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What is/are your weird Mastermind specialistsubject?

199 replies

pineapplebryanbrown · 15/01/2019 01:10

I have two:

Perfumes

Serial killers

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Snapsnapsnap · 16/01/2019 10:52

@Stompythedinosaur any books you can recommend? I have a connection to Hexham and would like a good read. Fairly academic is fine but preferably not too dry!

CatherineCawood · 16/01/2019 10:53

UK postcodes - it's helpful to know a lot of this for my work.

St Clare's books by Enid Blyton

Thesnobbymiddleclassone · 16/01/2019 11:00

Holby city or doctor who

Allycumpooster · 16/01/2019 11:02

Pain.
It’s not that I’m in pain (well, any more than most people). I do know a lot about it though and could probably ace mastermind at it.

I don’t know anything about books, authors, songs or TV series and I can barely remember my own postcode Blush

BowiesJumper · 16/01/2019 11:08

Jilly Cooper's Rutshire Chronicles.
Friends
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
Harry Potter

puzzledlady · 16/01/2019 11:11

Charmed (older version)

X-men

The walking dead

Law and order SVU

User758172 · 16/01/2019 11:14

Stendhal’s novels
Stuart monarchs
Gin making

GrumpyOldMare · 16/01/2019 11:19

St Clares by Enid Blyton
Malory Towers by Enid Blyton
Earth's Children series by Jean M Auel
Anne of Green Gables
Stonewylde series by Kit Berry
Twilight
Dirty Dancing

Nottonight3390 · 16/01/2019 11:30

Harry Potter Smile

NopSlide · 16/01/2019 11:38

Neurotic human thought patterns.

MrPoppysGF · 16/01/2019 11:39

John Hughes films

Angelil · 16/01/2019 12:00

The Simpsons
the poetry of John Keats
the works of Roald Dahl
the life and works of Michael Jackson

JaneJeffer · 16/01/2019 12:06

Father Ted

thegreylady · 17/01/2019 08:45

Life and music of Joan Baez
Fantasy in Children’s Literature

thegreylady · 17/01/2019 08:50

Giggorata I did my dissertation on The Dark is Rising books

Giggorata · 17/01/2019 14:41

That must have been a labour of love! 🙂

MidnightAura · 17/01/2019 14:44

Friends!

The Babysitters Club books by Ann M Martin

Games!

DSHathawayGivesMeFannyGallops · 17/01/2019 15:25

A Dance to the Music of Time novels
The Cadfael Chronicles
Sex and the City episodes
The Rutshire Chronicles novels
The children of Queen Victoria
Flambards novels

Dapplegrey · 18/01/2019 01:47

DSHathaway your list is interesting. I adored Flambards books as a child.
Are Anthony Powell’s novels still widely read? I tried to read them in my 20s and couldn’t get into them but maybe several decades later I should give them another go.

Jitters22 · 18/01/2019 11:52

Variety of Apples in Great Britain.

I was obsessed with apples for years for some reason and have quite extensive knowledge.

Howvery I have a huge framed poster of apple varieties over my cooker. Everyone asks me if I have an interest in apples. Nope, I just loved the poster!

Maybe I should start studying it.

Grin
DSHathawayGivesMeFannyGallops · 18/01/2019 13:42

@Dapplegrey- I think they're reasonably popular; ADTTMOT is available in most bookshops, I think, I certainly see it around. There's also a companion book called "Invitation to the Dance" by Hilary Spurling which is good for keeping track of the plot. I bought that after I'd read the novels though! I read them at 24-25 and loved them. I'm 28 now and would happily re-read in a couple of years so definitely try again!

Oh and Flambards forever!!!! What did you think of book 4 though? I love it, but I read 3 & 4 together and I never thought she should marry Dick, I always held out for Mark. And I cried at the end of book 2 when Sandy died! I'm a bit torn on reading the reboot by someone else, I know it has KMPs blessings but it isn't necessarily how she'd have continued the story for the original characters iyswim? I always wanted to read about Tom and Isobel in ww2, they'd have been about the right ages to be involved. Isobel in the WAAF or a WREN and Tom probably going one better on Mark and Will by joining the parachute regiment or something equally terrifying!

Dapplegrey · 21/01/2019 00:59

DS - it’s a long time since I read them but as you say I bet the later ones not by K Peyton aren’t the same. I must reread them all.

Lonelyheart2020 · 21/01/2019 01:17

Fast food and alcohol

Muffster · 21/01/2019 01:31

Names of pole dancing tricks

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