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Our first contender tonight is Keith Nickless,

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a business development manager from Tring.

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He's answering questions on the television programme, The Sweeney.

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Alison Rawlinson's a registered nurse from Surrey.

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Her subject - the pioneering nurse, Mary Seacole.

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Next, John Cockerill from Middlesbrough.

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His specialist subject - the explorer, James Cook.

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Martin Lloyd's a charity administrator from the Wirral,

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and he's answering questions on Tranmere Rovers.

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And last in the spotlight, Adrian Staton from Liverpool,

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on the travel writings of Bill Bryson.

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APPLAUSE

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

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This is a semifinal,

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which means we have five contenders who can feel pretty pleased

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with themselves for having got through the heats,

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but that was then and this is now. And now, it gets tougher.

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The winner will claim the last place in the grand final, where

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the tantalising prospect of becoming Mastermind champion awaits them.

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They'll get 90 seconds on their specialist subject,

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and two minutes on general knowledge,

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

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-And your name is?

-Keith Nickless.

-Your occupation?

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-Business development manager.

-And your chosen subject?

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The television programme The Sweeney.

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The Sweeney, in 90 seconds. Here we go.

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What is the name of the pilot episode of The Sweeney,

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shown as part of the Armchair Cinema Anthology in 1974,

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in which the title character's first words are,

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"Get your trousers on, you're nicked"?

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-Regan.

-Yes.

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Who plays Detective Chief Inspector Frank Haskins,

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who struggles to control the members of his team in the Flying Squad?

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-Garfield Morgan.

-Yes.

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In Queen's Pawn, the Evening Standard carries

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a front page article with the headline, "Lyon freed".

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Whom does Johnny Lyon compare himself to

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in the accompanying picture?

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-Al Capone.

-No, Muhammad Ali.

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Carter goes undercover in Wormwood Scrubs to gain the confidence

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of a thief and find out where he has hidden a cache of diamonds.

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Who's the thief?

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-Jimmy Fleet.

-Yep.

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Who plays the computer expert Tony Grey in the series three

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episode, Tomorrow Man?

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-John Hurt.

-Yeah.

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What is the title of the final episode,

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in which Regan is accused of corruption years earlier and

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resigns from the force, after he's eventually cleared of the charge?

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-Jack Or Knave.

-Yes.

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Which writer produced every episode of the series for Euston Films,

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even though he had frequent clashes with the series' creator, Ian Kennedy Martin?

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-Ted Childs.

-Yep. In Thou Shalt Not Kill,

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the squad gets a call after a silent alarm is tripped, and arrive

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on the campus of Faraday University to find a bank robbery taking place.

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Which bank's being robbed?

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-National Anglian Bank.

-National Murcian Bank.

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In the episode Poppy, the violent criminal, Vic Lebbett, returns

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from abroad to retrieve money stolen from a previous robbery.

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He uses it to buy diamonds of what value?

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-£100,000.

-Yes.

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In Abduction, what is the name of Jack Regan's eight-year-old

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daughter who's missing when her mother arrives at school?

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-Susie.

-Yep.

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Which comedy duo appear as themselves in the episode Hearts And Minds?

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-Morecambe and Wise.

-Yes. Who composed the series' distinctive title music?

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-Harry South.

-Harry South is correct.

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No passes, Keith. Ten points.

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And our next contender, please.

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-And your name is?

-Alison Rawlinson.

-Your occupation?

-Registered nurse.

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-And your chosen subject?

-Mary Seacole.

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Mary Seacole in 90 seconds, starting now.

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Mary Seacole was a pioneering Jamaican nurse who, in 1853,

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was asked to establish a nursing service at Up-Park Military Camp

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outside Kingstown to deal with an epidemic of what?

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-Yellow Fever.

-Yes.

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A Times journalist and war correspondent publicised

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Seacole's achievements in the Crimea,

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and praised her in the preface to her autobiography. Who was he?

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No. Pass.

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Which British commander associated with the Charge of the Light Brigade

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did Seacole describe as "that great soldier

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"who had such iron courage with a gentle smile"?

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-Cardigan.

-No, Raglan.

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What was Seacole's nationality on her father's side?

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She writes that people had attributed her energy and

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activity to this ancestry.

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-Scottish.

-Yes.

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On which hill overlooking Sebastopol where Seacole provided food,

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drink and first aid did she witness the main assault on the city

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from the 7th to the 9th of September, 1855?

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-Cathcart's Hill.

-Yes.

