0:00:26 > 0:00:29The first contender to brave the black chair tonight is Michael Ward,
0:00:29 > 0:00:31a civil servant from Manchester.
0:00:31 > 0:00:35His specialist subject, the band Radiohead.
0:00:35 > 0:00:37Next, Pamela Culley, a charity worker from Preston.
0:00:37 > 0:00:41She's answering questions on the writer Alison Uttley.
0:00:41 > 0:00:44Andrew Craig is a copy editor from Wiltshire.
0:00:44 > 0:00:46His subject, Field Marshal Montgomery.
0:00:47 > 0:00:50Next, Ross May, a supervisor from Weston-super-Mare,
0:00:50 > 0:00:53on the films of Powell and Pressburger.
0:00:54 > 0:00:57And Steven Marc Rhodes, a barrister from London.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00His subject, the composer Herbert Howells.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04APPLAUSE
0:01:13 > 0:01:16Hello and welcome to the Mastermind semifinal,
0:01:16 > 0:01:18one of the six before the Grand Final.
0:01:18 > 0:01:20And whoever wins tonight will be there,
0:01:20 > 0:01:23with a very strong chance of becoming the nation's Mastermind.
0:01:23 > 0:01:28The rules change slightly because we have five instead of four contenders.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30Just 90 seconds for their specialist subject,
0:01:30 > 0:01:33and two minutes of general knowledge questions.
0:01:33 > 0:01:37So, let's get on with it and ask our first contender to join us, please.
0:01:42 > 0:01:44And your name is?
0:01:44 > 0:01:46Your occupation?
0:01:46 > 0:01:49And your chosen subject?
0:01:49 > 0:01:51Radiohead. In 90 seconds, here we go.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53What is the name of the band's eighth studio album, released
0:01:53 > 0:01:57in 2011? It has eight tracks, it's only 37 minutes long.
0:01:57 > 0:01:58The King Of Limbs.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00What's the title of the free newspaper Radiohead produced
0:02:00 > 0:02:02to promote The King Of Limbs?
0:02:02 > 0:02:04It was given away at more than 60 locations around the world.
0:02:04 > 0:02:06Universal Sigh.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08In which country was the band's debut single Creep a massive hit
0:02:08 > 0:02:13after it was played there repeatedly by the respected broadcaster Yoav Kutner?
0:02:13 > 0:02:17- Israel.- Paranoid Android is the band's most successful UK single.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19What three words complete the lines,
0:02:19 > 0:02:23"Ambition makes you look pretty ugly. Kicking, screaming..."?
0:02:23 > 0:02:24Gucci little piggy.
0:02:24 > 0:02:27What was the original title of the song Planet Telex?
0:02:27 > 0:02:31The band were not allowed to use it because it contained a brand name.
0:02:31 > 0:02:33Oh... Planet Xerox.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35What novel approach did the band take to the pricing of their
0:02:35 > 0:02:38seventh album In Rainbows when it was first released as
0:02:38 > 0:02:40a digital download in 2007?
0:02:40 > 0:02:42Pay what you want.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45The band were originally called On A Friday and changed their name
0:02:45 > 0:02:49to Radiohead after a track on a 1986 Talking Heads album. Which album?
0:02:51 > 0:02:53- 77.- No, True Stories.
0:02:53 > 0:02:58The song Exit Music (For A Film) was commissioned for a 1996 film
0:02:58 > 0:03:00version of Romeo And Juliet. Who was the director?
0:03:00 > 0:03:01Baz Luhrmann.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04What's the name of the EP that was Radiohead's first release on
0:03:04 > 0:03:06the Parlophone EMI label?
0:03:06 > 0:03:07Drill.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10Life In A Glasshouse from the album Amnesiac features
0:03:10 > 0:03:12a jazz band led by which British musician?
0:03:12 > 0:03:14Humphrey Lyttelton.
0:03:14 > 0:03:16What is the name of the first single released from the album
0:03:16 > 0:03:17A Moon Shaped Pool?
0:03:17 > 0:03:20It was accompanied by a controversial stop motion
0:03:20 > 0:03:22animated music video.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25- Burn The Witch.- And we are out of time. BEEP
0:03:25 > 0:03:27No passes, Michael. You have ten points.
0:03:27 > 0:03:30APPLAUSE
0:03:35 > 0:03:38And our next contender, please.
0:03:43 > 0:03:45And your name is?
0:03:45 > 0:03:46Your occupation?
0:03:48 > 0:03:50And your chosen subject?
0:03:50 > 0:03:53Alison Uttley, the writer, in 90 seconds.
0:03:53 > 0:03:55In The Country Child by the writer and children's author
0:03:55 > 0:03:58Alison Uttley, what dialect name is given to the band of mummers who visit
0:03:58 > 0:04:02the Garland family on Christmas Eve singing and asking each other riddles?
0:04:02 > 0:04:03Geezers.
0:04:03 > 0:04:06Which book, published in 1941, is a sequel to The Country Child
0:04:06 > 0:04:08and continues the story of Susan Garland?
