Episode 8 Mastermind

First in the spotlight tonight is Bel Freedman, a housewife from Birmingham,

on the career criminal turned wartime spy Eddie Chapman.

Next, Peter Russell, a retired local government officer from Glasgow, on the history of Portsmouth FC,

Steven Broomfield is a veterinary hospital manager from Hampshire answering on the Battle of Balaklava

and Michael McPartland, a civil servant from Middlesbrough. His subject - Father Ted.

Hello. Welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.

Four more contenders take the ultimate test of nerve and memory.

Two minutes of questions on their specialist subject, 2½ minutes on general knowledge.

Tonight's winner goes through to the next round, a step closer to becoming the Mastermind champion.

So let's have our first contender, please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject?

Eddie Chapman was a criminal who became a British double agent codenamed Zig-Zag.

What sort of business was he running in St Helier as a front for black market trade

when arrested by the Germans?

Hairdressing. Chapman was trained by the Germans and then parachuted into England.

He carried two fake passports: one for Morgan O'Brien and the other in which name?

George Clarke. What was the real name of his spymaster, a senior member of the Abwehr in France?

He gave Chapman an Iron Cross.

Baron Stefan von Groning. Chapman's first mission as a German agent

was to sabotage the factory in Hatfield that made Mosquito bombers. Which company owned it?

De Havilland. During his training as a German spy, he bought a pig

trained to come when he whistled. What was it called?

Bobby. While he was in Oslo, a former manager of the Leica factory taught him photography.

What was his name?

Pass. In March, 1943, he flew from Lisbon to Madrid in the guise of a Norwegian seaman with what name?

Olaf Christiansson. Which young Norwegian woman did he meet in the Oslo Ritz and was infatuated with?

Dagmar Lahlum. What was the ship he sailed on from Liverpool to Lisbon in March, 1943?

The Abwehr authorised him to blow it up.

City of Lancaster. To which hotel was he taken in Oslo?

He got so drunk on his first night, he couldn't remember where it was.

Pass. When instructed to blow up the City of Lancaster, he was given two bombs disguised as what?

Coal. Which Belgian was an inmate with Chapman in the Nazi prison Fort Romainville in Paris,

and was thought to be an informer?

Pass. In 1944, he sent a message to the German Secret Service

exaggerating the range and capability of a mortar bomb. On what real bomb did he base his report?

BEEP Hedgehog. Correct. Just in time.

You had three passes. The name of the Belgian inmate was Bossuit or Bossuet.

The hotel he was taken to on his arrival was the Fossheim

and Rotkagel was the name of that former manager of the Leica factories.

You've scored, Bel, 10 points.

And our next contender, please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject?

In two minutes. What was the main colour of shirts Portsmouth wore for their first eleven seasons,

leading to the nickname The Shrimps?

Salmon pink. At what ground did they beat Aston Villa in the semi-final of the FA Cup in 1929?

Highbury. Who were their opponents in August, 1920,

for their first Football League match after leaving the Southern League?

Swansea Town. Whose 55th-minute penalty was saved against Chelsea in the 2010 FA Cup final?

Boateng. What good luck charm did manager Jack Tinn wear buckled to his shoes

during the club's victorious 1939 FA Cup campaign?

Lucky spats. In March, 1900, two Portsmouth players were the first to play in an international.

Danny Cunliffe played for England. Who kept goal for Ireland?

Matt Reilly. How many league goals did Guy Whittingham score in 1992-93

when he set a club record for league goals in a season?

43. 42. In 1927, Portsmouth were promoted to the First Division for the first time on goal average

after finishing just one five-thousandth above which team?

Manchester City. Who became the club's president in March, 1944?

Field Marshal Montgomery. When Portsmouth won the FA Cup in 2008,

they won every game 1-0 except the Fourth Round against Plymouth. What was the score in that game?

2-1? Yes. For whom did they receive a reported club record fee of £20m

when he joined Real Madrid in 2009?

Lian...Liana...

Liana Disarra. Nearly. Lassana Diarra. Who was their leading scorer

for six successive seasons between 1958 and 1964, going on to manage Manchester City and Aston Villa?

