0:00:18 > 0:00:21APPLAUSE
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:24 > 0:00:27Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32Hello. Tonight, we welcome the last two teams
0:00:32 > 0:00:36competing in the first round of this all-too-brief seasonal series
0:00:36 > 0:00:41for graduates of some of the UK's leading universities and university colleges.
0:00:41 > 0:00:44Only the four winning teams with the highest scores
0:00:44 > 0:00:47from these first-round matches will go through to the semifinals.
0:00:47 > 0:00:49So, we already know that Emmanuel College, Cambridge,
0:00:49 > 0:00:53Manchester University and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge,
0:00:53 > 0:00:56will play again. Keele University could do so as well,
0:00:56 > 0:00:59unless tonight's winners can beat their score of 140.
0:00:59 > 0:01:03Now, first on the team from King's College, London is a scientist
0:01:03 > 0:01:07who researches multiple sclerosis and spinal injury in particular
0:01:07 > 0:01:10and appropriately for this contest, is an authority on brain cells.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13With him, a multi-award-winning novelist whose ghost story
0:01:13 > 0:01:17The Woman in Black has been terrifying the nation for 30 years.
0:01:17 > 0:01:19Their captain is a comedian, actor, impressionist,
0:01:19 > 0:01:22writer and translator who describes himself as
0:01:22 > 0:01:26either multi-talented or indecisive, or possibly both.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29And finally, a journalist who dispenses invaluable financial
0:01:29 > 0:01:32and property advice in the press and on television.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35Let's meet the King's team. Hello. I'm Arthur Butt.
0:01:35 > 0:01:38I graduated in physiology from King's College in '86.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40I'm currently Professor of Neurophysiology
0:01:40 > 0:01:42at the University of Portsmouth.
0:01:42 > 0:01:44Hello. I'm Susan Hill.
0:01:44 > 0:01:48I graduated from King's in 1963 in English
0:01:48 > 0:01:52and I've been a writer ever since. And this is their captain.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55I'm Rory Bremner. I graduated in French and German in 1984
0:01:55 > 0:01:58and I haven't had a proper job since.
0:01:58 > 0:02:02Hello. I'm Anne Ashworth and I also graduated in French and German
0:02:02 > 0:02:07in the 1970s and today, I'm an assistant editor at the Times.
0:02:07 > 0:02:09APPLAUSE
0:02:12 > 0:02:15Their opponents from the University of Southampton
0:02:15 > 0:02:18include a journalist who edited Granta
0:02:18 > 0:02:19and the Observer Sports Monthly
0:02:19 > 0:02:22before taking up his current position in 2008,
0:02:22 > 0:02:25a Liberal Democrat peer and campaigner in the fields of
0:02:25 > 0:02:27poverty and social care.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29Their captain is a familiar writer and broadcaster
0:02:29 > 0:02:31on all things horticultural,
0:02:31 > 0:02:34and their fourth member has been head of the Number 10 policy unit
0:02:34 > 0:02:39and chief adviser on political strategy for the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair.
0:02:39 > 0:02:41Let's meet the Southampton team.
0:02:41 > 0:02:46Hello. I'm Jason Cowley. I graduated in 1989 in English and philosophy.
0:02:46 > 0:02:51I'm now a journalist, author and Editor of the New Statesman.
0:02:51 > 0:02:56Hello. I'm Claire Tyler. I graduated in law and politics in 1978.
0:02:56 > 0:02:57I'm now a member of the House of Lords
0:02:57 > 0:03:00and Chair of the Children and Family Court Advisory Service.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03And this is their captain. Hello. I'm Stephan Buczacki.
0:03:03 > 0:03:07I graduated in botany at Southampton in 1968
0:03:07 > 0:03:11and I now work as a writer, broadcaster and expert witness.
0:03:11 > 0:03:12Hello. I'm Matthew Taylor.
0:03:12 > 0:03:15I graduated in sociology in 1983
0:03:15 > 0:03:17and I'm now Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Arts.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19APPLAUSE
0:03:23 > 0:03:26I'm sure you don't need a reminder, but I will tell you again
0:03:26 > 0:03:28for the benefit of anyone who's new to the series
0:03:28 > 0:03:31that starter questions are individual efforts.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33You answer them by buzzing in and you can't confer
0:03:33 > 0:03:36and you mustn't interrupt a starter question incorrectly
0:03:36 > 0:03:37or you'll lose five points.
