Episode 29 Mastermind

First in the spotlight tonight is Alan Heath,

a chartered accountant from Buckingham.

His subject, British Olympic Champions.

Next, Mark Livesey from Henlow,

on the First Earl of Pembroke, William Marshal.

Michael Frankl is from Windsor and

he answers questions on Windsor Castle.

Beryl Freedman's a housewife from Birmingham, her subject,

Ian Fleming.

And Mark Grant is an accountant from Bromley.

His subject, Vasari's Lives Of The Artists.

Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.

Five contenders tonight, because this is a semifinal,

so one of them goes through to the grand final at the end of it.

No pressure, then, apart from the lights and the clock

and that walk to the chair, of course, where they get 90

seconds on their specialist subject and two minutes on

general knowledge.

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

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject?

In 90 seconds, starting now.

Which weightlifter became Britain's first Olympic champion

when he won the one-hand lift at the 1896 games?

Launceston Elliot.

In Montreal in 1976, David Wilkie became the first British male

swimmer for more than half a century to take Olympic gold.

Which event did he win in world record time?

200 metres breaststroke.

In what sport did Joshua Milner, Arthur Carnell,

John Fleming and William Styles win individual

gold medals at the 1908 London games?

-Shooting.

-What is the name of the London dental surgeon

who became Britain's first Olympic fencing champion?

She won gold in the foil in Melbourne in 1956.

Gillian Sheen.

Which tennis player won the indoor singles

and doubles titles at the 1908 London games?

He also won the Wimbledon men's singles title that year.

Arthur Gore.

What was the name of the horse on which Richard Meade became Britain's

first individual equestrian champion in the three-day event at Munich?

Lauriston.

Steve Ovett beat Seb Coe into second place in the 800 metres

final in Moscow in 1980.

In what position did he finish behind Coe in the 1,500 metres final?

Third.

Who did Charlotte Cooper beat in the final of the women's singles tennis

tournament to become Britain's first female Olympic champion in 1900?

Helene Prevost.

Mary Peters competed at her first Olympics in Tokyo

in 1964 in the pentathlon and which individual event?

Shot.

In Los Angeles in 1984, who became the first British athlete to

win Olympic gold in a throwing event?

-Tessa Sanderson.

-At the 1948 London games, Stuart Morris and David Bond

took gold in which sailing event?

Swallow.

Who captained Britain to the gold medal in men's

hockey in Seoul in 1988?

BEEP

Richard Dodds.

No passes, a perfect round, Alan. 12 points.

And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject?

William Marshal, in 90 seconds.

Marshal was an English knight

renowned for his exploits in battle.

In 1152 when he was five,

he was held hostage by the English king who threatened to execute him

to try to force Marshal's father to surrender a castle.

Which king?

-Stephen.

-Where did Marshal take part in his first battle

where Normandy was raided by forces of the Count of Flanders,

Ponthieu and Boulogne in 1166?

Neufchatel.

To what position in the household of Henry the Young King was

Marshal appointed in 1170?

Tutor in arms.

Marshal became Lord of which estate in South East Wales

when he married the heiress, Isabel of Clare,

in 1189?

-Striguil.

-Which of the Crown Jewels was Marshal given

the honour of carrying in the procession

during the coronation of Richard I in September, 1189?

Sceptre.

In 1197, when Marshal was nearly 50, he crossed a ditch

and climbed a siege ladder in full armour to help a fellow knight

who was in trouble on the battlements of which besieged fortress?

Milieu Sur, Touraine.

What was the name of Marshal's uncle who was

killed in 1168 by the forces of Geoffrey and Guy of Lusignan

while escorting Eleanor of Aquitaine?

Patrick.

Marshal was wounded and captured during the encounter.

Patrick.

At which tournament, in 1177, did Marshal capture ten knights

and 12 horses, his highest recorded score at any

event during his 18-year tournament career?

Eu.

What nickname was given to the young Marshal

because of his overindulgence when he was training to be a knight?

-Gaste-viande.

-Or greedy guts.

At which of his manor houses did Marshal die after a long

illness on the 14th May 1219.

Caversham.

Marshal led the victorious attack against the forces of the future King Louis VII BEEP

of France at the Battle of Lincoln.

Which cousin of Marshal, who was fighting on the French side,

was killed in the attack?

Thomas of Peche.

And you have no passes and you got them all right. 11 points.

And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Occupation?

And your chosen subject?

Windsor Castle, here we go, 90 seconds.

St George's Chapel,

begun in the reign of Edward IV,

is in which ward or bailey of Windsor Castle?

Lower Ward.

