0:00:16 > 0:00:18APPLAUSE
0:00:18 > 0:00:20Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:20 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:24 > 0:00:25APPLAUSE CONTINUES
0:00:28 > 0:00:30Hello. Tonight it's the penultimate first round match
0:00:30 > 0:00:33in this Christmas series for the graduates and staff
0:00:33 > 0:00:36of some of the UK's leading universities.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39Only the four winning teams with the highest scores will progress
0:00:39 > 0:00:42to the next stage of the competition, so we already know
0:00:42 > 0:00:46that New College Oxford and Liverpool University are through.
0:00:46 > 0:00:47To be sure of a place for themselves,
0:00:47 > 0:00:51tonight's winners will have to get a score of 155 or more.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54Of the four representing the University of Exeter,
0:00:54 > 0:00:58the first trained as a scientist and worked for the NSPCC and NHS
0:00:58 > 0:01:00before taking his present job.
0:01:00 > 0:01:02He's joined by a member of the Exeter staff
0:01:02 > 0:01:05working in the UK's leading research centre in its field.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08Their captain began his career as a child actor.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10After graduating, he turned to script writing
0:01:10 > 0:01:11and he's now an author.
0:01:11 > 0:01:15And finally, a journalist whose Digested Read newspaper column
0:01:15 > 0:01:17has provided so many of us
0:01:17 > 0:01:20with that appearance of knowledge so necessary on a programme like this.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22Let's say hello to them.
0:01:23 > 0:01:24Hi, I'm Martin Crewe,
0:01:24 > 0:01:28I graduated in geology from Exeter University in 1981
0:01:28 > 0:01:32and then did a PhD in geochemistry in 1986.
0:01:32 > 0:01:36I'm now director of the children's charity Barnardo's Scotland.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38Hi, I'm Christine Allison
0:01:38 > 0:01:41and I hold the Ibrahim Ahmed chair of Kurdish studies
0:01:41 > 0:01:44in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at Exeter.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46And their captain.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49I'm John O Farrell, I graduated from Exeter
0:01:49 > 0:01:52in English and drama in 1983 and I'm now a writer.
0:01:54 > 0:01:55And I'm John Crace.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59I graduated from Exeter University in politics in 1979
0:01:59 > 0:02:02and I'm now a writer and a columnist for the Guardian.
0:02:02 > 0:02:04APPLAUSE
0:02:07 > 0:02:11Now, playing them is the team from the University of Glasgow.
0:02:11 > 0:02:13Their line-up includes the former medical director
0:02:13 > 0:02:15of Glasgow Royal Infirmary
0:02:15 > 0:02:18and Director of Public Health for the Glasgow Health Board.
0:02:18 > 0:02:21Next to him, a native Glaswegian, of whom it's been said
0:02:21 > 0:02:24she can wring humour out of a chicken and bacon bake.
0:02:24 > 0:02:28Their captain is a former journalist, whose television career
0:02:28 > 0:02:31took off with a series about British battlefields.
0:02:31 > 0:02:34And they're joined by the doyenne of consumer broadcasting.
0:02:34 > 0:02:36Let's ask them to introduce themselves.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38Hi, I'm Harry Burns.
0:02:38 > 0:02:42I graduated in medicine from Glasgow University in 1974
0:02:42 > 0:02:45and I'm now Chief Medical Officer for Scotland.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47Hello, I'm Susan Calman
0:02:47 > 0:02:50and I graduated with a degree in law in 1996
0:02:50 > 0:02:51from the University of Glasgow
0:02:51 > 0:02:55and then I gave it all up to be a stand-up comedian.
0:02:55 > 0:02:56And their captain.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58Hello, I'm Neil Oliver.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01I graduated from Glasgow University in 1988
0:03:01 > 0:03:02with a degree in archaeology
0:03:02 > 0:03:05and now I'm a writer and television presenter.
0:03:05 > 0:03:07And I'm Lynn Faulds Wood
0:03:07 > 0:03:11and I graduated in French and Spanish sometime in the last century,
0:03:11 > 0:03:15and I'm now a TV consumer watchdog and cancer campaigner.
0:03:15 > 0:03:19APPLAUSE
0:03:21 > 0:03:24OK, I guess you all know the rules, but I'll just remind you,
0:03:24 > 0:03:26starter questions are worth ten points.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29They must be answered individually on the buzzer.
0:03:29 > 0:03:31If you interrupt a starter question incorrectly,
0:03:31 > 0:03:33you get a five point penalty.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36Bonus questions are worth 15 points
0:03:36 > 0:03:38and you can collaborate on all of those.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41OK, fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:03:41 > 0:03:45What word of four letters begins words with the following meanings?
