0:00:17 > 0:00:20Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:20 > 0:00:23Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:31Hello. Last time we saw Warwick University go through to the final
0:00:31 > 0:00:34of this festive grown-ups version of University Challenge.
0:00:34 > 0:00:37Tonight, we'll find out who'll be joining them.
0:00:37 > 0:00:41Playing on behalf of the most successful institution in the students' competition,
0:00:41 > 0:00:45the graduates from Magdalen College, Oxford, include a businessman,
0:00:45 > 0:00:48a civil servant, a novelist and a journalist and author.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51Their first-round match was against University College London,
0:00:51 > 0:00:55whom they beat by a margin of 45 points and in doing so,
0:00:55 > 0:01:00proved they know a lot about political magazines, the artist Richard Hamilton,
0:01:00 > 0:01:04and a very great deal about the wines and cheeses of Italy. Let's meet them again.
0:01:04 > 0:01:09Hello, I'm Luke Johnson. I graduated in Physiology in 1983
0:01:09 > 0:01:10and I'm a restaurateur.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14Hello, I'm Sarah Healey, I read Modern History and English,
0:01:14 > 0:01:19I graduated in 1998 and I now work at the Department For Education.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22- And their captain.- Hello, I'm Alan Hollinghurst.
0:01:22 > 0:01:27I took my degree in English, in 1975, and I'm a writer.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30Hello, I'm Harry Mount, I graduated in 1993,
0:01:30 > 0:01:35reading Ancient and Modern History and I'm an author and journalist.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37APPLAUSE
0:01:39 > 0:01:42The graduates from Trinity College, Cambridge,
0:01:42 > 0:01:46came away with a score of 225 from their first-round match
0:01:46 > 0:01:50which was the joint highest score from that stage of the contest.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52Their players are a maths teacher, a television producer,
0:01:52 > 0:01:55a comedy legend and a broadcast journalist.
0:01:55 > 0:01:57They had some snappy interventions and clean sweeps
0:01:57 > 0:02:02on bonus questions about famous librarians, US foreign policy
0:02:02 > 0:02:05and the god Poseidon. Let's meet them again.
0:02:05 > 0:02:10Hi, I'm Robin Bhattacharyya, I graduated from Trinity in 1995
0:02:10 > 0:02:13in Maths, and now I'm a maths teacher at Loughborough Grammar School.
0:02:13 > 0:02:17Hi, I'm Daisy Goodwin, I read History, I left in '83
0:02:17 > 0:02:21- and I'm a TV producer and writer. - And their captain.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24Hello, I'm John Lloyd, I graduated from Trinity in 1973
0:02:24 > 0:02:28with a Law degree and I'm the founder and series producer of QI.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31I'm Edward Stourton, I read English and graduated in 1979
0:02:31 > 0:02:33and I present the Sunday programme on Radio 4.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35APPLAUSE
0:02:37 > 0:02:41Let's not waste time reciting the rules. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43Here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46"The gift is mine, the choice is thine."
0:02:46 > 0:02:50In 1932, the British publisher Harold Raymond used that slogan
0:02:50 > 0:02:56to launch which innovation, devised after he had received 119 Christmas presents, only three of which...
0:02:56 > 0:02:58Trinity, Stourton.
0:02:58 > 0:03:00- Paperback.- No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02..only three of which were books?
0:03:04 > 0:03:05Magdalen, Healey.
0:03:05 > 0:03:08- The book token.- Book token is correct, yes.
0:03:08 > 0:03:10APPLAUSE
0:03:10 > 0:03:13The first set of bonuses are on blogs, Magdalen College.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16Founded by Pete Cashmore in 2005,
0:03:16 > 0:03:20which social media guide reached more than 30 million monthly page views
0:03:20 > 0:03:23to become a leading reporter of web news?
0:03:25 > 0:03:28THEY CONFER
0:03:30 > 0:03:33(Drudge... I don't know.)
0:03:33 > 0:03:36- The Drudge Report? - No, it's Mashable.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39Often ranked the top blog in the world by the listings site Technorati,
0:03:39 > 0:03:42which internet newspaper derives its name
0:03:42 > 0:03:47from that of its co-founder, a former Cambridge Union president?
0:03:47 > 0:03:50THEY CONFER
0:03:54 > 0:03:56(Huffington Post.)
0:03:56 > 0:03:57- Huffington Post.- Correct.
0:03:57 > 0:04:02Subtitled "Celebrity, sex, fashion for women, without airbrushing,"
0:04:02 > 0:04:07which gawker media blog shares its name with a biblical queen of Israel?
