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0:00:02 > 0:00:05Tonight our first four contenders will take the lonely walk to this black chair.

0:00:05 > 0:00:09What unites them is they all want to become the nation's Mastermind.

0:00:09 > 0:00:11What will divide them is their ability

0:00:11 > 0:00:14when they're sitting in the chair to remember an awful lot of stuff

0:00:14 > 0:00:17under an awful lot of pressure.

0:00:17 > 0:00:22But there can only be one champion. This is Mastermind.

0:00:49 > 0:00:51Our first contender tonight is Chris Cummins,

0:00:51 > 0:00:53a university lecturer from Edinburgh.

0:00:53 > 0:00:56His specialist subject, Paul Simon.

0:00:56 > 0:00:59Charis Hughes is a communications officer from Glasgow.

0:00:59 > 0:01:03She's answering questions on the films of Hayao Miyazaki.

0:01:03 > 0:01:06Sarah Stewart's a foundation director from Bristol.

0:01:06 > 0:01:10She's answering questions on the Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna,

0:01:10 > 0:01:12the sister of the last Tsar.

0:01:12 > 0:01:14And our final contender, James Hogg,

0:01:14 > 0:01:17a charity membership officer from Norfolk,

0:01:17 > 0:01:20who's answering questions on the poet John Donne.

0:01:20 > 0:01:22APPLAUSE

0:01:26 > 0:01:29Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.

0:01:29 > 0:01:32Tonight's contenders will put their knowledge to the test

0:01:32 > 0:01:35and take the first step towards the grand final,

0:01:35 > 0:01:38where they could win this lovely glass bowl

0:01:38 > 0:01:40and the title of Mastermind.

0:01:40 > 0:01:42They will answer two minutes of questions

0:01:42 > 0:01:44on their specialist subject tonight

0:01:44 > 0:01:47and then two-and-a-half minutes on general knowledge,

0:01:47 > 0:01:51so let's get on with it and ask our first contender to join us, please.

0:01:56 > 0:01:58And your name is...?

0:01:58 > 0:01:59- Chris Cummins.- Your occupation?

0:01:59 > 0:02:01University lecturer.

0:02:01 > 0:02:02And your chosen subject?

0:02:02 > 0:02:03Paul Simon.

0:02:03 > 0:02:06Paul Simon, in two minutes, starting now.

0:02:06 > 0:02:09Under what name did Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel

0:02:09 > 0:02:12release their first hit single Hey Schoolgirl in 1957?

0:02:12 > 0:02:13Tom and Jerry.

0:02:13 > 0:02:15Which comic actor appears in the video

0:02:15 > 0:02:17for the single You Can Call Me Al?

0:02:17 > 0:02:18Chevy Chase.

0:02:18 > 0:02:21What is the title of the Paul Simon song performed under the name

0:02:21 > 0:02:25of Jerry Landis that reached the American Top 100 in 1963?

0:02:25 > 0:02:26The Lone Teen Ranger?

0:02:26 > 0:02:29Simon and Garfunkel teamed up with another singer to record

0:02:29 > 0:02:31a cover of Sam Cooke's What A Wonderful World.

0:02:31 > 0:02:32It was released in 1978.

0:02:32 > 0:02:34Who was the singer?

0:02:34 > 0:02:35James Taylor.

0:02:35 > 0:02:37Simon joined a Jewish fraternity

0:02:37 > 0:02:40at Queen's College in New York and produced and wrote skits

0:02:40 > 0:02:43for its contributions to Queen's annual stage shows -

0:02:43 > 0:02:44which fraternity?

0:02:44 > 0:02:45Alpha Epsilon Pi.

0:02:45 > 0:02:48What was the name of Simon's second solo album?

0:02:48 > 0:02:50It was released in 1973.

0:02:50 > 0:02:51There Goes Rhymin' Simon.

0:02:51 > 0:02:53Which keyboard player was in Simon's band

0:02:53 > 0:02:55in the film One Trick Pony

0:02:55 > 0:02:56and on the tour to promote the album?

0:02:56 > 0:02:58Richard Tee.

0:02:58 > 0:03:00Which other act appeared with Simon and Garfunkel

0:03:00 > 0:03:02on their 2003-2004 World Tour?

0:03:02 > 0:03:04They performed some songs by themselves

0:03:04 > 0:03:06and one with Simon and Garfunkel.

0:03:06 > 0:03:08The Everly Brothers.

0:03:08 > 0:03:10When Simon spent some time in Paris in 1963

0:03:10 > 0:03:12he met an Englishman who ran a folk club

0:03:12 > 0:03:15in Brentwood, Essex, where he later had a residency.

0:03:15 > 0:03:16What was his name?

0:03:16 > 0:03:17David McLausland.

0:03:17 > 0:03:19Simon had an on-off relationship

0:03:19 > 0:03:21for more than ten years with an actress,

0:03:21 > 0:03:23although their marriage lasted less than a year -

0:03:23 > 0:03:24which actress?

0:03:27 > 0:03:28Carrie Fisher.

0:03:28 > 0:03:29What is the opening track

0:03:29 > 0:03:31on both The Rhythm Of The Saints

0:03:31 > 0:03:34and Paul Simon's Concert In The Park?

0:03:34 > 0:03:35The Obvious Child.

0:03:35 > 0:03:37In 1999 he toured with Bob Dylan,

0:03:37 > 0:03:39alternating as to which of them should head the bill.

0:03:39 > 0:03:42At most concerts, they sang four songs together

0:03:42 > 0:03:44including Dylan's Knocking On Heaven's Door

0:03:44 > 0:03:46and a Paul Simon song, which was...?

