0:00:18 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:21Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:31Hello. This frantic scramble up the intellectual Christmas tree
0:00:31 > 0:00:33has reached its penultimate match.
0:00:33 > 0:00:35Last time, we saw the team from New College, Oxford
0:00:35 > 0:00:38win the first place in tomorrow night's final
0:00:38 > 0:00:41in this special season for alumni and staff
0:00:41 > 0:00:43of some of our leading universities.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45Tonight we'll find out who they'll be playing.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48The team from Glasgow University held the lead
0:00:48 > 0:00:50throughout their first-round match against Exeter
0:00:50 > 0:00:55and were comfortably ahead by 165 points to 125 at the gong.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58They knew about Wittgenstein and prime ministers called David
0:00:58 > 0:01:00and could teach Father Christmas a thing or two about levers.
0:01:00 > 0:01:02Let's meet them again.
0:01:02 > 0:01:04Hi. I'm Harry Burns.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07I graduated in Medicine from Glasgow in 1974
0:01:07 > 0:01:11and now I'm Chief Medical Officer for Scotland.
0:01:11 > 0:01:13Hello, I'm Susan Calman.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16I graduated in Law from Glasgow University in 1996
0:01:16 > 0:01:18and now I'm a comedian and writer.
0:01:18 > 0:01:20And their captain.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23Hello, I'm Neil Oliver. I graduated in Archaeology in 1988
0:01:23 > 0:01:26and nowadays I'm a TV presenter and writer.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28Hello, I'm Lynn Faulds Wood.
0:01:28 > 0:01:32I graduated in French and Spanish in the last century.
0:01:32 > 0:01:34I'm a TV watchdog and cancer campaigner.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37APPLAUSE
0:01:39 > 0:01:42The team from the University of East Anglia
0:01:42 > 0:01:45had a score of 195 at the end of their first-round match
0:01:45 > 0:01:48against the University of Birmingham, who, halfway through,
0:01:48 > 0:01:50hit the kind of slump usually only experienced
0:01:50 > 0:01:52after a surfeit of stuffing and brandy butter.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55Although they displayed a callous indifference
0:01:55 > 0:01:56to the fate of Beatrice Cenci,
0:01:56 > 0:01:58they knew the derivation of mistletoe,
0:01:58 > 0:02:01they found their way around an advent calendar,
0:02:01 > 0:02:04and they performed a triple axel on bonuses about ice rinks.
0:02:04 > 0:02:06Let's meet them again.
0:02:06 > 0:02:07Hello, I'm John Boyne.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10I graduated in Creative Writing in 1995,
0:02:10 > 0:02:13and since then I've written seven novels for adults
0:02:13 > 0:02:14and three for young readers.
0:02:14 > 0:02:15Hello, I'm Razia Iqbal.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18I graduated in 1985 in American Studies
0:02:18 > 0:02:20and I'm now one of the main presenters
0:02:20 > 0:02:23for BBC World Service's radio programme Newshour.
0:02:23 > 0:02:25- And their captain. - Hello, I'm David Grossman.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28I graduated in 1987 from UEA in Politics
0:02:28 > 0:02:31and now I'm a political journalist.
0:02:31 > 0:02:33Hi. I'm Charlie Higson.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36I graduated in Literature and Film in 1980
0:02:36 > 0:02:39and I now write children's books about zombies.
0:02:39 > 0:02:42APPLAUSE
0:02:44 > 0:02:46Let's not waste any time reciting the rules.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48So, fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:48 > 0:02:54In 2011, UNESCO granted intangible cultural heritage status
0:02:54 > 0:02:56to what now-ubiquitous work,
0:02:56 > 0:02:59first performed on Christmas Eve 1818
0:02:59 > 0:03:02in the church of St Nicholas in Oberndorf in Austria?
0:03:03 > 0:03:05- Silent Night?- Correct.
0:03:05 > 0:03:08APPLAUSE
0:03:09 > 0:03:12Your bonuses are on London art galleries.
0:03:12 > 0:03:15In each case, name the gallery from its address and postcode.
0:03:15 > 0:03:19Firstly, Kensington Gardens, W2 3XA.
0:03:21 > 0:03:23It's not the Natural History Museum?
0:03:23 > 0:03:26(Normally I would say that. Try that one.)
0:03:26 > 0:03:28The Natural History Museum.
0:03:28 > 0:03:30No, that's the Serpentine Gallery.
0:03:30 > 0:03:36Secondly, Hertford House, Manchester Square, W1U 3BN.
