0:00:24 > 0:00:26First in the spotlight tonight is Owen Rees,
0:00:26 > 0:00:28a local government officer from Berkshire.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32He's answering questions on the films of Martin Scorsese.
0:00:32 > 0:00:35Next, Alasdair Lowe, a chartered surveyor from Worcester,
0:00:35 > 0:00:37on the record breaker Donald Campbell.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40Sharon Montgomery is a housewife from East Lothian.
0:00:40 > 0:00:44Her specialist subject, The Pop Larkin Chronicles by HE Bates.
0:00:44 > 0:00:50And David Murphy, a local government clerk from Belfast, on Ian Paisley.
0:00:50 > 0:00:52APPLAUSE
0:01:00 > 0:01:04Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06Four more contenders tonight,
0:01:06 > 0:01:09each of whom is here with the firm intention
0:01:09 > 0:01:12of moving through to the next round and then to the Grand Final,
0:01:12 > 0:01:16where somebody must win the famous glass bowl
0:01:16 > 0:01:19and, far more importantly, the title of Mastermind.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21The rules are simple.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24Two minutes of questions on their specialist subject
0:01:24 > 0:01:26and then two and a half minutes on general knowledge.
0:01:26 > 0:01:30So, let us get on with it and ask our first contender to join us, please.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47Two minutes on those films, starting now.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50Martin Scorsese won a Best Director Oscar
0:01:50 > 0:01:52for a 2006 film that stars Jack Nicholson
0:01:52 > 0:01:54as the Boston gangster Frank Costello. Which film?
0:01:54 > 0:01:57- The Departed. - Shutter Island is principally set
0:01:57 > 0:02:00at a hospital for the criminally insane in Boston Harbour,
0:02:00 > 0:02:05from which a patient called Rachel Solando has apparently escaped. Which hospital?
0:02:05 > 0:02:08- Ashecliffe.- Scorsese's 2002 film, Gangs Of New York,
0:02:08 > 0:02:11is loosely based on the 1928 book of the same name
0:02:11 > 0:02:13by which journalist and historian?
0:02:13 > 0:02:15- Herbert Asbury. - In Bringing Out The Dead,
0:02:15 > 0:02:17what's the name of the strong heroine mixture
0:02:17 > 0:02:21that causes havoc for ambulance crews on the streets of New York?
0:02:21 > 0:02:24- Pass. - In The King Of Comedy, what is the title of the book
0:02:24 > 0:02:27written by Rupert Pupkin after he has served a prison term
0:02:27 > 0:02:30for kidnapping the chat show host Jerry Langford?
0:02:30 > 0:02:33- King For A Night. - Who won a Golden Globe award and an Oscar nomination
0:02:33 > 0:02:36for the role of Ginger McKenna, a drug-using hustler
0:02:36 > 0:02:39who marries the casino boss Sam Ace Rothstein?
0:02:39 > 0:02:44- Sharon Stone.- In Goodfellas, at which city zoo do Henry Hill and Jimmy Conway
0:02:44 > 0:02:47terrorize a local bar owner into paying a gambling debt
0:02:47 > 0:02:49by dangling him over the lion's cage?
0:02:49 > 0:02:53- Miami.- Tampa City. Which rock star appears as Pontius Pilate
0:02:53 > 0:02:57in a cameo role in Scorsese's 1988 film The Last Temptation Of Christ?
0:02:57 > 0:03:00- David Bowie.- What explicit film is being shown,
0:03:00 > 0:03:02along with Swedish Marriage Manual,
0:03:02 > 0:03:06at the cinema that Travis Bickle takes Betsy to in Taxi Driver?
0:03:06 > 0:03:09She's so disgusted by what she sees, she walks out of the cinema.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12- Pass. - Which town in California, where she grew up,
0:03:12 > 0:03:13does Alice Hyatt finally get back to
0:03:13 > 0:03:16after she is widowed in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore?
0:03:16 > 0:03:20- Monterey.- In Mean Streets, what is the name of Robert De Niro's character,
0:03:20 > 0:03:24who first shows his immaturity by blowing up a mailbox?
0:03:24 > 0:03:27- Johnny Boy.- In The Wolf Of Wall Street, Jordan Belfort was left unemployed
0:03:27 > 0:03:32after the demise of LF Rothschild, but goes on to build up his own stock broking firm
0:03:32 > 0:03:36from the penny stock trading investors' centre. What's his firm called?
0:03:36 > 0:03:39- Stratton Oakmont. - Charlie in Mean Streets,
0:03:39 > 0:03:41Ben in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
0:03:41 > 0:03:44and Sport in Taxi Driver are all played by which actor?
0:03:44 > 0:03:47- Harvey Keitel. - What is the name of the production designer...
