Episode 1 Mastermind

Tonight our first four contenders will take the lonely walk to this black chair.

What unites them is they all want to become the nation's Mastermind.

What will divide them is their ability

when they're sitting in the chair to remember an awful lot of stuff

under an awful lot of pressure.

But there can only be one champion. This is Mastermind.

Our first contender tonight is Chris Cummins,

a university lecturer from Edinburgh.

His specialist subject, Paul Simon.

Charis Hughes is a communications officer from Glasgow.

She's answering questions on the films of Hayao Miyazaki.

Sarah Stewart's a foundation director from Bristol.

She's answering questions on the Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna,

the sister of the last Tsar.

And our final contender, James Hogg,

a charity membership officer from Norfolk,

who's answering questions on the poet John Donne.

APPLAUSE

Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.

Tonight's contenders will put their knowledge to the test

and take the first step towards the grand final,

where they could win this lovely glass bowl

and the title of Mastermind.

They will answer two minutes of questions

on their specialist subject tonight

and then two-and-a-half minutes on general knowledge,

so let's get on with it and ask our first contender to join us, please.

And your name is...?

-Chris Cummins.

-Your occupation?

University lecturer.

And your chosen subject?

Paul Simon.

Paul Simon, in two minutes, starting now.

Under what name did Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel

release their first hit single Hey Schoolgirl in 1957?

Tom and Jerry.

Which comic actor appears in the video

for the single You Can Call Me Al?

Chevy Chase.

What is the title of the Paul Simon song performed under the name

of Jerry Landis that reached the American Top 100 in 1963?

The Lone Teen Ranger?

Simon and Garfunkel teamed up with another singer to record

a cover of Sam Cooke's What A Wonderful World.

It was released in 1978.

Who was the singer?

James Taylor.

Simon joined a Jewish fraternity

at Queen's College in New York and produced and wrote skits

for its contributions to Queen's annual stage shows -

which fraternity?

Alpha Epsilon Pi.

What was the name of Simon's second solo album?

It was released in 1973.

There Goes Rhymin' Simon.

Which keyboard player was in Simon's band

in the film One Trick Pony

and on the tour to promote the album?

Richard Tee.

Which other act appeared with Simon and Garfunkel

on their 2003-2004 World Tour?

They performed some songs by themselves

and one with Simon and Garfunkel.

The Everly Brothers.

When Simon spent some time in Paris in 1963

he met an Englishman who ran a folk club

in Brentwood, Essex, where he later had a residency.

What was his name?

David McLausland.

Simon had an on-off relationship

for more than ten years with an actress,

although their marriage lasted less than a year -

which actress?

Carrie Fisher.

What is the opening track

on both The Rhythm Of The Saints

and Paul Simon's Concert In The Park?

The Obvious Child.

In 1999 he toured with Bob Dylan,

alternating as to which of them should head the bill.

At most concerts, they sang four songs together

including Dylan's Knocking On Heaven's Door

and a Paul Simon song, which was...?

Sound Of Silence?

Yes. What song, released in April 2016,

was the lead single taken from the album Stranger To Stranger?

Wristband.

Which track on Bridge Over Troubled Water

was the B-side to The Boxer, which reached the top ten

in both the UK and America?

Bye Bye Love?

BEEP Oh, what a shame! What a shame!

It was perfect up until then.

-It was Baby Driver.

-Ah!

Nonetheless, you have scored 13 points.

APPLAUSE

And our next contender, please.

And your name is...?

Charis Hughes.

Your occupation?

-Communications officer.

-And your chosen subject?

The feature films of Hayao Miyazaki.

In two minutes, starting now.

Which film directed by Hayao Miyazaki

won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2003?

Spirited Away.

Miyazaki said that one of his principal inspirations for his 2008 film Ponyo

was a Hans Christian Andersen story - which one?

The Little Mermaid.

Which composer has written the soundtrack

for every one of Miyazaki's films

from Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind onwards?

Joe Hisaishi.

In My Neighbor Totoro, what means of transport

does the forest spirit Totoro summon

to help Satsuki search for her missing sister Mei?

A catbus.

Which American actor provides the voices

of Louis in Castle In The Sky and Hattori in The Wind Rises

in the English language version of the films?

Joseph Gordon-Levitt?

No, Mandy Patinkin.

In Porco Rosso, pirates launch a concerted attack

against a cruise ship, which then launches two aircraft

in a vain attempt to try and drive them off - which cruise ship?

Pass.

What is the name of the red elk ridden by Prince Ashitaka

in Princess Mononoke?

Yakul.

