0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31Hello, two more teams of distinguished alumni have
0:00:31 > 0:00:34gamely agreed to forego an evening of wassailing in
0:00:34 > 0:00:38the bosom of their families and friends in order to inform,
0:00:38 > 0:00:40educate and entertain us with what they know
0:00:40 > 0:00:43and perhaps what they don't know about more or less anything.
0:00:43 > 0:00:47There are only four places available in the next stage of this short
0:00:47 > 0:00:52seasonal series, so to progress any further, a team must win and do
0:00:52 > 0:00:57so with a total that puts them in the top four winning scorers.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00Now for the University of York, their first player focuses
0:01:00 > 0:01:04her research on cancer patients and their response to radiotherapy.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06She sits on several international committees
0:01:06 > 0:01:08specialising in cancer research
0:01:08 > 0:01:11and has received awards from the Association for Radiation
0:01:11 > 0:01:15Research and the European Radiation Research Society.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18Next to her, the presenter of radio programmes including
0:01:18 > 0:01:21The Listening Service and Music Matters.
0:01:21 > 0:01:22On television he has presented
0:01:22 > 0:01:26documentaries about the great composers and has fronted the Proms.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29He was chief classical musical critic for the Guardian
0:01:29 > 0:01:33and is the author of books on conductors and their orchestras.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36Their captain is an award-winning journalist who is now
0:01:36 > 0:01:39associate editor for one of the UK's leading tabloids.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41He also wrote for the Guardian and the Telegraph.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44He is the co-author of a book on Parliamentary scandals and is
0:01:44 > 0:01:49also a visiting professor of journalism at Sunderland University.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52Finally a composer, musical director, conductor,
0:01:52 > 0:01:54arranger and performer.
0:01:54 > 0:01:57He has composed for Nicholas Hytner's Royal National Theatre
0:01:57 > 0:02:00productions of the Winter's Tale
0:02:00 > 0:02:02and Henry V as well as for every major British television
0:02:02 > 0:02:06channel and for several Hollywood films and in London's West End.
0:02:06 > 0:02:10He has conducted Cats, the musical that is, not just stray felines.
0:02:10 > 0:02:12So let's meet the York team.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14Hello, I'm Catherine West
0:02:14 > 0:02:18and I graduated from York in 1978 with a degree in biology.
0:02:18 > 0:02:21I'm currently Professor of Radiation Biology at the University
0:02:21 > 0:02:23- of Manchester. - Hello, I'm Tom Service.
0:02:23 > 0:02:27I graduated with a music degree in 1997.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30Since then I have been writing and talking mostly about classical
0:02:30 > 0:02:32music, mostly for BBC Radio Three.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34This is their captain.
0:02:34 > 0:02:37Hi, I am Kevin Maguire, I did politics at York more than
0:02:37 > 0:02:40three decades ago and I now write about it for the Daily Mirror
0:02:40 > 0:02:42and The New Statesman.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44Hello, I'm Simon Webb, I graduated from York in the late
0:02:44 > 0:02:47'70s with a degree in music and I have now
0:02:47 > 0:02:50composed music for film, theatre and television.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52APPLAUSE
0:02:54 > 0:02:58The team from Southampton University includes a comedian who is
0:02:58 > 0:03:01a regular contributor to This Week, Mock the Week,
0:03:01 > 0:03:03Live at the Apollo and the News Quiz.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05Attentive viewers who remember him
0:03:05 > 0:03:09being disqualified in an edition of the Krypton Factor in 1995
0:03:09 > 0:03:12will doubtless be hoping he redeems himself tonight.
0:03:12 > 0:03:16With him, a news journalist who joined ITN shortly after
0:03:16 > 0:03:18graduating from Southampton.
0:03:18 > 0:03:22He later moved to the BBC where he has been health, Rome, Moscow
0:03:22 > 0:03:25and home affairs correspondent, covering numerous national
0:03:25 > 0:03:27and international stories.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29Their captain has reported on the arts
0:03:29 > 0:03:32and cultural stories from around the world.
