0:00:17 > 0:00:18APPLAUSE
0:00:18 > 0:00:21Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello, the honour of two more of the UK's universities is at stake
0:00:32 > 0:00:35tonight with teams of alumni playing for a place
0:00:35 > 0:00:38in the semifinals of this festive series.
0:00:38 > 0:00:40As always, the teams are made up of former students
0:00:40 > 0:00:42who've achieved a level of distinction
0:00:42 > 0:00:46or at least a whiff of notoriety in their chosen field.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49Now, only the four winning teams with the highest scores
0:00:49 > 0:00:51will go through to the semifinals
0:00:51 > 0:00:54so with this match and four more still to play,
0:00:54 > 0:00:57tonight's winners will have to wait to see if their score is beaten
0:00:57 > 0:01:01in later contests before they know whether or not they go through.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04City University of London is represented by
0:01:04 > 0:01:05a British-Iranian journalist
0:01:05 > 0:01:09and author who's reported from over 35 countries during her career.
0:01:09 > 0:01:13She's made 20 documentaries for Channel 4's Unreported World
0:01:13 > 0:01:15and won an RTS and an Emmy Award
0:01:15 > 0:01:18as well as Debut Political Book of the Year
0:01:18 > 0:01:21and a Jerwood prize for non-fiction.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23With her, a household face from his tenure
0:01:23 > 0:01:27as general secretary of the TUC from 2003 to 2012.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29Alongside his current job,
0:01:29 > 0:01:31he's a member of the Banking Standards Board
0:01:31 > 0:01:36and, in 2013, was knighted for his services to employment relations.
0:01:36 > 0:01:39Their captain has been broadcasting for over 20 years,
0:01:39 > 0:01:41including more than a decade as correspondent
0:01:41 > 0:01:44and news anchor for Channel 4.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46She also presents Radio 4's Front Row,
0:01:46 > 0:01:48Newswatch on BBC television,
0:01:48 > 0:01:51and has made documentaries on subjects as diverse
0:01:51 > 0:01:54as Arnold Bennett, the wife of Oliver Cromwell
0:01:54 > 0:01:58and the impact of David Bowie on British Asian women.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00Their fourth member tells us his degree at City
0:02:00 > 0:02:04didn't really prepare him to be the racing driver, TV presenter,
0:02:04 > 0:02:07writer and all-round action man that he's since become.
0:02:07 > 0:02:09He's presented Channel 5's Fifth Gear
0:02:09 > 0:02:12and hosted Top Gear in its early days.
0:02:12 > 0:02:15Unconfirmed rumours abound that, at one point,
0:02:15 > 0:02:17he may also have been The Stig.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20A question that's likely to remain unanswered tonight.
0:02:20 > 0:02:24Let's ask the City team to introduce themselves in the usual manner.
0:02:24 > 0:02:25I'm Ramita Navai,
0:02:25 > 0:02:28I got my postgraduate in broadcast journalism
0:02:28 > 0:02:30from City University in 2003
0:02:30 > 0:02:33and I'm a foreign affairs journalist and author.
0:02:34 > 0:02:38I'm Brendan Barber, I graduated in 1973
0:02:38 > 0:02:42with a degree in social science and I'm now chairman of Acas,
0:02:42 > 0:02:46the Advisory Consideration and Arbitration Service.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48And this is their captain.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51I'm Samira Ahmed and I took my postgraduate diploma
0:02:51 > 0:02:53in newspaper journalism in 1990
0:02:53 > 0:02:56and I'm now a journalist and broadcaster.
0:02:56 > 0:03:00I'm Tiff Needell, I graduated from City from 1974
0:03:00 > 0:03:01with a degree in civil engineering
0:03:01 > 0:03:04but turned professional racing driver in 1977
0:03:04 > 0:03:07and rose to the lofty heights of the Grand Prix grids
0:03:07 > 0:03:11before somehow becoming a Top Gear presenter on television.
0:03:11 > 0:03:13APPLAUSE
0:03:17 > 0:03:18Now, the University of Newcastle
0:03:18 > 0:03:21is represented by a TV presenter who's covered everything
0:03:21 > 0:03:25from the World Cup and Premier League football to Formula One
0:03:25 > 0:03:27and the world's strongest man.
0:03:27 > 0:03:31She recently become the world's first female anchor for live boxing.
0:03:31 > 0:03:35She's a vocal advocate for sexual and domestic abuse charities
0:03:35 > 0:03:38and an adviser to the government's Ministry of Justice panel.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41With her, an influential guitarist, singer and songwriter,
0:03:41 > 0:03:44noted for his distinctive stage and musical style
0:03:44 > 0:03:48with the band Dr Feelgood and later, Ian Drury's Blockheads.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51Fans of Game Of Thrones will be unable to forget his role
0:03:51 > 0:03:56as a mute executioner with a basilisk's stare.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59Their captain is a marine biologist, broadcaster and writer
0:03:59 > 0:04:03and just quite possibly today's foremost champion of the seahorse.
0:04:03 > 0:04:06During her career, she's chased the perfect wave,
0:04:06 > 0:04:11investigated the minds of sharks and told us why mud matters.
0:04:11 > 0:04:14Their fourth member showed considerable enterprise
0:04:14 > 0:04:17by using his postgraduate grant to set up a company
0:04:17 > 0:04:19which has published some of the UK's best poets,
0:04:19 > 0:04:23including Simon Armitage, Jackie Kay and Benjamin Zephaniah.
