0:00:24 > 0:00:27First in the spotlight tonight is Hazel Humphreys,
0:00:27 > 0:00:29a data analyst from Colchester.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31Her subject is the late, great Les Dawson.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34Next, Martin Roebuck, a journalist from Croydon.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36His subject, West Indies cricket.
0:00:36 > 0:00:40Neil Madle is an investor relations director from Chippenham,
0:00:40 > 0:00:43and he'll be answering questions on the life and films of Howard Hawks.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46And John Carrington, a website manager from London.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49His subject, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52APPLAUSE
0:01:00 > 0:01:03Hello, and welcome to Mastermind, with me, John Humphrys.
0:01:03 > 0:01:07Tonight, as ever, four contenders face two rounds of questions
0:01:07 > 0:01:09under the unrelenting pressure of the clock -
0:01:09 > 0:01:12two minutes on their specialist subject,
0:01:12 > 0:01:14and two and a half minutes on general knowledge.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18The winner will take a step closer to owning this fine glass bowl
0:01:18 > 0:01:20and, more importantly,
0:01:20 > 0:01:23even the coveted title of the nation's Mastermind.
0:01:23 > 0:01:24So, let's get on with it,
0:01:24 > 0:01:27and ask our first contender to join us, please.
0:01:41 > 0:01:43Les Dawson, in two minutes.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46What was the title of the comedy variety show starring Dawson that
0:01:46 > 0:01:50was launched by Yorkshire Television in 1969 and ran for 11 series?
0:01:50 > 0:01:51Sez Les.
0:01:51 > 0:01:54Dawson said he found his voice as a comedian during a performance
0:01:54 > 0:01:57at a venue he described as "a renovated fish crate".
0:01:57 > 0:01:58In which city was it?
0:01:58 > 0:02:02- Hull.- During his breakthrough appearance on Opportunity Knocks,
0:02:02 > 0:02:04Dawson recalled asking his mother to sing him a lullaby.
0:02:04 > 0:02:06What did she tell him to hold while she fetched her banjo?
0:02:06 > 0:02:09- Her beer. - In his autobiography,
0:02:09 > 0:02:12Dawson describes marriage as being "the only union without..."?
0:02:14 > 0:02:18- Pass.- Which long-running quiz show did Dawson host from 1984 till 1990 -
0:02:18 > 0:02:21during his first show, he said that he felt
0:02:21 > 0:02:24"as comfortable as a lame turkey sitting on a pile of Paxo,
0:02:24 > 0:02:26"listening to Christmas carols"?
0:02:26 > 0:02:27- Blankety Blank. - In his biography,
0:02:27 > 0:02:30Dawson recalls buying a greyhound with a friend, and said that,
0:02:30 > 0:02:33"I wouldn't say it was slow, but on its first race,
0:02:33 > 0:02:35"the hare bit its leg." What was the name of the dog?
0:02:36 > 0:02:40- Pass.- Dawson was a regular panellist on a show hosted by the future
0:02:40 > 0:02:42Sez Les writer Barry Cryer from July 1969.
0:02:42 > 0:02:46He became well known for his rambling, surreal monologues. What show?
0:02:46 > 0:02:47Jokers Wild.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49In his autobiography, Dawson says that
0:02:49 > 0:02:52when he was in rehearsals for a pantomime with John Nettles,
0:02:52 > 0:02:55the church hall they were using was so old the woodworm spoke...?
0:02:55 > 0:02:57Latin.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00Dawson once claimed that he took his wife everywhere
0:03:00 > 0:03:01because it saved doing what?
0:03:01 > 0:03:03Having to kiss her goodbye.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05According to Dawson's autobiography,
0:03:05 > 0:03:07what was the name of the singer whose absence
0:03:07 > 0:03:10from an episode of The Max Wall Show almost gave Dawson his big break,
0:03:10 > 0:03:13until the singer announced that he would still perform?
0:03:13 > 0:03:14Edward Hockridge.
0:03:14 > 0:03:16Yes, EDMUND Hockridge.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19In which BBC Two political satire of 1991 did Dawson appear
0:03:19 > 0:03:22alongside Jane Horrocks, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent
0:03:22 > 0:03:25as a 100-year-old Argentinian grandmother?
0:03:25 > 0:03:26La Nona.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29During a performance at the Royal Variety Show,
0:03:29 > 0:03:31Dawson claimed he should have been on tour with Madonna
0:03:31 > 0:03:33in a revival of The King And I,
0:03:33 > 0:03:35but the show was cancelled because the singer wouldn't do what?
0:03:35 > 0:03:37Get her head shaved.
0:03:37 > 0:03:40What was the name of the troupe of dancers led by the Blackpool artist
0:03:40 > 0:03:43Mo Moreland that was assembled by Dawson and the producer Ernest Maxin...
0:03:43 > 0:03:48BEEP
0:03:44 > 0:03:48..for Dawson's 1983 BBC series?
