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00:00Hello and welcome to the 2025 series of Christmas University Challenge.

00:23Incredibly, this alumni edition of the programme is now in its 15th year.

00:27And to celebrate that, we've decided to put on a special invitational tournament this

00:31Christmas featuring notable teams and players from each of the 14 series we've had so far.

00:37First to put their fingers back on the buzzers are the defending champions from Durham University.

00:41A little less than a year ago, these four beat Queen's College Cambridge in the closest final

00:45we've ever had on this alumni series. With less than 10 minutes to go, they were behind by 65

00:51points but came back to win by five. Thanks to their knowledge of Latin American politics,

00:56European geography and Joyce Kilmer's poem, Trees. Their line-up is unchanged from then and consists

01:02of a professor of art history at the University of Sussex, who specialises in the art of the

01:06Byzantine Empire. A journalist and broadcaster who's been the independence food critic,

01:11a judge on MasterChef and a presenter on numerous arts and music programmes.

01:15Their captain, the MP for Bristol Central and former co-leader of the Green Party,

01:20and an award-winning digital journalist, content creator and author of non-fiction books including

01:24the forthcoming How to Kill a Language. Let's hear them introduce themselves in the usual way.

01:30Hi, my name's Liz James and I graduated from Durham in 1985 with a degree in ancient history and archaeology.

01:37Hello, I'm Tracy McLeod. I graduated from Durham in 1982 with a degree in English.

01:42And their captain. Hi, I'm Carla Denia. I graduated in 2009 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.

01:48Hello, I'm Sophia Smith-Gaylor. I studied Spanish and Arabic at Durham and I graduated in 2016.

01:54APPLAUSE

01:56Their opponents tonight are the Manchester team who finished runners-up in our 10th Christmas series back in 2020.

02:04In their series final against the Courtauld Institute of Art, they were the team that got off to a strong start,

02:10only to find themselves overtaken in the final third. Before that point, however, they'd enjoyed two

02:15emphatic victories over Queens, Belfast and Loughborough, and given some very impressive answers on subjects

02:20ranging from poetry to Pac-Man. Again, all four of their original players have returned to play tonight.

02:26And they are a surgeon, particularly known for his work in disaster and war zones,

02:30for establishing a foundation to train other doctors in this field. A writer and filmmaker,

02:36whose books include the 2024 short story collection, The Woman in the Portrait. Their captain,

02:41a familiar face from many films and television shows, ranging from The Comic Strip Presents to Alien Earth.

02:47And a second actor and comedian whose credits include the franchise, This England and, of course, The Thick of It.

02:53Let's meet the Manchester team once again. Hello, my name is David Knott. I graduated from

02:58Manchester in 1981 reading medicine. Hello, my name is Juliette Jakes. I graduated from

03:05Manchester in 2003 with a degree in history. And their captain. Hello, I'm Adrian Edmondson.

03:11I graduated in 1978 with a fabulous degree in drama. I'm Justin Edwards. I graduated in 1990 with

03:20degrees in drama and French. Well, it's fabulous to see you back here again. Do you vaguely remember

03:28how this works? Yes. You're going to show off your general knowledge, answer the questions correctly,

03:33and then all will be wonderful. Welcome back. Very nice to see you. Fingers on buzzers. Here we go

03:37with your first Christmas starter for ten. Which long-running US television series began on the 17th of

03:44December 1989 with an episode... Manchester Edmondson. Spring, uh, The Simpsons. I'll accept that because

03:52it is Christmas and, um, Santa's feeling generous. But next time, got to get it right straight away,

03:57OK? Here we go. Uh, your bonuses then, Manchester. Three questions on political events that happened

04:03between the 19th and 28th of December 2011. That is, during the first ever series of Christmas

04:09University Challenge. Monday 19th of December saw the official announcement by state media

04:14of the death of which world leader said to have suffered a heart attack on his train two days prior.

04:20Other reports, however, suggest that he may have actually died at his home in Pyongyang.

04:24That would be Kim Il-sung. Kim. Kim Il-sung. Kim Il-sung. Yeah. Kim Il-sung. Not the first,

04:28not the big one. Do you know how to say it? Is it Kim Il-sung? I'm going to nominate Jake's. Kim Il-sung.

