0:00:18 > 0:00:20Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. Tonight we welcome two more teams of distinguished alumni who
0:00:32 > 0:00:35have chosen to mark this festive season by attempting to
0:00:35 > 0:00:38answer the kind of questions we usually throw at
0:00:38 > 0:00:40some of the UK's brainiest students.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43We've now played four of the seven first round
0:00:43 > 0:00:45matches in the competition.
0:00:45 > 0:00:49So we know that a score of 225 or more will guarantee that
0:00:49 > 0:00:53tonight's winners go through to the semifinals.
0:00:53 > 0:00:55Now, the team from St John's College, Cambridge includes
0:00:55 > 0:00:57a novelist and biographer.
0:00:57 > 0:00:59He's also written the screenplays for noteworthy films
0:00:59 > 0:01:02including Darling, for which he won an Oscar,
0:01:02 > 0:01:05John Schlesinger's Far From The Madding Crowd,
0:01:05 > 0:01:08and more recently he collaborated with Stanley Kubrick
0:01:08 > 0:01:10on Eyes Wide Shut.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13He also gave us a seminal account of the student experience
0:01:13 > 0:01:16and what follows in both the novel and television series,
0:01:16 > 0:01:18The Glittering Prizes.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21His colleague has been named Woman Of The Year
0:01:21 > 0:01:25by the Sunday Times Magazine, the Huffington Post and Red Magazine,
0:01:25 > 0:01:29and she's been listed ninth on the BBC Woman's Hour Power List.
0:01:29 > 0:01:33The founder of the Everyday Sexism Project website which has
0:01:33 > 0:01:37amassed over 100,000 testimonies of gender inequality worldwide,
0:01:37 > 0:01:41she works closely with schools, governments, police forces
0:01:41 > 0:01:46and businesses, and was awarded a British Empire medal in 2015.
0:01:46 > 0:01:51Their captain is a professor of Creative Writing at the University Of East Anglia.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53He's been a judge of the Mann Booker Prize,
0:01:53 > 0:01:55and his own novel, The Last King Of Scotland, earned him
0:01:55 > 0:01:58a Somerset Maugham award, a Betty Trask award
0:01:58 > 0:02:01and the Whitbread First Novel award.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04Their fourth player is an actor whose credits include
0:02:04 > 0:02:08Prince Hal in Henry IV Parts I and II at the Bristol Old Vic.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11He's appeared in numerous film, radio, and television
0:02:11 > 0:02:13productions, including Hornblower
0:02:13 > 0:02:16and the ITV series Law & Order.
0:02:16 > 0:02:20His appearance in the sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica earned him
0:02:20 > 0:02:25an award from The Academy of Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Films.
0:02:25 > 0:02:27Let's meet now the St John's team.
0:02:28 > 0:02:32I'm Frederick Raphael. I was at St John's from 1950 to '54.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34I read Classics and Moral Sciences.
0:02:34 > 0:02:37And I'm a writer.
0:02:37 > 0:02:38I'm Laura Bates.
0:02:38 > 0:02:41I graduated from St John's in English in 2007, and I'm
0:02:41 > 0:02:43a writer and activist.
0:02:43 > 0:02:44And their captain.
0:02:44 > 0:02:46My name's Giles Foden.
0:02:46 > 0:02:51I had a creative writing scholarship at St John's between 1989 and '90.
0:02:51 > 0:02:53And I'm now a writer.
0:02:54 > 0:02:55I'm Jamie Bamber.
0:02:55 > 0:03:00I read Modern Languages at St John's between 1992 and 1996.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03I've been an actor ever since, but I'd like to be a writer
0:03:03 > 0:03:04when I grow up.
0:03:04 > 0:03:09APPLAUSE
0:03:09 > 0:03:12Now, the team from St Edmund Hall, Oxford includes a diplomat
0:03:12 > 0:03:14whose career has seen him serve as
0:03:14 > 0:03:16British High Commissioner to Swaziland,
0:03:16 > 0:03:18Ambassador to Indonesia,
0:03:18 > 0:03:20High Commissioner to Nigeria,
0:03:20 > 0:03:23and Governor and Commander-in-chief of Bermuda.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26With him, an award-winning and bestselling author of over 50
0:03:26 > 0:03:31novels, many of which are set in the universes of Warhammer 40000,
0:03:31 > 0:03:33Doctor Who, and Marvel Comics.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36His Guardians of the Galaxy for Marvel formed
0:03:36 > 0:03:39the inspiration for several blockbuster movies, and he's
0:03:39 > 0:03:42also written extensively for the games industry.
