0:00:26 > 0:00:29Our first contender in the black chair tonight is Steve Lacey,
0:00:29 > 0:00:31a mortgage adviser from Corby.
0:00:31 > 0:00:33His subject - the films of Peter Sellers.
0:00:35 > 0:00:39Nigel Jones is from Bath. He's answering questions on astronomy.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44Graeme Ross is a museum worker from Greenock,
0:00:44 > 0:00:48on the musician Arthur Lee, and his band, Love.
0:00:50 > 0:00:54And, last in the spotlight, Lynn Edwards, a psychiatric nurse
0:00:54 > 0:00:58from Bangor, whose subject is The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy.
0:00:58 > 0:01:02APPLAUSE
0:01:11 > 0:01:16Hello, and welcome to Mastermind, with me, John Humphrys.
0:01:16 > 0:01:20Tonight, four contenders will face their first hurdle in the
0:01:20 > 0:01:24race to reach the grand final of the Mastermind Stakes,
0:01:24 > 0:01:27and the chance of winning the famous glass bowl and, far more
0:01:27 > 0:01:30importantly, be enshrined as the nation's Mastermind.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33The rules are simple, two minutes of questions on their
0:01:33 > 0:01:37specialist subject, and then two and a half minutes on General Knowledge.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39So, let us get on with it
0:01:39 > 0:01:42and ask our first contender to join us, please.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58Two minutes on the great Peter Sellers, starting now.
0:01:58 > 0:02:01Sellers was known for playing multiple characters in his films.
0:02:01 > 0:02:03In Dr Strangelove, he plays the title character,
0:02:03 > 0:02:06President Muffley, and which other character?
0:02:06 > 0:02:08Dr Strangelove.
0:02:08 > 0:02:10Captain Mandrake. In Revenge Of The Pink Panther,
0:02:10 > 0:02:12Clouseau is in Ball's Disguise Shop
0:02:12 > 0:02:15when he accepts a special delivery of what?
0:02:15 > 0:02:16A bomb.
0:02:16 > 0:02:20In which 1974 Boulting brothers film does Sellers play six parts,
0:02:20 > 0:02:22one of whom, Major Robinson, enlists the help of
0:02:22 > 0:02:26a brothel full of ladies to beat the Germans in wartime Paris?
0:02:26 > 0:02:27Soft Beds, Hard Battles.
0:02:27 > 0:02:31What is the name of the professional gambler played by Sellers in
0:02:31 > 0:02:34the 1967 James Bond spoof Casino Royale?
0:02:34 > 0:02:35Evelyn Tremble.
0:02:35 > 0:02:38What is the name of the parrot which tells the Sellers character to
0:02:38 > 0:02:42"swab the decks" after it bites him in The Ladykillers?
0:02:42 > 0:02:43General Gordon.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45In the '63 film The Pink Panther,
0:02:45 > 0:02:48which actor plays Sir Charles Lytton, otherwise known as
0:02:48 > 0:02:51The Phantom, a thief who tries to steal The Pink Panther diamond?
0:02:51 > 0:02:53David Niven.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56In the BAFTA award-winning film I'm All Right Jack,
0:02:56 > 0:02:57Sellers' character, Fred Kite,
0:02:57 > 0:03:00holds the position of chief shop steward in which armaments factory?
0:03:00 > 0:03:02Missiles Ltd.
0:03:02 > 0:03:03In which film, directed by Cliff Owen,
0:03:03 > 0:03:06does Peter Sellers play a gang leader called Pearly Gates?
0:03:06 > 0:03:08The Wrong Arm Of The Law.
0:03:08 > 0:03:10In Two-Way Stretch, Sellers' character, Dodger,
0:03:10 > 0:03:13reads the newspaper in his prison bed, and tells his cellmates,
0:03:13 > 0:03:18Jelly and Lennie, "When you knock off any money, never put it on..." what?
0:03:18 > 0:03:19The stock market.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22For which film did Sellers win a Golden Globe award for
0:03:22 > 0:03:25playing the role of Chauncey Gardiner, a simple-minded gardener
0:03:25 > 0:03:29whose television-based education is mistaken for political insight?
0:03:29 > 0:03:30Being There.
0:03:30 > 0:03:32In the 1955 comedy The Ladykillers,
0:03:32 > 0:03:35the criminal gang led by Alec Guinness as Professor Marcus,
0:03:35 > 0:03:36pretend to be a string quintet,
0:03:36 > 0:03:39and Sellers' character is introduced as Mr Robinson.
0:03:39 > 0:03:41What's his character's first name?
0:03:41 > 0:03:42Harry.
0:03:42 > 0:03:46What two words have been handwritten on the nuclear warhead that Major King Kong,
0:03:46 > 0:03:49played by Slim Pickens, climbs onto in Dr Strangelove?
0:03:49 > 0:03:51It falls out of the plane with him on top.
0:03:51 > 0:03:52Hi there.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55In The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Clouseau finally gains entry
0:03:55 > 0:03:58into Dreyfus' castle disguised as Dr Schultz.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01BEEP What is the doctor's profession?
