0:00:20 > 0:00:23Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:26 > 0:00:28APPLAUSE
0:00:29 > 0:00:32It's the season of goodwill, I'm told.
0:00:32 > 0:00:33So for no good reason,
0:00:33 > 0:00:35we're letting students off the hook until the new year.
0:00:35 > 0:00:37Instead tonight,
0:00:37 > 0:00:39we're playing the first match in our annual series
0:00:39 > 0:00:42for alumni of some of the UK's leading universities
0:00:42 > 0:00:44and university colleges.
0:00:44 > 0:00:4814 teams are competing, each comprising four former students
0:00:48 > 0:00:52who, since leaving, have achieved distinction in their chosen field.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55They have all very sportingly agreed to compete
0:00:55 > 0:00:58for nothing more than the honour of their alma mater.
0:00:58 > 0:00:59There is no prize on offer
0:00:59 > 0:01:01for whichever team wins the series,
0:01:01 > 0:01:04beyond an excuse to look smug as they get first crack
0:01:04 > 0:01:08at the mince pies and Botswana's finest sherry.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10Playing for Manchester University first
0:01:10 > 0:01:13is a five-time Paralympian in wheelchair basketball.
0:01:13 > 0:01:14He's also won gold medals
0:01:14 > 0:01:17in the Wheelchair Basketball World Championships,
0:01:17 > 0:01:18the European Championships,
0:01:18 > 0:01:23the European Champions Cup and the Commonwealth Paraplegic Games.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26With him, a journalist who writes for the Guardian, the Times,
0:01:26 > 0:01:28the Sunday Times Magazine and elsewhere.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31He is also a familiar voice on Radio 4 and
0:01:31 > 0:01:34a familiar face on The Culture Show and The Review Show,
0:01:34 > 0:01:37currently working on a film adaptation of his memoir
0:01:37 > 0:01:39of growing up in Luton.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42Their captain is Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford
0:01:42 > 0:01:44and the University of Sheffield.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47He has won RTS, BAFTA and Ivor Novello awards
0:01:47 > 0:01:52for his writing for radio, TV, film and theatre, and in 1999,
0:01:52 > 0:01:55he was named the UK's Millennium Poet.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58Their final team member is an entomologist overseeing
0:01:58 > 0:02:02a globally significant collection of between 3 and 4 million specimens
0:02:02 > 0:02:07of Diptera, Siphonaptera, Arachnida and Myriapoda.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10She has a special interest in medical entomology
0:02:10 > 0:02:14and can often be heard on Radio 4, enthusing about her subject.
0:02:14 > 0:02:18Let's ask them now to introduce themselves in the time-honoured way.
0:02:18 > 0:02:19Hello, I am Sir Philip Craven.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21I got a BA honours degree
0:02:21 > 0:02:25in Geography in 1972 and now I am the president
0:02:25 > 0:02:27of the International Paralympic Committee.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30Hello, I'm Sarfraz Manzoor.
0:02:30 > 0:02:31I graduated in 1992
0:02:31 > 0:02:33with a degree in Economics
0:02:33 > 0:02:36and I am now a writer, journalist and broadcaster.
0:02:36 > 0:02:37And this is their captain.
0:02:37 > 0:02:39Hello, I am Simon Armitage.
0:02:39 > 0:02:42I got my MA in Social Policy
0:02:42 > 0:02:44in 1988 and I am a poet.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47Hello, my name is Erica McAlister.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49I graduated in '96 in Environmental Biology
0:02:49 > 0:02:51and now I manage the fleas and flies
0:02:51 > 0:02:54at the Natural History Museum in London.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57APPLAUSE
0:02:57 > 0:02:59Now, St Anne's College, Oxford,
0:02:59 > 0:03:02was founded as an all-women's institution
0:03:02 > 0:03:05and became coeducational in 1979,
0:03:05 > 0:03:07though you wouldn't know that from the team playing tonight.
0:03:07 > 0:03:11Their first member maintains she wasn't very good at lab work
0:03:11 > 0:03:15so decided on a career talking about science rather than doing it.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17She now reports on international science research
0:03:17 > 0:03:19for the World Service, the Today programme
0:03:19 > 0:03:21and for Newsnight.
0:03:21 > 0:03:23With her, a historian with an enthusiasm
0:03:23 > 0:03:25for popularising her subject.
0:03:25 > 0:03:27She has written on Julian of Norwich
0:03:27 > 0:03:30and the private lives of Anglo-Saxon saints,
0:03:30 > 0:03:33and her broadcasts for BBC Four have covered the Hundred Years' War,
0:03:33 > 0:03:36medieval monarchy and Viking art.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39Their captain began her career as a physical chemist.
0:03:39 > 0:03:42She taught Chemistry in Oxford, Cambridge and London,
0:03:42 > 0:03:45and later chaired several health institutions.
0:03:45 > 0:03:48She is also an authority on solar energy
0:03:48 > 0:03:50and patron of the Rupert Brooke Society.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53Their fourth member has been a foreign correspondent
0:03:53 > 0:03:56for the BBC and Al Jazeera English.
