0:00:19 > 0:00:24University Challenge. Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:28Hello.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Another first-round match tonight between two teams
0:00:31 > 0:00:33enjoying their salad days.
0:00:33 > 0:00:37There's a place in round two for whichever one of them doesn't wilt.
0:00:37 > 0:00:42University College, UCL, is the largest of the constituent colleges of the University of London
0:00:42 > 0:00:45and it was founded in 1826 with the aim of opening up
0:00:45 > 0:00:49education in England to students of any race, class or religion.
0:00:49 > 0:00:53Today, about 140 countries are represented in its student body
0:00:53 > 0:00:57of around 22,000 of whom something like 40% are postgraduates.
0:00:57 > 0:01:01UCL boasts at least one Nobel Laureate for every decade
0:01:01 > 0:01:05since the prize was established in 1901, and among its former students
0:01:05 > 0:01:08are Ricky Gervais, AA Gill and the film director
0:01:08 > 0:01:11Christopher Nolan who shot parts of both The Dark Knight
0:01:11 > 0:01:13and Inception there.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16The team have an average age of 22 and a captain
0:01:16 > 0:01:20chosen for the impeccable credential of having the best hair.
0:01:20 > 0:01:21Let's meet them.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23Hi, I'm Hywel Carver from East Devon
0:01:23 > 0:01:27and I'm doing a PhD in Modelling Blood Flow.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30Hi, I'm Patrick Cook from the Texas Hill Country
0:01:30 > 0:01:32and I'm reading for a BA in History.
0:01:32 > 0:01:34And their captain.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37Hello, I'm Jamie Karran, I'm from London and I'm studying Medicine.
0:01:37 > 0:01:43Hi, I'm Tom Andrews, I'm from North Somerset and I'm studying Genetics.
0:01:43 > 0:01:48APPLAUSE
0:01:48 > 0:01:52Now, the University of York traces its origins to a petition
0:01:52 > 0:01:56drawn up in 1617 and sure enough, 346 years later,
0:01:56 > 0:01:59it opened its doors to 230 students.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01A body now swollen to around 13,000.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05York is one of the so called plate-glass universities
0:02:05 > 0:02:08and sits on a landscaped park apparently so abundant
0:02:08 > 0:02:12in wildlife that students have been ordered not to hunt the rabbits.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14Ha! Wait until the new fees kick in!
0:02:14 > 0:02:17Alumni include authors Helen Dunmore and Yung Chang,
0:02:17 > 0:02:19the politicians Harriet Harman and Oona King
0:02:19 > 0:02:22and Greg Dyke who is its current Chancellor.
0:02:22 > 0:02:26With an average age of 20, let's meet the York team.
0:02:26 > 0:02:27Hi, I'm Rob Miller.
0:02:27 > 0:02:32I'm from the Vale of Glamorgan and I'm studying Astrophysics.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34Hi, I'm Greg Melia. I'm originally from Sheffield
0:02:34 > 0:02:38and I'm studying for a PhD in Computational Electromagnetics.
0:02:38 > 0:02:39And their captain.
0:02:39 > 0:02:44I'm Andrew Rose from Bushey Heath in Hertfordshire and I'm reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
0:02:44 > 0:02:48I'm Heather Powell from Evesham in Worcestershire. I'm studying Chemistry.
0:02:48 > 0:02:52APPLAUSE
0:02:52 > 0:02:56Well, you all must know the rules or you wouldn't be here.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58Here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01Around 100,000 light years in diameter,
0:03:01 > 0:03:051,000 light years in thickness and thought to contain between
0:03:05 > 0:03:08100 and 400 billion stars, what, until the 1920s,
0:03:08 > 0:03:14was thought by many astronomers to constitute the entire universe?
0:03:14 > 0:03:15- The Milky Way.- Correct.
0:03:18 > 0:03:22Your bonuses are on quotations about history.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25Identify the author, or authors, in each case.
0:03:25 > 0:03:28Firstly for 5, both authors of these words -
0:03:28 > 0:03:33"The history of all hither to existing society is the history of class struggles."
0:03:35 > 0:03:37- Marx and Engels.- Correct.
0:03:37 > 0:03:41"The history of the world is but the biography of great men."
0:03:41 > 0:03:42(Churchill?)
0:03:42 > 0:03:45- Churchill. - No, that was Thomas Carlyle.
0:03:45 > 0:03:46And who reportedly said,
0:03:46 > 0:03:49"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it"?
