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0:00:18 > 0:00:21Christmas University Challenge.

0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.

0:00:27 > 0:00:32Hello. Tonight sees the second match in this seasonal series for grown-ups

0:00:32 > 0:00:35which combines the warmth of a Christmas parlour game

0:00:35 > 0:00:37with the harmless thrill of the Inquisition!

0:00:37 > 0:00:40Last time, the graduates from Emmanuel College Cambridge

0:00:40 > 0:00:43put themselves into contention for a place in the semi-finals

0:00:43 > 0:00:47but as only four of the top-scoring teams will go to that stage,

0:00:47 > 0:00:49nothing has been decided yet.

0:00:49 > 0:00:51The team playing for the University of Kent

0:00:51 > 0:00:55includes an award-winning stage, screen and radio playwright,

0:00:55 > 0:01:00a Kew-trained botanist and TV presenter who advocates that we grow our own medicines,

0:01:00 > 0:01:05their captain has been voted into the top ten of the most powerful voices on radio

0:01:05 > 0:01:09and their final member is a screenwriter whose credits include

0:01:09 > 0:01:11co-authoring the last five Bond films,

0:01:11 > 0:01:17among them Skyfall which has become the biggest grossing film of all time at the UK box office.

0:01:17 > 0:01:18Let's meet them.

0:01:18 > 0:01:21Hello. My name's Rebecca Lenkiewicz.

0:01:21 > 0:01:25I studied English and film theory at Kent in the '80s

0:01:25 > 0:01:27and now I write plays and films.

0:01:27 > 0:01:29Hi. My name is James Wong.

0:01:29 > 0:01:33I graduated from Kent in 2006 on a masters degree in ethno-botany

0:01:33 > 0:01:35and now work as a broadcaster and a writer.

0:01:35 > 0:01:37- And their captain.- I'm Fi Glover.

0:01:37 > 0:01:42I graduated from the University of Kent in 1990 with a degree in Classical History and Philosophy

0:01:42 > 0:01:45and I'm now a broadcaster and a writer.

0:01:45 > 0:01:50And I'm Robert Wade and I studied Film Theory and English at Kent

0:01:50 > 0:01:54in the very early '80s and I'm now a screenwriter.

0:01:58 > 0:02:02Their opponents tonight represent the University of Lancaster

0:02:02 > 0:02:07and include a writer whose subject matter has embraced infinity and how to build a time machine,

0:02:07 > 0:02:13a news broadcaster who's usually seen at the crack of dawn and who's staying up past her bedtime tonight!

0:02:13 > 0:02:19Their captain is an actor whose work with directors such as Scorsese, Polanski and Woody Allen

0:02:19 > 0:02:24will doubtless be eclipsed when he appears later this year in the unstoppable Game of Thrones,

0:02:24 > 0:02:29and they're joined by a notorious luncher, food writer and judge on the Great British Menu.

0:02:29 > 0:02:30Let's meet them.

0:02:30 > 0:02:35Hello. I'm Brian Clegg. I took a Masters in Operational Research at Lancaster in 1976

0:02:35 > 0:02:37and I write popular science books.

0:02:37 > 0:02:42I'm Ranvir Singh. I graduated in 1998 from Lancaster studying English and Philosophy.

0:02:42 > 0:02:45I'm now a journalist and presenter on Daybreak.

0:02:45 > 0:02:48- And their captain. - I'm Roger Ashton-Griffiths.

0:02:48 > 0:02:53I'm an actor and writer. I read Music and I graduated in 1978.

0:02:53 > 0:02:58I'm Matthew Fort. I graduated from Lancaster in 1968 with a degree in English

0:02:58 > 0:03:01and I eat for a living!

0:03:01 > 0:03:03APPLAUSE

0:03:06 > 0:03:07Nice work if you can get it!

0:03:07 > 0:03:10Now, I'll just remind you quickly of the rules.

0:03:10 > 0:03:14Ten points for starter questions. They're answered on the buzzer. They're solo efforts.

