Christmas University Challenge.
Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.
APPLAUSE
It's the season of goodwill, I'm told.
So for no good reason,
we're letting students off the hook until the new year.
Instead tonight,
we're playing the first match in our annual series
for alumni of some of the UK's leading universities
and university colleges.
14 teams are competing, each comprising four former students
who, since leaving, have achieved distinction in their chosen field.
They have all very sportingly agreed to compete
for nothing more than the honour of their alma mater.
There is no prize on offer
for whichever team wins the series,
beyond an excuse to look smug as they get first crack
at the mince pies and Botswana's finest sherry.
Playing for Manchester University first
is a five-time Paralympian in wheelchair basketball.
He's also won gold medals
in the Wheelchair Basketball World Championships,
the European Championships,
the European Champions Cup and the Commonwealth Paraplegic Games.
With him, a journalist who writes for the Guardian, the Times,
the Sunday Times Magazine and elsewhere.
He is also a familiar voice on Radio 4 and
a familiar face on The Culture Show and The Review Show,
currently working on a film adaptation of his memoir
of growing up in Luton.
Their captain is Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford
and the University of Sheffield.
He has won RTS, BAFTA and Ivor Novello awards
for his writing for radio, TV, film and theatre, and in 1999,
he was named the UK's Millennium Poet.
Their final team member is an entomologist overseeing
a globally significant collection of between 3 and 4 million specimens
of Diptera, Siphonaptera, Arachnida and Myriapoda.
She has a special interest in medical entomology
and can often be heard on Radio 4, enthusing about her subject.
Let's ask them now to introduce themselves in the time-honoured way.
Hello, I am Sir Philip Craven.
I got a BA honours degree
in Geography in 1972 and now I am the president
of the International Paralympic Committee.
Hello, I'm Sarfraz Manzoor.
I graduated in 1992
with a degree in Economics
and I am now a writer, journalist and broadcaster.
And this is their captain.
Hello, I am Simon Armitage.
I got my MA in Social Policy
in 1988 and I am a poet.
Hello, my name is Erica McAlister.
I graduated in '96 in Environmental Biology
and now I manage the fleas and flies
at the Natural History Museum in London.
APPLAUSE
Now, St Anne's College, Oxford,
was founded as an all-women's institution
and became coeducational in 1979,
though you wouldn't know that from the team playing tonight.
Their first member maintains she wasn't very good at lab work
so decided on a career talking about science rather than doing it.
She now reports on international science research
for the World Service, the Today programme
and for Newsnight.
With her, a historian with an enthusiasm
for popularising her subject.
She has written on Julian of Norwich
and the private lives of Anglo-Saxon saints,
and her broadcasts for BBC Four have covered the Hundred Years' War,
medieval monarchy and Viking art.
Their captain began her career as a physical chemist.
She taught Chemistry in Oxford, Cambridge and London,
and later chaired several health institutions.
She is also an authority on solar energy
and patron of the Rupert Brooke Society.
Their fourth member has been a foreign correspondent
for the BBC and Al Jazeera English.
She's reported from Kosovo and the West Bank,
from Afghanistan shortly after 9/11,
from Cairo during the 2011 revolution,
and in 2002, she testified in the trial
of Slobodan Milosevic.
Let's meet the St Anne's team.
Hello, I'm Rebecca Morelle.
I read Chemistry at St Anne's
and graduated in 2001
and now I'm a science correspondent at BBC News.
Hello, I'm Dr Janina Ramirez.
I read English at St Anne's from 1998 to 2001
and I'm now an Oxford art historian, broadcaster and writer.
And this is their captain.
Hello, I am Mary Archer.
I read Chemistry at St Anne's,
1962 to 1966,
and I am currently chairman of the Science Museum Group.
Hi, I'm Jacky Rowland.
I graduated in Modern Languages from St Anne's in 1986
and I've been a television correspondent for 25 years.
