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APPLAUSE

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Christmas University Challenge.

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Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.

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Hello. We've reached the penultimate first round match

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of our seasonal series.

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Two more teams of distinguished graduates have decided

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they're ready to take a step up from charades

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and will face off tonight for a place in the semifinals.

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A score of 160 will definitely see tonight's winners through,

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alongside the teams from Keble College Oxford

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and University College London.

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Now, the first team we're going to meet tonight is

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playing on behalf of Queen Mary University,

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one of the constituent colleges of the University of London.

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First up for them is a former radio astronomer who

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went on to become cosmology consultant

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for New Scientist magazine.

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His science writing has been

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shortlisted for the Royal Society book prize

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and he can often be found discussing the mysteries of the universe

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on Channel 4's Sunday Brunch.

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Joining him is the lead singer of Iron Maiden,

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one of the most successful rock bands of all time,

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with worldwide album sales in excess of 100 million.

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He's a qualified airline captain who has personally flown

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the band on their recent world tours.

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He's also turned his hand to screenwriting,

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radio presenting, and competitive fencing.

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His recent autobiography can't have been short of material, therefore.

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Their captain has had a prolific career as a broadcaster

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on both television and radio, presenting programmes

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including Working Lunch, The One Show,

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and Match Of The Day 2.

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He's fronted coverage of the Olympics

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and the football World Cup for both the BBC and ITV,

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and is currently one of the hosts of Radio 5 Live Daily.

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Finally, a television chef and bestselling food writer who's

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internationally recognised as an expert in Chinese cuisine.

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She's a regular guest on television's Saturday Kitchen

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and Food And Drink, and has presented programmes for both

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National Geographic and BBC Two, including the documentary series

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Exploring China, A Culinary Adventure, alongside Ken Hom.

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Let's meet the Queen Mary team.

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Hi, I'm Marcus Chown.

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I did physics, I'm a writer,

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my books include Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You,

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We Need To Talk About Kelvin,

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and a book about everything called What A Wonderful World, so I'm going

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to be highly embarrassed if I can't answer a single question today.

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Hi, I'm Bruce Dickinson.

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I graduated in 1978 with a Desmond in modern history.

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And I ended up being a heavy metal singer, an airline pilot,

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I brew beer,

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and I'm just about to discover what does this button do at this quiz.

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This is their captain.

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Hi, I'm Adrian Chiles.

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I studied English literature at what was then Queen Mary

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and Westfield College.

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I was a decidedly unexceptional student,

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graduating with I'm afraid yet another Desmond.

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I have neither fronted rock band, nor flown a plane, I have

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brewed beer, though, but mainly, I'm a broadcaster and writer.

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Hello, I'm Ching He Huang,

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and I graduated in economics at Queen Mary Westfield in 1999.

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I cook and write about Chinese cooking.

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I winged my way through university

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so I really don't know what I'm doing here.

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APPLAUSE

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Their opponents represent Cardiff University, and include

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a former captain of the Welsh national football team who now

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holds a chair at Cardiff in public policy and the governance of Wales.

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She keeps her feet in both camps by serving as

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director of the Football Association of Wales trust,

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and as chair of the Welsh Assembly's expert panel on electoral reform.

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With her is a gold medal winning former cyclist.

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She has won the women's Tour de France twice

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and in 2008 she became the first rider to win the Olympic

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and World Championship road races in the same year.

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Since joining the BBC in 1993,

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their captain has reported from all over the world, covering stories

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from the IRA ceasefire

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to President Obama's first visit to Cuba.

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As UN correspondent,

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she travelled with Ban Ki-moon on his first overseas

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trip as Secretary-General, and more recently

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she reported live from New York

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on the night President Trump was elected.

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Completing the Cardiff team is a reptile specialist

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and BAFTA-nominated broadcaster.

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He has worked with Chris Packham and Sir David Attenborough

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and he presents several series,

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including BBC One's Rhys Jones's Wildlife Patrol,

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in which he's tackled wildlife crimes ranging from a seafront snake

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wrangler to a case of a deadly scorpion sent in the post.