0:03:45 > 0:03:48An alternative name for the tropical Asian plant, taro,
0:03:48 > 0:03:50the forename of the US author
0:03:50 > 0:03:54who created the detective couple, Nick and Nora Charles,
0:03:54 > 0:03:56the name of one of Santa's reindeer
0:03:56 > 0:03:59and the opening word of Jingle Bells?
0:04:06 > 0:04:08- Dash?- Dash is correct, yes.
0:04:08 > 0:04:10APPLAUSE
0:04:12 > 0:04:15Right, the first set of bonuses, Glasgow, are on a Christmas hymn.
0:04:15 > 0:04:18Which Christmas Carol is based on an element of the nativity story
0:04:18 > 0:04:22found only in Luke's gospel and in the early 18th century
0:04:22 > 0:04:26was the only Christian hymn to be authorised by the Church of England?
0:04:26 > 0:04:29THEY CONFER
0:04:31 > 0:04:33- We'll pass. - You could've taken a guess.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35It's While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38Secondly, known for his re-workings of the plays of Shakespeare,
0:04:38 > 0:04:40which Irish-born playwright and poet laureate
0:04:40 > 0:04:44wrote the words of While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks?
0:04:46 > 0:04:47No idea.
0:04:47 > 0:04:51Any Irish poet. Have a go.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53- Any Irish poet.- Quick. - Just any other.
0:04:53 > 0:04:56- Any Irish poet. Name an Irish poet. - Throw me a bone.- Joyce.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58- Joyce.- James Joyce.
0:04:58 > 0:05:03Full marks for unlikeliness! No, it is Nahum Tate.
0:05:03 > 0:05:07And which cathedral city in the south of England gives its name
0:05:07 > 0:05:09to the setting to which the hymn is usually sung in the UK?
0:05:09 > 0:05:11THEY CONFER
0:05:13 > 0:05:15- THEY GIGGLE No idea.- No?
0:05:15 > 0:05:18- We're moving on.- Say Joyce again.
0:05:18 > 0:05:21I'm not saying Joyce again. We're passing and we're moving on.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24- Oh...- Too late, you could've guessed any cathedral city,
0:05:24 > 0:05:26but it was Winchester. ten points for this.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29What beverage links the flower associated
0:05:29 > 0:05:31with the Tunisian revolution of 2010,
0:05:31 > 0:05:34the Prime Minister at the time of the Great Reform Act
0:05:34 > 0:05:36and a hill station in north-east...
0:05:38 > 0:05:40I was going to say Earl Grey.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45And a hill station in North East India?
0:05:45 > 0:05:47THEY CONFER
0:05:47 > 0:05:49You may not confer, one of you may buzz!
0:05:51 > 0:05:53- Tea.- Tea is correct, yes.
0:05:53 > 0:05:58Earl Grey was one of the identifying remarks earlier,
0:05:58 > 0:06:01but, no, it's Jasmine, Earl Grey and Darjeeling are all types of tea.
0:06:01 > 0:06:04Your bonuses are on the shipping forecast, Glasgow. In each case,
0:06:04 > 0:06:07give the name of the sea area named after the following.
0:06:07 > 0:06:12Firstly, the body of water known in French as the Golfe de Gascogne?
0:06:12 > 0:06:15- Er, Biscay.- Biscay.- Biscay. - Correct.
0:06:15 > 0:06:17Secondly, the rivers whose tributaries include the rivers
0:06:17 > 0:06:20Inni, Sac and Brosna?
0:06:21 > 0:06:23No idea.
0:06:23 > 0:06:24THEY WHISPER
0:06:26 > 0:06:28- Barrone.- No, it's Shannon.
0:06:28 > 0:06:33And finally, the island group whose main town is Torshavn?
0:06:33 > 0:06:36- Faroe.- You have to...- Sorry, Faroe. - Faroe.
0:06:36 > 0:06:38Faroes is correct, yes. Ten points for this.
0:06:38 > 0:06:40Which fourth century Bishop of Myra
0:06:40 > 0:06:43had a reputation as a miracle worker,
0:06:43 > 0:06:47including raising to life three boys after they were murdered...
0:06:47 > 0:06:49- St Nicholas.- Correct.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51APPLAUSE
0:06:51 > 0:06:56These bonuses, Exeter, your first set are on Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker.
