0:00:22 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:24 > 0:00:26TOY TRAIN WHISTLE
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. Two teams have already received, with rather mixed feelings,
0:00:32 > 0:00:35the news that they're through to the semifinal stage of our
0:00:35 > 0:00:38seasonal competition for distinguished alumni.
0:00:38 > 0:00:42Those teams are from Manchester University and Magdalene College, Oxford.
0:00:42 > 0:00:46Now first, the team representing the ancient University of Aberdeen,
0:00:46 > 0:00:48founded in the late 15th century.
0:00:48 > 0:00:52Their first team member threw away a promising early career as a postman,
0:00:52 > 0:00:55and is now a television executive.
0:00:55 > 0:00:56A former controller of BBC Four,
0:00:56 > 0:01:00he is currently the Director Of Factual Programmes at ITV.
0:01:00 > 0:01:04With him is a familiar face from the other side of the camera as the
0:01:04 > 0:01:07presenter of the BBC's religious and ethical debate programme,
0:01:07 > 0:01:10The Big Questions, as well as ITV's Long Lost Family
0:01:10 > 0:01:13and the Radio 5 Live Breakfast programme.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16Their captain specialises in marine science.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19He's worked for the British Antarctic Survey,
0:01:19 > 0:01:24advised the US Navy on how military sonars affect the whale population
0:01:24 > 0:01:27and he's the author and editor of several books on the Hebrides.
0:01:27 > 0:01:31Joining them is a politician whose career so far has included
0:01:31 > 0:01:35tenures as Scottish Labour's Shadow Minister for Youth Employment
0:01:35 > 0:01:39and Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41Let's meet the Aberdeen team.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45My name is Richard Klein, I graduated from Aberdeen in 1983,
0:01:45 > 0:01:48and I now work in television.
0:01:48 > 0:01:52My name is Nicky Campbell, I graduated in 1982,
0:01:52 > 0:01:56these days I ask questions, but very rarely answer any.
0:01:56 > 0:01:58LAUGHTER Their captain:
0:01:58 > 0:02:02My name is Ian Boyd, I graduated in 1979 in zoology.
0:02:02 > 0:02:06I'm now a professor at the University of St Andrews
0:02:06 > 0:02:07and Chief Scientific Adviser
0:02:07 > 0:02:10to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
0:02:11 > 0:02:16I'm Kezia Dugdale, I graduated from Aberdeen University in law in 2003.
0:02:16 > 0:02:18I'm a member of the Scottish Parliament
0:02:18 > 0:02:20and the leader of the Scottish Labour Party.
0:02:20 > 0:02:22APPLAUSE
0:02:25 > 0:02:31The University of Sheffield is a much more recent institution at a mere 110 years old,
0:02:31 > 0:02:34and the team playing on its behalf tonight includes
0:02:34 > 0:02:37a sports journalist who lives in Madrid and writes about football -
0:02:37 > 0:02:41a career that on the face of it appears to have no downside.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44His reports appear in the Guardian and he also contributes to the
0:02:44 > 0:02:48US cable channel ESPN and World Soccer.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51Next, a former literary editor of the New Statesman and the Observer.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54For the past 20 years, she's collaborated with her husband,
0:02:54 > 0:02:58Sean French, under the joint pseudonym Nicci French
0:02:58 > 0:03:01on a series of bestselling literary thrillers.
0:03:01 > 0:03:05Their captain is an award-winning academic author, broadcaster
0:03:05 > 0:03:08and the go-to man on everything to do with insects.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11He's recently been a presenter on the BBC's Hive Alive
0:03:11 > 0:03:13and Life On Planet Ant.
0:03:13 > 0:03:182015 saw the publication of his book on bacteria, The Life Of Poo.
0:03:18 > 0:03:22Their fourth member's career in architecture spans both public
0:03:22 > 0:03:25and private practice as well as the Planning Inspectorate, the Government
0:03:25 > 0:03:29agency responsible for the final outcome of town planning decisions.
0:03:29 > 0:03:32She has a particular interest in planning for sensitive rural areas,
0:03:32 > 0:03:36and she was awarded a professorship by Birmingham City University
0:03:36 > 0:03:38for her contribution to the profession.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40Let's meet the Sheffield team.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43Hello, I'm Sid Lowe, I first went to Sheffield around about 21 years ago.
0:03:43 > 0:03:45It's taken almost as long for me to leave.
