0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:22Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:30'Tis the season to be jolly,
0:00:30 > 0:00:33to get us to look more kindly upon our favourite auntie
0:00:33 > 0:00:35when she discovers the mulled wine.
0:00:35 > 0:00:38Lots of people who would normally know better
0:00:38 > 0:00:41face the sort of questions we usually chuck at students.
0:00:41 > 0:00:43Tonight, alumni from two of the so-called
0:00:43 > 0:00:45plate-glass universities try to put themselves
0:00:45 > 0:00:48among the four highest-scoring winning teams
0:00:48 > 0:00:51from the seven first-round matches.
0:00:51 > 0:00:53Doing so will put them in the semifinals.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56Now, playing for the University of Kent,
0:00:56 > 0:00:58first, is a man whose job involves
0:00:58 > 0:01:00travelling to the world's remotest rivers.
0:01:00 > 0:01:04In doing so he's been detained as a spy, threatened at gunpoint,
0:01:04 > 0:01:05narrowly escaped drowning,
0:01:05 > 0:01:09so we can expect him to take the next half hour
0:01:09 > 0:01:10easily in his stride.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13His colleague has worked for the BBC and ITV news,
0:01:13 > 0:01:16she was also instrumental in the launch of the news channel
0:01:16 > 0:01:20Al Jazeera English, from Qatar, and is currently the London anchor
0:01:20 > 0:01:23for the Turkish news network TRT World
0:01:23 > 0:01:26which is due to launch internationally in 2017.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29Their captain trained as a local news journalist
0:01:29 > 0:01:32before landing his first TV job in 1982.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35At Channel 4 he was an editor on the youth show The Word
0:01:35 > 0:01:38and a presenter on The Big Breakfast.
0:01:38 > 0:01:41He's now a columnist, film reviewer and breakfast presenter
0:01:41 > 0:01:42on talkRADIO.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45Finally, someone who's interested in all things audio
0:01:45 > 0:01:48began at the age of 11 during a school trip
0:01:48 > 0:01:50to a radio studio in New York.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53Since when she's become a leading authority on acoustics,
0:01:53 > 0:01:57electronics and digital signal processing.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59As a lecturer at the University of York,
0:01:59 > 0:02:03she was an originator of the UK's first music technology course.
0:02:03 > 0:02:04She's an inventor,
0:02:04 > 0:02:07author and recipient of numerous awards in her field.
0:02:07 > 0:02:09So, now let's ask them to introduce themselves.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11Hello, I'm Jeremy Wade.
0:02:11 > 0:02:14I got my postgraduate certificate in education
0:02:14 > 0:02:16from the University of Kent in 1979
0:02:16 > 0:02:19and an honorary Doctor of Science this year
0:02:19 > 0:02:22and now I pursue outlandish underwater beasts
0:02:22 > 0:02:24as the presenter of River Monsters.
0:02:24 > 0:02:26Hello there, my name's Shiulie Ghosh,
0:02:26 > 0:02:29I graduated from the University of Kent in 1989
0:02:29 > 0:02:31with a degree in law
0:02:31 > 0:02:33and now I am a TV journalist and news anchor.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36- And here's their captain. - I'm Paul Ross,
0:02:36 > 0:02:38I got a BA Hons in English and American literature
0:02:38 > 0:02:40from Kent University.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42I was there from '75 to '78.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44I arrived as a flared jean-wearing glam rocker,
0:02:44 > 0:02:46I left as a drainpipe jean-wearing punk rocker.
0:02:46 > 0:02:50Hello, I'm Jamie Angus, I read electronics
0:02:50 > 0:02:53at the University of Kent, graduating in 1977.
0:02:53 > 0:02:58I'm now professor of audio technology at Salford University.
0:02:58 > 0:03:00APPLAUSE
0:03:02 > 0:03:04Now, the team from the University of Sussex
0:03:04 > 0:03:06are also a pleasingly mixed bag.
0:03:06 > 0:03:10Their first member was named by Debrett's in The Sunday Times
0:03:10 > 0:03:14as among the top 500 most influential people in the UK
0:03:14 > 0:03:17and among the top 30 in technology.
0:03:17 > 0:03:20He's been master of Birkbeck, Provost at Gresham College
0:03:20 > 0:03:22and pro-vice-chancellor at the University of London,
0:03:22 > 0:03:27posts he held concurrently before taking up his present role.
0:03:27 > 0:03:30Next to him, a performer who was compared by Time Out
0:03:30 > 0:03:32to a James Bond villain -
0:03:32 > 0:03:36"Just when she looks like she's about to kiss you,
0:03:36 > 0:03:38"she drops a tarantula down your pants."