0:03:36 > 0:03:38THEY CONFER
0:03:41 > 0:03:43Give me the name of a gallery.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46It's The Wallace Collection.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49- The Wallace Collection. - The Wallace Collection.
0:03:49 > 0:03:53Correct. Finally, Millbank, SW1P 4RG.
0:03:53 > 0:03:54(That's the Tate.)
0:03:54 > 0:03:57- Tate?- Yeah, yeah.- Go for it.
0:03:57 > 0:03:58The Tate.
0:03:58 > 0:04:00- Which one?- Modern.
0:04:00 > 0:04:03- No, it's not, it's Tate Britain. - Oh!- Bad luck.- Oh, no!
0:04:03 > 0:04:0510 points for this. Identify the play by Shakespeare
0:04:05 > 0:04:07in which these lines appear.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10"Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes
0:04:10 > 0:04:12"Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
0:04:12 > 0:04:14"This bird of dawning singeth all night long;
0:04:14 > 0:04:18"And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad."
0:04:21 > 0:04:22Twelfth Night?
0:04:22 > 0:04:23No. One of you buzz from Glasgow.
0:04:25 > 0:04:26Romeo And Juliet.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28No, it's Hamlet. 10 points for this.
0:04:28 > 0:04:31At Gresham College in London in the 17th century,
0:04:31 > 0:04:35an intellectual circle organised itself "for the promoting
0:04:35 > 0:04:37"of physico-mathematical experimental..."
0:04:37 > 0:04:39The Royal Society.
0:04:39 > 0:04:40Correct.
0:04:40 > 0:04:43APPLAUSE
0:04:43 > 0:04:46Glasgow, your bonuses are on shorter words that can be made
0:04:46 > 0:04:49from the letters in one of the names traditionally given
0:04:49 > 0:04:51to the three Magi or Three Kings.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54In each case, give both the word from the definition
0:04:54 > 0:04:57and the name of the king.
0:04:57 > 0:04:59Firstly, the capital of Morocco.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03- Marrakesh...- Well, it's Balthazar, Caspar and Melchior.
0:05:03 > 0:05:04So...
0:05:04 > 0:05:06Oh, no, it's not Marrakesh.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10It's Rabat.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13Rabat. Balthazar.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15Rabat and Balthazar.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17Correct. Secondly, according to Greek mythology,
0:05:17 > 0:05:22the rarefied fluid said to flow like blood in the veins of the gods.
0:05:23 > 0:05:24Melchior.
0:05:24 > 0:05:25Melchior and...
0:05:25 > 0:05:26Melchior.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28Rarefied fluid?
0:05:29 > 0:05:31- Don't know.- Don't know.- Pass.
0:05:31 > 0:05:32It's ichor and Melchior.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35And finally, the common name of a freshwater fish
0:05:35 > 0:05:36of the family Cyprinidae.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41THEY CONFER
0:05:41 > 0:05:43Oh, Cyprinidae... it must be Caspar. And...
0:05:43 > 0:05:44- Carp?- Yeah, yeah.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46Carp and Caspar.
0:05:46 > 0:05:47Correct.
0:05:47 > 0:05:48Ten points for this.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51Kate Bush's Words For Snow in 2011,
0:05:51 > 0:05:53Paul Simon's Ways To Leave Your Lover...
0:05:54 > 0:05:5550.
0:05:55 > 0:05:5650 is correct, yes.
0:05:56 > 0:06:00APPLAUSE
0:06:00 > 0:06:03These bonuses, UEA, are on science in the theatre.
0:06:03 > 0:06:07Born 1564, which pioneer of physics is the title character
0:06:07 > 0:06:10of a play by Bertolt Brecht?
0:06:10 > 0:06:12- Galileo.- Galileo?- Yeah.
0:06:12 > 0:06:13Galileo.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16Correct. Chaos theory, thermodynamics and garden design
0:06:16 > 0:06:20are among the themes of which play of 1993 by Tom Stoppard?
0:06:20 > 0:06:22- Arcadia.- Arcadia.
0:06:22 > 0:06:23Arcadia.
0:06:23 > 0:06:26Correct. Which 1998 work by Michael Frayn
0:06:26 > 0:06:28is based on the 1941 meeting
0:06:28 > 0:06:30between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg?
0:06:30 > 0:06:33- Copenhagen. - Correct. 10 points for this.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35Give your answer either in square metres or square feet.
