0:00:16 > 0:00:18APPLAUSE
0:00:18 > 0:00:21Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:24 > 0:00:25STEAM TRAIN WHISTLE
0:00:25 > 0:00:27APPLAUSE CONTINUES
0:00:27 > 0:00:32Hello. Tonight we play the fifth of seven first-round matches
0:00:32 > 0:00:34in this festive series
0:00:34 > 0:00:36for distinguished alumni of some of the UK's
0:00:36 > 0:00:39leading universities and university colleges.
0:00:39 > 0:00:41Only the four winning teams with the highest scores
0:00:41 > 0:00:43will appear again in the semifinals.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46Which means that the team from Manchester University
0:00:46 > 0:00:48are now definitely through to that stage.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51University College London, Trinity College Cambridge,
0:00:51 > 0:00:54and Essex University remain in contention.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56And tonight's winners need to score 195
0:00:56 > 0:00:59to guarantee that they will play again.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02Here to defend the honour of the University of Exeter
0:01:02 > 0:01:04are a prolific composer,
0:01:04 > 0:01:06whose work with his writing partner has earned him
0:01:06 > 0:01:08an Olivier Award in the UK,
0:01:08 > 0:01:11as well as a host of international awards
0:01:11 > 0:01:14for the Cameron Mackintosh and Disney production of Mary Poppins.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17With him, another composer. Her work has been performed
0:01:17 > 0:01:20by the London Philharmonic and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
0:01:20 > 0:01:22and has been heard at the Royal Festival Hall,
0:01:22 > 0:01:24St Paul's Cathedral, and Westminster Abbey.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27She's been a Radio 3 composer of the week
0:01:27 > 0:01:32and in 2015 won the Women Of The Future Award for arts and culture.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35Their captain turned his youthful passion for living things
0:01:35 > 0:01:38into a career in which he writes books and presents programmes,
0:01:38 > 0:01:42such as BBC's Springwatch and Autumnwatch Unsprung,
0:01:42 > 0:01:45as well as Channel 5's Weird Creatures.
0:01:45 > 0:01:48Their fourth member has an extensive list of credits,
0:01:48 > 0:01:51as an actor, director, and writer
0:01:51 > 0:01:53for theatre, television, film, and radio,
0:01:53 > 0:01:57but is, perhaps, best known for the finely nuanced performances
0:01:57 > 0:02:00he delivers from inside a polycarbide armoured casing.
0:02:00 > 0:02:01Let's meet the Exeter team.
0:02:01 > 0:02:03- APPLAUSE - Hello. I'm George Stiles
0:02:03 > 0:02:07and I graduated in music from Exeter in 1983.
0:02:07 > 0:02:09While I was there I met a lyricist
0:02:09 > 0:02:12called Anthony Drewe, who was studying zoology.
0:02:12 > 0:02:16We've been writing musicals together ever since, often about animals.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19Hello. I'm Hannah Kendall.
0:02:19 > 0:02:23I completed my BA in music at Exeter in 2005.
0:02:23 > 0:02:27And now I am a composer of contemporary classical music.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29And this is their captain.
0:02:29 > 0:02:30Hello. I'm Nick Baker.
0:02:30 > 0:02:34I scraped through with a degree in biological science in 1993
0:02:34 > 0:02:37and I've been an author and a broadcaster
0:02:37 > 0:02:40on the subject of natural history ever since.
0:02:40 > 0:02:41Hello. I'm Barnaby Edwards
0:02:41 > 0:02:45and I read French and fine art at Exeter, graduating in 1991.
0:02:45 > 0:02:50Since then, I've become an actor, a painter and, from time to time,
0:02:50 > 0:02:52I exterminate inferior lifeforms
0:02:52 > 0:02:55in my capacity as a Dalek on Doctor Who.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57APPLAUSE
0:03:01 > 0:03:04Now, the term "chequered" scarcely does justice
0:03:04 > 0:03:07to the careers of the team from Magdalen College Oxford.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10First is the scourge of garden gnomes everywhere,
0:03:10 > 0:03:12the gardening correspondent for the Financial Times.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14He's also a distinguished classicist.
0:03:14 > 0:03:19Rowan Williams called his new book on St Augustine "a landmark",
0:03:19 > 0:03:23and he was historical advisor to Oliver Stone on the film Alexander.
0:03:23 > 0:03:24Alert viewers will, no doubt,
0:03:24 > 0:03:27remember his appearance as the leader of the cavalry.
0:03:27 > 0:03:31His colleague is known for her appearances at the Edinburgh Fringe,
0:03:31 > 0:03:35where her shows explore the fun side of cognitive neuroscience.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37"Geek heaven", said the Edinburgh Reporter.
0:03:37 > 0:03:40And she's held academic posts on both sides of the Atlantic,
0:03:40 > 0:03:43as well as being the recipient of numerous awards.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46Their third member is ideally suited to the role of team captain,
0:03:46 > 0:03:50as he's made a television career out of surrounding himself
0:03:50 > 0:03:53with disparate individuals in desperate circumstances.
