Episode 14

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0:00:21 > 0:00:23Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.

0:00:27 > 0:00:30Hello. This is the last of the first-round matches.

0:00:30 > 0:00:3413 teams are already through to the next stage

0:00:34 > 0:00:40and whichever team wins tonight will join them. We'll also know the four highest-scoring losing teams

0:00:40 > 0:00:47who'll compete again in the play-offs. Both teams will want to know that the score to beat is 140.

0:00:47 > 0:00:53The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is Britain's national school of public health.

0:00:53 > 0:00:56With over 4,000 students, it's the largest in Europe.

0:00:56 > 0:01:02It's also a constituent college of the University of London and was founded in 1899

0:01:02 > 0:01:06by Sir Patrick Manson, the founding father of tropical medicine.

0:01:06 > 0:01:12Tonight's team are postgraduates, reflecting the college's demographic and with an average age of 26.

0:01:12 > 0:01:19Despite being science specialists, they tell us they do know about Beethoven as well as bacteria.

0:01:19 > 0:01:24- Let's meet them. - I'm John Bradley from Essex, studying Medical Statistics.

0:01:24 > 0:01:30I'm Grace Eckhoff from the US, studying a Master's in Control of Infectious Disease.

0:01:30 > 0:01:36- And their captain...- I'm Martin Harker from Middlesex, studying for a Master's in Public Health.

0:01:36 > 0:01:40Hi, I'm Michael Wallace from Oxford, studying for a PhD in Statistics.

0:01:40 > 0:01:42APPLAUSE

0:01:44 > 0:01:52The University of Nottingham began life as a civic college. Gladstone laid the foundation stone in 1877.

0:01:52 > 0:01:58It expanded after WWI thanks to the generosity of Jesse Boot, founder of the high street chemist.

0:01:58 > 0:02:05DH Lawrence got his teaching certificate there and visiting lecturers included Einstein.

0:02:05 > 0:02:11It received its Royal Charter in 1948, and alumni have included the Head of MI6, Sir John Sawers,

0:02:11 > 0:02:15Sir Ian Wilmut who cloned Dolly the sheep,

0:02:15 > 0:02:21and Dr Stewart Adams, who made an invaluable contribution to students as an inventor of Ibuprofen.

0:02:21 > 0:02:27Representing around 33,000 students and with an average age of 27, let's meet the Nottingham team.

0:02:27 > 0:02:31Hello. I'm Harry Dalton from London, studying Politics.

0:02:31 > 0:02:35Hello. I'm Matthew Byrne from Dorset, studying French and German.

0:02:35 > 0:02:41- And their captain...- Hello, I'm Lee Cooper, from Nottingham, and I'm reading Physiotherapy.

0:02:41 > 0:02:45Hello. I'm Ewan Pickard, from Stoke-on-Trent, studying Chemistry.

0:02:45 > 0:02:47APPLAUSE

0:02:50 > 0:02:56OK, you know the rules. 10 for starters, 15 for bonuses, 5-point penalty if you interrupt wrongly.

0:02:56 > 0:03:00Fingers on buzzers. Here's your first starter for 10.

0:03:00 > 0:03:04"Complementi, you bitch. I am wracked by the seven jealousies."

0:03:04 > 0:03:10This was the response of Ezra Pound on reading the almost-completed manuscript of which poem...

0:03:10 > 0:03:13- The Waste Land.- Correct.

0:03:16 > 0:03:21Right, the first set of bonuses are on the peace treaties of World War One.

0:03:21 > 0:03:2810 weeks after signing the Treaty of Versailles with Germany in June, 1919, which political entity

0:03:28 > 0:03:32formally ceased to exist as a result of the Treaty of Saint-Germain?

0:03:32 > 0:03:35League of Nations?

0:03:35 > 0:03:38It's after the war. Austria-Hungary?

0:03:38 > 0:03:40Austria-Hungary?

