0:00:18 > 0:00:21Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:24 > 0:00:27APPLAUSE
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello, it's the final heat tonight of this year's attempt
0:00:31 > 0:00:34to gauge the lasting value of higher education.
0:00:34 > 0:00:3712 teams of graduates have played already,
0:00:37 > 0:00:40and we know that Keble College Oxford, University College London
0:00:40 > 0:00:44and St John's College Cambridge are through to this year's semifinals.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47The team from Southampton will join them as well,
0:00:47 > 0:00:51unless tonight's winners can beat their score of 150.
0:00:51 > 0:00:55Now, Brunel University London are represented tonight
0:00:55 > 0:00:58by a musician and songwriter who co-founded the punk band
0:00:58 > 0:01:01Generation X with Billy Idol in the 1970s
0:01:01 > 0:01:05and created new wave act Sigue Sigue Sputnik in the '80s.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08He's played bass for Sisters of Mercy and is currently
0:01:08 > 0:01:13one half of Carbon/Silicon with Mick Jones, formerly of The Clash.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17Next to him is a former sprinter whose British record time
0:01:17 > 0:01:19over 400 metres still stands today.
0:01:19 > 0:01:24A European and world gold medallist and Olympic silver medallist,
0:01:24 > 0:01:26he now enjoys a prolific broadcasting career.
0:01:26 > 0:01:30He can be seen regularly on The One Show and is one of the main
0:01:30 > 0:01:33presenting team for Channel 4's Paralympics coverage.
0:01:33 > 0:01:38Their captain played in her first FA Cup final when she was just 15,
0:01:38 > 0:01:42and made her senior international debut while taking her A-levels.
0:01:42 > 0:01:46Since then, she's racked up over 100 caps for England
0:01:46 > 0:01:50and played for several top-flight clubs in both the UK and the USA.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53In 2014, she became the first female pundit
0:01:53 > 0:01:56on the BBC's Match of the Day.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59Their final team member is a doctor of engineering who's spent
0:01:59 > 0:02:02most of her career in science communication.
0:02:02 > 0:02:07As an advocate for STEM education, she's spoken at the United Nations
0:02:07 > 0:02:09and can be seen on the BBC, Al Jazeera
0:02:09 > 0:02:11and the Discovery Channel,
0:02:11 > 0:02:14talking about the latest news in science and innovation.
0:02:14 > 0:02:18She's also recently appeared on Channel 4's Lego Masters,
0:02:18 > 0:02:23judging the engineering skills of the UK's finest Lego builders.
0:02:23 > 0:02:25Let's meet the Brunel team.
0:02:25 > 0:02:26I'm Tony James,
0:02:26 > 0:02:30I was at Brunel in the 1970s, reading maths and computer science,
0:02:30 > 0:02:33but mainly the NME, and I've been a musician ever since.
0:02:34 > 0:02:36I'm Iwan Thomas, I graduated
0:02:36 > 0:02:38from Brunel in 1995.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40The following year, I got an Olympic silver medal,
0:02:40 > 0:02:43and basically, I've been running round in a circle ever since!
0:02:43 > 0:02:44And this is their captain.
0:02:44 > 0:02:45I'm Eni Aluko,
0:02:45 > 0:02:49I graduated from Brunel with a first in law in 2008.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52Since then, I've been playing professional football
0:02:52 > 0:02:55for Chelsea and I run a sports careers consultancy in London.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58I'm Dr Shini Somara,
0:02:58 > 0:03:02I studied mechanical engineering and then went on to do my doctorate
0:03:02 > 0:03:04in computational fluid dynamics,
0:03:04 > 0:03:07and now I report on science, technology and innovation
0:03:07 > 0:03:10for television networks and online platforms.
0:03:13 > 0:03:15Now, they are up against a team of graduates
0:03:15 > 0:03:17from the University of Reading,
0:03:17 > 0:03:21who include an evolutionary anthropologist whose work focuses
0:03:21 > 0:03:25on the psychology and neurobiology of human relationships.