0:06:35 > 0:06:38According to the Christmas Day Trading Act of 2004,
0:06:38 > 0:06:42shops in England and Wales over what internal floor area
0:06:42 > 0:06:44are not allowed to open on Christmas Day?
0:06:50 > 0:06:525,000 square feet.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54No. University of East Anglia?
0:06:56 > 0:06:581,500 square feet.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01No, it's 3,000 square feet or 280 square metres.
0:07:01 > 0:07:0410 points for this. Binomially speaking,
0:07:04 > 0:07:09Perdix perdix in Pyrus communis form what seasonal pairing?
0:07:12 > 0:07:13The holly and the ivy.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15No.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17- Is it...?- You may not confer. One of you may buzz.
0:07:19 > 0:07:20Turtle doves.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22No, it's a partridge in a pear tree.
0:07:22 > 0:07:2310 points for this.
0:07:23 > 0:07:27"When I discovered ready-mades I thought to discourage aesthetics.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30"I threw the bottle-rack and the urinal into their faces
0:07:30 > 0:07:32"and now they admire them for their..."
0:07:33 > 0:07:34Marcel Duchamp?
0:07:34 > 0:07:35Correct.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37APPLAUSE
0:07:37 > 0:07:41These bonuses will give you the lead if you get them. They're on memory.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science
0:07:44 > 0:07:45Of Remembering Everything
0:07:45 > 0:07:48recounts which journalist's experience of winning
0:07:48 > 0:07:52the US Memory Championships after just one year of training?
0:07:53 > 0:07:55Who was that guy who put...?
0:07:57 > 0:07:58- He was always...- No idea.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00I think he played American football.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03He put himself into all those positions.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06- Don't know. - Ah, God, I can't remember his name.
0:08:07 > 0:08:09- Foster Wallace? No.- No, no.
0:08:09 > 0:08:10We don't know.
0:08:10 > 0:08:11That's Joshua Foer.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14Its invention traditionally ascribed to the Greek poet
0:08:14 > 0:08:18Simonides of Ceos, what two-word term denotes the mnemonic device
0:08:18 > 0:08:20also known as the method of loci,
0:08:20 > 0:08:24employed by the fictional Hannibal Lecter among others?
0:08:26 > 0:08:27Two words.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29It's a two-word phrase.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33- No, I don't know.- We don't know. We've forgotten, in fact.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35It's the memory palace. And finally,
0:08:35 > 0:08:39in a study of 2000 at UCL, the right posterior hippocampus,
0:08:39 > 0:08:42the brain area involved in spatial navigation,
0:08:42 > 0:08:45was found to be significantly larger than normal
0:08:45 > 0:08:47in people with which job?
0:08:47 > 0:08:48Taxi drivers, I think.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50- Taxi drivers?- Go for it.
0:08:50 > 0:08:53- Taxi drivers.- Yes, London taxi drivers is correct, yes.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55Your picture starter, now.
0:08:55 > 0:08:58We're going to see a poster representing a Winter Olympics
0:08:58 > 0:09:00held during the 1980s.
0:09:00 > 0:09:0210 points - name the location.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04Any helpful wording has,
0:09:04 > 0:09:05of course, been removed.
0:09:06 > 0:09:07Calgary.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09No. One of you may buzz from UEA.
0:09:10 > 0:09:11Lake Placid.
0:09:11 > 0:09:13It is Lake Placid. Let's see the whole thing.
0:09:13 > 0:09:15There it is.
0:09:15 > 0:09:17APPLAUSE
0:09:19 > 0:09:22OK. So you've taken the lead, UEA,
0:09:22 > 0:09:25and your bonuses are three more posters from Winter Olympics
0:09:25 > 0:09:27held in the 1970s and '80s with the locations omitted.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30For each of them, I simply want you to name the city
0:09:30 > 0:09:32in which the games were held. Firstly...
0:09:37 > 0:09:39Is it the Canadian one at Vancouver?
0:09:39 > 0:09:41Calgary or Vancouver?
0:09:43 > 0:09:45Montreal? No, they didn't have the...
0:09:46 > 0:09:48- Definitely looks Canadian. - It looks Canadian.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51- Canadian. Vancouver? Vancouver. - Try it.
0:09:51 > 0:09:52Is it Vancouver?
0:09:52 > 0:09:55No, it's Calgary. Let's see the whole thing. There it is.
0:09:55 > 0:09:56And secondly...
0:09:58 > 0:10:04- '70s and '80s. There was one in South Korea, wasn't there?- No...
0:10:04 > 0:10:05Was one in Japan?
