Episode 7 Mastermind

First in the spotlight tonight is Paul Philpot, an administrator from Bristol,

his specialist subject, Sebastian Coe.

Next, Andrew Spooner, a retired teacher from Surrey.

He'll answer questions on photographer Eadweard Muybridge.

Ron Wood is a clergyman from Yeovil and he'll answer questions on the American rock band The Byrds.

And Carol O'Byrne, a local government officer from Pontypridd,

her subject, the Second World War spy Violette Szabo.

APPLAUSE

Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.

Our contenders will, as ever, answer questions on their specialist subjects, then on general knowledge,

all under the pressure of the clock,

2 minutes in the first round, 2½ minutes in the second round.

The winner will come back in the semi-finals and do it again,

so let's have our first contender, please.

And your name is...?

Sebastian Coe was born in London and spent his early years in Warwickshire,

but to which city did he move with his family in 1968?

Sheffield. Which local athletics club did Coe join in Sheffield under the guidance of coach Hubert Scheiber

who worked in a cutlery factory run by Coe's father?

Hallamshire Harriers. Which American businesswoman did Coe replace

as leader of the bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games?

Barbara Cassani. What leg injuries meant that the 17-year-old Coe

missed the whole of the summer season of '74?

Shin fractures. Yes, stress fractures.

Sebastian Coe broke the world record for which distance at the Bislett Games in July 1980

and thus held four world records at the same time?

Later that day, Steve Ovett took the one mile world record away from him.

1,000 metres. At Crystal Palace on August 30th, 1976,

Coe broke the four-minute mark for the first time in which race?

He came seventh in that race and won the event the next year.

Emsley Carr Mile. At the '78 European Championships in Prague,

which East German runner caused a major upset and beat both Coe and Ovett to win the 800 metres?

Olaf Beyer. At which Cambridge college is the Great Court

that Coe and Steve Cram tried to run around in 1988

within the time it takes the college clock to strike the hour of 12?

Trinity College. Who was the gold medallist when Coe won silver

in the 800 metres at the Los Angeles Olympics? Coe retained his 1,500 metres title at that Games.

Joaquim Cruz. At the '72 English Schools Intermediate Cross-Country Championships,

who became the first person to beat Coe and Ovett in the same race?

Kirk Dumpleton. What constituency did Coe represent as a Conservative MP

from '92 until he lost the seat at the '97 General Election?

Falmouth and Camborne. Who was the fourth member of the team with Coe, Cram and Elliott

that broke the world 4 x 800 metres relay world record at Crystal Palace in '82?

Garry Cook. During the 2012 Olympics, Coe was involved

in just one medal presentation. For which British athlete?

Jessica Ennis. Coe was diagnosed with a parasitic disease with symptoms...

BEEP ..like glandular fever in 1983

and could not be considered for the inaugural IAAF World Championships in Helsinki. Which disease?

Toxoplasmosis. Is correct.

No passes, Paul. 14 points.

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And our next contender, please.

And your name is...?

Two minutes. Eadweard Muybridge was a pioneer in photographic motion,

born in Kingston upon Thames in 1830. What was his original surname?

Muggeridge. Muybridge first moved to San Francisco in 1855.

In which street at number 113 did he open his first bookstore?

Pass. A Civil War General appointed him as the photographer on a fact-finding mission

to the newly acquired territory of Alaska in 1868. Name the General.

Halleck. Muybridge was asked for photographic evidence that all four feet of a horse called Occident

were off the ground while trotting.

Which former Governor of California hired him to do that?

Leland Stanford. Muybridge called the projector of moving images he developed the "zoogyroscope",

but what name did he settle on for his demonstrations of it from 1879?

Zoopraxiscope. Charon At The Ferry is the title of a self-portrait taken in 1868

on the banks of the River Merced in an area he photographed extensively.

In which National Park does the river now lie?

Yosemite. Muybridge shot and killed Harry Larkyns, the lover of his wife Flora,

but was acquitted of the murder on the grounds of justifiable homicide. Name the mine where it happened.

