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00:00Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, Clive Myrie.
00:28In the spotlight tonight are Dennis Wang, an actuary.
00:32His specialist subject is the UEFA men's Euros from 2000 to 2024.
00:37Naomi Killen, an account manager.
00:39She'll be answering questions on the writer Truman Capote.
00:42Natalie Abbott, a development officer.
00:44Her specialist subject is the US television series Gilmore Girls.
00:48And David Ford, a civil servant, whose subject is the British artist L.S. Lowry.
00:58I promise you the Mastermind studio is fizzing with excitement as our four contenders prepare to do battle.
01:05It may look on the surface like a calm river of tranquility, but beneath raging currents of fear do swirl.
01:12Remember, when the clock begins to tick down, the race is on.
01:15There's little time to think, and there ain't no teammate to help out, no conferring to jolly things along.
01:21You're on your own, traversing the choppy waters of two minutes on a specialist subject and two and a half minutes on general knowledge.
01:28And the prize of this wonderful glass bowl is up for grabs.
01:32So, can I ask our first contender to join us please?
01:36Your name?
01:45Dennis Swang.
01:46Your occupation?
01:47Actuary.
01:48And your specialist subject?
01:49The Euros from 2000 to 2024.
01:52The seven UEFA men's European football championships that took place from 2000 to 2024 in two minutes.
01:58Here we go.
01:59Which striker scored a late winner for England in their semi-final victory against the Netherlands at Euro 2024?
02:04Olly Watkins.
02:06Yes.
02:06At Euro 2020, which player scored the winning penalty for Italy in their semi-final shootout against Spain?
02:14Jorginho.
02:15Yes.
02:15At Euro 2012, France recorded their first victory in a major tournament since the World Cup in 2006, with a 2-0 win against which team in the group stage?
02:25Ukraine.
02:25Yes.
02:26What's the name of the German manager who led Greece to victory at the 2004 tournament?
02:30Otto Reharmel.
02:31Yes.
02:32At Euro 2000, the joint top scorers in the tournament were the Dutch striker Patrick Kluivert and which Yugoslav player who scored in all four of his team's matches?
02:40Savin Molasiewicz.
02:41Yes.
02:41At which French club stadium did Wales beat Belgium 3-1 at the quarter-final stage of Euro 2016?
02:49Bordeaux.
02:49No, Lille.
02:50Which Polish-born player scored both goals as Germany beat Poland 2-0 at Euro 2008 and said afterwards that he didn't celebrate because Poland is part of my heart?
02:59Lukasz Pzalski.
03:00Yes.
03:00Which Swedish striker came out of international retirement to play at Euro 2004 and scored twice in a 5-0 victory against Bulgaria?
03:08Larsson.
03:08Yes.
03:09Before Italy's game against Wales at Euro 2020, the Italian manager Roberto Mancini described the Welsh team as a powerful side like which English club?
03:20Stokes.
03:21Yes.
03:21What's the surname of the two brothers who became the first siblings to play against each other at the finals when Switzerland met Albania at Euro 2016?
03:29Chaka.
03:30Yes.
03:30Which Austrian striker scored a penalty against Poland at Euro 2008, making him, at the time, the oldest goal scorer in the history of the finals?
03:39Ivica Vastic.
03:40Yes.
03:40In Italy's defeat of the Netherlands in the semi-finals of Euro 2000, which goalkeeper saved a penalty in normal time and two more in the shootout?
03:48Toldo.
03:48Yes.
03:49Which player scored the only direct free-kick goal of Euro 2020 in Denmark's 2-1 semi-final defeat to England at Wembley?
03:56Damsgaard.
03:56Yes.
03:57Greece and Portugal, the eventual finalists in 2004, had both been in the same group, which the Portuguese topped, while the Greeks were runners-up on goals scored after finishing level on points.
04:07With which team?
04:09Spain.
04:10It was Spain.
04:13So, Dennis, at the end of that round, you had no passes.
04:16You've got 13 points.
04:17And our next contender, please.
04:35Your name.
04:36Naomi Killen.
04:37Your occupation.
04:38Account manager.
04:39And your specialist subject.
04:40Truman Capote.
04:41The influential American novelist and screenwriter.
04:44In two minutes.
04:45Here we go.
04:45Truman Capote spent part of his childhood in Wichstown in Alabama, where he first became friends with his future fellow author, Harper Lee.
04:52Monroeville.
04:53Yes.
