0:00:24 > 0:00:28First in the spotlight tonight is Alyn McFetridge from Belfast.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31He's answering questions on the sitcom The IT Crowd.
0:00:31 > 0:00:35Next, Robert Webb, a retired insurance broker from Birmingham,
0:00:35 > 0:00:36on the North American Plains Indians.
0:00:36 > 0:00:40Lotte Houghton is a postgraduate student from Liverpool.
0:00:40 > 0:00:42Her specialist subject, Homer's Iliad.
0:00:42 > 0:00:45And those Bruce Horton is a teacher from Kent.
0:00:45 > 0:00:47His subject, the history of Hong Kong.
0:00:47 > 0:00:51APPLAUSE
0:01:00 > 0:01:03Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06Four more contenders are all set to take to the stage tonight.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09They sit there nurturing two hopes.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12One, that they have done enough revision
0:01:12 > 0:01:14to get through the specialist rounds safely.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17Two, that the questions in the general knowledge round
0:01:17 > 0:01:18fall kindly for them.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21After all, there's nothing they can do to prepare for them.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24They get two minutes on the first and two and a half on the second.
0:01:24 > 0:01:26The winner will go through to the next round
0:01:26 > 0:01:29and will be on course to become the next Mastermind champion.
0:01:29 > 0:01:31So, let us have our first contender, please.
0:01:39 > 0:01:40- And your name is?- Alyn McFetridge.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43- Your occupation? - I am currently unemployed.
0:01:43 > 0:01:44And your chosen subject?
0:01:44 > 0:01:48- The IT Crowd.- The IT Crowd. In two minutes, starting now.
0:01:48 > 0:01:51Who wrote the television comedy series The IT Crowd,
0:01:51 > 0:01:53which follows the lives of Roy, Moss and their boss Jen
0:01:53 > 0:01:57who all employees of Reynholm Industries IT department?
0:01:57 > 0:01:58Graham Linehan.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00In the opening episode of the series,
0:02:00 > 0:02:02Moss first enters his new boss's office
0:02:02 > 0:02:04to find her deep in conversation on the phone.
0:02:04 > 0:02:06What does he say he has come in to do?
0:02:06 > 0:02:08To connect her phone.
0:02:08 > 0:02:12Who checks the of validity of Moss's 16-letter word "overnumerousness"
0:02:12 > 0:02:14when he gets involved in a game of Countdown
0:02:14 > 0:02:17and it's confirmed to be an acceptable world?
0:02:17 > 0:02:18Gyles Brandreth.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20What management title does Jen take onto herself
0:02:20 > 0:02:23in addition to being head of the IT department?
0:02:23 > 0:02:26It's written on the sign stuck to her office door
0:02:26 > 0:02:27throughout most of the series.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29Relationship manager.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31In Bad Boys, Roy bets Jen that he can last a day
0:02:31 > 0:02:34without uttering his IT support catchphrase
0:02:34 > 0:02:36"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
0:02:36 > 0:02:38How much is the bet worth?
0:02:38 > 0:02:39- £20.- £100.
0:02:39 > 0:02:42In 50-50, what is the name of the restaurant
0:02:42 > 0:02:44where Roy and his online date meet up?
0:02:44 > 0:02:45Jen and the security officer Daniel
0:02:45 > 0:02:47are also having a meal there.
0:02:47 > 0:02:48Messy Joe's.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51What is the name of the computer game Roy and Jen are playing
0:02:51 > 0:02:52at the start of Men Without Women?
0:02:52 > 0:02:55The fact that Jen is so good at it makes her worry
0:02:55 > 0:02:56that she's wasting her life.
0:02:56 > 0:02:57Guitar Hero.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00Who plays former executive, Richmond Avenal?
0:03:00 > 0:03:02He first appears when Jen finds him incarcerated
0:03:02 > 0:03:05behind the red door in the IT department.
0:03:05 > 0:03:06Noel Fielding.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08What is the name of the Italian businessman
0:03:08 > 0:03:10who visits Reynholm Industries in Italian For Beginners?
0:03:10 > 0:03:14Jen acts as an interpreter at the meeting with disastrous consequences.
0:03:14 > 0:03:16Silvio Bernatelli.
0:03:16 > 0:03:18In Moss And The German, the boys are arrested
0:03:18 > 0:03:20while they are visiting the cannibal Johann.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23For what crime are they taken into custody?
0:03:23 > 0:03:26- Having a pirate DVD. - Yes, copyright violation.
0:03:26 > 0:03:30An impersonator of which pop star appears in The Haunting Of Bill Crouse
0:03:30 > 0:03:34to perform a memorial song after Moss starts the rumour that Jen is dead?
0:03:34 > 0:03:35Elton John.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38In Bad Boys, which film director does Douglas Reynholm claim
0:03:38 > 0:03:40to have flown in to meet Roy and Moss?
