Episode 20 Mastermind

Our first contender tonight is Ian Fennell,

a software developer from Worcestershire.

He's answering questions on David Bowie.

Alan Diment is a freelance writer from Newcastle.

His specialist subject, the artist Edvard Munch.

Chris Rabbitt is a partnership development manager from Leeds.

His subject, post-war British motorcycles.

And finally, Karen Fountain from Jersey

on the German occupation of Jersey.

APPLAUSE

Hello. Welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.

Tonight, as ever, four contenders, each of whom

has had plenty of time to prepare for their two minutes in the

black chair answering questions on their chosen subjects.

And then, after that, two and a half minutes on General Knowledge.

And how can you prepare for that?

The answer is, you can't.

So let's see which of them manages to stay calmest under the

pressure, and makes it through to the semifinals.

Let's have our first contender, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject?

David Bowie in two minutes. Here we go.

Who did David Bowie duet with on the 1985 cover version of

Dancing In the Street, premiered during Live Aid,

and later reached Number One in the UK charts?

Mick Jagger.

Bowie's early '70s backing group consisted of Mick Ronson

Trevor Bolder, Mick "Woody" Woodmansey.

What name were they known by?

The Spiders From Mars.

At the Freddie Mercury tribute concert in April 1992,

what song did Bowie sing with Annie Lennox?

Under Pressure.

In which '76 film, directed by Nicolas Roeg, does Bowie play

Thomas Jerome Newton, a visitor from a dying planet who becomes fabulously

wealthy while he is trying to return home to save his family?

The Man Who Fell To Earth.

Bowie appeared on stage for six months from July 1980,

first in Denver and then on Broadway, as the title character in which play?

The Elephant Man.

Who co-produced Bowie's 1983 album Let's Dance

which reached the top of the UK charts

and contained three top three singles?

Nile Rodgers.

In May 2006, Bowie joined David Gilmour on stage to provide vocals on

Arnold Layne and Comfortably Numb at which London venue?

Royal Albert Hall.

Which song on the album Hunky Dory was written for his newborn son, Zowie?

Kooks.

Bowie created some of the tracks on the 1999 album Hours

for the soundtrack of what video game?

Omikron - The Nomad Soul.

What's the name of Bowie's 2013 comeback single released without warning,

on his 66th birthday and his biggest hit in the UK since 1986?

Where Are We Now?

Which of Bowie's many personas was introduced for the 1976 album

Station To Station and its accompanying tour?

The Thin White Duke.

What was the name of Bowie's final tour in 2003 and 2004

that included 112 concerts over eight months

grossed 46 million, and ended when he suffered a heart attack?

A Reality Tour.

Who produced many of Bowie's albums, including Blackstar,

released shortly before his death in January 2016?

Tony Visconti.

The three albums Low, Heroes and Lodger are known

collectively as the Berlin Trilogy but only Heroes was recorded

wholly in Berlin. BEEP

In which Swiss city was much of Lodger recorded?

Montreux.

Is correct.

No passes, Ian.

14 points. Perfect score.

-Thanks very much.

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And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your specialist subject?

Edvard Munch in two minutes. Here we go.

Which work by Edvard Munch did he describe as having been inspired by

a sudden feeling of terror that he experienced

while walking near a fjord in southern Norway?

The Scream.

What subject did Munch begin to study in Christiania in 1879,

stopping early due to prolonged ill-health?

Engineering.

What's the title of one of Munch's most important early paintings

that reflects the anguish he suffered at the death of his sister Sophie,

originally simply called Study?

The Sick Child.

At which artist's studio in Paris did Munch begin a period of training

in 1889 after he won a national scholarship?

Leon Bonnat.

Munch produced five versions of which oil painting showing a woman naked to the waist,

one of which was stolen from the Munch Museum in 2004?

Madonna.

What is the name of the woman with whom Munch began

a tempestuous four-year affair in 1898?

It ended in a violent quarrel when Munch was accidentally shot in the hand.

Tulla Larsen.

In 1898, Munch began a painting in which a figure with round,

staring eyes seems to be escaping from a house that has a blood-red colour

because of which plant growing on it?

Red Virginia creeper.

Which theatre director asked Munch to design

and paint a screen for a production of Ibsen's play Ghosts in 1906?

Max Reinhardt.

Munch was seriously ill in 1918 and 1919,

during which time he recorded the different stages of his

condition in a series of sketches. What was the illness?

Spanish Flu.

The Freia factory in Oslo commissioned Munch to paint 12 pictures to decorate the

workers' canteen in 1921, what did the factory produce?