0:04:01 > 0:04:02He's a dentist.
0:04:02 > 0:04:03He is indeed a dentist.
0:04:03 > 0:04:08No passes, Steve. You only got one wrong. You have 12 points.
0:04:08 > 0:04:11Thank you. APPLAUSE
0:04:18 > 0:04:20And our next contender, please.
0:04:34 > 0:04:35Two minutes, starting now.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38Which scientist wrote The System Of The World, which includes his estimate
0:04:38 > 0:04:41that stars are a million or more times further away than the sun appears?
0:04:41 > 0:04:43It was published posthumously in 1728.
0:04:46 > 0:04:47Pass.
0:04:47 > 0:04:51What famous discovery was made by Asaph Hall in 1877 using the
0:04:51 > 0:04:53telescope in the US Naval Observatory?
0:04:54 > 0:04:55Pass.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58The boundary near a black hole, where its gravitational pull becomes
0:04:58 > 0:05:02so great that even light cannot escape from it is given what name?
0:05:02 > 0:05:04Erm... Schwartz tunnel.
0:05:04 > 0:05:05The event horizon.
0:05:05 > 0:05:09In 1979, Linda Morabito of the Voyager team was the first to
0:05:09 > 0:05:12notice eruptions on one of Jupiter's moons that is now known to be
0:05:12 > 0:05:14the most volcanically active body in the solar system.
0:05:14 > 0:05:15Which one?
0:05:15 > 0:05:17Io.
0:05:17 > 0:05:20Capella, the brightest star in the constellation Aurigae,
0:05:20 > 0:05:23is in fact a pair of a type of star at the end of their normal lifetimes. What type?
0:05:23 > 0:05:25Red Giant.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28Yellow Giants. The law that states that the red shifts in the spectra of
0:05:28 > 0:05:32distant galaxies are proportional to their distance is named after
0:05:32 > 0:05:33which American astronomer?
0:05:33 > 0:05:34Hubble.
0:05:34 > 0:05:38In 1801, Giuseppe Piazzi discovered an asteroid orbiting between
0:05:38 > 0:05:41Mars and Jupiter that is now classed as a dwarf planet. What's its name?
0:05:41 > 0:05:43Ceres.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46What do the letters CMB stand for in the term for the thermal
0:05:46 > 0:05:49radiation left over from shortly after the big bang?
0:05:49 > 0:05:50Cosmic microwave background.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53The unexpected conclusion that hydrogen and helium are the
0:05:53 > 0:05:57most common elements in stars was shown in the 1925 doctoral
0:05:57 > 0:05:59thesis of which British-born American astronomer?
0:05:59 > 0:06:01Cecilia Payne.
0:06:01 > 0:06:04The work Siderius Nuntius, or The Starry Messenger,
0:06:04 > 0:06:08first published in 1610, records whose astronomical discoveries?
0:06:08 > 0:06:10Galileo.
0:06:10 > 0:06:11Which giant spiral galaxy,
0:06:11 > 0:06:15one of the few visible to the naked eye, has the Messier number M31?
0:06:15 > 0:06:16Whirlpool.
0:06:16 > 0:06:19Andromeda. What form of cosmic radiation was discovered in the
0:06:19 > 0:06:23constellation Scorpius by the Italian-born astrophysicist
0:06:23 > 0:06:25Riccardo Giacconi in 1962?
0:06:25 > 0:06:29He won the 2002 Nobel Prize for physics for laying the
0:06:29 > 0:06:31foundations of this form of astronomy.
0:06:31 > 0:06:32X-ray.
0:06:32 > 0:06:35What name is given to the two galaxies in the southern hemisphere that appear to...
0:06:35 > 0:06:39BEEP ..the naked eye like detached portions of the Milky Way?
0:06:39 > 0:06:40Magellanic clouds.
0:06:40 > 0:06:41It is indeed.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44And you had two passes.
0:06:44 > 0:06:51That famous discovery made by Asaph Hall in 1877 was the moons of Mars.
0:06:51 > 0:06:55And Sir Isaac Newton was the chap who wrote The System Of The World.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58You have scored, however, Nigel, eight points.
0:06:58 > 0:07:02APPLAUSE
0:07:08 > 0:07:10And our next contender, please.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28Arthur Lee and Love, coming up. Two minutes, here we go.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31The American rock band Love, fronted by Arthur Lee, were signed by
0:07:31 > 0:07:34Jack Holzman after he saw them playing at Bido Lito's club
0:07:34 > 0:07:38in 1965. They were one of the first rock acts on the label. What label?
0:07:38 > 0:07:39Elektra.
0:07:39 > 0:07:41When the band originally formed in 1965,
0:07:41 > 0:07:42they had a name which had to be changed,
0:07:42 > 0:07:46because a more successful group was already using it. What name?
0:07:46 > 0:07:50The Grass Roots. Which song on the Forever Changes album contains the lyric,
0:07:50 > 0:07:54"You're just a thought that someone somewhere somehow feels you should be here"?
