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Christmas University Challenge. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:22 | |
Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:26 | |
Hello. Again tonight, two teams of distinguished graduates | 0:00:27 | 0:00:31 | |
occupy the seats normally taken by fresh-faced students. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:34 | |
Indeed, it becomes harder to characterise the teams taking part | 0:00:34 | 0:00:37 | |
in this special series for grown-ups without resorting | 0:00:37 | 0:00:40 | |
to words like "wizened" and "sprightly", | 0:00:40 | 0:00:42 | |
so let's simply say that, in tonight's contest, | 0:00:42 | 0:00:44 | |
Oxford plays Cambridge, as two venerable colleges | 0:00:44 | 0:00:47 | |
battle for a place in the semifinals. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:50 | |
A score of over 185 will guarantee that tonight's winners go through. | 0:00:50 | 0:00:54 | |
Now, playing on behalf of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge | 0:00:54 | 0:00:57 | |
is an entrepreneur who was | 0:00:57 | 0:00:59 | |
part of the team that devised the first webcam, | 0:00:59 | 0:01:02 | |
indirectly enabling numberless grateful students to stay up | 0:01:02 | 0:01:05 | |
late on Chatroulette. A prolific broadcaster | 0:01:05 | 0:01:08 | |
and writer, who has been praised by Hilary Mantel for her | 0:01:08 | 0:01:11 | |
exhilarating narrative gift. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:13 | |
Their captain recently abandoned the ivory tower of Radio 4, | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
where he was controller, to plunge headlong into the razzmatazz | 0:01:16 | 0:01:20 | |
of academe, and their fourth member is interested in objects | 0:01:20 | 0:01:23 | |
and, in his words, "How we see them and where they lead us". | 0:01:23 | 0:01:27 | |
Let's meet the Gonville and Caius team. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:29 | |
Hello, I'm Quentin Stafford-Fraser. I studied computer science | 0:01:29 | 0:01:33 | |
just before the web was invented and, more recently, | 0:01:33 | 0:01:36 | |
I've been building companies which depend on it. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:38 | |
I'm Helen Castor, I read history in the late '80s and early '90s | 0:01:40 | 0:01:44 | |
and now I'm a medieval historian, writer and broadcaster. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:47 | |
And this is their captain. | 0:01:47 | 0:01:49 | |
I'm Mark Damazer, I studied history in the 1970s | 0:01:49 | 0:01:52 | |
and I'm now Master of St Peter's College, Oxford. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:55 | |
I'm Lars Tharp. 40 years ago, I read prehistoric archaeology | 0:01:55 | 0:01:58 | |
and I've come up to date by being on the Antiques Roadshow. | 0:01:58 | 0:02:01 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:02:01 | 0:02:04 | |
Now, the first member of the team of graduates | 0:02:05 | 0:02:08 | |
of Christ Church, Oxford says he's never had a proper job | 0:02:08 | 0:02:11 | |
and now that he's in the House of Lords, he probably never will. | 0:02:11 | 0:02:14 | |
He's joined by a journalist who may hold the record for covering | 0:02:14 | 0:02:17 | |
the most breaking political stories on British television. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:20 | |
Their captain's been described as the most gifted art critic | 0:02:20 | 0:02:22 | |
of his generation, possibly by his publisher, | 0:02:22 | 0:02:25 | |
and their final team member is the co-author of a biography | 0:02:25 | 0:02:28 | |
of Ed Miliband | 0:02:28 | 0:02:29 | |
and can sometimes be seen taking no prisoners on Question Time. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:33 | |
Let's meet them. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:34 | |
I'm Michael Dobbs. I stumbled through a degree in politics, | 0:02:34 | 0:02:37 | |
philosophy and economics 45 years ago. | 0:02:37 | 0:02:40 | |
I now spend my time writing political fiction | 0:02:40 | 0:02:42 | |
and sitting in the House of Lords. | 0:02:42 | 0:02:44 | |
I'm Adam Boulton, I read English at Christ Church, | 0:02:44 | 0:02:47 | |
leaving in 1980. I'm now political editor of Sky News. | 0:02:47 | 0:02:50 | |
And here's their captain. | 0:02:50 | 0:02:52 | |
