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Magnus Magnusson, KBE (born Magnús Sigursteinsson; 12 October 1929 – 7 January 2007) was an Icelandic-born British-based journalist, translator, writer and television presenter. Born in Reykjavík, he lived in Scotland for almost all his life, although he never took British citizenship. He came to prominence as a BBC television journalist and was the presenter of the BBC television quiz programme Mastermind for 25 years. [1] His catchphrase "I've started, so I'll finish" was said whenever the time for questioning a contestant ran out while he was reading a question on the show. So, Myrie got to keep his job – and I may have to upgrade his Mastermind score by one point. Still, five points on the subject of yourself – not great, is it? I always suggest to people who have booked for Module One of NLP Practitioner training that they pencil in the dates for the rest of the programme, ‘to keep their options open’. Why? Because I’ve had a few people in the past who booked for Module One, loved it and wanted to carry on through the programme but already had a lot of the dates booked for other things and so weren’t able to join us. By trying to keep their options open they actually removed the option to complete the course. Does he feel constrained by impartiality? “Yeah, of course. I’m a human being and I’ve got opinions and ideas and points of view.” It’s just that, when he walks through the doors of this building, those points of view need to be invisible. “I am allowed to vote, Sam, but you don’t need to know, the public doesn’t need to know, how I vote.” Mastermind Champions was a 1982 3-part competition where the first ten champions of the show compete to become the Mastermind Champion of Champions. [ citation needed]

Magnús Sigursteinsson was born in Reykjavík on 12 October 1929, but grew up in Edinburgh, where his father, Sigursteinn Magnússon, was the Icelandic consul. In Scotland his family adopted a British naming convention, and from childhood Magnus used his father's patronymic as a surname. Such was the popularity of the show that it returned to the BBC in 2002 for a celebrity special and 2003 saw the first full new series with a new quizmaster John Humphrys. I didn’t describe him as anything. I said some people might feel a certain way, which is why I’m still in a job, Sam …” How did Myrie describe … [BEEP BEEP BEEP] I’ve started so I’ll finish … the boxer Tyson Fury in 2015, for which the BBC apologised?” So, is BBC News still in a bad place? “I think when it comes to producers, senior members of the staff and the team and the newsroom, yeah, absolutely, there are issues – no questions about it,” he says. The shop window might look all right, but “you want to go in the shop and have a look around”, he says.Cup Final Grandstand – BBC One London – 10 May 1980". BBC Genome Project . Retrieved 7 November 2014. Part 2 of the consultation has a focus on transparency provisions and notices. The content detail of each of the (many!) new notices is set out in the draft Procurement (Transparency) Regulations 2023. Consultees are asked to comment on the extent to which the content of each of the notices reflects the policy intent set out in the Bill. The phrase occurs in In the hot seat! Patient Mike grabs chance to shine, published in the Liverpool Echo ( Liverpool, Merseyside, England) of Friday 24 th April 1987: He was elected President of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds at its 94th annual general meeting in October 1995, succeeding Max Nicholson, and held the office until 2000. He was founder chairman of Scottish Natural Heritage from 1992 and founder chairman of the Scottish Churches Architectural Heritage Trust in 1978 (it became Scotland's Churches Trust in 2012). [7] You see, the person with the Procedures preference sees chains of events, steps in a process or sequences of activity. They like to know where they are in the process and where it will end.

More wonderful contenders gunning for the ultimate quizzing prize. Specialist subjects that will delight, amaze and frankly baffle some, which is exactly how it should be. From Shakespeare's comedies to Killing Eve, British brutalist architecture to the works of Banksy. Some of the criticism hurts: that some voices aren’t getting heard, that they don’t do enough reporting from deprived communities. He bigs up the work done by his colleagues Michael Buchanan, Alison Holt and Mark Easton. “But it goes under the radar – people don’t alight on it. They will talk about this idea that the BBC is not getting where it should be. I think a lot of the criticism is grossly unfair and it is peddled by people who have an axe to grind.” 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. That programme was to become inextricably linked to his name and the phrase: "I've started, so I'll finish."The earliest occurrence of I’ve started, so I’ll finish used without explicit reference to BBC’s Mastermind or to Magnus Magnusson is the caption to this photograph of the participants in the Great North Run 4 of Sunday 30 th June 1985, published in The Journal ( Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England) of Monday 1 st July 1985: a b Marsden, Rhodri (4 September 2014). "Rhodri Marsden's Interesting Objects: The Mastermind chair". The Independent. Archived from the original on 12 May 2022 . Retrieved 5 February 2022. 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] Roger Crofts; David Breeze. "Magnus Magnusson" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh . Retrieved 19 October 2015. Tom Hanks is reportedly a fan of Mastermind. He first watched it when filming ‘Saving Private Ryan’ and called it ‘The discovery of my time in the UK’.

Mastermind host Clive Myrie reveals what to expect from the quiz show's 50th anniversary and new series Grand finale of 'Mastermind Family Bangladesh' to air tonight". The Daily Star. 10 January 2020 . Retrieved 27 December 2021.

On their 2005 Christmas Special, comedy duo French & Saunders parodied the show with Jennifer Saunders playing Abigail Wilson, a pensioner whose special subject is ceramic teapots. She passes on all but one question, which she answers incorrectly. Gascoigne was naturally literate and intellectual, as he showed in his other major TV work – the historical documentary series The Christians (1977), Victorian Values (1987) and The Great Moghuls (1990). His genuine erudition drove a business sideline in high-end publishing and bookselling. This allowed him to choose TV work carefully but also led to a second quiz show, in which, improbably as it might seem in a contemporary medium cautious about high culture, he went somewhat upmarket from University Challenge, fronting Connoisseur (BBC Two, 1988-89), a panel game in which the subject matter was exclusively the fine arts. The British author and newspaper columnist Keith Waterhouse (1929-2009) coined red masthead, precursor of the British journalistic term red top.

In the very first series of Mastermind in 1972, all of the finalists were women, leading people to speculate whether a man could ever win the show. Magnusson later returned to present a one-off celebrity special, originally broadcast on 30 December 2002 on BBC Two, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first ever Mastermind final. [5] This was a precursor to the main show returning to the BBC with Humphrys as host. [6] Shortly before his death, Magnusson returned to the regular Mastermind series to present the trophy to the 2006 champion Geoff Thomas. Sally Magnusson presented the trophy to the next series winner, David Clark, while also paying tribute to her father and his legacy to the show.I love it! It was an amazing opportunity that came my way and it's a privilege to be one of just a handful of presenters who've helmed the show in half a century.