0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:33Hello. As the second round continues, five places in the quarter-finals have been taken,
0:00:33 > 0:00:37three remain and one will go to whichever team wins tonight.
0:00:37 > 0:00:42University College London were matched at first by York in their first match,
0:00:42 > 0:00:49but they hit their stride with starters on Necker's Cube, Salvador Dali and binary numbers.
0:00:49 > 0:00:53They were 80 points ahead at the gong. Let's meet UCL again.
0:00:53 > 0:00:58I'm Hywel Carver from Devon, doing a PhD in simulating blood flow.
0:00:58 > 0:01:02- Hi, I'm Patrick Cook from Texas, reading History.- Their captain...
0:01:02 > 0:01:06Hello. I'm Jamie Karran from London and I'm a medical student.
0:01:06 > 0:01:12Hi. I'm Tom Andrews from Somerset and I'm studying Genetics.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14APPLAUSE
0:01:16 > 0:01:22University of Warwick had to work hard to keep Edinburgh in check in the first half of their match,
0:01:22 > 0:01:26then their opponents fell asleep, giving them showing off time
0:01:26 > 0:01:33which they used to show knowledge of the Andes, geophysics, the letter O and diseases of the eye.
0:01:33 > 0:01:37Hi. I'm Martin Rixham from Sheffield and I study Mathematics.
0:01:37 > 0:01:42Hello. I'm Celia Nicholls from Canada, reading for a PhD in Film.
0:01:42 > 0:01:48- And their captain...- Hi. I'm Thomas Hayes, from Shepperton, studying for a PhD in Physics.
0:01:48 > 0:01:54Hello. I'm Sumukh Kaul from Oxford, reading for a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.
0:01:54 > 0:01:56APPLAUSE
0:01:56 > 0:02:00OK, you all know the rules, so let's get on with it. Your first starter.
0:02:00 > 0:02:07A double bind, a cleft stick and a Morton's fork are among expressions cited as precursors
0:02:07 > 0:02:12of which phrase, now in common use, which originated as the title of a satirical novel...
0:02:12 > 0:02:14- Catch-22?- That's right.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19Your bonuses are on an English poet, Warwick.
0:02:19 > 0:02:23According to an elegy of 1640 by Thomas Carey,
0:02:23 > 0:02:28who, "purged the Muse's garden of its pedantic weeds",
0:02:28 > 0:02:33threw away, "the lazy seeds of servile imitation and fresh invention planted"?
0:02:33 > 0:02:35- Any idea?- Milton?
0:02:36 > 0:02:39- Milton?- No, it was John Donne.
0:02:39 > 0:02:43"With Donne, whose Muse on dromedary trots, wreath iron pokers into true love-knots".
0:02:43 > 0:02:47Which of the Romantic poets wrote those words?
0:02:54 > 0:02:59- Come on.- Byron. - No, it's Coleridge. And, finally,
0:02:59 > 0:03:05"Dr Donne's verses are like the peace of God; they pass all understanding."
0:03:05 > 0:03:09To which monarch is that remark attributed?
0:03:10 > 0:03:15- Charles I?- No, it was James I or VI. Ten points for this.
0:03:15 > 0:03:22Urging the Tory policy of peace with France, Dr John Arbuthnot's political satire of 1712
0:03:22 > 0:03:27featured characters such as Humphrey Hocus, Lewis Baboon and Nicholas Frog...
0:03:27 > 0:03:31- John Bull. - John Bull is correct, yes.
0:03:31 > 0:03:35Your first bonuses are on religious agreements.
0:03:35 > 0:03:39What word is used in English Bibles for a contract with God,
0:03:39 > 0:03:45such as that made at Mount Sinai, when Israel agreed to obey God's laws after He freed them?
0:03:45 > 0:03:52- Covenant.- In 1638, members of which Protestant Scottish church, named after their Council of Elders,
0:03:52 > 0:03:57signed a "National Covenant" to protect their form of worship?
0:03:57 > 0:04:01- Presbyterian.- OK. Were these known as the Covenanters?
0:04:01 > 0:04:07- Presbyterian.- Yes. What four-word name was given to the agreement between the English Parliament
0:04:07 > 0:04:13and the Scots in 1643 to strengthen their position against Charles I?
0:04:13 > 0:04:17- I forgot the question.- A covenant of the English Parliament and Scots.
0:04:17 > 0:04:201643, if that helps.