04:34Yes, of course, Kim Jong Il. On the 22nd of December, who, in his final state of the nation

04:38speech as Russian president, recommended a broad slate of anti-corruption reforms?

04:45Is that Medvedev? Oh, Medvedev, yeah. Is it Medvedev? Dimitri Medvedev? Medvedev?

04:53Medvedev. Yes, correct. Former Daily Mirror employees, including Piers Morgan and James Hipwell,

04:58testified on the 20th and 21st of December, respectively, before which judicial inquiry

05:03into the use of phone hacking by members of the press? The Leveson Inquiry. Yes.

05:08Piers Morgan, here's another starter question. Which major German city

05:12traces its foundation to the 1150s, when monks from a Benedictine foundation

05:17received the right to build a bridge and market where the road from Salzburg crosses the river

05:21Isar, a tributary of the Danube? Hence the city's name meaning home of the monks.

05:28Doran Smith-Gaylor. Munich. It is indeed Munich. Well done.

05:32Your bonuses, Doran, are three questions on reinterpretations of Claude Monet's Water Lilies

05:37paintings. Rendered in boldly coloured enamel on a stainless steel base to represent the reflective

05:43water, which US artist painted six versions of the Water Lilies in 1992? He had previously recreated

05:50Monet's paintings of Rouen Cathedral in his characteristic style inspired by the Ben Day dots used in printing.

05:58Don't look at me. I've never been printing Lichtenstein. I don't know. Oh yeah, Lichtenstein.

06:03I don't know what era he was. Go for it. 1992? Oh. Just go for it. Let's say Lichtenstein. Yeah, Lichtenstein.

06:10Yes, correct. First unveiled in 2023, Ai Weiwei's Water Lilies recreates Monet's work using 650,000

06:17of what objects? The artist Nathan Sawyer is also known for his use of these objects in artwork,

06:22such as yellow. Wait, wait. Is it the ceramic sunflower? Ceramic sunflower seeds. So the famous one in the

06:29Turbine Hall was the ceramic sunflower seeds. So are we saying ceramic beads or are we saying

06:33ceramic sunflower seeds or sunflower seeds? Make a choice. Because you said there was one that was

06:38called yellow. So was that because of sunflowers? I don't know. Let's do sunflower seeds.

06:43Sunflower seeds? I really enjoyed the way you worked that out but still got it wrong. Bad luck.

06:47It's Lego bricks. Bad luck. It was great telling. In a 2005 work entitled Show Me the Monet,

06:54which artist added shopping trolleys and traffic cones to an otherwise picturesque scene inspired by

06:59the Water Lilies series? Sounds like Banksy. I don't know if he makes installations of that sort

07:06though. He's done some. Okay. That would be my guess unless anyone's got a better idea. Banksy?

07:11Does sound like Banksy. Well done. Well done. Let's start the question, Rick. It's a picture round.

07:15For your picture starter, you're going to see a map of an historic county of the British Isles.

07:20For 10 points, give me the county's name. Durham James. Down. It is. Well done.

07:28For your picture starter then, Durham, you saw County Down, which in 2010 recorded the deepest

07:32lying Christmas Day snow ever in Northern Ireland. For your picture bonuses, I want you to identify

07:38three more areas which have set Christmas Day snow records. First, name this county which set the

07:44Welsh Christmas snow record also in 2010. Sure. Fairly sure. Gwyneth. Correct. Second,

07:55I want the three-word name of this council area which set the Scottish Christmas snow record in 1981.

08:01Three-word. Central. Lothian. Oh. No, Lothian is off to the side a bit, I think. Renfrew. If it is

08:12Central Scotland something, then what's the something? I don't know. Come on. No, should we pass? Pass, sorry.

08:17It's Perth and Kinross. Finally, name both of these counties which share the English Christmas snow record.

08:24Oh. Surely that's North Yorkshire. Which is the big one? Hmm. So, was it historic counties in which

08:31case it would just be Yorkshire? What's the other one? I'm thinking Derbyshire. I'm thinking Derbyshire.

08:36OK, let's say that. Come on. OK, Yorkshire and Derbyshire. I need something more specific.

