0:00:18 > 0:00:20APPLAUSE
0:00:20 > 0:00:23Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:29 > 0:00:33Hello. Our Christmas series for graduates is gathering pace
0:00:33 > 0:00:36with four first-round matches played and three to go, we know that
0:00:36 > 0:00:38Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge are through
0:00:38 > 0:00:42to the semifinal stage, and from now on, any team that matches or beats
0:00:42 > 0:00:45their score of 255 will go through as well.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48Scotland plays England tonight.
0:00:48 > 0:00:50The team from St Hugh's College, Oxford includes
0:00:50 > 0:00:53a player with a CV longer than an eight-year-old's Christmas list,
0:00:53 > 0:00:56having been director of programmes for Channel 4,
0:00:56 > 0:00:58the chair of the Arts Council in England
0:00:58 > 0:01:02and much else besides and is now chair of the Bristol Old Vic.
0:01:02 > 0:01:05Her colleagues' achievements include holding the record
0:01:05 > 0:01:08for the longest unsupported polar journey in history.
0:01:08 > 0:01:12Their captain is an award-winning broadcaster who'll be very familiar
0:01:12 > 0:01:14to Radio 3 and to Radio 4's listeners
0:01:14 > 0:01:16and to viewers of the Proms.
0:01:16 > 0:01:20And their fourth member is a former editor of The Erotic Review.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22She now writes a column for the Telegraph,
0:01:22 > 0:01:25dispenses relationship advice for the Daily Mail
0:01:25 > 0:01:26and performs stand-up comedy.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29There's a difference, apparently. Let's meet the St Hugh's team.
0:01:29 > 0:01:33Hello. I'm Liz Forgan. I read modern languages in the early '60s,
0:01:33 > 0:01:38became a journalist and I now chair various arts organisations.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40Hi. I'm Alex Hibbert. I studied biology,
0:01:40 > 0:01:44graduating in 2007, and now I lead expeditions in the Arctic.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46Their captain. I'm Suzy Klein.
0:01:46 > 0:01:51I graduated in music in 1996 and I'm now a writer and broadcaster.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53Hello. I'm Rowan Pelling.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56I graduated in 1991 with a degree in English literature
0:01:56 > 0:01:58and I'm now a writer and journalist.
0:01:58 > 0:02:02APPLAUSE
0:02:04 > 0:02:07Now, their opponents from the University of Stirling include
0:02:07 > 0:02:09a journalist and former director of communications
0:02:09 > 0:02:12for the Scottish Conservatives, a role which must demand
0:02:12 > 0:02:15some stoicism or possibly a belief in reincarnation.
0:02:15 > 0:02:19Next, a scientist whose specialism, in her own helpful words,
0:02:19 > 0:02:22is mathematical modelling and automated reasoning
0:02:22 > 0:02:24for concurrent communicating systems.
0:02:24 > 0:02:27Their captain dispenses invaluable financial advice
0:02:27 > 0:02:29on Radio 4's Money Box and elsewhere.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32And in a heart-warming nod to cross-party cooperation,
0:02:32 > 0:02:35they're joined by an SNP member of the Scottish Parliament.
0:02:35 > 0:02:38Let's meet the Stirling team.
0:02:38 > 0:02:39Hi. I'm John McLellan.
0:02:39 > 0:02:42I studied English and media studies and graduated in 1983.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44I'm a former editor of the Scotsman
0:02:44 > 0:02:48and I'm now director of the Scottish Newspaper Society.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51Hello. I'm Muffy Calder. I studied computing science,
0:02:51 > 0:02:52graduating in 1980.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55Now I'm a professor at the University of Glasgow
0:02:55 > 0:02:58and the chief scientific adviser to Scottish Government.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01And their captain. Hello. I'm Paul Lewis.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04I graduated in the '70s in psychology
0:03:04 > 0:03:07and now I make my living as a financial journalist.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10I'm Richard Lochhead. I graduated in political studies in 1994
0:03:10 > 0:03:13from Stirling. I'm the member of the Scottish Parliament for Moray
0:03:13 > 0:03:15and a Cabinet Secretary of the Scottish Government.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18APPLAUSE
0:03:21 > 0:03:24Let me just refresh your memories of the rules.
