0:00:19 > 0:00:22Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:29Hello.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32We're about to play the penultimate first-round match of our
0:00:32 > 0:00:35seasonal series for distinguished alumni.
0:00:35 > 0:00:38Two more teams have gamely foregone an evening's wassailing
0:00:38 > 0:00:42in order to fight for the honour of their college, and a score of 180
0:00:42 > 0:00:45or more will definitely put tonight's winners in the semifinals,
0:00:45 > 0:00:49alongside the University of Kent and St Anne's College, Oxford.
0:00:49 > 0:00:53Now, playing for Magdalene College, Cambridge first is an academic
0:00:53 > 0:00:57and consultant on the settlement of ethnic and religious conflicts.
0:00:57 > 0:00:59He's been involved in peace negotiations in Iraq,
0:00:59 > 0:01:01Moldova, and Yemen.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04With him, a broadcaster specialising in the arts.
0:01:04 > 0:01:08As well as Breakfast on Radio 3, she's reported for
0:01:08 > 0:01:12The Culture Show, and presented the BBC Proms and Unreported World.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14She's also a violinist, a journalist,
0:01:14 > 0:01:16and the author of two novels.
0:01:16 > 0:01:20Their captain is the principal investigator of Zooniverse,
0:01:20 > 0:01:24which allows volunteers to participate in scientific research.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27He's also co-authored popular science books
0:01:27 > 0:01:28with Sir Patrick Moore,
0:01:28 > 0:01:31and the Queen guitarist and Astrophysicist Dr Brian May.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34Attentive viewers will no doubt remember his appearance
0:01:34 > 0:01:38as a student on University Challenge some years ago,
0:01:38 > 0:01:41and will be wishing him better luck this time.
0:01:41 > 0:01:43Their fourth team member directed television plays,
0:01:43 > 0:01:46working with writers including David Hare, John Osborne,
0:01:46 > 0:01:50and Jack Rosenthal, before moving into cinema.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52His numerous credits for the big screen include
0:01:52 > 0:01:56Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, Donnie Brasco,
0:01:56 > 0:01:58and Four Weddings And A Funeral,
0:01:58 > 0:02:02which became the highest-grossing British film in cinema history
0:02:02 > 0:02:06at the time, and for which he won a Bafta award as Best Director.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08Let's meet the Magdalene team.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11I'm Stefan Wolff. I read for an M Phil in Political Thought and
0:02:11 > 0:02:14Intellectual History, and now I'm a professor
0:02:14 > 0:02:18of International Security at the University of Birmingham.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20Hello, I'm Clemency Burton-Hill. I read English at Magdalene.
0:02:20 > 0:02:25I graduated in 2003, and these days I'm a broadcaster,
0:02:25 > 0:02:26and a journalist and novelist.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28And this is their captain.
0:02:28 > 0:02:30I'm Chris Lintott. I read Natural Sciences at Magdalene.
0:02:30 > 0:02:34These days, I'm a professor of Astrophysics at Oxford, where I'm
0:02:34 > 0:02:39a research fellow at New College, and I co-present The Sky At Night.
0:02:39 > 0:02:40I'm Mike Newell.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43I read English at Magdalene, finishing in 1963,
0:02:43 > 0:02:45and I now make feature films.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47APPLAUSE
0:02:51 > 0:02:56Now, St Hilda's College, Oxford was founded as a hall for women,
0:02:56 > 0:03:00but became co-educational in 2008, although judging by the composition
0:03:00 > 0:03:03of tonight's team, it's taking a while for men to make their mark.
0:03:03 > 0:03:07Their first team member has been head of several institutions,
0:03:07 > 0:03:10including principal of Somerville College, Oxford,
0:03:10 > 0:03:12the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges,
0:03:12 > 0:03:14and the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
0:03:14 > 0:03:18She chaired the Caldicott committee on Patient Identifiable Data
0:03:18 > 0:03:22in the NHS, and in her present role ensures there are safeguards
0:03:22 > 0:03:27to protect personal confidential data in health and social care.
0:03:27 > 0:03:31Next, a specialist in the literature of Ancient Greece and Rome, with
0:03:31 > 0:03:36a particular emphasis on sexuality, women and gender in Roman society.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39Her books include Catullus' Bedspread,
0:03:39 > 0:03:43the life of Rome's most erotic poet, and she's been the recipient
0:03:43 > 0:03:47of a Gay Clifford Award for Outstanding Women Scholars.
0:03:47 > 0:03:49Their captain was one of the youngest undergraduates
0:03:49 > 0:03:54accepted by St Hilda's, and the first from a Scottish state school.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57Happily, she says she survived the culture shock of arriving in
0:03:57 > 0:04:00a place where no-one understood a word she said.
