0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:21Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:29Hello.
0:00:29 > 0:00:3214 teams of alumni and staff old enough to know better
0:00:32 > 0:00:35bravely accepted our invitation to sprinkle a little stardust
0:00:35 > 0:00:39over the festive season by competing in this one-off series.
0:00:39 > 0:00:41All of them achieved respectable first-round scores
0:00:41 > 0:00:44in three figures, rather to their own surprise in some cases.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47Now the four winning teams with the highest scores
0:00:47 > 0:00:49compete in two semifinal matches.
0:00:49 > 0:00:51Whoever wins tonight is in the final.
0:00:51 > 0:00:55The team from New College Oxford were trailing against the LSE
0:00:55 > 0:00:58early in their first-round match but found their form
0:00:58 > 0:01:00after their captain's rallying cry of,
0:01:00 > 0:01:02"Remembering the answers is key!"
0:01:02 > 0:01:04They are no mugs, you see!
0:01:04 > 0:01:05Between them this team of three writers
0:01:05 > 0:01:09and one scientist scored 240 points, the highest in the first round.
0:01:09 > 0:01:11Let's meet them again.
0:01:11 > 0:01:16I'm Rachel Johnson, I read Classics, now I'm a journalist and novelist.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18I'm Patrick Gale, I read English
0:01:18 > 0:01:21and now I'm the westernmost novelist in the country.
0:01:21 > 0:01:22And their captain.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25Hello, I'm Kate Mosse, I read English
0:01:25 > 0:01:28and I'm now a novelist and a playwright.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30Hello, I'm Yan Wong, I read biological sciences
0:01:30 > 0:01:34and now I'm a researcher and science broadcaster.
0:01:34 > 0:01:36APPLAUSE
0:01:38 > 0:01:41The team from Liverpool University scored 165
0:01:41 > 0:01:45against Cardiff University's 140 in their first-round match
0:01:45 > 0:01:48in which they reassured us that they can spell panettone,
0:01:48 > 0:01:50that they know about the babes in the wood,
0:01:50 > 0:01:52and that they are familiar with the drawbacks of celibacy.
0:01:52 > 0:01:56Let's meet again a foursome who have redefined general knowledge.
0:01:57 > 0:01:58I'm Lawrence McGinty,
0:01:58 > 0:02:01I graduated in zoology in 1969
0:02:01 > 0:02:04and now I'm medical and science editor for ITV News.
0:02:04 > 0:02:08I'm Frank Duckworth, I graduated in physics in 1961
0:02:08 > 0:02:11and I'm now a statistician and I'm one of the inventors
0:02:11 > 0:02:14of the Duckworth Lewis method in one-day cricket.
0:02:14 > 0:02:15Their captain.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18Hi, I'm Stephen Bayley, I was allowed to get away with
0:02:18 > 0:02:22a Masters degree from Liverpool School of architecture in 1974
0:02:22 > 0:02:25and I then descended into becoming a design guru.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28Hello, I'm Frances Crook, I took a degree in
0:02:28 > 0:02:31mediaeval and modern history and I'm now the chief executive
0:02:31 > 0:02:34of the Howard League For Penal Reform.
0:02:34 > 0:02:35APPLAUSE
0:02:38 > 0:02:41OK, the rules are the same as ever so let's just get on with it.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:43 > 0:02:48What given name links the military commander who appeared on
0:02:48 > 0:02:51the Your Country Needs You poster of 1914,
0:02:51 > 0:02:54a fictional naval hero created by CS Forester,
0:02:54 > 0:02:57and a friend and confidante of Shakespeare's Hamlet?
0:02:58 > 0:03:01Kitchen...er!
0:03:01 > 0:03:03Sorry!
0:03:03 > 0:03:06One of you buzz, you may not confer.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08- Horatio.- Correct!
0:03:08 > 0:03:11APPLAUSE
0:03:11 > 0:03:14Right, the first set of bonuses are on a photographer, Liverpool.
0:03:14 > 0:03:18"Her work falls metaphorically between Marlene Dietrich's legs
0:03:18 > 0:03:22"and the bitter lives of migratory potato pickers."
0:03:22 > 0:03:25These words of Robert Capa describe which US photographer
0:03:25 > 0:03:28who died at the age of 99 in 2012?
0:03:28 > 0:03:30Dorothea Lange.
0:03:30 > 0:03:32No. You can confer.
0:03:32 > 0:03:36We don't need to, he is the only one that knew.
0:03:36 > 0:03:38- It wasn't, it was Eve Arnold.- Oh!
0:03:38 > 0:03:41Secondly, Eve Arnold was particularly associated
0:03:41 > 0:03:44with which actress whom she photographed over a ten-year period
0:03:44 > 0:03:48including noteworthy shots on the set of her last film The Misfits?