0:03:25 > 0:03:28She has lent her expertise to Channel 4's Married At First Sight
0:03:28 > 0:03:31and the BBC's Meet the Humans,
0:03:31 > 0:03:34and will soon be publishing her first book for a general audience
0:03:34 > 0:03:36on the science of fatherhood.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39She is joined by a man who began his television career
0:03:39 > 0:03:43as a researcher and then producer at the BBC's Natural History Unit,
0:03:43 > 0:03:47but who can now be seen in front of the camera, knee-deep in nature,
0:03:47 > 0:03:50as one of the presenters of the BBC's Spring, Autumn
0:03:50 > 0:03:52and Winterwatch series.
0:03:52 > 0:03:56Their captain worked as a reporter for 20 years before taking on
0:03:56 > 0:04:00her present role at the head of Britain's newest political
0:04:00 > 0:04:04party, founded in 2015 by Sandi Toksvig and Catherine Mayer.
0:04:04 > 0:04:09In 2016, she stood for London Mayor on a platform seeking to close
0:04:09 > 0:04:11the city's gender pay gap
0:04:11 > 0:04:14and create more affordable housing and childcare.
0:04:14 > 0:04:18She is also an ambassador for the National Autistic Society.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21Finally, a plant pathologist who began her career
0:04:21 > 0:04:25at the Royal Horticultural Society in 1985.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27She joined the BBC a few years later
0:04:27 > 0:04:30and has been passing on gardening advice on television
0:04:30 > 0:04:31and radio ever since,
0:04:31 > 0:04:34as a presenter on Gardeners' World for over a decade
0:04:34 > 0:04:39and as a regular panellist on Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time,
0:04:39 > 0:04:41where she can still be heard today.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43Let's meet the Reading team.
0:04:43 > 0:04:44Hello, I'm Anna Machin,
0:04:44 > 0:04:47I gained my PhD in archaeology in 2006 from Reading,
0:04:47 > 0:04:51and today I'm an academic, science writer and broadcaster.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53Hello, I'm Martin Hughes-Games,
0:04:53 > 0:04:56I got my degree in zoology from Reading in 1978.
0:04:56 > 0:05:00I'm now a very keen motorcyclist and sometime wildlife presenter.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02And this is their captain.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04Hello, I'm Sophie Walker,
0:05:04 > 0:05:07I graduated from Reading in the early '90s
0:05:07 > 0:05:09with a degree in French and English,
0:05:09 > 0:05:11I worked as a reporter all around the world,
0:05:11 > 0:05:14and then I thought I'd have a go at politics,
0:05:14 > 0:05:16so I'm now leading Britain's newest political party,
0:05:16 > 0:05:18the Women's Equality Party.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20Hello, I'm Pippa Greenwood
0:05:20 > 0:05:23and I got my Masters degree from Reading in the '80s
0:05:23 > 0:05:28in crop protection, and I'm now a gardening writer and broadcaster.
0:05:28 > 0:05:32APPLAUSE
0:05:33 > 0:05:36OK, the rules are the same as ever, so let's just get on with it.
0:05:36 > 0:05:39Fingers on buzzers, here's your first starter for 10.
0:05:39 > 0:05:44"Back in 1984, the main premise seemed fairly outrageous,
0:05:44 > 0:05:47"that the United States had suffered a coup that had transformed
0:05:47 > 0:05:50"an erstwhile liberal democracy
0:05:50 > 0:05:53"into a literal-minded, theocratic dictatorship."
0:05:53 > 0:05:57These words of Margaret Atwood refer to which of her novels,
0:05:57 > 0:06:00adapted into a television series in 2017?
0:06:01 > 0:06:03The Handmaid's Tale.
0:06:03 > 0:06:04Correct.
0:06:06 > 0:06:11Your bonuses, Reading, are on a dish often associated with Christmas.
