0:00:19 > 0:00:22Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:32Hello. Another bout of intellectual Buckaroo lies ahead of us tonight
0:00:32 > 0:00:34as we play the last of the first-round matches
0:00:34 > 0:00:36in this Christmas series.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39So far, Magdalen College, Oxford and the universities of Manchester
0:00:39 > 0:00:43and Sheffield have earned themselves places in the semifinals.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45If tonight's winners are to go through and join them,
0:00:45 > 0:00:49they need to beat University College London's score of 155.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52Now, first tonight, the team from the University of Durham.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55We pride ourselves on this programme that this series is one of the few
0:00:55 > 0:00:58occasions when librarians get the recognition they deserve,
0:00:58 > 0:01:02and Durham's first team member has worked in the libraries
0:01:02 > 0:01:04of the House of Lords and Edinburgh University,
0:01:04 > 0:01:06as well as the National Library of Scotland.
0:01:06 > 0:01:10He is the 25th incumbent of his current post,
0:01:10 > 0:01:12which was inaugurated in 1602.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14With him, a news presenter and reporter who,
0:01:14 > 0:01:18in the past 20 years, has covered stories both in studio
0:01:18 > 0:01:20and on location, from the crisis in Ukraine
0:01:20 > 0:01:22to the rescue of the Chilean miners,
0:01:22 > 0:01:26the uprisings of the Arab spring and the Japanese tsunami.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29Their captain is a leading space scientist.
0:01:29 > 0:01:33She has headed the Meteorite team at the Natural History Museum
0:01:33 > 0:01:37and in 2014 she was the world's cheerleader when the Philae probe
0:01:37 > 0:01:41became the first spacecraft to land on a comet nucleus.
0:01:41 > 0:01:43Joining them is a Dutch-born entrepreneur
0:01:43 > 0:01:47who in 2000 founded an institution which has attracted 16 million
0:01:47 > 0:01:51visitors and brought over £1 billion into the Cornish economy.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53Let's meet the Durham team.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55I am Richard Ovenden.
0:01:55 > 0:02:00I graduated from Durham in 1985, in modern history and economic history.
0:02:00 > 0:02:02I'm now Bodley's Librarian, which means I'm responsible
0:02:02 > 0:02:06for the research libraries of the University of Oxford.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09I'm Tim Willcox. I read Spanish at Durham
0:02:09 > 0:02:10more than 30 years ago.
0:02:10 > 0:02:14Since then, I've been working as a journalist in newspapers then TV.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16I currently work as a presenter for BBC News.
0:02:16 > 0:02:18And this is their captain.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20Hi, I'm Monica Grady.
0:02:20 > 0:02:23I read chemistry and geology at St Aidan's College, Durham,
0:02:23 > 0:02:24graduating in 1979.
0:02:24 > 0:02:27I'm currently Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences
0:02:27 > 0:02:29at the Open University.
0:02:29 > 0:02:33My name is Tim Smit. I graduated in 1976 from Durham,
0:02:33 > 0:02:35reading archaeology and anthropology.
0:02:35 > 0:02:37But today I lead the Eden Project
0:02:37 > 0:02:40and the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48Their opponents are playing for the London School of Economics.
0:02:48 > 0:02:52Its founders in 1895 included Sidney and Beatrice Webb
0:02:52 > 0:02:55and George Bernard Shaw, and the four trying not to let them down
0:02:55 > 0:03:00tonight include a former criminal law barrister turned Conservative MP.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03He's been Shadow Minister for London, local government minister
0:03:03 > 0:03:05and deputy party chairman.
0:03:05 > 0:03:08With him, a journalist who has spent eight years as the
0:03:08 > 0:03:09BBC's Washington correspondent.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12He left that job to take up his present role, of
0:03:12 > 0:03:15which he said that it was "the only one that could have lured him away -
0:03:15 > 0:03:19"and if it goes wrong, he'll be on the next plane back."
0:03:19 > 0:03:23Their captain is an award-winning campaigner, newspaper columnist,
0:03:23 > 0:03:26and writer on all things to do with personal finances.
0:03:26 > 0:03:28He presents his own programme on ITV,
0:03:28 > 0:03:30is the resident expert on numerous other programmes,
0:03:30 > 0:03:35and is executive chairman of the UK's biggest money website.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38Their fourth team member began his career as one of the youngest
0:03:38 > 0:03:40show business editors in Fleet Street.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43Since then he's written for the Times Literary Supplement
0:03:43 > 0:03:46and The Guardian, but is best known for presenting numerous radio
0:03:46 > 0:03:50and television programmes. Let's meet the LSE team.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53Hi, I'm Bob Neill. I read law at LSE in the 1970s.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56Now I'm the MP for Bromley and Chislehurst
0:03:56 > 0:03:59and Chair of Parliament's Justice Select Committee.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01Hi, I'm Justin Webb.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03I took a degree in economics in 1983.
