0:00:24 > 0:00:26First in the spotlight tonight is Alan Burns,
0:00:26 > 0:00:28a solicitor from Manchester.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31His specialist subject - the great Clint Eastwood.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34Dan Martin is a department secretary from Coventry,
0:00:34 > 0:00:36and he's answering questions
0:00:36 > 0:00:38on Agatha Christie's Tommy and Tuppence mysteries.
0:00:40 > 0:00:42Next in the black chair, Maggz Bennett,
0:00:42 > 0:00:45a milliner from Leeds on the band Duran Duran.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49And tonight's final contender, Robert Butlin,
0:00:49 > 0:00:52a sales operations coordinator from Northamptonshire,
0:00:52 > 0:00:55who answers questions on Eleanor of Aquitaine.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58APPLAUSE
0:01:02 > 0:01:06Hello, and welcome to Mastermind with me, John Humphrys.
0:01:06 > 0:01:10Four contenders are waiting to take their place in that black chair.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13It's not, of course, just about knowing the answers.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15It's coping with the pressure -
0:01:15 > 0:01:18the pressure of being in the spotlight
0:01:18 > 0:01:21and knowing that the clock is ticking away.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24No spare time for the luxury of thinking.
0:01:24 > 0:01:26As always, they get two minutes of questions
0:01:26 > 0:01:28on their specialist subject,
0:01:28 > 0:01:30then two and a half minutes on general knowledge.
0:01:30 > 0:01:32So, let us have our first contender, please.
0:01:42 > 0:01:43And your name is?
0:01:44 > 0:01:45Your occupation?
0:01:46 > 0:01:48And your specialist subject?
0:01:49 > 0:01:52Clint Eastwood in two minutes. Here we go.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55In what 1983 film that features Eastwood as the police officer
0:01:55 > 0:01:57Harry Callahan does he dare a gunman to shoot his hostage
0:01:57 > 0:02:00with the words, "Go ahead, make my day"?
0:02:00 > 0:02:01Sudden Impact.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04What is the occupation of Eastwood's character Dave
0:02:04 > 0:02:05in the film Play Misty For Me,
0:02:05 > 0:02:08in which Eastwood also made his directorial debut?
0:02:08 > 0:02:10Disc jockey.
0:02:10 > 0:02:12What was Eastwood's army job at Fort Ord, near Monterey,
0:02:12 > 0:02:15where he remained rather than being sent to fight
0:02:15 > 0:02:17in Korea in 1951?
0:02:17 > 0:02:18Swimming instructor.
0:02:18 > 0:02:21Which long-running television series featured Eric Fleming
0:02:21 > 0:02:23as the trail boss Gil Favor
0:02:23 > 0:02:25and Eastwood as the cowboy Rowdy Yates?
0:02:25 > 0:02:27Rawhide.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29What instrument was the subject of Eastwood's
0:02:29 > 0:02:32feature-length documentary film in the 2003 PBS series
0:02:32 > 0:02:35on the blues, produced by Martin Scorsese?
0:02:35 > 0:02:37- Saxophone.- Piano.
0:02:37 > 0:02:39In which seaside town in California where he lived
0:02:39 > 0:02:42did Eastwood serve as Mayor for a two-year term
0:02:42 > 0:02:44after he won 72% of the vote?
0:02:44 > 0:02:46Carmel.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48Which of Eastwood's daughters from his relationship
0:02:48 > 0:02:51with Roxanne Tunis appears as a White House tour guide
0:02:51 > 0:02:54in his '97 film Absolute Power?
0:02:54 > 0:02:56- Morgan.- Kimber.
0:02:56 > 0:02:57What Spanish name did Eastwood give
0:02:57 > 0:03:00to the production company he formed in the '60s?
0:03:00 > 0:03:02It shares its name with a creek that runs through
0:03:02 > 0:03:04the Monterey Peninsula near where he lived.
0:03:04 > 0:03:06Malpaso.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08In Escape From Alcatraz, what single word
0:03:08 > 0:03:10does Eastwood's character, Frank Morris,
0:03:10 > 0:03:11use to describe his childhood
0:03:11 > 0:03:14in a conversation with Charley Butts?
0:03:14 > 0:03:15Short.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17Which actress and film director marked the end
0:03:17 > 0:03:20of a long relationship with Eastwood when she wrote her side of the story
0:03:20 > 0:03:23in a book called The Good, The Bad And The Very Ugly?
0:03:23 > 0:03:25Sondra Locke.
0:03:25 > 0:03:27In Honkytonk Man, Eastwood's alcoholic character,
0:03:27 > 0:03:29Red Stovall, is heading to a city
0:03:29 > 0:03:31to perform in an audition,
0:03:31 > 0:03:33even though he has tuberculosis. Which city?