0:03:48 > 0:03:49Sound Of Silence?

0:03:49 > 0:03:51Yes. What song, released in April 2016,

0:03:51 > 0:03:56was the lead single taken from the album Stranger To Stranger?

0:03:56 > 0:03:57Wristband.

0:03:57 > 0:03:59Which track on Bridge Over Troubled Water

0:03:59 > 0:04:02was the B-side to The Boxer, which reached the top ten

0:04:02 > 0:04:04in both the UK and America?

0:04:06 > 0:04:07Bye Bye Love?

0:04:07 > 0:04:09BEEP Oh, what a shame! What a shame!

0:04:09 > 0:04:10It was perfect up until then.

0:04:10 > 0:04:12- It was Baby Driver.- Ah!

0:04:12 > 0:04:16Nonetheless, you have scored 13 points.

0:04:16 > 0:04:18APPLAUSE

0:04:23 > 0:04:24And our next contender, please.

0:04:31 > 0:04:32And your name is...?

0:04:32 > 0:04:34Charis Hughes.

0:04:34 > 0:04:35Your occupation?

0:04:35 > 0:04:37- Communications officer. - And your chosen subject?

0:04:37 > 0:04:39The feature films of Hayao Miyazaki.

0:04:39 > 0:04:41In two minutes, starting now.

0:04:41 > 0:04:43Which film directed by Hayao Miyazaki

0:04:43 > 0:04:47won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2003?

0:04:47 > 0:04:48Spirited Away.

0:04:48 > 0:04:52Miyazaki said that one of his principal inspirations for his 2008 film Ponyo

0:04:52 > 0:04:55was a Hans Christian Andersen story - which one?

0:04:55 > 0:04:56The Little Mermaid.

0:04:56 > 0:04:58Which composer has written the soundtrack

0:04:58 > 0:05:00for every one of Miyazaki's films

0:05:00 > 0:05:03from Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind onwards?

0:05:03 > 0:05:04Joe Hisaishi.

0:05:04 > 0:05:07In My Neighbor Totoro, what means of transport

0:05:07 > 0:05:09does the forest spirit Totoro summon

0:05:09 > 0:05:12to help Satsuki search for her missing sister Mei?

0:05:12 > 0:05:13A catbus.

0:05:13 > 0:05:15Which American actor provides the voices

0:05:15 > 0:05:19of Louis in Castle In The Sky and Hattori in The Wind Rises

0:05:19 > 0:05:21in the English language version of the films?

0:05:21 > 0:05:23Joseph Gordon-Levitt?

0:05:23 > 0:05:25No, Mandy Patinkin.

0:05:25 > 0:05:28In Porco Rosso, pirates launch a concerted attack

0:05:28 > 0:05:30against a cruise ship, which then launches two aircraft

0:05:30 > 0:05:34in a vain attempt to try and drive them off - which cruise ship?

0:05:34 > 0:05:35Pass.

0:05:35 > 0:05:38What is the name of the red elk ridden by Prince Ashitaka

0:05:38 > 0:05:40in Princess Mononoke?

0:05:40 > 0:05:42Yakul.

0:05:42 > 0:05:46Miyazaki's 2004 film Howl's Moving Castle was

0:05:46 > 0:05:48based on the fantasy novel of the same name

0:05:48 > 0:05:49by which British author?

0:05:49 > 0:05:51Diana Wynne Jones.

0:05:51 > 0:05:55In The Wind Rises, Jiro Horikoshi helps Naoko reach her home

0:05:55 > 0:05:57after she has been hurt during an earthquake.

0:05:57 > 0:06:00In which district of Tokyo does she live?

0:06:00 > 0:06:01Pass.

0:06:01 > 0:06:02What is the name of the talking cat

0:06:02 > 0:06:04that accompanies Kiki on her travels

0:06:04 > 0:06:06after she leaves home in order to start

0:06:06 > 0:06:08her training as a witch in Kiki's Delivery Service?

0:06:08 > 0:06:10Jiji.

0:06:10 > 0:06:13What human name had been given by her father Fujimoto

0:06:13 > 0:06:15to the fish called Ponyo, who has eaten human food

0:06:15 > 0:06:18and tasted human blood and now wants to take human form?

0:06:18 > 0:06:19Brunhilde.

0:06:19 > 0:06:23In Laputa: Castle In The Sky, Sheeta's crystal necklace

0:06:23 > 0:06:25is made from a rare element that is found in the rocks

0:06:25 > 0:06:28of the small mining town where she fell to Earth - what element?

0:06:28 > 0:06:30Etherium.

0:06:30 > 0:06:32What species is the supposedly vicious creature Teto?

0:06:32 > 0:06:36It was given to Nausicaa as a pet by Lord Yupa

0:06:36 > 0:06:39in Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind.

0:06:39 > 0:06:41A fox-squirrel.

0:06:41 > 0:06:43In Ponyo... BEEP

0:06:43 > 0:06:44Sosuke makes a model of his father's ship

0:06:44 > 0:06:47and gives it to Toki at the Seniors' Centre.

0:06:47 > 0:06:48What is the name of the ship?

0:06:48 > 0:06:50Pass.

0:06:50 > 0:06:52Well, I can tell you because you're out of time -

0:06:52 > 0:06:53it was Koganei Maru.

0:06:55 > 0:06:57You had two more passes.

0:06:57 > 0:07:01In The Wind Rises, Jiro Horikoshi lives in the Ueno district.