0:04:00 > 0:04:03Her first novel was published in 1987,
0:04:03 > 0:04:07and her prolific and award-winning output since has made her
0:04:07 > 0:04:09a leading figure of the Tartan Noir.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11She writes occasional journalism,
0:04:11 > 0:04:16and can be heard regularly on BBC Radio 4 and Radio Scotland.
0:04:16 > 0:04:20Their fourth player was an actress, singer, and a teacher of French
0:04:20 > 0:04:23before taking up her present profession as a writer,
0:04:23 > 0:04:26for which she's been shortlisted for the Whitbread Award,
0:04:26 > 0:04:29and highly commended for the Carnegie Medal,
0:04:29 > 0:04:32and anyone who listens to Radio 4's Round Britain Quiz will know her
0:04:32 > 0:04:35as a member of the North Of England Team.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38Now, let's ask them to introduce themselves.
0:04:38 > 0:04:40Hello, I'm Fiona Caldicott.
0:04:40 > 0:04:45I studied Medicine at St Hilda's, graduating in 1966.
0:04:45 > 0:04:48I know chair a big teaching hospital trust in Oxford,
0:04:48 > 0:04:50and I'm the National Data Guardian.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53Hello, I'm Daisy Dunn.
0:04:53 > 0:04:58I read Classics at St Hilda's from 2005 to 2009,
0:04:58 > 0:05:00and I'm now an author and journalist.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02And this is their captain.
0:05:02 > 0:05:03Hi, I'm Val McDermid.
0:05:03 > 0:05:07I graduated from St Hilda's in 1975 with a degree in English,
0:05:07 > 0:05:08and I'm now a crime writer.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11Hello, I'm Adele Geras.
0:05:11 > 0:05:16I was at St Hilda's between 1963 and 1966,
0:05:16 > 0:05:19reading Modern Languages, and I'm now a writer.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21APPLAUSE
0:05:25 > 0:05:28Well, the rules on this show are as constant as the Northern Star.
0:05:28 > 0:05:32Ten points for starters, 15 points for bonuses. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34Here's your first starter for ten.
0:05:34 > 0:05:37Forming part of Christmas decorations in British churches
0:05:37 > 0:05:39since the 15th century,
0:05:39 > 0:05:42what seasonal pairing links the winner of the
0:05:42 > 0:05:45Best Actress Award for The Piano with the group of prestigious...?
0:05:47 > 0:05:51- The holly and the ivy.- Correct. APPLAUSE
0:05:52 > 0:05:55Holly Hunter and the Ivy League was the connection.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58Right, you're going to get three bonuses on world events
0:05:58 > 0:06:01of January 2016, St Hilda's.
0:06:01 > 0:06:05The Zika virus hit the headlines in early 2016.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08Spread by the aedes aegypti mosquito,
0:06:08 > 0:06:13it takes its name from the forest of origin in which African country?
0:06:15 > 0:06:18Any idea?
0:06:18 > 0:06:20- Congo?- Let's go with Congo.
0:06:20 > 0:06:22We're going to go with Congo.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24No, it's Uganda.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27Early January saw the UK government announce the creation of
0:06:27 > 0:06:31a large marine reserve around which British overseas territory
0:06:31 > 0:06:32in the South Atlantic?
0:06:32 > 0:06:36It lies about 700 miles north-west of St Helena.
0:06:36 > 0:06:39It was the Falklands, wasn't it? Was it? Was it the Falklands?
0:06:39 > 0:06:42- Was it the Falklands?- I think so. Let's go for the Falklands.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45- The Falklands.- No, that's the other direction. It's Ascension Island.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48- Oh.- And finally, in January 2016,
0:06:48 > 0:06:53the Democratic Progressive Party candidate, Tsai Ing-wen,
0:06:53 > 0:06:57was elected the first female president of which country?
0:06:57 > 0:06:59- Is that South Korea?- I don't know.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03- I have no idea.- South Korea?
0:07:03 > 0:07:05We think it's South Korea.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07No, it wasn't, it was Taiwan.
0:07:07 > 0:07:08Ten points for this.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11"The spell of Trafalgar has been broken."
0:07:11 > 0:07:15These words of Kaiser Wilhelm II refer to which battle?
0:07:15 > 0:07:19It began on May 31st 19...
0:07:19 > 0:07:21Skagerrak.
0:07:21 > 0:07:22No, you lose five points.
0:07:22 > 0:07:26..on May 31, 1916 when British and German naval forces
0:07:26 > 0:07:29sighted each other off the coast of Denmark.
0:07:31 > 0:07:34- Was that Jutland? - It was the Battle of Jutland, yes.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36APPLAUSE
0:07:36 > 0:07:41So, St Hilda's, you get bonuses on the magi, or three wise men.
