0:00:19 > 0:00:22Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:25 > 0:00:28APPLAUSE
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello, 14 teams of graduates gamely accepted our invitation to
0:00:32 > 0:00:35give up their cosy evenings of Kerplunk
0:00:35 > 0:00:39and mulled wine around the fire and to entertain us instead
0:00:39 > 0:00:41by competing on behalf of the institutions which have them
0:00:41 > 0:00:44on their collective consciences.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47Now only the four highest-scoring teams remain to compete
0:00:47 > 0:00:50in two semifinals, the first of which is tonight.
0:00:50 > 0:00:52In the usual way of things,
0:00:52 > 0:00:54there's a place in the final for tonight's winners.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56Last time, the team from Emmanuel College, Cambridge,
0:00:56 > 0:00:59proved they knew what was on television in 1967,
0:00:59 > 0:01:02when the Clash released their first single,
0:01:02 > 0:01:05and what David Attenborough thinks about the song thrush.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08Such wide and deep learning earned them 185 points,
0:01:08 > 0:01:12which was 100 ahead of their opponents from Reading University.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15Hoping to be similarly impressive tonight, their team again comprises
0:01:15 > 0:01:17a broadsheet journalist,
0:01:17 > 0:01:21a TV broadcaster, an author of books on science and a man who finished a
0:01:21 > 0:01:25disappointing seventh in this year's Rory McGrath lookalike contest.
0:01:25 > 0:01:27Let's meet them again.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30I'm Hugo Rifkind and I studied Philosophy at Emmanuel in the
0:01:30 > 0:01:34late 1990s, and now I'm a columnist and a leader writer for the Times.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37I'm Mary Ann Ochota, I studied Archaeology
0:01:37 > 0:01:39and Anthropology from '99 to 2002,
0:01:39 > 0:01:43and now I present programmes about archaeology and anthropology.
0:01:43 > 0:01:44And this is their captain.
0:01:44 > 0:01:48I'm Simon Singh, I completed a PhD in Particle Physics in 1991,
0:01:48 > 0:01:51and I now write books about science.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55Hello, I'm Rory McGrath, I graduated in 1977 in Modern Languages,
0:01:55 > 0:01:57and currently I'm not appearing in pantomime.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59APPLAUSE
0:02:03 > 0:02:06Now, the team from Southampton University also ended
0:02:06 > 0:02:11on a score of 185 at the expense of King's College, London with 105.
0:02:11 > 0:02:13So tonight's match could be close,
0:02:13 > 0:02:14or on the other hand, it might not be.
0:02:14 > 0:02:17What they don't know about British lizards isn't worth knowing,
0:02:17 > 0:02:20and again tonight they're fielding a journalist and editor,
0:02:20 > 0:02:23a campaigner who sits in the House of Lords, a horticulturalist
0:02:23 > 0:02:28and broadcaster, and a former policy pointy-head for New Labour.
0:02:28 > 0:02:29Let's meet them again.
0:02:30 > 0:02:35Hello, I'm Jason Cowley, I graduated in English and Philosophy in 1989,
0:02:35 > 0:02:39and now I'm a journalist, author and editor of the New Statesman magazine.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43Hello, I'm Claire Tyler, I graduated in Law and Politics in 1978.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45I'm now a Member of the House of Lords
0:02:45 > 0:02:49and Chair of the Children and Families Court Advisory Service.
0:02:49 > 0:02:50And here's their captain.
0:02:50 > 0:02:53Hello, I'm Stefan Buczacki, I graduated in Botany at Southampton
0:02:53 > 0:02:59in 1968, and I now work as a writer, broadcaster and expert witness.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02Hello, I'm Matthew Taylor, I graduated in Sociology in 1983
0:03:02 > 0:03:05and I'm now Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Arts.
0:03:05 > 0:03:07APPLAUSE
0:03:10 > 0:03:12OK, you all know the rules,
0:03:12 > 0:03:14so let's just get on with it. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:03:14 > 0:03:16Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar,
0:03:16 > 0:03:18George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four,
0:03:18 > 0:03:21Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities,
0:03:21 > 0:03:22Joseph Heller's Catch-22
0:03:22 > 0:03:27and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
0:03:27 > 0:03:30all begin with which two words?
0:03:32 > 0:03:33BELL RINGS
0:03:34 > 0:03:35"It was." Correct.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39APPLAUSE
0:03:39 > 0:03:42Right, these bonuses are on literary figures
0:03:42 > 0:03:44born on New Year's Day, Emmanuel College.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47Matthew Arnold's poem Thyrsis commemorates the death
0:03:47 > 0:03:52at the age of 42 of which poet, born on New Year's Day 1819?
0:03:52 > 0:03:54His works include Dipsychus and
0:03:54 > 0:03:56Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02Thomas Chatterton, was it? Thomas Chatterton?
0:04:02 > 0:04:04Er, Thomas Chatterton?