Chocolate.

Of which royal Norwegian Order of knighthood

did the government award Munch the Grand Cross on his 70th birthday in 1933?

St Olav.

In which city did Munch suffer a nervous breakdown in 1908

and spend six months in the psychiatric clinic of Dr Jacobson?

Copenhagen.

What's the English nickname of the tavern Munch frequented during his

first visit to Berlin, where he met leading writers and artists of the day?

-The Black Piglet.

-One of Munch's final

self-portraits shows him looking old and frail

and standing, according to the title of the picture,

between a bed and what other object? BEEP

Clock.

Is correct.

Alan, no passes for you either. You have 14 points.

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And our next contender please.

And your name is?

And your occupation?

And your chosen subject?

Post-war British motorcycles in two minutes. Starting now.

Most British motorcycle manufacturers of the '40s and '50s

used two-stroke engines produced by which company?

JAP.

Villiers. Which frame, designed by Rex McCandless,

was launched by Norton in 1951 and used in a number of their bikes?

Featherbed.

The advertising slogan "world's fastest standard motorcycle"

was used for the bikes with a V-twin engine, by which company?

Vincent.

Which fully enclosed Ariel two-stroke 250cc model with an integral windscreen

was released in 1959 and produced until 1965

when it was succeeded by the Arrow?

Leader.

In '67, a research and development centre for the BSA Group

was established at which country mansion in Warwickshire?

Meridan.

Umberslade Hall. Which country's police force

ordered 800 Royal Enfield Bullets in 1955, an enormous order for the time

and resulted in production starting in that country?

India.

What type of rear suspension was pioneered by the 1948

Royal Enfield Bullet, it used twin oil-damped shock absorbers?

Plunger.

Swinging arm. John Bloor bought the collapsed Triumph brand

and restarted production in the early '90s with a

new factory in which town in Leicestershire?

Hinckley.

What was the name of the motorcycle with full fairing to increase streamlining

that was produced by Lord Hesketh as a successor to the V1000?

Vampire.

In 1951, Geoff Duke was the 250cc and 500cc world champion

for which works team?

Norton.

The T120 was the first model of which celebrated

Triumph motorcycle first produced in 1959?

Bonneville.

Who became the chief designer and general manager at Triumph,

where he designed bikes including the Speed Twin and the Thunderbird?

Edward Turner.

Which marque was owned by BSA from 1943 and

produced the early post-war S7 roadster,

known for its fat balloon tyres, and the lighter S8 model?

Sunbeam.

Manufacturing rights to the Matchless G50 were bought by

which former sidecar Grand Prix racer in the 1960s, who continued development

and produced a successful classic racing bike?

Pass.

BEEP Which BSA model was relaunched as

a 350cc machine after the Second World War, a 500cc version

went on sale in 1950 and the DBD34 was introduced in 1956?

Gold Star.

Is correct.

You had just one pass.

The manufacturing rights to the Matchless G50 were bought by

a chap called Colin Seeley.

There we go. You have, Chris, 11 points.

APPLAUSE

And our final contender please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your specialist subject?

In two minutes. Starting now.

The occupation of Jersey began when the German military issued an ultimatum

for its surrender and then invaded the undefended island

on the first day of which month in 1940?

July.

Who was appointed as the German Commander of the

Channel Islands in 1940 and was dismissed in February 1945?

Von Schmettow.

What was the name of the Jersey woman who sheltered a Russian escapee

from a slave labour camp for almost two years?

She was sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp.

Louisa Gould.

What fundamental change to the rules of the road

was introduced in June 1941?

Driving on the right.

What was the name of the man appointed Chief Aliens Officer in Jersey

and given the responsibility by the Germans of providing

lists of Jews living on the island?

Clifford Orange.

What items belonging to the civilian population were confiscated in June 1942?

Owning them became a serious crime that merited a prison sentence.

Wireless sets.

Yes, radios. What was the name of the Red Cross ship that sailed

from Portugal in 1944 with supplies of food, medicines and soap?

SS Vega.

What was the name of the left-leaning reformist party known by its initials JDM

whose activities included distributing anti-German leaflets

and helping escaped slave workers?

The Jersey Democratic Movement.

A network of tunnels was built at St Lawrence that served as an

underground hospital. The tunnels are known by what two letters and number?

HO 8.

The part of the Nazi command that had responsibility for importing the slave labour

needed for construction projects was known by

the initials OT. What do they stand for?

Organisation Todt.

