Episode 22 Mastermind

First contender in the black chair tonight will be Gary Gilday.

He's an art consultant from Glasgow

and he'll be answering questions on Andy Warhol.

Louise Earnshaw-Brown is a furniture restorer from Battle.

Her subject - the Roman statesman Septimius Severus.

Steven Marc Rhodes is a barrister from London.

He'll be answering questions on the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor.

And Samantha Hills is a teacher from London.

Her specialist subject - the television series X Files.

APPLAUSE

Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.

Four more contenders tonight, each of whom nurtures the hope

that the title of Mastermind Champion

just might be within their grasp.

What stands in the way, of course, is not only that they must be

the master of their specialist subject,

for which they get two minutes of questions,

but also general knowledge, the one they can't revise for

and they get two and a half minutes for that.

Either way, someone tonight will get through to the semifinals

so let's find out who that will be.

Our first contender, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your specialist subject?

Andy Warhol in two minutes, starting now.

The American artist Andy Warhol was a leading light

in the Pop Art movement of the '60s.

Between 1972 and 1974,

Warhol produced several images

of which Communist head of state?

Chairman Mao.

What's the name of the former stockbroker

who was Warhol's partner

and is the subject of his film Sleep,

created in 1963?

-John Giordano.

-No, John Giorno.

The artist's agent Emile de Antonio

influenced Warhol's style

when he advised him that one of two contrasting paintings

Warhol had made of the same object

would be the more likely to be successful.

What object was the subject of the paintings?

-Coca-Cola bottle.

-Which rock band,

whose members include Lou Reed, did Warhol manage?

He also provided the artwork for their most successful album

featuring the singer Nico.

The Velvet Underground.

Which gallery in New York hosted

Warhol's first public art exhibition in 1952,

when he displayed a series of drawings

based on the works of Truman Capote?

-The Eleanor Ward Stable Gallery?

-The Hugo Gallery.

What is the name of Warhol's magazine

that was first issued in 1969

and was relaunched as a style magazine in the '70s?

Interview.

When Warhol moved into his studio called The Factory

on East 47th Street, New York,

he asked his friend Billy Name

to cover the walls with paint and what?

Aluminium foil.

In 1968, who shot Warhol several times in the torso

and left wounds that almost proved fatal?

She said that Warhol "had too much control over my life".

Valerie Solanas.

What happened to Warhol on his first day at Soho Elementary School

at the age of four that upset him so much

that his mother said he didn't have to go back to school

for another two years?

-A girl made him cry.

-Yes, a girl hit him!

At which public event of 1964 was Warhol refused permission

to display a large picture of the FBI's 13 most wanted men?

It was covered up with silver paint before the event began.

The World's Fair.

What is the title of the film released in 1966

that became Warhol's first commercially successful film

after it was shown in a mainstream cinema?

Chelsea Girls.

BEEP Warhol's...

I've started, so I'll finish.

Warhol's 1965 film Vinyl is one of only

a few of his films to be based on another original work.

On which novel was it based?

A Clockwork Orange.

Is correct. No passes, Gary, you have ten points.

And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your specialist subject?

Ah, Septimius Severus in two minutes, starting now.

In 193AD, known as the Year of the Five Emperors,

Severus emerged as undisputed ruler of the Roman empire.

He was the first Roman emperor

to be born in Africa, in which city?

Leptis Magna.

Of which legion was Severus appointed

as the commander in Syria in 180

when the future emperor, Helvius Pertinax, was the governor?

IV Scythia?

Who was Severus's rival in the east?

He proclaimed himself emperor in Antioch in 193

and was defeated at the Battle of Issus

and executed shortly afterwards.

Pescennius Niger.

Which influential elite corps of the Roman army

did Severus disband shortly after he arrived in Rome in 193?

The Praetorian Guard.

Which fellow African and Praetorian prefect

recommended to Emperor Commodus

that Severus be made governor of Upper Pannonia in 191?

-Fabius Cilo?

-No, Laetus.

A Syrian became Severus' second wife in 187

after he allegedly sought her out

because a horoscope had predicted

she would be married to a king.

What was her name?

-Julia Domna.

-When the emperor Pertinax was murdered,

Severus was proclaimed emperor by his troops

on the 9th of April, 193, at which legionary base,

the home of the 14th Gemina Legion?

Carnuntum.

Which games, that were traditionally held every 110 years

so that no-one could ever see them

more than once in a lifetime,

did Severus arrange to be celebrated

in Rome in June 204?

The Secular Games.

In January, 198, after he proclaimed

that he had conquered Parthia,

Severus took what two-word title?