0:03:24 > 0:03:27Starter questions have to be answered individually on the buzzer.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29There's a 5-point penalty if you interrupt
0:03:29 > 0:03:31a starter question incorrectly.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34Bonuses are team efforts. You can confer on those.
0:03:34 > 0:03:35They're worth 15 all up.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37Right. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:03:37 > 0:03:40Here's your first starter for 10. If it's good enough for the Obamas
0:03:40 > 0:03:43or the Pope, then it's good enough for Word of the Year. These words
0:03:43 > 0:03:47from the Oxford Dictionary's website refer to which six...
0:03:49 > 0:03:50Selfie.
0:03:50 > 0:03:51Selfie is correct, yes.
0:03:51 > 0:03:54APPLAUSE
0:03:55 > 0:03:58First set of bonuses are on seasonal stories.
0:03:58 > 0:04:02Which novel of 1868 opens with the complaint that
0:04:02 > 0:04:05"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents"?
0:04:05 > 0:04:08WHISPERING
0:04:13 > 0:04:14Little Women. Correct.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17Secondly, what's the title of O Henry's short story about
0:04:17 > 0:04:21a young couple who each sell their most precious possession
0:04:21 > 0:04:23to buy the other's Christmas present?
0:04:30 > 0:04:32Pass. That's The Gift Of The Magi.
0:04:32 > 0:04:35And finally, "Mittens made for giant sloths
0:04:35 > 0:04:38"and tam-o'-shanters like patchwork tea cosies"
0:04:38 > 0:04:40are among the so-called useful presents listed in
0:04:40 > 0:04:42A Child's Christmas In Wales
0:04:42 > 0:04:47by which writer who died two years before its publication in 1955?
0:04:47 > 0:04:50Dylan Thomas. Correct. 10 points for this. Listen carefully.
0:04:50 > 0:04:52In the American Institute of Architects' list
0:04:52 > 0:04:55of America's favourite architecture, only two of the top ten
0:04:55 > 0:04:59are outside New York or Washington DC.
0:04:59 > 0:05:02One is the Vanderbilt residence in North Carolina.
0:05:02 > 0:05:06Which structure in California is the other?
0:05:07 > 0:05:09The Hollywood Bowl.
0:05:09 > 0:05:13No. Anyone want to buzz from St Hugh's? You may not confer.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15You may NOT confer, Pelling!
0:05:15 > 0:05:17LAUGHTER
0:05:19 > 0:05:22The Golden Gate Bridge. Correct.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24APPLAUSE
0:05:26 > 0:05:30Right. Bonuses this time on gift-giving.
0:05:30 > 0:05:34The French historian Edouard de Laboulaye made the proposal
0:05:34 > 0:05:38for the giving of which prominent gift on which work began in 1875
0:05:38 > 0:05:41under Frederic Auguste Bartholdi?
0:05:43 > 0:05:47Oh. Er, it's not the... Eiffel Tower? Eiffel Tower?
0:05:47 > 0:05:51Eiffel Tower? It's worth a go.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54Or the Statue of Liberty? Oh, the Statue of Liberty!
0:05:54 > 0:05:56The Statue of Liberty. Correct.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59In November 1914, who gave 18 of his sculptures
0:05:59 > 0:06:03to the V Museum in honour of French and British troops
0:06:03 > 0:06:07killed in World War I? They included The Age Of Bronze.
0:06:07 > 0:06:08WHISPERING
0:06:08 > 0:06:10Isn't it Rodin? No, no. It's...
0:06:10 > 0:06:12Um...
0:06:12 > 0:06:16Oh, it's one of those guys like Gill or somebody.
0:06:16 > 0:06:19WHISPERING
0:06:19 > 0:06:22What do you think? I think it's Rodin.
0:06:22 > 0:06:25Rodin. It was Rodin, yes.
0:06:25 > 0:06:29What gift given annually since 1947 usually bears an inscription
0:06:29 > 0:06:32stating that it is given by the city of Oslo as a token
0:06:32 > 0:06:35of Norwegian gratitude to the people of London?