0:03:32 > 0:03:33He has presented on Newsnight
0:03:33 > 0:03:38and is heard almost nightly on Radio 4 while listeners are making supper.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40He specialises in music related interviews with
0:03:40 > 0:03:43everyone from David Bowie to Quincy Jones.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46Their fourth player is a businesswoman, poet,
0:03:46 > 0:03:49journalist and author of children's books as well as being
0:03:49 > 0:03:52a former speech writer for Number Ten.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55Let's meet the Southampton team.
0:03:55 > 0:03:59Hello, I'm Simon Evans, I graduated in 1986 with a second class
0:03:59 > 0:04:02degree in law which I smoothly parlayed into a career in stand-up
0:04:02 > 0:04:06comedy a mere 10 years later, and that's where I remain to this day.
0:04:07 > 0:04:09Hello, I'm Daniel Sandford.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11I'm a news correspondent at BBC News
0:04:11 > 0:04:15and I graduated in physics with electronics in 1988.
0:04:15 > 0:04:16And their captain.
0:04:16 > 0:04:20Hello, I'm John Wilson, I graduated with a degree in English
0:04:20 > 0:04:23and media studies in 1987.
0:04:23 > 0:04:25Since then I have worked as a broadcaster and journalist
0:04:25 > 0:04:28and I present Front Row on BBC Radio 4.
0:04:28 > 0:04:32Hello, I'm Claire Foges, I was at Southampton from '99 till
0:04:32 > 0:04:352002 reading English and I am a columnist on The Times.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38APPLAUSE
0:04:40 > 0:04:43Well, you all know the rules, the audience knows the rules
0:04:43 > 0:04:45so let's not bother reciting them.
0:04:45 > 0:04:48Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for 10.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50"Grab your pen and take down this song,
0:04:50 > 0:04:53"I just wrote the best song I have ever written.
0:04:53 > 0:04:56"Heck, I just wrote the best song that anybody has ever written."
0:04:56 > 0:05:00To which song do those reported words of Irving Berlin refer?
0:05:00 > 0:05:02Its first public performance
0:05:02 > 0:05:05was on 25th of December 1941 by Bing Crosby...
0:05:06 > 0:05:10- I'm dreaming of a White Christmas? - Yes. It's called White Christmas.
0:05:12 > 0:05:14So you get the first set of bonuses,
0:05:14 > 0:05:18they are on best-selling Christmas toys, Southampton.
0:05:18 > 0:05:19Firstly for five points,
0:05:19 > 0:05:23which best-selling toy of 1960 was invented by the French
0:05:23 > 0:05:28electrician Andre Cassagnes who sold the design to the Ohio Art
0:05:28 > 0:05:31Company? He originally called it L'Ecran Magique.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35Meccano?
0:05:36 > 0:05:38WHISPERING
0:05:38 > 0:05:40Go Etch A Sketch?
0:05:40 > 0:05:42We'll go Etch A Sketch.
0:05:42 > 0:05:46Correct. Which popular toy of the 1990s can trace its origin to the
0:05:46 > 0:05:4917th-century Japanese game of Menko and takes its name
0:05:49 > 0:05:53from a Hawaiian drink of pomegranates, orange and guava?
0:05:57 > 0:05:59Pokemon.
0:05:59 > 0:06:00Pokemon?
0:06:00 > 0:06:03No, that's a...
0:06:05 > 0:06:07- No...- Pomegranate.
0:06:07 > 0:06:11- Say Pokemon. Why not? - Pokemon.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13No, it's Pogs.
0:06:13 > 0:06:19And finally, in 1997 Akihiro Yokoi and Aki Maita were awarded
0:06:19 > 0:06:23the Nobel Prize for Economics for creating which bestselling toy
0:06:23 > 0:06:27and thereby, in the words of the Ig Nobel Committee,
0:06:27 > 0:06:30"diverting millions of person hours of work"?
