0:00:17 > 0:00:22- APPLAUSE - Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24Asking the questions,
0:00:24 > 0:00:27- Jeremy Paxman. - TOY TRAIN HORN HONKS
0:00:28 > 0:00:30Hello. The season of goodwill
0:00:30 > 0:00:32is tested to breaking point again tonight
0:00:32 > 0:00:34as two more teams of alumni
0:00:34 > 0:00:37play for a place in the semifinal stage
0:00:37 > 0:00:39of this short, sharp contest.
0:00:39 > 0:00:43The two winning scores so far are University College London with 155
0:00:43 > 0:00:46and Trinity College, Cambridge with 140.
0:00:46 > 0:00:50But as only the four teams with the highest winning scores
0:00:50 > 0:00:54will go through to the semifinals, nothing has been decided yet.
0:00:54 > 0:00:57Manchester University can boast 25 Nobel laureates
0:00:57 > 0:01:00among its staff and students, but rather more pertinently,
0:01:00 > 0:01:04it's won the University Challenge trophy four times,
0:01:04 > 0:01:05an achievement that has been equalled,
0:01:05 > 0:01:07but not yet bettered.
0:01:07 > 0:01:09Tonight's team include a comedy performer
0:01:09 > 0:01:12and former researcher for what was then Granada Television,
0:01:12 > 0:01:14the producers of University Challenge,
0:01:14 > 0:01:16and she obliged us by taking part
0:01:16 > 0:01:19in an un-televised rehearsal of the programme.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22Apparently, on that occasion, I was a tad dismissive of her efforts.
0:01:22 > 0:01:23Sounds very unlikely,
0:01:23 > 0:01:26but let's hope she's raised her game a bit in the interim.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29She's acted, written plays and made numerous appearances
0:01:29 > 0:01:33on programmes such as Never Mind The Buzzcocks and QI.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35Her colleague is a writer whose credits include
0:01:35 > 0:01:39the award-winning comedies The Thick Of It, Peep Show, Babylon,
0:01:39 > 0:01:43Fresh Meat, Smack The Pony and That Mitchell And Webb Look.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46He was also the author of that invaluable Guardian column,
0:01:46 > 0:01:50Malcolm Tucker's Election Briefing, in the run up to the 2010 election.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52Their captain is a political activist
0:01:52 > 0:01:55and internationally recognised health adviser
0:01:55 > 0:01:57who was awarded an MBE in 2005
0:01:57 > 0:02:01in recognition of her campaigning work for equality.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04And finally, it's one of the pleasing ironies of the television industry
0:02:04 > 0:02:07that when this studio is not recording University Challenge,
0:02:07 > 0:02:11it's often playing host to Manchester's fourth member,
0:02:11 > 0:02:12a barrister who's specialised
0:02:12 > 0:02:15in cases of international fraud and money laundering.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18More recently, however, he has become the Judge Dredd
0:02:18 > 0:02:20of the ITV daytime schedules,
0:02:20 > 0:02:24dispensing apparent justice in his eponymous show.
0:02:24 > 0:02:26Let's meet the Manchester team.
0:02:26 > 0:02:27Hello. I'm Lucy Porter
0:02:27 > 0:02:31and I graduated with a 2:1 in English in 1994
0:02:31 > 0:02:33and I'm now a comedian and writer.
0:02:34 > 0:02:35I'm Jesse Armstrong.
0:02:35 > 0:02:40I graduated in 1995 with a degree in American history
0:02:40 > 0:02:42and I'm now a comedy writer.
0:02:42 > 0:02:43Their captain.
0:02:43 > 0:02:44Hi. I'm Christine Burns.
0:02:44 > 0:02:50I left Manchester with a master's degree in computer science in 1976
0:02:50 > 0:02:52and I went on to become an IT consultant
0:02:52 > 0:02:54and then an equality specialist.
0:02:54 > 0:02:56Hello. I'm Robert Rinder.
0:02:56 > 0:03:00I did my first degree at Manchester in politics and modern history.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02I'm a barrister and a television judge.
0:03:02 > 0:03:07APPLAUSE
0:03:07 > 0:03:10Now, the University of East Anglia is based in Norwich.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12It was established in 1963.
0:03:12 > 0:03:16Their first player rejoices in the title of Master Inventor
0:03:16 > 0:03:20and specialises in smart grid technologies and metering,
0:03:20 > 0:03:23home energy monitoring and something called the Internet of Things,
0:03:23 > 0:03:24although, sadly, time prevents us
0:03:24 > 0:03:27from going into how jolly useful all of that is.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29With him, a writer whose first job
0:03:29 > 0:03:32was helping to answer the fan mail for the Muppets.
