Episode 26 Mastermind

First in the spotlight tonight, Adam Gilchrist,

a broadcaster from London.

His specialist subject, the sitcom Frasier.

Cliff Houghton is a retired brewer from Warrington.

His subject, Warrington Rugby League.

Next in the black chair, Chris Cummins,

a university lecturer from Edinburgh.

His subject, another sitcom, Absolutely Fabulous.

Madeline Grant is a website manager from London,

and she's answering questions on Jane Austen.

And Alfred Williams, curator from East Yorkshire,

on the French composer Erik Satie.

APPLAUSE

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

Tonight, five semifinalists have been here before, of course,

but an even bigger challenge now awaits.

Tonight's winner goes through to the grand final.

They will get only a minute and a half of questions

on their specialist subject and then two minutes

on their general knowledge,

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

And your name is?

Adam Gilchrist.

Your occupation?

Broadcaster.

And your chosen subject?

-Frasier.

-Frasier.

90 seconds, starting now.

What the name of Niles' wife, who is described by Frasier

in the pilot episode as "like the sun except without the warmth"?

Maris.

Yes. In Room Full Of Heroes, Frasier throws a fancy dress party

and asks everyone to come dressed as their hero.

Whom does Niles come dressed us?

-His father.

-Yeah.

The mayor of Seattle stages a Fraser Crane Day Rally

to celebrate the 1,000th episode of Frasier's radio show

at the foot of which landmark?

The Space Needle.

Frasier delivers the speech at his son's Bar Mitzvah,

not in Hebrew as he'd been told, but in what other language?

-Klingon.

-In which Seattle condominium block does Frasier

live in apartment 1901?

Elliott Bay Towers.

Who makes a guest appearance as Jackson Hedley,

the former classical actor

who introduced a young Frasier to the works of Shakespeare?

Pass.

In The Two Mrs Cranes,

Daphne's old fiancee, Clive, comes to Seattle to win her back.

What does Martin tell him was his occupation before his retirement?

-Astronaut.

-What is the name of Frasier's agent

who tries to give up smoking in order to marry the radio

station's new owner, the Texan millionaire nicknamed Big Willy?

Bebe Glazer.

Frasier and Niles take over Orcini's restaurant to stop it

going out of business. What new name do they give it?

Les Freres Heureux.

Which real life singer-songwriter

plays Ben, whose performances at Cafe Nervosa

force the Crane brothers to try a different coffee shop?

Elvis Costello.

In the episode Author, Author

Fraser agrees to co-write a book

with Niles on what theme?

Psychiatry.

No, sibling relationships.

What item of furniture is brought into Frasier's

apartment in the pilot episode and removed just before Frasier

accepts the San Francisco job...

BEEP ..at the end of the final series?

His father's horrible chair.

Yes, Martin's armchair, exactly right.

Just one pass.

That former classical actor was Sir Derek Jacobi.

You have scored though, Adam, ten points.

APPLAUSE

And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

-Cliff Houghton.

-Your occupation?

-Retired brewer.

-And your chosen subject?

Warrington Rugby League Club.

In 90 seconds, here we go.

When Warrington won the League and Cup double in 1954

their Challenge Cup Final at Wembley was a draw.

An estimated 120,000 people watched Warrington win the replay

at what stadium?

Odsal.

Which Warrington player won the Lance Todd Trophy

for his Man of the Match performance

in both the 1950 and '54 Challenge Cup Finals?

Gerry Helme.

Warrington won their first match by five points to four in the

Northern Union in 1895. Which team did they beat?

-Hunslet.

-Who bought a controlling interest

and became Chairman of Warrington Rugby League club in May '71?

Simon Moran.

Ossie Davies.

In December 1929 Warrington beat the Australian touring team

by 17 points to eight.

Who scored all of Warrington's points?

Tommy Thompson.

Yeah. How many successive Super League games did Warrington

lose at the start of the 2017 season, before they gained

their first point with a 22-all draw with Hull FC?

Six.

In August 1983, which car radio manufacturer became the first

company to sponsor Warrington Rugby League team's shirts?

Sparkomatic.

Who scored for Warrington in every one of their 2008 Super League

matches and in both of their Challenge Cup matches?