0:06:35 > 0:06:37- What year was it, sorry?- 1997.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39'97.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42THEY CONFER
0:06:45 > 0:06:49- It's not Tetris, that was Russians.- Yeah.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51Nobel prize?
0:06:51 > 0:06:54Ig Nobel prize?
0:06:54 > 0:06:55OK. No idea. Any guess?
0:06:55 > 0:06:58Some computer game but I do know what it would be.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00Some computer game, we're going with.
0:07:00 > 0:07:02That won't do, it's Tamagotchi.
0:07:02 > 0:07:03Right, 10 points for this,
0:07:03 > 0:07:07renamed in 2017 after the astronomer Eugene Parker and due to launch
0:07:07 > 0:07:13in summer 2018, the NASA mission known previously as Probe Plus aims
0:07:13 > 0:07:17to investigate the outer atmosphere of which body in the solar system?
0:07:18 > 0:07:20Mars.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22No, anyone like to buzz from Southampton?
0:07:22 > 0:07:25You may not confer, one of you can buzz.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28I'll say Jupiter.
0:07:28 > 0:07:30No, it's the sun and you lose five points, York,
0:07:30 > 0:07:32I'm afraid, cos that was an interruption.
0:07:32 > 0:07:3610 points for this, "I used to be snow-white but I drifted."
0:07:36 > 0:07:38These words are associated...
0:07:38 > 0:07:41- Mae West.- Mae West is correct.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44So you get another set of bonuses, they're on blue plaques
0:07:44 > 0:07:49unveiled in 2017 as part of the BBC World Music Day celebrations.
0:07:49 > 0:07:53Firstly, which colliery band now has a plaque dedicated to
0:07:53 > 0:07:56it at the band rehearsal room in South Yorkshire?
0:07:56 > 0:07:59They were the inspiration for the 1986 film Brassed Off.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03Bristock or something?
0:08:03 > 0:08:06No. They are the famous one, I'm not sure it was that one.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09- It's the only one I know.- Brighouse Colliery?- Yeah. And Rastrick.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12We will go with Brighouse and Rastrick brass bands.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14No, it's Grimethorpe Colliery Band.
0:08:14 > 0:08:17Secondly, which contralto
0:08:17 > 0:08:21is now commemorated with a plaque inside Aspatria Parish Church
0:08:21 > 0:08:25in Cumbria, the site of her first professional performance in 1937?
0:08:25 > 0:08:28She is particularly associated with the role of Gluck's Orfeo.
0:08:28 > 0:08:31THEY CONFER
0:08:33 > 0:08:35When was it?
0:08:35 > 0:08:38Cumbria. Ferrier?
0:08:38 > 0:08:40- That's the one.- Kathleen Ferrier.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42Kathleen Ferrier is correct.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45The Brighton Dome now has a blue plaque marking it as the venue
0:08:45 > 0:08:51for a breakthrough performance by which quartet on April 6, 1974?
0:08:51 > 0:08:53That's ABBA, sorry, you have to say it.
0:08:53 > 0:08:54- ABBA.- It's ABBA.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56It is ABBA, yes. Well done.
0:08:56 > 0:08:5810 points for this.
0:08:58 > 0:09:02Calcium salt, petroleum jelly and long chain aliphatic acids
0:09:02 > 0:09:05were among the original constituents of what modelling material?
0:09:05 > 0:09:07Developed...
0:09:09 > 0:09:10- Plasticine.- Plasticine is correct.
0:09:13 > 0:09:17Here are your bonuses, on stardust this time.
0:09:17 > 0:09:21The Stardust space probe was launched in 1999 to capture
0:09:21 > 0:09:25interplanetary dust particles and return them to Earth.
0:09:25 > 0:09:29In 2002 it flew past which asteroid named after a German born
0:09:29 > 0:09:31diarist and victim of the Holocaust?
0:09:33 > 0:09:35German diarist?
0:09:37 > 0:09:40THEY CONFER
0:09:40 > 0:09:43- Wasn't it? - We will go with that then.
