0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:21Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:30Hello. Welcome to the second match
0:00:30 > 0:00:32in our festive reversal of fortune series,
0:00:32 > 0:00:35which allows students to take a break from World of Warcraft
0:00:35 > 0:00:38and re-runs of The Only Way Is Essex,
0:00:38 > 0:00:40so they can be amazed at what old people know.
0:00:40 > 0:00:41CHUCKLING
0:00:41 > 0:00:43We've invited graduates and staff
0:00:43 > 0:00:44to compete on behalf of the institutions
0:00:44 > 0:00:47that honed their intellects, forged their characters
0:00:47 > 0:00:49or, at least, pay their wages.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52The University of Newcastle is represented by a man
0:00:52 > 0:00:56who has piloted aircraft, climbed mountains and sailed oceans.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59They also have a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society,
0:00:59 > 0:01:01who is both the voice of British gardening
0:01:01 > 0:01:02and the face of British weather.
0:01:02 > 0:01:05Their captain is a successful businesswoman
0:01:05 > 0:01:08who writes for the FT under the guise of Mrs Moneypenny
0:01:08 > 0:01:11and who also finds time to be a stand-up comedian.
0:01:11 > 0:01:15And fourthly, they have a former Head of EMI Music UK,
0:01:15 > 0:01:19who's also currently the chair of the BPI, which owns the Brit Awards.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21But in case we've missed anything out,
0:01:21 > 0:01:23let's ask them to introduce themselves.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25Hi, I'm Tristan Gooley,
0:01:25 > 0:01:28I studied Politics and History at Newcastle in the mid '90s.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31These days, I'm a writer and natural navigator.
0:01:32 > 0:01:34Hello, I'm Peter Gibbs.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37I studied Geography and Physics at Newcastle, back in the late '70s.
0:01:37 > 0:01:41And I now wave my arms around in front of a weather map on the telly.
0:01:41 > 0:01:43And their captain.
0:01:43 > 0:01:44Hello, I'm Heather McGregor.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46I graduated from Newcastle in 1984
0:01:46 > 0:01:49with a degree in Agricultural Marketing
0:01:49 > 0:01:51and I now run an executive search company in London.
0:01:53 > 0:01:54Hello, I'm Tony Wadsworth,
0:01:54 > 0:01:58I graduated from Newcastle in Economics, in 1977,
0:01:58 > 0:02:00and I work in the music industry.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03APPLAUSE
0:02:07 > 0:02:11Their opponents combine graduate and staff of Loughborough University
0:02:11 > 0:02:16and, between them, they reflect the fact that it is one of the UK's foremost institutions
0:02:16 > 0:02:18for developing sporting talent.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20First up, one of the heroes of last summer
0:02:20 > 0:02:24after he competed in the 200 metres double kayak event,
0:02:24 > 0:02:26a football manager whose teams have included
0:02:26 > 0:02:28Fulham and Northern Ireland,
0:02:28 > 0:02:30their captain is one of Britain's greatest athletes,
0:02:30 > 0:02:33with 11 gold medals in five Paralympic Games
0:02:33 > 0:02:36and six times winner of the London Wheelchair Marathon,
0:02:36 > 0:02:38and the fourth member is a senior academic
0:02:38 > 0:02:40in the English and Drama department,
0:02:40 > 0:02:44who could no doubt run and swim and sail as fast as anyone
0:02:44 > 0:02:46if he'd just get his nose out of a book.
0:02:46 > 0:02:47Let's meet them.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49Hi, my name is Jon Schofield,
0:02:49 > 0:02:52I graduated from Loughborough with a degree in Human Biology.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54I'm also a flatwater kayaker
0:02:54 > 0:02:58and recently won a medal at the London 2012 Olympics.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01Hi, I'm Lawrie Sanchez,
0:03:01 > 0:03:03I graduated in 1982 from Loughborough
0:03:03 > 0:03:05with a degree in Management Sciences.
0:03:05 > 0:03:09I also went on to score the winning goal in the 1988 Cup Final.
0:03:09 > 0:03:10And their captain.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12I'm Tanni Grey-Thompson,
0:03:12 > 0:03:13I graduated in '91
0:03:13 > 0:03:16with a degree in Politics and Social Administration
0:03:16 > 0:03:18and I'm now a crossbench peer in the House of Lords.
0:03:18 > 0:03:20Hi, I'm Nigel Wood,
0:03:20 > 0:03:23I've been Professor of Literature at Loughborough since 2002.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25APPLAUSE
0:03:29 > 0:03:32Whether you need it or not, I'll give you a reminder of the rules.
0:03:32 > 0:03:34Starter questions have to be answered alone,
0:03:34 > 0:03:36on the buzzer, they're worth ten points.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39Bonuses are worth 15 points and you can confer on those.
0:03:39 > 0:03:42If you interrupt a starter question incorrectly,
0:03:42 > 0:03:44you incur a five-point penalty.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47So fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:03:47 > 0:03:51Leopold Stokowski conducted the music for which film of 1940,
0:03:51 > 0:03:53consisting of animated sequences set to pieces...?
0:03:53 > 0:03:55BUZZER
0:03:55 > 0:03:56Loughborough, Wood.
0:03:56 > 0:03:57Fantasia.
0:03:57 > 0:03:58Correct, yes.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01APPLAUSE
0:04:01 > 0:04:04Right, Loughborough, the first bonuses are on extracts
0:04:04 > 0:04:05from the Queen's Christmas messages.
0:04:05 > 0:04:09In each case, name the year in which she was speaking.