0:03:47 > 0:03:50BEEP. ..who received a posthumous Oscar nomination in 1987
0:03:50 > 0:03:55for his work on The Colour Of Money? He was responsible for the elaborate sets
0:03:55 > 0:03:57on Scorsese's '77 film New York, New York.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02- Oh, er, don't know. - Well, I can tell you, because you're out of time.
0:04:02 > 0:04:06Boris Leven. Three passes altogether.
0:04:06 > 0:04:11Sometime Sweet Susan was that rather vulgar film.
0:04:11 > 0:04:15And Red Death causes havoc for ambulance crews
0:04:15 > 0:04:17on the streets of New York.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19Owen, you have 10 points.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21APPLAUSE
0:04:28 > 0:04:29Our next contender, please.
0:04:42 > 0:04:44Donald Campbell in two minutes.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47What was the name of the public school that his father had also attended
0:04:47 > 0:04:50to which Campbell was sent, in 1934, to finish his full-time education?
0:04:50 > 0:04:53- Uppingham.- Campbell was very superstitious
0:04:53 > 0:04:56and took a teddy bear mascot with him on all his record attempts
0:04:56 > 0:05:00after he was given it by his manager, Peter Barker. What was the teddy called?
0:05:00 > 0:05:02- Mr Whoppit. - Which company refused to let Campbell
0:05:02 > 0:05:06use the experimental jet engine his father had fitted to K4
0:05:06 > 0:05:09when he decided to follow in his father's footsteps
0:05:09 > 0:05:11and try to break the water speed record?
0:05:11 > 0:05:15- Rolls-Royce? - De Havilland. Campbell was rejected for pilot training
0:05:15 > 0:05:18when he applied to join the RAF at the outbreak of the Second World War
0:05:18 > 0:05:21because of an illness he contracted at school. What illness?
0:05:21 > 0:05:24- Rheumatic fever. - What was the name of the manufacturing company
0:05:24 > 0:05:28that originally built a Bluebird CN7, in which Campbell set
0:05:28 > 0:05:33a world land speed record of 403.1 miles per hour in July '64?
0:05:33 > 0:05:38- Coventry Motor Panels. - What was the Lloyds Unlimited rating registration number
0:05:38 > 0:05:42of the Bluebird boat in which Campbell broke the world water speed record seven times?
0:05:42 > 0:05:45- K7.- On which lake did Campbell first break
0:05:45 > 0:05:50the water speed record in July, '55? He was the first person to exceed 200mph.
0:05:50 > 0:05:54- Ullswater.- Campbell referred to his chief engineer, Leo Villa,
0:05:54 > 0:05:57who had also worked with his father, by an affectionate nickname
0:05:57 > 0:06:00bestowed on him by Campbell's daughter, Gina. What was it?
0:06:00 > 0:06:03- Unc.- What is the title of the award-winning documentary film,
0:06:03 > 0:06:08produced and directed by Campbell himself, of his record-breaking year of 1964,
0:06:08 > 0:06:11in which he took both the land and water speed records?
0:06:11 > 0:06:15- How Long A Mile. - Campbell fractured his skull and burst an eardrum
0:06:15 > 0:06:17when he was trying to break the land speed record
0:06:17 > 0:06:20in September, 1960. Where did that happen?
0:06:20 > 0:06:21Utah. Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah.
0:06:21 > 0:06:25What award was given to Campbell in the '57 New Year Honours List?
0:06:25 > 0:06:27It was less than the knighthood he'd hoped for.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29- Commander of the British Empire.- At which London venue
0:06:29 > 0:06:32did Campbell marry his first wife, Daphne Harvey,
0:06:32 > 0:06:36and, later, his third wife, the Belgian-born cabaret artist, Tonia Bern?
0:06:36 > 0:06:40- Pass.- In the last radio transmission before his fatal crash,
0:06:40 > 0:06:44Campbell complained that Bluebird was rocking from side to side.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47What term did he use to describe that movement? BEEP
0:06:47 > 0:06:49- Tramping.- Tramping is correct.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51You have only one pass.
0:06:51 > 0:06:53That London venue where he married
0:06:53 > 0:06:56his first and his third wife was Caxton Hall.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59You have, Alasdair, 11 points.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01APPLAUSE
0:07:07 > 0:07:09And our next contender, please.
0:07:25 > 0:07:29The Pop Larkin Chronicles in two minutes, starting now.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31Pop and Ma Larkin are a fun-loving couple
0:07:31 > 0:07:33who live in the countryside with their very large family.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36Among their children are twins named Petunia and...?
0:07:36 > 0:07:39- Zinnia.- What is the name of the earnest carroty-haired minister
0:07:39 > 0:07:43who christens the Larkins' seven children and their grandson, Blenheim?
