Episode 7 Mastermind

Our first contender tonight is Jack Bennett,

he's a student from Lancaster.

His specialist subject, the James Bond films.

Next, John Millar, an investment manager from Edinburgh,

on Alexander McCall Smith's 44 Scotland Street novels.

Kester Ford is a marketer from Southend-on-Sea,

and he'll answer questions on 20th-century American presidents.

And Frances Slack, a university lecturer from Manchester.

Her specialist subject, the musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein.

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

Tonight's contenders will answer questions

on their specialist subject and then on general knowledge.

Sounds easy enough, if you're watching,

but not when the clock is ticking away and the lights are bright and

you're all alone in that black chair.

They get two minutes in the first round,

two and a half minutes in the second.

So let's have our first contender, please.

And your name is?

-Jack Bennett.

-Your occupation?

-Student.

-And your specialist subject?

The official James Bond films.

The James Bond films. In two minutes, here we go.

Which CIA agent,

who has been played by a succession of actors in Bond films,

is portrayed by Jeffrey Wright in Casino Royale and Quantum Of Solace?

Felix Leiter.

In the film For Your Eyes Only, who performs the theme song

and appears in the opening credit sequence?

-Sheena Easton.

-Yes. In Dr No,

M instructs Major Boothroyd to give Bond a Walther PPK firearm as a

replacement for which other make of gun that Bond carried for ten years?

-Beretta.

-Yes.

Which actor plays the vengeful British Secret Service agent

Alec Trevelyan, who betrays MI6 in GoldenEye and jeers that Bond is

"Her Majesty's loyal terrier"?

-Sean Bean.

-Yes. In The Man With The Golden Gun,

Bond is assigned to recover a small device from Scaramanga that converts

the sun's radiation into electricity.

What's the device called?

-Solex Agitator.

-Yes.

Who sings the Oscar-winning theme song to the 2012 Bond film Skyfall?

-Adele.

-Yes.

In On Her Majesty's Secret Service,

what is the name of the operation that's been set up to find

Ernst Stavro Blofeld?

-Gold.

-Bedlam.

In From Russia With Love,

which actor plays the SPECTRE-trained killer Donald Grant,

who is assigned to make Bond's death a particularly unpleasant and

humiliating one?

-Robert Shaw.

-Yes. In You Only Live Twice,

what is the name of the ship seen by Bond in a photograph that eventually

leads him to an island where a secret rocket base is concealed

within a volcano?

Ning-Po.

What is the name of the supposed Soviet defector who, with Bond's

help, escapes to the West through the trans-Siberian pipeline

in The Living Daylights?

Georgi Koskov.

In which 1989 film does Timothy Dalton make his second appearance

as James Bond?

Licence To Kill.

Who plays Spectre's number two agent, Emilio Largo,

in the '65 film Thunderball?

Adolfo Celi.

In the 2006 film Casino Royale,

which actress plays Vesper Lynd,

the Treasury agent who accuses Bond of regarding women as disposable

pleasures rather than meaningful pursuits?

-Eva Green.

-Yes.

Which New Zealand film-maker directed Die Another Day?

Lee Tamahori.

In Quantum Of Solace, Bond overhears the plans of Dominic Greene,

the CEO of Greene Planet,

while he is in Austria attending a performance of which opera?

-Carmen.

-No, Tosca.

You have no passes, Jack, but you score 13 points.

And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

-John Millar.

-Your occupation?

-Investment manager.

-And your specialist subject?

The 44 Scotland Street novels by Alexander McCall Smith.

In two minutes, starting now.

In which newspaper did the 44 Scotland Street novels

by Alexander McCall Smith first appear in serialised form?

The Scotsman.

Bertie Pollock's baby brother Ulysses is prone to

spontaneous vomiting,

the sight of a member of his family seems to be the cause. Who?

His mother, Irene.