0:06:56 > 0:06:58Tchaikovsky's score for the Nutcracker,
0:06:58 > 0:07:00particularly The Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy,
0:07:00 > 0:07:03is noted for its use of which percussion instrument,
0:07:03 > 0:07:06the sound of which resembles that of a glockenspiel?
0:07:06 > 0:07:08THEY WHISPER
0:07:08 > 0:07:09Any ideas?
0:07:11 > 0:07:14What's like a glockenspiel?
0:07:15 > 0:07:17Er... tubular bell?
0:07:17 > 0:07:20BUZZER Oh, sorry. Tubular bells?
0:07:20 > 0:07:24- We were guessing tubular bells... - No, it's a celeste.- OK.
0:07:24 > 0:07:25Secondly for five points,
0:07:25 > 0:07:27try to answer through your captain if you can.
0:07:27 > 0:07:31- I'm sorry.- The 2010 film The Nutcracker In 3D
0:07:31 > 0:07:33turned ETA Hoffmann's original children's story
0:07:33 > 0:07:38into a dystopian fantasy and was the work of which Russian-born director?
0:07:38 > 0:07:40Russian-born directors.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42- (When was it?)- 2010.
0:07:43 > 0:07:47Um... Any Russian-born directors?
0:07:47 > 0:07:49HE LAUGHS
0:07:49 > 0:07:51Can we phone a friend please, Jeremy?
0:07:51 > 0:07:54- No.- No, we don't know. - It's Andrei Konchalovsky.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57And finally, Nutcracker! with an exclamation mark,
0:07:57 > 0:07:58which premiered in 1992
0:07:58 > 0:08:02is a ballet created by which director and choreographer?
0:08:03 > 0:08:05Director and choreographer?
0:08:05 > 0:08:07- Matthew Bourne? - Yes, let's go for that.
0:08:07 > 0:08:09- Matthew Bourne .- Correct.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12Right, we're going to take a picture around now.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14For your picture starter, you'll see a map
0:08:14 > 0:08:16showing the location of a popular ski resort.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18For ten points, please name the resort.
0:08:22 > 0:08:23THEY CONFER
0:08:26 > 0:08:28Zermatt.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30Anyone like to buzz from Glasgow?
0:08:30 > 0:08:33- Chamonix.- No, it's Saas Fee.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35So, picture bonuses shortly, fingers on the buzzers,
0:08:35 > 0:08:37here's another starter question.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40In chapter one, or stage one of Dickens' A Christmas Carol,
0:08:40 > 0:08:43Scrooge displays such fury that he causes a carol singer
0:08:43 > 0:08:47to flee in terror after singing which traditional song?
0:08:49 > 0:08:52- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen?- Correct.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54APPLAUSE
0:08:55 > 0:08:58So the place we were looking for in the first starter question
0:08:58 > 0:09:01on the picture round was Saas Fee.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03It was used as a location for the Bond film
0:09:03 > 0:09:05On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
0:09:05 > 0:09:08For your bonuses, you'll see a map showing three more ski resorts
0:09:08 > 0:09:11that were locations for Bond films.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14For each one, simply name the resort. Firstly...
0:09:17 > 0:09:20THEY CONFER
0:09:20 > 0:09:23- Go for it. Chamonix.- Chamonix. - We're going to go Chamonix.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26Yes, it was Chamonix, which featured in The World Is Not Enough.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28Secondly...
0:09:30 > 0:09:34- Don't know.- No ideas? - Absolutely no idea.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36THEY WHISPER
0:09:37 > 0:09:41- Pass.- That's Cortina, which featured in For Your Eyes Only.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44And finally where's this one, please?
0:09:45 > 0:09:47That's Switzerland...
0:09:47 > 0:09:49THEY WHISPER
0:09:49 > 0:09:53- Is that Zermatt? - Zermatt?- Is that Zermatt?
0:09:53 > 0:09:55- Zermatt.- No, that's St Moritz,
0:09:55 > 0:09:57which was the setting for The Spy Who Loved Me.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59Right, ten points for this.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01"If there were a verb meaning to believe falsely,
0:10:01 > 0:10:05"it would not have any significant first person present indicative."
0:10:05 > 0:10:08These are the words of which Austrian-born philosopher
0:10:08 > 0:10:12in the 1953 work, Philosophical Investigations?
0:10:13 > 0:10:15- Wittgenstein.- Yes.
0:10:15 > 0:10:17APPLAUSE
0:10:18 > 0:10:22Right, your bonuses this time, Glasgow, are on shorter words
0:10:22 > 0:10:25that can be made using any of the eight letters of the word Hogmanay.