08:41North Yorkshire and Derbyshire. Correct, I'll accept that. Right, another slightly question.

08:45What given name was shared by all of the following? The mother of Henry VI of England,

08:50the Portuguese princess, often credited with introducing tea drinking to England

08:54following her marriage to Charles II. And the Queen of England, whose final residence was Kimbo...

08:59Durham, James. Catherine. It was Catherine. Well done.

09:02Your bonuses, Durham, are on viruses that are frequent causes of the common cold.

09:07Which family of viruses is the primary cause of most common colds,

09:11also a common trigger for asthma attacks? They're named for their tendency to infect the nose.

09:15Rhinovirus, I'm pretty sure. Different. Rhinovirus. Yes.

09:20For what does the letter S stand in the abbreviation RSV, referring to a kind of respiratory virus

09:27that causes cold-like symptoms? This word comes from the name of the large structures formed

09:32when infected cells fuse together. Synapse? No, that's a brain thing.

09:39So it's respiratory something virus. Respiratory... Synovial.

09:44Err, no, that's in your joints. Synovial fluid. Is it?

09:48Respiratory... Come on. Oh, synovial. Syncytial.

09:54Another frequent cause of colds, adenoviruses, are named for the fact that they were initially

09:59isolated from a human adenoid, the uppermost of which set of infection-prone organs

10:04at the back of the mouth. Tonsils? Tonsils is good. Tonsils.

10:11Correct. Let's start with the question. Attached to the xiphoid process of the sternum,

10:16the inner surfaces of the lower ribs and the upper lumbar vertebrae via muscular crura,

10:20what large... Manchester knot. Diaphragm. It is a diaphragm. Well done.

10:25Your bonuses in Manchester are on countries visited by the novelist Graham Greene.

10:30In each case, identify the country from the description. First, a Caribbean country,

10:34somewhat smaller than Belgium. It was one of the earliest countries in the Americas

10:38to free itself from European rule and is the setting of Greene's novel, The Comedians.

10:42It's from Haiti. Haiti? Hang on. Is it? That was never British.

10:47It's from... It's from British rule.

10:49Um... Bob Adels. Bob Adels is very early in the end, isn't it?

10:57That's a good guess. I was thinking Jamaica.

11:04I don't know. We're going to say Jamaica. No, bad. I did say from European rule,

11:07not British, so it was, in fact, Haiti. Oh, no.

11:09Second, a West African country that gained independence in 1847, Greene's 1936 work,

11:15Journey Without Maps, describes a 350-mile journey on foot through the interior of this country.

11:20I think it might be Liberia because it was, like, an American protector.

11:31Liberia. We're going to say Liberia. Very well worked out, yes. Finally, a Southeast Asian

11:38country where Greene worked as a foreign correspondent in the 1950s and where his novel,

11:42The Quiet American, is set. Oh, really? Vietnam, is it? Vietnam.

11:50Yes. Well done. Let's start the question.

11:52Having used the Luis Compans Olympic Stadium as its home ground in both the 2023-24 and 2024-25

12:00seasons, which men's football team played the first Manchester Jenks? Barcelona.

12:05It is indeed. Well done, Manchester. Your bonuses are three questions about the 78th

12:10Tony Awards, which were held in 2025. Who won the award for best performance by a leading actress

12:15in a play for portraying all 26 characters in a one-woman stage adaptation of The Picture

12:20of Dorian Gray? Her television roles include Shiv Roy in Succession. Sarah Snook.

12:24Correct. Maybe Happy Ending, winner of the best musical award, is set in which country,

12:29where it also had its world premiere in 2016? It follows the love story between two abandoned

12:34human-like machines called Helperbots, who travel in the latter part of the play to Jeju Island.

12:41We've got nothing on the store. Can we guess a country?

12:44No. It's not Japan, is it?

12:46Japan. No, South Korea. The award for best actress in a musical was won by Nicole Scherzinger

12:51for her role as Norma Desmond in which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical?

12:55Sunset Boulevard. It is indeed. Puts in the lead. Just five points here. Music round now.

12:59And for your music starter, you're going to hear a piece of popular music. For ten points,

13:03name the band playing.

