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00:24Hello and welcome to Mastermind with me, Clive Myrie.
00:28In the spotlight tonight are Angus Burns, an events officer.
00:32His specialist subject is the London 2012 Olympic Games.
00:35Kim McKenzie, a supporter care manager.
00:38Her subject is the architect Frank Gehry.
00:41Mark Pagan, a retired optometrist.
00:43He'll be answering questions on British waterfowl and wading birds.
00:47And Pete Simmons, an IT contractor, whose specialist subject is the BBC's House of Cards trilogy.
00:58In peak quizzing condition like prize fighters, our contenders tonight are at the top of their game.
01:04And when the bell rings and the bout begins like heavyweight champions, they'll be on their own in the ring.
01:10Two minutes of specialist subject questions and two and a half minutes on general knowledge
01:13can feel like a lifetime if you're on the ropes.
01:16But survive the blows and the chance to become Mastermind champion is yours.
01:20Round one is about to begin, so can I ask our first contender to join us please?
01:35Your name?
01:36Angus Burns.
01:37Your occupation?
01:38Events officer.
01:39And your specialist subject?
01:40The London 2012 Olympic Games.
01:42The events of summer 2012 when London hosted the Games for the third time in two minutes.
01:48Here we go.
01:49Which British cyclist signalled the start of the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony
01:53by ringing a large harmonically tuned bell?
01:56Bradley Wiggins.
01:57Yes.
01:57All the equestrian events at the 2012 Olympics were held in which Royal Park?
02:02Greenwich Park.
02:03Yes.
02:03A 15-year-old named Ruta Melutite won which European country's first ever swimming gold medal
02:09when she was successful in the women's 100 metres breaststroke?
02:13Lithuania.
02:13Yes.
02:14Ben Ainsliek won the fourth gold medal of his career
02:16when he defeated the Danish sailor Jonas Ho Christensen in which sailing class?
02:21Finn?
02:22Yes.
02:22In the final of the men's gymnastics pommel horse competition,
02:25what part of the overall score was used to break the tie
02:28between Great Britain's Louis Smith and Hungary's Christian Berkey,
02:32resulting in Berkey winning the gold medal?
02:35Artistic interpretation?
02:36No.
02:36Execution score.
02:37Which Ethiopian athlete won an early gold medal inside the Olympic Stadium
02:41and in doing so became the first runner to successfully defend
02:45the women's 10,000 metres title?
02:49Dababa.
02:50Yes.
02:51In which sport were four pairs in the women's doubles competition
02:54disqualified for deliberately trying to lose their final pool matches
02:58in order to gain a favourable draw in the knockout stages?
03:01Badminton.
03:01Yes.
03:02Which British runner finished last in the final of the men's 800 metres,
03:05but in a time that would have won gold in the three Olympic Games
03:09that immediately preceded London 2012?
03:12Laura Muir?
03:13No.
03:14Andrew Osagi.
03:15Which country knocked out the defending champions
03:17in both the men's water polo and the men's volleyball competitions,
03:20winning a silver and bronze medal respectively?
03:23Croatia?
03:24No.
03:24Italy.
03:24Which player scored two goals for the United States
03:27in the final of the women's football competition
03:29as they beat Japan 2-1 to win gold?
03:32I was at that game.
03:35Mia Hamm.
03:36No.
03:36Carly Lloyd.
03:37Which sprinter finished third behind Usain Bolt and Johan Blake
03:41to secure all three medals for Jamaica in the men's 200 metres?
03:45Asafa Powell?
03:45No.
03:46Warren Weir.
03:47When the IOC president, Jacques Rogge...
03:49I've started so I'll finish.
03:50When the IOC president, Jacques Rogge,
03:52gave his verdict on the 2012 Olympics at the closing ceremony,
03:56he summed the Games up with what three-word phrase
03:58from the British National Anthem?
04:00Happy and glorious.
04:02It was happy and glorious.
04:04Angus, at the end of that round, you had no passes.
04:07You've got seven points.
04:17And our next contender, please.
04:26Your name?
04:27Kim McKenzie.
04:28Your occupation?
04:30Supporter care manager.
04:31And your specialist subject?
04:32Frank Gehry.
04:33The acclaimed Canadian-American architect,
04:36born in Toronto in 1929.
04:38In two minutes.
04:40Here we go.
