Myrie’s father and mother, both from Jamaica, were respectively a factory worker and a seamstress who worked for Mary Quant. Quant was one of the designers who took credit for the miniskirt and which other fashion item?”

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However, parasport athlete Kadeena Cox - who scored three points on 21 December 2016 in a Celebrity edition - scored all three points on her specialist subject of Arsenal FC and she is currently the only ever contestant to score no points in a round. He was Lord Rector of Edinburgh University from 1975 to 1978 and in 2002 he became Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University. The Magnus Magnusson Fellowship, an intellectual group based at the Glasgow Caledonian University, was named in his honour.

Magnusson translated or co-translated a variety of books from modern Icelandic and Old Norse into English. Among these are several works by Halldór Laxness, the Nobel prize-winning novelist from Iceland, as well as a number of Norse sagas, which he co-translated (with Hermann Pálsson) for Penguin Classics: Njal's Saga (1960), The Vinland Sagas (1965), King Harald's Saga (1966) and Laxdæla Saga (1969). Yes, occasionally someone concludes ‘it’s not for me’ – usually these are people who have been persuaded along by someone else. Occasionally someone can’t get the support they need from their employer but most people who come to a Taster Day are keen to do more. The reality is, if you’re going to participate in a 20-day programme spread out over five months, it takes a bit of planning.

notes on the British phrase ‘I’ve started, so I’ll finish’

Hosted by BBC journalist and presenter Clive Myrie since 2021, the new series of Mastermind will see 96 contenders follow the tried and tested formula of facing two minutes of questions on their specialist subject, followed by two and a half minutes on general knowledge. Q&A with Mastermind host Clive Myrie Spitting Image used the Mastermind format in a sketch where a Magnus Magnusson puppet asked questions of a Jeffrey Archer puppet whose specialist subject was himself. The twist was that Archer's puppet, being incapable of answering questions about himself without exaggeration or evasion, ends the round with zero points. The British author and newspaper columnist Keith Waterhouse (1929-2009) coined red masthead, precursor of the British journalistic term red top. 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.I’ve started so I’ll finish" – is the catchphrase that became synonymous with Mastermind, right from the first series, and made it into the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Popular Phrase: ‘In BBC TV’s quiz Mastermind, the chairman Magnus Magnusson would say this if one of his questions was interrupted when the time ran out. It became a figure of speech – sometimes also given a double meaning.’ Mastermind International – BBC One London – 11 June 1981". BBC Genome Project . Retrieved 7 November 2014. That is serious proud stuff for my parents’ ... Myrie on the Mastermind set. Photograph: Presseye/BBC