0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:21Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:31Hello. We've reached the semifinal stage of this year's probe
0:00:31 > 0:00:33into the dustier recesses of the minds
0:00:33 > 0:00:36of some of the country's leading public figures.
0:00:36 > 0:00:40Now, only four teams of graduates remain in the competition
0:00:40 > 0:00:43and with the bit firmly between their collective teeth,
0:00:43 > 0:00:46they're fighting for a place in this year's final.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49The team from Keble College Oxford earned the highest score
0:00:49 > 0:00:54of the first round. 220 points to Durham University's 35.
0:00:54 > 0:00:57They answered well on mathematical terms, modern art galleries,
0:00:57 > 0:00:59and classic pop,
0:00:59 > 0:01:01despite one member of their team using his buzzer
0:01:01 > 0:01:04in much the same way as a seven-year-old uses the bell
0:01:04 > 0:01:05on his new bicycle.
0:01:05 > 0:01:07Representing Keble again,
0:01:07 > 0:01:09one of the country's foremost exports on the economics
0:01:09 > 0:01:11of public policy.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14A multi-award winning novelist and screenwriter.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16Their captain is a comedian, writer,
0:01:16 > 0:01:18and actor on the big and small screen.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21And their fourth member is an advocate for women in science
0:01:21 > 0:01:25who's one of Oxford's youngest mathematics graduates.
0:01:25 > 0:01:26Let's meet them again.
0:01:26 > 0:01:31Hello, I'm Paul Johnson. I studied PPE at Keble between 1985 and 1988
0:01:31 > 0:01:34and I'm now director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37Hi. I'm Frank Cottrell-Boyce.
0:01:37 > 0:01:41I left Keble in 1986 having completed my English DPhil
0:01:41 > 0:01:43and commenced the first all-Keble marriage.
0:01:43 > 0:01:45I'm a children's writer.
0:01:45 > 0:01:47And their captain.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50I'm Katy Brand, I'm a writer, actor and comedian,
0:01:50 > 0:01:53and I graduated with a degree in theology in 2000.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56I'm Anne-Marie Imafidon. I read maths and computer science
0:01:56 > 0:02:00up until 2010 at Keble and now I run social enterprise Stemettes.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03APPLAUSE
0:02:04 > 0:02:08Their opponents represent St John's College Cambridge,
0:02:08 > 0:02:11who swatted away the alumni of St Edmund Hall Oxford
0:02:11 > 0:02:13by a margin of 155-40.
0:02:13 > 0:02:15It could have been even higher
0:02:15 > 0:02:18if the name of one of England's most famous footballers
0:02:18 > 0:02:22hadn't eluded them for what seemed like an eternity.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25But they were quicker off the mark on dogs, food, and delirium.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28Their line-up remains unchanged and includes an Oscar-winning
0:02:28 > 0:02:31screenwriter, novelist, and biographer.
0:02:31 > 0:02:34A leading voice of contemporary feminism.
0:02:34 > 0:02:37Their captain is an author and professor of creative writing
0:02:37 > 0:02:40and, finally, an actor whose career has taken him
0:02:40 > 0:02:42from Shakespeare to outer space.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45Let's meet the St John's team for a second time.
0:02:46 > 0:02:51I'm Frederic Raphael. I was at St John's from 1950 to 1954.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54I read classics and moral sciences and I'm a writer.
0:02:55 > 0:02:56Hi. I'm Laura Bates.
0:02:56 > 0:03:00I graduated in English in 2007 and I'm a writer, activist,
0:03:00 > 0:03:03and the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project.
0:03:03 > 0:03:04And this is their captain.
0:03:04 > 0:03:06My name's Giles Foden.
0:03:06 > 0:03:09I was at St John's on a creative writing scholarship
0:03:09 > 0:03:12from 1989 to '90 and I'm now a writer.
0:03:13 > 0:03:14I'm Jamie Bamber.
