Do You Know Enough?

davebro | 20:07 Sun 09th May 2021 | ChatterBank

54 Answers

about any single subject to be a contender on Mastermind?

I know a lot of trivia but a dozen random questions on a single subject. I think I would struggle.

What Is....

Mastermind Question

Answers

1 to 20 of 54

1 2 3 Next Last

Best Answer

No best answer has yet been selected by davebro. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.

For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.

DTCwordfan

you just keep the scope tight as you can, dave, and swap up on it. For instance, they'll murder you if you go for the history of Liverpool FC - but if you go for Liverpool FC FA cup history 1980 to 2010, you have more focus.

Back when they used to grill folk for two minutes thirty on specialist, I managed 17 on the Physical Geog of Great Britain....but then I wasn't sitting in the black chair.....

barry1010

Prudie

I could possibly scrape by (and I mean scrape by) on British birds without swotting but these days contestants seem to pick a very limited subject they can read up on rather than something they've always known.

davebro

Question Author

I think it was a semi-final. The guy got all his specialist questions right & on general knowledge his final question was which is the smallest mammal - he answered "shrew". They said NO - the European pygmy shrew.
I think he lost in the final!

Peter Pedant

erm
you have to swot
so you may know a helluva lot about USB switches 1965-1970
but in other rounds you have to do other specialist subjects

and then you can go back to USB switches for the final

1.and so for sick form challenge 1966 I did nothing
2.and so for university cack up I didnt nothing 1970 ( pears actually)
3.then for Open university cock up still nothing because my heat was held after the television appearance. yes
4.then for old buggaz univ challenge 1990 four dictionaries but wasnt picked but that was fun
5. then for old buggaz univ challenge 2016 the same four and a few from oxfam shop - reserve not needed but we won - Trinity Hall
6. 15 - 1 a dictionary - which I didnt win but someone stopped me in the street last month 2021 and said were you on 15-1 - and I said yeah 20 y ago. and he said it is replayed last week. People watch it apparently. I looked much younger. 20 y younger hence the q

and I can tell you reading a dictionary is incredibly boring
worse than - - - having to read AB for six hours a day - or only TTT threads. Torture it is - honest, awful. I only do it because I am mad - I mean have you seen the rubbish TTT writes on a good day?

I am currently on my second way froo a NT greek dictionary - but at least it means I can read the NT ( no really - I did the grammar in 1964)

and I wrote to the Prime minister last month in Greek ( NT not classical). I was particularly pleased with my translation of AZ ( alpha kai omega ) and vaccination ( colourion ) eye ointment - inoculation - oculus - geddit ???

he has nt answered

i dont expect you to answer eeva

Peter Pedant

// and swap up on it.//
first winner was on commanders in italy 1944-5

he clearly knew all of them - oh that was Bobo the spronk
er Sir Robert Spingle I mean
oh that was Binky le mec - Sir Bingle Bongle I mean
Mark Clark yeah we called him .....

sudduv kinda gave it away

jourdain2

In the old days - a subject + gen. know. and then another subj. I thought I could have a go with fair confidence of not making a total fool of myself. But now I think it is 3 specialist subs. and I don't think I can do that at that depth.

Peter Pedant

the Peter Wimsey winner read all 200 PW books in the fortnight before the final

I mean you cd do Dickens but do you want to read all the Dickens books at any time ? ( I mean there are a dickens of a lot of 'em - - ter daah !)

Peter Pedant

// his final question was which is the smallest mammal - he answered "shrew"//

yeah oi fink oi sorr that one
I said pygmy shrew to the telly - sorex minimus
and he referred to the shrew - sorex araneus

when I was at Porton Down see elsewhere - there was one man there ( killing small animals wiv poison gas like novichok yeah foo !) who was the only fella in the UK who cd breed them
if you trap them, you have to feed them within wivvin sozza 6 h or they starve to death
that is how I know these things - fings I mean

teacake44

Marbles.

andy-hughes

No.

I know a massive amount about music, but nowhere near enough on the sort of narrow parameters that would qualify me for this.

Plus, my general knowledge is excellent, but not good enough or recalled fast enough.