Name: University Challenge - Christmas 2018 E03 Pembroke College Cambridge v Kings London
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are preparing to ding-dong merrily for our entertainment

in this short, sharp seasonal series for grown-ups.

But only the four highest-scoring winning teams

Now, the first player on the team fielded by Pembroke College,

Cambridge is both a columnist for the London Evening Standard

and a writer whose bestsellers include The Templars

and The Plantagenets. He's also presented

the Netflix series Secrets of Great British Castles.

With him, an athlete who won a gold medal

before going to work on conflict issues in Bosnia and Iraq.

Their captain is a very familiar face on television

having presented Channel 4's T4, E4's Tool Academy,

the BBC quiz Impossible and the podcast Science(ish).

who at 17 won the BBC's Young Musician of the Year competition.

as a soloist with many of the world's leading orchestras

and collaborated with Yehudi Menuhin and Dame Cleo Laine.

Let's meet the Pembroke College, Cambridge team.

Hi. I'm Dan Jones. I graduated from Pembroke in 2002

having read history, and I'm now a historian and a journalist.

I'm Cath Bishop. I graduated in modern and medieval languages

from Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1993.

After a career as an Olympic rower and a diplomat,

graduated in natural sciences from Pembroke, Cambridge in 2001

Hello. I'm Emma Johnson. I read music and English at Pembroke

and I'm a solo clarinettist, composter and arranger.

Playing them is the team from King's College, London,

which includes the co-founder of the Institute of Making,

which describes itself as a multidisciplinary research club

for people interested in making anything from soup to cities.

She's a panellist on Radio 4's The Kitchen Cabinet

and has recently presented BBC Four's The Secret Story of Stuff.

With her, a journalist, broadcaster and award-winning science writer

and, more recently, Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong.

became one of the UK's youngest TV news editors.

Since then, she's presented numerous programmes

including The Westminster Hour and Any Answers? on Radio 4,

And finally, an Ivor Novello award-winner

whose scores for television and cinema include Jeeves and Wooster,

The Crying Game, Poldark, and The Full Monty,

Let's meet the King's College, London team.

I'm Zoe Laughlin, I did my PhD in materials at King's College, London,

and I'm an artist, designer and materials engineer.

Hi. I'm Angela Saini, I received a Masters in science and security

And their captain. Hello. My name's Anita Anand.

present programmes about politics on Radio 4

and the Reith Lectures, and I write books about history and politics.

graduated from King's College with a BA in English.

Hello. I'm Anne Dudley. I was a postgraduate student at

King's College, studying for a Masters degree in musical analysis,

so I'll just tell you that it's 10 points for starters,

and if you interrupt a starter question incorrectly

Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for 10.

According to a tradition cited in the Encyclopaedia Britannica,

what seasonal item was created in the 19th century

by a Munich housewife who got fed up with being repeatedly asked,

You get a set of bonuses on Christmas-time gift-bearers.

Firstly, portrayed as an old lady riding a broomstick,

the friendly La Befana in Italian folklore

derives her name from which Christian festival

Secondly, known by similar names in other Nordic countries,

the Swedish julbok is a pre-Christian gift-bringer

In which country does St Basil the Great,

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