Episode 16

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0:00:18 > 0:00:20University Challenge.

0:00:20 > 0:00:23Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.

0:00:27 > 0:00:32Hello. Last time we saw Homerton College, Cambridge win the first of two play-offs

0:00:32 > 0:00:36between four teams who lost their first round matches,

0:00:36 > 0:00:41but did so with scores high enough to get another chance to stay in the competition.

0:00:41 > 0:00:45The final place in round two goes to whichever team wins tonight.

0:00:45 > 0:00:51Now, the defeat suffered by St Andrews University was almost certainly divine retribution

0:00:51 > 0:00:54for giving Sir Fred Goodwin an honorary degree in 2004.

0:00:54 > 0:00:58It could also have had something to do with Merton College, Oxford

0:00:58 > 0:01:02being slightly better at general knowledge questions.

0:01:02 > 0:01:07Whatever the reason, they lost by only 30 points with a very respectable 165

0:01:07 > 0:01:12and are the only team left in the competition from an institution outside England.

0:01:12 > 0:01:15- Let's meet them again. - Hello. My name is Thomas Volker.

0:01:15 > 0:01:19I'm from Aberdeen and I'm studying Ancient History and Archaeology.

0:01:19 > 0:01:22Good evening. I'm Thomas Lazarides.

0:01:22 > 0:01:25I'm from Somerset and I'm studying Chemistry.

0:01:25 > 0:01:28- Their captain. - I'm Doug Kennedy from Southampton,

0:01:28 > 0:01:31studying Modern History and Philosophy.

0:01:31 > 0:01:33I'm Dustin Frazier from West Virginia

0:01:33 > 0:01:36and I'm doing a PhD in English and History of Art.

0:01:36 > 0:01:38APPLAUSE

0:01:40 > 0:01:46Worcester College, Oxford gave Clare College, Cambridge a run for their money in the first round

0:01:46 > 0:01:52and were neck and neck for much of the match, only to lose in the last minute by 180 points to Clare's 190.

0:01:52 > 0:01:58They were familiar with how to brew beer and the place of the oyster in literature

0:01:58 > 0:02:03and they even had an answer to the eternal conundrum - what is the use of a BA in English?

0:02:03 > 0:02:05Let's meet the team again.

0:02:05 > 0:02:09Hi, I'm Dave Knapp from Woking and I'm studying Engineering.

0:02:09 > 0:02:13I'm Jack Bramhill from Colchester, studying Chemistry.

0:02:13 > 0:02:16- Their captain. - I'm Rebecca Gillie from Weymouth,

0:02:16 > 0:02:18reading French and Italian.

0:02:18 > 0:02:21I'm Jonathan Metzer from London, reading Classics.

0:02:21 > 0:02:24APPLAUSE

0:02:25 > 0:02:30OK, the rules are unchanging - ten points for starters, 15 for bonuses,

0:02:30 > 0:02:35five-point fines for incorrect interruptions. Here's your first starter for ten.

0:02:35 > 0:02:40The post-war series of measures known officially as the European Recovery Program

0:02:40 > 0:02:44is more generally referred to as a Plan named after...

0:02:44 > 0:02:47- The Marshall Plan.- Correct.

0:02:50 > 0:02:55The first set of bonuses are for you, St Andrews. They're on scientific apparatus.

0:02:55 > 0:03:01Born in 1791, which British scientist gives his name to an enclosure of conducting material

0:03:01 > 0:03:05that protects electronic equipment from electrostatic discharges?

0:03:10 > 0:03:13- We don't know. - Michael Faraday, the Faraday cage.

0:03:13 > 0:03:17Derived from that of the botanist who devised it in around 1829,

0:03:17 > 0:03:21what name was given to a glass case used to house plants,

0:03:21 > 0:03:27particularly ferns, both domestically and during transportation from overseas?

0:03:27 > 0:03:29WHISPERING

0:03:30 > 0:03:34- A terrarium? - No, it's a Wardian case.

0:03:34 > 0:03:40The father of a noted novelist, which 19th century engineer gives his name to a shield or screen

0:03:40 > 0:03:46which houses meteorological instruments while allowing the free circulation of air around them?

0:03:47 > 0:03:50- Huxley?- No, Stevenson. Another starter question.