0:03:14 > 0:03:18I read modern and Medieval languages at St John's
0:03:18 > 0:03:20between 1992 and 1996
0:03:20 > 0:03:23and ever since then I've been pretending to be other people.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25APPLAUSE
0:03:28 > 0:03:31OK. The rules are the same as ever, so fingers on the buzzers.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33Here's your first starter for ten.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36What specific type of object is being described?
0:03:36 > 0:03:40In the 2002 film Unfaithful, one is used as a murder weapon.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42In the novel The Lovely Bones,
0:03:42 > 0:03:46Susie Salmon worries for the creature trapped inside one.
0:03:48 > 0:03:50Is it a tent?
0:03:50 > 0:03:52- A tent?- No, sorry.- No.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54It's not. You lose five points.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57And one falls from the hand of the dying title character
0:03:57 > 0:04:00in the opening sequence of Citizen Kane.
0:04:02 > 0:04:03A sledge.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05No. It's a snow globe.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08So, we're going to take another starter question now.
0:04:08 > 0:04:10Set on a plantation in Georgia,
0:04:10 > 0:04:16which novel by Colson Whitehead won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize...
0:04:16 > 0:04:19- The Underground Railroad. - Is correct.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21So, you're on five points
0:04:21 > 0:04:25and you get a set of bonuses now on the creator of Paddington Bear,
0:04:25 > 0:04:28the author Michael Bond, who died in 2017.
0:04:28 > 0:04:31Bond's works included a mystery series for adults
0:04:31 > 0:04:34featuring which restaurant inspector
0:04:34 > 0:04:37and his faithful bloodhound Pommes Frites?
0:04:37 > 0:04:39His surname is the French for "grapefruit".
0:04:39 > 0:04:42- Pamplemousse.- Pamplemousse.
0:04:42 > 0:04:44Pamplemousse is correct. Yes.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47Which television series of 1968
0:04:47 > 0:04:51was the first collaboration between Bond and the animator Ivor Wood?
0:04:51 > 0:04:55According to the BFI, its characters are largely derived
0:04:55 > 0:05:00from entries in a 17th century reference work by Nicholas Culpeper.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02- The Herbs.- The Herbs.
0:05:02 > 0:05:03Correct.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06A Munchausenesque teller of tall tales,
0:05:06 > 0:05:08what is the name of the guinea pig heroine
0:05:08 > 0:05:11of Bond's second major series of children's books?
0:05:15 > 0:05:17Pass.
0:05:17 > 0:05:18It's Olga da Polga.
0:05:18 > 0:05:22Ten pints for this. Which Middle English alliterative poem
0:05:22 > 0:05:26begins in Camelot on New Year's Day where King Arthur...
0:05:26 > 0:05:28Gawain And The Green Knight.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31Gawain And The Green Knight is correct.
0:05:31 > 0:05:36You get three questions on the US author Edith Wharton, Keble.
0:05:36 > 0:05:39Wharton likened the writing of the beginning of a novel
0:05:39 > 0:05:41to a ride through a spring wood
0:05:41 > 0:05:45and the writing of the end to going down the Cresta run.
0:05:45 > 0:05:49To which arid expanse of central Asia did she compare the middle?
0:05:51 > 0:05:54The Kalahari?
0:05:54 > 0:05:55- No, the Gobi?- Gobi.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59- The Gobi? - The Gobi Desert is correct.
0:05:59 > 0:06:01"Not one of them wants to be different."
0:06:01 > 0:06:03"They are as scared of it as the smallpox."
0:06:03 > 0:06:06Mrs Manson Mingott says this of her family
0:06:06 > 0:06:11in which of Wharton's novels, set in upper-class New York City?
0:06:11 > 0:06:13- The Age Of Innocence. - The Age Of Innocence?
0:06:13 > 0:06:14Correct.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17Wharton's style has been likened to that of which novelist
0:06:17 > 0:06:18also born in New York?
0:06:18 > 0:06:21The two of them enjoyed a literary friendship from 1900
0:06:21 > 0:06:23until his death in 1916.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25Henry James.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27Henry James.
0:06:27 > 0:06:28Correct. Ten points for this.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31Noted for the creation of his eponymous family
0:06:31 > 0:06:33headed by the formidable Grandma,
0:06:33 > 0:06:38which cartoonist born in London in 1916 produced...