04:40Although he later changed his name to Gehry,
04:43Frank was born with what surname?
04:44Goldberg.
04:45Yes.
04:45The exterior of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao,
04:48one of Gehry's best-known projects,
04:50is clad with thin panels of what metal,
04:52hitherto rarely used on buildings?
04:54Titanium.
04:55Yes.
04:55After graduating from the University of Southern California in 1954,
04:59Gehry applied for a job at the firm of which architect,
05:02but turned it down when he realised he would have to pay to work there?
05:06Richard Nutra.
05:07Yes.
05:08What's the name of the outdoor concert hall in Columbia, Maryland,
05:11completed in 1967,
05:13which had been commissioned by the Rouse Company
05:15and was co-designed by Gehry?
05:17Meriwether Post Pavilion.
05:18Yes.
05:19Gehry was presented with the 1989 Pritzker Prize for Architecture
05:22at the Todegi,
05:23an ancient Buddhist temple in which city in Japan?
05:27Nara.
05:28Yes.
05:28For which US ambassador to Finland
05:30did Gehry build a house in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles
05:33in the late 1980s?
05:35Rockwell Schnabel.
05:36Yes.
05:37What building in Wyzetta, Minnesota,
05:39completed in 1987,
05:40was unusual in that it was a Frank Gehry residential project
05:44outside California?
05:45The Winton House.
05:46Yes.
05:47What was the name of Gehry's friend
05:48in whose memory he designed a cancer care centre in Dundee,
05:51his first building in the UK?
05:53Maggie Keswick.
05:54Yes.
05:55From around 1989,
05:57Gehry's architectural practice used an adapted form
06:00of what software originally developed
06:02by the French company Dassault Systèmes
06:04for the aviation and aerospace industries?
06:06Katia.
06:07Yes.
06:07Gehry designed two complexes
06:09for the modern furniture company Vitra,
06:11one in Weil am Rhein, Germany,
06:13and another at their headquarters
06:15just outside which Swiss city?
06:17Basel.
06:17Yes.
06:18In the 1980s,
06:19which actor bought three Gehry-designed
06:21loft-styled condominiums
06:22on Indiana Avenue
06:23in the Venice neighbourhood of Los Angeles
06:26and turned them into a compound?
06:29Dennis Hopper.
06:30Yes, it was.
06:31As part of his design
06:32for the Shire Day offices in Los Angeles,
06:34Gehry enlisted the help
06:35of which Swedish-born sculptor
06:37and his wife
06:38to construct a pair of towers
06:39in the shape of binoculars?
06:41Place Oldenburg.
06:42It was Oldenburg.
06:44Kim, at the end of that round,
06:46you had no passes.
06:47You got them all right.
06:4812 points.
06:57And our next contender, please.
07:07Your name.
07:09Mark Pagan.
07:09Your occupation.
07:11Retired optometrist.
07:12And your specialist subject.
07:13British waterfowl and wading birds.
07:15The birds that inhabit the lakes,
07:17rivers and coastal areas
07:18of the British Isles.
07:19In two minutes.
07:20Here we go.
07:21The frontal shield,
07:22a plate above the beak
07:23of some birds in the rail family,
07:25is typically white in coots.
07:27And what primary colour
07:28in moorhens?
07:29Red.
07:29Yes.
07:30The name of which small shorebird
07:31refers to its habit
07:32of flipping over pebbles
07:33to search for food underneath?
07:35Turnstone.
07:36Yes.
07:37The male of the wading bird
07:38Calydris pugnax
07:39is known as a ruff.
07:40What's the usual term
07:42for the much smaller female?
07:43Reeve.
07:44Yes.
07:44During its courtship display,
07:46which wading bird
07:46makes a distinctive whirring sound
07:48known as drumming,
07:49bleating or rattling
07:51caused by air being forced
07:52through its stiff tail feathers
07:53as it flies?
07:54The snipe.
07:55Yes.
07:55What's the term
07:56for an often brightly coloured patch
07:58on the secondary wing feathers
07:59of various duck species
08:01such as the deep blue patch
08:02on a mallard's wing?
08:04Speculum.
08:05Yes.
08:05Britain's visiting population
08:06of the Brent goose
08:07declined sharply in the 1930s
08:09when which plant,
08:10a staple food source
08:11for the species,
08:12was afflicted by disease?