0:03:45 > 0:03:48I'm now a sports journalist and historian in Madrid.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51Hello, I'm Nicci Gerard,
0:03:51 > 0:03:55and I was at Sheffield doing an MA more than 30 years ago.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57Now I'm a novelist and a journalist.
0:03:57 > 0:03:58And their captain:
0:03:58 > 0:04:02Hello, I'm Adam Hart, I graduated in 2001 with a PhD in zoology,
0:04:02 > 0:04:03and I'm now a broadcaster, author
0:04:03 > 0:04:05and Professor of Science Communication
0:04:05 > 0:04:07at the University of Gloucestershire.
0:04:07 > 0:04:12Hello, I'm Ruth Reed, I graduated as an architect from Sheffield in 1982.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14I became the first woman president
0:04:14 > 0:04:16of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19APPLAUSE
0:04:22 > 0:04:25OK, the rules are constant as the Northern Star,
0:04:25 > 0:04:27so ten points for starters, 15 for bonuses,
0:04:27 > 0:04:31there's a five-point fine if you interrupt a starter question incorrectly.
0:04:31 > 0:04:34Right, fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten:
0:04:34 > 0:04:37Published in 2015, Charlotte Higgins' work,
0:04:37 > 0:04:41This New Noise, is a history of which institution?
0:04:41 > 0:04:45Founded in the 1920s, one of its founding figures said it should be,
0:04:45 > 0:04:48"The citizen's guide, philosopher and friend."
0:04:50 > 0:04:52- The BBC.- Correct.
0:04:52 > 0:04:55You get the first set of bonuses, then, Aberdeen.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57They're on national personifications.
0:04:57 > 0:04:58Firstly, for five points,
0:04:58 > 0:05:02which personification is said to have come into widespread use after
0:05:02 > 0:05:05barrels of meat were stamped with the character's two initials
0:05:05 > 0:05:09during the War of 1812 to indicate that they were government property?
0:05:15 > 0:05:18- I don't know.- No?
0:05:18 > 0:05:20- We don't know.- It's Uncle Sam.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23Which personification was popularised by a character of the same
0:05:23 > 0:05:28name in John Arbuthnot's 1712 satire, The Law Is A Bottomless Pit?
0:05:34 > 0:05:35No, don't know.
0:05:35 > 0:05:37- That was John Bull.- Gah!
0:05:37 > 0:05:40And finally, in the 1960s, Bridget Bardot became the first living
0:05:40 > 0:05:44person to act as the model for official busts of which figure?
0:05:44 > 0:05:47The personification of the French Republic.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52Joan of Arc?
0:05:52 > 0:05:55No, its Marianne! Ten points for this:
0:05:55 > 0:05:56"A common mistake that people make
0:05:56 > 0:06:00"when trying to design something completely foolproof
0:06:00 > 0:06:04"is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
0:06:04 > 0:06:08Who wrote these words in the 1992 novel, Mostly Harmless?
0:06:12 > 0:06:13- Douglas Adams.- Correct.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16APPLAUSE
0:06:17 > 0:06:21Sheffield, your bonuses are on the characters in the novels of Jane Austen.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24I want you to give me the surname, please, of each of the following.
0:06:24 > 0:06:28Firstly: What is the surname of Captain Frederick,
0:06:28 > 0:06:32who in Persuasion was formally betrothed to Anne Elliott?
0:06:35 > 0:06:37- I think it's Weston, but I don't know.- Frederick Weston?
0:06:37 > 0:06:41- I don't know.- No, I don't know. Go with Weston.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43- Nominate Nicci.- Weston?
0:06:43 > 0:06:47- No, it's Wentworth.- Argh!- Bad luck!
0:06:47 > 0:06:48Secondly, for five points:
0:06:48 > 0:06:52What was the surname of Mr John, who rescues Marianne Dashwood
0:06:52 > 0:06:56from a rainstorm in Sense and Sensibility?
0:06:58 > 0:07:00Willoughby.
0:07:00 > 0:07:02- Was it Willoughby?- It's Willoughby.
0:07:03 > 0:07:04- Willoughby.- Correct.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06Finally, Mr Fitzwilliam,
0:07:06 > 0:07:10who in Pride And Prejudice has an income in excess of 10,000 a year?
0:07:17 > 0:07:21- Is that Darcy?- Is it Darcy? - Could be Darcy.- But is...
0:07:21 > 0:07:23Was that the question?
0:07:23 > 0:07:24- Darcy.- Correct.