0:07:41 > 0:07:42Which of the New Testament gospels
0:07:42 > 0:07:45includes an account of the three wise men
0:07:45 > 0:07:48visiting Mary, Joseph and the infant Jesus?
0:07:49 > 0:07:51- Matthew?- Matthew? - I think it's Matthew.
0:07:51 > 0:07:53- Matthew.- Correct.
0:07:53 > 0:07:58First performed in 1951, which opera by Gian Carlo Menotti
0:07:58 > 0:08:01concerns a young boy's encounter with the three wise men
0:08:01 > 0:08:03on their journey to visit the infant Jesus?
0:08:05 > 0:08:07I've no idea.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12- 1951. No?- No. - Sorry, we don't know.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14That's Amahl And The Night Visitors.
0:08:14 > 0:08:17And finally, which poet wrote of the magi finding,
0:08:17 > 0:08:20"The city's hostile, and the town's unfriendly,
0:08:20 > 0:08:24"and the village is dirty and charging high prices.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26"A hard time we had of it."
0:08:26 > 0:08:28- TS Eliot.- That's correct, yes. LAUGHTER
0:08:28 > 0:08:31Too easy. Ten points for this.
0:08:31 > 0:08:34Estimated at around 17 nanometres for an oxygen molecule
0:08:34 > 0:08:36in air at room temperature and pressure,
0:08:36 > 0:08:39what three-word term is used in physics
0:08:39 > 0:08:42for the average distance that a molecule travels
0:08:42 > 0:08:44between successive...
0:08:44 > 0:08:47- It's the mean free path.- It is.
0:08:47 > 0:08:51APPLAUSE DROWNS OUT SPEECH
0:08:51 > 0:08:54Right, these bonuses, Magdalene, are on space missions.
0:08:54 > 0:09:00In November 2006, NASA permanently lost contact with a global surveyor
0:09:00 > 0:09:02that had been launched ten years earlier
0:09:02 > 0:09:04to orbit and map which planet?
0:09:04 > 0:09:06- Mars.- Correct.
0:09:06 > 0:09:10For what to do the letters RO stand in the acronym MRO,
0:09:10 > 0:09:12denoting a multipurpose spacecraft
0:09:12 > 0:09:16able to analyse the weather and surface conditions on Mars?
0:09:16 > 0:09:18- Reconnaissance Orbiter.- Correct.
0:09:18 > 0:09:19In October 2016,
0:09:19 > 0:09:23the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter detected the crash site
0:09:23 > 0:09:27of which probe named after an Italian astronomer born in 1835?
0:09:27 > 0:09:30- Schiaparelli. - Schiaparelli is correct.
0:09:30 > 0:09:32We're going to take a picture round now.
0:09:32 > 0:09:33For your picture starter,
0:09:33 > 0:09:34you'll see the opening lines of a poem
0:09:34 > 0:09:39which in 2016 celebrated the bicentenary of its publication.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41For ten points, name the poet.
0:09:41 > 0:09:42To make it a little more challenging,
0:09:42 > 0:09:44we've removed every other word.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46LAUGHTER
0:09:51 > 0:09:55- Keats.- It's Keats. It's On Looking Into Chapman's Homer.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58And there's the whole thing. APPLAUSE
0:09:58 > 0:10:01OK, St Hilda's, you have to listen carefully.
0:10:01 > 0:10:02For each of your bonus questions
0:10:02 > 0:10:06we've taken the opening lines of two 19th-century novels
0:10:06 > 0:10:07each by the same author,
0:10:07 > 0:10:10then we've taken the first word of one line
0:10:10 > 0:10:12followed by the second word of the other,
0:10:12 > 0:10:15followed by the third word of the first line
0:10:15 > 0:10:18and the fourth word of the second and so on,
0:10:18 > 0:10:19alternating between the two.
0:10:19 > 0:10:21You are now going to see the results.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23For five points, name both the works
0:10:23 > 0:10:26whose opening lines have been combined here.
0:10:27 > 0:10:30Great Expectations, and...
0:10:33 > 0:10:35David Copperfield.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37Great Expectations and something else.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39Is it David Copperfield?
0:10:41 > 0:10:43"Whether I should be the hero of my own life..."
0:10:43 > 0:10:45No, because David Copperfield opens, "I was born..."
0:10:45 > 0:10:49- David Copperfield's first person. - Yeah.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51It's Great Expectations and...
0:10:51 > 0:10:53"..I shall be the hero in my life."
0:10:53 > 0:10:57- I think that's David Copperfield. - Do you think? OK.
0:10:57 > 0:10:59David Copperfield and Great Expectations.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02That is correct. You can see the whole thing now.
0:11:02 > 0:11:03There we are.
0:11:03 > 0:11:04And the second.
0:11:04 > 0:11:07The titles of these here in translation.
