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University Challenge.

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Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.

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APPLAUSE

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Hello. As the quarterfinal stage of this competition unfolds,

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we now know that the first team through to the semifinals is

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Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

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The institutions playing tonight

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both lost their first quarterfinal matches,

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so while the winners will get

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one last opportunity to make the semifinals,

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it's the minibus of broken dreams for the losers.

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The story so far for the team from Warwick University includes

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a convincing defeat of the University of Liverpool in round one

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and East London University in round two.

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Their first quarterfinal, though, was a less happy experience when,

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despite an early lead,

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they lost to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, by 90 points to 200.

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With an accumulated total of 520,

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let's meet the Warwick team again.

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Hello, I'm Sophie Hobbs. I'm from Birmingham and

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I'm studying French and History.

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Hiya, I'm Sophie Rudd, I'm from Lincolnshire and I'm studying

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Computer Science and its applications.

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And their captain.

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Hello, I'm Giles Hutchings.

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I'm from Farnham in Surrey and I'm studying Maths.

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Hello, I'm Thomas Van, I'm from Geneva in Switzerland,

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and I'm studying History.

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APPLAUSE

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Now, the team from the University of Bristol had

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a comfortable win in the first round

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with 210 points to Sheffield University's 130.

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Round two was even easier for them when they sent

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Oriel College, Oxford home by a margin of 265 points to 70.

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But then 70 was all they could muster when they were defeated

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by Corpus Christi College, Oxford,

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on 250 points, in their first quarterfinal.

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No doubt intending to recover their earlier form,

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with an accumulated score of 545,

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let's meet the Bristol team again.

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Hi, I'm Joe Rolleston, I'm from Tamworth in Staffordshire,

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and I'm training to teach History.

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Hi, I'm Claire Jackson, I'm from Carshalton in southwest London,

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and I'm studying for an MSCi in Paleontology and Evolution.

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And this is their captain.

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Hi, I'm Alice Clarke. I'm from Oxford and I study medicine.

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Hi, I'm Michael Tomsett, I'm from Hinkley in Leicestershire and

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I'm doing a PhD in Organic Chemistry.

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APPLAUSE

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OK, well, you all know the rules by now, so let's just get on with it.

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

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Meanings of what word link a South American monkey

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of the genus alouatta, a form of mathematical fallacy

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that produces a correct result

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in spite of an error in the calculation,

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a glaring blunder, especially an amusing one,

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and in the Harry Potter books,

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a magical letter sent to signify extreme anger...

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A howler.

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Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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These bonuses, Bristol, are on film locations,

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for your first outing in which you may confer.

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Firstly, for five points, which US national memorial features in

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both Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest

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and the 2007 film National Treasure: A Book Of Secrets.

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Mount Rushmore.

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Mount Rushmore.

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Correct. Which Vienna landmark features in both

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Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise and

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Carol Reed's The Third Man?

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In the latter, it's the location of

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Orson Welles' speech about cuckoo clocks.

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So it's the big, um, it's the wheel. What's the wheel called?

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The big Ferris wheel.

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Oh, in the parks, oh...

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Prada.

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-Prater?

-Prater.

-Yeah.

-Prater.

-Prater.

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No, it was the Giant Ferris Wheel.

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That was what we were looking for,

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not the name of the park, for the landmark.

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And, finally, which building features in the 1957 film

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An Affair To Remember, the 1993 Sleepless In Seattle,

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and both the 1933 and the 2005 versions of King Kong?

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-It's the Empire State Building.

-Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Right, ten points for this.

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Of which philosopher did Roger Scruton say,

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"He produced one of the most

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"difficult works of philosophy ever written,

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"aiming to show the limits of human reasoning

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"and at the same time to justify the use of our intellect..."

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Kant?

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It was Emmanuel Kant, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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In A Critique Of Pure Reason.

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So, you get a set of bonuses, Warwick,

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on the author Dorothy L Sayers.

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Sayers' fiction featured which author of detective stories,

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based to some extent on herself?

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Sayers eventually married her to another of her creations,

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Lord Peter Wimsey.

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-Is this another detective author?

-A female detective.

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Agatha Christie? A female detective, oh, fictional.

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Um...

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What was the name of the protagonist?

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-Dorothy L Sayers, who was the...

-Ms Marple?

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No, no, no, that's Agatha Christie. Who's Dorothy L Sayers?

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-She's famous for something.