0:03:42 > 0:03:47While a student, their captain was president of the Oxford Review.
0:03:47 > 0:03:49She then trained as a solicitor, but returned to performing
0:03:49 > 0:03:52and writing, and has been appearing on radio,
0:03:52 > 0:03:54television and the theatre ever since.
0:03:54 > 0:03:58She used her own childhood as the basis for the BBC comedy
0:03:58 > 0:04:01The Kennedys, and also writes books for children.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03She's won many awards for her work,
0:04:03 > 0:04:05including a British Comedy Award, and that most
0:04:05 > 0:04:10glittering of prizes, Celebrity MasterChef Champion in 2012.
0:04:10 > 0:04:11LAUGHTER
0:04:11 > 0:04:14Their fourth team member started her career as a researcher
0:04:14 > 0:04:17in Manchester for what was then Granada Television.
0:04:17 > 0:04:22She joined Sky News in 1995 and since then has covered many major
0:04:22 > 0:04:24events, both from the studio and on location,
0:04:24 > 0:04:28including the Japanese tsunami, the insurgency in Iraq,
0:04:28 > 0:04:31and the fall of Tripoli, for which she won a Royal Television
0:04:31 > 0:04:34Society News Presenter Of The Year award.
0:04:34 > 0:04:37She currently presents the evening news, including the press previews.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40Let's meet the St Edmund Hall team.
0:04:40 > 0:04:41I'm Richard Gozney.
0:04:41 > 0:04:45In 1973, I graduated in Geology, then spent 40 years as a British
0:04:45 > 0:04:48diplomat before retiring five years ago.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50I'm now Lieutenant Governor of the Isle Of Man.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54I'm Dan Abnett, I graduated in English in 1987
0:04:54 > 0:04:57and I'm a science fiction novelist and comic book writer.
0:04:57 > 0:04:58Their captain.
0:04:58 > 0:04:59Hello, I'm Emma Kennedy.
0:04:59 > 0:05:04I graduated in English in 1989, and I'm now an author and screenwriter.
0:05:04 > 0:05:05Hello, I'm Anna Botting.
0:05:05 > 0:05:10I studied geography at St Edmund Hall and graduated in 1989,
0:05:10 > 0:05:12and I am a journalist and Sky News presenter.
0:05:12 > 0:05:17APPLAUSE
0:05:17 > 0:05:20Well, the rules are the same as they are for the student series.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22Ten points for the start questions which you have to
0:05:22 > 0:05:24answer on your own, on the buzzer.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27And bonuses are worth 15 points, but they're team efforts.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31Right. Fingers on the buzzer. Here's your first starter for ten.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34"Well, what shall we hang - the holly or each other?"
0:05:34 > 0:05:38These words come from the 1968 film version of which
0:05:38 > 0:05:40play by James Goldman,
0:05:40 > 0:05:42set at Christmas in the year 1183 in
0:05:42 > 0:05:46the Chinon chateau of Henry II?
0:05:46 > 0:05:47St Edmund Hall, Abnett.
0:05:47 > 0:05:49The Lion In Winter.
0:05:49 > 0:05:53The Lion In Winter is right, yes. APPLAUSE
0:05:53 > 0:05:55These bonuses are on a museum, St Edmund Hall.
0:05:55 > 0:05:592017 marks the centenary of which museum?
0:05:59 > 0:06:02Its origins lie in Sir Alfred Mond's proposal for the creation
0:06:02 > 0:06:06of a national institution to record events taking place at that time.
0:06:13 > 0:06:14The V&A?
0:06:14 > 0:06:16No, it's the Imperial War Museum.
0:06:16 > 0:06:19Donated by a man whose life it saved,
0:06:19 > 0:06:22the first object given to the newly-formed museum was a life
0:06:22 > 0:06:25buoy salvaged from which British ocean liner,
0:06:25 > 0:06:29sunk by a German submarine on May 7th, 1915?
