0:00:19 > 0:00:22- Christmas University Challenge. - APPLAUSE
0:00:22 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:29Hello.
0:00:29 > 0:00:3214 teams of distinguished alumni have entertained us
0:00:32 > 0:00:34over the past few days with, on the whole,
0:00:34 > 0:00:36an impressive display of what they know.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39What many of them don't know, it turns out,
0:00:39 > 0:00:41is when to use their buzzers in this contest and when not to.
0:00:41 > 0:00:42LAUGHTER
0:00:42 > 0:00:45But we've only been playing the game for 54 years,
0:00:45 > 0:00:46and these things do take time to sink in.
0:00:46 > 0:00:47LAUGHTER
0:00:47 > 0:00:49But now, only the best two teams remain,
0:00:49 > 0:00:51and in a little under half an hour,
0:00:51 > 0:00:53one of them will become series champions,
0:00:53 > 0:00:55winning themselves no prize other
0:00:55 > 0:00:58than the right to look immensely pleased with themselves.
0:00:58 > 0:00:59LAUGHTER
0:00:59 > 0:01:01Now, the team from Leeds University had a very comfortable win
0:01:01 > 0:01:04over the School of Oriental and African Studies
0:01:04 > 0:01:05in their first-round match,
0:01:05 > 0:01:07but they were trailing behind the University of Kent
0:01:07 > 0:01:09for much of their semifinal.
0:01:09 > 0:01:13When they finally got a grip and had put themselves on level pegging
0:01:13 > 0:01:16at the gong, the tie-break question went their way.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18They may never have been so pleased
0:01:18 > 0:01:19to know about the Tigris and the Euphrates.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22LAUGHTER Let's ask the Leeds team
0:01:22 > 0:01:24to introduce themselves for the last time.
0:01:24 > 0:01:26I'm Louise Doughty,
0:01:26 > 0:01:30I graduated from Leeds in 1984 with a degree in English literature,
0:01:30 > 0:01:33and I now write novels for a living.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36Hello, I'm Gus Unger-Hamilton. I, too, read English at Leeds,
0:01:36 > 0:01:39graduating in 2010, and I now play in the band alt-J.
0:01:39 > 0:01:40And here's their captain.
0:01:40 > 0:01:42Hello, I'm Kamal Ahmed.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45I graduated in political studies from Leeds in 1990,
0:01:45 > 0:01:48and I'm now the Economics Editor of the BBC.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51Hello, I'm Steve Bell.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55I graduated from Leeds in fine art in 1974,
0:01:55 > 0:01:57and I've been drawing political cartoons
0:01:57 > 0:01:58for The Guardian since 1981.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00APPLAUSE
0:02:03 > 0:02:06The team from St Hilda's College Oxford
0:02:06 > 0:02:09beat Magdalene College Cambridge in their first-round match
0:02:09 > 0:02:12by a whopping 225 to 65.
0:02:12 > 0:02:15Then, in the rare spectacle of an all-female fixture,
0:02:15 > 0:02:19they beat St Anne's College Oxford by 165 points to 75.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21Let's meet them for the last time.
0:02:22 > 0:02:24Hello, I'm Fiona Caldicott.
0:02:24 > 0:02:28I graduated in medicine from St Hilda's in 1966,
0:02:28 > 0:02:32and I now chair a large teaching hospital trust in Oxford,
0:02:32 > 0:02:36and I'm the National Data Guardian for health and social care.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38Hello, I'm Daisy Dunn.
0:02:38 > 0:02:42I read classics at St Hilda's from 2005 to 2009,
0:02:42 > 0:02:44and I'm now an author and journalist.
0:02:44 > 0:02:46Meet their captain.
0:02:46 > 0:02:47Hi, I'm Val McDermid.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50I graduated from St Hilda's in 1975 with a degree in English,
0:02:50 > 0:02:53and I'm a crime writer.
0:02:53 > 0:02:54Hello, I'm Adele Geras.
0:02:54 > 0:02:59I read modern languages at St Hilda's between 1963 and '66,
0:02:59 > 0:03:01and I'm a writer.
0:03:01 > 0:03:02APPLAUSE
0:03:06 > 0:03:08OK, the rules are unchanging on this contest,
0:03:08 > 0:03:09let's just get on with it.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:03:12 > 0:03:15William Sandys' Christmas Carols Ancient And Modern
0:03:15 > 0:03:19was first published during the reign of which British monarch?
0:03:19 > 0:03:21His reign also...
0:03:22 > 0:03:24Victoria, I was going to say, sorry.
