Episode 14 Mastermind

First in the spotlight tonight is Owen Rees,

a local government officer from Berkshire.

He's answering questions on the films of Martin Scorsese.

Next, Alasdair Lowe, a chartered surveyor from Worcester,

on the record breaker Donald Campbell.

Sharon Montgomery is a housewife from East Lothian.

Her specialist subject, The Pop Larkin Chronicles by HE Bates.

And David Murphy, a local government clerk from Belfast, on Ian Paisley.

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Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.

Four more contenders tonight,

each of whom is here with the firm intention

of moving through to the next round and then to the Grand Final,

where somebody must win the famous glass bowl

and, far more importantly, the title of Mastermind.

The rules are simple.

Two minutes of questions on their specialist subject

and then two and a half minutes on general knowledge.

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

Two minutes on those films, starting now.

Martin Scorsese won a Best Director Oscar

for a 2006 film that stars Jack Nicholson

as the Boston gangster Frank Costello. Which film?

-The Departed.

-Shutter Island is principally set

at a hospital for the criminally insane in Boston Harbour,

from which a patient called Rachel Solando has apparently escaped. Which hospital?

-Ashecliffe.

-Scorsese's 2002 film, Gangs Of New York,

is loosely based on the 1928 book of the same name

by which journalist and historian?

-Herbert Asbury.

-In Bringing Out The Dead,

what's the name of the strong heroine mixture

that causes havoc for ambulance crews on the streets of New York?

-Pass.

-In The King Of Comedy, what is the title of the book

written by Rupert Pupkin after he has served a prison term

for kidnapping the chat show host Jerry Langford?

-King For A Night.

-Who won a Golden Globe award and an Oscar nomination

for the role of Ginger McKenna, a drug-using hustler

who marries the casino boss Sam Ace Rothstein?

-Sharon Stone.

-In Goodfellas, at which city zoo do Henry Hill and Jimmy Conway

terrorize a local bar owner into paying a gambling debt

by dangling him over the lion's cage?

-Miami.

-Tampa City. Which rock star appears as Pontius Pilate

in a cameo role in Scorsese's 1988 film The Last Temptation Of Christ?

-David Bowie.

-What explicit film is being shown,

along with Swedish Marriage Manual,

at the cinema that Travis Bickle takes Betsy to in Taxi Driver?

She's so disgusted by what she sees, she walks out of the cinema.

-Pass.

-Which town in California, where she grew up,

does Alice Hyatt finally get back to

after she is widowed in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore?

-Monterey.

-In Mean Streets, what is the name of Robert De Niro's character,

who first shows his immaturity by blowing up a mailbox?

-Johnny Boy.

-In The Wolf Of Wall Street, Jordan Belfort was left unemployed

after the demise of LF Rothschild, but goes on to build up his own stock broking firm

from the penny stock trading investors' centre. What's his firm called?

-Stratton Oakmont.

-Charlie in Mean Streets,

Ben in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

and Sport in Taxi Driver are all played by which actor?

-Harvey Keitel.

-What is the name of the production designer...

BEEP. ..who received a posthumous Oscar nomination in 1987

for his work on The Colour Of Money? He was responsible for the elaborate sets

on Scorsese's '77 film New York, New York.

-Oh, er, don't know.

-Well, I can tell you, because you're out of time.

Boris Leven. Three passes altogether.

Sometime Sweet Susan was that rather vulgar film.

And Red Death causes havoc for ambulance crews

on the streets of New York.

Owen, you have 10 points.

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Our next contender, please.

Donald Campbell in two minutes.

What was the name of the public school that his father had also attended

to which Campbell was sent, in 1934, to finish his full-time education?

-Uppingham.

-Campbell was very superstitious

and took a teddy bear mascot with him on all his record attempts

after he was given it by his manager, Peter Barker. What was the teddy called?

-Mr Whoppit.

-Which company refused to let Campbell

use the experimental jet engine his father had fitted to K4

when he decided to follow in his father's footsteps

and try to break the water speed record?

-Rolls-Royce?