0:06:35 > 0:06:37Lusitania?
0:06:37 > 0:06:38The Lusitania is correct.
0:06:38 > 0:06:42Which British writer and painter was the subject of a 2017
0:06:42 > 0:06:45retrospective at the Imperial War Museum North?
0:06:45 > 0:06:47A central figure of the Vorticists' Movement,
0:06:47 > 0:06:51he became an official war artist in 1917.
0:06:57 > 0:06:58Nash?
0:06:58 > 0:07:00No, it's Percy Wyndham Lewis.
0:07:00 > 0:07:01Ten points for this.
0:07:01 > 0:07:05What eight-letter word results from concatenating the following?
0:07:05 > 0:07:09The first two initials of the author of A Room With A View.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12The postal code for the state of Massachusetts.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15The chemical symbols for nitrogen and uranium.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18And the masculine definite article in Spanish.
0:07:22 > 0:07:23St John's, Bamber.
0:07:23 > 0:07:24Emmanuel.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26Emmanuel is correct, yes.
0:07:26 > 0:07:29APPLAUSE
0:07:29 > 0:07:31You get a set of bonuses on meals traditionally
0:07:31 > 0:07:34eaten on Christmas Eve.
0:07:34 > 0:07:35Firstly, for five points,
0:07:35 > 0:07:39the Feast of the Seven Fishes is a Christmas Eve dinner
0:07:39 > 0:07:44eaten by both natives and the diaspora of which European country?
0:07:48 > 0:07:52- No idea.- It's a diaspora, so is it Sweden, Denmark, Norway...?
0:07:52 > 0:07:53It's got to be a...
0:07:54 > 0:07:56Denmark? Is that a diaspora?
0:07:56 > 0:07:58- I'd say Norway.- OK, you go for it.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01Norway.
0:08:01 > 0:08:02No, it's Italy.
0:08:02 > 0:08:06"Wigilia", the traditional Christmas Eve supper of 12 meatless dishes,
0:08:06 > 0:08:10is primarily associated with which country of central Europe?
0:08:23 > 0:08:24Nominate Bates.
0:08:24 > 0:08:25Poland?
0:08:25 > 0:08:29Correct. What nine-letter name is given in France
0:08:29 > 0:08:32and other French-speaking regions to a feast traditionally
0:08:32 > 0:08:34eaten after midnight on Christmas morning?
0:08:34 > 0:08:37The name comes from the French for "waking".
0:08:44 > 0:08:47- Nominate Bamber.- Reveillon.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49Correct. APPLAUSE
0:08:49 > 0:08:50Ten points for this.
0:08:50 > 0:08:54"The result was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch
0:08:54 > 0:08:58"shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you."
0:08:58 > 0:09:01Which scientist said that about the experiments
0:09:01 > 0:09:05he performed at the university of Manchester with Hans Geiger and
0:09:05 > 0:09:10Ernest Marsden in 1909, which led to the discovery of the atomic nucleus?
0:09:15 > 0:09:18St John's, Foden.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20Maxwell?
0:09:20 > 0:09:21No. Anyone like to buzz from Teddy Hall?
0:09:21 > 0:09:24- St Edmund Hall, Adnett. - Rutherford?
0:09:24 > 0:09:25It was Rutherford, yes.
0:09:25 > 0:09:26APPLAUSE
0:09:26 > 0:09:31Your bonuses are on speakers at the 2017 Women's March in Washington DC.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34In each case, identify the speaker from the description.
0:09:34 > 0:09:39Firstly, born in 1984, an actor and campaigner who played
0:09:39 > 0:09:42the title role in the television series Ugly Betty.
0:09:42 > 0:09:46In the first speech of the protest, she said, "We will not
0:09:46 > 0:09:50"go from being a nation of immigrants to a nation of ignorants."
0:09:54 > 0:09:55America Ferrero?
0:09:55 > 0:09:57Yes, America Ferrar-A.
0:09:57 > 0:10:02Secondly, born in 1944, an academic and activist associated with
0:10:02 > 0:10:05the Black Panther Party, and particularly known for her
0:10:05 > 0:10:08critiques of the American prison industrial complex.
0:10:08 > 0:10:13She used her speech to say, "No human being is illegal."
