What would your specialist subject be on Mastermind?

[ItsClemFandangoCanYouHearMe]

I would love to know what you would choose as your specialist subject on Mastermind.

Mine would be either George Orwell's 1984, The Office US or Ru Paul's Drag Race.

Motorway service stations

@BumbleBumbleBumbleLies hit me with some facts!

The World Snooker Championship: the Crucible Era.

Sex and the city

Harry Potter books. I'd set a new record

Phrases an autistic child can take literally.

My ds has educated me a lot

Thomas the bloody tank engine ( and friends)

80s pop music. If I could have a "guess the song from the intro" round I'd be right in there.

@itsgettingweird, that is reminding me of a very involved conversation about the phrase ‘leading someone up the garden path’ with my autistic godson.

The wizarding world of Harry Potter.
To say I’m a massive geeky expert is an understatement.
I’d probably beat JK Rowling

@myfuckingfreezer Harry Potter has been banned in mastermind as it's the most requested specialist subject!

1960s folk music

Has it really, @ItsClemFandangoCanYouHearMe -- there's a depressing thought.

The top 30 pop charts, 1975 to 1980.

Eurovision. Or parkrun.

Framing there's certainly never a dull moment. We've also had the reverse where he's be taught the meaning and non literal version and then translated it back.

My favourite ever moment was him repeatedly asking for boiled egg and dead soldiers. I couldn't understand what he meant by dead. Turns out he'd heard the phrase "you're toast" when playing at school. It had had to be explained to him it meant in trouble, dead etc.
He wanted boiled egg with toast

Harry Potter has been banned in mastermind as it's the most requested specialist subject!

That's outrageous! Can I get around it by being more specific? I.e. plot flaws in Harry Potter books 4-7?!

'Where is my.......' based on DH & DS

@myfuckingfreezer excuse the link

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Dogs

Mythical creatures, Dieting, Diseases

Casualty
Alternative music of the 80s
The early years foundation stage

The Discworld novels of Terry Pratchett.

The Chalet School books by Elinor M Brent-Dyer.

The Dragons of Pern novels by Anne McCaffrey.

And, just to prove that I do do something other than reading -

The Tudors.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer or the Beatles. There's not much I don't know about either.

The 1st Indian War of Independence (ie the 'Mutiny').