0:00:18 > 0:00:21Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:29Hello.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32Any students who have just got out of bed to watch this programme
0:00:32 > 0:00:35may need reminding that their own series is enjoying a brief respite
0:00:35 > 0:00:38while we put their elders and betters to the test.
0:00:38 > 0:00:42While the average age of the players in the students series is 24,
0:00:42 > 0:00:45it's exactly twice that in this special short series
0:00:45 > 0:00:47for distinguished alumni,
0:00:47 > 0:00:51so we confidently expect to see twice the knowledge on display.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54Now, last time we saw University College London win the first match,
0:00:54 > 0:00:58with 155 points against Birmingham University's 80,
0:00:58 > 0:01:02but as only the four teams with the highest winning score go through
0:01:02 > 0:01:06to the next stage of the competition, nothing has been decided yet.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09Oriel College was founded shortly before the Black Death,
0:01:09 > 0:01:12making it one of the oldest colleges in Oxford.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15Tonight's team includes a chess grandmaster
0:01:15 > 0:01:19and three times world champion in chess problem solving.
0:01:19 > 0:01:23He was Oriel's youngest undergraduate since Cardinal Wolsey,
0:01:23 > 0:01:25having entered the college at the age of 15, when ironically,
0:01:25 > 0:01:29he would have been too young to take part in our students series.
0:01:29 > 0:01:33His colleague worked for NGOs and in international relations before
0:01:33 > 0:01:37moving to that brand of journalism known as the celebrity interview.
0:01:37 > 0:01:40As the same time she set up her own internet baby, which is
0:01:40 > 0:01:43still going strong today, having survived a superinjunction
0:01:43 > 0:01:46and an appearance before the Leveson Inquiry.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49Their captain is due the thanks of a grateful nation for launching
0:01:49 > 0:01:51the television career of Jeremy Clarkson
0:01:51 > 0:01:55and has a corner named after him on the Top Gear test track.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59After producing for ITV, the BBC's natural history unit
0:01:59 > 0:02:03and Channel 5, he now finds himself on the other side of the camera.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06Their fourth member is a screenwriter for film and television.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09His credits include the detective drama
0:02:09 > 0:02:13Wallander, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and a biographical film
0:02:13 > 0:02:17of the life of Frankie Howerd, with David Walliams playing Howerd.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20More recently he's secured what must be the top job in his profession
0:02:20 > 0:02:24when he joined the band of writers on Doctor Who.
0:02:24 > 0:02:27So let's ask the Oriel team to introduce themselves.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29Hi, I'm John Nunn.
0:02:29 > 0:02:34I read mathematics at Oriel College, Oxford from 1970 to 1976.
0:02:34 > 0:02:38And I'm currently a director of Gambit Publications.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40Hello. I'm Camilla Wright.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42I studied politics, philosophy
0:02:42 > 0:02:46and economics at Oriel College from 1989 to 1992.
0:02:46 > 0:02:49And I set up and now run Popbitch, the pop culture website.
0:02:49 > 0:02:51And their captain.
0:02:51 > 0:02:53Hello. My name's John Bentley.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56I read geography at Oriel between 1979 and 1982.
0:02:56 > 0:03:00I'm a TV presenter and journalist and I'm probably best known for
0:03:00 > 0:03:03appearing on Channel 5's The Gadget Show.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05Hi, my name's Peter Harness.
0:03:05 > 0:03:08I studied English at Oriel from 1994 to 1997
0:03:08 > 0:03:10and I'm now a TV and film writer.
0:03:10 > 0:03:13APPLAUSE
0:03:15 > 0:03:18Now, their opponents represent Trinity College, Cambridge,
0:03:18 > 0:03:20founded by Henry VIII.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23Their first player's many awards include a Fields Medal,
0:03:23 > 0:03:26which is often viewed as the Nobel Prize in mathematics.
0:03:26 > 0:03:30And in 2012, he was knighted for his services to that discipline,
0:03:30 > 0:03:33which are frankly baffling to many of us mere mortals.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36His colleague has produced one of the very few television
0:03:36 > 0:03:39institutions to predate University Challenge,
0:03:39 > 0:03:42having made programmes for The Sky At Night as well as
0:03:42 > 0:03:46more recent documentaries such as The Secret Life Of The Cat
0:03:46 > 0:03:49and the award-winning Battlefield Britain.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52Award-winning is something of a constant in this team,
0:03:52 > 0:03:55as their captain has won the broadcast news journalism award.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57He's reported on economics for the Observer
0:03:57 > 0:04:01and been economics editor for Channel 4 before taking on his current job.
