0:00:19 > 0:00:24University Challenge! Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman!
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. It was La Rochefoucauld who observed that we're all strong enough
0:00:32 > 0:00:37to bear the misfortunes of others, and last time, Clare College, Cambridge proved him right
0:00:37 > 0:00:41when they beat Leeds University by a 255 point margin
0:00:41 > 0:00:44to become the first team to go through to the quarter-finals.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47Whichever team wins tonight will join them.
0:00:47 > 0:00:51Birmingham University had a very comfortable win over at Trinity College, Cambridge
0:00:51 > 0:00:56in their first-round match, holding the lead throughout and winning 225-105.
0:00:56 > 0:01:00On that occasion, they quickly hit their stride with their knowledge of the Urals,
0:01:00 > 0:01:02rivers flowing north and contemporary comedians,
0:01:02 > 0:01:05but they struggled a bit on musical insects,
0:01:05 > 0:01:08and they don't seem to read a great deal of Tolkien.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10Let's see how they get on tonight.
0:01:10 > 0:01:12Hi, I'm Thomas Farrell, I'm from Southend
0:01:12 > 0:01:15and I'm studying physics with particle physics and cosmology.
0:01:15 > 0:01:20All right, I'm Kirk Surgener, I'm from Northampton and I'm studying philosophy.
0:01:20 > 0:01:21Their captain.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24Hi, I'm Oliver Jeacock, I'm from Buckinghamshire and I'm studying chemistry.
0:01:24 > 0:01:28Hello, I'm Elliot Rhodes, I'm from Sutton Coldfield and I'm studying mathematics.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31APPLAUSE
0:01:32 > 0:01:39Newcastle University scored 235 in their first round match against Queens University, Belfast,
0:01:39 > 0:01:42whose almost Trappist reticence left them with a mere 85.
0:01:42 > 0:01:48On that occasion, Newcastle demonstrated a familiarity with cheesemaking and early navigation,
0:01:48 > 0:01:51and were reassuringly ignorant of some of the most hideous warblings
0:01:51 > 0:01:54ever to come out of the Eurovision Song contest.
0:01:54 > 0:01:57With only a ten point difference between their first-round scores,
0:01:57 > 0:01:59between the two teams this could be a close match.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02Let's ask Newcastle to introduce themselves again.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05Hi, my name's Ben Dunbar, I'm from Hayward, Greater Manchester,
0:02:05 > 0:02:09and I'm studying for a Masters degree in public health and health services research.
0:02:09 > 0:02:13Hello, I'm Ross Dent, I'm from Chester-le-Street in County Durham, and I study economics.
0:02:13 > 0:02:14And their captain.
0:02:14 > 0:02:19Hello, I'm Eleanor Turner, I'm from London, and I'm studying medicine.
0:02:19 > 0:02:23Hi, I'm Nicholas Pang, I'm from Malaysia, and I'm also studying medicine.
0:02:23 > 0:02:27APPLAUSE
0:02:27 > 0:02:30OK, the rules are unchanging, ten points for starters, 15 for bonuses,
0:02:30 > 0:02:35five point penalties for incorrect interruptions to starter questions.
0:02:35 > 0:02:38Fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:38 > 0:02:43Meanings of what six letter word include an animal of the phylum porifera,
0:02:43 > 0:02:49a loose, fluffy cathode deposit in electrolysis, a porous metal obtained by reduction
0:02:49 > 0:02:53without fusion, a piece of cleaning equipment and a type of cake?
0:02:55 > 0:02:57Sponge?
0:02:57 > 0:03:00- Yes. - APPLAUSE
0:03:00 > 0:03:03The first set of bonuses, Newcastle, are on historical events.
0:03:03 > 0:03:08Firstly, for five, which historical event took place just after dawn on 28 April, 1789,
0:03:08 > 0:03:11off the volcanic island of Tofua in the South Pacific?
0:03:26 > 0:03:28Eruption of Krakatoa?
0:03:28 > 0:03:30No, it wasn't. It was the mutiny on HMS Bounty.
0:03:30 > 0:03:35In the years after the Bounty mutiny, William Bligh became captain of HMS Director,
0:03:35 > 0:03:38part of the fleet in which, in 1797, a mutiny occurred
0:03:38 > 0:03:42at which Royal Navy anchorage at the mouth of the Thames?
