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00:24Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, Clive Myrie.
00:28In the spotlight tonight are Robert Cohen, a barrister and farmer.
00:32His specialist subject is The History of Sheep.
00:35Liz Bain, a solicitor.
00:37She'll be answering questions on the Neapolitan novels of Eleanor Ferranti.
00:41Katie Stoyle, a marketing executive.
00:43Her specialist subject is The Music of Katy Perry.
00:46And Maxim Sinclair, an environmental analyst whose subject is Gerard Winstanley
00:51and the 17th century protest movement The Diggers.
00:59If ever there was a time for our four brave contenders to just relax, it is now.
01:07Calm the nerves, steady the butterflies, embrace their inner zen.
01:11That is the only way to successfully navigate what will be an arduous experience.
01:16The spotlight, the ticking clock and the warm embrace of the mastermind black chair
01:21are all designed to intimidate.
01:23So, who will most successfully find their path to enlightenment?
01:28Two minutes on a specialist subject and two and a half minutes on general knowledge will decide.
01:32So, can I ask our first contender to join us please?
01:44Your name?
01:46Robert Cohen.
01:47Your occupation?
01:48Barrister and farmer.
01:49And your specialist subject?
01:51The history of sheep.
01:52The domesticated mammal and the role it has played in human history, culture and commerce.
01:57In two minutes.
01:58Here we go.
01:59Modern domesticated sheep are thought to be descended from the wild species Ovis orientalis,
02:04commonly known as the Asiatic what?
02:07Mouflon.
02:07Yes.
02:08In the 19th century, which English city was nicknamed Worstedopolis
02:11because of its importance in the manufacture of the wool-based fabric Worsted?
02:16Brantford.
02:16Yes.
02:17What name is given to the traditional method of shepherding without fences or barriers
02:20that relies on the sheep's natural inclination to stick to its home range?
02:25Hefted.
02:25Yes.
02:26What waterproof material was invented in 1879 by Thomas Burberry,
02:29who was inspired by the smocks worn by local shepherds
02:32that became water-resistant through contact with sheep wool?
02:36Gabardine.
02:37Yes.
02:37In the Montgolfier Brothers' test flight of a hot air balloon in 1783,
02:41the first living creatures to fly in a human-made aircraft were a duck,
02:45a cockerel and a sheep, known by what French name?
02:48Montessiel.
02:49Yes.
02:49The badger-faced Welsh mountain sheep,
02:52believed to be one of the oldest British sheep breeds,
02:54comes in two types,
02:55the torði, which are mainly white,
02:57and which other that are mainly black?
03:01The bula?
03:02No, torwen.
03:03In sheep farming,
03:04what's the traditional term for the coloured paste used to mark a ram's chest
03:08at tupping time in order to identify mated hues?
03:11Rattle.
03:12Yes.
03:13The lorpepeza is a traditional knitted woolen sweater that originated in which country?
03:19Spain.
03:20No, Iceland.
03:21The identical twin sheep cloned from embryonic cells by the University of Edinburgh's Roslyn Institute
03:26in 1995 were called Megan and what?
03:29Morag.
03:29Yes.
03:30Which French author wrote Le Bon Brégé, or The Good Shepherd,
03:34one of the first known books on sheep husbandry in 1379?
03:39Pass.
03:40What name is given to the farming practice prevalent from the late 1700s to the early 1900s,
03:45in which sheep were herded into movable temporary pens,
03:48so that their manure could fertilise the soil?
03:51Transhumans.
03:52No, folding.
03:53Which breed introduced in the Americas by the Spanish conquistadors in the early 16th century
03:57is believed to have been the first domesticated sheep in the New World?
04:02Churro.
04:03It is churro.
04:05Robert, you had just the one pass.
04:07Which French author wrote Le Bon Brégé, or The Good Shepherd?
04:12That was Jean de Brie.
04:14So at the end of that round, Robert, you've got eight points.
04:28And our next contender, please.
04:36Your name.
04:38Liz Bain.
04:39Your occupation.
04:40Solicitor.
04:40And your specialist subject.
04:41The Neapolitan novels by Eleanor Ferrante.
04:44Yeah, the series of novels about the lives of two friends,
04:46Eleanor Greco and Raffaella Churulo, known as Leela.
04:50In two minutes.
04:51Here we go.
04:52As children, Leela and Eleanor would play together with their dolls.
04:55Leela's was called New.