0:04:01 > 0:04:04Their fourth player has been described as
0:04:04 > 0:04:06the ultimate food scholar.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09She's written several books and various columns on the subject,
0:04:09 > 0:04:13including the award-winning Kitchen Thinker for the Sunday Telegraph.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16She is the chair of the Oxford symposium on food and cookery.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19Heaven knows what kind of a roughhouse that must be.
0:04:19 > 0:04:23And more impressively, she's been a semifinalist on MasterChef.
0:04:23 > 0:04:25Let's meet the Trinity team.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27Hello, I'm Timothy Gowers.
0:04:27 > 0:04:31I studied mathematics at Trinity College from 1982 to 1985.
0:04:31 > 0:04:36And now I study mathematics at Trinity College.
0:04:36 > 0:04:41Hi, I'm Zoe Heron. I graduated in biological anthropology in 1993.
0:04:41 > 0:04:46And I'm currently series producer of the BBC science strand Horizon.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48And let's meet their captain.
0:04:48 > 0:04:54Hello, I'm Faisal Islam. I graduated from Trinity in economics in 1998.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57And I'm the political editor of Sky News.
0:04:57 > 0:04:59Hi, I'm Bee Wilson.
0:04:59 > 0:05:03I studied history at Trinity from '92 to '95.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06And I also did a PhD at Trinity in history,
0:05:06 > 0:05:10which I got in 2002 and I'm now a food writer and journalist.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12APPLAUSE
0:05:15 > 0:05:17OK, the rules are the same as ever.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19Ten points for starter questions
0:05:19 > 0:05:21which you answer on the buzzer on your own.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23Bonus questions are worth 15 points.
0:05:23 > 0:05:27You can confer on those and there's a five-point penalty
0:05:27 > 0:05:29for incorrect interruptions to start questions.
0:05:29 > 0:05:32Fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.
0:05:32 > 0:05:36What form of exercise takes its name from its originator, born near
0:05:36 > 0:05:40Dusseldorf in 1883 and a sufferer from several childhood ailments?
0:05:40 > 0:05:43His regime aims to improve strength
0:05:43 > 0:05:47and flexibility through a series of controlled movements and...?
0:05:47 > 0:05:48Pilates.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50Pilates is right, yes.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55You get the first set of bonuses, Trinity.
0:05:55 > 0:05:56They're on winter vegetables.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58Firstly, for five points,
0:05:58 > 0:06:04its consumption described in Gerard's Herbal of 1621 as causing
0:06:04 > 0:06:11"a filthy, loathsome, stinking wind and therefore more fit for swine than men."
0:06:11 > 0:06:14What is the two word common name of helianthus tuberosus,
0:06:14 > 0:06:18in season in the UK from November to January?
0:06:18 > 0:06:19Jerusalem artichoke.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22Correct. In season in the UK from October to February,
0:06:22 > 0:06:25which vegetable is thought to be mentioned in Homer's Odyssey,
0:06:25 > 0:06:29where it is called selenon and grows in Calypso's cave?
0:06:29 > 0:06:31It's sometimes called celery root.
0:06:33 > 0:06:34Celeriac.
0:06:34 > 0:06:35Correct.
0:06:35 > 0:06:39And finally, the ability to taste the chemical phenylthiocarbamide,
0:06:39 > 0:06:43or PTC, has been suggested as the reason some people have a dislike of
0:06:43 > 0:06:47which vegetable? Brassica, oleracea, gemmifera,
0:06:47 > 0:06:50in season in the UK from September to February?
0:06:50 > 0:06:52There are actually lots of vegetables
0:06:52 > 0:06:55- that people with that thing... - It will be Brussels sprouts.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58But Brussels sprouts isn't a root vegetable.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00If it's a root vegetable it can't be Brussels sprouts.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03But actually there are lots. What was the Latin...?
0:07:03 > 0:07:05I don't know.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07If it's Brassica it's got to be in the cabbage family,
0:07:07 > 0:07:09so it's something like Brussels sprouts.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11- We'll just go for Brussels sprouts. - Oh...- Let's do it.- OK.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13Sorry. Brussels sprouts.
0:07:13 > 0:07:14Correct.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21Ten points at stake for this starter question.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23Fingers on the buzzers, please.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25Born 1794 and nicknamed Commodore,
0:07:25 > 0:07:27despite holding no military rank,
0:07:27 > 0:07:31which US magnate amassed a fortune of over 100 million
0:07:31 > 0:07:34in the shipping and rail industries and financed
0:07:34 > 0:07:38the construction of New York's original Grand Central Station?
0:07:40 > 0:07:42Rockefeller.
0:07:42 > 0:07:43Anyone from Oriel?