0:04:23 > 0:04:25The university appears to have forgiven him
0:04:25 > 0:04:27or at least have turned a blind eye
0:04:27 > 0:04:29with the award of an honorary doctorate.
0:04:29 > 0:04:31Let's meet the Newcastle team.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33Hi, I'm Charlie Webster,
0:04:33 > 0:04:38I graduated from Newcastle in 2004 in English language and linguistics.
0:04:38 > 0:04:39I am now a TV presenter.
0:04:41 > 0:04:42Hello, I'm Wilko Johnson,
0:04:42 > 0:04:47I graduated in English in 1970 and I'm a musician.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49And this is their captain.
0:04:49 > 0:04:50Hello, I am Helen Scales,
0:04:50 > 0:04:54I did my masters in tropical coastal management in 2000
0:04:54 > 0:04:57and now I'm a marine biologist and a writer.
0:04:57 > 0:04:58Hello, I'm Neil Astley,
0:04:58 > 0:05:02I graduated in English language and literature in 1978,
0:05:02 > 0:05:04when I founded the poetry publisher's Bloodaxe Books
0:05:04 > 0:05:07and I'm still its editor and managing director
0:05:07 > 0:05:09nearly 40 years later.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11APPLAUSE
0:05:13 > 0:05:17OK, the rules are the same as ever, starter question is asked.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19Solo efforts answered on the buzzer -
0:05:19 > 0:05:20they're worth ten points.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23And bonuses are worth 15 points - they're team efforts.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26So, fingers on the buzzer, here's is your first starter for ten.
0:05:26 > 0:05:30Quote, "An extraordinary example of a European intellectual,
0:05:30 > 0:05:32"combining unique intelligent of the past
0:05:32 > 0:05:36"with a limitless capacity to anticipate the future."
0:05:36 > 0:05:39These words of the Italian Matteo Renzi
0:05:39 > 0:05:42refer to which author, philosopher and semiotician who died...?
0:05:44 > 0:05:46Was it Italo Calvino?
0:05:46 > 0:05:48Nope.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50You lose five points as well because it was an interruption.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52..who died in February 2016?
0:05:54 > 0:05:55Umberto Eco.
0:05:55 > 0:05:56It Umberto Eco, yes.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58APPLAUSE
0:05:59 > 0:06:01So you get the first set of bonuses, City,
0:06:01 > 0:06:03they're on a Christmas activity.
0:06:03 > 0:06:07What activity does Laurie Lee describe in Cider With Rosie as
0:06:07 > 0:06:10"a special tithe for the boys."
0:06:10 > 0:06:12"Like hay-making, blackberrying, stone-clearing
0:06:12 > 0:06:15"and wishing people a happy Easter,
0:06:15 > 0:06:17"it was one of our seasonal perks"?
0:06:17 > 0:06:19BUZZER
0:06:19 > 0:06:20SLIGHT LAUGHTER
0:06:20 > 0:06:22- Do you know? - They're buzzing at us now.
0:06:22 > 0:06:25- I know. Do you know?- No, I don't know but I thought...
0:06:25 > 0:06:27- Picking...- An activity? - Yeah, it's an activity.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29- Shall we say tobogganing?- What?
0:06:29 > 0:06:31Shall we just say tobogganing? Tobogganing.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33- No, it's carol singing.- OK.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35Secondly, which novel by Charles Dickens
0:06:35 > 0:06:38includes a scene of carol singing organised by Mr Wardle?
0:06:38 > 0:06:42In the same scene, Mr Snodgrass kisses Miss Wardle
0:06:42 > 0:06:44under the mistletoe.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47- Pickwick Papers? - It's not Great Expectations, is it?
0:06:47 > 0:06:49No, it's not. Pickwick Papers. Pickwick Papers.
0:06:49 > 0:06:52- Pickwick Papers.- Correct.
0:06:52 > 0:06:55Which book of 1908 features a carol-singing scene
0:06:55 > 0:06:58in a chapter entitled Dulce Domum?
0:06:58 > 0:07:01The singing in question being performed by a choir of field mice.
0:07:04 > 0:07:05Field mice...
0:07:05 > 0:07:07SHE WHISPERS
0:07:07 > 0:07:08Oh, it's a children's book, isn't it?
0:07:08 > 0:07:10- The Wind In The Willows.- Correct.
0:07:10 > 0:07:12APPLAUSE
0:07:12 > 0:07:13Right, ten points
0:07:13 > 0:07:16for this starter question, then. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:07:16 > 0:07:18What eight-letter word links a 2010 documentary
0:07:18 > 0:07:21about the American public education system,
0:07:21 > 0:07:24a concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
0:07:24 > 0:07:26and a 1903...?
0:07:26 > 0:07:27Superman.
0:07:27 > 0:07:28Superman is correct, yes.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31APPLAUSE
0:07:31 > 0:07:34You get a set of bonuses on a magazine now, City.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37A Century Of Style was the title of an exhibition
0:07:37 > 0:07:40which opened in 2016 at the National Portrait Gallery
0:07:40 > 0:07:43to celebrate the centenary of which magazine?
0:07:43 > 0:07:44(Vogue.) Vogue.