0:07:43 > 0:07:48- Mr Candy.- In A Breath Of French Air, the hotel receptionist, Monsieur Mollet,
0:07:48 > 0:07:50voices his displeasure that Ma and Pop are not married
0:07:50 > 0:07:54after he notices that Ma's surname in her passport is not Larkin but what?
0:07:54 > 0:07:59- Parker.- The Larkins have a lonely neighbour called Edith Pilchester.
0:07:59 > 0:08:03Her favourite phrase when she's unhappy is that things are "absolutely..."?
0:08:03 > 0:08:07- Ghastly. - Pop sells a huge quantity of tinned gherkins in vinegar
0:08:07 > 0:08:11to a French captain who looks likes a large bulldog with heart disease.
0:08:11 > 0:08:13What is the captain's name?
0:08:13 > 0:08:16- Brisson. - What piece of the Larkins' living room furniture
0:08:16 > 0:08:18is shaped like a Spanish galleon?
0:08:18 > 0:08:22Mr Charlton believes it was moulded by a man of evil, demonic designs.
0:08:22 > 0:08:28- The cocktail cabinet.- Ma Larkin does not believe in diets and has a voluptuous figure.
0:08:28 > 0:08:32What are her vital statistics revealed to be in A Little Of What You Fancy?
0:08:32 > 0:08:35- 55, 55, 55.- Exactly. In When The Green Woods Laugh,
0:08:35 > 0:08:39what is the surname of the couple who buy Gore Court from Pop
0:08:39 > 0:08:41so they can become country people?
0:08:41 > 0:08:43They soon discover they don't enjoy the lifestyle.
0:08:43 > 0:08:46- Jerebohm. - In The Darling Buds Of May,
0:08:46 > 0:08:48what is the name of the independently-minded donkey
0:08:48 > 0:08:52who is briefly ridden by Charley and Miss Pilchester in the donkey derbies?
0:08:52 > 0:08:56- Jasmine. - At which hotel in Brittany, run by Mademoiselle Dupont,
0:08:56 > 0:08:58do the family stay when they go on holiday?
0:08:58 > 0:09:02- Beau Rivage. - In Oh! To Be In England, Pop buys a small funfair
0:09:02 > 0:09:05to preserve a little bit of old England and to help out an old friend
0:09:05 > 0:09:09and his wife who can no longer afford the fair's upkeep. What is his friend's name?
0:09:09 > 0:09:12- Fruity Pears. - Soon after Charley arrives at the Larkins'
0:09:12 > 0:09:14the family go strawberry picking.
0:09:14 > 0:09:18Who takes a shine to Charley and has a fight with Mariette for his affections?
0:09:18 > 0:09:22- Pauline Jackson. - Pop has a habit of addressing military men by a higher rank
0:09:22 > 0:09:24than they actually are. In Oh! To Be In England,
0:09:24 > 0:09:28what superior title does he use to refer to Captain Broadbent?
0:09:28 > 0:09:30- Colonel.- Which doctor... BEEP
0:09:30 > 0:09:34I've started, so I'll finish. ..is first on the scene when Pop has heart problems?
0:09:34 > 0:09:36After he has conferred with the consultant,
0:09:36 > 0:09:40he delivers the awful news that Pop must stop drinking alcohol.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42- Dr O'Connor.- Is correct.
0:09:42 > 0:09:47No passes, Sharon. A perfect round. You got everything right. 14 points.
0:09:47 > 0:09:49APPLAUSE
0:09:55 > 0:09:58And our final contender, please.
0:10:10 > 0:10:12Ian Paisley in two minutes.
0:10:12 > 0:10:16Ian Paisley almost defeated the Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill
0:10:16 > 0:10:20when he stood against him in the 1969 elections to the Stormont Parliament
0:10:20 > 0:10:21and won the seat the following year
0:10:21 > 0:10:24after O'Neill's retirement. Which constituency was it?
0:10:24 > 0:10:27- Bannside. - Which politician did Paisley accuse in 1993
0:10:27 > 0:10:32of selling Ulster to buy off the fiendish republican scum?
0:10:32 > 0:10:36- Major. - Paisley was convicted of unlawful assembly
0:10:36 > 0:10:40and imprisoned for three months in 1966 in which Belfast jail?
0:10:40 > 0:10:41- Crumlin Road.- What nickname,
0:10:41 > 0:10:44derived from a children's television programme, was given to Paisley
0:10:44 > 0:10:47and Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness, when they served together
0:10:47 > 0:10:51as First and Deputy First Ministers of Northern Ireland in 2007?
0:10:51 > 0:10:54- The Chuckle Brothers. - To which school of evangelism in Wales
0:10:54 > 0:10:57was Paisley sent to study at the age of 16?
