0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:21Christmas University Challenge!
0:00:22 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:24 > 0:00:27APPLAUSE
0:00:27 > 0:00:28Hello.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Last time, we saw Keble College Oxford beat Durham University
0:00:32 > 0:00:36in the first match of this short, seasonal series
0:00:36 > 0:00:39for teams whose student days are behind them.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42Really quite far behind them, in some cases.
0:00:42 > 0:00:43LAUGHTER But who are still willing to play
0:00:43 > 0:00:46for the honour of the institutions that nurtured them.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49There'll be seven winning teams from these first round matches
0:00:49 > 0:00:53but only the four with the highest winning scores will go through to
0:00:53 > 0:00:57the semifinals, and Keble College's score of 220
0:00:57 > 0:00:58has set the bar pretty high.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01Selwyn College Cambridge aims to reach the semifinals
0:01:01 > 0:01:04by fielding a fellow of the Royal Society,
0:01:04 > 0:01:07the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Women's Engineering Society.
0:01:07 > 0:01:11Her work in computer technology has had a revolutionary effect
0:01:11 > 0:01:13on everything from the BBC microcomputer
0:01:13 > 0:01:16to the tablets and smartphones in use today.
0:01:16 > 0:01:21Next to her, the co-author of the BAFTA nominated BBC sitcom Cuckoo
0:01:21 > 0:01:23starring Greg Davis.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26His other credits include the award-winning film Crocodile,
0:01:26 > 0:01:30and he's currently under commission with the Royal Court and the RSC
0:01:30 > 0:01:35while writing a drama film about David Bowie and Iggy Pop.
0:01:35 > 0:01:38Their captain has spent 14 years in prison.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40As a governor, one hastens to add, LAUGHTER
0:01:40 > 0:01:42as well as working with a number of charities
0:01:42 > 0:01:45connected with penal reform, including the Howard League.
0:01:45 > 0:01:48He broadcasts regularly on related subjects,
0:01:48 > 0:01:50and his book about Mary Ann Cotton,
0:01:50 > 0:01:54one of Britain's earliest known female serial killers,
0:01:54 > 0:01:56inspired the ITV drama series Dark Angel.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00Their fourth player is a stand-up comedian,
0:02:00 > 0:02:02a prolific journalist and blogger,
0:02:02 > 0:02:03and, as a broadcaster,
0:02:03 > 0:02:06she can be heard on Radio Four's Front Row and Woman's Hour.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08Her latest book is
0:02:08 > 0:02:11The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons From Russian Literature.
0:02:11 > 0:02:16She also tells us that her surname is a Yiddish term meaning fathead,
0:02:16 > 0:02:19an appellation we fervently hope she won't try to prove tonight.
0:02:19 > 0:02:20LAUGHTER
0:02:20 > 0:02:22Let's ask them to introduce themselves.
0:02:22 > 0:02:24Hi. I'm Sophie Wilson.
0:02:24 > 0:02:27I graduated from Selwyn College
0:02:27 > 0:02:28in computer science, way back.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31I'm best known for designing the instruction set
0:02:31 > 0:02:33of the Arm microprocessor.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37In the picture, you see the very first Arm processor, Arm One.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40In my hand is a white piece of paper.
0:02:40 > 0:02:41On it's a small black dot,
0:02:41 > 0:02:46which the nearest modern equivalent of that processor.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48It's 70,000 times smaller.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50I still design microprocessors.
0:02:50 > 0:02:53Nowadays, they're the ones in the green cabinets on your streets
0:02:53 > 0:02:55bringing you broadband.
0:02:57 > 0:02:58Hello. I'm Robin French.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01I studied French and Italian at Selwyn,
0:03:01 > 0:03:02and now I'm a playwright
0:03:02 > 0:03:04- and a screenwriter. - And their captain.
0:03:05 > 0:03:07I'm David Wilson.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10I received my PhD from Selwyn in 1983,
0:03:10 > 0:03:13and I'm now Emeritus Professor of Criminology
0:03:13 > 0:03:15at Birmingham City University,
0:03:15 > 0:03:17and I sometimes present TV programmes.
0:03:19 > 0:03:20I'm Viv Groskop.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23I graduated from Selwyn in Russian and French in 1995,
0:03:23 > 0:03:26and I'm now a writer and comedian.
0:03:26 > 0:03:27APPLAUSE
0:03:30 > 0:03:33Now, playing on behalf of St Andrews University,
0:03:33 > 0:03:36first, a winner of the National Poetry Competition
0:03:36 > 0:03:38and the Cholmondeley Award for poetry,
0:03:38 > 0:03:40given by the Society of Authors.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43He's a judge on literary awards panels himself,
0:03:43 > 0:03:46and has translated from the German more than 60 works
0:03:46 > 0:03:50by writers including Goethe, Rilke and WG Sebald.
0:03:50 > 0:03:52His colleague's five-year involvement
0:03:52 > 0:03:55with the Edinburgh Fringe from 1976
0:03:55 > 0:03:59is credited with turning it into the world's largest arts festival.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02He later became managing director of Scottish Television,
0:04:02 > 0:04:06and was rector of St Andrews from 2011 to 2014.
