0:00:26 > 0:00:29First contender in the black chair tonight will be Gary Gilday.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31He's an art consultant from Glasgow
0:00:31 > 0:00:34and he'll be answering questions on Andy Warhol.
0:00:36 > 0:00:40Louise Earnshaw-Brown is a furniture restorer from Battle.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43Her subject - the Roman statesman Septimius Severus.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48Steven Marc Rhodes is a barrister from London.
0:00:48 > 0:00:52He'll be answering questions on the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56And Samantha Hills is a teacher from London.
0:00:56 > 0:01:01Her specialist subject - the television series X Files.
0:01:01 > 0:01:03APPLAUSE
0:01:12 > 0:01:16Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19Four more contenders tonight, each of whom nurtures the hope
0:01:19 > 0:01:22that the title of Mastermind Champion
0:01:22 > 0:01:24just might be within their grasp.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27What stands in the way, of course, is not only that they must be
0:01:27 > 0:01:29the master of their specialist subject,
0:01:29 > 0:01:31for which they get two minutes of questions,
0:01:31 > 0:01:36but also general knowledge, the one they can't revise for
0:01:36 > 0:01:38and they get two and a half minutes for that.
0:01:38 > 0:01:42Either way, someone tonight will get through to the semifinals
0:01:42 > 0:01:44so let's find out who that will be.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46Our first contender, please.
0:01:52 > 0:01:54And your name is?
0:01:54 > 0:01:56Your occupation?
0:01:57 > 0:01:59And your specialist subject?
0:02:00 > 0:02:03Andy Warhol in two minutes, starting now.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05The American artist Andy Warhol was a leading light
0:02:05 > 0:02:07in the Pop Art movement of the '60s.
0:02:07 > 0:02:09Between 1972 and 1974,
0:02:09 > 0:02:10Warhol produced several images
0:02:10 > 0:02:12of which Communist head of state?
0:02:12 > 0:02:13Chairman Mao.
0:02:13 > 0:02:15What's the name of the former stockbroker
0:02:15 > 0:02:17who was Warhol's partner
0:02:17 > 0:02:19and is the subject of his film Sleep,
0:02:19 > 0:02:20created in 1963?
0:02:21 > 0:02:24- John Giordano.- No, John Giorno.
0:02:24 > 0:02:26The artist's agent Emile de Antonio
0:02:26 > 0:02:28influenced Warhol's style
0:02:28 > 0:02:31when he advised him that one of two contrasting paintings
0:02:31 > 0:02:33Warhol had made of the same object
0:02:33 > 0:02:35would be the more likely to be successful.
0:02:35 > 0:02:37What object was the subject of the paintings?
0:02:37 > 0:02:39- Coca-Cola bottle. - Which rock band,
0:02:39 > 0:02:41whose members include Lou Reed, did Warhol manage?
0:02:41 > 0:02:44He also provided the artwork for their most successful album
0:02:44 > 0:02:46featuring the singer Nico.
0:02:46 > 0:02:47The Velvet Underground.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49Which gallery in New York hosted
0:02:49 > 0:02:52Warhol's first public art exhibition in 1952,
0:02:52 > 0:02:54when he displayed a series of drawings
0:02:54 > 0:02:56based on the works of Truman Capote?
0:02:56 > 0:02:59- The Eleanor Ward Stable Gallery? - The Hugo Gallery.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01What is the name of Warhol's magazine
0:03:01 > 0:03:03that was first issued in 1969
0:03:03 > 0:03:05and was relaunched as a style magazine in the '70s?
0:03:05 > 0:03:07Interview.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10When Warhol moved into his studio called The Factory
0:03:10 > 0:03:12on East 47th Street, New York,
0:03:12 > 0:03:13he asked his friend Billy Name
0:03:13 > 0:03:15to cover the walls with paint and what?
0:03:15 > 0:03:18Aluminium foil.
0:03:18 > 0:03:22In 1968, who shot Warhol several times in the torso
0:03:22 > 0:03:24and left wounds that almost proved fatal?
0:03:24 > 0:03:27She said that Warhol "had too much control over my life".
0:03:27 > 0:03:28Valerie Solanas.
0:03:28 > 0:03:32What happened to Warhol on his first day at Soho Elementary School
0:03:32 > 0:03:34at the age of four that upset him so much
0:03:34 > 0:03:36that his mother said he didn't have to go back to school
0:03:36 > 0:03:38for another two years?
0:03:38 > 0:03:40- A girl made him cry. - Yes, a girl hit him!
0:03:40 > 0:03:45At which public event of 1964 was Warhol refused permission
0:03:45 > 0:03:49to display a large picture of the FBI's 13 most wanted men?
0:03:49 > 0:03:51It was covered up with silver paint before the event began.
0:03:51 > 0:03:53The World's Fair.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56What is the title of the film released in 1966
0:03:56 > 0:03:59that became Warhol's first commercially successful film
0:03:59 > 0:04:01after it was shown in a mainstream cinema?
0:04:01 > 0:04:03Chelsea Girls.
0:04:03 > 0:04:04BEEP Warhol's...