0:04:04 > 0:04:06No, it's Arthur Hugh Clough.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08Secondly, Aspects of the Novel
0:04:08 > 0:04:11and Two Cheers for Democracy are among the non-fiction works of
0:04:11 > 0:04:15which literary figure, born on New Year's Day, 1879?
0:04:15 > 0:04:19His last novel was published in 1971, the year after his death.
0:04:20 > 0:04:22THEY WHISPER
0:04:28 > 0:04:31I've no idea, I'm afraid. Somerset Maugham, was it?
0:04:31 > 0:04:34Somerset Maugham? No, it's EM Forster.
0:04:34 > 0:04:37And finally, born on New Year's Day 1919,
0:04:37 > 0:04:40which writer was described in his obituary in the New York Times
0:04:40 > 0:04:44in 2010 as "either a crackpot or the American Tolstoy who had
0:04:44 > 0:04:48"turned silence itself into his most eloquent work of art?"
0:04:49 > 0:04:51THEY CONFER
0:04:52 > 0:04:55Harold Pinter? Harold Pinter? Harold Pinter?
0:04:55 > 0:04:56No, it's JD Salinger.
0:04:56 > 0:04:5910 points for this, fingers on the buzzers.
0:04:59 > 0:05:01"She's older than the rocks among which she sits.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04"Like the vampire, she has been dead many times
0:05:04 > 0:05:06"and learned the secrets of the grave."
0:05:06 > 0:05:09These words of the art critic Walter Pater refer to which
0:05:09 > 0:05:12Renaissance painting in the collection of the Louvre in Paris?
0:05:12 > 0:05:14BELL RINGS
0:05:14 > 0:05:16Is it the Mona Lisa? It is, yes.
0:05:16 > 0:05:18APPLAUSE
0:05:20 > 0:05:23Right, Emmanuel, these bonuses are on linked expressions.
0:05:23 > 0:05:25Firstly, for five, what alternative name
0:05:25 > 0:05:28for the poisonous plant wolf's bane is derived from
0:05:28 > 0:05:30the apparent resemblance of its sepals
0:05:30 > 0:05:32to an item of ecclesiastical clothing?
0:05:32 > 0:05:34Monkshood. Monkshood. Yeah?
0:05:34 > 0:05:36Monkshood. Correct.
0:05:36 > 0:05:38What term for an object that is not entirely wholesome or
0:05:38 > 0:05:42satisfactory dates from a 19th century cartoon in Punch that
0:05:42 > 0:05:45depicts a clergyman eating breakfast?
0:05:45 > 0:05:47ALL: Curate's egg. Curate's egg.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50Exactly, and finally, what two-word term is associated with
0:05:50 > 0:05:53an unflattering carving on a 15th-century misericord
0:05:53 > 0:05:57in St Mary's Church in Nantwich, in which the carpenter supposedly took
0:05:57 > 0:06:00his revenge on the vicar who was slow to pay for his work
0:06:00 > 0:06:04by applying the clergyman's features to the rear end of a fowl?
0:06:04 > 0:06:05Duck's arse?
0:06:05 > 0:06:07Duck's arse, yeah. Duck's arse?
0:06:07 > 0:06:08Duck's arse?
0:06:08 > 0:06:11No, it's a parson's nose. LAUGHTER
0:06:11 > 0:06:13You're a very crude man.
0:06:13 > 0:06:14You laid a trap for me there.
0:06:14 > 0:06:1610 points for this.
0:06:16 > 0:06:19Originally meaning "to submit an animal for a medical examination,"
0:06:19 > 0:06:23what short verb is used in more general speech to mean
0:06:23 > 0:06:25"investigate the credentials of a candidate,
0:06:25 > 0:06:28"particularly one for a post where trustworthiness is critical?"
0:06:28 > 0:06:30BUZZ
0:06:30 > 0:06:32Vet. Correct.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34APPLAUSE
0:06:34 > 0:06:36Southampton, your first set of bonuses
0:06:36 > 0:06:39are on the MP Austin Mitchell.
0:06:39 > 0:06:43Firstly, for five points, in 1977, Austin Mitchell became MP
0:06:43 > 0:06:47for a constituency centred on which East Coast fishing port?
0:06:47 > 0:06:49Grimsby. Correct.
0:06:49 > 0:06:54The Half Gallon Quarter Acre Pavlova Paradise is a 1972 work
0:06:54 > 0:06:58by Austin Mitchell that describes life in which Commonwealth country?
0:06:58 > 0:07:01THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:07:01 > 0:07:03Pavlova Paradise.
0:07:03 > 0:07:07Commonwealth. It's New Zealand. Australia.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09It's New Zealand, isn't it, Pavlova?
0:07:09 > 0:07:11New Zealand. Correct, yes, he was an academic there, I think.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14While a journalist at Yorkshire Television, Mitchell chaired
0:07:14 > 0:07:18a memorable discussion in 1974 between Don Revie and which
0:07:18 > 0:07:22other football manager who'd just been dismissed by Leeds United?