0:07:43 > 0:07:45JP Morgan.
0:07:45 > 0:07:48No, it's Cornelius Vanderbilt. Fingers on the buzzers, please.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51First published in the 1887 edition of Beeton's Christmas Annual,
0:07:51 > 0:07:55what is the four-word title of the story which opens with a man
0:07:55 > 0:07:59named Stamford introducing a doctor recently returned from India
0:07:59 > 0:08:02to a man conducting a chemistry experiment?
0:08:02 > 0:08:05The latter is described as...?
0:08:05 > 0:08:07A Study in Scarlet.
0:08:07 > 0:08:09Correct.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13The first of the Sherlock Holmes stories, of course.
0:08:13 > 0:08:18So your bonuses are on the classical problems of geometry, Oriel.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21Firstly, one of the classical problems of geometry requires
0:08:21 > 0:08:24the construction using only compass and straight edge of what three
0:08:24 > 0:08:28dimensional shape with exactly twice the volume of a given similar shape?
0:08:28 > 0:08:32It was proved impossible by Pierre Wantzel in 1837.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34The cube.
0:08:34 > 0:08:35Correct.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38Pierre Wantzel also proved the impossibility of constructing
0:08:38 > 0:08:41an angle that is exactly what fraction of any given angle,
0:08:41 > 0:08:43again using only compass and straight edge?
0:08:43 > 0:08:44One third.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47Correct. Which geometric problem did
0:08:47 > 0:08:50Ferdinand von Lindemann prove impossible in 1882?
0:08:50 > 0:08:53In everyday language, it means to attempt a task that is either
0:08:53 > 0:08:55extremely difficult or impossible.
0:09:08 > 0:09:10An impossiblearium.
0:09:10 > 0:09:11Squaring the circle.
0:09:11 > 0:09:13Ten points for this.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16Referring to his tempestuous relationship with his lover
0:09:16 > 0:09:20and fellow poet, who said of the French writer Paul Verlaine,
0:09:20 > 0:09:22"he was always chasing Rimbauds"?
0:09:22 > 0:09:27Born in New Jersey in 1893, she was a noted poet, author...
0:09:27 > 0:09:29Sylvia Plath.
0:09:29 > 0:09:30No.
0:09:30 > 0:09:32You lose five points.
0:09:32 > 0:09:35..poet, author, journalist and screenwriter.
0:09:35 > 0:09:36Dorothy Parker.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38Correct.
0:09:39 > 0:09:43You take the lead and you get a set of bonuses on equipment
0:09:43 > 0:09:46used in Winter Olympic sports, Oriel College.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48Name each piece of equipment from the description, please.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50Firstly, for five points.
0:09:50 > 0:09:53The men's version has an upper weight limit of 43kg.
0:09:53 > 0:09:58The length is between 800 and 1,200mm.
0:09:58 > 0:10:01And it comprises of construction frames, saddle, base plate,
0:10:01 > 0:10:04ballast, runners, bumpers and coverings.
0:10:14 > 0:10:16Skeleton bob.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18Skeleton is correct.
0:10:18 > 0:10:20Skelton or skeleton sled.
0:10:20 > 0:10:22These items, secondly, for five points,
0:10:22 > 0:10:25typically have a laminated wood core surrounded by composite layers
0:10:25 > 0:10:29of material such as carbon fibre, Kevlar and aluminium.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32The minimum length varies with the specific event,
0:10:32 > 0:10:35but is between 155 and 218cm.
0:10:38 > 0:10:39Ski.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41Alpine skis is right.
0:10:41 > 0:10:44These items weigh between 38 and 44lb,
0:10:44 > 0:10:47with a circumference of no more than 36 inches
0:10:47 > 0:10:49and a height of at least four and a half inches.
0:10:49 > 0:10:53They're highly polished and made of a rare dense granite
0:10:53 > 0:10:55quarried on the Scottish island of Ailsa Craig.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00Curling stones.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08- Just say curling stones. - Curling stone.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10Correct.
0:11:10 > 0:11:12Right, we're going to take a picture round now.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15For your picture starter you will see a map indicating a site
0:11:15 > 0:11:18of historical and constitutional significance in England.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20For ten points, simply identify the site.
0:11:20 > 0:11:25As it's Christmas, we've also marked on a nearby town to help.
0:11:29 > 0:11:30Runnymede.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32Correct.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36Picture bonuses for you.
0:11:36 > 0:11:392015 marked the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta,
0:11:39 > 0:11:41agreed at Runnymede in Surrey.