0:09:43 > 0:09:44Anne Frank, the diary.
0:09:44 > 0:09:47No, she's Dutch, yeah.
0:09:47 > 0:09:48Primo Levi.
0:09:48 > 0:09:49No, it is Anne Frank.
0:09:49 > 0:09:54- Oh!- Two years later, Stardust captured dust particles,
0:09:54 > 0:09:57an example of what form of astrological object?
0:10:01 > 0:10:02Comet.
0:10:02 > 0:10:04Correct.
0:10:04 > 0:10:08The Stardust mission discovered which simple amino acid in cometary dust?
0:10:08 > 0:10:11It is represented by the symbol G.
0:10:11 > 0:10:13THEY CONFER
0:10:17 > 0:10:18Daniel, science degree?
0:10:18 > 0:10:21- I don't know any amino acids by name.- G.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23- That's chemistry.- Yeah? All right, OK.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25I've no idea.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28- Any guess?- Nope. - Nope, sorry.
0:10:28 > 0:10:29It's glycine.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31Right, we're going to take another starter question now.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33Fingers on the buzzers.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36For your picture starter you are going to see a map showing
0:10:36 > 0:10:41a Parliamentary constituency, for 10 points I need its three-word name.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49Is no-one going to buzz?
0:10:49 > 0:10:51BUZZER
0:10:51 > 0:10:53Lothian and something.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57Dear, oh, dear.
0:10:57 > 0:11:00Anyone like to buzz from Southampton.
0:11:01 > 0:11:04It's North East Fife. So picture bonuses in a moment or two.
0:11:04 > 0:11:0610 points at stake for this.
0:11:06 > 0:11:09A triumphal edifice designed by John Nash,
0:11:09 > 0:11:11the intersection of Oxford Street and Regent Street...
0:11:13 > 0:11:15Oh! It's not marble arch.
0:11:15 > 0:11:17- You're quite right.- Yeah, yeah.
0:11:17 > 0:11:20You're wrong. You lose five points.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23..the intersection of Oxford Street and Regent Street,
0:11:23 > 0:11:25a cathedral designed by Christopher Wren and the central
0:11:25 > 0:11:29financial institution of the United Kingdom all give their names
0:11:29 > 0:11:33to stations on which line of the London Underground?
0:11:34 > 0:11:35Central Line.
0:11:35 > 0:11:37Correct.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40Right, so, we go back to the picture bonuses.
0:11:40 > 0:11:45North East Fife was held by the SNP's Stephen Gethins by a majority
0:11:45 > 0:11:48of two votes, the joint smallest since 1945.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51Three more constituencies whose MPs were returned
0:11:51 > 0:11:54in 2017 with majorities of fewer than 50 votes.
0:11:54 > 0:11:58Firstly this constituency, I need a two-word name.
0:12:03 > 0:12:05Kensington and... No.
0:12:05 > 0:12:08No, too far down. That's Richmond.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11Wimbledon?
0:12:11 > 0:12:16- Two words? Richmond Park?- Richmond goes up to the river, doesn't it?
0:12:18 > 0:12:21That's the park. Richmond Park.
0:12:21 > 0:12:22Correct.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25Secondly this constituency, named for its largest settlement.
0:12:29 > 0:12:32Worcestershire.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34Could be Chester.
0:12:34 > 0:12:38Chester is definitely a constituency and it is a marginal.
0:12:40 > 0:12:42- Is that high enough up for Chester? - Yeah.- OK.
0:12:42 > 0:12:44Chester, we will go with Chester.
0:12:44 > 0:12:45No, it's Newcastle-under-Lyme,
0:12:45 > 0:12:49held by Paul Farrelly of Labour with a majority of 30.
0:12:49 > 0:12:51And finally, I need a one-word name here.
0:13:03 > 0:13:06It's further in Kensington. That would be...
0:13:06 > 0:13:09- Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, what's next?- Hammersmith?
0:13:09 > 0:13:13- It's Hammersmith and Fulham. Yeah. - One word. So that's going to be...?