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Let's meet the Cardiff team.

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Hello, I'm Laura McAllister. I graduated with a PhD

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in 1996 in political science,

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and I'm now professor of politics at Cardiff University.

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Hello, I'm Nicole Cooke.

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I studied a master in business administration, graduating in 2014,

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and I'm a strategy consultant.

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This is their captain.

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Hi, I'm Laura Trevelyan,

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I graduated from Cardiff back in 1991.

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I can barely remember it, it was so long ago,

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with a postgraduate diploma in newspaper journalism.

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I'm an anchor and correspondent for the BBC's World News channel

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based in New York and the mother of three unruly boys.

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Hello, I'm Rhys Jones.

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I graduated from Cardiff in 2010 with a PhD in phylogenetics,

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and I work now as a lecturer and a TV presenter.

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APPLAUSE

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OK, the rules never change on this programme,

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so let's just get on with it. So, fingers on buzzers.

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Here's your first starter for ten.

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Of unknown origin, what six-letter word came into vogue

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in the 1750s as student slang for a trick, hoax, fraud, or deception?

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It appears repeatedly as an interjection conveying

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the sentiment stuff and nonsense in Dickens's A Christmas Carol.

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Humbug.

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Humbug is right, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses are on quotations.

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Your answer here is a four-letter word.

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In Death In The Afternoon, what did Ernest Hemingway

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describe as one of the most civilised things in the world

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and one of the natural things of the world that has been

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brought to the greatest perfection?

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Do we know?

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THEY WHISPER

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-No, just a quotation. Do we know?

-No.

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-We don't know.

-It's wine.

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Secondly, the finances of which public figure

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are the subject of David Lough's 2015 book No More Champagne?

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He describes him as someone who ran up huge personal debts,

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gambled heavily, lost large amounts on the stock exchange,

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avoided tax with great success, and paid his bills late?

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THEY WHISPER

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Sean Connery?

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Sean Connery?

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Sean Connery?

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No, it's a financial figure.

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Don't know. Do we know?

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Shall we guess Donald Trump?

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-We don't know.

-That was Winston Churchill.

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And, finally, according to a quotation attributed to

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Samuel Johnson, clarity is the liquor for boys,

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port for men, but he who aspires to be a hero must drink what?

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Whisky?

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Whisky?

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No, it's brandy.

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Ten points for this.

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Young man, with your devastating good looks

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and disastrous lack of talent, you should take any job offered to you.

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This advice was given by Noel Coward to which actor who died in 2017?

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The actor in question once described his range as left eyebrow

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raised, right eyebrow raised.

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Erm...

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Roger Moore.

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Roger Moore is correct, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses, Queen Mary, are on shorter words that can be

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made using any of the nine letters of the word mistletoe.

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In each case, give the word from the definition.

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Firstly, similar to courage or resolve, a noun meaning a person's

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ability to persevere in challenging and demanding circumstances.

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Mistletoe...

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I don't know.

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I don't know. No idea.

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Sorry, we don't know.

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That's mettle.

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Secondly, from the French for word,

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a style of vocal composition dating from the early 13th century,

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typically a sacred Latin choral work.

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-No.

-No.

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That's a motet.

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And finally, common in Japanese cuisine,

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a protein-rich fermented paste

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consisting mainly of soya beans and grains such as barley and rice.

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I nominate Ching.

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Miso.

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Miso is right, yes.

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APPLAUSE Ten points for this.

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Whether Mr Mutt with his own hands made it or not

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has no importance, he chose it.

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Thought to be written by the artist himself,

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these words are defence of which artwork of 1917 by

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Marcel Duchamp, initially presented under the pseudonym R Mutt.

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Known by a single word title, it comprises a ready-made

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white porcelain urinal laid on its back.

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Untitled.

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No, you lose five points. One of you buzz?