0:07:56 > 0:07:57Live And Let Live?
0:07:57 > 0:07:59A House Is Not A Motel.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01Which Jimmy Cliff song did Lee cover on his
0:08:01 > 0:08:03'81 self-titled album, Arthur Lee,
0:08:03 > 0:08:04released on the Rhino label?
0:08:04 > 0:08:06Many Rivers To Cross.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09According to Lee, Jimi Hendrix had suggested, shortly before he died
0:08:09 > 0:08:13in September 1970, that the two of them form a supergroup with Steve Winwood.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15What name did Hendrix suggest for it?
0:08:15 > 0:08:16Band Aid.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19The teenage Lee formed a band called Arthur Lee And The LAGs while
0:08:19 > 0:08:22he was a pupil at which Los Angeles high school?
0:08:23 > 0:08:25Susan Miller Dorsey High.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27What is the title of Lee's first solo album,
0:08:27 > 0:08:30released on the A label in 1972?
0:08:30 > 0:08:31Vindicator.
0:08:31 > 0:08:35The audio and video recording of the Forever Changes concert in January 2003,
0:08:35 > 0:08:38for which Lee performed the full album backed by
0:08:38 > 0:08:41a band and small orchestra, was made at which London venue?
0:08:41 > 0:08:42Royal Festival Hall.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45Lee served over five years in a Californian prison for
0:08:45 > 0:08:48accumulated offences, including illegal use of a firearm.
0:08:48 > 0:08:49Which prison?
0:08:49 > 0:08:50Pleasant Valleys.
0:08:50 > 0:08:53What was the name of the art director at Elektra who was mainly
0:08:53 > 0:08:57responsible for the record covers of Love's early albums on the label?
0:08:57 > 0:08:59William S Harvey.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02Love's third album, Forever Changes, is widely regarded as their
0:09:02 > 0:09:05masterpiece, and was recorded over the summer of '67,
0:09:05 > 0:09:07beginning in June at which Hollywood studio?
0:09:07 > 0:09:09Sunset.
0:09:09 > 0:09:13Which musician and former Byrds roadie joined Love in 1965 and
0:09:13 > 0:09:16wrote the songs Softly To Me and Orange Skies, among several others?
0:09:16 > 0:09:20He temporarily left the group after the Forever Changes album.
0:09:20 > 0:09:21Bryan MacLean.
0:09:21 > 0:09:24What is the title of the track on the De Capo album which is
0:09:24 > 0:09:28a nearly-20-minute jam session, and takes up the entire B-side of the LP?
0:09:28 > 0:09:29Revelation.
0:09:29 > 0:09:32Which Burt Bacharach/ Hal David song... BEEP
0:09:32 > 0:09:34..from the film What's New Pussycat?
0:09:34 > 0:09:36did Love cover and include on their debut album?
0:09:36 > 0:09:37My Little Red Book.
0:09:37 > 0:09:38Is correct.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41No passes, Graeme, you have 13 points.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44APPLAUSE
0:09:50 > 0:09:52And our final contender, please.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09Forsyte. Here we go. Two minutes.
0:10:09 > 0:10:12The first of Galsworthy's Forsyte novels about a family
0:10:12 > 0:10:15at the turn of the 20th century opens in 1886 at a party
0:10:15 > 0:10:19to celebrate the engagement of Old Jolyon Forsyte's niece, June, to whom?
0:10:19 > 0:10:20Philip Bosinney.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23What commodity is bought and sold by the company Forsyte and Trefry?
0:10:23 > 0:10:25It's the basis of Old Jolyon's fortune.
0:10:25 > 0:10:26Tea.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29Who calls Fleur Mont, Soames Forsyte's daughter, a snob in her own home,
0:10:29 > 0:10:33and then sues Fleur for libel for saying she has no morals?
0:10:33 > 0:10:34Marjorie Ferrar.
0:10:34 > 0:10:37Old Jolyon tells his son about the rumours concerning Irene Forsyte's
0:10:37 > 0:10:39relationship with the architect, Philip Bosinney,
0:10:39 > 0:10:42when he meets him and the grandchildren one afternoon.
0:10:42 > 0:10:43Where does this meeting take place?
0:10:43 > 0:10:44Zoo.
0:10:44 > 0:10:47Yeah, London Zoo. In To Let, what's the name of Fleur's club,
0:10:47 > 0:10:51to which she tells John Forsyte to address the letters he writes to her?
0:10:51 > 0:10:52Theismann.
0:10:52 > 0:10:54Philip Bosinney designs and builds a house for Soames Forsyte,
0:10:54 > 0:10:58which is later bought by his uncle, Old Jolyon, who dies there.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00By what name does the house become known, after its location?
0:11:00 > 0:11:02Robin Hill.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05On an expedition in South America, Hubert Charwell shot a local man.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08What is the name of the American professor who was the leader of the expedition?
0:11:08 > 0:11:09Allison.
