 > 0:07:58And your specialist subject?
0:08:11 > 0:08:14Richard Wagner is probably the most controversial artist,
0:08:14 > 0:08:17certainly of the 19th century, probably of all time.
0:08:17 > 0:08:20He wrote almost exclusively for the stage.
0:08:20 > 0:08:24He wrote enormous works on a grand scale.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27If he'd been born 100 years later, he would have been
0:08:27 > 0:08:30the most ostentatious film director of all time.
0:08:31 > 0:08:32We're in Bayreuth,
0:08:32 > 0:08:35which is his spiritual homeland, if you like.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38It's the shrine to his music and his work
0:08:38 > 0:08:39in the middle of Bavaria.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54'Wagner spent 20 years writing this mammoth set'
0:08:54 > 0:08:57of four linked operas,
0:08:57 > 0:08:59called The Ring Of The Nibelung,
0:08:59 > 0:09:01and then he went looking for somewhere to stage it.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03The people of Bayreuth said,
0:09:03 > 0:09:06"We've got a hill just outside the town.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08"Would you like to build a theatre there?"
0:09:08 > 0:09:11Eventually, he managed to build what was at the time
0:09:11 > 0:09:13a temporary theatre to stage, I think,
0:09:13 > 0:09:17three performances of The Ring Of The Nibelung in 1876.
0:09:17 > 0:09:22It's fascinating to be here in the Festspielhaus,
0:09:22 > 0:09:26because everything is there specifically to showcase the work.
0:09:26 > 0:09:30So the acoustics of the auditorium, the wooden floors,
0:09:30 > 0:09:33the rather uncomfortable seats -
0:09:33 > 0:09:38it's that single-minded purpose of, "Here is my work,
0:09:38 > 0:09:42"and you will see it to its best advantage".
0:09:42 > 0:09:45My family get fed up of me sitting and watching quizzes
0:09:45 > 0:09:48and shouting out the answers and getting frustrated
0:09:48 > 0:09:49with people who don't know the answers.
0:09:49 > 0:09:51So I think initially, they thought
0:09:51 > 0:09:54"Well, he's going to find out what it's like".
0:09:54 > 0:09:56I'm not sure what they think
0:09:56 > 0:09:59now I've actually got this far, to be honest!
0:09:59 > 0:10:02I know my wife's quite proud. My kids have rolled their eyes,
0:10:02 > 0:10:04but that's what kids are supposed to do, isn't it?
0:10:04 > 0:10:07I think it would be very gratifying
0:10:07 > 0:10:10to win something which has so few winners.
0:10:10 > 0:10:13There aren't many people who've won Mastermind.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15You'd have a trophy to show for it,
0:10:15 > 0:10:18and something to talk about in the old people's home.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23One of the things that people like to put on their CV
0:10:23 > 0:10:26when they apply for jobs is "Good under pressure".
0:10:26 > 0:10:29And this is a very good way of demonstrating
0:10:29 > 0:10:31that you're good under pressure.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34I can't think of any experience quite like it.
0:10:40 > 0:10:44Richard Wagner, in two minutes, starting now.
0:10:44 > 0:10:45Wagner wrote an opera
0:10:45 > 0:10:48named after the blameless fool who uncovers the Grail.
0:10:48 > 0:10:49What's the title of the opera?
0:10:49 > 0:10:51Parsifal.
0:10:51 > 0:10:52Wagner's stepfather was an actor
0:10:52 > 0:10:54and was thought by some, including Wagner himself,
0:10:54 > 0:10:57to be his real father. What was his name?
0:10:57 > 0:10:59- Geyer. - In act three of Tristan Und Isolde,
0:10:59 > 0:11:01the shepherd's melody reminds Tristan
0:11:01 > 0:11:03of the death of his parents.
0:11:03 > 0:11:05For which solo instrument is the melody written?
0:11:05 > 0:11:07- A pipe.- No, a cor anglais or English horn.
0:11:07 > 0:11:10Wagner read The World As Will And Representation in 1854,
0:11:10 > 0:11:12and it had a significant effect on his life and music.
0:11:12 > 0:11:14Which philosopher wrote it?
0:11:14 > 0:11:16- Schopenhauer.- Yes. In July 1839,
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Wagner and his first wife, Minna,
0:11:18 > 0:11:21escaped his creditors in Riga and travelled to the port of Pillau.
0:11:21 > 0:11:23What was the name of the merchant ship
0:11:23 > 0:11:25they took from there to England?
0:11:25 > 0:11:26Thetis.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29In Das Rheingold, what must the dwarf, Alberich, first curse and renounce
0:11:29 > 0:11:31before he can take the gold to make the ring?
0:11:31 > 0:11:33- Love. - King Ludwig II of Bavaria
0:11:33 > 0:11:35wanted a grand festival theatre in Munich
0:11:35 > 0:11:37for performances of Wagner's work.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40What was the name of the architect he asked to design it?
0:11:40 > 0:11:42- Semper. - In act one of Parsifal,
0:11:42 > 0:11:44Kundry offers Amfortas a balsam for his wound.
0:11:44 > 0:11:47From what region does she claim the balsam has come?
0:11:47 > 0:11:48Arabia.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50What was the name of Wagner's composer friend,
0:11:50 > 0:11:52to whom he wrote in January 1854,
0:11:52 > 0:11:55"Wodan rises to the tragic height of willing his own destruction"?
0:11:55 > 0:11:57- Liszt.- No, Rockel.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59Writing about Tristan Und Isolde
0:11:59 > 0:12:01to his muse, Mathilde von Wesendonck,
0:12:01 > 0:12:04in 1859, Wagner says he would now like to call
0:12:04 > 0:12:08his most delicate and profound art the art of...?
0:12:08 > 0:12:09- Handlung.- Transition.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11The tenor who sang the role of Tristan
0:12:11 > 0:12:13at its first performance in Munich in 1865
0:12:13 > 0:12:16died shortly afterwards. What was his name?
0:12:16 > 0:12:17Von Carolsfeld.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20Wagner dedicated the original 1850 edition
0:12:20 > 0:12:22of his essay The Artwork Of The Future
0:12:22 > 0:12:25to a philosopher who was an important influence
0:12:25 > 0:12:27on his thought from Lohengrin to Die Walkure.
0:12:27 > 0:12:28Who was he?
0:12:28 > 0:12:30Feuerbach.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32The Siegfried Idyll was first performed on Christmas Day 1870
0:12:32 > 0:12:34at Tribschen, the lakeside house
0:12:34 > 0:12:36he shared with Cosima and her children.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38On which major lake does the house stand?
0:12:38 > 0:12:39Lucerne.
0:12:39 > 0:12:41The term leitmotif, meaning a musical idea
0:12:41 > 0:12:44associated with a particular character or concept, was used by the author
0:12:44 > 0:12:46- of the thematic guide - BEEP
0:12:46 > 0:12:49to Wagner's Ring Of The Nibelung, published in 1876.
0:12:49 > 0:12:52What is the author's name?
0:12:52 > 0:12:53George Bernard Shaw.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56- HE LAUGHS:- Well, I was going to say "good guess",
0:12:56 > 0:12:57but whether it was good or not,
0:12:57 > 0:12:59Hans von Wolzogen.
0:12:59 > 0:13:02No passes, Daniel. You have 10 points.
0:13:02 > 0:13:04APPLAUSE
0:13:11 > 0:13:13And our third finalist, please.
0:13:19 > 0:13:20And your name is?
0:13:20 > 0:13:22Your occupation?
0:13:22 > 0:13:24And your chosen subject?
0:13:36 > 0:13:37Wow.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42We have an amazing view here.
0:13:44 > 0:13:48I am at the largest Italian war memorial of the First World War,
0:13:48 > 0:13:52at Redipuglia, which is down on the border with Slovenia.
0:13:52 > 0:13:57This commemorates 100,000 men lost on this place alone.
0:13:59 > 0:14:01You have these terraces going up,
0:14:03 > 0:14:07and each of these terraces contains, I think,
0:14:07 > 0:14:14the bones of the people whose names are inscribed in these walls.
0:14:17 > 0:14:18Look at all the names.
0:14:20 > 0:14:22Astonishing.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24I've always been interested in Italian history.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27I've always been interested in the First World War,
0:14:27 > 0:14:28and I put the two together, really.
0:14:30 > 0:14:35My specialist subject is the story of one battle after another,
0:14:35 > 0:14:38as the Italians tried to fight their way uphill
0:14:38 > 0:14:42against the Austro-Hungarian forces who were up on top of the hills,
0:14:42 > 0:14:43shooting down at them.
0:14:43 > 0:14:46And this happened again and again and again over a three-year period.
0:14:49 > 0:14:53Life for a soldier in the Italian army was terrible, basically.
0:14:53 > 0:14:58It was far worse than that of British troops on the Western Front.
0:15:03 > 0:15:08We have here an intact First World War trench,
0:15:08 > 0:15:13with holes for the rifles up there.
0:15:13 > 0:15:17Of course, it'll be smelly, it'll be rat infested,
0:15:17 > 0:15:21it'll be a very nasty place to be for any length of time.
