0:00:16 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:33Hello. To err is human, but knowing everything is very irritating to the rest of us!
0:00:33 > 0:00:38On the other hand, erring too often will put you on the slow bus of shame back to your campus.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41Tonight, Oxford plays Cambridge and Queen's play King's.
0:00:41 > 0:00:45The King's College of Our Lady and St Nicholas in Cambridge
0:00:45 > 0:00:51is known to millions for its wonderful choral music especially the Christmas Service.
0:00:51 > 0:00:56It was founded in 1441 for 70 poor scholars by Henry VI
0:00:56 > 0:00:59who also established Eton College. For around 400 years,
0:00:59 > 0:01:02that school gave us an entertaining definition of poverty
0:01:02 > 0:01:04by providing all King's students.
0:01:04 > 0:01:09Nowadays, King's is regarded as having particularly strong links with the state sector.
0:01:09 > 0:01:13Its traditions include allowing cows to graze on Scholars' Green
0:01:13 > 0:01:18and the Provost has authority to grant permission for duelling to take place on the King's Bridge.
0:01:18 > 0:01:23Where are Health and Safety on the rare occasions when you need them? Let's meet the team.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26Hello. I'm Andrew Tindall from Bournemouth, Dorset.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28I'm studying natural sciences.
0:01:28 > 0:01:32Hi. I'm Bryony Bates, from Redhill in Surrey. I'm studying English.
0:01:32 > 0:01:36- And their captain.- I'm Joshua Newton, from San Francisco,
0:01:36 > 0:01:38studying for a PhD in history.
0:01:38 > 0:01:43Hello. I'm Phil Davies from Goring in Oxfordshire and I'm studying philosophy.
0:01:43 > 0:01:45APPLAUSE
0:01:47 > 0:01:52Now, the Hall of the Queen's Scholars at Oxford, or simply the Queen's College,
0:01:52 > 0:01:55was founded in 1341 by Robert de Eglesfield
0:01:55 > 0:02:00the chaplain to Queen Philippa, queen consort of Edward III, and was named after her.
0:02:00 > 0:02:06It's also known for its choir whose recordings include a contribution to the soundtrack of Harry Potter.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09The future Henry V spent time at the college
0:02:09 > 0:02:13and alumni include the theologian John Wycliffe, the philosopher Jeremy Bentham
0:02:13 > 0:02:16and the astronomers Edmund Halley and Edwin Hubble.
0:02:16 > 0:02:21It's properly referred to with the definite article, but we've dispensed with it tonight.
0:02:21 > 0:02:26Hi, I'm Peter Sloman, from Garstang in Lancashire, studying a D.Phil in History.
0:02:26 > 0:02:31Hello. I'm James Kane, from Manchester and I'm reading Japanese.
0:02:31 > 0:02:33And their captain.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37I'm Matthew White from Pershore, Worcestershire studying for a D.Phil in Maths.
0:02:37 > 0:02:41Hi. I'm Layla Hill from Sale in Cheshire, studying Chemistry.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43APPLAUSE
0:02:46 > 0:02:49The rules are the same as ever.
0:02:49 > 0:02:5410 points for starters, 15 for bonuses. Starters are sole efforts, bonuses are team efforts.
0:02:54 > 0:02:58Five-point fines for incorrect interruptions. Here's your starter for 10.
0:02:58 > 0:03:05What two-word title originated in the 19th century was popularised by a play of 1911 by Charles Nirdlinger
0:03:05 > 0:03:10and has been applied to Eleanor, Betty, Jacqueline, Lady Bird and...
0:03:10 > 0:03:13- First lady.- First lady is correct.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19You're first out of the traps on bonuses.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22Sporting venues, tonight, Queen's.
0:03:22 > 0:03:26Which area of west London takes its name from the venue of the 1908 Olympics
0:03:26 > 0:03:31at which the modern length of the marathon was fixed at 26 miles, 385 yards
0:03:31 > 0:03:33to bring the finishing line before the royal box?
