0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:21Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:31Hello. Tonight is the climax of our Christmas competition
0:00:31 > 0:00:34for people who are old enough to know better.
0:00:34 > 0:00:3614 teams of alumni from British universities
0:00:36 > 0:00:38have generously given up their time
0:00:38 > 0:00:42to compete for nothing more than the glory of their alma maters
0:00:42 > 0:00:44and a glass of whatever beer is on offer
0:00:44 > 0:00:46at our local discount warehouse.
0:00:46 > 0:00:48Now only the best two remain.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51They are the team from Keble College, Oxford, firstly,
0:00:51 > 0:00:54who swept past Durham University in the first round
0:00:54 > 0:00:56before coming up against tougher opposition
0:00:56 > 0:00:59from St John's College, Cambridge, in the semifinals.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02Their knowledge of the writers Michael Bond and Edith Wharton
0:01:02 > 0:01:06saw them through with a score of 160 to 105.
0:01:06 > 0:01:08Representing Keble again,
0:01:08 > 0:01:10one of the country's foremost economics experts,
0:01:10 > 0:01:13an award-winning novelist and screenwriter.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16Their captain is a comedian, writer and actor
0:01:16 > 0:01:20and their fourth member supports women who want to work in science.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22Let's meet the Keble College team again.
0:01:22 > 0:01:24Hello, I'm Paul Johnson.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27I graduated with a degree in PPE in 1988
0:01:27 > 0:01:30and I'm now Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
0:01:30 > 0:01:32Hello, I'm Frank Cottrell-Boyce.
0:01:32 > 0:01:36I graduated from Keble in 1986 with a DPhil in English literature
0:01:36 > 0:01:37and now I'm a children's writer.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39And this is their captain.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42Hi, I'm Katy Brand. I'm a writer, actor and comedian
0:01:42 > 0:01:45and I graduated with a degree in theology in 2000.
0:01:45 > 0:01:47Hi, I'm Anne-Marie Imafidon.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50I read maths and computer science up until 2010 at Keble
0:01:50 > 0:01:54and now I run social enterprise Stemettes.
0:01:54 > 0:01:56APPLAUSE
0:01:58 > 0:02:01Now, playing them is the team from Reading,
0:02:01 > 0:02:04who saw off Brunel University London in round one,
0:02:04 > 0:02:08before squeaking past University College London in the semifinals.
0:02:08 > 0:02:12They were strong on feminism and on UNESCO World Heritage Sites,
0:02:12 > 0:02:14but it was their knowledge of bran
0:02:14 > 0:02:17that won them the match on the gong.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20Playing again tonight are an evolutionary anthropologist,
0:02:20 > 0:02:22an expert in human relationships,
0:02:22 > 0:02:25a presenter on the BBC's Autumnwatch and Springwatch.
0:02:25 > 0:02:29Their captain is a politician and women's rights activist
0:02:29 > 0:02:31and their fourth member is a bestselling gardening writer
0:02:31 > 0:02:33and broadcaster.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36Let's meet the team from Reading University again.
0:02:36 > 0:02:37Hello, I'm an Anna Machin.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40I gained a degree, a PhD in archaeology,
0:02:40 > 0:02:43from the University of Reading in 2006,
0:02:43 > 0:02:46and today, I'm an academic, science writer and broadcaster.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48Hello, I'm Martin Hughes-Games.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50I got a degree in zoology back in 1978.
0:02:50 > 0:02:55I'm now a keen motorcyclist and sometime wildlife presenter.
0:02:55 > 0:02:56And this is their captain.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58Hello, I'm Sophie Walker.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01I graduated in 1993 in French and English.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04I was a reporter, a disability rights activist
0:03:04 > 0:03:06and now I lead Britain's newest political party,
0:03:06 > 0:03:08the Women's Equality Party.
0:03:08 > 0:03:10And I'm Pippa Greenwood.
0:03:10 > 0:03:13I got my masters degree from Reading in crop protection,
0:03:13 > 0:03:17back in the 1980s, and I'm now a gardening writer and broadcaster.
0:03:17 > 0:03:20APPLAUSE
0:03:21 > 0:03:24OK, you all know the rules, so let's just get on with it.
