0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:31Hello. More chaff to be sifted from the wheat tonight
0:00:31 > 0:00:37with one of the eight places in the quarter-finals being the prize. The losers leave the contest.
0:00:37 > 0:00:42University of Durham's score of 325 was the highest in the first round,
0:00:42 > 0:00:48while their opponents, Plymouth, went out with hardly a whimper on 45.
0:00:48 > 0:00:52Durham knew about mythological creatures and The Great Gatsby,
0:00:52 > 0:00:56were worryingly au fait on the chemical structure of stimulants,
0:00:56 > 0:01:02but the musical tastes of the Coalition Cabinet left them flummoxed, as well they might.
0:01:02 > 0:01:06Teams from Durham have been champions twice. Let's meet them.
0:01:06 > 0:01:11I'm Mark Rodgers from Staffordshire, doing a PhD in Physics.
0:01:11 > 0:01:15- Hi. I'm Adam Robertson from Kent, studying History.- Their captain...
0:01:15 > 0:01:18Hi. I'm George Twigg from Grantham, reading English.
0:01:18 > 0:01:22Hi. I'm Joe France from Lancashire, reading Chemistry and Biology.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25APPLAUSE
0:01:26 > 0:01:30Homerton College, Cambridge, lost their first round match,
0:01:30 > 0:01:35but survived with a second chance for the highest-scoring losers.
0:01:35 > 0:01:42They won their play-off with a score of 190 against the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
0:01:42 > 0:01:47On that occasion, they were better on Norse history than Keats
0:01:47 > 0:01:53and we'd bet they'll never again confuse carbonic acid with carbolic. Let's meet the Homerton team.
0:01:53 > 0:01:57Hi. My name's Jack Euesden, from Sheffield, reading Natural Sciences.
0:01:57 > 0:02:03Hi. I'm Frances Conner, from County Down, studying for a PGCE in Modern Foreign Languages.
0:02:03 > 0:02:08- Their captain...- Hello. My name's David Murray, from Ripon,
0:02:08 > 0:02:12studying for an MPhil in European Literature and Culture.
0:02:12 > 0:02:16I'm Thomas Grinyer from Southampton and I read Chemical Engineering.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19APPLAUSE
0:02:21 > 0:02:25You all know the rules. 10 points for starters, 15 for bonuses.
0:02:25 > 0:02:31No conferring on starters. 5-point penalties for incorrect interruptions.
0:02:31 > 0:02:37Here is your first starter for 10. Which English king was one of the few male members of his dynasty
0:02:37 > 0:02:43to die of natural causes? His father died at the Battle of Wakefield and his two sons disappeared...
0:02:44 > 0:02:47- Edward IV?- Correct.
0:02:48 > 0:02:52You get the first set of bonuses on a colour.
0:02:52 > 0:02:57The yellow spot or macula lutea is a feature of which organ of the body?
0:03:02 > 0:03:04The eye?
0:03:06 > 0:03:10- Like macular degeneration. Go for the eye.- The eye?- Correct.
0:03:10 > 0:03:18What is the Chinese name of the Yellow River, so-called because of all the yellow silt it carries?
0:03:18 > 0:03:19Huang Kai?
0:03:19 > 0:03:24- I'll go for Yangtze. - It's not Yangtze.- Nominate France.
0:03:24 > 0:03:29- Huang Ki?- It's the Huang He. I can't accept that.
0:03:29 > 0:03:36What is produced by the corpus luteum, yellowish tissue in the ovarian follicle after ovulation?
0:03:36 > 0:03:39- Progesterone.- Yes. Another starter.
0:03:39 > 0:03:43To what general profession is WH Auden referring in this observation?
0:03:43 > 0:03:47"When I find myself in their company, I feel like a shabby curate
0:03:47 > 0:03:52"who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes"?
0:03:56 > 0:04:00- The law?- No. Homerton? One of you buzz.
0:04:03 > 0:04:09- The church?- No, scientists. 10 points for this. From the Arabic for "authority",
0:04:09 > 0:04:13what title was, until 1922, given to the ruler...
0:04:13 > 0:04:16- Sultan.- Sultan is correct, yes.
0:04:18 > 0:04:22Your bonuses, Homerton, are on fiction.
0:04:22 > 0:04:28Set in rural Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire in the 19th century, which trilogy of novels
0:04:28 > 0:04:33by Flora Thompson was adapted for the stage by Keith Dewhurst?