13:09Sarah McLeod. The Who. It is indeed The Who, of course.

13:13That was, of course, Baba O'Reilly by The Who, who in 2025 embarked on their second farewell tour,

13:19having undertaken their first in 1982 and toured several times since. For your music bonuses,

13:24you're going to hear songs by three bands that have had reunion tours in 2025. Five points for each band you

13:30can name. First, this band who played their farewell shows in 2017.

13:38So soon where, so soon where, so soon where, so soon where to hold the current. And we knew it,

13:44and we knew it, and we knew we only had a little while. In the middle, in the middle, in the middle,

13:51just keep ticking over. Come on. I think they might be a boy band. Come on, Darren, let's go.

14:04Pass. That's Pelican by The Maccabees. Next, this band who played their first farewell tour in 2004.

14:10This is the definition of my life. Binding bread in the sunrise. Choking on the lemons, I would stop the game and all the same.

14:22It's a little bit like the eels. I don't think it is, but if no one's got any eyes here, just go for it.

14:28The eels? Bad luck. That was Dry the Rain by The Beta Band. Finally, this band who played their first farewell tour in 2023.

14:35I know this one. Devo. Devo. It is indeed. Well done. That is wicked. Let's start the question now.

14:46Born in the Anatolian city of Patara in the late 3rd century CE, which early Christian became bishop of the nearby city of Myra,

14:55where his many miracles earned him the epithet, The Wonder Worker? His reputed generosity and his status as the patron saint of children contributed to...

15:03Manchester Edmondson.

15:05St Nicholas. It is St Nicholas. Well done.

15:07You looked so nervous when you gave that answer. Yeah, I wasn't sure.

15:10Well done. Your bonuses in Manchester are an English word that derive from the French verb

15:15veneer, meaning to come. For example, souvenir. In each case, give the word from the definition.

15:20First, a term used in the art world to indicate the source, origin or history of ownership of an artefact,

15:26for example, a painting.

15:27Provenance. Well done. Second, a derogatory word for an upstart or social climber, especially one seen to

15:33be vulgar or lacking in manners. Parvenu.

15:36Well done. Finally, a person who comes back from the dead or returns after a long absence.

15:40This word appears in the title of a film of 2015 directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu.

15:45Revenant. It is indeed. Well done.

15:48Let's start the question. In the premiere of a play by Caroline Bird in 2025, Maxine Peake appeared in the

15:54title role as which conservative campaigner who died in 2000...

15:59Manchester Edwards.

16:00Mary Whitehouse. It is indeed. Well done.

16:03Three questions for you, Manchester, on the actor Patricia Arquette.

16:07In which 1993 film does Arquette play sex worker Alabama Whitman, opposite Christian Slater as pop

16:13culture obsessive Clarence Worley? Written by Quentin Tarantino, its ensemble cast also includes

16:18Dennis Hopper and Gary Oldman.

16:19I think it's True Romance. Yeah, Pulp Fiction's 94, isn't it?

16:23No, it's not Pulp Fiction, sorry, it's Pulp Fiction. I'd say True Romance.

16:26Yeah, let's go with that. True Romance.

16:27It is. Fantastic film. Arquette's television roles include Harmony Cobell in which comedy-drama

16:33series that premiered on Apple TV in 2022? When the series starts, Ms. Cobell is head of a

16:39particular floor of employees at Lumen Industries? Severance. Yes. Arquette won the Academy Award for

16:45best supporting actress for playing the mother of Mason in which 2014 film by Richard Linklater,

16:50a coming-of-age story filmed over a period of 12 years? Boyhood. It is indeed. Yeah. Let's start

16:56the question. Named after the first patient diagnosed with it, Christmas disease is an

17:02alternative name for the B-type Manchester knot. Haemophilia. It is indeed. Well done. Your bonuses

17:09Manchester are on de-extinction projects that aim to either bring back extinct species or breed

17:14animals extremely similar to them. In July 2025, researchers at the University of Canterbury in

17:20New Zealand, in collaboration with the American biotech company Colossal Biosciences and with

17:25investment from filmmaker Peter Jackson, announced a project to attempt to de-extinct the giant species

17:31of what flightless bird? Dodo. Dodo. Or is it? Dodo's New Zealand. Yeah. Is it from New Zealand,

17:39the dodo? Ah, no. I think it was Africa. New, it's not from, dodo's not from New Zealand.

