0:00:19 > 0:00:21Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:29Hello.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32The season of goodwill may be about to take a battering
0:00:32 > 0:00:35as two more teams of graduates fight it out for a place in the final
0:00:35 > 0:00:38and the opportunity to take on Emmanuel College, Cambridge,
0:00:38 > 0:00:42for no benefit at all beyond the satisfaction of having trounced
0:00:42 > 0:00:44various other teams of know-alls.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47The team from Lancaster University got off to an impressive start
0:00:47 > 0:00:50in their first match against the University of Kent
0:00:50 > 0:00:52and managed to dominate the proceedings throughout,
0:00:52 > 0:00:55coming away with 160 points to 100.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58They knew about White Christmas, the 12 Days Of Christmas
0:00:58 > 0:01:00and In The Bleak Midwinter,
0:01:00 > 0:01:03and the team remains the same on this occasion.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06A writer on science, an early-morning news broadcaster,
0:01:06 > 0:01:09an actor and author, and a man who, quite frankly,
0:01:09 > 0:01:10lives the life of Riley.
0:01:10 > 0:01:12Let's meet them again.
0:01:12 > 0:01:13Hello, I'm Brian Clegg.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17I took a Masters in operational research in 1976
0:01:17 > 0:01:19and I now write science books.
0:01:19 > 0:01:20I'm Ranvir Singh.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23I graduated in '98, having studied English and philosophy.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26I'm now a journalist and presenter working on Daybreak.
0:01:26 > 0:01:27And their captain.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30Hi, I'm Roger Ashton-Griffiths. I'm an actor and writer.
0:01:30 > 0:01:34I studied music and graduated in 1978.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37I'm Matthew Fort. I graduated in 1968
0:01:37 > 0:01:40with a degree in English, and I eat for a living.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43APPLAUSE
0:01:46 > 0:01:48The first time we saw their opponents tonight,
0:01:48 > 0:01:51the team from Gonville Caius College, Cambridge,
0:01:51 > 0:01:53tried to appear omniscient by saying,
0:01:53 > 0:01:54"Of course it is" very loudly
0:01:54 > 0:01:57every time they were told the correct answer,
0:01:57 > 0:01:58having given the wrong one.
0:01:58 > 0:02:02Even so, they had the highest first-round score of 255
0:02:02 > 0:02:05against a dozy foursome from Christ Church, Oxford,
0:02:05 > 0:02:07who scored a mere 65.
0:02:07 > 0:02:11Again tonight, they're fielding an innovator in computer technology,
0:02:11 > 0:02:12a broadcaster and writer,
0:02:12 > 0:02:13a reformed broadcaster,
0:02:13 > 0:02:17and a man who knows all there is to know about ceramics.
0:02:17 > 0:02:18Let's meet them.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20Hello, I'm Quentin Stafford-Fraser.
0:02:20 > 0:02:24I studied computer science in the mid to late floppy-disk era
0:02:24 > 0:02:27and now I'm a consultant on some of the fun stuff that's happened since.
0:02:29 > 0:02:30I'm Helen Castor.
0:02:30 > 0:02:32I studied history in the late '80s and early '90s
0:02:32 > 0:02:36and now I'm a medieval historian, writer and broadcaster.
0:02:36 > 0:02:37And their captain.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40I'm Mark Damazer. I studied history in the 1970s
0:02:40 > 0:02:43and I'm now Master of St Peter's College, Oxford.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45I'm Lars Tharp.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47Back in the Stone Age, I read Palaeolithic archaeology
0:02:47 > 0:02:50and these days I'm looking at crockery.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52APPLAUSE
0:02:54 > 0:02:57OK, you all know the rules so let's just get on with it.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00Fingers on the buzzers - here's your first starter for 10.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02What two-word term can denote
0:03:02 > 0:03:06any of a loosely-defined grouping of elements of higher atomic weight
0:03:06 > 0:03:07that are often toxic
0:03:07 > 0:03:10and a genre of popular music originating...
0:03:11 > 0:03:13Heavy metal. Correct.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16APPLAUSE
0:03:16 > 0:03:19Your bonuses are on revolutions, Lancaster.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22In which single year of the 20th century
0:03:22 > 0:03:24did uprisings known as the February Revolution
0:03:24 > 0:03:27and the October Revolution take place?
