0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:20 > 0:00:24Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello. It's the first match in the second round tonight.
0:00:31 > 0:00:3316 teams have made it through to this stage
0:00:33 > 0:00:37and as a reward, from now on, they're going to find the questions
0:00:37 > 0:00:40get just that little pleasurable bit harder.
0:00:40 > 0:00:44The winners in this round go through to the quarterfinals immediately.
0:00:44 > 0:00:49The team from Leeds University is one of the youngest in the contest with an average age of 19.
0:00:49 > 0:00:53They scored 220 in their first-round match against Goldsmiths College, London
0:00:53 > 0:00:57by knowing all about Russian authors, SI units
0:00:57 > 0:01:01and what King Ferdinand of Naples liked to do when his wife wasn't watching.
0:01:01 > 0:01:02Let's meet them again.
0:01:02 > 0:01:06I'm Lucy Bennett from Wigan and I'm studying English and French.
0:01:06 > 0:01:10I'm Peter Hufton from Mansfield and I'm studying theoretical physics.
0:01:10 > 0:01:15- And their captain. - I'm Lewis Mills from St Albans and I'm studying biology.
0:01:15 > 0:01:19I'm Christian Mannsaker from Newcastle. I'm studying classical civilisation.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21APPLAUSE
0:01:23 > 0:01:25The team from Clare College, Cambridge
0:01:25 > 0:01:31won their first-round match against Worcester College, Oxford by a margin of only ten points.
0:01:31 > 0:01:36Helping them on to victory was their knowledge of English kings, the seven deadly sins
0:01:36 > 0:01:39and some of the world's more ludicrous world championships.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41Let's see what they can come up with tonight.
0:01:41 > 0:01:46I'm Chris Cao from Oxfordshire and I'm studying mathematics.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49I'm Daniel Janes from east London and I'm studying history.
0:01:49 > 0:01:54- Their captain.- I'm Jonathan Burley from Buckinghamshire and I'm studying physics.
0:01:54 > 0:01:58I'm Jonathan Foxwell from Surrey and I'm reading natural sciences.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00APPLAUSE
0:02:02 > 0:02:05OK, fingers on buzzers. Here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:05 > 0:02:10Which short adjective means guttural rather than sibilant when applied to consonants,
0:02:10 > 0:02:14orthographically necessary when referring to hyphens
0:02:14 > 0:02:18and difficult to lather when describing water?
0:02:18 > 0:02:22- Hard?- Hard is right, yes.
0:02:23 > 0:02:27Right, Clare College, your bonuses are on an island group.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30Yell and Unst are among the islands of which group
0:02:30 > 0:02:34on a similar latitude to Anchorage and St Petersburg?
0:02:34 > 0:02:37(The Faroes?)
0:02:37 > 0:02:38(The Faroes?)
0:02:38 > 0:02:41- The Faroe Islands? - No, the Shetland Islands.
0:02:41 > 0:02:46Meaning "end of the holiday", what name is given to the festival held in Lerwick every January,
0:02:46 > 0:02:48beginning with a torch-lit procession
0:02:48 > 0:02:52and culminating in the burning of a full-size replica Viking long ship?
0:02:52 > 0:02:55- I have no idea.- The Wicker Man?
0:02:55 > 0:02:57- Pass.- It's Up Helly Aa.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00Prior to 1469, Shetland and Orkney belonged to which country,
0:03:00 > 0:03:03whose king pledged them as a dowry for his daughter
0:03:03 > 0:03:05on her marriage to King James III of Scotland?
0:03:05 > 0:03:08- Denmark. - Correct. Another starter question.
0:03:08 > 0:03:12Quote, "The name can mean an arched window to let in the light
0:03:12 > 0:03:15"or a surgical instrument to cut out the dross,
0:03:15 > 0:03:18"and I intend to use it in both senses."
0:03:18 > 0:03:20These are the words of the founder of which periodical,
0:03:20 > 0:03:23first published in 1823?
0:03:23 > 0:03:27- Lancet.- The Lancet is right, yes.
0:03:28 > 0:03:31Your bonuses are on Simon Schama's "A History of Britain".
0:03:31 > 0:03:35I want you to identify the monarch he's describing.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38Quote, "With her heart-shaped face, creamy complexion,
0:03:38 > 0:03:41"auburn hair and almond-shaped, heavy-lidded eyes,
0:03:41 > 0:03:47"she evidently had the stuff to make men, especially poets, pant with dreams of possession.