Ron Saunders. In the 2004-05 season, Harry Redknapp resigned as manager

and was eventually replaced by which Frenchman, who was then sacked... BEEP

..and replaced by Redknapp?

Alain Perrin. Is correct.

No passes, Peter. Eleven points.

And our next contender, please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation?

And your specialist subject?

The Russian attack on Balaklava in 1854 was a crucial episode in the Crimean War,

to compromise the supply lines of allied troops besieging which city?

Sevastopol. The British Commander in Chief in the Crimea was one of the "Four Horsemen of Calamity"

from the Charge of the Light Brigade. What was his name?

Raglan. What was the name of the hill from which Raglan watched the Battle of Balaklava unfold?

Sapoune Heights. Which officer was given responsibility, with the cavalry commander Lord Lucan,

for the defence of Balaklava because, it was said, Raglan would not trust Lucan to do it alone?

Colin Campbell. Which regiment, which stood firm in the North Valley,

was described in the Times as being "a thin red streak, tipped with a line of steel"?

93rd Highlanders. Which Russian village on the Fedioukine Heights

did the Russian army assemble around under Gen Liprandi in preparation for an assault on Balaklava?

Chorgun. Which officer was criticised for returning immediately to safety

after breaking the Russian line in the Charge of the Light Brigade?

Cardigan. What specific battlefield role was played at Balaklava by the soldiers Britten and Joy?

They were both trumpeters. How many cavalrymen did Lord Tennyson say

had taken part in the Charge of the Light Brigade?

600. What was the name of the horse ridden in the Charge by Cardigan?

Ronald. What was the final word of Raglan's ambiguous fourth order to Lord Lucan,

transcribed by General Airey?

Immediate. Who led the first line of the Fourth Chasseurs

in the daring French cavalry attack on Russian guns at Fedioukine?

Abdelal. What relatively new military honour made from the metal of cannon captured at Sevastopol

was awarded to Malone, Farrell and Berryman for saving Captain Webb in the aftermath of the Charge?

Victoria Cross. What was the name... BEEP

..of the French officer who, on witnessing the Charge of the Light Brigade, commented,

"C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre", "It is magnificent, but it is not war"?

General Bosquet. Absolutely right. That was a pretty magnificent round. Got them all right.

14 points.

And our last contender, please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject?

Two minutes. In the first episode of Father Ted, Father Dougal is looking forward to the visit

of a travelling fairground with The Ladder and Crane of Death. What is the fairground called?

Funland. When Father Ted gives up smoking and Father Jack drinking, what is Dougal supposed to give up?

Rollerblading. Ted tells Henry Sellers he can have anything he likes for judging a competition.

What is the only thing he can't have?

English papers. Who is so boring that when Ted tells Jack he's arrived, he throws Ted out of a window?

Father Stone. When Dougal is asked the significance of July 19th, what does he come up with?

The Ice Age ended. In Flight Into Terror, a planeload of priests is returning from which holy shrine

where Our Lady had appeared?

Kilnettie. Yes, Kilnettle. What gift does Ted give to Mrs Doyle,

who despises it and sees it as a threat to her very existence? She later sabotages it.

Teamaster. What nickname is given to Saint Clabbert's, where Ted goes with hairy hands?

Jurassic Park. In The Mainland, Ted is attacked by Richard Wilson after he shouts what catchphrase at him?

"I don't believe it!" In A Song For Europe, Ted and Dougal borrow the music for My Lovely Horse

from a B-side by which Norwegian pop group?

Nin Huegen and the Huegen Notes. Which of the co-writers appears as Father Gallagher

aboard the plan returning from Kilnettle in Flight Into Terror?

Graham Linehan. What is the novel that Polly Clarke personally signs for Father Ted Crilly,

although she thinks it's Curley?

Bejewelled With Kisses. When Ted is on Eoin McLove's TV show,

what does he say John Paul's name was before he became Pope?

Jim. In the episode Speed 3, while trying to save Dougal from the booby-trapped milk float,

what film does Ted watch because Gene Hackman plays a priest in it?

Poseidon Adventure. In Are You Right There, Father Ted, what book does Father Fitzpatrick return to Ted...