0:03:24 > 0:03:27Ten points at stake for this starter question. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:03:27 > 0:03:30Listen to the quotation and answer the question that follows.
0:03:30 > 0:03:35Quote, "Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation,
0:03:35 > 0:03:40"I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful."
0:03:40 > 0:03:43To which event of December, 1941,
0:03:43 > 0:03:45do those words of Winston Churchill refer?
0:03:48 > 0:03:51- The Battle of Britain?- No.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55- Dunkirk?- No, it's the attack on Pearl Harbor.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57So, ten points for this starter question.
0:03:57 > 0:03:59From the French for "dawn",
0:03:59 > 0:04:02what six-letter word means a poem or piece of music
0:04:02 > 0:04:04appropriate to the early morning?
0:04:06 > 0:04:08- Aubade.- Aubade is correct.
0:04:08 > 0:04:10APPLAUSE
0:04:10 > 0:04:15The first bonuses, Keble, are on New Year's traditions.
0:04:15 > 0:04:17Firstly, for five points,
0:04:17 > 0:04:19traditionally eaten at New Year in the southern US,
0:04:19 > 0:04:22Hoppin' John is a dish made from rice
0:04:22 > 0:04:26and what type of bean, a subspecies of the cowpea?
0:04:28 > 0:04:31THEY CONFER
0:04:37 > 0:04:40- Is it black-eyed peas?- Correct.
0:04:40 > 0:04:44Year-crossing noodles is a traditional Japanese New Year dish
0:04:44 > 0:04:46of which thin buckwheat noodles?
0:04:46 > 0:04:50They are said to symbolise resilience and longevity.
0:04:50 > 0:04:54THEY CONFER
0:05:03 > 0:05:06- Ramen?- No, they're soba noodles.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08And finally, in Greece,
0:05:08 > 0:05:10which fruit is traditionally broken on the doorstep
0:05:10 > 0:05:14to welcome the New Year, thought to be in reference to an ancient myth?
0:05:14 > 0:05:17THEY CONFER
0:05:18 > 0:05:22- Pomegranate?- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25Cilurnum and Congabata are among locations
0:05:25 > 0:05:28on or near which major structure in Britain?
0:05:28 > 0:05:31The former location is often known as Chesters,
0:05:31 > 0:05:33while the latter overlooks the Solway Firth.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42- Is it Hadrian's Wall?- It is.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45APPLAUSE
0:05:45 > 0:05:48Your bonuses, Keble, are on snobbery
0:05:48 > 0:05:51and the words of the author Rosemary Hill.
0:05:51 > 0:05:55Quote, "It's a witty read based on the good-natured assumption
0:05:55 > 0:05:57"that everyone is a snob about something
0:05:57 > 0:06:00"and, to that extent, we're all ridiculous."
0:06:00 > 0:06:06These words refer to the 1979 work Class by which popular novelist?
0:06:06 > 0:06:08SHE MOUTHS
0:06:08 > 0:06:10- Jilly Cooper?- Correct.
0:06:10 > 0:06:14"Many a host has been known to shove the Complete Cookery Course
0:06:14 > 0:06:16"back on the shelf when the doorbell goes,
0:06:16 > 0:06:20"leaving French country cooking lying casually by the stove."
0:06:20 > 0:06:24These words of Rosemary Hill contrast the perceived standing
0:06:24 > 0:06:26of which two female authors?
0:06:29 > 0:06:31THEY CONFER
0:06:38 > 0:06:41- Is it Delia Smith and Elizabeth David?- It is.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43Finally, born in 1905,
0:06:43 > 0:06:46which novelist does Hill describe as the snob's snob?
0:06:46 > 0:06:49She notes that his obsession with heredity
0:06:49 > 0:06:51and recondite forms of etiquette was epitomised
0:06:51 > 0:06:56by his insistence that his name be pronounced to rhyme with "mole".
0:06:57 > 0:07:00THEY CONFER
0:07:00 > 0:07:04- Anthony Powell?- Anthony Powell is correct. Ten points for this.
0:07:04 > 0:07:08Aba, Onitsha, Kano and Kaduna are major cities
0:07:08 > 0:07:10in which populous African country?
