APPLAUSE
University Challenge -
asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
Hello.
Cambridge plays Oxford tonight
with a place in the second
round for the winners.
We could also see
the losers again, too,
if they can muster a score that
puts them among the four highest
scoring losing teams
from these first round matches.
Now, Emmanuel College Cambridge
was founded in 1584
by Elizabeth I's
Chancellor of the Exchequer,
with the aim of educating
Protestant preachers.
It is among the University's
wealthier colleges,
and its noteworthy features
include a chapel
designed by Christopher Wren,
and, dating to 1690,
what may be the country's oldest
swimming pool still in use.
Alumni include John Harvard, who
gave his name to the US university,
the film-maker Karel Reisz,
the writers Michael Frayn
and Sebastian Faulks,
and the TV presenter
Griff Rhys Jones.
With an average age of 19
and representing around
630 students, let's meet them.
Hi, I'm Ed Derby, I'm
from Manchester and I study physics.
Hello, I'm Kitty Chevallier,
I'm from Hampshire
and I'm studying Arabic and Hindi.
And this is their captain.
Hi, I'm Alex Mistlin, I'm from
Islington in North London
and I'm studying politics
and international relations.
Hi, I'm James Fraser, I'm from
Bristol and I'm reading medicine.
St Hugh's College Oxford was founded
in 1886 by Elizabeth Wordsworth,
great-niece of the poet,
with the legacy of her father.
She named it after one of his
predecessors as Bishop of Lincoln.
Her aim was to help the growing
number of women
who couldn't afford the costs
of other colleges,
and it remained single-sex
until the admittance of men in 1987.
On the basis of tonight's team,
we could be forgiven for thinking
they had rather taken over!
Although its all-female past
is reflected in alumni including
the actor and writer Rebecca Front
and political figures including
Barbara Castle, Aung San Suu Kyi
and the current Prime Minister.
With an average age of 21
and playing on behalf
of around 670 students,
let's meet the St Hugh's team.
Hi, I'm Kazi Elias, I'm from
Cambridge and I read history.
Hi, I'm Ewan Granger,
I'm from Shrewsbury in Shropshire
and I'm studying
biological sciences.
And here's their captain.
Hi, I'm Daniel De Wijze,
I'm from Manchester
and I'm reading Earth sciences.
Hi, I'm Aiden Mehigan,
I'm originally from Washington DC
and I'm studying for a Masters
degree in art history.
Right, you all know the rules,
fingers on the buzzers,
here's your first starter for 10.
"Although I briefly left
the sanctuary of our planet,
"I rediscovered the wonder of
the place we called home."
Who wrote those words
in the 2016 book,
Hello, is this planet Earth?...
Chris Hadfield.
No, I'm afraid you lose 5 points.
..My View from the
International Space Station.
Tim Peake.
Tim Peake is right, yes.
You get a set of bonuses
on the films of Quentin Tarantino,
Emmanuel.
Tarantino made his directorial debut
with the jewellery heist film
Reservoir Dogs,
in which each of the thieves
adopts a colour as a pseudonym.
What pseudonym is adopted by
the character played by Tarantino?
Mr Blonde?
Mr Pink, maybe? Go for it.
Mr Pink.
No, that was Steve Buscemi,
apparently.
He was Mr Brown, Tarantino.
In Tarantino's 2012 dark comedy
Western, Django Unchained,
the Austrian-German actor
Christoph Waltz plays
the bounty hunter, Dr King Schultz.
What is the character's
former profession?
Dentist, isn't it?
I think so.
Is it dentist?
Yes, that's right.
Uma Thurman plays
Beatrix Kiddo, a former member
of the Deadly Viper
Assassination Squad,
in which film, released in
two parts in 2003 and 2004?
Kill Bill.
Kill Bill is right.
10 points for this.
Which unitary authority
in central England
is home to the sculpture known
as the Concrete Cows,
as well as the
National Badminton Centre,
the National Computing Museum
at Bletchley Park
and the headquarters
of the Open University?
Milton Keynes.
Milton Keynes is correct, yes.
You get a set of bonuses
for your first outing, St Hugh's,
on European geography.
Which historical region is
described in a novel of 1897
as having a population composed of
"Saxons in the South,
"and mixed with them, the Wallachs,
Magyars in the West,
"and Szekelys
in the East and North"?