0:03:24 > 0:03:26I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29His reign also saw the Slavery Abolition Act
0:03:29 > 0:03:32and the passage of the Great Reform Bill.
0:03:36 > 0:03:37William IV?
0:03:37 > 0:03:40It was William IV, yes. APPLAUSE
0:03:42 > 0:03:46The first bonuses are on writing about winter, St Hilda's.
0:03:46 > 0:03:50In a novel of 1950, which fictional country is first encountered
0:03:50 > 0:03:53in the grip of an apparently permanent winter?
0:03:53 > 0:03:55As one character explains, "It's always winter.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58"Always winter, and never Christmas. Think of that."
0:03:58 > 0:03:59Narnia.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01Correct.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03"Let no man boast himself
0:04:03 > 0:04:05"that he has got through the perils of winter
0:04:05 > 0:04:07"till at least the 7th of May."
0:04:07 > 0:04:11Who wrote those words in the novel Dr Thorne, first published 1858?
0:04:11 > 0:04:12- Trollope.- Yeah.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14- Anthony Trollope.- Correct.
0:04:14 > 0:04:18Which would complete this couplet from Byron's poem Don Juan,
0:04:18 > 0:04:21published in 1819?
0:04:21 > 0:04:24"The English winter, ending in July to recommence in..."
0:04:28 > 0:04:29August.
0:04:29 > 0:04:31August is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:04:31 > 0:04:33Ten points for this.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35Differing only in their second letter,
0:04:35 > 0:04:40which two words mean "to roll about in mud" and "a tree of the genus..."
0:04:41 > 0:04:43Wallow and willow.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46Well done. APPLAUSE
0:04:48 > 0:04:51These bonuses for you, Leeds, your first set,
0:04:51 > 0:04:52are on gaps and pauses.
0:04:52 > 0:04:55Firstly, for five points, from the Latin for "cut",
0:04:55 > 0:04:59what term is used in poetry for a division or pause
0:04:59 > 0:05:02between two words in a metrical foot?
0:05:02 > 0:05:03Caesura.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05Caesura is correct, yes.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07From words meaning "stand between",
0:05:07 > 0:05:08what term can be used both for
0:05:08 > 0:05:12a gap between two structures within the human body
0:05:12 > 0:05:16and for the space between two adjacent atoms in a crystal lattice?
0:05:16 > 0:05:18THEY CONFER
0:05:21 > 0:05:22Interstice.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24Interstice is correct.
0:05:24 > 0:05:26Which six-letter word appears in the name of
0:05:26 > 0:05:29a particular form of abdominal hernia?
0:05:29 > 0:05:32More generally, it means a physical, logical or temporal gap.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36Temporal gap... A space, a pause...
0:05:39 > 0:05:42I'm not getting it. I'm not getting that.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47- Sorry, we don't know. Oh... - Hiatus, hiatus.
0:05:47 > 0:05:48Hiatus?
0:05:48 > 0:05:49That's correct, yes.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52LAUGHTER, APPLAUSE
0:05:52 > 0:05:54Just in the nick of time. Ten points for this.
0:05:54 > 0:05:56"The Raphael of our century"
0:05:56 > 0:05:58was a contemporary critic's description
0:05:58 > 0:06:02of which painter, born in Normandy in 1594?
0:06:02 > 0:06:04His works include The Death Of The Virgin
0:06:04 > 0:06:06and A Dance To Music Of Time.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12Poussin.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14Poussin is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:06:16 > 0:06:20Three questions on the periodic table, St Hilda's, for your bonuses.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23Sometimes called rare earths, what name is given
0:06:23 > 0:06:28to the series of metallic elements with atomic numbers 57 to 71?
0:06:33 > 0:06:34Heavy metal?
0:06:36 > 0:06:37Is it the heavy metals?
0:06:37 > 0:06:39No, the lanthanides, or lanthanoids.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42Secondly, what term denotes the series
0:06:42 > 0:06:46of highly radioactive elements with atomic numbers 89 to 103?
0:06:48 > 0:06:50Transuranic?
0:06:51 > 0:06:53- Transuranic?- I don't know.
0:06:54 > 0:06:56Is it transuranic?
0:06:56 > 0:06:58No, they're actinides, or actinoids.
0:06:58 > 0:07:02And finally, what actinoid element has the atomic number of 94?
0:07:05 > 0:07:07Sorry, we have no idea.
0:07:07 > 0:07:08It's plutonium.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10We're going to take a picture round now.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13For your picture starter, I want you to name the figure indicated
0:07:13 > 0:07:16by the clues in the image you're about to see,
0:07:16 > 0:07:19which will give the location with which he's primarily associated,
0:07:19 > 0:07:22the approximate dates of his life, and his feast day.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28St Stephen.
