0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:21Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:23 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:34Hello. Halley's Comet hoves into view roughly every 75 years -
0:00:34 > 0:00:38so one sighting a lifetime, if we're lucky, is about all we'll get.
0:00:38 > 0:00:42As frequent, but far more thrilling, is an all-female fixture on
0:00:42 > 0:00:46University Challenge - but that's what lies ahead of us tonight as
0:00:46 > 0:00:49we play the second semifinal to find out who'll be taking on
0:00:49 > 0:00:53Leeds University for the series championship tomorrow evening.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56Now, the team from St Anne's College, Oxford beat
0:00:56 > 0:01:00Manchester University in the first match in this series
0:01:00 > 0:01:02by 185 points to 55.
0:01:02 > 0:01:05Hoping to repeat that performance are a science journalist
0:01:05 > 0:01:08and broadcaster who's reported on everything from birth rates
0:01:08 > 0:01:13among African elephants to fossilised parrots in Siberia,
0:01:13 > 0:01:15a historian who's also a broadcaster with
0:01:15 > 0:01:20a particular interest in the historical context of art objects.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23Their captain is a chemist and authority on solar-powered
0:01:23 > 0:01:24conversion.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27She's been at the helm of numerous scientific organisations.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30And their fourth member is a broadcaster journalist,
0:01:30 > 0:01:33formerly with the BBC and Al Jazeera English.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36Let's ask them to introduce themselves again.
0:01:36 > 0:01:37Hello, my name is Rebecca Morelle.
0:01:37 > 0:01:42I read chemistry at St Anne's and graduated in 2001 and now I'm
0:01:42 > 0:01:45a science correspondent at BBC News.
0:01:46 > 0:01:48Hello, I'm Janina Ramirez.
0:01:48 > 0:01:51I read English language and literature at St Anne's
0:01:51 > 0:01:53from '98 to 2001,
0:01:53 > 0:01:57and I'm now an art historian, a broadcaster and writer.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59And this is their captain.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01Hello, I'm Mary Archer.
0:02:01 > 0:02:06I read chemistry at St Anne's from 1962 to 1966,
0:02:06 > 0:02:09and I'm currently chairman of the Science Museum Group.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11And I'm Jackie Rowland.
0:02:11 > 0:02:15I graduated in modern languages from St Anne's in 1986.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18And for the past 25 years I've been working as
0:02:18 > 0:02:19a television correspondent.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22APPLAUSE
0:02:25 > 0:02:29St Hilda's College, Oxford, came away from their first-round match
0:02:29 > 0:02:34with 225 points to the 65 earned by Magdalene College, Cambridge.
0:02:34 > 0:02:38Their line-up remains the same and comprises a psychiatrist
0:02:38 > 0:02:40and psychotherapist, a former principal
0:02:40 > 0:02:41of Somerville College, Oxford.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44She is also an authority on the protection of personal data
0:02:44 > 0:02:46within the NHS.
0:02:46 > 0:02:49Her colleague is a specialist in the literature of ancient Greece
0:02:49 > 0:02:53and Rome, particularly concerned with sexuality, women and gender.
0:02:53 > 0:02:57Their captain is a prolific, award-winning and bestselling
0:02:57 > 0:03:00author and their fourth player is also an author, having written more
0:03:00 > 0:03:05than 19 books for children and adults, as well as being
0:03:05 > 0:03:08a familiar voice on Radio Four's Round Britain Quiz.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11Let's meet the St Hilda's team again.
0:03:11 > 0:03:13Hello, I'm Fiona Caldicott.
0:03:13 > 0:03:17I graduated from St Hilda's in 1966 in medicine.
0:03:17 > 0:03:21I now chair a large teaching hospital trust in Oxford
0:03:21 > 0:03:23and I'm the national data guardian for health and care.
0:03:25 > 0:03:26Hello, I'm Daisy Dunn.
0:03:26 > 0:03:30I read classics at St Hilda's from 2005 to 2009.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33And I'm now an author and journalist.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36- And let's meet their captain. - Hi, I'm Val McDermid.
0:03:36 > 0:03:40I graduated in 1975 from St Hilda's with a degree in English.