0:10:57 > 0:11:01- Barry. - Who helped Paisley to form the Democratic Unionist Party
0:11:01 > 0:11:04and served as its first chairman? He said the party would be right-wing,
0:11:04 > 0:11:09in the sense of being strong on the constitution, but to the left on social policies.
0:11:09 > 0:11:13- Desmond Boal.- When Paisley met with Gerry Adams face to face for the first time
0:11:13 > 0:11:16and agreed that the DUP and Sinn Fein would share power,
0:11:16 > 0:11:19one newspaper described it as "The day Dr No said, 'Yes'".
0:11:19 > 0:11:22On which date in 2007 did they meet?
0:11:23 > 0:11:27- March 14th?- March 26th. The 1998 DUP conference was held in a town
0:11:27 > 0:11:32that had been the site of a bombing atrocity earlier that year. What town?
0:11:32 > 0:11:37- Omagh.- When power-sharing resumed in 2007, a system, named after a Belgian lawyer,
0:11:37 > 0:11:40was used for allocating seats in the Northern Ireland Executive,
0:11:40 > 0:11:43according to parties' strengths. What was it called?
0:11:43 > 0:11:47- D'Hondt.- Who was the leader of the Ulster Unionist party in 1994?
0:11:47 > 0:11:50Paisley accused him of being a Judas Iscariot for his alleged support
0:11:50 > 0:11:54of the Downing Street Declaration issued by John Major and Albert Reynolds.
0:11:54 > 0:11:59- Molyneaux.- In July, 1979, at the European Parliament, Paisley tried to interrupt
0:11:59 > 0:12:02the speech by the Prime Minister of Ireland. What was his name?
0:12:02 > 0:12:05- Charles Haughey. - No, Jack Lynch. Which American university
0:12:05 > 0:12:09had awarded Paisley an honorary doctorate in 1966,
0:12:09 > 0:12:12giving him the right to style himself Dr Paisley?
0:12:12 > 0:12:14- Bob Jones. - In October, 1988... BEEP
0:12:14 > 0:12:16..an address to the European Parliament
0:12:16 > 0:12:19was interrupted by Paisley, who held up a banner
0:12:19 > 0:12:21denouncing the speaker as the Antichrist
0:12:21 > 0:12:24and was ejected from the chamber. Who was that speaker?
0:12:24 > 0:12:27- Pope John Paul II. - Indeed it was.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30David, no passes. You have scored 11 points.
0:12:30 > 0:12:33APPLAUSE
0:12:39 > 0:12:42What a high-scoring round that was. Let's have a look at all the scores.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45In fourth place, 10 points, Owen Rees.
0:12:45 > 0:12:49Joint second place, 11 points apiece, Alasdair Lowe and David Murphy.
0:12:49 > 0:12:53First place, 14 points, Sharon Montgomery.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55APPLAUSE
0:12:57 > 0:13:00And so it is the general knowledge round now
0:13:00 > 0:13:02and if there's a tie at the end of it,
0:13:02 > 0:13:04then the number of passes is taken into account
0:13:04 > 0:13:07and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09And if they are tied on passes as well,
0:13:09 > 0:13:12then there will be a tie-break and, incidentally,
0:13:12 > 0:13:15the six highest-scoring runners-up in these heats
0:13:15 > 0:13:18will also be able to claim a place in the semifinals,
0:13:18 > 0:13:20so plenty to play for.
0:13:20 > 0:13:24Let's get on with it and ask Owen to join us again, please.
0:13:24 > 0:13:29And you start out with a very robust 10 points,
0:13:29 > 0:13:31with your knowledge of Scorsese.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33Let's see how you do with your general knowledge.
0:13:33 > 0:13:36Two and a half minutes for these questions. Here we go.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39Epsilon and upsilon are letters of which alphabet?
0:13:39 > 0:13:43- Greek. - What symbol of peace frames either side of the Earth
0:13:43 > 0:13:45in the flag of the United Nations?
0:13:45 > 0:13:50- Pass.- Jessica Cornwell is the author of the 2015 thriller The Serpent Papers.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53Who is her grandfather, a writer of spy fiction?
0:13:53 > 0:13:56- John Le Carre. - Who starred as Inspector Raymond Fowler,
0:13:56 > 0:13:59an old-fashioned policeman in charge at Gasforth police station
0:13:59 > 0:14:02in the television comedy series The Thin Blue Line?
0:14:02 > 0:14:06- Rowan Atkinson.- What is the single-word common name for an unmanned aerial vehicle?
0:14:06 > 0:14:09In recent years, the device has gone from being used by the military
0:14:09 > 0:14:11to being available on the high street.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14- Drone.- What is the English translation
0:14:14 > 0:14:17of the name Huang He for China's second-longest river?
0:14:17 > 0:14:20The name comes from the colour of the silt carried down by it.