0:04:06 > 0:04:07Having been a print journalist,
0:04:07 > 0:04:11their captain joined the BBC in 1985.
0:04:11 > 0:04:14In addition to news reporting, he's made numerous documentaries,
0:04:14 > 0:04:18offers topical analysis on politics in a regular BBC column,
0:04:18 > 0:04:20and is a frequent commentator on events
0:04:20 > 0:04:22like the Royal Opening of the Scottish Parliament.
0:04:22 > 0:04:24Their fourth player is a scientist,
0:04:24 > 0:04:27who happily should also be strong on the arts.
0:04:27 > 0:04:30A former literary editor of Scotland on Sunday,
0:04:30 > 0:04:32he's written for most of the broadsheets,
0:04:32 > 0:04:35and as a novelist has been a contender for the Man Booker Prize,
0:04:35 > 0:04:39the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Guardian Fiction Prize.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41Let's meet the St Andrews team.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45Hello. I'm Michael Hulse,
0:04:45 > 0:04:49I graduated in German from St Andrews in 1977.
0:04:49 > 0:04:50I'm a poet and translator,
0:04:50 > 0:04:52and a professor at Warwick University.
0:04:52 > 0:04:54Hi. I'm Alistair Moffat
0:04:54 > 0:04:57and I graduated, just, in 1972 in medieval history,
0:04:57 > 0:04:58and I'm a writer.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01- And this is their captain. - Hi. I'm Brian Taylor.
0:05:01 > 0:05:05I graduated English in 1977 from St Andrews, and these days,
0:05:05 > 0:05:07I'm the political editor of BBC Scotland.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09Hello. I'm Andrew Crumey.
0:05:09 > 0:05:12I graduated maths and theoretical physics in 1983,
0:05:12 > 0:05:16and I'm senior lecturer in creative writing at Northumbria University.
0:05:16 > 0:05:18APPLAUSE
0:05:20 > 0:05:22OK. The rules are the same as ever.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25Ten points for starter questions, 15 for bonuses.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28So, fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30Which member of the second triumvirate
0:05:30 > 0:05:33wrote the Res Gestae as a record of his achievements?
0:05:33 > 0:05:35According to the Gospel of Luke,
0:05:35 > 0:05:38he ordered the census that caused Mary and Joseph
0:05:38 > 0:05:39to travel from Nazareth...
0:05:41 > 0:05:42Pontius Pilate.
0:05:42 > 0:05:43Nope.
0:05:43 > 0:05:45You lose five points.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48..that caused Mary and Joseph to travel from Nazareth to Bethlehem.
0:05:50 > 0:05:51Augustus.
0:05:51 > 0:05:53Caesar Augustus or Octavian is correct. Yes.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55APPLAUSE
0:05:55 > 0:05:57You get a set of bonuses now, St Andrews,
0:05:57 > 0:06:00on Christmas in 19th-century fiction.
0:06:00 > 0:06:04In which novel of 1861 does Mrs Winthrop urge
0:06:04 > 0:06:08the reclusive title character to attend church at Christmas,
0:06:08 > 0:06:10presenting him with lard cakes?
0:06:10 > 0:06:13Its subtitle is The Weaver Of Raveloe.
0:06:18 > 0:06:19We're going to go for Silas Marner.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21Correct.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23"It was a short, cold Christmas,
0:06:23 > 0:06:26"and we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean
0:06:26 > 0:06:31"whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armour."
0:06:31 > 0:06:34These words describe a departure from Nantucket
0:06:34 > 0:06:36in which novel of 1851?
0:06:36 > 0:06:38- Moby Dick. - That's Moby Dick.
0:06:38 > 0:06:42It is, yes. And finally, a short story first published in 1892,
0:06:42 > 0:06:46The Adventure Of The Blue Carbuncle, concerns the discovery of
0:06:46 > 0:06:50a missing jewel after a Christmas goose is dropped in the street.
0:06:50 > 0:06:51Who was the author?
0:06:51 > 0:06:52That's Conan Doyle.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54That's Conan Doyle.
0:06:54 > 0:06:55It is indeed, yes.
0:06:55 > 0:06:56APPLAUSE
0:07:00 > 0:07:02Ten points for this. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
0:07:02 > 0:07:06Edward Snowden, Bridget Bardot and Marge Simpson are among those
0:07:06 > 0:07:11who since 1993 have appeared in what context on Channel 4?
0:07:14 > 0:07:16Christmas message. Alternative Christmas Message.
0:07:16 > 0:07:18The Alternative Christmas Message is correct, yes.
0:07:18 > 0:07:20APPLAUSE
0:07:21 > 0:07:24You get a set of bonuses this time on famous Rudolphs.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26Firstly, for five points,
0:07:26 > 0:07:30Rudolph Marcus won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
0:07:30 > 0:07:32for his theoretical work on the transfer of
0:07:32 > 0:07:35what elementary particles between molecules in solution?
0:07:38 > 0:07:39Nitrous oxide?
