0:00:18 > 0:00:21Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:24 > 0:00:26TOY TRAIN HORN TOOTS
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. 14 teams of alumni from British universities and colleges
0:00:32 > 0:00:35have taken part in this little seasonal contest.
0:00:35 > 0:00:37Ten of them have now bowed out.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40They can sit happily at home, munching the last of the mince pies,
0:00:40 > 0:00:44tut-tutting and muttering, "Fancy not knowing that,"
0:00:44 > 0:00:47as they watch the four teams left in the semifinals.
0:00:47 > 0:00:51Whichever team wins tonight will take the first place in the final.
0:00:51 > 0:00:53Now, accidentally leaning on your buzzer
0:00:53 > 0:00:55and saying the first thing that comes into your head
0:00:55 > 0:00:58isn't a tactic we recommend in this competition,
0:00:58 > 0:01:00but it served the team from Manchester University well enough
0:01:00 > 0:01:03on at least one occasion in their first-round match.
0:01:03 > 0:01:07Happily, though, it was amidst an impressive general knowledge
0:01:07 > 0:01:09displayed in the more conventional manner.
0:01:09 > 0:01:13It earned them 195 points against the University of East Anglia
0:01:13 > 0:01:16who opted to score...rather fewer. LAUGHTER
0:01:16 > 0:01:18The team comprises a comedy writer and performer
0:01:18 > 0:01:22who proved effectively buzzer-happy in that first match,
0:01:22 > 0:01:25a writer and screenwriter whose credits include
0:01:25 > 0:01:27the films In The Loop and Four Lions
0:01:27 > 0:01:30and a memorable contribution to the Black Mirror series.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33He made his debut as a novelist in 2015.
0:01:33 > 0:01:37Their captain is a campaigner on issues of health and equality
0:01:37 > 0:01:40and, as such, has served as an adviser
0:01:40 > 0:01:42to government departments and the NHS.
0:01:42 > 0:01:46And fourthly, a barrister who presides over cases
0:01:46 > 0:01:48in a television courtroom on ITV.
0:01:48 > 0:01:50Let's meet the Manchester team again.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52Hello, I'm Lucy Porter,
0:01:52 > 0:01:56and I studied English between '91 and '94.
0:01:56 > 0:01:57Hi, I'm Jesse Armstrong,
0:01:57 > 0:02:02and I graduated in 1995 in American Studies.
0:02:02 > 0:02:03And this is their captain.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05Hi, I'm Christine Burns,
0:02:05 > 0:02:09I came up to Manchester in 1972 and left in 1976
0:02:09 > 0:02:12with a first and a Masters degree in Computer Science.
0:02:12 > 0:02:13Hi, I'm Rob Rinder,
0:02:13 > 0:02:17I graduated with my first degree in the 1990s at Manchester
0:02:17 > 0:02:19in Politics and Modern History.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21APPLAUSE
0:02:24 > 0:02:26Now, the team from the University of Sheffield
0:02:26 > 0:02:28also had an impressive first-round match
0:02:28 > 0:02:33and scored 185 points against Aberdeen University's 90,
0:02:33 > 0:02:35so we could be in for a close match tonight.
0:02:35 > 0:02:38Their team includes a prolific sports writer and broadcaster
0:02:38 > 0:02:40based in Madrid.
0:02:40 > 0:02:41He earned a doctorate from Sheffield
0:02:41 > 0:02:45with a thesis on Catholicism, War and the Foundation of Franco-ism
0:02:45 > 0:02:47which was published in 2010.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49Secondly, an editor and novelist
0:02:49 > 0:02:53who comprises one half of the Nicci French writing partnership
0:02:53 > 0:02:55known for their psychological thrillers.
0:02:55 > 0:02:59Their captain is an academic at the University of Gloucestershire.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01As a biologist with a penchant for insects,
0:03:01 > 0:03:05he's a prolific broadcaster and presenter of documentaries.
0:03:05 > 0:03:07And their fourth member is an architect
0:03:07 > 0:03:10who specialised in self-build projects.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12She's taught at the Birmingham School of Architecture
0:03:12 > 0:03:14and was the first female president
0:03:14 > 0:03:17of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19Let's meet the Sheffield team again.
0:03:19 > 0:03:20Hello, I'm Sid Lowe,
0:03:20 > 0:03:23and I graduated from Sheffield in 1998.
0:03:23 > 0:03:28Hello, I'm Nicci Gerrard, and I did an MA in Sheffield in the 1980s.
0:03:28 > 0:03:29And this is their captain.
0:03:29 > 0:03:34Hello, I'm Adam Hart, I graduated in 2001 with a PhD in Zoology.
0:03:34 > 0:03:38I'm Ruth Reed, I qualified as an architect from Sheffield in 1982.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40APPLAUSE
0:03:44 > 0:03:46OK, you all know the rules, so let's just crack on with it.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49Finger on the buzzers - here's your first starter for ten.
0:03:49 > 0:03:54December 30, 2015 marked the 150th anniversary
0:03:54 > 0:03:58of the birth in Bombay of which poet and novelist?
0:03:58 > 0:04:02Given the first name Joseph, he's usually known by his...
0:04:03 > 0:04:05Kipling.
