0:00:19 > 0:00:21Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:25 > 0:00:27APPLAUSE
0:00:29 > 0:00:32Hello. Now, in recent months, we've heard a great deal about
0:00:32 > 0:00:34the Scandinavian concept of "hygge",
0:00:34 > 0:00:39supposedly a sense of comfortable, fellow feeling with seasonal warmth.
0:00:39 > 0:00:43The next half hour should provide a welcome antidote to such sentiment,
0:00:43 > 0:00:46as the icy blast of competition fills the studio with two more teams
0:00:46 > 0:00:50of alumni, each determined to beat the other to the semifinals.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53From the results we've seen so far in this series,
0:00:53 > 0:00:58we know that if tonight's score is over 245 as winners,
0:00:58 > 0:01:01that team will definitely appear in the next stage of the competition.
0:01:01 > 0:01:03Not much to ask, is it, really?
0:01:03 > 0:01:06Soas, or the School Of Oriental And African Studies,
0:01:06 > 0:01:09is a constituent college of the University of London,
0:01:09 > 0:01:12and is in the middle of celebrating its centenary.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15They're fielding a retired diplomat and former ambassador.
0:01:15 > 0:01:19He's headed the FCO's China Hong Kong Department, and since retiring,
0:01:19 > 0:01:23he's been the Chair of the Japan Society of the UK.
0:01:23 > 0:01:27With him, a cultural historian whose many projects have included
0:01:27 > 0:01:30presenting the TV series The Lost Kingdoms Of Africa.
0:01:30 > 0:01:34He's judged the Art Fund's British Museum Of The Year
0:01:34 > 0:01:37and in 2017, he'll be presenting the programme
0:01:37 > 0:01:40Tate Britain Great British Walks on Sky Arts.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43Their captain is an author and columnist,
0:01:43 > 0:01:45as well as being a familiar face on television,
0:01:45 > 0:01:47particularly on Channel 4,
0:01:47 > 0:01:51where his Trigger Happy TV won the Silver Rose Of Montreux
0:01:51 > 0:01:54and earned him three British Comedy Award nominations.
0:01:54 > 0:01:57He's also made a brief foray into the world of politics,
0:01:57 > 0:02:00failing to wrest the seat of Kensington and Chelsea
0:02:00 > 0:02:03from Alan Clark in the 1997 general election,
0:02:03 > 0:02:06when he stood for the Teddy Bear Alliance.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09With them, a Nigerian-Finnish writer
0:02:09 > 0:02:12and founder of the award-winning blog MsAfropolitan,
0:02:12 > 0:02:15which covers Africa from a feminist perspective.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18Her writing also appears in the Guardian
0:02:18 > 0:02:19and the Guardian Africa,
0:02:19 > 0:02:22the Huffington Post, and on Al Jazeera.
0:02:22 > 0:02:26She's been described as one of Nigeria's most influential women.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28Let's meet the Soas team.
0:02:28 > 0:02:30Hello, I'm David Warren.
0:02:30 > 0:02:34In 1976, I studied Japanese for a year at Soas as part of
0:02:34 > 0:02:36the Foreign Office's language training programme,
0:02:36 > 0:02:41and between 2008 and 2012, I was British Ambassador to Japan.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44Hello, I'm Gus Casely-Hayford.
0:02:44 > 0:02:49I finished my PhD in 1992, looking at Ghanaian political elites.
0:02:49 > 0:02:51Captain?
0:02:51 > 0:02:52Hello, I'm Dom Joly.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55I got a BA in Politics from Soas,
0:02:55 > 0:02:57and I'm now a comedian and a travel writer.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01Hi, I'm Minna Salami.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04I got an MA from Soas in 2012 and I'm now a writer,
0:03:04 > 0:03:08blogger and commentator on social and cultural issues.
