Q 01/05

What was Fred Housego's job when he won Mastermind in 1980?

A) Milkman

B) Taxi driver

C) Bus conductor

D) Window cleaner

Answer · why

B) Taxi driver

Taxi driver: Housego's win turned the London cabbie into a television presenter, yet he kept his licence and was still driving a black cab more than t...

Q 02/05

Who was the original presenter of Mastermind?

A) John Humphrys

B) Magnus Magnusson

C) Robert Robinson

D) Clive Myrie

Answer · why

B) Magnus Magnusson

Magnus Magnusson asked the questions for 25 years and signed off in a cathedral that shares his name, St Magnus in Orkney, where he was given the famo...

Q 03/05

Which word completes the Mastermind catchphrase 'I've started so I'll …'?

A) carry on

B) finish

C) answer

D) continue

Answer · why

B) finish

Finish: the questioner says it when the buzzer cuts across a question, and the show's first host made the line so famous that he used it as the title ...

Q 04/05

Mastermind's creator drew inspiration for the format from being interrogated by whom?

A) Scotland Yard

B) The Spanish Inquisition

C) The KGB

D) The Gestapo

Answer · why

D) The Gestapo

The Gestapo questioned Bill Wright as a prisoner of war, when all he had to give was name, rank and number; on television that became name, occupation...

Q 05/05

Who was the original quizmaster of University Challenge?

A) Bamber Gascoigne

B) Amol Rajan

C) Jeremy Paxman

D) Magnus Magnusson

Answer · why

A) Bamber Gascoigne

Bamber Gascoigne chaired the quiz for 25 years; in 2014 he unexpectedly inherited an old Surrey manor house, which later played Button House in the BB...