0:03:33 > 0:03:34Nashville.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37A New Yorker magazine critic attacked the film Dirty Harry
0:03:37 > 0:03:39for its "fascist medievalism"
0:03:39 > 0:03:41and its "single-minded attack on liberal values".
0:03:41 > 0:03:42What was her name?
0:03:42 > 0:03:44Pauline Kael.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46What poem by William Henley provided the title
0:03:46 > 0:03:50for Eastwood's 2009 film about Nelson Mandela?
0:03:50 > 0:03:52- Invictus. - The Clint Eastwood... BEEP
0:03:52 > 0:03:55..Cinema Collection is an archive divided between
0:03:55 > 0:03:57the Museum of Modern Art in New York
0:03:57 > 0:03:59and which university in Middletown, Connecticut?
0:04:04 > 0:04:05University of Connecticut.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08Well, worth a try. Wesleyan is the answer.
0:04:08 > 0:04:12No passes, Alan. You have scored 11 points.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14APPLAUSE
0:04:24 > 0:04:26And our next contender, please.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35And your name is?
0:04:35 > 0:04:36Your occupation?
0:04:37 > 0:04:39And your chosen subject?
0:04:41 > 0:04:43In two minutes, starting now.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45The Tommy and Tuppence novels were written by Christie
0:04:45 > 0:04:47between 1922 and '73.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49In the first novel of the series,
0:04:49 > 0:04:52Tuppence comes across her childhood friend, Tommy Beresford,
0:04:52 > 0:04:56while she's working in London in what type of establishment?
0:04:58 > 0:05:00A hospital.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03What is the first name of Tommy and Tuppence's adopted daughter,
0:05:03 > 0:05:06who eventually becomes a research anthropologist in Africa?
0:05:06 > 0:05:07Betty.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10Which novel in the series takes its title from a line
0:05:10 > 0:05:12in Act 4 of Shakespeare's play Macbeth?
0:05:12 > 0:05:14By The Pricking Of My Thumbs.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16In By The Pricking Of My Thumbs,
0:05:16 > 0:05:18what drink, that Mrs Moody is particularly fond of,
0:05:18 > 0:05:21is spiked with morphine by her killer, Mrs Lancaster?
0:05:21 > 0:05:22Cocoa.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25What is the name of the British intelligence agent
0:05:25 > 0:05:27who's hit by a lorry but manages to utter
0:05:27 > 0:05:30the cryptic words "N or M Sans Souci"...
0:05:30 > 0:05:32- Farquhar.- ..before he dies?
0:05:32 > 0:05:33Sorry. Farquhar.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35What is the nationality of the millionaire
0:05:35 > 0:05:37Julius P Hersheimer,
0:05:37 > 0:05:40who proposes to Tuppence in The Secret Adversary?
0:05:40 > 0:05:41American.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44Which actress, described as the most beautiful woman in England
0:05:44 > 0:05:45but with the brains of a rabbit
0:05:45 > 0:05:47is found murdered at her sister's house
0:05:47 > 0:05:49in Partners In Crime?
0:05:49 > 0:05:50Gilda Glenn.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52What is the name of the black Manchester terrier
0:05:52 > 0:05:55owned by Tommy and Tuppence who considers himself
0:05:55 > 0:05:57to be on a much higher level of sophistication
0:05:57 > 0:05:59and aristocracy than any other dog?
0:05:59 > 0:06:00Hannibal.
0:06:00 > 0:06:02In By The Pricking Of My Thumbs,
0:06:02 > 0:06:04what valuable items does Tommy discover
0:06:04 > 0:06:07inside the child's doll that was hidden in the chimney
0:06:07 > 0:06:09of the canal house near Sutton Chancellor?
0:06:09 > 0:06:10Diamonds.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12What is the name of the Mayfair mansion block
0:06:12 > 0:06:14where Tommy and Tuppence first meet Albert
0:06:14 > 0:06:17while he's working there as a lift boy in The Secret Adversary?
0:06:17 > 0:06:19He later becomes their faithful employee.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21South Audley Mansions.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23In Partners In Crime, at which golf course
0:06:23 > 0:06:26is Captain Cecil found dead on the seventh tee,
0:06:26 > 0:06:29stabbed in the heart with a lady's hatpin?
0:06:29 > 0:06:30Sunningdale.
0:06:30 > 0:06:33What is the name of the female enemy agent, also known as M,
0:06:33 > 0:06:35who shoots the Polish refugee, Wanda Polonska,
0:06:35 > 0:06:37on a clifftop near Leahampton?
0:06:37 > 0:06:39Mrs Sprot.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41Which doctor meets with Tommy to voice his concerns
0:06:41 > 0:06:44about the number of sudden deaths at Sunny Ridge nursing home?
0:06:44 > 0:06:46BEEP
0:06:49 > 0:06:52- Morton.- No, Dr Murray.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54Put you out of your misery. Dr Murray.
