Mastermind International was an annual playoff between winners of various international versions of the show (or the nearest equivalents in some countries) and ran for five years between 1979 and 1983.

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The first ever Mastermind champion was Nancy Wilkinson (1972) with specialist subjects of French Literature, European Antiques and the History of Music between 1550-1900. · The youngest champion is Jonathan Gibson (2021), aged 24, with the specialist subject of comedy songwriting duo Flanders and Swann. Clive Myrie: Becoming host of Mastermind is a big, big job". BBC News. 19 August 2021 . Retrieved 2 May 2022. Cup Final Grandstand – BBC One London – 12 May 1979". BBC Genome Project . Retrieved 7 November 2014. In February 2021, Humphrys announced that after eighteen years at the helm of the show, he would leave the show. On 22 March 2021, it was announced that Clive Myrie would take over as host. Myrie made his debut on 23 August 2021. [6]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".

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The Two Ronnies (1971–1987) was a comedy sketch show on the BBC with Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett.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.

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Davison, Phil (19 April 2012). "Obituary: Mamie Magnusson; made her name in journalism when women were rarely seen in news rooms". The Scotsman . Retrieved 22 August 2021. The current record for the lowest score in the specialist subject round is jointly held by Simon Curtis, Steve Ferry, Nancy Lam and Amy Tapper, all of whom only scored one point when answering questions on the life and films of Jim Carrey, the Thirty Years' War, Rod Stewart and the films of Adam Sandler respectively. The academic surroundings, the ritualised procedure, the emphasis on memory and recall and the ever-present sense of the passing of unforgiving seconds seem to convey an illusion of a school that never was. Mastermind is the nearest most people ever come to the student’s ultimate torment, the viva. The presence of Magnus Magnusson, like a kind but Calvinist dominie, sternly administering the rules that he himself must keep (“ I’ve started, so I’ll finish”) adds to the ambience.

Some of the criticism hurts: that some voices aren’t getting heard, that they don’t do enough reporting from deprived communities. He bigs up the work done by his colleagues Michael Buchanan, Alison Holt and Mark Easton. “But it goes under the radar – people don’t alight on it. They will talk about this idea that the BBC is not getting where it should be. I think a lot of the criticism is grossly unfair and it is peddled by people who have an axe to grind.” If you want to understand who we are as a nation and a people, come to BBC News’ ... reporting from College Green in Westminster in 2016. Photograph: PJR News/Alamy