-I don't know.

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She's famous for Peter Wimpole, actually.

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Sorry, we don't know.

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It was Harriet Vane.

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Secondly for five point, Sayers set one of her Wimsey novels

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in an advertising agency, having herself been

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a copywriter at SH Benson's.

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During her time there, she was credited with coining

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what four-word phrase about advertising?

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See it, want it? I don't know.

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-I can't think of any...

-The business of...

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-Business of, I think it might be...

-Business of aspiration?

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The business of aspiration?

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No, it's "it pays to advertise."

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Oh...

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And finally, Sayers' translation of what work was praised by

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Umberto Eco as the best in English,

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"in at least partially preserving the hendecasyllables and the rhyme?"

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-The Divine Comedy?

-I mean, Italian.

-Yeah.

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The Divine Comedy?

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Correct. APPLAUSE

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Right, ten points at stake for this.

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In road cycling and cricket, what six-letter adjective may precede

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bottle and wicket in expressions meaning an unauthorised...?

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Sticky.

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Sticky is correct, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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These bonuses, Warwick, are on artists and physicists.

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In each case, the surname of the former

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is the forename of the latter.

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I simply need the shared name.

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So, for example, Brian Thomas and Thomas Kuhn would give Thomas.

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-Understand?

-Yeah.

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OK, five points for this - two Welsh artists and siblings born in

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the 1870s, and a US physicist who received two Nobel Prizes

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for work in semiconductors and superconductors?

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-Cooper?

-Oh, it might be.

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Cooper?

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No, it's John. Gwen and Augustus John and John Bardeen.

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Secondly, an English Romantic painter, born 1789,

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and noted for grand, biblical themes,

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and a cosmologist who was appointed Astronomer Royal in 1995?

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Is that Martin Rees?

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I can't remember if he was Astronomer Royal.

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-You think Martin?

-Yeah, I think so.

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-Martin.

-It was John Martin and Martin Rees.

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And finally, the German surrealist who painted Ubu Imperator

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and an Austrian physicist who gives his surname

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to a number measuring speed relative to the speed of sound?

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Is that Mach? But it's Ernst Mach and it must be Max Ernst.

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Yeah.

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Ernst.

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Ernst is correct, Max Ernst and Ernst Mach.

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APPLAUSE We're going to take a picture round.

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For your picture starter,

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you'll see a map of part of Britain, showing two battlefields.

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For ten points,

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name the royal figure who commanded an army at both battles?

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Harold II.

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Harold II is correct, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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Stamford Bridge and Hastings.

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Your picture bonuses are three more maps showing battles

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associated with a particular royal commander.

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Firstly, which royal figure

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commanded at both the battles shown here?

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Top one's Culloden, isn't it?

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Is it?

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Near Inverness.

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Yeah, so if it's a royal figure, it's going to be...

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-Bonnie Prince...

-..James.

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-Or could be Prince Charlie.

-Yeah.

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Or was it Macbeth?

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-I think we better have an answer, please.

-Bonnie Prince Charlie.

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It was Bonnie Prince Charlie, yes. It was Prestonpans and Culloden.

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Secondly, which future King of England commanded

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at the battles shown here?

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-Is that...?

-Edward IV, I would say.

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Isn't that Henry V, Battle of Shrewsbury?

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Wait, no, it's not, no.

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Or Henry IV, is it?

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It's in Shakespeare's Henry IV, when he was... Maybe not, no.

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Let's have it, please.

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-Henry IV?

-No, it was Edward I.

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-Lewes and Evesham.

-Oh, of course.

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And finally, who was the principal royal commander at these battles?

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Oh...

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Would that be, if they're all grouped up like that, Charles I?

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-Yeah.

-OK.

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Yeah, Cornwall as well.

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I can't quite figure out what the Cornwall one is.

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Charles I.

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Correct. APPLAUSE

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Right, ten points for this.

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Published in 1915, which specific physical theory has, as

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a central principle, the equivalent of inertial and gravitational mass?

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General relativity.

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Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Right, these bonuses are on ancient philosophy, Bristol.

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Thought to be the first Western philosopher to deny

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that the universe owes its existence to God,

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who was the first of the so-called Milesian school of philosophers?

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Well, Thales is of Miletus.

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Yeah, it's the right place.

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Yeah.

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Thales?

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Yeah, Thales Miletus.

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Correct.