0:03:53 > 0:03:58His work in that genre has earned him awards from both Bafta and the RTS.
0:03:58 > 0:04:00With them, a writer, journalist, and politician.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02As it's Christmas,
0:04:02 > 0:04:05we'll skate over briefly his tenure as chair of Northern Rock
0:04:05 > 0:04:06and concentrate, instead,
0:04:06 > 0:04:10on his distinguished career as the author of numerous books on science.
0:04:10 > 0:04:13A writer for The Economist, The Times, and The Wall Street Journal
0:04:13 > 0:04:16and, since 2013, a Conservative peer in the House of Lords.
0:04:16 > 0:04:20So let's meet the plain, simple folk from Magdalen College.
0:04:20 > 0:04:21APPLAUSE
0:04:22 > 0:04:24I'm Robin Lane Fox.
0:04:24 > 0:04:28I studied Greats - that's Classics - ancient history and philosophy
0:04:28 > 0:04:31at Magdalen until 1969 and got a double first.
0:04:31 > 0:04:35I'm now an Emeritus Fellow of New College Oxford
0:04:35 > 0:04:38and weekly gardening correspondent, for 45 years,
0:04:38 > 0:04:40of the Financial Times newspaper.
0:04:41 > 0:04:42I'm Heather Berlin.
0:04:42 > 0:04:44I graduated with a DPhil
0:04:44 > 0:04:47in experimental psychology from Magdalen in 2003.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50I'm a neuroscientist and Professor of Psychiatry
0:04:50 > 0:04:53at the Icahn School of Medicine in New York
0:04:53 > 0:04:55and a TV presenter.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58- And this is their captain. - My name is Louis Theroux.
0:04:58 > 0:05:03I graduated in history in 1991 and I now make documentaries.
0:05:04 > 0:05:08I'm Matt Ridley, I left Magdalen in 1983 with a DPhil in zoology.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11I'm an author, Times columnist, member of the House of Lords,
0:05:11 > 0:05:14and father of a University Challenge winner.
0:05:14 > 0:05:15APPLAUSE
0:05:21 > 0:05:24So, the stakes are intensely high. Let me remind you of the rules.
0:05:24 > 0:05:28Ten points for the starter questions, which are individual efforts.
0:05:28 > 0:05:29You answer on the buzzer.
0:05:29 > 0:05:31And bonuses are worth 15 points
0:05:31 > 0:05:33and they're team efforts, in which you can confer.
0:05:33 > 0:05:34There's a five-point penalty
0:05:34 > 0:05:37if you interrupt a starter question incorrectly.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39Fingers on the buzzers. Your first starter for ten.
0:05:39 > 0:05:44Its original version drawn up in 1880 by Edward White Benson,
0:05:44 > 0:05:45then the Bishop of Truro,
0:05:45 > 0:05:48what form of festive worship has, since 1918,
0:05:48 > 0:05:53been particularly associated with the chapel of King's College Cambridge?
0:05:55 > 0:05:59Choral... Er, yeah...er...er...
0:05:59 > 0:06:01Sung carols...is what I'm trying to say.
0:06:01 > 0:06:04No. That's not specific. Anyone like to answer from Exeter?
0:06:06 > 0:06:09- Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. - That is correct. Yes.
0:06:09 > 0:06:10APPLAUSE
0:06:13 > 0:06:15Right. Exeter, your bonuses
0:06:15 > 0:06:17are on aunts in the novels of Charles Dickens.
0:06:17 > 0:06:21Which of Dickens's novels includes a relative of Flora Finching's
0:06:21 > 0:06:24late husband whom Flora inherits on his death?
0:06:24 > 0:06:29Known as Mr F's Aunt, she is a little old woman of extreme severity.
0:06:31 > 0:06:34- Isn't it Nicholas Nickleby? - I don't know.
0:06:34 > 0:06:39- Shall we go for it? Nicholas Nickleby.- No. It's Little Dorrit.
0:06:39 > 0:06:43"She was always grave and strict. She was so very good herself, I thought,
0:06:43 > 0:06:46"that the badness of other people made her frown all her life."
0:06:46 > 0:06:49This is Esther Summerson's description of the woman
0:06:49 > 0:06:52she discovers to be her aunt in which novel?
0:06:52 > 0:06:55- Bleak House, Esther Summerson. - Bleak House.- Correct.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58In which novel is the hero's great aunt disappointed
0:06:58 > 0:07:00that he is not born a girl?
0:07:00 > 0:07:03She compensates by imagining that he might have had a sister
0:07:03 > 0:07:05named after herself, telling him,
0:07:05 > 0:07:10"Your sister Betsey Trotwood would have been as natural and rational a girl as ever breathed."
0:07:10 > 0:07:12- David Copperfield. - David Copperfield.- Correct.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14Right. Ten points for this starter question.