0:04:08 > 0:04:10HEALEY: Nefertiti?
0:04:10 > 0:04:12MOUNT: Bathsheba?
0:04:12 > 0:04:13MOUNT: Bathsheba?
0:04:13 > 0:04:18HEALEY: I've never heard of it, so if we haven't got any idea, let's pick a queen.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20- Bathsheba?- No, it's Jezebel.
0:04:20 > 0:04:2310 points for this starter question. What short name links
0:04:23 > 0:04:26the highest station on the national rail network in England,
0:04:26 > 0:04:31the author of Larpers And Shroomers, and Fanboys And Overdogs,
0:04:31 > 0:04:34and the protagonist of the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy?
0:04:34 > 0:04:36Magdalen, Healey.
0:04:36 > 0:04:37- Dent.- Correct.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39APPLAUSE
0:04:41 > 0:04:43Your bonuses are on Shakespeare's sonnets.
0:04:43 > 0:04:48For five points, what are the next two words of Sonnet 116,
0:04:48 > 0:04:52which begins, "Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.
0:04:52 > 0:04:54"Love is not love Which alters when it..."
0:04:54 > 0:04:57- Alteration finds.- Correct.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00According to the opening line of Sonnet 130,
0:05:00 > 0:05:02what are "nothing like the sun"?
0:05:03 > 0:05:05- My mistress' eyes.- Correct.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
0:05:07 > 0:05:12"Thou art more lovely and more temperate." What line comes next in Sonnet 18?
0:05:12 > 0:05:15THEY WHISPER
0:05:15 > 0:05:20- (Soft winds do shake the darling...) - Soft winds do shake the darling buds of May.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22No, it's "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May."
0:05:22 > 0:05:2410 points for this starter question.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27Albert Einstein attributed the achievements
0:05:27 > 0:05:29of which scientist and contemporary to,
0:05:29 > 0:05:34"A devotion and tenacity under the most extreme hardships imaginable,
0:05:34 > 0:05:37"such as the history of experimental science has not witnessed."
0:05:37 > 0:05:39Magdalen, Mount.
0:05:39 > 0:05:41- Marie Curie.- Correct.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45Your bonuses this time are on a foreign secretary.
0:05:45 > 0:05:50"The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."
0:05:50 > 0:05:54These words are attributed to which foreign secretary in August 1914?
0:05:54 > 0:05:56Edward Grey.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59- Edward Grey.- Sir Edward Grey is right.
0:05:59 > 0:06:03Sir Edward Grey gives his name to an institute at Oxford University
0:06:03 > 0:06:06that conducts research into what field of zoology?
0:06:06 > 0:06:09Ornithology.
0:06:09 > 0:06:10- Ornithology.- Correct.
0:06:10 > 0:06:15In the 1920 work, Recreation, Grey describes the detailed knowledge of birdsong
0:06:15 > 0:06:19of which figure, the 26th president of the United States?
0:06:19 > 0:06:21Was it Teddy Roosevelt?
0:06:21 > 0:06:24He's about 26th.
0:06:24 > 0:06:26- Theodore Roosevelt.- Correct.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29Ten points for this starter question. Quote -
0:06:29 > 0:06:33"It gave excitement equal in duration and superior in intensity
0:06:33 > 0:06:37"to that occasioned by high intoxication from opium or alcohol."
0:06:37 > 0:06:40These words of Sir Humphry Davy describe the effects of...
0:06:40 > 0:06:42Trinity, Bhattacharyya.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44- Nitrous oxide.- Correct.
0:06:44 > 0:06:45APPLAUSE
0:06:48 > 0:06:52You're off the mark, Trinity. Your bonuses are on a publishing house.
0:06:52 > 0:06:55Quote - "Back then, to Soho's seedier nooks,
0:06:55 > 0:06:57"came a band of lasses keen on books.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00"Up dimly-lit stairways they bravely groped,
0:07:00 > 0:07:03"While men in macintoshes leered and hoped."
0:07:03 > 0:07:08Margaret Atwood wrote those lines in 2003 to mark the 30th anniversary
0:07:08 > 0:07:10of which publishing house?
0:07:10 > 0:07:11SHE WHISPERS
0:07:11 > 0:07:12- Bloomsbury.- No, it's Virago.
0:07:12 > 0:07:16Particularly known for novels such as The Magic Toyshop
0:07:16 > 0:07:19and Wise Children, which author's first non-fiction work,
0:07:19 > 0:07:24The Sadeian Woman, was published by Virago in 1979?
