0:00:24 > 0:00:27First in the spotlight tonight is Paula Keaveney,
0:00:27 > 0:00:29a university lecturer from Liverpool.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32Her specialist subject is The Thick Of It.
0:00:32 > 0:00:36Next, Cliff Morgan from Malvern. His subject, Eric Clapton.
0:00:36 > 0:00:37Stephen Peter from Cumbria
0:00:37 > 0:00:41will be answering questions on British poetry.
0:00:41 > 0:00:42And Tim Allison,
0:00:42 > 0:00:46director of public health from Beverly on Lawrence of Arabia.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03Hello and welcome to Mastermind, with me, John Humphrys.
0:01:03 > 0:01:07Our four contenders are under pressure on several fronts -
0:01:07 > 0:01:10the glare of the spotlight, the ticking of the clock,
0:01:10 > 0:01:12and the notorious black chair.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14They get two minutes on their specialist subject.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16Two and a half minutes on their general knowledge.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19The winner will come back in the semifinals
0:01:19 > 0:01:21and have to do it all over again.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24So let's get on with it and ask our first contender to join us, please.
0:01:32 > 0:01:34And your name is?
0:01:34 > 0:01:36Your occupation?
0:01:36 > 0:01:38And your chosen subject?
0:01:39 > 0:01:41The Thick Of It in two minutes.
0:01:41 > 0:01:43In the television satire, The Thick Of It,
0:01:43 > 0:01:45what's the name of the tyrannical spin doctor
0:01:45 > 0:01:47who's described as having the physical demeanour
0:01:47 > 0:01:49and the political instincts of a velociraptor?
0:01:49 > 0:01:50Malcolm Tucker.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53Who plays Nicola Murray, new Secretary of State
0:01:53 > 0:01:55for the Department Of Social Affairs And Citizenship
0:01:55 > 0:01:56in the third series?
0:01:56 > 0:01:58- Rebecca Front. - In the fourth serious,
0:01:58 > 0:01:59Murray becomes leader of the opposition.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01What event does she say she's prepared for
0:02:01 > 0:02:03having thought of the lead question,
0:02:03 > 0:02:05the follow-up sarcastic question,
0:02:05 > 0:02:06and the withering put-downs?
0:02:06 > 0:02:08Prime Minister's Questions.
0:02:08 > 0:02:10What word first uttered by Malcolm Tucker as he berates
0:02:10 > 0:02:12Nicola Murray was named the Oxford Dictionaries
0:02:12 > 0:02:14Word Of The Year in 2012?
0:02:14 > 0:02:15Omnishambles.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18Whose face does Nicholas say looks like a squeezed doughnut
0:02:18 > 0:02:20after Malcolm Tucker punches him on the nose
0:02:20 > 0:02:22during a moment of extreme frustration?
0:02:22 > 0:02:24- Glenn Cullen. - When Hugh Abbot's department is renamed
0:02:24 > 0:02:26Social Affairs And Citizenship,
0:02:26 > 0:02:28he's pleased that citizenship is the first word
0:02:28 > 0:02:29the Prime Minister thought of,
0:02:29 > 0:02:30otherwise they could have become
0:02:30 > 0:02:32the department of Social Affairs And...?
0:02:32 > 0:02:33Woodland Folk.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35What is the name of the policy advisor
0:02:35 > 0:02:38played by Chris Addison who is described as a little bit
0:02:38 > 0:02:40morally bankrupt, massively self-centred,
0:02:40 > 0:02:43and a tiny bit dangerously unreliable?
0:02:43 > 0:02:44Ollie Reeder.
0:02:44 > 0:02:46What is the name of the minister for Social Affairs
0:02:46 > 0:02:47who's forced to resign
0:02:47 > 0:02:49at the beginning of the first series?
0:02:49 > 0:02:50- Hugh Abbot.- Cliff Lawton.
0:02:50 > 0:02:53What are Glenn Cullen and Julius Nicholson listening to on the radio
0:02:53 > 0:02:56while their colleagues are scheming over who to back
0:02:56 > 0:02:58as the new party leader in the episode Spinners And Losers?
0:02:58 > 0:02:59Tess Match.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02In the fourth series, there's friction within the coalition government.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05Peter Mannion sarcastically likens his relationship
0:03:05 > 0:03:07with his Junior Minister to that of Caligula and...?
0:03:07 > 0:03:08His horse.
0:03:08 > 0:03:10What is the name of the civil service
0:03:10 > 0:03:12director of communications for DoSAC?
0:03:12 > 0:03:14She maintains her position through all four series.
0:03:14 > 0:03:15Terri Coverley.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18In the first series, the Minister Of Social Affairs
0:03:18 > 0:03:21needs a policy that is what the public want, universally popular and free.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24Ollie suggests bringing back capital punishment
0:03:24 > 0:03:26or introducing a national database for what?
0:03:26 > 0:03:27Spare rooms.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29When Peter Mannion and the director of communications,
0:03:29 > 0:03:31Stewart Pearson, attend an awayday,
0:03:31 > 0:03:33the only place they can get mobile phone reception
0:03:33 > 0:03:35is standing on the top of...?
0:03:35 > 0:03:36Children's slide.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39Nicola Murray's Ukrainian driver has a name that is unpronounceable.
0:03:39 > 0:03:41What nickname does Terri say he's been given
0:03:41 > 0:03:42because of his appearance?
0:03:42 > 0:03:45BEEP Elvis.
0:03:45 > 0:03:47Correct. No passes, 13 points.
0:03:56 > 0:03:58And our next contender, please.
0:04:04 > 0:04:06And your name is?
0:04:06 > 0:04:08Your occupation?
0:04:08 > 0:04:09And your chosen subject?
