0:00:19 > 0:00:21APPLAUSE
0:00:21 > 0:00:23Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:30 > 0:00:33Hello, another bout of intellectual snowballs lies ahead of us
0:00:33 > 0:00:37with two more teams of distinguished alumni preparing
0:00:37 > 0:00:39to battle it out for a place in the semifinals.
0:00:39 > 0:00:43We've now played four of the seven first-round matches
0:00:43 > 0:00:46and as only the four teams with the highest winning scores
0:00:46 > 0:00:50will go through, we already know that the University of Kent
0:00:50 > 0:00:53will definitely appear again, and a score of 190 or more
0:00:53 > 0:00:56will guarantee that tonight's winners do so too.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59Now, Edinburgh University is represented first
0:00:59 > 0:01:01by a scientist whose specialism is
0:01:01 > 0:01:04the overlap between genetics and evolution.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07He's also a world expert on the genetics of snails,
0:01:07 > 0:01:10with which we apparently share a distant ancestry,
0:01:10 > 0:01:13a revelation that on reflection isn't quite as surprising
0:01:13 > 0:01:15as it first seems.
0:01:15 > 0:01:17With him, an academic and broadcaster,
0:01:17 > 0:01:20who's researched landscape evolution in Australia, Africa
0:01:20 > 0:01:23and Antarctica. More recently, alongside her present role
0:01:23 > 0:01:27in Edinburgh, she's appeared on TV series such as Coast,
0:01:27 > 0:01:30Rough Science and The Nature Of Britain.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33Their captain has starred in several television dramas
0:01:33 > 0:01:37such as the Emmy-award-winning series Capital
0:01:37 > 0:01:40and the Bletchley Circle, as well as the BAFTA-award-winning comedy
0:01:40 > 0:01:45The Detectorists, and films such as Salmon Fishing In The Yemen.
0:01:45 > 0:01:49In the theatre she's twice been nominated for an Olivier Award.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51Finally, a journalist who began her career
0:01:51 > 0:01:55writing for Edinburgh University's student newspaper.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58Since graduating, she's been associated with one newspaper,
0:01:58 > 0:02:01for which she's been a commissioning editor
0:02:01 > 0:02:03and a correspondent based in Berlin and later Delhi.
0:02:03 > 0:02:07She also writes an occasional column about bikes
0:02:07 > 0:02:11and is the author of Bicycle - The Complete Guide To Everyday Cycling.
0:02:11 > 0:02:14Let's meet the Edinburgh team.
0:02:14 > 0:02:17Hello, my name is Steve Jones. I graduated in Zoology
0:02:17 > 0:02:19from Edinburgh in 1966
0:02:19 > 0:02:21and I spend most of my time, nowadays,
0:02:21 > 0:02:23writing popular science books.
0:02:23 > 0:02:27Hello, I'm Hermione Cockburn, and a I graduated in 1993
0:02:27 > 0:02:30with a BSc in Geography and then again in 1998
0:02:30 > 0:02:32with a PhD in Geomorphology.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35I'm currently the scientific director of Dynamic Earth
0:02:35 > 0:02:36in Edinburgh.
0:02:36 > 0:02:40And this is their captain. Hello, I'm Rachael Stirling.
0:02:40 > 0:02:44I graduated with an MA in History of Art from Edinburgh in 1999.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47And I'm now an actress living and working in London.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49My name is Helen Pidd and I graduated
0:02:49 > 0:02:51with a degree in German in 2004,
0:02:51 > 0:02:55and I'm now the North of England Editor of the Guardian.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57APPLAUSE
0:02:59 > 0:03:02Now, playing for St Catharine's College, Cambridge,
0:03:02 > 0:03:06first is a chemist, a recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry's
0:03:06 > 0:03:08President's Award - he's delivered the Royal Institution's
0:03:08 > 0:03:12Christmas Lectures and made numerous TV appearances
0:03:12 > 0:03:14as a specialist in his field.
0:03:14 > 0:03:16He's also the author of several textbooks
0:03:16 > 0:03:19which will be very familiar to students of chemistry.