0:07:24 > 0:07:25- Angela Carter.- Correct.
0:07:25 > 0:07:29In 1984, Virago published for the first time in the UK
0:07:29 > 0:07:31the first part of a work by which literary figure,
0:07:31 > 0:07:35based on her early years in Arkansas in the 1930s?
0:07:37 > 0:07:40Willa Cather? Who do you think?
0:07:40 > 0:07:41I don't know.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44- Willa Cather?- No, it's Maya Angelou.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48A picture round now.
0:07:48 > 0:07:52You're going to see a title of a novel translated into Old English.
0:07:52 > 0:07:5710 points if you can give me the name of the novel in modern English.
0:08:00 > 0:08:01BELL
0:08:01 > 0:08:02Magdalen, Johnson.
0:08:02 > 0:08:05Father Ted?
0:08:05 > 0:08:06LAUGHTER
0:08:06 > 0:08:08Anyone like to buzz from Trinity?
0:08:10 > 0:08:13Doesn't look as if you're going to.
0:08:13 > 0:08:17I'll tell you by showing its... There it is. White Teeth.
0:08:17 > 0:08:21So, picture bonuses shortly. Another starter question in the meantime.
0:08:21 > 0:08:23"Discovering him was like discovering where I lived.
0:08:23 > 0:08:26"It was, as Goethe described the experience of reading him,
0:08:26 > 0:08:28"like walking into a lighted room."
0:08:28 > 0:08:33These words, of the politician and broadcaster Bryan Magee, refer to which German philosopher...
0:08:33 > 0:08:35Trinity, Bhattacharyya.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38- Nietzsche.- No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41..which German philosopher, born 1724?
0:08:44 > 0:08:46Magdalen, Hollinghurst.
0:08:46 > 0:08:51- Schopenhauer?- No, it's Immanuel Kant. Schopenhauer's a bit later than that, isn't he?
0:08:51 > 0:08:52We take another starter question.
0:08:52 > 0:08:56Which island in the North Sea gives its name to naval engagements of the first and second
0:08:56 > 0:08:58Schleswig wars in the mid-19th century
0:08:58 > 0:09:01and to the first naval battle of World War I, captured...
0:09:01 > 0:09:03Trinity, Bhattacharyya.
0:09:03 > 0:09:05- Heligoland?- Correct, yes.
0:09:07 > 0:09:11So, Trinity, you get the picture bonuses.
0:09:11 > 0:09:15They're three more titles of modern novels, translated into Old English.
0:09:15 > 0:09:20In each case, I want the name of the novel in modern English.
0:09:20 > 0:09:21Firstly...
0:09:22 > 0:09:25- Modern novel...- Modern novel.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:09:32 > 0:09:34Blind something, it's got to be, hasn't it?
0:09:38 > 0:09:40- Don't know.- You were right, you were working it out
0:09:40 > 0:09:45but you didn't get there. It's The Blind Assassin. Here's how it normally looks, by Margaret Atwood.
0:09:45 > 0:09:46Secondly...
0:09:50 > 0:09:54- Do not forget me... - GOODWIN: Never Let Me Go?
0:09:55 > 0:09:59STOURTON: I think I'd go for that. Never Let Me Go.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02- Never Let Me Go.- It is, well done, by Kazuo Ishiguro.
0:10:02 > 0:10:03And finally...
0:10:07 > 0:10:10GOODWIN: The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time.
0:10:10 > 0:10:13- The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time.- Yes, well done!
0:10:13 > 0:10:14Another starter question.
0:10:14 > 0:10:17In physics, the hyperfine coupling constant,
0:10:17 > 0:10:21magnetic vector potential, unit cell length, mass number,
0:10:21 > 0:10:23and a factor of 10 to the minus 18
0:10:23 > 0:10:27can all be indicated by which letter of the alphabet?
0:10:28 > 0:10:30Magdalen, Mount.
0:10:30 > 0:10:34- E.- No. Trinity, anyone got an idea there?
0:10:34 > 0:10:36Trinity, Bhattacharyya.
0:10:36 > 0:10:37- A.- Correct.
0:10:37 > 0:10:40APPLAUSE
0:10:40 > 0:10:44Your questions this time are on space exploration.
0:10:44 > 0:10:48What object is less than 1,000km in diameter, accounts for almost a third
0:10:48 > 0:10:50of the mass of the asteroid belt,
0:10:50 > 0:10:54and in 2006, was classified as a dwarf planet?
0:10:54 > 0:10:55(Ceres.)