0:07:01 > 0:07:06And the name of the cruise ship was the Queen Of The Mediterranean.

0:07:06 > 0:07:09You have scored, Charis, ten points.

0:07:09 > 0:07:11APPLAUSE

0:07:17 > 0:07:18And our next contender, please.

0:07:27 > 0:07:28And your name is...?

0:07:28 > 0:07:30- Sarah Stewart.- Your occupation?

0:07:30 > 0:07:32Foundation director.

0:07:32 > 0:07:33And your chosen subject?

0:07:33 > 0:07:35The Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna.

0:07:35 > 0:07:37In two minutes, starting now.

0:07:37 > 0:07:40The Grand Duchess was born in Russia in 1882

0:07:40 > 0:07:43and was the youngest daughter of Tsar Alexander III.

0:07:43 > 0:07:46What was the name of her English nanny whom Olga called Nana?

0:07:46 > 0:07:47Mrs Franklin.

0:07:47 > 0:07:49In October 1888, the six-year-old Olga

0:07:49 > 0:07:52was travelling by train with the royal family

0:07:52 > 0:07:54when it derailed just outside which town?

0:07:54 > 0:07:55Borki.

0:07:55 > 0:07:58Olga and her family were with her father, Tsar Alexander III,

0:07:58 > 0:08:01when he died in November 1894 at which palace?

0:08:01 > 0:08:02Livadia.

0:08:02 > 0:08:06Olga met her second husband, Nikolai Kulikovsky, in 1903

0:08:06 > 0:08:09when he was an officer in which Russian cavalry regiment?

0:08:09 > 0:08:11The Blue Cuirassiers.

0:08:11 > 0:08:13Olga and several members of her family were first

0:08:13 > 0:08:15put under house arrest in 1917,

0:08:15 > 0:08:17after the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II,

0:08:17 > 0:08:20when they were at Grand Duke Alexander's Crimean estate,

0:08:20 > 0:08:22near Yalta - which estate?

0:08:22 > 0:08:24Ay-Todor.

0:08:24 > 0:08:26Which infamous lay preacher and healer

0:08:26 > 0:08:28did Olga reputedly first meet in 1907

0:08:28 > 0:08:31when he was with Tsar Nicholas's children in their nurseries?

0:08:31 > 0:08:32Rasputin.

0:08:32 > 0:08:35What was the name of Olga's first son, born in 1917?

0:08:35 > 0:08:37He was named after a saint.

0:08:37 > 0:08:38Tikhon.

0:08:38 > 0:08:40In which Cossack town in the Caucasus

0:08:40 > 0:08:44was Olga's second son Guri born after she left the Crimea

0:08:44 > 0:08:46in 1919 to escape the Bolshevik forces?

0:08:46 > 0:08:48Novorossiysk?

0:08:48 > 0:08:49Novo-Minskaya.

0:08:49 > 0:08:52Olga and her family reached Denmark in 1920.

0:08:52 > 0:08:55What was the name of the maid who arrived from St Petersburg

0:08:55 > 0:08:57months later with Olga's jewels sewn into her clothes?

0:08:57 > 0:08:58Mimka.

0:08:58 > 0:09:00Yes, Emilia Tenso.

0:09:00 > 0:09:02At which Berlin nursing home, in 1925,

0:09:02 > 0:09:04did Olga meet a patient who called herself

0:09:04 > 0:09:07Mrs Tschaikovsky and claimed to be her niece, Anastasia?

0:09:07 > 0:09:08Anna Anderson.

0:09:08 > 0:09:09Mommsen.

0:09:09 > 0:09:12What was the name of the large farm that Olga bought

0:09:12 > 0:09:14and moved into with her family in 1932

0:09:14 > 0:09:17in the Danish town of Ballerup near Copenhagen?

0:09:17 > 0:09:18Knudsminde.

0:09:18 > 0:09:22In which town did Olga work as a nurse at a Red Cross hospital

0:09:22 > 0:09:24when the First World War broke out in August 1914?

0:09:24 > 0:09:27Her own Akhtyrsky Hussar regiment was stationed there.

0:09:27 > 0:09:29Rovno.

0:09:29 > 0:09:32In 1948 Olga and her family fled Denmark for Canada

0:09:32 > 0:09:34because of pressure put on the Danish government

0:09:34 > 0:09:35by the Soviet Union.

0:09:35 > 0:09:38They first stayed at a royal palace in England - which one?

0:09:38 > 0:09:39BEEP

0:09:39 > 0:09:40Hampton Court?

0:09:40 > 0:09:42Hampton Court is correct.

0:09:42 > 0:09:44No passes - Sarah, you have scored 11 points.

0:09:44 > 0:09:46APPLAUSE

0:09:54 > 0:09:56And our final contender, please.

0:10:03 > 0:10:05- And your name is...?- James Hogg.

0:10:05 > 0:10:07- Your occupation? - Charity membership officer.

0:10:07 > 0:10:08And your chosen subject?

0:10:08 > 0:10:11The life and poetry of John Donne.

0:10:11 > 0:10:13John Donne, in two minutes. Here we go.

0:10:13 > 0:10:15Donne was an English poet

0:10:15 > 0:10:17and became the Dean of St Paul's in 1621.

0:10:17 > 0:10:20To which of the Inns of Court was he admitted in 1592 after

0:10:20 > 0:10:23he completed his preliminary studies in Thavies Inn?

0:10:23 > 0:10:24Lincoln's Inn.