0:03:40 > 0:03:43They missed the meeting because they were skiving off work.
0:03:43 > 0:03:44George Lucas.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47Moss and Roy create a small metal box with a red light on top
0:03:47 > 0:03:52for Jen to present to shareholders during her employee of the month speech.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54They convince her that the box is actually what?
0:03:54 > 0:03:59The internet. Yes, the whole entire internet, all of it.
0:03:59 > 0:04:03So, Alan, no passes, you have scored 12 points.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05APPLAUSE
0:04:13 > 0:04:15And our next contender, please?
0:04:22 > 0:04:24- And your name is?- Rob Webb.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27- Your occupation? - Retired insurance broker.
0:04:27 > 0:04:28And your chosen subject?
0:04:28 > 0:04:32North American Plains Indians, 1850 to 1910.
0:04:32 > 0:04:34Plains Indians in two minutes. Here we go.
0:04:34 > 0:04:38The Sioux leader, known in his own language as Thathanka Iyotake
0:04:38 > 0:04:40was known by what name in English?
0:04:40 > 0:04:41Sitting Bull.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44Which Sioux chief lamented, "Wherever the whites are established,
0:04:44 > 0:04:47"the Buffalo is gone and the red hunters must die of hunger"?
0:04:47 > 0:04:49- Crazy Horse.- White Cloud.
0:04:49 > 0:04:52Under which President was the Seneca Iroquoi Ely Parker
0:04:52 > 0:04:55appointed Commissioner for Indian Affairs
0:04:55 > 0:04:58with responsibility for dealing with the Plains Indians?
0:05:00 > 0:05:01Pass.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04Which US Army captain's name was given to a massacre of 1866
0:05:04 > 0:05:07in which he and 80 of his men were killed by Indians
0:05:07 > 0:05:10under the leadership of chiefs High Backbone, Little Wolf and Red Leaf?
0:05:10 > 0:05:12Fetterman's Massacre.
0:05:12 > 0:05:14What was the name of the Comanche leader
0:05:14 > 0:05:16who described himself as a good Indian,
0:05:16 > 0:05:19which prompted General Sheridan's infamous reported remark,
0:05:19 > 0:05:21"The only good Indians I ever saw were dead"?
0:05:21 > 0:05:24- Ten Bears.- No, Tosahwi.
0:05:24 > 0:05:26What sacred mountainous region
0:05:26 > 0:05:30was known to the Plains Indians as Paha Sapa?
0:05:30 > 0:05:31Black Hills.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34A key role was played in the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876
0:05:34 > 0:05:36by a war chief of the Hunkpapa Sioux
0:05:36 > 0:05:39who later split with his adopted brother Sitting Bull
0:05:39 > 0:05:42over the break-up of the great Sioux reservation. What was his name?
0:05:42 > 0:05:44- Crazy Horse.- Gall.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46At what fort in Wyoming were major treaties
0:05:46 > 0:05:48concerning land ownership and access rights
0:05:48 > 0:05:51signed by the US government and the Plains Indian tribes
0:05:51 > 0:05:53in both 1851 and 1868?
0:05:53 > 0:05:55Fort Laramie.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58Which tribe of Plains Indians, included the Upstream,
0:05:58 > 0:06:01Calling River and Touchwood Hills people?
0:06:01 > 0:06:03- Assiniboine.- The Plains Cree.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06Nicotiana multivalvis, cultivated by the Crow
0:06:06 > 0:06:09and considered sacred and ceremonial,
0:06:09 > 0:06:11was a variety of what plant?
0:06:11 > 0:06:12Tobacco.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14The Northern Cheyenne war leader Roman Nose,
0:06:14 > 0:06:17was killed at a battle in September 1868
0:06:17 > 0:06:20that took place on the Arikaree Fork. Which battle?
0:06:20 > 0:06:22Beecher's Island.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24Which law of 1887 authorised the subdivision
0:06:24 > 0:06:27of the tribal reservations into parcels of private land,
0:06:27 > 0:06:30with the aim of assimilating the Plains Indians
0:06:30 > 0:06:32into mainstream white culture?
0:06:32 > 0:06:33Pass.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36Mercenaries from which tribe, acting as scouts,
0:06:36 > 0:06:41accompanied cavalryman in an attack on Black Bear's Arapaho village
0:06:41 > 0:06:43on the Tongue River in August 1865?
0:06:43 > 0:06:46- Arikaree.- The Pawnee.
0:06:47 > 0:06:52The two passes you had, Rob, the Dawes General Allotment Act
0:06:52 > 0:06:56was the law that authorised the subdivision of reservations.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59And Ulysses S Grant was the President
0:06:59 > 0:07:03when the Seneca Iroquoi Ely Parker was appointed Commissioner.
0:07:03 > 0:07:06Two passes, Rob, you have scored six points.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09APPLAUSE
0:07:15 > 0:07:17And our next contender, please.