0:10:55 > 0:10:58- Ceres.- Correct, that's right.
0:10:58 > 0:11:02Secondly, what name was chosen for the NASA spacecraft due to enter
0:11:02 > 0:11:06the orbit of Ceres in 2015, reflecting the mission's aim
0:11:06 > 0:11:09of providing information about the origins of the solar system?
0:11:09 > 0:11:11THEY CONFER
0:11:11 > 0:11:14- (Voyager.)- Voyager?- No, it was Dawn.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17The Dawn mission is a first in space exploration
0:11:17 > 0:11:20because it intends to examine two celestial bodies
0:11:20 > 0:11:23in succession, of which Ceres is the second.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25Which asteroid is the first?
0:11:27 > 0:11:28Vesta?
0:11:28 > 0:11:30- Vesta.- Vesta is correct.
0:11:30 > 0:11:3310 points for this starter question. English versions
0:11:33 > 0:11:35of the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy
0:11:35 > 0:11:38usually end with the same plural noun.
0:11:38 > 0:11:43In Inferno, Dante came forth to look once more upon them.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45In Purgatory, he is pure...
0:11:45 > 0:11:46Trinity, Goodwin.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49- The damned?- I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:11:49 > 0:11:53In Purgatory, he is pure and prepared to leap up to them,
0:11:53 > 0:11:58and Paradise ends with a reference to the love that moves them. What are they?
0:11:59 > 0:12:01No conferring!
0:12:01 > 0:12:03Magdalen, Hollinghurst.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06- The spheres?- No, they're the stars.
0:12:06 > 0:12:0910 points for this starter question. Which association of states,
0:12:09 > 0:12:12established in 1949, currently has 47 members
0:12:12 > 0:12:17and seeks to develop common and democratic principles throughout Europe, based...
0:12:17 > 0:12:18Magdalen, Mount.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20- NATO.- No, you lose five points.
0:12:20 > 0:12:25..based primarily on the European Convention On Human Rights?
0:12:25 > 0:12:26Trinity, Stourton.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28- Council Of Europe.- Correct.
0:12:28 > 0:12:29APPLAUSE
0:12:29 > 0:12:33Right, your bonuses, Trinity, are about excommunicated rulers.
0:12:33 > 0:12:38Firstly, for five, in 1585, Pope Sixtus V, fearing that
0:12:38 > 0:12:41the French throne might, in future, pass to the Protestants,
0:12:41 > 0:12:45excommunicated which heir? He later became King Henry IV.
0:12:47 > 0:12:49SHE MURMURS
0:12:49 > 0:12:51- Oh, no, no, er...- Le Dauphin?
0:12:51 > 0:12:54The king of... The king of...
0:12:54 > 0:12:58- Is it of France?- Didn't say.
0:12:58 > 0:13:02- Did he say it was France? - Or was it Henry of...
0:13:02 > 0:13:05- So who was he, he became Henry IV? He was excommunicated.- France.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08He became Henry IV. How was he known beforehand?
0:13:08 > 0:13:13- He was the heir of France. The king of France...- Le Dauphin.
0:13:13 > 0:13:14Right, come on.
0:13:14 > 0:13:18- The Dauphin's not a good enough answer.- It's not, it's Henry of Navarre.
0:13:18 > 0:13:24Which Holy Roman Emperor, the last great ruler of the Hohenstaufen dynasty,
0:13:24 > 0:13:27struggled constantly with the papacy, and was excommunicated
0:13:27 > 0:13:30three times between 1227 and 1245?
0:13:31 > 0:13:35- Frederick Barbarossa.- No, that was Frederick I, it was Frederick II.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38Finally, for five points, during the 16th century,
0:13:38 > 0:13:40Pius V's bull Regnans In Excelsis
0:13:40 > 0:13:46excommunicated which monarch and absolved Catholic subjects from allegiance to them?
0:13:46 > 0:13:48Elizabeth?
0:13:48 > 0:13:49GOODWIN: Henry VIII?
0:13:49 > 0:13:52What was the date again? I think it was Elizabeth.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54Elizab...
0:13:54 > 0:13:57- Queen Elizabeth?- The first, is correct, yes.
0:13:57 > 0:13:59Another starter question.
0:13:59 > 0:14:02The first was created in London in 1864.
0:14:02 > 0:14:03The second in Paris in 1889...
0:14:03 > 0:14:05Trinity, Bhattacharyya.