0:04:04 > 0:04:05I've started, so I'll finish.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08Warhol's 1965 film Vinyl is one of only
0:04:08 > 0:04:11a few of his films to be based on another original work.
0:04:11 > 0:04:12On which novel was it based?
0:04:12 > 0:04:14A Clockwork Orange.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17Is correct. No passes, Gary, you have ten points.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28And our next contender, please.
0:04:36 > 0:04:38And your name is?
0:04:39 > 0:04:40Your occupation?
0:04:41 > 0:04:43And your specialist subject?
0:04:44 > 0:04:48Ah, Septimius Severus in two minutes, starting now.
0:04:48 > 0:04:52In 193AD, known as the Year of the Five Emperors,
0:04:52 > 0:04:55Severus emerged as undisputed ruler of the Roman empire.
0:04:55 > 0:04:56He was the first Roman emperor
0:04:56 > 0:04:59to be born in Africa, in which city?
0:04:59 > 0:05:00Leptis Magna.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02Of which legion was Severus appointed
0:05:02 > 0:05:04as the commander in Syria in 180
0:05:04 > 0:05:07when the future emperor, Helvius Pertinax, was the governor?
0:05:07 > 0:05:09IV Scythia?
0:05:09 > 0:05:11Who was Severus's rival in the east?
0:05:11 > 0:05:14He proclaimed himself emperor in Antioch in 193
0:05:14 > 0:05:15and was defeated at the Battle of Issus
0:05:15 > 0:05:17and executed shortly afterwards.
0:05:17 > 0:05:18Pescennius Niger.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20Which influential elite corps of the Roman army
0:05:20 > 0:05:24did Severus disband shortly after he arrived in Rome in 193?
0:05:24 > 0:05:26The Praetorian Guard.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28Which fellow African and Praetorian prefect
0:05:28 > 0:05:30recommended to Emperor Commodus
0:05:30 > 0:05:34that Severus be made governor of Upper Pannonia in 191?
0:05:34 > 0:05:37- Fabius Cilo?- No, Laetus.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40A Syrian became Severus' second wife in 187
0:05:40 > 0:05:41after he allegedly sought her out
0:05:41 > 0:05:43because a horoscope had predicted
0:05:43 > 0:05:44she would be married to a king.
0:05:44 > 0:05:45What was her name?
0:05:45 > 0:05:48- Julia Domna.- When the emperor Pertinax was murdered,
0:05:48 > 0:05:50Severus was proclaimed emperor by his troops
0:05:50 > 0:05:54on the 9th of April, 193, at which legionary base,
0:05:54 > 0:05:56the home of the 14th Gemina Legion?
0:05:56 > 0:05:58Carnuntum.
0:05:58 > 0:06:02Which games, that were traditionally held every 110 years
0:06:02 > 0:06:03so that no-one could ever see them
0:06:03 > 0:06:05more than once in a lifetime,
0:06:05 > 0:06:07did Severus arrange to be celebrated
0:06:07 > 0:06:09in Rome in June 204?
0:06:09 > 0:06:11The Secular Games.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13In January, 198, after he proclaimed
0:06:13 > 0:06:15that he had conquered Parthia,
0:06:15 > 0:06:18Severus took what two-word title?
0:06:18 > 0:06:19Imperator Parthicus?
0:06:19 > 0:06:21No, Parthicus Maximus.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24A city that was besieged for more than two years
0:06:24 > 0:06:26during Severus' campaigns in the east
0:06:26 > 0:06:28finally fell and had its walls torn down in 195.
0:06:28 > 0:06:30What was the name of the city?
0:06:30 > 0:06:32- Byzantium.- At which battle did Severus defeat
0:06:32 > 0:06:37his rival Clodius on the 19th of February, 197,
0:06:37 > 0:06:40after which Severus is said to have ridden over Albinus' corpse
0:06:40 > 0:06:42in front of his troops?
0:06:42 > 0:06:43- Lugdunum.- Yes, Lyon.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46Which legionary fort was established by Severus
0:06:46 > 0:06:48on the River Tay for a campaign in Scotland?
0:06:48 > 0:06:49- BEEP - Newstead?
0:06:49 > 0:06:53No, Carpow. No passes, Louise. You have nine points.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07And our next contender, please.
0:07:14 > 0:07:15And your name is?
0:07:16 > 0:07:18Your occupation?
0:07:18 > 0:07:20And your chosen subject?
0:07:21 > 0:07:25Nicholas Hawksmoor in two minutes. Here we go.
0:07:25 > 0:07:26Nicholas Hawksmoor was an architect
0:07:26 > 0:07:28who trained with Christopher Wren
0:07:28 > 0:07:30and is best known for a number of London churches.
0:07:30 > 0:07:32Which of those churches, close to the Bank of England,
0:07:32 > 0:07:34is the only one within the city of London?
0:07:34 > 0:07:37- St Mary Woolnoth.- The Commission for Building Fifty New Churches,
0:07:37 > 0:07:40established in 1711, didn't reach its target.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43How many of Hawksmoor's churches were completed
0:07:43 > 0:07:44when the commission was wound up in 1733?