0:07:14 > 0:07:19In 1965, which route became the first long-distance footpath in the UK
0:07:19 > 0:07:22to be designated as a National Trail.
0:07:22 > 0:07:24Around 250 miles long,...
0:07:24 > 0:07:26- The Pennine Way.- Correct.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28APPLAUSE
0:07:30 > 0:07:33Your bonuses are on wide-of-the-mark predictions.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36Firstly, in 1878, which of Edison's innovations
0:07:36 > 0:07:38was described by a British parliamentary committee
0:07:38 > 0:07:42as "good enough for our transatlantic friends
0:07:42 > 0:07:45"but unworthy of the attention of practical or scientific men"?
0:07:45 > 0:07:48In the UK, Joseph Swan was independently developing
0:07:48 > 0:07:50a similar device.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53- Was it a match? Swan? Swan... - No, no, no.
0:07:53 > 0:07:57- Joseph Swan invented the light bulb. - OK.- Yeah.- Light bulb.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59It is the electric light bulb, yes.
0:07:59 > 0:08:03In 1926, of what did the US inventor Lee de Forest write,
0:08:03 > 0:08:06"While, theoretically and technically, it may be feasible,
0:08:06 > 0:08:09"commercially and financially, it's an impossibility -
0:08:09 > 0:08:12"a development of which we need waste little time dreaming"?
0:08:12 > 0:08:15- Nuclear power, I think. - Nuclear power?
0:08:17 > 0:08:19- Nuclear power.- No. It's television.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21Of what innovation, much used in reconnaissance
0:08:21 > 0:08:24in the early stages of the First World War,
0:08:24 > 0:08:28had the French Marshal Ferdinand Foch said, in 1911,
0:08:28 > 0:08:30"They are interesting toys but of no military value"?
0:08:30 > 0:08:35- Aircraft.- Yes.- Aircraft. - Aeroplanes is correct. Yes.
0:08:35 > 0:08:36Ten points for this.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39Which composer's piano concerto of 1868 features in a sketch
0:08:39 > 0:08:43in which the designated pianist tells the conductor
0:08:43 > 0:08:45that he is "playing all the right notes,
0:08:45 > 0:08:47"but not necessarily in the right order"?
0:08:47 > 0:08:52The sketch was first shown on television on Christmas Day 1971.
0:08:55 > 0:08:58You may not confer. One of you can buzz.
0:08:59 > 0:09:01Rachmaninov.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03Anyone like to buzz from Magdalen?
0:09:05 > 0:09:09- Prokofiev?- No. It was Eric Morecambe trying to play a piece of Grieg.
0:09:09 > 0:09:11Ten points for this.
0:09:11 > 0:09:13"He was far too great an artist to be a mere exponent
0:09:13 > 0:09:15"of the fashions of his time."
0:09:15 > 0:09:17"Rather, it was he whose dreams and ideals
0:09:17 > 0:09:20"helped mould the fashion we call "rococo"."
0:09:20 > 0:09:24These words of EH Gombrich refer to which artist
0:09:24 > 0:09:27who died in 1721 in Paris at the age of 36?
0:09:33 > 0:09:38- Rubens.- No. One of you buzz, Magdalen.
0:09:38 > 0:09:42- Poussin.- No. It was Watteau. Ten points for this.
0:09:42 > 0:09:45What 15-letter word denotes the reproductive process
0:09:45 > 0:09:46employed by, for instance,
0:09:46 > 0:09:49a percentage of Florida's smalltooth sawfish,
0:09:49 > 0:09:52thought to be a response to its dwindling population?
0:09:52 > 0:09:56The process is sometimes called "virgin birth".
0:09:56 > 0:09:58- Parthenogenesis.- Correct.
0:09:58 > 0:09:59APPLAUSE
0:10:01 > 0:10:05Right, Magdalen, these bonuses are on the cricketer and broadcaster
0:10:05 > 0:10:07Richie Benaud, who died in April 2015.
0:10:07 > 0:10:11Richie Benaud led Australia in the first tied test match
0:10:11 > 0:10:12at Brisbane in 1960.
0:10:12 > 0:10:16Who were Australia's opponents, captained by Frank Worrell?
0:10:16 > 0:10:18- West Indies.- We can...
0:10:18 > 0:10:22- You can confer on these.- Nominate him.- No, but you're quite right.
0:10:22 > 0:10:23Nominate Lane Fox.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25LAUGHTER
0:10:27 > 0:10:29- Very good. - Too much on parthenogenesis.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33West Indies was right, yes.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36Secondly, Benaud later became the first to make what all-round,
0:10:36 > 0:10:39or double, career record in Test cricket?
0:10:39 > 0:10:41George Hirst of Yorkshire is the only player to date
0:10:41 > 0:10:45to have achieved the same in an English season, doing so in 1906.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49- Do you know? - Is it 1,000 runs and 100 wickets?