0:03:37 > 0:03:40And bonus questions are team efforts, you can confer on those.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43So, fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46In 1961, Robert Frost became the first poet
0:03:46 > 0:03:48to give a recitation at what event?
0:03:48 > 0:03:50Maya Angelou in 1993...
0:03:52 > 0:03:56The American presidential inauguration. Correct.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59APPLAUSE
0:03:59 > 0:04:02Right. The first set of bonuses, King's, are on toothache.
0:04:02 > 0:04:06Quote. "There was never yet philosopher that could endure
0:04:06 > 0:04:09"the toothache patiently." These are the words of Leonato,
0:04:09 > 0:04:12the father of Hero in which play by Shakespeare?
0:04:14 > 0:04:18You don't need to buzz. Oh, sorry. Much Ado About Nothing. Correct.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21"My curse upon thy venom'd stang,
0:04:21 > 0:04:24"That shoots my tortur'd gums alang."
0:04:24 > 0:04:26These words open which poet's address to the toothache,
0:04:26 > 0:04:28probably written in the 1780s?
0:04:28 > 0:04:30WHISPERING
0:04:32 > 0:04:34Robert Burns. Correct.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36"The man with toothache thinks everyone happy
0:04:36 > 0:04:38"whose teeth are sound.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41"The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."
0:04:41 > 0:04:46These are the words of which Irish dramatist?
0:04:46 > 0:04:49WHISPERING
0:04:52 > 0:04:54Shaw?
0:04:57 > 0:05:00Shaw? It was George Bernard Shaw, yes.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02APPLAUSE
0:05:02 > 0:05:04Fingers on buzzers. Here's a starter question.
0:05:04 > 0:05:07Which US humorist detailed his experiences working as an elf
0:05:07 > 0:05:11in the New York department store Macy's over the Christmas period
0:05:11 > 0:05:14in The SantaLand Diaries? His essay collections include
0:05:14 > 0:05:17"Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim"
0:05:17 > 0:05:20and "Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls."
0:05:26 > 0:05:29Nobody knows? It's David Sedaris. Ten points for this.
0:05:29 > 0:05:32Around 1670, the German alchemist Hennig Brand
0:05:32 > 0:05:36heated black, fermented urine concentrate with sand
0:05:36 > 0:05:41and isolated a transparent, waxy substance that glowed in the dark,
0:05:41 > 0:05:45was capable of spontaneous ignition and gave off dense, white fumes.
0:05:45 > 0:05:49Which element had he discovered?
0:05:49 > 0:05:51Phosphorus. Correct.
0:05:51 > 0:05:53APPLAUSE
0:05:53 > 0:05:57Right. These bonuses are on management-related expressions
0:05:57 > 0:06:00using information from wordspy.com.
0:06:00 > 0:06:03Firstly, referring to a traditional Christmas cake,
0:06:03 > 0:06:06what two-word term denotes those in positions
0:06:06 > 0:06:09just below the highest level in a company or organisation?
0:06:12 > 0:06:15Second tier? Second tier. No need to buzz.
0:06:15 > 0:06:20Second tier. No, they're the marzipan layer.
0:06:20 > 0:06:22Secondly, referring to middle management in general,
0:06:22 > 0:06:25what two-word term derives from a joke about a large carnivore
0:06:25 > 0:06:29that hid near an IBM office and got away with eating
0:06:29 > 0:06:32a manager a day for a year because nobody noticed?
0:06:32 > 0:06:35LAUGHTER
0:06:35 > 0:06:36Any ideas?
0:06:36 > 0:06:38WHISPERING
0:06:42 > 0:06:45A bear? A bear.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47Known as lion food. The BBC's full of them.
0:06:47 > 0:06:50After a marine bird of the family Laridae,
0:06:50 > 0:06:52what word describes a manager who, quote, "Flies in,
0:06:52 > 0:06:55"Makes a lot of noise, poops all over everything and then leaves?"
0:06:55 > 0:06:58Seagulls?
0:06:58 > 0:06:59Yeah.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02Seagull. Seagull manager is correct. Yes. Ten points for this.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05In the title of a stage work, novel and film respectively,
0:07:05 > 0:07:10which two words precede the name of an Italian physicist and astronomer,
0:07:10 > 0:07:12a Tamil boy from Pondicherry
0:07:12 > 0:07:15and a fictional Jewish man born on the same day as Jesus?
0:07:18 > 0:07:22The life of. Yes, life of.
0:07:22 > 0:07:26Right. A set of bonuses. King's, on terms of endearment.