0:11:41 > 0:11:43For your picture bonuses, maps showing three more places
0:11:43 > 0:11:46of what are now called the Magna Carta charter towns -
0:11:46 > 0:11:48places significant in Magna Carta's history.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50Five points for each you can identify.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52Firstly, for five, this city.
0:12:00 > 0:12:01Cambridge?
0:12:01 > 0:12:02It's not Cambridge.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05So it's got to be below. So what's below...?
0:12:05 > 0:12:07Suffolk, Essex, is it somewhere in Essex?
0:12:07 > 0:12:10- Colchester?- It's not Colchester.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12Is it below Essex?
0:12:12 > 0:12:14It's somewhere near Bedford or Luton.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16It's an old town.
0:12:16 > 0:12:18Shall we have a guess?
0:12:18 > 0:12:20- Guess?- Guess.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22- Let's go Bury St Edmunds. - It's not Bury St Edmunds.
0:12:22 > 0:12:24Bury St Edmunds.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26No, it's not Bury St Edmunds. It's St Albans.
0:12:26 > 0:12:27THEY GASP
0:12:27 > 0:12:30How undignified for them to be known as being near Luton.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32LAUGHTER Secondly, this town, please.
0:12:33 > 0:12:36- It could be Bury St Edmunds.- That's Bury St Edmunds. Bury St Edmunds.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38That is Bury St Edmunds, yes.
0:12:38 > 0:12:40And finally, this city.
0:12:41 > 0:12:45That's Colchester. Yeah? That's Colchester. No, it's Canterbury.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47Canterbury? Canterbury.
0:12:47 > 0:12:48Correct.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50Right, another starter question now.
0:12:50 > 0:12:51Fingers on the buzzers.
0:12:51 > 0:12:56The playing pieces in the standard UK edition of the board game Monopoly
0:12:56 > 0:12:59include a top hat, a racing car
0:12:59 > 0:13:01and what specific breed of dog?
0:13:03 > 0:13:06A Scot... Scotty dog.
0:13:06 > 0:13:07A Scottish terrier?
0:13:07 > 0:13:08Correct, yes.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13You get a set of bonuses, this time, having taken the lead,
0:13:13 > 0:13:17Trinity College, on Christmas parties in the novels of Thomas Hardy.
0:13:17 > 0:13:21Firstly, in which of Hardy's novels does Eustacia Vye join
0:13:21 > 0:13:24a group of mummers in the guise of a Turkish knight to gain
0:13:24 > 0:13:28admittance to a Christmas party to which she has not been invited?
0:13:28 > 0:13:31- I have no idea.- It's not The Mayor Of Casterbridge.- The Woodlanders?
0:13:31 > 0:13:35It's not Tess Of The d'Urbervilles. It's one of the other ones.
0:13:35 > 0:13:36LAUGHTER
0:13:36 > 0:13:38It's not Far From The Madding Crowd, either, is it?
0:13:38 > 0:13:41So we need to guess either the Woodlanders or
0:13:41 > 0:13:43Return Of The Native or...
0:13:43 > 0:13:44Return Of The Native.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46Correct, yes. By a process of elimination
0:13:46 > 0:13:48and good luck, you got there.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51Secondly, which of Hardy's novels features a Christmas party
0:13:51 > 0:13:55so lively that its hostess Mrs Dewy declares,
0:13:55 > 0:13:59"A body could almost wish there were no such things as Christmases"?
0:14:00 > 0:14:02- I'm wondering if that is Tess Of The d'Urbervilles.- Is that...?
0:14:02 > 0:14:04Tess Of The d'Urbervilles.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06No, that's Under The Greenwood Tree.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08And finally, in which of Hardy's novels does a farmer give
0:14:08 > 0:14:13a Christmas party only for it to end dramatically when he shoots
0:14:13 > 0:14:14and kills his rival in love?
0:14:14 > 0:14:16- Far From The Madding Crowd. - Are you sure?
0:14:16 > 0:14:19- Far From The Madding Crowd. - Far From The Madding Crowd.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22It is. It's when Farmer Boldwood shoots Sergeant Troy.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24Ten points at stake for this starter question.
0:14:24 > 0:14:28In physiology, what name denotes the conglomerate of between 30 and 50
0:14:28 > 0:14:32tubular or sac-like glands secreting fluids into the urethra
0:14:32 > 0:14:34and ejaculatory ducts?
0:14:34 > 0:14:38Present only in males, it's a chestnut-shaped...
0:14:38 > 0:14:39Prostate.
0:14:39 > 0:14:40Prostate is correct, yes.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44These bonuses could allow you to retake the lead.
0:14:44 > 0:14:47They are on scientists born in December.