0:07:24 > 0:07:25Ten points for this:
0:07:25 > 0:07:29Who, in January 2015, became the Church of England's first
0:07:29 > 0:07:33female bishop on her consecration in York Minster as Bishop of Stockport?
0:07:37 > 0:07:40- Elizabeth Lane?- Correct, yes. Or Libby Lane, for short.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43APPLAUSE
0:07:43 > 0:07:47Your bonuses, Sheffield, this time are on scientists and inventors.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49Name each person from the description, please.
0:07:49 > 0:07:53Firstly, born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1856,
0:07:53 > 0:07:56he moved to New York in 1884.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59He patented the rotating magnetic field
0:07:59 > 0:08:03and developed the three-phase system of electric power transmission?
0:08:06 > 0:08:07Faraday?
0:08:07 > 0:08:11He was based in Britain, wasn't he?
0:08:12 > 0:08:15- It's not Tesla, is it?- Could be.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17- Tesla?- It is Nikola Tesla, yes.
0:08:17 > 0:08:20Born in Connecticut in 1800, in 1839,
0:08:20 > 0:08:24he accidentally discovered the process of vulcanisation.
0:08:24 > 0:08:28Although he was financially unsuccessful during his lifetime,
0:08:28 > 0:08:32A tyre company founded in 1898 and named after him
0:08:32 > 0:08:36now has a total equity of around 3.6 billion.
0:08:36 > 0:08:37Dunlop.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40No, he was Scottish, wasn't he? It was Charles Goodyear.
0:08:40 > 0:08:41And finally:
0:08:41 > 0:08:46A noted exponent of the scientific method, born in Cornwall in 1778,
0:08:46 > 0:08:49he discovered potassium and sodium and invented the miner's safety lamp.
0:08:49 > 0:08:51- Humphry Davy.- Yeah.
0:08:51 > 0:08:52- Humphry Davy.- Correct.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54We're going to take our first picture round.
0:08:54 > 0:08:58For your picture starter you're going to see a quotation from a play by
0:08:58 > 0:09:02Shakespeare, from which the name of a month of the year has been removed.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05For ten points, please give me the missing month.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12October.
0:09:12 > 0:09:14Anyone like to buzz from Sheffield?
0:09:15 > 0:09:18- December.- December. Let's see the whole thing?
0:09:21 > 0:09:23It's Rosalind to Orlando in As You Like It.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26For your picture bonuses, three more quotations from Shakespeare's
0:09:26 > 0:09:30plays from which the name of a month of the year has been removed.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33Again, in each case, five points if you can tell me the missing month.
0:09:33 > 0:09:34Firstly for five:
0:09:36 > 0:09:38One of the winter months.
0:09:38 > 0:09:39What do you think?
0:09:41 > 0:09:43Got any ideas?
0:09:43 > 0:09:45- It's got to be winter.- November?
0:09:47 > 0:09:50What shall we go for? What do you think? November face?
0:09:50 > 0:09:51November.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53No, it's February.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55It's Pedro to Benedick in Much Ado.
0:09:55 > 0:09:56And, secondly:
0:10:00 > 0:10:04Aye, well, cuckoo's normally May, aren't they?
0:10:04 > 0:10:06- May.- No, it's June, I'm afraid.
0:10:06 > 0:10:10That's from Henry IV, about his predecessor,
0:10:10 > 0:10:12to Prince Hal in Henry IV Part 1.
0:10:12 > 0:10:14And, finally:
0:10:16 > 0:10:18April. April?
0:10:20 > 0:10:22April showers?
0:10:22 > 0:10:26- Yeah, showers. - It's got to be.- Yeah.- OK.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28- April.- April is correct, yes.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30It's from Anthony And Cleopatra.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33We're going to take another starter question now.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35Underpinning many popular social networks,
0:10:35 > 0:10:38what generic two-word term denotes the method of running application
0:10:38 > 0:10:42software and storing data centrally, while providing users with access
0:10:42 > 0:10:45to both applications and data through the internet?
0:10:48 > 0:10:50Cloud storage.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52Yes, I'll accept. Cloud computing, yes.
0:10:52 > 0:10:54APPLAUSE
0:10:58 > 0:11:01Your bonuses are on the US filmmaker Sofia Coppola.
0:11:01 > 0:11:05In 1903, Coppola won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
0:11:05 > 0:11:10for which film of 2003 starring Scarlett Johannson and Bill Murray?
0:11:10 > 0:11:12It's set largely in a Tokyo hotel.
0:11:12 > 0:11:14Lost In Translation.
0:11:14 > 0:11:15- Lost In Translation.- Correct.