0:11:10 > 0:11:16- Machiavelli?- That's... - You know.- No. Which one?
0:11:16 > 0:11:22- So it's Tolstoy, isn't it? Anna Karenina and...- Prince Lucca...
0:11:22 > 0:11:24Is it War And Peace? Bonapartes...
0:11:24 > 0:11:29- I think it's Italian. - Or it could be...- No, it's Tolstoy.
0:11:29 > 0:11:31We think it's War And Peace and Anna Karenina, yeah?
0:11:31 > 0:11:33War And Peace and Anna Karenina?
0:11:33 > 0:11:35That's correct. Here they are.
0:11:37 > 0:11:38Here's the third.
0:11:41 > 0:11:45- Ah!- Emma Woodhouse.- Yeah. - It's Pride And Prejudice and Emma.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47Pride And Prejudice and Emma.
0:11:47 > 0:11:50That's correct. Here they are.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52Excellent. Good. Well, ten points for this.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55APPLAUSE Fingers on the buzzer.
0:11:55 > 0:11:58In which novel does the author offer a vision of heaven
0:11:58 > 0:11:59where, having won the FA Cup,
0:11:59 > 0:12:03the entire Leicester City team are selected to play for England
0:12:03 > 0:12:07and go on to beat Brazil 4-1 in the World Cup final?
0:12:07 > 0:12:10Beginning with a woodworm explaining
0:12:10 > 0:12:12how he became a stowaway on Noah's Ark,
0:12:12 > 0:12:16it was first published in 1989, the author being...
0:12:17 > 0:12:21Julian Barnes, History Of The World In Ten And A Half Chapters.
0:12:21 > 0:12:22That's correct, yes.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25APPLAUSE
0:12:26 > 0:12:31Your bonuses are on seasonal food and drink, St Hilda's.
0:12:31 > 0:12:33Traditional Christmas fare in the low countries,
0:12:33 > 0:12:38cougnou, coquille, or cougnolle is a festive brioche-style bread
0:12:38 > 0:12:42baked with raisins and sugar in the likeness of which figure?
0:12:44 > 0:12:46INDISTINCT
0:12:46 > 0:12:49- Could be anybody.- Father Christmas?
0:12:49 > 0:12:51Do you think so?
0:12:51 > 0:12:54- Don't know? Any guess? - St Nicholas, I would say.
0:12:54 > 0:12:58- St Nicholas.- Make it respectable. - St Nicholas.
0:12:58 > 0:13:00No, it's the infant Jesus.
0:13:00 > 0:13:03Secondly, representing Christ and the 12 apostles,
0:13:03 > 0:13:06in which historical and cultural region of France
0:13:06 > 0:13:10do festive meals end with the ritual 13 desserts?
0:13:12 > 0:13:14- That sounds nice.- Sounds very nice. - I think...
0:13:14 > 0:13:16Where's famous for desserts?
0:13:16 > 0:13:17Brittany?
0:13:17 > 0:13:22Don't they have a dessert with apostles around the edge?
0:13:22 > 0:13:23If you say so.
0:13:23 > 0:13:25- Brittany?- Brittany.
0:13:25 > 0:13:27No, it's Provence.
0:13:27 > 0:13:30And finally, which Scandinavian country sees its breweries
0:13:30 > 0:13:33annually release a Christmas soft drink for minors
0:13:33 > 0:13:35called julebrus?
0:13:35 > 0:13:38- Julebrus...- Scandinavia...
0:13:38 > 0:13:41Which Scandinavian country drinks most beer?
0:13:41 > 0:13:43- It's minors.- Minors?
0:13:45 > 0:13:48- Shall we go for Sweden?- Norway? - Norway.- Norway.
0:13:48 > 0:13:50- Norway.- Norway is correct, yes.
0:13:50 > 0:13:52APPLAUSE Right, ten points for this.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54Elected to the Royal Society
0:13:54 > 0:13:57in 2016, which mathematician's works...
0:13:58 > 0:14:00- Marcus du Sautoy.- Correct, yes.
0:14:00 > 0:14:04APPLAUSE
0:14:04 > 0:14:08Three questions on a playwright, Magdalene, for your bonuses.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11Dated from 1992, The Gift Of The Gorgon
0:14:11 > 0:14:15was the last major dramatic work of which playwright
0:14:15 > 0:14:18who died in June 2016 at the age of 90?
0:14:21 > 0:14:23- Guess.- Don't know.
0:14:23 > 0:14:25- Any idea?- Yeah, but...
0:14:25 > 0:14:27I'm going to go forward with your guess.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29- No, no, no. - You've got to guess something.
0:14:29 > 0:14:33- Nominate Burton-Hill.- No, no, no!
0:14:33 > 0:14:34I'm afraid...
0:14:36 > 0:14:39I was going to say Arnold Wesker, but I'm sure it's wrong.