0:07:22 > 0:07:23Brian Clough. Correct.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25We're going to take a picture round now.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28For your picture starter, you'll see an image of a snow globe
0:07:28 > 0:07:32featuring a stylised depiction of the skyline of a US city.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34For 10 points, please name the city.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37BELL RINGS
0:07:37 > 0:07:38Seattle.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40Seattle is correct, yes.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42The Space Needle being the giveaway there.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44So, following on from Seattle,
0:07:44 > 0:07:48three more stylised depictions of US skylines in snow globes.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51I want the name of the city in each case, please. Firstly this image.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55Chicago? God, I've no idea.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57Is that Chicago? Could be.
0:07:57 > 0:08:00Or is it...? It's a city in America.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03Is it San Francisco and it's like a funny bit of the bridge?
0:08:03 > 0:08:05It's got hills. Like a bridge...
0:08:05 > 0:08:07No, but there's two of them, there's another one there, see?
0:08:07 > 0:08:09That could be the end of the bridge.
0:08:09 > 0:08:11I'm going to go with Chicago, unless...?
0:08:11 > 0:08:12Yeah. OK, Chicago?
0:08:12 > 0:08:14You're right. This one.
0:08:17 > 0:08:18Oh, Washington DC.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21Washington DC, yeah? Er, the capital.
0:08:21 > 0:08:22Washington DC?
0:08:22 > 0:08:24Correct, and finally, this one, please.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28Oh, St Louis? St Louis? Yes, St Louis.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30St Louis.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33St Louis, the Gateway Arch, yes, well done. 10 points for this.
0:08:34 > 0:08:39What is the mechanical advantage of a lever with a central pivot
0:08:39 > 0:08:42whose input force is 12m from the centre
0:08:42 > 0:08:45with an output force 2m from the centre?
0:08:45 > 0:08:47BELL RINGS
0:08:47 > 0:08:49Six? Correct.
0:08:49 > 0:08:51APPLAUSE
0:08:51 > 0:08:53Insultingly easy.
0:08:53 > 0:08:56Your bonuses now are on metallic elements, Emmanuel College.
0:08:56 > 0:09:00Atomic number 78, which element is often used to refer collectively to
0:09:00 > 0:09:04the rare metals group that includes rhodium, ruthenium and palladium?
0:09:05 > 0:09:08Er, is it lanthanum?
0:09:08 > 0:09:11Lanthanides, actinides? Lanthanides?
0:09:11 > 0:09:15It might be actinides, actually. 78 is, er, 78 is...
0:09:15 > 0:09:18I'm happy to go with lanthanides. I'm just guessing.
0:09:18 > 0:09:22I know it, 78, 78 is...
0:09:22 > 0:09:26platinum. But I don't think that describes a group.
0:09:26 > 0:09:27OK. Lanthanides.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30No, he was right. It is platinum, yes.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33The international prototype standard kilogram of mass is made from
0:09:33 > 0:09:38an alloy containing 90% platinum and 10% of which platinum group element?
0:09:41 > 0:09:44Rhenium? OK, rhenium.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46No, it's iridium. And finally,
0:09:46 > 0:09:49its name denoting the unpleasant smell of some of its compounds,
0:09:49 > 0:09:52which platinum group metal is the densest naturally occurring element?
0:09:52 > 0:09:54Osmium. Osmium. Osmium.
0:09:54 > 0:09:56Correct. 10 points for this.
0:09:56 > 0:09:58Whom did Churchill describe as
0:09:58 > 0:10:00"The prince of literary rogues who
0:10:00 > 0:10:04"always preferred the tale to the truth and smirched or
0:10:04 > 0:10:08"glorified great men according as they affected his drama?"
0:10:08 > 0:10:10BELL RINGS
0:10:10 > 0:10:12Shakespeare. No, you lose five points.
0:10:12 > 0:10:14The author in question is best known
0:10:14 > 0:10:17for his five-volume History of England,
0:10:17 > 0:10:20and for narrative poems such as The Lays of Ancient Rome.
0:10:20 > 0:10:22BUZZ
0:10:22 > 0:10:23Macaulay. Correct.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26APPLAUSE
0:10:26 > 0:10:29Right, your bonuses are on 20th century poetry, Southampton.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31According to Louis MacNeice,
0:10:31 > 0:10:34what precise London location is populated by, quote,
0:10:34 > 0:10:37"Cranks, hacks, poverty-stricken scholars
0:10:37 > 0:10:40"in pince-nez, period hats or romantic beards?"
0:10:42 > 0:10:43Fleet Street.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46Fleet Street. It might as well be!
0:10:46 > 0:10:47No, it's the British Museum Reading Room.
0:10:47 > 0:10:50Which institution in Brussels appears in the title of a poem
0:10:50 > 0:10:54by Auden that discusses Bruegel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus?
0:10:56 > 0:10:57Brussels.
0:10:57 > 0:11:01What's in Brussels? Don't know. Erm...
0:11:04 > 0:11:07What is there? I can only think of the EU.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11No. No, pass.
0:11:11 > 0:11:13It's the Musee des Beaux Arts.