0:04:34 > 0:04:41- Lark Rise To Candleford.- Correct. First published in 1959, which work recounts life in Gloucestershire
0:04:41 > 0:04:48and is arranged in chapters whose titles include First Light, Village School and First Bite at the Apple?
0:04:52 > 0:04:59- Was it the name of the author or the title?- I think it was... I think was the title.
0:04:59 > 0:05:05- Cider With Rosie.- Correct. Which Irish author and journalist is best known for novels of everyday life
0:05:05 > 0:05:11including Light A Penny Candle, Firefly Summer and Circle of Friends?
0:05:13 > 0:05:17- Edna O'Brien?- No, Maeve Binchy.
0:05:17 > 0:05:23Which Czech American physicist gives his name to the nonSI unit used in radio-astronomy
0:05:23 > 0:05:27to measure the flux density of radio signals from space?
0:05:27 > 0:05:32It equals 10 to the minus 26 watts per square metre of receiving area per hertz of frequency band.
0:05:34 > 0:05:39- Nikola Tesla?- No. Anyone like to buzz from Homerton?
0:05:40 > 0:05:43It's Jansky. 10 points for this.
0:05:43 > 0:05:47What is the common name of marine crustaceans of the class cirripedia?
0:05:47 > 0:05:51Adults attach themselves permanently to rocks...
0:05:51 > 0:05:54- Barnacles?- Barnacle is correct, yes.
0:05:56 > 0:06:00OK, your bonuses this time are on early Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
0:06:00 > 0:06:04Its name surviving in place names such as Wychwood and Wychavon,
0:06:04 > 0:06:09the kingdom of Hwicce, that's H-W-I-C-C-E,
0:06:09 > 0:06:14was approximately coterminous with which English diocese?
0:06:17 > 0:06:24- Winchester?- No, it's Worcester. Situated to the west and south of Hwicce, Magensaete was absorbed
0:06:24 > 0:06:31into Mercia during the 8th century and was roughly coterminous with which diocese?
0:06:37 > 0:06:41- Gloucester?- No, Hereford. Its rulers described by one historian
0:06:41 > 0:06:48as the obscurest English dynasty, Lindsey later gave its name to a sub-division of which county?
0:06:48 > 0:06:52- Lincolnshire.- Correct. A picture round now.
0:06:52 > 0:06:57You'll see a series of flags arranged into two groupings to show the opposing sides
0:06:57 > 0:07:04in a recent international conflict. 10 points if you can give me the name of the conflict.
0:07:05 > 0:07:10- South Ossetia War.- Correct. In 2008. Well done.
0:07:11 > 0:07:19Right, your bonuses. Three more sets of flags representing belligerents in a war. Name the conflict.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21Firstly, for 5 points...
0:07:25 > 0:07:28Isn't that the Spanish Succession?
0:07:28 > 0:07:32The War of the Spanish Succession? War of the Spanish Succession?
0:07:32 > 0:07:37- The War of the Spanish Succession. - No, the 7 Years War. Secondly...
0:07:37 > 0:07:40- The Opium Wars, perhaps?- Yeah.
0:07:42 > 0:07:47The Opium Wars... No, they also took part...
0:07:47 > 0:07:52Wait. That would have been later, so probably the Boxer Rebellion.
0:07:52 > 0:07:56- The Boxer Rebellion. - Correct. Finally...- Oh, golly.
0:07:56 > 0:08:01That's French Indochina. Whatever the wars were there.
0:08:01 > 0:08:08- I can't think of anything. - Just say something like Indochina War.
0:08:08 > 0:08:14- An Indochina War.- AN Indochina War(?)- Sorry. THE Indochinese War. - That's not specific enough.
0:08:14 > 0:08:21- There are lots of wars there. Which one? Quickly, come on. - The Second.- The Second.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24No, the French Indochina War.
0:08:24 > 0:08:2910 points for this. A painting of 1859 by the Italian artist Francesco Hayez,
0:08:29 > 0:08:37a work of 1908 by Romanian-French sculptor Constantin Brancusi and a marble sculpture of 1886 by Rodin...
0:08:38 > 0:08:40- The Kiss.- Correct, yes.
0:08:40 > 0:08:43That gives you the lead.
0:08:43 > 0:08:51Your bonuses are on writers and their pets. Firstly, "Near this spot are deposited the remains of one
0:08:51 > 0:08:57"who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity
0:08:57 > 0:09:03"and all the virtues of man without his vices." These lines from Epitaph To A Dog refer to Boatswain,
0:09:03 > 0:09:05owned by which poet?