0:07:28 > 0:07:29Nope.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31Anyone like to buzz from St Hilda's?
0:07:31 > 0:07:32You may not confer. One of you may buzz.
0:07:36 > 0:07:37Let's have it, please.
0:07:38 > 0:07:39St Nicholas?
0:07:39 > 0:07:41It is St Nicholas, yes. APPLAUSE
0:07:44 > 0:07:47He's regarded, of course, as the origin of Santa Claus.
0:07:47 > 0:07:50For your bonuses, three more saints associated with the festive season.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52Five points for each you can identify.
0:07:52 > 0:07:56Firstly, this saint from the approximate dates of his life,
0:07:56 > 0:07:59the location with which he's most associated, and his feast day?
0:08:01 > 0:08:04Is that St Denis? Paris?
0:08:04 > 0:08:06Is that Paris? St Denis?
0:08:06 > 0:08:08- Yes.- Paris?- Go for it.
0:08:08 > 0:08:09Is it St Denis?
0:08:09 > 0:08:11No, it's St Martin of Tours,
0:08:11 > 0:08:14whose day used to mark the start of Advent.
0:08:14 > 0:08:17Secondly, this saint from her approximate dates,
0:08:17 > 0:08:18the location of her martyrdom,
0:08:18 > 0:08:21and her feast day, which falls during Advent.
0:08:23 > 0:08:25Is it Cecilia?
0:08:27 > 0:08:28St Cecilia?
0:08:28 > 0:08:30No, it's St Lucia of Syracuse.
0:08:30 > 0:08:31And finally, this saint,
0:08:31 > 0:08:35from the date and location of his martyrdom and his feast day.
0:08:39 > 0:08:40- That's St Stephen.- Oh, yes.
0:08:40 > 0:08:41That is St Stephen.
0:08:41 > 0:08:43That is St Stephen, yes.
0:08:43 > 0:08:45Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:08:45 > 0:08:49Named as Portugal's Viceroy in India by King John III in 1524,
0:08:49 > 0:08:52which explorer died in China on Christmas Eve in that year...?
0:08:53 > 0:08:55Marco Polo?
0:08:55 > 0:08:57No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:08:58 > 0:09:00Magellan?
0:09:00 > 0:09:02You could have heard the rest of the question,
0:09:02 > 0:09:05which would have made it inevitable you would get Vasco da Gama,
0:09:05 > 0:09:06but you buzzed in instead
0:09:06 > 0:09:08and I must accept the answer you give when you buzz.
0:09:08 > 0:09:10So, another starter question.
0:09:10 > 0:09:15What seven-letter word links terms meaning "a prehistoric refuse heap",
0:09:15 > 0:09:19"an informal coterie of political advisors" and...?
0:09:20 > 0:09:22A midden.
0:09:22 > 0:09:23LAUGHTER
0:09:25 > 0:09:27That's very funny, but it's wrong.
0:09:27 > 0:09:28LAUGHTER
0:09:28 > 0:09:31.."an informal coterie of"... You lose five points.
0:09:31 > 0:09:33.."of political advisors",
0:09:33 > 0:09:37and "a style of post-war drama that emphasised drab, domestic settings"?
0:09:41 > 0:09:44Come on, one of you buzz from St Hilda's.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46Kitchen sink?
0:09:46 > 0:09:49No, it's just kitchen, so I can't accept that, I'm afraid.
0:09:49 > 0:09:50I must accept what you say.
0:09:50 > 0:09:51Ten points for this.
0:09:51 > 0:09:54Who is the only fictional character to have been given
0:09:54 > 0:09:57a full page obituary in the...?
0:09:57 > 0:09:58Hercule Poirot.
0:09:58 > 0:09:59Hercule Poirot is right.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01APPLAUSE
0:10:03 > 0:10:06Your bonuses are on words, St Hilda's.
0:10:06 > 0:10:09The Washington Post runs an annual competition
0:10:09 > 0:10:12to find new meanings for existing words.
0:10:12 > 0:10:15Thus, flabbergasted has been defined as being
0:10:15 > 0:10:18"appalled at the amount of weight or flab one has gained".
0:10:18 > 0:10:20LAUGHTER
0:10:20 > 0:10:22Get it? So identify the word in each case.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25Firstly, usually denoting a familiar beverage,
0:10:25 > 0:10:28what six-letter word has been defined as
0:10:28 > 0:10:30"the person upon whom one coughs"?
0:10:33 > 0:10:34Coffee.
