0:00:25 > 0:00:27First in the spotlight tonight is Robin Armstrong,
0:00:27 > 0:00:29a business consultant from Northamptonshire.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32He's answering questions on the band Pearl Jam.
0:00:32 > 0:00:34Next, Des Gallagher, an office worker from Manchester
0:00:34 > 0:00:36on the Watergate scandal.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39Matthew Smith is a publishing intern from Whitley Bay.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42His specialist subject - Middlesbrough Football Club.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44And Sarah Greenan, a barrister from Leeds.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47Her subject - poet AE Housman.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51APPLAUSE
0:01:00 > 0:01:03Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.
0:01:03 > 0:01:08Tonight, as ever, four contenders are about to sit in the black chair.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11It might look comfortable enough, but there is little comfort to be
0:01:11 > 0:01:14found under the glare of the lights and the pressure of the clock.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16There's not much time to think either.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19You know it or you don't, and that is the real challenge - time.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22They get two minutes of questions on their specialist subject,
0:01:22 > 0:01:24and then two and a half on general knowledge.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27So, let's have our first contender, please.
0:01:34 > 0:01:36- And your name is...- Robin Armstrong.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38- Your occupation... - Business consultant.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40- And your chosen subject...- Pearl Jam.
0:01:40 > 0:01:42Pearl Jam, in two minutes...
0:01:42 > 0:01:45What is the title of the American rock band Pearl Jam's
0:01:45 > 0:01:47debut UK single from the album Ten?
0:01:47 > 0:01:49It begins with the lyrics, "Son, she said,
0:01:49 > 0:01:51"have I got a little story for you?"
0:01:51 > 0:01:53- Alive.- What was the name of the band's drummer who was
0:01:53 > 0:01:56fired in August 1994 and was replaced by Jack Irons?
0:01:56 > 0:01:58Dave Abbruzzese.
0:01:58 > 0:02:01At which venue was the band playing on July 8, 2003
0:02:01 > 0:02:04when the crowd responded so enthusiastically that
0:02:04 > 0:02:06the floor and stage shook violently?
0:02:07 > 0:02:08Pass.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11After the group Mother Love Bone split, two of its members,
0:02:11 > 0:02:14Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard, recruited vocalist Eddie Vedder
0:02:14 > 0:02:17and others to form what eventually became Pearl Jam.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20The group was briefly named after which basketball player?
0:02:20 > 0:02:21Mookie Blaylock.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24In 1998, the band released a behind-the-scenes video
0:02:24 > 0:02:26of the recording of the album Yield that included footage of
0:02:26 > 0:02:30them rehearsing songs for their '97 date supporting the Rolling Stones.
0:02:30 > 0:02:32What's the title of the video?
0:02:33 > 0:02:34Single Video Theory.
0:02:34 > 0:02:38In '95, Pearl Jam recorded the album Mirrorball with a Canadian
0:02:38 > 0:02:42singer-songwriter whom the band had performed with several times. Who was he?
0:02:42 > 0:02:43Neil Young.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46What was the record label at which Pearl Jam were contracted from
0:02:46 > 0:02:50their debut album Ten in '92 to Riot Act in 2002?
0:02:50 > 0:02:52Epic.
0:02:52 > 0:02:56Which former Soundgarden drummer joined Pearl Jam in '98, replacing Jack Irons?
0:02:56 > 0:03:00He made his first appearance with them on CBS's Late Show with David Letterman.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02Matt Cameron.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05Which Pearl Jam song on the Versus album includes the lyrics,
0:03:05 > 0:03:07"I will stare the sun down till I go blind.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10"I won't change direction and I won't change my mind?"
0:03:10 > 0:03:11Indifference.
0:03:11 > 0:03:16For which album did Pearl Jam win a Grammy for Best Recording Package in 2015?
0:03:17 > 0:03:18Lightning Bolt.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21Which Bob Dylan song did Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready perform
0:03:21 > 0:03:26at the 30th anniversary tribute concert for Dylan on October 16 '92?
0:03:26 > 0:03:27Masters of War.
0:03:27 > 0:03:32The second Pearl Jam album, Versus, contains the song WMA based on an incident
0:03:32 > 0:03:35Eddie Vedder saw involving racial harassment by the police.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37What do the letters WMA stand for?
0:03:37 > 0:03:39White Male American.
0:03:39 > 0:03:42What is the name of the independent record label founded by Pearl Jam in 2009?
0:03:42 > 0:03:44BEEP
0:03:44 > 0:03:47Albums released on it include Backspacer and Lightning Bolt.
0:03:47 > 0:03:50- Monkey Wrench.- Is correct, and you are out of time.
0:03:50 > 0:03:52You have just one pass. The...
0:03:52 > 0:03:58stage shook and the floor shook as well at Madison Square Garden.
0:03:58 > 0:04:00You've scored, Robin, 12 points.
0:04:00 > 0:04:03APPLAUSE
0:04:09 > 0:04:11And our next contender, please.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19- And your name is...- Des Gallagher.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21- Your occupation...- Office worker.