0:06:11 > 0:06:15The modern form of which pudding is usually said to date from a recipe
0:06:15 > 0:06:19in Hannah Glasse's The Art of Cookery in 1751,
0:06:19 > 0:06:23the first known version to suggest the inclusion of jelly?
0:06:23 > 0:06:26THEY CONFER
0:06:26 > 0:06:27Trifle.
0:06:27 > 0:06:30Correct. Instead of plain whipped cream,
0:06:30 > 0:06:34Glasse's recipe calls for a topping of which traditional British
0:06:34 > 0:06:38dessert, consisting of cream beaten into a mixture of wine,
0:06:38 > 0:06:41sugar and citrus juice or flavouring?
0:06:43 > 0:06:47THEY CONFER
0:06:49 > 0:06:51What was it, cream...?
0:06:51 > 0:06:53Cream, wine... No, wine...
0:06:53 > 0:06:55I have no idea, sorry.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57I was going to say zabaglione, but that's Italian.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00- No, exactly. It's not traditional British, is it?- No.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03No, go on, we'll have to pass.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05I don't think they have an answer, please.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07Er, well... I'm going to guess,
0:07:07 > 0:07:10I'm going to say custard, even though none of us think it's that.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13- Why are you saying it, then? - It's better than saying pass!
0:07:13 > 0:07:15It's better than saying pass!
0:07:15 > 0:07:16It's syllabub.
0:07:16 > 0:07:17- ALL:- Ohh!
0:07:17 > 0:07:21And finally, the base of Glasse's trifle includes ratafia cakes,
0:07:21 > 0:07:23popular in the Georgian era
0:07:23 > 0:07:27and flavoured with both sweet and bitter varieties
0:07:27 > 0:07:30of what edible seed, often regarded as a nut?
0:07:32 > 0:07:36THEY CONFER
0:07:42 > 0:07:44We think almond.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46Correct. Right, 10 points for this.
0:07:46 > 0:07:47Used for religious instruction
0:07:47 > 0:07:51with images representing virtues and vices,
0:07:51 > 0:07:55the Indian Moksha Patamu is generally thought to be
0:07:55 > 0:07:57the origin of which children's board game?
0:07:57 > 0:08:01An American version of the game was released in 1943,
0:08:01 > 0:08:05with chutes replacing the more fearsome reptiles.
0:08:05 > 0:08:06Snakes and Ladders.
0:08:06 > 0:08:07Correct.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13Right, your bonuses this time, Reading, are on animals
0:08:13 > 0:08:16whose common names combine two other animal names -
0:08:16 > 0:08:20for example, zebra shark and fish eagle.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23Give the name from the description in each case.
0:08:23 > 0:08:27Firstly, Lithobates catesbeiana,
0:08:27 > 0:08:32a large amphibian of North America named after its loud call.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37THEY CONFER
0:08:48 > 0:08:50Bullfrog.
0:08:50 > 0:08:53Correct. Secondly, insects of the family Tabanidae,
0:08:53 > 0:08:55for example, the black-horned cleg -
0:08:55 > 0:08:58females feed on the blood of large mammals.
0:08:59 > 0:09:00Horsefly?
0:09:00 > 0:09:02Horsefly.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05Correct. And finally, decapods of the family Majidae,
0:09:05 > 0:09:07characterised by long, slender legs.
0:09:09 > 0:09:10Crane flies?
0:09:10 > 0:09:12Crane flies have got six legs.
0:09:12 > 0:09:16- They've got six legs, he said 10. - 10 legs. Decapods...
0:09:16 > 0:09:19- WHISPERING:- Try dragonfly.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21No, because they've got six legs as well, they're insects.
0:09:21 > 0:09:23Decapods...
0:09:24 > 0:09:26Come on, let's have an answer.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28- No, I don't know. - Fairy shrimp!
0:09:28 > 0:09:30- THEY LAUGH - What?!
0:09:30 > 0:09:33- Do I really have to say that? - Well...