0:03:49 > 0:03:51Marilyn...Monroe.
0:03:51 > 0:03:54Correct. Quote. "Eve Arnold photographed four Prime Ministers.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57"Alec Douglas Hume carried her equipment into the house,
0:03:57 > 0:04:01"Ted Heath went swimming to evade her and John Major gave her a hug."
0:04:01 > 0:04:04Which Prime Minister, according to the obituary in the Daily Telegraph,
0:04:04 > 0:04:08was the only one who told her how to take her pictures?
0:04:08 > 0:04:10It must be Margaret Thatcher.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12WHISPERING
0:04:12 > 0:04:14It must have been Margaret Thatcher.
0:04:14 > 0:04:15Yes, of course!
0:04:15 > 0:04:17Now, ten points for this.
0:04:17 > 0:04:18Disbanded at the end of 1944,
0:04:18 > 0:04:22which volunteer organisation was originally known as
0:04:22 > 0:04:24the local defence volunteers?
0:04:26 > 0:04:27The Home Guard.
0:04:27 > 0:04:28Correct.
0:04:28 > 0:04:29APPLAUSE
0:04:29 > 0:04:32Right, your first bonuses are on novels.
0:04:32 > 0:04:33Sergeant Lamb Of The Ninth
0:04:33 > 0:04:36is a novel of 1940 by which literary figure,
0:04:36 > 0:04:38perhaps best-known for his poetry?
0:04:38 > 0:04:41His other prose works include Goodbye To All That
0:04:41 > 0:04:43and The White Goddess.
0:04:44 > 0:04:45- Robert Graves.- Correct.
0:04:45 > 0:04:50Sergeant Cuff is a major character in which work of 1868,
0:04:50 > 0:04:53often described as the first detective novel in English?
0:04:53 > 0:04:57- It's The Moonstone.- Moonstone? - Moonstone.
0:04:58 > 0:05:00- The Moonstone.- Correct.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03Described as a dashing but heartless cad,
0:05:03 > 0:05:08Sergeant Troy marries Bathsheba Everdene in which novel of 1874?
0:05:08 > 0:05:09Far From The Madding Crowd.
0:05:09 > 0:05:12Correct. Ten points for this starter question.
0:05:12 > 0:05:16The 1974 play Absurd Person Singular,
0:05:16 > 0:05:18featuring three couples in three kitchens on three...
0:05:19 > 0:05:21- Alan Ayckbourn.- Correct.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27Your bonuses, New College, are on Christmas mathematics.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31What in centimetres squared is the minimal area of paper required
0:05:31 > 0:05:35to wrap a cube-shaped present of side length ten centimetres?
0:05:38 > 0:05:40Ten centimetres, ten squared, 100...
0:05:40 > 0:05:42600...
0:05:42 > 0:05:44- Nominate Wong.- 600.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46600 is correct, yes.
0:05:46 > 0:05:48To the nearest 100 cubic centimetres,
0:05:48 > 0:05:51what volume of icing is required to produce a layer one centimetre thick
0:05:51 > 0:05:54on the uppermost surface of a flat circular Christmas cake
0:05:54 > 0:05:57of radius ten centimetres?
0:06:01 > 0:06:03- It's pi. - It's going to be pi.
0:06:03 > 0:06:05- Yes. 361.- 361.
0:06:05 > 0:06:07No, it's 300.
0:06:07 > 0:06:10Finally, if a Christmas pudding is to be completely covered
0:06:10 > 0:06:13in a coating of brandy butter of uniform thickness,
0:06:13 > 0:06:16what shape should the pudding be
0:06:16 > 0:06:18to minimise the amount of butter required?
0:06:18 > 0:06:20You want to nominate? Sphere.
0:06:20 > 0:06:22- Nominate Wong.- Sphere.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24Spherical is correct. Yes.
0:06:24 > 0:06:25Ten points for this.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27Bigamous heroine deserts her child,
0:06:27 > 0:06:30pushes husband number one down a well,
0:06:30 > 0:06:33thinks about poisoning husband number two,
0:06:33 > 0:06:34and sets fire to a hotel
0:06:34 > 0:06:37in which her other male acquaintances are residing.
0:06:37 > 0:06:41These words describe the plot of which novel of 1862
0:06:41 > 0:06:42by Mary Braddon?
0:06:45 > 0:06:47Lady Audley's Secret.
0:06:47 > 0:06:48Correct.
0:06:48 > 0:06:49APPLAUSE
0:06:51 > 0:06:54Right, New College, these bonuses are on a geographical expression.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57Referring to its extensive fortifications,
0:06:57 > 0:06:59the Gibraltar Of The North was an epithet given
0:06:59 > 0:07:03to which present-day capital city? The fortifications themselves
0:07:03 > 0:07:06were dismantled following an international crisis of 1867.
