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Christmas University Challenge.

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Asking the questions -

Jeremy Paxman.

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APPLAUSE

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It's the season of goodwill,

I'm told.

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So for no good reason,

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we're letting students off the hook

until the new year.

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Instead tonight,

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we're playing the first match

in our annual series

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for alumni of some of

the UK's leading universities

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and university colleges.

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14 teams are competing,

each comprising four former students

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who, since leaving, have achieved

distinction in their chosen field.

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They have all very sportingly

agreed to compete

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for nothing more than the honour

of their alma mater.

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There is no prize on offer

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for whichever team wins the series,

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beyond an excuse to look smug

as they get first crack

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at the mince pies

and Botswana's finest sherry.

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Playing for Manchester University

first

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is a five-time Paralympian

in wheelchair basketball.

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He's also won gold medals

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in the Wheelchair Basketball

World Championships,

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the European Championships,

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the European Champions Cup and

the Commonwealth Paraplegic Games.

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With him, a journalist who writes

for the Guardian, the Times,

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the Sunday Times Magazine

and elsewhere.

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He is also a familiar voice

on Radio 4 and

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a familiar face on The Culture Show

and The Review Show,

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currently working on

a film adaptation of his memoir

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of growing up in Luton.

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Their captain is Professor of Poetry

at the University of Oxford

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and the University of Sheffield.

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He has won RTS, BAFTA

and Ivor Novello awards

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for his writing for radio, TV,

film and theatre, and in 1999,

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he was named the UK's

Millennium Poet.

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Their final team member

is an entomologist overseeing

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a globally significant collection

of between 3 and 4 million specimens

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of Diptera, Siphonaptera,

Arachnida and Myriapoda.

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She has a special interest

in medical entomology

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and can often be heard on Radio 4,

enthusing about her subject.

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Let's ask them now to introduce

themselves in the time-honoured way.

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Hello, I am Sir Philip Craven.

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I got a BA honours degree

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in Geography in 1972

and now I am the president

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of the International

Paralympic Committee.

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Hello, I'm Sarfraz Manzoor.

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I graduated in 1992

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with a degree in Economics

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and I am now a writer,

journalist and broadcaster.

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And this is their captain.

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Hello, I am Simon Armitage.

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I got my MA in Social Policy

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in 1988 and I am a poet.

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Hello, my name is Erica McAlister.

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I graduated in '96

in Environmental Biology

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and now I manage

the fleas and flies

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at the Natural History Museum

in London.

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APPLAUSE

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Now, St Anne's College, Oxford,

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was founded as

an all-women's institution

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and became coeducational in 1979,

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though you wouldn't know that

from the team playing tonight.

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Their first member maintains

she wasn't very good at lab work

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so decided on a career talking

about science rather than doing it.

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She now reports on

international science research

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for the World Service,

the Today programme

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and for Newsnight.

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With her, a historian with

an enthusiasm

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for popularising her subject.

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She has written on Julian of Norwich

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and the private lives

of Anglo-Saxon saints,

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and her broadcasts for BBC Four

have covered the Hundred Years' War,

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medieval monarchy and Viking art.

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Their captain began her career

as a physical chemist.

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She taught Chemistry in Oxford,

Cambridge and London,

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and later chaired several

health institutions.

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She is also an authority

on solar energy

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and patron of

the Rupert Brooke Society.

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Their fourth member has been

a foreign correspondent

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for the BBC and Al Jazeera English.

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She's reported from Kosovo

and the West Bank,

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from Afghanistan shortly after 9/11,

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from Cairo during

the 2011 revolution,

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and in 2002,

she testified in the trial

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of Slobodan Milosevic.

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Let's meet the St Anne's team.

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Hello, I'm Rebecca Morelle.

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I read Chemistry at St Anne's

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and graduated in 2001

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and now I'm a science correspondent

at BBC News.

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Hello, I'm Dr Janina Ramirez.

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I read English at St Anne's

from 1998 to 2001

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and I'm now an Oxford art historian,

broadcaster and writer.

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And this is their captain.

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Hello, I am Mary Archer.

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I read Chemistry at St Anne's,

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1962 to 1966,

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and I am currently chairman

of the Science Museum Group.

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Hi, I'm Jacky Rowland.

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I graduated in Modern Languages

from St Anne's in 1986

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and I've been a television

correspondent for 25 years.

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APPLAUSE

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Well, the rules are the same

as for the student series.