Imperator Parthicus?

No, Parthicus Maximus.

A city that was besieged for more than two years

during Severus' campaigns in the east

finally fell and had its walls torn down in 195.

What was the name of the city?

-Byzantium.

-At which battle did Severus defeat

his rival Clodius on the 19th of February, 197,

after which Severus is said to have ridden over Albinus' corpse

in front of his troops?

-Lugdunum.

-Yes, Lyon.

Which legionary fort was established by Severus

on the River Tay for a campaign in Scotland?

-BEEP

-Newstead?

No, Carpow. No passes, Louise. You have nine points.

And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject?

Nicholas Hawksmoor in two minutes. Here we go.

Nicholas Hawksmoor was an architect

who trained with Christopher Wren

and is best known for a number of London churches.

Which of those churches, close to the Bank of England,

is the only one within the city of London?

-St Mary Woolnoth.

-The Commission for Building Fifty New Churches,

established in 1711, didn't reach its target.

How many of Hawksmoor's churches were completed

when the commission was wound up in 1733?

-Six.

-The tower of St George's Bloomsbury was influenced

by Pliny the Elder's description

of one of the wonders of the ancient world. Which one?

The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.

Christopher Wren passed his commission

for the Northamptonshire country house of Easton Neston

to Hawksmoor because he preferred

to work on public buildings.

What was the name of the baron who owned the house?

-Leominster.

-Yes, William Fermor.

Which of Hawksmoor's collaborators recommended him

to the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches

and said that churches should have

"a plain style of the most solemn and awful appearance,

"both without and within"?

Sir John Vanbrugh.

Which building for Queen Anne was completed in 1704

in the gardens of Kensington Palace

under the direction of Hawksmoor,

who was clerk of works at the Palace?

The orangery.

In 1722, Hawksmoor completed the interior design

of the Long Library and, in the following year,

the Woodstock Gate for a country house.

What is its name?

Blenheim Palace.

At Christ Church Spitalfields, a flight of steps leads up

to the portico and entrance flanked by four massive columns.

In which architectural order are those columns built?

-Corinthian.

-Tuscan.

Which church was Hawksmoor commissioned to build

in Greenwich after the original 13th-century building

had been severely damaged in a storm in 1710?

St Alfege's.

What is the name of the architect

who collaborated with Hawksmoor on the design

of St John Horsleydown in Bermondsey?

John James.

In the buttery of which Oxford college where Hawksmoor

designed the Codrington Library and a number of new buildings

is there a bust of him thought to be his only existing portrait?

All Souls.

What's the name of the writer

who dismissed Hawksmoor's Stepney churches

as "mere Gothic heaps of stone without form or order"?

James Ralph.

Which of Hawksmoor's churches has an imposing tower

with a golden ball on the flagpole

that was used by ships as a guide

for navigating the Thames?

-St Anne's Limehouse.

-We're out of time, no passes.

Steven, you have 12 points.

And our final contender, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject?

The X Files in two minutes.

In the pilot episode, Dana Scully says

that her fellow FBI agent Fox Mulder

had a nickname at the FBI training academy.

What was it?

-Spooky.

-Yep. What's the name of Mulder's sister,

who was abducted when she was eight years old?

Her disappearance drives Mulder's special interest

in alien activity.

Samantha.

Eugene Tooms can squeeze through very small spaces

and hibernates in a newspaper and bile nest

for 30 years at a time.

How many human livers does he eat each time he wakes up?

Five.

Byers, Langly and Frohike help the FBI in many X Files episodes

and subsequently starred

in their own short-lived spin-off television series.

What is the name of the trio's geeky organisation?

The Lone Gunmen.

The sinister character known as Cigarette Smoking Man

or Cancer Man appears throughout the series.

What brand of cigarette does he usually smoke?

-Morleys.

-What is the name of the character

who is Mulder's secret informant in the first season?

When he dies in the season finale,

he tells Scully to "trust no-one".

Deep Throat.

The episode Chinga is set in the American state of Maine

and features a murderous doll.

Which author co-wrote the episode

with the series creator Chris Carter?

-Stephen King.

-A group of aliens called the Bounty Hunters

track down and eliminate any threats

to the intended extraterrestrial colonists.

Where does a Bounty Hunter have to be pierced

in order to kill it?

-The back of the neck.

-Yes, the base of the skull.

I Provenance, Scully is shown documents that contain

a number of unidentifiable symbols.

She says they're identical to rubbings taken from

a spacecraft found off the coast of which continent?

-Africa.

-What is the name of the FBI assistant director

who's in charge of the X Files

and is Mulder and Scully's supervisor?