0:04:05 > 0:04:06It is Rudyard Kipling, yes.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09- APPLAUSE - Well done.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11OK, Manchester, the first set of bonuses go to you.
0:04:11 > 0:04:14They're on British writers talking about awards.
0:04:14 > 0:04:15Firstly, for five,
0:04:15 > 0:04:19"Oh, Christ!" was the response of which Iranian-born British author
0:04:19 > 0:04:20on being told that she had won
0:04:20 > 0:04:24the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007?
0:04:24 > 0:04:26Oh, it's...
0:04:29 > 0:04:31- Any idea?- Not Azar Nafisi.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35Arundhati Roy, she's Indian...
0:04:35 > 0:04:37- Come on, let's have it, please. - You have one.
0:04:37 > 0:04:38- No, it's not her.- No?
0:04:38 > 0:04:40Oh, well...
0:04:40 > 0:04:42Can you give it us if we say we definitely know
0:04:42 > 0:04:43and we'll remember shortly?
0:04:43 > 0:04:46This is what happens when you're no longer a student -
0:04:46 > 0:04:48you know it but you just can't get it out or remember it.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50No, it's Doris Lessing.
0:04:50 > 0:04:54Secondly, "I would really like to have had the guts and the energy
0:04:54 > 0:04:58"to write about people having battles with the DHSS,
0:04:58 > 0:04:59"but I'm an arty person -
0:04:59 > 0:05:02"I write overblown, purple, self-indulgent prose."
0:05:02 > 0:05:04Which author said that?
0:05:04 > 0:05:08She won the James Tait Black Award for Fiction in 1984
0:05:08 > 0:05:10for her novel Nights At The Circus.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12Oh, erm, Angela Carter.
0:05:12 > 0:05:13- Angela Carter.- Correct.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15"It has come too late,"
0:05:15 > 0:05:19was the response of which British writer born in 1890
0:05:19 > 0:05:21on winning in 1967
0:05:21 > 0:05:25both the Royal Society of Literature Award and the WH Smith Award
0:05:25 > 0:05:27for her novel the Wide Sargasso Sea?
0:05:27 > 0:05:28Jean Rhys.
0:05:28 > 0:05:29- Jean Rhys.- Correct.
0:05:29 > 0:05:3110 points for this. APPLAUSE
0:05:31 > 0:05:34Greensleeves, Beauty of Babylon,
0:05:34 > 0:05:37Lord Lambourne and Winter Banana,
0:05:37 > 0:05:39the colour of the latter being described as
0:05:39 > 0:05:43a striking waxy pink over green-yellow,
0:05:43 > 0:05:45are varieties of which fruit?
0:05:49 > 0:05:50Plum?
0:05:50 > 0:05:53Anyone like to buzz from Manchester? You may not confer.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55- Apple.- Apples is correct, yes.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57APPLAUSE
0:05:59 > 0:06:02Right, these bonuses are on a deciduous tree, Manchester.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05What is the common name of fraxinus excelsior?
0:06:05 > 0:06:10It has pinnate leaflets comprising six to 12 opposite pairs
0:06:10 > 0:06:13with an additional terminal leaflet at the end
0:06:13 > 0:06:16and bears fruit known as keys.
0:06:16 > 0:06:17Ash?
0:06:17 > 0:06:19- Anybody else?- I've got no idea.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21- Ash.- The European Ash is correct. - Well done.
0:06:21 > 0:06:25Ash is often accompanied by a hazel understory
0:06:25 > 0:06:27providing a habitat for which protected rodents
0:06:27 > 0:06:30of the genus Muscardinus?
0:06:31 > 0:06:33That's...squirrels? Do you think?
0:06:33 > 0:06:35Protected...
0:06:36 > 0:06:37Muscardinus.
0:06:39 > 0:06:40- Don't know.- No.
0:06:40 > 0:06:43- Red squirrel? - No, it's the dormouse.- Oh.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45And finally, ash trees are used for nesting
0:06:45 > 0:06:47by which general type of raptor
0:06:47 > 0:06:50belonging to the order Strigiformes?
0:06:52 > 0:06:53What raptors are there?
0:06:53 > 0:06:55- I mean...- Hawk.- ..there's the hawk. - Yeah.- Yeah?
0:06:55 > 0:06:57We're going to say hawk.
0:06:57 > 0:06:59- No, it's owls.- Oh.
0:06:59 > 0:07:00Ten points for this -
0:07:00 > 0:07:04the name of which European city may precede school
0:07:04 > 0:07:07to denote a group of linguists established in 1920s...
0:07:08 > 0:07:09Vienna?
0:07:09 > 0:07:10No, you lose five points.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13..a group of linguists established in 1926
0:07:13 > 0:07:17and Spring when indicating a period of liberalisation
0:07:17 > 0:07:20that ended in August 1968?
0:07:21 > 0:07:23- Prague.- Prague is correct, yes.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25APPLAUSE
0:07:27 > 0:07:28Right, you get a set of bonuses on
0:07:28 > 0:07:33the 19th-century mathematician and computer pioneer Ada Lovelace.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35Firstly, the Dictionary of National Biography notes that
0:07:35 > 0:07:39Ada was educated to be a mathematician and a scientist
0:07:39 > 0:07:40because her mother feared that
0:07:40 > 0:07:44she might turn out to be a poet like her father - who was he?
