0:00:18 > 0:00:20University Challenge!
0:00:20 > 0:00:23Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:31Hello. Ahead of us lies another 30 minutes of panning for gold
0:00:31 > 0:00:34in the babbling waters of the student mind
0:00:34 > 0:00:38with a place in the quarter-finals for whichever team glitters tonight.
0:00:38 > 0:00:44The team from Christ Church, Oxford were on impressive form in Round One against the University of Bath
0:00:44 > 0:00:50whom they beat by 270 points to 105, putting them among the highest scoring teams through to this stage.
0:00:50 > 0:00:54Mathematics, physics and classical music were among their strengths
0:00:54 > 0:01:01and whatever happens tonight, they include some of the best-dressed students to appear on this programme
0:01:01 > 0:01:04since television went into colour. Let's meet them again.
0:01:04 > 0:01:08Hello. I'm Thomas Hine from Middlesex reading Ancient and Modern History.
0:01:08 > 0:01:12I'm Will Peveler from Southampton and I'm reading Chemistry.
0:01:12 > 0:01:16- Their captain.- I'm George Scratcherd from Northumberland,
0:01:16 > 0:01:18reading for a DPhil in History.
0:01:18 > 0:01:22I'm Nimish Telang from Pittsburgh and I'm reading Mathematics.
0:01:22 > 0:01:24APPLAUSE
0:01:25 > 0:01:30The team from Manchester University also had a walk in the park in Round One
0:01:30 > 0:01:34when they defenestrated Selwyn College, Cambridge by 255 to 70.
0:01:34 > 0:01:40That was despite a lamentable ignorance of 20th century opera and not knowing much about Scotland,
0:01:40 > 0:01:46but they did know about Descartes, the history of fingerprinting and what goes into eau-de-cologne.
0:01:46 > 0:01:48Let's meet the team again.
0:01:48 > 0:01:51Hi, I'm Luke Kelly from Kent and I'm studying History.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55I'm Michael McKenna from Lancashire and I'm studying Biochemistry.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58- Their captain. - I'm Tristan Burke from Yorkshire,
0:01:58 > 0:02:01studying English Literature.
0:02:01 > 0:02:03I'm Paul Joyce from Lancashire,
0:02:03 > 0:02:06studying for a Masters in Social Research, Methods and Statistics.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09APPLAUSE
0:02:10 > 0:02:16Usual rules. 10 points for starters, 15 for bonuses, 5-point penalties for incorrect interruptions.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19Fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:19 > 0:02:25Which 19th century figure fought for the Liberal Coalition in the Uruguayan Civil War,
0:02:25 > 0:02:29during which time he adopted the red shirt associated with...
0:02:29 > 0:02:32- Garibaldi.- Garibaldi is correct, yes.
0:02:32 > 0:02:36The first set of bonuses, Manchester, are on theatre.
0:02:36 > 0:02:41Firstly, "self-pitying snivel" is how The Evening Standard greeted the premiere
0:02:41 > 0:02:47in 1956 of which three-act play whose action takes place in a one-room flat in the Midlands?
0:02:47 > 0:02:52- Look Back In Anger.- Correct. Which theatre critic and supporter of the play wrote,
0:02:52 > 0:02:57"I doubt if I could love anyone who did not wish to see Look Back In Anger"?
0:02:57 > 0:03:02- Kenneth Tynan.- Correct. Described by Tynan as "the completest young pup in our literature
0:03:02 > 0:03:07"since Hamlet, Prince of Denmark," who is the protagonist of Look Back In Anger?
0:03:07 > 0:03:11- Jimmy Porter.- Correct. Another starter question.
0:03:11 > 0:03:17What final three letters are shared by words meaning: pretence of strength or confidence to deceive,
0:03:17 > 0:03:19the end part of a sleeve,
0:03:19 > 0:03:22a yellowish-beige colour...
0:03:22 > 0:03:24- U-F-F.- Correct.
0:03:26 > 0:03:30Your first set of bonuses are on football clubs.
0:03:30 > 0:03:36Firstly, the only Chilean side to have won the Copa Libertadores of South America,
0:03:36 > 0:03:40which Santiago club takes its name from a Mapuche chief
0:03:40 > 0:03:44who resisted the Spanish colonialists of the 16th century?
0:03:44 > 0:03:47WHISPERING
0:03:48 > 0:03:51- Boca Juniors?- No, it's Colo Colo.
