0:00:19 > 0:00:21University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:33Hello and welcome to the first match of the 2011 to 2012 University Challenge Championship.
0:00:33 > 0:00:37The team who win won't necessarily be the most intelligent people in Britain,
0:00:37 > 0:00:41but they will know a lot, lot more than most of us, irritating.
0:00:41 > 0:00:46But it won't be enough for them to tell us the simple things like the square root of minus 1
0:00:46 > 0:00:50or whether Picasso's blue period came before or after his rose one.
0:00:50 > 0:00:54They will also have to demonstrate the occasional passing acquaintance with real life,
0:00:54 > 0:00:59like what a washing machine looks like. The University of Warwick came into being in 1965.
0:00:59 > 0:01:03It's a campus university notably located much nearer to Coventry than Warwick
0:01:03 > 0:01:07and is known for its close relationship with the business community
0:01:07 > 0:01:11which earned it the warm embrace of New Labour in the 1990s.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14Alumni include the singer Sting and the comedy writer Stephen Merchant
0:01:14 > 0:01:17and Germaine Greer is Professor Emeritus of English.
0:01:17 > 0:01:22This is Warwick's 13th appearance since this series relaunched in 1994
0:01:22 > 0:01:26and they were series champions in 2007.
0:01:26 > 0:01:30Representing around 21,000 students and with an average age of 23,
0:01:30 > 0:01:33let's meet the Warwick team.
0:01:33 > 0:01:37Hi, I'm Martin, I'm from Sheffield and I study Mathematics.
0:01:37 > 0:01:41Hi, I'm Celia and I'm from Canada and I'm reading for a PhD in Film.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44- And their captain.- Hi, I'm Tom, I'm from Shepperton in Surrey
0:01:44 > 0:01:47and I'm studying for a PhD in Physics.
0:01:47 > 0:01:49Hi, I'm Sumac, I'm from Oxford,
0:01:49 > 0:01:52I'm studying for a degree in politics, philosophy and economics.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55APPLAUSE
0:01:55 > 0:02:00The University of Edinburgh's foundation is attributed to Bishop Robert Reid of Orkney
0:02:00 > 0:02:04who on his death in 1558 left the money for its foundation.
0:02:04 > 0:02:08It got its royal charter from James VI in 1582.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11Since then, alumni have included the philosopher David Hume,
0:02:11 > 0:02:16Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Gordon Brown and the former CEO of BP Tony Hayward.
0:02:16 > 0:02:21This is Edinburgh's 15 appearance on University Challenge since the series returned,
0:02:21 > 0:02:24more than any other non-collegiate institution.
0:02:24 > 0:02:27But the series championship has so far eluded them.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29Representing around 29,000 students
0:02:29 > 0:02:33and with an average age of 22, let's meet the team.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36Hi, I'm Ben Wynne, originally for Witley in Surrey
0:02:36 > 0:02:39and I'm studying for a PhD in Particle Physics.
0:02:39 > 0:02:43Hi, I'm Mark Allen, originally from north Cheshire
0:02:43 > 0:02:46- and I'm reading History. - And their captain.
0:02:46 > 0:02:47Hi, I'm Tim MacDonald,
0:02:47 > 0:02:50originally from Canterbury in Kent and I'm studying Law.
0:02:50 > 0:02:54Hi, I'm Tom Facer, I'm from Leeds and I'm studying Mathematics.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57APPLAUSE
0:02:59 > 0:03:03OK, the rules are the same as they always are. Ten points for starters, 15 for bonuses,
0:03:03 > 0:03:08five-point fines for interruptions to starter questions. Here's your first starter for ten.
0:03:08 > 0:03:15Meanings of what five-letter word include, in law, children or progeny, in commerce...
0:03:15 > 0:03:19- Issue.- Issue is right, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:03:19 > 0:03:23The first set of bonuses tonight are on the European Alps.
0:03:23 > 0:03:27The Hohe Tauern, a mountain range in the eastern Alps,
0:03:27 > 0:03:31includes the Grossglockner, the highest mountain in which country?
0:03:31 > 0:03:34- Slovenia.- No, it's Austria.
0:03:34 > 0:03:40The mountain called Mont Cervin in French and Monte Cervino in Italian, both meaning deer-like mountain,
0:03:40 > 0:03:46referring to its curved peak, is known in the UK by what German name meaning meadow peak?