0:03:50 > 0:03:56"An example of the sad results to be expected from the over-education of the lower orders."

0:03:56 > 0:04:00These words from The Morning Post refer to which author?

0:04:00 > 0:04:06Born in Walsall in 1859, his best known work features himself, two friends and a dog called...

0:04:07 > 0:04:10- Jerome K Jerome.- Yes.

0:04:12 > 0:04:16Your first set of bonuses, Worcester College, are on crowns.

0:04:16 > 0:04:22The British Imperial State Crown, worn by the Queen for the State Opening of Parliament,

0:04:22 > 0:04:29contains among its jewels the Second Star of Africa, the second largest portion of which famous diamond?

0:04:29 > 0:04:32- Nominate Knapp.- Koh-i-Noor. - No, the Cullinan diamond.

0:04:32 > 0:04:38The Iron Crown of Lombardy, formerly used for the coronation of the Holy Roman Emperors,

0:04:38 > 0:04:42is kept in the cathedral of which Italian city near Milan?

0:04:43 > 0:04:45- Modena?- Modena?

0:04:45 > 0:04:47Modena, I think.

0:04:48 > 0:04:52- Modena?- No, it's Monza.

0:04:52 > 0:04:58St Edward's Crown, used for the coronation of a British sovereign, is named after which King?

0:05:01 > 0:05:03WHISPERING

0:05:07 > 0:05:10- Edward I?- Edward the Confessor.

0:05:10 > 0:05:12Ten points for this starter.

0:05:12 > 0:05:18What given name begins words meaning a gambling system of doubling stakes continually in the hope of a win,

0:05:18 > 0:05:22a type of vermouth, a strict disciplinarian

0:05:22 > 0:05:25and a Caribbean island administered as part of France?

0:05:27 > 0:05:30- Martin.- Martin is right, yes.

0:05:32 > 0:05:35These bonuses are on abbreviations this time.

0:05:35 > 0:05:41The economic theory that the true rate of exchange between two currencies can be determined

0:05:41 > 0:05:47by what can be bought with a unit of each is known as PPP. For what do these initials stand?

0:05:49 > 0:05:52- Purchasing Power Parity.- Correct. Founded in 1888,

0:05:52 > 0:05:57which US collegiate women's sorority has the initials DDD?

0:05:57 > 0:06:01- Delta Delta Delta.- Delta Delta Delta. - Correct, Tri Delta.

0:06:01 > 0:06:06The radioactive element roentgenium, named after the German physicist,

0:06:06 > 0:06:11originally had a systematic element name referring to its atomic number 111,

0:06:11 > 0:06:14resulting in what three-letter symbol?

0:06:14 > 0:06:19- UUU.- Correct. Another starter question. Active in the mid-2nd century BC,

0:06:19 > 0:06:25the Greek astronomer Hipparchus is credited as the inventor of which branch of mathematics,

0:06:25 > 0:06:30having used tables to compute the eccentricity of the orbits of the moon and sun?

0:06:30 > 0:06:33- Hyperbolics?- Anyone like to buzz from St Andrews?

0:06:33 > 0:06:39It's trigonometry. Ten points for this. What two-word term originates in Shakespeare's Hamlet

0:06:39 > 0:06:42in words spoken by Ophelia to her brother Laertes,

0:06:42 > 0:06:47the term denoting an easy and superficially attractive route that may lead to...

0:06:47 > 0:06:50- Primrose path.- Correct.

0:06:52 > 0:06:55Your bonuses now are on a shell.

0:06:55 > 0:07:01What name for a bivalve mollusc of the genus Pecten, and for its distinctive shell,

0:07:01 > 0:07:06also denotes thin slices of meat or fish often dusted with flour and sauteed?

0:07:07 > 0:07:12- Scallop.- Correct. The words "I hear those voices that will not be drowned" are found

0:07:12 > 0:07:16on a sculpture called The Scallop by Maggi Hambling.

0:07:16 > 0:07:21On the beach at Aldeburgh, it is dedicated to which composer from whose opera the words are taken?

0:07:21 > 0:07:27- Benjamin Britten.- Correct. The scallop shell is also a symbol of pilgrimage,

0:07:27 > 0:07:33denoting that the wearer has visited the shrine of St James at which site in northern Spain?