0:14:05 > 0:14:06Underground systems.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:14:08 > 0:14:12Second in Paris in 1889. The third, founded by Lenin,
0:14:12 > 0:14:14was abolished in 1943. What name denotes these attempts
0:14:14 > 0:14:19at co-operative organisations of socialist, communist and revolutionary groups?
0:14:22 > 0:14:24Magdalen, Mount.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27- Comintern.- No, they're Internationals.
0:14:27 > 0:14:3010 points for this. Give the forename and surname
0:14:30 > 0:14:34shared by the Apollo 11 astronaut who orbited the moon in the command module...
0:14:34 > 0:14:36Trinity, Bhattacharyya.
0:14:36 > 0:14:38- Michael Collins.- Correct, yes.
0:14:38 > 0:14:39APPLAUSE
0:14:40 > 0:14:45Your bonuses this time, Trinity, are on the mammalian heart.
0:14:45 > 0:14:48Firstly, for five, which chamber of the heart receives the blood
0:14:48 > 0:14:52from the superior and inferior venae cavae?
0:14:55 > 0:14:59- Right atrium...- Right atrium? - The right atrium.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01- The right atrium.- Correct.
0:15:01 > 0:15:04Also known as the mitral valve, which valve prevents backflow
0:15:04 > 0:15:08of blood from the left ventricle to the left atrium?
0:15:08 > 0:15:10GOODWIN: Is it the pericardium?
0:15:11 > 0:15:13Pericardium, don't know...
0:15:13 > 0:15:16- Pericardium, I don't know. - Pericardium?
0:15:16 > 0:15:19No, it's the bicuspid valve. Finally, which artery receives blood
0:15:19 > 0:15:21from the right ventricle?
0:15:23 > 0:15:26Er, the pulmonary...the pulmonary artery.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28The pulmonary artery.
0:15:28 > 0:15:31That's correct. We're going to take a music round at this point.
0:15:31 > 0:15:34Your music starter is a piece of classical music. For 10 points,
0:15:34 > 0:15:37please name the composer.
0:15:40 > 0:15:41Magdalen, Hollinghurst.
0:15:41 > 0:15:43- Elgar.- Correct, yes.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45It's part of Pomp And Circumstance.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50Get these bonuses, you'll retake the lead.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52Following on from Pomp And Circumstance No.2,
0:15:52 > 0:16:00your music bonuses are extracts of works by composers, all of whom are regarded to have influenced Elgar.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03In each case, all you have to do is name the composer. Firstly...
0:16:03 > 0:16:07ORCHESTRA PLAYS LIVELY TRADITIONAL DANCE
0:16:18 > 0:16:22- Tchaikovsky?- No, that's Brahms' Hungarian Dance No.5.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24Secondly...
0:16:24 > 0:16:28OBOE PLAYS LILTING MELODY
0:16:30 > 0:16:34ORCHESTRA JOINS IN
0:16:47 > 0:16:52- Tchaikovsky?- No, that's Johann Strauss The Younger, from the Fledermaus overture.
0:16:52 > 0:16:53Finally...
0:16:53 > 0:16:59# Treulich gefuehrt ziehet dahin
0:16:59 > 0:17:04# Wo euch der Segen der Liebe bewahr... #
0:17:04 > 0:17:06Wagner.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08That is indeed Wagner, well done.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10Right, we're going to take
0:17:10 > 0:17:13another starter question. Which political theorist drafted Clause IV
0:17:13 > 0:17:17of the Labour Party's constitution of 1918? Together with his wife, Beatrice...
0:17:17 > 0:17:19Magdalen, Healey.
0:17:19 > 0:17:21- Sidney Webb.- Sidney Webb is right.
0:17:22 > 0:17:27Into the lead again. Your bonuses are on countries and their coastlines,
0:17:27 > 0:17:30according to the CIA's World Factbook.
0:17:30 > 0:17:35More than 200,000km in length, which country has the longest coastline in the world?
0:17:35 > 0:17:37- Chile, is it?- Chile?
0:17:42 > 0:17:45I don't know. It might be Russia.
0:17:47 > 0:17:49- What shall we say?- Why don't we say Russia?
0:17:49 > 0:17:50- Russia.- No, Canada.
0:17:50 > 0:17:53Which island state has the second longest coastline,
0:17:53 > 0:17:56around 55,000km in length?
0:17:56 > 0:18:00- Australia.- Australia. - No, that's Indonesia.
0:18:00 > 0:18:04Two EU member states have coastlines of more than 10,000km.
0:18:04 > 0:18:07One's the UK, which is the other?