I'm Andrew Graham-Dixon, I read English at Christ Church, | 0:02:52 | 0:02:54 | |
leaving in 1981, and I now talk a lot about art on the telly. | 0:02:54 | 0:02:59 | |
I'm Mehdi Hasan, I studied politics, philosophy | 0:02:59 | 0:03:02 | |
and economics in the late 1990s. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:04 | |
I'm now the political director of the Huffington Post UK | 0:03:04 | 0:03:06 | |
and a presenter on Al Jazeera. | 0:03:06 | 0:03:08 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:03:08 | 0:03:12 | |
OK, I guess you all know the rules. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:15 | |
It's ten points for starter questions, | 0:03:15 | 0:03:17 | |
they must be answered on the buzzer or bell individually. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:20 | |
Bonuses are team efforts, they're worth 15. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:22 | |
You can confer on those, you can't confer on starters. | 0:03:22 | 0:03:25 | |
Interrupt a starter question incorrectly | 0:03:25 | 0:03:27 | |
and there's a five-point penalty. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:29 | |
So, fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten. | 0:03:29 | 0:03:32 | |
When Sir Cecil Chubb purchased Lot 15 for £6,600 at an auction | 0:03:32 | 0:03:37 | |
in Salisbury in 1915, | 0:03:37 | 0:03:39 | |
reputedly as a spur-of-the-moment gift for his wife, | 0:03:39 | 0:03:42 | |
he became the last private owner of which ancient British monument? | 0:03:42 | 0:03:46 | |
-Stonehenge. -Correct. | 0:03:49 | 0:03:51 | |
She didn't like it, apparently. | 0:03:54 | 0:03:55 | |
He gave it to the nation three years later. | 0:03:55 | 0:03:58 | |
Right, your bonuses are on games and sports, Caius. | 0:03:58 | 0:04:02 | |
Firstly, what game links The Stranger Song by Leonard Cohen, | 0:04:02 | 0:04:06 | |
the 1998 film Rounders | 0:04:06 | 0:04:08 | |
and Victoria Coren's book, For Richer, For Poorer? | 0:04:08 | 0:04:12 | |
Poker. | 0:04:12 | 0:04:13 | |
-Poker. -Correct. | 0:04:13 | 0:04:15 | |
Secondly, what sport links Shakespeare's Henry V, | 0:04:15 | 0:04:17 | |
a pivotal moment of the French Revolution depicted in a work | 0:04:17 | 0:04:20 | |
by David, and Alfred Hitchcock's film Strangers On A Train? | 0:04:20 | 0:04:24 | |
-Tennis. -Correct. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:27 | |
What game links Matt Charman's play The Machine, | 0:04:27 | 0:04:30 | |
Vladimir Nabokov's 1964 novel The Defense | 0:04:30 | 0:04:33 | |
and the second part of Eliot's The Waste Land? | 0:04:33 | 0:04:36 | |
(Nabokov, The Waste Land.) | 0:04:39 | 0:04:41 | |
Hockey. | 0:04:44 | 0:04:45 | |
No, it's chess. Ten points for this. | 0:04:45 | 0:04:48 | |
He began his career in television satirising | 0:04:48 | 0:04:50 | |
the patrician Establishment and ended it with a knighthood, | 0:04:50 | 0:04:54 | |
a duke as a father-in-law and... | 0:04:54 | 0:04:55 | |
-David Frost. -Correct. | 0:04:57 | 0:04:58 | |
OK, your first set of bonuses, Christ Church, are on paintings. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:06 | |
What scene of the Nativity Story is depicted in an unfinished work | 0:05:06 | 0:05:09 | |
by Leonardo da Vinci? | 0:05:09 | 0:05:11 | |
Commissioned for a monastery near Florence, it was abandoned | 0:05:11 | 0:05:13 | |
in 1482 when he was tempted away to Milan and is now in the Uffizi. | 0:05:13 | 0:05:18 | |
-The Adoration of the Magi? -Whatever you say. | 0:05:18 | 0:05:22 | |
The Adoration of the Magi. | 0:05:22 | 0:05:23 | |
Correct. Hanging above the altar of the chapel | 0:05:23 | 0:05:25 | |
of King's College, Cambridge is a painting of The Adoration | 0:05:25 | 0:05:28 | |
of the Magi by which painter of the Flemish Baroque? | 0:05:28 | 0:05:31 | |
Um...Rubens? | 0:05:34 | 0:05:37 | |
-Rubens. -Correct. | 0:05:39 | 0:05:41 | |
Who made his name in Florence with an Adoration of the Magi | 0:05:41 | 0:05:44 | |
for Gaspare del Lama in around 1475? | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
The artist includes his own, not-inconspicuous, | 0:05:47 | 0:05:49 | |
self-portrait in a yellow cloak, at the far right of the foreground. | 0:05:49 | 0:05:54 | |
-I don't know. -(Have a guess.) | 0:05:58 | 0:06:01 | |
Benozzo Gozzoli, but it isn't. | 0:06:06 | 0:06:08 | |