0:07:33 > 0:07:36- Nominate Knapp. - Santiago de Compostela.- Correct.

0:07:36 > 0:07:42We'll take a picture round now. For your starter, you'll see the text of a political document,

0:07:42 > 0:07:46converted into a word cloud or a graphical representation

0:07:46 > 0:07:52in which the font size and the colour of various words denotes the frequency of their use within it.

0:07:52 > 0:07:55Ten points if you can name the document.

0:08:00 > 0:08:03- Is it the 2010 Coalition Agreement? - Yes, it is.

0:08:07 > 0:08:12Your bonuses - three word clouds representing documents of historical and political significance.

0:08:12 > 0:08:16Five points for each you can identify. Firstly?

0:08:18 > 0:08:20WHISPERING

0:08:25 > 0:08:28- The Magna Carta.- Correct. Secondly?

0:08:30 > 0:08:33- The Ministry of Work and Pensions. - Any ideas?

0:08:37 > 0:08:41It could be the introduction of state pensions or something?

0:08:42 > 0:08:45Introduction of state pensions?

0:08:47 > 0:08:50It did include that, but the answer is the Beveridge Report

0:08:50 > 0:08:55which was the document on which all that welfare state was founded. Finally?

0:08:58 > 0:09:00I would say the Communist Manifesto.

0:09:02 > 0:09:06- The Communist Manifesto?- Correct. Ten points for this.

0:09:06 > 0:09:09Born in Cremona in 1567, which composer has been called

0:09:09 > 0:09:13"the last madrigalist and the first operatic composer"?

0:09:13 > 0:09:17Credited with the introduction of pizzicato and tremolo,

0:09:17 > 0:09:20his works include the Vespers and the opera Orfeo.

0:09:20 > 0:09:23- Is it Monteverdi? - It is Monteverdi, yes.

0:09:25 > 0:09:29Your bonuses this time are on Pacific islands.

0:09:29 > 0:09:34Around the size of Wales, Grande Terre is the main island of which French collectivity?

0:09:34 > 0:09:411,500 kilometres east of Queensland, Captain Cook is said to have named it after his father's homeland.

0:09:41 > 0:09:44- New Caledonia.- New Caledonia. - Correct.

0:09:44 > 0:09:50Less than half the size of Scotland, the island of New Britain is part of which Pacific island state?

0:09:54 > 0:09:58- I think it's Papua New Guinea. - Papua New Guinea.- Correct.

0:09:58 > 0:10:04Before independence in 1980, which Pacific island state was known as a condominium of the New Hebrides,

0:10:04 > 0:10:07administered jointly by the UK and France?

0:10:10 > 0:10:14- I think it's the Solomon Islands. - Solomon Islands?- No, Vanuatu.

0:10:14 > 0:10:20Ten points for this. Quote: "Like the procreation of eels, it is slippery and mysterious."

0:10:20 > 0:10:24These words of civil servant Claud Schuster describe the relationship

0:10:24 > 0:10:28between the Prime Minister and which institution?

0:10:29 > 0:10:31- The monarchy.- No. Worcester?

0:10:33 > 0:10:37- The European Union.- No, it's the Cabinet. Ten points for this.

0:10:37 > 0:10:40From an event in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

0:10:40 > 0:10:45in which property, preferments, kingdoms and pleasures were all for sale,

0:10:45 > 0:10:49what name was taken by Thackeray for the title of his novel...

0:10:49 > 0:10:52- Vanity Fair.- Vanity Fair is right.

0:10:52 > 0:10:56Right, St Andrews, your bonuses are on eponymous architects.

0:10:56 > 0:11:01The designer of Birmingham Town Hall, which English architect is best remembered

0:11:01 > 0:11:05for his invention of a light, two-wheeled, covered carriage

0:11:05 > 0:11:09in which the driver sits high up at the back?

0:11:10 > 0:11:12CONFERRING

0:11:15 > 0:11:20- Hackney?- It's Hansom. You got the right idea, but it was the wrong name.

0:11:20 > 0:11:25What style of architecture is characterised by classical columns in porticos

0:11:25 > 0:11:30and is named after an Italian architect who based his work on that of Vitruvius?

0:11:31 > 0:11:36- Nominate Frazier.- Palladian. - Correct. Which French architect gives his name

0:11:36 > 0:11:40to a roof with two slopes, the lower of which is almost vertical?