0:03:42 > 0:03:49- Austria-Hungary?- Correct. The treaty with the new Republic of Hungary wasn't signed until June, 1920

0:03:49 > 0:03:55when the formal ceremony took place in which palace, built for Louis XIV in the park of Versailles?

0:03:57 > 0:04:01Oh, what is it? The Grand Tranion.

0:04:01 > 0:04:04Wasn't it? The Grand Tranion.

0:04:04 > 0:04:08- Nominate Dalton. - Er, the Grand Tranion?

0:04:08 > 0:04:14- I think I'll accept that. It's the Grand Trianon.- Yeah. - You've got the right place.

0:04:14 > 0:04:20Finally, which of the three allies known as the Entente Powers in 1914

0:04:20 > 0:04:25did not sign the Treaty of Versailles with Germany in 1919?

0:04:25 > 0:04:27Russia.

0:04:27 > 0:04:31- Russia.- Russia is correct. 10 points for this.

0:04:31 > 0:04:38Deaf from childhood, who used Morse Code to propose to Mina Miller, who became his second wife in 1886?

0:04:38 > 0:04:43Born in Ohio in 1847, his work as an inventor led him...

0:04:44 > 0:04:46- Edison?- Thomas Edison is right.

0:04:49 > 0:04:53Your bonuses now are on a novel by Jane Austen.

0:04:53 > 0:04:59According to the OED, the term "base ball" is first recorded in English in which novel by Jane Austen,

0:04:59 > 0:05:05who writes that Catherine, at the age of 14, preferred, "cricket, base ball, riding on horseback

0:05:05 > 0:05:11"and running about the country... to books or at least books of information."?

0:05:14 > 0:05:16Is it Emma?

0:05:16 > 0:05:19Mansfield Park?

0:05:19 > 0:05:23- Mans...- Northanger Abbey? - I need an answer.

0:05:23 > 0:05:25- Northanger Abbey.- Correct, yes.

0:05:25 > 0:05:32In Northanger Abbey, Catherine becomes obsessed with which Gothic novel by Mrs Ann Radcliffe,

0:05:32 > 0:05:36opening in the late 16th century and concerning Emily St Aubert?

0:05:38 > 0:05:46- No, we don't know.- The Mysteries of Udolpho. A passage from Northanger Abbey appears as a preface

0:05:46 > 0:05:52to which novel by Ian McEwan, in which Briony Tallis makes mistakes that parallel those of Catherine?

0:05:52 > 0:05:58- Atonement.- Correct. Another starter. Which non-SI unit of gravitational acceleration

0:05:58 > 0:06:04is equal to one centimetre per second squared and is named after the scientist who discovered

0:06:05 > 0:06:09- that different objects fall at the same speed...- Galileo?

0:06:09 > 0:06:15No, you lose 5 points. ..because they experience the same gravitational acceleration?

0:06:18 > 0:06:24- Laplace?- No, it's a gal, named after Galileo, of course, but I wanted the unit. 10 points for this.

0:06:24 > 0:06:30Better known for the novella Love Story, the US author Erich Segal co-authored the screenplay

0:06:30 > 0:06:36for which animated film of 1968 in which Pepperland is threatened by the Blue Meanies?

0:06:36 > 0:06:39- Yellow Submarine?- Correct.

0:06:40 > 0:06:45Your bonuses are on the mammalian respiratory system. Firstly for 5,

0:06:45 > 0:06:51what term describes the two tubes supported by cartilage produced by bifurcation of the trachea

0:06:51 > 0:06:54near the centre of the chest?

0:06:54 > 0:07:00- Bronchus.- Correct. Normal, resting inhalation is achieved by the contraction

0:07:00 > 0:07:05of the external intercostal muscles and which other muscle?

0:07:05 > 0:07:12- Diaphragm.- Yes. What term describes the serous membranes that line the body cavity and surround the lungs?