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What six-word term denotes the theories based on the concept

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that everything in the universe can be understood in terms of

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a single substance?

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In the case of Thales, that substance was water.

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-Is that going to be monism?

-Yeah.

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-Monism.

-Correct.

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Which pupil of Thales challenged his suggestion

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that Earth was supported by a sea of water,

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instead declaring it to be an object hanging in space?

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-Pupil of Thales...?

-Democritus?

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I was thinking of Heraclitus.

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-But it might be Zeno as well.

-You're more educated in it than me.

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It could be Democritus.

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-Democritus?

-Come on, let's have it, please.

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-Democritus.

-No, it's Anaximander.

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Ten points for this. The Penguin boardwalk and

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the limestone quarry are features of which island in Table Bay?

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From the early 1960s, until 1991, it served as South Africa's...?

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-Robben Island?

-Robben Island is right, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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These bonuses are on biochemistry, Bristol.

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Name the monosaccharides

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that constitute the following disaccharides.

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I need two answers in each case.

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First, maltose?

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That's glucose and sucrose.

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Yes, I think so.

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Glucose and sucrose.

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-No, it's glucose and glucose.

-Oh, yeah...

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Secondly, lactose?

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Galactose and glucose?

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Glucose, galactose.

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Correct. And finally, sucrose?

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-Fructose...

-And glucose.

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They are very similar, these things.

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They are!

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Fructose and gluctose.

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No, clearly it's just a slip of the tongue,

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but it is glucose and fructose.

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So I can't give you the point.

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Another starter question - the capital of the department of

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Haute-Vienne, which French city was particularly associated with the

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production of enamel from the Middle Ages, and since the 18th century,

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has been a major centre for the manufacture of porcelain?

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Lyon?

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No, anyone want to buzz from Bristol?

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Avignon?

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No, it's Limoges. Ten points for this.

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Believed by the US psychologist William H Sheldon

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to be associated with personality traits

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such as intellectualism and inhibition, what term from

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the Greek for "outside form" denotes a light and delicate body build?

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Endomorph?

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Anyone like to buzz from Bristol?

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-Ectomorph?

-Ectomorph is correct, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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You get a set of bonuses, Bristol, on darts.

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Firstly, for five,

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there are four possible three-dart checkouts for 158.

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Give any one of them.

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So it needs to be two singles and a double scored to check out.

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So, two singles and a double that add up to 158.

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Oh, no, it could be trebles as well.

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So you could get treble 20, 120, and then you've got 38 left to go,

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so 12 and double...

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six, would that be it? No.

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120 plus...

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Let's just say 10 for... No!

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-18... Yeah, treble 20, 20 and then double nine.

-OK.

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Nominate Tomsett.

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Treble 20, 20, and then double nine.

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No, it's treble 20, treble 20 and double 19.

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Or treble 20, treble 16 and the bull's-eye.

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Or treble 19, treble 17 and the bull's-eye.

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Or treble 18, treble 18 and the bull's-eye.

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AUDIENCE GROANS

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Right, give either of the two possible three-dart checkouts for 164?

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So, can you get to 160?

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We'll get to 114 and go for a bull.

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How can we get to 114?

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Treble 20, 120, 44...

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Treble 20 is not 120.

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Sorry, sorry, I'm chatting nonsense.

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Treble 20, treble...

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Treble 20, treble 18, bull.

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Nominate Tomsett.

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Treble 20, treble 18, bull.

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Correct! Well done.

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APPLAUSE

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You've not spent much time in the pub, have you?

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LAUGHTER

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Finally, what's the only three-dart checkout for 170?

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Treble 20, treble 20...

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Double...

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Treble 20, treble 20 is 120, and then a bull.

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Yeah, treble 20, treble 20, bull.

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-Nominate Tomsett.

-Treble 20, treble 20, bull.

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Well done, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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Another starter question.

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Known as the Great and the Younger respectively,

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what five-letter name is shared by the founder, in about 550 BC...?

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Akbar.

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No, I'm afraid you lose five points.

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..550 BC of the Achaemenid Dynasty, and the Persian...?

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Cyrus.

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Cyrus is correct, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses are on mothers and daughters.

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In each case, name both people from the descriptions, Bristol.

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Firstly, the Booker-Prize-nominated Indian author of

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Clear Light Of Day,

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Fasting, Feasting,

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and In Custody, and the

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Booker-Prize-winning Indian-American author of The Inheritance Of Loss?

