Episode 5 Mastermind

First in the spotlight tonight is Diane Hallagan,

an assistant accountant from Leeds.

Her specialist subject, the television series House Of Cards.

Next, Mark Roman-Gold, a business manager from London,

on the life and works of John Milton.

Ian Clark is a solicitor also from London.

He'll be answering questions on the 1453 Siege of Constantinople.

And Derek Heyes, a retired teacher from Bolton, on FA Cup Finals.

Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.

Four more contenders are all set

to brave the harsh glare of the spotlight tonight.

As usual, they will face two minutes of questions

on their specialist subject

and 2.5 minutes on general knowledge.

The winner will go through to the next round

and will be on course to become the next Mastermind champion.

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

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your specialist subject?

House Of Cards in two minutes, starting now.

What is the name of the scheming politician and central character

in the trilogy who habitually replies to questions,

"You might think that I couldn't possibly comment"?

-Francis Urquhart.

-What three words are spoken by Urquhart as he stares at

a photo of Margaret Thatcher at the beginning of House Of Cards?

"Nothing lasts forever."

Who wrote the screenplays for all three series,

which are based on the novels by Michael Dobbs?

Andrew Davies.

What is the name of the new political correspondent on The Chronicle

who approaches Urquhart for an interview?

Mattie Storin.

Which constituency is the first to declare its results

in the general election that takes place in the first episode of House Of Cards?

George Green wins the seat for the Conservatives.

Torbay.

To Play The King opens with the coronation of a new monarch played by...?

Michael Kitchen.

In The Final Cut, Urquhart engineers and then endangers

the settlement of the political situation on an island that is also seen

in flashbacks to his army career. Which island?

Cyprus.

The Prime Minister's brother Charles is taken to a treatment centre in Kent

before the news of his supposed insider dealing becomes public.

What is the name of the centre?

The Fellowship Treatment Centre.

What is the name of the government whip in House Of Cards

who reluctantly accepts the role of party chairman in To Play The King?

Tim Stamper.

Which actress, who later became more famous as a singer,

propositions the king in the second episode of To Play The King?

Emma Bunton.

After troops retake the British High Commission in Cyprus,

what is the one-word headline

on the front page of The Sun newspaper the following morning?

"Kebabbed".

In To Play The King, what office is held by John Stroud?

He is the leader of the opposition.

Who plays the cabinet secretary to Henry Ponsonby

in the first episode of The Final Cut?

Julian Fellowes.

What book does the businessman and party donor Mr Nures

present as a gift to the Urquharts in The Final Cut?

Elizabeth Urquhart tells him it's one of her husband's favourites.

The Prince by Machiavelli.

Which member of Parliament is credited as political adviser On The Final Cut?

He is also seen sitting next to Tom Makepeace

in the Commons during his resignation speech.

-Pass.

-What is the name of Urquhart's chief security officer,

who at the end of The Final Cut orders a sniper to kill him?

-Corder.

-An opposition MP suggests that the new Foreign Secretary

-Geoffrey Booza Pitt...

-BEEP

..resembles which glove puppet?

-Sooty.

-Sooty, indeed.

Just the one pass.

The member of Parliament credited as political adviser

on The Final Cut is, or was, Michael Fabricant.

You have, though, Diane, 16 points.

Thank you.

And now, our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your specialist subject?

John Milton in two minutes.

In 1674, the poet

and political writer John Milton gave permission to John Dryden

to produce a rhyming version of which of his most celebrated works?

-Pass.

-Milton wrote the elegy Lycidas for a friend at

Christ's College Cambridge who was drowned at sea in 1637. Who was he?

Edward King.

What is the name of the fallen angel described

in Book II of Paradise Lost as, "The strongest and the fiercest spirit

"that fought in Heaven, now fiercer by despair"?

-Satan.

-Moloch.

Which of Milton's pamphlets, published in 1644, attacks censorship

in the form of the licensing of books before publication?

Areopagitica.

