Episode 31 Mastermind

Over the past 30 weeks, 96 brave contenders have battled

against the pressure of the spotlights

and the clock and the tough questions

in the biggest challenge the quiz world has to offer.

And from those 96 only six remain.

Tonight, one of them will be crowned the nation's Mastermind.

MASTERMIND THEME

The first finalist in the spotlight tonight

is Hamish Cameron, from Elgin.

His specialist subject, Scottish lighthouses.

Next, Daniel Adler, an IT consultant from Farnham.

He's taking on Richard Wagner.

Brian Chesney, from Malvern. He'll be answering questions

on the Italian front in the First World War.

Next, Clive Dunning, a teacher from Stockton on Tees, on Philip Larkin.

Roderick Cromar, a chartered accountant from Aberdeen,

takes questions on French cinema.

And Michael McPartland, a civil servant from Middlesbrough.

His specialist subject - the Salem witch trials.

APPLAUSE

Hello and welcome to the Mastermind grand final, with me, John Humphrys.

If you ever wonder why anyone would put themselves through this ordeal,

well, this is the answer - tonight's grand final,

knowing that they might be the lucky contender

who walks away with the title

and the glass bowl to remind them of their triumph.

Not that luck is really anything to do with it.

It's knowledge and nerve.

They have to answer two sets of questions,

one on their specialist subject and one on general knowledge.

Two minutes on one, two and a half minutes on the other.

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

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your specialist subject?

I chose this subject because about two years ago

I watched a programme on the BBC about Scottish lighthouses,

and I became fascinated about the work

that went into building these lighthouses

and the Stevenson family,

who built most of the lighthouses in Scotland.

Today, we're in the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses

in Kinnaird Head, Fraserburgh.

This is the first lighthouse built

by the Northern Lighthouse Board in 1787.

I feel very excited being here.

All lighthouses are now automatic,

but this one has still got a manual operation

and I believe they're going to let me light it tonight.

Fantastic.

These are the lighthouses,

and when they were erected by the Northern Lighthouse Board.

Quite a daunting prospect, trying to learn all of these.

I certainly have a lot to think about.

It has been an ongoing passion of mine to reach the Mastermind final.

I first applied in 1990.

Those were the days of Magnus Magnusson.

Your name, please?

Occupation?

'And I've been on the BBC Two version

'about every three years since 2002.

The reason I keep applying is that

'I've been so close, so often.'

Pass.

I just had to try again, one more time!

This year in the semifinal,

I decided to keep a very straight face.

Inside, my heart was jumping up and down.

In first place with 22 points, Hamish Cameron.

When I first heard I was going to be allowed to pull the switch,

I was extremely excited.

And when I told my grandson, he was even more excited.

Welcome to the lens room of the Kinnaird Head Lighthouse.

In the old days, I know that the keepers had to wind up a chain

every half hour to keep the whole system going.

-Good workout.

-Yes, good workout.

You would feel it by the end of the night.

I feel very privileged,

because this is something that very few people are allowed to do.

So, now time to turn on the lights.

Just put your hand over there and push it up

in three, two, one...

Fantastic.

To win Mastermind would be the culmination of my dream

after all those years trying.

And on the plus side, I would not have to apply again.

Scottish lighthouses, in two minutes, starting now.

The first permanently manned lighthouse in Scotland

was built in 1636 on which island

at the mouth of the Firth of Forth?

The Isle of May.

JMW Turner was commissioned to do a painting

that was used in Robert Stevenson's book

about which lighthouse?

Bell Rock.

The lighthouse lying six miles south-west of Canna

was famous for its vegetable garden

and even a tiny golf course. What was its name?

-Hyskith?

-No, Hyskeir.

In 1814, which author described the site

of the future Skerryvore Lighthouse

as "a most desolate position for a lighthouse,

"the Bell Rock and Edison a joke to it"?

Walter Scott.

Scottish lighthouse keepers became known as paraffin oilers

because this fuel was used for the lights

after a burner had been devised

in about 1868 by an American ship's captain. Who was he?

Doty.

Britain's most northerly lighthouse at North Unst

was built by David and Thomas Stevenson in the 1850s.

It's now known by what name, meaning great precipice?

Muckle Flugga.

The design of Ardnamurchan Lighthouse

on mainland Britain's most westerly point

was influenced by what style of architecture?

Egyptian.

In December 1900, in an incident reminiscent of the Mary Celeste,

all three keepers disappeared without trace from which lighthouse?

Flannan.

The first lighthouse built as an all-electric station

was completed in 1958 on the north coast of Scotland.

What's its name?

Strathy Point.

The credit for the design of the Bell Rock lighthouse

is disputed between Robert Stevenson

and which other eminent engineer?

John Rennie.

In 1876, the lighthouse at St Abb's Head

was the first Scottish lighthouse

to be fitted with what type of warning device?

Foghorn.

On 31 March 1998,

the occupation of lighthouse keeper

in Scotland was brought to an end

when the last lighthouse was fully automated.

What's its name?

Fair Isle South.

The Rua Reidh lighthouse stands close to the entrance

to a sea loch in Wester Ross

that was a base for the Russian Arctic convoys

of the Second World War. Which loch?

-Broom?

-Loch Ewe.

A retired judge wrote a report following the Braer disaster

and oil spill in 1993 recommending the use

of a deep water route west of the Hebrides.

As a result, three new lighthouses,

including one at Hyskeir, were built.

What was the name of the judge?

Don't know. BEEP

I can take that as a pass

and tell you that it was Lord Donaldson.

Hamish, you have 11 points.

APPLAUSE

And our next finalist, please.

Your name is?

Your occupation?

And your specialist subject?

Richard Wagner is probably the most controversial artist,

certainly of the 19th century, probably of all time.

He wrote almost exclusively for the stage.

He wrote enormous works on a grand scale.

If he'd been born 100 years later, he would have been

the most ostentatious film director of all time.