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Ten points for starter questions -

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they're solo efforts answered

on the buzzer.

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And 15 points in total

for a set of bonuses -

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they can be answered

conferring between yourselves.

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So, fingers on the buzzers,

here's your first starter for ten.

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"A Christmas gift to a dear child

in memory of a summer day" -

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these words were inscribed

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in the final 1864 manuscript

of which story?

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Its origins lie in a tale first told

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to the three young daughters

of Henry Little.

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Alice In Wonderland.

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Alice's Adventures In Wonderland,

yes.

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Or Alice's Adventures Underground.

That's correct.

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So the first set of bonuses,

St Anne's,

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are on the recipe for

Delia Smith's Creole Christmas cake.

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Oh!

Firstly, for five points.

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Delia's recipe includes

one-and-a-half teaspoons

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of which botanically infused

alcohol-based tonic

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first created in Venezuela in 1824?

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Alcohol...

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Curacao, one of those things -

a liqueur.

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Yes, but Venezuela?

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That's...

Tia Maria?

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Tia Maria?

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What's the thing that goes

in the Mexican...?

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Come on, let's have it.

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Yeah, sorry. Oh, yes. Hm...

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Come on, let's have it!

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Anything!

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Absinthe.

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LAUGHTER

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That French, isn't it?

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Angostura bitters is what

I was looking for.

Right!

Oh.

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Also required in

this Creole Christmas cake

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is half a teaspoon

of which widely used aromatic spice

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consisting of the grated seeds

of species of trees

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in the genus Myristica?

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Could be cinnamon, nutmeg?

Nutmeg.

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Cinnamon or nutmeg?

Nutmeg.

Nutmeg.

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Nutmeg is right, yes.

Well done.

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And finally,

250g are needed of which sugar,

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taking its name from its place

of origin in Guyana?

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SEVERAL:

Demerara.

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Or molasses?

Muscovado.

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One of those.

Muscovado.

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Muscovado.

Muscovado.

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No, it's demerara.

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Oh!

I wouldn't go on Bake Off just yet.

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LAUGHTER

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Ten points for this.

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What three-letter word

in the English language

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has more definitions than any other?

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Those listed in the OECD...

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Set.

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Well done.

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You get a set of bonuses,

Manchester,

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on the poet Sir Geoffrey Hill,

who died in June 2016.

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Firstly, Hill's 1971 work

Mercy And Hymns

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is a collection that combines

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memories of the poet's childhood

in the Midlands

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with a celebration

of which 8th century ruler?

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It's King Offa.

Correct. Of Mercia.

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Secondly, "They seem to me

to be transcendently fine

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"human beings whom one would have

loved to have known."

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These words of Geoffrey Hill

refer to Robert Southwell

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and which other English Jesuit

executed in 1581?

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I don't know.

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No, we don't know.

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It's Edmund Campion.

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And finally,

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referring to fraught mind,

timing and facial gesture,

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Hill mentioned

which British comedy actor

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as an influence on his work?

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He played the leader role

in a comedy series set

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in the 1st century BC.

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I think it is Ken Dodd.

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No, it is Frankie Howerd,

Up Pompeii!

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MURMURING

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Ten points for this.

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In 1902, Sir Ronald Ross received

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the Nobel Prize

in Physiology or Medicine

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for his work on the causes

of which infectious disease,

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having demonstrated the life cycle

of the protozoa parasites

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in the Anopheles mosquito?

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Malaria.

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Malaria is right, yes.

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You get a set of bonuses

on chemical elements, St Anne's.

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Firstly, for five, which silvery

white metal with atomic number 22

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was discovered by William Gregor

in 1791?

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It is low in density,

high in strength

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and is named after

the race of deities

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to which Phoebe and Hyperion belong?

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(Titanium.)

Are you sure?

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Um...

22?

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Hydrogen, helium, lithium...

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THEY LAUGH

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Neon, magnesium, aluminium, silicon,

phosphorus, sulphur, chlorine...

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I think it is titanium.

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I don't think so. Titanium.

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Correct.

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LAUGHTER

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Well done.

Useful to have a historian, eh?

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And secondly, which hard

blue-grey transition metal

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with atomic number 73 was discovered

by Anders Ekeberg in 1802?

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Highly resistant to corrosion,

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it is named after a Greek king

imprisoned eternally in Tartarus.

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Greek king...

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Hard blue-grey transition...