To celebrate a royal occasion, Tom Stuart-Smith designed a garden

with a bandstand laid out on Castle Hill.

What occasion?

Order of the Garter Ceremony.

Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee.

What was the name of the architect

appointed in 1673 as Controller of Works at Windsor Castle,

who remodelled the Upper Ward in a Baroque style?

Hugh May.

In the Waterloo Chamber, the series of portraits of allied

sovereign statesman and military leaders involved

in the overthrow of Napoleon Bonaparte are by which artist?

Sir Thomas Lawrence.

Which old belfry tower is the traditional

home of the Governor of the Military Knights?

-Queen Mary's Tower.

-Yes, Mary Tudor Tower.

What name, possibly that of the blacksmith,

is stamped on the ornate ironwork of the door in the East Wall

of St George's Chapel that once formed the Great West Door

of Henry III's Chapel?

Gilebertus.

In which estate is the Royal Mausoleum? It was bought by George III for

the use of Queen Charlotte and added to the Home Park in the 1840s.

Frogmore.

After the 1992 fire, which octagonal anteroom designed by Charles Downes

was created on the site of the private chapel where the fire had broken out?

Lantern Lobby.

Who in the 1470s and '80s is recorded as the chief carver of the oak

choir stalls that are still a feature of St George's Chapel?

Pass.

Which architect designed Queen Mary's Dolls' House which was

built on a scale of one to 12?

Sir Edwin Lutyens.

What is the name of the northwest bell tower in the Lower Ward BEEP

originating from the 13th century, which was refurbished

by Anthony Salvin in the 1860s with a tall candlesnuffer roof?

The Curfew Tower.

You had one pass.

That chap who is recorded as the chief carver of those oak

choir stalls was William Barkeley or Berkeley,

however you pronounce it.

So, just that one pass, Michael, you scored nine points.

And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject?

Ian Fleming, in 90 seconds.

What was the title of the first

novel written by Fleming in 1952 and published in April, '53

which introduced the character of James Bond?

Casino Royale.

Fleming's first job was as a journalist working for which

organisation headed by Sir Roderick Jones?

Reuters.

Which famous American author became a friend of Fleming's after

they met at a party at the home of the poet Stephen Spender?

Raymond Chandler.

Which Bond villain whose first appearance was in Thunderball

was born to a Polish father and a Greek mother on the 28th May 1908,

which is also Fleming's own date of birth?

Blofeld.

In 1939, Fleming was appointed as the Assistant of the Director

of Naval Intelligence. What was his name?

John Godfrey.

Which of Fleming's girlfriends was killed in her

flat during an air raid in London in March '44?

Muriel Wright.

In '45, Fleming began to build a winter home in Jamaica

on the coast near Oracabessa. What name did he give to it,

apparently after a wartime operation he'd been involved in?

Goldeneye.

Which journalist wrote a review of Fleming's book Dr No

for the New Statesman in 1958 describing it as

"sex, snobbery and sadism"?

Paul Johnson.

After spells in journalism and banking,

Fleming began working for a firm of stockbrokers in London in 1935. Which firm?

Rowe and Pitman.

What is the title of the children's book written by Fleming

and originally published in 1964?

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Which publisher was unimpressed with Casino Royale but was

persuaded to publish it by Ian's brother, Peter, who was an established author?

Jonathan Cape.

What was the name of the finishing school

run by Ernan Forbes Dennis and his wife, Phyllis, in Kitzbuhel in Austria to

which Fleming was sent by his mother after he left Sandhurst?

Tennerhof.

What was the title of the fifth Bond book to be published

and the second to be adapted for a feature film? BEEP

From Russia with Love.

No passes, wow. All right, Beryl, 13 points.

And our final contender, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject?

In 90 seconds, starting now.

Giorgio Vasari was a 16th-century

Italian painter, architect and writer

best known for his biographies of Italian Renaissance artists.

Which 13th-century Florentine painter is

the subject of the first of the Lives?

Cimabue.

Michelangelo took eight years to complete a work that was unveiled,

Vasari believed, on Christmas Day 1541. Which work?

The Last Judgment.

What did Filippo Brunelleschi stand upright on a marble

slab to win the commission to design the dome of the

Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fuire in Florence?

Egg.

Which king of France does Vasari say had the Mona Lisa in his

collection at the Palace of Fontainebleau?

Francis I.

A Florentine painter who lived from 1397 to 1475, was given

the nickname "uccello", the Italian word for which animal that he loved?

Bird.

Which painter, who died in 1428, aged 26,

does Vasari praise as having "purged the art of painting

"of its harshness and paved the way towards more beautiful expression"?