0:06:35 > 0:06:38The Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square. Correct.
0:06:38 > 0:06:4210 points for this. "Biography lends to death a new terror."
0:06:42 > 0:06:45Which poet, novelist and playwright said those words?
0:06:45 > 0:06:48His own biographers include Hesketh Pearson in 1946
0:06:48 > 0:06:50and Richard Ellmann in 1987.
0:06:50 > 0:06:54The latter work inspired a film biography staring Stephen Fry.
0:06:56 > 0:06:58Oscar Wilde. Correct.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00APPLAUSE
0:07:00 > 0:07:04Right. Your bonuses are on writers who trained as physicians.
0:07:04 > 0:07:08Having graduated from the Moscow University medical faculty in 1884,
0:07:08 > 0:07:12which playwright wrote most of his work for the Moscow Art Theatre
0:07:12 > 0:07:17after Stanislavski produced his play The Seagull in 1898?
0:07:17 > 0:07:18Chekhov. Correct.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21Who graduated in medicine from Edinburgh University in 1815
0:07:21 > 0:07:25at the age of 19 and became personal physician to Byron?
0:07:25 > 0:07:29His short story of 1819 is one of the earliest examples of English
0:07:29 > 0:07:31of vampire fiction.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33WHISPERING
0:07:37 > 0:07:40Not Robert Louis Stevenson or someone like that, is it?
0:07:40 > 0:07:43Shall we guess? Robert Louis Stevenson. Robert Louis Stevenson.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46No, it's John William Polidori. And finally,
0:07:46 > 0:07:48also a graduate in medicine from Edinburgh University
0:07:48 > 0:07:52and later a ship's surgeon, which writer's best-known stories
0:07:52 > 0:07:54were usually the first person narratives
0:07:54 > 0:07:56of another doctor-turned-writer?
0:08:08 > 0:08:13Pass. Arthur Conan Doyle. Right. We're going to take a picture round.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15For you picture starter, you'll see some of the words
0:08:15 > 0:08:18to a Christmas carol with two words missing.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21For 10 points, simply give me both the missing words.
0:08:24 > 0:08:29Fountain, mountain. OK. We'll see the whole thing. There it is.
0:08:29 > 0:08:33So, your picture bonuses are other carols with words missing,
0:08:33 > 0:08:36as given in the New Oxford Book Of Carols.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39In each case, simply give me the missing words, please.
0:08:39 > 0:08:40Firstly, for 5.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44Triumphant. Bethlehem and...
0:08:44 > 0:08:47Born the King of Angels.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49Triumphant, Bethlehem, Angels.
0:08:49 > 0:08:53Correct. Let's see the whole thing. There it is. Secondly...
0:08:59 > 0:09:02HUMMING
0:09:04 > 0:09:06WHISPERING
0:09:09 > 0:09:12It's going to rhyme with "come". It's got to be one word.
0:09:12 > 0:09:14MUMBLING
0:09:14 > 0:09:17What do we think? I think the first one's got to rhyme
0:09:17 > 0:09:22with "come", hasn't it? Heaven and nature sing? OK. Welcome and nature.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24No, it's room and nature.
0:09:24 > 0:09:28Finally, let's see the last one, please.
0:09:31 > 0:09:36Infant, tender, bright, heavenly, heavenly.
0:09:36 > 0:09:41Holy, infant, tender, bright, heavenly, heavenly.
0:09:41 > 0:09:46It's tender, mild and heavenly and heavenly. Well done.
0:09:46 > 0:09:4710 points for this.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50The term megafauna indicates land animals
0:09:50 > 0:09:52often larger than their modern counterparts
0:09:52 > 0:09:57and is particularly associated with which geological epoque?
0:09:57 > 0:09:59Ice Age.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02I'm afraid you lose 5 points.
0:10:02 > 0:10:06Spanning the most recent ice ages, it ended around 11,000 years ago.
0:10:09 > 0:10:13You may not confer! Were you conferring?
0:10:13 > 0:10:16Pelling, you've got to pull yourself together! Sorry.
