0:00:19 > 0:00:21Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:25 > 0:00:26APPLAUSE
0:00:28 > 0:00:30Hello. We've reached the stage
0:00:30 > 0:00:34of this Christmas season of University Challenge for grown-ups
0:00:34 > 0:00:36that the grandstanding is over.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38We no longer need to know that team members
0:00:38 > 0:00:41have walked across the polar ice cap unaided,
0:00:41 > 0:00:42won the Booker prize,
0:00:42 > 0:00:44or can play the ukulele with their ankles.
0:00:44 > 0:00:45LAUGHTER
0:00:45 > 0:00:47For we are now at the first of the semifinals.
0:00:47 > 0:00:49Be you never so great a panjandrum,
0:00:49 > 0:00:53all that matters now is, can you answer the question?
0:00:53 > 0:00:55Now, the team from the University of Kent
0:00:55 > 0:00:58had the highest score in the first-round matches.
0:00:58 > 0:01:04245 against the 35 earned by a plucky team from Sussex University,
0:01:04 > 0:01:09who at least avoided falling into the trap of overthinking their answers.
0:01:09 > 0:01:11Representing Kent again,
0:01:11 > 0:01:13a biologist, adventurer and broadcaster.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17A news journalist formerly with the BBC, ITN and Al Jazeera,
0:01:17 > 0:01:22now the London anchor for the Turkish news network TRT World.
0:01:22 > 0:01:26Their captain is a broadcaster, film reviewer and journalist,
0:01:26 > 0:01:29as well as being the brainy brother that Jonathan Ross looks up to.
0:01:29 > 0:01:30LAUGHTER
0:01:30 > 0:01:33And with them, an academic author, inventor,
0:01:33 > 0:01:36and a leading authority in the field of acoustics.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38Let's meet the Kent team again.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40Hello, I'm Jeremy Wade.
0:01:40 > 0:01:41After getting a BSc from Bristol,
0:01:41 > 0:01:45I got a Postgraduate Certificate In Education from Kent in 1979,
0:01:45 > 0:01:48and an honorary doctor of science this year.
0:01:48 > 0:01:50I spend my time getting up close with underwater creatures
0:01:50 > 0:01:53as the presenter of a programme called River Monsters.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55Hello there, I'm Shiulie Ghosh.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59I graduated from Kent in 1989 with an honours degree in law,
0:01:59 > 0:02:02and now I'm a journalist and news anchor.
0:02:02 > 0:02:03And this is their captain.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06I'm Paul Ross, I graduated in 1978
0:02:06 > 0:02:08with a degree in English and American literature.
0:02:08 > 0:02:09Jonathan Ross is my brother.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11Sadly, Diana Ross is not my auntie.
0:02:11 > 0:02:12LAUGHTER
0:02:12 > 0:02:13Hello, I'm Jamie Angus.
0:02:13 > 0:02:18I graduated from Kent with a degree in electronics in 1977,
0:02:18 > 0:02:21and a PhD in 1984.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24I'm now Professor of Audio Technology at Salford University,
0:02:24 > 0:02:27and I recently got engaged.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29APPLAUSE
0:02:31 > 0:02:34Now, out of the four highest-scoring winning teams,
0:02:34 > 0:02:37we're playing the highest scorer against the lowest
0:02:37 > 0:02:38in this first semifinal.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40But the Leeds University team
0:02:40 > 0:02:43still have a very impressive 175 behind them,
0:02:43 > 0:02:46and in the face of stiffer competition
0:02:46 > 0:02:48than their opponents tonight experienced,
0:02:48 > 0:02:52when they met the School Of Oriental And African Studies in the first round.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55As before, their team comprises an author, broadcaster,
0:02:55 > 0:02:57critic and cultural commentator,
0:02:57 > 0:03:02a member of an award-winning and critically acclaimed indie rock band,
0:03:02 > 0:03:03their captain's a journalist
0:03:03 > 0:03:06formerly with the Observer and the Sunday Telegraph,
0:03:06 > 0:03:09and their fourth member is one of the UK's
0:03:09 > 0:03:12most distinctive and prolific political cartoonists.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14Let's meet the Leeds team again.
0:03:15 > 0:03:16I'm Louise Doughty.
0:03:16 > 0:03:18I graduated from Leeds University in 1984
0:03:18 > 0:03:21with a degree in English literature,
0:03:21 > 0:03:22and I now write novels for a living.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25Hello, I'm Gus Unger-Hamilton.
0:03:25 > 0:03:28I graduated from Leeds in 2010 in English,
0:03:28 > 0:03:30and now I play in the band alt-J.
0:03:30 > 0:03:31And this is their captain.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33Hello, I'm Kamal Ahmed.