0:09:05 > 0:09:11- Lord Byron.- Correct. "Poor Matthias found him lying, fallen beneath his perch and dying, found him stiff,
0:09:11 > 0:09:17"though warm, all convulsed his little form." Which poet wrote those lines on his canary
0:09:17 > 0:09:20in the poem Poor Matthias?
0:09:21 > 0:09:23- Keats?- It's so not Keats.
0:09:23 > 0:09:28- Just...- Keats.- No, that was Matthew Arnold. And finally,
0:09:28 > 0:09:34which writer is the subject of the following lines? "I never shall forget the indulgence
0:09:34 > 0:09:38"with which he treated Hodge, his cat, for whom he would buy oysters,
0:09:38 > 0:09:44"lest the servants having that trouble should take a dislike to the poor creature"?
0:09:44 > 0:09:49- He's the only person with a cat. Kit Smart?- No. Samuel Johnson.
0:09:49 > 0:09:5710 points for this. Having given its name to a concerto by Stravinsky, which mansion in Georgetown...
0:09:58 > 0:10:01- Dumbarton Oaks.- Correct.
0:10:02 > 0:10:10Your bonuses are on cities in Bavaria. Birthplace of Albrecht Durer and Hans Sachs,
0:10:10 > 0:10:16which city 150 kilometres north of Munich is the main city of the historical region of Franconia?
0:10:16 > 0:10:22- Nuremberg.- Correct. In Lower Franconia, between Nuremberg and Frankfurt, which city's the location
0:10:22 > 0:10:29of the residence of the former Prince Bishop, a striking example of late-Baroque and Rococo design?
0:10:29 > 0:10:35- Wurzburg.- Correct. Capital of Upper Franconia, which city gives its name to an annual festival
0:10:35 > 0:10:38of the works of Richard Wagner?
0:10:38 > 0:10:41- Bayreuth.- Correct. Another starter.
0:10:41 > 0:10:49Which Scottish engineer is commemorated by a plaque in his home town of Linlithgow,
0:10:49 > 0:10:56despite the fact that he won't be born for over 200 years? He retired at the age of 72 in 2294
0:10:56 > 0:11:01after 52 years of service in Starfleet.
0:11:01 > 0:11:04- Scotty!- Scotty is correct, yes.
0:11:06 > 0:11:10Right, your bonuses this time are on a Dutch scientist, Durham.
0:11:10 > 0:11:17Born in 1629, who gives his name to the principle that all points of a wavelength of light in a vacuum
0:11:17 > 0:11:21are new sources of wavelets that expand in every direction?
0:11:21 > 0:11:27- Huygens?- Correct. Launched in 1997, the Cassini Huygens is a space mission to which planet,
0:11:27 > 0:11:31subject of many observations by Huygens?
0:11:31 > 0:11:36- Saturn.- Yes. His interest in the accurate measurement of time led him to discover what device
0:11:36 > 0:11:41as a regulator of clocks, an idea first explored by Galileo?
0:11:41 > 0:11:45- Pendulum?- Correct. Right, another starter question now.
0:11:45 > 0:11:52Meaning "marked like a net" and referring to dark patches outlined in black on its skin,
0:11:52 > 0:11:56what adjective describes a python of South East Asia...
0:11:56 > 0:12:00- Reticular.- Reticulated, yes.
0:12:01 > 0:12:07Your bonuses are on eye rhymes, that is pairs of words that end in the same letters but do not rhyme.
0:12:07 > 0:12:14For example, champagne and lasagne. In each case, give both words from the definitions, please.
0:12:14 > 0:12:22Organ between the oesophagus and small intestine and leafy vegetable associated with Catherine de Medici?
0:12:22 > 0:12:25- Stomach and spinach.- Correct.
0:12:25 > 0:12:29Biochemical compounds such as actin, keratin or collagen
0:12:29 > 0:12:33and the title character of a novel by Mary Shelley?
0:12:33 > 0:12:36- Protein and Frankenstein.- Correct.
0:12:36 > 0:12:42Finally, stanza or poem of four lines and rank between commander and commodore?
0:12:45 > 0:12:49- Quatrain and...- What is it? - Quatrain?
0:12:49 > 0:12:53- Is it midshipman? No... - Quatrain and captain!
