0:00:19 > 0:00:24University challenge. Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello. Tonight we played the penultimate match in the second
0:00:31 > 0:00:34round of this contest, with a place in the quarter-finals
0:00:34 > 0:00:37for the winners, and the luck of the draw has created
0:00:37 > 0:00:41a fixture in which two Oxford colleges are competing for it.
0:00:41 > 0:00:43The team from Merton College Oxford took a decisive
0:00:43 > 0:00:45lead in the opening minutes of their first-round
0:00:45 > 0:00:48match against St Andrews but subsequent bouts of what looked
0:00:48 > 0:00:50to be narcolepsy allowed their opponents to creep up.
0:00:50 > 0:00:56Fortunately for them, they shook it off and rallied in the final stages and, at the gong,
0:00:56 > 0:00:59the score was in their favour by 195 points to 165.
0:00:59 > 0:01:03Let's wake them up, now, by asking them to reintroduce themselves.
0:01:03 > 0:01:07Hello. I am Bill Hellier from Reading in Berkshire and I am reading chemistry.
0:01:07 > 0:01:11- Hello, I am Denis Dillon from New Jersey and I am reading PPE. - And their captain.
0:01:11 > 0:01:15Hello. I am Tim Smith-Laing, from Aylesford in Kent, and I am doing a doctorate in English literature.
0:01:15 > 0:01:19Hi, I am Cosmo Grant from Glasgow and I am reading Maths and Philosophy.
0:01:22 > 0:01:28Now, the team from Balliol College, Oxford also played a risky strategy in their first match
0:01:28 > 0:01:32against Homerton College, Cambridge, dominating the first two thirds of the match
0:01:32 > 0:01:36before falling silent and allowing their opponents to draw level.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38But in the final moments, a starter on the female version of the toga
0:01:38 > 0:01:42and a bonus on the Duke of Wellington meant they were ahead
0:01:42 > 0:01:46by the narrowest margin of 205 points to 200 at the gong.
0:01:46 > 0:01:48Let's meet the Balliol team again.
0:01:48 > 0:01:53Hello. I am Liam Shaw. I am from Shropshire, and I study physics.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55Hi. I am Andrew Whitby. I am from Brisbane Australia,
0:01:55 > 0:01:57and I am working towards a doctorate in economics.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00- And their captain.- I'm Simon Wood. I'm from Surrey, and I'm studying chemistry.
0:02:00 > 0:02:04Hi, I'm James Kirby, I am from Warwickshire and I am reading for a masters in history.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11The rules are the same as ever, so fingers on the buzzers.
0:02:11 > 0:02:13Here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16What word originating with the Middle English term meaning
0:02:16 > 0:02:20a running messenger from the 16th century met a hairline
0:02:20 > 0:02:22marker in the mathematical instrument
0:02:22 > 0:02:27and now denotes a movable indicator on a computer screen?
0:02:27 > 0:02:30Pointer?
0:02:30 > 0:02:31Merton?
0:02:31 > 0:02:34- Cursor?- Cursor is correct, yes.
0:02:37 > 0:02:42Right, Merton, the first set of bonuses are on a mediaeval historian.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44Named after an abbey in Wiltshire,
0:02:44 > 0:02:46which historian is best known for the Latin work known
0:02:46 > 0:02:50in English as Deeds Of The Kingdom Of England, dating to around 1125?
0:02:57 > 0:03:00- Barry?- No, it's William of Malmesbury.
0:03:00 > 0:03:04"And thus it was, that unknowingly and without power to prevent it,
0:03:04 > 0:03:08"Walter Tyrell pierced the Kings breast with a fatal arrow."
0:03:08 > 0:03:14These words by William described the death of which ruler in 1099?
0:03:23 > 0:03:26- Henry I.- No, it's William II, William Rufus.
0:03:26 > 0:03:28Of which legendary figure did William say
0:03:28 > 0:03:31"Assuredly, he deserves to be the object of reliable history,
0:03:31 > 0:03:35"rather than of false and dreaming fable"?
0:03:37 > 0:03:40- King Arthur.- Correct. Another starter question now.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43Who succeeded Sir Robert Peel as prime minister in 1846,
0:03:43 > 0:03:47and again became prime minister on the death of Palmerston in 1860?