0:03:08 > 0:03:10APPLAUSE
0:03:13 > 0:03:16Now, the team from Leeds University is made up of
0:03:16 > 0:03:18a writer who's been nominated for several awards,
0:03:18 > 0:03:22including the Costa Novel Award and the Orange Prize For Fiction.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25She's a critic and cultural commentator on television
0:03:25 > 0:03:29and in the press, and has been a judge for the Man Booker Prize
0:03:29 > 0:03:31and Costa Book Of The Year.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33With her, a keyboard player and vocalist with
0:03:33 > 0:03:38a band whose members all met as students at Leeds,
0:03:38 > 0:03:40and who have gone on to win the Mercury Prize,
0:03:40 > 0:03:43an Ivor Novello Award, and a Grammy nomination.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46Alongside their award-winning albums, their music often
0:03:46 > 0:03:49features in television and feature film productions.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52Their captain traces his love of journalism
0:03:52 > 0:03:54to the less-than-salubrious office
0:03:54 > 0:03:58of the Leeds University student newspaper in the late 1980s.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01Since then, he's been political editor of the Observer
0:04:01 > 0:04:04and business editor at the Sunday Telegraph,
0:04:04 > 0:04:06before taking on his present role.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09Their fourth member began his award-winning career by
0:04:09 > 0:04:13drawing for children's comics before moving on to Punch, Private Eye,
0:04:13 > 0:04:16the New Statesman and the Spectator among others.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18The enduring images he's created
0:04:18 > 0:04:23include John Major with his underpants outside his trousers,
0:04:23 > 0:04:25Tony Blair with Margaret Thatcher's rogue eyeball,
0:04:25 > 0:04:28and George W Bush as a chimpanzee.
0:04:28 > 0:04:31Let's meet the Leeds team.
0:04:31 > 0:04:35I'm Louise Doughty, and I graduated from Leeds in 1984 with
0:04:35 > 0:04:36a degree in English Literature,
0:04:36 > 0:04:39and I now write novels for a living.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41Hello, I'm Gus Unger-Hamilton.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44I graduated from Leeds in 2010 in English,
0:04:44 > 0:04:46and I now play in the band alt-J.
0:04:46 > 0:04:47And this is their captain.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49Hello, I'm Kamal Ahmed.
0:04:49 > 0:04:53I graduated from Leeds University in Political Studies in 1990,
0:04:53 > 0:04:55and I'm now the economics editor for the BBC.
0:04:57 > 0:04:59Hello, I'm Steve Bell.
0:04:59 > 0:05:03I studied Fine Art between 1970 and 1974.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06I've been drawing daily cartoons, more or less, for the Guardian,
0:05:06 > 0:05:08since 1981.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10APPLAUSE
0:05:13 > 0:05:15OK, the rules are the same as for the students' series.
0:05:15 > 0:05:1710 points for starter questions,
0:05:17 > 0:05:20which have to be answered on the buzzer individually.
0:05:20 > 0:05:24Bonuses are worth 15, and you can confer - they're team efforts.
0:05:24 > 0:05:25There's a five-point penalty
0:05:25 > 0:05:28if you interrupt a starter question incorrectly.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31So, fingers on the buzzers - here's your first starter for ten.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33Which English monarch is the subject of
0:05:33 > 0:05:37a portrait bought for the National Collection in July 2016,
0:05:37 > 0:05:39following a campaign by the Art Fund?
0:05:39 > 0:05:43Usually known by the name of a failed invasion fleet,
0:05:43 > 0:05:47it was purchased from the descendants of Sir Francis Drake.
0:05:51 > 0:05:52Elizabeth I.
0:05:52 > 0:05:54Correct. It was The Armada Portrait.
0:05:54 > 0:05:56APPLAUSE
0:05:58 > 0:06:00Soas, the first set of bonuses fall to you.
0:06:00 > 0:06:03They're on people born on Christmas Day.
0:06:03 > 0:06:08Firstly, born on Christmas Day in 1911, which French-US artist
0:06:08 > 0:06:12is noted for her large-scale sculpture and installation art?
0:06:12 > 0:06:15Her nine-metre-high steel spider, entitled Maman,
0:06:15 > 0:06:19was created for the opening of Tate Modern in 2000.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21Yes? Louise Bourgeois.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23Correct. Quote...
0:06:23 > 0:06:26"As soon as I stepped out of my mother's womb onto dry land,
0:06:26 > 0:06:30"I realised that I'd made a mistake, that I shouldn't have come.
0:06:30 > 0:06:33"But the problem with children is they're not returnable."
0:06:33 > 0:06:35Which author, performer and raconteur
0:06:35 > 0:06:38wrote that of his birth on Christmas Day, 1908?
0:06:41 > 0:06:43(Is it, er...? Is it Quentin Crisp?)
0:06:43 > 0:06:46(Quentin Crisp.)Yes? (Try Quentin Crisp.)
0:06:46 > 0:06:47Quentin Crisp?
0:06:47 > 0:06:49Correct.Oh, well done.And, finally, born in India
0:06:49 > 0:06:51on Christmas Day, 1936,
0:06:51 > 0:06:55which film producer released over 40 feature films with his partner,
0:06:55 > 0:06:57the US director James Ivory?
0:06:57 > 0:06:59THEY WHISPER
0:06:59 > 0:07:00Ismail Merchant.