BEEP ..before showing him his Nazi memorabilia?

The Shining. Yes. Another perfect round. 15 points.

Well, some seriously big scores there. Let's have a look.

In fourth place, Bel Freedman.

Third place, Peter Russell.

Second place, Steven Broomfield.

In the lead, 15 points, Michael McPartland.

So the general knowledge round now.

If there's a tie at the end, the number of passes is taken into account.

The person with fewer passes wins. If they're tied on passes, there will be a tie-break.

The six highest-scoring runners-up will also reach the semi-finals,

so there is plenty to play for. Let's get on with it and ask Bel to join us, if she would, please.

And you scored 10 points with your knowledge of that intriguing spy, Chapman.

Let's see how you do now.

Who was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for playing the governess

and aspiring nun Maria in The Sound Of Music?

Julie Andrews. Name the Dutch liqueur made from egg yolks and brandy, often with the addition of vanilla.

Advocaat. Which English Elizabethan explorer gave the name New Albion

to the area around what is now San Francisco?

Drake. Which Verdi opera, set in Ancient Egypt, was premiered in Cairo on Christmas Eve 1871?

Aida. Name the series of 12 poems by Tennyson about the story of Arthur

from his first meeting with Guinevere to his death and the ruin of his kingdom.

Morte d'Arthur. Idylls Of The King.

The southern part of which island is separated from mainland Scotland by the Sound of Sleat?

Arran. Skye. Which gas, that takes its name from the Greek for the Sun,

was discovered in 1868 in the Sun's atmosphere?

Helium. What is the common name given to the 1624 Baroque portrait by the Dutch artist Frans Hals,

part of the Wallace Collection in London?

Laughing Cavalier. Gurpurab holy days, celebrating important events in the lives of the ten Gurus,

are festivals of which religion?

Hinduism. Sikhism. The Conservative Party's Primrose League was founded in 1883

and named after the favourite flower of which former British Prime Minister?

Disraeli. Whose hit single Everything I Do, I Do It For You from the film Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves

remained at No.1 in 1991 for a record-breaking 16 weeks?

Bryan Adams. Which Spanish city stands at the western end of the network of pilgrims' routes

known in English as the Way of St James?

Compostela. Santiago de Compostela.

Which novelist married the literary critic John Bayley in 1956?

He chronicled her battle with Alzheimer's Disease in his memoir in 1999.

Iris Murdoch. What British bird of prey is sometimes known as the "tourist's eagle"

as it is often mistaken for the much rarer golden eagle?

Sparrowhawk. Buzzard. Stem Christie and Telemark are techniques for turning in which sport?

Skiing. Which TV quiz show, hosted by Robert Robinson, pitted two teams,

consisting of a father, mother and two children, against each other?

Ask The Family. In pre-revolutionary Russia, what title was given to the Tsar's son, particularly the eldest?

Tsarevich. Only one of Northern Ireland's six counties does not border Lough Neagh. Which one?

Antrim. Fermanagh. Who wrote the 2012 novel NW about Leah Hanwell and Keisha Blake

who grew up in Caldwell, a council estate in north-west London?

Pass. Which textile pattern of curved shapes based on an Indian pine cone takes its name

from the town in Scotland where it was made? BEEP

Paisley. Correct. You had one pass.

It was Zadie Smith who wrote that novel NW about Leah Hanwell and Keisha Blake.

Your score has gone up, Bel, to 23 points. Thank you.

APPLAUSE

And Peter Russell again now, please.

And you start out with 11 points with your knowledge of Portsmouth Football Club.

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

What unit of currency was worth about 71 pence when it was introduced on January 1st, 1999?

The euro. Which thick North American soup is commonly made with seafood, especially clams?

Chowder. Whose only poem written as an adult was called Our Modern Watchwords?

It came to light in February 2013, some 115 years after it was written.

Emily Bronte. Churchill. In Mike Leigh's film Topsy-Turvy,

Jim Broadbent and Allan Corduner play which musical collaborators?

Gilbert and Sullivan. Lord's cricket ground is owned by the MCC. What do the initials stand for?

Marylebone Cricket Club. Name the 1969 documentary series

in which art historian Kenneth Clark traced the development of western art, architecture and philosophy.