0:10:16 > 0:10:19THEY CONFER
0:10:19 > 0:10:21- Any idea?- No idea. - No, we don't know that one.
0:10:21 > 0:10:22That was Angela Davis.
0:10:22 > 0:10:27And, finally, born in 1934, the co-founder of Ms Magazine
0:10:27 > 0:10:30and author of Outrageous Acts And Everyday Rebellions,
0:10:30 > 0:10:32who said in her speech,
0:10:32 > 0:10:35"We will not be quiet, we will not be controlled."
0:10:37 > 0:10:40THEY CONFER
0:10:42 > 0:10:44- Anyone?- No.- No.
0:10:44 > 0:10:45That was Gloria Steinem.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47Right, we're going to take a picture round now.
0:10:47 > 0:10:48For your picture starter,
0:10:48 > 0:10:50you'll see a short poem.
0:10:50 > 0:10:51However, we have removed
0:10:51 > 0:10:53all but the last word of each line.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55For ten points, I want you
0:10:55 > 0:10:57to give me the name of the poet
0:10:57 > 0:10:59whose work we've mutilated.
0:10:59 > 0:11:00LAUGHTER
0:11:08 > 0:11:10Is it Robert Burns?
0:11:10 > 0:11:12No. Anyone like to buzz from St John's?
0:11:15 > 0:11:16Keats?
0:11:16 > 0:11:18No, it's Thomas Hardy's The Oxen.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20So picture bonuses in a moment or two.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23Ten points at stake for this starter question. Fingers on buzzers.
0:11:23 > 0:11:26"I'm not going to tell you my whole goddamn autobiography,
0:11:26 > 0:11:28"I'll just tell you about this madman stuff
0:11:28 > 0:11:31"that happened to me around last Christmas."
0:11:31 > 0:11:33These words appear in the opening paragraph
0:11:33 > 0:11:36of which 1951 American novel?
0:11:38 > 0:11:40- Catcher In The Rye?- Correct.
0:11:40 > 0:11:41APPLAUSE
0:11:42 > 0:11:45So you get the picture bonuses, then, St John's.
0:11:45 > 0:11:48They follow on from Hardy's poem, which was set on Christmas Eve.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51Three more poems evoking winter landscapes,
0:11:51 > 0:11:54but again you'll only see the final word of each line.
0:11:54 > 0:11:57I need the name of each poet.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59All three this time are American.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01Firstly, for five.
0:12:02 > 0:12:07THEY CONFER
0:12:14 > 0:12:17- Whitman. Whitman. - You think it's Whitman?- Well, I...
0:12:17 > 0:12:20- "Bitchery"?- Come on, let's have an answer, please.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23- Nominate Bamber. - Whitman? Walt Whitman?
0:12:23 > 0:12:25No, it's Sylvia Plath's Winter Trees.
0:12:25 > 0:12:26Oh, you're joking.
0:12:26 > 0:12:27LAUGHTER Secondly...
0:12:31 > 0:12:34THEY CONFER
0:12:43 > 0:12:44Emily Dickinson?
0:12:44 > 0:12:46Correct. It's There's A Certain Slant Of Light.
0:12:46 > 0:12:47And finally...
0:12:50 > 0:12:52THEY CONFER
0:12:53 > 0:12:57- Frost?- Yeah, yeah. - Who was that?- Frost.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59Robert Frost?
0:12:59 > 0:13:00It is. Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening.
0:13:00 > 0:13:03APPLAUSE Right, ten points for this.
0:13:03 > 0:13:06What general type of event links the following?
0:13:06 > 0:13:10George Grosz's painting dedicated to Oskar Panizza,
0:13:10 > 0:13:12an unfinished work by Manet
0:13:12 > 0:13:17that portrayed a sparsely-attended event for Giles Baudelaire in 1867,
0:13:17 > 0:13:20and a painting of human figures at Ornans
0:13:20 > 0:13:23that was Gustave Courbet's first monumental painting.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28Picnics?
0:13:28 > 0:13:30Anyone like to buzz from Teddy Hall?
0:13:31 > 0:13:33You may not confer.
0:13:35 > 0:13:36The Nativity?