0:04:21 > 0:04:26- No.- No.- Pass.- That's the Solemn League and Covenant.
0:04:26 > 0:04:34"I'm sure what Spielberg actually said was, 'Pete thinks that he is the best actor in the world.'"
0:04:34 > 0:04:39These words are attributed to which Warrington-born actor who died in 2011?
0:04:39 > 0:04:41- Pete Postlethwaite.- Correct.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47Your bonuses are on a conjunction.
0:04:47 > 0:04:51"Anthologised to weariness," according to its author,
0:04:51 > 0:04:55which poem of 1910 describes triumph and disaster as "two imposters"
0:04:55 > 0:05:00and encourages the reader to treat them "just the same"?
0:05:00 > 0:05:05- If.- Correct. The 1969 film If, depicting life in a British public school,
0:05:05 > 0:05:11and culminating in an armed insurrection, was directed by which film critic turned director?
0:05:11 > 0:05:16- Lindsay Anderson.- In the context of the cardiac pacemaker current,
0:05:16 > 0:05:22what word is denoted by the letter F in the abbreviation upper-case I, lower-case subscript F?
0:05:33 > 0:05:39- Frequency.- No, it's Funny. 10 points for this. Meanings of what word include:
0:05:39 > 0:05:44in chemistry, an acid or base related to its counterpart by loss or gain of a proton,
0:05:44 > 0:05:47in biology, to become temporarily...
0:05:47 > 0:05:49- Conjugate?- Correct.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54Bonuses are on the vertebrate ear.
0:05:54 > 0:05:59In tetrapods, what canal connects the pharynx with the middle ear?
0:05:59 > 0:06:05It permits equalisation of pressure on either side of the tympanic membrane.
0:06:08 > 0:06:12- Auricular canal? - No, it's the Eustachian tube.
0:06:12 > 0:06:20The vestibular and cochlear nerves are branches of the cranial nerve denoted by what number?
0:06:23 > 0:06:29- Five.- No, it's eight. Which ossicle is attached to the tympanic membrane?
0:06:35 > 0:06:39- Stirrup?- No, it's the malleus. We'll take a picture round now.
0:06:39 > 0:06:46For your picture starter, you'll see a photograph of a newspaper magnate. 10 points if you can name him.
0:06:47 > 0:06:51- Pulitzer? - It is Joseph Pulitzer, yes.
0:06:53 > 0:07:00He gave his name to the Pulitzer Prizes. 2011 is the centenary of his death. You'll see three pictures
0:07:00 > 0:07:04of female Pulitzer winners. 5 points for each you can name.
0:07:04 > 0:07:08Firstly, this 1961 Fiction Prize winner.
0:07:11 > 0:07:16- Agatha Christie...?- No, the Pulitzer is for American literature.- Oh, OK.
0:07:16 > 0:07:22- I think we'll have an answer, please.- No, we don't know. - Perhaps we won't!
0:07:22 > 0:07:28It's Harper Lee, author of To Kill A Mockingbird. Secondly, this 1989 winner for Drama.
0:07:31 > 0:07:34Not a very flattering picture.
0:07:35 > 0:07:41- I'm afraid we don't know that one, either.- Wendy Wasserstein. Finally, the winner in 1982 for Poetry,
0:07:41 > 0:07:43awarded posthumously.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55OK. "Caroline" Duffy?
0:07:55 > 0:07:59Posthumously?! She's hale and hearty! It's Sylvia Plath.
0:07:59 > 0:08:0510 points for this starter. In December 2010, scientific tests showed that a mummified head,
0:08:05 > 0:08:11discovered as part of a private collection, was that of which French monarch, noted for his part
0:08:11 > 0:08:13in ending the Wars of Religion?
0:08:13 > 0:08:17- Henri IV? - Henri IV is right. Henry of Navarre.
0:08:17 > 0:08:21Your bonuses are on the novels of George Eliot.
0:08:21 > 0:08:25What was George Eliot's first full-length novel, published in 1859
0:08:25 > 0:08:30and based in part on a story told to her by her aunt of a child murder?
0:08:30 > 0:08:37- Adam Bede.- Correct. Given the epithet The Radical, who is the title character of the novel of 1866
0:08:37 > 0:08:41set during the time of the Reform Act of 1832?
0:08:46 > 0:08:50- Tess of the d'Urbervilles? - That's Hardy. Do not say that.
0:08:50 > 0:08:53OK, no. Nothing. Sorry.
