0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:22Christmas University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:29Hello. Last time,
0:00:29 > 0:00:32we saw the team of graduates from Keble College, Oxford, take
0:00:32 > 0:00:37the first spot in the final of this year's festive series for grown-ups.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40Two more teams of alumni return tonight in the hope
0:00:40 > 0:00:42of getting their hands on the second place.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44Now, the team from University College London achieved
0:00:44 > 0:00:47the second-highest winning score of the first round,
0:00:47 > 0:00:52beating Leicester University 175-45.
0:00:52 > 0:00:54They were impressively quick off the mark on Jane Austen
0:00:54 > 0:00:57and Samuel Barber and they proved they could
0:00:57 > 0:01:00find their way around Milton Keynes blindfolded.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03So the team returns unchanged and includes a correspondent whose
0:01:03 > 0:01:0830-year career has taken him from El Salvador to the Middle East,
0:01:08 > 0:01:11a philosopher noted for his books for a general readership,
0:01:11 > 0:01:14their captain is a professor and consultant rheumatologist
0:01:14 > 0:01:16and has been named one of the most influential
0:01:16 > 0:01:18people in medicine in 2017,
0:01:18 > 0:01:22and finally, we have a Bafta-winning composer and broadcaster.
0:01:22 > 0:01:26Let's meet the University College London team again.
0:01:26 > 0:01:27Hello, I'm Jeremy Bowen.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30I graduated from UCL in 1982 with a degree in history,
0:01:30 > 0:01:34and after that, I joined the BBC, where I still work.
0:01:34 > 0:01:36And I'm the Middle East editor.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38Hello, I'm Julian Baggini.
0:01:38 > 0:01:41I got my PhD in philosophy from UCL in 1996
0:01:41 > 0:01:44and now I'm a freelance writer and philosopher.
0:01:44 > 0:01:45And this is their captain.
0:01:45 > 0:01:47I'm Jane Dacre.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50I graduated in medicine from UCL in 1980.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53I'm a physician and president of the Royal College of physicians.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55Hello, I'm Jessica Curry.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59I graduated in 1994 with a degree in English literature and language.
0:01:59 > 0:02:03And now I'm a composer and presenter on Classic FM.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06APPLAUSE
0:02:07 > 0:02:09Their opponents tonight are all graduates
0:02:09 > 0:02:11of the University of Reading,
0:02:11 > 0:02:14who won their place in the semifinals in the dying
0:02:14 > 0:02:16seconds of the first round
0:02:16 > 0:02:20when a last-gasp starter took their score to 155.
0:02:20 > 0:02:24Their Catholic strengths included the works of Sir Humphrey Davy
0:02:24 > 0:02:26and the ditties of George Formby.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28Playing again tonight are an evolutionary anthropologist,
0:02:28 > 0:02:31with particular expertise in human relationships.
0:02:31 > 0:02:35A presenter on BBC's Spring-, Autumn- and Winterwatch.
0:02:35 > 0:02:38Their captain is a former journalist
0:02:38 > 0:02:41who has turned to politics in the name of women's rights.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44And then a plant pathologist and bestselling gardening writer.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47Let's meet the Reading team for a second time.
0:02:47 > 0:02:48Hello, I'm Anna Machin.
0:02:48 > 0:02:53I graduated with a PhD in archaeology from Reading in 2006.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56Today, I'm an academic science writer and broadcaster.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58Hello, I'm Martin Hughes-Games.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01I got a degree in zoology back in 1978
0:03:01 > 0:03:03and I'm now a wildlife presenter.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05And this is their captain.
0:03:05 > 0:03:06Hello, I'm Sophie Walker.
0:03:06 > 0:03:10I graduated in 1993 in English and French.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12I worked for Reuters for nearly 20 years,
0:03:12 > 0:03:14then became a disability rights activist.
0:03:14 > 0:03:16And I now lead Britain's newest political party,
0:03:16 > 0:03:18the Women's Equality Party.
0:03:18 > 0:03:20Hello, I'm Pippa Greenwood
0:03:20 > 0:03:24and I got my masters degree in crop protection from Reading
0:03:24 > 0:03:27in the 1980s, and I'm now a gardening broadcaster and writer.
0:03:27 > 0:03:30APPLAUSE
0:03:32 > 0:03:34Well, you all know the rules, I hope.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37So fingers on the buzzers. Here is your first starter for ten.
