0:00:18 > 0:00:21University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:26 > 0:00:32Hello. George Bernard Shaw said that all the young could do for the old was to shock them
0:00:32 > 0:00:38and keep them up to date. Tonight, two of the youngest teams in the contest are preparing to do that.
0:00:38 > 0:00:44There is a place in the second round for the team that gets a few questions right in the process.
0:00:44 > 0:00:50Leeds University grew out of several institutions and received its royal charter from Edward VII in 1904.
0:00:50 > 0:00:56Much of the inspiration for its teaching programme came from the technical colleges of Germany
0:00:56 > 0:01:02and at the time of its foundation, the great majority of its students came from Yorkshire.
0:01:02 > 0:01:06It's now one of the largest universities in Britain
0:01:06 > 0:01:09with around 33,000 students from over 140 countries.
0:01:09 > 0:01:13Alumni include the politicians Jack Straw and Clare Short,
0:01:13 > 0:01:19musicians Mark Knopfler and Little Boots and its current chancellor is Melvyn Bragg.
0:01:19 > 0:01:23With an average age of 19 and the youngest team in the competition,
0:01:23 > 0:01:25let's meet the four from Leeds.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28I'm Lucy Bennett from Wigan, studying English and French.
0:01:28 > 0:01:32I'm Peter Hufton from Mansfield, studying Theoretical Physics.
0:01:32 > 0:01:36- Their captain.- I'm Lewis from St Albans, studying Biology.
0:01:36 > 0:01:39I'm Christian Mannsaker from Newcastle.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41I'm studying Classical Civilisation.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44APPLAUSE
0:01:45 > 0:01:49Goldsmiths is a constituent college of the University of London.
0:01:49 > 0:01:55It began life as an institute established in New Cross by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths,
0:01:55 > 0:01:59one of the City of London's livery companies, in 1891.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02The university acquired it in 1904.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05The college specialises in creative and cultural disciplines.
0:02:05 > 0:02:11Tonight's team describe a typical Goldsmiths student as left-wing and arty with an interesting haircut.
0:02:11 > 0:02:17Alumni include designer Mary Quant and artists Damien Hirst, Bridget Riley and Antony Gormley.
0:02:17 > 0:02:22The senior of tonight's teams with an average age of 19 and three-quarters, let's meet them.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25I'm Adam from Darwen in Lancashire
0:02:25 > 0:02:28and I'm studying Fine Art and History of Art.
0:02:28 > 0:02:32I'm Julie Tanner from Kirby-le-Soken in Essex and I'm studying English.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34- Their captain.- I'm Tom from London,
0:02:34 > 0:02:37studying for a Masters in Composition.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40I'm Wes from Rochdale, studying English.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42APPLAUSE
0:02:43 > 0:02:46OK, you all know the rules no doubt.
0:02:46 > 0:02:52It's ten points for starters, 15 for bonuses, five-point penalties for incorrect interruptions to starters.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:55 > 0:02:58From the 19th century to the 1920s,
0:02:58 > 0:03:03Lustreer, Optiphone and Mirascope were among names suggested
0:03:03 > 0:03:07for what yet to be invented, but now ubiquitous device?
0:03:09 > 0:03:12- Television. - Television is right, yes.
0:03:13 > 0:03:17The first bonuses are on foreign policy doctrines.
0:03:17 > 0:03:21Which Soviet leader gave his name to a foreign policy doctrine
0:03:21 > 0:03:25by which the USSR reserved the right to use military force
0:03:25 > 0:03:29to prevent its satellites from courses that "damaged socialism"?
0:03:29 > 0:03:32- Khrushchev?- Khrushchev?
0:03:33 > 0:03:37- Khrushchev?- No, it was Brezhnev. After a popular US performer,
0:03:37 > 0:03:41what name did a Soviet foreign ministry spokesman give
0:03:41 > 0:03:45to the USSR's policy towards the 1989 revolutions in Eastern Europe?
0:03:48 > 0:03:51Nominate Bennett.
0:03:51 > 0:03:54She doesn't want to be nominated.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57- Sorry, pass.- Have you got any idea? - No. Pass.