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Is there any more of the question?

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Laid on its back.

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Urinal.

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Pissoir.

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No, it's called Fountain!

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Oh, right.

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Ten points for this.

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Sir Peter Mansfield who died in February 2017 shared the 2003

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Nobel prize for physiology or medicine for his work

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relating to which technique used in medical scanning?

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-BELL

-Queen Mary, Chiles.

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MRI.

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MRI, magnetic resonance imaging is correct, yes.

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You get a set of bonuses on Martin Luther King Jr.

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In which US state did King

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lead the Montgomery Improvement Association

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on a 381-day boycott of the Municipal Transit System

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which in turn led to the Supreme Court's declaration

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that the segregation laws were unconstitutional?

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-Alabama.

-Correct.

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And, secondly, in which city on August 28th 1963

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during a march for jobs and freedom did King deliver

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the speech now known by the words, I Have A Dream?

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What was the march? There was a film about it recently.

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Don't know.

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Washington DC.

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Correct.

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In which city on April 3rd 1968 did King deliver the speech known as,

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I've Been To The Mountaintop,

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during which he conjectured that he might meet an untimely end?

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He was assassinated in that city the following day.

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THEY WHISPER

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Memphis.

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Correct.

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We are going to take a picture round now.

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For your picture starter, you will see an expression

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equivalent to cheers in a European language.

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For ten points, all you have to do is to identify the language.

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-BELL

-Queen Mary, Dickinson.

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Hungarian.

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It is, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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For your picture bonuses, three more toasts in European languages,

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and again, in each case,

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you just need to identify the language to get the points.

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Firstly, for five.

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Turkish.

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Turkish.

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It is Turkish. Yes. Secondly.

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Finnish?

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Finnish.

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It is Finnish, yes.

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And, finally.

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THEY WHISPER

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Is it Maltese?

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-No, it's Catalan.

-Ah!

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It means health and strength to your purse, apparently.

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Or words to that effect.

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Right, ten points for this.

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According to the 19th century biographer Robert Huish,

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which English king's example, "Went further to the demoralisation

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"of society than any prince recorded in the pages of history.

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"His numerous paramours included the Countess of Jersey

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"and Maria Fitzherbert."

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-BELL

-Queen Mary Dickinson.

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George III.

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No, anyone like to buzz from Cardiff?

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You don't lose anything by buzzing.

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King John?

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No, it was George IV.

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Ten points for this.

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The grandstand at Ayr Racecourse,

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the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh,

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and the tea pavilion at Kew Gardens were in 1913 among the targets

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of arson and bomb attacks by members of which political movement?

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-BELL

-Queen Mary, Dickinson.

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Provisional IRA.

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Nope.

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-BUZZER

-Cardiff, Cooke.

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Suffragettes?

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The Suffragettes is correct, yes.

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Your bonuses now are on geochronology, Cardiff.

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Which geological epoch spanned the most recent ice ages

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and ended around 11,700 years ago?

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Its name derives from the Greek for most new.

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THEY WHISPER

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Neolithic.

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Neolithic?

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No, it's the Pleistocene.

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An interglacial period of the Middle Pleistocene

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takes its name from which East Anglian seaside resort?

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The town in question is home to the Pavilion Theatre

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and is noted for its crabs.

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Skegness? Skegness.

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Cleethorpes.

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It's Cromer.

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And, finally, situated on the River Orwell,

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which county town of eastern England

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gives its name to the most recent interglacial period

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of the Pleistocene?

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A town on the river.

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River Orwell.

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Ice age.

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We're going to go Skegness.

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It's Ipswich.

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Ten points for this.

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Previously named Let It Rock, Too Fast To Live,

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Too Young To Die, and Sex, Seditionaries was an early London

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boutique of which British fashion designer who was made a dame...

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-BUZZER

-Cardiff, McAllister.

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Vivienne Westwood.

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Correct.

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You get three bonuses on Dame Judi Dench.