04:53In 1933, Capote was enrolled in which boys' private school in New York City?
04:58Franklin School.
04:59No, Trinity School.
05:00Capote first met his long-term romantic partner, Jack Dunphy, in 1948, when they were introduced by which mutual friend, a writer and features editor?
05:09George Davis.
05:10No, Leo Lerman.
05:11What avian name did Capote give to the group of New York socialites he counted among his friends, who included Gloria Guinness, Slim Hayward and Babe Paley?
05:20The Swans.
05:20Yes.
05:21Capote was sacked from his role at the New Yorker magazine after an incident in 1944, when he walked out of a reading by which poet?
05:28Robert Frost.
05:29Yes.
05:29When Capote adapted his second novel, The Grass Harp, as a play, he wanted which nightclub comedian to originate the role of Miss Baby Love Dallas?
05:38Pass.
05:40In Other Voices, Other Rooms, the protagonist, Joel Harrison Knox, is taken to live in which isolated plantation house with his father, from whom he has hitherto been estranged?
05:49Scully's Landing.
05:50Yes. Capote accompanied the Everyman Opera on a pioneering trip to the Soviet Union, an experience he turned into what non-fiction work?
05:57The Muses Are Heard.
05:58Yes.
05:59In La Cote Basque, 1965, the action begins with the protagonist, P.B. Jones, meeting which of his friends for lunch at the titular restaurant?
06:08Lady Anna Coolberth.
06:09Yes. The famous 1966 black-and-white ball which Capote hosted in honour of Catherine Graham, the publisher of The Washington Post, was held at which hotel in New York?
06:18Plaza Hotel.
06:19Yes. In Observations, a book of photographs by Richard Avedon, Capote unintentionally offended which of his friends when he described her as having a sideways smile of rather paralytic contour?
06:30Catherine Anne Porter.
06:31No, Isak Dienersen. While holidaying in Verbier, Capote took just eight weeks to write a film script for what adaptation of the Henry James story, The Turn of the Screw?
06:42Pass.
06:43In 1945, Mademoiselle magazine published which short story?
06:46I've started so finish.
06:48In 1945, Mademoiselle magazine published which short story by Capote, in which the titular sinister little girl inveigles herself into the life of a middle-aged widow named Mrs. Miller?
06:58Miriam.
07:01It is Miriam.
07:04Naomi, you had two passes. While holidaying in Verbier, Capote took just eight weeks to write the film script. It was The Innocents.
07:11And when Capote adapted his second novel, The Grass Harp, as a play, he wanted Alice Pearce to appear in the role of Miss Baby Love Dallas.
07:21So at the end of that round, Naomi, you've got eight points.
07:28And our next contender, please.
07:43Your name.
07:44Natalie Abbott.
07:45Your occupation.
07:46Development officer.
07:47And your specialist subject.
07:48Gilmore Girls.
07:49The acclaimed American comedy drama series from the 2000s about the enterprising single mother Lorelai Gilmore and her gifted daughter Rory.
07:58In two minutes.
07:59Here we go.
07:59In the show's first season, Lorelai reconnects with her parents when she asks them to lend her money to help pay for Rory to attend what prestigious prep school?
08:08Chilton.
08:08Yes, what's the first name of the nosy neighbour of the Gilmores who calls numerous foreign consulates when the Gilmores don't arrive home from holiday when she expects them?
08:17Babette.
08:17Yes, in Like Mother, Like Daughter, Rory sits with an unfamiliar group of girls in the school cafeteria, inadvertently becoming involved in an elite sorority group with what name?
08:27The Puffs.
08:27Yes, Luke Steiner, frequented by the Gilmores, has what two words on the sign above the door?
08:33Williams Hardware.
08:34Yes, what name does Lorelai give to the dog she adopts in season six who is afraid of peas?
08:39Paul Anker.
08:40Yes, in season four, Lorelai and her friend and work colleague Suki are renovating a dilapidated hotel called the Dragonfly Inn and Lorelai buys two horses for it called Cletus and what?
08:51Desdemona.
08:52Yes, the Gilmores live in Stars Hollow, a fictional New England town which, according to a sign seen at the start of the first episode, was founded in what year?
09:011779.
09:02Yes, in Those Are Strings, Pinocchio, when Rory graduates top of her class at Chilton, she gives a speech expressing her love of reading, saying she rode a sad train with which literary character?
09:13Pass.
09:13Which future Oscar-winning actor had his first on-screen acting role in the episode in The Clamour and The Clangour, playing Andy, a student at an Adventist college?
