0:00:17 > 0:00:21- APPLAUSE - Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:23Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:23 > 0:00:25TRAIN HORN TOOTS
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello. 14 teams of distinguished alumni
0:00:31 > 0:00:34have eased us gently into the New Year
0:00:34 > 0:00:35by entertaining us with what they know
0:00:35 > 0:00:38and, occasionally, with what they don't
0:00:38 > 0:00:41while defending the honour of the institution that nurtured them.
0:00:41 > 0:00:44Now only the best two teams remain,
0:00:44 > 0:00:46and in a little under half an hour,
0:00:46 > 0:00:49one of them will become series champions
0:00:49 > 0:00:51and then face the toughest test of all -
0:00:51 > 0:00:54trying not to look smug as they shake hands with the losers.
0:00:54 > 0:00:57There is no cash prize, there is no foreign holiday -
0:00:57 > 0:00:59in fact, there isn't even a trophy.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02Now, the team from the University of Sheffield arrived here
0:01:02 > 0:01:05by beating Aberdeen University in round one.
0:01:05 > 0:01:07In round two, they met Manchester University
0:01:07 > 0:01:09and were trailing until the halfway mark
0:01:09 > 0:01:12when they pulled themselves into the lead and stayed there
0:01:12 > 0:01:16giving themselves an impressive combined score of 345.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19Again, they're fielding a sports journalist,
0:01:19 > 0:01:21another journalist who's also a novelist,
0:01:21 > 0:01:25a zoologist and broadcaster and an architect.
0:01:25 > 0:01:26Let's meet them again.
0:01:26 > 0:01:27Hello, I'm Sid Lowe,
0:01:27 > 0:01:30and I completed a degree in History and Spanish at Sheffield
0:01:30 > 0:01:32and then did my PhD there as well.
0:01:32 > 0:01:34Hello, I'm Nicci Gerrard,
0:01:34 > 0:01:36and I did an MA in English Literature
0:01:36 > 0:01:39in Sheffield in the 1980s.
0:01:39 > 0:01:40And this their captain.
0:01:40 > 0:01:45Hello, I'm Adam Hart, I graduated in 2001 with a PhD in Zoology.
0:01:45 > 0:01:49Hello, I'm Ruth Reed, I qualified as an architect in 1982.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51APPLAUSE
0:01:55 > 0:01:57Now, the team from Magdalen College, Oxford
0:01:57 > 0:01:59beat Exeter University in round one
0:01:59 > 0:02:02and University College London in round two.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05Their combined score is 415.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07No change to their line-up either.
0:02:07 > 0:02:09They're fielding a gardening correspondent and classicist,
0:02:09 > 0:02:12a neuroscientist, a documentary maker
0:02:12 > 0:02:15and a writer and Conservative PM.
0:02:15 > 0:02:16Let's meet them again.
0:02:17 > 0:02:18I'm Robin Lane Fox,
0:02:18 > 0:02:21I studied Classics, Ancient History and Philosophy
0:02:21 > 0:02:25and took a double first in 1969.
0:02:25 > 0:02:26I'm Heather Berlin,
0:02:26 > 0:02:30I graduated with a DPhil in Experimental Psychology in 2003.
0:02:30 > 0:02:32And this is their captain.
0:02:32 > 0:02:38I'm Louis Theroux and I graduated in Modern History in 1991.
0:02:38 > 0:02:42Hello, I'm Matt Ridley, I graduated in 1983 with a DPhil in Zoology.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44APPLAUSE
0:02:48 > 0:02:50We won't waste time reciting the rules,
0:02:50 > 0:02:51so fingers on the buzzers.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54Here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:54 > 0:02:59"Its major theme has been the ways in which white male power,
0:02:59 > 0:03:02"a cocktail of testosterone and capitalism,
0:03:02 > 0:03:05"caused damage in the office and homes in the past,
0:03:05 > 0:03:09"and by inference, also does so in the present."
0:03:09 > 0:03:12Which US television series is Mark Lawson describing?
0:03:12 > 0:03:14Its finally episode was...
0:03:15 > 0:03:17- Jerry Springer. - No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19Its final episode was broadcast in 2015.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23- HE SIGHS - Sorry. Um...
0:03:23 > 0:03:25- Mad Men.- Mad Men was correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:03:25 > 0:03:28You must, next time you buzz in, answer straight away.
0:03:30 > 0:03:32The first set of bonuses go to you, then, Magdalen.
0:03:32 > 0:03:35They're on the events of January 1.
0:03:35 > 0:03:39In each case, name the year in the 1970s
0:03:39 > 0:03:41in which the following took place.
0:03:41 > 0:03:42Firstly, in the UK,
0:03:42 > 0:03:46the reduction of the age of majority from 21 to 18
0:03:46 > 0:03:49took effect on January 1 of which year?
0:03:50 > 0:03:53- 1960 something? - It's in the '70s.- '70s.
0:03:53 > 0:03:58- '71, '75, something like that. - '70s?- '70?
