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00:00Hello and welcome to the 2025 series of Christmas University Challenge.
00:28Incredibly, this alumni edition of the programme is now in its 15th year, and to celebrate
00:33that we've decided to put on a special invitational tournament this Christmas featuring notable
00:38teams and players from each of the 14 series we've had so far.
00:42First to put their fingers back on the buzzers are the defending champions from Durham University.
00:46A little less than a year ago, these four beat Queen's College Cambridge in the closest
00:50final we've ever had on this alumni series.
00:53With less than 10 minutes to go, they were behind by 65 points, but came back to win
00:58by five, thanks to their knowledge of Latin American politics, European geography and Joyce
01:03Kilmer's poem, Trees.
01:05Their line-up is unchanged from then, and consists of a professor of art history at the University
01:09of Sussex, who specialises in the art of the Byzantine Empire.
01:13A journalist and broadcaster who's been the independence food critic, a judge on Masterchef,
01:17and a presenter on numerous arts and music programmes.
01:20Their captain, the MP for Bristol Central and former co-leader of the Green Party, and an
01:25award-winning digital journalist, content creator and author of non-fiction books, including
01:30the forthcoming How to Kill a Language.
01:33Let's hear them introduce themselves in the usual way.
01:35Hi, my name's Liz James, and I graduated from Durham in 1985, with a degree in ancient history
01:41and archaeology.
01:42Hello, I'm Tracy McLeod.
01:44I graduated from Durham in 1982, with a degree in English.
01:47And their captain.
01:48Hi, I'm Carla Denia.
01:50I graduated in 2009, with a degree in mechanical engineering.
01:54Hello, I'm Sophia Smith-Gaylor.
01:56I studied Spanish and Arabic at Durham, and I graduated in 2016.
02:00APPLAUSE
02:04Their opponents tonight are the Manchester team, who finished runners-up in our tenth Christmas
02:09series back in 2020.
02:11In their series final against the Courtauld Institute of Art, they were the team that
02:14got off to a strong start, only to find themselves overtaken in the final third.
02:19Before that point, however, they'd enjoyed two emphatic victories over Queen's Belfast and
02:23Loughborough, and given some very impressive answers on subjects ranging from poetry to Pac-Man.
02:28Again, all four of their original players have returned to play tonight, and they are a surgeon,
02:33particularly known for his work in disaster and war zones, and for establishing a foundation
02:37to train other doctors in this field.
02:39A writer and filmmaker, whose books include the 2024 short story collection The Woman in
02:45the Portrait.
02:46Their captain, a familiar face from many films and television shows, ranging from The Comic
02:50Strip Presents to Alien Earth.
02:52And a second actor and comedian, whose credits include the franchise, This England, and of
02:57course, The Thick of It.
02:58Let's meet the Manchester team once again.
03:00Hello, my name is David Knott.
03:02I graduated from Manchester in 1981 reading medicine.
03:06Hello, my name is Juliette Jakes.
03:09I graduated from Manchester in 2003 with a degree in history.
03:13And their captain.
03:14Hello, I'm Adrian Edmondson.
03:16I graduated in 1978 with a fabulous degree in drama.
03:22I'm Justin Edwards.
03:23I graduated in 1990 with degrees in drama and French.
03:27APPLAUSE
03:30Well, it's fabulous to see you back here again.
03:32Do you vaguely remember how this works?
03:34Yes.
03:35You're going to show off your general knowledge, answer the questions correctly and then all
03:38will be wonderful.
03:39Welcome back.
03:40Very nice to see you.
03:41Fingers on buzzers.
03:42Here we go with your first Christmas starter for ten.
03:44Which long-running US television series began on the 17th of December 1989 with an episode
03:52Manchester Edmondson?
03:53Spring The Simpsons.
03:55I'll accept that because it is Christmas and Santa's feeling generous.
04:00But next time, got to get it right straight away, OK?
04:03Here we go.
04:04Your bonuses then, Manchester.
04:05Three questions on political events that happened between the 19th and 28th of December 2011.