0:03:41 > 0:03:42- White City.- Correct.
0:03:42 > 0:03:46After a police officer's mount used to control the crowds,
0:03:46 > 0:03:52the nickname The White Horse final is often given to the first FA Cup final at Wembley in 1923.
0:03:52 > 0:03:57- Which Lancashire club were the winners?- Bolton Wanderers.- Correct.
0:03:57 > 0:04:02Which London football stadium shares its name in part with the personal emblem of King Richard II?
0:04:02 > 0:04:04White Hart Lane?
0:04:08 > 0:04:13- White Hart Lane.- Correct. Another starter question. According to the Oxford English dictionary,
0:04:13 > 0:04:16the first use in English of which word occurred in 1638?
0:04:16 > 0:04:22It was described erroneously by its originator as meaning "an orb of gross vaporous air
0:04:22 > 0:04:25"immediately encompassing the body of the moon"?
0:04:27 > 0:04:29- Atmosphere?- Yes.
0:04:32 > 0:04:36Your bonuses, King's, are on national nature reserves.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39Threatened by a proposed tidal barrier,
0:04:39 > 0:04:42which nature reserve in Lincolnshire and Norfolk
0:04:42 > 0:04:46is a mix of open and coastal water, mud flats and salt marshes?
0:04:46 > 0:04:50- The Wash.- Correct. Which Welsh mountain to the south-east of Barmouth
0:04:50 > 0:04:57rises to 2,930 feet and is one of the most southerly limits of Arctic alpine flora in Britain?
0:04:57 > 0:04:59- Snowdon?- Snowdon.
0:04:59 > 0:05:03No, Snowdon's 3,500. It's Cadr Idris.
0:05:03 > 0:05:07A Scottish nature reserve, which island is the location of Fingal's Cave
0:05:07 > 0:05:11popularised by Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture?
0:05:17 > 0:05:20- Skye.- No, it's Staffa. Another starter question now.
0:05:20 > 0:05:21What is the four-word title
0:05:21 > 0:05:27of the 2004 book by the US financial journalist James Surowiecki
0:05:27 > 0:05:31which argues that large groups of people are collectively more intelligent
0:05:31 > 0:05:33than an elite few?
0:05:33 > 0:05:36- The Wisdom of Crowds.- Yes.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41Queen's, your second bonuses are on literature.
0:05:41 > 0:05:47Give the title of the early 20th century novel, the opening lines of which mention these locations.
0:05:47 > 0:05:52First for five points. "The marsh farm in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly
0:05:52 > 0:05:57"through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire."
0:06:03 > 0:06:06- Pass.- D.H.Lawrence's The Rainbow. Second,
0:06:06 > 0:06:12"The cave, a large, old-fashioned three-storey building, a mile outside the town of Mugsborough."
0:06:24 > 0:06:27- Pass.- The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.
0:06:27 > 0:06:31Finally, "The Marabar Caves, 20 miles from the city of Chandrapur."
0:06:31 > 0:06:34- A Passage to India. - A Passage to India.- Yes.
0:06:34 > 0:06:36Ten points for this starter.
0:06:36 > 0:06:40What is the Si-derived unit of activity of a radionuclide,
0:06:40 > 0:06:42equal to the activity...
0:06:42 > 0:06:44- Becquerel.- Correct. Yes.
0:06:49 > 0:06:53Your bonuses are on medicines, this time, Queen's, now rarely used.
0:06:53 > 0:06:57Which drug was developed in the 1940s and was the first antibiotic
0:06:57 > 0:06:59effective against tuberculosis?
0:07:01 > 0:07:04- Penicillin?- No, Streptomycin.
0:07:04 > 0:07:08The only vaccine now commonly available for protection against tuberculosis
0:07:08 > 0:07:12is named after its discoverers, and is usually known by what three initials?
0:07:12 > 0:07:14- BCG?- Dunno. Go for it.
