Morien Robertson

The House of Medici, an Italian banking family, donated an enormous amount of their wealth to support the arts in the 15th century, from funding the construction of Saint Peter's Basilica and Florence Cathedral to patronising some of the most famous Renaissance painters, like Botticelli and da Vinci. Their money indelibly shaped not just their contemporaries, but the groundwork of much of Western canonical art.

What links civilisation, liberalism, and globalisation? Many fascinating and profound debates in politics, naturally, but the quiz-player’s answer is book titles followed by ‘and its discontents’. The third of these books, Joseph Stiglitz’s classic attack on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, captured the myriad challenges and dilemmas generated by rapid interconnection of the global, politically and economically.

Universities have often been seen as bastions of radicalism. Forgetting the fact that higher educational institutions, particularly ancient and elite ones in the Anglophone world, are governed by centuries of tradition and incubate the next leaders of the establishment, many people think of Oxbridge as moments away from starting a second May 68.