0:04:03 > 0:04:06Now I present the Today programme on Radio Four.
0:04:06 > 0:04:07And this is their captain.
0:04:07 > 0:04:09Hi, I'm Martin Lewis.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12I graduated in government and law in 1994.
0:04:12 > 0:04:15I've since founded and run moneysavingexpert.com.
0:04:15 > 0:04:18This is Felix, the LSE Beaver.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21A hard-working and industrious animal
0:04:21 > 0:04:23- with a gift for double entendre. - LAUGHTER
0:04:23 > 0:04:27Hello, I'm James O'Brien. I graduated in 1995
0:04:27 > 0:04:29with a degree in philosophy.
0:04:29 > 0:04:33I'm now a journalist and broadcaster with a daily show on LBC radio.
0:04:38 > 0:04:42OK, you all know the rules, I guess. If you don't, you shouldn't be here.
0:04:42 > 0:04:44So let's just crack on with it, shall we?
0:04:44 > 0:04:46Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48In two-word expressions,
0:04:48 > 0:04:51what six-letter adjective may proceed the words
0:04:51 > 0:04:56stick, bean, horn, cricket, mustard, dressing, toast...?
0:04:56 > 0:04:58French.
0:04:58 > 0:04:59French is correct, yes.
0:05:01 > 0:05:05Right, Durham. Your bonuses are on a work of literature.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07Firstly for five points.
0:05:07 > 0:05:11Which short novel of 1843 did the Illustrated London News note -
0:05:11 > 0:05:14"the surpassing beauty with which they accomplished
0:05:14 > 0:05:17"author of this seasonable little volume has worked out - or,
0:05:17 > 0:05:21"as he supportively terms it, raised 'the ghost of an idea'"?
0:05:22 > 0:05:24A Christmas Carol.
0:05:24 > 0:05:25By Dickens, of course.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28After reading A Christmas Carol, which notoriously
0:05:28 > 0:05:30reclusive 19th-century historian
0:05:30 > 0:05:35and essayist was seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality
0:05:35 > 0:05:39and hosted two festive dinner parties at his Cheyne Walk residence?
0:05:39 > 0:05:41THEY CONFER
0:05:41 > 0:05:42- Thomas Carlyle.- Correct.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44To which character in a Christmas Carol
0:05:44 > 0:05:46was a Thackeray referring when
0:05:46 > 0:05:49he wrote, "There is not a reader in England but that little creature will
0:05:49 > 0:05:52"be a bond of union between the author and him"?
0:05:52 > 0:05:53Tim Cratchit.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55Correct, Tiny Tim.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00Right, ten points for this.
0:06:00 > 0:06:02The Celestial Hierarchy,
0:06:02 > 0:06:05formerly attributed to Dionysius the Aeropagite,
0:06:05 > 0:06:09was an important influence on which 13th-century theologian?
0:06:09 > 0:06:11Known as The Angelic Doctor,
0:06:11 > 0:06:14his works included the Summa Theologica.
0:06:14 > 0:06:15Thomas Aquinas.
0:06:15 > 0:06:16Correct.
0:06:18 > 0:06:22Your bonuses are on Jewish religious festivals, Durham.
0:06:22 > 0:06:25Originally an agricultural festival marking the start of the summer
0:06:25 > 0:06:29wheat harvest, Shavuot, or the Festival of the Weeks,
0:06:29 > 0:06:33is also known by what name, from the Greek meaning 50th?
0:06:35 > 0:06:36Greek for 50?
0:06:40 > 0:06:42- Don't know. No.- Don't know.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44It's Pentecost.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47Translated into English as the Feast of Lots, which festival
0:06:47 > 0:06:51commemorates the survival of the Jews who, according to the Book of Esther,
0:06:51 > 0:06:56were marked for death by the Persian rulers in the 5th century BC?
0:06:58 > 0:06:59Yom Kippur?
0:06:59 > 0:07:02- Is it?- Yom Kippur.
0:07:02 > 0:07:03No, it's Purim.
0:07:03 > 0:07:06And finally, thought to derive from the Hebrew verb meaning to dedicate,
0:07:06 > 0:07:09what name denotes the festival celebrated over eight days,
0:07:09 > 0:07:12and also known as the Feast of Dedication,
0:07:12 > 0:07:16the Feast of Lights and the Feast of the Maccabees?