0:03:52 > 0:03:53Dartford?
0:03:53 > 0:03:57Dartford? No, you're thinking of Dartmouth, and that's in Devon. No, it's the Nore.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00And finally, during the so-called Rum Rebellion of 1808,
0:04:00 > 0:04:04discontented troops led by Lieutenant-Colonel George Johnston took Bligh into custody
0:04:04 > 0:04:06while he was serving as governor of which Australian state?
0:04:14 > 0:04:16Victoria?
0:04:16 > 0:04:18No, New South Wales. Ten points for this.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20Originally built by Henry VIII on the site of a leper hospital,
0:04:20 > 0:04:25which Palace was the chief royal residence in London from 1698 until 1837,
0:04:25 > 0:04:29when Queen Victoria established Buckingham Palace as the monarch's main London home?
0:04:31 > 0:04:32Westminster?
0:04:32 > 0:04:35No. Anyone like to buzz from Newcastle?
0:04:35 > 0:04:38Hampton Court Palace?
0:04:38 > 0:04:41No, it's St James's Palace. Ten points for this starter question.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44Born in 1853, which Danish microbiologist gives his name
0:04:44 > 0:04:49to a differential staining technique used to divide bacteria into two groups, depending...
0:04:49 > 0:04:50Gram?
0:04:50 > 0:04:52Gram is correct, yes.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57Your bonuses now, Newcastle, are on a musical instrument.
0:04:57 > 0:05:02The dulzian, the sordoni and the curtal are earlier versions
0:05:02 > 0:05:04of which double reed instrument of the orchestra?
0:05:12 > 0:05:14Bassoon?
0:05:14 > 0:05:17Correct. Using the highest notes of the instrument's range, a bassoon solo
0:05:17 > 0:05:19opens Stravinsky's score for which ballet,
0:05:19 > 0:05:25first performed in Paris in 1913, with choreography by Nijinsky?
0:05:35 > 0:05:36Cinderella?
0:05:36 > 0:05:37No, it's The Rite Of Spring.
0:05:37 > 0:05:42In Prokofiev's Peter And The Wolf, a bassoon plays the theme depicting which human character?
0:05:45 > 0:05:46The grandfather?
0:05:46 > 0:05:50Correct. Another starter question. Captain Scott's meteorologist,
0:05:50 > 0:05:54the Scottish obstetrician who introduced ether and chloroform as anaesthetics in childbirth,
0:05:54 > 0:05:57and the English cyclist who died during the Tour de France in 19...
0:05:57 > 0:05:59Simpson?
0:05:59 > 0:06:02Simpson is right, yes.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05Your bonuses are on an ancient city, Newcastle.
0:06:05 > 0:06:07Which city was a Roman colony under Julius Caesar,
0:06:07 > 0:06:10is known for St Paul's letters to its people,
0:06:10 > 0:06:13and has given its name to one of the classical orders of architecture?
0:06:23 > 0:06:25Corinth...er...Corinthia?
0:06:25 > 0:06:27- No, it's Corinth.- Corinth!
0:06:27 > 0:06:30You were in the right place, but the name of the city was what was asked for.
0:06:30 > 0:06:36And secondly, for five points, the Isthmus of Corinth joins the Peloponnese to mainland Greece,
0:06:36 > 0:06:40and separates the Saronic Gulf, an inlet of the Aegean Sea,
0:06:40 > 0:06:43from the Gulf of Corinth, an inlet of which sea?
0:07:01 > 0:07:02Come on, let's have an answer, please.
0:07:02 > 0:07:03Adriatic?
0:07:03 > 0:07:08No, it's the Ionian Sea. Which naval battle of 1571 was a victory for the Holy League
0:07:08 > 0:07:16over the Ottoman Empire, and took place between the Gulf of Corinth and the Gulf of Patras?
0:07:16 > 0:07:17- Nominate Pang.- Lepanto?
0:07:17 > 0:07:18Lepanto is correct, yes.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22Right, we're going to take our first picture round.
0:07:22 > 0:07:27Ten points if you can tell me the name of the space mission associated with this image.
0:07:31 > 0:07:32Voyager?
0:07:32 > 0:07:35No, anyone like to have a go from Newcastle?
0:07:35 > 0:07:37Gemini?
