0:00:25 > 0:00:28Our first contender in the black chair tonight is Phil Ryder,
0:00:28 > 0:00:30a railway controller from Liverpool.
0:00:30 > 0:00:34He's answering questions on the television series Mad Men.
0:00:34 > 0:00:37Angela Bell is a university lecturer from Ipswich.
0:00:37 > 0:00:41Her specialist subject, the great war poet Wilfred Owen.
0:00:42 > 0:00:46Next, Owen Dawson, a college curriculum manager from London,
0:00:46 > 0:00:49on the American rock band Faith No More.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52And last into the spotlight tonight,
0:00:52 > 0:00:55Adrian Staton from Liverpool on Sir Michael Caine.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.
0:01:15 > 0:01:19Tonight's contenders will each make the short but daunting walk
0:01:19 > 0:01:22to the black chair where they will answer two minutes of questions
0:01:22 > 0:01:25on their specialist subject and then two and a half minutes
0:01:25 > 0:01:28on general knowledge - and that's the killer, of course,
0:01:28 > 0:01:30they've no idea what's coming.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33The winner goes through to the semifinal and takes
0:01:33 > 0:01:37a short step closer to the title, the nation's Mastermind.
0:01:37 > 0:01:40So, let's have our first contender, please.
0:01:46 > 0:01:48And your name is?
0:01:48 > 0:01:51Your occupation?
0:01:51 > 0:01:53And your specialist subject?
0:01:54 > 0:01:56Mad Men in two minutes.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59The series takes its name from a term coined in the 1950s
0:01:59 > 0:02:01to describe the advertising executives
0:02:01 > 0:02:03of which famous street in Manhattan?
0:02:03 > 0:02:04Madison Avenue.
0:02:04 > 0:02:08When Don Draper met the advertising executive Roger Sterling
0:02:08 > 0:02:10and pestered him until offered a job at Sterling Cooper,
0:02:10 > 0:02:12he was working in a shop selling what?
0:02:12 > 0:02:14Fur coats.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16Which veteran actor plays the part of
0:02:16 > 0:02:18the founding partner Bertrand 'Bert' Cooper?
0:02:18 > 0:02:19Robert Morse.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22Don Draper assumed the identity of his commanding officer
0:02:22 > 0:02:26who was killed in an explosion caused by a cigarette lighter in Korea.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28What is Don's real name?
0:02:28 > 0:02:29Dick Whitman.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31In the episode Babylon, what novel does Don read
0:02:31 > 0:02:34to gain background information before he makes a pitch
0:02:34 > 0:02:37for the advertising business of the Israeli Tourist Board?
0:02:37 > 0:02:38Pass.
0:02:38 > 0:02:41Betty Draper meets the man who will become her second husband
0:02:41 > 0:02:44at a party thrown by Jane and Roger Sterling?
0:02:44 > 0:02:46What's his name?
0:02:46 > 0:02:47Henry Francis.
0:02:47 > 0:02:51Elisabeth Moss plays which character, Don Draper's personal assistant
0:02:51 > 0:02:53who rises to become a successful copywriter?
0:02:53 > 0:02:55Peggy Olson.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57In series 2, the partners of Sterling Cooper
0:02:57 > 0:03:00accept an offer to merge with which London-based firm?
0:03:02 > 0:03:05Portnam... Pass.
0:03:05 > 0:03:08Who created Mad Men and is credited as an executive producer
0:03:08 > 0:03:10as well as a writer on most of the episodes?
0:03:10 > 0:03:11Matthew Weiner.
0:03:11 > 0:03:14At the start of series 2, Sterling Cooper's new head of accounts
0:03:14 > 0:03:17insists that the agency brings in a young creative team
0:03:17 > 0:03:20to work on the account of which coffee company?
0:03:23 > 0:03:24Matheson.
0:03:24 > 0:03:26Martinson's. In the episode Waterloo,
0:03:26 > 0:03:28the death of the founding partner Bert Cooper
0:03:28 > 0:03:30overshadows the success of the Burger Chef pitch
0:03:30 > 0:03:32and which historical event?
0:03:34 > 0:03:35The moon landing.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37In the episode Faraway Places,
0:03:37 > 0:03:41Don takes his wife Megan on a road trip to sample Howard Johnson's motor lodge
0:03:41 > 0:03:44and makes her try an iconic dessert, much to her disgust.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46What flavour sherbet is it?
0:03:46 > 0:03:47Orange sherbet.
0:03:47 > 0:03:50What is the name of the finance executive played by
0:03:50 > 0:03:52Jared Harris who fires of the partners of Sterling Cooper
0:03:52 > 0:03:56so they can form a new agency to avoid being taken over by McCann's?
0:03:56 > 0:03:58- Layne Pryce. - BEEP
0:03:58 > 0:04:01In which New York Hotel does the new agency Sterling Cooper Draper Price
0:04:01 > 0:04:06start work before it secures proper offices in the Time-Life Building?