09:23Um, pass.
09:27In It Should Have Been Lorelai, when Lorelai and Rory are the only customers in Luke's Diner, Lorelai proposes that they sit at the counter and play what game with food items?
09:36Napkin tennis?
09:38No, bagel hockey.
09:40In the Festival of Living Art, when the town is organising on-stage recreations of famous artworks, Lorelai is annoyed not to be chosen for her previous role in a painting by which artist?
09:50Renoir.
09:51Yes, in Application Anxiety, Lorelai jokes that Rory has to fill in her Harvard application fully and accurately, and that she should therefore list what nickname that Lorelai gave her as a baby.
10:03Droopy Draws.
10:04It is. Droopy Draws.
10:06Natalie, you had two passes. Rami Malek is the Oscar-winning actor who had his first on-screen acting role in the episode in The Clamour and The Clangour.
10:15And in Those Are Strings, Pinocchio, Rory says she rode a sad train with Anna Karenina.
10:21So at the end of that round, Natalie, you've got nine points.
10:34And our final contender, please.
10:43Your name?
10:45David Ford.
10:45Your occupation?
10:46Civil servant.
10:47And your specialist subject?
10:49L.S. Lowry.
10:50The painter, born in 1887, best known for his scenes of life in northwest England. In two minutes. Here we go.
10:56In 1905, L.S. Lowry began attending evening classes at the Manchester Municipal College of Art, where he was later taught life drawing by which French painter?
11:05Adolphe Vallette.
11:06Yes. In 1909, the Lowry family moved from Manchester's Victoria Park to which industrial suburb, now part of Salford?
11:13Pendlebury.
11:13Yes. Which of Lowry's tutors at Salford School of Art advised him that his paintings were too dark, inspiring him to develop his technique of painting on pure white backgrounds?
11:22Bernard Taylor.
11:23Yes. After being made redundant by general accident in 1910, Lowry found a new job as a rent collector for which other company?
11:31Palmall Property Company.
11:32Yes. In 1921, Lowry's first public exhibition took place at the offices of the architect, Roland Thomason, on which street in Manchester?
11:40Moseley Street.
11:41Yes. What was the name of the literary editor of the Manchester Guardian who purchased Going to the Mill for £10 in 1926, prompting Lowry to give him another painting called A Manufacturing Town as well?
11:52Moseley?
11:53No. Arthur Wallace. What was the title of Lowry's 1930 maritime painting that was his mother's favourite of his works and which Lowry treasured after her death for that reason?
12:02Yachts at St Lidham?
12:04No. Sailing boats.
12:05In the 1957 painting Man Lying on a Wall, what object bears Lowry's initials? L.S.L.
12:11A beef case.
12:12Yes. Which pastel work, completed in 1921, did Lowry recall as being the first picture he ever sold?
12:19A lodging house.
12:20Yes. What was the title of the written work published in 1931 that Lowry was commissioned to illustrate by the writer Harold Timperley?
12:27A Cotswold book.
12:28Yes. Lowry largely abandoned portraiture after a 1919 painting of which of his friends was received extremely negatively by the subject and his family?
12:38Francis Fletcher.
12:38Yes. I'll take that. Frank Jopling Fletcher. In later life, Lowry regularly holidayed in Sunderland and many of the seascapes that he painted were based on the view from his room at which hotel?
12:49The Seaburn Hotel.
12:50Yes. What was the name of the house in Mottram in Longendale that Lowry purchased in 1948 and lived in until his death in 1976?
12:58The Elms.
12:59It was. The Elms.
13:01David, at the end of that round, you had no passes. You've got 11 points.
13:05And at the end of the specialist subjects round, let's have a look at the scores.
13:18In fourth place, with eight points, it's Naomi.
13:20In third place, with nine points, sits Natalie.
13:23In second place, with 11 points, it's David.
13:26And in first place, with 13 points, it's Dennis.
13:29So now it's general knowledge.
13:31And if there's a tie at the end, then the number of passes is taken into account and the person with the fewer passes is the winner.
13:38And if they're tied on passes as well, it's a tie break.
13:41So let's ask Naomi to join us again, please.
13:51Naomi, you start with eight points.
13:53You've got two and a half minutes on general knowledge.
13:56Here we go.
13:56What do the letters MP stand for after the name of a British politician?
14:01Member of Parliament.
14:02Yes.