0:13:17 > 0:13:21Let's have an answer, this conferring is not interesting.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23- Chiswick.- Chiswick!
0:13:24 > 0:13:28It's Kensington. Taken by Emma Dent Coad for Labour Party.
0:13:28 > 0:13:3310 points for this, identify the poet who wrote these lines,
0:13:33 > 0:13:36"He disappeared in the dead of winter, the brooks were frozen,
0:13:36 > 0:13:41"the airports almost deserted and snow disfigured the public statues."
0:13:41 > 0:13:43The poem in question was
0:13:43 > 0:13:46written in memory of WB Yeats on his death in 1939.
0:13:50 > 0:13:51Erm, Auden.
0:13:51 > 0:13:53Auden is correct. Yes.
0:13:56 > 0:14:00York, your bonuses are on the Foreign Correspondent
0:14:00 > 0:14:03Clare Hollingworth who died in 2017 at the age of 105.
0:14:03 > 0:14:07Early in her career firstly, while working for the Daily Telegraph,
0:14:07 > 0:14:11Hollingworth had a remarkable scoop after she borrowed the British
0:14:11 > 0:14:15Consul General's car to drive into Germany from which country?
0:14:15 > 0:14:20She discovered that German troops were poised to invade.
0:14:20 > 0:14:21Poland.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23Correct. After Poland
0:14:23 > 0:14:26and then working for the Daily Express, Hollingworth moved
0:14:26 > 0:14:30to which country where she covered the abdication of King Carol
0:14:30 > 0:14:33and the subsequent riots incited by the Iron Guard?
0:14:35 > 0:14:38THEY WHISPER
0:14:38 > 0:14:39Romania.
0:14:39 > 0:14:43Correct. From 1941, Hollingworth covered the land campaign in which
0:14:43 > 0:14:45theatre of war?
0:14:45 > 0:14:47She encountered opposition from General Montgomerie,
0:14:47 > 0:14:50who disliked the idea of women reporting from the front.
0:14:53 > 0:14:55- North Africa.- Correct.
0:14:55 > 0:14:5810 points for this starter question.
0:14:58 > 0:15:02Popularised in 2008 by a song by Erykah Badu and later
0:15:02 > 0:15:06through its association with the Black Lives Matter movement,
0:15:06 > 0:15:09what short word was added to the Oxford English Dictionary
0:15:09 > 0:15:12in a new sense in June 2017,
0:15:12 > 0:15:16as an adjective meaning alert to injustice in...
0:15:16 > 0:15:18- Woke.- Woke is correct.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24These bonuses are on the ethics of hangovers
0:15:24 > 0:15:27according to Existential Comics,
0:15:27 > 0:15:31described as a philosophy web comic about the inevitable anguish
0:15:31 > 0:15:34of living a brief life in an absurd world.
0:15:34 > 0:15:36Firstly for five points, according to Existential Comics,
0:15:36 > 0:15:41the existentialist response to a hangover is "Drink it off."
0:15:41 > 0:15:44In what school of philosophy is the ethical response,
0:15:44 > 0:15:47"It's fine, as long as the pleasure outweighed it?"
0:15:47 > 0:15:51Its proponents include Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59- Utilitarianism?- Correct.
0:15:59 > 0:16:03Likewise, in what system or ology is the response,
0:16:03 > 0:16:05"You shouldn't drink so much no matter what."
0:16:05 > 0:16:08Its name derives from the Greek for "That which is binding."
0:16:31 > 0:16:34- Methodology.- No, it's deontology.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37According to one commentator, what school would respond,
0:16:37 > 0:16:39"Hangovers aren't bad because nothing is bad
0:16:39 > 0:16:44"because society makes up what is bad to keep you sheeple in line,
0:16:44 > 0:16:46"and I'm 13 and I've read Nietzsche."
0:16:46 > 0:16:49Its name derives from the Latin for nothing.
0:16:51 > 0:16:55- It's nihilism.- Sorry? - Nihilism.- Oh, sorry. Nihilism.