0:03:56 > 0:03:58She's reported from Kosovo and the West Bank,
0:03:58 > 0:04:01from Afghanistan shortly after 9/11,
0:04:01 > 0:04:03from Cairo during the 2011 revolution,
0:04:03 > 0:04:06and in 2002, she testified in the trial
0:04:06 > 0:04:08of Slobodan Milosevic.
0:04:08 > 0:04:10Let's meet the St Anne's team.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12Hello, I'm Rebecca Morelle.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14I read Chemistry at St Anne's
0:04:14 > 0:04:16and graduated in 2001
0:04:16 > 0:04:19and now I'm a science correspondent at BBC News.
0:04:19 > 0:04:22Hello, I'm Dr Janina Ramirez.
0:04:22 > 0:04:26I read English at St Anne's from 1998 to 2001
0:04:26 > 0:04:29and I'm now an Oxford art historian, broadcaster and writer.
0:04:29 > 0:04:31And this is their captain.
0:04:31 > 0:04:32Hello, I am Mary Archer.
0:04:32 > 0:04:35I read Chemistry at St Anne's,
0:04:35 > 0:04:371962 to 1966,
0:04:37 > 0:04:41and I am currently chairman of the Science Museum Group.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43Hi, I'm Jacky Rowland.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46I graduated in Modern Languages from St Anne's in 1986
0:04:46 > 0:04:50and I've been a television correspondent for 25 years.
0:04:50 > 0:04:53APPLAUSE
0:04:55 > 0:04:58Well, the rules are the same as for the student series.
0:04:58 > 0:04:59Ten points for starter questions -
0:04:59 > 0:05:02they're solo efforts answered on the buzzer.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04And 15 points in total for a set of bonuses -
0:05:04 > 0:05:08they can be answered conferring between yourselves.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11So, fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:05:11 > 0:05:15"A Christmas gift to a dear child in memory of a summer day" -
0:05:15 > 0:05:17these words were inscribed
0:05:17 > 0:05:20in the final 1864 manuscript of which story?
0:05:20 > 0:05:23Its origins lie in a tale first told
0:05:23 > 0:05:26to the three young daughters of Henry Little.
0:05:28 > 0:05:29Alice In Wonderland.
0:05:29 > 0:05:31Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, yes.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33Or Alice's Adventures Underground. That's correct.
0:05:36 > 0:05:38So the first set of bonuses, St Anne's,
0:05:38 > 0:05:41are on the recipe for Delia Smith's Creole Christmas cake.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44Oh!Firstly, for five points.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46Delia's recipe includes one-and-a-half teaspoons
0:05:46 > 0:05:50of which botanically infused alcohol-based tonic
0:05:50 > 0:05:53first created in Venezuela in 1824?
0:05:53 > 0:05:54Alcohol...
0:05:54 > 0:05:58Curacao, one of those things - a liqueur.
0:05:58 > 0:05:59Yes, but Venezuela?
0:06:02 > 0:06:04That's...Tia Maria?
0:06:04 > 0:06:06Tia Maria?
0:06:06 > 0:06:08What's the thing that goes in the Mexican...?
0:06:08 > 0:06:10Come on, let's have it.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12Yeah, sorry. Oh, yes. Hm...
0:06:12 > 0:06:14Come on, let's have it!
0:06:14 > 0:06:16Anything!
0:06:16 > 0:06:17Absinthe.
0:06:17 > 0:06:19LAUGHTER
0:06:17 > 0:06:19That French, isn't it?
0:06:19 > 0:06:21Angostura bitters is what I was looking for.Right!Oh.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24Also required in this Creole Christmas cake
0:06:24 > 0:06:28is half a teaspoon of which widely used aromatic spice
0:06:28 > 0:06:32consisting of the grated seeds of species of trees
0:06:32 > 0:06:34in the genus Myristica?
0:06:34 > 0:06:37Could be cinnamon, nutmeg?Nutmeg.
0:06:37 > 0:06:40Cinnamon or nutmeg?Nutmeg.Nutmeg.
0:06:40 > 0:06:41Nutmeg is right, yes.Well done.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45And finally, 250g are needed of which sugar,
0:06:45 > 0:06:47taking its name from its place of origin in Guyana?
0:06:47 > 0:06:50SEVERAL:Demerara.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52Or molasses?Muscovado.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54One of those.Muscovado.
0:06:54 > 0:06:56Muscovado.Muscovado.
0:06:56 > 0:06:57No, it's demerara.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00Oh! I wouldn't go on Bake Off just yet.
0:07:00 > 0:07:02LAUGHTER
0:07:00 > 0:07:02Ten points for this.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04What three-letter word in the English language
0:07:04 > 0:07:05has more definitions than any other?
0:07:05 > 0:07:08Those listed in the OECD...
0:07:08 > 0:07:09Set.
0:07:09 > 0:07:10Well done.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15You get a set of bonuses, Manchester,
0:07:15 > 0:07:19on the poet Sir Geoffrey Hill, who died in June 2016.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22Firstly, Hill's 1971 work Mercy And Hymns
0:07:22 > 0:07:25is a collection that combines
0:07:25 > 0:07:27memories of the poet's childhood in the Midlands
0:07:27 > 0:07:30with a celebration of which 8th century ruler?
