Four more contenders in the black chair answer questions on: Alice Cooper, the Gemini space programme, West Ham United 1970-date and the life and work of John Logie Baird. Show more

Questions are put to four more contenders. Subjects are the life and music of Ian Dury; the Red Army 1941-1945; the life and work of Gerald Durrell; the history of Celtic FC. Show more

John Humphrys hosts the penultimate semi-final. Subjects include birds of Britain, the films of Takeshi Kitano, Newcastle United since 1945, and the Jagiellon Dynasty. Show more

John Humphrys hosts as five contenders compete for the last place in the grand final. Subjects include Yes Minister, the Rebus novels of Ian Rankin and the Glastonbury Festival. Show more

John Humphrys puts the questions to four more contenders. Subjects are: Joy Division, the Battle of the River Plate, Ashes Cricket Series since 1981 and the films of Tod Slaughter. Show more

Five contenders compete in the first semi-final. Subjects include Rising Damp, US military aircraft of the Second World War and the films of Dietrich and von Sternberg. Show more

Five contenders compete in the second semi-final. Subjects include the films of Norman Wisdom, Magna Carta, the Pembrokeshire coast, and the novels of William Boyd. Show more

John Humphrys presents another semi-final. Subjects are the life and films of David Niven, Edward III, the Pixies, the life of Giuseppe Garibaldi and the Flashman novels. Show more

Six contenders battle it out in the grand final. Subjects include UK chart music of the 1970s, Shakespeare's War of the Roses, Abraham Lincoln, Verdi's operas and more. Show more

John Humphrys puts the questions to four more contenders. Topics include George Harrison, the history of Rome until 1944, and Everest mountaineering. Show more

Host John Humphrys asks questions on Catherine of Aragon, Fanny Cradock, the novels of Roddy Doyle and French grand opera 1823-1900. Show more

Host John Humphrys asks questions on The Waltons, the Bernard Sampson novels of Len Deighton, Sir Nigel Gresley and Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston.

John Humphrys puts the questions to four more contenders. Subjects include - Steely Dan, the Mapp and Lucia Novels of EF Benson and the Boston Bruins since 1970. Show more

John Humphrys puts the questions to four more contenders. Subjects include the Titanic, the American Revolutionary War, East German Athletics and John Peel's Festive Fifties. Show more

John Humphrys asks the questions as the hunt continues for the nation's Mastermind. Subjects are: Geoffrey Boycott, Futurama, Graham Greene and US Military Aircraft since 1945.

John Humphrys asks questions on the subjects of British number one singles 1963-2000, Alan Bennett's Talking Heads, Kett's rebellion of 1549 and the life and work of Michael Foot. Show more

Questions are put to four more contenders. Subjects are the novels of William Golding, the Soviet Union under Stalin 1924-1939, The KLF and When the Boat Comes In. Show more

John Humphrys asks the questions on these specialist subjects: the Bee Gees, the life and films of Kevin Smith, the Falklands conflict, and the life and work of Thomas Hardy. Show more

Questions are put to four more contenders. Subjects are the life and careers of Marilyn Monroe, David Lloyd George and the 1st Duke Of Wellington, and Swallows and Amazons. Show more

John Humphrys asks questions on subjects including Anne Boleyn, the Wallander novels of Henning Mankell, the life and music of Sir William Walton and Shakespeare's tragedies. Show more