0:10:25 > 0:10:29In each case, give the word from the definition.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32Firstly, a traditional Japanese masked drama,
0:10:32 > 0:10:34which evolved from Shinto rites?
0:10:34 > 0:10:35THEY CONFER
0:10:42 > 0:10:45- I can't remember.- I just can't remember. No.- Pass, pass.
0:10:45 > 0:10:48- It was noh. - THEY LAUGH
0:10:48 > 0:10:52Secondly, gracula religiosa a crow-like South Asian bird,
0:10:52 > 0:10:55noted for its ability to mimic the human voice?
0:10:55 > 0:10:57THEY CONFER
0:10:59 > 0:11:01A mynah? Mynah, isn't it?
0:11:01 > 0:11:03THEY TALK INAUDIBLY
0:11:03 > 0:11:05- I've given up.- Er...- Mynah.
0:11:05 > 0:11:07Mynah is correct.
0:11:07 > 0:11:10And finally, the name given by the Romans to Anglesey?
0:11:12 > 0:11:14Er... Mona.
0:11:14 > 0:11:15Mona is correct, yes.
0:11:15 > 0:11:17- APPLAUSE - Right, ten points for this.
0:11:17 > 0:11:20The process in which bubbles of vapour are formed
0:11:20 > 0:11:23due to the saturated vapour pressure of a liquid being equal
0:11:23 > 0:11:24to the external pressure,
0:11:24 > 0:11:27usually due to the presence of heat, is known...
0:11:28 > 0:11:31- Boiling.- Yes. - APPLAUSE
0:11:33 > 0:11:37Right, your bonuses this time, Glasgow, are on pound coins.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40The most common motto on the edge of pound coins is the Latin
0:11:40 > 0:11:44"decus et tutamen" taken from Virgil's Iliad.
0:11:44 > 0:11:46What do the words mean?
0:11:46 > 0:11:48THEY WHISPER
0:11:57 > 0:12:00- We don't know.- They mean "an ornament and a safeguard."
0:12:00 > 0:12:02Secondly, appearing on the edge of some pound coins,
0:12:02 > 0:12:04the motto of the Order Of The Thistle,
0:12:04 > 0:12:08"Nemo me impune lacessit" means what in English?
0:12:08 > 0:12:10"None shall touch me with impunity."
0:12:10 > 0:12:12"No-one provokes me with impunity", correct, yes.
0:12:12 > 0:12:15Appearing on the edge of some pound coins minted in 2011,
0:12:15 > 0:12:20"Nisi dominus frustra" is the motto of which British city?
0:12:22 > 0:12:24THEY CONFER
0:12:27 > 0:12:31- Canterbury?- Yes, say Canterbury. - Canterbury.
0:12:31 > 0:12:34- No, it's the motto of Edinburgh. - Oh...- Ten points for this.
0:12:34 > 0:12:36Listen carefully. If Father Christmas,
0:12:36 > 0:12:39who weighs 100 kilograms, wishes to move a sack of toys
0:12:39 > 0:12:44weighing one metric ton using a lever pivoted about a fulcrum,
0:12:44 > 0:12:49what should be the ratio of his distance to the fulcrum...
0:12:49 > 0:12:50Ten to one.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52Ten to one is correct, yes.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54APPLAUSE
0:12:54 > 0:12:58Your bonuses, Glasgow, this time are on the solar system.
0:12:58 > 0:13:02In each case, name the planet whose minor moons include the following...
0:13:02 > 0:13:09Firstly, Themisto, Adrastea, Pasiphae, Leda and Himalia?
0:13:09 > 0:13:12- (Neptune.)- Neptune.
0:13:12 > 0:13:13- Neptune.- No, it's Jupiter.
0:13:13 > 0:13:17Secondly, Sycorax, Prospero, Margaret, Perdita and Mab?
0:13:17 > 0:13:19HE MOUTHS SILENTLY
0:13:19 > 0:13:23- Try it.- Try Neptune. - Neptune again.- No, it's Uranus.
0:13:23 > 0:13:27And finally, Skoll, Fenrir, Atlas, Pandora and Pan?
0:13:27 > 0:13:31- Neptune.- Neptune! - We're going to try Neptune again.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34Well, you'd be wrong again, it's Saturn. Ten points for this,
0:13:34 > 0:13:36in which novel of 1913 does Gertrude Coppard
0:13:36 > 0:13:40meet her future husband at a Christmas party,
0:13:40 > 0:13:42marry him the following Christmas
0:13:42 > 0:13:44and bear him a son the Christmas after?