0:11:13 > 0:11:17Finally, which poet describes the moment of stepping into an empty church with the words,
0:11:17 > 0:11:22"Hatless, I take off my cycle-clips in awkward reverence?"
0:11:23 > 0:11:25Which period are we talking about?
0:11:25 > 0:11:2820th century. Is it Ted Hughes?
0:11:28 > 0:11:30No, no, no. Betjeman. Betjeman. Betjeman.
0:11:30 > 0:11:33No, it's Philip Larkin. 10 points for this.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35Meanings of which five-letter word include
0:11:35 > 0:11:37an undulation of a ski slope,
0:11:37 > 0:11:39a dynasty of Asian rulers
0:11:39 > 0:11:42and an influential person in business...? BELL RINGS
0:11:42 > 0:11:43Mogul. Mogul is right, yes.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45APPLAUSE
0:11:45 > 0:11:48These bonuses, Emmanuel College, are on siblings.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51What was the surname of the siblings Vaslav and Bronislava who
0:11:51 > 0:11:55danced together in the 1909 Paris season of the Ballets Russes?
0:11:55 > 0:11:58The sister later choreographed Les Noces and Les Biches.
0:12:02 > 0:12:04No idea. Pass? Yeah. Pass.
0:12:04 > 0:12:06It's Nijinsky and Nijinska.
0:12:06 > 0:12:09Which US dancer and film star had a 27-year performing partnership
0:12:09 > 0:12:11with his sister Adele, the longest,
0:12:11 > 0:12:14although not the best remembered of his career?
0:12:14 > 0:12:17Erm, Fred Astaire? Fred Astaire, yeah. Fred Astaire.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20Correct. Which Austrian composer was about six when his father Leopold
0:12:20 > 0:12:24took him and his sister Maria Anna, known as Nannerl,
0:12:24 > 0:12:27to play at the Bavarian court in Munich?
0:12:28 > 0:12:30ALL: Mozart? Yeah, Mozart.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32Mozart is right.
0:12:32 > 0:12:3410 points for this starter question.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37Which two letters link the internet abbreviation of the country
0:12:37 > 0:12:40whose territory includes New Britain, an online resource
0:12:40 > 0:12:43to encourage the creation and distribution of e-books,
0:12:43 > 0:12:47and the BBFC rating between U and 12A?
0:12:47 > 0:12:49BELL RINGS
0:12:49 > 0:12:50PG? Correct.
0:12:52 > 0:12:55These bonuses, Emmanuel College, are on British travel writers.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57Which Italian city features in the title of a memoir
0:12:57 > 0:13:00written in the form of a diary by Norman Lewis,
0:13:00 > 0:13:04recounting his work as an intelligence officer in 1944?
0:13:04 > 0:13:08I've read this. Venice? Florence? Erm...
0:13:08 > 0:13:12Milan? Venice, Florence, Milan, Turin, Bologna. Verona. Naples.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15It's totally gone, I can't remember. North Italian? Florence.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18Is it North Italian? I can't remember. I don't know.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20No, I think it's Venice! Venice?
0:13:20 > 0:13:22No, it's Naples. Naples '44.
0:13:22 > 0:13:26Which soldier and author led the party that in 1944 captured
0:13:26 > 0:13:30General Kreipe, the commander of the German forces in Crete?
0:13:30 > 0:13:34His travel memoir, A Time of Gifts, was published in 1977.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40No, we've no idea, I'm afraid. That was Patrick Leigh Fermor.
0:13:40 > 0:13:42And finally, the name of which Italian mountain range
0:13:42 > 0:13:45appears in the title of the memoir by the travel writer Eric Newby
0:13:45 > 0:13:49about the months following his escape from a POW camp in 1943?
0:13:50 > 0:13:54Shall we say Apennines? Apennines. Apennines?
0:13:54 > 0:13:56Correct, Love and War in the Apennines. Time for a music round.
0:13:56 > 0:14:00For your music starter you're going to hear a piece of popular music.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03For 10 points, I want you to identify the singer, please.
0:14:03 > 0:14:08# Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavements? #
0:14:08 > 0:14:10BUZZ
0:14:10 > 0:14:12Adele. It is Adele, yes. Chasing Pavements.
0:14:12 > 0:14:15APPLAUSE
0:14:15 > 0:14:19Now, in 2008, Adele topped the BBC's Sound Of poll.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22Each winter, this asks music critics and industry figures to pick
0:14:22 > 0:14:25new musical talent to watch out for in the year ahead.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28For your music bonuses, three more artists or bands who were voted
0:14:28 > 0:14:32Ones To Watch in this poll, and who, like Adele, went on to success.
0:14:32 > 0:14:34In each case, simply identify them.
0:14:34 > 0:14:39Firstly, for five, this band, who were tipped as the sound of 2004.
0:14:39 > 0:14:41# I came across
0:14:41 > 0:14:44# A fallen tree
0:14:44 > 0:14:50# I felt the branches of it looking at me
0:14:50 > 0:14:52# Is this the place
0:14:52 > 0:14:55# We used to love?