0:04:21 > 0:04:23- And your chosen subject... - The Watergate scandal.
0:04:23 > 0:04:25Watergate, in two minutes...
0:04:25 > 0:04:28The Watergate scandal in the '70s eventually led to
0:04:28 > 0:04:30President Richard Nixon's resignation,
0:04:30 > 0:04:33although originally the break-in at the Watergate was dismissed by
0:04:33 > 0:04:36Nixon's press secretary as a third-rate burglary attempt.
0:04:36 > 0:04:37Who was he?
0:04:37 > 0:04:40- Ron Ziegler.- Who devised Operation Gemstone,
0:04:40 > 0:04:43which ultimately led to the botched attempt to wiretap the phones
0:04:43 > 0:04:45and burgle the Democratic National Committee headquarters?
0:04:45 > 0:04:48He was the counsel for the committee to re-elect the President.
0:04:48 > 0:04:49G Gordon Liddy.
0:04:49 > 0:04:53During the break-in, Al Baldwin acted as lookout from a room in a motel
0:04:53 > 0:04:55opposite the Watergate complex. Which motel?
0:04:55 > 0:04:57- The Johnson. - Yes, Howard Johnson.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00What was the name of the chairman of the Democratic National Committee
0:05:00 > 0:05:04who was one of the prime targets of the phone bugs planted during the break-in?
0:05:04 > 0:05:05Lawrence O'Brien.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08Which inexperienced attorney was briefly appointed as counsel
0:05:08 > 0:05:10for the five men arrested for the Watergate burglaries
0:05:10 > 0:05:13although the attorney of record was Joseph Rafferty?
0:05:14 > 0:05:16- Kennelly.- Douglas Caddy.
0:05:16 > 0:05:20What code name did the Washington Post give to the anonymous informant who passed
0:05:20 > 0:05:24confidential information about Watergate to their reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward?
0:05:24 > 0:05:25Deep Throat.
0:05:25 > 0:05:29In July '74, which of the House Judiciary Committee Articles of Impeachment
0:05:29 > 0:05:33against Nixon accused him of failing to produce papers and other items
0:05:33 > 0:05:36and disobeying the Committee's subpoenas requiring him to do so?
0:05:36 > 0:05:39- Obstruction of Congress. - It was the Third Article.
0:05:39 > 0:05:43Who replaced Richard Kleindienst as Attorney General in '73 but resigned
0:05:43 > 0:05:47later that year rather than fire the special prosecutor Archibald Cox?
0:05:47 > 0:05:48Elliot Richardson.
0:05:48 > 0:05:52What was the name of Cox's deputy who temporarily took over as
0:05:52 > 0:05:55the Watergate special prosecutor after Cox was
0:05:55 > 0:05:57dismissed at the so-called Saturday Night Massacre?
0:05:57 > 0:05:59- Bork.- Henry Ruth.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02Which committee of the House of Representatives did Hillary Rodham
0:06:02 > 0:06:04serve on during their investigations into Watergate?
0:06:05 > 0:06:08- The Senate. - No, the House Judiciary Committee.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11What was the name of the Acting Director of the FBI who resigned
0:06:11 > 0:06:15following revelations that he had destroyed documents from the safe
0:06:15 > 0:06:17of the Watergate conspirator E Howard Hunt?
0:06:17 > 0:06:18L Patrick Grey.
0:06:18 > 0:06:21One of the White House tapes that Nixon was forced to hand over
0:06:21 > 0:06:24was regarded as the smoking gun, because it proved that he had
0:06:24 > 0:06:26discussed using the CIA... BEEP
0:06:26 > 0:06:28..to inhibit the FBI's investigation.
0:06:28 > 0:06:30The tape was from what date in '72?
0:06:30 > 0:06:33- June 23.- Is correct.
0:06:33 > 0:06:34No passes, Des.
0:06:34 > 0:06:36You have scored eight points.
0:06:37 > 0:06:40APPLAUSE
0:06:46 > 0:06:48And our next contender, please.
0:06:54 > 0:06:55- And your name is...- Matthew Smith.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57- Your occupation... - I'm a publishing intern.
0:06:57 > 0:06:59And your chosen subject...
0:06:59 > 0:07:00Middlesbrough Football Club.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03Middlesbrough Football Club. In two minutes, here we go...
0:07:03 > 0:07:06Who was the Middlesbrough manager between '86 and 1990
0:07:06 > 0:07:08when the club nearly went out of business
0:07:08 > 0:07:10and the staff found themselves locked out of the ground?
0:07:10 > 0:07:11Bruce Rioch.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14Which board member brought together a consortium responsible
0:07:14 > 0:07:16for saving the club from liquidation in 1986?
0:07:16 > 0:07:19He became Middlesbrough's youngest director when he joined the board
0:07:19 > 0:07:21in November '84, aged 26.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23Steve Gibson.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26What was the name of the ground where Middlesbrough played their last home game
0:07:26 > 0:07:29in 1903 before moving to their long-time home, Ayresome Park?
