Episode 2 Mastermind

The first contender in the black chair tonight is John Leeming,

a maths teacher from Hull.

He's answering questions on the rock band Yes.

Gerda Mamott is from Cambridge. Her specialist subject,

the scientist Ernest Rutherford, the man who won the Nobel Prize.

Next, Thomas Nash, a data analyst from

Norwich, on the German film director Werner Herzog.

And last in the spotlight, Ross May, a supervisor from Weston-super-Mare,

on the artist MC Escher.

APPLAUSE

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

Tonight, as ever, four contenders will take their first step towards

the grand final, where they could win the famous glass bowl

but, far more importantly, be named the nation's Mastermind.

The rules are simple - two minutes of questions

on their specialist subject

and then two-and-a-half minutes of general knowledge.

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

Yes in two minutes, starting now.

Which major record label signed the English rock band Yes

after its co-founder saw them play

at the Speakeasy club in London in 1969?

Atlantic.

For which '71 album

did Roger Dean first produce cover art for the band?

This included the introduction of their distinctive logo.

Fragile.

Who became their first full-time manager

when they met him after they played a gig at his club in London

in September 1968?

Roy Flynn.

Which of the band's original line-up left in April 1970

after a gig at Luton College? He was replaced by Steve Howe.

Peter Banks.

What is the name of the house in Virginia Waters, Surrey, that

Chris Squire bought in 1972, and where the band would later

record material for the 1974 Relayer album?

-Manorhouse.

-New Pipers.

Which track from the 90125 album gave Yes their most

successful single in the American charts,

where it reached number one in January 1984?

Owner Of A Lonely Heart.

The Canadian producer Bruce Fairbairn died in

May 1999 during the making of which Yes album?

The Ladder.

Which of the band's studio albums was released in 2011 and was their

first album of new material since Magnification ten years before?

Fly From Here.

In January 2004, the band released a documentary of their

35th-anniversary European tour called Yesspeak,

narrated by Roger Daltrey. Who was the director?

-Pass.

-Which founder member of the band Buggles was the principal

vocalist on the 1980 Drama album following Jon Anderson's departure?

Trevor Horn.

What is the title of the first solo album released by Chris Squire

in November '75?

Songs from it were featured in the band's '76 solo album tour.

Fish Out Of Water.

Which label, run by the former UK boss of

Atlantic Records and distributed by London Records,

released the band's 1994 album, Talk, in the UK?

-Atco.

-No, Victory label.

What appropriate name was given to the album released by Yes

after the former members Jon Anderson, Bill Bruford, Rick Wakeman

and Steve Howe rejoined in 1990?

-Union.

-In March 2013, Yes made their first appearance

at the Cruise to the Edge prog-rock festival.

On which ship did they perform?

-BEEP

-Pass.

-Well, I can tell you,

because we're out of time. It's the MSC Poesia.

-Thank you.

-And that documentary, that was narrated by Roger Daltrey,

was directed by Robert Garofalo.

-You have scored ten points.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

And our next contender, please.

Rutherford, the famous scientist.

Here we go. Two minutes starting now.

The physicist Ernest Rutherford arrived at the Cavendish laboratory

in Cambridge in 1895 and published two papers the following year.

One what was about Rontgen rays. What was the topic of the other?

Erm, radioactivity?

Electric waves.

In 1932, two of Rutherford's students, Cockcroft and Walton,

claimed they had split the atom when they

produced the first artificial nuclear reaction.

They created two alpha particles by bombarding

the nucleus of which metallic element with high-energy protons?

Lithium.

In 1933, what word did Rutherford famously use to dismiss talk

of the use of atomic power?

Moonshine.

In 1898, Rutherford left the Cavendish to take up

the position of chair of physics at which Canadian university?

He returned in 1919.

McGill at Montreal.

A large sign was put up in the laboratories that

said, "Talk softly, please," as a warning that Rutherford's loud,

booming voice and singing of a particular hymn could disturb

the sensitive equipment. Which hymn?

Onward Christian soldiers.

Which scientist developed the mass spectrograph that was

capable of precision separation of isotopes,

a technique valuable in Rutherford's nuclear research?

Francis Aston.