0:03:28 > 0:03:32THEY CONFER
0:03:34 > 0:03:361917. Correct, in Russia.
0:03:36 > 0:03:37Secondly for 5 points,
0:03:37 > 0:03:39after the month in which the event occurred,
0:03:39 > 0:03:42what name is collectively given to the conspirators involved
0:03:42 > 0:03:44in the uprising in Russia
0:03:44 > 0:03:47that followed the death of Alexander I in 1825?
0:03:48 > 0:03:49I don't know.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52Do you know? No. Shall we guess a month?
0:03:52 > 0:03:55Octobrists.
0:03:55 > 0:03:56Octobrists.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59No, they were later. The Decembrists were the ones in 1825.
0:03:59 > 0:04:03Which month is associated with the Argentinian revolution of 1810
0:04:03 > 0:04:05and appears in the name of the sun motif
0:04:05 > 0:04:06featured on the country's flag?
0:04:10 > 0:04:12It's a sun. It suggests summer.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14THEY CONFER
0:04:21 > 0:04:22November.
0:04:22 > 0:04:24No, it's May.
0:04:24 > 0:04:2510 points for this starter question.
0:04:25 > 0:04:29What beverage is known as garagardo in Basque,
0:04:29 > 0:04:31sor in Hungarian,
0:04:31 > 0:04:33olut in Finnish,
0:04:33 > 0:04:34alus in Latvian,
0:04:34 > 0:04:37ol in Swedish, and in most other European languages
0:04:37 > 0:04:40by something close to the regularly used English word?
0:04:42 > 0:04:43Milk.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46No, Gonville Caius?
0:04:46 > 0:04:47Tea?
0:04:47 > 0:04:48No, it's beer.
0:04:48 > 0:04:5110 points for this - "Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun
0:04:51 > 0:04:55"and just as noisy." Which US author said this of himself?
0:04:55 > 0:04:57Born in New Orleans in 1924
0:04:57 > 0:04:59and standing about 5' 3" tall as an adult,
0:04:59 > 0:05:04he's regarded as a pioneer of the genre known as the non-...
0:05:05 > 0:05:07Truman Capote. Correct.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10APPLAUSE
0:05:10 > 0:05:11..the non-fiction novel.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13Your bonuses are on the classical world
0:05:13 > 0:05:16and Star Trek, Gonville Caius.
0:05:16 > 0:05:19Firstly for five, home to an alien race in Star Trek,
0:05:19 > 0:05:21which planet shares its name
0:05:21 > 0:05:23with the longer lived of the twin brothers
0:05:23 > 0:05:26suckled by a wolf in ancient Italian legend?
0:05:27 > 0:05:31THEY CONFER
0:05:31 > 0:05:32Romulus. Correct.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35Home to a race of tall, aggressive humanoids,
0:05:35 > 0:05:37which planet in the Star Trek universe
0:05:37 > 0:05:39shares its name with the daughter of King Alcinous,
0:05:39 > 0:05:43who helps the shipwrecked Odysseus in Homer's epic?
0:05:48 > 0:05:51THEY CONFER
0:05:53 > 0:05:55Calypso. No, it's Nausicaa.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58Finally, which race in Star Trek shares its name
0:05:58 > 0:06:01with the Roman god whose statue stands above Sheffield town hall?
0:06:09 > 0:06:10Vulcan. Correct.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13We're going to take a picture round now.
0:06:13 > 0:06:14For your picture starter,
0:06:14 > 0:06:17you'll see a map marked with a city and winter resort.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20For 10 points, simply name the city indicated.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27Odessa.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29Anyone like to buzz from Lancaster?
0:06:30 > 0:06:31No talking, Fort!
0:06:33 > 0:06:35AUDIENCE CHUCKLES
0:06:36 > 0:06:39I withdraw my...answer. It's wrong.
0:06:40 > 0:06:43It's wrong if you don't answer, obviously! No, no, no, it's wrong.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46It's Sochi, so we're going to take picture bonuses
0:06:46 > 0:06:48in a moment or two, and 10 points for this.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50What double letter links abbreviations
0:06:50 > 0:06:52for the crank hub of a bicycle,
0:06:52 > 0:06:55the birthplace of the cricketer Sir Garfield Sobers,
0:06:55 > 0:06:58and the ruler of Oceania in Nineteen Eighty-Four?