0:04:10 > 0:04:13The music of Eric Clapton in two minutes. Here we go.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15Clapton achieved fame in bands such as The Yardbirds and Cream
0:04:15 > 0:04:18as well as his collaborations with other artists.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20On which track on the Beatles' White Album
0:04:20 > 0:04:22did he play at the request of George Harrison?
0:04:22 > 0:04:24While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
0:04:24 > 0:04:26Who produced Clapton's '77 album, Slowhand,
0:04:26 > 0:04:28and his Backless album released the following year?
0:04:28 > 0:04:29Glyn Johns.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32Which short-lived supergroup did Clapton form
0:04:32 > 0:04:34with Ginger Baker and Steve Winwood after Cream broke up?
0:04:34 > 0:04:36Ric Grech joined shortly after.
0:04:36 > 0:04:37Blind Faith.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40Clapton co-wrote the hit song, Layla, about Pattie Boyd.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42Which love song on the album, Slowhand,
0:04:42 > 0:04:43was also written for her
0:04:43 > 0:04:45while he waited for her to get ready one evening?
0:04:45 > 0:04:46Wonderful Tonight.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48What is the title of the second single
0:04:48 > 0:04:51released by the Yardbirds in 1964?
0:04:52 > 0:04:54- For your love. - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56Clapton joined his first band in '63
0:04:56 > 0:04:59when he replaced Brian Jones led by a group by Tom McGuinness.
0:04:59 > 0:05:00What was it called?
0:05:00 > 0:05:01The Roosters.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04Which song gave Clapton an American number one in '74?
0:05:04 > 0:05:06It was originally recorded by Bob Marley & The Wailers.
0:05:06 > 0:05:07I Shot The Sheriff.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09On which independent record label
0:05:09 > 0:05:11owned by Robert Stigwood
0:05:11 > 0:05:13was Cream's debut album, Fresh Cream,
0:05:13 > 0:05:14released in December 1966?
0:05:14 > 0:05:16Reaction.
0:05:16 > 0:05:19At which venue did Clapton record the live album, 24 Nights,
0:05:19 > 0:05:21released in 1991?
0:05:21 > 0:05:22The Royal Albert Hall.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25At which Manchester club did Cream play their first gig
0:05:25 > 0:05:27two days before their official debut
0:05:27 > 0:05:29at the National Jazz and Blues Festival
0:05:29 > 0:05:30in Windsor in July '66?
0:05:30 > 0:05:32Pass.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35What song that reached number five in the UK charts in '92
0:05:35 > 0:05:36did Clapton write as a tribute
0:05:36 > 0:05:38to his four-year-old son, Conor,
0:05:38 > 0:05:39who had died in a fall the previous year?
0:05:39 > 0:05:41Tears In Heaven.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43Clapton makes a cameo appearance as the preacher
0:05:43 > 0:05:46in the film Tommy, performing Eyesight To The Blind.
0:05:46 > 0:05:48Who wrote and originally recorded the song?
0:05:48 > 0:05:50Sonny Boy Williamson.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52Which artists released the album
0:05:52 > 0:05:54The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking
0:05:54 > 0:05:56featuring Clapton on guitar?
0:05:56 > 0:05:57Roger Walters.
0:05:57 > 0:06:01Which song on Clapton's '74 album, 461 Ocean Boulevard,
0:06:01 > 0:06:02begins with the line,
0:06:02 > 0:06:06"Standing at the crossroads, trying to read the signs."
0:06:06 > 0:06:08- Bell Bottom Blues. - Let It Grow.
0:06:08 > 0:06:09With whom does Clapton duet on the song
0:06:09 > 0:06:12Tearing Us Apart on his '86 album, August?
0:06:12 > 0:06:13Tina Turner.
0:06:13 > 0:06:17- BEEP - In '97, Clapton teamed up with Simon Climie
0:06:17 > 0:06:19to make the album Retail Therapy
0:06:19 > 0:06:21under the group name TDF.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24What pseudonym did he adopt as a band member?
0:06:24 > 0:06:25x-sample.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28Correct. Just the one pass.
0:06:28 > 0:06:30The Manchester club where Cream played their first gig
0:06:30 > 0:06:32was the Twisted Wheel.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35- Cliff, you have 13 points. - Thank you.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45And our next contender, please.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57And your name is?
0:06:57 > 0:06:58Your occupation?
0:06:59 > 0:07:01And your chosen subject?
0:07:05 > 0:07:07A lot of poetry. Two minutes. Here we go.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09Who wrote the poem, Church Going,
0:07:09 > 0:07:11in which the narrator donates an Irish sixpence
0:07:11 > 0:07:13reflecting the place wasn't worth stopping for?
0:07:13 > 0:07:14Philip Larkin.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16What's the title of last of TS Eliot's four quartets
0:07:16 > 0:07:17inspired by a visit
0:07:17 > 0:07:19to a village church in Cambridgeshire?
0:07:19 > 0:07:20Little Gidding.
0:07:20 > 0:07:21Stevie Smith's poem,
0:07:21 > 0:07:23Thoughts About The Person From Porlock,
0:07:23 > 0:07:26muses about the man Coleridge blamed for interrupting
0:07:26 > 0:07:27his writing of which poem?
0:07:27 > 0:07:28Kubla Khan.
0:07:28 > 0:07:30Who wrote the poem The God Of Love
0:07:30 > 0:07:32in which pack of wolves killed a heard of musk ox
0:07:32 > 0:07:34by a frozen lake?
0:07:34 > 0:07:35George MacBeth.
0:07:35 > 0:07:36Which poem by Edith Sitwell
0:07:36 > 0:07:38set during the London Blitz is subtitled
0:07:38 > 0:07:41The Raids, 1940, Night and Dawn?