0:14:39 > 0:14:41You're quite right - it is wrong. LAUGHTER
0:14:41 > 0:14:43It's Peter Shaffer.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45First performed in 1965
0:14:45 > 0:14:48with a cast including Maggie Smith and Derek Jacobi,
0:14:48 > 0:14:52which one-act farce by Shaffer uses a reversal of light and dark
0:14:52 > 0:14:55such that events taking place during a power cut
0:14:55 > 0:14:59are depicted in full illumination onstage?
0:14:59 > 0:15:02- No idea.- No.- We don't know.
0:15:02 > 0:15:03That was Black Comedy.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06And finally, Peter Shaffer's twin brother Anthony
0:15:06 > 0:15:09wrote which 1970 play?
0:15:09 > 0:15:11It's twice been adapted for the cinema
0:15:11 > 0:15:14with both versions featuring Michael Caine.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21- Still blank looks. We've no idea. - Yeah, sorry.
0:15:21 > 0:15:22It's Sleuth.
0:15:22 > 0:15:25Right, another starter question.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27"So little trouble do men take in the search after truth,
0:15:27 > 0:15:31"so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand."
0:15:31 > 0:15:33Which ancient historian made that lament
0:15:33 > 0:15:36in his history of the Peloponnesian War?
0:15:36 > 0:15:38Thucydides.
0:15:38 > 0:15:40Thucydides is correct, of course.
0:15:40 > 0:15:42APPLAUSE
0:15:43 > 0:15:47Right, Magdalene, these bonuses are on Boxing Day events.
0:15:47 > 0:15:48Firstly for five points,
0:15:48 > 0:15:52on Boxing Day 1966 in an East End club,
0:15:52 > 0:15:56Jimi Hendrix wrote which classic song, said to have been inspired
0:15:56 > 0:15:59by a dream in which he walked under the sea?
0:15:59 > 0:16:02It reached number three in the UK charts the following year.
0:16:05 > 0:16:09- I didn't live then.- Neither did I.
0:16:09 > 0:16:10Name a Hendrix song.
0:16:10 > 0:16:14- Name a Hendrix song.- Um... No.
0:16:14 > 0:16:15Yeah, no idea.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17- That was Purple Haze. - Oh, God, of course.
0:16:17 > 0:16:19On Boxing Day 1919,
0:16:19 > 0:16:23which major league club sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees?
0:16:23 > 0:16:25The club in question had won the World Series
0:16:25 > 0:16:27in three of the four previous years.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29- It's the Boston Red Sox.- Correct.
0:16:29 > 0:16:32Boxing Day 1972 saw the birth of
0:16:32 > 0:16:34which British film director and screenwriter
0:16:34 > 0:16:38noted for the 2002 film Once Upon A Time In The Midlands
0:16:38 > 0:16:42and the feature film and subsequent TV series This Is England?
0:16:42 > 0:16:43Oh, God...
0:16:45 > 0:16:46Oh...
0:16:49 > 0:16:51- No, I can do it.- No, no idea.
0:16:51 > 0:16:53That was Shane Meadows.
0:16:53 > 0:16:55Now we're going to take a music round.
0:16:55 > 0:16:58For your music starter, you're going to hear a song from a film.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01For ten points, I'd like you to identify the film, please.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04# But square cut or pear shape
0:17:04 > 0:17:06# These rocks don't lose their shape... #
0:17:09 > 0:17:12Oh, no, I was going to say Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15St Hilda's, you can hear a little more.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. - That is correct, yes.
0:17:17 > 0:17:20APPLAUSE
0:17:20 > 0:17:22Of course, Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend
0:17:22 > 0:17:23was the name of the song.
0:17:23 > 0:17:25- The film was called... - Thank you for pointing that one out.
0:17:25 > 0:17:27..Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30Unfortunately, she couldn't hit a few of the high notes
0:17:30 > 0:17:34so that was done for her on that recording uncredited
0:17:34 > 0:17:37by Marni Nixon, who died earlier this year.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40For your bonuses, three more of Marni Nixon's performances.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43I want the name of the film in which the song appears
0:17:43 > 0:17:46and the name of the actress that Marni was dubbing.
0:17:46 > 0:17:47Firstly.
0:17:47 > 0:17:53# There's a place for us
0:17:53 > 0:17:55- # A time and place for us... # - West Side Story.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58And she was dubbing for Natalie...
0:17:58 > 0:18:00- # Hold my hand... # - Natalie Wood.
0:18:00 > 0:18:04- West Side Story and Natalie Wood. - That's correct, yes.
0:18:04 > 0:18:05Secondly.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08# Getting to know you
0:18:08 > 0:18:10- # Getting to know all about you... # - It's The King And I, isn't it?