APPLAUSE
Well, the rules are the same as for the student series.
Ten points for starter questions -
they're solo efforts answered on the buzzer.
And 15 points in total for a set of bonuses -
they can be answered conferring between yourselves.
So, fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
"A Christmas gift to a dear child in memory of a summer day" -
these words were inscribed
in the final 1864 manuscript of which story?
Its origins lie in a tale first told
to the three young daughters of Henry Little.
Alice In Wonderland.
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, yes.
Or Alice's Adventures Underground. That's correct.
So the first set of bonuses, St Anne's,
are on the recipe for Delia Smith's Creole Christmas cake.
- Oh! - Firstly, for five points.
Delia's recipe includes one-and-a-half teaspoons
of which botanically infused alcohol-based tonic
first created in Venezuela in 1824?
Alcohol...
Curacao, one of those things - a liqueur.
Yes, but Venezuela?
- That's... - Tia Maria?
Tia Maria?
What's the thing that goes in the Mexican...?
Come on, let's have it.
Yeah, sorry. Oh, yes. Hm...
Come on, let's have it!
Anything!
Absinthe.
LAUGHTER That French, isn't it?
- Angostura bitters is what I was looking for. - Right! - Oh.
Also required in this Creole Christmas cake
is half a teaspoon of which widely used aromatic spice
consisting of the grated seeds of species of trees
in the genus Myristica?
- Could be cinnamon, nutmeg? - Nutmeg.
- Cinnamon or nutmeg? - Nutmeg. - Nutmeg.
- Nutmeg is right, yes. - Well done.
And finally, 250g are needed of which sugar,
taking its name from its place of origin in Guyana?
- SEVERAL: - Demerara.
- Or molasses? - Muscovado.
- One of those. - Muscovado.
- Muscovado. - Muscovado.
No, it's demerara.
- Oh! - I wouldn't go on Bake Off just yet.
LAUGHTER Ten points for this.
What three-letter word in the English language
has more definitions than any other?
Those listed in the OECD...
Set.
Well done.
You get a set of bonuses, Manchester,
on the poet Sir Geoffrey Hill, who died in June 2016.
Firstly, Hill's 1971 work Mercy And Hymns
is a collection that combines
memories of the poet's childhood in the Midlands
with a celebration of which 8th century ruler?
- It's King Offa. - Correct. Of Mercia.
Secondly, "They seem to me to be transcendently fine
"human beings whom one would have loved to have known."
These words of Geoffrey Hill refer to Robert Southwell
and which other English Jesuit executed in 1581?
I don't know.
No, we don't know.
It's Edmund Campion.
And finally,
referring to fraught mind, timing and facial gesture,
Hill mentioned which British comedy actor
as an influence on his work?
He played the leader role in a comedy series set
in the 1st century BC.
I think it is Ken Dodd.
No, it is Frankie Howerd, Up Pompeii!
MURMURING Ten points for this.
In 1902, Sir Ronald Ross received
the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
for his work on the causes of which infectious disease,
having demonstrated the life cycle of the protozoa parasites
in the Anopheles mosquito?
Malaria.
Malaria is right, yes.
You get a set of bonuses on chemical elements, St Anne's.
Firstly, for five, which silvery white metal with atomic number 22
was discovered by William Gregor in 1791?
It is low in density, high in strength
and is named after the race of deities
to which Phoebe and Hyperion belong?
- (Titanium.) - Are you sure?
- Um... - 22?
- Hydrogen, helium, lithium... - THEY LAUGH
Neon, magnesium, aluminium, silicon, phosphorus, sulphur, chlorine...
I think it is titanium.
I don't think so. Titanium.
Correct. LAUGHTER
- Well done. - Useful to have a historian, eh?
And secondly, which hard blue-grey transition metal
with atomic number 73 was discovered by Anders Ekeberg in 1802?
Highly resistant to corrosion,
it is named after a Greek king imprisoned eternally in Tartarus.