0:07:39 > 0:07:40Nitrous oxide.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42No, it's electrons.
0:07:42 > 0:07:46Which anti-war film of 1921 features Rudolph Valentino as
0:07:46 > 0:07:48an Argentinian libertine
0:07:48 > 0:07:51who's moved to join the French army in World War I?
0:07:51 > 0:07:55Its title refers to figures described in the New Testament.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58- Don't know.- Apostles?
0:07:58 > 0:07:59The Apostles.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02No, it's The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse.
0:08:02 > 0:08:06And finally the sprinter Wilma Rudolph was the first US woman
0:08:06 > 0:08:10to win three track and field gold medals at a single Olympics,
0:08:10 > 0:08:12doing so in 1960 in which city?
0:08:15 > 0:08:17Is it... It's not Melbourne, is it?
0:08:18 > 0:08:19Oh, Tokyo, Tokyo!
0:08:19 > 0:08:20Tokyo.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22No, it was Rome.
0:08:22 > 0:08:24Ten points for this.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27Meanings of what eight letter noun include in politics
0:08:27 > 0:08:29the opposite of reform, progress or revolution...
0:08:32 > 0:08:33Conservative.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35No. You lose five points.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38..in chemistry, the interaction of undergoing chemical change,
0:08:38 > 0:08:42and in medicine an adverse response to a drug?
0:08:44 > 0:08:45Reaction.
0:08:45 > 0:08:46Correct.
0:08:46 > 0:08:47APPLAUSE
0:08:49 > 0:08:51Your first set of bonuses, Selwyn, are on scientists.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54In each case, a centenary or half centenary of their birth
0:08:54 > 0:08:56fell in 2017.
0:08:57 > 0:08:58Firstly, for five,
0:08:58 > 0:09:01born 1917, the US Nobel prize-winner Robert Woodward
0:09:01 > 0:09:06demonstrated the first laboratory synthesis of which vitamin complex,
0:09:06 > 0:09:08also known as cobalamin?
0:09:10 > 0:09:14- Any American scientists that you can think of?- Don't know.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17No, we're given the name of the scientist, the name of...
0:09:17 > 0:09:18Vitamin C?
0:09:18 > 0:09:19Vitamin C.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21No, it's vitamin B12.
0:09:21 > 0:09:24Secondly, born in 1817,
0:09:24 > 0:09:27Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac is credited with
0:09:27 > 0:09:31the discovery of gadolinium and which other element?
0:09:31 > 0:09:34With atomic number 70, it was the last of four elements
0:09:34 > 0:09:37to be named after the same village in Sweden.
0:09:37 > 0:09:38Oh...
0:09:40 > 0:09:42Think of villages in Sweden... Borg?
0:09:44 > 0:09:45Er...Lanthanum?
0:09:45 > 0:09:46Lanthanum?
0:09:46 > 0:09:48No, it's ytterbium.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51And finally, born in Warsaw in 1867,
0:09:51 > 0:09:53which scientist's publications include
0:09:53 > 0:09:55Isotopie And Isotopic Elements,
0:09:55 > 0:09:59and Rays Emitted By Compounds Of Uranium And Thorium?
0:10:01 > 0:10:02Born in Poland...
0:10:02 > 0:10:05Not many, I can't think of scientists...
0:10:05 > 0:10:06- Curie?- Curie.
0:10:06 > 0:10:07Marie Curie?
0:10:07 > 0:10:09Marie Curie is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:10:09 > 0:10:11Right, we're going to take a picture round.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:10:14 > 0:10:16Your picture starter is a borderless map
0:10:16 > 0:10:20showing the flight path of Santa's sleigh between two capital cities.
0:10:20 > 0:10:22Assuming he's travelling along a geodesic,
0:10:22 > 0:10:26in other words the shortest distance between two points on a sphere,
0:10:26 > 0:10:29this path crosses the territory of four countries.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31For ten points, name all four.
0:10:36 > 0:10:37It's Iran...
0:10:40 > 0:10:42..Afghanistan,
0:10:42 > 0:10:44Pakistan and India.
0:10:44 > 0:10:46No. Anyone like to buzz from Selwyn?
0:10:50 > 0:10:53Iran, Afghanistan,
0:10:53 > 0:10:54Pakistan,
0:10:54 > 0:10:55and Burma.
0:10:55 > 0:10:59No, it's Iraq is the one that you both missed. Bad luck.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02Right, we're going to take the picture bonuses in a moment or two.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04Another starter question in the meantime.
0:11:04 > 0:11:07Referring to his influence on 20th century poetry,
0:11:07 > 0:11:11whom did Ted Hughes describe as "the father of us all?"
0:11:11 > 0:11:13Although sometimes classed as a war poet...
0:11:15 > 0:11:16Auden.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18No, you lose five points.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20Although sometimes classed as a war poet,
0:11:20 > 0:11:22the First World War is largely a background presence
0:11:22 > 0:11:24in his depictions of rural England,
0:11:24 > 0:11:28as in the poems The Owl and The Team's Head Brass.
0:11:28 > 0:11:29He died in...