0:04:07 > 0:04:09The Roosevelt.
0:04:09 > 0:04:10No, the Pierre Hotel.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12Two passes.
0:04:12 > 0:04:15The partners of Sterling Cooper accept an offer to merge with
0:04:15 > 0:04:18Puttnam, nearly got there. Puttnam, Powell and Lowe.
0:04:18 > 0:04:19You knew it, didn't you?
0:04:19 > 0:04:22And in that Babylon episode,
0:04:22 > 0:04:25the novel Don was reading was Exodus.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28However, Phil, you have scored 10 points.
0:04:38 > 0:04:40And our next contender, please.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50And your name is?
0:04:50 > 0:04:52Your occupation?
0:04:52 > 0:04:54And your chosen subject?
0:04:55 > 0:04:58Wilfred Owen in two minutes.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01Which poem by the celebrated First World War poet
0:05:01 > 0:05:04begins, "What passing bells for these who die as cattle?"
0:05:04 > 0:05:05Anthem For Doomed Youth.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08As a boy, Owen admired the work of a poet mentioned in
0:05:08 > 0:05:11the final line of Written In A Wood, September 1910, who was he?
0:05:11 > 0:05:12John Keats.
0:05:12 > 0:05:16In 1907, Owen formed the Astronomical, Geological and Botanical Society
0:05:16 > 0:05:18with his cousin Leslie and his sister.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20What was her name?
0:05:20 > 0:05:21Edith.
0:05:21 > 0:05:26Vera. Which poem includes, "My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
0:05:26 > 0:05:29"To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie"?
0:05:29 > 0:05:31Dulce Et Decorum Est.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34Owen was transferred to Craiglockhart War Hospital
0:05:34 > 0:05:37suffering from shellshock after an explosion in April 1917
0:05:37 > 0:05:41threw him into the air while he was asleep in which wood near St Quentin?
0:05:42 > 0:05:44Pass.
0:05:44 > 0:05:48In August 1917, Owen introduced himself to his fellow patient at Craiglockhart
0:05:48 > 0:05:53Siegfried Sassoon by asking him to sign copies of what collection of poems?
0:05:53 > 0:05:54Pass.
0:05:54 > 0:06:00Which poem includes, "Machine guns chuckled, tut-tut! And the Big Gun guffawed"?
0:06:02 > 0:06:03The Show.
0:06:03 > 0:06:07The Last Laugh. In which magazine was his poem Miners published in January 1918?
0:06:07 > 0:06:11It was the first to earn him money in one of only a handful printed during his lifetime.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13The Nation.
0:06:13 > 0:06:18In the poem Le Christianisme, the Virgin Mary is haloed with an old what?
0:06:18 > 0:06:20Wreath.
0:06:20 > 0:06:24Tin hat. Which poem describes rain as, "guttering down in waterfalls of slime,
0:06:24 > 0:06:27"kept slush waist high and rising hour by hour?"
0:06:27 > 0:06:28Strange Meeting.
0:06:28 > 0:06:32The Sentry. Owen returned to France in 1918, he was awarded a medal
0:06:32 > 0:06:34for his action on the 1st and 2nd of October
0:06:34 > 0:06:36when he captured a machinegun
0:06:36 > 0:06:39and inflicted considerable losses on the enemy. Which medal?
0:06:39 > 0:06:40Military Cross.
0:06:40 > 0:06:43Owen was killed during the crossing of the Sambre Canal
0:06:43 > 0:06:44in the final year of the War.
0:06:44 > 0:06:48The push started at 5.45am on what date?
0:06:48 > 0:06:504th of November.
0:06:50 > 0:06:53Which of Owen's poems begins - "Red lips are not so red
0:06:53 > 0:06:56"as the stained stones kissed by the English dead"?
0:06:56 > 0:06:58Anthem For Doomed Youth.
0:06:58 > 0:06:59Greater Love.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01BEEP What was Owen's rank when he was commissioned
0:07:01 > 0:07:04into the Manchester Regiment in June 1916?
0:07:04 > 0:07:06- Second Lieutenant.- Is correct.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08You had two passes.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10The collection, the Sassoon collection
0:07:10 > 0:07:14he asked him to sign was the Old Huntsman And Other Poems.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16And he suffered from shellshock
0:07:16 > 0:07:19as a result of an explosion in Savy Wood.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23You have scored 7 points.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35And our next contender, please.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43And your name is?
0:07:43 > 0:07:45Your occupation?
0:07:45 > 0:07:47And your chosen subject?
0:07:49 > 0:07:51Faith No More in two minutes, here we go.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54On which independent record label did the American rock band
0:07:54 > 0:07:56release their first album after the label's founder
0:07:56 > 0:07:58heard their demo while out shopping?
