Episode 25 Mastermind

Our first contender tonight is Teresa de Billot,

a project coordinator from the Highlands.

She's answering questions on the Olympics.

Richard Chaney is a communications support worker from Cardiff.

His specialist subject - the Tolpuddle Martyrs.

Next, Pam Poole, a retired Royal Mail manager

from Boston on Egyptian gods and goddesses.

Ben Holmes is a customer service advisor from Salford.

He's answering questions on the graphic novels of Daniel Clowes.

And tonight's final contender, Philip Isaac, a tutor from Cornwall,

who's answering questions on President Andrew Jackson.

APPLAUSE

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

Five contenders tonight.

That's because it's the semifinals,

and the winner tonight goes through to the grand final

with a very strong chance of becoming the nation's Mastermind.

They get slightly less time - 90 seconds -

for their specialist subject.

Two minutes for general knowledge.

So, let's get on with it

and ask our first contender to join us, please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject?

In 90 seconds, starting now.

What was the nationality of Tiina Lillak,

who won the silver medal in the javelin

in Los Angeles in 1984?

-Finnish.

-Who became the oldest winner

of the women's high jump in Los Angeles

12 years after she became the youngest woman to win the event?

-Ulrike Meyfarth.

-In a men's field event,

all the medals were won by competitors

from the Soviet Union or its former republics

from 1976 to '92, except in '84,

when the Games were boycotted by the Soviets. Which event?

-Shot put.

-Hammer. Who came eighth

in the women's javelin in Moscow in 1980

when she failed to win a third successive gold medal in the event?

Ruth Fuchs.

Who finished 18th when he first entered

the Olympic decathlon in Montreal in 1976,

and fourth in his last Olympics in Seoul?

-Daley Thompson.

-What track double was achieved

for the first time at the same Games

by Valerie Brisco-Hooks in 1984?

Michael Johnson repeated the feat in '96.

-200 and 400.

-Who was initially disqualified

from her seventh place in the 3000m final

in Los Angeles, but was reinstated on appeal?

-Zola Budd.

-In 1984, Nawal El Moutawakel

became the first woman from an Islamic nation

to win an Olympic gold medal

when she won the 400m hurdles.

What was her nationality?

-Moroccan.

-In what position did Steve Ovett finish

in the 800m final in Montreal?

His time was almost the same

as in his gold medal win in Moscow.

-He was fifth.

-Who ran the anchor leg

in Britain's bronze medal-winning team

in the women's 4 x 400m relay in Barcelona?

-Sally Gunnell.

-Who won his only

individual Olympic medal... BEEP

..a bronze in the men's 400m hurdles in Barcelona?

He was also a member of Britain's medal-winning teams

in the 4 x 400m relay in Los Angeles and Barcelona.

-Kriss Akabusi.

-Is correct.

No passes, Teresa. You've scored ten points.

APPLAUSE

And our next contender, please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject?

The Tolpuddle Martyrs in 90 seconds. Here we go.

The Tolpuddle Martyrs were a group of six 19th-century

Dorset farm workers who were arrested

in February 1854 as a result of

their trade union activities.

What first name and surname is shared by one of the six,

and the constable who arrested them?

-Brine.

-No, James Brine.

Who was the radical MP for Oldham

who presented Parliament a petition

adopted by a meeting of about 10,000 people

in support of the martyrs in March 1834?

-Robert Owen.

-William Cobbett.

George Loveless held public meetings

about setting up an agricultural labourers'

friendly society, a form of trade union,

under a tree on Tolpuddle village green

now called the Martyrs' Tree. What species of tree is it?

-Sycamore.

-The six Tolpuddle men were charged

under the 1817 Seditious Meetings Act,

and an act of 1797, that included provisions

against the swearing of oaths.

What's that act called?

-The naval mutinies.

-Yes, the Mutiny Act.

What password, based on a phrase

from the Book of Ecclesiastes,

was adopted at the first meeting of the

Tolpuddle Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers?

Either hand or heart.

The martyrs were sentenced to transportation to Australia.

For how many years were they sentenced?

-Seven.

-George Loveless was transported

to Van Diemen's Land on the William Metcalfe.

On which ship were the other five men

transported to Sydney in April 1834?

-The Surry.

-What was the name of the Home Secretary

who granted the men a pardon in June 1835?

It had to be temporarily rescinded

because they hadn't served the minimum portion

of their transportation.

-Lord Russell.

-On what ship did James Hammett

take his free passage from New South Wales

back to England in 1839? BEEP

-The Ewuretta.

-Yes, indeed it was.

-No passes, Richard. You have scored seven points.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

And our next contender, please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject?