Miyazaki's 2004 film Howl's Moving Castle was

based on the fantasy novel of the same name

by which British author?

Diana Wynne Jones.

In The Wind Rises, Jiro Horikoshi helps Naoko reach her home

after she has been hurt during an earthquake.

In which district of Tokyo does she live?

Pass.

What is the name of the talking cat

that accompanies Kiki on her travels

after she leaves home in order to start

her training as a witch in Kiki's Delivery Service?

Jiji.

What human name had been given by her father Fujimoto

to the fish called Ponyo, who has eaten human food

and tasted human blood and now wants to take human form?

Brunhilde.

In Laputa: Castle In The Sky, Sheeta's crystal necklace

is made from a rare element that is found in the rocks

of the small mining town where she fell to Earth - what element?

Etherium.

What species is the supposedly vicious creature Teto?

It was given to Nausicaa as a pet by Lord Yupa

in Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind.

A fox-squirrel.

In Ponyo... BEEP

Sosuke makes a model of his father's ship

and gives it to Toki at the Seniors' Centre.

What is the name of the ship?

Pass.

Well, I can tell you because you're out of time -

it was Koganei Maru.

You had two more passes.

In The Wind Rises, Jiro Horikoshi lives in the Ueno district.

And the name of the cruise ship was the Queen Of The Mediterranean.

You have scored, Charis, ten points.

APPLAUSE

And our next contender, please.

And your name is...?

-Sarah Stewart.

-Your occupation?

Foundation director.

And your chosen subject?

The Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna.

In two minutes, starting now.

The Grand Duchess was born in Russia in 1882

and was the youngest daughter of Tsar Alexander III.

What was the name of her English nanny whom Olga called Nana?

Mrs Franklin.

In October 1888, the six-year-old Olga

was travelling by train with the royal family

when it derailed just outside which town?

Borki.

Olga and her family were with her father, Tsar Alexander III,

when he died in November 1894 at which palace?

Livadia.

Olga met her second husband, Nikolai Kulikovsky, in 1903

when he was an officer in which Russian cavalry regiment?

The Blue Cuirassiers.

Olga and several members of her family were first

put under house arrest in 1917,

after the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II,

when they were at Grand Duke Alexander's Crimean estate,

near Yalta - which estate?

Ay-Todor.

Which infamous lay preacher and healer

did Olga reputedly first meet in 1907

when he was with Tsar Nicholas's children in their nurseries?

Rasputin.

What was the name of Olga's first son, born in 1917?

He was named after a saint.

Tikhon.

In which Cossack town in the Caucasus

was Olga's second son Guri born after she left the Crimea

in 1919 to escape the Bolshevik forces?

Novorossiysk?

Novo-Minskaya.

Olga and her family reached Denmark in 1920.

What was the name of the maid who arrived from St Petersburg

months later with Olga's jewels sewn into her clothes?

Mimka.

Yes, Emilia Tenso.

At which Berlin nursing home, in 1925,

did Olga meet a patient who called herself

Mrs Tschaikovsky and claimed to be her niece, Anastasia?

Anna Anderson.

Mommsen.

What was the name of the large farm that Olga bought

and moved into with her family in 1932

in the Danish town of Ballerup near Copenhagen?

Knudsminde.

In which town did Olga work as a nurse at a Red Cross hospital

when the First World War broke out in August 1914?

Her own Akhtyrsky Hussar regiment was stationed there.

Rovno.

In 1948 Olga and her family fled Denmark for Canada

because of pressure put on the Danish government

by the Soviet Union.

They first stayed at a royal palace in England - which one?

BEEP

Hampton Court?

Hampton Court is correct.

No passes - Sarah, you have scored 11 points.

APPLAUSE

And our final contender, please.

-And your name is...?

-James Hogg.

-Your occupation?

-Charity membership officer.

And your chosen subject?

The life and poetry of John Donne.

John Donne, in two minutes. Here we go.

Donne was an English poet

and became the Dean of St Paul's in 1621.

To which of the Inns of Court was he admitted in 1592 after

he completed his preliminary studies in Thavies Inn?

Lincoln's Inn.

What was the name of Donne's younger brother

who was arrested for harbouring the Catholic priest William Harrington

and died of the plague in Newgate prison in 1593?

Henry.

Donne married his wife Anne in secret in 1601

because her father, Sir George, would have disapproved.

What was her maiden name?

More.

Donne was ordained by the Bishop of London in the chapel

of the Bishop's Palace beside St Paul's Cathedral

in January 1615.

What was the Bishop's name?

Pass.