0:10:16 > 0:10:19Were you conferring?
0:10:19 > 0:10:23Yes, Jeremy. Right. That's more like it.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25Let's have some order around here.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28I'm going to give you another starter question instead.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30Let's have another starter question.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33The titles of a French television series of 1965
0:10:33 > 0:10:37and a Japanese anime series of the 1980s
0:10:37 > 0:10:41and the name of an indie pop band of the 1990s, all derive from the title
0:10:41 > 0:10:47of which novel by Cecile Aubry about a boy and his dog in an Alpine village?
0:10:53 > 0:10:55Belle And Sebastian. Correct.
0:11:00 > 0:11:04Right, so you storm away to 5 points and you get a possible 15
0:11:04 > 0:11:07if you get these bonuses in addition. They're on commissions.
0:11:07 > 0:11:10Firstly, which commission of inquiry was established in 1480
0:11:10 > 0:11:16by Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella of Castile to impose Catholic orthodoxy?
0:11:18 > 0:11:21The Inquisition. The Spanish Inquisition is correct.
0:11:21 > 0:11:25Secondly, what Portuguese phrase meaning act of faith denotes the public ceremonies
0:11:25 > 0:11:29at which the Iberian Inquisition sentenced prisoners
0:11:29 > 0:11:31and handed them over for punishment?
0:11:40 > 0:11:42Don't know. Auto-da-fe.
0:11:42 > 0:11:43And finally, in 1616,
0:11:43 > 0:11:48the Inquisition in Rome placed De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium,
0:11:48 > 0:11:52published 70 years earlier, on the index of prohibited books.
0:11:52 > 0:11:53Who was its author?
0:11:54 > 0:11:57Galileo. It was Copernicus. 10 points for this.
0:11:57 > 0:12:00Also the title of a folktale collected by the Brothers Grimm,
0:12:00 > 0:12:04what name was given to the horse trained by Wilhelm Von Osten
0:12:04 > 0:12:07around the end of the 19th century and apparently able to solve
0:12:07 > 0:12:10arithmetic problems and read from a chalkboard?
0:12:16 > 0:12:19Rumpelstiltskin. No.
0:12:19 > 0:12:23Stirling, one of you buzz, you may not confer. One of you can buzz.
0:12:26 > 0:12:29It's called Clever Hans. 10 points for this.
0:12:29 > 0:12:32Caused by the refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere,
0:12:32 > 0:12:37the luminous ring sometimes observed surrounding the sun or the moon is known by what...
0:12:37 > 0:12:41Perihelion.
0:12:41 > 0:12:42No, you lose 5 points.
0:12:42 > 0:12:46..by what four-letter term, the Greek Word for a disc?
0:12:46 > 0:12:48Halo. Correct.
0:12:53 > 0:12:57Right, Stirling, these bonuses are on worship.
0:12:57 > 0:13:00Around 550BC, which King of Lydia built the temple of Artemis,
0:13:00 > 0:13:04one of the seven wonders of the world in what is now western Turkey?
0:13:11 > 0:13:13We don't know. Croesus.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16Regarded as the masterpiece of the Ottoman architect, Sinan,
0:13:16 > 0:13:20the Mosque of Selim was completed around 1575
0:13:20 > 0:13:24in which city in Eastern Thrace, previously known as Adrianople?
0:13:37 > 0:13:39No, don't know. It's Edirne.
0:13:39 > 0:13:43And finally, the Istanbul mosque known as the Hagia Sophia
0:13:43 > 0:13:45was built as a cathedral in the sixth century
0:13:45 > 0:13:48under the direction of which Byzantine Emperor?
0:13:54 > 0:13:58Constantine. No, it was Justinian I, Justinian the Great.
0:13:58 > 0:14:01Right, time to take a music round.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03You will hear a song by a popular band.
0:14:03 > 0:14:0510 points if you can name the band, please.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07MUSIC: "Fairytale Of New York"
0:14:07 > 0:14:09The Pogues.
0:14:09 > 0:14:12Yes, Fairytale Of New York has several times been voted
0:14:12 > 0:14:14the nation's favourite Christmas song.
