0:00:18 > 0:00:22Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:28Hello.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32It's been brought to our attention that in past years of this short
0:00:32 > 0:00:35and seasonal contest, some teams have shown a lamentable
0:00:35 > 0:00:38lack of confidence in their abilities by entering having already
0:00:38 > 0:00:42booked tickets for the pantomime on the evening that the final match
0:00:42 > 0:00:46is to be recorded, so sure have they been that they won't get that far.
0:00:46 > 0:00:48Let's hope tonight's teams are made of sterner stuff.
0:00:48 > 0:00:53The three winning teams so far have scored between 140 and 195
0:00:53 > 0:00:57so a winning score of over 195 means that that team will
0:00:57 > 0:01:00definitely appear in the semifinals.
0:01:00 > 0:01:04Christ's College, Cambridge was founded in 1505, and its alumni
0:01:04 > 0:01:08include Charles Darwin, John Milton and tonight's four - a businessman
0:01:08 > 0:01:12and former rower who won a gold medal in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
0:01:12 > 0:01:16With him, the recipient of eight Emmy nominations and two wins for her
0:01:16 > 0:01:20work in drama productions such as Wolf Hall and Game Of Thrones.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22She's also been responsible for inveigling
0:01:22 > 0:01:26unsuspecting people into cameo roles in the Bridget Jones films,
0:01:26 > 0:01:28about which the less said the better, I think.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31Their captain writes for The Guardian and The Independent,
0:01:31 > 0:01:32she's judged the Man Booker Prize
0:01:32 > 0:01:35and what was the Orange Prize, and as a former
0:01:35 > 0:01:39stand-up comedian, she maintains that modern comedians steal all their
0:01:39 > 0:01:43jokes from Aristophanes, Martial and her personal favourite, Juvenal.
0:01:43 > 0:01:48Their fourth player has been a BBC foreign correspondent since 1998,
0:01:48 > 0:01:53with postings including Santiago, Jerusalem, Beijing and Istanbul.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55Let's meet the Christ's team.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58Hi, I'm Kieran West. I read economics, land economy
0:01:58 > 0:02:02and mathematics education at Christ's between 1995 and 2001.
0:02:02 > 0:02:06I'm now a management consultant in the City.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08Hi, I'm Nina Gold.
0:02:08 > 0:02:12I read French and Latin at Christ's and graduated in 1986.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14I'm now a casting director.
0:02:14 > 0:02:15And their captain.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17Hi, I'm Natalie Haynes
0:02:17 > 0:02:20and I read classics at Christ's between '93 and '96.
0:02:20 > 0:02:22And I'm now a writer and broadcaster.
0:02:22 > 0:02:26Hi, I'm James Reynolds. I studied French and Spanish at Christ's.
0:02:26 > 0:02:30I graduated in 1996. I'm now the BBC's Rome correspondent.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33APPLAUSE
0:02:36 > 0:02:40The University of Essex is a mid-'60s institution near Colchester.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43Tonight's team includes a man who attributes his success to
0:02:43 > 0:02:47a childhood spent playing board games and living in Hornsea,
0:02:47 > 0:02:49he now writes about Artificial Intelligence,
0:02:49 > 0:02:55designs virtual worlds and is a pioneer of multiplayer online gaming.
0:02:55 > 0:02:56You can see cause and effect.
0:02:56 > 0:03:00With him, a specialist in Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite and Romantic art,
0:03:00 > 0:03:03about which he frequently broadcasts, writes and lecturers.
0:03:03 > 0:03:07Their captain founded the publishing company X Press,
0:03:07 > 0:03:11which produces black fiction, and is a co-founder of Colourtelly, set to
0:03:11 > 0:03:15be Britain's first general interest black internet television station.
0:03:15 > 0:03:19He also claims to have been London's first black teddy boy.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22Joining them is a writer whose plays have been directed by,
0:03:22 > 0:03:25among others, Adrian Noble, Trevor Nunn and Richard Eyre,
0:03:25 > 0:03:29and by Danny Boyle in his adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -
0:03:29 > 0:03:31one of the first successes of National Theatre Live.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34Let's meet the Essex team.
0:03:34 > 0:03:36Hi, I'm Richard Bartle. I did my BSc and PhD
0:03:36 > 0:03:39at the University of Essex in the 1980s,
0:03:39 > 0:03:43where I am currently Honorary Professor of Computer Game Design.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46Hi, I'm Rupert Maas. I am an art dealer in London.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49I'm one of the experts on the Antiques Roadshow.