04:57What was the name of Eleanor's doll?
04:58Tina.
04:59Yes.
04:59What's the title of the novel written by Leela as a child,
05:02the manuscript of which Eleanor rediscovers as an adult
05:05and returns to her only for her friend to throw it in the fire?
05:08The Blue Fairy.
05:09Yes.
05:10In the summer before her final year of high school,
05:12Eleanor gets a job working in a bookshop on what street in Naples?
05:17Le Stradone?
05:18No, via Mezzo Canone.
05:20In My Brilliant Friend, the schoolteacher Maestra Oliviero is concerned that Eleanor is a little too pale
05:26and arranges for her to spend some of the summer with her cousin on what island?
05:31Iskia.
05:31Yes.
05:32In Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, Eleanor writes an exposé of the conditions at the sausage factory where
05:38Leela used to work,
05:39which is published in which political newspaper?
05:43Ilmatino?
05:44No, Lunita.
05:45During a walk with Leela in The Story of the Lost Child, Eleanor asks her,
05:49Are you happy with Enzo?
05:50And also, do you really love him?
05:52And to both questions, Leela gives what single word answer?
05:58Now?
05:59No, enough.
06:00Leela's father, Fernando, the shoemaker, is described in My Brilliant Friend as looking like an unrefined version of which American
06:06actor?
06:08Pass.
06:09What's the first name of the young man on whom Eleanor has a crush, but whom Leela dismisses in The
06:14Story of a New Name as skinny, ugly, and most of all, really arrogant?
06:19Nino?
06:20Yes.
06:20When Eleanor's debut novel is published, it sells well and receives a review by Donato Saratori, her friend, Nino's father,
06:27in which he calls her book a cheap version of which other novel?
06:35Pass.
06:36In My Brilliant Friend, when Eleanor is standing in front of her high school class being questioned on the Aeneid,
06:42her teacher, Professor Gerace, laughs when she mispronounces what word?
06:52Pass.
06:54It's Oracle.
06:55Yeah.
06:56Liz, you had two other passes.
06:59When Eleanor's debut novel is published, it sells well and receives a review by Donato Saratori,
07:04who compares it as a cheap version to bonjour tristesse.
07:08And Leela's father, Fernando the Shoemaker, is described in My Brilliant Friend as looking like an unrefined version of Randolph
07:15Scott.
07:17So at the end of that round, Liz, you've got four points.
07:29And our next contender, please.
07:39Your name.
07:40Katie Stoyle.
07:41Your occupation.
07:42Marketing executive.
07:43And your specialist subject.
07:44The music of Katy Perry.
07:46The musical output of the chart-topping American pop singer.
07:49In two minutes.
07:50Here we go.
07:51In her first UK number one single, Katy Perry sings that she kissed a girl who had what flavour chapstick?
07:56Cherry.
07:57Yes.
07:57What was Perry's birth surname, which features in the title of her unsuccessful 2001 debut album, a collection of contemporary
08:04Christian songs?
08:05Hudson.
08:05Yes.
08:06Which prolific Swedish songwriter and record producer collaborated with Perry on her chart-topping album, Prism,
08:11co-writing and co-producing hits such as Raw and Birthday?
08:15Max Martin.
08:16Yes.
08:16What's the name of the canine beauty contest with the slogan, Making Fetch Happen, that Perry attends with her pet
08:22dog, Nugget, in the video for the 2019 song, Small Talk?
08:29Woof.
08:30No, the mutt ball.
08:31Two birds feature in the titles of tracks on Perry's 2010 album, Teenage Dream, a peacock, and what other bird
08:37on the penultimate track?
08:41Pigeon.
08:42No, hummingbird.
08:43Which Katy Perry song, co-written with Glenn Ballard and Matt Thiessen, appears on the soundtrack album of the 2005
08:49film, The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants?
08:51Simple.
08:52Yes.
08:52What was the name of the nearly two-year-long concert residency hosted by Perry in Las Vegas from December
08:572021?
08:58Play.
08:59Yes.
08:59On the 2014 episode of CMT Crossroads, Perry duetted with Casey Musgraves on a cover of which Dolly Parton song
09:07and performed it again five years later at the Grammy Awards, this time with Parton herself?
09:12Here You Come Again.
09:12Yes.
09:13In which city did the Lifetimes tour begin on the 23rd of April 2025, with Perry rising up above the
09:19stage before opening with the song Artificial?