0:03:57 > 0:04:01Frank Sinatra Doctrine. Any country could do it "their way".
0:04:01 > 0:04:08Which US President's Doctrine was first announced with a speech to a joint session of Congress,
0:04:08 > 0:04:14requesting 400 million in aid for Greece and Turkey and a pledge "to support free peoples"?
0:04:15 > 0:04:18- What was the date?- He didn't say.
0:04:19 > 0:04:22Try Truman. I know there's a Truman Doctrine.
0:04:22 > 0:04:25- Truman Doctrine? - It was the Truman Doctrine.
0:04:25 > 0:04:29Ten points for this. Devised as it's impossible to perform with one hand
0:04:29 > 0:04:33and also known as "the Vulcan nerve pinch" or "three-finger salute",
0:04:33 > 0:04:39the IBM computer engineer David Bradley in 1981 formulated which now ubiquitous keyboard command?
0:04:40 > 0:04:42- Control-alt-delete.- Yes.
0:04:45 > 0:04:51Your bonuses are on property. "Government has no other end but the preservation of property."
0:04:51 > 0:04:56Who wrote those words in his Second Treatise On Civil Government in 1690?
0:04:59 > 0:05:05- Pass.- John Locke. "Property and law are born together and die together.
0:05:05 > 0:05:10"Before the laws, there was no property. Take away laws and property ceases."
0:05:10 > 0:05:16Which English philosopher wrote those words in Principles Of The Civil Code?
0:05:16 > 0:05:18Hume?
0:05:18 > 0:05:22- Hume.- No, it was Jeremy Bentham. Finally for five,
0:05:22 > 0:05:27"In no country of the world is the love of property more active and more anxious than in the US."
0:05:27 > 0:05:34Which Frenchman wrote those words in a work of 1835 entitled Democracy In America?
0:05:35 > 0:05:37- Pass.- That's De Tocqueville.
0:05:37 > 0:05:41Ten points for this. Illustrating the concept basic to chaos theory
0:05:41 > 0:05:46that some dynamic systems are highly sensitive to their initial conditions,
0:05:46 > 0:05:50what term was popularised by Edward Lorenz to suggest the flapping...
0:05:50 > 0:05:53- The butterfly effect.- Right, yes.
0:05:55 > 0:05:59Your bonuses, Goldsmiths, are on English words derived from Arabic.
0:05:59 > 0:06:01Give the word from the definition.
0:06:01 > 0:06:05Firstly, from an Arabic word meaning "reunion of broken parts",
0:06:05 > 0:06:11the branch of mathematics that deals with the study of the rules of operations and relations?
0:06:11 > 0:06:14WHISPERING
0:06:19 > 0:06:24- Algebra.- Correct. Secondly, from the name of a 9th century Persian mathematician,
0:06:24 > 0:06:28a set of steps or instructions designed to solve a problem?
0:06:31 > 0:06:33- Equation.- No, it's an algorithm.
0:06:33 > 0:06:38Finally, from an Arabic term referring to powdered antimony used as eye make-up,
0:06:38 > 0:06:43a colourless, volatile liquid that may be used as an industrial solvent and as fuel?
0:06:43 > 0:06:46- Alcohol.- Correct.
0:06:46 > 0:06:52A picture round now. For your starter, you'll see the insignia for a rank in the British Army.
0:06:52 > 0:06:55Ten points if you can identify the rank.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59- Colonel.- That is a Colonel, yes.
0:07:01 > 0:07:06Your bonuses, Leeds, are from the British armed forces.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09I want the name of the rank depicted in each case.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11Firstly...?
0:07:16 > 0:07:19- Commodore.- That's a Commodore in the Navy. And secondly...?
0:07:22 > 0:07:25It might be Flight Lieutenant. I don't know.
0:07:25 > 0:07:29- Flight Lieutenant?- No, Wing Commander. And finally...?
0:07:36 > 0:07:38Major General?
0:07:38 > 0:07:42- Major General?- No, that's too specific. That is a General.
0:07:42 > 0:07:47Ten points for this. In 1914, at the age of 21, which Welsh composer found success
0:07:47 > 0:07:50with his song Keep The Home Fires Burning?
