0:00:19 > 0:00:23University Challenge! Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman!
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. There are eight places in the quarter-final stage of this contest,
0:00:32 > 0:00:36and three of them have been taken by a couple of Cambridge colleges, Clare and Homerton,
0:00:36 > 0:00:37and the University of Newcastle.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40Whichever team wins tonight will join them.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43Now, the team from Queen's College, Oxford have the second
0:00:43 > 0:00:46highest score from the first round matches, earned with a very
0:00:46 > 0:00:50comfortable win over Kings College, Cambridge by 280-195.
0:00:50 > 0:00:54On that occasion, they showed an encyclopaedic knowledge of pioneering women
0:00:54 > 0:01:00and sporting venues, and took in their stride a set of questions of inhuman complexity,
0:01:00 > 0:01:04requiring them to spell the names of fruit and vegetables using chemical symbols.
0:01:04 > 0:01:05Let's meet them again.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08Hi, I'm Peter Sloman, I'm from Garstang in Lancashire,
0:01:08 > 0:01:10and I'm reading for a DPhil in History.
0:01:10 > 0:01:14Hello, I'm James Kane, I'm from Manchester, and I'm reading Japanese.
0:01:14 > 0:01:15Their captain.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18Hi, I'm Matthew White, I'm from Pershore in Worcestershire,
0:01:18 > 0:01:21and I'm studying for a DPhil in Maths.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24Hello, I'm Leila Hill from Sale in Cheshire, and I'm studying Chemistry.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27APPLAUSE
0:01:29 > 0:01:34Now, the team from Worcester College, Oxford lost on their first appearance,
0:01:34 > 0:01:38but were able to return as one of the four teams with the highest losing scores from round one.
0:01:38 > 0:01:43They then earned their place in the second round by beating St Andrews convincingly in their play-off,
0:01:43 > 0:01:47impressing us with their knowledge of Abbey Road and the Primrose Path,
0:01:47 > 0:01:51while giving the strong impression that Mr Knapp must have been assigned the task
0:01:51 > 0:01:52of boning up on world geography.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55Let's meet the Worcester College team again.
0:01:55 > 0:01:56Hi, I'm Dave Knapp,
0:01:56 > 0:01:57I'm from Woking in Surrey,
0:01:57 > 0:01:59and I'm studying Engineering.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02Hi, I'm Jack Bramhill, I come from Colchester in Essex,
0:02:02 > 0:02:03and I'm studying Chemistry.
0:02:03 > 0:02:04And their captain.
0:02:04 > 0:02:06Hi, I'm Rebecca Gillie, I'm from Weymouth in Dorset,
0:02:06 > 0:02:08and I'm reading French and Italian.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11Hi, I'm Jonathan Metzer from London, and I'm reading Classics.
0:02:11 > 0:02:14APPLAUSE
0:02:17 > 0:02:19Usual rules, ten points for starters, 15 for bonuses.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:22 > 0:02:29Johannes Vermeer, Jack Worthing, Lord Henry Wotton, Professor George Falconer, Fitzwilliam Darcy
0:02:29 > 0:02:34and King George VI are among the screen roles of which British...
0:02:35 > 0:02:36Colin Firth.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38Correct, yes.
0:02:40 > 0:02:44Your first bonuses, then, Worcester College, are on an African river.
0:02:44 > 0:02:48The Zambezi is the longest African river to drain into the Indian Ocean.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51What is the second longest, rising as the Crocodile River in central southern Africa,
0:02:51 > 0:02:56and draining into the Indian Ocean after a series of rapids in Mozambique?
0:02:57 > 0:02:59I think it's the Limpopo.
0:02:59 > 0:03:03- Limpopo?- He has been boning up on world geography! Yes.
0:03:03 > 0:03:07For much of its course, the Limpopo forms the border between South Africa
0:03:07 > 0:03:09and two other countries. One's Zimbabwe, what's the other?
0:03:09 > 0:03:13- Erm...- Botswana?- Yeah, try that.
0:03:13 > 0:03:15Botswana?
0:03:15 > 0:03:18Correct, yes. The Limpopo borders which national park
0:03:18 > 0:03:20at the north-eastern corner of South Africa?