0:10:05 > 0:10:12- Was there a Tokyo?- But those weren't winter. We don't know.- Tokyo?- Tokyo.
0:10:12 > 0:10:16No, it's Sarajevo in 1984 - there it is. And finally...
0:10:19 > 0:10:21- Ah.- It's going downhill, isn't it?
0:10:21 > 0:10:23THEY CHUCKLE
0:10:23 > 0:10:25It's a ski jump.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28- The one in Salt Lake City?- Um...
0:10:28 > 0:10:30- Where was Eddie the Eagle? - Scandinavia, somewhere?
0:10:30 > 0:10:34- Where was Eddie the Eagle? - Come on.- We don't know.
0:10:34 > 0:10:39It's Innsbruck in 1976. Right, 10 points for this.
0:10:39 > 0:10:43"His music suffers from lack of emotional range, often deteriorating
0:10:43 > 0:10:47"into fairylike prestos and sugary sentimental andantes.
0:10:47 > 0:10:50"His violin concerto characterises this criticism,
0:10:50 > 0:10:52"yet its charm almost defies it."
0:10:52 > 0:10:55These works from Chambers Biographical Dictionary
0:10:55 > 0:10:59refer to which German composer, born 1809, whose works include
0:10:59 > 0:11:03the Italian Symphony and the Hebrides Overture?
0:11:06 > 0:11:09I was going to say Mendelssohn.
0:11:09 > 0:11:12- Well, are you?- I AM saying Mendelssohn.- Well, you're right.
0:11:12 > 0:11:14LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:11:15 > 0:11:18Right, your bonuses are on education in the United States.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20Having a different meaning in the UK,
0:11:20 > 0:11:23what name is given to American secondary schools, usually
0:11:23 > 0:11:26independent, that educate students up to college entrance level?
0:11:29 > 0:11:31- High school. - No, they're preparatory schools.
0:11:31 > 0:11:34What term denotes a type of secondary school in the UK
0:11:34 > 0:11:38and in the US means a primary school, or a school stressing
0:11:38 > 0:11:40the study of classical languages?
0:11:41 > 0:11:43INDISTINCT
0:11:47 > 0:11:50- Elementary?- No, it's grammar. A grammar school.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53Sometimes called grammar or elementary schools,
0:11:53 > 0:11:55American primary schools are also known
0:11:55 > 0:11:57by what name not used in the UK?
0:12:02 > 0:12:07- I have no idea.- No.- Elementary... Grade school?- Grade school.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10Correct. 10 points for this starter question.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13The addition of what letter of the alphabet
0:12:13 > 0:12:17transforms the name of a sea port at the mouth of the Red Sea
0:12:17 > 0:12:18into that of a former German state
0:12:18 > 0:12:21paired with Wurttemberg after World War II?
0:12:21 > 0:12:22Aden and Baden?
0:12:22 > 0:12:26Correct, B is what I was looking for, yes, I will accept that.
0:12:26 > 0:12:27APPLAUSE
0:12:29 > 0:12:30Your bonuses are on painters,
0:12:30 > 0:12:34specifically those better known for their work in other fields.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37Which writer of verse was a draughtsman at London Zoo
0:12:37 > 0:12:41from 1830-1832 and is noted for his watercolours of parrots,
0:12:41 > 0:12:43many of which were published as lithographs?
0:12:49 > 0:12:50No idea.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52- We don't know.- That's Edward Lear.
0:12:52 > 0:12:56Gallery Of The Louvre is a work of the 1830s by which US inventor,
0:12:56 > 0:13:00who, after studying painting in England, became the first president
0:13:00 > 0:13:02of the National Academy Of Design in New York?
0:13:08 > 0:13:11- Blank faces all round, I'm afraid. - It's Samuel Morse.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14Finally, which Swedish playwright and novelist is also noted
0:13:14 > 0:13:19for stormy expressionist seascapes such as the 1903 work, The City?
0:13:21 > 0:13:23- Oh, God, it's...- Strindberg. - Strindberg.
0:13:23 > 0:13:28- Who?- Strindberg.- Strindberg. - Correct.
0:13:28 > 0:13:31We're going to take a music round now.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33For your music starter you will hear a Christmas carol
0:13:33 > 0:13:35performed by a well-known opera singer.