0:03:14 > 0:03:18And bonuses are worth 15 points and those you can confer on.

0:03:18 > 0:03:21If you interrupt a starter question incorrectly, there's a five-point penalty.

0:03:21 > 0:03:25Fingers on buzzers. Here's your first starter question for ten.

0:03:25 > 0:03:29"Modesty beds in a communal bedroom", "The language of Easter eggs"

0:03:29 > 0:03:33and the supposed discovery of roast turkey by 13th-century monks

0:03:33 > 0:03:36are among the illustrations of which English cartoonist

0:03:36 > 0:03:38born 1872?

0:03:38 > 0:03:43His name has become synonymous with complex and implausible mechanical contraptions.

0:03:44 > 0:03:47- Heath Robinson.- Correct. William Heath Robinson.

0:03:50 > 0:03:54Lancaster, your first set of bonuses are on Christmas carols.

0:03:54 > 0:03:58Born in 1652, the poet laureate Nahum Tate

0:03:58 > 0:04:02wrote the words of which carol describing the announcement of the birth of Jesus?

0:04:04 > 0:04:06While Shepherds Watched...

0:04:07 > 0:04:09While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks at Night.

0:04:09 > 0:04:12Yes, known as While Shepherds Watched Their Flock BY Night

0:04:12 > 0:04:14but you've got the right carol there, yes.

0:04:14 > 0:04:17The 19th-century Irish poet Cecil Francis Alexander

0:04:17 > 0:04:20wrote the words of which well-known carol

0:04:20 > 0:04:23in support of the article of faith relating to the birth of Jesus?

0:04:25 > 0:04:28Virgin birth? Virgin...

0:04:31 > 0:04:33Something to do with virginity?

0:04:33 > 0:04:36QUIET CONFERRING

0:04:44 > 0:04:47- Away In a Manger.- No, it was Once in Royal David's City.

0:04:47 > 0:04:52Finally, which Christmas carol is based on a 19th-century poem by Christina Rossetti

0:04:52 > 0:04:55and was set to separate melodies by Harold Darke and Gustav Holst?

0:04:55 > 0:04:58- In the Bleak Mid Winter. - Correct. Ten points for this.

0:04:58 > 0:05:00Much reproduced, re-worked and parodied,

0:05:00 > 0:05:04which logo was devised by the graphic designer Milton Glazer in 1977

0:05:04 > 0:05:06and used three...

0:05:07 > 0:05:09I love NY.

0:05:09 > 0:05:11Yes, I "heart" NY. Correct.

0:05:11 > 0:05:16You get a set of bonuses, Lancaster, this time on performance artists.

0:05:16 > 0:05:20Which New York-based performance artist is the inventor of a violin

0:05:20 > 0:05:23that uses magnetic tape in place of a horse-hair bow?

0:05:23 > 0:05:26She became widely known outside the art world

0:05:26 > 0:05:31when her single O Superman became an unexpected pop hit in 1981.

0:05:45 > 0:05:47Vanessa Mae?

0:05:47 > 0:05:49No, it was Laurie Anderson.

0:05:49 > 0:05:51What name has been adopted by the French performance artist

0:05:51 > 0:05:55who was born Mireille Porte in 1947?

0:05:55 > 0:05:57She's perhaps best known for a project

0:05:57 > 0:06:00for which she has undergone a series of cosmetic surgical procedures

0:06:00 > 0:06:04to acquire the features of various icons of female beauty.

0:06:11 > 0:06:13- We don't know.- That's Orlan, or Sainte Orlan.

0:06:13 > 0:06:17Finally, known as the grandmother of performance art,

0:06:17 > 0:06:21which Serbian-born performer's works include The Artist is Present,

0:06:21 > 0:06:24a piece lasting 736 hours and 30 minutes,

0:06:24 > 0:06:28in which she sat in silence opposite a succession of visitors

0:06:28 > 0:06:30to New York's Museum of Modern Art.

0:06:35 > 0:06:37- Marina Abramovic.- Correct.

