0:00:18 > 0:00:21Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:24 > 0:00:28TRAIN TOOTS, APPLAUSE
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. Last time we saw the team from Sheffield University take
0:00:32 > 0:00:36the first place in the final match of this seasonal series.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38Whichever team wins tonight will join them.
0:00:38 > 0:00:42Now, the lot from University College London beat Birmingham University
0:00:42 > 0:00:47in the first match of this series by a comfortable margin of 155 to 80.
0:00:47 > 0:00:50Back again tonight is scientist working in DNA sequencing who
0:00:50 > 0:00:54is also former vice chair of UCL's Council.
0:00:54 > 0:00:57In 2011, she received an OBE for services to the public
0:00:57 > 0:00:59understanding of science.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02With her are geneticist, journalist and prolific television
0:01:02 > 0:01:04and radio broadcaster.
0:01:04 > 0:01:08Their captain is a novelist whose also known for her nonfiction
0:01:08 > 0:01:11writing on those peculiarly British obsessions - football,
0:01:11 > 0:01:13rudeness and punctuation.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16And their fourth the member has taught at UCL as well as having
0:01:16 > 0:01:18graduated from there.
0:01:18 > 0:01:20He is an architecture critic and presenter
0:01:20 > 0:01:23familiar from The Culture Show and The Secret Life Of Buildings.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26Let's meet the UCL team again.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28Hello, my name is Vivian Parry.
0:01:28 > 0:01:32I graduated in zoology sometime last century.
0:01:33 > 0:01:37Hello, my name is Adam Rutherford and I graduated in genetics
0:01:37 > 0:01:39and my PhD was also in genetics at UCL,
0:01:39 > 0:01:42and that happened sometime this century.
0:01:42 > 0:01:43And their captain.
0:01:43 > 0:01:49Hello, I am Lynn Truss and I graduated in English in 1977.
0:01:49 > 0:01:50Hello, I am Tom Dyckhoff.
0:01:50 > 0:01:54I did an MA in architectural history in the mid-1990s.
0:01:54 > 0:01:56APPLAUSE
0:01:58 > 0:02:03Now, other than the list of suspects in an Agatha Christie whodunnit,
0:02:03 > 0:02:05it's hard to imagine a group of people more disparate than
0:02:05 > 0:02:07the graduates from Magdalen College Oxford,
0:02:07 > 0:02:10who include a gardening correspondent, a classicist
0:02:10 > 0:02:13and emeritus professor of New College Oxford
0:02:13 > 0:02:15and a movie star, and that is all just one person.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18With him, a neuroscientist, television presenter,
0:02:18 > 0:02:20performer and academic.
0:02:20 > 0:02:22Their captain has been behind bars,
0:02:22 > 0:02:25rubbed shoulders with the ultra-right and dipped his toe in the world
0:02:25 > 0:02:30of adult entertainment, all in the name of documentary film-making.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33And their fourth member is a science writer, journalist
0:02:33 > 0:02:35and conservative member of the House of Lords.
0:02:35 > 0:02:37Let's meet the Magdalen team again.
0:02:39 > 0:02:40I'm Robin Lane Fox.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43I read classics, ancient history and philosophy
0:02:43 > 0:02:47and graduated with a double first in 1969.
0:02:47 > 0:02:48I'm Heather Berlin.
0:02:48 > 0:02:52I graduated with a DPhil in experimental psychology in 2003.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54And this is their captain.
0:02:54 > 0:02:59I'm Louis Theroux. I graduated in modern history in 1991.
0:02:59 > 0:03:03And I'm Matt Ridley and I graduated in 1983 with a DPhil in zoology.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06APPLAUSE
0:03:08 > 0:03:12OK. Let's not waste any time on the rules. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14Here's your first starter for ten.
0:03:14 > 0:03:15Which British monarch's reign
0:03:15 > 0:03:18saw the publication of Fielding's Tom Jones,
0:03:18 > 0:03:20the establishment of the British Museum
0:03:20 > 0:03:22and the Battle of Culloden?
0:03:23 > 0:03:25George III.
0:03:25 > 0:03:28Anyone like to buzz from Magdalen? One of you can buzz.