0:07:41 > 0:07:42Pass.
0:07:42 > 0:07:43Danny Abse wrote,
0:07:43 > 0:07:46"Shipwrecked, the sun sinks down harbours
0:07:46 > 0:07:49"of a sky, unloads its liquid cargoes of..."?
0:07:50 > 0:07:52- Rain.- Marigolds.
0:07:52 > 0:07:54Who is the only female poet
0:07:54 > 0:07:56represented in the famous Movement anthology New Lines
0:07:56 > 0:07:59published in 1956?
0:07:59 > 0:08:00Elizabeth Jennings.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02In which poem by Robert Graves
0:08:02 > 0:08:03does the narrator ask,
0:08:03 > 0:08:05"Why have such scores of such lovely, gifted girls
0:08:05 > 0:08:07"married impossible men?"
0:08:07 > 0:08:09Um...
0:08:09 > 0:08:12- Winter Solstice. - No, A Slice Of Wedding Cake.
0:08:12 > 0:08:13Book 16 and 17 of Homer's Iliad
0:08:13 > 0:08:16inspired Auden to write the title poem
0:08:16 > 0:08:18of a collection published in 1955.
0:08:18 > 0:08:19What was it called?
0:08:19 > 0:08:20Pass.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22In Edwin Morgan's Stanzas Of The Jeopardy,
0:08:22 > 0:08:23three squares are mentioned -
0:08:23 > 0:08:26Times Square, Leicester Square, and...?
0:08:26 > 0:08:28- Piccadilly.- Red Square.
0:08:28 > 0:08:31Which poet wrote a villanelle for his dying father in 1951
0:08:31 > 0:08:33with the opening line, "Do not go gentle..."?
0:08:33 > 0:08:35Dylan Thomas.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37The Scottish poet Christopher Murray Grieve
0:08:37 > 0:08:39published poetry under the pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid
0:08:39 > 0:08:41including In Memoriam James Joyce
0:08:41 > 0:08:44that says, "In England where the men, and women too,
0:08:44 > 0:08:46"are almost as interesting as the..." what?
0:08:48 > 0:08:52- Pass.- Who wrote the 1961 poem, My Sad Captains,
0:08:52 > 0:08:54that begins, "One by one they appear in the darkness:
0:08:54 > 0:08:57"a few friends, and a few with historical names."
0:08:57 > 0:08:58Thom Gunn.
0:08:58 > 0:08:59What is the title of Ted Hughes'
0:08:59 > 0:09:01first full collection of poems
0:09:01 > 0:09:03that was published by Faber in 1957?
0:09:03 > 0:09:05The Hawk In The Rain.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07What is the subtitle of Martin Bell's Winter Coming On...
0:09:07 > 0:09:09- BEEP - ..a poem to dedicated to his friend
0:09:09 > 0:09:11and fellow writer, Peter Porter?
0:09:11 > 0:09:13Pass.
0:09:13 > 0:09:15Well, I can tell you cos we're out of time.
0:09:15 > 0:09:17A Caricature From Laforgue.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19You had four passes, Stephen.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21Christopher Murray Grieve said,
0:09:21 > 0:09:23"In England where the men, and women too,
0:09:23 > 0:09:25"are almost as interesting as the sheep."
0:09:25 > 0:09:29That collection published by Auden in '55
0:09:29 > 0:09:31was The Shield Of Achilles.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34And that poem by Edith Sitwell set during the London Blitz
0:09:34 > 0:09:36is Still Falls The Rain.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38You have, Stephen, eight points.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50And our final contender, please.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59And your name is?
0:09:59 > 0:10:01Your occupation?
0:10:01 > 0:10:03And your chosen subject?
0:10:06 > 0:10:07TE Lawrence in two minutes.
0:10:07 > 0:10:10What name did the British Army officer TE Lawrence choose
0:10:10 > 0:10:12for the autobiographical description of his part
0:10:12 > 0:10:14in the Arab revolt of 1916 to 1918
0:10:14 > 0:10:16against Ottoman Turkish rule?
0:10:16 > 0:10:17The Seven Pillars Of Wisdom.
0:10:17 > 0:10:20The legend of Lawrence of Arabia was actively promoted
0:10:20 > 0:10:22by an American journalist and documentary film-maker
0:10:22 > 0:10:25who first met Lawrence after the capture of Jerusalem. Who was he?
0:10:25 > 0:10:26Lowell Thomas.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29In July 1917, Lawrence met the newly appointed commander
0:10:29 > 0:10:33of the regular Allied forces for the first time. Who was he?
0:10:33 > 0:10:34Allenby.
0:10:34 > 0:10:36At which city did Lawrence report that he had been captured
0:10:36 > 0:10:39and tortured by the Turks in November 1917?
0:10:39 > 0:10:40Deraa.
0:10:40 > 0:10:43Lawrence's first diplomatic mission in April 1916
0:10:43 > 0:10:46was part of a delegation that tried to negotiate the release
0:10:46 > 0:10:49of the British and Indian forces besieged in which town?
0:10:49 > 0:10:50Kut Al Amara.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52As well as a promotion to the rank of major,
0:10:52 > 0:10:54what military honour was bestowed on Lawrence
0:10:54 > 0:10:58after his Arab forces captured the port of Aqaba in July 1917?
0:10:58 > 0:11:00CB.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02Lawrence won a scholarship to Oxford,
0:11:02 > 0:11:03enrolled in the autumn of 1907,
0:11:03 > 0:11:05and gained a First-class degree in History.
0:11:05 > 0:11:06Which college?
0:11:06 > 0:11:07Jesus.
