Episode 13 Mastermind

Our first contender tonight is Richard Chaney.

He's a communications support worker from Cardiff,

and his specialist subject is Porridge, the sitcom.

Next, Sophie Starkey, an artist from Cheltenham,

on the famous art collector Peggy Guggenheim.

Eddie Alexander is a primary school teacher from Essex,

and he's answering questions on the band Deep Purple.

And Derek Moody from Warrington.

His specialist subject, Bernard Cornwell's Warlord Chronicles.

APPLAUSE

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

Tonight, four contenders facing four-and-a-half minutes of

questions, each divided between the subject they've chosen

to specialise in, and the general knowledge, which they haven't.

The winner will take the first step to the grand final,

and possibly win the famous Glass Bowl,

and more importantly the title of Mastermind Champion.

They think they're made of the right stuff,

but have they got the right answers?

Let's find out and ask our first contender to join us, please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject...

Porridge in two minutes, here we go.

What is the name of the fictional prison in Cumberland

where Porridge is set?

Slade.

Harry Grout is listening to which radio series

when Fletcher first visits his cell in The Harder They Fall?

The Archers.

In Going Off The Rails, to which island do Godber

and Ingrid plan to go for their honeymoon,

even though they can't find it on the map

and can't pronounce the name of it?

Erm...

Fuerteventura?

Lanzarote. Which actor plays the prisoner Lukewarm,

who prepares tepid food for the other inmates in the prison kitchen?

Christopher Biggins.

In Going South, Fletcher tells his daughter Ingrid

that his future holds about as much excitement as

a wet Sunday afternoon in which Welsh town?

Prestatyn.

Merthyr Tydfil.

Fletcher acts as the prosecutor in Harris' trial

for the theft of a wristwatch.

Which inmate acts as defence counsel?

Bunny Warren.

In A Test Of Character, Godber revises for a history exam.

To try to help him, the illiterate prisoner Warren

steals an exam paper.

What subject is the stolen paper on?

Biology.

The new prison warden, Mr Wainwright,

knows Fletcher from his previous spell at what London prison?

Brixton.

In Final Stretch,

the violent prisoner Reggie Jarvis apparently broke the television

because the picture was blurry

on one of his favourite programmes.

Which programme?

The Magic Roundabout.

In Happy Release, Fletcher, Godber

and Blanco fool Norris that £8,000-£9,000 of Blanco's

ill-gotten gains are buried at which football club's ground?

Elland Road, Leeds.

Which actor plays Fletcher's lethargic teenage son Raymond,

who, according to Fletcher, "needs a new battery"?

Nicholas Lyndhurst.

In Ways And Means, Mr MacKay explains that Slade Prison

has only two rules.

The first rule is that "you do not write on the walls".

What is the second rule?

That you obey all the rules.

According to Warren in Rough Justice,

what smell coming from Harris reminds him of home?

A farm.

Yes, the pig farm.

-No passes, Richard, you have scored 11 points.

-Thank you.

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And our next contender, please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject...

In two minutes, starting now.

Peggy Guggenheim was an American art collector and socialite.

What's the name of the palace on the Grand Canal in Venice where

she lived from 1949?

It's now home to a major art museum.

Palazzo Leoni.

Yes, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni.

Guggenheim's father died in a disaster of 1912

when she was just 13 years old. What disaster?

Titanic.

What was the name of Guggenheim's gallery

in Cork Street, London,

which she opened in 1938 with works by Jean Cocteau?

Guggenheim Jeune.

From which European city did Guggenheim

and her family fly to America in July 1941, in a luxurious

Pan Am clipper equipped with beds, dressing rooms,

and a dining salon?

London?

Lisbon. What was the name of the cottage in San Tropez

that Guggenheim gave to the celebrated

anarchist and writer Emma Goldman?

Ivy Cottage.

Bon Esprit.

Who sculpted the bronze equestrian statue called

The Angel of the City, or Citadel,

that Guggenheim installed on the terrace of her Venetian palace?

Giacometti?

Mario Marini.

What is the title of Jackson Pollock's vast work that

Guggenheim commissioned in 1943 for her New York townhouse,

and later gave to the University of Iowa?

Mural.

Which architect did Guggenheim choose to design her

Art of This Century gallery that opened in New York in 1942?

Kiesler.

Who was the artist whom Guggenheim met through

John Cage in Japan in 1962?

They reportedly became girlfriends

on a human and personal level.

Yoko Ono?

What city in the Punjab did Guggenheim visit

on a Tour of India in 1954 that had been largely

designed by the Swiss architect Le Corbusier?