0:11:30 > 0:11:31Edward Thomas.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33Edward Thomas is correct, yes.
0:11:33 > 0:11:34APPLAUSE
0:11:36 > 0:11:38So you'll be pleased to hear you get the picture bonuses
0:11:38 > 0:11:40about sleigh flights.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43Three more maps showing the path between two capital cities
0:11:43 > 0:11:46as the sleigh flies. That is, along a geodesic.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48This time you'll be given the countries at either end,
0:11:48 > 0:11:50and simply have to name the three countries
0:11:50 > 0:11:53whose territory will be crossed in between.
0:11:53 > 0:11:54Firstly, for five.
0:11:59 > 0:12:00Bolivia...
0:12:00 > 0:12:01Brazil, Bolivia...
0:12:01 > 0:12:03Paraguay...
0:12:03 > 0:12:06OK. Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay.
0:12:06 > 0:12:08That is correct.
0:12:08 > 0:12:09Let's see the borders on the map.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11Yes, there we go. And secondly...
0:12:13 > 0:12:14OK, Mali...
0:12:14 > 0:12:15Mali's one of them.
0:12:15 > 0:12:17- Or is it Chad?- Chad.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19Chad.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21- Algeria goes a long way down, doesn't it?- Yeah.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24- Niger?- Niger's next to it.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26- It's three, isn't it?- Yeah.
0:12:26 > 0:12:27I think Niger is right.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29OK. Mali, Chad and Niger?
0:12:29 > 0:12:30Yeah. I think so.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32We'll try Mali, Chad, and Niger.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34Correct, yes.
0:12:34 > 0:12:36There you are, you can see them now.
0:12:36 > 0:12:37And finally...
0:12:38 > 0:12:40Ukraine...
0:12:40 > 0:12:41Macedonia? It'll be three.
0:12:41 > 0:12:43Romania, Ukraine...
0:12:45 > 0:12:47I think Moldova must be there.
0:12:49 > 0:12:50Ukraine...
0:12:50 > 0:12:52Romania, Moldova and Ukraine.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54OK. Romania, Moldova and Ukraine.
0:12:54 > 0:12:55Correct!
0:12:55 > 0:12:57APPLAUSE
0:12:59 > 0:13:01Right, ten points for this.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03Listen carefully, answer as soon as your name is called.
0:13:03 > 0:13:05How many Christmas trees would be
0:13:05 > 0:13:08required to provide one tree per household
0:13:08 > 0:13:11for a town of 75,000 inhabitants
0:13:11 > 0:13:15if the average family size is 2.5 people per household?
0:13:22 > 0:13:2320,000.
0:13:23 > 0:13:25Anyone like to buzz from St Andrews?
0:13:25 > 0:13:26You may not confer.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28One of you can buzz.
0:13:30 > 0:13:3112,500?
0:13:31 > 0:13:33No, it's 30,000.
0:13:33 > 0:13:35- Oh...- Right, ten points for this.
0:13:35 > 0:13:36Born in Glasgow in 1964,
0:13:36 > 0:13:39which academic has published books
0:13:39 > 0:13:41on Hamburg in the early 20th century,
0:13:41 > 0:13:43the Rothschild banking house,
0:13:43 > 0:13:45and the diplomat Henry Kissinger?
0:13:45 > 0:13:48His works as a broadcaster include the television...
0:13:49 > 0:13:50Niall Ferguson.
0:13:50 > 0:13:51Correct.
0:13:51 > 0:13:53- APPLAUSE - Yes!
0:13:54 > 0:13:56These bonuses are on the BFI, and Sight And Sound magazine's
0:13:56 > 0:14:00list of the 50 greatest films of all time.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03In each case, name the film from the description.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05Firstly, at number ten on the list,
0:14:05 > 0:14:10a semiautobiographical work of 1963 by Federico Fellini
0:14:10 > 0:14:13about a film director in creative paralysis.
0:14:13 > 0:14:14- 8 1/2.- Exactly.
0:14:14 > 0:14:17According to Sight And Sound, dreams, nightmares,
0:14:17 > 0:14:20reality and memories coexist within the same timeframe.
0:14:20 > 0:14:218 1/2.
0:14:21 > 0:14:22Correct.
0:14:22 > 0:14:26At number three on the list, a 1953 film by Ozu Yasujiro,
0:14:26 > 0:14:30described by Sight And Sound as a truly universal film
0:14:30 > 0:14:32about family, time, and loss.
0:14:35 > 0:14:36Anybody? No?
0:14:36 > 0:14:37Pass.
0:14:37 > 0:14:39That's Tokyo Story.
0:14:39 > 0:14:43And at number one on the list, a 1958 film by Alfred Hitchcock
0:14:43 > 0:14:46starring James Stewart, in which, according to Sight And Sound,
0:14:46 > 0:14:50paranoia and obsession have never looked better?
0:14:50 > 0:14:51- Rear Window? Rear Window?- Yeah.
0:14:51 > 0:14:52Rear Window.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54- No, it's Vertigo.- Oh!
0:14:54 > 0:14:55Ten points for this.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57"It was a great success on television.