0:07:14 > 0:07:171867? What was going on?
0:07:18 > 0:07:20Let's have it, please.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23- Trondheim. - No, it's Luxembourg.- Oh!
0:07:23 > 0:07:26The scene of a massacre by Royalist troops in 1644,
0:07:26 > 0:07:29which Lancashire town was known as the Geneva Of The North
0:07:29 > 0:07:31because of its austere puritanism?
0:07:31 > 0:07:36In recent years it's applied unsuccessfully for city status.
0:07:36 > 0:07:39- Preston?- Preston?
0:07:39 > 0:07:41Yeah. Preston.
0:07:41 > 0:07:42- No, it's Bolton.- Bolton.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45The Champagne Of The North was reputedly an appellation
0:07:45 > 0:07:49given by French troops to the tart, straw-coloured wheat beer
0:07:49 > 0:07:53of which capital, occupied after the Battle of Jena in 1806?
0:07:53 > 0:07:56THEY WHISPER
0:07:56 > 0:07:58Eastern Germany, isn't it?
0:07:59 > 0:08:03- Leipzig? Do you know?- Amsterdam?
0:08:03 > 0:08:06It's going to be Eastern Germany.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09Shall we go for that? Leipzig.
0:08:09 > 0:08:11No, it's Berlin. We're going to take a picture round.
0:08:11 > 0:08:12For your picture starter,
0:08:12 > 0:08:14you'll see a map showing the location
0:08:14 > 0:08:17of a prestigious Boxing Day horse race meeting.
0:08:17 > 0:08:20ten points if you can give me the name of the racecourse.
0:08:22 > 0:08:23No-one confer, please.
0:08:24 > 0:08:25Epsom?
0:08:25 > 0:08:27No, anyone like to buzz from Liverpool?
0:08:28 > 0:08:29Ascot.
0:08:29 > 0:08:34No, so I'll tell you. It's Kempton Park, so picture bonuses shortly,
0:08:34 > 0:08:36but ten points for this starter question in the meantime.
0:08:36 > 0:08:41So named because an invasion by Allied forces in April 1915,
0:08:41 > 0:08:44Anzac Cove is a coastal feature
0:08:44 > 0:08:46of which Peninsula in western Turkey?
0:08:49 > 0:08:51- Gallipoli.- Correct, yes.
0:08:51 > 0:08:52APPLAUSE
0:08:54 > 0:08:57So you failed to identify Kempton Park racecourse
0:08:57 > 0:09:00- which was the picture starter... - Well, I did get Gallipoli.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02Well, you did, but the person who buzzed didn't.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05You'll see for your picture bonuses three more racecourses
0:09:05 > 0:09:07holding Christmas holiday meetings.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09Firstly, for five, where is A,
0:09:09 > 0:09:12which hosts races on December 27?
0:09:12 > 0:09:13Chepstow.
0:09:13 > 0:09:15That is Chepstow. You don't need to buzz, you can confer.
0:09:15 > 0:09:19- But I like buzzing!- You are a very cocky fellow, aren't you?
0:09:19 > 0:09:22It is Chepstow.
0:09:22 > 0:09:25Secondly, where is B, which hosts a racing festival
0:09:25 > 0:09:28from the 26th to the 29th of December?
0:09:30 > 0:09:34Leopardstown? It's the only Irish racecourse I know.
0:09:34 > 0:09:35What do you say?
0:09:35 > 0:09:38- Don't know. - That's Leopardstown.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41Finally where is C, which hosts racing on New Year's Day?
0:09:41 > 0:09:44Okehampton?
0:09:44 > 0:09:46Or Tiverton? Okehampton.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48- Okehampton.- No, that's Exeter.
0:09:48 > 0:09:49Ten points for this.
0:09:49 > 0:09:52Meanings of which five-letter word include
0:09:52 > 0:09:55an arc with angle less than 180 degrees,
0:09:55 > 0:09:59the determinant of a matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows
0:09:59 > 0:10:02and columns, and the smaller of two differently derived versions
0:10:02 > 0:10:05of the same musical interval?
0:10:08 > 0:10:10Acute?
0:10:10 > 0:10:13No. New College, one of you buzz?
0:10:13 > 0:10:15Chord.
0:10:15 > 0:10:17No, it's minor. Ten points for this.
0:10:17 > 0:10:20What is the usual English name for the annual event
0:10:20 > 0:10:24known in many parts of Europe as St Sylvester's Night?
0:10:25 > 0:10:28You may not confer, one of you may buzz.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32Is it New Year's Eve?
0:10:32 > 0:10:33It is, yes!
0:10:33 > 0:10:35APPLAUSE
0:10:36 > 0:10:39Right, these bonuses are on medicine, New College.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42In each case give the arthropod vectors
0:10:42 > 0:10:45of the following infectious diseases. Firstly bubonic plague.