0:03:19 > 0:03:23Next, a former teacher turned writer, whose works include
0:03:23 > 0:03:26the bestselling novel Chocolat, she's been a judge for
0:03:26 > 0:03:29the Whitbread and Orange literary prizes
0:03:29 > 0:03:31and says she'd like to make it known
0:03:31 > 0:03:34she's open to offers involving exotic travel.
0:03:34 > 0:03:35For two decades, their captain
0:03:35 > 0:03:39has covered some of the biggest national and international stories
0:03:39 > 0:03:42for the BBC, both in the studio and in the field,
0:03:42 > 0:03:45as correspondent for Europe, New York and the Middle East.
0:03:45 > 0:03:49In doing so, he's won a BAFTA, a Sony and an RTS award.
0:03:49 > 0:03:53Finally, an international musician who was born in Sarajevo
0:03:53 > 0:03:58and won the BBC Music Magazine Newcomer of the Year in 2011.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01She's performed in venues across Europe, the US and Japan,
0:04:01 > 0:04:04released her own albums featuring the works
0:04:04 > 0:04:06of Janacek, Schubert and Ravel,
0:04:06 > 0:04:10and recently made her debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12Let's meet the St Catharine's team.
0:04:12 > 0:04:15Hello, I'm Peter Wothers, I graduated in 1991,
0:04:15 > 0:04:17reading Chemistry and now I'm a teaching fellow
0:04:17 > 0:04:20in the Department of Chemistry in Cambridge.
0:04:20 > 0:04:22Hello, I'm Joanne Harris,
0:04:22 > 0:04:25I graduated from St Catharine's in 1985
0:04:25 > 0:04:27in Modern and Medieval Languages
0:04:27 > 0:04:29and now I write books.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32And this is their captain. Hello, I'm Matthew Price,
0:04:32 > 0:04:35I graduated from St Catharine's in '94, having studied Geography
0:04:35 > 0:04:38and I'm currently the Chief Correspondent
0:04:38 > 0:04:40for the Today programme on Radio 4.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42Hello, I'm Ivana Gavric,
0:04:42 > 0:04:45I graduated in Music from St Catharine's
0:04:45 > 0:04:47and now I'm a concert pianist.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49APPLAUSE
0:04:51 > 0:04:55Same rules as the students, 10 points for starter questions,
0:04:55 > 0:04:57they must be answered individually on the buzzer,
0:04:57 > 0:05:00bonuses you can confer on, they're worth 15 points.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03Fingers on the buzzers - here is your first starter for ten.
0:05:03 > 0:05:08Which influential radio series was first heard in 1951
0:05:08 > 0:05:11and ran until 1960, with a last show of all
0:05:11 > 0:05:14being transmitted in 1972...?
0:05:14 > 0:05:16The Goon Show.
0:05:16 > 0:05:17Correct.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23Right, the first set of bonuses are on chemicals
0:05:23 > 0:05:26and children's literature. Firstly, what two-word Latin term
0:05:26 > 0:05:30denotes a solution of ammonium carbonate in alcohol,
0:05:30 > 0:05:33sometimes carried by Victorian police constables
0:05:33 > 0:05:35to revive fainting women?
0:05:35 > 0:05:37THEY CONFER
0:05:40 > 0:05:42Sal Volatile.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44Correct.
0:05:44 > 0:05:48"When they started in 1919, women were still sniffing sal volatile,
0:05:48 > 0:05:51"and when they ended, boys had begun sniffing glue."
0:05:51 > 0:05:55These words refer to books about which fictional schoolboy,
0:05:55 > 0:05:57brother to Ethel and Robert?
0:06:01 > 0:06:04THEY CONFER
0:06:06 > 0:06:09Jennings? You try it?
0:06:09 > 0:06:11It's a guess.Jennings.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13No, it was Just William, William Brown.
0:06:13 > 0:06:17And finally, "There's nothing like eating hay when you're faint,
0:06:17 > 0:06:20"I should think throwing cold water over you would be better,
0:06:20 > 0:06:24"or some sal volatile." These words in Through The Looking Glass
0:06:24 > 0:06:29form part of an exchange between Alice and which royal figure?
0:06:29 > 0:06:31THEY CONFER
0:06:32 > 0:06:34The Red Queen.