0:03:58 > 0:04:01- Don't know. - I would go seventy...one or two.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03- '72.- No, it was 1970.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05New Year's Day became a bank holiday
0:04:05 > 0:04:07in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
0:04:07 > 0:04:10from January 1 of which year?
0:04:10 > 0:04:14'75, do you think, because of the Labour government?
0:04:14 > 0:04:17No, that was May Day. I don't think it was earlier than that.
0:04:17 > 0:04:18- '77, it might be.- It might be.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21I don't know, sorry.
0:04:21 > 0:04:22It's between five and seven, I think.
0:04:22 > 0:04:25- '75.- No, it was 1974.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28And finally, Britain's membership of the EEC
0:04:28 > 0:04:31took effect on January 1 of which year?
0:04:31 > 0:04:32- '73.- '73.
0:04:32 > 0:04:35- '73.- Correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:04:35 > 0:04:37What common adjective links
0:04:37 > 0:04:40the titles of novels by Charles Frazier,
0:04:40 > 0:04:42Nancy Mitford and Stella Gibbons
0:04:42 > 0:04:47with a pioneering true crime work of 1966 by Truman Capote?
0:04:49 > 0:04:50- Cold.- Correct.
0:04:50 > 0:04:53APPLAUSE
0:04:53 > 0:04:55Cold Mountain, In Cold Blood and so on.
0:04:55 > 0:05:00Right, your bonuses are on lines about winter, Magdalen.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03In which of Shakespeare's plays does Amiens sing the words,
0:05:03 > 0:05:05"Blow, blow thou winter wind.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08"Thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude."
0:05:10 > 0:05:13Is it As You Like It? Or...
0:05:13 > 0:05:16I have no idea.
0:05:16 > 0:05:18- Amiens. - Amiens? I've never heard of him.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20- Do you know?- No.- No.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23- Just guess.- Try Lear...?- Amiens?
0:05:23 > 0:05:25Are you saying try...?
0:05:25 > 0:05:27- Do you like Lear? - That's the name of the character.
0:05:27 > 0:05:28King Lear.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30King Lear? No, it's As You Like It.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32Oh! You said that.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35"Midwinter spring is its own season.
0:05:35 > 0:05:39"Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown.
0:05:39 > 0:05:41"Suspended in time between pole and tropic."
0:05:41 > 0:05:44These words open which poem by TS Eliot,
0:05:44 > 0:05:47the last of his Four Quartets?
0:05:47 > 0:05:48Oh...
0:05:48 > 0:05:51Is it... The last one might be East Coker, is it?
0:05:51 > 0:05:54Or is it...Dry Salvages?
0:05:54 > 0:05:56Is Little Gidding one of them?
0:05:56 > 0:05:57It's not Little Gidding, I don't think.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00Is it? It's not Burnt Norton.
0:06:00 > 0:06:05It's one of either East Coker or Dry Salvages.
0:06:05 > 0:06:06Shall we try East Coker?
0:06:06 > 0:06:08Do you like that?
0:06:08 > 0:06:10- East Coker. - No, it's Little Gidding.- Oh!
0:06:10 > 0:06:12And finally...
0:06:12 > 0:06:16"He has his winter too of pale misfeature
0:06:16 > 0:06:19"Or else he would forego his mortal nature."
0:06:19 > 0:06:22These are the last two lines of the sonnet The Human Seasons
0:06:22 > 0:06:25written in 1818 by which poet?
0:06:28 > 0:06:30- Shelley?- Shelley or Byron. - Shelley or Keats.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32Shelley, Byron or Keats.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34- 1818... - THEY SPEAK OVER EACH OTHER
0:06:34 > 0:06:37- Keats. I like Keats. - Either Shelley or...
0:06:37 > 0:06:41- It's a bit early for Keats.- Is it? - I don't know.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43- I would go with Shelley. - Go. I don't know.
0:06:44 > 0:06:46- Your judgment.- Shelley.
0:06:46 > 0:06:48No, it's Keats. Ten points for this. LAUGHTER
0:06:48 > 0:06:52In 1791 the French Academy of Sciences
0:06:52 > 0:06:55defined which unit of measurement as
0:06:55 > 0:06:58one ten-millionth of a quadrant of the meridian through Paris?
0:07:00 > 0:07:02- Metre.- Correct.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04APPLAUSE
0:07:05 > 0:07:08These bonuses are on an astronomer, Magdalen College.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11Astronomer Royal from 1835,
0:07:11 > 0:07:13who gives his name to the disc
0:07:13 > 0:07:16at the centre of the pattern produced by light diffracted
0:07:16 > 0:07:19when passing through a small circular aperture?
0:07:20 > 0:07:22Disc... Astronomer...
0:07:22 > 0:07:27- It's not Herschel. - Herschel?- I don't know.
0:07:27 > 0:07:31- Um... Young?- I don't know. - Young, was Young an astronomer?
0:07:34 > 0:07:37Did you think Herschel? Say whatever you think.
0:07:37 > 0:07:39- Come on.- I don't know. - I'm afraid to go with Herschel.
0:07:39 > 0:07:40Herschel.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43No, it's Sir George Biddell Airy, as in the Airy disc.