Yes. In a hotel, after a series of mishaps, Bertie's mother, Irene,

is mistaken for the new wife of a Bedouin leader in which city?

Dubai.

What name does the gallery owner Matthew give to his new

mud-coloured car which is cheap,

reliable and capable of carrying three babies and their impedimenta?

Efficient.

The Holy Grail.

In The World According To Bertie,

what is the title of the plain white canvas that the Duke of Johannesburg

eventually buys for £320?

-Peace Be With You.

-Yes.

What was the name of the three-year-old who was the subject

of an academic paper by Dr Fairbairn?

When they came across each other on a bus several years later, the boy

head-butted the doctor as a precautionary measure.

Wee Fraser.

The portrait painter and amateur poet Angus Lordie has taught his

dog, Cyril, to relieve himself when Angus says what two-word phrase?

-Turner Prize.

-Yes.

What is the name of the illness that strikes down the would-be historical

novelist Antonia Collie in the Uffizi Gallery?

-Stendhal syndrome.

-Yes.

The Glasgow gangster Aloysius Lard O'Connor visits

Edinburgh with a painting that turns out to be

the long-lost portrait of Robert Burns by which artist?

-Raeburn.

-Yes.

When the children Olive and Bertie are playing,

Olive takes a blood sample from Bertie and later tells him he has

tested positive for what disease?

Leprosy.

In Love Over Scotland,

the art history student Pat McGregor moves from 44 Scotland Street

to Spottiswoode Street.

What punning nickname does her ex-flatmate, Bruce, give it?

Acne tree.

Acne Timber Street.

What present that Bertie receives for his seventh birthday does he

throw into the Water of Leith?

A gender-neutral doll.

Which real-life writer is in a hot tub in his garden when Matthew and

Pat turn up at his house, hoping to retrieve a painting?

Ian Rankin.

What does Bruce Anderson take from the house of his boss,

the surveyor Raeburn Todd,

shortly before the South Edinburgh Conservative Association ball?

-Underpants.

-Yes. BEEPING

And that's it, no passes.

John, you have 12 points.

Thank you.

And our next contender, please.

-And your name is?

-Kester Ford.

-Your occupation?

-Marketer.

And your chosen subject?

20th-century US presidents.

In two minutes, starting now.

Which senator for Tennessee was chosen by Bill Clinton to

be his running mate in the '92 election?

They formed the youngest ever team to lead the nation.

-Al Gore.

-Yes.

What did Franklin Roosevelt say was "the only thing we have to fear"

in his first inaugural address in March 1933?

-Fear itself.

-Yes.

Which American general publicly disagreed with President Truman

over the conduct of the Korean War,

and was sacked for insubordination as a result?

-MacArthur.

-Yes.

Which Republican president warned in his farewell address that,

"we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence

"by the military industrial complex?"

-Eisenhower.

-Yes.

The nickname "creep" was given to the CRP, a fundraising

organisation that aimed to secure Richard Nixon's second term.

The initial CRP stood for the Committee For...

The Re-election Of The President.

Which President's earlier posts include

American Ambassador to the United Nations,

Chief of the US Liaison Office in China

and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency?

George HW Bush.

The CIA and Eisenhower planned an invasion that was implemented

by John F. Kennedy, who took personal responsibility

when it turned into a disaster. What invasion?

The Bay of Pigs.

In September 1901,

President William McKinley died after he was shot while he was

attending the Pan-American Exposition in which city?

Buffalo.

What code name was given to the sustained bombing raids

over North Vietnam, ordered by Lyndon B. Johnson

in early 1965?

Operation Menu?

Rolling Thunder.

In September 1977,

Jimmy Carter signed treaties to hand back control of which territory

from the end of 1999?

Puerto Rico?

Panama Canal.

What is the popular name of the statement of common purpose agreed

between Roosevelt and Churchill in August 1941?

The Atlantic...Treaty?

Charter.

Who was president at the time of the stock market crash

that led to the Great Depression?