0:07:44 > 0:07:48- Six.- The tower of St George's Bloomsbury was influenced
0:07:48 > 0:07:49by Pliny the Elder's description
0:07:49 > 0:07:52of one of the wonders of the ancient world. Which one?
0:07:52 > 0:07:54The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56Christopher Wren passed his commission
0:07:56 > 0:07:58for the Northamptonshire country house of Easton Neston
0:07:58 > 0:08:00to Hawksmoor because he preferred
0:08:00 > 0:08:01to work on public buildings.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03What was the name of the baron who owned the house?
0:08:03 > 0:08:05- Leominster.- Yes, William Fermor.
0:08:05 > 0:08:08Which of Hawksmoor's collaborators recommended him
0:08:08 > 0:08:10to the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches
0:08:10 > 0:08:12and said that churches should have
0:08:12 > 0:08:14"a plain style of the most solemn and awful appearance,
0:08:14 > 0:08:16"both without and within"?
0:08:16 > 0:08:17Sir John Vanbrugh.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19Which building for Queen Anne was completed in 1704
0:08:19 > 0:08:21in the gardens of Kensington Palace
0:08:21 > 0:08:23under the direction of Hawksmoor,
0:08:23 > 0:08:25who was clerk of works at the Palace?
0:08:25 > 0:08:26The orangery.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29In 1722, Hawksmoor completed the interior design
0:08:29 > 0:08:31of the Long Library and, in the following year,
0:08:31 > 0:08:33the Woodstock Gate for a country house.
0:08:33 > 0:08:34What is its name?
0:08:34 > 0:08:35Blenheim Palace.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38At Christ Church Spitalfields, a flight of steps leads up
0:08:38 > 0:08:41to the portico and entrance flanked by four massive columns.
0:08:41 > 0:08:44In which architectural order are those columns built?
0:08:44 > 0:08:45- Corinthian.- Tuscan.
0:08:45 > 0:08:48Which church was Hawksmoor commissioned to build
0:08:48 > 0:08:50in Greenwich after the original 13th-century building
0:08:50 > 0:08:53had been severely damaged in a storm in 1710?
0:08:53 > 0:08:54St Alfege's.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56What is the name of the architect
0:08:56 > 0:08:58who collaborated with Hawksmoor on the design
0:08:58 > 0:09:00of St John Horsleydown in Bermondsey?
0:09:00 > 0:09:01John James.
0:09:01 > 0:09:04In the buttery of which Oxford college where Hawksmoor
0:09:04 > 0:09:06designed the Codrington Library and a number of new buildings
0:09:06 > 0:09:09is there a bust of him thought to be his only existing portrait?
0:09:09 > 0:09:11All Souls.
0:09:11 > 0:09:12What's the name of the writer
0:09:12 > 0:09:15who dismissed Hawksmoor's Stepney churches
0:09:15 > 0:09:17as "mere Gothic heaps of stone without form or order"?
0:09:17 > 0:09:19James Ralph.
0:09:19 > 0:09:22Which of Hawksmoor's churches has an imposing tower
0:09:22 > 0:09:24with a golden ball on the flagpole
0:09:24 > 0:09:25that was used by ships as a guide
0:09:25 > 0:09:27for navigating the Thames?
0:09:27 > 0:09:31- St Anne's Limehouse. - We're out of time, no passes.
0:09:31 > 0:09:33Steven, you have 12 points.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45And our final contender, please.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54And your name is?
0:09:55 > 0:09:57Your occupation?
0:09:57 > 0:09:59And your chosen subject?
0:09:59 > 0:10:01The X Files in two minutes.
0:10:01 > 0:10:03In the pilot episode, Dana Scully says
0:10:03 > 0:10:05that her fellow FBI agent Fox Mulder
0:10:05 > 0:10:07had a nickname at the FBI training academy.
0:10:07 > 0:10:08What was it?
0:10:08 > 0:10:10- Spooky.- Yep. What's the name of Mulder's sister,
0:10:10 > 0:10:12who was abducted when she was eight years old?
0:10:12 > 0:10:14Her disappearance drives Mulder's special interest
0:10:14 > 0:10:16in alien activity.
0:10:16 > 0:10:17Samantha.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19Eugene Tooms can squeeze through very small spaces
0:10:19 > 0:10:22and hibernates in a newspaper and bile nest
0:10:22 > 0:10:24for 30 years at a time.
0:10:24 > 0:10:26How many human livers does he eat each time he wakes up?
0:10:26 > 0:10:28Five.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Byers, Langly and Frohike help the FBI in many X Files episodes
0:10:31 > 0:10:33and subsequently starred
0:10:33 > 0:10:35in their own short-lived spin-off television series.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37What is the name of the trio's geeky organisation?
0:10:37 > 0:10:39The Lone Gunmen.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41The sinister character known as Cigarette Smoking Man
0:10:41 > 0:10:44or Cancer Man appears throughout the series.
0:10:44 > 0:10:46What brand of cigarette does he usually smoke?
0:10:46 > 0:10:48- Morleys.- What is the name of the character
0:10:48 > 0:10:50who is Mulder's secret informant in the first season?