09:22Mexico City.
09:22Yes.
09:23In the lyrics of Perry's 2024 single, Woman's World, Perry uses a nature metaphor to describe the modern woman, saying
09:29she's a flower, she's a what?
09:33Tree.
09:34No, Thorne.
09:35No, Thorne.
09:35On Perry's 2009 MTV Unplugged album, she sings a cover version of what track by the American rock band Fountains
09:42of Wayne?
09:42Hackensack.
09:43Yes.
09:43In the official music video for her 2017 song Swish Swish, Perry's character, a basketball player named Kobe Perry, is
09:51described as having been drafted out of what school?
09:56The Tigers?
09:57No, the School of Hard Knocks.
10:00So, Katie, at the end of that round, you had no passes.
10:03You've got eight points.
10:14And our final contender, please.
10:24Your name?
10:25Maxim Sinclair.
10:26Your occupation?
10:27Environmental analyst.
10:28And your specialist subject?
10:30Gerard Winstanley and the diggers.
10:31The agrarian protest movement and its leader who set up a short-lived community on St George's Hill in Surrey
10:37in the mid-17th century.
10:39In two minutes.
10:40Here we go.
10:40Gerard Winstanley and others started the first digging experiment in 1649 around St George's Hill in which parish in Surrey?
10:48Walton.
10:49Yes.
10:49What's the usual title given to the 1649 pamphlet that's regarded as the first in which Winstanley sets out his
10:55vision for people to work the common land?
10:58True Level of Standard Advanced?
10:59No, the new law of righteousness.
11:01Winstanley published a manifesto which stated that while they were waiting for their first crop yields, the digger community would
11:07raise funds by selling what raw material?
11:09Wood.
11:10Yes.
11:10What was the name of the president of the Council of States who wrote to the commander of the army,
11:14Lord Fairfax, to call for the diggers to be dispersed?
11:18Pass.
11:19When he appeared alongside Winstanley before Lord Fairfax at Whitehall, which digger made a lengthy speech explaining their activities which
11:26helped publicise their cause?
11:27William Everard.
11:28Yes.
11:29Which London bookseller published a collected edition of Winstanley's first five works compiled in December 1649 in which Winstanley had
11:36set out his radical religious ideas?
11:38Giles Calvert?
11:39Yes.
11:40In the law of freedom, from what age did Winstanley say that people should be free from all labour and
11:45work?
11:47Birth?
11:47No, 40.
11:49The diggers relocated from St. George's Hill to nearby Cobham later in 1649 after an action of trespass that was
11:55brought against them by which MP?
11:58Francis Drake.
11:58Yes.
11:59Which former member of the radical group, the Ranters, later criticised Winstanley for a most shameful retreat from St. George's
12:05Hill?
12:06Pass.
12:07Winstanley briefly worked the land of the eccentric writer Lady Eleanor Douglas, but left after she assumed the guise of
12:14which biblical king and berated him for providing false accounts?
12:19Bezekiel?
12:20No, Melchizedek.
12:22In one of the early pamphlets, Winstanley explained that he chose to refer to God by what name?
12:27Reason.
12:27Because it was the highest name that can be given to him.
12:30Reason.
12:31Yes.
12:31To whom did Winstanley dedicate his 1651 pamphlet, The Law of Freedom, claiming that you have the power in your
12:37hand to act for common freedom if you will.
12:40I have no power.
12:41Oliver Cromwell.
12:42It was Oliver Cromwell.
12:45Maxim, you had two passes.
12:47Which former member of the radical group, the Ranters, later criticised Winstanley for a most shameful retreat from St. George's
12:53Hill?
12:53It was Lawrence Clarkson.
12:55You knew it.
12:57And the name of the president of the Council of State who wrote to the commander of the army, Lord
13:01Fairfax, to call for the diggers to be dispersed, John Bradshaw.
13:06So at the end of that round, Maxim, you've got seven points.
13:18And at the end of the specialist subjects round, let's have a look at the scores.
13:22In fourth place with four points, it's Liz.
13:24In third place with seven points, Maxim.
13:27And in joint first place with eight points each, it's Robert and Katie.
13:32So now, it's general knowledge.
13:34And if there's a tie at the end, then the number of passes is taken into account.
13:37And the person with the fewer passes is the winner.
13:40And if they're tied on passes as well, it's a tie break.
13:43So let's ask Liz to join us again, please.
