0:00:18 > 0:00:20APPLAUSE
0:00:20 > 0:00:22Christmas University Challenge!
0:00:22 > 0:00:26Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello. Angels may fear to tread anywhere near this competition,
0:00:31 > 0:00:34but thank heavens for two more teams of grown-ups
0:00:34 > 0:00:37confidently expecting to sparkle like baubles on the tree
0:00:37 > 0:00:42in the face of the kind of questions we usually throw at the UK's brightest students.
0:00:42 > 0:00:45They're among 14 teams who've accepted our invitation
0:00:45 > 0:00:48to play on behalf of the university which educated them
0:00:48 > 0:00:50or where they teach.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53The four top-scoring winning teams will progress to the next stage.
0:00:53 > 0:00:59Anything tonight in excess of a mere 240 will guarantee a place in the semi-finals.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02Now playing on behalf of the original red brick,
0:01:02 > 0:01:06the University of Liverpool are a science journalist and broadcaster,
0:01:06 > 0:01:09a man famous to anyone who follows cricket
0:01:09 > 0:01:13for his contribution to the formula for re-staging interrupted one-day matches.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17Their captain is a critic, columnist, curator and prolific author.
0:01:17 > 0:01:21They're joined by a former teacher, campaigner and Labour councillor
0:01:21 > 0:01:23before she took up her present job.
0:01:23 > 0:01:24Let's find out some more from them.
0:01:26 > 0:01:30I'm Lawrence McGinty. I studied zoology and graduated in 1969.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33I'm now medical and science editor of ITV News.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35I'm Frank Duckworth.
0:01:35 > 0:01:38I graduated in Physics in 1961
0:01:38 > 0:01:41- and I'm now a consultant statistician.- And their captain.
0:01:41 > 0:01:45Hi. I'm Stephen Bayley. I astonished myself and surprised the university
0:01:45 > 0:01:49by getting a Masters degree in Architecture in 1974.
0:01:49 > 0:01:56I'm sometimes called a design guru. This I have accepted with self-deprecating irony.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59I'm Frances Crook.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01I took a degree in medieval and modern history
0:02:01 > 0:02:05and I'm currently the chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08APPLAUSE
0:02:09 > 0:02:12The team from the University of Cardiff
0:02:12 > 0:02:15includes three graduates and one member of staff.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18First is a composer whose music has been performed all over the world.
0:02:18 > 0:02:22He's joined by a former teacher turned politician and MEP.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25Their captain is a presenter and broadcast journalist
0:02:25 > 0:02:29who says he's reported from more than 30 countries during his career, including Wales,
0:02:29 > 0:02:32and they're joined by another news veteran,
0:02:32 > 0:02:34a former director of Global News at the BBC.
0:02:34 > 0:02:37But let's ask them to introduce themselves in the traditional manner.
0:02:37 > 0:02:41Hello. I'm Phillip Cashian. I graduated in Music in 1984
0:02:41 > 0:02:45and I'm now a composer and head of composition at the Royal Academy of Music.
0:02:45 > 0:02:49Hello. I'm Jean Lambert. I graduated from Cardiff in 1971.
0:02:49 > 0:02:53I'm now a Green Party Member of the European Parliament for London.
0:02:53 > 0:02:58- And their captain.- I'm Bill Turnbull. I took a post-graduate diploma in Journalism Studies
0:02:58 > 0:03:02in 1978. I now present a programme called Breakfast on BBC1.
0:03:02 > 0:03:06I'm Richard Sambrook, Professor of Journalism at Cardiff University.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08APPLAUSE
0:03:12 > 0:03:14OK. I guess you all know the rules.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17Starter questions are solo efforts you answer on the buzzer.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19They're worth ten points. Bonuses are team efforts
0:03:19 > 0:03:22so you can confer, and they're worth 15 points.
0:03:22 > 0:03:26If you interrupt a starter question incorrectly, there's a five-point penalty.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29Fingers on buzzers. Here's your first starter for 10.