17:43Why would they do it then? For fun. Does the kiwi exist? Kiwi still exists. I think so,

17:51yeah. Come on. Dodo. Dodo. No, it's the mower. In January 2025, a third genetically modified grey wolf pup

17:58was born as part of Colossal Biosciences project to de-extinct what species of canine of late

18:04Pleistocene, North America. The pup was named Khaleesi. I don't have any idea. Name of a dog.

18:12A dog. A dog. A wolf of some sort.

18:19Pass. It's a dire wolf. Bad luck. The Tauros program is one of several projects that is attempting,

18:24through selective backbreeding, to de-extinct what animal, the ancestor of all modern domesticated

18:31cattle? The aurochs, is it? Is that what it's called? Aurochs? Is that what it's called?

18:35No idea. Aurochs. Correct. Well done. There you go. Now start the question. Together with Simone

18:41Beck and Louisette Bertoll, which American chef founded an informal cooking school in the early 1950s

18:47called L'Ecole des Trois Gourmands? She often wore a patch with the school's logo pinned to her blouse

18:53when presenting her first cookery show on PBS, The French Chef, as recreated on a recent biographical

18:58Durham McLeod. Julia Childs. Child. I'll tell you what, given I was generous to Adrian and

19:04Manchester, I'd be generous to you as well. I think you know that it's Julia Child as opposed

19:09to Child. Your bonuses, Durham, are on present-day national capitals that have hosted the Winter

19:15Olympics. In each case, I need you to give me the city from the year in which it served as host.

19:21First, 1952, marking the first time the Winter Olympics had been held in Europe outside of the Alps.

19:29Oslo? They've hosted it more recently than that.

19:33Oh, because of the Pyrenees.

19:35But they might well have done it before as well. That would be a good shout.

19:38Pyrenees, you said. No. Come on. She said Oslo. Oh.

19:44But if you've got a suggestion... No, Oslo.

19:46Shall we guess it? Let's guess it. Oslo? Yes. Second, in 1984, note that this city was at the time the

19:52capital of a state within a larger federated republic.

19:55I think this is Sarajevo.

19:58OK. Sarajevo.

20:00Well worked out. Finally, 2022.

20:03So, it was the most recent Winter Olympics.

20:05Was it not Beijing? I was just about to say, was it China?

20:08I think it was Beijing. Go for it.

20:10Yeah, OK, Beijing. Well done.

20:12Let's start the question. Picture round now.

20:13And for your picture starter, you'll see a painting.

20:16For ten points, name the artist.

20:20Manchester Jakes.

20:21Griegel?

20:22No, you can have a bit more time, Darryl, but you may not confer.

20:26Durham James.

20:27It isn't, but Lowry.

20:28That was Renoir. We'll take your picture bonuses in a moment.

20:30Let's start the question. What name is given in English to the ballet character known in French as

20:34La Faye Dragée? Dragée being the French term for a seed, nut or fruit covered in a hard shell of sweet syrup.

20:41Manchester Edwards.

20:42A sugared almond.

20:44No, I'm afraid you lose five points.

20:45She performs her namesake dance to her Celeste accompaniment.

20:48BUZZER

20:49Durham McLeod.

20:50Sugar Plum Fairy.

20:51It is the Sugar Plum Fairy. Your bonuses, Durham, are picture bonuses,

20:54because earlier you saw Renoir's Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne,

20:58depicting that Paris part in the snow.

21:00For your picture bonuses, you'll see three more paintings of Paris in the snow,

21:03all by artists born in Paris.

21:06Again, I want you to name the artist in each case.

21:09First, from 1875.

21:12Oh.

21:15Sorry, no idea.

21:16Any guesses?

21:17Monet.

21:19I need a wild guess.

21:20Monet?

21:22Let's go, Gann.

21:22Next, from 1878.

21:25Sorry, not my subject, can't help.

21:27Not my subject either, let's go Pizarro.

21:30Pizarro?

21:30No, that was Gustave Caillebotte.