0:14:20 > 0:14:25- Yangtze.- Yellow River. Which band released the album Through The Barricades in 1986?
0:14:25 > 0:14:28Its title track gave them a UK Top Ten single.
0:14:28 > 0:14:31- Pass. - The husband and wife artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude,
0:14:31 > 0:14:35noted for their monumental outdoor sculptures, wrapped a Berlin building
0:14:35 > 0:14:39in metallic silver fabric in 1995. Which building?
0:14:39 > 0:14:41- The Reichstag. - Which city in New Mexico,
0:14:41 > 0:14:46the site where some people believe an extra-terrestrial spacecraft crashed in 1947,
0:14:46 > 0:14:50holds an annual UFO festival in July?
0:14:50 > 0:14:54- Roswell.- Bishopthorpe Palace by the River Ouse is the residence of the holder
0:14:54 > 0:14:57of a senior clerical post in the Church of England. Which post?
0:14:57 > 0:15:01- Pass. - What Latin phrase meaning "It does not follow" is used
0:15:01 > 0:15:05for a response or remark that doesn't logically follow from what has been said before?
0:15:05 > 0:15:09- Pass. - Which anti-slavery campaigner and philanthropist
0:15:09 > 0:15:11was born in Hull in 1759?
0:15:11 > 0:15:13- William Wilberforce.- Yes.
0:15:13 > 0:15:17Percheron, Friesian and American Saddlebred are all breeds of which animal?
0:15:17 > 0:15:21- Dog.- Horse. Which political party expelled its honorary president
0:15:21 > 0:15:26and former leader, Nick Griffin, in October 2014 for deliberately fabricating a crisis
0:15:26 > 0:15:30and approving the leaking of damaging and defamatory allegations?
0:15:30 > 0:15:33- British National Party. - Yes, saltfish and ackee is considered
0:15:33 > 0:15:36the national dish of which Caribbean island?
0:15:36 > 0:15:39- Trinidad.- Jamaica. Which Russian novelist experienced
0:15:39 > 0:15:43a spiritual crisis later in life, publishing works such as What I Believe,
0:15:43 > 0:15:47What Men Live By and What Is Art? in the decades before his death in 1910?
0:15:47 > 0:15:51- Leo Tolstoy.- What was the nationality of the snooker player Bill Werbeniuk,
0:15:51 > 0:15:54who reached the quarterfinals at the World Championship four times?
0:15:54 > 0:15:58- Canadian. - Which 2014 animated film follows the adventures
0:15:58 > 0:16:02of the construction worker Emmet Brickowoski after he is drafted into a fellowship
0:16:02 > 0:16:04to stop the plans of an evil tyrant?
0:16:04 > 0:16:07- The Lego Movie. - Thomas Henry, born in 1974... BEEP
0:16:07 > 0:16:10..and Laura Rose, born in '78, are the children
0:16:10 > 0:16:13of which member of the Royal Family by a previous marriage?
0:16:13 > 0:16:15Er...
0:16:15 > 0:16:20- Viscount Linley.- No, Camilla Duchess of Cornwall,
0:16:20 > 0:16:22as she is more formally known. You had four passes.
0:16:22 > 0:16:26That Latin phrase, meaning "It doesn't follow" - non sequitur.
0:16:26 > 0:16:32The Bishopthorpe Palace is the home of various Archbishops of York.
0:16:32 > 0:16:35Spandau Ballet was the band that released Through The Barricades.
0:16:35 > 0:16:39And - you'll be cross with yourself for this one - the symbol of peace
0:16:39 > 0:16:42that frames either side of the Earth is the olive branch.
0:16:42 > 0:16:45There you go, Owen. You now have a total of 21 points.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48APPLAUSE
0:16:53 > 0:16:56And now Alasdair again, please.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59And you start out with 11 points,
0:16:59 > 0:17:02with your knowledge of Donald Campbell.
0:17:02 > 0:17:05And 21, as you have just heard, is the score to beat.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07Two and a half minutes in which to do it. Here we go.
0:17:07 > 0:17:10According to legend, what is buried at the end of a rainbow?
0:17:10 > 0:17:12- A pot of gold. - How many years of marriage
0:17:12 > 0:17:14are traditionally celebrated by a ruby wedding?
0:17:14 > 0:17:19- 40. - How are Peter Quill, Gamora, Drax, Groot and Rocket
0:17:19 > 0:17:22collectively known in the title of a 2014 Marvel Studios film?
0:17:22 > 0:17:26- Guardians Of The Galaxy. - Which British artist created the 2007 work
0:17:26 > 0:17:29For the Love of God, a platinum-cast human skull,
0:17:29 > 0:17:33encrusted with diamonds that reportedly cost £14 million to make?