Ceylon.

Chandigarh. The bed head that she commissioned

from the sculptor Alexander Calder

was made out of which metal?

Silver.

Which German surrealist painter did Guggenheim marry after

the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941?

She had said that she didn't want to live in sin with an enemy alien.

Max Ernst.

Yes.

And you're out of time, you have no passes.

-Sophie, you've scored eight points.

-Thank you.

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And our next contender, please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject...

In two minutes, here we go.

What is the name of Deep Purple's drummer,

who has been the most constant presence in the band's history?

Ian Paice.

In which European country did the band play their first

gig in April 1968?

Switzerland?

Denmark. The keyboard player Jon Lord

produced his distinctive and trademark organ sound

by playing his Hammond C3 directly

through which make of amplifier?

Marshall.

Who replaced Roger Glover on bass

when Deep Purple had a line-up change in 1973?

Glenn Hughes.

What is the title of the Deep Purple album

with a front cover picture of a man in trunks

diving with a cityscape in the background?

Purpendicular.

Abandon.

In which country did Deep Purple perform at a Live 8 event

in July 2005?

Er, Sydney?

Canada.

The band launched their Purple record label in the UK in 1971.

What was the title of their first album to be

released on it in 1972?

Machine Head.

When Ritchie Blackmore left the band for the first time

to form his new band, Rainbow,

he was replaced by which American guitarist?

Tommy Bolin.

What is the title of the band's 1990 single,

which features Joe Lynn Turner on vocals

and was released shortly before the album Slaves & Masters?

When Love Breaks Down?

King Of Dreams.

Which American record label signed the band in '68

to complement the deal they made in the UK with Parlophone?

Warners?

Tetragrammaton.

What is the name of the American rock musician

who is mentioned with his band The Mothers

in the lyrics of Deep Purple's

classic track Smoke On The Water?

Frank Zappa.

On June 22nd, 1985,

Deep Purple headlined a huge festival at which venue?

Monterey?

Knebworth Park. On Deep Purple's '69 album,

Concerto for Group and Orchestra,

they're accompanied by which orchestra?

The Royal Philharmonic.

Who was the staff producer at EMI's Abbey Road Studios,

who produced their first album, Shades Of Deep Purple, in 1968,

which includes the song Hush, their debut single?

Derek Lawrence.

What is the title of the album they released in April 2017,

nearly 50 years after they formed?

It reached the Top Ten in the UK.

Infinite.

Yes, that is correct.

No passes from you, Eddie, either.

You have a score of nine points.

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And our final contender, please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject...

In two minutes, starting now.

What is the name of the warlord-turned-monk who is the narrator

of the books that tell the story of King Arthur

and his struggle to rule Britain?

Derfel Cadarn.

What animal is first seen depicted on the banners of Arthur

when he intervenes at Caer Cadarn to prevent the destruction

of Derfel and his men by the Silurians of King Gundleus?

Bear.

Which of the 13 treasures of Britain is unearthed by Merlin

but seized by the Saxon Cerdic

and his druid allies in an old Roman temple of Mithras?

Chariots of Modron.

Arthur's sword is often referred to as Excalibur,

and is revealed to be one of the great treasures of Britain.

It has what other name that translates as hard lightning?

-Rhydderch.

-Caledfwlch.

During the destruction of Ynys Trebes by the Franks,

Merlin rescues the precious scroll

of which traitorous Druid?

Caleddin.

At what climatic battle do Arthur's Dumnonian forces

defeat an alliance led by King Gorfyddyd of Powys,

with unexpected help from the Black Shields

of Oengus Mac Airem?

-Lugg Vale.

-At what great hill do the Druids Nimue and Merlin

plan to summon the old gods of Britain

by sacrificing the children of Arthur and Mordred?

-Mai Dun.

-What is the name of the Silurian Druid

killed by Derfel after the battle of Lugg Vale,

whose twin grandsons later become Derfel's sworn enemies?

-Tanaburs.

-In the opening words of Part One of Excalibur,

whom does the narrator say, "haunt this tale

"and shine in the story of Arthur

"like the glimmer of salmon in peat-dark water?"

-Nimueh.

-Women.

What do Derfel's spearmen wear on their helmets

in commemoration of their guerrilla battles

against the Franks in the forests of Armorica?

-Wolf tails.

-Before Morgan lifts the curse

put on Ceinwyn by Nimue, she makes Derfel swear obedience

to her own husband. What is his name?

-Sansum.