0:03:20 > 0:03:23In 2002,it became part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Game Park.
0:03:23 > 0:03:27- I think it's the Kruger.- Kruger?
0:03:27 > 0:03:29It is the Kruger, yes. Right, ten points for this.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34What five-letter word links the highest mountain of Switzerland,
0:03:34 > 0:03:37a game played with three cards, often fraudulently,
0:03:37 > 0:03:41a major tourist attraction of Monaco, and a Benedictine
0:03:41 > 0:03:44monastery to the south of Rome, destroyed in a battle of 1944?
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Monte?
0:03:46 > 0:03:48Monte is correct, yes.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53Now, your first bonuses, Queen's College, are on mottos.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56Multum in parvo, meaning much in little,
0:03:56 > 0:03:58is the motto of which small English county that's home to
0:03:58 > 0:04:02one of the largest reservoirs in Western Europe?
0:04:05 > 0:04:06Rutland?
0:04:06 > 0:04:10Correct. Associated with the engineer noted for his work in draining the Fens,
0:04:10 > 0:04:14the motto of South Cambridgeshire District Council
0:04:14 > 0:04:16translates as "nothing without effort",
0:04:16 > 0:04:20and is thought to be the only British civic motto in which language?
0:04:26 > 0:04:27Dutch?
0:04:27 > 0:04:32Correct, and the city of Exeter and the town of St Malo in Brittany
0:04:32 > 0:04:35share what Latin motto meaning "always faithful"?
0:04:35 > 0:04:37Nominate.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39Semper fidelis?
0:04:39 > 0:04:42Correct. Also the US Marine Corps, of course.
0:04:42 > 0:04:46Right, ten points for this starter question. Similar in appearance, what two seven-letter words mean
0:04:46 > 0:04:51respectively - person considered to have powers such as telepathy or clairvoyance,
0:04:51 > 0:04:54and science dealing with the properties...
0:04:54 > 0:04:56Psychic?
0:04:56 > 0:05:00I'm afraid you lose five points. ..with the properties and interactions of matter and energy?
0:05:02 > 0:05:04- Psychic and physics.- Correct.
0:05:05 > 0:05:09Right, your bonuses this time, Worcester College, are on explorers.
0:05:09 > 0:05:14Which two British explorers became, in February 1858, the first Europeans to reach Lake Tanganyika?
0:05:16 > 0:05:20- Stanley and Livingstone. - Stanley and Livingstone?
0:05:20 > 0:05:24No, it was Burton and Speke. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
0:05:24 > 0:05:29led the first US expedition across the American interior to the Pacific Northwest in 1804.
0:05:29 > 0:05:33What two-word term denotes the major territorial acquisition that they were to survey?
0:05:35 > 0:05:38- Louisiana Purchase?- Correct.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41What were the surnames of the two explorers who led an expedition
0:05:41 > 0:05:44of 1860-61 across Australia from the south to the far north?
0:05:44 > 0:05:46Both of them died on the return journey.
0:05:53 > 0:05:57My guess is...Wallace. I think one's Wallace.
0:05:57 > 0:06:03- Who?- I think one's Wallace. Wallace...and Edwrads, or something.
0:06:03 > 0:06:04Wallace and Edwards?
0:06:04 > 0:06:09No, it's Burke and Wills. Ten points for this. Which language did the philologist Sir William Jones
0:06:09 > 0:06:12describe in 1786 as "More perfect than the Greek, more..."
0:06:14 > 0:06:15Sanskrit.
0:06:15 > 0:06:17Sanskrit is correct, yes.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21Your bonuses, Queen's College,
0:06:21 > 0:06:24are on Chemistry. Meaning "becoming salt", what term denotes the group of elements
0:06:24 > 0:06:29in the periodic table that form a salt by direct union with a metal?
0:06:33 > 0:06:34Halogens?
0:06:34 > 0:06:37Correct. Which of the halogens is a radioactive element with a short half life,
0:06:37 > 0:06:39and therefore rare in nature?
0:06:39 > 0:06:43It's the heaviest element of the group, and has the symbol At.