04:11That is, during the first ever series of Christmas University Challenge.
04:15Monday 19th of December saw the official announcement by state media of the death of which world leader
04:21said to have suffered a heart attack on his train two days prior.
04:24Other reports, however, suggest that he may have actually died at his home in Pyongyang.
04:29That would be Kim Il-Sung.
04:30Kim Il-Sung.
04:31Kim Il-Sung.
04:32Kim Il-Sung.
04:33Not the first, not the big one.
04:34Do you know how to say it?
04:35It's Kim Il-Il.
04:36I'm going to nominate Jake's.
04:37Kim Il-Il.
04:38Kim Jong Il.
04:39Yes, of course, Kim Jong Il.
04:40On the 22nd of December, who, in his final State of the Nation speech as Russian president,
04:45recommended a broad slate of anti-corruption reforms?
04:48Is that Medvedev?
04:49Oh, Medvedev, yeah.
04:50Is it Medvedev?
04:51Dimitri Medvedev?
04:52Medvedev?
04:53Medvedev.
04:54Yes, correct.
04:55Former Daily Mirror employees, including Piers Morgan and James Hipwell, testified on
05:00the 20th and 21st of December, respectively, before which judicial inquiry into the use of
05:05phone hacking by members of the press?
05:06The Leveson Inquiry.
05:07It was indeed, yes.
05:08Here's another starter question.
05:09Which major German city traces its foundation to the 1150s, when monks from a Benedictine
05:21foundation received the right to build a bridge and market where the road from Salzburg crosses
05:25the River Izar, a tributary of the Danube.
05:28Hence the city's name meaning home of the monks.
05:33Munich.
05:34It is indeed Munich.
05:36Well done.
05:37Your bonuses, Darren, are three questions on reinterpretations of Claude Monet's Water
05:42Lilies paintings.
05:43Rendered in boldly coloured enamel on a stainless steel base to represent the reflective water,
05:48which US artist painted six versions of the Water Lilies in 1992?
05:54He had previously recreated Monet's paintings of Rouen Cathedral in his characteristic style,
05:59inspired by the band-aid dots used in printing.
06:03Don't look at me.
06:04I've never done the pictures.
06:06Lichtenstein.
06:07I don't know.
06:08Oh, yeah, Lichtenstein.
06:09I don't know what era he was.
06:10Yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:11Go for it.
06:121992?
06:13Oh.
06:14Just go for it.
06:15Let's say Lichtenstein.
06:16Yeah, Lichtenstein.
06:17Yes, correct.
06:18I don't know.
06:19I don't know.
06:20Let's say Sunflower seeds.
06:21Sunflower seeds.
06:22Sunflower seeds.
06:23I really enjoyed the way you worked that out but still got it wrong.
06:24Bad luck.
06:25It's Lego bricks.
06:26Bad luck.
06:27It was great telly.
06:28In a 2005 work entitled
06:31Show Me the Monet.
06:32Which artist added shopping trolleys and traffic cones to the
06:36otherwise picturesque scene inspired by the Water Lilies series?
06:37Sounds like bang.
06:38Is it like beads or are we saying sunflower seeds or sunflower seeds?
06:40Make a tool.
06:41Sunflower seeds because you said there was one that was called yellow.
06:44So was that because of sunflowers?
06:45I don't know.
06:46Let's say sunflower seeds.
06:47Sunflower seeds.
06:48I really enjoyed the way you worked that out but still got it wrong.
06:51Bad luck.
06:52It's Lego bricks.
06:53Bad luck.
06:54It was great telly.
06:55In a 2005 work entitled Show Me the Monet, which artist added shopping trolleys and traffic
07:01cones to an otherwise picturesque scene inspired by the Water Lilies series?
07:06Sounds like Banksy.
07:07I don't know if he makes installations of that sort though.
07:11He's done some.
07:12OK.
07:13That would be my guess unless anyone's got a better idea.
07:15Go for it.
07:16Banksy?
07:17Does sound like Banksy.
07:18Well done.
07:19Well done.
07:20Now for your picture starter, you're going to see a map of an historic county of the British
07:24Isles.