0:12:53 > 0:12:57- Quatrain and captain. - Yes. 10 points for this.
0:12:57 > 0:13:02Papillons and Kinderscenen are among the piano works of which German...
0:13:03 > 0:13:07- Schumann. - Schumann is right, yes.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10Your bonuses are on floral symmetry.
0:13:10 > 0:13:18What term derives from the Greek meaning "ray form" and is applied to flowers with radial symmetry?
0:13:21 > 0:13:25- Louder.- Actiform? - Nominate Euesden.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28- Actiform?- No, it's actinomorphic.
0:13:28 > 0:13:36Secondly, from the Greek meaning "yoke form", what name is given to flowers such as legumes and orchids
0:13:36 > 0:13:41- which show bilateral symmetry? - Zygomorphic.
0:13:41 > 0:13:47- Zygomorphic.- Correct. From the Greek for "monstrous", what aberration occurs when a plant
0:13:47 > 0:13:52normally producing zygomorphic flowers develops actinomorphic ones?
0:13:54 > 0:13:59- Tetromorphic.- No, it's peloria. We'll take a music round now.
0:13:59 > 0:14:05You'll hear a piece of popular music. 10 points for the title of the song and the band performing.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08# The heart is a bloom... #
0:14:08 > 0:14:10- U2, Beautiful Day.- Correct, yes.
0:14:10 > 0:14:13APPLAUSE
0:14:13 > 0:14:18That song was used to introduce the football programme The Premiership from 2001 to 2004.
0:14:18 > 0:14:23Your bonuses are three pop songs that have been the opening music to a sports programme.
0:14:23 > 0:14:28Give me the name of the band performing and the sport the song introduced.
0:14:28 > 0:14:31First, this band and the sport?
0:14:31 > 0:14:33MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:36 > 0:14:42- Yes, OK. Fleetwood Mac and Formula One.- Correct. Secondly, the band and the sport in this?
0:14:42 > 0:14:45MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:45 > 0:14:47What was the band?
0:14:56 > 0:14:58Snooker and The Yardbirds?
0:14:58 > 0:15:03It was snooker, but it was The Doug Wood Band. And finally?
0:15:03 > 0:15:05MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:05 > 0:15:07It's cricket.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20- Cricket and UB40?- No, cricket and Booker T & The MGs.
0:15:20 > 0:15:26Ten points for this. In cell biology, what name is given to the final stage of mitosis...
0:15:26 > 0:15:31- Telophase.- Telophase is correct. Your bonuses now are on India.
0:15:31 > 0:15:34Sharing a large common vocabulary with Hindi,
0:15:34 > 0:15:39the name of which Indian language derives from a Turkish word meaning "camp" or "tent"?
0:15:39 > 0:15:42WHISPERING
0:15:42 > 0:15:50- Urdu.- Correct. What is the name of the family of languages to which Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam belong?
0:15:50 > 0:15:55- Dravidian.- Correct. What is the meaning of "Nagari" or "Devanagari"
0:15:55 > 0:15:59in relation to Sanskrit, Hindi and other Indian languages?
0:15:59 > 0:16:02Is it a dash across a letter, above a letter?
0:16:02 > 0:16:06- A dash above a letter? - No, alphabet or name of the script.
0:16:06 > 0:16:11Ten points for this. Listen carefully. Canada is one of three Commonwealth countries
0:16:11 > 0:16:16to have an English name beginning with the letter C? Name either of the other two.
0:16:16 > 0:16:20- Cameroon.- OK, I'll accept that. The other one is Cyprus.
0:16:20 > 0:16:25Your bonuses are on the films of the director Elia Kazan.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28Name the film from the description. Firstly,
0:16:28 > 0:16:33Marlon Brando stars in a film about organised crime and union corruption in the New York docks.
0:16:33 > 0:16:37- On The Waterfront.- Correct. Based on a novel by John Steinbeck,
0:16:37 > 0:16:44James Dean and Richard Davalos play twin brothers on a California farm around 1917.
0:16:44 > 0:16:49- East Of Eden.- Correct. In a 1951 adaptation of a play by Tennessee Williams,
0:16:49 > 0:16:54Vivien Leigh plays Blanche DuBois who decamps to her pregnant sister's home in New Orleans?
0:16:54 > 0:16:58- A Streetcar Named Desire.- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:16:58 > 0:17:04You've taken the lead. Another starter question. You may answer this in English or in Newspeak.