0:03:48 > 0:03:51- Russell. - Lord John Russell is correct, yes.
0:03:52 > 0:03:57Your first set of bonuses, Balliol, are on a scientific term.
0:03:57 > 0:04:03Later superseded by electrons, what term did J.J. Thomson used to describe the negatively charged
0:04:03 > 0:04:06subatomic particles discovered during his study of cathode rays?
0:04:15 > 0:04:17- Negatrons.- No, it's corpuscles.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20Meissner's corpuscles are encapsulated springlike nerve endings
0:04:20 > 0:04:25situated near the surface of which organ of the body?
0:04:31 > 0:04:33- Skin.- Correct.
0:04:33 > 0:04:37And speculating that elastic particles emitted by luminous bodies produce the sensation of vision,
0:04:37 > 0:04:40when they fall on the eye, which British scientist
0:04:40 > 0:04:45published his corpuscular theory of light in 1704?
0:04:45 > 0:04:48- Isaac Newton.- Correct. Another starter question, now.
0:04:48 > 0:04:52First recorded in 1992, what term derives from 19th-century
0:04:52 > 0:04:54versions of the traditional folk tale and is used
0:04:54 > 0:04:58by astronomers for a planet that has the potential to support life?
0:04:58 > 0:05:01- Goldilocks.- Goldilocks is right.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04It's neither too hot, too cold, too big, too small.
0:05:05 > 0:05:10Right, your bonuses this time are horses in classical poetry.
0:05:10 > 0:05:14"The Braves are born from the brave and good in steers and on horses
0:05:14 > 0:05:16"is to be found the excellence of their sire,
0:05:16 > 0:05:20"nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove."
0:05:20 > 0:05:23These are the words of which Roman poet in his Odes?
0:05:25 > 0:05:26- Horace.- Correct.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29In his The Georgics, which Roman poet wrote,
0:05:29 > 0:05:34"And when the rising Sun has first breathed on us with his panting horses,
0:05:34 > 0:05:37"over there, the red evening star is writing his late lamps?"
0:05:37 > 0:05:39- Virgil.- Correct.
0:05:39 > 0:05:43When Marlow's Dr Faustus faces the arrival of Lucifer
0:05:43 > 0:05:47to claim his soul, and cries "O lente, lente currite noctis equi!"
0:05:47 > 0:05:50or, "run slowly, horses of the night," he's quoting which Roman poet?
0:05:50 > 0:05:52- Ovid.- Correct.
0:05:52 > 0:05:54Another starter question.
0:05:54 > 0:05:58Native to South America, which semiaquatic mammal was
0:05:58 > 0:06:01introduced into Britain for fur farming in the late 1920s?
0:06:03 > 0:06:05- Coypu?- Correct, yes.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11Your bonuses this time, Merton, are on right arms.
0:06:11 > 0:06:16Firstly, the Japanese-American, Daniel Inouye, who lost his right arm in Italy in World War II,
0:06:16 > 0:06:19he became president pro tempore of the U.S. Senate in 2010
0:06:19 > 0:06:26after more than 50 years continuous representation of which state?
0:06:26 > 0:06:27- Hawaii.- Correct.
0:06:27 > 0:06:31What was the surname of the concert pianist for whom Maurice Ravel
0:06:31 > 0:06:34wrote piano concerto for the left-hand?
0:06:34 > 0:06:36The brother of the major philosopher,
0:06:36 > 0:06:39who lost an arm while serving with the Austrian army in World War I.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41- Wittgenstein.- Correct.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44In 1797, Horatio Nelson lost his right arm in an unsuccessful
0:06:44 > 0:06:49attempt to capture the Port of Santa Cruz on which Atlantic island?
0:07:01 > 0:07:04- Cape Verde Islands? - No, it's Tenerife.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06We're going to take a picture round.
0:07:06 > 0:07:10For your picture starter you'll see the opening lines of a well-known poem.
0:07:10 > 0:07:1210 points if you can identify the poet.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15To make it a bit more fun, we've removed all
0:07:15 > 0:07:17but the last word of each line.