0:07:00 > 0:07:02Correct. Ten points for this...
0:07:02 > 0:07:03APPLAUSE
0:07:03 > 0:07:04Fingers on the buzzers.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07In the Southern Hemisphere, what is the two-word Latin name of
0:07:07 > 0:07:12the luminous atmospheric phenomenon also known as "the Southern Lights"?
0:07:14 > 0:07:16The aurora Australis.
0:07:16 > 0:07:17Correct.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20APPLAUSE
0:07:20 > 0:07:23Your bonuses are on shorter words that can be made by using
0:07:23 > 0:07:26any of the ten letters of the word "poinsettia."
0:07:26 > 0:07:29In each case, give the word from the definition.
0:07:29 > 0:07:32Firstly, for five, originating in the Middle Ages,
0:07:32 > 0:07:35it's a type of footwear with a raised platform used to
0:07:35 > 0:07:39increase height or to protect the wearer's feet from mud.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45THEY CONFER
0:07:51 > 0:07:52A step.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55No, it's a patten. P-A-T-T-E-N.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57Secondly, a small,
0:07:57 > 0:08:00early keyboard instrument belonging to the harpsichord family.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06THEY CONFER
0:08:06 > 0:08:08What other ones are there?
0:08:08 > 0:08:11Spinet? Spinet, yeah...
0:08:11 > 0:08:12Spinet.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14Correct. And, finally, in Greek mythology,
0:08:14 > 0:08:16the personification of dawn,
0:08:16 > 0:08:18corresponding to the Roman goddess Aurora.
0:08:21 > 0:08:23Who was dawn in Greek mythology?
0:08:24 > 0:08:26THEY WHISPER
0:08:28 > 0:08:31No, do you know that one?
0:08:31 > 0:08:33No...
0:08:33 > 0:08:34No, we don't know, I'm afraid.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37It's Eos. Ten points for this.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40"Sow-dug", "gramfy-coocher" and "johnny-grump"
0:08:40 > 0:08:44are among regional terms for which common terrestrial crustacean?
0:08:44 > 0:08:47Distinguished by their segmented exoskeleton...
0:08:49 > 0:08:50Woodlouse.
0:08:50 > 0:08:51Yes.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53APPLAUSE
0:08:55 > 0:08:58Your bonuses are on wind farms, Leeds.
0:08:58 > 0:09:02According to its website, the RSPB objects to what percentage of
0:09:02 > 0:09:06wind farm applications because they threaten bird populations?
0:09:06 > 0:09:08You can have 5% either way.
0:09:10 > 0:09:1270?I'd say high.
0:09:12 > 0:09:14You think it's that high? I wouldn't have said that high.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16Yeah.OK.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18Er, 60%.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20No, they only object, apparently, to 6%!
0:09:21 > 0:09:25While generally supporting the growth of wind power generation,
0:09:25 > 0:09:28the website notes that some wind farms have been poorly sited,
0:09:28 > 0:09:31and cause major bird casualties.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34One example they cite is Altamont Pass.
0:09:34 > 0:09:35In which US state is it?
0:09:36 > 0:09:39Is it California? Cos Altamont was, er...
0:09:39 > 0:09:41It was, like, a Stones concert.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43Right. OK. Happy to go with it?OK.
0:09:43 > 0:09:44California.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46Correct.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49RSPB research, finally, concludes that wind farm construction
0:09:49 > 0:09:55can reduce breeding populations of which upland bird by up to 50%?
0:09:55 > 0:09:57The largest European wading bird,
0:09:57 > 0:10:00it's distinguished by its long, down-curved bill.
0:10:00 > 0:10:04Cormorant, isn't it? Curlew, curlew.Curlew.
0:10:04 > 0:10:05Avocets go up, so... Yeah, curlew.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07Curlew.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09Correct. Right, we're going to take a picture round now.
0:10:09 > 0:10:12For your picture starter, you're going to see a table showing
0:10:12 > 0:10:14the total number of Olympic medals
0:10:14 > 0:10:16won to date by a British athlete.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18For ten points, I want you to
0:10:18 > 0:10:19identify the athlete.
0:10:24 > 0:10:26Steve Redgrave.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28Anyone like to buzz from Soas?
0:10:28 > 0:10:30You may not confer! One of you can buzz.
0:10:32 > 0:10:33Come on! Stop conferring
0:10:33 > 0:10:35or trying to confer!
0:10:35 > 0:10:39Ugh! Just can't remember his name.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41Right, I'm going to tell you. I know who it is.
0:10:41 > 0:10:42It's Bradley Wiggins. Oh, I didn't know...