0:04:08 > 0:04:10- The Farm On The Hill.- In A Traveller In Time,
0:04:10 > 0:04:13when Penelope tells Francis Babbington that Mary Queen of Scots was
0:04:13 > 0:04:17executed in 1587, he asks if she's a soothsayer who can see the future.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20What year does he say they're in?
0:04:20 > 0:04:23- 1582.- In a diary entry of 1943,
0:04:23 > 0:04:26Uttley writes about a woman she saw ogling a fishmonger.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28She describes her false teeth, her red lips,
0:04:28 > 0:04:32her head on one side as she gazed up close to him. Who was the woman?
0:04:32 > 0:04:33Enid Blyton.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35What breed of dog was Macduff the title character of
0:04:35 > 0:04:37a 1950 book by Uttley?
0:04:37 > 0:04:39- Scottie. - Yeah, Scottish terrier.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41What was Uttley's last series of children's books,
0:04:41 > 0:04:44the first of which appeared in 1954?
0:04:44 > 0:04:46- The Little Brown Mouse. - The Little Red Fox books.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48Who drew the first published illustrations for
0:04:48 > 0:04:51the Little Grey Rabbit books? Uttley had an uneasy relationship with her?
0:04:51 > 0:04:53Margaret Tempest.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55The television programme Jackanory featured readings of many of
0:04:55 > 0:04:57Uttley's stories during the '60s.
0:04:57 > 0:05:01Whose telling of the Sam Pig stories does she particularly praise in her diary?
0:05:01 > 0:05:05- Dandy Nicholls.- In 1903, Uttley won a scholarship to Owens College,
0:05:05 > 0:05:08which later became part of Manchester University. In what subject did she graduate?
0:05:08 > 0:05:10Physics honours.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13In the Country Hoard, whose arrival at haymaking time is heralded
0:05:13 > 0:05:16by the trumpets of Fox Club and the horns of honeysuckle?
0:05:16 > 0:05:19- The Irishmen.- Uttley's husband, James, committed suicide in 1930.
0:05:19 > 0:05:23According to her diaries, what was her pet name for him?
0:05:23 > 0:05:25BEEP
0:05:26 > 0:05:28- Take a guess, you're out of time.- Bimbo.
0:05:28 > 0:05:32It was "Little Bimbo", yes, we'll accept "Bimbo".
0:05:32 > 0:05:35No passes, Pamela, you have ten points.
0:05:35 > 0:05:37APPLAUSE
0:05:44 > 0:05:46And our next contender, please.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55And your name is?
0:05:55 > 0:05:57Your occupation?
0:05:57 > 0:05:59And your chosen subject?
0:05:59 > 0:06:02Montgomery, in 90 seconds.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05Which regiment did Bernard Montgomery join after leaving Sandhurst in 1908?
0:06:05 > 0:06:07Royal Warwickshire.
0:06:07 > 0:06:09In which French village was Montgomery so seriously wounded in
0:06:09 > 0:06:12October 1914 that a grave was dug for him?
0:06:12 > 0:06:13Meteren.
0:06:13 > 0:06:15Who was made commander of the Eighth Army in north Africa in
0:06:15 > 0:06:18August 1942 but was killed almost immediately,
0:06:18 > 0:06:20which led to Montgomery's appointment as his replacement?
0:06:20 > 0:06:22"Strafer" Gott.
0:06:22 > 0:06:25On which destroyer was Montgomery evacuated from Dunkirk
0:06:25 > 0:06:27on 1 June 1940?
0:06:29 > 0:06:32- Antelope.- Codrington. As commander of the South-Eastern Army,
0:06:32 > 0:06:35Montgomery shared responsibility for the plans for the ultimately
0:06:35 > 0:06:39disastrous raid on 19 August 1942 against which French port?
0:06:39 > 0:06:43- Dieppe.- What was the codename of the operation at El Alamein that involved the
0:06:43 > 0:06:462nd New Zealand Division early on 2 November 1942?
0:06:46 > 0:06:50The operation resulted in a significant breakthrough of Rommel's defensive line.
0:06:50 > 0:06:51Supercharge.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54After the failure of Operation Market Garden, Montgomery
0:06:54 > 0:06:57made it his priority to clear the approaches to which Belgian port?
0:06:57 > 0:07:00- Antwerp.- What's the name of the Tunisian city that was captured by
0:07:00 > 0:07:04Montgomery's troops on 10 April 1943?
0:07:04 > 0:07:05- Enfidaville.- No, Sfax.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08Which army officer became Montgomery's chief of staff in
0:07:08 > 0:07:11North Africa in 1942, continued in that post until the end of the war?
0:07:11 > 0:07:13De Guingand.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15Which American field army, led by General William Simpson,
0:07:15 > 0:07:19operated under Montgomery's 21st Army Group in the Rhine area
0:07:19 > 0:07:22during operations Veritable and Grenade in 1945?
0:07:22 > 0:07:24- Ninth Army.- Who was the admiral and commander-in-chief
0:07:24 > 0:07:27of the German Navy who signed the Instrument of Surrender to
0:07:27 > 0:07:29Montgomery on 4 May 1945.
0:07:29 > 0:07:32- Von Friedeburg.- In which city, now in Pakistan,
0:07:32 > 0:07:35was Montgomery teaching at an Army staff college in... BEEP
0:07:35 > 0:07:39..May 1935, when it was hit by an earthquake that killed many thousands of people?