0:07:23 > 0:07:29- Is it William Blake?- No, anyone like to buzz from Balliol?
0:07:30 > 0:07:35- Marvell.- No, it's part of Keats' Ode On A Grecian Urn.
0:07:35 > 0:07:38Let's see the whole thing.
0:07:38 > 0:07:43We'll take the picture bonuses in a moment. But let's have a starter question, 10 points.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46Featuring a carriage drive, stable block, boathouse,
0:07:46 > 0:07:50and banqueting hall, which house is described by its owner as the
0:07:50 > 0:07:54finest house on the whole river, or anywhere else, for that matter?
0:07:54 > 0:07:57- Toad Hall.- Toad Hall is right, yes.
0:07:58 > 0:08:02So we go back to less elevated literature really,
0:08:02 > 0:08:04following on from Keats' Ode On A Grecian Urn.
0:08:04 > 0:08:08Three more opening lines from poems written during the 19th century,
0:08:08 > 0:08:13and much anthologised since then, all but the last word of each line has been removed.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16In each case all you have to do is to identify the poet. Firstly.
0:08:20 > 0:08:24- Shelley.- It is. Let's see the whole thing.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26Ozymandias, there we are. And, secondly.
0:08:34 > 0:08:41- Browning?- No, it's Byron. Let's see the whole thing. And, finally.
0:08:52 > 0:08:56- Brooke?- No, that is Browning. It's Home Thoughts From Abroad.
0:08:56 > 0:08:57There it is.
0:08:57 > 0:08:5910 points for this.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02Last won by Great Britain in 1936,
0:09:02 > 0:09:05which international sporting competition saw its first tie
0:09:05 > 0:09:09in 1900 when Britain played the USA at Boston's Longwood Cricket club?
0:09:09 > 0:09:13The cup was donated by an American doubles champion.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16- The Davis cup. - The Davis cup is right.
0:09:18 > 0:09:22Get these bonuses and you'll be level. They're on cartography.
0:09:22 > 0:09:25Based on Gall's projection, which German historian
0:09:25 > 0:09:28published a controversial world map in 1973, described by one source
0:09:28 > 0:09:32as resembling winter underwear hung out to dry on the Arctic Circle,
0:09:32 > 0:09:38and representing the exact area of all countries in an accurate ratio?
0:09:49 > 0:09:52- Nominate Kirby.- Mercator. - No, Mercator is much earlier.
0:09:52 > 0:09:56It's Peters, The Arno Peters projection.
0:09:56 > 0:09:58secondly, formerly described as zenithal, what term is now used for
0:09:58 > 0:10:02a map projection in which the region of the Earth is projected onto
0:10:02 > 0:10:06a plane tangential to the surface usually at a pole or the Equator?
0:10:12 > 0:10:18- Nominate Kirby.- Mercator? - No, get it out of your head.
0:10:18 > 0:10:19It's azimuthal.
0:10:19 > 0:10:20And finally, for five points.
0:10:20 > 0:10:24Introduced as a navigational tool in 1569,
0:10:24 > 0:10:27the Mercator map is an example of which form of projection?
0:10:42 > 0:10:46- Isomuthal.- No, it's cylindrical. 10 points for this,
0:10:46 > 0:10:49to mark the 175th anniversary
0:10:49 > 0:10:51of the Royal Institute of British architects,
0:10:51 > 0:10:54a Construction For Seduction Survey aimed to
0:10:54 > 0:10:57find the ideal place to take someone on a date.
0:10:57 > 0:11:00The poll was topped by which complex,
0:11:00 > 0:11:03a world Heritage site in South West England?
0:11:07 > 0:11:09- Stonehenge.- No.
0:11:11 > 0:11:14- Tintagel.- No, it's the Roman Bath.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17Why should you know this? Anyway, here's another starter question.
0:11:17 > 0:11:21What name is shared by the two German cities distinguished from one
0:11:21 > 0:11:25another by the qualifiers Ander, Oder and...?
0:11:25 > 0:11:31- Frankfurt.- Frankfurt is correct, yes
0:11:31 > 0:11:34Your bonuses, Balliol, are on a French author.