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-No idea.

-Don't know.

-Let's just pass.

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Pass.

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It's Anita Desai and Kiran Desai.

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Secondly, a biographer of Queen Victoria and the Duke of Wellington,

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and a historical biographer whose book,

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Must You Go?, celebrates her life with Harold Pinter.

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Antonia Fraser is the daughter, who's the mother?

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I don't know.

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Sarah...?

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-Sarah Fraser, Antonia Fraser?

-No, it's not.

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It's Antonia Fraser and Elizabeth Longford.

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And finally, the authors of

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A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women and Frankenstein?

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Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft.

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-Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft.

-Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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We're going to take a music round now. Listen carefully.

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For your music starter,

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you're going to hear two excerpts from pieces of popular music.

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Listen to both, and I'd like the names of both bands.

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# Make me a deal and make it straight

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# All signed and sealed, I'll take it

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# To Robert E Lee, I'll show it

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# I hope and pray he won't blow it, cos... #

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# And you may find yourself in a beautiful house

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# With a beautiful wife

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# And you may ask yourself, well... #

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Dire Straits and Talking Heads?

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No, anyone like to buzz from Bristol?

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No, I'll tell you, it's Roxy Music and Talking Heads.

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So music bonuses in a moment or two.

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Another starter question in the meantime.

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Spell both names of the two cities in the order they're described.

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The first is the capital of Lower Normandy,

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where William the Conqueror is buried,

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the second is a resort on the Riviera...?

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C-A-E-N and C-A-N-N-E-S.

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Correct, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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You remember you heard music from Roxy Music - well,

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you didn't remember, obviously. LAUGHTER

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As a member of Roxy Music, Brian Eno played on the first track you

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heard, and later produced the second track, which was the Talking Heads.

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Your bonuses are three more pairs of tracks.

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In each case, either the artist or a member of the band performing

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the first track was the producer of the second.

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For five points,

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I want the names of the performers or bands of both tracks.

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Firstly, the name of the vocalist on the first piece,

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and the band performing the second.

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# Oliver's army is here to stay

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# Oliver's army are on their way

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# And I would rather be anywhere else

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# But here today... #

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I'm not going to know this though.

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# But when we got back, labelled parts, one to three

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# There was no pair of brown eyes waiting for me... #

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Elvis Costello and the Pogues.

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That's correct, yes.

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Secondly, both of these bands?

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# It's not the perfume that you wear

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# It's not the ribbons in your hair

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# And I don't want you coming here

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# And wasting all my time... #

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# Ooh-ooh

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# But you know I'm yours

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# Ooh-ooh

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# And I know you're mine

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# Ooh-ooh

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# And that's for all time

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# Wee-ooh, I look just like Buddy Holly

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# Oh-oh, and you're Mary Tyler Moore... #

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Weezer.

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-Oh, yeah. So who'd be the first?

-I don't know.

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It's Weezer and one other.

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We don't know.

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The first track was The Cars.

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And Weezer was the second track.

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Finally, these two artists?

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SPIKEY FUNK MUSIC

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So, that's David Bowie.

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-# Fame

-Fame

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# Makes a man take things over

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-# Fame

-Fame

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# Let's him loose, hard to swallow... #

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# I see the bright and hollow sky

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# Over the city's ripped backsides

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# And everything... #

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-David Bowie, Iggy Pop.

-Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Right, ten points for this.

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Born in north Germany in 1777,

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which mathematician's works include the Disquisitiones Arithmeticae,

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the first systematic exposition of algebraic number theory?

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-Gauss?

-Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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You get three bonuses, Warwick, on duelling.

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Firstly, after a clash in the House of Commons in 1798,

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which political figure fought an inconclusive duel in Putney

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with George Tierney, a prominent opponent of his policy?

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Oh, gosh, who's this?

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I know, it comes up all the time.

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Anyone any ideas?

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-No, sorry, don't know.

-That was William Pitt the Younger.

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In a duel in Kentucky in 1806,

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who received a bullet in the chest from his opponent,

0:20:200:20:23

Charles Dickinson, whom he then shot and killed?

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He later became the seventh president of the United States.

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-Jackson.

-Is it Jackson, are you sure?

-Think so, yeah.

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-Jackson.

-Correct.

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As Foreign Secretary in 1809, which future Prime Minister fought an

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inconclusive duel with the Secretary of War, Viscount Castlereagh?

