Episode 5 Mastermind

Our first contender in the black chair tonight is Phil Ryder,

a railway controller from Liverpool.

He's answering questions on the television series Mad Men.

Angela Bell is a university lecturer from Ipswich.

Her specialist subject, the great war poet Wilfred Owen.

Next, Owen Dawson, a college curriculum manager from London,

on the American rock band Faith No More.

And last into the spotlight tonight,

Adrian Staton from Liverpool on Sir Michael Caine.

Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.

Tonight's contenders will each make the short but daunting walk

to the black chair where they will answer two minutes of questions

on their specialist subject and then two and a half minutes

on general knowledge - and that's the killer, of course,

they've no idea what's coming.

The winner goes through to the semifinal and takes

a short step closer to the title, the nation's Mastermind.

So, let's have our first contender, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your specialist subject?

Mad Men in two minutes.

The series takes its name from a term coined in the 1950s

to describe the advertising executives

of which famous street in Manhattan?

Madison Avenue.

When Don Draper met the advertising executive Roger Sterling

and pestered him until offered a job at Sterling Cooper,

he was working in a shop selling what?

Fur coats.

Which veteran actor plays the part of

the founding partner Bertrand 'Bert' Cooper?

Robert Morse.

Don Draper assumed the identity of his commanding officer

who was killed in an explosion caused by a cigarette lighter in Korea.

What is Don's real name?

Dick Whitman.

In the episode Babylon, what novel does Don read

to gain background information before he makes a pitch

for the advertising business of the Israeli Tourist Board?

Pass.

Betty Draper meets the man who will become her second husband

at a party thrown by Jane and Roger Sterling?

What's his name?

Henry Francis.

Elisabeth Moss plays which character, Don Draper's personal assistant

who rises to become a successful copywriter?

Peggy Olson.

In series 2, the partners of Sterling Cooper

accept an offer to merge with which London-based firm?

Portnam... Pass.

Who created Mad Men and is credited as an executive producer

as well as a writer on most of the episodes?

Matthew Weiner.

At the start of series 2, Sterling Cooper's new head of accounts

insists that the agency brings in a young creative team

to work on the account of which coffee company?

Matheson.

Martinson's. In the episode Waterloo,

the death of the founding partner Bert Cooper

overshadows the success of the Burger Chef pitch

and which historical event?

The moon landing.

In the episode Faraway Places,

Don takes his wife Megan on a road trip to sample Howard Johnson's motor lodge

and makes her try an iconic dessert, much to her disgust.

What flavour sherbet is it?

Orange sherbet.

What is the name of the finance executive played by

Jared Harris who fires of the partners of Sterling Cooper

so they can form a new agency to avoid being taken over by McCann's?

-Layne Pryce.

-BEEP

In which New York Hotel does the new agency Sterling Cooper Draper Price

start work before it secures proper offices in the Time-Life Building?

The Roosevelt.

No, the Pierre Hotel.

Two passes.

The partners of Sterling Cooper accept an offer to merge with

Puttnam, nearly got there. Puttnam, Powell and Lowe.

You knew it, didn't you?

And in that Babylon episode,

the novel Don was reading was Exodus.

However, Phil, you have scored 10 points.

And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject?

Wilfred Owen in two minutes.

Which poem by the celebrated First World War poet

begins, "What passing bells for these who die as cattle?"

Anthem For Doomed Youth.

As a boy, Owen admired the work of a poet mentioned in

the final line of Written In A Wood, September 1910, who was he?

John Keats.

In 1907, Owen formed the Astronomical, Geological and Botanical Society

with his cousin Leslie and his sister.

What was her name?

Edith.

Vera. Which poem includes, "My friend, you would not tell with such high zest

"To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie"?

Dulce Et Decorum Est.

Owen was transferred to Craiglockhart War Hospital

suffering from shellshock after an explosion in April 1917

threw him into the air while he was asleep in which wood near St Quentin?

Pass.

In August 1917, Owen introduced himself to his fellow patient at Craiglockhart

Siegfried Sassoon by asking him to sign copies of what collection of poems?

Pass.

Which poem includes, "Machine guns chuckled, tut-tut! And the Big Gun guffawed"?

The Show.

The Last Laugh. In which magazine was his poem Miners published in January 1918?

It was the first to earn him money in one of only a handful printed during his lifetime.

The Nation.

In the poem Le Christianisme, the Virgin Mary is haloed with an old what?

Wreath.

