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What would your Mastermind specialist subjects be?

113 replies

storminacupoftea · 17/01/2024 07:17

The rules: you need 3 (for the heat, semi-final and final) and they can’t be anything to do with your job. Can be as populist or erudite as you fancy!

It’s ok if they’ve been done before.

Mine would be:
Cabin Pressure (radio show)
Green Wing (TV show)
The life and works of Alan Rickman

OP posts:
Speckson · 17/01/2024 17:36

Georgette Heyer novels
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
British Butterflies

Closertinydancer · 17/01/2024 17:39

The Royle Family (as in Jim and Barb, not Charles and Camilla
The music of 1984
The American Office

FountainofTruth · 17/01/2024 17:39

Cats
Parasite control
Bargains (non food related)
Toy trends

Dinodrivingacar · 17/01/2024 18:18

Dinosaurs!
Lego
Disney

I am grown up, promise.....

Serena1977 · 17/01/2024 18:44

Tennis

2012 London Olympics

Friends

countvoncount · 17/01/2024 18:48

Alan partridge
Serial killers
Teeth/dentistry

CheshireCat1 · 17/01/2024 18:49

The Plantagenets
The Romanovs
The Sultanate of Women
Pingu

MailMe1 · 17/01/2024 18:50
  1. Lego Friends
  2. peppa pig
  3. paw patrol
Bbq1 · 17/01/2024 18:56

The Bronte sisters
Lucinda Riley's Seven Sisters series
The Big Bang Theory

beetlebrain · 17/01/2024 19:37

The books of Diana Wynne Jones

The books of Dorothy L Sayers

Cabin Pressure! (the lemon is in play...)

Hatty65 · 17/01/2024 19:47

People have got mine!

I'd have:

Diana Wynne Jones books
Georgette Heyer novels
Henry Tudor

canttellyouwhereorwhatido · 17/01/2024 20:02

The Arcjhers 1970 (when I started listening ) to today.

W1A

The books of Alexander Solzhenitsyn

ginoclocksomewhere · 17/01/2024 20:05

Greek mythology
Greys Anatomy
Harry Potter books

Iamblossom · 17/01/2024 20:14
  1. Gray's Anatomy
  2. Riders by Jilly Cooper
  3. Maintaining a successful professional career whilst actually doing the bare minimum
PepsiMaxLime · 17/01/2024 20:20

Harry Potter
Disneyworld
Snow Patrol
Serial killers ( at odds with #2, I know)

janfebmarchapril · 17/01/2024 20:24

US office
Harry potter books

That's all

janfebmarchapril · 17/01/2024 20:25

justalittlesnoel · 17/01/2024 07:50

  • the US office
  • Taylor Swift
  • the books of Brandon Sanderson
  • Harry Potter (Books, film or fanfic 😂)
  • The Great British Bake Off

lol I said HP and US office. My husband would have said BS books. We'd get on well 🤣

RashOfBees · 17/01/2024 20:30

Interesting to see some Roman emperors picked - it would be Augustus for me.

Novels of Patrick Hamilton

Struggling for a third.

FizzyStream · 17/01/2024 20:32

Heyhoherewegoagain · 17/01/2024 07:32

  1. The art of procrastination
  2. How to look busy when dh wfh whilst doing fuck all
  3. Faffing

Can I share yours? 😂

Redlarge · 17/01/2024 20:35

Narcissists

FizzyStream · 17/01/2024 20:35

Harry Potter (books)
Blackadder
The Hunger Games
Henry VIII and his six wives

SomersetBrie · 17/01/2024 20:36
  1. HRT and the menopause
  2. whatever my youngest DS is into at the time of filming, if it's right now, let's say mountain bikes
  3. Anne of green gables (whole series of books). I saw this on one time and I did as well as the contestant.
greasypolemonkeyman · 17/01/2024 20:38

Mine would be

reptile breeding habbits/cycles
Pride and prejudice
Mid century furniture

Horrace · 17/01/2024 20:41
  1. The Thick of it
  2. Ghosts (UK)
  3. David Bowie 1972 - 74
LBFseBrom · 17/01/2024 20:43

Skiving
Sleeping
Social history of London in the 1950s and 1960s.

In any order.