0:06:43 > 0:06:44Astatine.
0:06:44 > 0:06:49Correct. Which pale yellow gas is the least dense and chemically the most active of the halogens?
0:06:49 > 0:06:53It displaces the other halogens from their compounds, and displaces oxygen from water?
0:06:53 > 0:06:54Fluorine.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57Correct. We're going to take a picture round, now.
0:06:57 > 0:06:59Your picture starter is a diagram.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01For ten points, simply tell me
0:07:01 > 0:07:03the person who created it.
0:07:11 > 0:07:12Florence Nightingale?
0:07:12 > 0:07:18Yes, it is. It's the causes of mortality of the Army in the Crimean War.
0:07:18 > 0:07:20That was one of the earliest examples of a pie chart.
0:07:20 > 0:07:24For your bonuses, three more historically significant diagrams.
0:07:24 > 0:07:28In each case, name the scientist who drew it. Firstly, who drew this?
0:07:33 > 0:07:35Copernicus?
0:07:35 > 0:07:37Correct. Secondly, who drew this?
0:07:42 > 0:07:45- Darwin?- Darwin's first diagram of an evolutionary tree, yes.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47Finally, who drew this?
0:07:54 > 0:07:55Isaac Newton?
0:07:55 > 0:07:56Correct, yes.
0:07:59 > 0:08:03Another starter question. Sociable, masked and yellow-wattled
0:08:03 > 0:08:06are three species of which bird of the plover family?
0:08:06 > 0:08:09The northern species, sometimes called...
0:08:09 > 0:08:10Lapwing.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12Correct, yes.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16Your bonuses are on the names of railway stations, Worcester College.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19The full name of which English railway station refers to
0:08:19 > 0:08:21the meadows within the parish of a nearby church,
0:08:21 > 0:08:26established by the Knights Templar in the 12th century?
0:08:26 > 0:08:27Bristol Temple Meads?
0:08:27 > 0:08:31Correct. Which London railway terminus derives its name from a church
0:08:31 > 0:08:35built on the bank of a small stream, then called the Tyburn?
0:08:35 > 0:08:37Marylebone?
0:08:37 > 0:08:40Correct. In which British city is the main railway station named after
0:08:40 > 0:08:43a series of novels published between 1814 and 1831?
0:08:53 > 0:08:54Hull?
0:08:54 > 0:08:58No, it's Edinburgh, Edinburgh Waverley being the station in question.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01Right, ten points for this. When denoting an alloy used to enclose uranium fuel elements
0:09:01 > 0:09:06in some nuclear reactors, for what does the abbreviation magnox stand?
0:09:10 > 0:09:15- Manganese oxide?- No. Anyone like to buzz from Queen's College?
0:09:17 > 0:09:21It's magnesium non-oxidising. Ten points for this.
0:09:21 > 0:09:24Chevalier, Officer, Commander, Grand Officer and Grand Cross are
0:09:24 > 0:09:27the five grades of which award for civil and military service...
0:09:28 > 0:09:30- The Legion d'honneur.- Correct.
0:09:33 > 0:09:37Your bonuses, Queen's College, are on pairs of words whose spelling differs by the substitution
0:09:37 > 0:09:40of a double "o" for a single "o" in the middle.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42For example, cop and coop.
0:09:42 > 0:09:46In each case, give both words from the definitions provided.
0:09:46 > 0:09:50Firstly, for five points, the bouquet of wine or whisky,
0:09:50 > 0:09:55and a loop with a running knot, sometimes used to symbolise marriage.
0:10:06 > 0:10:09- Let's have an answer, please.- Pass.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11It's nose and noose.
0:10:11 > 0:10:16Secondly, built with a hemispherical vault, and destined for catastrophe.
0:10:18 > 0:10:19Domed and doomed.
0:10:19 > 0:10:26Correct. One with an unusual fondness for alcohol, and carbonaceous deposit in chimneys.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30Sot and soot.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32Correct. Ten points for this.
0:10:32 > 0:10:35Answer as soon as you buzz. At 248 metres, Ditchling Beacon, near Brighton,
0:10:35 > 0:10:39is higher than the highest point in five US states.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41One of them is Rhode Island.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43For ten points, name two of the other four states.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48Delaware and Florida.