0:03:37 > 0:03:41"For the greatness, for the riches and for the excellent seat,
0:03:41 > 0:03:44"it far exceeded any of the world, at least
0:03:44 > 0:03:48"of so much of the world as is known to the Spanish nation."
0:03:48 > 0:03:51These words of Sir Walter Raleigh refer to which legendary
0:03:51 > 0:03:54settlement known by a two-word Spanish name?
0:03:55 > 0:03:57El Dorado.
0:03:57 > 0:03:58Correct.
0:04:01 > 0:04:05Three questions for your bonuses, UCL, on short seasonal films.
0:04:05 > 0:04:07Firstly, for five points...
0:04:07 > 0:04:10In a short film of 1930, what is the two-word name of Laurel
0:04:10 > 0:04:13and Hardy's dog, whom the pair attempt to
0:04:13 > 0:04:16hide from their landlord on a snowy winter's night?
0:04:18 > 0:04:20THEY CONFER
0:04:23 > 0:04:25THEY CHUCKLE
0:04:27 > 0:04:30They said two words. Two words.
0:04:31 > 0:04:34- White Spot?- No, it was Laughing Gravy,
0:04:34 > 0:04:37which was also the title of the film.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40Featuring two British performers and having held the world record for
0:04:40 > 0:04:43the most frequently repeated TV programme,
0:04:43 > 0:04:46what is the English title of the short film
0:04:46 > 0:04:50of 1963 which is now a fixture in the Christmas TV schedules
0:04:50 > 0:04:52of several European countries?
0:04:52 > 0:04:54THEY CONFER
0:04:54 > 0:04:56Dinner For One.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58- Dinner For One.- Correct.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01Produced by Fred Quimby, released in 1941,
0:05:01 > 0:05:04running a little over eight minutes and nominated for an Oscar,
0:05:04 > 0:05:09The Night Before Christmas features which two enduring belligerents?
0:05:09 > 0:05:12THEY CONFER
0:05:12 > 0:05:15- Tom and Jerry?- Correct. APPLAUSE
0:05:15 > 0:05:16Ten points for this.
0:05:16 > 0:05:20Which two vowels begin the common names of Avena sativa
0:05:20 > 0:05:24and Quercus robur as well as words meaning a kiln for drying hops
0:05:24 > 0:05:27and a fertile spot in a desert?
0:05:31 > 0:05:33- No, I'm sorry...- O-A.
0:05:33 > 0:05:34O-A is correct, but next time...
0:05:34 > 0:05:38As it's Christmas, I'll let you off that hesitation.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40But if you buzz in future, you must answer immediately.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42O-A is right.
0:05:42 > 0:05:43So here are your bonuses.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46They're on UNESCO World Heritage Sites
0:05:46 > 0:05:47in northern Italy.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50First of all, designated a World Heritage Site in 1997,
0:05:50 > 0:05:54the world's first botanical university garden was created
0:05:54 > 0:05:56in which city in 1545?
0:05:56 > 0:05:58The city is also the setting for much of Shakespeare's
0:05:58 > 0:06:00The Taming Of The Shrew.
0:06:01 > 0:06:04THEY CONFER
0:06:11 > 0:06:12Padua.
0:06:12 > 0:06:15- Padua.- Padua is correct. Yes.
0:06:15 > 0:06:17In its joint listing with neighbouring Sabbioneta,
0:06:17 > 0:06:21which city in Lombardy is described by UNESCO as embodying
0:06:21 > 0:06:25the ideals of the Renaissance as fostered by the Gonzaga family?
0:06:25 > 0:06:29In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo flees there after killing Tybalt.
0:06:30 > 0:06:33THEY CONFER
0:06:33 > 0:06:35Mantua?
0:06:39 > 0:06:41No, Verona is...
0:06:43 > 0:06:46- Mantua.- Mantua is correct.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49Which city's UNESCO listing describes it as an outstanding
0:06:49 > 0:06:52example of a military stronghold?
0:06:52 > 0:06:55In an early play by Shakespeare, it is the home of Valentine
0:06:55 > 0:06:56and Proteus.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00THEY CONFER
0:07:04 > 0:07:06- Military stronghold. - Sorry?- Military stronghold.