0:03:50 > 0:03:53- Sorry, we don't know. - That's the Matterhorn.
0:03:53 > 0:03:58Lying on the border between Italy and Austria, which is the lowest of the main Alpine passes
0:03:58 > 0:04:03and was the site of meetings between Hitler and Mussolini during the Second World War?
0:04:06 > 0:04:09- Tyrell?- No, it's the Brenner Pass. Ten points for this.
0:04:09 > 0:04:15"I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of anyone."
0:04:15 > 0:04:20These words appeared in a later edition of which work, first published in 1859?
0:04:22 > 0:04:24- The Origin Of Species.- Indeed.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27APPLAUSE
0:04:27 > 0:04:30Your first set of bonuses, Warwick, are on bacteria.
0:04:30 > 0:04:36From the Greek for "to eat," what name is given to a virus that infects bacteria?
0:04:38 > 0:04:43- Phage?- Phage is right. What name is given to the cycle in which phages
0:04:43 > 0:04:46incorporate their nucleic acid into the chromosome of the host cell
0:04:46 > 0:04:49and replicate with it as a unit without destroying the cell?
0:04:49 > 0:04:53- Symbiosis?- No, it's the lysogenic cycle or lysogeny.
0:04:53 > 0:04:59And finally for five points, a lysogenic strain of the streptococcus pyogenes bacteria
0:04:59 > 0:05:03produces an erythrogenic toxin that leads to which illness
0:05:03 > 0:05:07similar to strep throat but with a characteristic red rash?
0:05:09 > 0:05:14- Meningitis?- No, it's scarlet fever or scarlatina. Ten points for this.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17"Quite the most complimentary meaning of the adjective from his name
0:05:17 > 0:05:20"is the terrible descriptive style of writing.
0:05:20 > 0:05:24"The more general meaning is licentious and coarsely erotic."
0:05:24 > 0:05:29These words from an 1898 reference work refer to which French novelist
0:05:29 > 0:05:32whose works include The Debacle and Germinal?
0:05:34 > 0:05:38- Zola.- Zola is right, or Zolaesque.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41APPLAUSE
0:05:41 > 0:05:45Your bonuses, Warwick, are on innovations is Greek drama.
0:05:45 > 0:05:50What term for an actor is derived from the name of the man often said to have been the first performer
0:05:50 > 0:05:53in Greek drama to stand apart from the chorus.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58- Thespian. - Thespian from Thespis is correct.
0:05:58 > 0:06:02The Persians, written in about 472BC, in one of the earliest works
0:06:02 > 0:06:09by which dramatist, credited with introducing a second actor alongside the existing protagonist and chorus?
0:06:12 > 0:06:15- Aristophanes?- No, it's Aeschylus.
0:06:15 > 0:06:21Which dramatist from the fifth century BC, of whose many tragedies only seven complete plays survive,
0:06:21 > 0:06:26is credited with introducing painted scenery and a third actor into the performance?
0:06:28 > 0:06:32- Sophocles.- Sophocles is correct. Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:06:32 > 0:06:39Deep resonant sound and sculpture, for example, of Nefertiti or the Tusculum portrait of Caesar,
0:06:39 > 0:06:46are alternative definitions of what pair of words used colloquially of economic cycles?
0:06:49 > 0:06:53- Boom and bust?- Yes. - APPLAUSE
0:06:53 > 0:06:57Right, Edinburgh, this set of bonuses are on a shared place name.
0:06:57 > 0:07:01Suffering extensive fire damage during the American Civil War
0:07:01 > 0:07:06during the occupation led by General Sherman, which city is the state capital of South Carolina?
0:07:12 > 0:07:15- Is it Charlottesville or something? - Charlotte?
0:07:15 > 0:07:18- Charlotte?- No, it's Columbia.
0:07:18 > 0:07:22The Canadian province of British Columbia is bordered by Alaska to the northwest
0:07:22 > 0:07:27and by three other American states to the south. Washington is one. What are the other two?
0:07:33 > 0:07:37- Montana and Idaho.- Correct. The District of Columbia,
0:07:37 > 0:07:39with which the city of Washington is coextensive,
0:07:39 > 0:07:44lies on the bank of which river forming the border between Maryland and West Virginia?
0:07:44 > 0:07:47- The Potomac.- Correct.