0:06:54 > 0:06:58But no passes. Dan, you have 12 points.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01APPLAUSE
0:07:06 > 0:07:08And our next contender, please.
0:07:17 > 0:07:18And your name is?
0:07:19 > 0:07:21Your occupation?
0:07:21 > 0:07:23And your chosen subject?
0:07:23 > 0:07:25Duran Duran. Here we go.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28What is the title of the first single released by Duran Duran?
0:07:28 > 0:07:31It reached number 12 in the UK Singles Chart in March '81.
0:07:31 > 0:07:32Planet Earth.
0:07:32 > 0:07:35In November 1980, Duran Duran's management paid for the group
0:07:35 > 0:07:39to be the support act for which artist's Megahype tour?
0:07:39 > 0:07:40Hazel O'Connor.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43In April 2011, Duran Duran played at
0:07:43 > 0:07:46an annual outdoor festival held at the Empire Polo Club,
0:07:46 > 0:07:48Indio, California. What festival?
0:07:48 > 0:07:49Coachella.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52For which Bond film did the group write the theme with John Barry?
0:07:52 > 0:07:54The song became a number-two hit
0:07:54 > 0:07:56in the UK Singles Chart in '85.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58A View To A Kill.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00What is the name of the California-based illustrator
0:08:00 > 0:08:04who produced the cover art for the group's 1982 Rio album?
0:08:04 > 0:08:06Patrick Nagel.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09In May 1984, which song, remixed by Nile Rodgers,
0:08:09 > 0:08:11gave the group their second UK Singles Chart
0:08:11 > 0:08:14and first Billboard Hot 100 number one?
0:08:14 > 0:08:15The Reflex.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17The former guitarist with Missing Persons
0:08:17 > 0:08:20was brought into the group as Andy Taylor's replacement
0:08:20 > 0:08:23when Taylor officially left in 1986. What is his name?
0:08:23 > 0:08:25Warren Cuccurullo.
0:08:25 > 0:08:26What is the title of the album
0:08:26 > 0:08:29the group released in September 2015?
0:08:29 > 0:08:31It reached number five in the UK Albums Chart.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33Paper Gods.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35At which club in Levittown, on Long Island, New York,
0:08:35 > 0:08:38did the group play their first North American show
0:08:38 > 0:08:41on the 16th of September 1981?
0:08:41 > 0:08:43- Murphy's.- The Spit club.
0:08:43 > 0:08:45Which song returned the group to the top 10
0:08:45 > 0:08:48of the UK Singles Chart in January '93
0:08:48 > 0:08:50after an absence of four years?
0:08:50 > 0:08:52It also brought a further appearance on Top Of The Pops.
0:08:52 > 0:08:53Ordinary World.
0:08:53 > 0:08:57At which concert in July 1985 did Duran Duran perform
0:08:57 > 0:09:00at the JFK Stadium in Philadelphia?
0:09:00 > 0:09:01Live Aid.
0:09:01 > 0:09:04In what country were the videos for Save A Prayer
0:09:04 > 0:09:05and Hungry Like The Wolf recorded
0:09:05 > 0:09:08in a six-day shoot in April 1982?
0:09:08 > 0:09:09Sri Lanka.
0:09:09 > 0:09:13Which 2004 album features the UK top-five single
0:09:13 > 0:09:14Reach Up For The Sunrise?
0:09:14 > 0:09:16It was the first album to be released
0:09:16 > 0:09:17by the newly reformed group.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19Astronaut.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21On what record label did the group release
0:09:21 > 0:09:23the poorly received Pop Trash album
0:09:23 > 0:09:25after their contract with EMI had lapsed?
0:09:25 > 0:09:27BEEP It was an offshoot of Disney.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30- Warner Brothers. - It was Hollywood.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33Hollywood Records Inc, to be exact.
0:09:33 > 0:09:37But, Maggz, you have also scored 12 points.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40APPLAUSE
0:09:46 > 0:09:48And our final contender, please.
0:09:54 > 0:09:55And your name is?
0:09:56 > 0:09:57Your occupation?
0:09:59 > 0:10:01And your specialist subject?
0:10:02 > 0:10:05Eleanor of Aquitaine in two minutes. Here we go.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07Eleanor of Aquitaine was the daughter of William X,
0:10:07 > 0:10:10Duke of Aquitaine. When he died in 1137, she assumed two titles.
0:10:10 > 0:10:13One was Duchess of Aquitaine and Gascony. What was the other?
0:10:13 > 0:10:15Countess of Poitou.
0:10:15 > 0:10:17Eleanor's thought to have spent part of her childhood
0:10:17 > 0:10:21at the Castle of l'Aubriere in which French city?