Chris Hicks.

Who is the only Warrington player to have scored more than 200 tries

and more than 200 goals for the club?

Jack Fish.

In the Rugby League Challenge Cup match played on the

20th May 2011, Warrington scored 112 points.

How many did Swinton score?

Nil.

Yes! Who scored three tries and kicked ten goals for Warrington

in their final game at the Wilderspool Stadium

in September 2003?

Graham Appo.

Which British Lions Rugby Union player signed professional

terms with Warrington in 1973?

BEEP He scored a try in his first match against Castleford.

Martin Regan?

No, it was John Bevan.

However, you've scored, Cliff, ten points.

APPLAUSE

And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

-Chris Cummins.

-Your occupation?

University lecturer.

And your chosen subject?

-Absolutely Fabulous.

-Absolutely Fabulous.

90 seconds, here we go.

In the episode Fat, what does Eddie's mother reply

when Eddie declares, "Inside of me,

"there's a thin person just screaming to get out"?

"Just the one, dear?"

What implement does Eddie use to put out the 40 candles on her

birthday cake in series one?

Fire extinguisher.

When Saffy returns from two years in prison she's surprised to learn

that Eddie is watching a

foreign television programme with subtitles. Which programme?

The Killing.

In Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, whose name is attached

to the brick thrown through Eddie's window?

Stella McCartney.

Eddie goes on a detox diet in the episode Donkey

and says her ambition is that in three weeks' time

she will be on the cusp of what?

Pass.

Which celebrity client of Eddie's was at school with Saffy

and remembers her as "a brilliant head girl?"

-Emma Bunton.

-In the episode Fear, Eddie interrupts Saffy during a

university lecture because she needs Saffy's help to use what implement?

Coffee maker?

No - a can opener. When the television presenter Katy Grin

appears on Comic Relief covered in green gunk,

she says that she will have whose guts for garters?

-Dawn French.

-At the book club meeting,

Mariella Frostrup tries to encourage a five minute literary

discussion on the pocket-sized, abridged version of what book?

The Picture Of Dorian Gray.

When Saffy and Gran are preparing food for the New Year's Eve party,

Eddie arrives on rollerblades

and announces that her resolution for 1995 will be to have more...?

Fun.

In the episode Iso Tank, what does Eddie threaten to get

from abroad if she's not allowed to go to Saffy's sixth form open day?

A Romanian baby.

What publication does Patsy describe as the

"Who's who and the what's left of the British aristocracy",

while she and Eddie are on a hunting weekend that cost £30,000?

Debretts.

BEEP Gran makes a sign saying,

"It's me, dears" to hold up at the airport for her friends Mac

and Millie who are arriving on a flight from which American city?

Miami.

No, you're very close, actually - Orlando.

So in the right state, at any rate.

You had one pass.

When Eddie went on that detox diet she said

in three weeks' time she'll be on the cusp of organ failure.

You remember it now.

Chris, you also have ten points.

APPLAUSE

And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Madeline Grant.

Your occupation?

Website manager.

And your chosen subject?

The life and novels of Jane Austen.

Jane Austen, in 90 seconds. Here we go.

In 1811, what was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be published?

Her brother Henry had made the initial contact with the publishers,

Egerton's of Whitehall.

Sense And Sensibility.

In Emma, when the party was unable to go to Box Hill after

a horse became lame, Mr Knightley proposes

they pick fruit in his garden at Donwell instead. Which fruit?

-Strawberry.

-Which breed of dog does Lady Bertram own in Mansfield Park?

She appears to love it more than her children.

-Pug.

-What was the name of the Irish law student with whom Austen danced

while he was staying near her home in Steventon?

He was sent away by his family

when it became clear they were falling in love.

Tom Lefroy.

In an attempt to win Mr Darcy's favour, who says,

"There is no enjoyment like reading"?

Caroline Bingley.

To which member of the royal family did Austen reluctantly dedicate

Emma after she had visited his library at Carlton House?

-Prince Regent.

-In Persuasion, what is the title of the only book that

Sir Walter Elliot of Kellynch Hall ever took up?

The Baronetcy.

No, The Baronetage.

