Mastermind

I caught some of that last night. When did Mastermind become a reality show? Just show us people answering questions ffs.
 
Kowalski said:
Sadly I have to agree. He was such a massive part of the band. Where did you see them?
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Leeds Beckett. Not the greatest of venues (the sound wasn’t brilliant) but even though I kept glancing over to the right side of the stage and being disappointed, it was still a great night. I’ve seen them many times over the last thirty years and they never, ever disappoint. Love ‘em.
 
HarryVegas said:
A good few years ago now. First time 27, second time 33.
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We used to play it in the office every day years ago. I probably averaged mid to high 20's, but it could be anything from about 12 to the maximum on the odd rare occasion. However as time went on and more modern music came into the quiz I realised my knowledge was no longer in the sweet spot. In fact almost anything mainstream this century is outside my knowledge. 50's-90's I'm decent, 2000 to present I have great knowledge only of obscure indie bands.

Two cracking scores those, especially when actually on the radio doing it.
 
Lefty said:
We used to play it in the office every day years ago. I probably averaged mid to high 20's, but it could be anything from about 12 to the maximum on the odd rare occasion. However as time went on and more modern music came into the quiz I realised my knowledge was no longer in the sweet spot. In fact almost anything mainstream this century is outside my knowledge. 50's-90's I'm decent, 2000 to present I have great knowledge only of obscure indie bands.

Two cracking scores those, especially when actually on the radio doing it.
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What you find out is that they ask you in the pre-selection interview what your favourite eras are and then you find your questions are slanted towards your choices. From memory, first time on, an era I said I was quite strong on beforehand was New Wave, so when I won and went onto 3 in 10, the band they gave me was the Boomtown Rats!
 
Star Wars the original trilogy for me, although i'm perhaps a little rusty on that now.

I got 12 on the Boro quiz but dropped one daft clanger. Reasonably happy with that.
 
Kowalski said:
Sadly I have to agree. He was such a massive part of the band. Where did you see them?
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He is a miss but they're still great - going to see them in July at the Trades Club in Hebden again. Last time I saw them there I thought I'd died and gone to heaven, they were so good, just rocked up & did 2 hours of "greatest hits", one of the best gigs I've ever been to.
 
DCI_Gene_Hunt said:
He is a miss but they're still great - going to see them in July at the Trades Club in Hebden again. Last time I saw them there I thought I'd died and gone to heaven, they were so good, just rocked up & did 2 hours of "greatest hits", one of the best gigs I've ever been to.
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Great venue. They always put on a good show. I must have seen them more than 20 times over the years.
 
futureboy said:
Or maybe all of them - don't you have to have different specialist subjects lined up for future rounds as well?
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Yeah, think you need 2 or 3 different ones in case you progress through the rounds as you're not allowed to use the same.

When Terry Christian was on "Celebrity" Mastermind, his specialist subject was Manchester Music 1976 to the present day and I beat him on that by a couple of points IIRC.
 
goalscrounger said:
I am certain Henderson headed up the consortium??
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I think "headed up" is a bit of a semantic issue.

SG organised it and was the driving force behind it.
CH was chairman afterwards as he represented ICI, who I think had the largest single stake.

I suppose they're a consortium until they take over; after that, they're the board, which CH did lead.
 
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Frozen Horse said:
I think "headed up" is a bit of a semantic issue.

SG organised it and was the driving force behind it.
CH was chairman afterwards as he represented ICI, who I think had the largest single stake.
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I think your right Frozen, think I just thought that as CH was chairman then he must have been the main driving force.
 
They ask you to submit 3 but have as many as back up. It's 2 years between broadcast and recording for the same subject, before you can do it again. I got knocked back on Ripping Yarns on the basis there were only 9 episodes, I argued that Fawlty Towers was used and only had 12 episodes, with set location and core cast, where as Ripping Yarns were all stand alone episodes with only Palin and Jones as core, but they said no, might try again though. My second cousin made the final a few years back, his specialised subject for the final was the Salem Witch Trials, so for the intro bit he got flown out there. Accordingly my planned final subject was the building of the Trans Canada Railway!
 
It's been done but Pearl Jam. I managed to get them all right. The guy in the chair did pretty well too. I'd give the Royle Family a go too.
 
It would have to be the original version of the Magnificent Seven, our dads favourite film and as he's suffering from dementia we tend to watch it once a week at least.
 
I would be doing the life and works of stock aitken and waterman....particularly Sept and Oct of 1988.....possibly just September.....the first half
 
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