0:07:50 > 0:07:56His name has been given to the awards presented annually since 1955 for British music and song-writing.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58- Ivor Novello.- Correct.
0:07:58 > 0:08:03Your bonuses this time are on Romulus and Remus, Goldsmiths.
0:08:03 > 0:08:07Born, according to legend, in 770 BC, Romulus and Remus were the sons
0:08:07 > 0:08:11of the mortal priestess Rhea Silvia and which Roman god?
0:08:12 > 0:08:14Jupiter?
0:08:14 > 0:08:21No, it's Mars. Through their mother, Romulus and Remus could trace their lineage back to which Trojan hero,
0:08:21 > 0:08:26the son of the prince Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite?
0:08:27 > 0:08:31- Priam.- No, it's Aeneas.
0:08:31 > 0:08:34On which of the seven hills of Rome did Romulus kill Remus?
0:08:36 > 0:08:41- Pass.- Palatine Hill. Ten points for this. Born in Kiel in 1858,
0:08:41 > 0:08:44which physicist gives his name to the length scale
0:08:44 > 0:08:49thought to represent the shortest distance between points in quantum gravity?
0:08:49 > 0:08:52- Is it Planck?- Planck is right, yes.
0:08:55 > 0:08:58Your bonuses are on pollination of flowers.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01Derived from the Greek meaning "closed marriage",
0:09:01 > 0:09:06what term means a form of self-pollination within a permanently closed flower?
0:09:11 > 0:09:17- Pass.- Cleistogamy. The pollen of many orchids is transferred as a single agglutinated mass.
0:09:17 > 0:09:21What name is given to the mass of pollen grains?
0:09:22 > 0:09:26- Nectar?- No, they're pollinium or pollinia.
0:09:26 > 0:09:33And finally for a possible five, The Various Contrivances By Which Orchids Are Pollinated By Insects
0:09:33 > 0:09:35is an 1862 work by which scientist?
0:09:38 > 0:09:41- Darwin?- It was Charles Darwin, yes.
0:09:41 > 0:09:45Ten points for this. Ferdinand IV, King of Naples from 1759,
0:09:45 > 0:09:51was reputed to disguise himself as a commoner to visit poorer parts of the city and consume what foodstuff?
0:09:51 > 0:09:53- Pizza.- Pizza is correct.
0:09:56 > 0:09:58His wife didn't let him have it.
0:09:58 > 0:10:01The pizza, that is.
0:10:01 > 0:10:05Some bonuses on autobiographical works by Russian authors.
0:10:05 > 0:10:11Published in the 1850s, the novels Childhood, Boyhood and Youth about the son of a wealthy landowner
0:10:11 > 0:10:15are early, semi-autobiographical works by which Russian author?
0:10:16 > 0:10:19WHISPERING
0:10:19 > 0:10:25- Tolstoy.- Correct. The House Of The Dead, published 1862 and concerning life in a Siberian labour camp,
0:10:25 > 0:10:30is by which author, based in part on his own experiences of imprisonment for membership
0:10:30 > 0:10:36of the Petrashevsky Circle of those opposed to Tsarism and serfdom?
0:10:36 > 0:10:42- Dostoyevsky.- Correct. In the memoir The Oak And The Calf, which Russian author describes his attempts
0:10:42 > 0:10:47to get his novels, including Cancer Ward and The First Circle, published in his own country?
0:10:47 > 0:10:49Um... Nominate Bennett.
0:10:49 > 0:10:54- Solzhenitsyn.- Solzhenitsyn is right, yes. Ten points for this.
0:10:54 > 0:10:59What phenomenon is the apparent cause of death of the rag-and-bone dealer Krook
0:10:59 > 0:11:01in Charles Dickens' Bleak House?
0:11:01 > 0:11:04- Spontaneous combustion.- Correct.
0:11:06 > 0:11:10Your bonuses are on the decorative arts, Leeds.
0:11:10 > 0:11:13His works including a five-metre-high sculpture
0:11:13 > 0:11:20at the main entrance to the V&A Museum, the American artist Dale Chihuly works mainly in what medium?