0:07:14 > 0:07:20- Parenchyma?- No, it's the pleural. Another starter question now, this time of a picture variety.

0:07:20 > 0:07:26You'll see the flag of an English county. 10 points if you can name the county.

0:07:34 > 0:07:36Warwickshire.

0:07:36 > 0:07:39Anyone like to buzz from Nottingham?

0:07:40 > 0:07:44- Northumberland? - It is Northumberland, yes!

0:07:45 > 0:07:47Right, you get the picture bonuses.

0:07:47 > 0:07:52They are more modern flags of counties or historical regions

0:07:52 > 0:07:58whose names are associated with Anglo-Saxon England. 5 points for each county you can identify.

0:07:58 > 0:08:00Firstly, this historical region.

0:08:07 > 0:08:09THEY CONFER

0:08:09 > 0:08:13- Wessex.- It is Wessex, yes. Secondly, this county.

0:08:16 > 0:08:20- Essex.- Correct. And, finally, this county.

0:08:20 > 0:08:23- Kent.- Well done.

0:08:23 > 0:08:25Another starter question now.

0:08:25 > 0:08:29Listen carefully and answer as soon as you buzz.

0:08:29 > 0:08:35Between 1955 and 2010, five UK football clubs won the European Champions League

0:08:35 > 0:08:41and its predecessor the European Champions Cup. Two of them are Liverpool and Manchester United.

0:08:41 > 0:08:44For 10 points, name two of the other three.

0:08:44 > 0:08:49- Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest. - Correct. The other one was Celtic.

0:08:50 > 0:08:54Right. Your bonuses are on a banking scandal.

0:08:54 > 0:09:00In 1838, John Sadleir founded a bank bearing the name of which large Irish county?

0:09:00 > 0:09:06He became an MP, embezzled more than £200,000 and, in 1856, was found dead on Hampstead Heath

0:09:06 > 0:09:10alongside a vial of prussic acid.

0:09:15 > 0:09:18- Cork?- No, it was Tipperary.

0:09:18 > 0:09:22Mr Merdle, a politician allegedly based on Sadleir, takes his life

0:09:22 > 0:09:26after the crash of "a certain bank" in which novel by Charles Dickens?

0:09:26 > 0:09:30- Little Dorrit.- Correct. Also thought to be based on Sadleir,

0:09:30 > 0:09:34financier and MP Augustus Melmotte kills himself with prussic acid

0:09:34 > 0:09:38in the 1875 novel The Way We Live Now. Who was the author?

0:09:40 > 0:09:43- Anthony Trollope?- It was, yes.

0:09:43 > 0:09:4710 points for this. A nephew of Sigmund Freud, born in 1891,

0:09:47 > 0:09:51Edward Bernays was a pioneer in what field? He described...

0:09:51 > 0:09:58- Advertising and PR. - Yes, I'll accept that. Public relations and propaganda.

0:09:58 > 0:10:03Your bonuses are on torments in the Underworld, according to Homer's Odyssey.

0:10:03 > 0:10:09Punished for assaulting Leto, Tityus is seen by Odysseus as an enormous figure

0:10:09 > 0:10:14covering nine acres of land in Hades, and being subjected to what particular torment?

0:10:21 > 0:10:26- Ploughing? - No, vultures tear at his liver. No doubt feels like ploughing!

0:10:26 > 0:10:33His name used adjectivally to mean "endlessly laborious", which evil-doer was condemned

0:10:33 > 0:10:38to roll an immense boulder uphill and to repeat the task perpetually?

0:10:38 > 0:10:44- Sisyphus.- Correct. Which Lydian king killed his son Pelops and offered his flesh to the gods?

0:10:44 > 0:10:50In the Underworld, fruit and water eternally receded from him when he tried to reach for them.

0:10:50 > 0:10:57- Tantalus.- Yes. 10 points for this. Exposing uranium oxide to neutrons from a cyclotron,

0:10:57 > 0:11:03a team at the Berkeley Radiation Lab led by Edwin McMillan in 1940 produced which radioactive metal...

