0:00:21 > 0:00:23Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman!
0:00:28 > 0:00:33Hello. Fourteen teams have accepted our invitation and gamely offered to entertain us
0:00:33 > 0:00:39in this seasonal competition for graduates and teachers from our universities and colleges.
0:00:39 > 0:00:43There are seven matches at this stage of the competition,
0:00:43 > 0:00:47but only the four winning teams with the highest scores go through.
0:00:47 > 0:00:51New College, Oxford's score of 240 has guaranteed them a place there
0:00:51 > 0:00:58and the 165 scored by the University of Liverpool is the one to beat to be sure of joining them.
0:00:58 > 0:01:03Founded in 1871, Newnham College, Cambridge, is a single-sex institution.
0:01:03 > 0:01:08It's represented tonight by the first black woman to take a seat in the House of Commons.
0:01:08 > 0:01:14She teamed up on TV with Michael Portillo to be the most entertaining double act since the Krankies.
0:01:14 > 0:01:21She's joined by an expert on Chinese history and culture. Their captain is another face familiar from TV
0:01:21 > 0:01:29and they're also joined by a former primary school teacher who is now a prolific author. Let's meet them.
0:01:29 > 0:01:34My name is Diane Abbott. I read History at Newnham College.
0:01:34 > 0:01:38I'm now an MP and Shadow Public Health Minister.
0:01:38 > 0:01:43Hello. I'm Frances Wood. I studied Chinese at Newnham, graduating in 1971.
0:01:43 > 0:01:47I'm a curator of the Chinese collections in the British Library.
0:01:47 > 0:01:54- Their captain...- Hello. I'm Rosemary Leonard. I graduated in Medicine in 1980. I'm a GP in South London
0:01:54 > 0:01:57and I'm the doctor on the sofa on BBC Breakfast.
0:01:57 > 0:02:03Hello. I'm Deborah Chancellor. I studied Modern and Medieval Languages in the mid-1980s
0:02:03 > 0:02:06and now I'm a children's writer.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08APPLAUSE
0:02:11 > 0:02:16The University of Nottingham is anything but single sex. It's notorious for it!
0:02:16 > 0:02:19Nevertheless, it is represented by four men.
0:02:19 > 0:02:27One has a surname familiar from many a high street and has a CBE for services to the retail sector.
0:02:27 > 0:02:32He's joined by the holder of the world record for the number of snails held on the face.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34He's also an ecologist and broadcaster.
0:02:34 > 0:02:40Their captain is a clinical psychologist and author of works such as Affluenza.
0:02:40 > 0:02:45And their fourth is one of the very few people to play rugby for England
0:02:45 > 0:02:50while also having a qualification in nail manicure. Let's say hello to them.
0:02:50 > 0:02:55I'm John Timpson. I studied Industrial Economics and graduated in 1964.
0:02:55 > 0:03:01These days I'm chairman of a family chain of shoe repair and key-cutting shops.
0:03:01 > 0:03:06My name's Mike Dilger. I graduated in Botany in 1988 with a 2:2.
0:03:06 > 0:03:10I got a First in socialising, but can't put that down on my CV.
0:03:10 > 0:03:14I'm a wildlife reporter on The One Show and a natural history expert.
0:03:14 > 0:03:22- And their captain... - I'm Oliver James. I studied Child Clinical Psychology in 1979.
0:03:22 > 0:03:29The only thing I've done since then that anybody noticed was to make Peter Mandelson shed a tear on TV.
0:03:30 > 0:03:36I'm Brian Moore. I work in sports media and graduated from Nottingham in 1984
0:03:36 > 0:03:40with a joint honours degree in Law, Plagiarism and Photocopying.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42APPLAUSE
0:03:46 > 0:03:52I'll remind you of the rules. Starter questions are answered individually on the buzzer.
0:03:52 > 0:03:57Interrupt a starter incorrectly, you get a five-point penalty.
0:03:57 > 0:04:03Bonus questions are team efforts. You can collaborate on those. They're worth 15 points.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05Here's your first starter for ten.