When Donne took holy orders,

he changed his seal from a sheaf of snakes

to a device showing what?

Pass.

What is the title of Donne's work of 1610

that's dedicated to King James I and VI,

in which he argues that Catholics should

and must take the oath of allegiance to the Crown?

Pseudo-Martyr.

Which poem begins, "Blasted with sighs and surrounded with tears,

"hither I come to seek the spring"?

Pass.

What was the name of the parish in Bedfordshire

that was presented to Donne by the Earl of Kent

after he became Dean of St Paul's in 1621?

Dunston.

Blunham. Under what title was Donne's last sermon published?

Many thought it was intended to be his own funeral service.

Death's Duel.

In Donne's poem The Will, to which mythological giant does

he say he bequeaths his eyes as long as they can still see?

Cyclops.

Argus. What is the title of Donne's poem

that is an affectionate rewriting of Marlowe's

The Passionate Shepherd To His Love?

It has the same opening line,

"Come live with me and be my love".

The Bait.

What is the title of the poem that opens,

"When I died last, and dear,

"I die as often as from thee I go"?

The Rising?

The Legacy. In which London borough did Donne preach

his earliest surviving sermon in April 1615,

either at the Palace or the parish church?

Whitehall?

Greenwich. BEEP

And your time is up, you have three passes.

The poem that begins,

"Blasted with sighs and surrounded with tears," is Twickenham Garden.

When Donne took holy orders, he changed his seal

from a sheaf of snakes to Christ crucified on an anchor.

And he was ordained by the Bishop of London, who was John King.

You have scored, James, six points.

APPLAUSE

So, that's the end of the first round.

Let's have a look at the scores.

In fourth place, six points, James.

Third place, ten points, Charis.

Second place, 11 points, Sarah.

First place, 13 points, Chris.

APPLAUSE

So, it is the general knowledge round now,

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

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

And if they're tied on passes as well,

there has to be a tie-break.

So, let's get on with it, and ask James to join us again, please.

And there's an awful lot to know about John Donne, isn't there?

He was around a long time.

Two-and-a-half minutes for general knowledge.

So loads of time to catch up and overtake the field. Here we go.

The name of which large bee comes from the loud humming noise

it makes when it flies?

Bumblebee.

In 1992, which historical figure was

played on film by George Corraface,

Gerard Depardieu and Jim Dale?

Cyrano de Bergerac?

Christopher Columbus.

What cocktail, consisting of rum, cola and a slice of lime

is said to have got its name in around 1900

at the end of the Spanish-American War?

Cuba Libre?

The Gnome, Tuileries and Cattle

are among Mussorgsky's ten musical movements

that commemorate his friend, the painter Viktor Hartmann.

By what title are they collectively known?

Pictures At An Exhibition.

What colour forms the outermost ring

of the primary arc of a rainbow?

Red.

What is the relationship between the country singers

Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle?

Cousins.

Sisters. Which American designer introduced

a prairie look in the late 1970s

that featured flounced, white petticoats

underneath denim skirts?

Pass.

In which Commonwealth country

are the Great and Lesser Slave Lakes?

Canada.

Which African antelope, with ox-like heads and horns,

are known for their annual migrations in huge herds

during the dry season?

Wildebeest.

In grammar, what name is given to the three dots

that denote the omission of one or more words

that are not necessary?

Pass.

In the 1995 Rugby World Cup final,

which country beat New Zealand by 15 points to 12?

All 15 points were scored by Joel Stransky.

South Africa.

Which cathedral city is the county town of West Sussex?

Guildford.

Chichester. Which American president,

who was born in Denison, Texas in October 1890,

was the first person born in that state to hold the office?

Pass.

In the stories by PL Travers, Mary Poppins tells her charges

that she will stay until what changes?

Pass.

What is the name of the mythical island

mentioned in two of Plato's Dialogues

that was a powerful kingdom before it was overwhelmed by the sea?

Atlantis.

Counselling for Toads: A Psychological Adventure

by Robert de Board, first published in 1998,

is a belated follow-up to which children's classic story?

Pass.

What is the name of Samantha Stephens's mother,

played by Agnes Moorehead, in the television series Bewitched?

Dorothy?

Endora. BEEP

And you have five passes altogether.

Counselling For Toads, that was a follow-up

to The Wind In The Willows.

And talking of wind, Mary Poppins told her charges she'd stay

until the wind changes direction.

Dwight D Eisenhower was born in Denison, Texas in October 1890.

In grammar, the three dots, that's the ellipsis.

And it was Ralph Lauren who introduced that prairie look

in the late 1970s.

Your total, now, James, is 14 points.