0:06:37 > 0:06:39Ten points for this.

0:06:39 > 0:06:42Which prominent figure died when HMS Hampshire struck a mine

0:06:42 > 0:06:45en-route to Russia in 1916?

0:06:45 > 0:06:49Associated with the policy of concentration camps during the Boer War...

0:06:49 > 0:06:51Kitchener.

0:06:51 > 0:06:53Kitchener is correct, yes.

0:06:55 > 0:06:59These bonuses, Lancaster, are on science in the 1660s.

0:06:59 > 0:07:04By observing capillaries, the Italian doctor, Marcello Malpighi

0:07:04 > 0:07:08in 1661 confirmed which English physician's theory

0:07:08 > 0:07:10of the circulation of the blood?

0:07:11 > 0:07:13- Harvey.- Harvey.

0:07:13 > 0:07:19Correct. In 1661, which Irish-born scientist published his major work "The Sceptical Chymist"?

0:07:19 > 0:07:23He gives his name to a law stating that the pressure and volume of a gas

0:07:23 > 0:07:25are inversely proportional.

0:07:26 > 0:07:29- Boyle.- Boyle is correct.

0:07:29 > 0:07:34In 1666 which Dutch scientist became a founder member of the French Academy of Sciences?

0:07:34 > 0:07:38He gives his name to a space probe that landed on Titan in 2005.

0:07:40 > 0:07:42- Huygens.- Huygens is correct.

0:07:42 > 0:07:44We'll take a picture round now.

0:07:45 > 0:07:47For your picture starter,

0:07:47 > 0:07:49you'll see part of the track listing

0:07:49 > 0:07:53of the first compilation album of a long-running series.

0:07:53 > 0:07:55For ten points, simply name the album.

0:07:59 > 0:08:01Now That's What I Call...

0:08:01 > 0:08:04Yes, it's normally called Now That's What I Call Music.

0:08:04 > 0:08:07Personally, I call it gross impertinence, but there we are.

0:08:07 > 0:08:12The first "Now" compilation was released 30 years ago in December 1983

0:08:12 > 0:08:14and became the Christmas Number One album.

0:08:14 > 0:08:17For your bonuses, we've put together three more track lists of songs

0:08:17 > 0:08:19that pre-date the Now series

0:08:19 > 0:08:21which some of you may remember better.

0:08:21 > 0:08:26In each case, I'd like the year in which all the following were chart hits. Firstly...

0:08:41 > 0:08:421969.

0:08:42 > 0:08:44That's correct. Secondly...

0:08:59 > 0:09:02- 1980.- Correct. Finally...

0:09:16 > 0:09:19- '78.- It is 1978. Well done!

0:09:22 > 0:09:24Another starter question. Listen carefully.

0:09:24 > 0:09:28In the standard version of the 18th-century Christmas song,

0:09:28 > 0:09:29The Twelve Days of Christmas,

0:09:29 > 0:09:33what number results if you multiply the number of geese a-laying

0:09:33 > 0:09:36by the number of swans a-swimming

0:09:36 > 0:09:38and add the number of French hens?

0:09:43 > 0:09:45- 45.- Correct.

0:09:47 > 0:09:49Seven by six add three.

0:09:49 > 0:09:51A set of bonuses, then, Lancaster.

0:09:51 > 0:09:53This time they're on Christmas short stories.

0:09:53 > 0:09:57Published in the 1884 Christmas Extra edition of the Pall Mall Gazette

0:09:57 > 0:10:01and advertised with posters so gruesome they had to be suppressed by the police,

0:10:01 > 0:10:05The Body Snatcher is a story by which Scottish author?

0:10:08 > 0:10:12- Robert Louis Stevenson.- Correct.

0:10:12 > 0:10:17First published in 1900, At Christmas Time is a notably short story, fewer than 2,000 words,

0:10:17 > 0:10:19by which Russian author and playwright?

0:10:26 > 0:10:28Chekov? 1900?