0:07:29 > 0:07:30Linthorpe Road.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33Which player, who originally signed from Albion Rovers, was
0:07:33 > 0:07:39Boro's leading scorer for five consecutive seasons between 86-87 and 1991?
0:07:39 > 0:07:43- Bernie Slaven.- In '75, Middlesbrough won the Anglo Scottish cup.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45Which team did they beat in the two-legged final?
0:07:45 > 0:07:46Fulham.
0:07:46 > 0:07:49Who became the first player to cost £1,000
0:07:49 > 0:07:52when Middlesbrough signed him from Sunderland in February 1905?
0:07:52 > 0:07:53Alf Common.
0:07:53 > 0:07:57Who was Boro's regular goalkeeper during 1956-57 when Brian Clough
0:07:57 > 0:08:01played his first full season for the club and scored 40 goals?
0:08:01 > 0:08:03- Dave Cumming. - Peter Taylor.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06Which Cameroon international scored for Middlesbrough when they won the final
0:08:06 > 0:08:11of the 2004 Carling Cup by two goals to one against Bolton Wanderers?
0:08:11 > 0:08:13Joseph-Desire Job.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16Known as the White Feather, the Italian forward Fabrizio Ravanelli
0:08:16 > 0:08:19signed for Middlesbrough from Juventus in 1996.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22To which club was he sold the following season?
0:08:22 > 0:08:23- Napoli. - No, Marseille.
0:08:23 > 0:08:28Which lower league team did Boro beat in a replay in the '97 FA Cup
0:08:28 > 0:08:30semifinals before losing to Chelsea in the final?
0:08:30 > 0:08:32Chesterfield.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35What was the name of the Brazilian striker who became the club's most expensive
0:08:35 > 0:08:40signing when he joined from Dutch club SC Heerenveen in January 2008?
0:08:40 > 0:08:42Afonso Alves.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45Which team did Middlesbrough beat by nine goals to nil in August '58,
0:08:45 > 0:08:47the first match of the new season?
0:08:47 > 0:08:48Brighton and Hove Albion.
0:08:48 > 0:08:52In 1988, Middlesbrough won a play-off final against the team that had finished
0:08:52 > 0:08:56fourth bottom in the First Division, and condemned them to relegation. Which team?
0:08:56 > 0:08:57Chelsea.
0:08:57 > 0:09:01What was the name of the former England international wing-half who was the
0:09:01 > 0:09:04first player to have captained Middlesbrough, Newcastle United...
0:09:04 > 0:09:05BEEP ..and Sunderland?
0:09:05 > 0:09:07- Stan Anderson.- Is correct.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10And you have no passes, Matthew, you have 12 points.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14APPLAUSE
0:09:21 > 0:09:22And our final contender, please.
0:09:29 > 0:09:32- And your name is...- Sarah Greenan.
0:09:32 > 0:09:34- Your occupation...- Barrister.
0:09:34 > 0:09:38- And your chosen subject... - The life and poetry of AE Housman.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40AE Housman, in two minutes, here we go...
0:09:40 > 0:09:43Two collections of Housman's poems were published during his lifetime.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45A Shropshire Lad was the first.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48What was the title of the second, first published in 1922?
0:09:48 > 0:09:49Last Poems.
0:09:49 > 0:09:52In which Worcestershire town did Housman spend much of his early years?
0:09:52 > 0:09:55He went to the local grammar school from where he won a scholarship to Oxford.
0:09:55 > 0:09:59- Bromsgrove.- According to the opening line of Poem 23 of a Shropshire Lad,
0:09:59 > 0:10:02to which town do the lads in their hundreds come in for the fair?
0:10:02 > 0:10:03Ludlow.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06In what subject was Housman appointed as a professor
0:10:06 > 0:10:08of University College London in 1892?
0:10:08 > 0:10:11He left in 1911 for a similar post in Cambridge.
0:10:11 > 0:10:12Latin.
0:10:12 > 0:10:15Which future politician attended Housman's lectures at Cambridge
0:10:15 > 0:10:18and wrote that "the severity of Housman's presentation was
0:10:18 > 0:10:22"the severity not of passionlessness, but of suppressed passion,
0:10:22 > 0:10:24"passion for true poetry, and passion for truthfulness"?
0:10:24 > 0:10:25Enoch Powell.
0:10:25 > 0:10:29What event of 1895 prompted the writing of the poem whose opening
0:10:29 > 0:10:33line is, "Oh, who is that young sinner with handcuffs on his wrists?"
0:10:33 > 0:10:34The trial of Oscar Wilde.
0:10:34 > 0:10:38How does Housman describe the villages of Clunton and Clunbury,
0:10:38 > 0:10:42Clungunford and Clun, in the epigraph to poem 50 of A Shropshire Lad?
0:10:42 > 0:10:44The quietest places under the sun.
0:10:44 > 0:10:47Housman's edition of the poem Astronomica was
0:10:47 > 0:10:49published between 1903 and 1930.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52To which Roman astrologer is the original poem attributed?
