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Christmas University Challenge.

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Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.

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Hello.

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Any students who have just got out of bed to watch this programme

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may need reminding that their own series is enjoying a brief respite

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while we put their elders and betters to the test.

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While the average age of the players in the students series is 24,

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it's exactly twice that in this special short series

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for distinguished alumni,

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so we confidently expect to see twice the knowledge on display.

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Now, last time we saw University College London win the first match,

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with 155 points against Birmingham University's 80,

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but as only the four teams with the highest winning score go through

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to the next stage of the competition, nothing has been decided yet.

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Oriel College was founded shortly before the Black Death,

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making it one of the oldest colleges in Oxford.

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Tonight's team includes a chess grandmaster

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and three times world champion in chess problem solving.

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He was Oriel's youngest undergraduate since Cardinal Wolsey,

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having entered the college at the age of 15, when ironically,

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he would have been too young to take part in our students series.

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His colleague worked for NGOs and in international relations before

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moving to that brand of journalism known as the celebrity interview.

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As the same time she set up her own internet baby, which is

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still going strong today, having survived a superinjunction

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and an appearance before the Leveson Inquiry.

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Their captain is due the thanks of a grateful nation for launching

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the television career of Jeremy Clarkson

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and has a corner named after him on the Top Gear test track.

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After producing for ITV, the BBC's natural history unit

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and Channel 5, he now finds himself on the other side of the camera.

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Their fourth member is a screenwriter for film and television.

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His credits include the detective drama

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Wallander, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and a biographical film

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of the life of Frankie Howerd, with David Walliams playing Howerd.

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More recently he's secured what must be the top job in his profession

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when he joined the band of writers on Doctor Who.

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So let's ask the Oriel team to introduce themselves.

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Hi, I'm John Nunn.

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I read mathematics at Oriel College, Oxford from 1970 to 1976.

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And I'm currently a director of Gambit Publications.

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Hello. I'm Camilla Wright.

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I studied politics, philosophy

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and economics at Oriel College from 1989 to 1992.

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And I set up and now run Popbitch, the pop culture website.

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And their captain.

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Hello. My name's John Bentley.

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I read geography at Oriel between 1979 and 1982.

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I'm a TV presenter and journalist and I'm probably best known for

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appearing on Channel 5's The Gadget Show.

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Hi, my name's Peter Harness.

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I studied English at Oriel from 1994 to 1997

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and I'm now a TV and film writer.

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APPLAUSE

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Now, their opponents represent Trinity College, Cambridge,

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founded by Henry VIII.

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Their first player's many awards include a Fields Medal,

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which is often viewed as the Nobel Prize in mathematics.

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And in 2012, he was knighted for his services to that discipline,

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which are frankly baffling to many of us mere mortals.

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His colleague has produced one of the very few television

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institutions to predate University Challenge,

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having made programmes for The Sky At Night as well as

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more recent documentaries such as The Secret Life Of The Cat

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and the award-winning Battlefield Britain.

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Award-winning is something of a constant in this team,

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as their captain has won the broadcast news journalism award.

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He's reported on economics for the Observer

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and been economics editor for Channel 4 before taking on his current job.

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Their fourth player has been described as

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the ultimate food scholar.

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She's written several books and various columns on the subject,

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including the award-winning Kitchen Thinker for the Sunday Telegraph.

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She is the chair of the Oxford symposium on food and cookery.

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Heaven knows what kind of a roughhouse that must be.

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And more impressively, she's been a semifinalist on MasterChef.

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Let's meet the Trinity team.

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Hello, I'm Timothy Gowers.

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I studied mathematics at Trinity College from 1982 to 1985.

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And now I study mathematics at Trinity College.

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Hi, I'm Zoe Heron. I graduated in biological anthropology in 1993.

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And I'm currently series producer of the BBC science strand Horizon.

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And let's meet their captain.

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Hello, I'm Faisal Islam. I graduated from Trinity in economics in 1998.

