0:00:16 > 0:00:18APPLAUSE
0:00:18 > 0:00:21Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:23Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:23 > 0:00:25TOY TRAIN HORN TOOTS
0:00:28 > 0:00:30Hello. Tonight sees the first match
0:00:30 > 0:00:34of our short seasonal contest for alumni of some of
0:00:34 > 0:00:37the UK's leading universities and university colleges.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40No doubt it seemed like a good idea at the time when 14 teams
0:00:40 > 0:00:43agreed to try to uphold the dignity of their institution,
0:00:43 > 0:00:47and ten matches from now, one of them will be crowned series champion.
0:00:47 > 0:00:50Their prize will be nothing more than the honour of victory,
0:00:50 > 0:00:54to be savoured over the last of the mince pies and a glass from
0:00:54 > 0:00:58the bottle of medium sherry that last year's winners didn't quite finish.
0:00:58 > 0:01:00There are only two rules for taking part.
0:01:00 > 0:01:04Players must have graduated from the institution they represent,
0:01:04 > 0:01:07and since then, they must have made something of their careers.
0:01:07 > 0:01:10As we will see, the second rule is applied pretty loosely.
0:01:10 > 0:01:12With 14 teams competing, there will be
0:01:12 > 0:01:14seven winners in the first round,
0:01:14 > 0:01:17but only the four teams with the highest winning scores
0:01:17 > 0:01:19will proceed to the semifinals.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22The rest can carry on with their Christmases without this
0:01:22 > 0:01:23grizzly ordeal hanging over them.
0:01:23 > 0:01:24LAUGHTER
0:01:24 > 0:01:27Now, first, the team from University College London.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30It's a constituent college of the Federal University of London,
0:01:30 > 0:01:33and was established in 1826.
0:01:33 > 0:01:34As well as being a graduate,
0:01:34 > 0:01:38their first player was former vice-chair of the UCL Council.
0:01:38 > 0:01:39A noted scientist,
0:01:39 > 0:01:42she has written for such authoritative publications
0:01:42 > 0:01:44as the Journal of Molecular Biology
0:01:44 > 0:01:48and The News of the World, and also works at Genomics England,
0:01:48 > 0:01:50involved in the sequencing of DNA.
0:01:50 > 0:01:54With her, another expert in genomics, having presented
0:01:54 > 0:01:57a television documentary on that subject and many others.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59He has also contributed to that festive tome
0:01:59 > 0:02:01The Atheist's Guide to Christmas.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05Their captain is one of the nation's sternest grammar disciplinarians
0:02:05 > 0:02:08and the author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11She's a broadcaster, playwright and columnist.
0:02:11 > 0:02:12And with them, another columnist.
0:02:12 > 0:02:15He has written for the Guardian for the past decade,
0:02:15 > 0:02:17as well as for The Times,
0:02:17 > 0:02:19and has presented numerous television programmes,
0:02:19 > 0:02:22including one professing his lonely passion for brutalist architecture.
0:02:22 > 0:02:24Let's meet the UCL team.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28Hello, I'm Vivienne Parry, I graduated in zoology
0:02:28 > 0:02:33from London University and I majored in immunology and genetics at UCL.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35And now I'm a writer and broadcaster.
0:02:36 > 0:02:40I'm Adam Rutherford, and I read genetics at UCL from 1993
0:02:40 > 0:02:44until 2002, including my PhD on the development of the eye.
0:02:44 > 0:02:46Now I'm a writer and broadcaster.
0:02:46 > 0:02:49I present Inside Science for BBC Radio 4.
0:02:49 > 0:02:51And this is their captain.
0:02:51 > 0:02:56Hello, I'm Lynne Truss, I graduated in English from UCL in 1977
0:02:56 > 0:02:58and I am now a writer.
0:02:58 > 0:03:00Hello, I'm Tom Dyckhoff, I did
0:03:00 > 0:03:03an MA in architectural history at UCL in the mid-1990s.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05Now I am a critic, writer and broadcaster
0:03:05 > 0:03:07on architecture, cities and design.
0:03:07 > 0:03:09APPLAUSE
0:03:12 > 0:03:15Playing them, a team from the University of Birmingham,
0:03:15 > 0:03:18representing an institution founded in 1900
0:03:18 > 0:03:20and occupying a site in Edgbaston.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23We could be forgiven for thinking that their first player is
0:03:23 > 0:03:26a scientist, given that she shares her surname with her distinguished
0:03:26 > 0:03:31great-great-grandfather. Instead, she has chosen the path of the arts.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34Her colleague reported for Fox FM, Sky News
0:03:34 > 0:03:38and Central Television before joining BBC News 24 in 1999,
0:03:38 > 0:03:41since when she has also turned her hand to writing.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44Anyone who has ever got drenched because they left home without
0:03:44 > 0:03:47their mackintosh will be delighted to see that the Birmingham captain
0:03:47 > 0:03:50is a television weather presenter who claims that the forecast
0:03:50 > 0:03:53is always right, it's the weather that sometimes goes wrong.