0:07:12 > 0:07:14- Nigeria.- Nigeria is correct.
0:07:14 > 0:07:17APPLAUSE
0:07:17 > 0:07:20These bonuses are on astronomy, Keble.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23What term specifically denotes the point of an orbit
0:07:23 > 0:07:26at which an object is closest to the sun?
0:07:28 > 0:07:32THEY CONFER
0:07:40 > 0:07:41Heliopause?
0:07:41 > 0:07:43No, it's a perihelion.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46Secondly, what term indicates either of the two points
0:07:46 > 0:07:48along the orbit of a planet or satellite
0:07:48 > 0:07:52that are nearest to or furthest from the body it orbits?
0:07:55 > 0:07:58THEY CONFER
0:07:58 > 0:08:00- Pass.- Apsis.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02And finally, what term denotes the point in the orbit
0:08:02 > 0:08:05of a moon or satellite at its furthest from the Earth?
0:08:10 > 0:08:13THEY CONFER
0:08:13 > 0:08:15- Pass.- That's its apogee.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17We're going to take a picture round. For your picture starter,
0:08:17 > 0:08:21you'll see a map on which five capital cities have been marked.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24The initial letters of their English names may be combined
0:08:24 > 0:08:27to form a word relating to the holiday season.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29Ten points if you can work out what the word is.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37- Snow.- No.
0:08:43 > 0:08:45- Santa?- No, it's "carol".
0:08:45 > 0:08:50Cairo, Algiers, Rabat, Ouagadougou and Lisbon.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54So, picture bonuses shortly. Ten points at stake for this.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56Active from the late 12th century,
0:08:56 > 0:08:59Saxo Grammaticus wrote the first major work
0:08:59 > 0:09:01on the history of which European country?
0:09:01 > 0:09:06Ending with the conquest of Pomerania by Canute IV in 1185,
0:09:06 > 0:09:09it is thought to be a source of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
0:09:12 > 0:09:14- Denmark?- Denmark is, of course, correct, yes.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17APPLAUSE
0:09:17 > 0:09:20So, we're going to take picture bonuses
0:09:20 > 0:09:23in the vein of the picture starter. Three more sets of cities.
0:09:23 > 0:09:27Again, the initial letters of their English names can be combined
0:09:27 > 0:09:30to make a word with seasonal connotation,
0:09:30 > 0:09:33should you care to do so. Five points for each you can work out.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36Note that, from here, the cities may not necessarily be capital cities.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38Firstly, for five.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41THEY CONFER
0:09:46 > 0:09:49I think the one in Florida's Tallahassee.
0:09:49 > 0:09:51OK, so a seasonal word with T.
0:09:51 > 0:09:54And then the one up the east coast, what's that?
0:09:54 > 0:09:57THEY CONFER
0:10:00 > 0:10:02Um, "Yule"?
0:10:02 > 0:10:04No, it's "snow".
0:10:04 > 0:10:07Salt Lake City, New Orleans, Orlando and Washington DC.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09Secondly.
0:10:09 > 0:10:12THEY CONFER
0:10:12 > 0:10:14- Have you got any cities?- No.
0:10:14 > 0:10:17Mumbai and maybe Islamabad, we were thinking.
0:10:17 > 0:10:20So, something seasonal with an M and an I.
0:10:20 > 0:10:22THEY CONFER
0:10:22 > 0:10:24Have a try, come on.
0:10:24 > 0:10:27Something Christmassy with an M and an I.
0:10:27 > 0:10:29Four letters.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33- Mint.- No, it's magi.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36Mumbai, Astana, Gyeongju and Islamabad.
0:10:36 > 0:10:37And, finally...
0:10:37 > 0:10:40THEY CONFER
0:10:40 > 0:10:42Is that Naples in Italy?
0:10:42 > 0:10:45THEY CONFER
0:10:45 > 0:10:47Edinburgh. Edinburgh, Naples.
0:10:47 > 0:10:50- Is that Hamburg?- I don't know.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53THEY CONFER
0:10:53 > 0:10:56What's next? So, an N and an E.
0:10:56 > 0:10:59THEY CONFER
0:10:59 > 0:11:01- "Santa".- No, it's "angel".