We're in Bayreuth,

which is his spiritual homeland, if you like.

It's the shrine to his music and his work

in the middle of Bavaria.

'Wagner spent 20 years writing this mammoth set'

of four linked operas,

called The Ring Of The Nibelung,

and then he went looking for somewhere to stage it.

The people of Bayreuth said,

"We've got a hill just outside the town.

"Would you like to build a theatre there?"

Eventually, he managed to build what was at the time

a temporary theatre to stage, I think,

three performances of The Ring Of The Nibelung in 1876.

It's fascinating to be here in the Festspielhaus,

because everything is there specifically to showcase the work.

So the acoustics of the auditorium, the wooden floors,

the rather uncomfortable seats -

it's that single-minded purpose of, "Here is my work,

"and you will see it to its best advantage".

My family get fed up of me sitting and watching quizzes

and shouting out the answers and getting frustrated

with people who don't know the answers.

So I think initially, they thought

"Well, he's going to find out what it's like".

I'm not sure what they think

now I've actually got this far, to be honest!

I know my wife's quite proud. My kids have rolled their eyes,

but that's what kids are supposed to do, isn't it?

I think it would be very gratifying

to win something which has so few winners.

There aren't many people who've won Mastermind.

You'd have a trophy to show for it,

and something to talk about in the old people's home.

One of the things that people like to put on their CV

when they apply for jobs is "Good under pressure".

And this is a very good way of demonstrating

that you're good under pressure.

I can't think of any experience quite like it.

Richard Wagner, in two minutes, starting now.

Wagner wrote an opera

named after the blameless fool who uncovers the Grail.

What's the title of the opera?

Parsifal.

Wagner's stepfather was an actor

and was thought by some, including Wagner himself,

to be his real father. What was his name?

-Geyer.

-In act three of Tristan Und Isolde,

the shepherd's melody reminds Tristan

of the death of his parents.

For which solo instrument is the melody written?

-A pipe.

-No, a cor anglais or English horn.

Wagner read The World As Will And Representation in 1854,

and it had a significant effect on his life and music.

Which philosopher wrote it?

-Schopenhauer.

-Yes. In July 1839,

Wagner and his first wife, Minna,

escaped his creditors in Riga and travelled to the port of Pillau.

What was the name of the merchant ship

they took from there to England?

Thetis.

In Das Rheingold, what must the dwarf, Alberich, first curse and renounce

before he can take the gold to make the ring?

-Love.

-King Ludwig II of Bavaria

wanted a grand festival theatre in Munich

for performances of Wagner's work.

What was the name of the architect he asked to design it?

-Semper.

-In act one of Parsifal,

Kundry offers Amfortas a balsam for his wound.

From what region does she claim the balsam has come?

Arabia.

What was the name of Wagner's composer friend,

to whom he wrote in January 1854,

"Wodan rises to the tragic height of willing his own destruction"?

-Liszt.

-No, Rockel.

Writing about Tristan Und Isolde

to his muse, Mathilde von Wesendonck,

in 1859, Wagner says he would now like to call

his most delicate and profound art the art of...?

-Handlung.

-Transition.

The tenor who sang the role of Tristan

at its first performance in Munich in 1865

died shortly afterwards. What was his name?

Von Carolsfeld.

Wagner dedicated the original 1850 edition

of his essay The Artwork Of The Future

to a philosopher who was an important influence

on his thought from Lohengrin to Die Walkure.

Who was he?

Feuerbach.

The Siegfried Idyll was first performed on Christmas Day 1870

at Tribschen, the lakeside house

he shared with Cosima and her children.

On which major lake does the house stand?

Lucerne.

The term leitmotif, meaning a musical idea

associated with a particular character or concept, was used by the author

-of the thematic guide

-BEEP

to Wagner's Ring Of The Nibelung, published in 1876.

What is the author's name?

George Bernard Shaw.

-HE LAUGHS:

-Well, I was going to say "good guess",

but whether it was good or not,

Hans von Wolzogen.

No passes, Daniel. You have 10 points.

APPLAUSE

And our third finalist, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject?

Wow.

We have an amazing view here.

I am at the largest Italian war memorial of the First World War,

at Redipuglia, which is down on the border with Slovenia.

This commemorates 100,000 men lost on this place alone.

You have these terraces going up,

and each of these terraces contains, I think,

the bones of the people whose names are inscribed in these walls.

Look at all the names.

Astonishing.

I've always been interested in Italian history.

I've always been interested in the First World War,

and I put the two together, really.

My specialist subject is the story of one battle after another,

as the Italians tried to fight their way uphill

against the Austro-Hungarian forces who were up on top of the hills,

shooting down at them.

And this happened again and again and again over a three-year period.

Life for a soldier in the Italian army was terrible, basically.

It was far worse than that of British troops on the Western Front.

We have here an intact First World War trench,

with holes for the rifles up there.

Of course, it'll be smelly, it'll be rat infested,

it'll be a very nasty place to be for any length of time.

And...at some point you will have to go over the top.

Extremely unpleasant.

I think people know a bit about the British contribution,

but nobody knows about the Italian contribution,

so people watching the programme,

well, they may learn something, you know, they didn't know before.

I've been watching Mastermind for 40 years

and thinking for a long time, "I could go on that,"

but it wasn't until I met my present wife and she said,

"Why don't you go on Mastermind? Win me that fruit bowl," she said.

So, that is why...

That is why I'm on there, basically!

Winning the grand final would be...

Well, it would be quite simply the best thing I've ever done in my life.

I think I may have won a raffle when I was about eight,

but apart from that,

I haven't really won anything very much and this would be...

This would be the crowning glory, really.

The Italian Front in World War I in two minutes, starting now.

During the First World War, the Austro-Hungarian

and Italian armies fought a series of 12 battles on the Italian Front

between 1915 and 1917, along which river?

The Isonzo.