0:03:29 > 0:03:32A plaque in Medford, Massachusetts,
0:03:32 > 0:03:35marks the site of the composition in the 1850s
0:03:35 > 0:03:39of which pervasive seasonal song by James Lord Pierpont...
0:03:41 > 0:03:44- Jingle Bells.- Yes!
0:03:48 > 0:03:49What an odd thing to know!
0:03:49 > 0:03:52Here are your bonuses. They're on pound coins, Cardiff.
0:03:52 > 0:03:56The Millennium Bridge of which northern English town
0:03:56 > 0:03:59appears on the reverse of the 2007 pound coin?
0:04:04 > 0:04:08- Newcastle.- No, it's Gateshead. I asked for the town. It's the Gateshead Millennium Bridge,
0:04:08 > 0:04:10although it does link with Newcastle.
0:04:10 > 0:04:13Cultivated both for its fibre and its seed,
0:04:13 > 0:04:17what plant appears on the reverse of the 1991 pound coin,
0:04:17 > 0:04:19representing Northern Ireland?
0:04:24 > 0:04:27- Flax.- Yes, from the traditional linen industry.
0:04:27 > 0:04:30Finally, on pound coins issued in 1987 and 1992,
0:04:30 > 0:04:36which emblem representing England was depicted encircled by the royal diadem?
0:04:47 > 0:04:50- Rose.- No, it was an oak tree. 10 points for this.
0:04:50 > 0:04:54Which German state was ruled by the Wittelsbach dynasty
0:04:54 > 0:04:57from the 12th century until its last king, Ludwig III...
0:04:57 > 0:04:59- Munich.- No...
0:04:59 > 0:05:01Or Bavaria.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04Munich is the capital of Bavaria. Come on!
0:05:04 > 0:05:07Munich is the capital of Bavaria, but I'm going to fine you five points
0:05:07 > 0:05:09because the question goes on to ask,
0:05:09 > 0:05:11"It became a parliamentary state in the Weimar Republic
0:05:11 > 0:05:15"and now comprises the entire south-eastern portion of Germany."
0:05:15 > 0:05:19So Bavaria is the correct answer, but you didn't give it when you buzzed. You gave Munich.
0:05:19 > 0:05:23I'm not going to give you the question, obviously, because I've given the answer, dim-wits!
0:05:23 > 0:05:26No, excuse me! We had the answer!
0:05:26 > 0:05:29Then you should have buzzed in, shouldn't you?
0:05:29 > 0:05:32- I had the correct answer on the tip of my tongue.- On mine, as well.
0:05:32 > 0:05:36Sorry, I can't be responsible for the malfunctioning of your tongue!
0:05:36 > 0:05:39No, my tongue was in perfect working order,
0:05:39 > 0:05:40it's just that...
0:05:40 > 0:05:43Right. We'll take another starter question.
0:05:43 > 0:05:45Is that clear to everybody?
0:05:45 > 0:05:46Well, actually, no!
0:05:46 > 0:05:51I prefer the students. They're much more docile!
0:05:51 > 0:05:54Another starter question. 10 points for this.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57Based on a late 16th-century English ballad,
0:05:57 > 0:06:00which pantomime tells of children abandoned by their wicked uncle?
0:06:00 > 0:06:02In later versions, they're rescued by Robin Hood.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05- Babes in the Wood.- Correct.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12These bonuses are on Christmas carols, Liverpool.
0:06:12 > 0:06:17Four landscape features are mentioned in the third line of the carol We Three Kings of Orient Are.
0:06:17 > 0:06:21The first is field. What are the other three?
0:06:32 > 0:06:33Mountain.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36- And?- Moor.
0:06:36 > 0:06:38- Yes?- Field and fountain.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41- Field and fountain.- I said field, but you've got it.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44- Fountain, moor and mountain, correct.- Thank you very much.
0:06:44 > 0:06:48Which carol's second verse begins, "Shepherds in the fields abiding
0:06:48 > 0:06:50"Watching o'er your flocks by night."