0:03:48 > 0:03:49The Roly Polys.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51Roly Polys is correct.
0:03:51 > 0:03:55Two passes. Two more truly terrible jokes.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58In that biography, he bought a greyhound with a friend and said,
0:03:58 > 0:04:02"I wouldn't say it was slow, but on the first race, the hare bit its leg."
0:04:02 > 0:04:04The name of it was Flash.
0:04:04 > 0:04:09And he also said marriage was the only union without a shop steward.
0:04:09 > 0:04:10LAUGHTER
0:04:10 > 0:04:13So there. You either like them or you don't!
0:04:13 > 0:04:16Hazel, you've scored 11 points.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18APPLAUSE
0:04:25 > 0:04:26And our next contender, please.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43West Indies cricket in two minutes.
0:04:43 > 0:04:47On which ground did the West Indies play their first test match in June 1928?
0:04:47 > 0:04:50They lost to England by an innings and 58 runs.
0:04:50 > 0:04:51Lord's.
0:04:51 > 0:04:55Whose nicknames have included Smokin' Joe and Master Blaster?
0:04:55 > 0:04:59He was voted one of Wisden's five cricketers of the century in 2000.
0:04:59 > 0:05:00Viv Richards.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03In 1976, Michael Holding created a new test record
0:05:03 > 0:05:06for a West Indies player in a test match at The Oval.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08How many wickets did he take?
0:05:08 > 0:05:1014.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13When Brian Lara scored 375 at Antigua in 1994
0:05:13 > 0:05:16to take the record for the highest test innings,
0:05:16 > 0:05:19which fellow West Indian's record did he beat?
0:05:19 > 0:05:20Sobers.
0:05:20 > 0:05:21Which test player of the 1930s
0:05:21 > 0:05:25also played for the Lancashire league club Nelson? He later became
0:05:25 > 0:05:28High Commissioner for Trinidad and Tobago in London and a life peer.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30Learie Constantine.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33At which ground did Curtly Ambrose take seven wickets for one run
0:05:33 > 0:05:38against Australia, and help secure the 1992-3 series?
0:05:38 > 0:05:40Perth.
0:05:40 > 0:05:43The 3Ws is the name given to three great West Indies players
0:05:43 > 0:05:47of the 1950s, all from Barbados and born within two years of each other.
0:05:47 > 0:05:49Frank Worrell, Clyde Walcott and...?
0:05:49 > 0:05:50Everton Weekes.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52In the Lord's test match of June 1963,
0:05:52 > 0:05:55who bowled the ball that broke Colin Cowdrey's arm?
0:05:55 > 0:05:59He went on to bowl the last over, which resulted in a drawn match.
0:06:00 > 0:06:01Pass.
0:06:01 > 0:06:05Against which country did the West Indies tie a test match in 1960,
0:06:05 > 0:06:08the first tied match in test cricket history?
0:06:08 > 0:06:10Australia.
0:06:10 > 0:06:14In the Edgbaston test in 1957, Sonny Ramadhin set a new record
0:06:14 > 0:06:18by bowling 588 balls in how many overs in the second innings?
0:06:18 > 0:06:1990 overs.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22In February 1972, who scored a double century
0:06:22 > 0:06:26and a century on his test debut against New Zealand?
0:06:26 > 0:06:28Greenidge.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31Lawrence Rowe. In 1973, the spin bowler Elquemedo Willett
0:06:31 > 0:06:34became the first native of which of the Leeward Islands
0:06:34 > 0:06:37to make his test debut for the West Indies?
0:06:41 > 0:06:42St Vincent.
0:06:42 > 0:06:43No, Nevis.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45- Who passed Fred Trueman's record... - BEEP
0:06:45 > 0:06:48..of 307 test wickets when he was playing
0:06:48 > 0:06:51against Australia in the '75-'76 series?
0:06:51 > 0:06:53Lance Gibbs.
0:06:53 > 0:06:55Is correct. You had just one pass.
0:06:55 > 0:06:59In that Lord's match in 1963, it was Wes Hall,
0:06:59 > 0:07:00Sir Wesley Hall, eventually,
0:07:00 > 0:07:04who bowled the ball that broke Colin Cowdrey's arm.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06Just that one pass. You have scored 10 points.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08APPLAUSE
0:07:16 > 0:07:19And our next contender, please.
0:07:32 > 0:07:35Howard Hawks films in two minutes. Here we go.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37Hawks was an American director, producer and screenwriter.
0:07:37 > 0:07:41His 1948 film A Song Is Born was a reworking of an earlier film
0:07:41 > 0:07:44starring Gary Cooper, also directed by Hawks. What was it called?
0:07:44 > 0:07:45Ball Of Fire.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47Hawks studied for a degree in mechanical engineering
0:07:47 > 0:07:50before serving in the US Army Air Corps during the First World War.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52At which university did he study?
0:07:52 > 0:07:53Cornell.