0:03:28 > 0:03:31- George II. - George II is correct, yes.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33APPLAUSE
0:03:33 > 0:03:36So, you get a set of bonuses, Magdalen College,
0:03:36 > 0:03:38on novels that begin around new year.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41In each case, I need the title and the author.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43Firstly.
0:03:43 > 0:03:44The first in the trilogy,
0:03:44 > 0:03:48which 1996 novel is heavily influenced by Jane Austen's
0:03:48 > 0:03:50Pride And Prejudice and sees its protagonist
0:03:50 > 0:03:54making New Year resolutions, one obsessing about her love life?
0:03:59 > 0:04:01Bridget Jones's Diary.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03- By?- By...
0:04:05 > 0:04:07- Helen Fielding.- Correct, yes.
0:04:08 > 0:04:09Secondly, for five points.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12Published in 2000, which novel begins on New Year's
0:04:12 > 0:04:16morning in 1975 and centres around two North London families?
0:04:22 > 0:04:24- White Teeth, Zadie Smith.- Correct.
0:04:24 > 0:04:26And finally, published in 2005,
0:04:26 > 0:04:30which novel opens on New Year's Eve with four characters on top
0:04:30 > 0:04:34of a London tower block planning to throw themselves to their deaths?
0:04:36 > 0:04:39- A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby. - Correct.
0:04:39 > 0:04:40APPLAUSE Well done.
0:04:43 > 0:04:44Right, ten points for this.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47To which composer's operas was Mark Twain referring with the words
0:04:47 > 0:04:50"One act is quite sufficient. After two acts,
0:04:50 > 0:04:53"I've gone away physically exhausted"?
0:04:53 > 0:04:56He also quotes the humorous Bill Nye's remark that the
0:04:56 > 0:04:59composer's music is "better than it sounds."
0:05:02 > 0:05:04Mozart.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06No. Anyone like to buzz from UCL?
0:05:07 > 0:05:11- Puccini.- No, it's Wagner. Ten points for this.
0:05:11 > 0:05:14"He took pleasure in his writing using baroque language
0:05:14 > 0:05:16"and long sentences, rich and sexual
0:05:16 > 0:05:20"and scatological terminology to attack those contemporary
0:05:20 > 0:05:24"practitioners of art whom he saw as derivative."
0:05:24 > 0:05:26These words refer to which broadcaster
0:05:26 > 0:05:30and critic who died in September 2015?
0:05:32 > 0:05:34- Brian Sewell.- Correct.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36APPLAUSE
0:05:38 > 0:05:40UCL, your bonuses are on
0:05:40 > 0:05:43Hiberno-Saxon illuminated manuscripts.
0:05:43 > 0:05:44Firstly, for five points.
0:05:44 > 0:05:48The Chi Rho page introducing Matthew's account of the Nativity
0:05:48 > 0:05:51is a much reproduced image from which illuminated work
0:05:51 > 0:05:53produced around the year 800
0:05:53 > 0:05:57and now on display in the library of Trinity College Dublin?
0:05:58 > 0:06:00- Book of Kells.- Correct.
0:06:00 > 0:06:05Which cathedral in the Welsh Marches is noted for a chained library,
0:06:05 > 0:06:08the collection of which includes an 8th century illuminated
0:06:08 > 0:06:11gospel in the Hiberno-Saxon or Insular style
0:06:11 > 0:06:13suggested to be of Welsh origin?
0:06:14 > 0:06:17THEY WHISPER
0:06:21 > 0:06:24- St Asaph.- No, it's Hereford. - OK, thank you.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27Which tidal island off the northeast coast of Britain gives its name
0:06:27 > 0:06:30to an illuminated gospel also in the Insular style
0:06:30 > 0:06:34produced around 700 and now in the British Museum?
0:06:34 > 0:06:37- Lindisfarne.- Lindisfarne is correct. Ten points for this.
0:06:37 > 0:06:40Dichtung und Wahrheit, or Poetry and Truth,
0:06:40 > 0:06:42is an autobiographical work by which writer?
0:06:42 > 0:06:44It describes...