0:07:22 > 0:07:24- And your name is?- Lotte Houghton.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26- Your occupation? - Postgraduate student.
0:07:26 > 0:07:29- And your specialist subject? - Homer's Iliad.
0:07:29 > 0:07:30Homers Iliad in two minutes.
0:07:30 > 0:07:35The epic poem the Iliad tells the story of disputes among the Greeks besieging Troy
0:07:35 > 0:07:37and the wrath of Achilles against his commander Agamemnon.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40Which of the Greek gods indirectly caused the quarrel
0:07:40 > 0:07:44between Achilles and Agamemnon by sending a plague to the Greek camp?
0:07:44 > 0:07:45Apollo.
0:07:45 > 0:07:48Which of the Greek leaders does Helen describe to King Priam
0:07:48 > 0:07:50as master of all kinds of manoeuvres and strategies?
0:07:50 > 0:07:52Odysseus.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55What creature is depicted round the centre of Agamemnon's shield
0:07:55 > 0:07:57flanked by images of rout and panic?
0:07:57 > 0:07:59- Lion.- Gorgon.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01What is the name of the senior Trojan councillor
0:08:01 > 0:08:04who proposes in an assembly that Helen and all her possessions
0:08:04 > 0:08:05be returned to the sons of Atreus?
0:08:05 > 0:08:07Antenor.
0:08:07 > 0:08:08Who is described in Books 3 and 6
0:08:08 > 0:08:11as the most beautiful of the daughters of Priam and Hecabe?
0:08:11 > 0:08:13The description is used elsewhere for Cassandra.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15Laodice.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17Which queen's story does Achilles tell Priam
0:08:17 > 0:08:20in order to encourage him to eat before he weeps for Hector?
0:08:20 > 0:08:21Pass.
0:08:21 > 0:08:23Who had given refuge to the god of sleep
0:08:23 > 0:08:25when Zeus set out to throw him into the sea
0:08:25 > 0:08:28because he helped Hera's plot against Heracles?
0:08:28 > 0:08:29- Poseidon.- Night.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32The war god Ares collapses with his hair in the dust
0:08:32 > 0:08:36after Pallas Athena hits him with an object that had once been used
0:08:36 > 0:08:38as a boundary marker. What object?
0:08:38 > 0:08:41- A wooden plank. - A boulder actually.
0:08:41 > 0:08:44Achilles awards ten double-headed and ten single-headed axes
0:08:44 > 0:08:48at the funeral games of Patroclus to the winners in which event?
0:08:48 > 0:08:50- Sprint.- Archery.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52Agamemnon returns Chryseis to her father
0:08:52 > 0:08:55and in compensation takes a female captive from Achilles.
0:08:55 > 0:08:56What is her name?
0:08:56 > 0:08:58Briseis.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01What name is shared by the river that rises up against Achilles
0:09:01 > 0:09:04after he refuses the request of its god to stop killing Trojans
0:09:04 > 0:09:07and the talking horse that prophesied his death
0:09:07 > 0:09:08at the hands of a god and a man?
0:09:08 > 0:09:10Xanthus.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12What is the name of the Thracian leader,
0:09:12 > 0:09:13killed by Diomedes in the night raid,
0:09:13 > 0:09:16whose horses are whiter than snow and run like the wind?
0:09:16 > 0:09:17Rhesus.
0:09:17 > 0:09:20On which island had the Greeks left Philoctetes
0:09:20 > 0:09:24on account of the wound he received from a water snake?
0:09:24 > 0:09:25- Crete.- Lemnos.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27Hector named his son Scamandrius
0:09:27 > 0:09:31but others call him Astyanax, a name that means what?
0:09:31 > 0:09:33- Pass.- I can tell you because you're out of time.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36It means Town Lord or Lord of the City.
0:09:36 > 0:09:39Anyway, you had that pass and one other.
0:09:39 > 0:09:43The queen whose story Achilles told Priam in order to encourage him
0:09:43 > 0:09:47to eat before he wept for Hector was Niobe.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50And you have scored, Lotte, seven points.
0:09:50 > 0:09:53APPLAUSE
0:09:58 > 0:10:00And our next contender, please.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09- And your name is?- Bruce Horton.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11- Your occupation?- Teacher.
0:10:11 > 0:10:15- And your chosen subject? - History of Hong Kong 1841 to 1997.
0:10:15 > 0:10:16Hong Kong in two minutes.
0:10:16 > 0:10:19At the end of the first Opium War, the island of Hong Kong was
0:10:19 > 0:10:22formally ceded to Britain by the Treaty of Nanking.
0:10:22 > 0:10:26On board which British warship was the treaty signed in August 1842?
0:10:26 > 0:10:28- HMS Sulphur.- HMS Cornwallis.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Which former Army officer in the East India Company
0:10:31 > 0:10:34became the second administrator of Hong Kong from 1841 to 1843
0:10:34 > 0:10:36and its first governor in June of that year?