0:11:09 > 0:11:12In Swansong, Fleur and Michael's son, Kit, becomes ill, and
0:11:12 > 0:11:16Fleur has to withdraw from society for a while to look after him.
0:11:16 > 0:11:17What illness did Kit have?
0:11:17 > 0:11:18Measles.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21What is the name of Soames' clerk at Cathcart, Kingston and Forsyte?
0:11:21 > 0:11:24He is the main clerk assigned to the management of Forsyte affairs.
0:11:24 > 0:11:25Gradman.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28In September 1886, which of the aunts becomes the first of
0:11:28 > 0:11:31the old generation of Forsytes to die?
0:11:31 > 0:11:33She is found dead in her bed by Smithers, the maid.
0:11:33 > 0:11:34Aunt Ann.
0:11:34 > 0:11:37What is the name of the Pekinese dog that Michael Mont bought for
0:11:37 > 0:11:39his wife, Fleur, on her 20th birthday?
0:11:39 > 0:11:40Ting. Yes, Tingaling.
0:11:40 > 0:11:44In Flowering Wilderness, in which region west of Sudan was
0:11:44 > 0:11:46Wilfred Desert captured by fanatical Arabs?
0:11:46 > 0:11:49He claims he converted to Islam to save his skin.
0:11:49 > 0:11:50Darfur.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52Montague Dartie leaves Soames' sister, Winifred,
0:11:52 > 0:11:54to start a new life with a young dancer,
0:11:54 > 0:11:57and gives the dancer a piece of jewellery that belongs to Winifred.
0:11:57 > 0:11:58What was it?
0:11:58 > 0:11:59Pearls.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02Tony Bickord is sacked from his job at the publishing firm of
0:12:02 > 0:12:04Danby And Winter for stealing books.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07What does he try to sell on the streets afterwards to make some money?
0:12:07 > 0:12:08Balloons.
0:12:08 > 0:12:12Soames sees Irene Forsyte for the first time in many years at a hotel in Washington DC.
0:12:12 > 0:12:15What is Irene doing when he sees her?
0:12:17 > 0:12:18Playing the piano.
0:12:18 > 0:12:19She is indeed.
0:12:19 > 0:12:23No passes, Lynn. A very high score for the first round, of 15 points.
0:12:23 > 0:12:27Thank you. APPLAUSE
0:12:33 > 0:12:35Well, that is a really high scoring first round.
0:12:35 > 0:12:37Let's have a look at all of the scores.
0:12:37 > 0:12:40In fourth place, eight points, Nigel Jones.
0:12:40 > 0:12:42Third place, 12 points, Steve Lacey.
0:12:42 > 0:12:46Second place, 13 points, Graeme Ross.
0:12:46 > 0:12:48First place, 15 points, Lynn Edwards.
0:12:48 > 0:12:52APPLAUSE
0:12:56 > 0:12:58It is the General Knowledge round, now,
0:12:58 > 0:13:00and if there's a tie at the end of it,
0:13:00 > 0:13:02then the number of passes is taken into account,
0:13:02 > 0:13:05and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08If they're tied on passes as well, there has to be a tie-break,
0:13:08 > 0:13:12and it's possible for a runner-up this evening to get through
0:13:12 > 0:13:13to the semifinal as well.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16The sixth highest-scoring runners-up will qualify,
0:13:16 > 0:13:19so let's get on with it and ask Nigel to join us again, please.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23And you have eight points,
0:13:23 > 0:13:26with your knowledge of astronomy, let's see how you do.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28Two and a half minutes, plenty of time to catch up,
0:13:28 > 0:13:30two and a half minutes of General Knowledge.
0:13:30 > 0:13:31Here we go.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33What word of Greek origin is used for an abnormal,
0:13:33 > 0:13:37intense and irrational fear of a given situation or object?
0:13:37 > 0:13:38Phobia.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41What imperial measure of weight that's equal to 112 pounds
0:13:41 > 0:13:43was usually abbreviated to the letters CWT?
0:13:43 > 0:13:44Hundredweight.
0:13:44 > 0:13:49The opera Satyagraha by the American composer Philip Glass is a portrayal
0:13:49 > 0:13:52of incidents from the early life of which Indian nationalist leader?
0:13:52 > 0:13:53Gandhi.
0:13:53 > 0:13:56By what name, meaning "little gourd" in Italian,
0:13:56 > 0:13:58is the courgette known in North America?
0:13:58 > 0:13:59Aubergine.
0:13:59 > 0:14:00Zucchini.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03Of which brand of the arts was the 17th-century architect and
0:14:03 > 0:14:05master mason Nicholas Stone a celebrated practitioner?
0:14:05 > 0:14:08His works in the field are considered some of the most
0:14:08 > 0:14:10significant of the entire century in England.
0:14:10 > 0:14:12Erm, pass.
0:14:12 > 0:14:13What title, from the Latin for mother,
0:14:13 > 0:14:16was traditionally given to the senior female nursing officer
0:14:16 > 0:14:19in charge of the domestic or medical arrangements in a hospital?