0:06:44 > 0:06:47- Goethe.- Goethe is correct, yes.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49APPLAUSE
0:06:49 > 0:06:53These questions are on snowflakes, for your bonuses.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56In his work Micrographia, Robert Hooke observed that
0:06:56 > 0:07:00snowflakes have what order of rotational symmetry?
0:07:10 > 0:07:13- I think six.- Six?
0:07:13 > 0:07:15- Six.- Six is correct.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17Born in south Germany in 1571,
0:07:17 > 0:07:20which scientist wrote De Nive Sexangula,
0:07:20 > 0:07:24or On The Six-Cornered Snowflake, in which he states,
0:07:24 > 0:07:27"I do not believe that even in a snowflake
0:07:27 > 0:07:30"this ordered pattern exists at random"?
0:07:32 > 0:07:35- South Germany, 1571.- Kepler?
0:07:37 > 0:07:39- Kepler.- Kepler is correct.
0:07:39 > 0:07:42The fractal curve known as the snowflake is constructed
0:07:42 > 0:07:46by the repeated subdivision of the sides of an equilateral triangle
0:07:46 > 0:07:49and bears the name of which Swedish mathematician?
0:07:52 > 0:07:54Mandelbrot?
0:07:54 > 0:07:57- Is he Swedish?- You think Mandelbrot?
0:07:59 > 0:08:03- Mandelbrot.- No, he wasn't Swedish. He was Polish-born.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05It's Koch. Ten points for this.
0:08:05 > 0:08:06It's a picture starter.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09You're going to see a map of the world with two countries marked.
0:08:09 > 0:08:13The two-letter ISO codes of those countries can be combined to
0:08:13 > 0:08:15form a four-letter word.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17For instance, the code for Somalia, SO,
0:08:17 > 0:08:22combines with the code for Nigeria, NG, to give the word song.
0:08:22 > 0:08:23Got it?
0:08:23 > 0:08:25So, for ten points, give me the four-letter word that can be
0:08:25 > 0:08:30made by combining the codes of the two countries shown here.
0:08:36 > 0:08:37Suet.
0:08:37 > 0:08:39No.
0:08:39 > 0:08:41Anyone like to buzz from UCL?
0:08:44 > 0:08:46- Is it lite?- No, it's not. It's tree.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49It's Turkey and Estonia - TR and EE.
0:08:49 > 0:08:51So, picture bonuses in a moment or two.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54Ten points for this starter question. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:08:54 > 0:08:58The US computer pioneer Ted Nelson is usually credited with
0:08:58 > 0:09:02the coining of what nine-letter term to describe electronic texts
0:09:02 > 0:09:04embedded within links to other texts?
0:09:05 > 0:09:07- Hypertext.- Correct, yes.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09APPLAUSE
0:09:11 > 0:09:12So, you get the picture bonuses.
0:09:12 > 0:09:16Three more maps, and again, on each, the two-letter ISO codes
0:09:16 > 0:09:19of the countries or territories marked
0:09:19 > 0:09:21can be combined to form a word.
0:09:21 > 0:09:23Five points for each word you can work out.
0:09:23 > 0:09:27All are somewhat seasonally themed. Firstly for five.
0:09:32 > 0:09:35THEY MURMUR
0:09:44 > 0:09:46Card? Could it be RD?
0:09:46 > 0:09:48Card.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51No, it's carols. It's Canada, Romania and Lesotho down at the bottom.
0:09:51 > 0:09:54- Oh, we didn't see the third one! - Secondly.
0:09:56 > 0:09:59There's another one there as well. Don't miss that one.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01Germany, India...
0:10:01 > 0:10:03Oh, my goodness, there are four.
0:10:03 > 0:10:05- What's that one down the side of Africa?- Is that Eritrea?
0:10:05 > 0:10:07This is a preposterous one.
0:10:07 > 0:10:10LAUGHTER
0:10:10 > 0:10:12- Is that Mauritius?- I don't know.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15It's Christmas themed as well.
0:10:15 > 0:10:18We know Germany and India.
0:10:18 > 0:10:20Is that D? Is that DE or something? What is Germany?
0:10:22 > 0:10:25I think we better have it. We'll be here all night otherwise.
0:10:25 > 0:10:27- Oh, pudding. We're going to say pudding.- Pudding?
