Episode 7 Mastermind

First in the spotlight tonight is Hazel Humphreys,

a data analyst from Colchester.

Her subject is the late, great Les Dawson.

Next, Martin Roebuck, a journalist from Croydon.

His subject, West Indies cricket.

Neil Madle is an investor relations director from Chippenham,

and he'll be answering questions on the life and films of Howard Hawks.

And John Carrington, a website manager from London.

His subject, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

APPLAUSE

Hello, and welcome to Mastermind, with me, John Humphrys.

Tonight, as ever, four contenders face two rounds of questions

under the unrelenting pressure of the clock -

two minutes on their specialist subject,

and two and a half minutes on general knowledge.

The winner will take a step closer to owning this fine glass bowl

and, more importantly,

even the coveted title of the nation's Mastermind.

So, let's get on with it,

and ask our first contender to join us, please.

Les Dawson, in two minutes.

What was the title of the comedy variety show starring Dawson that

was launched by Yorkshire Television in 1969 and ran for 11 series?

Sez Les.

Dawson said he found his voice as a comedian during a performance

at a venue he described as "a renovated fish crate".

In which city was it?

-Hull.

-During his breakthrough appearance on Opportunity Knocks,

Dawson recalled asking his mother to sing him a lullaby.

What did she tell him to hold while she fetched her banjo?

-Her beer.

-In his autobiography,

Dawson describes marriage as being "the only union without..."?

-Pass.

-Which long-running quiz show did Dawson host from 1984 till 1990 -

during his first show, he said that he felt

"as comfortable as a lame turkey sitting on a pile of Paxo,

"listening to Christmas carols"?

-Blankety Blank.

-In his biography,

Dawson recalls buying a greyhound with a friend, and said that,

"I wouldn't say it was slow, but on its first race,

"the hare bit its leg." What was the name of the dog?

-Pass.

-Dawson was a regular panellist on a show hosted by the future

Sez Les writer Barry Cryer from July 1969.

He became well known for his rambling, surreal monologues. What show?

Jokers Wild.

In his autobiography, Dawson says that

when he was in rehearsals for a pantomime with John Nettles,

the church hall they were using was so old the woodworm spoke...?

Latin.

Dawson once claimed that he took his wife everywhere

because it saved doing what?

Having to kiss her goodbye.

According to Dawson's autobiography,

what was the name of the singer whose absence

from an episode of The Max Wall Show almost gave Dawson his big break,

until the singer announced that he would still perform?

Edward Hockridge.

Yes, EDMUND Hockridge.

In which BBC Two political satire of 1991 did Dawson appear

alongside Jane Horrocks, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent

as a 100-year-old Argentinian grandmother?

La Nona.

During a performance at the Royal Variety Show,

Dawson claimed he should have been on tour with Madonna

in a revival of The King And I,

but the show was cancelled because the singer wouldn't do what?

Get her head shaved.

What was the name of the troupe of dancers led by the Blackpool artist

Mo Moreland that was assembled by Dawson and the producer Ernest Maxin...

BEEP

..for Dawson's 1983 BBC series?

The Roly Polys.

Roly Polys is correct.

Two passes. Two more truly terrible jokes.

In that biography, he bought a greyhound with a friend and said,

"I wouldn't say it was slow, but on the first race, the hare bit its leg."

The name of it was Flash.

And he also said marriage was the only union without a shop steward.

LAUGHTER

So there. You either like them or you don't!

Hazel, you've scored 11 points.

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And our next contender, please.

West Indies cricket in two minutes.

On which ground did the West Indies play their first test match in June 1928?

They lost to England by an innings and 58 runs.

Lord's.

Whose nicknames have included Smokin' Joe and Master Blaster?

He was voted one of Wisden's five cricketers of the century in 2000.

Viv Richards.

In 1976, Michael Holding created a new test record

for a West Indies player in a test match at The Oval.

How many wickets did he take?

14.