0:08:53 > 0:08:58- No answer.- Very good. Well, it's terrible. It was Felix Holt.
0:08:58 > 0:09:04Set in the years before the 1832 Reform Act, which novel features a brother and sister who grow up
0:09:04 > 0:09:07by a river near St Oggs?
0:09:07 > 0:09:12- The Mill On The Floss.- Yes! Recent holders of which Cabinet office
0:09:12 > 0:09:18share surnames with a major Australian river, Queen Victoria's residence...
0:09:18 > 0:09:21- Chancellor of the Exchequer. - Correct, yes.
0:09:21 > 0:09:26You're on level-pegging again. These bonuses are on mineralogy.
0:09:26 > 0:09:30What is the chemical name of the lead ore galena?
0:09:34 > 0:09:37- Lead oxide?- No...
0:09:41 > 0:09:46- Lead oxide.- No, it's lead sulphide. In the Goldschmidt classification of elements,
0:09:46 > 0:09:53what term is used of elements with an affinity for sulphur? Their ores are usually sulphides.
0:09:59 > 0:10:04- No idea.- It's a chalcophile. Its name derived from the Greek word khalkos,
0:10:04 > 0:10:12chalcocite is a sulphide ore of which metal, an important resource since prehistoric times?
0:10:17 > 0:10:22- Copper.- Correct. That gives you the lead. 10 points for this.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25The solo exhibition Polaroids in New York in 1973,
0:10:25 > 0:10:32a study of the bodybuilder Lisa Lyon in 1983 and the portrait for Patti Smith's album Horses in 1975
0:10:32 > 0:10:37are among the works of which US photographer, who died in 1989?
0:10:39 > 0:10:42- Man Ray?- No. Warwick, one of you buzz.
0:10:44 > 0:10:49- Er, Karen Elton?- No, it's Robert Mapplethorpe. 10 points for this.
0:10:49 > 0:10:54"To make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make it difficult to attain."
0:10:54 > 0:10:59Referring to the hero's method of delegating the task of painting...
0:10:59 > 0:11:02- Tom Sawyer?- Tom Sawyer is right.
0:11:03 > 0:11:10Your bonuses this time are on words that can be made from the letters of the title Das Kapital.
0:11:10 > 0:11:16In each case, give the word from the description. The French word that begins the full name
0:11:16 > 0:11:19of the residence of the President of the French Republic.
0:11:19 > 0:11:23- Palais? P-A-L-A-I-S.- Yes.
0:11:23 > 0:11:28- Palais?- Correct. A Hindi word for the red spot on the forehead
0:11:28 > 0:11:33used to show sect affiliation or for adornment?
0:11:33 > 0:11:38- I thought that was bindi. - That's not in Das Kapital.
0:11:39 > 0:11:45Let's be convinced by our wrongness. Is it a bindi?
0:11:45 > 0:11:50- There's no B in Das Kapital. - Well...- No, it's tilak.
0:11:50 > 0:11:55A Spanish word meaning cover or lid that has come to denote a variety of cuisine?
0:11:55 > 0:11:57It's like a type of curry.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06- Tajine?- Come on.- No, OK...
0:12:06 > 0:12:09- No, pass.- Tapas. 10 points for this.
0:12:09 > 0:12:13"The attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience
0:12:13 > 0:12:20"correspond to a logically uniform system of thought," was Einstein's definition of what general term?
0:12:22 > 0:12:24- Quantum physics?- No. UCL?
0:12:26 > 0:12:32- Philosophy?- No, it's science. What two-word Latin phrase is formed by concatenating the letters
0:12:32 > 0:12:38that indicate the web domains from Bolivia, Namibia, Finland and Germany, respectively?
0:12:38 > 0:12:41- Bona fide.- Correct, yes.
0:12:42 > 0:12:48Your bonuses this time, UCL, are on languages. Thought to derive from a corruption of the word "business",
0:12:48 > 0:12:54- what term denotes a simplified language produced by contact between groups...- Pidgin.- Right.
0:12:54 > 0:13:01From the Latin for "bring into being", what term denotes a pidgin that becomes the mother tongue?
0:13:01 > 0:13:03Creole.
0:13:03 > 0:13:08- Creole?- Yes. A creole reckoned to have more than one million speakers,
0:13:08 > 0:13:13- Tok Pisin is an official language of which...- Papua New Guinea.- Correct.
