illustration by Reading for Only a game: Or is it?— The Guardian (London and Manchester, England)—22 nd December 1981: Sally Magnusson, Presenter". BBC Press Office. March 2006. Archived from the original on 4 May 2009. Discovery Channel's Mastermind (2001) was hosted by Clive Anderson. The commercials shortened the amount of time available for answering questions and lasted just one series. This was also the first to go "interactive". By using the red button viewers could play the general knowledge section throughout the series. These questions had been written specifically to afford both standard and multiple-choice format in presentation. There was a one-off competition between the four highest scoring viewers. [ citation needed] He never took British nationality but his enthusiasm for his adopted country was recognised with his appointment as chairman of the Ancient Monuments Board for Scotland and Scottish Natural Heritage.

The second occurrence if from an interview of David Essex 3 by Adam Roberts, published in the Liverpool Echo ( Liverpool, Merseyside, England) of Saturday 6 th August 1983:

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The Channel 4 Prank programme Balls of Steel parodied Mastermind with its sketch The Alex Zane Cleverness Game, in which experts were quizzed on their specialist subjects (included were "The Life of Anne Frank", " Eurovision Song Contest Winners", and " Hercule Poirot"). Unbeknown to the experts, the show was a hoax, and incorrect answers were included to frustrate them whenever they supplied the correct answer. Mastermind Family Bangladesh' on Duronto TV". Daily Sun. 13 October 2019 . Retrieved 27 December 2021.

Mastermind Champions – BBC One London – 3 May 1982". BBC Genome Project . Retrieved 7 November 2014. Myrie’s wife, Catherine, is an upholsterer and furniture restorer. How would she, and his friends, describe him? “I hope they would say honest, decent, caring. But also up for a laugh.” 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.

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The winner is the contestant with the highest total score after two rounds. Ties are broken in favour of the contestant with the fewest total passes. If contestants have the same score and number of passes, a five-question tiebreaker is played. Each of the tied contestants answers the same set of questions individually, with the others exiting the studio so that they cannot hear the results. The contestant who gives the most correct answers is the winner. Magnus Magnusson was a prolific author, with books on the Vikings, archaeology, Ireland and Scotland and translations of early Icelandic literature. The highest overall Mastermind score is 41 points, set by Kevin Ashman in 1995, his specialist subject being "The Life of Martin Luther King Jr." Ashman went on to become six times IQA world champion. In addition he holds the record for the highest ever score on Brain of Britain and has been a member of the Eggheads since that series debut. Mastermind International – BBC One London – 11 June 1981". BBC Genome Project . Retrieved 7 November 2014.