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Christmas University Challenge.
Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
Happy New Year!
The past seven matches in this short seasonal contest
have seen 14 teams of alumni fight for the honour of the university
or college that turned them into the shining examples they are today.
Happily, none of them completely disgraced themselves,
and now the four winning teams with the highest scores are perhaps
rather surprised to find themselves
returning to compete in the semifinals.
The team from Bristol University earned 150 points to the 100 scored
by Brasenose College, Oxford in their first-round fixture.
Their line-up remains unchanged and includes
a science journalist and author,
a multi-award-winning playwright,
a war correspondent and journalist,
and a broadcaster and professor of geoscience.
Let's meet the Bristol team again.
Hello, I'm Philip Ball.
I graduated from Bristol in 1988 with a PhD in physics
and I'm now a writer, journalist and broadcaster.
Hello, I'm Laura Wade. I graduated in 1999 with a degree in drama,
and I'm now a playwright.
And this is their captain. Hello, I'm Misha Glenny.
I graduated from Bristol in 1980
with a degree in drama with German as a minor subject,
and I'm a writer who has written, amongst other things,
a history of the modern Balkans.
Hi, I'm Iain Stewart. I got a PhD in geology from Bristol in 1990,
went on to make documentaries about the planet,
and I'm now Professor of Geoscience at the University of Plymouth.
APPLAUSE
Now, their opponents are King's College, London,
and we're going to meet again
a broadcaster and materials engineer,
a science journalist and author,
the presenter of Radio 4's Any Answers?
and an Oscar-winning composer.
Their score against Pembroke College, Cambridge was also
150 points, so on paper at least this promises to be a close match.
Let's ask them to introduce themselves.
Hello, I'm Zoe Laughlin. I did my PhD at King's,
and I'm an artist, designer and materials engineer.
Hello, I'm Angela Saini.
I received a Masters in science and security
from King's College, London in 2008 and now I'm a science journalist.
And their captain. Hello, I'm Anita Anand.
I graduated from King's in 1993 in English, and I am a political
presenter for the BBC and write books about history and politics.
Hello, I'm Anne Dudley.
I was a postgraduate student at King's studying for
a Masters degree in musical analysis and now I'm a musician and composer.
APPLAUSE
Now, the rules are the same as ever, and you know them
like the back of your hand, no doubt, so fingers on buzzers.
Here's your first starter for ten.
Marilyn Monroe, Ian Paisley Senior, David Attenborough
and Harper Lee were all born within a few weeks of which prominent
figure who's reputed to have said, "I have to be seen to be believed"?
Hitler.
Nope.
I'll tell you, Bristol. It's the Queen. Ten points for this.
"The several parts of the structure rose from one another,
"tier on tier. The appearance of the whole resembled that of a theatre."
These words of Diodorus Siculus
refer to which Wonder of the Ancient World?
Its construction is often attributed to Nebuchadnezzar II.
Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
Correct. APPLAUSE
So you get the first set of bonuses.
They're on trees commonly found in Britain.
Identify the tree, please, from the description.
The answer in each case is a five-letter common name.
Firstly, a deciduous conifer distinguished by its knobbly twigs.
Its durable wood has been used
to make telephone poles and railway sleepers.
Larch?
The common or European larch is correct.
Populus tremula, one of the smallest European poplars, secondly.
The specific name tremula refers to the way its leaves can appear
to quiver, as noted by Tennyson in The Lady of Shalott.
It's five letters. Shall I try birch?
Birch?
No, it's aspen. And finally,
Sorbus aucuparia, often known as mountain ash
because of the similarity of the two trees' leaves.
It is often found in upland areas and on rocky slopes.
Any idea?
Have a guess.
Come on.
I'm going to try birch again.
Well, you'd be wrong. It's rowan.
Ten points for this. Give either form of the word
that is the title of an absolutist 17th-century political work
by Sir Robert Filmer or means the predominance of men
in positions of power and influence in society.