0:07:53 > 0:07:56One of Hawks' unrealised projects was a biographical film
0:07:56 > 0:07:58about the friendship during the Second World War
0:07:58 > 0:08:00between Ernest Hemingway and a war photographer.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02What was the photographer's name?
0:08:03 > 0:08:05Robert...Capca?
0:08:05 > 0:08:06Capa.
0:08:06 > 0:08:10For which 1941 film did Hawks receive his only Oscar nomination for Best Director,
0:08:10 > 0:08:11though he didn't actually win the award?
0:08:11 > 0:08:13Sergeant York.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16Which pioneering film director did Hawks observe while working as a props man?
0:08:16 > 0:08:20He said that he learned an awful lot from him by doing the exact opposite.
0:08:20 > 0:08:21Cecil B DeMille.
0:08:21 > 0:08:25As a young man, Hawks had a holiday job at the Famous Players-Lasky studio,
0:08:25 > 0:08:28and said that he'd made his directorial debut on a 1917 film
0:08:28 > 0:08:32starring Mary Pickford when the director got drunk. What was the film?
0:08:32 > 0:08:33The Little Princess.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35To Have And Have Not had two writers working on the script
0:08:35 > 0:08:37who went on to become Nobel Prize winners.
0:08:37 > 0:08:39Hemingway was one. Who was the other?
0:08:39 > 0:08:41- William Faulkner. - In the closing scene of Scarface,
0:08:41 > 0:08:44the gangster Tony Camonte is shot in the street
0:08:44 > 0:08:47and dies near a sign advertising Cook's Tours.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49What slogan does the sign display?
0:08:49 > 0:08:50"The World Is Yours."
0:08:50 > 0:08:53Hawks' first wife was the sister of the Hollywood star Norma Shearer.
0:08:53 > 0:08:54What was her name?
0:08:54 > 0:08:56Athole Shearer.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58Who presented Hawks with his honorary award
0:08:58 > 0:09:00at the Oscar ceremony in 1975?
0:09:00 > 0:09:01John Wayne.
0:09:01 > 0:09:05What is the name of the natural history museum in Bringing Up Baby
0:09:05 > 0:09:09where the scientist Dr David Huxley is assembling a dinosaur skeleton?
0:09:09 > 0:09:11Pass.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14What is the title of the '67 BBC Television documentary about Hawks
0:09:14 > 0:09:17in which Peter Bogdanovich interviews the director?
0:09:17 > 0:09:19Er...Hawks On Film?
0:09:19 > 0:09:21No, Hawks: The Great Professional.
0:09:21 > 0:09:25In His Girl Friday, in what object does the reporter Hildy Johnson
0:09:25 > 0:09:28hide the escaped murderer Earl Williams from the police
0:09:28 > 0:09:29so she can get an exclusive interview?
0:09:29 > 0:09:32- In a cabinet, a desk. - Yes, a desk, a roll-top desk.
0:09:32 > 0:09:35Hawks based his 1948 Western Red River on a story by Borden Chase.
0:09:35 > 0:09:37- BEEP - What was the title of the story?
0:09:37 > 0:09:39Break Of Dawn.
0:09:39 > 0:09:40It was The Chisholm Trail.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44One pass. The name of that natural history museum
0:09:44 > 0:09:46in Bringing Up Baby was the Stuyvesant.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48You have scored 10 points.
0:09:48 > 0:09:52APPLAUSE
0:09:57 > 0:09:59And our final contender, please.
0:10:12 > 0:10:14The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in two minutes.
0:10:14 > 0:10:16The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
0:10:16 > 0:10:18was founded in Gower Street in London in September 1848
0:10:18 > 0:10:20at the family home of which artists?
0:10:20 > 0:10:22The Rossettis.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25The Millaises. What was the name of the model for Millais' painting Ophelia?
0:10:25 > 0:10:28She later married Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
0:10:28 > 0:10:29Lizzie Siddal.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31William Michael Rossetti, brother of Dante Gabriel,
0:10:31 > 0:10:34edited and contributed to a journal of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
0:10:34 > 0:10:37which had just four issues published in 1850. Which journal?
0:10:37 > 0:10:38The Germ.
0:10:38 > 0:10:41Millais' painting Christ In The House Of His Parents provoked
0:10:41 > 0:10:44a storm of criticism. Who denounced it in the publication Household Words
0:10:44 > 0:10:46as "mean, odious, repulsive and revolting"?
0:10:46 > 0:10:47Charles Dickens.
0:10:47 > 0:10:51In 1857, Rossetti organised artists including Edward Burne-Jones
0:10:51 > 0:10:54and William Morris to paint frescoes at the newly constructed
0:10:54 > 0:10:56Oxford Union library and debating hall,
0:10:56 > 0:10:59largely based on scenes from a work by Malory. Which one?
0:10:59 > 0:11:00Morte d'Arthur.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02To which work was Ford Maddox Brown referring
0:11:02 > 0:11:04when he wrote to William Holman Hunt -
0:11:04 > 0:11:08"your picture seems to me without fault and beautiful in its minutest detail"?