0:07:14 > 0:07:19- BCG.- Correct. The causative agent of TB in humans is Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
0:07:19 > 0:07:23Infection by the related strain, Mycobacterium bovis,
0:07:23 > 0:07:27having been virtually eliminated in developed countries,
0:07:27 > 0:07:30by what public health measure, first proposed in the 1880s?
0:07:30 > 0:07:33Vaccination?
0:07:36 > 0:07:38Is it banning of spitting?
0:07:40 > 0:07:41Banning spitting.
0:07:41 > 0:07:46No, it's pasteurisation of cows' milk. A picture round now.
0:07:46 > 0:07:51Your starter is a map with the location of an active volcano.
0:07:51 > 0:07:53Ten points if you can give me its name.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59Mount St Helen's.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02It is Mount St Helen's, yes.
0:08:02 > 0:08:05In the United States. Your picture bonuses are three maps
0:08:05 > 0:08:09featuring active volcanoes. Five points for each you identify.
0:08:09 > 0:08:13Firstly, this volcano which last erupted in 1909.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20Mount Teide.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22Mount Teide is right. In the Canaries.
0:08:22 > 0:08:25This, whose last eruption occurred in 1950.
0:08:37 > 0:08:39- Krakatoa.- No, that's Santorini, or Thera.
0:08:39 > 0:08:43Finally, this volcano which last erupted in 2011.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48- Etna.- That is Mount Etna, yes.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50Another starter question now.
0:08:50 > 0:08:54"Why stop at serving them once a day? Have them twice or even three times
0:08:54 > 0:08:56"for breakfast, dinner and supper."
0:08:56 > 0:09:00These words appeared on war-time leaflets about which vegetable?
0:09:00 > 0:09:02- Potatoes.- Yes.
0:09:05 > 0:09:09Your bonuses this time are on American universities, Queen's.
0:09:09 > 0:09:13In US universities, first-year students are generally called freshmen
0:09:13 > 0:09:17and second-years sophomores. What term is used for third years?
0:09:17 > 0:09:21- Juniors.- Correct. The process known as graduation in UK universities
0:09:21 > 0:09:25is known by what term in American universities?
0:09:33 > 0:09:35- Commencement.- Correct.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38The academic society or fraternity Phi Beta Kappa
0:09:38 > 0:09:43gets its name from the initial letters of the Greek motto "Philosophia biou kubernetes".
0:09:43 > 0:09:45What does this mean in English?
0:09:45 > 0:09:48Philosophy, life...
0:09:50 > 0:09:51..government?
0:09:53 > 0:09:56- Philosophy, life, government. - Yeah, OK.
0:09:56 > 0:09:58"Philosophy is the guide of life."
0:09:58 > 0:10:03Another starter question. "His essays are, in effect, an extended autobiography,
0:10:03 > 0:10:06"the only one ever to be written this way." These words...
0:10:06 > 0:10:09- Montaigne. - Montaigne is correct, yes.
0:10:12 > 0:10:16King's, your bonuses this time are on an economist.
0:10:16 > 0:10:21Which economist gives his name to the theory that lack of demand for goods and unemployment
0:10:21 > 0:10:25should be met by increased government expenditure to stimulate the economy?
0:10:25 > 0:10:29- Keynes.- I think he devised the theory while he was at King's!
0:10:29 > 0:10:33Keynes led the British delegation to the Bretton Woods conference in 1944,
0:10:33 > 0:10:38which set up the World Bank and which other United Nations agency?
0:10:41 > 0:10:46- The International Monetary Fund. - Correct. What general term denotes the economic discipline
0:10:46 > 0:10:51of which Keynes is considered the founder? It studies whole economies or systems.
0:10:51 > 0:10:55- Macroeconomics.- Is right. Another starter question.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57Give both names promptly if you buzz.
0:10:57 > 0:10:59The names of which Greek god and goddess
0:10:59 > 0:11:04were combined in that of their son whose body became united with that of a nymph?