Patriarchy.
Patriarchy is correct.
APPLAUSE So you get a set of bonuses, King's.
They're on public figures whose surnames are also locations in
the Pennine fringe of Cheshire.
In each case, give the surname from the description.
Firstly, an artist born in Macclesfield.
His works include a sculpture in the form of an upturned thumb
that was installed on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2016.
David Shrigley.
Correct.
Secondly, a swimmer and broadcaster born in Mansfield.
She won gold medals in the 400 and 800 metre freestyle at
the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
She had a baby... Yes, yes. ..married another swimmer. She did.
Blonde, blonde. Yes.
Erm... What's her name? Not Victoria Pendleton.
She was in the same batch as that.
Pass. We know it, but we can't say it.
Well, it's Rebecca Adlington. That's it!
And finally, a Michelin-starred chef
and television presenter born in 1973.
He's the author of a eponymous book on proper pub food.
That's Tom Kerridge. Tom Kerridge.
Kerridge is correct.
APPLAUSE Right, ten points for this.
Associated with both the German town of Cleves and a boat drawn by swans,
which legendary German knight was, according to some accounts, the son
of Parsifal, the hero of the Grail myth,
and is the subject of an opera by Richard Wagner?
Siegfried.
No. Anyone like to buzz from Bristol?
You may not confer! One of you can buzz.
Lohengrin?
Correct. APPLAUSE
Your bonuses are on a fashion magazine.
Held to be the United States' oldest fashion magazine,
which publication celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2017?
It described itself on the cover of its first issue as
"a repository of fashion, pleasure and instruction".
Harper's?
Harper's Bazaar.
Correct.
Which photographer began his career in fashion at Harper's Bazaar
in 1944, where he served as staff photographer for 20 years?
He later became known for his large-scale portrait of
subjects from the American west, including blue-collar workers,
cowboys and migrants.
Phil?
I know this. I can see the pictures. Erm...
God! It's never coming.
No, I think we're going to pass.
That was Richard Avedon.
And finally, "Why don't you rinse your blonde child's hair in
"dead champagne to keep it gold, as they do in France?"
This was among the advice offered by which influential fashion
editor during her 25 years at Harper's Bazaar?
Not Wintour. No, sorry. Erm...
Shall we try her, just in case? It's the only one I can think of.
Anna Wintour.
Diana Vreeland was the answer.
We're going to take a picture round.
For your picture starter, you're going to see the title of a
well-known English novel in German translation
together with the original date of publication in book form.
For ten points, give me the original English title.
War Of The Worlds.
The War Of The Worlds by HG Wells is correct.
APPLAUSE
Following on from The War Of The Worlds,
for your picture bonuses you're going to see the titles of
three more English-language novels that marked anniversaries in 2018
again translated into other European languages.
This time, I need both the precise English title and the author.
And again, you'll be given the year of original publication to help you.
Firstly...
Er, is it Breakfast At Tiffany's by Truman Capote?
It is, yes. Breakfast With Diamonds, literally, there. Secondly...
Come on, let's have it, please. Er, is it Cats' Eyes by JG Ballard?
No, it's Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood. And finally...
About A Boy by Nick Hornby.
Correct. Right, ten points for this. APPLAUSE
Founded in 1877 by Stilson Hutchins,
which newspaper in 2017 adopted the slogan "Democracy dies in darkness"?
Edited since 2012 by Marty Baron, its journalists...
Is it the Washington Post?
It is, yes. APPLAUSE
Your bonuses this time, Bristol, are on mythology.
In each case, name the figure described.
All three answers end with the same three letters.
Firstly, a trusted friend of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey.
His name is used generally to mean an advisor or guide.
Er, I'm just going to guess Tiresias.
No, it's Mentor. Secondly, a son of Neleus and Chloris
spared from death by Hercules.
His name has become a byword for wisdom and old age.
Hector, I think.
I'll try it.
