Episode 21 Mastermind

First in the spotlight tonight is Stephen Wilson,

a business analyst from Glasgow.

He's answering questions on Scottish pop music.

Next, Rob Coley, a retired travel manager from West Sussex

on Aston Villa.

Dennis Tomlinson is a postman from London.

His specialist subject, East Germany.

And Ruth Green from Stafford.

Her subject, the great ceramicist Clarice Cliff.

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

Four more contenders are all set to take to the stage tonight.

It's hard to know what's the more intimidating,

the spotlight or the clock.

One of our four will go through to the next round,

and then, who knows, all the way to the Grand Final, perhaps,

and maybe the title of Mastermind.

They get two minutes on the first round,

two and a half minutes on the second.

So, let's have our first contender, please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation...?

And your chosen subject...?

In two minutes, starting now.

Which group originally formed by Ricky Ross in Glasgow in 1985

and named after a Steely Dan song

had a UK top-ten hit in 1988 with Real Gone Kid?

Deacon Blue.

What was the title of Altered Images' first UK top-ten single which

reached number two in 1981?

Happy Birthday.

Which band, originally known as the Nu-Sonics,

had a UK top-ten hit in '83 with Rip It Up?

Orange Juice.

What was the title of Texas's first UK top-ten hit which

appeared on their '89 debut album Southside?

I Don't Want A Lover.

Hue and Cry's first UK top-ten single,

Labour Of Love, was released on which

record label? It was a subsidiary of Virgin Records.

-Mercury.

-Circa.

What was the title of the chart-topping album

released by Travis in '99 which featured the top-ten single

Why Does It Always Rain On Me?

The Man Who.

Which band formed by the brothers Jim and William Reid

briefly featured Bobby Gillespie on drums and had their first

UK top-ten single in '87 with April Skies?

Jesus And Mary Chain.

In 1990, Primal Scream had a UK top-20 single that began

with spoken dialogue including the line,

"We want to be free to do what we want to do." What was its title?

Loaded.

Which punk band formed in East Kilbride by Wattie Buchan

and Big John Duncan, reached the UK top 20 with

their '81 album Punks Not Dead?

Exploited.

Under what name did the folk singer Mary Sandeman

top the UK singles charts in 1981 with Japanese Boy?

Aneka.

What was the title of Wet Wet Wet's 1987 debut album that included the

top ten singles Wishing I Was Lucky, Sweet Little Mystery and Angel Eyes?

Popped In Souled Out.

Which band, formed in Grangemouth by Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie

and Will Heggie and named after an early song from fellow Scots Simple Minds,

had two UK top-20 albums during the 1980s?

Cocteau Twins.

Who released the album Diva which reached number one in

the UK album charts in '92?

Annie Lennox.

Which band had a UK top-ten hit single in '82 with Party Fears Two?

The Associates.

Eddi Reader was the lead singer...

BEEP ..of Fairground Attraction

who had a UK number-one hit in '88 with a song that later

won a Brit award for Best Single. Which song?

Perfect.

Perfect, indeed, is right,

which pretty much sums up your round.

You have, Stephen, 14 points.

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And our next contender, please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation...?

And your specialist subject...?

In two minutes, starting now.

Aston Villa Football Club was formed in 1874.

It is one of the 12 founder members of the Football League.

Who was the manager of the club when they won the European Cup in 1982?

Tony Barton.

In March 1946, a Villa Park record crowd of over 76,000 spectators saw Villa

lose 4-3 to Derby County in the first leg of which round of the FA Cup?

The sixth.

Which centre forward, who joined Villa in '47 from Swansea for a fee of £12,000

was sold to Sunderland in 1950 for a British record fee, then, of £30,000?

Trevor Ford.

What's the name of Villa's training ground?

It was acquired in the '70s and upgraded when Randy Lerner took over the club.

Bodymoor Heath.

Which player transferred at the end of the '58-'59 season to Headington United

which became Oxford United the following year? He later returned as manager.

Ron Atkinson.

By what nickname, a shortened form of his middle name, was Gordon Cowans known?

He made 527 appearances for Villa.

Sid.

Of which club was Doug Ellis a director prior to the takeover

in which he became Villa's chairman for the first time in 1968?

-Walsall.

-Birmingham City.

Villa's first three Premier League matches finished as 1-1 draws.

Who scored Villa's only goal in each of those games?

-John Byrne.

-No, Dalian Atkinson.

About which Villa striker who went on to join Manchester United did

the former Villa and United manager Tommy Docherty say,

"If that lad makes a First Division footballer, my name's Mao Tse-Tung?"