0:11:15 > 0:11:19Give the rhyming title of the 2013 film by Coppola,
0:11:19 > 0:11:22based on actual events, in which a group of California teenagers
0:11:22 > 0:11:24rob the homes of celebrities?
0:11:29 > 0:11:32- Don't know.- It's The Bling Ring.
0:11:32 > 0:11:33And finally,
0:11:33 > 0:11:36Kirsten Dunst played the title character in which 2006 film directed
0:11:36 > 0:11:40by Coppola, the winner of the Academy Award for Best Costume Design?
0:11:40 > 0:11:43It's an adaptation of Antonia Fraser's biography
0:11:43 > 0:11:46of a royal figure born in 1755.
0:11:46 > 0:11:491755, female... Queen...?
0:11:49 > 0:11:50It's...
0:11:51 > 0:11:55Ant...onia...?
0:11:55 > 0:11:56Marie Antoinette?
0:11:58 > 0:11:59Sorry, don't know.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01It WAS Marie Antoinette, bad luck.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03Right, ten points for this:
0:12:03 > 0:12:07Which feast day is celebrated in the Western Christian Church on December the 28th?
0:12:07 > 0:12:09It marks the narrative in Matthew's gospel,
0:12:09 > 0:12:12according to which, King Herod ordered the death of all children
0:12:12 > 0:12:16of two years and under, in the neighbourhood of Bethlehem?
0:12:20 > 0:12:22St Stephen?
0:12:22 > 0:12:23No.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25Anyone want to buzz from Sheffield?
0:12:28 > 0:12:30The Slaughter of the Innocents?
0:12:30 > 0:12:33I'll accept that, it is the Holy Innocents Day,
0:12:33 > 0:12:35or the Massacre or The Feast of the Holy Innocents.
0:12:35 > 0:12:39So you get a set of bonuses, this time, on 20th-century art, Sheffield.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42Which movement was founded in Amsterdam in 1917?
0:12:42 > 0:12:44Its members, including Piet Mondrian,
0:12:44 > 0:12:48advocated pure abstraction, reduced to essential forms and colours.
0:12:52 > 0:12:57- Was that Bauhaus?- Bauhaus?
0:12:57 > 0:12:59Cubism?
0:12:59 > 0:13:01- Bauhaus?- Yeah.
0:13:01 > 0:13:02Nominate Nicci.
0:13:02 > 0:13:05- Bauhaus?- No, it's De Stijl.
0:13:05 > 0:13:09And secondly, Henri Matisse was the acknowledged leader of which movement?
0:13:09 > 0:13:13Prominent in France and first exhibiting formally in 1905,
0:13:13 > 0:13:17its artists used pure, bright colours applied vigorously to the canvas.
0:13:19 > 0:13:20The postimpressionists.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22Postimpressionists?
0:13:22 > 0:13:24No, that's fauvism. And finally:
0:13:24 > 0:13:27Which movement's name means hobby horse in French
0:13:27 > 0:13:30and is thought to have been adopted in Zurich around 1916?
0:13:30 > 0:13:34Its adherents included Tristan Tzara.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36Maybe that's Bauhaus?
0:13:36 > 0:13:38No.
0:13:38 > 0:13:40- What do you think? - French for horse is cheval, right?
0:13:40 > 0:13:43Yeah. So what's hobbyhorse?
0:13:46 > 0:13:47Don't know.
0:13:47 > 0:13:50- We don't know.- It's Dadaism.
0:13:50 > 0:13:51Ten points for this starter question:
0:13:51 > 0:13:55Its name derived from the Greek for glue-producing, which fibrous,
0:13:55 > 0:13:59structural protein is noted for its extremely high tensile strength
0:13:59 > 0:14:02and is the major component of connective tissues...
0:14:03 > 0:14:05- Collagen.- Correct.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08APPLAUSE
0:14:08 > 0:14:11These bonuses, Sheffield, are on subatomic particles.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14What collective name denotes subatomic particles
0:14:14 > 0:14:18that have a half integer spin and obey the exclusion principle?
0:14:18 > 0:14:20Meaning only one of them
0:14:20 > 0:14:23can occupy a particular quantum state at any given time.
0:14:24 > 0:14:25Hadrons.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27No, they're fermions.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30What is the umbrella name for those bosons that mediate
0:14:30 > 0:14:32interaction between other particles?
0:14:34 > 0:14:36I nominate you.
0:14:36 > 0:14:38I looked at this the other night as well.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44- I don't know. - They're gauge bosons.