0:06:38 > 0:06:39Giles.
0:06:39 > 0:06:40Giles is correct. Yes.
0:06:43 > 0:06:47So your first bonuses, St John's, are on mathematical terms.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49In each case, give the word from the definition.
0:06:49 > 0:06:53All three answers begin with the same letter.
0:06:53 > 0:06:54Firstly, for any integer N,
0:06:54 > 0:06:58the product of all positive integers from one to N inclusive.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01It's usually denoted by an exclamation mark.
0:07:05 > 0:07:09- Shriek? - Never called it "shriek" at school.
0:07:09 > 0:07:13I don't know. Do we go for it?
0:07:14 > 0:07:16Nominate Bamber.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19I think at school they used to call it "shriek" but I don't...
0:07:19 > 0:07:23- It's called factorial. A factorial. - Factorial, that was it!- Secondly,...
0:07:23 > 0:07:26A fixed point on the concave side of a conic section
0:07:26 > 0:07:30used together with a line known as a directrix to define the curve.
0:07:39 > 0:07:41Fulcrum?
0:07:48 > 0:07:50- Fulcrum?- It's believable.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52- I'm going to go. Focal point? - Yes, I'll accept that.
0:07:52 > 0:07:54It's normally known as a focus.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57And, finally, a mathematical object or curve that displays
0:07:57 > 0:08:00self similarity across all scales.
0:08:00 > 0:08:05Examples include the Sierpinski Triangle and the Koch Snowflake.
0:08:06 > 0:08:07Oh...
0:08:09 > 0:08:11- Fractal.- Yes.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14- Nominate Bamber.- A fractal.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16Fractal is correct. Yes.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18Right, we're going to take a picture round now.
0:08:18 > 0:08:19For your picture starter,
0:08:19 > 0:08:23you'll see a definition in French of a five-letter French word.
0:08:23 > 0:08:27For ten points, I want you to give me that word in French.
0:08:32 > 0:08:33Glace.
0:08:34 > 0:08:36No, anyone like to buzz from Keble?
0:08:37 > 0:08:40- Neige. - Neige is correct, yes. Snow.
0:08:43 > 0:08:47So, your picture bonuses are definitions of three more
0:08:47 > 0:08:49French words for three different types of weather
0:08:49 > 0:08:50again given in French.
0:08:50 > 0:08:53For the points, in each case, I'll need the word in question in French
0:08:53 > 0:08:57and, for clarity, you'll need to spell your answers, please.
0:08:57 > 0:09:00Firstly, a four-letter word here.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09- Vent? Vent.- Vent?
0:09:09 > 0:09:13- No E at the end, is there?- No.
0:09:13 > 0:09:17- VENT. V-E-N-T.- Correct. Wind, yes.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19Secondly, a five-letter word.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25- Is it storm? - It's storm. It's a storm.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34It's going to be something like "disruption" or...
0:09:35 > 0:09:38- I don't know.- It's gone. It's gone.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40Sorry. We only know it in English. So, pass.
0:09:40 > 0:09:43- Oh, what do you know in English? - Well, we think it's storm.
0:09:43 > 0:09:46- It is storm but I want it in French. - Yes.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49And you didn't know it. It's orage. ORAGE.
0:09:49 > 0:09:51And, finally, another five-letter word.
0:09:56 > 0:09:57Is it just rain?
0:09:57 > 0:10:01- Pluie.- How you do spell it? - P-L-U-I-E.
0:10:03 > 0:10:07- Nominate Johnson. - Pluie. P-L-U-I-E.
0:10:07 > 0:10:08Correct. Yes.
0:10:08 > 0:10:11Rain. Well done. So, ten points for this starter question.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14Which King of England was the subject of a marble bust
0:10:14 > 0:10:17by the Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini?
0:10:17 > 0:10:20Rather than travel to London to undertake the work,
0:10:20 > 0:10:25Bernini used as his source material a triple portrait painted...