0:10:27 > 0:10:30- Yeah, I don't know. - How do you get pudding?- We don't!
0:10:30 > 0:10:33The little one off the coast of Madagascar there is Reunion.
0:10:33 > 0:10:37- Of course(!)- So there's that, India, Germany and Eritrea.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39So it gives you reindeer.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41And finally.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43That was really hard. I wish we'd had Switzerland.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46- Is that CH?- Yeah.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48And that's Greece.
0:10:50 > 0:10:55Wait a minute, Switzerland, is that CH?
0:10:55 > 0:10:58- Grin...- Grinch.
0:10:58 > 0:10:59Oh, Grinch.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02Grinch is correct, yes. Right, ten points for this starter question.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05"The British do not expect happiness.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08"I had the impression all the time that I lived there
0:11:08 > 0:11:11"that they do not want to be happy, they want to be right."
0:11:11 > 0:11:14These are the words of which British author,
0:11:14 > 0:11:19actor and raconteur born Charles Dennis Pratt on Christmas Day, 1908?
0:11:19 > 0:11:24Around his 80th birthday, he began the subject of Sting's song,
0:11:24 > 0:11:25Englishman In New York.
0:11:27 > 0:11:29- Quentin Crisp.- Correct.
0:11:29 > 0:11:32APPLAUSE
0:11:33 > 0:11:35Right, your bonuses are on last words, UCL.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40Born in 1860 and dying of tuberculosis in 1904,
0:11:40 > 0:11:44which Russian playwright and author's last words are reputed to have been,
0:11:44 > 0:11:47"It's a long time since I drank champagne."
0:11:47 > 0:11:48- That's Chekhov.- Correct.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50Born in 1899,
0:11:50 > 0:11:54which US author was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1954?
0:11:54 > 0:11:58He died in 1961, his last words being, "Goodnight, my kitten."
0:11:59 > 0:12:03- Steinbeck?- Could be.- Was this American? Oh. We'll try Steinbeck.
0:12:03 > 0:12:05No, it was Ernest Hemingway.
0:12:05 > 0:12:09It wasn't a real cat, of course, it was his wife whom he called kitten.
0:12:09 > 0:12:13"Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."
0:12:13 > 0:12:15These last words are attributed to which writer
0:12:15 > 0:12:20and political philosopher who died in London in 1883 at the age of 64?
0:12:26 > 0:12:28Any political philosophers in your head?
0:12:28 > 0:12:30That was...
0:12:30 > 0:12:32Marx, that's a good one.
0:12:32 > 0:12:35- Yes. Karl Marx.- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38Originally served as a celebration of harvest
0:12:38 > 0:12:42and now associated with Burns Night, which traditional Scottish...
0:12:43 > 0:12:46- Haggis.- No. You lose five points, by the way.
0:12:46 > 0:12:51..which traditional Scottish pudding is made from toasted oats, fruit,
0:12:51 > 0:12:53whisky, honey and cream?
0:12:56 > 0:12:57No idea?
0:12:59 > 0:13:00It's cranachan. Ten points for this.
0:13:00 > 0:13:03From the Latin for footprint, what adjective is applied
0:13:03 > 0:13:06to body structures such as the nictitating...
0:13:07 > 0:13:09- Vestigial.- Correct.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11APPLAUSE
0:13:13 > 0:13:14You've retaken the lead.
0:13:14 > 0:13:18Your bonuses are on French-born sculptors, Magdalen.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20What name is given to the large colourful
0:13:20 > 0:13:22and curvaceous sculptures of the female form
0:13:22 > 0:13:25made in papier-mache by the artist Niki de Saint Phalle,
0:13:25 > 0:13:27born in 1930?
0:13:31 > 0:13:34THEY WHISPER
0:13:36 > 0:13:38- Maquet.- No, they're Nanas.
0:13:38 > 0:13:42Born in Paris in 1911, which artist lived for most of her life
0:13:42 > 0:13:46in the USA and is noted for her large sculptures of spiders?
0:13:46 > 0:13:48One of which crated in 1999...
0:13:48 > 0:13:51- Louise Bourgeois.- Correct.
0:13:51 > 0:13:54And finally, born in Picardy in 1864,
0:13:54 > 0:13:56the sculptor Camille Claudel was also
0:13:56 > 0:14:00the muse, pupil, model, colleague and lover of which French artist?
