0:00:24 > 0:00:29First in the spotlight for tonight's Mastermind Grand Final is...
0:00:29 > 0:00:32Lynn Edwards, a student from Bangor.
0:00:32 > 0:00:35Her subject, the films of Alfred Hitchcock.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41Frances Slack, a university lecturer from Manchester.
0:00:41 > 0:00:45She'll be answering questions on the city of Leningrad.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51Isabelle Heward, a voluntary worker from Lincolnshire,
0:00:51 > 0:00:54takes as her subject the great film director Billy Wilder.
0:00:56 > 0:01:00Mohan Mudigonda is a GP practice manager from Wolverhampton.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03He'll be answering questions on the sitcom Seinfeld.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08Steven Marc Rhodes, a barrister from London,
0:01:08 > 0:01:11on the pioneering architect Inigo Jones.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18And our last Grand Finalist, John Cockerill, from Middlesbrough,
0:01:18 > 0:01:20on the short films of Laurel and Hardy.
0:01:22 > 0:01:27Those are our six contenders. This is the Mastermind Grand Final.
0:01:36 > 0:01:40Hello and welcome to Mastermind, with me, John Humphrys.
0:01:40 > 0:01:42Our six contenders have fought their way
0:01:42 > 0:01:46through the heats and the semifinals to get where they are tonight.
0:01:46 > 0:01:50They can almost feel that trophy in their hands,
0:01:50 > 0:01:52the trophy that says "Mastermind".
0:01:52 > 0:01:53All that stands in their way -
0:01:53 > 0:01:56two minutes of questions on their specialist subject,
0:01:56 > 0:01:59and two and half minutes on general knowledge.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02And, of course, the other five contenders.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05Only one of the six will walk away with the title -
0:02:05 > 0:02:08the right to say, "I am the Mastermind champion."
0:02:08 > 0:02:12So let's get on with it and ask our first finalist to join us, please.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37How does one describe drama?
0:02:37 > 0:02:38Drama is life...
0:02:38 > 0:02:41with the dull bits cut out.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45I've been interested in the films of Hitchcock for the last 20 or 30 years.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48And then I gradually got hooked on them all,
0:02:48 > 0:02:51and realised what a wonderful technician he was,
0:02:51 > 0:02:52a wonderful storyteller,
0:02:52 > 0:02:57and how he grasps you from the very beginning to the end.
0:02:58 > 0:03:02Hitchcock made over 50 films in six decades.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05I would say that he's the most iconic film-maker of his generation.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11Today I'm here in the British Film Institute in Hertfordshire,
0:03:11 > 0:03:14where I can delve into the archives of Hitchcock
0:03:14 > 0:03:17and learn more about the "Master of Suspense".
0:03:18 > 0:03:21When Hitchcock was off in Italy and in Germany
0:03:21 > 0:03:23making his first film The Pleasure Garden...
0:03:23 > 0:03:27- Right.- ..he wrote this letter back to his friend Adrian.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29And he talks here about the two stars that he's working with,
0:03:29 > 0:03:33he says, "Quite a handful as a matter of fact."
0:03:33 > 0:03:35But the thing I really like about this letter
0:03:35 > 0:03:39is he says here to Adrian, "Have you seen any good films?"
0:03:39 > 0:03:41So even though he's away in Germany, busy working,
0:03:41 > 0:03:43he wants to know
0:03:43 > 0:03:45if there have been any good films coming out.
0:03:45 > 0:03:49And then he signs off, "Yours sincerely, Hitch."
0:03:50 > 0:03:54I feel amazed to have got through to the final of Mastermind -
0:03:54 > 0:03:57I felt amazed to get through to the semifinal of Mastermind.
0:03:57 > 0:03:59I am completely amazed altogether.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02I feel a bit like an amateur,
0:04:02 > 0:04:03in a professional world.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07Hitchcock returned to Britain in 1972
0:04:07 > 0:04:10to make his third film set in the UK.
0:04:10 > 0:04:15Frenzy is a story of a serial killer who murders women with his tie.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19Parts of the film were shot right here in Covent Garden,
0:04:19 > 0:04:23and inside this building is the site of one of those murders.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28It made me feel quite goose-pimply coming up the stairs to here...
0:04:30 > 0:04:34..because this is the door that Rusk turns to Anna Massey and says...
0:04:34 > 0:04:37But you're my type of woman.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41And you know that's the end of her.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46I'm standing right where Hitchcock pulled off one of his most
0:04:46 > 0:04:49iconic shots. The stairs are in a set.
0:04:49 > 0:04:52Comes to here, where it's edited by
0:04:52 > 0:04:54a cut of a Covent Garden porter
0:04:54 > 0:04:57walking past, like that, and then
0:04:57 > 0:05:00he cuts to the outside facade.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03In order to revise, I'm working my way through all the films,
0:05:03 > 0:05:05I'm making notes as I go through,
0:05:05 > 0:05:07I'm reading textbooks,
0:05:07 > 0:05:10and filmographies of Hitchcock.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12And the more films I see,
0:05:12 > 0:05:14the more complicated it all gets
0:05:14 > 0:05:17and what an enormous subject I've chosen.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19If I won, I'd be very pleased!
0:05:20 > 0:05:22And somewhat surprised.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30The Films of Alfred Hitchcock in two minutes, starting now.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32Hitchcock directed three films
0:05:32 > 0:05:33based on works by Daphne Du Maurier.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35Rebecca and The Birds are two -
0:05:35 > 0:05:37what's the title of the first, filmed in 1939?
0:05:37 > 0:05:40- Jamaica Inn. - What is the name of the English governess,
0:05:40 > 0:05:42in reality a Government agent,
0:05:42 > 0:05:44who is the title character of The Lady Vanishes?
0:05:44 > 0:05:46She's played by Dame May Whitty.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49- Miss Froy. - In Psycho, Marion Crane gives a false name
0:05:49 > 0:05:52at the Bates Motel where she intends to stay overnight,
0:05:52 > 0:05:55when she's on the run with the 40,000 she has stolen.
0:05:55 > 0:05:56What name does she give?
0:05:56 > 0:05:58Lila Crane.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01Marie Samuels. Which actress, who played Pamela in The 39 Steps,
0:06:01 > 0:06:02went on to play Elsa Carrington
0:06:02 > 0:06:06in Hitchcock's 1936 film Secret Agent?
0:06:06 > 0:06:09- Madeleine Carroll. - In Vertigo, Scottie sees Judy Barton
0:06:09 > 0:06:11in the street in San Francisco,
0:06:11 > 0:06:14and is struck by her likeness to the dead Madeleine Elster.
0:06:14 > 0:06:15What hotel does he follow her to?
0:06:15 > 0:06:16Victoria.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18The Empire Hotel. In Rear Window,
0:06:18 > 0:06:21what nickname does James Stewart's character Jeff
0:06:21 > 0:06:22give to the neighbour
0:06:22 > 0:06:24he observes eating with an imaginary guest
0:06:24 > 0:06:25at a dinner table set for two?
0:06:25 > 0:06:28- Miss Lonelyhearts. - Which Russian-American composer
0:06:28 > 0:06:30wrote and conducted the score
0:06:30 > 0:06:33for Hitchcock's '54 film Dial M For Murder?
0:06:33 > 0:06:34Bernard Herrmann.
0:06:34 > 0:06:35Tiomkin.
0:06:35 > 0:06:38Which Sean O'Casey play did Hitchcock film in 1929,
0:06:38 > 0:06:41with Sara Allgood and Edward Chapman in the title roles?
0:06:41 > 0:06:44- Juno And The Paycock. - What was the American title
0:06:44 > 0:06:47of Hitchcock's 1937 film Young And Innocent?
0:06:48 > 0:06:52- The Girl Was Young. - Which song, from Hitchcock's 1956 remake
0:06:52 > 0:06:54of The Man Who Knew Too Much,
0:06:54 > 0:06:55sung in the film by Doris Day,
0:06:55 > 0:06:57won the Oscar for Best Original Song?
0:06:57 > 0:06:58Que Sera, Sera.
0:06:58 > 0:06:59Whatever Will Be, Will Be, yes.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02In The Birds, Hitchcock makes his trademark cameo appearance
0:07:02 > 0:07:03when he emerges from what shop?
0:07:03 > 0:07:05Pet shop.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08Which writer received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay
0:07:08 > 0:07:11for Hitchcock's '46 film Notorious?
0:07:12 > 0:07:13Jo Swerling.
0:07:13 > 0:07:16Ben Hecht. In Marnie, who plays the businessman Mark Rutland,
0:07:16 > 0:07:18who's determined to give Marnie Edgar another chance
0:07:18 > 0:07:21after he catches her stealing money from his firm?
0:07:21 > 0:07:22Sean Connery.
0:07:22 > 0:07:26In The 39 Steps, Mr Memory is shot and killed on stage
0:07:26 > 0:07:29at the London Palladium during a performance of what show?
0:07:29 > 0:07:30Fu Manchu.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33Crazy Month. BEEP
0:07:33 > 0:07:36And your time is up, you have no passes -
0:07:36 > 0:07:38Lynn, you have scored 9 points.
0:07:48 > 0:07:49And our next contender, please.
0:08:15 > 0:08:19Between the years of 1924 and 1991,
0:08:19 > 0:08:23St Petersburg, Russia's second largest city,
0:08:23 > 0:08:25was known as Leningrad.
0:08:26 > 0:08:30And these iconic 67 years
0:08:30 > 0:08:33are my topic for the Mastermind final.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36Leningrad is as well known for its culture
0:08:36 > 0:08:39as it is for its strength in difficult times.
0:08:39 > 0:08:44Built for the 200th anniversary of the city, in 1912,
0:08:44 > 0:08:49the Hotel Astoria has always played an important role in Leningrad.
0:08:50 > 0:08:56I first came here as a 16-year-old girl on a school trip in 1971.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59This is not how I remember it.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02But it's amazing to be here again.
0:09:03 > 0:09:05It's so much brighter.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07All these people who've stayed here.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10Elizabeth Taylor, Tina Turner...
0:09:10 > 0:09:12- and Rasputin. - SHE CHUCKLES
0:09:12 > 0:09:18When we arrived as 16-year-olds and were amazed by this building,
0:09:18 > 0:09:20I'm kind of getting that emotional...
0:09:20 > 0:09:25erm, remembrance again of feeling like that.