0:10:48 > 0:10:52Correct, the others are Louisiana and Mississippi.
0:10:53 > 0:10:58Right, your bonuses this time, Worcester College, are on the Pulitzer Prize.
0:10:58 > 0:11:02Which political figure won the 1957 prize in biography for Profiles in Courage,
0:11:02 > 0:11:06recounting acts of bravery and integrity by US senators?
0:11:13 > 0:11:16Eisenhower?
0:11:16 > 0:11:18No, it was John F. Kennedy. Secondly, which trumpeter became
0:11:18 > 0:11:20the first jazz artist to win the prize for music,
0:11:20 > 0:11:25when he won the award for his 1997 performance piece Blood On The Fields?
0:11:34 > 0:11:36- Nominate Knapp.- Herb Alpert?
0:11:36 > 0:11:39Herb Alpert?! No, it's Wynton Marsalis.
0:11:39 > 0:11:45In April 2010, the cartoonist Mark Fiore became the first journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize
0:11:45 > 0:11:47while working solely in what medium?
0:11:47 > 0:11:50Television?
0:11:50 > 0:11:52Photography?
0:11:52 > 0:11:55- I don't know.- Shall we go with that? - Go with that.
0:11:55 > 0:11:56Photography?
0:11:56 > 0:11:58No, it's online, or on the Internet. Ten points for this.
0:11:58 > 0:12:02Hydrogen has three isotopes - protium, tritium and which other?
0:12:05 > 0:12:06Deuterium.
0:12:06 > 0:12:08Correct.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11Your bonuses are on galaxies, Worcester.
0:12:11 > 0:12:15The Whirlpool and Andromeda galaxies are among those objects which
0:12:15 > 0:12:18have designations referring to which French astronomer,
0:12:18 > 0:12:20who catalogued the first of them in 1774?
0:12:20 > 0:12:23- It begins with an M, I think. - No idea!
0:12:23 > 0:12:24- Messier?- Yeah, Messier.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26Messier?
0:12:26 > 0:12:30Messier is right. Which US astronomer's name is given to the spiral galaxies with
0:12:30 > 0:12:33brilliant nuclei and faint arms, first described by him in 1943,
0:12:33 > 0:12:36and also to a specific series of six galaxies?
0:12:39 > 0:12:41Hubble?
0:12:41 > 0:12:46No, it's Seyfert. And finally, in Markarian galaxies, named after an Armenian astrophysicist,
0:12:46 > 0:12:48emit excessive amounts of what form of radiation?
0:12:52 > 0:12:53X-rays?
0:12:53 > 0:12:56No, it's ultraviolet. Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59For your music starter, you'll hear an extract from an opera.
0:12:59 > 0:13:00Ten points if you can name the opera.
0:13:14 > 0:13:15Is it La Boheme?
0:13:15 > 0:13:17It's not. Queen's College, you can hear a little more.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26Lakme?
0:13:26 > 0:13:29It is Lakme, yes.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33- I'm amazed it took you so long! - Yeah!
0:13:33 > 0:13:37Right, that was the Flower Duet, of course, from Lakme.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40Your music bonuses, three more operas set in Asian countries.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43Five points if you can name both the opera and the Asian country where the opera is set.
0:13:43 > 0:13:48Firstly, for five, a work which premiered in 1987.
0:13:57 > 0:14:03SPEECH INAUDIBLE OVER MUSIC
0:14:10 > 0:14:12- Pass. - LAUGHTER
0:14:12 > 0:14:16After all of that? Oh, dear!
0:14:16 > 0:14:18It's Nixon In China, of course, it's China, then.
0:14:18 > 0:14:22Secondly, this Italian opera premiered in 1898.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24I'd like the country it's set in, please.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45Japan?
0:14:45 > 0:14:46Yes, and the opera?
0:14:46 > 0:14:47Madame Butterfly.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50No, it's Iris. And finally...
0:15:17 > 0:15:18Pass.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21That's from The Pearl Fishers, which is set in Ceylon, or Sri Lanka.