0:07:37 > 0:07:40No, it's Pioneer.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43So, we're going to take another starter question, and picture bonuses in a moment or two.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45Immediately before its independence in 1960,
0:07:45 > 0:07:50the territory that is now the Somali Republic had been governed in two parts,
0:07:50 > 0:07:54as a British protectorate, and as a colony of which other...
0:07:54 > 0:07:55Italy.
0:07:55 > 0:07:58Italy is right, yes.
0:07:59 > 0:08:04Now, that plaque you saw earlier was attached to Pioneer 10 and 11.
0:08:04 > 0:08:08Launched in the early 1970s, they were the first probes to leave our solar system.
0:08:08 > 0:08:13The information on the plaque was designed to be understood by extra-terrestrial intelligence,
0:08:13 > 0:08:15so we'll see what you four can make of it.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18Firstly, depicted in blue at A,
0:08:18 > 0:08:22this image represents the hyperfine transition of which element?
0:08:38 > 0:08:39Oxygen?
0:08:39 > 0:08:40No, it's hydrogen.
0:08:40 > 0:08:45Secondly, what stellar objects lie at the ends of the radial lines at B?
0:09:03 > 0:09:05The planets?
0:09:05 > 0:09:06No, they're pulsars.
0:09:06 > 0:09:11And finally, what is the object highlighted in green behind the human figures at C?
0:09:22 > 0:09:24A satellite dish?
0:09:24 > 0:09:25No!
0:09:25 > 0:09:27No, what a terrible sign of our civilisation!
0:09:27 > 0:09:29No, it's not, it's the space probe itself. Ten points for this.
0:09:29 > 0:09:34What term is used in psychoanalysis to describe the diversion of a drive
0:09:34 > 0:09:38towards a non-sexual aim or a socially valued object in chemistry...
0:09:38 > 0:09:40Sublimation?
0:09:40 > 0:09:42Sublimation is right.
0:09:42 > 0:09:46OK, you're off the mark, Birmingham. These bonuses are on taxonomy.
0:09:46 > 0:09:51In 1990, which US microbiologist proposed a system of biological classification
0:09:51 > 0:09:56based on genetic relationships that divided all organisms into three domains?
0:10:04 > 0:10:06- Pass. - It's Carl Richard Woese.
0:10:06 > 0:10:11Secondly, for five points, its name reflecting their ancient lineage, which domain contains methanogens,
0:10:11 > 0:10:17extremophiles and other microorganisms with distinctive membrane and cell wall structures?
0:10:19 > 0:10:21- Nominate Farrell.- Archea?
0:10:21 > 0:10:25Correct. Containing plants and animals, which domain is characterised by organisms
0:10:25 > 0:10:28whose cells contain structures enclosed within membranes?
0:10:31 > 0:10:33Eukaryote?
0:10:33 > 0:10:35Eukaryote is correct, yes. Ten points for this.
0:10:35 > 0:10:39What term denotes the ancient Hebrew marriage custom or law which, in some circumstances,
0:10:39 > 0:10:44obliges a man to marry his brother's childless widow in order to maintain his brother's line?
0:10:46 > 0:10:50- Kashrut?- No. Anyone like to buzz from Birmingham?
0:10:53 > 0:10:55It's levirate. Ten points for this.
0:10:55 > 0:10:59In The Waste Land, to which play by Shakespeare is TS Eliot referring in the opening
0:10:59 > 0:11:03lines of part two, "The chair she sat in like a burnished throne..."
0:11:04 > 0:11:06Antony and Cleopatra.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08Yes.
0:11:09 > 0:11:14Right, Newcastle. Your bonuses are on parodies of well-known poems from Pistache,
0:11:14 > 0:11:17a 2006 work by Sebastian Faulks.
0:11:17 > 0:11:21In each case, listen to the extract, and name the poet it parodies.
0:11:21 > 0:11:25Firstly, "In his love nest down in Peckham, Dad has left his girl asleep.
0:11:25 > 0:11:29"Through the gridlock out to Barking, sees his bronze Toyota creep."
0:11:44 > 0:11:47- Let's have it, please. - Betjeman?
0:11:47 > 0:11:51Correct. "So, twice five yards of blighted ground, with scaffolding was fenced around,
0:11:51 > 0:11:56"where blossomed the odd apple-bearing tree, beneath the gormless eyes of Sky TV."
0:12:06 > 0:12:07Housman?