0:13:36 > 0:13:39No, it's funeral or burial. Ten points for this.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42What medical term for a disordered state of mind
0:13:42 > 0:13:48derives ultimately from a Latin verb meaning to go awry during ploughing?
0:13:48 > 0:13:52It appears in a two-word phrase associated with withdrawal
0:13:52 > 0:13:54in cases of chronic alcoholism.
0:13:57 > 0:13:59Cold turkey?
0:13:59 > 0:14:00No.
0:14:01 > 0:14:02Delirium.
0:14:02 > 0:14:04Delirium is correct, yes.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07APPLAUSE
0:14:07 > 0:14:09That well-known Latin phrase, "cold turkey"!
0:14:09 > 0:14:11LAUGHTER
0:14:11 > 0:14:16Right, you get a set of bonuses, St John's, on the planet Venus.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19What two-word term is used to mean both the planet Venus
0:14:19 > 0:14:23when it appears before sunrise and a medieval weapon
0:14:23 > 0:14:27consisting of a spiked ball attached to a club or chain?
0:14:27 > 0:14:30Mace? Mace?
0:14:30 > 0:14:32It's a two-word phrase.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35- I think it might be morning star. - Yes.- Yeah.- I think that's good.
0:14:35 > 0:14:36Nominate Bates.
0:14:36 > 0:14:38Morning star?
0:14:38 > 0:14:39Correct.
0:14:39 > 0:14:43Which chemical element shares its name with a Greek-derived word
0:14:43 > 0:14:47also used poetically to refer to Venus in the period before sunrise?
0:14:55 > 0:14:57What was the first bit of the question?
0:14:57 > 0:14:59Can we ask for to be repeated?
0:14:59 > 0:15:02A chemical element derived from a Greek word.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11- Sorry.- It's phosphorus.
0:15:11 > 0:15:15And, finally, what Latin word refers to Venus in the same aspect?
0:15:15 > 0:15:18It's more commonly known as a synonym for the devil.
0:15:20 > 0:15:24- Lucifer?- Possibly, yes.
0:15:24 > 0:15:27- Lucifer's the bringer of light. - Lucifer's good.- Yes.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30OK. Nominate Bamber.
0:15:30 > 0:15:31Lucifer?
0:15:31 > 0:15:32Correct. APPLAUSE
0:15:32 > 0:15:33Ten points for this.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36Give any one of the three consecutive years
0:15:36 > 0:15:39in which the following events occurred -
0:15:39 > 0:15:41the start of the first Balkan War,
0:15:41 > 0:15:43the death of the suffragette Emily Davison
0:15:43 > 0:15:46after her protest at the Epsom Derby,
0:15:46 > 0:15:49and the Allied victory at the First Battle of the Marne.
0:15:51 > 0:15:521914?
0:15:52 > 0:15:56Yes, the other ones were 1912 and 1913.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58APPLAUSE
0:15:58 > 0:16:01Right, your bonuses are on football this time, St John's.
0:16:01 > 0:16:04A statue in Ashton-under-Lyne
0:16:04 > 0:16:07honours three FIFA World Cup medal winners,
0:16:07 > 0:16:10all born in the borough of Tameside.
0:16:10 > 0:16:12Name each person from the description.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14Firstly, a full-back who spent the whole
0:16:14 > 0:16:16of his playing career at Blackpool.
0:16:16 > 0:16:19He managed Leeds United in the 1970s,
0:16:19 > 0:16:23and has been a prominent summariser on BBC Radio 5 Live.
0:16:25 > 0:16:29- Coleman?- No, Leeds United in the '70s was managed by that...
0:16:29 > 0:16:31He was...
0:16:32 > 0:16:34The Damned United...
0:16:34 > 0:16:35THEY CONFER
0:16:36 > 0:16:39What about Jack Charlton?
0:16:39 > 0:16:40At Leeds?
0:16:40 > 0:16:42Let's have an answer, please.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44OK, go for one of them.
0:16:44 > 0:16:45Jack Charlton?
0:16:45 > 0:16:47No, it was Jimmy Armfield.
0:16:47 > 0:16:49Secondly, a left-side midfielder
0:16:49 > 0:16:52who spent most of his career at AS Roma.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55He played against France in the 2006 World Cup final,
0:16:55 > 0:16:57along with Totti, Toni and Pirlo.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05Did he say French?