0:07:16 > 0:07:17Hanukkah.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19- Hanukkah. - Correct. Ten points for this.
0:07:19 > 0:07:23Who was the subject of Andrew Robinson's 2006 biography
0:07:23 > 0:07:25entitled The Last Man Who Knew Everything?
0:07:25 > 0:07:29A physician and physicist born in Somerset in 1773,
0:07:29 > 0:07:32he established the principle of interference of light,
0:07:32 > 0:07:35and was instrumental in deciphering the Rosetta Stone.
0:07:37 > 0:07:38Thomas Young.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40Correct.
0:07:42 > 0:07:47Your bonuses are on scientific theories later disproved, Durham.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49Firstly, from the 17th century,
0:07:49 > 0:07:52an early chemical theory assumed that all combustible material
0:07:52 > 0:07:56was in part composed of which hypothetical substance?
0:07:56 > 0:07:59The idea was discredited by Lavoisier from 1770.
0:07:59 > 0:08:00Phlogiston.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03Correct. What name was given to the weightless, transparent,
0:08:03 > 0:08:07frictionless substance thought to permeate all matter and space,
0:08:07 > 0:08:10until the Michelson-Morley experiment of 1881 severely
0:08:10 > 0:08:12weakened the theory of its existence.
0:08:12 > 0:08:13Ether.
0:08:13 > 0:08:19Correct. And finally, work by Wegener in 1912 was the first rigorous
0:08:19 > 0:08:22attempt to refute the idea that the major landmasses of the Earth were
0:08:22 > 0:08:26immovable. This view persisted until the 1960s,
0:08:26 > 0:08:28when what theory became generally accepted?
0:08:28 > 0:08:30Plate tectonics.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33Or continental drift, yes. Right, a picture round now.
0:08:33 > 0:08:34For your picture starter,
0:08:34 > 0:08:36you are going to see a map showing
0:08:36 > 0:08:38the locations of the host venues
0:08:38 > 0:08:40of a major sporting event
0:08:40 > 0:08:42that took place in 2015.
0:08:42 > 0:08:43For ten points, I want you to
0:08:43 > 0:08:45identify that sporting event.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53Cricket World Cup.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55It is the ICC Cricket World Cup. Well done.
0:08:58 > 0:09:02For your picture bonuses, you'll see three of those cities highlighted.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05For five points each, I want you to identify the city
0:09:05 > 0:09:09and the name of its cricket ground at which World Cup matches were played.
0:09:09 > 0:09:11Firstly, the city and cricket ground at A.
0:09:21 > 0:09:23MCC, Brisbane.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25It is Brisbane. It's the Gabba though, the cricket ground.
0:09:25 > 0:09:28Secondly, the city and the cricket ground at B.
0:09:30 > 0:09:32Is that Wellington? Auckland?
0:09:32 > 0:09:34Do we know the cricket ground at Auckland?
0:09:36 > 0:09:39Auckland and the Auckland Cricket Ground.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41It's Eden Park in Auckland.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44And finally, the city and cricket ground at C.
0:09:45 > 0:09:49- That's Sydney, isn't it? - The MCC. Or is it Melbourne?
0:09:51 > 0:09:53Quick.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55- Melbourne...- Melbourne, the MCC.
0:09:55 > 0:09:59It's Melbourne and the MCG. The Melbourne Cricket Ground.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01Oh, actually, you can have it. Why not?
0:10:01 > 0:10:03CHEERING It's Christmas.
0:10:03 > 0:10:05Ten point for this.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08The History Of A Dangerous Idea is the subtitle of which
0:10:08 > 0:10:11recent work by the British political economist Mark Blyth?
0:10:11 > 0:10:14The single-word title denotes a particular approach to
0:10:14 > 0:10:15government spending.
0:10:18 > 0:10:20- Austerity.- Yes.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26Three questions on carol singing for your bonuses, LSE.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28In each case, give the title of the literary work
0:10:28 > 0:10:31from which the following lines are taken.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33Firstly, from a novel of 1860.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36"There had been singing under the windows after midnight -
0:10:36 > 0:10:38"supernatural singing, Maggie always felt,
0:10:38 > 0:10:42"in spite of Tom's contemptuous insistence that the singers
0:10:42 > 0:10:46"were Old Patch, the parish clerk, and the rest of the church choir."
0:10:47 > 0:10:48Tom Sawyer.
0:10:48 > 0:10:51No, it's from The Mill On The Floss by George Eliot.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53From a memoir, secondly, of 1959.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56"For a year we had praised the Lord, out of key,
0:10:56 > 0:11:00"and as a reward for this service we now had the right to visit
0:11:00 > 0:11:03"all the big houses, to sing our carols and collect our tribute."