0:14:14 > 0:14:19It was co-written by The Pogues' Shane McGowan whose birthday is Christmas Day.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21For your bonuses, three more singles
0:14:21 > 0:14:23by well-known artists born on December 25.
0:14:23 > 0:14:26All you have to do is name the artist in each case.
0:14:26 > 0:14:29Firstly, this British pop singer.
0:14:29 > 0:14:33# I will go down with this ship... #
0:14:33 > 0:14:35It's Dido. It is, very good.
0:14:35 > 0:14:39It'll be the only classical question we'll get...! Shh!
0:14:39 > 0:14:42Secondly, this American jazz and scat singer.
0:14:42 > 0:14:47# Hi de hi de hi de hi
0:14:47 > 0:14:52# Oh...
0:14:52 > 0:14:57# He de he de he de he
0:14:57 > 0:15:03# Yeah...
0:15:03 > 0:15:07# She messed around with a bloke named Smokey... #
0:15:07 > 0:15:08Cab Calloway or Louis Jordan.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11# ..She loved him though he was... #
0:15:11 > 0:15:14Louis Jordan? No, it WAS Cab Calloway, bad luck.
0:15:14 > 0:15:16Finally, this British singer.
0:15:17 > 0:15:23# I used to be woebegone... #
0:15:23 > 0:15:25It's Annie Lennox. It is indeed.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27Right, 10 points for this.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30Give the three successive letters of the alphabet that begin words
0:15:30 > 0:15:34meaning a musical performer of exceptional skill,
0:15:34 > 0:15:36a dance in three/four time
0:15:36 > 0:15:40and the percussion instrument whose name means...
0:15:40 > 0:15:43VWY. Sorry.
0:15:43 > 0:15:47No, you lose 5 points as well. ..whose name means wooden sound.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54You may not... Pelling, pull yourself together!
0:16:01 > 0:16:06OK, I think we've had it... VWX. VWX is correct. Poor chap misremembered the alphabet.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09It happens to all of us at a certain stage in life.
0:16:09 > 0:16:14Right, bonuses for you, St Hugh's, linked by a weather phenomenon.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17In viticulture, night-time helicopter flights can be used
0:16:17 > 0:16:22to pull down air from an inversion layer and thereby prevent which potential crop hazard?
0:16:26 > 0:16:28WHISPERING
0:16:33 > 0:16:37Come on! Are we going to answer?
0:16:37 > 0:16:41I don't know. We're passing after all that, sorry.
0:16:41 > 0:16:45No...to dispel locusts. OK.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48It's a weather phenomenon! Well, I don't know...
0:16:48 > 0:16:50We're going biblical, Jeremy.
0:16:50 > 0:16:54OK, right. It's frost damage.
0:16:54 > 0:16:59In inorganic chemistry, a Frost diagram illustrates how the standard
0:16:59 > 0:17:03electro potential of a substance changes as which property varies?
0:17:09 > 0:17:11Humidity.
0:17:11 > 0:17:13Humidity.
0:17:13 > 0:17:14It's its oxidation state.
0:17:14 > 0:17:18In dehydrating a substance via freeze-drying,
0:17:18 > 0:17:22ice is encouraged to sublimate from a product after freezing
0:17:22 > 0:17:26by the reduction of which physical quantity?
0:17:29 > 0:17:33Humidity. No, it's pressure. 10 points for this.
0:17:33 > 0:17:35What class of organism involved in the Devonian period
0:17:35 > 0:17:38and comprised the first vertebrates to adapt to dry land?
0:17:38 > 0:17:42Its name derives from the Greek meaning living a double life.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45Amphibian. Correct.
0:17:48 > 0:17:50Your bonuses, St Hugh's, are on British airports
0:17:50 > 0:17:55and their three-letter codes. Give the airport's name in each case.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58Firstly, the three-letter code of which UK airport
0:17:58 > 0:18:03spells the informal name of the MTV Europe Music Award?