0:10:28 > 0:10:30QUIET CONFERRING

0:10:32 > 0:10:33Gogol.

0:10:33 > 0:10:35No, it's by Chekov.

0:10:35 > 0:10:37Appearing in a collection of 1914,

0:10:37 > 0:10:41the action of which short story takes place over a single evening and night in Dublin

0:10:41 > 0:10:46towards the end of the Christmas period, "when snow was general all over Ireland"?

0:10:47 > 0:10:50- Ulysses.- No, it's The Dead in Dubliners.

0:10:50 > 0:10:51Ten points for this.

0:10:51 > 0:10:57Israel Baline was the birth name of which Russian Jewish immigrant to the United States

0:10:57 > 0:10:59who, in 1940, wrote what is often cited as...

0:11:01 > 0:11:03- Irving Berlin.- Correct.

0:11:05 > 0:11:07I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas.

0:11:07 > 0:11:10Your bonuses this time are on the journalist and author Suzanne Moore.

0:11:10 > 0:11:13Firstly, in the 2010 general election,

0:11:13 > 0:11:17Suzanne Moore stood as an independent candidate for Hackney North and Stoke Newington

0:11:17 > 0:11:21and came sixth. Which Labour incumbent was re-elected?

0:11:24 > 0:11:26- Diane Abbott.- Correct.

0:11:26 > 0:11:29In 2009, Moore resigned from the New Statesman magazine

0:11:29 > 0:11:34in protest at the appointment of which political and public figure as guest editor?

0:11:42 > 0:11:45- George Galloway. - No, it was Alastair Campbell.

0:11:45 > 0:11:48Finally, of which newspaper did Moore say early in 2013,

0:11:48 > 0:11:52"You don't commission someone like Julie Birchill to launch an Exocet missile

0:11:52 > 0:11:56"and then say, 'Oh, dear. We only wanted a sparkler.'"

0:11:58 > 0:12:00Guardian?

0:12:00 > 0:12:02- The Guardian. - No, it was The Observer.

0:12:02 > 0:12:05Ten points for this. "Libraries might as well not exist.

0:12:05 > 0:12:09"They've got endless shelves for rubbish and hardly any space for good books."

0:12:09 > 0:12:11These are the words of which playwright

0:12:11 > 0:12:14who, in 1962, was sentenced to six months imprisonment...

0:12:20 > 0:12:23I'm sorry. If you buzz, you really must answer.

0:12:23 > 0:12:25You have to lose five points.

0:12:25 > 0:12:28..sentenced to six months' imprisonment for theft and malicious damage

0:12:28 > 0:12:30to books from Islington library. You may not confer!

0:12:32 > 0:12:34- Joe Orton.- Correct.

0:12:34 > 0:12:37You get a set of bonuses now on glacial landforms.

0:12:37 > 0:12:42What term describes a tributary valley with a floor at a considerably higher level

0:12:42 > 0:12:44than the valley into which it flows?

0:12:44 > 0:12:46It's associated with a tributary glacier

0:12:46 > 0:12:48flowing into a glacier of larger volume.

0:12:52 > 0:12:54Waterfall.

0:12:54 > 0:12:56No, it's a hanging valley.

0:12:56 > 0:13:00Often grouped together in fields, for example in the Lake District's Eden Valley,

0:13:00 > 0:13:03what term denotes the long egg-shaped hummocks

0:13:03 > 0:13:08that are formed when deposited till is shaped under a moving glacier or ice sheet?

0:13:13 > 0:13:16- We don't know.- They're drumlins. Finally,

0:13:16 > 0:13:20a fine example of an arret separating corries or glacial troughs

0:13:20 > 0:13:24Striding Edge is a feature of which Cumbrian mountain?

0:13:35 > 0:13:37- Scar Fell.- No, it's Helvellyn.

0:13:37 > 0:13:39We're going to take a music round, now.

0:13:39 > 0:13:43For your music starter, you'll hear an excerpt from a popular song.

0:13:43 > 0:13:47For ten points, I simply want the name of the American singer.