0:07:47 > 0:07:49THEY DISCUSS IN WHISPERS
0:07:49 > 0:07:52Are we going for that? Byron?
0:07:52 > 0:07:54- Byron.- Correct.
0:07:54 > 0:07:58Of which of Charles Babbage's devices did Ada write,
0:07:58 > 0:08:00"It weaves algebraical patterns
0:08:00 > 0:08:04"just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves"?
0:08:04 > 0:08:08It remained partially built on his death in 1871.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10THEY DISCUSS IN WHISPERS
0:08:11 > 0:08:13The Difference Engine.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15No, it's the Analytical Engine.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18Thirdly, Ada described how the Analytical Engine
0:08:18 > 0:08:20could be programmed to compute numbers
0:08:20 > 0:08:23defined by the exponential generating function.
0:08:23 > 0:08:28These numbers are named after which Swiss mathematician who died in 1705?
0:08:28 > 0:08:30You need only give me his surname.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35THEY DISCUSS IN WHISPERS
0:08:35 > 0:08:38- Swiss...- Swiss mathematician...
0:08:38 > 0:08:41- What are we saying? - Poisson? Was it Poisson?
0:08:41 > 0:08:43- Just go for that.- Poisson.
0:08:43 > 0:08:45No, it's Bernoulli.
0:08:45 > 0:08:46We're going to take a picture round now.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48For your picture starter you will see a map
0:08:48 > 0:08:51representing, with a degree of simplification,
0:08:51 > 0:08:53the major journeys made by a historical figure
0:08:53 > 0:08:56200 years ago this year.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59For ten points, I want you to name that historical figure.
0:09:04 > 0:09:05Napoleon.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07Napoleon Bonaparte is correct, yes.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09APPLAUSE
0:09:11 > 0:09:152015 saw the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's so-called Hundred Days
0:09:15 > 0:09:18in which he returned to power following exile in Elba,
0:09:18 > 0:09:21fought the Seventh Coalition of powers mobilised to oppose him,
0:09:21 > 0:09:25was ultimately defeated at Waterloo and exiled to St Helena.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27For your bonuses, you're going to see
0:09:27 > 0:09:30three flags of Britain's allies in the Seventh Coalition -
0:09:30 > 0:09:32five points for each you can identify.
0:09:32 > 0:09:33Firstly.
0:09:33 > 0:09:35No, I don't know.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38Austria, Hungarian...
0:09:38 > 0:09:40- Austria-Hungary. - THEY LAUGH
0:09:40 > 0:09:41Prussia.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43- We're going to go with...Austria? - Let's say Prussia.
0:09:43 > 0:09:47- No, I don't think it's Austria - Prussia?- Yeah.
0:09:47 > 0:09:48We'll say Prussia.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50No, that's Portugal. Secondly.
0:09:53 > 0:09:56- It looks German. - THEY DISCUSS IN WHISPERS
0:09:56 > 0:09:59- German?- Hannover? Prussia? - Let's say Prussia again.- Yeah.
0:09:59 > 0:10:00We'll say Prussia again.
0:10:00 > 0:10:03No, that's the Habsburg Empire or the Austrian Empire.
0:10:03 > 0:10:05And finally.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07- That's Prussia.- Yeah.- Prussia?
0:10:07 > 0:10:09- Given we've had the Habsburg, yes. - THEY LAUGH
0:10:09 > 0:10:11- Yeah, Prussia. - Yes, that's correct. Well done.
0:10:11 > 0:10:13- You got there in the end.- Phew! - APPLAUSE
0:10:13 > 0:10:15Bound to be one of them, wasn't it? LAUGHTER
0:10:15 > 0:10:16Right, ten points for this -
0:10:16 > 0:10:19in church architecture, what four-letter term
0:10:19 > 0:10:21derives from the Greek for arch
0:10:21 > 0:10:24and denotes a large, usually semi-circular recess
0:10:24 > 0:10:26behind the altar?
0:10:27 > 0:10:29- Apse.- Apse is correct, yes.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31APPLAUSE
0:10:32 > 0:10:35You get a set of bonuses, Sheffield, on cross-dressing
0:10:35 > 0:10:37in Shakespeare's plays. LAUGHTER
0:10:37 > 0:10:41Firstly, Balthazar, supposedly a lawyer in the trial of Antonio
0:10:41 > 0:10:42in The Merchant of Venice
0:10:42 > 0:10:46is a cross-dressing guise adopted by which character?
0:10:47 > 0:10:49- Do you know?- He's like...
0:10:49 > 0:10:51He's like The Prince something.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53The Prince of...
0:10:54 > 0:10:58- ..Morocco? Go for that. - Prince of Morocco?- Go for it.
0:10:58 > 0:10:59Prince of Morocco.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01The Prince of Morocco? LAUGHTER
0:11:01 > 0:11:03Doesn't sound very cross-dressing to me.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06- No, it's Portia.- Oh! - SHE SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY
0:11:06 > 0:11:09Secondly, in which of Shakespeare's comedies
0:11:09 > 0:11:11does Rosalind, the daughter of a duke,
0:11:11 > 0:11:16disguise herself as a shepherd called Ganymede?