0:03:32 > 0:03:36An alumnus of the creative writing course for which UEA is famous,
0:03:36 > 0:03:38she is now an author and critic
0:03:38 > 0:03:42and her journalism is published widely on both sides of the Atlantic.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44Their captain held several ministerial roles
0:03:44 > 0:03:46in the last Labour government.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48In Ed Miliband's Labour Party,
0:03:48 > 0:03:50she was shadow secretary of state for energy.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53Their fourth player has had prominent roles on television,
0:03:53 > 0:03:56in commercials, on stage, in films
0:03:56 > 0:03:58and even video games as the voice of James Bond.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01For most of us, though, he's associated with his character
0:04:01 > 0:04:03in perhaps the world's greatest soap opera.
0:04:03 > 0:04:06Let's meet the UEA team.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09Hello. I'm Andy Stanford-Clark. I live on the Isle of Wight.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11I have a BSc, a PhD
0:04:11 > 0:04:14and an honorary professorship from UEA, all in computer science.
0:04:14 > 0:04:16I work for IBM as a Distinguished Engineer.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19Hello. I'm Erica Wagner.
0:04:19 > 0:04:23I did the creative writing MA at UEA in 1990.
0:04:23 > 0:04:25I'm a writer and journalist.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28- And their captain. - Hello. I'm Caroline Flint.
0:04:28 > 0:04:32I graduated in American history and American literature in 1983 from UEA
0:04:32 > 0:04:33and I've been the Member of Parliament
0:04:33 > 0:04:36for Don Valley since 1997.
0:04:36 > 0:04:38Hello. I'm Tim Bentinck.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41I graduated from UEA in history of art in 1975
0:04:41 > 0:04:43and I've been a professional actor since leaving
0:04:43 > 0:04:46the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 1978.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48Um, if you don't recognise my face,
0:04:48 > 0:04:52you might recognise the voice as that of David in The Archers.
0:04:52 > 0:04:58APPLAUSE
0:04:58 > 0:04:59Right, the rules are the same as ever.
0:04:59 > 0:05:01Ten points for starter questions.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03You must answer those alone on the buzzer.
0:05:03 > 0:05:0615 points for bonuses. You can confer on those.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08They're team efforts.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11Five-point penalties for incorrect interruptions to starter questions.
0:05:11 > 0:05:14So, fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17Meanings of what four-letter word include a layer of humus
0:05:17 > 0:05:19formed in alkaline or neutral conditions,
0:05:19 > 0:05:22to ponder, cogitate or turn over in the mind,
0:05:22 > 0:05:23in Scotland...?
0:05:24 > 0:05:26- Mull.- Mull is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:05:26 > 0:05:29You get the first set of bonuses, Manchester.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33They're on illustration. Firstly, for five points,
0:05:33 > 0:05:36the German-born American cartoonist Thomas Nast
0:05:36 > 0:05:40is noted both for his work espousing the abolitionist cause in the US
0:05:40 > 0:05:44and for his defining depiction of which figure of popular folklore
0:05:44 > 0:05:47in Harper's Weekly from 1862?
0:05:48 > 0:05:53- Anything?- Um...um...the figure of America.
0:05:53 > 0:05:54- Uncle Sam?- Uncle Sam.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57- Uncle Sam.- No, it's Santa Claus. LAUGHTER
0:05:57 > 0:05:59Originally depicted by the illustrator John Leech
0:05:59 > 0:06:03in the drawing reflecting folkloric concepts of Father Christmas,
0:06:03 > 0:06:06who is the third visitor to Ebenezer Scrooge
0:06:06 > 0:06:08in Dickens' A Christmas Carol?
0:06:09 > 0:06:11- The Ghost of... - Christmas Future, isn't it?
0:06:11 > 0:06:13The Ghost of Christmas Future, isn't it?
0:06:13 > 0:06:15Yeah, Christmas Future, the Ghost of.
0:06:15 > 0:06:17No, it's Christmas Present. The Ghost of Christmas Present.
0:06:17 > 0:06:19Father Christmas And The Wrong Chimney
0:06:19 > 0:06:21shows the eponymous figure
0:06:21 > 0:06:24with his head stuck in the chimney of a steam roller
0:06:24 > 0:06:26and is by which British illustrator
0:06:26 > 0:06:30synonymous with overcomplicated machinery for achieving simple ends?
0:06:30 > 0:06:32- Heath Robinson? - Yeah? Heath Robinson.
0:06:32 > 0:06:33Heath Robinson is correct.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35Right, ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:06:35 > 0:06:39Which mountain is this? A dormant volcano that last erupted in 1707...
0:06:41 > 0:06:43Etna.
0:06:43 > 0:06:44No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:06:44 > 0:06:46It is the highest peak in its country,
0:06:46 > 0:06:49rising to 3,776 metres.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51Close to the Pacific Ocean.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54Its snow-capped, symmetrical cone is a pervasive image
0:06:54 > 0:06:59that often appears in works of art, for example, the 36 Views by Hokusai.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04- Krakatoa.- No, it's Mount Fuji.- Oh.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06Right, we take another starter question, then.
0:07:06 > 0:07:07Fingers on the buzzers.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09What is the more familiar two-word name
0:07:09 > 0:07:14of the theorem which appears as Proposition 47 of Euclid's Elements?