13:53Liz, you start with four points.
13:55You've got two and a half minutes on general knowledge.
13:58Here we go.
13:59Flat white and long black are different preparations of what hot drink?
14:02Coffee.
14:03Yes.
14:03The diamond, the batter's box and the home plate are features of the field of play in which sport?
14:10Baseball.
14:10Yes.
14:11The geological time period between around 360 and 420 million years ago, which was part of the Paleozoic era,
14:18was named after which county in south-west England?
14:24Cornwall?
14:25No, Devon.
14:26In July 2024, the novelist and screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce succeeded Joseph Coilow as the holder of what literary position?
14:35Poet laureate?
14:37No, children's laureate.
14:38What's the generic British name for the over-the-counter pain-killing medicine that's known in North America as acetaminophen?
14:47Paracetamol?
14:47Yes.
14:48Which Irish pop group had their first UK number one album in 2000 with Coast to Coast?
14:55Bewitched?
14:56No, Westlife.
14:57The thylacine, an extinct carnivorous marsupial, is known by a common name that refers to which island,
15:03where the last known specimen was captured in the 1930s?
15:12Pass.
15:13In the name of the fuel, commonly known as LPG, the letter G stands for what?
15:17What word?
15:24Pass.
15:25The Itaipu Dam, completed in 1982, stands on the border between Brazil and Paraguay on which river?
15:33Pass.
15:34What's the first name of the fashion designer, born in 1959, who is the son of Sir Terence and Shirley
15:39Conran?
15:44Donner?
15:45No, Jasper.
15:46The words of the traditional Scottish song, Auld Lang Syne, are attributed to which poet who wrote them down in
15:52the late 18th century, claiming to have taken them from an old man singing?
15:56Robert Burns?
15:57Yes.
15:58At the Academy Awards ceremony in 2024, the Oscar for Best Animated Feature was won by a Japanese film entitled
16:04The Boy and the what?
16:05Heron.
16:06Yes.
16:06A jill, spelt G-I-L-L, is an imperial unit of measurement for liquids officially equal to what fraction
16:13of a pint?
16:16One third?
16:18No, a quarter.
16:19In the 1960s television spy series The Avengers, which actress played the martial arts expert Emma Peel?
16:27Florence Pugh?
16:29No, Diana Rigg.
16:32It's scary, that chair.
16:33It is.
16:34It really does get to you.
16:36You had three passes, Liz.
16:38The Itaipu Dam stands on the Paraná River on the border between Brazil and Paraguay.
16:44LPG, the letter G, stands for gas.
16:49And thylacine, an extinct carnivorous marsupial, is from Tasmania.
16:56So at the end of that round, Liz, you've got a total of nine points.
17:09Next up, it's Maxim.
17:18Maxim, you start with seven points.
17:20The score to beat as it stands is nine points, and you've got two and a half minutes on general
17:24knowledge.
17:25Here we go.
17:26In an expression meaning that a bad situation always also has a positive side to it,
17:30every cloud has what colour lining?
17:33Silver.
17:33Yes.
17:34What common name for the phagous genus of trees sounds the same as a word for an expanse of sand
17:39or stones at a shoreline?
17:43Beach.
17:44Beach.
17:44Yes.
17:44What's the positive square root of 121?
17:48Nine.
17:49No, 11.
17:50Which planet in our solar system is the seventh closest to the sun and orbits at an average distance of
17:55around 1.8 billion miles?
17:57Saturn.
17:58No, Uranus.
17:59The name of which mountain peak in the Bernese Alps is a German word for maiden or virgin?
18:05Matterhorn.
18:06No, Jungfrau.
18:07General Franco, who led the nationalist forces in the Spanish Civil War, had what first name?
18:12Robert.
18:12No, Francisco.
18:14What's the name of the Liverpool-born comedian and actor who, in 2024, became the first blind winner of Strictly
18:19Come Dancing?
18:22Pass.
18:23The Palm House, Queen Charlotte's Cottage and King William's Temple are features of which botanical gardens in southwest London?
18:29Q.
18:29Yes.
18:30Which American singer had a double A-side UK hit single in 1985 featuring the songs 1999 and Little Red
18:36Corvette?
18:38Chaka Khan.
18:39No, Prince.
18:39In November 2024, Heidi Alexander was appointed as the Secretary of State for which UK government department?
18:45Transport.
18:46Yes.