0:11:03 > 0:11:06- Plutonium? - No, costs you 5 points, I'm afraid.

0:11:06 > 0:11:10..the first of the transuranic elements to be synthesised?

0:11:10 > 0:11:16- Berkelium?- No, it's neptunium. 10 points for this. Give the first four words of the title

0:11:16 > 0:11:22of the 1992 work in which the US philosopher Francis Fukuyama claimed...

0:11:22 > 0:11:24- The End of History.- Correct.

0:11:27 > 0:11:32Your bonuses are on a prominent family. The Last Empress by Hannah Pakula

0:11:32 > 0:11:36is a biography of Soon May-Ling who, in 1943, became

0:11:36 > 0:11:43only the second woman to address a joint session of the US Congress. To which leader was she married?

0:11:49 > 0:11:53- Chiang Kai-Shek. - Chiang Kai-Shek?- Yes.

0:11:53 > 0:11:59Later a high-ranking figure in Communist China, May-Ling's older sister, Ch'ing-Ling, was the wife

0:11:59 > 0:12:04of which Chinese revolutionary who died in 1925?

0:12:06 > 0:12:12- We don't know.- Sun Yat-Sen. Ai-Ling, the oldest of the three sisters, was married to HH Kung,

0:12:12 > 0:12:18said to have been the richest man in China. He held what office from 1933 to 1944?

0:12:23 > 0:12:27- Head of the Chinese Army? - No, Finance Minister.

0:12:27 > 0:12:31Alleged to have involved the intemperate use of laudanum,

0:12:31 > 0:12:37which composer's obsessive love for the actress Harriet Smithson inspired his Symphonie Fantastique?

0:12:37 > 0:12:40- Berlioz.- Berlioz is right.

0:12:40 > 0:12:42Your bonuses are on volcanoes.

0:12:42 > 0:12:49From the Greek for "ash", what term denotes any dust or rock fragments ejected by a volcanic eruption?

0:12:57 > 0:13:05- Fragma.- Tephra. What term describes the light porous rock formed by consolidated volcanic ash?

0:13:07 > 0:13:09- Pumice.- No, it's tuff.

0:13:09 > 0:13:13Deriving in part from Greek terms for fire and broken in pieces,

0:13:13 > 0:13:19what term denotes hot, fast-moving tephra that rolls down the sides of a volcano

0:13:19 > 0:13:21and along the ground?

0:13:21 > 0:13:28- Pyroclastic flow.- Correct. 10 points for this. Known as Queen of the South, which Scottish town

0:13:28 > 0:13:32was Robert Burns' home for the last five years of his life?

0:13:32 > 0:13:38Its name forms part of the council area in which it is located, the other part being Galloway.

0:13:38 > 0:13:41- Dumfries.- Dumfries is right, yes.

0:13:41 > 0:13:47Your bonuses this time are on political figures born in 1911.

0:13:47 > 0:13:53Born in the Auvergne in 1911, who succeeded Charles de Gaulle as President of France in 1969?

0:13:55 > 0:14:02- Sorry.- Georges Pompidou. "He served the Soviet Union more ardently than the Soviet leaders themselves did."

0:14:02 > 0:14:09These words describe Todor Zhivkov, the ruler of which country from the 1950s to 1989?

0:14:10 > 0:14:13- Eastern European country? - I don't know.

0:14:15 > 0:14:18- Czechoslovakia. - No, he was Bulgaria.

0:14:18 > 0:14:24"A triumph of the embalmer's art" was Gore Vidal's description of which US President, born in 1911?

0:14:24 > 0:14:27WHISPERING

0:14:32 > 0:14:35- Ronald Reagan?- Yes, of course!

0:14:35 > 0:14:40We'll take a music round now. For your starter, you'll hear a piece of popular music.