0:11:04 > 0:11:07His name is the derivation of the term for an animal or plant
0:11:07 > 0:11:09having both male and female...
0:11:09 > 0:11:12Hermes and Aphrodite.
0:11:12 > 0:11:13Yes.
0:11:16 > 0:11:20Your bonuses are on Ancient Greek names. The answer is a pair of names
0:11:20 > 0:11:24that in English differ by only one letter. For five,
0:11:24 > 0:11:29a priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover drowned
0:11:29 > 0:11:31and the queen of the Olympian gods.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36- Hero and Hera.- Correct.
0:11:36 > 0:11:41Second, a king of the city state of Sychian, described by Aeschylus as the son of Apollo,
0:11:41 > 0:11:45and the son of Faunus, who according to Ovid, was the lover of Galatea.
0:11:49 > 0:11:52- Pass.- Apis and Acis. Finally,
0:11:52 > 0:11:57the goddess of strife who gives her name to a dwarf planet, and the goddess of the rainbow.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03- Eris and Iris.- Correct. Another starter question.
0:12:03 > 0:12:08Which two eukaryotic cell structures are composed of nine fused pairs of microtubules
0:12:08 > 0:12:10surrounding a central pair?
0:12:10 > 0:12:15- Centromere.- No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:12:15 > 0:12:19With the expenditure of ATP, they're able to beat in a whiplash fashion.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21One of you may buzz.
0:12:24 > 0:12:29- Mitochondria.- No, the flagellum and cilium. Ten points for this.
0:12:29 > 0:12:33Which town on the River Wye links the 12th-century Bishop of St Asaph,
0:12:33 > 0:12:35author of The History of the Kings of Britain,
0:12:35 > 0:12:38with James Scott, an illegitimate son of Charles II
0:12:38 > 0:12:41executed after the battle of Sedgemoor...
0:12:41 > 0:12:43- Monmouth.- Monmouth is right.
0:12:43 > 0:12:47Your bonuses are on linear algebra.
0:12:47 > 0:12:51In a vector space, what name is given to the minimal size of a set of spanning vectors?
0:12:54 > 0:12:59- A dimension.- Correct. What is the dimension of the set of complex numbers
0:12:59 > 0:13:03- when regarded as a vector space over the real numbers?- Two.- Correct.
0:13:03 > 0:13:08What is the dimension of the set of complex numbers when regarded as a vector space over complex numbers?
0:13:08 > 0:13:13- One.- Correct. Which poem by Shelley is believed to have been written in competition
0:13:13 > 0:13:16with his friend and fellow poet Horace Smith?
0:13:16 > 0:13:22Smith's version opens, "In Egypt's sandy silence all alone stands a gigantic leg
0:13:22 > 0:13:24"which far off throws the only..."
0:13:24 > 0:13:27- Ozymandias.- Ozymandias is right.
0:13:27 > 0:13:30You can see why Shelley won!
0:13:30 > 0:13:35Your bonuses are on words that contain all five vowels in any order.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38In each case, give the word from the description.
0:13:38 > 0:13:43First, a cultivar of brassica oloracea whose varieties include
0:13:43 > 0:13:46snowball, clapton and romanesco veronica.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49- Cauliflower.- Correct.
0:13:49 > 0:13:55An adjective describing something beyond one's reach or that cannot be acquired or procured by effort.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57- Unobtainable.- Correct.
0:13:57 > 0:14:01Finally, a small percussion instrument appearing on the title
0:14:01 > 0:14:04of a song written by Bob Dylan and covered by The Byrds.
0:14:04 > 0:14:08- Tambourine.- Tambourine is right. A music round now.
0:14:08 > 0:14:10You'll hear a well-known song.
0:14:10 > 0:14:12Ten points if you give me the singer.
0:14:12 > 0:14:24# Ave Maria
0:14:24 > 0:14:32# Vergin del ciel. #
0:14:33 > 0:14:38- Bocelli.- No. Queen's, one of you buzz, please.
0:14:38 > 0:14:40Pavarotti.