0:07:14 > 0:07:17The name refers to a Greek mathematician and philosopher
0:07:17 > 0:07:19born around 570BC.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23- Pythagoras's theorem.- Correct.
0:07:23 > 0:07:28APPLAUSE
0:07:28 > 0:07:32Right, your bonuses are on neologisms cited during 2015
0:07:32 > 0:07:35by the website wordspy.com.
0:07:35 > 0:07:38Firstly, the tendency for people who assert their individuality
0:07:38 > 0:07:42using deliberately anti-mainstream dress and grooming
0:07:42 > 0:07:46to end up all looking very similar, thus becoming the new mainstream.
0:07:46 > 0:07:52These words define a paradox named after which chiefly urban subculture?
0:07:52 > 0:07:55- Normcore or, um... - SHE STUTTERS
0:07:55 > 0:07:57- No idea.- Shall we go for that? - Special...
0:07:57 > 0:07:59No, no, cos normcore is more...
0:07:59 > 0:08:01- Hipster.- Hipster chic.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05- Or....- Try your one. - No, I don't think it is.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07I think it is something hipsterish. I don't know.
0:08:07 > 0:08:11- SHE STUTTERS - We'll go for normcore.
0:08:11 > 0:08:13- No, it was the hipster paradox. - Sorry. Hipster paradox.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15The believe that one's personality and values
0:08:15 > 0:08:17will not change much in the future,
0:08:17 > 0:08:20despite knowing they have changed significantly in the past.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23This is the definition of an illusion that refers to
0:08:23 > 0:08:26which 1992 work by Francis Fukuyama?
0:08:28 > 0:08:31- End Of History?- The End Of History? The End Of History?- Yeah.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33- The End Of History.- Correct.
0:08:33 > 0:08:37And finally, a room or office that contains no electronic technology,
0:08:37 > 0:08:39particularly devices with internet connections,
0:08:39 > 0:08:44is named after which 1854 work by Henry David Thoreau?
0:08:44 > 0:08:46Oh. Oh.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48- Walden?- Walden?- Walden?
0:08:50 > 0:08:53No...no...nominate Jesse. I can't.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55- Walden.- Yes, it's a Walden Zone. APPLAUSE
0:08:55 > 0:08:56Ten points for this.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59The name of a figure present at the Nativity
0:08:59 > 0:09:01and a historical region of central France
0:09:01 > 0:09:04may be combined to form the name of which broadcaster?
0:09:04 > 0:09:07Her publications include Recipe For Life
0:09:07 > 0:09:09and The Complete AGA Cookbook.
0:09:12 > 0:09:14No conferring.
0:09:17 > 0:09:18No. I was going to say Mary Berry.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20HE LAUGHS Silly! It's right.
0:09:20 > 0:09:25LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:09:25 > 0:09:28She's just very self-deprecating. She knew all along.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30You HAVE raised your game.
0:09:30 > 0:09:32LAUGHTER Right, your bonuses now, Manchester,
0:09:32 > 0:09:35are on NASA in January 2015.
0:09:35 > 0:09:37At the beginning of 2015,
0:09:37 > 0:09:40NASA's Dawn spacecraft was in the approach phase
0:09:40 > 0:09:42of its journey to which dwarf planet,
0:09:42 > 0:09:45the largest body in the asteroid belt?
0:09:45 > 0:09:47- Ceres.- Correct.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50What is the name and number of the European space probe
0:09:50 > 0:09:52which disappeared in 2003
0:09:52 > 0:09:56but was located intact on the surface of Mars in 2015
0:09:56 > 0:09:58by NASA's Reconnaissance Orbiter?
0:09:58 > 0:10:00- Beagle?- Beagle. Beagle 2.
0:10:00 > 0:10:02Beagle 2 is correct.
0:10:02 > 0:10:04And finally, in January 2015,
0:10:04 > 0:10:08NASA's Kepler space telescope discovered eight exoplanets
0:10:08 > 0:10:11orbiting in the habitable or life zone
0:10:11 > 0:10:13around their respective stars.
0:10:13 > 0:10:17This zone is also known by the name of which fairytale character?
0:10:17 > 0:10:19- Goldilocks.- Correct. APPLAUSE
0:10:19 > 0:10:21Right, we're going to take a picture round now.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23Still plenty of time to get going, UEA.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25For your picture starter,
0:10:25 > 0:10:27you're going to see a recent starting line-up
0:10:27 > 0:10:29of a national football squad.
0:10:29 > 0:10:33For ten points, I simply want you to identify the country in question.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42- England.- Yes, it is England. Yes. APPLAUSE
0:10:42 > 0:10:44It was the England women's team
0:10:44 > 0:10:46who, in 2015, achieved the best result
0:10:46 > 0:10:50by a senior England team in international competition since 1966,
0:10:50 > 0:10:54taking third place at the seventh Women's World Cup.
