0:00:26 > 0:00:29First in the spotlight tonight is Mohan Mudigonda,
0:00:29 > 0:00:31a GP practice manager from Wolverhampton.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34His specialist subject is Kurt Cobain.
0:00:36 > 0:00:37Peter Young is from Rotherham.
0:00:37 > 0:00:41He's answering questions on the Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46Next, Cathy Gibbons, a training and development manager
0:00:46 > 0:00:48from Nottingham, on Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
0:00:50 > 0:00:54And Simon Rule, a maths teacher from Dorset who's answering
0:00:54 > 0:00:58questions on Alfred Wainwright's Guides To The Lakeland Fells.
0:00:58 > 0:01:02APPLAUSE
0:01:12 > 0:01:14Hello and welcome to Mastermind
0:01:14 > 0:01:18with me, John Humphrys. Tonight, as ever, four contenders.
0:01:18 > 0:01:20And the rules don't change, either.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23Two minutes of questions on their specialist subject and then
0:01:23 > 0:01:25two-and-a-half minutes on general knowledge.
0:01:25 > 0:01:29But, rules aside, if you're sitting in the black chair,
0:01:29 > 0:01:31you do not know what to expect.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34You can do lots of revision for your chosen subject,
0:01:34 > 0:01:36of course, but not for the general knowledge round.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38That's the really scary one.
0:01:38 > 0:01:42Tonight's winner goes through to the semifinals and then... Who knows?
0:01:42 > 0:01:45Let's get on with it and ask our first contender to join us, please.
0:01:52 > 0:01:53And your name is?
0:01:54 > 0:01:56Your occupation?
0:01:57 > 0:02:00And your chosen subject?
0:02:00 > 0:02:02Kurt Cobain, in two minutes, starting now.
0:02:02 > 0:02:04Soon after the drummer Dave Grohl joined Kurt Cobain
0:02:04 > 0:02:06and Krist Novoselic in Nirvana,
0:02:06 > 0:02:08The band recorded their breakthrough album,
0:02:08 > 0:02:10which was released in 1991
0:02:10 > 0:02:13and topped the US album chart early the following year.
0:02:13 > 0:02:14What is the album's title?
0:02:14 > 0:02:15- Nevermind.- Yep.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17Which local band led by Buzz Osborne was
0:02:17 > 0:02:19a major influence on Cobain?
0:02:19 > 0:02:20- The Melvins.- Yes.
0:02:20 > 0:02:22In April '87, Cobain, Krist Novoselic
0:02:22 > 0:02:24and Aaron Burckhard
0:02:24 > 0:02:26performed on a college radio station
0:02:26 > 0:02:28before they had decided on the name Nirvana.
0:02:28 > 0:02:29Which radio station?
0:02:29 > 0:02:30Pass.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33Cobain and Novoselic caused controversy when they kissed
0:02:33 > 0:02:35each other at the end of Nirvana's appearance
0:02:35 > 0:02:38on which American television show in January '92?
0:02:38 > 0:02:39- Saturday Night Live?- Yes.
0:02:39 > 0:02:42What was the title of the song that Nirvana opened their
0:02:42 > 0:02:44MTV Unplugged performance with?
0:02:44 > 0:02:46Cobain introduced it with the words, "Good evening.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48"This is off our first record. Most people don't own it."
0:02:48 > 0:02:50- About A Girl.- Yes.
0:02:50 > 0:02:53Rudy Larosa played the janitor in the video for
0:02:53 > 0:02:54which Nirvana single?
0:02:54 > 0:02:55He was actually the janitor
0:02:55 > 0:02:57at the director Sam Bayer's apartment building.
0:02:57 > 0:02:59- Smells Like Teen Spirit. - Correct.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01What is the name of the Vanity Fair journalist
0:03:01 > 0:03:02whose article in the September '92 issue
0:03:02 > 0:03:04implied that both Cobain and his wife,
0:03:04 > 0:03:07Courtney Love, continued their heavy drug use
0:03:07 > 0:03:08while Love was pregnant?
0:03:08 > 0:03:10- Lynn Hirschberg.- Yep.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12Which Nirvana song from the group's third
0:03:12 > 0:03:13and final studio album
0:03:13 > 0:03:16In Utero features the lyrics "I got a new complaint,
0:03:16 > 0:03:19"forever in debt to your priceless advice"?
0:03:19 > 0:03:20- Heart-shaped Box.- Yes.
0:03:20 > 0:03:22Which author, with whom he had worked on a recording
0:03:22 > 0:03:24of The Priest They Called Him, did Cobain meet
0:03:24 > 0:03:27in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1993?
0:03:27 > 0:03:29- Iggy Pop?- William S Burroughs.
0:03:29 > 0:03:32An image of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love's unborn child,
0:03:32 > 0:03:35Frances Bean Cobain, appeared on the sleeve
0:03:35 > 0:03:37of which '92 Nirvana single?
0:03:37 > 0:03:38- Lithium?- Yes.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41In March '94, a month before he shot himself,
0:03:41 > 0:03:45Cobain tried to commit suicide by overdosing on tranquilisers
0:03:45 > 0:03:46and champagne while he was staying at
0:03:46 > 0:03:48the Excelsior Hotel in which city?