0:14:40 > 0:14:45Pavarotti. If that was a guess, it was a very lucky one!
0:14:45 > 0:14:49So, following on from his version of Ave Maria,
0:14:49 > 0:14:51three more Ave Marias sung by pop artists.
0:14:51 > 0:14:55In each case, I want the name of the person singing.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57First, for five points.
0:14:57 > 0:15:10# Ave Maria... #
0:15:10 > 0:15:16- Charlotte Church. - No, that's Barbra Streisand.
0:15:16 > 0:15:20Secondly, the vocalist of this alternative version.
0:15:20 > 0:15:30# Ave Maria... #
0:15:35 > 0:15:37Sounds plausible.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41Cliff Richard?
0:15:41 > 0:15:46He wishes! It's Chris Cornell's version of Schubert's arrangement.
0:15:46 > 0:15:50Finally, the singer of this pop song, also called Ave Maria.
0:15:50 > 0:15:58# Ave Maria
0:16:00 > 0:16:02# I've been alone
0:16:02 > 0:16:06# When I'm surrounded by friends
0:16:06 > 0:16:12# How could the silence be so loud? #
0:16:12 > 0:16:15- I've no idea. - Have a guess at someone modern.
0:16:15 > 0:16:18- Eva Cassidy.- No, that's Beyonce.
0:16:18 > 0:16:21Ten points for this. The word Oriental appears in the full name
0:16:21 > 0:16:25of which South American republic, describing its location.
0:16:25 > 0:16:26- Uruguay.- Is right.
0:16:26 > 0:16:30Your bonuses this time, Queen's, are on pioneering American women.
0:16:30 > 0:16:35Chicago's Hull House was the first major social settlement house in the US,
0:16:35 > 0:16:39providing cultural and social amenities for a largely immigrant area.
0:16:39 > 0:16:46Its founder, Jane Adams, became the first American woman to win which specific award in 1931?
0:16:54 > 0:16:56- No idea.- Let's have an answer.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59- The Congressional Gold medal? - No, the Nobel Peace prize.
0:16:59 > 0:17:04Born Margaret Higgins, who opened the first US birth control clinic
0:17:04 > 0:17:06in New York in 1916?
0:17:06 > 0:17:09Her publications include What Every Girl Should Know
0:17:09 > 0:17:12and What Every Mother Should Know.
0:17:15 > 0:17:21- Margaret Sanger.- Correct. A pioneer and research innovator in social anthropology,
0:17:21 > 0:17:24who in 1928 published Coming of Age in Samoa,
0:17:24 > 0:17:28a psychological study of primitive youth for Western civilisation?
0:17:28 > 0:17:30Margaret Mead, I think.
0:17:30 > 0:17:35Margaret Mead is right, yes. Another starter question now.
0:17:35 > 0:17:40In physics, what adjective describes two quantum states with the same energy?
0:17:40 > 0:17:42- Degenerate. - Degenerate is right, yes.
0:17:45 > 0:17:49Your bonuses are on Byzantine emperors. In each case,
0:17:49 > 0:17:53I want the regnal name shared by the emperors who bore the following by-names.
0:17:53 > 0:17:59The first, known as The Thracian, the third, or The Isaurian, and the sixth, or The Philosopher?
0:17:59 > 0:18:01- Leo.- Leo.- Correct.
0:18:01 > 0:18:08The first, or Bringer of Victory, whose skull was made into a cup after defeat by the Bulgars,
0:18:08 > 0:18:10and the second, known as Phokas?
0:18:18 > 0:18:21- Julian.- No, Nikephoros. Finally,
0:18:21 > 0:18:23the fifth, or Dung Named,
0:18:23 > 0:18:28and the 11th or Palaiologus, who was the last Byzantine emperor.
0:18:28 > 0:18:31- Constantine.- Constantine. - Constantine is correct.