0:17:33 > 0:17:35- Damien Hirst. - What was the name of the oil tanker
0:17:35 > 0:17:39that ran aground off Prince William Sound in Alaska in March, 1989,
0:17:39 > 0:17:41causing massive environmental damage?
0:17:41 > 0:17:45- Exxon Valdez.- Which Paralympic sport that became a medal event in 2000
0:17:45 > 0:17:49is informally known as murderball because of its fast and aggressive nature?
0:17:49 > 0:17:51- Wheelchair rugby. - In mathematics,
0:17:51 > 0:17:55what name is given to the number below the line in a fraction?
0:17:55 > 0:17:57- Er, divider.- Or denominator.
0:17:57 > 0:18:01Which Victorian author of mystery and suspense novels wrote Armadale,
0:18:01 > 0:18:06a story of confused identity featuring the villain Lydia Gwilt?
0:18:06 > 0:18:08- Arthur Conan Doyle. - Wilkie Collins.
0:18:08 > 0:18:10Marrakesh Express, released in 1969,
0:18:10 > 0:18:13was the only UK Top 20 hit for which Californian group?
0:18:14 > 0:18:17- Er, Beach Boys. - Crosby, Stills and Nash.
0:18:17 > 0:18:21What was the name of the editor of the magazine Popular Flying in the 1930s,
0:18:21 > 0:18:24who created the heroic airman and detective known as Biggles?
0:18:26 > 0:18:28Captain... Pass.
0:18:28 > 0:18:33What island republic in the Indian Ocean is sometimes known as the "Teardrop of India"?
0:18:33 > 0:18:35- Sri Lanka. - In which Australian state
0:18:35 > 0:18:37is the wine-producing area of Hunter Valley?
0:18:37 > 0:18:39- Victoria.- New South Wales.
0:18:39 > 0:18:43Which acid is found in rhubarb leaves, making them toxic to humans?
0:18:43 > 0:18:47- No idea.- A fish seller named Dolly Pentreath, who died in 1777,
0:18:47 > 0:18:51is reputed to have been the last native speaker of which ancient British language?
0:18:51 > 0:18:55- Cornish.- In Dad's Army, whose butcher's van was the principal mode of transport
0:18:55 > 0:18:58for the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon?
0:18:58 > 0:19:01- Corporal Jones. - Which long-serving senator for Delaware
0:19:01 > 0:19:04was appointed Vice President to Barak obama in 2009,
0:19:04 > 0:19:08returning to serve a second term in the post on Obama's re-election in 2012?
0:19:08 > 0:19:12- Joe Biden.- What is the name of the Queen's country residence in Norfolk?
0:19:13 > 0:19:18- Sandringham.- What is the title of the 1888 symphonic suite by Rimsky-Korsakov,
0:19:18 > 0:19:21named after the storyteller of One Thousand And One Nights?
0:19:21 > 0:19:23- Arabian Nights.- Scheherazade.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26Which Ulsterman was the lead singer with The Undertones,
0:19:26 > 0:19:29before embarking on a solo career in 1983?
0:19:29 > 0:19:32- No idea. - Which Parisian landmark is featured on the badge
0:19:32 > 0:19:36of Paris Saint-Germain Football Club, along with the fleur-de-lys?
0:19:36 > 0:19:40- Eiffel Tower.- In March, 2015, NASA's Dawn spacecraft... BEEP
0:19:40 > 0:19:43..went into orbit around which dwarf planet,
0:19:43 > 0:19:46becoming the first mission to achieve such an objective?
0:19:46 > 0:19:48- Pluto.- Ceres. Hmm, I know.
0:19:48 > 0:19:51You had three passes, Alasdair.
0:19:51 > 0:19:55Feargal Sharkey was the lead singer with The Undertones.
0:19:55 > 0:20:00Oxalic acid is what's in rhubarb leaves. And you knew it, didn't you?
0:20:00 > 0:20:01- You said Captain.- Yeah.
0:20:01 > 0:20:05All you had to add was WE Johns. Captain WE Johns.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08However, you have 24 points.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10APPLAUSE
0:20:16 > 0:20:18And now David again, please.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22You also start this round with 11 points.
0:20:22 > 0:20:26However, the score to beat has now jumped up to 24.
0:20:26 > 0:20:30Two and a half minutes to have a go. Here we go.
0:20:30 > 0:20:33What type of insect are White Admirals and Purple Emperors?
0:20:33 > 0:20:36- Butterfly.- Which physics professor presented
0:20:36 > 0:20:39the television series Human Universe in 2014?
0:20:39 > 0:20:42- Brian Cox.- George Halas, known as Papa Bear,
0:20:42 > 0:20:45in a reference to the Chicago team he coached for many years,
0:20:45 > 0:20:48was a major figure in the development of what American sport?
0:20:48 > 0:20:50- Baseball. - American football.