Hector.
No, that's Nestor.
And finally, a Greek who took part in the Trojan War. In the Iliad,
he's described as having a voice as loud as those of 50 men together.
Hector.
No, that's Stentor. Ohhh!
Right, we're going to take another starter question now.
What name is shared by the elected member for
the Dublin St Patrick's constituency in 1918, the wife of Oscar Wilde,
the lake known in German as the Bodensee and the first name of...?
Constance.
Constance is correct. APPLAUSE
You get a set of bonuses this time on vegetarian literary figures.
"Now I can look you in the eye with a clear conscience":
which German-language author reputedly said those words to
a fish in an aquarium?
His works include The Hunger Artist, published in 1922,
two years before his death.
Is it Heinrich Mann?
No, it's Franz Kafka.
In a novel of 1818, which vegetarian author has a character state,
"I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite;
"acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment"?
It's the writer.
Is it Lolita?
Is it 1919? 1918.
Is it Thomas Hardy?
I'll try Hardy. Lawrence.
Lawrence.
No, it's 1818. It was Mary Shelley, the creature in Frankenstein.
And finally, in his introduction to the Russian translation of
Harold Williams' 1883 book The Ethics Of Diet,
which novelist wrote of his horror at a visit to a slaughterhouse
and the desensitisation of its employees?
Tolstoy.
Tolstoy is correct.
Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
Using a block of sandstone
mounted on a trough of mercury to reduce vibrations,
which test of 1887 has been described as...?
The Michelson-Morley test.
Correct. APPLAUSE
You get three bonuses on a theatre, Bristol.
Located to the south-east of Waterloo Station
and originally named the Royal Coburg,
which theatre marked its 200th anniversary in 2018?
The Old Vic.
The Old Vic is correct.
In 1831, which English actor,
noted for playing Shakespeare's villains,
told the Old Vic audience, "In my life I have never acted to
"such a set of ignorant, unmitigated brutes as I have before me"?
Kean?
Kean? Yeah.
OK. Garrick is earlier. Try Kean. Garrick's earlier, yeah.
Kean.
It was Edmund Kean, yes.
And at the age of 80 and after a 25-year absence from the stage,
which former MP won acclaim playing King Lear in a production
staged at the Old Vic in 2016?
Glenda Jackson.
Correct. APPLAUSE
We're going to take a music round now. For your music starter,
you'll hear a piece of classical music by a Russian composer.
For ten points, all you have to do is give me the composer's name.
PIANO MUSIC PLAYS
Rachmaninoff?
No. You can hear a little more, King's.
MUSIC CONTINUES
Scriabin?
No, it's Prokofiev. It's his Piano Concerto Number 2,
the first movement thereof.
So we'll take the music bonuses in a moment or two.
Ten points for this starter question.
What precise five words appear on the banner that forms part of
Gillian Wearing's statue of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett...?
"Courage speaks to courage."
No, I'm afraid that's not right, and you lose five points.
..suffragist Millicent Fawcett
erected in Parliament Square in 2018?
The statue was commissioned as part of the centenary of
the 1918 Representation of the Peoples Act.
No, the exact words, which was what I had to have - you were nearly
there - it's "Courage calls to courage everywhere". That's it.
So ten points for this starter question.
James Erskine's 2018 film The Ice King
is based on the life of which man?
Curry.
John Curry is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
So, your bonuses are music ones. The piece that you heard was played
in the final of the BBC's 2018 Young Musician Of The Year competition
by the winner, Lauren Zhang.
The competition marked its 40th anniversary in 2018,
so your bonuses are three recordings by past winners,
each playing the piece that won them the title.
I just need the name of the composer each time. Firstly...
CELLO MUSIC PLAYS
JS Bach?
No, that's Edward Elgar's cello concerto, played by Natalie Clein.
Secondly, this Russian composer.
ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
Shostakovich.