When Brian Lara scored 375 at Antigua in 1994

to take the record for the highest test innings,

which fellow West Indian's record did he beat?

Sobers.

Which test player of the 1930s

also played for the Lancashire league club Nelson? He later became

High Commissioner for Trinidad and Tobago in London and a life peer.

Learie Constantine.

At which ground did Curtly Ambrose take seven wickets for one run

against Australia, and help secure the 1992-3 series?

Perth.

The 3Ws is the name given to three great West Indies players

of the 1950s, all from Barbados and born within two years of each other.

Frank Worrell, Clyde Walcott and...?

Everton Weekes.

In the Lord's test match of June 1963,

who bowled the ball that broke Colin Cowdrey's arm?

He went on to bowl the last over, which resulted in a drawn match.

Pass.

Against which country did the West Indies tie a test match in 1960,

the first tied match in test cricket history?

Australia.

In the Edgbaston test in 1957, Sonny Ramadhin set a new record

by bowling 588 balls in how many overs in the second innings?

90 overs.

In February 1972, who scored a double century

and a century on his test debut against New Zealand?

Greenidge.

Lawrence Rowe. In 1973, the spin bowler Elquemedo Willett

became the first native of which of the Leeward Islands

to make his test debut for the West Indies?

St Vincent.

No, Nevis.

-Who passed Fred Trueman's record...

-BEEP

..of 307 test wickets when he was playing

against Australia in the '75-'76 series?

Lance Gibbs.

Is correct. You had just one pass.

In that Lord's match in 1963, it was Wes Hall,

Sir Wesley Hall, eventually,

who bowled the ball that broke Colin Cowdrey's arm.

Just that one pass. You have scored 10 points.

APPLAUSE

And our next contender, please.

Howard Hawks films in two minutes. Here we go.

Hawks was an American director, producer and screenwriter.

His 1948 film A Song Is Born was a reworking of an earlier film

starring Gary Cooper, also directed by Hawks. What was it called?

Ball Of Fire.

Hawks studied for a degree in mechanical engineering

before serving in the US Army Air Corps during the First World War.

At which university did he study?

Cornell.

One of Hawks' unrealised projects was a biographical film

about the friendship during the Second World War

between Ernest Hemingway and a war photographer.

What was the photographer's name?

Robert...Capca?

Capa.

For which 1941 film did Hawks receive his only Oscar nomination for Best Director,

though he didn't actually win the award?

Sergeant York.

Which pioneering film director did Hawks observe while working as a props man?

He said that he learned an awful lot from him by doing the exact opposite.

Cecil B DeMille.

As a young man, Hawks had a holiday job at the Famous Players-Lasky studio,

and said that he'd made his directorial debut on a 1917 film

starring Mary Pickford when the director got drunk. What was the film?

The Little Princess.

To Have And Have Not had two writers working on the script

who went on to become Nobel Prize winners.

Hemingway was one. Who was the other?

-William Faulkner.

-In the closing scene of Scarface,

the gangster Tony Camonte is shot in the street

and dies near a sign advertising Cook's Tours.

What slogan does the sign display?

"The World Is Yours."

Hawks' first wife was the sister of the Hollywood star Norma Shearer.

What was her name?

Athole Shearer.

Who presented Hawks with his honorary award

at the Oscar ceremony in 1975?

John Wayne.

What is the name of the natural history museum in Bringing Up Baby

where the scientist Dr David Huxley is assembling a dinosaur skeleton?

Pass.

What is the title of the '67 BBC Television documentary about Hawks

in which Peter Bogdanovich interviews the director?

Er...Hawks On Film?

No, Hawks: The Great Professional.

In His Girl Friday, in what object does the reporter Hildy Johnson

hide the escaped murderer Earl Williams from the police

so she can get an exclusive interview?

-In a cabinet, a desk.

-Yes, a desk, a roll-top desk.

Hawks based his 1948 Western Red River on a story by Borden Chase.

