Mastermind is a British TV quiz show where members of the public are subjected to two rounds of questions against the clock. The first round is one and a half minutes long on a specialist subject of their choice. The second, general knowledge round is two minutes long. There's no monetary prize, just a trophy for the series winner.
There is also a Celebrity version of the quiz, where the contestants compete to win a financial reward for a charity of their choice. In a recent edition of Celebrity Mastermind, the contestants and their specialist subjects were:
As is normally the case with "Celebrity" shows, I've never heard of any of these people. However, I was naturally interested in Colin Hoult's chosen subject. Here are the questions he was asked.
If you think that some of these questions are easy, imagine trying to answer them on TV, sitting under a spotlight, and working against the clock. On the show, the buzzer for the end of the 90-second time limit went off during question 9. Colin was allowed to answer - a catchphrase of the show is "I've started, so I'll finish". Unfortunately, he got it wrong!
I'll post the answers in a few days time.
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I could defintiely answer 2,3,4,6,7,8 and 9. I feel as thoiugh I should know 1, but I don 't. No clue on 5.
I missed 1,5 and 9
EDIT: 1 just came to me. I
We have a long history of "celbreities" on game shows and quiz shows here in the U.S, In my experience, the "celebrities" tend not to be "A-Listers". Instead, they tend to fall into three categories:
One actress, Kitty Carlisle, was a guest on various game shows from sometime in the 1950's until the year 2000. She was the leading lady in A Night at the Opera (1935), but her career as a game show guest far overshadows anything else she may have done.,
One could say the same about the likes of Carol Wayne, Charles Nelson Reilly, Nipsey Russell and a hosr of other "celebrities" who did the game show circuit.
Charles Nelson Reilly I knew because he'd been on a sitcom called The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, but there were loads of others that I had no clue who they were.
Randy Jackson said:
One could say the same about the likes of Carol Wayne, Charles Nelson Reilly, Nipsey Russell and a hosr of other "celebrities" who did the game show circuit.
Thanks for posting these, Peter.
My answers:
Speaking of "celebrities," what about Dancing with the Stars? A more appropriate name would be "Dancing with Some People You May Have Heard Of."
*I know that from...
From what I can tell, Carol Wayne was mostly famous for her work on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and Nipsey Russell was a celebrity for appearing on game shows.
Randy Jackson said:
From what I can tell, Carol Wayne was mostly famous for her work on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and Nipsey Russell was a celebrity for appearing on game shows.
Nipsey Russell was in the cast of Car 54, Where Are You? But the bulk of his career was as a perpetual guest on variety shows and talk shows, and as a panelist on game shows.
Here's his IMDb page: Nipsey Russell
Peter, Thanks for typing all these questions out in full. I watched this show when it went out, and, having heard the category, confidently told my wife that I would probably score very highly. In the event I was only able to correctly answer questions 4 and 6. My embarrassment was acute, especially as my wife had earlier scored 7 when the specialist subject was "the novels of Jane Austen"!
I couldn't answer #5. I confess I couldn't remember #1 immediately, but it came to me as I was reading question #2. As noted above, this was on a clock, so I would have scored much, much more poorly if I had been on the show. When my adrenaline goes up, my recall goes down.
If I might nitpick, answer-to-question-#6 didn't debut until 1941. Mike's Amazing World says the issue came out in Oct., so she preceded Pearl Harbor.
...but not "comics' [or mankind's] blood-curdling masculinity."