0:03:47 > 0:03:49"She was, however, not just a pretty face"
0:03:49 > 0:03:53- Elizabeth I. - No, it was Mary Queen of Scots.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56"He was ruthless in war, yet capable of falling apart
0:03:56 > 0:04:00"when the queen, who had borne him 15 children, died.
0:04:00 > 0:04:04"His mettle had been tested early and often by bungled military campaigns in Wales
0:04:04 > 0:04:10"and by falling hostage, literally, to a great civil war."
0:04:10 > 0:04:11Try Edward II.
0:04:11 > 0:04:14- Edward II.- No, Edward I.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17Finally, "You could practically smell the testosterone.
0:04:17 > 0:04:21"Any way and anywhere he could flash his burly energy, he flashed it,
0:04:21 > 0:04:25"in the saddle, on the dance floor or on the tennis court."
0:04:25 > 0:04:28- Henry VIII. - Correct. Another starter question.
0:04:28 > 0:04:32What word formerly referred to boys who served as pages to knights,
0:04:32 > 0:04:35and therefore not old enough to fight on horseback,
0:04:35 > 0:04:39and later came to denote a body of foot soldiers?
0:04:39 > 0:04:42- Squire. - No. Anyone like to buzz from Leeds?
0:04:44 > 0:04:48- Footman?- No, it's infantry. Ten points for this.
0:04:48 > 0:04:52The son of a political exile, which member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
0:04:52 > 0:04:56completed The Girlhood of Mary Virgin in 1849?
0:04:56 > 0:04:58Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
0:04:58 > 0:05:00Correct.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04Your bonuses this time are on human physiology.
0:05:04 > 0:05:09What common name is given to the substance found in the blood, brain and gastrointestinal tract
0:05:09 > 0:05:13which plays in an important part in haemostasis
0:05:13 > 0:05:17and is involved in sleep, mood changes and prolactin secretion?
0:05:17 > 0:05:19THEY WHISPER
0:05:19 > 0:05:23Any other ideas? Melatonin.
0:05:23 > 0:05:24Melatonin.
0:05:24 > 0:05:26No, it's serotonin.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29Which hormone is produced from serotonin
0:05:29 > 0:05:32and fluctuates in concentration, being at its highest in darkness
0:05:32 > 0:05:35and is thought to help regulate circadian rhythms?
0:05:35 > 0:05:37- That is melatonin.- It is.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40Which small gland in the brain synthesises melatonin
0:05:40 > 0:05:45and plays an important role in determining seasonal breeding patterns in some mammals?
0:05:45 > 0:05:47(Is it pineal or pituitary?)
0:05:47 > 0:05:49Pineal or pituitary.
0:05:49 > 0:05:50- Pineal.- Correct.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53Ten points for this starter question.
0:05:53 > 0:05:58In standard SI units, what measures 9.78 metres-per-second...?
0:05:58 > 0:06:00Acceleration due to gravity.
0:06:00 > 0:06:02- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:06:05 > 0:06:07Your bonuses are on an artist, Leeds.
0:06:07 > 0:06:12Known for an enthusiastic assessment of his own talent as "close to Picasso",
0:06:12 > 0:06:18which US artist's works include many made by gluing plates to canvas and painting over them,
0:06:18 > 0:06:22such as the 1982 piece Humanity Asleep?
0:06:22 > 0:06:25- (Rothko?)- OK.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27Rothko?
0:06:27 > 0:06:29No, it's Julian Schnabel.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32Schnabel made his directorial debut with the 1996 film
0:06:32 > 0:06:35about which Caribbean-American painter
0:06:35 > 0:06:37who first came to notice as a graffiti artist
0:06:37 > 0:06:40but died of a heroin overdose at the age of 27?
0:06:40 > 0:06:43(Basquiat. I don't know how you say it.)
0:06:43 > 0:06:46- Nominate.- No, don't, because I don't know how you say it!
0:06:46 > 0:06:48- Basquiat?- Nominate Bennett.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50- Basquiat?- Correct.
0:06:50 > 0:06:55Which 2007 film by Schnabel was an adaptation of a memoir
0:06:55 > 0:06:58by former editor-in-chief of Elle Magazine Jean-Dominique Bauby
0:06:58 > 0:07:01written after a stroke that paralysed all but his left eye?
0:07:01 > 0:07:03The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
0:07:03 > 0:07:06- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. - Correct.