During the First World War, Rutherford conducted experiments

into acoustic methods of detecting which type of naval craft?

Submarines.

In 1933, Rutherford chaired a meeting at the Albert Hall

to raise funds for the Academic Assistance Council, that was

set up to help scientists driven from Germany by Hitler's government.

Who was the main speaker at the meeting?

Albert Einstein.

Rutherford presented which prestigious annual lectures

in 1904 and 1920?

They are named after the fellow of the Royal Society

who established them through a bequest in 1774.

The Bakerian Lectures.

When Rutherford was raised to the peerage in 1931, he took his

title from Cambridge and which other city in his native New Zealand?

Nelson.

What was the name of Ernest and Mary Rutherford's only child,

who married the mathematician Ralph Fowler?

-Ethel.

-Eileen.

Rutherford died in 1957, and his ashes are buried in which building?

Westminster Abbey.

Which of Rutherford's fellow scientists said of him,

"He had of course..." BEEP

"..a volcanic energy and an intense enthusiasm and

"an immense capacity for work. He had no cleverness, just greatness"?

CP Snow?

It was James Chadwick. It could have been CP Snow.

It's the sort of thing he'd say.

-You, too, Gerda, have scored ten points.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

And our next contender, please.

Werner Herzog's films, two minutes, here we go.

Which actor plays Jonathan Harker, who travels to Count Dracula's

castle in Transylvania, in Herzog's '79 film,

Nosferatu The Vampyre?

Bruno Ganz.

According to the pre-title credit, Herzog's Aguirre: Wrath Of God,

about a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado,

is based on the diary of a monk. Which monk?

Francisco...

No, Gaspar de Carvajal.

In the '87 film Cobra Verde,

what is the name of the imaginary co-ruler who takes his seat

at the coronation ceremony in Abomey,

although, in reality, there is just an empty throne with a pair of

sandals in front of it?

The Viceroy of Ouidah.

The Bush King. What is the real surname of the title character

in Fitzcarraldo?

He claims to have changed it because they

had trouble saying it in Peru.

Fitzgerald.

In Woyzeck, the title character is on a diet of nothing but peas,

although the doctor tells him the next week he will be eating meat. Which meat?

Pork.

Mutton. What type of sofa had Muhlbeck given to his mother, Anamirl?

It is ripped apart in the search for the secret formula of ruby glass.

Can you repeat the question, please?

What type of sofa had Muhlbeck given to his mother, Anamirl?

It is ripped apart in the search for the secret formula of ruby glass.

Pass.

When Count Dracula sees a picture of Lucy in Jonathan Harker's locket,

which specific part of her body does he describe as "lovely"?

-Neck.

-Her throat, yes.

Which actress plays Molly the brothel keeper

and mistress of the title character in Fitzcarraldo?

Claudia Cardinale.

Klaus Kinski's character, Francisco Manuel da Silva, is appointed

Viceroy of Dahomey by the king and given what

name, that means "green snake"?

Cobra Verde.

Ajanaku.

In Heart Of Glass, which character makes outlandish predictions

and prophecies throughout the film?

He's eventually locked up after the glass factory burns down.

Clemens?

Hias. According to the pre-title credits

of The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser, the boy who later became known

as Kaspar Hauser was found abandoned, his origins unknown,

on which day in 1828?

Pass.

Franz Woyzeck and his wife Marie... BEEP

..see a monkey dressed as a soldier at the fair

and then pay to see which supposedly intelligent animal?

A chicken.

Well, it might have been, but it wasn't.

It was an astronomical horse. Yeah...

Your two passes - the sofa was a green davenport,

and that particular day, according to the pre-title credits of

The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser, was Whit Sunday.

You have scored, Thomas, four points.

APPLAUSE

And our final contender, please.

MC Escher in two minutes. Here we go.

In 1922, the graphic artist MC Escher visited

a building in Spain with Moorish ornamentation,

which laid the foundation for his

space-filling geometric designs in later life. Which building?

The Alhambra.

What single continuous curve that can be made by twisting

a strip of paper once and joining the ends inspired

a number of works by Escher?

Mobius strip.