0:07:39 > 0:07:40Quetta.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42That is correct. No passes. Andrew,
0:07:42 > 0:07:45you have also scored ten points.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47APPLAUSE
0:07:53 > 0:07:55And our next contender, please.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03And your name is?
0:08:03 > 0:08:05Your occupation?
0:08:05 > 0:08:07And your chosen subject?
0:08:07 > 0:08:10Powell and Pressburger, in 90 seconds.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13Which film, released in 1939 and set during the First World War,
0:08:13 > 0:08:15was the first film directed by Michael Powell with
0:08:15 > 0:08:17a script by Emeric Pressburger?
0:08:17 > 0:08:20- The Spy In Black.- In 49th Parallel, which German religious
0:08:20 > 0:08:22community in Canada unwittingly supplies food
0:08:22 > 0:08:25and shelter to the Nazis' submariners?
0:08:25 > 0:08:26Hutterites.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29What specifically is the Black Narcissus in the film of that name
0:08:29 > 0:08:33which Dilip Rai uses and claims came from the Army and Navy stores in London?
0:08:33 > 0:08:34Perfume.
0:08:34 > 0:08:36The film A Matter Of Life And Death was released in America under
0:08:36 > 0:08:37what alternative name?
0:08:37 > 0:08:39Stairway To Heaven.
0:08:39 > 0:08:42In The Battle Of The River Plate, Bernard Lee plays the real-life
0:08:42 > 0:08:43Captain Patrick Dove.
0:08:43 > 0:08:46He was the captain of which British merchant ship sunk by the "Graf Spee"?
0:08:46 > 0:08:48Africa Shell.
0:08:48 > 0:08:51Which dancer and actor appeared as De Jong in One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing,
0:08:51 > 0:08:54and later choreographed the ballet for The Red Shoes?
0:08:54 > 0:08:56Robert Helpmann.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59In The Red Shoes, Boris Lermontov first sees Victoria Page dancing
0:08:59 > 0:09:03solo for the Ballet Rambert during a performance of which ballet?
0:09:03 > 0:09:04Swan Lake.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07Which future Academy Award-winning director was the film editor
0:09:07 > 0:09:10on 49th Parallel and One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing?
0:09:10 > 0:09:11David Lean.
0:09:11 > 0:09:15What was the prewar occupation of Sergeant Peter Gibbs in A Canterbury Tale?
0:09:15 > 0:09:18- Organist. - Yes, cinema organist.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21Who played the three roles of Edith, Barbara and Angela in
0:09:21 > 0:09:22The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp,
0:09:22 > 0:09:25and later starred as Sister Clodagh in Black Narcissus?
0:09:25 > 0:09:26Deborah Kerr.
0:09:26 > 0:09:30Which 1957 war film stars Dirk Bogarde as Major Leigh Fermor?
0:09:30 > 0:09:32Ill Met By Moonlight.
0:09:32 > 0:09:35Powell and Pressburger's final film collaboration was
0:09:35 > 0:09:38the 1972 release, The Boy Who Turned Yellow.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40Which cinema organisation was it made for?
0:09:40 > 0:09:41Children's Film Foundation.
0:09:41 > 0:09:45Powell and Pressburger's 1955 film Oh... Rosalinda!!... BEEP
0:09:45 > 0:09:48..is an updated version of which Johann Strauss operetta?
0:09:48 > 0:09:49Die Fledermaus.
0:09:49 > 0:09:52Is correct. I'm afraid you didn't get ten points.
0:09:52 > 0:09:56Instead, you got them all right, no passes, and you got 13 points.
0:09:56 > 0:10:00APPLAUSE
0:10:06 > 0:10:09And our final contender, please.
0:10:14 > 0:10:16And your name is?
0:10:17 > 0:10:19Occupation?
0:10:19 > 0:10:20And your chosen subject?
0:10:21 > 0:10:24Herbert Howells in 90 seconds.
0:10:24 > 0:10:26In 1917, in which cathedral did Herbert Howells obtain
0:10:26 > 0:10:28the post of assistant organist,
0:10:28 > 0:10:29his first professional appointment?
0:10:29 > 0:10:31- Salisbury.- What is the name of the tune
0:10:31 > 0:10:33that Howells wrote for Robert Bridges' hymn
0:10:33 > 0:10:35All My Hope On God Is Founded?
0:10:35 > 0:10:37- Michael.- What's the title of the carol anthem
0:10:37 > 0:10:40that Howells said he wrote after he'd watched some trucks
0:10:40 > 0:10:42being shunted on the Midland Railway's
0:10:42 > 0:10:43Bristol to Gloucester line?
0:10:43 > 0:10:45- A Spotless Rose. - Which Tudor author
0:10:45 > 0:10:48wrote the poem Merry Margaret that was set by Howells
0:10:48 > 0:10:49in the song cycle In Green Ways?
0:10:49 > 0:10:52- Skelton.- What was the name of the clergyman friend of Howells
0:10:52 > 0:10:55who married him and Dorothy Dawe
0:10:55 > 0:10:56at Twigworth in August 1920?