0:07:43 > 0:07:47And secondly, in 1827 Airy devised a lens
0:07:47 > 0:07:50to correct what type of defect in his own vision
0:07:50 > 0:07:54characterised by uneven curvature of the cornea.
0:07:54 > 0:07:58- Stig...- Astigmatism. Astigmatism. - Astigmatism?- Yeah.- Astigmatism.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00- Astigmatism.- Correct.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02And finally, in the words of a biographer,
0:08:02 > 0:08:05Airy became posterity's scapegoat
0:08:05 > 0:08:09for Britain's failure to discover which planet in 1845
0:08:09 > 0:08:13on the basis of the calculations of John Couch Adams?
0:08:13 > 0:08:15- Neptune.- Neptune?
0:08:15 > 0:08:17- Neptune.- Neptune is right.
0:08:17 > 0:08:20APPLAUSE Right, a picture round.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22For your picture starter you're going to see
0:08:22 > 0:08:25a map of part of the Arctic Circle on which a city has been marked.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27Ten points if you can identify the city.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32- Murmansk.- Correct.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34APPLAUSE
0:08:35 > 0:08:40Your picture bonuses are three more places within the Arctic Circle.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42Five points for each you can name.
0:08:42 > 0:08:46Firstly for five, this marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean.
0:08:46 > 0:08:50- Um...- Do you know?- That's the... Um, um...
0:08:50 > 0:08:54THEY SPEAK IN HUSHED VOICES
0:08:54 > 0:08:57- Barents, Barents.- The Barents.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59- Barents Sea. - The Barents Sea is correct.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02Secondly, this Archipelago which is Norwegian territory.
0:09:04 > 0:09:05Svalbard or Spitsbergen.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09Svalbard or Spitsbergen.
0:09:09 > 0:09:11Yeah. I think Spitsbergen is part of Svalbard, but you got it.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14Finally, this Canadian island.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17- Wait, I know Canada. - Ellesmere Island.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19- Ellesmere Island?- OK.
0:09:19 > 0:09:20Ellesmere Island.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22Yes. Well done. APPLAUSE
0:09:22 > 0:09:24Ten points for this starter question -
0:09:24 > 0:09:28born 1854, which writer was the great nephew by marriage
0:09:28 > 0:09:30of the novelist Charles Maturin
0:09:30 > 0:09:32and took from Maturin's Gothic novel
0:09:32 > 0:09:36the name of the demon Melmoth to serve as his alias...
0:09:38 > 0:09:40Trollope, The Way We Live Now.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42No, I'm afraid not.
0:09:42 > 0:09:46..demon Melmoth to serve as his alias as an exile in France?
0:09:50 > 0:09:52SHE MOUTHS TO HERSELF
0:09:52 > 0:09:54LAUGHTER
0:09:56 > 0:09:57- VOICE-OVER:- Sheffield, Gerrard.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00Sheffield, Gerrard doesn't know really what she's going to say,
0:10:00 > 0:10:02but... Um...
0:10:03 > 0:10:05- Come on.- Erm...
0:10:08 > 0:10:11LAUGHTER OK, I'm sorry, but if you buzz in,
0:10:11 > 0:10:12you must say something.
0:10:12 > 0:10:15- Are you miming it or what? - I am miming it.
0:10:15 > 0:10:16- Come on.- I don't know.
0:10:16 > 0:10:17It's Oscar Wilde.
0:10:17 > 0:10:20You're thinking of Melmotte in The Way We Live Now, aren't you?
0:10:20 > 0:10:21OK, ten points for this -
0:10:21 > 0:10:24which King of England was the son of Eleanor of Provence
0:10:24 > 0:10:26and the husband of Eleanor of Castile?
0:10:26 > 0:10:28He died near Carlisle in 1307
0:10:28 > 0:10:31travelling north intending to reconquer Scotland.
0:10:32 > 0:10:33Edward I.
0:10:33 > 0:10:34Correct.
0:10:34 > 0:10:36APPLAUSE
0:10:38 > 0:10:41Magdalen, these bonuses are on a British novelist.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43Made by a group of Oxford undergraduates,
0:10:43 > 0:10:47the 1925 short film comedy The Scarlet Woman,
0:10:47 > 0:10:49an ecclesiastical romance,
0:10:49 > 0:10:52is notable for a screenplay and a rare acting performance
0:10:52 > 0:10:54by which future novelist?
0:10:55 > 0:10:58- What did he say?- 1935.- 1935.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00- Evelyn Waugh, do you think? I don't know.- Maybe Evelyn Waugh.
0:11:00 > 0:11:03THEY SPEAK IN HUGHED VOICES
0:11:03 > 0:11:04- Evelyn Waugh?- Try it.
0:11:04 > 0:11:06- Evelyn Waugh.- Correct.
0:11:06 > 0:11:11Stephen Fry's directorial debut, the 2003 film Bright Young Things,
0:11:11 > 0:11:13is an adaptation of which of Waugh's novels?
0:11:13 > 0:11:16- Vile Bodies?- Probably that. - Vile Bodies?
0:11:16 > 0:11:20- Vile Bodies?- OK, if you know it. - Oh... Erm...