No, it's Botticelli. | 0:06:08 | 0:06:09 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:11 | |
Listen carefully. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:12 | |
Elves wrap Christmas presents at a rate of one every five minutes if | 0:06:12 | 0:06:16 | |
working individually, but one every two minutes if working in pairs. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:21 | |
Compared to two elves working alone, | 0:06:21 | 0:06:24 | |
how many more presents would two elves working together | 0:06:24 | 0:06:26 | |
wrap between 6:00pm and midnight on Christmas Eve? | 0:06:26 | 0:06:30 | |
200. | 0:06:38 | 0:06:40 | |
Anyone like to buzz from Caius? | 0:06:40 | 0:06:42 | |
You may not confer, but one of you can buzz | 0:06:44 | 0:06:47 | |
-if you have an inspired idea? -100. | 0:06:47 | 0:06:49 | |
No, it's 36. Ten points for this. | 0:06:49 | 0:06:52 | |
What given name links the US inventor who founded Kodak, | 0:06:52 | 0:06:55 | |
an engineer and industrialist who gives his name to a railway | 0:06:55 | 0:06:58 | |
-sleeping car and the English engineer...? -Eastman. | 0:06:58 | 0:07:03 | |
No, you lose five points. ..and the English engineer who built | 0:07:03 | 0:07:06 | |
the Rocket steam locomotive in 1829? | 0:07:06 | 0:07:10 | |
You may not confer, one of you may buzz. | 0:07:10 | 0:07:14 | |
Stephenson. | 0:07:14 | 0:07:15 | |
No, it's the given name. It's George. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:17 | |
Right, ten points for this. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:19 | |
"Transported to a surreal landscape, | 0:07:19 | 0:07:21 | |
"a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up | 0:07:21 | 0:07:25 | |
"with three strangers to kill again." | 0:07:25 | 0:07:27 | |
Sometimes attributed to Lee Winfrey, a critic for the | 0:07:27 | 0:07:30 | |
Philadelphia Enquirer, these words refer to which film musical of 1939? | 0:07:30 | 0:07:36 | |
-The Wizard Of Oz. -Yes. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:42 | |
Right, your bonuses are on British wading birds. | 0:07:45 | 0:07:48 | |
What is the common name of wading birds of the genus Haematopus? | 0:07:48 | 0:07:52 | |
Feeding mainly on shellfish, they're distinguished by their black | 0:07:52 | 0:07:55 | |
and white plumage, orange-red bill and reddish-pink legs. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:59 | |
I nominate Tharp. | 0:08:01 | 0:08:02 | |
-Oystercatcher. -Correct. | 0:08:02 | 0:08:04 | |
Great White and Little are species of which bird of the heron family, | 0:08:04 | 0:08:07 | |
distinguished by long tufts of feathers on the head or neck? | 0:08:07 | 0:08:12 | |
Grebe? | 0:08:16 | 0:08:17 | |
No, they're egrets. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:18 | |
After its brightly-coloured legs, what is the common name of Tringa | 0:08:18 | 0:08:22 | |
totanus, a wading bird that breeds around lakes and salt marshes? | 0:08:22 | 0:08:26 | |
I think it's all yours to have a guess at a wading bird. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:31 | |
Choose any wading bird you know. | 0:08:31 | 0:08:32 | |
Yes, cos it will be one more than I know. | 0:08:32 | 0:08:34 | |
-The curlew. -No, it's a redshank. | 0:08:34 | 0:08:36 | |
Right, we're going to take a picture round now. | 0:08:36 | 0:08:38 | |
For your picture starter, you'll see a map of London on which a football | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
shows the location of a 2013 Boxing Day Premier League fixture. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:46 | |
For ten points, name the stadium | 0:08:46 | 0:08:48 | |
and the team that play their home games there. | 0:08:48 | 0:08:51 | |
Tottenham, White Hart Lane. | 0:08:56 | 0:08:58 | |
Correct. | 0:08:58 | 0:09:00 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:09:00 | 0:09:01 | |
Are you a Spurs fan? | 0:09:03 | 0:09:04 | |
I suffer. | 0:09:04 | 0:09:06 | |
OK, following on from Spurs, then, who are hosting | 0:09:06 | 0:09:09 | |
West Bromwich Albion on Boxing Day this year, for your bonuses, | 0:09:09 | 0:09:12 | |
three more locations hosting Premier League football this Boxing Day. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:15 | |
In each case, I want the name of the stadium | 0:09:15 | 0:09:17 | |
