0:00:19 > 0:00:21University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:32Hello. Another first-round match tonight - the winners go through automatically
0:00:32 > 0:00:36and for the losers, the sting of defeat is tempered by the discovery
0:00:36 > 0:00:39that they can take their name plates home with them.
0:00:39 > 0:00:44Trinity College, Cambridge was founded by Henry VIII, but owes its existence
0:00:44 > 0:00:49to his sixth wife, Catherine Parr, who persuaded him to establish a new college,
0:00:49 > 0:00:53rather than suppressing two existing institutions to pocket the cash.
0:00:53 > 0:00:58Alumni have included many pillars of the establishment including Balfour,
0:00:58 > 0:01:03Tennyson, Edward VII, George VI, the present Prince of Wales and Kim Philby.
0:01:03 > 0:01:07Trinity have twice been series champions, in 1974 and 1995,
0:01:07 > 0:01:12and tonight's four with an average age of 20 were selected from a student body of around 1,000.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15- Let's meet them. - Hi. My name is Max Spencer.
0:01:15 > 0:01:19I'm from Suffolk and I'm reading Computer Science.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21Hi, I'm Lee Zhao, from Derbyshire,
0:01:21 > 0:01:24and I'm reading for a PhD in Mathematics.
0:01:24 > 0:01:28- Their captain.- I'm Rosalind Lintott from Surrey and I'm reading English.
0:01:28 > 0:01:33Hi, I'm Joshua Caplan, I'm from London and I'm reading Mathematics.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35APPLAUSE
0:01:36 > 0:01:42The team from the University of Birmingham, by comparison, have an average age of 21,
0:01:42 > 0:01:45were selected out of a student body of 26,000
0:01:45 > 0:01:51and have a captain chosen by the rigorous methodology of a game of "rock, paper, scissors".
0:01:51 > 0:01:55The university began life in 1825 as the Birmingham Medical School
0:01:55 > 0:01:58and became one of the earliest redbricks in 1900.
0:01:58 > 0:02:02Its campus is the first in Britain to have its own farmers' market,
0:02:02 > 0:02:07an odd inclusion for a clientele thought to dine exclusively on pizza and kebabs.
0:02:07 > 0:02:11Alumni include the reality television star Ann Widdecombe,
0:02:11 > 0:02:14the Thick Of It actor Chris Addison and Victoria Wood.
0:02:14 > 0:02:18Let's see if tonight's team can be equally entertaining.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20I'm Thomas Farrell from Essex,
0:02:20 > 0:02:23studying Physics with Particle Physics and Cosmology.
0:02:23 > 0:02:27I'm Kirk Surgener from Northampton and I'm studying Philosophy.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30- Their captain.- I'm Oliver Jeacock from Buckinghamshire
0:02:30 > 0:02:32and I'm studying Chemistry.
0:02:32 > 0:02:36I'm Eliott Rhodes from Sutton Coldfield. I study Mathematics.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38APPLAUSE
0:02:40 > 0:02:44Let's not waste time reciting the rules. Here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:44 > 0:02:49Extending more than 1,500 kilometres south from the Arctic Ocean,
0:02:49 > 0:02:54which range of mountains forms the conventional boundary between Europe and Asia?
0:02:54 > 0:02:57- Urals.- Urals is correct.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02Your bonuses are on high stones, Birmingham.
0:03:02 > 0:03:06Lying five miles north-west of the moorland slopes of the Long Mynd,
0:03:06 > 0:03:12the Stiperstones are a ragged ridge of high hills in which English county?
0:03:12 > 0:03:16- Shropshire.- Correct. Carn Menyn, the jagged, rocky outcrops thought
0:03:16 > 0:03:20to have been the source of the bluestones used in Stonehenge,
0:03:20 > 0:03:23forms a part of which hills in West Wales?
0:03:25 > 0:03:28- Mendips?- In Wales? No, it's the Preseli Hills.