07:25For ten points, give me the county's name.
07:29Durham James.
07:30Down.
07:31It is.
07:32Well done.
07:33For your picture starter then, Durham, you saw County Down, which in 2010 recorded the
07:37deepest lying Christmas Day snow ever in Northern Ireland.
07:40For your picture bonuses, I want you to identify three more areas which have set Christmas
07:45Day snow records.
07:47First, name this county which set the Welsh Christmas snow record also in 2010.
07:56Shaw.
07:57Fairly Shaw.
07:58Gwyneth.
07:59Correct.
08:00Second, I want the three word name of this council area which set the Scottish Christmas
08:04snow record in 1981.
08:06Three word.
08:07Central.
08:08Lothian.
08:09Oh.
08:10No, Lothian is...
08:11Off to the side a bit, I think.
08:12Renfrew.
08:13If it is central Scotland something, then what's the something?
08:14I don't know.
08:15Come on.
08:16No, should we pass?
08:17Pass, sorry.
08:18It's Perth and Kinross.
08:19Finally, name both of these counties which share the English Christmas snow record.
08:25Oh.
08:26Surely that's North Yorkshire.
08:27Which is the big one.
08:28Hmm.
08:29So, was it historic counties in which case it would just be Yorkshire?
08:33What's the other one?
08:34I'm thinking Derbyshire.
08:35Okay, let's say that.
08:36Come on.
08:37Okay, Yorkshire and Derbyshire.
08:38I need something more specific.
08:39North Yorkshire and Derbyshire.
08:40Correct.
08:41I'll accept that.
08:42Right, another slightly question.
08:43What given name was shared by all of the following?
08:45The mother of Henry VI of England, the Portuguese princess often credited with introducing tea
08:51drinking to England following her marriage to Charles II, and the Queen of England whose
08:55final residence was Kimbo...
08:56Thurum James.
08:57Catherine.
08:58It was Catherine, well done.
08:59Your bonuses.
09:00What's the other one?
09:01What's the other one?
09:02I'm thinking Derbyshire.
09:03What's the other one?
09:04I'm thinking Derbyshire.
09:05Okay, let's say that.
09:06Come on.
09:07Your bonuses, Derbyshire, are on viruses that are frequent causes of the common cold.
09:12Which family of viruses is the primary cause of most common colds, also a common trigger
09:17for asthma attacks, their name for their tendency to infect the nose?
09:20Rhinovirus, I'm pretty sure.
09:22Different.
09:23Rhinovirus.
09:24Yes.
09:25For what does the letter S stand in the abbreviation RSV, referring to a kind of respiratory virus
09:32that causes cold-like symptoms?
09:34This word comes from the name of the large structures formed when infected cells fuse together.
09:39Synapse?
09:40No, that's a brain thing.
09:44So it's respiratory something virus.
09:46Respiratory...
09:47Synovial.
09:49Synovial.
09:50You've made that up.
09:51No, that's in your joints.
09:52Synovial fluid.
09:53Is it?
09:54Respiratory...
09:55Come on.
09:56Synovial.
09:57Syncytial.
09:58Another frequent cause of colds, adenoviruses, are named for the fact that they were initially
10:03isolated from a human adenoid, the uppermost of which set of infection-prone organs at the
10:08back of the mouth.
10:11Tonsils?
10:12Tonsils.
10:13Tonsils is good.
10:14Tonsils.
10:15Correct.
10:16Let's start with the question.
10:17Attached to the xiphoid process of the sternum, the inner surfaces of the lower ribs and the
10:22upper lumbar vertebrae via muscular crura, what large don't...
10:27Manchester knot.
10:28Diaphragm.
10:29It is a diaphragm.
10:30Well done.
10:31Your bonuses in Manchester are on countries visited by the novelist Graham Greene.
10:35In each case, identify the country from the description.
10:38First, a Caribbean country, somewhat smaller than Belgium.
10:41It was one of the earliest countries in the Americas to free itself from European rule,
10:44and is the setting of Greene's novel, The Comedians.