0:03:50 > 0:03:51(That's Churchill.)
0:03:51 > 0:03:54- Churchill.- That was Churchill. Another starter question.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57"Until you understand a writer's ignorance,
0:03:57 > 0:04:00"presume yourself ignorant of his understanding."
0:04:00 > 0:04:04These words appear in the 1817 Biographia Literaria
0:04:04 > 0:04:05of which poet whose works include
0:04:05 > 0:04:08Frost At Midnight, Dejection: An Ode, and Christabel?
0:04:13 > 0:04:15It's Coleridge. 10 points for this -
0:04:15 > 0:04:18primarily concerned, according to its author,
0:04:18 > 0:04:21with the durably improved condition of the human prospect,
0:04:21 > 0:04:28which work of 1958 by the economist JK Galbraith introduced the phrase "conventional wisdom"?
0:04:30 > 0:04:34- Is it The Affluent Society? - It is indeed, yes.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38Right, UCL your first bonuses are on a commodity.
0:04:38 > 0:04:42The term Seidenstrasse was coined by the German geographer
0:04:42 > 0:04:47Ferdinand von Richthofen in 1877 to describe the ancient routes
0:04:47 > 0:04:51connecting Europe with Africa and Asia, enabling the trading of what commodity?
0:04:53 > 0:04:54(Silk?)
0:04:57 > 0:04:59- The word in German is Seiden, so.- Huh?
0:04:59 > 0:05:03- The word of the commodity in German is Seiden.- OK, that doesn't help.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05- Spices? Spices is good.- OK.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07- Spices.- No, it's silk.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10Secondly, what surname is that of a 15th Century
0:05:10 > 0:05:13merchant of Lucca who amassed a fortune trading in silk
0:05:13 > 0:05:17and who's believed to appear with his wife in a double portrait
0:05:17 > 0:05:20by Jan van Eyck, now in the National Gallery in London?
0:05:24 > 0:05:28- No idea.- It's Arnolfini, as in the Arnolfini Marriage.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31And finally, in the short verse Upon Julia's Clothes,
0:05:31 > 0:05:33which of the cavalier poets wrote,
0:05:33 > 0:05:36"When as in silks, my Julia goes then,
0:05:36 > 0:05:41"then methinks how sweetly flows that liquefaction of her clothes"?
0:05:41 > 0:05:46"Liquefaction of her clothes?" At a guess I'd say Richard Lovelace.
0:05:46 > 0:05:50- Richard Lovelace. - No, it was Herrick. 10 points for this starter question.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53Give one of the any three five-letter anagrams whose
0:05:53 > 0:05:58meanings include end an employment contract, carry out duties,
0:05:58 > 0:06:02for example in the armed forces, and metrical composition
0:06:02 > 0:06:07- Serve.- Serve is right. The others are sever and verse.
0:06:07 > 0:06:10So, the bonuses now are on memorable film quotations.
0:06:10 > 0:06:13In each case listen to the pair of quotations and give me
0:06:13 > 0:06:16the year of release of the two films of which they appear.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18You can have a year either way.
0:06:18 > 0:06:22Firstly - "Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
0:06:22 > 0:06:25And "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
0:06:26 > 0:06:30- The 1930s.- Yeah? - But I don't know when in the 1930s.
0:06:32 > 0:06:36- I think they're quite late.- '37?
0:06:36 > 0:06:39- Yeah, '37.- 1937.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42No, I would have accepted '38, but it was in fact '39.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45It was The Wizard Of Oz and Gone With The Wind.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48Secondly - "What we've got here is a failure to communicate" and,
0:06:48 > 0:06:51"Mrs Robinson, you're trying to seduce me, aren't you?"
0:06:51 > 0:06:57- Cool Hand Luke.- And The Graduate. Late '60s, so I'd say '68.
0:06:57 > 0:06:59- 1968.- I'll accept that.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02Yeah, it was 1967 - Cool Hand Luke and The Graduate.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05And finally - "I'll have what she's having"
0:07:05 > 0:07:09and "Carpe diem - seize the day, boys, make your lives extraordinary."
0:07:09 > 0:07:12- 1989.- Correct. When Harry Met Sally and The Dead Poets Society.
0:07:12 > 0:07:1410 points for this.
0:07:14 > 0:07:18Which US scientist claims that he has set himself the modest task
0:07:18 > 0:07:21of trying to explain the broad pattern of human history
0:07:21 > 0:07:23and is the author of Guns, Germs...