What was the name of the graphics lecturer of Portuguese-Jewish

origin who was Escher's main teacher at

the Haarlem School of Architecture and Decorative Arts from

1919 to '22?

Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita.

What insects are crawling over the ribbon in the '63 woodcut

Mobius Strip II?

Red ants.

In which '52 Escher lithograph does a series of monstrous heads and

legs emerge from a three-dimensional geometric shape?

Gravity.

What was the name of the Swiss woman whom Escher met in

'23 and married in Viareggio near Pisa later the following year?

Jetta Umiker.

The '60 woodcut Circle Limit IV shows

a circle completely covered with interlocking images of white

angels and what other beings coloured black?

-Devils.

-In which '43 lithograph does Escher depict

alligators crawling over a book and an ashtray

and merging into a drawing in a notebook?

Reptiles.

What is the surname of the father and son Lionel and Roger,

whose academic paper inspired the lithograph Ascending And Descending,

that shows monk-like figures climbing a never-ending staircase?

Penrose.

To which Swiss town did Escher and his family move in 1935?

They only stayed two years because Escher was unhappy in Switzerland.

Chateau d'Oex.

Which Dutch technology company commissioned Escher to design

a ceiling for its demonstration laboratory in Eindhoven in 1951?

Phillips.

What are wound around a series of interlocking

circles in Escher's last work, a woodcut of 1969?

Snakes.

Which village in Abruzzi gives its name to

a 1930 Escher lithograph that drew high praise from critics?

Castrovalva.

What is the woman doing in the bottom right-hand

corner of the '61 lithograph Waterfall,

which features a mill driven by a watercourse that runs through

and around an impossible towered structure?

-Hanging up washing.

-A professor of chemical crystallography at...

BEEP ..the University of Amsterdam

introduced her staff to Escher's work

and later encouraged him to give a lecture at an international

conference in Cambridge in 1960. Who was she?

Professor MacGillavry.

Yes, indeed! No passes, Ross, you've got 'em all right. 15 points.

APPLAUSE

So, that's the end of the first round.

Let's have a look at the schools.

In fourth place with four points, Thomas Nash.

Joint second place, ten points apiece,

John Leeming and Gerda Mamett.

First place, 15 points, Ross May.

So, it is the general-knowledge round now,

and if there's 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're tied on passes as well, we have to take a tie-break.

And by the way, the six highest- scoring runners-up will also be able

to claim a place in the semifinal. So, plenty to play for.

Let's get on with it and ask Thomas to join us again,

if you would, please.

And...

..here is your chance to redeem yourself.

You start out with four points.

You've got two-and-a-half minutes of general knowledge. Here we go.

What type of animal is Sonic in the video game that was launched

in 1991 as a rival to Mario the plumber?

Hedgehog.

The flamboyant British-born conductor Leopold Stokowski directed

the Philadelphia Orchestra for the score to which Walt Disney film?

Snow White.

Fantasia. The name of which eating utensils,

traditionally used in the Far East, is the pidgin English version

of the Chinese word for "quick ones" or "nimble ones"?

Chopsticks.

The SI unit of pressure is named after

a 17th-century French scientist and philosopher. Who was he?

-Pascal.

-Yes.

What is the name of the affable slime-drinking cartoon character

created by Raymond Briggs in a 1977 children's picture book?

Pass.

Which stage musical, first produced in 1957,

features the songs Maria, I Feel Pretty and America?

Um...

-West Side Story.

-Yes. In Norse mythology,

what animals are Geri and Freki,

the faithful companions of the god Odin?

-Wolves.

-Yes.

Which Russian novelist's last major work was The Brothers Karamazov?

-Tolstoy.

-Dostoevsky.

The commission appointed by Lyndon Johnson to investigate

the shooting of John F Kennedy and the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald

is known by the name of a Chief Justice of America.

Who was he?

Pass.

What 1933 film about a giant ape that is brought to New York

has Fay Wray in the lead female role?

The remake starred Jessica Lange in 1976, and Naomi Watts in 2005.

-King Kong.

-Yes.

Who resigned as chief secretary to the Treasury in April 1995

to fight a libel action against the Guardian and Granada Television,

which he subsequently lost?