21:32Finally, from 1870.

21:34Remember that one?

21:35Renoir?

21:36Cézanne?

21:37Cézanne.

21:38That's a good one.

21:38Cézanne?

21:40No, it's Manet.

21:41Let's start the question.

21:42I'm looking for the name of a scientist here.

21:45On Christmas night 1758, an observation made by German farmer Johann Palitsch confirmed which

21:51British scientist's prediction made over five decades prior, it is a synopsis of the astronomy of

21:56comets that a celestial object now named after him has an approximately...

22:00Manchester Jakes.

22:02Hallie.

22:02Yes, Hallie, of course, as in Hallie's from it.

22:05Your bonuses in Manchester, three questions on needles in 2025 popular culture.

22:10Released in the UK in 2025, The Girl with the Needle was nominated for the Academy Award for

22:15Best International Feature Film as a submission from which country?

22:18Set in the 1920s, it is based on the true story of serial killer Dagmar Oabi.

22:23I saw this, it was set in...

22:27Was he asking where it was set or where?

22:28Yeah.

22:29Was it not set in there?

22:30No, which country submitted it?

22:31Which country, yeah.

22:32I think it was made.

22:33Where was the film?

22:34The Netherlands.

22:35The Netherlands.

22:36No, it's Denmark.

22:36The main character, Hornet, wields a needle as her primary weapon in which 2025 video game,

22:42the sequel to an earlier platformer in which the player navigates the fallen kingdom of Hallownest?

22:47You're the youngest.

22:50You must know about that.

22:51I don't know video games after about 1994.

22:55Pass.

22:55That was Silksong, the sequel to Hollow Knight.

22:58Finally, as part of his Saturday closing set at Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage,

23:02which musician performed The Needle and the Damaged Dunn alongside his backing band,

23:06The Chrome Hearts?

23:09Well, that would be Neil Young.

23:10Yeah.

23:10Neil Young.

23:11It is Neil Young.

23:12Just over four minutes to go.

23:14Which area of London links the constituency represented by Clement Attlee between 1922 and 1950,

23:20a link tunnel completed in 1993 running between Canary Wharf and Wapping,

23:24thought to be the most expensive stretch of road constructed in Britain,

23:27and a namesake declaration by four former Labour cabinet members issued in 1981,

23:33which became the basis for the founding of the Social Democratic Party?

23:39Dora McClart.

23:40Is it Limehouse?

23:41It is the Limehouse Declaration, of course.

23:44Carl, I thought you knew about the left of British politics.

23:46Goodness me.

23:47Three questions for you on the killing of serpents in myth.

23:50Chapter 16 of the Bhagavata Purana relates the defeat of the serpent Kaliya,

23:55who had poisoned the waters of the Yamuna by which major Hindu deity?

23:59The eighth avatar of Vishnu.

24:02Krishna is the only one I know a name of.

24:05Krishna?

24:07Yes. One story in the Kojiki of Japan tells how the god Susanoo killed the eight-headed,

24:13eight-tailed serpent Yamata no Orochi and from its body drew the legendary treasure Kusanagi no Tsurugi.

24:20What type of weapon is this treasure?

24:21A sword. That would be my guess. A sword.

24:26Yes. Which hero of Greek mythology was forced to serve the god Ares for eight years

24:30after killing a water dragon that guarded a spring sacred to him near where this hero subsequently

24:35founded the city of Thebes? No idea. Anyone?

24:41No, I know who founded Thebes. Um...

24:46I'm going to kick myself for not knowing. Come on.

24:48I don't know. Don't know. Move on. Pass.

24:50It's Cadmus. Ten points in it. Another starter question.

24:52Chapter 7 of which 1847 novel begins by declaring that one of its characters, quote,

24:58stayed at Thrushcross Grange five weeks till Christmas?

25:02That character later listens to a travelling band perform carols with Isabella Linton and Nellie Dean.

25:07Doran Smith-Gaylor. Wuthering Heights.

25:09It is indeed. Your bonuses are three questions on the first audio broadcast made over the radio.

25:14On Christmas Eve 1906, Massachusetts-based Reginald Fessenden began the first voice broadcast over the

25:21radio with a short speech and also played The Largo from which composer's 1738 opera Xerxes?