0:13:47 > 0:13:49- # Sleigh bells ring - Sleigh bells ring... #

0:13:52 > 0:13:53Macy Gray.

0:13:53 > 0:13:55Yes!

0:13:57 > 0:14:00Her version of Winter Wonderland.

0:14:00 > 0:14:02You'll hear three more versions of the same song

0:14:02 > 0:14:03all by well-known singer-songwriters.

0:14:03 > 0:14:06In each case, just name the artist, please.

0:14:06 > 0:14:08Firstly, this American singer.

0:14:08 > 0:14:10# Sleigh bells ring

0:14:10 > 0:14:12# Are you listening?

0:14:12 > 0:14:15# In the lane, snow is glistening

0:14:16 > 0:14:18# A beautiful sight

0:14:18 > 0:14:20# We're happy tonight

0:14:20 > 0:14:23# Walking in a winter wonderland

0:14:24 > 0:14:26# Gone away is the bluebird

0:14:26 > 0:14:30# In his place is a new bird

0:14:30 > 0:14:32# He sings a love song

0:14:32 > 0:14:34# As we go along

0:14:34 > 0:14:36# Walking in a... #

0:14:38 > 0:14:40We're going to try Louis Armstrong.

0:14:40 > 0:14:42No, it's Bob Dylan!

0:14:42 > 0:14:44Secondly, another American singer.

0:14:44 > 0:14:46# Sleigh bells ring

0:14:47 > 0:14:48# Are you listening?

0:14:49 > 0:14:53# In the lane, snow is glistening

0:14:54 > 0:14:57# Beautiful sight

0:14:57 > 0:14:59# We're happy tonight

0:14:59 > 0:15:03# Walking in a winter wonderland. #

0:15:04 > 0:15:07- James Taylor.- Correct. Finally, this British singer.

0:15:07 > 0:15:09# Sleigh bells ring

0:15:10 > 0:15:12# Are you listening?

0:15:13 > 0:15:15# In the lane

0:15:16 > 0:15:18# Snow is glistening

0:15:19 > 0:15:20# A beautiful... #

0:15:20 > 0:15:23- Leona Lewis.- No, it's Emili Sande.

0:15:23 > 0:15:24Ten points for this.

0:15:24 > 0:15:27Which letter of the alphabet links an elementary particle

0:15:27 > 0:15:29that carries the weak nuclear force,

0:15:29 > 0:15:31a 1969 French language film

0:15:31 > 0:15:33directed by Costa-Gavras

0:15:33 > 0:15:35and a written or graphical representation

0:15:35 > 0:15:36of the act of snoring?

0:15:39 > 0:15:40Z.

0:15:40 > 0:15:41Yes.

0:15:45 > 0:15:48Your bonuses are on phase equilibrium, Lancaster.

0:15:48 > 0:15:52The phase diagram of a one-component system such as water

0:15:52 > 0:15:54has solid, liquid and gas phases.

0:15:54 > 0:16:00What is the name of the point at which solid, liquid and gas are all at equilibrium?

0:16:14 > 0:16:16- Point something! - No, it's the triple point.

0:16:16 > 0:16:20The gas/liquid co-existence line starts at the triple point.

0:16:20 > 0:16:24What specific term denotes the point at which it ends?

0:16:28 > 0:16:29Make it up.

0:16:32 > 0:16:35- Zero point. - No, it's the critical point.

0:16:35 > 0:16:37Finally, some solids when heated

0:16:37 > 0:16:40turn directly into a gas with no intermediate liquid phase.

0:16:40 > 0:16:44What is the specific term used to describe this process?

0:16:45 > 0:16:47My brain's not working.

0:16:47 > 0:16:49- CO2 does it, doesn't it?- Yes. - For example.

0:16:49 > 0:16:51- Yep.- What would that be?

0:16:53 > 0:16:55- Something to do with gas pressure. - No, it's just a word.

0:16:55 > 0:16:58What's the word?