0:14:00 > 0:14:02- Rodin.- Rodin is correct.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05We're to take a music round now.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08Your music starter, you'll hear a piece of classical music.
0:14:08 > 0:14:10Ten points if you can identify the composer.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:30 > 0:14:32- Is it Berlioz?- No.
0:14:34 > 0:14:36- Tchaikovsky.- It is Tchaikovsky, yes.
0:14:36 > 0:14:39APPLAUSE
0:14:39 > 0:14:42That was the battle between the toy soldiers and the Mouse King
0:14:42 > 0:14:45in the Nutcracker. So, you get music bonuses.
0:14:45 > 0:14:49Three more classical pieces written to evoke children's toys.
0:14:49 > 0:14:52In each case, just identify the composer of the piece that
0:14:52 > 0:14:53you are about to hear.
0:14:53 > 0:14:57Firstly, for five points, this English composer.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:09 > 0:15:12- Erm, Britten?- No, that's Elgar.
0:15:12 > 0:15:15That was The Merry Doll from his Nursery Suite.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17Secondly, this German composer.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21PIANO MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:38 > 0:15:40- Schumann.- Schumann is correct.
0:15:40 > 0:15:42That was The Knight Of The Hobbyhorse
0:15:42 > 0:15:44or Ride A Cockhorse from his Scenes From Childhood.
0:15:44 > 0:15:46And finally, this French composer.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51- ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS - Oh, my God. That's Alfred Hitchcock.
0:15:52 > 0:15:54That's from Alfred Hitchcock.
0:15:57 > 0:16:00THEY CONFER
0:16:15 > 0:16:20- Bizet.- No, that was Gounod's Funeral March Of A Marionette.
0:16:20 > 0:16:21Right, ten points for this.
0:16:21 > 0:16:25What is the two-word common name of infectious mononucleosis,
0:16:25 > 0:16:26often caused by...
0:16:27 > 0:16:29- Glandular fever.- Correct.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31APPLAUSE
0:16:31 > 0:16:34You get a set of bonuses, UCL, on the actor Sir Christopher Lee,
0:16:34 > 0:16:36who died in June at 2015.
0:16:36 > 0:16:39In an interview in 2004, Sir Christopher Lee stated
0:16:39 > 0:16:44that his most important role was in the 1998 film Jinnah
0:16:44 > 0:16:47about the founder of which country?
0:16:47 > 0:16:49- I think it's Pakistan. - Pakistan, is it?
0:16:49 > 0:16:51- Pakistan.- Correct.
0:16:51 > 0:16:56In which film of 1973 did Lee play the pagan Lord Summerisle?
0:16:58 > 0:17:00- The Wicker Man.- Correct.
0:17:00 > 0:17:01In the 21st century,
0:17:01 > 0:17:05which character did Lee play in Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings trilogy?
0:17:07 > 0:17:10- Sauron?- It's Saruman.- Saruman?
0:17:10 > 0:17:13Is it? Or is it Sauron. Isn't it Sauron?
0:17:13 > 0:17:16- No, Sauron is the eye, isn't it? - That's the place.- Oh, God.
0:17:16 > 0:17:18- Saruman.- Saruman.
0:17:18 > 0:17:19Saruman.
0:17:19 > 0:17:21Saruman the White is correct.
0:17:21 > 0:17:26Ten points for this. Identify the US poet who wrote these lines.
0:17:26 > 0:17:28"The woods are lovely, dark and deep..."
0:17:29 > 0:17:30- Robert Frost.- Indeed.
0:17:30 > 0:17:32APPLAUSE
0:17:32 > 0:17:34Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.
0:17:36 > 0:17:39So, you get a set of bonuses, Magdalen, on words.
0:17:39 > 0:17:42A pleasant smell accompanying the first rain after
0:17:42 > 0:17:46a period of warm, dry weather is a definition of which word
0:17:46 > 0:17:49introduced in the 1964 article in Nature?
0:17:49 > 0:17:53It combines Greek elements meaning stone or a rock
0:17:53 > 0:17:55and fluid in the veins of the gods.
