Mastermind 03

Andy Page won his quarter final in the UK Mastermind 2003 programme - his specialist subject - "The lives and works of Sir William Gilbert & Sir Arthur Sullivan"

Andy went on to win the whole series and was awarded the championship!

If you want to try them for yourselves here are the questions - with answers at the bottom of the page - I have left a gap between them :-

1. The plot of the G&S operetta "The Gondoliers" is concerned with finding the heir of which country?

2. Which opera, first performed in 1896, was the last collaboration of Gilbert & Sullivan?

3. Which is the only G&S opera without any spoken dialogue?

4. An argument over what in 1890 disrupted the partnership of G&S for around two years?

5. With whom did Sullivan collaborate in 1866 on the one act operetta Cox and Box

6. Under what pseudonym did Gilbert write his comic verses?

7. Gilbert died of heart failure brought on by which heroic act?

8. What is the name of the village in Cornwall where Ruddigore is set?

9. Who was cast as the "Learned Judge" in the first performance of Trial by Jury?

10. What did Rose Maybud have with her when she was found hung on the knocker of the workhouse door?

11. In Utopia Limited Princess Zara spent five years at which Cambridge College?

12. In which theatre, later renamed the Palace Theatre, did Sullivan's grand opera Ivanhoe have a continuous run of 160 performances

13. In which village is Sir Marmaduke Pointdextre's mansion located?

14 Which cantata was Sullivan writing, after the completion of the Mikado, which prevented him concentrating Gilbert's libretto for Ruddigore?

15 By what "pet-name" did Gilbert use to refer to his wife?

16 Thespis had which alternative title?

17 In the Yeomen of the Guard, how much money did Elsie Maynard expect to receive for marrying Fairfax?

18 In Princess Ida what educational post does Lady Psyche hold?

19 In Patience what does Grosvenor's and Bunthorne's duet what does an "every day young man" think are more fun that Monday Pops.

The contestant scored 16 points - have you achieved a better result?