In 1915, an Austro-Hungarian of Croat origin

was appointed Commander of the Fifth Army

fighting on the Italian Front.

What was his name?

Boroevich.

Which town was an objective of the Italians'

first offensive bound of the opening battle of Isonzo,

but was not captured until the Sixth Battle in August 1916?

Gorizia.

The fast, heavily armed Italian assault troops

created in the summer of 1917

under the leadership of Giuseppe Bassi,

were given what name, translated as "bold or daring ones"?

Arditi.

Which Italian conductor was awarded a silver medal

for valour for leading a military band

during the assault on Monte Santo in August 1917,

during the 11th Battle of the Isonzo?

Toscanini.

Who served as a Corp Commander on the Italian Front

in the spring of 1916 and succeeded Franz Josef

as Emperor of Austria-Hungary later that year?

Karl.

At Caporetto, the Italians suffered many casualties

from poisoned gas because their masks were ineffective

against a chemical named after the Greek for

"produced by light". What was it?

Phosgene.

In mid April 1916, the Italians exploded a 5,000kg mine

that finally enabled them to take the peak

of a mountain in the Dolomites. Which mountain?

-Castelletto.

-No, Col di Lana.

General Cadorna publicly blamed the army

commanded by Luigi Capello for its failure to prevent

the rout of the Italians at Caporetto. Which army?

The Second Army.

In October 1917, a German lieutenant

in the Wurttemberg Mountain Battalion

led a detachment that captured Mount Matajur

and received the Pour le Merite military honour

for his actions. What was his name?

Rommel.

Who replaced Cardona as the Chief of General Staff

following the retreat of the Italian Army

after the disastrous Battle of Caporetto?

Diaz.

Which plateau to the immediate south of Tolmino

was gained by the Italians during the 11th Battle of Isonzo?

Bainsizza.

Which battle of late October 1918

was a resounding Italian victory

and marked the last major offensive on the Italian front?

Vittorio Veneto.

Between the 10th and 11th Battles of the Isonzo,

the Italian Sixth Army...

BEEP

I've started, so I'll finish.

..suffered more than 20,000 casualties capturing a mountain

in the southern Dolomites that was retaken

by the Austrians just days later. Which mountain?

-Ortigara?

-Ortigara is correct.

Brian, you have no passes, you have 13 points.

APPLAUSE

And our fourth finalist, please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation?

And your specialist subject?

We are here today at Hull University, the Brynmor Jones Library,

where Philip Larkin was chief librarian for over 20 years.

He actually oversaw massive redevelopments

during his life as librarian

and, actually, at this very moment, they are renovating it again.

I've always admired the poetry of Philip Larkin.

I saw a documentary when I was a young man

and I've always enjoyed his poetry since.

Beyond all this, the wish to be alone

However the sky grows dark with invitation cards

However we follow the printed directions of sex

However the family is photographed under the flagstaff

Beyond all this, the wish to be alone.

He's probably seen as a bit of an old grump, really,

that seems to be his general persona, but there's actually a lot of humour

and a lot of love of life shines through his poetry.

Today I've been over to the Hull History Centre

and have had the privilege of looking at Philip Larkin's notebooks.

It is a kind of living record of the work of Philip Larkin.

It's incredible, actually, it gives me goose bumps.

I mean, what you get to see normally is the finished product.

To actually see the amendments and the crossings-out

and the doodlings is an honour, really,

and an education. Fantastic.

From what I've been told by the staff here,

almost nobody gets to see these things as close-up as I am today,

so I'm really privileged and honoured.

It's augmenting the work that I've already done.

It makes me want to go home now and get hold of the book

and compare them to the original and...

the different words and rhyme schemes and things that he's used.

I think Larkin the poet was a genius.

I think Larkin the man was a bundle of contradictions.

I see a lot of his failings in myself and other people.

Nobody's perfect.

I've been interested in quizzes for a number of years

and I've always been a fan of Mastermind

and a long time ago, I thought, "I'd like to try that,"

but I didn't have the confidence and I'm not getting any younger,

so I thought, "It's now or never, I'll give it a whirl

"and see what's what."

I was actually made redundant at about the same time

as I applied for Mastermind, so I did have some time on my hands,

so I'm quite grateful for that.

Now and again, it just dawns on me

that I'm really, really close now to that bowl!

I've got one hand on it.

Philip Larkin in two minutes, starting now.

In 1950, Larkin started work as an assistant librarian

at the Queen's University in which city?

Belfast.

Larkin's 1955 poetry collection

that includes Myxomatosis and Toads

was included in the Times newspaper's

round-up of notable books of the year.

What was the collection called?

The Less Deceived.

Some of Larkin's early writings,

such as Sugar And Spice: A Sheaf Of Poems,

was written under what pen name?

Brunette Coleman.

Larkin wrote a number of poems following the engagement

of Winifred Arnott, a colleague at Queen's University.

What's the title of the poem that includes the words,

"All your ages matt and glossy on the thick black pages"?

On A Young Lady's Photograph Album.

A poem from The Whitsun Weddings

tells of the defacement of a girl on a poster

advertising a holiday resort.

The poster is eventually replaced

by one saying, "Fight cancer." Which poem?

Sunny Prestatyn.

Larkin wrote that Louis Armstrong's version

of St Louis Blues was the hottest record ever made

in his March '68 article on jazz,

written for which newspaper?

The Daily Telegraph.

The January 1984 issue of Poetry Review called Alcohol And Poetry

includes Larkin's last published poem.

It starts, "I never remember holding a full drink."

What's it called?

Party Politics.

Larkin had a long-term relationship with Monica Jones

and they spent holidays at her home

in which small town near Hexham?

-Allendale.

-Haydon Bridge.

What is the name of the artist who was commissioned in 1984

to paint Larkin's portrait that now hangs

in the National Portrait Gallery?

Humphrey Ocean.