Whom does the odious clergyman Mr Collins marry after

Elizabeth Bennet has rejected him in Pride and Prejudice?

Charlotte Lucas.

What is the name of the street in Winchester where Austen

and her sister, Cassandra, took rooms so that Austen could be

nearer to her surgeon Mr Lyford shortly before her death?

-Pass.

-What is the name of the clergyman whom Emma Woodhouse tries

to persuade to marry her friend, Harriet Smith?

She fails to realise that he intends to propose to Emma herself.

Mr Elton.

In Sense And Sensibility, which of Shakespeare's plays was read

by the Dashwoods with Mr Willoughby before he was called away?

-Hamlet.

-To which Hampshire village did Austen's mother

and her daughters move in 1808 to a former bailiff's cottage?

-Chawton.

-In Mansfield Park,

when Sir Thomas Bertram orders a ball to be...

BEEP ..held for Fanny Price and her brother William, the only piece of

jewellery that Fanny has to wear is an item that William had given her.

What is it?

-An amber cross.

-It is indeed.

And you had one pass.

The name of that street in Winchester was College Street.

Madeline, you have 11 points.

APPLAUSE

And our final contender, please.

And your name is?

-Alfred Williams.

-Your occupation?

Assistant curator.

And your specialist subject?

The life and music of Erik Satie.

Erik Satie, in 90 seconds. Here we go.

The French composer Erik Satie was known by a nickname after

he bought seven identical suits from a department store in 1895.

What was it?

The Velvet Gentleman.

What instrument does Satie play in an 1891 sketch by the Catalan

painter Santiago Rusinol?

Harmonium.

From which of Plato's Dialogues did Satie take the text for

Les bords de L'lissus, the second part of his symphonic drama Socrate?

Phaedrus?

What is the name of the unfashionable suburb of Paris

that became Satie's home after 1898?

Arcueil.

Satie joined the French Socialist Party in August 1914

after the assassination of a socialist leader. What was his name?

Jean Jaures-Freis?

No - Jean Jaures.

What was the name of the cult associated with the French

novelist and mystic Sar Josephin Peladan that Satie was linked with?

-Rosicrucianism.

-Which composer's music was quoted

and parodied by Satie in his piano work Sonatine Bureaucratique?

-Clementi.

-What is the title of the short manifesto by Jean Cocteau

that claimed that Satie was an ideal model for young French composers?

Le Coq Et L'arlequin.

Which of his works did Satie describe in the score

as "utterly incomprehensible, even to me"?

Vexations?

Embryons Desseches.

What is the title of the deliberately

provocative 1917 ballet that Satie created with Cocteau, Picasso

and Massine for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes?

-Parade.

-Which celebrated composer orchestrated the first

and third of Satie's piano compositions Trois Gymnopedies?

-Debussy.

-Which music critic was Satie convicted of libelling?

He was sentenced to a week in prison

but that was later suspended on a promise of good behaviour.

-Poueigh.

-What unusual percussion instrument is

required in the music for acrobats in Part Three of Parade?

-BEEP

-Siren?

The bouteillophone.

Ah!

No passes, Alfred. You have scored ten points.

APPLAUSE

Well, that is a very close contest.

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

In joint second place, ten points apiece, Adam, Cliff,

Chris and Alfred.

In first place with 11 points, Madeline.

APPLAUSE

So, it is the general knowledge round now,

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

which there very well might be, then the number of passes

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

so let us get on with it, and ask Adam to join us again, please.

Right.

You have ten points, but then, so does almost everybody else,

to start this round with.

So here we go.

Which is the only county that shares a border with Cornwall?

Devon.

The name of which maidens of Norse mythology means

"chooser of the slain" because they determined which fighters

were worthy of a place in Valhalla?

-Pass.

-A hippophagist is someone who eats the meat of what animal?

Er, carnivores.

Horse.

Which island republic, along with the Bahamas,

is separated from the Florida Keys by the Straits of Florida?

-Cuba.

-What is the popular name for Chlorophytum,

a house-plant of African origin that has long, thin,

green leaves with a light stripe down the middle?

An egg plant.

Spider plant. Frederick Clegg is the title character of John Fowles'

debut novel, which was made into a film that stars Terence Stamp.