0:07:47 > 0:07:51We're going to take a picture round now. For your starter, I want you to give me
0:07:51 > 0:07:55the alpha-numeric designation of what you see illustrated.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59- AK-47?- It is an AK-47, yes.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02APPLAUSE
0:08:02 > 0:08:06Most widely manufactured and sold weapon in the world, apparently.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09Following the AK-47, three more diagrams of assault rifles.
0:08:09 > 0:08:15So any long night misspent on the computer game Call Of Duty tremendously useful.
0:08:15 > 0:08:19Identify the rifle in each case. First for five, the name of this rifle.
0:08:21 > 0:08:27- An M-4.- Oh, no, that's an M-16. Secondly, this one.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33- Nominate Wynne.- An MP5?
0:08:33 > 0:08:36No, that's a SCAR, the Special Forces' weapon.
0:08:36 > 0:08:41And finally, this French-designed assault rifle, adopted by the French army in 1978.
0:08:48 > 0:08:53- We don't know, sorry.- That's a... You should've spent more time playing this game, you know?
0:08:53 > 0:08:57That's a FAMAS. OK, ten points for this. Being the plane of the Earth's orbit
0:08:57 > 0:09:03projected onto the celestial sphere and therefore inclined at 23.5 degrees to the celestial equator,
0:09:03 > 0:09:06what astronomical line traces out...
0:09:06 > 0:09:10- Ecliptic. - The ecliptic is correct, yes.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12APPLAUSE
0:09:12 > 0:09:18These bonuses, Warwick, are on rodents. What is the alternative name for the nutria,
0:09:18 > 0:09:21a large aquatic South American rodent with webbed hind feet
0:09:21 > 0:09:24found in the wild but also bred for its fur?
0:09:29 > 0:09:32- Vermin?- No, it's a coypu. Which rodent is the biggest in the world,
0:09:32 > 0:09:37a close relative of the guinea pig, it's regarded as a delicacy and is eaten in Venezuela during Lent?
0:09:37 > 0:09:41- Capybara?- Correct.
0:09:41 > 0:09:46Brevicaudata and lanigera are the two species of which small rodent, native to the Andes?
0:09:46 > 0:09:51It's been hunted almost to extinction in the wild for its thick silver-grey fur.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57- Chinchilla?- Chinchilla. - Chinchilla is correct.
0:09:57 > 0:10:01Ten points for this. Quote, "Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could,
0:10:01 > 0:10:07"we women won't hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation."
0:10:07 > 0:10:13From a letter of 1776, these are the words of which future first lady of the United States?
0:10:13 > 0:10:18- Abigail Adams.- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:10:18 > 0:10:23Your bonuses are on George Orwell's essay on Charles Dickens. I want you to name the novel by Dickens
0:10:23 > 0:10:28that Orwell is describing. Firstly, "The mental atmosphere of the opening chapters
0:10:28 > 0:10:33"was so immediately intelligible to me that I vaguely imagined they'd been written by a child.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35"And yet, when one re-reads the book
0:10:35 > 0:10:39"and sees the Murdstones dwindle from gigantic figures of doom
0:10:39 > 0:10:43"into semi-comic monsters, these passages lose nothing."
0:10:48 > 0:10:51- David Copperfield.- Correct.
0:10:51 > 0:10:56"In the chapters dealing with the riots, Dickens shows a most profound horror of mob violence.
0:10:56 > 0:11:03"He delights in describing scenes in which the dregs of the population behave with atrocious bestiality."
0:11:05 > 0:11:08- The Tale Of Two Cities? - No, that's Barnaby Rudge.
0:11:08 > 0:11:13And finally for five, "His greatest success is not a story at all, merely a series of sketches.
0:11:13 > 0:11:17"There's little attempt at development. The characters simply go on and on
0:11:17 > 0:11:19"behaving like idiots in a kind of eternity."
0:11:25 > 0:11:29- Is it The Pickwick Papers.- It is! That gives you the lead. Well done.
0:11:29 > 0:11:34Ten points for this. Answer as soon as you buzz. How many years separate the defeat of the Spanish Armada
0:11:34 > 0:11:37from the Battle of Britain?
0:11:41 > 0:11:43- 352.- Correct.
0:11:43 > 0:11:46You retake the lead.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49Your bonuses are on a shared prefix.
0:11:49 > 0:11:54In ancient belief systems, including Hinduism and Greek and Egyptian mythology,
0:11:54 > 0:11:57what is the object of veneration in ophiolatry?