That is by Shostakovich, his First Cello Concerto,
played in 2016 by the winner, Sheku Kanneh-Mason.
And finally...
ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
Mendelssohn.
That is Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto,
played by the 2002 winner, Jennifer Pike.
Ten points for this.
Hanga Roa is the largest settlement on which island,
a dependency of Chile in the Pacific Ocean
known in a native language as Rapa Nui?
Easter Island. Easter Island. Oh, sorry, that's you!
Sorry! That was pretty clever.
Correct. Ten points for this.
Your bonuses are on pairs of words that differ only by the
addition of the letters VI- at the beginning of one of them,
for example, KING and VIKING.
In each case, give both words from the descriptions.
Firstly, a conveyance mentioned in a campaign slogan directed at
Richard Nixon in 1968
and an office held by fictional characters including
Charles Primrose and Geraldine Granger.
Geraldine Granger...
It's Tricky Dicky Nixon.
VICTORY and TRICKY?
No, it's not right, is it? No.
Slippery... Slips...
God! This is annoying.
We'll kick ourselves. We don't know.
It's CAR and VICAR.
Geraldine Granger, of course, was the Vicar of Dibley. That's it!
And the question about Nixon was would you buy a used car from him.
Secondly, the common culinary herb Salvia officinalis
and a literary term for a human face.
SAGE... And VISAGE.
SAGE and VISAGE.
Correct. And finally,
the former Mughal capital south-east of Delhi
and the trade name of the drug sildenafil.
AGRA and VIAGRA.
Correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
"Nothing happens in the world that doesn't happen in the East End:"
these words are associated with which artistic partnership?
They've been based in Spitalfields...
Gilbert & George?
Correct. APPLAUSE
Bonuses this time are on footnotes in academic writing.
What four-letter term is used to indicate a word or author
that has just been mentioned? In Latin, it means "the same".
Ibid.
No, it's idem. Oh! Ohhh!
Secondly, what two-letter abbreviation refers readers
to another source for the purpose of comparison?
Cf.
Ct?
- Two letters. - Cm?
Cf. Cf.
Cf.
Cf is correct. And finally,
often written as a four-letter abbreviation,
what term refers to the source cited in the previous reference?
In Latin, it means "in the same place".
Ibid.
Ibid is correct.
APPLAUSE Ten points for this.
For what does the acronym SETI - that's S-E-T-...?
Search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Correct. APPLAUSE
You have a set of bonuses now. They're on a number.
In physics, the dimensionless quantity known as
the fine-structure constant is approximated by the reciprocal
of which three-digit prime number?
137.
137.
Correct.
The A137 crosses which river near Manningtree?
Tracing the Suffolk-Essex border,
it features in paintings by John Constable, who was born nearby.
We must know that. Not me.
No? Think of a river.
Er, we're going to have to say no, I'm afraid.
"No" is not an answer. Stour is the name of the river.
And finally, in the King James Bible,
what are the first five words of Psalm 137?
A lament of the exiled Jewish people,
its words were used in a platinum-selling record of 1978.
What about...?
Oh! By the rivers of Babylon!
By the rivers of Babylon.
Correct. APPLAUSE
We're going to take a picture question now.
For your picture starter, you'll see a painting.
Ten points if you can name the artist.
Turner.
It is Turner, yes. APPLAUSE
So, we follow on from Turner's view of the Blue Rigi
with three more paintings set against the backdrop of the Alps.
Again, in each case I just want the name of the artist. Firstly...
It's sort of Pre-Raphaelite.
- Caravaggio? - No.
Come on, give us a name.
Oh, I don't know.
Er, Lippi.
No, it's Ford Madox Brown, Manfred On The Jungfrau. Secondly...
It's Hockney...?
Cezanne?
Cezanne?
No, that's Kirchner's Davos In Winter. And finally...
David?
David, yes, it is. It's his Napoleon Crossing The Alps.
APPLAUSE Right, ten points for this.