0:07:06 > 0:07:10In plant tissue, what material is produced by the phellogen,
0:07:10 > 0:07:12a specialised meristem in plants
0:07:12 > 0:07:16which undergo secondary thickening, the product from Quercus...?
0:07:16 > 0:07:19Wood. Er... Sorry, I didn't really think through what you said.
0:07:19 > 0:07:23Anyone like to... You can hear the rest... You lose five points, too.
0:07:23 > 0:07:28..the product from Quercus suber has numerous commercial applications?
0:07:32 > 0:07:34- Rubber? - No, it's cork. Ten points for this.
0:07:34 > 0:07:38"Never very far from the actual formalities of song and dance,
0:07:38 > 0:07:41"the long last act is half mask and half play,
0:07:41 > 0:07:43and in song and dance, the play ends."
0:07:43 > 0:07:48The words of critic Harley Granville-Barker describe which Shakespeare play,
0:07:48 > 0:07:52set mainly in the park of the King of Navarre?
0:07:52 > 0:07:55- Love's Labour's Lost.- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:07:56 > 0:08:01A set of bonuses now on writer's private lives.
0:08:01 > 0:08:05Henrietta Godolphin, second Duchess of Marlborough, was the lover of which playwright?
0:08:05 > 0:08:08He is believed to have fathered her child, Mary, in 1723
0:08:08 > 0:08:12and was also known to be close to the actress Anne Bracegirdle,
0:08:12 > 0:08:15for whom he wrote parts in several of his works.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18- Moliere.- I don't know.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21Was Moliere even around then?
0:08:21 > 0:08:23Come on.
0:08:23 > 0:08:25- No.- William Congreve.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28"Remember thee! Remember thee! Till lethe quench life's burning stream,
0:08:28 > 0:08:31"Remorse and shame shall cling to thee
0:08:31 > 0:08:34"And haunt thee like a feverish dream!"
0:08:34 > 0:08:36Which Romantic poet wrote those lines
0:08:36 > 0:08:40as a rejection of the repeated advances of his former lover?
0:08:40 > 0:08:43- Is it William Blake? - I don't think so. Byron? Shelley?
0:08:43 > 0:08:45It could be Byron.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47- Er, Lord Byron?- Correct.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50Who, between 1660 and 1669, chronicled his affairs
0:08:50 > 0:08:55with William Bagwell's wife, Jane Welsh, the servant of his barber,
0:08:55 > 0:08:58Sarah from the Swan Inn, Betty Martin and Deb Willet,
0:08:58 > 0:09:01the latter being his own wife's maidservant?
0:09:01 > 0:09:04- Roxborough?- It could be Pepys.
0:09:04 > 0:09:06It might be Pepys, actually.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09John Wilmot.
0:09:09 > 0:09:11Lots of different answers.
0:09:11 > 0:09:13Nominate Bennett.
0:09:13 > 0:09:18- John Wilmot.- No. You're thinking of Rochester. It's Samuel Pepys.
0:09:18 > 0:09:22We're going to take a picture round. You'll see a series of chemical formulae.
0:09:22 > 0:09:27For ten points, give me the name of the series.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36It doesn't look as if anybody's going to buzz.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38- BUZZER - It's the Mohs scale. Too late.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41Picture bonuses shortly. Another starter question.
0:09:41 > 0:09:46Which element comes next in this sequence, given in reverse order by atomic number:
0:09:46 > 0:09:52bismuth, lead, thallium, mercury and what?
0:09:54 > 0:09:55Platinum.
0:09:55 > 0:09:57No. Anyone like to buzz?
0:09:57 > 0:10:00- Gold?- Gold is correct.
0:10:00 > 0:10:02APPLAUSE
0:10:02 > 0:10:04We go back to the Mohs scale,
0:10:04 > 0:10:07which was created by the German Friedrich Mohs
0:10:07 > 0:10:09as a way of comparing the hardness of minerals.
0:10:09 > 0:10:14Your picture bonuses are photographs of three minerals that appear on the Mohs scale,
0:10:14 > 0:10:17alongside specific chemical formulae for them.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19Five points for each you can name.
0:10:19 > 0:10:22First for five, this mineral.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25THEY WHISPER
0:10:25 > 0:10:27Corundum?
0:10:27 > 0:10:30- Corundum.- No, that is Topaz.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32Secondly...
0:10:34 > 0:10:36Any ideas?
0:10:36 > 0:10:38THEY WHISPER
0:10:45 > 0:10:47- Corundum?- That is corundum.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49Finally, this material?