0:10:36 > 0:10:38Henry Pottinger.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40The former coastal part of Hong Kong Island
0:10:40 > 0:10:43where Captain Edward Belcher raised the British flag
0:10:43 > 0:10:46on 26 January 1841 became known as what point?
0:10:46 > 0:10:47Procession Point.
0:10:47 > 0:10:50The Society for the Protection of Women and Girls
0:10:50 > 0:10:54was set up by the colony's Chinese community, following an enquiry in 1878.
0:10:54 > 0:10:57By what Chinese name is the charity usually known?
0:10:57 > 0:10:58Tung Wah.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00Po Leung Kuk.
0:11:00 > 0:11:03Under an agreement of 1860, the tip of which peninsula,
0:11:03 > 0:11:06along with Stonecutters Island was ceded to Britain in perpetuity?
0:11:06 > 0:11:07Kowloon.
0:11:07 > 0:11:10The agreement of 1898 that leased the so-called "new territories"
0:11:10 > 0:11:13on the Chinese mainland to Britain for 99 years
0:11:13 > 0:11:16is often referred to as the Second Convention of...?
0:11:16 > 0:11:17Peking.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19Which post, created in the mid-19th century,
0:11:19 > 0:11:24was renamed by Ordinance in 1913 as Secretary for Chinese Affairs?
0:11:24 > 0:11:26Colonial Secretary.
0:11:26 > 0:11:27Registrar General.
0:11:27 > 0:11:30What four-word term refers to the constitutional policy
0:11:30 > 0:11:33that when Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997, it would retain
0:11:33 > 0:11:38its own capitalist economic and political systems for at least the first 50 years?
0:11:38 > 0:11:40One Country, Two Systems.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42Who was appointed as the first Chinese member
0:11:42 > 0:11:45of the colony's Executive Council in 1926?
0:11:45 > 0:11:48A hill on Hong Kong Island is named after him.
0:11:48 > 0:11:49Shouson Chow.
0:11:49 > 0:11:52What term meaning "little sister" was given to the Chinese practice
0:11:52 > 0:11:55of keeping domestic female bondservants,
0:11:55 > 0:11:59a practice that the British MP John Ward campaigned to end in 1917?
0:11:59 > 0:12:00Mei bo.
0:12:00 > 0:12:01Mui tsai.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03Which shipping magnate was elected to become the first
0:12:03 > 0:12:07Chief Executive of a special administrative region of Hong Kong?
0:12:07 > 0:12:09He assumed office in 1997.
0:12:09 > 0:12:10Tung Chee-hwa.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13Sir Frederick Lugard, when Governor of Hong Kong,
0:12:13 > 0:12:16laid the foundation stone for an institution that officially opened...
0:12:16 > 0:12:19BEEP ..in 1912, and for which he is particularly remembered.
0:12:19 > 0:12:20Which institution?
0:12:20 > 0:12:21The Hong Kong University.
0:12:21 > 0:12:23That is correct.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25No passes, Bruce. You have 8 points.
0:12:25 > 0:12:27APPLAUSE
0:12:34 > 0:12:38So that's the specialist round done. Let's have a look at the scores.
0:12:38 > 0:12:40In fourth place, 6 points - Rob Webb.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43Third place, 7 points - Lotte Houghton.
0:12:43 > 0:12:46Second place, 8 points - Bruce Horton.
0:12:46 > 0:12:49First place, 12 points - Alyn McFetridge.
0:12:49 > 0:12:50APPLAUSE
0:12:54 > 0:12:56And it is now the General Knowledge Round, of course.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59And if there's a tie at the end of it, then the number of passes
0:12:59 > 0:13:02is taken into account and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.
0:13:02 > 0:13:06If they're tied on passes as well, there will be a tie-break,
0:13:06 > 0:13:09and the six highest scoring runners-up will be able to claim
0:13:09 > 0:13:12a place in the semifinal. So, lots to play for.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15Let's get on with it, and ask Rob to join us again, please.
0:13:16 > 0:13:22And you have 6 points at this stage, but there's two and a half minutes
0:13:22 > 0:13:25of general knowledge, so loads of time to catch up. Here we go.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28The feud between the Montagues and the Capulets
0:13:28 > 0:13:30forms the backdrop to which of Shakespeare's plays?
0:13:30 > 0:13:31Romeo and Juliet.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33Which river rises in the mountains above Lake Bala
0:13:33 > 0:13:35and flows past Llangollen and Chester
0:13:35 > 0:13:38to its estuary on the Irish Sea?
0:13:39 > 0:13:41Severn.
0:13:41 > 0:13:44The Dee. Which Canadian singer won a Grammy award for her 2001
0:13:44 > 0:13:47UK top ten hit, I'm Like A Bird?
0:13:47 > 0:13:48Pass.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51What title, used by many Christians for the Virgin Mary,
0:13:51 > 0:13:54comes from the Italian for "my lady"?