0:11:03 > 0:11:06INDISTINCT CONVERSATION
0:11:06 > 0:11:09'59. Yep, give me a guess.
0:11:09 > 0:11:10Any guess?
0:11:13 > 0:11:14Pass.
0:11:14 > 0:11:16That's from Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18And finally, from a 1908 novel for children.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21"As the door opened, one of the elder ones that carried
0:11:21 > 0:11:24"the lantern was just saying, 'Now then - one, two, three!'
0:11:24 > 0:11:27"And forthwith their shrill little voices uprose on the air
0:11:27 > 0:11:31"singing one of the old-time carols that their forefathers composed."
0:11:31 > 0:11:33- Peter Pan or... - INDISTINCT CHATTER
0:11:35 > 0:11:36OK. Peter Pan.
0:11:36 > 0:11:39- No, it's The Wind In The Willows. - Wind In The Willows!
0:11:39 > 0:11:41Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:11:41 > 0:11:43Benjamin Disraeli described idiosyncrasy is a quality
0:11:43 > 0:11:46"which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury,
0:11:46 > 0:11:48"or a Prime Minister."
0:11:48 > 0:11:51What is the dictionary spelling of the word idiosyncrasy?
0:11:56 > 0:11:59I-D-I-O-C...
0:11:59 > 0:12:04Y-N...
0:12:04 > 0:12:07No. LAUGHTER
0:12:07 > 0:12:09Digging a nice hole there.
0:12:12 > 0:12:16I-D-I-O-S-I-N-C-R-A-C-Y.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19No, it's S-Y-N-C-R-A-S-Y.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22So, ten points at stake for this starter question.
0:12:22 > 0:12:27Harvest Of The Cold Months - The Social History Of Ice And Ices
0:12:27 > 0:12:30is a later work by which author, who died in 1992?
0:12:30 > 0:12:34Perhaps best-known for French provincial cooking,
0:12:34 > 0:12:38she has been described as "the best writer on food and drink..."
0:12:38 > 0:12:39Elizabeth David.
0:12:39 > 0:12:40Yes.
0:12:43 > 0:12:47LSE, you get questions on Iris Murdoch and philosophy.
0:12:47 > 0:12:50"People were liberated by that book after the war,
0:12:50 > 0:12:53"it made people happy, it was like the Gospel."
0:12:53 > 0:12:56These words of Iris Murdoch referred to Being And Nothingness,
0:12:56 > 0:12:58a work by which French philosopher?
0:13:02 > 0:13:04Sartre?
0:13:04 > 0:13:06Sartre.
0:13:06 > 0:13:11Correct. Iris Murdoch's 1977 work The Fire And The Sun discusses the
0:13:11 > 0:13:15attitude to art and the theory of beauty of which ancient philosopher?
0:13:18 > 0:13:20THEY CONFER
0:13:20 > 0:13:23Plato seems more likely, doesn't he?
0:13:23 > 0:13:25- Plato.- Correct.
0:13:25 > 0:13:27In the 1959 essay The Sublime And The Good,
0:13:27 > 0:13:31what concept did Iris Murdoch described as "the extremely
0:13:31 > 0:13:36"difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real"?
0:13:36 > 0:13:38Idealism.
0:13:40 > 0:13:42We'll go for it?
0:13:42 > 0:13:44- Idealism.- No, it's love.
0:13:44 > 0:13:45Ten points for this.
0:13:45 > 0:13:49Which three cautionary words link a 1968 recording by the sound
0:13:49 > 0:13:53engineer Peter Lodge, the voice artist Emma Clarke, and The Archers
0:13:53 > 0:13:58actor Tim Bentinck, who has been heard on the Piccadilly Line?
0:13:58 > 0:13:59Mind the gap.
0:13:59 > 0:14:01Correct.
0:14:03 > 0:14:07Right, three questions on checkmates in chess for your bonuses, LSE.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10Scholar's mate is a checkmate that may often catch out a beginner,
0:14:10 > 0:14:14and always results in a win after how many moves?
0:14:15 > 0:14:17Six is the shortest.
0:14:17 > 0:14:19I think it's six.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21- Six or eight. - I think it's three.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24- Three?- Pawn, bishop, queen.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28- Nominate O'Brien.- Three.
0:14:28 > 0:14:32No, it's four. It's also known as the four-move checkmate.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35Involving a queen with a bishop, checkmating the opposing king.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38Also known as Philidor's Legacy,
0:14:38 > 0:14:41what term describes a checkmate by knight against a king that
0:14:41 > 0:14:45has all of its escape squares blocked by its own pieces?