0:14:19 > 0:14:20Matron.
0:14:20 > 0:14:23How many years is the term of office of an American Senator?
0:14:23 > 0:14:25Er, five.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28Six. Which band recorded the single, The Joker, which topped the UK charts
0:14:28 > 0:14:33in September 1990 after it featured in a television advert for jeans?
0:14:33 > 0:14:34Steve Miller Band.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37To which songbird did John Keats write an ode that includes
0:14:37 > 0:14:41the line, "Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird?"
0:14:41 > 0:14:42Nightingale.
0:14:42 > 0:14:45Which country was permanently awarded the Jules Rimet trophy
0:14:45 > 0:14:48after winning the football World Cup for the third time in 1970?
0:14:48 > 0:14:49Brazil.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51What is housed in a binnacle on board a ship?
0:14:51 > 0:14:52Compass.
0:14:52 > 0:14:55Which British novelist's first five books include
0:14:55 > 0:14:57The Ice House, The Sculptress, and The Scold's Bridle?
0:14:57 > 0:15:01They were all adapted for television in the '90s.
0:15:01 > 0:15:02John le Carre.
0:15:02 > 0:15:05Minette Walters. Which former British crown colony in Southeast Asia is
0:15:05 > 0:15:09located immediately to the east of the Pearl River Estuary?
0:15:09 > 0:15:10Hong Kong.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12What stage name did Anthony McVay Simpson,
0:15:12 > 0:15:16who died in March 2016, adopt as a child star?
0:15:16 > 0:15:20Under that name, he's best known as the creator of Coronation Street.
0:15:21 > 0:15:22Pass.
0:15:22 > 0:15:25Which Hebrew patriarch married his cousin, Rachel, after
0:15:25 > 0:15:27he had first been tricked by his father-in-law, Laban,
0:15:27 > 0:15:29into marrying her older sister, Leah?
0:15:29 > 0:15:30Jacob.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33What Spanish word for "tomorrow" is also used to mean any vague
0:15:33 > 0:15:34date in the future?
0:15:34 > 0:15:36Manana.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38Which notorious gang used Leatherslade Farm in
0:15:38 > 0:15:41Buckinghamshire as their hideout in 1963?
0:15:41 > 0:15:42Great Train Robbers.
0:15:42 > 0:15:45Flanders, Iceland and Alpine are varieties of
0:15:45 > 0:15:48a flowering plant found in the wild and in gardens. Which plant?
0:15:48 > 0:15:50Lily.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53Poppy. Pashto and a form of Persian known as Dari are the
0:15:53 > 0:15:55official languages of which Asian country?
0:15:55 > 0:15:56Afghanistan.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59What name honouring the Queen has been given to the Crossrail line
0:15:59 > 0:16:03that will eventually link Reading in the west to Shenfield in the east?
0:16:08 > 0:16:10Take a guess. Jubilee Line.
0:16:10 > 0:16:12You're a bit out of date with that one.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14No, it was the Elizabeth Line. Two passes.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17That stage name that Anthony McVay Simpson adopted as
0:16:17 > 0:16:20a child was Tony Warren. Yeah.
0:16:20 > 0:16:24And that 17th century master, Nicholas Stone,
0:16:24 > 0:16:27was pretty good at sculpture.
0:16:27 > 0:16:31You have, Nigel, now a total of 21 points.
0:16:31 > 0:16:35APPLAUSE
0:16:40 > 0:16:42And now Steve again, please.
0:16:46 > 0:16:49And you start out, Steve, with 12 points.
0:16:49 > 0:16:53And the score to beat, as we speak, is 21, so let's see how you
0:16:53 > 0:16:56do with your two and a half minutes of General Knowledge, starting now.
0:16:56 > 0:17:00What is the colour of the maple leaf at the centre of the Canadian flag?
0:17:00 > 0:17:01Red.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Who was the lead vocalist with the group The Jam?
0:17:03 > 0:17:04Paul Weller.
0:17:04 > 0:17:07In which English city is the Walker Art Gallery that's been
0:17:07 > 0:17:09nicknamed "The National Gallery of the North?"
0:17:09 > 0:17:11Manchester.
0:17:11 > 0:17:14Liverpool. Which jockey has ridden the most English Classic winners?
0:17:14 > 0:17:16His 30th and last was in 1992,
0:17:16 > 0:17:19on Rodrigo de Triano in the 2000 Guineas.
0:17:19 > 0:17:20Lester Piggott.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22The African-American version of The Wizard Of Oz stars Diana Ross
0:17:22 > 0:17:25as Dorothy and Michael Jackson as The Scarecrow.
0:17:25 > 0:17:26What's its title?
0:17:26 > 0:17:27The Wiz.
0:17:27 > 0:17:29Sweden lies on the western shore of the Gulf of Bothnia,
0:17:29 > 0:17:32a northern extension of the Baltic Sea.
0:17:32 > 0:17:34Which country lies on its eastern shore?
0:17:34 > 0:17:35Finland.