0:13:54 > 0:13:55Madonna.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57By what unflattering epithet is Prince Myshkin known
0:13:57 > 0:14:01in the title of an 1868 novel by Dostoyevsky?
0:14:03 > 0:14:04Pass.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07A political position not constitutionally established
0:14:07 > 0:14:09in Britain was first held by Clement Attlee
0:14:09 > 0:14:11in Winston Churchill's wartime government,
0:14:11 > 0:14:13and has been held subsequently by Michael Heseltine,
0:14:13 > 0:14:17John Prescott and Nick Clegg, among others. Which position?
0:14:17 > 0:14:18Deputy Prime Minister.
0:14:18 > 0:14:22The cover of the Beatles' album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
0:14:22 > 0:14:26was designed by which pop artist, along with his wife, Jann Haworth?
0:14:26 > 0:14:28Pass.
0:14:28 > 0:14:30Which imperial city on the Atlantic coastline, at the mouth
0:14:30 > 0:14:34of the Wadi Bou Regreg, is the capital of Morocco?
0:14:34 > 0:14:35Rabat.
0:14:35 > 0:14:39Which character, who was a former slave, was created by Joel Chandler Harris
0:14:39 > 0:14:42and related folktales about Brer Rabbit in a series of stories
0:14:42 > 0:14:45originally published in the newspaper the Atlanta Constitution?
0:14:45 > 0:14:47Uncle Remus.
0:14:47 > 0:14:49What is the title of the television comedy series that featured
0:14:49 > 0:14:53a Royal Artillery Concert Party based overseas during the Second World War?
0:14:53 > 0:14:55It Ain't Half Hot Mum.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58In a story by E Nesbit, Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane
0:14:58 > 0:15:01and their baby brother discover a grumpy sand fairy called the Psammead,
0:15:01 > 0:15:05who can grant a wish a day. What is the story?
0:15:05 > 0:15:10- Pass.- In which country were the composers Chopin and Gorecki born?
0:15:10 > 0:15:11Poland.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14What fish are smoked whole to make bloaters, a food
0:15:14 > 0:15:16particularly associated with Great Yarmouth?
0:15:16 > 0:15:17Herring.
0:15:17 > 0:15:19Which King of England was mortally wounded
0:15:19 > 0:15:23while besieging the castle of Chalus in France in spring 1199?
0:15:23 > 0:15:24Richard I.
0:15:24 > 0:15:27The Academy Award-winning song, When You Wish Upon A Star
0:15:27 > 0:15:29features in a 1940 Disney cartoon film.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31What's the film's title?
0:15:33 > 0:15:34Pinocchio.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37The 2007 book, Provided You Don't Kiss Me,
0:15:37 > 0:15:40by the Nottingham Evening Post journalist Duncan Hamilton,
0:15:40 > 0:15:42is a biography of which football manager?
0:15:45 > 0:15:46Brian Clough.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49In the British peerage, the holder of what title is ranked
0:15:49 > 0:15:52above a viscount but below a marquess?
0:15:52 > 0:15:53Viscount.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56Earl. The Popes Callixtus III and Alexander VI
0:15:56 > 0:15:58were members of which notorious family...?
0:15:58 > 0:16:01BEEP ..originally from Valencia in Spain?
0:16:01 > 0:16:02Borgias.
0:16:02 > 0:16:03Indeed, the Borgias.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06Four passes, Rob. Five Children And It
0:16:06 > 0:16:08was that story by E Nesbit.
0:16:08 > 0:16:13Sir Peter Blake did the cover of the Beatles album with his wife.
0:16:13 > 0:16:18That unflattering epithet, the title of the novel was The Idiot.
0:16:18 > 0:16:23And Nelly Furtado was the Canadian singer who won the Grammy in 2001.
0:16:23 > 0:16:26You've now gone up, Rob, to 18 points.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28APPLAUSE
0:16:35 > 0:16:37And now Lotte again, please.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42And you start out this round with 7 points,
0:16:42 > 0:16:44with your knowledge of the Iliad.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47Let's see how you do with your general knowledge. Two and a half minutes.
0:16:47 > 0:16:49What name do Americans generally use to refer to
0:16:49 > 0:16:51their underground railway systems?
0:16:51 > 0:16:54In the UK, we use the same word for a passage under a road.
0:16:54 > 0:16:55Subway.
0:16:55 > 0:16:58In Herge's Adventures of Tintin, what is the English name
0:16:58 > 0:17:01of the absent-minded eccentric scientist who is a recurring character?
0:17:01 > 0:17:02Pass.
0:17:02 > 0:17:06Which poet married Jean Armour in 1788 in a civil ceremony
0:17:06 > 0:17:08in Mauchline, Ayrshire
0:17:08 > 0:17:11a year before giving up farming to take up a post as an exciseman?