0:10:52 > 0:10:53Manilius.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56At what branch of the Patent Office did Housman work
0:10:56 > 0:10:59- as a clerk from 1882 to 1892?- Pass.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01Which hill, that is actually in Worcestershire,
0:11:01 > 0:11:04is celebrated in poem 21 of A Shropshire Lad?
0:11:04 > 0:11:05Bredon.
0:11:05 > 0:11:06Which annual lecture,
0:11:06 > 0:11:09named after the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography,
0:11:09 > 0:11:13did Housman give in 1933 on the name and nature of poetry?
0:11:13 > 0:11:14Leslie Stephen.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17What is the title of the poem about the death of a soldier that
0:11:17 > 0:11:20was first published at the height of the Boer war, and begins,
0:11:20 > 0:11:21"Oh hard is the bed they have made him,
0:11:21 > 0:11:23"and common the blanket and cheap"?
0:11:23 > 0:11:24Illic Jacet.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26What was the name of Housman's brother,
0:11:26 > 0:11:29who published a biography of him, and a posthumous collection of his poems?
0:11:29 > 0:11:30Lawrence.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32Which distinguished physicist wrote that
0:11:32 > 0:11:34when Housman delivered his last lecture,
0:11:34 > 0:11:36days before his death in April 1936,
0:11:36 > 0:11:39"He was terribly ill and must have had invincible determination
0:11:39 > 0:11:41"to lecture in such a state"?
0:11:41 > 0:11:42- BEEP - Thompson.
0:11:42 > 0:11:43Indeed, JJ Thomson.
0:11:43 > 0:11:46You had just one pass, Sarah.
0:11:46 > 0:11:51The branch of the Patent Office where he worked in 1882 for ten years
0:11:51 > 0:11:54was the Trademarks Registry.
0:11:54 > 0:11:57You have scored 13 points.
0:11:57 > 0:11:58APPLAUSE
0:12:08 > 0:12:10So, that's the end of that high-scoring round.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12Let's have a look at all the scores.
0:12:12 > 0:12:13In fourth place, eight points,
0:12:13 > 0:12:14Des Gallagher.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16Joint second place, 12 points apiece,
0:12:16 > 0:12:18Robin Armstrong and Matthew Smith.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20First place, with 13 points,
0:12:20 > 0:12:21Sarah Greenan.
0:12:21 > 0:12:22APPLAUSE
0:12:26 > 0:12:29So, it is the general knowledge round now,
0:12:29 > 0:12:32and if there is a tie at the end of it then the number of passes
0:12:32 > 0:12:35is taken into account, and the person with the fewer passes is the winner,
0:12:35 > 0:12:39and if they are tied on passes as well, there will be a tie-break.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42And incidentally, the six highest scoring runners-up
0:12:42 > 0:12:45will also be able to claim a place in the semifinals.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47So, plenty to play for, let's get on with it,
0:12:47 > 0:12:49and ask Des to join us again, please.
0:12:50 > 0:12:54And you have eight points, Des,
0:12:54 > 0:12:56but you now have two and a half minutes of general knowledge
0:12:56 > 0:12:59to catch up and overtake the rest. Here we go.
0:12:59 > 0:13:03Which religion was founded in America by Joseph Smith in about 1830,
0:13:03 > 0:13:06and developed by Brigham The Young after Smith's death in 1844?
0:13:06 > 0:13:07Mormons.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10Yes. A single piece of which fruit of the genus Musa is called a finger?
0:13:10 > 0:13:12A bunch is called a hand.
0:13:12 > 0:13:13Pass.
0:13:13 > 0:13:17Erica Leonard is the real name of a British author whose erotic novels
0:13:17 > 0:13:21topped the bestseller list in 2012 and 2015. Who is she?
0:13:21 > 0:13:22Grey.
0:13:22 > 0:13:23EL James.
0:13:23 > 0:13:26Characters created by EF Benson have been played on television
0:13:26 > 0:13:29by Prunella Scales and Geraldine McEwan in the 1980s,
0:13:29 > 0:13:33and by Miranda Richardson and Anna Chancellor in 2014. Which characters?
0:13:33 > 0:13:34Pass.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36What nationality is Alfonso Cuaron,
0:13:36 > 0:13:39the director of the award-winning film Gravity?
0:13:40 > 0:13:41Spanish.
0:13:41 > 0:13:44Mexican. What is the name of the international airport
0:13:44 > 0:13:48opened in 1987 on a Docklands site in the borough of Newham?
0:13:48 > 0:13:49City of London.
0:13:49 > 0:13:52Yes. London City. Who published Enquiry Into The Cause
0:13:52 > 0:13:55And Effect Of The Variolae Vaccinae in 1798,
0:13:55 > 0:13:58that were the results of his inoculation of an eight-year-old
0:13:58 > 0:14:00boy called James Phipps?
0:14:00 > 0:14:01Lister.
0:14:01 > 0:14:05Edward Jenner. Which capital city was known as the Paris of the Middle East
0:14:05 > 0:14:06because of its vibrant nightlife?
0:14:06 > 0:14:10The bloody civil war that started in 1975 put an end to that reputation.
0:14:12 > 0:14:13Sarajevo?