-BEEP

-What was the title of the story?

Break Of Dawn.

It was The Chisholm Trail.

One pass. The name of that natural history museum

in Bringing Up Baby was the Stuyvesant.

You have scored 10 points.

APPLAUSE

And our final contender, please.

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in two minutes.

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

was founded in Gower Street in London in September 1848

at the family home of which artists?

The Rossettis.

The Millaises. What was the name of the model for Millais' painting Ophelia?

She later married Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Lizzie Siddal.

William Michael Rossetti, brother of Dante Gabriel,

edited and contributed to a journal of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

which had just four issues published in 1850. Which journal?

The Germ.

Millais' painting Christ In The House Of His Parents provoked

a storm of criticism. Who denounced it in the publication Household Words

as "mean, odious, repulsive and revolting"?

Charles Dickens.

In 1857, Rossetti organised artists including Edward Burne-Jones

and William Morris to paint frescoes at the newly constructed

Oxford Union library and debating hall,

largely based on scenes from a work by Malory. Which one?

Morte d'Arthur.

To which work was Ford Maddox Brown referring

when he wrote to William Holman Hunt -

"your picture seems to me without fault and beautiful in its minutest detail"?

Our English Coasts.

Valentine Rescuing Sylvia.

In 1855, Millais married Effie Grey, the former wife

of a well-known art critic and Pre-Raphaelite supporter. Who was he?

-John Ruskin.

-What derogatory nickname did the Brotherhood coin for Joshua Reynolds,

the first president of the Royal Academy?

Sir Sloshua Reynolds.

The writer and historian FG Stephens, an original Brotherhood member,

modelled for a Millais painting of 1849 based on a scene from The Tempest.

What was the title?

Prospero Lured By Ariel.

Ferdinand Lured By Ariel.

The final version of Hunt's The Lady Of Shalott was completed with

the help of an assistant because Hunt was losing his sight. Who was he?

Pass.

Who was inspired by Millais' landscape The Woodman's Daughter

to write a poem of the same name?

Pass.

Which painting, begun in 1854, was Holman Hunt's major project

during his time in the Holy Land,

and partly represents a passage from St Luke, Chapter 2?

Christ In The House Of His Father.

No, The Finding Of The Saviour In The Temple.

Which member of the Brotherhood emigrated to Australia in 1852

to seek a living from gold mining? His departure inspired the painting

The Last Of England by Ford Maddox Brown.

-Thomas Wallner.

-By what alternative title

is Holman Hunt's painting Our English Coasts widely known?

Strayed Sheep.

-For which work...

-BEEP

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

..modelled by Jane Morris and commissioned by photographer Clarence Fry

did Rossetti get his largest reputed payment of just over £2,000?

Persephone.

Astarte Syriaca.

You had two passes, John.

It was Coventry Patmore who was inspired by the Millais landscape

to write a poem of the same name.

And Edward Hughes completed The Lady Of Shalott.

You have, John, 8 points.

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So, a nice, close round there. Let's have a look at all the scores.

In fourth place, 8 points, John Carrington.

Joint second place, ten points apiece,

Martin Roebuck and Neil Madle.

First place, 11 points, Hazel Humphreys.

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So, it is, of course, the general knowledge around now,

and if there is 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're tied on passes as well, there will be a tie-breaker.

The six highest-scoring runners-up will also be able to claim

a place in the semifinal. So, lots to play for. Let's get on with it.

I ask John to join us again, please, and you start out with 8 points,

and you now get two and a half minutes

of general knowledge questions.

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

At the National Television Awards in January 2014,

the Entertainment Presenter category is won

for the 13th time in succession by which duo?

Ant and Dec.

The name of which central American republic means "rich coast" in Spanish?

Costa Rica.

What is the common name for the species of native British trees

that have been attacked by the fungus originally described as chalara fraxinea?

Pass.

Which composer's works were catalogued by Otto Erich Deutsch

and are identified by D numbers?