0:12:07 > 0:12:10No, he's parodying Coleridge's Kubla Khan. And finally,
0:12:10 > 0:12:15"If you can never fail to write a headline and cap it off with some moronic pun,
0:12:15 > 0:12:20"yours is the earth when comes the final deadline, and which is more, you'll be iconic, Sun."
0:12:20 > 0:12:22Kipling.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25Indeed, advice for a journalist. Right, another starter question now.
0:12:25 > 0:12:29Bennis and Gingelis are alternative names for which seeds? They are used for baking,
0:12:29 > 0:12:35as a source of oil in margarine and cosmetics, and form the basis of the paste tahini.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38Sesame seeds.
0:12:38 > 0:12:42Correct. Your bonuses this time are on the 17th century, Newcastle.
0:12:42 > 0:12:48Artemisia Gentileschi, who died in the mid-1650s, was an early female exponent of what field?
0:12:48 > 0:12:50She followed the profession of her father,
0:12:50 > 0:12:55whose patrons included King Charles I, the Vatican and the Medicis.
0:12:58 > 0:12:59Painting?
0:12:59 > 0:13:04Correct. Which architect died in 1652? His achievements included the Queen's house at Greenwich,
0:13:04 > 0:13:09the banqueting hall in Whitehall and the introduction of movable scenery to the English stage?
0:13:25 > 0:13:27Let's have it, please.
0:13:30 > 0:13:32- Wren?- No, it's Inigo Jones.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35The Milkmaid, Young Girl with Flute and Woman with a Water Jug
0:13:35 > 0:13:40are among works of the 1650s by which painter, born in Delft?
0:13:44 > 0:13:45Vermeer?
0:13:45 > 0:13:47Correct. We're going to take a music round, now.
0:13:47 > 0:13:50For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of 19th century music.
0:13:50 > 0:13:52Ten points if you can name the composer.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18Wagner?
0:14:18 > 0:14:19No...
0:14:19 > 0:14:21Brahms.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24No, it was Sullivan. It was the overture to HMS Pinafore.
0:14:24 > 0:14:26So, music bonuses shortly. Ten points for this starter question.
0:14:26 > 0:14:32Used figuratively to mean sloth or apathy, what term is defined in physics
0:14:32 > 0:14:34as the property of a body proportional...
0:14:34 > 0:14:36Inertia?
0:14:36 > 0:14:37Inertia is right.
0:14:38 > 0:14:40So, you get the music bonuses.
0:14:40 > 0:14:45They are more pieces of classical music by three British composers born during the 19th century.
0:14:45 > 0:14:49Five points a time for each composer you can name. Firstly, for five.
0:15:14 > 0:15:16Let's have an answer, please.
0:15:16 > 0:15:17Holst?
0:15:17 > 0:15:19No, it's Delius' prelude to Irmelin.
0:15:19 > 0:15:22And secondly, the composer of this piece.
0:15:46 > 0:15:47Elgar?
0:15:47 > 0:15:50No, that's Parry. And finally,
0:16:00 > 0:16:01Holst?
0:16:01 > 0:16:03That was Holst, yes.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05Neptune, from The Planets. Ten points for this.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07First produced commercially in the United States
0:16:07 > 0:16:10in 1932 from the polymerisation of chloroprene,
0:16:10 > 0:16:15Neoprene serves as a synthetic form of which natural material?
0:16:17 > 0:16:18Silk?
0:16:18 > 0:16:21No. Anyone like to buzz from Newcastle?
0:16:21 > 0:16:22Rubber?
0:16:22 > 0:16:28Rubber is correct. Your bonuses now are on cities in the US state of Ohio.
0:16:28 > 0:16:30Firstly, which city on Lake Erie by the border with Michigan,
0:16:30 > 0:16:35shares its name with a historic city and World Heritage Site south of Madrid?
0:16:40 > 0:16:41Toledo?
0:16:41 > 0:16:44Correct. Situated on the Ohio-Kentucky border,
0:16:44 > 0:16:47which city is named after a Roman dictator of the fifth century BC
0:16:47 > 0:16:49who returned to his farm after victory in battle,
0:16:49 > 0:16:53and was thus seen as embodying the ideal of selfless service to the Republic?
0:16:59 > 0:17:01Agricola?
0:17:01 > 0:17:02No, it's Cincinnati.