0:14:55 > 0:15:01# Is this the place that I've been dreaming of?
0:15:01 > 0:15:06# Oh, simple thing Where have you gone? #
0:15:06 > 0:15:07Keane, just say it. Keane.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09Correct!
0:15:09 > 0:15:13Secondly, this singer who was named The Sound Of 2006.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15# Girl, put your records on
0:15:15 > 0:15:18# Tell me your favourite song
0:15:18 > 0:15:21# You go ahead, let your hair down
0:15:23 > 0:15:25# Sapphire and faded jeans... #
0:15:25 > 0:15:282006? 2006. Who was around then?
0:15:28 > 0:15:31# Just go ahead Let your hair down... #
0:15:31 > 0:15:33Do you know what it is?
0:15:33 > 0:15:35Do you know who it is? Have a stab.
0:15:35 > 0:15:39It's not Duffy, is it? Try it. Try.
0:15:39 > 0:15:40Duffy.
0:15:40 > 0:15:41No, that's Corinne Bailey Rae.
0:15:41 > 0:15:45And finally, this singer, who was picked out as The Sound Of 2010.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47# Handle bars
0:15:47 > 0:15:49# Then I let go
0:15:49 > 0:15:51# Let go for anyone
0:15:51 > 0:15:53# Take me in
0:15:53 > 0:15:55# And throw out my heart... # 2010? 2010.
0:15:55 > 0:15:58# And get a new one... #
0:15:58 > 0:16:00We don't know, do we? # Next thing, we're touching
0:16:00 > 0:16:01# You look at me
0:16:01 > 0:16:05# It's like you hit me with lightning... #
0:16:05 > 0:16:06We don't know.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08That's Ellie Goulding.
0:16:08 > 0:16:10I love the way you asked whether it was 2010 or 2009,
0:16:10 > 0:16:12as if it makes any difference. Right, ten points for this.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:16:14 > 0:16:18What is the smallest positive integer with three prime digits?
0:16:26 > 0:16:28235.
0:16:28 > 0:16:30Anyone want to buzz from Southampton?
0:16:32 > 0:16:33150.
0:16:33 > 0:16:36No, it's 222. Right, another starter question, now.
0:16:36 > 0:16:37Ten points for this.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39In October 2013, who was described
0:16:39 > 0:16:42as the youngest Man Booker-winning author
0:16:42 > 0:16:43with the longest novel?
0:16:48 > 0:16:49Eleanor Cayton?
0:16:49 > 0:16:52Eleanor Catton, yes. I'll accept that.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55Right, you get a set of bonuses then, Southampton.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57They are on Canadian provincial capitals.
0:16:57 > 0:17:00In each case, name both the capital and its province.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03Firstly, named in reference to Queen Victoria,
0:17:03 > 0:17:06which Canadian provincial capital shares its name
0:17:06 > 0:17:08with a royal title commonly used
0:17:08 > 0:17:11to denote the prosecution in criminal proceedings?
0:17:11 > 0:17:15It's Regina. Regina! What's the province?
0:17:15 > 0:17:17Regina... Is it Alberta? Alberta, I think.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19Regina, Alberta.
0:17:19 > 0:17:21No, it's Regina, Saskatchewan.
0:17:21 > 0:17:25Words meaning the gait of a horse between walk and canter
0:17:25 > 0:17:27and the first name of the Iron Chancellor
0:17:27 > 0:17:30may be made using the seven letters
0:17:30 > 0:17:32of the name of which provincial capital?
0:17:32 > 0:17:34Iron Chancellor, Bismarck. Bismarck. Chancellor...
0:17:34 > 0:17:37No, listen, Ottawa. Ottawa.
0:17:37 > 0:17:39Ottawa.
0:17:39 > 0:17:43No, its Toronto and, of course, it's the capital of Ontario. Oh!
0:17:43 > 0:17:46So, the gait of a horse between a walk and a canter
0:17:46 > 0:17:48you wouldn't get from your formulation.
0:17:48 > 0:17:50And thirdly, for five points,
0:17:50 > 0:17:52which Canadian provincial capital shares its name
0:17:52 > 0:17:54with that of the British Foreign Secretary
0:17:54 > 0:17:55at the beginning of World War II?
0:17:57 > 0:17:58Halifax, Nova Scotia.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00Correct. Ten points for this.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03The BHPS is the British Society for the preservation
0:18:03 > 0:18:05of which small mammals
0:18:05 > 0:18:07whose numbers are thought to have declined
0:18:07 > 0:18:09by more than one third since 2003?
0:18:10 > 0:18:11Hedgehogs.
0:18:11 > 0:18:12Correct.
0:18:12 > 0:18:16APPLAUSE
0:18:16 > 0:18:19Your bonuses are on a German artist, Emmanuel College.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22The Hat Makes The Man and Napoleon In The Wilderness
0:18:22 > 0:18:24are works by which German artist?