0:14:40 > 0:14:44Ten points if you can give me the title of the song.

0:14:44 > 0:14:46# You and I in a little... #

0:14:46 > 0:14:51- Neunundneunzig Luftballons. - Give the title in English. - 99 Air Balloons. Red Balloons.

0:14:51 > 0:14:5799 Red Balloons is correct, yes. You've given it in German. That's even better!

0:14:57 > 0:15:03Following on from that song by Nena, three more songs that have numbers in their title or lyrics.

0:15:03 > 0:15:08In each case, I want you to perform a mathematical operation connected with those numbers.

0:15:08 > 0:15:13Firstly, I want you to multiply the number in the title of the starter song

0:15:13 > 0:15:16with the number in the title of this song.

0:15:16 > 0:15:20# When I'm lonely Well, I know I'm gonna be

0:15:20 > 0:15:23# I'm gonna be the man who's lonely without you

0:15:23 > 0:15:27# And when I'm dreaming Well, I know I'm gonna dream

0:15:27 > 0:15:30# I'm gonna dream about the time when I'm with you

0:15:30 > 0:15:32# When I go out... #

0:15:32 > 0:15:3449,500.

0:15:34 > 0:15:37Well done indeed. 500 Miles.

0:15:37 > 0:15:42Secondly, the answer if you divide that figure by the number to which this song refers?

0:15:42 > 0:15:44- # And that's the magic number... # - 3?

0:15:44 > 0:15:48# Difficult preaching is Posdnuos' pleasure, pleasure and preaching starts in the heart

0:15:48 > 0:15:52# Something that stimulates the music in my measure, measure in my music, raised in three parts

0:15:52 > 0:15:56# Casually see but don't do like the Soul cos seein' and doin'... #

0:15:56 > 0:15:59- 49,500, so 3 into 4 is 1... - LAUGHTER

0:16:00 > 0:16:06- 163...- No, no. It's 16,500. Bad luck.

0:16:06 > 0:16:10What's the answer if you square the number in the title of this song

0:16:10 > 0:16:14and subtract that total from 16,500?

0:16:15 > 0:16:18# Me and some guys from school

0:16:18 > 0:16:21# Had a band and we tried real hard

0:16:21 > 0:16:25# Jimmy quit, Jody got married

0:16:25 > 0:16:28# I shoulda known we'd never get far

0:16:28 > 0:16:32# Oh, when I look back now

0:16:32 > 0:16:35# That summer seemed to last for ever... #

0:16:37 > 0:16:40It's even harder to answer than ask. We don't know.

0:16:40 > 0:16:43Well, it's 11,739.

0:16:43 > 0:16:47It's 69 times 69 and then heretofore referred to.

0:16:47 > 0:16:49Ten points for this starter.

0:16:49 > 0:16:53In Jaques' Seven Ages Of Man speech in Shakespeare's As You Like It,

0:16:53 > 0:16:59which age is characterised by him as having a "fair round belly with good capon lin'd,

0:16:59 > 0:17:06"with eyes severe and beard of formal cut, full of wise saws and modern instances"?

0:17:10 > 0:17:12What is manhood?

0:17:12 > 0:17:15No. Nottingham, one of you buzz?

0:17:16 > 0:17:19- Middle age?- No, it's justice. Ten points for this.

0:17:19 > 0:17:25What six-letter word appears in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark in the King James Bible

0:17:25 > 0:17:30to mean a minor point of law and is now used for small diacritic marks such as the dot...

0:17:30 > 0:17:33- Tittle.- Tittle is right, yes.

0:17:34 > 0:17:37Your bonuses now are on animals.

0:17:37 > 0:17:42In January 1961, Ham returned safely after being sent into space by the United States.

0:17:42 > 0:17:44What species was he?

0:17:44 > 0:17:49- Chimpanzee.- The chimpanzee.- Correct. In 1967, which primatologist became Scientific Director

0:17:49 > 0:17:55of the Gombe Research Institute in Tanzania where she carried out a study of chimpanzees

0:17:55 > 0:17:58to show the complexity of primate behaviour?