Gods and goddesses in 90 seconds, starting now.

The Egyptian cosmos consisted of

the divine realm in the sky,

the Earth, and the underworld ruled by Osiris.

What name is given to this underworld region?

-Men...

-No. Duat.

-Oh.

-A variety of what plant

emerged from the primeval waters

in some versions of the Egyptian creation myth?

It became a general symbol of rebirth,

and was also the emblem of the god Nefertem?

-Lotus.

-Horus, the son of Isis,

grew up to avenge his murdered father Osiris.

He is usually depicted as a man

with the head of what bird?

-A falcon.

-Montu was a prominent war god

of the Theban region, and had temples at Armant,

Medamud, Karnak and another ancient Egyptian town.

Which town?

-Memphis.

-El-Tod.

What was the name of the giant snake

that attacked the boat of the sun god Ra every night

as it passed through the underworld?

However many times he was killed,

he'd always come back to life again.

-Apophis.

-Which of the Egyptian deities,

known as the Two Ladies,

was commonly depicted in the form of a vulture?

-Nekhbet.

-What venomous creature

is the goddess Serqet traditionally associated with?

-A scorpion.

-The four gods,

known collectively as the sons of Horus,

were the traditional guardians

of the canopic jars used to hold

mummified internal organs.

What organ of the body was protected by Imsety?

-Liver.

-What was the name of the architect,

who worked for King Djoser in the 27th century BC,

who was later deified as a god of knowledge and healing?

-Imhopet.

-Yes, Imhotep.

The nine deities that included Isis and Osiris,

and their parents, Geb and Nut,

were collectively known as the Great Ennead

of an ancient city where they were worshipped. BEEP

-Which city?

-Heliopolis.

-Heliopolis is correct.

No passes, Pam. You've scored eight points.

-Thank you.

-APPLAUSE

And our next contender, please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject?

In 90 seconds, starting now.

Which novel opens with the main character Marshall

waiting for a blind date - his first real date

since his marriage broke down six years before?

Mr Wonderful.

In Wilson, what is the name of the title character's dog?

-Pepper.

-Dan Pussey's invited to an exhibition

by an artist who says that his works

were inspired by Pussey's comics.

What is the artist's name?

-Pass.

-What is the unusual middle name of David Boring,

the eponymous narrator of Clowes' fourth graphic novel?

-Jupiter.

-In what year does Jack Barlow meet Bernie

and take control of his time-travelling device

so that he can travel back and find out

who killed his wife Patience?

-2029.

-What animal does Andy first try the death ray on

after he discovers its power before he turns it on CJ?

-A squirrel.

-In Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron,

when Clay Loudermilk is in a religious cult,

he's told by one of the members that the leader of the cult

is mother and father to them and is known as God.

What is God short for?

-Godfrey.

-In the sketch Mother,

Wilson compares the loss of his mother

to being told you will never be able to see what again?

-The ocean.

-In Mr Wonderful,

Marshall decided to start dating again

after he has an ill-fated encounter

with a drug addict who robbed him.

Which literary and film character

does he very unfavourably compare the girl to?

-Pass.

-In Ghost World, Daniel Clowes makes

a special appearance at which comic store?

-Zine-O-Phobia.

-Which character's story

in Ice Haven is introduced with his claim that

it's not as cold here as it sounds?

Random Wilder.

Wilson discovers that he has a grandson called Jason,

who he didn't know existed. BEEP

In which American state is Jason living?

-Alaska.

-Is correct. You had two passes.

That film character was Holly Golightly,

and Dan Pussey was invited to an exhibition by Slugger Onions.

-You've scored ten points.

-Thank you.

-APPLAUSE

And our final contender, please.

And your name is...?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject?

President Andrew Jackson in 90 seconds, starting now.

Jackson was he president of the United States

from 1829 to '37. Whom did he lose to

in the presidential election of 1824,

even though he gained more votes?

-John Quincy Adams.

-Which Shawnee chieftain

did Jackson see as a serious threat to white settlers

in the War of 1812 against the British?

He aimed to form a united army

of the Native American tribes.

-Tecumseh.

-In October 1788,

who accompanied Jackson to Nashville to take up

their respective posts as judge and prosecutor?

John McNary.

What financial burden was Jackson finally able

to remove as president in 1835,

11 years after he made this policy

in the 1824 election campaign?

-Pass.

-Jackson ordered a Scottish trader to be hanged

after he was accused of spying for the Creek Indians.

What was the trader's name?

Alexander Arbuthnot.

What term did Jackson's critics use

for the informal group he set up to advise him in the White House

that included friends from Tennessee?