0:10:21 > 0:10:23- Limoges.- Bordeaux.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25In 1130, Eleanor became the heir presumptive
0:10:25 > 0:10:27to her father's estate when her mother
0:10:27 > 0:10:29and her younger brother died. What was her brother's name?
0:10:29 > 0:10:30William.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33For what reason was Eleanor's marriage to Louis VII of France
0:10:33 > 0:10:36annulled shortly after the birth of their second daughter?
0:10:36 > 0:10:38Consanguinity.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40Geoffrey Plantagenet and which other nobleman
0:10:40 > 0:10:43tried to kidnap Eleanor to obtain her lands
0:10:43 > 0:10:44after her marriage to Louis ended
0:10:44 > 0:10:47and before she married Henry II?
0:10:47 > 0:10:49Theobald of Blois.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51What epithet is commonly given to Henry II
0:10:51 > 0:10:54and Eleanor's son, also named Henry?
0:10:54 > 0:10:55The Young King.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58At Easter 1158, Henry and Eleanor attended a mass
0:10:58 > 0:11:00where they laid down their crowns and promised
0:11:00 > 0:11:03never to put them on again at which cathedral?
0:11:03 > 0:11:04- Winchester.- Worcester.
0:11:04 > 0:11:06What was the name of Eleanor's uncle,
0:11:06 > 0:11:09with whom she was alleged to have had an affair during the Second Crusade?
0:11:09 > 0:11:10Raymond of Antioch.
0:11:10 > 0:11:14In 1173, Eleanor and Henry hosted a banquet in Limoges
0:11:14 > 0:11:19to celebrate the betrothal of their youngest son John to whom?
0:11:19 > 0:11:21- Alice of France. - Alice of Maurienne.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24In which city did Eleanor pay a ransom
0:11:24 > 0:11:26at the Holy Roman Emperor's court
0:11:26 > 0:11:28for the release of her son Richard I?
0:11:28 > 0:11:30- Vienna.- Mainz.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32What was the name of Eleanor and Henry's oldest daughter?
0:11:32 > 0:11:36She married Henry the Lion of Saxony in 1168.
0:11:36 > 0:11:39- Matilda.- From 1173 to 1189,
0:11:39 > 0:11:42Eleanor was under house arrest after a revolt against Henry.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44What was the name of the royal chamberlain
0:11:44 > 0:11:46who was responsible for Eleanor's maintenance
0:11:46 > 0:11:48in the latter years of her imprisonment?
0:11:48 > 0:11:50- Ranulph Glanville. - Ralph Fitzstephen.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53In which French abbey is Eleanor buried alongside Henry II?
0:11:53 > 0:11:54Fontevraud.
0:11:54 > 0:11:57Eleanor ensured that her son John ascended to the throne
0:11:57 > 0:11:58after the death of Richard I.
0:11:58 > 0:12:01Which of her grandsons also had a claim to the throne
0:12:01 > 0:12:02as the son of Geoffrey of Brittany?
0:12:02 > 0:12:04- Arthur.- In her late 70s,
0:12:04 > 0:12:06Eleanor travelled to Castile... BEEP
0:12:06 > 0:12:08..to pick a bride for the French Prince Louis.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11What was the name of the girl she chose?
0:12:12 > 0:12:15- Blanche. - Blanche is exactly right.
0:12:15 > 0:12:19No passes, Robert. You have scored 10 points.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21APPLAUSE
0:12:28 > 0:12:31So, that's the end of the first round. Very close.
0:12:31 > 0:12:33Let's have a look at all of the scores.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35In fourth place, with 10 points, Robert Butlin.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38Third place, 11 points, Alan Burns.
0:12:38 > 0:12:43Joint first place, 12 points apiece, Dan Martin and Maggz Bennett.
0:12:49 > 0:12:51And we move on to the general knowledge round,
0:12:51 > 0:12:53and if there is a tie at the end of it,
0:12:53 > 0:12:56then the number of passes is taken into account
0:12:56 > 0:12:58and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.
0:12:58 > 0:13:02And if they're tied on passes, as well, there will be a tie-break.
0:13:02 > 0:13:04So, let us get on with it,
0:13:04 > 0:13:07and ask Robert to join us again, please.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10You start out with 10 points
0:13:10 > 0:13:12with your knowledge of Eleanor of Aquitaine.
0:13:12 > 0:13:18You have now two and a half minutes to catch up and overtake the field.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20Here we go. What port is the capital
0:13:20 > 0:13:22and largest city of Lebanon?
0:13:22 > 0:13:24- Accra.- Beirut.
0:13:24 > 0:13:28What's the name of Sherlock Holmes' regular landlady at 221B Baker Street
0:13:28 > 0:13:30in the stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
0:13:30 > 0:13:33- Mrs Hudson.- What term for the band of colour
0:13:33 > 0:13:35formed when a beam of white light is split into
0:13:35 > 0:13:38its constituent wavelengths was coined by Sir Isaac Newton?