0:03:33 > 0:03:37I graduated in political studies at Leeds University in 1990,
0:03:37 > 0:03:39and I'm now the Economics Editor for the BBC.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42Hello, I'm Steve Bell,
0:03:42 > 0:03:45I graduated in fine art from Leeds in 1974,
0:03:45 > 0:03:49and I've been drawing political cartoons for the Guardian
0:03:49 > 0:03:52more or less continuously since 1981.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54APPLAUSE
0:03:56 > 0:03:58OK, you must all know the rules.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01I'll just remind you, there's ten points for starters,
0:04:01 > 0:04:0215 for bonuses.
0:04:02 > 0:04:05Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter question.
0:04:05 > 0:04:10An alternative name of the shrub known as the Christmas berry
0:04:10 > 0:04:14or the toyon bush is often claimed to be the origin of the name
0:04:14 > 0:04:17of which area of Los Angeles, used as a metonym for...?
0:04:19 > 0:04:20Holly.
0:04:20 > 0:04:22No, you lose five points.
0:04:22 > 0:04:24..a metonym for a particular industry?
0:04:28 > 0:04:30Is it... Hollywood?
0:04:30 > 0:04:32Hollywood is correct, yes.
0:04:32 > 0:04:34APPLAUSE
0:04:35 > 0:04:38Your bonuses now are on Scottish artists, Kent.
0:04:38 > 0:04:43Born in Glasgow in 1868, which artist and architect
0:04:43 > 0:04:46designed the Glasgow School Of Art, generally regarded as
0:04:46 > 0:04:50the first original example of Art Nouveau architecture in the UK?
0:04:52 > 0:04:53Mackintosh.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55It was Charles Rennie Mackintosh, yes.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58Secondly, born in Paisley in 1940,
0:04:58 > 0:05:02which artist and playwright designed Billy Connolly's banana boots
0:05:02 > 0:05:05and wrote the Slab Boys Trilogy for the theatre,
0:05:05 > 0:05:08and the series Tutti Frutti for television?
0:05:11 > 0:05:15He designed the boots for Billy Connolly, the welly boots?
0:05:15 > 0:05:16Wrote the Slab Boys, wrote...
0:05:18 > 0:05:20I'd say...
0:05:20 > 0:05:21Nicola Sturgeon.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23LAUGHTER
0:05:23 > 0:05:24Funny answer, but not right.
0:05:24 > 0:05:26John Byrne.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29Born 1934, which artist and writer was described by Will Self as,
0:05:29 > 0:05:34"a creative polymath with an integrated politico-philosophic vision,"
0:05:34 > 0:05:36and describes himself as
0:05:36 > 0:05:38"a fat, spectacled, balding,
0:05:38 > 0:05:42"increasingly old Glasgow pedestrian"?
0:05:42 > 0:05:45His works include the 1981 novel Lanark.
0:05:45 > 0:05:47- Alasdair...- Alasdair- Gray? Yes.
0:05:47 > 0:05:48That's Alasdair Gray.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50It is Alasdair Gray, yes.
0:05:50 > 0:05:51Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:05:51 > 0:05:55A woodcut of 1512 by Lucas Cranach the Elder,
0:05:55 > 0:05:58Oliver Reed's first starring role
0:05:58 > 0:06:01and a novel of 2007 by Martin Miller
0:06:01 > 0:06:04are all linked by what mythological animal?
0:06:05 > 0:06:06The werewolf.
0:06:06 > 0:06:07The werewolf is correct.
0:06:07 > 0:06:09APPLAUSE
0:06:11 > 0:06:13Your bonuses are on artificial intelligence.
0:06:13 > 0:06:18Firstly, in a competition now held at Bletchley Park, the Loebner Prize
0:06:18 > 0:06:21is awarded annually for the artificial intelligence system
0:06:21 > 0:06:25that achieves the best performance in which test,
0:06:25 > 0:06:27named after an English mathematician?
0:06:27 > 0:06:29Turing test.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31- Turing test?- Turing.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33We think it's the Turing test.
0:06:33 > 0:06:34It is.
0:06:34 > 0:06:38In March 2016, Google's DeepMind system
0:06:38 > 0:06:42defeated the South Korean Lee Sedol 4-1
0:06:42 > 0:06:45over a five-match series in which game?
0:06:45 > 0:06:47- Chess?- Chess.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49It was chess, but we...
0:06:49 > 0:06:50We think it was an IBM computer.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52No, it was Go.
0:06:52 > 0:06:55And finally, which world chess champion
0:06:55 > 0:06:58was defeated over six matches in 1997
0:06:58 > 0:07:01by the IBM-developed computer Deep Blue?
0:07:02 > 0:07:05- Who's a big chess person?- Spassky?
0:07:05 > 0:07:06Boris Spassky?
0:07:06 > 0:07:08No, it was Gary Kasparov.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10Ten points for this.
0:07:10 > 0:07:12"A statue of gold should be erected to him
0:07:12 > 0:07:14"in every city in the world."