0:17:04 > 0:17:08In George Orwell's 1984, Oceania is governed by four ministries.
0:17:08 > 0:17:12One is the Ministry of Love, or Miniluv. What are the other three?
0:17:15 > 0:17:20Minitrue, Minipax and Minifood?
0:17:20 > 0:17:23No. Homerton, one of you buzz?
0:17:27 > 0:17:29I need an answer now.
0:17:30 > 0:17:36- Minitrue, Miniluv, Minihealth.- No, Minitrue, Minipax and Miniplenty. We've already had Miniluv.
0:17:36 > 0:17:39Another starter question. From an old name for Prussia,
0:17:39 > 0:17:43what is the common name of conifers of the genus Picea
0:17:43 > 0:17:46whose species include Engelmann, Norway and Sitka?
0:17:46 > 0:17:49- Spruce.- Spruce is right, yes.
0:17:50 > 0:17:54Your bonuses, Durham, are on Asian cuisine, spices therein.
0:17:54 > 0:17:59Name the eight-pointed fruit of the Chinese tree, Illicium verum.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02When dried, it is an ingredient of five-spice powder.
0:18:02 > 0:18:06- Nominate Robertson.- Star anise.- Yes. An ingredient of Thai curry pastes,
0:18:06 > 0:18:12which member of the ginger family comes in greater, lesser and Kaempferia varieties?
0:18:12 > 0:18:15- Nominate Robertson. - Galangal.- Correct.
0:18:15 > 0:18:21What is the common name of Curcuma longa, a member of the ginger family formerly known as "Indian saffron"?
0:18:21 > 0:18:23Oh, um...
0:18:23 > 0:18:26Is it turmeric? Turmeric?
0:18:26 > 0:18:33- Turmeric?- It is turmeric. Ten points for this starter question. Of the plays in Shakespeare's First Folio,
0:18:33 > 0:18:39which is the only one to describe on its title page the scene as being "the Roman Empire"?
0:18:40 > 0:18:43- Julius Caesar. - Homerton, one of you buzz?
0:18:43 > 0:18:48- Titus Andronicus.- No, it's Antony And Cleopatra. Ten points for this.
0:18:48 > 0:18:52The River Parana, the second longest in South America, rises in Brazil
0:18:52 > 0:18:56and flows through two other countries. Name both.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59- Paraguay and...Argentina. - Correct, yes.
0:19:01 > 0:19:04Your bonuses are on physics, Durham.
0:19:04 > 0:19:10What is the linear speed of a particle rotating in a circle with radius R and angular velocity omega?
0:19:12 > 0:19:14Er...
0:19:14 > 0:19:16Nominate Rodgers.
0:19:16 > 0:19:21- M omega R. - No, it's R times omega or R omega.
0:19:21 > 0:19:24What is the radial component of its acceleration?
0:19:26 > 0:19:28Er...
0:19:28 > 0:19:32Sorry. Omega squared R. Omega squared...R.
0:19:32 > 0:19:35- Omega squared R? - R times omega squared, yes.
0:19:35 > 0:19:41Finally, if the particle has mass M, what is its moment of inertia about the axis of rotation?
0:19:45 > 0:19:50- M R squared.- M R squared.- Correct. We're going to take our second picture round now.
0:19:50 > 0:19:57For your starter, you will see a self-portrait by a 20th century artist. Ten points if you name him.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00- Francis Bacon. - Francis Bacon is right.
0:20:01 > 0:20:05Your picture bonuses are three more 20th century self-portraits.
0:20:05 > 0:20:11Five points in each case if you can give me the artist's name. Firstly for five?
0:20:12 > 0:20:14WHISPERING
0:20:15 > 0:20:18Nominate Robertson.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21- Is it Kirchner? - No, that's Edvard Munch. Secondly?
0:20:24 > 0:20:26WHISPERING
0:20:31 > 0:20:34- Kandinsky.- No, that's Matisse.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36And finally?
0:20:36 > 0:20:40- Frida Kahlo.- That is Frida Kahlo, yes. Right, ten points for this.
0:20:40 > 0:20:44The tracks Freddie Freeloader, Flamenco...
0:20:44 > 0:20:48- Kind Of Blue. - Kind Of Blue is right, yes.
0:20:48 > 0:20:52Your bonuses, Homerton, are on literary figures born in 1911.
0:20:52 > 0:20:56In each case, identify the author of the works listed.