and the team that plays their home games there. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:20 | |
Firstly for five, A. | 0:09:20 | 0:09:22 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:09:25 | 0:09:28 | |
-Aston Villa, Villa Park. -It would have been so... | 0:09:40 | 0:09:43 | |
You're quite right, your idea of English geography is terrible. | 0:09:43 | 0:09:47 | |
Secondly, B, please. | 0:09:47 | 0:09:50 | |
Hull, the KC Stadium. | 0:09:55 | 0:09:56 | |
Correct, yes. And finally, C. | 0:09:56 | 0:10:00 | |
That's Carrow Road and Norwich. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:02 | |
Yes, ten points for this. | 0:10:02 | 0:10:04 | |
Fingers on the buzzers, | 0:10:06 | 0:10:07 | |
which three-letter word denotes the mathematical expression | 0:10:07 | 0:10:10 | |
for the inverse of the exponential function | 0:10:10 | 0:10:12 | |
and is also associated with a sweet roulade of sponge | 0:10:12 | 0:10:16 | |
and chocolate buttercream, traditionally served...? | 0:10:16 | 0:10:19 | |
-Log. -Log is right, yes. | 0:10:20 | 0:10:23 | |
Right, these bonuses, Gonville and Caius, are on a film. | 0:10:26 | 0:10:29 | |
What is the title of the 1965 film, directed by George Stevens, | 0:10:29 | 0:10:33 | |
based on the life of Jesus? | 0:10:33 | 0:10:34 | |
Its large cast includes Max Von Sydow as Jesus | 0:10:34 | 0:10:38 | |
and Telly Savalas as Pontius Pilate. | 0:10:38 | 0:10:40 | |
-The Greatest Story Ever Told. -Correct. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:44 | |
In The Greatest Story Ever Told, who plays the part of John the Baptist? | 0:10:44 | 0:10:47 | |
He appeared as Moses in the 1956 film, The Ten Commandments. | 0:10:47 | 0:10:52 | |
-Charlton Heston. -Correct. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:53 | |
In the same film, | 0:10:53 | 0:10:55 | |
which English actor plays the part of Herod the Great? | 0:10:55 | 0:10:57 | |
His numerous film roles included that of Captain Renault | 0:10:57 | 0:11:00 | |
in Casablanca, in 1942. | 0:11:00 | 0:11:02 | |
-Claude Rains. -Correct. Ten points for this. | 0:11:06 | 0:11:08 | |
Probably a jocular coinage, | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
hippomonstrosesquippedaliophobia | 0:11:11 | 0:11:14 | |
is a term denoting, perhaps appropriately, a fear of what? | 0:11:14 | 0:11:18 | |
Hippopotamus. | 0:11:20 | 0:11:21 | |
No. | 0:11:21 | 0:11:22 | |
You may not confer, one of you can buzz. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:25 | |
-Obesity? -No, it's long words. | 0:11:31 | 0:11:33 | |
-Ten points for this. -LAUGHTER | 0:11:33 | 0:11:35 | |
Later the title of a song by the group Sparks, | 0:11:35 | 0:11:37 | |
what ten-word retort was attributed to the film actress...? | 0:11:37 | 0:11:42 | |
This town ain't big enough for the both of us. | 0:11:43 | 0:11:45 | |
No, I'm afraid you lose five points. ..attributed to the | 0:11:45 | 0:11:48 | |
film actress Tallulah Bankhead and was supposedly her response | 0:11:48 | 0:11:51 | |
to the greeting of an ex-lover she hadn't seen for many years? | 0:11:51 | 0:11:55 | |
No conferring. | 0:11:58 | 0:12:01 | |
Eh, you may buzz. | 0:12:01 | 0:12:02 | |
Are you pleased to see me or is that a gun in your pocket? | 0:12:04 | 0:12:07 | |
That was Mae West. | 0:12:07 | 0:12:08 | |
No, it's "I thought I told you to wait in the car." | 0:12:08 | 0:12:11 | |
Right, ten points for this. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:13 | |
The Oxford English Dictionary's traditional rule that a word | 0:12:13 | 0:12:16 | |
needs to be current for ten years before it can be considered | 0:12:16 | 0:12:20 | |
for inclusion was broken in... | 0:12:20 | 0:12:22 | |
Selfie. | 0:12:22 | 0:12:24 | |
No, I'm afraid you lose five points. | 0:12:24 | 0:12:25 | |
..was broken in June 2013 with the addition of what five-letter | 0:12:25 | 0:12:29 | |
word in its social networking sense? | 0:12:29 | 0:12:32 | |
-Tweet. -Tweet is correct. | 0:12:35 | 0:12:37 | |
These bonuses are on greetings. | 0:12:40 | 0:12:42 | |
Firstly for five, by the time of the Ming dynasty, | 0:12:42 | 0:12:45 | |
which Chinese ritual involved three kneelings and nine prostrations? | 0:12:45 | 0:12:49 | |
The requirement for Western envoys was abolished after the Opium Wars. | 0:12:49 | 0:12:52 | |
You don't need to buzz, it's a bonus question, | 0:12:52 | 0:12:54 | |