-De Havilland. Campbell was rejected for pilot training

when he applied to join the RAF at the outbreak of the Second World War

because of an illness he contracted at school. What illness?

-Rheumatic fever.

-What was the name of the manufacturing company

that originally built a Bluebird CN7, in which Campbell set

a world land speed record of 403.1 miles per hour in July '64?

-Coventry Motor Panels.

-What was the Lloyds Unlimited rating registration number

of the Bluebird boat in which Campbell broke the world water speed record seven times?

-K7.

-On which lake did Campbell first break

the water speed record in July, '55? He was the first person to exceed 200mph.

-Ullswater.

-Campbell referred to his chief engineer, Leo Villa,

who had also worked with his father, by an affectionate nickname

bestowed on him by Campbell's daughter, Gina. What was it?

-Unc.

-What is the title of the award-winning documentary film,

produced and directed by Campbell himself, of his record-breaking year of 1964,

in which he took both the land and water speed records?

-How Long A Mile.

-Campbell fractured his skull and burst an eardrum

when he was trying to break the land speed record

in September, 1960. Where did that happen?

Utah. Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah.

What award was given to Campbell in the '57 New Year Honours List?

It was less than the knighthood he'd hoped for.

-Commander of the British Empire.

-At which London venue

did Campbell marry his first wife, Daphne Harvey,

and, later, his third wife, the Belgian-born cabaret artist, Tonia Bern?

-Pass.

-In the last radio transmission before his fatal crash,

Campbell complained that Bluebird was rocking from side to side.

What term did he use to describe that movement? BEEP

-Tramping.

-Tramping is correct.

You have only one pass.

That London venue where he married

his first and his third wife was Caxton Hall.

You have, Alasdair, 11 points.

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And our next contender, please.

The Pop Larkin Chronicles in two minutes, starting now.

Pop and Ma Larkin are a fun-loving couple

who live in the countryside with their very large family.

Among their children are twins named Petunia and...?

-Zinnia.

-What is the name of the earnest carroty-haired minister

who christens the Larkins' seven children and their grandson, Blenheim?

-Mr Candy.

-In A Breath Of French Air, the hotel receptionist, Monsieur Mollet,

voices his displeasure that Ma and Pop are not married

after he notices that Ma's surname in her passport is not Larkin but what?

-Parker.

-The Larkins have a lonely neighbour called Edith Pilchester.

Her favourite phrase when she's unhappy is that things are "absolutely..."?

-Ghastly.

-Pop sells a huge quantity of tinned gherkins in vinegar

to a French captain who looks likes a large bulldog with heart disease.

What is the captain's name?

-Brisson.

-What piece of the Larkins' living room furniture

is shaped like a Spanish galleon?

Mr Charlton believes it was moulded by a man of evil, demonic designs.

-The cocktail cabinet.

-Ma Larkin does not believe in diets and has a voluptuous figure.

What are her vital statistics revealed to be in A Little Of What You Fancy?

-55, 55, 55.

-Exactly. In When The Green Woods Laugh,

what is the surname of the couple who buy Gore Court from Pop

so they can become country people?

They soon discover they don't enjoy the lifestyle.

-Jerebohm.

-In The Darling Buds Of May,

what is the name of the independently-minded donkey

who is briefly ridden by Charley and Miss Pilchester in the donkey derbies?

-Jasmine.

-At which hotel in Brittany, run by Mademoiselle Dupont,

do the family stay when they go on holiday?

-Beau Rivage.

-In Oh! To Be In England, Pop buys a small funfair

to preserve a little bit of old England and to help out an old friend

and his wife who can no longer afford the fair's upkeep. What is his friend's name?

-Fruity Pears.

-Soon after Charley arrives at the Larkins'

the family go strawberry picking.

Who takes a shine to Charley and has a fight with Mariette for his affections?

-Pauline Jackson.

-Pop has a habit of addressing military men by a higher rank

than they actually are. In Oh! To Be In England,

what superior title does he use to refer to Captain Broadbent?

-Colonel.