0:06:34 > 0:06:36No, it's the White King. 10 points for this.
0:06:36 > 0:06:38In November 2016, Anglo Saxon graves
0:06:38 > 0:06:41thought to be the oldest of their kind in Britain,
0:06:41 > 0:06:44were unearthed in which English county?
0:06:44 > 0:06:46Possibly dating to the 7th century,
0:06:46 > 0:06:49the site is part of an early Christian community
0:06:49 > 0:06:52on the River Wensum, southeast of Fakenham.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54Norwich, Norfolk.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57Yes, I only wanted the county, so it's Norfolk.
0:06:57 > 0:06:5915 points for these bonuses for you, Edinburgh.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01They are on a piece of classical music.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04In order to make room for more company,
0:07:04 > 0:07:08women were asked to refrain from wearing hoops
0:07:08 > 0:07:11and gentlemen from wearing swords at the world premiere
0:07:11 > 0:07:15of which oratorio at the Fishamble Street Music Hall in Dublin
0:07:15 > 0:07:17in April 1742?
0:07:18 > 0:07:20That's Handel - Messiah.
0:07:20 > 0:07:21Handel's Messiah.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24Correct. Which British monarch is thought to have
0:07:24 > 0:07:27initiated the practice of standing during the performance
0:07:27 > 0:07:30of the Hallelujah Chorus, having done so during
0:07:30 > 0:07:32the Messiah's London premiere in 1743?
0:07:32 > 0:07:34George III.
0:07:34 > 0:07:35George III.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37No, it's George II.
0:07:37 > 0:07:39"The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms
0:07:39 > 0:07:43"of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever."
0:07:43 > 0:07:46These lines from the Hallelujah Chorus are taken
0:07:46 > 0:07:48from which book of the New Testament?
0:07:49 > 0:07:52THEY CONFER
0:07:54 > 0:07:58Revelations? Shall we go Revelations?
0:07:58 > 0:08:00Try something.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02Matthew, Mark, Luke?
0:08:02 > 0:08:05Luke? Christmas Story.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07Which one?!
0:08:07 > 0:08:08Book of Romans!
0:08:08 > 0:08:10No, it's from Revelation.
0:08:10 > 0:08:11ALL GROAN
0:08:11 > 0:08:13In 1958, to what was the US journalist
0:08:13 > 0:08:18Edward R Murrow referring when he said, "This instrument can teach,
0:08:18 > 0:08:22"it can illuminate, yes, and it can even inspire, but it can do so..."?
0:08:22 > 0:08:25Television.
0:08:25 > 0:08:26Correct, yes.
0:08:28 > 0:08:32Three questions on distinctive buildings, Edinburgh.
0:08:32 > 0:08:36Completed in 1930, which building stands over 1,000 feet high
0:08:36 > 0:08:39at 405 Lexington Avenue in Manhattan
0:08:39 > 0:08:43and was the first to use Nirosta metal on its exterior,
0:08:43 > 0:08:46a mixture of chrome, nickel and steel?
0:08:47 > 0:08:49Chrysler.Chrysler Building.
0:08:49 > 0:08:54Correct. Barcelona's Casa Mila, with its undulating balconies
0:08:54 > 0:08:57and surrealistic chimneys is the largest civil building
0:08:57 > 0:09:01designed by Gaudi. It's commonly known by what name,
0:09:01 > 0:09:04that translates as "the quarry"?
0:09:07 > 0:09:09THEY CONFER
0:09:13 > 0:09:15We have not a Scooby-Doo.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18It's La Pedrera.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21And finally, designed by the Chinese-born architect CY Lee
0:09:21 > 0:09:25to resemble a growing bamboo stalk, what was the first skyscraper
0:09:25 > 0:09:28to exceed half a kilometre in height?
0:09:29 > 0:09:32THEY CONFER
0:09:32 > 0:09:34Is it the Burj?
0:09:34 > 0:09:36B-U-R-J.
0:09:36 > 0:09:37In...?