0:17:35 > 0:17:39For which law enforcement aids are "darbies" or "bracelets" slang terms?
0:17:39 > 0:17:40Handcuffs.
0:17:40 > 0:17:45Which insects' larvae live in cuckoo spit that protects them from predators?
0:17:45 > 0:17:46Pass.
0:17:46 > 0:17:49Which controversial Conservative politician joined the
0:17:49 > 0:17:53Ulster Unionists in 1974, and served as MP for Down South until
0:17:53 > 0:17:55his defeat at the '87 general election?
0:17:55 > 0:17:57Enoch Powell.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59What is the name of the spacecraft in which Yuri Gagarin became
0:17:59 > 0:18:02the first man in space in April 1961?
0:18:02 > 0:18:03Vostock 1.
0:18:03 > 0:18:06In Dante's Divine Comedy, which Roman poet, who represents the
0:18:06 > 0:18:10epitome of human knowledge, conducts Dante through hell and purgatory?
0:18:10 > 0:18:11Virgil.
0:18:11 > 0:18:13Of what species of fish are yellowfin, bigeye,
0:18:13 > 0:18:15and bluefin all types?
0:18:15 > 0:18:16Tuna.
0:18:16 > 0:18:18Which legendary figure of the American West,
0:18:18 > 0:18:21who was appointed Marshal of Abilene in 1871,
0:18:21 > 0:18:25was shot dead at a poker table in Deadwood in 1876?
0:18:25 > 0:18:27Wyatt Earp? No, Wild Bill Hickok.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29In which television comedy series are some of the main
0:18:29 > 0:18:32characters the Geordie, Oz, the boring Brummie, Barry,
0:18:32 > 0:18:34and the Liverpudlian arsonist, Moxey?
0:18:34 > 0:18:35Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
0:18:35 > 0:18:38Which Wagner opera that was first performed in 1865
0:18:38 > 0:18:41opens on a ship bound from Ireland to Cornwall?
0:18:41 > 0:18:43The Flying Dutchman? Tristan and Iseult.
0:18:43 > 0:18:47Who stars as Jack Colton alongside Kathleen Turner as Joan Wilder
0:18:47 > 0:18:51in the film Romancing The Stone, and its sequel The Jewel Of The Nile?
0:18:51 > 0:18:52Michael Douglas.
0:18:52 > 0:18:56Which African dictator, who died in exile in Saudi Arabia in 2003,
0:18:56 > 0:18:59once declared himself King of Scotland, promoted himself to
0:18:59 > 0:19:01Field Marshal, and awarded himself the Victoria Cross?
0:19:01 > 0:19:02Idi Amin.
0:19:02 > 0:19:05What is the name of the Nobel Prize-winning British writer whose
0:19:05 > 0:19:08plays include The Caretaker, The Homecoming, The Room, and Silence?
0:19:08 > 0:19:10Harold Pinter.
0:19:10 > 0:19:13Susan Orleans's book, subtitled The Life And The Legend,
0:19:13 > 0:19:16tells the story of a famous dog, originally a star of the silent screen.
0:19:16 > 0:19:18Which dog?
0:19:18 > 0:19:19Rin Tin Tin.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22What name is shared by two unrelated edible plants,
0:19:22 > 0:19:23both originating in the Americas?
0:19:23 > 0:19:26A root containing an orange yellow pulp,
0:19:26 > 0:19:29and a tuber that forms part of the staple British diet?
0:19:32 > 0:19:33Potato.
0:19:33 > 0:19:35Yes. OK.
0:19:35 > 0:19:38Yes, always worth a guess, isn't it? Absolutely.
0:19:38 > 0:19:41And your pass, that insect larvae that lives in cuckoo spit,
0:19:41 > 0:19:43it's the common froghopper. Ah.
0:19:43 > 0:19:48So there you go. You've now got, Steve, 28 points.
0:19:48 > 0:19:50APPLAUSE
0:19:56 > 0:19:58And now Graeme again, please.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03And you start out, Graeme, with 13 points.
0:20:03 > 0:20:07The score to beat, as you have just heard, has gone up a bit. It's 28.
0:20:07 > 0:20:11Two and a half minutes, in which to reach or pass that score,
0:20:11 > 0:20:12here we go.
0:20:12 > 0:20:13In a popular television series,
0:20:13 > 0:20:17Great Uncle Bulgaria, Tobermory and Bungo are what fictional characters?
0:20:17 > 0:20:18The Wombles.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21Which English city is the home of The Steelers ice hockey team?
0:20:21 > 0:20:22Sheffield.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25WHat is the name of the antichrist baby born to the American
0:20:25 > 0:20:28ambassador and his wife in the film The Omen and its sequels?
0:20:28 > 0:20:29Damien.
0:20:29 > 0:20:33In 1867, from which country did the United States buy the north-western tip
0:20:33 > 0:20:36of the North American continent that makes up the state of Alaska?
0:20:36 > 0:20:37Russia.