0:03:38 > 0:03:42Any fan of the cult series Red Dwarf will remember her as Holly,
0:03:42 > 0:03:45the ship's computer with an IQ of 6,000.
0:03:45 > 0:03:49Their captain has presented the news for Channel 4, ITN,
0:03:49 > 0:03:51the BBC and now on Sky, where he also presents
0:03:51 > 0:03:54a Sunday morning programme.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56He was also the presenter of the BBC quiz Eggheads
0:03:56 > 0:03:58for over ten years.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01Finally, a leading lawyer with both a national
0:04:01 > 0:04:03and international reputation.
0:04:03 > 0:04:06He's been involved in numerous high-profile court cases,
0:04:06 > 0:04:09including those following the Hatfield rail crash,
0:04:09 > 0:04:12the death of Jean Charles de Menezes
0:04:12 > 0:04:15and the Panorama programme on phone hacking.
0:04:15 > 0:04:17Let's meet the Sussex team.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19Hello, I'm Tim O'Shea.
0:04:19 > 0:04:22In 1970, I graduated from Sussex in mathematics
0:04:22 > 0:04:24and experimental psychology.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27Now I'm the principal of the University of Edinburgh.
0:04:27 > 0:04:29Hello, my name is Hattie Hayridge,
0:04:29 > 0:04:31I graduated from Sussex in 1983
0:04:31 > 0:04:34with a degree in international relations.
0:04:34 > 0:04:35I'm now a comedienne.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37And this is their captain.
0:04:37 > 0:04:38Hello, I'm Dermot Murnaghan.
0:04:38 > 0:04:42I was at Sussex between 1976 and 1980.
0:04:42 > 0:04:44I graduated with an MA in history.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47I'm now a presenter at Sky News.
0:04:47 > 0:04:52Hi, I'm Alex Bailin, I read maths at Cambridge and then law at Sussex.
0:04:52 > 0:04:55I'm now a QC at Matrix Chambers.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58APPLAUSE
0:05:00 > 0:05:02OK, the rules are the same as ever.
0:05:02 > 0:05:03Ten points for starter questions.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06You have to answer those individually on the buzzer.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08Bonuses are team efforts for which you can confer,
0:05:08 > 0:05:10they're worth 15 points.
0:05:10 > 0:05:14OK, here's your first starter for ten, so fingers on the buzzers.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17Said to be one of the top five works of fiction
0:05:17 > 0:05:20that people are most likely to lie about having read...
0:05:21 > 0:05:23War And Peace.
0:05:23 > 0:05:24Yes, well done.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31Right, the first set of bonuses, Kent, are on a newspaper.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33Firstly, for five points, launched by a group of journalists
0:05:33 > 0:05:36in 1986 under the slogan - "It is. Are you?" -
0:05:36 > 0:05:42which newspaper's final print edition was published in March 2016?
0:05:42 > 0:05:43- The Independent.- The Independent.
0:05:43 > 0:05:45We all agree, it's The Independent newspaper.
0:05:45 > 0:05:47Correct. Which journalist and founder member
0:05:47 > 0:05:50of The Independent became its first editor?
0:05:50 > 0:05:52He subsequently served as president
0:05:52 > 0:05:56of the British Board of Film Classification.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58- Andreas Whittam Smith.- OK, Jeremy to give you the answer, if I may,
0:05:58 > 0:06:00cos I don't want to mispronounce it.
0:06:00 > 0:06:02- Andreas Whittam Smith.- Correct.
0:06:02 > 0:06:07And, finally, in 1997, which editor of The Independent On Sunday
0:06:07 > 0:06:10started a campaign to legalise cannabis and in doing so
0:06:10 > 0:06:13earned herself the nickname Rizla Rosie?
0:06:13 > 0:06:16I think that's Rosie Boycott.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18It is. Ten points for this.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23Printed by Jobbins of Holborn in the 1840s,
0:06:23 > 0:06:26the first commercial Christmas card was condemned
0:06:26 > 0:06:29in some quarters because it showed several members
0:06:29 > 0:06:31of a family group doing what?
0:06:33 > 0:06:34Drinking alcohol.
0:06:34 > 0:06:35Correct.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37Some temperance groups objected.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39Here are your bonuses.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41They're on Mary and Joseph, Kent.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45When one keys "Mary" into Wikipedia's search bar,
0:06:45 > 0:06:49the autocomplete possibilities include two ships.
0:06:49 > 0:06:54One launched in 1511, the other in 1861, can you name both?
0:06:54 > 0:06:57It's the Mary Rose and the Mary Celeste.
0:06:57 > 0:06:59We think it's the Mary Rose and the Mary Celeste.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01Correct. In addition to Goebbels and McCarthy,
0:07:01 > 0:07:05which Yorkshire-born scientist appears when one keys "Joseph"
0:07:05 > 0:07:07into the same search bar?