0:09:37 > 0:09:39The Burj.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41No, it's Taipei 101, formerly
0:09:41 > 0:09:44the World Financial Centre. Right, we'll take our picture round now,
0:09:44 > 0:09:47for your first of them. For your picture starter
0:09:47 > 0:09:49you'll see a map of France on which a particular wine region
0:09:49 > 0:09:53has been highlighted. 10 points if you can identify that region.
0:09:57 > 0:09:58Champagne.
0:09:58 > 0:10:00It is, yes.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07OK, for your picture bonuses I want you to identify three more
0:10:07 > 0:10:10common festive tipples from maps showing the regions
0:10:10 > 0:10:12where they are exclusively produced.
0:10:12 > 0:10:14Firstly, this drink which has had
0:10:14 > 0:10:17Protected Designation of Origin since 1933.
0:10:19 > 0:10:20Sherry?
0:10:23 > 0:10:25Shall we try it? Sherry.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28Correct. Secondly, this drink which has had
0:10:28 > 0:10:31its protected appellation since 1936.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35Cognac or Armagnac?
0:10:39 > 0:10:41Cognac.
0:10:41 > 0:10:42Cognac is correct.
0:10:42 > 0:10:46And finally, this drink, which has had its protected appellation
0:10:46 > 0:10:47since the 1750s.
0:10:52 > 0:10:53Port.
0:10:53 > 0:10:54Port is correct, yes,
0:10:54 > 0:10:56in the Douro Valley.
0:10:58 > 0:11:0110 points for this. What three letter begin the names
0:11:01 > 0:11:05of an aromatic herb with an aniseed taste,
0:11:05 > 0:11:10a major sports club in Istanbul, an Irish revolutionary brotherhood
0:11:10 > 0:11:12founded in 1858...
0:11:13 > 0:11:15G-A-L.
0:11:15 > 0:11:19No, you lose five points as well for an incorrect interruption.
0:11:19 > 0:11:22And a railway station in the south-east of the city of London.
0:11:22 > 0:11:26You may not confer, one of you can buzz, Edinburgh.
0:11:28 > 0:11:29V-I-C.
0:11:29 > 0:11:33No, it's F-E-N. So, 10 points at stake for this starter question.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36Not overburdened with festive sentiment,
0:11:36 > 0:11:41which film opened in the US on Boxing Day 1973?
0:11:41 > 0:11:44Based on a novel by William Peter Blatty
0:11:44 > 0:11:46and directed...
0:11:47 > 0:11:48The Exorcist.Correct.
0:11:52 > 0:11:56You get three questions on number theory in 2016.
0:11:56 > 0:12:00January 2016 saw the announcement of the largest prime number
0:12:00 > 0:12:09so far discovered, namely 2 to the power 74,207,281 -1.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11How many digits comprise this number?
0:12:11 > 0:12:13You can have two million either way.
0:12:13 > 0:12:14LAUGHTER
0:12:16 > 0:12:19THEY CONFER
0:12:28 > 0:12:30We're going to try 200,000,000.
0:12:30 > 0:12:36No, it's 22,338,168.
0:12:36 > 0:12:39Secondly, this number is an example of a class of prime
0:12:39 > 0:12:43named after which French monk born in 1588?
0:12:49 > 0:12:52We don't know. They do, over there.
0:12:52 > 0:12:55LAUGHTER
0:12:52 > 0:12:55I could hear them whispering
0:12:52 > 0:12:55between themselves.
0:12:55 > 0:12:59It's Mersenne. And finally, born in the 4th century BCE,
0:12:59 > 0:13:03which Greek mathematician proved that the number of primes is infinite?
0:13:07 > 0:13:09THEY CONFER
0:13:11 > 0:13:13Anyone?Pythagoras.
0:13:13 > 0:13:14Pythagoras.
0:13:14 > 0:13:16No, it's Euclid. 10 points for this.
0:13:16 > 0:13:21"If anyone wishes to see in how little space a human being can move,
0:13:21 > 0:13:23"how little air he can breathe,
0:13:23 > 0:13:26"how little of civilisation he may share, and yet live,
0:13:26 > 0:13:29"it is only necessary to travel hither."
0:13:29 > 0:13:31These words of Friedrich Engels refer
0:13:31 > 0:13:33to which British city?