0:10:34 > 0:10:36Coffee is correct.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39Secondly, what eight-letter verb has been defined as
0:10:39 > 0:10:43"to give up or relinquish any hope of having a flat stomach"?
0:10:46 > 0:10:48Retiral?
0:10:51 > 0:10:53- Retiral?- OK.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55Retiral?
0:10:55 > 0:10:56No, it's abdicate.
0:10:56 > 0:10:57LAUGHTER
0:10:57 > 0:11:00And finally, what ten-letter noun
0:11:00 > 0:11:02usually denotes an embarrassing bodily function,
0:11:02 > 0:11:05but in this context means "the emergency vehicle
0:11:05 > 0:11:08"that picks one up after being run over by a steam roller"?
0:11:08 > 0:11:10LAUGHTER
0:11:12 > 0:11:14Come on.
0:11:14 > 0:11:15Flatus?
0:11:15 > 0:11:16No, it's flatulence. LAUGHTER
0:11:16 > 0:11:17Ten points for this.
0:11:17 > 0:11:20Aesop's fable of The Fox And The Grapes
0:11:20 > 0:11:23is a classic but anachronistic illustration
0:11:23 > 0:11:25of what psychological concept?
0:11:25 > 0:11:29It was first identified in the 1950s by Leon Festinger,
0:11:29 > 0:11:32and is defined as "a feeling of discomfort that occurs
0:11:32 > 0:11:35"when one holds two conflicting ideas at the same time".
0:11:37 > 0:11:38Cognitive dissonance.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41Correct. APPLAUSE
0:11:43 > 0:11:46These bonuses are on Greece, St Hilda's.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48In each case, I want the name of an island group.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51Firstly, the name of which island group resembles that of
0:11:51 > 0:11:55the Platonic solid whose faces are regular pentagons?
0:11:59 > 0:12:00Dodecanese?
0:12:00 > 0:12:01Yeah. Go with that.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03- Dodecanese?- Correct.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06Which island group has a name relating to an English word
0:12:06 > 0:12:09meaning "recurring series of operations,
0:12:09 > 0:12:12"such as those in internal combustion engines"?
0:12:12 > 0:12:14Cyclades?
0:12:14 > 0:12:16- Cyclades.- Correct.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19Which island group has a name that is etymologically related
0:12:19 > 0:12:22to an English word meaning scattered or dispersed?
0:12:30 > 0:12:31No idea.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34Sorry, we're not on that one.
0:12:34 > 0:12:35It's the Sporades.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38Right, we're going to take another starter question now.
0:12:38 > 0:12:40Quote, "Richard and Judy, Vini Reilly,
0:12:40 > 0:12:44"that stupid, yellow, circular face now known simply as the smiley."
0:12:44 > 0:12:48These are among the references in an ode released in 2015
0:12:48 > 0:12:51by Mike Garry and Joe Duddle.
0:12:51 > 0:12:54To which cultural figure are they referring, a part owner of
0:12:54 > 0:12:58Factory Records and the founder of Manchester's Hacienda nightclub?
0:13:00 > 0:13:03- Tony Wilson.- Correct. APPLAUSE
0:13:05 > 0:13:08These bonuses are on Lady Jane Grey, St Hilda's.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10Lady Jane Grey was born in 1537.
0:13:10 > 0:13:14Her grandmother, Mary, stood in what relation to King Henry VIII?
0:13:20 > 0:13:24Grandmother... Aunt?
0:13:24 > 0:13:26- Aunt?- Aunt?
0:13:26 > 0:13:27Aunt.
0:13:27 > 0:13:28No, she was his younger sister.
0:13:28 > 0:13:31As part of an attempt to divert the royal succession,
0:13:31 > 0:13:35Jane was married in 1553, against her wishes,
0:13:35 > 0:13:38to Guildford Dudley, the son of which duke?
0:13:40 > 0:13:41- Dudley... Leicester?- Leicester.
0:13:41 > 0:13:42Leicester.
0:13:42 > 0:13:44No, it was Northumberland.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46The Dudley faction proclaimed Jane as Queen
0:13:46 > 0:13:48on the death of which monarch?
0:13:48 > 0:13:50Lacking widespread support,
0:13:50 > 0:13:53she was quickly overthrown, and Mary Tudor became Queen.
0:13:53 > 0:13:55- Edward... Edward... - Edward, isn't it?
0:13:55 > 0:13:58- Edward VII? No.- No.- Edward IV. III.
0:13:58 > 0:13:59IV.
0:13:59 > 0:14:01Edward... Edward IV?