0:16:55 > 0:16:56Correct.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01For your music starter, you're going to hear a piece of classical music.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04Ten points if you can identify the composer.
0:17:04 > 0:17:07SOOTHING HARP AND STRINGS MELODY
0:17:13 > 0:17:15Delius?
0:17:15 > 0:17:17No. You can hear a bit more, Southampton.
0:17:24 > 0:17:25Is it Vaughan Williams?
0:17:25 > 0:17:28No, it was Tchaikovsky, it was from The Nutcracker.
0:17:28 > 0:17:31So 10 points at stake for this, music bonuses in a moment or two.
0:17:31 > 0:17:33Fingers on the buzzers, please.
0:17:33 > 0:17:35What common name is given collectively
0:17:35 > 0:17:38to members of the large plant family Poaceae?
0:17:38 > 0:17:42Examples include sugar cane, sorghum, millet and bamboo.
0:17:43 > 0:17:46- Grass.- Grasses is correct, yes.
0:17:50 > 0:17:53We heard a moment ago part of The Nutcracker
0:17:53 > 0:17:57intended to set the scene of a pine forest in winter.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00Your music bonuses, three more classical journeys into the deep dark woods.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03I simply want the composer of each. Firstly for five.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08SINISTER, SWOOPING STRINGS
0:18:22 > 0:18:23Bax.
0:18:23 > 0:18:27No, that's Schoenberg. It's from The Transfigured Night.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29Secondly.
0:18:29 > 0:18:33GENTLE CELLO-LED MELODY
0:18:53 > 0:18:56Journeys into the woods, he said. What journey into the wood is that?
0:18:56 > 0:18:58- Don't know.- Journey into the wood...
0:18:58 > 0:19:01We just need a name.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07Saint-Saens.
0:19:07 > 0:19:09No, that was Dvorak, Silent Woods,
0:19:09 > 0:19:11part of the cycle from The Bohemian Forest.
0:19:11 > 0:19:12And finally.
0:19:12 > 0:19:16TIMPANI ROLL AND INQUISITIVE STRINGS
0:19:18 > 0:19:21- Sibelius.- It is Sibelius, yes, well done.
0:19:26 > 0:19:27Right, 10 points for this.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30Which illustrator's work includes the Trigraph,
0:19:30 > 0:19:34the Fronted Adverbial and the Morphology Changing Inflection?
0:19:34 > 0:19:39Each one is a monster in a series of satirical cartoons called
0:19:39 > 0:19:44the Sats Beasties. He was Children's Laureate between 2015 and 2017.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51- Chris Riddell.- Correct.
0:19:54 > 0:19:56You did that without pressing the buzzer!
0:19:56 > 0:20:00I didn't actually press the buzzer. Well, I didn't think I did.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03- Psychic force. - Your bonuses are on coinage.
0:20:03 > 0:20:09In 2017, the Royal Mint released a new 12-sided bimetallic pound coin.
0:20:09 > 0:20:11In its shape and approximate size,
0:20:11 > 0:20:14this coin resembles which pre-decimal coin
0:20:14 > 0:20:16introduced in the mid-20th century?
0:20:16 > 0:20:18- Threepenny bit.- Threepenny bit.
0:20:18 > 0:20:20Threepenny bit is correct.
0:20:20 > 0:20:23In what year was the circular nickel brass pound coin
0:20:23 > 0:20:26introduced to replace the £1 note?
0:20:26 > 0:20:27You can have a year either way.
0:20:27 > 0:20:31About '84, I think? I'm pretty sure it was at university
0:20:31 > 0:20:33when it happened. I'd say '84. Maybe '83.
0:20:35 > 0:20:39- Maybe '83 if you want to go either way.- I'd have gone later.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41Yeah. '83.
0:20:41 > 0:20:42Correct.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44What symbol of government
0:20:44 > 0:20:48and of the UK Parliament appeared on the reverse of threepenny pieces
0:20:48 > 0:20:50issued during the reign of Elizabeth II?
