Episode 16 Mastermind

Our first contender tonight is Mark Buckley,

a company sales manager from Lincolnshire.

His specialist subject - the film star David Niven.

Next, Lucinda Critchley, a student from Liverpool. Her subject -

the Soviet Space Programme.

Michael Harrington from Rochdale

will answer questions on Italian Renaissance paintings.

And Robert Hemming, a writer from Evesham. His specialist subject -

the human body.

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

Four more contenders all ready for the ordeal of the black chair.

That, and the lights and the relentless ticking of the clock.

They all conspire to pile on the pressure,

and tonight one of the contenders will cope that bit better

than the others and get through to the semifinals.

And after that, who knows?

The title of Mastermind Champion awaits somebody.

Let's find out who, and ask our first contender to join us, please.

-And your name is?

-Mark Buckley.

-Your occupation?

-Company sales manager.

-And your specialist subject?

-The life and career of David Niven.

David Niven in two minutes, starting now.

Niven's performance in which 1936 film resulted in

a review claiming that "all we can say about this actor is that

"he is tall, dark and not the slightest bit handsome"?

Niven claimed it was the only review he kept,

framed and hung in his lavatory.

Dodsworth.

In The Pink Panther, David Niven's character, Sir Charles Lytton,

and his nephew wear identical fancy-dress costumes when they try

independently to steal Princess Dala's diamond during

a party at her villa. What costume is it?

-Gorilla outfit.

-Yep.

After war broke out in 1939, Niven returned to Britain from

Hollywood and tried unsuccessfully to join the RAF

before being commissioned as a lieutenant in which regiment

of the Army in February 1940?

-Rifle Brigade.

-Yeah.

In Bachelor Mother, David Merlin takes Polly Parrish to

a New Year's Eve party, where he claims that she is the

daughter of a foreign manufacturer and doesn't speak English.

To try and maintain the illusion,

what language do they pretend to speak to each other?

-Japanese.

-Swedish.

Which film producer signed Niven to a seven-year contract in 1935?

Samuel Goldwyn.

After leaving Sandhurst, Niven was commissioned into the

Highland Light Infantry and posted to which island?

Malta.

In The Guns of Navarone, Niven's character, Corporal Miller,

is often addressed by a nickname in reference to his civilian

occupation. What nickname?

Pass.

Which American military decoration was Niven awarded in 1945

in recognition of his wartime work as

a liaison officer between the Allies?

-Legion Order of Merit.

-Yes.

What method of transport does Phileas Fogg use to get from

the end of the railway line at Kholby to Allahabad

in Around The World In 80 Days?

-Camel.

-Elephant.

Niven won an Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal

of the Major in which 1958 film?

Separate Tables.

In the spoof '67 film Casino Royale, Niven plays Sir James Bond,

who survives a car chase with an E-Type Jaguar

and a remote-controlled vehicle loaded with explosives

as he is leaving Scotland. What type of vehicle is that?

-Lorry.

-It's a milk float.

What was the name of the TV production company formed by

Dick Powell, Charles Boyer and Niven in 1952?

Four Star productions.

Yes, Four Star Television Incorporated. But that'll do it.

You had one pass.

In The Guns Of Navarone, the nickname was the Professor.

-You have scored, Mark, 8 points.

-Thank you.

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And our next contender, please.

-And your name is?

-Lucinda Critchley.

-Your occupation?

-Student.

-And your chosen subject?

-The Soviet Space Programme.

The Soviet Space Programme in two minutes. Here we go.

What was the name of the Soviet Union's chief designer,

responsible for the development of long-range ballistic missiles

and spacecraft from the mid-1940s until his death in 1966?

Sergei Korolev.

Aboard which satellite was the dog Laika

sent into space in 1957? She survived the launch

but died in orbit when her capsule overheated.

Sputnik 2.

In 1963, which other cosmonaut was orbiting the Earth

when Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space?

Bykovsky.