0:18:24 > 0:18:26Born 1891, he is noted
0:18:26 > 0:18:29for his exploration of the irrational in art.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34THEY WHISPER
0:18:36 > 0:18:41Oh, is the thing that's always... I don't know. ..on student bedrooms.
0:18:41 > 0:18:43Who do you think it is? You know, the bowler hat and the...
0:18:43 > 0:18:46No, that's Magritte, isn't it? He's Belgian. Is it Munch?
0:18:46 > 0:18:50Yeah, no. He's Norwegian, I think. Nothing. Klimt? Klimt.
0:18:50 > 0:18:54Go... No, try Max Ernst.
0:18:54 > 0:18:55Max Ernst.
0:18:55 > 0:18:56Correct!
0:18:56 > 0:19:00In 1919, Ernst became associated with which art movement,
0:19:00 > 0:19:03founding a group of like-minded practitioners in Cologne?
0:19:07 > 0:19:09Cubism? Modernism? I've no idea.
0:19:09 > 0:19:10Not Cubism.
0:19:13 > 0:19:14HE WHISPERS INDISTINCTLY
0:19:14 > 0:19:17What about Bau... Oh, no, that was Gropius. Try Surrealism.
0:19:17 > 0:19:20Surrealism? Yeah. We'll go with surrealism.
0:19:20 > 0:19:21No, it's Dada.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23He became a surrealist after moving to Paris.
0:19:23 > 0:19:24And finally, in 1941,
0:19:24 > 0:19:28Ernst married which US collector and gallery owner,
0:19:28 > 0:19:30a sponsor of both Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko?
0:19:34 > 0:19:38THEY WHISPER Gertrude Stein?
0:19:38 > 0:19:40Gertrude Stein over here. It could be.
0:19:40 > 0:19:43I would have said Jane Austen!
0:19:43 > 0:19:45Gertrude Stein.
0:19:45 > 0:19:46Interesting idea!
0:19:46 > 0:19:48No, it's Peggy Guggenheim. Ten points for this.
0:19:48 > 0:19:52George VI was the last British king to have acceded to the throne
0:19:52 > 0:19:54without having been Prince of Wales.
0:19:54 > 0:19:57Prior to him, who was the last king to do so?
0:20:01 > 0:20:02William IV?
0:20:02 > 0:20:03Correct.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06APPLAUSE
0:20:06 > 0:20:08He succeeded his brother.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10Your bonuses, Southampton, are on mathematics.
0:20:10 > 0:20:11In mathematics,
0:20:11 > 0:20:14what type of representation writes every positive integer
0:20:14 > 0:20:17as a unique sum of distinct powers of two
0:20:17 > 0:20:19with non-negative integer exponents?
0:20:19 > 0:20:21Just let's get through them.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23Pass. It's binary.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26Secondly, how many summands are required
0:20:26 > 0:20:29to write 100 as a sum of distinct powers of two
0:20:29 > 0:20:31with non-negative integer exponents?
0:20:31 > 0:20:34Just guess. Just say 50, I've no idea. 50.
0:20:34 > 0:20:35No, it's three!
0:20:35 > 0:20:37And finally...!
0:20:37 > 0:20:38Haven't a clue!
0:20:38 > 0:20:41And finally, for five points, if repetitions are allowed,
0:20:41 > 0:20:43what is the maximal number of summands required
0:20:43 > 0:20:46to write 100 as a sum of powers of two
0:20:46 > 0:20:49with non-negative integer exponents?
0:20:49 > 0:20:52Go on. Seven. LAUGHTER
0:20:52 > 0:20:54It's 100!
0:20:54 > 0:20:57Right, we're going to take another picture round, now.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00You'll see an illustration of a scene from a play by Shakespeare.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02Ten points if you can name the play, please.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10Othello.
0:21:10 > 0:21:11No.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13One of you may buzz from Emmanuel.
0:21:17 > 0:21:18Merchant of Venice?
0:21:18 > 0:21:19No, it's The Winter's Tale.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21It's when the statue of Hermione seems to come to life.
0:21:21 > 0:21:25So picture bonuses in a moment. Another starter question.
0:21:25 > 0:21:27Fingers on the buzzers, all of you.
0:21:27 > 0:21:30In the field of data entry and electronic publishing,
0:21:30 > 0:21:32for what do the letters OCR stand?
0:21:35 > 0:21:37Optical character recognition.
0:21:37 > 0:21:38Correct.
0:21:38 > 0:21:41APPLAUSE
0:21:41 > 0:21:43So, you get the picture bonuses
0:21:43 > 0:21:46following on from illustrations of a scene from The Winter's Tale.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48Your bonuses are three more depictions
0:21:48 > 0:21:49of characters from that play.
0:21:49 > 0:21:53Firstly, for five, who are this couple from a Victorian engraving?
0:21:57 > 0:21:59Do we know anything about The Winter's Tale? I have no...
0:21:59 > 0:22:00No, nothing.
0:22:00 > 0:22:03I've got... Wait, hang on.
0:22:04 > 0:22:05Oh, he didn't tell as any...