Larkin was engaged to a young woman whom he later describes

as the "friend in specs I could talk to,"

in the poem Wild Oats. What was her name?

Erm...

Ruth Bowman.

The poem Annus Mirabilis about the year 1963

between the end of the Lady Chatterley ban

and The Beatles' first LP

was published in which '74 collection?

High Windows.

Larkin and his married lover, Patsy Strang,

used a false surname when they stayed in hotels

and left letters for each other at post offices. What was it?

Mr and Mrs Crane.

For which jazz musician did Larkin write a poem beginning,

"The note you hold, narrow and rising, shakes

-"Like New Orleans reflected on the water?"

-BEEP

-Sidney Bechet.

-Is correct.

No passes, Clive. You have 12 points.

APPLAUSE

And our fifth finalist, please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation?

And your specialist subject?

I've always liked films in general, since I was very small,

but about 30 years ago I saw a film called Jean de Florette,

which immediately captured my imagination

and introduced me to the possibilities of French cinema.

This is the Institut Lumiere in Lyon.

Behind us is the family mansion where the two brothers lived

when they made the very first films in 1895,

the year which marks the beginning of my specialist subject.

The Lumiere brothers already had a very big factory

making photographic plates for still cameras,

and they built this rather grand building

with the profits from their business.

Nowadays, the mansion itself is a museum to the family

and to the early cinema industry.

The first film was made here in 1895.

It's quite famous.

Workers leaving a factory,

with ladies in big hats and the men in straw hats.

This is actually the factory

and behind me is the entrance that the workers came out of.

It's very exciting, slightly moving, to be here,

actually at the very place, the exact spot where modern cinema began.

When people saw the first films, it created a sensation

and they were literally terrified

because they saw trains coming at them out of the screen,

and sometimes lions leaping towards them.

I think French cinema is a very tough subject for Mastermind

because it's so vast,

covering a whole 50-year span.

I thought I knew a lot about the subject,

but I've discovered that I've just scratched the surface

and I'm doing an awful lot of reading at the moment.

I've always wanted to go on Mastermind.

I clearly remember the very first episode.

It was on very late at night and I was too young to watch it,

but my dad came down to the breakfast table the next day and told me

all about this amazing new programme that he'd just seen

and ever since then, I've wanted to go on.

I never really thought in my wildest dreams

that I would get to the final,

so I'm surprised and thrilled to be here.

French cinema in two minutes, starting now.

On 28 December, 1895 in Paris, Auguste and Louis Lumiere

presented the world's first

commercial public screening of films.

What the name was given to

the motion picture camera and projector they used

and for which they held the patent?

Cinematograph.

The film producer Marcel Pagnol had his studio

in the city that was also the setting

for a trilogy of films based on his plays. Which city?

Marseille.

Which early film-maker had a studio in Montreuil, just outside Paris,

where he produced such films as Le Voyage Dans La Lune in 1902

and Le Voyage A Travers L'Impossible in 1904?

Melies.

The 1930s surrealist film L'Age D'or

was reviewed and banned by the French board of censors

after a riot at one of its early showings.

Who directed the film?

Bunuel.

Which film did Henri Joly make in October 1895

for Charles Pathe?

For many years, Pathe believed it to be the first French film.

Pass.

The '41 mystery thriller L'Assassinat Du Pere Noel

was the first film made by the French production company

that was financed by the Germans during the wartime occupation.

What was the name of the company?

Continental.

George Melies claimed that he accidentally invented

a film technique when his camera jammed

while he was filming a Paris street scene.

What was the technique?

Stop motion.

Who joined Leon Gaumont's company in the 1890s as a secretary

and went on to become the first female film director?

Alice Guy.

Which 1935 historical romantic comedy directed by Jacques Feyder

was released in America as Carnival In Flanders?

Pass.

For which '36 film did the director Julien Duvivier

shoot two alternative endings,

one downbeat, one optimistic?

Pass.

What is the name of the actor

who appeared in many of Duvivier's films,

starring with Maria Chapdelaine in 1934,

and followed him to Hollywood

after the German occupation of France?

John Gabin.

Which '37 film directed by Jean Renoir

was the first foreign-language film

to be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar?

Pass.

The 1927 six-hour silent film Napoleon,

with Albert Dieudonne in the title role,

featured a split screen

and montages projected simultaneously on three screens.

Who was the director?

Abel Gance.

Abel Gance is correct.

You had four passes, Roderick.

La Grande Illusion was that '37 film directed by Renoir.

La Belle Equipe was the film

that Duvivier shot two alternative endings for.

That '35 historical romantic comedy was La Kermesse Heroique.

And the film that Henri Joly made in October 1895

was Le Bain D'Une Mondaine.

You have, Roderick, a total of nine points.

APPLAUSE

And our final finalist, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject?

I never imagined coming to Salem because, to be honest,

I didn't think I would get to the final.

I think I chose the Salem witch trials

as I've always wanted to find out more about it,

so taking it on as a subject in Mastermind

gave me the perfect opportunity to do just that.

The trials started in 1692,

when two girls started to have hallucinations

and were claiming that people were casting spells on them

or hurting them and it built up and built up.

Eventually, over 250 people were accused of witchcraft.

I'm sitting in a memorial to the 20 people who were executed.

It's quite poignant, really,

about how the trials affected people's lives.

This is the memorial for George Burroughs.

I think it is one of the most memorable cases

because he was a former minister and, on the gallows, he recited

the Lord's Prayer perfectly, but he was still hung anyway.

"John Proctor, hanged August 19, 1692."

This is to Giles Corey. I feel it's the most gruesome of the deaths

because he was pressed to death rather than hung

and it took him three days to die.

So, this is a replica of the meeting house,

where some of the early examinations of the witches took place.

Anyone who walked into that room, one of the accused,

was pretty much helpless.

It must have been so overwhelming for them,

seeing a whole baying mob

wanting them to be convicted of witchcraft.