0:09:25 > 0:09:29And to be right here in the centre of the city is amazing.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34In 1941, the German army
0:09:34 > 0:09:36reached the outskirts of Leningrad
0:09:36 > 0:09:41and cut off Leningrad from the rest of country by land.
0:09:41 > 0:09:45They blockaded the city for 900 days.
0:09:45 > 0:09:49There were not enough provisions in the city, enough food,
0:09:49 > 0:09:54and almost a third of the population died of starvation.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57There's one place I've always wanted to visit -
0:09:57 > 0:10:00The Piskariovskoye Memorial Cemetery.
0:10:01 > 0:10:04In this cemetery
0:10:04 > 0:10:07are the graves of 420,000 civilians,
0:10:07 > 0:10:10and 50,000 military personnel.
0:10:12 > 0:10:16It symbolises the strength of the people of Leningrad,
0:10:16 > 0:10:22and their desire not to be beaten by an enemy
0:10:22 > 0:10:25who wanted to move them from their city.
0:10:26 > 0:10:31And so Olga Bergholz wrote a poem to commemorate them,
0:10:31 > 0:10:35and it's carved on the wall that I'm looking at now.
0:10:35 > 0:10:39"Here are city dwellers Men, women and children
0:10:39 > 0:10:43"And next to them Red Army soldiers
0:10:43 > 0:10:47"They defended you, Leningrad but know this
0:10:47 > 0:10:49"Those who regard these stones
0:10:49 > 0:10:52"No-one is forgotten
0:10:52 > 0:10:53"Nothing is forgotten."
0:10:55 > 0:10:59So I'm feeling quite nervous about the final,
0:10:59 > 0:11:02that I will do justice to this subject,
0:11:02 > 0:11:04but I'm also very excited about it,
0:11:04 > 0:11:06and really this is something I've wanted to do
0:11:06 > 0:11:10for a long time, and I've finally put myself into it this year.
0:11:10 > 0:11:13So I'm just going to have fun.
0:11:15 > 0:11:18Leningrad, in two minutes, starting now.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20By what official name was the city known
0:11:20 > 0:11:23immediately prior to the adoption of the name Leningrad in 1924?
0:11:23 > 0:11:25Petrograd.
0:11:25 > 0:11:27What was the name of the Leningrad party leader
0:11:27 > 0:11:29whose murder in 1934 was used by Stalin
0:11:29 > 0:11:31as the pretext to execute or imprison
0:11:31 > 0:11:33thousands of Leningrad citizens?
0:11:33 > 0:11:34Sergey Kirov.
0:11:34 > 0:11:37At which museum were 50 curators arrested,
0:11:37 > 0:11:38including an arms and armour specialist,
0:11:38 > 0:11:40during the 1930s Purge?
0:11:40 > 0:11:42The Hermitage.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44Who was the conductor and musical director of
0:11:44 > 0:11:48the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra from 1938 to 1988?
0:11:48 > 0:11:49Mravinsky.
0:11:49 > 0:11:53In 1925, the Imperial Porcelain Factory was renamed
0:11:53 > 0:11:55after the poet and scientist who created
0:11:55 > 0:11:58the first coloured glass mosaics in Russia? Who was he?
0:11:58 > 0:12:00Lomonosov.
0:12:00 > 0:12:05In what month in 1941 did the 900-day siege by the German Armed Forces begin,
0:12:05 > 0:12:07when the last land route to the city was cut off?
0:12:07 > 0:12:10- September. - What was the name of the village
0:12:10 > 0:12:11on the western shore of Lake Ladoga,
0:12:11 > 0:12:14from which vital food supplies were transported by railway
0:12:14 > 0:12:16into the city during the siege?
0:12:16 > 0:12:18Osinovets.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20Whom did Stalin put in charge of organising
0:12:20 > 0:12:23the defence of Leningrad in September 1941,
0:12:23 > 0:12:25in place of Marshal Voroshilov?
0:12:28 > 0:12:29Marshal Titov.
0:12:29 > 0:12:33No, Zhukov. On which island was the Kirov sports stadium opened in 1950?
0:12:33 > 0:12:37It was home to the football team Zenit.
0:12:37 > 0:12:38Kamennoostrovsky...
0:12:38 > 0:12:39No, Krestovsky.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42What is the number of Shostakovich's symphony the Leningrad,
0:12:42 > 0:12:44that was performed in the city
0:12:44 > 0:12:46during the siege on the 9th of August 1942?
0:12:46 > 0:12:48Seven.
0:12:48 > 0:12:51Which dancer performed at the Kirov Theatre in 1989
0:12:51 > 0:12:54for the first time since his defection to the West in 1961?
0:12:54 > 0:12:56Nureyev.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59Which street was officially called Avenue of the 25th of October
0:12:59 > 0:13:01between 1918 and 1944?
0:13:01 > 0:13:03Nevsky Prospect.
0:13:03 > 0:13:05What was the name of the Leningrad regional party leader
0:13:05 > 0:13:07who was Mikhail Gorbachev's main rival
0:13:07 > 0:13:10for the post of Soviet General Secretary in 1985?
0:13:12 > 0:13:13Griboyedov.
0:13:13 > 0:13:17Romanov. What title was awarded to Leningrad on the 1st of May 1945...
0:13:17 > 0:13:19BEEP
0:13:19 > 0:13:21..in recognition of its role in the Second World War?
0:13:21 > 0:13:24It also received the Order of Lenin, and the Gold Star medal.
0:13:24 > 0:13:27Hero City.
0:13:27 > 0:13:28No passes, Frances -
0:13:28 > 0:13:30you have 11 points.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43And our next finalist, please.
0:14:06 > 0:14:10I've come to Los Angeles to find out more about Billy Wilder.
0:14:10 > 0:14:12Those elements of tight plots,
0:14:12 > 0:14:16smart characters and clever dialogue,
0:14:16 > 0:14:19they all made Billy Wilder such a master of the cinema
0:14:19 > 0:14:22over a career spanning more than 50 years.
0:14:22 > 0:14:25- TRAILER:- Not since the Marx Brothers, so much comedy!
0:14:25 > 0:14:28Not since The Seven Year Itch, so much Marilyn!
0:14:30 > 0:14:34Whether it's Marilyn Monroe standing in that iconic white dress
0:14:34 > 0:14:38over the subway grating in The Seven Year Itch or Tony Curtis
0:14:38 > 0:14:42and Jack Lemmon as cross-dressing musicians in Some Like It Hot
0:14:42 > 0:14:47or nice-guy actor Fred MacMurray turned killer in Double Indemnity -
0:14:47 > 0:14:51those are all things that make Billy Wilder's films very memorable
0:14:51 > 0:14:54and most entertaining and, in 1961,
0:14:54 > 0:14:58Billy achieved the triple accolade of three Oscars
0:14:58 > 0:15:04at the Academy Awards ceremony - Best Screenwriter, Best Picture
0:15:04 > 0:15:05and Best Director for The Apartment.
0:15:05 > 0:15:09That was really the pinnacle of his career
0:15:09 > 0:15:12and a very wonderful achievement for him.
0:15:14 > 0:15:16Many directors have their favourite spot
0:15:16 > 0:15:18and this was Billy's favourite restaurant.
0:15:22 > 0:15:25- I believe I'm sitting at Billy Wilder's table.- Yes, you are.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28I'm the maitre d' and I was lucky enough to seat Mr Wilder
0:15:28 > 0:15:30at this table many, many times.
0:15:30 > 0:15:32How is it that this comes to be his table?
0:15:32 > 0:15:34Well, because, in this restaurant,
0:15:34 > 0:15:35there's a hierarchy of tables,
0:15:35 > 0:15:37as you can see here.
0:15:37 > 0:15:39Every one has a rank,
0:15:39 > 0:15:40- this one being number one. - Oh, right.
0:15:40 > 0:15:42The most important person gets to sit here.
0:15:42 > 0:15:46Billy Wilder, for us, was the most important,
0:15:46 > 0:15:48regardless of studio heads, producers.
0:15:48 > 0:15:50No-one outranked Billy Wilder.
0:15:50 > 0:15:54- Yeah, and I dare say you enjoy his films as well.- I've seen every one.
0:15:54 > 0:15:56- I know all of the films.- Really? - Absolutely, yeah.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59I expect you could be on Mastermind to do this instead of me.
0:15:59 > 0:16:03- Oh, no, no, no. Good luck! - Thank you!- Break a leg!
0:16:04 > 0:16:07I was very surprised to get through to the final
0:16:07 > 0:16:10after such a close match in the semifinal.
0:16:10 > 0:16:13Joint first place, 21 points apiece,
0:16:13 > 0:16:17Steve Lacey, Isabelle Heward and Rob Hemming.
0:16:17 > 0:16:20It became apparent that the three of us would have to take part
0:16:20 > 0:16:24in a tie-break and I believe that's the first time there's been
0:16:24 > 0:16:26a triple tie-break on Mastermind.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28I felt I got another bite of the cherry
0:16:28 > 0:16:31and I was really pleased to get through, quite astonished,
0:16:31 > 0:16:34but absolutely thrilled.
0:16:34 > 0:16:36I'd got to three semifinals previously
0:16:36 > 0:16:39and I was beginning to wonder whether I'd ever
0:16:39 > 0:16:41get to a Grand Final and, this year, I have done.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47Mastermind really is the pinnacle of quiz shows and it would be
0:16:47 > 0:16:51wonderful to win, but if I don't win, I can always apply again
0:16:51 > 0:16:53in a few years and have another go
0:16:53 > 0:16:56and enjoy researching another subject.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01Two minutes on Billy Wilder, starting now.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03In Sunset Boulevard, Norma Desmond hires Joe Gillis
0:17:03 > 0:17:05to rewrite the script
0:17:05 > 0:17:06for what she intends to be her comeback film,
0:17:06 > 0:17:08playing which title character?
0:17:08 > 0:17:11- Salome.- Which city's wholesale food market
0:17:11 > 0:17:13is described in Irma La Douce
0:17:13 > 0:17:15as "brawling, vulgar and smelly, but alive"?
0:17:15 > 0:17:19- Paris.- Wilder fled Berlin in 1933 and went to Paris,
0:17:19 > 0:17:21where he made his directorial debut
0:17:21 > 0:17:23on a film that centres on car theft. What's its title?