0:13:46 > 0:13:47THEY WHISPER
0:13:47 > 0:13:50You may not confer, one of you may buzz.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54It's Lawrence's Sons Snd Lovers.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57Ten points for this. For what do the initials IMO stand
0:13:57 > 0:14:00when indicating the name of the specialised agency
0:14:00 > 0:14:01of the United Nations
0:14:01 > 0:14:06that deals with matters pertaining to global shipping?
0:14:06 > 0:14:09- International Maritime Organisation. - Correct.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11Right, your bonuses this time, Glasgow,
0:14:11 > 0:14:13are on linked novel titles.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16In each case, identify the novel from the description.
0:14:16 > 0:14:20Firstly, a novel of 2004 by Orhan Pamuk in which a journalist
0:14:20 > 0:14:22visits the city of Caas in Eastern Anatolia
0:14:22 > 0:14:25in order to cover both the local elections
0:14:25 > 0:14:28and the suicide epidemic there among the young women?
0:14:28 > 0:14:30THEY CONFER
0:14:30 > 0:14:33- No idea.- No answers?- No.- No. - We don't know.
0:14:33 > 0:14:38It's Snow. A novel of 1992 by the Danish author Peter Hoeg
0:14:38 > 0:14:40in which a Greenlander investigates the death
0:14:40 > 0:14:44of a boy who has fallen from an apartment roof in Copenhagen?
0:14:44 > 0:14:46- Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow.- Correct.
0:14:46 > 0:14:50A novel of 1994 by the US author David Guterson that tells the story
0:14:50 > 0:14:53of a Japanese-American fisherman accused of murder?
0:14:53 > 0:14:55- Snow Falling On Cedars.- Correct.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57We'll take a music round now.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00For your starter, you'll hear a piece of popular music.
0:15:00 > 0:15:02Ten points if you can name the song.
0:15:02 > 0:15:05BAGPIPE MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:05 > 0:15:08- Mull of Kintyre.- Indeed.
0:15:08 > 0:15:10APPLAUSE
0:15:13 > 0:15:14For your music bonuses,
0:15:14 > 0:15:18we're going to have to sit through three more pieces of bagpipe music.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21Five points for each you can identify. Firstly, this song.
0:15:21 > 0:15:24BAGPIPE MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:29 > 0:15:33- Nominate Allison.- Skye Boat Song. - It is the Skye Boat Song, yes.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35Secondly, the title of this song, please.
0:15:35 > 0:15:39BAGPIPE MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:41 > 0:15:43Nominate Allison.
0:15:43 > 0:15:48You take the high road and I'll take the low road.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51- You take the low road... - I need the title.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54You're giving me the chorus.
0:15:54 > 0:15:55- Loch Lomond.- Loch Lomond,
0:15:55 > 0:15:58The Bonny Banks of Loch Lomond, that's correct.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00And finally, this well-known piece.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03BAGPIPE MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:05 > 0:16:06Scotland the Brave.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09Yes! 10 points for this, listen carefully.
0:16:09 > 0:16:12If Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer's nose radiates light
0:16:12 > 0:16:16with an intensity of 1,000 candelas in all directions,
0:16:16 > 0:16:19what is the total luminous flux of his nose
0:16:19 > 0:16:21in lumens expressed as a multiple of pi?
0:16:26 > 0:16:28- Pi r cubed?- No.
0:16:31 > 0:16:35Pi r squared.
0:16:35 > 0:16:37What time did you stop doing maths?
0:16:37 > 0:16:40It's 4,000. 10 points for this.
0:16:40 > 0:16:42Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:16:42 > 0:16:45Give the dictionary spelling of the semi-soft Italian cheese
0:16:45 > 0:16:47known as mozzarella.
0:16:50 > 0:16:54- M-O-Z-A-R-E-L-L-A.- Stop, no.
0:16:56 > 0:17:01- M-O-Z-Z-A-R-E-L-L-A.- Correct.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04APPLAUSE
0:17:04 > 0:17:07These bonuses are on notable events in the history
0:17:07 > 0:17:11of the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race, Glasgow, and in the world beyond.
0:17:11 > 0:17:13In each case, give the year of the following.
0:17:13 > 0:17:17Firstly, John Stuart Mill published On Liberty,
0:17:17 > 0:17:19Darwin published On The Origin Of Species,
0:17:19 > 0:17:21and the Cambridge boat sank.