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Seacole's husband Edwin is thought to have been

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a godson of which celebrated Englishman?

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-Horatio Nelson.

-Yes.

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Seacole said she was shocked at the way the French stripped the dead of

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what was valuable after which battle of August, 1855?

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-Chernaya.

-Yes.

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Seacole claims to have successfully treated a case of

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a disease in Panama with mustard emetics and plasters,

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warm fomentations and camomile. Which disease?

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-Cholera.

-Yes.

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What was the name of Florence Nightingale's friend and assistant to whom

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Seacole had to present a doctor's letter of introduction before

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she was able to meet Florence in Scutari in 1855?

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-Mrs Bracebridge.

-Yes.

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A nephew of Queen Victoria sculpted the bust of Mary Seacole

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wearing four medals in 1871. Who was it?

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D... Dye...

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No, I don't think you're going to get there.

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-He was Count Gleichen.

-Gleichen.

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Or, if you prefer, which you probably don't,

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Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.

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Or something like that. Vaguely like that.

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And you had one pass, Alison.

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That Times journalist who was so kind about Mary Seacole

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was WH Russell. William Howard Russell.

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You have seven points.

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And our next contender, please.

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-And your name is?

-John Cockerill.

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-Your occupation?

-Retired.

-Chosen subject.

-Captain James Cook.

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Captain Cook in 90 seconds.

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James Cook enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1755 after eight years

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working on merchant ships, and was first posted as an able seaman

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and then master's mate, on which ship?

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-The Eagle.

-Yes.

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In the mid-1760s, as master of HMS Grenville, Cook spent several summers

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mapping the coastline of which island?

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-Newfoundland.

-Yes.

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Cook first landed in Australia in April 1770 at a place

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he initially wanted to call Stingray Bay.

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What did he subsequently name it?

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-Botany Bay.

-Yep.

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On his second voyage, Cook used a chronometer called K1 that was

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an exact copy of John Harrison's H4 chronometer.

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What was the name of the watchmaker who made it?

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-Larcum Kendall.

-Yes.

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Of which organisation was Cook elected a fellow on his return from

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his second voyage, in recognition of his discoveries and surveys?

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-Royal Society.

-Yes.

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In 1758, during the Seven Years War, Cook's ship was involved in

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the capture from the French of a fortress that controlled access

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to the St Lawrence River and Quebec. Which fortress?

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-Louisbourg.

-Yep.

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What name did Cook give to the islands that are now known as Hawaii?

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-Sandwich Islands.

-Yep.

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A Polynesian was brought to Britain on board HMS Adventure and was returned

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to his homeland in the Society Islands by Cook during the third voyage.

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What was his name?

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-Bor Mei.

-Yes.

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All three of Cook's world voyages departed from which English port?

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-Plymouth.

-Yep.

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In what capacity did William Bayly travel with Cook

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on his second and third voyages?

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-Astronomer.

-Yes.

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Which island in the South Atlantic did Cook claim for Britain

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when he first landed there in early 1775,

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shortly before he sighted the South Sandwich Islands?

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-South Georgia.

-Yes.

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Cook was killed on the island of Hawaii on the 14th of February 1779

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after he had tried to capture the king.

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What is the name of the bay where he died?

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-Kealakekua.

-It was,

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and I'm glad it was you that had to pronounce that!

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LAUGHTER And, John, you got them all right,

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no passes, 12 points.

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And our next contender, please.

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-And your name is?

-Martin Lloyd.

-Your occupation?

-Charity administrator.

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-And your chosen subject?

-Tranmere Rovers Football Club.

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Tranmere Rovers. 90 seconds, here we go.

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What was the name of the football club formed in 1884 by two

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Birkenhead cricket clubs which changed its name

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to Tranmere Rovers the following year?

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-Belmont.

-Yep.

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Who captained Tranmere to a 2-1 victory over Bristol Rovers

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in the final of the 1990 Leyland DAF trophy?

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-Jim Steel?

-Jimmy Harvey.

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At what ground did Tranmere finally beat Blyth Spartans in

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the second round of the 1952 FA Cup after

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a 1-1 draw was followed by two drawn replays?

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-Brunton Park?

-Goodison Park.

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In 1991, from which club did Tranmere sign the former

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Liverpool striker John Aldridge?

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-Real Sociedad.

-Yes.

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In 1921, Tranmere played their first game in the Football League,

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beating Crewe Alexandra by what score?

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-4-1.

-Yes.