-Which British settlement,

equivalent to modern-day Leicester,

does Arthur betray to the Saxon king Aelle

as part of a plan to buy Dumnonia

and Gwent three months of peace?

-Ratae.

-What food item does Merlin ask for

when he's revived from his near-death state

on the sacred isle of Ynys Mon... BEEP

..thanks to the power of the Cauldron of Clyddno Eiddyn?

-Cheese.

-Cheese is exactly right.

Phew! No passes again, Derek. You've scored 11 points.

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

A pretty close one. Let's have a look at the scores.

In fourth place, eight points, Sophie Starkey.

Third place, nine points, Eddie Alexander.

Joint first place, 11 points apiece, Richard Chaney and Derek Moody.

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Round 2 now. General knowledge.

And if there is a tie at the end of it,

then the number of passes is taken into account,

and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.

But if they are tied on passes, as well,

there has to be a tie-break.

So, let's ask Sophie to join us again, please.

And, erm...

..you start this round with eight points,

but we have two and a half minutes of general knowledge,

so plenty of time to catch up.

Assam, lapsang souchong and gunpowder

are all varieties of what hot drink?

-Tea.

-In which city, then in Yugoslavia,

were the 1984 Winter Olympics held?

-Sarajevo.

-Cheddar Gorge and Wookey Hole Caves

are tourist attractions in which county?

-Somerset.

-Which of the Gospels

tells of the wise men from the East

who brought the gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh

to the infant Jesus?

-Matthew.

-Who unexpectedly announced his resignation

as Britain's prime minister on 16th of March 1976?

-Heath.

-Harold Wilson.

In which 2016 three-part television drama

does Tim Roth play the serial killer John Christie?

-10 Rillington Place.

-Rillington Place, yes.

Which English-born cellist, who died in October 1987,

was the wife of the conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim?

-Jacqueline du Pre.

-Which Shakespeare play opens

with the title character Antonio saying,

"In sooth, I know not why I am so sad.

"It wearies me. You say it wearies you"?

-Merchant Of Venice.

-The coyote is a New World member

of which family of animals?

-Wolf.

-Dog. What size of champagne bottle

holds the equivalent of eight normal-sized bottles?

It takes its name from a biblical patriarch.

-Jeroboam.

-No, Methuselah. Which novel by Muriel Spark,

set in Edinburgh's Marcia Blaine School For Girls in the 1930s,

was made into an award-winning film in 1969?

-The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie.

-Which Swedish actress,

who'd been married to Peter Sellers,

sued Rod Stewart for millions of dollars in palimony

after their relationship ended?

-Britt Ekland.

-What is the title of the hit single

by Bobby Boris Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers

that includes the lines, "The zombies were having fun

"The party had just begun

"The guests included Wolfman, Dracula and his son"?

-Purple People Eater.

-Monster Mash.

Which 19th-century British king had nicknames including

Silly Billy and the Sailor King?

-William the Conqueror.

-William IV.

The brachial artery is the major blood vessel

in which part of the body?

-The throat.

-The arm.

Who played the cartoon character Popeye

in a 1980 live-action film?

-Robin Williams.

-What is the trade name

of the best-selling doll whose middle name is Millicent,

surname is Roberts?

Sorry, could you repeat the question?

What is the trade name of the best-selling doll

whose middle name is Millicent and surname is Roberts?

-Pass.

-According to Boswell,

about a man of which nationality...

BEEP ..did Dr Johnson say,

"Much may be made of him if he be caught young"?

-Welsh.

-No, Scotch! SHE LAUGHS

Well, he actually said

a Scotchman, but, yes, I think he meant a Scottish man.

You had one pass,

and that was the trade name of the best-selling doll

whose middle name is Millicent, surname is Roberts,

and real name, as it were, is Barbie.

-Barbie.

-Yeah. Who knew?

There you are. Anyway, Sophie, you now have a total of 18 points.

-Thank you.

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And now Eddie again, please. And you start out with nine points.

Eddie, 18 is, as we speak, the score to beat.

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

Two and a half minutes. Here we go.

What type of boat, famously used on the canals of Venice,

features in the paintings of Canaletto?

-Gondola.

-Whose 1992 unplugged album

includes the single Tears In Heaven,

about the death of his son?

-Eric Clapton.

-Which is the innermost planet

of the solar system?

-Mercury.

-Who was successively Chancellor of the Exchequer,

Foreign Secretary, and Leader of the House

with the title Deputy Prime Minister between 1979 and 1990?

-Gordon Brown.

-Geoffrey Howe.

Which Scottish city stands at the mouth of the River Ness?