0:20:50 > 0:20:52- Portcullis.- Correct.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55Another starter question. Give the three rhyming words that mean
0:20:55 > 0:20:59the stealer of Christmas in a work by Dr Seuss...
0:20:59 > 0:21:00Grinch.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:21:02 > 0:21:06..an imperial unit of length equal to 25.4 millimetres
0:21:06 > 0:21:09and a small songbird such as a sparrow or canary?
0:21:10 > 0:21:12Grinch, inch and finch.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14That's correct, yes.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18Your bonuses are on household chemicals, Southampton.
0:21:18 > 0:21:21In each case, name the substance from the chemical formula.
0:21:21 > 0:21:26For example, H2SO4 would be sulphuric acid.
0:21:26 > 0:21:31Firstly, KMNO4, used as a disinfectant or water purifier.
0:21:31 > 0:21:35- Potassium permanganate?- Yeah. - Potassium permanganate.
0:21:35 > 0:21:36Correct.
0:21:36 > 0:21:42Second, CH3COCH3, a colourless flammable liquid solvent.
0:21:49 > 0:21:52Colourless, flammable.
0:21:52 > 0:21:55- White spirit? - Yeah, I quite like white spirit.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57- Surgical spirit or white spirit? - I quite like white spirit.
0:21:57 > 0:22:00- White spirit.- It's acetone.
0:22:00 > 0:22:04And finally, NaHCO3, used in cooking and cleaning.
0:22:04 > 0:22:06Baking soda?
0:22:06 > 0:22:07Oh, wait, hang on.
0:22:08 > 0:22:12- Bicarbonate of soda? - Bicarbonate of soda.- Yeah.
0:22:12 > 0:22:13Yeah, bicarbonate of soda.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16Yes, or baking soda, yes.
0:22:16 > 0:22:1710 points for this.
0:22:17 > 0:22:20One of four constitutions as a Commonwealth,
0:22:20 > 0:22:23which US state is the scene of the opening
0:22:23 > 0:22:25of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin?
0:22:25 > 0:22:28It is strongly associated with bourbon whiskey
0:22:28 > 0:22:30and is the location of the bullion...
0:22:30 > 0:22:32Kentucky.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34Kentucky is correct.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39These bonuses are on films nominated for Best Picture
0:22:39 > 0:22:42at the Academy Awards in February 2017.
0:22:42 > 0:22:46In each case, give the single word title of the film from the description.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48Firstly, a science-fiction film
0:22:48 > 0:22:51based on a short story by Ted Chiang.
0:22:51 > 0:22:55Amy Adams plays a linguist who attempts to translate
0:22:55 > 0:22:57extra-terrestrial communication.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00Um... Not Interstellar, not Contact.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03- Oh, my God.- Arrival.- Arrival! Arrival.
0:23:03 > 0:23:04Arrival is correct.
0:23:04 > 0:23:07Based on a play, secondly, by August Wilson,
0:23:07 > 0:23:10a drama starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis
0:23:10 > 0:23:14as working-class couple in 1950s Pittsburgh.
0:23:14 > 0:23:15- Fences.- Correct.
0:23:15 > 0:23:19And finally a biographical film set in India and Australia
0:23:19 > 0:23:22and based on A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley.
0:23:24 > 0:23:26- Lion.- Lion is correct.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30Time for another picture round.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32For your picture starter, you're going to see a painting.
0:23:32 > 0:23:34Ten points if you can identify the artist.
0:23:37 > 0:23:39It's...
0:23:40 > 0:23:41..Manet.
0:23:41 > 0:23:45No, it's not. York, any of you want to buzz?
0:23:45 > 0:23:48- Monet?- It is by Monet, yes.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53So, you get a set of bonuses, York.
0:23:53 > 0:23:57The hundreds of canvases produced by Monet and his contemporaries
0:23:57 > 0:24:00attempted to capture what they called Effet de Neige.