0:14:13 > 0:14:17Beirut. In Britain, what is the alternative popular name for the common seal?
0:14:19 > 0:14:20Pass.
0:14:20 > 0:14:22Humphrey Repton, who died in 1818,
0:14:22 > 0:14:25was a celebrated designer whose work can be seen at
0:14:25 > 0:14:28Longleat, Woburn Abbey, and Harwood House, among many other places.
0:14:28 > 0:14:29What did he design?
0:14:31 > 0:14:32Furniture?
0:14:32 > 0:14:34Gardens, or landscapes. In Germanic legend,
0:14:34 > 0:14:37which warrior hero killed the fire-breathing dragon Fafnir?
0:14:39 > 0:14:41Tannhauser.
0:14:41 > 0:14:45Siegfried. What household item takes its name from the Greek for "at a distance",
0:14:45 > 0:14:46and the Latin for "to see"?
0:14:47 > 0:14:48Pass.
0:14:48 > 0:14:51The composer Carl Nielsen, whose works include six symphonies and
0:14:51 > 0:14:56the operas Saul and David, and Maskarade, is from which country?
0:14:56 > 0:14:57United States.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00Denmark. What term is used to describe a disease or disorder that is
0:15:00 > 0:15:04always present in a specific region or in a specific group of people?
0:15:06 > 0:15:08Localised.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11Endemic. How was William Joyce, who broadcast propaganda from Germany
0:15:11 > 0:15:14to Britain during the Second World War, better known?
0:15:14 > 0:15:15Lord Haw-Haw.
0:15:15 > 0:15:18Yes. Which British actor received Oscar nominations for his performances
0:15:18 > 0:15:21in the films The Talented Mr Ripley, and Cold Mountain?
0:15:24 > 0:15:25Jude Law.
0:15:25 > 0:15:29Yes. What Italian word was introduced into English by the writer Robert Burton...
0:15:29 > 0:15:30BEEP
0:15:30 > 0:15:33..in the 17th century, and now refers to the class of people in a society
0:15:33 > 0:15:36who read, write and talk about fashionable literature?
0:15:38 > 0:15:39Literati.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41Yes, literati. You had four passes.
0:15:41 > 0:15:45The household item that comes from "at a distance",
0:15:45 > 0:15:47and the Latin for "to see", television.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49JOHN CHUCKLES
0:15:49 > 0:15:52The common seal is also the harbour seal.
0:15:52 > 0:15:57Mapp and Lucia were those characters created by EF Benson,
0:15:57 > 0:16:01and a single piece of fruit of the genus Musa called a finger
0:16:01 > 0:16:02- is a banana.- (Oh!)
0:16:02 > 0:16:04- Hence the hand.- Yeah.- I know!
0:16:04 > 0:16:07Des, you've got a total, now, of 13 points.
0:16:07 > 0:16:09Thank you.
0:16:09 > 0:16:10APPLAUSE
0:16:16 > 0:16:18And now, Robin, again, please.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22And you start this round with 12 points, Robin,
0:16:22 > 0:16:24with your knowledge of Pearl Jam.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26Let's see how you do with your general knowledge.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28Two and a half minutes, starting now.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31Which hereditary blood disease seriously affected Alexei,
0:16:31 > 0:16:33the son of tsar Nicholas The Second?
0:16:34 > 0:16:36Oh! Erm...
0:16:37 > 0:16:38Pass.
0:16:38 > 0:16:41In 1998, Ricky Tomlinson first appeared as the layabout head
0:16:41 > 0:16:43of which television family?
0:16:43 > 0:16:44The Royle family.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46Yes. Which battle of the winter of 1942 to 1943
0:16:46 > 0:16:49is commemorated by The Motherland Calls,
0:16:49 > 0:16:52an enormous statue of a winged female holding a sword aloft?
0:16:52 > 0:16:55It was completed in 1967, and stands by the River Volga.
0:16:55 > 0:16:56Stalingrad.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59Yes. The name given to a luxurious campsite near Calais where
0:16:59 > 0:17:03Henry VIII and Francis The First of France met in June 1520
0:17:03 > 0:17:06was Field Of The Cloth Of...?
0:17:06 > 0:17:07Pass.
0:17:07 > 0:17:11In 2014, which Australian animal was recognised as a distinct species,
0:17:11 > 0:17:13and not as a wild dog, as previously thought?
0:17:13 > 0:17:14Dingo.
0:17:14 > 0:17:18Yes. Which Irish actor plays the title role in Neil Jordan's 1996 film
0:17:18 > 0:17:19Michael Collins?
0:17:19 > 0:17:20Liam Neeson.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23In Italian cuisine, what organ of an animal's body
0:17:23 > 0:17:27is cooked in olive oil with sage and garlic in the dish Fegato alla salvia?
0:17:28 > 0:17:29Pass.
0:17:29 > 0:17:31What is the name of the former lead guitarist with the Smiths
0:17:31 > 0:17:36who was awarded the Godlike Genius accolade at the 2013 NME awards?
0:17:36 > 0:17:37Johnny Marr.