Civilisation. Which Irish port in County Wexford is served by ferry from both Fishguard and Pembroke?

Pass. Whose symphonic fairy tale Peter And The Wolf was first performed in Moscow in 1936?

Prokofiev. Which river, rising in the Black Forest,

passes through or forms part of the borders of ten countries before reaching the Black Sea?

Danube. What word, meaning freedom from servitude,

came to mean the right to vote and has various meanings in business?

Franchise. The hellbender, native to North America,

grows to over half a metre and is a species of what lizard-like amphibian?

Newt. Salamander. According to the Gospel of Matthew,

what was the occupation of Joseph, husband of the Virgin Mary?

Carpenter. Who was re-elected as UKIP's leader in 2010 after stepping down in 2009

to contest John Bercow's seat in the General Election?

Nigel Farage. Which blue dog, whose favourite song was My Darling Clementine,

was the title character of the first cartoon show to win an Emmy?

Huckleberry Hound. What dukedom was conferred on Richard, the younger of the two Princes in the Tower?

He also became Duke of Norfolk by his marriage to Anne Mowbray.

Duke of York. According to Alexander Pope's poem, An Essay On Man, where does hope spring eternal?

In the breast...of man. Yes, in the human breast.

Which Canadian group, who wrote The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,

were known as The Hawks before they accompanied Bob Dylan in the '60s?

The Band. What name for a stick of chalk or wax used for drawing comes from the French for "chalk"?

Crayon. In 1978, Richard Burton narrated Jeff Wayne's musical adaptation of which HG Wells novel?

War Of The Worlds. In the world of finance, what do the initials AER stand for?

Pass. Which painter is best known for his crowded scenes of everyday life BEEP

One of them, Ramsgate Sands: Life At The Seaside, was bought by Queen Victoria.

Atkinson. No, it was Frith, William Powell Frith.

Two passes.

AER stands for the Annual Equivalent Rate.

And that Irish port, served by a ferry from Fishguard and Pembroke, is Rosslare.

Peter, your total score is 27 points.

APPLAUSE

And Steven Broomfield again now, please.

And you start out with 14 points, Steven, with your knowledge of Balaklava.

27, as you've heard, is the score to beat. Let's see if you can do that with your general knowledge.

In Indian cuisine, what name is given to leavened bread cooked in a clay oven

which is typically teardrop-shaped?

Naan. Which media mogul was born in Melbourne on March 11th, 1931?

Rupert Murdoch. Which West Indian batsman recaptured the world Test score record

when he made 400 not out against England in Antigua in April 2004?

Brian Lara. Name the anchorage off the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour

where a Royal Navy mutiny took place in 1797 over grievances about pay and conditions.

Spithead. Which Impressionist painter married his model, Aline Charigot, with whom he had three sons?

One became a famous film director.

Renoir. Topeka is the capital and Wichita the largest city of which American state?

Mississippi. Kansas. In the 1980s TV series The Fall Guy,

what was the day job of Lee Majors' character Colt Seavers, a bounty hunter in his spare time?

Carpenter. Stunt man. In which novel by Boris Pasternak is the heroine Lara based on Olga Ivinskaya,

the author's companion in his last years?

Doctor Zhivago. What name for a van for moving furniture comes from the Greek for "all" and "work of art"?

Pantechnicon. In 2001, who became the fastest woman to sail single-handedly around the world?

Ellen MacArthur. Which Cabinet post did John Major hold

immediately before he became Prime Minister in 1990?

Foreign Secretary. Chancellor.

In 1848, Johann Strauss the Elder composed a march

in honour of which Austrian Field Marshal and military reformer?

Radetzky. Which Biblical book of 150 sacred songs explores a wide range of spiritual and emotional subjects?

Psalms. Which insurance market gets its name from the coffee house in Lombard Street

where ship-owners and merchants met to do business?

Lloyd's. Which metallic element is always present in an amalgam?

Mercury. The quagga, extinct since the 1870s, was a close relative

of which member of the horse family native to Africa?

Zebra. Which 1966 film stars Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach as three gunslingers

competing to find a cache of stolen gold buried in a cemetery?

