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APPLAUSE

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Christmas University Challenge.

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Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.

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Hello.

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14 teams of alumni and staff old enough to know better

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bravely accepted our invitation to sprinkle a little stardust

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over the festive season by competing in this one-off series.

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All of them achieved respectable first-round scores

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in three figures, rather to their own surprise in some cases.

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Now the four winning teams with the highest scores

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compete in two semifinal matches.

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Whoever wins tonight is in the final.

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The team from New College Oxford were trailing against the LSE

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early in their first-round match but found their form

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after their captain's rallying cry of,

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"Remembering the answers is key!"

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They are no mugs, you see!

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Between them this team of three writers

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and one scientist scored 240 points, the highest in the first round.

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Let's meet them again.

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I'm Rachel Johnson, I read Classics, now I'm a journalist and novelist.

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I'm Patrick Gale, I read English

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and now I'm the westernmost novelist in the country.

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And their captain.

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Hello, I'm Kate Mosse, I read English

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and I'm now a novelist and a playwright.

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Hello, I'm Yan Wong, I read biological sciences

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and now I'm a researcher and science broadcaster.

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APPLAUSE

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The team from Liverpool University scored 165

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against Cardiff University's 140 in their first-round match

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in which they reassured us that they can spell panettone,

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that they know about the babes in the wood,

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and that they are familiar with the drawbacks of celibacy.

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Let's meet again a foursome who have redefined general knowledge.

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I'm Lawrence McGinty,

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I graduated in zoology in 1969

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and now I'm medical and science editor for ITV News.

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I'm Frank Duckworth, I graduated in physics in 1961

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and I'm now a statistician and I'm one of the inventors

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of the Duckworth Lewis method in one-day cricket.

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Their captain.

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Hi, I'm Stephen Bayley, I was allowed to get away with

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a Masters degree from Liverpool School of architecture in 1974

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and I then descended into becoming a design guru.

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Hello, I'm Frances Crook, I took a degree in

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mediaeval and modern history and I'm now the chief executive

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of the Howard League For Penal Reform.

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APPLAUSE

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OK, the rules are the same as ever so let's just get on with it.

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Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.

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What given name links the military commander who appeared on

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the Your Country Needs You poster of 1914,

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a fictional naval hero created by CS Forester,

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and a friend and confidante of Shakespeare's Hamlet?

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Kitchen...er!

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Sorry!

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One of you buzz, you may not confer.

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-Horatio.

-Correct!

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APPLAUSE

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Right, the first set of bonuses are on a photographer, Liverpool.

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"Her work falls metaphorically between Marlene Dietrich's legs

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"and the bitter lives of migratory potato pickers."

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These words of Robert Capa describe which US photographer

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who died at the age of 99 in 2012?

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Dorothea Lange.

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No. You can confer.

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We don't need to, he is the only one that knew.

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-It wasn't, it was Eve Arnold.

-Oh!

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Secondly, Eve Arnold was particularly associated

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with which actress whom she photographed over a ten-year period

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including noteworthy shots on the set of her last film The Misfits?

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Marilyn...Monroe.

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Correct. Quote. "Eve Arnold photographed four Prime Ministers.

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"Alec Douglas Hume carried her equipment into the house,

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"Ted Heath went swimming to evade her and John Major gave her a hug."

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Which Prime Minister, according to the obituary in the Daily Telegraph,

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was the only one who told her how to take her pictures?

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It must be Margaret Thatcher.

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WHISPERING

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It must have been Margaret Thatcher.

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Yes, of course!

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Now, ten points for this.

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Disbanded at the end of 1944,

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which volunteer organisation was originally known as

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the local defence volunteers?

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The Home Guard.

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Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Right, your first bonuses are on novels.

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Sergeant Lamb Of The Ninth

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is a novel of 1940 by which literary figure,

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perhaps best-known for his poetry?

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His other prose works include Goodbye To All That

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and The White Goddess.

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-Robert Graves.

-Correct.

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Sergeant Cuff is a major character in which work of 1868,

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often described as the first detective novel in English?

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-It's The Moonstone.

-Moonstone?

-Moonstone.

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-The Moonstone.

-Correct.

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Described as a dashing but heartless cad,

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Sergeant Troy marries Bathsheba Everdene in which novel of 1874?

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Far From The Madding Crowd.

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Correct. Ten points for this starter question.

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The 1974 play Absurd Person Singular,

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featuring three couples in three kitchens on three...

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-Alan Ayckbourn.

-Correct.