0:11:40 > 0:11:44- No idea.- We don't know. - It's a mansard.

0:11:44 > 0:11:48Ten points for this. What is the common name for the nutritious seed

0:11:48 > 0:11:54of the papilionaceous climbing plants Pisum sativum and Pisum arvense?

0:11:56 > 0:12:00- Grapes?- Anyone like to buzz from St Andrews?

0:12:03 > 0:12:07- Quinoa?- No, it's pea. Ten points for this.

0:12:07 > 0:12:12More commonly cited in the US, the economic indicator known as the Misery Index

0:12:12 > 0:12:17measures overall economic performance by adding inflation to which other rate?

0:12:19 > 0:12:22- The interest rate.- No. St Andrews?

0:12:23 > 0:12:28- The rate of economic growth.- No, it's unemployment. Ten points for this.

0:12:28 > 0:12:34In 2010, Grade 2 listed status was granted to the villa in St John's Wood that was bought by EMI in 1929.

0:12:34 > 0:12:37It houses which studios where Pink Floyd...

0:12:37 > 0:12:40- Abbey Road Studios. - Abbey Road is correct.

0:12:43 > 0:12:46Your bonuses this time are on acids.

0:12:46 > 0:12:53Muriatic acid and "spirits of salts" are names formerly given to which highly corrosive mineral acid?

0:12:53 > 0:12:56- Hydrochloric acid.- Correct.

0:12:56 > 0:13:01Nitric acid, the chemical usually combined with hydrochloric acid to form aqua regis,

0:13:01 > 0:13:05used to dissolve gold, was formerly known by what alchemical name?

0:13:11 > 0:13:13WHISPERING

0:13:13 > 0:13:18- Answer, please.- Nominate Bramhill. - Spirit of nitre?- No, aqua fortis.

0:13:18 > 0:13:22Oil of vitriol is an early name for the concentrated form of which acid?

0:13:22 > 0:13:26- Sulphuric.- Sulphuric acid.- Correct. Another starter question.

0:13:26 > 0:13:30Starch, cellulose and glycogen are condensation polymers of which...

0:13:31 > 0:13:33- Glucose.- Glucose is right, yes.

0:13:35 > 0:13:40This set of bonuses, St Andrews, are on film noir screenplays.

0:13:40 > 0:13:45Which Anglo-American author of detective fiction wrote the screenplay

0:13:45 > 0:13:49for the 1946 film noir The Blue Dahlia, starring Veronica Lake?

0:13:51 > 0:13:53WHISPERING

0:13:54 > 0:13:57- Dashiell Hammett? - No, Raymond Chandler.

0:13:57 > 0:14:03Co-written by Chandler and Billy Wilder, which 1944 film noir starred Barbara Stanwyck,

0:14:03 > 0:14:10was based on a novel by James Cain and takes its title from a term used in life insurance policies?

0:14:10 > 0:14:16- Double Indemnity.- Correct. Chandler also collaborated on the screenplay of which 1951 Hitchcock film

0:14:16 > 0:14:22based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith about a proposed double murder?

0:14:22 > 0:14:26- Strangers On A Train.- Correct. We'll take a music round now.

0:14:26 > 0:14:32You'll hear a piece of popular music. 10 points for the name of this solo artist.

0:14:32 > 0:14:36# Ordinary boys... #

0:14:38 > 0:14:41- Morrissey?- Morrissey is right, yes.

0:14:42 > 0:14:50Right, the band The Ordinary Boys chose their name from Morrissey's song of that title.

0:14:50 > 0:14:56For your bonuses, three more songs where the title became the name of a band. 5 points for the name.

0:14:56 > 0:15:00Firstly for 5 points, the name of this song from 1967.

0:15:00 > 0:15:02MUSIC PLAYS

0:15:04 > 0:15:07# They touched both my eyes

0:15:07 > 0:15:11# And I touched the dew on their hem... #

0:15:11 > 0:15:13It's a song about Atlantis.

0:15:13 > 0:15:16- Atlantis.- Is that a band?

0:15:16 > 0:15:20- I don't think it is. - But we have to try something.

0:15:23 > 0:15:25I'm not sure about this.