0:04:09 > 0:04:10Firstly,
0:04:10 > 0:04:13"The King agreed to commission a new translation of the Bible
0:04:13 > 0:04:16"that was acceptable to all parties.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19"This was to become the King James, or authorised Bible,
0:04:19 > 0:04:22"which next year will be exactly four centuries old."
0:04:24 > 0:04:28- THEY WHISPER: 2010.- 2010, yeah?
0:04:28 > 0:04:292010.
0:04:29 > 0:04:30Correct.
0:04:30 > 0:04:33Secondly, "The Prince of Wales represented Britain
0:04:33 > 0:04:35"when the people of Hong Kong marked their return to China,
0:04:35 > 0:04:37"in spectacular fashion."
0:04:37 > 0:04:41- THEY WHISPER:- 1997?- 2001.
0:04:41 > 0:04:42It was about '99...
0:04:42 > 0:04:44So was it 2000?
0:04:44 > 0:04:47I don't think 2000, I think it was 19...
0:04:47 > 0:04:492000.
0:04:49 > 0:04:512000, what do you think?
0:04:51 > 0:04:52'99, I think it was 99...
0:04:52 > 0:04:55'99? Right.
0:04:55 > 0:04:561999.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58No, it's 1997. That was the handover of Hong Kong.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01And finally, "Each Christmas, at this time,
0:05:01 > 0:05:03"my beloved father broadcast a message to his people
0:05:03 > 0:05:05"in all parts of the world.
0:05:05 > 0:05:09"Today, I'm doing this to you, who are now my people."
0:05:10 > 0:05:14- THEY WHISPER:- That'd have been early on.- 1954?- 1954?
0:05:14 > 0:05:15OK.
0:05:15 > 0:05:161954.
0:05:16 > 0:05:18No, it's 1952.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20Right, ten points for the starter question.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22Both published in December 1845,
0:05:22 > 0:05:25The Fir Tree, about a tree anxious to grow up
0:05:25 > 0:05:27and The Snow Queen, about a boy with a splinter
0:05:27 > 0:05:30of an enchanted mirror in his heart,
0:05:30 > 0:05:32are works by which Nordic author?
0:05:33 > 0:05:34BUZZER
0:05:34 > 0:05:35Loughborough, Wood.
0:05:35 > 0:05:37Andersen.
0:05:37 > 0:05:38Correct, yeah.
0:05:38 > 0:05:39APPLAUSE
0:05:39 > 0:05:41Right, your bonuses this time, Loughborough,
0:05:41 > 0:05:43are on Mediterranean islands.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46Its name meaning 'the larger one',
0:05:46 > 0:05:49which island of the Western Mediterranean has an area
0:05:49 > 0:05:52similar to that of Greater Manchester and Cheshire combined?
0:05:52 > 0:05:55- THEY WHISPER: Something 'grande'. - Yeah, Mallorca.
0:05:57 > 0:05:58Mallorca?
0:05:58 > 0:06:00Correct. Slightly larger than Rhodes,
0:06:00 > 0:06:02which Greek island off the coast of Turkey
0:06:02 > 0:06:05is closest in area to Greater London?
0:06:05 > 0:06:07- THEY WHISPER: Samos.- Samos.
0:06:07 > 0:06:08I'd say Samos, yeah.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10Samos.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12- Samos?- Yeah.
0:06:12 > 0:06:13Samos.
0:06:13 > 0:06:15No, it's Lesbos. And finally,
0:06:15 > 0:06:18slightly larger in area than Wales and Cornwall combined,
0:06:18 > 0:06:21what is the largest island in the Mediterranean?
0:06:23 > 0:06:26- THEY WHISPER: Crete.- Crete.
0:06:26 > 0:06:27Crete.
0:06:27 > 0:06:30No, it's Sicily. Right, ten points for the starter question,
0:06:30 > 0:06:34"The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation."
0:06:34 > 0:06:37Those are the words of which sculptor, born in Yorkshire in 1898?
0:06:37 > 0:06:38BUZZER
0:06:38 > 0:06:40Loughborough, Sanchez.
0:06:40 > 0:06:41Moore.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43Henry Moore is correct, yes.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46APPLAUSE
0:06:46 > 0:06:49Loughborough, these bonuses are on shorter words
0:06:49 > 0:06:52that can be made using any of the eight letters
0:06:52 > 0:06:53of the word 'yuletide'.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56In each case, give the word from the definition.
0:06:56 > 0:06:58Firstly, a stringed instrument
0:06:58 > 0:07:01associated with the composers John Dowland and Thomas Campion.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03- THEY WHISPER: Lute.- Lute.- Lute.
0:07:03 > 0:07:04Lute.
0:07:04 > 0:07:08Correct. Secondly, a diacritical mark that may be placed
0:07:08 > 0:07:12about the letter 'a' in Portuguese and the letter 'n' in Spanish.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21- THEY WHISPER: No...- No.
0:07:21 > 0:07:22We don't know.
0:07:22 > 0:07:23It's a tilde.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26And finally, a generic word for substances
0:07:26 > 0:07:29including kermes, woad, indigo, saffron and madder.
0:07:35 > 0:07:38- THEY WHISPER:- Dye, dye. - Dye.- Dye.
0:07:38 > 0:07:39Dye.
0:07:39 > 0:07:41Correct. Right, we're going to take the picture round now.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44For your picture starter, you're going to see the Latin version
0:07:44 > 0:07:46of the title of a popular carol.
0:07:46 > 0:07:49For ten points, I want the first line of the carol in English.