0:17:23 > 0:17:26- Mauvaise Graine / Bad Seed. - In The Apartment,
0:17:26 > 0:17:29what does Baxter use to drain the spaghetti
0:17:29 > 0:17:30he's preparing for Miss Kubelik?
0:17:30 > 0:17:31A tennis racket.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34In 1934, Wilder crossed the Californian border to apply
0:17:34 > 0:17:37for an emigration visa in which Central American town?
0:17:37 > 0:17:41- Mexicali.- At the Academy Awards ceremony in 1988,
0:17:41 > 0:17:43Wilder received an award given to
0:17:43 > 0:17:45"creative producers whose bodies of work
0:17:45 > 0:17:46"reflect a consistently high quality of
0:17:46 > 0:17:49"motion picture production". What's it called?
0:17:49 > 0:17:52- Irving Thalberg. - In the closing scene of Some Like It Hot,
0:17:52 > 0:17:54which actor, on being told by Jack Lemmon's character
0:17:54 > 0:17:56that he can't marry him because he's a man,
0:17:56 > 0:17:58replies, "Well, nobody's perfect"?
0:17:58 > 0:18:01- Joe E Brown.- In which '55 film does Wilder pay tribute
0:18:01 > 0:18:04to the director Fred Zinnemann by including a parody
0:18:04 > 0:18:06of the love scene on the beach in From Here To Eternity?
0:18:06 > 0:18:08The Seven Year Itch.
0:18:08 > 0:18:11Wilder's career as a Hollywood scriptwriter took off
0:18:11 > 0:18:13when he began a partnership with Charles Brackett.
0:18:13 > 0:18:15Their first film was a 1938 comedy
0:18:15 > 0:18:18directed by Ernst Lubitsch. What is it called?
0:18:18 > 0:18:19Bluebeard's Eighth Wife.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22In Double Indemnity, what is the name of the claims manager
0:18:22 > 0:18:24that Neff dictates his confession to,
0:18:24 > 0:18:26telling him, "When it came to picking the killer,
0:18:26 > 0:18:28"you picked the wrong guy"?
0:18:28 > 0:18:29Barton Keyes.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32In the Charles Lindberg biopic The Spirit Of St Louis,
0:18:32 > 0:18:34what creature does Wilder introduce into the cockpit
0:18:34 > 0:18:37early in the flight that Lindberg talks to?
0:18:37 > 0:18:39- A fly.- In The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes,
0:18:39 > 0:18:42whom did Wilder cast as the main gravedigger?
0:18:42 > 0:18:44Stanley Holloway.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46In the romantic comedy Sabrina,
0:18:46 > 0:18:49what fashion accessory of Linus Larrabee
0:18:49 > 0:18:50does the title character adjust
0:18:50 > 0:18:52to stop him looking like a tourist undertaker?
0:18:52 > 0:18:54Tie?
0:18:54 > 0:18:55No, hat, homburg hat.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58In The Lost Weekend, the alcoholic writer Don
0:18:58 > 0:19:00steals a purse and gets thrown out of which bar?
0:19:00 > 0:19:01Joe's.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03BEEP No, Harry and Joe' Bar.
0:19:03 > 0:19:04No passes.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07- Isabelle, you have scored 12 points.- Thank you.
0:19:16 > 0:19:17And our next finalist, please.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39FUNKY SLAP BASS MUSIC
0:19:45 > 0:19:48The topic that I've chosen for the Grand Final of Mastermind
0:19:48 > 0:19:50is the sitcom Seinfeld.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54And it was set right here in New York.
0:19:54 > 0:19:59I can't believe I'm here to find out more about my Mastermind topic.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05So, Seinfeld was described as a show about nothing
0:20:05 > 0:20:08because it is literally about the nothings of daily life.
0:20:08 > 0:20:13In 2002, TV Guide Magazine named it the greatest programme of all time
0:20:13 > 0:20:16and the reason that I've chosen this as my topic
0:20:16 > 0:20:19is because I'm pretty much inclined to agree with them.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22The series follows the lives of four friends -
0:20:22 > 0:20:24Jerry, his best friend, George,
0:20:24 > 0:20:28his ex-girlfriend, Elaine, and Jerry's neighbour, Cosmo Kramer.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31I'm at the Westway Diner on 614 9th Avenue
0:20:31 > 0:20:36and this is where Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David sat together
0:20:36 > 0:20:38for the first time and decided to write Seinfeld.
0:20:38 > 0:20:41This is, in fact, the exact booth where they sat
0:20:41 > 0:20:43and I'm sitting in it right now.
0:20:43 > 0:20:45I don't think it gets any more exciting than that.
0:20:50 > 0:20:55In the show, Jerry's address is 129 West 81st Street
0:20:55 > 0:20:59and here we are at 129 West 81st Street,
0:20:59 > 0:21:04except this is not, in fact, the exterior shot used in the show.
0:21:04 > 0:21:07That was actually in Los Angeles.
0:21:07 > 0:21:08The reason why this is his address in the show
0:21:08 > 0:21:10is that Jerry actually lived here
0:21:10 > 0:21:13while he was working as a stand-up comedian in real life.
0:21:15 > 0:21:19First place, 22 points - Mohan Mudigonda.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23'For me, getting through to the final of Mastermind'
0:21:23 > 0:21:25is, without question,
0:21:25 > 0:21:29one of the most amazing things that I have achieved in my life.
0:21:29 > 0:21:30Oh, my God!
0:21:30 > 0:21:31Good God!
0:21:31 > 0:21:34'Coming off the stage and seeing my wife there,
0:21:34 > 0:21:37'I think that was genuinely one of the most touching moments'
0:21:37 > 0:21:40I've experienced very recently.
0:21:40 > 0:21:41I knew you would do it.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43I'm so proud of you.
0:21:43 > 0:21:44Let's just go!
0:21:48 > 0:21:53OK, so we're on Broadway and 112th Street and this is Tom's Restaurant.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55It was used in every single season of Seinfeld.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57It was where the guys all hung out,
0:21:57 > 0:22:02but it was known in the programme as Monk's and the reason for this
0:22:02 > 0:22:06was that when Jerry was writing Seinfeld, he saw a poster of
0:22:06 > 0:22:09the jazz pianist Thelonious Monk and that immediately stuck with him
0:22:09 > 0:22:11and, from then on, the restaurant was known as Monk's
0:22:11 > 0:22:13and, for that reason, in the show,
0:22:13 > 0:22:15we only ever really see "restaurant".
0:22:15 > 0:22:17Tom's Restaurant,
0:22:17 > 0:22:20the name Tom's is usually obscured so that's how they managed to do it.
0:22:20 > 0:22:24It is very, very surreal and it is very, very exciting being here
0:22:24 > 0:22:26and for a Seinfeld fan such as myself,
0:22:26 > 0:22:30it's as important as the Empire State Building
0:22:30 > 0:22:32and the Statue of Liberty so, yeah, very excited,
0:22:32 > 0:22:34very excited to be here.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39I'm not going to lie,
0:22:39 > 0:22:42I am absolutely gunning for that trophy and I do want to win it.
0:22:42 > 0:22:45I have put absolutely everything into preparing for it.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48I have done my best. We'll just have to see what happens.
0:22:50 > 0:22:53The sitcom Seinfeld in two minutes, starting now.
0:22:53 > 0:22:55In season one, Jerry's apartment is burgled
0:22:55 > 0:22:57after Kramer leaves the door open.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59Jerry's been away for the weekend performing in which city?
0:22:59 > 0:23:01Minneapolis?
0:23:01 > 0:23:04In the season six episode The Doodle, Jerry's apartment
0:23:04 > 0:23:07has to be fumigated because it's infested with fleas.
0:23:07 > 0:23:09When Elaine finds Chunky wrappers under his couch,
0:23:09 > 0:23:12Jerry realises that who is the culprit?
0:23:12 > 0:23:14- Newman?- What is the name of the annoying dog
0:23:14 > 0:23:15that Jerry has to look after
0:23:15 > 0:23:18when its owner is taken ill during a plane journey?
0:23:18 > 0:23:19Farfel.
0:23:19 > 0:23:22In The Checks, Elaine's boyfriend Brett
0:23:22 > 0:23:25is transfixed every time he hears which Eagles song?
0:23:25 > 0:23:26- Desperado.- What is the name of the health club
0:23:26 > 0:23:28that revokes Jerry and Newman's membership
0:23:28 > 0:23:31after they almost drown Ramon, the pool guy?
0:23:31 > 0:23:33Physique.
0:23:33 > 0:23:36When George introduces his new girlfriend Susan Ross from NBC
0:23:36 > 0:23:39to Kramer, what unfortunate thing happens to her?
0:23:40 > 0:23:41She gets vomited on.
0:23:41 > 0:23:44In 1997, who received an Emmy nomination
0:23:44 > 0:23:46for Outstanding Guest Actor In A Comedy Series
0:23:46 > 0:23:49for his portrayal of George's father Frank?
0:23:49 > 0:23:51Jerry Stiller.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53What present does George buy Elaine
0:23:53 > 0:23:55because it's reduced from 600 to 85
0:23:55 > 0:23:58when she gets him a job with a publishing company?
0:23:58 > 0:24:00- A cashmere sweater. - Yes, slightly damaged.
0:24:00 > 0:24:02At the beginning of season four,
0:24:02 > 0:24:04Kramer is in Hollywood, trying to generate interest
0:24:04 > 0:24:05in the film script that he's written.
0:24:05 > 0:24:06What's its title?
0:24:06 > 0:24:08Pass.
0:24:08 > 0:24:09Which Oscar-winning actress plays Laura,
0:24:09 > 0:24:11who tries to lip read
0:24:11 > 0:24:13what George's ex-girlfriend is saying at a party?
0:24:13 > 0:24:15Marlee Matlin.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17Which famous retired sportsman
0:24:17 > 0:24:19does Kramer say he saw in Dinky Donuts?
0:24:19 > 0:24:21He claims that he could not be distracted from his doughnut,
0:24:21 > 0:24:23no matter how much noise Kramer made.
0:24:23 > 0:24:25- Joe DiMaggio.- When Elaine doesn't understand
0:24:25 > 0:24:27why a cartoon is funny,
0:24:27 > 0:24:29she goes to see the editor of the magazine
0:24:29 > 0:24:30that published it. Which magazine?