0:13:38 > 0:13:41- Spectrum.- The title of which television series,
0:13:41 > 0:13:42a spin-off from Doctor Who,
0:13:42 > 0:13:45starring John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness,
0:13:45 > 0:13:48is an anagram of Doctor Who?
0:13:48 > 0:13:51- Doctor Who.- Torchwood.
0:13:51 > 0:13:54Who opened the first printing press in England in 1476?
0:13:54 > 0:13:55Caxton.
0:13:55 > 0:13:59Brush Back, published in July 2015,
0:13:59 > 0:14:02is the 17th novel featuring the detective VI Warshawski.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05Who is the author of the novels?
0:14:05 > 0:14:07- Terry Pratchett. - Sara Paretsky.
0:14:07 > 0:14:09What word of Old English origin for a hedge
0:14:09 > 0:14:12is also the name of the fruit of the May-tree?
0:14:12 > 0:14:14- Hawthorn.- A haw.
0:14:14 > 0:14:16In March 1983, the Scotch-American Ian MacGregor
0:14:16 > 0:14:18was appointed chairman of the board
0:14:18 > 0:14:21responsible for the production of which commodity in the UK?
0:14:21 > 0:14:24- Steel.- Coal. The clothes of the statue of Buddha
0:14:24 > 0:14:27in the Temple of the Emerald Buddha in an Asian capital city
0:14:27 > 0:14:29are changed three times a year by the country's king.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31Which city?
0:14:31 > 0:14:33Bangkok.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36The cover of a '94 chart-topping Blur album
0:14:36 > 0:14:39features a picture of greyhounds racing. What album?
0:14:42 > 0:14:44- Country Boy.- Parklife.
0:14:44 > 0:14:47Which Jewish spring festival commemorates the Israelites'
0:14:47 > 0:14:49liberation from slavery in Egypt?
0:14:49 > 0:14:50Passover.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53What body of water in Hyde Park was formed in about 1730
0:14:53 > 0:14:56when Caroline of Ansbach, the wife of George II,
0:14:56 > 0:14:58ordered the damming of the River Westbourne?
0:14:58 > 0:14:59Serpentine.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01The light young wine Vinho Verde
0:15:01 > 0:15:04is produced in the north of which country?
0:15:04 > 0:15:06- Italy.- Portugal.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09Which French pioneer in the design of high fashion for men
0:15:09 > 0:15:11was born near Venice in 1922?
0:15:11 > 0:15:13- Christian Dior.- Pierre Cardin.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15John Peter Rhys are the forenames
0:15:15 > 0:15:18of which Welsh rugby star who was an outstanding tennis player
0:15:18 > 0:15:20before he took up rugby?
0:15:20 > 0:15:22He won the British junior title at Wimbledon in 1966.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24- Williams.- Yeah, JPR Williams.
0:15:24 > 0:15:27The final episode of the television series Dad's Army
0:15:27 > 0:15:31concluded with a toast from the cast to which organisation?
0:15:31 > 0:15:32The Home Guard.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35The 1854 Penny Red was the first officially issued
0:15:35 > 0:15:38British postage stamp to have what feature?
0:15:38 > 0:15:40- A watermark.- Perforations.
0:15:40 > 0:15:42At which kind of ceremony is the march
0:15:42 > 0:15:44from Mendelssohn's incidental music
0:15:44 > 0:15:46to A Midsummer Night's Dream traditionally played?
0:15:46 > 0:15:49- Wedding.- In the 1992 film Patriot Games...
0:15:49 > 0:15:53BEEP ..who stars as the former CIA analyst Jack Ryan?
0:15:53 > 0:15:56He foils a terrorist attack while he's on holiday in London.
0:15:58 > 0:16:01- Harrison Ford. - Yeah, Harrison Ford it is,
0:16:01 > 0:16:04which gives you now a total, Robert, of 20 points.
0:16:04 > 0:16:07APPLAUSE
0:16:14 > 0:16:17And now Alan again, please.
0:16:21 > 0:16:24And you, Alan, start out with 11 points.
0:16:24 > 0:16:27The score to beat, as you will have just heard, is 20,
0:16:27 > 0:16:30and you have two and a half minutes in which to do so, or try to.
0:16:30 > 0:16:31Here we go.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34What is the name of the infamous fictional barber
0:16:34 > 0:16:37who supplied the meat for Mrs Lovett pies, popular on Fleet Street?
0:16:37 > 0:16:40- Sweeney Todd. - The black keys on a piano
0:16:40 > 0:16:42were traditionally made with which heavy wood?
0:16:42 > 0:16:43Ebony.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46Ernest Hemingway's novel For Whom The Bell Tolls
0:16:46 > 0:16:47is set during which war?