Rebecca Nurse is probably one of the most moving characters.

She was actually in her mid-70s during the trials

and, throughout her entire life, was known for being a very holy person.

So, this is the house of Rebecca Nurse.

Most of the victims would have lived in a very similar house.

I'm very excited to see it.

After the trials, the people who were hung,

they weren't allowed to have a Christian burial.

Rebecca's family obviously weren't happy with that,

so they ran sort of a clandestine operation to find her body

and bring it back to their homestead so they could bury it.

The subject is one I've always had an interest in.

Hopefully, I can be successful in getting

a good number of questions right.

It's unbelievable that I've got this far and unbelievable

that I've got a chance of actually winning the competition.

My friends and family are all really proud.

They've been a real great help. My sister acts as John Humphrys.

I sit in a big chair at home and she throws questions on me

for two minutes to see how many I can get,

so when I'm actually in it, I feel less pressure.

To win the grand final of Mastermind would pretty much be

a lifelong dream.

I really just cannot believe that I'm one step away

from becoming the nation's Mastermind.

The Salem witch trials in two minutes. Here we go.

The first young women to claim to be afflicted or tormented by witches

in Salem Village in 1692 lived in the house of

the village pastor. What was his name?

Samuel Parris.

The first person accused of witchcraft by the girls

was the slave kept by Samuel Parris.

She made elaborate confessions

that were central to the witch-hunt. What was her name?

Tituba.

The accused witches Mary Easty, Sarah Wilds

and William and Deliverance Hobbs

lived in or near a town between Salem Village and Ipswich.

What was the town called?

Topsfield.

Who, on 10th June, 1692, became the first person to be

executed for witchcraft as a result of the trials?

Bridget Bishop.

During Martha Corey's examination, she was hit on the head

by an object thrown by one of her accusers,

Bathshua Pope. What was the object?

A shoe.

One Salem family were key allies

of Samuel Parris during the witch panic.

They included Ann, one of the afflicted girls, and her father, Thomas,

who signed several of the charges

against the supposed witches. What was their surname?

Putnam.

The Massachusetts Governor Sir William Phips

commissioned an account of the Salem witch trials

from Cotton Mather. What was it called?

Wonders Of The Invisible World.

What was the name of the deacon

who was the owner of the ordinary or tavern

where some of the first hearings of the witch trials were held?

Nathaniel Ingersoll.

Nehemiah Abbot, the only accused witch to be acquitted,

was let off after his accusers revealed

that the apparition that had persecuted them

had what distinguishing feature which Abbot lacked?

A wart.

The chief judge of the Superior Court

that was formed to try accused witches in January 1693

walked off the bench in protest against Sir William Phips' decision

to reprieve those found guilty. What was his name?

William Stoughton.

When Samuel Sibley gave evidence against John Proctor,

he claimed that Proctor had said that if the afflicted girls

were left to their own devices, what would happen?

We would all be witches.

Who declared, after the final execution of Salem's so-called witches,

"What a sad thing it is to see eight firebrands of hell hanging there?"

Nicholas Noyes.

What was the name of the young niece of Samuel Parris

who, along with her cousin Betty, were thought to be bewitched?

They were observed creeping under chairs and stools

and using odd postures and antic gestures.

Abigail Williams.

What was the legal term for the emergency court...

BEEP

..set up by William Phips in May 1692

to try the accused witches of Salem Village?

The Court of Oyer and Terminer.

Is correct.

No passes, Michael. You have 14 points.

APPLAUSE

Well, I've never known that to happen in a grand final before.

Let's have a look at the scores.

Sixth place, nine points, Roderick Cromar.

Fifth place, ten points, Daniel Adler.

Fourth place, 11 points, Hamish Cameron.

Third place, 12 points, Clive Dunning.

Second place, 13 points, Brian Chesney.

In the lead, but only just, 14 points, Michael McPartland.

APPLAUSE

So, all those many months of hard work and sweat

and it's all come down to this. General knowledge.

Two-and-a-half minutes of questions each

and that will decide who is the nation's Mastermind.

If there is a tie at the end of it all, then the number of passes

is taken into account and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.

So, let's get on with it and ask Roderick to join us again, please.

And you start this round, Roderick, with nine points.

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

Two-and-a-half minutes.

Who was proclaimed Queen of England on 10 July, 1553,

but was replaced nine days later by Henry VIII's daughter, Mary Tudor?

Lady Jane Grey.

Yes, what name's given to the vast interior region of Australia because

of the colour of the earth and rock it is primarily composed of?

The Great Red Desert.

The Red Centre. In ancient Egyptian religion, which God was usually

depicted in the form of a man with the head of a falcon or hawk?

Horus.

Yes. Which rock guitarist who died in November 2001 was

cremated in a cardboard coffin in keeping with his Hare Krishna faith?

George Harrison.

Who won a best actor Oscar for his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle

in the '71 film The French Connection?

Pass.

In June 2013, which golfer became the first Briton for 43 years to

win the US Open? It was his first major title.

McIlroy.

No, Rose, Justin Rose. The main ingredients of a dish popular in America

at Thanksgiving generally consists of corn kernels

and lima beans simmered together until tender. What's the dish?

Grits.

Succotash. Which book by RM Ballantyne describes

the adventures of three boys who are washed ashore after

a shipwreck in the South Seas and face hostile tribes and pirates?

Pass.

In which country did the unsuccessful Decembrist revolt

mainly led by upper-class army officers take place in December 1825?

France.

Russia. What is the name of the Florentine sculptor whose 15th century

bronze statue of David is generally thought to be the first

large-scale freestanding nude statue of the Renaissance?

Michelangelo.

Donatello. Which member of David Cameron's Cabinet

appointed following the election in 2010 began his working

life as a reporter on the Aberdeen Press And Journal?

Gove.

Yes. Which river has tributaries called the Avon, the Stour and the Teme?