0:24:30 > 0:24:33- The New Yorker. - In season six, Jerry has to take
0:24:33 > 0:24:35a lie detector test to try and prove
0:24:35 > 0:24:37that he's never seen which television soap opera?
0:24:37 > 0:24:39Melrose Place.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41When George meets Vanessa,
0:24:41 > 0:24:43a lawyer that Jerry had spoken to briefly at a party,
0:24:43 > 0:24:46he claims to be an architect who designs what?
0:24:46 > 0:24:48She responds, "I thought engineers do that."
0:24:48 > 0:24:49- Bridges?- Railroads.
0:24:49 > 0:24:51What is the name of the carpet cleaning company
0:24:51 > 0:24:53that is actually a religious cult?
0:24:53 > 0:24:54BEEP George hires them
0:24:54 > 0:24:56to clean his carpet and is insulted
0:24:56 > 0:24:59when they make no attempt to try and recruit him.
0:24:59 > 0:25:00Sunshine Cleaners.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03Sunshine Cleaners is correct. You had one pass.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05At the beginning of season four,
0:25:05 > 0:25:09Kramer was trying to generate interest in the film The Keys.
0:25:09 > 0:25:14You have continued to increase the total
0:25:14 > 0:25:17because you are now at 13 points.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27And our next finalist, please.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54I'm at the Queen's House in Greenwich, South London,
0:25:54 > 0:25:56designed by Inigo Jones.
0:25:58 > 0:25:59It was originally designed
0:25:59 > 0:26:01for the wife of James I and VI, Anne of Denmark,
0:26:01 > 0:26:06and work commenced in 1616, but in 1619,
0:26:06 > 0:26:11Anne died and it was forgotten about and then, in the 1630s,
0:26:11 > 0:26:16work recommenced and it was finished in 1635, nearly 20 years later,
0:26:16 > 0:26:18and, when it was finished,
0:26:18 > 0:26:23it was the most dazzling modern building that London had ever seen.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28Inigo Jones was born in London in Smithfield.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30He became the King's Surveyor
0:26:30 > 0:26:32and from becoming the King's Surveyor,
0:26:32 > 0:26:35he then started putting up buildings around London,
0:26:35 > 0:26:39either for the King himself or for prominent members of court.
0:26:39 > 0:26:43He became extremely well-connected and eventually a wealthy man.
0:26:45 > 0:26:48One of the most remarkable features of the Queen's House
0:26:48 > 0:26:51and something that at the time was completely revolutionary
0:26:51 > 0:26:52was the Tulip Staircase.
0:26:52 > 0:26:56It's the first self-supporting staircase in the whole of England
0:26:56 > 0:26:59and you can imagine that it had to be absolutely right
0:26:59 > 0:27:01because it was going to be used by the Queen,
0:27:01 > 0:27:03walking up and down it every single day.
0:27:03 > 0:27:06300 years later, it's still in perfect working order.
0:27:06 > 0:27:08One thing that's been a real privilege
0:27:08 > 0:27:11about doing Mastermind is that, at each stage,
0:27:11 > 0:27:14you get a different specialist subject to deal with
0:27:14 > 0:27:17and I've had three people - Nicholas Hawksmoor in the heats
0:27:17 > 0:27:20and the semifinals, I had the composer Herbert Howells,
0:27:20 > 0:27:23and when you read about these people and the lives they lived
0:27:23 > 0:27:26and the work that they created and the struggles they had,
0:27:26 > 0:27:29you really want to do them justice.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31I'm not a quiz novice.
0:27:31 > 0:27:34I did appear on University Challenge back in the 1980s.
0:27:34 > 0:27:37Steven Rhodes from Reading in Berkshire, reading theology.
0:27:37 > 0:27:40I was captain of the King's College, London team.
0:27:40 > 0:27:421696.
0:27:42 > 0:27:46No, 1701-1714 it was and here's a starter again.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49It was a good experience and I look very callow.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54I have a guilty secret about Mastermind,
0:27:54 > 0:27:58which is that actually I find the chair surrounded by the dark
0:27:58 > 0:28:01to be pretty helpful because it really means you can concentrate
0:28:01 > 0:28:05on the questions that are being asked and, although it looks grim
0:28:05 > 0:28:07and doom-laden to the viewer,
0:28:07 > 0:28:12for me, it's actually quite helpful and it's a really comfortable chair.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15Well, if I'm lucky enough to win the glass bowl,
0:28:15 > 0:28:17I would really like to try out a theory,
0:28:17 > 0:28:21which is that I think it would be perfect for making a trifle.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24So, this may seem like sacrilege, but if I were lucky enough
0:28:24 > 0:28:27to win it, I'd certainly want to try it out for that.
0:28:30 > 0:28:33Two minutes on Inigo Jones, starting now.
0:28:33 > 0:28:35Inigo Jones built Catholic chapels
0:28:35 > 0:28:37for Henrietta Maria, the queen consort,
0:28:37 > 0:28:39in St James's Palace and which other palace on the Strand?
0:28:39 > 0:28:41Somerset House.
0:28:41 > 0:28:43Jones first collaborated with Ben Jonson
0:28:43 > 0:28:46for a masque that was performed on Twelfth Night, 1605.
0:28:46 > 0:28:47What is its title?
0:28:47 > 0:28:49The Masque of Beauty?
0:28:49 > 0:28:50The Masque of Blackness.
0:28:50 > 0:28:52In which town did Jones' early buildings
0:28:52 > 0:28:53as Surveyor of the King's Works
0:28:53 > 0:28:56include a brewhouse and a lodging house
0:28:56 > 0:28:57for the future king Charles I?
0:28:57 > 0:29:00- Newmarket.- During his trip to Venice in 1614,
0:29:00 > 0:29:03Jones met an architect who, along with Palladio and Serlio,
0:29:03 > 0:29:06had a major influence on his future work. What was his name?
0:29:06 > 0:29:09- Scamozzi.- For which Sussex constituency
0:29:09 > 0:29:11did Jones briefly serve
0:29:11 > 0:29:13as one of its two MPs from 1621?
0:29:13 > 0:29:14Shoreham-by-Sea.
0:29:14 > 0:29:17Jones designed St Paul's Church in 1631
0:29:17 > 0:29:19to have a Tuscan portico
0:29:19 > 0:29:21that faced an Italian-style piazza
0:29:21 > 0:29:23in central London. Which piazza?
0:29:23 > 0:29:24Covent Garden.
0:29:24 > 0:29:26Jones was the architect in charge
0:29:26 > 0:29:28of the refurbishment of St Paul's Cathedral in the 1630s.
0:29:28 > 0:29:30Which Bishop of London
0:29:30 > 0:29:32and later Archbishop of Canterbury oversaw this work?
0:29:32 > 0:29:34Laud.
0:29:34 > 0:29:37What was the name of Jones' devoted personal assistant,
0:29:37 > 0:29:40who started working for him at the age of 17 in 1628?
0:29:40 > 0:29:41John Webb.
0:29:41 > 0:29:44The multicoloured stonework on Jones' original facade
0:29:44 > 0:29:47for the Banqueting House came from Portland in Dorset,
0:29:47 > 0:29:49Oxfordshire and which other county?
0:29:49 > 0:29:51- Northampton. - Yes, Northamptonshire.
0:29:51 > 0:29:53James I asked Jones to examine Stonehenge.
0:29:53 > 0:29:56He incorrectly concluded that who had built it?
0:29:56 > 0:29:58- The Romans.- Which poet and playwright
0:29:58 > 0:30:01collaborated with Jones on Salmacida Spoila,
0:30:01 > 0:30:03the last masque performed at the King's court
0:30:03 > 0:30:04before the Civil War?
0:30:04 > 0:30:06- Chapman?- Davenant.
0:30:06 > 0:30:08What was the name of the home of the Marquis of Winchester
0:30:08 > 0:30:10where Jones was captured
0:30:10 > 0:30:13by parliamentary forces in October 1645?
0:30:13 > 0:30:15- Basing House. - For which cathedral
0:30:15 > 0:30:17did King Charles commission Jones
0:30:17 > 0:30:20to design a choir screen in about 1638?
0:30:20 > 0:30:23- Winchester.- In which masque did Ben Jonson ridicule Jones
0:30:23 > 0:30:26as a character called Colonel Iniquo Vitruvius
0:30:26 > 0:30:28after they disagreed over
0:30:28 > 0:30:30who should get the credit for their work?
0:30:30 > 0:30:31Cloridia.
0:30:31 > 0:30:33Love's Welcome At Bolsover.
0:30:33 > 0:30:34In which road in London
0:30:34 > 0:30:35BEEP was Jones given
0:30:35 > 0:30:36a house to live in
0:30:36 > 0:30:38when he became Surveyor of the King's Works?
0:30:38 > 0:30:40Scotland Yard.
0:30:40 > 0:30:44No passes. Steven, you have 12 points.
0:30:54 > 0:30:56And our final finalist, please.
0:31:20 > 0:31:22Well, I suppose my first memories of Laurel and Hardy
0:31:22 > 0:31:25go back over 50 years now.
0:31:25 > 0:31:29I used to watch it on Saturday mornings with my dad.
0:31:29 > 0:31:31My dad was a big fan.
0:31:31 > 0:31:34He used to start laughing before they'd actually done anything
0:31:34 > 0:31:38and he'd then laugh for the next 20 minutes, really,
0:31:38 > 0:31:41so I just sort of started watching it with him
0:31:41 > 0:31:43and I suppose I was converted.
0:31:46 > 0:31:51They were the first real, I would say, superstars of talking comedies.
0:31:51 > 0:31:55I would say that they were as important to comedy
0:31:55 > 0:31:59as The Beatles are to music. They made over 100 films.
0:31:59 > 0:32:03There's some dispute whether they made 106 or 107.
0:32:03 > 0:32:05They were making upwards of a dozen films a year, you know,
0:32:05 > 0:32:10one a month, so it's these two-reel, 20-minute short films
0:32:10 > 0:32:14that are going to be my subject for the final of Mastermind.
0:32:15 > 0:32:18I've come today to Ulverston in Cumbria.
0:32:18 > 0:32:21I'm going to be lucky enough to go to a place I've always wanted
0:32:21 > 0:32:24to go to, which is the place where Stan Laurel was born.
0:32:28 > 0:32:34Well, this is the room that Stan Laurel was born in in June 1890.