In February 1649, shortly after parliament had executed Charles I,

Milton published a work to justify the action,

defending the right of people to execute a guilty sovereign.

What was his title?

The Tenure Of Kings And Magistrates.

In which city did Milton read Latin poems to the Svogliati Academy

in March 1639 during his tour of Europe?

Florence.

What was the forename of Milton's older sister?

He taught her sons John and Edward Phillips

following his return to London in 1639.

Anne.

In 1649, Milton was appointed Secretary for the Foreign Tongues

by the Council of State and soon after was asked to write a response to which book,

supposedly written by Charles I shortly before his execution?

Eikon... Ballistica.

No, Eikon Basilike.

Which of Milton's works, first published in four books in 1671,

begins with the line, "I who e're while the happy Garden sung"?

Paradise Regained.

Who was appointed as Milton's assistant in 1653 after he lost his sight,

although Milton had stated a preference for Andrew Marvell?

-Pass.

-In which work of 1654 does Milton claim that he had changed his plans

to extend his European travels into Sicily and Greece

when he heard news of civil disturbances in England?

Defensio Secunda.

Which work by Milton, published in 1637, contains the lines,

"Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud

"Turn forth her silver lining on the night"?

Comus.

In 1665, Milton and his wife...

-BEEP

-I've started, so I'll finish.

..moved into a cottage in Buckinghamshire to escape the Plague in London.

In which village is the cottage,

which now houses a museum dedicated to his life and works?

-Chalfont St Giles.

-Is correct.

You had two passes.

It was Phillip Meadows who was appointed

as Milton's assistant in 1653.

And Milton give permission to John Dryden

to produce a rhyming version of Paradise lost.

-Ah.

-You have, Mark, 9 points.

And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your special subject?

In two minutes, starting now.

Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine Empire until 1453

when the city was besieged and taken by Ottoman forces

under the command of which Sultan?

Mehmed II.

Which inlet was defended by a large boom chain

that initially resisted the Ottoman fleet's attempts to force an entry?

The Golden Horn.

An engineer from Germany, thought to be of Scottish descent,

successfully stopped the Ottoman mining operations under the walls. Who was he?

John Grant.

What was the name of the Ottoman pretender who lived in Constantinople in 1453

and was used as a bargaining counter by the final ruler of the Byzantine Empire,

Constantine XI, in his dealings with Mehmed?

Orhan.

Which Castilian nobleman was fighting alongside Constantine

as the Ottomans entered the city?

Don Francisco de Toledo.

During the first week of April 1453, Nikephoros Palaiologos

took command of a reserve force in the city

on the central ridge near which major church?

The Holy Apostles.

What was the name of the Hungarian general and former regent

who sent an embassy to Mehmed during the siege suggesting that

the three-year truce between them was no longer binding?

John Hunyadi.

The captain of a Venetian ship was executed after he refused to allow

an inspection of his cargo at Rumeli Hisari in November 1452. Who was he?

Antonio Rizo.

What Greek name was given to the section of the land wars

between the St Romanus and the Charisian gates

where Mehmed concentrated much of his attack?

The Mesotechion.

Which Italian city supplied one ship to the defence of the city

to supplement the larger contingent from Venice and Genoa?

Ancona.

Who was the enormous man from Ulubat who led the first scaling of the walls

in the final assault? He was killed by the defenders after a grim struggle.

Hasan.

Who commanded Mehmed's fleet in the final stages of the siege

after his predecessor had been humiliated and degraded for his failures?

Hamza Bey.

The Genoese military leader was severely wounded in the final assault

and withdrew from the front line.

He died a few days later on Chios. What was his name?

Giovanni Giustiniani Longo.

Which opponent of church union did Mehmed appoint as Patriarch of the City,

the first under Ottoman rule?

Gennadius.

According to a couplet said to have been uttered by Mehmed...

-BEEP

-..on touring the captured city,

from which castle did the owl sound the relief?