In A Free State, The Enigma Of Arrival and A House For Mr Biswas...
VS Naipaul.
Correct. APPLAUSE
These bonuses are on five-letter palindromes.
In each case, give the word from the description.
Firstly, in ecology, the plural of a term meaning
natural succession of plant or animal communities.
Natural succession...
No? No.
No. No.
It's seres. Second, and also a plural,
national rulers such as Reza Khan and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
Shah?
The shah, isn't it?
No, it's got to be a palindrome. It'll be aga.
He said it was a plural, so... Aga.
Aga.
No, it's shahs.
Finally, a detection system developed by Robert Watson-Watt
in the 1930s. It uses waves to locate objects.
Radar. Radar.
Radar.
Radar is correct.
Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
The word haptic refers to which sensory system...?
Touch.
Touch is correct. APPLAUSE
These bonuses are on strategic waterways.
Firstly, sharing its name with an island off the coast of Iran,
which strategic channel links the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman?
Straits of Hormuz.
Correct.
One of the world's busiest shipping channels, the Strait of Malacca
separates the Malay Peninsula from which large island?
Sumatra.
Correct.
At its narrowest point, the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait runs between
the Arabian Peninsula and which small country?
Djibouti.
Djibouti is correct.
Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
Although not disclosed
in the original story on which the film is based,
what is the surname of Dorothy in the 1939 screen
version of The Wizard Of Oz?
Gale.
Correct! APPLAUSE
These bonuses are on laughter in Shakespeare, Bristol.
"What is love? Tis not hereafter.
"Present mirth hath present laughter."
In which play by Shakespeare does the clown sing those words?
Is it Lear?
No, that's, erm...
It's a comedy. It's either As You Like It or Twelfth Night.
I think it might be Twelfth Night.
OK.
Twelfth Night.
Correct.
"If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh?"
Which of Shakespeare's characters says those words?
Shylock.
Correct.
"Swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn."
Which of Shakespeare's title characters says those words
shortly before his death?
Macbeth.
Correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
Elected for terms of up to five years,
a vidhan sabha is the lower or sole house of legislature
in states within which Asian federal republic?
India?
India is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
Your bonuses are on Simon Jenkins' 2017 book
Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations.
Firstly, Jenkins awards five stars to four London terminus stations.
One is King's Cross. Name two of the others.
Marylebone, even? Which one? Give me one.
Come on.
Marylebone.
Er, no, it's St Pancras, Paddington and Liverpool Street.
Marylebone only gets three stars.
And secondly, which station
does Jenkins describe as "the grandest of provincial stations"?
It lies close to the birthplaces of George and Robert Stephenson.
Is it Stockton? Darlington? York? York?
York?
No, it's Newcastle.
And finally, five-star stations in Scotland are Glasgow Central
and Wemyss Bay.
The latter is close to the terminal of a ferry to Rothesay on
which island in the Firth of Clyde?
Rothesay...
It's either Bute... Could it be Bute? Bute?
- Could be. Bute? - Yeah. Try it.
Bute.
It is Bute! Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
Which English proverb
is an equivalent of the Greek sending owls to Athens?
Coals to Newcastle?
Coals to Newcastle is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
These bonuses are on titles, Bristol.
In the titles of productions featuring David Bowie,
what three words precede Fell To Earth and Sold The World?
- The Man Who. - The Man Who, yeah.
The Man Who.
Correct.
In the 1956 Alfred Hitchcock film The Man Who Knew Too Much...
GONG
APPLAUSE
Well, King's, congratulations, you broke 100. That's all right!
Whoohoo!
205, Bristol, is a magnificent score.
It's the highest score so far, I think.
We look forward to seeing you in the final, then! Congratulations.
APPLAUSE I hope you can join us next time...
..for the second semifinal, but until then,
it's goodbye from King's College, London... ALL: Goodbye.
..it's goodbye from Bristol University... ALL: Goodbye.
..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye. APPLAUSE
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