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Chromium?

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Oh... Chromium?

73...

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No, it's heavier than chromium,

it's a group down.

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If it is named after a Greek king...

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I think we'd better have

an answer here.

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Pick something.

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Manganese.

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No, it's tantalum.

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And finally,

which radioactive actinide metal

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with atomic number 90 was discovered

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by the Reverend Morten Esmark

in 1828

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and named after

the Norse god of thunder?

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Thorium.

Thorium.

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Correct.

Yes!

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We're going to do the picture round.

For your picture starter,

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you're going to see a lesser-known

verse from a popular carol.

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Ten points if you can give me

the name of the carol.

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O Come, All Ye Faithful.

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Indeed it is.

Yes!

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That's the verse that is usually

sung on Christmas Day, isn't it?

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Your picture bonuses are three more

lesser-known verses

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from Christmas carols.

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Again, five points in each case

if you can name of the carol.

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Firstly...

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# Glorious now

Behold him arise... #

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How does that begin?

We Three Kings.

We Three Kings.

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We Three Kings is correct.

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Sing-along.

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Here is the second one.

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# Now to the Lord sing praises

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# All you... #

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God Rest Ye Merry...

Gentlemen.

Gentlemen.

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Yes.

Yes.

And finally...

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Away In A Manger.

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Away In A Manger.

Would you like to sing that too?

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APPLAUSE

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Ten points for this. Fingers on

the buzzers. Who wrote these lines?

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" 'Twas in the month of December

and the year 1883 that

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"a monster whale came to Dundee."

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No, I'm sorry, if you buzz,

you must answer straightaway.

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It's tough, but if you buzz,

you're shutting them out.

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You can't confer!

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One of you can buzz.

We forgot.

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Well, nobody's got it.

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LAUGHTER

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We don't know.

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You can hear the rest

of the question.

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"..that a monster whale

came to Dundee."

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They appear in the poem

The Famous Tay Whale.

Oh.

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Who wrote it?

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Henry James?

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No, it's the worst poet

in the English language -

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William Topaz McGonagall.

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Ten points for this.

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Ornamented with platinum

and diamonds to resemble frost

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and sitting on a base designed

to imitate a block of melting ice,

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The Winter is a decorative object

made by which company?

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It's one of 50...

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Faberge?

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Faberge is correct, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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These bonuses are on winter weather,

St Anne's.

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The severe smog that enveloped

London in December 1952 lead

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to legislation known by what name?

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BUZZER

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You don't need to buzz,

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you can just confer.

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Clean Air Act.

The first of its kind in 1956

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and the second, 12 years later.

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Clean Air Act.

Correct.

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December of which year of the 1960s

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saw the beginning of

winter weather conditions

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regarded as the coldest

for over 200 years?

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The conditions persisted

until the following March.

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1962.

Correct.

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And finally, in late December 2015,

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which city of northern England

was hit by severe floods

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when the River Ouse flowed back

to combine with the River Foss?

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York.

Correct. Ten points for this.

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What is the defining characteristic

of prose that is described as

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sesquipedalian?

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I'll tell you -

it uses very long words.

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LAUGHTER

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Ten points for this.

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"How are you? You've been

in Afghanistan, I perceive?"

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These are the first words of which

enduring literary character

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in a novel of 1886?

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Sherlock Holmes?

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Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses, St Anne's,

are on an author.

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Born in 1883, of whom does

the Faber & Faber website say

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"a writer with a huge output -

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"he wrote too much but novels

like Sinister Street

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"and entertainments like

Whisky Galore deserve to survive"?

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Compton Mackenzie?

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Yeah, yeah.

Compton?

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Compton Mackenzie.

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That's it, that's it.

Compton Mackenzie?

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Correct. In 1923, Mackenzie

co-founded which magazine

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devoted to classical music?

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It shares its name with the device

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for the reproduction

of recorded sound.

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The Gramophone.

The Gramophone?

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Correct.

And finally, Mackenzie died in 1972,

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was buried on which island

in the south of the Outer Hebrides?

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Its main settlement is Castlebay.

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No.

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One of those "Ug" or "Og" things.

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Any idea?

No.

Uig, or something.

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Do you know?

No idea.

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Go with that.

Come on.

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We don't know.

What do you think it is?

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It's Barra. Ten points for this.

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In October 2016,

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the general election in which

country saw the Independence Party

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win the largest number of seats

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with the Pirate Party

in third place?