0:13:35 > 0:13:39For 10 points, I want you to give me the name of the singer.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42# Angels from the realms of glory
0:13:42 > 0:13:46# Wing your flight over all the earth... #
0:13:47 > 0:13:52- Is it Katherine Jenkins?- No. You can hear a little more, Glasgow.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55# Once you sang creation's story
0:13:55 > 0:13:58# Now proclaim Messiah's birth... #
0:13:58 > 0:13:59You may not confer.
0:14:01 > 0:14:04Is it Maria Callas?
0:14:04 > 0:14:07No, it's Kiri Te Kanawa. So, music bonuses shortly.
0:14:07 > 0:14:09Fingers on the buzzers, 10 points for this.
0:14:09 > 0:14:13Quote, "For our century, it is he who gave legitimacy
0:14:13 > 0:14:15"to the implausible in the art of the novel."
0:14:15 > 0:14:18These words of Milan Kundera referred to which literary figure
0:14:18 > 0:14:21whose major works were published posthumously after
0:14:21 > 0:14:24he died from tuberculosis in Vienna...
0:14:24 > 0:14:26- Franz Kafka?- Correct.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28APPLAUSE
0:14:29 > 0:14:32You'll hear three more world-renowned opera singers
0:14:32 > 0:14:34performing Christmas songs for your bonuses.
0:14:34 > 0:14:36In each case, I want the name of the singer.
0:14:36 > 0:14:39All three are dames of the British Empire. Firstly...
0:14:40 > 0:14:45# Joy to the world, the Lord is come
0:14:45 > 0:14:50# Let Earth receive her king! #
0:14:50 > 0:14:52Is it Joan Sutherland?
0:14:52 > 0:14:54It is, yes. Secondly, who is this?
0:14:54 > 0:14:59# Fear not said he for mighty dread
0:15:00 > 0:15:05# Had seized their troubled mind
0:15:05 > 0:15:11# Glad tidings of great joy I bring
0:15:11 > 0:15:16# To you and all mankind. #
0:15:18 > 0:15:21- Try Lesley Garrett.- Lesley Garrett.
0:15:21 > 0:15:22No, that was Emma Kirkby.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24And, finally, who's this?
0:15:24 > 0:15:28# It was a winter wine... #
0:15:28 > 0:15:32THEY CONFER
0:15:34 > 0:15:38- Nellie Melba.- Janet Baker. 10 points for this.
0:15:38 > 0:15:41The East India administrator Stamford Raffles founded
0:15:41 > 0:15:43which city in...?
0:15:43 > 0:15:45Singapore.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47Singapore is correct, yes.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49APPLAUSE
0:15:49 > 0:15:51These bonuses are on structures.
0:15:51 > 0:15:55Daniel Shechtman received the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry
0:15:55 > 0:15:57for the discovery of what type of solid structure,
0:15:57 > 0:16:00having a discrete diffraction diagram
0:16:00 > 0:16:02but lacking three-dimensional lattice periodicity?
0:16:06 > 0:16:07AUDIENCE TITTERS
0:16:09 > 0:16:12- We don't know.- It's quasicrystals.
0:16:12 > 0:16:15Which British mathematician has his name attached to certain
0:16:15 > 0:16:17two-dimensional theoretical quasicrystals which
0:16:17 > 0:16:20result in a tiling of the plane in a non-periodic pattern?
0:16:27 > 0:16:31- We don't know, I'm afraid, on that one either.- It's no cause for shame!
0:16:31 > 0:16:35It is amusing, though, you're so mournful about it.
0:16:35 > 0:16:36It's Roger Penrose.
0:16:36 > 0:16:39Three types of regular polygon can tile the plane
0:16:39 > 0:16:42with an infinite number of identical copies of themselves.
0:16:42 > 0:16:45Name all three.
0:16:49 > 0:16:53Cube, yeah. Cube? Triangle...
0:16:53 > 0:16:56- They're polygons, are they? - Go for it.
0:16:56 > 0:17:00- Diamond.- Come on. - Er, we don't know.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03It's the triangle, the square and the hexagon. 10 points for this.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06What precise year saw the reversal of puritan legislation
0:17:06 > 0:17:10of the 1640s that had banned celebrations at Christmas?
0:17:18 > 0:17:21- 1646?- No.
0:17:23 > 0:17:2716...48. 18 40 92.
0:17:27 > 0:17:29LAUGHTER
0:17:29 > 0:17:31- I'm confused.- 1660, the Restoration. 10 points for this.
0:17:31 > 0:17:35Which short musical term derives from the Italian word
0:17:35 > 0:17:37for a ladder or staircase?
0:17:39 > 0:17:42- Scale?- Scale is correct, yes, from scala.