0:11:01 > 0:11:04It's difficult, isn't it, because they don't read left to right.
0:11:04 > 0:11:08It's Ankara, Naples, Gdansk, Edinburgh and Lyon.
0:11:08 > 0:11:09Ten points for this.
0:11:09 > 0:11:12What word of four letters begins the surnames
0:11:12 > 0:11:15of Earl Rivers in Shakespeare's Richard III,
0:11:15 > 0:11:18Sarah in the French Lieutenant's Woman
0:11:18 > 0:11:20and Jane Austen's Emma?
0:11:24 > 0:11:28- Dash?- No. Anyone like to buzz from Reading?
0:11:30 > 0:11:32- Is it Hunt?- No, it's Wood.
0:11:32 > 0:11:34Woodville, Woodruff and Woodhouse.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36Ten points for this.
0:11:36 > 0:11:40January, 1806, saw the Times newspaper use an illustration
0:11:40 > 0:11:42for the first time, as it reported
0:11:42 > 0:11:45the funeral of which military figure?
0:11:49 > 0:11:51- Nelson?- Correct.
0:11:51 > 0:11:53APPLAUSE
0:11:55 > 0:11:59Keble, your bonuses are on women who were born on New Year's Day.
0:11:59 > 0:12:00Name each one from the description.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03I need their first name and their surname.
0:12:03 > 0:12:07Firstly, an Anglo-Irish author, born 1768.
0:12:07 > 0:12:12Her novels include Castle Rackrent and The Absentee.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14Maria Edgeworth. Maria Edgeworth.
0:12:14 > 0:12:18- Nominate Cottrell-Boyce. - Maria Edgeworth.- Correct.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20Secondly, a seamstress, born 1752.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23A popular legend credits her with designing
0:12:23 > 0:12:26the first flag of the United States of America.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30THEY CONFER
0:12:33 > 0:12:36- Pass.- It's Betsy Ross.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38And, finally, born in 1956,
0:12:38 > 0:12:41a French politician who was appointed Managing Director
0:12:41 > 0:12:44of the International Monetary Fund in 2011.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46THEY CONFER
0:12:48 > 0:12:51- Christine Lagarde.- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:12:51 > 0:12:53Born in New York state in 1907
0:12:53 > 0:12:56and dying in East Sussex in 1977,
0:12:56 > 0:13:00which surrealist artist was a model and muse
0:13:00 > 0:13:02to fellow US artist Man Ray?
0:13:02 > 0:13:06She was noted for her own work as a fashion and war photographer.
0:13:09 > 0:13:13- Was it Lee Chappelle?- No. Anyone like to buzz from Keble?
0:13:13 > 0:13:15You may not confer. One of you can buzz.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19- Lee Miller?- Correct.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22APPLAUSE
0:13:23 > 0:13:25Keble, you'll be pleased to know
0:13:25 > 0:13:27that your bonuses are on winning words
0:13:27 > 0:13:29in the Scripps National Spelling Bee
0:13:29 > 0:13:32which has been staged annually in the US since 1925.
0:13:32 > 0:13:36Winners are generally aged between 12 and 14.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39In each case, give the dictionary spelling of the word,
0:13:39 > 0:13:41so confer and answer through your captain
0:13:41 > 0:13:45unless your captain chooses to nominate you. Bad luck if so.
0:13:45 > 0:13:49First, a German loan word which means "protolanguage".
0:13:49 > 0:13:51Spell "Ursprache".
0:13:51 > 0:13:53THEY CONFER
0:14:00 > 0:14:03- Nominate Anne-Marie. - LAUGHTER
0:14:03 > 0:14:05A-U-S-P...
0:14:05 > 0:14:09No, it's U-R-S-P-R-A-C-H-E.
0:14:10 > 0:14:13Secondly, a Greek-derived word meaning "wavy-haired".
0:14:13 > 0:14:16Spell "cymotrichous".
0:14:16 > 0:14:18It's going to begin with a P, isn't it?
0:14:18 > 0:14:21THEY CONFER
0:14:27 > 0:14:32I'm going to nominate you. Nominate Johnson.
0:14:33 > 0:14:35- P-S-I...- No.