0:07:25 > 0:07:27- Jared Diamond.- Correct.
0:07:30 > 0:07:35UCL, your bonuses are on an area of outstanding natural beauty.
0:07:35 > 0:07:40Firstly for 5, designated an AONB in 1964 which moorland region of
0:07:40 > 0:07:44fells and valleys covers about 300 square miles mostly in Lancashire?
0:07:46 > 0:07:49(In Lancashire? I thought that was more southern.)
0:07:49 > 0:07:53It was in Nick Clegg's political constituency.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57- OK, the Peak District. - No, it's the Forest of Bowland.
0:07:57 > 0:08:02Secondly for 5, following his defeat at Hexham, which monarch was living in secret at Waddington Hall
0:08:02 > 0:08:07in the Forest of Bowland when he was betrayed and taken into custody?
0:08:08 > 0:08:11- Charles I. - Charles I.- No, it was Henry VI.
0:08:11 > 0:08:15Reaching over 1,800 ft above the eastern part of the Ribble Valley
0:08:15 > 0:08:18which hill of Bowland is detached from the forest and was the home of
0:08:18 > 0:08:24around a dozen people tried in 1612 on charges of murder by witchcraft?
0:08:27 > 0:08:29THEY CONFER INAUDIBLY
0:08:29 > 0:08:31We can try it.
0:08:31 > 0:08:34- Tolpuddle.- Tolpuddle?! That's the other end of the country! No, it's Pendle.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37Right, we're going to take a picture round now.
0:08:37 > 0:08:41For your picture starter you'll see a diagram with the skeleton
0:08:41 > 0:08:43of a dinosaur which lived 65-67 million years ago.
0:08:43 > 0:08:4710 points if you can give me its name.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50- Tyrannosaurus rex.- Correct.
0:08:54 > 0:08:58Following on from Tyrannosaurus rex your bonuses are on three more
0:08:58 > 0:09:00dinosaur skeletons.
0:09:00 > 0:09:025 points for each dinosaur you can name.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05Firstly, this Upper Cretaceous dinosaur found in Asia.
0:09:07 > 0:09:08- It looks like...- A velociraptor.
0:09:08 > 0:09:13- I reckon it's a Compsognathus, possibly.- Mm.- As in Jurassic Park 2.
0:09:13 > 0:09:14Go on.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19- Is it a Compsognathus? - No, it's a Velociraptor.
0:09:19 > 0:09:23Secondly, this Lower Cretaceous dinosaur which has been found in England.
0:09:26 > 0:09:27Is that an Iguanodon?
0:09:32 > 0:09:34- Iguanodon?- Yes!
0:09:34 > 0:09:39And, finally, this Upper Jurassic dinosaur found in the United States.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41- ALL: Stegosaurus. - Stegosaurus.- Correct.
0:09:41 > 0:09:45Another starter question now.
0:09:45 > 0:09:49Designed for applications requiring real-time computerised control systems
0:09:49 > 0:09:51such as those used in military aircraft,
0:09:51 > 0:09:56which high-level computer language was developed by the US Department of Defence in the 1980s...
0:09:56 > 0:10:00- Ada.- Ada is correct, after Lady Ada Lovelace.
0:10:00 > 0:10:05You get a set of bonuses now on a metal, York.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07Which soft metal, atomic number 78, has a high melting point
0:10:07 > 0:10:11and is used for electrodes and for dishes in which materials can be
0:10:11 > 0:10:16heated to high temperatures as well as in jewellery and dental alloys?
0:10:16 > 0:10:18- Platinum.- That is correct.
0:10:18 > 0:10:22The Ostwald Process, used in the production of fertilisers,
0:10:22 > 0:10:27is the oxidation of ammonia over a platinum catalyst to manufacture which acid?
0:10:29 > 0:10:31(Nitric acid.) (Nitric acid.)
0:10:31 > 0:10:32- Nitric acid.- Correct.
0:10:32 > 0:10:36The international prototype kilogram that is the standard
0:10:36 > 0:10:39unit of mass is made of platinum and which dense metal
0:10:39 > 0:10:43which it is often alloyed to increase its strength and hardness?
0:10:45 > 0:10:48(Iridium, I don't know, try it.)
0:10:48 > 0:10:49- Iridium.- Correct.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52Another starter question, now.