0:13:35 > 0:13:36Manchester.
0:13:36 > 0:13:37Indeed!
0:13:41 > 0:13:43Good old Northern editor!
0:13:43 > 0:13:45LAUGHTER
0:13:45 > 0:13:48Right, your bonuses are on food and drink in Charles Dickens's
0:13:48 > 0:13:52A Christmas Carol. Revealed by the Ghost of Christmas Past,
0:13:52 > 0:13:55which character is Scrooge's former employer?
0:13:55 > 0:13:58He is seen serving negus, a traditional hot drink
0:13:58 > 0:14:02of port, sugar, lemon and spices, to his guests.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08THEY CONFER
0:14:08 > 0:14:10Fred.
0:14:10 > 0:14:11It's Mr Fezziwig.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14Secondly, which character is first encountered
0:14:14 > 0:14:18sitting on a throne of turkeys, geese, game, poultry and brawn -
0:14:18 > 0:14:22great joints of meat, suckling pigs, wreaths of sausages
0:14:22 > 0:14:24and much more?
0:14:24 > 0:14:27THEY CONFER
0:14:31 > 0:14:33The Ghost of Christmas Present.
0:14:33 > 0:14:34Correct.
0:14:34 > 0:14:39In the final stave, Scrooge refers to what beverage of hot red wine,
0:14:39 > 0:14:44oranges, sugar and spices? Its name refers to the member of the clergy
0:14:44 > 0:14:47whose robes its colour is said to resemble.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51THEY CONFER
0:15:02 > 0:15:04Gluhwein.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06Sorry!No, it's Smoking Bishop.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09We'll take a music round now.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of classical music.
0:15:12 > 0:15:1510 points if you can identify the composer.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17CLASSICAL MUSIC
0:15:20 > 0:15:21Grieg.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23It is Grieg, yes.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28You probably know what it is too, don't you?I do.
0:15:28 > 0:15:33What is it?Piano Concerto. Yes, which one.A minor.Correct.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35LAUGHTER
0:15:35 > 0:15:38In 1887, Edvard Grieg gave a copy of his piano concerto
0:15:38 > 0:15:41as a Christmas present to the composer Frederick Delius.
0:15:41 > 0:15:44Your bonuses are three more classical works,
0:15:44 > 0:15:46this time all conceived and given as Christmas gifts
0:15:46 > 0:15:48to the composer's friends and family.
0:15:48 > 0:15:52All you have to do is identify the composer of each work,
0:15:52 > 0:15:55all three of them are German. Firstly...
0:15:55 > 0:15:56CLASSICAL MUSIC
0:16:14 > 0:16:16Try Schumann?
0:16:18 > 0:16:19Schumann.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21No, it's Mendelssohn.
0:16:21 > 0:16:22That was one of his Six Children's Pieces,
0:16:22 > 0:16:26written as Christmas presents for the children of a family friend.
0:16:26 > 0:16:27Secondly...
0:16:27 > 0:16:29CLASSICAL MUSIC
0:16:59 > 0:17:01Brahms.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04No, that's one of Schumann's romances. Three Romances
0:17:04 > 0:17:07written as a Christmas gift for his wife Clara. And finally...
0:17:07 > 0:17:10CLASSICAL MUSIC
0:17:42 > 0:17:44Anyone?No.Brahms?
0:17:44 > 0:17:47Give me a name, give me a German composer.
0:17:48 > 0:17:49Brahms.
0:17:49 > 0:17:53No, it wasn't, that was part of Wagner's Siegfried Idyll.
0:17:53 > 0:17:5510 points for this. The full moon
0:17:55 > 0:17:59of which month has traditionally been known in the US
0:17:59 > 0:18:03as the Oak Moon, Cold Moon or Long Nights Moon?
0:18:04 > 0:18:05October.
0:18:05 > 0:18:07Nope.
0:18:07 > 0:18:09One of you want to buzz from St Catharine's?
0:18:09 > 0:18:11December.
0:18:11 > 0:18:13Correct, yes.
0:18:15 > 0:18:19Your bonuses are on six-letter words that can be created
0:18:19 > 0:18:22from the letters in the word frankincense.