0:07:06 > 0:07:10THEY CONFER
0:07:11 > 0:07:13SHE CHUCKLES
0:07:13 > 0:07:15- Is it Florence?- No, it's Verona.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17- Oh!- Ten points for this.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20Which institution operated between the fourth century BC and the sixth
0:07:20 > 0:07:25century AD when it was closed on the orders of the Emperor Justinian?
0:07:25 > 0:07:27It early leaders or scholarchs included
0:07:27 > 0:07:31Xenocrates and Polemo as successors to Plato.
0:07:33 > 0:07:34The Academy.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36The Academy is correct. Yes.
0:07:37 > 0:07:38Plato's Academy.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41Your bonuses are on scientific terminology, UCL.
0:07:41 > 0:07:45In each case, identify the word from the definition.
0:07:45 > 0:07:48The answers all begin with the same three letters.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51Firstly, in geology, the movement of the edge of a tectonic plate
0:07:51 > 0:07:54into the mantle beneath an adjacent plate.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57THEY CONFER
0:08:00 > 0:08:02Tectonic?
0:08:04 > 0:08:07- Tectonic?- No, it's subduction.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10Secondly, in ecology, an adjective describing
0:08:10 > 0:08:14a marine organism that exists near to or just below the shore.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19THEY CONFER
0:08:19 > 0:08:22- What's the...?- Sub...
0:08:22 > 0:08:26THEY CONFER
0:08:28 > 0:08:30- Come along!- Sub aqua?
0:08:30 > 0:08:31No, it's sublittoral.
0:08:31 > 0:08:34They all knew in Reading!
0:08:34 > 0:08:38Finally, in biochemistry, a reactant that is acted on by an enzyme
0:08:38 > 0:08:40or other catalyst?
0:08:40 > 0:08:42- Substrate?- That is correct, yes.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46We're going to take a picture round now.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48For your picture starter, you're going to see a map
0:08:48 > 0:08:51on which a city has been marked. Ten points if you can name the city.
0:08:58 > 0:09:00Er...
0:09:00 > 0:09:02- No. Well, I'll...- Hesitation.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05- What?- Shanghai.- Certainly not.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07No. OK.
0:09:07 > 0:09:08Reading.
0:09:08 > 0:09:10Kamchatka?
0:09:10 > 0:09:11No, it's Vladivostok.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14So we'll take the picture bonuses in a moment or two.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16In the meantime, here's another starter question.
0:09:16 > 0:09:20The musical motif D, E flat, C, B
0:09:20 > 0:09:24is particularly associated with which 20th-century composer?
0:09:24 > 0:09:28It's based on a Germanic rendering of his first initial
0:09:28 > 0:09:31and the first three letters of his surname, with E flat
0:09:31 > 0:09:36and B transposed from the letters S and H respectively.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41Delibes?
0:09:41 > 0:09:42Nope.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44Reading?
0:09:44 > 0:09:48- Shostakovich?- Shostakovich is correct, yes. Well done.
0:09:51 > 0:09:54Right, so we go back to the picture bonuses for you, Reading.
0:09:54 > 0:09:56Vladivostok you saw in that first map.
0:09:56 > 0:10:00It's the principal eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway.
0:10:00 > 0:10:02Your picture bonuses are three more stops on that route.
0:10:02 > 0:10:05As it's Christmas, we'll give you a helping hand.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08You'll see the city names in Cyrillic as well!
0:10:08 > 0:10:09- THEY GROAN - You're too generous!
0:10:09 > 0:10:12Five points for each you can work out. Firstly...
0:10:20 > 0:10:23THEY CONFER
0:10:24 > 0:10:26St Petersburg.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29It's nowhere near St Petersburg! No, that's Novosibirsk.
0:10:29 > 0:10:30Secondly...
0:10:32 > 0:10:34Don't tell me to say St Petersburg again!
0:10:34 > 0:10:36- I'm not going to say St Petersburg. - THEY LAUGH
0:10:38 > 0:10:41- MARTIN:- No, I've no idea, too much in the middle.
0:10:41 > 0:10:42Pass.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44That's Yekaterinburg. And finally...
0:10:47 > 0:10:49- THEY LAUGH - I don't know!
0:10:49 > 0:10:51Do you want to keep your thinking face on a bit longer?
0:10:51 > 0:10:53- MARTIN:- Try St Petersburg again...