Walter Skinner.

An alien mind-altering virus

found in petroleum deposits on Earth

known as black oil or Purity is discovered by a diver

from a French salvage ship. Which ship?

SHE ANSWERS INCORRECTLY The Piper Maru.

What is the full stage name of the celebrity psychic

brought in to help in a murder investigation

in the episode Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose?

The Stupendous Yappi.

In The Truth, Mulder is accused of murdering Knowle Rohrer

and is put on trial in a military court.

What type of essentially indestructible creature... BEEP

..is Knowle Rohrer?

A super-soldier.

He is indeed a super-soldier, whatever that might mean.

No passes, Samantha, you also scored 12 points.

Some very high scoring there. Let's have a look at all of the scores.

In fourth place, with nine points, Louise Earnshaw-Brown.

Third place, ten points - Gary Gilday.

In joint first place, 12 points apiece,

Steven Marc Rhodes and Samantha Hills.

So, it's 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, there will be a tie-break and it's 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 Louise to join us again, please.

And you start out with a pretty hefty nine points

and you have two and a half minutes now of general knowledge questions

in order to surge ahead or whatever. Here we go, two and a half minutes.

Comice, Conference and Bartlett are varieties of which fruit?

-Pear.

-What name is given to the main artery,

the largest in the human body,

that arises from the left ventricle of the heart

and carries blood to all organs

and other structures of the body?

-Aorta.

-The poem Leisure by the Welsh poet WH Davies

begins "What is this life if full of care,

"we have no time to stand and..."

Stare.

Isaac Hayes won a Best Original Song Oscar at the 1972 ceremony

for the theme from a film about which private detective.

Shaft.

Which former political party leader was MP for Yeovil

from 1983 until 2001 when he was raised to the peerage?

Paddy Ashdown.

In which American state is both Prudhoe Bay,

that was named by the British explorer John Franklin

after his school friend Baron Prudhoe,

and the nearby town of Deadhorse,

the centre of the area's oil industry?

-Maine?

-Alaska.

Toxicophobia is an intense fear of what?

-Poisons.

-Yes, being poisoned.

In 1955, a former All-Ireland juvenile boxing champion

was the first regular presenter of the television version

of This Is Your Life.

He was also the show's first subject. Who was he?

-Eamonn Andrews.

-Which composer,

who's better known for his collaborations on light operas,

composed the standard setting of Sabine Baring-Gould's hymn

Onward Christian Soldiers?

-Gilbert?

-No, Sullivan.

What is the surname of the brother and sister painters

Gwen and Augustus, who were brought up in Tenby

and then went on to study

at the Slade School of Fine Art in London?

-John.

-The male side of a family is called the spear side.

What is the equivalent term for the female side of the family?

-Queen?

-Distaff.

Which fish that hatch in the Sargasso Sea

turn into young adults as their larvae are carried by currents

-across the Atlantic Ocean before they enter British rivers?

-Eels.

Which Hungarian-born former restaurateur

published his first Good Food Guide book in 1957?

-Michelin.

-Ronay.

Who said in 1935, when asked to encourage Catholicism

in his country as a way to improve relations with the Pope,

"The Pope? How many divisions has he got?"

-Pass.

-Which canal that is the oldest in Scotland

runs across the Lowland Belt and takes its name

from the two rivers it links?

-Pass.

-How long is the normal playing time

in a professional rugby league or rugby union match?

-One hour?

-80 minutes.

In the First World War, troops from a Commonwealth country

launched the initial assault

at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in April, 1917, in which country?

-Belgium.

-Canada.

Which British actor, who plays Prince Vultan in Flash Gordon,

published his autobiography Absolute Pandemonium

in October, 2015?

-Brian Blessed.

-BEEP

And your time is up. You had a couple of passes.

That canal, the oldest in Scotland that runs across the Lowland Belt

and takes its name from the Forth and Clyde.

Those are the two rivers. And Stalin was extremely rude about the Pope.

"How many divisions has he got?"

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

And now Gary again, please.

And you start the round with ten points.

19 is the score to beat, let's see how you do.

Two and a half minutes of general knowledge. Here we go.

Which character in the original Star Trek series

was born on the planet Vulcan in the year 2230

and was played by Leonard Nimoy?

-Spock.

-In which London park was the Queen Elizabeth Gate opened

in 1993 to commemorate the 90th birthday of the Queen Mother?

-Hyde?

-What Latin phrase suggests that people are more likely

to say what they really feel under the influence of alcohol?

In vino veritas.

