Test for Tolkien expert

Press, 3 June 1981, Page 3

Test for Tolkien expert

NZP.A ,-’/-’ '/Sydney New Zealand’s 1980'Mastermind, Mr/.Davjd Harvey, will compete against quiz stars from Australia, Ireland,and England »jn 1981International Mastermind/af. the Sydney Opera-House':, this, evening. Mr Harvey, who is’’34j an Auckland barrister and Solicitor, has chosen as his special topic J. R. Tolkien’s classic, "Lord of the Rings.” He has read it 31 times. If he wins this evening, Mr Harvey will be New Zealand’s first International Mastermind, . the ’.' ’previous two contests ’have gone to Ireland and Australia. The show, .televised by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, will be seen, by an estimated '3O million/pepple as it goes to airin Britain, Eire, Australia, and ’ New Zealand. , > • Christchurch viewers can see the: programme at 10 p.m. oh Channel One. The winner of this year’s International Mastermind will receive the prize of a fourth century B.C. terracotta bust from Southern Italy. . . ■■ Ranged against Mr Harvey will be Mr. Fred Housego, of England; Mr David Ingoldsby, of 'lreland, and Mr Bill Fitzgerald,-of Australia. Mr Housego, , a London taxi-driver, specialises in the Tower of; London, while Mr’. Fitzgerald’s specialist topic is twentieth, century American presidents. gMr Ingoldsby has chosen as his topic twentieth cen-, tury rock ’n‘ roll. He owns 400 record albums and his obsession with rock 'n’-roll began in 1962 when he went to his first dance.