0:10:25 > 0:10:26Charles I.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28Charles I is correct.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Right, your bonuses, Keble, are recent winners
0:10:31 > 0:10:33of the sportsperson of the year award
0:10:33 > 0:10:35in smaller countries of Europe.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38- In each case, I need both the country making the award...- Yes!
0:10:38 > 0:10:42..and the sport for which the following are best known.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44All three countries have a population
0:10:44 > 0:10:45of less than three million.
0:10:45 > 0:10:48Firstly, for five points, Gilles Muller.
0:10:51 > 0:10:54- Cycling? France. - A smaller country. Belgium.
0:10:54 > 0:10:58Cycling? Skiing and Liechtenstein. Sorry?
0:10:58 > 0:11:00Skiing and Liechtenstein.
0:11:00 > 0:11:01Skiing. Liechtenstein.
0:11:03 > 0:11:04No, it's tennis and Luxembourg.
0:11:06 > 0:11:09Secondly, Petra Majdic and Tina Maze.
0:11:12 > 0:11:16Tennis? Or badminton?
0:11:16 > 0:11:19- Badminton and what country? - Slovenia?
0:11:19 > 0:11:21Badminton, Slovenia.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24No. It is Slovenia but it's skiing this time.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28And, finally. Gylfi Tor Sigurdsson.
0:11:29 > 0:11:32- Well, he's got to be Icelandic. - Yeah.- What would his sport be?
0:11:32 > 0:11:35- Iceland, surfing?- Bobsleigh?
0:11:35 > 0:11:38- They're good at being strongmen. - Yeah, yeah.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41Try that. Strongman, Iceland.
0:11:41 > 0:11:43It is Iceland but it's football.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47Ten points for this starter question.
0:11:47 > 0:11:48What five-letter name links
0:11:48 > 0:11:53and Italian physicist born in 1745 with the main river of Ghana?
0:11:53 > 0:11:58The name of the latter comes from the Portuguese for twist or turn.
0:12:05 > 0:12:07- Volta. - Volta is correct. Yes. Well done.
0:12:11 > 0:12:14These bonuses are on Nobel laureates, St John's.
0:12:14 > 0:12:17Which literature laureate did the Academy call
0:12:17 > 0:12:19the master of the contemporary short story?
0:12:19 > 0:12:23Her collections include Too Much Happiness and Dear Life
0:12:23 > 0:12:26and are set largely in the Canadian province of Ontario.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28Alice Munro?
0:12:29 > 0:12:31- Alice Munro.- Correct.
0:12:31 > 0:12:34The Israeli biochemist Ada Yonath shared
0:12:34 > 0:12:38the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry for research into
0:12:38 > 0:12:42which cellular particles, composed of RNA and proteins
0:12:42 > 0:12:44and involved in protein synthesis?
0:12:46 > 0:12:49I think that's useless to us, that question.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54No. Ribosomes.
0:12:54 > 0:12:58And, finally, in 2009 Elinor Ostrom became the first woman
0:12:58 > 0:13:00to win which of the Nobel prizes?
0:13:05 > 0:13:07THEY CONFER INAUDIBLY
0:13:12 > 0:13:14Maths? Mathematics.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20We're going to try economics.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22Well, you tried correctly. Well done.
0:13:22 > 0:13:25Ten points for this, what is the initial letter of two-word
0:13:25 > 0:13:29Latin expressions meaning all other things being equal...
0:13:32 > 0:13:35- No, I'm sorry. If you buzz, you must answer.- SL?- No, I'm sorry.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37If you buzz, you must answer straight away.
0:13:37 > 0:13:39I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42Expressions meaning all other things being equal, good for whom?
0:13:43 > 0:13:46- CP.- No. I only wanted the C.
0:13:47 > 0:13:50"All other things being equal" is ceteris Paribus
0:13:50 > 0:13:53but the next question was "let the buyer beware",
0:13:53 > 0:13:54which is caveat emptor.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57And "seize the day" which is carpe diem. So, I wanted the C.
0:13:57 > 0:13:59Ten points for this.