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Firstly, it is reported that Judi Dench was

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so nervous during a singing audition in 1968 that she

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sang from the wings, leaving her pianist alone on stage.

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Even so, the audition landed her a leading role in the original

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London production of which Broadway musical?

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-A Broadway musical from the '60s.

-That she was the lead for.

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Hairspray? No?

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Anyone know?

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I didn't know she could sing.

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We don't know.

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It's Cabaret where she played Sally Bowles.

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What is the stage name,

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secondly, of the UK grime artist Maxwell Owusu Ansah

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who's coined the term Dench as a general form of approbation,

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and who's attempted to duet with Dame Judi

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on his tracks Celebrate and Pow (Forward)?

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I don't know his name.

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-Do you know?

-I don't, I'm afraid.

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-We don't know.

-It's Lethal Bizzle.

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And, finally, in 2016, Judi Dench became the first person to win

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an eighth Olivier Award when she won best actress in a supporting

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role for her performance as Paulina in which played by Shakespeare?

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Oh...

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It's the wife of someone, isn't it?

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THEY CONFER

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Troilus And Cressida.

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No, it's The Winter's Tale. We are going to take a music round now.

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For your music starter, you will hear a piece of popular music.

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For ten points, please name the band playing.

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# She drives me crazy... #

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-BUZZER

-Cardiff, Trevelyan.

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Don't know.

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LAUGHTER

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Oh, dear.

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Well, I can't fine you five points, although you clearly deserve it.

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You can hear a little more, Queen Mary, if you like.

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MUSIC CONTINUES

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# Like no-one else

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# She drives me crazy

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# And I can't help myself

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# I can't get... #

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MUSIC FADES OUT

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You can't lose anything by having a...

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-BELL

-Queen Mary, Chiles.

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Communards.

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No, it's the Fine Young Cannibals.

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Right, ten points for this.

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A red dwarf thought to form part of a triple star,

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what at a distance of around 4.2 light-years...

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-BELL

-Queen Mary, Chown.

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Proxima Centauri.

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Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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So, you get the music bonuses, Queen Mary.

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Following on from the Fine Young Cannibals

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and their front man Roland Gift who grew up in Kingston-upon-Hull,

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the 2017 City of Culture.

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Your music bonuses are three more of Hull's notable cultural exports.

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Five points for each band or artist you can name.

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Firstly, for five, this band.

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# What a good place to be

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# Don't believe it

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# Cos they speak a different language and it's never... #

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The Housemartins.

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Correct. Secondly, this duo.

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# And I miss you... #

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Everything But The Girl.

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Correct. And, finally, this time,

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I want the name of the lead guitarist here.

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GUITAR INTRO PLAYS

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Mick Ronson.

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Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Right, ten points for this. I need you to spell the answer here.

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Spell the surname of the author whose works include

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The Birth Of Tragedy From The Spirit Of Music,

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Twilight Of The Idols, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

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-BELL

-Queen Mary, Dickinson.

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It's Nietzsche.

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Come on.

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Erm, Friedrich...

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N-E-I...

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No.

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LAUGHTER

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Anyone like to buzz from Cardiff? You may not confer.

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One of you can buzz.

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None of you can spell his name?

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We don't know who he is!

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LAUGHTER

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Dear, oh, dear.

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Tertiary education, eh? What has become of it?

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It was Nietzsche.

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N-I-E. Bad luck. You nearly had it, you said N-E-I.

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Could've been N-E-EC-H-E-R.

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LAUGHTER

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When in a hole, stop digging, I think.

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Right, ten points for this.

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"How's Annie? How's Annie? How's Annie?"

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These were the final lines of which cult television

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series of the early 1990s, before it was resurrected for a further

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18 episodes in 2017 by creators Mark Frost and David Lynch?

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-BELL

-Queen Mary, Chiles.

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Twin Peaks.

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Correct. APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses, Queen Mary, are on countries of the Americas.