0:18:22 > 0:18:25In each case, give the word from the definition.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28Firstly, a term commonly used for the inverse of one of
0:18:28 > 0:18:31the main three trigonometric functions.
0:18:33 > 0:18:36THEY CONFER
0:18:54 > 0:18:57We'd better have an answer, please. We've got nothing.
0:18:57 > 0:19:01We don't have pens and paper either, so we can't work it out!
0:19:01 > 0:19:03It's arcsin.
0:19:03 > 0:19:06And secondly, any of a group of phosphoproteins
0:19:06 > 0:19:10that together form the major protein constituent of milk.
0:19:10 > 0:19:12The group is used in the production of cheese,
0:19:12 > 0:19:15and in the manufacture of paints and glues.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17THEY CONFER
0:19:17 > 0:19:18Lactates?Lactase.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21Lactades?..Tase, ase, ase.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23I'll nominate you, Peter.
0:19:23 > 0:19:24Lactase.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26No, it's casein.
0:19:26 > 0:19:30And finally, a small fox with conspicuously large ears,
0:19:30 > 0:19:32native to the Sahara Desert.
0:19:35 > 0:19:36THEY CONFER
0:19:37 > 0:19:39I don't know that one.
0:19:42 > 0:19:43Good on small foxes?
0:19:46 > 0:19:47We don't know, I'm afraid.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50That's a fennec. 10 points for this.
0:19:50 > 0:19:52Born in 1789,
0:19:52 > 0:19:55which English artist did Constable dismiss
0:19:55 > 0:19:57as a "painter of pantomimes"?
0:19:57 > 0:20:01His works are often grandiose landscapes and cityscapes,
0:20:01 > 0:20:04peopled with a myriad of tiny figures...
0:20:04 > 0:20:05George Martin.
0:20:07 > 0:20:09No, I can't accept that, no...
0:20:09 > 0:20:10Sorry, Martin...
0:20:10 > 0:20:12Anyone like to buzz from Edinburgh?
0:20:12 > 0:20:14You lose five points, I'm afraid, as well.
0:20:14 > 0:20:17They include The Plains Of Heaven and The Fall Of Nineveh.
0:20:20 > 0:20:21Somebody Martin?
0:20:21 > 0:20:24LAUGHTER
0:20:21 > 0:20:24That's not good enough.
0:20:24 > 0:20:29You obviously knew it, Joanne, but it was John Martin, of course,
0:20:29 > 0:20:33not George Martin, who was the Beatles' producer, wasn't he?
0:20:33 > 0:20:35So, 10 points at stake for this.
0:20:35 > 0:20:381066 in Normandy,
0:20:38 > 0:20:42Anaconda in Johannesburg and Stress Express in eastern China
0:20:42 > 0:20:46are examples of what recreational structures
0:20:46 > 0:20:48listed on rcdb.com?
0:20:48 > 0:20:52This comprehensive website provides statistics such as length,
0:20:52 > 0:20:54drop, g-force and speed.
0:20:54 > 0:20:56Roller-coasters.
0:20:56 > 0:20:57Correct.
0:20:59 > 0:21:02Your bonuses are on German dramatists now, Edinburgh.
0:21:02 > 0:21:06Born in 1898, which dramatist advocated that
0:21:06 > 0:21:10audiences should not identify with the characters on stage,
0:21:10 > 0:21:13but should experience theatre with critical detachment?
0:21:13 > 0:21:16The so-called alienation effect.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18Brecht.
0:21:18 > 0:21:19Bertolt Brecht.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21Correct.
0:21:21 > 0:21:25Written in the 1830s and first produced posthumously in 1879,
0:21:25 > 0:21:29what was the last work of the dramatist Georg Buchner?
0:21:29 > 0:21:33It concerns an army barber whose jealousy of his partner's affair
0:21:33 > 0:21:36causes him to erupt into violence.
0:21:36 > 0:21:37Woyzeck?
0:21:37 > 0:21:38Woyzeck.
0:21:38 > 0:21:42Correct. Finally, which German playwright, poet and novelist
0:21:42 > 0:21:45was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999?