0:04:05 > 0:04:11Christmas Day, 1950, saw the removal by four Scottish students of what object from...
0:04:11 > 0:04:14- The Stone of Scone.- Correct.
0:04:16 > 0:04:20You get the first set of bonuses. They're on pantomime.
0:04:20 > 0:04:26Originally called Ching-Mustapha, which pantomime character was also formerly known by names
0:04:26 > 0:04:29including Wee-Ping and Chow-Chow?
0:04:30 > 0:04:33Wishy-Washy?
0:04:33 > 0:04:35- Wishy-Washy?- No, Widow Twankey.
0:04:35 > 0:04:41The word Twankey derives from the Chinese name for a popular, but inferior variety of what substance?
0:04:43 > 0:04:45BRIAN: Heroin.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51- Heroin.- Heroin?
0:04:52 > 0:04:57No, it's tea! First published in the UK in the early 18th century,
0:04:57 > 0:05:02which work provided the inspiration for Aladdin and other pantomime stories
0:05:02 > 0:05:05such as Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves?
0:05:06 > 0:05:08No idea.
0:05:10 > 0:05:14- No idea.- The Arabian Nights or The Thousand And One Nights.
0:05:14 > 0:05:1910 points for this starter. Lady Circumference, Mr Prendergast,
0:05:19 > 0:05:25Margot Beste-Chetwynde and Paul Pennyfeather are among the characters in which novel of 1928...
0:05:27 > 0:05:29- Decline and Fall?- Yes.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35These bonuses are on a 19th-century statesman.
0:05:35 > 0:05:40"The Battle of Jena came 20 years after the death of Frederick the Great.
0:05:40 > 0:05:44"The crash will come 20 years after my departure."
0:05:44 > 0:05:49Who said those words in 1895, four years after his dismissal?
0:05:50 > 0:05:52British statesman, is it?
0:05:52 > 0:05:54Is it Gladstone?
0:05:54 > 0:05:57- Gladstone?- It's as good as any.
0:05:57 > 0:06:01- William Gladstone? - No, Otto von Bismarck.
0:06:01 > 0:06:05When first in power in 1863, Bismarck is said to have remarked,
0:06:05 > 0:06:09"The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with..." which country?
0:06:11 > 0:06:15- Must be France.- Got to be France. - No, it hasn't!
0:06:15 > 0:06:19It's got to be Russia. Finally, Bismarck is alleged to have said,
0:06:19 > 0:06:25"If ever there is another war in Europe, it will come out of some damn silly thing in..." which region
0:06:25 > 0:06:28named after a mountain range?
0:06:28 > 0:06:30- The Balkans.- Right. Another starter.
0:06:30 > 0:06:36"A noble dish is a turkey, roast or boiled. A Christmas dinner with the middle classes of this empire
0:06:36 > 0:06:42"would scarcely be Christmas dinner without its turkey." Who wrote this in her book of household manage...
0:06:42 > 0:06:45- Beeton.- Mrs Beeton is correct.
0:06:45 > 0:06:50The first set of bonuses for you, Newnham, are on seasonal poems.
0:06:50 > 0:06:57"Heap on more wood! The wind is chill, let it whistle as it will, we'll keep Christmas merry still."
0:06:57 > 0:07:02These are the opening lines of Christmas In The Olden Time,
0:07:02 > 0:07:07which featured in the epic poem Marmion by which writer?
0:07:08 > 0:07:10Tennyson?
0:07:10 > 0:07:12Tennyson.
0:07:12 > 0:07:18No, it was Sir Walter Scott. The Winter's Come and Snow Storm are works by which English nature poet
0:07:18 > 0:07:25who lived in poverty and died in 1864, having spent 27 years in asylums?
0:07:28 > 0:07:29Clare.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31- John Clare.- Correct.
0:07:31 > 0:07:37Born in Missouri in 1888, which literary figure was the author of The Cultivation of Christmas Trees
0:07:37 > 0:07:44and Journey of the Magi, part of the collection known as the Ariel Poems?
0:07:51 > 0:07:54- Sylvia Plath?- No, it was TS Eliot.