0:10:49 > 0:10:53- 1,000 runs and 100 wickets? - 1,000 runs and 100 wickets.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55No. It's 2,000 runs and 200 wickets.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57AUDIENCE AND TEAM GROAN
0:10:57 > 0:11:00As a broadcaster, Benaud excoriated Australia in 1981
0:11:00 > 0:11:03when they used what tactic to beat New Zealand
0:11:03 > 0:11:06in the last over of a match?
0:11:06 > 0:11:10Law 24 now bans this form of play, unless it's agreed beforehand.
0:11:13 > 0:11:14Bowling wides?
0:11:20 > 0:11:23Kicking the ball onto the stumps, when hit by another batsmen?
0:11:23 > 0:11:25No, no. It's underarm bowling.
0:11:27 > 0:11:28Beneath contempt.
0:11:30 > 0:11:31We're going to take a picture round.
0:11:31 > 0:11:35For your picture starter, you're going to see a Christmas jumper.
0:11:35 > 0:11:36For ten points, I want the name
0:11:36 > 0:11:40of the traditional textile pattern featured thereon.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44Pringle.
0:11:44 > 0:11:47Anyone like to buzz from Exeter?
0:11:48 > 0:11:51- Argyle.- It is Argyle. Yes.
0:11:51 > 0:11:53APPLAUSE
0:11:54 > 0:11:57Three more Christmas jumpers in traditional patterns.
0:11:57 > 0:12:01Again, I want the name of the particular textile pattern on each.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03Firstly, for five.
0:12:06 > 0:12:11- Is that not dogtooth? - Yes, I think it probably is.
0:12:11 > 0:12:14- Dogtooth check?- Yes, it's houndstooth, or dogstooth. Yes.
0:12:14 > 0:12:15Secondly.
0:12:15 > 0:12:17Good grief.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20- Herringbone?- Herringbone. - Correct. And, finally,...
0:12:22 > 0:12:23- Paisley.- Yes.
0:12:23 > 0:12:27Yes. I'm so glad I can't see inside your wardrobe.
0:12:27 > 0:12:28Ten points for this.
0:12:28 > 0:12:31The work of the US author and illustrator
0:12:31 > 0:12:34Chris Van Allsberg includes which 1985 novel for children?
0:12:34 > 0:12:38Concerning the young passengers on a northbound train journey,
0:12:38 > 0:12:43it was adapted as a computer-animated film of 2004...
0:12:43 > 0:12:46- Polar Express.- Correct.
0:12:46 > 0:12:48APPLAUSE
0:12:49 > 0:12:52Right. Your bonuses are on fish, this time, Exeter.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54- Oh, no!- Don't sound too excited.
0:12:54 > 0:12:56Having the distinguishing feature
0:12:56 > 0:12:59of fused dorsal, anal, and caudal fins,
0:12:59 > 0:13:04fish of the order Anguilliformes are commonly known by what name?
0:13:04 > 0:13:05- Eels.- Correct.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07Also known as slime eels,
0:13:07 > 0:13:10what name is given to the primitive fish of the Myxinidae?
0:13:10 > 0:13:14They are characterised by simple eye spots, a single nostril,
0:13:14 > 0:13:17and the capacity to produce large quantities of slime
0:13:17 > 0:13:19to deter predators.
0:13:19 > 0:13:21- Hagfish.- Correct.
0:13:21 > 0:13:25Referring to a jawless, elongated fish, "a surfeit of lampreys"
0:13:25 > 0:13:29was, according to Henry of Huntingdon in his Historia Anglorum,
0:13:29 > 0:13:31a contributing factor in the death of which King of England?
0:13:31 > 0:13:34Oh, go on. Henry the... first or second?
0:13:34 > 0:13:38- Henry I.- One of the Henrys, we're going to go for Henry I.- Correct.
0:13:38 > 0:13:40APPLAUSE
0:13:42 > 0:13:44Right. Another starter question now.
0:13:44 > 0:13:48"Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people once a year."
0:13:48 > 0:13:51These words are attributed to which Danish pianist and comedian,
0:13:51 > 0:13:54noted for his irreverence towards pomposity
0:13:54 > 0:13:56in classical music performance?
0:13:57 > 0:13:59Victor Borge.
0:13:59 > 0:14:00Victor Borge is correct, yes.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02APPLAUSE
0:14:03 > 0:14:04These bonuses, Exeter,
0:14:04 > 0:14:09are on novels that mark the centenary of their publication in 2015.
0:14:09 > 0:14:12Initially called The Artistic Temperament Of Stephen Carey,
0:14:12 > 0:14:15then later Beauty From The Ashes, what title was finally given
0:14:15 > 0:14:19to Somerset Maugham's novel about the orphan Philip Carey?
0:14:21 > 0:14:24- Of Human Bondage. - Or Cakes And Ale, maybe?
0:14:24 > 0:14:27- What shall we go for? - I don't know.- Go with yours.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30- Of Human Bondage.- Correct.