Masaccio.

Which painter, according to Vasari, was born on Good Friday 1483

and died on the same day of his 37th year?

Raphael.

In Vasari's conclusion to his Lives, he mentions two

languages that he used, one was Florentine, what was the other?

Tuscan.

Which Florentine sculptor was credited with inventing a glaze that

when baked in a furnace created earthen works that were almost imperishable?

Luca della Robbia.

What instrument did Leonardo da Vinci play for the

Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, when he was brought before him

in 1494? It was made from silver by Leonardo

himself and shaped like a horse's head.

Lire.

Which painter was celebrated by his friend, Ludovico Ariosto in the epic

poem Orlando Furioso with the words, "To whose mastery BEEP

"is due such glory"?

Titian?

It was, indeed.

Which means that you, too, have them all right.

You have 11 points.

Well, that really is a very high-scoring round.

Let's have a look at all the scores.

In fifth place, with nine points,

Michael Frankl.

Joint third place, 11 points apiece,

Mark Livesey and Mark Grant.

Second place, 12 points, Alan Heath.

First place, 13 points, Beryl Freedman.

Round 2.

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.

So, let us get on with it and ask Michael to join us again, please.

And you have two minutes now to catch up the field and overtake it.

Here we go.

Which legendary Swiss hero is

the title character of Rossini's last opera best known for its overture?

William Tell.

Waltham Abbey in Essex was the last abbey to be

dissolved by which English monarch?

Henry VIII.

The automaton known as the Turk, designed and built by Wolfgang von Kempelen

in 1770, appeared to be a mechanical genius at what game?

It won matches against all the leading players of the day but was later

proved to be a hoax.

Chess.

Which British bird, often found in mountainous regions, is the largest

member of the crow family?

Raven.

What name for the area lying behind a coastal district which often

serves a port comes from the German for behind and land?

Hinterland.

Which novel set on the bleak moorlands of west Yorkshire

tells of the interlocked relationships of the Linton and Earnshaw families?

Wuthering Heights.

In a 1981 speech, which Conservative politician said of his father,

"He didn't riot, he got on his bike and looked for work."

Norman Tebbit.

The naturally occurring mineral corundum, with its varieties ruby and sapphire,

is an oxide of which metal?

-Iron.

-Aluminium.

Who stars as the pirate Captain Jack Sparrow in the

Pirates Of The Caribbean series of films?

Johnny Depp.

Which popular television detective series that's been screened

since 1997 is based on original books by Caroline Graham?

Pass.

Which Greek mathematician

and inventor played an important role in the defence

of his native city, Syracuse against the besieging Romans?

He devised war machines such as catapults,

that delayed its ultimate capture.

Archimedes.

Which seaport is the second-largest city in the Republic of Ireland?

Cork.

What type of berries are traditionally used for the sauce

served with the turkey dinner at Thanksgiving in America?

Cranberries.

In August 2014, which British distance runner became

the oldest female European champion when she won the

gold medal in the 10,000m in Zurich at the age of 40 years and 325 days?

-Paula Radcliffe.

-Jo Pavey.

A museum in Liverpool commemorating the Battle of the Atlantic

in the Second World War shares its name with the strategically

important seas to the west of the British Isles.

What name?

-North Sea.

-Western Approaches.

Which film actress topped the UK's singles charts in 1956 with BEEP

Whatever Will Be, Will Be from the film, The Man Who Knew Too Much.

Doris Day.

You had one pass,

that popular television detective series was Midsomer Murders.

You've scored, Michael, 21 points.

And now the first of the two Marks, Mark Livesey again, please.

And you start out this round with 11 points,

21 is, as I speak,

the score to beat.

Let's see if you can do it. Here we go.

Of which fruit, a common salad ingredient, are

beefsteak, cherry and plum all varieties?

Tomato.

The 2003 book by Lynne Truss subtitled The Zero Tolerance Approach To Punctuation

is called Eats, Shoots and...

Leaves.

A Street in London's West End became a centre for fashion after

designer John Stephen opened a menswear boutique at number five in 1957.

Which street?

Carnaby Street.

What was the surname of the British brothers Joe and Fred

who both won World Championships at snooker and billiards?

Davis.

In 1983, the opposition politician Benigno Aquino

was shot dead as he stepped from the plane on his return to which

Asian island country?

-Thailand.

-The Philippines.

Forest Whitaker won the Best Actor Oscar in 2007 for portraying an

African dictator in the film The Last King Of Scotland. Which dictator?

Idi Amin.