-Neil Hamilton?

-Jonathan Aitken.

Which syrupy substance gives brown sugar its colour

and its soft texture?

-Molasses.

-Yes.

What name for an annual publication is shared by Wisden for cricketers,

Whitaker's for current affairs, and Reeds for sailors?

-Almanac.

-Yes.

Of which sporting regulatory body

did Gianni Infantino become the ninth president in February 2016?

-Fifa.

-Yes.

Which of the disciples is the patron saint of artists?

He is one of the authors of the four Gospels.

He is often depicted in classical works as a painter creating

a portrait of Madonna and Child.

-Mark.

-Luke.

Which town on the East Yorkshire coast near Hull

was famous for its pottery? It now has a museum dedicated to

the industry's brief history in the area.

-Stoke-on-Trent.

-Hornsea.

Body Tyler's 1985 number two hit single was titled

Holding Out For A... what?

-Hero.

-Yes.

What was the surname of Diana, Princess of Wales

before her marriage in 1981?

Pass.

Frederick Forsyth's 1999 novel, The Phantom Of Manhattan,

was written as a sequel to an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical

and the novel by Gaston Leroux that it was based on. Which musical?

BEEPS

-Phantom Of The Opera.

-Is correct.

You had three passes.

The surname of Diana - you will kick yourself - was Spencer.

And Earl Warren, he was the judge after whom the commission was named.

And Fungus the Bogeyman was the slime-drinking creature.

However, you have now rocketed up to 15 points.

APPLAUSE

And John Leeming again, please.

John, you are one of two starting this round with ten points.

15 the score to beat, as it stands.

Two and a half minutes in which to do it. Here we go.

What is the name of the gang that consists of

Julian, Dick, George, Anne and Timmy the dog in the Enid Blyton books?

-The Famous Five.

-Yes.

What did Dr Johnson define in his dictionary as the first month

after marriage when there is nothing but tenderness and pleasure?

-The honeymoon.

-Yes.

Which insect has a name derived from the Greek word for prophet?

It has a distinctive posture,

with its head held back and front legs raised, as if in prayer,

and the female of the species often eats the male

after or during mating.

-Mantis.

-Yes.

Gingivitis is an inflammation of what part of the mouth?

-The tongue.

-The gums.

The beef and vegetable soup borscht takes its colour

from which root vegetable?

-Beetroot.

-Yes.

In which of the arts are the Pritzker Prize

and the Stirling Prize both awarded?

-Architecture.

-Correct.

Which Canadian city is the home of the Oilers ice hockey team

and the Eskimos Canadian football team?

-Houston.

-Edmonton.

Who made her screen debut in the '78 horror film Halloween

as Laurie, who is stalked by the killer Michael Myers?

-Jamie Lee Curtis.

-Yes.

In October '95, Alan Howarth, the MP for Stratford-on-Avon,

became the first sitting Conservative

to defect to which party?

-Ukip.

-Labour.

Teams from the Royal Southern Yacht Club,

from Hamble in Hampshire, and the Island Sailing Club, from Cowes,

compete in an annual cricket match on a sandbank known as Bramble Bank.

In what body of water does it lie?

-The Solent.

-Yes. What name, from the French for "cutters",

is used for a small pair of pruning shears?

-Secateurs.

-Yes.

Which first-century AD Greek biographer wrote Parallel Lives,

a comparative study of the lives of pairs of notable Greeks and Romans?

-Pass.

-Which American singer and songwriter

wrote UB40's 1983 number one hit Red, Red Wine?

-Neil Diamond.

-Yes.

What name is given to the Pope's signet ring that represents St Peter

and has the reigning Pope's name inscribed around its border?

It also acts as a seal for private letters.

-The papal seal.

-The Fishermen's Ring.

In English-speaking countries,

what term is used by tennis umpires when the score in a game is 40-all?

-Deuce.

-Yes. Angola and Mozambique were colonies of a European country

before they achieved independence in 1975. Which country?

-Portugal.

-Yes.

Which American author, best known for his horror stories,

wrote the novella Rita Heyworth And The Shawshank Redemption,

on which the film the Shawshank Redemption is based?

-Stephen King.