Yellow Jacket. Muybridge went to Central America after the murder trial on which company's ship

that partially sponsored his work?

The Pacific Mail Company. What title did Muybridge give to the series of photographs he took

at the Buena Vista Vineyard in the early 1870s that followed the wine-making process?

Pass. His moving horse photographs were published in 1878

and led to an invitation from photographer Etienne-Jules Marey to visit Paris.

In which French science journal were the sequences published?

La Nature. What name did Muybridge adopt as his professional name when he started his career in 1866?

It was also the middle name he gave his son Florado.

Helios. His 1887 work Animal Locomotion shows both men and women performing various activities.

What activity is shown in Plates 399 and 400?

Pass. BEEP

Well, the time is up anyway.

He was pouring water or somebody was pouring water from a bucket. And it was Montgomery Street.

You've remembered the other "pass". It was Montgomery Street where he moved in San Francisco in 1855.

And the title he gave that series of photographs was A Vintage In California.

Andrew, you have 9 points.

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And our next contender, please.

And your name is...?

Which song written by Bob Dylan gave The Byrds their first hit single in 1965?

It topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic.

Mr Tambourine Man. Who adapted the words from Ecclesiastes for the song Turn! Turn! Turn! -

it became the band's second No.1 single in the US in '65?

Pete Seeger. Name the former Beatles' press officer

who did public relations work for The Byrds in their early days.

Derek Taylor. Name the producer, the son of Doris Day, who produced the band's first two albums.

Terry Melcher. Which song, associated with Vera Lynn, was the last track

on side two of the band's first album Mr Tambourine Man?

We'll Meet Again. Name the supper club in Los Angeles where the band had a residency during spring '65,

allowing them to hone their performance and distinctive sound.

Ciro's Le Disc. What article of green suede clothing did David Crosby wear on stage in the band's early days?

A sort of cape. Which band shared a stage with The Byrds for the first time in Boston in '69?

It was the first of a number of collaborations between the bands

who over time had several band members in common.

The Flying Burrito Brothers. Who was the only band member to play his instrument on Mr Tambourine Man

as experienced session musicians provided the rest of the backing?

Jim McGuinn. Name the road manager who played guitar on the band's South African tour of '68

to replace the country-rock pioneer Gram Parsons who had recently left.

Carlos Bernal. Their 1970 double album Untitled comprises live and studio recordings.

A live version of which song takes up the entire second side?

Eight Miles High. A brief commitment to which Indonesian religious movement led Jim McGuinn

to change his name to Roger in 1967

after he had been told by the founder to choose a name beginning with R?

Subud. Who replaced Michael Clarke as the drummer with the band in 1968 after Clarke was fired?

Gene Parsons. Kevin Kelley.

What was the title of the band's sixth studio album released in 1968,

the only album by the band to feature Gram Parsons? BEEP

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo. Correct.

So you got them all right apart from that one. You scored, Ron, 13 points. Thank you.

APPLAUSE

And our final contender, please.

And your name is...?

Violette Szabo was a secret agent who was awarded the George Cross

for her work in the Special Operations Executive.

In which city was she born Violette Bushell on June 26th, 1921?

Levallois-Perret. In...? Paris. Yes. After leaving school at 14,

in which shop on Oxford Street did she work? Its slogan was "Nothing Over Sixpence".

Woolworths. Which part of the war effort did she join early on? She worked at Fareham near Portsmouth.

The Land Army. On what occasion did she meet her French Legionnaire husband Etienne Szabo in 1940?

He was taking part in a parade of the Free French Forces in Whitehall.

Bastille Day. In which capacity did Szabo join the Auxiliary Territorial Service in September 1941?

She left in '42 due to the impending birth of her daughter Tania.

She joined an ack-ack battery as a Vickers predictor.

Her first SOE mission was to determine whether the network

around Rouen and Le Havre could be resurrected. Name this network.

Salesman. What injury during her training may have recurred

when she was trying to flee from a Nazi ambush in 1944?

She hurt her ankle. Yes, she sprained it.