0:14:30 > 0:14:33Beginning with the words, "This is the saddest story I have ever heard",
0:14:33 > 0:14:38which novel concerns the seemingly perfect gentleman Edward Ashburnham?
0:14:39 > 0:14:41The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43- The Good Soldier. - The Good Soldier is correct.
0:14:43 > 0:14:47Finally, which novel spans three generations of the Brangwen family?
0:14:47 > 0:14:50Its characters include Ursula and Gudrun,
0:14:50 > 0:14:54the two sisters whose story continues in the 1920 novel Women In Love.
0:14:54 > 0:14:57Is it The Rainbow?
0:14:57 > 0:14:59I don't know. The Rainbow?
0:14:59 > 0:15:01It is The Rainbow, by DH Lawrence. Yes.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05APPLAUSE
0:15:05 > 0:15:07We're about halfway through. We're going to take a music round.
0:15:07 > 0:15:10For your music starter, you're going to hear a piece of classical music.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13Ten points if you can give me the name of the composer, please.
0:15:13 > 0:15:16ORCHESTRAL MUSIC AND CHORAL SINGING
0:15:18 > 0:15:20Handel.
0:15:20 > 0:15:24No, it's wrong. You can hear a little more, Magdalen.
0:15:24 > 0:15:27ORCHESTRAL MUSIC AND CHORAL SINGING
0:15:27 > 0:15:29THEY CONFER
0:15:30 > 0:15:34You can't confer. One of you can buzz.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37ORCHESTRAL MUSIC CONTINUES
0:15:39 > 0:15:42Buzz, come on, one of you!
0:15:42 > 0:15:44Purcell.
0:15:44 > 0:15:46No, it was Bach! Bad luck. Johann Sebastian.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49So, music bonuses in a moment or two. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:15:49 > 0:15:50Here's another starter question.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53What term for a religious building derives
0:15:53 > 0:15:56ultimately from the Greek for "a thing sat upon"?
0:15:56 > 0:16:00In the Christian world, it came to mean the seat or throne of a...
0:16:00 > 0:16:02Ah, cathedral.
0:16:02 > 0:16:03Correct, yes.
0:16:04 > 0:16:07APPLAUSE
0:16:07 > 0:16:09Right, you heard, a moment ago,
0:16:09 > 0:16:12Bach's setting of the Gloria in Excelsis Deo, which begins with
0:16:12 > 0:16:16the words of the angels announcing to the shepherds the birth of Christ.
0:16:16 > 0:16:19Your music bonuses are three more settings of the Gloria.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22In each case, you just have to identify the composer.
0:16:22 > 0:16:25Firstly, for five, the composer to whom this work has
0:16:25 > 0:16:28been popularly attributed since 2001.
0:16:29 > 0:16:33FEMALE: # Glo-o-o-o-o-ria
0:16:33 > 0:16:37# Gloria in excelsis Gloria in excelsis Deo... #
0:16:37 > 0:16:40THEY CONFER
0:16:40 > 0:16:45- No, it's been attributed to him SINCE 2001.- Oh, I see.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48It can't be Bach. It's got to be...
0:16:49 > 0:16:52- ..Purcell? - (No, no, no...)
0:16:52 > 0:16:56I think it's pre-Handel. Don't you think?
0:16:56 > 0:16:58- I don't know.- Purcell.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00No, it WAS Handel.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03Second lead is a French composer, please.
0:17:03 > 0:17:07CHOIR SINGS "GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO"
0:17:10 > 0:17:13- (Did he say French?) - A French composer?
0:17:13 > 0:17:16THEY CONFER
0:17:16 > 0:17:20CHORAL SINGING DROWNS OUT SPEECH
0:17:23 > 0:17:26French? Saint-Saens? Debussy?
0:17:26 > 0:17:31You think it's Debussy? It doesn't sound like Debussy...
0:17:32 > 0:17:34- Anything?- No.- Saint-Saens.
0:17:34 > 0:17:36- Correct!- Yes!
0:17:36 > 0:17:38Finally, this Italian composer.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:17:41 > 0:17:43CHOIR: # Gloria, Gloria. #
0:17:45 > 0:17:47Vivaldi.
0:17:47 > 0:17:49It is Vivaldi, yes. APPLAUSE
0:17:49 > 0:17:50Right, ten points at stake for this.
0:17:50 > 0:17:53Virginia Woolf's 1927 novel To The Lighthouse
0:17:53 > 0:17:56is set primarily on which Scottish island?
0:17:56 > 0:18:00The Little Minch separates it from the Outer Hebrides.
0:18:02 > 0:18:03Skye?
0:18:03 > 0:18:08Skye is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:18:08 > 0:18:12Right, your bonuses, Magdalen College, are six-letter terms in the sciences.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14In each case, give the term from the definition.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17All three begin with the same letter.
0:18:17 > 0:18:21In physics, a physical quantity that has both magnitude and direction.