0:10:54 > 0:10:56For your picture bonuses, you'll see starting 11s
0:10:56 > 0:10:59of three more countries that reached the knockout stages
0:10:59 > 0:11:01of the 2015 Women's World Cup.
0:11:01 > 0:11:02Again, in each case,
0:11:02 > 0:11:05I simply want you to identify the country in question.
0:11:05 > 0:11:06Firstly, for five.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10A surprise. Um...
0:11:10 > 0:11:13- Shall we say...? - Christiane is going to be...
0:11:13 > 0:11:18- South American, isn't it? - Argentina?- Yeah?- Andressa Alves.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20- We're going to go for Argentina. - No, it's Brazil.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22Marta is the giveaway there. Secondly.
0:11:24 > 0:11:28- Looks like America.- America. - USA. Looks like it.
0:11:28 > 0:11:29- USA did well.- Concur?- Yeah.
0:11:29 > 0:11:32- Yeah, USA. - No, that's Australia. The Matildas.
0:11:32 > 0:11:34And finally.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36- Let's go for USA. - Let's just say USA anyway.
0:11:38 > 0:11:42- Klingenberg. That sounds... - Sounds German, doesn't it?
0:11:42 > 0:11:43Heath. That's like...
0:11:43 > 0:11:45That sounds USA to me.
0:11:46 > 0:11:50- We're going to go with USA again? - What do you think? Yeah?- Yeah, USA.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52Correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:11:52 > 0:11:55Accompanied by a video of Nativity imagery
0:11:55 > 0:11:57directed by the musicians Godley and Creme,
0:11:57 > 0:12:01which controversial English pop group reached number one in December 1984
0:12:01 > 0:12:04with the song The Power Of Love?
0:12:05 > 0:12:07- Frankie Goes To Hollywood.- Correct.
0:12:07 > 0:12:11APPLAUSE
0:12:11 > 0:12:13These bonuses are on British paintings
0:12:13 > 0:12:15in the Louvre, Manchester.
0:12:15 > 0:12:16Depicting the capital of hell
0:12:16 > 0:12:19as described by Milton in Paradise Lost,
0:12:19 > 0:12:22Pandemonium is a work of 1825
0:12:22 > 0:12:25in the sublime style by which British artist?
0:12:28 > 0:12:30- No idea.- 1825? I mean, I don't even...
0:12:30 > 0:12:32- Nothing. I've got nothing.- No.
0:12:32 > 0:12:35- Let's just say Turner and Constable for every answer.- OK.
0:12:35 > 0:12:37THEY LAUGH
0:12:37 > 0:12:39- Pass.- John Martin.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42The Portrait of Master Hare, a work of 1788
0:12:42 > 0:12:45depicting a young boy with long ringlets
0:12:45 > 0:12:47is by which English painter,
0:12:47 > 0:12:50appointed the first president of the Royal Academy 20 years earlier?
0:12:50 > 0:12:52- Gainsborough?- Gainsborough? - Gainsborough.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54No, it's Sir Joshua Reynolds.
0:12:54 > 0:12:56And finally, a work of around 1818,
0:12:56 > 0:13:00Weymouth Bay with Approaching Storm is by which English painter?
0:13:00 > 0:13:02His work was much admired in France
0:13:02 > 0:13:05and influenced two generations of French painters.
0:13:05 > 0:13:09- Turner.- No, it was Constable.- Oh. - Ten points for this.
0:13:09 > 0:13:10"To work with a stupid director
0:13:10 > 0:13:14"who tells you to do the wrong thing, it's just unbearable."
0:13:14 > 0:13:16Referring to some of his later films,
0:13:16 > 0:13:20these are the words of which actor who died in July 2015?
0:13:20 > 0:13:22He received an Oscar nomination
0:13:22 > 0:13:25for his early role in David Lean's Lawrence Of Arabia.
0:13:27 > 0:13:29- Peter O'Toole.- No.
0:13:29 > 0:13:32Anyone like to buzz from Manchester?
0:13:32 > 0:13:34You may not confer! One of you can buzz.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39I'll tell you. It's Omar Sharif. Ten points for this.
0:13:39 > 0:13:41The modern version of which seasonal item
0:13:41 > 0:13:45originated in Germany as a prop in a medieval play about...?
0:13:48 > 0:13:51- LAUGHTER - The Christmas tree.
0:13:51 > 0:13:53Did you not buzz then? It just happened magically?
0:13:53 > 0:13:56- It felt that way, but... - LAUGHTER
0:13:56 > 0:13:57Well, you're right.
0:13:57 > 0:14:01LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:14:01 > 0:14:04Right, you get bonuses on popular books on the sciences.
0:14:04 > 0:14:05Described by one reviewer
0:14:05 > 0:14:08as leading to the sort of existentialist ponderings
0:14:08 > 0:14:11more commonly fuelled by late nights and a bottle of red,
0:14:11 > 0:14:15the title of Carlo Rovelli's 2015 bestseller
0:14:15 > 0:14:18offers seven brief lessons in what?