0:03:28 > 0:03:33The ruin of an observatory built in 1883 and a war memorial to the dead of World War Two
0:03:33 > 0:03:37are among man-made objects occupying the large stone plateau
0:03:37 > 0:03:40at the peak of which British mountain?
0:03:41 > 0:03:44- Ben Nevis.- Correct. Another starter question.
0:03:44 > 0:03:49"He was the greatest of all musicians. He taught me how to say profound things
0:03:49 > 0:03:52"and at the same time remain flippant and lively."
0:03:52 > 0:03:56These words of George Bernard Shaw refer to which composer, born 1756?
0:03:57 > 0:04:00- Mozart.- Correct.
0:04:00 > 0:04:04So your first set of bonuses, Trinity, are on resignations.
0:04:04 > 0:04:10Commenting on the terms of a government recapitalisation plan conditional on his resignation,
0:04:10 > 0:04:16which British banker observed in 2008, "This was more of a drive-by shooting than a negotiation"?
0:04:16 > 0:04:19It was the head of RBS.
0:04:19 > 0:04:25- Fred Goodwin.- Correct. Lord Triesman resigned as chairman of England's bid to stage the 2018 World Cup
0:04:25 > 0:04:30after being recorded in secret suggesting which two rival bidders might collude
0:04:30 > 0:04:34to bribe referees at the 2010 finals in South Africa?
0:04:34 > 0:04:36Russia and...
0:04:36 > 0:04:39WHISPERING
0:04:45 > 0:04:48- Russia and the US? - No, it was Russia and Spain.
0:04:48 > 0:04:54And finally for five points, after an enquiry in 2003 over financial mismanagement,
0:04:54 > 0:04:58who resigned as chief executive of Hollinger International,
0:04:58 > 0:05:02a global media empire that included the Daily Telegraph?
0:05:02 > 0:05:05CONFERRING
0:05:06 > 0:05:10- Pass.- That was Conrad Black. Ten points for this.
0:05:10 > 0:05:16Borrowdale in the Lake District was the site in the 16th century of the discovery of what mineral,
0:05:16 > 0:05:20used locally for marking sheep and later in the manufacture of pencils?
0:05:20 > 0:05:22- Graphite.- Graphite is correct.
0:05:24 > 0:05:28Second set of bonuses are on writers' opinions of Shakespeare.
0:05:28 > 0:05:35Born 1885, which poet and novelist's poem When I Read Shakespeare includes these lines?
0:05:35 > 0:05:38"And Hamlet, how boring, how boring to live with
0:05:38 > 0:05:41"So mean and self-conscious, blowing and snoring
0:05:41 > 0:05:45"His wonderful speeches, full of other folk's whoring!"
0:05:45 > 0:05:49- George Bernard Shaw. - No, it was DH Lawrence.
0:05:49 > 0:05:53In his 1668 Essay Of Dramatic Poesy,
0:05:53 > 0:05:58who described Shakespeare as "many times flat, insipid, his comic wit degenerating into clenches,
0:05:58 > 0:06:05"his serious swelling into bombast, but he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him"?
0:06:06 > 0:06:08- Johnson.- Johnson?
0:06:08 > 0:06:10No, that was John Dryden.
0:06:10 > 0:06:14And finally for a possible five, in a letter of March 1814,
0:06:14 > 0:06:19which poet wrote, "Shakespeare's name, you may depend upon it, stands absurdly too high.
0:06:19 > 0:06:23"He took his plots from old novels and threw their stories into a dramatic shape"?
0:06:23 > 0:06:27- Byron.- Correct. Another starter question now.
0:06:27 > 0:06:33"It took them only an instant to cut off that head, but 100 years may not produce another like it."
0:06:33 > 0:06:40These words of the mathematician Joseph Lagrange refer to the death by guillotine in 1794
0:06:40 > 0:06:43of which French scientist, regarded...
0:06:43 > 0:06:45- Lavoisier.- Lavoisier is correct.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51This time, your bonuses are on spirals.