14:02The items of soft furnishing called drapes in the United States are known in the UK by what name?
14:07Curtains.
14:08Yes.
14:08What 19th century novel by Louisa May Alcott begins with the line,
14:12Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents, grumbled Joe lying on the rug?
14:16Little Women.
14:17Yes.
14:17In the ninth movement of the Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saëns, a clarinet plays two notes on repeat to mimic the call of what bird?
14:26Canary.
14:27No, Cuckoo.
14:28At the Academy Awards ceremony in 2025, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the film A Real Pain?
14:35Kieran Culkin.
14:36Yes.
14:36In Greek mythology, what was the name of the Trojan Queen who was the wife of King Priam and mother of many children, including the warriors Hector and Paris?
14:45Helena.
14:45No, Hecuba.
14:46The national flags of Senegal, Chile and North Korea all feature what symbol?
14:52Pass.
14:53An organisation formed in 1999 as the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance introduced what two-syllable term to promote a common standard for wireless networking technology?
15:05Pass.
15:06The phrase, to catch a crab, most commonly refers to a faulty stroke in which sport?
15:11Swimming.
15:12No, rowing.
15:13What 1955 UK number one single by Bill Haley and the Comets was featured on the soundtrack of the film Blackboard Jungle?
15:20Rock around the clock?
15:20Yes.
15:21To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 2012, which English town in Essex was granted city status?
15:29Grantham.
15:30No, Chelmsford.
15:30What metric unit of liquid volume is equal to just less than 1.76 British pints?
15:37Liter.
15:38Yes, a hairstyle usually for women in which the hair is layered and cut very short is named after what elf-like creature from English folklore?
15:46Pixie.
15:47Yes.
15:47What 1930 painting by Grant Wood features figures modelled on the artist's sister Nan Wood Graham and the dentist Byron McKeeby?
15:55Pass.
15:56What name for a type of small, thin sausage is derived from an Italian word meaning flavoured with onion?
16:03Salami.
16:03No, Cipollata.
16:04At which battle fought in Bavaria in 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession?
16:10Did armies led by the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugène of Savoy defeat the French forces?
16:15Pass.
16:16Which British fashion photographer, known for his portraits of celebrities, was married to the actress Catherine Deneuve and later the model Marie Helvin?
16:23David Bailey.
16:24Yes, in a traditional Punch and Judy show, the character, called Toby, is what type of domesticated animal?
16:31Dog.
16:31It is a dog.
16:33Naomi, you had four passes from the battle fought in Bavaria in 1704 during the War of Spanish Succession, the Battle of Blenheim.
16:40And the 1930 painting by Grant Wood, that's American Gothic, that term for the common standard for wireless networking technology, Wi-Fi.
16:49And the national flags of Senegal, Chile and North Korea, they all feature a star.
16:54So, at the end of that round, Naomi, you've got 17 points.
16:59Yeah.
17:08Next up, it's Natalie.
17:17Natalie, you start with nine points.
17:18Once the score to beat us, it stands is 17 points and you've got two and a half minutes on general knowledge.
17:24Here we go.
17:24Bremen, Hanover and Magdeburg are cities in which European country?
17:28Germany.
17:28Yes.
17:28What's the usual term for a group of seven musicians performing together as an ensemble?
17:34Scepter.
17:34Yes.
17:34What name?
17:35A contraction of the term formula translation was given to an early computer programming language developed in the 1950s.
17:42Formulation?
17:43No, Fortran.
17:44At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Rebecca Adlington won two gold medals for Great Britain in which sport?
17:50Swimming.
17:51Yes.
17:51What controversial rock musical, which had its Broadway premiere in 1968, features the songs Aquarius, Easy To Be Hard and Good Morning Starshine?
18:01Rocky Horror Picture Show.
18:02No, Hair.
18:03Which Canadian actor who died in 2024, aged 88, starred in the Oscar-winning films MASH, Clute and Ordinary People?
18:09Pass.
18:10Which Secretary-General of the United Nations was posthumously awarded the 1961 Nobel Peace Prize for developing the UN into an effective and constructive international organisation?
18:20Pass.
18:21What's the surname of the dairy farmer Michael, who established the Glastonbury Festival, and his daughter Emily, who became a co-organiser of the event?
18:28Yves.
18:29Yes.
18:29The radio call sign Marine One is normally applied to what type of aircraft when it's transporting the US President?
18:35Helicopter?
18:36Yes.
18:37Mary of Tech was the queen consort of which British king?