-Yes.

What was the name of Moses' sister, who watched as he was placed

in the river, and arranged for him to be nursed

by his mother after he was found by Pharaoh's daughter?

-Ruth.

-Miriam.

What Italian word meaning "little book"

is used for the text of an opera?

-Libretto.

-Yes.

The healthcare workers who helped in the fight

against the outbreak of a virus in West Africa

were chosen as Time Magazine's 2014 person of the year.

-What was the virus?

-Um...

-Sars.

-Ebola. In music, which note is equivalent to two crotchets?

-Minim.

-BEEPS

Minim is correct. You got in there just in time. You had one pass.

That first-century AD Greek biographer was Plutarch,

-but your score is 24 points.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

And now Gerda again, please.

And it's not getting any easier in this round.

24 is the score to beat.

You also start with ten. Let's see how you get on.

Two and a half minutes of general knowledge starting now.

In which Scottish athletic event does a competitor support

a long, heavy pole upright and throw it

so that it turns over in the air and lands on its other end?

-Tossing the caber.

-Yes.

What phrase that was adapted from Shakespeare's Richard III

was given to the period of industrial unrest at the end of 1978

and the beginning of 1979

that led to the fall of the Callaghan government?

-The winter of discontent.

-Yes.

Zn is the chemical symbol for which metallic element?

-Zinc.

-Yes.

Who stars as Marty McFly in the three Back To The Future films?

-I can't think of him, so pass.

-Pass.

What popular name is given to the method of producing patterns

on fabric by binding portions of it with string

before dipping it in colour?

-Batik.

-Tie-dye.

Which explorer landed with the crew of his ship on Elephant Island

in the South Shetland Islands in 1915 after they had been trapped

by Antarctic pack ice for over a year?

-Ernest Shackleton.

-Yes.

By what name is the Sunday before Ascension Day sometimes known

in the Church of England?

It comes from the Latin for "to ask".

-Pass.

-What is the largest and most colourful

of the African forest antelopes?

It has a chestnut-coloured coat and long horns,

and is the third heaviest antelope after the giant and common eland.

-The kudu.

-The bongo.

What word that is now used for knock-about comedy

originally referred to a device made of two flexible pieces of wood,

joined at one end to make a smacking noise?

-Slapstick.

-Yes.

The common or blue species of a mollusc typically found

attached to rocks near the water line is widely harvested for food.

Which mollusc?

Um...

No, pass.

On which island was the painter El Greco born in 1541?

-Crete.

-Yes.

A layer of a form of oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere protects us

from the harmful effects of the sun's radiation,

and is vulnerable to the effects of chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs.

What is this form of oxygen called?

-Ozone.

-Yes.

What is the nickname of the motorway interchange on the M6

at Gravelly Hill near Birmingham

that is a complex system of flyovers and underpasses?

-Spaghetti Junction.

-Yes.

The international, the country and western,

and the Viennese are all types of which ballroom dance?

-Waltz.

-Yes. Which Greek poet is reputedly the author of The Iliad and The Odyssey,

though nothing is known about his personal life?

-Homer.

-Yes. Whose album, The Rhythm Of The Saints,

entered the UK album charts at number one in October 1990?

-No, pass.

-Which holy book consists of 114 chapters of varying length,

known as suras?

-The Koran.

-Yes.

Which American hat-maker gives his name

to the wide-brimmed felt cowboy hat with a high crown

first produced in the 1860s?

Again, pass.

Which businessman and television personality

published the memoir Unscripted: My Ten Years In Telly in 2015?

-Um...Elton?

-BEEPS

No, quite away from that, I suspect.

-Oh, sorry.

-No, on the contrary.

-Easy mistake to make, some might say. Alan Sugar.

-Oh!

-And your passes - the Stetson hat.

-Of course.

-Of course.

-Yes.

-I know.

Paul Simon, that was his album, The Rhythm Of The Saints.

-Mussel is the mollusc.

-Yes.

-Yes.

It's funny what the chair does to you, isn't it?

Rogation Sunday is the Sunday before Ascension,

-And Michael J Fox played Marty McFly.

-Yes.

-And you knew that one as well.

-Yes.