0:10:42 > 0:10:44BELL RINGS
0:10:44 > 0:10:46LAUGHTER
0:10:46 > 0:10:50That wasn't who I was thinking.OK, so, he got eight Olympic medals.
0:10:50 > 0:10:54It made him the most decorated British Olympian of all time.
0:10:54 > 0:10:57So, we're going to get the picture bonuses in a moment or two,
0:10:57 > 0:11:00when someone gets a starter question correct.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02So, ten points at stake for this. Fingers on the buzzers, please.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05In the subtitle of a 2016 reappraisal
0:11:05 > 0:11:07by Andrew Crines and Kevin Hickson,
0:11:07 > 0:11:12who is described as "the unprincipled Prime Minister?"
0:11:12 > 0:11:15In 1947, he became Britain's youngest Cabinet minister
0:11:15 > 0:11:18of the 20th century...
0:11:18 > 0:11:19Harold Wilson.
0:11:19 > 0:11:22Correct.
0:11:19 > 0:11:22APPLAUSE
0:11:22 > 0:11:25Right, so we go back, then, to the picture round.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28Your picture bonuses show the medals of three more of
0:11:28 > 0:11:32Britain's most decorated Olympic and Paralympic athletes,
0:11:32 > 0:11:35all of whom added to their tallies in Rio this year.
0:11:35 > 0:11:39Five points for each athlete you can identify. Firstly, for five...
0:11:41 > 0:11:45Who got three golds? What's her name? Erm...
0:11:46 > 0:11:50Victoria Pendleton? No. No, no, no.Erm...
0:11:52 > 0:11:55DOM SIGHS
0:11:52 > 0:11:55God, what's she called? No.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57No, pass.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59It's Jason Kenny. Ah, so we got it wrong anyway.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02He joined Chris Hoy on six Olympic golds this year,
0:12:02 > 0:12:04the highest number of a British Olympic athlete.
0:12:04 > 0:12:06And secondly...
0:12:08 > 0:12:10Is that Greg Rutherford? Is it, yeah?
0:12:10 > 0:12:12He's the only one I can think of, yeah?
0:12:12 > 0:12:14Greg Rutherford?
0:12:14 > 0:12:17No, that's Katherine Grainger - her silver this year made her
0:12:17 > 0:12:19the joint most decorated British female Olympian.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21And finally...
0:12:22 > 0:12:24It can't be an endurance sport,
0:12:24 > 0:12:26can it?No.
0:12:26 > 0:12:27Who's the guy that was...
0:12:27 > 0:12:29The cyclist, who...
0:12:29 > 0:12:30Oh, I'm terrible at cycling.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32I've no idea.
0:12:32 > 0:12:33Are you good on cycling?
0:12:33 > 0:12:34THEY WHISPER
0:12:34 > 0:12:36I think we'd better have an answer, please.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38We've no idea.
0:12:38 > 0:12:40That's Sarah Storey, the Paralympian.Oh.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43Right, ten points for this. "The long-distance lines are down.
0:12:43 > 0:12:46"What about the satellite? Is it snowing in space?"
0:12:46 > 0:12:49These are the words of the stranded weatherman Phil Connors,
0:12:49 > 0:12:52played by Bill Murray in which...
0:12:54 > 0:12:55Groundhog Day.
0:12:55 > 0:12:58It is Groundhog Day, yes.
0:12:55 > 0:12:58APPLAUSE
0:12:58 > 0:13:02Your bonuses, Leeds, are on the 1990s.
0:13:02 > 0:13:05In each case, give the year in which the following events occurred.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08Firstly, A S Byatt's Possession won the Booker Prize,
0:13:08 > 0:13:13Iraq invaded Kuwait, and East and West Germany signed a unification treaty.
0:13:13 > 0:13:161990?'90, I think.'90.
0:13:16 > 0:13:19'91?No, '90.'90? OK.
0:13:19 > 0:13:211990.
0:13:21 > 0:13:24Correct. Secondly, James Kelman's How Late It Was, How Late
0:13:24 > 0:13:27won the Booker Prize, the Channel Tunnel opened
0:13:27 > 0:13:31and Nelson Mandela became president of South Africa.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33'94?I'm pretty sure it was '94.
0:13:33 > 0:13:351994.
0:13:35 > 0:13:39Correct. And finally, Arundhati Roy's The God Of Small Things
0:13:39 > 0:13:40won the Booker Prize,
0:13:40 > 0:13:42Diana, Princess of Wales, died
0:13:42 > 0:13:44and the UK elected a Labour government.