0:10:45 > 0:10:49It's caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51What insect is responsible for carrying it
0:10:51 > 0:10:54from its reservoir in rats to humans?
0:10:54 > 0:10:57- Fleas.- Fleas. Fleas.- The rat flea.
0:10:57 > 0:10:58The rat flea is correct.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01Lyme disease is caused by a species of Borrelia.
0:11:01 > 0:11:04What small arachnids transmit the bacteria
0:11:04 > 0:11:06from their rodent host to humans?
0:11:06 > 0:11:07- Ticks.- Correct.
0:11:07 > 0:11:12Which large fly acts as both host and vector of Trypanosoma brucei,
0:11:12 > 0:11:15causing African sleeping sickness in humans?
0:11:15 > 0:11:16Tsetse fly.
0:11:16 > 0:11:17Correct.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19Ten points for this. Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:11:19 > 0:11:22Give the dictionary spelling of the un-segmented gliding
0:11:22 > 0:11:25speech sound known as a diphthong.
0:11:27 > 0:11:31D-I-P-H-T-H-O-N-G.
0:11:31 > 0:11:32Correct!
0:11:32 > 0:11:35APPLAUSE
0:11:35 > 0:11:38These bonuses are on a city, New College.
0:11:38 > 0:11:42Which city was founded in 331 BC by an eponymous conqueror
0:11:42 > 0:11:46and was by 200 BC one of the largest cities in the world?
0:11:46 > 0:11:51It was devastated by a tsunami in July AD 365.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54- Alexandria?- Alexandria. Yes?
0:11:54 > 0:11:55Alexandria.
0:11:55 > 0:11:56Correct.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59Born around 276 BC, which head of the Alexandrian library
0:11:59 > 0:12:01measured the Earth's circumference
0:12:01 > 0:12:05to an accuracy that is within 1% of the modern figure?
0:12:06 > 0:12:09- Nominate Wong.- Eratosthenes.
0:12:09 > 0:12:10Correct.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13Finally, which Macedonian Greek dynasty
0:12:13 > 0:12:15took its name from a general of Alexander
0:12:15 > 0:12:18who moved the Egyptian capital from Memphis to Alexandria?
0:12:18 > 0:12:21- Philip of Macedon.- Nominate Johnson.
0:12:21 > 0:12:22Philip of Macedon.
0:12:22 > 0:12:24No, it's the Ptolemies. The Ptolemaic dynasties
0:12:24 > 0:12:26Ten points for this.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28What name links the title character who is waiting to die
0:12:28 > 0:12:33in a novel of 1951 by Samuel Beckett, Hector the American...
0:12:34 > 0:12:36- Malone.- Malone is right.
0:12:36 > 0:12:40- These bonuses are on the solar system, New College.- We didn't...
0:12:40 > 0:12:41Solar system.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44- I beg your pardon?- We didn't hear. - We didn't hear the question.
0:12:44 > 0:12:47- I haven't asked the question yet! - We didn't hear what you said.
0:12:47 > 0:12:51You gave the correct answer, I am now giving you a set of bonuses.
0:12:51 > 0:12:52Calm down, Johnson!
0:12:52 > 0:12:54Johnson! Shush!
0:12:54 > 0:12:56On the solar system, I think.
0:12:56 > 0:12:58Your bonuses are on the solar system.
0:12:58 > 0:13:02In 2011, NASA's Messenger spacecraft sent back images
0:13:02 > 0:13:06of bright pits or hollows unknown elsewhere in the solar system
0:13:06 > 0:13:09and possibly formed by vaporising volatile elements
0:13:09 > 0:13:11on the surface of which planet?
0:13:19 > 0:13:20- Mars.- No, it's Mercury.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23Before the arrival of Messenger,
0:13:23 > 0:13:25Mercury had been visited by only one space probe
0:13:25 > 0:13:29which first flew by in March 1974. Give its name.
0:13:31 > 0:13:35- - '74, it could be Voyager, I guess. - Go for Voyager.- Voyager.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37No, it was Mariner 10.
0:13:37 > 0:13:41Mercury's rotation is prograde with a period
0:13:41 > 0:13:44exactly 2/3 of its orbital period around the sun.
0:13:44 > 0:13:48This means that a day on Mercury lasts how many years?
0:13:50 > 0:13:54I don't know. Is 200?
0:13:56 > 0:13:59Do we know? You don't want to be nominated?
0:13:59 > 0:14:00- Guess.- 100.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02No, it's two.
0:14:02 > 0:14:03Oh!
0:14:03 > 0:14:07Plenty of time to go, Liverpool, we are only about halfway.
0:14:07 > 0:14:08We are going to take a music round.