0:03:51 > 0:03:56Willem II is a club based in which Dutch city where the future monarch had his military HQ
0:03:56 > 0:04:00during the Belgian uprising of 1830?
0:04:00 > 0:04:06- Antwerp? Antwerp?- No, Tilburg. Which Brazilian football club takes its name from the Portuguese explorer
0:04:06 > 0:04:10who was the first westerner to sail round the Cape of Good Hope to Asia?
0:04:10 > 0:04:15- Vasco da Gama.- Correct. Another starter. Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:04:15 > 0:04:19Light from the Sun takes around 8 minutes, 20 seconds to reach Earth,
0:04:19 > 0:04:22a distance of one astronomical unit.
0:04:22 > 0:04:28How many astronomical units does light travel in a day? You can have 5 units either way.
0:04:34 > 0:04:37- 30.- No. Manchester, one of you buzz?
0:04:39 > 0:04:42- 25.- You're just making it up, aren't you?
0:04:42 > 0:04:48- Of course I am.- It's 173. Right, ten points for this.
0:04:48 > 0:04:52Quote: "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."
0:04:52 > 0:04:55In which novel of 1813 do those words appear?
0:04:56 > 0:04:58- Pride And Prejudice.- Correct.
0:04:58 > 0:05:02Your bonuses, Christ Church, this time are on a ritual.
0:05:02 > 0:05:08Meaning "act of faith", what phrase is used for the burning at the stake of heretics
0:05:08 > 0:05:12condemned by the Inquisition, last carried out in Spain in 1781?
0:05:12 > 0:05:18- Auto-da-fe.- Correct. "The burning of a few people alive by a slow fire and with great ceremony
0:05:18 > 0:05:22"is an infallible preventative of earthquakes," wrote Voltaire,
0:05:22 > 0:05:27attacking the rituals carried out after the earthquake in 1755 in which city?
0:05:27 > 0:05:32- Lisbon.- Correct. An auto-da-fe begins at the end of the 3rd Act of which opera by Verdi,
0:05:32 > 0:05:38based on a play by Schiller, its title character being a 16th century Prince of Asturias?
0:05:40 > 0:05:42WHISPERING
0:05:44 > 0:05:46It's Don...
0:05:46 > 0:05:49- Don Giovanni? - No, it's not Don Giovanni.
0:05:52 > 0:05:57- I think we need an answer. - Don Giovanni.- Don Giovanni?! No, it's Don Carlos.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:06:00 > 0:06:03In terms of postal and internet abbreviations,
0:06:03 > 0:06:08if Alabama is Albania and Georgia is Gabon, what is California?
0:06:10 > 0:06:12- Canada.- Canada is correct, yes.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17Postal abbreviations, internet designations.
0:06:17 > 0:06:21Your bonuses this time are on mammalian blood.
0:06:21 > 0:06:25Having a kidney-shaped nucleus, what are the largest leucocytes?
0:06:25 > 0:06:30The precursors of macrophages, they are produced in bone marrow and stored mainly in the spleen.
0:06:35 > 0:06:38WHISPERING
0:06:39 > 0:06:42- Come on.- Lymphocyte?- No, monocytes.
0:06:42 > 0:06:47Classical monocytes carry the cell surface glycoprotein CD14.
0:06:47 > 0:06:50For what do the letters C and D stand?
0:06:50 > 0:06:52WHISPERING
0:06:55 > 0:07:00- Cytokine defence?- No, it's cluster of differentiation gene.
0:07:00 > 0:07:05What term is applied to the process by which macrophages are able to ingest
0:07:05 > 0:07:08and destroy foreign particles such as bacteria?
0:07:08 > 0:07:11WHISPERING
0:07:11 > 0:07:15- Endocytosis?- Yes, that's right, or phagocytosis, correct, yes.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18We'll take a picture round now. For your starter,
0:07:18 > 0:07:22you'll see the name of a country written in its state language.
0:07:22 > 0:07:26Ten points if you can name the country.
0:07:27 > 0:07:32- Kazakhstan.- Kazakhstan is right. In Cyrillic script there.
0:07:32 > 0:07:38Your bonuses are the names of three more former Soviet republics as they appear in local script.
0:07:38 > 0:07:44In each case, I want the English name of the country. Firstly, for five points, which country is this?
0:07:45 > 0:07:47Any ideas?