0:12:03 > 0:12:06- Entrails of animals? - No, it's snakes.
0:12:06 > 0:12:11Derived from the Greek for snake rock, ophiolite was the name once given to igneous rocks
0:12:11 > 0:12:15composed of which group of minerals, sometimes called green marble?
0:12:25 > 0:12:28- Jade?- No, it's serpentine.
0:12:28 > 0:12:32Ophioglossum, or adder's tongue, characterised by a sterile green leaf blade
0:12:32 > 0:12:39and a fertile spore-producing spike, is the genus of which plant group, thought to have over 9,000 species?
0:12:43 > 0:12:47- Erm, nettle.- No, it's the fern. Ten points for this.
0:12:47 > 0:12:52What four-letter Greek prefix may be added to the name of a subject or discipline
0:12:52 > 0:12:54to denote another that raises questions about...
0:12:54 > 0:12:57- Meta.- Meta is correct.
0:12:57 > 0:13:01- APPLAUSE - Your bonuses this time are on physics.
0:13:01 > 0:13:06After a 19th century Austrian physicist, what name is given to the shift in the frequency of a wave
0:13:06 > 0:13:09due to relative motion of an observer and the source of the wave?
0:13:09 > 0:13:12- Doppler shift.- Correct.
0:13:12 > 0:13:17After an American engineer born 1911, what name is given to the device that uses the Doppler Effect
0:13:17 > 0:13:21caused by a rotating speaker to create characteristic vibrato or tremolo sounds?
0:13:21 > 0:13:23- Leslie rotating speaker.- Correct.
0:13:23 > 0:13:28To what end of the visible spectrum is the light from receiving stars Doppler shifted?
0:13:28 > 0:13:31- Red.- Correct. Another starter question.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34A major influence on medical science in the Middle Ages,
0:13:34 > 0:13:38which Persian physician's works include accounts of small pox and measles,
0:13:38 > 0:13:41a textbook called Almansor...
0:13:41 > 0:13:44- Avicenna?- No. You lose five points.
0:13:44 > 0:13:49..and an encyclopaedia known in the western world as Liber Continens?
0:13:51 > 0:13:53You may not confer, one of your many buzz.
0:13:53 > 0:13:57It's Rhazes. Ten points for this. In a speech of July 1984,
0:13:57 > 0:14:02Margaret Thatcher described the Argentinean junta that ordered the invasion of the Falkland Islands
0:14:02 > 0:14:08as "the enemy without". Who specifically, according to her, were the enemy within, quote,
0:14:08 > 0:14:11"more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty"?
0:14:13 > 0:14:15Er, the cabinet?
0:14:15 > 0:14:19- LAUGHTER - Very witty but wrong.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22Warwick, anyone want to buzz?
0:14:22 > 0:14:25- The miners?- Specifically?
0:14:25 > 0:14:27- The mining unions? - Er...- Arthur Scargill?
0:14:27 > 0:14:31Yeah, you've got it. The National Union of Mine Workers.
0:14:31 > 0:14:33APPLAUSE
0:14:33 > 0:14:39Your bonuses are on a devil. What name for a demon, later sometimes applied to the devil himself,
0:14:39 > 0:14:45was from a German legend about a scholar who gives his soul to the devil for unlimited knowledge?
0:14:45 > 0:14:50- Mephistopheles?- Correct. Noted for his 1956 screen portrayal of Mephistopheles,
0:14:50 > 0:14:53the German actor Gustav Grundgens
0:14:53 > 0:14:57was the inspiration for the novel Mephisto by which German author
0:14:57 > 0:15:00who questioned his actions during the Nazi era?
0:15:05 > 0:15:08- Gunter Grass?- No, it was Klaus Mann.
0:15:08 > 0:15:14Also based on the Faust legend, the Mephisto Waltzes were written between 1859 and 1885
0:15:14 > 0:15:16by which Hungarian composer?
0:15:19 > 0:15:22- Liszt.- Correct.
0:15:22 > 0:15:26Another starter question. Submitted for the Royal Academy exhibition of 1856,
0:15:26 > 0:15:29which painting by William Holman Hunt depicts an eponymous animal
0:15:29 > 0:15:33who in the Book of Leviticus is said to bear the iniquities...
0:15:33 > 0:15:39- Scapegoat?- The Scapegoat is correct. Your bonuses are on mirrors for princes.