0:17:37 > 0:17:39Yes. Who created the American woodsman Natty Bumppo,
0:17:39 > 0:17:42also known as Hawk-eye and Pathfinder, in the series of adventure novels
0:17:42 > 0:17:45known as The Leatherstocking Tales?
0:17:45 > 0:17:46Pass.
0:17:46 > 0:17:48The second highest mountain in the world, K2,
0:17:48 > 0:17:51lies on the border between China and which other country?
0:17:51 > 0:17:52Mongolia.
0:17:52 > 0:17:56Pakistan. Which Roman hero, immortalised in a poem by Macaulay, is said to
0:17:56 > 0:17:59have bravely and single-handedly stopped an invading army
0:17:59 > 0:18:01from crossing a bridge over the Tiber into Rome?
0:18:03 > 0:18:04Pass.
0:18:04 > 0:18:07Which New Zealand city was founded in 1848 by Scottish settlers,
0:18:07 > 0:18:11and takes its name from the Gaelic name for Edinburgh?
0:18:11 > 0:18:12Auckland.
0:18:12 > 0:18:16Dunedin. Which city did the poet Matthew Arnold describe in his poem Thyrsis
0:18:16 > 0:18:19as, "that sweet city with her dreaming spires?"
0:18:19 > 0:18:20Chesterfield.
0:18:20 > 0:18:21Oxford.
0:18:21 > 0:18:25Jacob, Swaledale and Clun Forest are all breeds of which farm animal?
0:18:26 > 0:18:27Sheep.
0:18:27 > 0:18:30Yes. The light, porous whitish mineral sepiolite,
0:18:30 > 0:18:33whose principal use is for tobacco pipes,
0:18:33 > 0:18:36has an alternative name that comes from the German for sea foam. What is it?
0:18:36 > 0:18:38Pass.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40What is the name of the singer who left his backing band
0:18:40 > 0:18:42The Tremoloes to pursue a solo career, but ended up
0:18:42 > 0:18:45running his family's butcher's shop, as well as his own record company?
0:18:47 > 0:18:48Pass.
0:18:48 > 0:18:51An arrangement of a composer's Funeral March Of A Marionette
0:18:51 > 0:18:53was used as the theme music for the television series
0:18:53 > 0:18:55Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
0:18:55 > 0:18:56Which composer?
0:18:56 > 0:18:58Pass.
0:18:58 > 0:19:00Musophobia is an irrational fear...
0:19:00 > 0:19:01BEEP
0:19:01 > 0:19:03..of which rodent?
0:19:03 > 0:19:04Rat.
0:19:04 > 0:19:06Yeah, mice and rats. Yes.
0:19:06 > 0:19:08You have eight passes, Robin.
0:19:08 > 0:19:12Gounod was that composer, Funeral March Of A Marionette.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15Brian Poole was the singer who left The Tremoloes.
0:19:15 > 0:19:19Meerschaum is that light porous material that they make pipes from,
0:19:19 > 0:19:20amongst other things.
0:19:20 > 0:19:25Horatius was the Roman hero who stopped the army crossing the bridge.
0:19:25 > 0:19:29James Fenimore Cooper wrote The Leatherstocking Tales.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32The liver is what you get in Fegato alla salvia.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34Field Of The Cloth Of Gold,
0:19:34 > 0:19:36that's the name given to that campsite near Calais,
0:19:36 > 0:19:41and haemophilia is what Alexei suffered from. Yes.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43You have a total, Robin, of 19 points.
0:19:43 > 0:19:46APPLAUSE
0:19:53 > 0:19:55And now Matthew again, please.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59And you also start out with 12 points,
0:19:59 > 0:20:01with your knowledge of Middlesbrough.
0:20:01 > 0:20:0319 is the score to beat, as it stands.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05Let's see if you can do that, here we go.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08Gossamer and ping-pong are early names of which game?
0:20:08 > 0:20:09Table tennis.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12Yes. Which playwright is the subject of Matthew Arnold's poem that
0:20:12 > 0:20:16opens with the line, "Others abide our question, thou art free."
0:20:16 > 0:20:17Sylvia Plath.
0:20:17 > 0:20:20Shakespeare. Who performed the hit songs Halo and Crazy In Love
0:20:20 > 0:20:22during the half-time interval at the 2013 Super Bowl,
0:20:22 > 0:20:26shortly before a power cut plunged the stadium into darkness?
0:20:26 > 0:20:27Destiny's Child.
0:20:27 > 0:20:28No, it was Beyonce.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31Which southern county is the largest in the Republic of Ireland?
0:20:31 > 0:20:32County Cork.
0:20:32 > 0:20:36Yes. An author best known for presenting television programmes with her husband
0:20:36 > 0:20:40wrote the bestselling novels Eloise in 2012, and I Do Not Sleep, in 2015.
0:20:40 > 0:20:41What is her name?
0:20:41 > 0:20:43Pass.
0:20:43 > 0:20:44What alternative name for the wolverine,
0:20:44 > 0:20:49a member of the weasel family, is often used as a term for a greedy person?
0:20:49 > 0:20:51Erm... Weasel.