Tin hat. Which poem describes rain as, "guttering down in waterfalls of slime,

"kept slush waist high and rising hour by hour?"

Strange Meeting.

The Sentry. Owen returned to France in 1918, he was awarded a medal

for his action on the 1st and 2nd of October

when he captured a machinegun

and inflicted considerable losses on the enemy. Which medal?

Military Cross.

Owen was killed during the crossing of the Sambre Canal

in the final year of the War.

The push started at 5.45am on what date?

4th of November.

Which of Owen's poems begins - "Red lips are not so red

"as the stained stones kissed by the English dead"?

Anthem For Doomed Youth.

Greater Love.

BEEP What was Owen's rank when he was commissioned

into the Manchester Regiment in June 1916?

-Second Lieutenant.

-Is correct.

You had two passes.

The collection, the Sassoon collection

he asked him to sign was the Old Huntsman And Other Poems.

And he suffered from shellshock

as a result of an explosion in Savy Wood.

You have scored 7 points.

And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject?

Faith No More in two minutes, here we go.

On which independent record label did the American rock band

release their first album after the label's founder

heard their demo while out shopping?

Mordam.

The band's '93 VHS release that features their music videos

including Midlife Crisis and Caffeine is entitled Video WHAT?

Croissant.

Towards the end of '87, the band embarked on an American tour

as the supporting act to which Californian-based rock band?

Metallica.

Red Hot Chili Peppers. Who is credited as a producer

on the first four studio albums the band released?

Matt Wallace.

Which guitarist, who joined Faith No More in '83,

was replaced in November '93 with Trey Spruance?

Jim Martin.

What was the name of the studios in upstate New York

where the band recorded their album

King For A Day... Fool For A Lifetime in '94?

Pass.

Trey Spruance and Mike Patton have both been members of an experimental rock band

based in Eureka, California. What was the band called?

Mr Bungle.

Which subsidiary of Warner Reprise that originally specialised

in local and punk rock bands did Faith No More join in '85

after they left the Mordam label?

Slash.

With which American hip-hop band did they collaborate

on the song Another Body Murdered

from the soundtrack of the '93 film Judgment Night?

The Boo-Ya Tribe.

What is the title of the band's 2015 album,

their first new studio album since '97?

Sol Invictus.

Which member of Los Lobos co-produced the band's first album

for Slash Records called Introduce Yourself?

Warren Entner.

Steven Berlin.

In '93, Faith No More reached number three in the UK singles chart

with a cover of which Commodores song?

Easy.

At which music festival near Stratford-upon-Avon

did they perform the last gig of their Angel Dust Tour in July '93?

Phoenix.

Which Black Sabbath song from the Paranoid album

did Faith No More cover and include as a bonus track

on the CD version of their '89 Real Thing album?

War Pigs.

The '87 album Introduce Yourself includes the track Anne's Song

which was released as a single with which other song on the B-side?

BEEP

Chinese Arithmetic.

No, it was Greed.

Just one pass, Owen.

The name of those studios in upstate New York was the Bearsville Studios.

But you've scored 11 points.

And our final contender, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject?

Sir Michael Caine, two minutes.

Which film gave him his breakthrough role?

He played the upper-class Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead in 1964.

Zulu.

In which '69 film, also starring Noel Coward,

does Caine play Charlie Croker and speak the now famous line,

"You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off"?

The Italian Job.

As a child, Caine had what vitamin deficiency condition

that meant he had to wear surgically modified shoes?

Rickets.

In his autobiography, Caine describes life in the '60s

as a nonstop party and calls a fellow actor and flatmate

"my companion in many an adventure in those days." Who was he?

Terence Stamp.

Caine had to change his original stage name

when he joined the actors union Equity because someone was already using it.

-What was his first stage name?

-Michael Scott.

Which of his co-stars and friends tried to teach Caine how to play golf?

He was so bad, the friend broke Caine's club in two.

Sean Connery.

In which town did Caine get his first job in the theatre?

He was assistant stage manager with occasional walk-on parts

with the local repertory company.

Lowestoft.

Horsham. When Caine first saw the model and actress Shakira Baksh,

whom he married in 1973, she was on television advertising what?

Maxwell House Coffee.

Who directed the '81 horror film The Hand

in which Caine plays a cartoonist

whose drawing hand is cut off in a car accident

and takes on a life of its own?

Stone...

Yes, Oliver Stone.

Which of Caine's classic films is set in Newcastle upon Tyne?