0:07:01 > 0:07:02B? Correct.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04APPLAUSE
0:07:07 > 0:07:09So you get the picture bonuses.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11You'll recall the picture starter showed Sochi,
0:07:11 > 0:07:13which is the location of the 2014 Winter Olympics.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15Your bonuses - three more maps marked
0:07:15 > 0:07:17with former Winter Olympic venues.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20In each case, I want the location and the year
0:07:20 > 0:07:21in which the Olympics took place.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23Firstly, for 5 points...
0:07:25 > 0:07:28THEY CONFER
0:07:34 > 0:07:35Um...
0:07:36 > 0:07:38If we begin gently with Belgrade...
0:07:38 > 0:07:42No, well, you're beginning in the wrong direction. It's Sarajevo 1984.
0:07:42 > 0:07:43Secondly...
0:07:46 > 0:07:49THEY CONFER
0:07:55 > 0:07:56Turin.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00Year? 2006.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02It was Turin in 2006. Finally...
0:08:04 > 0:08:06Is that Lillehammer?
0:08:06 > 0:08:07When?
0:08:08 > 0:08:112000... No, it's 1994.
0:08:11 > 0:08:1210 points for this.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14What term was coined in 1954
0:08:14 > 0:08:17in an article describing the mishearing of words
0:08:17 > 0:08:20in the Scottish ballad The Bonnie Earl O' Moray
0:08:20 > 0:08:23and has come to denote similar misunderstandings..?
0:08:24 > 0:08:26Mondegreen. Yes, well done.
0:08:26 > 0:08:30APPLAUSE
0:08:30 > 0:08:34The mishearing of "laid him on the green" becomes "Lady Mondegreen."
0:08:34 > 0:08:36Right, your bonuses are on a British chemist.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38Born near Leeds in 1733,
0:08:38 > 0:08:41which clergyman was one of the discoverers of oxygen,
0:08:41 > 0:08:43which he called "dephlogisticated air"?
0:08:44 > 0:08:47THEY CONFER
0:08:47 > 0:08:49Davy? No, it's Joseph Priestley.
0:08:49 > 0:08:53Secondly for 5 points, in 1767, Priestley invented what product?
0:08:53 > 0:08:56Although he didn't profit from it commercially,
0:08:56 > 0:08:58it's become a staple of the modern soft-drinks industry.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04Carbonated water? Correct.
0:09:04 > 0:09:06A noted theologian, Priestley was a proponent
0:09:06 > 0:09:10of which religious movement that denies the doctrine of the Trinity?
0:09:13 > 0:09:14Unitarian. Correct.
0:09:14 > 0:09:1710 points for this starter question.
0:09:17 > 0:09:18The first part of a trilogy,
0:09:18 > 0:09:22what is the specific title of the novel of 1995
0:09:22 > 0:09:24that concludes with a description
0:09:24 > 0:09:26of how the protagonist and her companion
0:09:26 > 0:09:28"turned away from the world they were born in
0:09:28 > 0:09:31"and looked toward the sun and walked into the sky"?
0:09:35 > 0:09:36Northern Lights. Correct.
0:09:36 > 0:09:39APPLAUSE
0:09:40 > 0:09:43Your bonuses, Lancaster, are on cricketers.
0:09:43 > 0:09:44In the words of Geoffrey Boycott,
0:09:44 > 0:09:47in each case, identify the bowler he's describing.
0:09:47 > 0:09:51Firstly, "The most perfect sideways-on action I've ever seen.
0:09:51 > 0:09:55"He swung the ball out at great pace and he bowled a wonderful yorker."
0:09:55 > 0:09:58He was the first player to get 300 Test match wickets.
0:10:02 > 0:10:05THEY CONFER
0:10:05 > 0:10:06Dennis Lillee.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08No, it was Fred Trueman.
0:10:08 > 0:10:09"He played quite a while ago,
0:10:09 > 0:10:12"regarded by many as the greatest bowler of all time.
0:10:12 > 0:10:17"He only played 27 tests and got 189 wickets at 16.43."
0:10:22 > 0:10:23No rush.
0:10:27 > 0:10:28Can't remember.
0:10:31 > 0:10:32We can't remember.