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And I'm the political editor of Sky News.

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Hi, I'm Bee Wilson.

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I studied history at Trinity from '92 to '95.

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And I also did a PhD at Trinity in history,

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which I got in 2002 and I'm now a food writer and journalist.

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APPLAUSE

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OK, the rules are the same as ever.

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Ten points for starter questions

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which you answer on the buzzer on your own.

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Bonus questions are worth 15 points.

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You can confer on those and there's a five-point penalty

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for incorrect interruptions to start questions.

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Fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.

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What form of exercise takes its name from its originator, born near

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Dusseldorf in 1883 and a sufferer from several childhood ailments?

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His regime aims to improve strength

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and flexibility through a series of controlled movements and...?

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Pilates.

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Pilates is right, yes.

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You get the first set of bonuses, Trinity.

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They're on winter vegetables.

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Firstly, for five points,

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its consumption described in Gerard's Herbal of 1621 as causing

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"a filthy, loathsome, stinking wind and therefore more fit for swine than men."

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What is the two word common name of helianthus tuberosus,

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in season in the UK from November to January?

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Jerusalem artichoke.

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Correct. In season in the UK from October to February,

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which vegetable is thought to be mentioned in Homer's Odyssey,

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where it is called selenon and grows in Calypso's cave?

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It's sometimes called celery root.

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Celeriac.

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Correct.

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And finally, the ability to taste the chemical phenylthiocarbamide,

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or PTC, has been suggested as the reason some people have a dislike of

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which vegetable? Brassica, oleracea, gemmifera,

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in season in the UK from September to February?

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There are actually lots of vegetables

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-that people with that thing...

-It will be Brussels sprouts.

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But Brussels sprouts isn't a root vegetable.

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If it's a root vegetable it can't be Brussels sprouts.

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But actually there are lots. What was the Latin...?

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I don't know.

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If it's Brassica it's got to be in the cabbage family,

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so it's something like Brussels sprouts.

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-We'll just go for Brussels sprouts.

-Oh...

-Let's do it.

-OK.

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Sorry. Brussels sprouts.

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Correct.

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Ten points at stake for this starter question.

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Fingers on the buzzers, please.

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Born 1794 and nicknamed Commodore,

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despite holding no military rank,

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which US magnate amassed a fortune of over 100 million

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in the shipping and rail industries and financed

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the construction of New York's original Grand Central Station?

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Rockefeller.

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Anyone from Oriel?

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JP Morgan.

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No, it's Cornelius Vanderbilt. Fingers on the buzzers, please.

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First published in the 1887 edition of Beeton's Christmas Annual,

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what is the four-word title of the story which opens with a man

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named Stamford introducing a doctor recently returned from India

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to a man conducting a chemistry experiment?

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The latter is described as...?

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A Study in Scarlet.

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Correct.

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The first of the Sherlock Holmes stories, of course.

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So your bonuses are on the classical problems of geometry, Oriel.

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Firstly, one of the classical problems of geometry requires

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the construction using only compass and straight edge of what three

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dimensional shape with exactly twice the volume of a given similar shape?

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It was proved impossible by Pierre Wantzel in 1837.

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The cube.

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Correct.

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Pierre Wantzel also proved the impossibility of constructing

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an angle that is exactly what fraction of any given angle,

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again using only compass and straight edge?

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One third.

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Correct. Which geometric problem did

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Ferdinand von Lindemann prove impossible in 1882?

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In everyday language, it means to attempt a task that is either

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extremely difficult or impossible.

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An impossiblearium.

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Squaring the circle.

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Ten points for this.

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Referring to his tempestuous relationship with his lover

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and fellow poet, who said of the French writer Paul Verlaine,

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"he was always chasing Rimbauds"?

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Born in New Jersey in 1893, she was a noted poet, author...

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Sylvia Plath.

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No.

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You lose five points.

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..poet, author, journalist and screenwriter.