0:17:42 > 0:17:44APPLAUSE
0:17:45 > 0:17:48Right, these bonuses are on 19th-century US Presidents.
0:17:48 > 0:17:50After his second term in office, which President went on a highly
0:17:50 > 0:17:54publicised world tour, meeting Bismarck and Queen Victoria?
0:17:54 > 0:17:58His tomb in New York is one of the largest mausoleums in the world.
0:18:01 > 0:18:05- Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt? - No, it was Ulysses S Grant.
0:18:05 > 0:18:07Secondly, which President survived an impeachment
0:18:07 > 0:18:10and later became the only former President to serve in the Senate
0:18:10 > 0:18:13when he was elected for Tennessee?
0:18:14 > 0:18:16Garfield? I don't know.
0:18:18 > 0:18:20- We don't know. - That was Andrew Johnson.
0:18:20 > 0:18:23And, finally, in retirement, which President surveyed
0:18:23 > 0:18:26and designed the University of Virginia at Charlottesville,
0:18:26 > 0:18:28not far from his home at Monticello?
0:18:28 > 0:18:30- Thomas Jefferson.- Thomas Jefferson.
0:18:30 > 0:18:33Correct. Right, we're going to take another picture round -
0:18:33 > 0:18:37for your picture starter, you'll see a painting of a well-known scene.
0:18:37 > 0:18:40For 10 points, I want the four-word title of the painting.
0:18:45 > 0:18:49- Adoration Of The Magi? - It is, yes, by Peter Paul Rubens.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51Your bonuses are three more depictions
0:18:51 > 0:18:54of the adoration of the Magi, or Three Kings,
0:18:54 > 0:18:56by Dutch or Flemish artists.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59- There will be five points for each artist you can name.- Firstly...
0:19:02 > 0:19:05- Looks like Bosch. - It does, doesn't it?
0:19:05 > 0:19:09- Go for Bosch?- Yeah.- Bosch?
0:19:09 > 0:19:11That is by Hieronymus Bosch.
0:19:11 > 0:19:12Secondly...
0:19:14 > 0:19:16It must be Bruegel.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21- Bruegel, do we say?- Yeah.- Bruegel.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23It IS by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
0:19:23 > 0:19:25And finally...
0:19:31 > 0:19:35- I don't know.- Rubens, I was thinking.
0:19:35 > 0:19:37Rubens, should we go for that?
0:19:37 > 0:19:41- Try it.- Rubens. - No, that is by Rembrandt.
0:19:41 > 0:19:4610 points for this. "The king's name is a tower of strength."
0:19:46 > 0:19:49Which of Shakespeare's title characters says those words
0:19:49 > 0:19:51of himself on the day of his final battle?
0:19:54 > 0:19:55- Richard the Third.- Correct.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57APPLAUSE
0:20:00 > 0:20:03Right, your bonuses are on an ancient kingdom.
0:20:03 > 0:20:08Tiglath-Pileser was a name shared by three kings of which ancient state
0:20:08 > 0:20:11originally centred on a city-state in northern Mesopotamia?
0:20:15 > 0:20:18- Ur?- No, it's Assyria.
0:20:18 > 0:20:20In the mid-8th century BC,
0:20:20 > 0:20:24Tiglath-Pileser III restored Assyrian military power
0:20:24 > 0:20:26in which region of southern Mesopotamia,
0:20:26 > 0:20:29ascending its throne under the name of Pulu?
0:20:31 > 0:20:33- No idea.- No idea.- It's Babylonia.
0:20:33 > 0:20:39And, finally, who succeeded Sargon II as king of Assyria in 705 BC?
0:20:39 > 0:20:42The failure of his campaign in Judah is the subject
0:20:42 > 0:20:44of a poem by Byron.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49- We don't know.- It's Sennacherib -
0:20:49 > 0:20:52"the Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold."
0:20:52 > 0:20:5510 points for this, answer as soon as your name is called.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57Give the dictionary spelling of the vivid,
0:20:57 > 0:21:00purplish red colour known as fuchsia.
0:21:02 > 0:21:06- F-U-C-S-H-I-A.- No.
0:21:08 > 0:21:12- F-U-S-C-H-I... - No, it's F-U-C-H-S-I-A.
0:21:12 > 0:21:1410 points for this.
0:21:14 > 0:21:17The Strait of Bonifacio separates the northern end
0:21:17 > 0:21:20of the Italian island of Sardinia from which other island?
