Episode 23

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0:00:25 > 0:00:27Our first contender tonight is James Radcliff,

0:00:27 > 0:00:29a communications consultant from Surrey.

0:00:29 > 0:00:32He's answering questions on the band Blur.

0:00:32 > 0:00:35Gemma Wilson is a library assistant from Leeds

0:00:35 > 0:00:36and her specialist subject -

0:00:36 > 0:00:39the Thursday Next novels by Jasper Fforde.

0:00:39 > 0:00:44Next, Don Crerar, a retired computer programmer from Hampshire

0:00:44 > 0:00:46on the American Civil War.

0:00:46 > 0:00:50And Ewan MacAulay, a PhD student from Cambridge,

0:00:50 > 0:00:53on the short stories of David Foster Wallace.

0:01:00 > 0:01:03Hello, and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys,

0:01:03 > 0:01:07and four of the 96 people who have volunteered to take part

0:01:07 > 0:01:11in these Mastermind heats in the hope that they will make it

0:01:11 > 0:01:13through to the semifinal and then the Grand Final.

0:01:13 > 0:01:16If they do, they will have a chance to walk away

0:01:16 > 0:01:18with a lovely glass bowl

0:01:18 > 0:01:21and the much-envied title of Mastermind Champion.

0:01:21 > 0:01:24Before all that, they face a couple of minutes of questions

0:01:24 > 0:01:25on the subject they have chosen

0:01:25 > 0:01:28and two and a half minutes on general knowledge.

0:01:28 > 0:01:32So, let's get on with it and ask our first contender to join us, please.

0:01:39 > 0:01:40And your name is?

0:01:41 > 0:01:42Your occupation?

0:01:44 > 0:01:45And your chosen subject?

0:01:46 > 0:01:49The band Blur in two minutes. Here we go.

0:01:49 > 0:01:51Blur were one of the leading British bands of the 1990s.

0:01:51 > 0:01:54What's the title of the band's third studio album?

0:01:54 > 0:01:56It was their first to reach number one in the UK

0:01:56 > 0:01:59and has a title track narrated by the actor Phil Daniels.

0:01:59 > 0:02:02- Parklife.- Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon

0:02:02 > 0:02:04met the group's bass player Alex James

0:02:04 > 0:02:06when they were studying at which college in London?

0:02:06 > 0:02:10- Goldsmiths.- What was the title of the band's debut single,

0:02:10 > 0:02:12which was released in October 1990

0:02:12 > 0:02:14and reached the UK top 50?

0:02:14 > 0:02:16She's So High.

0:02:16 > 0:02:18Which producer worked with Blur for the first time

0:02:18 > 0:02:19on the single There's No Other Way

0:02:19 > 0:02:23and produced most of the tracks on their first five studio albums?

0:02:23 > 0:02:24Stephen Street.

0:02:24 > 0:02:26Andy Ross saw the band perform for the first time

0:02:26 > 0:02:28at a London venue in November 1989

0:02:28 > 0:02:31and signed them to the label Food Records soon afterwards.

0:02:31 > 0:02:33Which venue was that?

0:02:33 > 0:02:36- Dingwalls? - No, Islington Powerhaus.

0:02:36 > 0:02:40What was the name of the album released by the band in April 2015?

0:02:40 > 0:02:43It was their first new studio album for 12 years.

0:02:43 > 0:02:45- The Magic Whip. - At which festival

0:02:45 > 0:02:48did Blur play a one-off gig at the Royal Festival Hall

0:02:48 > 0:02:50on the 2nd of July 2000?

0:02:50 > 0:02:54The four band members didn't perform together again until 2009.

0:02:54 > 0:02:57- The Proms?- The Meltdown Festival.

0:02:57 > 0:03:00Who produced the band's 1999 chart-topping album 13,

0:03:00 > 0:03:03which includes the songs Tender and Coffee And TV?

0:03:03 > 0:03:06- William Orbit.- What is the name of the studio that designed

0:03:06 > 0:03:08the controversial artwork for the cover

0:03:08 > 0:03:11of the single She's So High?

0:03:11 > 0:03:14- Pass.- The soundtrack of which 1996 film

0:03:14 > 0:03:16features Sing by Blur

0:03:16 > 0:03:19as well as Damon Albarn's track Closet Romantic?

0:03:19 > 0:03:20Trainspotting.

0:03:20 > 0:03:23According to the band's second top 10 hit single Girls And Boys,

0:03:23 > 0:03:25"love in the '90s is..." what?

0:03:25 > 0:03:28- Paranoid.- At what East London venue

0:03:28 > 0:03:31did Blur play to a crowd of around 27,000 people

0:03:31 > 0:03:33in June 1995, supported by The Boo Radleys

0:03:33 > 0:03:35and Sparks among others?

0:03:35 > 0:03:40- Mile End.- The opening track on Blur's eponymous 1997 album

0:03:40 > 0:03:42gave them their second UK number one single.

0:03:42 > 0:03:44What was its title?

0:03:44 > 0:03:48- Beetlebum.- The cover of Blur's The Best Of compilation album,

0:03:48 > 0:03:50released in 2000, features digital portraits...