0:15:21 > 0:15:26And...at some point you will have to go over the top.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28Extremely unpleasant.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33I think people know a bit about the British contribution,
0:15:33 > 0:15:36but nobody knows about the Italian contribution,
0:15:36 > 0:15:37so people watching the programme,
0:15:37 > 0:15:40well, they may learn something, you know, they didn't know before.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45I've been watching Mastermind for 40 years
0:15:45 > 0:15:49and thinking for a long time, "I could go on that,"
0:15:49 > 0:15:53but it wasn't until I met my present wife and she said,
0:15:53 > 0:15:57"Why don't you go on Mastermind? Win me that fruit bowl," she said.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59So, that is why...
0:15:59 > 0:16:01That is why I'm on there, basically!
0:16:05 > 0:16:07Winning the grand final would be...
0:16:07 > 0:16:11Well, it would be quite simply the best thing I've ever done in my life.
0:16:11 > 0:16:13I think I may have won a raffle when I was about eight,
0:16:13 > 0:16:15but apart from that,
0:16:15 > 0:16:17I haven't really won anything very much and this would be...
0:16:17 > 0:16:19This would be the crowning glory, really.
0:16:25 > 0:16:29The Italian Front in World War I in two minutes, starting now.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31During the First World War, the Austro-Hungarian
0:16:31 > 0:16:35and Italian armies fought a series of 12 battles on the Italian Front
0:16:35 > 0:16:37between 1915 and 1917, along which river?
0:16:37 > 0:16:38The Isonzo.
0:16:38 > 0:16:41In 1915, an Austro-Hungarian of Croat origin
0:16:41 > 0:16:43was appointed Commander of the Fifth Army
0:16:43 > 0:16:44fighting on the Italian Front.
0:16:44 > 0:16:45What was his name?
0:16:45 > 0:16:46Boroevich.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48Which town was an objective of the Italians'
0:16:48 > 0:16:51first offensive bound of the opening battle of Isonzo,
0:16:51 > 0:16:55but was not captured until the Sixth Battle in August 1916?
0:16:55 > 0:16:56Gorizia.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58The fast, heavily armed Italian assault troops
0:16:58 > 0:17:00created in the summer of 1917
0:17:00 > 0:17:02under the leadership of Giuseppe Bassi,
0:17:02 > 0:17:04were given what name, translated as "bold or daring ones"?
0:17:04 > 0:17:05Arditi.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08Which Italian conductor was awarded a silver medal
0:17:08 > 0:17:10for valour for leading a military band
0:17:10 > 0:17:12during the assault on Monte Santo in August 1917,
0:17:12 > 0:17:14during the 11th Battle of the Isonzo?
0:17:14 > 0:17:16Toscanini.
0:17:16 > 0:17:18Who served as a Corp Commander on the Italian Front
0:17:18 > 0:17:21in the spring of 1916 and succeeded Franz Josef
0:17:21 > 0:17:24as Emperor of Austria-Hungary later that year?
0:17:24 > 0:17:25Karl.
0:17:25 > 0:17:27At Caporetto, the Italians suffered many casualties
0:17:27 > 0:17:30from poisoned gas because their masks were ineffective
0:17:30 > 0:17:32against a chemical named after the Greek for
0:17:32 > 0:17:34"produced by light". What was it?
0:17:34 > 0:17:35Phosgene.
0:17:35 > 0:17:38In mid April 1916, the Italians exploded a 5,000kg mine
0:17:38 > 0:17:40that finally enabled them to take the peak
0:17:40 > 0:17:43of a mountain in the Dolomites. Which mountain?
0:17:43 > 0:17:45- Castelletto. - No, Col di Lana.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47General Cadorna publicly blamed the army
0:17:47 > 0:17:50commanded by Luigi Capello for its failure to prevent
0:17:50 > 0:17:52the rout of the Italians at Caporetto. Which army?
0:17:52 > 0:17:54The Second Army.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56In October 1917, a German lieutenant
0:17:56 > 0:17:58in the Wurttemberg Mountain Battalion
0:17:58 > 0:18:00led a detachment that captured Mount Matajur
0:18:00 > 0:18:02and received the Pour le Merite military honour
0:18:02 > 0:18:04for his actions. What was his name?
0:18:04 > 0:18:05Rommel.
0:18:05 > 0:18:07Who replaced Cardona as the Chief of General Staff
0:18:07 > 0:18:09following the retreat of the Italian Army
0:18:09 > 0:18:11after the disastrous Battle of Caporetto?
0:18:12 > 0:18:14Diaz.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16Which plateau to the immediate south of Tolmino
0:18:16 > 0:18:19was gained by the Italians during the 11th Battle of Isonzo?
0:18:19 > 0:18:20Bainsizza.
0:18:20 > 0:18:22Which battle of late October 1918
0:18:22 > 0:18:24was a resounding Italian victory
0:18:24 > 0:18:26and marked the last major offensive on the Italian front?
0:18:26 > 0:18:28Vittorio Veneto.
0:18:28 > 0:18:30Between the 10th and 11th Battles of the Isonzo,
0:18:30 > 0:18:32the Italian Sixth Army...
0:18:32 > 0:18:33BEEP
0:18:33 > 0:18:34I've started, so I'll finish.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37..suffered more than 20,000 casualties capturing a mountain
0:18:37 > 0:18:39in the southern Dolomites that was retaken
0:18:39 > 0:18:42by the Austrians just days later. Which mountain?
0:18:42 > 0:18:45- Ortigara? - Ortigara is correct.
0:18:45 > 0:18:48Brian, you have no passes, you have 13 points.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50APPLAUSE
0:18:58 > 0:19:00And our fourth finalist, please.
0:19:07 > 0:19:09And your name is...?
0:19:09 > 0:19:11Your occupation?
0:19:11 > 0:19:12And your specialist subject?
0:19:20 > 0:19:24We are here today at Hull University, the Brynmor Jones Library,
0:19:24 > 0:19:28where Philip Larkin was chief librarian for over 20 years.
0:19:28 > 0:19:32He actually oversaw massive redevelopments
0:19:32 > 0:19:34during his life as librarian
0:19:34 > 0:19:39and, actually, at this very moment, they are renovating it again.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42I've always admired the poetry of Philip Larkin.
0:19:42 > 0:19:44I saw a documentary when I was a young man
0:19:44 > 0:19:47and I've always enjoyed his poetry since.
0:19:47 > 0:19:52Beyond all this, the wish to be alone
0:19:52 > 0:19:57However the sky grows dark with invitation cards
0:19:57 > 0:20:01However we follow the printed directions of sex
0:20:01 > 0:20:05However the family is photographed under the flagstaff
0:20:05 > 0:20:09Beyond all this, the wish to be alone.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12He's probably seen as a bit of an old grump, really,
0:20:12 > 0:20:16that seems to be his general persona, but there's actually a lot of humour
0:20:16 > 0:20:20and a lot of love of life shines through his poetry.
0:20:22 > 0:20:24Today I've been over to the Hull History Centre
0:20:24 > 0:20:28and have had the privilege of looking at Philip Larkin's notebooks.
0:20:28 > 0:20:33It is a kind of living record of the work of Philip Larkin.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36It's incredible, actually, it gives me goose bumps.
0:20:36 > 0:20:40I mean, what you get to see normally is the finished product.
0:20:40 > 0:20:43To actually see the amendments and the crossings-out
0:20:43 > 0:20:46and the doodlings is an honour, really,
0:20:46 > 0:20:50and an education. Fantastic.
0:20:51 > 0:20:54From what I've been told by the staff here,
0:20:54 > 0:20:59almost nobody gets to see these things as close-up as I am today,
0:20:59 > 0:21:01so I'm really privileged and honoured.
0:21:03 > 0:21:07It's augmenting the work that I've already done.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09It makes me want to go home now and get hold of the book
0:21:09 > 0:21:12and compare them to the original and...
0:21:12 > 0:21:16the different words and rhyme schemes and things that he's used.
0:21:18 > 0:21:20I think Larkin the poet was a genius.
0:21:20 > 0:21:24I think Larkin the man was a bundle of contradictions.
0:21:24 > 0:21:28I see a lot of his failings in myself and other people.
0:21:28 > 0:21:29Nobody's perfect.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33I've been interested in quizzes for a number of years
0:21:33 > 0:21:35and I've always been a fan of Mastermind
0:21:35 > 0:21:37and a long time ago, I thought, "I'd like to try that,"
0:21:37 > 0:21:40but I didn't have the confidence and I'm not getting any younger,
0:21:40 > 0:21:42so I thought, "It's now or never, I'll give it a whirl
0:21:42 > 0:21:44"and see what's what."
0:21:45 > 0:21:48I was actually made redundant at about the same time
0:21:48 > 0:21:54as I applied for Mastermind, so I did have some time on my hands,
0:21:54 > 0:21:56so I'm quite grateful for that.
0:21:56 > 0:21:58Now and again, it just dawns on me
0:21:58 > 0:22:01that I'm really, really close now to that bowl!
0:22:01 > 0:22:02I've got one hand on it.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10Philip Larkin in two minutes, starting now.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13In 1950, Larkin started work as an assistant librarian
0:22:13 > 0:22:15at the Queen's University in which city?
0:22:15 > 0:22:16Belfast.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18Larkin's 1955 poetry collection
0:22:18 > 0:22:20that includes Myxomatosis and Toads
0:22:20 > 0:22:21was included in the Times newspaper's
0:22:21 > 0:22:23round-up of notable books of the year.