0:16:47 > 0:16:49The Spanish Civil War.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52In which '70s television sitcom are Margo and Jerry
0:16:52 > 0:16:53the neighbours of Barbara and Tom?
0:16:53 > 0:16:54The Good Life.
0:16:54 > 0:16:56The title character of a Verdi opera,
0:16:56 > 0:16:58first performed in 1851,
0:16:58 > 0:17:01is the court jester to the Duke of Mantua. Which opera?
0:17:01 > 0:17:02Rigoletto.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04What alternative name for the sun bear,
0:17:04 > 0:17:05a native of Southeast Asia
0:17:05 > 0:17:08and the smallest member of the bear family,
0:17:08 > 0:17:09comes from one of its favourite foods
0:17:09 > 0:17:12that it extracts from bees' nests with its long tongue?
0:17:12 > 0:17:14Honey bear.
0:17:14 > 0:17:16Which 19th-century English artist's paintings
0:17:16 > 0:17:18include The Boyhood of Raleigh
0:17:18 > 0:17:20and Christ In The House Of His Parents?
0:17:22 > 0:17:24- Rossetti.- Millais.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26The ballet dancer and choreographer Robert Helpmann
0:17:26 > 0:17:29played the Child Catcher in what '68 film?
0:17:36 > 0:17:37The...
0:17:37 > 0:17:38Oh, pass.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41Scone, where the Kings of Scotland were traditionally crowned,
0:17:41 > 0:17:45lies just north of which city and royal borough?
0:17:45 > 0:17:46- Edinburgh.- Perth.
0:17:46 > 0:17:49In physics, what name is given to the conversion of a substance
0:17:49 > 0:17:51from a liquid to a gas at temperatures
0:17:51 > 0:17:52below its boiling point?
0:17:54 > 0:17:55- Sublimation.- Evaporation.
0:17:55 > 0:17:57In 1965, who became the first
0:17:57 > 0:18:00professional footballer to be knighted?
0:18:00 > 0:18:01Sir Stanley Matthews.
0:18:01 > 0:18:04What word that has come to mean plain, unpolished or rustic
0:18:04 > 0:18:08comes from a description of domestically woven cloth?
0:18:09 > 0:18:11- Coarse.- Homespun.
0:18:11 > 0:18:12All MPs are assigned a coat hanger
0:18:12 > 0:18:15in the members' cloakroom, each of which has a pink ribbon.
0:18:15 > 0:18:18What was originally meant to be hung from the ribbon?
0:18:18 > 0:18:20- Dispatch papers.- Their swords.
0:18:20 > 0:18:23According to the proverb, if it rains on St Swithin's Day,
0:18:23 > 0:18:25for how many days after that will the wet weather continue?
0:18:25 > 0:18:2640.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29Which family, created by Louisa May Alcott,
0:18:29 > 0:18:31made their final appearance in the book
0:18:31 > 0:18:33Jo's Boys, And How They Turned Out?
0:18:33 > 0:18:35- The Browns.- The March family.
0:18:35 > 0:18:37The name of what yeast-leavened cake,
0:18:37 > 0:18:39usually soaked in an alcoholic syrup,
0:18:39 > 0:18:41comes from a Polish word for old woman?
0:18:43 > 0:18:45- Slavoka.- Rum baba.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47Which member of the Nazi Party is reported to have said,
0:18:47 > 0:18:50in 1936, "We have no butter, but I ask you,
0:18:50 > 0:18:53"would you rather have butter or guns?"
0:18:53 > 0:18:54- Goebbels.- Goring.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57Which rock star's UK top-five albums
0:18:57 > 0:19:00include The River in 1980, Nebraska in '82 and Lucky Town in '92?
0:19:00 > 0:19:02- Bruce Springsteen. - What name... BEEP
0:19:02 > 0:19:04..that comes from the Latin for dismissal
0:19:04 > 0:19:07is given to the celebration of the Eucharist
0:19:07 > 0:19:08in the Roman Catholic Church?
0:19:15 > 0:19:17Take a guess.
0:19:17 > 0:19:22- Partition. - No, it is mass. Yeah.
0:19:22 > 0:19:28Your pass - that film in which the Child Catcher appeared -
0:19:28 > 0:19:31- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.- Ah.- Yes.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34You've scored also, Alan, 20 points.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37APPLAUSE
0:19:45 > 0:19:48And now Dan again, please.
0:19:49 > 0:19:52And you start out, Dan, with 12 points.
0:19:52 > 0:19:57The score to beat is still 20. Here we go.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00Who described 1992 as an annus horribilis
0:20:00 > 0:20:03in a speech at the Guildhall in November of that year?
0:20:03 > 0:20:05The Queen.