0:10:34 > 0:10:35It was Sidney Barnes.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38And finally, "He revolutionised the game of leg-spinning.
0:10:38 > 0:10:42"He had such great accuracy that he hardly ever gave you a bad ball.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45"I'd love to have had a bat against him."
0:10:46 > 0:10:48Shane Warne.
0:10:48 > 0:10:49Shane Warne is right, yes.
0:10:49 > 0:10:5010 points for this.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52The five-letter name of which tree
0:10:52 > 0:10:56begins the names of a prominent sandstone escarpment in Cheshire,
0:10:56 > 0:10:58a Hampshire town connected with the British...
0:11:00 > 0:11:01Alder. Correct.
0:11:01 > 0:11:04APPLAUSE
0:11:04 > 0:11:07These bonuses are on Paris architecture.
0:11:07 > 0:11:08Firstly, for 5 points,
0:11:08 > 0:11:10sharing his surname with a writer of fairy tales,
0:11:10 > 0:11:14which architect designed a new National Library of France
0:11:14 > 0:11:15along the banks of the Seine?
0:11:15 > 0:11:19Comprising four L-shaped glass skyscrapers,
0:11:19 > 0:11:21it was completed in 1995.
0:11:22 > 0:11:23Well, I don't know.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33Saint-Exupery.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35The writer?
0:11:35 > 0:11:37As a sideline? No.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39Dominique Perrault.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42"Jean is willing to jump in and take on things and try."
0:11:42 > 0:11:46This was Frank Gehry's verdict on which architect
0:11:46 > 0:11:49whose Quai Branly museum opened in 2006?
0:11:50 > 0:11:53THEY CONFER
0:11:59 > 0:12:00No, cos it was a he.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03I'll say it anyway. Zaha Hadid.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06Certainly not. Never mind, it was Jean Nouvel.
0:12:06 > 0:12:10The architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel designed the Place Louis XV,
0:12:10 > 0:12:14begun in 1755 and now known by what name?
0:12:24 > 0:12:26Place de la Concorde. Well done.
0:12:26 > 0:12:2710 points for this.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29Initially published anonymously in 1928
0:12:29 > 0:12:31in an edition of only 21 copies,
0:12:31 > 0:12:33Le Livre Blanc, or The White Paper,
0:12:33 > 0:12:36was reprinted with illustrations two years later
0:12:36 > 0:12:39by which French artist, writer and film-maker,
0:12:39 > 0:12:41effectively identifying him as its author?
0:12:49 > 0:12:51Cocteau. Correct. Jean Cocteau.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56That puts you on level pegging and your bonuses now
0:12:56 > 0:12:59are on the journalist and author Julie Burchill.
0:12:59 > 0:13:02Julie Burchill began her writing career at the age of 17
0:13:02 > 0:13:04for which weekly publication
0:13:04 > 0:13:06who'd advertised for "hip young gunslingers"?
0:13:11 > 0:13:14THEY CONFER
0:13:14 > 0:13:16New Musical Express? Correct.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18Answer through your captain if you can, please.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20Winner of an International Emmy Award,
0:13:20 > 0:13:22what was the title of the 2005 television series
0:13:22 > 0:13:25that was adapted from Burchill's novel of the same name?
0:13:25 > 0:13:28It can refer to confectionery consumption
0:13:28 > 0:13:30and the consequent hyperactivity.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34THEY CONFER
0:13:37 > 0:13:39Sugar Rush?
0:13:39 > 0:13:40Sugar Rush. Correct.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43In the course of a much-publicised spat with which pop singer
0:13:43 > 0:13:47did Burchill retort, "Being called self-loathing by you
0:13:47 > 0:13:50"is like being called fat by Dawn French, clown"?
0:13:53 > 0:13:55It's not going to be Suzi Quatro.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05Debbie Harry. No, it's Lily Allen.
0:14:05 > 0:14:06Wasn't Gracie Fields either.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08For your music starter in the music round,
0:14:08 > 0:14:11you're going to hear a piece of classical music.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14For 10 points, simply give me the name of the composer.
0:14:15 > 0:14:18WALTZ PLAYS
0:14:25 > 0:14:28Tchaikovsky. It is, yes.
0:14:28 > 0:14:30It's the Waltz Of The Snowflakes from The Nutcracker.