0:10:49 > 0:10:51- Diamond.- Diamond.
0:10:51 > 0:10:56Correct. Having fought with distinction at the battles of Richfield and Saratoga,
0:10:56 > 0:11:00which US general's name became a byword for treachery when...?
0:11:00 > 0:11:03- Benedict Arnold.- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:11:04 > 0:11:07Your bonuses, Clare, are on political siblings.
0:11:07 > 0:11:11Ed and David Miliband were the first brothers to hold positions in the same cabinet
0:11:11 > 0:11:16since Edward and Oliver Stanley in the government of which prime minister?
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Er, try Disraeli.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20- Disraeli.- No, it was Neville Chamberlain. 1938.
0:11:20 > 0:11:25The brother and sister who both contested seats in Somerset in the general election of 2010
0:11:25 > 0:11:28are the children of which former editor of The Times?
0:11:28 > 0:11:29Rees-Mogg.
0:11:29 > 0:11:32- Nominate Janes.- William Rees-Mogg. - Correct.
0:11:32 > 0:11:37Which siblings, one representing Wallasey and the other Garston and Halewood,
0:11:37 > 0:11:40held office as ministers of state in Gordon Brown's government?
0:11:40 > 0:11:43- The Eagles. Oh!- Nominate Janes. - The Eagles?
0:11:43 > 0:11:47- Do you remember their first names? - Angela and Maria?
0:11:47 > 0:11:50- Correct! Well done. - APPLAUSE
0:11:51 > 0:11:52A starter question.
0:11:52 > 0:11:56Which English translation of the German word "auch"
0:11:56 > 0:12:02shares its spelling with a German translation of the English word "thus"?
0:12:02 > 0:12:06- Is it "also"?- It is! Yes. - APPLAUSE
0:12:06 > 0:12:10Your bonuses this time, Clare College, are on infectious disease.
0:12:10 > 0:12:16To which genus of bacteria did the causative agents of human and bovine tuberculosis belong?
0:12:16 > 0:12:19THEY WHISPER
0:12:19 > 0:12:22..they're really thick-walled bacteria.
0:12:22 > 0:12:26- Bacillus.- No, that's anthrax. - That's true.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28- Come on. Let's have an answer, please.- Any ideas?
0:12:28 > 0:12:30- Bacillus.- Bacillus.
0:12:30 > 0:12:33No, it's mycobacterium or mycobacteria.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35What is the common name for Hansen's disease,
0:12:35 > 0:12:39a disfiguring infection caused by a species of mycobacterium?
0:12:39 > 0:12:40- Leprosy.- Leprosy.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43Correct. Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1905,
0:12:43 > 0:12:48which German physician discovered the tuberculosis bacillus in 1877?
0:12:48 > 0:12:50- Koch.- Koch.- Correct.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52Another starter question.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54Infinitesimals and fluxions
0:12:54 > 0:12:58were terms originally used in which branch of mathematics...?
0:12:58 > 0:13:01- Calculus.- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:13:03 > 0:13:06Your bonuses this time are on films of the 1950s.
0:13:06 > 0:13:11Born in Mississippi in 1897, which author's works include the 1940 novel The Hamlet,
0:13:11 > 0:13:15filmed in 1958, with Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward and Orson Welles
0:13:15 > 0:13:18under the title "The Long, Hot Summer"?
0:13:18 > 0:13:21- William Faulkner?- Faulkner. - Faulkner is correct.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23"Suddenly, Last Summer",
0:13:23 > 0:13:27released in 1959, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Katherine Hepburn,
0:13:27 > 0:13:31was based on the play of the same name by which US dramatist, born in 1914?
0:13:31 > 0:13:33Neil Simon?
0:13:33 > 0:13:36He's not as old as that.
0:13:36 > 0:13:381914...
0:13:38 > 0:13:42Oh, try... No. Try Neil Simon.
0:13:42 > 0:13:44- Neil Simon.- It's Tennessee Williams.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47Later adapted as a stage musical entitled "A Little Night Music",
0:13:47 > 0:13:51"Smiles of a Summer Night", released in 1955,
0:13:51 > 0:13:56is by which Scandinavian director, born in 1918?
0:13:56 > 0:13:59- Nominate Janes.- Ingmar Bergman? - You're quite right.
0:13:59 > 0:14:01A music round now.
0:14:01 > 0:14:06You're going to hear a piece of classical music taken from an opera, which premiered in 1911.