0:06:50 > 0:06:52Angels from the Realms of Glory.
0:06:52 > 0:06:55- Angels from the Realms of Glory. - Correct.
0:06:55 > 0:06:59Finally, according to the five-word second line of the well-known carol,
0:06:59 > 0:07:01what came upon the midnight clear?
0:07:01 > 0:07:02- It.- It.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05No, it was "That glorious song of old."
0:07:05 > 0:07:0710 points for this.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09What five letters begin words meaning
0:07:09 > 0:07:12"an alphabetical list of terms relating to a specific subject,"
0:07:12 > 0:07:16"the phenomenon of apparently speaking in an unknown language",
0:07:16 > 0:07:18and "an inflammation of the tongue"?
0:07:21 > 0:07:24- Gloss.- Gloss is correct, yes.
0:07:27 > 0:07:31Your bonuses, this time, are on the diaries of Alan Clark.
0:07:31 > 0:07:34"So engaging, such good company.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36"Like me, he despises the Liberals.
0:07:36 > 0:07:39"I told him he must, and will be, prime minister."
0:07:39 > 0:07:43These words of Alan Clark refer to which figure, then Labour foreign secretary."
0:07:49 > 0:07:52- Callaghan.- No, it was David Owen.
0:07:52 > 0:07:54"Chunk of old heavy metal."
0:07:54 > 0:07:58These words refer to which Labour MP and future speaker,
0:07:58 > 0:08:04whom Clark encounters in a committee meeting alongside "two bright boys, called Brown and Blair."
0:08:10 > 0:08:13Martin. Somebody Martin.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15I need the full name. It's Michael Martin.
0:08:15 > 0:08:19Finally, first elected MP for Rushcliffe in 1970,
0:08:19 > 0:08:22which future Conservative Home Secretary and Chancellor
0:08:22 > 0:08:27does Clark refer to as "a butterball" and "a podgy life insurance risk"?
0:08:41 > 0:08:44Sorry, we're as bad at politics as we are at carols.
0:08:44 > 0:08:48No, it's Kenneth Clarke, who Frances there was always bending the ear off!
0:08:48 > 0:08:51Right. 10 points now for this picture starter.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53For your picture round, you'll see a map
0:08:53 > 0:08:55of the historical region known as The Holy Land.
0:08:55 > 0:08:5810 points if you identify the Biblical town marked.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07- Nazareth.- It is Nazareth, yes.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10Good guess!
0:09:11 > 0:09:15According to the Bible, that was the childhood home of Jesus.
0:09:15 > 0:09:17For your picture bonuses, you'll see a map
0:09:17 > 0:09:21marked with three more towns visited by Jesus in his lifetime.
0:09:21 > 0:09:23In each case, simply name the town.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25Firstly, for five, where is A?
0:09:25 > 0:09:30His time there is referenced in Luke Chapter 18, Verse 35.
0:09:39 > 0:09:42- Galilee?- No. Galilee is a region.
0:09:42 > 0:09:43No, that is Jericho.
0:09:43 > 0:09:48Secondly, B. His time there is referenced in John II, I.
0:09:54 > 0:09:58- No.- That's Cana, where the wedding took place. And finally,
0:09:58 > 0:10:02C. His time there is referenced in Matthew, Chapter 2, Verse 1.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08Total lack of Biblical knowledge. Sorry.
0:10:08 > 0:10:11Or, indeed, geographical knowledge! It's Bethlehem.
0:10:11 > 0:10:12Right. 10 points for this.
0:10:12 > 0:10:15"The Machineries of Joy" and "The Illustrated Man"
0:10:15 > 0:10:18are among the short story collections of which US author who died...
0:10:20 > 0:10:22- Ray Bradbury.- Yes.
0:10:24 > 0:10:28You'll be pleased to hear your bonuses are on geometry!