0:07:14 > 0:07:18To whom do those reported words of Napoleon Bonaparte refer?
0:07:18 > 0:07:20Born in Norfolk in 1737,
0:07:20 > 0:07:23he emigrated to the American colonies and then to France.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26- Thomas Paine?- Correct.
0:07:26 > 0:07:27APPLAUSE
0:07:30 > 0:07:33These bonuses are on golf and literature, Kent.
0:07:33 > 0:07:37"He had avoided what he regarded as some obvious errors of life,
0:07:37 > 0:07:39"such as politics and golf."
0:07:39 > 0:07:41These words refer to Dorrigo Evans,
0:07:41 > 0:07:45the protagonist of which 2014 Booker Prize-winning novel?
0:07:47 > 0:07:49Booker Prize 2014...
0:07:49 > 0:07:52- Do you know your Booker Prize winners?- No.- Can't remember.
0:07:52 > 0:07:54No idea, I'm afraid, Jeremy.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56It's The Narrow Road To The Deep North.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58Secondly, while in the Bahamas,
0:07:58 > 0:08:02Logan Mountstuart plays a round of golf with the Duke of Windsor
0:08:02 > 0:08:07in Any Human Heart, which is a 2002 novel by which British author?
0:08:07 > 0:08:08William Boyd.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10- We think it's William Boyd.- Correct.
0:08:10 > 0:08:14"How straight it flew, how long it flew, it clear'd the rutty track."
0:08:14 > 0:08:20So begins Seaside Golf, a work by which Poet Laureate?
0:08:20 > 0:08:22John Masefield, maybe?
0:08:22 > 0:08:24John Masefield, possibly?
0:08:24 > 0:08:26I think more... More Betjeman. I don't know.
0:08:26 > 0:08:27Betjeman?
0:08:27 > 0:08:29Er...
0:08:29 > 0:08:30- Go for yours.- Go for yours.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32No... Do you think? Let's go with...
0:08:32 > 0:08:34John Betjeman.
0:08:34 > 0:08:36Correct. APPLAUSE
0:08:36 > 0:08:38Right, we're going to take a picture round now.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40For your picture starter, you're going to see the ingredients
0:08:40 > 0:08:44from a recipe for a seasonal pudding with one item removed.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47For ten points, give me precise two words which are missing.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56Sheep's stomach?
0:08:56 > 0:08:57Correct.
0:08:57 > 0:08:58APPLAUSE
0:09:01 > 0:09:03That was the recipe for haggis,
0:09:03 > 0:09:08which is traditionally eaten on January 25 to celebrate Burns Night.
0:09:08 > 0:09:10One of the evening's traditions
0:09:10 > 0:09:13is the recitation of Robert Burns' Address To A Haggis.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16Your bonuses are three extracts from that poem
0:09:16 > 0:09:18in its original Scots dialect.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20For five points in each case,
0:09:20 > 0:09:23I want you to give me the modern English translation,
0:09:23 > 0:09:25according to the Dictionary Of The Scots Language,
0:09:25 > 0:09:28for the word or words highlighted in yellow.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31Firstly, an adjective and a noun.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36- So what...?- Spindle shank.
0:09:36 > 0:09:37Thin leg?
0:09:37 > 0:09:39Spindle...
0:09:41 > 0:09:44- One's an adjective... - An adjective and a noun.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46Spindle... Spindle is the adjective.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48Er...
0:09:48 > 0:09:51- So it's a thin...- Spindle... It's a thin...- Come on, please.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53- Thin...- Leg?- Thin leg.
0:09:53 > 0:09:54Thin leg?
0:09:54 > 0:09:55Correct.
0:09:55 > 0:09:57LAUGHTER
0:09:57 > 0:09:58As Gus said about five minutes ago.
0:09:58 > 0:09:59LAUGHTER
0:09:59 > 0:10:01Second, this noun, please.
0:10:09 > 0:10:10Hand?
0:10:10 > 0:10:11Yeah.
0:10:11 > 0:10:12Bit quicker this time. Hand.
0:10:12 > 0:10:14Hand, or fist, is correct.
0:10:14 > 0:10:16Finally, this noun.
0:10:24 > 0:10:25- Stomach?- Stomach?
0:10:25 > 0:10:27Yeah, stomach.
0:10:27 > 0:10:28Stomach.
0:10:28 > 0:10:29No, it's bottom, or buttocks. LAUGHTER
0:10:29 > 0:10:31Ten points for this.
0:10:31 > 0:10:32Give two place names,
0:10:32 > 0:10:36one of which can be formed by removing the initial letter of the other.
0:10:36 > 0:10:38The first is a stopping point
0:10:38 > 0:10:41on the world's first permanent steam locomotive railway,
0:10:41 > 0:10:45the second is the site of a large military cemetery
0:10:45 > 0:10:46in the state of Virginia.