Kitchen Cabinet.

An unemployed English house painter, Richard Lawrence,

tried to murder Jackson in 1835,

but failed when his pistols misfired twice.

In what Washington building did this happen?

The Capitol.

At a convention held in 1833,

a state threatened to secede from the Union

in what became known as the Nullification Crisis. Which state?

South Carolina.

What important body did Jackson propose to abolish

by means of a constitutional amendment

in his first annual Address to Congress?

-The bank.

-The Electoral College.

Jackson's army fought the Battle of New Orleans

because he had not yet received news of the peace treaty

that had been signed with Britain

two weeks earlier on Christmas Eve 1814.

In which city was it signed?

-Ghent.

-Yep. BEEP

And your time is up.

You had one pass.

The financial burden that Jackson was finally able to remove

as president in 1835 was the national debt.

You have scored, Philip, eight points.

APPLAUSE

So, that's the end of a very close first round.

Let's have a look at all of those scores.

In fifth place, seven points, Richard.

Joint third place, eight points apiece, Pam and Philip.

Joint first place, ten points apiece,

Teresa and Ben.

APPLAUSE

So, general knowledge round now and if there's 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.

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

And you start out with seven points, Richard.

So, not much in it, and you've got two minutes of general knowledge.

Here we go.

What respiratory disease has types known as Spanish,

Asian and Hong Kong because they're the presumed places of origin?

-Flu.

-Which river is the principal tributary

of the Mississippi?

-Missouri.

-What sport is featured

in the 1969 film Downhill Racer,

starring Robert Redford and Gene Hackman?

-Motor racing.

-Skiing.

In which television series, first shown in 2014,

does a Cambridgeshire clergymen,

played by James Norton, investigate a series

of mysterious wrongdoings in his small village?

-Midsomer Murders.

-Grantchester.

Saint-Emilion, Pomerol, and Entre-Deux-Mers

come from what wine region of France?

-Champagne.

-Bordeaux. In which ancient civilisation

were the heavily-armed foot soldiers

known as hoplites?

-Sorry, could you repeat that?

-In which ancient civilisation

were the heavily-armed foot soldiers

known as hoplites?

-Roman.

-Greek. What is the name of the mosque

on the site in Jerusalem known as

the Nobel Sanctuary to Muslims

and the Temple Mount to Jews?

It's the third holiest site of Sunni Islam.

-The Dome of the Black Rock.

-The Al-Aqsa Mosque.

In 1959, which soldier and statesman became the first

president of France's Fifth Republic,

a post he held for ten years?

-Charles de Gaulle.

-The Blackdown Hills,

designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

in 1991, lie on the border of Somerset

and which other county?

-Devon.

-Anne Shirley is the title character

in which 1908 novel by LM Montgomery and its sequels?

Sorry, could you repeat that?

Anne Shirley is the title character

in which 1908 novel by LM Montgomery and its sequels?

Anne Of Green Gables.

Which branch of mathematics is concerned with

the properties of geometrical objects

that are unchanged by any continuous deformations,

such as stretching or twisting?

-Trigonometry.

-Topology. Who became

the first British winner of the Eurovision Song Contest

in 1967 with Puppet On A String?

-Sandie Shaw.

-The golden lion tamarin,

one of the most endangered species of primates,

is native to which South American country?

BEEP

Erm, Bolivia.

Brazil. It started with B, anyway.

So, not quite there, but you had no passes, Richard.

-You have scored a total now of 13 points.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

And now Pam again, please.

And you start out with eight points, Pam.

Let's see how you do in your two minutes

of general knowledge, starting now.

Which of Shakespeare's heroines had the surname Capulet

before she married a Montague?

-Juliet.

-Which former Bond girl

appears with her husband Ringo Starr in the 1984 film

Give My Regards To Broad Street?

-Barbara Bach.

-Joey is the title character

of a book by the former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo

that was adapted for the cinema by Stephen Spielberg. Which book?

-War Horse.

-The area in the south of Borneo,

known as Kalimantan, that makes up

three quarters of the island, is a part of which country?

-Indonesia.

-Who was given a name

that means rock by Christ,

because he would be the foundation his church would be built on?

-St Peter.

-The orbit of which planet

lies between Mercury and Earth?

-Venus.

-The violent confrontation between police

and striking miners that took place in June 1984

at a coking plant in South Yorkshire

is commonly called the Battle of...?

-Orgreave.

-What baked Middle Eastern desert

consists of sheets of filo pastry

layered with chopped nuts soaked in honey or syrup,

and usually cut into diamond shapes?

-Baklava.