0:03:50 > 0:03:52BEEP ..of the band by which artist?

0:03:52 > 0:03:54They were displayed at the National Portrait Gallery.

0:03:54 > 0:03:57- Damien Hirst? - No, it was Julian Opie.

0:03:57 > 0:03:59You had just one pass, James.

0:03:59 > 0:04:02The name of the studio that designed that controversial artwork

0:04:02 > 0:04:04was Stylorouge.

0:04:04 > 0:04:07- You have scored 10 points. - Thank you.

0:04:16 > 0:04:18And our next contender, please.

0:04:25 > 0:04:27And your name is?

0:04:27 > 0:04:29Your occupation?

0:04:30 > 0:04:31And your chosen subject?

0:04:33 > 0:04:36In two minutes, starting now.

0:04:36 > 0:04:39What device that enables the literary detective Thursday Next

0:04:39 > 0:04:42to enter novels was invented by her uncle Mycroft?

0:04:42 > 0:04:44She uses it to go into Jane Eyre.

0:04:44 > 0:04:45The Prose Portal.

0:04:45 > 0:04:47What's the name of Thursday's pet dodo?

0:04:47 > 0:04:49She genetically engineered it herself

0:04:49 > 0:04:51using a home cloning kit.

0:04:51 > 0:04:52Pickwick.

0:04:52 > 0:04:55In First Among Sequels, Thursday finds herself

0:04:55 > 0:04:57in command of a ship and faces difficult decisions

0:04:57 > 0:04:59while she tries to get to the Wreck of the Hesperus.

0:04:59 > 0:05:01What is the ship called?

0:05:01 > 0:05:02The Moral Dilemma.

0:05:02 > 0:05:05The ballroom of which house from Sense and Sensibility

0:05:05 > 0:05:09is the office of Jurisfiction, the policing agency of BookWorld?

0:05:09 > 0:05:10- Norwood.- Norland.

0:05:10 > 0:05:13What name does Thursday's teenage daughter Tuesday

0:05:13 > 0:05:15give to the subatomic particle

0:05:15 > 0:05:18that she thinks might help predict random events?

0:05:18 > 0:05:20Madeupion.

0:05:20 > 0:05:22Who is Thursday's officially sanctioned stalker

0:05:22 > 0:05:24and, later, her biographer?

0:05:24 > 0:05:26He's also involved in a cheese smuggling ring.

0:05:26 > 0:05:28Millon de Floss.

0:05:28 > 0:05:30What is the name of the family of villains

0:05:30 > 0:05:32that Thursday battles against throughout the series?

0:05:32 > 0:05:35They include Aornis, who plants a memory

0:05:35 > 0:05:37of a non-existent daughter in Thursday's mind.

0:05:37 > 0:05:40- The Hades.- The recipe for what dish

0:05:40 > 0:05:43is actually an equation to help reverse the flow of time

0:05:43 > 0:05:45and thereby enable time travel?

0:05:45 > 0:05:47Unscrambled eggs.

0:05:47 > 0:05:49Which English town is offered as reparations

0:05:49 > 0:05:50for the Crimean War?

0:05:50 > 0:05:52The Russian tsar's chief negotiator

0:05:52 > 0:05:54accepts the offer.

0:05:54 > 0:05:55Tunbridge Wells.

0:05:55 > 0:05:57Who is the nonexecutive President for Life

0:05:57 > 0:06:00of the English Republic at the beginning of the series?

0:06:00 > 0:06:03- George Formby.- For which genre of fiction

0:06:03 > 0:06:05is Speedy Muffler the senator? He claims to have a dirty bomb

0:06:05 > 0:06:09capable of hurling explicit suggestions

0:06:09 > 0:06:10and scenes of a gratuitous nature.

0:06:10 > 0:06:12Racy Novel.

0:06:12 > 0:06:14Which team does Thursday help

0:06:14 > 0:06:16the Swindon Mallets beat in a penalty shoot-out

0:06:16 > 0:06:19in the 1988 World Croquet League Superhoop match?

0:06:19 > 0:06:21The Reading Whackers.

0:06:21 > 0:06:24What sort of book-dwelling parasitic life forms

0:06:24 > 0:06:28are the adjectivores, verbisoids and parataxis

0:06:28 > 0:06:30that inhabit BookWorld?

0:06:30 > 0:06:31Grammasites.

0:06:31 > 0:06:33What is the alphanumeric code name

0:06:33 > 0:06:35of the extremely strong cheese that Thursday finds

0:06:35 > 0:06:37while she is smuggling cheese...

0:06:37 > 0:06:39BEEP ..from the Socialist Republic of Wales?

0:06:39 > 0:06:40X-14.

0:06:40 > 0:06:46X-14 is exactly right and I didn't understand one of those questions.

0:06:46 > 0:06:47LAUGHTER

0:06:47 > 0:06:52However, you did and you have scored, Gemma, 13 points.

0:07:01 > 0:07:02And our next contender, please.

0:07:10 > 0:07:11And your name is?

0:07:12 > 0:07:14Your occupation?

0:07:15 > 0:07:17And your chosen subject?