0:17:56 > 0:18:01Petros... Petra...
0:18:01 > 0:18:03If there's some such thing.
0:18:03 > 0:18:07THEY CONFER
0:18:18 > 0:18:19Is it an adjective?
0:18:19 > 0:18:22LAUGHTER
0:18:22 > 0:18:24I haven't the faintest idea.
0:18:24 > 0:18:28Bad luck because you've got the etymology absolutely correct.
0:18:28 > 0:18:32- But...- Lithichor. Lithichorus sounds better.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34- No, it's petrichor.- Oh!
0:18:34 > 0:18:36I think it's a noun, actually.
0:18:36 > 0:18:40And secondly, devised by the US graphic designer John Koenig,
0:18:40 > 0:18:44the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows coined what word to mean,
0:18:44 > 0:18:48"the strange wistfulness of used bookstores."
0:18:48 > 0:18:50Formed by analogy with petrichor,
0:18:50 > 0:18:54it begins with an element meaning a fine form of parchment.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59THEY CONFER
0:19:10 > 0:19:13INAUDIBLE WHISPERING
0:19:14 > 0:19:17I don't know. I don't know.
0:19:17 > 0:19:18Vellamitis.
0:19:18 > 0:19:20No, it is vellichor, nearly there.
0:19:20 > 0:19:24And finally, Koenig defines what neologism as
0:19:24 > 0:19:28"wariness with the same old issues that you always had."
0:19:28 > 0:19:32It's a combination of German elements meaning old and pain.
0:19:36 > 0:19:38Altweh. A-L-T-W-E-H.
0:19:38 > 0:19:43- Nominate Lane Fox. - Well, it would be altweh,
0:19:43 > 0:19:44A-L-T-W-E-H.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47- You are right at the start, but it's altschmerz.- Ahh.
0:19:47 > 0:19:48Ten points for this.
0:19:48 > 0:19:52"A work of private devotion that takes us to the heart of Richard II's
0:19:52 > 0:19:56"intense, obsessive, solipsistic view of kingship."
0:19:56 > 0:19:58These words of David Starkey referred to which
0:19:58 > 0:20:00work of art in the collection...?
0:20:02 > 0:20:04- The Wilton Diptych.- Yes.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07APPLAUSE
0:20:08 > 0:20:10You get a set of bonuses, Magdalen College,
0:20:10 > 0:20:13on people associated with Stockport.
0:20:13 > 0:20:14Firstly, for five points.
0:20:14 > 0:20:17Baptized in Stockport in 1602,
0:20:17 > 0:20:18John Bradshaw was appointed
0:20:18 > 0:20:21Lord President of the High Court of Justice,
0:20:21 > 0:20:24set out to try which person in January 1649?
0:20:27 > 0:20:30- Charles I.- Correct.
0:20:30 > 0:20:34Secondly, which radical figure was elected MP for Stockport in 1841?
0:20:34 > 0:20:35Along with John Bright,
0:20:35 > 0:20:38he was a leading campaigner for the repeal of the Corn Laws.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41- Cobden.- Cobden is right.
0:20:41 > 0:20:46Born at High Lane near Stockport in 1904, which author's works include
0:20:46 > 0:20:50Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye To Berlin?
0:20:50 > 0:20:52Christopher Isherwood.
0:20:52 > 0:20:53- Christopher Isherwood.- Correct.
0:20:53 > 0:20:56We're going to take a second picture round.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59For your picture starter, you're going to see a painting.
0:20:59 > 0:21:01Ten points if you can identify the artist, please.
0:21:04 > 0:21:07- Bruegel.- It is. Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09APPLAUSE
0:21:09 > 0:21:10Hunters In The Snow.
0:21:10 > 0:21:13Your picture bonuses are three more paintings on the same theme.
0:21:13 > 0:21:16In each case, for five points, simply name the artist.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18Firstly, this British artist.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22- Landseer.- Landseer.
0:21:22 > 0:21:25Correct. Secondly, this French artist.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31- I don't recognise...- Do you know?
0:21:34 > 0:21:38- Courbet.- Courbet is correct, yes. The Death Of The Deer.
0:21:38 > 0:21:39And finally, this artist.