-In April 2017,

Madeira named its international airport

after a locally-born footballer. Who?

-Ronaldo.

-Yes, Cristiano Ronaldo.

What cabinet post did Winston Churchill hold

from 1924 to '29?

-Border trade.

-Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Labour's Keith Vaz, Liz Kendall and Jonathan Ashworth

were elected as MPs for which city

at the 2015 general election?

-Sheffield.

-Leicester.

Illuminations were switched on in a Lancashire resort

for the first time in September 1879,

although the more modern-style lights

didn't arrive until 1912. Which resort?

-Blackpool.

-Which '79 hit for London band Squeeze

begins with the half-rhyming couplet

"I never thought that it would happen

"with me and the girl from Clapham"?

Up the Junction.

Who starred opposite John Alderton

in the 1972 television series My Wife Next Door,

and went on to appear in Upstairs, Downstairs?

-Hannah Gordon.

-The Slough of Despond,

Vanity Fair, and Doubting Castle

are among the places Christian passes

on his way to the Celestial City

in which work by John Bunyan?

Pilgrim's Progress.

The army regiment formed in 1969

by the amalgamation of the Royal Horse Guards...

BEEP ..with the Royal Dragoons is known by what name?

-Blues and Royals.

-Blues and Royals is correct.

No passes, Pam. You've scored a total now of 22 points.

APPLAUSE

And now Philip again, please.

And, Philip, you also start out with eight points.

The difference now is that you have 22 to beat

in order to get into the grand final.

Let's see if you can do it

with two minutes of general knowledge, starting now.

Guard mounting is the formal name of the ceremony

that takes place at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle.

How is it better known?

Changing of the Guard.

Sevruga and Ossetra are two of the three main varieties

of what luxury foodstuff?

-Caviar.

-What was the name of the judge

who presided over the trial of the Duke of Modena's followers in 1685

in what became known as the Bloody Assizes?

-Jeffreys.

-In the 1989 film Road House,

who plays Dalton, an expert bouncer

hired to clean up an unruly Midwest saloon bar?

-Patrick Swayze.

-The Verkhovna Rada,

meaning Supreme Council,

is the unicameral parliament of which East European country?

-Pass.

-The winter plumage of a bird in the grouse family

that inhabits the highest tops

of the Scottish mountains is completely white

except for its tail and eye patch. Which bird?

-Ptarmigan.

-Sigurd, from Norse mythology,

is better known by what name in German mythology?

-Siegfried.

-What name is given to the teeth

at the back of a mammal's mouth

that are used for crushing and grinding?

The adult human has six in each jaw.

-Molars.

-In which British city was the architect

Charles Rennie Mackintosh born in 1868?

One of his most notable works,

the city's School of Art, was badly damaged by fire in 2014.

-Glasgow.

-What is the stage name

of the Grammy Award-winning American female singer

who topped the UK singles charts in 2002

with Just Like A Pill?

-Pink.

-What is the name of Sherlock Holmes' older brother

in the stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?

-Mycroft.

-Which author's third novel,

The Goldfinch, took her 11 years to write

and won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?

-Donna Tartt.

-In which sport did Trina Gulliver win

the women's world championship

for the tenth time in January 2016?

Her first success came in 2001.

-Darts.

-In which 2017 television series

does Tom Hardy play James Delaney,

who returns home from Africa

to rebuild his late father's shipping empire,

but finds himself opposed by both the British government

and the East India Company?

-Taboo.

-In which novel by Evelyn Waugh

is a teddy bear named Aloysius

the constant companion of Sebastian Flyte,

the youngest son of Lord and Lady Marchmain?

-Brideshead Revisited.

-BEEP

Brideshead Revisited is correct.

You had one pass.

The parliament is the parliament of Ukraine.

You, Philip, have scored a total of 22 points.

APPLAUSE

And now Teresa again, please.

And you start out with ten points, Teresa,

but as you will have noted, the score to beat is 22.

So, here we go. What name is given to the short-lived male honeybee,

whose only role is to mate with the queen?

-The drone.

-Old Ned was the theme tune

to a television comedy series

about a socially ambitious son

who works as a rag-and-bone man

with his father. Which series?

-Steptoe And Son.

-Which leading member of the pop art movement

designed The Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers album cover,

featuring a pair of jeans with a fully functioning zip?

-Andy Warhol.

-In which city was

the American Declaration of Independence signed in 1776?

-Philadelphia.

-What is the name of the principal hormone

that's responsible for the development of masculine characteristics

such as facial hair and deepening of the voice?

-Testosterone.