0:14:32 > 0:14:34Following on from the Waltz Of The Snowflakes,
0:14:34 > 0:14:37here are three more Russian composers for you to identify,
0:14:37 > 0:14:40all exploring a winter theme.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42All three were alive in the 20th century.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44Firstly, the composer of this piece.
0:14:46 > 0:14:49MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:03 > 0:15:04We'll go for Prokofiev.
0:15:04 > 0:15:08It is, it's The Fairy Godmother And Winter Fairy from Cinderella.
0:15:08 > 0:15:10Secondly, the composer of this opera, please.
0:15:12 > 0:15:14UP-TEMPO WOODWIND MUSIC
0:15:23 > 0:15:24Glinka?
0:15:24 > 0:15:26No, that's Rimsky-Korsakov's Dance Of The Tumblers
0:15:26 > 0:15:27from The Snow Maiden.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30And finally, the composer of this film music, please.
0:15:30 > 0:15:34DRAMATIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
0:15:35 > 0:15:38THEY CONFER
0:15:40 > 0:15:44Shostakovich. It is, yes. It's The Snowstorm from the film, Odna.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47Right, 10 points at stake for this. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:15:47 > 0:15:48Listen carefully -
0:15:48 > 0:15:51which chemical element has a symbol that forms the last two letters
0:15:51 > 0:15:56of the names of the elements with atomic numbers 9, 17, 35,
0:15:56 > 0:15:5953 and 85, that is the halogens?
0:16:08 > 0:16:10I think we'll crack on here...
0:16:12 > 0:16:13Erbium?
0:16:13 > 0:16:15No, anyone like to buzz from Lancaster?
0:16:17 > 0:16:18Neon. Correct!
0:16:18 > 0:16:21APPLAUSE
0:16:23 > 0:16:26That gives you level pegging again, and your bonuses
0:16:26 > 0:16:30are on attitudes to kingship in Shakespeare's history plays.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32"Not all the water in the rough, rude sea
0:16:32 > 0:16:35"can wash the balm from an anointed king."
0:16:35 > 0:16:37Which king of England makes that statement?
0:16:46 > 0:16:48Richard III. No, it's Richard II.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51"I think the king is but a man as I am,
0:16:51 > 0:16:54"the violet smells to him as it doth to me."
0:16:54 > 0:16:56Which king says this of himself to another soldier
0:16:56 > 0:16:58when in disguise on the eve of battle?
0:17:02 > 0:17:03Henry IV.
0:17:04 > 0:17:06It's Henry V.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08In a long speech during the Battle of Towton,
0:17:08 > 0:17:11which of Shakespeare's kings expresses a desire
0:17:11 > 0:17:13to retire and live the life of a shepherd?
0:17:20 > 0:17:22Henry VIII. No, it's Henry VI.
0:17:22 > 0:17:2410 points for this.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26Painted by Pietro Longhi among others,
0:17:26 > 0:17:30Clara, who was exhibited around Europe in the mid 18th century,
0:17:30 > 0:17:33was a species of which large land mammal?
0:17:33 > 0:17:36The same mammal is the subject of a woodcut of 15...
0:17:38 > 0:17:40Rhinoceros. Correct.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42APPLAUSE
0:17:42 > 0:17:44You take the lead again.
0:17:44 > 0:17:46Your bonuses are on enzymes, Gonville Caius College.
0:17:46 > 0:17:48What term denotes the complex of enzymes
0:17:48 > 0:17:52collected from the fourth stomach of an unweaned calf?
0:17:52 > 0:17:54They're used in curdling milk in cheese.
0:17:56 > 0:17:57Rennet. Correct.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00Used in the baking and brewing industries,
0:18:00 > 0:18:02which enzyme is present in human saliva
0:18:02 > 0:18:05and catalyses the breakdown of starch into sugars?
0:18:07 > 0:18:08Yeast.
0:18:08 > 0:18:09No, it's amylase.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12And finally, what name is given to an enzyme that breaks down protein?
0:18:12 > 0:18:14Also used in the baking industry,
0:18:14 > 0:18:17it weakens the gluten in the flour used for making biscuits.
0:18:20 > 0:18:22THEY CONFER
0:18:24 > 0:18:26Yeast. No, it's protease. 10 points for this.
0:18:26 > 0:18:30"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
0:18:30 > 0:18:33"The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle."