0:07:44 > 0:07:49Correct. Which Vogue model and muse to the likes of Jean Cocteau
0:07:49 > 0:07:52and Man Ray became the magazine's World War II photographer
0:07:52 > 0:07:53and correspondent?
0:07:55 > 0:07:58THEY WHISPER
0:07:58 > 0:08:01I'm going to guess it's a woman, but I can't guess...
0:08:01 > 0:08:03Richard Avedon.
0:08:03 > 0:08:04No, it was Lee Miller.
0:08:04 > 0:08:07And finally, which English writer was an essayist for Vogue,
0:08:07 > 0:08:11covering stories such as the marriage of the future George VI?
0:08:11 > 0:08:14His novels include Chrome Yellow and Antic Hay.
0:08:17 > 0:08:18Aldous Huxley.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21Correct. APPLAUSE
0:08:21 > 0:08:22Fingers on the buzzers.
0:08:22 > 0:08:23Ten points for this.
0:08:23 > 0:08:26Listen to the quotation and answer the question that follows.
0:08:26 > 0:08:31"Mary's virgin explanation made Joseph suspect upstairs neighbour."
0:08:31 > 0:08:35For what astronomical sequence is this sentence a possible pneumonic?
0:08:38 > 0:08:40Is it the order of the planets?
0:08:40 > 0:08:41It is indeed.
0:08:41 > 0:08:45APPLAUSE
0:08:45 > 0:08:47Right, you're off the mark, Newcastle.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49You get three questions for your bonuses on baubles.
0:08:49 > 0:08:51Firstly, for five points...
0:08:51 > 0:08:54"A custard-coffin, a bauble, a silken pie.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57"I love thee well in that thou lik'st it not."
0:08:57 > 0:09:00These words of Petruchio to Katherine
0:09:00 > 0:09:04in The Taming Of The Shrew refer to what item of her clothing?
0:09:06 > 0:09:07So, custard.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09What do we think? What can it be?
0:09:09 > 0:09:12Something that kind of colour, yellowy?
0:09:12 > 0:09:13It's obviously not her underwear.
0:09:13 > 0:09:15I'd say corset.
0:09:15 > 0:09:16A corset?
0:09:17 > 0:09:20- Maybe I'm going too far. - Shall we go with corset? Any ideas?
0:09:20 > 0:09:21- No?- JOHNSON:- Let's try it.
0:09:21 > 0:09:23- Erm...- WEBSTER:- Skirt?
0:09:23 > 0:09:25- Corset.- Is it skirt?
0:09:25 > 0:09:28- No, it's much more innocent, it's her cap.- Oh!
0:09:28 > 0:09:30"So feast your eyes now
0:09:30 > 0:09:33"On mimic star and moon-cold bauble:
0:09:33 > 0:09:35"World's may wither unseen
0:09:35 > 0:09:38"But the Christmas tree is a tree of fable
0:09:38 > 0:09:40"A phoenix in evergreen."
0:09:40 > 0:09:42Appointed Poet Laureate in 1968,
0:09:42 > 0:09:46who wrote those lines in his poem The Christmas Tree?
0:09:46 > 0:09:48- WHISPERING - John Betjeman?
0:09:48 > 0:09:50Is it John Betjeman?
0:09:50 > 0:09:52- No, it was Cecil Day Lewis.- Oh!
0:09:52 > 0:09:55And, finally, in which novel of 1897 does the title character
0:09:55 > 0:10:00describe a shaving mirror as "a foul bauble of man's vanity"
0:10:00 > 0:10:03before flinging it out of a window?
0:10:03 > 0:10:05So, I missed, was it '87, I think you said?
0:10:05 > 0:10:06Yeah, it was '87.
0:10:06 > 0:10:07So, what do we know in '87, anyone?
0:10:07 > 0:10:09- ASTLEY:- Which what of '87?
0:10:10 > 0:10:12We need to listen more carefully to the questions.
0:10:12 > 0:10:13- WEBSTER:- Which, which...?
0:10:13 > 0:10:15Book, I think.
0:10:15 > 0:10:17- No, which character, wasn't it? - It's not going to come back to us.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19I don't think we're going to get it, are we?
0:10:19 > 0:10:22A shaving mirror. No, let's pass because we're wasting time.
0:10:22 > 0:10:23Pass. Sorry, we...
0:10:23 > 0:10:25It's Dracula. Ten points for this.
0:10:25 > 0:10:27Around twice as long as Marcel Proust's
0:10:27 > 0:10:30A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu,
0:10:30 > 0:10:34what document of around 2.6 million words in 12 volumes
0:10:34 > 0:10:38was published in the UK on July the 6th, 2016?
0:10:40 > 0:10:42Erm...
0:10:43 > 0:10:45- No, I'm sorry...- Iraq Inquiry.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47I'll have to accept that.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49- No!- But next time, please answer as soon as you buzz.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51- Give us a chance! - APPLAUSE
0:10:51 > 0:10:52We are giving you a chance.
0:10:52 > 0:10:55I'll give exactly the same courtesy to you.
0:10:55 > 0:10:59So we're going to take a set of bonuses, then, City,
0:10:59 > 0:11:01on the 18th-century naturalist Gilbert White.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03Firstly, for five points,
0:11:03 > 0:11:06Gilbert White is best known for his 1789 compilation of letters
0:11:06 > 0:11:09about the natural history and antiquities
0:11:09 > 0:11:12of which Hampshire village of which he was curate?