0:09:33 > 0:09:34A fairy shrimp!
0:09:34 > 0:09:36No, it's a spider crab.
0:09:38 > 0:09:39Of course it is!
0:09:39 > 0:09:4110 points for this.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43Quote, "I do like Christmas on the whole.
0:09:43 > 0:09:47"In its clumsy way, it does approach peace and goodwill,
0:09:47 > 0:09:50"but, oh, it is clumsier every year."
0:09:50 > 0:09:54In which novel by EM Forster does Margaret Schlegel say those words
0:09:54 > 0:09:56to Mrs Wilcox?
0:09:56 > 0:09:58Howard's End.
0:09:58 > 0:09:59Correct.
0:10:01 > 0:10:04Right, your bonuses, Reading, are on an entertainer.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06Firstly, for five -
0:10:06 > 0:10:09"Now, I go cleaning windows to earn an honest bob.
0:10:09 > 0:10:12"For a nosy parker, it's an interesting job."
0:10:12 > 0:10:16These words begin a 1937 song by which popular entertainer?
0:10:16 > 0:10:18Is it Norman Wisdom?
0:10:18 > 0:10:20George... George Formby.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23George Formby.
0:10:23 > 0:10:24Correct.
0:10:24 > 0:10:27Quote, "If the public wants to listen to Formby
0:10:27 > 0:10:30"singing his disgusting little ditty, they'll have to be content
0:10:30 > 0:10:34"to hear it in the cinemas, not over the nation's airwaves."
0:10:34 > 0:10:37Which director-general of the BBC said that?
0:10:37 > 0:10:38- Lord Reith? - It's Reith.- It's got to be Reith.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40Reith.
0:10:40 > 0:10:41It was Lord John Reith, yes.
0:10:41 > 0:10:45And finally, "I love George Formby, I know all his songs
0:10:45 > 0:10:46"and I can sing them."
0:10:46 > 0:10:49According to an anecdote published in several leading newspapers,
0:10:49 > 0:10:52which senior public figure said that?
0:10:54 > 0:10:58THEY CONFER
0:11:02 > 0:11:03Come on, let's have it.
0:11:06 > 0:11:07The Queen.
0:11:07 > 0:11:08It is the Queen, yes.
0:11:10 > 0:11:13Right, we're going to take a picture round now.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16For your picture starter, you will see a map of Canada.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19For 10 points, please tell me the province highlighted.
0:11:25 > 0:11:26Ottawa.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28Anyone like to buzz from Reading?
0:11:33 > 0:11:35Ontario?
0:11:35 > 0:11:38No, it's Quebec. Ottawa's not even a province.
0:11:38 > 0:11:40Right, we'll pick up the picture bonuses in a moment or two.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42In the meantime, here's a starter question.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45Books on the Parthenon, pagan priests
0:11:45 > 0:11:48and the pioneering classicist Jane Ellen Harrison
0:11:48 > 0:11:53are among the works of which scholar, born in Shropshire in 1955?
0:11:53 > 0:11:56She is the author of the blog A Don's Life
0:11:56 > 0:11:59and has presented television series including Pompeii
0:11:59 > 0:12:01and Meet the Romans.
0:12:01 > 0:12:05You may not confer. One of you can buzz.
0:12:05 > 0:12:06Mary Beard?
0:12:06 > 0:12:08Mary Beard is right, yes.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13So, you get the picture bonuses then, Reading.
0:12:13 > 0:12:182017 marks 150 years since the first British North America Act,
0:12:18 > 0:12:22which united several Canadian provinces as one dominion
0:12:22 > 0:12:23under the name of Canada,
0:12:23 > 0:12:26laying the foundation for the modern-day country.
0:12:26 > 0:12:30Quebec was one of the first group in that configuration.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32For your picture bonuses, name three more.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34Firstly, for five...
0:12:38 > 0:12:39That's Nova Scotia.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42THEY CONFER
0:12:55 > 0:12:56Prince Edward Island.