0:14:45 > 0:14:49The term suggests being surrounded and unable to breathe.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54Suffocate. Choke?
0:14:54 > 0:14:56A choke mate.
0:14:56 > 0:14:58No, it's a smothered mate.
0:14:58 > 0:15:02And finally, Anastasia's mate and Arabian mate most commonly involve
0:15:02 > 0:15:06which two pieces working in tandem to checkmate the opposing king?
0:15:06 > 0:15:09It would be a horse, wouldn't it?
0:15:09 > 0:15:11THEY CONFER
0:15:11 > 0:15:13A knight and a queen.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15No, it's a knight and a rook.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17Right, we are going to take a music round now.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of popular music.
0:15:20 > 0:15:22Ten points if you can identify the artist, please.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24POP MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:24 > 0:15:28# When the world gets cold
0:15:28 > 0:15:30# I'll be your cover
0:15:30 > 0:15:34# Let's just hold
0:15:34 > 0:15:35# Onto each other
0:15:35 > 0:15:37# Let it all fall
0:15:37 > 0:15:38# Let it all fall down
0:15:38 > 0:15:41# Look at yourselves in a ghost town... #
0:15:44 > 0:15:45Adele.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47It doesn't sound anything like Adele.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50I've got no idea. And nobody else seems to have.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52Well, it was enterprising of you to have a go.
0:15:52 > 0:15:54You are wrong, I'm afraid though.
0:15:54 > 0:15:55Anyone like to buzz from the LSE?
0:15:58 > 0:15:59Beyonce.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01No, it's Madonna. It's Ghost Town.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03Music bonuses in a moment or two.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06Ten points at stake for this starter question.
0:16:06 > 0:16:10In which sensory organ of the human body are the specialised cells
0:16:10 > 0:16:13called the hyalocytes of Balazs?
0:16:13 > 0:16:17They form part of the surface of the vitreous body.
0:16:17 > 0:16:18The eye.
0:16:18 > 0:16:19Correct.
0:16:22 > 0:16:26Right, you will recall that Madonna fell over on stage at the 2015
0:16:26 > 0:16:30Brit Awards due to an unfortunate entanglement of her costume.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33For your bonuses, you are going to hear three more songs by groups
0:16:33 > 0:16:38or artists who experienced similar onstage calamities in 2015.
0:16:38 > 0:16:40Firstly for five, can you to identify this band?
0:16:40 > 0:16:43ROCK MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:43 > 0:16:45# One in ten
0:16:45 > 0:16:48# One in ten
0:16:48 > 0:16:51- # One in ten... # - Ace Of Spades...
0:16:51 > 0:16:53# Don't want to be your monkey wrench... #
0:16:53 > 0:16:55AC/DC. Yeah?
0:16:55 > 0:16:57AC/DC.
0:16:57 > 0:16:58No, it's Foo Fighters.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00The lead singer and guitarist, Dave Grohl,
0:17:00 > 0:17:03broke his leg falling off stage in Gothenburg.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05Secondly, can you name this artist, please?
0:17:05 > 0:17:07HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYS
0:17:07 > 0:17:10- # Uh-huh, yeah - It's all about the Benjamins, baby
0:17:12 > 0:17:14# Now, what y'all wanna do?
0:17:14 > 0:17:18# Wanna be ballers shot-callers, brawlers. #
0:17:18 > 0:17:20Kanye West.
0:17:20 > 0:17:24No, it's Puff Daddy, or P Diddy, or Diddy, or Puffy, or Sean Combs...
0:17:24 > 0:17:25LAUGHTER
0:17:25 > 0:17:28..who fell into a hole during an awards ceremony, apparently.
0:17:28 > 0:17:31Finally, I specifically want the name or nickname
0:17:31 > 0:17:34of the guitarist of this band.
0:17:34 > 0:17:35ROCK MUSIC PLAYS
0:17:36 > 0:17:38The Edge.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41- U2. Edge.- Is it?- Yeah.
0:17:41 > 0:17:42Edge.
0:17:42 > 0:17:46It is The Edge. Yes. Who fell off the edge, apparently. In Vancouver.
0:17:46 > 0:17:48Right, ten points for this.
0:17:48 > 0:17:52Which two initial letters link words meaning the process of
0:17:52 > 0:17:55shedding skin in reptiles...
0:17:55 > 0:17:57Ex.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59No. I'm sorry, you are wrong. You lose five points too.
0:17:59 > 0:18:03..a short pastoral poem - for example, by Virgil -
0:18:03 > 0:18:05the colour of unbleached linen
0:18:05 > 0:18:08and the study of living things within their environment.