0:13:13 > 0:13:19Set on a small Italian island, the 1994 film Il Postino tells the story of a fictional postman
0:13:19 > 0:13:24who delivers fan mail to which exiled Chilean poet, diplomat...
0:13:24 > 0:13:30- Pablo Neruda.- Correct. You get a set of bonuses on Astronomers Royal.
0:13:30 > 0:13:36Who was the first Astronomer Royal, appointed in 1676, the year the Royal Observatory was founded?
0:13:36 > 0:13:40- Halley.- Edmond Halley? - No, it was John Flamsteed.
0:13:40 > 0:13:47The Astronomer Royal from 1835, George Biddell Airy's use in 1851 of the transit circle telescope
0:13:47 > 0:13:52established which point of reference, later acknowledged internationally?
0:13:56 > 0:14:00- The Greenwich Meridian?- Correct. Which Astronomer Royal in 1974
0:14:00 > 0:14:06won the first Nobel Prize in Physics to be awarded for astronomical research?
0:14:06 > 0:14:08WHISPERING
0:14:08 > 0:14:09Russell?
0:14:10 > 0:14:13- Russell?- No, Sir Martin Ryle.
0:14:13 > 0:14:19We'll take a music round now. For your starter, you'll hear part of the theme music to a US TV series.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22Ten points if you can give me its full title.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24THEME MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:26 > 0:14:29- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.- Correct.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32APPLAUSE
0:14:33 > 0:14:37So your bonuses - three more themes from TV science-fiction series,
0:14:37 > 0:14:43all of which are still in orbit on various satellite channels. Firstly, for five points?
0:14:43 > 0:14:46THEME MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:46 > 0:14:48- Space: 1999.- Is it?- Yeah.
0:14:50 > 0:14:54- Space: 1999?- Indeed. Secondly?
0:14:54 > 0:14:56THEME MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:58 > 0:15:00It isn't Stargate, is it?
0:15:01 > 0:15:03WHISPERING
0:15:03 > 0:15:07- Stargate?- No, that's Farscape. And finally?
0:15:07 > 0:15:09THEME MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:14 > 0:15:16- Lost In Space. - Yeah.
0:15:16 > 0:15:21- Lost In Space?- No, that's Blake's 7. Right, another starter question.
0:15:21 > 0:15:25What name is both a city on the River Don east of the Sea of Azov
0:15:25 > 0:15:30and in Tolstoy's War And Peace, the family name shared by Petya, Nikolai and Natasha?
0:15:33 > 0:15:36- Makarova?- No.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38UCL, one of you like to buzz?
0:15:39 > 0:15:43- Setrov?- No, it's Rostov. Another starter question.
0:15:43 > 0:15:48In Scandinavian mythology, what is the collective name of the Three Fates
0:15:48 > 0:15:52who sit at the foot of the great tree, Yggdrasil?
0:15:52 > 0:15:55- Is it the Norns?- Yes, it is.
0:15:57 > 0:16:02Right, your bonuses this time are on marine invertebrates.
0:16:02 > 0:16:05What is the two-word common name of Holothuroidea,
0:16:05 > 0:16:09a class of echinoderms that are prized in South Asian cuisine
0:16:09 > 0:16:12and known in Indonesia as trepang?
0:16:12 > 0:16:15It's a two-word term.
0:16:15 > 0:16:19- Sea cucumbers.- Indeed they are!
0:16:19 > 0:16:23What is the two-word common name of Pleurobrachia,
0:16:23 > 0:16:27a genus of oval-shaped comb jellies covered with rows of small cilia?
0:16:28 > 0:16:31WHISPERING
0:16:32 > 0:16:34Didn't he say it was a long thing?
0:16:34 > 0:16:36Say "sponges", something like that?
0:16:36 > 0:16:39- Sponges?- No, sea gooseberries.
0:16:39 > 0:16:45Often brightly coloured with long tentacles, what is the common name of the order Actiniaria?
0:16:45 > 0:16:51- That's jellyfish.- They're clear. - What are those things in rockpools that have tentacles?
0:16:51 > 0:16:53- Barnacles?- No, like...- Anemones?
0:16:53 > 0:16:57- Anemones. Anemones? - Yes, sea anemones is right.
0:16:57 > 0:17:00Right, ten points for this.
0:17:00 > 0:17:05Answer as soon as you buzz. The three highest capitals in the world are all in South America.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07Name two of them.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11Lima and Sucre?