0:07:54 > 0:07:58We're going to take a picture round. You're going to see a word cloud
0:07:58 > 0:08:05featuring words from a traditional Christmas carol. For 10 points, I want the carol's opening words.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12- "Ding dong merrily on high".- Yes!
0:08:15 > 0:08:19Your bonuses are three more word clouds of well-known carols.
0:08:19 > 0:08:24In each case I want the opening words of the carol. Firstly...
0:08:27 > 0:08:31- "Away in a manger". - Correct. Secondly...
0:08:38 > 0:08:43- "Joy to the world". - Yes! And, finally...
0:08:48 > 0:08:53- "The holly and the ivy". - Yes! Well done. 10 points for this.
0:08:53 > 0:08:58In his 1632 dialogue concerning the two chief world systems,
0:08:58 > 0:09:02which natural philosopher described his principle of relativity
0:09:02 > 0:09:08using the example of the relative movement of the cargo on a ship sailing out of Venice?
0:09:10 > 0:09:12Newton?
0:09:12 > 0:09:15Nope. Newnham? One of you buzz.
0:09:17 > 0:09:20- Einstein.- In 1632?!
0:09:20 > 0:09:24I don't think so. Galileo. 10 points for this.
0:09:24 > 0:09:31The Singing Cowboy, Gene Autry, followed his 1949 single success, Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer,
0:09:31 > 0:09:35with a song in 1950 about which other seasonal figure?
0:09:38 > 0:09:40Father Christmas.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42Nope. Newnham? One of you buzz.
0:09:42 > 0:09:46You may not confer! One of you can buzz.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48- Frosty the Snowman?- Yes!
0:09:52 > 0:09:58You're very good on Christmas songs. Your bonuses are on entries in The Portable Flower Garden,
0:09:58 > 0:10:04a work of 1823 by the botanist Bess Kent. In each case, identify the common garden plant or flower
0:10:04 > 0:10:10from the author's description. Firstly, which plant "not only served to grace triumphant brows,
0:10:10 > 0:10:15"mortal and immortal, but was also placed over the houses of sick persons
0:10:15 > 0:10:20"from some superstitious notion of its efficacy"?
0:10:20 > 0:10:25- Laurel.- Yes, bay. "It's connected with the sports of childhood and the pleasures of youth.
0:10:25 > 0:10:31- "It's a favourite with man, woman and child. It is the robin of flowers."- Rose?
0:10:32 > 0:10:35- Daisies?- It'd have to be red.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39- Daisy.- Daisy.- Correct.
0:10:39 > 0:10:45"One of the greatest pests to gardeners and yet it must be acknowledged
0:10:45 > 0:10:52"that this little red and white flower is...beautiful and...would doubtless be a general favourite."
0:10:59 > 0:11:05- Roses?- No, convolvulus or bindweed. 10 points for this. For what do the letters CN stand
0:11:05 > 0:11:10in the international organisation known as the IUCN?
0:11:10 > 0:11:14- Founded in 1948... - Conservation of Nature.- Correct!
0:11:17 > 0:11:23If you hadn't got that, you should lose your job! Your bonuses this time are on Christmas morning.
0:11:23 > 0:11:29If Father Christmas falls down a 5-metre chimney, starting from rest,
0:11:29 > 0:11:36where acceleration due to gravity is 10 metres per second squared, in metres, what's his final velocity?
0:11:38 > 0:11:42- Could you repeat?- No.- OK.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53- Don't know.- 5,000?
0:11:53 > 0:11:565,000?! No, it's 10.
0:11:56 > 0:12:01Viewers will be relieved to know that Father Christmas landed safely in a pile of soot.
0:12:01 > 0:12:06Weighing 100 kilograms, he now re-climbs the 5-metre chimney.
0:12:06 > 0:12:11What, in joules, is the work he expends in climbing it?
0:12:11 > 0:12:14- One. - It's 100 times five.
0:12:14 > 0:12:17Isn't it 500 or something like that?
0:12:17 > 0:12:20- 500?- No, that was 5,000 joules.