0:11:20 > 0:11:23- Vile Bodies, is it, yeah? - I think it is.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25- Vile Bodies.- Correct.
0:11:25 > 0:11:29Waugh's experiences in Abyssinia as a reporter for the Daily Mail
0:11:29 > 0:11:31gave rise to which novel of 1936
0:11:31 > 0:11:34in which a countryside columnist is sent to cover a crisis
0:11:34 > 0:11:36in the fictional Ishmaelia?
0:11:36 > 0:11:37- Scoop.- Correct.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39- Ten points for this. - APPLAUSE
0:11:39 > 0:11:41Originating during the Age of Sail,
0:11:41 > 0:11:45what name is given to the southern part of the Lesser Antilles,
0:11:45 > 0:11:49including the islands of St Vincent, Martinique and Grenada?
0:11:51 > 0:11:52Virgin Islands.
0:11:53 > 0:11:56No. Anyone like to buzz from Magdalen?
0:11:56 > 0:11:57The Windward Islands.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59The Windward Islands is correct, yes.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01APPLAUSE
0:12:02 > 0:12:06Your bonuses, this time, Magdalen, are on the Color of the Year
0:12:06 > 0:12:10according to the US design corporation Pantone
0:12:10 > 0:12:14Firstly, described as a rich and full-bodied red-brown,
0:12:14 > 0:12:17Pantone's Color of the Year for 2015
0:12:17 > 0:12:21shares its name with which fortified wine from Sicily?
0:12:21 > 0:12:25- Marsala. Marsala.- Definitely?
0:12:25 > 0:12:26- Marsala.- Correct.
0:12:26 > 0:12:30The Color of the Year in 2008 was a shade of blue
0:12:30 > 0:12:31named after which flower?
0:12:31 > 0:12:34It shares its name with the Greek goddess of the rainbow.
0:12:34 > 0:12:36- Iris.- Iris.
0:12:36 > 0:12:37- Iris.- Yes.
0:12:37 > 0:12:40And thirdly, which flower followed the word radiant
0:12:40 > 0:12:43in the name of Pantone's Color of the year in 2014?
0:12:43 > 0:12:44The colour is,
0:12:44 > 0:12:49"a captivating harmony of fuchsia, purple and pink undertones."
0:12:51 > 0:12:54- Chartreuse?- Chartreuse?
0:12:54 > 0:12:56Chartreuse?
0:12:56 > 0:12:57It's a purple. Heather?
0:12:57 > 0:13:00- It's a what?- Is it violet?
0:13:00 > 0:13:02- Is it, is it a plant? - Fuchsia, purple...- Heather?
0:13:02 > 0:13:04Heather is a flower.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07- Heather.- No, it's an orchid.- Oh...
0:13:07 > 0:13:09Right, Sheffield, there's still plenty of time to get going.
0:13:09 > 0:13:12Here's a starter question for ten points.
0:13:12 > 0:13:16In computing, what four-letter acronym is the opposite of CISC,
0:13:16 > 0:13:20that is complex instructions set computing?
0:13:20 > 0:13:23It's a homophone of the name of a popular board game.
0:13:26 > 0:13:27- Risk.- Correct.
0:13:27 > 0:13:30APPLAUSE
0:13:32 > 0:13:35You get a set of bonuses on birds this time, Magdalen.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38Give the common two-word name of the bird in each case.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41Firstly, a bird of prey of the family Strigidae.
0:13:41 > 0:13:45Inhabiting northern regions of Europe, Asia and North America,
0:13:45 > 0:13:49it's a rare winter visitor to the northernmost regions of the UK
0:13:49 > 0:13:53and its common name refers to its predominantly white appearance
0:13:53 > 0:13:56with dark brown bars or spots.
0:13:56 > 0:13:57Snowy owl.
0:13:57 > 0:13:58Correct.
0:13:58 > 0:14:00A scarce breeding species in the UK,
0:14:00 > 0:14:04Plectrophenax nivalis has what two-word common name?
0:14:04 > 0:14:07A songbird more usually found in Arctic regions,
0:14:07 > 0:14:10its nickname is the snowflake.
0:14:10 > 0:14:11- Snow bunting.- Correct.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14And finally, a waterfowl native to North America
0:14:14 > 0:14:18whose name forms the title of a short novel by Paul Gallico
0:14:18 > 0:14:20subtitled A Story of Dunkirk?
0:14:20 > 0:14:22- Snow goose.- Snow goose.
0:14:22 > 0:14:25Snow goose is correct. APPLAUSE
0:14:25 > 0:14:27Right, we're going to take a music round.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30For your music starter question, you'll hear an excerpt from an opera.
0:14:30 > 0:14:33For ten points, I want you to identify the opera.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36OPERA MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:59 > 0:15:01Figaro.
0:15:01 > 0:15:03No. Anyone like to buzz from Sheffield?
0:15:05 > 0:15:07Aida?
0:15:07 > 0:15:09No, it's from Rigoletto.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12Right, we're going to take the music bonuses in a moment or two.
0:15:12 > 0:15:14Another starter question in the meantime.