0:15:39 > 0:15:42The English poet and scholar John Skelton wrote a speculum principis,
0:15:42 > 0:15:45or treatise of advice and instruction
0:15:45 > 0:15:49addressed to which future monarch of whom he was then tutor?
0:15:49 > 0:15:54- Henry VIII.- Correct. The Education Of A Christian Prince is a treatise of 1516
0:15:54 > 0:16:00dedicated to the future Holy Roman Emperor Charles V by which humanist and theologian?
0:16:02 > 0:16:07- Erasmus.- Correct. Basilikon Doron meaning royal gift was a treatise on government
0:16:07 > 0:16:10written for his son, the Duke of Rothesay, by which monarch?
0:16:18 > 0:16:23- George II?- No, it was James I, or as you know him, James VI.
0:16:23 > 0:16:28We're going to take a music round now. For your music starter, you'll hear an instrumental version
0:16:28 > 0:16:33of a song associated with a specific period of history. Ten points if you can name the war
0:16:33 > 0:16:35with which it's primarily associated.
0:16:40 > 0:16:43- The American Civil War. - The American Civil War is correct.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46APPLAUSE
0:16:46 > 0:16:51OK, so we're going to hear music bonuses now. Three more instrumental versions of songs
0:16:51 > 0:16:56popular during that period of American history. I want the title of the song in each case.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58Firstly for five...
0:17:12 > 0:17:17- I Wish I Was In Dixie? - I Wish I Was In Dixie's Land, that's right. Secondly...
0:17:40 > 0:17:44- Pass.- That's Battle Cry Of Freedom. And finally...
0:17:50 > 0:17:53- Nominate Nicholls.- When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again?- Correct.
0:17:53 > 0:17:59Another starter question now. What enduring term was introduced by the US sociologist Edwin Sutherland
0:17:59 > 0:18:02in the 1940s to draw attention to felonies
0:18:02 > 0:18:05committed by both individuals and organisations in the business world?
0:18:10 > 0:18:16- White-collar crime? - White-collar crime is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:18:16 > 0:18:19These bonuses are on an element.
0:18:19 > 0:18:24Which chemical element has as its symbol the only letter with the value of five
0:18:24 > 0:18:26in an English Scrabble set?
0:18:26 > 0:18:29- Tungsten.- No, it's potassium, K.
0:18:29 > 0:18:36Potassium metal was discovered in 1807 by which chemist who gives his name to a miner's safety lamp?
0:18:39 > 0:18:43- Nominate Allen.- Davy? - Sir Humphry Davy is correct.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46Which potassium salt has the formula KMNO4
0:18:46 > 0:18:51and is used in solution as an oxidising agent and disinfectant?
0:18:54 > 0:18:59- Potassium manganate? - No, it's potassium permanganate. Ten points for this.
0:18:59 > 0:19:05Ilmenite and rutile are ores of which metallic element, discovered by Cornish clergyman...
0:19:05 > 0:19:11- Titanium.- Titanium is correct. Your bonuses are on birds in poetry.
0:19:11 > 0:19:14To which bird does Wordsworth address the lines,
0:19:14 > 0:19:18"There is madness about thee and joy divine in that song of thine?"
0:19:18 > 0:19:21- Nightingale.- No, it's the skylark.
0:19:21 > 0:19:25Which bird is the title and subject of a collection of poems by Ted Hughes
0:19:25 > 0:19:27and is described at one point as being,
0:19:27 > 0:19:31"Spraddled head down in the beach garbage guzzling a dropped ice cream"?
0:19:31 > 0:19:33Pigeons?
0:19:33 > 0:19:36- Seagull.- Yeah. Seagull. - No, it's a crow.
0:19:36 > 0:19:40What birds are being described by WB Yeats in the lines,
0:19:40 > 0:19:45"All suddenly mount and scatter wheeling in great broken rings upon their clamorous wings"?
0:19:45 > 0:19:49- Swans.- Wild Swans At Coole, yes. Ten points for this.
0:19:49 > 0:19:53"Mr Attlee had three old Etonians in his cabinet, I have six.
0:19:53 > 0:19:56"Things are twice as good under the Conservatives."
0:19:56 > 0:20:00These are the words of which prime minister, speaking in 1959?