08:14Eelgrass.
08:15Yes.
08:15Avocets were declared extinct
08:16in Britain in the 19th century.
08:18But in 1947,
08:20breeding pairs were found
08:21at two sites in Suffolk,
08:22both of which became
08:23RSPB reserves.
08:25These are Hovergate Island
08:27and which other site?
08:28Minsmere.
08:29Yes.
08:29Which British wader
08:30can be identified
08:31from a white V-shaped area
08:33visible on its back
08:34when the bird is in flight
08:35and from its springtime call
08:37that's often compared
08:38to yodelling?
08:41Ida.
08:42No, the red shank,
08:43which is the only species
08:44of duck that's a regular
08:46summer migrant
08:46to the British Isles,
08:48spending the winter months
08:49in Africa
08:49and returning to Britain
08:50each year to breed.
08:52Gargany.
08:52Yes.
08:53A 1997 study found
08:55that which migratory species
08:56of aquatic bird
08:57forms a close association
08:59with the velvet scota,
09:00feeding on worms
09:01that are unearthed
09:02as the duck feeds.
09:04Common scota?
09:06No, it's the red-necked grebe.
09:08The British population
09:09of which heron
09:10with black legs
09:11and yellow feet
09:11was severely reduced
09:12by hunting in the 19th century?
09:14Its long-necked plumes
09:15said to have been
09:16more valuable than gold.
09:17Little egret.
09:18Yes.
09:19Which wintering duck
09:20that occasionally breeds
09:21in the Scottish highlands?
09:22I've started,
09:23so I'll finish.
09:24Has the scientific name
09:25Bucephala clangula,
09:27partly derived
09:27from the Latin
09:28for bull-headed
09:29in reference
09:30to its bulbous head shape?
09:31Golden eye.
09:32It is golden eye.
09:34Mark, at the end
09:35of that round,
09:36you had no passes.
09:37You've got ten points.
09:47And our final contender, please.
09:57Your name.
09:58Pete Simmons.
09:59Your occupation.
10:00IT contractor.
10:01And your specialist subject.
10:02The BBC's
10:02House of Cards trilogy.
10:04The 1990s television drama
10:06about the rise and fall
10:07of the Machiavellian MP
10:08Francis Urquhart.
10:09In two minutes.
10:10Here we go.
10:11In the first series
10:12of the House of Cards trilogy,
10:14what's the name
10:14of the Conservative Prime Minister
10:16whom the Government Chief Whip
10:17Francis Urquhart
10:18is scheming to replace?
10:19Henry Collingridge.
10:20Yes.
10:21In order to discredit
10:21Henry Collingridge
10:22with accusations
10:23of insider trading,
10:25Urquhart purchases shares
10:26in the name
10:27of the Prime Minister's brother
10:28in what company?
10:29Mendox Chemicals.
10:30Yes.
10:31In the first series,
10:32what's the name
10:32of the fictitious
10:33advertising agency
10:34whose offices
10:35are the venue
10:36for the election night party
10:37hosted by the Conservative Party's
10:39publicity director
10:40Roger O'Neill?
10:41Meryl Grant.
10:42Yes.
10:42What's the name
10:43of the director
10:44of both House of Cards
10:45and To Play the King
10:46who was succeeded
10:47in the role
10:48by Mike Vardy
10:48for the final cut?
10:50Paul Seed.
10:51Yes.
10:51Scenes set in the corridors
10:52and internal public areas
10:54of the Houses of Parliament
10:55were filmed inside
10:56which civic building
10:57in northern England?
10:58Manchester Town Hall.
10:59Yes.
11:00Urquhart tells a gathering
11:01of colleagues and allies
11:02that he intends
11:03to call an election
11:04after the newly crowned king
11:05has been critical
11:06of government policies
11:08in a speech made
11:08to what organisation?
11:11The Charities Commission.
11:12Yes.
11:13The residence
11:13of the king's ex-wife
11:14is referred to by the Urquhts
11:15as the House of Wounded Feelings
11:17and is known
11:18in the tabloid press
11:19by what other nickname?
11:21Sloan Castle.
11:22Yes.
11:22What's the full name
11:23of the television news reporter
11:24played by Don Warrington
11:25in To Play the King?
11:27Graham Gaunt.
11:27Yes.
