Question on the University Challenge final last night:
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(Filed: 13/04/2004)
Q: What two letters link a unit of Avoirdupois weight equivalent to 437.5 grains with a magazine indicted in 1971 on charges including "conspiracy to corrupt the morals of liege subjects of Her Majesty the Queen by raising in their minds inordinate and lustful desires"?
Holdcroft, Magdalen: GQ?
No! laughs Paxman
Warner: LB?
No, it's OZ.
Q: It's like "a piece of drama, but has pulled off the trick of dispensing with a script . . . It's where the entire realist movement in 20th-century art was leading." To which television series do these words, part of an appreciation by a broadsheet columnist, refer?
A: Big Brother (quote from Caspar Llewellyn Smith, The Observer) answered correctly by Holdcroft, Magdalen.
Q: "The shape, the efficiency, the simplicity is really the endpoint of Cartesian perfection." Of what vehicle did the broadsheet columnist Zoe Williams write in 2003: "the perfect clunk-click of symbiosis that people associate with nooky is completely expressed . . ."?
Magdalen: Concorde?
Caius: Aston Martin?
Paxman: No, the bicycle.
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