0:11:08 > 0:11:09Our English Coasts.
0:11:09 > 0:11:10Valentine Rescuing Sylvia.
0:11:10 > 0:11:13In 1855, Millais married Effie Grey, the former wife
0:11:13 > 0:11:17of a well-known art critic and Pre-Raphaelite supporter. Who was he?
0:11:17 > 0:11:21- John Ruskin.- What derogatory nickname did the Brotherhood coin for Joshua Reynolds,
0:11:21 > 0:11:23the first president of the Royal Academy?
0:11:23 > 0:11:24Sir Sloshua Reynolds.
0:11:24 > 0:11:27The writer and historian FG Stephens, an original Brotherhood member,
0:11:27 > 0:11:30modelled for a Millais painting of 1849 based on a scene from The Tempest.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32What was the title?
0:11:32 > 0:11:33Prospero Lured By Ariel.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35Ferdinand Lured By Ariel.
0:11:35 > 0:11:37The final version of Hunt's The Lady Of Shalott was completed with
0:11:37 > 0:11:40the help of an assistant because Hunt was losing his sight. Who was he?
0:11:40 > 0:11:42Pass.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45Who was inspired by Millais' landscape The Woodman's Daughter
0:11:45 > 0:11:47to write a poem of the same name?
0:11:47 > 0:11:48Pass.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51Which painting, begun in 1854, was Holman Hunt's major project
0:11:51 > 0:11:53during his time in the Holy Land,
0:11:53 > 0:11:56and partly represents a passage from St Luke, Chapter 2?
0:11:56 > 0:11:58Christ In The House Of His Father.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00No, The Finding Of The Saviour In The Temple.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03Which member of the Brotherhood emigrated to Australia in 1852
0:12:03 > 0:12:06to seek a living from gold mining? His departure inspired the painting
0:12:06 > 0:12:08The Last Of England by Ford Maddox Brown.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11- Thomas Wallner. - By what alternative title
0:12:11 > 0:12:13is Holman Hunt's painting Our English Coasts widely known?
0:12:13 > 0:12:14Strayed Sheep.
0:12:14 > 0:12:17- For which work... - BEEP - I've started, so I'll finish.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20..modelled by Jane Morris and commissioned by photographer Clarence Fry
0:12:20 > 0:12:24did Rossetti get his largest reputed payment of just over £2,000?
0:12:25 > 0:12:26Persephone.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28Astarte Syriaca.
0:12:28 > 0:12:30You had two passes, John.
0:12:30 > 0:12:33It was Coventry Patmore who was inspired by the Millais landscape
0:12:33 > 0:12:35to write a poem of the same name.
0:12:35 > 0:12:40And Edward Hughes completed The Lady Of Shalott.
0:12:40 > 0:12:42You have, John, 8 points.
0:12:42 > 0:12:44APPLAUSE
0:12:52 > 0:12:57So, a nice, close round there. Let's have a look at all the scores.
0:12:57 > 0:13:00In fourth place, 8 points, John Carrington.
0:13:00 > 0:13:02Joint second place, ten points apiece,
0:13:02 > 0:13:04Martin Roebuck and Neil Madle.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07First place, 11 points, Hazel Humphreys.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10APPLAUSE
0:13:12 > 0:13:16So, it is, of course, the general knowledge around now,
0:13:16 > 0:13:17and if there is a tie at the end of it,
0:13:17 > 0:13:20then the number of passes is taken into account,
0:13:20 > 0:13:22and the person with the fewer passes is the winner,
0:13:22 > 0:13:25and if they're tied on passes as well, there will be a tie-breaker.
0:13:25 > 0:13:29The six highest-scoring runners-up will also be able to claim
0:13:29 > 0:13:32a place in the semifinal. So, lots to play for. Let's get on with it.
0:13:32 > 0:13:36I ask John to join us again, please, and you start out with 8 points,
0:13:36 > 0:13:39and you now get two and a half minutes
0:13:39 > 0:13:42of general knowledge questions.
0:13:42 > 0:13:44Let's see how you do. Here we go.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47At the National Television Awards in January 2014,
0:13:47 > 0:13:49the Entertainment Presenter category is won
0:13:49 > 0:13:51for the 13th time in succession by which duo?
0:13:51 > 0:13:53Ant and Dec.
0:13:53 > 0:13:56The name of which central American republic means "rich coast" in Spanish?
0:13:56 > 0:13:57Costa Rica.
0:13:57 > 0:14:00What is the common name for the species of native British trees
0:14:00 > 0:14:04that have been attacked by the fungus originally described as chalara fraxinea?
0:14:04 > 0:14:05Pass.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08Which composer's works were catalogued by Otto Erich Deutsch
0:14:08 > 0:14:11and are identified by D numbers?
0:14:11 > 0:14:12Beethoven.