0:14:35 > 0:14:41It's C-Y-M-O-T-R-I-C-H-O-U-S.
0:14:42 > 0:14:45Amazing! These children are not normal, are they?
0:14:45 > 0:14:48LAUGHTER Finally, the winner in 2017,
0:14:48 > 0:14:51from a French adjective pertaining to a country in North Africa
0:14:51 > 0:14:56and meaning "a ribbed crepe fabric of silk or wool".
0:14:56 > 0:14:57Spell "marocain".
0:14:59 > 0:15:01THEY CONFER
0:15:10 > 0:15:12I don't know. Forget I said anything.
0:15:12 > 0:15:13- One R and two Cs? - Yeah, go for that.
0:15:13 > 0:15:16- Nominate Johnson.- It's not fair.
0:15:16 > 0:15:20M-A-RO-C-C-A-I-N.
0:15:20 > 0:15:22No, it's one C. GROANING
0:15:22 > 0:15:25You've only been beaten by 12-year-olds.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27We're going to take a music round now.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30For your music starter, you'll hear a live recording
0:15:30 > 0:15:32of a piece of classical music. For ten points,
0:15:32 > 0:15:37I want the two-word English title by which the piece is normally known.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:45 > 0:15:48- Radetzky March? - It is the Radetzky March, yes.
0:15:48 > 0:15:50APPLAUSE
0:15:50 > 0:15:54That recording was from the 2017 Vienna New Year's Concert.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57Your music bonuses are three more recordings
0:15:57 > 0:15:59from recent New Year's Concerts by the Vienna Philharmonic.
0:15:59 > 0:16:04This time I just want the composer of each piece, please.
0:16:04 > 0:16:06Firstly, for five.
0:16:06 > 0:16:10ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:14 > 0:16:16Any ideas? Any ideas?
0:16:16 > 0:16:18Does it mean anything to you?
0:16:18 > 0:16:21THEY CONFER
0:16:25 > 0:16:26- Strauss?- Yeah, go for Strauss.
0:16:26 > 0:16:31- Strauss?- No, that's Liszt's Mephisto Waltz. Secondly...
0:16:32 > 0:16:35ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:37 > 0:16:40THEY CONFER
0:16:44 > 0:16:46Mendelssohn?
0:16:46 > 0:16:48No, that's Wagner's Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50And finally...
0:16:50 > 0:16:53ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:53 > 0:16:55That's Tchaikovsky, isn't it?
0:16:55 > 0:16:56Tchaikovsky?
0:16:56 > 0:16:58It is, indeed. The Waltz from Sleeping Beauty.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01Right, ten points for this. Answer promptly.
0:17:01 > 0:17:05Name two of the four British Prime Ministers from 1901 to 1951
0:17:05 > 0:17:10who served less than five years in total.
0:17:17 > 0:17:18You may not confer.
0:17:20 > 0:17:24Campbell-Bannerman and Balfour.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27Correct, yes. The other two were Bonar Law and Chamberlain.
0:17:27 > 0:17:28Well done.
0:17:28 > 0:17:31APPLAUSE
0:17:31 > 0:17:33Right, these bonuses are on the current decade
0:17:33 > 0:17:37as a setting for science-fiction films, Keble College.
0:17:37 > 0:17:41Which dystopian film of 1975 is set in a 2018
0:17:41 > 0:17:44in which global corporations control the world...
0:17:44 > 0:17:47BUZZER You don't need to buzz.
0:17:47 > 0:17:49You can confer indeed.
0:17:49 > 0:17:51..control the world, having replaced state governments
0:17:51 > 0:17:55and the populace is distracted by an ultraviolent sport?
0:17:55 > 0:17:59THEY CONFER
0:18:01 > 0:18:04- Rollerball.- That's correct.
0:18:04 > 0:18:06Based loosely on a story by Stephen King,
0:18:06 > 0:18:11which 1987 film takes place between 2017 and 2019
0:18:11 > 0:18:13and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger
0:18:13 > 0:18:17as an unwilling contestant on a deadly game show?
0:18:17 > 0:18:20THEY CONFER
0:18:20 > 0:18:21- The Running Man.- Correct.