What was the name of the Bailiff of Jersey

who took over the civil administration of the island

after the departure of the British lieutenant governor?

Alexander Coutanche.

On board which destroyer did General-Major Wulf sign the surrender documents

off the coast of St Helier that liberated Jersey from German rule?

HMS Beagle.

Which German naval officer took over as the

Commander-in-Chief of the occupying forces at the end of February '45?

Pass.

What Israeli honour was bestowed on the physiotherapist Albert Bedane

for hiding a Dutch Jewish woman in his house for over two years?

Pass.

What was the name of the Jersey man

who made a dramatic escape... BEEP

..to England in a small boat called Ragamuffin in the autumn of 1941?

Dennis Vibert.

Is correct.

You had two passes. The honour bestowed on Albert Bedane was

Righteous Among The Nations.

And the German naval officer who took over as Commander-in-Chief

in February '45 was Friedrich Huffmeier.

-However, Karen, you have scored 13 points.

-Thank you.

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So, that is the end of a very high-scoring first round.

Let's have a look at all the scores.

In fourth place, 11 points, Chris Rabbitt.

Third place, 13 points, Karen Fountain.

Joint first place, 14 points apiece,

Ian Fennell and Alan Diment.

APPLAUSE

It's the General Knowledge round now.

And if there's a tie at the end of it, 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,

there will have to be a tie-break.

And it is entirely 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 Chris to join us again, please.

And you start out with what would normally be a very high 11 points.

But, boy, there's some big scores out there today.

Anyway, the good news is you have two and a half minutes of

General Knowledge in which to catch up and overtake them.

So, let's see if you can do that. Here we go, starting now.

Clove hitch, sheet bend and sheepshank are all types of what?

Knot.

How many pips are broadcast on the hourly Greenwich Time Signal

that was first introduced on the radio in 1924?

Five.

Six. Alexander McCall Smith's novels featuring Precious Ramotswe and

The Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency are set in which African country?

Zimbabwe.

Botswana. Which Underground line runs across London from Ealing Broadway,

Richmond and Wimbledon in the west to Upminster in the east?

District.

Who designed the stained glass in the baptistery window

in the new Coventry Cathedral?

Pass.

Which small tropical fish is named after the naturalist who sent the first specimen

to the British Museum from Trinidad in the 1860s?

Tetra.

Guppy. What name is given to the nine-day period of industrial conflict

that took place in Britain in May '26, called by the TUC

in support of miners who were resisting a pay cut?

The general strike.

In which Carry On film did Kenneth Williams play Thomas Cromwell

and Terry Scott play Cardinal Wolsey?

Carry On Henry.

What is the nationality of Eddie Jones, who became England's first

overseas rugby head coach when he succeeded Stuart Lancaster in 2015?

Australian.

What two-word Latin phrase is used for the list of characters in a play?

Pass.

What name of German origin is given to a bread snack baked in the form of a knot,

stick or ring and covered with coarse salt?

Pretzel.

Which musical duo, consisting of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty,

topped the UK singles charts in 1991 with 3 AM Eternal?

KLF.

Which film-maker is chiefly remembered for her Nazi propaganda documentaries

including Triumph Of The Will and a two-part film record of the '36 Olympic Games?

Leni Riefenstahl.

What type of establishment is indicated by a stylised blue building containing

a capital letter M on the Ordnance Survey Explorer maps?

Pass.

Which illness, especially prevalent in younger people,

is an inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord?

It occurs in several forms including A, B and C.

Meningitis.

Which Biblical prophet interpreted the message that a hand wrote on the wall

during the Babylonian king, Belshazzar's, feast?

Isaiah.

Daniel. Which composer and pianist left his

native Russia after the 1917 Revolution and then divided his time

between Europe and America, where he died in Beverly Hills in 1943?

Tchaikovsky.

Rachmaninov. Who was guillotined in July 1793 for the murder

of Jean-Paul Marat... BEEP

..a leader of the radical Montagnard faction in the French Revolution?

Scarlet Pimpernel.

Well, it might has been.

It was Charlotte Corday.

Your passes, you had three of them.

The stylised blue ring with an M on it, that stands for museum.

-Of course it does.

-Yeah.

Two-word Latin phrase, list of characters in a play.

Dramatis personae.

And it was John Piper who designed the stained glass window

in the new Coventry Cathedral.

You now have a total, Chris, of 20 points.

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And now Karen again, please.

And you start out, Karen, with 13 points.

The score to beat, as we speak, is 20.