0:21:45 > 0:21:49He caused controversy in 2006, just before the publication
0:21:49 > 0:21:51of his work Peeling The Onion,
0:21:51 > 0:21:54when he revealed that he had been a member of the Waffen-SS.
0:21:54 > 0:21:55Gunter Grass.
0:21:55 > 0:21:56Correct.
0:21:56 > 0:21:59A picture round now. For your picture starter you'll see
0:21:59 > 0:22:00a photograph of a noted academic
0:22:00 > 0:22:03who was also an author of enduring fiction.
0:22:03 > 0:22:0510 points if you can name him.
0:22:08 > 0:22:09Tolkien.
0:22:09 > 0:22:10No.
0:22:12 > 0:22:14Lewis.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16No, it's MR James.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18So, we'll take another starter question
0:22:18 > 0:22:21and we'll take the picture bonuses in a moment or two.
0:22:21 > 0:22:2310 points at stake for this, fingers on buzzers, please.
0:22:23 > 0:22:28Which US director's last film was an 1987 adaptation of The Dead,
0:22:28 > 0:22:32the final short story in James Joyce's collection, Dubliners?
0:22:32 > 0:22:37A pivotal role in the film was taken by his daughter Anjelica.
0:22:40 > 0:22:41John Huston.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43Correct.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43SHE SIGHS
0:22:47 > 0:22:50Now, you saw a picture of MR James a moment ago, he is noted
0:22:50 > 0:22:54both as a medievalist scholar and as a writer of ghost stories.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57For your bonuses, three writers, each of whom has made
0:22:57 > 0:23:00a notable contribution to the genre of ghost fiction.
0:23:00 > 0:23:04Alongside an image from an adaptation of one of their works.
0:23:04 > 0:23:08First, I want the name of this author and the title of his work,
0:23:08 > 0:23:10here adapted as an opera.
0:23:24 > 0:23:27No, we don't know. It's Henry James, it was an adaption
0:23:27 > 0:23:29of The Turn Of The Screw.
0:23:29 > 0:23:33Secondly, this Irish writer and the original title of his story,
0:23:33 > 0:23:36which was rather loosely adapted as the film on the right.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47We're just going to go James Joyce again.
0:23:47 > 0:23:50No, that was Sheridan Le Fanu and Carmilla.
0:23:50 > 0:23:53And finally, this writer and the work adapted here
0:23:53 > 0:23:55for the silver screen.
0:23:55 > 0:23:57Oh...
0:23:59 > 0:24:01It's Susan Hill...
0:24:01 > 0:24:03Yes, it's The Woman In Black.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05Susan Hill.And...
0:24:05 > 0:24:06The Woman In Black.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08Correct. 10 points for this.
0:24:08 > 0:24:12In terms of cultural organisations, if Germany is Goethe
0:24:12 > 0:24:17and Spain Cervantes, China is which historical figure?
0:24:19 > 0:24:20Confucius.
0:24:20 > 0:24:22Correct.
0:24:25 > 0:24:29Your bonuses are on women born in the 1870s, Edinburgh.
0:24:29 > 0:24:33In each case, name the person from the description, please.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36Firstly, an author born in Pennsylvania in 1874.
0:24:36 > 0:24:39Her works include Wars I Have Seen
0:24:39 > 0:24:42and The Autobiography Of Alice B Toklas.
0:24:44 > 0:24:46Could it be Gertrude Stein?
0:24:46 > 0:24:49I think it's a bit early. Gertrude Stein?
0:24:49 > 0:24:51Gertrude Stein.Correct.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54Secondly, an educator born in Rome in 1870,
0:24:54 > 0:24:57she's noted for a system based on spontaneity
0:24:57 > 0:24:59and freedom from restraint.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05Montessori.Nominate Jones.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07Sorry, sorry. Montessori.
0:25:07 > 0:25:08Correct, Maria Montessori.
0:25:08 > 0:25:12And finally, a suffragette born in Blackheath in 1872,
0:25:12 > 0:25:16she died after a highly visible protest during the 1913 Derby.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21The one who was killed by the King's horse.
0:25:21 > 0:25:24It's not one of the Pankhursts, definitely not.