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What role in the club did Les Parry have before

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he was appointed as caretaker manager during the 2009-10 season?

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He went on to be promoted to manager, and helped the club avoid relegation.

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-Physio.

-Is correct.

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In 1974, who was brought in as a consultant at Tranmere by

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the player-manager, Ron Yeats?

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-Bill Shankly.

-Yep.

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On Boxing Day 1935, Robert "Bunny" Bell scored nine goals in

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a 13-4 victory for Tranmere against which team?

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-Oldham.

-Yes.

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Which Tranmere player of the early '90s,

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who scored six times in 46 appearances for the club,

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was known for his spectacular somersault goal celebrations?

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-Steve Mungall?

-Steve Cooper.

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Tranmere joined the Central League in 1919,

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taking the place of the reserve team of which Yorkshire club?

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-Leeds.

-Yes, Leeds City.

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Who was appointed as the club's player-manager in 1985 and

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signed Ian Muir on a free transfer? Muir went on to become

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the club's all-time leading goal-scorer.

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-Frank Worthington.

-It was indeed Frank Worthington.

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Martin, you have no passes. You have score eight points.

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And our final contender, please.

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-And your name is?

-Adrian Staton.

-Your occupation?

-Unemployed.

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-And your chosen subject?

-The travel writings of Bill Bryson.

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Ah, the great Bill Bryson. Here we go. 90 seconds.

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In The Road To Little Dribbling, Bryson writes that "nothing,

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"and I mean, really, absolutely nothing,

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"is more extraordinary in Britain than the beauty of..." What?

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-South Downs?

-The countryside.

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In Down Under, what creature, described as a "harmless animated pincushion"

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does Bryson say he's thrilled to encounter in Kings Park in Perth?

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-Echidna.

-Yes.

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What name does Bryson give to the archetypal small American town

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that he fruitlessly searches for in The Lost Continent?

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Pass.

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While walking in Massachusetts in A Walk In The Woods,

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Bryson meets a hiker named Bernard, who's apparently famous for getting lost.

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What's his nickname?

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-Chicken George.

-No, Chicken John.

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In Notes From A Small Island, Bryson is startled by the arresting grandeur

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of the headquarters in Cowley of what trade organisation?

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Pass.

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Bryson describes the people of which Scandinavian country as being

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"so full of joie de vivre, that they practically sweat it".

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Pass.

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Which country's President does Bryson encounter by chance as

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he's strolling down the Mall in Washington DC?

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-Pass.

-Which English city does Bryson describe

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as "a beautiful city that has been treated with

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"gross indifference and lamentable incompetence for far too long"?

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-Oxford.

-Yes.

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At what lighthouse off the south coast of England is Bryson

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prevented from taking photographs, even though he protests,

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"It's a lighthouse, not the Bayeux Tapestry"?

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-Pass.

-At the beginning of Neither Here Nor There,

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Bryson is travelling to Hammerfest in northern Norway in the hope

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of seeing what natural phenomenon?

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-The northern lights.

-The northern lights is correct.

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You had five passes, Adrian.

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South Foreland was that lighthouse that he wanted to take pictures of.

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It was the President of Japan that he met while

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he was strolling in Washington. Denmark is the country

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"so full of joie de vivre, they practically sweat it".

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That building, the arresting grandeur of it,

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was the headquarters of the Potato Marketing Board.

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And the name he gave to the archetypal small American town

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that he fruitlessly searched for was Amalgam.

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You scored, Adrian, three points.

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So, that's the first round, then. A wide spread of scores.

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Let's have a look at all of them.

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In fifth place, with three points, Adrian Staton.

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Fourth place, seven points, Alison Rawlinson.

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Third place, eight points, Martin Lloyd.

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Second place, ten points, Keith Nickless.

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First place, 12 points, John Cockerill.

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And it is the general knowledge round now, and if there's a tie

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at the end of it, then the number of passes is taken into account,

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and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.

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If they are tied on passes as well, then there has to be a tie break,

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so let's get on with it and ask Adrian to join us again, please.

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You chose an author who'd written an awful lot of books.

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You've got three points to start this round with.

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Two minutes of general knowledge. Here we go.

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What biblical scene did Leonardo da Vinci paint onto the refectory wall

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of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan between 1495 and 1498?

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-The Last Supper.

-Yes.

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Who plays the RAF war hero, Douglas Bader, in the 1956 biopic, Reach For The Sky?

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-Kenneth More.

-Yep.

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What name is given to the perennially frozen ground that typically

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occurs in tundra regions of the arctic and sub-arctic?