What was the name of the first space station?

It was launched on the 19th of April 1971.

Salyut 1.

Before Yuri Gagarin was selected, ahead of Gherman Titov,

for the first manned space mission,

the head of cosmonaut training wrote in his diary that

"it's hard to decide which of them should be sent to die".

What was his name?

Pass.

Which of Korolev's rivals led the design bureau that developed

the UR-500 launch vehicle, also known as Proton?

Chelomei.

What nickname was given to the life-sized mannequin used in

test flights of the Vostok spacecraft?

Ivan Ivanovich.

Which leading rocket engine designer, who had denounced

Korolev in the late 1930s, became chief designer in 1974?

Glushko.

Sergei Korolev's identity was kept secret until his death

for fear that he would be kidnapped or killed, and his newspaper

articles in Pravda were published under what pseudonym?

Er...Sergeevich.

No, Sergeev.

What is the English translation of "Tyulpan", the nickname given

to the innovative Soviet launch mechanism that held

the R-7 rocket in place using hinged jaws that could open

and close like the petals of a flower?

Pass.

What was the name of the cosmonaut who piloted Soyuz 1

but was killed after its parachutes failed to deploy

properly during re-entry?

He was the first person to die during a space flight.

Komarov.

After the death of Korolev,

who succeeded him as the space programme's chief designer?

He was fired in 1974 after the repeated failure of the N1

rocket and the death of three cosmonauts aboard Soyuz 11.

-Mishin.

-What was the name of the spacecraft that carried

a three-man crew into orbit in 1964?

On a mission the following year,

Alexey Leonov carried out the first spacewalk.

-Voskhod.

-Is correct.

Two passes.

The English translation of Tyulpan,

the nickname given to that innovative launch mechanism

was the "tulip".

-And it was General Kamanin.

-Oh, OK.

You would pronounce it much better than I.

He was selected for the first manned mission.

You have scored 10 points.

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And our next contender, please.

-And your name is?

-Michael Harrington.

-Your occupation?

-Retired.

-And your chosen subject?

-Italian renaissance paintings.

Italian renaissance paintings in two minutes. Here we go.

The scene in the central panel of Michelangelo's monumental

fresco for the Sistine Chapel ceiling,

painted between 1508 and 1512, in which God is seen touching

life into a reclining figure, is called The Creation Of...?

Adam.

What bird, called a "cardellino" in Italian,

is held by the infant John the Baptist and tenderly stroked

by the infant Christ in an early 16th-century Madonna by Raphael?

-Wren.

-No, Goldfinch.

Which artist, born in the Emilian town of Forli,

painted a notable fresco of the Ascension for the

Church of the Holy Apostles in Rome?

-Titian.

-Melozzo da Forli.

The main panel of Domenico Veneziano's Santa Lucia

altarpiece of the mid-1440s,

that depicts the Madonna and Child with saints,

is held by which Italian art museum?

Uffizi.

Which saint is depicted expelling a dragon

from the temple of Hierapolis, in a late work by Filippino Lippi?

-George.

-Philip.

Which biblical event is depicted in the main fresco

by Andrea del Castagno, painted in the 1440s,

for the Refectory of the Sant'Apollonia in Florence?

-The Coronation of the Virgin.

-The Last Supper.

By what Italian name for "Spring" is the famous allegorical work

by Sandro Botticelli best known? It is said to have formerly hung

in the palace of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco in Florence.

-Pass.

-The Louvre and the National Gallery in London

each hold a version of Leonardo da Vinci's painting

of the Madonna and Child with the infant John the Baptist.

Its usual English title is "The Virgin Of The..."

Rocks.

Which former student and assistant of Fra Angelico

painted a series of frescos on the Procession of the Magi,

dated from around 1459,

for the palace chapel of the Medici family in Florence?

Gozzoli.

What was the surname of the well-known family of Venetian

artists that included Jacopo and his two sons Giovanni and Gentile?