11:28At which location
11:29at the Palace of Westminster
11:30does the journalist
11:31Matty Storrin
11:32confront Urquhart
11:33about his involvement
11:34in the poisoning
11:35of Roger O'Neill?
11:36The Roof Garden.
11:37Yes.
11:37What's the title
11:37of the television show
11:38on which Henry Collingridge
11:40is questioned
11:41about the Mendoch Shares scandal?
11:42World Watch.
11:43Yes.
11:44In To Play the King
11:45when Urquht is complimented
11:46by Sarah Harding
11:47on his interview performance
11:48on a television show
11:49he tells her
11:50that his prose style
11:51has been hugely influenced
11:53by that of which author?
11:54Beatrix Potter.
11:55Yes.
11:55What's the name
11:56of the British judge
11:57who chairs
11:57an international panel
11:58that's arbitrating
11:59the sea boundaries
12:00of Cyprus
12:01for an international agreement?
12:03Sir Clive Watling.
12:04Yes.
12:04Michael Dobbs
12:05had to revise
12:05his original
12:06House of Cards novel
12:07in order to write
12:08its sequels
12:09after which screenwriter
12:10made a significant change
12:11to the ending
12:12of the successful
12:13television adaptation?
12:15Andrew Davies.
12:16It is Andrew Davies.
12:18Pete, at the end
12:19of that round
12:20you had no passes
12:21you got them all right
12:2213 points.
12:33At the end
12:34of the specialist
12:34subjects round
12:35let's have a look
12:36at the scores.
12:37In fourth place
12:37with seven points
12:38it's Angus.
12:39In third place
12:40with ten points
12:41it's Mark.
12:41In second place
12:42with twelve points
12:43it's Kim
12:44and in first place
12:45with thirteen points
12:46it's Pete.
12:47So now
12:48it's general knowledge
12:49and if there's a tie
12:50at the end
12:51then the number of passes
12:52is taken into account
12:53and the person
12:54with the fewer passes
12:55is the winner.
12:56And if they're tied
12:56on passes as well
12:57it's a tie break
12:58so let's ask Angus
13:00to join us again please.
13:09Angus, you start
13:10with seven points
13:11you've got two and a half minutes
13:12on general knowledge.
13:13Here we go.
13:14What word for a small house
13:15especially one in the country
13:17precedes cheese
13:18in the name of a soft
13:19mild flavoured
13:20low fat dairy product?
13:22Cottage.
13:23Yes.
13:23Which of the three
13:24common types
13:24of statistical average
13:26is obtained
13:26by adding up
13:27a set of values
13:28and dividing the total
13:29by the number of values
13:30in the set?
13:31Mean.
13:32Yes.
13:32The 1956 stage musical
13:34My Fair Lady
13:35by Lerner and Lowe
13:36is an adaptation
13:37of which play
13:38by George Bernard Shaw?
13:39Pygmalion.
13:40Yes.
13:40Which UK prime minister
13:41had the nickname
13:42The Welsh Wizard?
13:46Pass.
13:46What's the title
13:47of the 2025 drama series
13:49starring Jodie Whittaker
13:50about three mothers
13:52in Corby
13:52who fight for justice
13:53after their children
13:54are born with disabilities
13:55attributed to the local dumping
13:57of industrial waste?
13:59Pass.
14:00In Greek mythology
14:01Hippolyta was the queen
14:02of which race of women?
14:06Amazon.
14:07Yes.
14:07Which American author
14:08who died in 2023
14:09wrote the novels
14:10The Road and Blood Meridian?
14:12Cormac McCarthy.
14:13Yes.
14:13In one of the modifier keys
14:15on a standard UK computer keyboard
14:17the letters FN
14:18are an abbreviation
14:19of what word?
14:21Function.
14:21Yes.
14:22Which American singer's
14:231976 UK hit album
14:25Songs in the Key of Life
14:26features the track
14:27Sir Duke
14:28a tribute to the jazz musician
14:29Duke Ellington?
14:33Stevie Wonder.
14:34Yes.
14:34The surname of which artist
14:35who was born in Normandy
14:36in 1594
14:38but spent most of his life
14:39in Rome
14:39is a French word
14:40used in English
14:41for a farmed young chicken?
14:44Hen.
14:45No, Pusa.