0:18:10 > 0:18:12And she was Deborah Kerr.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14It's The King And I and Deborah Kerr.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16It is. And finally.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19# All I want is a room somewhere... #
0:18:19 > 0:18:23- Audrey Hepburn... - # Far away from... #
0:18:23 > 0:18:25Audrey Hepburn, My Fair Lady.
0:18:25 > 0:18:26That's right. Well done.
0:18:26 > 0:18:28APPLAUSE
0:18:30 > 0:18:31Right, another starter question.
0:18:31 > 0:18:35In the Western Christian church, if, during a particular December,
0:18:35 > 0:18:39the Feast Day of St Stephen falls on a Monday,
0:18:39 > 0:18:42on what day of the week is the Feast Day of St Thomas a Becket?
0:18:45 > 0:18:46A Tuesday.
0:18:46 > 0:18:48Anyone like to buzz from St Hilda's?
0:18:48 > 0:18:49Thursday?
0:18:49 > 0:18:53Thursday is correct, yes. December 26th and 29th.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55Right, you get a set of bonuses, then, St Hilda's,
0:18:55 > 0:18:57on a mathematician.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00Which German mathematician gives his name to the theorem
0:19:00 > 0:19:03that generalises the product rule for differentiation
0:19:03 > 0:19:06to provide a formula for the nth derivative?
0:19:06 > 0:19:09The 300th anniversary of his death fell in 2016.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15- Any mathematician.- No.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17No, I'm sorry, we have no idea.
0:19:17 > 0:19:18That was Leibniz.
0:19:18 > 0:19:22Often attributed to Leibniz, the infinite series
0:19:22 > 0:19:25one minus a third plus a fifth minus a seventh and so on
0:19:25 > 0:19:29approximately equalling 0.785
0:19:29 > 0:19:32exactly equals what irrational number?
0:19:34 > 0:19:37- GERAS CHUCKLES - Pi?
0:19:37 > 0:19:38No, it's pi over four.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40Leibniz's postulation of harmonies
0:19:40 > 0:19:43between metaphysical units called monads,
0:19:43 > 0:19:46reflected in the aphorism of "the best of all possible worlds",
0:19:46 > 0:19:51was satirised in which major French literary work of 1759?
0:19:51 > 0:19:53- Candide.- That was Candide, yes.
0:19:53 > 0:19:56Right, fingers on the buzzers. Ten points for this.
0:19:56 > 0:19:58Named as missing in action when he failed return from
0:19:58 > 0:20:02a reconnaissance mission in North Africa in 1944,
0:20:02 > 0:20:06which French writer used his experiences as a pilot...
0:20:06 > 0:20:07Saint-Exupery.
0:20:07 > 0:20:09Saint-Exupery is right.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12APPLAUSE
0:20:12 > 0:20:13Your bonuses, Magdalene,
0:20:13 > 0:20:17are on songs that narrowly failed to make Christmas number one.
0:20:17 > 0:20:18LAUGHTER
0:20:18 > 0:20:23Firstly, for five points, beaten to the 1987 Christmas number one spot
0:20:23 > 0:20:26by the Pet Shop Boys cover of Always On My Mind,
0:20:26 > 0:20:30which song pivots on a domestic argument and takes its title
0:20:30 > 0:20:33from a novel by JP Donleavy?
0:20:33 > 0:20:36The JP Donleavy novel is what?
0:20:36 > 0:20:37Fairytale Of New York?
0:20:37 > 0:20:39We're going to say Fairytale Of New York.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42That is correct, The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl.
0:20:42 > 0:20:46In 2003, Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End) by The Darkness
0:20:46 > 0:20:50was kept from the top of the charts by which song?
0:20:50 > 0:20:54It had first been a hit in 1982 for Tears For Fears.
0:20:56 > 0:20:58No idea.
0:20:58 > 0:20:59The East German one?
0:21:02 > 0:21:06It wasn't the NHS choir one, was it?
0:21:06 > 0:21:07No, we don't know.
0:21:07 > 0:21:08That was Mad World.
0:21:08 > 0:21:12And finally, Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You was beaten
0:21:12 > 0:21:19to number one at Christmas 1994 by which band's Stay Another Day?
0:21:19 > 0:21:20That is East 17.
0:21:20 > 0:21:21It was East 17.
0:21:21 > 0:21:24APPLAUSE
0:21:24 > 0:21:25Ten points for this starter question.
0:21:25 > 0:21:27Commissioned by Catherine de' Medici,
0:21:27 > 0:21:31which French royal palace occupied the site adjacent to the Louvre
0:21:31 > 0:21:35until it was destroyed by fire in 1871?
0:21:35 > 0:21:39Its garden adjoins the Rue de Rivoli and the Place de la Concorde.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42Is that Tuileries?