18:40George I.
18:41Yes.
18:42What 1975 best-selling historical novel by James Clavel tells of the experiences in feudal Japan of an English ship pilot named John Blackthorn?
18:51Pass.
18:51In the abbreviation HRT for a treatment used to relieve symptoms of the menopause, the letter H stands for what word?
18:58Hormone.
18:59Yes.
18:59Although it's believed to have originated in China, the common species of what stone fruit has the scientific name Prunus armeniaca, or Armenian plum?
19:12Pass.
19:13In the title of a television drama series that began in 2022, the name of which unit of the British army is followed by the words Rogue Heroes?
19:20S.A.S.?
19:22Yes.
19:23After his death in Barcelona in 1926, which famous Catalan architect was buried in the crypt of the Sagrada Familia Church?
19:31Pass.
19:31What was the title of the daily tabloid launched in 1986 that became the UK's first full-colour national newspaper, only to cease publication nine years later?
19:41Pass.
19:41The Bellini cocktail made by mixing peach puree with Prosecco was created by Giuseppe Cipriani at the famous Harry's Bar in which Italian city?
19:52Florence.
19:52No, Venice.
19:53What word for a pale shade of purple...
19:55I've started to all finish.
19:57What word for a pale shade of purple is the French name for the plant genus Mallow?
20:03Lilac?
20:04No, it's mauve.
20:06Natalie, you had six passes.
20:09The title of the daily tabloid launched in 1986 that only lasted nine years.
20:13Today, Antony Gaudi is the famous Catalan architect buried in the crypt of the Sagrada Familia Church.
20:21That fruit known as the Armenian plum, apricots.
20:25Shogun, that's the best-selling historical novel by James Clavel.
20:28That UN Secretary General, Dag Hammershould.
20:31And it was Donald Sutherland, who was the Canadian actor, who died in 2024.
20:37So at the end of that round, Natalie, you've got 17 points.
20:50Next up, it's David.
20:51David, you start with 11 points.
21:00The score to beat, as it stands, is 17 points.
21:03And you've got two and a half minutes on general knowledge.
21:05Here we go.
21:06In most countries, Valentine's Day is observed on the 14th of which month?
21:09February.
21:10Yes.
21:10In the NATO phonetic alphabet, the letter W is represented by the name of what alcoholic drink?
21:16Whiskey.
21:16Yes.
21:17The many UK hit singles of which American rapper include My Name Is, Just Lose It and Not Afraid?
21:22Drake.
21:23No, Eminem.
21:23The Ligurian Sea, an arm of the Mediterranean, separates mainland Italy and which large French island?
21:29Corsica.
21:30Yes.
21:30In the 2001 biographical film Iris, the author, Iris Murdoch, is portrayed in her youth by Kate Winslet
21:36and by which other actress as an older woman?
21:38Maggie Smith.
21:39No, Judi Dench.
21:40What's the name of the Scottish golf club a few miles north of the town of Eyre, which
21:44hosted the Open Championship for the 10th time in 2024?
21:48Troon.
21:48Yes.
21:49Which Roman god is usually depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions and is
21:53regarded as the guardian of doorways and passages?
21:56Janus.
21:57Yes.
21:57Which member of the House of Lords, also known for her career as a presenter of children's
22:01television shows such as Play School and Play Away in the 1970s and 80s, was presented
22:06with a BAFTA Fellowship Award in May 2024?
22:09Floelle Benjamin.
22:09Yes.
22:10In chess, a knight is usually represented by the head of which animal?
22:14Horse.
22:14Yes.
22:15What aquatic plant, sometimes known as Nile grass, was used in ancient Egypt as the main
22:20source of writing material?
22:22Papyrus.
22:22Yes.
22:22According to the Book of Genesis, which city was destroyed together with its neighbour Sodom
22:27in a rain of fire and brimstone?
22:29Gomorrah.
22:29Yes.
22:30An Italian woman named Clara Petacci was the mistress of which dictator together with whom she
22:36was executed in 1945?
22:38Mussolini.
22:39Yes.
22:39In geometry, the internal angles of what regular polygon are up to 540 degrees?
22:45Pentagon.
22:46Yes.
22:46What adjective, literally meaning like an ass or a donkey, is also commonly used to mean
22:51extremely foolish or stubborn?
22:53Asinine.
22:53Yes.
22:54The manufactured element with the atomic number 112 and the chemical symbol CN is named after
22:59which Polish astronomer?