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-Permafrost.

-Yes.

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In a match against Sri Lanka at Chester-Le-Street in May 2016,

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an England batsman became the youngest player to

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score 10,000 runs in Test cricket. Who was he?

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Pass.

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What name is given to a small horseshoe- shaped lake, generally

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formed by a river cutting through a meander neck to shorten its course?

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-Oxbow lake.

-Yes.

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Which bone, also known as the shinbone,

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is the larger of the two bones in the lower leg?

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-Tibia.

-Yep.

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Music recorded by The Beatles was remixed and arranged by

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George Martin and his son, Giles,

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for a Cirque du Soleil show first performed in June 2006.

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What is the single word name of the show and of the soundtrack album

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that was released later that year?

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-Pass.

-Which Scottish actor played the sullen, fair-haired Russian

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Illya Kuryakin in the 1960s television series The Man From U.N.C.L.E.?

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David McCallum.

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What word that comes from the Latin for "brain"

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has come to mean "intellectual" or "clever"?

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-Cerebral.

-Yes.

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Of which country's ancient civilisation was

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Jean-Francois Champollion an expert?

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He became director of a new department of the Louvre

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in 1826 filled with antiquities from the area.

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-Egypt.

-Yep.

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The baggy trousers known as bloomers were adopted by women so they

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could ride what relatively new invention in the late Victorian era?

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-The bicycle.

-Yes.

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What term is normally used for a government formed by the

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alliance of two or more political parties?

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-Coalition.

-Yes.

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Tom Robinson, a black man wrongly convicted of raping

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a white girl he had tried to help, and the reclusive Arthur "Boo" Radley

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are among the principal characters of which Pulitzer Prize-winning novel?

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-To Kill A Mockingbird.

-Yes.

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Which operetta by Franz Lehar is set

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in the fictional Balkan kingdom of Pontevedro?

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Go on. Have a guess.

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-The Merry Widow.

-It WAS The Merry Widow! Always worth a guess.

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You had two passes, Adrian.

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That music recorded by the Beatles,

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remixed and arranged by George Martin,

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Love was the name they gave it, and Alastair Cook was

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the youngest player to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket.

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You've now gone up to a very respectable 15 points.

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APPLAUSE

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And now Alison again, please.

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You start out with seven points with your knowledge

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of the great Mary Seacole.

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Let's see how you do with your general knowledge.

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Two minutes starting now.

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The ballroom, the library, the conservatory and the study are some

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of the possible settings for the murder in which board game?

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-Cluedo.

-Yep.

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What mythical creature is the national symbol of

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the kingdom of Bhutan and appears on its flag?

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-A unicorn?

-A dragon.

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Which British actor plays Captain Bligh opposite Clark Gable's

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Fletcher Christian in the 1935 film version of Mutiny On The Bounty?

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-Marlon Brando.

-Charles Laughton.

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What are traditionally mixed with golden syrup to make the

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filling of a treacle tart, together with lemon zest or juice?

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-Oatmeal.

-Breadcrumbs.

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Who left Manchester United in July 2016 after 28 years at

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Old Trafford as a player, assistant manager and briefly as

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caretaker manager when David Moyes left the club?

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-Matt Busby.

-Ryan Giggs.

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Ranunculus repens is the creeping form of

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a common wildflower that's a nuisance for gardeners

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because it spreads quickly and it's difficult to contain. Which flower?

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-Buttercup.

-Yes.

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The contact process is a widely used industrial method of

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manufacturing which highly corrosive acid?

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-Nitric.

-Sulphuric.

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What is the principal town on the Scottish island of Bute?

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Its name appears in the highest Scottish title

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of the heir apparent to the throne.

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Pass.

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Which well-known religious and charitable organisation

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refers to some of its meeting halls in the UK as citadels?

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-The Salvation Army.

-Yes.

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Which American aerospace company was originally incorporated in

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1916 as Pacific Aero Products and renamed after its founder in 1917?

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-Boeing.

-Yep.

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What two-word rhyming expression for unintelligible language or

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religious ritual is thought to come indirectly

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from West African religious ceremonies?

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-Mumbo jumbo.

-Yep.

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A permanent exhibition of an artist's work is on view

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at the 1853 Gallery at Salts Mill in Saltaire, West Yorkshire.

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-Which artist?

-Lowry.

-Hockney.

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A period of study leave originally granted to academics every

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seven years is given what name?

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-Sabbatical.

-Yes.