She returned from her first assignment to France on which aircraft chosen for its ability

to land on unprepared airstrips behind enemy lines?

Lysander. In which battle was her husband Etienne mortally wounded in October 1942?

Violette did not learn of his death until many months later.

El Alamein. In 1943, under what assumed name did Selwyn Jepson,

one of SOE's talent-spotters, invite Violette to an interview in London?

Mr Potter. What was the real name of the local Resistance leader, codenamed Anastasie,

with whom Violette was travelling when she was arrested near the village of Salon-la-Tour?

Dufour. During her first mission, Violette brought back a "wanted" poster calling for Clement's arrest.

This was the codename of which French SOE agent?

Philippe Liewer. Violette was chained by the ankle to another woman en route to Germany

when the train was bombed by the RAF. What feat of bravery did she perform?

She took some water to some other prisoners. Violette...

BEEP ..was executed early in 1945 at Ravensbruck prison,

alongside Denise Bloch and which other SOE agent?

Lilian Rolfe. Is correct. No passes. A perfect round - 14 points.

APPLAUSE

Well, what a brilliant round! Let's have a look at all the scores.

In fourth place, Andrew Spooner.

In third place, Ron Wood.

Joint first place, you don't often see this, 14 points apiece,

Paul Philpot and Carol O'Byrne.

APPLAUSE

So the general knowledge round now and if there's a tie at the end,

the number of passes is taken into account and the person with the fewer passes wins.

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

The six highest scoring runners-up will also claim a place in the semi-finals, so plenty to play for.

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

And you scored nine points with your knowledge of Eadweard Muybridge.

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

Two and a half minutes starting now.

Which comedian's Half Hour was introduced on radio and TV by its star, known as "the lad himself"?

Tony Hancock. Which city's tourist attractions include Nelson's HMS Victory and Henry VIII's Mary Rose?

Portsmouth. In 1992, who became the first British golfer

to win the Open Championship three times since Henry Cotton in 1948?

Tony Jacklin. Faldo. Which US President addressed what he called "the silent majority"

during a broadcast in November 1969?

Lyndon Johnson. Richard Nixon. Which Italian soft cheese, whose name means "re-cooked",

is widely used for pasta dishes such as cannelloni?

Ri...Ricotta. What did David Livingstone become the first European to see in 1855,

"the most wonderful sight I witnessed in Africa"?

Source of the Nile? Victoria Falls. Coming Up For Air is a lesser-known novel of which English author?

George Orwell. In 2013, the third series of the astronomy programme Stargazing Live

with Dara O Briain and Professor Brian Cox was broadcast from which Cheshire observatory?

Jodrell Bank. Who painted the first official portrait of the Duchess of Cambridge, unveiled in 2013,

to mixed reviews? Pass. Who sang True Love with Bing Crosby in the 1956 film High Society?

Pass. Collop Monday was traditionally the last day when meat was eaten before which long period of fasting?

Lent. At what battle of September, 490 BC, did the Athenians under Miltiades win

a decisive victory over the invading Persians?

Thermopylae? Marathon. The Bridgewater Canal, built to take coal from Worsley to Manchester,

was the first completed work of which engineer and canal builder?

James Brindley. Who's the middle-aged Liverpool housewife played by Pauline Collins in a 1989 film

who has a fling on the island of Mykonos with a Greek taverna owner?

Pass. What generic term, referring to their appearance,

is used for the bottom-dwelling fish that include the flounder, halibut, turbot and the plaice?

Flatfish. Which Anglo-Irish dramatist's play The Critic premiered at the Theatre Royal,

which he partly owned?

George Bernard Shaw? No, Sheridan. The Churnet, Dove and Derwent are tributaries of which Midlands river?

The Trent. What is the trade name... BEEP

..of the first truly synthetic resin, invented in 1907 and used for electrical insulation?

Bakelite? Bakelite's correct. You had three passes.

That middle-aged Liverpool housewife was Shirley Valentine. Of course.

Grace Kelly sang True Love with Bing Crosby and Paul Emsley painted

the Duchess of Cambridge's first official portrait.

