Mastermind - Season 11 / Year 2020

Mastermind - Season 11 / Year 2020

Season 11 / Year 2020

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Episodes31
DatesJan 6, 2020 - May 4, 2020
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Episodes

Episode 1
Year 2020Episode 130 min

Episode 1

Tonight Mastermind enters its second decade and during the coming weeks 48 new contestants will be competing to win television's most prestigious quiz title. They come from every part of Britain, their ages range from 22 to 65 and their occupations include a naval officer, a tube train driver, a doctor, a brewery clerk, a bank manager and a vet. The first four contenders pit their wits against each other at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. Geraldine Gregg-Smith, Education welfare officer - Novels of Evelyn Waugh Christopher Price, Civil servant - Novels of the Bronte Sisters Kathryn Tyson, Civil servant - Shakespeare's tragic heroes Diggory Seacome, Schoolmaster - Percussion playing from 1700
Jan 6, 2020
Episode 2
Year 2020Episode 230 min

Episode 2

The Royal Agricultural College in the Cotswolds market town of Cirencester is the venue for the second heat of Mastermind 1983. Anne Adams (part-time teacher): Bayeux Tapestry Nicholas Rennison (bookshop assistant): 'The Music of Time' novels of Anthony Powell Edward Towne (schoolmaster): Reign of Edward III Simon Willbourn (pilot): The American manned space programme
Jan 13, 2020
Episode 3
Year 2020Episode 330 min

Episode 3

Four contestants from Scotland and Northern Ireland face Magnus in a place he knows well-the school in which he was educated - .the Edinburgh Academy. Patrick Doherty (schoolmaster): Films of John Wayne Euan Fairbairn (naval officer): Career of C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower Frederick Pegg (teacher): American Presidents from F. D. Roosevelt Kalph Roney (writer): Richard Hannay's novels of John Buchan
Jan 20, 2020
Episode 4
Year 2020Episode 430 min

Episode 4

'Education is the mother of wisdom and virtue' is the translation of the classical Greek motto of the Edinburgh Academy, where tonight four more contestants pit their wits against each other in the quest to become Mastermind 1983. George Beggs (retired customs official): American Civil War Brian Cooklin (schoolteacher): Women in Thomas Hardy 's novels Alan Shearer (veterinary surgeon): Zulu War 1879 John Wheeler (schoolteacher): British birds
Feb 3, 2020
Episode 5
Year 2020Episode 530 min

Episode 5

Three women contestants challenge one man in the fifth heat of Mastermind 1983 at Loughborough University of Technology. Peter Major (schoolteacher): Life and works of Richard Wagner Linda Paxton (housewife): Children of Queen Victoria Mary Schofield (housewife): British Social and Economic History 1760-1860 Sian Thomas (solicitor): Life and works of Colette Director
Feb 10, 2020
Episode 6
Year 2020Episode 630 min

Episode 6

Loughborough University of Technology is tonight's host. Robert Douglas (retired sub-post-master): British History, 1714-1815 Madeline Evans (library assistant): Life of Edward IV Susan Scholefield (civil servant): Homer's Iliad and Odyssey Robert Woodcock (driver's mate): European History, 1870-1945
Feb 17, 2020
Episode 7
Year 2020Episode 730 min

Episode 7

with Magnus Magnusson from the Froebel Institute College, Roehampton, south west London. Barbara Barrett (sales assistant): The ' Rougon-Macquart' novels of Emile Zola Kenneth Hedley (brewery clerk): Life and works of Sir Edward Elgar Nell Marshall (schoolteacher): Life of Tipu Sultan Robert Moggridgc (schoolteacher): The cathedrals of England
Feb 24, 2020
Episode 8
Year 2020Episode 830 min

Episode 8

Froebel Institute College bears the name of the German educator and philosopher Freiderich Froebel, the father of the kindergarten movement. Tonight another four contenders for the Mastermind 1983 title meet at the college in Roehampton. Paul Campion (department store executive): Life and recordings of Caruso Christopher Hughes: (London Underground train driver) British steam locomotives (1900-1968) Karen Stringer (university secretary): Life of T. E. Lawrence Alex Yeats (charity worker): Slavery and the slave trade
Mar 2, 2020
Episode 9
Year 2020Episode 930 min

Episode 9

Tonight from one of Britain's newest universities, Loughborough University of Technology. Hilary Aslett (schoolteacher): History of New South Wales 1788-1850 Paul Brighton (research student): Life of W. E. Gladstone Tom Chitty (bank manager): Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington Isabelle Heward (schoolteacher): British and American cinema since 1927
Mar 9, 2020
Semi-Final 1
Year 2020Episode 1030 min

Semi-Final 1

Mar 16, 2020
Semi-Final 2
Year 2020Episode 1130 min

Semi-Final 2

Mar 23, 2020
Semi-Final 3
Year 2020Episode 1230 min

Semi-Final 3

Apr 6, 2020
Semi-Final 4
Year 2020Episode 1330 min

Semi-Final 4

Apr 13, 2020
Semi-Final 5
Year 2020Episode 1430 min

Semi-Final 5

Apr 20, 2020
Semi-Final 6
Year 2020Episode 1530 min

Semi-Final 6

John Humphrys hosts the sixth and concluding semi-final of the quiz, inviting four returning contenders to brave the black chair once more. They answer questions on the specialist subjects of Teotihuacan, Derry Girls, the Silk Road, and Olympic fencing, before they each have two minutes to demonstrate their general knowledge.

Apr 27, 2020
Grand Final
Year 2020Episode 1660 min

Grand Final

John Humphrys hosts the Grand Final as six contenders return to the black chair to decide which of them will be crowned champion. They answer questions of the specialist subjects of the Stonewall Riots, the ancient universities of Scotland, the Wars of the Roses, the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency books, Johannes Vermeer, and the films of Kevin Smith, before having two minutes each to demonstrate their general knowledge.

May 4, 2020

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