0:14:01 > 0:14:04No, it was Edward VI, the boy king.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06Right, we're going to take a music round, now.
0:14:06 > 0:14:07For your music starter,
0:14:07 > 0:14:09you'll get an excerpt from a well-known symphony.
0:14:09 > 0:14:12Ten points if you can get both its composer
0:14:12 > 0:14:16and the single-word subtitle usually assigned to it.
0:14:16 > 0:14:17ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
0:14:25 > 0:14:27Is that Beethoven's Pastoral?
0:14:27 > 0:14:29No. You can hear a little more, Leeds.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31ORCHESTRAL MUSIC CONTINUES
0:14:33 > 0:14:35Beethoven's Eroica.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38Correct. APPLAUSE
0:14:40 > 0:14:44In 2016, a poll of leading conductors by BBC Music Magazine
0:14:44 > 0:14:47voted Beethoven's Eroica the greatest symphony.
0:14:47 > 0:14:51Your music bonuses are extracts from three more symphonies
0:14:51 > 0:14:52that made the top ten.
0:14:52 > 0:14:55In each case, I simply want the composer
0:14:55 > 0:14:58and the single-word subtitle by which it's usually known.
0:14:58 > 0:15:01First, name this work and its Russian composer.
0:15:01 > 0:15:03ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
0:15:12 > 0:15:15- That sounds like Tchaikovsky, doesn't it?- Yeah.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20What Tchaikovsky symphony, do we know?
0:15:27 > 0:15:30Tchaikovsky...
0:15:32 > 0:15:35Yeah. I'd go Tchaikovsky.
0:15:35 > 0:15:37Yeah, but what's the name of the symphony?
0:15:39 > 0:15:41Sorry, we don't know.
0:15:41 > 0:15:43You're right with Tchaikovsky. It's the Pathetique.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46Secondly, name this work and its Austrian composer.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49ORCHESTRAL MUSIC WITH SINGER
0:15:53 > 0:15:55Is it Mozart?
0:16:02 > 0:16:04What's our symphony?
0:16:04 > 0:16:07- Doesn't sound like Mozart. - Maybe it's not.
0:16:10 > 0:16:17DROWNED BY MUSIC
0:16:19 > 0:16:21- Come on.- I simply don't know.
0:16:21 > 0:16:22Sorry, we don't know.
0:16:22 > 0:16:23That's Mahler.
0:16:23 > 0:16:26It's his second symphony, usually known as the Resurrection.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28And finally, name this work and this composer.
0:16:28 > 0:16:30ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
0:16:34 > 0:16:42DROWNED BY MUSIC
0:16:58 > 0:17:00Mozart, but sadly, no name.
0:17:00 > 0:17:01It is Mozart.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03It's his Jupiter Symphony.
0:17:03 > 0:17:04So ten points at stake for this.
0:17:04 > 0:17:06Fingers on the buzzers, please.
0:17:06 > 0:17:10Born 1946, also known for her poetry and autobiographical fiction,
0:17:10 > 0:17:14which US feminist activist was the author, in 1983,
0:17:14 > 0:17:19of Right Wing Women - The Politics Of Domesticated Females?
0:17:19 > 0:17:20She...
0:17:21 > 0:17:23Gloria Steinem.
0:17:23 > 0:17:25No. She... You lose five points.
0:17:25 > 0:17:26She died in 2005.
0:17:28 > 0:17:30One of you may buzz, St Hilda's.
0:17:32 > 0:17:34It's Andrea Dworkin. Ten points for this.
0:17:34 > 0:17:38Largely written in rhyming couplets and first staged in London in 1987,
0:17:38 > 0:17:42which play by Caryl Churchill concerns the excesses
0:17:42 > 0:17:44and greed of the stock market?
0:17:48 > 0:17:50Is it Serious Money?
0:17:50 > 0:17:53It is Serious Money, yes. APPLAUSE
0:17:55 > 0:17:58Right these bonuses are on the rhetorical device known as anaphora,
0:17:58 > 0:18:02that is, the repetition of a word or phrase in close occurrence.
0:18:02 > 0:18:06Firstly, anaphora is the dominant figure of speech
0:18:06 > 0:18:09in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnet 43.
0:18:09 > 0:18:13Which three words occur repeatedly across eight lines?
0:18:14 > 0:18:16Elizabeth Barrett Browning?
0:18:16 > 0:18:18Um...
0:18:20 > 0:18:24- I love you? - THEY LAUGH
0:18:24 > 0:18:25Is it a word or lots of words?
0:18:25 > 0:18:26Three words. Three words.
0:18:28 > 0:18:29"I love you".