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Your bonuses, New College, are on Christmas mathematics.

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What in centimetres squared is the minimal area of paper required

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to wrap a cube-shaped present of side length ten centimetres?

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Ten centimetres, ten squared, 100...

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600...

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-Nominate Wong.

-600.

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600 is correct, yes.

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To the nearest 100 cubic centimetres,

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what volume of icing is required to produce a layer one centimetre thick

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on the uppermost surface of a flat circular Christmas cake

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of radius ten centimetres?

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- It's pi. - It's going to be pi.

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-Yes. 361.

-361.

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No, it's 300.

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Finally, if a Christmas pudding is to be completely covered

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in a coating of brandy butter of uniform thickness,

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what shape should the pudding be

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to minimise the amount of butter required?

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You want to nominate? Sphere.

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-Nominate Wong.

-Sphere.

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Spherical is correct. Yes.

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Ten points for this.

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Bigamous heroine deserts her child,

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pushes husband number one down a well,

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thinks about poisoning husband number two,

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and sets fire to a hotel

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in which her other male acquaintances are residing.

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These words describe the plot of which novel of 1862

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by Mary Braddon?

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Lady Audley's Secret.

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Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Right, New College, these bonuses are on a geographical expression.

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Referring to its extensive fortifications,

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the Gibraltar Of The North was an epithet given

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to which present-day capital city? The fortifications themselves

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were dismantled following an international crisis of 1867.

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1867? What was going on?

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Let's have it, please.

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-Trondheim.

-No, it's Luxembourg.

-Oh!

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The scene of a massacre by Royalist troops in 1644,

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which Lancashire town was known as the Geneva Of The North

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because of its austere puritanism?

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In recent years it's applied unsuccessfully for city status.

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-Preston?

-Preston?

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Yeah. Preston.

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-No, it's Bolton.

-Bolton.

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The Champagne Of The North was reputedly an appellation

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given by French troops to the tart, straw-coloured wheat beer

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of which capital, occupied after the Battle of Jena in 1806?

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THEY WHISPER

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Eastern Germany, isn't it?

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-Leipzig? Do you know?

-Amsterdam?

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It's going to be Eastern Germany.

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Shall we go for that? Leipzig.

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No, it's Berlin. We're going to take a picture round.

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For your picture starter,

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you'll see a map showing the location

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of a prestigious Boxing Day horse race meeting.

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ten points if you can give me the name of the racecourse.

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No-one confer, please.

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Epsom?

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No, anyone like to buzz from Liverpool?

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Ascot.

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No, so I'll tell you. It's Kempton Park, so picture bonuses shortly,

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but ten points for this starter question in the meantime.

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So named because an invasion by Allied forces in April 1915,

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Anzac Cove is a coastal feature

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of which Peninsula in western Turkey?

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-Gallipoli.

-Correct, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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So you failed to identify Kempton Park racecourse

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-which was the picture starter...

-Well, I did get Gallipoli.

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Well, you did, but the person who buzzed didn't.

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You'll see for your picture bonuses three more racecourses

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holding Christmas holiday meetings.

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Firstly, for five, where is A,

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which hosts races on December 27?

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Chepstow.

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That is Chepstow. You don't need to buzz, you can confer.

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-But I like buzzing!

-You are a very cocky fellow, aren't you?

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It is Chepstow.

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Secondly, where is B, which hosts a racing festival

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from the 26th to the 29th of December?

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Leopardstown? It's the only Irish racecourse I know.

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What do you say?

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-Don't know.

-That's Leopardstown.

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Finally where is C, which hosts racing on New Year's Day?

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Okehampton?

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Or Tiverton? Okehampton.

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-Okehampton.

-No, that's Exeter.

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Ten points for this.

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Meanings of which five-letter word include

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an arc with angle less than 180 degrees,

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the determinant of a matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows

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and columns, and the smaller of two differently derived versions

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of the same musical interval?

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Acute?

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No. New College, one of you buzz?

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Chord.

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No, it's minor. Ten points for this.

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What is the usual English name for the annual event

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known in many parts of Europe as St Sylvester's Night?

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You may not confer, one of you may buzz.

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Is it New Year's Eve?

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It is, yes!

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APPLAUSE

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Right, these bonuses are on medicine, New College.

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In each case give the arthropod vectors

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of the following infectious diseases. Firstly bubonic plague.

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It's caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

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What insect is responsible for carrying it

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from its reservoir in rats to humans?

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-Fleas.

-Fleas. Fleas.

-The rat flea.