0:20:37 > 0:20:41The Mozart opera Cosi Fan Tutte is subtitled La Scuola Degli Amanti,
0:20:41 > 0:20:46which, when translated into English, means The School For...?
0:20:46 > 0:20:47Pass.
0:20:47 > 0:20:51In which mythology was the god Mimir renowned for his knowledge and wisdom?
0:20:51 > 0:20:52Greek.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55Norse. What name is given to the muscles located between the ribs and
0:20:55 > 0:20:58surrounding the lungs that are used as part of the respiratory system?
0:21:01 > 0:21:02Maximum.
0:21:02 > 0:21:03Intercostal.
0:21:03 > 0:21:06Which fictional special agent spent two terms at Eton before he was
0:21:06 > 0:21:09expelled for a dalliance with a maid and finished his education at
0:21:09 > 0:21:11Fettes College in Edinburgh?
0:21:11 > 0:21:12James Bond.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14What is the name of the former tea clipper that's preserved
0:21:14 > 0:21:17on the Thames at Greenwich and is now a major tourist attraction?
0:21:17 > 0:21:19Cutty Sark.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22Which Eastern European country's international vehicle registration
0:21:22 > 0:21:26code is HR, from Hrvatska, the country's name in its native language?
0:21:26 > 0:21:27Poland.
0:21:27 > 0:21:28Croatia.
0:21:28 > 0:21:32In what 1967 film is the title character, played by Paul Newman,
0:21:32 > 0:21:35put on a chain gang for cutting off the tops of parking meters?
0:21:35 > 0:21:37Cool Hand Luke.
0:21:37 > 0:21:40Which American rap singer's 2004 debut solo album,
0:21:40 > 0:21:43The College Dropout, won a Best Rap Album Grammy?
0:21:43 > 0:21:44Ice-T.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46Kanye West. Which artist,
0:21:46 > 0:21:49who's famed for his paintings of Parisian nightlife in the 1890s,
0:21:49 > 0:21:52had accidents in his youth that left him with stunted legs?
0:21:52 > 0:21:53Toulouse`Lautrec.
0:21:53 > 0:21:56In which Commonwealth country is the city of Ballarat?
0:21:56 > 0:21:58It was the scene of a gold rush in 1851.
0:22:00 > 0:22:01Rhodesia.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04Australia. What is the official name of the film industry awards
0:22:04 > 0:22:05popularly known as the Oscars?
0:22:07 > 0:22:10Pa... Sorry, can you repeat that?
0:22:10 > 0:22:12What is the official name of the film industry awards
0:22:12 > 0:22:13popularly known as the Oscars?
0:22:13 > 0:22:14The Academy Awards.
0:22:14 > 0:22:17What four-letter word meaning "extravagant publicity" had its
0:22:17 > 0:22:21origins in America where it meant "cheating," or "deception"?
0:22:23 > 0:22:24Pass.
0:22:24 > 0:22:27What hereditary form of anaemia destroys the red blood cells
0:22:27 > 0:22:30by causing them to take on the rigid shape that the disease is named after?
0:22:30 > 0:22:32Rickets?
0:22:32 > 0:22:33No, sickle-cell anaemia.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36Which of the terns that breeds in northern polar regions and
0:22:36 > 0:22:40winters in southern polar regions has the longest annual migration of any bird?
0:22:40 > 0:22:41Arctic.
0:22:41 > 0:22:47Which city at the mouth of the River Tawe is known in Welsh as Abertawe?
0:22:47 > 0:22:48Aberystwyth.
0:22:48 > 0:22:52It sounds logical, doesn't it? It's Swansea, in fact.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55Two passes. That four-letter word meaning "extravagant publicity,"
0:22:55 > 0:22:58an American word, really, is "hype".
0:22:58 > 0:23:03And the Mozart opera, the subtitle means "the school for lovers."
0:23:04 > 0:23:07You have a total, Graeme, of 23 points. Thank you.
0:23:07 > 0:23:09APPLAUSE
0:23:16 > 0:23:19And, finally, Lynn again, please.
0:23:21 > 0:23:26And you're already well on your way, with 15 points, but the score,
0:23:26 > 0:23:28as I say, is 28,
0:23:28 > 0:23:32so let's see if you can score enough points to pass it in the
0:23:32 > 0:23:33two and a half minutes
0:23:33 > 0:23:36of General Knowledge questions, starting now.
0:23:36 > 0:23:39The Walt Disney World theme park opened in October 1971 near
0:23:39 > 0:23:42which major city in Central Florida?
0:23:42 > 0:23:43Anoling.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46Orlando. The bark of an evergreen oak that grows in Mediterranean
0:23:46 > 0:23:48countries is the main commercial source of
0:23:48 > 0:23:51a material that's widely used in the wine industry.
0:23:51 > 0:23:52Which material?
0:23:52 > 0:23:53Cork.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56In which novel is Major Major the commanding officer who would
0:23:56 > 0:23:58only allow visitors to his office when he was out?