0:03:40 > 0:03:41And I'm a crime writer.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44Hello, I'm Adele Geras.
0:03:44 > 0:03:49I read modern languages between 1963 and 1966, and I'm a writer.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52APPLAUSE
0:03:55 > 0:03:57Well, the rules are the same as they always are,
0:03:57 > 0:03:59so fingers on the buzzers.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01Here's your first starter for ten.
0:04:01 > 0:04:06The penultimate day of 2016 is the 200th anniversary of
0:04:06 > 0:04:09the marriage at St Mildred's church on Bread Street in
0:04:09 > 0:04:14the city of London of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin to which poet?
0:04:16 > 0:04:18- Shelley.- Correct.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20APPLAUSE
0:04:22 > 0:04:25Your bonuses, St Hilda's, are on Charles Dickens's
0:04:25 > 0:04:26A Child's History Of England
0:04:26 > 0:04:29and, in each case, name the historical figure described.
0:04:29 > 0:04:33All three lived in the same century. Firstly, for five,
0:04:33 > 0:04:35"the first merry proceeding was - of course -
0:04:35 > 0:04:38"to declare that he was one of the greatest, the wisest
0:04:38 > 0:04:41"and the noblest kings that ever shone like
0:04:41 > 0:04:44"the blessed sun itself on this benighted earth."
0:04:44 > 0:04:47Merry... Was "merry" King Cole?
0:04:47 > 0:04:48He was a merry old soul.
0:04:50 > 0:04:52King. I don't know.
0:04:52 > 0:04:53Any ideas?
0:04:54 > 0:04:58Same century. 19th century.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01- I think one of the Henrys. Henry VIII?- Try Henry VIII.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03We'll try Henry VIII?
0:05:03 > 0:05:04Henry VIII?
0:05:04 > 0:05:08No. It was Charles II or Dickens's judgment on Charles II.
0:05:08 > 0:05:13Described as "Chief Justice of the court of King's Bench, a red face,
0:05:13 > 0:05:17"swollen, bloated, horrible creature with a bullying roaring voice and
0:05:17 > 0:05:19"a more savage nature perhaps
0:05:19 > 0:05:22"than was ever lodged in any human breast."
0:05:23 > 0:05:25- Judge Jeffreys.- Correct.
0:05:25 > 0:05:29"First, an orange girl, and, then, an actress who really had good in
0:05:29 > 0:05:32"her and of whom one of the worst things I know is that she actually
0:05:32 > 0:05:35"does seem to have been rather fond of the King."
0:05:35 > 0:05:37- Nell Gwyn.- Correct.
0:05:37 > 0:05:38Ten points for this.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40Queen's Ware and Black Basalt are
0:05:40 > 0:05:44ceramic bodies invented by which industrial innovator
0:05:44 > 0:05:45and campaigner against celebrity?
0:05:47 > 0:05:50- Josiah Wedgwood.- Correct.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52APPLAUSE
0:05:53 > 0:05:58Your bonuses are on the 1975 film Monty Python And The Holy Grail.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01In each case, listen to the quotation and identify
0:06:01 > 0:06:05the actor whose character speaks those lines.
0:06:05 > 0:06:07"Don't like her? What's wrong with her?
0:06:07 > 0:06:10"She's beautiful, she's rich, she's got huge...tracts of land."
0:06:10 > 0:06:12LAUGHTER
0:06:12 > 0:06:15THEY CONFER
0:06:15 > 0:06:18- Terry Gilliam.- I don't know.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22- Terry Gilliam. - No, that's Michael Palin.
0:06:22 > 0:06:26"There is a pestilence upon this land. Nothing is sacred, even those
0:06:26 > 0:06:29"who arrange and design shrubberies are under
0:06:29 > 0:06:32"considerable economic stress in this period of history."
0:06:38 > 0:06:42- Eric Idle.- It was Eric Idle as Roger the Shrubber and, finally,
0:06:42 > 0:06:47"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries."
0:06:47 > 0:06:49- John Cleese.- John Cleese is right.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52Right, ten points at stake for this.