0:14:44 > 0:14:47And finally, there are four types of gauge boson - photons,
0:14:47 > 0:14:51gravitons, intermediate vector bosons, and which others?
0:14:51 > 0:14:52They hold quarks together.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54- Gluons.- Correct.
0:14:54 > 0:14:56We're now going to take a music round.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59For your music starter you'll hear a song from a film soundtrack,
0:14:59 > 0:15:03for ten points, I'd just like you to identify the person singing, please.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05CROONER MUSIC
0:15:07 > 0:15:09- Frank Sinatra.- Yes!
0:15:09 > 0:15:11APPLAUSE
0:15:13 > 0:15:15High Hopes, from A Hole In The Head.
0:15:15 > 0:15:19And so, December 2015 marks Sinatra's centenary.
0:15:19 > 0:15:20For your music bonuses, therefore,
0:15:20 > 0:15:23three more of his musical performances from films, and this
0:15:23 > 0:15:27time, in each case, I'd like the name of the film that each comes from.
0:15:27 > 0:15:29Firstly, for five:
0:15:29 > 0:15:32# She gets too hungry
0:15:32 > 0:15:36# For dinner at eight...
0:15:36 > 0:15:38Lady is a Tramp, what's the film?
0:15:38 > 0:15:40What film was it?
0:15:40 > 0:15:44# Never comes late
0:15:44 > 0:15:46# She'd never bother...
0:15:46 > 0:15:48Not Breakfast at Tiffany's, but...
0:15:48 > 0:15:50Could've been an Astaire film.
0:15:50 > 0:15:54- Originally. - # That's why the Lady is a Tramp. #
0:15:57 > 0:15:59- I don't think we know that one. - Don't know.
0:15:59 > 0:16:02That's from Pal Joey, it was The Lady Is A Tramp.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04Secondly:
0:16:04 > 0:16:07# Adelaide, Adelaide
0:16:07 > 0:16:10# Ever-loving Adelaide...
0:16:10 > 0:16:14- Blimey. - # Is taking a chance on me
0:16:16 > 0:16:20# Taking a chance, I'll be respectable and nice... #
0:16:20 > 0:16:25Can we just listen to some more of these? They're great.
0:16:25 > 0:16:27I think we don't know.
0:16:27 > 0:16:30That's from Guys And Dolls. And finally:
0:16:31 > 0:16:34- # Who wants to be a millionaire? - I don't...
0:16:34 > 0:16:36Oh, yeah.
0:16:36 > 0:16:38- High Society.- High Society.
0:16:38 > 0:16:40It IS High Society, yes!
0:16:40 > 0:16:42Ten points for this:
0:16:42 > 0:16:46What is the common name of Taxus baccata, a conifer often found...?
0:16:47 > 0:16:49- A yew.- Yew is correct, yes.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52APPLAUSE
0:16:52 > 0:16:56Sheffield, these bonuses are on the ballet The Nutcracker.
0:16:56 > 0:16:57Firstly, for five:
0:16:57 > 0:17:00The scenario of Tchaikovsky's 1892 ballet The Nutcracker is
0:17:00 > 0:17:04based on Alexander Dumas pere's adaptation of the story
0:17:04 > 0:17:08The Nutcracker And The Mouse King, by which German author?
0:17:09 > 0:17:14Is it...? Is Hans Christian Andersen German...?
0:17:14 > 0:17:16- No, he's Danish, wasn't he?- Danish.
0:17:16 > 0:17:18Which one's Grimm then?
0:17:18 > 0:17:21- Grimm was German.- Go for Grimm.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24- Grimm?- No, it was Hoffman.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27Described by him as something between a small piano
0:17:27 > 0:17:30and a glockenspiel, what instrument did Tchaikovsky
0:17:30 > 0:17:34use for the score accompanying the Sugarplum Fairy's solo variation?
0:17:34 > 0:17:37- That's the, kind of, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo.- What?
0:17:37 > 0:17:39- Harpsichord, is it?- Could be.
0:17:39 > 0:17:42- Harpsichord?- No, it was a celeste.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45In 1992, which British choreographer created a new
0:17:45 > 0:17:48version of the ballet to celebrate its centenary?
0:17:48 > 0:17:50It opens in a bleak orphanage.
0:17:51 > 0:17:54- Nominate Nicci. - Matthew Bourne.- Correct.
