Magnús Ver Magnússon
We will send you information about this and future occasions and hold you updated about essentially the most exciting breakthroughs in science. Now you possibly can add events to your personal schedule and participate in our stay chat on selected occasions. In addition to his four World’s Strongest Man titles, Magnús was additionally runner-up in 1992 and 1993. He has additionally won the Iceland’s strongest man competitors many times and the West coast Viking (Vestfjarðavíkingurinn) of Iceland nine times.
With your Log-In it can save you your favorite events to you calendar and provides RSVP to sure occasions. Magnus Magnusson, KBE, was an Icelandic television presenter, journalist, translator and author. He was born in Iceland but lived in Scotland for almost all of his life, although he by no means took British citizenship.
Mastermind
He came to prominence as a BBC television journalist and was greatest often known as the presenter of the BBC television quiz programme Mastermind, which he hosted for 25 years. He can be identified for his famous catchphrase “I’ve began so I’ll end”, which he said each time the time ran out whereas he was studying a query on Mastermind.
- He competed in a one-off event on the Giants Live Strongman Championship 2019 held in Wembley towards fellow strongman legend Bill Kazmaier in the Hercules Hold, with the weight being lowered by 20 kg on each side from what the skilled athletes were working with.
- He has additionally won the Iceland’s strongest man competition many times and the West coast Viking (Vestfjarðavíkingurinn) of Iceland 9 occasions.
- Magnusson made cameo appearances as himself, internet hosting Mastermind in Morecambe and Wise in addition to the youngsters’s series Dizzy Heights and as Magnus Magnesium in The Goodies episode “Frankenfido”.
- He carried Jón Páll’s method of being athletic for the dynamic tests of strength and having tremendous static strength to outlift a few of the greatest Powerlifters.
- His catchphrase, which the present presenter John Humphrys has continued to make use of, was “I’ve started so I’ll end”.
His catchphrase, which the present presenter John Humphrys has continued to use, was “I’ve started so I’ll finish”. Magnusson made cameo appearances as himself, internet hosting Mastermind in Morecambe and Wise as well as the kids’s sequence Dizzy Heights and as Magnus Magnesium in The Goodies episode “Frankenfido”. ; born Magnús Sigursteinsson; 12 October 1929 – 7 January 2007) was an Icelandic-born British-based mostly journalist, translator, writer, and television presenter. Born in Reykjavík, he lived in Scotland for nearly all his life, though he by no means took British citizenship.