0:06:51 > 0:06:56A spiral with the polar equation R equals A theta
0:06:56 > 0:06:59is usually named after which Greek mathematician?
0:07:00 > 0:07:03WHISPERING
0:07:05 > 0:07:09- Euclid.- No, Archimedes. What name is given to a spiral
0:07:09 > 0:07:15in which the length of the radius vector is inversely proportional to its angle with the polar axis,
0:07:15 > 0:07:18so that its equation is R theta equals A?
0:07:21 > 0:07:23- Pass.- That's the hyperbolic spiral.
0:07:23 > 0:07:29Which Swiss mathematician investigated the logarithmic spiral that he called the "spira mirabilis"
0:07:29 > 0:07:34and requested that one be carved on his tomb, although following his death in 1705,
0:07:34 > 0:07:37an Archimedean spiral was inscribed instead?
0:07:38 > 0:07:40Was Euler Swiss? Euler?
0:07:40 > 0:07:46- Nominate Surgener.- Was it Euler? - No, it was Bernoulli. We're going to take a picture round now.
0:07:46 > 0:07:52For your starter, you'll see a map featuring a river. Ten points if you can name the river.
0:07:56 > 0:07:57Hudson.
0:07:57 > 0:08:01No. Anyone like to buzz from Birmingham?
0:08:03 > 0:08:04Yukon?
0:08:04 > 0:08:10No, it's the Mackenzie River in Canada, so we'll take the picture bonuses shortly.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13Another starter question in the meantime.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16Formulated in a 1968 book of the same name,
0:08:16 > 0:08:20which principle states that "in a hierarchy, every employee..."
0:08:20 > 0:08:23- Peter Principle.- Correct.
0:08:23 > 0:08:27Everyone rises to their own level of incompetence.
0:08:27 > 0:08:33So we follow on from the Mackenzie River picture starter. It flows north into the Arctic Ocean.
0:08:33 > 0:08:37Picture bonuses - three more rivers that flow in a northerly direction,
0:08:37 > 0:08:41contrary to the popular conception that rivers flow north to south.
0:08:41 > 0:08:44Five points for each river you identify.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46Firstly?
0:08:48 > 0:08:50WHISPERING
0:08:54 > 0:08:59- Pass.- That's the River Bann in Northern Ireland. Secondly...?
0:09:01 > 0:09:03WHISPERING
0:09:06 > 0:09:09- Yenisei.- It is indeed, yes. And finally...?
0:09:15 > 0:09:20- Rhine.- That is the Rhine, yes. Another starter question. Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:09:20 > 0:09:26Give the three rhyming words that mean respectively: a playing card of the highest ranking suit in whist,
0:09:26 > 0:09:28an ill-dressed or dowdy person
0:09:28 > 0:09:31and a device for raising and moving fluids?
0:09:33 > 0:09:36- Trump, frump and pump.- Correct.
0:09:38 > 0:09:45Your bonuses, Trinity, are on women in the ancient world in the words of the author Charlotte Higgins.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48Identify the historical figure from her description.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51"The first woman philosopher mathematician known to history,
0:09:51 > 0:09:58"she attracted ire for her political connections and was murdered by fanatical Christians in AD 415."
0:09:58 > 0:10:00- Hypatia.- Correct.
0:10:00 > 0:10:05"Hard not to think of Sian Phillips' chilling portrayal of her in the BBC series I Claudius,
0:10:05 > 0:10:09"she poisoned every unfortunate who got in the way of her plan
0:10:09 > 0:10:14"to have her own son Tiberius installed as Augustus's successor."
0:10:15 > 0:10:17Agrippina?
0:10:17 > 0:10:20- Is it Agrippina?- No, it was Livia.
0:10:20 > 0:10:24"Not until the Great Fire and the Blitz would London be visited by such destruction.
0:10:24 > 0:10:31"A poster girl for anti-imperial resistance, she possessed more spirit than is usual among women,
0:10:31 > 0:10:33"according to historian Dio Cassius."