Evelyn Waugh's novels Men At Arms, Officers And Gentlemen

and Unconditional Surrender,

collectively known as the Sword of Honour Trilogy,

are set during which war?

-Boer War?

-Second World War.

By what name is the prehistoric member of the cat family,

the smilodon, better known?

Sabre-toothed tiger.

In which English county is Cannock Chase,

which was designated

as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1958?

-Yorkshire?

-Staffordshire.

The Feast of the Annunciation

that takes place on the 25th of March

is also known by what alternative name

that refers to the Virgin Mary?

The...

HE ANSWERS INCORRECTLY No, Lady Day.

What term for substances such as synthetic plastics

consisting of large molecules

made up of many small repeating units

comes from the Greek for "many parts"?

Pass.

Which Colorado-based American football team

won their third Super Bowl in February 2016

when they defeated the Carolina Panthers 24-10?

-Redskins.

-The Denver Broncos.

What type of brown bread made from the entire grain

is known as schrotbrot in Germany?

-Spelt?

-Wholemeal bread.

What is the name of the medieval scholar

who sells his soul to the Devil

in return for 24 years of infinite power and wealth

in Christopher Marlowe's play?

-Faust.

-Faustus.

On the sleeve of which 1991 Nirvana album

is four-month-old Spencer Elden swimming after a dollar bill?

It was their first album to chart in the UK.

-Nevermind.

-What name is given to a young bird

that has developed wing feathers large enough for flight?

-Fledgling.

-Which artist made the surrealist film

Un Chien Andalou in 1928 and L'Age D'Or in 1930

with the director Luis Bunuel?

Salvador Dali.

Which Andalucian mountain range is the highest point

in the Iberian Peninsula?

Its name means "snowy range".

-Pyrenees.

-Sierra Nevada.

What is the acronym of the government department

whose remit includes environmental protection?

It replaced Maff after the 2001 general election

and the foot and mouth outbreak.

-Defra.

-Which short, bloody battle of April, 1746

effectively saw the end of the Jacobite Rebellion?

-Culloden.

-In America, what name is used for a ticket... BEEP

..given to a spectator at an outdoor event

that's interrupted or postponed because of bad weather?

It enables the holder to attend a future event

without having to pay again.

-A rain check.

-Is correct. You had one pass.

That term for substances, synthetic plastics consisting

of large molecules and all that sort of thing, they are polymers.

-Of course they are.

-Yes, of course they are.

You have scored, Gary, 20 points.

And now Steven again, please.

And you start out with 12 points and 20 is now the score to beat.

Two and a half minutes of general knowledge starting now.

Which of Shakespeare's plays is set mainly

in Elsinore Castle in Denmark?

-Hamlet.

-Which actor played

the Jersey-based detective Jim Bergerac

and Tom Barnaby in Midsomer Murders?

-John Nettles.

-Which village in North Wales was created

by the architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis in 1925

and is reputedly modelled

on the Italian seaside village of Portofino?

-Portmeirion.

-What word of French and Latin origin

is used to mean "pertaining to the west"

in contrast to Oriental, referring to the east?

Occidental.

According to the Gospels, which disciple denied Jesus

three times before the rooster crowed,

just as Jesus had predicted?

-Peter.

-What is the title

of Robert Altman's 1975 Oscar-winning film

about the world of country music?

It takes its title from the Tennessee city in which it is set.

Nashville.

What general name that comes from the Greek for "mussel"

is given to various marine molluscs whose shells

have traditionally been used as trumpets?

Conches.

The nun St Frideswide is the patron saint

of which English university city?

-Oxford.

-What is the name of the coach that was built in 1881

and is traditionally used by royal brides

to travel to their wedding?

-Gilt stagecoach?

-The Glass Coach.

An episode of which animated sitcom

that was first screened in 2000 is entitled Bart To The Future

and is a vision of America in the year 2030

when it is bankrupted by the presidency of Donald Trump?

The Simpsons.

In physics and mathematics, which lower case Greek letter

is normally used to represent the wavelength of radiation?

-Lambda.

-On what subject have the Chinese author Sun Tzu

and the Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz

written classic books?

-War.

-Which composer's works of the baroque era

include Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

and Sheep May Safely Graze?

-JS Bach.

-Kaapstad is the Afrikaans name

for which South African city?

Er, Cape Town.

Which trumpeter had his first UK top ten hit single

accompanied by the Tijuana Brass

with Spanish Flea in 1965?

-Herb Alpert.

-What is the name of the aristocratic villainess

in Dodie Smith's 1956 novel 101 Dalmatians?

Cruella de Vil.

Spiro T Agnew and Gerald Ford both served as vice-president

to which American president?