0:14:08 > 0:14:10You will hear an excerpt from a ballet.
0:14:10 > 0:14:14For ten points I want the name of the ballet and the composer.
0:14:17 > 0:14:19The Nutcracker, and the composer is Tchaikovsky.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21Correct.
0:14:21 > 0:14:22APPLAUSE
0:14:23 > 0:14:26As you of course know, the Nutcracker is set on Christmas Eve.
0:14:26 > 0:14:30In act two, dances are performed at the behest of the Sugar Plum Fairy.
0:14:30 > 0:14:34These ethnic dances represent sweets or drinks from around the world.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37For your bonuses you are going to hear three pieces of music
0:14:37 > 0:14:38that represent some of them.
0:14:38 > 0:14:40Five points for each you can identify.
0:14:40 > 0:14:44Firstly, the drink represented in this dance.
0:14:47 > 0:14:49Coffee. Coffee.
0:14:49 > 0:14:50Coffee.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53Correct. Arabian coffee.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56Secondly the sweet or confectionery associated with this dance.
0:15:11 > 0:15:12Chocolate!
0:15:12 > 0:15:14It is. It is the Spanish chocolate dance.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17Lastly, the drink represented in this dance.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23Tea.
0:15:23 > 0:15:25It is the Chinese tea performers.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:15:27 > 0:15:28Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30In the words of the well-known Christmas song,
0:15:30 > 0:15:36if gold rings multiplied by French hens is 15,
0:15:36 > 0:15:40what is geese a-laying multiplied by swans a-swimming?
0:15:42 > 0:15:4342.
0:15:43 > 0:15:4542 is correct. Yes.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47APPLAUSE
0:15:48 > 0:15:49Right, Liverpool,
0:15:49 > 0:15:52these bonuses are on names of countries that become another word
0:15:52 > 0:15:55by the substitution of the initial letter,
0:15:55 > 0:15:58for example Niger and tiger.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00In each case, give both words from the descriptions.
0:16:00 > 0:16:04Firstly, a land-locked, West African country
0:16:04 > 0:16:09and a language of early Buddhist texts, closely related to Sanskrit.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14Chad could be the African country.
0:16:17 > 0:16:19No idea. Absolutely no idea.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21No.
0:16:21 > 0:16:22It is Mali and Pali.
0:16:22 > 0:16:26Secondly, a South American country noted for grape production
0:16:26 > 0:16:29and a verb meaning to pass time in a leisurely...
0:16:30 > 0:16:32Chile and while.
0:16:32 > 0:16:35While and Chile is correct, you don't need to buzz, you can confer.
0:16:35 > 0:16:36I told you I like buzzing!
0:16:36 > 0:16:38LAUGHTER
0:16:38 > 0:16:41Your colleagues might want to proffer their wisdom!
0:16:41 > 0:16:42We are perfectly happy!
0:16:42 > 0:16:44Finally the country to the east of Ghana
0:16:44 > 0:16:47and a symbol used to identify an organisation or its products.
0:16:51 > 0:16:52Togo. Togo and logo.
0:16:52 > 0:16:54Togo and logo.
0:16:54 > 0:16:57Yes. You managed that without buzzing, didn't you?
0:16:57 > 0:16:59LAUGHTER
0:16:59 > 0:17:02- I've had my fun now. - Right, ten points for this.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04You can buzz on this, all of you.
0:17:04 > 0:17:05In words such as chrysanthemum
0:17:05 > 0:17:10and chrysalis the Greek prefix chrys refers to which metal?
0:17:12 > 0:17:14- Gold.- Gold is correct.
0:17:17 > 0:17:20Your bonuses, New College, are on the year 1783.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23Designed by the Montgolfier brothers, the first manned version
0:17:23 > 0:17:27of what device was launched in Paris in November 1783?
0:17:27 > 0:17:29Balloon.
0:17:29 > 0:17:30Correct, hot air balloon.
0:17:30 > 0:17:34From June 1783, gases released by eruptions of the volcano Laki
0:17:34 > 0:17:38killed most of the livestock and, in the resulting famine,
0:17:38 > 0:17:41around 20% of the population of which island?
0:17:43 > 0:17:45Do we know?
0:17:45 > 0:17:46St Helene? No?
0:17:46 > 0:17:51It wasn't one of the ones off Sicily?
0:17:51 > 0:17:53- Stromboli? - Yes.
0:17:53 > 0:17:54Stromboli.
0:17:54 > 0:17:55Come on, let's have it.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58Say Stromboli.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00Laki.
0:18:00 > 0:18:01No, it's Iceland.
0:18:01 > 0:18:04The Peace Of Paris in 1783 concluded which conflict?
0:18:07 > 0:18:09Franco-Prussian war?
0:18:09 > 0:18:11No, that's later, wasn't it?