0:11:34 > 0:11:37What was the pen name of Amandine Aurore Dupin, who's best known
0:11:37 > 0:11:42for her so-called rustic novels including The Devil's Pool, and Little Fadette.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56- Pass.- No, it was George Sand.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59Through her writing, George Sand brought to public attention
0:11:59 > 0:12:01the series of six allegorical tapestries given what title
0:12:01 > 0:12:06dating to the middle ages and discovered by one of her lovers,
0:12:06 > 0:12:10the writer Prosper Merimee, in Boussac castle in 1841?
0:12:13 > 0:12:17- No idea.- That's The Lady And The Unicorn.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20And finally, Sand's lovers also included, which Polish French composer and pianist,
0:12:20 > 0:12:26their relationship lasted almost ten years and ended shortly before his death from tuberculosis in 1849?
0:12:26 > 0:12:31- Chopin.- Correct. Another starter question. Level pegging. 10 points for this.
0:12:31 > 0:12:36Chapter 14 describes the 144,000 virgins who will have their place in heaven.
0:12:36 > 0:12:39Chapter seven describes the 12 tribes of Israel.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42Chapter six describes the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
0:12:42 > 0:12:47While chapter 13 gives the number of the beast.
0:12:47 > 0:12:49The book of Revelation.
0:12:49 > 0:12:52It's the Revelation Of St John the Divine, yes.
0:12:53 > 0:12:57Right, your bonuses this time are on invertebrates.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59What common name is given to the many thousands
0:12:59 > 0:13:01of species of invertebrates whose scientific name Annelida
0:13:01 > 0:13:04comes from the Latin for little ring?
0:13:08 > 0:13:13- Worm.- I'll accept worm, yes. Earthworms, generally.
0:13:13 > 0:13:14Also known as roundworms,
0:13:14 > 0:13:17which unsegmented worms are parasites of plants and animals,
0:13:17 > 0:13:20and are added to soil by gardeners as an organic slug killer?
0:13:31 > 0:13:33- No idea.- Nematodes.
0:13:33 > 0:13:37Hirudo medicinalis is a parasitic species of which Annelids?
0:13:37 > 0:13:41They secrete the anticlotting enzyme hirudin into their host's bloodstream.
0:13:42 > 0:13:44- Leach.- Leach is correct.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46Right, the music round, now.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49Your music starter is an extract from a symphony.
0:13:49 > 0:13:52To get 10 points you have to give me the name of the composer
0:13:52 > 0:13:54and the Symphony number.
0:13:59 > 0:14:01- Beethoven's seventh. - That's correct, yes.
0:14:04 > 0:14:09Right, your music bonuses are three more seventh symphonies,
0:14:09 > 0:14:12all by German or Austrian composers.
0:14:12 > 0:14:16In each case I want you to name the composer. Firstly.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44Is it Schubert?
0:14:44 > 0:14:45No, it's Mahler. Secondly.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12- Brahms.- No, that's Bruckner's seventh. And finally.
0:15:34 > 0:15:35Mozart.
0:15:35 > 0:15:38No, that's Hayden. Right, ten points for this starter question.
0:15:38 > 0:15:41What surname links a Polish-born US novelist,
0:15:41 > 0:15:43author of The Magician Of Lublin,
0:15:43 > 0:15:46the Australian philosopher who wrote Animal Liberation and...
0:15:46 > 0:15:49- Singer.- Singer is right, yes.
0:15:52 > 0:15:53These bonuses could give you the lead.
0:15:53 > 0:15:55They're on pairs of words whose spelling differs
0:15:55 > 0:15:59by the substitution of a D for an F for the final letter.
0:15:59 > 0:16:03For example, deaf and dead.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05In each case, give both words from the definitions.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07Firstly, organ of photosynthesis in plants
0:16:07 > 0:16:12and soft, grey metallic element, atomic number 82.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14- Leaf and lead.- Correct.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17Rocks or coral near the surface of water
0:16:17 > 0:16:20and vibrating tongue of a woodwind instrument.
0:16:20 > 0:16:21- Reef and reed.- Correct.