0:10:53 > 0:10:56- Do we think it's St Petersburg? - Try St Petersburg, you may as well.
0:10:56 > 0:10:57St Petersburg.
0:10:57 > 0:10:59Again, that's in completely the wrong place.
0:10:59 > 0:11:00No, it's Nizhny Novgorod.
0:11:00 > 0:11:03Oh, of course!
0:11:03 > 0:11:04Of course it is!
0:11:04 > 0:11:07- Of course it's Novgorod.- So familiar with Cyrillic over there.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09Right, ten points for this.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11Named after a 19th-century German physiologist,
0:11:11 > 0:11:14Schwann cells occur in which system of the human...
0:11:14 > 0:11:16The nervous system.
0:11:16 > 0:11:17Correct, well done.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23Your bonuses, Reading, are on the works of Margaret Atwood.
0:11:23 > 0:11:27In each case, give the title of the novel from the description.
0:11:27 > 0:11:31Firstly, a novel of 1996, based on the true story of a maid
0:11:31 > 0:11:33convicted of the murder of her employers.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36A television adaptation by Sarah Polley and Mary Harron
0:11:36 > 0:11:38began in September 2017.
0:11:38 > 0:11:40Alias Grace.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42Correct. Secondly, the winner of the Booker Prize in 2000,
0:11:42 > 0:11:45the novel is set in Ontario in the 1930s and '40s,
0:11:45 > 0:11:50which tells the story of the sisters Iris and Laura Chase.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53Its title is the name of a fictional science-fiction novel
0:11:53 > 0:11:55that is central to the plot.
0:11:56 > 0:11:57Oryx and Crake?
0:11:59 > 0:12:00I don't know.
0:12:00 > 0:12:02THEY CONFER
0:12:05 > 0:12:07Is it Oryx and Crake?
0:12:07 > 0:12:09No, it's The Blind Assassin.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11And finally, published in 2003,
0:12:11 > 0:12:14the first book in a post-apocalyptic trilogy.
0:12:14 > 0:12:18Its title refers to the two close friends of the protagonist, Snowman.
0:12:21 > 0:12:23I think it might be that one!
0:12:25 > 0:12:27- Shall I give it a go? - Yeah, give it a go.
0:12:27 > 0:12:31We're just going to say the same answers for everything twice!
0:12:31 > 0:12:33Is that one Oryx and Crake?
0:12:33 > 0:12:35Yes, it is! Ten points for this.
0:12:35 > 0:12:37April 2017 marked
0:12:37 > 0:12:39the 100th birthday of which architect?
0:12:39 > 0:12:42Originally specialising in urban redevelopment,
0:12:42 > 0:12:45he later became noted for a series of commissions for museums
0:12:45 > 0:12:49and art galleries, including the Pyramid of the Louvre courtyard.
0:12:52 > 0:12:53IM Pei.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55Correct.
0:12:56 > 0:12:58These bonuses will give you the lead.
0:12:58 > 0:12:59They are on tears.
0:12:59 > 0:13:02What Latin derived name is given to the tear glands which secrete
0:13:02 > 0:13:06the watery fluid that is the main constituent of human tears?
0:13:06 > 0:13:07Lacrimal ducts.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09Lacrimal glands is correct, yes.
0:13:09 > 0:13:12Lachrimae, or Seven Tears, is a work of 1604
0:13:12 > 0:13:14by which English composer?
0:13:14 > 0:13:16At the time, he was a lute player
0:13:16 > 0:13:18in the court of Christian IV of Denmark.
0:13:21 > 0:13:22A famous lute player...
0:13:24 > 0:13:27THEY CONFER
0:13:31 > 0:13:32Purcell?
0:13:32 > 0:13:33No, John Dowland.
0:13:33 > 0:13:36And finally, Lacryma Christi is a wine traditionally produced
0:13:36 > 0:13:40from grapes grown on the slopes of which mountain
0:13:40 > 0:13:42in the Italian region of Campagna?
0:13:43 > 0:13:44- Etna?- Is it Etna?
0:13:44 > 0:13:45Etna.
0:13:45 > 0:13:46No, Mount Vesuvius.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48Ten points for this.
0:13:48 > 0:13:49Born in Bavaria in 1789,
0:13:49 > 0:13:53which physicist gives his name to a law stating that the current
0:13:53 > 0:13:56through a conductor between two points is directly
0:13:56 > 0:14:00proportional to the voltage across the two points?