0:11:21 > 0:11:28- Architecture?- No, it's glass. Which island in the Venetian Lagoon gives its name to the decorative glass
0:11:28 > 0:11:33produced there since the 13th century when glass-blowers had to relocate from Venice
0:11:33 > 0:11:36to reduce the fire risk to the city?
0:11:37 > 0:11:40- Nominate Mannsaker.- Murano. - Murano is correct.
0:11:40 > 0:11:46Including glass doors, panelling, a font and an altar cross created in the Art Deco style by Rene Lalique,
0:11:46 > 0:11:51the Glass Church of St Matthew's is at Millbrook on which island?
0:11:54 > 0:11:56WHISPERING
0:11:59 > 0:12:02- Pass.- It's on Jersey. Ten points for this.
0:12:02 > 0:12:06"There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper."
0:12:06 > 0:12:12These are the words of which self-styled, dissident feminist born Upstate New York in 1947?
0:12:12 > 0:12:18Her works include Sexual Personae: Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24- Gloria Steinem? - Anyone like to buzz from Leeds?
0:12:25 > 0:12:30- Judith Butler?- No, it's Camille Paglia. Ten points for this.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32Sold for over £65 million in 2010,
0:12:32 > 0:12:38The Walking Man or L'Homme Qui Marche is a sculpture of 1961 by which Swiss artist,
0:12:38 > 0:12:42typifying his thin, elongated depictions of the human form?
0:12:42 > 0:12:45- Giacometti.- Giacometti is correct.
0:12:45 > 0:12:51Your bonuses this time, which could give you the lead again, are on rabbits in peril.
0:12:51 > 0:12:55Firstly, in Beatrix Potter's The Tale Of Peter Rabbit,
0:12:55 > 0:13:02who owns the garden in which Peter's father met his demise, being put into a pie by the owner's wife?
0:13:03 > 0:13:05CONFERRING
0:13:15 > 0:13:18- Farmer Brown?- No, it's Mr McGregor.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22In Richard Adams' Watership Down, what is the name
0:13:22 > 0:13:26of the rabbit warren run by the dictatorial General Woundwort
0:13:26 > 0:13:30with whom Fiver, Hazel and their friends come into conflict?
0:13:33 > 0:13:37- Any guesses?- No.- Pass. - That's Efrafa.
0:13:37 > 0:13:42Finally, a scene in which film of 1987 gave rise to the term "bunny-boiler"
0:13:42 > 0:13:47for one who reacts negatively to the ending of an intimate relationship?
0:13:47 > 0:13:50- Fatal Attraction.- Correct.
0:13:50 > 0:13:56We'll take a music round. For your starter, you'll hear an excerpt from a popular song released in 2008.
0:13:56 > 0:14:00For 10 points, give me the name of both artists singing.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03# Another ringer with the slick... #
0:14:05 > 0:14:07- Jack White and Alicia Keys.- It is.
0:14:10 > 0:14:14That was Another Way To Die, also written by Jack White.
0:14:14 > 0:14:17Three more songs written by him.
0:14:17 > 0:14:24Name each song and the band performing, each of which also had him as a founding member. Firstly...
0:14:24 > 0:14:26MUSIC BEGINS
0:14:26 > 0:14:31- Steady As She Goes, The Raconteurs. - Steady As She Goes, The Raconteurs.
0:14:31 > 0:14:34Correct. Secondly...
0:14:34 > 0:14:36# Wake me up when you're broke
0:14:36 > 0:14:38# But only if it's broken
0:14:38 > 0:14:44# You know, I treat you like a joke But you can't tell when I'm joking
0:14:47 > 0:14:49# Can't tell... #
0:14:49 > 0:14:56- Can't Tell I'm A Joker by The Dead Weather?- It is The Dead Weather, but it's I Cut Like A Buffalo.
0:14:56 > 0:15:00- 5 points for this final one. - # Everyone knows about it... #
0:15:01 > 0:15:06- White Stripes, Seven Nation Army. - Correct. Another starter question.
0:15:06 > 0:15:12What mid-19th century English dialect term originally meant "to soak a wooden vessel"
0:15:12 > 0:15:16and is now given to periods of excessive indulgence?
0:15:16 > 0:15:22- Binge?- Binge is right. Your bonuses this time are on geography.