0:17:26 > 0:17:31Has to be about 1865 or something.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34- 1865.- No, it's 1859.
0:17:34 > 0:17:37The race was scheduled for March 31st
0:17:37 > 0:17:41but both boats sank and it had to be re-run on April 1st.
0:17:41 > 0:17:43The Titanic sank 13 days later.
0:17:43 > 0:17:45- 1912.- Correct.
0:17:45 > 0:17:48The Prince of Wales married Diana Spencer on July 29th
0:17:48 > 0:17:51and Sue Brown became the first woman to participate in the race
0:17:51 > 0:17:54steering Oxford to victory in so doing.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00- 1985.- No, its 1981. 10 points for this.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03At the 2012 Olympics, the IOC executive board
0:18:03 > 0:18:07authorised certain athletes to compete as individuals.
0:18:07 > 0:18:10One was from South Sudan, the other three were from
0:18:10 > 0:18:15which Dutch Caribbean dependency that ceased to exist in 2010?
0:18:23 > 0:18:27- Turks and Caicos. - No, they're a British dependency.
0:18:27 > 0:18:31- Glasgow, anyone want to buzz? - Dutch Antilles?
0:18:31 > 0:18:36I'll accept, the Netherlands Antilles is the formal name, you're right.
0:18:36 > 0:18:39These bonuses are on prominent people who give their names
0:18:39 > 0:18:41to stations of the Paris Metro.
0:18:41 > 0:18:43In each case, name the person from the description.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46Firstly, a republican statesman of Italian ancestry
0:18:46 > 0:18:49who directed the defence of Paris during the Franco-Prussian war
0:18:49 > 0:18:53and helped to found the Third Republic.
0:18:53 > 0:18:56- Don't know.- That's Leon Gambetta.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59Secondly, a general often credited with bringing about
0:18:59 > 0:19:01the Allied victory at the Battle of the Marne in 1914.
0:19:01 > 0:19:05This included commandeering taxi cabs to take troops to the front.
0:19:05 > 0:19:11No. No. I can't remember. Pass.
0:19:11 > 0:19:14I wondered what you were doing there.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17- He was trying to help us out!- I see. That was Gallieni.
0:19:17 > 0:19:21Finally, a major figure of the Romantic movement in France,
0:19:21 > 0:19:24The author of Cromwell and Notre-Dame de Paris.
0:19:31 > 0:19:35Say something romantic.
0:19:35 > 0:19:36Hugo? Pass.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39- That's Victor Hugo.- He said it!
0:19:39 > 0:19:42I didn't get an answer. 10 points for this.
0:19:42 > 0:19:45"I cannot forecast to you its action.
0:19:45 > 0:19:49"It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."
0:19:49 > 0:19:52Of which country did Winston Churchill say those words
0:19:52 > 0:19:55in October 1939?
0:19:55 > 0:19:57- Soviet Union.- Correct.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59APPLAUSE
0:19:59 > 0:20:02Exeter, these bonuses are on an author.
0:20:02 > 0:20:05In 2012, which British author wrote a letter thanking
0:20:05 > 0:20:08the independent booksellers of America for having displayed
0:20:08 > 0:20:13one of his works in their shop windows in 1989?
0:20:13 > 0:20:17- Salman Rushdie, maybe? Salman Rushdie.- Correct.
0:20:17 > 0:20:20Rushdie's 2012 memoir has what pseudonym as its title?
0:20:20 > 0:20:23He used it when in hiding after the fatwa
0:20:23 > 0:20:26and it combines the given names of two of his favourite authors?
0:20:26 > 0:20:30Joseph... Joseph...
0:20:30 > 0:20:32Chekhov? Joseph Anton?
0:20:32 > 0:20:36- Joseph Anton.- Correct, yes, after Conrad and Chekhov.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39Finally, whilst working as an advertising copywriter,
0:20:39 > 0:20:42what slogan did Rushdie coin for the credit card
0:20:42 > 0:20:45provided by an American financial services company?
0:20:45 > 0:20:48- That'll do nicely.- Yeah?
0:20:48 > 0:20:50- That'll do nicely.- Correct.
0:20:50 > 0:20:52We're going to take our second picture round.
0:20:52 > 0:20:53For your picture starter,
0:20:53 > 0:20:56you're going to see a photo of a plant associated with Christmas.
0:20:56 > 0:21:0110 points if you can give me the common name of the plant.
0:21:02 > 0:21:04Poinsettia.
0:21:04 > 0:21:07- One of you buzz from Exeter. - What did they say?