0:06:52 > 0:06:57Which US actor and model starred in Serge Gainsbourg's 1976 film,
0:06:57 > 0:06:59Je T'aime Moi Non Plus?
0:07:02 > 0:07:04Oh, no. Jane Birkin.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07No. I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09..opposite the British actress Jane Birkin.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12He made his name in underground films by Andy Warhol
0:07:12 > 0:07:15such as Flesh, Trash and Heat and is mentioned in
0:07:15 > 0:07:18Lou Reed's song Walk On The Wild Side.
0:07:22 > 0:07:24It's Joe Dallesandro.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26Oh, are you buzzing because you knew the answer?
0:07:26 > 0:07:28I've given it to you now. It's too late.
0:07:28 > 0:07:30- I was wrong anyway.- Right.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33Ten points for this. Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35Fingers on the buzzers.
0:07:35 > 0:07:38Name both of the elements discovered by Marie Curie
0:07:38 > 0:07:40during her investigation of radioactivity.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44- Radium and polonium.- Correct.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46APPLAUSE
0:07:47 > 0:07:51Your bonuses are on the first millennium of the common
0:07:51 > 0:07:52or Christian era.
0:07:52 > 0:07:56In each case, identify the century during which the named people
0:07:56 > 0:07:57lived and died.
0:07:57 > 0:08:00Firstly, Saints Cyril and Methodius,
0:08:00 > 0:08:03who together were known as the Apostles of the Slavs,
0:08:03 > 0:08:06the Byzantine Emperor Basil I
0:08:06 > 0:08:09and Kenneth MacAlpin, the first King of Scots.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12- We've got to find the century.- Yeah.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14Fourth. I think it's fourth or fifth.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18MacAlpin's going to be the fifth.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22- Fifth. - No, that was the ninth century.- OK.
0:08:22 > 0:08:25Secondly, the Chinese poets Li Po and Du Fu,
0:08:25 > 0:08:27the Japanese empress Koken
0:08:27 > 0:08:31and the Frankish king Pepin the Short.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33Pepin the Short.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35THEY CONFER
0:08:39 > 0:08:41It's going to be seventh or...
0:08:41 > 0:08:44- Seventh.- No, it's the eighth century. The 700s, though.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46And five points for this.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48The Neo-Platonist philosopher Plotinus,
0:08:48 > 0:08:50the Sassanid ruler Shapur I
0:08:50 > 0:08:53and Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55- Sounds old.- Yeah.
0:08:57 > 0:09:01- First or second?- First because it's the first millennium. Say first.
0:09:01 > 0:09:02First.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04- No, it's the third.- Oh!
0:09:04 > 0:09:06Right, we're going to take a picture round.
0:09:06 > 0:09:07For your picture starter, you'll see a map.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10For ten points, please give me the name of the republic whose
0:09:10 > 0:09:13territory lies within the red outline.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22Uzbekistan.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25Good heavens, no. St Anne's? One of you buzz.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28France.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30No, it's Kiribas.
0:09:30 > 0:09:31Right, ten points for this.
0:09:31 > 0:09:33Born in Pembrokeshire in 1876,
0:09:33 > 0:09:38which painter is noted for her self-portraits and domestic scenes?
0:09:38 > 0:09:42A student of James Whistler, she's increasingly been recognised
0:09:42 > 0:09:45as one of the foremost British postimpressionists.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48- Is it Gwen John? - It is Gwen John, yes.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51APPLAUSE
0:09:53 > 0:09:57So you'll be pleased to hear that you get the picture bonuses.
0:09:57 > 0:10:01Kiritimati atoll or Christmas atoll,
0:10:01 > 0:10:04which forms part of the Republic of Kiribati,
0:10:04 > 0:10:08is the first point of dry land to experience New Year.
0:10:08 > 0:10:11For your bonuses, you'll see maps with three locations highlighted.
0:10:11 > 0:10:13In each instance, I want you to tell me
0:10:13 > 0:10:17the name of the city highlighted and what time and date
0:10:17 > 0:10:20it will be in the UK
0:10:20 > 0:10:24when each of these locations experiences New Year?