0:14:06 > 0:14:10For ten points, I simply want the name of the composer.
0:14:10 > 0:14:12WOMAN SINGS IN GERMAN
0:14:14 > 0:14:16Is it Mahler?
0:14:16 > 0:14:20No. Anyone like to buzz? You may hear a little more actually, Clare.
0:14:20 > 0:14:22MUSIC RESUMES
0:14:25 > 0:14:27- Strauss?- Which one?- Richard.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30Richard Strauss is right. Der Rosenkavalier.
0:14:33 > 0:14:372011 is the centenary year of the premier of Der Rosenkavalier.
0:14:37 > 0:14:40Three more extracts from operas of varying styles
0:14:40 > 0:14:42also celebrating their anniversary in 2011.
0:14:42 > 0:14:45In each case, I want the name of the composer.
0:14:45 > 0:14:48Firstly for five, the Hungarian composer of this piece...
0:14:48 > 0:14:51DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL
0:14:53 > 0:14:57Bartok. MUSIC DROWNS OUT SPEECH
0:14:58 > 0:15:02ALL: Bartok.
0:15:03 > 0:15:07- Barson.- Bartok!- Bartok. Sorry!
0:15:07 > 0:15:11I have to accept the answer you give. You obviously misheard it.
0:15:11 > 0:15:15- Bluebeard's Castle.- Sorry. - You were given the right information, but you misheard it.
0:15:15 > 0:15:19OK, secondly for five. The American composer of this piece...
0:15:19 > 0:15:22JOLLY MUSIC
0:15:23 > 0:15:27MUSIC DROWNS OUT SPEECH
0:15:32 > 0:15:36Just say Gershwin. Gershwin!
0:15:36 > 0:15:39- Nominate Janes.- George Gershwin?
0:15:39 > 0:15:41Scott Joplin. Finally, the French composer of this...
0:15:41 > 0:15:44MAN SINGS IN FRENCH
0:15:48 > 0:15:50Debussy?
0:15:50 > 0:15:53Yes. Debussy.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57- Debussy.- No, it's Maurice Ravel.
0:15:57 > 0:16:01Ten points for this starter. What name is the first, middle and surname respectively
0:16:01 > 0:16:05of the authors of The Old Devils, The Naked and the Dead...?
0:16:05 > 0:16:08- Kingsley.- Kingsley is right, yes.
0:16:10 > 0:16:15Right, your questions this time are on the names of wars.
0:16:15 > 0:16:19Firstly for five. The conflict, often called the English Civil War,
0:16:19 > 0:16:21is sometimes given what name by historians,
0:16:21 > 0:16:25including Trevor Royle in the subtitle of his work of 2005
0:16:25 > 0:16:29to take into account the simultaneous fighting in Scotland and Ireland?
0:16:29 > 0:16:32- Wars of the Three Kingdoms. - Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
0:16:32 > 0:16:36Correct. The 18th-century war called the Third Carnatic War in India,
0:16:36 > 0:16:39the French and Indian war in the United States
0:16:39 > 0:16:42and the third Silesian War in Central Europe
0:16:42 > 0:16:44is known by what name in the UK?
0:16:44 > 0:16:49- War of the Austrian Succession. - The Seven Years' War is what it's normally known as.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52Fought between Britain and Spain from 1739 to 1748,
0:16:52 > 0:16:55La Guerra Del Asiento, meaning the War Of The Contract,
0:16:55 > 0:16:57is known in English by what name?
0:16:57 > 0:17:02Er, that's the war of the... Oh, no. The War of Jenkins' Ear.
0:17:02 > 0:17:05- Nominate Janes.- War of Jenkins' Ear. - Correct.
0:17:05 > 0:17:06Another starter question.
0:17:06 > 0:17:09Named after the man who raised the first seedlings in Britain,
0:17:09 > 0:17:11what name is given to the fast-growing tree
0:17:11 > 0:17:15that is a natural hybrid of the Nootka Cypress from Alaska
0:17:15 > 0:17:17and the Monterey Cypress from California?
0:17:18 > 0:17:20Is it the London plane?
0:17:20 > 0:17:24No. Someone buzz from Leeds.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27They're the notorious Leylandii. Ten points for this.
0:17:27 > 0:17:32What female-given name links Picasso's mistress from 1935 to '45,
0:17:32 > 0:17:34the alias given by Freud to Ida Bauer,
0:17:34 > 0:17:37whom he diagnosed as an hysteric in 1900,
0:17:37 > 0:17:40and the acronym of the Act of Parliament
0:17:40 > 0:17:43that restricted licensing hours during...?