0:10:56 > 0:10:59- Canon Cheeseman. - What is the opening line
0:10:59 > 0:11:01of the motet that Howells wrote
0:11:01 > 0:11:03to commemorate the death of John F Kennedy?
0:11:03 > 0:11:04Take Him, Earth, For Cherishing.
0:11:04 > 0:11:07Which honour did Howells receive in 1953
0:11:07 > 0:11:09at the same time that his friend Walter de la Mare
0:11:09 > 0:11:10was awarded the Order of Merit?
0:11:10 > 0:11:14- CBE.- What biblical text did Howells juxtapose
0:11:14 > 0:11:16with the Sanctus in Hymnus Paradisi?
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Psalm 121.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20Ten composers were asked to write a choral piece
0:11:20 > 0:11:22for a collection entitled A Garland For The Queen
0:11:22 > 0:11:25to celebrate the coronation of Elizabeth II.
0:11:25 > 0:11:27What was the title of Howells' contribution?
0:11:27 > 0:11:29- Inheritance. - For which pianist
0:11:29 > 0:11:32did Howells compose a sonatina in 1971?
0:11:32 > 0:11:35- MacNamara. - What was the occupation
0:11:35 > 0:11:37of the composer's daughter Ursula
0:11:37 > 0:11:40who founded the Herbert Howells Society in 1987?
0:11:40 > 0:11:43- Actress.- Whom did Howells succeed as director of music
0:11:43 > 0:11:45at St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith
0:11:45 > 0:11:48after Vaughan Williams' brief period as caretaker?
0:11:48 > 0:11:50- Holst.- Which of Howells' teachers
0:11:50 > 0:11:52at the Royal College of Music
0:11:52 > 0:11:54insisted that he submit his piano quartet...
0:11:54 > 0:11:56BEEP ..to the Carnegie Trust for an award?
0:11:56 > 0:11:59Stanford.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02No passes - 13 points.
0:12:12 > 0:12:16Well, what a round that was! Let's have a look at all the scores.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19In joint third place, ten points apiece,
0:12:19 > 0:12:23Michael Ward, Pamela Culley and Andrew Craig.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25Joint first place, 13 points apiece,
0:12:25 > 0:12:29Ross May and Steven Marc Rhodes.
0:12:36 > 0:12:39The General Knowledge round now and if there's a tie
0:12:39 > 0:12:42at the end of it, which there very well might be,
0:12:42 > 0:12:45then the number of passes is taken into account.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47The person with the fewer passes is the winner
0:12:47 > 0:12:51and if they are tied on passes as well, there will be a tie-break.
0:12:51 > 0:12:55So, let's get on with it and ask Michael to join us again, please.
0:12:57 > 0:13:02And you had what seemed a moment or two ago
0:13:02 > 0:13:07to be a very good score of ten points, but you've now
0:13:07 > 0:13:13got the General Knowledge round to recover and overtake. Here we go.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin
0:13:16 > 0:13:18are the four houses of which fictional school?
0:13:18 > 0:13:20- Hogwarts. - The name of which animal
0:13:20 > 0:13:22means "little armoured one" in Spanish?
0:13:22 > 0:13:25- Armadillo.- What film role, previously played by Peter Cushing
0:13:25 > 0:13:27and Kenneth Branagh among others,
0:13:27 > 0:13:30does James McAvoy play in a 2015 film?
0:13:30 > 0:13:31- Hamlet?- Frankenstein.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33What's the name of the subterranean cemeteries
0:13:33 > 0:13:35excavated beneath Rome that were composed
0:13:35 > 0:13:38of galleries or passages with side recesses for tombs?
0:13:38 > 0:13:41- Catacombs?- Which song by the Canadian rapper Drake
0:13:41 > 0:13:43featuring Wizkid and Kyla
0:13:43 > 0:13:46first topped the UK singles charts in April 2016?
0:13:46 > 0:13:48- Hotline Bling.- One Dance.
0:13:48 > 0:13:50Which decoration is awarded
0:13:50 > 0:13:51in the name of the American president
0:13:51 > 0:13:53to members of the armed forces wounded or killed
0:13:53 > 0:13:55in the service of their country?
0:13:55 > 0:13:58The... Pass.
0:13:58 > 0:13:59Which French painter and sculptor
0:13:59 > 0:14:03is buried on the island of Hiva Oa in the Marquesas Islands,
0:14:03 > 0:14:06where he lived from 1901 until his death in 1903?
0:14:07 > 0:14:09- Delacroix.- No, Paul Gauguin.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11In most computer operating systems,
0:14:11 > 0:14:13which unit of information storage
0:14:13 > 0:14:14consists of eight bits?
0:14:14 > 0:14:18- Byte.- By what name was Thailand known until 1939?
0:14:18 > 0:14:21- Siam.- An annual regatta or boat race
0:14:21 > 0:14:23has been held on the Thames River
0:14:23 > 0:14:26at New London, Connecticut since 1878 between Harvard
0:14:26 > 0:14:28and which other Ivy League university?
0:14:28 > 0:14:31- Yale.- What Italian term is used to describe pasta
0:14:31 > 0:14:34that's cooked so that it remains firm to the bite?