0:03:48 > 0:03:49- Rome.- Yes.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51What title was eventually given
0:03:51 > 0:03:53to Kurt's Tune #1?
0:03:53 > 0:03:55It was the last original song that Nirvana recorded
0:03:55 > 0:03:57before Cobain's death
0:03:57 > 0:04:00and eventually appeared on the band's 2002 compilation album.
0:04:00 > 0:04:01- You Know You're Right.- Yes.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03Who was the front man of... BEEP
0:04:03 > 0:04:05..the punk band Big Black
0:04:05 > 0:04:07and later produced Nirvana's album In Utero?
0:04:07 > 0:04:10- Steve Albini.- Is correct.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12You have only one pass.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14The name of the radio station,
0:04:14 > 0:04:17the college radio station, was KAOS.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19However, you have scored 11 points.
0:04:19 > 0:04:23APPLAUSE
0:04:29 > 0:04:30And our next contender, please.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42And your name is?
0:04:42 > 0:04:44Your occupation?
0:04:44 > 0:04:45And your chosen subject?
0:04:47 > 0:04:50Elisabeth of Austria, here we go, two minutes.
0:04:50 > 0:04:53Elisabeth became Empress of Austria when she married
0:04:53 > 0:04:55Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1854.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57By what nickname was Elisabeth known
0:04:57 > 0:04:59to her family and friends from her childhood?
0:04:59 > 0:05:00- Sisi.- Yep.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02Elisabeth spent her summer holidays as a child playing
0:05:02 > 0:05:04with local peasant children
0:05:04 > 0:05:06at the Wittelsbach family's Bavarian residence
0:05:06 > 0:05:08on the Starnberg Lake. What was it called?
0:05:08 > 0:05:09- Possenhofen.- Yep.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11What was the name of the Hungarian
0:05:11 > 0:05:13who Elisabeth first met in Budapest?
0:05:13 > 0:05:14Under his influence,
0:05:14 > 0:05:17she helped bring about the dual Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19He went on to become prime minister.
0:05:19 > 0:05:20- Gyula Andrassy.- Yes.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23Which city were Franz Joseph and Elisabeth visiting
0:05:23 > 0:05:25when their elder daughter, Sophie, died?
0:05:25 > 0:05:26Elisabeth had initially refused to go there
0:05:26 > 0:05:28without the children.
0:05:28 > 0:05:29- Trieste.- Budapest.
0:05:29 > 0:05:31When the Emperor Franz Joseph first met Elisabeth,
0:05:31 > 0:05:34they performed a particular dance that singled Elisabeth out
0:05:34 > 0:05:36and he gave her the dance flowers. What dance?
0:05:36 > 0:05:37Pass.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40Elisabeth set up a hospital to treat the wounded
0:05:40 > 0:05:43from the Battle of Solferino of 1859, a military disaster
0:05:43 > 0:05:47so extreme that it led to the establishment of the Red Cross.
0:05:47 > 0:05:49In which palace did she set this up?
0:05:51 > 0:05:52Pass.
0:05:52 > 0:05:54What was the name of the horseman who was engaged
0:05:54 > 0:05:55to be Elisabeth's guide
0:05:55 > 0:05:58when she came to England for the hunting season in 1876
0:05:58 > 0:06:01and stayed at the country seat at eastern Newton?
0:06:01 > 0:06:04Their relationship caused much gossip.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07- Earl of Richmond. - It was George Bay Middleton.
0:06:07 > 0:06:09What was the name of Elisabeth's only son,
0:06:09 > 0:06:10who committed suicide?
0:06:10 > 0:06:12He died with his mistress at his shooting lodge
0:06:12 > 0:06:14at Mayerling in 1889.
0:06:14 > 0:06:15- Rudolf.- Yes.
0:06:15 > 0:06:19Elisabeth had a house called the Achilleion, built in Corfu.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21Although she lost interest in it almost before it was completed,
0:06:21 > 0:06:24what animal became her symbol at the house?
0:06:24 > 0:06:28- Pass.- Which German poet did Elisabeth greatly admire?
0:06:28 > 0:06:30She wrote many verses in imitation of him,
0:06:30 > 0:06:33said that every letter of his was a jewel and erected busts
0:06:33 > 0:06:35and statues of him in all the Imperial palaces.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37- Schiller.- No. Heine.
0:06:37 > 0:06:40Elisabeth travelled onboard Queen Victoria's royal yacht
0:06:40 > 0:06:42to spend the winter of 1860 to '61
0:06:42 > 0:06:45on an island to recover from a supposed lung infection.
0:06:45 > 0:06:46Which island?
0:06:46 > 0:06:47- Madeira.- Yes.
0:06:47 > 0:06:50Franz Joseph had a long-term relationship that was
0:06:50 > 0:06:52encouraged by Elisabeth... BEEP
0:06:52 > 0:06:54..with an actress whom he referred to as The Friend.
0:06:54 > 0:06:55What was her name?
0:06:55 > 0:06:56Katharina Schratt.