0:13:59 > 0:14:02The Spanish words for chess, vegetable oil, and sugar
0:14:02 > 0:14:05all derived from which language?
0:14:07 > 0:14:08Arabic.
0:14:08 > 0:14:10Arabic is correct.
0:14:10 > 0:14:13You get a set of bonuses on the mottos of English cities.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16Concilio Et Labore, meaning "by wisdom and effort",
0:14:16 > 0:14:19is the motto of which English city in the north of England?
0:14:19 > 0:14:22Its coat of arms includes seven worker bees.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32Go with it. Huddersfield?
0:14:32 > 0:14:34No, it's Manchester.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37And, secondly, "by virtue and industry"
0:14:37 > 0:14:39is the translation of the motto of which city?
0:14:39 > 0:14:42Its coat of arms includes a two towered castle
0:14:42 > 0:14:43and a sailing ship.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53- Bristol.- Correct.
0:14:53 > 0:14:55And, finally, which city in Yorkshire has a motto
0:14:55 > 0:14:58meaning "with God's help our labour is successful"?
0:14:58 > 0:15:02Its coat of arms includes the figures of Thor and Vulcan.
0:15:06 > 0:15:08- York.- No, it's Sheffield.
0:15:08 > 0:15:10Right. We're going to take a music round.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of classical music.
0:15:12 > 0:15:15For ten points, please name the composer.
0:15:17 > 0:15:19ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:25 > 0:15:27Aaron Copeland?
0:15:27 > 0:15:30No. You can hear a little more, St John's.
0:15:31 > 0:15:33ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:44 > 0:15:46- Russian?- Rimsky-Korsakov?
0:15:46 > 0:15:48No? You may not confer. One of you can buzz.
0:15:49 > 0:15:51You can buzz.
0:15:51 > 0:15:52Tchaikovsky.
0:15:52 > 0:15:56No, it's part of Brahms's Academic Festival Overture.
0:15:56 > 0:15:57So, ten points for this.
0:15:57 > 0:16:02In June 2017, astronomers increased which planet's official
0:16:02 > 0:16:06moon count by two, bringing its total to 69....
0:16:07 > 0:16:10- Saturn?- No. Anyone want to buzz from St John's?
0:16:14 > 0:16:16You may not confer.
0:16:16 > 0:16:18- Jupiter.- Jupiter is correct.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20Saturn has 62 moons, I believe.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23Right. So, were going to follow on
0:16:23 > 0:16:25from Brahms's Academic Festival overture,
0:16:25 > 0:16:27which he described as
0:16:27 > 0:16:30"a boisterous potpourri of student drinking songs"
0:16:30 > 0:16:32with more celebrations of drink.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34This time, all from operas.
0:16:34 > 0:16:38I'll need the title of the opera, please, for the points. Firstly...
0:16:39 > 0:16:41OPERATIC TENOR SINGS
0:16:52 > 0:16:53Nominate Bamber.
0:16:53 > 0:16:54La Traviata.
0:16:54 > 0:16:57Correct. It was the famous Brindisi. Secondly.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00OPERATIC TENOR SINGS
0:17:09 > 0:17:11THEY CONFER INAUDIBLY
0:17:13 > 0:17:19- Rosenkavalier?- Eh?- This is Italian opera. So it's definitely Verdi.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23I don't know. Tosca? Anybody?
0:17:24 > 0:17:26Tosca?
0:17:26 > 0:17:30No, that's Hail To The Bubbling Wine from Cavalleria Rusticana.
0:17:30 > 0:17:31And, finally...
0:17:33 > 0:17:35OPERATIC BARITONE SINGS
0:17:53 > 0:17:55THEY CONFER INAUDIBLY
0:17:55 > 0:17:57- Do you know?- No, I don't know.
0:17:59 > 0:18:01Let's have an answer.
0:18:01 > 0:18:03We don't have an answer.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05That's the Champagne Aria from Don Giovanni.
0:18:05 > 0:18:06Ten points for this.
0:18:06 > 0:18:08The name of which seaside town is attributed
0:18:08 > 0:18:11to the arrival of a fifth century Irish saint?