0:10:24 > 0:10:26What was the name of Donne's younger brother

0:10:26 > 0:10:29who was arrested for harbouring the Catholic priest William Harrington

0:10:29 > 0:10:32and died of the plague in Newgate prison in 1593?

0:10:32 > 0:10:34Henry.

0:10:34 > 0:10:36Donne married his wife Anne in secret in 1601

0:10:36 > 0:10:39because her father, Sir George, would have disapproved.

0:10:39 > 0:10:41What was her maiden name?

0:10:41 > 0:10:42More.

0:10:42 > 0:10:44Donne was ordained by the Bishop of London in the chapel

0:10:44 > 0:10:47of the Bishop's Palace beside St Paul's Cathedral

0:10:47 > 0:10:49in January 1615.

0:10:49 > 0:10:50What was the Bishop's name?

0:10:50 > 0:10:52Pass.

0:10:52 > 0:10:53When Donne took holy orders,

0:10:53 > 0:10:55he changed his seal from a sheaf of snakes

0:10:55 > 0:10:57to a device showing what?

0:10:59 > 0:11:00Pass.

0:11:00 > 0:11:02What is the title of Donne's work of 1610

0:11:02 > 0:11:04that's dedicated to King James I and VI,

0:11:04 > 0:11:07in which he argues that Catholics should

0:11:07 > 0:11:10and must take the oath of allegiance to the Crown?

0:11:10 > 0:11:11Pseudo-Martyr.

0:11:11 > 0:11:15Which poem begins, "Blasted with sighs and surrounded with tears,

0:11:15 > 0:11:16"hither I come to seek the spring"?

0:11:18 > 0:11:19Pass.

0:11:19 > 0:11:22What was the name of the parish in Bedfordshire

0:11:22 > 0:11:24that was presented to Donne by the Earl of Kent

0:11:24 > 0:11:26after he became Dean of St Paul's in 1621?

0:11:26 > 0:11:27Dunston.

0:11:27 > 0:11:30Blunham. Under what title was Donne's last sermon published?

0:11:30 > 0:11:33Many thought it was intended to be his own funeral service.

0:11:33 > 0:11:35Death's Duel.

0:11:35 > 0:11:37In Donne's poem The Will, to which mythological giant does

0:11:37 > 0:11:42he say he bequeaths his eyes as long as they can still see?

0:11:42 > 0:11:43Cyclops.

0:11:43 > 0:11:45Argus. What is the title of Donne's poem

0:11:45 > 0:11:47that is an affectionate rewriting of Marlowe's

0:11:47 > 0:11:49The Passionate Shepherd To His Love?

0:11:49 > 0:11:50It has the same opening line,

0:11:50 > 0:11:52"Come live with me and be my love".

0:11:52 > 0:11:53The Bait.

0:11:53 > 0:11:55What is the title of the poem that opens,

0:11:55 > 0:11:57"When I died last, and dear,

0:11:57 > 0:11:59"I die as often as from thee I go"?

0:12:01 > 0:12:02The Rising?

0:12:02 > 0:12:05The Legacy. In which London borough did Donne preach

0:12:05 > 0:12:07his earliest surviving sermon in April 1615,

0:12:07 > 0:12:10either at the Palace or the parish church?

0:12:12 > 0:12:13Whitehall?

0:12:13 > 0:12:15Greenwich. BEEP

0:12:15 > 0:12:18And your time is up, you have three passes.

0:12:18 > 0:12:19The poem that begins,

0:12:19 > 0:12:23"Blasted with sighs and surrounded with tears," is Twickenham Garden.

0:12:23 > 0:12:26When Donne took holy orders, he changed his seal

0:12:26 > 0:12:29from a sheaf of snakes to Christ crucified on an anchor.

0:12:29 > 0:12:34And he was ordained by the Bishop of London, who was John King.

0:12:34 > 0:12:37You have scored, James, six points.

0:12:37 > 0:12:39APPLAUSE

0:12:47 > 0:12:49So, that's the end of the first round.

0:12:49 > 0:12:50Let's have a look at the scores.

0:12:50 > 0:12:52In fourth place, six points, James.

0:12:52 > 0:12:55Third place, ten points, Charis.

0:12:55 > 0:12:57Second place, 11 points, Sarah.

0:12:57 > 0:13:00First place, 13 points, Chris.

0:13:00 > 0:13:03APPLAUSE

0:13:06 > 0:13:08So, it is the general knowledge round now,

0:13:08 > 0:13:11and if there's a tie at the end of it, the number of passes is

0:13:11 > 0:13:14taken into account and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.

0:13:14 > 0:13:16And if they're tied on passes as well,

0:13:16 > 0:13:18there has to be a tie-break.

0:13:18 > 0:13:22So, let's get on with it, and ask James to join us again, please.

0:13:24 > 0:13:28And there's an awful lot to know about John Donne, isn't there?

0:13:28 > 0:13:30He was around a long time.

0:13:30 > 0:13:32Two-and-a-half minutes for general knowledge.

0:13:32 > 0:13:35So loads of time to catch up and overtake the field. Here we go.

0:13:35 > 0:13:37The name of which large bee comes from the loud humming noise

0:13:37 > 0:13:39it makes when it flies?

0:13:39 > 0:13:40Bumblebee.

0:13:40 > 0:13:42In 1992, which historical figure was

0:13:42 > 0:13:44played on film by George Corraface,

0:13:44 > 0:13:47Gerard Depardieu and Jim Dale?

0:13:47 > 0:13:49Cyrano de Bergerac?