0:18:23 > 0:18:27- Vector?- Vector? - Vector, yeah, vector, actually.
0:18:27 > 0:18:30Vector.
0:18:30 > 0:18:32Correct. Secondly, in meteorology, or fluid mechanics,
0:18:32 > 0:18:36a rapid swirl of fluid rotating about a line or axis, generated,
0:18:36 > 0:18:39for example, by an aircraft wing.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42- Vortex?- Yes, yes.
0:18:42 > 0:18:44- Vortex?- Correct.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46And finally, in pharmacology, the commercial name of an oral
0:18:46 > 0:18:51drug known by the chemical name Sildenafil Citrate.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55- Viagra.- Is that Viagra?
0:18:55 > 0:18:57Viagra.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00Suspiciously quick, I thought, there. LAUGHTER
0:19:00 > 0:19:02Ten points for this.
0:19:02 > 0:19:04The surface of which organ of the body is marked by furrows
0:19:04 > 0:19:08known as sulci and ridges known as gyri?
0:19:10 > 0:19:11The brain?
0:19:11 > 0:19:15Correct. APPLAUSE
0:19:16 > 0:19:17Bonuses now.
0:19:17 > 0:19:21On the Forbes 2015 list of the world's 100 most powerful women.
0:19:21 > 0:19:25Firstly, for five points, who appeared at number 12 on the list?
0:19:25 > 0:19:28She was the founder in 1986 of the multimedia company
0:19:28 > 0:19:31- Harpo Productions.- Oprah Winfrey.
0:19:31 > 0:19:32Oprah Winfrey.
0:19:32 > 0:19:35Correct. Ranked number seven on the list,
0:19:35 > 0:19:38which politician was in 2010 elected Brazil's first female president?
0:19:39 > 0:19:44It's Rousseff, she is called something Rousseff.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47We don't need... Just Mrs Russeff.
0:19:47 > 0:19:48Rousseff?
0:19:48 > 0:19:52It was Dilma Rousseff, yes. And placed at number 65, which US singer
0:19:52 > 0:19:57and songwriter became, at 25, the youngest person to be included on the list?
0:19:57 > 0:20:00(Taylor Swift?) Taylor Swift.
0:20:00 > 0:20:04Yes! APPLAUSE
0:20:05 > 0:20:06Right, ten points for this.
0:20:06 > 0:20:11Snufkin, Sniff and Snork Maiden are all friends of which fictional
0:20:11 > 0:20:13family, created in the 1940s...?
0:20:15 > 0:20:17The Moomins.
0:20:17 > 0:20:21The Moomins is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:20:21 > 0:20:23Level pegging. These are your bonuses.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25They're on English forests, Exeter.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28Designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest,
0:20:28 > 0:20:32the former Royal Hunting Forest of Hainault is a remnant of a forest
0:20:32 > 0:20:34named after which English county?
0:20:36 > 0:20:38Ooh, erm...
0:20:42 > 0:20:45No... I was going to say Sherwood, but... It's not, is it?
0:20:45 > 0:20:48- I'm thinking which county. - Yeah... No?- Is it Essex?
0:20:48 > 0:20:50- It might be Essex.- Yeah.- Essex.
0:20:50 > 0:20:54Correct. Located near the historic market town of Frodsham, Delamere Forest
0:20:54 > 0:20:59is the largest area of woodland in which English county?
0:20:59 > 0:21:01Delamere, Delamere, Delamere... Erm...
0:21:03 > 0:21:05(I don't know.)
0:21:05 > 0:21:07Guess one? Lincolnshire?
0:21:07 > 0:21:09No, its Cheshire.
0:21:09 > 0:21:11And finally, designated the first National Forest Park in
0:21:11 > 0:21:16England in 1938, the Forest of Dean lies largely in which English county?
0:21:16 > 0:21:19- Gloucestershire?- Gloucestershire.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22Correct. were going to take a second picture round. APPLAUSE
0:21:22 > 0:21:25For your picture starter, you will see a painting. For ten points,
0:21:25 > 0:21:27all you have to do is to name the artist.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30Gauguin.
0:21:30 > 0:21:34Gauguin is correct. It's his Birth of Christ. APPLAUSE
0:21:34 > 0:21:37Your picture bonuses are three 20th-century takes on aspects
0:21:37 > 0:21:40of the Nativity. Following on from that theme.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42Five points for each artist you can identify.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45Firstly, for five, this Spanish artist.
0:21:47 > 0:21:52- (I don't know that one.) - Dali?- You think that's Dali?
0:21:52 > 0:21:54- Maybe not.- I think so.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56Dali?
0:21:56 > 0:21:59It is Salvador Dali. Secondly, this British-born artist.
0:22:02 > 0:22:07- THEY WHISPER - British-born...
0:22:07 > 0:22:10Maybe Francis Bacon...
0:22:10 > 0:22:13THEY CONFER
0:22:13 > 0:22:16Anything?