0:16:59 > 0:17:01Nope. Totally blank. Sorry. I do know.

0:17:01 > 0:17:04Um, scarlet.

0:17:04 > 0:17:08Scarlet?! No, it's sublimation. Ten points for this.

0:17:08 > 0:17:10The gallo nero, or black cockerel,

0:17:10 > 0:17:12is the distinctive symbol of authenticity

0:17:12 > 0:17:14that appears on bottles of wine

0:17:14 > 0:17:18from which Italian region situated between Florence and Siena?

0:17:21 > 0:17:22- Chianti.- Correct.

0:17:26 > 0:17:30This set of bonuses is on botany, Lancaster.

0:17:30 > 0:17:35Viscum album is the Eurasian species of which semi-parasitic evergreen shrub

0:17:35 > 0:17:39that occurs mainly on apple trees, poplars and hawthorns?

0:17:42 > 0:17:43- Mistletoe.- Oh, mistletoe?

0:17:43 > 0:17:45- Mistletoe.- Correct.

0:17:45 > 0:17:47A popular Yuletide pot plant,

0:17:47 > 0:17:52which member of the spurge family was named after an early 19th-century US minister to Mexico

0:17:52 > 0:17:54who introduced it to floriculture?

0:17:58 > 0:18:00- Poinsettia.- Correct.

0:18:00 > 0:18:04The perennial herbaceous plant Helleboris Niger

0:18:04 > 0:18:06is commonly known as Christmas what?

0:18:17 > 0:18:19What is a hellebore?

0:18:20 > 0:18:23- Let's have an answer, please. - Christmas lily.

0:18:23 > 0:18:26- Christmas lily. - No, it's Christmas rose.

0:18:26 > 0:18:28Ten points for this. Listen carefully.

0:18:28 > 0:18:32The atomic numbers of helium, lithium, boron, nitrogen and sodium

0:18:32 > 0:18:35are the first five of what mathematical sequence?

0:18:41 > 0:18:44- Fibonacci numbers?- Nope.

0:18:44 > 0:18:45Kent, one of you buzz.

0:18:49 > 0:18:53Poor Mr Wong, with the whole team staring at you!

0:18:53 > 0:18:56I'm a botanist! What do I know about chemistry?

0:18:56 > 0:18:58They're primes. Another starter question.

0:18:58 > 0:19:01Using the pen name Geoffrey Crayon,

0:19:01 > 0:19:05which US author wrote the short story collection known as The Sketch Book?

0:19:05 > 0:19:09It includes Christmas Day, The Christmas Dinner and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

0:19:13 > 0:19:15Garrison Keeler.

0:19:15 > 0:19:17Nope.

0:19:17 > 0:19:19One of you like to buzz from Lancaster?

0:19:20 > 0:19:23- Washington Irving.- Correct.

0:19:26 > 0:19:29Your bonuses are on a polygon, Lancaster.

0:19:29 > 0:19:34A star polygon is denoted by curly brackets N over M close brackets.

0:19:34 > 0:19:39What name is given to the star polygon curly brackets 5 over 2 close brackets?

0:19:45 > 0:19:48- Pentagon.- No, it's a pentagram.

0:19:48 > 0:19:52A pentagram appears on the flags of two African countries.

0:19:52 > 0:19:54For five points, name both.

0:20:03 > 0:20:06- Botswana?- I'll take Botswana. - I don't know any more.

0:20:06 > 0:20:07Botswana and...

0:20:07 > 0:20:10- I don't know.- Botswana and Morocco.

0:20:10 > 0:20:12No, it's Morocco and Ethiopia.

0:20:12 > 0:20:17Finally, a pentagram has several examples of the golden ratio,

0:20:17 > 0:20:19approximately equal to 1.618.

0:20:19 > 0:20:22Which Greek letter is the symbol for this ratio?

0:20:24 > 0:20:26Theta?

0:20:28 > 0:20:30Theta.

0:20:30 > 0:20:31No, it's Phi. Ten points for this.

