Okay, so, as you know I got an aggregate of five points on specialist on Monday’s first show of Mastermind 2024. There’s two ways of looking at that. You could be mean and say it isn’t a very good score. It isn’t. On the other hand, you could say it’s not bad at all considering I knew very little about one subject and nothing about the other 3. I’ll leave you to work out for yourself which view I subscribe to myself.
Next Monday’s show offers more Eastern promise to me. Sorry
about that. I get it from my old man. Following a long running series of
adverts for Frys Turkish Delight, if something looked good he would often say
it was full of Eastern Promise, and if it looked bad he would say it was full
of Eastern Nothing. Well, be fair – he came from a line of parsimonious Scots
who looked upon wit, (and silent letters on the end of a surname) as a sinful extravagance.
Coming back to Mastermind, the specialist subjects on Monday are:-
Karl Marx
The Royle Family
Flags of British Counties
Django Reinhardt.
The only one about whom I know absolutely nothing is Django
Reinhardt, although I was pleased to hear he’d been unchained a few years ago. The
Royle Family is my banker subject, especially considering that TV and film rounds
in the last few years do tend to focus very much on events on screen. I know a
bit about Karl Marx – although not quite as much as I know about his brother Groucho.
I think that the one that will most reward a bit of wiki-ing is the county
flags. I already know a bit about some of them, being a closet vexillologist on
the QT. So I’d like to get close to double figures. But I’ll be honest, after
last Monday anything higher than five will be a bonus.
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