0:32:34 > 0:32:38Yeah, just remarkable, really. I'm a bit speechless.
0:32:38 > 0:32:41What a very privileged position to be in here.
0:32:41 > 0:32:45Whilst I'm here in Ulverston, I'm going to have the opportunity
0:32:45 > 0:32:48of visiting the world-famous museum dedicated to the duo.
0:32:48 > 0:32:51Wow!
0:32:51 > 0:32:52This is incredible.
0:32:54 > 0:32:58Like an Aladdin's cave of memorabilia. Hi, my name's John.
0:32:58 > 0:33:01- Hello, John. Mark. Welcome to the museum.- Yeah, it's fantastic.
0:33:01 > 0:33:06This might just inspire you in your quest to become champion -
0:33:06 > 0:33:08an original fez from Sons Of The Desert.
0:33:08 > 0:33:10It's an actual original from the show?
0:33:10 > 0:33:12- It's an original, yeah.- Don't laugh.
0:33:14 > 0:33:16- What does it look like? - I think it looks spectacular.
0:33:16 > 0:33:20- And as a little present from me to you, this is a badge...- Oh, right!
0:33:20 > 0:33:22A very exclusive badge and this makes you
0:33:22 > 0:33:25a lifetime member of Laurel and Hardy Museum.
0:33:25 > 0:33:26Oh, that's fantastic!
0:33:26 > 0:33:29I will wear that. Look carefully, I'll have that in my lapel.
0:33:29 > 0:33:30I'll look out for it.
0:33:30 > 0:33:34# Fresssssh fish... #
0:33:34 > 0:33:35I suppose how I'm revising
0:33:35 > 0:33:37is by spending a lot of time
0:33:37 > 0:33:40watching these old Laurel and Hardy films.
0:33:40 > 0:33:43This is one of my favourites, Toad In A Hole,
0:33:43 > 0:33:45which I think is really funny
0:33:45 > 0:33:48and I think is a really great example
0:33:48 > 0:33:50of the sort of chemistry between the two of them.
0:33:50 > 0:33:53The bit when Stan's playing noughts and crosses with himself
0:33:53 > 0:33:59and, I've got to say, I just love that self-satisfied smug grin
0:33:59 > 0:34:01when he actually beats himself,
0:34:01 > 0:34:03I just think it's really funny, you know.
0:34:07 > 0:34:09I'm like a jack of all trades.
0:34:09 > 0:34:11I'm not really much of an expert at anything,
0:34:11 > 0:34:14except hopefully Laurel and Hardy,
0:34:14 > 0:34:17but I do know a little bit about everything
0:34:17 > 0:34:20and if John Humphrys asks me the right questions
0:34:20 > 0:34:23then hopefully I'll get the right answers.
0:34:28 > 0:34:32Two minutes on the short films of Laurel and Hardy, starting now.
0:34:32 > 0:34:34In which film that won an Oscar in 1932
0:34:34 > 0:34:36do Stan and Ollie try to deliver a piano
0:34:36 > 0:34:38up an enormous flight of steps to a hilltop home?
0:34:38 > 0:34:40The Music Box.
0:34:40 > 0:34:42What month does Stan say follows Septober and Octember
0:34:42 > 0:34:44in The Laurel And Hardy Murder Case?
0:34:44 > 0:34:45- Nowonder.- In One Good Turn,
0:34:45 > 0:34:48Stan tells Ollie that his father
0:34:48 > 0:34:50was in the lumber business in a small way.
0:34:50 > 0:34:52What were the small items Stan's father sold?
0:34:52 > 0:34:55- Toothpicks.- What does Ollie specialise in selling,
0:34:55 > 0:34:57according to the sign on his office door
0:34:57 > 0:34:58in Chickens Come Home?
0:34:58 > 0:35:00- High-grade fertiliser. - At the start of "Scram!",
0:35:00 > 0:35:02a judge convicts Stan and Ollie of vagrancy
0:35:02 > 0:35:04and gives them how long to get out of town?
0:35:04 > 0:35:08- One hour.- In County Hospital, when Stan visits Ollie on his sick bed,
0:35:08 > 0:35:10he takes him some nuts and what other edible gift?
0:35:10 > 0:35:14- Boiled eggs.- Who directed many Laurel and Hardy shorts
0:35:14 > 0:35:15in the late '20s and early '30s,
0:35:15 > 0:35:18including Another Fine Mess, The Chimp and Hog Wild?
0:35:18 > 0:35:20James Parrott.
0:35:20 > 0:35:22What does Stan put in his mouth
0:35:22 > 0:35:25in order to hide it from a jail officer in The Hoose-Gow?
0:35:25 > 0:35:27It causes him much distress when it gets stuck.
0:35:27 > 0:35:28Apple.
0:35:28 > 0:35:31In Me And My Pal, Ollie tells Stan he's about to become
0:35:31 > 0:35:34an oil magnate and then asks Stan what he thinks a magnate is.
0:35:34 > 0:35:35What is Stan's reply?
0:35:35 > 0:35:36Something that eats cheese.
0:35:36 > 0:35:39At the end of which 1931 film does Ollie flush Stan
0:35:39 > 0:35:41down the plughole with the bathwater
0:35:41 > 0:35:44because Stan wants to spend the 1,000 reward money
0:35:44 > 0:35:46on chocolate ice cream?
0:35:46 > 0:35:47Come Clean.
0:35:47 > 0:35:49In Laughing Gravy, Stan receives a letter that tells him
0:35:49 > 0:35:51he will inherit his uncle's fortune.
0:35:51 > 0:35:53What condition is attached to the inheritance?
0:35:53 > 0:35:55He's got to get rid of Ollie.
0:35:55 > 0:35:58He's got to end his association with Ollie.
0:35:58 > 0:36:01The circus owner in The Chimp distributes his assets
0:36:01 > 0:36:03among his staff in lieu of salary after he goes broke.
0:36:03 > 0:36:05Ollie gets Ethel the chimpanzee.
0:36:05 > 0:36:06What does Stan get?
0:36:06 > 0:36:08The flea circus.
0:36:08 > 0:36:10Which actress plays Mrs Hall in Them Thar Hills
0:36:10 > 0:36:13and Mrs Pierre Gustave in The Fixer Uppers?
0:36:13 > 0:36:14Mae Busch.
0:36:14 > 0:36:17Ollie pretends to be Colonel Buckshot in Another Fine Mess,
0:36:17 > 0:36:18but his plan backfires
0:36:18 > 0:36:21when the real colonel returns home unexpectedly
0:36:21 > 0:36:22cos he's forgotten to pack what?
0:36:22 > 0:36:23Bow and arrow.
0:36:23 > 0:36:25In Men O' War, Stan says he couldn't help
0:36:25 > 0:36:27having the entire glass of soda
0:36:27 > 0:36:29that he and Ollie had intended to halve.
0:36:29 > 0:36:31What excuse does he give for drinking the lot?
0:36:31 > 0:36:33- BEEP - His half was on the bottom.
0:36:33 > 0:36:34LAUGHTER
0:36:34 > 0:36:39It is so ridiculous, you just can't begin with that one, can you?
0:36:40 > 0:36:43John, you've got to 15 points.
0:36:53 > 0:36:56That's the end of the first round - some very high scoring there,
0:36:56 > 0:36:59but then you'd expect it from the finalists, would you not?
0:36:59 > 0:37:01Let's look at all the scores.
0:37:01 > 0:37:04In sixth place, Lynn Edwards.
0:37:04 > 0:37:07In fifth place, Frances Slack.
0:37:07 > 0:37:09Joint third place,
0:37:09 > 0:37:10Isabelle Heward
0:37:10 > 0:37:12and Steven Marc Rhodes.
0:37:12 > 0:37:16Second place, Mohan Mudigonda.
0:37:16 > 0:37:19First place, John Cockerill.
0:37:27 > 0:37:29And so we are now into the home straight -
0:37:29 > 0:37:31the General Knowledge round.
0:37:31 > 0:37:35Two and a half minutes this time of questions that will decide
0:37:35 > 0:37:38who is to be the nation's Mastermind
0:37:38 > 0:37:40and if there is a tie at the end of the round
0:37:40 > 0:37:43then the number of passes is taken into account
0:37:43 > 0:37:46and the contender with the fewer passes is the winner.
0:37:46 > 0:37:50And if they're tied on passes as well, there has to be a tie-break.
0:37:50 > 0:37:54So, let's get on with it and ask Lynn to join us again, please.
0:37:56 > 0:37:59And you start out, Lynn, with 9 points.
0:37:59 > 0:38:02Let's see how you do with your General Knowledge.
0:38:02 > 0:38:05As I say, two and a half minutes this time. Here we go.
0:38:05 > 0:38:08The orphan Nell Trent, who lives with her elderly grandfather,
0:38:08 > 0:38:10is the tragic heroine of which Charles Dickens novel?
0:38:10 > 0:38:11The Old Curiosity Shop.
0:38:11 > 0:38:13Which Lancashire resort's illuminations
0:38:13 > 0:38:16have been switched on by Peter Kay in 2014,
0:38:16 > 0:38:19Chris Evans in 2005 and Red Rum in 1977?
0:38:19 > 0:38:20Blackpool.
0:38:20 > 0:38:21Which American rock star
0:38:21 > 0:38:23brought out the album Chapter And Verse
0:38:23 > 0:38:28in September 2016 to accompany his autobiography Born To Run?
0:38:28 > 0:38:29Bruce Springsteen?
0:38:29 > 0:38:31What was fermented in a brine solution
0:38:31 > 0:38:33to make the spicy sauce known as garum,
0:38:33 > 0:38:35a favourite condiment of the ancient Romans?
0:38:35 > 0:38:36Fish.
0:38:36 > 0:38:41Milos Raonic defeated Roger Federer at Wimbledon 2016
0:38:41 > 0:38:42to become the first man
0:38:42 > 0:38:44to reach a Grand Slam singles final
0:38:44 > 0:38:45representing which country?
0:38:45 > 0:38:47- Czechoslovakia.- Canada.
0:38:47 > 0:38:49Which British writer's Balkan Trilogy,
0:38:49 > 0:38:51published between 1960 and 1965,
0:38:51 > 0:38:53was followed by the Levant Trilogy
0:38:53 > 0:38:55published between '77 and 1980?
0:38:55 > 0:38:57- Alexander...- Olivia Manning.