APPLAUSE

And now, Charis again, please.

And you start out, Charis, with ten points.

And you have two-and-a-half minutes

of general knowledge questions, beginning now.

Which sport takes place in an arena called a velodrome?

Cycling.

By what name is the salad onion,

scallion or green onion better known in Britain?

Spring onion.

The chalumeau was a forerunner of a woodwind instrument widely

used in both classical music and jazz - which instrument?

Clarinet.

The electronic rock groups Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream

come from which country?

Germany.

What name, derived from the Greek for "stone" and "writing",

is given to the method of printing from a design drawn with

a greasy ink or crayon

onto a stone, metal or plastic surface?

Etching.

Lithography. The director Cameron Crowe won an Oscar

for best screenplay for a 2000 film

about a teenage reporter who covers

the fictional rock band Stillwater.

What's the film called?

Almost Famous.

Who became Britain's most successful Olympic track and field athlete

when he retained his 5,000 and 10,000 metres titles

at the Rio Olympics?

Mo Farah.

In which town on the Thames were seven Saxon kings

crowned in the 10th century?

Pass.

To which bodily function does the adjective "peptic"

specifically refer?

Stomach.

Digestion. The French king, Henry IV,

is credited as saying on his conversion to Roman Catholicism

after his accession to the throne

that Paris was well worth what?

Pass.

What is the title of Andrew Michael Hurley's Gothic horror story,

set on a desolate part of the Lancashire coast?

No. Pass.

Who took the title Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland

in 1653?

Oliver Cromwell.

In 1986, which film star successfully ran

for mayor of Carmel in California

after promising to overturn the ban

on eating ice cream on the town's sidewalks?

Clint Eastwood.

What is the common name for baleen, the horny bristles that

hang down from the upper jaw of toothless whales?

It was once important in the production of corsets.

Whalebone.

What is the name of the media magnate, born in 1931,

who was educated at Geelong Grammar School,

a prestigious Australian boarding school?

Rupert Murdoch.

The capital city of which African country was known as Salisbury

until 1982, when it changed its name to Harare

after the country gained independence?

Zimbabwe.

Which deadpan comedian won the first series

of Celebrity Big Brother in 2001?

Jack Dee.

In which London borough is the Parliamentary constituency

represented by Jeremy Corbyn, since 1983?

It's regarded as the home of champagne socialists.

Islington.

Which religious figure's birth

is celebrated in Japan on 8 April at the festival..

BEEP ..popularly known as Hana Matsuri or Flower Festival?

I should know that, and I don't.

-Pass.

-Well, I can tell you.

It was Buddha.

And your other passes, The Loney is the title of Hurley's Gothic story

about a desolate part of the Lancashire coast.

The French king Henry IV said Paris was well worth a mass.

And all those kings, Saxon kings, were crowned at,

appropriately, Kingston upon Thames.

You now have, however, a total, Charis, of 23 points.

APPLAUSE

And now, Sarah again, please.

And you start out, Sarah, with 11 points.

The score, as you have just heard, is 23.

Let's see if you can beat that. Here we go.

What is the name of Superman's alter ego

who works as a reporter for The Daily Planet?

Clark Kent.

Which World Snooker champion in the 1980s had

a reputation for being boring?

He shook this off when he DJed for an electronic music set

at Glastonbury music festival in 2016.

Steve Davis.

What German word is used to describe

objects of art or fashion that are felt to be characterised

by worthless pretentiousness or vulgarity?

No idea. Pass.

Which actress's breakthrough role

was as Ron Glum's fiance Eth

in the radio series Take It From Here?

Petula Clark.

June Whitfield. The Churchill Barriers

were built during the Second World War

to link islands in the Orkneys

and protect which naval anchorage?

Scapa Flow.

In the opera by Beethoven,

under what name does Leonore disguise herself as a young man

to find out what has happened to her husband, Florestan?

Willem.

Fidelio. In which country is the city and seaport

of Archangel, whose name comes from a monastery founded there,

dedicated to St Michael?

Russia.

What was the name of the 18th-century novelist

and clergyman who ministered in Sutton-on-the-Forest,

Stillington and Coxwell in North Yorkshire?

Pass.

Which 1985 film featured Huey Lewis and the News

singing The Power Of Love?

Oh, Flashdance.

Back To The Future.

The greater, or common, and the lesser, or Darwin's,

are the two species of a large, flightless bird

native to South America - which bird?

Penguin?

The rhea. Which primary colour

has shades called cobalt and Prussian?

Blue.