0:07:20 > 0:07:21In two minutes, starting now.

0:07:21 > 0:07:23Who led the American Marines

0:07:23 > 0:07:25when they were sent to put down John Brown's raid

0:07:25 > 0:07:27on the Federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry

0:07:27 > 0:07:30that contributed to the start of the Civil War? He later commanded

0:07:30 > 0:07:32the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.

0:07:32 > 0:07:33Robert E Lee.

0:07:33 > 0:07:35What name was given to the series of battles

0:07:35 > 0:07:39in the Peninsula Campaign during June and July 1862

0:07:39 > 0:07:41that included Mechanicsville and Malvern Hill?

0:07:41 > 0:07:43The Seven Days' Battles.

0:07:43 > 0:07:45What strategic piece of high ground

0:07:45 > 0:07:47was the 20th Maine Regiment ordered to hold at all costs

0:07:47 > 0:07:50on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg?

0:07:50 > 0:07:51Little Round Top.

0:07:51 > 0:07:54In which cabinet post in Lincoln's administration

0:07:54 > 0:07:58did Edwin Stanton replace Simon Cameron in January 1862?

0:07:58 > 0:08:01- Secretary of War.- What name that comes from the light infantry

0:08:01 > 0:08:04of the French army was adopted by many volunteer regiments

0:08:04 > 0:08:07who wore baggy red trousers and embroidered waistcoats?

0:08:07 > 0:08:08Zouaves.

0:08:08 > 0:08:12Of which of his generals who was fatally wounded at Chancellorsville

0:08:12 > 0:08:14did Lee say, "He has lost his left arm,

0:08:14 > 0:08:16"but I have lost my right arm"?

0:08:16 > 0:08:17Jackson.

0:08:17 > 0:08:21In November 1861, the Union Navy seized two Confederate diplomats

0:08:21 > 0:08:23from a British ship and caused a diplomatic crisis.

0:08:23 > 0:08:25What was the name of the ship?

0:08:25 > 0:08:28- Trent.- Which was the first of the 11 southern states

0:08:28 > 0:08:29to secede from the Union

0:08:29 > 0:08:32and later form the Confederate States of America?

0:08:32 > 0:08:33South Carolina.

0:08:33 > 0:08:36What was the name of the barbaric commandant

0:08:36 > 0:08:37of the Andersonville stockade?

0:08:37 > 0:08:41He was hanged as a war criminal in November 1865.

0:08:41 > 0:08:45- Wirz.- In what capacity did Belle Boyd serve the Confederacy

0:08:45 > 0:08:48and Elizabeth Van Lew serve the Union during the war?

0:08:48 > 0:08:51- Spies.- What is the name of the burial ground

0:08:51 > 0:08:53after which Cemetery Hill and Cemetery Ridge were named

0:08:53 > 0:08:55in the Battle of Gettysburg?

0:08:55 > 0:08:57- Pass.- Who led the Army of the Ohio

0:08:57 > 0:09:00that arrived at the end of the first day of the Battle of Shiloh

0:09:00 > 0:09:03and helped to turn the battle in favour of the Union forces?

0:09:03 > 0:09:07- Buell.- In July 1864, John Bell Hood faced William Sherman

0:09:07 > 0:09:10in battles at Peachtree Creek and Ezra Church

0:09:10 > 0:09:12in the campaign to capture which city?

0:09:12 > 0:09:16- Atlanta.- What battle was fought near the Rio Grande in Texas

0:09:16 > 0:09:20in May 1865 and was the last significant clash of the war?

0:09:20 > 0:09:23- Brownsville?- No, Palmito Ranch. BEEP

0:09:23 > 0:09:24And your time is up.

0:09:24 > 0:09:26You had the one pass -

0:09:26 > 0:09:28the name of that burial ground after which Cemetery Hill

0:09:28 > 0:09:31and Cemetery Ridge were named in the Battle of Gettysburg,

0:09:31 > 0:09:33that was Evergreen Cemetery.

0:09:33 > 0:09:36You have scored 12 points.

0:09:45 > 0:09:47And our final contender, please.

0:09:54 > 0:09:57And your name is?

0:09:57 > 0:09:58Your occupation?

0:09:58 > 0:10:00And your chosen subject?

0:10:02 > 0:10:03In two minutes, starting now.

0:10:03 > 0:10:07In Think, the narrator says that the woman who tries to seduce him

0:10:07 > 0:10:10has an expression from a page in what catalogue?

0:10:10 > 0:10:11Victoria's Secret.

0:10:11 > 0:10:13Who is the host of the late-night television talk show

0:10:13 > 0:10:16that the Emmy-nominated actress Edilyn

0:10:16 > 0:10:17appears on in My Appearance?

0:10:17 > 0:10:21- Letterman.- In Westward The Course Of Empire Takes Its Way,

0:10:21 > 0:10:24Mark Nechtr and his wife Drew-Lynn Eberhardt

0:10:24 > 0:10:26are graduate writing students at which college?