0:07:51 > 0:07:52BELL
0:07:52 > 0:07:53Newcastle, McGregor.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful.
0:07:55 > 0:07:56Yes!
0:07:56 > 0:07:59APPLAUSE
0:07:59 > 0:08:00So you're off the starting mark
0:08:00 > 0:08:03and you're going to see the bonuses for this picture round.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06Three more Latin versions of carol titles.
0:08:06 > 0:08:10For each one, I simply want the first line of the carol in English.
0:08:10 > 0:08:11Firstly...
0:08:15 > 0:08:16THEY WHISPER: Something 'shepherds'.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18Yes.
0:08:18 > 0:08:19It was Shepherds...
0:08:21 > 0:08:24When Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night?
0:08:24 > 0:08:26Yeah, While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28Yes, I'll accept that. Secondly...
0:08:30 > 0:08:33THEY WHISPER: Night something.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36- Silent Night?- All Through The Night?
0:08:36 > 0:08:38Silent Night or is that too...?
0:08:38 > 0:08:41Who said that classical education never leaves you?
0:08:41 > 0:08:43I know, I know. Yes.
0:08:43 > 0:08:45Come on, we need an answer.
0:08:45 > 0:08:48Yeah, well, let's guess at Silent Night.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50No. It's It Came Upon The Midnight Clear.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52See if you can get this one.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55- THEY WHISPER:- What's this one?
0:08:55 > 0:08:57- No idea.- No.
0:09:02 > 0:09:06Come on, let's have it, please.
0:09:06 > 0:09:07Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful?
0:09:07 > 0:09:11No, it's God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen. You already had Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful.
0:09:11 > 0:09:12LAUGHTER
0:09:12 > 0:09:15Ten points for this. Listen carefully and answer as soon as your name is called.
0:09:15 > 0:09:18How many litres does Father Christmas' sack need to hold
0:09:18 > 0:09:23in order to deliver a cubic present of side-length ten centimetres
0:09:23 > 0:09:26to each of the world's two billion children?
0:09:35 > 0:09:36BELL
0:09:36 > 0:09:37Newcastle, Gibbs.
0:09:37 > 0:09:38A million?
0:09:38 > 0:09:41No. Loughborough?
0:09:41 > 0:09:42BUZZER
0:09:42 > 0:09:43Loughborough, Wood.
0:09:43 > 0:09:44Three million.
0:09:44 > 0:09:45It's two billion.
0:09:45 > 0:09:46Right, ten points for this.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48In January 2012,
0:09:48 > 0:09:51after locating a chemical receptor in the taste buds on the tongue,
0:09:51 > 0:09:53a team of scientists in the United States announced
0:09:53 > 0:09:56that along with sweet, sour, bitter, salt and savoury...?
0:09:56 > 0:09:57BELL
0:09:57 > 0:09:58Newcastle, Gibbs.
0:09:58 > 0:09:59Umami.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01I don't know what you're talking about. No.
0:10:01 > 0:10:06..they had discovered which previously unrecognised sixth taste?
0:10:06 > 0:10:08One of you buzz, Loughborough.
0:10:09 > 0:10:13It's fat or fatty. Never mind, I'm afraid you lose your five points, Newcastle.
0:10:13 > 0:10:14So ten point for this.
0:10:14 > 0:10:16Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:10:16 > 0:10:19Give the dictionary spelling of the word 'quaff',
0:10:19 > 0:10:20meaning 'drink heartily'.
0:10:20 > 0:10:22BUZZER
0:10:22 > 0:10:23Loughborough, Wood.
0:10:23 > 0:10:24Q, U, A, double F.
0:10:24 > 0:10:25Correct.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28APPLAUSE
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Right, your bonuses, Loughborough, are on railways in the 20th century.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34In each case, I want the decade in which the following took place.
0:10:34 > 0:10:37Firstly, the opening of the first section of the New York Subway
0:10:37 > 0:10:39and of the Trans-Siberian Railway
0:10:39 > 0:10:42from Moscow to Vladivostok, via north-east China.
0:10:45 > 0:10:49- THEY WHISPER: 1920s?- Yeah, 1920s. - 1920s.- 1920s.
0:10:49 > 0:10:501920s.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52No, it's the 1900s. 1904, in fact.
0:10:52 > 0:10:54The completion of the Trans-Iranian Railway,
0:10:54 > 0:10:56financed entirely by local capital,
0:10:56 > 0:10:58in Britain, the Mallard set the world speed record
0:10:58 > 0:11:01for steam traction.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03- THEY WHISPER: 1950s.- I'd say so.
0:11:03 > 0:11:041950s.
0:11:04 > 0:11:06No, it's the 1930s.
0:11:06 > 0:11:09And finally, the publication of the Beeching Report in Britain,
0:11:09 > 0:11:12and the opening of the first 'bullet train' line in Japan?
0:11:12 > 0:11:14- THEY WHISPER: The '60s.- '60s? - The '60s.
0:11:14 > 0:11:15- 1960s.- Correct.
0:11:15 > 0:11:18Right, ten points for this. First performed in 1911
0:11:18 > 0:11:21and often given the English title Thou Art The Ruler Of All Minds,
0:11:21 > 0:11:25Jana Gana Mana is the national anthem of which country?
0:11:25 > 0:11:27Its words and music were composed
0:11:27 > 0:11:30by the Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore.
0:11:33 > 0:11:34BUZZER
0:11:34 > 0:11:35Loughborough, Wood.