Bellini.

Which artist is particularly associated with

the development of perspective in Italian painting?

For example, in his work The Battle of San Romano.

Uccello.

Which plant is shown in the background of Leonardo da Vinci's

portrait of Ginevra de' Benci,

as both a symbol of chastity and a pun on her first name?

-Juniper.

-Juniper is correct, yes.

One pass.

The Italian name for Spring,

that allegorical work by Botticelli - Primavera.

You have scored, Michael, 7 points.

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And our final contender, please.

-And your name is?

-Robert Hemming.

-Your occupation?

-Writer.

-And your chosen subject?

-The human body.

The human body in two minutes. Here we go.

What is the name of the smooth, convex,

transparent membrane that covers the front of the eye and helps

protect the rest of the eye from harmful matter?

Cornea.

What is a basic functional unit of the kidney called?

It includes a glomerulus,

a Bowman's capsule and associated tubules.

-Filtration.

-Nephron.

The semi-fluid, partly-digested food that is passed from the

stomach into the small intestine for further absorption,

gets its name from the Greek for "juice". What is it called?

Chyme.

What is the C-shaped first part of the small intestine called?

It gets its Latin name from being measured as the equivalent

of the breadth of 12 fingers.

Duodenum.

The area in the frontal part of the left hemisphere of the brain,

which plays a vital role in speech and language, is named after

the French surgeon who identified its function.

What's its name?

-Pass.

-What is the name of the triangular bone

towards the bottom of the spine

that consists of five fused vertebrae and ends in the coccyx?

Sacrum.

The four main lobes or sections in each hemisphere of the brain

are the frontal, temporal, parietal and which other lobe?

Could you repeat that, please?

The four main lobes or sections in each hemisphere of the brain

are the frontal, temporal, parietal and which other lobe?

Occipital.

The large vein which carries deoxygenated blood to the heart

in two sections, called the superior and inferior,

is known by what two-word Latin name?

Vena cava.

The star-shaped macrophage cells in the linings of the liver's

fine capillaries, whose function includes removing bacteria

from the blood, are named after the German anatomist

who identified them. What's that name?

Kupffer.

What is the name of the double-layered membrane enclosing

each lung? The inner layer is attached to the lung surface

and the outer layer lines the chest cavity.

Pleural membrane.

Muscles that permit movement towards the midline or axis

of the body are called adductors.

What is the equivalent term for muscles that permit movement

away from the midline, such as the deltoid muscle?

Abductors.

What general term that comes partly from the Greek for "a man"

is used for the male sex hormones,

of which testosterone is predominant?

Take a guess.

-Pass.

-I'll have to tell you - androgens.

You had one other pass, that area in the frontal part of the left

hemisphere of the brain, etc, etc, was Broca's Area.

B-R-O-C-A.

You've scored, Robert, 9 points.

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That's a nice, close round. Let's have a look at all the scores.

In fourth place - 7 points,

Michael Harrington.

Third place - 8 points,

Mark Buckley.

Second place - 9 points,

Rob Hemming.

And, yes, you've guessed,

in first place - 10 points,

Lucinda Critchley.

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So, round two now - general knowledge - 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.

If they're tied on passes as well, there has to be a tie-break, and it

is possible for a runner-up to get through to the semifinal as well.

The six highest-scoring runners-up will qualify.

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

And you have 7 points, with your knowledge of that vast subject,

Italian renaissance paintings.

However, you now have 2½ minutes of general knowledge

to catch up, overtake the field and storm away with it. So, here we go.

The Wars of the Roses were fought in the 15th century between the

house of Lancaster and which other royal house?

York.

Who topped the UK singles charts in 1978

and the US singles charts in '79

with the song Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?

-Cliff Richard.

-Rod Stewart.

In which coastal town in North Wales

are the southern termini of two narrow-gauge railways

the Ffestiniog and the Welsh Highland?

Pass.