0:18:08 > 0:18:10WHISPERING
0:18:13 > 0:18:16Manchester. No, it's the East Midlands Airport, EMA.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19Secondly, the three-letter code of which airport in eastern England
0:18:19 > 0:18:23spells the surname of an Indian economist and Nobel Laureate,
0:18:23 > 0:18:27the author of Collective Choice And Social Welfare.
0:18:27 > 0:18:28Sen.
0:18:28 > 0:18:30What's the airport?
0:18:32 > 0:18:34Stansted. No, it's Southend Airport.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37You did get Sen, though, that was good.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39And, finally, when used on railway timetables,
0:18:39 > 0:18:42the three-letter code of which English airport indicates that
0:18:42 > 0:18:45a service doesn't run on, for example,
0:18:45 > 0:18:47the last Monday in May or August?
0:18:47 > 0:18:50WHISPERING
0:18:55 > 0:18:59Go for it. Go for it?
0:18:59 > 0:19:01Try XM.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03I don't know why. XM.
0:19:03 > 0:19:06No, the answer's Birmingham.
0:19:06 > 0:19:08BHX - bank holiday excepted.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11OK, another picture round now. For your picture starter,
0:19:11 > 0:19:13you'll see a photograph of a well-known cultural figure.
0:19:13 > 0:19:16For 10 points, I'd like you to name him, please.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21Rudolf Nureyev. Correct.
0:19:25 > 0:19:28Following on from Rudolf, for your bonuses,
0:19:28 > 0:19:31you will see photographs of three more prominent figures
0:19:31 > 0:19:33whose names also have a seasonal connection.
0:19:33 > 0:19:375 points for each person you can name. Firstly, for 5...
0:19:43 > 0:19:46WHISPERING
0:19:52 > 0:19:54Judge Winter, Judge Spring...?!
0:19:54 > 0:19:57Judge Winter.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59No, it's Judge Christmas Humphreys,
0:19:59 > 0:20:01a very prominent Buddhist in his day.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04Secondly, the name of the man on the far left.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07I need a first name, please, as well as a surname.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12WHISPERING
0:20:12 > 0:20:14Velvet Underground people...
0:20:19 > 0:20:23WHISPERING
0:20:24 > 0:20:26No? No?
0:20:28 > 0:20:31Anybody know? No, we're going to pass.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34That's Doug Yule of the Velvet Underground. And finally...
0:20:37 > 0:20:40That's Noel Coward. Are we happy with that? Yes. Noel Coward.
0:20:40 > 0:20:43It is Noel Coward, yes. Right, 10 points for this.
0:20:43 > 0:20:46Born near Glasgow in 1947, Janette Tough has performed
0:20:46 > 0:20:50on stage and television under what stage name as half of...
0:20:52 > 0:20:55Wee Jimmy Krankie. Indeed, yes!
0:20:55 > 0:20:56APPLAUSE
0:20:59 > 0:21:01National hero!
0:21:01 > 0:21:05Right, your bonuses this time, Stirling, are on television comedy.
0:21:05 > 0:21:09Indicating either basic illumination devices or parts for pieces
0:21:09 > 0:21:13of gardening equipment, what two words denote a Two Ronnies sketch,
0:21:13 > 0:21:18the script for which was sold at auction for over ?48,000 in 2007?
0:21:18 > 0:21:20Four Candles. Four Candles, yes.
0:21:20 > 0:21:23First heard in the 1980s, what two words denote a sketch written
0:21:23 > 0:21:28by Victoria Wood in which Julie Walters plays an elderly waitress?
0:21:28 > 0:21:31The words may form part of an order given in a restaurant.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36Service charge?
0:21:38 > 0:21:41We don't know. It's Two Soups.
0:21:41 > 0:21:44First heard in 1973 and voted the funniest line in British
0:21:44 > 0:21:46television comedy in 2002,
0:21:46 > 0:21:50what four words form part of an exchange between
0:21:50 > 0:21:54a German U-boat commander and a British captain of the Home Guard?
0:21:54 > 0:21:56Don't tell him, Pike. Yes!
0:21:56 > 0:21:5810 points for this.