0:07:07 > 0:07:12From 1772, he published six volumes of experiments and observations
0:07:12 > 0:07:14on different kinds of air.
0:07:14 > 0:07:18THEY CONFER
0:07:21 > 0:07:23We've got a bit of debate going on,
0:07:23 > 0:07:24but we think it's Joseph Priestley.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26Correct, yes.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28And, finally, Google autocomplete, on the other hand,
0:07:28 > 0:07:33offers for "Joseph" which US actor noted for his roles in The Walk,
0:07:33 > 0:07:37The Dark Knight Rises and Lincoln?
0:07:40 > 0:07:42It's Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln,
0:07:42 > 0:07:45The Dark Knight Rises is Christian Bale.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49SHE WHISPERS
0:07:49 > 0:07:52- Joseph... - SHIULIE WHISPERS
0:07:52 > 0:07:54Do you want to give it a go then?
0:07:54 > 0:07:57I think Shiulie will have a bash at this one for us on our behalf.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59- Joseph Gordon Levitt.- Correct.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01Whoa!
0:08:03 > 0:08:05Ten points for this starter question.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07Which writer used a personification of Christmas,
0:08:07 > 0:08:11together with a group of his sons, with names including Misrule
0:08:11 > 0:08:15and Minced-Pie in the work Christmas, His Masque,
0:08:15 > 0:08:18presented to the court of James I in 1616?
0:08:21 > 0:08:23You may not confer.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29Shakespeare.
0:08:29 > 0:08:30No.
0:08:32 > 0:08:33Ben Jonson.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35Ben Jonson is right, yes.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40Right, your bonuses are on Christmas
0:08:40 > 0:08:46as seen by the geek humour webcomic xkcd.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48"I believe that since I don't observe Christmas,
0:08:48 > 0:08:54"it can't have a definite date," says a character in an xkcd cartoon.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57In what field of science does he claim to be engaged?
0:08:57 > 0:08:59Is it quantum physics?
0:08:59 > 0:09:02- It's all about...- Yeah.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04We're thinking quantum physics.
0:09:04 > 0:09:06Yes, that's correct. It's a quantum entanglement joke,
0:09:06 > 0:09:08physics would have done.
0:09:08 > 0:09:09Right, five points for this.
0:09:09 > 0:09:13"He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake
0:09:13 > 0:09:15"he's copied on /var/spool/mail/root,
0:09:15 > 0:09:17"so be good for goodness' sake."
0:09:17 > 0:09:19This parody of a Christmas song
0:09:19 > 0:09:22refers to which computer operating system?
0:09:24 > 0:09:25THEY CONFER
0:09:25 > 0:09:26That's an operating system.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29That's a language. Unix?
0:09:29 > 0:09:31- JAMIE:- Unix, you want to go for?
0:09:31 > 0:09:34If Jamie can give us this one.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36- Try Unix.- Yes, or Linux.
0:09:36 > 0:09:40And, finally, in another xkcd cartoon, the character Megan
0:09:40 > 0:09:46uses a home bio lab kit to pour first purple and then pink dye
0:09:46 > 0:09:47over Christmas presents.
0:09:47 > 0:09:51To what technique in microbiology does this refer?
0:09:51 > 0:09:54I haven't got the foggiest, can anybody help?
0:09:54 > 0:09:58Purple and pink, isn't it staining? Biological staining?
0:09:58 > 0:10:02THEY CONFER
0:10:02 > 0:10:04- They're the litmus colours. - Litmus test.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06Shall we go for litmus?
0:10:06 > 0:10:08- JEREMY:- OK.
0:10:08 > 0:10:10After much conferring, we're thinking the litmus test.
0:10:10 > 0:10:13No, it's Gram staining.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15Right, we're going to take a picture round now with
0:10:15 > 0:10:18about 17.5 minutes to go, so plenty of time.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21Your picture starter is a diagram of a skeleton.
0:10:21 > 0:10:25For ten points, simply give me the scientific name of the bone
0:10:25 > 0:10:27which has been highlighted in red.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33Pelvis.
0:10:33 > 0:10:34What?!
0:10:34 > 0:10:36Anyone like to buzz from Sussex?
0:10:36 > 0:10:40You may not confer, but one of you can buzz.
0:10:40 > 0:10:41Coccyx.
0:10:41 > 0:10:44No. It's the sternum.
0:10:44 > 0:10:46So, we'll take the picture bonuses in a moment or two,
0:10:46 > 0:10:49fingers on the buzzers, here's another starter question.
0:10:49 > 0:10:53Which two-word honorary title was bestowed for the first time
0:10:53 > 0:10:57by Charles I on his daughter Mary in 1642?