0:18:31 > 0:18:37Ten points for this. The Italian for mis-tuning, what term denotes the tuning of stringed instruments
0:18:37 > 0:18:39to play notes outside their normal range
0:18:39 > 0:18:42in order to perform particular compositions?
0:18:46 > 0:18:49- A-tonal.- Anyone like to buzz from King's?
0:18:49 > 0:18:52No? It's scordatura. Ten points for this.
0:18:52 > 0:18:57A serious post-war fiscal crisis and demands for parliamentary reform and Catholic emancipation
0:18:57 > 0:19:02were among the challenges which faced which prime minister, in office from 1812 to 1828?
0:19:03 > 0:19:05- Liverpool.- Liverpool is right, yes.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10Your bonuses this time are on dates in novels, Queen's.
0:19:10 > 0:19:16In which novel of 1895 does an inventor encounter people called the Eloi and the Morlocks
0:19:16 > 0:19:19in the year 802,701?
0:19:19 > 0:19:21- The Time Machine.- Correct.
0:19:21 > 0:19:25Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World is set in the year 632 AF.
0:19:25 > 0:19:27For what do the initials AF stand?
0:19:27 > 0:19:29Anno Fordi. Year of Ford.
0:19:29 > 0:19:31Anno Fordi.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34No, it's After Ford. I can't give you that.
0:19:34 > 0:19:38Five points for this. In which novel of 1889 by Mark Twain
0:19:38 > 0:19:42does a contemporary American experience life in the year 528?
0:19:42 > 0:19:44Connecticut Yankee at the Court of King Arthur.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47Connecticut Yankee in the Court of King Arthur.
0:19:47 > 0:19:51In King Arthur's Court. Yes. A second picture round now.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54For your picture starter, you'll sees a photograph of a fruit.
0:19:54 > 0:19:58For ten points, I'd like you to give me, in the correct order,
0:19:58 > 0:20:00the names of the chemical elements
0:20:00 > 0:20:05whose chemical symbols spell out the four-letter name of the fruit.
0:20:10 > 0:20:15- Potassium, iodine, tungsten, iodine. - Well done! Yes.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21Your bonuses are more pieces of fruit or vegetables.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24Again, give me the names of the chemical elements
0:20:24 > 0:20:29whose one or two-letter chemical symbols spell out the name of what you see. Confer,
0:20:29 > 0:20:31give me the list of elements then.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34Here's the first. It's a nine-letter word.
0:20:35 > 0:20:37- It's asparagus. - Is it argon?
0:20:37 > 0:20:41- Ar is Argon. - Asparagus doesn't have an R.
0:20:41 > 0:20:43- As is... - Arsenic.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49Pa is Protactinium.
0:20:51 > 0:20:54- Ra is... - Radon?
0:20:55 > 0:20:59- Or is that Rm. I think it's Rm. - It might be radium.- OK.- Radium.
0:20:59 > 0:21:04- G.- It would have to be Gu.
0:21:04 > 0:21:07Maybe it's Ag, which is silver.
0:21:07 > 0:21:08What's R?
0:21:09 > 0:21:11I don't think there is an R.
0:21:11 > 0:21:14OK.
0:21:14 > 0:21:18This is all very entertaining, but you have to give an answer soon.
0:21:18 > 0:21:22I don't know what G is, but you could have Uranium and Sulphur.
0:21:24 > 0:21:28Arsenic. Phosphorous. Argon...
0:21:30 > 0:21:31- Silver.- Silver.
0:21:33 > 0:21:34Uranium. Sulphur.
0:21:34 > 0:21:35Well done! Yes!
0:21:40 > 0:21:42Secondly for five points, a ten-letter word.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45There are two ways of doing this. Either is fine.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48- What is it? - Coriander?
0:21:48 > 0:21:51It's ten letters.
0:21:51 > 0:21:55- Is it a vegetable?- Is it watercress?
0:21:55 > 0:21:58- Yes, it's watercress.- OK.
0:21:58 > 0:22:02- That's tungsten.- At is astatine.
0:22:02 > 0:22:04And erbium.