0:10:49 > 0:10:50Darlington.
0:10:50 > 0:10:51And?
0:10:51 > 0:10:52Stockton.
0:10:52 > 0:10:54LAUGHTER
0:10:54 > 0:10:56Oh, there were two, weren't there?
0:10:56 > 0:10:58Come on, Kent. One of you buzz.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00Darlington and Arlington.
0:11:00 > 0:11:01Correct, yes.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03APPLAUSE
0:11:05 > 0:11:06Bad luck, you figured it out,
0:11:06 > 0:11:08but you'd forgotten what the question was.
0:11:08 > 0:11:09LAUGHTER
0:11:09 > 0:11:11Your bonuses, Kent, are on skin conditions.
0:11:11 > 0:11:13What is the short common name
0:11:13 > 0:11:16of the small, often hard benign growths
0:11:16 > 0:11:19caused by the human papillomavirus?
0:11:19 > 0:11:20- It's a wart.- Wart, yes.
0:11:20 > 0:11:21It's a wart.
0:11:21 > 0:11:23It is a wart, yes.
0:11:23 > 0:11:26What is the common name of the yellow or brownish macules
0:11:26 > 0:11:30in exposed skin that are also known as ephelides?
0:11:30 > 0:11:32Is it freckle?
0:11:32 > 0:11:33Yellowy, though? Are they...?
0:11:33 > 0:11:36- Freckles are yellow.- Yeah?
0:11:36 > 0:11:37Freckles?
0:11:37 > 0:11:38Correct.
0:11:38 > 0:11:43What two-word common name is given to senile or solar lentigo?
0:11:43 > 0:11:47These are usually sharply-defined brown skin blemishes,
0:11:47 > 0:11:49and are associated with ageing.
0:11:50 > 0:11:51Liver spots.
0:11:51 > 0:11:52Correct. Ten points for this.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54APPLAUSE
0:11:54 > 0:11:56Which double digit links the years of
0:11:56 > 0:11:59the first of publication of Spinoza's Ethics,
0:11:59 > 0:12:03the formal adoption of the Stars And Stripes by the Continental Congress,
0:12:03 > 0:12:06the first cricket test between England and Australia,
0:12:06 > 0:12:08and the death of Elvis Presley?
0:12:10 > 0:12:1177.
0:12:11 > 0:12:12Correct.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14APPLAUSE
0:12:15 > 0:12:18Your bonuses, Kent, are on pairs of words
0:12:18 > 0:12:21that differ only by the three-letter prefix "pro-".
0:12:21 > 0:12:24For example, tractor and protractor.
0:12:24 > 0:12:27In each case, give both words from the definitions.
0:12:27 > 0:12:32Firstly, "a Latin noun case used in addressing a person or thing",
0:12:32 > 0:12:36and, "arousing strong reactions such as anger or sexual desire".
0:12:39 > 0:12:40Any crossword solvers, here?
0:12:47 > 0:12:50It needs to be something like, with a prefix...
0:12:52 > 0:12:54- Pass?- Yeah.
0:12:54 > 0:12:55We'll pass. I'm afraid, no idea.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57It's vocative and provocative.
0:12:57 > 0:13:01Secondly, "a safety device in an electrical circuit"
0:13:01 > 0:13:04and "lavish, abundant or plentiful,
0:13:04 > 0:13:08for example, of apologies, thanks, or hospitality".
0:13:08 > 0:13:10Fuse and profuse.
0:13:10 > 0:13:11Fuse and profuse.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13Correct.
0:13:13 > 0:13:14Finally, "one who copies documents,
0:13:14 > 0:13:17"for example where printing is unavailable,"
0:13:17 > 0:13:20and "to prohibit or forbid, especially by law".
0:13:26 > 0:13:28- Scribe.- Scribe and proscribed.- Yeah.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30Scribe and proscribe.
0:13:30 > 0:13:32Correct. APPLAUSE
0:13:32 > 0:13:34Right, we're going to take a music round, now.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36For your music starter, you'll hear a work by a British composer.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39Ten points if you can identify the composer.
0:13:40 > 0:13:41CHORAL MUSIC
0:13:42 > 0:13:44John Tavener.
0:13:44 > 0:13:45It is John Tavener, yes.
0:13:45 > 0:13:46APPLAUSE
0:13:49 > 0:13:50That was part of The Lamb,
0:13:50 > 0:13:53performed at the 1982 Festival Of Nine Lessons And Carols
0:13:53 > 0:13:55at King's College Cambridge.
0:13:55 > 0:13:58For your music bonuses, three more modern carols,
0:13:58 > 0:14:00all written in the second half of the 20th century
0:14:00 > 0:14:02and all by British composers.
0:14:02 > 0:14:04Again, in each case,
0:14:04 > 0:14:06you get five points if you can identify the composer.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08Firstly, for five.