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Firstly for five, the name of which Biblical figure
0:10:31 > 0:10:35is sometimes given to the geometric figure of infinite surface area
0:10:35 > 0:10:40and finite volume, which is formed by rotating the graph of y=1/x
0:10:40 > 0:10:43for x greater or equal to one about the x axis?
0:10:44 > 0:10:47Any chance you could repeat the question?
0:10:47 > 0:10:49I'll take that as a no, then!
0:10:49 > 0:10:51Secondly for five points...
0:10:51 > 0:10:56Hang on, we haven't conferred. No, it's all right. We may have the answer.
0:10:56 > 0:11:01- If you wouldn't mind?- No, I'd be delighted to hear your conferring! - Thank you.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11OK, we'll take a stab. Methuselah.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15Methuselah. No, it's the Archangel Gabriel.
0:11:15 > 0:11:19But never mind. Gabriel's trumpet is also known by the name
0:11:19 > 0:11:23of which 17th-century Italian physicist and mathematician who first studied its properties?
0:11:23 > 0:11:26He's often credited with the invention of the barometer.
0:11:31 > 0:11:34Sorry. Oh, Leonardo, we're trying.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36No, it's Evangelista Torricelli. And finally,
0:11:36 > 0:11:40"To understand an object such as Gabriel's horn
0:11:40 > 0:11:44"it's not required that a man be a geometer or logician but that he should be mad."
0:11:44 > 0:11:48This is an assertion of which political philosopher born in Wiltshire in 1588?
0:11:55 > 0:11:56Shall I take a guess?
0:11:56 > 0:11:58Mill.
0:11:58 > 0:12:01Mill? In 1588?!
0:12:01 > 0:12:04I'm just guessing, here. Help me, I'm guessing!
0:12:04 > 0:12:06No, it's Thomas Hobbs. Ten points for this.
0:12:06 > 0:12:11Give the dictionary spelling of the Italian Christmas bread known as panettone?
0:12:14 > 0:12:17- P-A-N-E-T-T-O-N-E.- Correct!
0:12:21 > 0:12:25These bonuses are on British plays that have won Tony Awards in the US.
0:12:25 > 0:12:28For five points. Adapted from a novel by Michael Morpugo,
0:12:28 > 0:12:33which British play won five prizes at the 2011 Tony Awards
0:12:33 > 0:12:35including best play?
0:12:35 > 0:12:39- War Horse.- Correct. Which nine-hour trilogy by Tom Stoppard
0:12:39 > 0:12:43set a new record when it won seven awards at the 2007 Tonys?
0:12:51 > 0:12:53- Sorry, no.- The Coast of Utopia.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56Finally, set in a Sheffield grammar school in 1983,
0:12:56 > 0:13:01- which play by Alan Bennett... - History Boys.- History Boys is correct.
0:13:02 > 0:13:06Another starter question. Listen carefully and give both answers promptly.
0:13:06 > 0:13:11Words meaning genus of trees that includes holly,
0:13:11 > 0:13:12wild mountain goat
0:13:12 > 0:13:17and list of books deemed contrary to Catholic faith or morals,
0:13:17 > 0:13:21have in common what first and what final letter?
0:13:22 > 0:13:24- I, X.- Correct.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30These bonuses are on explorers, Liverpool.
0:13:30 > 0:13:34Born 1394, Prince Henry, the son of John I of Portugal
0:13:34 > 0:13:38is usually known by what nickname because of the number of sea expeditions he financed?
0:13:38 > 0:13:42- The Navigator.- Correct. Until it was renamed Maputo in 1976,
0:13:42 > 0:13:46the capital of Mozambique was named after which Portuguese explorer
0:13:46 > 0:13:48who visited the city in the 16th century?
0:13:59 > 0:14:01- No.- That's Lourenco Marques.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03And finally, which Portuguese explorer was killed
0:14:03 > 0:14:06in the region of The Philippines after landing there
0:14:06 > 0:14:08in his flagship The Trinidad in 1521?
0:14:11 > 0:14:13- Magellan?- Correct!