0:14:12 > 0:14:15Schubert. What name is given to the shock wave generated by an aircraft
0:14:15 > 0:14:17travelling at or faster than the speed of sound?
0:14:17 > 0:14:19It's heard on the ground like a clap of thunder.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21Sonic boom.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23"Gueule de bois", meaning "wooden mouth",
0:14:23 > 0:14:26is a French slang expression for which condition
0:14:26 > 0:14:28resulting from overindulgence in alcohol?
0:14:28 > 0:14:29Gout.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32Hangover. "Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life
0:14:32 > 0:14:36"or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."
0:14:36 > 0:14:39That's the opening line of which Dickens novel?
0:14:39 > 0:14:40David Copperfield.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42Under what name did the R&B singer Mark Andrews,
0:14:42 > 0:14:47born in Baltimore in 1978, have his biggest UK hit with Thong Song,
0:14:47 > 0:14:50which reached number 3 in 2000?
0:14:50 > 0:14:51Sisqo.
0:14:51 > 0:14:55What long distance footpath, officially opened in 1980, around 95 miles in length,
0:14:55 > 0:15:00runs from Milngavie near Glasgow to the foot of Ben Nevis at Fort William?
0:15:00 > 0:15:01The Highland Way.
0:15:01 > 0:15:03Yes, the West Highland Way.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06What term associated with the work of Jackson Pollock
0:15:06 > 0:15:08was coined in 1952 by Harold Rosenberg
0:15:08 > 0:15:11to describe the process of creating dynamic, spontaneous art
0:15:11 > 0:15:15by energetically splashing or dripping paint across a canvas?
0:15:15 > 0:15:16Abstract expressionism?
0:15:16 > 0:15:18Action painting. In an essay of 1756,
0:15:18 > 0:15:21which French writer described the Holy Roman Empire
0:15:21 > 0:15:23as "neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire"?
0:15:23 > 0:15:24Edward Gibbon.
0:15:24 > 0:15:27It was Voltaire. Which country was expelled from the Cominform group
0:15:27 > 0:15:29of Communist nations in June 1948
0:15:29 > 0:15:31for failing to adhere to Soviet policies,
0:15:31 > 0:15:34especially with regard to the Greek Civil War?
0:15:34 > 0:15:35Yugoslavia.
0:15:35 > 0:15:38Which former journalist chronicled Bridget Jones' endless battles
0:15:38 > 0:15:41with calories and cigarettes in the bestselling novel Bridget Jones' Diary?
0:15:41 > 0:15:42Helen Fielding.
0:15:42 > 0:15:46What is the name of the pea-sized gland at the base of the brain
0:15:46 > 0:15:49that controls the release of hormones from the body's endocrine system?
0:15:49 > 0:15:50Pituitary.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53Which 20th century American president's middle name was Milhous,
0:15:53 > 0:15:55the maiden name of his mother Hannah?
0:15:55 > 0:15:57Richard Nixon.
0:15:57 > 0:16:00Which violinist represented Thailand, the birthplace of her father,
0:16:00 > 0:16:03in the giant slalom at the 2014 Winter Olympics?
0:16:03 > 0:16:04Vanessa-Mae.
0:16:04 > 0:16:06What word for a strong regional accent or dialect
0:16:06 > 0:16:10is particularly applied to the Irish pronunciation of English?
0:16:10 > 0:16:11Brogue.
0:16:11 > 0:16:14Which small jet aircraft share their name with a Shakespearean king
0:16:14 > 0:16:16and are named after the American industrialist..
0:16:16 > 0:16:18- BEEP - ..who founded the company that makes them?
0:16:18 > 0:16:19Lear.
0:16:19 > 0:16:20Yes, the Learjet.
0:16:20 > 0:16:24One pass. That common name for the species of British tree
0:16:24 > 0:16:27being attacked by that nasty fungus is the ash.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29John, you have shot up to a total of 21 points.
0:16:39 > 0:16:41And now Martin again, please.
0:16:47 > 0:16:51And you start out with 10 points. 21 is the score to beat,
0:16:51 > 0:16:54Tow and a half minutes to do it in. Here we go.
0:16:54 > 0:16:57What has the Gideons International organisation
0:16:57 > 0:16:59of Christian businessmen been responsible for
0:16:59 > 0:17:01placing in hotel rooms since 1908?
0:17:01 > 0:17:02- Bibles.- The River Spree,
0:17:02 > 0:17:05which rises on the borders of Bohemia and Saxony
0:17:05 > 0:17:08runs through the centre of which European capital city?
0:17:08 > 0:17:14- Berlin.- What dish is known as huevos revueltos in Spanish
0:17:14 > 0:17:17and oeufs brouilles in French?
0:17:17 > 0:17:21- Scrambled egg.- Which Catalan architect died in June 1926
0:17:21 > 0:17:25after he was run over by a tram in his native Barcelona,
0:17:25 > 0:17:27leaving his best-known work unfinished?