0:18:33 > 0:18:36That statement appears in Physics And Reality,
0:18:36 > 0:18:38a 1936 work by which scientist?
0:18:41 > 0:18:42Einstein? Correct.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45APPLAUSE
0:18:45 > 0:18:47Get these bonuses, you'll retake the lead, Lancaster.
0:18:47 > 0:18:49They're on artificial islands.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52Built in the shape of palm trees when viewed from above,
0:18:52 > 0:18:54the Palm Islands of Jumeirah and Jebel Ali
0:18:54 > 0:18:57lie off the coast of which of the United Arab Emirates?
0:18:59 > 0:19:01Dubai. Correct.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03Secondly, most of its land area consisting of landfill,
0:19:03 > 0:19:05which island in New York Harbour
0:19:05 > 0:19:08was the main immigration reception centre
0:19:08 > 0:19:10of the United States until 1954?
0:19:10 > 0:19:12Ellis. Ellis Island is correct.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15An island created in Japan's Edo Period
0:19:15 > 0:19:18as a contained centre for European merchants, Dejima,
0:19:18 > 0:19:20lies in the bay of which city?
0:19:27 > 0:19:28Honshu.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30No, it's Nagasaki.
0:19:30 > 0:19:33For your picture starters now in the second picture round,
0:19:33 > 0:19:35you'll see a late 19th century painting of an English city.
0:19:35 > 0:19:37For 10 points, I want you to identify the city.
0:19:41 > 0:19:42Liverpool. Correct.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45APPLAUSE
0:19:45 > 0:19:48You retake the lead, Gonville Caius. Following on from
0:19:48 > 0:19:50that uncharacteristically gloomy Liverpool,
0:19:50 > 0:19:52your picture bonuses are three more
0:19:52 > 0:19:53of John Atkinson Grimshaw's paintings
0:19:53 > 0:19:55of the joys of the British winter.
0:19:55 > 0:19:58In each case, simply identify the city or town depicted.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01All three are in the artist's native Yorkshire.
0:20:01 > 0:20:02Firstly, for 5, this city.
0:20:08 > 0:20:11Leeds. That is Boar Lane, Leeds. Secondly, this city.
0:20:13 > 0:20:16THEY CONFER
0:20:22 > 0:20:23Sheffield.
0:20:25 > 0:20:26AUDIENCE CHUCKLES
0:20:26 > 0:20:29On the sea?!
0:20:29 > 0:20:31It's Kingston upon Hull. And finally, this town.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36THEY CONFER
0:20:41 > 0:20:44Whitby. Whitby's correct, yes.
0:20:44 > 0:20:4710 points for this - derived from the merged names
0:20:47 > 0:20:49of a god and a goddess of Greek mythology,
0:20:49 > 0:20:51what word is used to describe organisms
0:20:51 > 0:20:52that display both male and...
0:20:54 > 0:20:56Hermaphroditic. Correct.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59APPLAUSE
0:20:59 > 0:21:02You can get the lead back with these bonuses, if you get them.
0:21:02 > 0:21:03They're on the 1920s. In each case,
0:21:03 > 0:21:06identify the precise year in which the following took place.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08Firstly, the discovery of insulin,
0:21:08 > 0:21:10the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty
0:21:10 > 0:21:12that established the Irish Free State
0:21:12 > 0:21:15and the opening of Marie Stopes's first birth control clinic.
0:21:17 > 0:21:19I've got '22 up there for some reason.
0:21:21 > 0:21:22'22.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24'22 is the year of the Irish formation,
0:21:24 > 0:21:27but '21 was the year the treaty was signed.
0:21:27 > 0:21:30Secondly, Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch in Munich,
0:21:30 > 0:21:31the first Wembley FA Cup final,
0:21:31 > 0:21:33and the banning of the sale of alcohol
0:21:33 > 0:21:35to those under the age of 18.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41'29.
0:21:41 > 0:21:42It was 1923. And finally,
0:21:42 > 0:21:45the Lateran Treaty between Mussolini and the Vatican,
0:21:45 > 0:21:48the start of Ramsay MacDonald's second ministry,
0:21:48 > 0:21:50and Black Thursday on Wall Street.
0:21:58 > 0:22:00'29. 1929 is correct.