-Dundee.

-Inverness. Who took the inspiration

for his last novel Sick Heart River,

published posthumously in 1941,

from his experiences of touring Northern Canada

as governor-general in the 1930s?

-Joseph Conrad.

-John Buchan.

Paneer is a soft, white, unsalted,

Indian version of what dairy product?

-Cheese.

-Which inventor and pioneer of steam power

was born in Greenock of January 1736?

-Watt.

-What honorary literary post

did Sir Walter Scott decline in 1813,

saying he could not write to order?

He recommended Robert Southey instead.

-Poet laureate.

-Which Caribbean island

is nicknamed the Isle of Spice

because of its production of spices, especially nutmeg?

Its capital city is St George's.

-Barbados.

-Grenada.

In September 2016, a worker among the poor of Calcutta

was declared a saint by Pope Francis,

19 years after her death. Who was she?

Mother Teresa.

What is the name of the American bandmaster who wrote

the marches The Stars And Stripes Forever

and The Washington Post?

-Sousa.

-In which television quiz show,

first shown in 1985,

did teams compete for a chance to see how their jobs are done

in other parts of the world?

-Going For Gold.

-Busman's Holiday.

What term is used in politics for an advocate

of a warlike or hardline position,

especially in foreign affairs,

in contrast to the conciliatory stance

adopted by a so-called dove?

-Chief Whip.

-Hawk.

The Devon, the Cambridge and the Westminster were cars

made by a company that became part of

the British Motor Corporation in 1952. Which company?

-Leyland.

-Austin.

Who were the beaten finalists in both the 1974 and the '78

football World Cups?

-Holland.

-What is the title of Sir Joshua Reynolds'

famous 1784 portrait of the actress Sarah Siddons?

-Pass.

-In criminology, what Latin word meaning elsewhere

is used by a person accused of a crime to claim that

they were not at the location

at the time that the offence occurred.

-Pass.

-BEEP

I can give you the answer to that, then,

because we are now out of time. Alibi is the word. Yeah.

And your other pass - the title of Sir Joshua Reynolds'

famous 1784 portrait of Sarah Siddons was the Tragic Muse.

You have also, Eddie, 18 points.

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And now Richard again, please.

And you start out, Richard, with 11 points,

and still the score to beat is 18.

So, let's see how you do with your general knowledge.

Two and a half minutes.

In Carlo Collodi's children's novel,

what part of Pinocchio's face

grows larger whenever he tells a lie?

-His nose.

-Desiree is a red-skinned,

yellow-fleshed variety of what vegetable?

-Tomato.

-Potato.

What controversial American singer

had his only UK number-one hit

with Great Balls Of Fire in 1958?

-Jerry Lee Lewis.

-Whose last novel,

Sunset At Blandings, was edited by Richard Usborne

and published two years after the author's death in 1975?

-Wodehouse.

-Who became the first woman

to lead the Labour Party when she temporarily took over

after the death of John Smith

prior to the election of Tony Blair?

Margaret Beckett.

In what 2016 Star Wars film do a group of unlikely heroes

join together on a mission to steal

the plans to the Death Star,

the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction?

-Rogue One.

-The gunfight at the OK Corral

took place in which city in Arizona in October 1881?

-Tombstone.

-In computing, what name is given

to 1,048,576 bytes of memory?

-A Google.

-A megabyte.

In which Italian city is the vast Pitti Palace,

the home of a number of museums?

-Florence.

-The writer Jerome K Jerome,

the actor Frank Windsor, and the singer Noddy Holder

are among the notable people born

in which Black Country town?

-Wolverhampton.

-Walsall.

What was the name of the disembodied hand in a box

in the television series The Addams Family?

-Thing.

-Salafism and Wahhabism

are two movements within which religion?

-Islam.

-What is the name of the French writer

and political activist whose novels include Germinal,

a study of working-class life in a mining community?

-Zola.

-The music from which composer's Coronation Ode

is used for the patriotic song Land Of Hope And Glory?

-Elgar.

-The M69 motorway links the M6 near Coventry

to the M1 near which city?

-Leicester.

-In 2000, the image of Charles Dickens

on the back of a £10 note

was replaced by a picture of which naturalist?

-Darwin.

-What word of Japanese origin

can be defined as a small digital image or symbol

used to express an idea or feeling

in electronic communications?

-Meme.

-Emoji. Which German artist's famous

ink and pencil drawing Praying Hands,

created in the early 16th century,

was drawn as part of a series of preparatory sketches

for an altarpiece?

-Titian.

-Durer.