0:10:33 > 0:10:37- Boadicea.- Correct. Another starter question now.
0:10:37 > 0:10:43"So equal, yet so opposite are their merits that they may be balanced in endless controversy."
0:10:43 > 0:10:47These words of Edward Gibbon refer to which two Greek philosophers?
0:10:47 > 0:10:50- Aristotle and Plato.- Correct.
0:10:53 > 0:10:59Your bonuses are on a British artist. Which Bradford-born artist once said that he emigrated
0:10:59 > 0:11:03to California in the 1960s because it offered "sun, sea and sex"?
0:11:03 > 0:11:09- David Hockney.- Yes. Which Hockney painting was described as "a stunning diagram of '60s California,
0:11:09 > 0:11:14"of blazing sunlight and cool water, of liquid blossoming into frozen chaos"?
0:11:14 > 0:11:18The painting's title was also given to a 1974 film about the artist.
0:11:18 > 0:11:22- A Big Splash.- Yes, I'll accept that. It's A Bigger Splash.
0:11:22 > 0:11:28What breed of dog are Stanley and Boodgie, the subject of a series of paintings by Hockney,
0:11:28 > 0:11:32published in book form in 1998 entitled Dog Days?
0:11:32 > 0:11:36- Yorkshire terrier?- No, dachshunds. Ten points for this.
0:11:36 > 0:11:39In geology, which portion of the Earth's interior lies
0:11:39 > 0:11:43between the Mohorovicic and Gutenberg discontinuities,
0:11:43 > 0:11:48extending from approximately 2,000 to over 35,000 kilometres below the surface?
0:11:48 > 0:11:51- Mantle.- Correct.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54Your bonuses this time are on ballet dancers.
0:11:54 > 0:11:58Which Cuban dancer joined the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden in 1998
0:11:58 > 0:12:03and was the first westerner to dance the title role of Spartacus with the Bolshoi Ballet?
0:12:03 > 0:12:05De Hoya?
0:12:05 > 0:12:07- What's that?- De Hoya?- De Hoya?
0:12:07 > 0:12:14No, it was Carlos Acosta. Margot Fonteyn declared which Australian dancer to be her favourite partner?
0:12:14 > 0:12:19In addition to his many classical ballet roles, he appeared as the Child Catcher
0:12:19 > 0:12:22in the film version of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25- Pass.- That was Robert Helpmann.
0:12:25 > 0:12:31Born in Kiev in about 1890, which dancer and choreographer was famed for his extraordinary elevation?
0:12:31 > 0:12:35He retired at the age of 29 after suffering a nervous breakdown.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38- Nijinsky.- It was Nijinsky, yes.
0:12:38 > 0:12:43Ten points for this. Its name thought to derive from the French for "nutmeg",
0:12:43 > 0:12:47which grape variety is also known as "Melon de Bourgogne"
0:12:47 > 0:12:51and is associated with white wines from the Loire region?
0:12:51 > 0:12:55- Muscat?- No. Anyone like to buzz from Trinity?
0:12:56 > 0:13:01- Pinot Grigio?- No, it's Muscadet. Ten points for this.
0:13:01 > 0:13:04What is the common name of Araucaria araucana?
0:13:04 > 0:13:10The national tree of Chile, it's a popular tree in Britain with overlapping scale-like leaves...
0:13:10 > 0:13:13- Monkey puzzle. - Monkey puzzle is correct, yes.
0:13:14 > 0:13:19Your bonuses this time are on popular culture during the noughties.
0:13:19 > 0:13:23In each case, identify the year in question.
0:13:23 > 0:13:27Record producer Phil Spector was arrested on suspicion of murder,
0:13:27 > 0:13:30Dido's Life For Rent was the best-selling album
0:13:30 > 0:13:35and the Dixie Chicks received death threats after saying they were ashamed of the US President.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38Which year?