0:14:57 > 0:14:59"There were heated exchanges in the letters columns
0:14:59 > 0:15:02"about whether you should or shouldn't put Beaujolais
0:15:02 > 0:15:04"in the fridge." These words of Mike Leigh refer to...
0:15:06 > 0:15:07Abigail's Party.
0:15:07 > 0:15:08Correct.
0:15:08 > 0:15:10APPLAUSE
0:15:11 > 0:15:14These bonuses are on a museum director, Selwyn.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17In 2017, who replaced Nicholas Serota
0:15:17 > 0:15:19as director of the Tate Gallery group?
0:15:19 > 0:15:22She'd previously been director of the Manchester Art Gallery
0:15:22 > 0:15:23and the nearby Whitworth.
0:15:24 > 0:15:26- Anybody?- No.
0:15:26 > 0:15:27Pass.
0:15:27 > 0:15:29It's Maria Balshaw.
0:15:29 > 0:15:30Secondly, for five points,
0:15:30 > 0:15:32Balshaw's notable commissions at the Whitworth
0:15:32 > 0:15:35included a 2009 group exhibition of live works
0:15:35 > 0:15:40led by which performance artist born in Belgrade in 1946?
0:15:40 > 0:15:42The Whitworth was emptied of its entire collection
0:15:42 > 0:15:43for the duration of the event.
0:15:44 > 0:15:46- Nominate Groskop. - Marina Abramovic.
0:15:46 > 0:15:48Correct.
0:15:48 > 0:15:50And finally, following an award-winning refurbishment,
0:15:50 > 0:15:53Balshaw reopened the Whitworth in 2015,
0:15:53 > 0:15:57with a major solo exhibition of work by which British artist?
0:15:57 > 0:16:03It included her 1991 installation Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05- Is that Rachel Whiteread? - Yes, go for it.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07Rachel Whiteread?
0:16:07 > 0:16:08No, it's Cornelia Parker.
0:16:09 > 0:16:12Ten points for this music question coming up now.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14You're going to hear a song from a musical.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17Ten points if you can give me the title of the musical, please.
0:16:17 > 0:16:18# When the moon...
0:16:20 > 0:16:21Hair.
0:16:21 > 0:16:23Hair is correct, yes.
0:16:23 > 0:16:24APPLAUSE
0:16:26 > 0:16:31That musical about hippies fighting against the draft opened in 1967,
0:16:31 > 0:16:33the year of the so-called Summer Of Love.
0:16:33 > 0:16:35Your music bonuses are three more songs released
0:16:35 > 0:16:37during the summer of 1967.
0:16:37 > 0:16:41This time, I want the band performing in each case.
0:16:41 > 0:16:42Firstly for five...
0:16:42 > 0:16:44# We skipped the light fandango... #
0:16:44 > 0:16:45Procul Harum.
0:16:45 > 0:16:46Procul Harum.
0:16:46 > 0:16:47Correct.
0:16:47 > 0:16:49Secondly...
0:16:49 > 0:16:52# One pill makes you larger
0:16:52 > 0:16:54# And one pill... #
0:16:54 > 0:16:55Jefferson Airplane, White Rabbit.
0:16:55 > 0:16:58That's correct. And finally...
0:16:58 > 0:17:01# It's all too beautiful
0:17:01 > 0:17:02# It's all too beautiful...
0:17:02 > 0:17:04Small Faces.
0:17:04 > 0:17:05Small Faces is correct.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07APPLAUSE
0:17:07 > 0:17:09That means you've taken the lead, Selwyn.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11Congratulations. Right, tem points for this.
0:17:11 > 0:17:13On June 9th, 2017,
0:17:13 > 0:17:17who said, "You live by the sword, you die by the sword,"
0:17:17 > 0:17:19perhaps slightly overdramatising the loss of
0:17:19 > 0:17:22the South Yorkshire seat he'd held as MP...
0:17:24 > 0:17:25Nick Clegg.
0:17:25 > 0:17:26Indeed, yes.
0:17:26 > 0:17:28APPLAUSE
0:17:29 > 0:17:32You get a set of bonuses this time on the solar system.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35In 1807, which asteroid became the fourth to be discovered?
0:17:35 > 0:17:38It has a giant crater at its southern pole,
0:17:38 > 0:17:40is thought to have an iron-nickel core,
0:17:40 > 0:17:42and is considered to be the second most massive
0:17:42 > 0:17:44in the solar system's main belt?
0:17:45 > 0:17:46Any idea?
0:17:46 > 0:17:48Ceres?
0:17:48 > 0:17:49Ceres?
0:17:49 > 0:17:50No, it's Vesta.
0:17:50 > 0:17:53The third asteroid to be discovered shares its name
0:17:53 > 0:17:55with which space probe?
0:17:55 > 0:17:57The latter crossed the main asteroid belt
0:17:57 > 0:18:00before reaching its target in July 2016.
0:18:02 > 0:18:03Pass.
0:18:03 > 0:18:04Juno.
0:18:04 > 0:18:07And, finally, which was the second asteroid to be discovered?