0:07:49 > 0:07:52- Lithuania?- No.
0:07:53 > 0:07:58- Any ideas at all?- Is it Armen...? No.- I'm going to try that.
0:07:58 > 0:08:02- Armenia.- It was Armenia, yes. Secondly, which country is this?
0:08:02 > 0:08:08- Is that somewhere like Mongolia? - That's not a former Soviet republic.- Somewhere like that?
0:08:08 > 0:08:11Tajikistan, Uzbekistan? I don't know.
0:08:11 > 0:08:13Tajikistan would be a good guess.
0:08:13 > 0:08:18- Tajikistan.- No, that's Georgia. Finally, which country is this?
0:08:19 > 0:08:21- Belarus?- Belarus?
0:08:21 > 0:08:25- Just because it's got a B-like letter.- Why not? Belarus.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28It is Belarus. Ten points for this.
0:08:28 > 0:08:33Noted for a dialectic between man and machine called the Biomechanical Aesthetic,
0:08:33 > 0:08:39which Swiss surrealist designed the eponymous entity and its environment for Ridley Scott's 1979 film Alien?
0:08:40 > 0:08:43- HR Giger.- Correct.
0:08:45 > 0:08:48Your bonuses this time are on an adjective.
0:08:48 > 0:08:55"The victorious" is the meaning of the Arabic name of which African city, referring to the arrival
0:08:55 > 0:09:01in 974 of the Fatimid Caliph Al-Muizz, the city being established as the capital of the Caliphate?
0:09:03 > 0:09:06WHISPERING
0:09:08 > 0:09:10- Khartoum.- No, it's Cairo.
0:09:10 > 0:09:17The first active mission of the aircraft carrier HMS Victorious was an air strike of May 24th, 1941,
0:09:17 > 0:09:21against which German battleship which sank three days later?
0:09:21 > 0:09:27- Bismarck.- Correct. Which African President, who died in 2003, had awarded himself the VC,
0:09:27 > 0:09:33meaning "Victorious Cross", and had appointed himself CBE, meaning "Conqueror of the British Empire"?
0:09:33 > 0:09:37- Idi Amin.- Correct. Another starter question now.
0:09:37 > 0:09:41What term for a blood feud between families, arising out of a killing...
0:09:41 > 0:09:44- Vendetta.- Vendetta is correct, yes.
0:09:44 > 0:09:48Right, your bonuses are on sisters in literature.
0:09:48 > 0:09:55Both performers in a song-and-dance variety act, the twin sisters Nora and Dora Chance are characters
0:09:55 > 0:09:58in Wise Children, the final novel of which writer?
0:09:58 > 0:10:05- Angela Carter.- Correct. Cassandra and Julia Corbett, the former an Oxford don, the latter a writer,
0:10:05 > 0:10:10appear in The Game, a novel of 1967 by which author who won the Booker Prize in 1990
0:10:10 > 0:10:14and is herself the sister of a novelist?
0:10:14 > 0:10:17- AS Byatt.- Correct.
0:10:17 > 0:10:20What is the surname of the sisters Ursula and Gudrun
0:10:20 > 0:10:27who first appear in DH Lawrence's novel The Rainbow and are the central characters of Women In Love?
0:10:27 > 0:10:29- Brangwen.- Correct.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32Another starter question.
0:10:32 > 0:10:37Resulting from an impairment of voice quality such as a strain of the vocal cords,
0:10:37 > 0:10:40what term describes the inability to speak normally
0:10:40 > 0:10:44and is derived from the Greek for abnormal or impaired sound?
0:10:46 > 0:10:50- Aphonia?- Anyone like to have a go from Manchester?
0:10:51 > 0:10:57- Aphasia.- No, it's dysphonia. Ten points for this. "The struggle itself towards the heights is enough
0:10:57 > 0:11:03"to fill a human heart. One must imagine that Sisyphus is happy." Which French literary figure...
0:11:03 > 0:11:07- Albert Camus.- Correct. That gives you the lead.
0:11:07 > 0:11:13Your bonuses are on pairs of words that contain the same consonants in the same order, for example,
0:11:13 > 0:11:18"delta" and "adult". Give both words from the definitions. Firstly,
0:11:18 > 0:11:21"harsh, stern or severely simple"
0:11:21 > 0:11:24and "gaze intently or obtrusively"?
0:11:25 > 0:11:26Anyone?