0:07:58 > 0:07:59Mordam.
0:07:59 > 0:08:03The band's '93 VHS release that features their music videos
0:08:03 > 0:08:07including Midlife Crisis and Caffeine is entitled Video WHAT?
0:08:07 > 0:08:08Croissant.
0:08:08 > 0:08:11Towards the end of '87, the band embarked on an American tour
0:08:11 > 0:08:14as the supporting act to which Californian-based rock band?
0:08:14 > 0:08:16Metallica.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18Red Hot Chili Peppers. Who is credited as a producer
0:08:18 > 0:08:21on the first four studio albums the band released?
0:08:21 > 0:08:22Matt Wallace.
0:08:22 > 0:08:26Which guitarist, who joined Faith No More in '83,
0:08:26 > 0:08:29was replaced in November '93 with Trey Spruance?
0:08:29 > 0:08:30Jim Martin.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32What was the name of the studios in upstate New York
0:08:32 > 0:08:34where the band recorded their album
0:08:34 > 0:08:37King For A Day... Fool For A Lifetime in '94?
0:08:37 > 0:08:38Pass.
0:08:38 > 0:08:42Trey Spruance and Mike Patton have both been members of an experimental rock band
0:08:42 > 0:08:45based in Eureka, California. What was the band called?
0:08:45 > 0:08:46Mr Bungle.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49Which subsidiary of Warner Reprise that originally specialised
0:08:49 > 0:08:53in local and punk rock bands did Faith No More join in '85
0:08:53 > 0:08:55after they left the Mordam label?
0:08:55 > 0:08:56Slash.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59With which American hip-hop band did they collaborate
0:08:59 > 0:09:00on the song Another Body Murdered
0:09:00 > 0:09:03from the soundtrack of the '93 film Judgment Night?
0:09:03 > 0:09:04The Boo-Ya Tribe.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07What is the title of the band's 2015 album,
0:09:07 > 0:09:10their first new studio album since '97?
0:09:10 > 0:09:11Sol Invictus.
0:09:11 > 0:09:15Which member of Los Lobos co-produced the band's first album
0:09:15 > 0:09:18for Slash Records called Introduce Yourself?
0:09:18 > 0:09:19Warren Entner.
0:09:19 > 0:09:20Steven Berlin.
0:09:20 > 0:09:23In '93, Faith No More reached number three in the UK singles chart
0:09:23 > 0:09:25with a cover of which Commodores song?
0:09:25 > 0:09:26Easy.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29At which music festival near Stratford-upon-Avon
0:09:29 > 0:09:33did they perform the last gig of their Angel Dust Tour in July '93?
0:09:33 > 0:09:34Phoenix.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37Which Black Sabbath song from the Paranoid album
0:09:37 > 0:09:39did Faith No More cover and include as a bonus track
0:09:39 > 0:09:43on the CD version of their '89 Real Thing album?
0:09:43 > 0:09:44War Pigs.
0:09:44 > 0:09:48The '87 album Introduce Yourself includes the track Anne's Song
0:09:48 > 0:09:51which was released as a single with which other song on the B-side?
0:09:51 > 0:09:53BEEP
0:09:55 > 0:09:57Chinese Arithmetic.
0:09:57 > 0:09:58No, it was Greed.
0:09:58 > 0:10:01Just one pass, Owen.
0:10:01 > 0:10:05The name of those studios in upstate New York was the Bearsville Studios.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07But you've scored 11 points.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19And our final contender, please.
0:10:27 > 0:10:29And your name is?
0:10:29 > 0:10:31Your occupation?
0:10:31 > 0:10:33And your chosen subject?
0:10:34 > 0:10:36Sir Michael Caine, two minutes.
0:10:36 > 0:10:38Which film gave him his breakthrough role?
0:10:38 > 0:10:42He played the upper-class Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead in 1964.
0:10:42 > 0:10:43Zulu.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46In which '69 film, also starring Noel Coward,
0:10:46 > 0:10:49does Caine play Charlie Croker and speak the now famous line,
0:10:49 > 0:10:51"You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off"?
0:10:51 > 0:10:53The Italian Job.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55As a child, Caine had what vitamin deficiency condition
0:10:55 > 0:10:58that meant he had to wear surgically modified shoes?
0:10:58 > 0:10:59Rickets.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02In his autobiography, Caine describes life in the '60s
0:11:02 > 0:11:05as a nonstop party and calls a fellow actor and flatmate
0:11:05 > 0:11:09"my companion in many an adventure in those days." Who was he?
0:11:09 > 0:11:10Terence Stamp.
0:11:10 > 0:11:12Caine had to change his original stage name
0:11:12 > 0:11:16when he joined the actors union Equity because someone was already using it.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18- What was his first stage name? - Michael Scott.