0:21:58 > 0:22:00Meanings of what five-letter word
0:22:00 > 0:22:02include a straight line segment
0:22:02 > 0:22:04connecting two points on a curve, a zoological...?
0:22:07 > 0:22:09Chord. Chord is correct, yes.
0:22:09 > 0:22:11APPLAUSE
0:22:11 > 0:22:16These bonuses, St Hugh's, are on events since January 1, 2001.
0:22:16 > 0:22:19In each case, give the year in which the following occurred.
0:22:19 > 0:22:23Firstly, euro notes and coins were introduced in more than ten countries,
0:22:23 > 0:22:26East Timor became the first new sovereign state of the 21st century,
0:22:26 > 0:22:29and the Queen Mother died aged 101.
0:22:30 > 0:22:33WHISPERING
0:22:33 > 0:22:36No, it's much further back than that.
0:22:38 > 0:22:392001...
0:22:39 > 0:22:41WHISPERING
0:22:41 > 0:22:422001.
0:22:42 > 0:22:45No, it's 2002.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48Malta and Cyprus adopted the euro, Kosovo declared independence,
0:22:48 > 0:22:53and Prince Charles marked his 60th birthday in which year?
0:22:53 > 0:22:56He's just had his 70th, so 2003? Yes.
0:22:56 > 0:22:582003.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00No, it's 2008.
0:23:00 > 0:23:04Finally, Estonia adopted the euro, South Sudan became independent,
0:23:04 > 0:23:09and Prince William married Kate Middleton.
0:23:09 > 0:23:10WHISPERING
0:23:10 > 0:23:122011. Correct.
0:23:12 > 0:23:1310 points for this.
0:23:13 > 0:23:18Born in Reno, Nevada, in 1911, the tattoo artist, Norman Keith Collins,
0:23:18 > 0:23:20became known by what two-word nickname
0:23:20 > 0:23:24which later came to be applied to various commercial products,
0:23:24 > 0:23:26including a spiced Navy Rum?
0:23:30 > 0:23:32Captain Morgan?
0:23:32 > 0:23:33No.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35LAUGHTER
0:23:35 > 0:23:38St Hugh's, one of you want to buzz?
0:23:41 > 0:23:42St Hugh's, Forgan.
0:23:42 > 0:23:45Black Joe? No, it's Sailor Jerry.
0:23:45 > 0:23:4710 points for this.
0:23:47 > 0:23:50In mathematics, what two-word term denotes
0:23:50 > 0:23:52an "n" by "n" matrix of integers
0:23:52 > 0:23:55arranged so that the sum of the entries in each row,
0:23:55 > 0:23:57column and diagonal is the same?
0:24:03 > 0:24:04Symmetrical.
0:24:04 > 0:24:07No. One of you want to buzz from St Hugh's?
0:24:09 > 0:24:11It's a magic square.
0:24:11 > 0:24:1210 points for this.
0:24:12 > 0:24:16What form of electromagnetic radiation has a wavelength
0:24:16 > 0:24:18between 1mm and 30cm?
0:24:22 > 0:24:25Gamma. No. Anyone want to buzz from St Hugh's?
0:24:30 > 0:24:33Longwave. No, they're microwaves.
0:24:33 > 0:24:3510 points for this. In January 2013,
0:24:35 > 0:24:37who became the first man
0:24:37 > 0:24:40in the 45-year history of tennis's Open era
0:24:40 > 0:24:44to win three consecutive singles titles at the Australian Open?
0:24:45 > 0:24:48Djokovic. Djokovic is correct, yes.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50APPLAUSE
0:24:50 > 0:24:53Stirling, your bonuses are on medical imaging.
0:24:53 > 0:24:57In which case, give the full name of the method of medical imaging
0:24:57 > 0:24:59from its abbreviation.
0:24:59 > 0:25:03Firstly, CT, used, for example, in CT colonography.
0:25:03 > 0:25:08WHISPERING
0:25:12 > 0:25:13Colonic tomography?
0:25:13 > 0:25:17No, it's computerised tomography.
0:25:17 > 0:25:22Secondly, PET, commonly used in scans of malignant tumours.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25Electron tomography...