Dwight Yorke.

From which club did Villa sign Darren Bent for a reported club record

initial fee of £18 million in January 2011?

Sunderland.

Who became the second continental European manager of Aston Villa when he joined

in 2010? The first was Dr Jozef Venglos, who became manager in 1990.

Gerard Houllier.

Who was Villa's leading goal-scorer in his three full seasons with the club,

including the 42 goals he scored in the '60-'61 season

before leaving for Inter Milan in the summer of '61?

Gerry Hitchens.

Which defender became the third Villa player to be voted

PFA Player Of The Year by his fellow professionals.. BEEP

..in 1993?

-Allan Evans.

-No, it was Paul McGrath.

No passes, Rob, you've scored ten points.

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And our next contender, please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation...?

And your specialist subject...?

In two minutes, starting now.

The German Democratic Republic, often referred to as East Germany,

was formed after the Second World War

and was an independent nation largely reliant on the Soviet Union.

Who was elected as the first President of the GDR in 1949?

Wilhelm Pieck.

What name is usually given to the policy formulated in Bonn

in the mid-'50s whereby West Germany refused to conduct diplomatic relations

with states that recognised the GDR?

Hallstein Doctrine.

Which Slav people who lived in the historical region of Lusatia

were given the right to continue to follow

their own culture and language by the GDR's constitution?

The Sorbs.

Which modern-day city's name was changed to Karl-Marx-Stadt

in 1953 before returning to its original name in 1990?

Chemnitz.

Article 24 of the Constitution of 1968 limited the rights of citizens

in their choice of what,

in accordance with social requirements and personal qualifications?

Right to strike.

Work and workplace.

Who held the post of Ministry of State Security from the late '50s

and headed the notorious secret police organisation the Stasi?

Erich Mielke.

What was the name of the prominent advocate of de-Stalinisation

and professor of philosophy who was arrested in '56 and later imprisoned?

Walter Janka.

Nope, Wolfgang Harich.

Which political leader remarked at the building of the Berlin Wall

that it was "a hell of a lot better than a war"?

John F Kennedy.

What German word was used to define the policy adopted in the '70s that stressed

the differences between East and West Germany in historical, cultural,

political and economic terms?

Abgrenzung.

What was the name of the East German agent in Bonn whose unmasking

as a spy in '74 led to the downfall of the West German Chancellor Willy Brandt?

Gunter Guillaume.

Who was the General Secretary of East Germany's ruling political party

who travelled to Moscow to discuss political reform

with Mikhail Gorbachev in November '89?

-Erich Honecker.

-Egon Krenz.

Which leading proponent of the so-called New Economic System

was found shot dead in December '65 after an unfavourable trade treaty

was agreed between the GDR and the Soviet Union?

Pass.

Who wrote the music for the GDR's national hymn, Auferstanden Aus Ruinen?

The text by... BEEP

..Johannes R Becher was later dropped.

Hanns Eisler.

Is correct.

You had just one pass, Dennis.

That leading proponent of the so-called New Economic System

who was found shot dead was Erich Hans Apel.

You have scored nine points.

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And our final contender, please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation...?

And your chosen subject...?

Clarice Cliff, in two minutes, here we go.

Clarice Cliff produced ceramic designs that helped to define an era.

What overall name was chosen for the designs with striking colours

and new shapes that made her famous in 1928

and were produced at AJ Wilkinson in Burslem?

Bizarre.

Cliff collaborated on a collection of circus-themed pieces

in the mid-'30s with which artist and friend?

Laura Knight.

What name was given to the dramatically shaped vase

launched by Cliff in 1929, listed as Shape 379?

-Meiping?

-Yo-Yo.

What was the name of the commercial director at AJ Wilkinson

who worked closely with Cliff on the production and marketing

of her designs, and who later became her husband?

Colley Shorter.

The teaset shape known as Stamford was an imitation by Cliff

of a design produced by which French firm of silversmiths?

Tetard Freres.

What name was given to the five or six foot tall model horses

constructed from Cliff pottery and used to promote her work in the early '30s?

Bazooka.

In the late 1920s, a new base glaze was developed that had

a warm glow because of the addition of 1% iron oxide.

What was the name of the glaze?

Honey glaze.

Which popular Cliff pattern launched in the autumn of '28

consists of an image of a flower painted with simple, striking brushstrokes

bordered by yellow and brown bands?

Crocus.

Which employee who worked at the clay end of AJ Wilkinson illicitly

supplied Cliff with expensive modelling clay during her early days there?

Reg Lamb.

The floor-done decorated ceramic stock used by Cliff for her first Bizarre

designs was acquired by AJ Wilkinson through the purchase of which firm?