0:22:23 > 0:22:25What was the collection called?
0:22:25 > 0:22:26The Less Deceived.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28Some of Larkin's early writings,
0:22:28 > 0:22:30such as Sugar And Spice: A Sheaf Of Poems,
0:22:30 > 0:22:31was written under what pen name?
0:22:31 > 0:22:33Brunette Coleman.
0:22:33 > 0:22:35Larkin wrote a number of poems following the engagement
0:22:35 > 0:22:38of Winifred Arnott, a colleague at Queen's University.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40What's the title of the poem that includes the words,
0:22:40 > 0:22:43"All your ages matt and glossy on the thick black pages"?
0:22:43 > 0:22:45On A Young Lady's Photograph Album.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47A poem from The Whitsun Weddings
0:22:47 > 0:22:49tells of the defacement of a girl on a poster
0:22:49 > 0:22:51advertising a holiday resort.
0:22:51 > 0:22:53The poster is eventually replaced
0:22:53 > 0:22:56by one saying, "Fight cancer." Which poem?
0:22:56 > 0:22:57Sunny Prestatyn.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59Larkin wrote that Louis Armstrong's version
0:22:59 > 0:23:01of St Louis Blues was the hottest record ever made
0:23:01 > 0:23:03in his March '68 article on jazz,
0:23:03 > 0:23:06written for which newspaper?
0:23:06 > 0:23:07The Daily Telegraph.
0:23:07 > 0:23:11The January 1984 issue of Poetry Review called Alcohol And Poetry
0:23:11 > 0:23:13includes Larkin's last published poem.
0:23:13 > 0:23:16It starts, "I never remember holding a full drink."
0:23:16 > 0:23:17What's it called?
0:23:17 > 0:23:18Party Politics.
0:23:18 > 0:23:21Larkin had a long-term relationship with Monica Jones
0:23:21 > 0:23:23and they spent holidays at her home
0:23:23 > 0:23:25in which small town near Hexham?
0:23:27 > 0:23:29- Allendale. - Haydon Bridge.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32What is the name of the artist who was commissioned in 1984
0:23:32 > 0:23:34to paint Larkin's portrait that now hangs
0:23:34 > 0:23:36in the National Portrait Gallery?
0:23:36 > 0:23:37Humphrey Ocean.
0:23:37 > 0:23:40Larkin was engaged to a young woman whom he later describes
0:23:40 > 0:23:41as the "friend in specs I could talk to,"
0:23:41 > 0:23:43in the poem Wild Oats. What was her name?
0:23:43 > 0:23:45Erm...
0:23:47 > 0:23:48Ruth Bowman.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51The poem Annus Mirabilis about the year 1963
0:23:51 > 0:23:53between the end of the Lady Chatterley ban
0:23:53 > 0:23:54and The Beatles' first LP
0:23:54 > 0:23:56was published in which '74 collection?
0:23:56 > 0:23:57High Windows.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59Larkin and his married lover, Patsy Strang,
0:23:59 > 0:24:01used a false surname when they stayed in hotels
0:24:01 > 0:24:04and left letters for each other at post offices. What was it?
0:24:04 > 0:24:05Mr and Mrs Crane.
0:24:05 > 0:24:08For which jazz musician did Larkin write a poem beginning,
0:24:08 > 0:24:10"The note you hold, narrow and rising, shakes
0:24:10 > 0:24:13- "Like New Orleans reflected on the water?" - BEEP
0:24:13 > 0:24:15- Sidney Bechet. - Is correct.
0:24:15 > 0:24:18No passes, Clive. You have 12 points.
0:24:18 > 0:24:20APPLAUSE
0:24:28 > 0:24:30And our fifth finalist, please.
0:24:37 > 0:24:39And your name is...?
0:24:39 > 0:24:41Your occupation?
0:24:41 > 0:24:43And your specialist subject?
0:24:59 > 0:25:03I've always liked films in general, since I was very small,
0:25:03 > 0:25:06but about 30 years ago I saw a film called Jean de Florette,
0:25:06 > 0:25:09which immediately captured my imagination
0:25:09 > 0:25:13and introduced me to the possibilities of French cinema.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19This is the Institut Lumiere in Lyon.
0:25:19 > 0:25:23Behind us is the family mansion where the two brothers lived
0:25:23 > 0:25:25when they made the very first films in 1895,
0:25:25 > 0:25:28the year which marks the beginning of my specialist subject.
0:25:34 > 0:25:36The Lumiere brothers already had a very big factory
0:25:36 > 0:25:39making photographic plates for still cameras,
0:25:39 > 0:25:41and they built this rather grand building
0:25:41 > 0:25:43with the profits from their business.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48Nowadays, the mansion itself is a museum to the family
0:25:48 > 0:25:50and to the early cinema industry.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56The first film was made here in 1895.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58It's quite famous.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00Workers leaving a factory,
0:26:00 > 0:26:03with ladies in big hats and the men in straw hats.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05This is actually the factory
0:26:05 > 0:26:09and behind me is the entrance that the workers came out of.
0:26:09 > 0:26:13It's very exciting, slightly moving, to be here,
0:26:13 > 0:26:18actually at the very place, the exact spot where modern cinema began.
0:26:23 > 0:26:26When people saw the first films, it created a sensation
0:26:26 > 0:26:28and they were literally terrified
0:26:28 > 0:26:31because they saw trains coming at them out of the screen,
0:26:31 > 0:26:33and sometimes lions leaping towards them.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40I think French cinema is a very tough subject for Mastermind
0:26:40 > 0:26:43because it's so vast,
0:26:43 > 0:26:46covering a whole 50-year span.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49I thought I knew a lot about the subject,
0:26:49 > 0:26:52but I've discovered that I've just scratched the surface
0:26:52 > 0:26:55and I'm doing an awful lot of reading at the moment.
0:26:57 > 0:26:59I've always wanted to go on Mastermind.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01I clearly remember the very first episode.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03It was on very late at night and I was too young to watch it,
0:27:03 > 0:27:06but my dad came down to the breakfast table the next day and told me
0:27:06 > 0:27:09all about this amazing new programme that he'd just seen
0:27:09 > 0:27:11and ever since then, I've wanted to go on.
0:27:11 > 0:27:14I never really thought in my wildest dreams
0:27:14 > 0:27:15that I would get to the final,
0:27:15 > 0:27:19so I'm surprised and thrilled to be here.
0:27:25 > 0:27:28French cinema in two minutes, starting now.
0:27:28 > 0:27:31On 28 December, 1895 in Paris, Auguste and Louis Lumiere
0:27:31 > 0:27:33presented the world's first
0:27:33 > 0:27:35commercial public screening of films.
0:27:35 > 0:27:36What the name was given to
0:27:36 > 0:27:38the motion picture camera and projector they used
0:27:38 > 0:27:40and for which they held the patent?
0:27:40 > 0:27:41Cinematograph.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43The film producer Marcel Pagnol had his studio
0:27:43 > 0:27:45in the city that was also the setting
0:27:45 > 0:27:47for a trilogy of films based on his plays. Which city?
0:27:47 > 0:27:48Marseille.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51Which early film-maker had a studio in Montreuil, just outside Paris,
0:27:51 > 0:27:55where he produced such films as Le Voyage Dans La Lune in 1902
0:27:55 > 0:27:59and Le Voyage A Travers L'Impossible in 1904?
0:27:59 > 0:28:00Melies.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02The 1930s surrealist film L'Age D'or
0:28:02 > 0:28:05was reviewed and banned by the French board of censors
0:28:05 > 0:28:07after a riot at one of its early showings.
0:28:07 > 0:28:08Who directed the film?
0:28:08 > 0:28:09Bunuel.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12Which film did Henri Joly make in October 1895
0:28:12 > 0:28:13for Charles Pathe?
0:28:13 > 0:28:16For many years, Pathe believed it to be the first French film.
0:28:16 > 0:28:17Pass.
0:28:17 > 0:28:20The '41 mystery thriller L'Assassinat Du Pere Noel
0:28:20 > 0:28:22was the first film made by the French production company
0:28:22 > 0:28:25that was financed by the Germans during the wartime occupation.
0:28:25 > 0:28:27What was the name of the company?
0:28:27 > 0:28:28Continental.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31George Melies claimed that he accidentally invented
0:28:31 > 0:28:32a film technique when his camera jammed
0:28:32 > 0:28:34while he was filming a Paris street scene.
0:28:34 > 0:28:36What was the technique?
0:28:36 > 0:28:37Stop motion.
0:28:37 > 0:28:41Who joined Leon Gaumont's company in the 1890s as a secretary
0:28:41 > 0:28:43and went on to become the first female film director?
0:28:43 > 0:28:44Alice Guy.
0:28:44 > 0:28:48Which 1935 historical romantic comedy directed by Jacques Feyder
0:28:48 > 0:28:51was released in America as Carnival In Flanders?
0:28:52 > 0:28:54Pass.
0:28:54 > 0:28:56For which '36 film did the director Julien Duvivier
0:28:56 > 0:28:59shoot two alternative endings,
0:28:59 > 0:29:00one downbeat, one optimistic?
0:29:00 > 0:29:02Pass.