0:17:11 > 0:17:13No. Warwick, one of you buzz?
0:17:13 > 0:17:15La Paz and Mexico City?
0:17:15 > 0:17:20La Paz is one. Quito and Bogota are the other ones. Another starter.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23Which British city links the songs Back Buchanan Street
0:17:23 > 0:17:27and My Old Man's A Fireman On The Elder-Dempster Line
0:17:27 > 0:17:30with the traditional songs Johnny Todd and Maggie May?
0:17:30 > 0:17:33- Liverpool.- Correct.
0:17:35 > 0:17:41Your bonuses are on things "rare", Warwick. "Rare earths" is a term applied to the series of elements
0:17:41 > 0:17:47in the Periodic Table known by what name, derived from the element with atomic number 57?
0:17:47 > 0:17:52- Lanthanides.- Correct. "Rare bird", a phrase denoting something exceptional
0:17:52 > 0:17:58or extraordinary, derives from the phrase "rara avis" in the satires of which Roman author?
0:18:02 > 0:18:05- Nominate Kaul.- Juvenal?- Correct.
0:18:05 > 0:18:11"Rare Ben", in this case meaning "remarkable", is part of the inscription on the tomb
0:18:11 > 0:18:15in Westminster Abbey of which dramatist who died in 1637?
0:18:15 > 0:18:20- Ben Jonson.- Correct. Level-pegging again. Ten points for this. Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:18:20 > 0:18:26What word of four letters can precede the words "brake", "harrow", "drive" and "jockey"
0:18:26 > 0:18:28to form compound nouns?
0:18:28 > 0:18:30- Disc.- Disc is correct, yes.
0:18:30 > 0:18:33Your bonuses are on shipping firsts, UCL.
0:18:33 > 0:18:40Launched in 1859, the French ship La Gloire was the first of what type of ocean-going warship?
0:18:40 > 0:18:43It was followed by the British HMS Warrior a year later.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46A destroyer or dreadnought?
0:18:46 > 0:18:49- Aircraft carrier? - How about a cruiser maybe?
0:18:49 > 0:18:52- Cruiser?- No, they were ironclads.
0:18:52 > 0:18:56The Soviet naval ice-breaker Lenin, launched in 1957,
0:18:56 > 0:19:00was the first surface ship to be powered by what means?
0:19:00 > 0:19:07- Nuclear power.- Correct. In the early 1900s, Enrico Forlanini built the first of what type of vessel
0:19:07 > 0:19:14which is lifted out of the water by a flat or curved, fin-like device, attached by struts to the hull?
0:19:14 > 0:19:18- Hydrofoil.- Indeed it is. We'll take our second picture round now.
0:19:18 > 0:19:24For your starter, you will see a painting. Ten points if you can give me the name of the artist.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27- Turner.- It is Turner, yes.
0:19:28 > 0:19:35His Stormy Sea Breaking On A Shore. Three more paintings for your bonuses, depicting seascapes.
0:19:35 > 0:19:38Again I want the name of the artist. Firstly?
0:19:39 > 0:19:41That's Hokusai.
0:19:41 > 0:19:45- Hokusai.- Hokusai is right. Secondly?
0:19:46 > 0:19:48I do not know.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51WHISPERING
0:19:52 > 0:19:56- Caravaggio? - I don't think it's Caravaggio.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59- Caravaggio.- No, that's... Caravaggio?!
0:19:59 > 0:20:03It's Courbet, The Stormy Sea or The Wave. And finally?
0:20:06 > 0:20:08Oh, no!
0:20:09 > 0:20:11WHISPERING
0:20:11 > 0:20:15If you don't say something, he'll say Caravaggio again!
0:20:15 > 0:20:18Come on, let's have an answer, please!
0:20:18 > 0:20:20- Pass.- That's by Renoir.
0:20:20 > 0:20:26Right, ten points for this. In pharmacology, a sialagogue is a drug
0:20:26 > 0:20:29that promotes or induces the secretion of what?
0:20:31 > 0:20:33- Saliva.- Correct.
0:20:33 > 0:20:37You get a set of bonuses this time, Warwick, on Queen Victoria.
0:20:37 > 0:20:42"Such a cold, odd man." Of which Prime Minister did Queen Victoria say those words,
0:20:42 > 0:20:47though she is said to have mourned him "as a father" when he died in 1852?