0:15:21 > 0:15:27Ten points for this. "The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence
0:15:27 > 0:15:33in our English." Those words, by William Caxton, described which poet, born around 1343?
0:15:33 > 0:15:35Chaucer.
0:15:35 > 0:15:36Correct.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41Your bonuses are on architecture.
0:15:41 > 0:15:45New York's Seagram Building and Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois
0:15:45 > 0:15:50were designed by which German architect who declared, "less is more"?
0:15:53 > 0:15:55- Nominate Sloman. - Mies van der Rohe.
0:15:55 > 0:15:59Correct. What did Adolf Loos, the designer of the Steiner House in Vienna,
0:15:59 > 0:16:03describe as a crime in an article of 1908?
0:16:14 > 0:16:15Fountains?
0:16:15 > 0:16:19No, ornament! They'd probably be included, though.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21In his 1923 work Toward an Architecture,
0:16:21 > 0:16:25which Swiss-born architect stated that "the plan is the generator",
0:16:25 > 0:16:28meaning one should always start from the floorplan?
0:16:32 > 0:16:33Busier?
0:16:33 > 0:16:35- Le Corbusier.- Le Corbusier?
0:16:35 > 0:16:38No, I'm afraid I have to take your first answer, and you misheard it.
0:16:38 > 0:16:42He had it right, it's Le Corbusier. Right, ten points for this.
0:16:42 > 0:16:46"All things are from water, and all things are resolved into water."
0:16:46 > 0:16:49These words are attributed to which pre-Socratic philosopher,
0:16:49 > 0:16:52born in Miletus around 625BC?
0:16:55 > 0:16:56Parmenides?
0:16:56 > 0:16:58No. Worcester?
0:16:58 > 0:16:59One of you buzz.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Anaxagoras?
0:17:03 > 0:17:05No, it's Thales. Ten points for this.
0:17:05 > 0:17:09Which conflict of July 1969 is so named because troubles...
0:17:11 > 0:17:12The Football War?
0:17:12 > 0:17:14Yes, well done!
0:17:16 > 0:17:19If you get these bonuses, you'll take the lead, Queen's College.
0:17:19 > 0:17:23They're on Nobel Laureates. In each case, I'll give you the name of the first woman
0:17:23 > 0:17:26to win the Nobel Prize in a specific field.
0:17:26 > 0:17:31For five points each, you have to name the prize and the decade in which they won it.
0:17:31 > 0:17:35Firstly, for five points, Bertha von Suttner.
0:17:35 > 0:17:38Come on, let's have a guess.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41THEY CONFER
0:17:47 > 0:17:50- Medicine?- Maybe.- In what decade?
0:17:50 > 0:17:53Come on, then.
0:17:53 > 0:17:54Er, medicine, 1960s?
0:17:54 > 0:17:59No, it was Peace, and it was between 1900 and 1910, she got it in 1905.
0:17:59 > 0:18:01Second, Gerty Theresa Cori.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05It's not Peace.
0:18:05 > 0:18:10- Not Peace, so we've got it down to five!- I don't think it's Economics.
0:18:10 > 0:18:13- Medicine?- Yeah, well done.
0:18:13 > 0:18:15Medicine, 1920s?
0:18:15 > 0:18:19No. It was Medicine, but it was the 1940s. And finally, Elinor Ostrom.
0:18:19 > 0:18:26- Physics. The '70S?- Curie got Physics. - Curie was the first one for Physics? - Yeah. Well, I don't know,
0:18:26 > 0:18:30- but it won't be the '70s.- OK.
0:18:30 > 0:18:35- What decade, any idea?- '60s.
0:18:35 > 0:18:36Economics, 1960s?
0:18:36 > 0:18:40No, bad luck. It was Economics, but it was in 2009.
0:18:40 > 0:18:41Ten points for this.
0:18:41 > 0:18:45The name of which chemical element links the mammal vulpes fulva,
0:18:45 > 0:18:48the trees abies alba and betula alba...
0:18:48 > 0:18:50Tungsten?
0:18:50 > 0:18:52No, I'm afraid you lose five points...