You have scored, Andrew, 19 points.

And now Ron Wood again, please.

You have 13 points with your knowledge of The Byrds.

Let's see how you do. Here we go.

Thank You And Goodbye was the last front page headline of which newspaper that closed in 2011?

News of the World. Which Bolton steeplejack presented programmes about industrial history?

Fred Dibnah. Dante Gabriel Rossetti's 1849 painting The Girlhood of Mary Virgin

was the first work exhibited with what initials?

PRB. The name of which collection of Pacific Ocean island groups comes from the Greek for "many islands"?

Polynesia. After WWI, who sought anonymity as Aircraftsman JH Ross

and then in the Royal Tank Corps as Private TE Shaw?

TE Lawrence. What band was formed by the remaining members of Joy Division after Ian Curtis's death?

Pass. Which palace on the north bank of the Thames was originally built by Cardinal Wolsey,

but taken over by Henry VIII in 1529?

Hampton Court. The title of which '81 Oscar-winning British film was inspired by a line by William Blake?

Chariots of Fire. Which debonair, cricket-loving burglar was created by EW Hornung?

His exploits are told by his admiring accomplice Bunny.

Raffles. Who resigned as Labour leader in June, 1983, after a disastrous General Election?

Neil Kinnock. Michael Foot. Which religious movement

was established by Mary Baker Eddy in the 1870s?

Christian Science. The widespread devastation of which plants was caused by accidental introduction

of the destructive insect Phylloxera to Europe in the mid-19th century?

Grape vines. What term for "entrance" in Latin is used for the two upper cavities of the heart?

Atria. Striding Edge and Swirral Edge are narrow ridges on which mountain in the Lake District?

Pass. Which novel by Compton Mackenzie is based on the sinking of a ship off Eriskay in 1941

and the fate of its precious cargo?

Whisky Galore. Who set a new record of 23 Test centuries for England in December, 2012,

when he scored 190 in the Third Test against India in Kolkata?

Pass. French Breakfast and White Icicle are both varieties of which salad vegetable?

Radish? Yeah. Which Royal was born at Buckingham Palace on 14th November, 1948?

Prince Charles. Which satirist and author was appointed Dean... BEEP

..of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, in 1713?

Jonathan Swift. Yes. Three passes.

Alastair Cook set that new cricket record, 23 Test centuries.

Helvellyn is the Lake District mountain with those ledges.

And New Order was the band formed by the last members of Joy Division.

But you've scored, Ron, 28 points.

And Paul Philpot again now, please.

And you have a very healthy 14 points with your knowledge of Seb Coe,

but 28 is the score to beat. Two and a half minutes of general knowledge in which to do it.

Which political party, founded in 1981, was known by the initials SDP?

Social Democratic Party. Which American pop artist's works include

the 1963 acrylic and oil on canvas painting Whaam! showing one plane destroying another?

Roy Lichtenstein. What property of a liquid or gas can be measured by a manometer?

Em, viscosity. Pressure. Gruoch, an early Queen of Scotland,

inspired which scheming Shakespearean character?

Macbeth? Lady Macbeth. Which spirit, distilled from the blue agave plant,

is named after the town in Mexico where it was first produced?

Tequila. What term from the Latin for "belly" and "speaking" is used for the art of talking in such a way

that the sound appears to come from some other source?

Ventriloquism. Which band, fronted by Johnny Borrell, topped the UK charts for the first time in 2006?

Razorlight. Which French philosopher wrote, "If God did not exist,

"it would have been necessary to invent him"? Rousseau?

Voltaire. What type of industrial plants are located at Hinkley Point, Sizewell and Wylfa on Anglesey?

Nuclear plants. The holder of which English ecclesiastical post is known to staff by the abbreviation ABC?

Archbishop of Canterbury. In which 1937 film does Groucho Marx say,

"I have a confession. I really am a horse doctor, but marry me and I'll never look at another horse"?

A Day At The Races. What is the nest of a bird of prey, especially of an eagle on a mountainside or cliff?

Egret. Eyrie. In which multi-discipline track cycling event

did Laura Trott win gold at the 2012 Olympics?