0:13:38 > 0:13:40CONFERRING
0:13:40 > 0:13:43- 2005?- No, it was 2003.
0:13:43 > 0:13:50Secondly, Crazy by Gnarls Barkley became the first single to top the UK charts on download sales alone,
0:13:50 > 0:13:53the last weekly edition of Top Of The Pops was broadcast
0:13:53 > 0:13:59and the best-selling album of the year was Snow Patrol's Eyes Open. Which year?
0:13:59 > 0:14:02- 2007?- No, it was 2006.
0:14:02 > 0:14:08Finally, the TV series Popstars appeared, Eminem was beaten to the Christmas No.1 by Bob The Builder
0:14:08 > 0:14:14and Robbie Williams had the best-selling album entitled Sing When You're Winning. Which year?
0:14:14 > 0:14:16- 2002?- Shall we go for '2?
0:14:16 > 0:14:22- 2002?- No, it was 2000. I don't know why you should be expected to know that sort of stuff.
0:14:22 > 0:14:27We'll take a music round now. For your starter, you'll hear a piece of classical music.
0:14:27 > 0:14:31Ten points if you can name the piece and the composer.
0:14:31 > 0:14:33CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:34 > 0:14:38- Is it Flight Of The Bumblebee by Rimsky-Korsakov?- It is indeed, yes.
0:14:38 > 0:14:42APPLAUSE
0:14:42 > 0:14:45So following on from The Flight Of The Bumblebee,
0:14:45 > 0:14:50music bonuses - three more pieces of classical music associated with insects.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53In each case, simply name the insect. Firstly...?
0:14:53 > 0:14:56CLASSICAL PIANO MUSIC
0:15:08 > 0:15:13- A butterfly?- No, that was Bela Bartok's From The Diary Of A Fly.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15Secondly...?
0:15:15 > 0:15:18LIVELY CLASSICAL MUSIC
0:15:29 > 0:15:31Ant?
0:15:31 > 0:15:36No, that was Ralph Vaughan Williams' Wasps Overture. And finally...?
0:15:37 > 0:15:40OPERATIC MUSIC
0:15:40 > 0:15:43We should know this. This is a famous one.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47- Butterfly, Madame Butterfly?- Yeah.
0:15:47 > 0:15:52- Butterfly.- It is, by Puccini, of course. Right, ten points for this.
0:15:52 > 0:15:56Passed by the US Congress in 1932, the law that made kidnapping...
0:15:57 > 0:16:00- The New Deal?- No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:16:00 > 0:16:06..the law that made kidnapping across state boundaries a federal felony is often named
0:16:06 > 0:16:12after which public figure whose son Charles had been kidnapped and killed some months earlier?
0:16:12 > 0:16:16- Lindbergh.- Lindbergh is right.
0:16:17 > 0:16:23Your bonuses are on the IUPAC systematic names of organic compounds
0:16:23 > 0:16:26derived from ethane, C2H6.
0:16:26 > 0:16:31What is the systematic name of the compound theoretically derived from ethane
0:16:31 > 0:16:34by replacing one hydrogen atom with an OH group?
0:16:34 > 0:16:37- Alcohol.- No, it's ethanol.
0:16:37 > 0:16:41What is the systematic name of the compound derived from ethanal
0:16:41 > 0:16:47by replacing the final hydrogen atom on the substituted carbon with an OH group?
0:16:47 > 0:16:49WHISPERING
0:16:56 > 0:16:58- Pass.- That's ethanoic acid.
0:16:58 > 0:17:04Finally, what is the systematic name of the compound derived from ethanal by replacing the final hydrogen atom
0:17:04 > 0:17:08on the substituted carbon with an NH2 group?
0:17:08 > 0:17:10WHISPERING
0:17:13 > 0:17:17- Pass.- That's ethanamide. Ten points for this.
0:17:17 > 0:17:21What term denotes the process carried out by symbiotic bacteria,
0:17:21 > 0:17:26such as rhizobium living in the root nodules of clover and other leguminous plants,
0:17:26 > 0:17:28resulting in an increase of...