0:18:11 > 0:18:16In 1497 the pretender Perkin Warbeck was proclaimed king there
0:18:16 > 0:18:21and in 1993 it became the location of a branch of the Tate Gallery.
0:18:24 > 0:18:25St... Oh, Margate.
0:18:25 > 0:18:30No. Anyone like to buzz from St John's.
0:18:30 > 0:18:31St Ives.
0:18:31 > 0:18:33St Ives is correct, yes.
0:18:36 > 0:18:39Right, your bonuses this time, St John's,
0:18:39 > 0:18:41are from literary works of the 11th century.
0:18:41 > 0:18:43In each case, name the language
0:18:43 > 0:18:45in which the following were originally written.
0:18:45 > 0:18:48Firstly, the encyclopaedic work sometimes
0:18:48 > 0:18:51known in English as the Prime Tortoise Of The Record Bureau.
0:18:57 > 0:18:59- Yeah.- Chinese?
0:18:59 > 0:19:00Correct.
0:19:00 > 0:19:03Secondly, the Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam.
0:19:05 > 0:19:08- Persian or Farsi.- Correct.
0:19:08 > 0:19:10And, finally, The Tale Of Genji.
0:19:17 > 0:19:20Er... Japanese?
0:19:20 > 0:19:21Correct.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23Ten points for this.
0:19:23 > 0:19:27Clouds, Fog, Gardens In The Rain, and Footsteps In The Snow
0:19:27 > 0:19:31are all works by which French composer, born in 1862.
0:19:35 > 0:19:38- Ravel. - Anyone like to buzz from St John's?
0:19:38 > 0:19:39You may not confer.
0:19:43 > 0:19:44Chopin.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47No, it's Debussy. Ten points for this.
0:19:47 > 0:19:49What was the world's first National Park,
0:19:49 > 0:19:51established by US Congress in 187...
0:19:52 > 0:19:54- Yellowstone.- Yellowstone is correct.
0:19:54 > 0:19:58You get a set of bonuses, this time, on scientific terms.
0:19:58 > 0:20:00In each case, give the term from the definition.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03All three begin with the same five letters.
0:20:03 > 0:20:07Firstly, a large group of organic compounds that may be subdivided
0:20:07 > 0:20:12into aromatic, for example, benzene, and aliphatic, for example, alkanes.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19Compound? Were they compounds?
0:20:20 > 0:20:22Is that a name for a compound?
0:20:23 > 0:20:25THEY CONFER INAUDIBLY
0:20:31 > 0:20:34I think we better have an answer, please.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36Olfactories?
0:20:36 > 0:20:38No, they're hydrocarbons.
0:20:38 > 0:20:42Secondly, the process by which a molecule is broken down by water.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44- Hydration.- Hydration.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46No, it's hydrolysis.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49And, finally, a common laboratory liquid,
0:20:49 > 0:20:54also known as muriatic acid, its formula is HCl.
0:20:55 > 0:21:00- Hydrochloric acid.- Nominate Bates. - Hydrochloric acid.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02Correct.
0:21:02 > 0:21:04We're going to take a second picture round now.
0:21:04 > 0:21:07For your picture starter, you'll see a photograph of a poet.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09Ten points if you can give me his name, please.
0:21:10 > 0:21:12It's TS Eliot.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15It is TS Eliot, you're right.
0:21:15 > 0:21:19Now, while he was working at Faber, the publishers,
0:21:19 > 0:21:22TS Eliot contributed to the Ariel Pamphlets,
0:21:22 > 0:21:25a series of illustrated poems on seasonal themes
0:21:25 > 0:21:28that the publisher hoped might be used as Christmas cards.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31Your picture bonuses are three more writers
0:21:31 > 0:21:32who contributed to the series.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35Five points for each you can name. Firstly,...
0:21:40 > 0:21:42THEY CONFER INAUDIBLY
0:21:45 > 0:21:46Pass.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48That's Siegfried Sassoon.
0:21:48 > 0:21:49Secondly...
0:21:54 > 0:21:55Ottoline Morrell?