0:14:34 > 0:14:37- Al dente.- Which poem by Kipling opens with the lines
0:14:37 > 0:14:39"By the old Moulmein Pagoda, Lookin' eastward to the sea,
0:14:39 > 0:14:41"There's a Burma girl a-settin',
0:14:41 > 0:14:43"And I know she thinks of me"?
0:14:43 > 0:14:44- If.- Mandalay.
0:14:44 > 0:14:46Which ship that carried Captain Scott
0:14:46 > 0:14:48on his first Antarctic expedition
0:14:48 > 0:14:50is moored in Dundee, where it's a big tourist attraction?
0:14:50 > 0:14:52Pass.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54What name is given to the star-shaped symbol
0:14:54 > 0:14:57used in printing or writing to indicate a cross reference
0:14:57 > 0:14:59to a footnote or an omission?
0:14:59 > 0:15:02- Asterisk.- In which 2016 television series
0:15:02 > 0:15:04does the ambitious American attorney Chuck Rhodes
0:15:04 > 0:15:06try to bring down the hedge fund king
0:15:06 > 0:15:09Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, played by Damian Lewis?
0:15:09 > 0:15:11- Homeland?- Billions.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13Which American pop rock band...
0:15:13 > 0:15:16BEEP ..had one of the best-selling singles of 2015 with Sugar?
0:15:16 > 0:15:18It reached number seven in the UK charts.
0:15:20 > 0:15:22- Pass.- Well, I can tell you cos we're out of time.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24It was Maroon 5.
0:15:24 > 0:15:28And your other passes - that ship that carried Scott
0:15:28 > 0:15:31on his first Antarctic expedition - the Discovery.
0:15:31 > 0:15:34And the decoration that you get if you're wounded in battle -
0:15:34 > 0:15:36Purple Heart.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38You have a total now, Michael, of 18 points.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49And now Pamela again, please.
0:15:51 > 0:15:55And you're another one of the ten pointers, as it were.
0:15:55 > 0:15:57Let's see how you do with your general knowledge. Here we go.
0:15:57 > 0:16:00What name is given to the annual series of concerts,
0:16:00 > 0:16:02now held at the Royal Albert Hall,
0:16:02 > 0:16:04that have been organised by the BBC since 1927?
0:16:04 > 0:16:06- Proms.- In Arthurian legend,
0:16:06 > 0:16:08what was the name of the artefact that was sought
0:16:08 > 0:16:10by the Knights of the Round Table
0:16:10 > 0:16:12and kept by the wounded Fisher King?
0:16:12 > 0:16:13The Holy Grail.
0:16:13 > 0:16:16For which American state was Barack Obama a senator
0:16:16 > 0:16:17before his election as president
0:16:17 > 0:16:19in November 2008?
0:16:19 > 0:16:22- Pass.- Which Saturday afternoon television sports programme
0:16:22 > 0:16:24that ran from 1958 to 2007
0:16:24 > 0:16:26was presented by Peter Dimmock, David Coleman,
0:16:26 > 0:16:29Frank Bough, Desmond Lynam and Steve Ryder?
0:16:29 > 0:16:30Grandstand.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32What Greek hors d'oeuvre consists of smoked fish roe
0:16:32 > 0:16:35made into a paste with olive oil, lemon and breadcrumbs?
0:16:35 > 0:16:39- Taramasalata.- Whose 2006 top ten album The Captain & The Kid
0:16:39 > 0:16:41is a sequel to his 1975 album
0:16:41 > 0:16:44Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy?
0:16:44 > 0:16:45Pass.
0:16:45 > 0:16:47Who won Best Actor Oscars
0:16:47 > 0:16:50for both Mystic River in 2004 and Milk in 2009?
0:16:52 > 0:16:53Pass.
0:16:53 > 0:16:56The banker and zoologist Lord Rothschild
0:16:56 > 0:16:57first described a large African animal
0:16:57 > 0:16:59on a visit to East Africa in the early 1900s
0:16:59 > 0:17:01and gave his name to a subspecies of it.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Which animal?
0:17:03 > 0:17:04- Rhinoceros?- A giraffe.
0:17:04 > 0:17:05Which controversial administrator
0:17:05 > 0:17:08succeeded Joao Havelange as the eighth president
0:17:08 > 0:17:11of football's governing body Fifa in 1998?
0:17:11 > 0:17:13- Pass.- What term for a ploughman
0:17:13 > 0:17:15or the heavy boot he wears
0:17:15 > 0:17:17has become a byword for a clumsy, awkward person?
0:17:17 > 0:17:19- Oaf.- No, clodhopper.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22Which Venetian painter, who was born in about 1488,
0:17:22 > 0:17:25gives his name to a shade of bright auburn hair?
0:17:26 > 0:17:28- Tintoretto?- Titian.
0:17:28 > 0:17:30Which Chicago gangster retired to his Florida mansion
0:17:30 > 0:17:32after he was released from prison in 1939
0:17:32 > 0:17:34and died there in January '47?
0:17:34 > 0:17:36Al Capone.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38What colour dot on a squash ball
0:17:38 > 0:17:40indicates the fastest ball with the highest bounce?