0:20:50 > 0:20:52What term for a person who is a stickler for discipline
0:20:52 > 0:20:56comes from the name of an inspector general of infantry under Louis XIV,
0:20:56 > 0:20:58known for his commitment to training and drills?
0:20:58 > 0:21:02- Pass.- Because of their shape, the two small pieces of dark meat
0:21:02 > 0:21:04that lie on either side of a chicken's backbone,
0:21:04 > 0:21:07are named after which edible marine mollusc?
0:21:07 > 0:21:11- Oyster.- Ralph Waldo were the first names
0:21:11 > 0:21:15of which influential 19th-century American poet, essayist and philosopher?
0:21:15 > 0:21:21- Emerson.- Which monarch ruled England from November, 1558, until her death in March, 1603?
0:21:21 > 0:21:26- Elizabeth I. - What is the nationality of Raymond van Barneveld,
0:21:26 > 0:21:30Jelle Klaasen, Christian Kist and Michael van Gerwen,
0:21:30 > 0:21:33all of whom have been World Darts Champions?
0:21:33 > 0:21:36- Danish.- Dutch. The 1994 film subtitled Mission To Moscow
0:21:36 > 0:21:39was the seventh and last of which series of comedy films
0:21:39 > 0:21:43that starred Steve Guttenberg in the first four?
0:21:43 > 0:21:46- Pass. - Members of which group, founded in the 17th century
0:21:46 > 0:21:49and noted for their work on peace and reconciliation,
0:21:49 > 0:21:52meet for worship in establishments known as meeting houses?
0:21:52 > 0:21:54Friends or Quakers.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57Which Booker prize-winner was the ghost writer and co-author
0:21:57 > 0:22:00of Roy Keane's autobiography, The Second Half?
0:22:00 > 0:22:05- Pass.- What name is given to the coated cardboard cartons for milk and fruit juice,
0:22:05 > 0:22:08first produced by the Rausing family in Sweden in 1952?
0:22:08 > 0:22:11- Tetra Pak.- 2015 - which British conductor announced
0:22:11 > 0:22:14he was going to take up the role of Music Director
0:22:14 > 0:22:17of the London Symphony Orchestra in September, 2017?
0:22:17 > 0:22:21- Barenboim.- Simon Rattle. A Flemish artist's 1434 work,
0:22:21 > 0:22:25the Arnolfini Portrait, shows a stern looking man, dressed in black,
0:22:25 > 0:22:30holding hands with his young wife, clad in a bright green dress. Which artist?
0:22:30 > 0:22:33- Pass.- What is the scientific name for the white of an egg?
0:22:33 > 0:22:38- Albumen.- Which actor, famous for his roles in films such as The Naked Civil Servant,
0:22:38 > 0:22:43The Elephant Man and 1984, was knighted in the 2015 New Year Honours List?
0:22:43 > 0:22:47- Quentin Crisp.- John Hurt. Who wrote the series of young adult fantasy novels
0:22:47 > 0:22:49known as The Mortal Instruments?
0:22:49 > 0:22:53The first book, City Of Bones, was adapted for the cinema in 2013?
0:22:53 > 0:22:54- Charlie Higson. - Cassandra Clare.
0:22:54 > 0:22:59Tiger, Amazon, Climbing and Dusky are species of which lizard-like amphibian?
0:22:59 > 0:23:02- BEEP - Newt.- Sorry.
0:23:02 > 0:23:05- Newt.- No, salamander.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07You had four passes, David.
0:23:07 > 0:23:09Van Eyck painted the Arnolfini Portrait.
0:23:09 > 0:23:12Roddy Doyle was the Booker prize-winner
0:23:12 > 0:23:15who co-wrote Roy Keane's autobiography.
0:23:15 > 0:23:19Police Academy was that 1994 film, subtitled Mission To Moscow.
0:23:19 > 0:23:23And the term for a person who's a bit of a stickler for discipline -
0:23:23 > 0:23:24martinet.
0:23:24 > 0:23:27You have, now, a total of 19 points.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30APPLAUSE
0:23:36 > 0:23:39And, finally, Sharon again, please.
0:23:39 > 0:23:44And you start off with 14 points, Sharon,
0:23:44 > 0:23:47and 24 is still the score to beat,
0:23:47 > 0:23:51so let's see if you can do it and get through to the semifinals.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53Here we go. Two and a half minutes.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56In the television programme Doctor Who, what is the name
0:23:56 > 0:23:59of the machine in which the Doctor travels through time and space?
0:23:59 > 0:24:03- TARDIS. - The cities of Kiel, Gdansk, Riga, Stockholm and Helsinki
0:24:03 > 0:24:05are among the main ports on what sea?
0:24:05 > 0:24:10- Baltic.- Which king of Macedonia was the father of Alexander the Great?