14:46What percussion instrument
14:47with a German name
14:48that translates as
14:49bell play
14:50is played by hitting
14:51tuned metal plates
14:52with a pair of small hammers?
14:54Glockenspiel.
14:54Yes.
14:55What word for the beginning
14:56or origin of something
14:57is the English title
14:58of the first book
14:59of the Bible?
15:00Genesis.
15:00Yes.
15:01Patmos, Rhodes and Kos
15:02are part of which group
15:03of Greek islands
15:04in the Aegean Sea
15:05whose name translates
15:06as Twelve Islands?
15:10Pass.
15:10What adjective
15:11derived from the Latin word
15:13for bear
15:13is used to describe
15:14something that pertains
15:16to bears
15:16or resembles a bear?
15:20Pulsine.
15:21No, ursine.
15:22Which golf course
15:23in the US state of Georgia
15:25features a notoriously
15:26challenging section
15:27known as Amen Corner
15:28on its 11th, 12th
15:30and 13th holes?
15:31Augusta National.
15:32Yes.
15:33Which British city's
15:34tram system
15:34has stops named
15:35Haymarket,
15:36St Andrew's Square
15:37and Foot of the Walk?
15:38Edinburgh.
15:39Yes.
15:39In what 1998 film
15:41based on a 1960s
15:42television series
15:43who Ralph Fiennes
15:44and Uma Thurman
15:45play secret agents
15:46trying to save the world
15:47from a villainous scientist?
15:49The Avengers.
15:50It is The Avengers.
15:52Angus,
15:53you had three passes.
15:54Patmos, Rhodes and Kos
15:55are part of the
15:57Dodecanese group
15:58of Greek islands.
16:00The title of the
16:012025 drama series
16:02starring Jodie Whittaker
16:04about three mothers
16:05in Corby
16:05who fight for justice
16:06that toxic town
16:07and the UK Prime Minister
16:09whose nickname
16:10was the Welsh wizard
16:11David Lloyd George.
16:13At the end of that round,
16:14Angus,
16:15you've got 19 points.
16:26Next up,
16:27let's have Mark again, please.
16:37Mark, you start with 10 points.
16:39The score to beat
16:39as it stands
16:40is 19 points.
16:41You've got two and a half minutes
16:42on general knowledge.
16:44Here we go.
16:44Paul Hewson,
16:45who was a founding member
16:46of the rock group
16:47U2 in 1976
16:49is best known
16:50by what nickname?
16:51The Edge.
16:52No, Bono.
16:52The name of what
16:53imperial unit of weight
16:54is commonly abbreviated
16:56to the letters OZ?
16:57OZ?
16:58Yes.
16:58Which US president
16:59was sworn into office
17:00immediately after the assassination
17:02of John F. Kennedy
17:03in 1963?
17:04Harry Truman.
17:05No, Lyndon B. Johnson.
17:07What West End comedy stage musical
17:09tells the story
17:09of two American missionaries
17:11who were sent from their home
17:12in Utah
17:13to preach in Uganda?
17:14Book of Mormon.
17:15Yes.
17:16In the human skeleton,
17:17what's the medical name
17:18for the thigh bone?
17:21The femur.
17:22Yes.
17:22Which long poem
17:23by T.S. Eliot
17:24first published in 1922
17:26is set out in five parts
17:28with the first part
17:28entitled
17:29The Burial of the Dead?
17:31The Wasteland.
17:31Yes.
17:32The railway station
17:32of which Scottish town
17:34around 80 miles
17:35north of Inverness
17:36and less than 20 miles
17:37from John O'Groats
17:38is the northernmost station
17:39in the UK?
17:40Thurzo.
17:41Yes.
17:41Lenny James
17:42won a BAFTA
17:43in the leading actor category
17:45in 2025
17:45for his title role
17:47as Barry Walker
17:48in what television drama series?
17:50Pass.
17:51What Latin word
17:52for a lock of hair
17:53is used in meteorology
17:54as the name
17:55for a type of thin
17:56wispy cloud
17:57found at high altitudes
17:58and consisting
17:59of ice crystals?
18:01Cirrus.
18:01Yes.
18:01What was the full
18:02professional name
18:03of the American
18:03fashion designer
18:04born Catherine Brosnahan
18:06in 1962
18:07who launched her own
18:08line of handbags
18:09in 1993
18:10with a logo
18:11featuring a symbol
18:12that appears
18:13on playing cards?