0:17:54 > 0:17:55Ten points for this:
0:17:55 > 0:17:59Celebrating his 80th anniversary in 2016, which comic strip character
0:17:59 > 0:18:02is a mischievous nine-year-old boy from the fictional town...?
0:18:03 > 0:18:07- Dennis the Menace. - No, you lose five points.
0:18:07 > 0:18:10Fictional town of Auchenshoogle, and appears in Scotland's...?
0:18:11 > 0:18:13- Oor Wullie. - Oor Wullie is right, yes!
0:18:13 > 0:18:15APPLAUSE
0:18:18 > 0:18:20You'll be pleased to hear, Aberdeen, your bonuses are on fish.
0:18:20 > 0:18:22LAUGHTER
0:18:22 > 0:18:24Give the name of each of the following,
0:18:24 > 0:18:27all three answers include the word fish - for example, goldfish.
0:18:27 > 0:18:28Firstly:
0:18:28 > 0:18:32Amphiprion ocellaris, a small fish noted for its association with
0:18:32 > 0:18:36sea anenomes, and for its striking orange and white colouration.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40- Clownfish?- Correct.
0:18:40 > 0:18:44Secondly, Clarias batrachus, native to south-east Asia, its two-word
0:18:44 > 0:18:49common name refers to its ability to move on land using its pectoral fins.
0:18:50 > 0:18:51Mud fish?
0:18:51 > 0:18:54No, that's the walking catfish.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56And finally: Xiphias gladius,
0:18:56 > 0:19:00a food and game fish that can grow up to four metres in length.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02Its common name refers to its distinctive bill.
0:19:04 > 0:19:05Billfish?
0:19:05 > 0:19:07No, it's a swordfish.
0:19:07 > 0:19:08Ten points for this:
0:19:08 > 0:19:12What is the six-letter common name of Cimex lectularius?
0:19:12 > 0:19:16With atrophied, non-functioning wings and a distinctive oily odour,
0:19:16 > 0:19:20it is a species of nocturnal parasite whose numbers are said to have
0:19:20 > 0:19:22increased in recent years?
0:19:25 > 0:19:27- Bedbug?- Correct.
0:19:27 > 0:19:29APPLAUSE
0:19:30 > 0:19:35Aberdeen, your bonuses are on former Bank of England notes.
0:19:35 > 0:19:37In each case, I need the name of the person described
0:19:37 > 0:19:41and the domination of the banknote on which they appeared. Firstly:
0:19:41 > 0:19:44A scientist and Warden of the Mint, born in 1642.
0:19:44 > 0:19:48The banknote on which he appeared was issued in 1978
0:19:48 > 0:19:50and withdrawn ten years later.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59Robert Hooke?
0:19:59 > 0:20:02No, it was Sir Isaac Newton on a £1 note.
0:20:02 > 0:20:05Secondly: An inventor and engineer born in 1781.
0:20:05 > 0:20:11The banknote was first issued in 1990 and withdrawn in 2003.
0:20:11 > 0:20:14- Was it Watt?- Brunel?- Brunel?
0:20:14 > 0:20:17Oh, no... Stevenson?
0:20:17 > 0:20:19Brunel is 19th-century.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22- When was James Watt?- 1781... Could be.
0:20:22 > 0:20:23James Watt?
0:20:23 > 0:20:25No, it was George Stephenson on the £5 note.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28And finally, an architect born 1632.
0:20:28 > 0:20:34The banknote was first issued in 1981 and withdrawn in 1996.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36- Christopher Wren?- And the banknote?
0:20:38 > 0:20:41- Tenner.- £10?
0:20:41 > 0:20:44No, it was the £50 note. Bad luck, I can't accept that.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46We're going to take our second picture round now.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49For your picture starter you're going to see a photograph of a bird.
0:20:49 > 0:20:51For ten points I'd like you to give me
0:20:51 > 0:20:54the common, two-word name of the species.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00- Arctic tern. - It is an Arctic tern, yes.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02APPLAUSE
0:21:02 > 0:21:06Its seasonal migration from pole to pole is one of the longest known.
0:21:06 > 0:21:07For your picture bonuses,
0:21:07 > 0:21:11three more species that make notably long seasonal migrations.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13Five points for each species you can identify.
0:21:13 > 0:21:16Again, I'm simply looking for the common name.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18Firstly for five:
0:21:19 > 0:21:20That's a wildebeest.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22It is a wildebeest, or a gnu.
0:21:22 > 0:21:25Around 1.5 million wildebeest make
0:21:25 > 0:21:27a 1,200 mile journey across the Serengeti,
0:21:27 > 0:21:30away from the dry season, apparently, each year.