0:20:31 > 0:20:34Give both answers as soon as your name is called.

0:20:34 > 0:20:38Of the four gospels, which two give an account of the nativity story?

0:20:42 > 0:20:44Matthew and Mark.

0:20:44 > 0:20:46Anyone like to buzz from Kent?

0:20:48 > 0:20:49- Luke and Matthew.- Correct.

0:20:52 > 0:20:56These bonuses, Kent, are on Christmas foods.

0:20:56 > 0:20:58A traditional Christmas Eve dish in Portugal,

0:20:58 > 0:21:01Bacalhau consists of which fish

0:21:01 > 0:21:04found in the North Atlantic and often imported from Norway?

0:21:04 > 0:21:06- Cod.- Correct.

0:21:06 > 0:21:10Secondly, Szaloncukor, meaning parlour sugars,

0:21:10 > 0:21:13are fondant sweets usually covered in chocolate and foil

0:21:13 > 0:21:18and used to decorate Christmas trees particularly in which central European country?

0:21:28 > 0:21:31- We're going Czechoslovakia. - No, it's Hungary.

0:21:31 > 0:21:35Finally, to enhance the golden colour of a roast bird at Christmas,

0:21:35 > 0:21:38medieval cooks would frequently cover it with butter

0:21:38 > 0:21:42and which spice, made from the dried stigmas of crocuses?

0:21:42 > 0:21:44- Saffron.- Saffron.

0:21:44 > 0:21:47Correct. OK, time for a second picture round.

0:21:47 > 0:21:50For your picture starter you'll see a photograph of a prominent actor.

0:21:50 > 0:21:52Ten points if you can name him, please.

0:21:56 > 0:21:58- David Morrissey.- Correct.

0:22:02 > 0:22:05He was appearing there in a Doctor Who Christmas Special.

0:22:05 > 0:22:11Your bonuses are more photographs of three actors who've appeared in Doctor Who Christmas Specials.

0:22:11 > 0:22:13The name of the actor in each case, please.

0:22:13 > 0:22:15Firstly for five.

0:22:26 > 0:22:30- Russell Tovey.- Correct. Secondly, the name of the actor on the right.

0:22:40 > 0:22:43- No, we've got no idea. - That's Adam Garcia.

0:22:43 > 0:22:45And finally this actor, please.

0:22:48 > 0:22:51- Richard E. Grant.- Yes, it is. Ten points for this starter question.

0:22:51 > 0:22:57From the late 1960s, the fungus Ophiostoma novo-ulmi, spread by bark beetles,

0:22:57 > 0:23:00caused a devastating epidemic affecting which trees?

0:23:02 > 0:23:03Who? Me?

0:23:03 > 0:23:05Elms.

0:23:05 > 0:23:07Elms is correct, yes.

0:23:11 > 0:23:13You had to get that, didn't you?

0:23:13 > 0:23:16Right. Your bonuses this time are on a shared surname.

0:23:16 > 0:23:17A Financial History of the World

0:23:17 > 0:23:20and History's Age of Hatred

0:23:20 > 0:23:24are subtitles of works by which historian born in 1964?

0:23:34 > 0:23:36QUIET CONFERRING

0:23:45 > 0:23:48- Can we have an answer, please? - What about that chap...

0:23:50 > 0:23:52You know... Robert Peston.

0:23:52 > 0:23:55We're going to try Robert Peston.

0:23:55 > 0:23:57No, it's Niall Ferguson.

0:23:57 > 0:24:00Born in County Down in 1884,

0:24:00 > 0:24:03Harry Ferguson was an industrialist best known for his innovations

0:24:03 > 0:24:06in which broad field of automotive engineering?

0:24:11 > 0:24:15- Tractors.- I'll accept that. Agricultural machinery.

0:24:15 > 0:24:19Finally, which club did Sir Alex Ferguson manage from 1978 to '86

0:24:19 > 0:24:22during which time they won the European Cup Winners' Cup once

0:24:22 > 0:24:24and the Scottish League three times.