Beethoven.

Schubert. What name is given to the shock wave generated by an aircraft

travelling at or faster than the speed of sound?

It's heard on the ground like a clap of thunder.

Sonic boom.

"Gueule de bois", meaning "wooden mouth",

is a French slang expression for which condition

resulting from overindulgence in alcohol?

Gout.

Hangover. "Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life

"or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."

That's the opening line of which Dickens novel?

David Copperfield.

Under what name did the R&B singer Mark Andrews,

born in Baltimore in 1978, have his biggest UK hit with Thong Song,

which reached number 3 in 2000?

Sisqo.

What long distance footpath, officially opened in 1980, around 95 miles in length,

runs from Milngavie near Glasgow to the foot of Ben Nevis at Fort William?

The Highland Way.

Yes, the West Highland Way.

What term associated with the work of Jackson Pollock

was coined in 1952 by Harold Rosenberg

to describe the process of creating dynamic, spontaneous art

by energetically splashing or dripping paint across a canvas?

Abstract expressionism?

Action painting. In an essay of 1756,

which French writer described the Holy Roman Empire

as "neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire"?

Edward Gibbon.

It was Voltaire. Which country was expelled from the Cominform group

of Communist nations in June 1948

for failing to adhere to Soviet policies,

especially with regard to the Greek Civil War?

Yugoslavia.

Which former journalist chronicled Bridget Jones' endless battles

with calories and cigarettes in the bestselling novel Bridget Jones' Diary?

Helen Fielding.

What is the name of the pea-sized gland at the base of the brain

that controls the release of hormones from the body's endocrine system?

Pituitary.

Which 20th century American president's middle name was Milhous,

the maiden name of his mother Hannah?

Richard Nixon.

Which violinist represented Thailand, the birthplace of her father,

in the giant slalom at the 2014 Winter Olympics?

Vanessa-Mae.

What word for a strong regional accent or dialect

is particularly applied to the Irish pronunciation of English?

Brogue.

Which small jet aircraft share their name with a Shakespearean king

and are named after the American industrialist..

-BEEP

-..who founded the company that makes them?

Lear.

Yes, the Learjet.

One pass. That common name for the species of British tree

being attacked by that nasty fungus is the ash.

John, you have shot up to a total of 21 points.

And now Martin again, please.

And you start out with 10 points. 21 is the score to beat,

Tow and a half minutes to do it in. Here we go.

What has the Gideons International organisation

of Christian businessmen been responsible for

placing in hotel rooms since 1908?

-Bibles.

-The River Spree,

which rises on the borders of Bohemia and Saxony

runs through the centre of which European capital city?

-Berlin.

-What dish is known as huevos revueltos in Spanish

and oeufs brouilles in French?

-Scrambled egg.

-Which Catalan architect died in June 1926

after he was run over by a tram in his native Barcelona,

leaving his best-known work unfinished?

-Gaudi.

-The four peaks over 3,000ft in the Lake District

are Scafell Pike, Scafell, Skiddaw and what other mountain?

-Helvellyn.

-Which Serbian-American inventor

was a pioneer of alternating current electrical systems?

In 1891, he invented an induction coil

that's still used in radio and television technology.

-Tesla.

-"Out on the wily, windy moors

"we'd roll and fall in green" are the opening lines

from which number one single of 1978?

-Wuthering Heights.

-Vultur gryphus,

a bird native to South America

with a wingspan reaching 10 and a half feet

is better known by what name?

-Condor.

-In which of Agatha Christie's Poirot novels

is the narrator revealed as the murderer of the title character?

-Pass.

-Whose tone poem Finlandia

became the symbol of Finnish national aspirations?

-Sibelius.

-What word for an unfilled space,

applied, for example,

to a missing portion in a book or manuscript,

comes from the Latin for a pit or hole?

-Tabula rasa.

-Lacuna.