0:17:02 > 0:17:05Which city on Lake Erie, close to the border with Pennsylvania,
0:17:05 > 0:17:10is home to both the online comic strip character Yehuda Moon, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
0:17:14 > 0:17:15Cleveland?
0:17:15 > 0:17:19Cleveland is right. Ten points for this starter question. The capital of Nebraska, a west coast state,
0:17:19 > 0:17:22an avenue in New York, a dam...
0:17:22 > 0:17:23Lincoln?
0:17:23 > 0:17:25No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:17:25 > 0:17:29A dam on the Arizona-Colorado border and a space Centre in Florida
0:17:29 > 0:17:33all share names with men who have held which office?
0:17:33 > 0:17:34Presidents of the USA?
0:17:34 > 0:17:36Correct.
0:17:37 > 0:17:41Right, some bonuses, at last, for you guys. They're on the sciences.
0:17:41 > 0:17:45Messier Object number one is a nebula in Taurus,
0:17:45 > 0:17:51believed to be the remnant of a supernova observed in 1054 by Chinese and Arabian astronomers,
0:17:51 > 0:17:54and has what common name referring to its shape?
0:18:00 > 0:18:02Crab?
0:18:02 > 0:18:07Crab is correct. Secondly, for five points, ocypodidae is a crab family that includes the ghost crabs
0:18:07 > 0:18:12and the genus given what name, after the characteristic up and down motion
0:18:12 > 0:18:14of the small claw against the large claw when feeding?
0:18:17 > 0:18:19Pincer?
0:18:19 > 0:18:23No, they're fiddler crabs. And finally, George Crabbe, the English poet and naturalist,
0:18:23 > 0:18:26was the author of a 1790 essay on the natural history of which region
0:18:26 > 0:18:31on the borders of Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire?
0:18:36 > 0:18:37Sherwood Forest?
0:18:37 > 0:18:42No, it's the Vale of Belvoir. Ten points for this. "Some lovers try positions that they can't handle"
0:18:42 > 0:18:46is a mnemonic for the eight bones in which joint of the human...
0:18:46 > 0:18:47The wrist?
0:18:47 > 0:18:49The wrist is correct, yes.
0:18:50 > 0:18:54Your bonuses, Newcastle, this time are on black and white flags.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57Consisting of nine black and white horizontal stripes with
0:18:57 > 0:19:00the top left quarter spotted to symbolise ermine,
0:19:00 > 0:19:04the Gwenn-ha-du flag is the official flag of which region of France?
0:19:08 > 0:19:10Brittany?
0:19:10 > 0:19:14Correct. A moor's head in black with a white bandana on a white background
0:19:14 > 0:19:17comprises the flag of which Mediterranean island?
0:19:23 > 0:19:25Let's have it, please.
0:19:25 > 0:19:26Sicily?
0:19:26 > 0:19:31No, it's Corsica. Established in 1701 and part of Germany from 1871,
0:19:31 > 0:19:34which kingdom had a variety of black and white flags,
0:19:34 > 0:19:37ultimately derived from the banner of the Teutonic Knights?
0:19:39 > 0:19:41Bavaria?
0:19:41 > 0:19:44No, it's Prussia. We're going to take our second picture round now.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47For your picture starter, you'll see a painting.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50Ten points if you can give me the name of the artist.
0:19:52 > 0:19:53Bridget Riley?
0:19:53 > 0:19:55Correct.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00You're going to see three more paintings now in the geometric abstract style,
0:20:00 > 0:20:07all from the early 20th century. Five points for each artist you can name. Firstly, for five.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13Rodchenko?
0:20:13 > 0:20:15No, it's Malevich. Secondly,
0:20:25 > 0:20:27Rodchenko?
0:20:27 > 0:20:29No, that's Theo van Doesburg. And finally,
0:20:34 > 0:20:36Picasso?
0:20:36 > 0:20:39No, that's Wassily Kandinsky. Ten points for this starter question.
0:20:39 > 0:20:43What word links a gold coin issued by Edward III and equal to half a Florin,
0:20:43 > 0:20:46a former name for a lion passant guardant in heraldry,
0:20:46 > 0:20:50and a large feline with the binomial Panthera Pardus?
0:20:52 > 0:20:54Leopard?
0:20:54 > 0:20:56Leopard is correct, yes.