23:00Marie, uh, uh, Nicholas Copernicus.
23:05Yes.
23:05What was the surname of Frank, the American businessman who in the 1940s invented an ice resurfacing
23:11machine that's named after him and is used to smooth and clean ice rinks?
23:15Vanetti.
23:17No, Zamboni.
23:18Three siblings named Phyllis, Peter and Bobby are the title characters of which 1906 novel
23:23by E. Nesbitt?
23:25The Railway Children.
23:25Yes, the 1944 operetta Song of Norway by Robert Wright and George Forrest is based on the
23:31life and music of which composer?
23:33Grieg.
23:34What major inlet of the Atlantic Ocean separates the English counties of Devon and Somerset from
23:43South Wales and is named after the city at its narrower eastern end?
23:48The Bristol Channel.
23:49It is the Bristol Channel.
23:51David, at the end of that round you had no passes.
23:54You've got 27 points.
24:04And finally, let's have Dennis again, please.
24:16Dennis, you start with 13 points.
24:18The score to beat to get through to the semifinals is David's 27 points.
24:23You've got two and a half minutes on general knowledge.
24:25Here we go.
24:26What punctuation mark comprising a dot above a comma can be used to link two associated statements?
24:32Semicolon.
24:32Yes, what yellow, roughly cylindrical creatures, the title characters of a 2015 animated film,
24:37first appeared in the film Despicable Me?
24:40Minions.
24:40Yes, the guru Grant Sahib is the main sacred text of which major religion?
24:45Seekerson.
24:46Yes, the UK Prime Ministers Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan and Margaret Thatcher all studied
24:50at colleges at which English university?
24:53Oxford.
24:53Yes, what's the name of the columnist and former England cricketer and television commentator
24:57known throughout the game as Bumble?
25:01Boycott.
25:01No, David Lloyd.
25:03Bauxite is the principal ore of which metal?
25:05Aluminium.
25:06Yes, which Archbishop of Canterbury was convicted of heresy and burned at the stake in 1556 during
25:11the reign of Mary I?
25:14Cranmer.
25:14Yes, what word for a type of military naval vessel is the name of a simple game originally
25:20played with pen and paper in which the aim is to locate and sink an opponent's fleet by
25:24guessing its coordinates on a grid?
25:26Bauxite.
25:26Yes, the folk rock trio Crosby, Stills and Nash became a quartet in 1969 when they were joined
25:32by which Canadian singer?
25:34Young.
25:34Yes, an alternative name for the vitamin pantothenic acid is the letter B followed by which single
25:40digit number?
25:42Three.
25:43No, five.
25:44What's the professional name of the actor, comedian and regular game show panellist who
25:48was born Michael Joseph Pennington in St. Helens in 1970?
25:51Er, Smith.
25:53No, Johnny Vegas.
25:55The chanterelle, sometimes called a girole, is a wild variety of what foodstuff?
26:00Mushroom.
26:00Yes, the islands of North and South, Ronaldsay, form part of which Scottish archipelago?
26:06Atta Hebertys.
26:07No, Orkney.
26:08Which novel by Charles Dickens features the character Sidney Carton who, after switching
26:12places with a condemned man, says,
26:14It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done?
26:18Tale of Two Cities.
26:19Yes, a Tale of Two Cities.
26:21One name derived from a Latin word for breast is given to the pair of fins on either side
26:25of a fish just behind its head.
26:28Um, mammal.
26:31No, pectoral fins.
26:32The three banks authorised to issue banknotes in Northern Ireland after First Trust Bank
26:36stopped issuing them in 2022 are the Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank and which other bank
26:40previously known as Northern Bank?
26:43Antrim.
26:43No, Danske Bank.
26:45The American ski resorts of Vail, Aspen and Brecon Ridge are in which mountain range?
26:49Rockies.
26:50Rockies.
26:50Yes.
26:51Which long-running West End jukebox musical features the song Super Trooper, Dancing Queen
26:55and the winner takes it all?
26:58Um, Mamma Mia.
27:01It is.
27:02Mamma Mia.
27:03And Dennis, at the end of that round you had no passes, you've got 25 points.
27:09So, let's have a look at the final scores.
27:22In joint third place with 17 points each, it's Naomi and Natalie.
27:26In second place with 25 points, it's Dennis, which means in first place with 27 points in
27:33a high-scoring game, it's David.
27:35So, he goes through to the semi-finals.
27:38Congratulations to him.
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