0:17:41 > 0:17:44- Blue.- The 2014 novel The Kill List
0:17:44 > 0:17:46is about a former American Marine
0:17:46 > 0:17:49who sets out to track down a radical Islamic cleric
0:17:49 > 0:17:51whose sermons inspire his followers
0:17:51 > 0:17:52to kill Western targets. Who's the author?
0:17:52 > 0:17:55- Pass.- The ancient Celtic festival of Beltane
0:17:55 > 0:17:58that's celebrated at the beginning of summer
0:17:58 > 0:18:00took place in Ireland and Scotland... BEEP
0:18:00 > 0:18:01..on the first day of which month?
0:18:04 > 0:18:07- November.- It might have been, mightn't it? It's May.
0:18:07 > 0:18:10You had five passes in all.
0:18:10 > 0:18:12Freddie Forsyth wrote The Kill List.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15Sepp Blatter succeeded Joao Havelange -
0:18:15 > 0:18:16we know where that led.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19Sean Penn won Best Actor for Mystic River and Milk.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22Elton John was the Captain Fantastic man
0:18:22 > 0:18:26and Illinois was where Barack Obama was a senator.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29You have scored, Pamela, a total of 16 points.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40And now Andrew again, please.
0:18:41 > 0:18:44And you also start with ten points, Andrew.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46Let's see how you do with your general knowledge.
0:18:46 > 0:18:49Two minutes, starting now.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51In tennis, what name is given to a winning serve
0:18:51 > 0:18:52that an opponent fails to touch?
0:18:52 > 0:18:55- Ace.- Which appeal, originally broadcast on radio
0:18:55 > 0:18:57on Christmas Day 1927,
0:18:57 > 0:18:59has taken over BBC One's evening schedule on the second
0:18:59 > 0:19:02or third Friday in November since 1980?
0:19:02 > 0:19:03- Red Nose Day. - Children In Need.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05In medicine, what name is given to a solution
0:19:05 > 0:19:08of a medicinal substance in an alcoholic solvent?
0:19:08 > 0:19:09Tincture.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12Which river rises about 18 miles north-west of Dijon
0:19:12 > 0:19:14and flows in a north-westerly direction
0:19:14 > 0:19:15for about 480 miles
0:19:15 > 0:19:18before emptying into the English Channel at Le Havre?
0:19:18 > 0:19:21- The Seine.- Which New Jersey-born hip-hop artist
0:19:21 > 0:19:23provides the voice of Ellie the mammoth
0:19:23 > 0:19:27in the 2006 film Ice Age 2: The Meltdown?
0:19:27 > 0:19:29- Snoop Dogg.- No, Queen Latifah.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32In 2016, Riyad Mahrez became the first African player
0:19:32 > 0:19:35to be named the Professional Footballers' Association
0:19:35 > 0:19:37Player of the Year. What's his nationality?
0:19:37 > 0:19:39- French.- Algerian.
0:19:39 > 0:19:40Which bird, that takes its name
0:19:40 > 0:19:41from its orange-red flanks,
0:19:41 > 0:19:44is the smallest true thrush found in Britain,
0:19:44 > 0:19:46where it is a winter visitor?
0:19:46 > 0:19:47- Redstart.- Redwing.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50What abbreviation of "I will comply"
0:19:50 > 0:19:51was commonly used in signalling
0:19:51 > 0:19:53and radio communications?
0:19:53 > 0:19:56- Wilco.- Who resigned as Deputy Prime Minister in 2007
0:19:56 > 0:19:58on the same day that Tony Blair
0:19:58 > 0:20:00announced his resignation as Prime Minister?
0:20:00 > 0:20:02- John Prescott. - In which Dutch city
0:20:02 > 0:20:05was the painter Jan Vermeer born in 1632?
0:20:05 > 0:20:07He went on to spend his entire artistic career there.
0:20:07 > 0:20:09- Delft. - Which Irish poet's works
0:20:09 > 0:20:11include The Lake Isle of Innisfree
0:20:11 > 0:20:13and Easter, 1916?
0:20:13 > 0:20:15- Yeats. - Which two-piece rock group,
0:20:15 > 0:20:17comprising the bassist and singer Mike Kerr
0:20:17 > 0:20:20and the drummer Ben Thatcher, had a number one hit
0:20:20 > 0:20:22with their self-titled debut album in 2014
0:20:22 > 0:20:24and were named Best British Group
0:20:24 > 0:20:25at the 2015 Brit Awards?
0:20:25 > 0:20:27- The Kills.- Royal Blood.
0:20:27 > 0:20:28In Norse mythology, what's the name
0:20:28 > 0:20:29of the hall of slain heroes,
0:20:29 > 0:20:32often said to be ruled over by Odin, the king of the gods?
0:20:32 > 0:20:34- Valhalla.- What name is often given to the chorus
0:20:34 > 0:20:36that ends the first part of Act II
0:20:36 > 0:20:37of Puccini's Madam Butterfly
0:20:37 > 0:20:39as Butterfly, Suzuki and the baby
0:20:39 > 0:20:41await Pinkerton's arrival?
0:20:41 > 0:20:43The... Pass.
0:20:43 > 0:20:44Ming the Merciless was the enemy
0:20:44 > 0:20:46of which boys' comic hero?