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Which novel by HE Bates was adapted for the 1959 film The Mating Game,

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which stars Debbie Reynolds and Tony Randall and was

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later made into a television series?

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-Pass.

-Whose death is recorded in the Book of Judges,

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where he demolishes a Philistine building

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at Gaza and kills himself and all the people inside?

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-Samson.

-Samson is correct.

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You had a couple of passes.

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That novel by HE Bates, The Darling Buds Of May,

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and the principal town of the island of Bute is Rothesay.

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-Oh.

-There we are.

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You have a total, Alison, now, of 14 points.

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And now Martin again, please.

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And you start out with eight points, Martin.

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Let's see where you can take it with your general knowledge.

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Two minutes starting now.

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Who invented his system of writing for the visually impaired

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while he was a student at the National Institute for Blind Children in Paris?

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-Braille.

-On which BBC Television children's news programme

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have Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Julie Etchingham and John Craven

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all been reporters or presenters?

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Newsround.

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Egyptian, American, upland and sea island are three of the major types of which crop?

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-Cotton.

-Which research establishment in Buckinghamshire,

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the home of the Government Code and Cypher School, was known as

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Station X during the Second World War?

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-Bletchley Park.

-Whose painting entitled Las Meninas shows the artist

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himself at work painting the daughter of Philip IV of Spain?

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-Goya?

-No, Velazquez.

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What general term is used for internet sites such as Facebook and

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Twitter that enable users to interact with one another and

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contact people with common interests?

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-Social network.

-Yes.

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A Bing is a large, sweet, deep red variety of a fruit that can be

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eaten raw or cooked and is widely grown in the United States.

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What fruit?

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-Tomato.

-Cherry.

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Which amnesiac CIA agent is played in a series of films by

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Matt Damon? In the most recent, he has completely recovered his memory.

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-Jason Bourne.

-Yep. Which South Coast resort is the town of St Leonards-on-Sea

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joined to and administratively part of?

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-Brighton.

-Hastings.

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Steve Buscemi stars as the Prohibition era

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gangster Enoch "Nucky" Thompson in the television series

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Boardwalk Empire that is mainly set in which American city?

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-Atlantic City.

-Yes. What is the stage name of William Bailey,

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the lead vocalist with the band Guns N' Roses?

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-Axl Rose.

-In which country is the Grand Canal that has been

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in constant use for 1,400 years? And it's the world's

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longest man-made waterway, with a length of 1,100 miles.

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-China?

-Yes.

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Eoin Colfer's novel And Another Thing... is the sixth instalment of

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the comedy science-fiction series that was begun by

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Douglas Adams in a 1978 radio broadcast. Which series?

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-Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

-Yes.

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What is the equivalent of the Financial Times

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Ordinary Share Index on the New York Stock Exchange?

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-The NASDAQ.

-The Dow Jones.

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In which mountain range do the Missouri, Rio Grande,

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Colombia and Colorado Rivers all rise?

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Rockies.

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Which legendary creature is usually represented as having the body and tail

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of a lion and the head of a bird, generally that of an eagle?

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-Griffin.

-Is correct.

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No passes, Martin. You have 20 points.

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And Keith again, now, please.

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And you start out with 10 points, Keith, which is the good news.

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The bad news is, the score to beat is now 20. So, here we go.

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Two minutes in which to do it.

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Which salad vegetable, traditionally sold in sticks,

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is often made into a soup or used as an accompaniment to a cheese board?

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Celery.

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Money Never Sleeps is the subtitle of the 2010 sequel to

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an 1987 film starring Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko. Which film?

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-Wall Street.

-Yep.

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Which British Prime Minister, who took office in 1908,

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was the last to head a purely Liberal Cabinet?

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-Balfour.

-Asquith.

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In medicine, what term is used for the process by which the blood

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is removed from a patient with a defective kidney and purified to get rid of

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excess water and waste products before it is returned to the patient's body?

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-Dialysis.

-Yes.

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In yoga, what name is given to the position where a person sits

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cross-legged, feet on the thighs and the arms resting on the knees?

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-Lotus.

-Yes.

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In mathematics, what general term is used for

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a two-dimensional figure with four straight sides?

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-Parallelogram.

-Quadrilateral.

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The Waterloo Handicap, named after a hotel in Blackpool, where the contest

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has taken place since 1907 is the premier annual event in which sport?

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-Hare coursing.

-Bowls. Crown green bowling.

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What is the appropriate name of the northernmost department of France?

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-Channel.