0:18:08 > 0:18:10- Ireland, or...- Norway?
0:18:10 > 0:18:13THEY WHISPER
0:18:13 > 0:18:15Ireland or...
0:18:16 > 0:18:18JOHNSON:(Italy.) HEALEY: (Italy.)
0:18:18 > 0:18:22- Italy. Italy.- No, it's Greece. Another starter question.
0:18:22 > 0:18:25"A sad, serious prince, full of thoughts."
0:18:25 > 0:18:29These words, of the philosopher Francis Bacon, describe which king of England...
0:18:29 > 0:18:30Magdalen, Mount.
0:18:30 > 0:18:33- Er, Henry V?- No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:18:33 > 0:18:35You get the rest of it, Trinity.
0:18:35 > 0:18:40..describe which king of England, who, despite the rebellions of Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck,
0:18:40 > 0:18:44succeeded in establishing a dynasty and amassing a treasury surplus?
0:18:45 > 0:18:47You may not confer, one of you may buzz.
0:18:47 > 0:18:48Trinity, Goodwin.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50Er, Richard II.
0:18:50 > 0:18:53No, Henry VII. Another starter question.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55Now the eastern part of Hiroshima prefecture,
0:18:55 > 0:19:00which former province of Japan shares its name with that of a popular British gambling game,
0:19:00 > 0:19:04the name often being used to express sudden success?
0:19:04 > 0:19:05Trinity, Goodwin.
0:19:05 > 0:19:06- Bingo.- Yes!
0:19:06 > 0:19:10Right, you get a set of bonuses, having retaken the lead,
0:19:10 > 0:19:12on apes.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15Pongo pygmaeus, the only Asian great ape,
0:19:15 > 0:19:17is commonly known by what name?
0:19:18 > 0:19:20Orang-utan.
0:19:20 > 0:19:21- Orang-utan.- Correct.
0:19:21 > 0:19:25Which great ape, closely related to common chimpanzees and humans,
0:19:25 > 0:19:30is sometimes called the pygmy chimpanzee and is found only in the rainforests along the Congo river?
0:19:30 > 0:19:32- The Bonobo.- Correct.
0:19:32 > 0:19:37Hoolock and siamang are genera of which apes, sometimes called the lesser apes,
0:19:37 > 0:19:39in the family Hylobatidae?
0:19:41 > 0:19:45- Er...- Gibbons?- Gibbons.- Correct.
0:19:45 > 0:19:47Another picture round. For your starter,
0:19:47 > 0:19:51you're going to see a painting. 10 points if you can give me the name of the artist.
0:19:52 > 0:19:53BUZZER
0:19:53 > 0:19:54Trinity, Goodwin.
0:19:54 > 0:19:56- Canaletto.- Correct.
0:19:59 > 0:20:04OK, that was a painting by Canaletto, of the River Thames.
0:20:04 > 0:20:08Your bonuses are three more paintings, depicting European rivers.
0:20:08 > 0:20:11In each case, I'd like the name of the river. Firstly...
0:20:13 > 0:20:15- The Tiber.- The Tiber.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17It is, yes. Secondly...
0:20:19 > 0:20:21STOURTON: Is that St Petersburg?
0:20:21 > 0:20:26BHATTACHARYYA: If it is St Petersburg, the river is the Neva.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29- If you think it's that place, that's right.- The Neva.- Correct.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31And finally...
0:20:31 > 0:20:35- GOODWIN: Oh, the Seine. - The Seine.- That is the Seine, yes.
0:20:35 > 0:20:3810 points for this starter question. What term can denote
0:20:38 > 0:20:43both a solid solution of carbon in a non-magnetic form of iron, stable at high temperatures,
0:20:43 > 0:20:49and a scholar or afficionado of the English novelist whose first work was published in 1811?
0:20:52 > 0:20:54Magdalen, Mount.
0:20:54 > 0:20:56- Austenite.- Correct.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59APPLAUSE
0:20:59 > 0:21:02Your bonuses, Magdalen, are on cities,
0:21:02 > 0:21:05specifically those whose English names begin and end with the same letter.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08In each case, name the city from the description.
0:21:08 > 0:21:12Firstly, a city in the German state of Baden Wuerttemberg, downstream from Heidelberg,
0:21:12 > 0:21:15at the confluence of the Rhine and the Neckar.
0:21:19 > 0:21:20Stuttgart, no...
0:21:20 > 0:21:23HEALEY: It doesn't begin and end in the same letter.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28Let's have an answer, please.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30- We don't know.- It's Mannheim.