0:20:51 > 0:20:56Glutton. Who composed the Symphonie Fantastique, first performed in Paris in 1813?
0:20:56 > 0:20:57Handel.
0:20:57 > 0:20:59Berlioz. The islands of Santa Rosa, San Miguel,
0:20:59 > 0:21:02and Santa Catalina, collectively known as the Channel Islands,
0:21:02 > 0:21:06lie off the Pacific coast of which American state?
0:21:06 > 0:21:07Florida.
0:21:07 > 0:21:11California. The verse drama Murder In The Cathedral, by TS Eliot,
0:21:11 > 0:21:13concerns the death of which historical figure?
0:21:13 > 0:21:15Erm...
0:21:16 > 0:21:18Tom... Thomas of Beckett.
0:21:18 > 0:21:21Yes. Which body of water that forms the link between the Red Sea
0:21:21 > 0:21:24and the Arabian Sea is named after a port in southern Yemen,
0:21:24 > 0:21:25a former British ground colony?
0:21:25 > 0:21:27Pass.
0:21:27 > 0:21:29Who ran 100 metres in 9.77 seconds,
0:21:29 > 0:21:32his slowest time yet in a major final,
0:21:32 > 0:21:34to win his second World Championship Gold medal
0:21:34 > 0:21:37in an event in Moscow in August 2013?
0:21:37 > 0:21:38Usain Bolt.
0:21:38 > 0:21:41Yes. In which country did the Vorticism movement briefly flourish,
0:21:41 > 0:21:42before the First World War?
0:21:42 > 0:21:46It was equivalent to Cubism in France, and Futurism in Italy.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48Germany.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51England. What revolutionary song, composed in France in the late 19th century,
0:21:51 > 0:21:56was the national anthem of the Soviet Union from 1921 until '44?
0:21:56 > 0:21:57Pass.
0:21:57 > 0:22:01Which animal and wildlife welfare organisation has its headquarters
0:22:01 > 0:22:04in The Lodge, a nature reserve near the Bedfordshire town of Sandy?
0:22:04 > 0:22:05RSPCA?
0:22:05 > 0:22:10RSPB. Which band, formed in Clydebank near Glasgow in 1982, took its name
0:22:10 > 0:22:14from a line in Scritti Politti's song Getting, Having And Holding?
0:22:14 > 0:22:15Pass.
0:22:15 > 0:22:18What programme, devised for radio in 1959 by Cliff Adams
0:22:18 > 0:22:23for his group The Adams' Singers, continued until his death in 2001?
0:22:23 > 0:22:24Pass.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26Which is the oldest bridge across the river Seine in Paris?
0:22:26 > 0:22:28Its name means "new bridge."
0:22:29 > 0:22:30Pass.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32If a piece of gold is marked 16 carats,
0:22:32 > 0:22:35how many parts of alloying material... BEEP
0:22:35 > 0:22:36..does it contain?
0:22:36 > 0:22:38Erm... 12.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40Not bad, but it's eight.
0:22:40 > 0:22:44Eight parts, or a third, you could have said, apparently.
0:22:44 > 0:22:45Anyway, there we are. You had six passes.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48The oldest bridge across the Seine in Paris,
0:22:48 > 0:22:50its name means new bridge, actually, Pont Neuf.
0:22:50 > 0:22:54That programme devised for radio in 1959 by Cliff Adams
0:22:54 > 0:22:56was Sing Something Simple.
0:22:56 > 0:23:00The revolutionary song composed in France was the Internationale.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03Wet Wet Wet was the name of that band that was formed in Clydebank.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06Gulf of Aden, that's the body of water that forms the link
0:23:06 > 0:23:08between the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11And Judy Finnigan wrote Eloise, and I Do Not Sleep.
0:23:11 > 0:23:14You have now, Matthew, 16 points.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16APPLAUSE
0:23:23 > 0:23:26And finally, Sarah, again, please.
0:23:26 > 0:23:30And you start this round with 13 points, the score to beat is 19.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33Let's see if you can do it, with your general knowledge.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35Two and a half minutes, starting now.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37Which tree appears on the flag of the Lebanon?
0:23:37 > 0:23:38A cedar.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40Yes. Which novel did Robert Louis Stevenson
0:23:40 > 0:23:42claim he conceived as a boy's action story
0:23:42 > 0:23:45while he was staying at the late Miss MacGregor's cottage in Braemar?
0:23:45 > 0:23:46Kidnapped.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48Treasure Island.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51Who was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation from 1969,
0:23:51 > 0:23:53and president of the Palestinian Authority
0:23:53 > 0:23:55from '96 until his death in 2004?
0:23:55 > 0:23:56Yasser Arafat.
0:23:56 > 0:24:00Yes. At which sporting event did John Isner and Nicolas Mahut
0:24:00 > 0:24:04compete against each other for a record 11 hours and five minutes in June 2010?
0:24:04 > 0:24:05Tennis.
0:24:05 > 0:24:07- No, Wimbledon.- (Wimbledon.)