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Dorothy Parker.

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Correct.

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You take the lead and you get a set of bonuses on equipment

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used in Winter Olympic sports, Oriel College.

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Name each piece of equipment from the description, please.

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Firstly, for five points.

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The men's version has an upper weight limit of 43kg.

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The length is between 800 and 1,200mm.

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And it comprises of construction frames, saddle, base plate,

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ballast, runners, bumpers and coverings.

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Skeleton bob.

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Skeleton is correct.

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Skelton or skeleton sled.

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These items, secondly, for five points,

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typically have a laminated wood core surrounded by composite layers

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of material such as carbon fibre, Kevlar and aluminium.

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The minimum length varies with the specific event,

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but is between 155 and 218cm.

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Ski.

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Alpine skis is right.

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These items weigh between 38 and 44lb,

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with a circumference of no more than 36 inches

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and a height of at least four and a half inches.

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They're highly polished and made of a rare dense granite

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quarried on the Scottish island of Ailsa Craig.

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Curling stones.

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-Just say curling stones.

-Curling stone.

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Correct.

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Right, we're going to take a picture round now.

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For your picture starter you will see a map indicating a site

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of historical and constitutional significance in England.

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For ten points, simply identify the site.

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As it's Christmas, we've also marked on a nearby town to help.

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Runnymede.

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Correct.

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Picture bonuses for you.

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2015 marked the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta,

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agreed at Runnymede in Surrey.

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For your picture bonuses, maps showing three more places

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of what are now called the Magna Carta charter towns -

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places significant in Magna Carta's history.

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Five points for each you can identify.

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Firstly, for five, this city.

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Cambridge?

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It's not Cambridge.

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So it's got to be below. So what's below...?

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Suffolk, Essex, is it somewhere in Essex?

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-Colchester?

-It's not Colchester.

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Is it below Essex?

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It's somewhere near Bedford or Luton.

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It's an old town.

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Shall we have a guess?

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-Guess?

-Guess.

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-Let's go Bury St Edmunds.

-It's not Bury St Edmunds.

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Bury St Edmunds.

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No, it's not Bury St Edmunds. It's St Albans.

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THEY GASP

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How undignified for them to be known as being near Luton.

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LAUGHTER Secondly, this town, please.

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-It could be Bury St Edmunds.

-That's Bury St Edmunds. Bury St Edmunds.

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That is Bury St Edmunds, yes.

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And finally, this city.

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That's Colchester. Yeah? That's Colchester. No, it's Canterbury.

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Canterbury? Canterbury.

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Correct.

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Right, another starter question now.

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Fingers on the buzzers.

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The playing pieces in the standard UK edition of the board game Monopoly

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include a top hat, a racing car

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and what specific breed of dog?

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A Scot... Scotty dog.

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A Scottish terrier?

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Correct, yes.

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You get a set of bonuses, this time, having taken the lead,

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Trinity College, on Christmas parties in the novels of Thomas Hardy.

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Firstly, in which of Hardy's novels does Eustacia Vye join

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a group of mummers in the guise of a Turkish knight to gain

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admittance to a Christmas party to which she has not been invited?

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-I have no idea.

-It's not The Mayor Of Casterbridge.

-The Woodlanders?

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It's not Tess Of The d'Urbervilles. It's one of the other ones.

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LAUGHTER

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It's not Far From The Madding Crowd, either, is it?

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So we need to guess either the Woodlanders or

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Return Of The Native or...

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Return Of The Native.

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Correct, yes. By a process of elimination

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and good luck, you got there.

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Secondly, which of Hardy's novels features a Christmas party

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so lively that its hostess Mrs Dewy declares,

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"A body could almost wish there were no such things as Christmases"?

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-I'm wondering if that is Tess Of The d'Urbervilles.

-Is that...?

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Tess Of The d'Urbervilles.

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No, that's Under The Greenwood Tree.