0:13:44 > 0:13:461997.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49Correct. Ten points for this.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51November 2016 saw a disagreement between an academic at
0:13:51 > 0:13:55the University of Toronto and a European art gallery over
0:13:55 > 0:13:58the authenticity of 65 drawings attributed by the former...
0:13:59 > 0:14:01Peter Doig.
0:14:01 > 0:14:02No. You lose five points.
0:14:02 > 0:14:06..attributed by the former to which 19th-century artist?
0:14:08 > 0:14:09Van Gogh.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11Van Gogh is correct, yes.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11APPLAUSE
0:14:13 > 0:14:16Your bonuses, Leeds, are on the films of Ken Loach.
0:14:16 > 0:14:20In 1965, the BBC televised Ken Loach's film version of which
0:14:20 > 0:14:22story collection by Nell Dunn,
0:14:22 > 0:14:25concerning three young women in Clapham and Battersea?
0:14:25 > 0:14:29Its title refers in part to a major railway junction in that area.
0:14:31 > 0:14:32(Up The Junction.OK.)
0:14:32 > 0:14:34Up The Junction.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37Correct. Starring Crissy Rock,
0:14:37 > 0:14:41which award-winning 1994 docudrama by Loach concerns
0:14:41 > 0:14:44a woman's struggles with social services over the custody of
0:14:44 > 0:14:48her children? Its title is the first two words of a nursery rhyme.
0:14:48 > 0:14:50(No, it's 1994...)
0:14:50 > 0:14:53(First two words of a nursery rhyme...)
0:14:53 > 0:14:56(Ladybird, Ladybird.)
0:14:57 > 0:14:58Ladybird, Ladybird.
0:14:58 > 0:14:59Correct.
0:14:59 > 0:15:05And finally, Loach's 1993 film Raining Stones features Bruce Jones
0:15:05 > 0:15:09as a man trying to buy what specific item of apparel for his daughter?
0:15:09 > 0:15:11Confirmation dress.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13Confirmation dress.
0:15:13 > 0:15:16Yes, a confirmation or communion dress is fine. So...
0:15:16 > 0:15:18now we're going to take a music round.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21For your music starter, you'll hear two carols played simultaneously,
0:15:21 > 0:15:25both of which have been transposed into a minor key.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28For ten points, I want you to identify both carols.
0:15:28 > 0:15:32PIANO PLAYS
0:15:39 > 0:15:42O Little Town Of Bethlehem and Jingle Bells.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44Correct. Well done!
0:15:42 > 0:15:44APPLAUSE
0:15:46 > 0:15:49Following on from that cacophony, your music bonuses
0:15:49 > 0:15:52are three more pairs of carols played simultaneously,
0:15:52 > 0:15:56all of which have undergone modal or tonal transposition.
0:15:56 > 0:16:00For five points in each case, I want you to identify both carols heard.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03PIANO PLAYS
0:16:20 > 0:16:23THEY CONFER
0:16:25 > 0:16:26(What's the other one?)
0:16:31 > 0:16:34MUSIC STOPS
0:16:34 > 0:16:38(Shall we try that?Try that. We'll try that.)
0:16:38 > 0:16:41Erm, We Three Kings and In The Bleak Midwinter.
0:16:41 > 0:16:43Well, We Three Kings was easy enough, wasn't it?
0:16:43 > 0:16:45But apparently the other one was Silent Night.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48Secondly, identify this pair of carols.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51They've been transposed from a minor modality to a major one.
0:16:51 > 0:16:56PIANO PLAYS
0:17:06 > 0:17:07(Is it Hark! The Herald?)
0:17:19 > 0:17:23SOFT CHUCKLING
0:17:19 > 0:17:23(Can't hear the other one!)
0:17:23 > 0:17:26Haven't got a clue. Little Town Of Bethlehem and...
0:17:26 > 0:17:30That apparently is the Coventry Carol and O Come, O Come Emanuel.
0:17:30 > 0:17:32And finally, name this pair -
0:17:32 > 0:17:35both have been transposed from major to minor.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37PIANO PLAYS
0:17:38 > 0:17:40(Ding dong Merrily On High...)
0:17:49 > 0:17:52PIANO CONTINUES
0:17:53 > 0:17:57Joy To The World.Joy To The World. And Ding Dong Merrily On High.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59Ding Dong Merrily On High and Joy To The World.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02Correct!
0:17:59 > 0:18:02APPLAUSE
0:18:04 > 0:18:06Right, ten points for this starter question.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09From the 1720s, Lady Mary Montagu was an early proponent of
0:18:09 > 0:18:12inoculation against which disease?