0:20:46 > 0:20:48- Flash Gordon.- By what name is the 18th century French writer
0:20:48 > 0:20:51and satirist Francois-Marie Arouet better known?
0:20:51 > 0:20:54- BEEP - Voltaire.- You have one pass.
0:20:54 > 0:20:57That chorus that ends the first part of Act II of Madam Butterfly -
0:20:57 > 0:20:59the Humming Chorus.
0:20:59 > 0:21:03You have, however, Andrew, now a total of 20 points.
0:21:11 > 0:21:14And now, Ross again, please.
0:21:16 > 0:21:19And you start with 13 points, of course,
0:21:19 > 0:21:23and the score to beat has risen to 20, as you have just heard.
0:21:23 > 0:21:27So, let's see if you can pass that in two minutes, starting now.
0:21:27 > 0:21:30In which ancient people's calendar were certain days of the month
0:21:30 > 0:21:32called ides, nones and calends?
0:21:32 > 0:21:35- Roman.- The condor and the lammergeier
0:21:35 > 0:21:37are species of which carrion-eating bird?
0:21:38 > 0:21:39- Condor.- Vulture.
0:21:39 > 0:21:42What name is given to the charge sometimes made
0:21:42 > 0:21:43for allowing customers
0:21:43 > 0:21:45to bring their own wine into a restaurant?
0:21:45 > 0:21:46- Bring a bottle?- Corkage.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49Lady Ottoline Morrell's affair with Lionel Gomme,
0:21:49 > 0:21:52a young stonemason who worked at her Oxfordshire home,
0:21:52 > 0:21:54is thought by some to be the inspiration
0:21:54 > 0:21:56for which controversial novel, first published in 1928?
0:21:56 > 0:21:58Lady Chatterley's Lover.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01Which British film director won his second Palme D'Or award
0:22:01 > 0:22:03when his film I, Daniel Blake
0:22:03 > 0:22:05was named as the best feature film
0:22:05 > 0:22:07at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival?
0:22:07 > 0:22:10He previously won in 2006 for The Wind That Shakes The Barley.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13- Ken Loach.- What term for a sworn statement made in writing
0:22:13 > 0:22:15as evidence in court comes from the medieval Latin
0:22:15 > 0:22:17for "he has made an oath"?
0:22:17 > 0:22:18Affidavit.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20In Alice's Adventures In Wonderland,
0:22:20 > 0:22:23what animals are used as the balls in the game of croquet?
0:22:23 > 0:22:25Flamingos are used as mallets.
0:22:25 > 0:22:26- Rabbits.- Hedgehogs.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28Which former member of the pop group Mis-Teeq
0:22:28 > 0:22:30won Strictly Come Dancing in 2007
0:22:30 > 0:22:33and became a judge on Britain's Got Talent in 2012?
0:22:33 > 0:22:34Pass.
0:22:34 > 0:22:36Which American founder member of the Pop Art movement,
0:22:36 > 0:22:38who died in 1997,
0:22:38 > 0:22:40is famous for presenting comic strip figures
0:22:40 > 0:22:42in large scale in a fine art format?
0:22:43 > 0:22:44Roy Lichtenstein.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47In which EU country did the nationalist and conservative
0:22:47 > 0:22:50Law and Justice Party come to power in October 2015
0:22:50 > 0:22:52after winning a majority of seats
0:22:52 > 0:22:53in a parliamentary election?
0:22:53 > 0:22:55- Holland?- No, Poland.
0:22:55 > 0:22:56What is the only gaseous element
0:22:56 > 0:22:58whose name ends in "ium",
0:22:58 > 0:23:00a suffix normally applied to metallic elements?
0:23:00 > 0:23:03- Helium.- Which of Robin Hood's legendary companions
0:23:03 > 0:23:05was a miller's son?
0:23:05 > 0:23:07- Mutch.- Johnny Borrell is the singer
0:23:07 > 0:23:08with a chart-topping rock band
0:23:08 > 0:23:11that formed in London in 2002. Which band?
0:23:11 > 0:23:14- Pass.- What do the letters IQ stand for
0:23:14 > 0:23:16when used as a measure of human brainpower?
0:23:16 > 0:23:18Intelligence quotient.
0:23:18 > 0:23:21In which country was milk chocolate first manufactured
0:23:21 > 0:23:23in 1875 by the firm of Daniel Peter?
0:23:23 > 0:23:25Switzerland.
0:23:25 > 0:23:27On which British island of the South Atlantic
0:23:27 > 0:23:29is Wideawake Airfield that was built and used...
0:23:29 > 0:23:31BEEP ..by the Americans in the Second World War
0:23:31 > 0:23:32and gained strategic importance
0:23:32 > 0:23:34for the RAF during the Falklands conflict?
0:23:34 > 0:23:36Pass.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38Well, I can tell you because you are out of time -
0:23:38 > 0:23:40Ascension Island is the answer.
0:23:40 > 0:23:46And your other two passes - Alesha Dixon won Strictly Come Dancing
0:23:46 > 0:23:48and Johnny Borrell is the singer with Razorlight.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51You now have a total, Ross, of 22 points.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04And finally, Steven again, please.