0:11:18 > 0:11:22Which of his co-stars and friends tried to teach Caine how to play golf?
0:11:22 > 0:11:25He was so bad, the friend broke Caine's club in two.
0:11:25 > 0:11:26Sean Connery.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29In which town did Caine get his first job in the theatre?
0:11:29 > 0:11:32He was assistant stage manager with occasional walk-on parts
0:11:32 > 0:11:34with the local repertory company.
0:11:34 > 0:11:35Lowestoft.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38Horsham. When Caine first saw the model and actress Shakira Baksh,
0:11:38 > 0:11:43whom he married in 1973, she was on television advertising what?
0:11:43 > 0:11:44Maxwell House Coffee.
0:11:44 > 0:11:46Who directed the '81 horror film The Hand
0:11:46 > 0:11:49in which Caine plays a cartoonist
0:11:49 > 0:11:51whose drawing hand is cut off in a car accident
0:11:51 > 0:11:53and takes on a life of its own?
0:11:53 > 0:11:54Stone...
0:11:54 > 0:11:56Yes, Oliver Stone.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59Which of Caine's classic films is set in Newcastle upon Tyne?
0:11:59 > 0:12:02He plays a London gangster who's travelled home
0:12:02 > 0:12:03to avenge his brother's death.
0:12:03 > 0:12:04Get Carter.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07What was the name of the restaurant that Caine launched
0:12:07 > 0:12:09with chef Marco Pierre White and Claudio Pulze
0:12:09 > 0:12:11in Chelsea Harbour in 1992?
0:12:12 > 0:12:13The Canteen.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16Caine appeared in the film version of The Honorary Consul
0:12:16 > 0:12:19and which other Graham Greene novel that was filmed in Vietnam?
0:12:19 > 0:12:20The Quiet American.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23In which play by Willis Hall did Caine understudy
0:12:23 > 0:12:25Peter O'Toole's role in the London production
0:12:25 > 0:12:28before playing that part in the subsequent tour?
0:12:28 > 0:12:29Long, The Short And The Tall.
0:12:29 > 0:12:32Caine has won two Oscars for Best Supporting Actor -
0:12:32 > 0:12:34the first for Hannah And Her Sisters in '86
0:12:34 > 0:12:37and the second in '99 for which film? BEEP
0:12:37 > 0:12:38Cider House Rules.
0:12:38 > 0:12:40Is correct.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43No passes, Adrian, you've scored 13 points.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55Well, some high scores in the first round.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57Let's have a look at all the scores.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59In fourth place, Angela Bell.
0:12:59 > 0:13:02Third place, Phil Ryder.
0:13:02 > 0:13:05Second place, Owen Dawson.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08First place, 13 points, Adrian Staton.
0:13:16 > 0:13:19And that means it is the general knowledge round now
0:13:19 > 0:13:22and if there is a tie at the end of it, then the number of passes
0:13:22 > 0:13:26is taken into account and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.
0:13:26 > 0:13:30If they're tied on passes as well, there has to be a tie-breaker.
0:13:30 > 0:13:34The six highest-scoring runners up will also be able to claim
0:13:34 > 0:13:36a place in the semifinal.
0:13:36 > 0:13:37So, plenty to play for.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40Let's get on with it and ask Angela to join us again, please.
0:13:42 > 0:13:46And you have 7 points on the board with your knowledge
0:13:46 > 0:13:48of that great poet Wilfred Owen.
0:13:48 > 0:13:50Let's see how you do with your general knowledge,
0:13:50 > 0:13:52two and a half minutes now, here we go.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55In which 1968 film musical do the songs Where Is Love,
0:13:55 > 0:13:59Food, Glorious Food and Consider Yourself...?
0:13:59 > 0:14:00Oliver!
0:14:00 > 0:14:03The Mont Blanc Tunnel links France to which other country?
0:14:03 > 0:14:04Switzerland.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06Italy. What alternative name for the ratel,
0:14:06 > 0:14:08a native of the forests of Africa and southern Asia,
0:14:08 > 0:14:10comes from its favourite food, which it gets from
0:14:10 > 0:14:13breaking into bees nests, and its resemblance
0:14:13 > 0:14:15to a certain British wild animal?
0:14:15 > 0:14:16Anteater.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19The honey badger. Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West in 1961.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22Which Russian ballet company was he with at the time?
0:14:22 > 0:14:23Bolshoi.
0:14:23 > 0:14:26The Kirov. Which London art gallery that opened in 1897 was named after
0:14:26 > 0:14:29the sugar magnate who gave both the building
0:14:29 > 0:14:31and his art collection to the nation?
0:14:31 > 0:14:32Saatchi.
0:14:32 > 0:14:36The Tate. In which zodiacal constellation is Aldebaran the brightest star?
0:14:36 > 0:14:39It is said to form the eye of the animal
0:14:39 > 0:14:41whose form Zeus took to abduct Europa.