0:11:07 > 0:11:10In 1917, Lawrence's attempt to destroy
0:11:10 > 0:11:11a key railway viaduct
0:11:11 > 0:11:14and so disrupt supplies to the Turkish forces in Palestine
0:11:14 > 0:11:16was discovered at the last minute.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19In which river gorge behind enemy lines did this take place?
0:11:19 > 0:11:20Yarmouk.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23What did Lawrence and his friend, Clare Sydney Smith,
0:11:23 > 0:11:25name the speedboat they were given in 1929?
0:11:25 > 0:11:27Biscuit.
0:11:27 > 0:11:29Lawrence's first published work was a map and gazetteer
0:11:29 > 0:11:32of previously uncharted areas of the Sinai Desert
0:11:32 > 0:11:35which was later useful to Allied forces. What was its title?
0:11:35 > 0:11:36The Wilderness of Zin.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38Lawrence owned a succession of motorbikes
0:11:38 > 0:11:40made by the same company and was riding one
0:11:40 > 0:11:43when he had his fatal accident in May '35. Which company made them?
0:11:43 > 0:11:44Brough.
0:11:44 > 0:11:46Under what assumed name did Lawrence enter
0:11:46 > 0:11:49the Royal Air Force as an aircraftsman in August 1922?
0:11:49 > 0:11:50John Hume Ross.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53What Army regiment did Lawrence join as a private
0:11:53 > 0:11:55under the name Thomas Edward Shaw in March 23
0:11:55 > 0:11:58after he'd been discharged on the Royal Air Force.
0:11:58 > 0:11:59Royal Tank Corps.
0:11:59 > 0:12:00In September 1918,
0:12:00 > 0:12:03Lawrence reputedly issued a command to take no prisoners
0:12:03 > 0:12:05when his Arab forces pursued the Turks
0:12:05 > 0:12:06retreating from the village in Syria
0:12:06 > 0:12:08where there had been a massacre.
0:12:08 > 0:12:09What's the name of the village?
0:12:09 > 0:12:10BEEP
0:12:10 > 0:12:12Tafas.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15Correct. You had a perfect round, Tim. 14 points.
0:12:24 > 0:12:27Well, a very close, high-scoring round there.
0:12:27 > 0:12:28Let's have a look at all the scores.
0:12:28 > 0:12:31In fourth place, eight points, Stephen Peter.
0:12:31 > 0:12:33Joint second place, 13 points apiece,
0:12:33 > 0:12:35Paula Keaveney and Cliff Morgan.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38First place, 14 points, Tim Allison.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46The general knowledge round now
0:12:46 > 0:12:49and if there is a tie at the end of it then the number of passes
0:12:49 > 0:12:53is taken into account and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56But, if they're tied on passes as well, there will be a tie-break.
0:12:56 > 0:12:57So, let's get on with it.
0:12:57 > 0:13:00I'll ask Steven to join us again, if you would, please.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07Right, so you have eight points
0:13:07 > 0:13:11and this is your chance to catch up with the general knowledge.
0:13:11 > 0:13:15Two and a half minutes of questions in this round. Here we go.
0:13:15 > 0:13:17What term is used for the container
0:13:17 > 0:13:18provided by a restaurant
0:13:18 > 0:13:21for a customer's uneaten food that suggest the leftovers
0:13:21 > 0:13:22are being taken home for a pet?
0:13:22 > 0:13:23Doggy bag.
0:13:23 > 0:13:26Whose orchestral work popularly known as the Enigma Variations
0:13:26 > 0:13:29is dedicated to "my friends pictured within"?
0:13:29 > 0:13:30Edward Elgar.
0:13:30 > 0:13:32Which football club sacked their manager,
0:13:32 > 0:13:34Michael Laudrup, in February 2014
0:13:34 > 0:13:37although he had guided them to their first major trophy
0:13:37 > 0:13:39the previous season?
0:13:39 > 0:13:40Swansea City.
0:13:40 > 0:13:42What is the common name for paraesthesia,
0:13:42 > 0:13:45a normally temporary condition in which pressure on a nerve
0:13:45 > 0:13:47causes a tingling or prickling sensation?
0:13:47 > 0:13:48Pins and needles.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51Which band leader used to end his guest night on the radio
0:13:51 > 0:13:53with his signature tune, "Here's to the next time."
0:13:53 > 0:13:55- Joe Loss.- Henry Hall.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57What was the name of the publishing firm
0:13:57 > 0:13:59set up and initially run from their home in Richmond
0:13:59 > 0:14:01by Leonard and Virginia Woolf in 1917?
0:14:01 > 0:14:03- Bloomsbury.- Hogarth Press.
0:14:03 > 0:14:06Which red dye stuff consists of the dried, pulverised bodies
0:14:06 > 0:14:08of female cactus-eating scale insects?
0:14:09 > 0:14:11Pass.
0:14:11 > 0:14:12The name of which character
0:14:12 > 0:14:14in Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
0:14:14 > 0:14:16was inspired by calf's head soup
0:14:16 > 0:14:18made in imitation of a more expensive dish?
0:14:20 > 0:14:21The Mock Turtle.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23Which Spanish King and his queen, Isabella,
0:14:23 > 0:14:25financed Christopher Columbus' first voyage in 1492
0:14:25 > 0:14:27that led to the discovery of the New World?
0:14:27 > 0:14:29Ferdinand.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32In 2001, the former human rights campaigner, Dame Anne Owers,
0:14:32 > 0:14:34was appointed as the first woman chief of the inspectorate
0:14:34 > 0:14:36of which institution?
0:14:36 > 0:14:38She was succeeded by Nick Hardwick in 2010.
0:14:39 > 0:14:40Pass.
