0:00:20 > 0:00:24Christmas University Challenge. Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:30Hello, welcome to the third first round match
0:00:30 > 0:00:34in this seasonal contest for grown-ups. The mental equivalent
0:00:34 > 0:00:37of reducing the turkey giblets to a wholesome stock.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40We're lucky enough to have eight people with us this evening
0:00:40 > 0:00:42with no Christmas party to go to.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44The last time that students from New College, Oxford
0:00:44 > 0:00:47were series champions was back in 1965,
0:00:47 > 0:00:50so let's see if tonight's team of older, wiser heads
0:00:50 > 0:00:51can show them how it's done.
0:00:51 > 0:00:55First among them is the recipient of the 2008 Literary Review
0:00:55 > 0:00:58Bad Sex in Fiction Award - a rather greater distinction
0:00:58 > 0:01:01than her brother's tomfoolery as Mayor of London.
0:01:01 > 0:01:03Next to her, another novelist,
0:01:03 > 0:01:05who's now trying out the real job of farming.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08Their captain is also a best-selling writer as well as
0:01:08 > 0:01:10the co-founder of the Orange Prize for Fiction,
0:01:10 > 0:01:13now the Women's Prize for Fiction.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15Fourthly, they're sensibly leavening the mix
0:01:15 > 0:01:19with the scientist who's a familiar face on our television screens.
0:01:19 > 0:01:20Let's meet them.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22I'm Rachel Johnson, I read Classics
0:01:22 > 0:01:25and now I'm a journalist and novelist.
0:01:25 > 0:01:29I'm Patrick Gale, I read English and now I'm a novelist.
0:01:29 > 0:01:34- And their captain.- I'm Kate Mosse, I read English and I'm a novelist.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37I'm Yan Wong. I read Biological Sciences.
0:01:37 > 0:01:40I'm not a novelist, I'm a researcher and science broadcaster.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43APPLAUSE
0:01:45 > 0:01:49Their opponents tonight represent the London School of Economics,
0:01:49 > 0:01:51part of the University of London.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53They're fielding the award-winning novelist
0:01:53 > 0:01:56behind the Guardian's Man About the House column,
0:01:56 > 0:02:00a former MP who's also headed the RSPCA and Action on Hearing Loss.
0:02:00 > 0:02:04Their captain is a former punk singer turned restaurant critic
0:02:04 > 0:02:06and poor man's Henry Higgins.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09Their fourth team member has been on the LSE staff since 1965
0:02:09 > 0:02:13and also holds the title for the finest head of hair in the House of Lords.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16Let's ask them to introduce themselves.
0:02:16 > 0:02:20I'm Tim Lott, I read Government and History and I'm a novelist.
0:02:20 > 0:02:24I'm Jackie Ballard, my degree's in Social Psychology
0:02:24 > 0:02:27and I work for a wonderful charity called Womankind Worldwide.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29This is their captain.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32I'm Loyd Grossman, I read Economic History
0:02:32 > 0:02:35and I'm chairman of the Churches Conservation Trust.
0:02:35 > 0:02:41I'm Meghnad Desai, I'm Emeritus Professor of Economics at the LSE.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43APPLAUSE
0:02:47 > 0:02:50Rather than assuming you all know, starter questions are worth 10.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52They have to be answered individually.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55If you interrupt a starter question with an incorrect answer,
0:02:55 > 0:02:57you incur a five-point penalty.
0:02:57 > 0:03:01Bonus questions are worth 15 points. They are collaborative exercises.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for 10.
0:03:04 > 0:03:07What bird links a dance set to ragtime music
0:03:07 > 0:03:09popular in the early 20th century,
0:03:09 > 0:03:13a serious and forthright discussion, a method of curing addiction...
0:03:13 > 0:03:15- Turkey.- Turkey's right.
0:03:15 > 0:03:19APPLAUSE
0:03:19 > 0:03:22The first set of bonuses are on awards of 2012.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25The Design Museum's 2012 Award for Design of the Year
0:03:25 > 0:03:27went to Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby
0:03:27 > 0:03:30for which 80 centimetre long triangular object
0:03:30 > 0:03:34made of a light aluminium mix and having 8,000 perforations?
0:03:36 > 0:03:38The Torch, the Olympic Torch.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41Yes. In which English city is the Royal Albert Memorial Museum,
0:03:41 > 0:03:45established in 1868 and named the 2012 Museum of the Year?