0:10:57 > 0:10:59It's conferred on a discretion...
0:10:59 > 0:11:00Princess Royal.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02Correct.
0:11:05 > 0:11:09So, you lucky people get more turkey skeletons.
0:11:09 > 0:11:13"The turkey is often consumed as part of Christmas celebrations,"
0:11:13 > 0:11:15it says here, very helpfully.
0:11:15 > 0:11:18Three more bones from the same skeleton for you to identify.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20Again, I want the scientific name in each case, please.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22Firstly...
0:11:23 > 0:11:27- Don't ask me. - HATTIE:- Fibula, tibia.
0:11:27 > 0:11:28- TIMOTHY:- It's top of the leg. - Top of the leg.
0:11:28 > 0:11:30So is it the femur?
0:11:30 > 0:11:32Femur? Femur.
0:11:32 > 0:11:34It is the femur, yes. Secondly.
0:11:37 > 0:11:41- TIMOTHY:- So that's the top of the arm.
0:11:41 > 0:11:46Yeah, there, just before the wrist, what's this called?
0:11:46 > 0:11:49- HATTIE:- Fibula, tibia?
0:11:49 > 0:11:50Tibia?
0:11:50 > 0:11:53No, it's the ulna. And finally...
0:11:55 > 0:11:58I don't even know what that's attached to.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03- TIMOTHY:- So what would it be? Breastbone?
0:12:03 > 0:12:07What about clavicle? I'm going to go with it. Clavicle.
0:12:07 > 0:12:11Clavicle or furcula and the wishbone is what it is.
0:12:11 > 0:12:13Simple language.
0:12:15 > 0:12:17Right, ten points for this.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19First sighted in Usenet in 2002,
0:12:19 > 0:12:21what three-letter word is defined
0:12:21 > 0:12:26as "to inflict a humiliating defeat, especially in an online game"?
0:12:26 > 0:12:29Of uncertain etymology, though Welsh in appearance,
0:12:29 > 0:12:32it rhymes with moan and groan.
0:12:32 > 0:12:33It's own.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35No, and since that was technically an interruption,
0:12:35 > 0:12:38I'm going to have to fine you five points, I'm afraid.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41One of you may buzz from Sussex.
0:12:41 > 0:12:43- Clone.- Buzz if you wish.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45Clone.
0:12:45 > 0:12:48No, it's pwn - PWN.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50Right, ten points for this. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:12:50 > 0:12:53Heat - How To Stop The Planet Burning
0:12:53 > 0:12:55And Bring On The Apocalypse...
0:12:55 > 0:12:57George Monbiot.
0:12:57 > 0:12:58Correct.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03Your bonuses, Kent,
0:13:03 > 0:13:07are on the songs of Leonard Cohen, who died in November 2016.
0:13:07 > 0:13:11"When I left they were sleeping I hope you run into them soon."
0:13:11 > 0:13:13These words appear in which song by Cohen,
0:13:13 > 0:13:16its three-word title being the name of a religious institute
0:13:16 > 0:13:20of Catholic women founded in Dublin in 1831.
0:13:21 > 0:13:24- Sisters Of Mercy maybe. - Sisters Of Mercy, it is.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26Sisters Of Mercy.
0:13:26 > 0:13:27Correct.
0:13:27 > 0:13:28Secondly,
0:13:28 > 0:13:31"Sail on, sail on O, mighty Ship of State."
0:13:31 > 0:13:33These words appear on which song of 1992,
0:13:33 > 0:13:37sharing its one word title with both a novel of 1880
0:13:37 > 0:13:40by Henry Adams and a form of government
0:13:40 > 0:13:42pioneered in ancient Athens?
0:13:45 > 0:13:46Is it Democracy?
0:13:46 > 0:13:49- We're thinking Democracy. - You're right.
0:13:49 > 0:13:50And, finally,
0:13:50 > 0:13:53"Now I've heard there was a secret chord
0:13:53 > 0:13:55"That David played and it pleased the Lord."
0:13:55 > 0:13:58These words appear in which song with a title
0:13:58 > 0:13:59meaning praise the Lord?
0:13:59 > 0:14:01That's got to be Hallelujah.
0:14:01 > 0:14:02Correct.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06Ten points for this starter question.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09First broadcast in 1976, which comedy sketch originally had
0:14:09 > 0:14:11the title Annie Finkhouse?
0:14:11 > 0:14:15Set in a hardware shop, it centres around...
0:14:15 > 0:14:17The Norwegian Parrot.
0:14:17 > 0:14:19No, I'm afraid you lose five points,
0:14:19 > 0:14:21it centres around the misunderstandings
0:14:21 > 0:14:26between a shopkeeper and his somewhat irritating...