What French term is used to describe a dish topped with

breadcrumbs or grated cheese that forms a crust

when it's cooked in the oven or browned under a grill?

Gratinee.

Yes, au gratin.

Which singer plays the title role of Susan in the 1985 film

Desperately Seeking Susan?

Madonna.

What title for a Hindu spiritual leader

comes from the Sanskrit for "dignified" or "venerable"?

It's also applied to the founders of Sikhism.

Guru.

In which John le Carre novel does a British diplomat

investigate the murder of his political activist wife in northern Kenya?

It was made into a film starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz.

The Constant Gardener.

Who designed the four bronze lions

at the base of Nelson's Column

in Trafalgar Square, unveiled in 1867?

Edward Landseer.

How long does a dogwatch last on board ship?

-Four hours.

-BEEP

-Ah - it's two hours.

-Oh.

-I know. Four hours is...

Well, two dogwatches. LAUGHTER

You had two passes.

Laurence Sterne was that 18th-century novelist.

And something that's pretty worthless or vulgar

-is known as kitsch.

-Oh!

I know, I know. Sarah, those two passes, you've scored 21 points.

-Thank you.

-APPLAUSE

And finally, Chris again, please.

And you start out with 13 points, Chris,

and 23 is still the score to beat.

So here we go.

In which county is the upland region of Dartmoor

and the coastal town of Torquay?

Devon.

Which 1927 film, starring Al Jolson,

was the first major feature length Hollywood film

with synchronised speech and songs?

The Jazz Singer.

What was the first name of Rembrandt's wife,

who featured in a number of his works

painted before her death in 1642?

Louisa.

Saskia. By what name did the series of dynastic civil wars

fought in England between 1455 and 1485 become known?

Wars of the Roses.

The word "anorak" comes from the language

of the people who invented the garment - which people?

Inuit.

In which Nottinghamshire town is there a twin-towered

cathedral known as the Minster?

Pass.

Who recorded an album with Tony Bennett

named Cheek To Cheek?

It won a Grammy for best traditional pop vocal album

at the 2015 awards.

Kylie Minogue.

Lady Gaga. In Alice's Adventures In Wonderland,

who, along with the Mad Hatter,

tries to push the dormouse into the teapot?

March Hare.

The Spanish-born composer and conductor Pablo Casals

was best known as a virtuoso on which stringed instrument?

Cello.

After England's quarterfinal match of the '66 World Cup,

Sir Alf Ramsey called their opponents "animals".

Which team was he referring to?

Portugal.

Argentina. What is the title of the novel by Aldous Huxley

set in the 7th century After Ford where human beings

are hatched in incubators and brought up in communal nurseries?

Brave New World.

What does the abbreviation OG stand for

in the context of beer strength?

Pass.

In which French children's song

does the singer announce, "I will pluck you?"

Alouette.

Which gas, discovered in 1868 in the solar atmosphere,

takes its name from the Greek for the sun?

Helium.

Who sang a version of Happy Birthday To You

at John F Kennedy's birthday celebrations

in Madison Square Garden in May 1962?

Marilyn Monroe.

Which former leading Conservative politician,

who has reinvented himself as a television personality,

appeared as an eight-year-old

in an advert for a blackcurrant cordial drink?

Michael Portillo.

Which island, together with an area known as Labrador,

voted to enter the Canadian Confederation in 1949

to become Canada's tenth province?

Newfoundland.

The scientific name of a common game bird refers to

the Phasis region around the Black Sea

from where these birds are said

to have been brought to Europe by the Argonauts - what bird?

Pass.

What is the name of the historian and chief curator

at the Historic Royal Palaces

who presented a 2016 television series that tells

the story of the six wives of Henry VIII?

Pass.

Which ancient manuscripts include the rules of the community...

BEEP ..and the war of the sons of light

against the sons of darkness?

The first of them were found in 1947

by a Bedouin shepherd in the Judaean desert.

The Dead Sea Scrolls.

You have four passes, Chris.

Lucy Worsley,

it was she who presented the stories of the six wives of Henry VIII.

The Argonauts are said to have brought back to Europe the pheasant.

OG in the context of beer strength stands for "original gravity".

And the town with the twin-towered cathedral,

the Nottinghamshire town, is Southwell.

You have a total of 26 points.

APPLAUSE

So, we have a clear winner, let's have a look at all of the scores.

In fourth place with 14 points, James.

Third place, 21 points, Sarah.

Second place, 23 points, Charis.

First place, 26 points, Chris.

APPLAUSE

And that, of course, means that Chris is tonight's winner

and he goes through to the semifinals.

Congratulations to him.

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