0:14:20 > 0:14:23- No.- His book was about...- Anything?
0:14:25 > 0:14:27- Time travel.- No, it's physics.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30A popular science book of 1997 by Simon Singh
0:14:30 > 0:14:34has what title referring to a mathematical conjecture
0:14:34 > 0:14:37solved in the early 1990s by Andrew Wiles.
0:14:37 > 0:14:40- Fermat's Theorem.- Yeah, Fermat's. - Oh, Fermat's Theorem.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43- It's Fermat's Last Theorem.- Oh.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45Published in the US as Fermat's Enigma.
0:14:45 > 0:14:47I can't give you the points, I'm afraid.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50This is the final question in this bonus set.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52In the title of Nick Lane's 2002 work,
0:14:52 > 0:14:55what is the molecule that made the world?
0:14:58 > 0:15:00- Carbon?- Carbon?
0:15:00 > 0:15:02- Yeah.- I'd say, yeah.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04- Carbon.- No, it's oxygen.- Oh.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06Right, ten points for this starter question.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09"Fallacious logic does not necessarily prevent people
0:15:09 > 0:15:12"from being swayed by an argument." Quote.
0:15:12 > 0:15:15What is the dictionary spelling of the word fallacious?
0:15:17 > 0:15:21- F-A-L-L-A-C-I-O-U-S.- Correct.
0:15:21 > 0:15:25APPLAUSE
0:15:25 > 0:15:30You get a set of bonuses, this time on Christmas curmudgeons, Manchester.
0:15:30 > 0:15:35In Dr Seuss' 1957 book for children How The Grinch Stole Christmas,
0:15:35 > 0:15:37what is the name of the fictional town
0:15:37 > 0:15:39from which the Grinch steals?
0:15:39 > 0:15:43- Oh, God.- Don't know. Can't remember.
0:15:44 > 0:15:46- Oh.- Lucy?- It's just...
0:15:46 > 0:15:48- It's not there. - You can't remember it?
0:15:48 > 0:15:51- Oh, God, that's going to... - Give us a guess.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54- Um, no, I haven't got a clue. - I don't know.- Um...
0:15:55 > 0:15:57Bibbity.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59Bibbity.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01- No, it's Whoville.- Whoville!
0:16:01 > 0:16:05In which 1946 film does Lionel Barrymore play a banker
0:16:05 > 0:16:07who, on Christmas Eve, tries to close down
0:16:07 > 0:16:10the savings and loans company established by George Bailey,
0:16:10 > 0:16:12played by James Stewart?
0:16:12 > 0:16:14- It's A Wonderful Life. - That's correct.
0:16:14 > 0:16:16And finally, in Dickens' A Christmas Carol,
0:16:16 > 0:16:19what is the name of Scrooge's generous nephew
0:16:19 > 0:16:22who, through the actions of the Ghost of Christmas Present,
0:16:22 > 0:16:24Scrooge sees hosting the Christmas party
0:16:24 > 0:16:26he has refused to attend.
0:16:26 > 0:16:29- I can't remember the book. - Not Bob Cratchit?
0:16:29 > 0:16:31- No, it's not.- That's the...
0:16:31 > 0:16:33- I can't remember the name. - Mr Cratchit.
0:16:33 > 0:16:35All right, Mr Cratchit.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38No, it's Fred. Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:16:38 > 0:16:41For your music starter, you're going to hear a piece of classical music
0:16:41 > 0:16:43by an English composer.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46Ten points if you can identify the composer.
0:16:46 > 0:16:51# The ruler of this house... #
0:16:53 > 0:16:55Benjamin Britten.
0:16:55 > 0:16:58No. You can hear a little more, Manchester, but you may not confer.
0:16:58 > 0:17:04# Long on may he reign
0:17:06 > 0:17:14# Many happy Christmases he live to see again. #
0:17:16 > 0:17:18Elgar.
0:17:18 > 0:17:21No, it's Vaughan Williams. Part of his Fantasia On Christmas Carols.
0:17:21 > 0:17:22So, music bonuses in a moment or two.
0:17:22 > 0:17:25Ten points at stake for this starter question.
0:17:25 > 0:17:26Fingers on the buzzers, please.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29Which film of 1972 by Woody Allen
0:17:29 > 0:17:33was inspired by a 1969 manual by the US physician David...?
0:17:35 > 0:17:38Um, Everything You Need To Know About Sex
0:17:38 > 0:17:39(But Were Too Afraid To Ask).
0:17:39 > 0:17:41I'll accept that.
0:17:41 > 0:17:43It's Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex
0:17:43 > 0:17:45- (But Were Afraid To Ask). - Thank you very much.
0:17:45 > 0:17:48So, you then get the music bonuses, Manchester.
0:17:48 > 0:17:51We just heard Vaughan Williams' 1912 Fantasia
0:17:51 > 0:17:53on the melodies of several traditional English carols.
0:17:53 > 0:17:56Your music bonuses are three more classical works
0:17:56 > 0:17:58that quote or otherwise incorporate
0:17:58 > 0:18:01the melodies of traditional Christmas songs.