0:03:53 > 0:03:57Finally, a gold medallist at the 2012 London Paralympic Games,
0:03:57 > 0:04:01who is interrupting her training for the 2016 Rio Paralympics to
0:04:01 > 0:04:03give her brain cells a workout.
0:04:03 > 0:04:06Let's meet the Birmingham team.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09Hello, I'm Emma Darwin, I graduated in drama and theatre arts
0:04:09 > 0:04:14from Birmingham in the 1980s and I now write novels and non-fiction.
0:04:14 > 0:04:16Hello, I'm Joanna Gosling, I graduated
0:04:16 > 0:04:20from Birmingham University with a degree in French in 1993.
0:04:20 > 0:04:22I'm now a BBC news presenter and author.
0:04:22 > 0:04:25- This is their captain. - Hi, I'm John Hammond.
0:04:25 > 0:04:29I completed a Masters in meteorology from Birmingham in 1989.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32I'm now a BBC weather presenter.
0:04:32 > 0:04:37Hi, I'm Pamela Relph, I graduated in 2011 with a degree in physics
0:04:37 > 0:04:39and now I am an athlete on the GB Rowing Team.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41APPLAUSE
0:04:45 > 0:04:47OK, I will remind you all of the rules.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50There are ten points for starter questions,
0:04:50 > 0:04:53which you must answer on the buzzer, on your own, with no conferring.
0:04:53 > 0:04:56Each correctly answered starter earns the team a set of
0:04:56 > 0:04:59bonus questions worth a possible 15 points.
0:04:59 > 0:05:02For these, the team can and should confer,
0:05:02 > 0:05:04with the captain giving the answer.
0:05:04 > 0:05:07There being 14 teams, there are seven first-round matches,
0:05:07 > 0:05:11but only the four winning teams with the high scores will
0:05:11 > 0:05:15go through to the next stage, so my advice is - get on with it.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18Fingers on the buzzers, here is your first starter for ten.
0:05:18 > 0:05:21For many years, the annual Christmas carol concerts at Broadstairs
0:05:21 > 0:05:26in Kent where conducted by which political figure born there in...?
0:05:26 > 0:05:27Churchill.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32You could have heard the rest,
0:05:32 > 0:05:34but as you buzzed, you have to give the answer.
0:05:34 > 0:05:37- Ted Heath.- It was Ted Heath. Yes, indeed.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40So you get the first set of bonuses, UCL.
0:05:40 > 0:05:44They are on the recipe for Nigella Lawson's Ultimate Christmas Pudding
0:05:44 > 0:05:48according to her website. I want you to name the ingredients in each case.
0:05:48 > 0:05:52Firstly, for five points, made from the grape grown in Andalusia,
0:05:52 > 0:05:57a dark variety of sherry used to soak the dried fruits for the pudding.
0:05:57 > 0:06:01According to Lawson, it has a hint of liquorice, fig and treacle about it.
0:06:01 > 0:06:05- Is that Pedro Ximenez?- What?- Is it?
0:06:05 > 0:06:08It could be Pedro Ximenez sherry.
0:06:08 > 0:06:09Really? Nominate Parry.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12We think it's sherry, but could it be Pedro Ximenez sherry?
0:06:12 > 0:06:15It IS Pedro Ximenez sherry, yes.
0:06:15 > 0:06:19Secondly, a dark brown unrefined sugar extracted from cane sugar
0:06:19 > 0:06:21and having the flavour of molasses.
0:06:21 > 0:06:25Its name ultimately derives from the Spanish meaning "of poor quality".
0:06:25 > 0:06:29- Is that what it means?- Demerara? - Oh, that might be.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31- Say again.- Demerara.
0:06:31 > 0:06:34It means "of poor quality" in Spanish.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37Muscovado sounds like it's from Moscow.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39- Muscovado?- Muscovado.
0:06:39 > 0:06:40Correct.
0:06:40 > 0:06:44And finally, a hard white fat taken from the region around the loins
0:06:44 > 0:06:48and kidneys of animals such as cattle and sheep.
0:06:48 > 0:06:49- Suet?- Suet.- Suet.
0:06:49 > 0:06:50Suet is right.
0:06:50 > 0:06:55Ten points at stake for this starter question, fingers on the buzzers.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57Which political song was first published
0:06:57 > 0:06:58in the 1889 Christmas edition
0:06:58 > 0:07:01of Harry Quelch's magazine Justice?
0:07:01 > 0:07:05Written by the Irish political activist Jim Connell,
0:07:05 > 0:07:08it has historically been associated with the socialist movement.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11- Red Flag.- The Red Flag is correct, yes.
0:07:14 > 0:07:17Right, these bonuses are on the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.