0:18:29 > 0:18:31It's "I love thee".
0:18:31 > 0:18:33AUDIENCE: Awww!
0:18:33 > 0:18:35I wanted the words, there's no reason to...
0:18:35 > 0:18:37They had the wrong words! LAUGHTER
0:18:37 > 0:18:42Secondly, an example of anaphora in the Book Of Ecclesiastes,
0:18:42 > 0:18:47in the King James Bible, begins, "For everything there is a season."
0:18:47 > 0:18:50Which three-word phrase is repeated more than 20 times
0:18:50 > 0:18:51in subsequent verses?
0:18:53 > 0:18:56- Time for? Or a time to?- A time to.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58A time to.
0:18:58 > 0:19:00A time for? Time for?
0:19:00 > 0:19:02"A time for".
0:19:02 > 0:19:03No, it's "A time to".
0:19:03 > 0:19:05AUDIENCE: Awww!
0:19:05 > 0:19:08And finally, repeated anaphorically numerous times,
0:19:08 > 0:19:13which four words are the informal title of a speech given by
0:19:13 > 0:19:18Martin Luther King during the March On Washington in August 1963?
0:19:18 > 0:19:19"I have a dream".
0:19:19 > 0:19:20That's correct. APPLAUSE
0:19:20 > 0:19:22Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24Give any three of the four words
0:19:24 > 0:19:28that follow separate iterations of the word "sans" at the end
0:19:28 > 0:19:32of the Seven Ages Of Man speech in Shakespeare's As You Like It?
0:19:32 > 0:19:33"Sans teeth".
0:19:35 > 0:19:36- Come on.- Three...
0:19:36 > 0:19:37- Oh, three?- Any three.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40Sans... Sans hair. Sans eyes.
0:19:40 > 0:19:41Sans everything.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43No, it's not hair.
0:19:43 > 0:19:44Oh.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46Anyone like to buzz from St Hilda's?
0:19:48 > 0:19:51Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans nose.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54No. It's sans teeth, sans eyes,
0:19:54 > 0:19:57sans taste, sans everything.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00Leeds, you lost five points for an incorrect interruption, too.
0:20:00 > 0:20:01Shame on you.
0:20:01 > 0:20:02LAUGHTER
0:20:02 > 0:20:05Right, ten points for this starter question. Listen carefully.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08What is the only single digit positive integer
0:20:08 > 0:20:11that is not a factor of the number 2016?
0:20:18 > 0:20:19Seven.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21No.
0:20:21 > 0:20:22St Hilda's?
0:20:25 > 0:20:26Five.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28Five is correct, yes.
0:20:28 > 0:20:29APPLAUSE
0:20:31 > 0:20:35Three questions on the history of science, St Hilda's.
0:20:35 > 0:20:39Which learned organisation has its origins in 1660
0:20:39 > 0:20:43Invisible College of natural philosophers and physicians?
0:20:43 > 0:20:45- Royal Society.- Royal Society?
0:20:45 > 0:20:46Royal Society.
0:20:46 > 0:20:47Correct.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50The first meeting of the Royal Society was on
0:20:50 > 0:20:52the 28th of November, 1660,
0:20:52 > 0:20:55after a lecture at Gresham College by which polymath?
0:20:58 > 0:21:01- Could it be Robert Boyle? I'm not sure.- Boyle?
0:21:01 > 0:21:04- Could be Newton... - Think it's Newton?
0:21:06 > 0:21:07Newton.
0:21:07 > 0:21:08No, it was Sir Christopher Wren.
0:21:08 > 0:21:11And finally, what is the motto of the Royal Society?
0:21:11 > 0:21:14You may give the three words in Latin, or in the English sense.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18- Don't know.- No?
0:21:18 > 0:21:21Never knowingly under...
0:21:21 > 0:21:22No.
0:21:22 > 0:21:23Sorry.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25It's "Nullius in verba",
0:21:25 > 0:21:26take no-one's word for it.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28We're going to take a second picture round now.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31For your picture starter, you're going to see a small detail
0:21:31 > 0:21:33of a painting on the theme of winter.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35Ten points if you can name the artist.
0:21:40 > 0:21:41Monet. Claude Monet.
0:21:41 > 0:21:42It is Monet, well done.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44We'll just see the whole thing, there it is.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46APPLAUSE
0:21:46 > 0:21:47That's his Magpie.
0:21:47 > 0:21:49For your bonuses, three more details
0:21:49 > 0:21:52from paintings on the theme of winter or winter weather.
0:21:52 > 0:21:54I want the name of the artist in each case.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56First, this British artist.