-Which doctor... BEEP

I've started, so I'll finish. ..is first on the scene when Pop has heart problems?

After he has conferred with the consultant,

he delivers the awful news that Pop must stop drinking alcohol.

-Dr O'Connor.

-Is correct.

No passes, Sharon. A perfect round. You got everything right. 14 points.

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And our final contender, please.

Ian Paisley in two minutes.

Ian Paisley almost defeated the Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill

when he stood against him in the 1969 elections to the Stormont Parliament

and won the seat the following year

after O'Neill's retirement. Which constituency was it?

-Bannside.

-Which politician did Paisley accuse in 1993

of selling Ulster to buy off the fiendish republican scum?

-Major.

-Paisley was convicted of unlawful assembly

and imprisoned for three months in 1966 in which Belfast jail?

-Crumlin Road.

-What nickname,

derived from a children's television programme, was given to Paisley

and Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness, when they served together

as First and Deputy First Ministers of Northern Ireland in 2007?

-The Chuckle Brothers.

-To which school of evangelism in Wales

was Paisley sent to study at the age of 16?

-Barry.

-Who helped Paisley to form the Democratic Unionist Party

and served as its first chairman? He said the party would be right-wing,

in the sense of being strong on the constitution, but to the left on social policies.

-Desmond Boal.

-When Paisley met with Gerry Adams face to face for the first time

and agreed that the DUP and Sinn Fein would share power,

one newspaper described it as "The day Dr No said, 'Yes'".

On which date in 2007 did they meet?

-March 14th?

-March 26th. The 1998 DUP conference was held in a town

that had been the site of a bombing atrocity earlier that year. What town?

-Omagh.

-When power-sharing resumed in 2007, a system, named after a Belgian lawyer,

was used for allocating seats in the Northern Ireland Executive,

according to parties' strengths. What was it called?

-D'Hondt.

-Who was the leader of the Ulster Unionist party in 1994?

Paisley accused him of being a Judas Iscariot for his alleged support

of the Downing Street Declaration issued by John Major and Albert Reynolds.

-Molyneaux.

-In July, 1979, at the European Parliament, Paisley tried to interrupt

the speech by the Prime Minister of Ireland. What was his name?

-Charles Haughey.

-No, Jack Lynch. Which American university

had awarded Paisley an honorary doctorate in 1966,

giving him the right to style himself Dr Paisley?

-Bob Jones.

-In October, 1988... BEEP

..an address to the European Parliament

was interrupted by Paisley, who held up a banner

denouncing the speaker as the Antichrist

and was ejected from the chamber. Who was that speaker?

-Pope John Paul II.

-Indeed it was.

David, no passes. You have scored 11 points.

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What a high-scoring round that was. Let's have a look at all the scores.

In fourth place, 10 points, Owen Rees.

Joint second place, 11 points apiece, Alasdair Lowe and David Murphy.

First place, 14 points, Sharon Montgomery.

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And so it is the general knowledge round now

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

then the number of passes is taken into account

and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.

And if they are tied on passes as well,

then there will be a tie-break and, incidentally,

the six highest-scoring runners-up in these heats

will also be able to claim a place in the semifinals,

so plenty to play for.

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

And you start out with a very robust 10 points,

with your knowledge of Scorsese.

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

Two and a half minutes for these questions. Here we go.

Epsilon and upsilon are letters of which alphabet?

-Greek.

-What symbol of peace frames either side of the Earth

in the flag of the United Nations?

-Pass.

-Jessica Cornwell is the author of the 2015 thriller The Serpent Papers.

Who is her grandfather, a writer of spy fiction?

-John Le Carre.

-Who starred as Inspector Raymond Fowler,

an old-fashioned policeman in charge at Gasforth police station

in the television comedy series The Thin Blue Line?

-Rowan Atkinson.

-What is the single-word common name for an unmanned aerial vehicle?

In recent years, the device has gone from being used by the military

to being available on the high street.

-Drone.

-What is the English translation

of the name Huang He for China's second-longest river?

The name comes from the colour of the silt carried down by it.