0:17:28 > 0:17:30- Nitrogen fixing.- Correct.
0:17:34 > 0:17:38Birmingham, your bonuses this time are on language and literature.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41"The invention of languages is the foundation.
0:17:41 > 0:17:47"The stories were made rather to provide a world for the languages than the reverse."
0:17:47 > 0:17:52Referring to a major novel of 1954, which author said those words?
0:17:53 > 0:17:55WHISPERING
0:18:00 > 0:18:04- Pass.- It was JRR Tolkien. In an essay of 1955, Tolkien wrote
0:18:04 > 0:18:10that the English phrase "cellar door" has great beauty, especially if dissociated from its sense,
0:18:10 > 0:18:15and that phrases of comparable beauty are "extraordinarily frequent"
0:18:15 > 0:18:18in which Indo-European language?
0:18:21 > 0:18:26- French.- No, it's Welsh. "It was like discovering a wine cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine
0:18:26 > 0:18:32"of a kind and flavour never tasted before." These words refer to Tolkien's discovery
0:18:32 > 0:18:37of which language, an official language of the EU since 1995?
0:18:37 > 0:18:39- Finnish?- No.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42Hungarian...?
0:18:42 > 0:18:45- Hungarian.- No, it's Finnish.
0:18:45 > 0:18:51Ten points for this. Which 16th century English composer's works include Gaude Glorioso Dei Mater,
0:18:51 > 0:18:54the Christmas Mass Puer Natus Est Nobis
0:18:54 > 0:18:58and the melody which inspired Vaughan Williams' Fantasia...
0:18:58 > 0:19:01- Thomas Tallis.- Correct.
0:19:02 > 0:19:06Trinity, your bonuses are on so-called cognate anagrams,
0:19:06 > 0:19:11that is, words that are both anagrams of and are suggested by the given word or phrase.
0:19:11 > 0:19:16For instance, "moon starer" would give the single-word answer "astronomer". OK?
0:19:16 > 0:19:22Firstly, for five points, "enraged" has what anagram that resembles it in meaning?
0:19:22 > 0:19:29- Angered.- Correct. The expression "terminal cut" has what single-word cognate anagram?
0:19:33 > 0:19:36WHISPERING
0:19:37 > 0:19:40- Pass.- It's "curtailment".
0:19:40 > 0:19:47Finally for five, "lithe acts" is a cognate anagram of a single-word term for what activity?
0:19:49 > 0:19:54- Athletics.- Correct. Another starter. Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:19:54 > 0:19:58Three Latin American countries are among the G20 major economies.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01One is Brazil. For ten points, name the other two.
0:20:02 > 0:20:06- Chile and Argentina.- No. Anyone want to buzz from Birmingham?
0:20:07 > 0:20:11- Argentina and Peru.- No, it's Mexico and Argentina. Ten points for this.
0:20:11 > 0:20:15In vertebrate physiology, what term denotes the waves of contraction
0:20:15 > 0:20:20and relaxation of the circular smooth muscles of the intestinal wall...
0:20:20 > 0:20:23- Peristalsis. - Peristalsis is right, yes.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28Your bonuses this time are on social sciences.
0:20:28 > 0:20:34Used in the subtitle of a 1985 work by the US sociologists Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge,
0:20:34 > 0:20:38what term denotes the process by which religious institutions,
0:20:38 > 0:20:42beliefs and practices lose their social significance?
0:20:45 > 0:20:49- Cultify.- Sorry?- Cultification. - Let's have it, please.
0:20:49 > 0:20:53- Nominate Zhao.- Cultification. - No, it's secularisation.
0:20:53 > 0:20:59Coined by the US sociologist Harold Garfinkel, what term describes the study of the methods
0:20:59 > 0:21:04by which individuals accomplish their daily actions and make sense of their social world?
0:21:06 > 0:21:08- Pass.- That's ethnomethodology.