He plays a London gangster who's travelled home

to avenge his brother's death.

Get Carter.

What was the name of the restaurant that Caine launched

with chef Marco Pierre White and Claudio Pulze

in Chelsea Harbour in 1992?

The Canteen.

Caine appeared in the film version of The Honorary Consul

and which other Graham Greene novel that was filmed in Vietnam?

The Quiet American.

In which play by Willis Hall did Caine understudy

Peter O'Toole's role in the London production

before playing that part in the subsequent tour?

Long, The Short And The Tall.

Caine has won two Oscars for Best Supporting Actor -

the first for Hannah And Her Sisters in '86

and the second in '99 for which film? BEEP

Cider House Rules.

Is correct.

No passes, Adrian, you've scored 13 points.

Well, some high scores in the first round.

Let's have a look at all the scores.

In fourth place, Angela Bell.

Third place, Phil Ryder.

Second place, Owen Dawson.

First place, 13 points, Adrian Staton.

And that means it is the general knowledge round now

and if there is a tie at the end of it, then the number of passes

is taken into account and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.

If they're tied on passes as well, there has to be a tie-breaker.

The six highest-scoring runners up will also be able to claim

a place in the semifinal.

So, plenty to play for.

Let's get on with it and ask Angela to join us again, please.

And you have 7 points on the board with your knowledge

of that great poet Wilfred Owen.

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

two and a half minutes now, here we go.

In which 1968 film musical do the songs Where Is Love,

Food, Glorious Food and Consider Yourself...?

Oliver!

The Mont Blanc Tunnel links France to which other country?

Switzerland.

Italy. What alternative name for the ratel,

a native of the forests of Africa and southern Asia,

comes from its favourite food, which it gets from

breaking into bees nests, and its resemblance

to a certain British wild animal?

Anteater.

The honey badger. Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West in 1961.

Which Russian ballet company was he with at the time?

Bolshoi.

The Kirov. Which London art gallery that opened in 1897 was named after

the sugar magnate who gave both the building

and his art collection to the nation?

Saatchi.

The Tate. In which zodiacal constellation is Aldebaran the brightest star?

It is said to form the eye of the animal

whose form Zeus took to abduct Europa.

Pass.

Who is the lead singer with the American rock band Blondie?

Pass.

Which English county's coat of arms features a bear and ragged staff?

Yorkshire.

Warwickshire. In which sport are Laura Trott and Lizzie Armitstead

among the leading female competitors?

Cycling.

Which organisation has a symbol of a burning candle

surrounded by barbed wire that was inspired by the ancient Chinese proverb

"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness"?

Amnesty International.

What is the alternative name for the Sasquatch,

a hairy yeti-like creature supposedly found in America and Canada?

Pass.

Seismology is the signs and study of what

natural occurrences and their causes and effects?

Earthquakes.

Which 19th-century American general has been played by

Errol Flynn, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Shaw and Ronald Reagan?

Pass.

What Latin phrase, meaning something for something

is used for an item given in exchange for another, like tit-for-tat?

Quid pro quo.

Which writer created the cerebral and poetry-writing

senior Metropolitan policeman Adam Dalgliesh?

Ruth Rendell.

PD James. What vegetable is the essential ingredient

in a dish described as Lyonnaise?

Potatoes.

Onions. Which scientist, who won Nobel prizes in physics

and in chemistry, died in 1934?

Her death was caused by prolonged exposure to radioactive materials.

Marie Curie.

What four-digit number is dialled on a landline in the UK

to check the number of the last caller unless it's been withheld?

1471.

What name is given to the European wars

that began in 1618 as a religious conflict in Bohemia?

Hundred Years War.

The Thirty Years War.

What name that comes from the vital juice that circulates

in a plant is given to a young tree?

BEEP

Sapling.

Is correct.

You had four passes.

All of those film stars, including Ronald Reagan at the time,

-played General Custer.

-Yeah.

-Yep.

The Sasquatch is otherwise known as Bigfoot.

Debbie Harry is the lead singer with Blondie

and that constellation is the Bull, Taurus.

You have a total now, Angela, of 15 points.

And now Phil again, please.

And Phil, you start out with 10 points

with your knowledge of Mad Men.

15 the score to beat at the moment.

Let's see how you do with your

two and a half minutes of general knowledge.

Which Dutch artist, who lived from 1853-1890,

painted Self-Portrait With Bandaged Ear And Pipe in 1989?

Vincent van Gogh.