and it's going to the other team, I'm afraid. | 0:12:54 | 0:12:56 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:12:56 | 0:12:58 | |
-It's a kowtow. -It is a kowtow, yes. | 0:12:58 | 0:13:01 | |
Used when formerly receiving visitors, | 0:13:01 | 0:13:03 | |
which traditional Maori greeting is done by pressing the noses together? | 0:13:03 | 0:13:08 | |
Their version of kissing. | 0:13:16 | 0:13:18 | |
Well, yeah, it's their equivalent of kissing | 0:13:18 | 0:13:20 | |
and done all the time at St Peter's, I believe, it's called a hongi. | 0:13:20 | 0:13:24 | |
And finally, a respectful greeting said when bringing the palms | 0:13:24 | 0:13:27 | |
together, which word comes via Hindi from the Sanskrit for bowing to you? | 0:13:27 | 0:13:32 | |
We're not good at that. | 0:13:44 | 0:13:46 | |
It's Namaste. Right, ten points for this. | 0:13:46 | 0:13:49 | |
In which epistolary novel of 1782 does the married | 0:13:49 | 0:13:53 | |
and deeply virtuous Madame de Tourvel become the victim of...? | 0:13:53 | 0:13:57 | |
-Les Liaisons Dangereuses. -Correct. | 0:13:58 | 0:14:01 | |
Right, these bonuses are on German scientists. | 0:14:05 | 0:14:09 | |
Good, thank you(!) | 0:14:09 | 0:14:11 | |
We've got one on our team, somewhere. | 0:14:11 | 0:14:13 | |
Which German theoretical physicist won the 1932 Nobel Prize | 0:14:13 | 0:14:17 | |
for Physics for "the creation of quantum mechanics"? | 0:14:17 | 0:14:21 | |
-Eh, Heisenberg. -Heisenberg is correct, yes. | 0:14:32 | 0:14:35 | |
Felix Hoffmann first synthesised acetylsalicylic acid in a form | 0:14:35 | 0:14:40 | |
that was suitable for medical use in 1987. | 0:14:40 | 0:14:43 | |
Under what name did the German company Bayer market it? | 0:14:43 | 0:14:46 | |
-Aspirin. -Correct. | 0:14:46 | 0:14:48 | |
Born 1773, which German geologist gives his name to the scale | 0:14:48 | 0:14:52 | |
he developed for comparing the hardness of minerals? | 0:14:52 | 0:14:55 | |
-Carat? -No, it was Friedrich Mohs. | 0:15:02 | 0:15:05 | |
Right, we're going to take a music round now. | 0:15:05 | 0:15:07 | |
For your music starter, you'll hear a well-known Christmas carol. | 0:15:07 | 0:15:11 | |
Ten points if you can name the singer. | 0:15:11 | 0:15:13 | |
MUSIC: "Silent Night" | 0:15:13 | 0:15:16 | |
-Placido Domingo. -Correct. | 0:15:18 | 0:15:20 | |
That was his version of Silent Night. | 0:15:23 | 0:15:25 | |
For your bonuses, you'll hear three more tenors performing | 0:15:25 | 0:15:27 | |
Christmas standards, five points for each singer you can identify. | 0:15:27 | 0:15:31 | |
The first is Italian. | 0:15:31 | 0:15:32 | |
MUSIC: "O Holy Night" | 0:15:32 | 0:15:35 | |
-Enrico Caruso. -Correct. Secondly, this Welsh singer. | 0:15:37 | 0:15:41 | |
MUSIC: "Come All Ye Faithful" | 0:15:41 | 0:15:45 | |
Bryn Terfel. | 0:15:45 | 0:15:46 | |
No, that's Harry Secombe and, finally, another Italian singer. | 0:15:46 | 0:15:50 | |
MUSIC: "Angels We Have Heard On High" | 0:15:50 | 0:15:55 | |
-Andrea Bocelli. -Correct. | 0:16:05 | 0:16:07 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:16:07 | 0:16:08 | |
What descending sequence of numbers links Mendelssohn's | 0:16:08 | 0:16:12 | |
Reformation Symphony, Schubert's Tragic and Beethoven's Eroica? | 0:16:12 | 0:16:16 | |
-Five, four, three. -Correct. | 0:16:19 | 0:16:21 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:16:21 | 0:16:24 | |
Gonville and Caius, your bonuses this time are on philosopher MPs. | 0:16:25 | 0:16:29 | |
Which Dublin-born philosopher | 0:16:29 | 0:16:30 | |
and political theorist was the MP for Bristol from 1774 to 1780, but | 0:16:30 | 0:16:35 | |
alienated voters due to his support for improved rights for Catholics? | 0:16:35 | 0:16:40 | |
-Edmund Burke. -Correct. | 0:16:40 | 0:16:41 | |
In 1867, which philosopher | 0:16:41 | 0:16:44 | |
and MP for Westminster forced a debate on an amendment to Disraeli's | 0:16:44 | 0:16:47 | |
suffrage bill, proposing the substitution of the word | 0:16:47 | 0:16:50 | |
"person" for "men"? He later published The Subjection of Women. | 0:16:50 | 0:16:54 | |
-Dilk? -No, it's John Stuart Mill. -Of course it is. | 0:16:56 | 0:16:59 | |
Created Baron Verulam in 1618, which philosopher had previously been | 0:16:59 | 0:17:04 | |
the MP for several places including Liverpool, Middlesex and St Albans? | 0:17:04 | 0:17:08 | |