0:06:56 > 0:06:58Is correct.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00You had three passes, Peter.
0:07:00 > 0:07:04The animal that became a symbol at her house was the dolphin.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07Laxenburg was the name of the hospital.
0:07:07 > 0:07:12And the dance that she did with Franz Joseph was the cotillion.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14You've scored, Peter, six points.
0:07:14 > 0:07:18APPLAUSE
0:07:26 > 0:07:28And our next contender, please.
0:07:34 > 0:07:35And your name is?
0:07:36 > 0:07:37Your occupation?
0:07:40 > 0:07:41And your specialist subject?
0:07:43 > 0:07:46Buffy The Vampire Slayer in two minutes. Here we go.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48In the television series Buffy The Vampire Slayer,
0:07:48 > 0:07:49what did Buffy Summers burn down
0:07:49 > 0:07:51at her previous school in Los Angeles?
0:07:51 > 0:07:53She was expelled because of it
0:07:53 > 0:07:55and she and her mother moved to Sunnydale.
0:07:55 > 0:07:56- The gym.- Yep.
0:07:56 > 0:07:57By what nickname was Giles known
0:07:57 > 0:07:59at the time he was tattooed with
0:07:59 > 0:08:02the Mark of Eyghon, the demon who appears in The Dark Age?
0:08:02 > 0:08:04- Ripper.- Yes.
0:08:04 > 0:08:05While Willow was dreaming in
0:08:05 > 0:08:07the season four episode Restless,
0:08:07 > 0:08:09she thinks that she is going to her first drama class,
0:08:09 > 0:08:12but it turns out to be a performance of which play?
0:08:12 > 0:08:14- Madame Butterfly? - No, Death Of A Salesman.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16Who leaves behind the message "Be seeing you"
0:08:16 > 0:08:19in the otherwise empty costume shop after causing chaos
0:08:19 > 0:08:20in Sunnydale at Halloween?
0:08:20 > 0:08:21- Ethan Rayne.- Yes.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24In the series two episode School Hard,
0:08:24 > 0:08:25Miss Calendar has worked out
0:08:25 > 0:08:27that the Saturday after parent-teacher night
0:08:27 > 0:08:30is the feast of a saint who led a crusade of vampires.
0:08:30 > 0:08:31Which saint?
0:08:31 > 0:08:32- Vigecom.- St Vigeous.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35What is the name of the cheating loose-skinned demon
0:08:35 > 0:08:37who Spike plays poker against
0:08:37 > 0:08:38and bets with kittens instead of money?
0:08:38 > 0:08:40- Clem.- Yes.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42In the season seven episode Showtime,
0:08:42 > 0:08:43while discussing how to save Spike,
0:08:43 > 0:08:45Giles mentions an oracle-type
0:08:45 > 0:08:48creature as the one option they haven't tried.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50What creature?
0:08:50 > 0:08:52- Eye of Bayon?- The Eye of Beljoxa.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55Who is the final character to speak before The Gentlemen
0:08:55 > 0:08:58steal the towns' voices in Hush?
0:08:58 > 0:08:59She says to Giles,
0:08:59 > 0:09:01"That's enough small talk, don't you think?"
0:09:01 > 0:09:03- Anya?- Olivia.
0:09:03 > 0:09:05In Once More With Feeling, while under the spell
0:09:05 > 0:09:07that causes everyone to sing the truth,
0:09:07 > 0:09:10Xander complains that Anya is hard to live with
0:09:10 > 0:09:12because she eats what?
0:09:12 > 0:09:13- Smelly cheeses.- Yes.
0:09:13 > 0:09:15What is the name of the Mayor of Sunnydale?
0:09:15 > 0:09:17After finding a picture of him in the Hall of Records,
0:09:17 > 0:09:21Buffy and her friends discover that he is over 100 years old
0:09:21 > 0:09:22and posing as his own grandson.
0:09:22 > 0:09:25- Richard Wilson. - No. Richard Wilkins.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27In the series seven episode Chosen,
0:09:27 > 0:09:30when Dawn opens a blind which allows sunlight into the school
0:09:30 > 0:09:33and causes the Turok-Han to disintegrate,
0:09:33 > 0:09:36Xander jokes that it is an example of what phenomenon?
0:09:38 > 0:09:40- Dancing.- The greenhouse effect.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42Which watcher who was supposedly sent
0:09:42 > 0:09:44by the Council is found to have been expelled
0:09:44 > 0:09:46a couple of years before for misusing dark power?
0:09:46 > 0:09:50- BEEP - Gwendolyn Porter. - Gwendolyn Post.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52- Ah.- Ah, very close.
0:09:52 > 0:09:56You got a few that were absolutely nearly there, but not quite.
0:09:56 > 0:09:58- No passes, Cathy. You've scored five points.- Thank heavens.
0:09:58 > 0:10:02APPLAUSE
0:10:07 > 0:10:09And our final contender, please.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18And your name is?
0:10:18 > 0:10:20Your occupation?
0:10:20 > 0:10:22And your specialist subject?