0:12:20 > 0:12:26Finally, having remounted his sleigh, he departs by accelerating from rest to 30 metres per second
0:12:26 > 0:12:31in two seconds. What acceleration does he experience, in units of G?
0:12:34 > 0:12:36Two G?
0:12:36 > 0:12:38- Two?- No, it's 1.5.
0:12:38 > 0:12:4510 points for this. Christmas Day in the year 800 saw the coronation in Rome of which historical figure
0:12:45 > 0:12:48as Emperor of the Romans?
0:12:49 > 0:12:53You may not confer. One of you may buzz.
0:12:56 > 0:13:01- Constantine?- Nope. One of you buzz from Newnham.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07- Charlemagne?- Charlemagne is correct.
0:13:10 > 0:13:14These bonuses are on the stage works of George Bernard Shaw.
0:13:14 > 0:13:19Described as "a paradoxical version of the Don Juan story",
0:13:19 > 0:13:24in which play by Shaw is John Tanner pursued by Ann Whitefield?
0:13:33 > 0:13:37- Major Barbara? - No, it's Man and Superman.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40In The Beginning: BC 4004
0:13:40 > 0:13:44and As Far As Thought Can Reach: AD 31,920
0:13:44 > 0:13:50are the first and last in which series of five plays by Shaw?
0:13:57 > 0:13:59Play...
0:14:01 > 0:14:06- I can't remember. - I don't know.
0:14:06 > 0:14:11- Plays Serious and Unserious? - No, Back To Methuselah. Which play
0:14:11 > 0:14:16examines the conflict between a Salvation Army officer and her father, an armaments manufacturer?
0:14:16 > 0:14:18- Major Barbara.- Correct.
0:14:18 > 0:14:23We're going to take a music round now. You will hear an excerpt from an opera.
0:14:23 > 0:14:2510 points for the British composer.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28# Let me, let me
0:14:28 > 0:14:33# Let me freeze again... #
0:14:34 > 0:14:36Britten?
0:14:36 > 0:14:39No. Nottingham, you can hear a bit more.
0:14:39 > 0:14:45# Let me, let me freeze again to death
0:14:45 > 0:14:48# Let me, let me
0:14:48 > 0:14:56# Let me freeze again to death... #
0:14:57 > 0:15:00You may not confer. One of you may buzz.
0:15:00 > 0:15:04You all look a bit blank. OK, I'll tell you. It's Purcell.
0:15:04 > 0:15:08Music bonuses shortly. Ten points for this starter question.
0:15:08 > 0:15:12What rank in the British Army links a period of direct military government
0:15:12 > 0:15:17during Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate with a patter song in Gilbert and Sullivan's...
0:15:17 > 0:15:20- Major-General.- Yes.
0:15:22 > 0:15:28A moment ago, we heard the Song Of Cold Genius from The Frost Scene in Purcell's opera King Arthur.
0:15:28 > 0:15:32For your bonuses, three more pieces of music with a winter theme.
0:15:32 > 0:15:36For each piece, I want the name of the composer. Firstly...
0:15:36 > 0:15:38CLASSICAL PIANO MUSIC
0:15:45 > 0:15:47WHISPERING
0:16:10 > 0:16:14- Saint-Saens?- Nominate Moore.- No, it's Debussy's The Snow Is Dancing.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17Secondly, the family name of this composer?
0:16:17 > 0:16:20LIVELY CLASSICAL PIECE
0:16:27 > 0:16:33- Strauss.- Correct, yes, that's Winterlust, Polka Schnell. And finally...?
0:16:33 > 0:16:35CLASSICAL PIANO MUSIC
0:16:43 > 0:16:45WHISPERING
0:16:48 > 0:16:53- We think it's Chopin. - It is Chopin, yes, his Winter Wind. Right, ten points for this.
0:16:53 > 0:16:58What given name links a cousin of Jane Eyre in the novel by Charlotte Bronte,
0:16:58 > 0:17:02the only "plain" Bennet daughter in Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice
0:17:02 > 0:17:08and the daughter of a trade unionist, the title character of an 1848 novel by Elizabeth Gaskell?