0:21:08 > 0:21:12Explored by Homi K Bhabha as a legacy of colonialism,
0:21:12 > 0:21:19what is the process by which individuals and social groups are made peripheral to the mainstream
0:21:19 > 0:21:22by relegating them to the outer edges of society?
0:21:23 > 0:21:26CONFERRING
0:21:26 > 0:21:28- Ghettoisation. - No, it's marginalisation.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31We'll take our second picture round now.
0:21:31 > 0:21:37For your starter, you will see a photograph of a comedian. Ten points if you can name him.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40- Russell Kane.- Correct.
0:21:42 > 0:21:48Russell Kane won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for the Best Comedy Show in 2010.
0:21:48 > 0:21:54Your bonuses are photos of three more acts who have won this award, previously called the Perrier Award.
0:21:54 > 0:22:00Name each comedian or act and the decade in which they won. Firstly, this comedian and the decade he won?
0:22:00 > 0:22:02WHISPERING
0:22:08 > 0:22:10Rich Hall and the '90s?
0:22:10 > 0:22:14No, it was Rich Hall and the noughties. Secondly...?
0:22:15 > 0:22:17Jeremy Hardy and the '80s.
0:22:17 > 0:22:22- Jeremy Hardy, the '80s?- Correct. Finally, this act and the decade?
0:22:24 > 0:22:26That's the League of Gentlemen.
0:22:29 > 0:22:31Come on.
0:22:31 > 0:22:35- League of Gentlemen, the '90s? - Correct. Another starter.
0:22:35 > 0:22:40What is being described? Composed of old red sandstone on a base of harder basalt
0:22:40 > 0:22:43and close to Rackwick Bay in the Orkney Islands,
0:22:43 > 0:22:49it is 137 metres high and 30 metres wide at its base and is the tallest sea stack in Britain.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54Woodhenge.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57No. One of you like to buzz from Birmingham?
0:22:57 > 0:23:00It's the Old Man of Hoy. Ten points for this.
0:23:00 > 0:23:04From the name of a Trojan prince, what word was defined by Dr Johnson
0:23:04 > 0:23:10as a "blustering, turbulent, noisy fellow"? It's now used as a verb meaning to bully.
0:23:11 > 0:23:13- Hector.- Hector is correct, yes.
0:23:16 > 0:23:20Now, these bonuses are on events of 1511.
0:23:20 > 0:23:27In 1511, Spanish forces under Diego Velazquez and Hernan Cortes began the conquest of which large island?
0:23:28 > 0:23:31CONFERRING
0:23:34 > 0:23:38- Nominate Zhao.- Tenochtitlan. - No, it's Cuba.
0:23:38 > 0:23:44Which humanist scholar published his Encomium Moriae or In Praise Of Folly in 1511?
0:23:44 > 0:23:50- Erasmus.- Correct. Henry, Duke of Cornwall was born in January 1511 and died a few weeks later.
0:23:50 > 0:23:52Who were his father and mother?
0:23:53 > 0:23:55Quickly!
0:23:55 > 0:23:59- Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. - Correct.
0:23:59 > 0:24:03Ten points for this. Who described his conception of God as being
0:24:03 > 0:24:06"something like a great, oblong, luminous blur"?
0:24:06 > 0:24:10A Latvian-born American painter, his later work is characterised...
0:24:10 > 0:24:15- Mark Rothko.- Correct. Your bonuses this time are on botany.
0:24:15 > 0:24:20What term denotes the pores in the epidermis of the leaves and stems of terrestrial plants
0:24:20 > 0:24:24that allow gas exchange between the spongy layer and the atmosphere?
0:24:24 > 0:24:27- Cuticle.- No, the stoma or stomata.
0:24:27 > 0:24:33What name is given to the two specialised curved cells surrounding the stomata?
0:24:33 > 0:24:40- Guard cells.- Correct. The release of water from a plant via the stomata is known by what precise term?