0:18:11 > 0:18:13Do we know this? No?
0:18:13 > 0:18:14Franco-Prussian war.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16No, it was the American War Of Independence.
0:18:16 > 0:18:17- Of course!- Ten points for this.
0:18:17 > 0:18:20From words meaning "glaze" and "to grill",
0:18:20 > 0:18:23what term in Japanese cookery describes a dish
0:18:23 > 0:18:26basted with soy sauce and rice wine...?
0:18:27 > 0:18:29- Teriyaki.- Correct. Yes.
0:18:29 > 0:18:31APPLAUSE
0:18:33 > 0:18:36Your bonuses this time are on spices, Liverpool.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38I want the part of the plant from which
0:18:38 > 0:18:39the following spices are obtained.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42Firstly, for five points, nutmeg.
0:18:43 > 0:18:44- The shell.- Shell.
0:18:44 > 0:18:47No, it's the seed. Secondly, cloves.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50It's a flower.
0:18:50 > 0:18:54- It's a flower.- Flower is correct, flower buds. Finally cinnamon.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56The pistols of a crocus.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58Oh, cinnamon!
0:18:58 > 0:19:00- I thought you said saffron! Sorry. Can we go back?- No, you can't!
0:19:00 > 0:19:01LAUGHTER
0:19:01 > 0:19:04If you have conferred you might not have made that mistake!
0:19:04 > 0:19:07It is from the bark. Ten points for this.
0:19:07 > 0:19:11The psychologist Philip Zimbardo is best known for a simulated
0:19:11 > 0:19:13prison experiment carried out in 1970...
0:19:15 > 0:19:17- Stockholm syndrome. - No, you lose five points.
0:19:17 > 0:19:21In 1971 in which US university?
0:19:23 > 0:19:24You may not confer. One of you can buzz.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28- Chicago.- No, it's Stanford.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30Right, you got off lightly there, New College.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32Ten points for this starter question.
0:19:32 > 0:19:36In George Orwell's 1984, two of the party slogans are
0:19:36 > 0:19:39War Is Peace and Freedom Is Slavery.
0:19:39 > 0:19:40What is the third?
0:19:47 > 0:19:49Is it Property Is Theft?
0:19:50 > 0:19:51No.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55One of you buzz.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57Truth Is Falsehood?
0:19:57 > 0:19:58No, you should know this.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01It is Ignorance Is Strength. Ten points for this.
0:20:01 > 0:20:03Of the 12 months of the Gregorian calendar,
0:20:03 > 0:20:05two are named after historical figures.
0:20:05 > 0:20:07For ten points name both months.
0:20:09 > 0:20:11- July and August.- Correct, yes.
0:20:11 > 0:20:12APPLAUSE
0:20:12 > 0:20:15You get a set of bonuses on clouds this time, New College.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18In each case identify the cloud type from the two letter
0:20:18 > 0:20:21abbreviation used by the World Meteorological Organisation.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23- Firstly, CU?- Cumulus. Cumulus.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25Cumulus.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28Correct. Secondly, CC?
0:20:28 > 0:20:29- Cirrus.- Cirrus.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31Cirrus.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34No, it's cirrocumulus. Finally, AC?
0:20:35 > 0:20:36- Altocumulus. - Altocumulus.
0:20:36 > 0:20:38- Altocumulus.- Altocumulus.
0:20:38 > 0:20:39Correct.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41We are going to take a picture round.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44You will see a detail from a well-known painting.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47For ten points all you have to do is name the artist.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50Raphael.
0:20:50 > 0:20:52Raphael is correct, yes.
0:20:52 > 0:20:53APPLAUSE
0:20:53 > 0:20:57So, following on, your bonus questions, Liverpool,
0:20:57 > 0:21:01are three more paintings by early 16th-century Italian artists
0:21:01 > 0:21:03depicting angels or putti.
0:21:03 > 0:21:06In each case I simply want you to name the artist.
0:21:06 > 0:21:07Firstly.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09WHISPERING
0:21:10 > 0:21:12Pick one.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14- Botticelli?- No. No.
0:21:14 > 0:21:17- Goya.- No. No, it's not.
0:21:19 > 0:21:20We'll have to pass.
0:21:20 > 0:21:24OK, that is by Titian. Secondly, who is this?
0:21:29 > 0:21:32- Pick one.- Um...
0:21:32 > 0:21:33No idea?
0:21:33 > 0:21:35No.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37That is by Rosso Fiorentino. And finally.
0:21:39 > 0:21:40Oh, Leonardo.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43Indeed, yes. Right, ten points for this.
0:21:43 > 0:21:44What structure opened in 2000
0:21:44 > 0:21:48and shortly afterwards required a further £5 million to be spent...?