Severn.

Yes. What name was given to the 12 peers of the Emperor Charlemagne's court

and was later applied to any knight renowned for chivalry and heroism?

The Golden Horde.

Paladins. Which writer was played by Rupert Everett in David Hare's play

The Judas Kiss, when it opened on the West End stage in January 2013?

Oscar Wilde.

What small New World frogs get their common name

because their venomous skin secretions have been

used in the weaponry of native South American tribes?

Poison dart frogs.

What is the name of the sports presenter well-known for her

coverage of horse racing and the Olympics on television, who has

fronted Ramblings, the series about walking on Radio 4, since 1999?

Clare Balding.

Which Canadian provincial capital lies at the mouths of the Humber

and Don Rivers, where they enter Lake Ontario?

Toronto.

Which Danish physicist established the link between electricity

and magnetism in 1820, when he demonstrated that an electric current

-in a wire could cause a compass to deflect?

-BEEP

Gauss.

It was Hans Christian Oersted. News to me, too.

You had two passes, Roderick.

It's The Coral Island,

that's the RM Ballantyne book involving those young lads,

and the chap who won the best actor Oscar

for playing Popeye was Gene Hackman.

You have a total now, Roderick, of 18 points.

APPLAUSE

And Daniel again, now, please.

And you start out with 10 points, so it's two-and-a-half minutes,

general knowledge, here we go.

What name is given to the body of up to 6,000 soldiers that was

the principal fighting unit in the armies of Ancient Rome?

A legion.

Fiorello Henry LaGuardia served three terms

as the mayor of an American city from '33 to 1945. Which city?

New York.

The crown of thorns, which preys on coral

and was at one time thought to threaten the survival

of the Great Barrier Reef, is a species of which marine creature?

Shark.

Starfish. Who drew on his experience as an English teacher on the Greek

island of Spetses for his second novel, The Magus?

John Fowles.

What fruit, once known as the Chinese gooseberry, got its current name

after New Zealand growers started to export it?

Kiwi fruit.

Which composer who was knighted in 1937 and appointed

Master of the King's Musick in 1942 was particularly known for works

with an Irish theme such as his symphonic poem In The Faery Hills?

Arnold Bax.

Which Welsh comedian impersonated the radio presenter

Ken Bruce for the entire duration of his BBC Radio 2

programme on April Fools' Day 2011?

Max Boyce.

Rob Brydon. What word for the form of mental disorder

characterised by delusions, especially of persecution,

comes from the Greek for beyond or beside the mind?

Paranoia.

In the early 20th century, a French-American artist

pioneered the concept of ready-made art, where he used everyday

objects in his works including a urinal entitled Fountain. Who was he?

Duchamp.

What is the real name of U2's guitarist,

who's known as The Edge?

Steve Evans.

David Evans. What is the nationality of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became

Pope Francis I in March 2013?

Argentinian.

Which strait that connects the North Atlantic with

Baffin Bay is named after an English navigator,

who tried to find the Northwest Passage in the 16th century?

Hudson.

The Davis Strait. Which Dutch centre forward scored two goals against

the FA Cup holders, Wigan Athletic,

to win the 2013 Community Shield for Manchester United?

Balotelli.

Van Persie. The 2002 book Living To Tell The Tale is

the autobiography of a Colombian novelist, whose works

include One Hundred Years Of Solitude and Love In The Time Of Cholera.

What's his name?

Marquez.

Which Australian bass-baritone, who once described opera as

"too much work for too little pay" became famous for singing

popular ballads such as Glorious Devon and On The Road To Mandalay?

Alfie Boe.

Peter Dawson. Who was given his first Cabinet post

when Asquith appointed him President of the Board of Trade in 1908?

Churchill.

Which film-maker born in Salford has had Oscar nominations for films

including Secrets And Lies and Vera Drake?

Mike Leigh.

What name was given at the junction of Paternoster Row

and Ave Maria Lane in London

because it was thought to have marked the point where monks on their way

-to St Paul's finished their recital of the Lord's Prayer?

-BEEP

Amen Corner.

It is indeed. Did you know it, or did you guess?

-A good guess.

-A good guess, well done!

-LAUGHTER

No passes, Daniel, you have 22 points.

APPLAUSE

And now, Hamish again, please.

And you start out, Hamish, obviously, with 11 points.

22 is, as we speak, the score to beat. Let's see if you can do it.

Two-and-a-half minutes of general knowledge starting now.

Which river that rises in Germany is known in German as the Donau?

Pass.

Who became the first Prime Minister of Zimbabwe in 1980

and Executive President in 1987 after the posts of president

and prime minister were merged?

Mugabe.

Which penguin, distinguished by the band of black feathers

that extends from one cheek to the other under its beak, has

alternative names bearded, ringed and stonecracker?

Macaroni.

The chinstrap. Which 1969 novel by the American author Paul Gallico

is about the efforts of a group of survivors to

escape from an overturned ocean liner?

The Poseidon Adventure.

What Royal dukedom was created in 1385 for Edmund of Langley,

the fourth surviving legitimate son of King Edward III?

Cornwall.

York. Which national trail runs along the top of the North Wessex Downs

and the Berkshire Downs, passing prehistoric sites

such as Wayland's Smithy and the Uffington White Horse on its route?

Yealand Pass.

The Ridgeway. What is the name of the character John Wayne first

played in the film True Grit?

Rooster Cogburn.

Which 19th-century French painter's early masterpieces include

Dante And Virgil In Hell and the Massacre At Chios?

They can be seen in the Louvre in Paris.

Delaroche.

Delacroix. The injection of money into an economy by a central bank

in order to boost spending is sometimes known by the initials QE.

What do they stand for?

Quantitative easing.

The Peace of Vereeniging ended the South African Wars in 1902.

In which city, the administrative capital of South Africa, was it signed?

Cape Town.