18:15Pass.
18:16The lambada,
18:17the polka
18:18and the hornpipe
18:19are all types
18:19of what leisure activity?
18:21Dance.
18:21Yes.
18:21The Kiel Canal
18:23in northern Germany
18:24connects the Baltic Sea
18:25to which other sea?
18:26The North Sea.
18:27Yes.
18:27What name derived
18:28from the Greek word
18:29for tongue
18:29is given to an alphabetical
18:31list of technical terms
18:32and their definitions
18:33are often found
18:34at the end of a book?
18:35Appendix.
18:36No, glossary.
18:36In greyhound racing
18:38in Great Britain
18:38a dog wearing
18:39a blue jacket
18:40with a white numeral
18:41will start
18:42from which trap number?
18:43One.
18:44No, two.
18:44The 2008 film
18:46The Other Berlin Girl
18:47was adapted
18:48from a novel
18:48of the same title
18:49written by which author
18:50known for her
18:51historical fiction?
18:54Philippa Gregory.
18:55Yes.
18:56The Pokrovsky Cathedral
18:57in Moscow's Red Square
18:58is better known
18:59by what other name
19:00in honour
19:01of a Russian saint?
19:02St Basil's.
19:03Yes.
19:03Which knighted comedian
19:05died at his home
19:05in Thomas Lane,
19:06Naughty Ash,
19:07Liverpool
19:07in 2018
19:08in the same house
19:09where he'd been born
19:10more than 90 years earlier
19:12and had lived
19:12throughout his life?
19:14Ken Dodd.
19:14Yes.
19:15And that's the end
19:16of your round.
19:18Mark, you had
19:18the two passes
19:20the full professional name
19:21of the American
19:21fashion designer
19:22whose logo
19:23features a symbol
19:25that appears
19:26on playing cards
19:27Kate Spade
19:29and Lenny James
19:30won a BAFTA
19:31in the leading actor
19:32category for
19:33the television drama series
19:35Mr Loverman.
19:37At the end of that round
19:38Mark,
19:39you've got 21 points.
19:50Next up,
19:51it's Kim.
19:59Kim,
20:00you start with 12 points.
20:01The score to beat
20:02as it stands
20:02is 21 points
20:04and you've got
20:04two and a half minutes
20:05on general knowledge.
20:06Here we go.
20:07The children's custom
20:08of trick-or-treating
20:09and dressing up
20:10in ghoulish costumes
20:11is part of which
20:11annual celebration?
20:13Halloween.
20:13Yes.
20:14What term is used
20:14in geometry
20:15to describe a triangle
20:16with three sides
20:17of the same length
20:18and three identical
20:19internal angles?
20:20Equilateral.
20:21Yes.
20:21A classic black
20:22Russian cocktail
20:23is made with coffee,
20:24liqueur and which spirit?
20:26Rum?
20:26No, vodka.
20:27The Baltimore Orioles,
20:28the Miami Marlins
20:29and the Arizona Diamondbacks
20:31are professional teams
20:31in what sport?
20:32NFL?
20:33No, baseball.
20:34The skeleton coast
20:35noted for shipwrecks
20:36and the bones
20:37of marine creatures
20:38found on its shoreline
20:39is part of which country
20:40in southwest Africa?
20:42Somalia?
20:43No, Namibia.
20:44Which British singer
20:45reached number two
20:46in the UK albums chart
20:47with her 2023 debut release
20:49entitled
20:50My 21st Century Blues
20:51featuring the chart-topping
20:53single Escapism?
20:54Ray.
20:55Yes.
20:55What term applied to mammals
20:57such as elephants,
20:58rhinos and hippos
20:59noted for having thick skin
21:00is derived from a Greek word
21:02meaning thick-skinned?
21:04John Smith.
21:06No, pachyderm.
21:07At the July 2024
21:08UK general election
21:10which former leader
21:11of the Labour Party
21:12was re-elected
21:12as an independent MP
21:14representing the London
21:15constituency
21:15of Islington North?
21:17Jeremy Corbyn.
21:18Yes.
21:18Which New Zealand-born
21:19British scientist
21:20was awarded
21:21the 1908
21:22Nobel Prize in Chemistry
21:23for his pioneering studies
21:25into radioactivity?