0:16:21 > 0:16:25Canis lupus and open tract of upland country,
0:16:25 > 0:16:27for example in Lincolnshire.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29- It's wolf and wold.- Correct.
0:16:31 > 0:16:3210 points for this.
0:16:32 > 0:16:36Before they became novelists, the authors of The Nine Tailors,
0:16:36 > 0:16:38Midnight's Children and The Life And Loves Of A She-Devil,
0:16:38 > 0:16:42all had successful careers...
0:16:42 > 0:16:43- Advertising.- Correct.
0:16:46 > 0:16:49Your bonuses this time are on apples, Balliol.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52What time derives from the Latin for apple and is given to
0:16:52 > 0:16:56the colourless crystalline acid involved in the Krebs cycle?
0:16:58 > 0:17:01Maleric. Malic.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04No, I'm sorry, I have to take the first answer you gave
0:17:04 > 0:17:07and that wasn't the first answer. Malic is the correct answer.
0:17:07 > 0:17:11The English name for which soft fruit derives ultimately
0:17:11 > 0:17:15from the Latin for Persian apple, that is persicum malum?
0:17:19 > 0:17:22- Pear.- It's peach.
0:17:22 > 0:17:23Malum granatum,
0:17:23 > 0:17:25meaning many grained apple was the Latin name for which fruit,
0:17:25 > 0:17:29now known by an Anglo-Norman name with the same derivation?
0:17:34 > 0:17:37- Pomegranate.- Correct. Level pegging. 10 points for this.
0:17:37 > 0:17:41Listen carefully, if the integers up to one decillion,
0:17:41 > 0:17:44that is 10 to the power 33, are written out in words,
0:17:44 > 0:17:47only three letters of the alphabet never appear.
0:17:47 > 0:17:49Name two of them.
0:17:56 > 0:18:01- X and Y. - Anyone like to buzz from Merton?
0:18:02 > 0:18:04- Q and Z. - No, it's J, K and Z.
0:18:04 > 0:18:07Another starter question now. 10 points for this.
0:18:07 > 0:18:11"Man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature,
0:18:11 > 0:18:13"but he's a thinking reed."
0:18:13 > 0:18:15These are words of which French philosopher
0:18:15 > 0:18:17and mathematician born...
0:18:18 > 0:18:22- Descartes.- I'm afraid you lose five points. Born in 1623.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26Pascal.
0:18:26 > 0:18:27Pascal is right, yes.
0:18:29 > 0:18:31Your bonuses are on geography. In each case,
0:18:31 > 0:18:34name the island whose largest town or city is the following,
0:18:34 > 0:18:39the islands in question are among the world's largest.
0:18:39 > 0:18:40Firstly, for five points,
0:18:40 > 0:18:43Medan, with a population of around two million.
0:18:51 > 0:18:54- Indonesia.- That's Sumatra.
0:18:54 > 0:18:59Second, Iqaluit, with a population of around 6,000.
0:19:02 > 0:19:05- Greenland.- No, it's Baffin Island.
0:19:05 > 0:19:09And finally, Antananarivo, with an estimated population of one million.
0:19:16 > 0:19:19- Madagascar.- Madagascar is correct.
0:19:19 > 0:19:23We go to the second picture around. The picture starter is a painting.
0:19:23 > 0:19:2710 points if you can give me the name of the artist.
0:19:27 > 0:19:28Manet.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30Anyone like to buzz from Balliol?
0:19:32 > 0:19:35- Degas.- Degas is correct, yes.
0:19:38 > 0:19:41In A Cafe or Absinthe.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43Your bonuses are three more paintings featuring absinthe.
0:19:43 > 0:19:46Five points for correctly naming the artist in each case. Firstly.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54- Van Gogh?- Correct. Secondly.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04- Gauguin.- No, that's by Picasso. And finally.
0:20:10 > 0:20:14- Toulouse-Lautrec.- Correct. 10 points for this starter question.
0:20:14 > 0:20:17Manhood suffrage, equal electoral districts, annual parliaments
0:20:17 > 0:20:20and payment for MPs were amongst...
0:20:20 > 0:20:22- Chartist movement.- Correct.