0:18:21 > 0:18:26Which dystopian film of 1982 depicts Los Angeles in 2019,
0:18:26 > 0:18:32where androids called replicants are manufactured for use in menial work?
0:18:32 > 0:18:34- Blade Runner. - Blade Runner is correct.
0:18:34 > 0:18:36APPLAUSE
0:18:36 > 0:18:38Ten points for this.
0:18:38 > 0:18:42Castanea is the Latin name of which genus of trees belonging to the...
0:18:43 > 0:18:46- Chestnut.- Chestnut is correct.
0:18:46 > 0:18:48APPLAUSE
0:18:51 > 0:18:54Your bonuses are on common words marked "origin unascertained"
0:18:54 > 0:18:56in the Oxford English Dictionary.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59In each case, give the word from the definition.
0:18:59 > 0:19:04Firstly, a five-letter word for a very short space of time.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07It is part of the proprietary name of a type of envelope.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12THEY CONFER
0:19:12 > 0:19:15- Jiffy.- Jiffy is correct.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17Secondly, a four-letter word
0:19:17 > 0:19:21meaning to perceive, discern, catch sight of, to recognise.
0:19:21 > 0:19:22By another etymology,
0:19:22 > 0:19:27the same word denotes a slender shoot issuing from a branch or stem.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30THEY CONFER
0:19:30 > 0:19:32- Twig.- Correct.
0:19:32 > 0:19:37Finally, a four-letter word meaning to carry as a burden or load.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39It often precedes the word "bag".
0:19:43 > 0:19:46THEY CONFER
0:19:46 > 0:19:49Tote. Tote.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51- Tote.- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:19:51 > 0:19:55In the year that the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty was dethroned,
0:19:55 > 0:19:58which decisive battle was fought in northern England
0:19:58 > 0:20:00about five miles from York?
0:20:05 > 0:20:06Bosworth?
0:20:06 > 0:20:09No, you're out by about 150 years there.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12- I knew he'd say something like that. - LAUGHTER
0:20:12 > 0:20:15Come on, anyone want to buzz from Keble?
0:20:17 > 0:20:20It's Marston Moor, 1644. Ten points for this.
0:20:20 > 0:20:23Which Gothic novel by Sarah Perry was named book of the year...?
0:20:25 > 0:20:27- Essex Serpent. - The Essex Serpent is right.
0:20:27 > 0:20:30APPLAUSE
0:20:30 > 0:20:34These bonuses are on the writer Angela Carter, Keble College.
0:20:34 > 0:20:37The winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize,
0:20:37 > 0:20:41what is the title of Carter's 1984 novel
0:20:41 > 0:20:43which tells the story of Fevvers,
0:20:43 > 0:20:46a six-foot Cockney trapeze artist with wings?
0:20:46 > 0:20:47Nights At The Circus.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50- Nights At The Circus.- Correct.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53The story of several generations of a theatrical family,
0:20:53 > 0:20:55the twins Nora and Dora Chance appear
0:20:55 > 0:20:58in which novel of 1991 by Carter?
0:20:58 > 0:20:59Wise Children.
0:20:59 > 0:21:01- Wise Children.- Correct.
0:21:01 > 0:21:05The title story of Carter's 1986 collection Black Venus
0:21:05 > 0:21:10concerns Jeanne Duval, the mistress of which 19th-century French poet?
0:21:17 > 0:21:19- Do you want to guess?- Rimbaud.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22- Rimbaud?- No, it's Baudelaire.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24We're going to take another picture around now.
0:21:24 > 0:21:26For your picture starter,
0:21:26 > 0:21:29you are going to see a photograph of a queen consort.
0:21:29 > 0:21:32For ten points, I want the three-word name
0:21:32 > 0:21:36by which she is commonly known after the ducal house of her birth.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43- Sorry.- You may not confer. One of you can buzz.
0:21:43 > 0:21:46- Um...- No, if you buzz, you must answer.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48I'm going to have to offer it to Reading.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50Come on, Reading, one of you buzz.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54Is it Queen Mary of Battenberg?
0:21:54 > 0:21:58No, it's not. It's Mary of Teck or May of Teck.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01She became Queen Mary of England, of course, when she married George V.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04So, here we go, with another starter question.