0:14:47 > 0:14:51Firstly for five, born in New York in December 1797,
0:14:51 > 0:14:54which scientist discovered several important principles of electricity
0:14:54 > 0:14:56including self induction?
0:14:56 > 0:14:59The SI derived unit of inductance is named after him.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02Faraday. Faraday.
0:15:02 > 0:15:03Faraday.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05No, it's Joseph Henry.
0:15:05 > 0:15:08Secondly for five points, born in 1856,
0:15:08 > 0:15:11which scientist was elected to the Royal Society and appointed
0:15:11 > 0:15:16as chair of physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, both at the age of 28?
0:15:16 > 0:15:21He discovered the electron in 1897 and won the Nobel Prize in 1906.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24- Thomson.- Thomson?
0:15:24 > 0:15:25Correct.
0:15:25 > 0:15:30Born in Paris in 1852, which scientist gives his name to
0:15:30 > 0:15:33the SI derived unit of radioactivity with the symbol Bq?
0:15:33 > 0:15:36Becquerel. Becquerel.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38Becquerel.
0:15:38 > 0:15:39Becquerel is correct, yes.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:15:41 > 0:15:44For your music starter, you're going to hear a piece of popular music.
0:15:44 > 0:15:48For ten points, I'd like the name of the artist behind it, please.
0:15:48 > 0:15:49# Right here... #
0:15:51 > 0:15:52Fatboy Slim.
0:15:52 > 0:15:53It is, yes.
0:15:58 > 0:15:59You retake the lead.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01And now, to the consternation of some,
0:16:01 > 0:16:062015 saw the first ever Radio 1 Prom, with Ibiza as its theme.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09Beginning with that track by Fatboy Slim,
0:16:09 > 0:16:13Pete Tong and the Heritage Orchestra led a 90-minute concert of club
0:16:13 > 0:16:15classics at the Royal Albert Hall
0:16:15 > 0:16:18and your music bonuses are now three more of the works performed.
0:16:18 > 0:16:21You'll hear the original track in each case
0:16:21 > 0:16:24and again I want the band or artist behind each.
0:16:24 > 0:16:25Firstly for five...
0:16:25 > 0:16:27# I can't get no sleep. #
0:16:29 > 0:16:32Faithless. It's Faithless.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34You should just answer them all.
0:16:34 > 0:16:35Faithless.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38Faithless is right, yes. Secondly...
0:16:38 > 0:16:39MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:42 > 0:16:43Moby.
0:16:43 > 0:16:45Moby is correct. And finally...
0:16:45 > 0:16:47# One more time... #
0:16:48 > 0:16:49Daft Punk.
0:16:49 > 0:16:51Daft Punk is right, yes.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58Moving swiftly on... LAUGHTER
0:16:58 > 0:16:59Ten points at stake for this.
0:16:59 > 0:17:02Referring to the practice of sending Christmas cards to people merely
0:17:02 > 0:17:07because one has received a card from them, which poet wrote,
0:17:07 > 0:17:11"Some ways indeed are very odd by which we hail the birth of God"?
0:17:11 > 0:17:14The words appear...
0:17:14 > 0:17:15Philip Larkin?
0:17:15 > 0:17:16No, you lose five points.
0:17:16 > 0:17:21The words appear in the poem Advent, 1955.
0:17:21 > 0:17:22John Betjeman.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24John Betjeman is correct, yes.
0:17:26 > 0:17:32Oriel, these bonuses are on biology, a specific name in biology.
0:17:32 > 0:17:34Abies religiosa is so named
0:17:34 > 0:17:37because its foliage is used in Mexico at Christmas time.
0:17:37 > 0:17:41The genus Abies has what three-letter common name?
0:17:41 > 0:17:44It includes species such as Sicilian and silver.
0:17:47 > 0:17:48Ivy.
0:17:48 > 0:17:50No, it's fir.
0:17:50 > 0:17:53Secondly, its generic name being the Greek for prophet or diviner,
0:17:53 > 0:17:57what insect with the specific name religiosa is
0:17:57 > 0:18:01known as prie-dieu in French and Gottesanbeterin in German?
0:18:01 > 0:18:05You may give the common name or the first part of the binomial.
0:18:10 > 0:18:14- Is it ladybird?- Shall we try it?
0:18:14 > 0:18:15Ladybird.
0:18:15 > 0:18:18No, it praying mantis or mantid.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21Ficus religiosa, also known as the peepal or bow tree,
0:18:21 > 0:18:25is particularly associated with which religious figure,
0:18:25 > 0:18:28born somewhere between the sixth and fourth century BCE?
0:18:31 > 0:18:32(Buddha.)
0:18:35 > 0:18:37INDISTINCT
0:18:39 > 0:18:40The Buddha.