0:18:14 > 0:18:15A-B.
0:18:15 > 0:18:17No, it's E-C.
0:18:17 > 0:18:20I'm not going to recite the long list of terms involved.
0:18:20 > 0:18:21Ten points for this.
0:18:21 > 0:18:24Which small city in North Dakota shares its name with
0:18:24 > 0:18:26a film of 1996 with the tag line -
0:18:26 > 0:18:29Small town. Big crime. Dead cold?
0:18:29 > 0:18:31It start Frances McDormand and was...
0:18:31 > 0:18:32Fargo.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34Fargo is correct, yes.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38Your bonuses this time are on astronomy,
0:18:38 > 0:18:40comedy and a government agency.
0:18:40 > 0:18:44All three answers contain the letter combination DNA.
0:18:44 > 0:18:48Discovered in 2003, which trans-Neptunian object was
0:18:48 > 0:18:52given a five-letter name after an Inuit goddess of the sea?
0:18:56 > 0:18:59INDISTINCT CONVERSATION
0:18:59 > 0:19:00Diana.
0:19:00 > 0:19:01No, it was Sedna.
0:19:01 > 0:19:05Secondly, founded in the late 18th century, which government-owned
0:19:05 > 0:19:09company's products include the Explorer and the Landranger series?
0:19:09 > 0:19:12THEY CONFER
0:19:18 > 0:19:19Land Rover.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21No, it's the Ordnance Survey.
0:19:21 > 0:19:24And finally, born with the surname Beazley,
0:19:24 > 0:19:27who was created a Dame in 1974?
0:19:27 > 0:19:30The creation was portrayed as a spontaneous
0:19:30 > 0:19:34gesture by the Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.
0:19:34 > 0:19:35BUZZER
0:19:35 > 0:19:37You don't need to buzz.
0:19:37 > 0:19:38Edna Everage.
0:19:38 > 0:19:41You are quite right. It is Edna Everage, yes.
0:19:42 > 0:19:44Right, ten points at stake for this.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47Meanings of what six-letter word include either of the
0:19:47 > 0:19:50two pendulous, fleshy growths on each side of a turkey's beak,
0:19:50 > 0:19:53an alternative name for the...
0:19:53 > 0:19:54Wattle.
0:19:54 > 0:19:56Wattle is correct, yes.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00Your bonuses, Durham, are on mnemonics.
0:20:00 > 0:20:05Will A Jolly Man Make A Jolly Visitor is a mnemonic for the surnames
0:20:05 > 0:20:08of the first eight US presidents.
0:20:08 > 0:20:12Which two presidents are represented by the phrase Jolly Man?
0:20:14 > 0:20:16- Jackson.- And...
0:20:16 > 0:20:18- Hmm.- Madison.
0:20:18 > 0:20:20Jackson and Madison.
0:20:20 > 0:20:21No, it's Jefferson and Madison.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23Sorry, sorry.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25Secondly, for five points.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28How shocking! Tom's Songs Make Me Queasy
0:20:28 > 0:20:31is a mnemonic for the names of the major Chinese dynasties,
0:20:31 > 0:20:33beginning with the Han.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35Which dynasty does the word Queasy represent?
0:20:35 > 0:20:38You may spell it if you wish.
0:20:38 > 0:20:39Chen.
0:20:39 > 0:20:40- Quinn.- Qing.
0:20:40 > 0:20:41Qing.
0:20:41 > 0:20:46Correct. No Plan Like Yours To Study History Wisely
0:20:46 > 0:20:50is a mnemonic for the royal houses of England, beginning with the Norman.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53For which houses do the words Like Yours stand?
0:20:56 > 0:20:58York. Lancaster and York?
0:20:58 > 0:20:59Lancaster and York.
0:20:59 > 0:21:01Correct. The winner takes a second picture round now.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03For your picture starter,
0:21:03 > 0:21:05you are going to see a photograph of a theatrical production.
0:21:05 > 0:21:09The ten points, I want you to identify both the actor you see
0:21:09 > 0:21:11and the role he is playing.
0:21:14 > 0:21:17Benedict Cumberbatch playing Hamlet.
0:21:17 > 0:21:18That's correct.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22That was the Barbican's 2015 production,
0:21:22 > 0:21:26which has become the fastest-selling play in London theatre history.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29Your picture bonuses show three more 2015 record breakers.
0:21:29 > 0:21:30Firstly for five,
0:21:30 > 0:21:33I want you to identify the subject of this exhibition.
0:21:37 > 0:21:42THEY CONFER
0:21:42 > 0:21:43Vivienne Westwood.