0:15:22 > 0:15:28In each case, give the next country whose territory you reach if you head due west
0:15:28 > 0:15:31from the following EU capital cities. For example,
0:15:31 > 0:15:36Madrid would give the answer Portugal, and Paris is Canada.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38Firstly, for 5 points, Riga.
0:15:49 > 0:15:54- Belarus?- No, it's Sweden. Secondly, Valletta.
0:15:56 > 0:16:00- Pass.- That would be Tunisia. And, finally, Copenhagen.
0:16:04 > 0:16:08- Britain.- Yes, the UK. 10 points for this.
0:16:08 > 0:16:13Following Slovenia in 2007, Cyprus and Malta in 2008 and Slovakia in 2009,
0:16:13 > 0:16:17which country joined the Eurozone in January 2011?
0:16:17 > 0:16:20- Estonia.- Estonia is correct, yes.
0:16:20 > 0:16:25Your bonuses are on biology. What Greek-derived adjective denotes
0:16:25 > 0:16:30an organ or development of a foetus in other than the normal place?
0:16:39 > 0:16:42- Ectopic?- Correct.
0:16:42 > 0:16:48An ectomycorrhiza is a symbiotic association of what two general types of organism?
0:16:54 > 0:16:55Em...
0:16:55 > 0:16:59- Is it a fungus and a plant? - It is, yes.
0:16:59 > 0:17:04And, finally, ectothermic animals are also known by what common two-word term?
0:17:04 > 0:17:08- Warm-blooded. - No, it's cold-blooded.
0:17:08 > 0:17:1210 points for this. "In many ways, she reminds me of Enid Blyton.
0:17:12 > 0:17:18"Her characters are ciphers, each one developed precisely as far as he or she needs to be
0:17:18 > 0:17:25"for propulsion of the plot and no further." These words refer to which writer, born in 1890?
0:17:27 > 0:17:29- Nancy Mitford?- No.
0:17:29 > 0:17:32Anyone want to buzz from Goldsmiths?
0:17:32 > 0:17:37It's Agatha Christie. 10 points for this.
0:17:37 > 0:17:41The title of a work of 1978 by the literary critic Edward Said,
0:17:41 > 0:17:47what term has been defined as an academic discourse that creates a rigid east/west dichotomy...
0:17:47 > 0:17:50- Orientalism.- Correct, yes.
0:17:50 > 0:17:56These bonuses could give you the lead again, Leeds. They're on events of the 1990s.
0:17:56 > 0:18:03Which republic marked the 20th anniversary of its unification on 22nd May 2010?
0:18:06 > 0:18:12- Is it Germany?- No, it's Yemen. A so-called unification flag was first used in 1991
0:18:12 > 0:18:16at the World Table Tennis and World Youth Football Championships,
0:18:16 > 0:18:20which saw which two countries competing as a single team?
0:18:22 > 0:18:24It's not a country.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28- Pass.- North and South Korea.
0:18:28 > 0:18:34Which country holds an annual national holiday on 3rd October, celebrating its reunification
0:18:34 > 0:18:36on that date in 1990?
0:18:48 > 0:18:54- Come on.- Germany. - It is Germany, yes. Level pegging.
0:18:54 > 0:18:58What three-word term was applied to several political coteries,
0:18:58 > 0:19:02including the leadership of Pakistan's military dictatorship...
0:19:02 > 0:19:06- Gang of Four?- Correct. That gives you the lead.
0:19:07 > 0:19:13Your bonuses are on invasive species. What is the common name of Lates Niloticus,
0:19:13 > 0:19:18whose introduction to Lake Victoria from the 1950s has led to the possible extinction
0:19:18 > 0:19:21of numerous endemic fish species?
0:19:24 > 0:19:28- Let's have an answer, please. - Pass.- The Nile perch.
0:19:28 > 0:19:36- Named after their hairy claws, which aggressive crabs have infested the Thames and other rivers?- Pass.
0:19:36 > 0:19:40Mitten crabs. Introduced to control Australia's greyback beetles,
0:19:40 > 0:19:45what is the common two-word name of the pest Bufo Marinus?