The Castle of Afrasiab.

Yes, indeed. No passes.

A brilliant 15 points.

And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject?

In two minutes, starting now.

Who had a penalty saved in the '91 final by

the Nottingham Forest goalkeeper Mark Crossley?

Lineker.

In 1980, which club became the first to appear in three consecutive

FA Cup finals since West Bromwich Albion in 1888,

although they only won one of them?

-Everton.

-Arsenal.

Who played at right-half for Manchester City in the 1933 and '34 finals

where he won the only honour of his playing career?

He later won the cup twice as a manager.

Busby.

Which player picked up a record four winners medals at the old Wembley Stadium,

three with Manchester United, one with Chelsea?

Hughes.

The hymn Abide With Me was first sung at the cup final in which year,

when Arsenal played Cardiff City?

1927.

What was the name of the Bolton Wanderers left-back who had the unenviable task

of marking Stanley Matthews in the '53 final?

-Bell.

-Banks.

Which team had a surprise victory in the '88 final that the commentator

John Motson described with the words, "The Crazy Gang have beaten the Culture Club"?

-Wimbledon.

-What was the score when Portsmouth beat Wolverhampton Wanderers

in the '39 final, the last to be played for seven years

because of the Second World War?

4-1 to Portsmouth.

The 1923 FA Cup Final was nicknamed the White Horse Final after the horse

that PC George Scorey rode to marshal the crowd off the pitch before the match.

What was the horses name?

Billy.

In the '56 final, the Manchester City goalkeeper Bert Trautmann

broke his neck when he dived at the feet of which Birmingham City forward?

Murphy.

Who managed Arsenal to their first FA Cup Final victory in 1930

against Huddersfield Town,

the club he previously managed to cup success in 1922?

Chapman.

Who was the captain of the Luton Town team

that lost the '59 final to Nottingham Forest?

He was voted Footballer of the Year the same season.

Owen.

In '97, which club conceded a goal to Chelsea's Roberto Di Matteo

inside the first minute of their first appearance in the final?

Middlesbrough.

What was the name of the German airship that passed over Wembley Stadium

during the 1930 final, throwing its shadow over the pitch?

-Graf Spee.

-Graf Zeppelin.

Preston North End won the '38 final 1-0 with a penalty scored

in the last minute of extra time by George Mutch.

What was the name of Huddersfield Town's captain and centre-half,

who tripped Mutch to concede the penalty?

BEEP

-Beattie.

-It was Alf Young.

However, Derek, with no passes, you have scored 11 points.

Well, a high-scoring round there. Let's have a look at all the scores.

In fourth place, 9 points, Mark Roman-Gold.

Third place, 11 points, Derek Heyes.

Second place, 15 points, Ian Clark.

First place, 16 points, Diane Hallagan.

So, it is the general knowledge round now

and if there's a tie at the end of it, then the number of passes

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

and if they are tied on passes as well, there will be a tiebreaker.

By the way, the six highest-scoring runners up will also be able

to claim a place in the semifinals. So, plenty to play for.

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

And you...

..start this round with 9 points.

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

And it's 2.5 minutes now, not two.

Here we go.

In 1901, the schoolteacher and adventurer Annie Edson Taylor

became the first person to go over which waterfalls in a barrel and survive?

Niagara Falls.

In 1908, a horse called Rubio who once worked in Towcester pulling an omnibus,

was the first American-bred winner of which major steeplechase?

Grand National.

A Blaze Of Autumn Sunshine, published in October 2013

and subtitled The Last Diaries,

was written by which veteran politician who died in 2014?

-Nelson Mandela.

-Tony Benn.

In cookery, a steak that is very lightly grilled so the outside is seared

but the inside remains uncooked is said to be what colour?

Blue.

In Mesopotamian religion, Marduk was the chief god of which city?

He became known as Bel meaning 'Lord'.

-Constantinople.

-Babylon.