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In each case, give the short English name of the country from its description.

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Firstly, an island country to the east to the Windward chain,

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slightly larger than the Isle of Wight,

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its name comes from the Portuguese for bearded.

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THEY WHISPER

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Aruba?

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No.

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It's Barbados. You should answer through your captain, anyway.

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Five points for this. A country slightly larger than Wales,

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its name may derive from a Mayan word for muddy water

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but it's traditionally said to come from the Spanish

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pronunciation of the name Wallace,

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after a Scottish privateer.

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Nominate.

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Hispaniola?

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No, it's Belize. Hispaniola is an island.

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And, finally, a country about four times the size of the UK,

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with a population of 31 million.

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Its name is a diminutive of the Spanish name

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of an Adriatic sea port.

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Chile?

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No, it's Venezuela.

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Another starter question.

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What Latin preposition begins expressions meaning proportionally,

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temporary, and a lawyer's work done for the public good?

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-BUZZER

-Cardiff, Trevelyan.

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-Pro.

-Pro is correct, yes.

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You get a set of bonuses this time on a Roman empress, Cardiff.

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Born in Asia Minor in the mid-3rd century,

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Saint Helena was the mother of which Roman emperor,

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victor at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in 312?

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No idea.

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Cicero?

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Cicero?

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It's Constantine the Great.

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And, secondly, after her death,

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Saint Helena was credited

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with the discovery of what Christian relic

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John Calvin stated that its extant fragments,

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if collected, would form a whole ship's cargo?

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No idea.

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Do you know?

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-No.

-We don't know.

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The True Cross.

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Helena's quest for the True Cross is the subject of the only

0:22:250:22:28

historical novel by which literary figure,

0:22:280:22:31

a Roman Catholic convert born in London in 1903?

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Who is the famous Catholic convert?

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I don't know.

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Evelyn Waugh?

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Is it Evelyn Waugh?

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It is Evelyn Waugh, yes.

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Ten points for this.

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A £2 commemoratives coin issued by the Royal Mint in 2017 marks

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the 1,000th anniversary of the coronation of which ruler,

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sometimes known as the Great?

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-BELL

-Queen Mary, Chiles.

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Alfred?

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No. Anyone like to buzz from Cardiff?

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One of you may buzz.

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-BUZZER

-Cardiff, Trevelyan.

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Alexander.

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No, its Cnut.

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Ten points for this. Iron is one of only three elements

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that are ferromagnetic at room temperature.

0:23:140:23:17

Name either of the other two.

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-BELL

-Queen Mary, Dickinson.

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Nickel.

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Nickel, and the other is cobalt, yes.

0:23:260:23:29

APPLAUSE

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Right, your bonuses, Queen Mary, this time are on la la lands -

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in this case, fictional locations or organisations whose names

0:23:350:23:38

either begin or end with the letters L-A.

0:23:380:23:42

In each case, give the name from the description.

0:23:420:23:45

Firstly, a floating island in Swift's Gulliver's Travels,

0:23:450:23:48

its inhabitants are skilled in mathematics and music

0:23:480:23:51

but less so in practical matters.

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I nominate Marcus.

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Laputa.

0:23:550:23:56

Laputa is correct.

0:23:560:23:58

Secondly, a fictional American Baptist church

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on a satirical website, the tag line on its logo reads,

0:24:010:24:05

"Where the worthwhile worship, unsaved, unwelcome."

0:24:050:24:08

No.

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No, sorry.

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It's Landover Baptist Church.

0:24:150:24:17

And, finally, a Himalayan utopia visited by outsiders

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in James Hilton's 1933 novel Lost Horizon.

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Sorry.

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It's Shangri-La. We're going to take a second picture round.

0:24:330:24:36

For your picture starter, you are going to see a still from a film.

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Ten points if you can give me the film's title.

0:24:390:24:41

-BUZZER

-Cardiff, Jones.

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A Nightmare At Christmas.