0:18:01 > 0:18:03In each case, I'm looking for the composer
0:18:03 > 0:18:07of the derived piece you hear, not of the original carol.
0:18:07 > 0:18:10Firstly, for five, the French composer of this piece,
0:18:10 > 0:18:14which quotes the melody of a traditional Epiphany carol.
0:18:14 > 0:18:20UPBEAT ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:18:24 > 0:18:27- We're guessing Bizet.- We're guess...
0:18:27 > 0:18:30- No, I think it's Bizet. - It is Bizet. You're right, yes.
0:18:30 > 0:18:32It's quoting The March Of The Three Kings.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34Secondly, the German composer of this song,
0:18:34 > 0:18:37which incorporates the melody of a medieval carol.
0:18:37 > 0:18:42VIOLIN AND PIANO PLAYS
0:18:45 > 0:18:47Brahms?
0:18:48 > 0:18:53- No, it wouldn't be...- Brahms. - We'll give it Brahms, yeah.
0:18:53 > 0:18:56- We'll say Brahms. - Brahms is correct, yes.
0:18:56 > 0:18:57It's the Sacred Lullaby.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00And finally, the Central European composer of this piece,
0:19:00 > 0:19:03which quotes a traditional Christmas lullaby.
0:19:03 > 0:19:08PIANO MUSIC PLAYS
0:19:12 > 0:19:17- Dvorak?- Dvorak, yeah. - Dvorak?- Yes.- Sounds like it.
0:19:18 > 0:19:20We think Dvorak.
0:19:20 > 0:19:22I'm afraid you think wrong. It's Chopin.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25UEA, it looks bad, I agree. LAUGHTER
0:19:25 > 0:19:28There's no disguising that. But there's still plenty of time.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30- We're only halfway through the contest.- Way ahead.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32Ten points for this.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34The discipline of human-factors engineering
0:19:34 > 0:19:38is also known by what single-word, Greek-derived term?
0:19:38 > 0:19:41It's concerned with the design of devices and systems.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43- Ergonomics.- Correct.
0:19:43 > 0:19:47APPLAUSE
0:19:47 > 0:19:50Right, Manchester, your bonuses this time are on sporting achievements.
0:19:50 > 0:19:55All three occurred on Sunday June 7, 2015.
0:19:55 > 0:19:58On June 7, 2015, on achieving a career milestone
0:19:58 > 0:20:01of running the 100 metres in 9.97 seconds,
0:20:01 > 0:20:04which sprinter became the first British athlete
0:20:04 > 0:20:08to have recorded both a sub-ten-second 100 metres
0:20:08 > 0:20:10and a sub-20-second 200 metres?
0:20:10 > 0:20:12- I don't know runners. - Is it Mo Farah?
0:20:12 > 0:20:14- No, no, no, 100 metres. - I don't think so.
0:20:14 > 0:20:17- 100 metres.- 100 metres. Yeah, I don't know sprinters.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19No, we can't remember,
0:20:19 > 0:20:21- so we'll just say Mo Farah. - No, we...
0:20:21 > 0:20:24Well, I'm afraid you'll be wrong there. It's Adam Gemili.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27And on the same day, at London's Lee Valley VeloPark,
0:20:27 > 0:20:33which cyclist broke the hour record by completing a distance of 54.526km,
0:20:33 > 0:20:36so breaking the record set five weeks earlier
0:20:36 > 0:20:39by fellow British cyclist Alex Dowsett?
0:20:41 > 0:20:44- Bradley Wiggins? - Not Chris Hoy?- Chris Hoy.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46- Chris Hoy or Bradley Wiggins. - Between which...?
0:20:46 > 0:20:49- I'd go Chris Hoy. - We'll go for Chris Hoy.
0:20:49 > 0:20:51No, you should have gone for Bradley Wiggins. Bad luck.
0:20:51 > 0:20:52Also on the same day,
0:20:52 > 0:20:55which tennis player's 28-match winning streak
0:20:55 > 0:20:59came to an end when he was defeated by Stanislas Wawrinka
0:20:59 > 0:21:01in the French Open men's finals?
0:21:01 > 0:21:05- HE STUTTERS - Yeah, it would be, um...
0:21:06 > 0:21:09- The current number one.- Djokovic. - Djokovic, yeah.- Djokovic.
0:21:09 > 0:21:11It was Novak Djokovic. APPLAUSE
0:21:11 > 0:21:13Ten points at stake for this. Fingers on the buzzers, please.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15In the usual version of the traditional song
0:21:15 > 0:21:17The 12 Days Of Christmas,
0:21:17 > 0:21:22on how many of the days were the new gifts NOT of an avian variety?
0:21:25 > 0:21:26Three.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28Anyone like the buzz from UEA? Come on.
0:21:28 > 0:21:32You may not confer, but you can just work it out and buzz.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37- Four.- No, it's six.