What's the book's title?

-The Collector.

-What historic site

on the Thames near Egham has a name

that comes from the Old English for "meadow where councils are held"?

Magna Carta was sealed there in 1215.

-Runnymede.

-Ivan Petrovich Voinitski is known by the familiar

form of his forename in the title of which Chekhov play?

Ivan The Terrible?

Uncle Vanya. Who gave the name Etruria to the pottery factory

in the Stoke-on-Trent area that he opened

with his partner Thomas Bentley in 1769?

-Wedgwood.

-In which 1963 film does Paul Newman play the title role

of the arrogant and egotistical son of a proud Texas rancher?

-Hud.

-Who wrote the 1957 Pulitzer Prize winning book,

Profiles In Courage, an account of eight American senators

who defied popular opinion on matters of conscience?

Truman Capote.

John F Kennedy. In 1990,

the former Czechoslovakia National Football Coach Doctor Jozef Venglos

became the first foreign manager in English football's top flight.

Which club did he take over for one unsuccessful season?

Tottenham.

Aston Villa.

The metacarpals are bones found in what part of the human body?

-The hands...

-Yes.

In The Simpsons, which actress provided the voice of Maggie

when she spoke her first word, "Daddy"?

-Pass.

-Who became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic

in May 1932?

Amelia Earheart.

A diarist and fervent admirer of Margaret Thatcher

was accused of being drunk on his first appearance at the dispatch

box in the House of Commons soon after he was made a Parliamentary

-Under-Secretary in 1983. What was his name?

-Pass.

BEEP What word for a shallow wooden basket for carrying flowers,

fruit or other produce, is thought to be a dialect version of trough?

A...

Go on, I'll put you out of your misery, shall I?

Yeah. A dish. No idea!

No, it was a trug.

The other passes - Alan Clark was that diarist.

Elizabeth Taylor was that actor in The Simpsons.

And those maidens of Norse mythology were the Valkyries.

You've scored a total now, Adam, of 18 points.

APPLAUSE

And now Cliff again, please.

And another ten-pointer, as it were,

and 18 is the score to beat as it stands,

and you have two minutes in which to try to do it. Here we go.

The Tynwald Court is the Parliament of which of the British Isles?

Isle Of Man.

What name of Greek origin is given to subnormal body temperature

caused by prolonged natural exposure to cold or artificially

induced before surgery?

Hypothermia.

What suffix that means "of the king" has been

added over the years to a number of English towns and villages?

Royal.

Regis. In the television series Till Death Us Do Part, which irritable

television character referred to his wife Elsie as "a silly old moo"?

Alf Garnett.

What's the name of the Trojan prince whose story is

told in the epic poem by Virgil?

Paris?

Aeneas. What proposed policy did Aneurin Bevan tell

the 1957 Labour Party Conference would send a future

foreign secretary "naked into the conference chamber"?

Pass.

Who received an Oscar nomination for the title role

of John Merrick in the 1980 film The Elephant Man?

John Hurt.

What adjective was invented by Edward Lear and used by him

to describe a hat, a cat, a goose and most famously

the eating implement used by the Owl And The Pussycat?

Runcible.

Hotchi-witchi is the Romany name for what small, spiny animal?

Hedgehog.

Which British racing driver who retired at the end

of the 2016 season made a one-off return for the

Monaco Grand Prix in May 2017 as a replacement for Fernando Alonso?

Jenson Button.

Of what republic on the Arabian peninsula is the former

British colony of Aden a part?

-Yemen.

-What English name is given to thin slices of beef rolled

around a stuffing and braised, often in a combination of wine and stock?

Pastrami.

Beef olives.

In about 1527, to whom did Henry the Eighth write a letter that said that

"for above a whole year" he had been "stricken with the dart of love"?

MUTTERS

Anne Boleyn.

Which former Conservative MP and media personality announced

she was leaving her first husband Ray in 1997 about the same time

as her novel She's Leaving Home was published?

Um...

Currie, Edwina Currie.

For how many years must the spirit mature in oak casks before it

-can officially be designated as Scotch whisky?

-Three.

BEEP Outside what royal palace in St Petersburg were

hundreds of unarmed demonstrators killed by troops as they

marched to it in January 1905 in what became known as Bloody Sunday?