Hungary? Austria, Austria.
Hungary is the Magyars, I think.
Austria-Hungary?
No, it's Transylvania in Dracula.
Secondly, Tiraspol is
the chief city of which region
that declared its independence
from Moldova in 1990?
It takes its name
from a major river.
Transnistria.
Correct.
Sopron and Pecs are cities
in Transdanubia,
a traditional region
of which country?
Hungary. Correct.
10 points for this.
In zoology, the term elapid
is applied to a family of over
200 species
belonging to what
sub-order of reptiles?
Examples include the bandy-bandy,
krait, taipan and copperhead.
Snake.
Snakes, serpents, is correct.
You get a set of bonuses this time,
St Hugh's, on physics.
In quantum mechanics,
what principle limits the accuracy
of simultaneous measurements
of certain pairs of variables,
such as energy and time?
It is often named after
a German physicist born in 1901.
Nominate Mehigan.
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
Correct. What quantum phenomenon
can be described as a connection
between the properties of
two particles
so that measuring
the quantum state of one
determines the state of the other?
Entanglement. Correct.
Finally, by what phenomenon
can electrons or other particles
move through a potential
barrier that will be forbidden
to classical particles?
Quantum tunnelling.
That's correct, yes.
Or the tunnel effect.
10 points for this.
What common adjective links
the US naval squadron
that forced the opening of Japan
to the West from 1853,
a radical political party
founded in California in 1966
after the murder of Malcolm X,
and a byname of Edward of Woodstock?
Black.
Black is correct, yes.
Right, your bonuses are on novels
with titles taken from
other works of literature.
In each case,
name both the author of the work
and the author whose work
provided the title.
Firstly, the 1934 novel,
Tender Is The Night.
THEY CONFER
F Scott Fitzgerald and Milton.
No, it was F Scott Fitzgerald
and John Keats,
from his Ode to a Nightingale.
Secondly, His Dark Materials,
a trilogy published from 1995.
Philip Pullman and Milton.
That is correct.
And finally, the 2003 novel,
The Curious Incident of the Dog
in the Night-Time.
THEY CONFER
Pass.
It's Mark Haddon
and Arthur Conan Doyle.
We're going to take
a picture round now.
For your picture starter,
you're going to see
part of the sheet music
from the opening
of an orchestral work.
10 points if you can give me
the title of the work
and the name of its composer.
It's Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
It is.
We follow that with part
of the sheet music
for three more openings
to classical works.
Firstly, for 5, give me
the common English or Italian
title for the collection of concerti
to which this excerpt belongs,
and its composer.
Vivaldi, The Four Seasons.
That's correct.
Secondly, I want the commonly
attributed English or German title
of the work to which this movement
belongs, and its composer.
Nominate Fraser.
Mozart, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.
That's correct.
And finally, in this case,
I want the common English
title of the orchestral work,
and its composer.
Is this Ravel's Bolero?
Is it Bolero?
Um, is that the English title?
It could be...
Ravel, Bolero.
No, it's Mendelssohn's
Wedding March.
10 points for this.
The chess grandmaster Edward Lasker
observed that the
baroque rules of chess
could only have been
created by humans.
Of which game did he say,
"Its rules are so elegant,
organic and rigorously logical
"that if intelligent life forms
exist elsewhere in the universe,
"they almost certainly play it"?
Go.
Go is correct, yes.
Right, you get a set of bonuses
which could give you the lead,
Emmanuel.
They are on 19th-century history.
The doctrine of papal infallibility
was propounded
at the First Vatican Council
convoked by Pope Pius IX
towards the end of which decade?
18...20s?
1820s.
No, it was the 1860s.
In 1874, which leading
political figure
attacked the implications
of papal infallibility in a pamphlet
entitled The Vatican Decrees in
their Bearing on Civil Allegiance?
THEY CONFER
Gladstone? Disraeli?
Disraeli?
No, it was Gladstone. Bad luck.
Which Roman Catholic peer
acted as Gladstone's personal agent
at the First Vatican Council?
He's perhaps best-known
for an aphorism about
the corrupting effects of power.
Lord... Someone.
Lord Devlin.
No, it was Lord Acton -
power tends to corrupt, and absolute
power corrupts absolutely.
10 points for this.
In Shakespeare's
A Midsummer Night's Dream,
the words of Theseus,
"Hot ice and wondrous strange snow,"
refer to the inconsistencies of what
very amateur stage production
performed as a play...