0:20:56 > 0:21:00The Spire, Pincher Martin and Rites Of Passage?
0:21:00 > 0:21:04- William Golding.- Correct. Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone?
0:21:04 > 0:21:10- Mervyn Peake. - The Night Of The Iguana, The Rose Tattoo and Cat On A Hot Tin Roof?
0:21:10 > 0:21:15- Tennessee Williams. - Tennessee Williams.- Correct. Another starter question.
0:21:15 > 0:21:21Known in English as the Socialist Unity Party, the SED was the governing party...
0:21:21 > 0:21:24- East Germany.- Correct.
0:21:24 > 0:21:29Your bonuses are on political entities whose names begin with the word Northern.
0:21:29 > 0:21:32Give the two-word name from the description.
0:21:32 > 0:21:38A self-governing territory of the US in the Western Pacific, its largest island is Saipan?
0:21:38 > 0:21:42- Nominate Grinyer. - Northern Mariana Islands.- Correct.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45The name by which Zambia was known before independence in 1964?
0:21:45 > 0:21:51- Northern Rhodesia.- Yes. A de facto state established in 1974 after intervention by the Turkish army?
0:21:51 > 0:21:56- Northern Cyprus.- Northern Cyprus. - Correct. Another starter question.
0:21:56 > 0:21:59Also meaning a mixture used in making bricks,
0:21:59 > 0:22:02what term denotes a soil composed of clay, silt and sand...
0:22:02 > 0:22:07- Mortar.- No, you lose five points. ..roughly in the ratio 20:40:40?
0:22:08 > 0:22:10- Loam.- Loam is correct, yes.
0:22:11 > 0:22:14These bonuses are on chemistry.
0:22:14 > 0:22:20Which alkaline earth metal has an isotope, molecular mass 90, produced as a by-product of nuclear fission?
0:22:20 > 0:22:22WHISPERING
0:22:24 > 0:22:28- Come on.- Strontium. - Strontium.- Correct.
0:22:28 > 0:22:34Strontium-90 presents a serious health hazard since it may substitute for what element in bone?
0:22:34 > 0:22:36- Calcium.- Calcium.- Correct.
0:22:36 > 0:22:41Strontium takes its name from the village of Strontian in Scotland
0:22:41 > 0:22:44where it was first discovered in ores of what metal?
0:22:46 > 0:22:50- Iron?- Come on.- Iron. - Iron.- No, it's lead.
0:22:50 > 0:22:56Ten points for this. In zoology, what is the common name for the Cestoda, a class of animals
0:22:56 > 0:23:02that includes Taenia solium, a parasite that may be passed to humans by eating infected...
0:23:02 > 0:23:08- Mosquitoes.- No, you lose five points. ..by eating infected pig meat? One of you buzz, Durham.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11- Tapeworm.- Tapeworm is correct, yes.
0:23:11 > 0:23:15It gives you the lead. Your bonuses are on a shared name element.
0:23:15 > 0:23:22John Nash, Edward Blore and Aston Webb were the three main architects who rebuilt which royal residence,
0:23:22 > 0:23:25first acquired by George III in 1761?
0:23:25 > 0:23:27WHISPERING
0:23:28 > 0:23:30Let's have it, please.
0:23:30 > 0:23:34- St James's Park.- St James's Park. - No, it's Buckingham Palace.
0:23:34 > 0:23:41Buckfast Abbey, a Benedictine abbey founded in 1018, lies at the edge of which national park?
0:23:43 > 0:23:49- Dartmoor.- Correct. Buckland Abbey near Plymouth was the home of which Elizabethan explorer?
0:23:49 > 0:23:53His drum, the subject of a poem by Sir Henry Newbolt, is on display there.
0:23:53 > 0:23:58- Francis Drake.- Correct. 3½ minutes to go. Ten points for this.
0:23:58 > 0:24:04In which major Commonwealth city are the main campuses of the Universities of La Trobe and Monash?
0:24:07 > 0:24:11- Is it Sydney?- No. Homerton, one of you may buzz.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15- Melbourne.- Melbourne is correct, yes
0:24:16 > 0:24:19These bonuses are on China.
0:24:19 > 0:24:26More than 4,500 kilometres in length, China's longest land frontier is with which country?
0:24:27 > 0:24:33- Let's have an answer, please. - Kazakhstan?- Kazakhstan. - No, it's Mongolia.