0:14:06 > 0:14:07Hertz?
0:14:07 > 0:14:09No, anyone like to buzz from UCL?
0:14:09 > 0:14:11You may not confer, one of you can buzz.
0:14:12 > 0:14:13Ohm?
0:14:13 > 0:14:15Ohm is correct, yes.
0:14:16 > 0:14:20Your bonuses are on the fashion designer Rei Kawakubo.
0:14:20 > 0:14:22Established in 1969,
0:14:22 > 0:14:25what is the name of Kawakubo's principal high-fashion label?
0:14:25 > 0:14:28Often known by its initials, CDG,
0:14:28 > 0:14:30the French phrase reflects her intention
0:14:30 > 0:14:33to offer women the same mobility and comfort as men.
0:14:33 > 0:14:35Comme des Garcons.
0:14:35 > 0:14:36Comme des Garcons.
0:14:36 > 0:14:38Comme des Garcons is correct.
0:14:38 > 0:14:43In 1997, Kawakubo provided costume design for the dance piece Scenario
0:14:43 > 0:14:47by which US choreographer, who died in 2009?
0:14:50 > 0:14:52Um... Mere Cunningham?
0:14:52 > 0:14:53No, I don't know, just...
0:14:53 > 0:14:54Say that.
0:14:54 > 0:14:56Mere Cunningham?
0:14:56 > 0:14:59You've got the right surname, yes, it's Merce Cunningham.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02And finally, five points for this.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04Featuring garments with unflattering padding,
0:15:04 > 0:15:07Kawakubo's controversial 1997 collection
0:15:07 > 0:15:10Body Meets Dress, Dress Meets Body is often referred to
0:15:10 > 0:15:13by what name, that of a character in French literature?
0:15:16 > 0:15:20THEY CONFER
0:15:22 > 0:15:25The Hunchback of Notre Dame?
0:15:25 > 0:15:26- Go for it!- Quasimodo.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28Correct!
0:15:31 > 0:15:33We're going to take a music round now.
0:15:33 > 0:15:34For your music starter,
0:15:34 > 0:15:36you'll hear part of an opera by a Russian composer.
0:15:36 > 0:15:39Ten points if you can identify the composer.
0:15:39 > 0:15:42MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:48 > 0:15:51Oh, Lord help me! Shostakovich?
0:15:51 > 0:15:54Oh, Jeremy, don't look at me like that!
0:15:54 > 0:15:55LAUGHTER
0:15:55 > 0:15:58I'm sorry, you're wrong.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00Right, you can hear a little more, Reading.
0:16:00 > 0:16:04MUSIC CONTINUES
0:16:13 > 0:16:15It's part of Rimsky-Korsakov's Snow Maiden.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17So, music bonuses in a moment or two.
0:16:17 > 0:16:19Ten points at stake for this starter question.
0:16:19 > 0:16:20Fingers on buzzers, please.
0:16:20 > 0:16:25What is the common name of the genus of bats known as Rhinolophus,
0:16:25 > 0:16:27after the distinctive shape of its nasal...
0:16:27 > 0:16:29Horseshoe bats.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31Horseshoe bats is right.
0:16:33 > 0:16:36You heard the final aria from The Snow Maiden,
0:16:36 > 0:16:39in which the title figure's love for a human melts her heart
0:16:39 > 0:16:42and brings spring to the land.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44With the nights now starting to get a little lighter,
0:16:44 > 0:16:48your music bonuses are three more works about the coming of spring.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51Name the composer of each for the points. Firstly...
0:16:51 > 0:16:55MUSIC PLAYS
0:17:04 > 0:17:07THEY CONFER
0:17:13 > 0:17:15It sounds sort of British, doesn't it?
0:17:16 > 0:17:19THEY CONFER
0:17:22 > 0:17:24Was that Vaughan Williams?
0:17:24 > 0:17:25No, it wasn't.
0:17:25 > 0:17:28It was Delius - On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring.
0:17:28 > 0:17:29Secondly...
0:17:29 > 0:17:32MUSIC PLAYS
0:17:36 > 0:17:38It sounds like Prokofiev...
0:17:38 > 0:17:40Yes, it does...
0:17:43 > 0:17:45So...