0:11:16 > 0:11:20- Rosalind is in As You Like It. - As You Like It?
0:11:20 > 0:11:21- As You Like It.- Correct.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24In which of Shakespeare's plays does the shipwrecked Viola
0:11:24 > 0:11:27disguise herself as a eunuch called Cesario
0:11:27 > 0:11:32in order to become a page in the Illyrian court of Duke Orsino?
0:11:32 > 0:11:35- That is Twelfth Night. - Is it Twelfth Night?
0:11:35 > 0:11:37- Twelfth Night.- Well done. Ten points for this -
0:11:37 > 0:11:42496 and 28 are examples of what class of number
0:11:42 > 0:11:46defined as positive integers that are the sum of their proper divisors?
0:11:48 > 0:11:50- Perfect numbers. - Perfect numbers is correct, yes.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52APPLAUSE
0:11:53 > 0:11:55That puts you onto level pegging
0:11:55 > 0:11:56and you get a set of bonuses on
0:11:56 > 0:12:00discoveries described as the Breakthrough of the Year
0:12:00 > 0:12:01by Science magazine,
0:12:01 > 0:12:04the journal of the US Association for the Advancement of Science.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07Firstly, what observation about the nature of the universe
0:12:07 > 0:12:11did Science magazine declare the Breakthrough of 1998?
0:12:11 > 0:12:14Nature of the universe, 1998?
0:12:14 > 0:12:16- The universe is expanding.- What?
0:12:16 > 0:12:19- The earth's expanding. - That was earlier, wasn't it?
0:12:19 > 0:12:20That was much earlier, wasn't it?
0:12:20 > 0:12:23- We've known that for a long time. - Yeah.- Come on.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26- What are we going to go for? - We're going to go with you,
0:12:26 > 0:12:28whatever you said because you're the scientist.
0:12:28 > 0:12:29Expanding?
0:12:29 > 0:12:31No, that's been known since about the 1920s.
0:12:31 > 0:12:34It's the expansion is accelerating. ADAM GROANS
0:12:34 > 0:12:37The Breakthrough of 2010 was a micromechanical resonator
0:12:37 > 0:12:40that had been placed in the superposition of oscillating states
0:12:40 > 0:12:42prompting Science magazine to call it
0:12:42 > 0:12:45the first example of what form of machine?
0:12:46 > 0:12:48Nanomachine?
0:12:48 > 0:12:50- A kind of...- Go for it.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52A nanomachine?
0:12:52 > 0:12:53No, it's a quantum machine.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56And finally, the discovery of which subatomic particle
0:12:56 > 0:12:59was hailed as the Breakthrough of 2012?
0:12:59 > 0:13:01- Higgs boson?- I think...
0:13:01 > 0:13:03- Higgs boson, is it?- Yes. - That was later, was it?
0:13:03 > 0:13:05- Higgs boson.- Correct.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07You go to the lead. Ten points at stake for this.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09Winning him critical and commercial success
0:13:09 > 0:13:12as well as a special Pulitzer prize in 1992,
0:13:12 > 0:13:16what is the title of Art Spiegelman's graphic novel in which...
0:13:17 > 0:13:19- Maus.- Maus is correct, yes.
0:13:19 > 0:13:21APPLAUSE
0:13:21 > 0:13:23You retake the lead, Manchester,
0:13:23 > 0:13:26and you get a set of bonuses on the terminology of rugby union.
0:13:26 > 0:13:29All three answers are four-letter words.
0:13:29 > 0:13:32Firstly, for five, what is defined as, quote,
0:13:32 > 0:13:35a phase of play where one or more players from each team
0:13:35 > 0:13:38who are on their feet in physical contact
0:13:38 > 0:13:40close around the ball on the ground?
0:13:40 > 0:13:41Maul.
0:13:41 > 0:13:44- A maul.- No, it's a ruck.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46Secondly, what begins when, quote,
0:13:46 > 0:13:49a player carrying the ball is held by one or more opponents
0:13:49 > 0:13:52and one of more of the ball carrier's team mates
0:13:52 > 0:13:53bind on the ball carrier.
0:13:53 > 0:13:55- That's a maul.- That's a maul.
0:13:55 > 0:13:56That is a maul, yes.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58Lastly, what term denotes the player
0:13:58 > 0:14:01who wears the number four or five jersey?
0:14:01 > 0:14:04It refers to the function they perform in the second row of a scrum.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07- Is it the prop?- Er, yeah.
0:14:07 > 0:14:09- Yeah.- The prop?- Yeah.
0:14:09 > 0:14:10We think it's a prop.
0:14:10 > 0:14:13No, they're in the front row - it's a lock.
0:14:13 > 0:14:14Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:14:14 > 0:14:17For your music starter, you're going to hear a piece of popular music.
0:14:17 > 0:14:20For 10 points, I want the name of the band performing, please.