Newport Pottery.

Which Cliff range launched in '29 included a teaset that features

pyramid-shaped spouts and solid triangular handles

and was described in one newspaper as resembling

"a Russian ballet master's nightmare solidified?"

Conical.

What was the name of the first salesman to go on the road with Bizarre

where he recalled that his first store buyer was

agog at the sight of it and bought a car load on the spot?

Ewart Oakes.

At what pottery company in her hometown of Tunstall was Cliff apprenticed

in 1912 at the age of about 13?

-Lingard and Webster.

-What was the name of the apprentice...

BEEP ..who designed the 1929 decorative war mask Grotesque

under Cliff's supervision?

Ron Birks.

Is correct. No passes, Ruth. 13 points.

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That's the end of the first round, some high scorers there.

Let's have a look at all of them.

In fourth place with nine points, Dennis Tomlinson.

Third place, ten points, Rob Coley.

Second place, 13 points, Ruth Green.

First place, 14 points, Stephen Wilson.

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So, it is the general knowledge round now,

and if there is a tie at the end of it, then the number of passes is taken into account,

and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.

And if they are tied on passes as well, there will be a tie-break.

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

a place in the semifinals.

So, plenty to play for.

Let us get on with it and ask Dennis to join us again, if he would, please.

And...

You start out with nine points, Dennis,

but plenty of time to catch up, because we have two and a half minutes

of general knowledge, starting now.

Which of Shakespeare's tragic heroes is driven into a state

of fierce jealousy by the promptings of Iago

and murders his wife, Desdemona because of a supposed infidelity?

Othello.

What word can mean a simultaneous discharge of weapons,

or in sport, a return shot in games such as tennis

before the ball has hit the ground?

Volley.

The 19th-century movement that sought to restore Catholic practice and thought

in the Church of England initially flourished at the University

from where it takes its name, which one?

-Oxford.

-Which often-ridiculed poet is best remembered for his work

The Tay Bridge Disaster of 1879?

William McGonagall.

Which Oscar-winning actress came to fame as the giggly blonde airhead

on television on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In?

-Pass.

-What part of the foot is affected by the injury called

plantar fasciitis, a complaint more common in women?

The heel.

What name that comes from the Greek for "mindful" is given to an aide-memoire

such as "divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived,"

for the wives of Henry VIII?

Mnemonic.

The geneticist and Nobel Laureate Sir Paul Nurse took up his five-year term

as president of which body in December 2010?

He succeeded the astronomer Lord Rees.

Royal Society.

Which garden plant took its name from the Latin for "wolf-like,"

because it was thought the wolf will devour goodness from the soil?

Pass.

Which city was chosen to be the state capital of California in 1854?

Sacramento.

What television programme based around day-to-day life in a maternity ward

won the 2010 Bafta award for Best Factual Series?

Pass.

Which extremely poisonous liquid formerly known as prussic acid

has the chemical formulation HCN and smells of bitter almonds?

Um...

Hydrocyanic acid.

In the poem by Tennyson, what watery feature is he referring to in the lines,

"For men may come and men may go, but I go on forever?"

-The Thames.

-The Brook.

Which meat stew, generally made with a large amount of onion

and flavoured with paprika, has a name that means "herdsman" in Hungarian?

Goulash.

Who wrote the score for the 1946 stage musical Annie Get Your Gun?

Pass.

Which French politician served two terms as his country's president

from 1995-2007, was mayor of Paris from '77-'95 and had twice been Premier?

-Jacques Chirac.

-In which country is Alan Paton's 48th novel,

Cry The Beloved Country, set?

-South Africa.

-A British boxer, notable for fights with Henry Cooper, Joe Frazier

and Muhammad Ali, was born in Hungary, and after moving to Australia

late in his career, adopted the nickname Aussie Joe. What's his name?

-Joe Bugner.

-Which '87 film about the Vietnam War, directed by Stanley Kubrick,

was shot entirely in Britain, BEEP

with a vast, abandoned gasworks at Beckton in London's East End

standing in for the Vietnamese city of Hue?

-Full Metal Jacket.

-Is correct. Four passes, Dennis.

Irving Berlin wrote the score for Annie Get Your Gun.

One Born Every Minute was that television programme

set in a maternity ward. Lupin was the...

Yes, that "devouring the goodness from the soil." Lupine, lupin.

And Goldie Hawn was the giggly, blonde airhead on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.

You now have a total, Dennis, of 23 points.

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And now, Rob, again, please.

And you start off with ten points with your knowledge of Aston Villa.