0:07:26 > 0:07:27Denoting a natural product,
0:07:27 > 0:07:30what term of endearment has been recorded in English
0:07:30 > 0:07:31since the mid-14th century
0:07:31 > 0:07:35and occurs as such in Chaucer's The Miller's Tale?
0:07:35 > 0:07:38WHISPERING
0:07:43 > 0:07:46Is it sweet? Honey?
0:07:46 > 0:07:48Natural product. Honey, maybe?
0:07:48 > 0:07:51WHISPERING
0:07:51 > 0:07:55Honey. Correct. What term of endearment is also the name of
0:07:55 > 0:07:57the ruined Cistercian monastery south of Dumfries
0:07:57 > 0:08:01in reference to an embalmed part of the remains of John de Balliol
0:08:01 > 0:08:03being buried there alongside those of his wife?
0:08:07 > 0:08:10WHISPERING
0:08:13 > 0:08:16Go for sweet? Sweet.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19Sweet. No, it's sweetheart. Which single-word term of endearment
0:08:19 > 0:08:23served as the title of John Schlesinger's 1965 film,
0:08:23 > 0:08:24the winner of three Oscars,
0:08:24 > 0:08:26including best actress for Julie Christie? Darling.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29Darling is right. Didn't know you cared(!)
0:08:29 > 0:08:33A picture round now. You're going to see a map showing a country
0:08:33 > 0:08:35that gained independence on New Year's Day
0:08:35 > 0:08:38in the early 19th century. For ten points, I want the names of both the countries shown
0:08:38 > 0:08:43and the country by which it was ruled prior to independence.
0:08:48 > 0:08:49Is it Ukraine? No!
0:08:49 > 0:08:51LAUGHTER
0:08:54 > 0:08:56WHISPERING
0:08:56 > 0:08:57You can't confer.
0:08:57 > 0:09:00One of you can buzz if you recognise which country it is.
0:09:00 > 0:09:04Is it Haiti and France? It is Haiti and France, yes.
0:09:04 > 0:09:06APPLAUSE
0:09:06 > 0:09:09They've obviously got a different map over there.
0:09:09 > 0:09:12So, you get a set of bonuses, Southampton.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15For your picture bonuses, they're maps showing three more
0:09:15 > 0:09:17countries that gained independence on 1st January.
0:09:17 > 0:09:20Firstly, for five, name this country
0:09:20 > 0:09:25and the country from which it gained independence on 1st January, 1984.
0:09:25 > 0:09:28WHISPERING
0:09:34 > 0:09:36Is it East Timor? East Timor!
0:09:36 > 0:09:38East Timor.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40Nowhere near East Timor.
0:09:40 > 0:09:43It's Brunei, which gained independence from the UK.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45Secondly, the name of this island nation
0:09:45 > 0:09:50and the country from which it gained independence on 1st January, 1962.
0:09:56 > 0:09:59Christmas Island?
0:09:59 > 0:10:01Christmas Island, Australia.
0:10:01 > 0:10:04No, it's Western Samoa from New Zealand.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06Finally, this country and the two countries from which it gained
0:10:06 > 0:10:10independence on 1st January, 1956.
0:10:10 > 0:10:13Somalia. Chad. Sudan. Sudan.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16WHISPERING
0:10:16 > 0:10:20Britain? Sudan.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28Go for it. OK. Let's have an answer, please. Sudan, Britain and France.
0:10:28 > 0:10:29No, it was Sudan though,
0:10:29 > 0:10:33but it was governed in a condominium between Egypt and the UK.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35Right. Another starter question.
0:10:35 > 0:10:39To which king do these words refer? "He lost the lands gained in France
0:10:39 > 0:10:42"by his father and became embroiled in the Wars of the Roses."
0:10:42 > 0:10:45"Although lacking the qualities required in an effective monarch,
0:10:45 > 0:10:48"he proved to be an outstanding patron of education,
0:10:48 > 0:10:50"founding the college..."
0:10:50 > 0:10:52Henry VI. Correct.
0:10:52 > 0:10:56APPLAUSE
0:10:56 > 0:11:01These bonuses are on astronomical names, Southampton.
0:11:01 > 0:11:05Verrier's Planet was one of the names proposed for which planet
0:11:05 > 0:11:07whose existence was predicted by the French astronomer,
0:11:07 > 0:11:10Urbain Le Verrier, in 1846?
0:11:13 > 0:11:151846.