0:17:11 > 0:17:15- Emma.- No. Anyone like to buzz from Newnham? You may not confer!
0:17:16 > 0:17:18- Mary.- Mary is correct, yes.
0:17:22 > 0:17:26Your bonuses are on English history this time, Newnham.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29Killed by the Danes in 1012 after he refused to be ransomed,
0:17:29 > 0:17:36Alphege is generally held to be the first holder of which ecclesiastical office to die a violent death?
0:17:36 > 0:17:38WHISPERING
0:17:41 > 0:17:43- Archbishop of Canterbury?- Correct.
0:17:43 > 0:17:49Simon of Sudbury became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1375 and later Chancellor of England.
0:17:49 > 0:17:55Believed to be responsible for the third poll tax, he was beheaded by rebels during which disturbance?
0:17:58 > 0:18:00- Peasants' Revolt.- Correct.
0:18:00 > 0:18:06Archbishop William Laud, an ally of the Earl of Strafford and a persecutor of the Puritans,
0:18:06 > 0:18:11was executed for high treason following an act of attainder passed during which decade?
0:18:17 > 0:18:19Guess?
0:18:21 > 0:18:24WHISPERING
0:18:24 > 0:18:28- 1590s.- No, it was the 1640s. Ten points for this.
0:18:28 > 0:18:34Reputed to be the noisiest amphibian in Europe, Epidalea calamita has what common name?
0:18:34 > 0:18:38The smallest and rarest of our two native British toads,
0:18:38 > 0:18:42it's characterised by a thin, bold, yellow dorsal stripe and a tendency...
0:18:42 > 0:18:45- Natterjack toad.- Correct, yes.
0:18:49 > 0:18:54You get bonuses this time on an ungulate mammal, Nottingham.
0:18:54 > 0:18:59Which mammal of the family Cervidae has the binomial Rangifer tarandus?
0:19:01 > 0:19:04Reindeer. Reindeer.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07- Reindeer.- Correct. Reindeer survive on a low-protein diet
0:19:07 > 0:19:13by recycling what specific substance, also known as carbamide, within the digestive system?
0:19:13 > 0:19:18Normally a waste product, the process enables them to make use of its nitrogen.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21I think they recycle their own stools.
0:19:21 > 0:19:27- Nominate Dilger.- They will recycle their own stools.- No, it's urea.
0:19:27 > 0:19:32And finally, according to research published by University College London in 2011,
0:19:32 > 0:19:39reindeer's survival is also due to their ability to see light in what part of the spectrum?
0:19:39 > 0:19:42- I think it's ultraviolet. - Ultraviolet.- Correct.
0:19:42 > 0:19:45We're going to take another picture round.
0:19:45 > 0:19:51For your starter, you'll see a portrait of a prominent historical figure. Ten points for his name.
0:19:58 > 0:20:00Christopher Wren.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03No. One of you buzz...
0:20:03 > 0:20:08- Samuel Pepys? - No, it's Sir Isaac Newton, so we'll take the picture bonuses shortly.
0:20:08 > 0:20:12Fingers on the buzzers. Here's a starter question.
0:20:12 > 0:20:17Officially called Promoter of the Faith, what two-word term is used in the Roman Catholic Church
0:20:17 > 0:20:23for someone appointed to present arguments against a proposed canonisation or beatification?
0:20:29 > 0:20:32- Agent provocateur?- No.
0:20:35 > 0:20:38One of you like to buzz from Newnham?
0:20:38 > 0:20:42I'll tell you. It's the Devil's Advocate. Ten points for this.
0:20:42 > 0:20:48Ultimately from a Latin term meaning "born", what given name links Streatfeild, Fielding and...
0:20:48 > 0:20:50- Noel.- Noel is right, yes.
0:20:52 > 0:20:56After that excursion, we return to the picture round.
0:20:56 > 0:21:02Sir Isaac Newton, whose picture you saw, was born on Christmas Day 1642 according to the Julian calendar.
0:21:02 > 0:21:07For your bonuses, you'll see portraits of three noted and somewhat disparate figures,
0:21:07 > 0:21:09all born on the 25th of December.