0:20:00 > 0:20:05- Harold Macmillan.- It was, of course. - APPLAUSE
0:20:05 > 0:20:08Your bonuses are on homophones. In each case,
0:20:08 > 0:20:11give the town whose name is the homophone of the word defined.
0:20:11 > 0:20:15For example, historic Cheshire town and part of a yacht is Sale, OK?
0:20:15 > 0:20:22First for five points, a town in west Cornwall and a variety of precipitation.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34- Let's have an answer, please. - Hayle?- Hayle is correct, yes.
0:20:34 > 0:20:39Second, a river port in east Yorkshire and a demon that preys on corpses
0:20:39 > 0:20:41or a person who delights in the macabre.
0:20:51 > 0:20:56- Goole.- Goole is correct. And finally for five, a town on the River Thames near Slough
0:20:56 > 0:21:01and the past participle of a verb meaning destroy by corrosion, devour or consume.
0:21:10 > 0:21:14- Come on.- Sorry.- It's Eton.
0:21:14 > 0:21:19Second picture round now. For your starter, you'll see a photograph of an international opera house.
0:21:19 > 0:21:25Ten points if you can give me both the name of the opera house and the city in which it's located.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31- La Scala, Milan.- Correct.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34APPLAUSE
0:21:34 > 0:21:39Following La Scala, your bonuses. Three more photographs of opera houses.
0:21:39 > 0:21:45Give me the name of the opera house and the city in which it's located. Firstly for five...
0:21:53 > 0:21:58- We have no idea.- That's the Bolshoi in Moscow. Secondly...
0:21:59 > 0:22:02It's not Austria, is it?
0:22:02 > 0:22:04THEY WHISPER
0:22:08 > 0:22:12- I don't know what it's called, though.- Nor do I.
0:22:12 > 0:22:17- Erm, Rome Opera House?- No, that's the Teatro Colon is Buenos Aires. And finally...
0:22:19 > 0:22:22That's Covent Garden. Royal Opera House.
0:22:22 > 0:22:26- The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden in London. - Correct, in London. Well done.
0:22:26 > 0:22:30Ten points for this. Developed in the 15th century into a complex urban centre
0:22:30 > 0:22:35with five distinct religious and administrative functions, which city in the Peruvian Andes
0:22:35 > 0:22:38was the historic capital of the Incas?
0:22:38 > 0:22:42- Cusco.- Cusco is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:22:42 > 0:22:47Your bonuses are on paintings. Rediscovered in the Scottish borders in 2009,
0:22:47 > 0:22:52a painting of 1837 by Paul Delaroche depicts which 17th century figure
0:22:52 > 0:22:54being insulted by his captors?
0:23:00 > 0:23:04- Let's have an answer, please. - No idea.- Charles I.
0:23:04 > 0:23:09In a painting of 1836 by Delaroche, which advocate of absolutism and advisor to Charles I
0:23:09 > 0:23:15is depicted shortly before his execution in 1641 being blessed by Archbishop Laud?
0:23:22 > 0:23:23No?
0:23:25 > 0:23:27- No idea. - It's the First Earl of Strafford.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30And finally, the execution of which figure in 1554
0:23:30 > 0:23:35is the subject of a large work by Delaroche in the National Gallery?
0:23:41 > 0:23:45- Thomas Cranmer?- No, it's Lady Jane Grey. Ten points for this.
0:23:45 > 0:23:50Who in 1975 became the first comic-strip artist to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize...
0:23:50 > 0:23:53- Begelman.- No, you lose five points.
0:23:53 > 0:23:57..for editorial cartoons and is known particularly as the creator of Doonesbury?
0:23:59 > 0:24:06- One of you may buzz.- Gerald Scarfe? - No, it's Garry Trudeau. Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:24:06 > 0:24:10If no line may be retraced, which is the only sans-serif uppercase letter
0:24:11 > 0:24:15that cannot be written without three separate strokes of the pen?
0:24:17 > 0:24:20- E?- No. Warwick?
0:24:21 > 0:24:26- T?- No, it's H. Another starter question. Listen carefully.
0:24:26 > 0:24:30The study of birds' eggs, the Dutch name of a seaport in West Flanders
0:24:30 > 0:24:34and the Chinese tea whose name means black dragon
0:24:34 > 0:24:37all begin with what double letter?
0:24:38 > 0:24:42- O.- Double-O is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:24:42 > 0:24:48Your bonuses are on geophysics. What terms describes the crust and brittle part of the upper mantle
0:24:48 > 0:24:51of a rocky planet when considered together?