During the Mock Turtle's Song in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,

to whom does a whiting say, "Will you walk a little faster?"

Pass.

Which of the United States has some 34,000 miles

of tidal coastline, the longest of any state?

Alaska.

Whose last opera, entitled Turandot,

was unfinished on his death in November 1924?

Puccini.

What honorary title is held by the person

whose principal duty in the House of Commons

is to preside over the election of a new speaker after a general election?

Leader of the House.

The Father of the House.

Who described himself as "a blue-eyed soul singer from East Belfast"

after he was knighted by the Prince of Wales in February 2016?

Van Morrison.

What breed of small short-legged dog are Stanley and Boodgie,

who feature in David Hockney's book Dog Days,

which was first published in 1998?

Dachshund.

Which member of a famous scientific family wrote novels

that include the satirical Antic Hay and Crome Yellow?

Pass.

In the first Epistle to Timothy in the Bible, St Paul says

that the root of all evil is the love of...?

Money.

Marion Cotillard won the Oscar for Best Actress

at the 2008 ceremony for her portrayal of which

French singer in the film La Vie En Rose?

Edith Piath.

Which gardens in London became the UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003?

Kew Gardens.

Which veteran American blues guitarist sang with U2

on their 1989 top 10 single When Love Comes To Town?

BB King.

Which ship that set sail from Britain to the New World in 1620

had William Bradford and Myles Standish among the passengers on board?

The Mayflower.

What name for a compact breed of carriage horse,

especially one for hire,

was also applied to any horse-drawn carriage serving as a taxi?

Hansen.

Hackney. In which long-running TV comedy series

have the characters Foggy Dewhurst, Seymour Utterthwaite

and Truly Truelove appeared?

Last Of The Summer Wine.

What golden flavouring and colouring agent

consists of the stigmas of a plant of the crocus genus?

Pass.

Which American athlete won 122 consecutive 400m hurdle races

and was Olympic champion in 1976 and '84?

Ed Moses.

Which gas is the second most abundant element of the universe

and makes up about 23% of its mass?

Hydrogen.

Helium. What was the number of the last of

the Apollo missions to land men on the moon?

Apollo 12.

17. What sea, an inlet of the Pacific known to the Chinese as Huang Hai

takes its English name from the colour

of its silt-laden waters? BEEP

The Yellow Sea.

Yes, the Yellow Sea indeed.

You had three passes -

saffron is that golden flavouring and colouring agent.

Aldous Huxley wrote Antic Hay and Crome Yellow

and the whiting was telling the snail to walk a little faster.

But you now have a total of 23 points.

And now, Owen again, please.

And...

You have 11 points, Owen, with your knowledge of Faith No More.

23 is now the score to beat

if you're to get through to the semifinals.

Here we go. Two and a half minutes.

What term is used for the score of zero in a game or set in lawn tennis?

Love.

Which graffiti artist turned a derelict lido in Weston-super-Mare

into the Dismaland Bemusement Park in the summer of 2015?

Banksy.

The statue of a Dublin street vendor, complete with her cart,

was moved from Grafton Street to Suffolk Street in 2014. Who was she?

Molly Malone.

A hawk is a term for a mortarboard used by

a bricklayer or which other craftsman?

Plasterer.

The old cottage garden flower nigella is also known as love in a...?

Basket.

Mist. The 2016 fantasy drama television series Return To The Shieldlands

is based loosely on the themes and characters from which Anglo-Saxon poem?

Beowulf.

What is in the name of the mongoose who fights

the black cobra Nag in Kipling's The Jungle Book?

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.

Which Dutch cheese is made from partially skimmed cow's milk

shaped in a ball with a red wax coating?

Edam.

Which mythical creature that's half man and half goat

is the subject of a tone poem by Debussy that is regarded as

a landmark in the history of classical music?

Pan.

Faun. In which country are Zanu-PF and the

Movement For Democratic Change major political parties?

Zimbabwe.

What type of diagram where mathematical or logical sets

are represented as overlapping circles is named after

the British logician who conceived them in about 1880?

Venn.

In which comic did Desperate Dan appear for 75 years?

The comic's final print edition was published in December 2012.

Dandy.

Which national park in eastern Arizona takes its name from

the fossilised trees found there?

Petrified Forest.

Who was the Secretary of State under Presidents Richard Nixon

and Gerald Ford in the 1970s?

He was born in the Bavarian city of Furth in 1923.

Henry Kissinger.