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And finally, in which of Hardy's novels does a farmer give

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a Christmas party only for it to end dramatically when he shoots

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and kills his rival in love?

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-Far From The Madding Crowd.

-Are you sure?

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-Far From The Madding Crowd.

-Far From The Madding Crowd.

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It is. It's when Farmer Boldwood shoots Sergeant Troy.

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Ten points at stake for this starter question.

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In physiology, what name denotes the conglomerate of between 30 and 50

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tubular or sac-like glands secreting fluids into the urethra

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and ejaculatory ducts?

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Present only in males, it's a chestnut-shaped...

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Prostate.

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Prostate is correct, yes.

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These bonuses could allow you to retake the lead.

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They are on scientists born in December.

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Firstly for five, born in New York in December 1797,

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which scientist discovered several important principles of electricity

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including self induction?

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The SI derived unit of inductance is named after him.

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Faraday. Faraday.

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Faraday.

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No, it's Joseph Henry.

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Secondly for five points, born in 1856,

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which scientist was elected to the Royal Society and appointed

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as chair of physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, both at the age of 28?

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He discovered the electron in 1897 and won the Nobel Prize in 1906.

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-Thomson.

-Thomson?

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Correct.

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Born in Paris in 1852, which scientist gives his name to

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the SI derived unit of radioactivity with the symbol Bq?

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Becquerel. Becquerel.

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Becquerel.

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Becquerel is correct, yes.

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Right, we're going to take a music round now.

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For your music starter, you're going to hear a piece of popular music.

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For ten points, I'd like the name of the artist behind it, please.

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# Right here... #

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Fatboy Slim.

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It is, yes.

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You retake the lead.

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And now, to the consternation of some,

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2015 saw the first ever Radio 1 Prom, with Ibiza as its theme.

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Beginning with that track by Fatboy Slim,

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Pete Tong and the Heritage Orchestra led a 90-minute concert of club

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classics at the Royal Albert Hall

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and your music bonuses are now three more of the works performed.

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You'll hear the original track in each case

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and again I want the band or artist behind each.

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Firstly for five...

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# I can't get no sleep. #

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Faithless. It's Faithless.

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You should just answer them all.

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Faithless.

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Faithless is right, yes. Secondly...

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MUSIC PLAYS

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Moby.

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Moby is correct. And finally...

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# One more time... #

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Daft Punk.

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Daft Punk is right, yes.

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Moving swiftly on... LAUGHTER

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Ten points at stake for this.

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Referring to the practice of sending Christmas cards to people merely

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because one has received a card from them, which poet wrote,

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"Some ways indeed are very odd by which we hail the birth of God"?

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The words appear...

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Philip Larkin?

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No, you lose five points.

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The words appear in the poem Advent, 1955.

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John Betjeman.

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John Betjeman is correct, yes.

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Oriel, these bonuses are on biology, a specific name in biology.

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Abies religiosa is so named

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because its foliage is used in Mexico at Christmas time.

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The genus Abies has what three-letter common name?

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It includes species such as Sicilian and silver.

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Ivy.

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No, it's fir.

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Secondly, its generic name being the Greek for prophet or diviner,

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what insect with the specific name religiosa is

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known as prie-dieu in French and Gottesanbeterin in German?

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You may give the common name or the first part of the binomial.

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-Is it ladybird?

-Shall we try it?

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Ladybird.

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No, it praying mantis or mantid.

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Ficus religiosa, also known as the peepal or bow tree,

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is particularly associated with which religious figure,

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born somewhere between the sixth and fourth century BCE?

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(Buddha.)

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INDISTINCT

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The Buddha.

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The Buddha is correct, yes.

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Level pegging. Ten points for this.

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Perhaps having

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overindulged in Madeira, Dr Squills describes which protagonist

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as having, "Green eyes, fair skin, pretty figure,

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"famous frontal development"?

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She appears in a satirical novel by William Thackeray.

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Betsey Trotwood?