0:11:26 > 0:11:28"Austere" and "stare"?
0:11:28 > 0:11:32- What?- "Austere" and "stare". - "Austere" and "stare".- Correct.
0:11:32 > 0:11:39"Device used to assist memory" and "person pathologically obsessed with a single subject"?
0:11:39 > 0:11:41WHISPERING
0:11:43 > 0:11:46- Is it "mnemonic"?- Does that go?
0:11:46 > 0:11:48- Yeah, and "maniac"?- No.
0:11:48 > 0:11:52- "Mnemonic" and...?- Yeah. - What, and "maniac"?- Yeah.
0:11:52 > 0:11:57- "Mnemonic" and "maniac".- No, it's "mnemonic" and "monomaniac".
0:11:57 > 0:12:02Finally, "halogen element, atomic number 53, used in solution as an antiseptic"
0:12:02 > 0:12:05and "Norse deity known as All-Father"?
0:12:05 > 0:12:09- "Iodine" and "Odin". - "Iodine" and "Odin".- Correct.
0:12:09 > 0:12:14Another starter. F Scott Fitzgerald's was As Big As The Ritz. For Trollope...
0:12:14 > 0:12:17- Diamonds.- Diamonds are correct.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21Your bonuses this time are on near-Earth objects.
0:12:21 > 0:12:27Which Italian city gives its name to a scale which communicates the risk associated with near-Earth objects,
0:12:27 > 0:12:30such as asteroids and comets?
0:12:30 > 0:12:36- Torino.- Correct. The Torino Scale assigns near-Earth objects a number from 1 to 10 based on two factors.
0:12:36 > 0:12:42One is its kinetic energy, expressed in megatons of TNT. What is the other?
0:12:42 > 0:12:49- Size or weight or mass?- Yeah... - Mass?- You wouldn't know the mass. Go for the size.
0:12:49 > 0:12:51- Size.- No, probability of collision.
0:12:51 > 0:12:55The Torino Scale assigns a kinetic energy of one megaton of TNT,
0:12:55 > 0:13:00that is, more than 50 times that of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima,
0:13:00 > 0:13:05to objects of what approximate diameter? You can have five metres either way.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07Probably quite small.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10- What units did he say? - Metres. Five either way.
0:13:12 > 0:13:1470?
0:13:14 > 0:13:18- 70?- No, it's 20. Ten points for this.
0:13:18 > 0:13:22"Ultimately, it was hoped to make articulate speech issue from the larynx
0:13:22 > 0:13:25"without involving the higher brain centres at all."
0:13:25 > 0:13:30These words from a work of 1949 refer to which fictional constructed language?
0:13:30 > 0:13:34- Esperanto.- Christ Church, anyone like to buzz?
0:13:35 > 0:13:38- Newspeak.- Newspeak is correct, yes.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43Christ Church, these bonuses are on divided islands.
0:13:43 > 0:13:50The western half of the island of New Guinea and about two-thirds of the island of Borneo belong
0:13:50 > 0:13:52to which Asian country?
0:13:53 > 0:13:59- Indonesia.- Yes. Which South American archipelago is separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan
0:13:59 > 0:14:03and is divided between Chile and Argentina?
0:14:03 > 0:14:06- Tierra del Fuego.- Correct.
0:14:06 > 0:14:12The island of Usedom or Uznam on the Baltic coast is divided between which two countries?
0:14:14 > 0:14:16WHISPERING
0:14:20 > 0:14:24- Estonia and Lithuania. - No, it's Germany and Poland.
0:14:24 > 0:14:30We're going to take a music round. You're going to hear a section of a coronation anthem.
0:14:30 > 0:14:3610 points if you can tell me at which king's coronation the piece was first used.
0:14:36 > 0:14:38MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:42 > 0:14:46- Queen Elizabeth II?- Christ Church, you can hear a little more.
0:14:46 > 0:14:48MUSIC RESUMES
0:14:50 > 0:14:55- George V?- No, it was George VI. That was Crown Imperial.
0:14:55 > 0:14:59Music bonuses in a moment or two. Here's another starter.
0:14:59 > 0:15:05Which viral disease was deliberately released in both Britain and Australia in...
0:15:05 > 0:15:07- Myxomatosis?- Correct.
0:15:09 > 0:15:16So the music starter which nobody got was part of Walton's Crown Imperial,
0:15:16 > 0:15:23first performed in 1937. Three more pieces of classical music that premiered in that year.