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Norway.

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No, you lose five points.

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..with the Pirate Party

in third place?

(Denmark!)

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It also became the European country

with the highest proportion

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of female parliamentarians,

ahead of Finland and Sweden.

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You may not confer.

You can buzz, one of you.

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Is it Austria?

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No, it was Iceland.

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Right, ten points for this.

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Cotton wool consists almost entirely

of what carbohydrate substance?

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Cellulose.

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Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses, St Anne's,

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are on birds which migrate

to Britain in winter.

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I want you to identify each bird

from its description.

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Firstly, Calidris canutus -

a short, stocky wading bird,

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it shares its common four-letter

name with a unit of speed.

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Ibis...

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That's not a unit of speed.

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I mean, coot...

But that's not a unit of speed.

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Unit of speed...

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A unit of...

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Swift. No, that's not four.

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LAUGHTER

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A tern...

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No, it's a knot. K-N-O-T.

OK.

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Five points for this, secondly.

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Cygnus columbianus -

a relatively small water bird,

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compared with other members

of its genus,

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its two-word name

refers to a British naturalist

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noted for his wood engravings

and the use of white line printing.

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Coo... No.

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It's not Berwick?

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Um...

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Swan or something?

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Somebody's swan?

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Somebody's - something swan?

Swan, it's got to be swan.

Yes.

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Which are the swans that migrate?

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There's a Berwick swan, I think.

Berwick swan.

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No, it's a Bewick swan.

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Oh, close.

Near miss.

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And finally, Bucephala clangula -

a diving duck that shares its name

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with the Jamaican residence

of the writer Ian Fleming.

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Gosh, what's the Jamaican

residence of Ian Fleming?

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Agh!

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Oh, gosh!

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What's the...Jamaican...

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The Ian Fleming novel

that's set in...?

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Jamaica?

Yeah.

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Jamaica Inn.

Jamaica Inn - but that's...

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It's the house, isn't it?

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- We don't know.

- I can't think.

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Let's have it, please.

Guess. Guess.

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I...

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It's a bird, I don't know.

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Diving duck - I don't know!

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A something swan.

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No, we've done that.

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No, it's a goldeneye.

Oh!

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Ten points for this music starter.

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For your music starter you're going

to hear an excerpt

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from a piece of classical music.

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Ten points if you can tell me

the name of the composer.

0:17:090:17:12

ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS

0:17:120:17:13

Vivaldi.

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It is Vivaldi.

It's Winter from The Four Seasons.

0:17:220:17:24

APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses are three more pieces

of classical music,

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each one evoking the sense of

a phenomenon, object or activity

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that one might encounter in winter.

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That's what I want you to identify.

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Firstly, what phenomenon is named in

the title of this piece?

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ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS

0:17:420:17:44

It's something snow...

Snow goose?

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Ice maiden, or...?

Yes...

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Do you know?

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It's going to be frost or ice.

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Ice.

Ice maiden.

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No, it's snow. That was Debussy's

The Snow Is Dancing.

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Secondly, what activity is

the composer evoking here?

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ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS

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That's snow, too.

Er...

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SHE HUMS ALONG

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Waltzing.

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That's a waltz.

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Winter...

OK, yeah.

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Ice skating.

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That's correct, yes.

Waldteufel's The Skater's Waltz.

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And finally, what object

is named in the title

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of the suite of 12 pieces

from which this is taken?

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ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS

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SHE WHISPERS

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It's a suite...

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Is it from The Nutcracker,

and the object is the nutcracker?

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Could be, yes. Is it? OK.

I dunno.

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Nutcracker?

0:19:030:19:04

No, it's a Christmas tree - that was

from Liszt's Christmas Tree suite.

0:19:040:19:09

Manchester, there's still plenty of

time for you to catch up.

0:19:090:19:12

Ten points at stake for this.

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Published posthumously in 1955,

0:19:130:19:16

A Child's Christmas In Wales

is a prose recollection by which...?

0:19:160:19:19

Dylan Thomas.

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Correct.

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APPLAUSE

0:19:220:19:24

St Anne's, you get three questions

on the author Jenny Diski,

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who died in 2016.

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At the age of 15, Jenny Diski

was unofficially adopted

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by which future Nobel laureate

whose works The Golden Notebook?

0:19:350:19:40

- Doris Lessing.

- Oh!

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Doris Lessing.