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The rat flea is correct.

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Lyme disease is caused by a species of Borrelia.

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What small arachnids transmit the bacteria

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from their rodent host to humans?

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-Ticks.

-Correct.

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Which large fly acts as both host and vector of Trypanosoma brucei,

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causing African sleeping sickness in humans?

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Tsetse fly.

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Correct.

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Ten points for this. Answer as soon as your name is called.

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Give the dictionary spelling of the un-segmented gliding

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speech sound known as a diphthong.

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D-I-P-H-T-H-O-N-G.

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Correct!

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APPLAUSE

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These bonuses are on a city, New College.

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Which city was founded in 331 BC by an eponymous conqueror

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and was by 200 BC one of the largest cities in the world?

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It was devastated by a tsunami in July AD 365.

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-Alexandria?

-Alexandria. Yes?

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Alexandria.

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Correct.

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Born around 276 BC, which head of the Alexandrian library

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measured the Earth's circumference

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to an accuracy that is within 1% of the modern figure?

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-Nominate Wong.

-Eratosthenes.

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Correct.

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Finally, which Macedonian Greek dynasty

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took its name from a general of Alexander

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who moved the Egyptian capital from Memphis to Alexandria?

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-Philip of Macedon.

-Nominate Johnson.

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Philip of Macedon.

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No, it's the Ptolemies. The Ptolemaic dynasties

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Ten points for this.

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What name links the title character who is waiting to die

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in a novel of 1951 by Samuel Beckett, Hector the American...

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-Malone.

-Malone is right.

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-These bonuses are on the solar system, New College.

-We didn't...

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Solar system.

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-I beg your pardon?

-We didn't hear.

-We didn't hear the question.

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-I haven't asked the question yet!

-We didn't hear what you said.

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You gave the correct answer, I am now giving you a set of bonuses.

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Calm down, Johnson!

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Johnson! Shush!

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On the solar system, I think.

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Your bonuses are on the solar system.

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In 2011, NASA's Messenger spacecraft sent back images

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of bright pits or hollows unknown elsewhere in the solar system

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and possibly formed by vaporising volatile elements

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on the surface of which planet?

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-Mars.

-No, it's Mercury.

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Before the arrival of Messenger,

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Mercury had been visited by only one space probe

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which first flew by in March 1974. Give its name.

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-- '74, it could be Voyager, I guess. - Go for Voyager.

-Voyager.

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No, it was Mariner 10.

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Mercury's rotation is prograde with a period

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exactly 2/3 of its orbital period around the sun.

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This means that a day on Mercury lasts how many years?

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I don't know. Is 200?

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Do we know? You don't want to be nominated?

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-Guess.

-100.

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No, it's two.

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Oh!

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Plenty of time to go, Liverpool, we are only about halfway.

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We are going to take a music round.

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You will hear an excerpt from a ballet.

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For ten points I want the name of the ballet and the composer.

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The Nutcracker, and the composer is Tchaikovsky.

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Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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As you of course know, the Nutcracker is set on Christmas Eve.

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In act two, dances are performed at the behest of the Sugar Plum Fairy.

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These ethnic dances represent sweets or drinks from around the world.

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For your bonuses you are going to hear three pieces of music

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that represent some of them.

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Five points for each you can identify.

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Firstly, the drink represented in this dance.

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Coffee. Coffee.

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Coffee.

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Correct. Arabian coffee.

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Secondly the sweet or confectionery associated with this dance.

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Chocolate!

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It is. It is the Spanish chocolate dance.

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Lastly, the drink represented in this dance.

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Tea.

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It is the Chinese tea performers.

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Ten points for this. Listen carefully.

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Answer as soon as your name is called.

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In the words of the well-known Christmas song,

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if gold rings multiplied by French hens is 15,

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what is geese a-laying multiplied by swans a-swimming?

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42.

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42 is correct. Yes.

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APPLAUSE

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Right, Liverpool,

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these bonuses are on names of countries that become another word

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by the substitution of the initial letter,

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for example Niger and tiger.

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In each case, give both words from the descriptions.

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Firstly, a land-locked, West African country

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and a language of early Buddhist texts, closely related to Sanskrit.

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Chad could be the African country.

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No idea. Absolutely no idea.

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No.

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It is Mali and Pali.

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Secondly, a South American country noted for grape production

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and a verb meaning to pass time in a leisurely...

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Chile and while.

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While and Chile is correct, you don't need to buzz, you can confer.

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I told you I like buzzing!