0:03:45 > 0:03:46- Exeter.- Correct.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49The Coronation Street actress Shobna Gulati
0:03:49 > 0:03:52and the singer and actor John Barrowman
0:03:52 > 0:03:54won what award in 2012?
0:03:56 > 0:03:59- Olivier?- No, they were Rear of the Year.
0:03:59 > 0:04:0210 points for this - which short novel of the late 1890s
0:04:02 > 0:04:05begins with ghost stories being told on Christmas Eve.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08It features the apparent apparitions of two servants,
0:04:08 > 0:04:11the valet Peter Quint and the former governess...
0:04:12 > 0:04:16- The Turn of the Screw by Henry James.- Correct, yes.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18APPLAUSE
0:04:18 > 0:04:21Your first set of bonuses, New College, are on films of the 1940s.
0:04:21 > 0:04:25In each case, name the film in which the following lines are spoken.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28"Faith is believing when common sense tells you not to.
0:04:28 > 0:04:31"Don't you see, it's not just Kris that's on trial,
0:04:31 > 0:04:32"it's everything he stands for.
0:04:32 > 0:04:36"It's kindness and joy and love and all the other intangibles."
0:04:36 > 0:04:37A Matter of Life and Death.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40No, it's Miracle on 34th Street.
0:04:40 > 0:04:44Secondly, "We always were English and we always will be English
0:04:44 > 0:04:46"and it's just because we are English
0:04:46 > 0:04:49"that we're sticking up for our right to be Burgundians."
0:04:53 > 0:04:56Passport to Pimlico.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58- Passport to Pimlico.- Correct.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01"I don't think any word can explain a man's life.
0:05:01 > 0:05:05"No, I guess Rosebud is just a piece in the jigsaw puzzle,
0:05:05 > 0:05:06"a missing piece."
0:05:06 > 0:05:08- Citizen Kane.- Too easy. 10 points for this.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11What given name links the librettist of South Pacific
0:05:11 > 0:05:16and the Sound of Music, the author of De Profundis...
0:05:16 > 0:05:18- Oscar.- Oscar's correct, yes.
0:05:18 > 0:05:21Pistorius, Wilde and the rest.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24These bonuses are on ancient Greek mathematics.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27In each case, name the mathematician from the description.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29Firstly, the author of the Elements,
0:05:29 > 0:05:32his theorems include the infinitudes of the primes...
0:05:32 > 0:05:33Euclid.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35Euclid is right.
0:05:35 > 0:05:39Killed in 212 BC by a Roman soldier at the siege of Syracuse,
0:05:39 > 0:05:42he calculated the area of a circle in terms of its radius
0:05:42 > 0:05:46and wrote both The Sand Reckoner and On Floating Bodies.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49- Pythagoras. - Archimedes!
0:05:49 > 0:05:52I'm going to accept that because you must answer through the captain.
0:05:52 > 0:05:53Archimedes is correct.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56Finally, a philosopher and mystic credited with the theorem
0:05:56 > 0:05:59that in a right-angled triangle, the square on the hypotenuse...
0:05:59 > 0:06:02- Pythagoras.- Correct.
0:06:02 > 0:06:0410 points for this starter question.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07The Latin phrase "indocilis privata loqui,"
0:06:07 > 0:06:10which translates as "not apt to disclose secrets,"
0:06:10 > 0:06:13is the motto of which organisation?
0:06:13 > 0:06:15It consists of both professional and amateur members
0:06:15 > 0:06:18and was formed in London in 1905.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21- Is it the Magic Circle?- It is, yes.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24APPLAUSE
0:06:24 > 0:06:27These bonuses are on arts festivals.
0:06:27 > 0:06:30First held in 1176 and revived in its present form in 1860,
0:06:30 > 0:06:34which festival derives its name from the Welsh word for "sit?"
0:06:37 > 0:06:40- The Eisteddfod.- Correct.
0:06:40 > 0:06:43Founded in 1947 by the theatre director Jean Vilar,
0:06:43 > 0:06:49which French festival's venues include the inner courtyard of the city's Palais de Papes?
0:06:51 > 0:06:53- Festival of Avignon.- Correct.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56In late January, the Colombian seaport of Cartagena
0:06:56 > 0:06:58holds an offshoot of which literary festival?