0:10:50 > 0:10:52When he dies in the season finale,
0:10:52 > 0:10:54he tells Scully to "trust no-one".
0:10:54 > 0:10:55Deep Throat.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58The episode Chinga is set in the American state of Maine
0:10:58 > 0:11:00and features a murderous doll.
0:11:00 > 0:11:01Which author co-wrote the episode
0:11:01 > 0:11:03with the series creator Chris Carter?
0:11:03 > 0:11:06- Stephen King.- A group of aliens called the Bounty Hunters
0:11:06 > 0:11:08track down and eliminate any threats
0:11:08 > 0:11:10to the intended extraterrestrial colonists.
0:11:10 > 0:11:13Where does a Bounty Hunter have to be pierced
0:11:13 > 0:11:14in order to kill it?
0:11:14 > 0:11:16- The back of the neck. - Yes, the base of the skull.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19I Provenance, Scully is shown documents that contain
0:11:19 > 0:11:21a number of unidentifiable symbols.
0:11:21 > 0:11:23She says they're identical to rubbings taken from
0:11:23 > 0:11:26a spacecraft found off the coast of which continent?
0:11:26 > 0:11:29- Africa.- What is the name of the FBI assistant director
0:11:29 > 0:11:31who's in charge of the X Files
0:11:31 > 0:11:33and is Mulder and Scully's supervisor?
0:11:33 > 0:11:34Walter Skinner.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36An alien mind-altering virus
0:11:36 > 0:11:39found in petroleum deposits on Earth
0:11:39 > 0:11:42known as black oil or Purity is discovered by a diver
0:11:42 > 0:11:44from a French salvage ship. Which ship?
0:11:44 > 0:11:47SHE ANSWERS INCORRECTLY The Piper Maru.
0:11:47 > 0:11:49What is the full stage name of the celebrity psychic
0:11:49 > 0:11:51brought in to help in a murder investigation
0:11:51 > 0:11:54in the episode Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose?
0:11:54 > 0:11:56The Stupendous Yappi.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59In The Truth, Mulder is accused of murdering Knowle Rohrer
0:11:59 > 0:12:01and is put on trial in a military court.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04What type of essentially indestructible creature... BEEP
0:12:04 > 0:12:05..is Knowle Rohrer?
0:12:05 > 0:12:06A super-soldier.
0:12:06 > 0:12:10He is indeed a super-soldier, whatever that might mean.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13No passes, Samantha, you also scored 12 points.
0:12:24 > 0:12:27Some very high scoring there. Let's have a look at all of the scores.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30In fourth place, with nine points, Louise Earnshaw-Brown.
0:12:30 > 0:12:33Third place, ten points - Gary Gilday.
0:12:33 > 0:12:36In joint first place, 12 points apiece,
0:12:36 > 0:12:38Steven Marc Rhodes and Samantha Hills.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47So, it's the general knowledge round now
0:12:47 > 0:12:49and if there's a tie at the end of it,
0:12:49 > 0:12:52then the number of passes is taken into account and the person
0:12:52 > 0:12:55with the fewer passes is the winner. And if they're tied on passes
0:12:55 > 0:12:58as well, there will be a tie-break and it's possible
0:12:58 > 0:13:01for a runner-up to get through to the semifinal as well.
0:13:01 > 0:13:04The six highest-scoring runners-up will qualify.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07So, let's get on with it and ask Louise to join us again, please.
0:13:09 > 0:13:15And you start out with a pretty hefty nine points
0:13:15 > 0:13:18and you have two and a half minutes now of general knowledge questions
0:13:18 > 0:13:24in order to surge ahead or whatever. Here we go, two and a half minutes.
0:13:24 > 0:13:27Comice, Conference and Bartlett are varieties of which fruit?
0:13:27 > 0:13:29- Pear.- What name is given to the main artery,
0:13:29 > 0:13:31the largest in the human body,
0:13:31 > 0:13:33that arises from the left ventricle of the heart
0:13:33 > 0:13:35and carries blood to all organs
0:13:35 > 0:13:36and other structures of the body?
0:13:36 > 0:13:39- Aorta.- The poem Leisure by the Welsh poet WH Davies
0:13:39 > 0:13:42begins "What is this life if full of care,
0:13:42 > 0:13:43"we have no time to stand and..."
0:13:43 > 0:13:44Stare.
0:13:44 > 0:13:48Isaac Hayes won a Best Original Song Oscar at the 1972 ceremony
0:13:48 > 0:13:51for the theme from a film about which private detective.
0:13:51 > 0:13:52Shaft.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55Which former political party leader was MP for Yeovil
0:13:55 > 0:13:59from 1983 until 2001 when he was raised to the peerage?
0:13:59 > 0:14:00Paddy Ashdown.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02In which American state is both Prudhoe Bay,
0:14:02 > 0:14:05that was named by the British explorer John Franklin
0:14:05 > 0:14:08after his school friend Baron Prudhoe,
0:14:08 > 0:14:09and the nearby town of Deadhorse,
0:14:09 > 0:14:11the centre of the area's oil industry?
0:14:11 > 0:14:13- Maine?- Alaska.
0:14:13 > 0:14:15Toxicophobia is an intense fear of what?