0:24:00 > 0:24:03And for your picture bonuses, you're going to see three more of them.
0:24:03 > 0:24:07I want the name of the artists in each case, firstly for five...
0:24:18 > 0:24:20Cezanne.
0:24:20 > 0:24:23No, that's by Sisley. Secondly, who's this by?
0:24:25 > 0:24:27It's quite nice!
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Renoir.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40No, that's by Gustave Caillebotte. And finally...
0:24:45 > 0:24:47- Looks like Monet.- Monet.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49Monet?
0:24:49 > 0:24:53No, that is by Renoir. Right, 10 points for this.
0:24:53 > 0:24:54To the nearest whole number,
0:24:54 > 0:24:57what is the equivalent weight in pounds
0:24:57 > 0:24:59of a Christmas turkey that weighs five kilos?
0:25:01 > 0:25:03- That would be 11.- It would, yes.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10You get a set of bonuses on the writer Sarah Waters.
0:25:10 > 0:25:14In her 1999 debut novel, Tipping The Velvet, set in Victorian England,
0:25:14 > 0:25:18the character of Kitty Butler appears on stage as a masher.
0:25:18 > 0:25:20What is a masher in this context?
0:25:20 > 0:25:22I don't remember.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25- Really?- No, I really don't, sorry. - OK.
0:25:25 > 0:25:26Um...
0:25:28 > 0:25:31Go-go, was she like a dancer, rather than prostitute?
0:25:31 > 0:25:33Let's say prostitute.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36- No, no, she was a male impersonator. - Right.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38What is the title of Waters' second novel,
0:25:38 > 0:25:42set in and around the Millbank women's prison during the Victorian era
0:25:42 > 0:25:45and concerning the world of spiritualism?
0:25:45 > 0:25:47- Fingersmith?- Yeah...
0:25:47 > 0:25:50Fingersmith? Fingersmith.
0:25:50 > 0:25:51No, it's Affinity.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54Transferring the action from Victorian England
0:25:54 > 0:25:56to Japanese-occupied Korea in the 1930s,
0:25:56 > 0:26:02the 2016 film The Handmaiden was based on which of Waters' novels?
0:26:12 > 0:26:15I don't know, I can't remember. Don't know.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17- I could say Fingersmith again. - Yeah, why not?
0:26:17 > 0:26:21- Fingersmith.- That was Fingersmith. - Yes!
0:26:23 > 0:26:25Right, another starter question.
0:26:25 > 0:26:29"Not quite Leicester City 2016, but not so very far off."
0:26:29 > 0:26:31These words refer to which unfancied cricket side
0:26:31 > 0:26:34who won the 2017 County Championship
0:26:34 > 0:26:36first division without losing a match?
0:26:39 > 0:26:41Somerset?
0:26:41 > 0:26:43No, anyone like to buzz from York?
0:26:44 > 0:26:46- Essex?- Essex is correct, yes.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51Right, York, your bonuses are on mathematics.
0:26:51 > 0:26:56In each case express the number seven in the following bases.
0:26:56 > 0:26:59Firstly, for five points, binary or base two.
0:27:14 > 0:27:15Come on.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23- Just...- 111.- 111.
0:27:23 > 0:27:27Correct. Secondly, ternary or base three.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29GONG
0:27:29 > 0:27:31And at the gong, York University have 70,
0:27:31 > 0:27:34Southampton have 150, though.
0:27:34 > 0:27:38- Well, York, you were just a bit too slow there, weren't you?- Yes!
0:27:38 > 0:27:40Thank you very much for joining us.
0:27:40 > 0:27:42We're going to say goodbye to you for sure.
0:27:42 > 0:27:46Southampton, you might come back as one of the four highest
0:27:46 > 0:27:48winning scores, we don't know yet, we'll find out.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51But thank you very much for joining us and many congratulations.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54I hope you can join us next time for another first round match
0:27:54 > 0:27:57- but until then it's goodbye from York University...- Goodbye.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00- ..it's goodbye from Southampton University...- Goodbye.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.