0:21:30 > 0:21:31Secondly:
0:21:33 > 0:21:35That's a leatherback turtle.
0:21:35 > 0:21:36Leatherback turtle.
0:21:36 > 0:21:40Yes, they migrate thousands of miles between breeding and feeding areas.
0:21:40 > 0:21:41And finally:
0:21:43 > 0:21:44That's a monarch butterfly.
0:21:44 > 0:21:47It is indeed, they fly up to 2,000 miles south for the winter.
0:21:47 > 0:21:50APPLAUSE
0:21:50 > 0:21:52Ten points for this starter question:
0:21:52 > 0:21:57On the final day of the first Test in Antigua in April 2015,
0:21:57 > 0:22:01which bowler broke Sir Ian Botham's England wicket record
0:22:01 > 0:22:06with his 384th dismissal in his 100th match?
0:22:07 > 0:22:09- James Anderson.- It was indeed, yes.
0:22:09 > 0:22:13APPLAUSE
0:22:13 > 0:22:14These bonuses, Aberdeen,
0:22:14 > 0:22:16are on Kenneth Grahame's The Wind In The Willows.
0:22:16 > 0:22:20In each case, name the character from its scientific name.
0:22:20 > 0:22:24Firstly, which character's name has the binomial Meles meles?
0:22:24 > 0:22:26- The badger.- Correct.
0:22:26 > 0:22:31Secondly, which character's name may be rendered binomially as Bufo bufo?
0:22:31 > 0:22:33- That's the toad.- Correct.
0:22:33 > 0:22:38And finally, Talpa europaea is the binomial of which character?
0:22:38 > 0:22:39- Mole.- Correct.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41APPLAUSE
0:22:44 > 0:22:45Ten points for this:
0:22:45 > 0:22:48A narration by John Grierson, a soundtrack by Benjamin Britten
0:22:48 > 0:22:54and poetry by WH Auden feature in which 1936 documentary film,
0:22:54 > 0:22:57depicting the journey of a steam locomotive travelling to
0:22:57 > 0:23:01Scotland with the postal special?
0:23:01 > 0:23:03- The Night Mail. - The Night Mail is right, yes.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06APPLAUSE
0:23:06 > 0:23:09Your bonuses, Sheffield, are on the artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman.
0:23:09 > 0:23:13Early in his career, Jarman worked as production designer
0:23:13 > 0:23:16on which 1971 film by the director Ken Russell,
0:23:16 > 0:23:21concerning the 17th-century witch trials at Loudon in France?
0:23:25 > 0:23:28- Any ideas?- Do you know?- No, I don't.
0:23:28 > 0:23:29- We don't know.- It's The Devils.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32Which Christian martyr of the third century
0:23:32 > 0:23:34was the title character of Jarman's 1976 film
0:23:34 > 0:23:37in which the dialogue was spoken entirely in Latin?
0:23:39 > 0:23:41Was that Sebastian?
0:23:42 > 0:23:43Sebastian?
0:23:43 > 0:23:45Yes, it was St Sebastian.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48And finally, in 1986, Jarman made a short film,
0:23:48 > 0:23:52conceptualising the music of which English rock group?
0:23:52 > 0:23:55Featuring their songs The Queen Is Dead, Panic,
0:23:55 > 0:23:57and There Is A Light That Never Goes Out.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59- The Smiths.- Correct.
0:23:59 > 0:24:00Ten points for this:
0:24:00 > 0:24:03Listen carefully - for your answer I'll allow ten either way.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06What number results if you subtract the total number of
0:24:06 > 0:24:09Assembly Members in the Welsh National Assembly
0:24:09 > 0:24:12from the total number of MPs in the House of Commons?
0:24:15 > 0:24:17410.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19What?! LAUGHTER
0:24:19 > 0:24:21Sheffield, anyone like to buzz?
0:24:24 > 0:24:26595.
0:24:26 > 0:24:29I'll except that! It's 590, in fact. Yes, well done.
0:24:29 > 0:24:31APPLAUSE
0:24:33 > 0:24:38Your bonuses this time, Sheffield, are on chemical substances.
0:24:38 > 0:24:41Firstly, used on the cutting edges of saws and drills to give resistance
0:24:41 > 0:24:47to wear, what unusually hard substance has the chemical symbol WC?
0:24:48 > 0:24:50- Tungsten carbide.- Correct.