0:21:20 > 0:21:22- Corsica?- Correct.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24APPLAUSE
0:21:25 > 0:21:29These bonuses are on operas inspired by Russian literature.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31The Gambler, and early opera by Prokofiev,
0:21:31 > 0:21:35is based on an 1866 story of the same name by which novelist?
0:21:40 > 0:21:43- Pushkin.- Pushkin.- Pushkin?
0:21:43 > 0:21:45No, it's by Dostoevsky.
0:21:45 > 0:21:49A Dog's Heart by Alexander Raskatov
0:21:49 > 0:21:51premiered in the UK in 2010
0:21:51 > 0:21:56and is based on a satirical novella of 1925 by which Russian author?
0:21:59 > 0:22:02- No, no idea.- No idea.
0:22:02 > 0:22:04That's by Mikhail Bulgakov.
0:22:04 > 0:22:07Finally, the brothers Pyotr and Modest Tchaikovsky
0:22:07 > 0:22:09based their 1890 opera The Queen Of Spades
0:22:09 > 0:22:12on a cautionary short story by which Russian poet?
0:22:15 > 0:22:18- No idea. Try Pushkin again?- Pushkin.
0:22:18 > 0:22:21It was Pushkin, yes. 10 points for this.
0:22:21 > 0:22:24Pascal is a leading variety of which common vegetable?
0:22:24 > 0:22:27Known scientifically as Apium graveolens,
0:22:27 > 0:22:29it's a main ingredient of Waldorf salad.
0:22:31 > 0:22:32Lettuce.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36- What? Walnut? - One of you buzz from UEA.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41- A grape.- No, it's celery. 10 points for this.
0:22:41 > 0:22:45In 1773, Elizabeth Linley, a successful soprano
0:22:45 > 0:22:47and noted beauty, married which dramatist?
0:22:47 > 0:22:51His subsequent works include The Rivals and School For Scandal.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54Sorry, it's gone. No, sorry.
0:22:55 > 0:23:00- Sheridan.- It is Richard Brinsley Sheridan, yes.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02APPLAUSE
0:23:03 > 0:23:06Your bonuses this time are on trigonometry.
0:23:06 > 0:23:09Given a right-angled triangle with two sides of length one,
0:23:09 > 0:23:12what is the length of the third side?
0:23:23 > 0:23:28- Two.- You can confer, of course. - Two.- Two.- Two.
0:23:28 > 0:23:32No, it's the square root of two by Pythagoras.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35What is the area of the same right-angled triangle
0:23:35 > 0:23:37where two sides have length one?
0:23:39 > 0:23:431 x 1 x 1... Is one squared, so it's half...
0:23:43 > 0:23:470.5 of a square of whatever the...
0:23:47 > 0:23:52- Come on. What's your answer? - 0.5. 0.5.- Yes, half is correct.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55What is the general name given to a triangle where two sides have
0:23:55 > 0:23:57the same length, or, equivalently,
0:23:57 > 0:24:00two of the three internal angles are equal?
0:24:01 > 0:24:03Equilateral.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06No, it's isosceles. Equilateral is all, isn't it?
0:24:06 > 0:24:09Right, about three minutes to go, 10 points for this.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12An object described as "corniculate" would have what feature
0:24:12 > 0:24:15or projections resembling such a feature?
0:24:15 > 0:24:17- Horns?- Horns is correct, yes.
0:24:17 > 0:24:21- APPLAUSE - These bonuses are on merchants.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24"The Merchant Of Death Is Dead" was a headline of 1888
0:24:24 > 0:24:28that erroneously announced the death of which Swedish inventor and
0:24:28 > 0:24:33industrialist, having confused him with his recently deceased brother?
0:24:33 > 0:24:35- Nobel.- Alfred Nobel is correct.
0:24:35 > 0:24:38The Merchant of Yonkers is a play of 1938 by which US writer
0:24:38 > 0:24:41also known for the novel The Bridge Of San Luis Rey
0:24:41 > 0:24:43and the play Our Town?
0:24:44 > 0:24:48- I can't remember who wrote it. I can't remember who wrote it.- No.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50That's Thornton Wilder.
0:24:50 > 0:24:53And in Shakespeare's, finally, The Merchant Of Venice,
0:24:53 > 0:24:56what is the name of the merchant taken to court by Shylock
0:24:56 > 0:24:57for his pound of flesh?
0:25:00 > 0:25:02I can't remember his name.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05- Pass.- It's Antonio. 10 points for this.