0:15:25 > 0:15:31- Atlantis?- No, Sisters of Mercy by Leonard Cohen. That became a band in Leeds in 1980.

0:15:31 > 0:15:35Also from 1967, the name of this song, please.

0:15:35 > 0:15:37MUSIC PLAYS

0:15:38 > 0:15:42# Cutie, don't you play with fate

0:15:42 > 0:15:44# Don't leave your lover alone

0:15:46 > 0:15:51# If you go out on this date

0:15:51 > 0:15:54- # His heart will turn to stone... # - Any idea?

0:15:55 > 0:16:02- Er...we don't know. - That's Death Cab For Cutie. And, finally, from 1986...

0:16:02 > 0:16:05# You and I have no secrets

0:16:05 > 0:16:09# Now, baby, let me read your mind... #

0:16:10 > 0:16:13- Radiohead.- Yes! 10 points for this.

0:16:13 > 0:16:19The name of the Scottish-born designer JP Lee was combined with that of which location

0:16:19 > 0:16:22in the name of a rifle made there...

0:16:22 > 0:16:24- Enfield.- Enfield is right.

0:16:27 > 0:16:33Your bonuses are on pairs of words whose spelling differs by adding a T after the third letter,

0:16:33 > 0:16:38for example, pin and pint. Give both words from the definitions.

0:16:38 > 0:16:43A pipe for conveying smoke or hot air and a wind instrument?

0:16:48 > 0:16:52- Flue and flute. - Flue and flute.- Correct.

0:16:52 > 0:16:58Secondly, lesson of a story or fable and liable to death and, hence, ungodlike?

0:16:58 > 0:17:05- Moral and mortal.- Correct. Nerve cell and uncharged particle of similar mass to a proton?

0:17:05 > 0:17:09- Neuron and neutron.- Yes! 10 points for this.

0:17:09 > 0:17:16The Hebrew word "nabis" meaning prophet was adopted as the name of a group of artists,

0:17:16 > 0:17:23including Vuillard and Bonnard, who drew much of their inspiration from which post-Impressionist, born 1848?

0:17:28 > 0:17:32- Degas?- St Andrews? Have a buzz.

0:17:33 > 0:17:41- Seurat.- No, it's Gauguin. In the making of red wine, what four-letter mass noun denotes grape juice

0:17:41 > 0:17:44before or during fermentation at which point...

0:17:44 > 0:17:51- Pulp.- No, you lose 5 points. ..at which point it includes stem fragments, seeds and pulp?

0:17:52 > 0:17:55- Must.- Must is correct.

0:17:57 > 0:18:01These bonuses are on poetry. Which poem by Oscar Wilde begins,

0:18:01 > 0:18:05"He did not wear his scarlet coat, for blood and wine are red,

0:18:05 > 0:18:11"And blood and wine were on his hands when they found him with the dead"?

0:18:12 > 0:18:20- Ballad of Reading Gaol?- Correct. To whom did Richard Lovelace address his poem, From Prison, which begins,

0:18:20 > 0:18:24"When love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates"?

0:18:26 > 0:18:31- We don't know.- That's Althea. "To Althea, from Prison."

0:18:31 > 0:18:38Which of the Romantic poets was the author in 1797 of the poem This Lime-Tree Bower, My Prison?

0:18:43 > 0:18:49- Keats?- No, Coleridge. The pigment red ochre is a powdered form of which mineral of iron oxide,

0:18:49 > 0:18:52the most important ore of iron...

0:18:53 > 0:18:58- Haematites.- Haematite is right. Your bonuses this time are on shared surnames.

0:18:58 > 0:19:06What surname was shared by a niece and uncle, the first a designer associated with shocking pink,

0:19:06 > 0:19:12the latter an astronomer whose observations of markings on the surface of Mars

0:19:12 > 0:19:16led to speculation about life on the planet?

0:19:20 > 0:19:22Possibly Cassini?

0:19:22 > 0:19:27- Let's have an answer, please. - Cassini?- No, Schiaparelli.

0:19:27 > 0:19:34What name links the composer of the opera La Sonnambula, a Venetian painter known for his altar pieces

0:19:34 > 0:19:40and an anatomist who described the excretory ducts of the kidney now named after him?

0:19:40 > 0:19:44- Nominate Bramhill. - Langerhans?- No, it's Bellini.