0:14:20 > 0:14:23# Oh, up, down, turn around
0:14:23 > 0:14:25# Please don't let me hit the ground... #
0:14:27 > 0:14:29- New Order. - New Order is right, yes.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31APPLAUSE
0:14:31 > 0:14:37In 1982 New Order's Temptation topped John Peel's Festive 50,
0:14:37 > 0:14:42an alternative Christmas chart voted for by listeners of his Radio 1 show.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44Initially a poll of listener's all-time favourite songs,
0:14:44 > 0:14:47from 1982 onwards it became
0:14:47 > 0:14:50a rundown of listeners' favourite tracks of the year.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52Your bonuses are three more number ones
0:14:52 > 0:14:55from that second era of the Festive 50,
0:14:55 > 0:14:57and this time I want both the band performing
0:14:57 > 0:15:01and the year in which the track topped Peel's poll.
0:15:01 > 0:15:02Firstly, for five.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04ROCK MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:06 > 0:15:09- It's Nirvana.- It's Nirvana. - That will have been '90...
0:15:09 > 0:15:14- God, when did he die? He died in... - THEY DISCUSS IN HUSHED VOICES
0:15:14 > 0:15:16# ..and to pretend
0:15:16 > 0:15:20# She's over bored and self-assured... #
0:15:20 > 0:15:22Do you know...
0:15:22 > 0:15:23It's '90s.
0:15:24 > 0:15:27Do you think it was something like '84...?
0:15:27 > 0:15:28No, it was later than that.
0:15:28 > 0:15:31- '90s? Do you think it might be '90s? - Later.
0:15:31 > 0:15:34- So, Nirvana...- Let's go '92 and...
0:15:34 > 0:15:36- '92.- Their last one was '93.
0:15:36 > 0:15:39Right, our conclusion is Nirvana, 1992.
0:15:39 > 0:15:42Bad luck. It was Nirvana, of course, Smells Like Teen Spirit,
0:15:42 > 0:15:44- but it was 1991.- Oh!
0:15:44 > 0:15:45Secondly.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49# You shut your mouth
0:15:49 > 0:15:50# How can you say... #
0:15:50 > 0:15:54- THEY DISCUSS IN HUSHED VOICES - # I go about things the wrong way?
0:15:54 > 0:16:00# I am human and I need to be loved... #
0:16:00 > 0:16:05- ..'83 to '85. - # Just like everybody else does. #
0:16:05 > 0:16:06Or maybe '86.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09So, we're saying The Smiths, '80...what?
0:16:09 > 0:16:12- I don't know. You go.- '84.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14- The Smiths, 1984.- Correct.- Yes!
0:16:14 > 0:16:16And finally...
0:16:16 > 0:16:18- POP MUSIC PLAYS - Oh...
0:16:18 > 0:16:22# She came from Greece, she had a thirst for knowledge
0:16:22 > 0:16:25# She studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College,
0:16:25 > 0:16:28- # That's where I... # - Later?- Common People.
0:16:28 > 0:16:29# ..caught her eye... #
0:16:29 > 0:16:32THEY DISCUSS IN HUSHED VOICES
0:16:32 > 0:16:33Are we going to go for 2000?
0:16:33 > 0:16:36- Sorry, what was the name?- Pulp.
0:16:36 > 0:16:38THEY DISCUSS IN HUSHED VOICES
0:16:38 > 0:16:40- What year do you think?- Don't know.
0:16:40 > 0:16:44- '90s.- Later '90s? '96, '97?
0:16:44 > 0:16:46- I was at university... - Let's have it, please.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48Pulp, 1997.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50- No, it was Pulp, 1995.- Oh!
0:16:50 > 0:16:53Right, 10 points for this - give two acronyms,
0:16:53 > 0:16:57one of which can be formed by adding a final letter to the other.
0:16:57 > 0:16:58They denote, respectively,
0:16:58 > 0:17:02a drama school founded by Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
0:17:02 > 0:17:05and a system for detecting the location of objects
0:17:05 > 0:17:07from pulses of electric...
0:17:07 > 0:17:09- RADA and radar.- Correct.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11APPLAUSE
0:17:12 > 0:17:16Your bonuses are on the artists Gilbert & George, Sheffield.
0:17:16 > 0:17:19After meeting at St Martin's School of Art in 1967,
0:17:19 > 0:17:22one of Gilbert & George's earliest collaborative works
0:17:22 > 0:17:26saw them as singing sculptures dressed in suits with bronzed faces
0:17:26 > 0:17:30dancing to which song associated with Flanagan and Allen?
0:17:33 > 0:17:37Flanagan and Allen? Did they do anything...?
0:17:37 > 0:17:39I keep thinking Down By The... No.
0:17:39 > 0:17:42- Was it Underneath The Arches?- Yeah.
0:17:42 > 0:17:44- Underneath The Arches.- Correct.
0:17:44 > 0:17:49In 2005 Gilbert & George represented the UK at the Biennale exhibition
0:17:49 > 0:17:51held in which Italian city?
0:17:51 > 0:17:52- Venice.- Is it Venice Biennale?
0:17:52 > 0:17:54- Venice.- Correct.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56Which feminist writer apparently upset the pair
0:17:56 > 0:17:59when she declared that the only way they could complete their oeuvre
0:17:59 > 0:18:03was by dying in unison?