0:14:15 > 0:14:17- Poisons.- Yes, being poisoned.
0:14:17 > 0:14:21In 1955, a former All-Ireland juvenile boxing champion
0:14:21 > 0:14:24was the first regular presenter of the television version
0:14:24 > 0:14:26of This Is Your Life.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28He was also the show's first subject. Who was he?
0:14:28 > 0:14:29- Eamonn Andrews. - Which composer,
0:14:29 > 0:14:32who's better known for his collaborations on light operas,
0:14:32 > 0:14:35composed the standard setting of Sabine Baring-Gould's hymn
0:14:35 > 0:14:36Onward Christian Soldiers?
0:14:36 > 0:14:38- Gilbert?- No, Sullivan.
0:14:38 > 0:14:40What is the surname of the brother and sister painters
0:14:40 > 0:14:43Gwen and Augustus, who were brought up in Tenby
0:14:43 > 0:14:44and then went on to study
0:14:44 > 0:14:46at the Slade School of Fine Art in London?
0:14:46 > 0:14:50- John.- The male side of a family is called the spear side.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53What is the equivalent term for the female side of the family?
0:14:53 > 0:14:55- Queen?- Distaff.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57Which fish that hatch in the Sargasso Sea
0:14:57 > 0:15:00turn into young adults as their larvae are carried by currents
0:15:00 > 0:15:03- across the Atlantic Ocean before they enter British rivers?- Eels.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06Which Hungarian-born former restaurateur
0:15:06 > 0:15:10published his first Good Food Guide book in 1957?
0:15:11 > 0:15:12- Michelin.- Ronay.
0:15:12 > 0:15:15Who said in 1935, when asked to encourage Catholicism
0:15:15 > 0:15:18in his country as a way to improve relations with the Pope,
0:15:18 > 0:15:20"The Pope? How many divisions has he got?"
0:15:20 > 0:15:24- Pass.- Which canal that is the oldest in Scotland
0:15:24 > 0:15:27runs across the Lowland Belt and takes its name
0:15:27 > 0:15:28from the two rivers it links?
0:15:30 > 0:15:33- Pass.- How long is the normal playing time
0:15:33 > 0:15:36in a professional rugby league or rugby union match?
0:15:36 > 0:15:38- One hour?- 80 minutes.
0:15:38 > 0:15:40In the First World War, troops from a Commonwealth country
0:15:40 > 0:15:42launched the initial assault
0:15:42 > 0:15:45at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in April, 1917, in which country?
0:15:45 > 0:15:46- Belgium.- Canada.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49Which British actor, who plays Prince Vultan in Flash Gordon,
0:15:49 > 0:15:52published his autobiography Absolute Pandemonium
0:15:52 > 0:15:54in October, 2015?
0:15:54 > 0:15:56- Brian Blessed. - BEEP
0:15:56 > 0:15:59And your time is up. You had a couple of passes.
0:15:59 > 0:16:03That canal, the oldest in Scotland that runs across the Lowland Belt
0:16:03 > 0:16:06and takes its name from the Forth and Clyde.
0:16:06 > 0:16:12Those are the two rivers. And Stalin was extremely rude about the Pope.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14"How many divisions has he got?"
0:16:14 > 0:16:17You have a total now, Louise, of 19 points.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31And now Gary again, please.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34And you start the round with ten points.
0:16:34 > 0:16:3619 is the score to beat, let's see how you do.
0:16:36 > 0:16:39Two and a half minutes of general knowledge. Here we go.
0:16:39 > 0:16:41Which character in the original Star Trek series
0:16:41 > 0:16:44was born on the planet Vulcan in the year 2230
0:16:44 > 0:16:46and was played by Leonard Nimoy?
0:16:46 > 0:16:50- Spock.- In which London park was the Queen Elizabeth Gate opened
0:16:50 > 0:16:53in 1993 to commemorate the 90th birthday of the Queen Mother?
0:16:53 > 0:16:57- Hyde?- What Latin phrase suggests that people are more likely
0:16:57 > 0:17:00to say what they really feel under the influence of alcohol?
0:17:00 > 0:17:01In vino veritas.
0:17:01 > 0:17:05Evelyn Waugh's novels Men At Arms, Officers And Gentlemen
0:17:05 > 0:17:06and Unconditional Surrender,
0:17:06 > 0:17:09collectively known as the Sword of Honour Trilogy,
0:17:09 > 0:17:10are set during which war?
0:17:10 > 0:17:12- Boer War?- Second World War.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14By what name is the prehistoric member of the cat family,
0:17:14 > 0:17:17the smilodon, better known?
0:17:18 > 0:17:20Sabre-toothed tiger.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22In which English county is Cannock Chase,
0:17:22 > 0:17:23which was designated
0:17:23 > 0:17:26as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1958?
0:17:26 > 0:17:28- Yorkshire?- Staffordshire.
0:17:28 > 0:17:29The Feast of the Annunciation
0:17:29 > 0:17:31that takes place on the 25th of March
0:17:31 > 0:17:33is also known by what alternative name
0:17:33 > 0:17:35that refers to the Virgin Mary?