Which avant-garde American composer developed the prepared piano,

a piano modified by objects placed between its strings

in order to produce original sound effects?

-Aaron Copland.

-John Cage.

Which branch of the British Armed Forces, founded during

the reign of Henry VIII, is known as the Senior Service?

-Infantry.

-The Royal Navy.

The 2012 documentary Room 237 explores the various interpretations

of which classic 1980s Stanley Kubrick horror film?

-Clockwork Orange.

-The Shining.

What is the name of the radical freethinker who,

in a series of novels by SJ Parris,

helps Sir Francis Walsingham to unmask spies in Elizabethan England?

Pass.

The pilot of a radio programme that featured Graeme Garden and Jo Kendall

singing Three Blind Mice to the tune of Old Man River

and Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie performing Sing A Song Of Sixpence

to the tune of These Foolish Things. Which program?

-The Goodies.

-I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.

What protein in the red blood cells of humans and many other animals

is responsible for transporting oxygen to the body's tissues?

Uh...

-Lucozytes.

-Haemoglobin.

Which footballer, who famously cried

after he was booked in the 1990 World Cup semifinal,

was voted that year's BBC Sports Personality of the Year?

Paul Gascoigne.

Heather Small was the lead singer of which group, whose top 10 hits

in the 1990s included Moving On Up and Search For The Hero?

M People.

The Wonderful Parliament of 1386 and the Merciless Parliament of 1388

were both held during the reign of which English monarch?

-Edward III.

-Richard II.

Which fictional character, nicknamed the Fat Owl of the Remove,

made his first appearance in a story called

The Making Of Harry Wharton in The Magnet in 1908?

Billy Bunter.

-What does the abbreviation...

-BEEP

..ABV stand for when referring to the strength of beer?

Alcohol before volume.

Aha, nearly. Alcohol by volume.

Close. One pass.

The name of that radical freethinker was Giordano Bruno.

You have a total now, Mark, of 15 points.

And now, Derek again, please.

And, Derek, you start this round with 11 points

with your knowledge of FA Cup Finals.

2.5 minutes of general knowledge, starting now.

What biscuit, made with golden syrup, oats and coconut,

takes its name from the acronym for the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps?

Anzac.

In Orwell's novel Animal Farm, what type of animal puts forward

the theory that while all animals are equal, some are more equal than others?

Pigs.

Which lake, that has a shoreline in Kenya,

Uganda and Tanzania, is the largest in Africa?

Victoria.

At which University, founded as the University College of Wales,

did Prince Charles spend one term in the spring of 1969

studying Welsh language and history prior to his investiture as Prince of Wales?

Aberystwyth.

In 2008, which group's greatest hits album Gold

topped the UK chart 16 years after it first did so in 1992?

ABBA.

What name is given to the usually non-alcoholic drink used as a hangover cure,

consisting of an unbroken raw egg yolk, Worcestershire sauce

and other ingredients such as Tabasco or vinegar?

A... Harvey Wallbanger.

A Prairie Oyster.

What name is given to small plots of generally urban public land

rented by individuals for cultivation? They were especially popular

during the world wars as a way of alleviating food shortages.

Allotments.

A building leased by Queen Elizabeth I to Sir Thomas Knyvet,

the man who later arrested Guy Fawkes,

was the first recorded domestic house at which well-known London address?

-Downing Street.

-Yes, 10 Downing Street.

Julius Caesar defeated Vercingetorix, a chieftain of the Arverni tribe,

at the Battle of Alesia in 52 BC.

Which series of wars did this victory end?

-Punic.

-The Gallic.

How is the boxer, born Walker Smith in Detroit in 1921, better known?

He was a world champion once as welterweight

and five times as a middleweight between 1946 and 1960.

Sugar Ray Robinson.

Which professional baker, who's worked at some of Britain's

most prestigious hotels, became a household name after

he appeared as a judge on the Great British Bake Off?

-Pass.

-Who was the last Danish king of England?