0:24:07 > 0:24:09Which tall tourist attraction in Lancashire
0:24:09 > 0:24:12was designed by Manchester architects Maxwell and Tuke?
0:24:12 > 0:24:15It was completed in 1894, and now has Grade I listed building status.
0:24:16 > 0:24:17Pass.
0:24:17 > 0:24:21What is the name of the actor and director who played Rowdy Yates, the second in command
0:24:21 > 0:24:24of a team of cattle drovers in the '60s television series Rawhide?
0:24:24 > 0:24:26Pass.
0:24:26 > 0:24:27In the title of a Janacek opera,
0:24:27 > 0:24:30the animal Sharp-Ears is known as The Cunning Little...?
0:24:30 > 0:24:32Vixen.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34Yes. The meteorological office was part of a government ministry
0:24:34 > 0:24:38before transferring to the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills
0:24:38 > 0:24:40in 2011. Which ministry?
0:24:42 > 0:24:43Pass.
0:24:43 > 0:24:46The television roles of an actress include the romantic novelist
0:24:46 > 0:24:50Mary Fisher in the adaptation of Fay Weldon's The Life And Loves Of A She-Devil,
0:24:50 > 0:24:53and the title character's mother Penny in Miranda.
0:24:53 > 0:24:55- Which actress?- Pass.
0:24:55 > 0:24:57What are traditionally made on the Sunday before Advent,
0:24:57 > 0:25:00popularly known as Stir-up Sunday?
0:25:00 > 0:25:01Christmas cakes.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03Christmas puddings. Which historic document begins,
0:25:03 > 0:25:06"When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people
0:25:06 > 0:25:10"to dissolve the political bans which have connected them with another"?
0:25:11 > 0:25:12The American Declaration of Independence.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14Yes. Which French author,
0:25:14 > 0:25:16best known for his swashbuckling historical novels,
0:25:16 > 0:25:18wrote a dictionary of cuisine?
0:25:18 > 0:25:21Its publication was delayed by the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War.
0:25:21 > 0:25:22Escoffier?
0:25:22 > 0:25:28No. Dumas. The Ponte Vecchio, completed in 1345, and built by Taddeo Gaddi,
0:25:28 > 0:25:29spans which river?
0:25:29 > 0:25:30The Tiber.
0:25:30 > 0:25:33The Arno. In mathematics, the sieve of Eratosthenes
0:25:33 > 0:25:37is used as a method of finding what particular type of numbers?
0:25:37 > 0:25:38Prime.
0:25:38 > 0:25:42Yes. The Hungarian American film director Michael Curtiz won his only Oscar
0:25:42 > 0:25:46for a 1942 film starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.
0:25:46 > 0:25:47Which film?
0:25:47 > 0:25:48The Maltese Falcon?
0:25:48 > 0:25:51Casablanca. In Greek mythology, which beautiful youth, killed by a wild boar,
0:25:51 > 0:25:55was allowed by Zeus to spend half a year with his lover, Aphrodite,
0:25:55 > 0:25:57and the other half in Hades?
0:25:57 > 0:25:58Pass.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01What execution device is featured in a series of works by Andy Warhol?
0:26:01 > 0:26:03He eventually acquired one himself,
0:26:03 > 0:26:05and is said to have sat in it to watch horror films?
0:26:05 > 0:26:06- BEEP - Electric chair.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08Is correct.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10You have five passes, Sarah.
0:26:10 > 0:26:15Adonis was the beautiful youth who spent half his time with his lover
0:26:15 > 0:26:17and half the time in Hell, or Hades.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20Patricia Hodge was the actress.
0:26:20 > 0:26:24The Ministry of Defence is where the Met Office used to be.
0:26:24 > 0:26:26Clint Eastwood played Rowdy Yates,
0:26:26 > 0:26:28and the Blackpool Tower...
0:26:29 > 0:26:33..now has Grade I listed building status.
0:26:33 > 0:26:36So, those five passes, Sarah. You have...
0:26:36 > 0:26:3719 points.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39APPLAUSE
0:26:48 > 0:26:51Well...how close is that?!
0:26:51 > 0:26:52Let's have a look at all the scores.
0:26:52 > 0:26:54In fourth place, 13 points,
0:26:54 > 0:26:55Des Gallagher.
0:26:55 > 0:26:57Third place, 16 points,
0:26:57 > 0:26:59Matthew Smith.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01Second place, with 19 points
0:27:01 > 0:27:03and nine passes,
0:27:03 > 0:27:04Robin Armstrong.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06First place with 19 points,
0:27:06 > 0:27:07and six passes,
0:27:07 > 0:27:09Sarah Greenan.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11APPLAUSE
0:27:21 > 0:27:24Which means that Sarah is tonight's winner,
0:27:24 > 0:27:26and goes through to the semifinals.
0:27:26 > 0:27:29Congratulations to her, and if you would like to be
0:27:29 > 0:27:31a contender on the next series, do go to our website...
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0:27:37 > 0:27:40And do join us again next time for more masterminds.
0:27:40 > 0:27:42Thanks for watching. Goodbye!
0:27:42 > 0:27:44APPLAUSE