Herbert Hoover.

What was the name of the man who tried to murder Ronald Reagan in

'81, after which the president said to his wife,

"Honey, I forgot to duck"?

John Schrank.

John W Hinckley Junior.

Whom did Lyndon B. Johnson beat in the November '64 election

with a record 61% of the popular vote?

Goldwater.

In 1947, to what post did Harry Truman

appoint George C Marshall? BEEPING

In office, he was responsible for drawing up the European recovery

programme that gave billions of dollars of aid to Western Europe?

Um. Secretary of War?

No, Secretary of State.

Yeah, there you go.

No passes, ten points.

And our final contender, please.

-And your name is?

-Frances Slack.

-Your occupation?

-University lecturer.

And your chosen subject?

The musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Rodgers and Hammerstein. In two minutes, here we go.

Oklahoma! was the first collaboration

between the composer Richard Rogers

and the librettist Oscar Hammerstein.

What is the opening song of the musical,

performed by the cowboy Curly?

Oh, What A Beautiful Morning.

In '57, Rodgers and Hammerstein

wrote a version of Cinderella for CBS television.

Who played the title role?

Julie Andrews.

Which Rodgers and Hammerstein musical,

released as a film in 1945,

was written directly for the screen rather than the stage?

State Fair.

In the Sound of music, which of the Von Trapp children sings the duet

16 Going On 17 with the delivery boy, Rolf Gruber?

Liesl.

In the original '51 New York production of The King And I,

who starred as the King of Siam?

Yul Brynner.

That's The Way It Happens, a song included in the '96 Broadway version

of State Fair, was from which other musical that premiered in '53?

Me and Juliet.

You'll Never Walk Alone is sung twice in the performance of

Carousel, once by Nettie Fowler and then as an ensemble piece

in the show's finale, set at what ceremonial event?

The school graduation ceremony.

Which Rodgers and Hammerstein show

won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize For Drama?

It was the first musical to do so since Of Thee I Sing in 1932.

South Pacific.

Henry Fonda was considered for the part of Doc in Pipe Dream, but

couldn't sing well enough. Who actually played the role

when the production opened on Broadway in '55?

Vernon Dursley.

Bill Johnson.

Who wrote the play Green Grow the Lilacs that

Rodgers and Hammerstein based the musical Oklahoma on?

-Lynn Riggs.

-In the King and I,

which character writes the play The Small House Of Uncle Thomas and

presents it to the King of Siam and his guests?

Tuptim.

Who co-wrote the book for the '49 musical South Pacific and later

directed the film based on the stage musical?

Josh Logan.

Which experimental musical opened at the Majestic Theatre, New York

in October '47 and closed less than a year later,

even though there had been large advance sales?

Allegro.

The part of Fauna, the brothel keeper in Pipe Dream,

was played by which opera singer when the musical opened in 1955?

Petunia Dursley.

Helen Traubel. What is the title

of the only song... BEEPING

..for which Rodgers and Hammerstein jointly won an Academy Award?

It comes from the film of State Fair.

It's A Grand Night For Singing.

It Might As Well Be Spring.

-Oh.

-Yeah.

There we go, no passes for you either, Frances.

You have 12 points.

Well, a very close contest so far,

not a single pass in that round either.

Let's have a look at all the scores.

In fourth place with ten points, Kester Ford.

Joint second place, 12 points apiece, John Millar

and Frances Slack.

In first place, 13 points, Jack Bennett.

So it is the general knowledge round now,

and if there's 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.

And if they are tied on passes as well, there will be a tie-breaker.

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

in the semifinals, so plenty to play for.

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

And you have ten points on the board as we speak,

but as I say, it is a very close contest.

Two and a half minutes of general knowledge to romp away with it.

Here we go. Which small gazelle-like antelope provides the nickname

of the South African rugby union team?

-Springbok.

