We have started so we will finish. Following last week’s story about a Battersea man who chose Wandsworth as his specialist subject on Mastermind, a woman who helped create those tough questions has revealed her funniest moments making the show.

Elizabeth Salmon, of Wandsworth Town, started as a question writer and researcher on the popular quiz show in 1989, and was involved in one of the show’s most infamous incidents.

Mrs Salmon who has worked on Fifteen to One, which was based in offices at Putney Common before moving to central London – lists some of her favourite topics to research as Lewis Carroll, real ale breweries, glam rock, London Zoo and the Alan Clark Diaries.

Her least favourite was Japanese submarines of the Second World War.

Mrs Salmon was involved in a notorious Mastermind incident, which led to the show being bleeped by censors.

She said: “In 1996 I had the dubious honour of researching the Sex Pistols for a contestant’s specialist subject.

“Magnus [Magnus Magnusson the host] was very happy to say the word at the recording, but when it came to the transmission of his reading the title of their album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols the BBC insisted on bleeping out the word bollocks. I think it was the first and only such bleep on a question in the show.”

Jesse Honey, of Battersea, scored 14 points on Wandsworth when he appeared on the show.

Mrs Salmon said: “I thought it was quite a difficult set given the scope of the subject matter and was delighted to see how well he did.”

If she appeared on the show, her specialist subject would be the poet Wilfred Owen or painter John Constable.

Rejected specialist subjects on Mastermind.

-Routes to anywhere in mainland Britain by road from Letchworth.

-Cremation practice and law in Britain.

-The banana industry.

-The development of the self-service petrol station -History of children