Who became Britain's first Olympic champion in gymnastics

when he won gold medals in the floor exercise and...

BEEP ..pommel horse on the same day

at the Rio Olympics?

-Go on.

-Pass, I'm afraid.

-All right.

-Well, I'll tell you. Max...

-Whitlock.

Exactly. And that was your only pass.

-You've scored a total of 24 points.

-Thank you.

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And finally, Derek again, please.

And you start out with 11 points, as well, Derek.

24 now the score to beat.

Let's see if you can do it and get through to the semifinals.

Here we go.

Who played the hapless Frank Spencer

in the 1970s television series Some Mothers Do Have 'Em?

Michael Crawford.

The name of which Scandinavian god

comes from the Old Norse for thunder?

-Thor.

-Who had his first number-one album

with White Ladder in 2001?

-Pass.

-The ruins of which abbey,

made famous in a poem by Wordsworth,

lie on the banks of the River Wye

about four miles north of Chepstow?

-Fountains.

-Tintern.

Which city has a club in rugby league's Super League

and a football club that reached the top division

for the first time in 2008?

-Hull.

-The first clause of which article

of the Lisbon Treaty of 2007 states that,

"Any member state may decide to withdraw from the European Union

"in accordance with its own constitutional requirements"?

Article 50.

What classic cocktail consists of brandy,

lemon juice and triple sec?

-Sidecar.

-In Rudyard Kipling's poem,

the flyin' fishes play on the road to...?

-Mandalay.

-Kinnarodden, or Cape Nordkinn,

is generally considered the northernmost point

of mainland Europe. In which country is it?

-Norway.

-The 2016 film Queen of Katwe

is based on the true story of a Ugandan girl

whose world rapidly changes after she is introduced

to what game?

-Netball.

-Chess.

The chemicals once used extensively

as aerosol propellants, but now largely banned

because of their effect on the ozone layer, are known by what initials?

-CFC.

-Which Welsh comedian took over from Jack Dee

as the host of The Apprentice - You're Fired

on BBC TWO in 2016?

-Dara O Briain.

-Rhod Gilbert.

The memoir "Must You Go?", first published in 2010,

is an account by an historian and writer

of her life with the playwright Harold Pinter. Which writer?

Antonia Fraser.

The seated figure originally created by Rodin in 1880

and intended to represent Dante in a larger work,

is now known by what name?

-Burghers of Calais.

-The Thinker.

Which ballet by Tchaikovsky tells the story

of the doomed love of Prince Siegfried

and Princess Odette?

-Sleeping Beauty.

-Swan Lake.

In 1931, Britain abandoned the financial measure

that led to a sharp devaluation of sterling.

What was that financial measure called?

-ERM.

-The gold standard.

In the UK, the fat, or edible,

is the largest species of which squirrel-like rodent?

-Weasel.

-Dormouse.

Chatsworth House in Derbyshire is the principal seat

of the holder of which dukedom?

-Devonshire.

-What term used in Canada and Alaska

for a person who travels through snow,

often with a dog team,

is thought to come from the French word to walk?

-Inuit.

-BEEP

Musher. Or I suppose it'd be "moosher", wouldn't it, really?

One pass.

The chap who had his first number-one album with White Ladder

in 2001 was David Gray.

Derek, you've scored a total of 21 points.

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So, that is it. We have a clear winner.

Let's have a look at all the scores.

In joint third place with 18 points

are Sophie and Eddie.

Second place, 21 points, Derek.

First place, 24 points, Richard Chaney.

APPLAUSE

So, Richard, congratulations.

Why did you choose Porridge, just as a matter of interest?

No reason you shouldn't have, of course, but why in particular?

I just grew up with it.

You know, I remember seeing it the first time it came out

in the mid-'70s, and it's still being re-shown today.

But there's an awful lot of it to learn. I mean, lots of...

-Not really. It's surprising.

-No?

-Have a guess how many programmes there were.

-Crikey!

-60?

-22.

-No!

Well, I was thinking what a worthy winner you were...

-LAUGHTER Dead easy!

-Thank you.

-I am a worthy winner. Thank you, John.

-Piece of cake, really.

So, have you decided on your next subject?

-Cos you've got to come back now, of course.

-Oh, dear. Do I have to do?

-Yes.

Yeah, the next one is slated to be the Tolpuddle Martyrs,

-so a bit of a change.

-Bit different.

-Yeah.

-What a contrast.

-Yeah.

Anyway, well done. So, Richard, obviously, is tonight's winner.

Goes through to the semifinals. Congratulations to him.

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