0:17:43 > 0:17:45- Dora.- Dora is right, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:17:48 > 0:17:51Right, your bonuses are on the philosophy of religion.
0:17:51 > 0:17:55Give the two-word expression used to denote the following arguments.
0:17:55 > 0:17:59After a French philosopher, the argument that belief in God is the best bet,
0:17:59 > 0:18:03for to make the bet can mean to win all and to lose is to lose nothing?
0:18:03 > 0:18:07- Hang on, does he want Pascal's Wager or Pascal?- Pascal's Wager.
0:18:07 > 0:18:09- Pascal's Wager.- Correct.
0:18:09 > 0:18:13After an English philosopher, born 1872, a celestial item of crockery,
0:18:13 > 0:18:16used in an analogy, it attempts to transfer the burden of proof
0:18:16 > 0:18:21from those arguing against the existence of God to those arguing for it?
0:18:21 > 0:18:24- Russell's teapot.- Correct. From a medieval English philosopher,
0:18:24 > 0:18:28the principle that entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity?
0:18:28 > 0:18:29Occam's razor.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32- Occam's razor. - Correct. Another starter.
0:18:32 > 0:18:36In electromagnetism, the time-averaged value of what vector, named after its inventor,
0:18:36 > 0:18:41gives the energy flux of an electromagnetic wave in a vacuum?
0:18:41 > 0:18:44- Is it the Poynting vector? - It is a Poynting vector, yes.
0:18:45 > 0:18:48Your bonuses, Clare College, are on French dramatists.
0:18:48 > 0:18:51The 17th-century dramatist and actor Jean-Baptiste Poquelin,
0:18:51 > 0:18:54described by Voltaire as the painter of France,
0:18:54 > 0:18:57is better known by what stage name adopted about 1643?
0:18:57 > 0:19:00- Nominate Janes.- Moliere. - Moliere is right.
0:19:00 > 0:19:04Which of Moliere's contemporaries, known for his tragedies Andromaque and Phedre,
0:19:04 > 0:19:09also wrote one comedy, Les Plaideurs, a satire on the French legal system?
0:19:09 > 0:19:11- Racine.- Correct.
0:19:11 > 0:19:15Which 11th-century Spanish soldier and national hero
0:19:15 > 0:19:18was the subject of a tragedy by Pierre Corneille in 1637
0:19:18 > 0:19:21which had huge popular success but sparked a literary controversy?
0:19:21 > 0:19:24- El Cid.- Correct.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26We're going to take a second picture round now.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29You'll see a photograph of an ancient artefact.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32Ten points if you can give me the two-word name
0:19:32 > 0:19:35of the site where it was discovered.
0:19:36 > 0:19:40- Sutton Hoo.- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:19:42 > 0:19:45We follow the Sutton Hoo helmet
0:19:45 > 0:19:48with three more photos of items from archaeological finds in England,
0:19:48 > 0:19:51all of them quite recent discoveries.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54Five points if you can name the county in which each was found.
0:19:54 > 0:19:58Firstly this, unearthed in 2009?
0:19:59 > 0:20:04- (It could've been Staffordshire.) - (It could be.)
0:20:04 > 0:20:07- Staffordshire?- It's part of the Staffordshire Hoard.
0:20:07 > 0:20:12Secondly, the county where this find was discovered in 2010?
0:20:19 > 0:20:22- Bedfordshire?- No. Somerset. They're 3rd-century coins.
0:20:22 > 0:20:27Finally, the county where this was discovered, also in 2010?
0:20:29 > 0:20:32- It might be Bath. Where's Bath? - Somerset.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36- Somerset.- No, that's Cumbria.
0:20:36 > 0:20:41Ten points for this. Which statesman was ultimately replaced as leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party
0:20:41 > 0:20:46after being named as co-respondent in the divorce proceedings instigated in 1889...?
0:20:46 > 0:20:50- Charles Parnell. - Charles Stewart Parnell is correct.
0:20:52 > 0:20:54This set of bonuses are on thermometers.
0:20:54 > 0:20:59Which English scientist gives his name to the first successful modern maximum-minimum thermometer,
0:20:59 > 0:21:01demonstrated in 1782?
0:21:01 > 0:21:03Kelvin did one, but I don't know if that's it.
0:21:03 > 0:21:07The Kelvin Scale comes pretty late on. Who else?