0:15:23 > 0:15:29In each case, I simply want you to name the composer. First, the American composer of this, please.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:36 > 0:15:38- Aaron Copland?- Yes, it is Copland.
0:15:38 > 0:15:41Secondly, the English composer of this?
0:15:41 > 0:15:43MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:49 > 0:15:51- Vaughan Williams?- Is he still alive?
0:15:59 > 0:16:04- Vaughan Williams.- No, Benjamin Britten, Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge.
0:16:04 > 0:16:10- Finally, the German composer of this piece? - MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:10 > 0:16:15- Nominate Joyce.- Carl Orff.- It is. The only bit of Carmina Burana anyone knows!
0:16:15 > 0:16:22Born in London of an Anglo-Irish family in 1870 and executed in the Irish Free State in 1922...
0:16:23 > 0:16:26- Roger Casement?- No. Lose 5 points.
0:16:26 > 0:16:33..in 1922, which author's work includes the influential 1903 thriller The Riddle of The Sands?
0:16:38 > 0:16:42Come on, one of you buzz, Christ Church. Right, I'll tell you.
0:16:42 > 0:16:49Erskine Childers. What term was used from the late 14th century as an alternative for the English shilling
0:16:49 > 0:16:53and also denotes the sloping line used when writing fractions?
0:16:53 > 0:16:56- Solidus.- Solidus is right, yes.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59These bonuses are on place name elements.
0:16:59 > 0:17:05Meaning spring or stream, what place name element is found in the names of two south coast seaside resorts,
0:17:05 > 0:17:10one in Dorset and the other close to Beachy Head?
0:17:17 > 0:17:23- Bourne.- Yes. As in Bournemouth and Eastbourne. Meaning a promontory, what four-letter element appears
0:17:23 > 0:17:29in the name of a Lincolnshire seaside resort and the largest town on the Isle of Sheppey?
0:17:35 > 0:17:39- Come on.- Ness?- Correct. As in Skegness and Sheerness.
0:17:39 > 0:17:45Finally, what Old English word meaning "the church of a monastery" is found in an inner London borough
0:17:45 > 0:17:49and a Devon town noted for carpet-making?
0:17:51 > 0:17:57- Minster.- Correct. Another starter. "Cowards die many times before their deaths;
0:17:57 > 0:18:04"the valiant never taste of death but once." In which Shakespeare play do those words appear?
0:18:04 > 0:18:08- Henry V?- Anyone like to buzz from Christ Church?
0:18:10 > 0:18:14- Richard III?- No, it's Julius Caesar. 10 points for this.
0:18:14 > 0:18:20Give the final two digits shared by the years that saw the battles of Ancrum Moor, Naseby and Prestonpans
0:18:20 > 0:18:24and the start of the Irish Potato Famine.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29- 54.- Christ Church? Somebody buzz.
0:18:29 > 0:18:3148.
0:18:31 > 0:18:37No, it's 45. In mathematics, a tesseract is the four-dimensional equivalent...
0:18:37 > 0:18:39- Cube.- Of a cube, yes.
0:18:41 > 0:18:47That gives you the lead. Your bonuses are on non-political details of UK Prime Ministers,
0:18:47 > 0:18:50according to the website of the PM's Office.
0:18:50 > 0:18:54Commemorated by a monument in the centre of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
0:18:54 > 0:19:00which Whig Prime Minister of the 1830s fathered seven daughters and ten sons?
0:19:00 > 0:19:04- Earl Grey.- Correct. Spencer Compton became the first PM to die in office
0:19:04 > 0:19:11when, in 1743, he expired after one year and 136 days in the role. What was his title?
0:19:16 > 0:19:20- Earl of Bute? - No, he was the Earl of Wilmington.
0:19:20 > 0:19:25Believed to have been the tallest in British history at six feet one,
0:19:25 > 0:19:30who was the longest-lived former PM, dying the day before his 93rd birthday?
0:19:35 > 0:19:42- Gladstone?- No, James Callaghan. Mathilda, Eleanor, Eleanor, Mary de Bohun, Katherine of Valois,
0:19:42 > 0:19:45Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth and...
0:19:45 > 0:19:51- Queens Consort of Plantagenet monarchs?- Lose 5 points. ..Katharine of Aragon were the first wives
0:19:51 > 0:19:53of English kings with what...