0:07:17 > 0:07:21Firstly, for five, who delivered the 1937 lecture series entitled
0:07:21 > 0:07:24Rare Animals and the Disappearance of Wildlife?
0:07:24 > 0:07:25Like his paternal grandfather,
0:07:25 > 0:07:29he is particularly associated with the field of evolutionary biology.
0:07:29 > 0:07:32- Could it be Huxley?- Could be...
0:07:32 > 0:07:33- SIGHING:- Don't know.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35Can't think. Grandfather...
0:07:37 > 0:07:41- Huxley, could it be Huxley? - Which Huxley though?
0:07:41 > 0:07:43- Come on.- Erm, Huxley?
0:07:43 > 0:07:45A Huxley.
0:07:45 > 0:07:48- A Huxley, yes, not specific enough. - Julian Huxley.- It's Julian Huxley.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51I'm sorry, you were too late.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54And secondly, who was the Christmas lecturer in 1964,
0:07:54 > 0:07:57delivering a series with the title Animal Behaviour?
0:07:57 > 0:08:01His later books include The Human Zoo and The Human Animal.
0:08:01 > 0:08:02Desmond Morris.
0:08:02 > 0:08:05Correct. Finally, who was the lecturer in 1973
0:08:05 > 0:08:07with a series entitled The Language of Animals?
0:08:09 > 0:08:13- Tim Bergen.- Bergen, I don't know him.- Or it might be Dawkins.
0:08:14 > 0:08:18Language of animals, who do you think? '73.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20It's too early for Dawkins.
0:08:20 > 0:08:25- (Dr Dolittle.) - Go with Tim.- Tim...- Bergen.
0:08:25 > 0:08:26Tim Bergen.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29No, it's David Attenborough.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31Right, ten points for this, fingers on your buzzers.
0:08:31 > 0:08:35A ladder with its top rung five metres from its base is
0:08:35 > 0:08:38placed on horizontal ground living against a perfectly vertical
0:08:38 > 0:08:41Christmas tree growing in a field.
0:08:41 > 0:08:43The foot of the ladder is three metres from the tree -
0:08:43 > 0:08:46how many metres up the tree does the top rung reach?
0:08:46 > 0:08:48Eh, it's four metres.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50Of course it is. Yes, it's Pythagoras.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52APPLAUSE
0:08:55 > 0:08:58Right, UCL, your bonuses are on 20th century political figures
0:08:58 > 0:09:01as described in obituaries in The Times.
0:09:01 > 0:09:02Firstly, for five.
0:09:02 > 0:09:06"Much that he did was memorable, very little that he said."
0:09:06 > 0:09:10These words refer to which British Prime Minister who died in 1967?
0:09:11 > 0:09:13'67, '67...
0:09:13 > 0:09:15THEY MUTTER
0:09:15 > 0:09:17Erm...
0:09:19 > 0:09:23- I don't know.- Chamberlain. - Chamberlain.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25- No, it is Clement Attlee. - Oh, you said that.
0:09:25 > 0:09:28"Neither his colleagues nor the Chinese people could
0:09:28 > 0:09:31"share his absolute dedication to eternal struggle
0:09:31 > 0:09:32"in pursuit of a myth."
0:09:32 > 0:09:37These words appear in the 1976 obituary of which national leader?
0:09:38 > 0:09:40- Mao?- Chairman Mao.
0:09:40 > 0:09:41Correct.
0:09:41 > 0:09:45In a 1999 obituary, who was described as "a person of considerable
0:09:45 > 0:09:48"ability and charm in her own right who helped to give a human face
0:09:48 > 0:09:52"to the hitherto unattractive Soviet leadership?"
0:09:53 > 0:09:58- Astronaut.- Was it...?
0:09:58 > 0:10:03- Gorbachev's wife?- Is it someone's wife?- Gorbachev's wife.
0:10:03 > 0:10:07- '99... - Raisa Gorbachev.- Raisa Gorbachev.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09Raisa Gorbachev is correct.
0:10:09 > 0:10:10Still plenty of time, Birmingham.
0:10:10 > 0:10:12Maybe you will get going with this picture round.
0:10:12 > 0:10:14You going to see a map with
0:10:14 > 0:10:16a parliamentary constituency highlighted.
0:10:16 > 0:10:17For ten points, I want you to tell me
0:10:17 > 0:10:19the name of the politician who
0:10:19 > 0:10:22lost his seat there in May 2015?
0:10:25 > 0:10:27Charles Kennedy.
0:10:27 > 0:10:30No, anyone want to buzz from Birmingham?
0:10:30 > 0:10:32Ed Balls?
0:10:32 > 0:10:34No! It's Danny Alexander!
0:10:34 > 0:10:37Rather shaming, in a news presenter, that, isn't it?
0:10:37 > 0:10:38LAUGHTER
0:10:38 > 0:10:41We are going to take the picture bonuses in a moment or two
0:10:41 > 0:10:44when someone gets a starter question right.