Which phobia is a hatred or fear

of foreigners or strangers or of their politics or culture?

Xenophobia.

Which Christian festival, also known as Whitsunday,

has a name that comes from the Greek for 50th

and celebrates the 50th day after Easter?

Pass.

Dame Shirley Bassey has sung the theme songs to three James films Bond films -

Goldfinger and Moonraker and which other?

From Russia With Love.

Diamonds Are Forever. Which Australian novelist

was first shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1972

for The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith,

a novel about a native Australian who goes on a murder spree

as a protest against white racism?

JM Coetzee.

Thomas Keneally. What Latin word, meaning for all, was the title

of BBC television's flagship arts programme

until it was replaced in 2003?

Arena.

Omnibus. Which American R&B singer topped the UK singles charts

in April '97 with I Believe I Can Fly? BEEP

R Kelly.

R Kelly is correct.

You had one pass.

That Christian festival also known as Whitsunday is Pentecost.

You have scored however, Owen, 25 points.

And finally, Adrian again, please.

You start out with 13 points with your knowledge of Michael Caine.

But the score to beat is now 25,

so let's see if you can do that in two and a half minutes.

What is the name of the Archangel who announces to Mary

that she is to be the mother of Jesus in the New Testament?

Gabriel.

The orphan Rosa Bud and Miss Twinkleton are characters

in which unfinished novel by Charles Dickens

that's set in the cathedral town of Cloisterham?

Pass.

The men's and women's football teams of which Caribbean island country

are nicknamed the Reggae Boyz and the Reggae Girlz?

Jamaica.

What is the popular name for the great bell

in the Elizabeth Tower in the Houses Of Parliament?

Big Ben.

What was introduced in Britain on 15 February 1971,

the date was referred to as D Day?

Decimal currency.

Which Russian novelist is played by Christopher Plummer

in the 2009 historical film and drama The Last Station

that co-stars Helen Mirren as his wife, Sophia?

Tolstoy.

What word of Italian origin is used in Britain

for a person who makes and serves coffee in a coffee shop?

Barista.

Christ On The Mount Of Olives, composed in 1803,

was a German composer's only oratorio. Who was he?

Wagner.

Beethoven. What do Americans call the river that is known

in Mexico as the Rio Bravo and forms the boundary between Texas and Mexico?

Rio Grande.

Which comedian who died in 2016 wrote and starred

as the down-to-earth Bren in the television comedy series Dinnerladies?

Victoria Wood.

What name is given to a strong, heavy iron grating that can be lowered

to block the gateway to a fortress or castle?

Portcullis.

Which former soldier and writer died in May 1935

after a motorcycle accident near his home in Dorset called Clouds Hill?

TE Lawrence.

The first day-night test match took place in Adelaide in November 2015

between the Australian and New Zealand cricket teams.

What colour ball was used for the first time?

Pink.

With which fellow Motown group did the Supremes duet

on the 1971 top 20 hit River Deep, Mountain High?

Pass.

The name of a chemical element found in all organic matter

comes from the Latin for charcoal, what is it?

Carbon.

Which 11th-century King of England was the son of

Robert I of Normandy and the husband Matilda of Flanders?

King Stephen.

William I.

What comes after Newtown, Cox's Orange and Blenheim Orange

in the names of certain varieties of apple?

Pass.

A children's writer, railway historian and Church of England clergyman

first told the stories that became the Thomas the Tank Engine books

to amuse his young son. What was the writer's name?

Reverend Awdry.

In Greek mythology, what was the name of Odysseus's wife who,

to keep her suitors at bay, wove a shroud during the day

and unravelled it each night?

Penelope.

What is the name of the small short-tailed game bird

that resembles a small partridge

BEEP whose eggs and flesh are considered a great delicacy?

It has a distinctive wet-my-lips call.

Quail.

The quail it is indeed.

You had three passes -

Pippin comes after Cox's Orange and all the rest of them.

The Four Tops was that Motown group.

And the Dickens unfinished novel was The Mystery Of Edwin Drood.

Adrian, you set out to beat 25, you scored 28.

Which means, of course, that he did it.

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

In fourth place, Angela Bell.

Third place, Phil Ryder.

Second place, Owen Dawson.

First place, Adrian Staton.

APPLAUSE

Which means of course that Adrian is tonight's winner

and he goes through to the semifinals.

Congratulations to him.

Commiserations to Owen but with his score of 25,

it's entirely possible that we shall see him as well in the semis.

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