0:21:30 > 0:21:35Secondly, a major city of the Russian far east, on the River Amur, close to the Chinese border.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42I've no idea.
0:21:43 > 0:21:46- Come on.- We don't know. - That's Khabarovsk.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49And finally, the EU capital on the River Vistula.
0:21:52 > 0:21:56THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:21:56 > 0:21:58Let's just think of capitals.
0:22:01 > 0:22:03- Come on, let's have it please. - We don't know.
0:22:03 > 0:22:07That's Warsaw. 10 points for this. Species of what family of birds
0:22:07 > 0:22:12have common names that are homophones of words meaning noise made by a steam locomotive,
0:22:12 > 0:22:16tenth letter of the alphabet, and chess piece.
0:22:17 > 0:22:18Magdalen, Mount.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20Jay...
0:22:20 > 0:22:23No. Trinity.
0:22:23 > 0:22:24Trinity, Goodwin.
0:22:24 > 0:22:27- Chuff.- No, it's the family, it's crows.
0:22:27 > 0:22:32Chuff, and the jay and the rook, they all belong to the same family, crows.
0:22:32 > 0:22:3310 points for this starter question.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36Equal to the weight in grams of 9,000 metres of the yarn,
0:22:36 > 0:22:42which unit is used to measure the fineness of material such as silk, rayon....
0:22:42 > 0:22:43Magdalen, Hollinghurst.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45- Denier.- Denier is right, yes.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47APPLAUSE
0:22:48 > 0:22:51Your bonuses, Magdalen, are on the spouses of kings of England.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54Name the king who was married to the following.
0:22:54 > 0:22:58Firstly, Matilda of Scotland, the daughter of the Scottish king, Malcolm Canmore.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00No, no, no, no.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03No, I don't think so, I think it was William II.
0:23:03 > 0:23:04William the Conqueror?
0:23:04 > 0:23:07HEALEY: William I? MOUNT: William the Conqueror.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10< OK, let's try it.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12- William I.- No, it was Henry I.
0:23:12 > 0:23:16Matilda, secondly, of Boulogne, an heiress whose estates near London
0:23:16 > 0:23:19facilitated her husband's seizure of the kingdom.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24That could be Stephen.
0:23:24 > 0:23:31No, no, I know we daren't say it again but I think that was one married to...
0:23:31 > 0:23:33- William I.- No, it's Stephen. Finally,
0:23:33 > 0:23:37Matilda, the daughter of Count Baldwin V of Flanders.
0:23:41 > 0:23:42HEALEY: Shall we try it again?
0:23:42 > 0:23:44We wondered if that might be Stephen.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46No, that was William I,
0:23:46 > 0:23:49your first answer! Right, 10 points for this. Recent winners
0:23:49 > 0:23:54of which National Hunt race include Kauto Star, Imperial Commander...
0:23:54 > 0:23:55Magdalen, Mount.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58- Cheltenham Gold Cup.- Yes.
0:23:58 > 0:23:59APPLAUSE
0:24:01 > 0:24:03Get these bonuses, you're on level pegging.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06They're on the east coast. The Iron-Age construction
0:24:06 > 0:24:11known as Danes Dyke encloses part of the peninsula containing which east coast headland,
0:24:11 > 0:24:14defined as a Heritage Coast in 1979?
0:24:15 > 0:24:17Spurn Head?
0:24:17 > 0:24:19Spurn Head...
0:24:19 > 0:24:21Try that.
0:24:22 > 0:24:26- Spurn Head.- No, it's Flamborough Head.
0:24:26 > 0:24:31Which seaside resort gives its name to the bay that lies immediately south of Flamborough Head?
0:24:35 > 0:24:38Which seaside resort is there...
0:24:38 > 0:24:40Let's have it, please.
0:24:40 > 0:24:42- Scarborough.- No, it's Bridlington.
0:24:42 > 0:24:47Formerly an area of marshland, what is the area of low-lying agricultural land
0:24:47 > 0:24:51between the Yorkshire Wolds and the Humber Estuary?
0:24:51 > 0:24:54THEY WHISPER
0:24:57 > 0:25:00- Let's have an answer, please. - We don't know.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03Holderness. Under three minutes to go, 10 points for this.
0:25:03 > 0:25:07Listen carefully. Of the Asian states whose names end in "stan",
0:25:07 > 0:25:10which one is entirely surrounded by others whose names...
0:25:10 > 0:25:12Trinity, Bhattacharyya.