0:11:14 > 0:11:17- SHE WHISPERS - Hampshire?
0:11:17 > 0:11:19- Curate of a village in Hampshire. - You know Hampshire.
0:11:19 > 0:11:20Name a village in Hampshire?
0:11:20 > 0:11:22Chichester, but not a village, a town.
0:11:22 > 0:11:24- That's not in Hampshire. - No, I don't know.- Pass.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26It's Selborne.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29White was the first to distinguish the willow wren
0:11:29 > 0:11:31as three separate species.
0:11:31 > 0:11:34Namely the wood warbler, the willow warbler and which other?
0:11:36 > 0:11:39THEY WHISPER
0:11:39 > 0:11:41Field warbler?
0:11:41 > 0:11:42No, it's the chiffchaff.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45And, finally, White described which segmented animals as
0:11:45 > 0:11:48"the great promoters of vegetation,
0:11:48 > 0:11:51"which would proceed but lamely without them"?
0:11:51 > 0:11:53Earthworms?
0:11:53 > 0:11:55- Earthworms.- Correct. APPLAUSE
0:11:55 > 0:11:57Right, we're going to take a picture round now.
0:11:57 > 0:12:00For your picture starter, you're going to see a flag
0:12:00 > 0:12:03that's used to celebrate a week-long festival.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06It's secular, it's in the Americas and for ten points,
0:12:06 > 0:12:08I want you to name the festival.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14Cinco de Mayo?
0:12:14 > 0:12:15No.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21One of you can buzz from Newcastle if you want to have a go.
0:12:21 > 0:12:22- No?- No.
0:12:22 > 0:12:26It's Kwanzaa, although the flag is occasionally seen
0:12:26 > 0:12:28with its colours transposed, apparently.
0:12:28 > 0:12:29So we'll take the picture bonuses
0:12:29 > 0:12:31when someone gets the starter question right.
0:12:31 > 0:12:34Ten points at stake for this, fingers on the buzzers, please.
0:12:34 > 0:12:36Of which poem did WH Auden say,
0:12:36 > 0:12:38"It does for the British and Germans
0:12:38 > 0:12:41"what Homer did for the Greeks and Trojans"?
0:12:41 > 0:12:44Written by the painter and poet David Jones, it's a response...?
0:12:46 > 0:12:48- In Parenthesis.- Correct.
0:12:48 > 0:12:49APPLAUSE
0:12:52 > 0:12:53So we go back to the picture round.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55You get the picture bonuses.
0:12:55 > 0:12:58This year marks the 50th anniversary of Kwanzaa,
0:12:58 > 0:13:01a festival observed from December 26th to January 1st,
0:13:01 > 0:13:04celebrating African heritage and culture.
0:13:04 > 0:13:05For your picture bonuses,
0:13:05 > 0:13:08you're going to see three maps related to the festival.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11Firstly, for five points, name this US state.
0:13:11 > 0:13:16It's the birthplace of the Kwanzaa founder, Maulana Karenga.
0:13:16 > 0:13:17Anyone good on US states?
0:13:17 > 0:13:20- ASTLEY:- I think it's Maryland but I may be wrong.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22You think it's Maryland? Anyone have more thoughts?
0:13:23 > 0:13:26Cos that's New York, is it, coming down?
0:13:26 > 0:13:28Hang on, no. New York's further up.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33- New York's there.- OK, so where do we think?- WEBSTER:- Say Maryland.
0:13:33 > 0:13:34Is it Maryland?
0:13:34 > 0:13:36- It is Maryland, yes. JOHNSON:- Well done!
0:13:36 > 0:13:39Secondly, name the city within Maryland.
0:13:39 > 0:13:41It will host a celebration of the 50th anniversary
0:13:41 > 0:13:44in the Reginald F Lewis Museum.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47I'm no good at cities in Maryland. Anyone?
0:13:47 > 0:13:48Any thoughts?
0:13:48 > 0:13:50- Anyone?- WEBSTER:- No. Pass.
0:13:50 > 0:13:52Sorry, no, we don't know.
0:13:52 > 0:13:53It's Baltimore.
0:13:53 > 0:13:56And, finally, name the language that has official status
0:13:56 > 0:13:57in these countries.
0:13:57 > 0:14:00The seven principles of Kwanzaa are taken from words
0:14:00 > 0:14:02in this language.
0:14:02 > 0:14:03So, it's east Africa.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07What kind of languages are there in east Africa?
0:14:07 > 0:14:09- ASTLEY:- Is it Xhosa?
0:14:09 > 0:14:10Anyone else got any thoughts?
0:14:10 > 0:14:12East African languages?
0:14:12 > 0:14:13- WEBSTER:- Just give it a guess.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16- Nominate Neil.- Yeah, Xhosa.
0:14:16 > 0:14:17No, it's Swahili.
0:14:17 > 0:14:19Xhosa is further south, I think, isn't it?
0:14:19 > 0:14:23Right, it's a common language in Kenya and Tanzania and so on.
0:14:23 > 0:14:25Right, ten points for this. Listen carefully,
0:14:25 > 0:14:27answer as soon as your name is called.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29In the words of the well-known Christmas song,
0:14:29 > 0:14:33if colly birds to the power of French hens is 64,
0:14:33 > 0:14:37what is gold rings to the power of turtledoves?