What transplant operation was first performed in Britain by

Donald Ross and his team in May 1968?

It was only the tenth time the procedure had been performed.

Heart transplant.

Which wonder of the ancient world is said to have been built by

King Nebuchadnezzar II for his wife Amytis

because she missed the mountains and greenery of her homeland?

The Hanging Gardens.

What term for a simplified form of a language such as English

that contains some elements of a local language

comes from a Chinese corruption of the word "business"?

-Pass.

-In which notorious yellowish-green distilled

liquor is the shrub wormwood the chief flavouring?

Absinthe.

Dame Jane Goodall is particularly famous for her long-term

studies of a type of ape

at the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. Which apes?

Chimpanzee.

Who directed the 2001 war film Black Hawk Down?

He was born in South Shields in 1937.

-Pass.

-Baroness Jay of Paddington, who joined the House of Lords

in 1992, is which former Prime Minister's daughter?

Jim Callaghan.

Which pigment, a deep shade of blue,

has a name that means "beyond the sea"

and was formerly ground

from the semi-precious gemstone lapis lazuli?

Ultramarine.

Of which extinct relative of the elephant was the

North American Imperial one of the largest species?

It was found on every continent except Australia

and South America.

Mammoth.

Who played the leather-clad Cathy Gale, John Steed's first

regular female assistant in the TV series The Avengers?

Pass.

Bernini's large sculpted bronze canopy in Vatican City

was commissioned by Pope Urban VIII

to mark the burial place of which saint?

St Peter.

What is the name of Gwendolen Fairfax's formidable mother

who sees it as her duty to prevent her daughter from becoming engaged

to Jack Worthing in Oscar Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest?

Lady Bracknell.

In Greek mythology, which immortal winged horse

did Bellerophon try to fly to Olympus?

-Centaur.

-Pegasus.

Which Anglican cleric was awarded the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize

in recognition of his role in the peaceful struggle by black

South Africans against apartheid?

Tutu.

On which golf course near Sutton Coldfield in Warwickshire

has the Ryder Cup been played

in 1985, '89, '93 and 2002?

-The Belfry.

-The Belfry is correct, and we're out of time.

-You had four passes. Honor Blackman.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

Played Cathy Gale. You knew that.

And Ridley Scott directed Black Hawk Down.

-Pidgin.

-Ah.

-Simplified English. Pidgin English.

It's all the other detail that throws you, though, isn't it?

And that coastal town in North Wales - Porthmadog.

You have a total now, Michael, of 19 points.

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And now Mark again, please.

You start out with 8 points...

with your knowledge of David Niven.

And the score to beat, as we speak, is, as you have just heard, 19.

And you have 2½ minutes of general knowledge to try.

The name of which Canadian city is used for the letter Q

in the English version of the Nato phonetic alphabet?

Quebec.

The scarab, a type of dung beetle, was sacred to,

and featured on amulets of which ancient people?

Egyptians.

What common name of Mexican Spanish origin is given to the

leather riding leggings worn over the trousers by cowboys?

Pass.

In computing, the word "bit"

is a contraction of which two other words?

-Pass.

-Which river rises in Tibet and flows for over 1,800 miles

through Kashmir and Pakistan before emptying into the

Arabian Sea near Karachi?

-Ganges.

-Indus.

Which song, written for Euro '96,

entered the UK charts at number one in June '96

for Baddiel and Skinner with The Lightning Seeds?

Three Lions.

What 1983 sci-fi comedy film stars Steve Martin as

a famous neurosurgeon who falls in love with a brain in a jar

that's voiced by Sissy Spacek?

The Man With Two Brains.

Which Belgian cyclist won the Tour de France five times

between 1969 and '74?

He was nicknamed "The Cannibal" because of his insatiable

appetite for winning races.

Eddy Merckx.

Whose debut novel The Ipcress File was first published in 1962?

It featured an unnamed spy

who became Harry Palmer when it was filmed in 1965.