0:22:04 > 0:22:06Based on the lives of classical composers,
0:22:06 > 0:22:10Mahler, Lisztomania and The Music Lovers are films by which...?
0:22:12 > 0:22:14- Ken Russell.- Ken Russell is correct.
0:22:14 > 0:22:17APPLAUSE
0:22:17 > 0:22:20So, you get the bonuses that you were going to get
0:22:20 > 0:22:23on that picture round, had you got the starter right.
0:22:23 > 0:22:26Queen Mary Land in Antarctica is named for Mary of Teck
0:22:26 > 0:22:29and your picture bonuses are portraits of three more people
0:22:29 > 0:22:32who give their name to territories in and around Antarctica.
0:22:32 > 0:22:36I just need the name of the person for the points. Firstly...
0:22:36 > 0:22:39THEY CONFER
0:22:46 > 0:22:48Frederick Land?
0:22:48 > 0:22:51No, that's John Montagu, the Earl of Sandwich,
0:22:51 > 0:22:53who gives his name to the Sandwich Islands.
0:22:53 > 0:22:55Who's the second, please?
0:22:58 > 0:23:01THEY CONFER
0:23:02 > 0:23:04Queen Caroline?
0:23:04 > 0:23:08No, that's Queen Maud of Wales or Maud of Norway, as she became.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10And finally, who's this?
0:23:13 > 0:23:15THEY CONFER
0:23:15 > 0:23:18Er, we think he looks like a George.
0:23:18 > 0:23:22- LAUGHTER Do you?- Yes.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24Well, I'm afraid you're mistaken there.
0:23:24 > 0:23:27- It's James Clark Ross.- Oh. - Ten points for this.
0:23:27 > 0:23:29What familial relationship links the author
0:23:29 > 0:23:33of the Frederica Quartet and Possession: A Romance
0:23:33 > 0:23:36with that of The Peppered Moth and The Needle's Eye?
0:23:38 > 0:23:41- They're sisters. - Sisters is correct, yes.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44AS Byatt and Margaret Drabble.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47So, you get a set of bonuses, this time on chemistry.
0:23:47 > 0:23:49In each case, give the single word
0:23:49 > 0:23:52that completes the extract from a Nobel Prize citation.
0:23:52 > 0:23:54To Marie Curie in 1911,
0:23:54 > 0:23:58by recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry
0:23:58 > 0:24:01by the discovery of the elements radium
0:24:01 > 0:24:04and which element, named after her homeland?
0:24:04 > 0:24:05Polonium.
0:24:05 > 0:24:07- Polonium.- Correct.
0:24:07 > 0:24:11Secondly, to Walter Norman Haworth in 1937
0:24:11 > 0:24:15for his investigations on carbohydrates and which vitamin?
0:24:15 > 0:24:17I need a single letter only, please.
0:24:17 > 0:24:20THEY CONFER
0:24:23 > 0:24:27- K?- No, it's C for Charlie.
0:24:27 > 0:24:30And finally, to Frederick Sanger in 1958,
0:24:30 > 0:24:33for his work on the structure of proteins,
0:24:33 > 0:24:36especially that of which hormone?
0:24:36 > 0:24:38THEY CONFER
0:24:46 > 0:24:49- Testosterone?- No, it's insulin.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52Now look, Reading, it's no good just sitting there, giggling.
0:24:52 > 0:24:54You've got to buzz in with some answers.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57- We thought we'd give them a chance. - It's a starter question.
0:24:57 > 0:25:01In 2016, scientists at the collaborative research group
0:25:01 > 0:25:03LIGO, L-IGO...
0:25:05 > 0:25:07- Gravitational waves.- Correct.
0:25:07 > 0:25:11APPLAUSE
0:25:11 > 0:25:14- You've got to be quicker on the buzzer than that.- Apparently so.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16Right, 15 points for these bonuses.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18Your bonuses are on the films of David Lean.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21In each case, name the film from its description.