0:18:40 > 0:18:41The Buddha is correct, yes.
0:18:41 > 0:18:43Level pegging. Ten points for this.
0:18:43 > 0:18:44Perhaps having
0:18:44 > 0:18:47overindulged in Madeira, Dr Squills describes which protagonist
0:18:47 > 0:18:51as having, "Green eyes, fair skin, pretty figure,
0:18:51 > 0:18:53"famous frontal development"?
0:18:53 > 0:18:56She appears in a satirical novel by William Thackeray.
0:18:59 > 0:19:00Betsey Trotwood?
0:19:00 > 0:19:01No.
0:19:02 > 0:19:03Becky Sharp.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05Becky Sharp is correct, yes.
0:19:07 > 0:19:11So you take the lead, Trinity. You get a set of bonuses on hats.
0:19:11 > 0:19:15What name for a soft woollen hat or bonnet is taken from the title
0:19:15 > 0:19:19character of a narrative poem of 1791 by Robert Burns?
0:19:20 > 0:19:22Robbie Burns, Scottish.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25- Tam O'Shanter? - I don't know.
0:19:25 > 0:19:27- Tam O'Shanter?- I don't...
0:19:27 > 0:19:31- Tam O'Shanter, I mean, that's a soft...- OK.- That's a Scottish hat.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33- Nominate Bee.- Tam O'Shanter.
0:19:33 > 0:19:34Correct.
0:19:34 > 0:19:38According to its entry in the Oxford English Dictionary, what term
0:19:38 > 0:19:41has been punningly applied to a hat with a broad brim and a low crown
0:19:41 > 0:19:45because the soft felt of which it is made does not have a nap?
0:19:47 > 0:19:50I didn't even understand that.
0:19:50 > 0:19:52- Pass.- Stetson?
0:19:52 > 0:19:58So it's nap-less so what word do we get from that? It's a soft...
0:19:58 > 0:20:01Fedora? Fedora?
0:20:01 > 0:20:03- No, it's a wide-awake hat is the nickname.- Oh.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05Like the sort of thing you see
0:20:05 > 0:20:07on that bloke on the packets of Quaker Oats.
0:20:07 > 0:20:10What type of felt hat has an indentation running
0:20:10 > 0:20:13the length of the crown and has been associated with both
0:20:13 > 0:20:17the politician Anthony Eden and the rapper Tupac?
0:20:17 > 0:20:19It's named after a spa town near Frankfurt.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26- Mainz is the spa town. - There's Baden-Baden.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28There's probably lots of spa towns.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31What is that hat? I thought that was a trilby.
0:20:31 > 0:20:35- Yes. Go on. Nominate Bee.- Trilby.
0:20:35 > 0:20:38No, it's a Homburg. Ten points for this.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to
0:20:40 > 0:20:43the National Dialogue Quartet...
0:20:43 > 0:20:44Tunisia.
0:20:44 > 0:20:45Correct.
0:20:49 > 0:20:51You'll retake the lead if you get these bonuses.
0:20:51 > 0:20:53They're on literary titles.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55The last of his major novels to be written in Russian,
0:20:55 > 0:21:01what is the usual English title of Vladimir Nabokov's book Dar? D-A-R.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07INDISTINCT
0:21:09 > 0:21:11Try Lolita?
0:21:12 > 0:21:14We'll say it anyway. Lolita.
0:21:14 > 0:21:16No, it's The Gift.
0:21:16 > 0:21:19A Time Of Gifts and its sequel Between The Woods And The Water
0:21:19 > 0:21:21recount which author's journey
0:21:21 > 0:21:24on foot from the Netherlands to Constantinople in the 1930s?
0:21:24 > 0:21:28He fought in Crete and mainland Greece during the Second World War.
0:21:31 > 0:21:32Um...
0:21:35 > 0:21:38INDISTINCT
0:21:38 > 0:21:40Not Hemingway? No?
0:21:41 > 0:21:43Hemingway?
0:21:43 > 0:21:45No, it's Patrick Leigh Fermor.
0:21:45 > 0:21:48And finally, The Gift Of Stones is a novel of 1988
0:21:48 > 0:21:50by which British author?
0:21:50 > 0:21:54His other works include Quarantine, Being Dead and Harvest,
0:21:54 > 0:21:58the latter of which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2013?
0:22:04 > 0:22:05No, we don't know. Sorry.
0:22:05 > 0:22:06Jim Crace. We're going to
0:22:06 > 0:22:09take a second picture round now. For your picture starter,
0:22:09 > 0:22:12you're going to see a still from a television adaptation of a novel.