0:03:49 > 0:03:50And their captain.
0:03:50 > 0:03:51Hello, I'm Dotun Adebayo.
0:03:51 > 0:03:55I got my degree from Essex University in 1987, in philosophy.
0:03:55 > 0:03:59I'm currently a radio broadcaster and book publisher.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01Hello, I'm Nick Dear.
0:04:01 > 0:04:06I graduated from Essex in 1977 with a degree in European literature.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08I'm now a playwright and screenwriter.
0:04:08 > 0:04:12APPLAUSE
0:04:13 > 0:04:16Well, you must all know the rules.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19The key thing to remember though is that if you interrupt a starter
0:04:19 > 0:04:24question incorrectly on your buzzer, there is a five-point penalty.
0:04:24 > 0:04:28OK. Right, fingers on the buzzers. Here is your first starter for ten.
0:04:28 > 0:04:30Viscum album has what common name?
0:04:30 > 0:04:34Containing its own chlorophyll, it's a semi-parasitic plant associated
0:04:34 > 0:04:38both with the Druidic religion and with the Christmas season.
0:04:39 > 0:04:40Mistletoe.
0:04:40 > 0:04:41Correct.
0:04:44 > 0:04:45You get a set of bonuses,
0:04:45 > 0:04:49Essex, on theatre productions for Christmas 2015.
0:04:49 > 0:04:52In 2015, for the fourth consecutive year, the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith
0:04:52 > 0:04:56is staging an adaptation of a work by which writer?
0:04:56 > 0:04:59It follows Father Christmas as he wakes from a dream of sun,
0:04:59 > 0:05:01sea and sand on Christmas Eve.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09I'm sorry, we have no idea.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11It's by Raymond Briggs. MAAS GROANS
0:05:11 > 0:05:14Due to archaeological excavations at York's Theatre Royal,
0:05:14 > 0:05:19the 2015 production Dick Whittington And His Meerkat is being staged in
0:05:19 > 0:05:24the Signal Box Theatre within which national institution, also in York?
0:05:24 > 0:05:26The National Railway Museum.
0:05:26 > 0:05:27THEY CONFER
0:05:27 > 0:05:28The National Railway Museum.
0:05:28 > 0:05:29Correct.
0:05:29 > 0:05:33For Christmas 2015, the Birmingham Repertory Theatre is presenting
0:05:33 > 0:05:36a new staging of which story concerning four children evacuated
0:05:36 > 0:05:41during World War II to the rambling country house of Professor Kirke?
0:05:42 > 0:05:44The Railway Children.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47No, it's The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe.
0:05:47 > 0:05:49Shocking. LAUGHTER
0:05:49 > 0:05:50Ten points for this.
0:05:50 > 0:05:54In September 2015, Wayne Rooney scored his 50th goal
0:05:54 > 0:05:58for England to become England's all-time highest goal-scorer.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00Which player's 45-year-old...
0:06:01 > 0:06:03Bobby Charlton.
0:06:03 > 0:06:04Correct.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08So you are off the mark, Christ's.
0:06:08 > 0:06:12Your bonuses are lines from three poems about robins.
0:06:12 > 0:06:16The songbird, that is. Name the author in each case, please.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18First, from 1802.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20Art thou the bird whom man loves best
0:06:20 > 0:06:22The pious bird with the scarlet breast,
0:06:22 > 0:06:24Our little English Robin?
0:06:28 > 0:06:30Anyone from 1802?
0:06:33 > 0:06:34Keats?
0:06:34 > 0:06:35Keats.
0:06:35 > 0:06:36No, it's Wordsworth.
0:06:36 > 0:06:39When winter frost Makes Earth as steel
0:06:39 > 0:06:42I search and search But find no meal,
0:06:42 > 0:06:44And most unhappy Then I feel.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47This poem was included in the 1917 collection
0:06:47 > 0:06:51Moments Of Vision by which poet and novelist?
0:06:51 > 0:06:54INDISTINCT CHAT
0:06:57 > 0:06:59INDISTINCT SPEECH
0:06:59 > 0:07:02- 1917.- Yeats?
0:07:03 > 0:07:04Yeats.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07No, that's by Hardy. His poem The Robin.
0:07:07 > 0:07:11And finally, a poem written in 1803 and published 60 years later.
0:07:11 > 0:07:15A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.
0:07:16 > 0:07:18UNCLEAR SPEECH
0:07:18 > 0:07:20Shelley.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22No, that's Blake, from The Auguries Of Innocence.