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LAUGHTER

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Your colleagues might want to proffer their wisdom!

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We are perfectly happy!

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Finally the country to the east of Ghana

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and a symbol used to identify an organisation or its products.

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Togo. Togo and logo.

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Togo and logo.

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Yes. You managed that without buzzing, didn't you?

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LAUGHTER

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-I've had my fun now.

-Right, ten points for this.

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You can buzz on this, all of you.

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In words such as chrysanthemum

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and chrysalis the Greek prefix chrys refers to which metal?

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-Gold.

-Gold is correct.

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Your bonuses, New College, are on the year 1783.

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Designed by the Montgolfier brothers, the first manned version

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of what device was launched in Paris in November 1783?

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Balloon.

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Correct, hot air balloon.

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From June 1783, gases released by eruptions of the volcano Laki

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killed most of the livestock and, in the resulting famine,

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around 20% of the population of which island?

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Do we know?

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St Helene? No?

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It wasn't one of the ones off Sicily?

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- Stromboli? - Yes.

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Stromboli.

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Come on, let's have it.

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Say Stromboli.

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Laki.

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No, it's Iceland.

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The Peace Of Paris in 1783 concluded which conflict?

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Franco-Prussian war?

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No, that's later, wasn't it?

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Do we know this? No?

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Franco-Prussian war.

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No, it was the American War Of Independence.

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-Of course!

-Ten points for this.

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From words meaning "glaze" and "to grill",

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what term in Japanese cookery describes a dish

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basted with soy sauce and rice wine...?

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-Teriyaki.

-Correct. Yes.

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APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses this time are on spices, Liverpool.

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I want the part of the plant from which

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the following spices are obtained.

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Firstly, for five points, nutmeg.

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-The shell.

-Shell.

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No, it's the seed. Secondly, cloves.

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It's a flower.

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-It's a flower.

-Flower is correct, flower buds. Finally cinnamon.

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The pistols of a crocus.

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Oh, cinnamon!

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-I thought you said saffron! Sorry. Can we go back?

-No, you can't!

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LAUGHTER

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If you have conferred you might not have made that mistake!

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It is from the bark. Ten points for this.

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The psychologist Philip Zimbardo is best known for a simulated

0:19:070:19:11

prison experiment carried out in 1970...

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-Stockholm syndrome.

-No, you lose five points.

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In 1971 in which US university?

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You may not confer. One of you can buzz.

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-Chicago.

-No, it's Stanford.

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Right, you got off lightly there, New College.

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Ten points for this starter question.

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In George Orwell's 1984, two of the party slogans are

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War Is Peace and Freedom Is Slavery.

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What is the third?

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Is it Property Is Theft?

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No.

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One of you buzz.

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Truth Is Falsehood?

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No, you should know this.

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It is Ignorance Is Strength. Ten points for this.

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Of the 12 months of the Gregorian calendar,

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two are named after historical figures.

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For ten points name both months.

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-July and August.

-Correct, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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You get a set of bonuses on clouds this time, New College.

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In each case identify the cloud type from the two letter

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abbreviation used by the World Meteorological Organisation.

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-Firstly, CU?

-Cumulus. Cumulus.

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Cumulus.

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Correct. Secondly, CC?

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-Cirrus.

-Cirrus.

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Cirrus.

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No, it's cirrocumulus. Finally, AC?

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- Altocumulus. - Altocumulus.

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-Altocumulus.

-Altocumulus.

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Correct.

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We are going to take a picture round.

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You will see a detail from a well-known painting.

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For ten points all you have to do is name the artist.

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Raphael.

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Raphael is correct, yes.

0:20:500:20:52

APPLAUSE

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So, following on, your bonus questions, Liverpool,

0:20:530:20:57

are three more paintings by early 16th-century Italian artists

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depicting angels or putti.

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In each case I simply want you to name the artist.

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Firstly.

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WHISPERING

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Pick one.

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-Botticelli?

-No. No.

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-Goya.

-No. No, it's not.

0:21:140:21:17

We'll have to pass.

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OK, that is by Titian. Secondly, who is this?

0:21:200:21:24

-Pick one.

-Um...

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No idea?

0:21:320:21:33

No.

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That is by Rosso Fiorentino. And finally.

0:21:350:21:37

Oh, Leonardo.

0:21:390:21:40

Indeed, yes. Right, ten points for this.

0:21:400:21:43

What structure opened in 2000

0:21:430:21:44

and shortly afterwards required a further £5 million to be spent...?