0:17:06 > 0:17:07Sorry, can you repeat that?
0:17:07 > 0:17:10No. LAUGHTER
0:17:10 > 0:17:13Totti and Toni. Played for Roma, he's French.
0:17:13 > 0:17:15HE MUTTERS
0:17:15 > 0:17:17- Who did he play for?- Roma.
0:17:17 > 0:17:18- BAMBER:- He was French...
0:17:20 > 0:17:22I've got no idea.
0:17:22 > 0:17:23- No.- It's Perrotta.
0:17:23 > 0:17:26And finally, a West Ham and England forward -
0:17:26 > 0:17:29the only man to have scored a hat-trick in a World Cup final.
0:17:29 > 0:17:32Well, you know that one.
0:17:32 > 0:17:33Um...
0:17:33 > 0:17:35- Come on, who is it? - LAUGHTER
0:17:35 > 0:17:36"They think it's all over - it is now."
0:17:39 > 0:17:41- Shame!- No, no, we've got this one.
0:17:41 > 0:17:43Um...
0:17:43 > 0:17:46He is on the TV all the time. What's his name?
0:17:46 > 0:17:48He scored a hat-trick in the World Cup final.
0:17:48 > 0:17:51He scored three goals in the World Cup final. Come on.
0:17:51 > 0:17:52- LAUGHTER - National shame awaits us here.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54I can't do it.
0:17:56 > 0:17:58Um...er...
0:17:58 > 0:18:01- We're doomed.- No. I'm not letting this one go.
0:18:01 > 0:18:02LAUGHTER
0:18:02 > 0:18:04- Oh, do let it go, please. - What's his name?
0:18:04 > 0:18:06What is his name?
0:18:06 > 0:18:08Come on!
0:18:08 > 0:18:09It's not coming.
0:18:09 > 0:18:10- It's Geoff Hurst.- Geoff Hurst.
0:18:10 > 0:18:12Sic transit gloria, eh?
0:18:12 > 0:18:14Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16You're going to hear the setting of the Magnificat.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19Ten points if you can identify its composer.
0:18:19 > 0:18:27CHORAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:18:45 > 0:18:46Bach?
0:18:46 > 0:18:48It is Johann Sebastian Bach, yes.
0:18:48 > 0:18:51APPLAUSE
0:18:51 > 0:18:54So, for your music bonuses, St Edmund Hall,
0:18:54 > 0:18:56you're going to hear three more settings of the Canticle of Mary.
0:18:56 > 0:19:00Simply identify the composer of each. Firstly, for five.
0:19:00 > 0:19:08CHORAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:19:19 > 0:19:23THEY CONFER
0:19:25 > 0:19:26Purcell?
0:19:26 > 0:19:27No, that's Schubert.
0:19:27 > 0:19:32Secondly, the composer of this late 20th-century work.
0:19:32 > 0:19:39SOLEMN CHORAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:19:46 > 0:19:47Gorecki?
0:19:47 > 0:19:50No, that's Arvo Part. And finally...
0:19:50 > 0:19:56CHORAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:20:00 > 0:20:01Mozart?
0:20:01 > 0:20:03- No, that's Vivaldi.- Ugh!
0:20:03 > 0:20:06Right. Ten points for this. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09Occurring for example in feldspars and micas,
0:20:09 > 0:20:12what after oxygen and silicone
0:20:12 > 0:20:15is the most abundant element in the earth's crust?
0:20:15 > 0:20:19It's a metal in the boron group of the Periodic Table.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23- St John's, Bamber.- Iron?
0:20:23 > 0:20:26Nope. Anyone like to buzz from St Edmund Hall?
0:20:26 > 0:20:28- You may not confer!- Shh, shh! - One of you can buzz.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35- St Edmund Hall, Gozney! - Calcium.
0:20:35 > 0:20:38No, it's aluminium. Right, ten points for this.
0:20:38 > 0:20:42For what specific illegal act in New York City on August 7th
0:20:42 > 0:20:471974 is the Frenchman Philippe Petit remembered?
0:20:48 > 0:20:49St John's, Foden.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52Tightrope walking between the twin towers.
0:20:52 > 0:20:54Correct.