But, look, you've got a pretty good score, it has to be said. 21 points.

-Thank you.

-APPLAUSE

And our final contender, Ross, please, again,

and you start out with a whopping 15 points.

However, you've got a pretty whopping score to beat as well.

24 points.

So, let's see if you can do it and get through to the next round.

Here we go.

Who has been there lead singer of the Rolling Stones

since the group was formed in the early '60s?

-Mick Jagger.

-Yes.

Which New York Yankee baseball player was nicknamed

the Yankee Clipper and Joltin' Joe?

-Babe Ruth.

-Joe DiMaggio.

The high school teacher John T Scopes

was prosecuted in the so-called Monkey Trial in Tennessee in 1925

for teaching what theory?

-Evolution.

-Yes.

Abydos, Memphis and Thebes where among the principal cities

of which ancient civilisation?

-Egypt.

-Yes.

What is the name of the ranch that came into the possession

of the Ewing family when Jock Ewing married Miss Ellie

in the television series Dallas?

-Pass.

-Which phobia, whose name comes from the Greek for marketplace,

is a fear of open spaces?

-Agoraphobia.

-Yes.

What is the name of the Liverpool-born comedian,

actor and writer whose second volume of autobiography was published

in March 2016 and entitled Thatcher Stole My Trousers?

-Alexei Sayle.

-Yes. Two planets of the solar system

are classed as ice giants. Uranus is one, what is the other?

-Pluto.

-Neptune.

The Alboran Sea, which lies between the coasts of Spain and Morocco,

with the small Alboran Island at its centre,

is the westernmost part of which larger sea?

-Sargasso?

-Mediterranean.

Jacques-Louis David became the court painter to a French emperor

for whom his works include a huge picture of the coronation in 1804.

Who was the emperor?

-Napoleon.

-Yes.

Which deer, found mainly in the Scottish Highlands,

is the largest land animal native to the British Isles?

-Red deer.

-Yes.

What is the name of the French chef who,

at the end of the 19th century,

made the Savoy Hotel a fashionable dining venue

before he moved on to the Carlton?

-Escoffier.

-Yes.

Who won a best actor Oscar for his role as Colonel Nicholson

in the '57 film, The Bridge On The River Kwai?

-Alec Guinness.

-Yes.

Which conductor, whose family made its fortune from making pills,

was knighted in 1916,

the same year he succeeded to his father's baronetcy?

-Beecham.

-Yes.

What did Marx and Engels describe as a "spectre haunting Europe"

in the opening sentence of their 1848 manifesto?

-Capitalism.

-Communism.

Which group, who describe themselves as a "scrumpy and western" band,

topped the charts in June '76 with Combine Harvester,

sung to the tune of Melanie's hit, Brand New Key?

-The Wurzels.

-Yes.

Which superhero was born Diana Prince on Paradise Island,

and was played by Lynda Carter in the '70s television series?

-Wonder Woman.

-Yes.

Which city in the north-west of England

has a nearby airfield at Crosby-on-Eden?

-Leicester.

-Carlisle.

What name is given to the study of family history or origin,

showing the relationships and descent of an individual or group?

-Genealogy.

-Yes. Which celebrated Second World War bomber aircraft

was developed by Avro

directly from the unsuccessful Manchester bomber?

-Shackleton.

-The Lancaster.

What popular name is given to the line of latitude

in the northern hemisphere... BEEPS

..that roughly demarcates North and South Korea?

-Oh, gosh.

-Go on.

-The 49th parallel?

38th.

Just the one pass, Ross.

The name of that ranch was Southfork.

But it doesn't matter, because you have scored 28 points.

APPLAUSE

So, he did it with a few points to spare.

Let's have a look at all of those scores.

In fourth place, 15 points, Thomas Nash.

Third place, 21 points, Gerda Mamott.

Second place, 24 points, John Leeming.

First place, with 28 points, Ross May.

APPLAUSE

Ooh, blimey.

Which means that Ross is tonight's winner,

and he goes through to the semifinals.

Congratulations to him, commiserations to John,

but with a score of 24 points,

it's entirely possible that we shall see him again in the semifinal.

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Thanks for watching. Goodbye.

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