0:21:56 > 0:21:58Ben Nicholson?
0:21:58 > 0:22:00No, that's Turner.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02Turner? Yeah?
0:22:04 > 0:22:06Turner.
0:22:06 > 0:22:08Well done, it is Turner, yes.
0:22:08 > 0:22:11It's Hannibal Crossing the Alps In A Snowstorm.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13Secondly, this German artist.
0:22:17 > 0:22:20That's Caspar David Friedrich.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22Caspar David Friedrich?
0:22:22 > 0:22:24Caspar David Friedrich.
0:22:24 > 0:22:27Yes. We'll see the whole thing. His Sea Of Ice.
0:22:27 > 0:22:29And finally, this Japanese artist.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35- Hokusai?- Got to be Hokusai, I think. - Hokusai.
0:22:35 > 0:22:36Hokusai.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38No, it's Hiroshige.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41You were in the right part of the world, but it's Hiroshige.
0:22:41 > 0:22:42The whole thing, there it is.
0:22:42 > 0:22:45Snow Scene In The Garden Of Daimyo. BUZZER
0:22:45 > 0:22:47All right, Steve?
0:22:47 > 0:22:49LAUGHTER
0:22:49 > 0:22:50Ten points for this.
0:22:50 > 0:22:53The view that the labouring man of the 1820s
0:22:53 > 0:22:56was in want of more bread, bacon and beer
0:22:56 > 0:23:00is attributed to which political journalist and pamphleteer,
0:23:00 > 0:23:02born 1763?
0:23:02 > 0:23:04A champion of traditional rural England, he's noted for
0:23:04 > 0:23:10both the Political Register - he founded it in 1802 - and...
0:23:11 > 0:23:13William Cobbett.
0:23:13 > 0:23:16William Cobbett is right, yes. APPLAUSE
0:23:18 > 0:23:20Your bonuses are on popular music, Leeds.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22In each case, give the title of the song
0:23:22 > 0:23:25in which all the following people are mentioned.
0:23:25 > 0:23:27Firstly, from a song released in 1987,
0:23:27 > 0:23:29Leonard Bernstein, Leonid Brezhnev,
0:23:29 > 0:23:31Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35- Title of a song in which they're all mentioned?- Yes.
0:23:35 > 0:23:38I mean, I've got no idea.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41- Any thoughts?- What was the date? - 1987.- 1987.
0:23:41 > 0:23:45- Lenny Bruce, Lester Bangs... - A 1987 hit.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47Steve?
0:23:47 > 0:23:49How about This Charming Man by The Smiths?
0:23:49 > 0:23:50This Charming Man? By The Smiths.
0:23:50 > 0:23:53No, it's REM's It's The End Of The World As We Know It.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56Secondly, from a song released in 1979,
0:23:56 > 0:24:00Woody Allen, Dali, Dimitri and Pasquale.
0:24:01 > 0:24:031979...
0:24:03 > 0:24:05- '79.- 1979.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13No? Sorry, we don't know.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16That was Reasons To Be Cheerful Part Three, from Ian Dury.
0:24:16 > 0:24:18And from a song of 1934.
0:24:18 > 0:24:21Inferno's Dante, the great Durante,
0:24:21 > 0:24:22Botticelli, Keats and Shelley.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25I don't know.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28- Could be Cole Porter.- Cole Porter?
0:24:28 > 0:24:29We need to be quick.
0:24:29 > 0:24:31Come on.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33Oh, um... Let's Do It.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36No, it's You're The Top by Cole Porter.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38Right, there's about two and a half minutes to go, ten points for this.
0:24:38 > 0:24:41John MacBride, James Connolly and Padraig Pearse
0:24:41 > 0:24:43were among the leaders of which insurrection...?
0:24:44 > 0:24:46The Easter Rising.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49The Easter Rising is correct. APPLAUSE
0:24:49 > 0:24:52St Hilda's, your bonuses are on fictional characters.
0:24:52 > 0:24:57Frederick Winterbourne appears in which work of 1878 by Henry James?
0:24:57 > 0:24:59He's staying by Lake Geneva
0:24:59 > 0:25:04when he meets the American princess who's the title character.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06Princess Masamassima.
0:25:06 > 0:25:08Nominate Geras.
0:25:08 > 0:25:10Princess Masamassima?
0:25:10 > 0:25:12No, it's Daisy Miller.
0:25:12 > 0:25:13LAUGHTER
0:25:13 > 0:25:16And secondly, George and Elizabeth Winterbourne are characters
0:25:16 > 0:25:20in the 1929 novel Death Of A Hero, by which English author,
0:25:20 > 0:25:24also known for his 1955 biography of TE Lawrence?