10:47Haiti.
10:48Haiti?
10:49Hang on.
10:50Is it?
10:51That was never British.
10:53From British rule.
10:55I was thinking Jamaica.
10:56I don't know.
10:57We're going to say Jamaica.
10:58No, bad luck.
10:59I did say from European rule, not British, so it was in fact Haiti.
11:14Bad luck.
11:15Second, a West African country that gained independence in 1847, Greene's 1936 work,
11:21about maps, describes a 350-mile journey on foot through the interior of this country.
11:28West Africa.
11:29West Africa.
11:30Liberia.
11:31I think it might be Liberia because it was like an American protector.
11:36Liberia.
11:37We're going to say Liberia.
11:40Very well worked out, yes.
11:41Finally, a Southeast Asian country where Greene worked as a foreign correspondent in the 1950s,
11:46and where his novel The Quiet American is set.
11:49Vietnam.
11:50Oh, really?
11:51Vietnam is it?
11:52Yeah.
11:53Vietnam.
11:54Yes, well done.
11:55Let's start the question.
11:57Having used the Luis Compans Olympic Stadium as its home ground in both the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons,
12:05which men's football team played the first Manchester Jenks?
12:09Barcelona.
12:10It is indeed.
12:11Well done, Manchester.
12:12This is our three questions about the 78th Tony Awards, which were held in 2025.
12:17Who won the award for best performance by a leading actress in a play for portraying all 26 characters
12:22in a one-woman stage adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray?
12:25Her television roles include Shiv Roy in Succession.
12:28Sarah Snook.
12:29Correct.
12:30Maybe Happy Ending, winner of the Best Musical Award, is set in which country?
12:34Where it also had its world premiere in 2016?
12:36It follows the love story between two abandoned human-like machines called Helperbots,
12:41who travel in the latter part of the play to Jeju Island.
12:44What about nothing on the store?
12:47No.
12:48Can we guess a country?
12:49No.
12:50It's not Japan, is it?
12:51Japan.
12:52South Korea.
12:53The award for Best Actress in a Musical was won by Nicole Scherzinger for her role as
12:57Norma Desmond in which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical?
13:00Sunset Boulevard.
13:01It is indeed.
13:02Put two in the lead.
13:03Just five points in it.
13:04Music round now.
13:05And for your music starter, you're going to hear a piece of popular music.
13:07For ten points, name the band playing.
13:09Sorry to take my hand.
13:14Sarah McLeod.
13:15The Who.
13:16It is indeed The Who.
13:17Of course.
13:18That was of course Baba O'Reilly by The Who, who in 2025 embarked on their second farewell
13:23tour, having undertaken their first in 1982 and toured several times since.
13:28For your music bonuses, you're going to hear songs by three bands that have had reunion
13:31tours in 2025.
13:33Five points for each band you can name.
13:36First, this band who played their farewell shows in 2017.
13:43So soon went.
13:44So soon went.
13:45So soon went.
13:46To all to carry.
13:47And we knew it.
13:48And we knew it.
13:49And we knew it.
13:50And we knew we only had a little while.
13:53In the middle.
13:54In the middle.
13:55In the middle.
13:56Just keep ticking over.
13:58Come on.
14:00I think they might be a boy band.
14:04Come on Darren, let's go.
14:07Send them.
14:08Pass.
14:09That's Pelican by The Maccabees.
14:11Next, this band who played their first farewell tour in 2004.
14:15The eels?
14:16That was Dry the Rain by the beta band.
14:17Finally, this band who played their first farewell tour in 2023.
14:22I know this one.
14:23Devo.
14:24Devo.
14:25It is indeed.
14:26Well done.
14:27Let's start the question now.
14:29Born in the Anatolian city of Patara in the late 3rd century CE.
15:00His many miracles earned him the epithet, the wonder worker.
15:03His reputed generosity and his status as the patron saint of children contributed to...
15:08Manchester Edmondson.
15:09Saint Nicholas.
15:10It is Saint Nicholas.
15:11Well done.
15:12You looked so nervous when you gave that answer.