0:17:45 > 0:17:46No, you...
0:17:46 > 0:17:48You're the captain! Off you go.
0:17:48 > 0:17:49Go on, quick!
0:17:49 > 0:17:51Are you nominating, or are you answering?
0:17:51 > 0:17:53- Sorry, I'm nominating Martin. - Prokofiev.
0:17:53 > 0:17:56No, that's Mussorgsky - it's The Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
0:17:56 > 0:17:59from Pictures At An Exhibition.
0:17:59 > 0:18:00Listen up for the last one, then.
0:18:02 > 0:18:06MUSIC PLAYS
0:18:14 > 0:18:15THEY CONFER
0:18:15 > 0:18:18- Who is it? - # We don't know the answer... #
0:18:18 > 0:18:21- Is it Strauss? - It sounds like Strauss.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23Do you know which one?
0:18:23 > 0:18:25- Strauss.- Which one?
0:18:25 > 0:18:26Oh!
0:18:26 > 0:18:28One of them.
0:18:28 > 0:18:30Well, that's not precise enough.
0:18:30 > 0:18:31It's Johann Strauss The Younger.
0:18:31 > 0:18:33So I can't give you the points.
0:18:33 > 0:18:36Right, ten points at stake for this one, if you get it.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38Which six-letter word links a European head of state
0:18:38 > 0:18:42elected in May 2017 with a diacritical mark
0:18:42 > 0:18:44consisting of a straight horizontal line...
0:18:46 > 0:18:47Macron.
0:18:47 > 0:18:49Macron is correct. Yes.
0:18:51 > 0:18:55You get a set of bonuses on a family of plants, UCL.
0:18:55 > 0:18:59The cabbage family is often known by the name of which plant whose
0:18:59 > 0:19:03ground seeds yield a pungent condiment?
0:19:03 > 0:19:06Species include Sinapis alba.
0:19:08 > 0:19:12- Cabbage...- Got to be mustard. - Yeah.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15- Mustard?- Mustard is correct. Yes.
0:19:15 > 0:19:19Isatis tinctoria has what four-letter common name?
0:19:19 > 0:19:24Its leaves yield a blue crystalline compound known as indigotin.
0:19:27 > 0:19:28THEY CONFER
0:19:28 > 0:19:30Indigo, so...
0:19:30 > 0:19:32Cornflower?
0:19:35 > 0:19:36Corn?
0:19:36 > 0:19:37No, it's woad.
0:19:37 > 0:19:41What is the common name of plants of the genus Lunaria, known
0:19:41 > 0:19:46for their translucent paper-like seed pods used in flower arranging?
0:19:46 > 0:19:48THEY CONFER
0:19:48 > 0:19:50..really popular in the '70s.
0:19:53 > 0:19:56- Lantern flowers?- No, it's honesty.
0:19:56 > 0:19:58Ten points for this.
0:19:58 > 0:19:59Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:19:59 > 0:20:02Using standard dictionary spellings,
0:20:02 > 0:20:05how many times does the letter A for Alpha occur
0:20:05 > 0:20:10in the sentence "Intelligent existence is definitely transitory"?
0:20:13 > 0:20:15Two?
0:20:15 > 0:20:16No.
0:20:18 > 0:20:20- Once.- One is correct.
0:20:20 > 0:20:21In "transitory". Yes.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26I don't know what you're laughing for!
0:20:26 > 0:20:28Your bonuses are on shared surnames.
0:20:28 > 0:20:30In each case, give the surname
0:20:30 > 0:20:32shared by the two figures described, Reading.
0:20:32 > 0:20:37The British Foreign Secretary, firstly, from 1997 to 2001
0:20:37 > 0:20:40and England's leading run scorer in Test cricket.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44THEY CONFER
0:20:44 > 0:20:45Red beard?
0:20:50 > 0:20:52Robin Cook. Robin Cook.
0:20:52 > 0:20:54- Cook.- Cook is correct.
0:20:54 > 0:20:56Robin and Alastair. Yes.
0:20:56 > 0:21:00And secondly, the British Foreign Secretary from '77 to '79
0:21:00 > 0:21:03and a Welsh founder of the co-operative movement?
0:21:05 > 0:21:08THEY CONFER
0:21:13 > 0:21:16- Shall we try Jones? - Jones is good, yeah.