0:10:26 > 0:10:30- Wellesley.- East Chesapeake. In a story from Oblivion,

0:10:30 > 0:10:32the appeal of a new Mr Squishy snack cake

0:10:32 > 0:10:34is tested by a focus group at the office

0:10:34 > 0:10:37of the advertising firm Reesemeyer Shannon Belt.

0:10:37 > 0:10:39What is the snack cake called?

0:10:39 > 0:10:42- Felonies. - In The Soul Is Not A Smithy,

0:10:42 > 0:10:44what is the name of the psychologist

0:10:44 > 0:10:46who interviewed the narrator and his classmates

0:10:46 > 0:10:49the day after they witnessed a traumatic event?

0:10:49 > 0:10:50Pass.

0:10:50 > 0:10:52In Little Expressionless Animals,

0:10:52 > 0:10:54Julie Smith has won every episode

0:10:54 > 0:10:56of a television quiz show for three years

0:10:56 > 0:10:58from 1985 to 1988. Which show?

0:10:58 > 0:11:00- Jeopardy.- In Forever Overhead,

0:11:00 > 0:11:02what game is the boy's sister playing

0:11:02 > 0:11:04in the swimming pool when he gets out

0:11:04 > 0:11:06and makes his way to the high diving board?

0:11:06 > 0:11:07Marco Polo.

0:11:07 > 0:11:11What is the title of the human interest feature in Style Magazine

0:11:11 > 0:11:13that Skip Atwater writes articles for

0:11:13 > 0:11:15in The Suffering Channel?

0:11:15 > 0:11:17Erm...

0:11:18 > 0:11:20What In The World.

0:11:20 > 0:11:22On what date does the narrator's little sister

0:11:22 > 0:11:24celebrate her birthday in Signifying Nothing?

0:11:25 > 0:11:28- Pass. - What is the name of the counsellor

0:11:28 > 0:11:31in Church Not Made With Hands who wears a T-shirt

0:11:31 > 0:11:34that says, "Ask me about my invisible enemies"?

0:11:34 > 0:11:36- Wang?- Yang.

0:11:36 > 0:11:38What is the nickname of the narrator

0:11:38 > 0:11:39in Girl With Curious Hair

0:11:39 > 0:11:42whose brother is a lieutenant colonel in the US Marine Corps

0:11:42 > 0:11:44and carries the black box of nuclear codes

0:11:44 > 0:11:46for the American President?

0:11:46 > 0:11:47Sick Puppy.

0:11:47 > 0:11:50In number 59 of the Brief Interviews With Hideous Men,

0:11:50 > 0:11:53which television programme was the interviewee's favourite

0:11:53 > 0:11:56as a child and inspired his adolescent fantasies?

0:11:56 > 0:11:59- Bewitched.- The narrator of the story Good Old Neon

0:11:59 > 0:12:00goes to meditation classes

0:12:00 > 0:12:03at the Downers Grove Community Center.

0:12:03 > 0:12:04Who runs the classes?

0:12:04 > 0:12:08- BEEP - Gurumelalav...

0:12:08 > 0:12:10- No.- No, it's gone.

0:12:10 > 0:12:12Gurpreet, Master Gurpreet.

0:12:12 > 0:12:14Anyway, your other passes -

0:12:14 > 0:12:17the date that the narrator's little sister celebrated her birthday

0:12:17 > 0:12:22was the 4th of July and it was Dr Biron-Maint,

0:12:22 > 0:12:24he was the psychologist who interviewed

0:12:24 > 0:12:26the narrator and his classmates the day after

0:12:26 > 0:12:28they'd witnessed a traumatic event.

0:12:28 > 0:12:30You have scored, Ewan, 8 points.

0:12:39 > 0:12:42Lots of very good scores there. Let's have a look at all of them.

0:12:58 > 0:13:01And it is the general knowledge round now, of course,

0:13:01 > 0:13:03and if there is a tie at the end of it, then the number of passes

0:13:03 > 0:13:07is taken into account and the person with the fewer passes is the winner

0:13:07 > 0:13:11and if they're tied on passes as well, there has to be a tie-break.

0:13:11 > 0:13:13So, let us get on with it

0:13:13 > 0:13:16and ask Ewan to join us again if you would, please.

0:13:16 > 0:13:22And you start out with 8 points and, as you will know,

0:13:22 > 0:13:24we have two and a half minutes for general knowledge

0:13:24 > 0:13:27so loads of time to catch up.

0:13:27 > 0:13:29Here we go.

0:13:29 > 0:13:31The dogs home founded in Holloway in 1860

0:13:31 > 0:13:34is now a dogs and cats home named after which London district?

0:13:34 > 0:13:37- Battersea.- An elver is the young of which fish?

0:13:37 > 0:13:41- Eel.- Who returned to his role as the palaeontologist Dr Alan Grant

0:13:41 > 0:13:45in the 2001 film sequel Jurassic Park 3?

0:13:45 > 0:13:47Pass.

0:13:47 > 0:13:50The Hanoverian British kings George I and George II

0:13:50 > 0:13:52were both born in which present-day country?

0:13:52 > 0:13:55- Germany.- Which city in southeastern India

0:13:55 > 0:13:57is capital of the state of Tamil Nadu?