0:10:25 > 0:10:26In two minutes, starting now.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29Alfred Wainwright split the Lakeland Fells
0:10:29 > 0:10:30into seven geographical areas
0:10:30 > 0:10:33and wrote and illustrated a pictorial guide for each.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35Which area was the subject of the first book,
0:10:35 > 0:10:36published in 1955?
0:10:36 > 0:10:38- The Eastern Fells.- Yes.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40In his guide to the Central Fells, Wainwright dedicates
0:10:40 > 0:10:43two pages to a rock scramble across the face of the Pavey Ark.
0:10:43 > 0:10:44What is this scramble called?
0:10:44 > 0:10:46- Jack's Rake.- Yep.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48He describes the view from the hill above Windermere
0:10:48 > 0:10:51where he had his first sight of the Lake District in 1930
0:10:51 > 0:10:54as "a scene of great loveliness, a fascinating paradise."
0:10:54 > 0:10:55Which hill?
0:10:55 > 0:10:56- Orrest Head.- Yes.
0:10:56 > 0:10:58Which of Wainwright's geographical areas
0:10:58 > 0:10:59is divided into three parts
0:10:59 > 0:11:01by the valleys of the Dash,
0:11:01 > 0:11:03the Caldew and the Glenderaterra?
0:11:03 > 0:11:04- The Northern Fells.- Yes.
0:11:04 > 0:11:08The guides contain individual entries for 214 fells.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10The only one with a height of less than 1,000ft is described
0:11:10 > 0:11:13as an obstruction in the throat of Borrowdale.
0:11:13 > 0:11:14What's it called?
0:11:14 > 0:11:15- Castle Crag.- Yes.
0:11:15 > 0:11:17What is the third highest of Wainwright's Southern Fells?
0:11:17 > 0:11:19It's described in book four,
0:11:19 > 0:11:22along with the two highest - Scafell Pike and Scafell.
0:11:24 > 0:11:25Pass.
0:11:25 > 0:11:27The Nan Bield Pass is described as the finest
0:11:27 > 0:11:29of Lakeland passes
0:11:29 > 0:11:31and links the Kentmere Valley and which other valley?
0:11:31 > 0:11:32- Newlands.- Mardale.
0:11:32 > 0:11:36The guides were written and illustrated by hand in pen and ink.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38Which newspaper owned the company that first printed them and,
0:11:38 > 0:11:41in 1963, became the publisher?
0:11:41 > 0:11:42- The Westmorland Gazette.- Yes.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44Wainwright describes the Fells
0:11:44 > 0:11:45in each volume in alphabetical order.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47Which hill is the first one
0:11:47 > 0:11:49in his first book, The Eastern Fells?
0:11:49 > 0:11:50- Arnison Crag.- Yes.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52A fell that overlooks the Langdale Valley
0:11:52 > 0:11:53is described as the country's
0:11:53 > 0:11:56most important site of stone axe manufacture
0:11:56 > 0:11:58by Neolithic man. Which fell?
0:11:58 > 0:12:01- Pike o' Blisco.- Pike o' Stickle.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03Who were the "unlovely twins" mentioned in the dedication
0:12:03 > 0:12:04to book six?
0:12:04 > 0:12:06Wainwright describes them as
0:12:06 > 0:12:07"staunch supporters that endured much
0:12:07 > 0:12:10"without complaint and never once let me down."
0:12:10 > 0:12:12- His right leg and his left leg.- Yes.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14What name does Wainwright give to the traverse from
0:12:14 > 0:12:17Robinson's Cairn that leads to the summit of Pillar?
0:12:17 > 0:12:19- The Shamrock Traverse.- Yes.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22Which summit in the far Eastern Fells has
0:12:22 > 0:12:24a 14ft-high column of stones
0:12:24 > 0:12:25described by Wainwright as one
0:12:25 > 0:12:27of the most distinctive cairns in Lakeland?
0:12:27 > 0:12:29- Thornthwaite Crag.- Yes.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31BEEP And that's it.
0:12:31 > 0:12:32Your time is up. You had one pass.
0:12:32 > 0:12:36The third highest of the Southern Fells was, or rather is,
0:12:36 > 0:12:38Great End.
0:12:38 > 0:12:40You have scored, however, Simon, ten points.
0:12:40 > 0:12:44APPLAUSE
0:12:50 > 0:12:53So, that's the first round done. A nice spread of scores.
0:12:53 > 0:12:54Let's have a look at all of them.
0:12:54 > 0:12:57In fourth place, five points - Cathy Gibbons.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59Third place, six points - Peter Young.
0:12:59 > 0:13:02Second place, ten points - Simon Rule.
0:13:02 > 0:13:04First place, just 11 points - Mohan Mudigonda.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08APPLAUSE
0:13:12 > 0:13:15So it's the general knowledge round now.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18And if there is a tie at the end of it, then the number of passes
0:13:18 > 0:13:22is taken into account and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.
0:13:22 > 0:13:23And if they are tied on passes as well,
0:13:23 > 0:13:25then there has to be a tie-break.
0:13:25 > 0:13:29And it is possible for a runner-up tonight to get through to the
0:13:29 > 0:13:30semifinal, as well,
0:13:30 > 0:13:34as the six highest scoring runners-up will qualify.