Pretoria. In Ancient Rome what was the name of the festivals of the wine god

that became so rowdy they were banned by the Senate in 186 BC?

Bacchanalia.

Vanilla pods used widely in cookery as a flavouring

agent come from a climbing member of what family of plants?

Orchids.

The arranger and composer Nelson Riddle formed a celebrated

partnership with which singer?

They worked together on albums such as In The Wee Small Hours?

Sinatra.

What is the name of the Radio 4 programme

presented by Michael Burke since it began in 1990, where four panellists

discuss the ethical problems raised by issues of the day?

Pass.

Which South Pacific island nation played in their first major

international football tournament

when they took part in the 2013 Confederations Cup in Brazil?

They scored one goal and conceded 24.

Tahiti.

Christopher Jones was the part-owner

and captain of a ship that made an historic voyage in 1620.

What was it called?

Mayflower.

What is the name of the 17th-century French playwright whose

major works include L'Avare and La Misanthrope?

Voltaire.

-Moliere. Which small...

-BEEP

..I've started, so I'll finish - which small keyboard instrument giving

an ethereal bell-like sound was invented in 1886 and used

a few years later by Tchaikovsky in The Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy?

Pianola.

It was the celeste, or the celesta, if you prefer.

Two passes. Michael Burke presents the Moral Maze.

And that river that rises in Germany known as the Donau is the Danube.

Yes, of course.

There we are, Hamish, 20 points.

APPLAUSE

And now, Clive again, please.

And 12 is the score you have already notched up.

22 is still the score to beat.

Let's see if you can do it. Here we go. Two-and-a-half minutes of general knowledge.

The roots of certain varieties of chicory roasted and ground

can be used as a substitute or additive for what drink?

Coffee.

The 1928 book Memoirs Of A Fox-Hunting Man was

the first of three semi-autobiographical works

by a writer best known for his war poetry. What was his name?

Sassoon.

Which actor, who appeared in The Fast Show

and played Arthur Weasley in the Harry Potter films,

has gone on to play Father Brown on television?

Mark Williams.

What name is given to the pain that runs from the lower back

down the legs along the longest nerve in the body?

Sciatica.

Which politician who'd served in Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet

since 1981 resigned as Employment Secretary in 1990,

saying he wanted to spend more time with his family?

Norman Lamont.

Norman Fowler. The siege of Troy by the Greeks is the setting

for a Shakespeare play. What's it called?

Hecuba.

Troilus And Cressida.

What name of German origin can be used as a generic term

for any keyboard instrument such as a harpsichord or piano?

It appears in the title of a well-known work by JS Bach.

Clavier.

Which office of the Venetian Republic was

last held by Ludovico Manin, who abdicated

following Napoleon's conquest of northern Italy in 1797?

Doge.

Which mountain range, designated a National Park in 2003,

contains four of Britain's five highest mountain peaks?

Cairngorms.

Who was the author of the Epistle

that forms the penultimate book of the New Testament?

He describes himself as servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James.

John?

Jude. For which 1996 film did Geoffrey Rush win a best actor Oscar

for playing the gifted but troubled pianist David Helfgott?

Shine.

What type of black-on-white profile portrait, either cut from paper or painted,

takes its name from a finance minister of Louis XV?

Silhouette.

In international cricket matches, the technology known as DRS

is widely used to confirm whether or not a batsman is out.

What do the initials stand for?

Pass.

What word of Russian origin is used for the vast treeless grasslands that extend

from Hungary through Ukraine and Central Asia into north-eastern China?

Steppes.

Who was the wife of King George I?

He divorced her for adultery in 1694

and she was imprisoned for the rest of her life.

Sophia.

Sophia Dorothea, yes. Which band, central to the psychedelic movement of the 1960s,

had devoted fans known as Deadheads?

The Grateful Dead.

What is the surname of the husband and wife anthropologists Louis and Mary,

whose fossil discoveries in East Africa greatly advanced the study of human evolution?

Leakey.

What French name for a sweet enclosing a medicinal drug

is now typically applied to a sugar-coated almond...

BEEP

..or a small, silver-coloured ball for decorating a cake?

Aniseed?

No, it's dragee.

News to me.

There we are. At one pass, DRS stands for Decision Review System.

But no matter, Clive, you have 25 points.

APPLAUSE

And now, Brian again, please.

And you start out with 13 points.

But the bad news is, the score to beat has gone up as well.

It is now 25.

Here we go. Two-and-a-half minutes. General knowledge.

What name of Anglo-French and Latin origin is used

for the crime of giving false evidence under oath in a court of law?

Perjury.

The Treasure Seekers, published in 1899,

was the first successful book for children by which author,

who later wrote Five Children And It?

E Nesbit.

What is the name of the motel in the fictional village of Kings Oak in the Midlands

that was the setting for a long-running television soap opera?

Crossroads.

Which band's first chart-topping album, Atom Heart Mother,

had a cow called Lulubelle III on its front cover?

Frank Zappa?

No, Pink Floyd.

What is the name for the form of movement that involves

arm-over-arm swinging, as used by primates such as gibbons?

Pass.

In which country did the 2013 UEFA European

Under-21 Championship take place? England lost

all three of their games and only scored one goal.

Sweden?

Israel. What name of Greek origin is given to the colour midway between green and blue

that is one of the primary colours in colour printing?

Pass.

Which Irish actor plays the gunfighter English Bob

in Clint Eastwood's '92 film Unforgiven?

Liam Neeson?

Richard Harris. Which annual conference,

attended by some of the world's leading financiers and politicians,

takes its name from the hotel in the Netherlands

where the first conference was held in 1954?

-Pass.

-Which 18th-century naturalist and clergyman, who lived in Selborne

in Hampshire, produced a work on natural history that is still widely read?

Gilbert White.

The seas occupying the two deep indentations in the coastline

of the Antarctic continent are named after British navigators.

The Ross Sea is one. What is the other?