0:07:22 > 0:07:23Ten points for this.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26William Sandys's Christmas Carols Ancient And Modern
0:07:26 > 0:07:30was first published during the reign of which British monarch?
0:07:30 > 0:07:33His reign also saw the Slavery Abolition Act,
0:07:33 > 0:07:35and the passage of the Great Reform Bill.
0:07:37 > 0:07:39George III.
0:07:39 > 0:07:41No, one of you may buzz.
0:07:42 > 0:07:43William IV.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45William IV is correct, yes.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47APPLAUSE
0:07:47 > 0:07:51The bonuses for you, Christ's, are on actresses in the James Bond films.
0:07:51 > 0:07:55Yvonne Shima and Michel Mok play Sister Lily and Sister Rose,
0:07:55 > 0:07:59henchwomen of which James Bond villain in the 1962 film
0:07:59 > 0:08:00directed by Terence Young?
0:08:01 > 0:08:02Dr No.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04- Dr No?- Dr No.
0:08:04 > 0:08:05Dr No.
0:08:05 > 0:08:06Correct.
0:08:06 > 0:08:10Colonel Rosa Klebb is an antagonist in the 1963 Bond
0:08:10 > 0:08:14film From Russia With Love, and is played by which Austrian actress,
0:08:14 > 0:08:17noted for her performances in the works of Brecht and Weill?
0:08:17 > 0:08:19INDISTINCT SPEECH
0:08:19 > 0:08:21- Can I nominate you?- Yes. - Nominate Gold.
0:08:21 > 0:08:23- Lotte Lenya.- Correct.
0:08:23 > 0:08:28Finally, in the 1985 film A View To A Kill, the role of May Day,
0:08:28 > 0:08:31the bodyguard and enforcer of the villain Max Zorin,
0:08:31 > 0:08:33was created for which recording artist and actress?
0:08:33 > 0:08:35- BOTH:- Grace Jones.
0:08:35 > 0:08:36Grace Jones.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38Grace Jones is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:08:38 > 0:08:40We are going to take a picture round now.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42For your picture starter question, you're going to see
0:08:42 > 0:08:44a word in a European language.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47For ten points, all you have to do is to identify that language.
0:08:49 > 0:08:51Finnish.
0:08:51 > 0:08:52It is indeed, yes. Well done.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55APPLAUSE
0:08:55 > 0:08:58You probably know what it means as well, don't you?
0:08:58 > 0:08:59I've played games set in Finland.
0:08:59 > 0:09:03Joulupukki. It's literally the Christmas goat, apparently.
0:09:03 > 0:09:05It's the Finnish equivalent of Father Christmas,
0:09:05 > 0:09:08a figure with roots in an old Yule celebration in which people
0:09:08 > 0:09:10would dress in furs and goat masks
0:09:10 > 0:09:13and go from house to house singing and asking for food and drink.
0:09:13 > 0:09:15As one does. For your picture bonuses,
0:09:15 > 0:09:18you'll see three more names of traditional gift-bringing figures.
0:09:18 > 0:09:22In each case, I want the language of the terms you see.
0:09:22 > 0:09:23Firstly, for five points.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28- Polish.- Czech or Polish.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30THEY CONFER
0:09:30 > 0:09:32Go for Polish?
0:09:32 > 0:09:35It looks like Czech to me.
0:09:35 > 0:09:37OK, you are the captain.
0:09:37 > 0:09:38Czech.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40It is Czech, yes.
0:09:40 > 0:09:41Secondly.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46Portuguese?
0:09:46 > 0:09:48INDISTINCT CHATTER
0:09:51 > 0:09:53We'll try Hungarian.
0:09:53 > 0:09:57No, it's Icelandic. The Yule Lads. And finally...
0:10:06 > 0:10:07Dutch.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09It is Dutch, yes. APPLAUSE
0:10:09 > 0:10:11Right, another starter question now.
0:10:11 > 0:10:15Simisola, The Crocodile Bird, and The Speaker Of Mandarin
0:10:15 > 0:10:19are among the works of which author, who died...?
0:10:19 > 0:10:20Ruth Rendell.
0:10:20 > 0:10:21Yes, well done.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24APPLAUSE
0:10:24 > 0:10:28Your bonuses, Christ's, are on scientific experiments.