0:11:35 > 0:11:36Sri Lanka.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38Anyone like to buzz from Newcastle?
0:11:38 > 0:11:40BELL
0:11:40 > 0:11:41Newcastle, Gibbs.
0:11:41 > 0:11:42- India.- Correct.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45APPLAUSE
0:11:45 > 0:11:49Right, these bonuses, Newcastle, are on atomic theory.
0:11:49 > 0:11:51Which type of radiation consists of high energy photons
0:11:51 > 0:11:54emitted in the decay of an atomic nucleus?
0:11:56 > 0:11:59THEY WHISPER: Gamma, gamma.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02Well, I will defer... Uh?
0:12:02 > 0:12:04- No.- What do you think? - I think gamma.
0:12:04 > 0:12:06- Gamma.- Yes, yes.
0:12:06 > 0:12:08- Gamma.- Gamma is correct, yes.
0:12:08 > 0:12:09Named after a German physicist,
0:12:09 > 0:12:13what device for detecting radiation consists of a tube of inert gas
0:12:13 > 0:12:16which becomes ionised upon the passage of radiation,
0:12:16 > 0:12:19leading to an electrical signal which is then amplified?
0:12:19 > 0:12:20- THEY WHISPER: Geiger.- Geiger.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22- Geiger.- Correct. Geiger counter.
0:12:22 > 0:12:24And finally, what kind of radioactive decay
0:12:24 > 0:12:28causes the decaying nucleus to increase in atomic number by one,
0:12:28 > 0:12:31and leaves the mass number unchanged?
0:12:32 > 0:12:35- THEY WHISPER: Beta?- It's not Alpha, I don't think.- Try beta.
0:12:35 > 0:12:37Beta.
0:12:37 > 0:12:39Beta?
0:12:39 > 0:12:40Beta is correct, yes.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43APPLAUSE
0:12:43 > 0:12:45Right, turn for a music round.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47For your music started, you'll hear a well-known Christmas song.
0:12:47 > 0:12:49Ten points if you can name the singer.
0:12:49 > 0:12:51# Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer... #
0:12:51 > 0:12:53BELL
0:12:53 > 0:12:54Newcastle, Gooley.
0:12:54 > 0:12:55Cliff Richard.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57No, you can hear a little more, Loughborough.
0:12:57 > 0:13:00# ..Had a very shiny nose
0:13:00 > 0:13:04# And if you ever saw it
0:13:04 > 0:13:06# You would even say it glows
0:13:06 > 0:13:07# All of the other... #
0:13:07 > 0:13:09BUZZER
0:13:09 > 0:13:11- Loughborough, Grey-Thompson. - Harry Connick Junior?
0:13:11 > 0:13:13No. Thank heavens we don't need to hear any more.
0:13:13 > 0:13:14No, it's Barry Manilow.
0:13:14 > 0:13:15LAUGHTER
0:13:15 > 0:13:18So, we are going to take another starter question
0:13:18 > 0:13:20and when someone gets a starter question right,
0:13:20 > 0:13:22then, we'll have the music bonuses.
0:13:22 > 0:13:23So fingers on buzzers, please.
0:13:23 > 0:13:28Boston in 1897, New York in 1970, Berlin in 1974,
0:13:28 > 0:13:31Chicago in 1977 and London in 1981,
0:13:31 > 0:13:35what sporting event was initiated in these cities
0:13:35 > 0:13:36in these respective years?
0:13:38 > 0:13:39BUZZER
0:13:39 > 0:13:41Loughborough, Grey-Thompson.
0:13:41 > 0:13:43London Marathon... Marathon!
0:13:43 > 0:13:44Indeed, it's correct, yes.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47APPLAUSE
0:13:47 > 0:13:50You would have been in trouble if you hadn't got that.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53So following on from Barry Manilow's Rudolph, The Red-nosed Reindeer,
0:13:53 > 0:13:56three more versions of that deathless classic
0:13:56 > 0:13:58for you to enjoy, or endure.
0:13:58 > 0:14:00Five points for each artist or band performing.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02Firstly, who's this?
0:14:02 > 0:14:05MALE VOICE: # Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer
0:14:05 > 0:14:07# Had a very shiny nose
0:14:07 > 0:14:09# A shiny nose
0:14:09 > 0:14:13# And if you ever saw it
0:14:13 > 0:14:15# You would even say it glows
0:14:15 > 0:14:16# It glows
0:14:16 > 0:14:20# All of the other reindeer
0:14:20 > 0:14:22# Used to laugh and call him names
0:14:22 > 0:14:24# They called him names
0:14:24 > 0:14:27# They wouldn't let poor Rudolph
0:14:27 > 0:14:29# Join in any reindeer games... #
0:14:29 > 0:14:30No idea.
0:14:30 > 0:14:33It's Ringo Starr. God, we've got two more of these.
0:14:33 > 0:14:34Secondly, this group.
0:14:34 > 0:14:40MALE VOICE: # Oh, Rudolph The red-nosed reindeer
0:14:40 > 0:14:45# Had a very shiny nose
0:14:45 > 0:14:50# And if you ever saw it
0:14:50 > 0:14:51# You would even say... #
0:14:51 > 0:14:53Oh, put us out of our misery, come on!
0:14:53 > 0:14:55THEY WHISPER: It's Marvin Gaye.
0:14:55 > 0:14:56Marvin Gaye.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59No, that's The Temptations. Finally...