0:22:17 > 0:22:20Erm, Bacon?
0:22:20 > 0:22:22No, that's Leonora Carrington. Nativity Triptych.
0:22:22 > 0:22:25And finally, another British artist.
0:22:27 > 0:22:29- Stanley Spencer.- Stanley Spencer.
0:22:29 > 0:22:32Correct. Ten points for this starter question.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35In 2015, the Royal Mail issued commemorative stamps to mark
0:22:35 > 0:22:38the bicentenary of the birth of which novelist?
0:22:38 > 0:22:43In 1852, as a senior civil servant for the post office, he introduced...
0:22:43 > 0:22:45Trollope.
0:22:45 > 0:22:49Trollope is right, yes. APPLAUSE
0:22:49 > 0:22:52You get bonuses this time on Shakespeare's The Winter's tale,
0:22:52 > 0:22:56Magdalen College. In act two, scene one of The Winter's Tale, which character says,
0:22:56 > 0:23:00"Do not weep, good fools, there is no cause: when you shall know your mistress
0:23:00 > 0:23:03"Has deserved prison, then abound in tears"?
0:23:04 > 0:23:08- Leontes?- I've not got anything.
0:23:08 > 0:23:09Leontes?
0:23:09 > 0:23:11No, it's Hermione.
0:23:11 > 0:23:14In act three, scene two, Hermione says she is, "A great king's daughter,"
0:23:14 > 0:23:18later saying that her father was the Emperor of which country?
0:23:19 > 0:23:23- It could be Bohemia.- Yeah?
0:23:23 > 0:23:25Bohemia?
0:23:25 > 0:23:28No, it's Russia. Finally, who is the daughter of Hermione and her husband,
0:23:28 > 0:23:32Leontes, the King of Bohemia? Her name in Latin means lost.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35- Sorry.- Perdita?- Perdita.
0:23:35 > 0:23:38Correct! APPLAUSE
0:23:38 > 0:23:40I love my buzzer!
0:23:40 > 0:23:43I'm so pleased. You can take it home with you, if you like. LAUGHTER
0:23:43 > 0:23:45It's like my horse.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48Right, ten points for this. Meaning a state of spiritual apathy,
0:23:48 > 0:23:54"acedia" is a late Latin word for which of a seven deadly sins?
0:23:54 > 0:23:56Sloth.
0:23:56 > 0:23:59Correct. APPLAUSE
0:24:00 > 0:24:03Your bonuses are on a German city, this time, Magdalen.
0:24:03 > 0:24:08Founded in 1827, the Gurzenich Orchestra is based in which
0:24:08 > 0:24:10city on the River Rhine?
0:24:12 > 0:24:16- Frankfurt?- Cologne?- Is Frankfurt on the Rhein?- No, it's on the Main.
0:24:16 > 0:24:18So, try Cologne.
0:24:18 > 0:24:20Cologne.
0:24:20 > 0:24:23Correct. Who escaped with the friar William Roy to the
0:24:23 > 0:24:26city of Worms in 1525, after his print shop in Cologne was
0:24:26 > 0:24:31raided during the production of an English version of the New Testament?
0:24:31 > 0:24:35It's Tyndale. It might be.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Tyndale.
0:24:37 > 0:24:41William Tyndale is correct. And finally, Cologne Bonn Airport is named after which post-war
0:24:41 > 0:24:43Chancellor of West Germany?
0:24:43 > 0:24:48He was the mayor of Cologne between 1917 and '33.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50- Adenauer?- Is it? Adenauer?
0:24:50 > 0:24:53Konrad Adenauer is correct. Ten points for this.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56Which modern orchestral instrument typically has seven
0:24:56 > 0:24:59pedals at the form invented in the early 19...
0:24:59 > 0:25:04- Harp.- The harp is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:25:04 > 0:25:06Your bonuses, Exeter, are on people born in 1915.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09In each case, name the person from the description.
0:25:09 > 0:25:12Born in Cherbourg, an exponent of structuralism,
0:25:12 > 0:25:15whose works include The Death Of The Author and The Eiffel Tower
0:25:15 > 0:25:19And Other Mythologies? He died in 1980 following a road accident.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24THEY CONFER
0:25:24 > 0:25:27- Don't know.- No idea?
0:25:27 > 0:25:28Jacques Derrida?
0:25:28 > 0:25:30No, it's Roland Barthes.
0:25:30 > 0:25:33And secondly, a British cosmologist, who, with Hermann Bondi
0:25:33 > 0:25:37and Thomas Gold proposed the steady-state theory of the universe?
0:25:40 > 0:25:43- Marten somebody...- No? Pass?- Pass.
0:25:43 > 0:25:47That was Sir Fred Hoyle. And finally, an actress born in Stockholm.
0:25:47 > 0:25:51Her films include Gaslight, For Whom The Bell Tolls, and Casablanca.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53- Ingrid Bergman.- Yeah. - Ingrid Bergman?
