Episode 3 Mastermind

First in the spotlight tonight is Alan Burns,

a solicitor from Manchester.

His specialist subject - the great Clint Eastwood.

Dan Martin is a department secretary from Coventry,

and he's answering questions

on Agatha Christie's Tommy and Tuppence mysteries.

Next in the black chair, Maggz Bennett,

a milliner from Leeds on the band Duran Duran.

And tonight's final contender, Robert Butlin,

a sales operations coordinator from Northamptonshire,

who answers questions on Eleanor of Aquitaine.

APPLAUSE

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

Four contenders are waiting to take their place in that black chair.

It's not, of course, just about knowing the answers.

It's coping with the pressure -

the pressure of being in the spotlight

and knowing that the clock is ticking away.

No spare time for the luxury of thinking.

As always, they get two minutes of questions

on their specialist subject,

then two and a half minutes on general knowledge.

So, let us have our first contender, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your specialist subject?

Clint Eastwood in two minutes. Here we go.

In what 1983 film that features Eastwood as the police officer

Harry Callahan does he dare a gunman to shoot his hostage

with the words, "Go ahead, make my day"?

Sudden Impact.

What is the occupation of Eastwood's character Dave

in the film Play Misty For Me,

in which Eastwood also made his directorial debut?

Disc jockey.

What was Eastwood's army job at Fort Ord, near Monterey,

where he remained rather than being sent to fight

in Korea in 1951?

Swimming instructor.

Which long-running television series featured Eric Fleming

as the trail boss Gil Favor

and Eastwood as the cowboy Rowdy Yates?

Rawhide.

What instrument was the subject of Eastwood's

feature-length documentary film in the 2003 PBS series

on the blues, produced by Martin Scorsese?

-Saxophone.

-Piano.

In which seaside town in California where he lived

did Eastwood serve as Mayor for a two-year term

after he won 72% of the vote?

Carmel.

Which of Eastwood's daughters from his relationship

with Roxanne Tunis appears as a White House tour guide

in his '97 film Absolute Power?

-Morgan.

-Kimber.

What Spanish name did Eastwood give

to the production company he formed in the '60s?

It shares its name with a creek that runs through

the Monterey Peninsula near where he lived.

Malpaso.

In Escape From Alcatraz, what single word

does Eastwood's character, Frank Morris,

use to describe his childhood

in a conversation with Charley Butts?

Short.

Which actress and film director marked the end

of a long relationship with Eastwood when she wrote her side of the story

in a book called The Good, The Bad And The Very Ugly?

Sondra Locke.

In Honkytonk Man, Eastwood's alcoholic character,

Red Stovall, is heading to a city

to perform in an audition,

even though he has tuberculosis. Which city?

Nashville.

A New Yorker magazine critic attacked the film Dirty Harry

for its "fascist medievalism"

and its "single-minded attack on liberal values".

What was her name?

Pauline Kael.

What poem by William Henley provided the title

for Eastwood's 2009 film about Nelson Mandela?

-Invictus.

-The Clint Eastwood... BEEP

..Cinema Collection is an archive divided between

the Museum of Modern Art in New York

and which university in Middletown, Connecticut?

University of Connecticut.

Well, worth a try. Wesleyan is the answer.

No passes, Alan. You have scored 11 points.

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And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject?

In two minutes, starting now.

The Tommy and Tuppence novels were written by Christie

between 1922 and '73.

In the first novel of the series,

Tuppence comes across her childhood friend, Tommy Beresford,

while she's working in London in what type of establishment?

A hospital.

What is the first name of Tommy and Tuppence's adopted daughter,

who eventually becomes a research anthropologist in Africa?

Betty.

Which novel in the series takes its title from a line

in Act 4 of Shakespeare's play Macbeth?

By The Pricking Of My Thumbs.

In By The Pricking Of My Thumbs,

what drink, that Mrs Moody is particularly fond of,

is spiked with morphine by her killer, Mrs Lancaster?

Cocoa.

What is the name of the British intelligence agent

who's hit by a lorry but manages to utter

the cryptic words "N or M Sans Souci"...

-Farquhar.

-..before he dies?

Sorry. Farquhar.

What is the nationality of the millionaire

Julius P Hersheimer,

who proposes to Tuppence in The Secret Adversary?

American.

Which actress, described as the most beautiful woman in England

but with the brains of a rabbit

is found murdered at her sister's house

in Partners In Crime?

Gilda Glenn.