0:21:55 > 0:21:57No, that's Edith Sitwell.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59And, finally...
0:21:59 > 0:22:01- DH Lawrence.- DH Lawrence.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04That is DH Lawrence, you're right.
0:22:04 > 0:22:07Right, ten points for this. Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10What is the log base five of 625?
0:22:14 > 0:22:1625.
0:22:16 > 0:22:17No.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22- Five.- No, it's four.
0:22:22 > 0:22:24Ten points for this.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26Minor characters of which 16th century play
0:22:26 > 0:22:31include Pope Adrian VI, Emperor Charles V...?
0:22:31 > 0:22:32Dr Faustus.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34Dr Faustus is correct.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39These bonuses are on works of fiction which imagine
0:22:39 > 0:22:43that Nazi Germany had won the Second World War.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46The United States of America and the Greater German Reich
0:22:46 > 0:22:50are Cold War adversaries in which Robert Harris novel of 1992?
0:22:54 > 0:22:56THEY CONFER INAUDIBLY
0:22:58 > 0:23:01- Fatherland.- Fatherland.
0:23:01 > 0:23:03Fatherland is right.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06Secondly, which 1978 novel by Len Deighton concerns
0:23:06 > 0:23:10a murder investigation in German-occupied London?
0:23:10 > 0:23:11- SS-GB.- SS-GB.
0:23:11 > 0:23:14Correct. That puts you on level pegging.
0:23:14 > 0:23:17And, thirdly, the defeated United States of America
0:23:17 > 0:23:21is partitioned between the Japanese Empire and the Greater German Reich
0:23:21 > 0:23:24in which Philip K Dick novel of 1962?
0:23:24 > 0:23:27- The Man In The High Tower. - The Man In The High Tower.
0:23:27 > 0:23:31The Man In The High Castle is correct, yes. I'll accept that.
0:23:31 > 0:23:34Right, four minutes to go. Ten points for this starter question.
0:23:34 > 0:23:37Give any year during which Benjamin Disraeli
0:23:37 > 0:23:39served as UK Prime Minister.
0:23:41 > 0:23:431873.
0:23:43 > 0:23:44No.
0:23:47 > 0:23:50- 1880.- 1880 is correct, yes.
0:23:50 > 0:23:53You could have any date between 1874 and 1880, plus 1868.
0:23:53 > 0:23:55Right, you get a set of bonuses
0:23:55 > 0:23:58on the ancient city of Persepolis, Keble.
0:23:58 > 0:24:00During which King's reign did construction of the city begin?
0:24:00 > 0:24:04His army was defeated at the Battle of Marathon in 490BCE.
0:24:07 > 0:24:08- Xerxes.- Xerxes.
0:24:08 > 0:24:11No, it's Darius I, Darius The Great.
0:24:11 > 0:24:14The ruins of Persepolis are situated not far from
0:24:14 > 0:24:16which modern day city in the Zagros Mountains?
0:24:16 > 0:24:19It's the birthplace of the Persian poet Hafez.
0:24:26 > 0:24:27THEY CONFER INAUDIBLY
0:24:29 > 0:24:33- No, that's not right. I don't know. - Ankara?- No, it's Shiraz.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35Ankara's in Turkey.
0:24:35 > 0:24:39Persepolis is the title of a series of autobiographical graphic novels
0:24:39 > 0:24:42by which French-Iranian artist and writer?
0:24:42 > 0:24:44I can't remember. I don't know.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49- Sorry, we've forgotten her name. - It's Marjane Satrapi.
0:24:49 > 0:24:51Right, three minutes to go, ten points for this.
0:24:51 > 0:24:55What surname links the authors of A Life Of Contrast,
0:24:55 > 0:24:59the American Way Of Death, The Chatsworth Cookery...
0:24:59 > 0:25:01Mitford.
0:25:01 > 0:25:02Mitford is correct, yes.
0:25:03 > 0:25:07Your bonuses are of on members of the nightshade family,
0:25:07 > 0:25:10known botanically as Solanaceae.
0:25:10 > 0:25:13In each case, name the plant from the description.