0:14:59 > 0:15:02FEMALE VOICE: # Rudolph The red-nosed reindeer
0:15:02 > 0:15:04# Had a very shiny nose
0:15:04 > 0:15:07# And if you ever saw it
0:15:07 > 0:15:09# Why, you would even say it glows... #
0:15:09 > 0:15:10- THEY WHISPER:- Dolly Parton? - Yeah, yeah.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12Dolly Parton.
0:15:12 > 0:15:13Yes!
0:15:13 > 0:15:15Right, ten points for this.
0:15:15 > 0:15:16Fingers on the buzzers.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18First As Tragedy, Then As Farce,
0:15:18 > 0:15:20The Sublime Object Of Ideology,
0:15:20 > 0:15:23and Living In The End Times
0:15:23 > 0:15:26are among the works of which Marxist and cultural theorist
0:15:26 > 0:15:27born in Ljubljana in 1949?
0:15:27 > 0:15:28BUZZER
0:15:28 > 0:15:29Loughborough, Wood.
0:15:29 > 0:15:30Slavoj Zizek.
0:15:30 > 0:15:31Indeed, yes.
0:15:31 > 0:15:35APPLAUSE
0:15:35 > 0:15:37These bonuses are on quotations.
0:15:37 > 0:15:41"Man is certainly stark mad, he cannot make a flea,
0:15:41 > 0:15:43"and yet, he will be making gods by dozens."
0:15:43 > 0:15:46These are the words of which 16th-century French writer,
0:15:46 > 0:15:49best known for his essays?
0:15:49 > 0:15:51HE WHISPERS: Rabelais. Rabelais.
0:15:51 > 0:15:52Rabelais.
0:15:52 > 0:15:54- No, it's Montaigne.- Oh!
0:15:54 > 0:15:58Secondly, "Whom the mad would destroy, they first make gods."
0:15:58 > 0:16:02Bernard Levin rephrased the Latin proverb in 1967
0:16:02 > 0:16:05in reference to which national leader, who, two years before,
0:16:05 > 0:16:08had unleashed the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution?
0:16:12 > 0:16:15THEY WHISPER: Lenin. Lenin.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17Lenin.
0:16:17 > 0:16:18Now, it's Mao Zedong.
0:16:18 > 0:16:21And finally, "Religion may in most of its forms be defined
0:16:21 > 0:16:24"as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government."
0:16:24 > 0:16:28These are the words of which British philosopher, born 1872?
0:16:30 > 0:16:33THEY WHISPER: Bertrand Russell?
0:16:33 > 0:16:35Right...
0:16:35 > 0:16:36Bertrand Russell?
0:16:36 > 0:16:37Yes!
0:16:37 > 0:16:39APPLAUSE
0:16:39 > 0:16:41Another starter question now. From a Latin word
0:16:41 > 0:16:43meaning 'fixed' or 'binding',
0:16:43 > 0:16:46what term denotes the process by which a legislative body
0:16:46 > 0:16:49approves a measure introduced by another body?
0:16:49 > 0:16:51An example is the need for the US Senate
0:16:51 > 0:16:54to give formal consent to treaties or agreements entered...
0:16:54 > 0:16:55BELL
0:16:55 > 0:16:56Newcastle, Wadsworth.
0:16:56 > 0:16:57Ratification?
0:16:57 > 0:16:58Correct!
0:16:58 > 0:17:01APPLAUSE
0:17:01 > 0:17:04Right, Newcastle, these bonuses are on photography.
0:17:04 > 0:17:07Published in 2012, In The Moment features the work
0:17:07 > 0:17:09of The Guardian's Tom Jenkins,
0:17:09 > 0:17:12a specialist in what photographic genre?
0:17:12 > 0:17:16- THEY WHISPER: War?- War?- War?
0:17:17 > 0:17:19- What was the name again? - Tom Jenkins.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22- Yeah, go for war.- Yes.
0:17:22 > 0:17:23War?
0:17:23 > 0:17:24No, sport.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27A Life Beyond Limits, published in 2009,
0:17:27 > 0:17:30is a biography of which influential US photo journalist
0:17:30 > 0:17:33who died in 1965?
0:17:33 > 0:17:36She's best known for her work for the Farm Security Administration
0:17:36 > 0:17:37during the Depression.
0:17:41 > 0:17:43HE WHISPERS: No, no idea.
0:17:43 > 0:17:44No, we have no idea.
0:17:44 > 0:17:45It's Dorothea Lange.
0:17:45 > 0:17:49And finally, to coincide with his inaugural exhibition in China,
0:17:49 > 0:17:522012 saw the publication of Private View,
0:17:52 > 0:17:53a collection of celebrity images
0:17:53 > 0:17:57by which London-based photographer of Italian extraction?
0:17:59 > 0:18:01HE WHISPERS: Mario Testino?
0:18:01 > 0:18:02Yeah, Mario Testini.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05Yes, I'll accept that. It's Mario Testino.
0:18:05 > 0:18:07We're going to take a picture round now.
0:18:07 > 0:18:09For your picture starter, you'll see a photo of an animal.
0:18:09 > 0:18:13All you have to do for ten points is to name the animal.
0:18:13 > 0:18:14BUZZER
0:18:14 > 0:18:16Loughborough, Sanchez.
0:18:18 > 0:18:20Speak!
0:18:20 > 0:18:22Monster gecko.
0:18:22 > 0:18:23No.
0:18:23 > 0:18:24BELL
0:18:24 > 0:18:25Newcastle, Gibbs.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27Kimono dragon.
0:18:27 > 0:18:31Um, no... It's komodo dragon, it's not a kimono dragon. I'm sorry.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34You didn't have the right name, so I can't accept that. I'm sorry.