Which playwright's 2005 autobiography, Untold Stories,

includes an account of his childhood in Leeds?

-Wesker.

-Bennett. Which film,

directed by the Turner-Prize-winning

artist Steve McQueen won the Best Picture Oscar in 2014?

-Pass.

-What portmanteau word,

a counterpart to the more familiar Oxbridge,

has been used by writers, including Arthur Conan Doyle

and William Thackeray, as the name of a fictional

ancient university city?

-Pass.

-Which country's parliament consists of

the lower Lok Sabha, or House of the People,

and upper Rajya Sabha, or Council of the States?

-Finland.

-India. Robin Day was the first presenter

of a current affairs TV programme

first broadcast in 1979

in which the audience puts up subjects for debate

by panellists from politics and the media. What programme?

-Question Time.

-In which country is the city of Gori,

where Joseph Stalin was born in December 1879?

BEEP

Go on, pick a country.

-Ukraine.

-No. You were not far away from it, but Georgia.

You had three passes, and one of them was that portmanteau word,

familiar with Oxbridge, but, in this case, Camford.

Oxford and Cambridge - Camford. There you go.

12 Years A Slave was the film directed by Steve McQueen,

and that Agatha Christie Poirot novel was

The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd.

You now have a total, Martin, of 20 points.

And now Neil again, please.

And you also start out with 10 points.

Still, 21 the score to beat. Here we go.

Two and a half minutes of general knowledge.

The prefix "kilo", as in kilogram,

denotes a multiplication of how many times

the unit of measurement that follows it?

-1,000.

-Whose haunting dark-blue painting The Old Guitarist,

showing an old, haggard man playing a guitar,

was completed in 1903,

while the artist was living in Barcelona?

-Van Gogh.

-Picasso.

Who played Queen Elizabeth I in Blackadder II,

Amy Hardwood, the elusive Shadow in Blackadder II,

and Nurse Mary in Blackadder Goes Forth?

-Miranda Richardson.

-In which European city

is the seat of the International Criminal Court?

-The Hague.

-What is the name of the Church of England clergyman

who founded the Methodist movement with his brother Charles?

-John Wesley.

-Which American writer's historical novels

include Julian, a depiction of the life of the 4th-century

Roman Emperor, Julian the Apostate,

and Lincoln, about the 16th President of America?

-Pass.

-What word for a trite or overused phrase

or expression comes from the past participle

of the French verb meaning to stereotype?

-Pass.

-In which country did the officially supported

uprising of peasants, known as the Boxer Rebellion,

take place in 1900?

It was designed to drive all foreigners from the country.

-China.

-Which of Wagner's operas

is based on the story of the Holy Grail?

-Lohengrin.

-Parsifal.

What word, widely used in British India

for a light lunch, is thought to come from

a regional or slang term meaning to eat between mealtimes?

-Tiffin.

-In 1983, Yamoussoukro officially replaced Abidjan

as the capital of which West African country,

although Abidjan remains its commercial and financial centre?

-Ivory Coast.

-Which common bird of the crow family

has the scientific name Pica pica?

-Raven.

-Magpie. In football, which East Anglian club

did both Sir Alf Ramsey and Bobby Robson manage

prior to their taking up the England post?

-Ipswich.

-What name, from the Latin for fog or mist,

is given to a cloud of interstellar gas or dust,

some types of which are visible as a misty patch of light?

-Pass.

-Who became the first female presenter

of ITN's News At Ten in 1978?

She went on to present the BBC's Six O'Clock News

and the One O'Clock News before retiring in 2006?

-Anna Ford.

-In which Jane Austen novel does Louisa,

one of Mr Charles Musgrove's daughters,

fall on The Cobb at Lyme Regis?

-Persuasion.

-Which country gained its independence

from Denmark in 1944? The event is celebrated

with an annual holiday on 17th June.

-Greenland.

-Iceland. Under what name did the comedy actor

Graham Fellows, also known as John Shuttleworth,

have a UK top ten novelty hit in 1978?