0:21:07 > 0:21:09Doesn't matter what they said, I want to know what you say.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12You can't confer, one of you buzz if you can identify it. Come on!
0:21:14 > 0:21:17- Fuchsia.- No, it's a Christmas cactus.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20Another starter question as a prelude to the picture bonuses.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22it's for 10 points, this is it.
0:21:22 > 0:21:25Its themes including the commercialisation of Christmas,
0:21:25 > 0:21:28the 2007 documentary film What Would Jesus Buy
0:21:28 > 0:21:30was produced by which US film-maker
0:21:30 > 0:21:33whose works include Failure Club and Super Size Me?
0:21:35 > 0:21:38- Morgan Spurlock.- Correct.
0:21:38 > 0:21:41APPLAUSE
0:21:41 > 0:21:44You'll be delighted to hear you get picture bonuses
0:21:44 > 0:21:46on more Christmas plants.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48Five points for each you can identify.
0:21:48 > 0:21:52I just need the common name. Firstly...
0:21:59 > 0:22:02It's gone right out of my head. Christmas rose, try that.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05- Christmas rose. - It is a Christmas rose, yes.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07Secondly...
0:22:14 > 0:22:16Nominate Faulds Wood.
0:22:16 > 0:22:21It's not fritillaria but I'm going to give that as the answer.
0:22:21 > 0:22:23- Make it an answer.- Fritillaria.
0:22:23 > 0:22:28No, It's Christmas Bell, and finally.
0:22:28 > 0:22:29- Poinsettia.- That is poinsettia.
0:22:29 > 0:22:33See, it's very different, isn't it? 10 points for this.
0:22:33 > 0:22:35Particularly associated with oil exploration
0:22:35 > 0:22:37in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,
0:22:37 > 0:22:40what term indicates the situation that occurs in a well
0:22:40 > 0:22:43when the formation pressure exceeds the pressure applied to it
0:22:43 > 0:22:46by the column...?
0:22:46 > 0:22:48Blowback.
0:22:48 > 0:22:50No, anyone? You can hear a little more.
0:22:50 > 0:22:53- Blow-out. - Blow-out or a gusher, yes.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56APPLAUSE
0:22:57 > 0:23:01Your bonuses this time, Exeter, are on Dutch scientists.
0:23:01 > 0:23:05From that of his native city, what name did the 18th-century scientist
0:23:05 > 0:23:10Pieter van Musschenbroek give to his early form of capacitor?
0:23:10 > 0:23:14- Any idea?- A Leyden jar.
0:23:14 > 0:23:17- Nominate Allison.- Leyden jar.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20Correct. Born in Alkmaar in 1572,
0:23:20 > 0:23:25the Dutch scientist Cornelis Drebbel made significant contributions
0:23:25 > 0:23:29to the development of what vessel in England in the 1620s?
0:23:35 > 0:23:38- Do you think you know? Nominate Crewe.- Retort.
0:23:38 > 0:23:42No, it's submarine. Finally, a plant physiologist born in Breda,
0:23:42 > 0:23:46Jan Ingenhousz is best known for the discovery in 1779
0:23:46 > 0:23:49of what process in plants?
0:23:51 > 0:23:53- Photosynthesis.- Correct.
0:23:53 > 0:23:5610 points for this.
0:23:56 > 0:23:59Nicknamed "Le France-wide-web", which French government-sponsored
0:23:59 > 0:24:02interactive video system was switched off...?
0:24:04 > 0:24:07- Minitel.- Minitel is right, yes.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09APPLAUSE
0:24:09 > 0:24:11These bonuses are on an artist.
0:24:11 > 0:24:15Created between 1940 and '42 and described by many critics
0:24:15 > 0:24:16as one of his greatest works,
0:24:16 > 0:24:19Between The Clock And The Bed is a self-portrait
0:24:19 > 0:24:21by which Scandinavian artist?
0:24:21 > 0:24:26- Munch?- Edvard Munch.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28Correct. Munch said of himself that he suffered
0:24:28 > 0:24:31from two of mankind's most frightful enemies,
0:24:31 > 0:24:34describing them as "black angels that stood at my cradle."
0:24:34 > 0:24:38One of these was insanity. What medical condition was the other?
0:24:41 > 0:24:45- Depression. - It was TB or consumption.
0:24:45 > 0:24:47In 1906, Munch exhibited alongside works by artists
0:24:47 > 0:24:50associated with which movement much influenced by him?
0:24:50 > 0:24:53Its members included Matisse and Derain.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58- Nominate Crewe.- Fauves.