0:20:05 > 0:20:07Which diminutive artist, whose works depict
0:20:07 > 0:20:09the nightlife of Paris in the 1880s and '90s,
0:20:09 > 0:20:14was born in 1864 into an aristocratic family?
0:20:14 > 0:20:15- Manet.- Toulouse-Lautrec.
0:20:15 > 0:20:19Which carnivorous marsupial, about the size of a small dog,
0:20:19 > 0:20:21is named after the Australian state
0:20:21 > 0:20:23that is now its only habitat?
0:20:23 > 0:20:25- Tasmania.- Tasmanian devil.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28In computing, the acronym RAM stands for Random Access what?
0:20:28 > 0:20:29Memory.
0:20:29 > 0:20:32In a James Bond film released in 1997,
0:20:32 > 0:20:34Jonathan Pryce plays Elliot Carver,
0:20:34 > 0:20:36a media mogul who plans a nuclear war
0:20:36 > 0:20:38to boost his newspaper ratings. Which film?
0:20:38 > 0:20:41- Tomorrow Never Dies. - Tomorrow Never Dies.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44Which rock star, who fathered his eighth child in 2016,
0:20:44 > 0:20:48was described by Joan Rivers as having child-bearing lips?
0:20:48 > 0:20:49Mick Jagger.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52Which fantasy land did the American author L Frank Baum
0:20:52 > 0:20:54write about in a series of 14 books?
0:20:54 > 0:20:57The first was made into a classic '39 film.
0:20:57 > 0:20:58Oz.
0:20:58 > 0:21:01Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony in B minor has what French subtitle?
0:21:01 > 0:21:04In Russian, the word means passionate or emotional.
0:21:07 > 0:21:08Pass.
0:21:08 > 0:21:11The River Loa that rises in the Andes
0:21:11 > 0:21:14and flows for some 275 miles into the Pacific Ocean
0:21:14 > 0:21:17lies entirely within the boundaries of which country?
0:21:17 > 0:21:21- Chile.- Who was John McCain's controversial running mate
0:21:21 > 0:21:23in the 2008 presidential election?
0:21:23 > 0:21:26- Sarah Palin.- What type of geographical feature
0:21:26 > 0:21:29is denoted by the word sliabh in Irish place names?
0:21:31 > 0:21:33- A river.- A mountain.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36Between 1652 and 1674,
0:21:36 > 0:21:39England fought three wars against which European power?
0:21:39 > 0:21:40- France.- Dutch.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42What major right of the Muslim religion,
0:21:42 > 0:21:44the fifth of the Five Pillars of Islam,
0:21:44 > 0:21:46takes place during Dhul Hijjah,
0:21:46 > 0:21:48the last month of the Islamic year?
0:21:48 > 0:21:50Hajj.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53In the American television comedy series Modern Family,
0:21:53 > 0:21:57Gloria Delgado-Pritchett is played by which Colombian-born actress?
0:22:00 > 0:22:02- Hernandez.- Sofia Vergara.
0:22:02 > 0:22:04Fishcakes are normally dipped in egg
0:22:04 > 0:22:06and coated in what before they're cooked?
0:22:06 > 0:22:07Breadcrumbs.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10With which single did the X Factor winner, Matt Cardle,
0:22:10 > 0:22:12have the UK Christmas number one in 2010?
0:22:12 > 0:22:14It was a cover of a Biffy Clyro song.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16When We Collide.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18What is the first name of Mr Micawber
0:22:18 > 0:22:20in Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield?
0:22:22 > 0:22:23- Andrew.- Wilkins.
0:22:23 > 0:22:26What is the English name for le maillot jaune,
0:22:26 > 0:22:28which is worn by... BEEP ..the overall leader
0:22:28 > 0:22:31of Tour de France cycle race?
0:22:31 > 0:22:33The blue jersey.
0:22:33 > 0:22:35The yellow jersey.
0:22:35 > 0:22:39You had one pass. That French subtitle for the Sixth Symphony -
0:22:39 > 0:22:41the Pathetique.
0:22:41 > 0:22:45You have scored, though, Dan, a total of 22 points.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47APPLAUSE
0:22:54 > 0:22:57And finally, Maggz again.
0:22:58 > 0:23:02And you start out with 12 points, Maggz.
0:23:02 > 0:23:05The score to beat now is 22, as you have just heard.
0:23:05 > 0:23:09So, let us see if you can do it in two and a half minutes,
0:23:09 > 0:23:12starting now. What is the name of Mickey Mouse's girlfriend?
0:23:12 > 0:23:17- Minnie.- Which German state is known as Bayern in its own language?
0:23:18 > 0:23:20- Black Forest.- Bavaria.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22Who played Mrs Slocombe in the 1970s and '80s sitcom
0:23:22 > 0:23:24Are You Being Served?
0:23:24 > 0:23:26- Mollie Sugden.- What breed of small spaniel got its name
0:23:26 > 0:23:30because it was originally bred to flush out woodcock for shooting?