0:24:40 > 0:24:44- Evapotranspiration.- I'll accept that. Transpiration is correct.
0:24:44 > 0:24:50Another starter question. The Bizone, which was extended to become the Trizone in April 1949,
0:24:50 > 0:24:57was an economic area that was the precursor of which European republic established later that year?
0:24:57 > 0:25:00- West Germany.- West Germany is right, the Federal Republic.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03Your bonuses are on disputed territories in Asia.
0:25:03 > 0:25:07Name the country that lays claim to the following.
0:25:07 > 0:25:12The Southern Kuril Islands, which are around the size of Skye and the Western Isles,
0:25:12 > 0:25:15under Russian administration since 1945.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19Russia and Japan.
0:25:19 > 0:25:21- Japan.- Japan is correct, yes.
0:25:21 > 0:25:25The Aksai Chin, a high altitude desert around the size of Belgium,
0:25:25 > 0:25:30over which China built a strategic highway in the early 1960s.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33WHISPERING
0:25:35 > 0:25:39- Mongolia.- India. The larger part of the Golan Heights,
0:25:39 > 0:25:44around the size of Greater Manchester, it was occupied by Israel in 1967.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49- Syria.- Syria is right. Ten points for this.
0:25:49 > 0:25:55In meteorology, what general type of land form is associated with orographic precipitation?
0:25:55 > 0:26:00- Hills.- Hills or mountains is right. Your bonuses now are on place names in County Durham.
0:26:00 > 0:26:06Firstly, which town shares its name with the family name of the Earls of Derby
0:26:06 > 0:26:11and both the main town of the Falkland Islands and a North American ice hockey trophy?
0:26:11 > 0:26:17- Stanley.- Correct. Which new town is named after a miners' leader who died in 1935?
0:26:17 > 0:26:19Don't know.
0:26:19 > 0:26:25- Pass.- Peterlee. Finally, which town has a name meaning "Roman fort on the Roman road"?
0:26:26 > 0:26:29- Pass.- Chester-le-Street. Ten points for this.
0:26:29 > 0:26:33In which European capital are the Vondelpark, the Jordaan quarter...
0:26:33 > 0:26:38- Amsterdam.- Amsterdam is right. Your bonuses are on classical music cataloguers.
0:26:38 > 0:26:43Firstly for five, assigning each piece a BWV number,
0:26:43 > 0:26:49in 1950, Wolfgang Schmieder compiled the thematic index for the work of which German composer?
0:26:49 > 0:26:55- Bach.- Correct. The Viennese musicologist Otto Deutsch gives his initial to the D numbers used
0:26:55 > 0:27:01in the 1951 catalogue of the works of which Austrian composer who died in 1828?
0:27:02 > 0:27:05- Haydn.- No, Schubert. A specialist in baroque music,
0:27:05 > 0:27:10the US musicologist Franklin B Zimmerman compiled a 1963 catalogue of the works
0:27:10 > 0:27:14of which 17th century English composer?
0:27:14 > 0:27:18- Purcell.- Purcell is right. Another starter question.
0:27:18 > 0:27:22The Voyage Out and Night And Day were the first two novels
0:27:22 > 0:27:27of which 20th century author and member of the Bloomsbury Group who died in 1941?
0:27:27 > 0:27:31- Virginia Woolf.- Correct. Another set of bonuses for you then.
0:27:31 > 0:27:34- They're on films about poets... - GONG
0:27:34 > 0:27:40At the gong, Trinity College, Cambridge have 105, Birmingham University have 225.
0:27:42 > 0:27:47Bad luck, Trinity. We say goodbye to you, but thank you for playing.
0:27:47 > 0:27:51Terrific score, 225, Birmingham. We look forward to seeing you in the next stage.
0:27:51 > 0:27:57- Join us next time for another first round match, but it's goodbye from Trinity College.- Goodbye.
0:27:57 > 0:28:01- Goodbye from Birmingham University. - Goodbye.- And goodbye from me.
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