0:07:33 > 0:07:36It's King Offa.Correct. Of Mercia.
0:07:36 > 0:07:39Secondly, "They seem to me to be transcendently fine
0:07:39 > 0:07:42"human beings whom one would have loved to have known."
0:07:42 > 0:07:45These words of Geoffrey Hill refer to Robert Southwell
0:07:45 > 0:07:48and which other English Jesuit executed in 1581?
0:07:50 > 0:07:52I don't know.
0:07:56 > 0:07:57No, we don't know.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59It's Edmund Campion.
0:07:59 > 0:08:00And finally,
0:08:00 > 0:08:03referring to fraught mind, timing and facial gesture,
0:08:03 > 0:08:06Hill mentioned which British comedy actor
0:08:06 > 0:08:08as an influence on his work?
0:08:08 > 0:08:10He played the leader role in a comedy series set
0:08:10 > 0:08:11in the 1st century BC.
0:08:13 > 0:08:14I think it is Ken Dodd.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16No, it is Frankie Howerd, Up Pompeii!
0:08:16 > 0:08:18MURMURING
0:08:16 > 0:08:18Ten points for this.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20In 1902, Sir Ronald Ross received
0:08:20 > 0:08:23the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
0:08:23 > 0:08:26for his work on the causes of which infectious disease,
0:08:26 > 0:08:29having demonstrated the life cycle of the protozoa parasites
0:08:29 > 0:08:31in the Anopheles mosquito?
0:08:33 > 0:08:34Malaria.
0:08:34 > 0:08:35Malaria is right, yes.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41You get a set of bonuses on chemical elements, St Anne's.
0:08:41 > 0:08:45Firstly, for five, which silvery white metal with atomic number 22
0:08:45 > 0:08:48was discovered by William Gregor in 1791?
0:08:48 > 0:08:50It is low in density, high in strength
0:08:50 > 0:08:53and is named after the race of deities
0:08:53 > 0:08:54to which Phoebe and Hyperion belong?
0:08:54 > 0:08:57(Titanium.)Are you sure?
0:08:57 > 0:08:59Um...22?
0:08:59 > 0:09:02Hydrogen, helium, lithium...
0:08:59 > 0:09:02THEY LAUGH
0:09:02 > 0:09:06Neon, magnesium, aluminium, silicon, phosphorus, sulphur, chlorine...
0:09:06 > 0:09:08I think it is titanium.
0:09:08 > 0:09:10I don't think so. Titanium.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12Correct.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12LAUGHTER
0:09:12 > 0:09:15Well done. Useful to have a historian, eh?
0:09:15 > 0:09:18And secondly, which hard blue-grey transition metal
0:09:18 > 0:09:23with atomic number 73 was discovered by Anders Ekeberg in 1802?
0:09:23 > 0:09:25Highly resistant to corrosion,
0:09:25 > 0:09:30it is named after a Greek king imprisoned eternally in Tartarus.
0:09:30 > 0:09:32Greek king...
0:09:33 > 0:09:36Hard blue-grey transition...
0:09:36 > 0:09:38Chromium?
0:09:38 > 0:09:40Oh... Chromium?73...
0:09:40 > 0:09:44No, it's heavier than chromium, it's a group down.
0:09:44 > 0:09:48If it is named after a Greek king...
0:09:48 > 0:09:50I think we'd better have an answer here.
0:09:50 > 0:09:51Pick something.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53Manganese.
0:09:53 > 0:09:54No, it's tantalum.
0:09:54 > 0:09:58And finally, which radioactive actinide metal
0:09:58 > 0:10:00with atomic number 90 was discovered
0:10:00 > 0:10:04by the Reverend Morten Esmark in 1828
0:10:04 > 0:10:06and named after the Norse god of thunder?
0:10:06 > 0:10:07Thorium.Thorium.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09Correct.Yes!
0:10:09 > 0:10:12We're going to do the picture round. For your picture starter,
0:10:12 > 0:10:15you're going to see a lesser-known verse from a popular carol.
0:10:15 > 0:10:18Ten points if you can give me the name of the carol.
0:10:23 > 0:10:24O Come, All Ye Faithful.
0:10:24 > 0:10:26Indeed it is.Yes!
0:10:26 > 0:10:29That's the verse that is usually sung on Christmas Day, isn't it?
0:10:29 > 0:10:32Your picture bonuses are three more lesser-known verses
0:10:32 > 0:10:33from Christmas carols.
0:10:33 > 0:10:37Again, five points in each case if you can name of the carol.
0:10:37 > 0:10:38Firstly...
0:10:40 > 0:10:42# Glorious now Behold him arise... #
0:10:42 > 0:10:44How does that begin? We Three Kings.We Three Kings.
0:10:44 > 0:10:46We Three Kings is correct.
0:10:46 > 0:10:47Sing-along.
0:10:48 > 0:10:50Here is the second one.
0:10:52 > 0:10:54# Now to the Lord sing praises
0:10:54 > 0:10:56# All you... #
0:10:56 > 0:10:58God Rest Ye Merry... Gentlemen.Gentlemen.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00Yes.Yes.And finally...
