The latest pub craze is the general knowledge quiz, inspired, I shouldn’t wonder, by television’s Mastermind. For the first round, each contestant in turn is given a set length of time, usually two minutes (one minute and a half in semi-finals), to answer questions on a specialised subject which they have chosen. Magnusson translated or co-translated a variety of books from modern Icelandic and Old Norse into English.

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Gascoigne’s ability to speak with great clarity at high speed helped to build tension as the clock ticked. The winner of the final of the BBC version is declared "Mastermind" for that year and is the only contestant to receive a prize, in the form of a cut glass engraved bowl. Mastermind Champion of Champions was a 2010 5-part competition that featured previous Mastermind champions. Producers had sworn contestants to secrecy, meaning he couldn’t tell colleagues or patients about his victory for six months. The programme has been the target for many television spoofs, including a Two Ronnies sketch written by David Renwick (a less polished version had previously appeared in the Radio 4 series " The Burkiss Way") in 1980, featuring Ronnie Barker as Magnus Magnusson and Ronnie Corbett as a contestant named Charlie Smithers, whose specialist subject was "answering the question before last".Liberal Party will only be allowed three seats, which means there will only be room for Cyril Smith. The BBC's satirical current affairs quiz show Have I Got News for You has parodied the show several times, by turning the lights down – except for spotlights above select chairs – and playing the theme tune, before subjecting at least one of the panel to some rigorous questioning.

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Scrap the licence fee “if you want a BBC that is different from the one there is now, that maybe cannot cater to the Béla Bartók fans on Radio 3 because it’s too busy chasing an audience on BBC One. Here it is: “You cannot be a dickhead and win sports personality of the year,” he says, in 2015, on The Papers, referring to Fury. Neil Richardson is a well-known composer, conductor and arranger – he later wrote some of the music and conducted the score for the Richard Curtis film, ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’. So we do – and it turns out he was channelling the 140,000 protesters who had signed a petition saying Fury should not win the award because of his views. He was reading the news when I was growing up and I saw this guy who looked like me and I thought: ‘Well, if he can do it, maybe I could.The dynamic doctor, who earned fulsome praise from host John Humphrys, admits he is ‘incredibly competitive’ and spent his evenings and weekends reading up on general knowledge. Magnusson's catchphrase "I've started, so I'll finish" was also the title of his history of the show. It’s not that I’m ambitious, it’s more like Magnus Magnusson says to the contestants on ‘Mastermind’ . Consider this: at the end of a Taster Day, when I offer people the opportunity to come along to the first Module of our NLP Practitioner training at a discounted rate, who finds it easiest to say ‘Yes’?

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Switching from vegetable to fruit-related titles, Gascoigne script-edited Dig This Rhubarb, a TV sketch show, but, by then, had already moved from postgraduate comedy to interrogating students. The twist was that Archer's puppet, being incapable of answering questions about himself without exaggeration or evasion, ends the round with zero points.It’s about maintaining trust, making it as clear as possible to those audiences that the stuff they hear and see is, to the best of our ability, going to be truthful, it’s going to be factual, it’s going to be, at the same time, a reflection of who we are. The commercials shortened the amount of time available for answering questions and lasted just one series. If the contestant responds incorrectly, the questioner gives the correct answer before continuing to the next question; answers to passed questions are read out only after time has expired. It is the same when I mention the B-word – that Brexit might have contributed to the noise coming from the pub.