0:22:04 > 0:22:08So, tungsten, astatine, erbium. C? Carbon?
0:22:08 > 0:22:12- No, no, Cr, you could have chromium. - There's two ways.
0:22:12 > 0:22:15Es is einsteinium, and S is sulpher.
0:22:15 > 0:22:16So what's that again?
0:22:16 > 0:22:21- Tungsten, astatine, erbium.- Erbium.
0:22:21 > 0:22:22Chromium.
0:22:22 > 0:22:26- Einsteinium. Sulphur.- Well done.
0:22:26 > 0:22:29APPLAUSE
0:22:31 > 0:22:35Finally, there are two possible solutions to this one as well.
0:22:35 > 0:22:37I want the plural form, so seven letters.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39It's a banana!
0:22:41 > 0:22:44Barium. Sodium.
0:22:44 > 0:22:46Sulphur.
0:22:46 > 0:22:50- Bananas, so two sodiums. - Yeah. Yeah. Barium,
0:22:50 > 0:22:52sodium, sodium, sulphur.
0:22:52 > 0:22:53Yes!
0:22:53 > 0:22:56APPLAUSE
0:22:57 > 0:22:59Another starter question.
0:22:59 > 0:23:03What initial three letters link a receptacle for the bones of the dead,
0:23:03 > 0:23:06a legendary Gallic poet, an Italian dish of stewed...
0:23:06 > 0:23:10- Urn. U-R-N. - No, you lose five points.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13An Italian dish of stewed veal,
0:23:13 > 0:23:16and a region of the Caucasus divided between Russia and Georgia?
0:23:19 > 0:23:23- Abc...?- No, it's O-S-S. Ossuary, Ossian, osso bucco and so on.
0:23:23 > 0:23:29Another starter question. Crack, white, grey, bay, goat and almond leaves
0:23:29 > 0:23:35are among the native British trees of what genus? You may give the common name or scientific name.
0:23:37 > 0:23:40- Laurel.- No. Queen's? Somebody buzz?
0:23:41 > 0:23:43Birch.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46No, it's willow or Salix. Ten points for this.
0:23:46 > 0:23:52In human genetics, what percentage of the male offspring of a male carrying a Y-linked gene
0:23:52 > 0:23:53will carry that gene?
0:23:54 > 0:23:57- 50 per cent.- Anyone like to buzz from Queen's?
0:23:57 > 0:23:59- 100 per cent.- 100 per cent. Yes.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06Your bonuses are on a 19th-century politician.
0:24:06 > 0:24:11Born in 1819 which Liberal statesman gives his name to an act of 1870
0:24:11 > 0:24:16that created the first national system of elementary education in England and Wales?
0:24:22 > 0:24:23Foster. Forster.
0:24:23 > 0:24:28- Forster.- Correct. In 1872, Forster guided through an act
0:24:28 > 0:24:31stipulating which reform of the voting system,
0:24:31 > 0:24:35one of the Chartists' six points which helped reduce bribery and intimidation at elections?
0:24:35 > 0:24:41- Secret ballot.- Correct. Forster Square railway station is in which English city?
0:24:44 > 0:24:47- Shall we just guess? - Let's have an answer.
0:24:47 > 0:24:52- Newcastle.- No, Bradford. Three minutes to go. Ten points for this. According to William James,
0:24:52 > 0:24:57which branch of philosophy "means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly"?
0:25:01 > 0:25:04- Logic.- Queen's, somebody like to buzz?
0:25:04 > 0:25:06Metaphysics. Ten points for this.
0:25:06 > 0:25:12Answer when you buzz. Three countries share borders of 1,500km or more with the European Union.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14For ten points, name two of them.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18- Russia and Ukraine.- No.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21Anyone like to buzz from King's?
0:25:23 > 0:25:25Ukraine and Switzerland.
0:25:25 > 0:25:28No, it's Norway, Russia and Switzerland.