0:21:17 > 0:21:19Go on.
0:21:19 > 0:21:20Just pick one.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22Jones? Jones.
0:21:22 > 0:21:25- Jones? No, it's Owen. David and Richard Owen.- Oh!
0:21:25 > 0:21:29And finally, the British Foreign Secretary from 2006 to 2007 and the
0:21:29 > 0:21:34Irish winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature?
0:21:36 > 0:21:39THEY CONFER
0:21:39 > 0:21:42- Beckett?- 2006 to 2007?
0:21:42 > 0:21:46- Beckett.- It is. Margaret and Samuel Beckett. Well done.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48Right. We're going to take a picture round now.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50For your picture starter, you will see a painting.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52Ten points if you can identify the artist.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01No, you all look silent.
0:22:01 > 0:22:03I'll tell you, it's by Nicolas Poussin.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05Ten points for this starter question
0:22:05 > 0:22:09and picture bonuses coming up with whoever gets it right.
0:22:09 > 0:22:12In which bone of the human body is the glenoid cavity?
0:22:12 > 0:22:16It holds the head of the humerus in a...
0:22:16 > 0:22:19- Scapula.- Scapula or shoulder blade is correct. Yes.
0:22:22 > 0:22:25So we go back to the picture round for your bonuses.
0:22:25 > 0:22:29UCL, you saw Nicolas Poussin's Winter, or The Flood,
0:22:29 > 0:22:32one of a series of paintings representing the four seasons.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35Your picture bonuses are three more paintings of winter
0:22:35 > 0:22:38taken from series on the same theme.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41Again, in each case, simply name the artist.
0:22:41 > 0:22:42Firstly, for five points...
0:22:44 > 0:22:45Burne-Jones?
0:22:45 > 0:22:48THEY CONFER
0:22:50 > 0:22:52Aubrey Beardsley, definitely.
0:22:52 > 0:22:57- Aubrey Beardsley. - No, that's Mucha. Secondly...
0:22:58 > 0:23:01Lowry?
0:23:03 > 0:23:05- Lowry?- No, that's Pissarro.
0:23:05 > 0:23:06And finally...
0:23:08 > 0:23:12THEY CONFER
0:23:12 > 0:23:16Donkey on a hill...by... I've no idea.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20I think we'd better have an answer here, please.
0:23:20 > 0:23:21Yeah, sorry.
0:23:21 > 0:23:22It's Goya.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24Ten points for this.
0:23:24 > 0:23:29In which European city are the Casa Calvet, the Casa Batllo
0:23:29 > 0:23:32and the Casa Mila, houses built in the first
0:23:32 > 0:23:36decade of the 20th century to designs by Antoni Gaudi?
0:23:37 > 0:23:40- Barcelona.- Correct.
0:23:42 > 0:23:45You get three questions, UCL, on French institutions.
0:23:45 > 0:23:49What single-word name is commonly given to the detective
0:23:49 > 0:23:52branch of the French police force initiated in the 19th century
0:23:52 > 0:23:54by Francois Vidocq?
0:23:54 > 0:23:58THEY CONFER
0:23:58 > 0:24:00- Surete?- Correct.
0:24:00 > 0:24:02What name was historically given to the Paris stock
0:24:02 > 0:24:05exchange before it merged with those of Brussels
0:24:05 > 0:24:08and Amsterdam to form the Euronext exchange in 2000?
0:24:09 > 0:24:11- THEY CONFER - Bourse.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13- Bourse.- Correct.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16What is the name of the area located on the left bank of the Seine
0:24:16 > 0:24:18that has becomes anonymous with
0:24:18 > 0:24:20the Foreign Ministry of the French Government?
0:24:20 > 0:24:23Quai d'Orsay.
0:24:23 > 0:24:24Quai d'Orsay.
0:24:24 > 0:24:26Quai d'Orsay is correct. Three minutes to go, ten points for this.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28What number links the following symphonies -
0:24:28 > 0:24:30Glass's Plutonian Ode,
0:24:30 > 0:24:32Haydn's Morning,
0:24:32 > 0:24:33Mahler's Tragic,
0:24:33 > 0:24:35and Tchaikovsky's Pathetique?
0:24:41 > 0:24:42Seven.
0:24:42 > 0:24:45- It's a bad night you, isn't it! - I've got a cold, Jeremy.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48A classical music specialist!