0:29:02 > 0:29:03What is the name of the actor
0:29:03 > 0:29:05who appeared in many of Duvivier's films,
0:29:05 > 0:29:07starring with Maria Chapdelaine in 1934,
0:29:07 > 0:29:08and followed him to Hollywood
0:29:08 > 0:29:10after the German occupation of France?
0:29:10 > 0:29:11John Gabin.
0:29:11 > 0:29:13Which '37 film directed by Jean Renoir
0:29:13 > 0:29:15was the first foreign-language film
0:29:15 > 0:29:17to be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar?
0:29:17 > 0:29:18Pass.
0:29:18 > 0:29:21The 1927 six-hour silent film Napoleon,
0:29:21 > 0:29:23with Albert Dieudonne in the title role,
0:29:23 > 0:29:25featured a split screen
0:29:25 > 0:29:28and montages projected simultaneously on three screens.
0:29:28 > 0:29:29Who was the director?
0:29:29 > 0:29:30Abel Gance.
0:29:30 > 0:29:32Abel Gance is correct.
0:29:32 > 0:29:34You had four passes, Roderick.
0:29:34 > 0:29:38La Grande Illusion was that '37 film directed by Renoir.
0:29:38 > 0:29:41La Belle Equipe was the film
0:29:41 > 0:29:44that Duvivier shot two alternative endings for.
0:29:44 > 0:29:48That '35 historical romantic comedy was La Kermesse Heroique.
0:29:48 > 0:29:53And the film that Henri Joly made in October 1895
0:29:53 > 0:29:56was Le Bain D'Une Mondaine.
0:29:56 > 0:29:59You have, Roderick, a total of nine points.
0:29:59 > 0:30:01APPLAUSE
0:30:09 > 0:30:11And our final finalist, please.
0:30:18 > 0:30:20And your name is?
0:30:20 > 0:30:22Your occupation?
0:30:22 > 0:30:24And your chosen subject?
0:30:31 > 0:30:34I never imagined coming to Salem because, to be honest,
0:30:34 > 0:30:36I didn't think I would get to the final.
0:30:36 > 0:30:38I think I chose the Salem witch trials
0:30:38 > 0:30:41as I've always wanted to find out more about it,
0:30:41 > 0:30:44so taking it on as a subject in Mastermind
0:30:44 > 0:30:46gave me the perfect opportunity to do just that.
0:30:46 > 0:30:48The trials started in 1692,
0:30:48 > 0:30:52when two girls started to have hallucinations
0:30:52 > 0:30:56and were claiming that people were casting spells on them
0:30:56 > 0:30:59or hurting them and it built up and built up.
0:30:59 > 0:31:02Eventually, over 250 people were accused of witchcraft.
0:31:06 > 0:31:09I'm sitting in a memorial to the 20 people who were executed.
0:31:09 > 0:31:11It's quite poignant, really,
0:31:11 > 0:31:14about how the trials affected people's lives.
0:31:15 > 0:31:18This is the memorial for George Burroughs.
0:31:18 > 0:31:20I think it is one of the most memorable cases
0:31:20 > 0:31:23because he was a former minister and, on the gallows, he recited
0:31:23 > 0:31:26the Lord's Prayer perfectly, but he was still hung anyway.
0:31:28 > 0:31:33"John Proctor, hanged August 19, 1692."
0:31:34 > 0:31:38This is to Giles Corey. I feel it's the most gruesome of the deaths
0:31:38 > 0:31:41because he was pressed to death rather than hung
0:31:41 > 0:31:42and it took him three days to die.
0:31:46 > 0:31:48So, this is a replica of the meeting house,
0:31:48 > 0:31:51where some of the early examinations of the witches took place.
0:31:53 > 0:31:56Anyone who walked into that room, one of the accused,
0:31:56 > 0:31:57was pretty much helpless.
0:32:00 > 0:32:02It must have been so overwhelming for them,
0:32:02 > 0:32:04seeing a whole baying mob
0:32:04 > 0:32:06wanting them to be convicted of witchcraft.
0:32:07 > 0:32:10Rebecca Nurse is probably one of the most moving characters.
0:32:10 > 0:32:13She was actually in her mid-70s during the trials
0:32:13 > 0:32:17and, throughout her entire life, was known for being a very holy person.
0:32:20 > 0:32:22So, this is the house of Rebecca Nurse.
0:32:22 > 0:32:25Most of the victims would have lived in a very similar house.
0:32:25 > 0:32:27I'm very excited to see it.
0:32:29 > 0:32:32After the trials, the people who were hung,
0:32:32 > 0:32:34they weren't allowed to have a Christian burial.
0:32:34 > 0:32:38Rebecca's family obviously weren't happy with that,
0:32:38 > 0:32:42so they ran sort of a clandestine operation to find her body
0:32:42 > 0:32:45and bring it back to their homestead so they could bury it.
0:32:47 > 0:32:49The subject is one I've always had an interest in.
0:32:49 > 0:32:52Hopefully, I can be successful in getting
0:32:52 > 0:32:54a good number of questions right.
0:32:57 > 0:32:59It's unbelievable that I've got this far and unbelievable
0:32:59 > 0:33:02that I've got a chance of actually winning the competition.
0:33:02 > 0:33:05My friends and family are all really proud.
0:33:05 > 0:33:10They've been a real great help. My sister acts as John Humphrys.
0:33:10 > 0:33:13I sit in a big chair at home and she throws questions on me
0:33:13 > 0:33:15for two minutes to see how many I can get,
0:33:15 > 0:33:18so when I'm actually in it, I feel less pressure.
0:33:18 > 0:33:22To win the grand final of Mastermind would pretty much be
0:33:22 > 0:33:23a lifelong dream.
0:33:23 > 0:33:26I really just cannot believe that I'm one step away
0:33:26 > 0:33:28from becoming the nation's Mastermind.
0:33:35 > 0:33:37The Salem witch trials in two minutes. Here we go.
0:33:37 > 0:33:41The first young women to claim to be afflicted or tormented by witches
0:33:41 > 0:33:43in Salem Village in 1692 lived in the house of
0:33:43 > 0:33:45the village pastor. What was his name?
0:33:45 > 0:33:46Samuel Parris.
0:33:46 > 0:33:49The first person accused of witchcraft by the girls
0:33:49 > 0:33:50was the slave kept by Samuel Parris.
0:33:50 > 0:33:52She made elaborate confessions
0:33:52 > 0:33:54that were central to the witch-hunt. What was her name?
0:33:54 > 0:33:56Tituba.
0:33:56 > 0:33:58The accused witches Mary Easty, Sarah Wilds
0:33:58 > 0:33:59and William and Deliverance Hobbs
0:33:59 > 0:34:02lived in or near a town between Salem Village and Ipswich.
0:34:02 > 0:34:03What was the town called?
0:34:03 > 0:34:05Topsfield.
0:34:05 > 0:34:08Who, on 10th June, 1692, became the first person to be
0:34:08 > 0:34:10executed for witchcraft as a result of the trials?
0:34:10 > 0:34:11Bridget Bishop.
0:34:11 > 0:34:14During Martha Corey's examination, she was hit on the head
0:34:14 > 0:34:16by an object thrown by one of her accusers,
0:34:16 > 0:34:18Bathshua Pope. What was the object?
0:34:18 > 0:34:19A shoe.
0:34:19 > 0:34:21One Salem family were key allies
0:34:21 > 0:34:23of Samuel Parris during the witch panic.
0:34:23 > 0:34:26They included Ann, one of the afflicted girls, and her father, Thomas,
0:34:26 > 0:34:27who signed several of the charges
0:34:27 > 0:34:30against the supposed witches. What was their surname?
0:34:30 > 0:34:31Putnam.
0:34:31 > 0:34:33The Massachusetts Governor Sir William Phips
0:34:33 > 0:34:35commissioned an account of the Salem witch trials
0:34:35 > 0:34:37from Cotton Mather. What was it called?
0:34:37 > 0:34:39Wonders Of The Invisible World.
0:34:39 > 0:34:40What was the name of the deacon
0:34:40 > 0:34:42who was the owner of the ordinary or tavern
0:34:42 > 0:34:45where some of the first hearings of the witch trials were held?
0:34:45 > 0:34:46Nathaniel Ingersoll.
0:34:46 > 0:34:49Nehemiah Abbot, the only accused witch to be acquitted,
0:34:49 > 0:34:51was let off after his accusers revealed
0:34:51 > 0:34:53that the apparition that had persecuted them
0:34:53 > 0:34:55had what distinguishing feature which Abbot lacked?
0:34:56 > 0:34:57A wart.
0:34:57 > 0:34:59The chief judge of the Superior Court
0:34:59 > 0:35:02that was formed to try accused witches in January 1693
0:35:02 > 0:35:05walked off the bench in protest against Sir William Phips' decision
0:35:05 > 0:35:08to reprieve those found guilty. What was his name?
0:35:08 > 0:35:09William Stoughton.
0:35:09 > 0:35:11When Samuel Sibley gave evidence against John Proctor,
0:35:11 > 0:35:14he claimed that Proctor had said that if the afflicted girls
0:35:14 > 0:35:16were left to their own devices, what would happen?
0:35:16 > 0:35:18We would all be witches.
0:35:18 > 0:35:21Who declared, after the final execution of Salem's so-called witches,
0:35:21 > 0:35:24"What a sad thing it is to see eight firebrands of hell hanging there?"