0:10:28 > 0:10:33In an experiment conducted in Clapham in 1797, which scientists used a form
0:10:33 > 0:10:37of torsion balance to measure the small forces of attraction between
0:10:37 > 0:10:41lead spheres, thus determining the gravitational constant G?
0:10:42 > 0:10:44INDISTINCT CHATTER
0:10:44 > 0:10:46- Kelvin.- Kelvin?
0:10:48 > 0:10:50Shall I nominate you? Nominate West.
0:10:50 > 0:10:51Oh, great(!) Lord Kelvin?
0:10:51 > 0:10:53No, it was Henry Cavendish.
0:10:53 > 0:10:57Secondly, at which physicist's behest did Geiger and Marsden perform
0:10:57 > 0:11:02the gold foil experiments at the University of Manchester from 1908?
0:11:02 > 0:11:04The results led to the proposal of a model of the atom
0:11:04 > 0:11:06consisting mainly of empty space.
0:11:08 > 0:11:09Rutherford.
0:11:09 > 0:11:10Correct.
0:11:10 > 0:11:15In 1953, which two US chemists combined warm water with simple
0:11:15 > 0:11:19inorganic chemicals, and pulsed the mixture with electrical discharges?
0:11:19 > 0:11:22After one week they found simple organic molecules,
0:11:22 > 0:11:25thereby strengthening the theory of abiogenesis.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28Have you got any more on Ruth Rendell?
0:11:28 > 0:11:31We were happy with Ruth Rendell. I'm not going to lie to you.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33- It's Urey and Miller.- Meh.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35Right, ten points for this.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38Fingers on the buzzers. Listen carefully.
0:11:38 > 0:11:42Adopted from Polari and meaning to tidy, fix or improve an effect,
0:11:42 > 0:11:48the word zhoosh has what six-letter headword spelling in the OED?
0:11:54 > 0:11:57Z-H-O-O-S-H.
0:11:57 > 0:11:58Correct.
0:11:58 > 0:12:02APPLAUSE
0:12:03 > 0:12:05It's always worth a punt, eh?
0:12:05 > 0:12:07Your bonuses this time are on sport.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10One of the five included in the ancient Greek pentathlon,
0:12:10 > 0:12:14which athletic event is based on an object with a design similar
0:12:14 > 0:12:18to the ancient pilum, used by Roman armies from the Republican period?
0:12:18 > 0:12:20Javelin.
0:12:20 > 0:12:21- Javelin.- Correct.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24Also part of the ancient Greek pentathlon,
0:12:24 > 0:12:26which sporting event was portrayed in a notable bronze
0:12:26 > 0:12:30sculpture of the 5th century BC by the sculptor Myron?
0:12:30 > 0:12:34Now lost, it is known through several Roman copies in marble.
0:12:34 > 0:12:35Discus.
0:12:35 > 0:12:36Correct.
0:12:36 > 0:12:39Along with the two throwing events, running and a form of long jump,
0:12:39 > 0:12:43which other sport was included in the ancient Greek pentathlon?
0:12:44 > 0:12:46Wrestling?
0:12:46 > 0:12:47Wrestling?
0:12:48 > 0:12:49Wrestling.
0:12:49 > 0:12:52Correct. Ten points for the starter question.
0:12:52 > 0:12:55Concerning what he believed to be a mystical experience,
0:12:55 > 0:13:00Christmas Story - Venetian Letters Of 1876 to '77 is a work by which
0:13:00 > 0:13:06English art critic, author of The Seven Lamps Of Architecture...?
0:13:06 > 0:13:07John Ruskin.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10Correct. APPLAUSE
0:13:12 > 0:13:16Right, your bonuses are on Christmas books of 2015.
0:13:16 > 0:13:21Herring under fur coat and fried eggs with jam are among the dishes
0:13:21 > 0:13:26that feature in a 2015 cookbook of the cuisine of which polity
0:13:26 > 0:13:28which ceased to exist in 1991?
0:13:31 > 0:13:32You've got me.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36Yugoslavia. I don't know.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39Which ceased to exist after '91. It could be.
0:13:40 > 0:13:41Yugoslavia.
0:13:41 > 0:13:43No, it's the USSR, the Soviet Union.
0:13:43 > 0:13:47The Hangover, The Hipster and The Mid-Life Crisis
0:13:47 > 0:13:51are titles in a series of short books specially planned to help grown-ups
0:13:51 > 0:13:52with the world about them.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55Which children's imprint do they appear under?
0:13:55 > 0:13:59INDISTINCT CONVERSATION
0:13:59 > 0:14:00Ladybird.