0:10:52 > 0:10:55How many years separate the passing of the Bill Of Rights
0:10:55 > 0:10:58by the English Parliament after the Glorious Revolution
0:10:58 > 0:11:01and the introduction in the US Congress of the Bill Of Rights,
0:11:01 > 0:11:04that is the first ten Constitutional Amendments?
0:11:06 > 0:11:08- 100.- Correct.
0:11:11 > 0:11:13Your bonuses are on the Nobel Prize For Literature.
0:11:13 > 0:11:18Which Irish writer won the award in 1969 being commended by
0:11:18 > 0:11:22the judges for writing which, "Rises like a Miserere from all mankind.
0:11:22 > 0:11:28"Its muffled minor key sounding a liberation to the oppressed and comfort to those in need"?
0:11:39 > 0:11:42- Seamus Heaney? - No, it was Samuel Beckett.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45Which writer was praised by the 2006 committee for making Istanbul
0:11:45 > 0:11:47"An indispensable literary territory,
0:11:47 > 0:11:50"equal to Dostoevsky's St Petersburg, Joyce's Dublin
0:11:50 > 0:11:53"or Proust's Paris"?
0:11:55 > 0:11:58- We don't know.- That's Orham Pamuk.
0:11:58 > 0:12:02And finally, on winning the 1982 prize, which Colombian writer
0:12:02 > 0:12:06in his Nobel Lecture talked of "A new and sweeping utopia of life,
0:12:06 > 0:12:10"where the races condemned to 100 years of solitude will have,
0:12:10 > 0:12:13"at last and forever, a second opportunity on Earth?"
0:12:19 > 0:12:23(His name! He wrote 100 Years Of Solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez!)
0:12:23 > 0:12:27- Marquez.- Yes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez is correct.
0:12:27 > 0:12:31Another starter question. In 1832 which Swiss crystallographer first described
0:12:31 > 0:12:34the drawing of an apparently three-dimensional transparent
0:12:34 > 0:12:37wire cube that is seen as an optical ambiguity?
0:12:37 > 0:12:42Its back face appearing to reverse spontaneously with the front.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45- Necker.- Necker is right, yes.
0:12:46 > 0:12:51You retake the lead and your bonuses this time are on zoology, UCL.
0:12:51 > 0:12:56So called because they lack a tail, Anura is an order of amphibians known by what common name?
0:13:00 > 0:13:04- I think newts have tails. - Salamanders don't.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06Shall we try salamanders? OK.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09- Salamanders?- No, they have tails - it's frogs or toads.
0:13:09 > 0:13:15Secondly for five points, unusual in that the male protects eggs by carrying them
0:13:15 > 0:13:20on its back, the toad Alytes obstetricans has what common name?
0:13:21 > 0:13:24- Nurse toad?- Do you reckon? Do you have any idea?
0:13:24 > 0:13:27I think that's a good, obstetricians is midwife, isn't it?
0:13:27 > 0:13:30- The nurse toad. - It's the midwife toad.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33Native to heathland areas of northern Europe
0:13:33 > 0:13:36and distinguished by the yellow stripe on its back,
0:13:36 > 0:13:39what is the common name of Epidalea calamita?
0:13:39 > 0:13:41That's the poison dart frog.
0:13:43 > 0:13:46Could it be the natterjack? I don't know.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49- I thought that was American. - OK, don't go with that.
0:13:49 > 0:13:52- OK. The natterjack.- Correct.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55Another starter question. Harold Macmillan's description
0:13:55 > 0:13:58of the resignation of all his Treasury ministers in 1958
0:13:58 > 0:14:00as "a little local difficulty"
0:14:00 > 0:14:03is an example of which rhetorical device...
0:14:03 > 0:14:05Euphemism.
0:14:05 > 0:14:10Uh, no, and I'm going to fine you 5 points cos I was only halfway through the question.
0:14:10 > 0:14:13..is an example of which rhetorical device, its name
0:14:13 > 0:14:17derives from the Greek for lessening and it employs understatement
0:14:17 > 0:14:21for dramatic effect or to underplay the significance of the subject?
0:14:23 > 0:14:27Does anyone know it, York?
0:14:27 > 0:14:30Satire.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32No, it's not. It's meiosis. Ten points for this.
0:14:32 > 0:14:38A phonetic rendering of a French phrase that denotes eagerness for money, Avida Dollars,
0:14:38 > 0:14:41was a derogatory anagram devised by Andre Breton
0:14:41 > 0:14:45from the name of which Surrealist artist?