0:18:03 > 0:18:05- I don't think...- Germaine Greer.
0:18:05 > 0:18:07- Yeah, Germaine Greer. - Germaine Greer?
0:18:07 > 0:18:08- Germaine Greer.- It was, yes.
0:18:08 > 0:18:12APPLAUSE Ten points for this...
0:18:12 > 0:18:13Back on level pegging.
0:18:13 > 0:18:15This'll give one of you the lead if you get it.
0:18:15 > 0:18:18"Why is it that giving guns is so easy,
0:18:18 > 0:18:20"but giving books is so hard?
0:18:20 > 0:18:22"Why is it that making tanks is so easy,
0:18:22 > 0:18:25"but building schools is so difficult?"
0:18:25 > 0:18:30Who said those words in her Nobel speech in December 2014?
0:18:31 > 0:18:34- Malala...- Yousafzai, yes. - ..Yousafzai.
0:18:34 > 0:18:36- Well done.- Sorry. - APPLAUSE
0:18:36 > 0:18:39Right, you get a set of bonuses, Manchester, on Alfred Hitchcock.
0:18:39 > 0:18:41Alfred Hitchcock is reputed to have said,
0:18:41 > 0:18:44"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character,
0:18:44 > 0:18:46"I say, 'It's in the script.'
0:18:46 > 0:18:49"If he says, 'But what's my motivation?'
0:18:49 > 0:18:51"I say your..." what?
0:18:52 > 0:18:54- Money.- Fired?
0:18:55 > 0:18:57Yeah, you're fired.
0:18:57 > 0:19:01Isn't it your money, your wages?
0:19:01 > 0:19:03- Your pay cheque? - Your pay cheque.- Yeah.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05- Your pay cheque. - Yes, or salary, yes.
0:19:05 > 0:19:09Give the three words that complete this observation by Hitchcock -
0:19:09 > 0:19:12"Television has brought back murder into the home..."
0:19:15 > 0:19:17- "I love it." - THEY LAUGH
0:19:17 > 0:19:19That would be him, wouldn't it?
0:19:19 > 0:19:22- "It was there already." - Any better? Any other ideas?
0:19:22 > 0:19:24- It's three words. - Yeah. I love it.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26No, it's "..where it belongs." LAUGHTER
0:19:26 > 0:19:29And finally, which three words complete this Hitchcock observation -
0:19:29 > 0:19:32"For me, the cinema is not a slice of life but a..."
0:19:38 > 0:19:40Oh, it's... No.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42- "..a slice of death"? - Yeah, that sounds nice.- Yeah.
0:19:42 > 0:19:44"..a slice of death."
0:19:44 > 0:19:45No, it's "..piece of cake."
0:19:45 > 0:19:4610 points for this -
0:19:46 > 0:19:49what pervasive idea in the Western cultural tradition
0:19:49 > 0:19:52did the historian Sidney Pollard describe as,
0:19:52 > 0:19:55"The assumption that a pattern of change exists
0:19:55 > 0:19:56"in the history of mankind
0:19:56 > 0:19:58"that it consists of irreversible...".
0:20:00 > 0:20:01The Whig.
0:20:01 > 0:20:02No, you lose five points.
0:20:02 > 0:20:07"..that it consists of irreversible changes in one direction only
0:20:07 > 0:20:10"and that this direction is towards improvement."
0:20:12 > 0:20:15NICCI WHISPERS
0:20:15 > 0:20:16You may not confer.
0:20:16 > 0:20:19- Oh! Sorry, I forgot. - It's all right, don't worry.
0:20:22 > 0:20:24Just buzz if you know...otherwise...
0:20:26 > 0:20:28- Progress.- Progress is correct, yes.
0:20:28 > 0:20:30APPLAUSE
0:20:31 > 0:20:34These bonuses are on zoology, Sheffield.
0:20:34 > 0:20:37Humans are classified in the genus Homo.
0:20:37 > 0:20:39In which order are they classified?
0:20:41 > 0:20:44OK. Hold on, let's not get this wrong. OK...
0:20:44 > 0:20:47HE WHISPERS TO HIMSELF
0:20:47 > 0:20:48- Primates.- Correct.
0:20:48 > 0:20:53One of the characteristics of primates is an opposable pollex.
0:20:53 > 0:20:54What is the pollex?
0:20:54 > 0:20:58- The thumb.- No, that's a hallux. Pollex is a big toe.
0:20:58 > 0:21:01- No... - SHE SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY
0:21:01 > 0:21:02The thumb. Correct.
0:21:02 > 0:21:04You've got an opposable big toe?
0:21:04 > 0:21:06- That's very interesting.- Yes... - LAUGHTER
0:21:06 > 0:21:08Which family of primates survives in the wild
0:21:08 > 0:21:10only on the island of Madagascar?
0:21:10 > 0:21:12Lemurs.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14- Lemurs.- Correct. APPLAUSE
0:21:14 > 0:21:16We're going to take a second picture round.
0:21:16 > 0:21:19For your picture starter, you'll see a photograph of a historical figure -
0:21:19 > 0:21:21ten points if you can identify him.