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No.

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Becky Sharp.

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Becky Sharp is correct, yes.

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So you take the lead, Trinity. You get a set of bonuses on hats.

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What name for a soft woollen hat or bonnet is taken from the title

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character of a narrative poem of 1791 by Robert Burns?

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Robbie Burns, Scottish.

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- Tam O'Shanter? - I don't know.

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-Tam O'Shanter?

-I don't...

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-Tam O'Shanter, I mean, that's a soft...

-OK.

-That's a Scottish hat.

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-Nominate Bee.

-Tam O'Shanter.

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Correct.

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According to its entry in the Oxford English Dictionary, what term

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has been punningly applied to a hat with a broad brim and a low crown

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because the soft felt of which it is made does not have a nap?

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I didn't even understand that.

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-Pass.

-Stetson?

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So it's nap-less so what word do we get from that? It's a soft...

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Fedora? Fedora?

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-No, it's a wide-awake hat is the nickname.

-Oh.

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Like the sort of thing you see

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on that bloke on the packets of Quaker Oats.

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What type of felt hat has an indentation running

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the length of the crown and has been associated with both

0:20:100:20:13

the politician Anthony Eden and the rapper Tupac?

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It's named after a spa town near Frankfurt.

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-Mainz is the spa town.

-There's Baden-Baden.

0:20:230:20:26

There's probably lots of spa towns.

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What is that hat? I thought that was a trilby.

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-Yes. Go on. Nominate Bee.

-Trilby.

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No, it's a Homburg. Ten points for this.

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The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to

0:20:380:20:40

the National Dialogue Quartet...

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Tunisia.

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Correct.

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You'll retake the lead if you get these bonuses.

0:20:490:20:51

They're on literary titles.

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The last of his major novels to be written in Russian,

0:20:530:20:55

what is the usual English title of Vladimir Nabokov's book Dar? D-A-R.

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INDISTINCT

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Try Lolita?

0:21:090:21:11

We'll say it anyway. Lolita.

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No, it's The Gift.

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A Time Of Gifts and its sequel Between The Woods And The Water

0:21:160:21:19

recount which author's journey

0:21:190:21:21

on foot from the Netherlands to Constantinople in the 1930s?

0:21:210:21:24

He fought in Crete and mainland Greece during the Second World War.

0:21:240:21:28

Um...

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INDISTINCT

0:21:350:21:38

Not Hemingway? No?

0:21:380:21:40

Hemingway?

0:21:410:21:43

No, it's Patrick Leigh Fermor.

0:21:430:21:45

And finally, The Gift Of Stones is a novel of 1988

0:21:450:21:48

by which British author?

0:21:480:21:50

His other works include Quarantine, Being Dead and Harvest,

0:21:500:21:54

the latter of which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2013?

0:21:540:21:58

No, we don't know. Sorry.

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Jim Crace. We're going to

0:22:050:22:06

take a second picture round now. For your picture starter,

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you're going to see a still from a television adaptation of a novel.

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For ten points, I want the title of the novel.

0:22:120:22:15

Great Expectations.

0:22:180:22:20

Anyone like to buzz from Oriel?

0:22:200:22:22

David Copperfield.

0:22:220:22:24

David Copperfield is correct.

0:22:240:22:25

It's a young Daniel Radcliffe and Bob Hoskins as Micawber.

0:22:250:22:30

That was the BBC's 1999 adaptation of David Copperfield.

0:22:300:22:33

It aired on Christmas Day and Boxing Day that year.

0:22:330:22:36

Your picture bonuses are stills from three more BBC adaptations

0:22:360:22:39

of Dickens broadcast near Christmas over the last ten years.

0:22:390:22:43

Five points for each novel you can identify. Firstly for five...

0:22:430:22:46

I think that was... Go on.

0:22:480:22:51

Great Expectations?

0:22:510:22:53

INDISTINCT

0:22:530:22:55

I was going to say Bleak House, but...