And you have two and a half minutes in which to do it.

Or not, as the case may be. Here we go.

Which tragic Shakespearean king had daughters called Goneril, Regan and Cordelia?

King Lear.

Which French physician and astrologer published a book of prophecies

entitled Centuries in 1555? According to his predictions,

the world will come to an end in the year 3797.

Nostradamus.

In Spain, what is known as El Gordo which means the Fat One?

Lottery.

Which American guitar legend's London flat in Brook Street

was opened as a museum dedicated to his memory in February 2016?

Jimi Hendrix.

The first Harry Potter novel, published in 1997,

is entitled Harry Potter And The...?

Goblet Of Fire.

The Philosopher's Stone. Within which organs of the body are the loop of Henle

part of the urine filtering system?

Kidneys.

The Arabic name of which Middle Eastern capital city

is thought to be of pre-Semitic origin, suggesting

its beginnings go back to a time before recorded history?

Baghdad.

Damascus. Who played Winston Churchill in the February 2016 TV drama

Churchill's Secret, alongside Lindsay Duncan as his wife, Clementine?

Pass.

Who killed Cock Robin with his bow and arrow,

according to the popular nursery rhyme and folk poem?

Jack Sparrow.

The Sparrow. The Belgian beer Kriek is flavoured with which fruit?

Cherries.

Which Irish-born former world featherweight boxing champion

was known as the Clones Cyclone?

Barry McGuigan.

What term is used for the process of proving before a court that a document offered

as the last will and testament of a deceased person is genuine?

Pass.

Which British actor's film roles include Sid Vicious in Sid And Nancy,

Beethoven in Immortal Beloved and Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK?

Gary Oldman.

The peanut has two common alternative names in Britain.

One is the ground nut, what is the other?

Monkey nut.

Which American rock band released the UK chart-topping album

Automatic For The People in 1992?

REM.

In June 2015, which British road and track cyclist

added the men's one-hour world record to his list of achievements

when he covered a distance of just over 54.5km?

Chris Froome.

Bradley Wiggins. An American author began using which pseudonym,

a Mississippi riverman's expression for water two fathoms deep,

while working as a newspaper reporter in 1863?

Pass.

Which country held referendums in 1972 and in 1994

that both rejected the idea of joining the European Community?

Denmark.

Norway. In November 2015, the first officially named

British storm hit the UK coastline.

What female name was it given? BEEP

Take a guess. Think of a name.

Theresa.

Well... THEY LAUGH

Right, OK. No, she wasn't the Prime Minister then.

It was Abigail.

You had three passes in all.

That American author who used the pseudonym was Mark Twain.

-Of course.

-Yeah. Probate is that term used for the process of

proving the will and all that.

And Sir Michael Gambon played Winston Churchill,

and brilliantly too, in February 2016.

-You now have a total, Karen, of 23 points.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

Now Ian again, please.

And you're one of the 14ers. You start out with 14 points.

23, as you have just heard, is now the score to beat.

And you have two and a half minutes to try. Here we go.

What name, of Cantonese origin, is commonly given to the

round-bottomed steel pan used for stir-frying in Asian cookery?

Wok.

The Hoo Peninsula in Kent separates the estuary of the

River Medway from the estuary of which much larger river?

Thames.

What alternative name for the spotted hyena comes from its distinctive call,

as it communicates using moans, yells, giggles and whoops?

Laughing.

Which fighter made by the Gloster Aircraft Company was the only Allied jet

aircraft to reach operational status during World War II?

Meteor.

Who has scored the most goals for England in the final stages of

the football World Cup, with a total of ten?

Beckham.

Lineker. The works of which prolific American writer include the Alex Cross,

the Women's Murder Club and the Maximum Ride series of novels?

Pass.

What name is given to the stick with a padded knob at one end

that is used by painters to steady the brush hand?

Maulstick.

The Sinai peninsula forms the north-eastern extremity of which country?

Israel.

Egypt. What two-word French expression that means false step

has come into common use in English to mean a social blunder or indiscretion?

Faux pas.

Which adult animated TV cartoon series centres on

the adventures of Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman,

in the fictional Colorado town that gives the series its name?

South Park.

Which actor that was best-known for his roles in Women In Love,

Tommy and Gladiator, died of a heart attack in Valletta in 1999?

Oliver Reed.

Who frees the faithful slave-girl, Morgiana, in a story from the Arabian Nights?

He eventually marries her to a member of his family.

Sinbad.

Ali Baba. What is the traditional cured meat constituent of the dish

spaghetti alla carbonara?