0:17:35 > 0:17:37The...
0:17:38 > 0:17:40HE ANSWERS INCORRECTLY No, Lady Day.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43What term for substances such as synthetic plastics
0:17:43 > 0:17:45consisting of large molecules
0:17:45 > 0:17:47made up of many small repeating units
0:17:47 > 0:17:49comes from the Greek for "many parts"?
0:17:50 > 0:17:51Pass.
0:17:51 > 0:17:53Which Colorado-based American football team
0:17:53 > 0:17:56won their third Super Bowl in February 2016
0:17:56 > 0:18:00when they defeated the Carolina Panthers 24-10?
0:18:00 > 0:18:02- Redskins.- The Denver Broncos.
0:18:02 > 0:18:04What type of brown bread made from the entire grain
0:18:04 > 0:18:07is known as schrotbrot in Germany?
0:18:07 > 0:18:09- Spelt?- Wholemeal bread.
0:18:09 > 0:18:11What is the name of the medieval scholar
0:18:11 > 0:18:13who sells his soul to the Devil
0:18:13 > 0:18:15in return for 24 years of infinite power and wealth
0:18:15 > 0:18:17in Christopher Marlowe's play?
0:18:17 > 0:18:19- Faust.- Faustus.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22On the sleeve of which 1991 Nirvana album
0:18:22 > 0:18:26is four-month-old Spencer Elden swimming after a dollar bill?
0:18:26 > 0:18:28It was their first album to chart in the UK.
0:18:28 > 0:18:31- Nevermind.- What name is given to a young bird
0:18:31 > 0:18:33that has developed wing feathers large enough for flight?
0:18:33 > 0:18:36- Fledgling.- Which artist made the surrealist film
0:18:36 > 0:18:41Un Chien Andalou in 1928 and L'Age D'Or in 1930
0:18:41 > 0:18:43with the director Luis Bunuel?
0:18:43 > 0:18:44Salvador Dali.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46Which Andalucian mountain range is the highest point
0:18:46 > 0:18:48in the Iberian Peninsula?
0:18:48 > 0:18:50Its name means "snowy range".
0:18:50 > 0:18:51- Pyrenees.- Sierra Nevada.
0:18:51 > 0:18:54What is the acronym of the government department
0:18:54 > 0:18:56whose remit includes environmental protection?
0:18:56 > 0:18:59It replaced Maff after the 2001 general election
0:18:59 > 0:19:00and the foot and mouth outbreak.
0:19:00 > 0:19:05- Defra.- Which short, bloody battle of April, 1746
0:19:05 > 0:19:07effectively saw the end of the Jacobite Rebellion?
0:19:07 > 0:19:11- Culloden.- In America, what name is used for a ticket... BEEP
0:19:11 > 0:19:13..given to a spectator at an outdoor event
0:19:13 > 0:19:15that's interrupted or postponed because of bad weather?
0:19:15 > 0:19:18It enables the holder to attend a future event
0:19:18 > 0:19:19without having to pay again.
0:19:19 > 0:19:23- A rain check.- Is correct. You had one pass.
0:19:23 > 0:19:28That term for substances, synthetic plastics consisting
0:19:28 > 0:19:31of large molecules and all that sort of thing, they are polymers.
0:19:31 > 0:19:32- Of course they are. - Yes, of course they are.
0:19:32 > 0:19:35You have scored, Gary, 20 points.
0:19:45 > 0:19:47And now Steven again, please.
0:19:49 > 0:19:56And you start out with 12 points and 20 is now the score to beat.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59Two and a half minutes of general knowledge starting now.
0:19:59 > 0:20:02Which of Shakespeare's plays is set mainly
0:20:02 > 0:20:03in Elsinore Castle in Denmark?
0:20:03 > 0:20:05- Hamlet.- Which actor played
0:20:05 > 0:20:07the Jersey-based detective Jim Bergerac
0:20:07 > 0:20:09and Tom Barnaby in Midsomer Murders?
0:20:09 > 0:20:12- John Nettles.- Which village in North Wales was created
0:20:12 > 0:20:14by the architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis in 1925
0:20:14 > 0:20:16and is reputedly modelled
0:20:16 > 0:20:19on the Italian seaside village of Portofino?
0:20:19 > 0:20:21- Portmeirion.- What word of French and Latin origin
0:20:21 > 0:20:24is used to mean "pertaining to the west"
0:20:24 > 0:20:26in contrast to Oriental, referring to the east?
0:20:26 > 0:20:28Occidental.
0:20:28 > 0:20:30According to the Gospels, which disciple denied Jesus
0:20:30 > 0:20:32three times before the rooster crowed,
0:20:32 > 0:20:34just as Jesus had predicted?
0:20:34 > 0:20:36- Peter.- What is the title
0:20:36 > 0:20:39of Robert Altman's 1975 Oscar-winning film
0:20:39 > 0:20:40about the world of country music?
0:20:40 > 0:20:44It takes its title from the Tennessee city in which it is set.
0:20:44 > 0:20:45Nashville.
0:20:45 > 0:20:48What general name that comes from the Greek for "mussel"
0:20:48 > 0:20:50is given to various marine molluscs whose shells
0:20:50 > 0:20:53have traditionally been used as trumpets?