0:11:02 > 0:11:04Away In A Manger.
0:11:04 > 0:11:06Away In A Manger. Would you like to sing that too?
0:11:06 > 0:11:09APPLAUSE
0:11:09 > 0:11:13Ten points for this. Fingers on the buzzers. Who wrote these lines?
0:11:13 > 0:11:17" 'Twas in the month of December and the year 1883 that
0:11:17 > 0:11:19"a monster whale came to Dundee."
0:11:22 > 0:11:26No, I'm sorry, if you buzz, you must answer straightaway.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29It's tough, but if you buzz, you're shutting them out.
0:11:29 > 0:11:31You can't confer!
0:11:31 > 0:11:33One of you can buzz.We forgot.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35Well, nobody's got it.
0:11:35 > 0:11:37LAUGHTER
0:11:35 > 0:11:37We don't know.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39You can hear the rest of the question.
0:11:39 > 0:11:41"..that a monster whale came to Dundee."
0:11:41 > 0:11:44They appear in the poem The Famous Tay Whale.Oh.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47Who wrote it?
0:11:49 > 0:11:50Henry James?
0:11:50 > 0:11:53No, it's the worst poet in the English language -
0:11:53 > 0:11:54William Topaz McGonagall.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56Ten points for this.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59Ornamented with platinum and diamonds to resemble frost
0:11:59 > 0:12:03and sitting on a base designed to imitate a block of melting ice,
0:12:03 > 0:12:07The Winter is a decorative object made by which company?
0:12:07 > 0:12:08It's one of 50...
0:12:08 > 0:12:10Faberge?
0:12:10 > 0:12:11Faberge is correct, yes.
0:12:11 > 0:12:14APPLAUSE
0:12:14 > 0:12:18These bonuses are on winter weather, St Anne's.
0:12:18 > 0:12:22The severe smog that enveloped London in December 1952 lead
0:12:22 > 0:12:23to legislation known by what name?
0:12:23 > 0:12:26BUZZER
0:12:23 > 0:12:26You don't need to buzz,
0:12:23 > 0:12:26you can just confer.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28Clean Air Act. The first of its kind in 1956
0:12:28 > 0:12:30and the second, 12 years later.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32Clean Air Act.Correct.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34December of which year of the 1960s
0:12:34 > 0:12:36saw the beginning of winter weather conditions
0:12:36 > 0:12:39regarded as the coldest for over 200 years?
0:12:39 > 0:12:42The conditions persisted until the following March.
0:12:42 > 0:12:441962.Correct.
0:12:44 > 0:12:47And finally, in late December 2015,
0:12:47 > 0:12:51which city of northern England was hit by severe floods
0:12:51 > 0:12:55when the River Ouse flowed back to combine with the River Foss?
0:12:55 > 0:12:58York.Correct. Ten points for this.
0:12:58 > 0:13:03What is the defining characteristic of prose that is described as
0:13:03 > 0:13:04sesquipedalian?
0:13:11 > 0:13:13I'll tell you - it uses very long words.
0:13:13 > 0:13:15LAUGHTER
0:13:15 > 0:13:17Ten points for this.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20"How are you? You've been in Afghanistan, I perceive?"
0:13:20 > 0:13:24These are the first words of which enduring literary character
0:13:24 > 0:13:26in a novel of 1886?
0:13:28 > 0:13:29Sherlock Holmes?
0:13:29 > 0:13:31Correct.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33APPLAUSE
0:13:33 > 0:13:36Your bonuses, St Anne's, are on an author.
0:13:36 > 0:13:41Born in 1883, of whom does the Faber & Faber website say
0:13:41 > 0:13:43"a writer with a huge output -
0:13:43 > 0:13:46"he wrote too much but novels like Sinister Street
0:13:46 > 0:13:50"and entertainments like Whisky Galore deserve to survive"?
0:13:50 > 0:13:52Compton Mackenzie?
0:13:52 > 0:13:54Yeah, yeah.Compton?
0:13:54 > 0:13:57Compton Mackenzie.
0:13:57 > 0:13:58That's it, that's it. Compton Mackenzie?
0:13:58 > 0:14:03Correct. In 1923, Mackenzie co-founded which magazine
0:14:03 > 0:14:04devoted to classical music?
0:14:04 > 0:14:06It shares its name with the device
0:14:06 > 0:14:09for the reproduction of recorded sound.
0:14:09 > 0:14:12The Gramophone.The Gramophone?
0:14:12 > 0:14:15Correct. And finally, Mackenzie died in 1972,
0:14:15 > 0:14:19was buried on which island in the south of the Outer Hebrides?
0:14:19 > 0:14:21Its main settlement is Castlebay.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24No.
0:14:24 > 0:14:25One of those "Ug" or "Og" things.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28Any idea?No.Uig, or something.
0:14:28 > 0:14:31Do you know?No idea.
0:14:31 > 0:14:34Go with that.Come on.
0:14:35 > 0:14:37We don't know. What do you think it is?
0:14:37 > 0:14:39It's Barra. Ten points for this.