0:17:13 > 0:17:14Housman.
0:17:14 > 0:17:16Robbie Burns. The Australian actress Cate Blanchett
0:17:16 > 0:17:21has played a British monarch in a 1998 and 2007 film. Which monarch?
0:17:21 > 0:17:22Elizabeth I.
0:17:22 > 0:17:26What name is given to a substance enclosed under pressure in a container
0:17:26 > 0:17:28and released as a fine spray by a propellant gas?
0:17:28 > 0:17:29Vapour.
0:17:29 > 0:17:33Aerosol. Which large whale is also known as "the sulphur-bottom whale"
0:17:33 > 0:17:36because of the yellowish underside of some individuals
0:17:36 > 0:17:38caused by algae living on their bodies?
0:17:38 > 0:17:39Killer whale.
0:17:39 > 0:17:41The blue whale. What name is given to an espresso coffee
0:17:41 > 0:17:43topped with a dab of foamed steamed milk?
0:17:43 > 0:17:45It means stained or marked in Italian.
0:17:45 > 0:17:46Cappuccino.
0:17:46 > 0:17:50Macchiato. The largest expanse of medieval stained glass in Britain
0:17:50 > 0:17:54was created by John Thornton and is in the East Window of which minster?
0:17:54 > 0:17:56Westminster.
0:17:56 > 0:17:59York. Which composer, who was born in Bohemia, completed his first symphony,
0:17:59 > 0:18:02sometimes known as the Titan, in 1888?
0:18:02 > 0:18:03Holst.
0:18:03 > 0:18:06Mahler. Which comedy actor, who stars in the films Bruno and Borat,
0:18:06 > 0:18:10rose to fame in 1988 on The 11 O'Clock Show after he sent the producer
0:18:10 > 0:18:14a tape of himself posing as an Albanian television reporter?
0:18:16 > 0:18:17Pass.
0:18:17 > 0:18:20What name for the breathing tube used in skin diving was originally
0:18:20 > 0:18:23applied to the ventilation tube introduced in German U-boats
0:18:23 > 0:18:25in the Second World War?
0:18:25 > 0:18:26Aqualine.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29Snorkel. With which European country did England sign
0:18:29 > 0:18:31the Treaty of Windsor in 1386?
0:18:31 > 0:18:34The treaty is the oldest alliance in the world that's still enforced.
0:18:34 > 0:18:35France.
0:18:35 > 0:18:38Portugal. What is the name of the possessed Plymouth Fury motorcar
0:18:38 > 0:18:41in the title of Stephen King's 1983 novel?
0:18:42 > 0:18:43Pass.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46The statue of Achilles in Hyde Park, unveiled in 1822,
0:18:46 > 0:18:49commemorates which military leader, who later became Prime Minister?
0:18:51 > 0:18:53Wellington.
0:18:53 > 0:18:56In 2012, which country joined Australia, New Zealand
0:18:56 > 0:18:59and South Africa in competing for the rugby championship
0:18:59 > 0:19:00previously known as the Tri Nations?
0:19:00 > 0:19:02Zimbabwe.
0:19:02 > 0:19:05Argentina. What word that comes from the Italian for aforementioned,
0:19:05 > 0:19:07is used to indicate that one item in a list
0:19:07 > 0:19:10is the same as the preceding one?
0:19:10 > 0:19:11Ditto.
0:19:11 > 0:19:14The use of a compound of a metallic element in the 19th-century
0:19:14 > 0:19:16hat making industry caused brain damage,
0:19:16 > 0:19:19and it's thought to have given rise to the phrase "mad as a hatter".
0:19:19 > 0:19:21BEEP Which element?
0:19:21 > 0:19:22Mercury.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24Yes. Mercury it is. Three passes, Lotte.
0:19:24 > 0:19:28Christine was the name of that possessed Plymouth car
0:19:28 > 0:19:31in Stephen King's novel. Sacha Baron Cohen was the...
0:19:31 > 0:19:34LAUGHING: Yeah, absolutely. ..the comedy actor.
0:19:34 > 0:19:39And Professor Calculus was the absent-minded scientist in Tintin.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41You have 12 points.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43APPLAUSE
0:19:49 > 0:19:51And now Bruce again, please.
0:19:54 > 0:19:59And you start out with 8 points with your knowledge of Hong Kong
0:19:59 > 0:20:02and you have two and a half minutes to add to it
0:20:02 > 0:20:04with your general knowledge. Here we go.
0:20:04 > 0:20:06What is the name of the Queen of the Iceni,
0:20:06 > 0:20:10who is thought to have poisoned herself after she was defeated by the Romans
0:20:10 > 0:20:12in a desperate battle in the 1st century AD?
0:20:12 > 0:20:13Boudicca.
0:20:13 > 0:20:17Cosette, Fantine and Madame Thenardier are among the female characters
0:20:17 > 0:20:19in which novel by Victor Hugo?