Omnium. What was abolished in the US in 1865 by the 13th Amendment to the Constitution?

Slavery. The name of which district of north-west London comes from

ownership of an area of woodland by an order of knights in the Middle Ages?

Wandsworth. St John's Wood.

Lauren Laverne, Huey Morgan, Jarvis Cocker and Cerys Matthews present shows on which radio station?

Radio Six? Yes, BBC Radio Six Music. Various species of beetle, all with a single prominent horn on the head,

are named after which African mammal?

Rhinoceros. Which city in Norway was known as Kristiania until it was renamed in 1925?

Oslo. The 1959 plane crash that killed Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper also took whose life?

Ritchie Valens. Who created Jack Aubrey... BEEP

..and his surgeon friend Stephen Maturin, shown in the 2003 film adaptation Master and Commander?

CS Forester? Patrick O'Brian.

No passes, Paul. You have a total now of 28 points.

And, finally, Carol again, please.

You also start this round with 14 points with your knowledge of Violette Szabo.

And the score to beat is 28. Here we go.

In which musical does Inspector Javert pursue Jean Valjean for committing a minor offence?

Les Miserables. What name from the German for a splash is given to a drink made up of white wine

and soda or mineral water?

A spritzer. Koi is the Japanese word for which fish often kept in ponds?

Carp. Which high office of state dating back to the 13th century became purely honorary in 1884

and is held by the Leader of the House of Lords? Black Rod?

Lord Privy Seal. Who won a Best Actress Oscar for her role in the 1987 film Moonstruck?

Cher. Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley and Alexander Woollcott are associated with the round table

at which New York hotel?

Algonquin. Waters from which English city's pump room were described by Tobias Smollett

as "medicated with sweat and dirt and dandruff"?

Bath. What name for a papal letter comes from the Latin for a leaden seal? Encyclical.

Bull. Australian writer PL Travers, who died in 1996, created which fictional nanny?

Mary Poppins. Neptune's largest satellite is named after which Greek god of the sea?

Neptune. Triton. What peninsula in south-west Europe is divided from the continent by the Pyrenees?

Gibraltar. Iberian. Which Earl, a former favourite of Elizabeth I, was executed for treason in 1601?

Raleigh. Essex. Which actor, known for roles in Tipping The Velvet and Sherlock,

played physicist Stephen Hawking in a 2004 BBC drama? Pass.

What word for the killer of an important person comes from the Arabic for "hashish eater",

a reference to an 11th-century Persian sect notorious for murders?

Pass. Which rock star, born Jean-Philippe Smet in Paris in 1943, is known as the French Elvis?

Johnny Hallyday. Which branch of science is specifically concerned with the study of plants?

Botany. What name is given to Mendelssohn's Symphony Number Three in A Minor,

inspired by a visit to Edinburgh?

Scottish Symphony. Which tennis competition, launched in 1963,

is now the world's largest team competition in women's sport?

Davis Cup. Federation Cup. Who founded a fashion empire with her husband Bernard in the 1950s

at their factory in mid—Wales?

Laura Ashley. Which city is burnt to the ground in Gone With The Wind?

Atlanta. Which Polish novelist, a British citizen from 1886... BEEP

..was a seaman and wrote Heart of Darkness after sailing up the Congo?

Conrad. Is correct. Two passes.

Assassin is... I know. It's all the other details that throw you.

And the actor known for Tipping the Velvet is Benedict Cumberbatch.

You've scored a total, Carol, of 27 points.

Well, it doesn't get much closer than that.

In fourth place, Andrew Spooner.

Third place, Carol O'Byrne.

Second place, 28 points and three passes, Ron Wood.

First place, 28 points and no passes, Paul Philpot.

Ah, the perils of passing. So Paul Philpot is tonight's winner and goes through to the semi-finals.

Congratulations. Commiserations to Ron Wood, but with a score of 28,

it is entirely possible that we will see him again in the semi-finals.

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And do join us again next time for more Masterminds. Thanks for watching. Goodbye.

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