0:06:58 > 0:07:01- The Hay Literary Festival.- Correct.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04We're going to take a picture round now with scores on 45 points apiece.
0:07:04 > 0:07:09Your picture starter is a Christmas list with one glaring omission.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12For 10 points, simply identify the word that's missing.
0:07:16 > 0:07:17Balthasar.
0:07:17 > 0:07:22Balthasar is right, it's the names of the Three Kings and their gifts.
0:07:22 > 0:07:26We follow on from that with three more Christmas lists
0:07:26 > 0:07:28with vital elements missing.
0:07:28 > 0:07:32- Five points for each missing word or term you can identify.- Firstly...
0:07:41 > 0:07:44- Basher.- Basher?
0:07:44 > 0:07:49It's Vixen. Santa's reindeers.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52- They're all synonyms, aren't they?- Secondly...
0:08:01 > 0:08:06- It's Let It Snow, isn't it? - What rhymes with stoppin'?
0:08:06 > 0:08:08Hoppin'?
0:08:08 > 0:08:10MOSSE HUMS MELODY
0:08:10 > 0:08:12Hoppin'?
0:08:12 > 0:08:15You happy with that? Hoppin'.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17Hoppin'? No, it's poppin'.
0:08:17 > 0:08:20You got it right, it is the last word of the lyrics of Let It Snow.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22Can we not get a bonus for singing it?
0:08:22 > 0:08:26I guessed droppin', but there we are. And finally...
0:08:29 > 0:08:32Ladies... Ladies dancing.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35Well done! Right, 10 points for this.
0:08:35 > 0:08:40A high-level structured programming language developed by Niklaus Wirth,
0:08:40 > 0:08:45an SI unit equivalent to one Newton per square metre and a wager...
0:08:45 > 0:08:47- Pascal.- Pascal is correct, yes.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49APPLAUSE
0:08:49 > 0:08:52Your bonuses are on people born on Christmas Eve.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55Firstly for five points - Christmas Eve 1754 saw the birth
0:08:55 > 0:08:59of which English clergyman whose poem The Borough
0:08:59 > 0:09:02inspired Benjamin Britten's opera, Peter Grimes?
0:09:02 > 0:09:04- George Crabbe.- Correct.
0:09:04 > 0:09:08Christmas Eve 1818 saw the birth in Salford of which English scientist
0:09:08 > 0:09:11who gives his name to the SI unit of energy?
0:09:17 > 0:09:20Joule?
0:09:20 > 0:09:23- Joule.- It is James Prescott Joule.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25Finally, Christmas Eve 1822 saw the birth
0:09:25 > 0:09:32of which poet and cultural critic appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1857?
0:09:38 > 0:09:42- Ruskin?- I don't know.
0:09:42 > 0:09:45- Matthew Arnold. - Shall we go for Arnold?
0:09:45 > 0:09:46- Matthew Arnold.- Correct.
0:09:46 > 0:09:4910 points for this starter question. Listen carefully.
0:09:49 > 0:09:51The English name of the seat of the Dutch government,
0:09:51 > 0:09:53the author of Waiting for Godot,
0:09:53 > 0:09:56a leader of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381
0:09:56 > 0:09:59and the leader of the opposition from May 2010
0:09:59 > 0:10:03link recent holders of which Cabinet Office?
0:10:06 > 0:10:10- Foreign Secretary.- Correct.
0:10:10 > 0:10:12Hague, Beckett, Straw and Miliband.
0:10:12 > 0:10:16Your bonuses this time are on French cheeses.
0:10:16 > 0:10:19Firstly for five, a hard, bright orange cheese
0:10:19 > 0:10:23similar in shape to a cantaloupe, Mimolette is particularly associated
0:10:23 > 0:10:27with which major city of northern France?
0:10:33 > 0:10:35- Rheims?- Rheims.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37No, it's Lille.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39Distinguished by a dark vein
0:10:39 > 0:10:42of vegetable ash running through it horizontally,
0:10:42 > 0:10:45Morbier takes its name from a village in which department
0:10:45 > 0:10:48in Franche-Comte named after a mountain range?
0:10:48 > 0:10:50- Verges.- No, it's Jura.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53And finally, Ossau-iraty is a sheep's milk cheese
0:10:53 > 0:10:57with a nutty fragrance made in which mountain range?