0:24:04 > 0:24:08And you're also starting with 13,
0:24:08 > 0:24:13but the score to beat has been creeping up and it stands now at 22.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16So, here we go with two minutes of General Knowledge.
0:24:16 > 0:24:18According to the song from the film Mary Poppins,
0:24:18 > 0:24:20how much sugar helps the medicine go down?
0:24:20 > 0:24:22- A spoonful. - What French term is used
0:24:22 > 0:24:24to describe a dish that's been sprinkled with alcohol
0:24:24 > 0:24:26and set alight before serving?
0:24:26 > 0:24:27The flavour is enhanced
0:24:27 > 0:24:29and the alcoholic content is burned off.
0:24:29 > 0:24:30- Flambe.- What's the name
0:24:30 > 0:24:32of the jazz cornet player and trumpeter
0:24:32 > 0:24:35whose first studio bands were the Hot Five and the Hot Seven?
0:24:35 > 0:24:37- Chet Baker?- No, Armstrong.
0:24:37 > 0:24:39What disability is addressed in John Milton's sonnet
0:24:39 > 0:24:42that begins "When I consider how my light is spent"?
0:24:42 > 0:24:44- Blindness.- Rockefeller Center, Chrysler Building
0:24:44 > 0:24:46and the Empire State Building in New York City
0:24:46 > 0:24:48are examples of an art movement
0:24:48 > 0:24:49that originated in the 1920s
0:24:49 > 0:24:52and developed into a major style during the '30s.
0:24:52 > 0:24:53Which art movement?
0:24:53 > 0:24:54- Art Deco. - Who returned to his role
0:24:54 > 0:24:56as the scientist David Levinson
0:24:56 > 0:25:00in the 2016 film sequel Independence Day: Resurgence?
0:25:00 > 0:25:02INDISTINCT RESPONSE Jeff Goldblum.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04A scale for the hardness of rocks
0:25:04 > 0:25:08based on what minerals in a standard set can scratch them?
0:25:08 > 0:25:09It's named after the German scientist
0:25:09 > 0:25:11who devised it in 1812. What's it called?
0:25:11 > 0:25:13- Liebig?- No, Mohs.
0:25:13 > 0:25:15The circuit for which series of motorcycle races
0:25:15 > 0:25:18is 37.73 miles in length?
0:25:18 > 0:25:20Isle of Man TT.
0:25:20 > 0:25:22What's the name of the grassroots political movement
0:25:22 > 0:25:23formed by Jon Lansman and others
0:25:23 > 0:25:25in the wake of Jeremy Corbyn's victory
0:25:25 > 0:25:27in the 2015 Labour leadership contest?
0:25:27 > 0:25:30- Progress?- Momentum.
0:25:30 > 0:25:31What four-letter combining form
0:25:31 > 0:25:35at the beginning of a word comes from the Greek for "many"?
0:25:35 > 0:25:38- Poly.- Mount Elbert in Colorado is the highest peak
0:25:38 > 0:25:40in a range of mountains that extends down
0:25:40 > 0:25:42the western side of the North American continent. Which range?
0:25:42 > 0:25:46- Rockies.- The name of which dark wood used for furniture
0:25:46 > 0:25:48comes from its sweet scent when it's freshly cut?
0:25:48 > 0:25:49- Sandalwood.- Rosewood.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52Which Scottish city provided the setting for the long-running
0:25:52 > 0:25:55television series Taggart, which ended in 2011 after 28 years?
0:25:55 > 0:25:58- Glasgow. - Sir Francis Drake's raid
0:25:58 > 0:26:00on the harbour at Cadiz in 1587,
0:26:00 > 0:26:02during which he destroyed numerous ships
0:26:02 > 0:26:04destined for the Armada, has been popularly described
0:26:04 > 0:26:06as "singeing the King of Spain's..."?
0:26:06 > 0:26:09- Beard.- In which city do the Elvet, Framwellgate
0:26:09 > 0:26:12and Prebends bridges span the River Wear?
0:26:12 > 0:26:15- Durham.- Which singer, who's known as the People's Tenor,
0:26:15 > 0:26:17sang at the Nou Camp Stadium in Barcelona...
0:26:17 > 0:26:21BEEP ..before Manchester United's 1999 Champions League Final
0:26:21 > 0:26:22against Bayern Munich?
0:26:22 > 0:26:26- Alfie Boe? - It was Russell Watson.- Oh!
0:26:26 > 0:26:30And you have a total of 23 points.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41Well, what a close contest that turned out to be!
0:26:41 > 0:26:43Let's have a look at all the scores.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46Fifth place, 16 points - Pamela Culley.
0:26:46 > 0:26:48Fourth place, 18 points - Michael Ward.
0:26:48 > 0:26:51Third place, 20 points - Andrew Craig.
0:26:51 > 0:26:54Second place, 22 points - Ross May.
0:26:54 > 0:26:57First place, 23 points - Steven Marc Rhodes.
0:27:09 > 0:27:13Which means, of course, that Steven is tonight's winner
0:27:13 > 0:27:15and he goes through to the Grand Final.
0:27:15 > 0:27:18Congratulations to him and if you would like to be a contender
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