-Bacon. -Francis Bacon is correct. | 0:17:11 | 0:17:13 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:17:13 | 0:17:14 | |
Which water-soluble polysaccharide is found in the cell walls | 0:17:14 | 0:17:17 | |
of some ripe fruits and, when the fruit is cooked, | 0:17:17 | 0:17:21 | |
acts as a thickening agent for jellies and jams? | 0:17:21 | 0:17:23 | |
-Pectin. -Correct. | 0:17:24 | 0:17:26 | |
You're obviously a jam-maker. | 0:17:29 | 0:17:30 | |
You've got a set of bonuses, Gonville and Caius, | 0:17:30 | 0:17:33 | |
on Tennessee Williams. Tennessee Williams won two Pulitzer prizes. | 0:17:33 | 0:17:36 | |
One was in 1948 for A Streetcar Named Desire, the other in 1955 | 0:17:36 | 0:17:41 | |
for which play set in the plantation home of a wealthy cotton magnate? | 0:17:41 | 0:17:46 | |
-Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. -Correct. | 0:17:46 | 0:17:47 | |
In the 1968 film Boom!, adapted from Williams' | 0:17:47 | 0:17:50 | |
play The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, | 0:17:50 | 0:17:53 | |
the character of the Witch of Capri was played by which English | 0:17:53 | 0:17:57 | |
playwright, actor and composer? | 0:17:57 | 0:17:59 | |
I think that one escapes us. | 0:18:04 | 0:18:06 | |
-That's Noel Coward. -Of course it is. | 0:18:06 | 0:18:08 | |
I love the way you say, "Of course it is." | 0:18:08 | 0:18:10 | |
It's easier when you've been told the answer, isn't it? | 0:18:10 | 0:18:13 | |
Williams gave his own first name Thomas or Tom to the | 0:18:13 | 0:18:16 | |
protagonist of which play, first staged in 1944? | 0:18:16 | 0:18:20 | |
It was his first major success | 0:18:20 | 0:18:22 | |
and was based in part on his earlier screenplay The Gentleman Caller. | 0:18:22 | 0:18:25 | |
No, we don't know. | 0:18:27 | 0:18:29 | |
That was The Glass Menagerie. | 0:18:29 | 0:18:30 | |
Of course it was(!) Ten points for this. | 0:18:30 | 0:18:33 | |
What is the only continent whose name can be typed | 0:18:33 | 0:18:36 | |
using the top row of characters on a standard QWERTY keyboard? | 0:18:36 | 0:18:40 | |
Asia. | 0:18:42 | 0:18:44 | |
Anyone like to buzz from Christ Church? | 0:18:45 | 0:18:47 | |
-Europe. -Correct. | 0:18:51 | 0:18:53 | |
Right, your bonuses this time, Christ Church, are on minerals. | 0:18:57 | 0:19:01 | |
-Also known... -Not German scientists? | 0:19:01 | 0:19:03 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:19:03 | 0:19:05 | |
Also known as common or rock salt, what is | 0:19:05 | 0:19:08 | |
the name of the naturally-occurring form of sodium chloride? | 0:19:08 | 0:19:12 | |
Saltpetre? | 0:19:12 | 0:19:13 | |
Salt? | 0:19:15 | 0:19:16 | |
No, it's halite. | 0:19:16 | 0:19:18 | |
Halite occurs in close association with which mineral of hydrated | 0:19:18 | 0:19:22 | |
calcium sulphate? | 0:19:22 | 0:19:23 | |
It occurs in compact form as alabaster. | 0:19:23 | 0:19:26 | |
If you know, you say. | 0:19:30 | 0:19:33 | |
Lyme? | 0:19:33 | 0:19:34 | |
No, it's gypsum. And finally, | 0:19:34 | 0:19:36 | |
which mineral of calcium sulphate differs from gypsum to which it | 0:19:36 | 0:19:39 | |
alters in humid conditions by having no water of crystallization? | 0:19:39 | 0:19:43 | |
-Marble. -Marble? -Yeah. | 0:19:48 | 0:19:52 | |
It's anhydrite. | 0:19:52 | 0:19:53 | |
Right, we're going to take another picture round. | 0:19:53 | 0:19:56 | |
You're going to see an engraving of a British scientist. | 0:19:56 | 0:19:58 | |
Ten points if you can give me his name, please. | 0:19:58 | 0:20:00 | |
-Faraday. -It is Michael Faraday, yes. | 0:20:02 | 0:20:05 | |
As you know, he established | 0:20:08 | 0:20:10 | |
the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 1825, | 0:20:10 | 0:20:13 | |
with the aim of introducing young audiences to scientific | 0:20:13 | 0:20:16 | |
subjects through spectacular demonstrations. | 0:20:16 | 0:20:19 | |
Bonuses are three more scientists who've given | 0:20:19 | 0:20:21 | |
the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture since then. | 0:20:21 | 0:20:23 | |
Five points for each one you can identify. | 0:20:23 | 0:20:25 | |
Firstly, this American scientist who gave his lecture in 1977. | 0:20:25 | 0:20:30 | |
-It's Carl Sagan. -Stafford-Fraser. | 0:20:34 | 0:20:36 | |
-Carl Sagan. -It is Carl Sagan. | 0:20:36 | 0:20:38 | |