18:46Which actress, who died in 2014 at the age of 104, became the first person to win a Best Actress
18:51Oscar in consecutive years when she won the award in the 1930s for her performances in the films The Great
18:57Ziegfeld and The Good Earth?
19:00Pass.
19:01Which British author created the character Dirk Gently, who appears in the novels Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The Long
19:08Dark Tea Time of the Soul and The Salmon of Doubt?
19:12Ian McEwan.
19:13No, Douglas Adams.
19:14What weapon, known by the Gaelic name Skiandu, is tucked into the sock as part of a traditional Highland dress?
19:21Nice.
19:22Dagger.
19:22Yes, dagger.
19:23In a medley relay swimming race, participants must swim the first leg using which stroke?
19:28Breaststroke?
19:29No, backstroke.
19:30On British roads, a circular sign depicting a red car to the right of a black car indicates to drivers
19:36that what manoeuvre is not permitted?
19:41Crossing?
19:41No, overtaking.
19:42The British scientists Francis Aston, Alexander Todd and Harold Croteau were all 20th century winners of the Nobel Prize in
19:49which discipline?
19:50Chemistry?
19:51Yes.
19:51What stage musical, which opened on Broadway in 1946, features songs entitled Doing What Comes Naturally?
19:58There's no business like show business and they say it's wonderful?
20:04Rent.
20:05No, Annie, get your gun.
20:08Maxim, you had two passes.
20:10The actress who died in 2014 at the age of 104, who became the first person to win a Best
20:15Actress Oscar in consecutive years, was Louise Rayner.
20:19And the Liverpool-born comedian, the first blind winner of Strictly Come Dancing, Chris McCausland.
20:27So at the end of that round, Maxim, you've got 13 points.
20:39Next up, it's Robert.
20:50Robert, you start with eight points.
20:52The score to beat as it stands is 13 points and you've got two and a half minutes on general
20:56knowledge.
20:57Let's go.
20:58In the name of a financial product that was often sold with credit cards, mortgages and loans, the abbreviation PPI
21:04stands for payment protection what?
21:06Insurance.
21:07Yes, what dark red variety of bean, often used in chili con carne, is named for its resemblance to an
21:12organ of the human body?
21:14Kidney.
21:15Yes, Thomas Howard, the third Duke of Norfolk, was the uncle of Catherine Howard and which other wife of Henry
21:20VIII?
21:21Jane Seymour.
21:22No, Anne Boleyn.
21:23The singer Matt Bellamy is the frontman of which band whose UK number one albums include The Second Law, Drones
21:30and Simulation Theory?
21:32Pulse.
21:32The Loop, Wicker Park and Lake View are all neighbourhoods in which American city?
21:37Chicago.
21:38Yes, which golfer from Northern Ireland won his fifth major and completed a career Grand Slam with victory in the
21:442025 Masters Tournament at Augusta, Georgia?
21:47Rory McIlroy.
21:48Yes, on a standard UK computer keyboard, which consonant is immediately to the right of the letter E?
21:54R.
21:55Yes, the Italian silent screen actor Rodolfo Guglielmi, nicknamed the Latin lover, was better known by what stage name?
22:05Charlie Chaplin.
22:06No, Rudolf Valentino, Rotherham service area, which opened in 2025 as a service station on which English motorway?
22:13M1.
22:14Yes, the many songs of which composer and lyricist include You're the Top, Let's Do It and Every Time We
22:20Say Goodbye?
22:21Cole Porter.
22:21Yes, in Judaism and Christianity, what term derived from a Hebrew verb, meaning to rest, refers to a particular day
22:28of the week that's set aside for worship and refraining from work?
22:32Sabbath.
22:32Yes, which English romantic poet wrote a series of poems between 1798 and 1801, popularly known as the Lucy Poems?
22:41Thomas Gray.
22:42No, Wordsworth.
22:43Kigali is the capital city of which country in Central Africa?
22:46Rwanda.
22:46Yes, what name derived from the French word for sugar is given to the compound of glucose and fructose that's
22:52commonly called table sugar?
22:54Sucrose.
22:55Yes, the politician Winnie Ewing, who died in 2023, aged 93, had served as an MP, an MEP and an
23:02MSP, representing which party?
23:04Labour.
23:05No, the Scottish National Party.
23:07Infectious mononucleosis, sometimes abbreviated to mono, is an alternative name for what viral illness common in young adults?
23:16Glendula Fever.