0:10:26 > 0:10:29Firstly, this US state capital.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31Is it Nevada?
0:10:31 > 0:10:35THEY CONFER
0:10:35 > 0:10:39So, the 1st of January at eight o'clock in the morning...
0:10:39 > 0:10:421st of January in the UK?
0:10:42 > 0:10:44So it's eight o'clock in the morning, 1st of January.
0:10:44 > 0:10:47I'm afraid not, that was Phoenix, in fact, in Arizona.
0:10:47 > 0:10:51And so it was seven o'clock on the 1st of January.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53Secondly, this capital of an autonomous country...
0:10:53 > 0:10:56THEY CONFER
0:11:03 > 0:11:05Two hours behind us? Two hours behind us, I think.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08- Cos Iceland's the same as us. - Is it?
0:11:08 > 0:11:10We think it's two o'clock in the morning
0:11:10 > 0:11:11and that's Greenland, Nunavik.
0:11:11 > 0:11:15No, it's three o'clock in the morning on the 1st of January,
0:11:15 > 0:11:16and it's Nuuk in Greenland.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18And finally...
0:11:20 > 0:11:23THEY CONFER
0:11:23 > 0:11:25- Moscow?- Moscow?
0:11:27 > 0:11:30Moscow's before.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32Five?
0:11:32 > 0:11:34Four, five...
0:11:34 > 0:11:35Five.
0:11:35 > 0:11:39So, they get it on seven o'clock on Hogmanay.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42No, it's nine o'clock on Hogmanay, and it's Moscow.
0:11:42 > 0:11:43Right, ten points for this.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45Derived from the Italian
0:11:45 > 0:11:47for boat or barge,
0:11:47 > 0:11:50what term is used for a Venetian gondolier's song
0:11:50 > 0:11:55or a composition typified by gentle rocking rhythms in...
0:11:55 > 0:11:57Barcarole.
0:11:57 > 0:11:58Correct.
0:12:01 > 0:12:05These bonuses are on the works of Seamus Heaney, St Hilda's.
0:12:05 > 0:12:09So. "The Spear-Danes in days gone by and the kings who ruled them
0:12:09 > 0:12:11"had courage and greatness."
0:12:11 > 0:12:14These words begin which of Heaney's works?
0:12:14 > 0:12:17A translation of a poem said to be
0:12:17 > 0:12:19the earliest European vernacular epic.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21- It's Beowulf.- Correct.
0:12:21 > 0:12:25Commissioned to mark the centenary in 2004
0:12:25 > 0:12:28of Dublin's Abbey Theatre, Heaney's play The Burial At Thebes
0:12:28 > 0:12:31is a reworking of which tragedy by Sophocles?
0:12:32 > 0:12:36THEY CONFER
0:12:36 > 0:12:37Antigone.
0:12:37 > 0:12:40Correct. Published posthumously in 2016,
0:12:40 > 0:12:44Heaney's story of a Trojan prince venturing into the underworld
0:12:44 > 0:12:47to find his dead father is a translation of book six
0:12:47 > 0:12:51of which epic poem by Virgil?
0:12:51 > 0:12:52The Aeneid.
0:12:52 > 0:12:53Correct. Ten points for this.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59In their dictionary spellings, which accent appears on the
0:12:59 > 0:13:02Italian word for "because", the French for summer
0:13:02 > 0:13:05and the Spanish for Saturday?
0:13:05 > 0:13:07Acute.
0:13:07 > 0:13:08Acute is correct.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14These bonuses are on scientific terms, St Hilda's.
0:13:14 > 0:13:17They all begin with the same Greek prefix -
0:13:17 > 0:13:20in each case give the term from the description.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22Firstly, in astronomy,
0:13:22 > 0:13:25the point at which the moon is furthest from the earth.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28In a general sense, it means a high or culminating point,
0:13:28 > 0:13:31for example, of power and success.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34THEY CONFER
0:13:34 > 0:13:36Apogee.
0:13:36 > 0:13:38Apogee is right.