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Correct.

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Charlotte, the protagonist of

Diski's novel Monkey's Uncle,

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is a supposed descendant of which

naval officer and meteorologist

0:19:480:19:52

associated with Charles Darwin?

0:19:520:19:55

Naval officer...

0:19:550:19:57

I can't remember his name.

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Who was captain of The Beagle?

0:19:590:20:00

That's what I'm thinking...um...

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No. I don't know.

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John...someone.

0:20:050:20:07

John Smith.

0:20:070:20:08

No, it's Fitzroy. That's the person

you were looking for.

Oh!

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And finally, Diski's 2008 novel

Apology For The Woman Writing

0:20:100:20:14

features Marie de Gournay,

0:20:140:20:16

the amanuensis of which French

essayist born in 1533?

0:20:160:20:21

Essayist... Racine?

0:20:220:20:24

No...

Diderot.

0:20:240:20:26

Diderot.

0:20:260:20:27

No, it was Montaigne.

Ah, he's the earliest one.

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Earlier than that.

Ten points for this.

0:20:290:20:31

Written by Lin-Manuel Miranda,

0:20:310:20:33

which hip-hop musical

won 11 prizes...?

0:20:330:20:35

Hamilton.

0:20:360:20:37

Hamilton is correct, yes.

Well done.

0:20:370:20:39

APPLAUSE

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Right, Manchester, these are your

bonuses. They're on ski resorts.

0:20:420:20:45

In each case, name the country where

all three resorts are located.

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First, Mezica, Kranjska Gora

and Straza Bled.

0:20:490:20:54

- Sounds like Austria to me.

- Yeah, I could see that.

0:20:550:20:57

Sounds like Austria to me.

He said Austria.

0:20:570:21:01

I think it's Austria.

I dunno,

I was going to say Russia, but...

0:21:010:21:03

Kranjska Gora...

0:21:030:21:05

Go on, then.

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Austria.

0:21:060:21:07

No, it's Slovenia.

0:21:070:21:09

Secondly, in which country

are Narkanda, Mundali

0:21:090:21:12

and Yumthang Valley?

0:21:120:21:14

Oh, dear.

0:21:150:21:16

Yumthang Valley...

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Could be Japan. Try Japan.

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Japan is good - yeah,

Japan's not bad.

Japan?

0:21:230:21:26

Yeah.

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Japan.

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No, they're in India.

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And the ski resorts

Kinosoo Ridge, Lake Louise

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and Kicking Horse Mountain

are which country?

0:21:330:21:35

Is that Canada?

Yeah.

0:21:350:21:37

Canada. Canada.

0:21:370:21:39

Correct.

0:21:390:21:40

BUZZER

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No need to buzz.

0:21:400:21:42

LAUGHTER

0:21:420:21:43

Haven't even given the question yet!

0:21:430:21:44

Here it comes. Ten points for this.

0:21:440:21:46

2016 is the 500th anniversary

of which literary work

0:21:460:21:51

first published in Latin

in the Low Countries?

0:21:510:21:53

It's title is from the Greek

for No Place,

0:21:530:21:57

but it's also a pun on an almost

identical word meaning a good place.

0:21:570:22:01

Oh...Utopia.

0:22:030:22:05

Correct.

0:22:050:22:06

APPLAUSE

0:22:060:22:07

These bonuses are on the 2016

Golden Raspberry film awards.

0:22:090:22:15

Firstly, for five points,

0:22:150:22:16

a nominee for Worst Screen Combo

0:22:160:22:19

was Johnny Depp

and his glued-on moustache

0:22:190:22:22

for his role as a roguish art dealer

in which 2015 film?

0:22:220:22:26

2015, Johnny Depp,

roguish art dealer...

0:22:260:22:30

Oh, no, I don't know. I don't...

0:22:300:22:33

Any Johnny Depp film?

0:22:330:22:34

I don't know. I have no idea.

0:22:340:22:37

It got panned.

0:22:370:22:38

Um...

Johnny Depp...

I haven't seen any of his.

0:22:380:22:41

We don't know.

0:22:410:22:42

It was Mortdecai.

0:22:420:22:44

And secondly, which 2015 sci-fi film

achieved six nominations,

0:22:440:22:49

out of which Eddie Redmayne won

as Worst Supporting Actor?

0:22:490:22:53

Sci... Sci...

0:22:530:22:54

Was that...?