0:22:00 > 0:22:0210 points for this.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05"Drawing is simply taking a line for a walk." These are the words
0:22:05 > 0:22:08of which influential artist, born in Switzerland in 1879?
0:22:10 > 0:22:11Klee.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13Paul Klee is correct, yes.
0:22:13 > 0:22:14APPLAUSE
0:22:14 > 0:22:17That gives you the lead and your bonuses are on rates of movement.
0:22:17 > 0:22:21Radians per second is the SI unit of which vector quantity
0:22:21 > 0:22:24defined as the rate at which a body moves about a fixed axis?
0:22:27 > 0:22:29THEY CONFER
0:22:31 > 0:22:33Circular momentum...
0:22:33 > 0:22:35Angular momentum.
0:22:39 > 0:22:40Nominate Clegg.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42Angular velocity. Correct.
0:22:42 > 0:22:45What two-word term indicates the speed needed for an object
0:22:45 > 0:22:48to break free from a gravitational field without further propulsion?
0:22:50 > 0:22:52Escape velocity. Escape speed's right.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54What term is used in physics
0:22:54 > 0:22:57for the velocity with which a body moves relative to a fluid
0:22:57 > 0:23:00if the resultant force on the body is zero?
0:23:08 > 0:23:09Come on.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15Drag. No, it's terminal velocity.
0:23:15 > 0:23:1610 points for this.
0:23:16 > 0:23:17Born in 1613,
0:23:17 > 0:23:20Andre Le Notre is principally remembered for his design
0:23:20 > 0:23:24for the expansion of which gardens, ordered in the 1660s by Louis XIV?
0:23:26 > 0:23:28The Tuileries.
0:23:28 > 0:23:31No. Anyone want to buzz from Lancaster?
0:23:31 > 0:23:33Versailles. Versailles is correct, yes.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35APPLAUSE
0:23:35 > 0:23:39Bad luck, Gonville Caius, he'd actually done the Tuileries earlier.
0:23:39 > 0:23:40So you get a set of bonuses,
0:23:40 > 0:23:42this time, Lancaster, on English churches.
0:23:42 > 0:23:46Theddlethorpe All Saints, Stragglethorpe and Louth
0:23:46 > 0:23:48are among noted churches in which English county?
0:23:50 > 0:23:53THEY CONFER
0:24:00 > 0:24:02Northamptonshire. No, it's Lincolnshire.
0:24:02 > 0:24:04Which village north-west of Lincoln
0:24:04 > 0:24:06is the site of an Anglo-Saxon minster?
0:24:06 > 0:24:08Restored by JL Pearson in the mid 19th century,
0:24:08 > 0:24:12it shares its name in part with a market town in the Cotswolds.
0:24:18 > 0:24:19Come on.
0:24:20 > 0:24:22Beverley. No, it's Stow.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25"Here is the finest steeple in England."
0:24:25 > 0:24:27These words of Simon Jenkins
0:24:27 > 0:24:30describe the Church of St Wulfram in which Lincolnshire town?
0:24:30 > 0:24:33It was the birthplace of Margaret Thatcher in 1925.
0:24:34 > 0:24:36Grantham. Grantham is right.
0:24:36 > 0:24:39Three and a half minutes to go, 10 points for this.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41The llama and alpaca of South American
0:24:41 > 0:24:44are most closely related to which Old World mammals?
0:24:46 > 0:24:48Camels. Correct.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50APPLAUSE
0:24:50 > 0:24:54Your bonuses now are on words that begin with three consecutive vowels.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57In each case, spell the word from the definition.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00Taken from the French, the collective body of work
0:25:00 > 0:25:02of a writer, artist, or performer.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05Oeuvre, O-E-U.
0:25:06 > 0:25:07V-R-E.
0:25:07 > 0:25:11We've got to spell the whole word. V-R-E. Correct, yes.
0:25:11 > 0:25:12Secondly, for 5 points,
0:25:12 > 0:25:15an adjective meaning "relating to the wind",
0:25:15 > 0:25:17used in relation to the mode of operation
0:25:17 > 0:25:19of a particular kind of harp.
0:25:23 > 0:25:25Aeolian.
0:25:25 > 0:25:29A-E-O-L-I-A-N.
0:25:29 > 0:25:31Correct. And finally,
0:25:31 > 0:25:34the device supposedly used to aid communication during a seance.