0:18:34 > 0:18:36So... Uh, it's ruthless here.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38Right, ten points for the starter question.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40Which philosopher's conviction that only a select few
0:18:40 > 0:18:44are able to free themselves from ignorance and achieve true knowledge
0:18:44 > 0:18:47is exemplified by the Allegory Of The Cave, described...?
0:18:47 > 0:18:48BELL
0:18:48 > 0:18:50Newcastle, Gooley.
0:18:50 > 0:18:51Plato.
0:18:51 > 0:18:52Plato is correct, yes.
0:18:52 > 0:18:55APPLAUSE
0:18:55 > 0:18:58So, following on from the komodo dragon,
0:18:58 > 0:19:00it's among several species that are able to breed
0:19:00 > 0:19:04through parthenogenesis, sometimes called 'virgin birth'.
0:19:04 > 0:19:05CHUCKLING
0:19:05 > 0:19:08For your picture bonuses, you'll see three more photos of animals
0:19:08 > 0:19:09that can breed through virgin birth,
0:19:09 > 0:19:12so five points for each genus you can identify.
0:19:12 > 0:19:13Firstly...
0:19:15 > 0:19:16THEY WHISPER: Genus...
0:19:16 > 0:19:19Right, that... At the other end...
0:19:19 > 0:19:22- Crickets.- But what's the genus?
0:19:22 > 0:19:24- Is cricket not a genus? - I don't now, we can try.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27Cricket? Cricket?
0:19:27 > 0:19:28A cricket?
0:19:28 > 0:19:31No, that's an aphid. You know, they hide in gardens,
0:19:31 > 0:19:32like the person next to you...
0:19:32 > 0:19:33THEY LAUGH
0:19:33 > 0:19:35Secondly...
0:19:36 > 0:19:40THEY WHISPER: Is that a crayfish?
0:19:40 > 0:19:42- Or a lobster.- Or a lobster.
0:19:42 > 0:19:45Yeah. Is there a clever answer to this?
0:19:45 > 0:19:46SHE LAUGHS
0:19:46 > 0:19:47- Lobster.- Yeah.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50A lobster, a crayfish?
0:19:50 > 0:19:51Well, which?
0:19:51 > 0:19:53You mean it's one or the other, Jeremy?
0:19:53 > 0:19:54You tell, give me an answer!
0:19:54 > 0:19:56SHE LAUGHS
0:19:56 > 0:19:58- A lobster. - No, it's a crayfish.
0:19:58 > 0:19:59LAUGHTER
0:19:59 > 0:20:00Finally...
0:20:02 > 0:20:04- THEY WHISPER: It looks like a gecko. - Gecko.- Yeah.
0:20:04 > 0:20:05A gecko.
0:20:05 > 0:20:06That is a gecko, yes.
0:20:06 > 0:20:08APPLAUSE
0:20:08 > 0:20:09Right, ten points for the starter question.
0:20:09 > 0:20:13What five-letter adjective links the Roman Emperor from AD 306
0:20:13 > 0:20:16with rulers of Russia from 1762,
0:20:16 > 0:20:20Prussia from 1740 and Wessex from 871?
0:20:21 > 0:20:22BUZZER
0:20:22 > 0:20:23Loughborough, Sanchez.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25- Great.- Correct.
0:20:25 > 0:20:29APPLAUSE
0:20:29 > 0:20:32Never has anyone on this programme looked so unhappy to get an answer right.
0:20:32 > 0:20:33LAUGHTER
0:20:33 > 0:20:34Just surprised.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36OK, here are your bonuses.
0:20:36 > 0:20:38They're on plays about artists, Loughborough.
0:20:38 > 0:20:42John Logan's 2009 play Red depicts the life of which artist,
0:20:42 > 0:20:44during a period at the end of the 1950s
0:20:44 > 0:20:46when he'd been commissioned to create a series of paintings
0:20:46 > 0:20:49for the new Four Seasons Restaurant, in Manhattan?
0:20:53 > 0:20:55- THEY WHISPER:- Was it Warhol?
0:20:57 > 0:20:59Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol.
0:20:59 > 0:21:00Warhol.
0:21:00 > 0:21:01No, it's Rothko.
0:21:01 > 0:21:04Rebecca Lenkiewicz's 23-scene play The Painter
0:21:04 > 0:21:08depicts the life of which British artist from 1799 onwards,
0:21:08 > 0:21:10just as his work was becoming known?
0:21:13 > 0:21:15- THEY WHISPER: Blake. William Blake. - William Blake.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17William Blake.
0:21:17 > 0:21:18No, it's JMW Turner.
0:21:18 > 0:21:20And finally, Stephen Sondheim's musical
0:21:20 > 0:21:22Sunday In The Park With George
0:21:22 > 0:21:27was inspired by a painting by which French artist, born 1859?
0:21:27 > 0:21:28- I nominate Wood. - Seurat.
0:21:28 > 0:21:29Correct.
0:21:29 > 0:21:30APPLAUSE
0:21:30 > 0:21:34OK, another starter question now. Counting the letters in each word,
0:21:34 > 0:21:36the phrase 'Can I have a white Christmas?'
0:21:36 > 0:21:40gives the first six digits of which transcendental number,
0:21:40 > 0:21:42ubiquitous in mathematics and physics?
0:21:43 > 0:21:44BELL
0:21:44 > 0:21:45Newcastle, Gooley.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47- Pi.- Correct.
0:21:47 > 0:21:49APPLAUSE
0:21:49 > 0:21:52Right, your bonuses are on physiology, Newcastle.