Hermitage?

The Winter Palace.

You have one pass, Cliff.

The policy Bevan was referring to was unilateral nuclear disarmament.

You have a total now, though, of 20 points.

APPLAUSE

And now Chris again, please.

And another ten-pointer. 20 is now the score to beat, so here we go.

What word for a song used especially in religious worship

comes from the Greek for "a song or ode in praise of gods or heroes"?

-Hymn?

-What is the slowest of the four strokes used in

competitive swimming?

-Breaststroke.

-What is the name of the centrist political party

founded in April 2016 by Emmanuel Macron,

the winner of the 2017 French Presidential Election?

En Marche.

The Waverley series of historical novels were published anonymously

from 1814 until 1827, when the author's identity became known.

Who wrote them?

-Scott.

-Which Greek-born Spanish artist's best-known painting,

The Burial Of Count Orgaz, is now in the Church of Santo Tome in Toledo?

-El Greco.

-What French term is used for food cooked

in sealed greaseproof paper or foil?

Pass.

What was the name of Debbie Reynolds's daughter, whose novel

Postcards From The Edge was made

into a film starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine?

Carrie Fisher.

In women's football, which team completed a domestic treble in

May 2017 when they beat Birmingham City in the FA Cup Final at Wembley?

-Manchester City?

-Which English city's Minster dedicated to St Peter

is the British Isles' largest Gothic cathedral?

-York.

-The Egyptian Mau is a breed of what domestic animal?

-Cat?

-Which novelist, poet

and critic who died in 1995 was the author of The Old Devils?

One of his sons is also a well-known writer.

-Pass.

-What musical instrument was Patrick Troughton well known

for playing when he appeared as the second Doctor

in the television series Dr Who?

Harmonica?

A recorder. Who died on the 1st of May 1873 in Chitambo, what is now

Zambia, during his obsessive search for the source of the River Nile?

Livingstone?

Which metallic element with the atomic number 24

is used in alloys to increase strength and corrosion resistance?

Titanium?

Chromium. What word for an entertainer who specialises

in tossing and catching items such as balls

and plates comes from the medieval French for such a person?

Juggler.

The thylacine, a large doglike carnivorous marsupial,

now thought to be extinct, takes its common name from the island

where it survived the longest. Which island?

-Pass.

-Stinking Bishop, which gets its name and its pungent smell from

the perry used to wash its rind, is a variety of what foodstuff?

Cheese.

BEEP Who was the last Plantagenet and Yorkist King of England?

Richard The Third?

It was Richard The Third indeed.

You had three passes. That thylacine...

-Tasmania.

-..was Tasmania. Absolutely right.

Kingsley Amis was the author of The Old Devils.

And that French term is en papillote.

Chris, you have a total now of 23 points.

APPLAUSE

And now Alfred again, please.

And another ten-pointer, and now the score to beat is 23.

So, here we go.

What is the name of the 450-feet high ferris wheel on the south

bank of the Thames opposite Big Ben?

-London Eye.

-What term in Hinduism for the incarnation of a deity

in human or animal form has come to mean

the representation of a person in an online environment?

-Avatar.

-The title character of an American television series

played by Frankie Muniz

is a child genius who has brothers called Francis, Reese and Dewey.

Which series?

-Malcolm In The Middle.

-Which Scottish author left the novel

Weir Of Hermiston unfinished at his death in 1894?

-Robert Louis Stevenson?

-Headingley, Harehills

and Hunslet are all districts of which English city?

-Leeds.

-What is the name of the British athlete who completed

the feat of winning medals at all major athletics events

when he won Silver medals in the 400 metres

and the 4x400 metres relay at the '96 Olympics in Atlanta?

Roger Black?

Which tiger, found primarily in the forests of eastern Russia,

is the largest member of the cat family?

Siberian.

The ruins of the ancient city of Tikal in Guatemala are one of the

most important archaeological sites

of which pre-Columbian civilisation?

Toltec?

Mayan. What name that means covers or lids is given to the snacks

originally served with drinks in Spanish bars,

and now found in many other countries?

-Tapas.