0:18:12 > 0:18:14She'd observed the treatment in Turkey
0:18:14 > 0:18:18as the wife of the British ambassador.
0:18:18 > 0:18:19Polio?
0:18:19 > 0:18:21No. Anyone like to buzz from Soas?
0:18:21 > 0:18:22Smallpox?
0:18:22 > 0:18:24Smallpox is correct.
0:18:22 > 0:18:24APPLAUSE
0:18:26 > 0:18:31You get three bonuses on elements known since antiquity.
0:18:31 > 0:18:36Which element firstly occurs chiefly as the sulphide mineral stibnite?
0:18:36 > 0:18:39There is evidence of its use several thousand years ago as
0:18:39 > 0:18:42a primary component in the eye make-up kohl.
0:18:46 > 0:18:49THEY WHISPER
0:18:49 > 0:18:53Charcoal, but is that an element? It's not an element.No...
0:18:53 > 0:18:57Carbon?I think it's carbon, yes? Yeah?
0:18:57 > 0:18:58Carbon.
0:18:58 > 0:18:59No, it's antimony.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01Secondly, the word "copper"
0:19:01 > 0:19:04is derived from the name of what location,
0:19:04 > 0:19:07the primary source of the mined element in Roman times?
0:19:10 > 0:19:14Cyprus. Cyprus?Why? Copper, the name...Yeah?
0:19:14 > 0:19:17Is it derived from the location Cyprus?
0:19:17 > 0:19:19Are you happy with that? Yeah? Cyprus.
0:19:19 > 0:19:20Correct.
0:19:20 > 0:19:22Finally, alloyed with copper to make bronze,
0:19:22 > 0:19:26which element has a symbol derived from its Latin name, stannum?
0:19:29 > 0:19:32So, it makes bronze and it's from...
0:19:32 > 0:19:34Stannum, Latin.The name is stannum.
0:19:34 > 0:19:35Let's have it.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40(Is it tin?)
0:19:40 > 0:19:41Tin?
0:19:41 > 0:19:43Tin is correct, yes.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43APPLAUSE
0:19:44 > 0:19:47Ten points for this. In 2016, which novel
0:19:47 > 0:19:52by the South Korean author Han Kang became the first winner...
0:19:52 > 0:19:53The Vegetarian.
0:19:53 > 0:19:56The Vegetarian is right.
0:19:53 > 0:19:56APPLAUSE
0:19:57 > 0:20:00You get three bonuses on the actor and singer Paul Robeson.
0:20:00 > 0:20:04In 1928, Robeson sang Ol' Man River in the London premiere of
0:20:04 > 0:20:07which musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein?
0:20:07 > 0:20:10Showboat.Not Porgy And Bess?
0:20:10 > 0:20:16Porgy And Bess or Showboat? Ol' Man River is Showboat.Oh, OK.
0:20:16 > 0:20:17Showboat.
0:20:17 > 0:20:23Correct. Robeson starred in, but later disowned, which film of 1935?
0:20:23 > 0:20:26Based on the writings of Edgar Wallace
0:20:26 > 0:20:28and concerned with British colonial interests in Nigeria,
0:20:28 > 0:20:32it featured Leslie Banks as the title character.
0:20:37 > 0:20:41Any thoughts?No, I'm sorry.
0:20:41 > 0:20:42Sorry, we don't know.
0:20:42 > 0:20:45That's Sanders Of The River. And finally, in 1930,
0:20:45 > 0:20:48Robeson appeared opposite Peggy Ashcroft as the title
0:20:48 > 0:20:52character in a West End run of which of Shakespeare's tragedies?
0:20:52 > 0:20:54Must be Othello.Othello.
0:20:54 > 0:20:55Of course. 10 points for this.
0:20:55 > 0:21:00H0 H0 H0 - that's H-zero, H-zero, H-zero -
0:21:00 > 0:21:02is Santa's postcode,
0:21:02 > 0:21:06according to the postal service of which Commonwealth country?
0:21:09 > 0:21:11Canada.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13Canada is correct, yes.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13APPLAUSE DROWNS SPEECH
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Right, your bonuses, Leeds, this time,
0:21:17 > 0:21:20are on some of the 16 people listed in MB Synge's work
0:21:20 > 0:21:22Great Englishwomen,
0:21:22 > 0:21:26an historical reading book for schools published in 1907.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29In each case, name the person from the description.
0:21:29 > 0:21:32Firstly, a founder and member of the Royal Academy,
0:21:32 > 0:21:34born in Switzerland in 1741.