0:21:52 > 0:21:54In its case, give the generic name
0:21:54 > 0:21:57of the following fat-soluble vitamins.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59Firstly, what single letter denotes the vitamin
0:21:59 > 0:22:02that's required for prothrombin synthesis?
0:22:02 > 0:22:06Dietary deficiency results in delayed blood clotting and haemorrhaging.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10- THEY WHISPER:- Um... C... Cholesterol and scurvy.
0:22:10 > 0:22:14- C. You get scurvy and you bleed... - Right.- Try C.
0:22:14 > 0:22:15C?
0:22:15 > 0:22:17No, it's vitamin K.
0:22:17 > 0:22:19What letter denotes the vitamins that are terpenes,
0:22:19 > 0:22:22such as tocopherol, and are important antioxidants
0:22:22 > 0:22:26preventing the oxidation of fatty acids in cell membranes?
0:22:27 > 0:22:29THEY WHISPER: No idea.
0:22:29 > 0:22:30This is not a vitamin, is it?
0:22:33 > 0:22:34Say it again...
0:22:34 > 0:22:36Vitamin B?
0:22:36 > 0:22:38No, it's vitamin E.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40And finally, what letter denotes the vitamin
0:22:40 > 0:22:43that is retinol and its carotenoid precursors?
0:22:43 > 0:22:47It's required for the synthesis of the visual pigments.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49THEY WHISPER: D...
0:22:49 > 0:22:51- D?- Not D?
0:22:51 > 0:22:52- D?- Uh-huh.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54Vitamin D.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57No, it's vitamin A. And there's about 4:15 minutes to go, and ten points for this.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00"First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen."
0:23:00 > 0:23:05These words of Colonel Henry Lee are from a eulogy of which figure,
0:23:05 > 0:23:06who died in 1799?
0:23:09 > 0:23:10BELL
0:23:10 > 0:23:11Newcastle, Wadsworth.
0:23:11 > 0:23:12Washington?
0:23:12 > 0:23:13Correct!
0:23:13 > 0:23:16APPLAUSE
0:23:16 > 0:23:19These bonuses, Newcastle, are on architecture.
0:23:19 > 0:23:21Often called 'architecture's Nobel',
0:23:21 > 0:23:24which annual prize is awarded to a living architect
0:23:24 > 0:23:27and is named after the Chicago family who founded it in 1979,
0:23:27 > 0:23:30through their Hyatt Foundation?
0:23:30 > 0:23:33- THEY WHISPER: Is it the Stirling? - Stirling?
0:23:33 > 0:23:35I nominate Gooley.
0:23:35 > 0:23:36Is it the Stirling?
0:23:36 > 0:23:39The Stirling Prize is a British Prize, it's the Pritzker Prize.
0:23:39 > 0:23:42Pritzker laureates receive a bronze medallion
0:23:42 > 0:23:44inscribed with the words "firmness, commodity and delight".
0:23:44 > 0:23:46These recall the fundamental principles
0:23:46 > 0:23:49of which Roman writer on architecture?
0:23:50 > 0:23:53THEY WHISPER: Roman writer on architecture?
0:23:56 > 0:23:58- Pliny?- Yes, say Pliny.
0:23:58 > 0:24:00Let's have it, please.
0:24:00 > 0:24:01Pliny.
0:24:01 > 0:24:02Pliny?
0:24:02 > 0:24:03No, it's Vitruvius.
0:24:03 > 0:24:07The 2003 Pritzker Prize went to the Danish architect Jorn Utzon,
0:24:07 > 0:24:10perhaps best known for his design of which building,
0:24:10 > 0:24:12on which construction lasted from 1959 to 1973?
0:24:12 > 0:24:13- THEY WHISPER:- Yeah.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15The Sydney Opera House.
0:24:15 > 0:24:18Yes. Ten points for this. Which English composer wrote the cantata Saint Nicolas,
0:24:18 > 0:24:20with the text by Eric Crozier,
0:24:20 > 0:24:24for the centennial celebrations of Lancing College, in Sussex, in 1948?
0:24:24 > 0:24:28It was also performed in June of that year at the first Aldeburgh Festival.
0:24:28 > 0:24:29BELL
0:24:29 > 0:24:30Newcastle, Wadsworth.
0:24:30 > 0:24:31Britten?
0:24:31 > 0:24:33It was Benjamin Britten, yes.
0:24:33 > 0:24:34APPLAUSE
0:24:34 > 0:24:36Your bonuses are on kings of England.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38If you get them, you take the lead.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40All three of these kings have the same regnal name.
0:24:40 > 0:24:42Which King of England, who ruled for 56 years,
0:24:42 > 0:24:45was described by Dante in the Divine Comedy
0:24:45 > 0:24:48as one of the "negligent rulers" and "the King of the simple life"?
0:24:48 > 0:24:50THEY WHISPER: George III?
0:24:50 > 0:24:52He didn't rule for 56 years.
0:24:52 > 0:24:53Come on!
0:24:53 > 0:24:54Didn't he?
0:24:54 > 0:24:56- Just give an answer. - George III.
0:24:56 > 0:24:59No, he didn't rule for 56 years.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01Try it, just try it.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03- You think you won't be right... - George III?
0:25:03 > 0:25:04No, it was Henry III.
0:25:04 > 0:25:07The great-great-great grandson of Henry III,
0:25:07 > 0:25:09which king established the Lancastrian dynasty
0:25:09 > 0:25:13and was believed by contemporaries to have suffered from leprosy?