0:14:13 > 0:14:16We're going to take a music round now.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of popular music.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22For 10 points, I want you to give me the name of the band performing.
0:14:22 > 0:14:26# Long time ago in Bethlehem
0:14:26 > 0:14:28# So the Holy Bible... #
0:14:29 > 0:14:31- Boney M?- Yes!
0:14:34 > 0:14:38So following on from Mary's Boy Child by Boney M,
0:14:38 > 0:14:40music bonuses - three more pieces of popular music.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43Each has lyrics which refer to figures or objects
0:14:43 > 0:14:45which also appear in the Nativity story.
0:14:45 > 0:14:49Five points for each artist or band you can identify. Firstly:
0:14:50 > 0:14:53# Must be talking to an angel
0:14:53 > 0:14:55# Must be talking to an angel
0:14:55 > 0:14:57# Must be talking to an angel
0:14:59 > 0:15:01# Must be talking to an angel
0:15:01 > 0:15:03# Must be talking to an angel... #
0:15:04 > 0:15:07- Eurythmics.- It is The Eurythmics, yes.
0:15:07 > 0:15:08Secondly.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11# Really sorry now for what they've done
0:15:11 > 0:15:14# They were three wise men, just trying to have some fun
0:15:15 > 0:15:17# Look who's alone now
0:15:17 > 0:15:20# It's not me, it's not me
0:15:21 > 0:15:26# Those three wise men they got a semi by the sea
0:15:27 > 0:15:31# Gotta ask yourself a question... #
0:15:31 > 0:15:34- David Gray?- No, it's James Blunt.
0:15:34 > 0:15:36And finally, somewhat loosely...
0:15:36 > 0:15:40# I was born
0:15:40 > 0:15:44# Under a wand'rin star... #
0:15:44 > 0:15:45- Lee Marvin.- It was Lee Marvin, yes.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47Right. 10 points for this.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50Thought to date to around 1500 BCE,
0:15:50 > 0:15:54the earliest form of which Indo-European language is known as Vedic
0:15:54 > 0:15:57and its most common register as classical?
0:15:57 > 0:16:01It's one of 22 scheduled languages in the constitution of India.
0:16:02 > 0:16:05- It must be Sanskrit. - It is Sanskrit, yes.
0:16:06 > 0:16:10Right. Your bonuses are on "reviewese", Liverpool.
0:16:10 > 0:16:13In other words, euphemistic terminology used in book reviews
0:16:13 > 0:16:16according to the Times columnist, Ben Macintyre.
0:16:16 > 0:16:19Firstly for five, according to Macintyre, what short word
0:16:19 > 0:16:23when used by reviewers, means "I'm not sure if this is funny"?
0:16:23 > 0:16:27By a different etymology it denotes curved symmetrical structures
0:16:27 > 0:16:30that feature prominently in euro bank notes.
0:16:33 > 0:16:35- Arch.- Correct. Secondly,
0:16:35 > 0:16:39Macintyre quotes a poem by Clive James in his definition of which German word,
0:16:39 > 0:16:46often used in "reviewese", saying, "The book of mine enemy hath been remaindered, but I am glad."
0:16:51 > 0:16:53- Schadenfreude.- Indeed.
0:16:53 > 0:16:57Finally, also used of the orbits of astronomical bodies and the cranks of steam engines,
0:16:57 > 0:17:00which "reviewese" adjective, according to Macintyre,
0:17:00 > 0:17:02translates into everyday English as,
0:17:02 > 0:17:05"The author should be sectioned immediately."
0:17:05 > 0:17:07Crank.
0:17:07 > 0:17:09- No, it's eccentric.- Oh!
0:17:09 > 0:17:1410 points for this. What is the common name of the grass Secale cereale?
0:17:14 > 0:17:16Widely grown in eastern and northern Europe,
0:17:16 > 0:17:18its flour has a lower gluten content than wheat
0:17:18 > 0:17:21and is used to make bread, pumpernickel and crispbreads.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27- Rye.- Rye is correct, yes.