23:17Yes, what are the professional names of the Turner Prize-winning duo with the surnames Prush and Pussmore, who in
23:232023 opened their own art exhibition centre in London's East End?
23:27Gilbert and George.
23:29It was Gilbert and George.
23:31Robert, you had just the one pass. The singer Matt Bellamy is the front man of Muse.
23:38And at the end of that round, you've got 20 points.
23:51And finally, let's have Katie again, please.
24:01Katie, you start with eight points. The score to beat to get through to the semifinals is Robert's 20 points.
24:07You've got two and a half minutes on general knowledge.
24:09Here we go.
24:10In an email address, the lowercase A, partially enclosed by a circle, is read aloud as what two-letter word?
24:17At.
24:17Yes. According to legend, King Arthur's knights were engaged in a search for what object, said to be the drinking
24:22vessel used by Jesus at the Last Supper?
24:26Excalibur.
24:27No.
24:27The Holy Grail, the American $100 banknote, bears a portrait of which statesman and inventor?
24:35Alexander Hamilton.
24:36No.
24:37Benjamin Franklin.
24:37What Turkish word meaning fate or destiny is the title of a play by Edward Knobloch, which was adapted into
24:44a Tony award-winning stage musical in the 1950s?
24:50Fences.
24:51No, kismet.
24:52The medical condition glaucoma is caused by raised pressure from an excess of fluid within which pair of organs in
24:59the human body?
25:02Ice.
25:03Yes.
25:03The Leeds-based band, English Teacher, won the 2024 Mercury Prize for their debut album entitled This Could Be Which
25:10U.S. State?
25:11Texas.
25:11Yes.
25:12In cartoons by Warner Brothers, what's the name of the pig character who speaks with a stutter and often delivers
25:17the closing line? That's all, folks.
25:21Porky.
25:22Yes, Porky Pig.
25:23Chimand Affair and Punto Banco are variations of what card game?
25:29Poker.
25:30No, Baccarat.
25:31Which author wrote the 1990s novels The Border of Suburbia, The Black Album and Intimacy?
25:40Metallica.
25:41No.
25:41Hanif Qureshi.
25:42In film, television and video production, the abbreviation VFX is short for what two-word term?
25:51Video facts.
25:53No, visual effects.
25:54Which French football club won the Champions League for the first time in May 2025, with a 5-0 victory
25:59over Inter Milan in the final?
26:01PSG.
26:02Yes, Paris Saint-Germain.
26:03Five countries, including Iran, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, have a shoreline on which large inland sea?
26:12The Red Sea.
26:14No, Caspian.
26:15When used in reference to food, what Arabic word, meaning permissible in Islam, describes meat that has been prepared in
26:21accordance with Muslim dietary law?
26:23Halal.
26:23Yes, the Wild West soldier, hunter and showman, born William Frederick Cody in Iowa in 1846, became better known by
26:30what alliterative nickname?
26:36Buffalo Bill.
26:37Yes, plants of what genus of flowering shrub are sometimes known as butterfly bushes?
26:42I've started so I'll finish.
26:43Sometimes known as butterfly bushes because of their attractiveness to butterflies.
26:51Hedge.
26:52No, it's buddlier.
26:54Okay.
26:55Katie, at the end of that round, you had no passes.
26:57You've got 15 points.
27:08Let's have a look at the final scores.
27:11In fourth place with nine points, it's Liz.
27:13In third place with 13 points is Maxim.
27:16In second place with 15 points, it's Katie, which means in first place with 20 points, it's Robert.
27:22So he goes through to the semifinals.
27:25Congratulations to him.
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27:39Thanks for watching.
27:40Bye for now.
27:45I'm feeling fantastic.
27:47It's a bit surreal, but it's been really fun.
27:49And your specialist subject.
27:50The history of sheep.
27:52I chose my specialist subject because I'm fascinated by sheep.
27:55I work with them during the week, and I think that they are a vital part of the country's history
28:01and culture.
28:02Gabardine.
28:03Yes.
28:03Rattle.
28:04Yes.
28:05Churro.
28:05It is churro.
28:07I applied for mastermind because my children, particularly my son, were very keen that I should do, and I thought
28:13it would be fun.
28:14In first place with 20 points, it's Robert.
28:17So he goes through to the semifinals.
28:20Congratulations to him.
28:21This was my first time on a TV quiz show, and winning has been absolutely fantastic.
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