Greek king...
Hard blue-grey transition...
Chromium?
- Oh... Chromium? - 73...
No, it's heavier than chromium, it's a group down.
If it is named after a Greek king...
I think we'd better have an answer here.
Pick something.
Manganese.
No, it's tantalum.
And finally, which radioactive actinide metal
with atomic number 90 was discovered
by the Reverend Morten Esmark in 1828
and named after the Norse god of thunder?
- Thorium. - Thorium.
- Correct. - Yes!
We're going to do the picture round. For your picture starter,
you're going to see a lesser-known verse from a popular carol.
Ten points if you can give me the name of the carol.
O Come, All Ye Faithful.
- Indeed it is. - Yes!
That's the verse that is usually sung on Christmas Day, isn't it?
Your picture bonuses are three more lesser-known verses
from Christmas carols.
Again, five points in each case if you can name of the carol.
Firstly...
# Glorious now Behold him arise... #
- How does that begin? - We Three Kings. - We Three Kings.
We Three Kings is correct.
Sing-along.
Here is the second one.
# Now to the Lord sing praises
# All you... #
- God Rest Ye Merry... - Gentlemen. - Gentlemen.
- Yes. - Yes. - And finally...
Away In A Manger.
Away In A Manger. Would you like to sing that too?
APPLAUSE
Ten points for this. Fingers on the buzzers. Who wrote these lines?
" 'Twas in the month of December and the year 1883 that
"a monster whale came to Dundee."
No, I'm sorry, if you buzz, you must answer straightaway.
It's tough, but if you buzz, you're shutting them out.
You can't confer!
- One of you can buzz. - We forgot.
Well, nobody's got it.
- LAUGHTER - We don't know.
You can hear the rest of the question.
"..that a monster whale came to Dundee."
- They appear in the poem The Famous Tay Whale. - Oh.
Who wrote it?
Henry James?
No, it's the worst poet in the English language -
William Topaz McGonagall.
Ten points for this.
Ornamented with platinum and diamonds to resemble frost
and sitting on a base designed to imitate a block of melting ice,
The Winter is a decorative object made by which company?
It's one of 50...
Faberge?
Faberge is correct, yes.
APPLAUSE
These bonuses are on winter weather, St Anne's.
The severe smog that enveloped London in December 1952 lead
to legislation known by what name?
BUZZER You don't need to buzz, you can just confer.
- Clean Air Act. - The first of its kind in 1956
and the second, 12 years later.
- Clean Air Act. - Correct.
December of which year of the 1960s
saw the beginning of winter weather conditions
regarded as the coldest for over 200 years?
The conditions persisted until the following March.
- 1962. - Correct.
And finally, in late December 2015,
which city of northern England was hit by severe floods
when the River Ouse flowed back to combine with the River Foss?
- York. - Correct. Ten points for this.
What is the defining characteristic of prose that is described as
sesquipedalian?
I'll tell you - it uses very long words.
LAUGHTER
Ten points for this.
"How are you? You've been in Afghanistan, I perceive?"
These are the first words of which enduring literary character
in a novel of 1886?
Sherlock Holmes?
Correct.
APPLAUSE
Your bonuses, St Anne's, are on an author.
Born in 1883, of whom does the Faber & Faber website say
"a writer with a huge output -
"he wrote too much but novels like Sinister Street
"and entertainments like Whisky Galore deserve to survive"?
Compton Mackenzie?
- Yeah, yeah. - Compton?
Compton Mackenzie.
- That's it, that's it. - Compton Mackenzie?
Correct. In 1923, Mackenzie co-founded which magazine
devoted to classical music?
It shares its name with the device
for the reproduction of recorded sound.
- The Gramophone. - The Gramophone?
Correct. And finally, Mackenzie died in 1972,
was buried on which island in the south of the Outer Hebrides?
Its main settlement is Castlebay.
No.
One of those "Ug" or "Og" things.