-Frederick Forsyth.

-Len Deighton.

What is the more usual name of the larvae that anglers call

"gentles" when they use them as bait?

Maggots.

Angelo Barovier discovered the process for making clear glass

in the 15th century.

He was part of a family of glass makers from the island of Murano

in which Italian city?

Venice.

Whom did Phil Wilson succeed as MP for Sedgefield when

he won the by-election there in July 2007?

-Tony Blair.

-Which work by Debussy did he define as

"three symphonic sketches",

the second of which is entitled Play Of The Waves?

It's said to have been inspired by the paintings of JMW turner.

-Clair de Lune.

-La Mer. Or The Sea.

Which former managing director of Birmingham City Football Club,

who was appointed vice chairman of West Ham in 2010,

replaced Margaret Mountford

as an advisor on The Apprentice on 2009?

Karren Brady.

What extremely soft fibre is produced from the long,

lustrous undercoat of a species of goat known as

a pashmina in parts of Asia?

-Angora.

-Cashmere.

What is the kirpan, one of the five symbolic items that every

baptised Sikh traditionally wears?

Pass.

Near which town in Dorset are the iron age hill fort

Maiden Castle and the stone age circle Maumbury Rings that

was adapted by the Romans as an amphitheatre?

-Bournemouth.

-No, it was Dorchester.

Not all that far away.

Three passes. The kirpan is small dagger or sword.

"Bit" is a contraction of binary and digit.

And the leather riding leggings that cowboys wear, they're called chaps.

-Oh.

-Yeah.

-You got a total, Mark, of 17 points.

-Thank you.

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And now Robert again, please.

And you start out with 9 points, and the score to beat is still 19.

Here we go.

Which volcano's eruption in 79 AD caused the destruction of the

Roman cities of Pompeii, Stabiae, and Herculaneum?

Vesuvius.

Ben Kingsley won a Best Actor Oscar

for his role in what 1982 film?

Gandhi.

Britain's first £2 coin was issued in 1986 to celebrate the

holding of an international sporting event in Edinburgh.

Which event?

Commonwealth Games.

What name is given to an angle of less than 90 degrees in geometry?

Acute.

Who was the Supreme Allied Commander in South East Asia

who reassured the troops in Burma in 1943 with the words,

"You are not the forgotten army, nobody's even heard of you"?

-Auchinleck.

-Mountbatten.

Which insects that feed on plant sap are also known as greenflies,

plant lice, black flies or ant cows

because the sweet honeydew they excrete is favoured by ants?

Aphid.

Whose orchestral suite entitled The Planets was given the working

title Seven Pieces For Large Orchestra?

-Holst.

-What slang word for going mad comes from the name

of a town near Mumbai that was the location of a military sanatorium?

-Bonkers.

-Doolally.

Which Barbados-born singer topped the UK singles chart

in 2012 with Diamonds?

-Pass.

-What number comes between 20 and 18

on a standard dartboard?

-Three.

-One.

Which science-fiction writer's First Law of Robotics appears in

the 1942 short story Runaround?

It states that a robot may not injure a human being or through

inaction allow a human being to come to harm.

-Isaac Asimov.

-Which military unit had its headquarters

in Sidi Bel Abbes in Algeria

until the country gained independence in 1962?

French Foreign Legion.

Which city was chosen by a congress to be the capital

of Albania in 1920?

Tirana.

What name is given to the full moon that falls nearest

to the Autumn Equinox?

Harvest Moon.

In which north Yorkshire port did Count Dracula land in England

from the schooner Dmitri

in the shape of an immense dog in Bram Stoker's novel?

Whitby.

Which former star of Doctor Who was the narrator of Little Britain

when it was first broadcast on Radio 4, and kept the role

when it transferred to TV?

-David Tennant.

-Tom Baker.

The Biblical book of Daniel is written in Hebrew and in another

closely related language spoken in the Holy Land

during the lifetime of Jesus.