0:35:24 > 0:35:25Nicholas Noyes.
0:35:25 > 0:35:28What was the name of the young niece of Samuel Parris
0:35:28 > 0:35:31who, along with her cousin Betty, were thought to be bewitched?
0:35:31 > 0:35:33They were observed creeping under chairs and stools
0:35:33 > 0:35:35and using odd postures and antic gestures.
0:35:35 > 0:35:36Abigail Williams.
0:35:36 > 0:35:38What was the legal term for the emergency court...
0:35:38 > 0:35:40BEEP
0:35:40 > 0:35:42..set up by William Phips in May 1692
0:35:42 > 0:35:44to try the accused witches of Salem Village?
0:35:44 > 0:35:46The Court of Oyer and Terminer.
0:35:46 > 0:35:47Is correct.
0:35:47 > 0:35:50No passes, Michael. You have 14 points.
0:35:50 > 0:35:52APPLAUSE
0:36:00 > 0:36:03Well, I've never known that to happen in a grand final before.
0:36:03 > 0:36:04Let's have a look at the scores.
0:36:04 > 0:36:07Sixth place, nine points, Roderick Cromar.
0:36:07 > 0:36:10Fifth place, ten points, Daniel Adler.
0:36:10 > 0:36:13Fourth place, 11 points, Hamish Cameron.
0:36:13 > 0:36:15Third place, 12 points, Clive Dunning.
0:36:15 > 0:36:18Second place, 13 points, Brian Chesney.
0:36:18 > 0:36:22In the lead, but only just, 14 points, Michael McPartland.
0:36:22 > 0:36:25APPLAUSE
0:36:28 > 0:36:32So, all those many months of hard work and sweat
0:36:32 > 0:36:36and it's all come down to this. General knowledge.
0:36:36 > 0:36:38Two-and-a-half minutes of questions each
0:36:38 > 0:36:42and that will decide who is the nation's Mastermind.
0:36:42 > 0:36:45If there is a tie at the end of it all, then the number of passes
0:36:45 > 0:36:49is taken into account and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.
0:36:49 > 0:36:53So, let's get on with it and ask Roderick to join us again, please.
0:36:58 > 0:37:01And you start this round, Roderick, with nine points.
0:37:01 > 0:37:04Let's see how you do with your general knowledge. Here we go.
0:37:04 > 0:37:06Two-and-a-half minutes.
0:37:06 > 0:37:10Who was proclaimed Queen of England on 10 July, 1553,
0:37:10 > 0:37:13but was replaced nine days later by Henry VIII's daughter, Mary Tudor?
0:37:13 > 0:37:14Lady Jane Grey.
0:37:14 > 0:37:17Yes, what name's given to the vast interior region of Australia because
0:37:17 > 0:37:20of the colour of the earth and rock it is primarily composed of?
0:37:20 > 0:37:21The Great Red Desert.
0:37:21 > 0:37:24The Red Centre. In ancient Egyptian religion, which God was usually
0:37:24 > 0:37:27depicted in the form of a man with the head of a falcon or hawk?
0:37:27 > 0:37:28Horus.
0:37:28 > 0:37:31Yes. Which rock guitarist who died in November 2001 was
0:37:31 > 0:37:36cremated in a cardboard coffin in keeping with his Hare Krishna faith?
0:37:36 > 0:37:37George Harrison.
0:37:37 > 0:37:40Who won a best actor Oscar for his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle
0:37:40 > 0:37:44in the '71 film The French Connection?
0:37:44 > 0:37:45Pass.
0:37:45 > 0:37:49In June 2013, which golfer became the first Briton for 43 years to
0:37:49 > 0:37:51win the US Open? It was his first major title.
0:37:51 > 0:37:52McIlroy.
0:37:52 > 0:37:55No, Rose, Justin Rose. The main ingredients of a dish popular in America
0:37:55 > 0:37:57at Thanksgiving generally consists of corn kernels
0:37:57 > 0:38:01and lima beans simmered together until tender. What's the dish?
0:38:01 > 0:38:02Grits.
0:38:02 > 0:38:04Succotash. Which book by RM Ballantyne describes
0:38:04 > 0:38:07the adventures of three boys who are washed ashore after
0:38:07 > 0:38:11a shipwreck in the South Seas and face hostile tribes and pirates?
0:38:11 > 0:38:12Pass.
0:38:12 > 0:38:15In which country did the unsuccessful Decembrist revolt
0:38:15 > 0:38:20mainly led by upper-class army officers take place in December 1825?
0:38:20 > 0:38:21France.
0:38:21 > 0:38:24Russia. What is the name of the Florentine sculptor whose 15th century
0:38:24 > 0:38:27bronze statue of David is generally thought to be the first
0:38:27 > 0:38:29large-scale freestanding nude statue of the Renaissance?
0:38:29 > 0:38:31Michelangelo.
0:38:31 > 0:38:33Donatello. Which member of David Cameron's Cabinet
0:38:33 > 0:38:36appointed following the election in 2010 began his working
0:38:36 > 0:38:40life as a reporter on the Aberdeen Press And Journal?
0:38:40 > 0:38:41Gove.
0:38:41 > 0:38:45Yes. Which river has tributaries called the Avon, the Stour and the Teme?
0:38:45 > 0:38:46Severn.
0:38:46 > 0:38:49Yes. What name was given to the 12 peers of the Emperor Charlemagne's court
0:38:49 > 0:38:54and was later applied to any knight renowned for chivalry and heroism?
0:38:54 > 0:38:55The Golden Horde.
0:38:55 > 0:38:58Paladins. Which writer was played by Rupert Everett in David Hare's play
0:38:58 > 0:39:02The Judas Kiss, when it opened on the West End stage in January 2013?
0:39:02 > 0:39:03Oscar Wilde.
0:39:03 > 0:39:05What small New World frogs get their common name
0:39:05 > 0:39:08because their venomous skin secretions have been
0:39:08 > 0:39:10used in the weaponry of native South American tribes?
0:39:10 > 0:39:11Poison dart frogs.
0:39:11 > 0:39:14What is the name of the sports presenter well-known for her
0:39:14 > 0:39:17coverage of horse racing and the Olympics on television, who has
0:39:17 > 0:39:20fronted Ramblings, the series about walking on Radio 4, since 1999?
0:39:21 > 0:39:22Clare Balding.
0:39:22 > 0:39:26Which Canadian provincial capital lies at the mouths of the Humber
0:39:26 > 0:39:28and Don Rivers, where they enter Lake Ontario?
0:39:28 > 0:39:30Toronto.
0:39:30 > 0:39:33Which Danish physicist established the link between electricity
0:39:33 > 0:39:36and magnetism in 1820, when he demonstrated that an electric current
0:39:36 > 0:39:39- in a wire could cause a compass to deflect? - BEEP
0:39:39 > 0:39:41Gauss.
0:39:41 > 0:39:45It was Hans Christian Oersted. News to me, too.
0:39:45 > 0:39:47You had two passes, Roderick.
0:39:47 > 0:39:49It's The Coral Island,
0:39:49 > 0:39:53that's the RM Ballantyne book involving those young lads,
0:39:53 > 0:39:55and the chap who won the best actor Oscar
0:39:55 > 0:39:58for playing Popeye was Gene Hackman.
0:39:58 > 0:40:01You have a total now, Roderick, of 18 points.
0:40:01 > 0:40:03APPLAUSE
0:40:10 > 0:40:14And Daniel again, now, please.
0:40:14 > 0:40:18And you start out with 10 points, so it's two-and-a-half minutes,
0:40:18 > 0:40:21general knowledge, here we go.
0:40:21 > 0:40:24What name is given to the body of up to 6,000 soldiers that was
0:40:24 > 0:40:27the principal fighting unit in the armies of Ancient Rome?
0:40:27 > 0:40:28A legion.
0:40:28 > 0:40:30Fiorello Henry LaGuardia served three terms
0:40:30 > 0:40:34as the mayor of an American city from '33 to 1945. Which city?
0:40:34 > 0:40:35New York.
0:40:35 > 0:40:37The crown of thorns, which preys on coral
0:40:37 > 0:40:39and was at one time thought to threaten the survival
0:40:39 > 0:40:42of the Great Barrier Reef, is a species of which marine creature?
0:40:42 > 0:40:43Shark.
0:40:43 > 0:40:46Starfish. Who drew on his experience as an English teacher on the Greek
0:40:46 > 0:40:50island of Spetses for his second novel, The Magus?
0:40:50 > 0:40:51John Fowles.
0:40:51 > 0:40:54What fruit, once known as the Chinese gooseberry, got its current name
0:40:54 > 0:40:57after New Zealand growers started to export it?
0:40:57 > 0:40:58Kiwi fruit.
0:40:58 > 0:41:01Which composer who was knighted in 1937 and appointed
0:41:01 > 0:41:04Master of the King's Musick in 1942 was particularly known for works
0:41:04 > 0:41:08with an Irish theme such as his symphonic poem In The Faery Hills?
0:41:08 > 0:41:09Arnold Bax.
0:41:09 > 0:41:11Which Welsh comedian impersonated the radio presenter
0:41:11 > 0:41:15Ken Bruce for the entire duration of his BBC Radio 2
0:41:15 > 0:41:17programme on April Fools' Day 2011?
0:41:17 > 0:41:18Max Boyce.