0:17:29 > 0:17:33These bonuses, Cardiff, are on French art museums.
0:17:33 > 0:17:39Raphael's Three Graces is part of the collection of the Musee Conde in which town near Paris,
0:17:39 > 0:17:42also associated with horse racing and lace.
0:17:46 > 0:17:50- Chantilly.- Correct. Born in Aragon in 1746,
0:17:50 > 0:17:53which artist gives his name to a museum of Spanish painting
0:17:53 > 0:17:55in Castres, east of Toulouse?
0:18:01 > 0:18:05- Sorry, no.- Goya. Finally, the painting Bonjour Monsieur Courbet
0:18:05 > 0:18:11is part of the collections of the Musee Fabre in which city to the west of Marseille?
0:18:22 > 0:18:25- Montpellier.- Montpellier is correct, yes.
0:18:25 > 0:18:2710 points for this. July 31st 1970
0:18:27 > 0:18:33became known as Black Tot Day, following the abolition of what tradition?
0:18:33 > 0:18:37- The withdrawal of the rum ration in the Navy.- Correct.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43These bonuses are on shorter words, Cardiff,
0:18:43 > 0:18:47that can be made using any of the eight letters of the word Yuletide.
0:18:47 > 0:18:49In each case, give the word from the definition.
0:18:49 > 0:18:54Firstly, to omit a sound or syllable when speaking. For example,
0:18:54 > 0:18:57"Can't" for "cannot", or "Febry" for "February".
0:18:57 > 0:19:00I want the verb here, not the noun.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05- Elide.- Correct.
0:19:05 > 0:19:10From the Latin for "day", the English term for the legislature of Japan.
0:19:20 > 0:19:22The Diet, D-I-E-T.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24Correct. Finally,
0:19:24 > 0:19:26in addition to the ego and the super-ego,
0:19:26 > 0:19:29the third agency of the human personality defined by Freud.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32- Id.- Correct.
0:19:36 > 0:19:42Time for another picture round. For your starter, you'll see a picture of a Shakespearian character.
0:19:42 > 0:19:44Ten points if you can name the character.
0:19:48 > 0:19:51- Malvolio.- Indeed, yes. Cross-gartered there.
0:19:54 > 0:19:56So you get the picture bonuses, Cardiff.
0:19:56 > 0:20:00They're distinguished actors who have played Malvolio from Twelfth Night.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03Five points for each actor you can name. Firstly, this one.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13- Richard Wilson. - It is Richard Wilson.
0:20:13 > 0:20:14Secondly.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27- Alan Rickman. - No, it's Nigel Hawthorne.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29And finally.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33- Richard Briers.- Correct.
0:20:33 > 0:20:3510 points for this starter question.
0:20:35 > 0:20:39"Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures."
0:20:39 > 0:20:43These are the words of which literary figure in the 1759 work
0:20:43 > 0:20:45"Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia"?
0:20:46 > 0:20:48- Samuel Johnson.- Correct.
0:20:51 > 0:20:54Your bonuses are on winter warfare.
0:20:54 > 0:20:56During the siege of Leningrad from 1941 to '44,
0:20:56 > 0:21:00winter supplies were brought into the city from the north-east
0:21:00 > 0:21:04across which large frozen lake near the Finnish border?
0:21:08 > 0:21:10- Don't know.- Lake Ladoga.
0:21:10 > 0:21:15A turning point in the American Revolutionary War came on Christmas night in 1776
0:21:15 > 0:21:20when, in freezing conditions, George Washington led his troops across which river?
0:21:23 > 0:21:25- Potomac? - No, it was the Delaware River.
0:21:25 > 0:21:30Finally, the Winter War is the subtitle of a book by Patrick Bishop and John Witherow
0:21:30 > 0:21:33about which late 20th-century conflict?