What language?

Um...Aramaic.

Which country's former president, Viktor Yanukovych,

has twice been ousted from power by street protests,

once in 2004 and again in 2014?

-Ukraine.

-Yes, it was Ukraine indeed.

You had one pass.

That singer who was born in Barbados and topped the charts with Diamonds,

her name was Rihanna.

And you have a total now of 22 points.

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And finally Lucinda again, please.

And you start out with 10 points,

but the score to beat has leapt forwards, and it is 22.

Let's see if you can do that and get into the semifinal with

2½ minutes of general knowledge questions, starting now.

Which celebrate museum and art gallery in Paris houses

the Mona Lisa and is, in part,

the former residence of the Kings of France?

The Louvre.

The unit of distance known as the astronomical unit

is roughly equal to the mean distance between the Earth

and which celestial body?

The sun.

Arborio, carnaroli and vialone nano

are varieties of a cereal crop used in Italian

cooking as the basics of which classic dish?

Risotto.

Who made her first appearance as James Bond's boss M in the

'95 film GoldenEye?

-Judi Dench.

-The wood of which tree

that's native to Central and South America

and whose name comes from the Spanish for "raft"

is very lightweight and is used for model building and as

a substitute for cork in floatation devices?

Pass.

What name of Germanic origin is given to the underworld abode

of the wicked after death?

-The Styx.

-Hell.

Which American city has a major league baseball team called

the Indians, an NBA basketball team called the Cavaliers and

an American football team called the Browns?

-Cleveland.

-Who played Chief Inspector Maigret in the

'90s version of the TV detective series?

Pass.

In which county is the fishing village

and holiday resort of Beer?

-Suffolk.

-Devon.

What was the name of the Portuguese explorer who led the first

European expedition to reach India by sea between 1497 and '98?

-Magellan.

-Vasco da Gama.

What do the letters IOC stand for in the world of sport?

International Olympic Committee.

Which writer whose works include The Bad Child's Book Of Beasts

once replied, when he was asked why he wrote so much,

"because my children are howling for pearls and caviar"?

Pass.

Graham Land is the name of a mountainous area of the peninsula

that forms the northernmost part of which continental landmass?

-North America.

-Antarctica.

In Roman mythology, which twins were the sons of Rhea Silvia,

who'd been impregnated by the war god Mars?

Romulus and Remus.

What is the original Latin meaning of the word "sinister"?

It now describes something threatening or suggesting evil.

Left.

Which veteran Welsh singer's 1999 number one-album Reload includes

duets with Robbie Williams, Heather Small and Van Morrison?

-Cerys Matthews.

-Tom Jones.

One of the supports of the shield in the Australian coat of arms

is a kangaroo, what bird is the other support?

Emu.

In the opening lines of the poem,

which ancient object does Keats describe

as "still unravished bride of quietness" and a

"foster-child of silence and slow time"?

Grecian Urn.

What name meaning "art person" in Japanese is given to

a member of a professional class of women whose traditional

occupation is to entertain male customers?

Geisha.

Which of Jane Austen's novels concludes with the marriage

of the title character to her brother-in-law Mr Knightley?

-Emma.

-Emma is correct.

You had three passes.

Hilaire Belloc was The Bad Child's Book,

and that wonderful answer, he needed to earn money because his

children are howling for pearls and caviar.

Michael Gambon played Chief Inspector Maigret in the

'90s version.

And balsa is the wood of that tree that is very lightweight.

And you have, Lucinda,

22 points.

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So that's an interesting finish. Let's have a look at all the scores.

In fourth place - 17 points,

Mark Buckley.

Third place - 19 points,

Michael Harrington.

Second place, with 22 points

and five passes - Lucinda Critchley.

First place, with 22 points

and three passes - Rob Hemming.

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Which means that Rob is tonight's winner and

he goes through to the semifinals.

Congratulations to him.

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