0:10:44 > 0:10:49Firstly, for 10 points, the former civil servant Millvina Dean,
0:10:49 > 0:10:52who died in 2009 at the age of 97,
0:10:52 > 0:10:55was known to have declined the offer of ice cubes in her drink
0:10:55 > 0:10:58because they reminded her of what traumatic event
0:10:58 > 0:11:01which she experienced as a two-month-old...?
0:11:01 > 0:11:04- Titanic.- The sinking of the Titanic is correct, well done.
0:11:04 > 0:11:06APPLAUSE
0:11:08 > 0:11:11Right, you'll be pleased to hear that you get more
0:11:11 > 0:11:14picture questions on general election scalps.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17Danny Alexander, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in the
0:11:17 > 0:11:20previous parliament, was the most senior politician in Scotland
0:11:20 > 0:11:23to lose his seat in the 2015 general election.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25Picture bonuses, constituencies where three more of
0:11:25 > 0:11:28the biggest scalps of that election were taken.
0:11:28 > 0:11:30Again, in each case I want you to tell me
0:11:30 > 0:11:33the name of the politician who lost their seat there, please.
0:11:33 > 0:11:34Firstly, for five.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36That's Richmond.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:11:46 > 0:11:48Don't know.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51Well, he was a bit of a brief flash, wasn't he, old Vince Cable?
0:11:51 > 0:11:54- Ah!- Secondly then, who lost their seat here?
0:11:56 > 0:12:00That's Liverpool, yes. That's the Wirral.
0:12:02 > 0:12:07It will be Labour, probably. Em...
0:12:07 > 0:12:08JOHN CLEARS HIS THROAT
0:12:10 > 0:12:11Next.
0:12:11 > 0:12:12LAUGHTER
0:12:12 > 0:12:13That was Esther McVey,
0:12:13 > 0:12:16who was an employment minister in the last government.
0:12:16 > 0:12:18That was Wirral West. Finally, whose seat was this?
0:12:20 > 0:12:21Ed Balls.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24It was Ed Balls! Yes, congratulations.
0:12:25 > 0:12:27Right, ten points for the starter question.
0:12:27 > 0:12:32Which ballet did the US critic Sarah Kaufman described in 2009 as
0:12:32 > 0:12:36"a chore", suggesting that each year it casts its long shadow...
0:12:36 > 0:12:37Nutcracker.
0:12:37 > 0:12:39Correct.
0:12:42 > 0:12:46You get a set of bonuses, Birmingham, on sea birds.
0:12:46 > 0:12:49The guillemot, razorbill and puffin are among birds
0:12:49 > 0:12:52in a family known by what short, common name?
0:12:52 > 0:12:55The largest member of the family was hunted to extinction
0:12:55 > 0:12:57in the early 19th century.
0:12:59 > 0:13:02The albatross is the extinction, I think they are all gulls.
0:13:02 > 0:13:03Gull.
0:13:03 > 0:13:04No, it's auks.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06Great, Arctic, long-tailed
0:13:06 > 0:13:10and pomarine are among species of what predatory gull-like bird?
0:13:10 > 0:13:13They often feed by harassing other birds
0:13:13 > 0:13:15into dropping or disgorging food.
0:13:15 > 0:13:17Tern.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19No, they're skuas.
0:13:19 > 0:13:21Common, Sandwich, roseate and Arctic
0:13:21 > 0:13:24are among species of which migratory bird?
0:13:24 > 0:13:27The last of these is found from the Arctic to the Antarctic.
0:13:30 > 0:13:31Terns?
0:13:33 > 0:13:34Tern.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36Those ARE terns, yes!
0:13:37 > 0:13:39Ten points for this. Its bark used in tannin
0:13:39 > 0:13:41and its resin as a source of turpentine,
0:13:41 > 0:13:45which three in the pine family is unusual in being
0:13:45 > 0:13:47both coniferous and deciduous,
0:13:47 > 0:13:49differing in the latter respect from coniferous evergreens
0:13:49 > 0:13:52such as the fir, the cedar and the spruce?
0:13:56 > 0:13:57Larch.
0:13:57 > 0:13:58Correct.
0:13:58 > 0:14:00APPLAUSE
0:14:00 > 0:14:03You get a set of bonuses on the 20th-century author
0:14:03 > 0:14:06and antiquarian Jacquetta Hawkes.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08Firstly, for five, in 1929 Jacquetta Hawkes
0:14:08 > 0:14:10became the first woman to
0:14:10 > 0:14:13read for which new undergraduate degree at Cambridge?
0:14:13 > 0:14:16You can give either of the two subjects studied.
0:14:16 > 0:14:20- No idea.- Archaeology? - Did she?- I don't know.- Archaeology.
0:14:20 > 0:14:22Yeah, the other one is anthropology,
0:14:22 > 0:14:24it was the kind of media studies of its day, I suppose.