Nixon.

On which racecourse has the St Leger

been run annually since 1776,

apart from wartime and when it couldn't be used

because of subsidence or redevelopment?

-Doncaster.

-Shelagh Delaney's first play,

which is set in her native Salford

and was first performed when she was 19,

is entitled A Taste of..?

-Honey.

-Which 2015 television drama...

BEEP ..includes Miss Havisham,

Inspector Bucket and Mrs Gamp among its mash-up of characters?

-Dickensian.

-Is correct.

Shame about that one you got wrong

cos you have, well, 31 points.

GASPS AND APPLAUSE

Golly! And, finally, Samantha again, please.

And, Samantha, you have scored 12 points.

You have an awfully big score to beat.

However, you've got two and a half minutes

of general knowledge questions in which to do it.

Let's see if you can. Here we go.

Pheidippides' legendary run to Athens in 490BC

is commemorated in the name

of which long-distance foot race?

Marathon.

Which south-east Asian country

was divided between north and south near the 17th parallel

until reunification in 1976?

-Vietnam.

-What part of the body

is affected by Meniere's disease?

Its symptoms include severe attacks of vertigo.

-Brain?

-The inner ear.

Jesus performed his first miracle

at a wedding at Cana, according to St John's Gospel.

What was the miracle?

Turning water into wine.

Which actress plays the headstrong Bathsheba Everdene

in the 2015 film version

of Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd?

Pass.

In Anglo-Saxon legend, what was the occupation of Wayland,

who is traditionally associated

with a burial chamber near the Uffington White Horse?

-Carpenter.

-A blacksmith.

Which 11th-century embroidered artefact

begins with Edward the Confessor

meeting the future King Harold II

and ends with the scene after the Battle of Hastings?

-The Bayeux Tapestry.

-Who said in a speech

to the Labour Party conference in 1957,

when he was opposing unilateral nuclear disarmament,

"If you carry this resolution, you will send

"Britain's Foreign Secretary naked into the conference chamber"?

-Winston Churchill?

-Nye Bevan.

In Arthurian legend, what object was designed

so that all his knights could sit as equals?

Round Table.

Which writer has been described as the worst poet of all time?

He lived from about 1825 to 1902

and took the unusual middle name Topaz.

-Ford.

-William McGonagall.

What was the nationality of the motor racing driver

Juan Manuel Fangio, who was five-times world champion

in the '50s and the oldest ever champion?

-Brazilian?

-Argentinean.

A Greek dish, whose name comes from the Turkish

for "something stuffed", consists of leaves, fruit or vegetables

filled with a savoury stuffing, braised and served cold -

which dish?

-Dolmades.

-What name did Mark Riley use

while he was working alongside disc jockey Mark Radcliffe

during their time at Radio 1 from 1993 to 2004?

-Robert.

-Lard. Which American state's flag

features the Union Jack?

It recalls the time when Captain George Vancouver

presented one to its king Kamehameha in 1793?

-Hawaii.

-Southend-on-Sea claims to have the world's

longest example of a once-common feature

of Britain's seaside towns. What is it?

A pleasure pier.

In 2000, Angela Merkel became the first woman

and the first non-Catholic

to head the political party the CDU.

What does CDU stand for?

Christian Democratic Union.

Guns N' Roses had a UK top five hit in 1991

with a cover version of the theme

from which Bond film? BEEP

-Live And Let Die.

-Live And Let Die is correct.

You had one pass.

That actress who played Bathsheba Everdene

in Far From the Madding Crowd was Carey Mulligan.

You scored 22 points.

Not easy to challenge a whopping score like that.

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

In fourth place, with 19 points, Louise Earnshaw-Brown.

Third place, 20 points - Gary Gilday.

Second place, with a very respectable 22 points,

Samantha Hills.

First place, with 31 points, Steven Marc Rhodes.

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So, Steven, that is one of the highest scores we've ever had.

I think it's been matched in this particular series,

-but what's the secret?

-Oh, luck. I mean...

-Oh, come on, it can't be.

No, because you only need one or two questions to go wrong

and then you lose your confidence and, if that happens,

then things can very easily go the other way.

Ah, right, so it's not that you've been sitting there

doing no work at all for the last couple of months and just...

The great thing about general knowledge

is you can't revise for it.

A hiding to nothing if you try to revise for it.

That is the point, exactly.

Well done, it was a brilliant performance

and it means that, of course, Steven is tonight's winner.

He goes through to the semifinals.

Congratulations to him and, if you would like to be a contender

in the next series, do go to our website and you can follow us...

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Thanks for watching, goodbye.