0:21:43 > 0:21:46THEY CONFER
0:21:46 > 0:21:50- Hokusai.- Hokusai is correct. Hunters By A Fire In The Snow.
0:21:52 > 0:21:54Right. Ten points for this.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57Misleadingly suggesting a restricted diet,
0:21:57 > 0:22:02what is the two-word common name of the sea bird Larus argentatus?
0:22:03 > 0:22:05- Herring gull.- Correct.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07APPLAUSE
0:22:07 > 0:22:11These bonuses are on science in the year 1736, Magdalen.
0:22:11 > 0:22:14In 1736, the French Academy of Sciences
0:22:14 > 0:22:16organised an expedition to Lapland
0:22:16 > 0:22:19to measure the length of a degree along the meridian.
0:22:19 > 0:22:22This verified which scientist's contention that the Earth is
0:22:22 > 0:22:25a sphere flattened at the poles?
0:22:28 > 0:22:32HE WHISPERS
0:22:32 > 0:22:37Basically it's Newton's. I think it's verifying Newton.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39It's not the French scientist.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41It's Maupertuis who does it but I think he's verifying Newton.
0:22:41 > 0:22:44- You want the name of the scientist? - The name of the scientist, yes.
0:22:44 > 0:22:46- Newton.- Correct.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49In 1736, the Royal Society instituted an annual medal that has
0:22:49 > 0:22:52since become regarded as its highest distinction.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55By what name is it known after the benefactor whose bequest
0:22:55 > 0:22:57originally funded it?
0:22:57 > 0:22:58I think it's Copley.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01- Copley.- Copley is correct.
0:23:01 > 0:23:07In his Fundamenta Botanica of 1736, which Swedish naturalist set out
0:23:07 > 0:23:10principles for the naming and classification of plants?
0:23:11 > 0:23:14- Linnaeus.- Correct. Four minutes to go, ten points for this.
0:23:14 > 0:23:18In their usual English spelling, what initial letter links
0:23:18 > 0:23:22the Greek historian who wrote Anabasis and Cyropaedia...
0:23:23 > 0:23:26Xenophon. X-E-N-O-P-H-O-N.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30..the wife of Socrates
0:23:30 > 0:23:34and the Persian king whose navy was defeated at Salamis in 480 BC.
0:23:36 > 0:23:37- X.- X is correct, yes.
0:23:37 > 0:23:39APPLAUSE
0:23:39 > 0:23:40I'm sorry, Mr Lane Fox.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42You did make the correct identification,
0:23:42 > 0:23:45but you were just asked for the initial letter.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48Right, you get a set of bonuses on the Mediterranean, UCL.
0:23:48 > 0:23:50The longest river in Italy, the Po,
0:23:50 > 0:23:54forms the border between the regions of Veneto and Emilia-Romagna
0:23:54 > 0:23:57and empties into which Mediterranean Sea?
0:23:57 > 0:23:59Adriatic? Adriatic?
0:23:59 > 0:24:01- Adriatic.- Correct.
0:24:01 > 0:24:05Named after a Latin term for the Etruscan people, which sea occupies
0:24:05 > 0:24:09that part of the Mediterranean between Sardinia and mainland Italy?
0:24:09 > 0:24:12Ooh, what's another name for the Etruscan?
0:24:17 > 0:24:21- Tyrean?- Tyrrhenian.- Oh, sorry. Tyrrhenian.
0:24:21 > 0:24:23OK, I'll be kind to you. I think that's what you were being told.
0:24:23 > 0:24:25It's the Tyrrhenian Sea.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28And finally, which sea of the Eastern Mediterranean is named after
0:24:28 > 0:24:30the mythical king of Athens, said to have thrown
0:24:30 > 0:24:35himself into the water in the belief that his son Theseus had been killed?
0:24:35 > 0:24:38- This is Aegean. Aegean. - Aegean is right's, after Aegeus.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41Ten points for this.
0:24:41 > 0:24:42"If a man read little,
0:24:42 > 0:24:48"he need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not."
0:24:48 > 0:24:50These are the words of which English philosopher in the book
0:24:50 > 0:24:53of Essays first published in 1597?