0:22:05 > 0:22:08just Hermione. We could pluck one name out of the air
0:22:08 > 0:22:10but to pluck two would be tough, I think.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13Antonio and Maria. Antonia...
0:22:13 > 0:22:15Antonio. Antonio and Maria.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17No, it's Florizel and Perdita.
0:22:17 > 0:22:20Secondly, the character shown here in a Georgian engraving.
0:22:23 > 0:22:26I think we're really just... Bart Simpson?!
0:22:26 > 0:22:28No, we're just going to give up again, I'm afraid.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30That's Autolycus.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32And finally, the character played here
0:22:32 > 0:22:35by the Victorian actor Johnston Forbes Robertson.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40This is all from Winter's Tale? It's all Winter's Tale, yes.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43Yeah, I'm sorry, we're going to have to say no idea again.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45That's Leontes. Ten points for this.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48Deposed in 1797, Ludovico Manin
0:22:48 > 0:22:53was the last holder of which title, as chief magistrate of Venice?
0:22:55 > 0:22:56Doge. Correct.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59APPLAUSE
0:22:59 > 0:23:02Your bonuses are on courtroom drama, Southampton.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04In each case, name the film from the description.
0:23:04 > 0:23:07Firstly, a 1957 film by Stanley Kubrick
0:23:07 > 0:23:10based on the trial of French soldiers in World War I
0:23:10 > 0:23:13who refused to continue an impossible attack.
0:23:13 > 0:23:16It's three word title is taken from Thomas Gray's elegy.
0:23:20 > 0:23:23In A Churchyard? Country Churchyard? Do you think?
0:23:23 > 0:23:27That was In A Country Churchyard. That was the title, yeah.
0:23:27 > 0:23:29A Country Churchyard.
0:23:29 > 0:23:31No, it's "paths of glory lead but to the grave."
0:23:31 > 0:23:35In 1961, a film in which an American court
0:23:35 > 0:23:38tries Nazi judges accused of war crimes.
0:23:38 > 0:23:42Its title refers to the German city in which the trial takes place.
0:23:44 > 0:23:45Nuremberg? Nuremberg.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47Something to do with Nuremberg? Nuremberg?
0:23:48 > 0:23:51Oh, I don't know. Try it. Go for it.
0:23:51 > 0:23:52Nuremberg.
0:23:52 > 0:23:53It's Judgment At Nuremberg.
0:23:53 > 0:23:59And finally, a 1957 Oscar-nominated film directed by Sidney Lumet.
0:23:59 > 0:24:01It's three word title refers to the members of the jury.
0:24:01 > 0:24:0312 Angry Men. 12 Angry Men. 12 Angry Men.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06Correct. Four minutes to go, ten points for this.
0:24:06 > 0:24:10The Greenwich Meridian crosses one British motorway. Which one?
0:24:12 > 0:24:13M20.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15Anyone like to buzz from Emmanuel?
0:24:16 > 0:24:18M25.
0:24:18 > 0:24:19Correct.
0:24:19 > 0:24:21APPLAUSE
0:24:22 > 0:24:24Your bonuses are on shorter words
0:24:24 > 0:24:26that can be made using any of the nine letters
0:24:26 > 0:24:28in the word hailstorm.
0:24:28 > 0:24:30In each case, give the word from the definition.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32Firstly, a person who has strong feelings and opinions
0:24:32 > 0:24:34about what is right
0:24:34 > 0:24:36and tries to control the behaviour of other people.
0:24:38 > 0:24:42Hailstorm. Can you get moralist out of hailstorm?
0:24:42 > 0:24:44A three-letter word. What? Moralist.
0:24:44 > 0:24:46A three-letter word. Is it three letters? No, no.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49I don't think... I think it's any number.
0:24:49 > 0:24:51Moralist. Moralist. Moralist. Moralist?
0:24:51 > 0:24:53Correct.
0:24:53 > 0:24:57Secondly, the fruit of forest trees such as beech, oak or chestnut.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00It's mast. Mast, yes, correct. Mast.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03Correct. And finally, an extremely small amount,
0:25:03 > 0:25:05or the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet.
0:25:05 > 0:25:08Oh... Theta.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11Eh... Iota. Iota. Iota, yeah. Yeah?
0:25:11 > 0:25:13OK, iota.
0:25:13 > 0:25:15Correct. Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17Mark Rylance's 2013 production
0:25:17 > 0:25:20of Much Ado About Nothing at the Old Vic
0:25:20 > 0:25:22starred James Earl Jones as Benedick
0:25:22 > 0:25:25and which British actress as Beatrice?
0:25:27 > 0:25:28Vanessa Redgrave?
0:25:28 > 0:25:31Correct. APPLAUSE
0:25:31 > 0:25:33These bonuses are on Scottish lochs, Southampton.
0:25:33 > 0:25:35Part of the Trossachs National Park,
0:25:35 > 0:25:39which, in terms of surface area, is Scotland's largest loch?