0:14:26 > 0:14:27Four Candles.
0:14:27 > 0:14:28Four Candles is correct, yes.
0:14:32 > 0:14:34Annie Finkhouse, as in "anything else?"
0:14:34 > 0:14:39Right, your bonuses are on 17th-century executions, Kent.
0:14:40 > 0:14:44The elderly widow Lady Alice Lisle was the last woman in England
0:14:44 > 0:14:47to suffer judicial beheading after being found guilty of
0:14:47 > 0:14:51harbouring fugitives by the Bloody Assizes that followed which
0:14:51 > 0:14:55aborted rebellion of 1685?
0:14:55 > 0:14:58THEY CONFER
0:15:00 > 0:15:02She wouldn't have harboured the peasants.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04I mean, the peasants always revolted,
0:15:04 > 0:15:07but I think that was much earlier.
0:15:07 > 0:15:08Jacobin?
0:15:08 > 0:15:10The Jacobin Rebellion.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12No, it's the Monmouth Rebellion.
0:15:12 > 0:15:16Secondly, executed after army mutinies at Banbury and
0:15:16 > 0:15:18Bishopsgate in 1649,
0:15:18 > 0:15:21James Thompson and Robert Lockyer were associated
0:15:21 > 0:15:23with which radical political cause?
0:15:25 > 0:15:27The Levellers?
0:15:27 > 0:15:29Chartists were later, weren't they?
0:15:29 > 0:15:32- We think it's the Levellers. - It was the Levellers, yes.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35And, finally, Thomas Winter and Sir Everard Digby
0:15:35 > 0:15:38were among those executed after which failed enterprise
0:15:38 > 0:15:41in the early 17th century?
0:15:41 > 0:15:44Gunpowder Plot?
0:15:44 > 0:15:47I mean, the only one we're coming up with is the Gunpowder Plot.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49Well, you're right.
0:15:49 > 0:15:52Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:15:52 > 0:15:55For your music starter, you're going to hear an excerpt from a song which
0:15:55 > 0:15:59in November this year celebrated the 60th anniversary of its release.
0:15:59 > 0:16:02For ten points, I want the name of the performer.
0:16:02 > 0:16:06# Quand on n'a que l'amour
0:16:06 > 0:16:10# A s'offrir en partage... #
0:16:10 > 0:16:12Charles Trenet.
0:16:12 > 0:16:15No, you can hear a little more, Sussex, if you like?
0:16:15 > 0:16:20# Au jour du grand voyage Qu'est notre grand amour
0:16:20 > 0:16:23# Quand on n'a que l'amour
0:16:23 > 0:16:27# Mon amour toi et moi
0:16:27 > 0:16:30# Pour qu'eclatent de joie
0:16:30 > 0:16:33# Chaque heure et chaque jour
0:16:33 > 0:16:36# Quand on n'a que l'amour
0:16:36 > 0:16:38# Pour vivre nos... #
0:16:38 > 0:16:40No idea?
0:16:41 > 0:16:42My way.
0:16:42 > 0:16:45No, I was looking for the name of the artist, Jacques Brel,
0:16:45 > 0:16:50which rather renders pointless the tagline on that series of
0:16:50 > 0:16:52music questions which was about famous Belgians.
0:16:52 > 0:16:54LAUGHTER
0:16:54 > 0:16:56Anyway, ten points for this starter question, music bonuses when
0:16:56 > 0:17:00someone gets a starter question right, ten points for this.
0:17:00 > 0:17:04Its place in so-called missing link history, challenged by fossils
0:17:04 > 0:17:06discovered in China's...
0:17:06 > 0:17:08Archaeopteryx.
0:17:08 > 0:17:09Correct.
0:17:12 > 0:17:16Right, Jacques Brel, whom we heard a moment or two ago,
0:17:16 > 0:17:21had his career launched by that song that no-one managed to identify.
0:17:21 > 0:17:23He stands, unfortunately, only at number four
0:17:23 > 0:17:27in the list of top-selling Belgian music artists of all time.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30Your bonuses are three more performers from that
0:17:30 > 0:17:33eclectic list, firstly the name or stage name of the lead
0:17:33 > 0:17:36vocalist here, born in a suburb of Brussels.
0:17:38 > 0:17:39# Dominique, nique, nique
0:17:39 > 0:17:42# S'en allait tout simplement
0:17:42 > 0:17:45- # Routier, pauvre et chantant... # - The Singing Nun, I think.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47# En tous chemins, en tous lieux... #
0:17:47 > 0:17:50I think she was known as the Singing Nun.
0:17:50 > 0:17:53She was known... You didn't waste your time at university...
0:17:53 > 0:17:55It was the Singing Nun, yes.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58Secondly, this Belgian born instrumentalist.