-23 is the score to beat.

-OK.

-Here we go.

What is the name of the French national anthem

composed in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

and officially adopted in 1879?

-La Marseillaise.

-Landrace, Gloucestershire Old Spot,

and Vietnamese Pot-bellied are breeds of which farm animal?

-Pig.

-What is calculated by dividing a person's

weight in kilograms by the square of their height in metres?

-Body mass.

-Yes, body-mass index.

Which inland sea in Canada is connected to the Arctic Ocean

by the Foxe Channel,

and to the Atlantic by a strait that it shares its name with?

-Bering Sea?

-Hudson Bay.

What was developed during the Second World War in a programme

known as the Manhattan Project?

-The H-bomb.

-The atom bomb.

Which actress, whose previous roles include Rudi in Gavin and Stacey,

played the title role in the 2014 television drama, Cilla?

Sheridan Smith.

The country that's been variously known as the Democratic Republic of Congo

and Zaire was a colony of which European country from 1908-1960?

-Belgium.

-Which 19th-century Hungarian composer wrote the

three nocturnes for piano called Liebestraum or Love Dreams?

-Chopin.

-Liszt. In the First World War, what name was given to the battalions

formed by men from the same neighbourhood

and who had worked together in the same organisation?

-Pals.

-The hero of which Dickens novel marries Agnes Wickfield

after becoming a successful writer?

-Hard times.

-David Copperfield.

Which American rock band's single, What's The Frequency, Kenneth?

reached number nine in the UK charts in September 1994?

-ZZ Top?

-REM.

Which soprano, who was born in Stockholm in 1820,

was known as the "Swedish Nightingale"?

-Jenny Lind.

-What general name is given to the group of drugs that reduce

bad cholesterol in the blood by inhibiting an enzyme in the liver?

-Beta-blockers?

-Statins.

Which traditional county is bordered by

Hertfordshire and Essex to the south,

Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire to the west,

and Norfolk and Suffolk to the east?

-Middlesex.

-Cambridgeshire.

Who won an Oscar for Best Actress In A Supporting Role for playing

Katharine Hepburn in the 2004 Howard Hughes biopic, The Aviator?

-Nicole Kidman.

-Cate Blanchett.

What name was given to the incompletely punched paper ballots

which caused problems in the 2000 American presidential elections,

especially in Florida?

-Pass.

-The Argentine-born back row forward, Sergio Parisse,

was named captain of a country's rugby union side in 2008.

Which country?

-Italy.

-What light dish, in which beaten egg whites are added

at the last moment to a mixture of egg yolks... BEEP

..and other ingredients, should be served straight from the oven

and has a name meaning "blown" in French?

Meringue.

Reasonable guess.

-Souffle.

-Souffle, of course.

You had one pass, that name given to those ballot papers that didn't

have the hole quite punched through, they were hanging chads.

Right, OK.

Rob, you have scored a total of 18 points.

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And now, Ruth, again, please.

And you start out with 13 points with your knowledge of Clarice Cliff.

And 23 is still the score to beat.

Let's see if you can do it.

Air Force Two is the designation for any aircraft carrying

the holder of a particular American political office. Which office?

-President.

-Vice President.

The name of which percussion instrument literally means

"wood sound" in Greek?

-Timpani?

-Xylophone.

The ancient centre of which capital city is divided into 22 rioni,

or districts, whose names date mainly from classical times?

-Rome.

-What is the name of the presenter whose television programmes include

The Really Wild Show, Countryfile and The Hitman And Her?

-Chris Packham.

-Michaela Strachan.

Pieter van der Faes, the Dutch artist born in 1618 who became

Charles II's principal court painter is better known by what name?

-Holbein.

-Sir Peter Lely.

A phrase particularly associated with Remembrance Day services

forms the repeated chorus in Kipling's poem Recessional,

written in response to Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

-Which phrase?

-Pass.

A bronze statue of a footballer known as The Non-Flying Dutchman

because of his fear of air travel was unveiled outside

Arsenal's Emirates Stadium in February 2014. Who is he?

Pass.

The discovery of an element,

one of the noble gases which makes up about 1% of the atmosphere,

led to the award of the Nobel Prizes for chemistry and physics

to William Ramsay and Lord Rayleigh in 1904. Which element?

-Argon.

-The French word "tomme" is a generic name for a large number of varieties of a

food item made in that country, especially in Savoy. What food item?

-Cabbage.

-Cheese.

Which 2000 film that stars Jamie Bell and had three Oscar nominations

was mainly shot in and around the former mining village of Easington in County Durham?

-Pass.