0:25:39 > 0:25:41Loch Ness? Loch Ness? Loch Lomond?
0:25:41 > 0:25:43Loch Ness? No, I think it's Loch Ness. Yeah. Loch Ness.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45No, it's Loch Lomond.
0:25:45 > 0:25:49Located in Argyll and Bute, which is Scotland's longest freshwater loch?
0:25:50 > 0:25:53If we don't know, go... That must be Ness. Loch Ness. Loch Ness.
0:25:53 > 0:25:54No, it's Loch Awe.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56Situated in the Highlands,
0:25:56 > 0:25:59which is Scotland's largest loch in terms of volume?
0:25:59 > 0:26:02Oh, no, that's Loch Ness again! Let's try Loch Ness.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04Correct! LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:26:04 > 0:26:06Ten points for this.
0:26:06 > 0:26:11Imperial, Hungarian, horseshoe, Chevron, Dali, walrus and pencil
0:26:11 > 0:26:14are all types of what form...?
0:26:14 > 0:26:15Moustache.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18Correct. APPLAUSE
0:26:18 > 0:26:20Your bonuses, Emmanuel College, are on miracles.
0:26:20 > 0:26:23In his 1748 enquiry concerning human understanding,
0:26:23 > 0:26:28which philosopher called a miracle "a violation of the laws of nature?"
0:26:28 > 0:26:30Hume, isn't it? Hume? Could be.
0:26:30 > 0:26:31We'll go with Hume.
0:26:31 > 0:26:33Correct. The Book Of Miracles is a work
0:26:33 > 0:26:35by which 17th-century religious figure,
0:26:35 > 0:26:38a founder of The Society Of Friends?
0:26:38 > 0:26:39Oh, erm...
0:26:41 > 0:26:44HE MOUTHS
0:26:44 > 0:26:45Is it Brigham Young?
0:26:45 > 0:26:48I don't know. Oh, no, no...
0:26:48 > 0:26:50Brigham Young is a...
0:26:50 > 0:26:53a Mormon. So it's a Quaker, right? Mm.
0:26:53 > 0:26:55Do we know any Quakers? THEY MUTTER
0:26:55 > 0:26:57No, sorry. No idea, I'm afraid.
0:26:57 > 0:26:58That was George Fox.
0:26:58 > 0:27:01And finally, the 1962 film The Miracle Worker
0:27:01 > 0:27:04told the story of the teacher Anne Sullivan
0:27:04 > 0:27:05and which of her pupils?
0:27:05 > 0:27:07Helen Keller. Helen Keller?
0:27:07 > 0:27:08Yeah, Helen Keller.
0:27:08 > 0:27:09Correct. Ten points for this.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12St Kitts and Nevis, Zimbabwe, Belize and Vanuatu
0:27:12 > 0:27:15are among the countries that joined the United Nations
0:27:15 > 0:27:16during which decade?
0:27:19 > 0:27:201970s?
0:27:20 > 0:27:22Anyone like to buzz from Emmanuel?
0:27:22 > 0:27:24You may not confer. One of you may buzz.
0:27:28 > 0:27:29'60s.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31No, it's the 1980s. Ten points for this.
0:27:31 > 0:27:34Meaning robotic, docile or conformist,
0:27:34 > 0:27:36what adjective derives from the title
0:27:36 > 0:27:40of a 1972 novel by Ira Levin set in a fictional suburb...?
0:27:42 > 0:27:43Robot?
0:27:43 > 0:27:45No. You lose five points.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48..set in a fictional suburb in Connecticut?
0:27:48 > 0:27:49You may not confer!
0:27:56 > 0:27:57Inert.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00No, it's Stepford. Ten points for this.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02A small rocky hillock south of Ardnamurchan Point
0:28:02 > 0:28:06represents which extremity of the island of Great Britain?
0:28:08 > 0:28:10The most westerly point?
0:28:10 > 0:28:11Westernmost is correct, yes.
0:28:11 > 0:28:14APPLAUSE
0:28:14 > 0:28:17Emmanuel College, these are your bonuses on archaic occupations.
0:28:17 > 0:28:21The term pettifogger, originating in the mid-16th century denotes...
0:28:21 > 0:28:22GONG CHIMES And at the gong,
0:28:22 > 0:28:24Southampton University have 105.
0:28:24 > 0:28:27Emmanuel College, Cambridge have 175.
0:28:27 > 0:28:29APPLAUSE
0:28:30 > 0:28:33Well, we're going to have to say goodbye to you, Southampton.
0:28:33 > 0:28:35But 105 is a perfectly respectable score.
0:28:35 > 0:28:36Thank you for joining us.
0:28:36 > 0:28:39And Emmanuel, we look forward to seeing you in the final.
0:28:39 > 0:28:41I hope you can join us next time, for the second semifinal.
0:28:41 > 0:28:44But until then, it's goodbye from Southampton University. Goodbye!
0:28:44 > 0:28:47It's goodbye from Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Goodbye!
0:28:47 > 0:28:49And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:49 > 0:28:52APPLAUSE