What is the name of the black Manchester terrier

owned by Tommy and Tuppence who considers himself

to be on a much higher level of sophistication

and aristocracy than any other dog?

Hannibal.

In By The Pricking Of My Thumbs,

what valuable items does Tommy discover

inside the child's doll that was hidden in the chimney

of the canal house near Sutton Chancellor?

Diamonds.

What is the name of the Mayfair mansion block

where Tommy and Tuppence first meet Albert

while he's working there as a lift boy in The Secret Adversary?

He later becomes their faithful employee.

South Audley Mansions.

In Partners In Crime, at which golf course

is Captain Cecil found dead on the seventh tee,

stabbed in the heart with a lady's hatpin?

Sunningdale.

What is the name of the female enemy agent, also known as M,

who shoots the Polish refugee, Wanda Polonska,

on a clifftop near Leahampton?

Mrs Sprot.

Which doctor meets with Tommy to voice his concerns

about the number of sudden deaths at Sunny Ridge nursing home?

BEEP

-Morton.

-No, Dr Murray.

Put you out of your misery. Dr Murray.

But no passes. Dan, you have 12 points.

APPLAUSE

And our next contender, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your chosen subject?

Duran Duran. Here we go.

What is the title of the first single released by Duran Duran?

It reached number 12 in the UK Singles Chart in March '81.

Planet Earth.

In November 1980, Duran Duran's management paid for the group

to be the support act for which artist's Megahype tour?

Hazel O'Connor.

In April 2011, Duran Duran played at

an annual outdoor festival held at the Empire Polo Club,

Indio, California. What festival?

Coachella.

For which Bond film did the group write the theme with John Barry?

The song became a number-two hit

in the UK Singles Chart in '85.

A View To A Kill.

What is the name of the California-based illustrator

who produced the cover art for the group's 1982 Rio album?

Patrick Nagel.

In May 1984, which song, remixed by Nile Rodgers,

gave the group their second UK Singles Chart

and first Billboard Hot 100 number one?

The Reflex.

The former guitarist with Missing Persons

was brought into the group as Andy Taylor's replacement

when Taylor officially left in 1986. What is his name?

Warren Cuccurullo.

What is the title of the album

the group released in September 2015?

It reached number five in the UK Albums Chart.

Paper Gods.

At which club in Levittown, on Long Island, New York,

did the group play their first North American show

on the 16th of September 1981?

-Murphy's.

-The Spit club.

Which song returned the group to the top 10

of the UK Singles Chart in January '93

after an absence of four years?

It also brought a further appearance on Top Of The Pops.

Ordinary World.

At which concert in July 1985 did Duran Duran perform

at the JFK Stadium in Philadelphia?

Live Aid.

In what country were the videos for Save A Prayer

and Hungry Like The Wolf recorded

in a six-day shoot in April 1982?

Sri Lanka.

Which 2004 album features the UK top-five single

Reach Up For The Sunrise?

It was the first album to be released

by the newly reformed group.

Astronaut.

On what record label did the group release

the poorly received Pop Trash album

after their contract with EMI had lapsed?

BEEP It was an offshoot of Disney.

-Warner Brothers.

-It was Hollywood.

Hollywood Records Inc, to be exact.

But, Maggz, you have also scored 12 points.

APPLAUSE

And our final contender, please.

And your name is?

Your occupation?

And your specialist subject?

Eleanor of Aquitaine in two minutes. Here we go.

Eleanor of Aquitaine was the daughter of William X,

Duke of Aquitaine. When he died in 1137, she assumed two titles.

One was Duchess of Aquitaine and Gascony. What was the other?

Countess of Poitou.

Eleanor's thought to have spent part of her childhood

at the Castle of l'Aubriere in which French city?

-Limoges.

-Bordeaux.

In 1130, Eleanor became the heir presumptive

to her father's estate when her mother

and her younger brother died. What was her brother's name?

William.

For what reason was Eleanor's marriage to Louis VII of France

annulled shortly after the birth of their second daughter?

Consanguinity.

Geoffrey Plantagenet and which other nobleman

tried to kidnap Eleanor to obtain her lands

after her marriage to Louis ended

and before she married Henry II?

Theobald of Blois.

What epithet is commonly given to Henry II

and Eleanor's son, also named Henry?

The Young King.

At Easter 1158, Henry and Eleanor attended a mass

where they laid down their crowns and promised

never to put them on again at which cathedral?

-Winchester.

-Worcester.