0:18:52 > 0:18:55..and Roman authors including Martial, Tacitus and Pliny?
0:18:57 > 0:18:58Silver.
0:18:58 > 0:19:00Silver is correct, yes.
0:19:02 > 0:19:04OK, these bonuses, Worcester College, are on New York.
0:19:04 > 0:19:08Which major city of New York state derives its name from an honorific title
0:19:08 > 0:19:12originally bestowed on young, male members of the Dutch nobility?
0:19:17 > 0:19:18Yonkers.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21Correct. Which district of New York City derives its name
0:19:21 > 0:19:23from a Dutch word meaning farm, because it was built on
0:19:23 > 0:19:27the site of that owned by the governor, Peter Stuyvesant?
0:19:29 > 0:19:30- The Bronx?- No, it's Bowery.
0:19:30 > 0:19:34And finally, which borough of New York became an independent city in the 1830s,
0:19:34 > 0:19:37but reverted to being part of greater New York in the 1890s,
0:19:37 > 0:19:41after the construction of a bridge linking it to Manhattan?
0:19:42 > 0:19:43Long Island?
0:19:43 > 0:19:46No, it's Brooklyn. We're going to take our second picture round.
0:19:46 > 0:19:49Your picture starter is a photograph of a sculpture.
0:19:49 > 0:19:52Ten points if you can give me the name of the artist.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59Anish Kapoor?
0:19:59 > 0:20:01It is Anish Kapoor, yes.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05That's his Cloud Gate in Chicago.
0:20:05 > 0:20:09Picture bonuses, three more works of public art, this time in the United Kingdom.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12Five points each if you can give me the name of the artist. Firstly...
0:20:18 > 0:20:20Moore?
0:20:20 > 0:20:22Henry Moore is correct, yes. Secondly...
0:20:29 > 0:20:31Mark Wallinger?
0:20:31 > 0:20:34No, it's not. It's Andy Scott, I'm afraid, his Heavy Horse. And, finally...
0:20:36 > 0:20:39- Nominate Knapp.- Antony Gormley.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42Yes, Another Place, well done. Ten points for this.
0:20:42 > 0:20:45Differing only in the order of their initial two letters,
0:20:45 > 0:20:50which two terms mean "height above sea level" and "distance from the equator"?
0:20:50 > 0:20:52Er, elevation and...
0:20:52 > 0:20:54No.
0:20:54 > 0:20:56Altitude and latitude.
0:20:56 > 0:20:58Correct.
0:21:00 > 0:21:03Right. Your bonuses, this time, are on words that begin with the same letters.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05In each case, give the word from the description.
0:21:05 > 0:21:09Firstly, a toroidal apparatus used for producing controlled fusion reactions in hot plasma.
0:21:16 > 0:21:17Torus Reactor?
0:21:17 > 0:21:22No, it's a tokamac. The last shogunate of Japan, founded in the early 17th century
0:21:22 > 0:21:23and overthrown in 1867.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28Nominate Metzer.
0:21:28 > 0:21:29Is it Tokugawa?
0:21:29 > 0:21:33Correct. And finally, a sweet, aromatic wine made in north-eastern Hungary.
0:21:37 > 0:21:38Tokaji.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40Tokaji is correct, yes. Another starter question now.
0:21:40 > 0:21:44"Colourless green ideas sleep furiously."
0:21:44 > 0:21:47That sentence was devised by which US linguist...
0:21:47 > 0:21:48Noam Chomsky.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50Correct.
0:21:50 > 0:21:54Your bonuses this time, Queen's College, are on cruciferous plants.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57Armoracia rusticana, used in cooking, has a root which,
0:21:57 > 0:22:01when cut, produces an oil that irritates the eyes and sinuses,
0:22:01 > 0:22:02and has what common name?
0:22:02 > 0:22:08- Oil? It's not Arnica, is it?- No.
0:22:08 > 0:22:12- Which oil?- I was going to go for some sort of herb, but...
0:22:12 > 0:22:13Go for it.
0:22:13 > 0:22:14Rosemary?
0:22:14 > 0:22:16No, it's horseradish.