0:14:37 > 0:14:40Five. Oh, sorry, five.
0:14:40 > 0:14:41No. Anyone like to buzz from City?
0:14:44 > 0:14:47- Erm...- Come on, you can't do this. - God, no, I can't.
0:14:47 > 0:14:48- 125.- You must ans...- 125!
0:14:48 > 0:14:50No, it's 25.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52- Oh, dammit.- It's five squared.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54I'm sorry, Newcastle,
0:14:54 > 0:14:56you have been deducted five points for what was
0:14:56 > 0:15:00a technical interruption and you don't get the points, City,
0:15:00 > 0:15:02obviously, for getting the answer wrong.
0:15:02 > 0:15:03Ten points for this.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05In which novella is the eponymous hero's home
0:15:05 > 0:15:08a tiny asteroid designated B61...?
0:15:10 > 0:15:11- The Little Prince.- Correct.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14APPLAUSE
0:15:15 > 0:15:17Right, your bonuses are now on
0:15:17 > 0:15:20Academy Award-nominated film directors.
0:15:20 > 0:15:21Firstly, for five points,
0:15:21 > 0:15:24which New Zealander was nominated for best director
0:15:24 > 0:15:26for the 1993 film The Piano?
0:15:26 > 0:15:28- Jane... Jane Campion.- Correct.
0:15:28 > 0:15:32The 1975 film Seven Beauties led to which Italian
0:15:32 > 0:15:35becoming the first woman to receive a nomination for best director?
0:15:35 > 0:15:37Her other works include The Seduction Of Mimi
0:15:37 > 0:15:40and Love And Anarchy.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43THEY WHISPER
0:15:43 > 0:15:44No, pass.
0:15:44 > 0:15:45It's Lina Wertmuller.
0:15:45 > 0:15:49And, finally, who became the first woman to win the Academy Award
0:15:49 > 0:15:52for best director for the 2008 film The Hurt Locker?
0:15:52 > 0:15:53Kathryn Bigelow.
0:15:53 > 0:15:57Correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:15:57 > 0:16:00The Irving Berlin song White Christmas
0:16:00 > 0:16:02made its cinema debut in which 194...?
0:16:04 > 0:16:05- Holiday Inn.- Correct.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08APPLAUSE
0:16:09 > 0:16:11Your bonuses, Newcastle,
0:16:11 > 0:16:16are on a June 2016 addition to the Oxford English Dictionary.
0:16:16 > 0:16:19Firstly, for five points, popularised by Wikipedia
0:16:19 > 0:16:21and online quiz websites,
0:16:21 > 0:16:25what Greek-derived term means proper name by which a native
0:16:25 > 0:16:28or resident of a specific place is known?
0:16:28 > 0:16:33For example, Cypriot and Liverpudlian.
0:16:33 > 0:16:36So, a name by which you should be known.
0:16:36 > 0:16:37I don't know. Greek-based.
0:16:37 > 0:16:40- We're looking quite blank.- No. - I don't think I know.
0:16:40 > 0:16:42No, sorry, we don't know.
0:16:42 > 0:16:43It's demonym.
0:16:43 > 0:16:47Secondly, "It was the second best demonym I've ever heard,"
0:16:47 > 0:16:50states the 2013 citation in the New Yorker.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52To which word for an inhabitant of an English city
0:16:52 > 0:16:54is the writer referring?
0:16:54 > 0:16:57It is thought to derive from a Celtic word meaning
0:16:57 > 0:16:59breast-shaped hill.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03A Celtic word for a breast-shaped hill?
0:17:03 > 0:17:04Yeah, from what...
0:17:04 > 0:17:06- WEBSTER:- And it's still describing a sort of demonym.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08- JOHNSON:- Well, I hesitate to say.
0:17:08 > 0:17:11- Gosh, I don't know.- Still describing something, demonym.
0:17:11 > 0:17:13I don't think we know, sorry.
0:17:13 > 0:17:14It's Mancunian.
0:17:14 > 0:17:18And, finally, Carioca is a demonym for which major city
0:17:18 > 0:17:20of the southern hemisphere?
0:17:21 > 0:17:24Carioca, southern hemisphere.
0:17:24 > 0:17:25Caracas...
0:17:25 > 0:17:28- Erm...- WEBSTER:- Yeah, it might be.
0:17:28 > 0:17:29Do you want to say that? Any ideas?
0:17:29 > 0:17:32- ASTLEY:- Try Caracas.- Caracas?
0:17:32 > 0:17:33No, it's Rio de Janeiro.
0:17:33 > 0:17:35We're going to take a music round now.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37For your music starter, you're going to hear an excerpt
0:17:37 > 0:17:40from the soundtrack of a film of 1996.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42Ten points if you can identify the film.
0:17:42 > 0:17:46STRING MUSIC PLAYS
0:18:03 > 0:18:05Is it Angela's Ashes?
0:18:05 > 0:18:07No.
0:18:07 > 0:18:09City, anyone like buzz from there?
0:18:09 > 0:18:11- No conferring.- Oh, yeah, no conferring.- No conferring.
0:18:11 > 0:18:12Er...