0:14:39 > 0:14:41In October 2016,
0:14:41 > 0:14:44the general election in which country saw the Independence Party
0:14:44 > 0:14:46win the largest number of seats
0:14:46 > 0:14:49with the Pirate Party in third place?
0:14:49 > 0:14:50Norway.
0:14:50 > 0:14:51No, you lose five points.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53..with the Pirate Party in third place?(Denmark!)
0:14:53 > 0:14:56It also became the European country with the highest proportion
0:14:56 > 0:14:59of female parliamentarians, ahead of Finland and Sweden.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01You may not confer. You can buzz, one of you.
0:15:03 > 0:15:04Is it Austria?
0:15:04 > 0:15:06No, it was Iceland.
0:15:06 > 0:15:08Right, ten points for this.
0:15:08 > 0:15:12Cotton wool consists almost entirely of what carbohydrate substance?
0:15:14 > 0:15:15Cellulose.
0:15:15 > 0:15:16Correct.
0:15:16 > 0:15:17APPLAUSE
0:15:19 > 0:15:21Your bonuses, St Anne's,
0:15:21 > 0:15:24are on birds which migrate to Britain in winter.
0:15:24 > 0:15:26I want you to identify each bird from its description.
0:15:26 > 0:15:31Firstly, Calidris canutus - a short, stocky wading bird,
0:15:31 > 0:15:35it shares its common four-letter name with a unit of speed.
0:15:35 > 0:15:36Ibis...
0:15:36 > 0:15:39That's not a unit of speed.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41I mean, coot... But that's not a unit of speed.
0:15:41 > 0:15:42Unit of speed...
0:15:42 > 0:15:45A unit of...
0:15:45 > 0:15:47Swift. No, that's not four.
0:15:47 > 0:15:48LAUGHTER
0:15:48 > 0:15:49A tern...
0:15:49 > 0:15:51No, it's a knot. K-N-O-T.OK.
0:15:51 > 0:15:53Five points for this, secondly.
0:15:53 > 0:15:55Cygnus columbianus - a relatively small water bird,
0:15:55 > 0:15:58compared with other members of its genus,
0:15:58 > 0:16:00its two-word name refers to a British naturalist
0:16:00 > 0:16:04noted for his wood engravings and the use of white line printing.
0:16:06 > 0:16:07Coo... No.
0:16:07 > 0:16:09It's not Berwick?
0:16:09 > 0:16:10Um...
0:16:10 > 0:16:11Swan or something?
0:16:11 > 0:16:13Somebody's swan?
0:16:13 > 0:16:15Somebody's - something swan? Swan, it's got to be swan.Yes.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17Which are the swans that migrate?
0:16:17 > 0:16:19There's a Berwick swan, I think. Berwick swan.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21No, it's a Bewick swan.
0:16:21 > 0:16:22Oh, close.Near miss.
0:16:22 > 0:16:26And finally, Bucephala clangula - a diving duck that shares its name
0:16:26 > 0:16:30with the Jamaican residence of the writer Ian Fleming.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34Gosh, what's the Jamaican residence of Ian Fleming?
0:16:34 > 0:16:36Agh!
0:16:37 > 0:16:39Oh, gosh!
0:16:39 > 0:16:41What's the...Jamaican...
0:16:41 > 0:16:43The Ian Fleming novel that's set in...?
0:16:43 > 0:16:45Jamaica?Yeah.
0:16:45 > 0:16:47Jamaica Inn. Jamaica Inn - but that's...
0:16:47 > 0:16:49It's the house, isn't it?
0:16:49 > 0:16:51- We don't know. - I can't think.
0:16:51 > 0:16:53Let's have it, please. Guess. Guess.
0:16:53 > 0:16:54I...
0:16:54 > 0:16:56It's a bird, I don't know.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58Diving duck - I don't know!
0:16:58 > 0:16:59A something swan.
0:16:59 > 0:17:00No, we've done that.
0:17:00 > 0:17:02No, it's a goldeneye.Oh!
0:17:02 > 0:17:05Ten points for this music starter.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07For your music starter you're going to hear an excerpt
0:17:07 > 0:17:09from a piece of classical music.
0:17:09 > 0:17:12Ten points if you can tell me the name of the composer.
0:17:12 > 0:17:13ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:17:21 > 0:17:22Vivaldi.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24It is Vivaldi. It's Winter from The Four Seasons.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26APPLAUSE
0:17:27 > 0:17:30Your bonuses are three more pieces of classical music,
0:17:30 > 0:17:34each one evoking the sense of a phenomenon, object or activity
0:17:34 > 0:17:36that one might encounter in winter.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38That's what I want you to identify.
0:17:38 > 0:17:42Firstly, what phenomenon is named in the title of this piece?
0:17:42 > 0:17:44ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:17:59 > 0:18:03It's something snow...Snow goose?
0:18:03 > 0:18:06Ice maiden, or...?Yes...
0:18:06 > 0:18:07Do you know?
0:18:08 > 0:18:11It's going to be frost or ice.
0:18:13 > 0:18:14Ice.Ice maiden.
0:18:14 > 0:18:18No, it's snow. That was Debussy's The Snow Is Dancing.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21Secondly, what activity is the composer evoking here?