-In 1990,

which Conservative politician introduced

his controversial cricket test

when he suggested that cricket fans of Asian heritage

could not regarded as loyal until they supported England?

-Norman Tebbit.

-What is the highest denomination

found in the specially struck silver coins

that make up the Maundy money presented by the sovereign?

-£5.

-4p. Which Australian port and capital city

of the Northern Territory is on Beagle Gulf,

an inlet of the Timor Sea?

-Cairns.

-Darwin.

The peacock is a relative of a game bird

found in Britain whose males are brightly coloured.

What game bird?

-Pheasant.

-In what 1991 film

does Jessica Tandy's character tell the story

of her relative Idgie Threadgoode,

who ran the local cafe at Whistle Stop in Alabama?

-Green Fried Tomatoes.

-Fried Green Tomatoes.

-Oh!

Which band had number two hits

in the UK singles charts in 1991 with

Last Train To Trancentral and Justified And Ancient?

The KLF.

To which musical instrument is the Chantry Museum

in Morpeth in Northumberland dedicated?

It's the home county of one of the instrument's variants.

-Pipes.

-Yeah, the bagpipes.

What name is given to the highly seasoned, dry,

cured beef that is a feature of New York Jewish cuisine?

-Jerky.

-Pastrami. At what school was

the hapless Smike a pupil

in Charles Dickens' novel Nicholas Nickleby?

Can you repeat the question, please?

At what school was the hapless Smike a pupil

in Charles Dickens' novel Nicholas Nickleby?

No, sorry, pass.

In which country were the tennis players Justine Henin

and Kim Clijsters born? BEEP

-Belgium.

-Belgium is correct.

That school was Dotheboys Hall.

-You've scored, Teresa, 20 points.

-OK, thank you.

APPLAUSE

And, finally, Ben again, please.

And you also start out with ten points, Ben,

and 22 is still the score to beat

if you are to get through to the grand final.

Here we go. Which organisation was founded by Robert Baden-Powell?

Its branches include Beavers and Cubs.

-The Boy Scouts.

-What name is given to an earthenware dish

with a tall, conical lid used in North Africa

and also to a stew cooked in one?

-Tagine.

-Who wrote the 1995 novel Jackson's Dilemma?

It was a final book, and its limited vocabulary

is said to have revealed early signs

of the Alzheimer's disease that caused her death four years later?

-Doris Lessing.

-Iris Murdoch. Who was the voice

of the vegetarian vampire Count Duckula

in the spin-off from the original

Danger Mouse television cartoon series?

-David Jason.

-In Greek mythology,

the city of Athens was named after the goddess Athena

after she beat Poseidon in a competition to offer

the most useful gift to its citizens.

What tree was Athena's gift?

-Olive tree.

-Flint's Island, by Leonard Wibberley,

and Silver's Revenge, by Robert Leeson,

are among the sequels to which novel by Robert Louis Stevenson?

-Treasure Island.

-Who became the fourth woman

to train a Grand National winner when One For Arthur

won the race in 2017?

-Jones.

-Russell. Who was the father of Alexei,

Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia?

He and his family were murdered in July 1918.

-Nicholas II.

-Sir Sidney Nolan

is best known for his paintings of the landscape

of his native Australia

and of which famous Australian outlaw?

-Ned Kelly.

-What is the name of the British boyband

who had three chart-topping albums between 2001 and 2003

entitled All Rise, One Love and Guilty?

-Blue.

-Who became the founder and leader

of the British Union of Fascists

after a visit to Italy in 1932?

-Mosley.

-The infant James V was crowned in 1513,

and his infant daughter Mary was crowned in 1543

in the Chapel Royal of a castle in Central Scotland. Which castle?

-Stirling.

-What is the title of the 1968 Disney comedy

that features a Volkswagen Beetle

called Herbie with a mind of its own?

-The Love Bug.

-By what name of native Peruvian origin

is the cougar or mountain lion

more generally known?

-Jaguar.

-Puma. The historic region of Silesia

lies mostly in the south-west corner of which country?

-Poland.

-In computing, what term for programmes

such as viruses and worms written to disrupt... BEEP

..the operation of a computer

is a contraction of malicious software?

-Malware.

-Is correct.

Ben, you have scored a total of 23 points.

GASPING AND APPLAUSE

Well, what a contest! Couldn't have been closer than that, could it?

Let's have a look at all of the scores.

In fifth place, 13 points, Richard.

Fourth place, 20 points, Teresa.

Joint second place,

22 points apiece, Pam and Philip.

First place - he just scraped in -

23 points, Ben.

APPLAUSE

Which means that Ben goes through to the final - the grand final.

Congratulations to him.

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