He was the son of Cnut and reigned from 1040

until his death in 1042.

-Cnut.

-Nearly - Harthacnut.

How is the temperature of -273.15 Celsius, or nought Kelvin,

the lowest temperature theoretically possible, more commonly known?

Absolute zero.

Which bird of prey, a common scavenger in London streets in Tudor times,

was hunted to extinction in England but has been seen flying over the capital again

after being reintroduced in the Chilterns?

-Buzzard. Great buzzard.

-Great kite.

Which Liverpool-based group's biggest hit in the UK singles chart

was All Together Now? It reached number four in 1990.

Pass.

Who was Secretary of State for Education and Science

in Edward Heath's government from 1970 to '74?

-Walker.

-Thatcher.

-BEEP

Yeah, do you remember? Thatcher, Thatcher, milk snatcher.

Two passes, Derek.

That Liverpool-based group, All Together Now, was The Farm.

And the baker, the professional baker

who was a judge on The Great British Bake Off,

chap called Hollywood, Paul Hollywood.

You have a total, Derek, of 20 points.

And now, Ian Clark again, please.

And you start this round with 15 points

with your knowledge of the Siege of Constantinople.

Here's your general knowledge. 20 is the score to beat at the moment.

Here we go.

Frank Sinatra's version of which song spent a record

124 weeks in the top 75 in the UK singles charts?

My Way.

A 19th-century milestone in the suburb of Kirkstall in Leeds

is said to mark a point exactly 200 miles from London to the south

and which capital city to the North?

Edinburgh.

Which Dickens novel features the Circumlocution Office, the government department

without which no public business of any kind could possibly be done?

-Bleak House.

-Little Dorrit.

Which small whale has a large single tusk

which can grow to several metres in length?

It is sometimes known as the unicorn of the sea.

The narwhal.

Basin Street, Bourbon Street and South Rampart Street,

all famed for their connection with jazz, are in which American city?

New Orleans.

The film 1977 Saturday Night Fever and its '83 sequel Staying Alive

star which actor as the dancer Tony Manero?

John Travolta.

Which Spartan military leader commanded the fleet

that defeated the Athenians at Aegospotami in 405 BC,

the final battle of the Peloponnesian War?

He is commemorated in the words of the song The British Grenadiers.

Lysander.

In nutrition, which group of compounds, that include sugar,

starches and cellulose, provides the body's main source of energy?

-Fruiteins.

-Carbohydrates.

What name of French origin is given to a floating platform

used as a dock or a temporary bridge,

typically supported on boats and used by the military?

Pontoon.

In the Goon Show, who regularly exclaimed after being blown up,

"You dirty, rotten swine! You have deaded me again. I do not like this game"?

Bluebottle.

Which English club beat Bayern Munich to win the European Cup in 1982?

The centre-forward Peter Withe scored the only goal of the game.

Aston Villa.

Which operetta, first performed in 1896,

was the last collaboration of Gilbert and Sullivan?

The Grand Duke.

Who won the Booker-McConnell Prize in 1981 for his second novel

Midnight's Children, a story about the birth of modern India?

Salman Rushdie.

In Chinese mythology, Da Yu,

who reputedly founded China's first dynasty, also controlled

what natural disaster that hit the country in the 21st-century BC?

A flood.

The organs of the human body known as the semicircular canals

found in the inner ear play an important role

in maintaining what fundamental ability?

Balance.

What form of wall painting, sometimes considered to be vandalism,

was made fashionable in the art world by the New York artists

Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring?

Graffiti.

The G20 group of finance ministers and central bank governors

consists of 19 member countries and one organisation.

Which organisation?

-The UN.

-No, the EU.

Whom did Lewis Morley famously photograph posed naked...

-BEEP

-..straddling a wooden chair in his London studio in 1963?

-Christine Keeler.

-Is correct.

No passes. 30 points.

And finally, Diane again, please.

And you start out with a very hefty 16 points

and you have a very hefty 30 points to beat.