0:14:46 > 0:14:47Salvador Dali.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:14:52 > 0:14:55UCL, your bonuses are on Italian buildings.
0:14:55 > 0:14:56Firstly, for five,
0:14:56 > 0:14:59the extensive monument in Rome's Piazza Venezia,
0:14:59 > 0:15:02known locally as "the wedding cake", or "the typewriter",
0:15:02 > 0:15:05- is dedicated to which Italian monarch? - THEY CONFER
0:15:05 > 0:15:08- HE CLEARS HIS THROAT - Victor Emmanuel II.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11Correct. Victor Emmanuel II is buried in which Roman building,
0:15:11 > 0:15:16also the last resting place of the artists Raphael and Annibale Carracci?
0:15:17 > 0:15:18- The Pantheon.- Correct.
0:15:18 > 0:15:24The four-storey arcade or galleria named after Victor Emmanuel II, designed by Giuseppe Mengoni,
0:15:24 > 0:15:27and completed in 1877, is in which Italian city?
0:15:27 > 0:15:29Milan, I think, but I'm not sure.
0:15:29 > 0:15:30Anyone else?
0:15:30 > 0:15:32- Milan.- Milan is right, yes.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35APPLAUSE
0:15:35 > 0:15:37Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40For your music starter you'll hear a piece of classical music,
0:15:40 > 0:15:43all you have to do to get ten points is to name the composer.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:49 > 0:15:51Leonard Bernstein.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54Anyone like to buzz from UCL? You can even hear a little more I think.
0:15:54 > 0:15:56MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:03 > 0:16:04Chopin.
0:16:04 > 0:16:07No, it's Liszt. It's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.
0:16:07 > 0:16:10Musical bonuses shortly, another starter question in the meantime.
0:16:10 > 0:16:12Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:16:12 > 0:16:19What is the sum of the two decimal numbers represented by the digits 1-1-1
0:16:19 > 0:16:21in binary and ternary respectively?
0:16:28 > 0:16:2920.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31- Yes! - APPLAUSE
0:16:33 > 0:16:38Right. You heard Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 for your music starter,
0:16:38 > 0:16:39which no-one managed to get.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42It featured in the 1947 Academy Award-winning cartoon, The Cat Concerto,
0:16:42 > 0:16:44part of the Tom And Jerry series.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46Your bonuses are three pieces of classical music
0:16:46 > 0:16:50which also featured in popular cartoons of the '40s and '50s.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53In each case, I simply want the name of the composer.
0:16:53 > 0:16:55Firstly, for five points, the composer of this piece,
0:16:55 > 0:16:59included in a 1949 Bugs Bunny cartoon.
0:16:59 > 0:17:01MUSIC PLAYS
0:17:11 > 0:17:14I was thinking Tchaikovsky myself.
0:17:14 > 0:17:16Isn't this the one that goes, "Figaro, Figaro"?
0:17:16 > 0:17:19This is Rossini.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22- The Barber of Seville?- Yeah, I think it's Rossini. Yeah.- OK.
0:17:22 > 0:17:25- HE CLEARS HIS THROAT - Rossini.
0:17:25 > 0:17:28It is. It's from The Barber Of Seville, or The Rabbit Of Seville.
0:17:28 > 0:17:30Secondly, the composer of this piece,
0:17:30 > 0:17:33included in the 1947 cartoon Pigs In A Polka.
0:17:33 > 0:17:35MUSIC PLAYS
0:17:39 > 0:17:42Sounds like Brahms' Hungarian Dances, doesn't it?
0:17:42 > 0:17:43- I mean...- You can try it.
0:17:43 > 0:17:46Well, we'll wait. Let's listen to more.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52- Are polkas Hungarian?- Yes.- OK.
0:17:53 > 0:17:54Brahms.
0:17:54 > 0:17:57It was Brahms. Yes, Hungarian Dance No. 17.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00And finally, the composer of this piece,
0:18:00 > 0:18:03included in the 1957 cartoon, What's Opera, Doc?
0:18:03 > 0:18:05MUSIC PLAYS
0:18:08 > 0:18:11- That has to be, um... What's he called?- Wagner.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14- Yeah?- Oh, cos he wears a bra and he's a valkyrie.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19- Wagner.- It is. Part of The Flying Dutchman Overture.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22- Ten points for this. - APPLAUSE
0:18:22 > 0:18:25Literally meaning "public proposal",
0:18:25 > 0:18:28what short term derives from Japanese zen
0:18:28 > 0:18:31and means a riddle or paradoxical statement...