0:13:57 > 0:13:59- Goa.- Chennai.

0:13:59 > 0:14:01Which American president told his people

0:14:01 > 0:14:03in his 1933 inaugural address

0:14:03 > 0:14:06that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself"?

0:14:06 > 0:14:07Franklin Roosevelt.

0:14:07 > 0:14:09Who wrote the novels High Fidelity

0:14:09 > 0:14:11and About A Boy that have both been adapted to films?

0:14:11 > 0:14:16- Nick Hornby.- St Apollonia, who had her teeth knocked out

0:14:16 > 0:14:18when she refused to renounce her faith,

0:14:18 > 0:14:20is the patron saint of which profession?

0:14:20 > 0:14:23- Dentists?- Which prestigious prize is endowed

0:14:23 > 0:14:25by a former newspaper magnate

0:14:25 > 0:14:26and awarded annually for achievement

0:14:26 > 0:14:29in American journalism, letters and music?

0:14:29 > 0:14:33- Pulitzer.- Adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine

0:14:33 > 0:14:36are the four bases of a complex molecular structure

0:14:36 > 0:14:38that determines the biological inheritance

0:14:38 > 0:14:41of nearly all living organisms. What structure?

0:14:41 > 0:14:46- DNA.- Which former winner of the X Factor made a comeback in 2016

0:14:46 > 0:14:48when he topped the UK singles charts

0:14:48 > 0:14:50with Say You Won't Let Go?

0:14:50 > 0:14:51- Olly Murs?- James Arthur.

0:14:51 > 0:14:54What name that comes from the Greek for "horse" and "a course"

0:14:54 > 0:14:57was once widely used for theatres, cinemas and concert halls?

0:14:57 > 0:14:58Hippodrome.

0:14:58 > 0:15:00Which small, sweet yeast buns,

0:15:00 > 0:15:02now available nearly all the year round,

0:15:02 > 0:15:04were traditionally eaten in England on Good Friday?

0:15:04 > 0:15:05Hot cross buns.

0:15:05 > 0:15:09Gendun Druppa, who was born in central Tibet in 1391,

0:15:09 > 0:15:11was the first person to bear which title

0:15:11 > 0:15:13in the Buddhist religion?

0:15:13 > 0:15:14Dalai Lama.

0:15:14 > 0:15:16What is the name of the metropolitan county

0:15:16 > 0:15:18that includes Liverpool and Birkenhead?

0:15:18 > 0:15:21- Merseyside.- In February 2016,

0:15:21 > 0:15:23a Swiss-Italian football administrator

0:15:23 > 0:15:27was elected president of Fifa in succession to Sepp Blatter.

0:15:27 > 0:15:28Who is he?

0:15:28 > 0:15:30Er, Pa...

0:15:30 > 0:15:32- Platini.- Infantino.

0:15:32 > 0:15:34What is the title of the television series

0:15:34 > 0:15:36that traces the progress of the Queen,

0:15:36 > 0:15:37played as a young woman by Claire Foy,

0:15:37 > 0:15:39from her childhood to her reign after the death

0:15:39 > 0:15:41of her father King George VI?

0:15:41 > 0:15:42The Crown.

0:15:42 > 0:15:44Which celebrated religious building in Venice

0:15:44 > 0:15:46was completed in about 1071

0:15:46 > 0:15:49in the form of a Greek cross surmounted by five domes?

0:15:49 > 0:15:51- St Mark's Cathedral. - St Mark's Basilica, yes.

0:15:51 > 0:15:53What name is given to a steel blade

0:15:53 > 0:15:55attached at the muzzle end of a rifle?

0:15:55 > 0:15:57It derives from the town in southwestern France

0:15:57 > 0:15:58where it was first manufactured.

0:15:58 > 0:16:00- Bayonet.- Which Italian composer's... BEEP

0:16:00 > 0:16:04..last two operas, written between the years 1884 and 1893,

0:16:04 > 0:16:06were based on plays by Shakespeare?

0:16:06 > 0:16:08Verdi.

0:16:10 > 0:16:11You have one pass.

0:16:11 > 0:16:14The chap who returned to his role as the palaeontologist

0:16:14 > 0:16:18in the film Jurassic Park 3, he was Sam Neill.

0:16:18 > 0:16:22One pass, Ewan, you have scored now a total of 24 points.

0:16:31 > 0:16:34And now James again, please.

0:16:35 > 0:16:39And you start out with 10 points, James.

0:16:39 > 0:16:41Two and a half minutes for your general knowledge.

0:16:41 > 0:16:4424 at the moment the score to beat. Here we go.

0:16:44 > 0:16:46Igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary

0:16:46 > 0:16:48are the three main classifications

0:16:48 > 0:16:49of what natural substance?

0:16:49 > 0:16:53- Rock.- Long-eared and greater and lesser horseshoe

0:16:53 > 0:16:55are species of which mammal found in Britain?

0:16:55 > 0:16:56- Rabbit.- Bat.

0:16:56 > 0:16:59Who was the lead singer of Dexys Midnight Runners,

0:16:59 > 0:17:02who had a 1982 number five hit with Jackie Wilson Said?