0:41:18 > 0:41:21Rob Brydon. What word for the form of mental disorder
0:41:21 > 0:41:24characterised by delusions, especially of persecution,
0:41:24 > 0:41:26comes from the Greek for beyond or beside the mind?
0:41:26 > 0:41:27Paranoia.
0:41:27 > 0:41:30In the early 20th century, a French-American artist
0:41:30 > 0:41:33pioneered the concept of ready-made art, where he used everyday
0:41:33 > 0:41:37objects in his works including a urinal entitled Fountain. Who was he?
0:41:37 > 0:41:38Duchamp.
0:41:38 > 0:41:40What is the real name of U2's guitarist,
0:41:40 > 0:41:42who's known as The Edge?
0:41:42 > 0:41:43Steve Evans.
0:41:43 > 0:41:47David Evans. What is the nationality of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became
0:41:47 > 0:41:50Pope Francis I in March 2013?
0:41:50 > 0:41:51Argentinian.
0:41:51 > 0:41:53Which strait that connects the North Atlantic with
0:41:53 > 0:41:55Baffin Bay is named after an English navigator,
0:41:55 > 0:41:58who tried to find the Northwest Passage in the 16th century?
0:41:58 > 0:41:59Hudson.
0:41:59 > 0:42:03The Davis Strait. Which Dutch centre forward scored two goals against
0:42:03 > 0:42:04the FA Cup holders, Wigan Athletic,
0:42:04 > 0:42:09to win the 2013 Community Shield for Manchester United?
0:42:09 > 0:42:10Balotelli.
0:42:10 > 0:42:13Van Persie. The 2002 book Living To Tell The Tale is
0:42:13 > 0:42:15the autobiography of a Colombian novelist, whose works
0:42:15 > 0:42:18include One Hundred Years Of Solitude and Love In The Time Of Cholera.
0:42:18 > 0:42:19What's his name?
0:42:19 > 0:42:20Marquez.
0:42:20 > 0:42:24Which Australian bass-baritone, who once described opera as
0:42:24 > 0:42:27"too much work for too little pay" became famous for singing
0:42:27 > 0:42:31popular ballads such as Glorious Devon and On The Road To Mandalay?
0:42:31 > 0:42:32Alfie Boe.
0:42:32 > 0:42:34Peter Dawson. Who was given his first Cabinet post
0:42:34 > 0:42:37when Asquith appointed him President of the Board of Trade in 1908?
0:42:37 > 0:42:38Churchill.
0:42:38 > 0:42:42Which film-maker born in Salford has had Oscar nominations for films
0:42:42 > 0:42:43including Secrets And Lies and Vera Drake?
0:42:43 > 0:42:44Mike Leigh.
0:42:44 > 0:42:47What name was given at the junction of Paternoster Row
0:42:47 > 0:42:48and Ave Maria Lane in London
0:42:48 > 0:42:51because it was thought to have marked the point where monks on their way
0:42:51 > 0:42:54- to St Paul's finished their recital of the Lord's Prayer? - BEEP
0:42:55 > 0:42:56Amen Corner.
0:42:56 > 0:43:00It is indeed. Did you know it, or did you guess?
0:43:00 > 0:43:03- A good guess.- A good guess, well done! - LAUGHTER
0:43:03 > 0:43:06No passes, Daniel, you have 22 points.
0:43:06 > 0:43:08APPLAUSE
0:43:15 > 0:43:18And now, Hamish again, please.
0:43:20 > 0:43:25And you start out, Hamish, obviously, with 11 points.
0:43:25 > 0:43:2922 is, as we speak, the score to beat. Let's see if you can do it.
0:43:29 > 0:43:32Two-and-a-half minutes of general knowledge starting now.
0:43:32 > 0:43:36Which river that rises in Germany is known in German as the Donau?
0:43:36 > 0:43:37Pass.
0:43:37 > 0:43:40Who became the first Prime Minister of Zimbabwe in 1980
0:43:40 > 0:43:42and Executive President in 1987 after the posts of president
0:43:42 > 0:43:44and prime minister were merged?
0:43:44 > 0:43:45Mugabe.
0:43:45 > 0:43:48Which penguin, distinguished by the band of black feathers
0:43:48 > 0:43:50that extends from one cheek to the other under its beak, has
0:43:50 > 0:43:53alternative names bearded, ringed and stonecracker?
0:43:53 > 0:43:54Macaroni.
0:43:54 > 0:43:58The chinstrap. Which 1969 novel by the American author Paul Gallico
0:43:58 > 0:44:00is about the efforts of a group of survivors to
0:44:00 > 0:44:02escape from an overturned ocean liner?
0:44:02 > 0:44:03The Poseidon Adventure.
0:44:03 > 0:44:07What Royal dukedom was created in 1385 for Edmund of Langley,
0:44:07 > 0:44:11the fourth surviving legitimate son of King Edward III?
0:44:11 > 0:44:12Cornwall.
0:44:12 > 0:44:15York. Which national trail runs along the top of the North Wessex Downs
0:44:15 > 0:44:18and the Berkshire Downs, passing prehistoric sites
0:44:18 > 0:44:22such as Wayland's Smithy and the Uffington White Horse on its route?
0:44:23 > 0:44:24Yealand Pass.
0:44:24 > 0:44:27The Ridgeway. What is the name of the character John Wayne first
0:44:27 > 0:44:29played in the film True Grit?
0:44:30 > 0:44:32Rooster Cogburn.
0:44:32 > 0:44:36Which 19th-century French painter's early masterpieces include
0:44:36 > 0:44:38Dante And Virgil In Hell and the Massacre At Chios?
0:44:38 > 0:44:40They can be seen in the Louvre in Paris.
0:44:42 > 0:44:43Delaroche.
0:44:43 > 0:44:46Delacroix. The injection of money into an economy by a central bank
0:44:46 > 0:44:49in order to boost spending is sometimes known by the initials QE.
0:44:49 > 0:44:50What do they stand for?
0:44:50 > 0:44:52Quantitative easing.
0:44:52 > 0:44:56The Peace of Vereeniging ended the South African Wars in 1902.
0:44:56 > 0:44:59In which city, the administrative capital of South Africa, was it signed?
0:44:59 > 0:45:00Cape Town.
0:45:00 > 0:45:03Pretoria. In Ancient Rome what was the name of the festivals of the wine god
0:45:03 > 0:45:07that became so rowdy they were banned by the Senate in 186 BC?
0:45:07 > 0:45:08Bacchanalia.
0:45:08 > 0:45:11Vanilla pods used widely in cookery as a flavouring
0:45:11 > 0:45:14agent come from a climbing member of what family of plants?
0:45:14 > 0:45:15Orchids.
0:45:15 > 0:45:18The arranger and composer Nelson Riddle formed a celebrated
0:45:18 > 0:45:20partnership with which singer?
0:45:20 > 0:45:22They worked together on albums such as In The Wee Small Hours?
0:45:22 > 0:45:23Sinatra.
0:45:23 > 0:45:25What is the name of the Radio 4 programme
0:45:25 > 0:45:29presented by Michael Burke since it began in 1990, where four panellists
0:45:29 > 0:45:32discuss the ethical problems raised by issues of the day?
0:45:32 > 0:45:33Pass.
0:45:33 > 0:45:36Which South Pacific island nation played in their first major
0:45:36 > 0:45:38international football tournament
0:45:38 > 0:45:41when they took part in the 2013 Confederations Cup in Brazil?
0:45:41 > 0:45:45They scored one goal and conceded 24.
0:45:45 > 0:45:46Tahiti.
0:45:46 > 0:45:48Christopher Jones was the part-owner
0:45:48 > 0:45:51and captain of a ship that made an historic voyage in 1620.
0:45:51 > 0:45:52What was it called?
0:45:52 > 0:45:53Mayflower.
0:45:53 > 0:45:56What is the name of the 17th-century French playwright whose
0:45:56 > 0:45:58major works include L'Avare and La Misanthrope?
0:46:01 > 0:46:02Voltaire.
0:46:02 > 0:46:03- Moliere. Which small... - BEEP
0:46:03 > 0:46:07..I've started, so I'll finish - which small keyboard instrument giving
0:46:07 > 0:46:10an ethereal bell-like sound was invented in 1886 and used
0:46:10 > 0:46:14a few years later by Tchaikovsky in The Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy?
0:46:15 > 0:46:16Pianola.
0:46:16 > 0:46:20It was the celeste, or the celesta, if you prefer.
0:46:20 > 0:46:24Two passes. Michael Burke presents the Moral Maze.
0:46:24 > 0:46:28And that river that rises in Germany known as the Donau is the Danube.
0:46:28 > 0:46:29Yes, of course.
0:46:29 > 0:46:32There we are, Hamish, 20 points.
0:46:32 > 0:46:34APPLAUSE
0:46:41 > 0:46:42And now, Clive again, please.
0:46:46 > 0:46:51And 12 is the score you have already notched up.
0:46:51 > 0:46:5322 is still the score to beat.
0:46:53 > 0:46:57Let's see if you can do it. Here we go. Two-and-a-half minutes of general knowledge.
0:46:57 > 0:47:00The roots of certain varieties of chicory roasted and ground
0:47:00 > 0:47:02can be used as a substitute or additive for what drink?
0:47:02 > 0:47:03Coffee.