-Yangtze.

-Yellow River. Which band released the album Through The Barricades in 1986?

Its title track gave them a UK Top Ten single.

-Pass.

-The husband and wife artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude,

noted for their monumental outdoor sculptures, wrapped a Berlin building

in metallic silver fabric in 1995. Which building?

-The Reichstag.

-Which city in New Mexico,

the site where some people believe an extra-terrestrial spacecraft crashed in 1947,

holds an annual UFO festival in July?

-Roswell.

-Bishopthorpe Palace by the River Ouse is the residence of the holder

of a senior clerical post in the Church of England. Which post?

-Pass.

-What Latin phrase meaning "It does not follow" is used

for a response or remark that doesn't logically follow from what has been said before?

-Pass.

-Which anti-slavery campaigner and philanthropist

was born in Hull in 1759?

-William Wilberforce.

-Yes.

Percheron, Friesian and American Saddlebred are all breeds of which animal?

-Dog.

-Horse. Which political party expelled its honorary president

and former leader, Nick Griffin, in October 2014 for deliberately fabricating a crisis

and approving the leaking of damaging and defamatory allegations?

-British National Party.

-Yes, saltfish and ackee is considered

the national dish of which Caribbean island?

-Trinidad.

-Jamaica. Which Russian novelist experienced

a spiritual crisis later in life, publishing works such as What I Believe,

What Men Live By and What Is Art? in the decades before his death in 1910?

-Leo Tolstoy.

-What was the nationality of the snooker player Bill Werbeniuk,

who reached the quarterfinals at the World Championship four times?

-Canadian.

-Which 2014 animated film follows the adventures

of the construction worker Emmet Brickowoski after he is drafted into a fellowship

to stop the plans of an evil tyrant?

-The Lego Movie.

-Thomas Henry, born in 1974... BEEP

..and Laura Rose, born in '78, are the children

of which member of the Royal Family by a previous marriage?

Er...

-Viscount Linley.

-No, Camilla Duchess of Cornwall,

as she is more formally known. You had four passes.

That Latin phrase, meaning "It doesn't follow" - non sequitur.

The Bishopthorpe Palace is the home of various Archbishops of York.

Spandau Ballet was the band that released Through The Barricades.

And - you'll be cross with yourself for this one - the symbol of peace

that frames either side of the Earth is the olive branch.

There you go, Owen. You now have a total of 21 points.

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And now Alasdair again, please.

And you start out with 11 points,

with your knowledge of Donald Campbell.

And 21, as you have just heard, is the score to beat.

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

According to legend, what is buried at the end of a rainbow?

-A pot of gold.

-How many years of marriage

are traditionally celebrated by a ruby wedding?

-40.

-How are Peter Quill, Gamora, Drax, Groot and Rocket

collectively known in the title of a 2014 Marvel Studios film?

-Guardians Of The Galaxy.

-Which British artist created the 2007 work

For the Love of God, a platinum-cast human skull,

encrusted with diamonds that reportedly cost £14 million to make?

-Damien Hirst.

-What was the name of the oil tanker

that ran aground off Prince William Sound in Alaska in March, 1989,

causing massive environmental damage?

-Exxon Valdez.

-Which Paralympic sport that became a medal event in 2000

is informally known as murderball because of its fast and aggressive nature?

-Wheelchair rugby.

-In mathematics,

what name is given to the number below the line in a fraction?

-Er, divider.

-Or denominator.

Which Victorian author of mystery and suspense novels wrote Armadale,

a story of confused identity featuring the villain Lydia Gwilt?

-Arthur Conan Doyle.

-Wilkie Collins.

Marrakesh Express, released in 1969,

was the only UK Top 20 hit for which Californian group?

-Er, Beach Boys.

-Crosby, Stills and Nash.

What was the name of the editor of the magazine Popular Flying in the 1930s,

who created the heroic airman and detective known as Biggles?

Captain... Pass.

What island republic in the Indian Ocean is sometimes known as the "Teardrop of India"?

-Sri Lanka.