0:19:44 > 0:19:50Which London-born clown, who died in 1837, shares his surname with the Genoese family

0:19:50 > 0:19:54who became Lords of Monaco in the late 13th century?

0:19:58 > 0:20:03- We don't know.- Grimaldi. The defeat of the LTTE

0:20:03 > 0:20:07or Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in May, 2009,

0:20:07 > 0:20:12effectively brought to an end the 25-year civil war in...

0:20:12 > 0:20:14- Sri Lanka.- Sri Lanka is right.

0:20:16 > 0:20:20This set of bonuses is on world cities.

0:20:20 > 0:20:27The 40th parallel of latitude passes through the cities of Philadelphia, Ankara and which East Asian capital?

0:20:33 > 0:20:38- India? - Not Beijing?

0:20:38 > 0:20:43- Let's have an answer, please. - Tokyo.- No, it's Beijing.

0:20:43 > 0:20:48London and Calgary both lie between the 51st and 52nd parallels.

0:20:48 > 0:20:52Which Central Asian capital is closest in latitude?

0:21:02 > 0:21:07- Go Tehran.- Tehran?- No, Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan.

0:21:07 > 0:21:12Which capital of the Americas lies close to the same parallel of latitude as Venice and Zagreb?

0:21:16 > 0:21:19- Mexico City?- No, it's Ottawa.

0:21:19 > 0:21:25Time for another picture round. A photograph of an English author. 10 points if you give me his name.

0:21:30 > 0:21:35- HG Wells?- No. Worcester College? One of you buzz.

0:21:35 > 0:21:41- CS Lewis?- No, it's EM Forster, a man who liked to keep a low profile, evidently successfully.

0:21:41 > 0:21:48Picture bonuses in a moment or two. Named because its spacecraft had two crew members,

0:21:48 > 0:21:51which NASA space program...

0:21:51 > 0:21:53- Gemini.- Gemini is correct.

0:21:55 > 0:22:00You failed to identify EM Forster, but you get the picture bonuses.

0:22:00 > 0:22:06He was part of the Bloomsbury Group. Three more of the members of that group. 5 for each you can identify.

0:22:06 > 0:22:08Firstly...

0:22:13 > 0:22:18- Virginia Woolf?- Nothing like her! It's Vanessa Bell. Secondly...

0:22:25 > 0:22:29- Em...yeah, we don't know.- That's Clive Bell, her husband. Finally...

0:22:43 > 0:22:48- Lewis Carroll?- Lewis Carroll?! Well, no!

0:22:48 > 0:22:53Very much no! It's Lytton Strachey. 10 points for this.

0:22:53 > 0:23:00- Which Commonwealth country has a bay, an island, a mountain range and a major public...- Canada.

0:23:00 > 0:23:07No. Lose 5 points. ..and a public university named after Lincolnshire navigator Matthew Flinders,

0:23:07 > 0:23:09born in 1774?

0:23:10 > 0:23:12- Australia.- Indeed.

0:23:14 > 0:23:17Your bonuses are on avian anatomy.

0:23:17 > 0:23:24Palmate, raptorial and zygodactyl are terms applied to which specific part of a bird's anatomy?

0:23:26 > 0:23:31- Foot.- Correct. Most flying birds have how many toes on each foot?

0:23:33 > 0:23:36It's three, I think. I think three.

0:23:36 > 0:23:39- I'd say two.- Three?

0:23:39 > 0:23:45No, it's four. A bird's foot described as aniso-dactylic would usually have

0:23:45 > 0:23:50how many toes at the front and how many at the back?

0:23:56 > 0:24:01- Come on, let's have an answer. - Three and one?- Where?

0:24:01 > 0:24:05- Three front, one back.- Correct. Another starter question.

0:24:05 > 0:24:11Equal to the work done by a force of one dyne over a distance of one centimetre,

0:24:11 > 0:24:14what is the centimetre-gram-second unit of energy?

0:24:14 > 0:24:20- Erg.- Correct. These bonuses are on the work of Friedrich Schiller.

0:24:20 > 0:24:24In each case, identify the title character of the work described.

0:24:24 > 0:24:31A trilogy of plays based on the life of a Bohemian general, assassinated in 1634?