0:14:40 > 0:14:41Whose painting,
0:14:41 > 0:14:43Fruits On A Table Or Still Life Of The Small Dog,
0:14:43 > 0:14:46completed in about 1889 and stolen in 1970
0:14:46 > 0:14:51was found on a retired Italian factory worker's kitchen wall in spring 2014?
0:14:51 > 0:14:52- Van Gogh.- Gauguin.
0:14:52 > 0:14:55Which aircraft company made the Blenheim, the Beaufort,
0:14:55 > 0:14:58and the Beaufighter which all saw service during the Second World War.
0:14:58 > 0:14:59- De Havilland.- Bristol.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02What word for the descent of a bird of prey onto its quarry
0:15:02 > 0:15:04is also a general term for a bent position of the back or shoulders?
0:15:04 > 0:15:06Stoop.
0:15:06 > 0:15:08The 1958 film A Night To Remember starring Kenneth More
0:15:08 > 0:15:11told the story of which maritime disaster?
0:15:11 > 0:15:13Titanic.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15What is the name of the Imperial Palace in Vienna
0:15:15 > 0:15:17that houses the Spanish Riding School
0:15:17 > 0:15:19and the offices of the Austrian president?
0:15:19 > 0:15:21Um... Pass.
0:15:21 > 0:15:24Which physician in the country town of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh,
0:15:24 > 0:15:27created by Hugh Lofting, was taught by his parrot, Polynesia,
0:15:27 > 0:15:29to understand the language of animals?
0:15:29 > 0:15:30Dr Dolittle.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33By what title given to him by the Mongol people in 1206
0:15:33 > 0:15:35is the warrior leader born Temujin better known?
0:15:35 > 0:15:37- Tamerlane.- No, Genghis Khan.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40In which European capital city is the fortified Tower of Belem?
0:15:40 > 0:15:42It was built in the 16th century
0:15:42 > 0:15:44to control the entrance to the city from the sea.
0:15:46 > 0:15:48- BEEP - Make a guess.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53European capital city... Go for it, quick.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56- Madrid.- No. No, nearly. Lisbon, not far off.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58You had three passes.
0:15:58 > 0:16:01The name of the Imperial Palace in Vienna was the Hofburg.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03Prisons is what Dame Anne Owers
0:16:03 > 0:16:05ran for a very long time as chief inspector.
0:16:05 > 0:16:09And if you pulverise those cactus-eating scale insects
0:16:09 > 0:16:11you get cochineal, apparently.
0:16:11 > 0:16:14Anyway, Stephen, you have a total of 17 points.
0:16:24 > 0:16:27And now Paula again, please.
0:16:27 > 0:16:30And you start out with 13 points.
0:16:32 > 0:16:36So, general knowledge. Two and a half minutes. Here we go.
0:16:36 > 0:16:38In the book of Genesis, who replied
0:16:38 > 0:16:39"Am I my brother's keeper?"
0:16:39 > 0:16:41after the Lord had asked him where his brother Abel was?
0:16:41 > 0:16:42Cain.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44Which small, stuffed pasta parcels
0:16:44 > 0:16:46have a name meaning "little cake" in Italian?
0:16:46 > 0:16:48- Ravioli.- Tortellini.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51What shade of bluish-purple also known as Tyrian or aniline purple
0:16:51 > 0:16:53was the first aniline dye invented by the British chemist
0:16:53 > 0:16:55William Henry Perkin in 1856?
0:16:55 > 0:16:57- Indigo.- It was mauve.
0:16:57 > 0:16:59"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."
0:16:59 > 0:17:01That's the opening sentence of the prologue
0:17:01 > 0:17:04to which novel by LP Hartly first published in 1953?
0:17:04 > 0:17:05The Go-Between.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07What sculpture completed in 1886 was originally conceived
0:17:07 > 0:17:10by its designer Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
0:17:10 > 0:17:12as a lighthouse for the Suez Canal
0:17:12 > 0:17:14entitled Egypt Brings Light To Asia?
0:17:14 > 0:17:15Pass.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18Which actor famed for his slicked-back duck's tail haircut
0:17:18 > 0:17:20played the title role in the '53 film, Houdini,
0:17:20 > 0:17:22alongside his wife, Janet Leigh,
0:17:22 > 0:17:23who played his wife in the film?
0:17:23 > 0:17:25- Dirk Bogarde.- Tony Curtis.
0:17:25 > 0:17:27Widely used as a pack animal in Tibet,
0:17:27 > 0:17:30the zo is a cross between a cow and which other animal?
0:17:30 > 0:17:31Yak.
0:17:31 > 0:17:33Which Venetian traveller who lived in China for 17 years
0:17:33 > 0:17:36dictated to a fellow prisoner, Rustichello,
0:17:36 > 0:17:37an account of his journeys
0:17:37 > 0:17:39while imprisoned by the Genoese in about 1298?
0:17:39 > 0:17:41Marco Polo.
0:17:41 > 0:17:43What English word often associated with Twitter
0:17:43 > 0:17:45has been replaced in French government communications
0:17:45 > 0:17:47by 'mot-diese' meaning "sharp word"
0:17:47 > 0:17:49in an effort to preserve the purity of the language?
0:17:49 > 0:17:50Hashtag.
0:17:50 > 0:17:53Which Czech composer wrote two sets of Slavonic dances
0:17:53 > 0:17:55inspired by Bohemian and Moravian folk music?
0:17:55 > 0:17:57- Bartok.- Dvorak.
0:17:57 > 0:17:58The Last Man In Europe
0:17:58 > 0:18:01was George Orwell's original title for which novel?