The International Dateline is a hypothetical line that

coincides with which meridian of longitude for most of its length?

180.

What is a squib in the expression "a damp squib",

meaning a letdown?

It's a firework.

In French cuisine, what name is given to a grilled ham and cheese sandwich?

Its name changes gender if it's topped with a fried or poached egg.

A Croque-Monsieur

The 1910 opera by Puccini that is set in the days of the Californian Gold Rush

is entitled The Girl Of The Golden...?

West.

On which Saint's feast day did "Good King Wenceslas look out,"

according to the traditional Christmas Carol?

Stephen.

What now-common member of the pigeon family that

takes its name from the ring of black feathers around its neck

was unknown in Britain until the 1950s?

The collared dove.

Panama was a part of which country until it declared itself

independent in 1903?

Pass.

What word that comes from the Greek for "of all the gods" is used

collectively for the gods of a specific mythology?

-Pantheusism.

-Pantheon.

Which future Prime Minister first entered Parliament

at the 1906 General Election as the Labour MP for Leicester?

Pass.

In American naval parlance what type of warship is a Flat-top?

Aircraft carrier.

Which 19th-century poet wrote in his poem Locksley Hall

of "the ringing grooves of change" in the belief that BEEP

steam trains ran in grooves like trams rather than on rails?

Browning.

It might have been, but it was Alfred, Lord Tennyson,

as it happens, but there we are. Who knew?

The two passes, it was Ramsay MacDonald who first entered

Parliament in 1906

and Panama was a part of Colombia.

You have, though, Mark, a total of 23 points.

And now Mark Grant, please.

And you start out with 11 points as well,

and 23 is now the score to beat.

Here we go. Two minutes of general knowledge.

What general term describes animals that have a backbone or

spinal column?

Vertebrae.

In 1992, who topped the UK album charts with Tubular Bells 2,

nearly 20 years after the release of the original?

Mike Oldfield.

In rugby, which prop forward overtook Stephen Jones'

record as Wales' most capped international when he won his

105th against Scotland in 2014?

-Evans?

-Gethan Jenkins.

Which sauce that forms a basic ingredient of much Chinese,

Japanese and other East Asian cuisine has a name that

comes from the fermented beans used to make it?

Soy sauce.

What body of water that joins the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean separates

the Orkney Islands from mainland Scotland?

-The Minch.

-Pentland Firth.

Which Victorian novelist created Sergeant Cuff,

who was based on the Scotland Yard detective, Jonathan Whicher?

He became the prototype for subsequent fictional detectives.

-Dickens.

-Wilkie Collins.

Which playwright wrote two series of dramatic

monologues for television called Talking Heads that were

broadcast in 1988 and 1998 respectively?

-Davies?

-Alan Bennett.

In the context of the internet, what do the letters HT represent in the

abbreviations HTML and HTTP?

Hypertext.

Which former Labour Cabinet Minister became MEP for Greater

Manchester North in 1979 after serving 34 years in the Commons?

Pass.

The naval base of Simonstown lies on False Bay near which cape?

-Cod.

-Good Hope.

A tree that is native to South America relies on a rodent

called the agouti to disperse its seeds because it's one of the

few animals that can gnaw through the thick shell of the nuts

it produces. Which tree?

Brazil nut.

Who stars alongside Sian Gibson in the BBC television comedy Car Share?

-Kay.

-Yes, Peter Kay.

What word for the science or practice of cultivating land and rearing

crops and livestock comes from the Latin word for field and cultivate?

Agriculture.

What unit of liquid measure is equal to 36 imperial gallons of beer

and 42 US gallons of oil?

-Hogshead.

-Barrel.

Which artist's final work entitled Paradise

was commissioned in 1588 and decorates a large wall

the size of a tennis court in the Doges Palace in Venice? BEEP

Veronese.

It was Tintoretto.

You have one pass, it was Barbara Castle who became an MEP

after 34 years in the House of Commons.

You have, Mark, a total of 18 points.

And now, Alan again, please.

And you start out with 12 points, Alan,

and 23 is still the score to beat.

So, here we go.

A mustang is a wild or half wild specimen of an animal descended from those

brought to the New World by the Spanish in the 16th century. Which animal?

Horse.

Which 1990 film stars Richard Gere as a business tycoon who hires Vivian Ward,

played by Julia Roberts, as his escort for a week only to fall in love with her?

Pretty Woman.

What spice is normally used to flavour paella

gives it a distinctive yellow colour?

-Ginger.

-Saffron.

What human activity declared by Thomas Edison to be

a waste of time is studied by a somnologist?