0:24:34 > 0:24:39- Let's have an answer.- We don't know. - Wallenstein. An historical play

0:24:39 > 0:24:44about the last days of an exiled queen, executed in 1587?

0:24:44 > 0:24:50- Mary, Queen of Scots?- Yes. The story of a legendary 14th-century freedom fighter,

0:24:50 > 0:24:54later adapted into an opera by Rossini?

0:24:54 > 0:24:57- William Tell? - Correct. Another starter.

0:24:57 > 0:25:01Ending in the suffix "mouth", even though it's not on the coast,

0:25:01 > 0:25:04which town in Cumbria was the birthplace...

0:25:04 > 0:25:10- Cockermouth.- Correct. Your set of bonuses this time are on biology.

0:25:10 > 0:25:14Found mainly in foods derived from animals, which of the B vitamins contains cobalt

0:25:14 > 0:25:17and is also known as cobalamin?

0:25:17 > 0:25:23- B12?- Correct. Which Group Two metal is found in the porphyrin ring of chlorophyll?

0:25:23 > 0:25:29- Magnesium.- Magnesium. - Which Group Eight metal readily converts between oxidation states

0:25:29 > 0:25:33and is found in cytochromes of the electron transport chain?

0:25:33 > 0:25:36- Iron.- Right. Two minutes to go.

0:25:36 > 0:25:42"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify." These are the words of which...

0:25:42 > 0:25:46- Thoreau? - Thoreau is correct, yes.

0:25:46 > 0:25:49A set of bonuses on a shared name.

0:25:49 > 0:25:56Which US President was re-elected in 1916 under the campaign slogan, "He kept us out of the war"?

0:25:56 > 0:26:03- Woodrow Wilson.- Correct. Woodrow Wilson were the first two given names of which American folk singer,

0:26:03 > 0:26:05best known for Dust Bowl ballads?

0:26:05 > 0:26:11- Woody Guthrie.- Correct. The American astronomer Robert Woodrow Wilson is jointly credited

0:26:11 > 0:26:17with the discovery in 1964 of CMB. For what do these initials stand?

0:26:18 > 0:26:23- Cosmic Background Radiation? - No, Cosmic Microwave Background.

0:26:23 > 0:26:29You missed out the M. Right, Duluth, Thunder Bay and Marquette are among the largest settlements

0:26:29 > 0:26:32on the shore of which...

0:26:32 > 0:26:38- Lake Superior.- Correct. Here are your bonuses this time on the various treaties of Versailles.

0:26:38 > 0:26:44In the Treaty of Versailles of 1768, Genoa ceded which Mediterranean island to France?

0:26:44 > 0:26:51- Corsica.- In 1783, Britain signed two Treaties of Versailles settling her colonial disputes with France

0:26:51 > 0:26:53and which other country?

0:26:53 > 0:26:59- Spain.- The Treaty of Versailles of 1871, ending the Franco-Prussian War, is signed by which two leaders?

0:26:59 > 0:27:02Bismarck and...

0:27:02 > 0:27:07- Bismarck and...?- Come on. Let's have it.- We don't know.

0:27:07 > 0:27:13It was Bismarck and Thiers. Probably a Greek born in Antioch, who according to Christian tradition

0:27:13 > 0:27:18was the only gentile among the four evangelists?

0:27:21 > 0:27:24- Luke.- It was, yes!

0:27:24 > 0:27:26Your bonuses are on an English poet.

0:27:26 > 0:27:322010 saw the announcement of discovery of a previously unknown poem, Dear Jake, by which poet?

0:27:32 > 0:27:36He died in 1985, having refused the role of Poet Laureate in 1984.

0:27:36 > 0:27:42- John Betjeman?- Philip Larkin. Which future Poet Laureate was the author in 1993

0:27:42 > 0:27:46of Larkin's official biography, A Writer's Life?

0:27:46 > 0:27:48- Andrew Motion?- Correct. - GONG

0:27:56 > 0:28:04We have to say goodbye, St Andrews. You were unlucky, but beaten by a pretty strong team tonight.

0:28:04 > 0:28:08Worcester College, we'll see you in the next stage of the competition.

0:28:08 > 0:28:13I hope you can join us next time. Until then, goodbye from St Andrews,

0:28:13 > 0:28:15goodbye from Worcester College

0:28:15 > 0:28:18and goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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