0:13:38 > 0:13:40Also known as programmed cell death,
0:13:40 > 0:13:44a biological mechanism that allows the controlled destruction
0:13:44 > 0:13:47of cells as part of an organism's natural growth?
0:13:49 > 0:13:51THEY CONFER
0:13:56 > 0:13:57Miosis.
0:13:57 > 0:14:00No, it's apoptosis.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02And, finally, in anatomy, a type of sweat gland
0:14:02 > 0:14:05found in the armpits and perineum.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08THEY CONFER
0:14:15 > 0:14:18No, it's gone. Apostrophe.
0:14:18 > 0:14:20Apocrine.
0:14:20 > 0:14:23Ten points for this music starter.
0:14:23 > 0:14:25You're going to hear a piece of classical music,
0:14:25 > 0:14:28all you have to do is identify the composer.
0:14:28 > 0:14:32ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:37 > 0:14:39Handel.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42Handel is right, it's from the Music For The Royal Fireworks.
0:14:44 > 0:14:48Your music bonuses are three more pieces inspired by fireworks.
0:14:48 > 0:14:51In each case, for five points, I want the composer
0:14:51 > 0:14:52of the work you hear.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54Firstly, this French composer.
0:14:54 > 0:14:58PIANO PLAYS
0:15:10 > 0:15:11THEY CONFER
0:15:11 > 0:15:13Debussy.
0:15:13 > 0:15:14It is Debussy.
0:15:14 > 0:15:16Secondly, another French composer...
0:15:16 > 0:15:19PIANO PLAYS
0:15:19 > 0:15:22THEY CONFER
0:15:23 > 0:15:25Ravel?
0:15:25 > 0:15:26No, that's Erik Satie.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28And, finally, this Russian composer.
0:15:28 > 0:15:32ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:34 > 0:15:37THEY CONFER
0:15:42 > 0:15:45- Shostakovich?- No, it's Stravinsky.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47Ten points for this.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49"It makes everyone a tourist
0:15:49 > 0:15:50"in other people's reality
0:15:50 > 0:15:53"and, eventually, in one's own."
0:15:53 > 0:15:56These words of Susan Sontag referred to what device?
0:15:56 > 0:15:59Its modern form was developed from the 1820s.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03Camera.
0:16:03 > 0:16:04Correct.
0:16:07 > 0:16:11St Hilda's, these bonuses are on the biographer Kathryn Hughes.
0:16:11 > 0:16:15Kathryn Hughes's first published work deals with members of what
0:16:15 > 0:16:17profession during the Victorian era?
0:16:17 > 0:16:21Fictional examples include Agnes Grey and Jane Eyre.
0:16:21 > 0:16:24- Governesses. - Governesses.- Governesses.
0:16:24 > 0:16:25Correct.
0:16:25 > 0:16:27Born in Warwickshire in 1819,
0:16:27 > 0:16:29which prominent novelist is the subject of Hughes's
0:16:29 > 0:16:34award-winning biography subtitled The Last Victorian?
0:16:39 > 0:16:42THEY CONFER
0:16:50 > 0:16:53- I think we'd better have an answer, please.- Sorry.
0:16:53 > 0:16:54That's about George Eliot.
0:16:54 > 0:16:57And, finally, which writer on household management
0:16:57 > 0:17:00is the subject of a 2005 biography by Hughes?
0:17:00 > 0:17:03Born 1836, her forenames were Isabel and Mary.
0:17:03 > 0:17:04Mrs Beeton.
0:17:04 > 0:17:07Correct. Ten points for this.
0:17:07 > 0:17:11The School For Lovers is the subtitle of which opera buffa...
0:17:11 > 0:17:13Cosi Fan Tutte.
0:17:13 > 0:17:15Correct.
0:17:17 > 0:17:22You get a set of bonuses, St Hilda's, on SI derived units.
0:17:22 > 0:17:26Firstly, the SI derived unit of illumination begins the name
0:17:26 > 0:17:28of which EU member state?
0:17:30 > 0:17:33THEY CONFER
0:17:33 > 0:17:34It's Luxembourg.
0:17:34 > 0:17:38Correct. The SI derived unit of luminous flux
0:17:38 > 0:17:42appears within the surname of which celebrity chef?