15:14Yeah, I wasn't sure.
15:15Well done.
15:16Your bonuses in Manchester are an English word that derive from the French verb veneer, meaning
15:21to come, for example, souvenir.
15:23In each case, give the word from the definition.
15:25First, a term used in the art world to indicate the source, origin or history of ownership of
15:29an artefact, for example, a painting.
15:32Provenance.
15:33Well done.
15:34Second, a derogatory word for an upstart or social climber, especially one seen to be
15:38vulgar or lacking in manners.
15:40Parvenu.
15:41Well done.
15:42Finally, a person who comes back from the dead or returns after a long absence.
15:45This word appears in the title of a film of 2015 directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu.
15:50Revenant.
15:51It is indeed.
15:52Well done.
15:53Let's start the question.
15:54In the premiere of a play by Caroline Bird in 2025, Maxine Peake appeared in the title
16:00as which conservative campaigner who died in 2000...
16:04Manchester Ipwards.
16:05Mary Whitehouse.
16:06It is indeed.
16:07Well done.
16:08Three questions for you, Manchester, on the actor Patricia Arquette.
16:11In which 1993 film does Arquette play sex worker Alabama Whitman, opposite Christian
16:17Slater as pop culture obsessive Clarence Worley?
16:20Written by Quentin Tarantino, its ensemble cast also includes Dennis Hopper and Gary Oldman.
16:25It's True Romance.
16:26Yeah, Pulp Fiction is 94, isn't it?
16:28No, it's not Pulp Fiction, it's Pulp Fiction.
16:30I say True Romance.
16:31True Romance.
16:32It is.
16:33Fantastic film.
16:34Arquette's television roles include Harmony Cobell in which comedy drama series?
16:38That premiered on Apple TV in 2022.
16:41When the series starts, Ms Cobell is head of a particular floor of employees at Lumen Industries.
16:47Severance.
16:48Yes.
16:49Arquette won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing the mother of Mason in
16:53which 2014 film by Richard Linklater, a coming of age story filmed over a period of 12 years?
16:58Boyhood.
16:59It is indeed.
17:00Yeah.
17:01Let's start the question.
17:02Named after the first patient diagnosed with it, Christmas disease is an alternative name
17:08for the B-type...
17:09Manchester Knot.
17:10Haemophilia.
17:11It is indeed.
17:12Well done.
17:13Your bonuses, Manchester, are on de-extinction projects that aim to either bring back extinct
17:18species or breed animals extremely similar to them.
17:21In July 2025, researchers at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, in collaboration
17:26with the American biotech company Colossal Biosciences and with investment from filmmaker
17:31Peter Jackson, announced a project to attempt to de-extinct the giant species of what flightless bird?
17:38Dodo.
17:39Dodo.
17:40Dodo.
17:41Or is it?
17:42Dodo is New Zealand.
17:43Dodo.
17:44Dodo is New Zealand.
17:45Dodo is New Zealand?
17:46No.
17:47Dodo is New Zealand.
17:48It is not from New Zealand.
17:49Why would they do it then?
17:50For fun.
17:51For fun.
17:52Because the kiwi exist?
17:54Kiwi still.
17:55It still exists.
17:56I think so.
17:57Dodo.
17:58No, it's the Moa.
17:59In January 2025, the third genetically modified grey wolf pup was born as part of Colossal Biosciences
18:05Biosciences project to de-extinct what species of canine of late Pleistocene, North America the pup was named Khaleesi
18:16Name of a dog
18:25The dire wolf bad luck the Toros program is one of several projects that is attempting through selective back-breeding to
18:31De-extinct what animal the ancestor of all modern domesticated cattle
18:41Orocs correct well done
18:45Together with Simone Beck and Louisette bett all which American chef founded an informal cooking school in the early 1950s called
18:53L'Ecole de Troyes gourmands
18:54She often wore a patch with the school's logo pinned to her blouse when presenting her first cookery show on PBS
19:00The French chef as recreated on a recent biographical Dora McLeod Julia Child's
19:06Child I tell you what given I was generous to Adrian and Manchester. I'll be generous to you as well
19:11I think you know that it's Julia Child as opposed to child
19:14Your bonuses Durham are on present-day national capitals that have hosted the Winter Olympics in each case
19:21I need you to give me the city from the year in which it served as host first
19:261952 marking the first time the Winter Olympics had been held in Europe outside of the Alps
19:32They've hosted it more recently than that
19:38They might well have done it before as well that would be a good shout
19:43Pyrenees you said
19:44Oslo and Pyrenees yeah
19:46No
19:46Come on
19:47She said Oslo
19:48Oh
19:49But if you've got a suggestion
19:50No Oslo
19:51Shall we guess it?