0:20:53 > 0:20:54Conches.
0:20:54 > 0:20:57The nun St Frideswide is the patron saint
0:20:57 > 0:20:59of which English university city?
0:20:59 > 0:21:03- Oxford.- What is the name of the coach that was built in 1881
0:21:03 > 0:21:06and is traditionally used by royal brides
0:21:06 > 0:21:08to travel to their wedding?
0:21:08 > 0:21:11- Gilt stagecoach? - The Glass Coach.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13An episode of which animated sitcom
0:21:13 > 0:21:16that was first screened in 2000 is entitled Bart To The Future
0:21:16 > 0:21:19and is a vision of America in the year 2030
0:21:19 > 0:21:22when it is bankrupted by the presidency of Donald Trump?
0:21:22 > 0:21:23The Simpsons.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26In physics and mathematics, which lower case Greek letter
0:21:26 > 0:21:29is normally used to represent the wavelength of radiation?
0:21:29 > 0:21:32- Lambda.- On what subject have the Chinese author Sun Tzu
0:21:32 > 0:21:35and the Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz
0:21:35 > 0:21:36written classic books?
0:21:36 > 0:21:39- War.- Which composer's works of the baroque era
0:21:39 > 0:21:42include Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
0:21:42 > 0:21:43and Sheep May Safely Graze?
0:21:43 > 0:21:46- JS Bach.- Kaapstad is the Afrikaans name
0:21:46 > 0:21:48for which South African city?
0:21:48 > 0:21:50Er, Cape Town.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53Which trumpeter had his first UK top ten hit single
0:21:53 > 0:21:55accompanied by the Tijuana Brass
0:21:55 > 0:21:57with Spanish Flea in 1965?
0:21:57 > 0:22:00- Herb Alpert.- What is the name of the aristocratic villainess
0:22:00 > 0:22:04in Dodie Smith's 1956 novel 101 Dalmatians?
0:22:04 > 0:22:05Cruella de Vil.
0:22:05 > 0:22:08Spiro T Agnew and Gerald Ford both served as vice-president
0:22:08 > 0:22:10to which American president?
0:22:10 > 0:22:11Nixon.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13On which racecourse has the St Leger
0:22:13 > 0:22:15been run annually since 1776,
0:22:15 > 0:22:17apart from wartime and when it couldn't be used
0:22:17 > 0:22:19because of subsidence or redevelopment?
0:22:19 > 0:22:21- Doncaster.- Shelagh Delaney's first play,
0:22:21 > 0:22:23which is set in her native Salford
0:22:23 > 0:22:25and was first performed when she was 19,
0:22:25 > 0:22:26is entitled A Taste of..?
0:22:26 > 0:22:29- Honey.- Which 2015 television drama...
0:22:29 > 0:22:32BEEP ..includes Miss Havisham,
0:22:32 > 0:22:35Inspector Bucket and Mrs Gamp among its mash-up of characters?
0:22:35 > 0:22:38- Dickensian.- Is correct.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40Shame about that one you got wrong
0:22:40 > 0:22:44cos you have, well, 31 points.
0:22:44 > 0:22:46GASPS AND APPLAUSE
0:22:57 > 0:23:00Golly! And, finally, Samantha again, please.
0:23:02 > 0:23:06And, Samantha, you have scored 12 points.
0:23:06 > 0:23:09You have an awfully big score to beat.
0:23:09 > 0:23:11However, you've got two and a half minutes
0:23:11 > 0:23:14of general knowledge questions in which to do it.
0:23:14 > 0:23:15Let's see if you can. Here we go.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18Pheidippides' legendary run to Athens in 490BC
0:23:18 > 0:23:19is commemorated in the name
0:23:19 > 0:23:21of which long-distance foot race?
0:23:21 > 0:23:23Marathon.
0:23:23 > 0:23:24Which south-east Asian country
0:23:24 > 0:23:27was divided between north and south near the 17th parallel
0:23:27 > 0:23:30until reunification in 1976?
0:23:30 > 0:23:32- Vietnam.- What part of the body
0:23:32 > 0:23:33is affected by Meniere's disease?
0:23:33 > 0:23:36Its symptoms include severe attacks of vertigo.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38- Brain?- The inner ear.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40Jesus performed his first miracle
0:23:40 > 0:23:42at a wedding at Cana, according to St John's Gospel.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44What was the miracle?
0:23:44 > 0:23:45Turning water into wine.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48Which actress plays the headstrong Bathsheba Everdene
0:23:48 > 0:23:49in the 2015 film version
0:23:49 > 0:23:52of Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd?
0:23:55 > 0:23:56Pass.
0:23:56 > 0:23:59In Anglo-Saxon legend, what was the occupation of Wayland,
0:23:59 > 0:24:01who is traditionally associated
0:24:01 > 0:24:03with a burial chamber near the Uffington White Horse?
0:24:04 > 0:24:06- Carpenter.- A blacksmith.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08Which 11th-century embroidered artefact
0:24:08 > 0:24:10begins with Edward the Confessor
0:24:10 > 0:24:11meeting the future King Harold II
0:24:11 > 0:24:14and ends with the scene after the Battle of Hastings?