0:18:31 > 0:18:32A koan.
0:18:32 > 0:18:36- Koan is right, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:18:36 > 0:18:39Your bonuses are on dancing in fiction, UCL.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42What name is supposedly that of an English squire
0:18:42 > 0:18:43and is given to a country dance
0:18:43 > 0:18:46mentioned in Dickens' A Christmas Carol,
0:18:46 > 0:18:50Eliot's Silas Marner and Lawrence's Sons And Lovers?
0:18:54 > 0:18:56I mean, a ceilidh is a dance, right?
0:18:56 > 0:18:57It's a Scottish dance, though.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00- Let's have an answer, please. - A ceilidh.
0:19:00 > 0:19:04A ceilidh... It's a bit more elegant than that. No, it's Sir Roger de Coverley.
0:19:04 > 0:19:08Named after the French for "petticoat", which lively dance with varied steps,
0:19:08 > 0:19:10was popular during the Regency period,
0:19:10 > 0:19:14and is the title of an historical novel by Georgette Heyer?
0:19:16 > 0:19:18A foxtrot is a lively dance...
0:19:18 > 0:19:20That's not French.
0:19:20 > 0:19:22- A jig?- That's not French.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24- Em...- But "gigue" is French.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26Let's have an answer.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28No-one? A jig.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31No, it's a cotillion. And finally, in which novel by Jane Austen
0:19:31 > 0:19:35does the heroine's mother recount with delight the various dances of a ball,
0:19:35 > 0:19:39noting that Mr Bingley danced a Boulanger?
0:19:39 > 0:19:41- Pride And Prejudice. - Pride And Prejudice.
0:19:41 > 0:19:44Correct. Another starter question.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47Developed by the US psychologist Arthur Janov,
0:19:47 > 0:19:52what form of psychotherapy encourages patients to relive and re-enact disturbing past experiences
0:19:52 > 0:19:53by shouting and yelling?
0:19:55 > 0:19:56Primal scream.
0:19:56 > 0:20:00- Primal scream therapy is correct. - APPLAUSE
0:20:00 > 0:20:05Your bonuses this time, UCL, are on oil companies.
0:20:05 > 0:20:09Shell, the global group of petrochemical companies formed by a merger in 1907,
0:20:09 > 0:20:11has its registered office in London,
0:20:11 > 0:20:15but its headquarters in which European city?
0:20:15 > 0:20:18(The Hague.)
0:20:18 > 0:20:20OK. The Hague.
0:20:20 > 0:20:26The Hague is correct. The American Bob Dudley took over as BP's chief executive in autumn 2010,
0:20:26 > 0:20:29after the resignation of which Briton?
0:20:29 > 0:20:32(Hayward...)
0:20:32 > 0:20:34- I'm just going to say Hayward. - Tony...
0:20:34 > 0:20:35Hayward.
0:20:35 > 0:20:37It was Tony Hayward, yes.
0:20:37 > 0:20:39Having its headquarters in Dhahran,
0:20:39 > 0:20:43Saudi Aramco is one of the largest oil corporations in the world.
0:20:43 > 0:20:46For what does the acronym "Aramco" stand?
0:20:46 > 0:20:48Arab...
0:20:48 > 0:20:53Making Oil Company?
0:20:54 > 0:20:57THEY CONFER
0:20:57 > 0:21:01- I don't know.- Come on. - Uh, no, pass.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03It's the Arabian American Oil Company.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05Right, time for another picture round, I think.
0:21:05 > 0:21:09Your picture starter is an unfinished Renaissance painting of a biblical scene.
0:21:09 > 0:21:13Ten points, if you can give me the name of the painting.
0:21:18 > 0:21:21Presentation In The Temple.
0:21:21 > 0:21:22Anyone like to buzz from York?
0:21:22 > 0:21:26Come on, let's have it. I need an answer now.
0:21:27 > 0:21:31INAUDIBLE
0:21:31 > 0:21:34It's not. It's the Adoration Of The Magi by Da Vinci.
0:21:34 > 0:21:36We will come to the picture bonuses shortly,
0:21:36 > 0:21:38but another starter question.