0:22:540:22:56

It was a sci-fi film.

0:22:560:22:57

Eddie Redmayne.

0:22:570:22:59

- Any idea?

- 20...

0:22:590:23:01

Star Wars.

0:23:010:23:02

We haven't been to the cinema

recently, sorry.

0:23:020:23:05

It's Jupiter Ascending.

0:23:050:23:07

And finally,

who won the Worst Actress award

0:23:070:23:10

for her role in

Fifty Shades of Grey?

0:23:100:23:13

She's the daughter

of Melanie Griffiths.

0:23:130:23:15

- Dakota...

- Dakota Fanning.

0:23:150:23:17

Dakota Fanning.

0:23:170:23:18

No, it was Dakota Johnson.

0:23:180:23:20

Dakota Fanning's someone else,

I think.

0:23:200:23:22

Right, ten points for this picture

starter question.

0:23:220:23:25

You're going to see

a statue of a ruler.

0:23:250:23:27

Ten points if you can give me

his name.

0:23:270:23:29

Emperor Hadrian.

0:23:320:23:34

No, anyone like to buzz

from Manchester?

0:23:340:23:36

Nero. Nero.

0:23:390:23:41

No, it's the emperor Augustus.

0:23:410:23:43

So, picture bonuses

in a moment or two -

0:23:430:23:45

another starter question

in the meantime.

0:23:450:23:47

Fingers on the buzzers.

0:23:470:23:49

In a song of 1971,

whom did David Bowie call

0:23:490:23:52

"a strange young man with

a voice like sand and glue"?

0:23:520:23:56

Aladdin Sane?

0:23:580:24:00

No.

0:24:000:24:01

You lose five points, I'm afraid.

0:24:010:24:03

In October 2016,

he became a Nobel laureate.

0:24:030:24:06

- Oh...

- Yes.

0:24:070:24:09

Bob Dylan.

0:24:090:24:11

Bob Dylan is correct.

0:24:110:24:12

APPLAUSE

0:24:120:24:15

So, you're going to get

the picture bonuses, St Anne's,

0:24:150:24:18

and they follow on from that picture

of the emperor Augustus

0:24:180:24:20

who, according to Luke's Gospel,

0:24:200:24:22

ordered the census that brought

Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem.

0:24:220:24:26

For your picture bonuses,

three more statues of rulers

0:24:260:24:29

who ordered a significant historical

census or survey during their reign.

0:24:290:24:34

Five points for each you can name.

0:24:340:24:35

Firstly, who's this biblical figure?

0:24:350:24:37

King David.

0:24:370:24:39

Yes, he's got a harp -

David, King David.

0:24:390:24:42

It is King David,

0:24:420:24:43

who ordered a census of Israel

and Judah,

0:24:430:24:45

according the Book of Samuel.

0:24:450:24:46

Secondly, name this Spanish monarch.

0:24:460:24:49

Philip...?

0:24:510:24:53

Say King Philip!

0:24:550:24:56

Philip?

0:24:560:24:58

Do you want a...?

Which one?

0:24:580:25:00

Philip...IV.

0:25:000:25:01

No, it's Philip II.

Oh, I nearly said that!

0:25:010:25:03

He ordered a survey of the Spanish

territories in the Americas.

0:25:030:25:06

And finally,

name this king of England.

0:25:060:25:08

Gosh, who's that?

0:25:120:25:13

Let's try Alfred the Great.

0:25:130:25:16

Try Alfred the Great.

0:25:160:25:17

Alfred the Great.

0:25:170:25:18

No, it's William the Conqueror,

0:25:180:25:20

who ordered the Domesday Book,

of course.

0:25:200:25:21

Right, ten for this -

about three minutes to go.

0:25:210:25:24

What bird of prey links

the Cambridge pub

0:25:240:25:26

in which Crick and Watson

announced their discovery...?

0:25:260:25:30

Eagle.

0:25:300:25:31

The eagle is correct, yes.

0:25:310:25:32

APPLAUSE

0:25:320:25:33

These bonuses are on astronomy,

St Anne's.

0:25:340:25:37

What astronomical event visible

from Britain

0:25:370:25:40

occurred on the 9th of May 2016?

0:25:400:25:42

The next two such events will take

place in 2019 and 2032.

0:25:420:25:46

It's Mercury. Transit of Mercury.

0:25:460:25:48

Yeah.

Transit of Mercury.

0:25:480:25:50

Correct.