0:19:45 > 0:19:50- Cane toad?- The cane toad? - Cane toad is correct.
0:19:50 > 0:19:52Another picture round now.
0:19:52 > 0:19:58You'll see a portrait of a Queen Consort of Great Britain. 10 points if you can name her.
0:20:02 > 0:20:05- Queen Mary?- Queen Mary is right.
0:20:05 > 0:20:09Wife of George V, originally of Teck.
0:20:09 > 0:20:13After the death of George V, she became Queen Dowager,
0:20:13 > 0:20:17the title given to Queens Consort whose husbands predecease them.
0:20:17 > 0:20:22Three more portraits of English or British Queens Dowager.
0:20:22 > 0:20:265 points for each you can name. Firstly, for 5...
0:20:28 > 0:20:33- Pass.- That's Henrietta-Maria, widow of Charles I. Secondly...
0:20:43 > 0:20:49- Catherine Howard? - Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort to Edward IV. And finally...
0:20:55 > 0:21:01- Pass.- I'm surprised. Catherine of Braganza, consort to Charles II. Another starter.
0:21:01 > 0:21:07In the SI system, the composite unit of one joule per Newton is more commonly expressed
0:21:07 > 0:21:13as what base unit, 40 million of which approximately equal the Earth's circumference?
0:21:13 > 0:21:17- Metre.- Metre, yes. Well done. - APPLAUSE
0:21:17 > 0:21:20Your bonuses this time are on widows.
0:21:20 > 0:21:25The Widow was a Victorian slang term for which drink?
0:21:27 > 0:21:30- Gin?- No, it's champagne.
0:21:30 > 0:21:36In the 19th century, which fictional widow was named after a cheap grade of green tea with a ragged leaf,
0:21:36 > 0:21:40perhaps implying that she was past her best?
0:21:42 > 0:21:49- Pass.- That's Widow Twankey. And, finally, the 2010 novel The Pregnant Widow, concerning
0:21:49 > 0:21:54the 20-year-old literature student Keith Nearing, is by which writer?
0:21:58 > 0:22:04- Pass.- Martin Amis. An example of Shakespeare's infrequent use of a chorus,
0:22:04 > 0:22:10which play opens with the invocation of, "A muse of fire that would ascend the brightest heaven..."
0:22:10 > 0:22:17- Henry V.- That is right. Your bonuses this time are on SI prefixes, Leeds.
0:22:17 > 0:22:22The letters MM can be written with the initial letter either in upper case or lower case
0:22:22 > 0:22:28to represent a decimal multiple and a submultiple of an SI unit of distance. Name both.
0:22:32 > 0:22:38- Megametre and millimetre.- Correct. The letters PM can represent which two units of distance,
0:22:38 > 0:22:42depending on whether the initial letter is upper case or lower case?
0:22:42 > 0:22:45- Picometre and petametre.- Correct.
0:22:45 > 0:22:51Which is the only Greek character to prefix the letter M to represent a unit of distance?
0:22:51 > 0:22:53K?
0:22:53 > 0:22:55No...
0:22:55 > 0:22:57I think it's...
0:22:57 > 0:22:59- Mu.- Mu is right.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01Five minutes to go.
0:23:01 > 0:23:07What colloquial term for a person regarded as vacant or clueless is the three-digit number
0:23:07 > 0:23:10of the world wide web error message...
0:23:10 > 0:23:13- 404.- 404 is correct.
0:23:13 > 0:23:16Your bonuses are on railways.
0:23:16 > 0:23:22In the names of UK stations, what railway-related term follows Smallbrook, Burscough,
0:23:22 > 0:23:26Yeovil, Georgemas and around a dozen others?
0:23:36 > 0:23:40- Park?- No, it's Junction. Wales has three stations
0:23:40 > 0:23:46whose names include the word "junction". For five points, name two of them.
0:23:49 > 0:23:54- Cardiff and Newport?- No, Dovey, Severn Tunnel and Llandudno.
0:23:54 > 0:24:00Which south London junction is often said to be Europe's busiest station in terms of daily rail traffic?