0:20:25 > 0:20:27Your bonuses, Balliol, are on women's writing.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29Published in 1993,
0:20:29 > 0:20:31Oleander Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived,
0:20:31 > 0:20:33is a memoir by which British, Booker Prize winner
0:20:33 > 0:20:38and recalls her early years in Egypt, her birthplace in 1933?
0:20:42 > 0:20:45- A S Byatt.- No, it's Penelope Lively.
0:20:45 > 0:20:47Thought to be largely autobiographical,
0:20:47 > 0:20:50which 1956 novel begins with the words,
0:20:50 > 0:20:53"'Take my camel, dear,' said by my aunt Dot, as she climbed down
0:20:53 > 0:20:56"from this animal on her return from my High Mass."?
0:21:05 > 0:21:08- Agatha Christie.- The Towers Of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay.
0:21:08 > 0:21:12And finally, which 1955 novel is being read in Tehran
0:21:12 > 0:21:15in the title of a 2004 memoir by Azar Nafisi,
0:21:15 > 0:21:18an Iranian professor of literature.
0:21:18 > 0:21:19- Lolita.- Correct.
0:21:19 > 0:21:2210 points for this. In which European city is the art museum
0:21:22 > 0:21:26known as the Alte Pinakothek, established in 1836,
0:21:26 > 0:21:27it houses paintings from
0:21:27 > 0:21:30the collection of the House of Wittelsbach?
0:21:32 > 0:21:37- Geneva.- No, Balliol, have a go?
0:21:37 > 0:21:39- Munich.- Munich is correct, yes.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45Your bonuses, Balliol, are on the states of Brazil.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47The states of Parana, Santa Catarina
0:21:47 > 0:21:50and Rio Grande do Sul all share borders with which country?
0:22:04 > 0:22:06- Paraguay.- No, it's Argentina.
0:22:06 > 0:22:10The states of Acre, Mato Grosso and Rondonia
0:22:10 > 0:22:13all share borders with which country?
0:22:22 > 0:22:24- Peru.- No, it's Bolivia.
0:22:24 > 0:22:28And, for five points, name two of the three countries with
0:22:28 > 0:22:31which the state of Amazonas shares borders.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41- Come on, let's have it please. - Ecuador and Peru.
0:22:41 > 0:22:44No, it's Peru, Colombia and Venezuela.
0:22:44 > 0:22:46Less than five minutes to go. 10 points for this.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49Along with phosphorus, arsenic, antimony and bismuth,
0:22:49 > 0:22:51what common element makes up...
0:22:51 > 0:22:54- Nitrogen.- Nitrogen is right, yes.
0:22:57 > 0:22:58Your bonuses are on films about poets.
0:22:58 > 0:23:01In each case, name the poets played by the following actors
0:23:01 > 0:23:03in the given films.
0:23:03 > 0:23:05Willem Dafoe in Tom And Viv in 1994.
0:23:07 > 0:23:13- TS Eliot.- Correct. Matthew Rhys in The Edge Of Love in 2008.
0:23:13 > 0:23:19- Dylan Thomas.- Correct. And Ben Whishaw in Bright Star in 2009.
0:23:19 > 0:23:20- John Keats.- Correct.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22Another starter question.
0:23:22 > 0:23:27What is the only surname shared by both a US president and a UK Prime
0:23:27 > 0:23:31Minister? The former was in office when the latter was born in 1916.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35- Wilson.- Wilson is right, yes.
0:23:36 > 0:23:40These bonuses are on the history of science, Merton College.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42In each case, give the decade in which the following
0:23:42 > 0:23:43chemical elements were discovered.
0:23:43 > 0:23:48Firstly, for five points. Potassium, sodium and calcium.
0:23:57 > 0:24:02- 1750s.- No, it was the 1800s, between 1800 and 1810.
0:24:02 > 0:24:05Secondly, silicon, aluminium and bromine.
0:24:12 > 0:24:14- 1880s.- It was the 1820s.
0:24:14 > 0:24:17And finally, plutonium, americium and curium.
0:24:21 > 0:24:23Quickly.
0:24:24 > 0:24:27- 1930s.- It was the 1940s.