0:21:36 > 0:21:41- No. Pass.- The Falklands War. Less than ten minutes to go. Ten points for this.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43In mechanics, which English scientist's name
0:21:43 > 0:21:45is given to the modulus of elasticity
0:21:45 > 0:21:47defined as the ratio of the tensile...
0:21:48 > 0:21:51- Young's.- Young's Modulus is correct. Thomas Young.
0:21:53 > 0:21:57Liverpool, these are on a theatre, these bonuses.
0:21:57 > 0:22:01Founded in 1963, which theatre's directors have included
0:22:01 > 0:22:03Laurence Olivier, Peter Hall and Richard Eyre?
0:22:08 > 0:22:11- The National.- Correct. The National Theatre.
0:22:11 > 0:22:15Which other London theatre was the temporary home of the National Theatre Company
0:22:15 > 0:22:20from its inception until its move in 1976 to a permanent home on the South Bank?
0:22:25 > 0:22:27- Pass.- The Old Vic.
0:22:27 > 0:22:30The National Theatre contains three main auditoria.
0:22:30 > 0:22:34The largest is the Olivier and the smallest is the Cottesloe. What's the other?
0:22:34 > 0:22:36- Lyttelton.- Correct.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38Five minutes to go. 10 points for this.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41Standing at the end of the Royal Mile against the backdrop of Arthur's Seat,
0:22:41 > 0:22:44which Edinburgh palace is the official residence...
0:22:45 > 0:22:47- Holyrood.- Holyrood House, it's formally called,
0:22:47 > 0:22:50but it's often abbreviated to Holyrood. I accept that.
0:22:50 > 0:22:54Your bonuses now are on chemical tests, Liverpool.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57What test for simple sugars takes its name from the blue solution
0:22:57 > 0:23:00that is added to the substance to be tested?
0:23:03 > 0:23:06- Litmus. - No, it's the Benedict's test.
0:23:06 > 0:23:11What test for proteins involves adding sodium hydroxide and a small amount of copper sulphate
0:23:11 > 0:23:13to the test substance?
0:23:17 > 0:23:20- Pass.- That's the Biuret Test.
0:23:20 > 0:23:25And finally, the development of a blue-black colour when iodine is added to a substance
0:23:25 > 0:23:28indicates the presence of what?
0:23:36 > 0:23:40- Acid.- No, it's starch. Four minutes to go. 10 points for this.
0:23:40 > 0:23:43Orion, Falcon, Antares, Intrepid and Eagle
0:23:43 > 0:23:46were the names of what precise type of spacecraft
0:23:46 > 0:23:49employed by NASA between 1969 and '72?
0:23:50 > 0:23:52Moon landing craft.
0:23:52 > 0:23:54Moon landing modules. Yes, lunar modules.
0:23:54 > 0:23:56I'll accept that.
0:23:56 > 0:23:59Your bonuses this time are on literary characters.
0:23:59 > 0:24:01"Gabriel Varden: The Locksmith of London"
0:24:01 > 0:24:05was an early provisional title of which historical novel by Charles Dickens?
0:24:15 > 0:24:18- Little Dorrit. - No, it's Barnaby Rudge.
0:24:18 > 0:24:21Gabriel Conroy is the protagonist of "The Dead",
0:24:21 > 0:24:26the final short story in which collection of 1914 by James Joyce?
0:24:32 > 0:24:34- The Dubliners.- Correct.
0:24:34 > 0:24:37Gabriel Oak is "the young man of sound judgement"
0:24:37 > 0:24:41described by Thomas Hardy in the opening of which novel of 1874?
0:24:41 > 0:24:44- "Far From the Madding Crowd." - Correct. 10 points for this.
0:24:44 > 0:24:49Which sport was first recognised by the International Olympic Committee in 1994
0:24:49 > 0:24:55and made its winter games debut four years later with the giant slalom and the half-pike events?
0:24:55 > 0:24:58- Snowboarding.- Correct.
0:24:58 > 0:25:03These bonuses - that's given you the lead, by the way -
0:25:03 > 0:25:07these bonuses for a possible 15 are on words that begin with the same four letters.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10In each case, give the word or name from the definition.