0:12:56 > 0:12:57No, that's Nova Scotia.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59I said that!
0:12:59 > 0:13:01Secondly... Come on!
0:13:04 > 0:13:06THEY CONFER
0:13:08 > 0:13:11- Shall we pass? - Afraid so.- Pass.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13That's New Brunswick. And finally...
0:13:18 > 0:13:20If we look at it really hard, will we figure it out?
0:13:23 > 0:13:25Ontario, is it?
0:13:25 > 0:13:27Ontario, because Lake Superior backs onto it.
0:13:27 > 0:13:29I think it's Ontario.
0:13:29 > 0:13:30Ontario.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33That is Ontario, larger now than at the time of the Act, of course.
0:13:33 > 0:13:3510 points for this starter question.
0:13:35 > 0:13:41For what do the letters EM stand in the expression cryo-EM,
0:13:41 > 0:13:45for which three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry
0:13:45 > 0:13:46in autumn 2017?
0:13:50 > 0:13:51Embryo?
0:13:51 > 0:13:54No. Anyone like to buzz from Reading?
0:13:56 > 0:13:59You may not confer. One of you can buzz.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03Electromagnetic?
0:14:03 > 0:14:05No, it's electron microscopy.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08So we're going to take another starter question now.
0:14:08 > 0:14:12At the 2017 World Athletic Championships in London,
0:14:12 > 0:14:14participants from which country
0:14:14 > 0:14:17competed as "authorised neutral..."?
0:14:18 > 0:14:19Russia.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22- Russia is correct, yes. Well done.- Get in there.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27Right. Your first bonuses are on relatives of Rudolph -
0:14:27 > 0:14:31that is, other species of the Cervidae or deer family.
0:14:31 > 0:14:36Native to Britain, Capreolus capreolus has what common name
0:14:36 > 0:14:40from a Germanic word referring to an indefinite dusky colour?
0:14:42 > 0:14:44Can you repeat the question, or not?
0:14:44 > 0:14:47- No, I'm not going to repeat the question.- I thought I'd ask.
0:14:48 > 0:14:51Crikey. You're harder than Sue Barker.
0:14:54 > 0:14:56That's damning with faint praise, isn't it?
0:15:02 > 0:15:04Do you have any idea over there, or not?
0:15:04 > 0:15:07I can't remember the question.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09- We genuinely can't remember the question.- It was so long ago.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12You've all gone to sleep, for heaven's sake.
0:15:12 > 0:15:14It's a roe deer.
0:15:15 > 0:15:18Secondly, what is the single-word common name of the barking deer?
0:15:18 > 0:15:22Two species of this deer have been introduced in Britain
0:15:22 > 0:15:24and are often considered to be invasive.
0:15:24 > 0:15:26OK. Any deer.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28Do you know any type of deer?
0:15:28 > 0:15:29No. We don't know.
0:15:31 > 0:15:32No i-DEER.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38The old ones are the best, aren't they?
0:15:38 > 0:15:43It's a muntjac. And finally, the Eurasian elk, Alces alces,
0:15:43 > 0:15:46is the largest living member of the deer family.
0:15:46 > 0:15:50By what five-letter name is it commonly known in North America?
0:15:55 > 0:15:56THEY CONFER
0:15:56 > 0:15:58Moose. Moose.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00Moose.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02Moose is correct, yes!
0:16:05 > 0:16:07Right. A starter question for ten points.
0:16:07 > 0:16:10Referring to a general type of built-up area,
0:16:10 > 0:16:13what word links a 1990 first novel by Hanif Kureishi,
0:16:13 > 0:16:16a 1986 song by the Pet Shop Boys...
0:16:16 > 0:16:19Suburbia. Suburbia.
0:16:19 > 0:16:20Suburbia is correct, yes.