0:24:50 > 0:24:54Found in steel, the hard, brittle substance known as cementite
0:24:54 > 0:24:57is a carbide of which metal?
0:24:57 > 0:24:59I don't know.
0:24:59 > 0:25:00Cementite?
0:25:00 > 0:25:03- Found in steel?- Nickel?
0:25:03 > 0:25:05Selenium? Try it?
0:25:05 > 0:25:07- Selenium.- No, it's iron.
0:25:07 > 0:25:12And finally, calcium carbide reacts with water to give which simple hydrocarbon?
0:25:12 > 0:25:14Its formula is C2H2.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22- Ethyne.- Ethyne is right. Correct.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24We're going to take another starter question now.
0:25:24 > 0:25:30From an Arabic word meaning soda ash or potash, what six-letter term
0:25:30 > 0:25:34denotes a strong base that turns litmus paper from red to blue?
0:25:37 > 0:25:39- Alkali.- Alkali's correct, yes.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42APPLAUSE
0:25:42 > 0:25:44Right, Sheffield, these bonuses are on the
0:25:44 > 0:25:48Forbes List Of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women, published in 2015.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51Occupying sixth place on the Forbes list,
0:25:51 > 0:25:55which French lawyer and politician became the managing director
0:25:55 > 0:25:58of the International Monetary Fund in 2011?
0:25:59 > 0:26:02- Christine...?- Yes.- Is it Christine Lagarde? Christine Lagarde.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04- Christine Lagarde.- Correct.
0:26:04 > 0:26:08Janet Yellen is ranked in fourth place, having become in 2014
0:26:08 > 0:26:12the first female head of which financial institution?
0:26:14 > 0:26:16Not the International Monetary Fund!
0:26:19 > 0:26:22- We're going to have to guess this. - So, we're guessing...?
0:26:26 > 0:26:28- Come on.- We don't know.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31It's the US Federal Reserve. And finally:
0:26:31 > 0:26:33Name both of the political figures who occupy
0:26:33 > 0:26:36the top two positions on the Forbes list?
0:26:36 > 0:26:38- Clinton.- Clinton?
0:26:38 > 0:26:41- Hillary Clinton's got to be one, hasn't she?- And Angela...?
0:26:41 > 0:26:43Angela Merkel.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46- Angela Merkel and Hillary Clinton. - Correct.
0:26:46 > 0:26:47Ten points for this:
0:26:47 > 0:26:49Botticelli's tempera painting of 1475,
0:26:49 > 0:26:53The Adoration Of The Magi, now in the Uffizi, depicts several members
0:26:53 > 0:26:57of which family, prominent in Florence for much of the Renaissance?
0:26:58 > 0:27:00- The Medicis.- Correct.
0:27:00 > 0:27:02APPLAUSE
0:27:03 > 0:27:06You get bonuses on the works of Agatha Christie.
0:27:06 > 0:27:09In the 1933 novel, Murder On The Orient Express, the victim,
0:27:09 > 0:27:12Mr Ratchett, is murdered in his train compartment
0:27:12 > 0:27:15and is found with how many stab wounds?
0:27:15 > 0:27:17- 13, I think.- Yeah?
0:27:18 > 0:27:20- 13.- No, it's 12.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22Christie's play The Mousetrap has been
0:27:22 > 0:27:24running in the West End for over 60 years,
0:27:24 > 0:27:26most recently at St Martin's Theatre.
0:27:26 > 0:27:30It opened in 1952 at which adjacent venue?
0:27:33 > 0:27:37- Come on, let's have it, please? - We don't know.- Just have a guess.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39GONG
0:27:39 > 0:27:41APPLAUSE
0:27:41 > 0:27:44I'll tell you, it opened at the Ambassadors Theatre.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49Aberdeen, bad luck - you never really got into your stride there, did you?
0:27:49 > 0:27:51No, we didn't.
0:27:51 > 0:27:52Congratulations, Sheffield -
0:27:52 > 0:27:55185 is certainly enough to qualify for the semifinals.
0:27:55 > 0:27:56Many congratulations to you.
0:27:56 > 0:27:59And we shall look forward to saying goodbye to you, quite presumably!
0:27:59 > 0:28:02LAUGHTER
0:28:02 > 0:28:06I hope you can join us next time for the last of the first-round matches.
0:28:06 > 0:28:09- But until then, it's goodbye from Aberdeen University.- Goodbye.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11- It's goodbye from Sheffield University.- Goodbye.
0:28:11 > 0:28:13And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15APPLAUSE