Pyramus and Thisbe.
Correct.
Right, you get not only the lead,
but you also get
a set of bonuses
on James Muirden's
A Rhyming History Of Britain.
Name the royal figure
to whom these lyrics refer.
Firstly, "The husband Henry chose
for her, the Holy Roman Emperor,
"Though head of an enormous nation,
was not much good at procreation."
THEY CONFER
Mary Tudor?
No, it was Matilda, or Maud.
Secondly,
"His wife now queened it over all,
"She and her henchmen had a ball,
"Despatching subjects one by one,
till her rebellious teenage son
"Told her the party had to stop
and gave her other half the chop."
SCATTERED LAUGHTER
Pass.
Isabella of France. And finally,
"A single struggle dogged her reign,
"To stop France
getting hold of Spain.
"The Spanish Empire was greater
than any seen until much later."
THEY CONFER
Elizabeth I?
No, Queen Anne.
Right, 10 points for this.
Zanskar, Gilgit, Jhelum and Chenab
are among the tributaries of which
South Asian river
that originates near Lake Mapam
in Tibet?
Its conventional name
derives from its Tibetan
and Sanskrit name, Sindhu.
Indus.
Indus is correct.
Your bonuses this time,
Emmanuel, are on zoology.
In each case, name
the animal from the description.
All three answers begin
with the same two letters.
Firstly, a marine invertebrate
of the phylum Cnidaria,
with a tubular body
and tentacles around the mouth.
It shares its name with a beast
slain by Heracles.
Har... No.
Hydra?
Hydra is correct.
Secondly, a squat, rodentlike,
hoofed mammal
about the size of a cat.
Species include yellow,
spotted and southern tree.
Is it hyena?
Hyena.
No, hyrax.
And finally, a doglike scavenging
carnivore of Africa and Asia.
Species include spotted, striped...
Hyena. That is hyena, yes.
Right, 10 points for this.
Thought to be a corruption
of Acadian,
what term is now commonly used...
Cajun.
Cajun is correct, yes.
Your bonuses are on a playwright,
St Hugh's.
Transmitted posthumously by both
BBC One and Channel 4 in 1996,
Karaoke and Cold Lazarus were
the final works of which playwright?
THEY CONFER
Um, nominate Elias.
Michael Frayn.
No, Dennis Potter.
And 5 points for this.
Which of Potter's dramas
was withdrawn
from its scheduled screening in 1976
after a senior BBC executive
wrote to Potter
that it was "brilliantly written
and made, but nauseating"?
It was eventually shown in 1987.
Pass.
That was Brimstone and Treacle.
Alasdair Milne was
the perpetrator of that judgment.
And finally, which region
of Gloucestershire provides
the setting for Potter's play,
Blue Remembered Hills,
and also occurs as a generalised
location in his series,
Pennies From Heaven
and The Singing Detective?
THEY CONFER
Chiltern.
No, the Forest of Dean.
We're going to take a music round
at this juncture.
For your music starter,
you're going to hear
a piece of classical music
by a German composer.
Please identify the composer.
GENTLE PIANO MUSIC
Beethoven?
No.
You can hear little more, Emmanuel.
MUSIC RESUMES
JS Bach.
No, it is part of
Schumann's Ghost Variations -
so we'll take the music bonuses
in a moment or two.
10 points at stake
for this starter question.
From the Greek for "congealed",
what name is given
to any of a group of water-soluble
carbohydrates
formed in plant tissues?
They form gels
with sugars and acids
in the production
of fruit preserves.
Pectin?
Pectin is correct, yes.
You just heard Schumann's last
piano work,
dedicated to his wife
and fellow composer, Clara.
Following on from Schumann, your
music bonuses are three more works
dedicated in a chain
from one composer to another.
For 5 points in each case,
just give me the name
of the composer
whose music you can hear.
Firstly name the composer
who dedicated this sonata
to Schumann in 1854.
ROUSING PIANO MUSIC
Liszt?
It was Liszt,
his Piano Sonata in B minor.
And secondly,
name this composer
who dedicated a collection
of piano music to Liszt.
MELANCHOLY PIANO MUSIC
Chopin?
Chopin is right,
that's his Tristesse.
And finally, name this composer
who dedicated his own book of Etudes
to Chopin's memory.