0:17:58 > 0:18:03- Jane Goodall.- Correct. James Lever was longlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize for his satire

0:18:03 > 0:18:10on the genre of the Hollywood memoir in the form of the supposed autobiography of which chimpanzee?

0:18:11 > 0:18:15- Michael Jackson's pet Bubbles.- No, it was Cheeta. Ten points for this.

0:18:15 > 0:18:19Which British nobleman and diplomat was attacked by Byron

0:18:19 > 0:18:25in the Second Canto of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage in lines referring to his time in Greece:

0:18:25 > 0:18:30"Dull is the eye that will not weep to see thy walls defaced, thy mouldering..."

0:18:30 > 0:18:34- Elgin?- It was the Earl of Elgin, yes.

0:18:35 > 0:18:41Your bonuses now are on expressions in which the last two letters of the first word

0:18:41 > 0:18:47and the first two letters of the second word are the same, such as "apple lemonade" or "tomato torte".

0:18:47 > 0:18:52In each case, give the name of the food or drink from the definition.

0:18:52 > 0:18:58Firstly, a Japanese dish in which fermented bean paste is mixed with a stock called dashi?

0:19:03 > 0:19:05WHISPERING

0:19:05 > 0:19:07- Sorry.- That's miso soup.

0:19:07 > 0:19:13Secondly, an infusion of Camellia sinensis, flavoured with Theobroma cacao?

0:19:15 > 0:19:18Something to do with chocolate and cocoa.

0:19:18 > 0:19:21- Chocolate tea.- Correct.

0:19:21 > 0:19:26Cheese from North Holland that has been cured, for example, over a wood fire?

0:19:28 > 0:19:30- Smoked Edam.- Yes!

0:19:30 > 0:19:32Right, another starter question.

0:19:32 > 0:19:36In 1804, on a track used by horse-drawn mining carts

0:19:36 > 0:19:39at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks near Merthyr Tydfil,

0:19:39 > 0:19:42which Cornish engineer ran the first steam...

0:19:42 > 0:19:45- Richard Trevithick. - Trevithick is correct.

0:19:45 > 0:19:50Your bonuses now - that's given you the lead too - are on optometry.

0:19:50 > 0:19:53What condition of the eye is associated

0:19:53 > 0:19:57with elevated intraocular pressure as measured by tonometry?

0:19:58 > 0:20:04- Glaucoma.- Correct. If the grid of an Amsler Chart appears distorted or has missing lines,

0:20:04 > 0:20:07what eye condition is indicated?

0:20:08 > 0:20:11- Astigmatism? - No, it's macular degeneration.

0:20:11 > 0:20:17And finally, what refractive error is corrected by spectacles with concave lenses?

0:20:20 > 0:20:24- Myopia.- Myopia, short-sightedness, yes. Another picture round now.

0:20:24 > 0:20:30For your starter, you'll see a portrait of an English king. Ten points if you can name him.

0:20:32 > 0:20:38- John the First.- Anyone like to buzz from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine?

0:20:41 > 0:20:47- Alfred.- No, it's Edward the First. Picture bonuses shortly. Ten points for this starter question.

0:20:47 > 0:20:50Fingers on the buzzers. Listen carefully.

0:20:50 > 0:20:56If the French numbers from one to five are ordered both numerically and alphabetically,

0:20:56 > 0:20:59which one comes in the same position on each list?

0:21:02 > 0:21:04- Two.- Two, "deux", yes.

0:21:04 > 0:21:07So you get the picture bonuses, Nottingham.

0:21:07 > 0:21:11You saw a portrait of Edward the First for the picture starter.

0:21:11 > 0:21:17Throughout his reign, Edward built the famous Ring of Steel fortresses in North Wales.