0:16:22 > 0:16:26You get a set of bonuses on British film directors, Brunel.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28Born in Glasgow in 1969,
0:16:28 > 0:16:33Lynne Ramsay's films as director include Ratcatcher in 1999,
0:16:33 > 0:16:38Morvern Callar in 2002, and which 2011 film
0:16:38 > 0:16:40based on a novel by Lionel Shriver?
0:16:43 > 0:16:45THEY CONFER
0:16:56 > 0:16:57No. No.
0:16:57 > 0:16:58No, sorry, pass.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01It's We Need To Talk About Kevin.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Secondly, born in Bristol in 1957
0:17:03 > 0:17:06and also noted for her work in theatre and opera,
0:17:06 > 0:17:09which director's films include Mamma Mia!
0:17:09 > 0:17:13and The Iron Lady, both of which starred Meryl Streep?
0:17:13 > 0:17:15THEY CONFER
0:17:29 > 0:17:31Born in Bristol.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35Right, I think we'll have an answer, please.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37I can't think of a...
0:17:37 > 0:17:38The female director I'm thinking of
0:17:38 > 0:17:40is not British, that's the only thing.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43OK, well, in that case, you haven't got an answer.
0:17:43 > 0:17:44It's Phyllida Lloyd.
0:17:44 > 0:17:49And finally, which award-winning director was born in London in 1949
0:17:49 > 0:17:53and made her first 8mm film at the age of 14?
0:17:53 > 0:17:56Her output includes the 1992 film Orlando,
0:17:56 > 0:18:00and in 2017, The Party.
0:18:02 > 0:18:03THEY CONFER
0:18:06 > 0:18:09- Do you know?- No.- It's Sally Potter.
0:18:09 > 0:18:11Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14You'll hear a piece of popular music. For ten points,
0:18:14 > 0:18:17give me the name of the band performing.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19# I got a feeling inside of me
0:18:20 > 0:18:23# It's kind of strange like a stormy sea... #
0:18:24 > 0:18:25The Damned.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27It is The Damned, New Rose.
0:18:29 > 0:18:332017 marks 40 years since the debut album of The Damned,
0:18:33 > 0:18:37which is widely regarded as the first British punk album.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39Your music bonuses are tracks from
0:18:39 > 0:18:43three more notable debut albums of 1977 by British punk bands.
0:18:43 > 0:18:47Five points for each band you can name. Firstly:
0:18:47 > 0:18:50# Didn't have the money round to buy a Morry Thou
0:18:50 > 0:18:53# Been around and seen a lot to shake me anyhow... #
0:18:53 > 0:18:56- Stranglers? - The Stranglers is right. Secondly:
0:18:56 > 0:18:59GUITAR INTRO
0:19:01 > 0:19:03# Saw you in a mag, kissing a man
0:19:03 > 0:19:06# Saw you in a mag, kissing a man
0:19:06 > 0:19:07# Saw you in a mag, kissing a man
0:19:07 > 0:19:12# Saw you in a mag, kissing a man, yeah... #
0:19:15 > 0:19:17Did he say English punk bands?
0:19:22 > 0:19:24Say Buzzcocks, but I don't think it is.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26Buzzcocks.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28No, that's Wire. And finally:
0:19:28 > 0:19:30# White riot - I wanna riot
0:19:30 > 0:19:32# White riot - a riot of my own... #
0:19:32 > 0:19:33The Clash.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36That is the Clash, yes.
0:19:36 > 0:19:38Right, ten points for this. What is the botanical name
0:19:38 > 0:19:42of the ornamental evergreen shrub that has a variety called Red Robin
0:19:42 > 0:19:45and the common name Christmas berry?
0:19:47 > 0:19:49Cranberry.
0:19:49 > 0:19:52No. Anyone like to buzz from Reading?
0:19:52 > 0:19:55- Photinia?- Photinia is correct, yes.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59You'd never have been allowed to
0:19:59 > 0:20:02appear on Gardeners' Question Time again if you hadn't got that.