0:13:49 > 0:13:50Christopher Columbus.

0:13:50 > 0:13:53What cocktail, consisting of rum, cola and a slice of lime

0:13:53 > 0:13:54is said to have got its name in around 1900

0:13:54 > 0:13:57at the end of the Spanish-American War?

0:13:57 > 0:13:59Cuba Libre?

0:13:59 > 0:14:01The Gnome, Tuileries and Cattle

0:14:01 > 0:14:03are among Mussorgsky's ten musical movements

0:14:03 > 0:14:06that commemorate his friend, the painter Viktor Hartmann.

0:14:06 > 0:14:09By what title are they collectively known?

0:14:09 > 0:14:11Pictures At An Exhibition.

0:14:11 > 0:14:13What colour forms the outermost ring

0:14:13 > 0:14:15of the primary arc of a rainbow?

0:14:16 > 0:14:17Red.

0:14:17 > 0:14:20What is the relationship between the country singers

0:14:20 > 0:14:21Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle?

0:14:22 > 0:14:23Cousins.

0:14:23 > 0:14:25Sisters. Which American designer introduced

0:14:25 > 0:14:27a prairie look in the late 1970s

0:14:27 > 0:14:29that featured flounced, white petticoats

0:14:29 > 0:14:31underneath denim skirts?

0:14:33 > 0:14:34Pass.

0:14:34 > 0:14:35In which Commonwealth country

0:14:35 > 0:14:37are the Great and Lesser Slave Lakes?

0:14:38 > 0:14:39Canada.

0:14:39 > 0:14:42Which African antelope, with ox-like heads and horns,

0:14:42 > 0:14:44are known for their annual migrations in huge herds

0:14:44 > 0:14:46during the dry season?

0:14:46 > 0:14:47Wildebeest.

0:14:47 > 0:14:49In grammar, what name is given to the three dots

0:14:49 > 0:14:51that denote the omission of one or more words

0:14:51 > 0:14:53that are not necessary?

0:14:56 > 0:14:57Pass.

0:14:57 > 0:14:59In the 1995 Rugby World Cup final,

0:14:59 > 0:15:02which country beat New Zealand by 15 points to 12?

0:15:02 > 0:15:05All 15 points were scored by Joel Stransky.

0:15:05 > 0:15:06South Africa.

0:15:06 > 0:15:09Which cathedral city is the county town of West Sussex?

0:15:13 > 0:15:14Guildford.

0:15:14 > 0:15:16Chichester. Which American president,

0:15:16 > 0:15:19who was born in Denison, Texas in October 1890,

0:15:19 > 0:15:22was the first person born in that state to hold the office?

0:15:24 > 0:15:26Pass.

0:15:26 > 0:15:29In the stories by PL Travers, Mary Poppins tells her charges

0:15:29 > 0:15:31that she will stay until what changes?

0:15:34 > 0:15:35Pass.

0:15:35 > 0:15:37What is the name of the mythical island

0:15:37 > 0:15:38mentioned in two of Plato's Dialogues

0:15:38 > 0:15:41that was a powerful kingdom before it was overwhelmed by the sea?

0:15:42 > 0:15:44Atlantis.

0:15:44 > 0:15:46Counselling for Toads: A Psychological Adventure

0:15:46 > 0:15:49by Robert de Board, first published in 1998,

0:15:49 > 0:15:52is a belated follow-up to which children's classic story?

0:15:54 > 0:15:55Pass.

0:15:55 > 0:15:57What is the name of Samantha Stephens's mother,

0:15:57 > 0:16:00played by Agnes Moorehead, in the television series Bewitched?

0:16:04 > 0:16:05Dorothy?

0:16:05 > 0:16:07Endora. BEEP

0:16:07 > 0:16:10And you have five passes altogether.

0:16:10 > 0:16:12Counselling For Toads, that was a follow-up

0:16:12 > 0:16:14to The Wind In The Willows.

0:16:14 > 0:16:17And talking of wind, Mary Poppins told her charges she'd stay

0:16:17 > 0:16:19until the wind changes direction.

0:16:19 > 0:16:26Dwight D Eisenhower was born in Denison, Texas in October 1890.

0:16:26 > 0:16:28In grammar, the three dots, that's the ellipsis.

0:16:28 > 0:16:32And it was Ralph Lauren who introduced that prairie look

0:16:32 > 0:16:33in the late 1970s.

0:16:33 > 0:16:36Your total, now, James, is 14 points.

0:16:36 > 0:16:39APPLAUSE

0:16:44 > 0:16:46And now, Charis again, please.

0:16:48 > 0:16:52And you start out, Charis, with ten points.

0:16:52 > 0:16:54And you have two-and-a-half minutes

0:16:54 > 0:16:56of general knowledge questions, beginning now.

0:16:56 > 0:17:00Which sport takes place in an arena called a velodrome?

0:17:00 > 0:17:01Cycling.

0:17:01 > 0:17:03By what name is the salad onion,

0:17:03 > 0:17:05scallion or green onion better known in Britain?

0:17:05 > 0:17:06Spring onion.

0:17:06 > 0:17:10The chalumeau was a forerunner of a woodwind instrument widely

0:17:10 > 0:17:12used in both classical music and jazz - which instrument?

0:17:12 > 0:17:14Clarinet.

0:17:14 > 0:17:17The electronic rock groups Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream

0:17:17 > 0:17:18come from which country?

0:17:18 > 0:17:19Germany.