0:21:17 > 0:21:22You'll see three of the castles that made up the Ring. Five points for each of them you can name.

0:21:22 > 0:21:24Firstly, this castle?

0:21:30 > 0:21:32- Caernarfon?- Caernarfon.

0:21:32 > 0:21:36No, that's Conwy Castle. Secondly?

0:21:42 > 0:21:45- Ludlow.- No, that's Denbigh. And finally?

0:21:46 > 0:21:51- That's Caernarfon. - That is Caernarfon, yes. Another starter question now.

0:21:51 > 0:21:57Which work of fiction comes next in this list, given in reverse chronological order -

0:21:57 > 0:22:01The Three Hostages, Mr Standfast, Greenmantle and...?

0:22:01 > 0:22:06- The Thirty-Nine Steps. - The Thirty-Nine Steps is right. That gives you the lead.

0:22:06 > 0:22:12Your bonuses are on Canada. Extending northward above the Arctic Circle to the Beaufort Sea,

0:22:12 > 0:22:18which territory has Whitehorse as its capital and contains Canada's highest mountain, Mount Logan?

0:22:19 > 0:22:21WHISPERING

0:22:29 > 0:22:32- Yukon.- Yes. Edmonton and Calgary are cities in which province,

0:22:32 > 0:22:35lying between British Columbia and Saskatchewan?

0:22:35 > 0:22:40- Alberta.- Correct. Four Canadian provinces and territories border on Hudson Bay.

0:22:40 > 0:22:44Nunavut, Ontario and Quebec are three. What is the fourth?

0:22:45 > 0:22:47WHISPERING

0:22:48 > 0:22:53- Manitoba.- Correct. Four and a half minutes to go. Ten points for this.

0:22:53 > 0:22:57Believed to have been founded by Cluniac monks over 900 years ago,

0:22:57 > 0:23:01St John's Parish Church in Halifax was in 2009 awarded what status

0:23:01 > 0:23:06which it shares with places of worship in Dewsbury, Beverley and York?

0:23:07 > 0:23:11- UNESCO World Heritage Site?- Anyone like to buzz from Nottingham?

0:23:12 > 0:23:18- English Heritage status.- No, it's Minster. Ten points for this.

0:23:18 > 0:23:23In physics, what is the value of the magnetic flux through any closed surface?

0:23:25 > 0:23:28- Zero.- Zero is right, yes.

0:23:30 > 0:23:33These bonuses are on Scottish islands.

0:23:33 > 0:23:39Which novel by Virginia Woolf is set in the summer home of the Ramsay family on the Isle of Skye?

0:23:42 > 0:23:49- No, sorry.- To The Lighthouse. Which Hebridean island did Samuel Johnson describe as "the illustrious island,

0:23:49 > 0:23:54"whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge

0:23:54 > 0:23:56"and the blessings of religion"?

0:23:56 > 0:24:00- Iona.- Correct. George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four

0:24:00 > 0:24:06on which island of the Inner Hebrides, renowned for its prominent mountains known as the Paps?

0:24:08 > 0:24:13- Mull.- No, it's Jura. Ten points for this. Based on the same principles

0:24:13 > 0:24:15as acupuncture but without the use of needles,

0:24:15 > 0:24:20which massage technique takes its name from the Japanese for "finger pressure"?

0:24:20 > 0:24:23- Shiatsu.- Shiatsu is right.

0:24:26 > 0:24:29Your bonuses are on medical terms, Nottingham.

0:24:29 > 0:24:32I want the term from the description given.

0:24:32 > 0:24:38First for five points, a steroid hormone that develops or maintains female characteristics of the body?

0:24:38 > 0:24:44- Oestrogen.- Correct. An abnormal accumulation of watery fluid in the cavities or tissues of the body?

0:24:44 > 0:24:51- Oedema.- Correct. Finally, that part of the alimentary canal between the mouth and the stomach?