0:23:31 > 0:23:33- Field spaniel.- Cocker spaniel.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35The officially supported peasant uprising of 1900
0:23:35 > 0:23:38that aimed to drive all foreigners out of China
0:23:38 > 0:23:39is known by what name in the West?
0:23:41 > 0:23:43- Velvet.- The Boxer Rebellion.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46What rhyming phrase meaning affectedly dainty
0:23:46 > 0:23:48comes from the name of Ambrose Philips,
0:23:48 > 0:23:50whose simple pastoral verses are mocked
0:23:50 > 0:23:53in Alexander Pope's The Dunciad?
0:23:56 > 0:23:57Pass.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59In 2010, Dame Carol Ann Duffy wrote about
0:23:59 > 0:24:03an injured football player in a poem called Achilles. Which player?
0:24:03 > 0:24:04- Rooney.- David Beckham.
0:24:04 > 0:24:07What name, that comes from the Greek for curdling,
0:24:07 > 0:24:09is given to the clotting of blood in an artery or vein
0:24:09 > 0:24:11that has obstructed the flow?
0:24:11 > 0:24:12Thrombosis.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15In architecture, barrel, rib and fan are all types
0:24:15 > 0:24:19of what arched form used to create a ceiling or roof?
0:24:22 > 0:24:25- Vault.- What is the name of the controversial politician
0:24:25 > 0:24:28who eventually succeeded Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe
0:24:28 > 0:24:31as President of South Africa in 2009?
0:24:31 > 0:24:33Zuma.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire
0:24:35 > 0:24:37was the ancestral home of which poet?
0:24:37 > 0:24:39Byron.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41The God of wine and vegetation was known to the ancient Greeks
0:24:41 > 0:24:44and Romans as Dionysus and by what other name?
0:24:44 > 0:24:45Bacchus.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48Above which Dorset village is there a carving of a naked giant
0:24:48 > 0:24:49cut into the chalk hillside,
0:24:49 > 0:24:53traditionally believed to be over 1,500 years old?
0:24:53 > 0:24:54- Penge.- Cerne Abbas.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56Which Italian composer and violinist,
0:24:56 > 0:24:58who was ordained in 1703,
0:24:58 > 0:25:01was known as the Red Priest because of the colour of his hair?
0:25:01 > 0:25:03- Paganini.- Vivaldi.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05Who won a Best Actress Oscar for her performance
0:25:05 > 0:25:07as the nightclub singer Sally Bowles
0:25:07 > 0:25:09in the 1972 film Cabaret?
0:25:09 > 0:25:10Liza Minnelli.
0:25:10 > 0:25:13The Irish dish crubeens consists of part of a pig
0:25:13 > 0:25:16boiled and sometimes eaten cold with vinegar. What part?
0:25:16 > 0:25:17- Head.- Feet.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20A deck of cards used in fortune-telling includes
0:25:20 > 0:25:23a tower struck by lightning and the day of judgment. What cards?
0:25:23 > 0:25:24Tarot.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26The first Winter Olympics were held in 1924
0:25:26 > 0:25:29at what resort at the foot of Mont Blanc?
0:25:29 > 0:25:31- Chamonix. - What is the English name
0:25:31 > 0:25:33of the Spanish autonomous region
0:25:33 > 0:25:35known in Spanish as El Pais Vasco?
0:25:35 > 0:25:38- Basque.- Yes, the Basque Country.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40What is this stage name of the Jamaican-born singer
0:25:40 > 0:25:43originally called Orville Richard Burrell... BEEP
0:25:43 > 0:25:45..who had his first UK number one single in 1993
0:25:45 > 0:25:47with the song Oh Carolina?
0:25:47 > 0:25:51- Shaggy.- Is correct. One pass.
0:25:51 > 0:25:55That rhyming phrase meaning affectedly dainty...
0:25:55 > 0:25:58- Rather bizarre, but there we are. ..namby-pamby.- Oh.
0:25:58 > 0:25:59- There you go.- Yeah, I know.
0:25:59 > 0:26:04However, it didn't matter because, Maggz, you have 24 points.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07APPLAUSE
0:26:17 > 0:26:20So, she did it at the end.
0:26:20 > 0:26:22Let's have a look at all of the scores.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24In joint third place, with 20 points,
0:26:24 > 0:26:26Alan Burns and Robert Butlin.
0:26:26 > 0:26:29Second place, 22 points, Dan Martin.
0:26:29 > 0:26:33First place, 24 points, Maggz Bennett.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35APPLAUSE
0:26:45 > 0:26:49Which means, of course, that Maggz is tonight's winner,
0:26:49 > 0:26:51and she goes through to the semifinals.
0:26:51 > 0:26:52Congratulations to her.
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