0:18:01 > 0:18:021984.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05The birds called buntings include a British species
0:18:05 > 0:18:06whose name refers to its preference
0:18:06 > 0:18:09for nesting in fields where cereal crops are grown.
0:18:09 > 0:18:10What's it called?
0:18:10 > 0:18:12Corn bunting.
0:18:12 > 0:18:13Whose television roles include Blake,
0:18:13 > 0:18:15the head of the Cunnington family in Dynasty,
0:18:15 > 0:18:17and the voice of Charlie in Charlie's Angels?
0:18:17 > 0:18:18Pass.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21In 1956, which city became the first in the Southern Hemisphere
0:18:21 > 0:18:23to host the Olympic Games?
0:18:23 > 0:18:24- Athens.- Melbourne.
0:18:24 > 0:18:27Which town in Worcestershire, a weaving centre in the Middle Ages,
0:18:27 > 0:18:29later became known for the manufacture of carpets
0:18:29 > 0:18:31and is now home to the Museum Of Carpet?
0:18:31 > 0:18:32- Axminster.- Kidderminster.
0:18:32 > 0:18:36The song, Run To You, which peaked at number 11 in 1985
0:18:36 > 0:18:37was the first UK chart entry
0:18:37 > 0:18:40for which record-breaking Canadian singer?
0:18:40 > 0:18:41Pass.
0:18:41 > 0:18:44What term for a person who holds a temporary position
0:18:44 > 0:18:45in place of another, especially a doctor,
0:18:45 > 0:18:47comes from the Latin word for place?
0:18:48 > 0:18:51- Pass. - The novel, Brighton Rock, has been filmed twice
0:18:51 > 0:18:53with Richard Attenborough and Sam Riley
0:18:53 > 0:18:55each playing the main protagonist, Pinkie. Who wrote the novel?
0:18:55 > 0:18:58- Graham Greene. - Which poison found in deadly nightshade
0:18:58 > 0:19:01gets its name from the member of the fates in Greek mythology
0:19:01 > 0:19:02who chose how and when a person was to die?
0:19:02 > 0:19:04- Belladonna.- Atropine.
0:19:04 > 0:19:06What was the name of the former ballerina
0:19:06 > 0:19:08played by Joanna Lumley in The New Avengers?
0:19:08 > 0:19:11- BEEP - Her pageboy-style haircut was much copied.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16- No?- Margot Fonteyn.
0:19:16 > 0:19:18No, a wee bit out there, I think.
0:19:18 > 0:19:22It's known as a wild guess, isn't it? It was Purdey.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25Yeah. The passes, the term for the person...
0:19:25 > 0:19:28- You'll be cross with yourself... - Locum.- Yeah, locum.
0:19:28 > 0:19:29You knew it all the time.
0:19:29 > 0:19:33And Bryan Adams, Run To You.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36John Forsythe played the head of the Carrington family in Dynasty.
0:19:36 > 0:19:41And that sculpture completed in 1886 - Statue Of Liberty.
0:19:41 > 0:19:44So those four passes, Paula, you have 21 points now in total.
0:19:54 > 0:19:56And now Cliff Morgan again, please.
0:19:58 > 0:20:02And you also start out with 13 points, Cliff.
0:20:02 > 0:20:0521 is now the score to beat. Let's see how you do.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08Two-and-a-half minutes of general knowledge.
0:20:08 > 0:20:11What does the letter U stand for in the acronym SCUBA -
0:20:11 > 0:20:14for the breathing apparatus used by skin divers?
0:20:14 > 0:20:16Undersea?
0:20:16 > 0:20:19Underwater. Which topical TV sketch show first shown in 1979,
0:20:19 > 0:20:23starred Rowan Atkinson, Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith and Pamela Stephenson?
0:20:23 > 0:20:25Not The Nine O'clock News.
0:20:25 > 0:20:27Which classic role-playing game, created by Dave Arneson
0:20:27 > 0:20:30and Gary Gygax, and released in 1974, has been
0:20:30 > 0:20:33turned into an animated television cartoon series
0:20:33 > 0:20:36and a film starring Jeremy Irons and Justin Whalin?
0:20:36 > 0:20:37Risk?
0:20:37 > 0:20:39Dungeons And Dragons.
0:20:39 > 0:20:43What name is given to a cocktail of vodka, cream or milk, and coffee liquor?
0:20:43 > 0:20:44Pass.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47Who became King of Scotland in 1040 after killing his cousin,
0:20:47 > 0:20:49Duncan I, in battle near Elgin?
0:20:49 > 0:20:52In 1057 he was killed at the Battle of Lumphanan by Malcolm Campbell.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55Macbeth.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57Which musical instrument did Sir Thomas Beauchamp describe
0:20:57 > 0:21:01as sounding like two skeletons copulating on a corrugated tin roof?
0:21:01 > 0:21:03Bagpipes.
0:21:03 > 0:21:06Harpsichord! What popular name was given to the deregulation of the
0:21:06 > 0:21:10London Stock Exchange, that came into force on the 27th October, 1986?
0:21:10 > 0:21:12Pass.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14What did the German chemist Andreas Marggraf
0:21:14 > 0:21:17succeed in extracting from beets in 1747?
0:21:17 > 0:21:19Sugar.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21John Wayne won his only Oscar for his role as a
0:21:21 > 0:21:24hard-drinking United States Marshall in which 1969 Western?
0:21:24 > 0:21:25True Grit.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28The Punch cartoonist Sir John Tenniel, born in London in 1820,
0:21:28 > 0:21:32is chiefly remembered for his illustrations of the works of which children's author?
0:21:32 > 0:21:33Lewis Carroll.
0:21:33 > 0:21:38In March 2014, who set a new world record of 140 international rugby union caps
0:21:38 > 0:21:42when he played for Ireland against Italy in his last test on home soil?