Weddell.

The 1969 novel The Andromeda Strain,

about a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism,

was the first bestseller by which American writer?

Michael Crichton.

A type of earthenware decorated with bright colours on a white background

is named after one of the Balearic islands where it is supposed to have originated.

What is the pottery called?

Majorca?

No, maiolica. Who is the earliest-known Greek poet after Homer?

His Theogony describes the history of the gods.

Hesiod.

The name of a French viscount, a writer and diplomat who lived from 1768 to 1848,

is given to a thick cut of steak. What's it called?

Chateaubriand.

Which port on the East Sussex coast of the mouth of the River Ouse

is the terminus for ferries to Dieppe?

Newhaven.

The Czar of Russia who reigned from 1598 to 1605 is the subject of a play

by Pushkin and an opera by Mussorgsky. What was his name?

Boris Godunov.

In Judaism, what name is given to the small square black boxes

containing passages of scripture attached to the left arm and forehead,

usually worn by Orthodox Jews during weekday morning services?

Pass.

Which historian has written and presented the television programmes

Around The World In 80 Treasures and The Country House Revealed,

among many others?

Dan Cruickshank?

What term for a vicious satire directed against a person is thought to come from...

BEEP

..an old French drinking song refrain, meaning let us drink?

Lampoon?

Is correct.

Four passes, Brian.

Those little boxes Jewish people wear during prayers

are phylacteries, which you knew.

The Bilderberg Conference is that one started out in 1954.

Cyan is the name given to the colour

midway between green and blue.

And brachiation is what primates do

when they do all that swinging stuff.

So, four passes, Brian.

You've scored now a total of 25 points.

APPLAUSE

Oh, right down to the wire.

Let's ask Michael, our final finalist,

to come back to the chair.

14 points on the board already.

25 still the score to beat.

Let's see if you can do it. Two-and-a-half minutes. Here we go.

What is the title of the 2011 film

that stars Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher?

The Iron Lady.

For which Russian ballerina did Michel Fokine create The Dying Swan

in the early 1900s to the music of Saint-Saens?

Pavlova?

What alternative name for birds of the shrike family

alludes to the habit of impaling the carcasses of insects

and small animals on thorns for eating later?

Merlin.

Butcher bird. In which English county

are the seaside towns of Sheringham, Cromer and Wells-next-the-Sea?

Norfolk.

Which American modernist painter, born in 1887, was best known

for her large paintings of flowers and of the desert scenery

of New Mexico, where she eventually went to live?

Baker.

O'Keeffe. What name is given to the variety of Italian kidney bean

also known as the rose coco bean, that is widely used in Italian cooking

and has a pinkish speckled skin that turns brown when cooked?

Haricot.

Borlotti. In cricket, the average number of runs a batsman scores

for every 100 balls he faces is called his...what?

Strike rate.

Which upbeat style of popular music

that emerged in Jamaica in the early '60s,

began to influence British bands such as Madness in the late '70s?

Ska.

Which Roman emperor, who reigned from 98 to 117 AD,

Was born in Spain in about 53 AD?

A giant column celebrating his victories was built

during his reign and still stands in Rome.

Hadrian.

Trajan. What is the title of Iain Banks' final novel?

It's about the last days of a man suffering from a terminal illness.

Final Days.

The Quarry. The original set of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta

was based on the quarterdeck of the Victory, that the pair had visited

in Portsmouth prior to the production. What is the operetta called?

HMS Pinafore.

What name is given to the stretch of the French Riviera

that runs approximately from St Tropez to the Italian border?

Nice.

Cote d'Azur. Which actor's television roles

include Detective Sergeant Bennet Drake in Ripper Street,

and Bronn in Game Of Thrones?

Jerome Flynn?

What name is usually given to the dry, dusty wind

that blows from the East or Northeast in the Western Sahara,

particularly in late autumn and winter?

Sirocco.

Harmattan. Who was the supreme ruler of the gods of Mount Olympus

in the religion of ancient Greece?

Zeus.

The name of which German literary movement of the late 18th century

translates as "storm and stress"?

Blitz?

No, Sturm und Drang. What word of Greek origin,

coined by Field Marshal Smuts, describes looking at a system as a whole,

rather than by an analysis of the individual parts?

Panthea?

Holistic. Who stars opposite French actress Julie Delpy in the 2013 romance

Before Midnight? It completes a trilogy of films

that began with the '95 film Before Sunrise?

Colin Firth?

Ethan Hawke. Which alternative rock band released their seventh studio album...

BEEP

..In Rainbows online in October 2007 and invited fans

to pay whatever they wanted to download it?

Radiohead.

Is correct. No passes, Michael.

23 points.

APPLAUSE

Well, what a tightly fought grand final that turned out to be.

Let's have a look at all the scores.

In sixth place, 18 points,

Roderick Cromar.

Fifth place, 20 points,

Hamish Cameron.

Fourth place, 22 points,

Daniel Adler.

Third place, 23 points,

Michael McPartland.

Second place, 25 points and four passes,

Brian Chesney.

First place, 25 points and one pass,

Clive Dunning.

APPLAUSE

It came down to passes in the end.

Commiserations to Brian, but it means, of course,

that Clive Dunning is the Mastermind champion.

APPLAUSE

Clive...

Congratulations.

And hold it... Hold it carefully.

Do you mind me saying, you looked absolutely terrified?

-I was petrified!

-You were?

-Yes.

But the kids are going to be thrilled, yeah?

They'll love it, yeah. I've got my daughter in the audience

and my partner, lots of friends, so, yeah. They will be...

-I think they will be happier than I am!

-Ah! If possible.

Well, congratulations.

Clive is the new Mastermind champion,

but the search will start again later this year

to find the next one. It could be you.

And you don't have to be a man,

in spite of appearances to the contrary.

It is a level playing field, honestly.

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Thanks for watching. Good night.

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