0:20:47 > 0:20:50CONFERRING
0:20:50 > 0:20:53I think we'd better have an answer, please.
0:20:53 > 0:20:57- Melbourne.- No, he died in 1848, I think. It was Peel.
0:20:57 > 0:21:04Prime Minister for almost ten years, to whom did Victoria and Albert give the disparaging name of Pilgerstein?
0:21:05 > 0:21:07WHISPERING
0:21:09 > 0:21:14- Gladstone.- It was Palmerston. Finally, "the Queen bowed down with this misfortune".
0:21:14 > 0:21:20These words describe Queen Victoria's reaction to the death of which former Prime Minister in 1881?
0:21:21 > 0:21:26- Disraeli.- Disraeli is correct. Six minutes to go. Ten points for this.
0:21:26 > 0:21:31In geology, gibbsite is the mineral of the hydroxide of which metal?
0:21:33 > 0:21:35- Calcium.- Warwick?
0:21:36 > 0:21:41- Sodium?- No, aluminium. Ten points for this. Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:21:41 > 0:21:47South Carolina is one of only two US states whose name contains six vowels. What's the other?
0:21:47 > 0:21:49- Louisiana.- Yes.
0:21:50 > 0:21:54Your bonuses are on astronomy this time, UCL.
0:21:54 > 0:21:59The irregularly shaped Amalthea is a moon of which planet?
0:21:59 > 0:22:01WHISPERING
0:22:04 > 0:22:06Saturn?
0:22:06 > 0:22:08- OK. Saturn.- No, it's Jupiter.
0:22:08 > 0:22:13Neptune's largest satellite is Triton. Name either its second or third largest.
0:22:14 > 0:22:17CONFERRING
0:22:18 > 0:22:21Let's have an answer, please.
0:22:21 > 0:22:24- Calypso.- Calypso? No, it's Proteus or Nereid.
0:22:24 > 0:22:29Which satellite is Saturn's largest and the second largest in the solar system...
0:22:29 > 0:22:35- Titan.- Correct. Ten points for this. Which composer gives his name to a pistachio-flavoured nougat
0:22:35 > 0:22:40and chocolate sweet, said to be a 19th century invention of Paul Furst...
0:22:40 > 0:22:45- Mozart.- Mozart is right. Your bonuses this time are on a river, UCL.
0:22:45 > 0:22:52Rising in Burundi, the Kagera and Luvironza rivers are the most remote headstreams of which major river?
0:22:53 > 0:22:57- The Congo.- The Nile. What is the English name of the upper reach of the Nile
0:22:57 > 0:23:03which rises in Ethiopia and merges to become the Nile proper at Khartoum?
0:23:03 > 0:23:07- There's a Red Nile as well.- The Blue Nile.- The Blue Nile.- Correct.- Yeah!
0:23:07 > 0:23:13The Nile enters which lake in Egypt, created by the Aswan High Dam, named after a former President of Egypt?
0:23:13 > 0:23:17- Lake Nasser?- Lake Nasser is right. Ten points for this.
0:23:17 > 0:23:24"Forsaken hatreds" is an anagram of the title of which short novel of 1902, set largely in Central...
0:23:24 > 0:23:30- Heart Of Darkness.- Correct. Here are your bonuses. They're on ancient monuments and archaeological sites.
0:23:30 > 0:23:34Give the present-day country in which the following are located.
0:23:34 > 0:23:40Firstly for five, the Roman settlement of Conimbriga and the Temple of Diana at Evora?
0:23:41 > 0:23:43CONFERRING
0:23:46 > 0:23:48Come on, let's have it, please!
0:23:48 > 0:23:52- Turkey.- Portugal. The ruined cities of Leptis Magna and Cyrene?
0:23:52 > 0:23:54- They're in Libya.- Libya.- Correct.
0:23:54 > 0:24:01The Porta Nigra, the largest Roman city gate north of the Alps, and the Rhaetian Limes or Frontier?
0:24:03 > 0:24:06- Germany? - Possibly the Czech Republic?
0:24:06 > 0:24:09- His guesses are good.- OK. - Germany.- Correct.
0:24:09 > 0:24:14Ten points for this. The Bank of England was established to support the public debt
0:24:14 > 0:24:16in the wars of which monarch?
0:24:16 > 0:24:19- William III.- Correct.
0:24:19 > 0:24:23Your bonuses are on female Nobel Laureates since 2000.