0:20:57 > 0:21:01Your bonuses, Newcastle, this time are on coups d'etat.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03In 2004, Mark Thatcher, the son of the former Prime Minister,
0:21:03 > 0:21:08was accused of backing a plot to overthrow the government of which small African country?
0:21:08 > 0:21:09Equatorial Guinea?
0:21:09 > 0:21:14Correct. In 2006, which author admitted his involvement in a 1973 plot
0:21:14 > 0:21:16to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea,
0:21:16 > 0:21:20in circumstances similar to the plot of his novel The Dogs of War?
0:21:21 > 0:21:23Frederick Forsyth?
0:21:23 > 0:21:26Frederick Forsyth is right. A prima ballerina at Sadler's Wells and the Royal Ballet,
0:21:26 > 0:21:28which English dancer was recently revealed
0:21:28 > 0:21:32to have been involved in a plot to overthrow the government of Panama in 1959?
0:21:41 > 0:21:43Pass.
0:21:43 > 0:21:45That was Dame Margot Fonteyn. Five and a half minutes to go,
0:21:45 > 0:21:49ten points for this. Since 1832, what is the longest time, to the nearest year,
0:21:49 > 0:21:52to have elapsed between general elections in the UK?
0:21:55 > 0:21:56Six?
0:21:56 > 0:21:59Anyone like to buzz from Newcastle?
0:21:59 > 0:22:01Seven?
0:22:01 > 0:22:03No, it's ten years, 1935 to 45. Another starter question coming up.
0:22:03 > 0:22:09The French word for a leek - the vegetable, that is - is a near homophone of the surname
0:22:09 > 0:22:12of which enduring fictional detective?
0:22:13 > 0:22:14Poirot.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16Poirot is right, yes.
0:22:17 > 0:22:20Your bonuses are on authors who died in 2010.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22In each case, identify the person from the description.
0:22:22 > 0:22:25Firstly, a Liverpool-born novelist, her works include
0:22:25 > 0:22:28Young Adolf, An Awfully Big Adventure and Master Georgie.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30Beryl Bainbridge.
0:22:30 > 0:22:34Correct. Secondly, the historian and political commentator whose works include Ill Fares the Land,
0:22:34 > 0:22:39The Memory Chalet and Postwar: The History of Europe Since 1945.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43Tony Judt?
0:22:43 > 0:22:47Tony Judt is right. A sporting figure finally, who became a bestselling author of genre fiction.
0:22:47 > 0:22:51His works include Dead Cert, Whip Hand and Under Orders.
0:22:51 > 0:22:52Dick Francis.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54Correct. Another starter question now.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57Technically an example of the simplest non-trivial fibre bundle,
0:22:57 > 0:23:00what name is given to the topological form that has only one side and one edge?
0:23:04 > 0:23:05Mobius strip?
0:23:05 > 0:23:07Mobius strip is right, yes.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10Your bonuses, Birmingham, are on a plant family.
0:23:10 > 0:23:14What is the common name for the poaceae?
0:23:14 > 0:23:17They're generally regarded as the most significant plant family
0:23:17 > 0:23:20in terms of human economics, and include sugar cane and sorghum.
0:23:23 > 0:23:24Pass.
0:23:24 > 0:23:29They're grasses, or true grasses. What name is given to the horizontal underground stems or root stocks
0:23:29 > 0:23:32that send shoots above ground, a common means of reproduction in grasses?
0:23:35 > 0:23:36Runner?
0:23:36 > 0:23:39No, they're rhizomes. What is the common name of the grass secale cereale,
0:23:39 > 0:23:41which thrives in high altitudes,
0:23:41 > 0:23:46is grown as far north as the Arctic Circle, and is used to make bread and whisky?
0:23:48 > 0:23:50Rye?
0:23:50 > 0:23:52Rye is right. Four minutes to go, ten points for this.
0:23:52 > 0:23:58The Feminine Mystique and the Second Stage are among the works of which US feminist, born Illinois, 1921?
0:24:01 > 0:24:02Er, Germaine Greer?
0:24:02 > 0:24:05No.
0:24:05 > 0:24:06Judith Butler?
0:24:06 > 0:24:09No, it's Betty Frieden. Ten points for this.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12In 2016, which sea port will become the first South American city...
0:24:14 > 0:24:15Rio de Janeiro?