0:21:42 > 0:21:43It is, yes.
0:21:43 > 0:21:45APPLAUSE
0:21:46 > 0:21:49Your bonuses, St Hilda's, are on novels -
0:21:49 > 0:21:52all three titles include the name of a bird.
0:21:52 > 0:21:56Firstly, which science-fiction novel by John Wyndham is set
0:21:56 > 0:21:59in a small English village controlled by a group of blonde,
0:21:59 > 0:22:01golden-eyed, telepathic children?
0:22:01 > 0:22:03The Midwich Cuckoos.
0:22:03 > 0:22:08Correct. Ken Loach's 1969 film Kes is an adaptation of which novel
0:22:08 > 0:22:11by the Yorkshire-born author Barry Hines?
0:22:11 > 0:22:12Kestrel For A Knave.
0:22:12 > 0:22:16And finally, taking its title from an old Scottish metaphor for death,
0:22:16 > 0:22:19which novel by Ian Banks begins with the line,
0:22:19 > 0:22:22"It was the day my grandmother exploded?"
0:22:22 > 0:22:24The Crow Road.
0:22:24 > 0:22:25Correct.
0:22:25 > 0:22:27We're going to take a second picture round now.
0:22:27 > 0:22:31For your picture starter, simply give me the surname of this family.
0:22:34 > 0:22:36That's the Broons.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38It was indeed the Broons.
0:22:38 > 0:22:39APPLAUSE
0:22:41 > 0:22:452016 marked the 80th anniversary of the first appearance
0:22:45 > 0:22:48in the Sunday Post newspaper of the Broons
0:22:48 > 0:22:51created by RD Low and Dudley D Watkins
0:22:51 > 0:22:53for the Dundee-based publisher DC Thomson.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56Your bonuses are three more cartoon characters
0:22:56 > 0:22:58from the DC Thompson stable.
0:22:58 > 0:23:01Ten points for each one you can name - here's the first.
0:23:02 > 0:23:03Minnie the...?
0:23:03 > 0:23:05Beryl the Peril?
0:23:07 > 0:23:08Is it Beryl the Peril?
0:23:08 > 0:23:11No, that is Minnie the Minx.
0:23:11 > 0:23:12Secondly, who is this?
0:23:14 > 0:23:15That's Oor Wullie.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18It is Our Woolie. Is it Woolie or Wolly?
0:23:18 > 0:23:19Oor Wullie!
0:23:19 > 0:23:21Oor...? Well, you would know.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24Also celebrating his 80th anniversary in 2016,
0:23:24 > 0:23:26and also from the Sunday Post of course.
0:23:26 > 0:23:27And finally, who is this,
0:23:27 > 0:23:30and of which eponymous group is he a member?
0:23:32 > 0:23:35That's Plug from the Bash Street Kids.
0:23:35 > 0:23:36You're quite right.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38APPLAUSE
0:23:39 > 0:23:41No depth left unplumbed here.
0:23:41 > 0:23:4310 points for this starter question.
0:23:43 > 0:23:47Which 19th-century English writer and artist gives her name to an
0:23:47 > 0:23:51annual UK prize for distinguished illustration in a book for children?
0:23:53 > 0:23:54Kate Greenaway.
0:23:54 > 0:23:56Kate Greenaway is right.
0:23:58 > 0:24:01These bonuses are on Greek mythology.
0:24:01 > 0:24:05Which doctor of King Minos of Crete was deserted by Theseus on
0:24:05 > 0:24:08the island of Naxos and was later consoled by Dionysus?
0:24:08 > 0:24:09Ariadne.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12Correct. Ariadne's sister Phaedra married Theseus
0:24:12 > 0:24:15but later fell in love with his son who rejected her.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17What was his name?
0:24:17 > 0:24:20She told Theseus that he had made an attempt on her honour
0:24:20 > 0:24:22resulting in his banishment and death.
0:24:22 > 0:24:24- Hippolytus.- Correct.
0:24:24 > 0:24:26Based on the story of Phaedra,
0:24:26 > 0:24:30the tragedy Hippolytus was the work of which ancient Greek playwright?
0:24:31 > 0:24:32Euripides.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34Correct.
0:24:34 > 0:24:3510 points for this starter question.
0:24:35 > 0:24:38The Welsh monk Asser was a biographer of which ruler
0:24:38 > 0:24:42whose reign was noted for the promotion of learning and literacy?
0:24:42 > 0:24:47A younger son of King Ethelwulf, he became King of Wessex in 871.
0:24:51 > 0:24:52Alfred.
0:24:52 > 0:24:54Alfred the Great is correct.
0:24:57 > 0:25:02These bonuses are on 20th century artists, St Hilda's.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05"The men put me down as the best woman painter.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07"I think I'm one of the best painters."