- Any idea? - No. - Uig, or something.
- Do you know? - No idea.
- Go with that. - Come on.
We don't know. What do you think it is?
It's Barra. Ten points for this.
In October 2016,
the general election in which country saw the Independence Party
win the largest number of seats
with the Pirate Party in third place?
Norway.
No, you lose five points.
- ..with the Pirate Party in third place? - (Denmark!)
It also became the European country with the highest proportion
of female parliamentarians, ahead of Finland and Sweden.
You may not confer. You can buzz, one of you.
Is it Austria?
No, it was Iceland.
Right, ten points for this.
Cotton wool consists almost entirely of what carbohydrate substance?
Cellulose.
Correct.
APPLAUSE
Your bonuses, St Anne's,
are on birds which migrate to Britain in winter.
I want you to identify each bird from its description.
Firstly, Calidris canutus - a short, stocky wading bird,
it shares its common four-letter name with a unit of speed.
Ibis...
That's not a unit of speed.
I mean, coot... But that's not a unit of speed.
Unit of speed...
A unit of...
Swift. No, that's not four.
LAUGHTER
A tern...
- No, it's a knot. K-N-O-T. - OK.
Five points for this, secondly.
Cygnus columbianus - a relatively small water bird,
compared with other members of its genus,
its two-word name refers to a British naturalist
noted for his wood engravings and the use of white line printing.
Coo... No.
It's not Berwick?
Um...
Swan or something?
Somebody's swan?
- Somebody's - something swan? - Swan, it's got to be swan. - Yes.
Which are the swans that migrate?
- There's a Berwick swan, I think. - Berwick swan.
No, it's a Bewick swan.
- Oh, close. - Near miss.
And finally, Bucephala clangula - a diving duck that shares its name
with the Jamaican residence of the writer Ian Fleming.
Gosh, what's the Jamaican residence of Ian Fleming?
Agh!
Oh, gosh!
What's the...Jamaican...
The Ian Fleming novel that's set in...?
- Jamaica? - Yeah.
- Jamaica Inn. - Jamaica Inn - but that's...
It's the house, isn't it?
- We don't know. - I can't think.
- Let's have it, please. - Guess. Guess.
I...
It's a bird, I don't know.
Diving duck - I don't know!
A something swan.
No, we've done that.
- No, it's a goldeneye. - Oh!
Ten points for this music starter.
For your music starter you're going to hear an excerpt
from a piece of classical music.
Ten points if you can tell me the name of the composer.
ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
Vivaldi.
It is Vivaldi. It's Winter from The Four Seasons.
APPLAUSE
Your bonuses are three more pieces of classical music,
each one evoking the sense of a phenomenon, object or activity
that one might encounter in winter.
That's what I want you to identify.
Firstly, what phenomenon is named in the title of this piece?
ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
- It's something snow... - Snow goose?
- Ice maiden, or...? - Yes...
Do you know?
It's going to be frost or ice.
- Ice. - Ice maiden.
No, it's snow. That was Debussy's The Snow Is Dancing.
Secondly, what activity is the composer evoking here?
ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
- That's snow, too. - Er...
- SHE HUMS ALONG - Waltzing.
That's a waltz.
- Winter... - OK, yeah.
Ice skating.
That's correct, yes. Waldteufel's The Skater's Waltz.
And finally, what object is named in the title
of the suite of 12 pieces from which this is taken?
ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
SHE WHISPERS
It's a suite...
Is it from The Nutcracker, and the object is the nutcracker?
- Could be, yes. Is it? OK. - I dunno.
Nutcracker?
No, it's a Christmas tree - that was from Liszt's Christmas Tree suite.
Manchester, there's still plenty of time for you to catch up.
Ten points at stake for this.
Published posthumously in 1955,
A Child's Christmas In Wales is a prose recollection by which...?
Dylan Thomas.
Correct. APPLAUSE
St Anne's, you get three questions on the author Jenny Diski,
who died in 2016.