0:14:08 > 0:14:10CHORAL MUSIC
0:14:12 > 0:14:14THEY CONFER
0:14:18 > 0:14:19Could be Bob Chilcott.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27I don't recognise...
0:14:27 > 0:14:28Go for Bob Chilcott.
0:14:28 > 0:14:29Bob Chilcott.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32No, it's William Walton, All This Time.
0:14:32 > 0:14:33Secondly...
0:14:33 > 0:14:35CHORAL MUSIC
0:14:46 > 0:14:50Could be Britten. Benjamin Britten.
0:14:50 > 0:14:51I don't know.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53Benjamin Britten?
0:14:53 > 0:14:55That's what I think.
0:14:55 > 0:14:56Benjamin Britten.
0:14:56 > 0:15:00No, that's Judith Weir's Illuminare, Jerusalem,
0:15:00 > 0:15:01composed in 1985.
0:15:01 > 0:15:02Finally, this.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
0:15:06 > 0:15:08That's Shepherd's Carol.
0:15:10 > 0:15:11We think that's John Rutter.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13It is. It's the Shepherd's Pipe Carol.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15APPLAUSE
0:15:15 > 0:15:16Right, ten points for this.
0:15:16 > 0:15:19"Built by Christopher Wren 1681.
0:15:19 > 0:15:23"Destroyed by the thunderbolts of air warfare 19..."
0:15:23 > 0:15:25St Paul's Cathedral.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:15:27 > 0:15:29"..the thunderbolts of air warfare 1941,
0:15:29 > 0:15:32"restored by the Royal Air Force 1958."
0:15:32 > 0:15:35These words, in translation from the Latin,
0:15:35 > 0:15:39appear on an inscription in which church on the Strand in London?
0:15:39 > 0:15:42It's the central church of the RAF.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44You may not confer. One of you may buzz.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49St Martin-In-The-Fields?
0:15:49 > 0:15:51No, it's St Clement Danes.
0:15:51 > 0:15:53Ten points at stake for this.
0:15:53 > 0:15:55Which English county was the birthplace of
0:15:55 > 0:15:58the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel,
0:15:58 > 0:16:00the cricket broadcaster John Arlott...?
0:16:02 > 0:16:03Hampshire.
0:16:03 > 0:16:04Hampshire is right, yes.
0:16:04 > 0:16:06APPLAUSE
0:16:08 > 0:16:12Right, you get a set of bonuses, Leeds, on Sirimavo Bandaranaike,
0:16:12 > 0:16:15the first female head of government in the post-war world.
0:16:15 > 0:16:21Firstly, Mrs Bandaranaike became Prime Minister of which country in 1960,
0:16:21 > 0:16:24after her husband Solomon was assassinated by a Buddhist monk?
0:16:28 > 0:16:30Is it South Korea?
0:16:30 > 0:16:32No, no, it's Ceylon.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34- Sri Lanka.- Will they count Sri Lanka?
0:16:34 > 0:16:35Let's say Ceylon.
0:16:35 > 0:16:36Ceylon.
0:16:36 > 0:16:38Ceylon, or Sri Lanka, as it is now known.
0:16:38 > 0:16:43In the early 1960s, Mrs Bandaranaike enforced a law
0:16:43 > 0:16:47that made which language the sole official language of Sri Lanka?
0:16:47 > 0:16:51That contributed to the alienation of the Tamil minority.
0:16:51 > 0:16:53- Sinhalese.- Correct.
0:16:53 > 0:16:56In 1976, Mrs Bandaranaike hosted the conference
0:16:56 > 0:16:59of which international organisation?
0:16:59 > 0:17:04Founded at Bandung in 1955, it is now known by the initials NAM.
0:17:08 > 0:17:09New Asian...?
0:17:14 > 0:17:16Non-aligned.
0:17:20 > 0:17:21The Non-Aligned Movement.
0:17:21 > 0:17:23Correct. Ten points for this.
0:17:23 > 0:17:24APPLAUSE
0:17:26 > 0:17:30Quote, "He lived only for his schemes and enjoyed life
0:17:30 > 0:17:33"only as a cannonball enjoys space,
0:17:33 > 0:17:36"travelling to its aim blindly and spreading ruin on its way.
0:17:36 > 0:17:39"Humanity is not much indebted to him."
0:17:39 > 0:17:42These words refer to which financier and politician
0:17:42 > 0:17:44who died in 1902 in South Africa?
0:17:48 > 0:17:49Cecil Rhodes?
0:17:49 > 0:17:50Correct.
0:17:50 > 0:17:52APPLAUSE
0:17:52 > 0:17:54His obituary in Le Temps.
0:17:54 > 0:17:58And you get a set of bonuses on Alan Bennett, Kent.