0:18:21 > 0:18:23ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:18:23 > 0:18:26That's snow, too.Er...
0:18:26 > 0:18:27SHE HUMS ALONG
0:18:26 > 0:18:27Waltzing.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29That's a waltz.
0:18:29 > 0:18:31Winter...OK, yeah.
0:18:32 > 0:18:33Ice skating.
0:18:33 > 0:18:36That's correct, yes. Waldteufel's The Skater's Waltz.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38And finally, what object is named in the title
0:18:38 > 0:18:42of the suite of 12 pieces from which this is taken?
0:18:42 > 0:18:44ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:18:48 > 0:18:50SHE WHISPERS
0:18:55 > 0:18:56It's a suite...
0:18:56 > 0:19:00Is it from The Nutcracker, and the object is the nutcracker?
0:19:00 > 0:19:03Could be, yes. Is it? OK.I dunno.
0:19:03 > 0:19:04Nutcracker?
0:19:04 > 0:19:09No, it's a Christmas tree - that was from Liszt's Christmas Tree suite.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12Manchester, there's still plenty of time for you to catch up.
0:19:12 > 0:19:13Ten points at stake for this.
0:19:13 > 0:19:16Published posthumously in 1955,
0:19:16 > 0:19:19A Child's Christmas In Wales is a prose recollection by which...?
0:19:21 > 0:19:22Dylan Thomas.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24Correct.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24APPLAUSE
0:19:26 > 0:19:29St Anne's, you get three questions on the author Jenny Diski,
0:19:29 > 0:19:31who died in 2016.
0:19:31 > 0:19:35At the age of 15, Jenny Diski was unofficially adopted
0:19:35 > 0:19:40by which future Nobel laureate whose works The Golden Notebook?
0:19:40 > 0:19:42- Doris Lessing. - Oh!
0:19:42 > 0:19:43Doris Lessing.
0:19:43 > 0:19:44Correct.
0:19:44 > 0:19:48Charlotte, the protagonist of Diski's novel Monkey's Uncle,
0:19:48 > 0:19:52is a supposed descendant of which naval officer and meteorologist
0:19:52 > 0:19:55associated with Charles Darwin?
0:19:55 > 0:19:57Naval officer...
0:19:57 > 0:19:59I can't remember his name.
0:19:59 > 0:20:00Who was captain of The Beagle?
0:20:00 > 0:20:02That's what I'm thinking...um...
0:20:03 > 0:20:05No. I don't know.
0:20:05 > 0:20:07John...someone.
0:20:07 > 0:20:08John Smith.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10No, it's Fitzroy. That's the person you were looking for.Oh!
0:20:10 > 0:20:14And finally, Diski's 2008 novel Apology For The Woman Writing
0:20:14 > 0:20:16features Marie de Gournay,
0:20:16 > 0:20:21the amanuensis of which French essayist born in 1533?
0:20:22 > 0:20:24Essayist... Racine?
0:20:24 > 0:20:26No...Diderot.
0:20:26 > 0:20:27Diderot.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29No, it was Montaigne. Ah, he's the earliest one.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31Earlier than that. Ten points for this.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33Written by Lin-Manuel Miranda,
0:20:33 > 0:20:35which hip-hop musical won 11 prizes...?
0:20:36 > 0:20:37Hamilton.
0:20:37 > 0:20:39Hamilton is correct, yes.Well done.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42APPLAUSE
0:20:42 > 0:20:45Right, Manchester, these are your bonuses. They're on ski resorts.
0:20:45 > 0:20:49In each case, name the country where all three resorts are located.
0:20:49 > 0:20:54First, Mezica, Kranjska Gora and Straza Bled.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57- Sounds like Austria to me. - Yeah, I could see that.
0:20:57 > 0:21:01Sounds like Austria to me. He said Austria.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03I think it's Austria.I dunno, I was going to say Russia, but...
0:21:03 > 0:21:05Kranjska Gora...
0:21:05 > 0:21:06Go on, then.
0:21:06 > 0:21:07Austria.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09No, it's Slovenia.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12Secondly, in which country are Narkanda, Mundali
0:21:12 > 0:21:14and Yumthang Valley?
0:21:15 > 0:21:16Oh, dear.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21Yumthang Valley...
0:21:22 > 0:21:23Could be Japan. Try Japan.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26Japan is good - yeah, Japan's not bad.Japan?
0:21:26 > 0:21:27Yeah.
0:21:27 > 0:21:28Japan.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30No, they're in India.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33And the ski resorts Kinosoo Ridge, Lake Louise
0:21:33 > 0:21:35and Kicking Horse Mountain are which country?
0:21:35 > 0:21:37Is that Canada?Yeah.
0:21:37 > 0:21:39Canada. Canada.
0:21:39 > 0:21:40Correct.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42BUZZER
0:21:40 > 0:21:42No need to buzz.
0:21:42 > 0:21:43LAUGHTER
0:21:43 > 0:21:44Haven't even given the question yet!
0:21:44 > 0:21:46Here it comes. Ten points for this.
0:21:46 > 0:21:512016 is the 500th anniversary of which literary work
0:21:51 > 0:21:53first published in Latin in the Low Countries?