0:17:02 > 0:17:03Kevin Rowland.

0:17:03 > 0:17:05Hugh Scully was the long-time presenter

0:17:05 > 0:17:07of which television programme before he was succeeded

0:17:07 > 0:17:10first by Michael Aspel and then by Fiona Bruce?

0:17:10 > 0:17:12- Antiques Roadshow. - In which Middle Eastern country

0:17:12 > 0:17:15did Bashar al-Assad succeed his father

0:17:15 > 0:17:17Hafez al-Assad as president in 2000?

0:17:17 > 0:17:21- Syria.- What name is given to the top edge of a ship's side,

0:17:21 > 0:17:24so called because the upper guns were supported on it?

0:17:24 > 0:17:26Pass.

0:17:26 > 0:17:28"The hopes of a nation rode on a long shot" -

0:17:28 > 0:17:31that's the tag line of which 2003 film

0:17:31 > 0:17:34about an undersized racehorse that became an unexpected champion?

0:17:34 > 0:17:36Seabiscuit?

0:17:36 > 0:17:39The leaves of which plant, used as a seasoning or garnish,

0:17:39 > 0:17:42are also known as Chinese parsley and as cilantro,

0:17:42 > 0:17:44especially in Mexican cuisine?

0:17:44 > 0:17:46Coriander.

0:17:46 > 0:17:49In which Winter Olympic sport do competitors run for about 40m

0:17:49 > 0:17:52before they jump on a stripped-down, steel-framed sled

0:17:52 > 0:17:54and race headfirst down an ice track?

0:17:54 > 0:17:57- Bobsled?- Skeleton bob.

0:17:57 > 0:18:00In the United Kingdom, what is the colour of a 13 amp fuse

0:18:00 > 0:18:02in a standard household plug?

0:18:02 > 0:18:04Brown?

0:18:04 > 0:18:07What is the name of the saint who was born in Assisi in 1194

0:18:07 > 0:18:10and who founded an order of nuns noted for their poverty?

0:18:10 > 0:18:12She was made the patron saint of television

0:18:12 > 0:18:14by Pius XII in 1958.

0:18:14 > 0:18:17- Teresa?- Clare.

0:18:17 > 0:18:20The Lofoten and Vesteralen islands

0:18:20 > 0:18:22that lie within the Arctic Circle

0:18:22 > 0:18:25are the largest island groups off the coast of which country?

0:18:25 > 0:18:28- Norway?- What senior title in the British peerage

0:18:28 > 0:18:33did Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor succeed to in 1979?

0:18:33 > 0:18:35Pass.

0:18:35 > 0:18:37Which county is known in Welsh as Sir Benfro

0:18:37 > 0:18:41and part of it is often called Little England Beyond Wales?

0:18:41 > 0:18:43- Pembroke?- Yes, Pembrokeshire.

0:18:43 > 0:18:45The rich bachelor Charles Bingley,

0:18:45 > 0:18:47the pompous clergyman William Collins

0:18:47 > 0:18:49and the unprincipled adventurer George Wickham

0:18:49 > 0:18:52are among the characters in which Jane Austen novel?

0:18:52 > 0:18:54- Persuasion? - Pride And Prejudice.

0:18:54 > 0:18:59Carl XVI Gustaf became king of which country in 1973?

0:18:59 > 0:19:01- Sweden? - What was the nationality

0:19:01 > 0:19:05of the composers Borodin, Shostakovich and Rachmaninoff?

0:19:05 > 0:19:08- Russian.- Which architect is credited with rebuilding

0:19:08 > 0:19:12more than 50 London churches after the Great Fire of 1666?

0:19:12 > 0:19:13Christopher Wren.

0:19:13 > 0:19:16Which writer created the television series Midsomer Murders...

0:19:16 > 0:19:18BEEP ..and Foyle's War

0:19:18 > 0:19:19and wrote a series of novels

0:19:19 > 0:19:22about the schoolboy spy Alex Ryder?

0:19:25 > 0:19:27- Pass.- Well, I can tell you cos your time's up -

0:19:27 > 0:19:28Anthony Horowitz.

0:19:28 > 0:19:34Two other passes - Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor became Duke of Westminster

0:19:34 > 0:19:37and the name given to the top edge of a ship's side

0:19:37 > 0:19:39because of the upper guns is the gunwale.

0:19:39 > 0:19:42- You have a total now, James, of 22 points.- OK, thank you.

0:19:49 > 0:19:52And now Don again, please.

0:19:54 > 0:19:58And you start out with 12 points.

0:19:58 > 0:20:01The score to beat is still 24

0:20:01 > 0:20:05so let us see how you do with your general knowledge. Here we go.

0:20:05 > 0:20:07The word "kindergarten", meaning a place

0:20:07 > 0:20:10where very young children are educated, comes from what language?

0:20:10 > 0:20:12- German.- Who played Bonnie Parker

0:20:12 > 0:20:15in the 1967 film Bonnie And Clyde?

0:20:15 > 0:20:17- Faye Dunaway.- Which Canadian singer and songwriter

0:20:17 > 0:20:20released the bestselling album You Want It Darker

0:20:20 > 0:20:24in October 2016, less than three weeks before he died?

