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Thread: BBC Mastermind - I'm going to be on it with Bonhoeffer
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hatless
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I am a contestant on the next episode of Mastermind, Friday 31st October, at 7pm (earlier than usual) on BBC2. My specialist subject is Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
So if you're in the UK and you want to see what I look like, find out how I did and avoid having to fork out for the 1,000 page biography of Bonhoeffer that I read from cover to cover this summer, tune in on Friday.
For those not in the UK, Mastermind is a long-running quiz show with an interrogation style format, which the BBC probably won't make available where you live, so you won't be able to see the iconic black chair or the people who sit in it.
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Woo! set to record (which is how I remember to watch stuff).
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Piglet
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As an exiled Brit, one of the things I miss most is Proper Television™, and quizzes like Mastermind and University Challenge in particular.
Good luck, and let those of us in Foreign Parts know how you get on! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Sipech
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Hope you did OK. I never managed to get to the televised rounds.
In your research, did you get to visit the Dietrich Bonhoeffer centre in south London? It's where I worship most weeks and where we recently had some visitors who were on a Bonhoeffer pilgrimage.
I'd be shocked if one of the answers wasn't Eberhard Bethge. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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hatless
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No, I didn't get to the Bonhoeffer Centre - I must go, though.
And I'm not sure if Bethge was an answer. It's strangely difficult to remember the questions - other contestants have said the same thing. It will be interesting on Friday to hear them again.
I can tell you that one of the questions had the answer 92 - and I got it wrong!
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Welease Woderwick
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We have Mastermind India here, which can be quite good fun when I remember to watch it.
Sorry I won't be able to watch your appearance.
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Polly Plummer
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You're a brave person, Hatless. Thanks for the warning about the time change on Friday - I always watch it when I can.
I was going to say I'll be rooting for you, but as the result is already a fact there wouldn't be much point!
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Alan Cresswell
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While at University I knew Andy Page (2003 Mastermind). He'd been the Methodist Chaplaincy assistant the year before I started, and was still around and actively involved in church.
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Nenya
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Watching now.
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Drifting Star
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Should this be on the media spottings thread?
I can see hatless!! And he isn't wearing a hat!!!
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Nenya
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quote:
Originally posted by Drifting Star:
I can see hatless!! And he isn't wearing a hat!!!
I noticed that too! I feel nervous for him already... I don't usually inflict the stress that is Mastermind on myself.
Nen - and breathe...
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Spike
Mostly Harmless
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What a result! So, when's the semi final?
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Drifting Star
Drifting against the wind
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Well done! And cool as a cucumber too!
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Tree Bee
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Wow! Well done Hatless. That was a close run thing!
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Nenya
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Well done! Well done indeed! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Baptist Trainfan
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The sweat is still running off me - you must have thought you were down and out, but no! Well done!
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Spike
Mostly Harmless
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I bet you'd have felt a proper pillock if you'd got the Cain and Abel question wrong!
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Polly Plummer
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Hooray for Hatless!
Mr. Plummer was very impressed that I knew the number of Bonhoeffer's cell - the first question to which 92 could be the answer :-)
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passer
Indigo
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Originally posted by Polly Plummer:
Hooray for Hatless!
Mr. Plummer was very impressed that I knew the number of Bonhoeffer's cell - the first question to which 92 could be the answer :-)
Well done Hatless!
(Have to confess Mrs passer was as impressed as Mr Plummer for the same reason!)
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hatless
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Thanks. It was pretty nerve wracking, especially before hand. All my fellow contestants went very quiet while we were getting our makeup on.
Once out there, John H spoke to me, asking how I wanted to pronounce Bonhoeffer. He suggested Bonhoffer rather than Bonhurffer, and then he reminisced saying that Tutu had told him of his great regard for B, saying that he was one of the great ones. So I said I felt the same about Tutu, and that exchange helped me feel much more at ease.
I never expected to win, and didn't think I had until it was announced.
In the semi-final I took John Clare, the Northamptonshire poet who ended his days in the hospital where I work as chaplain. I think that will go out next year.
It was a fun experience, though the other contestants all seem very serious. I felt a bit like a Dad who had gate crashed the kids' game and won it without meaning to.
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hatless
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# 3365
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Originally posted by Spike:
I bet you'd have felt a proper pillock if you'd got the Cain and Abel question wrong!
It would have been so easy to say Esau and Jacob!
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Piglet
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Congratulations, Hatless!
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Boogie
Boogie on down!
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I watched it on iplayer.
You were impressive hatless - cool and clever!
(and I can see why you go hatless! )
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Doublethink.
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Thankyou for reintroducing me to master,ind, I stopped watching when John Humphreys took over cos he used to do excruciating small talk with the contenders - I see they have now dropped most of that so I 'll start watching again
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Sarasa
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Wwll done Hatless, that was close!
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QLib
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Sing Ho for hatless, hatless Ho!
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Stejjie
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I've just watched it on iplayer - well done!!
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guinness girl
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Just caught up with it on iPlayer too! Jolly well done hatless - that WAS tense!
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TurquoiseTastic
Fish of a different color
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Originally posted by Doublethink.:
Thankyou for reintroducing me to master,ind, I stopped watching when John Humphreys took over cos he used to do excruciating small talk with the contenders - I see they have now dropped most of that so I 'll start watching again
Oh good! That was why I stopped watching Mastermind as well - might give it another go now. Well done hatless!
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IngoB
Sentire cum Ecclesia
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Congratulations! That was a tight race...
FWIW, the "oe" in Bonhoeffer would be pronounced as an Umlaut "ö" in German. Indeed, all the Umlaute in German originate from writing a following "e" on top of the previous vowel and then getting sloppy about that "e" until it became two dots. You can hear the correct German pronunciation of the full name in this video at exactly 1:00 (and several times thereafter).
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