0:17:58 > 0:18:01It was by performing at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival
0:18:01 > 0:18:05in Beyond The Fringe that Alan Bennett first found fame.
0:18:05 > 0:18:09Name two of the other three Beyond The Fringe performers.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12Dudley Moore and Jonathan Miller.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15- It was Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Jonathan Miller.- Correct.
0:18:15 > 0:18:18What is the title of Bennett's Talking Heads monologue,
0:18:18 > 0:18:21first shown on television in 1988,
0:18:21 > 0:18:24in which Dame Maggie Smith plays a vicar's alcoholic wife
0:18:24 > 0:18:26who begins an affair with an Asian grocer?
0:18:26 > 0:18:27Isn't it...
0:18:29 > 0:18:30..Voices?
0:18:31 > 0:18:33Voices?
0:18:33 > 0:18:34No, it's Bed Among The Lentils.
0:18:34 > 0:18:38And finally, "When a society has to resort to the lavatory
0:18:38 > 0:18:41"for its humour, the writing is on the wall."
0:18:41 > 0:18:42LAUGHTER
0:18:42 > 0:18:45So says the headmaster of Albion House in which play,
0:18:45 > 0:18:47Bennett's first to be staged in the West End?
0:18:49 > 0:18:51The History Boys.
0:18:51 > 0:18:52No, it's Forty Years On.
0:18:52 > 0:18:54Right, ten points for this starter question.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56"Another lesson to learn from him,
0:18:56 > 0:18:59"don't call anything great before it becomes great.
0:18:59 > 0:19:04"Otherwise, one is looking at is a great disaster."
0:19:04 > 0:19:07This online comment in September 2016
0:19:07 > 0:19:12refers to the 40th anniversary of the death of which national leader,
0:19:12 > 0:19:16and to both the Leap Forward and the Cultural...?
0:19:18 > 0:19:19Mao Tse-tung?
0:19:19 > 0:19:20Correct.
0:19:20 > 0:19:21APPLAUSE
0:19:23 > 0:19:25Right, your bonuses this time, Leeds,
0:19:25 > 0:19:28are on dinosaurs of the late Cretaceous period.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31In each case, name the dinosaur from the description.
0:19:31 > 0:19:35Firstly, discovered in what is now Sakhalin in Russia,
0:19:35 > 0:19:39which herbivorous dinosaur has a name meaning "Japanese lizard"?
0:19:42 > 0:19:48THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:19:56 > 0:19:57Bronto?
0:19:57 > 0:19:59Bronto?
0:19:59 > 0:20:01OK, yeah. Brontosaurus.
0:20:01 > 0:20:03No, it's a Nipponosaurus.
0:20:03 > 0:20:04LAUGHTER
0:20:04 > 0:20:07Secondly, discovered in Canada and the United States,
0:20:07 > 0:20:11which two-legged herbivorous dinosaur has a name meaning
0:20:11 > 0:20:12"thickheaded lizard"?
0:20:14 > 0:20:16Two-legged...
0:20:20 > 0:20:22Means thickheaded, doesn't it?
0:20:22 > 0:20:25- Testa is head, or something, isn't it?- Testasaurus?- Testasaurus.
0:20:25 > 0:20:26Testasaurus.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28No, it's a Pachycephalosaurus.
0:20:28 > 0:20:29LAUGHTER
0:20:29 > 0:20:31And finally, discovered in Mongolia,
0:20:31 > 0:20:35which carnivorous dinosaur has a name meaning "quick plunderer"?
0:20:37 > 0:20:39- Velociraptor. - Yeah, velciraptor.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41Speed, quick.
0:20:41 > 0:20:42Velociraptor.
0:20:42 > 0:20:43Correct. APPLAUSE
0:20:43 > 0:20:45We're going to take a second picture round now.
0:20:45 > 0:20:46For your picture starter,
0:20:46 > 0:20:49you're going to see a photograph of a British museum.
0:20:49 > 0:20:51Ten points if you can identify it.
0:20:55 > 0:20:56Victoria and Albert Museum.
0:20:56 > 0:20:57Correct.
0:20:57 > 0:20:58APPLAUSE
0:21:00 > 0:21:04The V&A was voted the 2016 Art Fund Museum Of The Year.
0:21:04 > 0:21:07For your picture bonuses, I want you to identify the subjects
0:21:07 > 0:21:11of three of its major exhibitions of this year.
0:21:11 > 0:21:14Firstly, for five, this is a work by which photographer?
0:21:14 > 0:21:18The museum's exhibition celebrated her bicentenary this year.
0:21:20 > 0:21:24THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:21:27 > 0:21:28Julia Margaret Cameron.
0:21:28 > 0:21:29Correct.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31Secondly, who's this engineer,
0:21:31 > 0:21:34shown with a photograph of perhaps his most notable project?