0:17:58 > 0:18:01JAZZ MUSIC PLAYS
0:18:06 > 0:18:11Django Reinhardt. Django Reinhardt. Django Reinhardt, do we think?
0:18:11 > 0:18:12Don't ask me.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14I mean, it doesn't sound particularly Belgian,
0:18:14 > 0:18:17but the only one we could think of was Django Reinhardt.
0:18:17 > 0:18:18That's correct.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21Finally, the performer usually associated with this track...
0:18:21 > 0:18:22# Allez op un matin
0:18:22 > 0:18:24# Une louloute est v'nue chez moi
0:18:24 > 0:18:26# Poupee de cellophane cheveux chinois... #
0:18:26 > 0:18:28You don't need to buzz... Give the answer any time you like.
0:18:28 > 0:18:31It's back to our punk rock days, it's Plastic Bertrand.
0:18:31 > 0:18:32Correct, yes.
0:18:32 > 0:18:35APPLAUSE
0:18:37 > 0:18:39Right, ten points for this starter question,
0:18:39 > 0:18:44which historical figure is central to Mary Renault's trilogy of novels
0:18:44 > 0:18:46entitled Fire From Heaven...?
0:18:46 > 0:18:48Alexander The Great.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50Correct.
0:18:52 > 0:18:55Your bonuses are on a British mammal, Sussex.
0:18:55 > 0:18:59Related to the badger, which native carnivore survives in Britain
0:18:59 > 0:19:01mainly in forests of Scotland.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03Around the size of a cat,
0:19:03 > 0:19:07it has a distinctive light-coloured bib around the throat.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11Pine marten.
0:19:11 > 0:19:14Correct. The pine marten is sometimes called the sweet marten
0:19:14 > 0:19:17to distinguish it from which similar animal,
0:19:17 > 0:19:20also called a foul marten or foul mart,
0:19:20 > 0:19:23that uses foul smelling secretions to mark its territory?
0:19:25 > 0:19:27Skunk?
0:19:27 > 0:19:28No, it's a polecat.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31And finally, research in Ireland indicates that pine martens
0:19:31 > 0:19:35reduce the numbers of which invasive mammal to the possible
0:19:35 > 0:19:39benefit of the smaller native Sciurus vulgaris?
0:19:39 > 0:19:41I want the two-word common name, please.
0:19:41 > 0:19:42Grey squirrel.
0:19:42 > 0:19:43Correct.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45APPLAUSE
0:19:45 > 0:19:46Ten points for this.
0:19:46 > 0:19:49In English law, what two-word expression corresponds to
0:19:49 > 0:19:52the New South Wales usage "Bondi tram"?
0:19:52 > 0:19:55Both appear in legal fictions indicating the concept
0:19:55 > 0:19:57of the reasonable person.
0:19:59 > 0:20:01The man on the Clapham omnibus.
0:20:01 > 0:20:02Correct, yes.
0:20:02 > 0:20:03APPLAUSE
0:20:05 > 0:20:08Your bonuses this time, Kent, are on an architect.
0:20:08 > 0:20:12In 2015, a government decision to award a listed status to
0:20:12 > 0:20:15a memorial building in Gerrards Cross
0:20:15 > 0:20:17meant that all 44 of which architect's
0:20:17 > 0:20:21First World War memorial buildings in England are now protected?
0:20:22 > 0:20:26It's not Lytton somebody, is it? Lytton...? Am I thinking of...?
0:20:27 > 0:20:29What's the geezer's name?
0:20:29 > 0:20:31The big monumental...
0:20:31 > 0:20:32Scott?
0:20:34 > 0:20:37- Shall we go for Scott?- Try Scott.
0:20:37 > 0:20:38Scott.
0:20:38 > 0:20:39No, it's Lutyens.
0:20:39 > 0:20:43Lutyens' Royal Naval Division Memorial on Horse Guards Parade
0:20:43 > 0:20:45bears lines by which poet, beginning,
0:20:45 > 0:20:48"Blow out, you bugles, over the rich dead"?
0:20:48 > 0:20:52He died on active service in 1915.
0:20:52 > 0:20:54That's Rupert Brooke. Rupert Brooke. It's Rupert Brooke.
0:20:54 > 0:20:56That's right. He was in the naval division.
0:20:56 > 0:21:00And finally, Lutyens' Thiepval Memorial commemorates
0:21:00 > 0:21:03over 72,000 missing soldiers of the United Kingdom and
0:21:03 > 0:21:08South African forces who died during which offensive of 1916?
0:21:08 > 0:21:12The Somme, wasn't it, '16? Was it Verdun?
0:21:12 > 0:21:14Is it the Boer War?