0:21:37 > 0:21:40Rings, maids, ladies, lords, pipers and drummers.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42Right, ten points for this.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44The chemical symbol for oxygen
0:21:44 > 0:21:46and the symbols for the derived SI units
0:21:46 > 0:21:49of electrical conductance, force and power
0:21:49 > 0:21:52can be combined to spell what form of precipitation?
0:21:56 > 0:21:58Fog.
0:21:58 > 0:22:00Anyone like to buzz from UEA?
0:22:03 > 0:22:04Rain.
0:22:04 > 0:22:06No, it's snow.
0:22:06 > 0:22:07Ten points for this.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09Which game of skill is traditionally played
0:22:09 > 0:22:13with 181 black and 180 white pieces or stones?
0:22:15 > 0:22:17- Go.- Go is correct, yes.
0:22:17 > 0:22:23CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:22:23 > 0:22:25- We can confer. - HE CHUCKLES
0:22:25 > 0:22:29LAUGHTER Only got 140 points to go.
0:22:29 > 0:22:32- Minus and plus.- It's very good. LAUGHTER
0:22:32 > 0:22:36- Right, your bonuses, UEA, are on Marie Curie.- Oh.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39Discovered in 1898 by Pierre and Marie Curie,
0:22:39 > 0:22:41which element of the oxygen group
0:22:41 > 0:22:44was named after Marie Curie's country of birth?
0:22:46 > 0:22:48- Deuterium?- Pardon?- Deuterium?
0:22:48 > 0:22:50- What do you think? - What do you reckon?
0:22:50 > 0:22:52- Deuterium, he says. - No, it's the country of birth.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54- Country of birth. - So, where was Marie Curie born?
0:22:54 > 0:22:58- Switzerland?- Was it Switzerland? Czechoslovakia?- Swissium? Austrium?
0:22:58 > 0:23:01- Marie Curie, French. Francium. Francium.- Francium?
0:23:01 > 0:23:05- Francium.- No, it's polonium. She was born in Poland.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08In 1911, Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
0:23:08 > 0:23:12for the discovery of polonium and which other radioactive element?
0:23:12 > 0:23:16- Radium?- Radium?- Yeah, yeah.- Radium?
0:23:16 > 0:23:19- What?- They think radium. Radium.- Correct.
0:23:19 > 0:23:21Marie Curie became the first woman in her own right
0:23:21 > 0:23:23to be accorded the honour of interment
0:23:23 > 0:23:28in which neoclassical building in Paris' 5th arrondissement?
0:23:28 > 0:23:29The Pantheon.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32- Pantheon.- The Pantheon is correct. APPLAUSE
0:23:32 > 0:23:34Right, second picture round now.
0:23:34 > 0:23:36For your picture starter, you will see a still from a film.
0:23:36 > 0:23:39For ten points, I'd like you to identify the film
0:23:39 > 0:23:41and the name of the actor in the photograph.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48- It's Orson Welles in Citizen Kane. - It is indeed, yes.
0:23:48 > 0:23:52APPLAUSE
0:23:52 > 0:23:54This year saw the centenary of Orson Welles,
0:23:54 > 0:23:56so for your picture bonuses,
0:23:56 > 0:23:59you're going to see three more stills from films featuring Orson Welles.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02Five points for each if you can identify the film.
0:24:02 > 0:24:04Firstly, this 1966 film.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08Thomas. He's playing Thomas Wolsey.
0:24:08 > 0:24:11- Is it A Man For All Seasons? - A Man For All Seasons.
0:24:11 > 0:24:14It is A Man For All Seasons, where he played Cardinal Wolsey.
0:24:14 > 0:24:16Secondly, this film, from 1958.
0:24:18 > 0:24:19Is that The Third Man?
0:24:19 > 0:24:23No, no, it's the one in South America where he...
0:24:23 > 0:24:24A Touch Of Evil.
0:24:24 > 0:24:26- A Touch Of Evil.- Correct.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28And finally, this 1949 film.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32- That's The Third Man. - That is The Third Man, as Harry Lime.
0:24:32 > 0:24:35APPLAUSE
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Right, another starter question now.
0:24:37 > 0:24:41Tarija, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz de la Sierra,
0:24:41 > 0:24:43lying to the east of the region known as the Altiplano,
0:24:43 > 0:24:47are among the largest cities of which country of South America?
0:24:49 > 0:24:52- Peru.- Anyone like to buzz from Manchester?
0:24:53 > 0:24:57- Colombia.- No, it's Bolivia. Ten points for this.
0:24:57 > 0:24:59What five-letter word links the group of galaxies
0:24:59 > 0:25:01to which the Milky Way belongs,
0:25:01 > 0:25:05an administrative body in a tier below national government
0:25:05 > 0:25:08and an anaesthetic that affects a restricted area of the body?
0:25:10 > 0:25:11- Local.- Correct.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14APPLAUSE
0:25:14 > 0:25:19You get a set of bonuses, Manchester, on political leaders elected in 2015.