0:21:34 > 0:21:36She is particularly associated with
0:21:36 > 0:21:40wall paintings in residences designed by Robert Adam.
0:21:44 > 0:21:47She's an artist, then. Yeah. Robert Adam...
0:21:47 > 0:21:49I don't know who it is. I really don't know.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51Any woman artists?
0:21:51 > 0:21:55Woman artists... from the 18th century?
0:21:57 > 0:21:59Angelika Kaufmann? Give it a whirl.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01Angelika Kaufmann.
0:22:01 > 0:22:02Correct!(Well done!)
0:22:02 > 0:22:06Secondly, an influential science writer born in Scotland in 1780.
0:22:06 > 0:22:09Interested in a wide range of scientific disciplines,
0:22:09 > 0:22:13a college of Oxford is named after her.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16Not Mary Wollstonecraft, no?
0:22:18 > 0:22:22Oxford...What's her... Science...
0:22:22 > 0:22:25Science. Oxford college named after her?
0:22:25 > 0:22:281780 born.1780.
0:22:29 > 0:22:32What was your answer? Mary Wollstonecraft.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35Yeah, OK. Mary Wollstonecraft.
0:22:35 > 0:22:37No, it's Mary Somerville.
0:22:37 > 0:22:40And finally, a poet who died in Florence in 1861.
0:22:40 > 0:22:44Her works include Sonnets From The Portuguese and Aurora Leigh.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47Barrett Browning. Sorry?Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
0:22:47 > 0:22:48Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
0:22:48 > 0:22:52Correct. There are five minutes to go. Here's your starter question - it's a picture one.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55For your picture starter, you're going to see a still from a film.
0:22:55 > 0:22:57Ten points if you can give me the title of the film.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04No-one has an idea?
0:23:05 > 0:23:08Well, that still was from Die Hard, starring Alan Rickman,
0:23:08 > 0:23:10who died earlier this year.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12So, we'll take the picture bonuses in a moment or two
0:23:12 > 0:23:15and take another starter question in the meantime.
0:23:15 > 0:23:17Fingers on the buzzers. Here we go.
0:23:17 > 0:23:21Which second-wave feminist magazine was launched in the UK
0:23:21 > 0:23:23in 1972 by the journalist...
0:23:24 > 0:23:25Spare Rib?
0:23:25 > 0:23:27Spare Rib is correct, yes.
0:23:25 > 0:23:27APPLAUSE
0:23:29 > 0:23:32So, you will be thrilled to hear you get the picture bonuses.
0:23:32 > 0:23:36Die Hard was set on Christmas Eve and it concerned
0:23:36 > 0:23:38a particularly unfortunate office party.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41Your picture bonuses are stills from another three
0:23:41 > 0:23:44less-than-festive films set during the Christmas period.
0:23:44 > 0:23:49Firstly, for five, I need the specific title of this 1992 film.
0:23:49 > 0:23:53OK, which one, though? Batman Returns? Is it?
0:23:53 > 0:23:55THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:23:57 > 0:23:59I think it's Batman Returns. Yeah?
0:23:59 > 0:24:00Batman Returns.
0:24:00 > 0:24:03Correct. Secondly, the title of this 1960 film?
0:24:05 > 0:24:08Ooh...The Apartment? Yes, it is. Yeah. Yeah?
0:24:08 > 0:24:09The Apartment.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12Correct. And finally, this 1984 film?
0:24:14 > 0:24:17Oh... Gremlins, yeah? Gremlins.
0:24:17 > 0:24:20Correct. Ten points for this.
0:24:17 > 0:24:20APPLAUSE
0:24:20 > 0:24:25In November 2016, which US baseball team won their first championship...
0:24:26 > 0:24:27Chicago Cubs?
0:24:27 > 0:24:29Yes.
0:24:27 > 0:24:29APPLAUSE
0:24:31 > 0:24:34First time in 108 years. Here are your bonuses. They're on galaxies.
0:24:34 > 0:24:38What name is given to the group of over 50 galaxies that,
0:24:38 > 0:24:41in astronomical terms, lie in relatively close proximity to
0:24:41 > 0:24:47the Milky Way? The galaxy Triangulum also lies in this region.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49HE WHISPERS
0:24:49 > 0:24:50THEY LAUGH
0:24:49 > 0:24:50You trying again?
0:24:50 > 0:24:53I'm not any good on galaxies. No, not on galaxies.
0:24:55 > 0:24:57Crab Nebula?No idea!
0:24:57 > 0:24:58Sorry, we don't know.