0:21:14 > 0:21:16No, it's the Great War. First World War.
0:21:16 > 0:21:20I think it's the Somme but then we started the Somme to relieve
0:21:20 > 0:21:24- the French at Verdun. - Not 1600?- 1916. Somme, shall we say?
0:21:24 > 0:21:26Battle of the Somme.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28Correct. Ten points for this.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30The first stage version
0:21:30 > 0:21:33of which pantomime is generally
0:21:33 > 0:21:35thought to have been written by Charles Dibdin,
0:21:35 > 0:21:38performed at Drury Lane around Christmas 1819
0:21:38 > 0:21:42and subtitled Harlequin And The Ogre?
0:21:44 > 0:21:45Jack And The Beanstalk.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47Correct.
0:21:47 > 0:21:48APPLAUSE
0:21:49 > 0:21:52You get a set of bonuses on the author Anita Brookner,
0:21:52 > 0:21:54who died in March 2016.
0:21:54 > 0:21:58Brookner's first published novel, A Start In Life,
0:21:58 > 0:22:01tells the story of Ruth Vice, an authority on which French
0:22:01 > 0:22:05novelist best known for The Human Comedy?
0:22:05 > 0:22:06Balzac.
0:22:06 > 0:22:08Balzac wrote The Human Comedy.
0:22:08 > 0:22:09Balzac.
0:22:09 > 0:22:12Correct. In 1967, Brookner became the first woman to hold
0:22:12 > 0:22:15which professorship of fine art at Cambridge?
0:22:15 > 0:22:18It was endowed by the founder of the school of art at
0:22:18 > 0:22:19University College London.
0:22:23 > 0:22:26Try...Turner or someone.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28The name of an artist.
0:22:28 > 0:22:29Turner.
0:22:29 > 0:22:31No, she was Slade Professor of Fine Art.
0:22:31 > 0:22:35And finally, Anita Brookner won the Booker Prize in 1984 for
0:22:35 > 0:22:38which novel set near Lake Geneva?
0:22:38 > 0:22:39I think Jeremy got there first on that one.
0:22:39 > 0:22:40Hotel Du Lac.
0:22:40 > 0:22:44Correct. We're going to take our second picture round.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47For your picture starter, you're going to see a photograph of
0:22:47 > 0:22:48a character from a television series.
0:22:48 > 0:22:50For ten points, please name the actor.
0:22:53 > 0:22:55Adam West.
0:22:55 > 0:22:56It is Adam West, yes.
0:22:56 > 0:22:57APPLAUSE
0:22:59 > 0:23:03Adam West played Batman in the television series which began
0:23:03 > 0:23:05broadcasting 50 years ago this year.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08Your bonuses are three villains from that series.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11For five points each, I'd like you to identify the actor in each role.
0:23:11 > 0:23:12Here's the first.
0:23:14 > 0:23:18That's Cesar Romero. They painted over his moustache.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20Cesar Romero and you can see he refused to shave off his
0:23:20 > 0:23:23moustache as the Joker and they painted over it.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26- You are fond...- Irritating, is the word you're looking for.
0:23:26 > 0:23:27..of trivial knowledge.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30- And you know what character he was playing, of course.- The Joker.
0:23:30 > 0:23:34Yes, he was playing the Joker. Secondly, who is this?
0:23:34 > 0:23:36- Oh, that's Burgess Meredith. - Burgess Meredith.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40- Burgess Meredith.- Yes. Playing which role?
0:23:40 > 0:23:42- The Penguin. - The Penguin is correct.
0:23:42 > 0:23:45Finally, who's playing The Egghead?
0:23:46 > 0:23:48Oh, that's Vincent Price.
0:23:48 > 0:23:50It's definitely Vincent Price.
0:23:50 > 0:23:51Vincent Price.
0:23:51 > 0:23:52Well done.
0:23:52 > 0:23:53APPLAUSE
0:23:55 > 0:23:58Ten points for this. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:23:58 > 0:24:02What form of progressive taxation was introduced in 1799?
0:24:03 > 0:24:05- I didn't touch it. - LAUGHTER
0:24:05 > 0:24:07Income tax.
0:24:07 > 0:24:10Well, are you claiming to answer the question or not?
0:24:10 > 0:24:13Well, if the buzzer said I did... Income tax.
0:24:13 > 0:24:14Well, I'll have to accept that.
0:24:14 > 0:24:15Your buzzer did go
0:24:15 > 0:24:18and it is the right answer.
0:24:18 > 0:24:20Jammy.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25You just go onto autopilot, I think.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28Right, here are your bonuses on films associated with Christmas.
0:24:28 > 0:24:31In each case, identify the film from the lines taken from it.