0:25:07 > 0:25:10So said which artist particularly known for her large-scale
0:25:10 > 0:25:12paintings of flowers?
0:25:15 > 0:25:16You don't need to buzz.
0:25:16 > 0:25:17Sorry.
0:25:17 > 0:25:18Georgia O'Keeffe.
0:25:18 > 0:25:20Correct.
0:25:20 > 0:25:25In 1949, O'Keeffe left New York and moved permanently to which US state,
0:25:25 > 0:25:28the stark landscapes of which provided inspiration
0:25:28 > 0:25:29for many of her works?
0:25:29 > 0:25:31New Mexico.
0:25:31 > 0:25:34In 1946, O'Keeffe became the first woman to have
0:25:34 > 0:25:37a retrospective exhibition at which New York City museum?
0:25:39 > 0:25:40The Metropolitan?
0:25:43 > 0:25:44Metropolitan.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46No, it was the Museum of Modern Art or Moma.
0:25:46 > 0:25:48Ten points for this.
0:25:48 > 0:25:52What is the French title of the 1929 novel by Jean Cocteau
0:25:52 > 0:25:55adapted by him into a film in 1950?
0:25:55 > 0:25:58It concerns the siblings Elizabeth and Paul
0:25:58 > 0:26:01who isolate themselves from the world as teenagers and embark
0:26:01 > 0:26:05on doomed love affairs as adults.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08Les Enfants Du Paradis.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10No. Anyone like to buzz from Magdalene?
0:26:10 > 0:26:12You may not confer, one of you can buzz.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18It was Les Enfants Terribles.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20Another starter question.
0:26:20 > 0:26:23On the standard London Monopoly board,
0:26:23 > 0:26:26the three letters of the word ice appear next to each other
0:26:26 > 0:26:31and in the correct order within the name of only one property.
0:26:31 > 0:26:32Which one?
0:26:34 > 0:26:36You may not confer.
0:26:40 > 0:26:41Leicester Square.
0:26:41 > 0:26:42Correct.
0:26:42 > 0:26:44APPLAUSE
0:26:46 > 0:26:49You get a bonuses on BBC dramatisations
0:26:49 > 0:26:51of ghost stories for Christmas.
0:26:51 > 0:26:55For Christmas 1976, the BBC adapted which chilling story by
0:26:55 > 0:26:58Charles Dickens about a traveller and a railway worker
0:26:58 > 0:27:02apparently inspired by the 1861 Clayton Tunnel train crash?
0:27:04 > 0:27:06- The Signal-Man.- Correct.
0:27:06 > 0:27:10What refrain from a ballad by Robert Burns provided MR James with
0:27:10 > 0:27:15the title of a ghost story twice adapted by the BBC in 1968 and 2010?
0:27:17 > 0:27:19Whistle And I'll Come To You.
0:27:19 > 0:27:20That's right.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22From another story by MR James,
0:27:22 > 0:27:26The Tractate Middoth aired on Christmas Day 2013
0:27:26 > 0:27:30and saw the directorial debut of which actor and writer
0:27:30 > 0:27:32noted for his work on Sherlock?
0:27:34 > 0:27:35Gatiss. Mark Gatiss.
0:27:38 > 0:27:40Sorry.
0:27:40 > 0:27:41Mark Gatiss.
0:27:41 > 0:27:42Correct.
0:27:43 > 0:27:47What final three letters link words meaning a composite subatomic
0:27:47 > 0:27:51particle made up of three quarks, the cell body of a neuron
0:27:51 > 0:27:53and a synthetic fibre made from cellulose,
0:27:53 > 0:27:55also known as artificial silk?
0:27:55 > 0:27:56GONG
0:27:56 > 0:27:58APPLAUSE
0:28:01 > 0:28:04Magdalene, you were going to give the correct answer which is YON,
0:28:04 > 0:28:07of course, but sadly you were too late and you were very
0:28:07 > 0:28:12convincingly beaten, I'm afraid, by a very on-form team from St Hilda's,
0:28:12 > 0:28:15much helped by specialist knowledge of cheap cartoons.
0:28:15 > 0:28:19Anyway, many congratulations to you, St Hilda's. We shall look forward
0:28:19 > 0:28:22to seeing you for sure in the semifinals.
0:28:22 > 0:28:24I hope you're going to be able to join us next time for another
0:28:24 > 0:28:26first-round match, the last of these ones.
0:28:26 > 0:28:29But until then it's goodbye from Magdalene College, Cambridge.
0:28:29 > 0:28:30Goodbye.
0:28:30 > 0:28:32It's goodbye from St Hilda's College, Oxford.
0:28:32 > 0:28:34- Goodbye.- And it's goodbye from me.
0:28:34 > 0:28:35Goodbye.
0:28:35 > 0:28:37APPLAUSE