0:17:27 > 0:17:31- Gaudi.- The four peaks over 3,000ft in the Lake District
0:17:31 > 0:17:34are Scafell Pike, Scafell, Skiddaw and what other mountain?
0:17:34 > 0:17:37- Helvellyn.- Which Serbian-American inventor
0:17:37 > 0:17:40was a pioneer of alternating current electrical systems?
0:17:40 > 0:17:43In 1891, he invented an induction coil
0:17:43 > 0:17:46that's still used in radio and television technology.
0:17:46 > 0:17:49- Tesla.- "Out on the wily, windy moors
0:17:49 > 0:17:53"we'd roll and fall in green" are the opening lines
0:17:53 > 0:17:55from which number one single of 1978?
0:17:55 > 0:17:57- Wuthering Heights. - Vultur gryphus,
0:17:57 > 0:17:59a bird native to South America
0:17:59 > 0:18:02with a wingspan reaching 10 and a half feet
0:18:02 > 0:18:03is better known by what name?
0:18:03 > 0:18:06- Condor.- In which of Agatha Christie's Poirot novels
0:18:06 > 0:18:10is the narrator revealed as the murderer of the title character?
0:18:10 > 0:18:13- Pass. - Whose tone poem Finlandia
0:18:13 > 0:18:15became the symbol of Finnish national aspirations?
0:18:15 > 0:18:18- Sibelius.- What word for an unfilled space,
0:18:18 > 0:18:20applied, for example,
0:18:20 > 0:18:22to a missing portion in a book or manuscript,
0:18:22 > 0:18:25comes from the Latin for a pit or hole?
0:18:25 > 0:18:27- Tabula rasa.- Lacuna.
0:18:27 > 0:18:30Which playwright's 2005 autobiography, Untold Stories,
0:18:30 > 0:18:33includes an account of his childhood in Leeds?
0:18:33 > 0:18:36- Wesker.- Bennett. Which film,
0:18:36 > 0:18:38directed by the Turner-Prize-winning
0:18:38 > 0:18:42artist Steve McQueen won the Best Picture Oscar in 2014?
0:18:44 > 0:18:46- Pass.- What portmanteau word,
0:18:46 > 0:18:48a counterpart to the more familiar Oxbridge,
0:18:48 > 0:18:51has been used by writers, including Arthur Conan Doyle
0:18:51 > 0:18:53and William Thackeray, as the name of a fictional
0:18:53 > 0:18:55ancient university city?
0:18:57 > 0:19:00- Pass.- Which country's parliament consists of
0:19:00 > 0:19:03the lower Lok Sabha, or House of the People,
0:19:03 > 0:19:06and upper Rajya Sabha, or Council of the States?
0:19:06 > 0:19:09- Finland.- India. Robin Day was the first presenter
0:19:09 > 0:19:12of a current affairs TV programme
0:19:12 > 0:19:13first broadcast in 1979
0:19:13 > 0:19:15in which the audience puts up subjects for debate
0:19:15 > 0:19:18by panellists from politics and the media. What programme?
0:19:18 > 0:19:21- Question Time.- In which country is the city of Gori,
0:19:21 > 0:19:25where Joseph Stalin was born in December 1879?
0:19:25 > 0:19:26BEEP
0:19:26 > 0:19:29Go on, pick a country.
0:19:31 > 0:19:36- Ukraine.- No. You were not far away from it, but Georgia.
0:19:36 > 0:19:40You had three passes, and one of them was that portmanteau word,
0:19:40 > 0:19:44familiar with Oxbridge, but, in this case, Camford.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47Oxford and Cambridge - Camford. There you go.
0:19:47 > 0:19:5112 Years A Slave was the film directed by Steve McQueen,
0:19:51 > 0:19:53and that Agatha Christie Poirot novel was
0:19:53 > 0:19:56The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd.
0:19:56 > 0:20:00You now have a total, Martin, of 20 points.
0:20:09 > 0:20:11And now Neil again, please.
0:20:11 > 0:20:15And you also start out with 10 points.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17Still, 21 the score to beat. Here we go.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19Two and a half minutes of general knowledge.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21The prefix "kilo", as in kilogram,
0:20:21 > 0:20:24denotes a multiplication of how many times
0:20:24 > 0:20:26the unit of measurement that follows it?
0:20:26 > 0:20:29- 1,000.- Whose haunting dark-blue painting The Old Guitarist,
0:20:29 > 0:20:32showing an old, haggard man playing a guitar,
0:20:32 > 0:20:33was completed in 1903,
0:20:33 > 0:20:35while the artist was living in Barcelona?
0:20:35 > 0:20:37- Van Gogh.- Picasso.
0:20:37 > 0:20:39Who played Queen Elizabeth I in Blackadder II,
0:20:39 > 0:20:42Amy Hardwood, the elusive Shadow in Blackadder II,
0:20:42 > 0:20:45and Nurse Mary in Blackadder Goes Forth?