0:21:42 > 0:21:43Brian O'Driscoll.
0:21:43 > 0:21:47Members of which profession described by Disraeli in his novel Lothair as
0:21:47 > 0:21:50"the men who have failed in literature and art"?
0:21:50 > 0:21:51Politicians.
0:21:51 > 0:21:55Critics. Which tree is named after a distinguished French botanist
0:21:55 > 0:21:58who died in 1715, the deciduous species produced large white
0:21:58 > 0:22:00or pink flowers in spring and early summer?
0:22:00 > 0:22:01Bougainvillea.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04Magnolia. What rank is held by an officer in the British Army with a
0:22:04 > 0:22:06single crown on their epaulet?
0:22:06 > 0:22:07Captain.
0:22:07 > 0:22:11Major. Who was the Foreign Secretary at the outbreak of the First World War,
0:22:11 > 0:22:14best remembered for saying, "The lamps are going out all over Europe.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16"We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime"?
0:22:16 > 0:22:18Pass.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20In Greek mythology, who was the goddess of the dawn,
0:22:20 > 0:22:23described poetically by Homer as "rosy-fingered."
0:22:23 > 0:22:25Eos.
0:22:25 > 0:22:28Which television series, set in the inner-city Fenn Street School,
0:22:28 > 0:22:30starred John Alderton as the teacher, Bernard Hedges,
0:22:30 > 0:22:33and Deryck Guyler as the caretaker Norman Potter?
0:22:33 > 0:22:34Please Sir!
0:22:34 > 0:22:38A tomato divided in two with a zigzag cut, leaving sharp points all round,
0:22:38 > 0:22:41is named after a Flemish artist. Which one?
0:22:41 > 0:22:43BEEP Brueghel.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46- It was Van Dyke. - Oh.- Yeah, I know. There we go.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48Three passes. The lamps are going out all over Europe.
0:22:48 > 0:22:51That was Lord Edward Grey.
0:22:51 > 0:22:52The Big Bang.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55That's what they called deregulation of the London Stock Exchange.
0:22:55 > 0:23:00And that vodka cocktail, well, vodka etc cocktail, is the White Russian.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02- White Russian!- Yeah.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04You have 21 points.
0:23:04 > 0:23:07APPLAUSE
0:23:13 > 0:23:16And finally, Tim again, please.
0:23:16 > 0:23:20You start the round with 14 points.
0:23:20 > 0:23:23And still it is 21 to beat.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26So here we go. Let's see if you can do it.
0:23:26 > 0:23:27Two-and-a-half minutes.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30Pete Best was fired as the drummer in which band in August 1962?
0:23:33 > 0:23:34Pass.
0:23:34 > 0:23:38The Silver Ghost, which was launched in 1907, remained in production till
0:23:38 > 0:23:40the mid '20s, was the first model made by which car company?
0:23:40 > 0:23:41Rolls-Royce.
0:23:41 > 0:23:45What single word was sometimes used by alchemists for a substance supposedly
0:23:45 > 0:23:49able to turn base metals into gold, and also for a preparation that was claimed
0:23:49 > 0:23:50to prolong life?
0:23:50 > 0:23:51Philosopher's stone.
0:23:51 > 0:23:54No. Elixir. In a novel first published in 1726,
0:23:54 > 0:23:58which fictional hero is the ship's surgeon on board The Antelope?
0:24:00 > 0:24:02Pass.
0:24:02 > 0:24:05Who became the second president of France's Fifth Republic in 1969
0:24:05 > 0:24:07after Charles de Gaulle abruptly resigned?
0:24:07 > 0:24:09He died in office in '74.
0:24:12 > 0:24:13Pass.
0:24:13 > 0:24:17What literary name was given to the picturesque railway line, now being partly
0:24:17 > 0:24:20reopened, that ran from Carlisle to Edinburgh through the Scottish borders?
0:24:20 > 0:24:24It was closed in '69 in spite of massive local protest.
0:24:24 > 0:24:25The Borders Line?
0:24:25 > 0:24:26No. The Waverly Line.
0:24:26 > 0:24:29What flowers are the subject of a painting by Van Gogh that was
0:24:29 > 0:24:33sold at auction in 1987 for 49 million? It broke the record set earlier
0:24:33 > 0:24:37in the year by the same artist's Vase With 15 Sunflowers.
0:24:37 > 0:24:38Lilies.
0:24:38 > 0:24:42Irises. Who directed the 2005 film version of the HG Wells novel
0:24:42 > 0:24:43The War Of The Worlds?
0:24:43 > 0:24:45Pass.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48In Arthurian legend, what is the name of the empty seat at the Round Table that could
0:24:48 > 0:24:51only be sat on without danger by the finder of the Holy Grail?
0:24:51 > 0:24:52Pass.
0:24:52 > 0:24:57Which famous steeplechaser, foaled in 1979 by Grey Mirage out of Flower Child, was
0:24:57 > 0:25:01affectionately known as Fred before his name was officially registered?
0:25:01 > 0:25:03Pass.
0:25:03 > 0:25:06Which technique for recording and displaying three dimensional images
0:25:06 > 0:25:10was invented by the Hungarian-born scientist Dennis Gabor in 1948?
0:25:10 > 0:25:14He won the 1971 Nobel Physics Prize for his research.
0:25:14 > 0:25:15Hologram.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing are among the works of literature
0:25:18 > 0:25:21that have been translated in which language created for Star Trek?
0:25:21 > 0:25:23Klingon.
0:25:23 > 0:25:27What name is given in Japanese cuisine to noodles made from buckwheat?
0:25:28 > 0:25:29Pass.