0:47:03 > 0:47:05The 1928 book Memoirs Of A Fox-Hunting Man was
0:47:05 > 0:47:08the first of three semi-autobiographical works
0:47:08 > 0:47:11by a writer best known for his war poetry. What was his name?
0:47:11 > 0:47:12Sassoon.
0:47:12 > 0:47:14Which actor, who appeared in The Fast Show
0:47:14 > 0:47:16and played Arthur Weasley in the Harry Potter films,
0:47:16 > 0:47:18has gone on to play Father Brown on television?
0:47:18 > 0:47:19Mark Williams.
0:47:19 > 0:47:22What name is given to the pain that runs from the lower back
0:47:22 > 0:47:25down the legs along the longest nerve in the body?
0:47:25 > 0:47:26Sciatica.
0:47:26 > 0:47:29Which politician who'd served in Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet
0:47:29 > 0:47:32since 1981 resigned as Employment Secretary in 1990,
0:47:32 > 0:47:34saying he wanted to spend more time with his family?
0:47:36 > 0:47:37Norman Lamont.
0:47:37 > 0:47:40Norman Fowler. The siege of Troy by the Greeks is the setting
0:47:40 > 0:47:42for a Shakespeare play. What's it called?
0:47:44 > 0:47:45Hecuba.
0:47:45 > 0:47:46Troilus And Cressida.
0:47:46 > 0:47:49What name of German origin can be used as a generic term
0:47:49 > 0:47:51for any keyboard instrument such as a harpsichord or piano?
0:47:51 > 0:47:54It appears in the title of a well-known work by JS Bach.
0:47:55 > 0:47:57Clavier.
0:47:57 > 0:47:59Which office of the Venetian Republic was
0:47:59 > 0:48:01last held by Ludovico Manin, who abdicated
0:48:01 > 0:48:05following Napoleon's conquest of northern Italy in 1797?
0:48:05 > 0:48:06Doge.
0:48:06 > 0:48:09Which mountain range, designated a National Park in 2003,
0:48:09 > 0:48:12contains four of Britain's five highest mountain peaks?
0:48:13 > 0:48:15Cairngorms.
0:48:15 > 0:48:16Who was the author of the Epistle
0:48:16 > 0:48:18that forms the penultimate book of the New Testament?
0:48:18 > 0:48:23He describes himself as servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James.
0:48:23 > 0:48:24John?
0:48:24 > 0:48:27Jude. For which 1996 film did Geoffrey Rush win a best actor Oscar
0:48:27 > 0:48:30for playing the gifted but troubled pianist David Helfgott?
0:48:30 > 0:48:31Shine.
0:48:31 > 0:48:35What type of black-on-white profile portrait, either cut from paper or painted,
0:48:35 > 0:48:38takes its name from a finance minister of Louis XV?
0:48:38 > 0:48:40Silhouette.
0:48:40 > 0:48:43In international cricket matches, the technology known as DRS
0:48:43 > 0:48:46is widely used to confirm whether or not a batsman is out.
0:48:46 > 0:48:48What do the initials stand for?
0:48:49 > 0:48:50Pass.
0:48:50 > 0:48:54What word of Russian origin is used for the vast treeless grasslands that extend
0:48:54 > 0:48:57from Hungary through Ukraine and Central Asia into north-eastern China?
0:48:57 > 0:48:58Steppes.
0:48:58 > 0:49:01Who was the wife of King George I?
0:49:01 > 0:49:03He divorced her for adultery in 1694
0:49:03 > 0:49:05and she was imprisoned for the rest of her life.
0:49:05 > 0:49:06Sophia.
0:49:06 > 0:49:10Sophia Dorothea, yes. Which band, central to the psychedelic movement of the 1960s,
0:49:10 > 0:49:13had devoted fans known as Deadheads?
0:49:13 > 0:49:14The Grateful Dead.
0:49:14 > 0:49:18What is the surname of the husband and wife anthropologists Louis and Mary,
0:49:18 > 0:49:23whose fossil discoveries in East Africa greatly advanced the study of human evolution?
0:49:23 > 0:49:24Leakey.
0:49:24 > 0:49:27What French name for a sweet enclosing a medicinal drug
0:49:27 > 0:49:29is now typically applied to a sugar-coated almond...
0:49:29 > 0:49:30BEEP
0:49:30 > 0:49:33..or a small, silver-coloured ball for decorating a cake?
0:49:35 > 0:49:36Aniseed?
0:49:36 > 0:49:38No, it's dragee.
0:49:38 > 0:49:40News to me.
0:49:40 > 0:49:46There we are. At one pass, DRS stands for Decision Review System.
0:49:46 > 0:49:50But no matter, Clive, you have 25 points.
0:49:50 > 0:49:53APPLAUSE
0:50:00 > 0:50:02And now, Brian again, please.
0:50:03 > 0:50:08And you start out with 13 points.
0:50:08 > 0:50:11But the bad news is, the score to beat has gone up as well.
0:50:11 > 0:50:13It is now 25.
0:50:13 > 0:50:16Here we go. Two-and-a-half minutes. General knowledge.
0:50:16 > 0:50:18What name of Anglo-French and Latin origin is used
0:50:18 > 0:50:21for the crime of giving false evidence under oath in a court of law?
0:50:21 > 0:50:22Perjury.
0:50:22 > 0:50:24The Treasure Seekers, published in 1899,
0:50:24 > 0:50:27was the first successful book for children by which author,
0:50:27 > 0:50:29who later wrote Five Children And It?
0:50:29 > 0:50:30E Nesbit.
0:50:30 > 0:50:33What is the name of the motel in the fictional village of Kings Oak in the Midlands
0:50:33 > 0:50:36that was the setting for a long-running television soap opera?
0:50:36 > 0:50:37Crossroads.
0:50:37 > 0:50:40Which band's first chart-topping album, Atom Heart Mother,
0:50:40 > 0:50:43had a cow called Lulubelle III on its front cover?
0:50:43 > 0:50:44Frank Zappa?
0:50:44 > 0:50:45No, Pink Floyd.
0:50:45 > 0:50:48What is the name for the form of movement that involves
0:50:48 > 0:50:51arm-over-arm swinging, as used by primates such as gibbons?
0:50:51 > 0:50:52Pass.
0:50:52 > 0:50:55In which country did the 2013 UEFA European
0:50:55 > 0:50:57Under-21 Championship take place? England lost
0:50:57 > 0:50:59all three of their games and only scored one goal.
0:50:59 > 0:51:00Sweden?
0:51:00 > 0:51:04Israel. What name of Greek origin is given to the colour midway between green and blue
0:51:04 > 0:51:07that is one of the primary colours in colour printing?
0:51:07 > 0:51:08Pass.
0:51:08 > 0:51:11Which Irish actor plays the gunfighter English Bob
0:51:11 > 0:51:13in Clint Eastwood's '92 film Unforgiven?
0:51:13 > 0:51:14Liam Neeson?
0:51:14 > 0:51:16Richard Harris. Which annual conference,
0:51:16 > 0:51:19attended by some of the world's leading financiers and politicians,
0:51:19 > 0:51:22takes its name from the hotel in the Netherlands
0:51:22 > 0:51:24where the first conference was held in 1954?
0:51:24 > 0:51:27- Pass.- Which 18th-century naturalist and clergyman, who lived in Selborne
0:51:27 > 0:51:31in Hampshire, produced a work on natural history that is still widely read?
0:51:31 > 0:51:32Gilbert White.
0:51:32 > 0:51:34The seas occupying the two deep indentations in the coastline
0:51:34 > 0:51:37of the Antarctic continent are named after British navigators.
0:51:37 > 0:51:39The Ross Sea is one. What is the other?
0:51:39 > 0:51:40Weddell.
0:51:40 > 0:51:42The 1969 novel The Andromeda Strain,
0:51:42 > 0:51:45about a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism,
0:51:45 > 0:51:47was the first bestseller by which American writer?
0:51:47 > 0:51:48Michael Crichton.
0:51:48 > 0:51:51A type of earthenware decorated with bright colours on a white background
0:51:51 > 0:51:55is named after one of the Balearic islands where it is supposed to have originated.
0:51:55 > 0:51:56What is the pottery called?
0:51:56 > 0:51:57Majorca?
0:51:57 > 0:52:01No, maiolica. Who is the earliest-known Greek poet after Homer?
0:52:01 > 0:52:03His Theogony describes the history of the gods.
0:52:03 > 0:52:04Hesiod.
0:52:04 > 0:52:08The name of a French viscount, a writer and diplomat who lived from 1768 to 1848,
0:52:08 > 0:52:11is given to a thick cut of steak. What's it called?
0:52:11 > 0:52:12Chateaubriand.
0:52:12 > 0:52:15Which port on the East Sussex coast of the mouth of the River Ouse
0:52:15 > 0:52:16is the terminus for ferries to Dieppe?
0:52:16 > 0:52:17Newhaven.
0:52:17 > 0:52:21The Czar of Russia who reigned from 1598 to 1605 is the subject of a play
0:52:21 > 0:52:24by Pushkin and an opera by Mussorgsky. What was his name?
0:52:24 > 0:52:25Boris Godunov.
0:52:25 > 0:52:28In Judaism, what name is given to the small square black boxes
0:52:28 > 0:52:31containing passages of scripture attached to the left arm and forehead,
0:52:31 > 0:52:34usually worn by Orthodox Jews during weekday morning services?
