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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 January 2022
The long-running British quiz show, Mastermind, has a very simple premise: Contestants sit in a chair and face the quizmaster who asks them a series of trivia questions. In the first round of an episode, the questions are all on a single subject that the contestant has chosen as his or her specialty. The specialty subject questions can be quite specific – for example, “The 7th Amendment [to the U.S. Constitution] provided for the right to a jury trial if the amount concerned in the case exceeded a certain sum of money; how much?” The only way to succeed on Mastermind is to have dedicated a good deal of time to your specialty topic. In essence, Mastermind is deep involvement packaged as a game show.
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