0:14:00 > 0:14:01Ladybird is correct.
0:14:01 > 0:14:05Illustrated by Dermot Flynn, The Wren-Boys is a work by which
0:14:05 > 0:14:09literary figure? Her previous seasonal poems include Mrs Scrooge
0:14:09 > 0:14:12and Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday.
0:14:14 > 0:14:17THEY CONFER
0:14:20 > 0:14:22Carol Ann Duffy.
0:14:22 > 0:14:23Correct. APPLAUSE
0:14:23 > 0:14:25Right, we're getting to the music round now.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27For your music starter,
0:14:27 > 0:14:29you will hear a recording of a traditional Christmas song.
0:14:29 > 0:14:33For ten points, I want you to identify the artist singing, please.
0:14:36 > 0:14:43# Come, they told me Pa rum pum pum pum. #
0:14:43 > 0:14:45That's David Bowie.
0:14:45 > 0:14:49- It's not.- Singing with... If I give the answer, can they not answer?
0:14:49 > 0:14:51Singing with...
0:14:51 > 0:14:53- Bing Crosby.- It's not David Bowie.
0:14:53 > 0:14:54LAUGHTER
0:14:54 > 0:14:56You can hear a little more if you want, Christ's.
0:14:56 > 0:15:02# Our finest gifts we bring Pa rum pum pum pum. #
0:15:02 > 0:15:04Crosby. Bing Crosby.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06No, it's Andy Williams.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09Music bonuses in a moment or two.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11In the meantime, here's another starter question.
0:15:11 > 0:15:15Which two consecutive letters of the alphabet are the only two
0:15:15 > 0:15:20consonants in words meaning a blunder or faux pas, water droplets suspended
0:15:20 > 0:15:25in air near the Earth's surface, and a leaf that is a symbolic...
0:15:26 > 0:15:27S-T.
0:15:27 > 0:15:29No, I am afraid you lose five points.
0:15:29 > 0:15:32..a leaf that is a symbolic protector of modesty?
0:15:35 > 0:15:37You may not confer.
0:15:37 > 0:15:39LAUGHTER
0:15:39 > 0:15:40If you know, buzz.
0:15:44 > 0:15:46Uh...
0:15:46 > 0:15:47F-G.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50F and G is correct. Yes, all right. You are getting on a bit.
0:15:50 > 0:15:51LAUGHTER
0:15:51 > 0:15:54Not as far as I am, but there we are. F and G.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57Gaffe, fog, fig were the three words in question.
0:15:57 > 0:16:00So you get the music bonuses, you'll be pleased to hear.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02Three more recordings of The Little Drummer Boy.
0:16:02 > 0:16:06Again, in each case I simply want the name of the artist or group singing.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09Firstly for five, this group.
0:16:09 > 0:16:10R&B MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:10 > 0:16:15# Come, they told me Pa rum pum pum pum
0:16:15 > 0:16:21# A newborn King to see Pa rum pum pum pum
0:16:21 > 0:16:26# Our finest gifts we bring Pa rum pum pum pum
0:16:26 > 0:16:30# To lay before the King Pa rum pum pum pum. #
0:16:30 > 0:16:31Destiny's Child.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34Well done, yes. Secondly, this artist.
0:16:35 > 0:16:37SINGING IN GERMAN
0:16:37 > 0:16:43# Hoert ihr Leute Parampampampam
0:16:43 > 0:16:50# Kommt alle her geschwind Parampampampam
0:16:50 > 0:16:53# Zum neuen Koenigskind Parampampampam. #
0:16:53 > 0:16:55Marlene Dietrich.
0:16:55 > 0:16:58Correct. And finally, this artist.
0:16:58 > 0:17:02COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYS
0:17:02 > 0:17:06# Come, they told me
0:17:06 > 0:17:10# Our newborn King to see
0:17:10 > 0:17:11# Our finest gifts... #
0:17:11 > 0:17:13Johnny Cash.
0:17:13 > 0:17:15That is Johnny Cash. Well done, you've taken the lead.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17APPLAUSE
0:17:17 > 0:17:19Ten points for this.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22Which of Shakespeare's title characters has a name that is
0:17:22 > 0:17:24the Greek meaning famous in her father?
0:17:24 > 0:17:27She's a historical figure who died in 30BC.
0:17:30 > 0:17:31Cleopatra.
0:17:31 > 0:17:32Correct.