0:22:16 > 0:22:20Lunaria is cultivated for its flat, translucent seedpods,
0:22:20 > 0:22:23sometimes known as moonpennies, and has what common name?
0:22:30 > 0:22:31Almond?
0:22:31 > 0:22:35No. Honesty. Isatis tinctoria, a cruciferous plant that's been used to produce an indigo dye,
0:22:35 > 0:22:37has what common name?
0:22:40 > 0:22:41Mada?
0:22:41 > 0:22:44No, it's woad. Five minutes to go, ten points for this.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47Which historical term for a public stagecoach is also an abstract noun,
0:22:47 > 0:22:49meaning "persistent application and endeavour"?
0:22:51 > 0:22:52Diligence.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54Correct.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59Your bonuses are on the films of David Lean this time.
0:22:59 > 0:23:02In each case, identify the film from its description. Firstly, based on a novel
0:23:02 > 0:23:08by the French author Pierre Boulle, a 1957 Oscar-winning film starring Alec Guinness.
0:23:13 > 0:23:17- Gigi? - No, it's Bridge over the River Kwai.
0:23:17 > 0:23:21Based on a play by Noel Coward, a 1945 film starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson.
0:23:25 > 0:23:27Brief Encounter.
0:23:27 > 0:23:32Correct. Based on a novel by Charles Dickens, a 1946 film starring John Mills and Valerie Hobson.
0:23:38 > 0:23:39Oliver Twist?
0:23:39 > 0:23:41No, it's Great Expectations.
0:23:41 > 0:23:44Ten points for this. Who, at Pebble Beach Links in California in June 2010,
0:23:44 > 0:23:48became the first UK winner of the US Open since Tony...
0:23:48 > 0:23:49Graeme McDowell?
0:23:49 > 0:23:52Graeme McDowell is correct.
0:23:53 > 0:23:55Right, your bonuses, Worcester College, are on Greek prefixes.
0:23:55 > 0:24:01What prefix, derived from the Greek for stranger, forms part of one word meaning a fragment of rock
0:24:01 > 0:24:05incorporated in magma, and another meaning a dislike of foreigners?
0:24:06 > 0:24:07Xeno?
0:24:07 > 0:24:11Xeno is right. The prefix "xyl", that's X-Y-L,
0:24:11 > 0:24:14denotes objects or substances derived from what material?
0:24:16 > 0:24:18Wood.
0:24:18 > 0:24:20Correct. What is the literal meaning of the prefix "xero",
0:24:20 > 0:24:25that's X-E-R-O, found in words such as xerocopy and xerophyte?
0:24:32 > 0:24:34Copying?
0:24:34 > 0:24:37No, it's dry. Three and a half minutes to go, ten points for this.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40In Greek mythology, Geryon, the three-bodied giant of Erytheia,
0:24:40 > 0:24:44is killed and has his cattle stolen by which divine hero?
0:24:47 > 0:24:48Hermes.
0:24:48 > 0:24:51No. Anyone like to buzz...
0:24:51 > 0:24:53Heracles?
0:24:53 > 0:24:55Heracles is correct, yes.
0:24:56 > 0:25:00The tenth of his labours. Your bonuses, this time, are on the Pacific Theatre in World War II.
0:25:00 > 0:25:04In each case, give the present-day country in which the following battles took place.
0:25:04 > 0:25:07Firstly, the Battle of Tarawa in November 1943.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14Papua New Guinea.
0:25:14 > 0:25:19No, it's Kiribati. Secondly, the Guadalcanal campaign from August 1942 to February 1943.
0:25:25 > 0:25:28Philippines?
0:25:28 > 0:25:32No, it was in the Solomon Islands. And finally, in the Battles of Bataan and Corregidor in early 1942.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37Philippines?
0:25:37 > 0:25:39That was the Philippines, yes. Ten points for this.
0:25:39 > 0:25:44In ecology, the terms photo, geo, helio and hydro can all prefix what word...
0:25:44 > 0:25:47- Tropism.- Tropism, or tropic, is correct.
0:25:47 > 0:25:51Your bonuses, this time, are on exiles, Queen's College.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54St John is said to have written the book of Revelation
0:25:54 > 0:25:58while in exile on which Greek island in the Aegean?