0:18:12 > 0:18:16One of you can buzz. You can't start conferring, you know.
0:18:16 > 0:18:17This is all gamesmanship.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19Pull yourselves together!
0:18:19 > 0:18:23- It's Fargo, it was the theme from Fargo.- Oh!
0:18:23 > 0:18:25So music bonuses in a moment or two,
0:18:25 > 0:18:27when someone gets a starter right.
0:18:27 > 0:18:28Ten points at stake for this.
0:18:28 > 0:18:32The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
0:18:32 > 0:18:35was awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi
0:18:35 > 0:18:38for his discovery of the mechanisms of what process?
0:18:39 > 0:18:40Autophagy.
0:18:40 > 0:18:42Correct, yes!
0:18:42 > 0:18:44APPLAUSE
0:18:46 > 0:18:48So, I don't know whether you'll will be pleased to get
0:18:48 > 0:18:50the music bonuses but you have them anyway.
0:18:50 > 0:18:54You heard Carter Burwell's score for the Coen Brothers film Fargo,
0:18:54 > 0:18:57set in snow-covered Minnesota and North Dakota.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00Your bonuses are excerpts from the soundtracks of three more films
0:19:00 > 0:19:05in which snow features memorably or acts as a plot device.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07Five points for the title of each film you can give me.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10First, this from a film of 1990.
0:19:10 > 0:19:13ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:19:18 > 0:19:20Is it one of the Disney films?
0:19:20 > 0:19:22Is that something like Snow White or...?
0:19:22 > 0:19:24No, not in 1990.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26It's 1990.
0:19:26 > 0:19:27What happened in 1990?
0:19:27 > 0:19:29A bit Christmassy and snowy.
0:19:29 > 0:19:33- JOHNSON:- Something to do with Father Christmas?
0:19:33 > 0:19:36Is there a Christmas Carol that year or...?
0:19:36 > 0:19:37THEY MUMBLE
0:19:37 > 0:19:39I don't think we know, do we?
0:19:39 > 0:19:41Erm, shall I say Christmas Carol?
0:19:41 > 0:19:43- No? WEBSTER:- I don't think it is, but yeah.
0:19:43 > 0:19:44- Snow White?- JOHNSON:- That's rubbish.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46- Or Snow White? - WEBSTER:- No, it's not.
0:19:46 > 0:19:49- Let's just guess. Yeah, Christmas Carol.- Christmas Carol.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51No, it's Edward Scissorhands.
0:19:51 > 0:19:55Secondly, from the closing sequence of a film of 1980.
0:19:55 > 0:20:01# Midnight with the stars and you... #
0:20:01 > 0:20:031980 film? Erm...
0:20:03 > 0:20:04# Midnight and a rendezvous... #
0:20:04 > 0:20:06Wilko, you look like you know it.
0:20:07 > 0:20:10- WEBSTER:- Pass, just pass. - No, we don't know.
0:20:10 > 0:20:13That was from The Shining. That was Al Bowlly, of course.
0:20:13 > 0:20:15- And, finally... - I've seen that so many times!
0:20:15 > 0:20:17ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:20:24 > 0:20:26Did he say what year it was?
0:20:26 > 0:20:27No, he didn't say.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29He didn't say what year it is. I have no idea.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31- ASTLEY:- He didn't?- No, he didn't, we don't have a year.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33- We just have to guess. - JOHNSON:- I've no...
0:20:33 > 0:20:36- We're looking really blank. - WEBSTER:- Give us the year!
0:20:36 > 0:20:38- No clues?- JOHNSON:- Go on.
0:20:38 > 0:20:42- ASTLEY:- Was it silent? What's that silent movie film called?
0:20:42 > 0:20:44The...
0:20:44 > 0:20:46- Oh, the black-and-white one? - Yeah.- Yeah.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48- The... Oh, no. I don't know. - JOHNSON:- Was it called...?
0:20:48 > 0:20:50- We don't know.- WEBSTER:- Pass. - We don't know.
0:20:50 > 0:20:52No, sorry, we don't know.
0:20:52 > 0:20:54That's becoming a very familiar response, I'm afraid, isn't it?
0:20:54 > 0:20:56- Yes, it is. - Murder On The Orient Express,
0:20:56 > 0:20:59Richard Rodney Bennett score. Right, ten points for this.
0:20:59 > 0:21:02Introduced by the German physician and writer Georg Groddeck
0:21:02 > 0:21:04and later popularised by Freud,
0:21:04 > 0:21:08what term denotes the sum total of the primitive instinctual forces
0:21:08 > 0:21:09of an individual?
0:21:11 > 0:21:12- Id.- Correct.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14APPLAUSE
0:21:17 > 0:21:19Right, you get a set of bonuses, City,
0:21:19 > 0:21:23on the physiological effects of attending Christmas parties.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25Firstly, alcoholic drinks consumed by the body
0:21:25 > 0:21:29are detoxified through oxidation to acetaldehyde
0:21:29 > 0:21:32by the hepatic enzyme ADH.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34For what do the letters ADH stand?
0:21:35 > 0:21:38- ADH.- ADH.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40Alco...
0:21:40 > 0:21:43deoxy...
0:21:43 > 0:21:44hydration?
0:21:44 > 0:21:46Alcohydroxyhy...
0:21:46 > 0:21:48You're just making this up, aren't you? No, it's...