21:27Rutherford?
21:28Yes.
21:28Mog the Forgetful Cat
21:29published in 1970
21:31is the first in a series
21:32of children's books
21:33by which British author?
21:35Anne Fine.
21:36No, Judith Carr
21:37Beauvais Airport
21:38serves which European
21:39capital city?
21:41Helsinki.
21:42No, Paris.
21:43Which actor
21:43won his first Oscar
21:44for his performance
21:45as an Irish writer
21:46with cerebral palsy
21:47in the 1989 film
21:49My Left Foot?
21:50Daniel Day-Lewis.
21:51Yes.
21:51On a guitar
21:52what name is usually given
21:53to the raised metal strips
21:54that divide the fingerboard
21:56into intervals
21:56that indicate
21:57the individual notes?
21:59Plectrum?
21:59No, frets.
22:00The tune College Boy
22:01performed by the
22:02Balanescu Quartet
22:03is the title music
22:05to which long-running
22:06television quiz show?
22:10Eggheads?
22:11No, University Challenge.
22:12Which British portrait artist
22:13was appointed
22:14as the first president
22:15of the Royal Academy
22:16when it was founded
22:17in 1768?
22:18Joshua Reynolds.
22:18Yes, the Hang Seng Index
22:20is an indicator
22:21of the share price
22:22of selected companies
22:23on which Asian stock exchange?
22:25South Korea?
22:26No, Hong Kong.
22:27Which 19th century
22:28French chemist
22:28and microbiologist
22:29is credited
22:30with having developed
22:31the first effective vaccines
22:32against anthrax and rabies?
22:35Le Poissier.
22:37No, Pasteur.
22:40Kim, you had no passes.
22:42You've got 19 points.
22:53Finally, let's have Pete.
23:04Pete, you start with 13 points.
23:06The score to beat
23:06to get through to the semifinals
23:08is Mark's 21 points.
23:10You've now got two and a half minutes
23:11on general knowledge.
23:12Here we go.
23:13Mustangs which roam wild
23:14on the plains of North America
23:16are small, feral crossbreeds
23:17of what creature?
23:18Horse.
23:19Yes.
23:19A type of cone-shaped hat
23:21usually made of red felt
23:22is named after which city
23:24in northern Morocco?
23:25Fez.
23:26Yes.
23:26What American television series
23:27first shown from 1989 to 2001
23:30stars David Hasselhoff
23:32as a Malibu-based lifeguard
23:33named Mitch Buchanan?
23:35Baywatch.
23:36Yes.
23:36Turku, Tampere and Oulu
23:38are cities in which
23:39northern European country?
23:41Finland.
23:42Yes.
23:42In March 2025,
23:43the broadcaster Anna Foster,
23:45who'd been a BBC Middle East correspondent,
23:47succeeded Michelle Hussain
23:49on the presenting team
23:50of which current affairs show
23:51on Radio 4?
23:52It's a day programme.
23:53Yes.
23:53Which Italian football club,
23:55which won its 36th Serie A title
23:57in 2020,
23:58has a name derived
23:59from the Latin word
24:00for youth?
24:01Juventus.
24:02Yes, the dish scotch woodcock
24:04comprises eggs
24:05usually scrambled on toast
24:06served with fillets
24:07of what small fish?
24:10Anchovy.
24:11Yes.
24:11In what 2024 film,
24:13based on a memoir
24:14by Amy Liptrot,
24:15does Saoirse Ronan
24:17play a recovering alcoholic
24:18who moves back
24:19back to a home in Olkney?
24:21Pass.
24:22Which US Army general
24:24who died in 2021
24:25also served as Secretary of State
24:27during the first term of office
24:28of President George W. Bush?
24:31Conan Powell.
24:32Yes.
24:33In the 1964 children's book
24:34Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
24:36by Roald Dahl,
24:37the title character
24:37has what surname?
24:38Bucket.
24:39Yes.
24:39In the acronym,
24:40Ofgem,
24:41the name of the regulatory body
24:42for the energy market
24:44in Britain,
24:44the letter G,
24:45stands for what word
24:46for a type of fuel?
24:48Gas.
24:48Yes.
24:49What was the stage name
24:50of the Marx woman
24:51born in Ohio in 1860
24:53who toured with
24:54Buffalo Bill's Wild West show
24:56and was given the nickname
24:57Little Sure Shot?