0:20:24 > 0:20:26Leonard Cohen.

0:20:26 > 0:20:28Which British colony surrendered

0:20:28 > 0:20:31to the invading Japanese forces on Christmas Day 1941,

0:20:31 > 0:20:34just over a fortnight after the attack on Pearl Harbor?

0:20:34 > 0:20:37- Hong Kong.- The television game shows The Golden Shot,

0:20:37 > 0:20:40Celebrity Squares and Family Fortunes

0:20:40 > 0:20:42were all hosted by which comedian?

0:20:42 > 0:20:45- Bob Monkhouse.- What word, derived from "triumph",

0:20:45 > 0:20:46is used in bridge and whist

0:20:46 > 0:20:48for the suit that has been declared

0:20:48 > 0:20:50to rank above the other three?

0:20:50 > 0:20:51Trump.

0:20:51 > 0:20:53An area on the River Cherwell in Oxford

0:20:53 > 0:20:55that was widely used for male nude bathing

0:20:55 > 0:20:59until it was closed in 1991 was given what clerical name?

0:20:59 > 0:21:01Pass.

0:21:01 > 0:21:04In Roman legend, what animal suckled the infant Romulus

0:21:04 > 0:21:06and Remus after they were saved from drowning?

0:21:06 > 0:21:08- Wolf.- Which cricketer,

0:21:08 > 0:21:10famed for his appearance in hair cream adverts,

0:21:10 > 0:21:13played for England before and after the Second World War

0:21:13 > 0:21:15and played football for Arsenal?

0:21:15 > 0:21:17- Hobbs?- Denis Compton.

0:21:17 > 0:21:19The name of what former monetary unit

0:21:19 > 0:21:21was first applied to a gold coin

0:21:21 > 0:21:24minted by King John II of France in 1360?

0:21:24 > 0:21:26- Noble.- Franc.

0:21:26 > 0:21:29Which spymaster was created by John Le Carre

0:21:29 > 0:21:31and lives at 9 Bywater Street in Chelsea

0:21:31 > 0:21:33with his unfaithful wife Lady Ann?

0:21:33 > 0:21:34Smiley.

0:21:34 > 0:21:36The Mojave Desert lies principally

0:21:36 > 0:21:38in the south-east of which American state?

0:21:38 > 0:21:40- Arizona.- California.

0:21:40 > 0:21:43Which birds of prey that have long been trained for hunting

0:21:43 > 0:21:45have plumes called flags on their legs

0:21:45 > 0:21:48and a sharp toothlike notch on the upper part of their bill?

0:21:48 > 0:21:50Falcons?

0:21:50 > 0:21:52What name that comes from the Greek for "going"

0:21:52 > 0:21:55is given to an electrically charged atom or molecule?

0:21:55 > 0:21:57Ion.

0:21:57 > 0:22:00In 2012, the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

0:22:00 > 0:22:02sought and gained political asylum

0:22:02 > 0:22:04in the London embassy of which country?

0:22:04 > 0:22:07- Ecuador.- In which novel by Alexandre Dumas, pere

0:22:07 > 0:22:09does the hero escape from the Chateau d'If

0:22:09 > 0:22:12in a body bag intended for a dead priest?

0:22:12 > 0:22:13The Count of Monte Cristo.

0:22:13 > 0:22:15Which prolific composer

0:22:15 > 0:22:17worked in the musical establishment

0:22:17 > 0:22:19of the Esterhazy family at the Austrian court

0:22:19 > 0:22:21for around 30 years from 1761?

0:22:21 > 0:22:23Haydn.

0:22:23 > 0:22:26What marsupial creatures were the glove puppets Tingha and Tucker,

0:22:26 > 0:22:30who appeared on a children's television show during the 1960s?

0:22:30 > 0:22:32Koala bears.

0:22:32 > 0:22:35The painting Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway...

0:22:35 > 0:22:37BEEP ..expressed an English artist's interest

0:22:37 > 0:22:40in the changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution.

0:22:40 > 0:22:41Which artist?

0:22:41 > 0:22:44- Turner.- And you have one pass.

0:22:44 > 0:22:47That area on the River Cherwell in Oxford

0:22:47 > 0:22:50that was widely used for male nude bathing, I'm afraid,

0:22:50 > 0:22:53was called Parson's Pleasure.

0:22:53 > 0:22:54LAUGHTER

0:22:54 > 0:22:58That notwithstanding, you have scored 27 points.

0:23:08 > 0:23:11And, finally, Gemma again, please.

0:23:12 > 0:23:18And, Gemma, you start out with 13 points, which is pretty good.

0:23:18 > 0:23:2127 is the score to beat.

0:23:21 > 0:23:24So, let's see if you can do it and get through to the semifinals.

0:23:24 > 0:23:26Here we go.

0:23:26 > 0:23:28Wild guinea pigs are native to which continent?

0:23:28 > 0:23:31- South America.- What French word is used

0:23:31 > 0:23:33to describe the driest type of sparkling wine,

0:23:33 > 0:23:35especially champagne?