0:25:500:25:52

Which English astronomer observed

a transit of Mercury in October 1677

0:25:520:25:56

during an expedition

to the island of St Helena

0:25:560:25:59

to catalogue the stars of

the Southern Hemisphere?

0:25:590:26:02

1677...

0:26:020:26:04

16...

0:26:040:26:05

I can't remember his name.

0:26:050:26:06

Not, um...

0:26:060:26:07

I know it,

I just can't remember his name.

0:26:100:26:11

Who's the one with the observatory?

0:26:110:26:13

We'd better have an answer, I think.

0:26:130:26:15

It's not Herschel,

cos that's much too late.

0:26:150:26:18

Sorry.

0:26:180:26:19

It's Edmond Halley.

0:26:190:26:20

And finally, Mercury Bay,

0:26:200:26:22

so-called because Captain Cook

observed a transit of Mercury

0:26:220:26:26

from the region in 1769,

lies off the coast

0:26:260:26:29

of the Coromandel Peninsula

in the north of which country?

0:26:290:26:33

Coromandel...

0:26:330:26:34

I'd expect it to be a bit...

0:26:340:26:36

New Zealand?

0:26:360:26:37

- Is it New Zealand?

- New Zealand, yeah.

0:26:370:26:40

New Zealand.

0:26:400:26:42

Correct.

0:26:420:26:43

APPLAUSE

0:26:420:26:43

Ten points for this.

0:26:430:26:44

Before Theresa May in July 2016,

0:26:440:26:47

who was the last Prime Minister

0:26:470:26:48

to have previously held

the office of Home Secretary,

0:26:480:26:52

doing so from 1967 to 1970?

0:26:520:26:55

James Callahan?

0:26:570:26:58

Correct.

0:26:580:26:59

APPLAUSE

0:26:590:27:01

Here are your bonuses.

0:27:010:27:02

They're on Kingston-upon-Hull,

the UK City of Culture in 2017.

0:27:020:27:07

Firstly, in 2017,

the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull

0:27:070:27:10

will host which annual event

inaugurated in 1984?

0:27:100:27:15

Turner Prize.

0:27:160:27:17

Correct. Which actor was born

in Hull in 1937?

0:27:170:27:20

He first came to prominence

in the 1960s

0:27:200:27:23

in films such as Billy Liar

and Doctor Zhivago,

0:27:230:27:26

and was nominated for

an Academy Award

0:27:260:27:28

for his performance in The Dresser.

0:27:280:27:30

Tom Courtenay.

0:27:300:27:31

Correct. Which independent theatre

was founded in Hull in 1971

0:27:310:27:35

and became particularly associated

with the plays of John Godber?

0:27:350:27:38

Hull Truck.

0:27:380:27:39

Correct.

0:27:390:27:40

APPLAUSE

0:27:400:27:41

Ten points for this.

0:27:400:27:41

In December 2012, Wild Oats XI

0:27:410:27:43

set a record time

of 42 hours and 23 minutes

0:27:430:27:47

in an annual yacht race

0:27:470:27:49

from Sydney to which city,

the capital of Tasmania?

0:27:490:27:52

Hobart.

0:27:560:27:57

Hobart is correct, yes.

0:27:570:27:59

APPLAUSE

0:27:570:27:59

GONG

0:27:590:28:00

And at the gong, Manchester have 55,

0:28:000:28:03

St Anne's College Oxford have 185.

0:28:030:28:06

Well, you started coming back

at the end, there.

0:28:060:28:08

Honour is satisfied, I think.

Just about.

0:28:080:28:10

Congratulations to you, Manchester,

0:28:100:28:12

thank you very much for joining us,

0:28:120:28:13

and many congratulations

to you, St Anne's,

0:28:130:28:15

for a terrific performance.

0:28:150:28:17

And thank you all for doing

something you didn't need to do.

0:28:170:28:19

Thank you very much.

0:28:190:28:21

LAUGHTER

0:28:190:28:21

So, until next time, when we'll have

another first round match,

0:28:210:28:25

it's goodbye from

Manchester University...

0:28:250:28:28

Er, goodbye.

0:28:280:28:30

..it's goodbye from

St Anne's College Oxford...

0:28:300:28:32

Bye!

Goodbye.

0:28:320:28:33

..and it's goodbye from me -

goodbye.

0:28:330:28:36

APPLAUSE

0:28:360:28:37

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