0:25:53 > 0:25:55Correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:25:55 > 0:25:58The six letters of the chemical symbols of bromine, xenon
0:25:58 > 0:26:04and titanium may be recombined to form which topical portmanteau word?
0:26:05 > 0:26:07Brexit.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09Correct. APPLAUSE
0:26:11 > 0:26:14Your bonuses, this time, Magdalen, are on honeybees.
0:26:14 > 0:26:17To what order within the class Insecta do honeybees belong?
0:26:17 > 0:26:20The name comes from the Greek for membranous wings.
0:26:20 > 0:26:22Hymenoptera.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24- Hymenoptera?- Correct.
0:26:24 > 0:26:28Referring to a phenomena first reported in 2006, and resulting in
0:26:28 > 0:26:33large-scale losses of bee colonies, for what the letters CCD stand?
0:26:33 > 0:26:35Colony Collapse Disorder.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38Colony Collapse Disorder.
0:26:38 > 0:26:41Correct. The queen bee in a colony will often mate with many drones.
0:26:41 > 0:26:45By what specific term is this type of mating behaviour known?
0:26:46 > 0:26:50- Polyandry.- Polyandry.- Polyandry is right. Ten points for this.
0:26:50 > 0:26:51APPLAUSE
0:26:51 > 0:26:53October 1st 2015 marked the 40th
0:26:53 > 0:26:56anniversary of which BBC Two arts series?
0:26:56 > 0:26:59Edited since 1985 by Anthony Wall, its title...
0:26:59 > 0:27:01Arena.
0:27:01 > 0:27:06Arena is correct. The next set of bonuses, this time on the 1930s.
0:27:06 > 0:27:08During the 1930s, the Normandie
0:27:08 > 0:27:11and the Queen Mary were among the ocean liners to win which
0:27:11 > 0:27:14marked distinction, sometimes also known as the Hales Trophy,
0:27:14 > 0:27:18by setting a record for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic?
0:27:18 > 0:27:21THEY CONFER
0:27:21 > 0:27:23- Go for it.- Blue Riband.- Correct.
0:27:23 > 0:27:26Which aviation pioneer won the King's Cup Air Race
0:27:26 > 0:27:29in 1933 in a plane of his own design?
0:27:29 > 0:27:33The aircraft built by the company he founded include the Tiger Moth
0:27:33 > 0:27:34and the Mosquito.
0:27:34 > 0:27:35De Havilland.
0:27:35 > 0:27:38- De Havilland.- Correct.
0:27:38 > 0:27:39In September 1935,
0:27:39 > 0:27:42who became the first car driver to exceed the speed of 300mph,
0:27:42 > 0:27:48when he set a land-speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah?
0:27:48 > 0:27:49THEY CONFER
0:27:50 > 0:27:52- Campbell?- Which one?
0:27:52 > 0:27:55- Donald.- Donald.- No, that was the son. It was Malcolm Campbell.
0:27:55 > 0:27:56Ten points for this.
0:27:56 > 0:27:59Born in 1911, Elizabeth Anscombe was a pupil
0:27:59 > 0:28:02and literary executor at which Austrian...?
0:28:02 > 0:28:04Wittgenstein.
0:28:04 > 0:28:05Wittgenstein is correct.
0:28:05 > 0:28:09You get a set of bonuses, this time, on imperial and metric units...
0:28:09 > 0:28:10GONG
0:28:10 > 0:28:13And that's the gong. Exeter University have 130.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15Magdalen College, Oxford, have 220.
0:28:15 > 0:28:17APPLAUSE
0:28:17 > 0:28:20Well, you made a steaming start, Exeter,
0:28:20 > 0:28:22but you faded a bit, as time went on, I thought,
0:28:22 > 0:28:23but thank you very much for joining us.
0:28:23 > 0:28:24- ALL:- Thank you.
0:28:24 > 0:28:26Magdalen, that's a terrific score.
0:28:26 > 0:28:28That is the highest score so far we've had,
0:28:28 > 0:28:30so you'll definitely be in the semifinals.
0:28:30 > 0:28:31You'll have to come back now. LAUGHTER
0:28:31 > 0:28:34And you can't go to the pantomime. Sorry about that!
0:28:34 > 0:28:36- I'll bring my buzzer! - BUZZER, LAUGHTER
0:28:36 > 0:28:38Thank you very much - a great performance. Thank you...
0:28:38 > 0:28:40Stop pressing your buzzer, will you?
0:28:40 > 0:28:41LAUGHTER
0:28:41 > 0:28:44I hope you can join us next time for another first-round match,
0:28:44 > 0:28:47but, until then, though, it's goodbye from Exeter University.
0:28:47 > 0:28:48- ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:48 > 0:28:50It's goodbye from Magdalen College, Oxford.
0:28:50 > 0:28:52- ALL:- Goodbye. - And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:52 > 0:28:53APPLAUSE