Sleep.

Which Lou Reed song was released as a single for the 1997

Children In Need appeal with individual lines sung by Reed

himself, as well as by various other artists?

Perfect Day.

Who wrote the classic children's novel, Little Lord Fauntleroy,

first published in 1886, and later dramatised by her?

-Helen Smith.

-Frances Hodgson Burnett.

What name of Hindi origin is given to a person who works with,

drives or tends an elephant?

Mahout.

Which product used as a solvent for paints and varnishes was

originally produced from the resin of the terebinth tree?

-Linseed oil.

-Turpentine.

What is the maximum number of balls on the table at any one time

during a game of English billiards?

Three.

In 1955, which country was restored to full

sovereignty by the state treaty signed by the four former Allied

powers that had occupied it since the end of the Second World War?

Austria.

The Heroic in A-Flat Major, Opus 53 is one of a number

of compositions Chopin wrote in which national dance form?

-Polka.

-Polonaise.

Who plays Dirk Gently in the television adaptations of Douglas Adam's

detective stories?

Stephen Mangan.

Which writer, who was born in the American state of Maine, has

set a number of his horror novels and short stories in the fictional town

of Castle Rock?

Stephen King.

In which ocean is the island country of Madagascar?

Indian.

What word originally a Latin term applied to a soldier who had served his

allotted time in the military is used today for a university professor

who is retired but allowed to keep their title?

Emeritus.

The 2011 autobiography Brung Up Proper was written by a Salford-born

stand-up comedian who formerly presented The One Show.

Who is he?

-Chris Evans.

-Jason Manford.

The deity known as... BEEP

I've started, so I'll finish.

The deity known as Ket-suhl-koh-AT-uhl,

who was worshipped in ancient Mesoamerica, was depicted

as a plumed or feathered what?

-Serpent.

-Yes, or snake.

No passes, Alan. You have scored 24 points.

And finally, Beryl again, please.

And you begin the round with 13 points.

The score to beat, if you needed any telling, is 24,

if you are to get through to the grand final.

Here we go.

Which woodland is the traditional home of Robin Hood

and his band of outlaws?

Sherwood Forest.

The 1922 Committee is an influential group of backbench MPs

within which British political party?

Conservatives.

In which Dickens' novel do the self-centred villain,

James Steerforth and the cruel Mr Murdstone appear?

David Copperfield.

What name that was originally used for a clock adapted for coach

travel is now used for any small, portable clock?

-A chronometer.

-Carriage clock.

The seaport of Valetta is the capital of which Mediterranean island?

-Malta.

-What alternative name for the mountain ash is thought to come from the Norse

word runa meaning a charm because it was thought to keep witches away?

Rowan.

Which national commercial radio station began

broadcasting in September 1992 and is a rival to BBC Radio Three?

-Capital?

-No, classic FM.

Which ingredient gives the thin, sweet biscuits covered with sugar,

known as Nice biscuits their particular flavour?

-Almond.

-Coconut.

In which English county is the Vale of White Horse, named after the Bronze Age

chalk figure at Uffington?

-Berkshire.

-Oxfordshire.

What word for a meeting at which spiritualists try to receive

messages from the spirits of the dead comes from the old French for to sit?

Seance.

Which jazz saxophonist is the subject of Clint Eastwood's

1988 biographical film drama Bird?

Charlie Parker.

Against which country did the Soviet Union fight

the Winter War of 1939 to 1940 following the conclusion

of the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact?

-Poland.

-Finland.

Which aircraft that went into commercial service in 1970

was the first successful wide-bodied jumbo jet?

747.

In what sport did Dame Sarah Storey

win Paralympic gold medals before switching to cycling?

Um.

-Fencing.

-Swimming.

When she was born in May 2015, who became the highest

female in the order of succession to the British throne?

-Queen Victoria.

-Charlotte.

Which 1853 Verdi opera about Violeta, a fallen woman, is based on

Alexandre Dumas' play La Dame Aux Camelias?

-La Boheme.

-La Traviata.

According to St John's Gospel, which of the disciples cut off the ear

of Malchus, the servant of the High Priest, as Jesus was being

arrested outside the Garden of Gethsemane? BEEP

Paul.

It might have been, but it was Peter.

No passes, Beryl, 21 points.

Well, what a cracking contest. Let's have a look at all of those scores.

In fifth place, 18 points,

Mark Grant.

Joint third place, 21 points apiece,

Michael Frankl and Beryl Freedman.

Second place, 23 points,

Mark Livesey,

First place, 24 points, Alan Heath.

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

and he goes through to the grand final.

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