0:21:35 > 0:21:39THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:21:45 > 0:21:46Sorry, we don't know.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49That's Ove Arup and the Sydney Opera House, of course.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51And finally, this is a work
0:21:51 > 0:21:53from the museum's collection by which artist?
0:21:53 > 0:21:57The museum held an exhibition of modern reimaginings of his work
0:21:57 > 0:21:58earlier this year.
0:22:00 > 0:22:04THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:22:10 > 0:22:11Fra Angelico?
0:22:11 > 0:22:14No, it's Botticelli. Ten points for this.
0:22:14 > 0:22:17Often seen in upland areas,
0:22:17 > 0:22:20which pigeon-sized bird has two common names -
0:22:20 > 0:22:24one from its wavering flight, the other from its call?
0:22:24 > 0:22:27Known binomially as Vanellus vanellus,
0:22:27 > 0:22:29it has a distinctive, crested head.
0:22:31 > 0:22:33Capercaillie?
0:22:34 > 0:22:36Nope. Anyone like to buzz from Kent?
0:22:38 > 0:22:40Hoopoe?
0:22:40 > 0:22:42No, it's the lapwing, or peewit.
0:22:42 > 0:22:43There's no crest on a capercaillie.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45Ten points for this.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48Give the five-word name of the art event and memorial
0:22:48 > 0:22:51conceived by Jeremy Deller and Rufus Norris,
0:22:51 > 0:22:54staged in July 2016 to mark the centenary
0:22:54 > 0:22:57of the start of the Battle of the Somme.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00The name is a repetitive song performed by participants
0:23:00 > 0:23:02to the tune of Auld Lang Syne.
0:23:06 > 0:23:09# We're here because we're here because we're here. #
0:23:09 > 0:23:10Correct, well done.
0:23:10 > 0:23:11LAUGHTER
0:23:11 > 0:23:13APPLAUSE
0:23:15 > 0:23:18Your bonuses are on a politician, Leeds.
0:23:18 > 0:23:22Of which politician did Harold Macmillan say that he
0:23:22 > 0:23:25"was trained to win the Derby in 1938,
0:23:25 > 0:23:28"but only let out of the starting stalls in 1955?"
0:23:30 > 0:23:31Anthony Eden?
0:23:31 > 0:23:32Anthony Eden.
0:23:32 > 0:23:33Correct.
0:23:33 > 0:23:38To what was Eden's wife Clarissa referring in 1956 when she said,
0:23:38 > 0:23:40"For the past few weeks,
0:23:40 > 0:23:43"I've really felt as if it was flowing through my drawing-room"?
0:23:43 > 0:23:45- Suez.- Yeah.- Suez Canal, sorry.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47Suez Canal.
0:23:47 > 0:23:48Correct.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51And finally, also speaking during the Suez crisis,
0:23:51 > 0:23:54Eden remarked that, "Long experience has taught me
0:23:54 > 0:23:58"that to be criticised is not always to be..." What?
0:23:59 > 0:24:01Wrong?
0:24:02 > 0:24:03Come on.
0:24:03 > 0:24:04Wrong.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06Wrong is correct. APPLAUSE
0:24:06 > 0:24:07There are about three minutes to go,
0:24:07 > 0:24:09and there are ten points at stake for this.
0:24:09 > 0:24:10What number lies in the centre
0:24:10 > 0:24:14of every standard three-by-three magic square
0:24:14 > 0:24:18that contains the first nine positive integers?
0:24:20 > 0:24:21Five.
0:24:21 > 0:24:23Five is correct. APPLAUSE
0:24:24 > 0:24:28These bonuses could give you the lead. They're on scientific terms.
0:24:28 > 0:24:30In each case, give the term from the definition.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32All three begin with the same four letters.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34Firstly, in physics,
0:24:34 > 0:24:37the apparent bending or spreading of waves around obstacles
0:24:37 > 0:24:39such as an edge or aperture.
0:24:40 > 0:24:42- Refraction?- Refraction?
0:24:43 > 0:24:44Refraction.
0:24:44 > 0:24:46No, it's diffraction.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49Second, the movement of gas or solute molecules from
0:24:49 > 0:24:53a region of higher concentration to one of lower concentration.
0:24:53 > 0:24:54Diffusion.
0:24:54 > 0:24:55Correct.
0:24:55 > 0:24:56And finally, in mathematics,
0:24:56 > 0:24:59a term used in calculus to mean related to derivatives.
0:25:06 > 0:25:08Differential? No?
0:25:08 > 0:25:10Differential?
0:25:10 > 0:25:11Differential?
0:25:11 > 0:25:13Correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:25:15 > 0:25:18Noted for its gruesome and surreal imagery,
0:25:18 > 0:25:21which short film of 1939 by Luis Bunuel and...?
0:25:23 > 0:25:24L'Age d'Or.
0:25:24 > 0:25:25No, you lose five points.