0:24:56 > 0:24:59- Bacon. - Francis Bacon is right, yes.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01APPLAUSE
0:25:01 > 0:25:03Right. You get a set of bonuses on
0:25:03 > 0:25:05the author Elizabeth Longford, Magdalen.
0:25:05 > 0:25:08Elizabeth Longford is particularly noted for biographies
0:25:08 > 0:25:11of the Duke of Wellington and which British monarch?
0:25:11 > 0:25:15Published in 1964, its title was the monarch's name
0:25:15 > 0:25:18followed by letters RI.
0:25:23 > 0:25:27- Victoria.- Correct. Regina Imperatrix, of course.
0:25:27 > 0:25:30Biographies of Oliver Cromwell and Mary, Queen of Scots
0:25:30 > 0:25:34are among works by which of Lady Longford's children?
0:25:34 > 0:25:37In 1980, she married the playwright Harold Pinter.
0:25:37 > 0:25:39- Antonia Fraser.- Correct.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42Elizabeth's son, Thomas Pakenham, is the author
0:25:42 > 0:25:47of an award-winning history on which conflict which began in October 1899?
0:25:49 > 0:25:50The Boer War.
0:25:50 > 0:25:52The Second Boer War is right, or the South African War.
0:25:54 > 0:25:55Ten points for this.
0:25:55 > 0:25:59Name any two of the three battles that are described in detail
0:25:59 > 0:26:03in John Keegan's 1976 book The Face Of Battle.
0:26:03 > 0:26:06Fought within 100 miles of each other in continental Europe,
0:26:06 > 0:26:11their respective 600th, 200th and 100th anniversaries
0:26:11 > 0:26:14fall in 2015 or 2016.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18- Waterloo.- I want one more.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20- Oh, sorry. Oh. - SHE LAUGHS
0:26:20 > 0:26:22Sorry, I have to listen to the question.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24No, I don't know another one.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28- Waterloo and Agincourt. - The other was the Somme, of course.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33You get a set of bonuses this time, Magdalen College, on composers.
0:26:33 > 0:26:39In each case, the 150th anniversary of their birth occurred in 2015.
0:26:39 > 0:26:40Born in June 1865,
0:26:40 > 0:26:43which Nordic composer wrote the autobiography
0:26:43 > 0:26:46My Childhood on Funen?
0:26:46 > 0:26:49His works include the so-called Inextinguishable Symphony
0:26:49 > 0:26:51and the 1922 Wind Quintet.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53- Sibelius.- Sibelius?
0:26:53 > 0:26:55Probably Sibelius.
0:26:55 > 0:26:56I don't know.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58- Sibelius.- No, it's Nielsen.
0:27:00 > 0:27:03The ballets Raymonda and The Seasons are works by which composer
0:27:03 > 0:27:06born in St Petersburg the same year?
0:27:06 > 0:27:09He was a prominent member of the group known as the Belyayev Circle,
0:27:09 > 0:27:13alongside his teacher Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
0:27:14 > 0:27:15Prokofiev?
0:27:15 > 0:27:16Yeah, I think.
0:27:18 > 0:27:20- Prokofiev. - No, it's Alexander Glazunov.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23And finally, with work strongly influenced by his country's
0:27:23 > 0:27:26national folk poem, the Kalevala,
0:27:26 > 0:27:28which composer was born in the town of...
0:27:28 > 0:27:30GONG
0:27:30 > 0:27:32That is the gong.
0:27:32 > 0:27:34University College London, you have 100.
0:27:34 > 0:27:37Magdalen College Oxford have 195.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39APPLAUSE
0:27:42 > 0:27:44Well, it's been a pleasure having you with us, UCL,
0:27:44 > 0:27:46but we have to say goodbye to you.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49Many congratulations to Magdalen. Another very impressive performance
0:27:49 > 0:27:51and we should look forward to seeing you in the final.
0:27:51 > 0:27:52Well done. Thank you.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54I hope you can join us next time for the final,
0:27:54 > 0:27:57but until then, it's goodbye from University College London.
0:27:57 > 0:27:58- ALL:- Goodbye.
0:27:58 > 0:28:01- It's goodbye from Magdalen College Oxford. ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:01 > 0:28:02And it's goodbye for me. Goodbye.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04APPLAUSE