0:18:07 > 0:18:09It's ranked third in mass,
0:18:09 > 0:18:13with a highly inclined and moderately eccentric orbit?
0:18:13 > 0:18:15A chemical element is named after it.
0:18:16 > 0:18:18Cerium, probably. Ceres.
0:18:18 > 0:18:19I think Ceres.
0:18:19 > 0:18:21- No, it's Pallas.- Pallas.
0:18:21 > 0:18:24Right. Ten points for this.
0:18:24 > 0:18:25Which element was first discovered
0:18:25 > 0:18:28by the Swedish chemist Johan Arfwedson in 1817,
0:18:28 > 0:18:31through analysis of the mineral petalite?
0:18:31 > 0:18:33A soft, silvery metal,
0:18:33 > 0:18:35it's used in the treatment of bipolar disorder,
0:18:35 > 0:18:37and in the manufacture of...
0:18:38 > 0:18:39Lithium.
0:18:39 > 0:18:40Lithium is correct, yes.
0:18:40 > 0:18:41APPLAUSE
0:18:43 > 0:18:47Right, you get a set of bonuses, St Andrews, on an abbreviation.
0:18:47 > 0:18:49For what to do the letters OP stand
0:18:49 > 0:18:51in the context of productions of dramatic works
0:18:51 > 0:18:54written in earlier periods of English?
0:18:54 > 0:18:57The concept was pioneered by the linguist David Crystal,
0:18:57 > 0:18:58and his son, the actor Ben Crystal.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02Out of print? Out of print.
0:19:03 > 0:19:04You sure?
0:19:05 > 0:19:06What is it?
0:19:06 > 0:19:07Out of print?
0:19:07 > 0:19:09Out of print.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11No, it's original pronunciation.
0:19:11 > 0:19:15In agricultural science, the letters OP commonly refer
0:19:15 > 0:19:19to which broad group of pesticides that include malathion?
0:19:19 > 0:19:21- Nominate Crumey. - Organophosphates.
0:19:21 > 0:19:22Correct.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25For what Latin words do the letter OP stand
0:19:25 > 0:19:27when referring to musical compositions?
0:19:27 > 0:19:31You can give either the singular or the plural form of the word.
0:19:31 > 0:19:32Opus.
0:19:32 > 0:19:33Correct. APPLAUSE
0:19:33 > 0:19:35Ten points for this.
0:19:36 > 0:19:38In May 2017, a work by which US artist
0:19:38 > 0:19:42sold for over 110 million at Sotheby's?
0:19:42 > 0:19:45The subject of a 1996 film directed by Julian Schnabel,
0:19:45 > 0:19:48he died from a heroin overdose at the age of 27.
0:19:50 > 0:19:51Jean-Michel Basquiat.
0:19:51 > 0:19:53Basquiat is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:19:53 > 0:19:54Well done, well done.
0:19:56 > 0:20:00Right, a set of bonuses this time on world events of January 2017.
0:20:00 > 0:20:01On January 19th,
0:20:01 > 0:20:05Adama Barrow was sworn in as president of which African country?
0:20:05 > 0:20:07The ceremony took place in the country's embassy
0:20:07 > 0:20:09in neighbouring Senegal,
0:20:09 > 0:20:13as his predecessor Yahya Jammeh refused to step down.
0:20:13 > 0:20:15Is that Sudan... Is it one of the Sudans?
0:20:15 > 0:20:17- Gambia?- The Gambia?
0:20:17 > 0:20:18What do you think?
0:20:18 > 0:20:19Neighbouring Senegal would be...
0:20:20 > 0:20:23- Gambia?- Just go for it.
0:20:23 > 0:20:24Gambia.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26The Gambia is correct.
0:20:26 > 0:20:30January 8th saw the death of which former president of Iran,
0:20:30 > 0:20:33who'd held power from 1989 until 1997?
0:20:33 > 0:20:36- Ahmadinejad?- Ahmadinejad, yes.
0:20:36 > 0:20:37Ahmadinejad?
0:20:37 > 0:20:39No, it was Rafsanjani.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42And finally on January 1st, 2017,
0:20:42 > 0:20:45which Portuguese politician and diplomat succeeded
0:20:45 > 0:20:48Ban Ki-Moon as Secretary General of the United Nations?
0:20:48 > 0:20:51- We should know this.- Exactly. - We should know this.
0:20:51 > 0:20:52This is...
0:20:52 > 0:20:53Come on...
0:20:54 > 0:20:56Alvarez.
0:20:56 > 0:20:58No, it was Antonio Guterres.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00Right, we're going to take a second picture round now.
0:21:00 > 0:21:01For your picture starter,
0:21:01 > 0:21:03you'll see an illustration
0:21:03 > 0:21:04of a short story
0:21:04 > 0:21:05first published in 1844.
0:21:05 > 0:21:06For ten points,
0:21:06 > 0:21:07I'd like the title of that story.
0:21:13 > 0:21:14The Snow Queen?
0:21:14 > 0:21:16- The Snow Queen is correct, yes. - Well done!