0:21:43 > 0:21:44No, it's Alexander McQueen.
0:21:44 > 0:21:48His exhibition Savage Beauty broke the V&A's attendance record.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50Secondly, the title of this painting.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53You can give it in either English or French.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57I don't know the name of the painting.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01Le Fantastique.
0:22:01 > 0:22:03No, it's the Women Of Algiers by Picasso.
0:22:03 > 0:22:07The most expensive artwork sold at auction.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09Finally, I want you to identify this film, please.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13- I don't know.- Not a clue.
0:22:13 > 0:22:17It's all been record breakers. Was there something huge this year?
0:22:18 > 0:22:20No?
0:22:20 > 0:22:22Alf Does Christmas.
0:22:22 > 0:22:23LAUGHTER
0:22:23 > 0:22:25What?!
0:22:25 > 0:22:29No, it's Jurassic World. In June 2015, it broke the record
0:22:29 > 0:22:32for the most successful global opening weekend.
0:22:32 > 0:22:33Right, ten points for this.
0:22:33 > 0:22:37In October 2015, who led the Liberal Party to an unexpected
0:22:37 > 0:22:39victory in the Canadian federal election?
0:22:39 > 0:22:40Justin Trudeau.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42Correct.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48Right, your bonuses this time, LSE, are on memorials.
0:22:48 > 0:22:51William Wyggeston and Simon De Montfort are two of the four
0:22:51 > 0:22:55men represented by statues on the Haymarket Memorial Clock Tower
0:22:55 > 0:22:57in which English city?
0:22:59 > 0:23:00Leicester.
0:23:00 > 0:23:01Correct.
0:23:01 > 0:23:04Designed by George Gilbert Scott, the Martyrs' Memorial on St Giles'
0:23:04 > 0:23:08in Oxford commemorates the three men known as the Oxford martyrs.
0:23:08 > 0:23:12Thomas Cranmer was one. Name either of the other two.
0:23:12 > 0:23:14INDISTINCT SPEECH
0:23:14 > 0:23:16- BUZZER - Ridley.
0:23:16 > 0:23:18Ridley was correct, yes.
0:23:18 > 0:23:21Can you settle down with your buzzers there?
0:23:21 > 0:23:23LAUGHTER The other one was Latimer.
0:23:23 > 0:23:25And finally, opened in 2001,
0:23:25 > 0:23:29the National Memorial Arboretum is located close to the River Tame,
0:23:29 > 0:23:33a tributary of the Trent, in which English county?
0:23:33 > 0:23:34Staffordshire.
0:23:36 > 0:23:37Staffordshire.
0:23:37 > 0:23:39Correct. Ten points for this.
0:23:41 > 0:23:46Equilibrium Points In n-Person Games was the title of the ground-breaking
0:23:46 > 0:23:52paper of 1949 by which US mathematician, who died in May 2015?
0:23:52 > 0:23:53John Nash.
0:23:53 > 0:23:55Correct.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58Level pegging. You get these bonuses, they'll give you the lead.
0:23:58 > 0:24:01They are on the Stirling Prize for Architecture.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03The media centre at which UK sporting venue won
0:24:03 > 0:24:07the 1999 prize for its architects?
0:24:07 > 0:24:09It was the world's first all-aluminium,
0:24:09 > 0:24:11semi-monocoque building.
0:24:11 > 0:24:12Lord's.
0:24:12 > 0:24:16Correct. The 2014 prize went to the architects of the rebuilding of which
0:24:16 > 0:24:17theatre in Liverpool?
0:24:17 > 0:24:20Its original incarnation opened in 1964
0:24:20 > 0:24:24in the shell of a 19th-century chapel.
0:24:25 > 0:24:26Delphi?
0:24:26 > 0:24:29THEY CONFER
0:24:29 > 0:24:31- Everyman.- Try that one.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33Everyman.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35It was the Everyman Theatre. And finally,
0:24:35 > 0:24:38the restoration of Astley Castle, a ruined manor house,
0:24:38 > 0:24:41won its architects the Stirling Prize in 2013.
0:24:41 > 0:24:45It is situated to the south-west of Nuneaton in which English county?
0:24:47 > 0:24:50- Leicester.- Or was it Warwickshire? Worcestershire.
0:24:50 > 0:24:52THEY CONFER
0:24:52 > 0:24:55- Leicestershire. - No, it's Warwickshire.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58SHE SIGHS Ten points for this. Born in 1830,
0:24:58 > 0:25:02Emily Davies was a pioneer of higher education for women and a founder
0:25:02 > 0:25:05of which institution, named after a village north-west of Cambridge?