0:23:58 > 0:23:59Catch-22.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02What name is given to a projecting stone spout in architecture, often a
0:24:02 > 0:24:06grotesquely carved person or animal, designed to drain water from a roof?
0:24:06 > 0:24:07Gargoyle.
0:24:07 > 0:24:10Which East End police station was the setting for The Bill,
0:24:10 > 0:24:12that ran on television for 26 years?
0:24:12 > 0:24:13Bow Street.
0:24:13 > 0:24:17Sun Hill. What natural disaster that was followed by a massive fire caused
0:24:17 > 0:24:21severe damage in San Francisco and neighbouring towns in April 1906?
0:24:21 > 0:24:22Earthquake.
0:24:22 > 0:24:24Which actor and writer, who's best known
0:24:24 > 0:24:26for his portrayal of an inept radio and
0:24:26 > 0:24:30television presenter, has a 2015 autobiography, entitled Easily Distracted?
0:24:30 > 0:24:32Steve Coogan.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34What did the Irish-American triple-jumper,
0:24:34 > 0:24:38James B Connolly, become the first winner of in Athens in April 1896?
0:24:38 > 0:24:39Long jump.
0:24:39 > 0:24:43Olympic medal. The coffin of King Edward I's wife was rested on its way from
0:24:43 > 0:24:46the village of Harby, near Lincoln, where she died in 1290,
0:24:46 > 0:24:48to her final resting place in London.
0:24:48 > 0:24:52What name is given to the 12 stone monuments put up to mark the resting places?
0:24:52 > 0:24:53Eleanor Crosses.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56The title song from The Beatles' second feature film topped
0:24:56 > 0:24:59the UK singles charts for three weeks in August 1965.
0:24:59 > 0:25:00What song?
0:25:00 > 0:25:01Help!
0:25:01 > 0:25:05What variety of whole blanched nut is traditionally used to top a Dundee cake?
0:25:05 > 0:25:06Almonds.
0:25:06 > 0:25:10Which greenhouse gas forms more than 96% of the atmosphere of Venus,
0:25:10 > 0:25:12resulting in it having the highest surface temperature of the
0:25:12 > 0:25:14planets in the solar system?
0:25:14 > 0:25:16Nitrogen. Carbon dioxide.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18Which fictional character's first name and initial,
0:25:18 > 0:25:21rarely mentioned in the many stories he appears in,
0:25:21 > 0:25:24is given as John H in the introduction to A Study In Scarlet?
0:25:24 > 0:25:25Dr Watson.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27What alternative name for a blacksmith,
0:25:27 > 0:25:29or person who shoes horses, comes from the Latin for iron?
0:25:29 > 0:25:30Farrier.
0:25:30 > 0:25:34Percy is the family name of a duke whose seat is at Alnwick Castle. Which duke?
0:25:34 > 0:25:35Northumberland.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37Every racehorse in the northern hemisphere
0:25:37 > 0:25:40has its official birthday on the same date. What date?
0:25:40 > 0:25:42January the first.
0:25:42 > 0:25:45The artificially-produced chemical element with the symbol Cn
0:25:45 > 0:25:49and atomic number 112 is named after which Polish astronomer?
0:25:49 > 0:25:50Copernicus.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53Traditionally how many pillars of wisdom are there?
0:25:53 > 0:25:55The phrase comes from the biblical book of proverbs,
0:25:55 > 0:25:58and was later used as the title of a book by TE Lawrence
0:25:58 > 0:25:59Seven.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02What name is given to the joint between the femur and the pelvis in anatomy?
0:26:04 > 0:26:05Hip.
0:26:05 > 0:26:10Which North African country's plain green flag was adopted in 1977,
0:26:10 > 0:26:15and replaced in 2011 by a former version consisting of horizontal red, black and green
0:26:15 > 0:26:19stripes with a white star and crescent in the middle?
0:26:19 > 0:26:20Ethiopia.
0:26:20 > 0:26:24Well, why not guess? But it wasn't, it was Libya.
0:26:24 > 0:26:27And anyway, it doesn't matter, because, Lynn,
0:26:27 > 0:26:29you have a total of 30 points.
0:26:29 > 0:26:32APPLAUSE
0:26:43 > 0:26:47Ah, what a great contest. Let's have a look at all of those scores.
0:26:47 > 0:26:50In fourth place, 21 points, Nigel Jones.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52Third place, 23 points, Graeme Ross.
0:26:52 > 0:26:55Second place, 28 points, Steve Lacey.
0:26:55 > 0:26:58First place, with 30 points, Lynn Edwards.
0:26:58 > 0:27:01APPLAUSE
0:27:09 > 0:27:11Well, no doubting the result of that.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13Lynn Edwards is tonight's winner,
0:27:13 > 0:27:17and she goes through to the semifinals. Congratulations to her.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20Commiserations, maybe, to Steve Lacey,
0:27:20 > 0:27:24but his score of 28 means it is entirely possible that we
0:27:24 > 0:27:27shall see him again in the semifinal.
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0:27:39 > 0:27:43Thanks for watching. Goodbye. APPLAUSE
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