At the age of 15, Jenny Diski was unofficially adopted
by which future Nobel laureate whose works The Golden Notebook?
- Doris Lessing. - Oh!
Doris Lessing.
Correct.
Charlotte, the protagonist of Diski's novel Monkey's Uncle,
is a supposed descendant of which naval officer and meteorologist
associated with Charles Darwin?
Naval officer...
I can't remember his name.
Who was captain of The Beagle?
That's what I'm thinking...um...
No. I don't know.
John...someone.
John Smith.
- No, it's Fitzroy. That's the person you were looking for. - Oh!
And finally, Diski's 2008 novel Apology For The Woman Writing
features Marie de Gournay,
the amanuensis of which French essayist born in 1533?
Essayist... Racine?
- No... - Diderot.
Diderot.
- No, it was Montaigne. - Ah, he's the earliest one.
Earlier than that. Ten points for this.
Written by Lin-Manuel Miranda,
which hip-hop musical won 11 prizes...?
Hamilton.
- Hamilton is correct, yes. - Well done.
APPLAUSE
Right, Manchester, these are your bonuses. They're on ski resorts.
In each case, name the country where all three resorts are located.
First, Mezica, Kranjska Gora and Straza Bled.
- Sounds like Austria to me. - Yeah, I could see that.
- Sounds like Austria to me. - He said Austria.
- I think it's Austria. - I dunno, I was going to say Russia, but...
Kranjska Gora...
Go on, then.
Austria.
No, it's Slovenia.
Secondly, in which country are Narkanda, Mundali
and Yumthang Valley?
Oh, dear.
Yumthang Valley...
Could be Japan. Try Japan.
- Japan is good - yeah, Japan's not bad. - Japan?
Yeah.
Japan.
No, they're in India.
And the ski resorts Kinosoo Ridge, Lake Louise
and Kicking Horse Mountain are which country?
- Is that Canada? - Yeah.
Canada. Canada.
Correct.
BUZZER No need to buzz.
LAUGHTER
Haven't even given the question yet!
Here it comes. Ten points for this.
2016 is the 500th anniversary of which literary work
first published in Latin in the Low Countries?
It's title is from the Greek for No Place,
but it's also a pun on an almost identical word meaning a good place.
Oh...Utopia.
Correct.
APPLAUSE
These bonuses are on the 2016 Golden Raspberry film awards.
Firstly, for five points,
a nominee for Worst Screen Combo
was Johnny Depp and his glued-on moustache
for his role as a roguish art dealer in which 2015 film?
2015, Johnny Depp, roguish art dealer...
Oh, no, I don't know. I don't...
Any Johnny Depp film?
I don't know. I have no idea.
It got panned.
- Um... - Johnny Depp... I haven't seen any of his.
We don't know.
It was Mortdecai.
And secondly, which 2015 sci-fi film achieved six nominations,
out of which Eddie Redmayne won as Worst Supporting Actor?
Sci... Sci...
Was that...?
It was a sci-fi film.
Eddie Redmayne.
- Any idea? - 20...
Star Wars.
We haven't been to the cinema recently, sorry.
It's Jupiter Ascending.
And finally, who won the Worst Actress award
for her role in Fifty Shades of Grey?
She's the daughter of Melanie Griffiths.
- Dakota... - Dakota Fanning.
Dakota Fanning.
No, it was Dakota Johnson.
Dakota Fanning's someone else, I think.
Right, ten points for this picture starter question.
You're going to see a statue of a ruler.
Ten points if you can give me his name.
Emperor Hadrian.
No, anyone like to buzz from Manchester?
Nero. Nero.
No, it's the emperor Augustus.
So, picture bonuses in a moment or two -
another starter question in the meantime.
Fingers on the buzzers.
In a song of 1971, whom did David Bowie call
"a strange young man with a voice like sand and glue"?
Aladdin Sane?
No.