0:25:19 > 0:25:21In February 2015,
0:25:21 > 0:25:24Sergio Mattarella succeeded Giorgio Napolitano
0:25:24 > 0:25:28as holder of which largely ceremonial office?
0:25:28 > 0:25:29President of Italy.
0:25:29 > 0:25:31- President of Italy.- Correct.
0:25:31 > 0:25:34In January 2015, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic
0:25:34 > 0:25:37narrowly defeated the incumbent candidate
0:25:37 > 0:25:41to become the first female president of which country?
0:25:41 > 0:25:42Oh.
0:25:42 > 0:25:45HE WHISPERS TO HIMSELF
0:25:45 > 0:25:48Oh, is it something like...? It's something like...
0:25:48 > 0:25:51It's something like Poland or something, isn't it?
0:25:51 > 0:25:53- No, cos weren't they very right wing?- No, it's not Poland.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56That was a very right wing government there. Kitarovic?
0:25:58 > 0:26:01- Come on.- Is it Latvia? - Go on. Take a guess.
0:26:01 > 0:26:03Latvia or Poland or something. I can't...
0:26:03 > 0:26:05- We'll say Latvia.- No, it's Croatia.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07And finally, in May 2015,
0:26:07 > 0:26:10the Centre Party leader Juha Sipila...
0:26:11 > 0:26:15..was named as the prime minister in a three-party coalition
0:26:15 > 0:26:16of which European country?
0:26:19 > 0:26:21- Slovakia maybe.- Yeah, go for that.
0:26:21 > 0:26:24- Slovakia.- No, it's Finland. Ten points for this.
0:26:24 > 0:26:27"Out of his surname, they've coined an epithet for a nave
0:26:27 > 0:26:31"and out of his Christian name, a synonym for the devil."
0:26:31 > 0:26:34These words of Macaulay, in an essay of 1827,
0:26:34 > 0:26:37refer to which figure in Italian history?
0:26:42 > 0:26:43- Machiavelli.- Correct.
0:26:43 > 0:26:47- Way! - APPLAUSE
0:26:47 > 0:26:50Right, your bonuses are on chemical substances.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53Calamine lotion typically has, as a major ingredient,
0:26:53 > 0:26:56the oxide of which metal with the atomic number 30?
0:26:57 > 0:26:59Magnesium. Magnesium.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01- Magnesium.- No, it's zinc.
0:27:01 > 0:27:04The carbonate of which metal is used to treat mental disorders,
0:27:04 > 0:27:07including bipolar disorder?
0:27:07 > 0:27:09Sodium?
0:27:09 > 0:27:11Um...
0:27:12 > 0:27:14- Lithium.- Lithium.
0:27:14 > 0:27:16- Lithium.- Correct.
0:27:16 > 0:27:18The green deposit known as verdigris
0:27:18 > 0:27:21primarily consists of the carbonate of which metal?
0:27:21 > 0:27:23- Copper.- Correct. APPLAUSE
0:27:23 > 0:27:24Ten points for this.
0:27:24 > 0:27:27Differing by a single letter and easily mistyped,
0:27:27 > 0:27:29which two words mean one who organises,
0:27:29 > 0:27:31directs or plots something
0:27:31 > 0:27:35and a receptacle for animal fodder, a symbol of the birth of Jesus?
0:27:36 > 0:27:39- Manager and manger.- Correct. APPLAUSE
0:27:39 > 0:27:43You've got a set of bonuses, this time on unusual plots in opera.
0:27:43 > 0:27:47First performed in 1924, the opera The Cunning Little Vixen
0:27:47 > 0:27:49sees a fox briefly become a suffragette
0:27:49 > 0:27:52and is by which Czech composer?
0:27:53 > 0:27:55- Janacek or...?- Um...
0:27:55 > 0:27:57Let's have it, please. GONG
0:27:57 > 0:28:00APPLAUSE Too late.
0:28:00 > 0:28:01And at the gong,
0:28:01 > 0:28:04the University of East Anglia have 35,
0:28:04 > 0:28:06but Manchester have 195.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08I think that's a pretty conclusive result, don't you?
0:28:08 > 0:28:11- It was close.- No, it wasn't. LAUGHTER
0:28:11 > 0:28:13But thank you very much for joining us.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16You didn't have to do it and you're good sports to do so.
0:28:16 > 0:28:17Manchester, 195.
0:28:17 > 0:28:20That is the highest score of a winning team so far,
0:28:20 > 0:28:22so I would be surprised if we don't see you back
0:28:22 > 0:28:23in the next stage of the competition.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25Thank you very much for joining us.
0:28:25 > 0:28:28I hope you can join us next time for another first-round match,
0:28:28 > 0:28:31but until then, it's goodbye from the University of East Anglia.
0:28:31 > 0:28:32- ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:32 > 0:28:33It's goodbye from Manchester University.
0:28:33 > 0:28:36- ALL:- Goodbye. - And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:36 > 0:28:40APPLAUSE