0:20:54 > 0:20:57APPLAUSE
0:20:57 > 0:21:01Right, your bonuses are on the theatre director Marianne Elliott.
0:21:01 > 0:21:04Elliott's first production for the National Theatre was
0:21:04 > 0:21:07a revival of which play by Ibsen, starring Damian Lewis
0:21:07 > 0:21:10as the shipbuilder Karsten Bernick?
0:21:19 > 0:21:21- Ibsen.- Ibsen?
0:21:21 > 0:21:23What's it called?
0:21:23 > 0:21:25Maybe. I don't know.
0:21:27 > 0:21:28It's an Ibsen play, isn't it?
0:21:28 > 0:21:31- I don't know.- Go for it.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34- Nominate Bamber. - The Master Builder?
0:21:34 > 0:21:37- No, it was The Pillars Of Society. - Oh.
0:21:37 > 0:21:39Secondly, for five points, in 2008
0:21:39 > 0:21:41Elliott won the Olivier award for
0:21:41 > 0:21:43best revival for her production of
0:21:43 > 0:21:45which play by George Bernard Shaw,
0:21:45 > 0:21:47with Ann Marie Duff in the title role?
0:21:47 > 0:21:50It's often described as Shaw's only tragedy.
0:21:56 > 0:21:58- Nominate Raphael.- St Joan?
0:21:58 > 0:21:59Correct.
0:21:59 > 0:22:03And finally, an adaptation of a novel by Mark Haddon,
0:22:03 > 0:22:07which production by Elliott won seven Olivier awards in 2013,
0:22:07 > 0:22:09equalling the record at the time?
0:22:09 > 0:22:12The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
0:22:12 > 0:22:14Correct. Ten points for this.
0:22:14 > 0:22:15Clarissa Baldwin,
0:22:15 > 0:22:19a former chief executive of the British charity Dogs Trust,
0:22:19 > 0:22:23coined almost 40 years ago which slogan concerning animal...
0:22:23 > 0:22:24St John's, Bamber.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26"A dog is for life, not just for Christmas"?
0:22:26 > 0:22:30Correct. APPLAUSE
0:22:30 > 0:22:34Right, your bonuses this time, St John's, are on birds of the order
0:22:34 > 0:22:39Galiformes, that is, relatives of the turkey and the partridge.
0:22:39 > 0:22:43Firstly, named in part after a historical region of West Africa,
0:22:43 > 0:22:48what is the two-word common name of the family Numididae?
0:22:48 > 0:22:51Species include the Helmeted and the Vulturine.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54- Nominate Bamber. - Guinea fowl.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57Correct. Which sub family of larger game birds
0:22:57 > 0:23:00includes the capercaillie and the ptarmigan?
0:23:15 > 0:23:16Grouse?
0:23:16 > 0:23:18Correct.
0:23:18 > 0:23:21Coturnix coturnix has what short common name?
0:23:21 > 0:23:24A game bird somewhat smaller than a partridge,
0:23:24 > 0:23:26it's a summer visitor to the UK.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38- Widgeon?- No, it's a quail.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40Right, we're going to take a picture round now.
0:23:40 > 0:23:43For your picture starter you'll see a British poet and novelist.
0:23:43 > 0:23:45Ten points if you can give me her name.
0:23:48 > 0:23:49St John's, Foden.
0:23:49 > 0:23:51Rosamond Lehmann?
0:23:51 > 0:23:53No. Anyone like to buzz from Teddy Hall?
0:23:55 > 0:23:56St Edmund Hall, Kennedy.
0:23:56 > 0:23:58Is it Virginia Woolf?
0:23:58 > 0:24:00No, it's not. It's Vita Sackville-West,
0:24:00 > 0:24:03so we're going to take the picture bonuses in a moment or two,
0:24:03 > 0:24:06and in the meantime, here's another starter question.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09Men And Maggots, Drama On The Quarterdeck,
0:24:09 > 0:24:12Appeal From The Dead, The Odessa Steps
0:24:12 > 0:24:16and Meeting The Squadron are translations of the titles
0:24:16 > 0:24:21of the five sections of which silent film of 1925 directed by...
0:24:21 > 0:24:24- St John's, Bamber. - Battleship Potemkin.
0:24:24 > 0:24:25Correct.