0:11:15 > 0:11:18I wouldn't have thought Pluto? Uranus, not Pluto.
0:11:18 > 0:11:19Uranus? Go for it.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21Uranus. No, it's Neptune.
0:11:21 > 0:11:25In 1614, the German astronomer Simon Marius
0:11:25 > 0:11:28proposed the mythological names of four of the moons of which planet,
0:11:28 > 0:11:32his rival Galileo having simply numbered them one to four?
0:11:32 > 0:11:34WHISPERING
0:11:34 > 0:11:37Jupiter? What was the answer to the last one?
0:11:37 > 0:11:40Go for it. Go for what you think. Jupiter. Correct.
0:11:40 > 0:11:46Originally called 2003 UB313, which dwarf planet is now named after
0:11:46 > 0:11:49the Greek goddess of strife and discord?
0:11:49 > 0:11:50Is it Pluto?
0:11:52 > 0:11:55Pluto. No, it's Eris. Ten points for this.
0:11:55 > 0:11:59Also known by the word spheroidal, what common three-word term
0:11:59 > 0:12:02describes a joint of the body in which the rounded surface
0:12:02 > 0:12:05of a bone moves within a depression of another bone,
0:12:05 > 0:12:07the hip and shoulder being examples?
0:12:07 > 0:12:11Ball and socket. Ball and socket is correct, yes.
0:12:11 > 0:12:13APPLAUSE
0:12:13 > 0:12:18These bonuses, Southampton, are on French artists born in the 1790s.
0:12:18 > 0:12:22Firstly, for five, which French artist died after a riding accident
0:12:22 > 0:12:26in 1824? Noted for paintings of horses and for his sympathetic
0:12:26 > 0:12:28portraits of mental patients,
0:12:28 > 0:12:31his best-known work is The Raft of the Medusa.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35It's...
0:12:35 > 0:12:39It starts with a G. I can't remember his name.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42WHISPERING
0:12:42 > 0:12:45Any ideas? No. We don't know.
0:12:45 > 0:12:49It's Gericault. Ville d'Avray and Macbeth and the Witches
0:12:49 > 0:12:52are among the works of which prolific French landscape painter
0:12:52 > 0:12:55noted for his generosity towards other artists?
0:12:55 > 0:12:58Poussin? Poussin. Poussin.
0:12:58 > 0:13:01No, it's Corot. And finally, The Massacre at Chios
0:13:01 > 0:13:02and Liberty Leading the People
0:13:02 > 0:13:05are works by which French Romantic painter?
0:13:11 > 0:13:14No? I can't... We don't know.
0:13:14 > 0:13:17That's Delacroix. Right. We're going to take a music round now.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20For your music starter, you're going to hear a piece of popular music.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22Ten points if you can identify the band.
0:13:22 > 0:13:26# For everything I long to do... #
0:13:26 > 0:13:28Pet Shop Boys. Correct.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30APPLAUSE
0:13:30 > 0:13:33They were chosen to play in the New Year
0:13:33 > 0:13:35at this year's Edinburgh Hogmanay.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38Your music bonuses, three more Hogmanay headline acts
0:13:38 > 0:13:40from recent years, all this time Scottish.
0:13:40 > 0:13:44In each case, five points if you can identify the band, please.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47Firstly, for five, this band who played out 2011.
0:13:47 > 0:13:52# I'm moving on up now
0:13:52 > 0:13:55# Getting out of the darkness
0:13:58 > 0:14:03# My light shines on
0:14:03 > 0:14:06# My light shines on. #
0:14:06 > 0:14:10Not Wet Wet Wet, is it? No, it's Primal Scream.
0:14:10 > 0:14:13Secondly, this band who played out 2012.
0:14:13 > 0:14:17# Alive and kicking
0:14:17 > 0:14:19# Stay until your love... #
0:14:19 > 0:14:24Simple Minds. Correct. And finally this band who played out 1999
0:14:24 > 0:14:25and 2005.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27# When I get that feeling
0:14:27 > 0:14:30# I can no longer slide
0:14:30 > 0:14:32# I can no longer run... #
0:14:32 > 0:14:34Texas. Correct. Ten points for this.
0:14:34 > 0:14:36Derived from a male given name,
0:14:36 > 0:14:40which adjective links the first practical reflecting telescope,
0:14:40 > 0:14:43monophonic liturgical music of the Roman Catholic Church,
0:14:43 > 0:14:45traditionally used to accompany the text of the mass,
0:14:45 > 0:14:49and the solar dating system proclaimed by the Pope in 1582
0:14:49 > 0:14:51and now in general use?
