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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