0:19:53 > 0:19:55- Henry.- Henry is correct, yes.
0:19:58 > 0:20:04That gives you the lead again. Your bonuses are on island states of the Indian Ocean.
0:20:04 > 0:20:11Name the country and the capital described. Firstly, the state whose capital is named after a paramour
0:20:11 > 0:20:14of Madame de Pompadour?
0:20:15 > 0:20:18- Mauritius?- What's the capital?
0:20:20 > 0:20:24- Let's have it, please. - Sri Lanka and Colombo.
0:20:24 > 0:20:30No, Mauritius and Port Louis. The state whose capital shares its name with the angel said to reveal
0:20:30 > 0:20:35the Golden Plates that became the source of the Book of Mormon?
0:20:40 > 0:20:44What's the island state called? Just give me some words!
0:20:46 > 0:20:49Sorry, I can't think. Sorry.
0:20:49 > 0:20:56- Let's have an answer.- Sorry.- Comoros and Moroni. Finally, the island state whose capital shares its name
0:20:56 > 0:21:01with an Australian state and the capital of British Columbia?
0:21:03 > 0:21:07- Victoria and the Seychelles. - Correct. A picture round now.
0:21:07 > 0:21:13You'll see a photo of the grave of a composer. 10 points if you can give me his name.
0:21:18 > 0:21:21- Brahms?- No. Christ Church?
0:21:24 > 0:21:32- Wagner?- No, it's Johann Strauss II. So another set of bonuses when someone gets the starter right.
0:21:32 > 0:21:3710 points for this. Identify the work of 1908 in which these words appear.
0:21:37 > 0:21:43"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."
0:21:43 > 0:21:47- The Wind In The Willows.- Correct.
0:21:48 > 0:21:52Right, so we follow on from Strauss' grave in Vienna
0:21:52 > 0:21:56with three more graves of composers. In each case,
0:21:56 > 0:22:01I want the composer's name and the city in which it's located.
0:22:01 > 0:22:03Firstly...
0:22:10 > 0:22:14- Tchaikovsky and Moscow. - No, Chopin in Paris. Secondly...
0:22:16 > 0:22:1820th century, do you think?
0:22:21 > 0:22:27- Go for a Russian.- Come on! - Rimsky-Korsakov in St Petersburg. - It's Tchaikovsky in St Petersburg!
0:22:27 > 0:22:30And finally...
0:22:32 > 0:22:35- George Frideric Handel in London. - Correct, yes!
0:22:35 > 0:22:41Another starter. Which EU member state gives its name, in different forms, to words meaning
0:22:41 > 0:22:46undressed leather with a velvety nap and large, yellow-fleshed turnip?
0:22:47 > 0:22:50- Sweden.- Sweden is right, yes.
0:22:50 > 0:22:56Get these bonuses to be level-pegging again. They're on words indicating great size.
0:22:56 > 0:23:03Which common adjective, now implying great size, originally meant deviating from the ordinary type?
0:23:11 > 0:23:18- Extraordinary?- No, it's enormous. Which synonym for colossal comes from the Latin for unmeasurable?
0:23:22 > 0:23:29- Inordinum?- No, immense. Finally, which word meaning very big is derived from a title character
0:23:29 > 0:23:34of a book published in France in 1535?
0:23:34 > 0:23:36- Gigantic?- No, it's gargantuan.
0:23:36 > 0:23:43The Aranyi, the Mercur-Avery and the Joachim are individual examples of what items,
0:23:43 > 0:23:47named after a craftsman born in 1644 in Cremona?
0:23:48 > 0:23:51- Violins.- Specifically?
0:23:51 > 0:23:55- Violas?- No, they're... Anyone like to buzz from Manchester?
0:23:56 > 0:23:58- Stradivarius.- Correct!
0:24:00 > 0:24:04Your bonuses this time are on visual illusions.
0:24:04 > 0:24:10In 1900, the Polish-born US psychologist Joseph Jastrow introduced an ambiguous figure
0:24:10 > 0:24:13that can be seen as a rabbit and which other animal?
0:24:13 > 0:24:20- A duck.- Correct. In 1980, Peter Thompson illustrated the illusion of reality in a facial image
0:24:20 > 0:24:27with eyes and mouth inverted relative to the face, using a photo of which public figure?
0:24:27 > 0:24:32- Thatcher?- Do you reckon? Margaret Thatcher.- It was, yes.