19:52Let's guess it
19:53Oslo?
19:53Yes
19:53Secondly 1984
19:54Note that this city was at the time the capital of a state within a larger federated republic
20:00I think this is Sarajevo
20:02Okay
20:03Sarajevo
20:05Well worked out
20:06Finally 2022
20:07So it was the most recent Winter Olympics
20:09Was it not Beijing?
20:12I was just about to say was it China?
20:14I think it was Beijing
20:14Go for it
20:15Yeah okay Beijing
20:16Well done
20:16Now start the question
20:17Picture round now
20:18And for your picture starter
20:19You'll see a painting
20:21For ten points
20:22Name the artist
20:23Manchester Jakes
20:26Gruegel
20:27No you can have a bit more time
20:28But you may not confer
20:29Durham James
20:31It isn't but Lowry
20:33That was Renoir
20:34We'll take your picture bonuses in a moment
20:35Now start the question
20:36What name is given in English to the ballet character
20:38Known in French as La Faye Dragée
20:40Dragée being the French term for a seed
20:43Nut or fruit
20:44Covered in a hard shell of sweet syrup
20:46Manchester Edwards
20:47A sugared almond
20:48No I'm afraid you lose five points
20:50She performs her namesake dance to a celeste accompaniment
20:53Durham McLeod
20:54Sugar Plum Fairy
20:56It is the Sugar Plum Fairy
20:57Your bonuses Durham
20:58Picture bonuses
20:59Because earlier you saw Renoir's Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne
21:02Depicting that Paris part in the snow
21:05For your picture bonuses
21:06You'll see three more paintings of Paris in the snow
21:08All by artists born in Paris
21:11Again I want you to name the artist in each case
21:13First from 1875
21:15Oh
21:18Sorry no idea
21:21Any guesses?
21:22Monet
21:23I need a wild guess
21:26Monet?
21:27Let's go Gann
21:27Next from 1878
21:29Sorry not my subject
21:32Can't help
21:32Not my subject either
21:33Let's go Pizarro
21:35Pizarro?
21:35No that was Gustave Caibot
21:37Finally from 1870
21:38Remember that one?
21:41Renoir?
21:42Cezanne?
21:42Cezanne?
21:43That's a good one
21:44Cezanne
21:44Cezanne?
21:45No it's Manet
21:46Let's start a question
21:47I'm looking for the name of a scientist here
21:49On Christmas night 1758
21:52An observation made by German farmer Johann Palitsch
21:54Confirmed which British scientist's prediction
21:57Made over five decades prior
21:59It is a synopsis of the astronomy of comets
22:02That a celestial object now named after him
22:04Has an approximate
22:05Manchester jenks
22:07Halley
22:07Yes Halley of course
22:08As in Halley's coming
22:09Your bonuses in Manchester
22:11Three questions on needles in 2025 popular culture
22:14Released in the UK in 2025
22:16The Girl with the Needle
22:18Was nominated for the Academy Award
22:20For Best International Feature Film
22:21As a submission from which country
22:23Set in the 1920s
22:24It is based on the true story
22:26Of serial killer Dagmar Oweby
22:28I saw this
22:29It was set in
22:30Was he asking where it was set or where?