0:21:24 > 0:21:26- Amundsen.- It is Amundsen, yes.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29APPLAUSE
0:21:29 > 0:21:31In 1911 Amundsen was, of course,
0:21:31 > 0:21:34the leader of the first expedition to reach the South Pole.
0:21:34 > 0:21:36Your picture bonuses are
0:21:36 > 0:21:39photographs of three more notable polar explorers.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41Five points for each you can identify.
0:21:41 > 0:21:42Firstly, for five.
0:21:44 > 0:21:47- I think that's Shackleton. - ..think it's Shackleton.
0:21:47 > 0:21:48Shackleton.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50That is Ernest Shackleton. Secondly.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58THEY DISCUSS IN WHISPERS
0:21:58 > 0:22:01- I've got no idea. - Could be Scott or Oates.
0:22:01 > 0:22:03- No.- It's too...
0:22:04 > 0:22:06- It's too early for... - What should we go for?
0:22:06 > 0:22:07Oates.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10No, that's Peary, usually more associated with the North Pole.
0:22:10 > 0:22:11Finally.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15- That's Scott. - Yeah, that must be Scott.- Yeah.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17- Scott. - That is Captain Scott, yes.
0:22:17 > 0:22:19APPLAUSE Right, ten points for this -
0:22:19 > 0:22:22born in 1955 in Kirkcaldy in Fife,
0:22:22 > 0:22:24which crime writer's most notable characters
0:22:24 > 0:22:26include the journalist Lindsay Gordon,
0:22:26 > 0:22:29the private investigator Kate Brannigan and...
0:22:30 > 0:22:31- Val McDermid.- Correct.
0:22:31 > 0:22:33APPLAUSE
0:22:35 > 0:22:37Your bonuses this time, Sheffield, are on the 1980s.
0:22:37 > 0:22:40In 1981 who became the first woman to serve on
0:22:40 > 0:22:43the United States Supreme Court?
0:22:43 > 0:22:45Oh, was it not...
0:22:45 > 0:22:47..Elizabeth...
0:22:51 > 0:22:53Was it Elizabeth Long? Just go for something.
0:22:53 > 0:22:55- Elizabeth...?- Elizabeth Long. I don't know...
0:22:55 > 0:22:58- Nominate Nicci.- Whoa. - THEY LAUGH
0:22:58 > 0:23:01To make a fool of my... Elizabeth Long.
0:23:01 > 0:23:02No, it was Sandra Day O'Connor.
0:23:02 > 0:23:06Secondly, in 1988 who became the first female leader
0:23:06 > 0:23:08of a Muslim nation in modern history
0:23:08 > 0:23:10when her party won the largest number of seats
0:23:10 > 0:23:12in Pakistan's National Assembly?
0:23:12 > 0:23:15- Benazir Bhutto?- Yes... - THEY DISCUSS IN HUSHED VOICES
0:23:15 > 0:23:17- Benazir Bhutto.- Correct.
0:23:17 > 0:23:21Known as the Queen of Soul, who in 1987 became the first woman
0:23:21 > 0:23:24to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
0:23:24 > 0:23:26- Is that Aretha Franklin? - Aretha Franklin?
0:23:26 > 0:23:28Aretha Franklin. I think it was Aretha Franklin.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30- Aretha Franklin. - It was Aretha Franklin, yes.
0:23:30 > 0:23:31We are under four minutes to go
0:23:31 > 0:23:34and ten points at stake for this starter question.
0:23:34 > 0:23:37In genetics, what letter is the designation of a sex chromosome
0:23:37 > 0:23:39occurring in both sexes of...
0:23:41 > 0:23:42- X.- X is correct.
0:23:42 > 0:23:46You get a set of bonuses, this time, Manchester, on a playwright.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48French Without Tears and The Deep Blue Sea
0:23:48 > 0:23:52are works by which playwright born 1911?
0:23:52 > 0:23:55- That is Rattigan, isn't it?- Yeah. - Rattigan?
0:23:55 > 0:23:57- Rattigan.- Correct.
0:23:57 > 0:23:58First performed in 1948,
0:23:58 > 0:24:01which play by Rattigan concerns a schoolmaster who receives
0:24:01 > 0:24:05a copy of a 19th-century translation of Aeschylus' Agamemnon
0:24:05 > 0:24:07- as a present from a pupil? - The Browning Version.
0:24:07 > 0:24:08- The Browning version.- Correct.
0:24:08 > 0:24:10Rattigan's play Ross,
0:24:10 > 0:24:14first performed in 1960 with Alec Guinness as the title character,
0:24:14 > 0:24:17is based on the life of which literary and military figure?
0:24:17 > 0:24:19- I don't know.- Don't know.- No?
0:24:19 > 0:24:21- We don't know. - It was Lawrence of Arabia.
0:24:21 > 0:24:2210 points for this -
0:24:22 > 0:24:26A New System Of Chemical Philosophy was a work of 1808
0:24:26 > 0:24:28by which natural philosopher,
0:24:28 > 0:24:31a leading member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society?
0:24:31 > 0:24:34Best-known for his pioneering work on atomic theory,
0:24:34 > 0:24:37he gives his name to a type of colour blindness.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41- Dalton.- Dalton is correct, yes.