No idea, pass. Manuel II, deposed in 1910, was the last king of which European country?

Portugal. What preparation, made from the stomach of an unweaned calf,

is often used to curdle milk in cheese-making?

Rennet. Deva, derived from the Latin Castra Devana, meaning Camp on the Dee,

is the Roman name for which English city?

Chester. The chorus of which John Lennon song includes,

"We all shine on, like the moon and the stars and the sun"?

Imagine. Instant Karma is the correct answer. BEEP

One pass. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly was the one with Clint Eastwood and all that crowd.

You scored, Steven, 30 points.

APPLAUSE

And finally, Michael McPartland again, please.

And you start out with 15 points with your knowledge of Father Ted.

30 is the score now to beat, so let's see if you can do it. Two and a half minutes of general knowledge.

Which of Shakespeare's tragic heroes speaks the words, "To be, or not to be: that is the question"?

Hamlet. Which island capital was briefly renamed Puerto Argentino in 1982?

Port Stanley. What term for examining a body to find the cause of death

comes from the Greek for "seeing with one's own eyes"?

Autopsy. Billie Joe Armstrong is the lead singer with which punk band

that has had hit albums Dookie and American Idiot?

Green Day. Name the 1631 edition of the Bible

where the seventh commandment is written as "Thou shalt commit adultery" due to a printing error.

The Sinners' Bible. Or Wicked Bible.

In 2013, Novak Djokovic retained the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup

when he won which Grand Slam for the third time in succession?

Australian Open. Which Doctor Who actor played Casanova in a 2005 BBC drama,

sharing the role with Peter O'Toole who played Casanova as an older man?

David Tennant. What Afrikaans name is given to lean meat cut into strips and dried in the sun?

Jerky. Biltong. In 2012, Dotter Of Her Father's Eyes and Days Of The Bagnold Summer

became the first books of what genre nominated for a Costa Book Award?

Science fiction. Graphic books. Which marshy region of France is famous for its wild, white horses,

the traditional mounts of local herdsmen known as "gardians"?

Dordogne. The Camargue. What is the name of the Nobel Prize-winning Irish writer

whose plays include Endgame and Krapp's Last Tape?

Eliot. Beckett. George W Bush was declared the winner of the 2000 Presidential Election

after legal wrangles to determine the poll outcome in which state?

Florida. The name of which museum is derived from the Spanish for "meadow"?

Prado. In September 2012, who replaced Chris Moyles as the host of BBC Radio 1's Breakfast Show?

Nick Grimshaw. Which city lies on the River Eden at its confluence with the Rivers Caldew and Petteril?

Carlisle. Which Austrian composer's works were definitively catalogued

by the Dutch musicologist Anthony van Hoboken?

Mozart. Haydn. Who played the TV weatherman Phil Connors in the 1993 film Groundhog Day?

Bill Murray. Which horse became the highest ever rated racehorse on the flat in January 2013,

having won all 14 of his races?

Frankel. Which writer and broadcaster has presented the satire shows Newswipe, Screenwipe and Gameswipe

and wrote the TV drama series Black Mirror?

Charlie Brooker. Henry Bowers, Edgar Evans and Edward Wilson were members of whose ill-fated expedition?

Scott. Scott of the Antarctic.

The oxeye is Britain's largest native variety of a common wild flower identified...

BEEP ..by its white petals and yellow centre floret. What is the flower?

Snowdrop. No, it's daisy.

But you have a total, Michael, of 30 points.

APPLAUSE

So they both got 30 points, but let's have a look at the scores.

In fourth place with 23 points, Bel Freedman.

Third place with 27 points, Peter Russell.

Second place with 30 points and one pass,

Steven Broomfield.

First place with 30 points and no passes,

Michael McPartland.

APPLAUSE

The curse of the pass strikes again.

It means that Michael is tonight's winner and he goes through to the semi-finals. Congratulations to him.

Commiserations to Steven Broomfield, but with his score of 30,

it's entirely possible that we shall see him again in the semi-finals.

If you want to be a contender on the next series, do go to our website.

And do join us again next time for more Masterminds.

Thanks for watching. Goodbye.

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