0:24:23 > 0:24:27Give me the nationality of the recipient and the prize they won.
0:24:27 > 0:24:31First for five points, Shirin Ebadi?
0:24:31 > 0:24:34- Iran and Peace?- Yeah. - Iran and Peace.
0:24:34 > 0:24:37Correct. Secondly, Elfriede Jelinek?
0:24:38 > 0:24:42Literature and she's German, I think.
0:24:42 > 0:24:45- Literature and Germany? - Literature and Austria. Bad luck.
0:24:45 > 0:24:47Finally, Ada Yonath?
0:24:49 > 0:24:51Israeli and, er...
0:24:52 > 0:24:54Come on!
0:24:54 > 0:24:58- Literature?- Israeli, Literature? - No, it's Israeli and Chemistry.
0:24:58 > 0:25:04Ten points for this. In physiology, which chemical element is present in the amino acid methionine,
0:25:04 > 0:25:06but not in threonine?
0:25:06 > 0:25:09- Sulphur?- Sulphur is right.
0:25:09 > 0:25:12Your bonuses are on measuring instruments, UCL.
0:25:12 > 0:25:18From the Greek for "drink measure", name the instrument which measures the water uptake of a leafy shoot.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21- A leaky shoot?- Leafy.- Oh.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23- Hydrometer?- Yeah?
0:25:23 > 0:25:27- Hydrometer?- No, it's a potometer.
0:25:27 > 0:25:34A hydrometer measures relative density of a liquid. What does a hygrometer with a G measure?
0:25:34 > 0:25:39- Humidity or something? - Something that's hygroscopic absorbs water, right?- Yeah.
0:25:39 > 0:25:43Come on, let's have an answer, please!
0:25:43 > 0:25:46- How well something absorbs water. - No, humidity.
0:25:46 > 0:25:51From the Greek for "path", what mechanical or electrical instrument measures distance travelled?
0:25:51 > 0:25:55- Pedometer.- What?- Pedometer. - As in P-E-D?- Yeah.
0:25:55 > 0:26:02- Pedometer.- No, it's an odometer. Ten points for this. Hagfish and lampreys are members of Agnatha,
0:26:02 > 0:26:06a class whose name suggests that they lack what physical feature?
0:26:06 > 0:26:11- Jaws.- Correct. Your set of bonuses this time, UCL, are on Middle Eastern cities.
0:26:11 > 0:26:16Esfahan and Tabriz are major cities in which Middle Eastern country?
0:26:16 > 0:26:18Iran or something?
0:26:18 > 0:26:21WHISPERING
0:26:21 > 0:26:23- Syria?- No, it's Iran.
0:26:23 > 0:26:29Which historic city in Eastern Kerman Province was devastated by an earthquake in December 2003?
0:26:34 > 0:26:37- Syria?- No, it's Bam.
0:26:37 > 0:26:43Situated close to the borders of Afghanistan and Turkmenistan, what is Iran's second largest city?
0:26:44 > 0:26:47- After Tehran?- Shiraz?
0:26:47 > 0:26:50- Is it still called Shiraz? - OK, nominate Cook.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53- Shiraz?- No, it's Mashhad. Ten points for this.
0:26:53 > 0:26:57What was the nationality of Knut Hamsun and Sigrid Undset,
0:26:57 > 0:27:02winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920 and '28 respectively?
0:27:02 > 0:27:04- Norwegian.- Correct.
0:27:04 > 0:27:09You get a set of bonuses on chemical elements. I will give a definition of a two-letter word.
0:27:09 > 0:27:14You must answer with a chemical element that has those two letters as its symbol.
0:27:14 > 0:27:18First, a denial, refusal or negative vote?
0:27:18 > 0:27:21- No...- Come on.
0:27:21 > 0:27:27- GONG - And at the gong, Warwick University have 150, UCL have 220.
0:27:34 > 0:27:39You were on level-pegging for much of the contest, the first half anyway,
0:27:39 > 0:27:44but you just seemed to fade towards the end, so we have to say goodbye to you, Warwick.
0:27:44 > 0:27:50UCL, you're a very entertaining team, despite the vast number of passes you managed to utter.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53We look forward to seeing you in the quarter-finals.
0:27:53 > 0:28:00- Join us next time for another of these matches, but until then, it's goodbye from Warwick.- Goodbye.
0:28:00 > 0:28:04- It's goodbye from UCL.- Goodbye. - And it's goodbye from me.
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