0:14:24 > 0:14:26Who was Hawkes' second husband,
0:14:26 > 0:14:29with whom she collaborated on the play A Dragon's Mouth?
0:14:29 > 0:14:33His other works include the 1932 novel The Good Companions
0:14:33 > 0:14:35and the 1945 play A Inspector Calls.
0:14:35 > 0:14:36JB Priestley.
0:14:36 > 0:14:38Correct. In the 1986 work Dawn of the Gods,
0:14:38 > 0:14:41Hawkes suggested that which Bronze Age civilisation
0:14:41 > 0:14:45may have been a matriarchy despite its name
0:14:45 > 0:14:48deriving from that of a legendary king?
0:14:48 > 0:14:49Bronze Age...
0:14:49 > 0:14:54Bronze Age? Bronze Age?
0:14:54 > 0:14:57- Matriarchy...- After a famous king. - After a famous king.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01No, we don't know.
0:15:01 > 0:15:03It's the Minoan. Ten points for this.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06Meanings of what four-letter word include a tuft, tress
0:15:06 > 0:15:10or ringlet of hair, a hold in wrestling or martial arts...?
0:15:10 > 0:15:12Lock.
0:15:12 > 0:15:13Lock is correct, yes.
0:15:16 > 0:15:20These bonuses are on Nobel prizes awarded in 2015.
0:15:20 > 0:15:23In October 2015, Lindahl, Modrich and Sancar
0:15:23 > 0:15:26were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
0:15:26 > 0:15:31for mechanistic studies of the repair of which complex organic molecule?
0:15:31 > 0:15:33- It's DNA.- Is it? DNA.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35Correct.
0:15:35 > 0:15:39Secondly, the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was shared,
0:15:39 > 0:15:43one recipient being Tu Youyou for her discoveries concerning
0:15:43 > 0:15:47a novel therapy against which disease spread by an insect vector?
0:15:49 > 0:15:50- It's malaria.- Is it? Malaria.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52Correct.
0:15:52 > 0:15:55Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald
0:15:55 > 0:15:57won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work
0:15:57 > 0:16:00on which subatomic particles? Uncharged and weakly-interacting,
0:16:00 > 0:16:05their existence was first postulated by Pauli in 1931.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07- Neutrinos.- Neutrinos?- Neutrinos.
0:16:07 > 0:16:08- Neutrinos.- Correct! APPLAUSE
0:16:08 > 0:16:10We're going to take a music round, now.
0:16:10 > 0:16:13We're going to hear selections from a recording
0:16:13 > 0:16:15of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.
0:16:15 > 0:16:20For 10 points, I want you to identify the narrator you hear speaking twice.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23'Early one morning, Peter opened the gate
0:16:23 > 0:16:27'and went out into the big green meadow.'
0:16:27 > 0:16:30MUSIC: Peter's Theme
0:16:36 > 0:16:41'On a branch of a big tree sat a little bird - Peter's friend.
0:16:41 > 0:16:45'"All is quiet - all is quiet," chirped the bird, gaily.'
0:16:45 > 0:16:47MUSIC: Bird And Peter
0:16:52 > 0:16:53Anyone want to buzz?
0:16:54 > 0:16:56Roger McGough.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59No. Anyone like to buzz from UCL? Quickly.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Was it Toxteth O'Grady?
0:17:03 > 0:17:04LAUGHTER
0:17:04 > 0:17:05No, it wasn't!
0:17:05 > 0:17:06It was David Bowie.
0:17:06 > 0:17:09Right, we're going to take the music bonuses in a moment or two,
0:17:09 > 0:17:12but someone's got to get a starter question right first.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14Which Commonwealth country was the location
0:17:14 > 0:17:16of the discovery of fossil remains
0:17:16 > 0:17:20identified in September 2015 as a new species of ancient human?
0:17:21 > 0:17:22- South Africa.- Correct.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24APPLAUSE
0:17:25 > 0:17:29So, we go back to the music bonuses - selections from three more recordings
0:17:29 > 0:17:34of Peter And The Wolf - again, I want you to identify the narrator in each.
0:17:34 > 0:17:38Firstly, for 5, the narrator of this 1989 recording.
0:17:38 > 0:17:42'Soon, a duck came waddling around.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45'She was glad that Peter had not closed the gate,
0:17:45 > 0:17:50'and decided to take a nice swim in the deep pond on the meadow.'
0:17:50 > 0:17:52MUSIC: Duck Theme
0:17:55 > 0:17:57Christopher Lee.
0:17:57 > 0:17:58It is Christopher Lee.
0:17:58 > 0:18:02Secondly, the narrator of this 1941 recording.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05'"What kind of a bird are you, if you can't fly?" said he.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08'To which the duck replied, "What kind of a bird are you,
0:18:08 > 0:18:11'"if you can't swim?" and dived into the pond.'
0:18:11 > 0:18:13MUSIC: Duck And Bird
0:18:16 > 0:18:18Mm...