0:21:38 > 0:21:43What two-word term is used to denote the ethical principle found in the Analects Of confucius,
0:21:43 > 0:21:46the writings of Philo Of Alexandria, and the Gospel Of Matthew,
0:21:46 > 0:21:48where it is expressed as,
0:21:48 > 0:21:53"All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do you even so unto them"?
0:21:53 > 0:21:55The golden rule.
0:21:55 > 0:21:59- The golden rule is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:21:59 > 0:22:01The picture bonuses are more paintings
0:22:01 > 0:22:04on the same theme as the starter -
0:22:04 > 0:22:06the Adoration Of The Magi, in other words.
0:22:06 > 0:22:07Name the artist. Firstly...
0:22:18 > 0:22:19Michelangelo.
0:22:19 > 0:22:21No, that's by Filippino Lippi. Secondly...
0:22:26 > 0:22:30THEY CONFER
0:22:30 > 0:22:33- Rembrandt.- No, that's by Tintoretto. And finally, who's this by?
0:22:43 > 0:22:44Michelangelo.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47No, that's by Botticelli. Another starter question.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49What five-letter word, repeated five times,
0:22:49 > 0:22:52constitutes the line exalted by Professor Tony Tanner as,
0:22:52 > 0:22:54"The most appalling in literature"?
0:22:54 > 0:22:58It was given by Shakespeare to King Lear in the final scene of the play.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06Misery.
0:23:06 > 0:23:07Misery, mis...
0:23:07 > 0:23:08No.
0:23:08 > 0:23:12York, come on, one of you buzz, quickly.
0:23:12 > 0:23:13Well, I'll tell you then.
0:23:13 > 0:23:16It's "never". "Never, never, never, never."
0:23:16 > 0:23:17Ten points for this.
0:23:17 > 0:23:19Composed of nine small coral islands,
0:23:19 > 0:23:23which Pacific Ocean country has its capital on Funafuti Atoll
0:23:23 > 0:23:27and was formerly a part of the Gilbert And Ellice Isl...?
0:23:27 > 0:23:28Fiji.
0:23:28 > 0:23:32You lose five points. ..The Gilbert And Ellice Islands Colony.
0:23:32 > 0:23:33Kiribati.
0:23:33 > 0:23:34No, it's Tuvalu.
0:23:34 > 0:23:36Ah, ten points for this.
0:23:36 > 0:23:39During World War II, German submarines were known as U-boats.
0:23:39 > 0:23:44What alphabetic prefix did the allies give to the fast German torpedo boats...
0:23:44 > 0:23:45E-boats.
0:23:45 > 0:23:49E-boats is right. Your bonuses come now on English words from Asian languages.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52From Japanese characters meaning, "great lord",
0:23:52 > 0:23:55what term was formerly used as a title of the shogun,
0:23:55 > 0:23:59but now describes a business or industrial magnate?
0:23:59 > 0:24:02THEY CONFER
0:24:05 > 0:24:06- Tycoon.- Correct.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09From the Mandarin for "work together",
0:24:09 > 0:24:13what phrase means excessively or unthinkingly eager,
0:24:13 > 0:24:16especially in the context of patriotism and military aggression?
0:24:18 > 0:24:19Jingoism.
0:24:19 > 0:24:20No, it's "gung-ho".
0:24:20 > 0:24:22Jingoism came from music-hall song.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25The word "paddy", meaning rice field,
0:24:25 > 0:24:26derives from the word for rice plant
0:24:26 > 0:24:30in which major Southeast Asian language?
0:24:30 > 0:24:33THEY CONFER
0:24:36 > 0:24:37Come on.
0:24:37 > 0:24:41- Thai.- No, it's Malay. Three and a half minutes to go, ten points for this.
0:24:41 > 0:24:44Made with white wine, or more traditionally, verjuice,
0:24:44 > 0:24:46which pale, smooth mustard
0:24:46 > 0:24:49is named after the capital of the Cote d'Or...
0:24:49 > 0:24:51Dijon.
0:24:51 > 0:24:52- Dijon is correct. - APPLAUSE
0:24:54 > 0:24:56Your bonuses, UCL, are on Europe.
0:24:56 > 0:25:01Give the smallest European countries, by land area, in each of the following categories.
0:25:01 > 0:25:05First, for five points, the smallest country bordering Germany?
0:25:05 > 0:25:08Lichtenstein?
0:25:08 > 0:25:11- I think it borders Austria and Switzerland.- Oh.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13Luxembourg.