0:24:15 > 0:24:18Correct, to host the Olympic Games. Your bonuses now, Newcastle,
0:24:18 > 0:24:21are on pairs of words that are easily confused.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24In each case, give both words from the definition.
0:24:24 > 0:24:28All end in the letters I-O-U-S.
0:24:28 > 0:24:31Firstly, superficially plausible but wrong in reality,
0:24:31 > 0:24:34and sham, bogus, fake or inauthentic?
0:24:44 > 0:24:47I need an answer, please.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49- Pass.- It's specious and spurious.
0:24:49 > 0:24:51Secondly, lewd or liable to arouse lust,
0:24:51 > 0:24:54and health-giving, wholesome or agreeable.
0:25:05 > 0:25:08Come on, let's have it, please.
0:25:08 > 0:25:10Luscious and lustrous?
0:25:10 > 0:25:15No, it's salacious and salubrious. And finally, progressing inconspicuously but harmfully,
0:25:15 > 0:25:20and of an action or task likely to incur or excite ill will or resentment.
0:25:29 > 0:25:31Insidious and perfidious?
0:25:31 > 0:25:34- No, it's insidious and invidious. - Oh.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37OK, ten points for this. Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:25:37 > 0:25:43If the numerals from one to nine are spelt backwards, which one comes first alphabetically?
0:25:49 > 0:25:50Nine?
0:25:50 > 0:25:51No.
0:25:53 > 0:25:55Three?
0:25:55 > 0:25:57Three is correct, yes.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00Your bonuses, Birmingham, are on a politician.
0:26:00 > 0:26:06Defeated in the 1983 General Election, which former Labour Party leader died in 2010, aged 96?
0:26:10 > 0:26:12Come on, let's hurry along.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14Pass.
0:26:14 > 0:26:17It's Michael Foot. Michael Foot's 1957 work The Pen and the Sword is a biography
0:26:17 > 0:26:22of which satirist, poet and cleric born Dublin, 1667?
0:26:22 > 0:26:23Swift?
0:26:23 > 0:26:28Correct. During the 1960s, Foot published a two-volume biography of which politician,
0:26:28 > 0:26:32widely regarded as the father of the National Health Service?
0:26:34 > 0:26:35Bevan.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38Correct. Ten points for this starter question. In medicine,
0:26:38 > 0:26:42an iatrogenic condition is caused by what external agency?
0:26:42 > 0:26:44Doctors?
0:26:44 > 0:26:45Doctors indeed, yes.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49Your bonuses this time are on physiology, Newcastle.
0:26:49 > 0:26:54What term describes glands that secrete into body cavities or ducts,
0:26:54 > 0:26:57rather than directly into the bloodstream?
0:26:58 > 0:27:00Endocrine.
0:27:00 > 0:27:01No, it's exocrine.
0:27:01 > 0:27:05Which serous secretion is produced by the parotid glands?
0:27:05 > 0:27:08Saliva?
0:27:08 > 0:27:12Correct. The exocrine glands known as the crypts of Lieberkuhn are found in what part of the body?
0:27:19 > 0:27:20Come on!
0:27:22 > 0:27:24- Let's have an answer.- Pancreas?
0:27:24 > 0:27:26No, it's the small intestines. Ten points for this.
0:27:26 > 0:27:32In the titles of novels, what common adjective links Donna Tartt's friend, Sarah Waters' stranger...
0:27:32 > 0:27:33Little.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36Little is correct. Your bonuses this time are on Asian capital cities, Newcastle.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39Originally called Heian, which city was the capital...
0:27:39 > 0:27:42- GONG - And, at the gong Birmingham University have 80,
0:27:42 > 0:27:44and Newcastle University have 220.
0:27:44 > 0:27:47APPLAUSE
0:27:47 > 0:27:51Well, bad luck, Birmingham. We're going to have to say goodnight and goodbye to you.
0:27:51 > 0:27:55You were up against a pretty strong team, though, so you go with your heads held high.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57Many congratulations to you, Newcastle, terrific performance.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00We shall look forward to seeing you in the quarterfinals, congratulations.
0:28:00 > 0:28:03I hope you can join us next time.
0:28:03 > 0:28:07- Until then, though, it's goodbye from Birmingham University.- Goodbye
0:28:07 > 0:28:09- It's goodbye from Newcastle University.- Goodbye
0:28:09 > 0:28:11And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.
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