0:24:51 > 0:24:56- Lithosphere.- Correct. What name is given to the region of the mantle directly beneath the lithosphere?
0:24:59 > 0:25:01Mesosphere?
0:25:02 > 0:25:05- Come on.- Mesosphere? - No, it's the asthenosphere.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07And what theory developed by Wegener
0:25:07 > 0:25:11describes the dynamics of the lithosphere?
0:25:12 > 0:25:14- Plate tectonics?- Correct.
0:25:14 > 0:25:21Another starter question. Primary open angle and acute are two types of which eye condition
0:25:21 > 0:25:26in which a rise in the pressure of the eye causes internal damage and can affect vision?
0:25:27 > 0:25:30- Glaucoma.- Correct. Another set of bonuses for you.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32They're on cities in Wales.
0:25:32 > 0:25:38Kingsley Amis's novel The Old Devils is usually thought to be set in which Welsh city
0:25:38 > 0:25:41where the author was a lecturer during the 1950s?
0:25:43 > 0:25:45- Cardiff?- No, it's Swansea.
0:25:45 > 0:25:51In which Welsh city is John Frost Square, named after the leader of a Chartist uprising of 1839
0:25:51 > 0:25:54in which around 20 people were killed by armed soldiers?
0:25:57 > 0:25:59Cardiff again.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02No, it's Newport. In addition to Cardiff, Swansea and Newport,
0:26:02 > 0:26:06two other communities in Wales have city status. For five points, name either.
0:26:09 > 0:26:12- St David's. - St David's. The other is Bangor.
0:26:12 > 0:26:16Ten points for this. The UK's first aerial postal delivery was made from which airfield?
0:26:16 > 0:26:21Now in the London borough of Barnet, in 1972 it became the site of an RAF museum.
0:26:23 > 0:26:27- Biggin Hill?- No. Warwick, one of you buzz, quickly.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30- Tranmere.- No, it's Hendon. Ten points for this.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33In physics, which two sub-atomic particles have masses
0:26:33 > 0:26:391,836 and 1,839 times that of the electron?
0:26:39 > 0:26:46- Neutron and proton.- Correct. A set of bonuses now on Oxford in English history.
0:26:46 > 0:26:48The Provisions of Oxford set up a council
0:26:48 > 0:26:53to control the king and supervise government and were imposed on which monarch by Simon de Montford?
0:26:54 > 0:26:57- Quickly.- Henry III.- Correct.
0:26:57 > 0:27:02The Oxford Parliament saw the defeat of attempts to exclude James Duke of York from succession.
0:27:02 > 0:27:06Which monarch summoned this parliament?
0:27:06 > 0:27:10- Charles II.- Correct. Which leading figure of the 19th century Oxford Movement
0:27:10 > 0:27:15was beatified by the Pope on his visit to the UK in 2010?
0:27:15 > 0:27:17- John Henry Newman?- Correct.
0:27:17 > 0:27:21With more than four million people in an area slightly smaller than Anglesey,
0:27:21 > 0:27:24what is the most densely-populated country in Asia?
0:27:24 > 0:27:30- Taiwan.- No. Anyone like to buzz? - Bangladesh?- No, it's Singapore. Another starter question.
0:27:30 > 0:27:33Which common tree with the scientific name fraxinus
0:27:33 > 0:27:38shares its name was the non-volatile residue remaining after the ignition of an organic material?
0:27:39 > 0:27:43- Ash.- Correct. Your bonuses are on titles of rulers.
0:27:43 > 0:27:47- What Hindi term meaning great king was the title... - GONG
0:27:47 > 0:27:51And at the gong, Edinburgh University have 125,
0:27:51 > 0:27:55- Warwick University have 220. - APPLAUSE
0:27:58 > 0:28:02Well, I think we're going to have to say goodbye to you, Edinburgh,
0:28:02 > 0:28:06but you go with your heads held high. Thank you very much for coming.
0:28:06 > 0:28:10Warwick, 220 is pretty impressive. We'll look forward to seeing you in round two.
0:28:10 > 0:28:16- I hope you can join us next time. Until then, it's goodbye from Edinburgh University.- ALL: Goodbye.
0:28:16 > 0:28:21- Goodbye from Warwick University. - ALL: Goodbye. - And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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