0:25:24 > 0:25:25What was the other one?
0:25:27 > 0:25:29Come on.Oh, God.
0:25:29 > 0:25:30Try it, I don't know.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32Pankhurst, Emmeline, wrong.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35It's Emily Davidson.Davidson! There's about two and a quarter
0:25:35 > 0:25:38minutes to go and 10 points at stake for this. Who's this?
0:25:38 > 0:25:42Born in Scotland in 1797, he proposed an explanation
0:25:42 > 0:25:45of the causes of earthquakes, named geological eras, such as
0:25:45 > 0:25:49the Pliocene, and popularised the concept of uniformitarianism.
0:25:50 > 0:25:51Charles Lyell.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53Correct, yes.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58These bonuses are on Buddhism.
0:25:58 > 0:26:03In which country is the World Heritage site of Taxila,
0:26:03 > 0:26:06a major city of the historical region of Gandhara,
0:26:06 > 0:26:09a centre of Buddhist learning from the 5th century BCE?
0:26:12 > 0:26:15I would say India or Nepal. Nepal?
0:26:15 > 0:26:16Nepal.
0:26:16 > 0:26:17No, it's Pakistan.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20Destroyed by Islamic invaders in the 12th century,
0:26:20 > 0:26:24the ruins of Nalanda, sometimes described as a Buddhist university,
0:26:24 > 0:26:29lie southeast of Patna in which Indian state?
0:26:33 > 0:26:35Try Rajasthan.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37Rajasthan.
0:26:37 > 0:26:38No, it's Bihar.
0:26:38 > 0:26:42And finally, founded by the prominent reformer Dengio,
0:26:42 > 0:26:45Enryaku-ji was a major centre of Buddhist learning
0:26:45 > 0:26:49from the 9th century. It lies close to which former Japanese capital?
0:26:52 > 0:26:53Edo.Edo.
0:26:53 > 0:26:55No, it's Kyoto.
0:26:55 > 0:26:5710 points for this. Which poet's works
0:26:57 > 0:26:58include the 1954 poem -
0:26:58 > 0:27:01The Cultivation Of Christmas Trees.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03It was the last of his Ariel poems,
0:27:03 > 0:27:07celebrating the different aspects of the festive season.
0:27:09 > 0:27:10Ted Hughes.
0:27:10 > 0:27:14No, anyone like to buzz from Edinburgh?
0:27:14 > 0:27:15Auden.
0:27:15 > 0:27:17No, it was TS Eliot. 10 points for this.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20Set against the backdrop of a wintry Wyoming landscape,
0:27:20 > 0:27:24the bounty hunter John Ruth and his fugitive captive
0:27:24 > 0:27:27seek refuge during a blizzard in which 2015 film
0:27:27 > 0:27:29by Quentin Tarantino?
0:27:34 > 0:27:37I'll tell you - it's The Hateful Eight. Ten points for this.
0:27:37 > 0:27:40Listen carefully, what is the only single-digit positive integer
0:27:40 > 0:27:43that is not a factor...
0:27:40 > 0:27:43GONG
0:27:45 > 0:27:48At the gong, St Catharine's College have 60,
0:27:48 > 0:27:50Edinburgh University have 115.
0:27:50 > 0:27:52Well, thank you all very much for taking part,
0:27:52 > 0:27:54you didn't need to do it, any of you.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57So, it was great fun. St Catharine's, we're going to
0:27:57 > 0:28:00be saying goodbye to you, but thank you very much for joining us.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02And, Edinburgh, I think we're going to probably say goodbye
0:28:02 > 0:28:05to you as well cos only the four highest-scoring winning teams
0:28:05 > 0:28:09go through and I doubt 115 will be anywhere near good enough for that.
0:28:09 > 0:28:10LAUGHTER
0:28:10 > 0:28:12You spent too long conferring!
0:28:12 > 0:28:14Anyway, I hope you can join us next time for another
0:28:14 > 0:28:16first-round match, but until then, it's goodbye from
0:28:16 > 0:28:19St Catharine's College, Cambridge. ALL:Goodbye.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21It's goodbye from Edinburgh University. ALL:Goodbye.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.