0:13:34 > 0:13:37So, let's get on with it and ask Cathy to join us again, please.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41And you've got a bit of ground to make up,
0:13:41 > 0:13:43but this is your opportunity
0:13:43 > 0:13:47because you have two-and-a-half minutes of general knowledge.
0:13:47 > 0:13:48Here we go.
0:13:48 > 0:13:50Which pantomime character has a brother called Wishy Washy?
0:13:50 > 0:13:52His mother is Widow Twankey.
0:13:52 > 0:13:53Aladdin?
0:13:53 > 0:13:55Mrs Danvers is the sinister housekeeper in
0:13:55 > 0:13:57a novel by Daphne du Maurier.
0:13:57 > 0:13:59At which house is she employed?
0:13:59 > 0:14:00Manderley.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03Which planet was known to the Ancient Greeks as Phosphorus
0:14:03 > 0:14:06when it appeared as a morning star and Hesperus when it was seen
0:14:06 > 0:14:07as the evening star?
0:14:07 > 0:14:08Venus?
0:14:08 > 0:14:10What film, that is set in the 1820s,
0:14:10 > 0:14:13about a frontiersman on a fur-trading expedition who's
0:14:13 > 0:14:15left for dead after being mauled by a bear,
0:14:15 > 0:14:18is based in part on a novel by Michael Punke?
0:14:20 > 0:14:21Not Renegade...
0:14:21 > 0:14:23No. Close. Revenant.
0:14:23 > 0:14:26Whose first UK chart-topping single as a solo artist came
0:14:26 > 0:14:30in 1990 with the double A-side Sacrifice/Healing Hands?
0:14:32 > 0:14:34- John Pope. - Elton John.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37Which northern English county has a tradition of bagpipe playing?
0:14:37 > 0:14:39The pipes are smaller than the Scottish version,
0:14:39 > 0:14:41and they're inflated by bellows rather than by mouth.
0:14:41 > 0:14:42Northumbria.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44No, Northumberland, I'm afraid.
0:14:44 > 0:14:47Which family ruled Florence and later Tuscany during
0:14:47 > 0:14:50most of the period from 1434 to 1737?
0:14:50 > 0:14:52- Borgias? - The Medici.
0:14:52 > 0:14:55In the poem To Althea, From Prison by Richard Lovelace,
0:14:55 > 0:14:57what word completes these lines?
0:14:57 > 0:14:59"Stone walls do not a prison make
0:14:59 > 0:15:01"Nor iron bars a..."
0:15:04 > 0:15:05Cage.
0:15:05 > 0:15:09A model of a crustacean is lying on top of a telephone handset in
0:15:09 > 0:15:12Salvador Dali's classic surrealistic work of 1936 that was made
0:15:12 > 0:15:15for his patron, Edward James. What's the crustacean?
0:15:15 > 0:15:16A lobster.
0:15:16 > 0:15:19Dot-dot-dot dash-dash-dash dot-dot-dot is the Morse code
0:15:19 > 0:15:22for which three letters, used as a distress call?
0:15:22 > 0:15:23SOS.
0:15:23 > 0:15:25Who became world heavyweight boxing champion in
0:15:25 > 0:15:29November 2015 after beating Wladimir Klitschko in a fight in Dusseldorf?
0:15:34 > 0:15:35Pass.
0:15:35 > 0:15:39What word for an expression of great admiration or praise
0:15:39 > 0:15:42ultimately comes from a French word meaning "to embrace"?
0:15:48 > 0:15:50- Je t'adore. - Accolade.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53Carpenter, weaver and harvester are among the 12,000 species of
0:15:53 > 0:15:55which insect?
0:15:59 > 0:16:01- Beetle? - Ants.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03Which volcanic island between the Italian mainland and Sicily
0:16:03 > 0:16:07erupts constantly and is known as the Lighthouse of the Mediterranean?
0:16:07 > 0:16:09- Etna. - No, Stromboli.
0:16:09 > 0:16:12Which entrepreneur, whose business interests include mobile phones,
0:16:12 > 0:16:15media and property, is the only one of the original Dragons to
0:16:15 > 0:16:18appear in the series of Dragons' Den that began in 2015?
0:16:18 > 0:16:19BEEP
0:16:19 > 0:16:22- Peter Smith. - Peter...?- Smith.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24I'm afraid not. It was Peter Jones.
0:16:24 > 0:16:25So you got it half right,
0:16:25 > 0:16:27but not the important bit, I'm afraid.
0:16:27 > 0:16:34You had one pass. It was Tyson Fury who beat Wladimir Klitschko in 2015.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37You've a total now, Cathy, of 11 points.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39APPLAUSE
0:16:46 > 0:16:48And now Peter again, please.
0:16:49 > 0:16:53And you start out with...
0:16:53 > 0:16:55six points, Peter. The same applies to you.
0:16:55 > 0:17:01Two-and-a-half minutes of general knowledge in which to storm ahead.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Here we go.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05Liza Minnelli is the daughter of a legendary singer
0:17:05 > 0:17:07and film actress. Who?
0:17:07 > 0:17:08Judy Garland.