0:24:58 > 0:25:00That's the Local Group.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03The Milky Way is the second-largest galaxy in the Local Group.
0:25:03 > 0:25:06What is the largest? It's more than two million light years from Earth
0:25:06 > 0:25:09and has the designation M31.
0:25:10 > 0:25:14Do you know ANY galaxies? I don't know.
0:25:14 > 0:25:15No, no.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17Sorry, we don't know that either.
0:25:17 > 0:25:18That's the Andromeda galaxy.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21And finally, which US astronomer coined the term Local Group
0:25:21 > 0:25:25in his 1936 book The Realm Of The Nebulae?
0:25:28 > 0:25:31Er, I don't really know astronomers. Sagan?
0:25:31 > 0:25:34Carl Sagan was a writer but was he actually an astronomer?
0:25:34 > 0:25:37I don't know.Fred Hoyle? Fred Hoyle, yeah.
0:25:38 > 0:25:39Fred Hoyle.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42No, that was Edwin Hubble. Ten points for this.
0:25:42 > 0:25:46Which decade saw the capture of Beijing by the Manchu Ching Dynasty?
0:25:46 > 0:25:48In Japan, the Dutch began trading
0:25:48 > 0:25:51from the island of Dejima, in Nagasaki Bay,
0:25:51 > 0:25:55and in England the king was executed and a Commonwealth proclaimed.
0:25:57 > 0:25:581649.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00That's correct, yes.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00APPLAUSE
0:26:00 > 0:26:04It's the 1640s - I only wanted the decade, so I'm accepting that.
0:26:04 > 0:26:08Right, your bonuses are on kitchens and artistic expression, Leeds.
0:26:08 > 0:26:12March Past Of The Kitchen Utensils forms part of The Wasps,
0:26:12 > 0:26:15a suite of incidental music by which composer?
0:26:15 > 0:26:18He wrote it in 1909 for a Trinity College Cambridge production
0:26:18 > 0:26:22of a comedy by Aristophanes.
0:26:22 > 0:26:23Vaughan Williams.
0:26:23 > 0:26:25Correct. "I write this sitting in the kitchen sink"
0:26:25 > 0:26:28is the opening line of which novel by Dodie Smith,
0:26:28 > 0:26:30first published in 1948?
0:26:32 > 0:26:34I Captured The Castle.
0:26:34 > 0:26:37Correct. And finally, The Kitchen Maid or Milkmaid
0:26:37 > 0:26:41is a painting by which artist born in Delft in 1632?
0:26:41 > 0:26:42Is it Vermeer?
0:26:43 > 0:26:47Either Vermeer or De Hooch. Say Vermeer.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49Vermeer? Vermeer.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51Vermeer is correct. Ten points for this.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53First published in book form in 1906,
0:26:53 > 0:26:57The Gift Of The Magi is a seasonal short story...
0:26:57 > 0:26:59O Henry.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01O Henry is right, yes.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01APPLAUSE
0:27:02 > 0:27:05Your bonuses are on cricketing terminology
0:27:05 > 0:27:08from the glossary of ESPN Cricinfo.
0:27:08 > 0:27:10In each case, give the term from the definition.
0:27:10 > 0:27:13All three are five-letter words.
0:27:13 > 0:27:17First, when the batsman is clearly lbw, even at full speed.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22Clearly lbw at full speed?
0:27:23 > 0:27:26I have no idea.I don't understand the question.
0:27:26 > 0:27:29Idon't understand the question.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32Leg before wicket.Leg before wicket.Yes, but that is lbw!
0:27:32 > 0:27:34GONG
0:27:37 > 0:27:40It's plumb.Oh, PLUMB, right, OK.
0:27:40 > 0:27:44At the gong, Soas have 85, Leeds University have 175.
0:27:44 > 0:27:47So, Soas, we definitely have to say goodbye to you.
0:27:47 > 0:27:51Leeds, you might come back as one of the highest-scoring winning teams. We don't know. We'll see.
0:27:51 > 0:27:55175 is certainly better than some winning scores we've seen so far.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57But in the meantime, I'd like to thank all of you for taking part.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59You didn't have to. Thank you very much.
0:27:59 > 0:28:03APPLAUSE
0:27:59 > 0:28:03I hope you can join us next time for
0:27:59 > 0:28:03another first-round match.
0:28:03 > 0:28:07But until then, it's goodbye from the School of Oriental and African studies...
0:28:07 > 0:28:08ALL:Goodbye.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11..it's goodbye from Leeds University... ALL:Goodbye.
0:28:11 > 0:28:13..and it's goodbye from me - goodbye.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15APPLAUSE