I've Started So I'll Finish

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Mastermind (TV series)" redirects here. For international versions and unrelated TV shows of the same or similar names, see Mastermind § Television. In the very first series of Mastermind in 1972, all of the finalists were women, leading people to speculate whether a man could ever win the show.

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What has been the most memorable specialist subject for you across the series so far since you’ve been the host?The current record for the overall lowest score is 2 points, set on 5 November 2022 in a Celebrity edition by Gogglebox's Amy Tapper who scored two points overall; one on her specialist subject of the films of Adam Sandler and another in the general knowledge round.

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You might recognise the quote from the famous BBC quiz show, Mastermind. The rules of the game mean that if the host has started to ask a new question when the time buzzer goes off, they finish asking the question and the contestant is allowed to answer. Having to brave Welsh language pronunciations with the Rebecca Riots as a specialist subject. It was a rural peasant uprising in 19th century Wales. That I will never forget!! Hosted by BBC journalist and presenter Clive Myrie since 2021, the new series of Mastermind will see 96 contenders follow the tried and tested formula of facing two minutes of questions on their specialist subject, followed by two and a half minutes on general knowledge. Q&A with Mastermind host Clive MyrieMastermind Champions – BBC One London – 3 May 1982". BBC Genome Project . Retrieved 7 November 2014. Sometimes I feel like slipping away from it all, but after a week or two I’m ready for work again. It’s not that I’m ambitious, it’s more like Magnus Magnusson says to the contestants on ‘Mastermind’ . . . ‘ I’ve started so I’ll finish.’” Oh dear, it is not going well. He doesn’t remember that, in an interview with Spotlight on Alumni of the University of Sussex, where Myrie studied law, he said his favourite record was the Bach cello suites played by Paul Tortelier. But he does know that the Verona opera festival, which he and his wife visit every year (the past two excepted), was started in 1913 to celebrate the centenary of Verdi’s birth. And, for the show’s final, Gary admits he tried to select pop band Girls Aloud as his specialist subject – so that he could meet one of the girl group’s sexy singers. When bosses at the show rejected his request, he opted for ‘whales, dolphins and porpoises’ as his chosen topic – taking the title by five points. In 1975 The Goodies featured Mastermind in the episode " Frankenfido" when a dog ( Bill Oddie in a suit) appeared on the show and managed to correctly answer questions asked of it as they all had answers that could be represented by growls, such as "bark" and "ruff".