0:25:39 > 0:25:41A Ouija.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44O-U-I-J-A. Correct.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46Right, 10 points for this starter.
0:25:46 > 0:25:50Capable of containing the Sydney Opera House 20 times over,
0:25:50 > 0:25:54the New Century Global Centre opened in June 2013 in which country?
0:25:58 > 0:26:00China. Correct.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02That puts you on level pegging.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05Your bonuses are on international summits, Caius.
0:26:05 > 0:26:06The G7, established in 1976,
0:26:06 > 0:26:11comprised the G6 of France, the USA, Britain, Germany, Japan and Italy,
0:26:11 > 0:26:13along with which other country.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19THEY CONFER
0:26:22 > 0:26:241986, um...
0:26:26 > 0:26:27Australia.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29No, it's Canada.
0:26:29 > 0:26:33Secondly, the G8, formed when Russia joined the G7 in 1998,
0:26:33 > 0:26:35had five countries appended to it in 2005.
0:26:35 > 0:26:39Mexico and South Africa were two. Name two of the other three.
0:26:41 > 0:26:43Brazil and India.
0:26:43 > 0:26:44Yes, the other one was China.
0:26:44 > 0:26:48And finally, in 2009, it was announced that which G group
0:26:48 > 0:26:51would take over economic discussions from the G8?
0:26:51 > 0:26:53The G20. The G20 is correct.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56That gives you the lead. 10 points at stake for this.
0:26:56 > 0:26:59The Land Of Smiles, The Man With Three Wives
0:26:59 > 0:27:01and The Merry Widow are among operettas...
0:27:02 > 0:27:04Franz Lehar. Correct.
0:27:04 > 0:27:07APPLAUSE
0:27:07 > 0:27:09Your bonuses, Caius, are on 19th century novels.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11A rejection of the conventional Victorian heroine,
0:27:11 > 0:27:16which novel of 1891 is subtitled A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented?
0:27:21 > 0:27:22THEY CONFER
0:27:24 > 0:27:26Let's have it, please.
0:27:29 > 0:27:30Therese Raquin by Zola.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32No, it's Hardy's Tess Of The D'Urbervilles.
0:27:32 > 0:27:34Secondly, A Study Of Provincial Life
0:27:34 > 0:27:37is the subtitle of which English novel,
0:27:37 > 0:27:39first published in serial form from 1871?
0:27:46 > 0:27:48Lark Rise To Candleford? No, it's Middlemarch.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51And finally, The Parish Boy's Progress
0:27:51 > 0:27:53is the subtitle of which novel by Charles Dickens?
0:27:56 > 0:27:58Oliver Twist. Correct.
0:27:58 > 0:28:0010 points for this - "Any man's death diminishes me
0:28:00 > 0:28:03"because I am involved in mankind."
0:28:03 > 0:28:06These are the words of which poet in his 1624 work...
0:28:07 > 0:28:09John Donne. Correct.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11Your bonuses now are on astronomy... GONG CRASHES
0:28:11 > 0:28:13And at the gong Lancaster have 145,
0:28:13 > 0:28:16Gonville Caius College, Cambridge have 180.
0:28:16 > 0:28:19APPLAUSE
0:28:23 > 0:28:25Well, it was a great game. Thank you, Lancaster.
0:28:25 > 0:28:27It looked many times as if you might well take it,
0:28:27 > 0:28:29but you never quite got the distance, did you?
0:28:29 > 0:28:32Gonville Caius, we shall look forward to seeing you in the finals.
0:28:32 > 0:28:33Many congratulations.
0:28:33 > 0:28:35I hope you can join us next time, but until then,
0:28:35 > 0:28:37it's goodbye from Lancaster University...
0:28:37 > 0:28:38ALL: Bye.
0:28:38 > 0:28:41..it's goodbye from Gonville Caius College, Cambridge...
0:28:41 > 0:28:43ALL: Goodbye. ..and it's goodbye from me,
0:28:43 > 0:28:45and as is customary on this special series,
0:28:45 > 0:28:48we're going to end by seeing them as they were when they were students,
0:28:48 > 0:28:50still full to the brim with hope and dreams.
0:28:50 > 0:28:53Haven't the years been kind? Good night.
0:28:53 > 0:28:56APPLAUSE