0:17:08 > 0:17:11The peninsula known as Baja California is part of which country?
0:17:11 > 0:17:12Mexico.
0:17:12 > 0:17:16Which dim but good-natured literary young man about town made his
0:17:16 > 0:17:20first appearance in the short story Extricating Young Gussie in 1915?
0:17:21 > 0:17:22Pass.
0:17:22 > 0:17:26In art, what term, from the French for "to paste", is used for an
0:17:26 > 0:17:29artistic composition typically made from pieces of paper or
0:17:29 > 0:17:31fabric glued onto a backing material?
0:17:33 > 0:17:35- Stucco. - Collage.
0:17:35 > 0:17:38Who stars as the housewife Laura Jesson in the 1945 film
0:17:38 > 0:17:42Brief Encounter? Trevor Howard plays the doctor, Alec Harvey.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47- Cicely Courtneidge. - Celia Johnson.
0:17:47 > 0:17:50In Roald Dahl's book Charlie And The Chocolate Factory,
0:17:50 > 0:17:53whom does Grandpa Joe describe as "the most amazing, the most fantastic,
0:17:53 > 0:17:56"the most extraordinary chocolate maker the world has ever seen"?
0:17:56 > 0:17:58Willy Wonka.
0:17:58 > 0:18:01Which character, played by James Doohan, was the USS Enterprise's
0:18:01 > 0:18:04chief engineer in the original Star Trek television series?
0:18:04 > 0:18:06Scotty.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09By what title is the Chairman of Ways and Means better known
0:18:09 > 0:18:10in the House of Commons?
0:18:11 > 0:18:12Pass.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15Which singer's single and album, both entitled Music,
0:18:15 > 0:18:18topped the UK charts in September 2000?
0:18:18 > 0:18:19Pass.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22The condition known as dysphagia causes difficulty or pain in
0:18:22 > 0:18:24doing what?
0:18:26 > 0:18:27- Hearing. - Swallowing.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29What was the name of the Swedish manager who led the England
0:18:29 > 0:18:32football team to the quarterfinal stage at both
0:18:32 > 0:18:35the 2002 and 2006 World Cup finals?
0:18:35 > 0:18:36Sven-Goran Eriksson.
0:18:36 > 0:18:39The name of a smooth, creamy, unripened cheese
0:18:39 > 0:18:42comes from the German for "curd". What cheese?
0:18:42 > 0:18:43Pass.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46What was the name of the close collaborator of Karl Marx who
0:18:46 > 0:18:49published The Condition Of The Working Class In England in 1844?
0:18:49 > 0:18:53It was based on his experiences of working at the textile firm
0:18:53 > 0:18:55in Manchester that was co-owned by his father.
0:18:55 > 0:18:57Friedrich Engels.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00In computing, the abbreviation "app", meaning a small, specialised
0:19:00 > 0:19:04program downloaded onto a mobile device, is short for what word?
0:19:04 > 0:19:05Application.
0:19:05 > 0:19:08The River Wyre flows for its entire length through an English
0:19:08 > 0:19:11county before reaching the Irish Sea. Which county?
0:19:14 > 0:19:15Lancashire.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17The first hearing of which bird in spring is the theme of
0:19:17 > 0:19:21a tone poem by Frederick Delius, composed in 1912?
0:19:21 > 0:19:22Cuckoo.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25The name of which natural pigment, involved in photosynthesis,
0:19:25 > 0:19:27comes from the Greek for "green leaf"?
0:19:27 > 0:19:28Chlorophyll.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31An early example of what instrument was devised by
0:19:31 > 0:19:33Alexander Graham Bell to try to find the bullet
0:19:33 > 0:19:36BEEP ..with which President Garfield had been shot?
0:19:36 > 0:19:39It's now widely used by amateur archaeologists.
0:19:41 > 0:19:42- Metal detector. - Yep, that was it.
0:19:42 > 0:19:45You had four passes, Peter.
0:19:45 > 0:19:48Quark is the name of that smooth, creamy cheese.
0:19:48 > 0:19:51Madonna topped the charts in September 2000.
0:19:51 > 0:19:53The Chairman of Ways and Means
0:19:53 > 0:19:55is the Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons.
0:19:55 > 0:19:59And that dim but good-natured literary young man about town
0:19:59 > 0:20:00was Bertie Wooster.
0:20:00 > 0:20:04Peter, you have scored now a total of 17 points.
0:20:04 > 0:20:06APPLAUSE
0:20:16 > 0:20:18And now Simon again, please.
0:20:22 > 0:20:26And you start this round with ten points.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29The score, as we speak, to beat is 17.
0:20:29 > 0:20:32So let's see how you get on with your two-and-a-half minutes
0:20:32 > 0:20:33of general knowledge.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35What is the name of Popeye's girlfriend, for whose
0:20:35 > 0:20:38attention he constantly vies with the bearded, hulking Bluto?
0:20:38 > 0:20:39Olive Oyl.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42Which fabric, one of the oldest known to man,
0:20:42 > 0:20:44was used to wrap mummies from about 3000BC?
0:20:44 > 0:20:45- Silk. - Linen.