You lose five points, I'm afraid.
In October 2016, he became a Nobel laureate.
- Oh... - Yes.
Bob Dylan.
Bob Dylan is correct.
APPLAUSE
So, you're going to get the picture bonuses, St Anne's,
and they follow on from that picture of the emperor Augustus
who, according to Luke's Gospel,
ordered the census that brought Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem.
For your picture bonuses, three more statues of rulers
who ordered a significant historical census or survey during their reign.
Five points for each you can name.
Firstly, who's this biblical figure?
King David.
Yes, he's got a harp - David, King David.
It is King David,
who ordered a census of Israel and Judah,
according the Book of Samuel.
Secondly, name this Spanish monarch.
Philip...?
Say King Philip!
Philip?
- Do you want a...? - Which one?
Philip...IV.
- No, it's Philip II. - Oh, I nearly said that!
He ordered a survey of the Spanish territories in the Americas.
And finally, name this king of England.
Gosh, who's that?
Let's try Alfred the Great.
Try Alfred the Great.
Alfred the Great.
No, it's William the Conqueror,
who ordered the Domesday Book, of course.
Right, ten for this - about three minutes to go.
What bird of prey links the Cambridge pub
in which Crick and Watson announced their discovery...?
Eagle.
The eagle is correct, yes.
APPLAUSE
These bonuses are on astronomy, St Anne's.
What astronomical event visible from Britain
occurred on the 9th of May 2016?
The next two such events will take place in 2019 and 2032.
It's Mercury. Transit of Mercury.
- Yeah. - Transit of Mercury.
Correct.
Which English astronomer observed a transit of Mercury in October 1677
during an expedition to the island of St Helena
to catalogue the stars of the Southern Hemisphere?
1677...
16...
I can't remember his name.
Not, um...
I know it, I just can't remember his name.
Who's the one with the observatory?
We'd better have an answer, I think.
It's not Herschel, cos that's much too late.
Sorry.
It's Edmond Halley.
And finally, Mercury Bay,
so-called because Captain Cook observed a transit of Mercury
from the region in 1769, lies off the coast
of the Coromandel Peninsula in the north of which country?
Coromandel...
I'd expect it to be a bit...
New Zealand?
- Is it New Zealand? - New Zealand, yeah.
New Zealand.
Correct. APPLAUSE
Ten points for this.
Before Theresa May in July 2016,
who was the last Prime Minister
to have previously held the office of Home Secretary,
doing so from 1967 to 1970?
James Callahan?
Correct.
APPLAUSE
Here are your bonuses.
They're on Kingston-upon-Hull, the UK City of Culture in 2017.
Firstly, in 2017, the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull
will host which annual event inaugurated in 1984?
Turner Prize.
Correct. Which actor was born in Hull in 1937?
He first came to prominence in the 1960s
in films such as Billy Liar and Doctor Zhivago,
and was nominated for an Academy Award
for his performance in The Dresser.
Tom Courtenay.
Correct. Which independent theatre was founded in Hull in 1971
and became particularly associated with the plays of John Godber?
Hull Truck.
Correct.
APPLAUSE Ten points for this.
In December 2012, Wild Oats XI
set a record time of 42 hours and 23 minutes
in an annual yacht race
from Sydney to which city, the capital of Tasmania?
Hobart.
Hobart is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
GONG
And at the gong, Manchester have 55,
St Anne's College Oxford have 185.
Well, you started coming back at the end, there.
- Honour is satisfied, I think. - Just about.
Congratulations to you, Manchester,
thank you very much for joining us,
and many congratulations to you, St Anne's,
for a terrific performance.
And thank you all for doing something you didn't need to do.
Thank you very much. LAUGHTER
So, until next time, when we'll have another first round match,
it's goodbye from Manchester University...
Er, goodbye.
..it's goodbye from St Anne's College Oxford...
- Bye! - Goodbye.
..and it's goodbye from me - goodbye.
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