0:20:19 > 0:20:20Les Miserables.
0:20:20 > 0:20:24In November 2014, who became the first British female singer
0:20:24 > 0:20:26to have five solo UK number one singles,
0:20:26 > 0:20:29when I Don't Care topped the charts?
0:20:29 > 0:20:30Pass.
0:20:30 > 0:20:32Which navigational instrument for measuring angles,
0:20:32 > 0:20:34that incorporates a small telescope,
0:20:34 > 0:20:37is named after the sixth part of a circle?
0:20:37 > 0:20:38Sextant.
0:20:38 > 0:20:41What word for an automaton with semi-human powers,
0:20:41 > 0:20:44that comes from a Czech word meaning slavery or drudgery,
0:20:44 > 0:20:47was first used in a 1920 play by Karel Capek?
0:20:47 > 0:20:48Robot.
0:20:48 > 0:20:52Whose Symphony No 9 in C major, also known as The Great,
0:20:52 > 0:20:54was completed in 1828, the year of his death?
0:20:56 > 0:20:57Schubert.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00Ian Rankin's books about Detective Inspector John Rebus
0:21:00 > 0:21:03and his newer creation Malcolm Fox of the police's Professional Standards Unit
0:21:03 > 0:21:05are mainly set in which city?
0:21:05 > 0:21:06Glasgow.
0:21:06 > 0:21:10Edinburgh. Walt Whitman's poem, When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloomed,
0:21:10 > 0:21:13is an elegy on the death of which American president?
0:21:14 > 0:21:15Lincoln.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18Which England all-rounder scored 14 centuries
0:21:18 > 0:21:22and took a then record, 383 wickets, during his test career?
0:21:22 > 0:21:24Botham.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27What river forms most of the boundary between Devon and Cornwall?
0:21:27 > 0:21:28Tamar.
0:21:28 > 0:21:32In Germanic folklore, whom does Brunhilde kill after she finds out
0:21:32 > 0:21:36that he has wooed her and won her, not for himself but for someone else?
0:21:36 > 0:21:37Siegfried.
0:21:37 > 0:21:41In which 1953 film musical does Marilyn Monroe's character, Lorelei Lee,
0:21:41 > 0:21:44sing Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend?
0:21:44 > 0:21:46Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49Sir William Stanier and Sir Nigel Gresley were famous designers of what?
0:21:49 > 0:21:51Steam locomotives.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54Which British social worker opened Britain's first birth control clinic
0:21:54 > 0:21:59in the Holloway, 1921, along with her husband, Humphrey Verdon Roe?
0:21:59 > 0:22:00Marie Stopes.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02What is the name of the butler played by Ted Cassidy
0:22:02 > 0:22:05in the 1960s television series The Addams Family?
0:22:05 > 0:22:06Lurch.
0:22:06 > 0:22:09Which English actress accompanies Serge Gainsbourg,
0:22:09 > 0:22:13whispering and singing, on the 1969 chart-topping hit
0:22:13 > 0:22:15Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus?
0:22:15 > 0:22:16Jane Berkin.
0:22:16 > 0:22:19Antananarivo is the capital of which island republic
0:22:19 > 0:22:20in the Indian Ocean?
0:22:20 > 0:22:22The Maldives.
0:22:22 > 0:22:25Madagascar. Lacecaps and mopheads are two of the main types of a shrub
0:22:25 > 0:22:29that produces showy clusters of blue flowers in acid soils,
0:22:29 > 0:22:31and pink flowers in alkaline soils. Which shrub?
0:22:31 > 0:22:32Azaleas.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35Hydrangea. What monastery in County Meath...
0:22:35 > 0:22:37BEEP ..gives its name to the famous illuminated copy
0:22:37 > 0:22:41of the Gospels now kept in the library of Trinity College, Dublin?
0:22:41 > 0:22:42Kells.
0:22:42 > 0:22:45Yes, The Book Of Kells. You had one pass.
0:22:45 > 0:22:50The first British female singer to have five solo UK number one singles,
0:22:50 > 0:22:52and all that, was Cheryl Cole.
0:22:52 > 0:22:56You've scored now though, a total of 23 points.
0:22:56 > 0:22:57APPLAUSE
0:23:06 > 0:23:08And finally, Alyn again, please.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15And you start this round, Alan, with 12 points.
0:23:15 > 0:23:17But, as you have just heard,
0:23:17 > 0:23:21the score to beat is 23 if you're to get through to the semifinal.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24So, let's see how you do with your general knowledge. Here we go.
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Two and a half minutes.
0:23:26 > 0:23:29Which comedy team had a 1991 UK top five hit with
0:23:29 > 0:23:30Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life,
0:23:30 > 0:23:32taken from the film, Life Of Brian?
0:23:32 > 0:23:33Monty Python.
0:23:33 > 0:23:37Which rocky promontory is known in Cornish as Pedn an Wlas?