Ham.

Yes, pancetta. Which member of the former coalition government,

who lost his seat in 2015, entered Parliament in '97

as the Liberal Democrat MP for Twickenham?

He had previously been the chief economist for a major oil company.

Cable.

Which Biblical figure gives his name

to a portable wicker cot or basket for carrying a baby?

Moses.

What name that comes from the Greek for "opposite" and "a circle" is given

to the rotatory outflow of air from an area of high atmospheric pressure?

The term is usually associated with calm weather.

Tropics.

Anticyclone. Which outdoor sport provided the subject matter of many of

the paintings of Edgar Degas?

Horse racing.

Which singer's chart-topping first solo album Diva

was released in 1992 and won a Brit award the following year?

Annie Lennox.

What 2015 film, that stars Luke Bracey as an FBI agent

who infiltrates a group of extreme athletes who he suspects are bank robbers,

is a remake of a Keanu Reeves film of the same name?

BEEP

Now You See Me.

-No. Point Break.

-OK.

One pass, Ian, the prolific American writer who wrote Alex Cross etc

was James Patterson.

However, you have a total score now of 27 points.

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And, finally, Alan again, please.

And you also have 14 points on the board as we speak.

But it's been creeping up and up, that score to beat,

and it is now 27.

So, here we go. Two and a half minutes of General Knowledge.

Which film star's husbands included the baseball player Joe DiMaggio

and the playwright Arthur Miller?

Marilyn Monroe.

In which city is La Boca, a working-class district

that's become a popular tourist destination, is famous for its football stadium

and outdoor tango displays?

Barcelona.

Buenos Aires. In 1982, which First Lady founded the centre in California

dedicated to helping people recover from addiction and it's named after her?

Betty Ford.

In what room does O'Brien say the worst thing in the world

is found in George Orwell's novel 1984?

Room 101.

Which Rodgers and Hammerstein song became a football anthem after it gave

Gerry and the Pacemakers their third consecutive number one hit in '63?

You'll Never Walk Alone.

What popular white grape has long been established in the Bordeaux

area of western France where it's typically blended with Semillon?

-Pinot noir.

-Sauvignon blanc.

What name meaning "royal water" is given to the highly corrosive

mixture of concentrated hydrochloric and nitric acids

that can dissolve noble metals such as gold?

Aqua regis.

Yes, aqua regia. Auction and Contract are versions of

a card game that derived from whist. What game?

Bridge.

Which British artist's work include the installation called

Mother And Child Divided,

an assemblage of four glass tanks containing two halves of

a cow and calf preserved in formaldehyde?

Damien Hirst.

In July 1999, Mohammed VI succeeded his father Hassan II

to the throne of which North African country?

Morocco?

The legend of which ghost ship doomed to sail the world forever

and whose sighting is a portent of doom has been portrayed

by Wagner in an opera and Sir Walter Scott in his poem, Rokeby?

Flying Dutchman.

In the UK, what form of transport is regulated by the CAA?

Trains.

Civil aviation.

Who became the leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Chernenko in March 1985?

Gorbachev.

Asturian, Catalan and Galician are among the regional languages spoken in which country?

Spain.

Of which common tree of the genus Fagus is the copper leaf variety often cultivated

as an ornamental or shade tree?

-Ivy.

-Beech.

In which county are the towns Tavistock, Teignmouth and Tiverton?

Devon.

What's the name of the character played by Paul Eddington in the series,

Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister?

Jim Hacker.

Which fairy story was turned into a 2015 film directed by Kenneth Branagh

starring Cate Blanchett as the evil stepmother,

Helena Bonham Carter as the fairy godmother and Lily James as the title character?

Cinderella.

In the final act of which Puccini opera does Prince Calaf sing the aria Nessun Dorma

that was popularised by Pavarotti in 1990?

Turandot.

Which genus of common American constricting snake is given its name because its diet

includes other snakes... BEEP

..including rattlesnakes to whose venom it is immune?

Boa constrictor?

-No, the kingsnake.

-Oh, OK.

-Yeah, there we are.

No passes, Alan. You have scored 29 points.

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So, he did it. Only just, but he did it.

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

In fourth place with 20 points, Chris Rabbitt.

In third place, 23 points, Karen Fountain.

Second place, 27 points, Ian Fennell.

In first place, 29 points. Alan Diment.

APPLAUSE

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

and he goes through to the semifinals.

Congratulations to him.

Commiserations, maybe, to Ian Fennell, but, with a score of 27

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

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