0:52:34 > 0:52:35Pass.
0:52:35 > 0:52:38Which historian has written and presented the television programmes
0:52:38 > 0:52:41Around The World In 80 Treasures and The Country House Revealed,
0:52:41 > 0:52:42among many others?
0:52:42 > 0:52:43Dan Cruickshank?
0:52:43 > 0:52:47What term for a vicious satire directed against a person is thought to come from...
0:52:47 > 0:52:48BEEP
0:52:48 > 0:52:51..an old French drinking song refrain, meaning let us drink?
0:52:51 > 0:52:52Lampoon?
0:52:52 > 0:52:53Is correct.
0:52:55 > 0:52:56Four passes, Brian.
0:52:56 > 0:53:01Those little boxes Jewish people wear during prayers
0:53:01 > 0:53:04are phylacteries, which you knew.
0:53:04 > 0:53:08The Bilderberg Conference is that one started out in 1954.
0:53:08 > 0:53:11Cyan is the name given to the colour
0:53:11 > 0:53:13midway between green and blue.
0:53:13 > 0:53:15And brachiation is what primates do
0:53:15 > 0:53:18when they do all that swinging stuff.
0:53:18 > 0:53:19So, four passes, Brian.
0:53:19 > 0:53:23You've scored now a total of 25 points.
0:53:23 > 0:53:26APPLAUSE
0:53:33 > 0:53:35Oh, right down to the wire.
0:53:35 > 0:53:37Let's ask Michael, our final finalist,
0:53:37 > 0:53:40to come back to the chair.
0:53:41 > 0:53:4514 points on the board already.
0:53:45 > 0:53:4825 still the score to beat.
0:53:48 > 0:53:51Let's see if you can do it. Two-and-a-half minutes. Here we go.
0:53:52 > 0:53:54What is the title of the 2011 film
0:53:54 > 0:53:56that stars Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher?
0:53:56 > 0:53:57The Iron Lady.
0:53:57 > 0:54:00For which Russian ballerina did Michel Fokine create The Dying Swan
0:54:00 > 0:54:03in the early 1900s to the music of Saint-Saens?
0:54:03 > 0:54:04Pavlova?
0:54:04 > 0:54:07What alternative name for birds of the shrike family
0:54:07 > 0:54:09alludes to the habit of impaling the carcasses of insects
0:54:09 > 0:54:12and small animals on thorns for eating later?
0:54:13 > 0:54:14Merlin.
0:54:14 > 0:54:16Butcher bird. In which English county
0:54:16 > 0:54:19are the seaside towns of Sheringham, Cromer and Wells-next-the-Sea?
0:54:19 > 0:54:20Norfolk.
0:54:20 > 0:54:23Which American modernist painter, born in 1887, was best known
0:54:23 > 0:54:26for her large paintings of flowers and of the desert scenery
0:54:26 > 0:54:28of New Mexico, where she eventually went to live?
0:54:28 > 0:54:29Baker.
0:54:29 > 0:54:32O'Keeffe. What name is given to the variety of Italian kidney bean
0:54:32 > 0:54:36also known as the rose coco bean, that is widely used in Italian cooking
0:54:36 > 0:54:38and has a pinkish speckled skin that turns brown when cooked?
0:54:38 > 0:54:40Haricot.
0:54:40 > 0:54:43Borlotti. In cricket, the average number of runs a batsman scores
0:54:43 > 0:54:45for every 100 balls he faces is called his...what?
0:54:45 > 0:54:47Strike rate.
0:54:47 > 0:54:48Which upbeat style of popular music
0:54:48 > 0:54:50that emerged in Jamaica in the early '60s,
0:54:50 > 0:54:53began to influence British bands such as Madness in the late '70s?
0:54:53 > 0:54:54Ska.
0:54:54 > 0:54:57Which Roman emperor, who reigned from 98 to 117 AD,
0:54:57 > 0:54:59Was born in Spain in about 53 AD?
0:54:59 > 0:55:02A giant column celebrating his victories was built
0:55:02 > 0:55:04during his reign and still stands in Rome.
0:55:04 > 0:55:05Hadrian.
0:55:05 > 0:55:07Trajan. What is the title of Iain Banks' final novel?
0:55:07 > 0:55:11It's about the last days of a man suffering from a terminal illness.
0:55:11 > 0:55:12Final Days.
0:55:12 > 0:55:14The Quarry. The original set of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta
0:55:14 > 0:55:17was based on the quarterdeck of the Victory, that the pair had visited
0:55:17 > 0:55:20in Portsmouth prior to the production. What is the operetta called?
0:55:20 > 0:55:21HMS Pinafore.
0:55:21 > 0:55:24What name is given to the stretch of the French Riviera
0:55:24 > 0:55:26that runs approximately from St Tropez to the Italian border?
0:55:28 > 0:55:29Nice.
0:55:29 > 0:55:32Cote d'Azur. Which actor's television roles
0:55:32 > 0:55:34include Detective Sergeant Bennet Drake in Ripper Street,
0:55:34 > 0:55:36and Bronn in Game Of Thrones?
0:55:38 > 0:55:39Jerome Flynn?
0:55:39 > 0:55:41What name is usually given to the dry, dusty wind
0:55:41 > 0:55:44that blows from the East or Northeast in the Western Sahara,
0:55:44 > 0:55:46particularly in late autumn and winter?
0:55:46 > 0:55:47Sirocco.
0:55:47 > 0:55:50Harmattan. Who was the supreme ruler of the gods of Mount Olympus
0:55:50 > 0:55:51in the religion of ancient Greece?
0:55:51 > 0:55:52Zeus.
0:55:52 > 0:55:56The name of which German literary movement of the late 18th century
0:55:56 > 0:55:58translates as "storm and stress"?
0:55:58 > 0:55:59Blitz?
0:55:59 > 0:56:01No, Sturm und Drang. What word of Greek origin,
0:56:01 > 0:56:05coined by Field Marshal Smuts, describes looking at a system as a whole,
0:56:05 > 0:56:07rather than by an analysis of the individual parts?
0:56:07 > 0:56:09Panthea?
0:56:09 > 0:56:13Holistic. Who stars opposite French actress Julie Delpy in the 2013 romance
0:56:13 > 0:56:16Before Midnight? It completes a trilogy of films
0:56:16 > 0:56:18that began with the '95 film Before Sunrise?
0:56:18 > 0:56:19Colin Firth?
0:56:19 > 0:56:23Ethan Hawke. Which alternative rock band released their seventh studio album...
0:56:23 > 0:56:24BEEP
0:56:24 > 0:56:28..In Rainbows online in October 2007 and invited fans
0:56:28 > 0:56:30to pay whatever they wanted to download it?
0:56:30 > 0:56:31Radiohead.
0:56:31 > 0:56:33Is correct. No passes, Michael.
0:56:33 > 0:56:3523 points.
0:56:35 > 0:56:38APPLAUSE
0:56:46 > 0:56:50Well, what a tightly fought grand final that turned out to be.
0:56:50 > 0:56:52Let's have a look at all the scores.
0:56:52 > 0:56:54In sixth place, 18 points,
0:56:54 > 0:56:55Roderick Cromar.
0:56:55 > 0:56:57Fifth place, 20 points,
0:56:57 > 0:56:59Hamish Cameron.
0:56:59 > 0:57:01Fourth place, 22 points,
0:57:01 > 0:57:02Daniel Adler.
0:57:02 > 0:57:04Third place, 23 points,
0:57:04 > 0:57:06Michael McPartland.
0:57:06 > 0:57:11Second place, 25 points and four passes,
0:57:11 > 0:57:13Brian Chesney.
0:57:13 > 0:57:15First place, 25 points and one pass,
0:57:15 > 0:57:17Clive Dunning.
0:57:17 > 0:57:21APPLAUSE
0:57:39 > 0:57:41It came down to passes in the end.
0:57:41 > 0:57:44Commiserations to Brian, but it means, of course,
0:57:44 > 0:57:47that Clive Dunning is the Mastermind champion.
0:57:47 > 0:57:52APPLAUSE
0:57:54 > 0:57:55Clive...
0:57:58 > 0:58:00Congratulations.
0:58:01 > 0:58:03And hold it... Hold it carefully.
0:58:03 > 0:58:07Do you mind me saying, you looked absolutely terrified?
0:58:07 > 0:58:09- I was petrified!- You were?- Yes.
0:58:09 > 0:58:11But the kids are going to be thrilled, yeah?
0:58:11 > 0:58:14They'll love it, yeah. I've got my daughter in the audience
0:58:14 > 0:58:17and my partner, lots of friends, so, yeah. They will be...
0:58:17 > 0:58:19- I think they will be happier than I am!- Ah! If possible.
0:58:19 > 0:58:20Well, congratulations.
0:58:20 > 0:58:23Clive is the new Mastermind champion,
0:58:23 > 0:58:26but the search will start again later this year
0:58:26 > 0:58:29to find the next one. It could be you.
0:58:29 > 0:58:31And you don't have to be a man,
0:58:31 > 0:58:34in spite of appearances to the contrary.
0:58:34 > 0:58:36It is a level playing field, honestly.
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0:58:51 > 0:58:55APPLAUSE