0:24:31 > 0:24:35Firstly from a film released in 1946, "Just remember this,
0:24:35 > 0:24:38"Mr Potter, that this rabble you're talking about, they do most
0:24:38 > 0:24:43"of the working and paying and living and dying in this community."
0:24:43 > 0:24:45It's...It's A Wonderful Life,
0:24:45 > 0:24:47- the Frank Capra masterpiece. - Correct.
0:24:47 > 0:24:51In which animated film of 1993 are these lines sung?
0:24:51 > 0:24:54"There's children throwing snowballs instead of throwing heads.
0:24:54 > 0:24:58"They're busy building toys, and absolutely no-one's dead."
0:24:58 > 0:25:00THEY CONFER
0:25:00 > 0:25:02Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05Correct. And finally, which film, released in 1992,
0:25:05 > 0:25:10includes the line, "Leave comedy to the bears, Ebenezer"?
0:25:12 > 0:25:14Is it Scrooged?
0:25:14 > 0:25:15Scrooged, Bill Murray, maybe.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17- Do you want to?- Give it a go.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19We think it is Scrooged.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22No, it's The Muppet Christmas Carol.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24Two and a half minutes to go. Ten points for this.
0:25:24 > 0:25:27In Austrian and German folklore, during the Christmas season
0:25:27 > 0:25:30naughty children might be beaten and dragged to the underworld by
0:25:30 > 0:25:33which mythological horned...?
0:25:33 > 0:25:35Black Peter?
0:25:35 > 0:25:36No, you lose five points.
0:25:36 > 0:25:40By which mythological horned figure, half goat and half demon?
0:25:45 > 0:25:48I'll tell you. It's Krampus. Ten points for this.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51Born in 1955, which British film-maker's documentaries include
0:25:51 > 0:25:56Hypernormalisation, The Power Of Nightmares and...?
0:25:56 > 0:25:57Adam Curtis.
0:25:57 > 0:25:58Correct.
0:25:58 > 0:25:59APPLAUSE
0:26:01 > 0:26:04These bonuses are on geology, Kent.
0:26:04 > 0:26:06What agent is primarily responsible
0:26:06 > 0:26:09for the formation of Aeolian landscapes?
0:26:11 > 0:26:15Wind, is it? Aeolus was the god of wind.
0:26:15 > 0:26:16Is it wind?
0:26:16 > 0:26:17Yes, it is.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20What five-letter German term denotes windblown deposits
0:26:20 > 0:26:24of silt and fine siliceous dust?
0:26:26 > 0:26:29THEY CONFER
0:26:35 > 0:26:37How about "da vind"?
0:26:37 > 0:26:38No, its "loess".
0:26:38 > 0:26:42And finally, sand dunes are a feature of Aeolian landscapes.
0:26:42 > 0:26:45What shape are barchan dunes?
0:26:46 > 0:26:48THEY CONFER
0:26:48 > 0:26:49Crescent.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51Correct.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53Ten points for this.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56In industrial chemistry, what six-letter term
0:26:56 > 0:27:01is the best-known trade name for PTFE or polytetrafluoro...?
0:27:02 > 0:27:04Teflon.
0:27:04 > 0:27:05Teflon is correct, yes.
0:27:08 > 0:27:11Your bonuses, Kent, this time, are on early medieval history.
0:27:11 > 0:27:14In each case, I need the year in which the following took place.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17All three years end in two zeros.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21Firstly, Pope Gregory the Great is widely recorded to have
0:27:21 > 0:27:25stated that "God bless you" is a religiously correct response
0:27:25 > 0:27:27to someone sneezing, in what year?
0:27:28 > 0:27:31If it ends in 00, what would it be? 800, 900?
0:27:31 > 0:27:33What do you reckon?
0:27:33 > 0:27:35Medieval so 1100. 1000.
0:27:35 > 0:27:36Let's have it, please.
0:27:36 > 0:27:38GONG
0:27:38 > 0:27:40And at the gong, Sussex University have 35
0:27:40 > 0:27:42but Kent have 245.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48- You were strangely mute, Sussex. - Yes.
0:27:48 > 0:27:50You never got a chance to get going. I'm sorry about that.
0:27:50 > 0:27:52But thank you very much.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55No-one made you do it and anyone, I think, watching will think
0:27:55 > 0:27:57you're all good sports for taking part.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59245, Kent.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01It's only the second show but that is the highest winning score so
0:28:01 > 0:28:07far so you may well come back as one of the four highest winning scores.
0:28:07 > 0:28:08I hope you can join us next time
0:28:08 > 0:28:10for another first-round match but, until then,
0:28:10 > 0:28:13- it's goodbye from Sussex University... ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15- ..it's goodbye from Kent University... ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:15 > 0:28:18..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.