0:17:19 > 0:17:22What name, derived from the Greek for "stone" and "writing",

0:17:22 > 0:17:24is given to the method of printing from a design drawn with

0:17:24 > 0:17:26a greasy ink or crayon

0:17:26 > 0:17:28onto a stone, metal or plastic surface?

0:17:29 > 0:17:31Etching.

0:17:31 > 0:17:33Lithography. The director Cameron Crowe won an Oscar

0:17:33 > 0:17:35for best screenplay for a 2000 film

0:17:35 > 0:17:37about a teenage reporter who covers

0:17:37 > 0:17:39the fictional rock band Stillwater.

0:17:39 > 0:17:40What's the film called?

0:17:40 > 0:17:41Almost Famous.

0:17:41 > 0:17:45Who became Britain's most successful Olympic track and field athlete

0:17:45 > 0:17:48when he retained his 5,000 and 10,000 metres titles

0:17:48 > 0:17:50at the Rio Olympics?

0:17:50 > 0:17:51Mo Farah.

0:17:51 > 0:17:53In which town on the Thames were seven Saxon kings

0:17:53 > 0:17:55crowned in the 10th century?

0:17:55 > 0:17:56Pass.

0:17:56 > 0:17:59To which bodily function does the adjective "peptic"

0:17:59 > 0:18:01specifically refer?

0:18:01 > 0:18:02Stomach.

0:18:02 > 0:18:05Digestion. The French king, Henry IV,

0:18:05 > 0:18:07is credited as saying on his conversion to Roman Catholicism

0:18:07 > 0:18:10after his accession to the throne

0:18:10 > 0:18:12that Paris was well worth what?

0:18:13 > 0:18:14Pass.

0:18:14 > 0:18:17What is the title of Andrew Michael Hurley's Gothic horror story,

0:18:17 > 0:18:19set on a desolate part of the Lancashire coast?

0:18:22 > 0:18:23No. Pass.

0:18:23 > 0:18:26Who took the title Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland

0:18:26 > 0:18:27in 1653?

0:18:27 > 0:18:28Oliver Cromwell.

0:18:28 > 0:18:31In 1986, which film star successfully ran

0:18:31 > 0:18:33for mayor of Carmel in California

0:18:33 > 0:18:34after promising to overturn the ban

0:18:34 > 0:18:37on eating ice cream on the town's sidewalks?

0:18:37 > 0:18:38Clint Eastwood.

0:18:38 > 0:18:41What is the common name for baleen, the horny bristles that

0:18:41 > 0:18:44hang down from the upper jaw of toothless whales?

0:18:44 > 0:18:46It was once important in the production of corsets.

0:18:48 > 0:18:50Whalebone.

0:18:50 > 0:18:53What is the name of the media magnate, born in 1931,

0:18:53 > 0:18:55who was educated at Geelong Grammar School,

0:18:55 > 0:18:57a prestigious Australian boarding school?

0:18:57 > 0:18:58Rupert Murdoch.

0:18:58 > 0:19:01The capital city of which African country was known as Salisbury

0:19:01 > 0:19:04until 1982, when it changed its name to Harare

0:19:04 > 0:19:06after the country gained independence?

0:19:06 > 0:19:07Zimbabwe.

0:19:07 > 0:19:10Which deadpan comedian won the first series

0:19:10 > 0:19:12of Celebrity Big Brother in 2001?

0:19:12 > 0:19:13Jack Dee.

0:19:13 > 0:19:16In which London borough is the Parliamentary constituency

0:19:16 > 0:19:19represented by Jeremy Corbyn, since 1983?

0:19:19 > 0:19:21It's regarded as the home of champagne socialists.

0:19:21 > 0:19:22Islington.

0:19:22 > 0:19:24Which religious figure's birth

0:19:24 > 0:19:27is celebrated in Japan on 8 April at the festival..

0:19:27 > 0:19:31BEEP ..popularly known as Hana Matsuri or Flower Festival?

0:19:33 > 0:19:34I should know that, and I don't.

0:19:34 > 0:19:36- Pass.- Well, I can tell you.

0:19:36 > 0:19:38It was Buddha.

0:19:38 > 0:19:42And your other passes, The Loney is the title of Hurley's Gothic story

0:19:42 > 0:19:45about a desolate part of the Lancashire coast.

0:19:45 > 0:19:49The French king Henry IV said Paris was well worth a mass.

0:19:49 > 0:19:53And all those kings, Saxon kings, were crowned at,

0:19:53 > 0:19:56appropriately, Kingston upon Thames.

0:19:56 > 0:20:00You now have, however, a total, Charis, of 23 points.

0:20:00 > 0:20:02APPLAUSE

0:20:10 > 0:20:11And now, Sarah again, please.

0:20:15 > 0:20:19And you start out, Sarah, with 11 points.

0:20:19 > 0:20:23The score, as you have just heard, is 23.

0:20:24 > 0:20:27Let's see if you can beat that. Here we go.

0:20:27 > 0:20:29What is the name of Superman's alter ego

0:20:29 > 0:20:31who works as a reporter for The Daily Planet?

0:20:31 > 0:20:32Clark Kent.

0:20:32 > 0:20:34Which World Snooker champion in the 1980s had

0:20:34 > 0:20:36a reputation for being boring?

0:20:36 > 0:20:39He shook this off when he DJed for an electronic music set

0:20:39 > 0:20:42at Glastonbury music festival in 2016.

0:20:42 > 0:20:43Steve Davis.

0:20:43 > 0:20:45What German word is used to describe

0:20:45 > 0:20:47objects of art or fashion that are felt to be characterised

0:20:47 > 0:20:50by worthless pretentiousness or vulgarity?