0:14:41 > 0:14:42Pass.
0:14:42 > 0:14:45Who is the lead singer with the American rock band Blondie?
0:14:45 > 0:14:47Pass.
0:14:47 > 0:14:51Which English county's coat of arms features a bear and ragged staff?
0:14:53 > 0:14:54Yorkshire.
0:14:54 > 0:14:57Warwickshire. In which sport are Laura Trott and Lizzie Armitstead
0:14:57 > 0:14:59among the leading female competitors?
0:14:59 > 0:15:00Cycling.
0:15:00 > 0:15:02Which organisation has a symbol of a burning candle
0:15:02 > 0:15:07surrounded by barbed wire that was inspired by the ancient Chinese proverb
0:15:07 > 0:15:10"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness"?
0:15:10 > 0:15:11Amnesty International.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14What is the alternative name for the Sasquatch,
0:15:14 > 0:15:18a hairy yeti-like creature supposedly found in America and Canada?
0:15:18 > 0:15:19Pass.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21Seismology is the signs and study of what
0:15:21 > 0:15:24natural occurrences and their causes and effects?
0:15:24 > 0:15:25Earthquakes.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28Which 19th-century American general has been played by
0:15:28 > 0:15:31Errol Flynn, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Shaw and Ronald Reagan?
0:15:31 > 0:15:33Pass.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35What Latin phrase, meaning something for something
0:15:35 > 0:15:38is used for an item given in exchange for another, like tit-for-tat?
0:15:38 > 0:15:40Quid pro quo.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43Which writer created the cerebral and poetry-writing
0:15:43 > 0:15:46senior Metropolitan policeman Adam Dalgliesh?
0:15:47 > 0:15:48Ruth Rendell.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51PD James. What vegetable is the essential ingredient
0:15:51 > 0:15:53in a dish described as Lyonnaise?
0:15:53 > 0:15:54Potatoes.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57Onions. Which scientist, who won Nobel prizes in physics
0:15:57 > 0:15:59and in chemistry, died in 1934?
0:15:59 > 0:16:03Her death was caused by prolonged exposure to radioactive materials.
0:16:03 > 0:16:04Marie Curie.
0:16:04 > 0:16:07What four-digit number is dialled on a landline in the UK
0:16:07 > 0:16:10to check the number of the last caller unless it's been withheld?
0:16:10 > 0:16:111471.
0:16:11 > 0:16:13What name is given to the European wars
0:16:13 > 0:16:17that began in 1618 as a religious conflict in Bohemia?
0:16:17 > 0:16:18Hundred Years War.
0:16:18 > 0:16:19The Thirty Years War.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22What name that comes from the vital juice that circulates
0:16:22 > 0:16:24in a plant is given to a young tree?
0:16:24 > 0:16:25BEEP
0:16:25 > 0:16:26Sapling.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28Is correct.
0:16:28 > 0:16:30You had four passes.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33All of those film stars, including Ronald Reagan at the time,
0:16:33 > 0:16:36- played General Custer.- Yeah.- Yep.
0:16:36 > 0:16:40The Sasquatch is otherwise known as Bigfoot.
0:16:40 > 0:16:42Debbie Harry is the lead singer with Blondie
0:16:42 > 0:16:46and that constellation is the Bull, Taurus.
0:16:47 > 0:16:50You have a total now, Angela, of 15 points.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03And now Phil again, please.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08And Phil, you start out with 10 points
0:17:08 > 0:17:11with your knowledge of Mad Men.
0:17:11 > 0:17:1415 the score to beat at the moment.
0:17:14 > 0:17:15Let's see how you do with your
0:17:15 > 0:17:18two and a half minutes of general knowledge.
0:17:18 > 0:17:21Which Dutch artist, who lived from 1853-1890,
0:17:21 > 0:17:25painted Self-Portrait With Bandaged Ear And Pipe in 1989?
0:17:25 > 0:17:26Vincent van Gogh.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29During the Mock Turtle's Song in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,
0:17:29 > 0:17:32to whom does a whiting say, "Will you walk a little faster?"
0:17:32 > 0:17:33Pass.
0:17:33 > 0:17:36Which of the United States has some 34,000 miles
0:17:36 > 0:17:39of tidal coastline, the longest of any state?
0:17:39 > 0:17:40Alaska.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42Whose last opera, entitled Turandot,
0:17:42 > 0:17:45was unfinished on his death in November 1924?
0:17:45 > 0:17:47Puccini.
0:17:47 > 0:17:49What honorary title is held by the person
0:17:49 > 0:17:51whose principal duty in the House of Commons
0:17:51 > 0:17:54is to preside over the election of a new speaker after a general election?
0:17:54 > 0:17:55Leader of the House.
0:17:55 > 0:17:56The Father of the House.