0:22:12 > 0:22:15For ten points, I want the title of the novel.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20Great Expectations.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22Anyone like to buzz from Oriel?
0:22:22 > 0:22:24David Copperfield.
0:22:24 > 0:22:25David Copperfield is correct.
0:22:25 > 0:22:30It's a young Daniel Radcliffe and Bob Hoskins as Micawber.
0:22:30 > 0:22:33That was the BBC's 1999 adaptation of David Copperfield.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36It aired on Christmas Day and Boxing Day that year.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39Your picture bonuses are stills from three more BBC adaptations
0:22:39 > 0:22:43of Dickens broadcast near Christmas over the last ten years.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46Five points for each novel you can identify. Firstly for five...
0:22:48 > 0:22:51I think that was... Go on.
0:22:51 > 0:22:53Great Expectations?
0:22:53 > 0:22:55INDISTINCT
0:22:55 > 0:22:58I was going to say Bleak House, but...
0:23:00 > 0:23:02What should we go with?
0:23:02 > 0:23:04Well, you both said Great Expectations.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06I think we'd better have an answer.
0:23:06 > 0:23:07Go with Bleak House.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10Bleak House is correct. Yes, it's Gillian Anderson as Lady Dedlock.
0:23:10 > 0:23:11Secondly...
0:23:16 > 0:23:18INDISTINCT
0:23:22 > 0:23:24Any guesses?
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Oliver Twist.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28We'll go with...Oliver.
0:23:28 > 0:23:29Oliver Twist?
0:23:29 > 0:23:32No, that's Little Dorrit. Claire Foy as Amy Dorrit.
0:23:32 > 0:23:33And finally...
0:23:33 > 0:23:36I think that's probably Oliver Twist.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38We're going to go with Oliver Twist for that one.
0:23:38 > 0:23:39No, that's Great Expectations.
0:23:39 > 0:23:42Oscar Kennedy as Young Pip.
0:23:42 > 0:23:45Right, ten points at stake for this starter question.
0:23:45 > 0:23:46Christmas Atoll in
0:23:46 > 0:23:49the West Central Pacific has a circumference of about 100 miles
0:23:49 > 0:23:52and is the largest island in the world
0:23:52 > 0:23:56that is purely formed of what organic material?
0:23:56 > 0:23:57Coral.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59Coral is correct, yes.
0:23:59 > 0:24:03These bonuses are on Emmeline Pankhurst, Oriel College.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06In 1903 in Manchester, Emmeline Pankhurst founded
0:24:06 > 0:24:11the Women's Social And Political Union. What was its three-word motto?
0:24:11 > 0:24:13The middle word of the three is "not".
0:24:19 > 0:24:22INDISTINCT
0:24:26 > 0:24:28Votes...
0:24:32 > 0:24:33Let's have it, please.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Votes not petticoats.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40No, it's deeds not words. LAUGHTER
0:24:40 > 0:24:41Secondly, an act of 1913 enabled
0:24:41 > 0:24:43the release of hunger striking suffragettes
0:24:43 > 0:24:46until they had regained their health.
0:24:46 > 0:24:50Pankhurst was released and rearrested 12 times within a year.
0:24:50 > 0:24:53By what three-word name was this act popularly known?
0:24:58 > 0:25:02- - Don't know. - - Pass.
0:25:02 > 0:25:03Act of Enfranchisement.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05No, it was the Cat and Mouse Act.
0:25:05 > 0:25:08And finally, Emmeline Pankhurst died in the year that women gained
0:25:08 > 0:25:10voting rights on the same terms as men.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12What year was that?
0:25:12 > 0:25:141921, wasn't it?
0:25:14 > 0:25:16- 1918?- 1921.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18'18? '21?
0:25:18 > 0:25:191921.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22No, it was 1928. Ten points at stake for this.
0:25:22 > 0:25:23"She had much of the richness
0:25:23 > 0:25:28"of style and beauty of imagery of her still more eminent brother."
0:25:28 > 0:25:32These words from an obituary of 1895 refer to which poet whose
0:25:32 > 0:25:37works include In The Bleak Midwinter, The Prince's Progress...?
0:25:37 > 0:25:38Christina Rossetti.
0:25:38 > 0:25:39Correct.
0:25:40 > 0:25:44These bonuses are on films set around Christmas but lacking in goodwill.
0:25:44 > 0:25:48Firstly, set on Christmas Eve, which 1988 action film sees a New York
0:25:48 > 0:25:52policeman battle against criminals in a Los Angeles skyscraper?
0:25:52 > 0:25:55- Oh, it's Die Hard 2.- Die Hard.
0:25:55 > 0:25:56- Come on.- Die Hard.
