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Eastenders' 'Nasty Nick' Chooses Isle of Wight As Mastermind Specialist Subject — How Many Questions Can You Answer?

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Islanders tuning into Celebrity Mastermind last night (Saturday) will have seen the Isle of Wight feature as one of the specialist subjects.

Eastenders actor John Altman — known for his portrayal of Nasty Nick — chose the Island due to his love of the area.

John managed to navigate some tricky questions, but also got a few wrong — could you do better?

The show can still be watched on BBC iPlayer.

How many can you answer?

Here are all eight of the questions faced by John — the answers are further down, so don't cheat! Let us know how many you get right.

1. Which scientist and inventor was born in Freshwater in 1635, where his home stood on a hill bearing the family name?

2. Two caves known as 'The Nostrils' are located at the base of which cliff at Horseshoe Bay near Sandown?

3. What name is given to the area where a royalist named Eustace Mann buried his gold coins in the grounds of his Osborne estate during the English Civil War, but was later unable to find them?

4. The last independent ruler of the Isle of Wight  Isabella de Fortibus — chose which property as her main home before selling it to King Edward I on her deathbed?

5. For many years donkeys were used to drive a treadmill that released water from the well at Carisbrooke Castle  by tradition all the donkeys had names that started with which letter of the alphabet?

6. Which German political theorist spent the summer of 1874 in Ryde with his wife, Jenny, and after her death spent the winters of the early 1880s staying at St Boniface Gardens in Ventnor?

7. The prison called HMP Isle of Wight was formed in 2009 by the merger of three existing prisons on the Island  Parkhurst, Albany and which other?

8. What is the name of the Anglo-Saxon Queen born at her father's manor in Arreton in around AD 810 who became the mother of four Kings of Wessex including Alfred The Great?

The correct answers

  • 1. Robert Hooke
  • 2. Culver Cliff 
  • 3. Money Copse
  • 4 Carisbrooke Castle 
  • 5. J
  • 6. Karl Marx
  • 7. Camp Hill 
  • 8. Osburga

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