0:17:32 > 0:17:34APPLAUSE
0:17:35 > 0:17:38A set of bonuses on Shakespeare's Hamlet for you guys.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41Simply give the well-known line or lines
0:17:41 > 0:17:43which immediately follow these words.
0:17:43 > 0:17:47First, what response does Hamlet hear to his question,
0:17:47 > 0:17:50"Madam, how like you this play?"
0:17:55 > 0:17:57INDISTINCT CONVERSATION
0:17:57 > 0:17:59Not very well at all.
0:17:59 > 0:18:03No, it's Gertrude saying, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
0:18:03 > 0:18:06In the final scene of the play, after Hamlet's death,
0:18:06 > 0:18:10what five words come next in the lines of the English ambassador?
0:18:10 > 0:18:14"The ears are senseless that should give us hearing.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17"To tell him that his commandment is fulfilled, that..."
0:18:24 > 0:18:26I'm sorry, we don't know.
0:18:26 > 0:18:28"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead."
0:18:28 > 0:18:32And finally, in an exchange between Hamlet and the second clown,
0:18:32 > 0:18:36or grave-digger, how does Hamlet continue his line that begins
0:18:36 > 0:18:38"Let me see"?
0:18:38 > 0:18:40I only need the first three words.
0:18:40 > 0:18:42"I knew him."
0:18:42 > 0:18:45No, I'm afraid it's "Alas! Poor Yorick."
0:18:45 > 0:18:48Which immediately precedes "I knew him."
0:18:48 > 0:18:49Right, ten points for this.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52What acronym denotes the company founded in 1989, which is
0:18:52 > 0:18:56the largest extractor of natural gas in the world?
0:18:56 > 0:19:00Its share in the global and Russian gas reserves is estimated to be 17...
0:19:02 > 0:19:03Gazprom.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05Gazprom is correct, yes.
0:19:05 > 0:19:08APPLAUSE
0:19:08 > 0:19:10Get these bonuses and you will retake the lead.
0:19:10 > 0:19:14On the Queen's Medal for Music, Christ's. Firstly, for five.
0:19:14 > 0:19:18Five years before his death, which Australian became, in 2005,
0:19:18 > 0:19:20the first recipient of the Queen's Medal for Music?
0:19:20 > 0:19:23He was the first non-British citizen to conduct
0:19:23 > 0:19:24the Last Night of the Proms.
0:19:29 > 0:19:30We don't know.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32That was Sir Charles Mackerras.
0:19:32 > 0:19:35Which British composer was the recipient of the medal in 2007?
0:19:35 > 0:19:39Her operas include The Vanishing Bridegroom in 1990,
0:19:39 > 0:19:41and Bond Eckbert in 1994.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45We don't know that either.
0:19:45 > 0:19:46That was Judith Weir.
0:19:46 > 0:19:492012 saw the Queen's Medal awarded for the first time to
0:19:49 > 0:19:54an organisation. The recipient was which group, established in 1948
0:19:54 > 0:19:57to advance the musical development of British teenagers?
0:20:01 > 0:20:04Can I mention how good it was when there were Ruth Rendell questions?
0:20:04 > 0:20:05LAUGHTER
0:20:05 > 0:20:07Just refer that back to you. What a golden time it was!
0:20:07 > 0:20:10- It was a golden time. A long time ago now though.- I know!
0:20:10 > 0:20:12It was the National Youth Orchestra.
0:20:12 > 0:20:14Right, ten points for this starter question.
0:20:14 > 0:20:17In the standard dictionary spelling, which two letters
0:20:17 > 0:20:22appear at the end of the words poinsettia, macadamia and euphoria?
0:20:22 > 0:20:24A-I.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26Yes, the other way round, of course. I-A.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28APPLAUSE
0:20:28 > 0:20:31These bonuses are on culinary herbs as described on the website
0:20:31 > 0:20:33of the Royal Horticultural Society.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36Give the common name of the herbs described.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39Firstly, for five points. Anethum graveolens -
0:20:39 > 0:20:42an upright annual with finely dissected, aromatic blue-green
0:20:42 > 0:20:46leaves, and flat umbels of tiny yellow flowers in summer.
0:20:48 > 0:20:52THEY CONFER
0:20:55 > 0:20:57It's kind of blue but I don't know what the flower is.
0:20:57 > 0:20:58Rosemary.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00No, it's dill.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02Petroselinum crispum -
0:21:02 > 0:21:06a bushy biennial with rich green, crisped, two-to-three-pinnate,
0:21:06 > 0:21:07aromatic leaves,
0:21:07 > 0:21:11and small yellow-green flowers in umbels in the second year.