-In which Australian state

is the wine-producing area of Hunter Valley?

-Victoria.

-New South Wales.

Which acid is found in rhubarb leaves, making them toxic to humans?

-No idea.

-A fish seller named Dolly Pentreath, who died in 1777,

is reputed to have been the last native speaker of which ancient British language?

-Cornish.

-In Dad's Army, whose butcher's van was the principal mode of transport

for the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon?

-Corporal Jones.

-Which long-serving senator for Delaware

was appointed Vice President to Barak obama in 2009,

returning to serve a second term in the post on Obama's re-election in 2012?

-Joe Biden.

-What is the name of the Queen's country residence in Norfolk?

-Sandringham.

-What is the title of the 1888 symphonic suite by Rimsky-Korsakov,

named after the storyteller of One Thousand And One Nights?

-Arabian Nights.

-Scheherazade.

Which Ulsterman was the lead singer with The Undertones,

before embarking on a solo career in 1983?

-No idea.

-Which Parisian landmark is featured on the badge

of Paris Saint-Germain Football Club, along with the fleur-de-lys?

-Eiffel Tower.

-In March, 2015, NASA's Dawn spacecraft... BEEP

..went into orbit around which dwarf planet,

becoming the first mission to achieve such an objective?

-Pluto.

-Ceres. Hmm, I know.

You had three passes, Alasdair.

Feargal Sharkey was the lead singer with The Undertones.

Oxalic acid is what's in rhubarb leaves. And you knew it, didn't you?

-You said Captain.

-Yeah.

All you had to add was WE Johns. Captain WE Johns.

However, you have 24 points.

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And now David again, please.

You also start this round with 11 points.

However, the score to beat has now jumped up to 24.

Two and a half minutes to have a go. Here we go.

What type of insect are White Admirals and Purple Emperors?

-Butterfly.

-Which physics professor presented

the television series Human Universe in 2014?

-Brian Cox.

-George Halas, known as Papa Bear,

in a reference to the Chicago team he coached for many years,

was a major figure in the development of what American sport?

-Baseball.

-American football.

What term for a person who is a stickler for discipline

comes from the name of an inspector general of infantry under Louis XIV,

known for his commitment to training and drills?

-Pass.

-Because of their shape, the two small pieces of dark meat

that lie on either side of a chicken's backbone,

are named after which edible marine mollusc?

-Oyster.

-Ralph Waldo were the first names

of which influential 19th-century American poet, essayist and philosopher?

-Emerson.

-Which monarch ruled England from November, 1558, until her death in March, 1603?

-Elizabeth I.

-What is the nationality of Raymond van Barneveld,

Jelle Klaasen, Christian Kist and Michael van Gerwen,

all of whom have been World Darts Champions?

-Danish.

-Dutch. The 1994 film subtitled Mission To Moscow

was the seventh and last of which series of comedy films

that starred Steve Guttenberg in the first four?

-Pass.

-Members of which group, founded in the 17th century

and noted for their work on peace and reconciliation,

meet for worship in establishments known as meeting houses?

Friends or Quakers.

Which Booker prize-winner was the ghost writer and co-author

of Roy Keane's autobiography, The Second Half?

-Pass.

-What name is given to the coated cardboard cartons for milk and fruit juice,

first produced by the Rausing family in Sweden in 1952?

-Tetra Pak.

-2015 - which British conductor announced

he was going to take up the role of Music Director

of the London Symphony Orchestra in September, 2017?

-Barenboim.

-Simon Rattle. A Flemish artist's 1434 work,

the Arnolfini Portrait, shows a stern looking man, dressed in black,

holding hands with his young wife, clad in a bright green dress. Which artist?

-Pass.

-What is the scientific name for the white of an egg?

-Albumen.

-Which actor, famous for his roles in films such as The Naked Civil Servant,

The Elephant Man and 1984, was knighted in the 2015 New Year Honours List?

-Quentin Crisp.

-John Hurt. Who wrote the series of young adult fantasy novels

known as The Mortal Instruments?