0:14:53 > 0:14:54Gregorian. Correct.
0:14:54 > 0:14:58APPLAUSE
0:14:58 > 0:15:00Your bonuses are on native British reptiles.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03In each case, name the reptile from the binomial and description.
0:15:03 > 0:15:07Firstly, Lacerta vivipara. A four-legged reptile
0:15:07 > 0:15:09around 15cm long and generally brown in colour.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12It's found in a wide range of habitats, including heaths,
0:15:12 > 0:15:15moorland, dry-stone walls and sea cliffs.
0:15:15 > 0:15:18The common or viviparous lizard. Correct.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21Coronella austriaca. Grey or dull brown in colour,
0:15:21 > 0:15:24it's Britain's rarest reptile, found only in a small number
0:15:24 > 0:15:26of heathland areas in southern England.
0:15:26 > 0:15:30Smooth snake. Correct. Vipera berus. Found throughout Britain,
0:15:30 > 0:15:33particularly in heath and moorland areas, it's distinguished
0:15:33 > 0:15:35by a dark zigzag along the back.
0:15:35 > 0:15:37The adder or viper. Correct.
0:15:37 > 0:15:39Ten points for this.
0:15:39 > 0:15:42First formally named and described in 1984 by researchers
0:15:42 > 0:15:45at the US National Institute of Mental Health,
0:15:45 > 0:15:48what precise three-word term denotes that syndrome
0:15:48 > 0:15:50manifested in depression-like symptoms
0:15:50 > 0:15:54whose onset coincides with decreasing daylight hours?
0:15:55 > 0:15:57SAD. Which stands for?
0:15:57 > 0:16:00Ah. LAUGHTER
0:16:00 > 0:16:03Seasonal Affective Disorder. Correct.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06APPLAUSE
0:16:07 > 0:16:10Right. Your bonuses, King's, are on monarchs.
0:16:10 > 0:16:11"I am monarch of all I survey,
0:16:11 > 0:16:13"My right there is none to dispute,
0:16:13 > 0:16:16"From the centre all round to the sea,
0:16:16 > 0:16:18"I am the Lord of the fowl and the brute."
0:16:18 > 0:16:21These are the opening lines of a poem by William Cowper
0:16:21 > 0:16:23about which historical figure?
0:16:25 > 0:16:28WHISPERING
0:16:28 > 0:16:33Canute? Canute, possibly. Any other guesses?
0:16:33 > 0:16:36King Canute. No, it was Alexander Selkirk.
0:16:36 > 0:16:39"Who would not make her husband a cuckold to make him a monarch?"
0:16:39 > 0:16:42In which of Shakespeare's tragedies do those words occur?
0:16:45 > 0:16:47WHISPERING
0:16:51 > 0:16:53Macbeth? Macbeth.
0:16:53 > 0:16:56No, it's Othello. According to Flanders and Swann,
0:16:56 > 0:17:00what vehicle is "monarch of the road, observer of the Highway Code"?
0:17:00 > 0:17:03A London bus. Yes. Ten points for this.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06Meanings of what six-letter noun include, in chemistry,
0:17:06 > 0:17:09a piece of apparatus used for distillation,
0:17:09 > 0:17:11sublimation or decomposition by heat
0:17:11 > 0:17:15and in more general speech, a sharp or witty reply?
0:17:18 > 0:17:20Retort. Correct.
0:17:20 > 0:17:24APPLAUSE
0:17:24 > 0:17:27OK. Southampton, your bonuses this time are on works about war.
0:17:27 > 0:17:31The Vietnam War memoir Dispatches by Michael Herr,
0:17:31 > 0:17:34published in 1977, was a key influence on the screenplay
0:17:34 > 0:17:39of which film of 1987 of which Herr was a co-author?
0:17:39 > 0:17:41(Was it Platoon?)
0:17:41 > 0:17:44Platoon? Platoon. No, it was Full Metal Jacket.
0:17:44 > 0:17:48Which US literary historian described his 1975 work,
0:17:48 > 0:17:52The Great War and Modern Memory, as an elegiac commentary?
0:17:52 > 0:17:55WHISPERING
0:17:55 > 0:17:58You've nominated me? Nominate Cowley. Paul Fussell. Correct.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00First published as a whole issue of the New Yorker,
0:18:00 > 0:18:04which work by the US journalist John Hersey recounts an event
0:18:04 > 0:18:08of 6th August, 1945, and its aftermath?