0:25:56 > 0:25:57Die Hard is right.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00The narrative of which 1999 film by Stanley Kubrick
0:26:00 > 0:26:03begins at a Christmas party and sees a New York City doctor
0:26:03 > 0:26:07embark on a voyage of sexual and moral discovery?
0:26:07 > 0:26:08Eyes Wide Shut.
0:26:08 > 0:26:12Correct. From the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett,
0:26:12 > 0:26:14which 1934 film sees Nick and Nora Charles
0:26:14 > 0:26:17investigate a murder over the Christmas holidays?
0:26:17 > 0:26:19I don't know.
0:26:19 > 0:26:21- Do you know that one? I don't know. - Pass.
0:26:21 > 0:26:22It's The Thin Man.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25Ten points for this. What English word translates all the following?
0:26:25 > 0:26:27Negua in Basque,
0:26:27 > 0:26:29fuyu in Japanese,
0:26:29 > 0:26:30zima in Polish,
0:26:30 > 0:26:34inverno in Italian...
0:26:34 > 0:26:35Winter.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37Winter is correct.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40These bonuses are on astronomy, Trinity College.
0:26:40 > 0:26:43According to the designations used by the International Astronomical
0:26:43 > 0:26:46Union, what is the smallest planet of the solar system?
0:26:47 > 0:26:50- Does Pluto count, no? - No. Mercury?
0:26:50 > 0:26:51Mercury.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53Mercury is correct. In addition to Mercury,
0:26:53 > 0:26:58which other planet of the solar system lacks natural satellites?
0:26:58 > 0:26:59- Venus.- Venus.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01Correct. In addition to Venus,
0:27:01 > 0:27:05which planet rotates in the opposite direction to that of Earth?
0:27:05 > 0:27:07- Uranus.- Uranus.
0:27:07 > 0:27:08Uranus is correct.
0:27:08 > 0:27:11Ten points for this. A painting by the Belgian surrealist
0:27:11 > 0:27:14Rene Magritte with the words "au revoir" written across the subject
0:27:14 > 0:27:19was the inspiration for the logo of which record label launched in 1968?
0:27:21 > 0:27:22Apple.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25Apple is correct. You get a set of bonuses, this time,
0:27:25 > 0:27:27on German cities as they have appeared over the years
0:27:27 > 0:27:30in references on this programme. Firstly, which city links
0:27:30 > 0:27:33an Archbishop Elector of the Holy Roman Empire,
0:27:33 > 0:27:36a cathedral that in 1880 was the tallest building in the world
0:27:36 > 0:27:39and the Roman aqueduct known as the Eifel?
0:27:41 > 0:27:43- Cologne?- Cologne?
0:27:43 > 0:27:46Correct. Which city links Leonardo's Madonna Of The Carnation,
0:27:46 > 0:27:48the origin of the word "kitsch"
0:27:48 > 0:27:55and a 1938 diplomatic arrangement known to Czechs as The Diktat?
0:27:55 > 0:27:58It's have "kitsch" in it in some way.
0:27:58 > 0:27:59Come on.
0:28:00 > 0:28:01Berlin.
0:28:01 > 0:28:04No, it's Munich. Which city links the European Central Bank,
0:28:04 > 0:28:07the birthplace of Goethe and a variety of sausage?
0:28:07 > 0:28:08- Frankfurt.- Yes. Frankfurt.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10Correct. Ten points for this.
0:28:10 > 0:28:11With a name that can be translated
0:28:11 > 0:28:14as swallowing a cloud... GONG
0:28:14 > 0:28:16And at the gong, Oriel College Oxford have 135
0:28:16 > 0:28:19but Trinity College Cambridge have 140.
0:28:20 > 0:28:22Well, that's about as close as it gets
0:28:22 > 0:28:25unless we have a sudden death on a dead heat.
0:28:25 > 0:28:27So congratulations to both of you. Thank you very much indeed.
0:28:27 > 0:28:30Oriel, we shall definitely be saying goodbye to you.
0:28:30 > 0:28:33Trinity, you might come back as one of the highest scoring winning teams.
0:28:33 > 0:28:35We'll have to see. It depends upon how others perform.
0:28:35 > 0:28:38Thank you very much for joining us and many congratulations.
0:28:38 > 0:28:40I hope you can join us next time for another first-round match,
0:28:40 > 0:28:43but until then it's goodbye from Oriel College Oxford...
0:28:43 > 0:28:46- ALL:- Goodbye.- ..it's goodbye from Trinity College Cambridge...
0:28:46 > 0:28:48- ALL:- Goodbye. - ..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:48 > 0:28:50APPLAUSE