0:25:10 > 0:25:13From a French past participle, a word used deprecatingly
0:25:13 > 0:25:18of someone from a lowly background who's risen suddenly to wealth or influence.
0:25:19 > 0:25:21- Parvenu.- Correct.
0:25:21 > 0:25:26In Hindu mythology, the wife of Shiva and mother of Ganesh and Skanda.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32- No.- That's Parvati.
0:25:32 > 0:25:36And finally, a class of viruses that affects vertebrate animals
0:25:36 > 0:25:40one of which produces the condition known as slapped cheek in humans.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47Come on.
0:25:47 > 0:25:48Don't know.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51Parvovirus. 10 points for this.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54Meaning a dangerous or unstable situation, or a key turning point,
0:25:54 > 0:25:59which six-letter word derives ultimately from the Greek verb "to decide"?
0:26:03 > 0:26:06You may not confer. One of you may buzz. You're not going to buzz...
0:26:06 > 0:26:08- Crisis.- Crisis is correct, yes.
0:26:11 > 0:26:14These bonuses could give you the lead again. They're on opera.
0:26:14 > 0:26:19Name the operas that match the following descriptions and give the composer in each case.
0:26:19 > 0:26:21Firstly, a work performed in 1816
0:26:21 > 0:26:24in which Count Almaviva pursues Rosina.
0:26:26 > 0:26:28- The Barber of Seville. - The Barber of Seville.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31- By?- By Rossini.- Correct.
0:26:31 > 0:26:35Nemorino attempts to win Adina, a wealthy farm owner,
0:26:35 > 0:26:38by means of a substance in the opera's title.
0:26:38 > 0:26:40It was first performed in Milan in 1832.
0:26:43 > 0:26:44It's Verdi.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46Come on, let's have it, please.
0:26:49 > 0:26:52It's Donizetti's The Elixir of Love.
0:26:52 > 0:26:54Finally, an opera first performed in Vienna in 1791
0:26:54 > 0:26:59in which the lovers Tamino and Pamina must endure trials in order to be united.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02- The Magic Flute.- By?- Mozart. - Correct.
0:27:02 > 0:27:0410 points for this. Some people might not know that.
0:27:04 > 0:27:09- I presumed you did!- You obviously did. I did, but not all the audience necessarily do!
0:27:09 > 0:27:1410 points for this. Which historian presented the BBC's annual Reith lectures in 2012?
0:27:14 > 0:27:18Born in Scotland, his works include "The Ascent of Money" and "Civilisation: The West..."
0:27:18 > 0:27:21- Noel McGregor.- No. Anyone...
0:27:21 > 0:27:24- And there was a five-point penalty there.- Niall Ferguson.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26Niall Ferguson is correct, yes.
0:27:28 > 0:27:31These bonuses are on the British army.
0:27:31 > 0:27:33What term is used for a private in the Royal Artillery?
0:27:34 > 0:27:37- Sapper.- No, it's gunner.
0:27:37 > 0:27:42Craftsman is the equivalent rank to private in which corps of the royal army denoted by the abbreviation...
0:27:42 > 0:27:45- GONG - At the gong, Cardiff University have 140,
0:27:45 > 0:27:47Liverpool University have 165.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49APPLAUSE
0:27:55 > 0:27:58Bad luck. You didn't go out... I mean, you knew Jingle Bells!
0:27:58 > 0:28:02Liverpool, we look forward to seeing you again, I would imagine, on 165.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05It's only the four highest-winning scores that go through to the semi-finals,
0:28:05 > 0:28:07but 165 is very good.
0:28:07 > 0:28:10Thank you very much for joining us.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13I hope you can join us next time for another Christmas match.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15- Until then, it's goodbye from Cardiff University...- Goodbye.
0:28:15 > 0:28:18- Goodbye from the team from Liverpool University...- Bye.
0:28:18 > 0:28:20And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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