0:23:37 > 0:23:38Lizard Point.
0:23:38 > 0:23:43Land's End. Which country set up the first agitprop organisation in 1920?
0:23:43 > 0:23:46The phrase has come to mean any cultural enterprise with an overtly political agenda.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48France.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51Soviet Union. Who was the Ancient Egyptian god of the sun and creation?
0:23:51 > 0:23:52Ra.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55Chinook, chum and pink are all species of which fish?
0:23:58 > 0:23:59Salmon.
0:23:59 > 0:24:01In the television series Doctor Who, two actors
0:24:01 > 0:24:04with the same surname have played the Doctor. What surname?
0:24:04 > 0:24:05Baker.
0:24:05 > 0:24:08Which Glasgow-born poet wrote the collection of verse Selling Manhattan,
0:24:08 > 0:24:13published in 1987, and Rapture, that won the 2005 TS Eliot Prize?
0:24:13 > 0:24:14Ritchie.
0:24:14 > 0:24:17Carol Ann Duffy. In Australian slang, what is the profession
0:24:17 > 0:24:19of a person known as a chalkie?
0:24:19 > 0:24:21Teacher.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24What nickname is Mahler's 8th Symphony In E Flat Major known by
0:24:24 > 0:24:27because of the large number of people required to perform it?
0:24:27 > 0:24:28Mass.
0:24:28 > 0:24:30The Symphony Of A Thousand.
0:24:30 > 0:24:34In June 1859, a town to the west of Milan was the scene of a bloody battle
0:24:34 > 0:24:36between Napoleon III and the Austrians.
0:24:36 > 0:24:40Shortly after, its name began to be used for a shade of red. Which town?
0:24:42 > 0:24:43Marengo.
0:24:43 > 0:24:46Magenta. In American politics, what name is given
0:24:46 > 0:24:49to the person elected by congressmen of the largest party in either house
0:24:49 > 0:24:52who acts as the party's chief spokesman and strategist?
0:24:54 > 0:24:55Whip.
0:24:55 > 0:25:00The majority leader. Lerwick is the principal town of which island group?
0:25:00 > 0:25:01Shetlands.
0:25:01 > 0:25:04What's the name of the coach who was Great Britain's
0:25:04 > 0:25:07cycling performance director of the Beijing and London Olympics?
0:25:07 > 0:25:10He also managed Team Sky to two consecutive Tour de France victories.
0:25:10 > 0:25:11Pass.
0:25:11 > 0:25:15In June 2014, Telangana became the 29th and newest state
0:25:15 > 0:25:18of a country when it formally separated from the state of the Andhra Pradesh.
0:25:18 > 0:25:19Which country?
0:25:19 > 0:25:20India.
0:25:20 > 0:25:24Which theory of the origins of the universe was independently proposed
0:25:24 > 0:25:27in the 1920s by the Russian mathematician Alexander Friedmann
0:25:27 > 0:25:30and the Belgian Catholic priest Abbe Georges Lemaitre?
0:25:30 > 0:25:31The Fermat theory.
0:25:31 > 0:25:34The Big Bang. A Journal of the Plague Year, purported to be an account
0:25:34 > 0:25:38of the Great Plague that swept London in 1664 and 65,
0:25:38 > 0:25:41is the work of which dissenter, adventurer and author?
0:25:41 > 0:25:43Fiennes.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46Defoe. What are Portobello, pom pom, and black trumpet edible varieties of?
0:25:46 > 0:25:48Mushrooms.
0:25:48 > 0:25:49Mushrooms is correct.
0:25:49 > 0:25:53In 1919, an American-born aristocrat became the first woman MP
0:25:53 > 0:25:55to take her seat in the House of Commons.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57She was returned for her Plymouth constituency...
0:25:57 > 0:26:00BEEP ..at subsequent elections until her retirement
0:26:00 > 0:26:01in 1945. What was her name?
0:26:01 > 0:26:02Nancy Astor.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04Nancy Astor is correct.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07You had one pass, Alyn. It was Dave, or Sir Dave, as he is now,
0:26:07 > 0:26:13- Sir Dave Brailsford, who was that coach, the cycling coach.- Yeah.
0:26:13 > 0:26:17- Total, I'm afraid, of 21 points. - Thank you.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19APPLAUSE
0:26:28 > 0:26:30Well, a noble effort but he didn't quite get there.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32Let's have a look at the scores.
0:26:32 > 0:26:34In fourth place with 12 points - Lotte Houghton.
0:26:34 > 0:26:36Third place, 18 points - Rob Webb.
0:26:36 > 0:26:40Second place, 21 points - Alyn McFetridge.
0:26:40 > 0:26:43And in first place with 23 points - Bruce Horton.
0:26:53 > 0:26:55Which means that Bruce is tonight's winner
0:26:55 > 0:26:59and he goes through to the semifinals. Congratulations to him.
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