0:25:12 > 0:25:15- Uzbekistan.- Uzbekistan is correct, yes.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20Your bonuses are on Irish counties this time, Trinity College.
0:25:20 > 0:25:24In each case, give the county name that corresponds to the following.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26Firstly, the distant home in an eponymous song
0:25:26 > 0:25:30said to have been first performed in Stalybridge, Cheshire, in 1912.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32- Tipperary.- Correct.
0:25:32 > 0:25:36Secondly, the under-plumage of a bird used as an insulating material.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38- Down!- Down.- Correct.
0:25:38 > 0:25:42Finally, Quercus suber, a tree native to South-West Europe,
0:25:42 > 0:25:44grown commercially for its bark.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47- Cork.- Cork is correct.
0:25:47 > 0:25:5010 points for this starter question. The Kitemark,
0:25:50 > 0:25:55familiar as a UK-registered certification symbol of quality and safety, is enclosed at its base
0:25:55 > 0:25:59by two lines in the shape of a letter V. Which two letters appear at the top?
0:26:02 > 0:26:03Magdalen, Healey.
0:26:03 > 0:26:08- B and I?- No. Trinity, one of you buzz?
0:26:09 > 0:26:11Trinity, Bhattacharyya.
0:26:11 > 0:26:15- E and S?- No, B and S, standing for British Standards. 10 points for this,
0:26:15 > 0:26:20What precise interval separates the deaths of Isaac Newton and Ludwig van Beethoven...
0:26:20 > 0:26:22Trinity, Bhattacharyya.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24- 100 years.- Precisely, yes.
0:26:24 > 0:26:26APPLAUSE
0:26:28 > 0:26:30Here are your bonuses, on world capitals,
0:26:30 > 0:26:35specifically those whose names would have a low points value in the board game Scrabble,
0:26:35 > 0:26:37if proper names were ever allowed.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40Separated by the Alps, which two capitals of adjacent European countries
0:26:40 > 0:26:43both have Scrabble values of six points?
0:26:45 > 0:26:48Berne might be one. And...
0:26:48 > 0:26:49Paris is probably...
0:26:49 > 0:26:52Is P a three?
0:26:52 > 0:26:55- Rome? I don't know. - Separated by the Alps.
0:26:55 > 0:26:58I'd go for Berne and...
0:26:58 > 0:27:00- Come on.- Berne and Paris or Rome.
0:27:01 > 0:27:04- Berne and Paris.- No, it's Berne and Rome.
0:27:04 > 0:27:07Slightly to the west of Rome and Berne,
0:27:07 > 0:27:11which Mediterranean capital has a Scrabble value of five?
0:27:17 > 0:27:19To the west of Rome...
0:27:19 > 0:27:21Madrid? I don't know.
0:27:21 > 0:27:23Come on, let's have an answer, please.
0:27:23 > 0:27:26THEY CONFER
0:27:26 > 0:27:27Lisbon?
0:27:27 > 0:27:29Five, can't be.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31Come on, I need an answer, please.
0:27:31 > 0:27:35- Er, Paris.- No, it's Tunis. And finally, two world capitals
0:27:35 > 0:27:41would have a value of only four. One is Sanaa in Yemen, which Nordic capital is the other?
0:27:41 > 0:27:43- GOODWIN: Oslo. - Oslo.
0:27:43 > 0:27:46Another starter question. The bezoar is a wild species
0:27:46 > 0:27:49of which mammal of the family Bovidae,
0:27:49 > 0:27:54and shares a genus with the West Caucasian tur, the markhor and the ibex?
0:27:55 > 0:27:56Trinity, Lloyd.
0:27:56 > 0:27:59- The yak.- No... Magdalen, one of you...
0:27:59 > 0:28:02- FINAL GONG - Bad luck!
0:28:07 > 0:28:10Just to settle arguments at home, it's the goat.
0:28:10 > 0:28:11Magdalen, we must say goodbye
0:28:11 > 0:28:14to you, but you've been a terrifically strong team so far.
0:28:14 > 0:28:17You were up against... Well, you led for much of the contest,
0:28:17 > 0:28:21so thank you very much for joining us, we have to say goodbye to you.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24Trinity, well done, you go through to the final. In the final,
0:28:24 > 0:28:27they will be playing Warwick University.
0:28:27 > 0:28:31I hope you can join us next time for that final but until then,
0:28:31 > 0:28:34- it's goodbye from Magdalen College, Oxford.- Goodbye!
0:28:34 > 0:28:38- It's goodbye from Trinity College, Cambridge.- Goodbye!- And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.
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