0:21:16 > 0:21:17APPLAUSE
0:21:18 > 0:21:20The illustrations by Katharine Beverley
0:21:20 > 0:21:23and Elisabeth Ellender, from a 1929 edition.
0:21:23 > 0:21:24Your picture bonuses
0:21:24 > 0:21:26are three more early 20th century illustrations
0:21:26 > 0:21:28of Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31Again, for the points, I just want the title of each story.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33You can give your answer in English or Danish.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35LAUGHTER
0:21:35 > 0:21:36Firstly, for five.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40Sleeping Beauty?
0:21:40 > 0:21:42- Sleeping Beauty perhaps?- Mm...
0:21:42 > 0:21:43No. Don't think so...
0:21:44 > 0:21:46Oh, The Tinderbox!
0:21:46 > 0:21:47The Tinderbox.
0:21:47 > 0:21:49It IS The Tinderbox, yes, well done.
0:21:50 > 0:21:51Secondly...
0:21:56 > 0:21:57The Magic Lantern?
0:21:57 > 0:21:59Magic Lantern. Magic Lantern?
0:21:59 > 0:22:00The Magic Lantern?
0:22:00 > 0:22:02No, it's The Nightingale.
0:22:02 > 0:22:03And finally...
0:22:04 > 0:22:06Oh...
0:22:06 > 0:22:07The Matchstick Girl or something?
0:22:07 > 0:22:09Is that The Matchstick Girl?
0:22:09 > 0:22:10Is it called The Little Match Girl?
0:22:11 > 0:22:13The Little... The Matchstick Girl.
0:22:13 > 0:22:14You got the right thing.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16It's The Little Match Girl it's normally called.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18APPLAUSE
0:22:18 > 0:22:20Ten points at stake for this starter question.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22Listen carefully. Rearranging the six letters of the plural form
0:22:22 > 0:22:25of a unit of weight approximately equivalent to 28g
0:22:25 > 0:22:31gives the acronym of which organisation created in 1945?
0:22:32 > 0:22:34UNESCO.
0:22:34 > 0:22:35Correct.
0:22:35 > 0:22:36APPLAUSE
0:22:37 > 0:22:40These bonuses are on a poet, Selwyn.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43Released in the UK in 2017,
0:22:43 > 0:22:46directed by Terence Davies and starring Cynthia Nixon,
0:22:46 > 0:22:49A Quiet Passion is a biographical film based on the life
0:22:49 > 0:22:51of which writer?
0:22:51 > 0:22:52A Quiet Passion...
0:22:53 > 0:22:54Don't know.
0:22:56 > 0:22:57No, I don't know.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59- A writer?- I don't know...- Well...
0:23:00 > 0:23:03Oh, you're looking so generously at me there, but I don't know!
0:23:03 > 0:23:05- Pass!- We want an answer, come on!- Pass!
0:23:06 > 0:23:08It's Emily Dickinson.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10The first line of a poem by Dickinson,
0:23:10 > 0:23:13what is the five word title of the theme composed
0:23:13 > 0:23:17by Michael Nyman that the features in Jane Campion's film The Piano?
0:23:20 > 0:23:22Is it, "Grief is a thing...?"
0:23:22 > 0:23:23Something like that.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26"Grief is a thing with feathers?"
0:23:26 > 0:23:28No, it's, "The heart asks pleasure first."
0:23:29 > 0:23:32Almost the exact opposite, actually. LAUGHTER
0:23:32 > 0:23:34Which word completes Dickinson's lines,
0:23:34 > 0:23:37"Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me.
0:23:37 > 0:23:40"The carriage held just but ourselves and..."?
0:23:43 > 0:23:45Pass.
0:23:45 > 0:23:46Immortality.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48Four minutes to go. Ten points for this.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51The visionary Frank Owen is a leading character
0:23:51 > 0:23:54in which polemical novel published shortly before the First World War?
0:23:56 > 0:23:57The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59Correct. APPLAUSE
0:24:01 > 0:24:05You get a set of bonuses on British Christmas traditions, St Andrews.
0:24:05 > 0:24:07In which year was the first of the Christmas trees
0:24:07 > 0:24:11donated by the city of Oslo installed in Trafalgar Square?
0:24:11 > 0:24:12You can have a year either way.
0:24:14 > 0:24:1646? What is it?
0:24:16 > 0:24:17Yes, 46? OK.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19I'm going to say 1946 on that one.
0:24:19 > 0:24:21Yes, we'll accept that. It was 1947.
0:24:21 > 0:24:25And, secondly, in which year was the first Royal Christmas Message
0:24:25 > 0:24:27broadcast by radio? Again, you can have a year either way.
0:24:29 > 0:24:31- 35?- 35.
0:24:31 > 0:24:321935.
0:24:32 > 0:24:36No, you're just outside the gap, there. It's 1932.
0:24:36 > 0:24:40And, finally, in which decade did John Millington deliver the first
0:24:40 > 0:24:43in the ongoing series of Royal Institution Christmas lectures?
0:24:45 > 0:24:46Decade?
0:24:49 > 0:24:50- On film?- I don't know.
0:24:51 > 0:24:52First decade...