0:21:49 > 0:21:51- The Millennium Bridge.- Correct.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57These bonuses, New College, are on US presidents.
0:21:57 > 0:22:01Who was the first US president to be targeted by an assassin,
0:22:01 > 0:22:04when the unemployed painter Richard Lawrence tried to shoot him
0:22:04 > 0:22:06as he left a funeral in 1835?
0:22:06 > 0:22:081835?
0:22:08 > 0:22:10Was it Roosevelt?
0:22:10 > 0:22:111835?
0:22:11 > 0:22:13- 1835.- Washington?
0:22:13 > 0:22:16- Could have been.- Washington.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18No, it was Andrew Jackson.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20An assassination attempt by the mentally disturbed
0:22:20 > 0:22:23saloon keeper John Schrank was foiled by a spectacle case
0:22:23 > 0:22:26in the pocket of which former president? At the time
0:22:26 > 0:22:29he had decided to run for another term against William Taft.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34- Roosevelt?- Which one?
0:22:36 > 0:22:38- No, you can't...- Theodore!
0:22:38 > 0:22:39Yes, you are correct,
0:22:39 > 0:22:42but next time please give the answer straight away.
0:22:42 > 0:22:46And finally, in 1950, Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola
0:22:46 > 0:22:48attempted to kill Harry S Truman to bring attention to
0:22:48 > 0:22:52the case for the independence of which US territory?
0:22:53 > 0:22:55Do you know that?
0:22:56 > 0:23:00New Mexico? New Mexico?
0:23:00 > 0:23:02- Come on!- New Mexico.
0:23:02 > 0:23:03No, it's Puerto Rico.
0:23:03 > 0:23:07Ten points for this. Which country shares land frontiers with
0:23:07 > 0:23:11Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Yemen and Qatar?
0:23:14 > 0:23:16- Saudi Arabia?- Yes!
0:23:16 > 0:23:18APPLAUSE
0:23:20 > 0:23:23Your bonuses are on Iranian languages.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26Firstly for five points, including Persian and Kurdish,
0:23:26 > 0:23:30the Iranian languages are a sub-branch of which large language family?
0:23:32 > 0:23:34- Do you know?- Finno-Hungarian?
0:23:34 > 0:23:37No? Do you know?
0:23:37 > 0:23:41- Semitic languages. - Semitic languages.
0:23:41 > 0:23:43No, they are Indo-European.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46The national language of which former Soviet republic
0:23:46 > 0:23:47is closely related to Persian?
0:23:47 > 0:23:48Turkmenistan?
0:23:48 > 0:23:50Hungary.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53- Former Soviet... - Hungary.
0:23:53 > 0:23:58- No, no. Turkmenistan. - Maybe. Is that a real place?
0:23:58 > 0:23:59Kazakhstan?
0:23:59 > 0:24:03- Let's have an answer, please. - Turkmenistan.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05No, that's a Turkic language, I think. Its Tajikistan.
0:24:05 > 0:24:08Finally, also closely related to Persian, Dari,
0:24:08 > 0:24:11along with Pashto, is a national language of which country?
0:24:14 > 0:24:18- Afghanistan? I didn't hear the question.- Afghanistan.
0:24:18 > 0:24:20Correct. Ten points for this.
0:24:20 > 0:24:22Which play by Shakespeare includes the words,
0:24:22 > 0:24:24"We are such stuff as dreams are made on"?
0:24:26 > 0:24:28- The Tempest.- Correct.
0:24:28 > 0:24:30APPLAUSE
0:24:30 > 0:24:32New College, these bonuses are on physics.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34Diurnal, semi-diurnal and mixed are different
0:24:34 > 0:24:37local manifestations of what phenomenon,
0:24:37 > 0:24:40whose course was first correctly explained by Isaac Newton
0:24:40 > 0:24:43in his Principia Mathematica of 1687?
0:24:47 > 0:24:49Trajectory of the Sun? The moon?
0:24:49 > 0:24:52It's got to be an orbit of some sort.
0:24:52 > 0:24:55- Orbit of the Sun? - The orbit of the sun.
0:24:55 > 0:24:56No, they are tides.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58As a residual gravitational effect,
0:24:58 > 0:25:01the tidal force exerted on the Earth by a distant body
0:25:01 > 0:25:05depends inversely on approximately what power of the distance?
0:25:07 > 0:25:08- Square.- Square.
0:25:08 > 0:25:10No, it's the third power. The cube.
0:25:10 > 0:25:13Finally, what specific four-letter term describes the tides
0:25:13 > 0:25:17of smallest range, occurring at intermediate phases of the moon?
0:25:18 > 0:25:20- Neap.- Neap.- Neap.- Neap.
0:25:20 > 0:25:23Neap is correct. Three minutes to go, ten points for this.