0:24:58 > 0:25:01Fauvism is correct, yes. 10 points for this.
0:25:01 > 0:25:02Before David Cameron,
0:25:02 > 0:25:06who was the last UK prime minister to be known by the given name David?
0:25:10 > 0:25:12- David Lloyd George.- Correct.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14APPLAUSE
0:25:14 > 0:25:17Your bonuses, Glasgow, are on place names.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19In each case, give the name from the description.
0:25:19 > 0:25:21All begin with the same three letters.
0:25:21 > 0:25:22Firstly, a small landlocked country
0:25:22 > 0:25:26that borders South Africa and Mozambique.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32- Lesotho.- No, it's Swaziland.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34Secondly, the river that gives its name
0:25:34 > 0:25:38to the first free European settlement in Western Australia.
0:25:38 > 0:25:39Swan.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42Correct, and finally, a linguistic and historical region
0:25:42 > 0:25:44of south-western Germany, its medieval dukes
0:25:44 > 0:25:47include Frederick Barbarossa.
0:25:56 > 0:26:00- Nominate Burns.- No, I'm sorry.
0:26:00 > 0:26:03Un-nominate Burns.
0:26:03 > 0:26:06It's Swabia. 10 points for this.
0:26:06 > 0:26:07Located near Alum Bay,
0:26:07 > 0:26:11which series of chalk stacks forms the westernmost point...?
0:26:13 > 0:26:15- The Needles.- The Needles is correct.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17APPLAUSE
0:26:17 > 0:26:19These bonuses are on a poet.
0:26:19 > 0:26:22"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments
0:26:22 > 0:26:24"of the happiest and best minds."
0:26:24 > 0:26:26These are the words of which Romantic poet in an essay
0:26:26 > 0:26:29entitled A Defence of Poetry?
0:26:31 > 0:26:32- Wordsworth.- No, it's Shelley.
0:26:32 > 0:26:36In the same essay, Shelley claimed that which monarch's reign
0:26:36 > 0:26:39was to blame for "the grossest degradation of the drama?"
0:26:45 > 0:26:47- George IV?- No, Charles II.
0:26:47 > 0:26:50Also in that essay, Shelley states that which Italian poet's work
0:26:50 > 0:26:54may be considered as "the bridge thrown over the stream of time
0:26:54 > 0:26:57"which unites the modern and the ancient world?"
0:26:57 > 0:26:59- Dante.- Correct, 10 points for this.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03Give the dictionary spelling of the word "mettle,"
0:27:03 > 0:27:07meaning courage, resilience or fortitude.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09- M-E-T-T-L-E.- Correct.
0:27:09 > 0:27:13A set of bonuses now on mountains of the USA.
0:27:13 > 0:27:18In which state is Mount Mitchell, located in the Black Mountains?
0:27:18 > 0:27:20It's the highest peak in the United States
0:27:20 > 0:27:22east of the Mississippi river.
0:27:22 > 0:27:26- Quickly.- Colorado. - No, its North Carolina.
0:27:26 > 0:27:29Mount Elbert and Pikes Peak are among more than 50 mountains
0:27:29 > 0:27:33over 14,000 feet in which state?
0:27:33 > 0:27:34- Alaska.- No, that is in Colorado.
0:27:34 > 0:27:38Finally, the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail,
0:27:38 > 0:27:40Mount Katahdin, is in which state?
0:27:43 > 0:27:46- Any guesses? Virginia. - It's in Maine.
0:27:46 > 0:27:4910 points for this - in terms of given names, what seasonal pairing
0:27:49 > 0:27:53links the protagonist of Truman Capote's Breakfast At Tiffany's
0:27:53 > 0:27:57with the author of Pastors and Masters and Parents and Children?
0:27:57 > 0:27:59GONG SOUNDS
0:27:59 > 0:28:04At the gong, Exeter University have 125 and Glasgow University have 165.
0:28:06 > 0:28:10Congratulations. 125 is a perfectly respectable score
0:28:10 > 0:28:13to leave with and Glasgow, 165, you will certainly go through
0:28:13 > 0:28:16as one of the highest-scoring winning teams - bad luck!
0:28:16 > 0:28:19You'll have to come back for a semi-final next time.
0:28:19 > 0:28:20I hope you can join us
0:28:20 > 0:28:24for the last of the first round matches next time. Until then,
0:28:24 > 0:28:26it's goodbye from Exeter University,
0:28:26 > 0:28:28it's goodbye from Glasgow University,
0:28:28 > 0:28:32and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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