0:15:14 > 0:15:19Co-founded in 2015 by Catherine Mayer and Sandi Toksvig
0:15:19 > 0:15:21and led by the campaigner Sophie Walker,
0:15:21 > 0:15:23which political party has announced...
0:15:25 > 0:15:28The Women's Party. The Feminist Party.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30No, you lose five points by the way.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33..to participate in British elections from 2016?
0:15:38 > 0:15:40Women's Party?
0:15:40 > 0:15:42No, they've just said that and it was wrong.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44- It's the Women's Equality Party.- Oh.
0:15:44 > 0:15:46Ten points for this.
0:15:46 > 0:15:51"Their meetings made December June, there every parting was to die."
0:15:51 > 0:15:57Which poet wrote those words in the 1850 work In Memoriam?
0:15:59 > 0:16:00- Tennyson.- Correct.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03APPLAUSE
0:16:05 > 0:16:07Right, so you get the music bonuses, then, Magdalen.
0:16:07 > 0:16:11You heard the luxurious Duke partying at his palace
0:16:11 > 0:16:13at the beginning of Rigoletto
0:16:13 > 0:16:15for your starter question which no-one got.
0:16:15 > 0:16:18In the spirit of the season, your music bonuses are from
0:16:18 > 0:16:21three more scenes of operatic overindulgence.
0:16:21 > 0:16:23Again, in each case, for the five points,
0:16:23 > 0:16:26I would like to have the title of the opera, please.
0:16:26 > 0:16:27Firstly.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29OPERA MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:36 > 0:16:38MUSIC DROWNS OUT SPEECH
0:16:40 > 0:16:41What's the title...?
0:16:41 > 0:16:43- What was the theme within the music? - What language is it?
0:16:43 > 0:16:46They are all partying.
0:16:46 > 0:16:49- They're partying...- Partying. - ..in a scene of lavishness.
0:16:49 > 0:16:51Could it the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute?
0:16:51 > 0:16:54- That's not bad. - HE SPEAKS IN HUSHED VOICE
0:16:54 > 0:16:55In what language...?
0:16:55 > 0:16:57This is English.
0:16:57 > 0:16:59- MUSIC STOPS - Oh...
0:16:59 > 0:17:01Anything? I'm going to say Britten.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Britten.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05I'm looking for the name of the opera.
0:17:05 > 0:17:06- It was from La Boheme.- Oh...
0:17:06 > 0:17:08Secondly.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10OPERA MUSIC PLAYS
0:17:15 > 0:17:17No...
0:17:17 > 0:17:21# Washington's birthday, Washington's birthday... #
0:17:21 > 0:17:24- It's the Jets and, you know...- Yeah.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26- West Side Story?- West Side Story?!
0:17:26 > 0:17:28- That's not an opera. - This is not West Side Story.
0:17:28 > 0:17:31No, they wouldn't sing about Washington's birthday, would they?
0:17:31 > 0:17:34- It might be.- Maybe it's the new one. - It's Gershwin, I think.
0:17:34 > 0:17:36- Oh, it's a Gershwin. - But we need the name.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38- Oh...- We need the name of the opera.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40- It's an opera.- Opera, oh...
0:17:40 > 0:17:41West Side Story.
0:17:41 > 0:17:45No, that's from Nixon in China, the banquet thrown for the Americans.
0:17:45 > 0:17:46And finally.
0:17:46 > 0:17:48OPERA MUSIC PLAYS
0:17:52 > 0:17:55- Don Giovanni? - Oh, that would be a good one...
0:17:55 > 0:17:57- HE RINGS BUZZER - Wait. No, no...- Who's buzzing?
0:17:57 > 0:18:00No need to buzz - they're answering the bonuses.
0:18:00 > 0:18:02- LAUGHTER - Don Giovanni?- Yes, I think so.
0:18:02 > 0:18:04Or possibly not.
0:18:04 > 0:18:07- Don Giovanni. - It is from Don Giovanni. Well done.
0:18:07 > 0:18:10Right, Sheffield, there's still plenty of time for you
0:18:10 > 0:18:11to do a lot of buzzing.
0:18:11 > 0:18:12Ten points at stake for this.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15In which book of the Old Testament do these words appear?
0:18:15 > 0:18:17"He giveth snow like wool,
0:18:17 > 0:18:20"he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes,
0:18:20 > 0:18:23"he casteth forth his ice like morsels -
0:18:23 > 0:18:26"who can stand before his cold?"
0:18:27 > 0:18:28Job.
0:18:28 > 0:18:29No. Sheffield?
0:18:31 > 0:18:33- Psalms.- Correct.
0:18:33 > 0:18:35- Yes! - CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:18:35 > 0:18:37- That was a good one.- OK!
0:18:37 > 0:18:42- We're on zero! Come on.- OK, right... It's all going to change.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45Right, your bonuses are on the actress Dame Edith Evans.
0:18:45 > 0:18:46Firstly, for five points,
0:18:46 > 0:18:49which Shakespearean role did Edith Evans decline
0:18:49 > 0:18:52explaining her refusal with the words,
0:18:52 > 0:18:54"I could never impersonate a woman
0:18:54 > 0:18:57"who had such a peculiar notion of hospitality"?