0:20:02 > 0:20:06Right, these bonuses, Reading, are on Sir Humphry Davy.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09Firstly, what name is now given to the process that formed the subject
0:20:09 > 0:20:14of Davy's 1806 lecture on some chemical agencies of electricity?
0:20:14 > 0:20:17He argued that it offered the best likelihood of decomposing
0:20:17 > 0:20:21or isolating substances to their elements.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25THEY CONFER
0:20:25 > 0:20:27- Electrolysis.- Correct.
0:20:27 > 0:20:30In 1810, Davy demonstrated that chlorine was an element
0:20:30 > 0:20:32rather than an oxygen compound,
0:20:32 > 0:20:35thereby negating which French chemist's theory
0:20:35 > 0:20:38that all acids contain oxygen?
0:20:44 > 0:20:46- Lavoisier.- Correct.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49In 1813, Davy and his assistant Michael Faraday
0:20:49 > 0:20:52were invited to France to investigate Substance X,
0:20:52 > 0:20:56which he identified as an element similar to chlorine.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59It was given what name, from the Greek for violet-coloured?
0:21:03 > 0:21:05THEY CONFER
0:21:09 > 0:21:11Fluorine?
0:21:11 > 0:21:13No, it's iodine.
0:21:13 > 0:21:14Ten points for this.
0:21:14 > 0:21:17"What I love more than anything in London is the fog."
0:21:17 > 0:21:20These are the words of which French artist
0:21:20 > 0:21:23whose visits to London from the 1870s
0:21:23 > 0:21:26resulted in a series of paintings depicting...
0:21:26 > 0:21:27Monet.
0:21:27 > 0:21:29Monet is correct, yes.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35You get a set of bonuses this time on famous Carols.
0:21:35 > 0:21:39Firstly, the US actress, singer and comedian Carol Channing
0:21:39 > 0:21:42originated the title role in which musical
0:21:42 > 0:21:45when it opened on Broadway in 1964?
0:21:45 > 0:21:49It was based on Thornton Wilder's The Merchant of Yonkers.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58THEY CONFER
0:22:11 > 0:22:13Is it White Christmas?
0:22:13 > 0:22:15- No, it's Hello, Dolly!- OK.
0:22:15 > 0:22:18Secondly, the 20th-century monarch Carol II
0:22:18 > 0:22:20had the unusual distinction
0:22:20 > 0:22:23of being preceded and succeeded by his son.
0:22:23 > 0:22:26Of which country was he king?
0:22:35 > 0:22:37Poland.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39- No, it was Romania.- Oh, sorry!
0:22:39 > 0:22:43Finally, written for an event in Leicester Cathedral in 2015,
0:22:43 > 0:22:46who's the subject of Carol Ann Duffy's poem
0:22:46 > 0:22:47which includes the lines,
0:22:47 > 0:22:51"My skull scarred by a crown, emptied of history"?
0:22:57 > 0:22:58- Richard III.- Correct.
0:22:58 > 0:23:01Right. We're going to take a second picture round.
0:23:01 > 0:23:03You'll see a still from a film.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06Ten points if you can give me the film's title.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12Bonnie and Clyde.
0:23:12 > 0:23:13Correct.
0:23:16 > 0:23:202017 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Bonnie and Clyde,
0:23:20 > 0:23:23regarded by many critics as marking the start
0:23:23 > 0:23:24of an American New Wave.
0:23:24 > 0:23:27For your picture bonuses, stills from three more films
0:23:27 > 0:23:30also viewed as defining this new Hollywood,
0:23:30 > 0:23:33and all likewise released in 1967.
0:23:33 > 0:23:36Firstly for five, the title of this film.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40THEY CONFER
0:23:50 > 0:23:52Is it Look Who's Coming to Dinner?
0:23:52 > 0:23:54No, it's In The Heat of the Night.
0:23:54 > 0:23:56That's Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger.
0:23:56 > 0:23:58Secondly, this film.