0:25:13 > 0:25:15Firstly, Solanum melongena,
0:25:15 > 0:25:20a vegetable sometimes known as the guinea squash or brinjal.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23Oh, aubergine. Aubergine.
0:25:23 > 0:25:25Correct.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27Secondly, Solanum lycopersicum.
0:25:27 > 0:25:31Native to the New World, it's widely cultivated for its edible fruit.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36- Is it a melon? Melon.- I don't know.
0:25:40 > 0:25:41Tomato?
0:25:41 > 0:25:43Tomato is correct.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45Finally, Solanum tuberosum.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48Grown for its swollen, fleshy, underground stem.
0:25:48 > 0:25:49Potato.
0:25:49 > 0:25:51Potato is correct. One minute 45 to go.
0:25:51 > 0:25:52Ten points for this.
0:25:52 > 0:25:55What single letter of the alphabet links the SI-derived unit
0:25:55 > 0:25:59of electrical capacitance, the number 15 in hexadecimal,
0:25:59 > 0:26:02and the lightest of the halogen elements?
0:26:05 > 0:26:08- H.- No. Anyone want to buzz from Keble, quickly?
0:26:10 > 0:26:12- A.- No, it's F.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14Ten points for this,
0:26:14 > 0:26:17in which country was the natural limestone arch
0:26:17 > 0:26:18known as the Azure Window,
0:26:18 > 0:26:22which collapsed into the Mediterranean Sea in March 2017?
0:26:25 > 0:26:26Italy?
0:26:26 > 0:26:29Anyone like to buzz from St John's?
0:26:29 > 0:26:30Turkey.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32No, it was in Malta.
0:26:32 > 0:26:33Ten points for this.
0:26:33 > 0:26:36Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2017,
0:26:36 > 0:26:40Autumn is the first book of a planned seasonal...
0:26:40 > 0:26:41Ali Smith.
0:26:41 > 0:26:43Ali Smith is correct.
0:26:43 > 0:26:47Your bonuses this time, Keble, are on words beginning with the letters M-Y-R,
0:26:47 > 0:26:50as in "myrrh", one of the gifts of the Magi.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52Commanded by Achilles during the Trojan War,
0:26:52 > 0:26:55the name of which the name of which ancient people has come to mean
0:26:55 > 0:26:58"hired ruffian" or "sycophantic supporter"?
0:26:58 > 0:27:00- Myrmidons.- Myrmidons.- Correct.
0:27:00 > 0:27:04Myristica fragrans is the binomial of which tree
0:27:04 > 0:27:06native to the Moluccas Islands of Indonesia?
0:27:06 > 0:27:10Its seed is used as a spice to flavour baked foods.
0:27:15 > 0:27:17I think we better have an answer here.
0:27:17 > 0:27:19- Myrtle?- No, it's nutmeg.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22And, finally, a myrmecophile is plant or invertebrate
0:27:22 > 0:27:25that has a symbiotic relationship with which social insects?
0:27:28 > 0:27:30- Bees?- Now, they're ants.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32Ten points for this.
0:27:32 > 0:27:34The U2 song New Year's Day was inspired by
0:27:34 > 0:27:36which European trade union movement?
0:27:36 > 0:27:38GONG SOUNDS
0:27:38 > 0:27:42And at the gong, St John's College Cambridge have 105.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44Keble College Oxford have 160.
0:27:44 > 0:27:48Well, St John's, you were in the lead. I don't know what happened.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51- But you haven't advanced from that score for a while.- No.- Bad luck.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54Thank you very much for joining us. You didn't have to do that.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56Keble, congratulations to you.
0:27:56 > 0:28:00We shall look forward to seeing you in the final of this competition.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02Well done. Thank you very much.
0:28:02 > 0:28:03APPLAUSE
0:28:05 > 0:28:08I hope you can join us next time for the second semifinal
0:28:08 > 0:28:12but, until then, it's goodbye from St John's College Cambridge.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15- Goodbye.- And it's goodbye from Keble College Oxford.- Goodbye.
0:28:15 > 0:28:16And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.