0:18:57 > 0:19:00- Oh, maybe Lady Macbeth. - I would think so, yeah.
0:19:00 > 0:19:01Are we going for that?
0:19:01 > 0:19:03- Lady Macbeth.- Correct.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05"Isn't she a bloodthirsty old harridan?
0:19:05 > 0:19:06"I could never play her."
0:19:06 > 0:19:10This was Evans's assessment of the character of Volumnia
0:19:10 > 0:19:13- in which play by Shakespeare? - Coriolanus.
0:19:13 > 0:19:15- Coriolanus.- Correct.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17"I know those sort of women -
0:19:17 > 0:19:20"they ring the bell and tell you to put a lump of coal on the fire."
0:19:20 > 0:19:23This was Evans' view of which of Oscar Wilde's characters?
0:19:23 > 0:19:27- SHE SPEAKS IN WHISPERS - Lady Bracknell.- Lady Bracknell.
0:19:27 > 0:19:28- Lady Bracknell.- Correct.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30APPLAUSE
0:19:31 > 0:19:33You're away.
0:19:33 > 0:19:35Right, ten points for this - located in South West London
0:19:35 > 0:19:38and often known by a three-letter abbreviation,
0:19:38 > 0:19:41what institute was founded in 1900
0:19:41 > 0:19:45for standardising and verifying the instruments for testing materials
0:19:45 > 0:19:47and for the determination of physical...
0:19:49 > 0:19:51NPL, National Physical Laboratory.
0:19:51 > 0:19:52Correct.
0:19:52 > 0:19:54APPLAUSE
0:19:54 > 0:19:56Right, these bonuses are on
0:19:56 > 0:20:01- the Roman statesman and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero.- Yes!
0:20:01 > 0:20:05Firstly, for five points, Cicero came to prominence in 70 BC
0:20:05 > 0:20:08following his speeches against Gaius Verres
0:20:08 > 0:20:10who was prosecuted for corruption and extortion
0:20:10 > 0:20:13- as the governor of which island? - Sicily.
0:20:13 > 0:20:14- Sicily.- Correct.
0:20:14 > 0:20:17In 63 BC, Cicero exposed
0:20:17 > 0:20:21- which senator's plot to overthrow the Roman Republic?- L Sergius...
0:20:21 > 0:20:22The person in question was forced to flee
0:20:22 > 0:20:24and was later killed in battle.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27L Sergius Catilina. Catilina.
0:20:27 > 0:20:28Nominate Lane Fox.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31L Sergius Catilina, known to you as Catilina.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34That's correct, yes. LAUGHTER
0:20:34 > 0:20:37God, you're patronising! LAUGHTER
0:20:38 > 0:20:41But you're right! You've reason to be, perhaps.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44From 44 BC, Cicero delivered a series of orations
0:20:44 > 0:20:46known as the Philippics
0:20:46 > 0:20:47attacking which politician
0:20:47 > 0:20:51who later joined with Octavian in the Second Triumvirate?
0:20:51 > 0:20:53- Mark Antony.- Correct.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55APPLAUSE Time for another picture around.
0:20:55 > 0:20:56For your picture starter,
0:20:56 > 0:21:00you're going to see a photograph of a British royal residence -
0:21:00 > 0:21:02ten points if you can identify it.
0:21:06 > 0:21:07- Sandringham.- Yes!
0:21:07 > 0:21:10- CHEERING AND APPLAUSE - Well done, Ruth.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15That's where the Queen usually goes around Christmas time.
0:21:15 > 0:21:16For your picture bonuses,
0:21:16 > 0:21:19three more current or historic royal winter residences.
0:21:19 > 0:21:24This time, in each case, I need the city in which each is located.
0:21:24 > 0:21:25Firstly, for five.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31I've no idea. Any ideas?
0:21:31 > 0:21:34- Maybe...- No idea. - Probably Stockholm.
0:21:34 > 0:21:36- Just go for it quickly. - Stockholm.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38No, that's the Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen.
0:21:38 > 0:21:39Secondly.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45Looks a bit grand. Italian?
0:21:45 > 0:21:48- Any ideas, Sid?- No. - I'd just go for Florence.
0:21:48 > 0:21:49Florence.
0:21:49 > 0:21:52No, that's the Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna.
0:21:52 > 0:21:53And finally.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57- Looks a bit Scandinavian, doesn't it?- That's the Winter Palace.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59- Whereabouts?- St Petersburg.- Quickly.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01- St Petersburg. - It is St Petersburg.
0:22:01 > 0:22:03That's the Winter Palace, yes. APPLAUSE
0:22:03 > 0:22:05Right, ten points for this - to the nearest year,
0:22:05 > 0:22:09what interval separates the defeat of the Spanish Armada
0:22:09 > 0:22:11from the start of the Glorious Revolution
0:22:11 > 0:22:12when King James...?
0:22:13 > 0:22:15100 years.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17Correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:22:18 > 0:22:22Magdalen, these bonuses are on buildings in northern England
0:22:22 > 0:22:25described as needing roles to suit their magnificence.