0:10:57 > 0:10:58- Pyrenees.- Correct.
0:10:58 > 0:11:0110 points for this. Believed to be the largest reliquary
0:11:01 > 0:11:04in the Western world, the Shrine of the Three Kings,
0:11:04 > 0:11:07traditionally thought to contain the remains...
0:11:07 > 0:11:09- Cologne.- Cologne is right, yes.
0:11:09 > 0:11:12APPLAUSE
0:11:12 > 0:11:15These bonuses are on writers on gardening.
0:11:15 > 0:11:18Which poet and novelist wrote a weekly gardening column
0:11:18 > 0:11:21for the Observer from 1947 and is also noted for restoring
0:11:21 > 0:11:24the gardens at Sissinghurst Castle in the 1930s?
0:11:26 > 0:11:28- Vita Sackville-West.- Correct.
0:11:28 > 0:11:32Which artist and designer wrote prolifically on gardening
0:11:32 > 0:11:35between 1881 and 1932? Some of her best-known garden designs
0:11:35 > 0:11:38were in collaboration with Edward Lutyens.
0:11:38 > 0:11:40- Gertrude Jekyll.- Correct.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42Rose Blight was the pseudonym used
0:11:42 > 0:11:45by which academic and literary figure for her gardening column
0:11:45 > 0:11:47in Private Eye in the 1970s?
0:11:51 > 0:11:52Any ideas?
0:11:54 > 0:11:56Don't know.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59That was Germaine Greer's column. 10 points for this.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01Its buds pickled for use
0:12:01 > 0:12:04as a condiment, which shrub shares its name
0:12:04 > 0:12:06with a frolicsome dance and also...
0:12:06 > 0:12:09- Caper.- Caper is right.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11APPLAUSE
0:12:11 > 0:12:12These bonuses are on a name.
0:12:12 > 0:12:15What three-word name derives from the account of the birth of Jesus
0:12:15 > 0:12:17in the Gospel of Matthew
0:12:17 > 0:12:20and is given to the plant Ornithogalum arabicum
0:12:20 > 0:12:23in reference to the appearance of its flower?
0:12:25 > 0:12:27Three word?
0:12:31 > 0:12:34Any ideas? Three words?
0:12:34 > 0:12:37Let's have it, please.
0:12:37 > 0:12:40- Don't know.- Star of Bethlehem.
0:12:40 > 0:12:42Which German astronomer argued in 1614
0:12:42 > 0:12:45that the Biblical phenomenon of the Star of Bethlehem
0:12:45 > 0:12:48might have been the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn?
0:12:49 > 0:12:55- Leibniz, maybe?- Three words, no. Not a three-word name.
0:12:57 > 0:13:01- Leibniz.- No, it's Johannes Kepler.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03Finally, also known as the Star of Bethlehem,
0:13:03 > 0:13:06what two-word term denotes the bright lines radiating from
0:13:06 > 0:13:10the centre of a light source in a reflecting telescope?
0:13:13 > 0:13:16Red eye?
0:13:16 > 0:13:20- Red eyes?- Nominate Desai.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23- Red eye.- No, it's diffraction spike.
0:13:23 > 0:13:2510 points for this.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28What is the common name of the bird whose two families
0:13:28 > 0:13:32are the Strigidae, which include the Fearful, Elf and Spectacle species...
0:13:34 > 0:13:36- Owl.- Yes.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39APPLAUSE
0:13:39 > 0:13:42These bonuses are on Ancient Greece and Rome.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45In Ancient Rome, a triclinium was a dining room
0:13:45 > 0:13:47that included three of what item of furniture?
0:13:47 > 0:13:50Couches? BUZZER RINGS
0:13:50 > 0:13:54- You don't need to buzz. - Couches, things to recline on.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57Exactly. Couches is right.
0:13:57 > 0:14:00In classical architecture, what name meaning "thrice carved"
0:14:00 > 0:14:03is given to the slightly raised blocks that alternate
0:14:03 > 0:14:05with the metopes in a Doric frieze?
0:14:13 > 0:14:17- Do you know?- Don't know. I do know but I've forgotten.
0:14:17 > 0:14:19- Bricks.- They're triglyphs.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22In the late Roman Republic, the First Triumvirate
0:14:22 > 0:14:26was an unofficial coalition of Julius Caesar and which two figures?