0:25:15 > 0:25:17THEY WHISPER: Just go for one.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20It's a Henry, isn't it? Henry VI.
0:25:20 > 0:25:21Henry VI.
0:25:21 > 0:25:22No, it's Henry IV.
0:25:22 > 0:25:26And finally, which king was said to have inherited his recurrent mental illness
0:25:26 > 0:25:29from his maternal grandfather, Charles VI of France?
0:25:29 > 0:25:31THEY WHISPER: George...?
0:25:31 > 0:25:32Yeah, George III.
0:25:32 > 0:25:33No, that was Henry VI.
0:25:33 > 0:25:35Right, ten points for this.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37Used as an expression to denote an outcast,
0:25:37 > 0:25:39what name is given in the Book Of Genesis
0:25:39 > 0:25:42to the son of Abraham by his wife's maidservant Hagar, and was given by...?
0:25:42 > 0:25:43BELL
0:25:43 > 0:25:44Newcastle, McGregor.
0:25:44 > 0:25:45Ishmael.
0:25:45 > 0:25:46Ishmael is right, yes.
0:25:46 > 0:25:48APPLAUSE
0:25:48 > 0:25:50These bonuses could give you the lead there.
0:25:50 > 0:25:52They're on Winter Olympics.
0:25:52 > 0:25:54In 1948, which resort in Eastern Switzerland
0:25:54 > 0:25:57became the first to host the Games for a second time,
0:25:57 > 0:25:59having done so first in 1928?
0:26:00 > 0:26:02THEY WHISPER
0:26:02 > 0:26:04- Come on!- Klosters?
0:26:04 > 0:26:05No, it's St Moritz.
0:26:05 > 0:26:071992 was the last time
0:26:07 > 0:26:10that the Summer and Winter Olympics were held in the same year,
0:26:10 > 0:26:12with the Winter Games being held in Albertville, in France,
0:26:12 > 0:26:15and the Summer Games in which city?
0:26:15 > 0:26:16- THEY WHISPER: 1992...- 1992.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19- Los Angeles?- All right.
0:26:19 > 0:26:20Los Angeles?
0:26:20 > 0:26:21No, it's Barcelona.
0:26:21 > 0:26:26In which country is Sochi, the host city of the 2014 Winter Games?
0:26:26 > 0:26:28THEY WHISPER: Russia.
0:26:28 > 0:26:29Russia.
0:26:29 > 0:26:31Russia is correct, yes. That gives you the lead.
0:26:31 > 0:26:34Right, ten point for this. According to the title his novelty song,
0:26:34 > 0:26:37Spike Milligan was "walking backwards for Christmas..."
0:26:37 > 0:26:38BELL
0:26:38 > 0:26:39Newcastle, Wadsworth.
0:26:40 > 0:26:41HE CHUCKLES
0:26:41 > 0:26:43Sorry, if you buzz, you must answer.
0:26:43 > 0:26:45I'm going to have to disallow that and fine you five points.
0:26:45 > 0:26:48And I'm handing it over to Loughborough, you get the rest of it.
0:26:48 > 0:26:52"..walking backwards for Christmas across" which stretch of water?
0:26:53 > 0:26:55Come on, let's have it!
0:26:55 > 0:26:56BUZZER
0:26:56 > 0:26:57Loughborough, Schofield.
0:26:57 > 0:26:58GONG
0:26:58 > 0:26:59The Thames.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01It wasn't the Thames, it was the Irish Sea.
0:27:01 > 0:27:04So, we have absolutely level pegging then at the gong,
0:27:04 > 0:27:06which means that it goes to whichever team
0:27:06 > 0:27:09answers a starter question correctly.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12However, if you buzz in while I'm reading it incorrectly,
0:27:12 > 0:27:16you will lose five points and the other team doesn't even have to go
0:27:16 > 0:27:18to the trouble of answering the question. Understand?
0:27:18 > 0:27:20So fingers on the buzzers, here it is.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23Published between 430 and 424 BC,
0:27:23 > 0:27:26the works of which historian were divided by later editors
0:27:26 > 0:27:29into nine books named after the Muses?
0:27:32 > 0:27:34No-one seems to know that.
0:27:34 > 0:27:35BUZZER
0:27:35 > 0:27:36Loughborough, Wood.
0:27:36 > 0:27:37Tacitus.
0:27:37 > 0:27:38Uh...no.
0:27:38 > 0:27:40Uh... Newcastle, one of you buzz?
0:27:41 > 0:27:42BELL
0:27:42 > 0:27:43Newcastle, Gooley.
0:27:43 > 0:27:44Herodotus.
0:27:44 > 0:27:45It was Herodotus, yes.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48APPLAUSE
0:27:52 > 0:27:53That means you win it.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55Congratulations to you, Newcastle.
0:27:55 > 0:27:59Loughborough, you were in the lead right till the dying stages.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01And, you know, it was a good performance, 110.
0:28:01 > 0:28:05120, well done. We should look forward to seeing you back again next time
0:28:05 > 0:28:07if you're in one of the four high-scoring totals.
0:28:07 > 0:28:09We don't know yet.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12But thank you both, all of you, very much for taking part You're all good sports.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15So it's goodbye now from Loughborough University.
0:28:15 > 0:28:16ALL: Goodbye.
0:28:16 > 0:28:18And it's goodbye from Newcastle University.
0:28:18 > 0:28:19ALL: Goodbye.
0:28:19 > 0:28:20And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:20 > 0:28:21APPLAUSE
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