0:25:58 > 0:25:59- Nominate.- Patmos.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02Correct. Which Spanish painter and engraver, whose etchings
0:26:02 > 0:26:06"The Disasters of War" depicted the horrors of the French invasion of Spain,
0:26:06 > 0:26:09spent his last years in voluntary exile in Bordeaux?
0:26:09 > 0:26:10Goya.
0:26:10 > 0:26:14Correct. In 1960, after leaving Tibet, at which hill station in northern India
0:26:14 > 0:26:16did the Dalai Lama set up his government in exile?
0:26:16 > 0:26:18- Nominate.- Dharamsala.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20Correct. Ten points for this. During the 20th century,
0:26:20 > 0:26:26there were two years in which two general elections were held...
0:26:26 > 0:26:281910 and 1974.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30That's correct, yes.
0:26:31 > 0:26:36Your bonuses, this time - if you get any, you'll be on level pegging - are on anagrams of the word "omen".
0:26:36 > 0:26:39Firstly, "nemo me impune lacessit" is a Latin motto,
0:26:39 > 0:26:42principally associated with which flowering plant?
0:26:42 > 0:26:44Thistle.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47Correct. Meno is a Socratic dialogue that attempts to define what
0:26:47 > 0:26:51general ethical concept, known in Greek as arete?
0:26:51 > 0:26:52Virtue?
0:26:52 > 0:26:55Correct. Nome, a town situated on an inlet of the Bering Sea,
0:26:55 > 0:27:00was formerly the largest settlement of which US state?
0:27:00 > 0:27:01Alaska.
0:27:01 > 0:27:05Correct. That gives us level pegging. Ten points for this starter question.
0:27:05 > 0:27:09Published in 1850, Rebecca and Rowena, by William Thackeray, is a humorous sequel
0:27:09 > 0:27:11to which novel by Walter Scott?
0:27:12 > 0:27:13- Ivanhoe. - CHEERING
0:27:13 > 0:27:17Correct. Your bonuses, this time, are on seaside settings in fiction.
0:27:17 > 0:27:24Firstly, for five, in which novel of 2007 by Ian McEwan do Edward and Florence spend their wedding night
0:27:24 > 0:27:25at a hotel on the Dorset coast?
0:27:25 > 0:27:27On Chesil Beach.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29Correct. Dickens's David Copperfield describes which town on
0:27:29 > 0:27:31the Norfolk coast as "rather spongy and soppy",
0:27:31 > 0:27:36only to be told that it was "upon the whole, the finest place in the universe"?
0:27:36 > 0:27:38- Come on, let's have it, please. - Pass.- Cromer.
0:27:38 > 0:27:41No, it's Great Yarmouth. Set in a Sussex seaside town,
0:27:41 > 0:27:46which the entrepreneurial Mr Parker hopes to develop into a fashionable resort,
0:27:46 > 0:27:50Sanditon is an unfinished novel by which author?
0:27:50 > 0:27:51Let's have it.
0:27:51 > 0:27:53Anthony Trollope?
0:27:53 > 0:27:56- No, it's Jane Austen. Ten points... - GONG
0:27:56 > 0:27:57And Queen's College, Oxford have 185,
0:27:57 > 0:28:00Worcester College, Oxford have 200.
0:28:05 > 0:28:09Well, it was a great match, and very, very closely fought indeed.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11We'll have to say goodbye to you, Queen's,
0:28:11 > 0:28:15but it was a terrific performance. To go out on 185 is pretty distinguished,
0:28:15 > 0:28:18so you'll be fine in the bar when this is transmitted!
0:28:18 > 0:28:21And, Worcester College, 200, another great performance from you.
0:28:21 > 0:28:23We shall look forward to seeing you in the quarter-finals.
0:28:23 > 0:28:27- I hope you can join us next time. Until then, it's goodbye from Queen's College, Oxford.- Goodbye.
0:28:27 > 0:28:30- It's goodbye from Worcester College, Oxford.- Goodbye.
0:28:30 > 0:28:32And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.
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