-In chemistry,

what name's given to the listing of the elements arranged in rows and

columns in order of atomic numbers, such that elements with similar

chemical properties appear in the same column?

Periodic table.

Yes. What is the name of the Welsh female writer whose novels include

Tipping The Velvet, Affinity and The Paying Guests?

-Maeve Binchy.

-Sarah Waters. The holder of which religious office

is helped in the everyday management of his affairs by the

group of officials and departments known as the Curia Romana?

-The Pope.

-What is the address of the official London residence

of the Chancellor Of The Exchequer?

11 Downing Street.

What word, describing an intentionally surly or rude

behaviour, has its origins in an old English term

for a person of very low rank in Norman times?

Brusque.

Churlish. Dustin Hoffman won his second Best Actor Oscar for playing

the autistic Raymond Babbitt in a 1988 Barry Levinson film.

What's its title?

Rain Man.

In which genteel sport is the premier international trophy,

the MacRobertson Shield, contested by Australia, Great Britain,

New Zealand and America?

The trophy is named after the millionaire who donated it.

Polo.

Croquet. Which of Jane Austen's novels, first published in 1813,

was originally a youthful work called First Impressions?

Pride And Prejudice.

What was the nationality of the artist Diego Rivera

and his wife and fellow artist Frida Kahlo?

Mexican.

Which society, founded in Oxford in 1946 by two barristers,

restricts its membership to those with an IQ equal to

the top 2% of the population?

Mensa.

What magazine did Lord Reith establish in 1923

when the Newspaper Publishers Association demanded payment

to carry radio listings in their publications?

Radio Times.

Which Irish singer topped the UK album charts in 1990

with I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got?

Sinead O'Connor.

What is the subtitle of episode seven of the Star Wars films,

which opened in December 2015?

The Force Awakens.

Which insect that resembles a wasp or a bee, but has no sting,

takes its name from its ability to remain stationary

in the air above flowers?

Hover fly.

Which cocktail, similar to an American mimosa,

is made from fresh orange juice topped up with iced champagne?

Buck's fizz.

The Oasis song Half The World Away is the theme tune for a television

comedy series that stars Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash. Which series?

The Royle Family.

The Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith is best-known

for a work of 1776 that has the full title,

An Enquiry Into Nature And Causes Of The Wealth Of... What?

Nations.

What was the nationality of the pop groups Golden Earring,

Shocking Blue and Pussycat, all of whom have had UK top ten singles?

Australian.

Dutch. BEEPING

And that's it, no passes, Kester.

You now have a total of 25 points.

And now John again, please.

And you start the round, John, with 12 points, and the score to beat,

as we speak, is 25,

and you have two and a half minutes of general knowledge questions.

Here we go.

Kelvin, Fahrenheit and Celsius are all scales for measuring what?

Temperature.

Which field event in athletics involves throwing a metal ball

that is 16lbs for men and 8.8lbs for women as far as possible using

only one hand?

Shot put.

IMAP and POP3 are protocols for storing a type of message by a

computer server that can be viewed and manipulated by an end-user.

What type of message?

E-mail.

What is the surname of the Flintstones' next-door neighbours,

Barney, Betty and Bamm-Bamm in the television series The Flintstones?

Rubble.

Which German composer's best-known works include the

Academic Festival Overture? It was written in acknowledgement

of an honorary doctorate conferred on him in 1879?

Wagner.

Brahms. A celebrated painting by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch is

thought to have been partly inspired by the red skies that were seen

around the world after the eruption of Krakatoa. Which painting?

The Scream.

Which classic 1963 film about a breakout from a POW camp

in the Second World War stars Steve McQueen,

Richard Attenborough and James Garner?

The Great Escape.

In the Bible, who was the wife of Abraham and the mother of Isaac,

even though she was childless until she was 90 years old?

Ruth.

Sarah. Guy Garvey is the lead singer

with which Mercury-award-winning group?

Elbow.

What word for an expert on a particular subject who expands on

it to the general public comes from the Sanskrit for "learned person"?