0:24:14 > 0:24:16- The Bayeux Tapestry. - Who said in a speech
0:24:16 > 0:24:18to the Labour Party conference in 1957,
0:24:18 > 0:24:21when he was opposing unilateral nuclear disarmament,
0:24:21 > 0:24:23"If you carry this resolution, you will send
0:24:23 > 0:24:26"Britain's Foreign Secretary naked into the conference chamber"?
0:24:26 > 0:24:28- Winston Churchill?- Nye Bevan.
0:24:28 > 0:24:30In Arthurian legend, what object was designed
0:24:30 > 0:24:32so that all his knights could sit as equals?
0:24:32 > 0:24:34Round Table.
0:24:34 > 0:24:36Which writer has been described as the worst poet of all time?
0:24:36 > 0:24:39He lived from about 1825 to 1902
0:24:39 > 0:24:42and took the unusual middle name Topaz.
0:24:43 > 0:24:44- Ford.- William McGonagall.
0:24:44 > 0:24:47What was the nationality of the motor racing driver
0:24:47 > 0:24:49Juan Manuel Fangio, who was five-times world champion
0:24:49 > 0:24:52in the '50s and the oldest ever champion?
0:24:52 > 0:24:53- Brazilian?- Argentinean.
0:24:53 > 0:24:55A Greek dish, whose name comes from the Turkish
0:24:55 > 0:24:58for "something stuffed", consists of leaves, fruit or vegetables
0:24:58 > 0:25:01filled with a savoury stuffing, braised and served cold -
0:25:01 > 0:25:03which dish?
0:25:03 > 0:25:05- Dolmades.- What name did Mark Riley use
0:25:05 > 0:25:08while he was working alongside disc jockey Mark Radcliffe
0:25:08 > 0:25:11during their time at Radio 1 from 1993 to 2004?
0:25:13 > 0:25:15- Robert.- Lard. Which American state's flag
0:25:15 > 0:25:17features the Union Jack?
0:25:17 > 0:25:19It recalls the time when Captain George Vancouver
0:25:19 > 0:25:24presented one to its king Kamehameha in 1793?
0:25:24 > 0:25:27- Hawaii.- Southend-on-Sea claims to have the world's
0:25:27 > 0:25:29longest example of a once-common feature
0:25:29 > 0:25:31of Britain's seaside towns. What is it?
0:25:31 > 0:25:33A pleasure pier.
0:25:33 > 0:25:35In 2000, Angela Merkel became the first woman
0:25:35 > 0:25:36and the first non-Catholic
0:25:36 > 0:25:38to head the political party the CDU.
0:25:38 > 0:25:39What does CDU stand for?
0:25:39 > 0:25:41Christian Democratic Union.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44Guns N' Roses had a UK top five hit in 1991
0:25:44 > 0:25:46with a cover version of the theme
0:25:46 > 0:25:49from which Bond film? BEEP
0:25:49 > 0:25:52- Live And Let Die. - Live And Let Die is correct.
0:25:52 > 0:25:54You had one pass.
0:25:54 > 0:25:57That actress who played Bathsheba Everdene
0:25:57 > 0:26:00in Far From the Madding Crowd was Carey Mulligan.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02You scored 22 points.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16Not easy to challenge a whopping score like that.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18Let's have a look at all of the scores.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20In fourth place, with 19 points, Louise Earnshaw-Brown.
0:26:20 > 0:26:23Third place, 20 points - Gary Gilday.
0:26:23 > 0:26:26Second place, with a very respectable 22 points,
0:26:26 > 0:26:27Samantha Hills.
0:26:27 > 0:26:32First place, with 31 points, Steven Marc Rhodes.
0:26:32 > 0:26:37INAUDIBLE
0:26:46 > 0:26:51So, Steven, that is one of the highest scores we've ever had.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53I think it's been matched in this particular series,
0:26:53 > 0:26:59- but what's the secret?- Oh, luck. I mean...- Oh, come on, it can't be.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01No, because you only need one or two questions to go wrong
0:27:01 > 0:27:03and then you lose your confidence and, if that happens,
0:27:03 > 0:27:06then things can very easily go the other way.
0:27:06 > 0:27:08Ah, right, so it's not that you've been sitting there
0:27:08 > 0:27:11doing no work at all for the last couple of months and just...
0:27:11 > 0:27:13The great thing about general knowledge
0:27:13 > 0:27:14is you can't revise for it.
0:27:14 > 0:27:16A hiding to nothing if you try to revise for it.
0:27:16 > 0:27:18That is the point, exactly.
0:27:18 > 0:27:19Well done, it was a brilliant performance
0:27:19 > 0:27:24and it means that, of course, Steven is tonight's winner.
0:27:24 > 0:27:25He goes through to the semifinals.
0:27:25 > 0:27:29Congratulations to him and, if you would like to be a contender
0:27:29 > 0:27:36in the next series, do go to our website and you can follow us...
0:27:36 > 0:27:39And do join us again next time for more Masterminds.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42Thanks for watching, goodbye.