0:21:440:21:48

-The Millennium Bridge.

-Correct.

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These bonuses, New College, are on US presidents.

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Who was the first US president to be targeted by an assassin,

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when the unemployed painter Richard Lawrence tried to shoot him

0:22:010:22:04

as he left a funeral in 1835?

0:22:040:22:06

1835?

0:22:060:22:08

Was it Roosevelt?

0:22:080:22:10

1835?

0:22:100:22:11

-1835.

-Washington?

0:22:110:22:13

-Could have been.

-Washington.

0:22:130:22:16

No, it was Andrew Jackson.

0:22:160:22:18

An assassination attempt by the mentally disturbed

0:22:180:22:20

saloon keeper John Schrank was foiled by a spectacle case

0:22:200:22:23

in the pocket of which former president? At the time

0:22:230:22:26

he had decided to run for another term against William Taft.

0:22:260:22:29

-Roosevelt?

-Which one?

0:22:320:22:34

-No, you can't...

-Theodore!

0:22:360:22:38

Yes, you are correct,

0:22:380:22:39

but next time please give the answer straight away.

0:22:390:22:42

And finally, in 1950, Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola

0:22:420:22:46

attempted to kill Harry S Truman to bring attention to

0:22:460:22:48

the case for the independence of which US territory?

0:22:480:22:52

Do you know that?

0:22:530:22:55

New Mexico? New Mexico?

0:22:560:23:00

-Come on!

-New Mexico.

0:23:000:23:02

No, it's Puerto Rico.

0:23:020:23:03

Ten points for this. Which country shares land frontiers with

0:23:030:23:07

Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Yemen and Qatar?

0:23:070:23:11

-Saudi Arabia?

-Yes!

0:23:140:23:16

APPLAUSE

0:23:160:23:18

Your bonuses are on Iranian languages.

0:23:200:23:23

Firstly for five points, including Persian and Kurdish,

0:23:230:23:26

the Iranian languages are a sub-branch of which large language family?

0:23:260:23:30

-Do you know?

-Finno-Hungarian?

0:23:320:23:34

No? Do you know?

0:23:340:23:37

-Semitic languages.

-Semitic languages.

0:23:370:23:41

No, they are Indo-European.

0:23:410:23:43

The national language of which former Soviet republic

0:23:430:23:46

is closely related to Persian?

0:23:460:23:47

Turkmenistan?

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Hungary.

0:23:480:23:50

- Former Soviet... - Hungary.

0:23:510:23:53

-No, no. Turkmenistan.

-Maybe. Is that a real place?

0:23:530:23:58

Kazakhstan?

0:23:580:23:59

-Let's have an answer, please.

-Turkmenistan.

0:23:590:24:03

No, that's a Turkic language, I think. Its Tajikistan.

0:24:030:24:05

Finally, also closely related to Persian, Dari,

0:24:050:24:08

along with Pashto, is a national language of which country?

0:24:080:24:11

-Afghanistan? I didn't hear the question.

-Afghanistan.

0:24:140:24:18

Correct. Ten points for this.

0:24:180:24:20

Which play by Shakespeare includes the words,

0:24:200:24:22

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on"?

0:24:220:24:24

-The Tempest.

-Correct.

0:24:260:24:28

APPLAUSE

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New College, these bonuses are on physics.

0:24:300:24:32

Diurnal, semi-diurnal and mixed are different

0:24:320:24:34

local manifestations of what phenomenon,

0:24:340:24:37

whose course was first correctly explained by Isaac Newton

0:24:370:24:40

in his Principia Mathematica of 1687?

0:24:400:24:43

Trajectory of the Sun? The moon?

0:24:470:24:49

It's got to be an orbit of some sort.

0:24:490:24:52

-Orbit of the Sun?

-The orbit of the sun.

0:24:520:24:55

No, they are tides.

0:24:550:24:56

As a residual gravitational effect,

0:24:560:24:58

the tidal force exerted on the Earth by a distant body

0:24:580:25:01

depends inversely on approximately what power of the distance?

0:25:010:25:05

-Square.

-Square.

0:25:070:25:08

No, it's the third power. The cube.

0:25:080:25:10

Finally, what specific four-letter term describes the tides

0:25:100:25:13

of smallest range, occurring at intermediate phases of the moon?

0:25:130:25:17

-Neap.

-Neap.

-Neap.

-Neap.

0:25:180:25:20

Neap is correct. Three minutes to go, ten points for this.