0:21:53 > 0:21:57It's title is from the Greek for No Place,
0:21:57 > 0:22:01but it's also a pun on an almost identical word meaning a good place.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05Oh...Utopia.
0:22:05 > 0:22:06Correct.
0:22:06 > 0:22:07APPLAUSE
0:22:09 > 0:22:15These bonuses are on the 2016 Golden Raspberry film awards.
0:22:15 > 0:22:16Firstly, for five points,
0:22:16 > 0:22:19a nominee for Worst Screen Combo
0:22:19 > 0:22:22was Johnny Depp and his glued-on moustache
0:22:22 > 0:22:26for his role as a roguish art dealer in which 2015 film?
0:22:26 > 0:22:302015, Johnny Depp, roguish art dealer...
0:22:30 > 0:22:33Oh, no, I don't know. I don't...
0:22:33 > 0:22:34Any Johnny Depp film?
0:22:34 > 0:22:37I don't know. I have no idea.
0:22:37 > 0:22:38It got panned.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41Um...Johnny Depp... I haven't seen any of his.
0:22:41 > 0:22:42We don't know.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44It was Mortdecai.
0:22:44 > 0:22:49And secondly, which 2015 sci-fi film achieved six nominations,
0:22:49 > 0:22:53out of which Eddie Redmayne won as Worst Supporting Actor?
0:22:53 > 0:22:54Sci... Sci...
0:22:54 > 0:22:56Was that...?
0:22:56 > 0:22:57It was a sci-fi film.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59Eddie Redmayne.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01- Any idea? - 20...
0:23:01 > 0:23:02Star Wars.
0:23:02 > 0:23:05We haven't been to the cinema recently, sorry.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07It's Jupiter Ascending.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10And finally, who won the Worst Actress award
0:23:10 > 0:23:13for her role in Fifty Shades of Grey?
0:23:13 > 0:23:15She's the daughter of Melanie Griffiths.
0:23:15 > 0:23:17- Dakota... - Dakota Fanning.
0:23:17 > 0:23:18Dakota Fanning.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20No, it was Dakota Johnson.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22Dakota Fanning's someone else, I think.
0:23:22 > 0:23:25Right, ten points for this picture starter question.
0:23:25 > 0:23:27You're going to see a statue of a ruler.
0:23:27 > 0:23:29Ten points if you can give me his name.
0:23:32 > 0:23:34Emperor Hadrian.
0:23:34 > 0:23:36No, anyone like to buzz from Manchester?
0:23:39 > 0:23:41Nero. Nero.
0:23:41 > 0:23:43No, it's the emperor Augustus.
0:23:43 > 0:23:45So, picture bonuses in a moment or two -
0:23:45 > 0:23:47another starter question in the meantime.
0:23:47 > 0:23:49Fingers on the buzzers.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52In a song of 1971, whom did David Bowie call
0:23:52 > 0:23:56"a strange young man with a voice like sand and glue"?
0:23:58 > 0:24:00Aladdin Sane?
0:24:00 > 0:24:01No.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03You lose five points, I'm afraid.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06In October 2016, he became a Nobel laureate.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09- Oh... - Yes.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11Bob Dylan.
0:24:11 > 0:24:12Bob Dylan is correct.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15APPLAUSE
0:24:15 > 0:24:18So, you're going to get the picture bonuses, St Anne's,
0:24:18 > 0:24:20and they follow on from that picture of the emperor Augustus
0:24:20 > 0:24:22who, according to Luke's Gospel,
0:24:22 > 0:24:26ordered the census that brought Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem.
0:24:26 > 0:24:29For your picture bonuses, three more statues of rulers
0:24:29 > 0:24:34who ordered a significant historical census or survey during their reign.
0:24:34 > 0:24:35Five points for each you can name.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Firstly, who's this biblical figure?
0:24:37 > 0:24:39King David.
0:24:39 > 0:24:42Yes, he's got a harp - David, King David.
0:24:42 > 0:24:43It is King David,
0:24:43 > 0:24:45who ordered a census of Israel and Judah,
0:24:45 > 0:24:46according the Book of Samuel.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49Secondly, name this Spanish monarch.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53Philip...?
0:24:55 > 0:24:56Say King Philip!
0:24:56 > 0:24:58Philip?
0:24:58 > 0:25:00Do you want a...?Which one?
0:25:00 > 0:25:01Philip...IV.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03No, it's Philip II. Oh, I nearly said that!
0:25:03 > 0:25:06He ordered a survey of the Spanish territories in the Americas.
0:25:06 > 0:25:08And finally, name this king of England.
0:25:12 > 0:25:13Gosh, who's that?
0:25:13 > 0:25:16Let's try Alfred the Great.
0:25:16 > 0:25:17Try Alfred the Great.
0:25:17 > 0:25:18Alfred the Great.
0:25:18 > 0:25:20No, it's William the Conqueror,
0:25:20 > 0:25:21who ordered the Domesday Book, of course.
0:25:21 > 0:25:24Right, ten for this - about three minutes to go.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26What bird of prey links the Cambridge pub
0:25:26 > 0:25:30in which Crick and Watson announced their discovery...?