0:21:14 > 0:21:16Sage.
0:21:16 > 0:21:21No, that's parsley. And finally, what specific herb is mentha spicata -
0:21:21 > 0:21:23a vigorous rhizomatous perennial,
0:21:23 > 0:21:26forming an extensive colony of erect stems
0:21:26 > 0:21:28bearing scented, lance-shaped leaves,
0:21:28 > 0:21:32and small, light purple flowers in interrupted terminal spikes?
0:21:32 > 0:21:34Mint?
0:21:34 > 0:21:36Mint isn't spiky, is it?
0:21:37 > 0:21:42INDISTINCT DISCUSSION
0:21:42 > 0:21:43Mint.
0:21:43 > 0:21:45Specifically what kind of mint?
0:21:45 > 0:21:46Peppermint.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48No, it's spearmint.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51THEY GROAN
0:21:51 > 0:21:52Right... LAUGHTER
0:21:52 > 0:21:54We're going to take a picture around again now.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57For your picture starter, you are going to say a painting.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59For ten points, simply identify the artist.
0:22:04 > 0:22:06Seurat.
0:22:06 > 0:22:09No, anyone like to buzz from Essex? Otherwise we're moving on.
0:22:09 > 0:22:11Sargent.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13No, that's Gustav Klimt. So, picture bonuses in a moment.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16Fingers on the buzzers. Here's another starter question.
0:22:16 > 0:22:20What word follows antilopine, Eastern grey, Western grey
0:22:20 > 0:22:23and red in the common names of macropod mammals?
0:22:23 > 0:22:28A member of the last-named species appears on the coat of arms...
0:22:28 > 0:22:30Parrot.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32No. You lose five points.
0:22:32 > 0:22:33..appears on the coat of arms
0:22:33 > 0:22:36of a major country of the southern hemisphere.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38Squirrel.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41No, it's a kangaroo. Ten points for this.
0:22:41 > 0:22:44In computing, what generic seven-letter portmanteau term
0:22:44 > 0:22:48embraces infectious software such as Trojans, spyware, viruses
0:22:48 > 0:22:52and worms that typically infect...
0:22:52 > 0:22:53Malware.
0:22:53 > 0:22:54Malware is correct, yes.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56APPLAUSE
0:22:58 > 0:23:02Right, following the Gustav Klimt Tannenwald, or Fir Forest,
0:23:02 > 0:23:04which no-one managed to identify,
0:23:04 > 0:23:07for your picture bonuses three more paintings of Tannenbaum.
0:23:07 > 0:23:11Five points for each artist you can identify. Firstly, for five.
0:23:13 > 0:23:15No, we should move on.
0:23:15 > 0:23:19INDISTINCT DISCUSSION
0:23:23 > 0:23:24Sargent.
0:23:24 > 0:23:28No, that's Monet's Mount Kolsaas. And secondly, who painted this?
0:23:30 > 0:23:32I'm afraid it's their set of bonuses!
0:23:32 > 0:23:35LAUGHTER
0:23:38 > 0:23:40THEY CONFER
0:23:40 > 0:23:42We don't know.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44That's Caspar David Friedrich. And finally...
0:23:46 > 0:23:47Van Gogh?
0:23:47 > 0:23:51No, that's Edvard Munch. Winter Night.
0:23:51 > 0:23:52Right, ten points for this.
0:23:52 > 0:23:56Which art gallery on several sites takes its name from a
0:23:56 > 0:23:59collection of essays by the Irish artist Brian O'Doherty,
0:23:59 > 0:24:03who argued that the blank, neutral spaces of modern galleries
0:24:03 > 0:24:07were themselves "the archetypal image of 20th century art"?
0:24:07 > 0:24:08White Cube.
0:24:08 > 0:24:11White Cube is right. Yes. APPLAUSE
0:24:14 > 0:24:17You get a set of bonuses on geology this time, Essex.
0:24:17 > 0:24:21Calcium magnesium carbonate is a major constituent of which
0:24:21 > 0:24:22form of limestone?
0:24:22 > 0:24:25It shares its name with a mountain range in north-east Italy.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28Dol-o-mit-es, as they say.
0:24:28 > 0:24:31Dolomites is correct, yes.
0:24:31 > 0:24:32No need to show off.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34LAUGHTER
0:24:34 > 0:24:37The carbonate mineral smithsonite is, along with sphalerite,
0:24:37 > 0:24:41a major ore of which metal in group 12 of the periodic table?