0:17:42 > 0:17:45Born in London in 1966,
0:17:45 > 0:17:48his published works include Kitchen Chemistry.
0:17:48 > 0:17:51THEY CONFER
0:17:52 > 0:17:53Heston Blumenthal.
0:17:53 > 0:17:54Correct.
0:17:54 > 0:17:57And, finally, the SI derived unit of the electromotive force
0:17:57 > 0:18:00begins the name of which major figure of the Enlightenment,
0:18:00 > 0:18:03born in Paris in 1694?
0:18:03 > 0:18:05- Voltaire.- Voltaire.
0:18:05 > 0:18:07Voltaire is correct.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12Ten points for this starter question.
0:18:12 > 0:18:18In conservation biology, the acronym CITES, CITE-S...
0:18:20 > 0:18:24Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26- Correct.- Yay!
0:18:29 > 0:18:31Your bonuses are on the Old Testament.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34In the book of Daniel, the words "mene, mene, tekel, upharsin"
0:18:34 > 0:18:37are the origin of what English expression meaning
0:18:37 > 0:18:39a sign of impending doom?
0:18:41 > 0:18:43The writing is on the wall?
0:18:43 > 0:18:45- BELL RINGS - Oh, sorry.- That's all right.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47Redundant. The writing is on the wall.
0:18:47 > 0:18:49Correct.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52Give the two words that complete this sentence from the
0:18:52 > 0:18:56King James Bible, an interpretation of the word tekel.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59"Thou art weighed in the balances, and art..."
0:18:59 > 0:19:01"Found wanting."
0:19:01 > 0:19:02Correct.
0:19:02 > 0:19:05The writing on the wall is revealed to which Babylonian king
0:19:05 > 0:19:06who dies soon afterwards?
0:19:06 > 0:19:09He's the title figure of a painting by Rembrandt.
0:19:09 > 0:19:10Nebuchadnezzar.
0:19:10 > 0:19:11No, it's Belshazzar.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14We're going to take a second picture round now.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17For your picture starter, you're going to see an engraving
0:19:17 > 0:19:20after a portrait of an 18th-century English poet.
0:19:20 > 0:19:22Ten points if you can identify the poet.
0:19:29 > 0:19:30Keats.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32No, anyone like to buzz from St Hilda's?
0:19:32 > 0:19:34You may not confer!
0:19:37 > 0:19:38Shelley?
0:19:38 > 0:19:42No, it's Thomas Grey, so picture bonuses shortly,
0:19:42 > 0:19:44ten points at stake on this starter question.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46Fingers on the buzzers.
0:19:46 > 0:19:50At midnight on the 31st of December, in a tradition believed to bring
0:19:50 > 0:19:55good luck, people in Spain consume what fruit...
0:19:55 > 0:19:57One for each...
0:19:57 > 0:19:58Grapes.
0:19:58 > 0:20:00Grapes is correct, yes.
0:20:02 > 0:20:06So, you get bonuses on the picture round,
0:20:06 > 0:20:082016 saw the 300th anniversary of the birth of the poet
0:20:08 > 0:20:10and classicist Thomas Gray,
0:20:10 > 0:20:14perhaps best known for the Elegy In A Country Churchyard,
0:20:14 > 0:20:18a work which has long provided inspiration in diverse media.
0:20:18 > 0:20:22Your bonuses will be about works that felt the influence
0:20:22 > 0:20:23of Gray's elegy.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25Firstly, for five points,
0:20:25 > 0:20:28which British artist painted this watercolour
0:20:28 > 0:20:31of the Stoke Poges church, near to which Gray was living
0:20:31 > 0:20:35when he wrote the elegy and widely believed to have inspired it?
0:20:37 > 0:20:40THEY CONFER
0:20:46 > 0:20:47West?
0:20:47 > 0:20:48No, that's Constable.
0:20:48 > 0:20:52And, secondly, from what film is this still taken?
0:20:52 > 0:20:56Its name is derived ultimately from a phrase appearing in the elegy.