0:21:07 > 0:21:10You've got Fahrenheit. Who else?
0:21:10 > 0:21:12It's the name of a thermometer.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15- I think we need an answer.- Pass.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17James Six.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20The constant volume gas thermometer is used to calibrate thermometers
0:21:20 > 0:21:23from which standard reference temperature,
0:21:23 > 0:21:26given the value of 273.16 Kelvin?
0:21:29 > 0:21:32- Triple point of water.- Correct.
0:21:32 > 0:21:37Resistance thermometers are sensors based on predictable changes in electrical resistance,
0:21:37 > 0:21:41almost all of them being made of which metal?
0:21:41 > 0:21:45It's going to be gold or...
0:21:45 > 0:21:48- You can't just say gold. - I don't think that's right.
0:21:48 > 0:21:52- Let's have an answer, please! - Gold.- No, it's platinum.
0:21:52 > 0:21:58What number links the year of Galileo's first astronomical observations with a telescope
0:21:58 > 0:22:01to the number of metres in a mile?
0:22:01 > 0:22:021,706...
0:22:02 > 0:22:05No, that's totally wrong!
0:22:05 > 0:22:07Anyone want to buzz from Clare?
0:22:07 > 0:22:11It's 1609. You were thinking of the number of yards. 10 points for this.
0:22:11 > 0:22:15What surname links the Austrian conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra from 1904,
0:22:15 > 0:22:20the German artist of the 2007 pixelated stained-glass window for Cologne Cathedral
0:22:20 > 0:22:24and the US seismologist who gave his name for a scale for expressing the...?
0:22:24 > 0:22:28- Is it Richter?- Richter is right, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:22:29 > 0:22:33Clare College, your bonuses are on US presidential running mates.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36Whom did Ronald Reagan choose as his running mate in 1980?
0:22:36 > 0:22:42He'd been a Texas congressman, ambassador to the United Nations and Director of the CIA?
0:22:42 > 0:22:43- George H W Bush.- Correct.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46In 1988, George Bush Snr picked as his running mate
0:22:46 > 0:22:50which gaffe-prone senator, noted for misspelling the word potato?
0:22:50 > 0:22:54He was upbraided in a debate when he compared himself to Jack Kennedy.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56- Dan Quayle.- Correct.
0:22:56 > 0:23:01In 1992, Bill Clinton chose which future Nobel Prize winner to be his running mate?
0:23:01 > 0:23:03- Al Gore.- Correct.
0:23:03 > 0:23:04Four minutes to go.
0:23:04 > 0:23:07Listen carefully. If Nebraska is neon
0:23:07 > 0:23:09and Arkansas is argon,
0:23:09 > 0:23:12what's Missouri?
0:23:13 > 0:23:15- Molybdenum?- It is, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:23:15 > 0:23:19Postal abbreviations and chemical symbols.
0:23:19 > 0:23:22Right, Leeds, some bonuses for you on astronomy.
0:23:22 > 0:23:28I want the month in which each of the following meteor showers occurs or reaches its peak intensity.
0:23:28 > 0:23:32Firstly, for five points, the Leonids?
0:23:33 > 0:23:34- August?- No, it's November.
0:23:34 > 0:23:39The Orionids and Draconids?
0:23:40 > 0:23:43- February?- No, that's October.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46The Perseids and Kappa Cygnids?
0:23:47 > 0:23:49- April.- No, it's August.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52- LAUGHTER - OK, another starter question.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55MRSA is resistant to the antibiotic methicillin.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58To which class of antibiotics does methicillin belong?
0:24:01 > 0:24:03Er, methicillins. Penicillins, sorry.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06Penicillins, I'll accept. Beta-lactams, yes.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09You get a set of bonuses on a theologian.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12Born 1033 and regarded as the founder of scholasticism,
0:24:12 > 0:24:18which Benedictine monk expounded the ontological proof in the existence of God in his proslogion?
0:24:18 > 0:24:21- Nominate Cao.- Is it Anselm?- It is.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24Anselm became Archbishop of Canterbury in the reign of which king,
0:24:24 > 0:24:28who'd kept it vacant for several years to exploit its revenues?
0:24:28 > 0:24:30William II.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32- William II.- That's right.
0:24:32 > 0:24:37In 1720, Pope Clement XI bestowed what title on Anselm,
0:24:37 > 0:24:39shared, among others, by St Augustine and Pope Gregory I
0:24:39 > 0:24:44and acknowledging the significance of his writing to the Catholic church as a whole?