0:18:10 > 0:18:11(Hiroshima?)
0:18:14 > 0:18:17Nominate Cowley. I don't know.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19Hiroshima is the event.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22Yes, Hiroshima is correct. Yes. Right. Ten points for this.
0:18:22 > 0:18:25Who was both the last British Prime Minister to have been born
0:18:25 > 0:18:28during the reign of Queen Victoria
0:18:28 > 0:18:30and the last to have served in the First World War?
0:18:35 > 0:18:37Harold Macmillan. Correct.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39APPLAUSE
0:18:39 > 0:18:42Your bonuses are on subtitles, Southampton.
0:18:42 > 0:18:44Published posthumously in 1914,
0:18:44 > 0:18:47which novel originally carried the subtitle,
0:18:47 > 0:18:50"Being the story of 12 months in Hell, told by one of the damned
0:18:50 > 0:18:53"and written down by Robert Tressell"?
0:18:53 > 0:18:57The Baggy-Trousered Philanthropist. The Baggy-Trousered Philanthropist.
0:18:57 > 0:19:01I'll accept that. The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists.
0:19:01 > 0:19:04"The Children's Crusade - A Duty-Dance with Death"
0:19:04 > 0:19:07is the subtitle of which 1969 novel
0:19:07 > 0:19:10about the experiences of Billy Pilgrim, which include
0:19:10 > 0:19:13both time travel and the firebombing of Dresden?
0:19:17 > 0:19:19Slaughterhouse-Five. Correct.
0:19:19 > 0:19:23What is the four-word subtitle of Tolkien's The Hobbit?
0:19:25 > 0:19:30The rings? No, not the Hobbit.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32WHISPERING
0:19:32 > 0:19:35No. It's "There and Back Again".
0:19:35 > 0:19:37We're going to take a second picture round now.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40For your picture starter, you'll see a photograph
0:19:40 > 0:19:43of two major sports figures. Ten points if you can name them both.
0:19:47 > 0:19:49Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic.
0:19:49 > 0:19:53Correct. APPLAUSE
0:19:53 > 0:19:58So, Nadal finishes 2013 as world number one in tennis,
0:19:58 > 0:20:02despite his loss to Djokovic at the end of the year
0:20:02 > 0:20:04World Tour Finals tournament in London.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07For your bonuses, you will see three other players
0:20:07 > 0:20:09who qualified for that tournament in 2013.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12Firstly, for five, this Spanish player.
0:20:15 > 0:20:19Ferrer? Ferrer. Correct. Secondly, who's this Swiss player?
0:20:24 > 0:20:26WHISPERING
0:20:28 > 0:20:31I don't know. Sorry. That's Wawrinka, Stanislas Wawrinka.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34And finally, who's this Argentinian player?
0:20:36 > 0:20:39Um, any guesses?
0:20:40 > 0:20:42Don't know. Galtieri.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44LAUGHTER
0:20:44 > 0:20:48It'd be an interesting change of career. It's Juan Martin del Potro.
0:20:48 > 0:20:49Ten points for this.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52What fabric links the furry outer skin that covers
0:20:52 > 0:20:55the antlers of reindeer, an influential rock band
0:20:55 > 0:20:57whose members included John Cale and Lou Reed and...
0:20:59 > 0:21:02Velvet Under... Velvet. Velvet is correct, yes.
0:21:02 > 0:21:06APPLAUSE
0:21:06 > 0:21:08These bonuses are on mathematics this time.
0:21:08 > 0:21:12In a moment of inspiration on Broome bridge in Dublin in 1843,
0:21:12 > 0:21:14William Hamilton inscribed into stone the fundamental rules
0:21:14 > 0:21:17of multiplication for which system of numbers?
0:21:19 > 0:21:22Do you have a clue?
0:21:22 > 0:21:25Prime numbers. No, they're the quarternions.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28Which of the algebraic axioms of a field do the quarternions
0:21:28 > 0:21:30fail to satisfy?
0:21:32 > 0:21:34Don't know. It's commutation.
0:21:34 > 0:21:37As inscribed by Hamilton, the product of the quarternions
0:21:37 > 0:21:41I, J and K, in that order, is equal to what?
0:21:41 > 0:21:44Choose another letter. Just choose another letter.
0:21:44 > 0:21:47Zero. No. It's minus one. Ten points for this.