0:24:03 > 0:24:09- Clapham Junction?- Correct. 10 points for this. When Neil Armstrong said in 1969 that the Moon surface
0:24:09 > 0:24:12felt like crunchy snow underfoot,
0:24:12 > 0:24:17he confirmed the 1964 prediction by which Dutch-born US astronomer?
0:24:21 > 0:24:24- Patrick Moore?- No(!) - OK. I just...
0:24:24 > 0:24:28Goldsmiths? One of you buzz? It's Kuiper.
0:24:28 > 0:24:34What major river of South America has a name that rhymes with the light, playful style
0:24:34 > 0:24:37of architecture and design that followed Baroque?
0:24:37 > 0:24:41- Orinoco?- Correct. Rhymes with Rococo.
0:24:41 > 0:24:45Your bonuses are on archaeologists.
0:24:45 > 0:24:50Leonard Woolley directed the excavations at what site in Mesopotamia in the 1920s?
0:24:50 > 0:24:57He discovered the copper bull of the third millennium BC now on display at the British Museum.
0:24:58 > 0:25:04- Babylon?- No, it's Ur. Having surveyed Stonehenge, who turned to Egyptology from 1881?
0:25:04 > 0:25:10He began by surveying Giza and excavating mounds of Tanis and Naucratis.
0:25:16 > 0:25:22- Howard Carter?- No, Flinders Petrie. Arthur Evans excavated the Bronze Age city of Knossos
0:25:22 > 0:25:26and discovered the remains of the civilisation he gave what name?
0:25:26 > 0:25:32- The Minoans.- Correct. Another starter. What quantity pertaining to an unpowered projectile
0:25:32 > 0:25:37is 5.02 kilometres a second on Mars, 2.37 on the Moon and...
0:25:37 > 0:25:42- Acceleration due to gravity. - No. ..and 11.18 on Earth?
0:25:46 > 0:25:51- Wind resistance?- No, it's escape velocity. 10 points for this.
0:25:51 > 0:25:57Seymour, Buddy, Boo Boo, Walt, Waker, Zooey and Franny are the siblings of the Glass family...
0:25:58 > 0:26:06- Salinger.- JD Salinger is correct. Your bonuses now are on three-word expressions,
0:26:06 > 0:26:11all three of whose words are the same length. For example, great white shark.
0:26:11 > 0:26:17In each case, give the phrase from the explanation. The Arab-Israeli conflict of June, 1967?
0:26:17 > 0:26:22- The Six Day War.- Correct. The smallest province of Canada?
0:26:24 > 0:26:30- Prince Edward Island.- Correct. In computing, the three words represented by the acronym RAM?
0:26:30 > 0:26:32- Random Access Memory.- Correct.
0:26:32 > 0:26:39A chess piece and the largest city of New Zealand form the two-word name of which market town,
0:26:39 > 0:26:42midway between Durham and Darlington?
0:26:42 > 0:26:48- Bishop Auckland.- Correct. Your bonuses this time are on astrophysical objects.
0:26:48 > 0:26:54What name is given to rapidly rotating neutron stars that emit electromagnetic radiation
0:26:54 > 0:26:57usually at radio frequencies?
0:26:57 > 0:27:03- Quasar.- No, they're pulsars. What term indicates highly-magnetised pulsars emitting mainly X-rays
0:27:03 > 0:27:06and gamma rays?
0:27:06 > 0:27:09- Quasars?- No, they're magnetars.
0:27:09 > 0:27:14What term describes highly redshifted active galactic nuclei
0:27:14 > 0:27:18- surrounding a supermassive black hole?- I don't know.
0:27:18 > 0:27:22- Come on.- Say quasar! - I don't think it is.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25- Quasar?- Those ARE quasars, yes!
0:27:25 > 0:27:29- 10 points for this... - GONG
0:27:39 > 0:27:43You had an early lead, Goldsmiths, but you tended to fade.
0:27:43 > 0:27:47Thank you very much for joining us.
0:27:47 > 0:27:52Leeds, 220 is a pretty good score. We shall see you in Round Two. Congratulations.
0:27:52 > 0:27:59I hope you can join us next time, but until then it's goodbye from Goldsmith College, London,
0:27:59 > 0:28:01goodbye from Leeds University
0:28:01 > 0:28:04and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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