0:24:32 > 0:24:38Which Austrian physicist gives his name to an illusion of 1866 of an ambiguous line drawing
0:24:38 > 0:24:41of a folded sheet of paper?
0:24:41 > 0:24:46- Name me an Austrian physicist. - Come on!- Mobius.- No, Ernst Mach.
0:24:46 > 0:24:5310 points for this. How many possible opening moves are there for white in a game of chess?
0:24:57 > 0:25:00- Twenty? - Twenty is correct, yes.
0:25:00 > 0:25:07Your bonuses are on dietetics. Marasmus and Kwashiorkor are childhood diseases
0:25:07 > 0:25:11caused by deficiency of which major nutrient?
0:25:11 > 0:25:14Come on.
0:25:14 > 0:25:17- Go for it.- Vitamin D. - No, it's protein.
0:25:17 > 0:25:23What name derives from the Sinhala for, "I can't, I can't" and is caused by thiamine deficiency?
0:25:23 > 0:25:30- Beri-beri.- Correct. Endemic goitre is caused by dietary deficiency of which element?
0:25:30 > 0:25:36- Iodine.- Correct. Another starter. The Lives of the Caesars, a series of biographies...
0:25:36 > 0:25:39- Suetonius?- Correct! Your bonuses are on pilgrimage.
0:25:39 > 0:25:45The Pilgrims' Way, which runs along parts of the North Downs Way, follows the 120-mile route
0:25:45 > 0:25:49between Canterbury and which city? Come on!
0:25:49 > 0:25:54- Winchester?- Yes. The second-largest site of pilgrimage in France after Lourdes
0:25:54 > 0:25:57is the Basilica of Saint Therese in which town?
0:25:57 > 0:26:04- Tours.- No, Lisieux. Which so-called pilgrimage constituted a major Tudor rebellion in northern England
0:26:04 > 0:26:09- from 1536 against the policies... - Pilgrimage of Grace.- Correct.
0:26:09 > 0:26:14Over time, a fixed observer on Earth can see well over half of the Moon
0:26:14 > 0:26:19because the Moon wobbles in a dynamic phenomenon known as what?
0:26:20 > 0:26:24- Precession?- No. Manchester?
0:26:26 > 0:26:30- Procession?- No, libration. A large bay to the west of Greenland
0:26:30 > 0:26:34and Canada's largest island, more than twice the size of the UK,
0:26:34 > 0:26:38both bear the name of which English navigator, born around 1584?
0:26:38 > 0:26:41- Cabot.- No. Anyone want to buzz from Manchester?
0:26:41 > 0:26:47- Raleigh.- No, it's Baffin. Answer as soon as you buzz. What is the value of sine of 30 degrees
0:26:47 > 0:26:52plus tan of 45 degrees plus the cosine of 60 degrees?
0:26:52 > 0:26:54- Two?- Two is correct, yes.
0:26:56 > 0:27:01Your bonuses, Manchester, are on words that end in the syllable "no".
0:27:01 > 0:27:05Give the word or name from the explanation.
0:27:05 > 0:27:09A battle of 1859 in northern Italy at which Henri Dunant witnessed
0:27:09 > 0:27:16- the suffering that led him to found the International Committee of the Red Cross?- Pass.
0:27:16 > 0:27:23Solferino. A clear liqueur made from black Dalmatian cherries and associated with Zadar in Croatia?
0:27:25 > 0:27:32- Come on.- Sorry.- Maraschino. Finally, a city in central Japan, venue of the 1998 Winter Olympics?
0:27:32 > 0:27:38- Nominate Kelly.- Nagano.- Correct. What body of water links the cities of Batumi, Samsun,
0:27:38 > 0:27:41Sochi, Varna and Odessa?
0:27:42 > 0:27:47- The Black Sea.- Correct. Here are your bonuses on literature. In... - GONG
0:27:58 > 0:28:05Well, they just got away from you towards the end, Christ Church, but you were on pretty level terms.
0:28:05 > 0:28:10Thank you for taking part and being so well-dressed.
0:28:10 > 0:28:16Manchester, many congratulations. It's a terrific performance, 215. Well done.
0:28:16 > 0:28:21I hope you can join us next time for another of these matches.
0:28:21 > 0:28:25Until then it's goodbye from Christ Church, goodbye from Manchester
0:28:25 > 0:28:29and goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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