0:25:28 > 0:25:30- Don't know.- Don't know.
0:25:31 > 0:25:34- Sorry, think we're... - That's Richard Aldington.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37And finally, Giles Winterborne falls in love with Grace Melbury
0:25:37 > 0:25:42in The Woodlanders, a work of 1887 by which English novelist and poet?
0:25:42 > 0:25:44Thomas Hardy.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47Correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:25:47 > 0:25:48What six-letter name links
0:25:48 > 0:25:51the founding editor of the New York Tribune,
0:25:51 > 0:25:54a Gothic writer who purchased the villa Strawberry Hill
0:25:54 > 0:25:56in Twickenham in the 1740s,
0:25:56 > 0:26:00and the Roman poet whose works include...?
0:26:00 > 0:26:01Horace?
0:26:01 > 0:26:03Horace is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:26:05 > 0:26:08These bonuses, St Hilda's, are on medicine.
0:26:08 > 0:26:12What physical phenomenon is denoted by the term borborygmus?
0:26:16 > 0:26:19Movement of air in the gut, but...
0:26:19 > 0:26:22I'll accept that, yes. A stomach rumble, yes.
0:26:22 > 0:26:26Borborygmus can be a symptom of which disease,
0:26:26 > 0:26:29caused by a reaction to a class of proteins present in gluten?
0:26:31 > 0:26:35- IBS.- Is it? IBS?
0:26:35 > 0:26:37IBS. Irritable bowel syndrome.
0:26:37 > 0:26:38No, it's coeliac disease.
0:26:38 > 0:26:41Borborygmus can also be a symptom of IBS.
0:26:41 > 0:26:43For what those letters stand?
0:26:43 > 0:26:44Irritable bowel syndrome.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46That's correct. LAUGHTER
0:26:46 > 0:26:47Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:26:47 > 0:26:49What five-letter word links
0:26:49 > 0:26:52the 19th-century essayist and critic associated with the term
0:26:52 > 0:26:54"art for art's sake",
0:26:54 > 0:26:57and a Latin term for the male head of a household?
0:27:00 > 0:27:01Pater.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03Pater and pater, of course. APPLAUSE
0:27:03 > 0:27:0615 points for these bonuses. They're on flags.
0:27:06 > 0:27:09Which constellation is depicted on the national flags of
0:27:09 > 0:27:11Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea?
0:27:11 > 0:27:13- Southern Cross, isn't it?- Mm-hm.
0:27:13 > 0:27:14The Southern Cross.
0:27:14 > 0:27:15Correct.
0:27:15 > 0:27:18The national flag of which country contains 27 stars,
0:27:18 > 0:27:22roughly corresponding to the positions of constellations
0:27:22 > 0:27:23visible over one of its cities?
0:27:26 > 0:27:28Any ideas?
0:27:28 > 0:27:30- Sorry, we're not flag girls. - LAUGHTER
0:27:30 > 0:27:31It's Brazil.
0:27:31 > 0:27:34And lastly, which of the United States has a state flag...?
0:27:34 > 0:27:35GONG
0:27:35 > 0:27:37And at the gong, Leeds have 55,
0:27:37 > 0:27:39St Hilda's College Oxford have 160.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41APPLAUSE
0:27:46 > 0:27:49Well, you were a fun team, Leeds, and you were...
0:27:49 > 0:27:51Your knowledge was nicely spread, I thought,
0:27:51 > 0:27:54but you're going to have to concede defeat
0:27:54 > 0:27:58in the final of this Christmas series to St Hilda's College Oxford.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00You said you were old, but then, well,
0:28:00 > 0:28:03you are a bit older than most of the students who take part.
0:28:03 > 0:28:04LAUGHTER
0:28:04 > 0:28:07Anyway, congratulations. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank you.
0:28:07 > 0:28:09Thank you all for playing.
0:28:09 > 0:28:10APPLAUSE
0:28:18 > 0:28:20So, thank you to all the teams
0:28:20 > 0:28:23who've taken part in this Christmas series,
0:28:23 > 0:28:24and thank you for watching.
0:28:24 > 0:28:27Next time, we resume the students' competition,
0:28:27 > 0:28:29but until then, it's goodbye from Leeds University...
0:28:29 > 0:28:30Goodbye.
0:28:30 > 0:28:33- It's goodbye from St Hilda's College Oxford...- Goodbye.
0:28:33 > 0:28:34And it's goodbye from me.
0:28:34 > 0:28:37Happy Christmas. APPLAUSE