What was the name of Eleanor's uncle,

with whom she was alleged to have had an affair during the Second Crusade?

Raymond of Antioch.

In 1173, Eleanor and Henry hosted a banquet in Limoges

to celebrate the betrothal of their youngest son John to whom?

-Alice of France.

-Alice of Maurienne.

In which city did Eleanor pay a ransom

at the Holy Roman Emperor's court

for the release of her son Richard I?

-Vienna.

-Mainz.

What was the name of Eleanor and Henry's oldest daughter?

She married Henry the Lion of Saxony in 1168.

-Matilda.

-From 1173 to 1189,

Eleanor was under house arrest after a revolt against Henry.

What was the name of the royal chamberlain

who was responsible for Eleanor's maintenance

in the latter years of her imprisonment?

-Ranulph Glanville.

-Ralph Fitzstephen.

In which French abbey is Eleanor buried alongside Henry II?

Fontevraud.

Eleanor ensured that her son John ascended to the throne

after the death of Richard I.

Which of her grandsons also had a claim to the throne

as the son of Geoffrey of Brittany?

-Arthur.

-In her late 70s,

Eleanor travelled to Castile... BEEP

..to pick a bride for the French Prince Louis.

What was the name of the girl she chose?

-Blanche.

-Blanche is exactly right.

No passes, Robert. You have scored 10 points.

APPLAUSE

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

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

In fourth place, with 10 points, Robert Butlin.

Third place, 11 points, Alan Burns.

Joint first place, 12 points apiece, Dan Martin and Maggz Bennett.

And we move on to the general knowledge round,

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

then the number of passes is taken into account

and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.

And if they're tied on passes, as well, there will be a tie-break.

So, let us get on with it,

and ask Robert to join us again, please.

You start out with 10 points

with your knowledge of Eleanor of Aquitaine.

You have now two and a half minutes to catch up and overtake the field.

Here we go. What port is the capital

and largest city of Lebanon?

-Accra.

-Beirut.

What's the name of Sherlock Holmes' regular landlady at 221B Baker Street

in the stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?

-Mrs Hudson.

-What term for the band of colour

formed when a beam of white light is split into

its constituent wavelengths was coined by Sir Isaac Newton?

-Spectrum.

-The title of which television series,

a spin-off from Doctor Who,

starring John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness,

is an anagram of Doctor Who?

-Doctor Who.

-Torchwood.

Who opened the first printing press in England in 1476?

Caxton.

Brush Back, published in July 2015,

is the 17th novel featuring the detective VI Warshawski.

Who is the author of the novels?

-Terry Pratchett.

-Sara Paretsky.

What word of Old English origin for a hedge

is also the name of the fruit of the May-tree?

-Hawthorn.

-A haw.

In March 1983, the Scotch-American Ian MacGregor

was appointed chairman of the board

responsible for the production of which commodity in the UK?

-Steel.

-Coal. The clothes of the statue of Buddha

in the Temple of the Emerald Buddha in an Asian capital city

are changed three times a year by the country's king.

Which city?

Bangkok.

The cover of a '94 chart-topping Blur album

features a picture of greyhounds racing. What album?

-Country Boy.

-Parklife.

Which Jewish spring festival commemorates the Israelites'

liberation from slavery in Egypt?

Passover.

What body of water in Hyde Park was formed in about 1730

when Caroline of Ansbach, the wife of George II,

ordered the damming of the River Westbourne?

Serpentine.

The light young wine Vinho Verde

is produced in the north of which country?

-Italy.

-Portugal.

Which French pioneer in the design of high fashion for men

was born near Venice in 1922?

-Christian Dior.

-Pierre Cardin.

John Peter Rhys are the forenames

of which Welsh rugby star who was an outstanding tennis player

before he took up rugby?

He won the British junior title at Wimbledon in 1966.

-Williams.

-Yeah, JPR Williams.

The final episode of the television series Dad's Army

concluded with a toast from the cast to which organisation?

The Home Guard.

The 1854 Penny Red was the first officially issued

British postage stamp to have what feature?

-A watermark.

-Perforations.

At which kind of ceremony is the march

from Mendelssohn's incidental music

to A Midsummer Night's Dream traditionally played?

-Wedding.

-In the 1992 film Patriot Games...

BEEP ..who stars as the former CIA analyst Jack Ryan?

He foils a terrorist attack while he's on holiday in London.

-Harrison Ford.