0:25:27 > 0:25:28Chien Andalou?
0:25:28 > 0:25:30Un Chien Andalou is correct, yes.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32APPLAUSE
0:25:32 > 0:25:33That puts you in the lead,
0:25:33 > 0:25:36and you get bonuses on the boxer Muhammad Ali,
0:25:36 > 0:25:37who died in 2016.
0:25:37 > 0:25:38At the age of 18,
0:25:38 > 0:25:42Ali won the light heavyweight gold medal at which Olympics?
0:25:42 > 0:25:44I need the year and the host city, please.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:25:48 > 0:25:50Let's have it, please.
0:25:50 > 0:25:521960, Seoul.
0:25:52 > 0:25:54No, it was 1960 in Rome.
0:25:54 > 0:25:55No points there.
0:25:55 > 0:25:58Ali was an unfancied 8-1 outsider
0:25:58 > 0:26:02when he beat which boxer to become world heavyweight champion in 1964?
0:26:02 > 0:26:04- Sonny Liston.- Correct.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07The name of which political organisation completes this retort,
0:26:07 > 0:26:11allegedly uttered by Ali when refusing military service in 1966?
0:26:11 > 0:26:14"I ain't got no quarrel with them..." What?
0:26:15 > 0:26:16The Vietcong.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18Vietcong is correct. Ten points for this.
0:26:18 > 0:26:19APPLAUSE
0:26:19 > 0:26:22Described as "a triumph for word-of-mouth",
0:26:22 > 0:26:24the popularity of which novel of 1965,
0:26:24 > 0:26:27revived following its reissue in 2007,
0:26:27 > 0:26:3013 years after the death of its author, John Williams?
0:26:30 > 0:26:33Its protagonist teaches...
0:26:33 > 0:26:34Jonathan Livingston Seagull?
0:26:34 > 0:26:36No, you lose five points.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38Its protagonist teaches English literature
0:26:38 > 0:26:43at the University of Missouri from 1918 to 1965.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46- You cannot confer.- Oh, sorry!
0:26:46 > 0:26:47LAUGHTER
0:26:49 > 0:26:50Stoner.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52Stoner is correct, yes.
0:26:52 > 0:26:53APPLAUSE
0:26:55 > 0:26:56These bonuses...
0:26:56 > 0:26:57GONG
0:26:57 > 0:26:58And at the gong...
0:26:58 > 0:27:00AUDIENCE: Ooooh!
0:27:01 > 0:27:03Oh, dear. LAUGHTER
0:27:03 > 0:27:05Right, well, I'll tell you what happens in these circumstances.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07It's a dead heat, obviously, at the gong.
0:27:07 > 0:27:10So I'm going to read a starter question.
0:27:10 > 0:27:14Whoever gets this answer right will automatically go through,
0:27:14 > 0:27:16but if you buzz in incorrectly, you'll lose five points
0:27:16 > 0:27:20and the other team won't even have to go to the inconvenience of trying to answer.
0:27:20 > 0:27:21LAUGHTER
0:27:21 > 0:27:22Everyone clear?
0:27:22 > 0:27:24So it's another starter question.
0:27:24 > 0:27:25Fingers on buzzers.
0:27:25 > 0:27:30Masetto, Zerlina and Donna Elvira are among characters in which opera,
0:27:30 > 0:27:33first performed in Prague in 1787?
0:27:35 > 0:27:37The Bartered Bride?
0:27:37 > 0:27:39No. One of you buzz, Leeds.
0:27:41 > 0:27:42Marriage Of Figaro.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44No, it's Don Giovanni. AUDIENCE: Ooh!
0:27:44 > 0:27:45Ten points for this.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48The confluence of which two rivers forms the Shatt al-Arab,
0:27:48 > 0:27:52whose lower course forms part of the border between Iraq and...?
0:27:53 > 0:27:55Tigris and the Euphrates.
0:27:55 > 0:27:56Correct, well done! You win!
0:27:56 > 0:27:58APPLAUSE
0:28:07 > 0:28:10Well, you can't get a closer win than that, Kent,
0:28:10 > 0:28:12so you went out all guns blazing.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14Thank you very much for taking part,
0:28:14 > 0:28:16and congratulations to you, Leeds,
0:28:16 > 0:28:18we'll look forward to seeing you in the final,
0:28:18 > 0:28:21which may be a mixed blessing, as far as you're concerned.
0:28:21 > 0:28:22LAUGHTER
0:28:22 > 0:28:24Anyway, thank you very much for joining us, too.
0:28:24 > 0:28:26I hope you can join us next time for the second semifinal.
0:28:26 > 0:28:29But until then, it's goodbye from Kent University.
0:28:29 > 0:28:30- ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:30 > 0:28:31It's goodbye from Leeds University.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33- ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:33 > 0:28:34And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:34 > 0:28:35APPLAUSE