0:21:09 > 0:21:13Five points for each one you can identify. Firstly...?
0:21:16 > 0:21:18Anwar Sadat.
0:21:18 > 0:21:20WHISPERING
0:21:22 > 0:21:28- Nominate Wood.- Anwar Sadat? - It is Anwar Sadat. A terrible likeness, isn't it?
0:21:28 > 0:21:30Secondly, this literary figure?
0:21:37 > 0:21:39WHISPERING
0:21:40 > 0:21:44- Nominate Wood again.- Harriet Beecher Stowe.- No, it's Dorothy Wordsworth.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46And finally, who's this?
0:21:46 > 0:21:49- Quentin Crisp.- Quentin Crisp. - Correct.
0:21:49 > 0:21:54Ten points for this. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the Sunda Trench
0:21:54 > 0:22:00and island nations including the Comoros, Mauritius and the Maldives all lie in which ocean?
0:22:01 > 0:22:03- The Indian Ocean.- Correct.
0:22:03 > 0:22:08Your bonuses, Nottingham, are on major cities of China.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10Name the city from the description.
0:22:10 > 0:22:15To make it easier, all three end with "joe", written Z-H-O-U.
0:22:15 > 0:22:20A provincial capital, firstly, around 200 kilometres south of Shanghai?
0:22:20 > 0:22:25From the early 12th century, it was the capital of the Southern Sung Dynasty.
0:22:25 > 0:22:28Is it Guangzhou?
0:22:28 > 0:22:31- Guangzhou?- No, it's Hangzhou.
0:22:31 > 0:22:37Secondly, a city on the upper course of the Yellow River, around 1,200 kilometres south-west of Beijing?
0:22:37 > 0:22:40It's the capital of Gansu province.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44WHISPERING
0:22:47 > 0:22:51- Yangzhou.- No, it's Lanzhou.
0:22:51 > 0:22:56Finally, a major city of South China situated on the Pearl River Estuary
0:22:56 > 0:23:00around 100 kilometres north of Hong Kong and formerly known as Canton?
0:23:02 > 0:23:04Just make one up.
0:23:04 > 0:23:07- London Zhou. - LAUGHTER
0:23:08 > 0:23:11It's Guangzhou.
0:23:11 > 0:23:16There's about five minutes to go and there are ten points for this starter question.
0:23:16 > 0:23:19In 1993, to which weapon was Boris Yeltsin referring
0:23:19 > 0:23:24when he said that you can make a throne from them, but you can't sit on it for long?
0:23:26 > 0:23:31- Cruise?- No. Anyone like to buzz from Newnham? You may not confer.
0:23:38 > 0:23:42- Cobbles?- No, it's bayonets. Ten points for this.
0:23:42 > 0:23:46What short noun links Crow, Ghost and Famished
0:23:46 > 0:23:50in the titles of novels by Iain Banks, Pat Barker and Ben Okri?
0:23:51 > 0:23:54- Road.- Road is correct, yes.
0:23:56 > 0:24:01For your bonuses, identify the following novels by F Scott Fitzgerald
0:24:01 > 0:24:05from the summary on the back of the Penguin Modern Classics edition.
0:24:05 > 0:24:11Firstly, "To the just fashionable French Riviera come Dick and Nicole Diver - handsome, rich..."
0:24:11 > 0:24:14- Tender Is The Night.- Correct. Secondly,
0:24:14 > 0:24:19"Slick-talking, snappily dressed Amory Blaine is also a very smart thinker and he knows it,
0:24:19 > 0:24:23"granting himself magnetism, personality and poise,
0:24:23 > 0:24:26"power over men and the gift of fascinating all women."
0:24:26 > 0:24:30- Is it The Great Gatsby? - No, it's not.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32WHISPERING
0:24:39 > 0:24:44- We'll say The Great Gatsby, but we don't think it is. - No, it's This Side Of Paradise.
0:24:44 > 0:24:50"Some said he had been a German spy, others that he was related to one of Europe's royal families.
0:24:50 > 0:24:53- "Nearly everyone took..." - That is The Great Gatsby.