0:38:57 > 0:38:59The name of which Christian holy day
0:38:59 > 0:39:01comes from the Latin translation of the words,
0:39:01 > 0:39:03"I give you a new command,"
0:39:03 > 0:39:05spoken by Jesus in John's Gospel?
0:39:05 > 0:39:07- Michaelmas.- Maundy Thursday.
0:39:07 > 0:39:10From 1927 to 2003, what name was given to the express train
0:39:10 > 0:39:13that ran on the West Coast Main Line
0:39:13 > 0:39:15between London Euston and Glasgow?
0:39:15 > 0:39:17- Flying Scotsman. - The Royal Scot.
0:39:17 > 0:39:20Which wild goats, noted for their sure-footedness
0:39:20 > 0:39:22and characterised by large backswept horns,
0:39:22 > 0:39:25have species called alpine, Spanish and Siberian?
0:39:25 > 0:39:27Ibex.
0:39:27 > 0:39:29Of which people were Shaka the military leader
0:39:29 > 0:39:32from 1816 to 1828 and the founder
0:39:32 > 0:39:34of their kingdom in southern Africa?
0:39:34 > 0:39:38- Zulu.- The ports of Yalta and Odessa lie on which sea?
0:39:38 > 0:39:40- The Black Sea. - What unit of measurement
0:39:40 > 0:39:43was originally defined as the mass of one cubic centimetre
0:39:43 > 0:39:47of pure water at four degrees Celsius?
0:39:47 > 0:39:48- Inch.- Gram.
0:39:48 > 0:39:50The escaped slave Harriet Tubman will become
0:39:50 > 0:39:53the first African-American to appear on American paper money
0:39:53 > 0:39:55when she replaces Andrew Jackson
0:39:55 > 0:39:57on the front of which note?
0:39:57 > 0:39:59- 5.- The 20.
0:39:59 > 0:40:02In 2016, which soap opera character's last words
0:40:02 > 0:40:05to an apparition of her friend and sometimes enemy Pat Evans
0:40:05 > 0:40:07were a simple, "Thank you"?
0:40:07 > 0:40:09- Ethel.- Peggy Mitchell.
0:40:09 > 0:40:12Which South American country has a northern coastline
0:40:12 > 0:40:14on the Caribbean Sea and a western coastline
0:40:14 > 0:40:15on the Pacific Ocean?
0:40:15 > 0:40:16- Guyana.- Colombia.
0:40:16 > 0:40:18Who plays Sam Chisolm,
0:40:18 > 0:40:19a bounty hunter in the old west,
0:40:19 > 0:40:21who leads a group of gunmen to help a poor village
0:40:21 > 0:40:24against a greedy mining tycoon
0:40:24 > 0:40:27in the 2016 remake of The Magnificent Seven?
0:40:27 > 0:40:29- Ryan Philippe. - Denzel Washington.
0:40:29 > 0:40:31In which country did the artists Otto Dix
0:40:31 > 0:40:34and George Grosz lead the New Objectivity movement
0:40:34 > 0:40:36in the 1920s that reflected BEEP
0:40:36 > 0:40:38their cynicism after the First World War?
0:40:38 > 0:40:40Germany.
0:40:40 > 0:40:44No passes, Lynn, you've now reached a total of 17 points.
0:40:53 > 0:40:55And now Frances again, please.
0:41:01 > 0:41:06And you, Frances, start out with 11 points.
0:41:06 > 0:41:10Let's see how you do with your General Knowledge. Here we go.
0:41:10 > 0:41:12What name is given to a small lift for carrying food and dishes
0:41:12 > 0:41:14between the floors of a building?
0:41:14 > 0:41:15- Butler's lift.- Dumb waiter.
0:41:15 > 0:41:17In the nursery rhyme, Monday's child is fair of face,
0:41:17 > 0:41:19Tuesday child is full of...?
0:41:19 > 0:41:23- Grace.- What film stars Dustin Hoffman as Ratso Rizzo,
0:41:23 > 0:41:26the manager for the naive Texan hustler Joe Buck,
0:41:26 > 0:41:27played by Jon Voight,
0:41:27 > 0:41:29who travels to New York to seek his fortune?
0:41:29 > 0:41:31- Virgin Cowboy.- Midnight Cowboy.
0:41:31 > 0:41:34Which English king narrowly escaped capture
0:41:34 > 0:41:35when the army he led was defeated
0:41:35 > 0:41:37at the Battle of Bannockburn?
0:41:37 > 0:41:39- Robert the Bruce.- Edward II.
0:41:39 > 0:41:42Which natural landmark in Edinburgh was described
0:41:42 > 0:41:44by Robert Louis Stevenson as "a hill for magnitude,
0:41:44 > 0:41:47"a mountain in virtue of its bold design"?
0:41:48 > 0:41:49Arthur's Seat.
0:41:49 > 0:41:51The works of an 18th century writer
0:41:51 > 0:41:54include The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman,
0:41:54 > 0:41:57originally published in nine volumes. Which writer?
0:41:59 > 0:42:01- Michael Andrews.- Laurence Sterne.
0:42:01 > 0:42:03What metallic element is mixed with gold-bearing ore
0:42:03 > 0:42:07to extract the gold in the process called amalgamation?
0:42:07 > 0:42:08- Zinc.- Mercury.
0:42:08 > 0:42:10What piece of sporting equipment
0:42:10 > 0:42:11stands in the centre of the room
0:42:11 > 0:42:14in Vincent Van Gogh's oil painting The Night Cafe?
0:42:15 > 0:42:17- Erm... A football. - A billiard table.
0:42:17 > 0:42:20Which rock singer who contested 39 parliamentary elections
0:42:20 > 0:42:22stood as a candidate for the first time
0:42:22 > 0:42:24at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1963
0:42:24 > 0:42:26after the resignation of John Profumo?
0:42:26 > 0:42:30- Harold Wilson. - David Sutch, Screaming Lord Sutch.
0:42:30 > 0:42:32What two-word term is commonly used
0:42:32 > 0:42:34to describe the industrial area of north-eastern America
0:42:34 > 0:42:37that contains older industries that have gone into decline?
0:42:37 > 0:42:38Rust Belt.
0:42:38 > 0:42:41What classical Latin name is traditionally given
0:42:41 > 0:42:42to the pilgrims from the east
0:42:42 > 0:42:44who followed a guiding star to Bethlehem
0:42:44 > 0:42:46to pay homage to the infant Jesus?
0:42:46 > 0:42:50- The Magi.- Which band topped the UK and Billboard charts
0:42:50 > 0:42:52in 1957 with That'll Be The Day?
0:42:52 > 0:42:54- Gerry And The Pacemakers. - The Crickets.
0:42:54 > 0:42:58In 1966,the ban was lifted on a William S Burroughs novel
0:42:58 > 0:43:01that was based on his experiences as a drug addict,
0:43:01 > 0:43:04effectively ending official censorship of literature in America.
0:43:04 > 0:43:06Which novel?
0:43:06 > 0:43:07- Bedbugs.- The Naked Lunch.
0:43:07 > 0:43:10Which tea-like beverage is brewed from the dried leaves
0:43:10 > 0:43:12of a shrub related to holly
0:43:12 > 0:43:15and is sometimes called Paraguayan or Brazilian tea?
0:43:15 > 0:43:18- Mate.- Who was the first person to be eliminated
0:43:18 > 0:43:20from the Conservative Party leadership contest
0:43:20 > 0:43:23in July 2016 when he received only 16 votes?
0:43:23 > 0:43:26He went on to become a member of Theresa May's first cabinet.
0:43:26 > 0:43:29- David Davis.- Liam Fox.
0:43:29 > 0:43:31Which Phoenician princess, the wife of King Ahab,
0:43:31 > 0:43:34introduced the worship of Baal into Israel?
0:43:34 > 0:43:37Her name has come to signify the archetype of a wicked woman.
0:43:37 > 0:43:39- Jezebel. - What expression that means
0:43:39 > 0:43:41BEEP to accumulate rapidly,
0:43:41 > 0:43:43especially in the context of making money,
0:43:43 > 0:43:45is thought to be of naval origin
0:43:45 > 0:43:48and refers to hauling on or climbing a rope?
0:43:52 > 0:43:55- Stockpiling.- Hand over fist.
0:43:55 > 0:43:59Yeah, you can see that, can't you? There we are, Frances, 17 points.
0:44:09 > 0:44:11And now Isabelle again, please.
0:44:13 > 0:44:18And you start out with 12 points. The score to beat is still 17.
0:44:18 > 0:44:21Here we go, two and a half minutes of General Knowledge.
0:44:21 > 0:44:24The name of which medical instrument comes from the Greek
0:44:24 > 0:44:25meaning to look at the chest?
0:44:25 > 0:44:27- Stethoscope.- In which country
0:44:27 > 0:44:29was the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's
0:44:29 > 0:44:31Liberal Democratic Party returned to power in 2012,
0:44:31 > 0:44:34the position it has held almost continuously
0:44:34 > 0:44:36since '55 when it was formed?
0:44:36 > 0:44:38- Japan.- Which composer, a child prodigy,
0:44:38 > 0:44:40was taken by his father on concert tours
0:44:40 > 0:44:42around Europe's noble houses,
0:44:42 > 0:44:45often with his older sister Maria Anna, known as Nannerl,
0:44:45 > 0:44:47who was also a gifted musician?
0:44:47 > 0:44:49- Mozart.- What was the name of the Greenpeace ship
0:44:49 > 0:44:52that was sunk in Auckland harbour in July '85?
0:44:52 > 0:44:55- Rainbow Warrior. - What common meat product is known in English
0:44:55 > 0:44:57by a name that comes from the Latin salsus, meaning salted?
0:44:57 > 0:44:59Sausage.
0:44:59 > 0:45:01One of the central themes of Marlon James' novel
0:45:01 > 0:45:03A Brief History Of Seven Killings
0:45:03 > 0:45:06is the attempted murder of a real-life reggae singer in 1976,
0:45:06 > 0:45:08days before he was due to perform
0:45:08 > 0:45:09at a concert to promote peace
0:45:09 > 0:45:11among Jamaica's warring political factions.
0:45:11 > 0:45:12Which reggae singer?
0:45:12 > 0:45:13Bob Marley.
0:45:13 > 0:45:16What ecclesiastical high office did Matthew Parker,
0:45:16 > 0:45:18Edmund Grindal and John Whitgift hold
0:45:18 > 0:45:20during the reign of Elizabeth I?