Secondly, this British scientist who gave lectures in 1937 and 1957. | 0:20:38 | 0:20:43 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:20:48 | 0:20:51 | |
Francis Crick. | 0:20:55 | 0:20:57 | |
-No, it's Julian Huxley. -Of course it is. | 0:20:57 | 0:20:59 | |
And finally... Of course it is. | 0:20:59 | 0:21:00 | |
This British scientist who gave his lectures in 2006? | 0:21:00 | 0:21:04 | |
-Marcus de Sautoy. -Correct. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:13 | |
Another starter question now, listen carefully, then answer promptly. | 0:21:13 | 0:21:17 | |
The town of Huddersfield is synonymous | 0:21:17 | 0:21:19 | |
with fine woollen manufacture. | 0:21:19 | 0:21:21 | |
Give the dictionary spelling of the word "woollen" in this sentence. | 0:21:21 | 0:21:26 | |
I think this is a trick question. | 0:21:30 | 0:21:32 | |
W-O-O-L-L-E-N? | 0:21:32 | 0:21:34 | |
Correct. | 0:21:34 | 0:21:35 | |
-Of course it is. -I'd grab it, if it's there, if I were you. | 0:21:38 | 0:21:41 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:21:41 | 0:21:43 | |
These bonuses are on extinct Germanic languages. | 0:21:44 | 0:21:48 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:21:48 | 0:21:51 | |
In each case, identify the language from the description. | 0:21:51 | 0:21:55 | |
Give the two-word name of the parent language of Icelandic, Norwegian | 0:21:55 | 0:21:59 | |
and Faroese. | 0:21:59 | 0:22:00 | |
It's the literary language of the Skaldic poems and Eders. | 0:22:00 | 0:22:04 | |
-Old Norse? -Correct. -Yes. | 0:22:12 | 0:22:14 | |
A language spoken in the Middle Ages, secondly, in Caithness. | 0:22:14 | 0:22:17 | |
It was also used in Shetland | 0:22:17 | 0:22:19 | |
and Orkney where it is thought to have survived until 1800. | 0:22:19 | 0:22:22 | |
-Old Gaelic? -No, that's Norn. | 0:22:24 | 0:22:26 | |
And finally, an East Germanic language, | 0:22:26 | 0:22:29 | |
known primarily from the Codex Argenteus, a 6th-century copy | 0:22:29 | 0:22:33 | |
of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas. | 0:22:33 | 0:22:37 | |
Hunnish? | 0:22:40 | 0:22:41 | |
No, it's Gothic. Ten points for this. | 0:22:43 | 0:22:45 | |
What seven-letter term describes a solution of a metal in mercury, | 0:22:47 | 0:22:51 | |
until recently, widely used by dentists when filling teeth? | 0:22:51 | 0:22:54 | |
-Amalgam. -Amalgam is correct. | 0:22:55 | 0:22:57 | |
Your bonuses are linked by Christmas tree decorations, | 0:22:59 | 0:23:03 | |
Gonville and Caius. | 0:23:03 | 0:23:04 | |
"Consideration like an angel came | 0:23:04 | 0:23:06 | |
"and whipped the offending Adam out of him." | 0:23:06 | 0:23:08 | |
Spoken by the Archbishop of Canterbury, | 0:23:08 | 0:23:10 | |
these words refer to which of Shakespeare's kings of England? | 0:23:10 | 0:23:13 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:23:19 | 0:23:21 | |
-King John. -No, it's Henry V. | 0:23:28 | 0:23:31 | |
Of course it is. | 0:23:31 | 0:23:32 | |
"Take away that fool's bauble." | 0:23:32 | 0:23:34 | |
To what symbol of state did those words of Oliver Cromwell refer? | 0:23:34 | 0:23:37 | |
-The Mace. -Correct. | 0:23:42 | 0:23:43 | |
And finally for five points, "Bright star, would I were steadfast | 0:23:43 | 0:23:47 | |
"as thou art." This line begins a sonnet by which Romantic poet? | 0:23:47 | 0:23:51 | |
-Coleridge. -No, it was Keats. | 0:24:08 | 0:24:09 | |
Of course it was. Ten points for this. | 0:24:09 | 0:24:12 | |
What given name links the Prince of Orange from 1585 to 1625, | 0:24:12 | 0:24:16 | |
the composer of the ballet Daphnis and Chloe, | 0:24:16 | 0:24:19 | |
and a novel by EM Forster, published posthumously in 1971? | 0:24:19 | 0:24:24 | |
-Maurice. -Correct. | 0:24:25 | 0:24:27 | |
Right, your bonuses are on food plants, Gonville and Caius. | 0:24:29 | 0:24:32 | |
What is the common name of the vegetable | 0:24:32 | 0:24:35 | |
that consists of the small, compact buds of Brassica oleracea? | 0:24:35 | 0:24:39 | |
-Brussels sprouts. -Correct. | 0:24:42 | 0:24:44 | |
Pastinaca sativa is the binomial of which winter root vegetable | 0:24:44 | 0:24:48 | |
of the parsley family? | 0:24:48 | 0:24:49 | |
-Parsnips. -Parsnips is right. | 0:25:03 | 0:25:05 | |
Salvia officinalis and Allium cepa are often found together | 0:25:06 | 0:25:10 | |
in a traditional roast dinner. | 0:25:10 | 0:25:12 | |