0:25:28 > 0:25:33The other ones, the Ukraine and so on, are slightly shorter. Ten points for this, then.
0:25:33 > 0:25:37Assuming the most abundant isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen,
0:25:37 > 0:25:40a molecule of water contains how many protons?
0:25:41 > 0:25:42- Ten.- Correct.
0:25:42 > 0:25:47Another set of bonuses for you, Queen's. They're on a craft.
0:25:47 > 0:25:52In what traditional craft might one find oneself following a four-word instruction
0:25:52 > 0:25:54represented by the abbreviation K, T.B.L?
0:26:01 > 0:26:02- Knitting.- Yes!
0:26:02 > 0:26:09For what does the letter Y stand in the knitting pattern instruction yfon?
0:26:12 > 0:26:15- Yarn.- Yarn forward over needle is right.
0:26:15 > 0:26:20Again in a knitting pattern for what does sl1, k1, psso stand?
0:26:23 > 0:26:25Come on!
0:26:25 > 0:26:31- Slip first, purl one... - No, slip one, knit one, pass slip stitch over.
0:26:31 > 0:26:34Ten points for this. B.V in Dutch,
0:26:34 > 0:26:36e.e in Welsh, p.ej in Spanish,
0:26:36 > 0:26:38per es in Italian,
0:26:38 > 0:26:40p.ex in French and Portuguese...
0:26:40 > 0:26:42- For example. E.g.- Correct.
0:26:42 > 0:26:46Your bonuses, King's, are on genetic engineering.
0:26:46 > 0:26:51What name was given to the first mammal to be cloned from adult somatic cells in 1996?
0:26:51 > 0:26:53- Dolly.- Quickly.- Dolly!- Dolly.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56Correct. Dolly was produced by somatic cell nuclear transfer.
0:26:56 > 0:26:59In this technique, the nucleus from a somatic cell
0:26:59 > 0:27:02is transferred to what type of recipient cell?
0:27:06 > 0:27:08- Egg cell.- No, embryonic cell.
0:27:08 > 0:27:14What tissue was the source of the nucleus transferred to produce Dolly?
0:27:14 > 0:27:18- Mammary.- Mammary is right. Named after Dolly Parton. Ten points for this.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21Attributing the words to the artist and writer Robert Storm Petersen,
0:27:21 > 0:27:25Niels Bohr cited the observation that "Prediction can be very difficult
0:27:25 > 0:27:27"especially about..." what?
0:27:28 > 0:27:30- The future.- The future, yes.
0:27:30 > 0:27:33Here are your bonuses, Queen's, on codes.
0:27:33 > 0:27:37Its statutes, including The Conventicle Act and the Five-Mile Act,
0:27:37 > 0:27:42a code restricting the activity of non-conformists in 17th-century England
0:27:42 > 0:27:45- is often named after which Lord Chancellor?- Clarendon!
0:27:45 > 0:27:50- Clarendon.- Correct. Which Chinese dynasty gives its name to a penal code of 624 C.E
0:27:50 > 0:27:55that became the basis for later dynastic codes in China and other east Asian states?
0:27:55 > 0:28:00- Tang.- Correct. Effective in the USA from the 1930s to the '60s, the Hays Code
0:28:00 > 0:28:03- regulated what form of artistic expression? - GONG
0:28:03 > 0:28:06At the gong, King's, Cambridge have 95
0:28:06 > 0:28:08and Queen's, Oxford, have 280!
0:28:14 > 0:28:18Bad luck, King's, you never got the chance to show us what you're made of.
0:28:18 > 0:28:20But you were up against very strong opposition.
0:28:20 > 0:28:27Queen's, a terrific score and terrific performance. We'll see you again. Congratulations.
0:28:27 > 0:28:30I hope you can join us next time. Until then,
0:28:30 > 0:28:33- it's goodbye from King's College, Cambridge.- Bye.
0:28:33 > 0:28:35- Goodbye from Queen's College, Oxford.- Bye!
0:28:35 > 0:28:37And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye!
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