0:24:33 > 0:24:39China's shortest land frontier, around 76 kilometres in length, is with which Central Asian country?
0:24:39 > 0:24:42- Is it Georgia? - No, it's not.
0:24:42 > 0:24:44Quickly!
0:24:44 > 0:24:47- Tajikistan.- No, it's Afghanistan.
0:24:47 > 0:24:54China shares borders of around 1,700 kilometres in total with which two landlocked Himalayan countries?
0:24:54 > 0:24:57- Nepal and Bhutan. - Nepal and...?- Nepal and Bhutan.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00- Quickly!- Nepal and Bhutan.- Correct.
0:25:00 > 0:25:05Ten points for this. Containing no vowels, which six-letter word describes...
0:25:05 > 0:25:08- Rhythm.- No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:25:08 > 0:25:14..describes an alignment of three celestial objects, for instance, the Sun, the Earth and the Moon?
0:25:14 > 0:25:19No conferring! One of you may buzz. It's syzygy. Ten points for this.
0:25:19 > 0:25:21Peeping, Clever and Flash...
0:25:21 > 0:25:23- Tom.- No, you lose five points.
0:25:23 > 0:25:27..are the names of which traditional threesome?
0:25:27 > 0:25:30- Tom, Dick and Harry.- Correct.
0:25:30 > 0:25:36Your bonuses are on love triangles in literature. I want the name of the third member of the triangle.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38Quasimodo, Captain Phoebus and...?
0:25:38 > 0:25:42- Esmeralda.- Come on. - Esmeralda.- Correct.
0:25:42 > 0:25:45Jay Gatsby, Tom Buchanan and...?
0:25:45 > 0:25:47- Daisy... - Daisy!
0:25:47 > 0:25:51- Just Daisy? Daisy.- Correct. Mr Wickham, Mr Darcy and...?
0:25:51 > 0:25:56- Elizabeth Bennet.- Correct. Another starter. Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:25:56 > 0:25:59What is the largest prime number less than 1,000?
0:26:04 > 0:26:07- 997.- Correct.
0:26:09 > 0:26:13Your bonuses this time, Homerton, are on dentistry.
0:26:13 > 0:26:18The dentition of humans is said to be diphyodont. What does the term mean?
0:26:20 > 0:26:22CONFERRING
0:26:22 > 0:26:25Let's have an answer, please.
0:26:25 > 0:26:29- That you have two sets of teeth. - Yes, two successive sets of teeth.
0:26:29 > 0:26:34What name is given to the chewing surface of bicuspid and molar teeth?
0:26:35 > 0:26:37Let's have an answer. Come on!
0:26:37 > 0:26:40- Crown.- Crown.- No, it's occlusal.
0:26:40 > 0:26:45What is caused by the activity of the bacteria Streptococcus mutans in the oral cavity?
0:26:45 > 0:26:51- Plaque.- Plaque...? Plaque. - No, tooth decay or caries or cavities. Ten points for this.
0:26:51 > 0:26:57March 31st, 2010, saw which area of southern England become the UK's newest national park?
0:26:57 > 0:27:03- The South Downs.- Correct. Your bonuses this time are on a name, Homerton.
0:27:03 > 0:27:06What name used in Germany as a title of nobility
0:27:06 > 0:27:12is the title of a 1964 novel by Saul Bellow, consisting partly of letters written by the central character?
0:27:12 > 0:27:17- Herzog.- Correct. The author Emile Herzog is better known by what pen name
0:27:17 > 0:27:21under which he wrote the 1923 book Ariel about the poet Shelley?
0:27:23 > 0:27:25Come on, let's have an answer.
0:27:26 > 0:27:28GONG
0:27:28 > 0:27:35It was Andre Maurois. And at the gong, Durham have 190, Homerton College, Cambridge have 245.
0:27:39 > 0:27:44We'll have to say goodbye to you, Durham. You're a very strong team
0:27:44 > 0:27:48and up until the last three minutes, it could have gone either way.
0:27:48 > 0:27:52We'll have to say goodbye to you and your splendid mascot.
0:27:52 > 0:27:58Homerton, great performance again. We look forward to seeing you in the quarter-finals. Congratulations.
0:27:58 > 0:28:03- I hope you can join us next time, but until then, it's goodbye from Durham.- Goodbye.
0:28:03 > 0:28:07- It's goodbye from Homerton College. - Goodbye.- And it's goodbye from me.
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