0:24:27 > 0:24:28Three minutes to go. 10 points for this.
0:24:28 > 0:24:31Listen carefully, four countries border both India and China,
0:24:31 > 0:24:34one is Burma, name two of the three others.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38Bhutan and Nepal.
0:24:38 > 0:24:41Correct, the other one's Pakistan of course, the biggest of them.
0:24:41 > 0:24:44Your bonuses this time are on the works of Goethe.
0:24:44 > 0:24:48In each case, identify the title character of the work described.
0:24:48 > 0:24:51Firstly, an epistolary novel of 1774, in which
0:24:51 > 0:24:55a sensitive artist is driven to destruction
0:24:55 > 0:24:57by his unrequited love for the young Charlotte.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00- Is it Wilhelm?- No, it's Werther, The Sorrows Of Young Werther.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03An historical play about a Flemish nobleman,
0:25:03 > 0:25:06beheaded in 1568 after defying the King of Spain,
0:25:06 > 0:25:09Beethoven later wrote an overture and incidental music for it.
0:25:13 > 0:25:15- Come on.- Pass.- It's Egmont.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18A poetic drama in two parts that begins with Mephistopheles...
0:25:18 > 0:25:22- Faust.- Faust is correct. Another starter question now.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25Give either of the two verbs meaning blend or mingle together,
0:25:25 > 0:25:28which contain the year 2009 expressed...
0:25:28 > 0:25:32- Mix.- No. I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34Expressed in Roman numerals.
0:25:39 > 0:25:40I need an answer.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46No, I can't wait any longer.
0:25:46 > 0:25:48It's commix or immix, but you were nearly there, but it was 2009.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53What is the smallest country in Europe
0:25:53 > 0:25:55whose English name ends in -land?
0:26:04 > 0:26:06Iceland.
0:26:06 > 0:26:07No, Balliol?
0:26:10 > 0:26:13- Switzerland.- Correct.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18Your bonuses are on the Moon, Balliol College.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20With respect to the Moon's orbit around the Earth,
0:26:20 > 0:26:24what is the meaning of the term perigee?
0:26:28 > 0:26:30- When it's closest to the Earth. - Correct.
0:26:30 > 0:26:34The rotation of the Moon on its axis takes 27.3 days,
0:26:34 > 0:26:36how long does the Moon take to orbit the Earth?
0:26:42 > 0:26:46- 28 days. - It's 27.3 days, it's the same.
0:26:46 > 0:26:48And finally, which lunar mare
0:26:48 > 0:26:52was the site of the landing of the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969?
0:26:57 > 0:27:00- The Sea of Tranquility.- Correct. Another starter question now.
0:27:00 > 0:27:05Two planets of the solar system lap moons. For 10 points, name both.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07- Mercury and Venus.- Correct. Here are your bonuses.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09They're on the human condition.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12Which of Shakespeare's title characters describes man as,
0:27:12 > 0:27:14"The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals"?
0:27:14 > 0:27:16- Hamlet.- Correct.
0:27:16 > 0:27:18In a didactics poem of 1733,
0:27:18 > 0:27:23who describes man as being "darkly wise and rudely great"?
0:27:23 > 0:27:24- Pope.- Correct.
0:27:24 > 0:27:27And finally, in a letter of 1725 to Pope, which literary figure
0:27:27 > 0:27:29wrote, "I hate and detest that animal..."
0:27:29 > 0:27:30FINAL GONG
0:27:30 > 0:27:35And at the gong, Merton College have 160, Balliol College have 170.
0:27:40 > 0:27:43Well, bad luck, Merton, we must say goodbye to you.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45Who knows, if we'd gone on another three minutes
0:27:45 > 0:27:48you might have beaten them, but we'll never know.
0:27:48 > 0:27:49Balliol, congratulations,
0:27:49 > 0:27:51we look forward to seeing you in the quarterfinals.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54I hope you can join us next time, but until then,
0:27:54 > 0:27:56- it's goodbye from Merton College, Oxford.- Goodbye.- Goodbye.
0:27:56 > 0:27:59- Goodbye from Balliol College, Oxford.- Goodbye.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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