0:25:25 > 0:25:28P...?
0:25:28 > 0:25:31I can't think of the P. Electron tomography.
0:25:31 > 0:25:34Piezo electron tomography?
0:25:34 > 0:25:37No, it's positron emission tomography. Of course.
0:25:37 > 0:25:38Of course it is, yes(!)
0:25:38 > 0:25:44Finally, MRI, often used in scans of soft tissue?
0:25:44 > 0:25:46WHISPERING
0:25:46 > 0:25:48Magnetic resonance imaging. Correct.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51Two minutes to go. 10 points at stake. Fingers on buzzers.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54The Bellman's Speech, The Barrister's Dream and The Banker's Fate...
0:25:55 > 0:25:58The Hunting Of The Snark. Correct.
0:25:58 > 0:25:59APPLAUSE
0:25:59 > 0:26:01Your bonuses, Stirling, are on films.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04Often shown during the winter holiday period,
0:26:04 > 0:26:06despite their lack of festive content,
0:26:06 > 0:26:08name the film from the description.
0:26:08 > 0:26:12Firstly, a 1939 film shot mainly in Technicolor
0:26:12 > 0:26:15and directed by Victor Fleming. WHISPERING
0:26:15 > 0:26:16The Wizard Of Oz. Correct.
0:26:16 > 0:26:20A multiple Academy award-winning epic of 1959 directed
0:26:20 > 0:26:24by William Wyler and based on a novel of 1880 by Lew Wallace.
0:26:24 > 0:26:26Ben Hur. Correct.
0:26:26 > 0:26:28A 1963 film directed by John Sturgess
0:26:28 > 0:26:31and based on a non-fiction work by Paul Brickhill.
0:26:31 > 0:26:33Sorry?
0:26:33 > 0:26:36The Great Escape. The Great Escape. Correct. 10 points for this.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39It's name derived from the Greek for horn,
0:26:39 > 0:26:43which fibrous protein is a major constituent of mammalian hair...?
0:26:43 > 0:26:46Ketone. No, you lose 5 points.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49..mammalian hair, hooves and nails?
0:26:53 > 0:26:55WHISPERING
0:26:55 > 0:26:57Pectin? No, it's keratin. 10 points for this.
0:26:57 > 0:26:59What general type of geographical feature links
0:26:59 > 0:27:02the titles of works by James Baldwin, Thomas Mann,
0:27:02 > 0:27:04Annie Proulx and Charles Frazier?
0:27:04 > 0:27:06Mountain. Correct.
0:27:06 > 0:27:10Your set of bonuses, St Hugh's, are on astronomy.
0:27:10 > 0:27:14The ZHR - or zenithal hourly rate - measures the intensity of what
0:27:14 > 0:27:15astronomical phenomenon?
0:27:17 > 0:27:20WHISPERING
0:27:20 > 0:27:22Intensity? The sun. Say the sun?
0:27:22 > 0:27:25The sun. They are meteor showers.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27What term is applied to the point in the sky
0:27:27 > 0:27:30from which meteors of a shower appear to issue?
0:27:30 > 0:27:32WHISPERING
0:27:32 > 0:27:33Milky Way.
0:27:33 > 0:27:35Have a guess.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37Let's have it, please.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39No, don't know. It's the radiant point.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42Occurring in December, which meteor shower is named
0:27:42 > 0:27:43after its radiant in the constellation ...
0:27:43 > 0:27:45GONG SOUNDS
0:27:45 > 0:27:50At the gong, Stirling have 95, St Hugh's College, Oxford, have 125.
0:27:50 > 0:27:52APPLAUSE
0:27:52 > 0:27:53Thank you both for playing.
0:27:53 > 0:27:56I'm afraid we'll be saying goodbye to both teams,
0:27:56 > 0:27:58but you're good sports for doing it. Thank you.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00I hope you can join us next time.
0:28:00 > 0:28:03We'll leave you with a heart-warming reminder of the days
0:28:03 > 0:28:06when our contestants were even more eager-eyed and bushy-tailed.
0:28:06 > 0:28:07Goodbye.