0:24:28 > 0:24:29So you get the picture bonuses.
0:24:29 > 0:24:32You'll recall we saw a portrait of Vita Sackville-West.
0:24:32 > 0:24:36It was part of Tate Britain's Queer British Art Exhibition,
0:24:36 > 0:24:39marking the 50th anniversary, in 2017,
0:24:39 > 0:24:43of the decriminalisation of male homosexuality.
0:24:43 > 0:24:46For your bonuses, three more works included in that exhibition.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49This time I want the name of the artist for the five points.
0:24:49 > 0:24:50Firstly...
0:25:02 > 0:25:03Let's have an answer, please.
0:25:03 > 0:25:06- No answer.- That's Edward Burroughs' Soldiers At Rye.
0:25:06 > 0:25:10Secondly, who painted this portrait of the writer Lytton Strachey?
0:25:21 > 0:25:22Nominate Raphael.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24Dora Carrington.
0:25:24 > 0:25:25Correct. And finally...
0:25:32 > 0:25:34Nominate Raphael.
0:25:34 > 0:25:36I don't believe it, Michael Ayrton.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38No, it's Bathing by Duncan Grant.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40Ten points for this.
0:25:40 > 0:25:43What Latin name is commonly given in the Christian church to the
0:25:43 > 0:25:45third Sunday in advent?
0:25:45 > 0:25:50It is the second-person imperative plural of the verb "to rejoice".
0:25:50 > 0:25:52- St John's, Raphael. - Gaudete?
0:25:52 > 0:25:53Correct.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56APPLAUSE
0:25:56 > 0:25:58You get a set of bonuses on groups of seven.
0:25:58 > 0:26:02How is the group of military figures that includes Polinices, Tydeus
0:26:02 > 0:26:07and Hippomedon known in the English title of a play by Aeschylus?
0:26:15 > 0:26:16Nominate Raphael.
0:26:16 > 0:26:17Seven Against Thebes.
0:26:17 > 0:26:21Correct. In the seven ages of man passage spoken by Jaques in
0:26:21 > 0:26:23Shakespeare's As You Like It,
0:26:23 > 0:26:27what specific name is given to the stage described with the words,
0:26:27 > 0:26:31"In fair round belly with good cape and lined,
0:26:31 > 0:26:34"with eyes severe and beard of formal cut"?
0:26:43 > 0:26:46- Nominate Raphael.- Pantaloon?
0:26:46 > 0:26:47No, it's the Justice.
0:26:47 > 0:26:51And finally, in 1930 the literary critic William Empson
0:26:51 > 0:26:56published an influential work with the title Seven Types of what?
0:26:57 > 0:26:58Ambiguity.
0:26:58 > 0:27:00Correct. Ten points for this.
0:27:00 > 0:27:04Which island group is situated between about 300
0:27:04 > 0:27:08and 700km south west of the Moroccan port of Agadir, that is,
0:27:08 > 0:27:09between Madeira and the tropics...
0:27:09 > 0:27:11St John's, Bamber.
0:27:11 > 0:27:12Canary Islands.
0:27:12 > 0:27:16Correct. APPLAUSE
0:27:16 > 0:27:18Your bonuses are on scientific terms.
0:27:18 > 0:27:20In each case, give the term from the description.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22All three answers begin with the same two letters.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24GONG
0:27:24 > 0:27:27And at the gong, St Edmund Hall, Oxford have 40
0:27:27 > 0:27:30and St John's College, Cambridge have 155.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35- I'm afraid you were rather trounced there, weren't you?- Ah, we were.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37They were on good form, and you didn't have to do it,
0:27:37 > 0:27:40so thank you very much for joining us.
0:27:40 > 0:27:42And St John's, congratulations to you, we shall see
0:27:42 > 0:27:45whether that's one of the four highest winning scores
0:27:45 > 0:27:47and thus enable you to come back for the semi-finals.
0:27:47 > 0:27:50But we'll have to play another game or two to find that out.
0:27:50 > 0:27:54I hope you can join us next time for another first round match, but until then,
0:27:54 > 0:27:55it's goodbye from St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57ALL: Goodbye.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59- It's goodbye from St John's College, Cambridge.- Goodbye.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03APPLAUSE