The first book, City Of Bones, was adapted for the cinema in 2013?

-Charlie Higson.

-Cassandra Clare.

Tiger, Amazon, Climbing and Dusky are species of which lizard-like amphibian?

-BEEP

-Newt.

-Sorry.

-Newt.

-No, salamander.

You had four passes, David.

Van Eyck painted the Arnolfini Portrait.

Roddy Doyle was the Booker prize-winner

who co-wrote Roy Keane's autobiography.

Police Academy was that 1994 film, subtitled Mission To Moscow.

And the term for a person who's a bit of a stickler for discipline -

martinet.

You have, now, a total of 19 points.

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And, finally, Sharon again, please.

And you start off with 14 points, Sharon,

and 24 is still the score to beat,

so let's see if you can do it and get through to the semifinals.

Here we go. Two and a half minutes.

In the television programme Doctor Who, what is the name

of the machine in which the Doctor travels through time and space?

-TARDIS.

-The cities of Kiel, Gdansk, Riga, Stockholm and Helsinki

are among the main ports on what sea?

-Baltic.

-Which king of Macedonia was the father of Alexander the Great?

-Alexander.

-Philip II. What name is given in cricket

to the fielder's position close in behind the batsman whose main responsibility

is to take catches from the edge of the batsman's bat?

-Slip.

-Which duo topped the UK charts in '92

with an EP of Abba songs called Abba-esque?

-Erasure.

-Which Irish actor's film credits include In Bruges,

Minority Report, The New World and Miami Vice?

-Pass.

-The Struldbrugs and the Lagadoans are among the lesser-known peoples

featured in which satire of 1726?

-Gulliver's Travels.

-In meteorology, what name is given to a clockwise change

in wind direction around the point of the compass? It is the opposite of backing.

-Tracking.

-Veering. Which artist designed the CD cover

for the 2014 version of the charity single Do They Know It's Christmas?

-Tracey Emin.

-Which actor's television career has included

Yosser Hughes in Boys From The Blackstuff

and the unruly Duke of Norfolk in the 2015 adaptation of Wolf Hall?

-Bernard Hill.

-The aged Spanish cheese, Vare,

is made from the milk of which animal?

-Goat.

-What word, meaning "to extend out widely",

particularly in reference to a person with their arms and legs outstretched,

was originally a term used for a motif in heraldry?

-Embrace.

-Spread-eagle. Which Puccini opera was left unfinished at his death

and was first completed by Franco Alfano,

although different endings have been written subsequently?

-Madam Butterfly.

-Turandot.

Marco Didius Falco, created by the historical novelist Lindsey Davis,

is a private investigator based in which city in the 1st century AD?

-Madrid.

-Rome. The mythology of which Polynesian people

says that the world was created by the sky father and the earth mother,

whose names are Rangi and Papa?

-Maori.

-What was the name of the British intelligence agent

played by Patrick Macnee in the television series The Avengers?

-Steed.

-In which film does Orson Welles' character speak the lines,

"In Switzerland, they had brotherly love,

"they had 500 years of democracy and peace

"and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock"?

-Pass.

-Which small ground-dwelling rodents, native to North America,

get their name from their bark-like warning cry?

-Prairie dog.

-Who designed the bouncing bomb,

used in the Second World War Dambuster raids?

-Barnes Wallis.

-Which metaphysical poet was appointed

as John Milton's assistant as Latin Secretary for the Commonwealth...

BEEP ..in 1657, a post he held until 1659?

-Shelley.

-It was Andrew Marvell.

Two passes, Sharon.

The Third Man was the film in which Orson Welles made that wonderful

and entirely derogatory comment about the Swiss

and Colin Farrell was the actor in In Bruges, Minority Report etc, etc.

But, Sharon, you have 26 points.

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So, she did it. Let's have a look at all of those scores.

In fourth place, with 19 points, David Murphy.

Third place, 21 points, Owen Rees.

Second place, 24 points, Alasdair Lowe.

First place, 26 points, Sharon Montgomery.

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

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

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Thanks for watching. Goodbye.

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