-Nord.

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A mountain surrounded by a ring of stars is the logo of which film company?

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-Paramount.

-Yes.

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Which long-legged, black and white wading bird,

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seen mostly on coasts and marshes, has a distinctive long,

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black bill that is upturned at the tip?

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It's used as the emblem for the RSPB.

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-Avocet.

-Yes.

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What name is given in the House of Commons to bills introduced

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by MPs who have no governmental responsibilities?

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Private member's bill.

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Which member of the cast of The Young Ones played Count Ilya Rostov

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in the 2016 BBC adaptation of Tolstoy's War And Peace?

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-Adrian Edmondson.

-Yes.

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What name for the study of the supposed influence on human affairs of the movements

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and positions of the stars and planets comes from the Greek for "star study"?

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-Astrology.

-Yep.

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Sir Joshua Reynolds' 1784 painting of the actress Sarah Siddons

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is entitled The Tragic... what?

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-Actress.

-Muse.

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The Russian city of Gzhatsk was renamed in 1968 after one of

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its pioneering citizens, who was killed in a flying accident.

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Who was he?

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-Yuri Gagarin.

-Yes.

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Which actor, who was knighted in 1953 and was best known for his

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Shakespearean roles, made his last appearance in

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a feature film as Pope Pius V in the 1998 film, Elizabeth?

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-John Gielgud.

-Yes, it was indeed.

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That one mattered, because, no passes, you got 21 points.

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And finally, John again, please.

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And you have 12 points to start with, and the score has gone up

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to 21 if you are to get into the final, the grand final.

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Here we go.

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Which fictional detective was presumed dead when he fell over the Reichenbach Falls

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in 1893 in a struggle with his arch-enemy?

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His creator brought him back in 1902 because of popular demand.

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-Sherlock Holmes.

-Yep. In the mid-1850s,

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the inventor and engineer Sir Henry Bessemer developed the first process

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for cheaply manufacturing which metal on a large scale?

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-Steel.

-Yes.

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What is the title of the first Carry On film about

0:25:140:25:16

a motley bunch of National Service recruits?

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-Carry On Sergeant.

-Yeah.

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Which Birmingham-born Rastafarian poet

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has been awarded multiple honorary university doctorates and was included

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in the 2008 Times list of 50 top British post-war writers?

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-Eddie... No, pass.

-No, Zephaniah.

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What is the name of the Act of 1956 that got rid of smog in London by

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limiting industrial smoke output and introducing smoke-controlled areas?

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-The Clean Air Act.

-Yes.

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What name is given to the part of India's western coast running

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from the state of Goa southwards?

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-Bengal.

-Malabar.

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Which actress and singer played the pop star Hannah Montana in

0:25:480:25:51

the Disney television series?

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-Miley Cyrus.

-Yes.

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What name, that comes from the Greek for arch,

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is given to a semi-circular or polygonal recess in a church,

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now typically at its eastern end?

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-Apse.

-Yeah.

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Which fraudulent investment scheme that promises quick returns is named after

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an Italian immigrant who defrauded tens of thousands of Americans

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in the early '20s? It's a type of pyramid scheme.

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-Ponzi.

-Yep.

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The closure of the plant at Kellingley in North Yorkshire in December 2015

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brought to an end centuries of what type of industrial activity in Britain?

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-Coal-mining.

-Deep coal-mining, yes.

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In 1889, John Philip Sousa wrote a march for an awards ceremony for amateur authors

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and named it after the newspaper which sponsored the event.

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What's its name?

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-The Washington Post.

-Yes.

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Who founded the American Institute of Public Opinion in 1935 and developed

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the polls for testing public opinion that bear his name?

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-Gallup.

-Yep.

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What do the letters HMV stand for in the field of music and

0:26:420:26:45

recording and retail?

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His Master's Voice.

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What pejorative name is given to the stiff-legged marching step

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that is said to have originated in Prussia in the 18th century

0:26:510:26:53

and is now generally associated with the German Army of the Nazi era?

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-Goose-step.

-Goose-step it is.

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No passes. John, you've done it - 24 points.

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Well, a clear winner, there. Let's have a look at all those scores.

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In fifth place, 14 points, Alison Rawlinson.

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Fourth place, 15 points, Adrian Staton.

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Third place, 20 points, Martin Lloyd.

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Second place, 21 points, Keith Nickless.

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First place, 24 points, John Cockerill.

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Which means that John is tonight's winner and

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he goes through to the final. Congratulations to him.

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