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-1809...

-And then he would have been Prime Minister 10s or 20s...

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-Canning?

-Shall I go with that?

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-Canning?

-Correct.

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APPLAUSE Ten points for this.

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In the 14th century, Simon Sudbury...?

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-Wat Tyler?

-No, you lose five points.

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William Courtney and Thomas Arundel were successive holders of

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which specific office?

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-Duke of Norfolk.

-No, they were Archbishops of Canterbury.

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Ten points for this.

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The name of which capital city means "elephant's trunk" in Arabic?

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It is situated close to the confluence

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of the Blue Nile and the White Nile.

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Khartoum.

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Khartoum is correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses this time are on anatomy, Warwick.

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In each case, give the term from the description.

0:21:240:21:26

All three begin with the same two letters.

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Firstly, the second cervical vertebrae,

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that is the one immediately below the atlas?

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It might be the sacrum.

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-Or is the atlas all the way up here?

-I have no idea.

-Sacrum?

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No, it's the axis.

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Secondly, an elongated fibre of a nerve cell

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that conducts outgoing impulses?

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-Axon.

-Correct.

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Finally, the Latin name of the armpit?

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-Axilla.

-Correct. APPLAUSE

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We're going to take a second picture round now.

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For your picture starter, you'll see a painting,

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inspired by a 19th-century poem.

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For ten points, I need the title of the poem, please.

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-The Lady Of Shalott.

-Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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That was The Lady Of Shalott, by John William Waterhouse.

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For your picture bonuses,

0:22:120:22:13

three more paintings by Waterhouse of fictional women.

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This time, in each case, I'm looking for the name of the character.

0:22:160:22:20

Firstly, who is this figure from classical literature?

0:22:200:22:23

Erm...

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Anyone have any ideas?

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-Dido?

-Or Circe was a pig?

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Oh, there is a boar, yeah. Shall I go with Circe?

0:22:300:22:33

-Circe?

-It is Circe, offering the cup to Ulysses.

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Secondly, who's the figure on the left here,

0:22:360:22:38

again from classical sources?

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Oh, is this the one who kills herself to go to Troy?

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So they can all go to Troy?

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-I can't think of her.

-Eris?

0:22:500:22:53

I have nothing. Shall I go with that?

0:22:530:22:55

Eris?

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No, it's Medea.

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And finally, who's this character from a 17th-century work?

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Something by John Milton or...?

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One was the Faerie Queene.

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-Yeah?

-Gloriana, maybe.

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Gloriana.

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No, it's Miranda, from the Tempest.

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Right, ten points for this starter question.

0:23:140:23:16

Derived from the ancient Greek use of pebbles when casting votes,

0:23:160:23:20

what term...?

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Oh, no... Erm...

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-I'm sorry...

-Ostracism?

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No, I'm afraid you lose five points.

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What term describes the scientific study of elections?

0:23:280:23:31

None of you is going to buzz from Bristol?

0:23:350:23:37

Feminology?

0:23:370:23:38

No, it's psephology.

0:23:380:23:40

Right, ten points for this.

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In a short opera, first performed in 1930, what name did Kurt Weill

0:23:420:23:46

and Bertolt Brecht give to an allegorical city,

0:23:460:23:49

perceived at first to be a utopia of idleness and pleasure?

0:23:490:23:54

It was Mahagonny. Ten points for this.

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Towns whose names are also nouns meaning public recital,

0:24:010:24:04

virginity and bog or mirey place are linked by...?

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Head.

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No, I'm afraid you lose five points.

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Are linked by which major river and valley of the UK?

0:24:140:24:17

-Thames?

-Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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So your bonuses, Warwick, are on Scotland.

0:24:250:24:27

On which island is Dunvegan Castle, the home of the clan MacLeod?

0:24:270:24:32

Arran, Skye, Rhum?

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-Yeah, Arran.

-Arran.

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No, it's Skye.

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Secondly, a stronghold of the MacNeil clan, Kisimul Castle lies

0:24:360:24:40

on an island close to Castlebay on which island of the outer Hebrides?

0:24:400:24:45

Outer Hebrides?

0:24:450:24:47

Could be Uist, North Uist, South Uist, Lewis and Harris?

0:24:470:24:50

Lewis and Harris?

0:24:500:24:51

No, it's Barra.