0:20:52 > 0:20:54No idea. Pass.

0:20:54 > 0:20:56Which actress's breakthrough role

0:20:56 > 0:20:57was as Ron Glum's fiance Eth

0:20:57 > 0:20:59in the radio series Take It From Here?

0:21:05 > 0:21:07Petula Clark.

0:21:07 > 0:21:08June Whitfield. The Churchill Barriers

0:21:08 > 0:21:10were built during the Second World War

0:21:10 > 0:21:12to link islands in the Orkneys

0:21:12 > 0:21:14and protect which naval anchorage?

0:21:14 > 0:21:15Scapa Flow.

0:21:15 > 0:21:16In the opera by Beethoven,

0:21:16 > 0:21:19under what name does Leonore disguise herself as a young man

0:21:19 > 0:21:21to find out what has happened to her husband, Florestan?

0:21:27 > 0:21:28Willem.

0:21:28 > 0:21:30Fidelio. In which country is the city and seaport

0:21:30 > 0:21:34of Archangel, whose name comes from a monastery founded there,

0:21:34 > 0:21:35dedicated to St Michael?

0:21:35 > 0:21:36Russia.

0:21:36 > 0:21:38What was the name of the 18th-century novelist

0:21:38 > 0:21:40and clergyman who ministered in Sutton-on-the-Forest,

0:21:40 > 0:21:43Stillington and Coxwell in North Yorkshire?

0:21:50 > 0:21:51Pass.

0:21:51 > 0:21:54Which 1985 film featured Huey Lewis and the News

0:21:54 > 0:21:55singing The Power Of Love?

0:21:57 > 0:21:59Oh, Flashdance.

0:21:59 > 0:22:00Back To The Future.

0:22:00 > 0:22:03The greater, or common, and the lesser, or Darwin's,

0:22:03 > 0:22:05are the two species of a large, flightless bird

0:22:05 > 0:22:07native to South America - which bird?

0:22:07 > 0:22:08Penguin?

0:22:08 > 0:22:09The rhea. Which primary colour

0:22:09 > 0:22:12has shades called cobalt and Prussian?

0:22:12 > 0:22:13Blue.

0:22:13 > 0:22:16What French term is used to describe a dish topped with

0:22:16 > 0:22:18breadcrumbs or grated cheese that forms a crust

0:22:18 > 0:22:20when it's cooked in the oven or browned under a grill?

0:22:20 > 0:22:21Gratinee.

0:22:21 > 0:22:23Yes, au gratin.

0:22:23 > 0:22:26Which singer plays the title role of Susan in the 1985 film

0:22:26 > 0:22:28Desperately Seeking Susan?

0:22:28 > 0:22:29Madonna.

0:22:29 > 0:22:31What title for a Hindu spiritual leader

0:22:31 > 0:22:34comes from the Sanskrit for "dignified" or "venerable"?

0:22:34 > 0:22:37It's also applied to the founders of Sikhism.

0:22:37 > 0:22:38Guru.

0:22:38 > 0:22:40In which John le Carre novel does a British diplomat

0:22:40 > 0:22:44investigate the murder of his political activist wife in northern Kenya?

0:22:44 > 0:22:47It was made into a film starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz.

0:22:47 > 0:22:49The Constant Gardener.

0:22:49 > 0:22:51Who designed the four bronze lions

0:22:51 > 0:22:52at the base of Nelson's Column

0:22:52 > 0:22:54in Trafalgar Square, unveiled in 1867?

0:22:54 > 0:22:56Edward Landseer.

0:22:56 > 0:22:58How long does a dogwatch last on board ship?

0:22:58 > 0:22:59- Four hours. - BEEP

0:22:59 > 0:23:03- Ah - it's two hours.- Oh. - I know. Four hours is...

0:23:03 > 0:23:05Well, two dogwatches. LAUGHTER

0:23:05 > 0:23:07You had two passes.

0:23:07 > 0:23:10Laurence Sterne was that 18th-century novelist.

0:23:10 > 0:23:13And something that's pretty worthless or vulgar

0:23:13 > 0:23:15- is known as kitsch.- Oh!

0:23:15 > 0:23:19I know, I know. Sarah, those two passes, you've scored 21 points.

0:23:19 > 0:23:21- Thank you. - APPLAUSE

0:23:28 > 0:23:31And finally, Chris again, please.

0:23:32 > 0:23:36And you start out with 13 points, Chris,

0:23:36 > 0:23:39and 23 is still the score to beat.

0:23:39 > 0:23:40So here we go.

0:23:40 > 0:23:42In which county is the upland region of Dartmoor

0:23:42 > 0:23:44and the coastal town of Torquay?

0:23:44 > 0:23:45Devon.

0:23:45 > 0:23:47Which 1927 film, starring Al Jolson,

0:23:47 > 0:23:50was the first major feature length Hollywood film

0:23:50 > 0:23:52with synchronised speech and songs?

0:23:52 > 0:23:53The Jazz Singer.

0:23:53 > 0:23:55What was the first name of Rembrandt's wife,

0:23:55 > 0:23:56who featured in a number of his works

0:23:56 > 0:23:59painted before her death in 1642?

0:23:59 > 0:24:00Louisa.

0:24:00 > 0:24:03Saskia. By what name did the series of dynastic civil wars

0:24:03 > 0:24:07fought in England between 1455 and 1485 become known?

0:24:07 > 0:24:08Wars of the Roses.