0:20:45 > 0:20:48Of which meal did Somerset Maugham reportedly say,
0:20:48 > 0:20:50"To eat well in England, you should have it three times a day"?
0:20:50 > 0:20:52- Fish and chips? - Breakfast!
0:20:52 > 0:20:54What term for a bomb developed during the Second World War
0:20:54 > 0:20:57to do maximum damage to buildings has come to mean
0:20:57 > 0:20:59a notably expensive or extravagant film?
0:21:01 > 0:21:03- Bomb. - Blockbuster.
0:21:03 > 0:21:06The English artist Louis Wain is best remembered for his
0:21:06 > 0:21:09paintings of which domestic pets?
0:21:09 > 0:21:10Cats.
0:21:10 > 0:21:13What appropriate name was given to the dock in Wapping, east London,
0:21:13 > 0:21:15where pirates were hanged?
0:21:15 > 0:21:16Pass.
0:21:16 > 0:21:19Which Conservative politician was Secretary of State for War from 1960
0:21:19 > 0:21:22to '63, when he was forced to resign after he admitted
0:21:22 > 0:21:24he had deceived the House of Commons?
0:21:24 > 0:21:26John Profumo.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29Which composer's 3rd Symphony in D is nicknamed the Polish
0:21:29 > 0:21:32because its finale is in Polonaise rhythm?
0:21:32 > 0:21:34- Chopin. - Tchaikovsky.
0:21:34 > 0:21:37In which novel does the computer Deep Thought declare that the answer
0:21:37 > 0:21:41to the great question of life, the universe and everything is 42?
0:21:41 > 0:21:42So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44No, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
0:21:44 > 0:21:47What alternative name for sodium hydroxide refers to the fact
0:21:47 > 0:21:50that it burns tissue that comes into contact with it?
0:21:50 > 0:21:52It's used in the treatment of effluent
0:21:52 > 0:21:54and the manufacture of soap.
0:21:54 > 0:21:55Pass.
0:21:55 > 0:21:59Of which country did Queen Maud Land in Antarctica become
0:21:59 > 0:22:01a dependency in 1949?
0:22:01 > 0:22:03When it was first claimed in 1939,
0:22:03 > 0:22:06it was named after that country's recently deceased queen.
0:22:06 > 0:22:08Sorry, would you repeat the question?
0:22:08 > 0:22:12Of which country did Queen Maud Land in Antarctica become
0:22:12 > 0:22:13a dependency in '49?
0:22:13 > 0:22:15When it was first claimed in '39,
0:22:15 > 0:22:18it was named after that country's recently deceased queen.
0:22:18 > 0:22:19- Sweden. - Norway.
0:22:19 > 0:22:22Which species of native duck gets its name from its long,
0:22:22 > 0:22:24rounded, spade-like bill?
0:22:24 > 0:22:25Shoveller.
0:22:25 > 0:22:29The 1988 Dire Straits greatest-hits compilation album shares its title
0:22:29 > 0:22:32with a Grammy award-winning track from their Brothers In Arms album.
0:22:32 > 0:22:33What's its title?
0:22:37 > 0:22:38Pass.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41Who gives the black spot to Billy Bones, who then falls down dead,
0:22:41 > 0:22:44in Robert Louis Stevenson's story Treasure Island?
0:22:44 > 0:22:45Blind Pew.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48What word for a trick or artifice is used for a sharp double bend
0:22:48 > 0:22:52created to form an obstacle on a motor-racing track or road?
0:22:52 > 0:22:53- Hairpin. - Chicane.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56Which 1955 film musical features the songs
0:22:56 > 0:22:57"True Love", "Well, Did You Evah!" and
0:22:57 > 0:22:59"Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"?
0:22:59 > 0:23:00High Society.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03What is the name of the talking horse owned by the architect
0:23:03 > 0:23:04Wilbur Post in the '60s TV series...
0:23:04 > 0:23:06BEEP ..of the same name?
0:23:06 > 0:23:08- Mister Ed. - Is correct.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10Three passes, Simon.
0:23:10 > 0:23:14Money For Nothing was that Dire Straits album.
0:23:14 > 0:23:18Caustic soda is the other name for sodium hydroxide.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20It burns rather unpleasantly.
0:23:20 > 0:23:23And the name of the dock where they used to hang pirates -
0:23:23 > 0:23:25Execution Dock.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28You have also 17 points.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30APPLAUSE
0:23:36 > 0:23:39And finally Mohan again, please.
0:23:41 > 0:23:44And you start out with 11 points, Mohan.
0:23:44 > 0:23:48Let's see if you can beat the 17 that is sitting there
0:23:48 > 0:23:51waiting to be challenged. Here we go. Two-and-a-half minutes.
0:23:51 > 0:23:54Flaky, suet crust and shortcrust are all types of what?
0:23:54 > 0:23:55Pastry.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58Which patron saint is depicted in a wooden statue in Stockholm Cathedral
0:23:58 > 0:23:59that dates from 1489?
0:23:59 > 0:24:02It shows him mounted on horseback with an upraised sword,
0:24:02 > 0:24:04about to kill his traditional foe.