0:25:07 > 0:25:08Girton College.
0:25:08 > 0:25:09Correct.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14Your bonuses, LSE, are on a London museum.
0:25:14 > 0:25:18William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress is part of the collection
0:25:18 > 0:25:20of which museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields,
0:25:20 > 0:25:25named after the Regency architect who left it to the nation in 1837?
0:25:25 > 0:25:26John Soane's Museum.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28- Correct.- Next to LSE.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31Part of the Soane Collection, what event is the subject of a series
0:25:31 > 0:25:36of paintings by Hogarth inspired by the Oxfordshire contest of 1754?
0:25:36 > 0:25:40It depicts vicious indulgence in sensual pleasures, the wearing
0:25:40 > 0:25:44of blue or orange ribbons, and the distribution of bribes.
0:25:46 > 0:25:50INDISTINCT SPEECH
0:25:50 > 0:25:51Talk to me.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54It's not the polling or something like that. It's...
0:25:56 > 0:25:59It's something to do with elections. Is it the polling?
0:25:59 > 0:26:02I'll accept that, yes. It's The Humours Of An Election.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04A general or parliamentary election, yes.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07Also in the Soane Collection, Les Noces, or The Marriage,
0:26:07 > 0:26:11is a work of the 1710s by which artist, born in Valenciennes,
0:26:11 > 0:26:14a major exponent of the genre known as fetes galantes?
0:26:16 > 0:26:17No idea.
0:26:18 > 0:26:19Nominate Neill.
0:26:19 > 0:26:21Is it Watteau?
0:26:21 > 0:26:22It is Watteau. Yes.
0:26:24 > 0:26:26Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:26:26 > 0:26:30For what does the letter S stand in the scientific acronym laser?
0:26:33 > 0:26:35Stimulation.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38Stimulated. I'll accept that. You've got the right idea.
0:26:40 > 0:26:43Right, your bonuses are on fictional doctors.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46The former Nazi, Dr Christian Szell,
0:26:46 > 0:26:48appears in which 1974 conspiracy thriller?
0:26:48 > 0:26:50Marathon Man.
0:26:50 > 0:26:51- Marathon Man.- Correct.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53Which novel, first published in 1925,
0:26:53 > 0:26:56refers to the image of the eyes of Dr TJ Ekelberg?
0:27:00 > 0:27:04INDISTINCT WHISPERS
0:27:04 > 0:27:06GONG
0:27:06 > 0:27:08APPLAUSE
0:27:08 > 0:27:11Right, at the gong, it's absolutely level pegging.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13The way we are going to sort this out now is
0:27:13 > 0:27:16I'm going to ask you a starter question.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19If you get it right, you get ten points and immediately win.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22If you interrupt incorrectly and get it wrong...
0:27:25 > 0:27:28..you are fined five points and you automatically lose.
0:27:28 > 0:27:29OK?
0:27:29 > 0:27:32Listen up then. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:27:32 > 0:27:36Cat And Mouse and Dog Years are novels in the Danzig trilogy by which
0:27:36 > 0:27:40German Nobel laureate who died in 2015?
0:27:40 > 0:27:46The first work in the trilogy is his 1959 debut novel, The Tin Drum.
0:27:46 > 0:27:47Gunter Grass.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49Gunter Grass is correct. That means you win.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52APPLAUSE
0:27:57 > 0:28:00Well, I thought you were going to do it, LSE,
0:28:00 > 0:28:03but you need to bone up a bit on one or two subjects, I think.
0:28:03 > 0:28:04LAUGHTER
0:28:04 > 0:28:06Congratulations to you, Durham.
0:28:06 > 0:28:09I'm afraid although you have won on 140 points, it is
0:28:09 > 0:28:12not one of the four highest winning scores.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14So we shan't be seeing you again.
0:28:14 > 0:28:16It means you have the honour of winning
0:28:16 > 0:28:19but you don't have the possible embarrassment of having to come back.
0:28:19 > 0:28:20- LAUGHTER - (Thank goodness.)
0:28:20 > 0:28:23We now know the teams in the semifinal stage of the competition.
0:28:23 > 0:28:26They will be Magdalen College, Oxford, Manchester University,
0:28:26 > 0:28:27Sheffield University
0:28:27 > 0:28:29and University College, London.
0:28:29 > 0:28:32I hope you can join us next time for the first of the semifinals.
0:28:32 > 0:28:34Until then though, it's goodbye from the LSE.
0:28:34 > 0:28:36- ALL:- Goodbye. - It's goodbye from Durham University.
0:28:36 > 0:28:39- ALL:- Goodbye. - And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.