22:33Was it not set in
22:35No which country submitted it
22:37Which country yeah
22:37I think it was made
22:38Come on
22:39The Netherlands
22:40The Netherlands
22:41No it's Denmark
22:41The main character Hornet
22:43Wields a needle as her primary weapon
22:45In which 2025 video game
22:47The sequel to an earlier platformer
22:49In which the player navigates
22:50The fallen kingdom of Hallownest
22:52You're the youngest
22:54You must know about
22:56I don't know video games after about 1994
22:58Pass
23:00That was Silksong
23:01The sequel to Hollow Knight
23:02Finally
23:03As part of his Saturday closing set
23:05At Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage
23:07Which musician performed
23:08The Needle and the Damaged Dunn
23:10Alongside his backing band
23:11The Chrome Hearts
23:12Well that would be Neil Young
23:15Neil Young
23:16It is Neil Young
23:17Just over four minutes to go
23:18Which area of London links
23:20The constituency represented by Clement Attlee
23:23Between 1922 and 1950
23:25A link tunnel completed in 1993
23:27Running between Canary Wharf and Wapping
23:29Thought to be the most expensive stretch of road
23:31Constructed in Britain
23:32And a namesake declaration
23:34By four former Labour cabinet members
23:36Issued in 1981
23:38Which became the basis for the founding
23:40Of the Social Democratic Party
23:42Is it Limehouse?
23:46It is the Limehouse declaration of course
23:48I thought you knew about the left of British politics
23:51Goodness me
23:52Three questions for you on the killing of serpents in myth
23:55Chapter 16 of the Bhagavata Purana
23:57Relates the defeat of the serpent Kaliya
23:59Who had poisoned the waters of the Yamuna
24:01By which major Hindu deity
24:04The eighth avatar of Vishnu
24:05Krishna
24:08Is the only one I know a name of
24:10Krishna
24:12Yes
24:13One story in the Kojiki of Japan
24:15Tells how the god Suzano-o
24:17Killed the eight-headed eight-tailed serpent
24:19Yamata no Orochi
24:20And from its body drew the legendary treasure
24:23Kusanagi no Tsurugi
24:24What type of weapon is this treasure?
24:28A sword?
24:29That would be my guess
24:30A sword
24:30Yes
24:31Which hero of Greek mythology
24:32Was forced to serve the god Ares for eight years
24:35After killing a water dragon
24:36That guarded a spring sacred to him
24:39Near where this hero subsequently founded
24:41The city of Thebes?
24:42No idea
24:43Anyone?
24:45No, I know who founded Thebes
24:48Um
24:49I'm going to kick myself
24:52I'm not knowing
24:53Come on
24:53I don't know
24:54Don't know, move on
24:55Pass
24:55It's Cadmus
24:56Ten points in it
24:57Another starter question
24:57Chapter seven
24:58Of which 1847 novel
25:00Begins by declaring
25:02That one of its characters
25:03Quote
25:03Stayed at Thrushcross Grange
25:05Five weeks
25:06Till Christmas
25:06That character later listens
25:08To a travelling band
25:09Perform carols
25:09With Isabella Linton
25:11And Nellie Dean
25:12Doris Smith-Gaylor
25:13Wuthering Heights
25:14It is indeed
25:15Your bonuses are three questions
25:16On the first audio broadcast
25:18Made over the radio
25:19On Christmas Eve 1906
25:21Massachusetts-based Reginald Fessenden
25:23Began the first voice broadcast
25:25Over the radio
25:26With a short speech
25:27And also played
25:28The Largo
25:29From which composers
25:301738 opera
25:31Xerxes
25:32Don't know
25:33Handel
25:33How was that earlier?