0:22:25 > 0:22:29Firstly, Pevsner praised the panache and picturesque quality
0:22:29 > 0:22:31of a Gothic revival town hall
0:22:31 > 0:22:34in which borough of Greater Manchester?
0:22:34 > 0:22:36The same town includes the building
0:22:36 > 0:22:39where the co-operative movement began in 1844.
0:22:39 > 0:22:43It might be a corn exchange, but go very slowly. I have no idea.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45- A town in Greater Manchester. - Town, yes.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48- Is it Oldham, or...- Oldham?
0:22:48 > 0:22:51- Oldham?- I don't know any towns. - It might be.- Let's have it, please.
0:22:51 > 0:22:53- Oldham.- No, it's Rochdale.
0:22:53 > 0:22:57Pevzner said that the interiors of Wentworth Woodhouse
0:22:57 > 0:23:00were not easily matched anywhere in England.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02The house lies near the M1 motorway
0:23:02 > 0:23:05around five miles north-east of which city?
0:23:05 > 0:23:08- Erm, Derby, I think.- Derby?
0:23:08 > 0:23:09- Derby.- No, it's Sheffield.
0:23:09 > 0:23:14Described by Pevzner as the freest neo-Grecian building in England
0:23:14 > 0:23:16and one of the finest in the world,
0:23:16 > 0:23:20St George's Hall lies close to a major railway terminus
0:23:20 > 0:23:21in which city?
0:23:21 > 0:23:24- I have no clue. Do you?- Leeds?
0:23:24 > 0:23:26- Anything?- No. Take our time.
0:23:26 > 0:23:27It might be York. I don't know.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30- Leeds.- No, it's Liverpool.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32There's about five minutes to go and ten points for this.
0:23:32 > 0:23:37The first snowfall in Oslo brings a series of gruesome murders
0:23:37 > 0:23:41in the 2007 novel The Snowman by which crime writer?
0:23:43 > 0:23:44Nesbo.
0:23:44 > 0:23:45Jo Nesbo is correct, yes.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48APPLAUSE
0:23:48 > 0:23:51Sheffield, these bonuses are on biblical angels.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53In the Book of Revelation,
0:23:53 > 0:23:55which angel leads the fight against the dragon,
0:23:55 > 0:23:57usually identified as Satan?
0:23:57 > 0:24:01In the Book of Daniel, he is described as a great prince.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03Oh, I don't know. I want to say Gabriel.
0:24:03 > 0:24:04I'm just going to say Gabriel.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06- Do we know other angels?- No.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08- Gabriel.- No, it's Michael.
0:24:08 > 0:24:11According to traditional Christian hierarchy,
0:24:11 > 0:24:14what term denotes those angels believed to be of the highest rank?
0:24:14 > 0:24:18In the Book of Isaiah, they're described as having six wings.
0:24:18 > 0:24:20- Archangel? - THEY DISCUSS IN HUSHED VOICES
0:24:20 > 0:24:22- Archangel.- No, they're seraphim.
0:24:22 > 0:24:24Often depicted as winged children,
0:24:24 > 0:24:27angels of which order were placed on guard
0:24:27 > 0:24:29at the east of the Garden of Eden
0:24:29 > 0:24:31after the expulsion of Adam and Eve?
0:24:31 > 0:24:32- Cherubim.- Correct.
0:24:32 > 0:24:33Ten points for this.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36What given name links the saint who succeeded St Peter
0:24:36 > 0:24:38as Bishop of Rome,
0:24:38 > 0:24:40the founder of the Yale lock company,
0:24:40 > 0:24:45the Finnish creator of a widely-used UNIX-based operating system
0:24:45 > 0:24:48and an American who won Nobel prizes for both peace and...?
0:24:50 > 0:24:52- Linus.- Linus is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:24:52 > 0:24:57These bonuses are on 20th century US history, Magdalen.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00Who was the US President during the Potsdam Conference?
0:25:00 > 0:25:02- Erm, Truman.- Truman?- Yes.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04- Truman.- Correct.
0:25:04 > 0:25:05Who was US President
0:25:05 > 0:25:08when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon?
0:25:08 > 0:25:10- Was that JFK?- No, Nixon.- Nixon? - Yeah.- OK.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12- Nixon.- Correct.
0:25:12 > 0:25:15And who was US President on the day that Elvis Presley died?
0:25:15 > 0:25:17- '77? '77?- Oh...
0:25:17 > 0:25:21- Carter? I was born in '75. - Carter?- Carter, I think.
0:25:21 > 0:25:22- Carter.- Carter.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24- Carter.- It was Carter, yes.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26APPLAUSE
0:25:28 > 0:25:29Ten points for this.
0:25:29 > 0:25:30From the Greek for tawny,
0:25:30 > 0:25:33what term denotes a chronic disease of the liver
0:25:33 > 0:25:36often caused by excessive consumption of...
0:25:37 > 0:25:38Jaundice.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:25:40 > 0:25:41..excessive consumption of alcohol?