0:22:550:22:58

What should we go with?

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Well, you both said Great Expectations.

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I think we'd better have an answer.

0:23:040:23:06

Go with Bleak House.

0:23:060:23:07

Bleak House is correct. Yes, it's Gillian Anderson as Lady Dedlock.

0:23:070:23:10

Secondly...

0:23:100:23:11

INDISTINCT

0:23:160:23:18

Any guesses?

0:23:220:23:24

Oliver Twist.

0:23:240:23:26

We'll go with...Oliver.

0:23:260:23:28

Oliver Twist?

0:23:280:23:29

No, that's Little Dorrit. Claire Foy as Amy Dorrit.

0:23:290:23:32

And finally...

0:23:320:23:33

I think that's probably Oliver Twist.

0:23:330:23:36

We're going to go with Oliver Twist for that one.

0:23:360:23:38

No, that's Great Expectations.

0:23:380:23:39

Oscar Kennedy as Young Pip.

0:23:390:23:42

Right, ten points at stake for this starter question.

0:23:420:23:45

Christmas Atoll in

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the West Central Pacific has a circumference of about 100 miles

0:23:460:23:49

and is the largest island in the world

0:23:490:23:52

that is purely formed of what organic material?

0:23:520:23:56

Coral.

0:23:560:23:57

Coral is correct, yes.

0:23:570:23:59

These bonuses are on Emmeline Pankhurst, Oriel College.

0:23:590:24:03

In 1903 in Manchester, Emmeline Pankhurst founded

0:24:030:24:06

the Women's Social And Political Union. What was its three-word motto?

0:24:060:24:11

The middle word of the three is "not".

0:24:110:24:13

INDISTINCT

0:24:190:24:22

Votes...

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Let's have it, please.

0:24:320:24:33

Votes not petticoats.

0:24:350:24:37

No, it's deeds not words. LAUGHTER

0:24:370:24:40

Secondly, an act of 1913 enabled

0:24:400:24:41

the release of hunger striking suffragettes

0:24:410:24:43

until they had regained their health.

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Pankhurst was released and rearrested 12 times within a year.

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By what three-word name was this act popularly known?

0:24:500:24:53

-- Don't know.

-- Pass.

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Act of Enfranchisement.

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No, it was the Cat and Mouse Act.

0:25:030:25:05

And finally, Emmeline Pankhurst died in the year that women gained

0:25:050:25:08

voting rights on the same terms as men.

0:25:080:25:10

What year was that?

0:25:100:25:12

1921, wasn't it?

0:25:120:25:14

-1918?

-1921.

0:25:140:25:16

'18? '21?

0:25:160:25:18

1921.

0:25:180:25:19

No, it was 1928. Ten points at stake for this.

0:25:190:25:22

"She had much of the richness

0:25:220:25:23

"of style and beauty of imagery of her still more eminent brother."

0:25:230:25:28

These words from an obituary of 1895 refer to which poet whose

0:25:280:25:32

works include In The Bleak Midwinter, The Prince's Progress...?

0:25:320:25:37

Christina Rossetti.

0:25:370:25:38

Correct.

0:25:380:25:39

These bonuses are on films set around Christmas but lacking in goodwill.

0:25:400:25:44

Firstly, set on Christmas Eve, which 1988 action film sees a New York

0:25:440:25:48

policeman battle against criminals in a Los Angeles skyscraper?

0:25:480:25:52

-Oh, it's Die Hard 2.

-Die Hard.

0:25:520:25:55

-Come on.

-Die Hard.

0:25:550:25:56

Die Hard is right.

0:25:560:25:57

The narrative of which 1999 film by Stanley Kubrick

0:25:570:26:00

begins at a Christmas party and sees a New York City doctor

0:26:000:26:03

embark on a voyage of sexual and moral discovery?

0:26:030:26:07

Eyes Wide Shut.