0:24:44 > 0:24:47- The Greats.- The Greats. - No, it's Doctor of the Church.
0:24:47 > 0:24:51Two and a half minutes to go. Klaus Roth, Michael Atiyah,
0:24:51 > 0:24:55Alan Baker, Simon Donaldson, Timothy Gowers and Richard...?
0:24:55 > 0:24:59- Fields Medal.- Fields Medals are correct. All winners thereof.
0:24:59 > 0:25:02Your bonuses this time are on rivers.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05The name of which river of south England means
0:25:05 > 0:25:09"principle male sex hormone" and "evidence given in a court of law"?
0:25:09 > 0:25:13- THEY WHISPER - Test.- Correct.
0:25:13 > 0:25:16The name of which Cornish river appears at the start of words
0:25:16 > 0:25:21meaning "severe form of malaria" and "Spanish fascist movement"?
0:25:21 > 0:25:24Fal. F-A-L. So...
0:25:24 > 0:25:27- What begins with Fal?- Falmouth.
0:25:27 > 0:25:30- Falmouth.- No, that's the mouth.
0:25:30 > 0:25:31- The Fal.- Correct.
0:25:31 > 0:25:36The name of which West Country river begins with words meaning "critical interpretation of a text"
0:25:36 > 0:25:39and the stage direction for "they go out"?
0:25:39 > 0:25:42ALL: Exe.
0:25:42 > 0:25:43- Exe.- Correct.
0:25:43 > 0:25:47Another starter. What Greek name links the ancient cities of a boy king,
0:25:47 > 0:25:49who may've married his half-sister,
0:25:49 > 0:25:53and a mythical king who did marry his mother?
0:25:54 > 0:25:55Is it Oedipus?
0:25:55 > 0:25:59No. Anyone like to have a buzz from Leeds?
0:25:59 > 0:26:00Hippolytus?
0:26:00 > 0:26:05No, Thebes. Ten points for this. St Genevieve is the patron saint of which city?
0:26:05 > 0:26:10She's said to have saved it in 451 by diverting an attack by Attila and his Huns
0:26:10 > 0:26:13and was buried there around the year 500?
0:26:14 > 0:26:16Milan?
0:26:16 > 0:26:18No. Anyone like to buzz from Clare?
0:26:19 > 0:26:22- Byzantium Constantinople. - No, it's Paris.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25Often capitalised to identify a specific entity,
0:26:25 > 0:26:29what astronomical term is derived from the Greek word for milk?
0:26:31 > 0:26:35- Galaxy.- Correct. Your bonuses are on public protests.
0:26:35 > 0:26:39Name the prime minister in office when the following occurred.
0:26:39 > 0:26:43Women's Sunday, June 21st, in Hyde Park,
0:26:43 > 0:26:46at which more than 200,000 gathered to demands women's suffrage?
0:26:46 > 0:26:50Asquith? THEY WHISPER
0:26:50 > 0:26:52- Come on!- Asquith.- It was.
0:26:52 > 0:26:56The Jarrow March from Tyneside to London, protesting against unemployment?
0:26:56 > 0:27:00The Jarrow March was in the 1920s, '26.
0:27:00 > 0:27:01- Come on!- Try Stanley Baldwin.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03- Stanley Baldwin.- It was.
0:27:03 > 0:27:07Finally, the first Aldermaston March against nuclear weapons?
0:27:07 > 0:27:10- McMillan.- McMillan. - It was. 1958. Ten points for this...
0:27:10 > 0:27:17The letters Y, K and J appear in succession in the names of which capital city?
0:27:19 > 0:27:22- Reykjavik.- Reykjavik is right. Your bonuses...
0:27:22 > 0:27:26- END-OF-SHOW GONG - At the gong, Leeds have 65.
0:27:26 > 0:27:28Clare College have 320.
0:27:31 > 0:27:33Well, Leeds,
0:27:33 > 0:27:36it wasn't a great performance, let's be frank!
0:27:36 > 0:27:42But you're an entertaining team. Thank you for playing the game. We have to say goodbye to you.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44320 is a very, very impressive score.
0:27:44 > 0:27:48We shall look forward to seeing you in the next stage of the competition.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51I hope you can join me next time for another second-round match.
0:27:51 > 0:27:55- Until then, it's goodbye from Leeds University...- ALL: Bye.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57- ..goodbye from Clare.- ALL: Goodbye!
0:27:57 > 0:27:59..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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