0:24:41 > 0:24:43APPLAUSE
0:24:43 > 0:24:45Right, your bonuses are on terms
0:24:45 > 0:24:48that share the same Latin prefix, Sheffield.
0:24:48 > 0:24:52Also denoted by a Greek-derived word meaning seeing for oneself,
0:24:52 > 0:24:57what two-word hyphenated term refers to a specific type of examination?
0:24:59 > 0:25:01- Seeing for oneself? It's not viva...?- Viva...
0:25:01 > 0:25:03Is it viva voce?
0:25:03 > 0:25:06- Doesn't that mean speaking?- Viva...
0:25:06 > 0:25:08Seeing for yourself would be like viva...
0:25:10 > 0:25:11Come on. Let's have it, please.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14- Viva voce.- Uh, no, it's post-mortem.
0:25:14 > 0:25:19A word corresponding to the English 'by', 'with', 'for' or 'from'
0:25:19 > 0:25:22that is placed after the noun rather than before it,
0:25:22 > 0:25:25as, for example, in the Uralic languages and in Hindi.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28I literally don't know what he's just said.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31- No, I don't... - THEY LAUGH
0:25:31 > 0:25:33SHE SPEAKS IN A HUSHED VOICE
0:25:33 > 0:25:35A word placed after 'by', 'for', 'from...
0:25:35 > 0:25:37Come on. Let's have it.
0:25:37 > 0:25:38We don't really understand the question.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40LAUGHTER It's postposition.
0:25:40 > 0:25:42And finally, a term used to describe
0:25:42 > 0:25:44the works and style of painters
0:25:44 > 0:25:47such as Cezanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin.
0:25:47 > 0:25:49Postimpressionism?
0:25:49 > 0:25:52- Postimpressionism. - It has to be. Go on.
0:25:52 > 0:25:54- Postimpressionism.- Correct. APPLAUSE
0:25:54 > 0:25:5510 points for this -
0:25:55 > 0:25:59the words Echinacea, panacea and nausea
0:25:59 > 0:26:00in their standard dictionary spellings
0:26:00 > 0:26:02end with which two letters?
0:26:04 > 0:26:05- E-A.- Correct.
0:26:05 > 0:26:10You get a set of bonuses on the names of elements, Sheffield.
0:26:10 > 0:26:14Elements including yttrium, erbium and terbium
0:26:14 > 0:26:16are named after Ytterby,
0:26:16 > 0:26:18the mining village where they were first discovered,
0:26:18 > 0:26:20in which European country?
0:26:20 > 0:26:25- It must be something like Italy. - Sounds Italian.- It sounds Italian.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28- What's it called?- Ytterby.- Ytterby.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30- Spain? - Doesn't sound like Spanish to me.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33- I think Italy.- Italy.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35No, it's Sweden.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37Secondly, which element in the periodic table
0:26:37 > 0:26:40is named after the daughter of Tantalus in Greek mythology?
0:26:40 > 0:26:43- Oh...- Tantalum.
0:26:43 > 0:26:44Tantalum? Tantalum.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47No, it's niobium, after Niobe.
0:26:47 > 0:26:50And finally, one of the rarest gases in the earth's atmosphere,
0:26:50 > 0:26:54which element derives its name for the Greek for hidden?
0:26:54 > 0:26:56Oh, God. Hidden...
0:26:57 > 0:26:59- What's the...?- Xeon?
0:26:59 > 0:27:01Come on, let's have it, please.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03- Xenon. - No, it's krypton.
0:27:03 > 0:27:04Ten points for this -
0:27:04 > 0:27:07meaning black knife or hidden knife,
0:27:07 > 0:27:11what name is given to the small dagger that's worn in hose
0:27:11 > 0:27:14in traditional male Scottish Highland dress?
0:27:14 > 0:27:15Dirk.
0:27:15 > 0:27:17No, you lose five points.
0:27:17 > 0:27:19Manchester, one of you buzz.
0:27:21 > 0:27:22Er, it's a kirk?
0:27:22 > 0:27:24No, that's a church. It's a sgian-dhu.
0:27:24 > 0:27:2610 points for this -
0:27:26 > 0:27:28GONG SOUNDS And at the gong...
0:27:28 > 0:27:31APPLAUSE ..Manchester have 105,
0:27:31 > 0:27:33but Sheffield have 160.
0:27:33 > 0:27:35AUDIENCE CHEER AND APPLAUD
0:27:38 > 0:27:39Well, bad luck, Manchester.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41You stormed away,
0:27:41 > 0:27:44but then they pulled back pretty steadily, I thought.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46We shall have to say goodbye but thank you for joining us -
0:27:46 > 0:27:49you've been a very entertaining team to have this Christmas,
0:27:49 > 0:27:51and Sheffield, we look forward to seeing you in the final.
0:27:51 > 0:27:52Well done. Congratulations.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55I hope you can join us next time for the next semifinal,
0:27:55 > 0:27:57but until then, it's goodbye from Manchester University...
0:27:57 > 0:28:00- ALL:- Goodbye.- ..it's goodbye from Sheffield University...
0:28:00 > 0:28:02- ALL:- Goodbye. - ..and it's goodbye from me, goodbye.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04APPLAUSE