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Correct. From the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett,

0:26:080:26:12

which 1934 film sees Nick and Nora Charles

0:26:120:26:14

investigate a murder over the Christmas holidays?

0:26:140:26:17

I don't know.

0:26:170:26:19

-Do you know that one? I don't know.

-Pass.

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It's The Thin Man.

0:26:210:26:22

Ten points for this. What English word translates all the following?

0:26:220:26:25

Negua in Basque,

0:26:250:26:27

fuyu in Japanese,

0:26:270:26:29

zima in Polish,

0:26:290:26:30

inverno in Italian...

0:26:300:26:34

Winter.

0:26:340:26:35

Winter is correct.

0:26:350:26:37

These bonuses are on astronomy, Trinity College.

0:26:370:26:40

According to the designations used by the International Astronomical

0:26:400:26:43

Union, what is the smallest planet of the solar system?

0:26:430:26:46

- Does Pluto count, no? - No. Mercury?

0:26:470:26:50

Mercury.

0:26:500:26:51

Mercury is correct. In addition to Mercury,

0:26:510:26:53

which other planet of the solar system lacks natural satellites?

0:26:530:26:58

-Venus.

-Venus.

0:26:580:26:59

Correct. In addition to Venus,

0:26:590:27:01

which planet rotates in the opposite direction to that of Earth?

0:27:010:27:05

-Uranus.

-Uranus.

0:27:050:27:07

Uranus is correct.

0:27:070:27:08

Ten points for this. A painting by the Belgian surrealist

0:27:080:27:11

Rene Magritte with the words "au revoir" written across the subject

0:27:110:27:14

was the inspiration for the logo of which record label launched in 1968?

0:27:140:27:19

Apple.

0:27:210:27:22

Apple is correct. You get a set of bonuses, this time,

0:27:220:27:25

on German cities as they have appeared over the years

0:27:250:27:27

in references on this programme. Firstly, which city links

0:27:270:27:30

an Archbishop Elector of the Holy Roman Empire,

0:27:300:27:33

a cathedral that in 1880 was the tallest building in the world

0:27:330:27:36

and the Roman aqueduct known as the Eifel?

0:27:360:27:39

-Cologne?

-Cologne?

0:27:410:27:43

Correct. Which city links Leonardo's Madonna Of The Carnation,

0:27:430:27:46

the origin of the word "kitsch"

0:27:460:27:48

and a 1938 diplomatic arrangement known to Czechs as The Diktat?

0:27:480:27:55

It's have "kitsch" in it in some way.

0:27:550:27:58

Come on.

0:27:580:27:59

Berlin.

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No, it's Munich. Which city links the European Central Bank,

0:28:010:28:04

the birthplace of Goethe and a variety of sausage?

0:28:040:28:07

-Frankfurt.

-Yes. Frankfurt.

0:28:070:28:08

Correct. Ten points for this.

0:28:080:28:10

With a name that can be translated

0:28:100:28:11

as swallowing a cloud... GONG

0:28:110:28:14

And at the gong, Oriel College Oxford have 135

0:28:140:28:16

but Trinity College Cambridge have 140.

0:28:160:28:19

Well, that's about as close as it gets

0:28:200:28:22

unless we have a sudden death on a dead heat.

0:28:220:28:25

So congratulations to both of you. Thank you very much indeed.

0:28:250:28:27

Oriel, we shall definitely be saying goodbye to you.

0:28:270:28:30

Trinity, you might come back as one of the highest scoring winning teams.

0:28:300:28:33

We'll have to see. It depends upon how others perform.

0:28:330:28:35

Thank you very much for joining us and many congratulations.

0:28:350:28:38

I hope you can join us next time for another first-round match,

0:28:380:28:40

but until then it's goodbye from Oriel College Oxford...

0:28:400:28:43

-ALL:

-Goodbye.

-..it's goodbye from Trinity College Cambridge...

0:28:430:28:46

-ALL:

-Goodbye.

-..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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