Sunday, 10 December 2023

Mastermind - Heat 16 preview

What, preview time already? Hey, count yourselves lucky I’ve been ill then away for the last few days, or you would have had it even earlier.

So tomorrow night’s specialist subjects will be : -

Bridget Riley

The Winter Olympics 2002 – 2022

The Sitcoms of Peter Kay

The History of St. Albans

Going through them, I would say unless I have a lucky guess there’s really nothing for me in Bridget Reilly. A point if I’m lucky. The Winter Olympics. Now, the fact that this is limited to the Winter Olympics of the 21st century, that suggests that in depth knowledge of each event in each games is going to be required. (What’s that? In 2006 you took on the Summer Olympics – all of them, didn’t you, Dave? Well, alright, I did, but that was then and this is now.) Because I don’t think there’s going to be that much general in them I think maybe 1 or at most 2. As for the sitcoms of Peter Kay, well I’d say that this is the closest thing I have to a banker subject in this show, but even then my love of Phoenix Nights, Max and Paddy’s Road to Nowhere and Car Share are by no means guaranteed to bring much here. Let’s say a maximum of three. Finally, the History of St. Albans. Little chance of points here unless it asks about Verulamium, Francis Bacon, or my several times great uncle Jabez Rainbow, who was found guilty of trying to murder his mistress in a hotel in St. Albans by slitting her throat. She survived, and it was her testimony in his favour at the trial – apparently he was off his . .  . head on laudanum, that persuaded them to downgrade his original death sentence to transportation to Van Diemen’s Land. And let’s be honest . . . they ain’t going to ask about him, are they?

So – 3 – 6 I would say. Pools forecast, I’d tear up your coupon if I were you.

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