Hebrew U. to Host "Mastermind" Show to Mark Science Day, Einstein's Birthday

Hebrew U. to Host "Mastermind" Show to Mark Science Day, Einstein's Birthday

Jerusalem – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem will host an event reviving the television quiz show Mastermind to mark Science Day and to find out who are the university's brightest student minds. The event will be hosted by Israeli TV show host Avri Gilad and will include top Hebrew University professors as quizmasters.

The event, which will be open to the public, will take place on Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 12 noon – 1.30 p.m. at the Ezequiel Liwerant-Fomento Mexico Hall on Mount Scopus campus. Six student contestants, selected through a process of quizzes over the coming weeks, will compete in different rounds testing their knowledge on a range of general knowledge questions and on a specialized subject of their choice. The questions will be compiled by leading professors at the university.

Students may enter the competition from now until February 8 via the Hebrew University's Facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Hebrew-University-of-Jerusalem/269975322570?v=app_4949752878&ref=ts

The first prize will be an iPad (courtesy of Yellow Pages - Dapei Zahav), the second prize will be an ASUS Eee PC 1001PX Netbook (courtesy of Academon Ltd), and the third prize will be a year's membership to the Hebrew University's Lerner Sports Center (courtesy of Kossel which manages the university's sports centers).

Science Day in Israel is held on March 14 – Albert Einstein's birthday. Albert Einstein was a founding father of the Hebrew University.

More information on Mastermind
The Israeli 'Masterminds' was a television quiz show on Israeli Channel 1 which was broadcast between 1990 - 1996. The host in the first four seasons was Yitzhak Shimoni. The program was based on the format of the British television quiz show Mastermind which was originally broadcast by the BBC from 1972 – 1997. The show, which was known for its challenging questions, imposing setting, and black leather chair under the spotlight, was then replicated by other television channels in Britain and around the world.

The show's original BBC host and quizmaster, Magnus Magnusson, coined the show's famous catchphrase, "I've started so I'll finish."