25:36We can guess it
25:37Guess it
25:38Handel
25:38Yes
25:39The broadcast also included
25:40What Christmas carol
25:41Adapted from the French poem
25:43Minuit Chrétien
25:44And first set to music
25:45By composer Adolphe Adam
25:47Silent Night
25:48No
25:49That's German
25:50That's German
25:50Oh Holy Night
25:53Oh that's good
25:54Oh Holy Night
25:55Yes
25:55Fessenden also broadcasts
25:57A reading from which gospel
25:58That along with Matthew
25:59Is the only one to contain
26:00A Christmas narrative
26:01Oh
26:02It's Luke
26:04I think Luke
26:05Luke
26:06Yes
26:06Another start of question
26:07Linked to their belief
26:09That chocolate could provide
26:10A more ethical pleasure
26:11Than alcohol
26:12The confection
26:13Dormed in yet
26:14Quakers
26:14Yes it is Quakers
26:16Well done
26:16Your bonuses are three questions
26:18On vegetable varieties
26:19That have wintry names
26:20The white icicle
26:21And snow bell
26:22Are all white cultivars
26:24Of which vegetable
26:25Because of the season
26:26In which it is normally harvested
26:27The daikon
26:28Is sometimes known
26:29As the winter variety
26:30Of this vegetable
26:31Radish
26:31Radish
26:32Radish
26:32Yes
26:33Named for its prominent
26:34White globe
26:35The snowball
26:35Is a variety
26:36Of which root vegetable
26:37Of the genus brassica
26:38What's the one that looks
26:41Broccoli or cabbage
26:42No but with the globe
26:43It's the
26:44Kohlrabi
26:44Kohlrabi
26:45No it's turnip
26:46No it's turnip
26:46The tundra
26:47Winter king
26:47And january king
26:48Are all cultivars
26:50Of the savoy
26:51Variety
26:51Of which leafy vegetable
26:53Also in the genus brassica
26:54That's cabbage
26:55Yes cabbage
26:57Yes
26:57Let's start the question
26:58Which fashion designer
26:59Created the cone bra corset
27:01Worn by Madonna
27:02Daryl McLeod
27:03Jean-paul Gautier
27:04It is indeed
27:05Your bonuses are on symbols
27:07That may be found
27:08On an ordnance survey map
27:10First when located
27:11On a black line
27:12A pink rectangle
27:13Or a pink circle
27:14Denote what
27:15Oh railway station
27:22Yes secondly
27:23Pink triangles
27:24Are used to indicate what
27:25Youth hostels
27:27Is it
27:28I think it is
27:29Youth hostels
27:30Yes
27:30Finally what are indicated
27:32By the letters PH
27:33Public house
27:35Pub
27:35Yes
27:36Let's start the question
27:37Published in 2025
27:39Men in Love
27:40Is a sequel
27:41To which bestselling
27:42Debut novel
27:43That novel
27:44Was first published
27:45In 1993
27:45It opens with the line
27:46The sweat was lashing
27:48A face
27:48Sick boy
27:48And at the goal
27:51Manchester have 140
27:52And Durham have 200
27:54Well the answer
27:57To that last one
27:59As I think you knew
28:00Justin at least
28:00Was trainspotting
28:01Bad luck Manchester
28:03You started so well
28:04And were so extraordinarily
28:05Impressive
28:06And sort of knew
28:06All the answers
28:07To everything that you asked
28:08You just overlooked
28:09The fact that Durham
28:09Seemed to come alive
28:10In the last five minutes
28:11To go on these crazy rampages
28:12They knew more than us
28:13They essentially knew more
28:14Which is absolutely fundamental
28:15To this programme
28:16We weren't completely humiliated
28:19No you did superbly
28:21You were absolutely hugely impressive
28:23The aim of coming on here
28:24Is not to be humiliated
28:25That is the main thing
28:25And you achieved that aim
28:27Thank you very much
28:27So well done
28:27We've hugely enjoyed seeing you again
28:29Durham you do have this weird habit
28:30Of sort of not doing very much
28:31For the first 15 minutes
28:33And you're going on this
28:33Absolutely crazy run at the end
28:35Got you up to 200 points
28:36We don't yet know
28:37If that's going to be
28:38Enough for us to see you again
28:40But I think it's looking pretty good
28:42I hope you can join us next time
28:44For another match
28:44In this Christmas series
28:45But until then
28:46It is goodbye from Manchester
28:47Goodbye
28:48It's goodbye from Durham
28:50Goodbye
28:50And it's goodbye from me
28:52Goodbye
28:52And it's goodbye
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