0:23:35 > 0:23:36- Cava?- Brut.

0:23:36 > 0:23:38Who created and presented

0:23:38 > 0:23:41the Channel 4 satirical programme Brass Eye?

0:23:41 > 0:23:43- Erm, John... - Chris Morris.

0:23:43 > 0:23:45Which distinguished mathematician and scientist

0:23:45 > 0:23:48held the post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics

0:23:48 > 0:23:51at Cambridge University from 1669 to 1702?

0:23:51 > 0:23:53- Fibonacci?- Isaac Newton.

0:23:53 > 0:23:55Hearing, sight, smell and taste

0:23:55 > 0:23:57are four of the five traditional senses.

0:23:57 > 0:23:58What's the fifth?

0:23:58 > 0:24:00- Touch.- Which future queen of England

0:24:00 > 0:24:04was betrothed to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V as a five-year-old

0:24:04 > 0:24:08and eventually married his son, Philip II of Spain, in 1554?

0:24:08 > 0:24:11- Mary I. - Which British singer and songwriter,

0:24:11 > 0:24:13whose real name is Rory Graham,

0:24:13 > 0:24:16went straight to number one in the album chart

0:24:16 > 0:24:18in February 2017 with Human?

0:24:20 > 0:24:24- Erm, George... - No, Rag'n'Bone Man.

0:24:24 > 0:24:25What member of the crew do the winners

0:24:25 > 0:24:27of the Oxford vs Cambridge boat race

0:24:27 > 0:24:30traditionally throw into the Thames at the finishing post?

0:24:30 > 0:24:31The cox.

0:24:31 > 0:24:34Which outpost town, founded in 1914 as a construction community,

0:24:34 > 0:24:37later became the headquarters of the Alaska Railroad

0:24:37 > 0:24:39and is now the state's most popular city?

0:24:39 > 0:24:41Pass.

0:24:41 > 0:24:44The dugong and the manatee are said to be the originals

0:24:44 > 0:24:47of which mythical half-human, half-fish creature?

0:24:47 > 0:24:50- Mermaid?- Who made her big breakthrough

0:24:50 > 0:24:53as Elle Woods in the 2001 film Legally Blonde?

0:24:53 > 0:24:55She followed it up

0:24:55 > 0:24:57with Sweet Home Alabama the following year.

0:24:57 > 0:24:58Reese Witherspoon?

0:24:58 > 0:25:00In which Yorkshire city was the Independent Labour Party,

0:25:00 > 0:25:03one of the forerunners of the current Labour Party,

0:25:03 > 0:25:04formed in 1893?

0:25:04 > 0:25:06Bradford.

0:25:06 > 0:25:07The Miller, the Cook and the Clerk

0:25:07 > 0:25:09are among the storytellers

0:25:09 > 0:25:11in which classic work of prose and poetry?

0:25:11 > 0:25:12The Canterbury Tales.

0:25:12 > 0:25:14Whose last major work was as librettist

0:25:14 > 0:25:17for Edward German's 1909 opera Fallen Fairies?

0:25:17 > 0:25:20He's best known for his collaboration with another composer.

0:25:20 > 0:25:22- Puccini?- Gilbert.

0:25:22 > 0:25:24A tiding and a tittering are among the collective nouns

0:25:24 > 0:25:26for which members of the crow family?

0:25:26 > 0:25:27- Ravens?- Magpies.

0:25:27 > 0:25:31Whose fifth novel Swingtime, first published in 2016,

0:25:31 > 0:25:32tells the story of two girls

0:25:32 > 0:25:34who grow up on North London housing estates

0:25:34 > 0:25:37and whose careers take different paths?

0:25:37 > 0:25:38Pass.

0:25:38 > 0:25:40Which painter who died in 2011

0:25:40 > 0:25:43was the grandson of the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud?

0:25:46 > 0:25:48- Julian Freud.- Lucien Freud.

0:25:48 > 0:25:50Which yellow flower with a deep taproot,

0:25:50 > 0:25:52considered a weed by gardeners,

0:25:52 > 0:25:54has the Latin name Taraxacum officinale?

0:25:54 > 0:25:56Dandelion.

0:25:56 > 0:25:58What is the title of the 2016... BEEP

0:25:58 > 0:26:00..reality television show in which

0:26:00 > 0:26:03a group of eight older celebrities went to Jaipur to see

0:26:03 > 0:26:05if they could enjoy a better retirement in India

0:26:05 > 0:26:06than in the UK?

0:26:06 > 0:26:09- The Real Marigold Hotel. - That is it, yes.

0:26:09 > 0:26:11You had two passes, Gemma.

0:26:11 > 0:26:14Zadie Smith, she wrote Swingtime

0:26:14 > 0:26:18and Anchorage is the Alaskan outpost, now a very large city.

0:26:18 > 0:26:22You have a total of 23 points.

0:26:32 > 0:26:35So, a very clear winner. Let's have a look at all the scores.

0:26:57 > 0:27:00And that means, of course, that Don is tonight's winner

0:27:00 > 0:27:03and he goes through to the semifinals. Congratulations to him.

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