0:24:00 > 0:24:02THEY CONFER
0:24:13 > 0:24:15Hud.
0:24:15 > 0:24:16No, that's Cool Hand Luke.
0:24:16 > 0:24:19And finally, this film:
0:24:20 > 0:24:23Oh, The Graduate.
0:24:23 > 0:24:24It is The Graduate, yes.
0:24:24 > 0:24:26Right. Ten points for this.
0:24:26 > 0:24:29Born in Cairo in 1910, which chemist's determination
0:24:29 > 0:24:32of the structure of penicillin and vitamin B12
0:24:32 > 0:24:36won her the 1964 Nobel Prize for Chemistry?
0:24:43 > 0:24:46It's Dorothy Hodgkin. Ten points for this.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48Which play of 1879 opens with its protagonist
0:24:48 > 0:24:52returning in high spirits from Christmas shopping
0:24:52 > 0:24:55accompanied by a porter bearing a tree for the family?
0:24:55 > 0:24:59By act two, the tree is dishevelled and stripped of its ornaments,
0:24:59 > 0:25:03and the heroine Nora is pacing the room uneasily.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06- A Doll's House.- Correct.
0:25:09 > 0:25:13Right, you get three bonuses on women space pioneers.
0:25:13 > 0:25:16Firstly for five points, which 2016 Oscar-nominated film
0:25:16 > 0:25:21concerns Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson,
0:25:21 > 0:25:23a group of African-American mathematicians
0:25:23 > 0:25:27who played a key role in John Glenn's 1962 launch into orbit?
0:25:28 > 0:25:30- Hidden Figures.- Correct. In 1999,
0:25:30 > 0:25:34who became the first female commander of a space shuttle,
0:25:34 > 0:25:36leading a Columbia mission
0:25:36 > 0:25:38to deploy the Chandra X-ray Observatory?
0:25:40 > 0:25:42THEY CONFER
0:25:53 > 0:25:54Was it Sally Ride?
0:25:54 > 0:25:57No, it's Eileen Collins. And finally,
0:25:57 > 0:25:59on June 16th 2012,
0:25:59 > 0:26:03Liu Yang became the first Chinese woman in space,
0:26:03 > 0:26:0749 years to the day since which cosmonaut
0:26:07 > 0:26:09became the first female space traveller?
0:26:16 > 0:26:18It's a bit too Russian.
0:26:18 > 0:26:22I'll tell you, it's Valentina Tereshkova. Ten points for this.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25"Hands off the BBC", "Tell her to read the Guardian"
0:26:25 > 0:26:28and "Get your skates on, the first race is half past two"
0:26:28 > 0:26:31are among the heckles delivered by which long-serving MP
0:26:31 > 0:26:34during state openings of Parliament?
0:26:35 > 0:26:37- Dennis Skinner.- Correct.
0:26:40 > 0:26:43Right, your bonuses this time, Reading, are on shorter words
0:26:43 > 0:26:46that can be formed from the letters of the name Santa Claus.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49Identify each term from the definition.
0:26:49 > 0:26:52Firstly, named after a figure in Greek mythology...
0:26:52 > 0:26:53GONG
0:26:53 > 0:26:56And at the gong, Brunel University have 45,
0:26:56 > 0:26:59Reading University have 155.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01Well, you did well on music, Brunel.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03There's no shame in that.
0:27:03 > 0:27:05Reading, congratulations to you.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08That means that you will be coming back in one of the semifinals.
0:27:08 > 0:27:10Thank you very much for joining us.
0:27:11 > 0:27:14The final line-up then, in the semifinal stage of the competition,
0:27:14 > 0:27:16is as follows.
0:27:21 > 0:27:24I hope you can join us next time for the first of those semifinals
0:27:24 > 0:27:27- but until then it's goodbye from Brunel University...- Thank you.- Bye.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29..it's goodbye from Reading University...
0:27:29 > 0:27:32- Goodbye.- ..and goodbye from me. Goodbye.