0:20:45 > 0:20:48- Miranda Richardson. - In which European city
0:20:48 > 0:20:50is the seat of the International Criminal Court?
0:20:50 > 0:20:53- The Hague.- What is the name of the Church of England clergyman
0:20:53 > 0:20:56who founded the Methodist movement with his brother Charles?
0:20:56 > 0:20:59- John Wesley.- Which American writer's historical novels
0:20:59 > 0:21:03include Julian, a depiction of the life of the 4th-century
0:21:03 > 0:21:05Roman Emperor, Julian the Apostate,
0:21:05 > 0:21:07and Lincoln, about the 16th President of America?
0:21:07 > 0:21:10- Pass.- What word for a trite or overused phrase
0:21:10 > 0:21:13or expression comes from the past participle
0:21:13 > 0:21:15of the French verb meaning to stereotype?
0:21:15 > 0:21:18- Pass.- In which country did the officially supported
0:21:18 > 0:21:21uprising of peasants, known as the Boxer Rebellion,
0:21:21 > 0:21:22take place in 1900?
0:21:22 > 0:21:25It was designed to drive all foreigners from the country.
0:21:25 > 0:21:27- China. - Which of Wagner's operas
0:21:27 > 0:21:29is based on the story of the Holy Grail?
0:21:29 > 0:21:31- Lohengrin.- Parsifal.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33What word, widely used in British India
0:21:33 > 0:21:35for a light lunch, is thought to come from
0:21:35 > 0:21:38a regional or slang term meaning to eat between mealtimes?
0:21:38 > 0:21:42- Tiffin.- In 1983, Yamoussoukro officially replaced Abidjan
0:21:42 > 0:21:45as the capital of which West African country,
0:21:45 > 0:21:48although Abidjan remains its commercial and financial centre?
0:21:48 > 0:21:51- Ivory Coast.- Which common bird of the crow family
0:21:51 > 0:21:54has the scientific name Pica pica?
0:21:54 > 0:21:57- Raven.- Magpie. In football, which East Anglian club
0:21:57 > 0:22:00did both Sir Alf Ramsey and Bobby Robson manage
0:22:00 > 0:22:02prior to their taking up the England post?
0:22:02 > 0:22:05- Ipswich.- What name, from the Latin for fog or mist,
0:22:05 > 0:22:07is given to a cloud of interstellar gas or dust,
0:22:07 > 0:22:11some types of which are visible as a misty patch of light?
0:22:11 > 0:22:14- Pass.- Who became the first female presenter
0:22:14 > 0:22:17of ITN's News At Ten in 1978?
0:22:17 > 0:22:19She went on to present the BBC's Six O'Clock News
0:22:19 > 0:22:22and the One O'Clock News before retiring in 2006?
0:22:22 > 0:22:25- Anna Ford.- In which Jane Austen novel does Louisa,
0:22:25 > 0:22:27one of Mr Charles Musgrove's daughters,
0:22:27 > 0:22:29fall on The Cobb at Lyme Regis?
0:22:29 > 0:22:32- Persuasion.- Which country gained its independence
0:22:32 > 0:22:35from Denmark in 1944? The event is celebrated
0:22:35 > 0:22:38with an annual holiday on 17th June.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41- Greenland.- Iceland. Under what name did the comedy actor
0:22:41 > 0:22:44Graham Fellows, also known as John Shuttleworth,
0:22:44 > 0:22:47have a UK top ten novelty hit in 1978?
0:22:47 > 0:22:49- Jasper Carrott.- Jilted John.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51Which river in southwest England...
0:22:51 > 0:22:52BEEP
0:22:52 > 0:22:54..is spanned by Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge,
0:22:54 > 0:22:56completed in 1859?
0:22:56 > 0:22:59- Avon.- No, the Tamar.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01You have three passes.
0:23:01 > 0:23:05Nebula is the name that comes from the Latin for fog or mist.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07Cliche.
0:23:07 > 0:23:08I know!
0:23:08 > 0:23:12And Gore Vidal wrote Julian and Lincoln.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15Neil, you have a total of 20 points.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26And finally, Hazel again, please.
0:23:26 > 0:23:29You start out with 11 points.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32And still, 21 is the score to beat.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35So, here we go. Two and a half minutes of general knowledge
0:23:35 > 0:23:38starting now. Which novel by Daniel Defoe
0:23:38 > 0:23:41was inspired by the story of Alexander Selkirk,
0:23:41 > 0:23:44a Scottish sailor put ashore on an uninhabited island in 1704?
0:23:44 > 0:23:47- Robinson Crusoe.- What position was held by Rudy Giuliani
0:23:47 > 0:23:51at the time of the attacks on the World Trade Center?
0:23:51 > 0:23:52In 2002, he received
0:23:52 > 0:23:54an honorary knighthood from the Queen.
0:23:54 > 0:23:57- Mayor of New York.- The start of which classic cycle race
0:23:57 > 0:23:58is known as the Grand Depart?