0:17:56 > 0:18:00Who described himself as "a blue-eyed soul singer from East Belfast"
0:18:00 > 0:18:03after he was knighted by the Prince of Wales in February 2016?
0:18:03 > 0:18:05Van Morrison.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08What breed of small short-legged dog are Stanley and Boodgie,
0:18:08 > 0:18:10who feature in David Hockney's book Dog Days,
0:18:10 > 0:18:12which was first published in 1998?
0:18:12 > 0:18:13Dachshund.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16Which member of a famous scientific family wrote novels
0:18:16 > 0:18:19that include the satirical Antic Hay and Crome Yellow?
0:18:20 > 0:18:21Pass.
0:18:21 > 0:18:24In the first Epistle to Timothy in the Bible, St Paul says
0:18:24 > 0:18:26that the root of all evil is the love of...?
0:18:26 > 0:18:27Money.
0:18:27 > 0:18:30Marion Cotillard won the Oscar for Best Actress
0:18:30 > 0:18:32at the 2008 ceremony for her portrayal of which
0:18:32 > 0:18:35French singer in the film La Vie En Rose?
0:18:35 > 0:18:36Edith Piath.
0:18:36 > 0:18:41Which gardens in London became the UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003?
0:18:41 > 0:18:42Kew Gardens.
0:18:42 > 0:18:44Which veteran American blues guitarist sang with U2
0:18:44 > 0:18:48on their 1989 top 10 single When Love Comes To Town?
0:18:48 > 0:18:49BB King.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52Which ship that set sail from Britain to the New World in 1620
0:18:52 > 0:18:55had William Bradford and Myles Standish among the passengers on board?
0:18:55 > 0:18:56The Mayflower.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59What name for a compact breed of carriage horse,
0:18:59 > 0:19:00especially one for hire,
0:19:00 > 0:19:04was also applied to any horse-drawn carriage serving as a taxi?
0:19:04 > 0:19:05Hansen.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07Hackney. In which long-running TV comedy series
0:19:07 > 0:19:10have the characters Foggy Dewhurst, Seymour Utterthwaite
0:19:10 > 0:19:12and Truly Truelove appeared?
0:19:12 > 0:19:13Last Of The Summer Wine.
0:19:13 > 0:19:15What golden flavouring and colouring agent
0:19:15 > 0:19:19consists of the stigmas of a plant of the crocus genus?
0:19:19 > 0:19:20Pass.
0:19:20 > 0:19:24Which American athlete won 122 consecutive 400m hurdle races
0:19:24 > 0:19:27and was Olympic champion in 1976 and '84?
0:19:27 > 0:19:28Ed Moses.
0:19:28 > 0:19:32Which gas is the second most abundant element of the universe
0:19:32 > 0:19:34and makes up about 23% of its mass?
0:19:34 > 0:19:35Hydrogen.
0:19:35 > 0:19:37Helium. What was the number of the last of
0:19:37 > 0:19:40the Apollo missions to land men on the moon?
0:19:41 > 0:19:42Apollo 12.
0:19:42 > 0:19:4617. What sea, an inlet of the Pacific known to the Chinese as Huang Hai
0:19:46 > 0:19:48takes its English name from the colour
0:19:48 > 0:19:50of its silt-laden waters? BEEP
0:19:50 > 0:19:51The Yellow Sea.
0:19:51 > 0:19:53Yes, the Yellow Sea indeed.
0:19:53 > 0:19:54You had three passes -
0:19:54 > 0:19:59saffron is that golden flavouring and colouring agent.
0:19:59 > 0:20:02Aldous Huxley wrote Antic Hay and Crome Yellow
0:20:02 > 0:20:06and the whiting was telling the snail to walk a little faster.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09But you now have a total of 23 points.
0:20:20 > 0:20:22And now, Owen again, please.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26And...
0:20:27 > 0:20:32You have 11 points, Owen, with your knowledge of Faith No More.
0:20:32 > 0:20:3423 is now the score to beat
0:20:34 > 0:20:36if you're to get through to the semifinals.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39Here we go. Two and a half minutes.
0:20:39 > 0:20:43What term is used for the score of zero in a game or set in lawn tennis?
0:20:43 > 0:20:44Love.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47Which graffiti artist turned a derelict lido in Weston-super-Mare
0:20:47 > 0:20:51into the Dismaland Bemusement Park in the summer of 2015?
0:20:51 > 0:20:52Banksy.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55The statue of a Dublin street vendor, complete with her cart,
0:20:55 > 0:20:59was moved from Grafton Street to Suffolk Street in 2014. Who was she?
0:20:59 > 0:21:00Molly Malone.
0:21:00 > 0:21:03A hawk is a term for a mortarboard used by
0:21:03 > 0:21:05a bricklayer or which other craftsman?
0:21:05 > 0:21:06Plasterer.