0:24:10 > 0:24:12- Alexander.- Philip II. What name is given in cricket
0:24:12 > 0:24:16to the fielder's position close in behind the batsman whose main responsibility
0:24:16 > 0:24:19is to take catches from the edge of the batsman's bat?
0:24:19 > 0:24:22- Slip.- Which duo topped the UK charts in '92
0:24:22 > 0:24:25with an EP of Abba songs called Abba-esque?
0:24:25 > 0:24:29- Erasure.- Which Irish actor's film credits include In Bruges,
0:24:29 > 0:24:32Minority Report, The New World and Miami Vice?
0:24:32 > 0:24:38- Pass.- The Struldbrugs and the Lagadoans are among the lesser-known peoples
0:24:38 > 0:24:40featured in which satire of 1726?
0:24:40 > 0:24:44- Gulliver's Travels. - In meteorology, what name is given to a clockwise change
0:24:44 > 0:24:49in wind direction around the point of the compass? It is the opposite of backing.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52- Tracking.- Veering. Which artist designed the CD cover
0:24:52 > 0:24:57for the 2014 version of the charity single Do They Know It's Christmas?
0:24:57 > 0:25:00- Tracey Emin. - Which actor's television career has included
0:25:00 > 0:25:02Yosser Hughes in Boys From The Blackstuff
0:25:02 > 0:25:06and the unruly Duke of Norfolk in the 2015 adaptation of Wolf Hall?
0:25:06 > 0:25:09- Bernard Hill. - The aged Spanish cheese, Vare,
0:25:09 > 0:25:11is made from the milk of which animal?
0:25:11 > 0:25:14- Goat. - What word, meaning "to extend out widely",
0:25:14 > 0:25:18particularly in reference to a person with their arms and legs outstretched,
0:25:18 > 0:25:21was originally a term used for a motif in heraldry?
0:25:21 > 0:25:25- Embrace.- Spread-eagle. Which Puccini opera was left unfinished at his death
0:25:25 > 0:25:27and was first completed by Franco Alfano,
0:25:27 > 0:25:30although different endings have been written subsequently?
0:25:30 > 0:25:32- Madam Butterfly.- Turandot.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35Marco Didius Falco, created by the historical novelist Lindsey Davis,
0:25:35 > 0:25:40is a private investigator based in which city in the 1st century AD?
0:25:40 > 0:25:42- Madrid.- Rome. The mythology of which Polynesian people
0:25:42 > 0:25:46says that the world was created by the sky father and the earth mother,
0:25:46 > 0:25:48whose names are Rangi and Papa?
0:25:48 > 0:25:51- Maori.- What was the name of the British intelligence agent
0:25:51 > 0:25:55played by Patrick Macnee in the television series The Avengers?
0:25:55 > 0:25:59- Steed.- In which film does Orson Welles' character speak the lines,
0:25:59 > 0:26:01"In Switzerland, they had brotherly love,
0:26:01 > 0:26:03"they had 500 years of democracy and peace
0:26:03 > 0:26:06"and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock"?
0:26:06 > 0:26:10- Pass.- Which small ground-dwelling rodents, native to North America,
0:26:10 > 0:26:13get their name from their bark-like warning cry?
0:26:13 > 0:26:15- Prairie dog.- Who designed the bouncing bomb,
0:26:15 > 0:26:17used in the Second World War Dambuster raids?
0:26:17 > 0:26:20- Barnes Wallis. - Which metaphysical poet was appointed
0:26:20 > 0:26:24as John Milton's assistant as Latin Secretary for the Commonwealth...
0:26:24 > 0:26:28BEEP ..in 1657, a post he held until 1659?
0:26:30 > 0:26:33- Shelley. - It was Andrew Marvell.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35Two passes, Sharon.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38The Third Man was the film in which Orson Welles made that wonderful
0:26:38 > 0:26:41and entirely derogatory comment about the Swiss
0:26:41 > 0:26:46and Colin Farrell was the actor in In Bruges, Minority Report etc, etc.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49But, Sharon, you have 26 points.
0:26:49 > 0:26:52APPLAUSE
0:27:01 > 0:27:04So, she did it. Let's have a look at all of those scores.
0:27:04 > 0:27:07In fourth place, with 19 points, David Murphy.
0:27:07 > 0:27:10Third place, 21 points, Owen Rees.
0:27:10 > 0:27:13Second place, 24 points, Alasdair Lowe.
0:27:13 > 0:27:17First place, 26 points, Sharon Montgomery.
0:27:17 > 0:27:21APPLAUSE
0:27:26 > 0:27:30Which means, of course, that Sharon is tonight's winner
0:27:30 > 0:27:33and she goes through to the semifinals. Congratulations to her.
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