0:21:47 > 0:21:49Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:21:49 > 0:21:52Assuming that none of the letters are placed on premium squares,
0:21:52 > 0:21:56what would be the Scrabble points score for the word "toboggan"?
0:22:05 > 0:22:0712. Correct.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09APPLAUSE
0:22:09 > 0:22:13Southampton, these bonuses are on wine and wordplay.
0:22:13 > 0:22:17The name of which sparkling wine is an eye rhyme for a word meaning
0:22:17 > 0:22:20"pasta in the form of sheets or wide strips"?
0:22:22 > 0:22:27Prosecco. Prosecco. No, it's champagne. Eye-rhyme with lasagne.
0:22:27 > 0:22:30Which sparkling wine, secondly, has a name that is
0:22:30 > 0:22:34an anagram of the Spanish word for cow, the ungulate mammal?
0:22:34 > 0:22:36Cava? Cava.
0:22:36 > 0:22:37Cava. Correct.
0:22:37 > 0:22:41The first five letters of the name of which sparkling wine spell a word
0:22:41 > 0:22:44meaning "written language without metrical structure"?
0:22:44 > 0:22:47Has to be the one we haven't had. Prosecco?
0:22:47 > 0:22:51Go for prosecco. Prosecco. Correct. Five minutes to go.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54The name of which Canadian province preceded the word "clipper"
0:22:54 > 0:22:57to describe a sweeping low-pressure weather system
0:22:57 > 0:23:00common in winter in central Canada...
0:23:00 > 0:23:02Boston. No, you lose five points.
0:23:02 > 0:23:05..and the upper midwestern United States?
0:23:05 > 0:23:08WHISPERING
0:23:08 > 0:23:11You may not confer. One of you can buzz.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16Alberta. Alberta is correct.
0:23:16 > 0:23:19APPLAUSE
0:23:19 > 0:23:22Right. Your bonuses are on former republics this time.
0:23:22 > 0:23:25In 1894, Sanford Dole became the first and only president
0:23:25 > 0:23:28of which republic? After its annexation by the United States,
0:23:28 > 0:23:31he became its first governor.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35WHISPERING
0:23:38 > 0:23:41Come on. Let's have it, please.
0:23:41 > 0:23:43Alaska. No, it's Hawaii.
0:23:43 > 0:23:47Which future US state was declared an independent republic in 1777,
0:23:47 > 0:23:50the same year that the Green Mountain Boys
0:23:50 > 0:23:53fought in the battles of Hubbardton and Bennington?
0:23:55 > 0:23:58We don't know? Don't know. That's Vermont.
0:23:58 > 0:24:01Which republic, finally, was annexed by the United States in 1845,
0:24:01 > 0:24:04having gained independence after the Battle of San Jacinto
0:24:04 > 0:24:06nine years earlier?
0:24:06 > 0:24:09New Mexico. No, it's Texas. Ten points for this.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12In Greek mythology, the winter season came about when it was
0:24:12 > 0:24:15decreed that which figure, abducted by Hades,
0:24:15 > 0:24:18should spend part of each year in the Underworld?
0:24:18 > 0:24:20Persephone. Persephone is right, yes.
0:24:20 > 0:24:22APPLAUSE
0:24:22 > 0:24:24Your bonuses are on cities with French names.
0:24:24 > 0:24:27In each case, give both the city and its country or state.
0:24:27 > 0:24:29Firstly, the national capital
0:24:29 > 0:24:32whose French-derived name means "free town".
0:24:34 > 0:24:37French... Free town.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40Ville... Libre... Libreville.
0:24:40 > 0:24:42Libreville. Yes, but where?
0:24:42 > 0:24:44Which country?
0:24:47 > 0:24:49Come on. Libreville.
0:24:49 > 0:24:51Um...
0:24:51 > 0:24:54No, sorry. Gone. You have to answer, I think.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57It's Libreville and it's Gabon. You'd worked it out but you didn't know the country.
0:24:57 > 0:25:01The national capital whose name means low land.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03Basseterre...
0:25:03 > 0:25:05Guadeloupe.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07Is it Guadeloupe? Quickly. Basseterre, Guadeloupe.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10No, it's Basseterre and St Kitts and Nevis.
0:25:10 > 0:25:13Finally, the city named after a Cyprus boundary post
0:25:13 > 0:25:15and the US state of which it is the capital.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20WHISPERING
0:25:22 > 0:25:24Louisiana?