0:21:06 > 0:21:11The old cottage garden flower nigella is also known as love in a...?
0:21:11 > 0:21:12Basket.
0:21:12 > 0:21:16Mist. The 2016 fantasy drama television series Return To The Shieldlands
0:21:16 > 0:21:20is based loosely on the themes and characters from which Anglo-Saxon poem?
0:21:20 > 0:21:21Beowulf.
0:21:21 > 0:21:24What is in the name of the mongoose who fights
0:21:24 > 0:21:26the black cobra Nag in Kipling's The Jungle Book?
0:21:26 > 0:21:28Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31Which Dutch cheese is made from partially skimmed cow's milk
0:21:31 > 0:21:33shaped in a ball with a red wax coating?
0:21:33 > 0:21:35Edam.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37Which mythical creature that's half man and half goat
0:21:37 > 0:21:40is the subject of a tone poem by Debussy that is regarded as
0:21:40 > 0:21:42a landmark in the history of classical music?
0:21:42 > 0:21:44Pan.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46Faun. In which country are Zanu-PF and the
0:21:46 > 0:21:48Movement For Democratic Change major political parties?
0:21:48 > 0:21:49Zimbabwe.
0:21:49 > 0:21:52What type of diagram where mathematical or logical sets
0:21:52 > 0:21:55are represented as overlapping circles is named after
0:21:55 > 0:21:58the British logician who conceived them in about 1880?
0:21:58 > 0:21:59Venn.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02In which comic did Desperate Dan appear for 75 years?
0:22:02 > 0:22:06The comic's final print edition was published in December 2012.
0:22:06 > 0:22:07Dandy.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10Which national park in eastern Arizona takes its name from
0:22:10 > 0:22:11the fossilised trees found there?
0:22:11 > 0:22:13Petrified Forest.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16Who was the Secretary of State under Presidents Richard Nixon
0:22:16 > 0:22:17and Gerald Ford in the 1970s?
0:22:17 > 0:22:21He was born in the Bavarian city of Furth in 1923.
0:22:21 > 0:22:22Henry Kissinger.
0:22:22 > 0:22:24Which phobia is a hatred or fear
0:22:24 > 0:22:27of foreigners or strangers or of their politics or culture?
0:22:27 > 0:22:29Xenophobia.
0:22:29 > 0:22:31Which Christian festival, also known as Whitsunday,
0:22:31 > 0:22:34has a name that comes from the Greek for 50th
0:22:34 > 0:22:36and celebrates the 50th day after Easter?
0:22:36 > 0:22:38Pass.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41Dame Shirley Bassey has sung the theme songs to three James films Bond films -
0:22:41 > 0:22:44Goldfinger and Moonraker and which other?
0:22:44 > 0:22:45From Russia With Love.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48Diamonds Are Forever. Which Australian novelist
0:22:48 > 0:22:50was first shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1972
0:22:50 > 0:22:52for The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith,
0:22:52 > 0:22:55a novel about a native Australian who goes on a murder spree
0:22:55 > 0:22:57as a protest against white racism?
0:22:57 > 0:22:58JM Coetzee.
0:22:58 > 0:23:02Thomas Keneally. What Latin word, meaning for all, was the title
0:23:02 > 0:23:04of BBC television's flagship arts programme
0:23:04 > 0:23:06until it was replaced in 2003?
0:23:06 > 0:23:08Arena.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11Omnibus. Which American R&B singer topped the UK singles charts
0:23:11 > 0:23:14in April '97 with I Believe I Can Fly? BEEP
0:23:14 > 0:23:15R Kelly.
0:23:15 > 0:23:16R Kelly is correct.
0:23:16 > 0:23:18You had one pass.
0:23:18 > 0:23:21That Christian festival also known as Whitsunday is Pentecost.
0:23:21 > 0:23:25You have scored however, Owen, 25 points.
0:23:35 > 0:23:39And finally, Adrian again, please.
0:23:40 > 0:23:44You start out with 13 points with your knowledge of Michael Caine.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47But the score to beat is now 25,
0:23:47 > 0:23:51so let's see if you can do that in two and a half minutes.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53What is the name of the Archangel who announces to Mary
0:23:53 > 0:23:56that she is to be the mother of Jesus in the New Testament?
0:23:56 > 0:23:57Gabriel.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59The orphan Rosa Bud and Miss Twinkleton are characters
0:23:59 > 0:24:02in which unfinished novel by Charles Dickens
0:24:02 > 0:24:04that's set in the cathedral town of Cloisterham?
0:24:04 > 0:24:06Pass.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09The men's and women's football teams of which Caribbean island country
0:24:09 > 0:24:12are nicknamed the Reggae Boyz and the Reggae Girlz?
0:24:12 > 0:24:13Jamaica.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15What is the popular name for the great bell
0:24:15 > 0:24:18in the Elizabeth Tower in the Houses Of Parliament?
