A Scottish student has been crowned the youngest ever Mastermind champion.
Jonathan Gibson, 24, won by four points in the BBC quiz’s Grand Final, which aired on Monday night.
He scored a perfect 11/11 in his specialist subject, which was comedy song writing duo Flanders and Swann.
His other specialist subjects throughout the competition were Agatha Christie’s Poirot in the heat and William Pitt the Younger in the semi-final.
He scored perfect scores on all three specialist subjects, as well as a perfect general knowledge score in his semi-final round.
It saw him become the competition’s youngest-ever champion since the show began in 1972, a record previously held by Gavin Fuller in 1993.
"I felt so incredibly nervous – I was worried I might look like I was about to pass out"
Glasgow student Jonathan Gibson speaks to @BBCBreakfast after being crowned the youngest ever champion of the BBC's Mastermind quiz show.
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Gibson, from Glasgow, is studying a PhD in Modern History at the University of St Andrews.
He told the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland programme: “The last four months since filming have just felt like a dream, so it’s good to have visual evidence on TV that it actually happened. I told my parents and my sister and that’s basically it.
“The heat subject was the TV show Poirot, which I was introduced to by my mum and my grandma so that was really lovely to revisit.
“For the semi-final I did William Pitt the Younger, the late 18th century prime minister. That was inspired by a book my history teacher gave me in school and was one of the main reasons I decided to be a history student.
“And for the final I did Flanders and Swann which was a favourite of my dad’s. I’ve known the lyrics of every single song since I was seven or eight so it has been lovely revisiting these things.”
The final marks John Humphrys’ last episode as host of Mastermind, having presented 735 episodes of the series and asking more than 80,000 questions during that time.
The new series with newly-announced presenter Clive Myrie, a BBC news journalist and a regular presenter of the BBC News at Six and Ten, will be filmed in Belfast in summer and will return to screens later this year.
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