PIANO MUSIC
Debussy.
It was Debussy, yes, well done.
10 points for this.
Who wrote the autobiographical poem
Dejection: An Ode,
an 1802 work
thought to be a response
to Wordsworth's
Intimations Of Immortality?
Shelley.
No, you lose 5 points.
Anyone want to buzz from Emmanuel?
Coleridge?
Coleridge is correct, yes.
You get a set of bonuses
on rainbows this time, Emmanuel.
In Norse mythology, what is
the name of the rainbow bridge
that connects Midgard and Asgard,
or earth and heaven?
Nominate Derby. Bifrost.
Bifrost is correct, yes.
In 1985, the Rainbow Warrior
was sunk in Auckland Harbour
by French agents.
Which international organisation
owned the ship?
Greenpeace. Correct.
"Football in the rainbow nation"
are words often used
of which Fifa World Cup tournament?
I need the host country
and the year.
South Africa, 2010.
Correct.
10 points for this.
In 1961, the US Beat poet Allen
Ginsberg wrote which elegiac poem
to his mother,
lamenting her insanity and death?
It's single-word title
also denotes a hymn...
Kaddish.
Kaddish is correct, yes.
So, St Hugh's, your bonuses
are on lunar exploration.
Firstly, for 5 points, which year
saw the launch of Lunar 1,
the first of 24 unmanned
Soviet probes to explore the moon?
It came two years after Sputnik 1.
1959.
That's correct.
The first US spacecraft
to reach the moon
was part of what series
of unmanned NASA missions
of the early 1960s?
Gemini.
No, it was Ranger, Ranger 4.
Which series of unmanned
NASA missions
was used to prepare
for the moon landings?
They occurred between the Mercury
and the Apollo programmes.
That's Gemini.
That was Gemini, yes.
10 points for this.
In September 2016, in which country
did the president Juan Manuel...?
Colombia?
Colombia is correct.
You get a set of bonuses, Emmanuel,
on henpecked husbands.
Firstly, for 5 points,
which Restoration dramatist
created Sir Paul Pliant,
whose wife swaddles him
in blankets in bed
to prevent any normal
marital relations?
AUDIENCE LAUGHS
Jonson? Was Jonson restoration?
No, no.
Webster? Ward, maybe?
Webster?
No, it was William Congreve.
And secondly, "an obedient henpecked
husband" is the author's description
of which title character of
an early 19th-century short story
set in the Catskill Mountains?
Pass.
That was Washington Irving's
Rip Van Winkle.
And finally,
in James Joyce's Ulysses,
Stephen Dedalus describes
Shakespeare as "shrewridden".
Which ancient philosopher
does he describe as "henpecked"?
Socrates.
Socrates is right.
We're going to take
a picture round now.
For your picture starter,
you will see a painting.
For 10 points, I want you
to name the artist, please.
Canaletto.
Yeah, very easy, wasn't it?
Right, that painting by Canaletto
is followed by three more paintings
featuring Westminster Bridge.
In each case, I want the name
of the artist, for 5 points.
Firstly...
Turner.
It is Turner, The Burning
Of The Lords And Commons, in 1834.
Secondly, who painted this scene
of the demolition
of the old Westminster Bridge
and the construction of the new one?
Whistler?
That was by Whistler.
And finally, who painted this?
Monet.
That is Monet, yes.
Right, 10 points at stake for this.
Answer as soon as
your name is called.
Hydrogen and helium head the list
of components of the atmospheres
of how many planets
of the solar system?
Two.
Anyone like to buzz from Emmanuel?
Four?
Four is correct,
the four giant planets.
Right, you get a set of bonuses,
Emmanuel, on geography this time.
The adjective "eustatic" refers
to global changes
in what natural feature?
I think it's sea level? Sea level.
Correct.
The mean sea level
at which West Cornish town
is used as the ordnance datum
or basis
for deriving altitudes
for Great Britain?
Truro?
St Ives, I think.
St Ives?
No, it's Newlyn.
And finally, which estuary in the UK
regularly experiences
the greatest tidal ranges?
Severn.
The Severn is correct,
the Bristol Channel.
Five minutes to go,
10 points for this.
Boundaries of which US state
include the Sabine River,
the Red River, the Rio Grande
and the Gulf...?
Texas. Texas is correct.
Your bonuses are
on sorrow in the Bible.