Pundit.

In the opening line of a poem about solitude by William Cowper,

which marooned seaman says, "I am monarch of all I survey"?

The Ancient Mariner.

Alexander Selkirk.

What name did the former British colony of the Gold Coast take

when it gained independence in 1957? It's derived from the name

of a medieval West African trading empire.

Pass.

Which American athlete was accidentally tripped by Zola Budd

in the 3,000 metres final at the '84 Olympic Games?

Mary Decker.

The Scottish engineer John Logie Baird gave the first

practical, public demonstration of an invention to members of the

Royal Institution in 1926. What was it?

Television.

Who was the chief engineer of the Great Western Railway,

and introduced the broad gauge to railways in Britain, with tracks

that are just over seven feet apart?

Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

Which small, graceful British deer that normally live in small groups

rather than in large herds have a coat that is reddish-brown in summer

and grey in winter?

Roe deer.

Which Greek philosopher poisoned himself in 399 BC

by drinking hemlock after he was sentenced to death

on charges of impiety and corrupting the youth?

Socrates.

What is the name of the river, actually a tidal strait,

that is overlooked by the United Nations building in Manhattan?

-The Hudson River.

-BEEPING

No, it's the East River. The Hudson is on the other side.

You had one pass -

that former British colony, used to be the Gold Coast,

became Ghana.

-You have 25 points.

-Thank you.

And now Frances again, please.

And you also kick off with 12 points,

and the score to beat is still 25.

So, here we go, two and a half minutes of general knowledge.

What name is given to the statutory public holidays that were introduced

by an Act of Parliament of 1871, authored by Sir John Lubbock?

Bank holidays.

Which 1966 chart-topping song by Tom Jones begins,

"The old hometown looks the same as I step down from the train"?

The Green, Green Grass Of Home.

Evelyn Waugh took the title of his '34 novel A Handful Of Dust

from which work by TS Eliot?

The Wasteland.

What was the name of the bumbling, fez-wearing magician and

comedian who made a speciality of getting his conjuring tricks wrong

in his various television series?

Tommy Cooper.

Dr Robert McIntyre became a party's first MP when he won

a by-election for the Motherwell constituency in 1945.

Which party?

Scottish National Party.

What was the nickname of the snooker player

Alex Higgins because of his hasty style of play?

Hurricane.

Which rock star is portrayed by Val Kilmer in the '91 Oliver Stone film

The Doors?

Jim Morrison.

Which North Wales holiday resort promotes

Alice in Wonderland town trails, commemorating the fact

that the Liddell family had a holiday home there?

Llandudno.

The June '67 war between the Arab nations of Egypt, Syria,

Jordan and Israel was known by what name because of its short duration?

Six Days War.

Who wrote the requiem poem In Memoriam AHH,

published in 1850, about the death of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam

in Vienna in 1833?

Tennyson.

What name is given to the pole that's associated with the

coming of spring which children dance around,

plaiting ribbons into patterns?

Maypole.

Which breed of toy dog with a long, silky, pure white coat

is named after a Mediterranean island in the area where it's

thought to have originated?

Marmite.

Maltese.

Which Russian composer wrote the music for the four-act ballet

Swan Lake, which had its premiere in Moscow in 1877?

Tchaikovsky.

What French term is used for the lighter style of food,

simply cooked and attractively presented,

that was developed in the 1960s and '70s, and popularised

by the food critics Henri Gault and Christian Millau?

Cordon.

-Nouvelle cuisine.

-Oh.

The name of what very loud warning hooter,

originally used on early motorcars,

takes its name from the American company that manufactured it?

-Klaxon.

-The chapel of a public school with the River Thames

prominent in the foreground is the subject of a landscape

by the Venetian artist Canaletto, painted in about 1754.

Which public school?

Eton.

In which South American country is the port city of Fray Bentos?

It's historically famous as a meat processing centre.