0:14:26 > 0:14:30Mark Antony and Octavius.
0:14:30 > 0:14:33- Octavius.- Mark Antony and Octavius.
0:14:33 > 0:14:35It's Pompey and Crassus.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38We're going to take a music round now. For your music starter,
0:14:38 > 0:14:41you'll hear a song from the soundtrack of a 1993 film.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43For 10 points, name the film.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45# What's this, what's this?
0:14:45 > 0:14:46# There's colour everywhere
0:14:46 > 0:14:49# What's this? There's white things in the air
0:14:49 > 0:14:51# What's this? I can't believe my eyes
0:14:51 > 0:14:54# I must be dreaming, wake up, Jack, this isn't fair!
0:14:54 > 0:14:56# What's this?
0:14:56 > 0:14:57# What's this, what's this?
0:14:57 > 0:14:59# There's something very wrong
0:14:59 > 0:15:03# What's this? There's people singing songs... #
0:15:03 > 0:15:05Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07No, anyone like to buzz from the LSE?
0:15:07 > 0:15:09You may not confer, one of you may buzz.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12# ..The streets are lined with little creatures laughing
0:15:12 > 0:15:13# Everybody seems so happy
0:15:13 > 0:15:16# Have I possibly gone daffy? What is this?
0:15:16 > 0:15:18# What's this? #
0:15:18 > 0:15:21I don't think we're getting anywhere here.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23It's from The Nightmare Before Christmas.
0:15:23 > 0:15:24Music bonuses in a moment or two
0:15:24 > 0:15:26and 10 points for this starter question.
0:15:26 > 0:15:30The Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 aimed to secure
0:15:30 > 0:15:33the undisputed and undivided succession
0:15:33 > 0:15:36of the lands of which Royal House?
0:15:36 > 0:15:37- Hapsburg.- Correct.
0:15:37 > 0:15:41APPLAUSE
0:15:41 > 0:15:42You get the music bonuses.
0:15:42 > 0:15:46Three more pieces of music from Christmas film soundtracks.
0:15:46 > 0:15:48Five points for each film you can identify.
0:15:48 > 0:15:50Firstly, this film from 1990.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:58 > 0:16:01Home Alone?
0:16:01 > 0:16:07- Home Alone.- It was, yes. Secondly, a film from 2004.
0:16:07 > 0:16:09MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:31 > 0:16:34- We don't know.- That's from The Polar Express apparently.
0:16:34 > 0:16:38Finally, the precise title of this 1992 film.
0:16:38 > 0:16:41# There's magic in the air this evening
0:16:41 > 0:16:43# Magic in the air
0:16:43 > 0:16:45# The world is at her best, you know
0:16:45 > 0:16:47# When people love and care... #
0:16:47 > 0:16:51- The Muppets Christmas.- Is it?
0:16:51 > 0:16:55- The Muppets Christmas...- It could be the Muppet Christmas Movie.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57Muppet Christmas Movie.
0:16:57 > 0:17:00It's The Muppet Christmas Carol!
0:17:00 > 0:17:03Imagine not knowing that! 10 points for this.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06A liquor made of apple, sugar and ale,
0:17:06 > 0:17:08a drunken bout, a merry song.
0:17:08 > 0:17:11These were Dr Johnson's definitions in 1755
0:17:11 > 0:17:16of which seven-letter word associated with the Christmas season?
0:17:18 > 0:17:20- Wassail.- Wassail is correct, yes.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23APPLAUSE
0:17:23 > 0:17:26Your bonuses are on Asia in 1912.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29In each case, name the country that ruled
0:17:29 > 0:17:33over the following present-day capitals on Christmas Day 1912.
0:17:33 > 0:17:35Firstly, for five points, Hanoi.
0:17:37 > 0:17:39- France.- I think it could be.
0:17:39 > 0:17:41- France.- Correct.
0:17:41 > 0:17:43Secondly, Baghdad.
0:17:45 > 0:17:46Britain? Britain.
0:17:46 > 0:17:50No, that was Turkey, the Ottoman Empire. Finally, Dhaka.
0:17:53 > 0:17:56- Britain?- As in D-A-K-A-R?
0:17:56 > 0:18:00I think it must be Britain. Or did France get it?