0:25:24 > 0:25:26Baton Rouge.
0:25:26 > 0:25:29And Louisiana? Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
0:25:29 > 0:25:31Correct. Ten points for this.
0:25:31 > 0:25:35The triple-marker test is a blood test used in the prenatal diagnosis
0:25:35 > 0:25:38of which condition, indicated by a total of 47 chromosomes,
0:25:38 > 0:25:40rather than the usual...
0:25:40 > 0:25:44Down's syndrome. Down's syndrome is correct, yes.
0:25:44 > 0:25:45APPLAUSE
0:25:45 > 0:25:48Southampton, these bonuses are on Gothic literature.
0:25:48 > 0:25:52In which novella of 1886 does the London lawyer Gabriel John Utterson
0:25:52 > 0:25:57investigate the abnormal occurrences in the life of an old friend?
0:25:57 > 0:26:011886? 1886. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04Correct. Often described as a study in narcissism,
0:26:04 > 0:26:08in which novel of 1890 is the eponymous antihero attracted to
0:26:08 > 0:26:11the ill-fated actress Sibyl Vane? Picture of Dorian Gray.
0:26:11 > 0:26:15Correct. Also known as The Garden of Evil, Bram Stoker's 1911 work,
0:26:15 > 0:26:16The Lair of the White Worm,
0:26:16 > 0:26:20was adapted for the screen in 1988 by which British film director?
0:26:21 > 0:26:26David Lee? David Lee? No. No?
0:26:26 > 0:26:30Come on. No. No, we don't know.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32It was Ken Russell. Ten points for this.
0:26:32 > 0:26:35Which 1982 work by the English playwright Caryl Churchill
0:26:35 > 0:26:39includes the characters Dull Gret, taken from a painting by Bruegel,
0:26:39 > 0:26:41Chaucer's patient Griselda and Pope Joan?
0:26:44 > 0:26:47I'll tell you, it's Top Girls. Ten points for this.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49During the 1960s, Hans Bethe, Donald Glaser
0:26:49 > 0:26:53and Murray Gell-Mann were among the winners of which Nobel Prize?
0:26:56 > 0:26:58Physics. Correct.
0:26:58 > 0:27:01APPLAUSE
0:27:01 > 0:27:03These bonuses, Southampton, are on a Roman god.
0:27:03 > 0:27:05Named in honour of a Roman god,
0:27:05 > 0:27:07which ancient winter festival was first celebrated
0:27:07 > 0:27:11on 17th December and later extended to a period of seven days?
0:27:13 > 0:27:16Saturn? No, it's Saturnalia.
0:27:16 > 0:27:21As the God of sowing, Saturn was identified with which Greek deity,
0:27:21 > 0:27:24the youngest of the 12 Titans?
0:27:24 > 0:27:27Coeus? Coeus?
0:27:27 > 0:27:29Coeus. No, it's Cronus.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32Discovered by Cassini in 1672, Saturn's second-largest moon
0:27:32 > 0:27:35is named after which Titan,
0:27:35 > 0:27:38the consort of Cronus and the mother of Zeus?
0:27:38 > 0:27:42WHISPERING
0:27:42 > 0:27:45Eos. No, it's Rhea. Ten points for this.
0:27:45 > 0:27:49In Orwell's 1984, a narrow scarlet sash around the hips
0:27:49 > 0:27:51is the emblem of which organisation?
0:27:53 > 0:27:58The Thought Police. No. Anyone want to buzz from King's? Quickly.
0:28:01 > 0:28:04Is it Black Hand? No. No, it's the Junior Anti-Sex League.
0:28:04 > 0:28:07Ten points for this. Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:28:07 > 0:28:11What is... At the gong, King's College London have 105,
0:28:11 > 0:28:13Southampton University have 185.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15APPLAUSE
0:28:18 > 0:28:22Well, you were in the lead early on, weren't you?
0:28:22 > 0:28:25Then it all started to go wrong. Bad luck.
0:28:25 > 0:28:27Southampton, congratulations. That's a very good score
0:28:27 > 0:28:30and we shall look forward to seeing you in the semifinals.
0:28:30 > 0:28:33We now know the four teams who will play again are...
0:28:39 > 0:28:42I hope you can join us next time for the first of the semifinals
0:28:42 > 0:28:45of this Christmas series. As a seasonal gift,
0:28:45 > 0:28:49here are tonight's eight in their glorious youth. Goodbye.
0:28:49 > 0:28:51APPLAUSE