0:23:58 > 0:24:01- Tour de France.- Which flavouring, often used in ice cream,
0:24:01 > 0:24:04comes from the dried pods of a member of the orchid family,
0:24:04 > 0:24:07most commonly sourced from the islands of Madagascar, The Comoros and Reunion?
0:24:07 > 0:24:09- Vanilla.- What common word for an invited visitor
0:24:09 > 0:24:13has its roots in the Latin for enemy or stranger?
0:24:13 > 0:24:16- Pass.- How is the seamstress, whose real name is Lucia,
0:24:16 > 0:24:18better known in Puccini's opera La Boheme?
0:24:18 > 0:24:20- Mimi.- What flood protection installation
0:24:20 > 0:24:22that extends from Silvertown at its northern end
0:24:22 > 0:24:25to New Charlton at its southern end
0:24:25 > 0:24:27has been in operation since 1982?
0:24:27 > 0:24:29- The Thames Barrier.- Which controversial pair
0:24:29 > 0:24:33of conceptual artists, known publicly only by their first names,
0:24:33 > 0:24:35have the surnames Proesch and Passmore?
0:24:35 > 0:24:37- Gilbert and George.- An ancient Chinese board game,
0:24:37 > 0:24:40whose complexity has been compared to chess,
0:24:40 > 0:24:42is known in the West as by what two-letter Japanese name?
0:24:42 > 0:24:45- Mah jong.- Go. Across Asia On The Cheap,
0:24:45 > 0:24:47written by Tony and Maureen Wheeler
0:24:47 > 0:24:49at their kitchen table in 1973,
0:24:49 > 0:24:52was the first of a series of guidebooks. What series?
0:24:52 > 0:24:56- Lonely Planet.- Which TV series stars Adrian Dunbar,
0:24:56 > 0:24:59Martin Compston and Vicky McClure
0:24:59 > 0:25:01as members of AC-12, the police anti-corruption unit?
0:25:01 > 0:25:04- Pass.- By what name are the riders of
0:25:04 > 0:25:06the white, red, black and pale horses
0:25:06 > 0:25:08in the Book of Revelation collectively known?
0:25:08 > 0:25:12- The Horsemen of the Apocalypse.- Which 1985 Oscar-winning film,
0:25:12 > 0:25:14starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford,
0:25:14 > 0:25:17features Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A Minor?
0:25:17 > 0:25:20- Out Of Africa. - What type of computer games,
0:25:20 > 0:25:23often multiplayer with a fantasy or science-fiction theme,
0:25:23 > 0:25:26are signified by the letters RPG?
0:25:26 > 0:25:29- Role-player game. - What name for the radical
0:25:29 > 0:25:311970s German terrorist organisation,
0:25:31 > 0:25:33the Red Army Faction,
0:25:33 > 0:25:36was taken from the surnames of two of its leaders?
0:25:36 > 0:25:38- Baader-Meinhof Gang.- Which creatures, normally considered
0:25:38 > 0:25:41a pest to humans, live in a nest called a vespiary?
0:25:41 > 0:25:44- Wasps.- In distilling, what name is given to the whisky
0:25:44 > 0:25:47that is lost to evaporation as it matures?
0:25:47 > 0:25:49- The angels' share. - Who reached number one
0:25:49 > 0:25:50in the UK charts in 1990
0:25:50 > 0:25:53with Nothing Compares To You, written by Prince?
0:25:53 > 0:25:55- Sinead O'Connor. - Which American artist painted
0:25:55 > 0:25:57the 1942 work Nighthawks, a famous depiction
0:25:57 > 0:26:00of lonely-looking customers in an all-night diner?
0:26:00 > 0:26:02- Edward Hopper. - Which African country is
0:26:02 > 0:26:05one of the so-called Mint Group of emerging economic giants,
0:26:05 > 0:26:08- whose other members include... - BEEP
0:26:08 > 0:26:09..Mexico, Indonesia and Turkey?
0:26:09 > 0:26:12- Nigeria.- Is correct. Two passes.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15That TV series was Line Of Duty,
0:26:15 > 0:26:19and - this is a funny one - that common word for uninvited visitor,
0:26:19 > 0:26:24roots in the Latin for enemy or stranger, is guest, oddly enough.
0:26:24 > 0:26:27But it didn't matter a jot because, Hazel,
0:26:27 > 0:26:30you have a total of 28 points.
0:26:40 > 0:26:43Well, didn't she romp away with that? Let's look at the scores.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46In joint third place, 20 points apiece,
0:26:46 > 0:26:48Martin Roebuck and Neil Madle,
0:26:48 > 0:26:51second place, 21 points, John Carrington,
0:26:51 > 0:26:55first place, an undisputed lead, 28 points, Hazel Humphreys.
0:27:07 > 0:27:11Which means, of course, that Hazel is tonight's winner
0:27:11 > 0:27:15and she goes through to the semifinals. Congratulations to her.
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