0:25:21 > 0:25:25Firstly, released in 1942, a collaboration with Noel Coward,
0:25:25 > 0:25:29based on the story of a British destroyer, HMS Torrin,
0:25:29 > 0:25:30in the Second World War.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32In Which We Serve.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34- In Which We Serve.- Correct.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37An historical romance, secondly, released in 1970,
0:25:37 > 0:25:40set in Ireland in the period following the Easter Rising.
0:25:40 > 0:25:44It stars Leo McKern as the father of the title character
0:25:44 > 0:25:45played by Sarah Miles.
0:25:45 > 0:25:49Oh, God. I'm going to die for not knowing this.
0:25:49 > 0:25:53THEY CONFER
0:25:53 > 0:25:55- Pass.- That's Ryan's Daughter.
0:25:55 > 0:26:00And finally, a comedy of 1954, based on a play by Harold Brigstock,
0:26:00 > 0:26:04in which Charles Laughton plays the eponymous Salford bootmaker.
0:26:04 > 0:26:06- Hobson's Choice.- Correct.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08One and a half minutes to go. Ten points for this.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11Eight silver balls on stalks... Stop giggling!
0:26:11 > 0:26:12Eight silver balls on stalks
0:26:12 > 0:26:15alternating with eight gold strawberry leaves decorate
0:26:15 > 0:26:18the coronets of which rank of the British peerage,
0:26:18 > 0:26:21intermediate between marquis and viscount?
0:26:23 > 0:26:26- Earl.- Earl is correct. You're going to see the bonuses,
0:26:26 > 0:26:29this time on US presidents who entered the White House
0:26:29 > 0:26:32without previous experience of elected public office.
0:26:32 > 0:26:35In each case, name the President from his date of birth
0:26:35 > 0:26:37and other positions held.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40Firstly, born 1822, Lieutenant General
0:26:40 > 0:26:43and Commander of the Union Army from 1864.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46THEY CONFER
0:26:47 > 0:26:50- Come on.- Could be Sherman.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52- Sherman?- No, it's Ulysses S Grant.
0:26:52 > 0:26:57Secondly, born 1874, director of the United States Food Administration
0:26:57 > 0:26:59and United States Secretary of Commerce.
0:27:00 > 0:27:02THEY CONFER
0:27:02 > 0:27:04- Pass.- That was Herbert Hoover.
0:27:04 > 0:27:07And finally, born 1890, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09Eisenhower.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11- Eisenhower.- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:27:11 > 0:27:14Examples of what form of musical composition
0:27:14 > 0:27:19include Saint-Saens' Egyptian, Mozart's Jeunehomme and Coronation
0:27:19 > 0:27:21and Beethoven's Emperor?
0:27:23 > 0:27:26- Quartets.- No, anyone want to buzz from Reading?
0:27:28 > 0:27:31There's no conferring. Just buzz, one of you.
0:27:31 > 0:27:33Somebody buzz.
0:27:33 > 0:27:34GONG
0:27:34 > 0:27:38READING CHEER
0:27:38 > 0:27:41APPLAUSE
0:27:43 > 0:27:46I think, Reading, you've achieved something
0:27:46 > 0:27:48hitherto unachieved in this series.
0:27:48 > 0:27:50READING CHEER You got zero points!
0:27:50 > 0:27:53What a total whitewash!
0:27:53 > 0:27:55LAUGHTER
0:27:55 > 0:27:58Never mind. You were unlucky, perhaps, with the questions.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00- Yes, very. - Well, you can say that, I suppose.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02At least you take it in good humour.
0:28:02 > 0:28:06Keble College, 240. Terrific score. Congratulations to you.
0:28:06 > 0:28:09You are the winners of the Christmas/ New Year,
0:28:09 > 0:28:122017/ 2018 series of University Challenge
0:28:12 > 0:28:16for people who have other things to do with their time than be students.
0:28:16 > 0:28:19Thank you very much indeed.
0:28:22 > 0:28:25It only remains for me to thank all the teams
0:28:25 > 0:28:28who've taken part in this series and to thank you for watching.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31Next time, we resume the students competition,
0:28:31 > 0:28:34- but until then, it's goodbye from Reading University.- Goodbye.
0:28:34 > 0:28:37- It's goodbye from Keble College, Oxford.- Bye-bye.- Bye.
0:28:37 > 0:28:39And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.