-Yeah, Harrison Ford it is,

which gives you now a total, Robert, of 20 points.

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And now Alan again, please.

And you, Alan, start out with 11 points.

The score to beat, as you will have just heard, is 20,

and you have two and a half minutes in which to do so, or try to.

Here we go.

What is the name of the infamous fictional barber

who supplied the meat for Mrs Lovett pies, popular on Fleet Street?

-Sweeney Todd.

-The black keys on a piano

were traditionally made with which heavy wood?

Ebony.

Ernest Hemingway's novel For Whom The Bell Tolls

is set during which war?

The Spanish Civil War.

In which '70s television sitcom are Margo and Jerry

the neighbours of Barbara and Tom?

The Good Life.

The title character of a Verdi opera,

first performed in 1851,

is the court jester to the Duke of Mantua. Which opera?

Rigoletto.

What alternative name for the sun bear,

a native of Southeast Asia

and the smallest member of the bear family,

comes from one of its favourite foods

that it extracts from bees' nests with its long tongue?

Honey bear.

Which 19th-century English artist's paintings

include The Boyhood of Raleigh

and Christ In The House Of His Parents?

-Rossetti.

-Millais.

The ballet dancer and choreographer Robert Helpmann

played the Child Catcher in what '68 film?

The...

Oh, pass.

Scone, where the Kings of Scotland were traditionally crowned,

lies just north of which city and royal borough?

-Edinburgh.

-Perth.

In physics, what name is given to the conversion of a substance

from a liquid to a gas at temperatures

below its boiling point?

-Sublimation.

-Evaporation.

In 1965, who became the first

professional footballer to be knighted?

Sir Stanley Matthews.

What word that has come to mean plain, unpolished or rustic

comes from a description of domestically woven cloth?

-Coarse.

-Homespun.

All MPs are assigned a coat hanger

in the members' cloakroom, each of which has a pink ribbon.

What was originally meant to be hung from the ribbon?

-Dispatch papers.

-Their swords.

According to the proverb, if it rains on St Swithin's Day,

for how many days after that will the wet weather continue?

40.

Which family, created by Louisa May Alcott,

made their final appearance in the book

Jo's Boys, And How They Turned Out?

-The Browns.

-The March family.

The name of what yeast-leavened cake,

usually soaked in an alcoholic syrup,

comes from a Polish word for old woman?

-Slavoka.

-Rum baba.

Which member of the Nazi Party is reported to have said,

in 1936, "We have no butter, but I ask you,

"would you rather have butter or guns?"

-Goebbels.

-Goring.

Which rock star's UK top-five albums

include The River in 1980, Nebraska in '82 and Lucky Town in '92?

-Bruce Springsteen.

-What name... BEEP

..that comes from the Latin for dismissal

is given to the celebration of the Eucharist

in the Roman Catholic Church?

Take a guess.

-Partition.

-No, it is mass. Yeah.

Your pass - that film in which the Child Catcher appeared -

-Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

-Ah.

-Yes.

You've scored also, Alan, 20 points.

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And now Dan again, please.

And you start out, Dan, with 12 points.

The score to beat is still 20. Here we go.

Who described 1992 as an annus horribilis

in a speech at the Guildhall in November of that year?

The Queen.

Which diminutive artist, whose works depict

the nightlife of Paris in the 1880s and '90s,

was born in 1864 into an aristocratic family?

-Manet.

-Toulouse-Lautrec.

Which carnivorous marsupial, about the size of a small dog,

is named after the Australian state

that is now its only habitat?

-Tasmania.

-Tasmanian devil.

In computing, the acronym RAM stands for Random Access what?

Memory.

In a James Bond film released in 1997,

Jonathan Pryce plays Elliot Carver,

a media mogul who plans a nuclear war

to boost his newspaper ratings. Which film?

-Tomorrow Never Dies.

-Tomorrow Never Dies.

Which rock star, who fathered his eighth child in 2016,

was described by Joan Rivers as having child-bearing lips?

Mick Jagger.

Which fantasy land did the American author L Frank Baum

write about in a series of 14 books?

The first was made into a classic '39 film.

Oz.

Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony in B minor has what French subtitle?

In Russian, the word means passionate or emotional.

Pass.

The River Loa that rises in the Andes

and flows for some 275 miles into the Pacific Ocean

lies entirely within the boundaries of which country?

-Chile.

-Who was John McCain's controversial running mate

in the 2008 presidential election?

-Sarah Palin.