0:21:48 > 0:21:50- At least I'm having a go! - ..alcohol dehydrogenase.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52Yes, it is. It's good to have a go.
0:21:52 > 0:21:53Well, five points for this.
0:21:53 > 0:21:57The ventromedial nucleus or so-called satiety centre
0:21:57 > 0:22:00is one of the controls for the feeling of fullness
0:22:00 > 0:22:04after the consumption of food, discouraging overeating.
0:22:04 > 0:22:07In which structure at the base of the brain is it located?
0:22:07 > 0:22:09SHE WHISPERS
0:22:09 > 0:22:11- Hypothalamus?- Hypothalamus?
0:22:11 > 0:22:14- Hypothalamus.- Correct.- Nice work.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16And, finally, prolonged nocturnal partying
0:22:16 > 0:22:18may disrupt the cycle of sleeping and waking
0:22:18 > 0:22:21controlled by the suprachiasmatic nucleus,
0:22:21 > 0:22:24also in the hypothalamus.
0:22:24 > 0:22:27What adjective from the Latin for "about" and "day"
0:22:27 > 0:22:29is applied to this cycle?
0:22:31 > 0:22:33Diurnal.
0:22:33 > 0:22:35No, it's circadian.
0:22:35 > 0:22:37Ten points for this. Playing Santa in 1916,
0:22:37 > 0:22:41Santa's Helpers in 1922
0:22:41 > 0:22:44and Santa On A Train in 1940
0:22:44 > 0:22:47were among The Saturday Evening Post Christmas front covers
0:22:47 > 0:22:50produced by which prolific US illustrator?
0:22:52 > 0:22:54- Norman Rockwell.- Correct.
0:22:54 > 0:22:55APPLAUSE
0:22:57 > 0:23:01City, your bonuses are on scientists who share their surnames
0:23:01 > 0:23:03with Italian footballers.
0:23:03 > 0:23:05Give the shared surname in each case.
0:23:05 > 0:23:09First, a goalkeeper in the 2006 Fifa World Cup final
0:23:09 > 0:23:11and the 18th century French naturalist
0:23:11 > 0:23:15noted for his 44 volume Histoire Naturelle.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18- Who was the goalkeeper? - BARBER:- Is it Buffon?
0:23:18 > 0:23:20- NEEDELL:- Buffon, he's...- Quick!
0:23:20 > 0:23:22No, it's not Buffon. What's the...?
0:23:23 > 0:23:25- No?- No.
0:23:25 > 0:23:26Buffon?
0:23:26 > 0:23:27- Correct.- Yes!
0:23:27 > 0:23:29Secondly, for five points,
0:23:29 > 0:23:32the winner of the Golden Boot at the 1982 World Cup
0:23:32 > 0:23:35and a 20th-century Italian physicist noted for his work
0:23:35 > 0:23:39on particle physics and the study of cosmic rays.
0:23:39 > 0:23:42Golden Boot '82, World Cup?
0:23:42 > 0:23:44- Say it, make a guess. - BARBER:- Was it Totti?
0:23:44 > 0:23:47- NEEDELL:- I can't even think of him. - Totti?- BARBER:- Totti.
0:23:47 > 0:23:48Totti.
0:23:48 > 0:23:50- No, it's Rossi.- Oh.
0:23:50 > 0:23:54And finally, a full-back who won the 1996 Champions League
0:23:54 > 0:23:57with Juventus and an Italian scientist noted for a theorem
0:23:57 > 0:24:00in fluid physics and the invention of the barometer.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06Italian left-backs.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09I'm not good on left-backs.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12- Make a guess at an Italian player? - No, sorry.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15- No, pass.- It's Torricelli.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17Right, we're going to take a picture round.
0:24:17 > 0:24:18For your picture starter,
0:24:18 > 0:24:20you're going to see a fresco of the Adoration Of The Magi.
0:24:20 > 0:24:24For ten points, I want to tell me in which half of which century
0:24:24 > 0:24:25it was painted.
0:24:25 > 0:24:29So, for example, your answer could be late 16th or early 15th.
0:24:29 > 0:24:30Here it is.
0:24:34 > 0:24:36Early 14th.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38Correct. The early 1300s, yes.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40APPLAUSE
0:24:40 > 0:24:45So that was Giotto's Adoration Of The Magi dated to around 1305.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48Your bonuses are three more works on the same subject and, again,
0:24:48 > 0:24:53I want you to tell me in which half of which century each was painted.
0:24:53 > 0:24:54Here's the first.
0:24:57 > 0:25:01I'd go early 15th on this, what do you reckon?
0:25:01 > 0:25:02Early 15th.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04No, it's the late 15th, that's Botticelli.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06And, secondly...
0:25:07 > 0:25:08It's older than the other one...
0:25:08 > 0:25:12- No, that's, erm, 17th.- Is it?- Yeah.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14- I'd say that's early 17th.- Yeah.
0:25:14 > 0:25:15Early 17th.
0:25:15 > 0:25:16Correct, that's by Rubens.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18And, finally, this watercolour.
0:25:18 > 0:25:20Oh...
0:25:20 > 0:25:21It could be late 19th or early 20th.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23Which should we go for?
0:25:23 > 0:25:25- Late 19th.- Late 19th.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27Correct, yes. That's by Burne-Jones. APPLAUSE
0:25:31 > 0:25:33So, ten points at stake for this. Answer promptly.