0:24:480:24:49

The Nightmare Before Christmas is correct,

0:24:490:24:52

but I've decided I'm going to give that to him, anyway.

0:24:520:24:54

In the spirit of Christmas.

0:24:540:24:56

I'm going to try to be nice to them.

0:24:560:24:58

I'm being nice to you as well of course.

0:24:580:25:01

Right, so, conceived by Tim Burton

0:25:010:25:04

and directed by Henry Selick,

0:25:040:25:06

The Nightmare Before Christmas concerns the king of Halloween's

0:25:060:25:09

disastrous attempt to take on the role of Father Christmas.

0:25:090:25:12

Your picture bonuses are three more of cinema's bad Santas.

0:25:120:25:16

I'll need the title of the film in each case.

0:25:160:25:19

Firstly, note that here you are seeing a black-and-white

0:25:190:25:22

publicity still for a colour film.

0:25:220:25:24

We don't know.

0:25:320:25:33

That was The French Connection. Surely you recognise Gene Hackman.

0:25:330:25:36

-No, we don't.

-Secondly...

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No.

0:25:450:25:46

No.

0:25:460:25:48

That's Brazil. And, finally...

0:25:480:25:49

Do you know?

0:25:540:25:55

I do know but I can't think.

0:25:550:25:57

-No?

-We don't know.

0:26:010:26:03

It's Trading Places. Ten points for this.

0:26:030:26:06

"I dedicate this book to my parents, Margaret Thatcher and God."

0:26:060:26:11

This is an example of a sentence pattern that purports to

0:26:110:26:14

underline the importance of what specific punctuation device,

0:26:140:26:19

often named after an English city?

0:26:190:26:21

-BELL

-Queen Mary, Chiles.

0:26:210:26:23

Semicolon.

0:26:230:26:24

LAUGHTER

0:26:240:26:25

-BUZZER

-Cardiff, Trevelyan.

0:26:250:26:27

Oxford comma.

0:26:270:26:28

Oxford comma is correct, yes.

0:26:280:26:30

APPLAUSE

0:26:300:26:32

Right, your bonuses, Cardiff, are on anatomy.

0:26:320:26:34

In each case, give the term from the definition.

0:26:340:26:37

All three begin with the same two letters.

0:26:370:26:39

Firstly, a bone in the wrist below the base of the thumb,

0:26:390:26:42

also known as the great multangular.

0:26:420:26:45

It shares its name with a group of stars in the constellation Orion.

0:26:450:26:48

Metacarpal?

0:26:530:26:55

No, it's trapezium.

0:26:550:26:57

Secondly, two boney prominences at the upper

0:26:570:27:00

end of the femur are known as the greater and lesser.

0:27:000:27:04

Is it something to do with the hip joint?

0:27:100:27:12

Come on, let's have it, please.

0:27:120:27:14

Do you know? Shall we guess?

0:27:150:27:18

Nope. Tibia.

0:27:190:27:20

No, it's trochanter.

0:27:200:27:22

A valve, finally, with three flaps between the right atrium

0:27:220:27:26

and the right ventricle of the heart.

0:27:260:27:28

Come on.

0:27:340:27:35

GONG

0:27:350:27:37

And that is the gong. Cardiff have 60,

0:27:370:27:39

Queen Mary University of London have 110 points.

0:27:390:27:42

Well, Cardiff, there was

0:27:430:27:45

something magisterial about the way you declined to answer

0:27:450:27:48

questions but, unfortunately, that's not really the point of the game.

0:27:480:27:51

Thank you very much for joining us.

0:27:510:27:54

Many congratulations to you, Queen Mary. Thank you for joining us.

0:27:540:27:57

I hope you can join us next time for the final first round match,

0:27:570:28:00

but until then, it's goodbye from Cardiff University.

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ALL: Goodbye.

0:28:030:28:05

It's goodbye from Queen Mary, London.

0:28:050:28:07

ALL: Goodbye.

0:28:070:28:08

And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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