0:18:00 > 0:18:03What do you think?
0:18:05 > 0:18:08- France again. - That was the United Kingdom.
0:18:08 > 0:18:0910 points for this.
0:18:09 > 0:18:14When spelled backwards, the name of which tangy purple spice
0:18:14 > 0:18:17gives the name of a Nobel Literature Laureate...
0:18:17 > 0:18:21- Sumac.- Sumac is right. Camus is what it spells backwards.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23APPLAUSE
0:18:23 > 0:18:26These bonuses are on the Ridgeway National Trail.
0:18:26 > 0:18:31Which Neolithic long barrow near the Ridgeway is named after a Saxon god
0:18:31 > 0:18:34who was believed to have his forge in the burial chamber?
0:18:40 > 0:18:43It's the other one, it's near... I can't remember.
0:18:43 > 0:18:47That's the key, remembering.
0:18:47 > 0:18:53- Begins with W.- Wotan.- No.- It's gone. - Do we know?
0:18:53 > 0:18:58- I know but it's gone. - Wotan.- No, it's Wayland.
0:18:58 > 0:19:02Secondly, the western terminus of the Ridgeway is set at Overton Hill
0:19:02 > 0:19:06close to which village, a major prehistoric site?
0:19:06 > 0:19:09- Avebury.- Correct. Thought to date from the Bronze Age,
0:19:09 > 0:19:11what image may be seen on the Berkshire Downs
0:19:11 > 0:19:15close to Uffington Castle, a little north of the Ridgeway?
0:19:15 > 0:19:17- The Uffington White Horse.- Correct.
0:19:17 > 0:19:2010 points for this. Which Dutch artist coined the term
0:19:20 > 0:19:23neo-plasticism in 1917
0:19:23 > 0:19:26to describe his own style of abstract work,
0:19:26 > 0:19:29which he created using only the primary colours...
0:19:29 > 0:19:32- Piet Mondrian.- Correct.
0:19:32 > 0:19:3515 points for this bonus set. They're on a novel.
0:19:35 > 0:19:38"It's always winter here and never Christmas."
0:19:38 > 0:19:41These words appear in which children's novel of 1950?
0:19:41 > 0:19:43- The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe.- Correct.
0:19:43 > 0:19:47In the novel, which character announces his arrival with the following words?
0:19:47 > 0:19:50"I've come at last. She's kept me out for a long time
0:19:50 > 0:19:52"but I've got in at last."
0:19:54 > 0:19:57- Is that Edmund? - It sounds like Aslan...
0:19:57 > 0:20:01It must be Edmund? Edmund.
0:20:01 > 0:20:02No, it's Father Christmas.
0:20:02 > 0:20:06Which character in the novel does Father Christmas give a bottle
0:20:06 > 0:20:08containing the juice of one of the fire-flowers
0:20:08 > 0:20:10that grows in the mountains of the sun?
0:20:16 > 0:20:17- Lucy.- Correct.
0:20:17 > 0:20:20Going to take a second picture round. For your picture starter,
0:20:20 > 0:20:24you'll see a painting. 10 points if you can identify the artist.
0:20:29 > 0:20:32- Van Gogh.- It is Van Gogh, yes.
0:20:32 > 0:20:35That was Backyards of Old Houses in Antwerp in the Snow.
0:20:35 > 0:20:39Your bonuses are three more Post-Impressionist snow-filled vistas.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42Five points for each artist you can identify.
0:20:42 > 0:20:46All three are French and born within ten years of each other. Firstly...
0:20:52 > 0:20:56- Cezanne.- It is, Melting Snow at Fontainebleau. Secondly...
0:20:58 > 0:20:59Is that French?
0:20:59 > 0:21:03- All French.- Recognise it, anybody?
0:21:03 > 0:21:06Rousseau? Rousseau.
0:21:06 > 0:21:09- Rousseau?- Rousseau is correct. And finally...
0:21:14 > 0:21:18- Monet or Seurat.- I think it's Monet.
0:21:18 > 0:21:21- Monet.- No, that's Gauguin.
0:21:21 > 0:21:2310 points for this starter question.
0:21:23 > 0:21:27American Buffalo, Speed-The-Plow and Glengarry Glen Ross...
0:21:27 > 0:21:30- David Mamet.- Correct.