0:24:54 > 0:24:55Say the '20s?
0:24:56 > 0:24:571920s.
0:24:57 > 0:24:59No, it's the 1820s. Bad luck!
0:24:59 > 0:25:01Ten points for this.
0:25:01 > 0:25:02What substance is called
0:25:02 > 0:25:04elurra in Basque,
0:25:04 > 0:25:05kar in Turkish,
0:25:05 > 0:25:06yuki in Japanese,
0:25:06 > 0:25:08chion in Greek,
0:25:08 > 0:25:09and nix in Latin?
0:25:13 > 0:25:14Frankincense.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17Anyone like to buzz from St Andrews?
0:25:19 > 0:25:20Cod.
0:25:20 > 0:25:23- Cod?!- Well, you said Basque!
0:25:23 > 0:25:25No, it's snow. Ten points for this.
0:25:25 > 0:25:30The playwright and novelist David Storey died in March 2017.
0:25:30 > 0:25:33Which sport is the subject of his 19...
0:25:34 > 0:25:35Rugby league.
0:25:35 > 0:25:36Correct.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38APPLAUSE
0:25:39 > 0:25:42Your bonuses, Selwyn, are on scientific terms.
0:25:42 > 0:25:44In each case, give the term from the description.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46All three begin with the same three letters.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49One of the four fundamental interactions of nature,
0:25:49 > 0:25:52it is felt by hadrons but not by leptons.
0:25:52 > 0:25:54A single word answer is sufficient.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57Gravity?
0:25:57 > 0:25:58Gravity?
0:25:58 > 0:26:01- No, it's a strong interaction or nuclear force.- Strong...
0:26:01 > 0:26:05Secondly, the first antibiotic to be effective in treating tuberculosis.
0:26:06 > 0:26:07Streptomycin.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09Nominate Sophie Wilson.
0:26:09 > 0:26:10Streptomycin?
0:26:10 > 0:26:11Correct.
0:26:11 > 0:26:14Finally, the layer of the atmosphere above the troposphere.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16Stratosphere.
0:26:16 > 0:26:17Stratosphere.
0:26:17 > 0:26:18Correct. Ten points for this.
0:26:18 > 0:26:19APPLAUSE
0:26:19 > 0:26:23Which opera of 1871 features Gloria all'Egito,
0:26:23 > 0:26:26a triumphal march and chorus to celebrate the military victory
0:26:26 > 0:26:28of Radames, the Egyptian...
0:26:30 > 0:26:31Aida.
0:26:31 > 0:26:32Correct.
0:26:32 > 0:26:33APPLAUSE
0:26:34 > 0:26:3715 points for these bonuses, then, Selwyn.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40They're on Hanukkah, also known as the Feast Of Dedication,
0:26:40 > 0:26:42the Feast Of Lights, and the Feast Of The Maccabees.
0:26:42 > 0:26:47Hanukkah is a Jewish festival that begins on the 25th day of Kislev,
0:26:47 > 0:26:50and is celebrated for how many days and nights?
0:26:51 > 0:26:53- Anybody?- I don't know, six?
0:26:53 > 0:26:54Six?
0:26:54 > 0:26:55It's eight.
0:26:55 > 0:26:59Used to light the eight other candles on the menorah candelabrum,
0:26:59 > 0:27:01over the course of Hanukkah, what is
0:27:01 > 0:27:04the name of the ninth candle the servant candle?
0:27:07 > 0:27:09Pass.
0:27:09 > 0:27:10It's the Shamash.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12Finally, what portmanteau name was given in the US
0:27:12 > 0:27:16to the first day and second night of Hanukkah
0:27:16 > 0:27:18when it fell on November 28th, 2013?
0:27:19 > 0:27:21- Whoa... No idea. Anybody?- No.
0:27:21 > 0:27:23Pass.
0:27:23 > 0:27:24It was called Thanksgivukkah.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26LAUGHTER Right, ten points for this!
0:27:26 > 0:27:29Born in Cairo, in 1910, which chemist's determination
0:27:29 > 0:27:30of the structure of penicillin...
0:27:30 > 0:27:31GONG
0:27:31 > 0:27:33APPLAUSE
0:27:33 > 0:27:34And at the gong, St Andrews have 90,
0:27:34 > 0:27:37Selwyn College Cambridge have 145.
0:27:37 > 0:27:38APPLAUSE
0:27:41 > 0:27:44Well, you were storming away there at the start, St Andrews,
0:27:44 > 0:27:46but they caught up magnificently, I thought.
0:27:46 > 0:27:48Selwyn, many congratulations to you.
0:27:48 > 0:27:49We shall look forward to seeing you
0:27:49 > 0:27:52if you come back as one of the highest scoring winners
0:27:52 > 0:27:53in these first-round matches.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55Congratulations on winning!
0:27:55 > 0:27:57I hope you can join us next time for another first round match,
0:27:57 > 0:28:00but until then it's goodbye from St Andrews University.
0:28:00 > 0:28:01- ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03- It's goodbye from Selwyn College Cambridge. ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:03 > 0:28:05And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07APPLAUSE