0:24:29 > 0:24:31Come on.

0:24:35 > 0:24:38- Hibernian.- No, it's Aberdeen.

0:24:38 > 0:24:40There's about three minutes to go. Ten points for this.

0:24:40 > 0:24:44Uhuru peak is the highest point of which twin-peaked mountain?

0:24:44 > 0:24:475,895 metres in height...

0:24:47 > 0:24:49- Kilimanjaro.- Correct.

0:24:52 > 0:24:56These bonuses, Lancaster, are on nutritional diseases.

0:24:56 > 0:25:00Pellagra occurs in places where the diet is predominantly of maize

0:25:00 > 0:25:07and is caused by a deficiency of what substance, also known as nicotinic acid or Vitamin B3?

0:25:12 > 0:25:13Niacin?

0:25:13 > 0:25:15- Niacin.- Correct.

0:25:15 > 0:25:19Associated with areas where polished rice is the staple diet,

0:25:19 > 0:25:22beri-beri is caused by a long deficiency of what substance

0:25:22 > 0:25:25also known as aneurine or Vitamin B1?

0:25:35 > 0:25:38- Riboflavin.- No, it's thiamine.

0:25:38 > 0:25:43Deficiency in which vitamin causes the softening of bones in immature mammals known as rickets?

0:25:45 > 0:25:47- Vitamin D.- Correct.

0:25:47 > 0:25:48Two minutes to go. Ten points for this.

0:25:48 > 0:25:52A slow-witted question setter received an analogue wrist watch for Christmas.

0:25:52 > 0:25:58He put it on upside down and it appeared to show a time of 7.45.

0:25:58 > 0:25:59What was the real time?

0:26:03 > 0:26:06Quarter past...one.

0:26:06 > 0:26:07Correct.

0:26:10 > 0:26:13Your bonuses this time, Kent, are on UK national trails.

0:26:13 > 0:26:16In the form of an extended 135-mile loop,

0:26:16 > 0:26:19which national trail is named after a Welsh prince

0:26:19 > 0:26:22who rebelled against English rule in the early 15th century?

0:26:24 > 0:26:26QUIET CONFERRING

0:26:36 > 0:26:38To be honest, we haven't got a clue!

0:26:38 > 0:26:41How commendably frank of you!

0:26:41 > 0:26:43It's Glyndwr's Way.

0:26:43 > 0:26:48177 miles long, which national trail takes its name from the King of Mercia

0:26:48 > 0:26:52who seized power after the murder of his cousin, Aethelbald?

0:27:05 > 0:27:08- No.- It's Offa's Dyke along the English/ Welsh border.

0:27:08 > 0:27:13And finally, the Roman Emperor who succeeded Trajan gives his name to which national trail

0:27:13 > 0:27:15which is 84 miles in length?

0:27:23 > 0:27:25Let's have it, please.

0:27:25 > 0:27:29- It's the Hadrian's Wall Path.- That one, yes!- Ten points for this.

0:27:29 > 0:27:34Give the three letters that spell both an English verb meaning to be sickly

0:27:34 > 0:27:36and the French word for garlic.

0:27:36 > 0:27:39- GONG - Ail.

0:27:41 > 0:27:45At the gong, Kent have 100. Lancaster have 160.

0:27:46 > 0:27:48Well, it was a good game.

0:27:48 > 0:27:51You seemed to lose spirits very early on, Kent.

0:27:51 > 0:27:54I don't know why cos there were some quite good answers.

0:27:54 > 0:27:56And some very bad ones!

0:27:56 > 0:27:57Lancaster, many congratulations.

0:27:57 > 0:28:00160 may well be enough to take you through to the semi-finals.

0:28:00 > 0:28:04We'll find out when we hear the results of the other matches.

0:28:04 > 0:28:06I hope you can join us next time.

0:28:06 > 0:28:08But until then, here's a reminder that tempus fugit

0:28:08 > 0:28:13as we see tonight's players as they were in their student days. Good night!