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