0:21:30 > 0:21:32APPLAUSE
0:21:32 > 0:21:35These bonuses are on two-letter place names, LSE.
0:21:35 > 0:21:39Bo, spelled B-O, is the second largest town in which
0:21:39 > 0:21:43West African country that underwent a civil war from 1991 to 2002?
0:21:46 > 0:21:47Nominate Desai.
0:21:47 > 0:21:50- Sierra Leone.- Spot on.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53The Sumerian city state of Ur was an early home
0:21:53 > 0:21:57of which Jewish patriarch, the husband of Sarah?
0:21:57 > 0:21:59- Abraham.- Nominate Desai.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01- Abraham.- Correct.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04Finally, one of the settings for Dumas's novel,
0:22:04 > 0:22:07The Count of Monte Cristo, the Chateau d'If,
0:22:07 > 0:22:11was built in the 16th century to guard which seaport?
0:22:14 > 0:22:16Nice?
0:22:18 > 0:22:24- Take a guess.- I don't know, just guess.- Marseille.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26Marseilles is right.
0:22:26 > 0:22:2810 points for this. Which group of widespread illnesses
0:22:28 > 0:22:31are caused by rhino-viruses,
0:22:31 > 0:22:34a genus of single-stranded RNA viruses...
0:22:34 > 0:22:36- Colds.- Colds is correct, yes.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38APPLAUSE
0:22:38 > 0:22:41These bonuses are on chemistry.
0:22:41 > 0:22:45What Greek-derived term denotes elements in group 17 of the periodic table?
0:22:45 > 0:22:48They have seven electrons in their outer shells
0:22:48 > 0:22:50and are highly reactive non-metals.
0:22:53 > 0:22:57- Nominate Wong. - Groups 17?
0:22:57 > 0:23:00I can't repeat the question, get on with it!
0:23:02 > 0:23:04- Halogens.- Correct.
0:23:04 > 0:23:07Which of the halogens has an atomic number of nine?
0:23:07 > 0:23:10It's the most electro-negative element known
0:23:10 > 0:23:13and hence is a highly reactive oxidising agent.
0:23:13 > 0:23:14- Fluorine.- Correct.
0:23:14 > 0:23:17Which of the halogens is found in the hormone thyroxine?
0:23:17 > 0:23:19Nominate Wong.
0:23:19 > 0:23:23- Won't be chlorine... Iodine. - Iodine is right.
0:23:23 > 0:23:25Four and a quarter minutes to go, 10 points for this.
0:23:25 > 0:23:29Which English county town links the Iron Age hill fort of Maiden Castle,
0:23:29 > 0:23:31the trial...
0:23:31 > 0:23:33- Dorchester. - Dorchester is right, yes.
0:23:33 > 0:23:36APPLAUSE
0:23:36 > 0:23:38These bonuses are on a Japanese author.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
0:23:41 > 0:23:45is a 2009 memoir by which Japanese novelist?
0:23:45 > 0:23:48Murakami?
0:23:48 > 0:23:50- Nominate Lott.- Murakami.
0:23:50 > 0:23:53Correct. Which of Murakami's novels had two English translators
0:23:53 > 0:23:57working on it to speed up publication and also saw bookshops
0:23:57 > 0:24:00in the UK and US opening at midnight for its release in 2011?
0:24:06 > 0:24:09Anyone? Don't know.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11It's 1Q84.
0:24:11 > 0:24:14Finally, published in Japanese in 1987, Murakami's fifth novel
0:24:14 > 0:24:17is named after which song by The Beatles?
0:24:22 > 0:24:25- We should guess. - I Saw Her Standing There.
0:24:25 > 0:24:27No, it's Norwegian Wood.
0:24:27 > 0:24:29Three and a quarter minutes to go, 10 points for this.
0:24:29 > 0:24:32Naples, Venice, Panama City and St Petersburg
0:24:32 > 0:24:34are among the cities of which US state?
0:24:36 > 0:24:39- Florida.- Florida is right.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41These bonuses are on zoology.
0:24:41 > 0:24:45I want the common English name of the following British mammals.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48Firstly, Talpa Europaea, a small carnivorous mammal.
0:24:51 > 0:24:52Let's have it.
0:24:57 > 0:24:59- Vole.- No, it's the mole.