0:24:04 > 0:24:05George?
0:24:05 > 0:24:08In geometry, what name is given to an angle that is greater
0:24:08 > 0:24:10than 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees?
0:24:10 > 0:24:11An obtuse angle?
0:24:11 > 0:24:14The name of what item, originally used to keep a wheel in position
0:24:14 > 0:24:16on its axle, has come to mean a person or item
0:24:16 > 0:24:18essential to a plan or organisation?
0:24:18 > 0:24:20- Spoke? - Linchpin.
0:24:20 > 0:24:22Which boyband reunited and represented the UK in
0:24:22 > 0:24:25the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest?
0:24:25 > 0:24:28They came 11th with I Can, which was included on their fourth
0:24:28 > 0:24:31studio album, Roulette, in early 2013.
0:24:31 > 0:24:32Blue?
0:24:32 > 0:24:35After which English scientist and mathematician is the SI unit
0:24:35 > 0:24:37of force named?
0:24:37 > 0:24:38Pass.
0:24:38 > 0:24:41Who plays the antihero title character in the 2016 film
0:24:41 > 0:24:44Deadpool, which is set in Fox's Marvel Universe?
0:24:44 > 0:24:46Ryan Reynolds.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48Which rocky outcrop in the mouth of the Firth of Clyde is regarded
0:24:48 > 0:24:52as being the source of the best granite for making curling stones?
0:24:52 > 0:24:53Pass.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56Which award-winning character comedy television series, which ran
0:24:56 > 0:25:01from 2003 to 2006, was created by Matt Lucas and David Walliams?
0:25:01 > 0:25:02Little Britain.
0:25:02 > 0:25:06Who became the only prime minister to have served under three monarchs
0:25:06 > 0:25:09during his final term of office, that lasted from 1935 to '37?
0:25:12 > 0:25:14- Lloyd George? - Stanley Baldwin.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16Which Spanish writer is often said to have died on
0:25:16 > 0:25:20the 23rd April 1616, the same date as William Shakespeare?
0:25:20 > 0:25:23Because Spain and England used different calendars,
0:25:23 > 0:25:25the deaths actually occurred more than a week apart.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27Cervantes?
0:25:27 > 0:25:31Which South African city was founded in 1886 after the discovery of
0:25:31 > 0:25:34gold that rapidly made it the country's largest city?
0:25:34 > 0:25:36Erm, Johannesburg?
0:25:36 > 0:25:41Hooded and carrion are the two native British species of which bird?
0:25:41 > 0:25:42Crow?
0:25:42 > 0:25:45What name is given to the holiday normally celebrated in America
0:25:45 > 0:25:47on the fourth Thursday in November?
0:25:47 > 0:25:49Thanksgiving.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52Which British comedian and writer is the author of the children's
0:25:52 > 0:25:56novels The Parent Agency and The Person Controller?
0:25:56 > 0:25:57Pass.
0:25:57 > 0:25:58Which Canadian snooker player,
0:25:58 > 0:26:01known as the Grinder because of his dour style,
0:26:01 > 0:26:02won the world title in 1980
0:26:02 > 0:26:07and in '83 became the first person to make a 147 break at the Crucible?
0:26:07 > 0:26:08Cliff Thorburn?
0:26:08 > 0:26:11What was the world's first ready-to-eat breakfast cereal?
0:26:11 > 0:26:15It was produced by Henry D Perky of Denver in 1893 and is still
0:26:15 > 0:26:16sold today.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18- Porridge?- No, Shredded Wheat.- Oh!
0:26:18 > 0:26:21The toppling of the statue of Saddam Hussein in April 2003 was accompanied...
0:26:21 > 0:26:24BEEP ..by locals throwing what items of clothing at it?
0:26:24 > 0:26:26It's a great insult in the Arab world.
0:26:26 > 0:26:29- The shoe.- Yep, they threw their shoes at it.
0:26:29 > 0:26:31You had three passes, Mohan.
0:26:31 > 0:26:34The author of The Parent Agency was David Baddiel.
0:26:34 > 0:26:36Ailsa Craig is that rocky outcrop
0:26:36 > 0:26:39regarded as being the best sort of granite.
0:26:39 > 0:26:40And - you'll be cross -
0:26:40 > 0:26:44Isaac Newton was the scientist. It's always Isaac Newton, isn't it?
0:26:44 > 0:26:46All of those questions are Isaac Newton!
0:26:46 > 0:26:50Anyway, no matter, because you have scored a total of 23 points.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52APPLAUSE
0:27:00 > 0:27:03So, we have a very clear winner. Let's have a look at all the scores.
0:27:03 > 0:27:06In fourth place with 11 points, Cathy Gibbons.
0:27:06 > 0:27:08Joint second place, 17 points apiece,
0:27:08 > 0:27:10Peter Young and Simon Rule.
0:27:10 > 0:27:13First place, 23 points, Mohan Mudigonda.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24Which means, of course,
0:27:24 > 0:27:27that Mohan is tonight's winner and he goes through to the semifinals.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29Congratulations to him.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32And if you would like to be a contender in the next series,
0:27:32 > 0:27:34do go to our website.
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