0:24:510:24:52

And finally, both associated with Clan Maclean,

0:24:520:24:55

Moy Castle and Duart Castle are on which island?

0:24:550:24:59

Shall I go with Arran this time? Arran?

0:24:590:25:01

No, it's Mull.

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There are 2.5 minutes to go, there are ten points for this.

0:25:020:25:05

The yellowhammer belongs to which group of finch-like songbirds?

0:25:050:25:08

Other species that may be seen in Britain include the

0:25:080:25:11

corn, Lapland, reed and snow.

0:25:110:25:15

Warbler.

0:25:150:25:16

I'm sorry, I'm going to have to fine you five points.

0:25:160:25:19

-Thrush?

-No, they're buntings.

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Ten points for this.

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Until the 19th century,

0:25:220:25:23

about 90% of the territory of which present-day country was occupied

0:25:230:25:28

by speakers of the Pama-Nyungan group of indigenous languages?

0:25:280:25:32

-Australia.

-Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses are on church architecture, Warwick.

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Derived ultimately from the Latin for wing, what term denotes

0:25:440:25:47

an area extending parallel to the main body of a church?

0:25:470:25:50

It may also indicate a passage or walkway.

0:25:500:25:53

-Apse?

-Is it apse?

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-Apse.

-No, it's the aisle.

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In a cruciform-plan church, what name is given to the arms

0:25:580:26:01

that project at right angles from the main body of the building?

0:26:010:26:04

Part of the nave?

0:26:040:26:06

No, they've got specific names, I can't think what it is.

0:26:060:26:09

Any idea?

0:26:090:26:10

-Nave.

-No, they're transepts.

0:26:100:26:12

What term describes the main part of a church,

0:26:120:26:15

flanked by the aisles and extending...?

0:26:150:26:17

-Nave.

-Correct. APPLAUSE

0:26:170:26:20

Ten points for this. "I'm making many books, there is no end.

0:26:200:26:23

"And much study is a weariness of the flesh."

0:26:230:26:26

These words appear in which book of the Old Testament?

0:26:260:26:28

In the King James Bible, it comes between Proverbs and Song Of Songs.

0:26:280:26:34

Psalms.

0:26:360:26:37

No, anyone like to buzz from Bristol?

0:26:370:26:39

-Judges.

-No, it's Ecclesiastes.

0:26:420:26:44

Ten points for this.

0:26:440:26:45

In 1613, the Globe Theatre was burned to the ground after

0:26:450:26:48

a cannon misfired during a production of which...?

0:26:480:26:52

Henry V.

0:26:530:26:54

No, I'm afraid you're going to be fined five points.

0:26:540:26:57

..production of which play, thought to have been

0:26:570:26:59

a collaboration between William Shakespeare and John Fletcher?

0:26:590:27:02

Come on, one of you buzz, Warwick.

0:27:040:27:07

I'll tell you, it's Henry VIII.

0:27:070:27:09

Ten points for this.

0:27:090:27:10

Which Austrian director's first sound film was entitled M,

0:27:100:27:14

and concerned...?

0:27:140:27:16

Fritz Lang!

0:27:160:27:17

Fritz Lang is correct.

0:27:170:27:18

APPLAUSE

0:27:180:27:19

You take the lead. Your bonuses are on astronomy and chemistry.

0:27:210:27:24

The name of which element contains the name of

0:27:240:27:26

a large moon of the solar system?

0:27:260:27:28

Number 22 in the periodic table,

0:27:280:27:30

it's a metal noted for its high strength-to-weight ratio.

0:27:300:27:33

-Titanium.

-Correct.

0:27:330:27:35

GONG

0:27:350:27:37

And at the gong, Bristol have 110, but Warwick have 120.

0:27:370:27:39

APPLAUSE

0:27:390:27:42

Well, Bristol, you had the lead much of the way, and I thought you

0:27:420:27:44

were going to do it, but you know, you were pipped at the post.

0:27:440:27:48

But we'll have to say goodbye to you then, I'm afraid.

0:27:480:27:50

Warwick, congratulations, well done.

0:27:500:27:52

You like living dangerously, but well done.

0:27:520:27:56

I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal match.

0:27:560:27:58

-But until then, it's goodbye from Bristol University...

-Goodbye.

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-It's goodbye from Warwick University...

-Goodbye.

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And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.

0:28:040:28:06

APPLAUSE

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