Uruguay.

What did the 17th century Danish astronomer Ole Romer show has a

finite and measurable speed by observing time differences between

eclipses of Jupiter's moons?

Light.

In which year did the Queen celebrate her silver jubilee?

BEEPING

-1977.

-Is correct. Wow.

No passes, 29 points.

And finally, Jack again, please.

And you start out, Jack, with 13 points.

And I don't suppose you need me to tell you how many you have to get

to get through to the semifinals,

but 29, I'm afraid, is the score to beat.

Let's see how you do with two and a half minutes of general knowledge,

starting now.

In which story, collected by the Brothers Grimm, is the title

character a girl with very long hair who is locked away in a tower

by an enchantress?

Rapunzel.

Which classic cow's milk cheese from Normandy is customarily

shaped in discs measuring about 11 cm in diameter

and four cm in thickness?

Camembert.

In which 2009 Oscar-winning science-fiction film by

James Cameron is the planet Pandora inhabited by the Na'vi,

a race of people who are ten feet tall with long tails?

Avatar.

In 1485, who became the last English king to die in battle?

-Richard III.

-Which island is at the apex of a mythical triangle that,

together with Miami and Puerto Rico,

forms an area of sea where many planes and boats have been lost?

Bermuda.

Which women's seven-a-side game is played on a court divided into

thirds and measuring 100 feet by 50 feet?

Netball.

Which raccoon-like animal,

whose scientific name means shining cat,

was once thought to be related to the giant panda?

Red panda.

What acronym has been used since 1975 for the body that helps

settle disputes between employers and employees?

CPR?

ACAS. What term is used to describe the occupation of Lovely Rita

in the song of the Beatles' Sgt Pepper album?

Teacher.

Meter maid. Which town in Gwent became the fifth in Wales

to be granted city status as part of the Queen's Golden Jubilee

celebrations in 2002?

St Asaph.

Newport. What is the common name for a deformed ear cartilage caused by

repeated blows, and typically suffered by

boxers and rugby players?

Cauliflower.

What is the name of the small Himalayan kingdom that lies

between China in the north and India in the south,

and has Thimphu as its capital city?

Bhutan.

Which small dagger with a slender,

tapered blade has a name meaning "little dagger" in Italian?

Pugio?

Stiletto. What is the name of the character whose progress in the

British Army during the Napoleonic Wars is charted in a series of

novels by Bernard Cornwell and a television adaptation?

He was played by Sean Bean.

Sharpe.

John Harrison invented what timekeeping device of great accuracy

that is used for determining longitude while at sea?

Parliament eventually, and reluctantly, paid most of the

£20,000 prize it had promised for it in the 1714 Longitude Act.

Marine chronometer.

In which television comedy series, set in a Spanish holiday resort,

did Johnny Vegas appear as a pub quiz champion known as the Oracle?

Benidorm.

What decorative motif,

dated from ancient Greece and symbolising abundance,

is also known as the Horn Of Plenty?

BEEPING

Pass.

Well, I can give it to you, because your time is up.

It is the cornucopia.

And you've got a total of 25 points.

Well, what a very high-scoring contest,

and hardly any passes, only two.

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

In joint second place - they all got 25 points - Jack Bennett,

John Millar and Kester Ford.

And in first place, 29 points, Frances Slack.

So...

Well done. Mind you, you sort of had to win, didn't you?

Certainly against Jack, because you're the lecturer

-and he's the student.

-Yes.

-So...

-Absolutely.

-The pressure was on.

-Did you think you were going to win?

-No.

Ha! And are you looking forward...

You don't have to tell me whether you are looking forward to doing it

all over again. You've got to do it at least once, and possibly twice.

-We will look forward...

-That's the challenge.

That's the challenge. We will look forward to seeing you again,

and, of course, it's possible that we will see one or more of the

others again, John, Jack or Kester, with their score of 25 points.

It's possible that we shall be seeing them again.

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