0:25:13 > 0:25:14Luxembourg.
0:25:14 > 0:25:15Correct.
0:25:15 > 0:25:20Secondly, the smallest country with a coastline on the Adriatic Sea?
0:25:20 > 0:25:22Slovenia... Or Montenegro.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25Montenegro's smaller, I think.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27Montenegro.
0:25:27 > 0:25:32Correct. And finally, what is the smallest European country on the Prime Meridian?
0:25:32 > 0:25:36- Em... Is Andorra on the Prime Meridian?- It totally is.- Andorra.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38- Andorra.- No, it's England.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40Ten points for this. What activity is described as,
0:25:40 > 0:25:44"So like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt",
0:25:44 > 0:25:49in the Epistle To The Reader in a work of 1653 by Izaak Walton.
0:25:50 > 0:25:52Is that music?
0:25:52 > 0:25:54No, anyone want to buzz from UCL?
0:25:56 > 0:25:58Physics?
0:25:58 > 0:26:00No, it's angling, or fishing. Ten points for this.
0:26:00 > 0:26:04Constructed between 1816 and 1830, the Glyptothek Museum
0:26:04 > 0:26:08was founded to house King Ludwig I's collection of sculpture
0:26:08 > 0:26:12and is located on the Konigsplatz of which German city?
0:26:13 > 0:26:15Munich.
0:26:15 > 0:26:20Correct. Your bonuses now are on dental pathology, York.
0:26:20 > 0:26:23The Silness-Loe index, first published in 1964,
0:26:23 > 0:26:27is used in dentistry to measure levels of which substance?
0:26:28 > 0:26:29Plaque.
0:26:29 > 0:26:31Correct. Present in plaque,
0:26:31 > 0:26:34mutans and sanguis are species of a genus
0:26:34 > 0:26:39of which spherical gram-positive bacteria belonging to the phylum "firmicutes"?
0:26:39 > 0:26:41THEY CONFER
0:26:41 > 0:26:43- We don't know. - That's streptococcus.
0:26:43 > 0:26:44The calculus that forms
0:26:44 > 0:26:47when plaque hardens above or below the line of the gums
0:26:47 > 0:26:49is commonly known by which name?
0:26:49 > 0:26:50- Tartar.- Correct.
0:26:50 > 0:26:54Another starter question now. Examples being DNA and RNA,
0:26:54 > 0:26:58what is the generic two-word term for the group of macro-molecules consisting...
0:26:58 > 0:27:00Nucleic acids.
0:27:00 > 0:27:02Correct. You get a set of bonuses now...
0:27:02 > 0:27:06on adjectives that end in the letters "TORY", T-O-R-Y.
0:27:06 > 0:27:08In each case, give the single word from the definition.
0:27:08 > 0:27:10Firstly - imperious, dogmatic,
0:27:10 > 0:27:14admitting no denial, refusal, appeal or challenge?
0:27:17 > 0:27:19Come on, let's have it, please.
0:27:21 > 0:27:22Pass.
0:27:22 > 0:27:23It was "peremptory."
0:27:23 > 0:27:24Rambling, aimless,
0:27:24 > 0:27:29skipping from one thing to another in a half-hearted, unmethodical way.
0:27:31 > 0:27:34- Circumlocutory. - No. It's "desultory."
0:27:34 > 0:27:39And finally, done merely as a token, for form's sake, hence superficial, or careless.
0:27:39 > 0:27:40Perfunctory.
0:27:40 > 0:27:42Correct. Ten points for this.
0:27:42 > 0:27:45Which work of 1902 ends with Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail having...
0:27:45 > 0:27:47- GONG CRASHES - And at the gong,
0:27:47 > 0:27:51the university Of York have 105, the University Of London have 185.
0:27:55 > 0:27:58You did well on things you didn't expect to do well on,
0:27:58 > 0:27:59like dentistry and so on, York.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02105 is a perfectly respectable score with which to leave.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04We'll have to say goodbye to you, I'm afraid.
0:28:04 > 0:28:07UCL, very entertaining team, thank you for joining us.
0:28:07 > 0:28:09We look forward to seeing you in round two.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12I hope you can join us for another round one match.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15- But until then, it's goodbye from York University.- ALL: Goodbye!
0:28:15 > 0:28:19- It's goodbye from UCL.- ALL: Goodbye. - And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:19 > 0:28:22APPLAUSE
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