0:24:53 > 0:24:55Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:24:55 > 0:25:00If the initial letters of each month of the year are written in chronological order,
0:25:00 > 0:25:03which five-letter boys' name is spelled out...
0:25:03 > 0:25:06- Jason.- Jason is correct, yes.
0:25:07 > 0:25:13From July to November. Your bonuses this time are on the names of countries that become another word
0:25:13 > 0:25:18by the substitution of the initial letter. For example, "Niger" and "tiger".
0:25:18 > 0:25:22In each case, give both words from the descriptions.
0:25:22 > 0:25:26Firstly, a large country of western Europe and a half-conscious state
0:25:26 > 0:25:30in which one does not respond to external stimuli?
0:25:30 > 0:25:33WHISPERING
0:25:37 > 0:25:40- France and trance.- Correct.
0:25:40 > 0:25:45Secondly, a Middle Eastern country and husks of grain sometimes consumed as a breakfast cereal
0:25:45 > 0:25:47to alleviate constipation?
0:25:47 > 0:25:49WHISPERING
0:25:52 > 0:25:55- Iran.- Iran and bran.- Correct.
0:25:55 > 0:26:01Finally, a landlocked country in the Himalayas and a leaf-like part of the calyx of a flower?
0:26:01 > 0:26:03Petal...
0:26:03 > 0:26:05Petal and Nepal.
0:26:05 > 0:26:10- No, sepal.- Sepal.- Sepal and Nepal. I have to accept your first answer, so we can't take that.
0:26:10 > 0:26:14Ten points for this. Of the British Prime Ministers since 1721,
0:26:14 > 0:26:17who is the only one to have served under three monarchs?
0:26:17 > 0:26:22His final term of office coincided with the abdication crisis of 1936.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31- Baldwin.- Baldwin it is, of course, right, yes.
0:26:33 > 0:26:36These bonuses are on New Year celebrations, Nottingham.
0:26:36 > 0:26:42In India's Gujarat state, New Year is celebrated the day after which festival, particularly associated
0:26:42 > 0:26:46with Lakshmi, the goddess of prosperity?
0:26:47 > 0:26:48Diwali?
0:26:48 > 0:26:54- Diwali?- Correct. In Greece, January the 1st is also the feast day of which saint,
0:26:54 > 0:26:57one of the forefathers of the Greek Orthodox Church?
0:27:05 > 0:27:08- Don't know.- It's St Basil.
0:27:08 > 0:27:14Finally, a tradition since 1907, the New Year's Eve Ball Drop is staged at which New York City venue,
0:27:14 > 0:27:20and since 2008 has involved a geodesic sphere weighing almost 12,000 pounds?
0:27:22 > 0:27:24WHISPERING
0:27:28 > 0:27:31- Carnegie Hall.- No, it's Times Square. Ten points for this.
0:27:31 > 0:27:35In music, a continually repeated phrase or rhythm
0:27:35 > 0:27:39is known by what single word, the Italian for "stubborn"?
0:27:39 > 0:27:41- Staccato?- No.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43One of you buzz, Newnham?
0:27:43 > 0:27:47I'll tell you. It's ostinato. Ten points for this.
0:27:47 > 0:27:54The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive are among the films of which director born in 1946?
0:27:55 > 0:27:59- Lynch.- David Lynch is right, yes. Your bonuses this time...
0:27:59 > 0:28:05- GONG - At the gong, Nottingham University have 110, Newnham College have 155.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08APPLAUSE
0:28:11 > 0:28:17The questions didn't fall right for you, Nottingham, but London Zhou was a brilliant piece of inspiration.
0:28:17 > 0:28:22Newnham, 155, I don't know whether you'll be one of the teams to come back in the semi-finals,
0:28:22 > 0:28:25but you could well be, so many congratulations to you.
0:28:25 > 0:28:32- Join us next time for another first round match. But until then, it's goodbye from Nottingham.- Goodbye.
0:28:32 > 0:28:36- Goodbye from Newnham College, Cambridge.- Goodbye. - And it's goodbye from me.
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