0:18:18 > 0:18:21'They argued and argued, the duck swimming in the pond,
0:18:21 > 0:18:23'the little bird hopping back and forth along the bank.'
0:18:26 > 0:18:28THEY CONFER
0:18:29 > 0:18:32- The American actor...- Um...
0:18:32 > 0:18:34Ohh...
0:18:34 > 0:18:36- Come on.- No, I don't know.
0:18:36 > 0:18:37That's Basil Rathbone.
0:18:37 > 0:18:41And finally, the narrator of this 1997 recording.
0:18:42 > 0:18:48'The cat thought, "While that bird is arguing, I'll just grab her!"
0:18:49 > 0:18:54'Stealthily she crept towards her on her velvet paws...'
0:18:54 > 0:18:55Yeah, that's Edna Everage.
0:18:55 > 0:18:57It is indeed - Barry Humphries, yes.
0:18:57 > 0:18:58APPLAUSE Well done.
0:18:58 > 0:18:5910 points for this, then.
0:18:59 > 0:19:03Who wrote Maurice, or The Fisher's Cot,
0:19:03 > 0:19:07a morality tale discovered in 1997 in a Tuscan palazzo?
0:19:07 > 0:19:10Her novels include Valperga and The Last Man,
0:19:10 > 0:19:13while her journal is a major biographical source
0:19:13 > 0:19:16for the romantic poet whom she married in 1816?
0:19:17 > 0:19:19Mary Wollstonecraft.
0:19:19 > 0:19:20As it's Christmas -
0:19:20 > 0:19:22she was christened Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin,
0:19:22 > 0:19:24but, yes - Mary Shelley.
0:19:24 > 0:19:25APPLAUSE
0:19:27 > 0:19:31Right, your bonuses are on names that are often misspelt, Birmingham,
0:19:31 > 0:19:35according to David Marsh, the editor of the Guardian style guide,
0:19:35 > 0:19:37in his book For Who The Bell Tolls.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40I'd like you to spell the answer in each case.
0:19:40 > 0:19:44Firstly, along with Cowdenbeath, which town in Fife
0:19:44 > 0:19:47appears in the name of the Westminster constituency
0:19:47 > 0:19:50represented by Gordon Brown from 2005 to 2015?
0:19:52 > 0:19:53Kirkcaldy.
0:19:53 > 0:19:54Spell it.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59- K-I-R...- (C...
0:19:59 > 0:20:02- (C-A-L...)- ..C-A-L-D-Y.
0:20:04 > 0:20:06You missed out the K in the middle.
0:20:06 > 0:20:10It's K-I-R-K-C-A-L-D-Y.
0:20:10 > 0:20:11And secondly,
0:20:11 > 0:20:14what is the correct spelling of the name of the brigantine
0:20:14 > 0:20:17found abandoned in mysterious circumstances
0:20:17 > 0:20:19east of the Azores in December 1872?
0:20:22 > 0:20:24- Mary Celeste.- Spell it.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26M-A-R-I-E...
0:20:26 > 0:20:31No, it's M-A-R-Y C-E-L-E-S-T-E.
0:20:31 > 0:20:35And finally, founded in 1930 as Constantine College, which university
0:20:35 > 0:20:39is named after a river, and has its main campus in Middlesbrough?
0:20:46 > 0:20:48THEY WHISPER
0:20:48 > 0:20:49Tees?
0:20:49 > 0:20:51- Tees-side?- Teesside...
0:20:51 > 0:20:54THEY WHISPER
0:20:54 > 0:20:57Is it Tees-side or Tee-side?
0:20:57 > 0:20:59THEY WHISPER
0:21:04 > 0:21:05- Teesside.- Spell it.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08T-E-E-S-I-D-E.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10No, there are two Ss as well. LAUGHTER AND GROANS
0:21:10 > 0:21:11Bad luck.
0:21:11 > 0:21:12Right, 10 points for this -
0:21:12 > 0:21:15The Sceptical Chymist is a work of 1661
0:21:15 > 0:21:18by which Irish-born natural philosopher?
0:21:18 > 0:21:22A law named after him describes the inverse relationship
0:21:22 > 0:21:24between the pressure and volume of a gas.
0:21:25 > 0:21:27- Boyle.- Boyle is correct.
0:21:27 > 0:21:29APPLAUSE
0:21:30 > 0:21:32Right, your bonuses, UCL,
0:21:32 > 0:21:35are on sporting achievements of January 2015.
0:21:35 > 0:21:40In January 2015, which US skier broke a 25-year-old record
0:21:40 > 0:21:44for the most world cup wins by achieving her 63rd career victory
0:21:44 > 0:21:47in a Super-G race in Cortina, Italy?
0:21:47 > 0:21:49I can't name ANY US skiers!
0:21:49 > 0:21:51No - you don't know any US skiers at all?