0:45:20 > 0:45:21Archbishop of Canterbury.
0:45:21 > 0:45:22Margaret Thatcher was born
0:45:22 > 0:45:24in which Lincolnshire town in October 1925?
0:45:24 > 0:45:25Grantham.
0:45:25 > 0:45:27Which king is played by Tom Hiddleston
0:45:27 > 0:45:29in the first series of the BBC adaptations
0:45:29 > 0:45:32of Shakespeare's history plays, The Hollow Crown?
0:45:32 > 0:45:33Henry V.
0:45:33 > 0:45:36The first Chinese woman to become a Nobel Laureate
0:45:36 > 0:45:39was Tu Youyou, who won the 2015 prize
0:45:39 > 0:45:40for medicine and physiology
0:45:40 > 0:45:42for her discovery of drugs
0:45:42 > 0:45:44to treat which mosquito-borne disease?
0:45:44 > 0:45:46- Malaria.- What is the name of the traditional Austrian
0:45:46 > 0:45:48and Bavarian men's leather breeches,
0:45:48 > 0:45:50usually worn with braces?
0:45:50 > 0:45:51Lederhosen.
0:45:51 > 0:45:52The flag of which Middle Eastern country
0:45:52 > 0:45:55displays the shahada, the Muslim declaration of faith,
0:45:55 > 0:45:58and a sword against a green background?
0:46:00 > 0:46:02- Libya.- Saudi Arabia.
0:46:02 > 0:46:05Who directed the 2016 film documentary
0:46:05 > 0:46:07The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years?
0:46:07 > 0:46:10- Ron Howard. - What term, from the Latin word meaning a marsh,
0:46:10 > 0:46:13is used for a stretch of water where the tide meets a river current,
0:46:13 > 0:46:15particularly an arm of the sea,
0:46:15 > 0:46:16at the lower end of a river?
0:46:16 > 0:46:18- Delta.- Estuary.
0:46:18 > 0:46:21In which French ball game is the small wooden ball or jack
0:46:21 > 0:46:23called a cochonnet, meaning "little pig"?
0:46:23 > 0:46:24Boules.
0:46:24 > 0:46:26The 1964 painting The Son Of Man
0:46:26 > 0:46:28that depicts a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat
0:46:28 > 0:46:30with his face obscured by an apple
0:46:30 > 0:46:32is by which Belgian surrealist artist?
0:46:32 > 0:46:35- Magritte.- What name is given to the annual music festival
0:46:35 > 0:46:38that dates back to about 1715 and is held in rotation
0:46:38 > 0:46:41at Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester cathedrals?
0:46:41 > 0:46:42Three Choirs Festival.
0:46:42 > 0:46:44Which notorious former sea captain was deposed
0:46:44 > 0:46:47as the governor of New South Wales in January 1808
0:46:47 > 0:46:49after the so-called Rum Rebellion?
0:46:49 > 0:46:50Bligh.
0:46:50 > 0:46:53Which cows' milk cheese is named after the Swiss valley
0:46:53 > 0:46:54BEEP where it was first made
0:46:54 > 0:46:56and is similar in appearance to Gruyere,
0:46:56 > 0:46:58but has much larger holes?
0:46:58 > 0:47:00Emmental.
0:47:00 > 0:47:03You have now rocketed away, Isabelle.
0:47:03 > 0:47:06- You have a total of 29 points. - Thank you!
0:47:15 > 0:47:19And Steven again, please.
0:47:19 > 0:47:24And you start out with 12 points as well, Steven.
0:47:24 > 0:47:2729 is the score to beat. Here we go.
0:47:27 > 0:47:29Let's see if you can do it with your General Knowledge.
0:47:29 > 0:47:31Two and a half minutes, starting now.
0:47:31 > 0:47:33What was the surname of the brothers Orville and Wilbur
0:47:33 > 0:47:35who, in 1903, made the first sustained
0:47:35 > 0:47:37and controlled aeroplane flight?
0:47:37 > 0:47:38Wright.
0:47:38 > 0:47:40In the 1984 mockumentary film,
0:47:40 > 0:47:43which rock group consists of David St Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel,
0:47:43 > 0:47:45Derek Smalls and a series of drummers
0:47:45 > 0:47:47who die in odd circumstances,
0:47:47 > 0:47:50including on-stage spontaneous human combustion?
0:47:50 > 0:47:52- Spinal Tap.- The linden is an alternative name
0:47:52 > 0:47:54for which tree of the genus Tilia?
0:47:54 > 0:47:55Lime.
0:47:55 > 0:47:57What term for a self-service type of restaurant
0:47:57 > 0:47:59comes from the American-Spanish
0:47:59 > 0:48:00for a place where coffee is sold?
0:48:00 > 0:48:02- Canteen.- Cafeteria.
0:48:02 > 0:48:05Anderlecht is an outer suburb of which European capital city?
0:48:05 > 0:48:07- Amsterdam.- Brussels.
0:48:07 > 0:48:10In Greek mythology, King Lycaon of Arcadia
0:48:10 > 0:48:13tried to trick Zeus into eating human flesh.
0:48:13 > 0:48:15He failed and was turned into what creature?
0:48:15 > 0:48:17- Serpent?- A wolf.
0:48:17 > 0:48:19Which French artist's last great painting
0:48:19 > 0:48:20A Bar At The Folies Bergere
0:48:20 > 0:48:22was first exhibited in Paris in 1882
0:48:22 > 0:48:25and is now on display at the Courtauld Gallery in London?
0:48:25 > 0:48:26- Monet.- Manet.
0:48:26 > 0:48:28Which Northumberland race meeting
0:48:28 > 0:48:30was immortalised in a song
0:48:30 > 0:48:32by the 19th century composer Geordie Ridley?
0:48:32 > 0:48:36- Blaydon.- The word "punic", as used in the three Punic Wars,
0:48:36 > 0:48:38comes from the Latin for people who, by tradition,
0:48:38 > 0:48:40founded Carthage in 814 BC.
0:48:40 > 0:48:41Which people?
0:48:41 > 0:48:43- Trojans?- The Phoenicians.
0:48:43 > 0:48:45Whose reinvention after his life as an MP
0:48:45 > 0:48:48has included writing a cookery column in The Spectator,
0:48:48 > 0:48:50becoming chairman of Norwich City FC
0:48:50 > 0:48:52and appearing on Strictly Come Dancing?
0:48:52 > 0:48:54Ed Balls.
0:48:54 > 0:48:55Consumption was an old term
0:48:55 > 0:48:57that was used to refer to which lung disease?
0:48:57 > 0:48:58Tuberculosis.
0:48:58 > 0:49:01Which 1979 album by The Clash has a photograph on its cover
0:49:01 > 0:49:05of Paul Simenon smashing his guitar onstage?
0:49:05 > 0:49:07London Calling.
0:49:07 > 0:49:10What name is given to a type of plain sponge cake,
0:49:10 > 0:49:11usually flavoured with lemon
0:49:11 > 0:49:14because of the wine with which it was originally eaten?
0:49:14 > 0:49:15- Cassata.- Madeira.
0:49:15 > 0:49:18The telltale or tin is the name of a narrow piece of metal
0:49:18 > 0:49:21that extends along the bottom of the front wall
0:49:21 > 0:49:23of which sport's playing area?
0:49:23 > 0:49:25- Cricket.- Squash court.
0:49:25 > 0:49:28Which New York park was built to an 1858 design
0:49:28 > 0:49:30by the landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted
0:49:30 > 0:49:32and Calvert Vaux?
0:49:32 > 0:49:33Central Park.
0:49:33 > 0:49:36Which English writer's 2015 novel Slade House
0:49:36 > 0:49:38grew out of the short story The Right Sort
0:49:38 > 0:49:40that he had posted on Twitter?
0:49:40 > 0:49:41- Dickens.- David Mitchell.
0:49:41 > 0:49:43What branch of the humanities did Edward Gibbon
0:49:43 > 0:49:46describe as "little more than the register of the crimes,
0:49:46 > 0:49:48"follies and misfortunes of mankind"?
0:49:48 > 0:49:51- History.- Murmuration is the usual collective noun
0:49:51 > 0:49:54for which common birds that form huge flocks
0:49:54 > 0:49:55at favourite roosting places?
0:49:55 > 0:49:57- Starlings.- Which leading member
0:49:57 > 0:49:59of the American Pop Art movement did David Bowie
0:49:59 > 0:50:01portray in Julian Schnabel's BEEP
0:50:01 > 0:50:031996 film Basquiat?
0:50:03 > 0:50:05Andy Warhol.
0:50:05 > 0:50:09Well, it's a good score, Steven, but not enough, I'm afraid - 23 points.
0:50:18 > 0:50:22And now Mohan again, please.
0:50:24 > 0:50:32And 13 points is what you start out with. 29 still the score to beat.
0:50:32 > 0:50:35Here we go. Two and a half minutes of General Knowledge.
0:50:35 > 0:50:36What is the name of the church
0:50:36 > 0:50:38that stands at the summit of the Butte de Montmartre,
0:50:38 > 0:50:40one of the highest points in Paris?
0:50:40 > 0:50:41- Notre Dame?- Sacre Coeur.
0:50:41 > 0:50:43What meat is the main ingredient
0:50:43 > 0:50:45of the traditional Norwegian stew finnbiff?
0:50:45 > 0:50:47- Herring?- Reindeer.
0:50:47 > 0:50:48Which television cartoon character
0:50:48 > 0:50:50lives with his pet snail Gary
0:50:50 > 0:50:52and is friends with Sandy Cheeks,
0:50:52 > 0:50:54an aggressive Texas-accented squirrel
0:50:54 > 0:50:57and Patrick, an intellectually-challenged starfish?
0:50:57 > 0:50:58SpongeBob SquarePants.
0:50:58 > 0:51:00Who was the flag captain of HMS Victory
0:51:00 > 0:51:01at the Battle of Trafalgar?
0:51:01 > 0:51:04He was at Nelson's side when he was mortally wounded.
0:51:04 > 0:51:06Pass.
0:51:06 > 0:51:08Which gas, with the chemical formula CH4,
0:51:08 > 0:51:11is known as marsh gas when it's formed by rotting vegetation
0:51:11 > 0:51:13in marshes and as firedamp in coal mines?