0:24:18 > 0:24:19Big Ben.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22What was introduced in Britain on 15 February 1971,
0:24:22 > 0:24:23the date was referred to as D Day?
0:24:23 > 0:24:25Decimal currency.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28Which Russian novelist is played by Christopher Plummer
0:24:28 > 0:24:30in the 2009 historical film and drama The Last Station
0:24:30 > 0:24:33that co-stars Helen Mirren as his wife, Sophia?
0:24:33 > 0:24:34Tolstoy.
0:24:34 > 0:24:37What word of Italian origin is used in Britain
0:24:37 > 0:24:39for a person who makes and serves coffee in a coffee shop?
0:24:39 > 0:24:40Barista.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43Christ On The Mount Of Olives, composed in 1803,
0:24:43 > 0:24:46was a German composer's only oratorio. Who was he?
0:24:46 > 0:24:47Wagner.
0:24:47 > 0:24:50Beethoven. What do Americans call the river that is known
0:24:50 > 0:24:53in Mexico as the Rio Bravo and forms the boundary between Texas and Mexico?
0:24:53 > 0:24:55Rio Grande.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58Which comedian who died in 2016 wrote and starred
0:24:58 > 0:25:02as the down-to-earth Bren in the television comedy series Dinnerladies?
0:25:02 > 0:25:03Victoria Wood.
0:25:03 > 0:25:06What name is given to a strong, heavy iron grating that can be lowered
0:25:06 > 0:25:08to block the gateway to a fortress or castle?
0:25:08 > 0:25:10Portcullis.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12Which former soldier and writer died in May 1935
0:25:12 > 0:25:16after a motorcycle accident near his home in Dorset called Clouds Hill?
0:25:16 > 0:25:17TE Lawrence.
0:25:17 > 0:25:22The first day-night test match took place in Adelaide in November 2015
0:25:22 > 0:25:25between the Australian and New Zealand cricket teams.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27What colour ball was used for the first time?
0:25:27 > 0:25:28Pink.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31With which fellow Motown group did the Supremes duet
0:25:31 > 0:25:34on the 1971 top 20 hit River Deep, Mountain High?
0:25:35 > 0:25:36Pass.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39The name of a chemical element found in all organic matter
0:25:39 > 0:25:42comes from the Latin for charcoal, what is it?
0:25:42 > 0:25:43Carbon.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46Which 11th-century King of England was the son of
0:25:46 > 0:25:49Robert I of Normandy and the husband Matilda of Flanders?
0:25:51 > 0:25:52King Stephen.
0:25:52 > 0:25:53William I.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56What comes after Newtown, Cox's Orange and Blenheim Orange
0:25:56 > 0:25:59in the names of certain varieties of apple?
0:25:59 > 0:26:00Pass.
0:26:00 > 0:26:03A children's writer, railway historian and Church of England clergyman
0:26:03 > 0:26:06first told the stories that became the Thomas the Tank Engine books
0:26:06 > 0:26:09to amuse his young son. What was the writer's name?
0:26:09 > 0:26:10Reverend Awdry.
0:26:10 > 0:26:13In Greek mythology, what was the name of Odysseus's wife who,
0:26:13 > 0:26:16to keep her suitors at bay, wove a shroud during the day
0:26:16 > 0:26:17and unravelled it each night?
0:26:17 > 0:26:18Penelope.
0:26:18 > 0:26:21What is the name of the small short-tailed game bird
0:26:21 > 0:26:22that resembles a small partridge
0:26:22 > 0:26:25BEEP whose eggs and flesh are considered a great delicacy?
0:26:25 > 0:26:28It has a distinctive wet-my-lips call.
0:26:28 > 0:26:29Quail.
0:26:29 > 0:26:30The quail it is indeed.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32You had three passes -
0:26:32 > 0:26:35Pippin comes after Cox's Orange and all the rest of them.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38The Four Tops was that Motown group.
0:26:38 > 0:26:44And the Dickens unfinished novel was The Mystery Of Edwin Drood.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47Adrian, you set out to beat 25, you scored 28.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01Which means, of course, that he did it.
0:27:01 > 0:27:04Let's have a look at all of those scores.
0:27:04 > 0:27:07In fourth place, Angela Bell.
0:27:07 > 0:27:10Third place, Phil Ryder.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12Second place, Owen Dawson.
0:27:12 > 0:27:16First place, Adrian Staton.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19APPLAUSE
0:27:28 > 0:27:31Which means of course that Adrian is tonight's winner
0:27:31 > 0:27:33and he goes through to the semifinals.
0:27:33 > 0:27:34Congratulations to him.
0:27:34 > 0:27:38Commiserations to Owen but with his score of 25,
0:27:38 > 0:27:43it's entirely possible that we shall see him as well in the semis.
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