0:20:58 > 0:21:01THEY CONFER
0:21:11 > 0:21:13- Let's have it. - All Quiet On The Western Front.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15No, it's Paths Of Glory,
0:21:15 > 0:21:17as in "the paths of glory lead but to the grave".
0:21:17 > 0:21:21And, finally, identify this author and the title of his novel,
0:21:21 > 0:21:24whose title also comes from a line in the elegy.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28THEY CONFER
0:21:35 > 0:21:36We don't know.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38That's Thomas Hardy, who wrote, of course,
0:21:38 > 0:21:39Far From The Madding Crowd.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41Ten points for this.
0:21:41 > 0:21:44Molecules of which gaseous element are produced at normal temperature
0:21:44 > 0:21:48and pressure by the action of sulphuric acid on zinc?
0:21:54 > 0:21:56Hydrogen.
0:21:56 > 0:21:57Correct.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02So, you get a set of bonuses on tennis matches
0:22:02 > 0:22:07played on the final day of the 2016 Wimbledon tournament.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09Name the player in each case.
0:22:09 > 0:22:12First, the Guernsey-born British tennis player who won the
0:22:12 > 0:22:16mixed-doubles final with her Finnish partner Henri Kontinen.
0:22:18 > 0:22:21- Don't know.- No.
0:22:21 > 0:22:22Don't know.
0:22:22 > 0:22:23That's Heather Watson.
0:22:23 > 0:22:26Secondly, the British player who won his second Wimbledon title
0:22:26 > 0:22:29in as many days when he added the men's wheelchair singles
0:22:29 > 0:22:33to the doubles title he'd won alongside Alfie Hewett.
0:22:35 > 0:22:36No.
0:22:36 > 0:22:37That's Gordon Reid.
0:22:37 > 0:22:40And, finally, the Canadian player who was beaten by Andy Murray
0:22:40 > 0:22:42in the men's singles final.
0:22:45 > 0:22:46Come on now.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48Canadian.
0:22:50 > 0:22:54It's gone straight out of my head.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57SHE MUTTERS
0:22:59 > 0:23:01No.
0:23:01 > 0:23:02It's Milos Raonic.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04Ten points for this.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06First seen at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1904
0:23:06 > 0:23:09in a production directed by Stanislavski,
0:23:09 > 0:23:12which play by Anton Chekhov sees
0:23:12 > 0:23:16an aristocratic woman and her family lose their estate to the son of a...
0:23:16 > 0:23:18Cherry Orchard.
0:23:18 > 0:23:19Correct.
0:23:22 > 0:23:25There's about 3.5 minutes to go and a set of bonuses for you
0:23:25 > 0:23:28now, St Hilda's, on Paris entertainment venues.
0:23:28 > 0:23:32Founded in 1680, what is Paris' oldest theatre
0:23:32 > 0:23:35and is it still the only one with a repertory company performing
0:23:35 > 0:23:39both classical and modern drama in French?
0:23:39 > 0:23:41The Comedie-Francaise.
0:23:41 > 0:23:42Comedie-Francaise.
0:23:42 > 0:23:45Correct. Sharing its name with a type of public
0:23:45 > 0:23:47outdoor swimming pool,
0:23:47 > 0:23:50which dining and cabaret venue is home to the troupe of
0:23:50 > 0:23:53dancers known as the Bluebell Girls?
0:23:53 > 0:23:55- Lido.- Lido?
0:23:55 > 0:23:56It's the Lido.
0:23:56 > 0:23:59Correct. The Theatre de la Ville en Place du Chatelet
0:23:59 > 0:24:02was formally named after which Parisian actress
0:24:02 > 0:24:05who performed there and also managed the theatre from 1899
0:24:05 > 0:24:08until her death in 1923?
0:24:08 > 0:24:10THEY CONFER
0:24:17 > 0:24:20- Is it Josephine Baker? - Try it.
0:24:20 > 0:24:21Is it Josephine Baker?
0:24:21 > 0:24:22No, it's Sarah Bernhardt.
0:24:22 > 0:24:24Ten points for this.