0:25:30 > 0:25:31Eagle.
0:25:31 > 0:25:32The eagle is correct, yes.
0:25:32 > 0:25:33APPLAUSE
0:25:34 > 0:25:37These bonuses are on astronomy, St Anne's.
0:25:37 > 0:25:40What astronomical event visible from Britain
0:25:40 > 0:25:42occurred on the 9th of May 2016?
0:25:42 > 0:25:46The next two such events will take place in 2019 and 2032.
0:25:46 > 0:25:48It's Mercury. Transit of Mercury.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50Yeah.Transit of Mercury.
0:25:50 > 0:25:52Correct.
0:25:52 > 0:25:56Which English astronomer observed a transit of Mercury in October 1677
0:25:56 > 0:25:59during an expedition to the island of St Helena
0:25:59 > 0:26:02to catalogue the stars of the Southern Hemisphere?
0:26:02 > 0:26:041677...
0:26:04 > 0:26:0516...
0:26:05 > 0:26:06I can't remember his name.
0:26:06 > 0:26:07Not, um...
0:26:10 > 0:26:11I know it, I just can't remember his name.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13Who's the one with the observatory?
0:26:13 > 0:26:15We'd better have an answer, I think.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18It's not Herschel, cos that's much too late.
0:26:18 > 0:26:19Sorry.
0:26:19 > 0:26:20It's Edmond Halley.
0:26:20 > 0:26:22And finally, Mercury Bay,
0:26:22 > 0:26:26so-called because Captain Cook observed a transit of Mercury
0:26:26 > 0:26:29from the region in 1769, lies off the coast
0:26:29 > 0:26:33of the Coromandel Peninsula in the north of which country?
0:26:33 > 0:26:34Coromandel...
0:26:34 > 0:26:36I'd expect it to be a bit...
0:26:36 > 0:26:37New Zealand?
0:26:37 > 0:26:40- Is it New Zealand? - New Zealand, yeah.
0:26:40 > 0:26:42New Zealand.
0:26:42 > 0:26:43Correct.
0:26:42 > 0:26:43APPLAUSE
0:26:43 > 0:26:44Ten points for this.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47Before Theresa May in July 2016,
0:26:47 > 0:26:48who was the last Prime Minister
0:26:48 > 0:26:52to have previously held the office of Home Secretary,
0:26:52 > 0:26:55doing so from 1967 to 1970?
0:26:57 > 0:26:58James Callahan?
0:26:58 > 0:26:59Correct.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01APPLAUSE
0:27:01 > 0:27:02Here are your bonuses.
0:27:02 > 0:27:07They're on Kingston-upon-Hull, the UK City of Culture in 2017.
0:27:07 > 0:27:10Firstly, in 2017, the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull
0:27:10 > 0:27:15will host which annual event inaugurated in 1984?
0:27:16 > 0:27:17Turner Prize.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20Correct. Which actor was born in Hull in 1937?
0:27:20 > 0:27:23He first came to prominence in the 1960s
0:27:23 > 0:27:26in films such as Billy Liar and Doctor Zhivago,
0:27:26 > 0:27:28and was nominated for an Academy Award
0:27:28 > 0:27:30for his performance in The Dresser.
0:27:30 > 0:27:31Tom Courtenay.
0:27:31 > 0:27:35Correct. Which independent theatre was founded in Hull in 1971
0:27:35 > 0:27:38and became particularly associated with the plays of John Godber?
0:27:38 > 0:27:39Hull Truck.
0:27:39 > 0:27:40Correct.
0:27:40 > 0:27:41APPLAUSE
0:27:40 > 0:27:41Ten points for this.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43In December 2012, Wild Oats XI
0:27:43 > 0:27:47set a record time of 42 hours and 23 minutes
0:27:47 > 0:27:49in an annual yacht race
0:27:49 > 0:27:52from Sydney to which city, the capital of Tasmania?
0:27:56 > 0:27:57Hobart.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59Hobart is correct, yes.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59APPLAUSE
0:27:59 > 0:28:00GONG
0:28:00 > 0:28:03And at the gong, Manchester have 55,
0:28:03 > 0:28:06St Anne's College Oxford have 185.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08Well, you started coming back at the end, there.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10Honour is satisfied, I think. Just about.
0:28:10 > 0:28:12Congratulations to you, Manchester,
0:28:12 > 0:28:13thank you very much for joining us,
0:28:13 > 0:28:15and many congratulations to you, St Anne's,
0:28:15 > 0:28:17for a terrific performance.
0:28:17 > 0:28:19And thank you all for doing something you didn't need to do.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21Thank you very much.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21LAUGHTER
0:28:21 > 0:28:25So, until next time, when we'll have another first round match,
0:28:25 > 0:28:28it's goodbye from Manchester University...
0:28:28 > 0:28:30Er, goodbye.
0:28:30 > 0:28:32..it's goodbye from St Anne's College Oxford...
0:28:32 > 0:28:33Bye!Goodbye.
0:28:33 > 0:28:36..and it's goodbye from me - goodbye.
0:28:36 > 0:28:37APPLAUSE