0:24:59 > 0:25:04Meles Meles, a large distinctively patterned omnivore.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09- Badger.- Correct, and finally,
0:25:09 > 0:25:12Phoco Vitulina, a sleek aquatic piscivore.
0:25:12 > 0:25:15- Otter.- No, it's a common or harbour seal.
0:25:15 > 0:25:1710 points for this, two and a half minutes to go.
0:25:17 > 0:25:21In ecology, the term "littoral" denotes what zone or area...
0:25:22 > 0:25:24- On the shore.- Correct.
0:25:24 > 0:25:27These bonuses, New College, are on Norman Mailer.
0:25:27 > 0:25:30Mailer's last novel, The Castle In The Forest,
0:25:30 > 0:25:32deals with the early life of which...
0:25:32 > 0:25:35You don't need to buzz. Answer through your teacher.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37Your teacher! Your captain.
0:25:37 > 0:25:40..deals with the early life of which political figure born in 1889?
0:25:40 > 0:25:41- Hitler.- Correct.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44Mailer's work of 1995 subtitled An American Mystery,
0:25:44 > 0:25:47is the story of which controversial figure killed
0:25:47 > 0:25:51whilst in police custody in November 1963?
0:25:51 > 0:25:55- Who shot Kennedy?- Lee Harvey Oswald?
0:25:55 > 0:25:57No, no, no, the other one.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00- Let's have it, please.- Do we know?
0:26:00 > 0:26:03- Lee Harvey Oswald.- Correct.
0:26:03 > 0:26:07Described by The Times as "the best war novel to come out of the United States,"
0:26:07 > 0:26:11what was the title of Mailer's first novel published in 1948?
0:26:11 > 0:26:13The Quick and the Dead?
0:26:13 > 0:26:16- The Quick and the Dead. - No, it's The Naked And the Dead.
0:26:16 > 0:26:1910 points for this. Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:26:19 > 0:26:22Of the British Royal Houses of Stuart, Hanover and Windsor,
0:26:22 > 0:26:25since 1600, how many monarchs have been women?
0:26:29 > 0:26:33- Three.- LSE, one of you buzz.
0:26:33 > 0:26:36- Two.- No, it's four.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38Mary, Anne, Victoria and Elizabeth II.
0:26:38 > 0:26:4110 points for this, answer as soon as your name is called.
0:26:41 > 0:26:44Give the dictionary spelling of the word "oscillate,"
0:26:44 > 0:26:46meaning swing to and fro.
0:26:46 > 0:26:50- O-S-C-I-L-L-A-T-E.- Correct.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53Your bonuses this time are on a shared name element.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56Firstly, for five points, what name links an annual meteor shower
0:26:56 > 0:27:01in mid-November and the Soviet leader who followed Khrushchev?
0:27:01 > 0:27:04- Nominate Wong.- Leonid.- Correct.
0:27:04 > 0:27:07In which century BC did King Leonidas of Sparta
0:27:07 > 0:27:11defend the Pass of Thermopylae against the Persians?
0:27:11 > 0:27:13- Fifth.- It was the fifth.
0:27:13 > 0:27:17The US composer Leonard Bernstein was from 1959 to 1969
0:27:17 > 0:27:19the music director of which orchestra?
0:27:23 > 0:27:26Let's have it, please.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32- London.- No, it was the New York Philharmonic.
0:27:32 > 0:27:3310 points for this...
0:27:33 > 0:27:35GONG
0:27:35 > 0:27:39At the gong, the LSE have 160 and New College, Oxford have 240.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42LSE, it was a very closely fought game
0:27:42 > 0:27:44and you were ahead much of the time.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46Although 160 is higher than many winning scores
0:27:46 > 0:27:48so far in this contest,
0:27:48 > 0:27:50or indeed I would guess even by the semifinals.
0:27:50 > 0:27:54It's a very good score but I'm afraid we're going to have to say goodbye to you.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56New College, 240 is the highest score so far
0:27:56 > 0:28:00and I would take a very strong bet that you will certainly be back
0:28:00 > 0:28:01to take part in the semifinals.
0:28:01 > 0:28:05I hope you can join us next time for another first round match
0:28:05 > 0:28:08but until then, it's goodbye from the London School of Economics.
0:28:08 > 0:28:12It's goodbye from New College, Oxford and it's goodbye from me.
0:28:12 > 0:28:13Goodbye.
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