-What type of geographical feature

is denoted by the word sliabh in Irish place names?

-A river.

-A mountain.

Between 1652 and 1674,

England fought three wars against which European power?

-France.

-Dutch.

What major right of the Muslim religion,

the fifth of the Five Pillars of Islam,

takes place during Dhul Hijjah,

the last month of the Islamic year?

Hajj.

In the American television comedy series Modern Family,

Gloria Delgado-Pritchett is played by which Colombian-born actress?

-Hernandez.

-Sofia Vergara.

Fishcakes are normally dipped in egg

and coated in what before they're cooked?

Breadcrumbs.

With which single did the X Factor winner, Matt Cardle,

have the UK Christmas number one in 2010?

It was a cover of a Biffy Clyro song.

When We Collide.

What is the first name of Mr Micawber

in Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield?

-Andrew.

-Wilkins.

What is the English name for le maillot jaune,

which is worn by... BEEP ..the overall leader

of Tour de France cycle race?

The blue jersey.

The yellow jersey.

You had one pass. That French subtitle for the Sixth Symphony -

the Pathetique.

You have scored, though, Dan, a total of 22 points.

APPLAUSE

And finally, Maggz again.

And you start out with 12 points, Maggz.

The score to beat now is 22, as you have just heard.

So, let us see if you can do it in two and a half minutes,

starting now. What is the name of Mickey Mouse's girlfriend?

-Minnie.

-Which German state is known as Bayern in its own language?

-Black Forest.

-Bavaria.

Who played Mrs Slocombe in the 1970s and '80s sitcom

Are You Being Served?

-Mollie Sugden.

-What breed of small spaniel got its name

because it was originally bred to flush out woodcock for shooting?

-Field spaniel.

-Cocker spaniel.

The officially supported peasant uprising of 1900

that aimed to drive all foreigners out of China

is known by what name in the West?

-Velvet.

-The Boxer Rebellion.

What rhyming phrase meaning affectedly dainty

comes from the name of Ambrose Philips,

whose simple pastoral verses are mocked

in Alexander Pope's The Dunciad?

Pass.

In 2010, Dame Carol Ann Duffy wrote about

an injured football player in a poem called Achilles. Which player?

-Rooney.

-David Beckham.

What name, that comes from the Greek for curdling,

is given to the clotting of blood in an artery or vein

that has obstructed the flow?

Thrombosis.

In architecture, barrel, rib and fan are all types

of what arched form used to create a ceiling or roof?

-Vault.

-What is the name of the controversial politician

who eventually succeeded Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe

as President of South Africa in 2009?

Zuma.

Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire

was the ancestral home of which poet?

Byron.

The God of wine and vegetation was known to the ancient Greeks

and Romans as Dionysus and by what other name?

Bacchus.

Above which Dorset village is there a carving of a naked giant

cut into the chalk hillside,

traditionally believed to be over 1,500 years old?

-Penge.

-Cerne Abbas.

Which Italian composer and violinist,

who was ordained in 1703,

was known as the Red Priest because of the colour of his hair?

-Paganini.

-Vivaldi.

Who won a Best Actress Oscar for her performance

as the nightclub singer Sally Bowles

in the 1972 film Cabaret?

Liza Minnelli.

The Irish dish crubeens consists of part of a pig

boiled and sometimes eaten cold with vinegar. What part?

-Head.

-Feet.

A deck of cards used in fortune-telling includes

a tower struck by lightning and the day of judgment. What cards?

Tarot.

The first Winter Olympics were held in 1924

at what resort at the foot of Mont Blanc?

-Chamonix.

-What is the English name

of the Spanish autonomous region

known in Spanish as El Pais Vasco?

-Basque.

-Yes, the Basque Country.

What is this stage name of the Jamaican-born singer

originally called Orville Richard Burrell... BEEP

..who had his first UK number one single in 1993

with the song Oh Carolina?

-Shaggy.

-Is correct. One pass.

That rhyming phrase meaning affectedly dainty...

-Rather bizarre, but there we are. ..namby-pamby.

-Oh.

-There you go.

-Yeah, I know.

However, it didn't matter because, Maggz, you have 24 points.

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So, she did it at the end.

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

In joint third place, with 20 points,

Alan Burns and Robert Butlin.

Second place, 22 points, Dan Martin.

First place, 24 points, Maggz Bennett.

APPLAUSE

Which means, of course, that Maggz is tonight's winner,

and she goes through to the semifinals.

Congratulations to her.

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