0:24:51 > 0:24:56- Oesophagus.- Correct. Another starter question now. Answer as soon as you buzz.

0:24:56 > 0:25:01In which ocean is the point at which the Greenwich Meridian crosses the Equator?

0:25:01 > 0:25:04- Atlantic.- Atlantic is correct, yes.

0:25:04 > 0:25:07You get a set of bonuses on chapel frescoes.

0:25:07 > 0:25:11Born around 1266, which artist depicted the life of Christ

0:25:11 > 0:25:14in fresco cycles at the Arena Chapel in Padua?

0:25:16 > 0:25:19Scrovegni Chapel, um...

0:25:19 > 0:25:23- I need an answer. Come on. - It's the Father of Whatsit... Um...

0:25:23 > 0:25:27- No, it's gone. - I'm sorry. That's Giotto.

0:25:27 > 0:25:33Given a nickname meaning Clumsy Tom, which early Renaissance painter decorated the Brancacci Chapel

0:25:33 > 0:25:37with frescoes that later served as a school to Florentine artists?

0:25:42 > 0:25:46- Don't know.- Masaccio. Which "Warrior Pope" commissioned Michelangelo

0:25:46 > 0:25:51to repaint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in 1508 after it had been frescoed

0:25:51 > 0:25:54by Piero Matteo D'Amelia to depict a starry sky?

0:25:54 > 0:26:00- Julius II.- Correct. Another starter question. Which 19th century Swiss geometer gave his name

0:26:00 > 0:26:05to the notation consisting of curly brackets surrounding one or more integers

0:26:05 > 0:26:07to represent regular polytopes?

0:26:10 > 0:26:14- Bernoulli?- No. Anyone like to buzz from Nottingham quickly?

0:26:15 > 0:26:18- Paracelsus.- No, it's Schlafli. Ten points for this.

0:26:18 > 0:26:22Mercedes Mondego, the Abbe Faria and Edmond Dantes...

0:26:22 > 0:26:24- The Count Of Monte Cristo.- Correct.

0:26:26 > 0:26:33Your bonuses are on words ending in "verse", V-E-R-S-E. In each case, give the word from the definition.

0:26:33 > 0:26:38The side of a coin that bears a monarch's head or other symbol of state?

0:26:38 > 0:26:45- Obverse.- Yes. In anatomy, a plane crossing the body at right angles to the coronal and sagittal planes?

0:26:45 > 0:26:50- Transverse.- Correct. The third word of the title of a 1982 work by Douglas Adams?

0:26:51 > 0:26:55- Universe.- Correct. Another starter question.

0:26:55 > 0:26:58Ashtanga, Anusara, Bikram and Iyen...

0:26:59 > 0:27:01- Yoga.- Yoga is right, yes.

0:27:01 > 0:27:04Your bonuses now are on emblems.

0:27:04 > 0:27:08Existing in several variants from 1922 to 1991,

0:27:08 > 0:27:15the state emblem of the Soviet Union showed a hammer and sickle superimposed on what?

0:27:15 > 0:27:18- A red field.- No, it was a globe.

0:27:18 > 0:27:21The coat of arms of which EU member state...

0:27:21 > 0:27:23- GONG - And at the gong,

0:27:23 > 0:27:28the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have 155,

0:27:28 > 0:27:32Nottingham University have 215.

0:27:32 > 0:27:39You had the lead. They drew away in the last bit, but it's a good score, 155, and we have good news for you.

0:27:39 > 0:27:45Nottingham, well done. 215 is a very good score. We shall look forward to seeing you in Round 2.

0:27:45 > 0:27:50We now know that the four highest scoring losing teams competing in the play-offs are:

0:28:00 > 0:28:02Join us next time for the first play-off.

0:28:02 > 0:28:06- Until then, it's goodbye from the London School.- Goodbye.

0:28:06 > 0:28:10- It's goodbye from Nottingham. - Goodbye.- And it's goodbye from me.

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