0:24:48 > 0:24:51No. Anyone like to buzz from Reading?
0:24:51 > 0:24:55- Five?- No, it's six or sixth.
0:24:55 > 0:24:56All right, ten points for this.
0:24:56 > 0:24:59A mid-19th century vicar of the Devon Parish of Swimbridge,
0:24:59 > 0:25:02known as "the sporting parson",
0:25:02 > 0:25:06gives his name to which breed of dog...
0:25:06 > 0:25:10- Jack Russell. - Jack Russell is correct. Well done.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13These bonuses are on shorter words
0:25:13 > 0:25:17that can be made using any of the 12 letters of the term "winter sports".
0:25:17 > 0:25:19In each case, give the word from the definition.
0:25:19 > 0:25:23Firstly, a muscle that tightens or stretches a part of the body.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28THEY CONFER
0:25:28 > 0:25:31- Sinew?- Try sinew.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33- Sinew?- No, it's a tensor.
0:25:33 > 0:25:35Secondly, a small rear gate,
0:25:35 > 0:25:38particularly one in a fortification.
0:25:38 > 0:25:39Back door?
0:25:42 > 0:25:46- I'm not saying that! Don't make me say that.- No, no, no.
0:25:46 > 0:25:48THEY CONFER
0:25:48 > 0:25:50Small rear gate...
0:25:53 > 0:25:55Shall we have an answer?
0:25:57 > 0:25:58Pass.
0:25:58 > 0:25:59It's postern,
0:25:59 > 0:26:03And finally, a clever quick reply to an insult or criticism.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05Riposte?
0:26:05 > 0:26:06Riposte.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08Riposte is right. One and a half minutes to go,
0:26:08 > 0:26:10and there is ten points at stake for this.
0:26:10 > 0:26:14What surname is shared by Lucy, Peter, Susan and Edmund,
0:26:14 > 0:26:18the protagonists of The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe...
0:26:18 > 0:26:21- Pevensey. - Pevensey is correct, yes.
0:26:23 > 0:26:28These bonuses are on the author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31Viewed on YouTube over 4 million times, what is the
0:26:31 > 0:26:36five-word title of Adichie's 2012 talk at TedX Euston?
0:26:36 > 0:26:40It also has been published at as a book-length essay of the same name.
0:26:40 > 0:26:42We Should All Be Feminists.
0:26:42 > 0:26:43Thank you.
0:26:43 > 0:26:48In September 2016, the designer Maria Grazia Chiuri included
0:26:48 > 0:26:51a T-shirt bearing the words "we should all be feminists" as part
0:26:51 > 0:26:55of her first show as creative director of which fashion house?
0:26:55 > 0:26:57I think it's Dior.
0:26:58 > 0:27:00- Dior.- Correct.
0:27:00 > 0:27:03Which US singer including included excerpts from Adichie's
0:27:03 > 0:27:07We Should All Be Feminists on her 2013 song Flawless?
0:27:07 > 0:27:10Beyonce? I think it's Beyonce.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12Yeah, I do.
0:27:12 > 0:27:14- Beyonce.- Beyonce is correct.
0:27:14 > 0:27:15Ten points for this.
0:27:15 > 0:27:20Consisting of the aleurone and pericarp, what common name is given
0:27:20 > 0:27:24to pieces of grain husk separated from flour after milling?
0:27:26 > 0:27:29- Bran?- Bran is correct, yes.
0:27:29 > 0:27:30You take the lead.
0:27:30 > 0:27:33GONG And that's the gong.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36THEY WHOOP UCL have 125...
0:27:41 > 0:27:43I thought at one point you had decided, Reading,
0:27:43 > 0:27:45you didn't want to come back any more!
0:27:45 > 0:27:47Congratulations to you.
0:27:47 > 0:27:50UCL, well, you led for most of that match
0:27:50 > 0:27:52and you were pipped at the post.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54Thank you very much for joining us. I have to say good night to you.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57Reading, we shall look forward to seeing you in the final.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59Congratulations to you.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01I hope you can join us next time for the final.
0:28:01 > 0:28:04But until then, it's goodbye from University College London...
0:28:04 > 0:28:05Goodbye.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07It's goodbye from Reading University...
0:28:07 > 0:28:09- Goodbye!- And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.