0:25:33 > 0:25:38Name two of the three kings of England between 1378 and 1546
0:25:38 > 0:25:41who are NOT title characters of plays by Shakespeare.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46Erm, Henry VII and...
0:25:46 > 0:25:48Edward IV.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50Correct, the other one was Edward V.
0:25:50 > 0:25:52APPLAUSE
0:25:52 > 0:25:54So, you get a set of bonuses, then, City.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56They're on Scrabble.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58Prior to being placed on the playing board,
0:25:58 > 0:26:01what would be the total score of the tiles required
0:26:01 > 0:26:03to form each of the following words?
0:26:03 > 0:26:06Firstly, "Elf," as in one of Santa's helpers.
0:26:09 > 0:26:10BUZZER
0:26:10 > 0:26:12Oh, sorry, I don't have the buzz. Sorry!
0:26:12 > 0:26:14- BARBER:- 11, one for E...- OK. - NEEDELL:- One is E.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16- BARBER:- Five and five, is it?- 11.
0:26:16 > 0:26:17No, it's six.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20Second, "Party".
0:26:20 > 0:26:21What's P? Is that one or two?
0:26:21 > 0:26:23P is a three.
0:26:23 > 0:26:26Three, four, five, six...
0:26:26 > 0:26:28Seven, eight...
0:26:28 > 0:26:30- BARBER:- How much for Y? - And then how many for Y?
0:26:30 > 0:26:3117?
0:26:31 > 0:26:33No, that is 11.
0:26:33 > 0:26:36And finally, "Yule," Y-U-L-E.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38Y-U-L-E.
0:26:38 > 0:26:42One, two, three, four...
0:26:42 > 0:26:44What's Y?
0:26:44 > 0:26:45Maybe five.
0:26:45 > 0:26:48- Because it was...- No, it's less.
0:26:48 > 0:26:50OK. What are you going to you guess?
0:26:50 > 0:26:52I'd say 11.
0:26:52 > 0:26:5311.
0:26:53 > 0:26:55- No, it's seven.- Oh!
0:26:56 > 0:26:58Right, ten points for this. 1869 and '70,
0:26:58 > 0:27:011918 and '19,
0:27:01 > 0:27:021935 and '36
0:27:02 > 0:27:05and 1973 and '74.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07These are pairs of years that saw the winning
0:27:07 > 0:27:11twice in succession of which sporting event,
0:27:11 > 0:27:13the respective winners being The Colonel,
0:27:13 > 0:27:16Poethlyn, Reynoldstown and Red Rum?
0:27:18 > 0:27:20- Grand National.- Correct.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22APPLAUSE
0:27:23 > 0:27:27Your bonuses are on George Orwell's 1984, City.
0:27:27 > 0:27:30So, for five points, firstly, in Orwell's 1984,
0:27:30 > 0:27:33whose image appears during the Two Minutes Hate? He's the author of
0:27:33 > 0:27:36The Theory And Practice Of Oligarchical Collectivism.
0:27:36 > 0:27:38I need the two-word name, please.
0:27:38 > 0:27:40I can't remember.
0:27:40 > 0:27:42- BARBER:- The Theory Of... - SHE WHISPERS
0:27:42 > 0:27:44- So he's the hate figure? - Yeah, can you remember?
0:27:44 > 0:27:45If not, we'll pass. Pass.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47It's Emmanuel Goldstein.
0:27:47 > 0:27:48Goldstein's work has been... GONG
0:27:48 > 0:27:50APPLAUSE
0:27:50 > 0:27:53And at the gong Newcastle have 35,
0:27:53 > 0:27:54City University have 145.
0:27:56 > 0:27:57Well, Newcastle,
0:27:57 > 0:28:00we're definitely going to be saying goodbye to you, I'm afraid.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02You never got a chance to show us what you're made of, did you?
0:28:02 > 0:28:05- We weren't quick enough off the buzzer.- We didn't, really.
0:28:05 > 0:28:06No, you were a bit slow on the buzzer
0:28:06 > 0:28:09but also you spent an awful lot of time saying, "We don't know, do we?"
0:28:09 > 0:28:11We don't know!
0:28:11 > 0:28:12Anyway, thank you very much for playing.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15You didn't have to and it was good of you to come. Thank you.
0:28:15 > 0:28:18And, City, well, 145 may bring you back
0:28:18 > 0:28:22as one of the highest-scoring winning teams.
0:28:22 > 0:28:24We don't know... Stop being such a suck-up!
0:28:26 > 0:28:28145 may be enough, as I say, to bring you back
0:28:28 > 0:28:30as one of the highest-scoring winning teams,
0:28:30 > 0:28:31we shall have to wait and see.
0:28:31 > 0:28:34But congratulations to you, thank you very much for joining us.
0:28:34 > 0:28:36As I say, you, too, didn't have to do it.
0:28:36 > 0:28:39I hope you can join us next time for another first-round match
0:28:39 > 0:28:42but until then, it's goodbye from Newcastle University.
0:28:42 > 0:28:43- Bye.- Bye!
0:28:43 > 0:28:46- It's goodbye from City University, London.- Goodbye.- Bye.
0:28:46 > 0:28:48And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:48 > 0:28:51APPLAUSE