-Jasper Carrott.

-Jilted John.

Which river in southwest England...

BEEP

..is spanned by Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge,

completed in 1859?

-Avon.

-No, the Tamar.

You have three passes.

Nebula is the name that comes from the Latin for fog or mist.

Cliche.

I know!

And Gore Vidal wrote Julian and Lincoln.

Neil, you have a total of 20 points.

And finally, Hazel again, please.

You start out with 11 points.

And still, 21 is the score to beat.

So, here we go. Two and a half minutes of general knowledge

starting now. Which novel by Daniel Defoe

was inspired by the story of Alexander Selkirk,

a Scottish sailor put ashore on an uninhabited island in 1704?

-Robinson Crusoe.

-What position was held by Rudy Giuliani

at the time of the attacks on the World Trade Center?

In 2002, he received

an honorary knighthood from the Queen.

-Mayor of New York.

-The start of which classic cycle race

is known as the Grand Depart?

-Tour de France.

-Which flavouring, often used in ice cream,

comes from the dried pods of a member of the orchid family,

most commonly sourced from the islands of Madagascar, The Comoros and Reunion?

-Vanilla.

-What common word for an invited visitor

has its roots in the Latin for enemy or stranger?

-Pass.

-How is the seamstress, whose real name is Lucia,

better known in Puccini's opera La Boheme?

-Mimi.

-What flood protection installation

that extends from Silvertown at its northern end

to New Charlton at its southern end

has been in operation since 1982?

-The Thames Barrier.

-Which controversial pair

of conceptual artists, known publicly only by their first names,

have the surnames Proesch and Passmore?

-Gilbert and George.

-An ancient Chinese board game,

whose complexity has been compared to chess,

is known in the West as by what two-letter Japanese name?

-Mah jong.

-Go. Across Asia On The Cheap,

written by Tony and Maureen Wheeler

at their kitchen table in 1973,

was the first of a series of guidebooks. What series?

-Lonely Planet.

-Which TV series stars Adrian Dunbar,

Martin Compston and Vicky McClure

as members of AC-12, the police anti-corruption unit?

-Pass.

-By what name are the riders of

the white, red, black and pale horses

in the Book of Revelation collectively known?

-The Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

-Which 1985 Oscar-winning film,

starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford,

features Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A Minor?

-Out Of Africa.

-What type of computer games,

often multiplayer with a fantasy or science-fiction theme,

are signified by the letters RPG?

-Role-player game.

-What name for the radical

1970s German terrorist organisation,

the Red Army Faction,

was taken from the surnames of two of its leaders?

-Baader-Meinhof Gang.

-Which creatures, normally considered

a pest to humans, live in a nest called a vespiary?

-Wasps.

-In distilling, what name is given to the whisky

that is lost to evaporation as it matures?

-The angels' share.

-Who reached number one

in the UK charts in 1990

with Nothing Compares To You, written by Prince?

-Sinead O'Connor.

-Which American artist painted

the 1942 work Nighthawks, a famous depiction

of lonely-looking customers in an all-night diner?

-Edward Hopper.

-Which African country is

one of the so-called Mint Group of emerging economic giants,

-whose other members include...

-BEEP

..Mexico, Indonesia and Turkey?

-Nigeria.

-Is correct. Two passes.

That TV series was Line Of Duty,

and - this is a funny one - that common word for uninvited visitor,

roots in the Latin for enemy or stranger, is guest, oddly enough.

But it didn't matter a jot because, Hazel,

you have a total of 28 points.

Well, didn't she romp away with that? Let's look at the scores.

In joint third place, 20 points apiece,

Martin Roebuck and Neil Madle,

second place, 21 points, John Carrington,

first place, an undisputed lead, 28 points, Hazel Humphreys.

Which means, of course, that Hazel is tonight's winner

and she goes through to the semifinals. Congratulations to her.

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