0:25:05 > 0:25:09In meteorology, what does a Robinson cup anemometer measure?
0:25:11 > 0:25:14- Wind speed.- Wind speed or wind pressure is correct, yes.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16APPLAUSE
0:25:16 > 0:25:20These bonuses are on Israeli soldiers, Glasgow.
0:25:20 > 0:25:21Jailed by the British in 1939
0:25:21 > 0:25:24for joining the illegal Haganah force,
0:25:24 > 0:25:28which defence minister was behind Israel's victory in the Six Day War?
0:25:28 > 0:25:30Moshe Dayan.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32- Moshe Dayan.- Correct.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34Prime Minister from 1999 to 2001,
0:25:34 > 0:25:38who retired from the Army as a Lieutenant-General in 1995
0:25:38 > 0:25:41as the most decorated soldier in Israeli history?
0:25:44 > 0:25:47- David Ben-Gurion.- David Ben-Gurion.
0:25:48 > 0:25:49No, he was long gone.
0:25:49 > 0:25:50It's Ehud Barak.
0:25:50 > 0:25:54Benjamin Netanyahu's brother Jonathan died while leading
0:25:54 > 0:25:58the Israeli commando rescue raid on which Ugandan airport in 1976?
0:25:58 > 0:26:01- Mogadishu.- No.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04Mogadishu's not in Uganda. It was Entebbe. 10 points for this.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07The site of a major volcanic eruption in 1997,
0:26:07 > 0:26:10Chances Peak in the Soufriere Hills is on...
0:26:11 > 0:26:14- Mount St Helens in... - No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16..is on which island,
0:26:16 > 0:26:18a British overseas territory in the Caribbean Sea?
0:26:18 > 0:26:20- Montserrat.- Correct.
0:26:20 > 0:26:21APPLAUSE
0:26:24 > 0:26:26Your bonuses are on names of countries
0:26:26 > 0:26:29that become another word by the substitution of the initial letter.
0:26:29 > 0:26:31For example, "France" and "prance".
0:26:31 > 0:26:34In each case, give both words from the descriptions.
0:26:34 > 0:26:37Firstly, an EU member state
0:26:37 > 0:26:40and Paladin of Charlemagne whose death at the pass of Roncevaux
0:26:40 > 0:26:43is the subject of an early French epic poem.
0:26:45 > 0:26:49Roland and Poland. Poland and Roland.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51Roland and Poland.
0:26:51 > 0:26:54Correct. Secondly, a Pacific island state to the east of Fiji
0:26:54 > 0:26:55and a Latin American dance
0:26:55 > 0:26:58in which participants are linked in single file.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02- Conga and Tonga.- Conga and Tonga.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04Correct. And, finally, a large Caribbean island
0:27:04 > 0:27:06and a low-pitched brass wind instrument.
0:27:08 > 0:27:12- Tuba and Cuba.- Tuba and Cuba.
0:27:12 > 0:27:15Correct. 10 points for this starter question.
0:27:15 > 0:27:18What is the alternative shorter title of the Vermeer painting
0:27:18 > 0:27:21A Lady At The Virginals With A Gentleman?
0:27:26 > 0:27:30- A Girl With A Pearl Earring? - No, one of you buzz from Glasgow.
0:27:30 > 0:27:33It's The Music Lesson. 10 points for this.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36"Long", "monosyllabic" and "unreadable" are all examples
0:27:36 > 0:27:38of what type of adjective,
0:27:38 > 0:27:40defined as not possessing the property they denote?
0:27:40 > 0:27:41GONG RINGS
0:27:41 > 0:27:44And, at the gong, Glasgow University have 115,
0:27:44 > 0:27:47the University of East Anglia have 150.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49APPLAUSE
0:27:51 > 0:27:54Well, you had some great answers there, but not enough of them,
0:27:54 > 0:27:57sadly, Glasgow. UEA, your answers were good.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00It wasn't half as much fun as listening to you NOT answering,
0:28:00 > 0:28:03though! Terrific. Thank you very much and congratulations,
0:28:03 > 0:28:05you go through to the final.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07You seem more astonished than anyone.
0:28:07 > 0:28:08LAUGHTER
0:28:08 > 0:28:10I hope you can join us next time for the final,
0:28:10 > 0:28:13but until then it's goodbye from Glasgow University.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16- Goodbye.- And it's goodbye from the University of East Anglia.- Goodbye.
0:28:16 > 0:28:18And it's goodbye for me. Goodbye.
0:28:18 > 0:28:19APPLAUSE
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