-Who first achieved commercial success with his 1932 novel

Stamboul Train? It was the first of a number

of his works adapted for the cinema.

-Graham Greene.

-What do the initials LED stand for in the field

of electronics?

Light-emitting diode.

In 1977 Madsen Pirie and the brothers Eamonn

and Stuart Butler founded a free-market think tank,

named after which 18th century Scottish economist?

Adam Smith.

Who first worked as Richard Rodgers' lyricist in 1943 on the

Pulitzer Prize-winning stage musical Oklahoma!?

-Hammerstein.

-Which dukedom has held the hereditary title

Earl Marshal of England since 1672?

-Norfolk.

-Tom Hiddleston portrays which Country

and Western singer in the 2016 film biopic I Saw The Light?

-Pass.

-In 1836, Sir Charles Barry, assisted by Augustus Pugin,

won the competition to design a replacement for a building

that had burnt down in 1834. Which building?

Parliament.

Which Greek hero tamed the flying horse Pegasus, and,

with his help, killed the fire-breathing monster,

the Chimaera?

-BEEP

-Bellerophon.

-Ooh.

-Ooh!

Didn't quite get to the next question,

but there you go, that's how it works. One pass.

Tom Hiddleston played Hank Williams.

You've now taken the score to beat up to 25 points.

APPLAUSE

And, finally, Madeline again, please.

So, you start out with that one extra point, you have 11,

but the score to beat, 25.

Two minutes in which to try to do it. Here we go.

What name is given to trees such as conifers that are in leaf

throughout the year?

-Evergreen.

-What is the name of Donald Trump's club in

Palm Beach, Florida that has been called the Winter White House?

-Ooh, I don't know.

-Which dark comedy television programme,

an anthology of twisted tales first shown on BBC Two in February 2014,

is written by Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton?

-Pass.

-What is the name of the propaganda broadcaster who was

hanged at Wandsworth Prison in January 1946 for treason?

Goebbels.

William Joyce, Lord Haw-Haw.

The shape of Italy is often described as a boot.

Which region lies in its so-called heel?

Calabria?

Puglia. Who wrote the novel Black Mischief,

a satire on an African ruler's attempt to

modernize his country, after he was sent to Abyssinia by The Times

to cover the Coronation of the Emperor Haile Selassie in 1930?

Evelyn Waugh.

What is the name of the village in Bedfordshire where

the Zoological Society of London set up a Wild Animal Park in 1931?

Twycross?

Whipsnade.

Who was the ruler of the gods in the religion of ancient Rome?

Ooh, er... Jupiter.

In the 2017 film Viceroy's House,

who plays Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India, who has to

oversee India's transition from British rule to independence?

Nigel Havers?

Hugh Bonneville. The 11th century Scottish Queen Gruoch

is portrayed by Shakespeare as which scheming character?

-Lady Macbeth.

-What name that comes from the Greek for fig

and mulberry is shared by a fig tree native to the Middle East

and a common British tree related to the maples of North America?

Mulberry?

Sycamore. The dish that consists of a chicken breast stuffed with garlic

butter, coated with breadcrumbs and baked or fried,

is named after an Eastern European capital city. Which city?

-Kiev.

-Blepharitis is an inflammation

of what part of the face?

Um... Ears?

Eyelids.

By what name did Karol Wojtyla become known in October 1978

when he became Pope?

Sorry, I didn't hear that.

By what name did Karol Wojtyla become known in October 1978

when he became Pope?

John Paul the Second.

What is the surname of Alistair and Jonathan who, in 2012,

became the first brothers to stand together on the winners' podium...

BEEP ..in an individual sport at the Olympic Games since 1908?

Brownlee.

Brownlee is correct.

You had two passes - that television programme was Inside Number 9.

And the name of Donald Trump's club in Palm Beach is Mar-a-Lago.

You have a total now, Madeline, of 18 points.

APPLAUSE

So, a clear winner at the end of a very tight contest.

Let's have a look at all the scores.

In joint fourth place, 18 points,

Adam and Madeline,

third place, 20 points, Cliff,

second place, 23 points, Chris,

first place with 25 points, Alfred.

APPLAUSE

Which means, of course, that Alfred goes through to the final.

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