25:27I don't know that under a ton.

25:28Oh. Handel? How was that earlier?

25:32We can guess it. Guess it.

25:33Handel. Yes. The broadcast also included what Christmas carol adapted from the French poem

25:38Minuit Chrétien and first set to music by composer Adolphe Adam?

25:42Silent Night. No, that's German. That's German.

25:47Oh, Holy Night. Oh, that's good. Oh, Holy Night.

25:50Yes. Fessenden also broadcasts a reading from which gospel that, along with Matthew,

25:54is the only one to contain a Christmas narrative?

25:57Oh.

25:58It's Luke.

25:59I think Luke.

26:00Luke. Luke.

26:01Yes. Another start of the question.

26:03Linked to their belief that chocolate could provide a more ethical pleasure than alcohol,

26:07the confection...

26:08Damn, didn't you?

26:09Quakers.

26:10Yes, it is Quakers. Well done.

26:11Yes.

26:11Your bonuses are three questions on vegetable varieties that have wintry names.

26:15The white icicle and snow bell are all white cultivars of which vegetable?

26:20Because of the season in which it is normally harvested,

26:22the daikon is sometimes known as the winter variety of this vegetable.

26:26Radish.

26:26Radish. Radish.

26:27Yes. Named for its prominent white globe,

26:30the snow ball is a variety of which root vegetable of the genus brassica?

26:34Oh, what's the one that looks... Broccoli or cabbage?

26:37No, but with the globe, it's the...

26:38Kohlrabi.

26:39Kohlrabi.

26:40No, it's turnip.

26:41The tundra, winter king and january king are all cultivars of the savoy variety of which leafy

26:47vegetable, also in the genus brassica?

26:49That's cabbage.

26:51Yes, cabbage.

26:52Yes. Let's start the question.

26:53Which fashion designer created the cone bra corset worn by Madonna?

26:57Daryl McLeod.

26:59Jean-Paul Gaultier.

27:00It is indeed.

27:01Your bonuses are on symbols that may be found on an ordnance survey map.

27:05First, when located on a black line, a pink rectangle or a pink circle denote what?

27:16Come on.

27:16Oh, railway station.

27:17Yes. Secondly, pink triangles are used to indicate what?

27:20Youth hostels.

27:22Is it?

27:23I think it is.

27:24Youth hostels.

27:25Yes.

27:25Finally, what are indicated by the letters PH?

27:29Public house.

27:30Pub.

27:31Yes.

27:31Let's start the question.

27:32Published in 2025, Men in Love is a sequel to which best-selling debut novel?

27:38That novel was first published in 1993.

27:40It opens with the line,

27:41The sweat was lashing her face.

27:43Sick boy.

27:43And at the goal, Manchester have 140 and Durham have 200.

27:48And the answer to that last one, as I think you knew, Justin, at least, was trainspotting.

27:57Bad luck, Manchester.

27:58You started so well and were so extraordinarily impressive and sort of knew all the answers

28:02to everything that you asked.

28:03You just overlooked the fact that Durham seemed to come alive in the last five minutes to go

28:06on these crazy rampages.

28:07They knew more than us.

28:08They essentially knew more, which is absolutely fundamental to this programme.

28:12We weren't completely humiliated.

28:14No, you did superbly.

28:16You were absolutely hugely impressive.

28:17The aim of what's coming on here is not to be humiliated.

28:20That is the main thing.

28:20And you achieved that aim.

28:21Thank you very much.

28:22We've hugely enjoyed seeing you again.

28:24Durham, you do have this weird habit of sort of not doing very much for the first 15 minutes.

28:28And you're going on this absolutely crazy run at the end.

28:30Got you up to 200 points.

28:31We don't yet know if that's going to be enough for us to see you again.

28:35But I think it's looking pretty good.

28:37I hope you can join us next time for another match in this Christmas series.

28:40But until then, it is goodbye from Manchester.

28:43Goodbye.

28:43It's goodbye from Durham.

28:45Goodbye.

28:46And it's goodbye from me.

28:47Goodbye.

29:17Goodbye.

29:18Goodbye.

29:19Goodbye.

29:20Goodbye.

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