0:25:29 > 0:25:32Who was the Prime Minister of Britain from 1770 till 1782,
0:25:32 > 0:25:35throughout most of the American War Of Independence?
0:25:35 > 0:25:36Pitt.
0:25:36 > 0:25:41No, Lord North. The Plymouth Rock is a breed of which domesticated bird?
0:25:41 > 0:25:44- Chicken.- Brahms, Schumann, Liszt and Rachmaninoff were among the composers
0:25:44 > 0:25:49who've written works based on themes by an Italian composer and virtuoso violinist.
0:25:49 > 0:25:50Who was he?
0:25:50 > 0:25:52Pass.
0:25:52 > 0:25:55What is the name of the sequestered glen on the Hudson River where the
0:25:55 > 0:25:58schoolteacher Ichabod Crane lives in the short story by Washington Irving?
0:25:58 > 0:26:00BEEP
0:26:00 > 0:26:01Sleepy Hollow.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04Sleepy Hollow is correct. You had eight passes altogether.
0:26:04 > 0:26:06Paganini was the virtuoso.
0:26:06 > 0:26:09The noodles made from buckwheat are called soba.
0:26:09 > 0:26:12Desert Orchid was the very famous horse.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15Siege Perilous was the name of the empty seat.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18Steven Spielberg directed The War Of The Worlds.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20- Pompidou... - HE GROANS
0:26:20 > 0:26:22Yes, I know.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24The second president of France's Fifth Republic.
0:26:24 > 0:26:26- Gulliver. Yes?- Yep.
0:26:26 > 0:26:28Was the fictional hero on board The Antelope.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31- And... - The Beatles.- The Beatles, exactly.
0:26:31 > 0:26:33You didn't need me to tell you, did you?
0:26:33 > 0:26:36Tim, 19 points in total.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39APPLAUSE
0:26:45 > 0:26:48Well, did you spot what's happened? Let's have a look at the scores.
0:26:48 > 0:26:52In fourth place with 17 points, Stephen Peter.
0:26:52 > 0:26:54Third place, 19 points, Tim Allison.
0:26:54 > 0:27:00Joint first place, 21 points AND four passes apiece,
0:27:00 > 0:27:02Paula Keaveney and Cliff Morgan.
0:27:02 > 0:27:05APPLAUSE
0:27:09 > 0:27:13And that means, of course, that we have to have a tie-break.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16Which means I shall read the same five questions to each contender
0:27:16 > 0:27:19and the one with the highest score obviously is the winner.
0:27:19 > 0:27:21We're not against the clock this time.
0:27:21 > 0:27:23So, let me ask Cliff to leave the studio
0:27:23 > 0:27:27so he can't hear the questions, and Paula to come to the chair.
0:27:27 > 0:27:28Again.
0:27:28 > 0:27:32I don't suppose you were expecting to sit in the chair three times
0:27:32 > 0:27:34this evening, Paula, but there we go.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36All good experience.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39Right, as soon as Cliff is out of earshot...
0:27:39 > 0:27:41Here we go. Five questions starting now.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43Louise de Kerouaille, Lucy Walter
0:27:43 > 0:27:47and Barbara Villiers were among mistresses of which British king?
0:27:47 > 0:27:48Edward VII.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51What is the flavour of the colourless Curacao liquor
0:27:51 > 0:27:52triple sec?
0:27:54 > 0:27:56I don't know.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58What is the capital city of Sicily?
0:27:58 > 0:28:00Palermo.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02Catching Fire and Mockingjay are the second
0:28:02 > 0:28:04and third books of which trilogy by Suzanne Collins?
0:28:05 > 0:28:07I don't know.
0:28:07 > 0:28:10In show-jumping, what French word meaning power is given to the
0:28:10 > 0:28:13event that test the horse's ability to jump over high obstacles?
0:28:13 > 0:28:16- Puissance.- Thank you. Those are the five questions.
0:28:17 > 0:28:20APPLAUSE
0:28:26 > 0:28:29So, I can ask Cliff, who has returned from exile,
0:28:29 > 0:28:31to come and join us again, please.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33He did not, of course, hear those questions.
0:28:33 > 0:28:34You get the five questions, Cliff.
0:28:34 > 0:28:37I'm not going to give the answers. Here we go.
0:28:37 > 0:28:39Louise de Kerouaille, Lucy Walter
0:28:39 > 0:28:43and Barbara Villiers were among mistresses of which British king?
0:28:43 > 0:28:44George IV.
0:28:44 > 0:28:47What is the flavour of the colourless Curacao liquor
0:28:47 > 0:28:49triple sec?
0:28:52 > 0:28:54Pass.
0:28:54 > 0:28:56What is the capital city of Sicily?
0:28:56 > 0:28:57Palermo.
0:28:57 > 0:28:59Catching Fire and Mockingjay are the second
0:28:59 > 0:29:02and third books of which trilogy by Suzanne Collins?
0:29:02 > 0:29:04Pass.
0:29:04 > 0:29:07In show-jumping, what French word meaning power is given to the
0:29:07 > 0:29:10event that test the horse's ability to jump over high obstacles?
0:29:10 > 0:29:13- Equipage.- Thank you. Those are the five questions.
0:29:13 > 0:29:16APPLAUSE
0:29:25 > 0:29:27Well, we have a winner.
0:29:27 > 0:29:30In second place, 22 points, Cliff Morgan.
0:29:30 > 0:29:34In first place with 23 points, Paula Keaveney.
0:29:34 > 0:29:37APPLAUSE
0:29:44 > 0:29:46Which means that Paula goes through.
0:29:46 > 0:29:49Join us next time for more Mastermind. Thanks for watching.
0:29:49 > 0:29:51Goodnight.