0:24:08 > 0:24:10The word "anorak" comes from the language

0:24:10 > 0:24:13of the people who invented the garment - which people?

0:24:13 > 0:24:14Inuit.

0:24:14 > 0:24:16In which Nottinghamshire town is there a twin-towered

0:24:16 > 0:24:18cathedral known as the Minster?

0:24:20 > 0:24:21Pass.

0:24:21 > 0:24:23Who recorded an album with Tony Bennett

0:24:23 > 0:24:24named Cheek To Cheek?

0:24:24 > 0:24:26It won a Grammy for best traditional pop vocal album

0:24:26 > 0:24:28at the 2015 awards.

0:24:28 > 0:24:29Kylie Minogue.

0:24:29 > 0:24:31Lady Gaga. In Alice's Adventures In Wonderland,

0:24:31 > 0:24:33who, along with the Mad Hatter,

0:24:33 > 0:24:35tries to push the dormouse into the teapot?

0:24:35 > 0:24:36March Hare.

0:24:36 > 0:24:39The Spanish-born composer and conductor Pablo Casals

0:24:39 > 0:24:42was best known as a virtuoso on which stringed instrument?

0:24:42 > 0:24:44Cello.

0:24:44 > 0:24:47After England's quarterfinal match of the '66 World Cup,

0:24:47 > 0:24:49Sir Alf Ramsey called their opponents "animals".

0:24:49 > 0:24:50Which team was he referring to?

0:24:50 > 0:24:51Portugal.

0:24:51 > 0:24:55Argentina. What is the title of the novel by Aldous Huxley

0:24:55 > 0:24:58set in the 7th century After Ford where human beings

0:24:58 > 0:25:01are hatched in incubators and brought up in communal nurseries?

0:25:01 > 0:25:02Brave New World.

0:25:02 > 0:25:04What does the abbreviation OG stand for

0:25:04 > 0:25:06in the context of beer strength?

0:25:06 > 0:25:08Pass.

0:25:08 > 0:25:09In which French children's song

0:25:09 > 0:25:11does the singer announce, "I will pluck you?"

0:25:11 > 0:25:13Alouette.

0:25:13 > 0:25:16Which gas, discovered in 1868 in the solar atmosphere,

0:25:16 > 0:25:18takes its name from the Greek for the sun?

0:25:18 > 0:25:19Helium.

0:25:19 > 0:25:21Who sang a version of Happy Birthday To You

0:25:21 > 0:25:23at John F Kennedy's birthday celebrations

0:25:23 > 0:25:25in Madison Square Garden in May 1962?

0:25:25 > 0:25:27Marilyn Monroe.

0:25:27 > 0:25:29Which former leading Conservative politician,

0:25:29 > 0:25:31who has reinvented himself as a television personality,

0:25:31 > 0:25:33appeared as an eight-year-old

0:25:33 > 0:25:35in an advert for a blackcurrant cordial drink?

0:25:35 > 0:25:37Michael Portillo.

0:25:37 > 0:25:39Which island, together with an area known as Labrador,

0:25:39 > 0:25:42voted to enter the Canadian Confederation in 1949

0:25:42 > 0:25:44to become Canada's tenth province?

0:25:44 > 0:25:45Newfoundland.

0:25:45 > 0:25:48The scientific name of a common game bird refers to

0:25:48 > 0:25:50the Phasis region around the Black Sea

0:25:50 > 0:25:52from where these birds are said

0:25:52 > 0:25:56to have been brought to Europe by the Argonauts - what bird?

0:25:56 > 0:25:57Pass.

0:25:57 > 0:25:59What is the name of the historian and chief curator

0:25:59 > 0:26:01at the Historic Royal Palaces

0:26:01 > 0:26:04who presented a 2016 television series that tells

0:26:04 > 0:26:06the story of the six wives of Henry VIII?

0:26:06 > 0:26:08Pass.

0:26:08 > 0:26:10Which ancient manuscripts include the rules of the community...

0:26:10 > 0:26:12BEEP ..and the war of the sons of light

0:26:12 > 0:26:13against the sons of darkness?

0:26:13 > 0:26:16The first of them were found in 1947

0:26:16 > 0:26:18by a Bedouin shepherd in the Judaean desert.

0:26:18 > 0:26:21The Dead Sea Scrolls.

0:26:21 > 0:26:23You have four passes, Chris.

0:26:23 > 0:26:24Lucy Worsley,

0:26:24 > 0:26:29it was she who presented the stories of the six wives of Henry VIII.

0:26:29 > 0:26:32The Argonauts are said to have brought back to Europe the pheasant.

0:26:32 > 0:26:36OG in the context of beer strength stands for "original gravity".

0:26:36 > 0:26:39And the town with the twin-towered cathedral,

0:26:39 > 0:26:41the Nottinghamshire town, is Southwell.

0:26:41 > 0:26:44You have a total of 26 points.

0:26:44 > 0:26:46APPLAUSE

0:26:52 > 0:26:55So, we have a clear winner, let's have a look at all of the scores.

0:26:55 > 0:26:58In fourth place with 14 points, James.

0:26:58 > 0:27:00Third place, 21 points, Sarah.

0:27:00 > 0:27:02Second place, 23 points, Charis.

0:27:02 > 0:27:04First place, 26 points, Chris.

0:27:04 > 0:27:08APPLAUSE

0:27:14 > 0:27:17And that, of course, means that Chris is tonight's winner

0:27:17 > 0:27:20and he goes through to the semifinals.

0:27:20 > 0:27:21Congratulations to him.

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