0:21:51 > 0:21:53- No, no idea.- No - Tom doesn't know. No, no idea, sorry.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55It's Lindsey Vonn.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58And secondly, in Johannesburg in January 2015,
0:21:58 > 0:22:01which South African batsman hit 100 off 31 balls,
0:22:01 > 0:22:05to record the fastest One Day International century?
0:22:05 > 0:22:08- (I don't know...) - You should know this.- I should!
0:22:08 > 0:22:10- You really should know this, Adam. - I know...- I mean, honestly.
0:22:10 > 0:22:12- Graeme Smith. I don't know. - Is he South African?- Yes.
0:22:12 > 0:22:14Oh, good. Graeme Smith.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16Graeme Smith?!
0:22:16 > 0:22:18- I'm taking my lead from Adam. - No, I don't know.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20A captain has to take responsibility.
0:22:20 > 0:22:21LAUGHTER
0:22:21 > 0:22:23Stop blaming him - he got you these bonuses.
0:22:23 > 0:22:25It's AB De Villiers.
0:22:25 > 0:22:28And finally, in January 2105, which Real Madrid player
0:22:28 > 0:22:30won the Ballon d'Or World Football Award
0:22:30 > 0:22:33for the second consecutive year?
0:22:33 > 0:22:34What's that? Who's that?
0:22:34 > 0:22:36- Real Madrid player. Do you know?- No.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39- Oh, we don't know. Do we know?- No! - No, we don't know, sorry.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41- You used to be a sports columnist, as well!- I know - a while ago.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43- It's Cristiano Ronaldo.- Oh, was it?
0:22:43 > 0:22:46Right, we're going to take another starter question now.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49On what part of the body would a kubanka usually be worn?
0:22:49 > 0:22:51Named after the Russian province of Kuban,
0:22:51 > 0:22:54they're often handed down from mother to daughter,
0:22:54 > 0:22:58and frequently stored on tall, round jars to keep their shape.
0:22:59 > 0:23:02- A hat.- Yes - I was asking which part of the body...- Sorry.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04- ..but obviously a hat's worn on the head.- Yeah.- Yes.
0:23:04 > 0:23:05Well done. APPLAUSE
0:23:05 > 0:23:07So, you get a set of bonuses now.
0:23:07 > 0:23:09They're on neologisms.
0:23:09 > 0:23:11Firstly, for five points,
0:23:11 > 0:23:15what three-digit number has come to a person who is empty-headed?
0:23:15 > 0:23:19Its origin is the worldwide web error message denoting "not found".
0:23:21 > 0:23:24(Is it 104?)
0:23:24 > 0:23:25THEY WHISPER
0:23:25 > 0:23:28- (Is it 404?)- (Yes.)
0:23:28 > 0:23:30- 404.- Correct, yes.
0:23:30 > 0:23:31"He's a real 404."
0:23:31 > 0:23:34First appearing in an article in the Independent in 1994,
0:23:34 > 0:23:37what term was coined by the writer and journalist Mark Simpson
0:23:37 > 0:23:40to denote men who live in an urban environment
0:23:40 > 0:23:43and are meticulous about their appearance?
0:23:43 > 0:23:45THEY WHISPER
0:23:45 > 0:23:47(Metrosexual...)
0:23:47 > 0:23:48(Metrosexual?)
0:23:48 > 0:23:50(I think so...)
0:23:52 > 0:23:54- Metrosexual.- Correct.
0:23:54 > 0:23:57Defined by the online Urban Dictionary as
0:23:57 > 0:24:01"visual artefacts produced by those with low self esteem and no friends",
0:24:01 > 0:24:04what term is often attributed to the US designer and photographer
0:24:04 > 0:24:09Jim Krause in his 2005 book Photo Idea Index?
0:24:15 > 0:24:18THEY WHISPER
0:24:18 > 0:24:20- Selfie.- Correct. APPLAUSE
0:24:20 > 0:24:23Right, we're going to take a picture round, now.
0:24:23 > 0:24:25In celebration of the fact that 2015 saw a new addition
0:24:25 > 0:24:28to the royal family, for your second picture starter,
0:24:28 > 0:24:31you're going to see a portrait of a royal baby.
0:24:31 > 0:24:35For 10 points, all you have to do is identify the artist.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40Velazquez.
0:24:40 > 0:24:42It is Velazquez - yes, that was Baltasar Carlos,
0:24:42 > 0:24:44the only son of Philip IV. APPLAUSE
0:24:44 > 0:24:45Congratulations.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48So, you get three more paintings of royal babies
0:24:48 > 0:24:49for your bonuses, Birmingham.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52Now, this time, all of the children are British -
0:24:52 > 0:24:55again, in each case, I want the name of the artist.
0:24:55 > 0:24:56Firstly, for 5...
0:24:58 > 0:24:59Van Dyck.
0:24:59 > 0:25:02That is Van Dyck - the children of Charles I.
0:25:02 > 0:25:03Secondly...