-By what names are they commonly known? -Garlic and sage. | 0:25:12 | 0:25:15 | |
No, it's sage and onion. | 0:25:15 | 0:25:16 | |
Right, ten points for this. | 0:25:18 | 0:25:20 | |
Quasi Una Fantasia was the original title of a sonata of 1801 in C-sharp | 0:25:20 | 0:25:25 | |
minor, opus 27, number 2, now usually known by what familiar name? | 0:25:25 | 0:25:30 | |
Fantasia? | 0:25:32 | 0:25:33 | |
No, Gonville and Caius, one of you buzz. | 0:25:33 | 0:25:35 | |
-Moonlight? -Yes, the Moonlight's Sonata is correct. | 0:25:39 | 0:25:42 | |
Your bonuses are on archaeological sites in Turkey. | 0:25:42 | 0:25:47 | |
Firstly for five points, Hisarlik is the name of the archaeological | 0:25:47 | 0:25:50 | |
mound generally believed to be located at the site of which | 0:25:50 | 0:25:53 | |
ancient city of western Turkey, also known as its Latin name Ilion? | 0:25:53 | 0:25:58 | |
-Troy. -Correct. | 0:25:59 | 0:26:00 | |
Which ancient city in western Turkey was the site of the | 0:26:00 | 0:26:02 | |
Temple of Artemis, one of the seven Wonders of the Ancient World? | 0:26:02 | 0:26:06 | |
-Ephesus. -Correct. | 0:26:14 | 0:26:15 | |
Containing many artefacts from the ancient city of Pergamon, | 0:26:15 | 0:26:18 | |
the Pergamon Museum is in which European capital? | 0:26:18 | 0:26:22 | |
Berlin. | 0:26:22 | 0:26:23 | |
Berlin is right. Ten points for this. | 0:26:23 | 0:26:26 | |
The English name of which major world river rhymes with words | 0:26:26 | 0:26:29 | |
meaning fluids stored in the gall bladder and...? | 0:26:29 | 0:26:34 | |
-Nile. -Nile is correct. | 0:26:34 | 0:26:36 | |
Rhymes with bile. | 0:26:39 | 0:26:41 | |
Your bonuses this time, Gonville and Caius, are on classical music. | 0:26:41 | 0:26:44 | |
Begun in 1866, Winter Daydreams is a name often given to which | 0:26:44 | 0:26:48 | |
composer's Symphony number 1 in G-minor, opus 13? | 0:26:48 | 0:26:51 | |
-Tchaikovsky. -Correct. | 0:26:53 | 0:26:54 | |
Snow Behind The Window and Waltz On The Ice are movements | 0:26:54 | 0:26:58 | |
in Winter Bonfire, a 1950 work by which Russian composer? | 0:26:58 | 0:27:03 | |
-Prokofiev. -Correct. | 0:27:13 | 0:27:15 | |
A set of poems about lost love by the German lyric poet | 0:27:15 | 0:27:18 | |
Wilhelm Muller, | 0:27:18 | 0:27:19 | |
the 1827 song cycle Winterreise or Winter Journey is by which composer? | 0:27:19 | 0:27:24 | |
-Franz Schubert. -Correct, ten points for this. | 0:27:24 | 0:27:27 | |
Answer as soon as your name is called. | 0:27:27 | 0:27:29 | |
In pre-decimal currency, | 0:27:29 | 0:27:30 | |
what fraction of a pound was 15 shillings? | 0:27:30 | 0:27:33 | |
-Three quarters. -Correct. | 0:27:36 | 0:27:38 | |
Right, your bonuses are on the actor Spencer Tracy. | 0:27:42 | 0:27:46 | |
Tracy won an Oscar for Best Actor in which 1938 film, | 0:27:47 | 0:27:51 | |
loosely based on Father Edward J Flanagan, | 0:27:51 | 0:27:53 | |
the founder of an orphanage in Nebraska? | 0:27:53 | 0:27:56 | |
-Angels With Dirty Faces? -No, it's Boys Town. | 0:28:02 | 0:28:04 | |
Directed by John Sturgess, | 0:28:04 | 0:28:06 | |
in which 1955 film does Tracy play a one-armed ex-soldier | 0:28:06 | 0:28:09 | |
who arrives in a small desert town, | 0:28:09 | 0:28:12 | |
seeking to discover the fate of his former comrade's father? | 0:28:12 | 0:28:14 | |
GONG CRASHES | 0:28:14 | 0:28:16 | |
It was indeed Bad Day At Black Rock. | 0:28:17 | 0:28:20 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:28:20 | 0:28:21 | |
Well, thanks very much for taking part, Christ Church. | 0:28:23 | 0:28:26 | |
I don't think we're going to be seeing you again. | 0:28:26 | 0:28:28 | |
You can spend more time with books about German scientists, perhaps. | 0:28:28 | 0:28:32 | |
Gonville and Caius, that is the highest score | 0:28:32 | 0:28:34 | |
so far in this first round of the contest, so we shall be seeing | 0:28:34 | 0:28:37 | |
you, I think, in the next stage, in the semifinals. | 0:28:37 | 0:28:40 | |
Thank you very much. | 0:28:40 | 0:28:41 | |
I hope you can join us | 0:28:41 | 0:28:42 | |
next time for another of these first round Christmas matches, | 0:28:42 | 0:28:45 | |
but meanwhile, feast your eyes on how kind time has been to this lot. | 0:28:45 | 0:28:49 | |
Goodbye. | 0:28:49 | 0:28:51 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:28:51 | 0:28:53 |