0:24:42 > 0:24:44Aluminium?
0:24:47 > 0:24:48Aluminium.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50No, it's zinc.
0:24:50 > 0:24:53The mineral siderite is the carbonate of which metal in group 8
0:24:53 > 0:24:54of the periodic table?
0:25:00 > 0:25:01Copper.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03No, it's iron. I thought you were working it out there.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05- I was working out... - That's what you said.
0:25:05 > 0:25:08That's what happens when you get older, I'm afraid.
0:25:08 > 0:25:09LAUGHTER
0:25:09 > 0:25:12Most of the audience are with you though.
0:25:12 > 0:25:13Right, ten points for this.
0:25:13 > 0:25:16Characters including Minced Pie, Wassail,
0:25:16 > 0:25:18and Carol were created by which dramatist and poet for
0:25:18 > 0:25:20The Masque Of Christmas,
0:25:20 > 0:25:24first performed at the Whitehall Court of James I in 1616?
0:25:27 > 0:25:29Ben Jonson.
0:25:29 > 0:25:30Correct.
0:25:30 > 0:25:33APPLAUSE
0:25:33 > 0:25:36Your bonuses are on TS Eliot.
0:25:36 > 0:25:37A cold coming we had of it,
0:25:37 > 0:25:39Just the worst time of the year
0:25:39 > 0:25:41For a journey, and such a long journey.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44In the poem by Eliot which opens with those lines,
0:25:44 > 0:25:46who is making the journey?
0:25:47 > 0:25:52THEY WHISPER
0:25:54 > 0:25:55Nominate Nick Dear.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57The Three Wise Men or the Magi.
0:25:57 > 0:25:58The Magi is correct. Yes.
0:25:58 > 0:26:02Over several years, Eliot contributed poems to a series published
0:26:02 > 0:26:06by Faber which he said were intended "as a kind of Christmas card."
0:26:06 > 0:26:09By what collective name are these poems known?
0:26:12 > 0:26:14Nominate Dear.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18No, they're Ariel Poems. The Ariel Poems.
0:26:18 > 0:26:22Which of Eliot's Ariel Poems draws from Shakespeare's play Pericles,
0:26:22 > 0:26:26and has as its title the name of Pericles' long-lost daughter?
0:26:31 > 0:26:33I'm sorry, we don't know.
0:26:33 > 0:26:36It's Marina. Ten points for this starter question.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38Denoting a physical characteristic,
0:26:38 > 0:26:42what five-letter appellation links Francois Rabelais' Pantagruel,
0:26:42 > 0:26:46John Bunyan's Despair, and Mimas and Enceladus in Greek mythology?
0:26:48 > 0:26:49Giant.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51Giant is correct. Yes.
0:26:51 > 0:26:54APPLAUSE
0:26:54 > 0:26:57Your bonuses are on former Bank of England notes.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00In each case I need the name of the person described
0:27:00 > 0:27:03and the denomination of the banknote on which they appeared.
0:27:03 > 0:27:07Firstly, a military figure and politician born in 1769.
0:27:07 > 0:27:10The banknote on which he appeared was issued in 1971,
0:27:10 > 0:27:11and withdrawn 20 years later.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15Duke of Wellington. £5 note.
0:27:15 > 0:27:19Correct. Secondly, a social and medical reformer born 1820...
0:27:19 > 0:27:20GONG
0:27:20 > 0:27:22And at the gong...
0:27:22 > 0:27:24Christ's College, Cambridge have 90.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26University of Essex have 140.
0:27:27 > 0:27:30Well, Christ's, you were doing pretty well early on.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32You were very, very good on Ruth Rendell.
0:27:32 > 0:27:34LAUGHTER
0:27:34 > 0:27:38Unfortunately, your knowledge seemed to be spread more than thinly,
0:27:38 > 0:27:41I thought. Anyway, Essex, 140 is a great score.
0:27:41 > 0:27:45That is up there currently as one of the four highest winning scores.
0:27:45 > 0:27:49We'll see if anyone gets a higher winning score in the next matches.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51Thank you all very much for playing. You didn't have to do it.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54I hope you can join us next time for another first-round match,
0:27:54 > 0:27:57but until then, it's goodbye from Christ's College, Cambridge.
0:27:57 > 0:27:58- ALL:- Goodbye.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00- It's goodbye from Essex University. ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.