0:25:07 > 0:25:09(I think...it's...
0:25:09 > 0:25:10(Reynolds.)
0:25:12 > 0:25:13Joshua Reynolds.
0:25:13 > 0:25:17Correct. Yes, that was Princess Sophia Matilda, niece of George III.
0:25:17 > 0:25:18Finally...
0:25:19 > 0:25:21(I think that's...
0:25:21 > 0:25:23(I think that's Holbein.)
0:25:25 > 0:25:26Holbein.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28Hans Holbein is right - that was Edward VI as a child.
0:25:28 > 0:25:30APPLAUSE
0:25:31 > 0:25:35Right, 10 points for this - in August 2015, which sporting venue
0:25:35 > 0:25:38saw the millionth ball bowled in test cricket in England and Wales?
0:25:38 > 0:25:39It was bowled by...
0:25:41 > 0:25:42Oval.
0:25:42 > 0:25:43No, you lose 5 points.
0:25:43 > 0:25:47It was bowled by Ben Stokes as Australia fought to save the Ashes,
0:25:47 > 0:25:50having been bowled out for 60 in the first innings.
0:25:52 > 0:25:54HE WHISPERS No - no conferring.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56One of you can buzz.
0:25:56 > 0:25:59- Lords.- No, it was at Trent Bridge. - Oh...
0:25:59 > 0:26:00Right, another starter question now.
0:26:00 > 0:26:03Founded in 1125, which Norwegian city and seaport
0:26:03 > 0:26:08is now the centre of Norway's North Sea oil and gas industries?
0:26:09 > 0:26:10Bergen.
0:26:10 > 0:26:11No.
0:26:11 > 0:26:12UCL, one of you buzz.
0:26:15 > 0:26:16Is it Trondheim?
0:26:16 > 0:26:18No, it's Stavanger. 10 points for this.
0:26:18 > 0:26:21Originating in Provence and often served as an hors d'oeuvre,
0:26:21 > 0:26:26what dish consists mainly of olive oil, black olives, anchovies...
0:26:26 > 0:26:27Tapenade.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29Tapenade is right, yes.
0:26:29 > 0:26:30APPLAUSE
0:26:31 > 0:26:34These bonuses, UCL, are on an optical device.
0:26:34 > 0:26:38Foucault, Nicol and Wollaston are types of which optical device
0:26:38 > 0:26:41used for refracting light passing through its plane faces?
0:26:42 > 0:26:44THEY WHISPER
0:26:46 > 0:26:47A prism.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49Correct.
0:26:49 > 0:26:52Which 19th century Italian engineer gives his name to a device
0:26:52 > 0:26:54consisting of two prisms
0:26:54 > 0:26:57arranged both to invert and to reverse an image?
0:26:57 > 0:26:59It's used in periscopes and binoculars.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01Ooh...
0:27:01 > 0:27:03Sounds useful, eh? Sounds useful!
0:27:03 > 0:27:05It does!
0:27:05 > 0:27:07Any idea?
0:27:08 > 0:27:09Was it Italian?
0:27:09 > 0:27:12- Italian, 19th century...- Come on.
0:27:12 > 0:27:14Um, um... Italian name!
0:27:14 > 0:27:16- Um...- I don't know.
0:27:16 > 0:27:17No, we don't know, I'm sorry.
0:27:17 > 0:27:19It's Porro, as in a Porro prism.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22And finally, Miss Prism is a character in which stage work?
0:27:22 > 0:27:23First performed in 1895,
0:27:23 > 0:27:26its subtitle is A Trivial Comedy For Serious People.
0:27:26 > 0:27:28The Importance Of Being Earnest.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30- The Importance Of Being Earnest. - Correct, of course.
0:27:30 > 0:27:3310 points for this. Subtitled The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance,
0:27:33 > 0:27:36which film directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu...
0:27:36 > 0:27:38GONG SOUNDS
0:27:38 > 0:27:39And, at the gong...
0:27:39 > 0:27:41APPLAUSE
0:27:41 > 0:27:43..Birmingham University have 80, UCL have 155.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49Well, you never really got a chance to get going, did you, Birmingham?
0:27:49 > 0:27:51But thank you very much for joining us.
0:27:51 > 0:27:55UCL, the four highest-scoring winners come back, so, who knows?
0:27:55 > 0:27:57You might be one of the four highest scores,
0:27:57 > 0:28:00- in which case, we shall look forward to seeing you again.- Thank you!
0:28:00 > 0:28:03Until the next time, when we'll have another first round match,
0:28:03 > 0:28:05it's goodbye from Birmingham University...
0:28:05 > 0:28:06- ALL:- Bye-bye.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08..it's goodbye from University College London...
0:28:08 > 0:28:11- ALL:- Goodbye! - ..and it's goodbye from me - goodbye.
0:28:11 > 0:28:13APPLAUSE
0:28:38 > 0:28:39TRAIN WHISTLE