24:59Calamity Jane?
25:00No, Annie Oakley.
25:01The American singer
25:01Gloria Gaynor
25:02won a Grammy Award
25:03in the category
25:04Best Disco Recording
25:05for what 1979 song?
25:07I Will Survive.
25:08Yes.
25:08Which month of the year
25:09is known in Spanish
25:10as Enero?
25:12January.
25:12Yes.
25:13The annual
25:13Great Yorkshire Show,
25:15an agricultural event
25:16held at various locations
25:17since 1838,
25:19moved to a permanent home
25:20in 1951
25:21in which spa town?
25:22Harrogate.
25:23Yes.
25:23What name derived
25:24from Greek words
25:25for measure and law
25:26is given to a device
25:27that produces
25:28a ticking noise
25:29at regular intervals
25:30and is used by musicians
25:31to keep tempo?
25:33Metronome.
25:33Yes.
25:34Which of Japan's
25:34volcano islands,
25:35once known as
25:36Sulphur Island,
25:37was the scene
25:38of intense fighting
25:38between Japanese
25:39and American forces
25:40in February and March
25:42of 1945?
25:43Honshu.
25:44No.
25:45It was Iwo Jima.
25:48Pichu had the one pass,
25:50the 2024 film
25:51based on a memoir
25:52by Amy Liptrot
25:54that stars Saoirse Ronan
25:56playing a recovering alcoholic.
25:57It's the Outron.
25:59You didn't get that one,
26:01but it didn't matter.
26:02You've got 27 points.
26:04You've done it.
26:16So let's have a look
26:17at the final scores.
26:19In joint third place
26:20with 19 points each,
26:21Angus and Kim.
26:22In second place
26:23with 21 points,
26:24it's Mark,
26:25which means in first place
26:26with 27 points,
26:28it's Pete.
26:28So he goes through
26:29to the semi-finals.
26:31Congratulations to him.
26:33If you'd like to be a contender
26:34in the next series,
26:35please go to our website,
26:36bbc.co.uk
26:38slash mastermind
26:39and you can follow us
26:40at Mastermind Quiz.
26:42Join us again next time
26:43for more Masterminds.
26:44Thanks for watching.
26:46Bye for now.
26:51Winning the Heat
26:52just feels amazing.
26:53I couldn't believe
26:54the score at the end.
26:55Didn't think it was that high.
26:56You've got 27 points.
26:58You've done it.
26:59I'm a huge fan of Mastermind
27:01and in preparation
27:02for the show,
27:03I've been scoring myself
27:04against the contestants
27:05and keeping track of it
27:06against a spreadsheet
27:07and seeing how I do
27:08against the average
27:09group of contestants
27:10and my scores
27:12have been getting
27:13gradually better
27:13year on year
27:14so I'm just glad
27:15that I far exceeded
27:16my average with that one.
27:17And your specialist subject?
27:18The BBC's
27:19House of Cards trilogy.
27:20I chose my subject
27:21as the House of Cards trilogy
27:23as it was a drama
27:24that I'd love to watch
27:25one with my parents
27:26back in the 1990s
27:27and it was sort of...
27:29It's always been
27:29one of my favourites
27:30so the chance to go through
27:32it in intricate detail
27:33was a joy for me to do.
27:36Meryl Grant.
27:37Yes.
27:38Sloane Castle.
27:39Yes.
27:39Sir Clive Watling.
27:41Yes.
27:41Going into the
27:42general knowledge round
27:43I knew how many
27:45obviously I had to get.
27:46I had the luxury
27:46of going last
27:48but I'd lost
27:49complete count
27:50all the way through
27:50so I couldn't believe
27:52the score
27:52when I heard it
27:53at the end.
27:53In first place
27:54with 27 points
27:55it's Pete
27:56so he goes through
27:57to the semi-finals.
27:59I lost my mum
28:00a year and a half ago
28:00and she was a big part
28:02of why I love careers
28:03and to win anything
28:05to win this
28:06it should make her
28:07I hope it makes her proud.
28:08If I get to the final
28:09and win the glass bowl
28:10then that would just
28:11mean everything to me
28:12this programme
28:13means so much to me
28:14and to win it
28:14would just be incredible.
28:44We'll see you next time.
28:45We'll see you next time.
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