0:51:13 > 0:51:17- Methane.- The winners of the 2015 NBA finals,
0:51:17 > 0:51:20the Golden State Warriors basketball team,
0:51:20 > 0:51:23play their home games in which California city?
0:51:23 > 0:51:25- Sacramento?- Oakland.
0:51:25 > 0:51:28The Canada Memorial and the RAF Bomber Command Memorial
0:51:28 > 0:51:30are both in which of London's royal parks?
0:51:30 > 0:51:32- Regent's?- Green Park.
0:51:32 > 0:51:33What do the initials VR stand for
0:51:33 > 0:51:35in the field of computer technology?
0:51:35 > 0:51:36Virtual reality.
0:51:36 > 0:51:38Which Cotswolds-based amateur detective,
0:51:38 > 0:51:40created by the author MC Beaton,
0:51:40 > 0:51:44is played in a 2016 television series by Ashley Jensen?
0:51:46 > 0:51:47- Miss Marple.- Agatha Raisin.
0:51:47 > 0:51:50Which two public schools have played each other
0:51:50 > 0:51:54in a cricket match at Lords over 175 times since 1805?
0:51:54 > 0:51:56- Oxford and Cambridge. - Eton and Harrow.
0:51:56 > 0:51:59The name of which beautiful youth of Greek mythology
0:51:59 > 0:52:01is often applied to any very handsome young man?
0:52:01 > 0:52:03- Adonis?- Under what name did the British singer
0:52:03 > 0:52:07and actor Ben Drew top the UK album charts in 2010
0:52:07 > 0:52:10with the album The Defamation Of Strickland Banks?
0:52:10 > 0:52:11Plan B.
0:52:11 > 0:52:13The goosander and the wigeon belong
0:52:13 > 0:52:16to which group of water fowl of the family Anatidae?
0:52:16 > 0:52:18Ducks?
0:52:18 > 0:52:20Which Italian-born fashion designer
0:52:20 > 0:52:22gave the name Shocking Pink
0:52:22 > 0:52:25to the colour she popularised in the 1940s?
0:52:25 > 0:52:26- Coco Chanel?- Schiaparelli.
0:52:26 > 0:52:28Who plays the title role
0:52:28 > 0:52:30of the airline pilot Chesley Sullenberger
0:52:30 > 0:52:32in Clint Eastwood's 2016 film Sully?
0:52:32 > 0:52:34Tom Hanks.
0:52:34 > 0:52:36The fathers of Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio,
0:52:36 > 0:52:38who stood for the Republican Party presidential nomination
0:52:38 > 0:52:42in 2016, were both born in which country?
0:52:42 > 0:52:44- Mexico?- Cuba.
0:52:44 > 0:52:46Howard Phillips are the two forenames
0:52:46 > 0:52:48of which American horror writer
0:52:48 > 0:52:50whose works include The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward?
0:52:50 > 0:52:52HP Lovecraft.
0:52:52 > 0:52:53Which French international,
0:52:53 > 0:52:56who signed for Manchester United in August 2016,
0:52:56 > 0:52:59has two older twin brothers, Florentin and Mathias,
0:52:59 > 0:53:01who have played for Guinea?
0:53:01 > 0:53:02Paul Pogba.
0:53:02 > 0:53:04What was the name of the leader
0:53:04 > 0:53:06of the green-skinned aliens, the Treens...
0:53:06 > 0:53:07BEEP
0:53:07 > 0:53:09..Dan Dare's mortal enemy in The Eagle comic?
0:53:12 > 0:53:14- Klingons...- It might have been, mightn't it?
0:53:14 > 0:53:16The Mekon.
0:53:16 > 0:53:17And you had one pass -
0:53:17 > 0:53:21the flag captain of HMS Victory was Hardy.
0:53:21 > 0:53:27"Kiss me, Hardy." Yes, I know. There you are, Mohan, you have 22 points.
0:53:36 > 0:53:38And, finally, John again, please.
0:53:40 > 0:53:45Now, John, you had a very high score in the first round - 15 points,
0:53:45 > 0:53:46as you well know.
0:53:46 > 0:53:52And you also well know you've got a very high score to beat - 29 points.
0:53:52 > 0:53:55Two and a half minutes of General Knowledge, starting now.
0:53:55 > 0:53:58In June 2015, who secured the required 35 nominations
0:53:58 > 0:54:01to stand for the Labour Party leadership election
0:54:01 > 0:54:02with only a few minutes to spare?
0:54:02 > 0:54:04- Jeremy Corbyn.- What name of French origin
0:54:04 > 0:54:06is given to a large enclosed space,
0:54:06 > 0:54:08typically used for storing aircraft?
0:54:08 > 0:54:12- Hangar.- Which fermented alcoholic beverage
0:54:12 > 0:54:13that dates back to ancient times
0:54:13 > 0:54:15is made from honey, water and yeast?
0:54:15 > 0:54:19- Mead.- Which classic novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
0:54:19 > 0:54:21tells the story of a decadent Sicilian aristocracy
0:54:21 > 0:54:23threatened by the approaching forces
0:54:23 > 0:54:25of democracy and revolution?
0:54:25 > 0:54:28- Erm... Decameron.- The Leopard.
0:54:28 > 0:54:30What name that comes from the Anglo-Norman
0:54:30 > 0:54:33for "behind the back" is given to the ornamental screen,
0:54:33 > 0:54:35often richly decorated, behind the altar in a church?
0:54:35 > 0:54:37Reredos.
0:54:37 > 0:54:40Which pop supergroup, who disbanded in 1968
0:54:40 > 0:54:42and briefly reformed in 2005,
0:54:42 > 0:54:45comprised Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker?
0:54:45 > 0:54:49- Cream.- Which warrior leader was born in about 1162
0:54:49 > 0:54:53near Lake Baikal, supposedly holding a clot of blood in his hand?
0:54:53 > 0:54:55Genghis Khan.
0:54:55 > 0:54:58In which 2016 film, directed by Stephen Frears,
0:54:58 > 0:55:01does Meryl Streep play an ageing New York heiress
0:55:01 > 0:55:03who dreams of becoming an opera singer,
0:55:03 > 0:55:06even though she has a terrible singing voice?
0:55:06 > 0:55:08Florence Foster Jenkins.
0:55:08 > 0:55:09By what name is the early form of bicycle
0:55:09 > 0:55:12known as the high wheeler or the ordinary better known
0:55:12 > 0:55:15because of its large front wheel and small back wheel?
0:55:15 > 0:55:19- Penny farthing.- Tanganyika and Zanzibar united in 1964
0:55:19 > 0:55:20to form which modern-day country?
0:55:20 > 0:55:23- Tanzania.- The town of Church Stretton
0:55:23 > 0:55:26and the Carding Mill Valley are popular tourist places
0:55:26 > 0:55:27in which county?
0:55:27 > 0:55:28- Gloucestershire.- Shropshire.
0:55:28 > 0:55:31In his 1945 essay You And The Atomic Bomb,
0:55:31 > 0:55:34George Orwell is credited with the first published use
0:55:34 > 0:55:37of a term for hostilities that are short of armed conflict.
0:55:37 > 0:55:38What term?
0:55:38 > 0:55:39Cold war.
0:55:39 > 0:55:41Which part of the body is inflamed or ulcerated
0:55:41 > 0:55:43in the condition known as stomatitis?
0:55:43 > 0:55:46- Pancreas.- The mouth.
0:55:46 > 0:55:49Which 2008 BBC talent show took its title
0:55:49 > 0:55:51from a song sung by Nancy in the musical Oliver?
0:55:51 > 0:55:54The series aimed to discover an unknown
0:55:54 > 0:55:56to play her in a West End revival.
0:55:59 > 0:56:02- The Voice.- I'd Do Anything.
0:56:02 > 0:56:04In which household and industrial warning devices
0:56:04 > 0:56:07is the man-made radioactive isotope
0:56:07 > 0:56:10americium-241 widely used?
0:56:10 > 0:56:13- Smoke alarms.- The famous painting of a man and wife
0:56:13 > 0:56:15that has a Latin inscription above a mirror
0:56:15 > 0:56:19that translates as "Jan van Eyck was here, 1434"
0:56:19 > 0:56:21is usually known by what name?
0:56:21 > 0:56:23Erm...
0:56:23 > 0:56:24The Night Watch.
0:56:24 > 0:56:27The Arnolfini Portrait. BEEP
0:56:28 > 0:56:30And your time is up.
0:56:30 > 0:56:34And, John, you have scored 26 points.
0:56:44 > 0:56:47And so, after that closely fought contest,
0:56:47 > 0:56:49let's have a look at all the scores.
0:56:49 > 0:56:52Joint fifth place,
0:56:52 > 0:56:54Lynn Edwards and Frances Slack.
0:56:54 > 0:56:57Fourth place, Mohan Mudigonda.
0:56:57 > 0:57:01Third place, Steven Marc Rhodes.
0:57:01 > 0:57:05Second place, John Cockerill.
0:57:05 > 0:57:07But nobody could catch her.
0:57:07 > 0:57:08First place,
0:57:08 > 0:57:12the 2017 Mastermind Champion,
0:57:12 > 0:57:15Isabelle Heward.
0:57:29 > 0:57:30Isabelle.
0:57:34 > 0:57:37- Take that.- Thank you very much.
0:57:37 > 0:57:39You have really earned that
0:57:39 > 0:57:42because how many times have you got to the semifinal?
0:57:42 > 0:57:46- Before this year, three times previously.- Wow!
0:57:46 > 0:57:50- So, this was your fourth attempt at it.- Absolutely.
0:57:50 > 0:57:53- My first appearance on Mastermind was in 1983.- Oh!
0:57:53 > 0:57:56Good lord, I was barely born.
0:57:56 > 0:57:58I'm very disappointed I can't have a go another time!
0:57:58 > 0:58:04- Well, congratulations. A very, very worthy winner.- Thank you very much.
0:58:04 > 0:58:07So, Isabelle is our winner, but the search will start again
0:58:07 > 0:58:11later this year to find a new Mastermind and if you think you have
0:58:11 > 0:58:14what it takes to be the new champion then do visit us online...
0:58:17 > 0:58:19And you can follow us...
0:58:19 > 0:58:22And do us join us again for more Masterminds.
0:58:22 > 0:58:24Thanks for watching. Goodbye.