0:25:200:25:23

What two-word term denotes the physical quantity that

0:25:230:25:25

relates the flow of heat to the temperature gradient

0:25:250:25:28

in a material and is measured in Watts per metre per Kelvin?

0:25:280:25:32

Conductivity?

0:25:340:25:36

Anyone like to buzz?

0:25:360:25:38

Thermal conductivity.

0:25:390:25:40

Thermal conductivity is correct, yes.

0:25:400:25:43

This set of bonuses are on royal dynasties.

0:25:450:25:48

In 1995, Sheik Hamad seized control of which Middle Eastern state

0:25:480:25:51

from his father and became the 8th member of the Al Thani dynasty

0:25:510:25:55

to rule the country?

0:25:550:25:56

Egypt?

0:26:000:26:02

No, it's Qatar.

0:26:020:26:03

Emirs from the Al-Sabah dynasty first became rulers of which

0:26:030:26:06

Middle Eastern state in 1756?

0:26:060:26:08

Kuwait?

0:26:090:26:10

-We've just done Kuwait.

-No, that was Qatar. Kuwait?

0:26:100:26:14

Kuwait is good.

0:26:140:26:16

Finally, in 1783, the Al Khalifa family became the ruling dynasty

0:26:160:26:19

of which island country in the same region?

0:26:190:26:22

-Bahrain?

-Bahrain?

0:26:250:26:27

Bahrain is correct. Yes. Ten points for this.

0:26:270:26:29

In 1917, 1944 and 1963

0:26:290:26:32

the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to which organisation?

0:26:320:26:36

-International Red Cross.

-Correct.

0:26:360:26:38

Your set of bonuses this time...

0:26:380:26:41

This is a gift for you, they're on statistics.

0:26:410:26:43

What word of four letters denotes the asymmetry

0:26:430:26:46

of the distribution of a dataset

0:26:460:26:47

and may also refer to lines that are neither parallel nor intersecting?

0:26:470:26:51

-Skew.

-Correct.

0:26:510:26:52

Coined by RA Fisher in 1935, what term denotes the statistical

0:26:520:26:56

hypothesis which assumes the differences in observed outcomes

0:26:560:26:59

are due solely to experimental error and chance?

0:26:590:27:02

Null hypothesis? Null hypothesis?

0:27:050:27:08

Correct.

0:27:080:27:09

What statistical term describes a scatter diagram where

0:27:090:27:11

one variable tends to decrease as the other increases,

0:27:110:27:14

for example snowfall versus temperature?

0:27:140:27:16

Oh... Um...

0:27:180:27:19

A scatter diagram?

0:27:210:27:22

No, it's a negative correlation or an anti-correlation.

0:27:220:27:25

Ten points for this.

0:27:250:27:26

Linguistically speaking, what links the place names

0:27:260:27:28

Pendle Hill, Isle of Sheppey and River Tyne?

0:27:280:27:31

The first word is the same as the second word.

0:27:330:27:35

Yes, tautological, repetition of the name. Yes.

0:27:350:27:38

Right, your bonuses this time, New College, are on the colour purple.

0:27:380:27:41

A purple and green Sisserou parrot appears on the flag of

0:27:410:27:44

which Caribbean island state?

0:27:440:27:46

-Anybody know?

-No. St Lucia?

0:27:470:27:50

St Lucia.

0:27:500:27:51

No, it's Dominica.

0:27:510:27:52

A horizontal band of the heraldic colour murrey,

0:27:520:27:55

or reddish purple, appeared at the bottom of the flag

0:27:550:27:58

of which republic, overthrown by force of arms in the late 1930s?

0:27:580:28:01

Come on, let's have it, please.

0:28:030:28:05

GONG

0:28:050:28:07

And at the gong, Liverpool University have 125.

0:28:070:28:09

New College Oxford have 220.

0:28:090:28:10

APPLAUSE

0:28:100:28:12

Well, it doesn't look good to lose by 100 points, almost,

0:28:140:28:17

but you were a great team and we thoroughly enjoyed having you

0:28:170:28:19

-and you were great fun.

-We enjoyed being here.

-Thank you very much.

0:28:190:28:22

New College, we look forward to seeing you in the final.

0:28:220:28:25

-Many congratulations to you.

-Thank you.

0:28:250:28:27

I hope you can join us next time for the second semifinal,

0:28:270:28:29

-but until then, it's goodbye from Liverpool University.

-Goodbye.

0:28:290:28:33

-It's goodbye from New College Oxford.

-Goodbye.

0:28:330:28:35

And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

0:28:350:28:37

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