0:25:23 > 0:25:25What two-word term denotes the physical quantity that
0:25:25 > 0:25:28relates the flow of heat to the temperature gradient
0:25:28 > 0:25:32in a material and is measured in Watts per metre per Kelvin?
0:25:34 > 0:25:36Conductivity?
0:25:36 > 0:25:38Anyone like to buzz?
0:25:39 > 0:25:40Thermal conductivity.
0:25:40 > 0:25:43Thermal conductivity is correct, yes.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48This set of bonuses are on royal dynasties.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51In 1995, Sheik Hamad seized control of which Middle Eastern state
0:25:51 > 0:25:55from his father and became the 8th member of the Al Thani dynasty
0:25:55 > 0:25:56to rule the country?
0:26:00 > 0:26:02Egypt?
0:26:02 > 0:26:03No, it's Qatar.
0:26:03 > 0:26:06Emirs from the Al-Sabah dynasty first became rulers of which
0:26:06 > 0:26:08Middle Eastern state in 1756?
0:26:09 > 0:26:10Kuwait?
0:26:10 > 0:26:14- We've just done Kuwait. - No, that was Qatar. Kuwait?
0:26:14 > 0:26:16Kuwait is good.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19Finally, in 1783, the Al Khalifa family became the ruling dynasty
0:26:19 > 0:26:22of which island country in the same region?
0:26:25 > 0:26:27- Bahrain?- Bahrain?
0:26:27 > 0:26:29Bahrain is correct. Yes. Ten points for this.
0:26:29 > 0:26:32In 1917, 1944 and 1963
0:26:32 > 0:26:36the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to which organisation?
0:26:36 > 0:26:38- International Red Cross.- Correct.
0:26:38 > 0:26:41Your set of bonuses this time...
0:26:41 > 0:26:43This is a gift for you, they're on statistics.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46What word of four letters denotes the asymmetry
0:26:46 > 0:26:47of the distribution of a dataset
0:26:47 > 0:26:51and may also refer to lines that are neither parallel nor intersecting?
0:26:51 > 0:26:52- Skew.- Correct.
0:26:52 > 0:26:56Coined by RA Fisher in 1935, what term denotes the statistical
0:26:56 > 0:26:59hypothesis which assumes the differences in observed outcomes
0:26:59 > 0:27:02are due solely to experimental error and chance?
0:27:05 > 0:27:08Null hypothesis? Null hypothesis?
0:27:08 > 0:27:09Correct.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11What statistical term describes a scatter diagram where
0:27:11 > 0:27:14one variable tends to decrease as the other increases,
0:27:14 > 0:27:16for example snowfall versus temperature?
0:27:18 > 0:27:19Oh... Um...
0:27:21 > 0:27:22A scatter diagram?
0:27:22 > 0:27:25No, it's a negative correlation or an anti-correlation.
0:27:25 > 0:27:26Ten points for this.
0:27:26 > 0:27:28Linguistically speaking, what links the place names
0:27:28 > 0:27:31Pendle Hill, Isle of Sheppey and River Tyne?
0:27:33 > 0:27:35The first word is the same as the second word.
0:27:35 > 0:27:38Yes, tautological, repetition of the name. Yes.
0:27:38 > 0:27:41Right, your bonuses this time, New College, are on the colour purple.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44A purple and green Sisserou parrot appears on the flag of
0:27:44 > 0:27:46which Caribbean island state?
0:27:47 > 0:27:50- Anybody know?- No. St Lucia?
0:27:50 > 0:27:51St Lucia.
0:27:51 > 0:27:52No, it's Dominica.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55A horizontal band of the heraldic colour murrey,
0:27:55 > 0:27:58or reddish purple, appeared at the bottom of the flag
0:27:58 > 0:28:01of which republic, overthrown by force of arms in the late 1930s?
0:28:03 > 0:28:05Come on, let's have it, please.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07GONG
0:28:07 > 0:28:09And at the gong, Liverpool University have 125.
0:28:09 > 0:28:10New College Oxford have 220.
0:28:10 > 0:28:12APPLAUSE
0:28:14 > 0:28:17Well, it doesn't look good to lose by 100 points, almost,
0:28:17 > 0:28:19but you were a great team and we thoroughly enjoyed having you
0:28:19 > 0:28:22- and you were great fun.- We enjoyed being here.- Thank you very much.
0:28:22 > 0:28:25New College, we look forward to seeing you in the final.
0:28:25 > 0:28:27- Many congratulations to you. - Thank you.
0:28:27 > 0:28:29I hope you can join us next time for the second semifinal,
0:28:29 > 0:28:33- but until then, it's goodbye from Liverpool University.- Goodbye.
0:28:33 > 0:28:35- It's goodbye from New College Oxford.- Goodbye.
0:28:35 > 0:28:37And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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