In each case, give the book
of the Old Testament
in which each of the following
words appear, St Hugh's.
"Unto the woman he said,
"I will greatly multiply
thy sorrow and thy conception,
"in sorrow thou shalt
bring forth children."
Genesis.
Correct.
"Is it nothing to you,
all ye that pass by?
"Behold and see if there be any
sorrow like unto my sorrow."
Jeremiah.
No, that's Lamentations.
"For in much wisdom is much grief
"and he that increaseth knowledge
increaseth sorrow."
Ecclesiastes.
Correct. 10 points for this.
What is the ratio
of the volume of a cylinder
of a given height and base radius
to the volume of a cone
with the same...?
3:1.
3:1 is correct, yes.
You get a set of bonuses on
local administration, St Hugh's.
Totmonslow, Bullingdon,
Salford and Isleworth
are examples of what historical unit
of local government and taxation?
I need a seven-letter answer.
A borough.
No, it is a hundred.
What unit corresponded
to the hundred
in former Danelaw counties
such as Yorkshire?
The term alludes to the brandishing
of weapons to express consent.
No, pass.
That's a wapentake.
And finally, Bassetlaw,
Thurgarton, Bingham and Newark
are among the former wapentakes
of which county?
Lincolnshire.
No, it's Nottinghamshire.
Three minutes to go,
10 points for this.
What fictional race or species
links Grishnakh, Azog,
Bolg and Shagrat...?
Orcs.
Orc is correct, yes.
You get a set of bonuses this time,
St Hugh's, on post-war histories.
Name any of the eight years covered
by Dominic Sandbrook's 2005 work
Never Had It So Good.
1955.
No, it started in 1956. Bad luck.
Name any one of the seven years
included in the subtitle
of David Kynaston's 2007 work
Austerity Britain.
1947.
That will do, yes,
it was 1945 to 1951.
And When The Lights Went Out
is Andy Beckett's 2009 account
of which decade?
The '70s, 1970s.
Correct. 10 points for this.
"Because it is my name!
"Because I cannot have
another in my life!
"I have given you my soul,
leave me my name."
Which character speaks those words
in a play of 1953, set in the...?
Oh, no, it's gone.
You lose 5 points.
..a play of 1953
set in the late 17th century?
You may not confer.
The Crucible.
No, I wanted the name
of the character!
It's John Proctor in the Crucible.
10 points for this.
In biology, the rate of what process
may be described
as horotelic,
bradytelic or tachytelic?
Breathing.
No, anyone like to
buzz from Emmanuel?
Cell division.
No, it's evolution.
10 points for this.
Having invented a device to lift
river vessels stuck on sandbars,
who is the only US president
to have held a patent?
Cleveland?
No, anyone want to buzz
from Emmanuel?
Jefferson.
No, it was Abraham Lincoln.
10 points for this.
In the cerebral cortex,
what five-letter term denotes
a ridge that separates two...?
Gyrus.
Correct.
You get a set of bonuses
on Africa now, Emmanuel College.
The scene of a low-level civil war
over several decades,
the Casamance region lies
in the southern part
of which West African country?
Come on!
I need an ans... Ghana.
No, it's Senegal.
Home to an active
separatist movement
and noted for its oil reserves,
Cabinda is an exclave
of which country?
Nigeria?
No, it's Angola.
And finally, bordering Angola
and Zambia,
Katanga is a former breakaway
region of which country?
Botswana?
No, it's the Democratic Republic
of the Congo.
10 points for this.
Who took 17 years to complete a poem
written on the death of his
close friend Arthur...?
GONG CRASHES
And at the gong,
St Hugh's College Oxford have 155,
Emmanuel College Cambridge have 170.
Well, bad luck, St Hugh's, I thought
you were going to do it there -
but you may well come back, at 155,
as one of the highest-scoring
losing teams
and teams that have come back
that way
have gone on to win
the whole series,
so who knows what will happen?
Emmanuel, congratulations to you.
You kept it pretty tight!
But you won. Well done.
We look forward to seeing
you in round two.
I hope you can join us next time
for another first-round match,
but until then, it's goodbye from
St Hugh's College Oxford... Goodbye.
..it's goodbye from Emmanuel
College Cambridge... Goodbye.
..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
Nigel Norman Fletcher,
you have been found guilty...
The classic comedy is back.