-The Monogram Murders by Sophie Hannah is the first new novel to be

sanctioned by the estate of Agatha Christie, featuring which detective?

-Hercule Poirot.

-What is the nationality of Donald Tusk, who replaced Herman Van Rompuy

as president of the European Council in December 2014?

-Dutch.

-Polish.

Catherine Bearder was which party's only success in the 2014

European elections when she held her seat in south-east England?

-Green.

-Liberal Democrats.

Which cult band's only entry in the UK singles chart was Venus In Furs?

It reached number 71 in '94.

-Pass.

-In Egyptian mythology, who was the god of chaos and disorder

and brother of Isis and Osiris?

-Horus?

-Set.

Which BBC television programme has been hosted by Christine Bleakley,

Jason Manford, Chris Evans and Adrian Chiles?

-The One Show.

-Yep. BEEP

Nearly started but I didn't quite, so we're out of time.

Four passes - Velvet Underground was that cult band with Venus In Furs.

Billy Elliot was shot in County Durham.

Dennis Bergkamp, that's the footballer who had a bronze statue made of him.

And "Lest we forget," was that phrase associated with Remembrance Day services.

Ruth, you have 17 points.

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And finally, Stephen, again, please.

You start out with 14 points for your knowledge of Scottish pop music.

23 is still the score to beat

if you are to get through to the next round, the semifinals.

Here we go.

Which city is the capital of Finland?

-Helsinki.

-What was the name of the 6.5 tonne elephant acquired by London Zoo

in the 19th century, that became a byword for elephants in general

and by extension, anything of vast size?

-Jumbo.

-From which American prison did Frank Lee Morris

and Clarence and John Anglin become the last people to escape in June 1962?

-Alcatraz.

-The Beatles' songs Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Here Comes The Sun

and Come Together all first appeared on which album?

-Revolver.

-Abbey Road.

In which country did the word "larrikin", a slang

term for a hooligan or hoodlum, originate in the late 19th century?

-French.

-Australia.

In Greek mythology, who judged that the goddess Aphrodite was more

beautiful than Hera and Athene?

-Zeus.

-Paris.

What is the alternative name for the house plant, the aspidistra,

because of its ability to withstand neglect?

Pass.

Which North African country's national football team is nicknamed

the Carthage Eagles, an allusion to the country's ancient history?

-Nigeria.

-Tunisia.

Which river gives its name to the 16-mile long steam railway

between Bridgnorth and Kidderminster in the Midlands?

-Settle.

-The Severn.

Russia, Ukraine and Belarus were the founder members

of an association of sovereign states that emerged in 1991

after the collapse of the Soviet Union,

and was known by the initials CIS.

What do the letters stand for?

-Confederation...

-No, I'll stop you there.

Commonwealth of Independent States.

What is the stage name of the magician

and illusionist Steven Frayne who was born in Bradford in 1982?

-Dynamo.

-Which port city on the Mediterranean coast of Italy

is the capital of the region of Liguria?

-Venice.

-Genoa.

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the second volume

of the autobiography of which writer?

It chronicles a year in pre-Civil War Spain.

-Hemingway.

-Laurie Lee.

Which great work of religious translation

resulted from the Hampton Court Conference of 1604,

following the Millenary Petition by Puritan ministers?

Pass.

Who stars as King Arthur in the '67 film musical, Camelot?

-Sean Connery.

-Richard Harris.

The Acton Scott estate, near Church Stretton in Shropshire,

featured in a BBC Two series, first shown in 2009,

about life on the land in the mid-19th century. Which series?

-Pass.

-Tony Bennett's only British number one, Stranger In Paradise,

came from which musical based on themes from Alexander Borodin?

-Top Hat.

-Kismet.

In medicine, what name that comes from the Greek for "vein"

is given to inflammation of veins?

-Pass.

-BEEP

Well, I can tell you, because we're out of time. It is phlebitis.

You had four passes altogether, Stephen.

The Victorian Farm was that BBC Two series.

The Authorised King James Version of the Bible was that work of

religious translation that resulted at the Hampton Court Conference.

And the aspidistra is known, because of its ability to withstand

horrible conditions, as the cast-iron plant. So there we are.

Should be the ugly, cast-iron plant, but there we are.

Stephen, you have a total of 18 points.

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Well, he held on to that lead, didn't he?

Let's have a look at the scoreboard.

In fourth place, 17 points, Ruth Green.

Joint second place, 18 points apiece, Stephen Wilson and Rob Coley.

First place, with a clear lead, 23 points - Dennis Tomlinson.

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Which means that Dennis is tonight's winner,

and he goes through to the semifinals. Congratulations to him.

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