Here we go. 2.5 minutes of general knowledge, starting now.

What American-Indian word for a priest became more widely used

for a conference between or with Native Americans?

Powwow.

No. 5, 1948, sold in 2006 by the film mogul David Geffin for around 135 million,

is a drip painting by which avant-garde American artist?

Jackson Pollock.

Which New Zealand city was named after the Duke who helped the New Zealand Company

found the original settlement in 1840?

Wellington.

Which British television music show took its name from

an American music industry phrase which suggests that if a grey-suited doorman

could remember a tune having heard it once, it would become a hit?

The Old Grey Whistle Test.

In English, how are the deities,

known to the Greeks as the Moirai, collectively known?

There were three of them and they controlled human destiny.

-The fates.

-Which 1853 novel by Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell was based on her upbringing

-in Knutsford in Cheshire...

-Cranford.

..has been adapted into a BBC drama starring Judi Dench?

Middlemarch.

-Cranford.

-It's Cranford!

-Ha!

The 27-mile stretch of privately-financed motorway that opened in 2003

and was originally called the Birmingham Northern Relief Road,

is now officially known by what name?

Pass.

What stage name, adopted by Adolf Marx of the Marx Brothers,

was taken from the musical instrument he played?

Harpo.

Which 19th-century author is best remembered for his historical novel

The Cloister And The Hearth, published in 1861?

Pass.

Which Latin American country's flag has an image

of an eagle on top of a prickly pear cactus with a snake in its beak?

Mexico.

Which athlete, who won three gold medals at the Seoul Olympics

and set world records in the 100m and 200m the same year, was known as Flo-Jo?

Florence Griffith Joyner.

Which behavioural disorder, most common in children,

is also known as somnambulism?

Sleepwalking.

What title is shared by a popular opera by Puccini

and a rarely-played one by Leoncavallo?

They are both based on a novel about Parisian life by Henri Murger.

-Madame Butterfly.

-La Boheme.

Whose album Bat Out Of Hell, first released in 1977,

went on to spend 474 weeks in the UK charts?

Meat Loaf.

What is the largest of the native British snake species?

It has a typical length of about 1m,

although much longer individuals have been noted.

-The adder.

-The grass snake.

Which future American president was awarded the distinguished

Flying Cross for his services as a US Navy pilot during the Second World War?

-John F Kennedy.

-George Bush.

Eton, Rugby and Winchester schools give their name to the three forms of

an indoor court game where a ball is hit with a gloved hand rather than a racket.

Which game?

Fives.

In which '80s television sitcom did Richard Briers

play a pernickety pillar of the local community who was always being upstaged

by his suave neighbour, played by Peter Egan?

Ever Decreasing Circles.

What name of Greek origin is given to government by the mob?

-Hoi polloi.

-Ochlocracy.

-Whose novel...

-BEEP

-..English Passengers,

about three eccentric Englishman who set sail for Tasmania to find

the Garden of Eden was named the 2000 Whitbread Book of the Year?

-Peter Carey.

-Well, it was worth a guess.

-Yes.

-No, it was Matthew Kneale.

But it's always worth guessing

in this game, always.

Two passes, Diane.

The author best known for The Cloister And The Hearth

was Charles Reade.

And that Northern Relief Road is now known as the M6 Toll road.

-You got close - 28 points.

-Thank you.

Well, a couple of whopping scores there.

Let's have a look at all of them now.

In fourth place, 15 points, Mark Roman-Gold.

Third place, 20 points, Derek Heyes.

Second place, 28 points - normally a winner - Diane Hallagan.

First place, 30 points, Ian Clark.

Well done to you.

SPEECH MUFFLED BY APPLAUSE

Which means, obviously, that Ian is tonight's winner

and he goes through to the semifinals.

Congratulations to him.

Commiserations, though not necessarily,

to Diane Hallagan because with a score of 28, it is entirely possible

that we shall see her again in the semifinal.

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