0:24:24 > 0:24:25When the Scottish physicist
0:24:25 > 0:24:26William Cullen
0:24:26 > 0:24:29let ethyl ether boil into a partial vacuum
0:24:29 > 0:24:32at the University of Glasgow in 1748,
0:24:32 > 0:24:37it was the first known artificial example of what process?
0:24:42 > 0:24:44Vacuum distillation?
0:24:44 > 0:24:46No, anyone to buzz from St Hilda's?
0:24:49 > 0:24:52It's refrigeration or evaporative cooling.
0:24:52 > 0:24:54Ten points for this.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56Directed by Burr Steers,
0:24:56 > 0:25:02which film of 2016 was described by one reviewer as an energetic...
0:25:02 > 0:25:03The Revenant.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05No, you lose five points.
0:25:05 > 0:25:08..energetic and occasionally inspired mashup
0:25:08 > 0:25:10of Jane Austen and George Romero.
0:25:13 > 0:25:15Jane Austen With Zombies?
0:25:15 > 0:25:17No, it's Pride And Prejudice And Zombies.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22Shocking you don't know. Ten points for this.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25Who acceded to the throne of Great Britain in the year that
0:25:25 > 0:25:28Martin Van Buren became US President?
0:25:33 > 0:25:35Queen Victoria.
0:25:35 > 0:25:36Correct.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42Your bonuses, St Hilda's, are on politics.
0:25:42 > 0:25:45In each case, give the single word that completes these titles,
0:25:45 > 0:25:49all three answers end in the letters I-S-M.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53Firstly, George Bernard Shaw's 1928 work,
0:25:53 > 0:25:56The Intelligent Woman's Guide To...what?
0:25:56 > 0:25:58THEY CONFER
0:26:03 > 0:26:04Socialism.
0:26:04 > 0:26:09Correct. Secondly. Hannah Arendt's 1951 work Origins Of...what?
0:26:13 > 0:26:15- Sexism?- Feminism.- Feminism.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17Feminism?
0:26:17 > 0:26:18No, it's totalitarianism.
0:26:18 > 0:26:24And, finally, Edward Said's 1993 work Culture And...what?
0:26:24 > 0:26:26Imperialism?
0:26:26 > 0:26:27Imperialism.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29Correct. Ten points for this.
0:26:29 > 0:26:31In Roman history, what term
0:26:31 > 0:26:32denotes a victory celebration
0:26:32 > 0:26:35of lesser magnitude than a triumph?
0:26:35 > 0:26:37In modern usage...
0:26:37 > 0:26:39- Ovation.- Ovation is correct.
0:26:42 > 0:26:45These bonuses are on taxonomy, St Hilda's.
0:26:45 > 0:26:48The botanical term division is equivalent
0:26:48 > 0:26:51to what taxonomic rank in zoology?
0:26:54 > 0:26:56Species.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58Species?
0:26:58 > 0:26:59No, it's a phylum.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01Its name meaning jointed foot,
0:27:01 > 0:27:06what phylum contains the largest number of species?
0:27:06 > 0:27:08THEY CONFER
0:27:14 > 0:27:15Sorry, we don't know.
0:27:15 > 0:27:17They're arthropods.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20And, finally, to which phylum do mammals belong?
0:27:21 > 0:27:25GONG
0:27:25 > 0:27:27APPLAUSE
0:27:27 > 0:27:28Chordate.
0:27:28 > 0:27:32And at the gong, St Anne's College, Oxford, have 75,
0:27:32 > 0:27:36St Hilda's College, Oxford, have 165.
0:27:36 > 0:27:38Well, St Anne's, we shall have to say goodbye to you -
0:27:38 > 0:27:40never really got into your stride today, did you?
0:27:40 > 0:27:42But thank you very much for joining us.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44And St Hilda's, we should look forward...
0:27:44 > 0:27:46Many congratulations to you.
0:27:46 > 0:27:48..to see you in the final. Thank you.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51I hope you can join us next time for the final, but until then,
0:27:51 > 0:27:53it's goodbye from St Anne's College, Oxford.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55- ALL:- Goodbye.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57It's goodbye from St Hilda's College, Oxford.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00- ALL:- Goodbye. - And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02APPLAUSE