0:25:43 > 0:25:45- Cirrhosis.- Cirrhosis is right.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48- APPLAUSE - 55! I think that's...
0:25:48 > 0:25:50Your bonuses, Sheffield, this time are on films
0:25:50 > 0:25:54nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards in February 2015.
0:25:54 > 0:25:57In each case, name the film from the description.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00Firstly, the first film by a black female director
0:26:00 > 0:26:02to be nominated in the Best Picture category,
0:26:02 > 0:26:08Ava DuVernay's historical drama based on a civil rights march in 1965.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11Um... Oh, what's it called? It's named after a place.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13Erm, Thelma? No.
0:26:13 > 0:26:14It's Thelma, is it?
0:26:14 > 0:26:15Thelma.
0:26:15 > 0:26:19I'm sorry. You've got the right film but it was Selma, not Thelma.
0:26:19 > 0:26:21Secondly, a comedy directed by Wes Anderson
0:26:21 > 0:26:24set in the fictional Republic of Zubrowka.
0:26:24 > 0:26:28- Hotel...- Hotel. - Something hotel. Yeah, hotel...
0:26:28 > 0:26:31- The Best Marigold Hotel. - That's not that, is it?
0:26:31 > 0:26:33- What is it? - THEY SPEAK IN HUSHED VOICES
0:26:33 > 0:26:35What? Nominate Sid.
0:26:35 > 0:26:36Hotel Budapest.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39- No, it's The Grand Budapest Hotel. - Ah!
0:26:39 > 0:26:42Finally, a drama directed by Damien Chazelle
0:26:42 > 0:26:45about a young drummer at a music conservatory.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49- Oh! Whiplash. Is it Whiplash?- Yeah.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51- Whiplash.- Whiplash is correct. APPLAUSE
0:26:51 > 0:26:53Another starter question.
0:26:53 > 0:26:57"The nation is divided into parties, but the Crown is of no party.
0:26:57 > 0:27:01"Its apparent separation from business is that which removes it
0:27:01 > 0:27:04"both from enmities and from desecration."
0:27:04 > 0:27:06These are the words of which essayist
0:27:06 > 0:27:09in the 1867 work The English Constitution?
0:27:10 > 0:27:14- Bagehot.- Walter Bagehot is right. APPLAUSE
0:27:14 > 0:27:16You get a set of bonuses now, Magdalen, on words
0:27:16 > 0:27:19that end with the letters I-C-E.
0:27:19 > 0:27:23In each case, identify the word from the definition.
0:27:23 > 0:27:26The uppermost of the three main components of
0:27:26 > 0:27:28an entablature in classical architecture.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30The word is also used for
0:27:30 > 0:27:33an overhanging ridge of snow at a cliff face.
0:27:33 > 0:27:35- Cornice? Cornice?- Cornice?
0:27:35 > 0:27:37- I-C-E? Yeah.- Come on, let's have it.
0:27:37 > 0:27:38- Cornice.- Cornice is right.
0:27:38 > 0:27:43Secondly, a term used in chemistry for a regular configuration of atoms
0:27:43 > 0:27:45such as might constitute a crystalline substance.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47- Lattice.- Lattice.- Lattice. - Correct.
0:27:47 > 0:27:50And finally, either of the two points in the year
0:27:50 > 0:27:51- when the sun's apparent path... - Solstice.
0:27:51 > 0:27:53- Solstice.- Correct.
0:27:53 > 0:27:54Ten points for this.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56On New Year's Day 1914,
0:27:56 > 0:27:59the world's first commercial scheduled airline service
0:27:59 > 0:28:01using fixed-wing aircraft
0:28:01 > 0:28:03started operating within which US state?
0:28:03 > 0:28:07GONG SOUNDS And at the gong...
0:28:07 > 0:28:09CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ..Sheffield University have 60,
0:28:09 > 0:28:12but Magdalen College, Oxford have 230.
0:28:16 > 0:28:17Well, bad luck, Sheffield.
0:28:17 > 0:28:20You didn't really get a chance to get going
0:28:20 > 0:28:22cos you were pretty good in some previous matches.
0:28:22 > 0:28:24- We got more than nought, though. - You did get more than nought.
0:28:24 > 0:28:27You got more than a minus score, too! LAUGHTER
0:28:27 > 0:28:29I thought it might be an embarrassing end at one point.
0:28:29 > 0:28:31So did we.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33Thank you very much for joining us.
0:28:33 > 0:28:36Magdalen, that was a terrific score and a terrific, storming performance.
0:28:36 > 0:28:39Congratulations to you.
0:28:39 > 0:28:41Our thanks to all the teams who've taken part -
0:28:41 > 0:28:43all of them old enough to know better,
0:28:43 > 0:28:44but sporting enough to give it a go.
0:28:44 > 0:28:46Thank you for watching.
0:28:46 > 0:28:48Next time we resume the students competition,
0:28:48 > 0:28:51- but until then, it's goodbye from Sheffield University. ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:51 > 0:28:54- It's goodbye from Magdalen College, Oxford. ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:54 > 0:28:55And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.
0:28:55 > 0:28:58APPLAUSE