0:00:21 > 0:00:23'Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.'
0:00:27 > 0:00:32Hello. Out of the 28 teams who qualified for this contest,
0:00:32 > 0:00:3419 have now fallen by the wayside.
0:00:34 > 0:00:37Seven are through to the quarterfinals,
0:00:37 > 0:00:39and they'll be joined by whichever team wins this,
0:00:39 > 0:00:41the last of the second-round matches.
0:00:41 > 0:00:44The team from Pembroke College, Cambridge,
0:00:44 > 0:00:47dominated their first match against St Anne's College, Oxford,
0:00:47 > 0:00:50winning by 205 points to 140.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53They were familiar with the predictions of Nostradamus,
0:00:53 > 0:00:55they know what goes into nitroglycerin,
0:00:55 > 0:00:58and they recognised Girls Aloud with almost superhuman speed.
0:00:58 > 0:01:02They're true Renaissance figures. Let's meet the team again.
0:01:02 > 0:01:05My name is Edward Bankes. I'm from Sevenoaks, and I'm reading English.
0:01:05 > 0:01:09I'm Ben Pugh. I'm from North London, and I'm reading German and Russian.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12- And their captain. - Hello. I'm Bibek Mukherjee.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14I'm from Canterbury, and I'm reading economics.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17I'm Imogen Gold. I'm from London, and I'm reading engineering.
0:01:17 > 0:01:19APPLAUSE
0:01:21 > 0:01:25The team from Nottingham University had a very strong start
0:01:25 > 0:01:29in their first match against the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
0:01:29 > 0:01:31but were neck-and-neck halfway through.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34They pulled away again in the second half,
0:01:34 > 0:01:38and were on 215 points at the gong, with their opponents on 155.
0:01:38 > 0:01:41Welsh castles may not be their strong point,
0:01:41 > 0:01:44but they were impressive on peace treaties of World War I,
0:01:44 > 0:01:47Anglo-Saxon flags and the provinces of Canada.
0:01:47 > 0:01:49Let's meet the Nottingham team again.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52Hello. I'm Harry Dalton from London, and I'm studying politics.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55Hi. I'm Matthew Byrne from Wimborne Minster in Dorset,
0:01:55 > 0:01:58- and I'm studying French and German. - And their captain.
0:01:58 > 0:02:02I'm Lee Cooper. I'm from Long Eaton in Nottingham, and I'm studying physiotherapy.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05Hello. I'm Ewan Pickard from Stoke-on-Trent,
0:02:05 > 0:02:08and I'm studying chemistry. APPLAUSE
0:02:10 > 0:02:13The rules are the same as ever. 10 points for starters,
0:02:13 > 0:02:1715 for bonuses, five-point penalties for incorrect interruptions.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19Here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:19 > 0:02:23Quote - "It taps directly into the country's mythic image of itself,
0:02:23 > 0:02:27unshowily brave and brewing tea as the bombs fall."
0:02:27 > 0:02:30These words from The Economist describe which slogan
0:02:30 > 0:02:33printed in bold white, san-serif...
0:02:33 > 0:02:36- "Keep calm and carry on"?- Yes.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39APPLAUSE
0:02:39 > 0:02:42Your bonuses, Nottingham, are on the human condition.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45Quote - "Experience declares that man is the only animal
0:02:45 > 0:02:48which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term
0:02:48 > 0:02:51to the general prey of the rich on the poor."
0:02:51 > 0:02:54These are the words of which future US president
0:02:54 > 0:02:57in a letter of 1787?
0:02:58 > 0:03:00- Future...- Who was it?
0:03:00 > 0:03:03- Franklin?- No, Jefferson.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05Yeah. Yeah.
0:03:05 > 0:03:08- It might be Jefferson.- Jefferson.
0:03:08 > 0:03:13Correct. "Man is the only creature that consumes without producing."
0:03:13 > 0:03:17In which allegorical work of 1945 do those works appear?
0:03:17 > 0:03:19Um... Animal Farm.
0:03:19 > 0:03:21- Oh! Yeah. Yes.- Animal Farm.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24Correct. "Man is the only animal that blushes,
0:03:24 > 0:03:28or needs to." Which American humorist wrote those words
0:03:28 > 0:03:30in a work of 1897?
0:03:30 > 0:03:32- Twain.- Yeah.- Mark Twain.
0:03:32 > 0:03:36Correct. Another starter question now.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39Quote - "In the councils of government, we must guard against
0:03:39 > 0:03:42the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
0:03:42 > 0:03:45whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex."
0:03:45 > 0:03:48These are the words of which outgoing US president
0:03:48 > 0:03:51in a speech of January 1961.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54- Eisenhower. - Eisenhower is right, yes.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57APPLAUSE
0:03:57 > 0:04:00Right. Your first bonuses, Pembroke, are on search engines.
0:04:00 > 0:04:04Firstly, for five points, the leader in the Chinese market
0:04:04 > 0:04:06with more than 60 percent of internet search revenue.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09Which search engine's name was inspired by a poem
0:04:09 > 0:04:11written during the Song Dynasty,
0:04:11 > 0:04:14the name representing the persistent search for the ideal?
0:04:14 > 0:04:19- Baidu.- Correct. Google handles only a small percentage of searches,
0:04:19 > 0:04:22but Naver.com deals with over 60 percent,
0:04:22 > 0:04:26and is by far the largest search portal in which Asian country?
0:04:26 > 0:04:29- Naver?- Naver... India?
0:04:29 > 0:04:32- Korea, maybe? - What do you think?- India.
0:04:32 > 0:04:34- OK. India.- No. South Korea.
0:04:34 > 0:04:38Yandex, which launched an international version of its search engine in 2010,
0:04:38 > 0:04:41has long dominated which country's internet market
0:04:41 > 0:04:43with its native web portal?
0:04:43 > 0:04:45Yandex?
0:04:45 > 0:04:47- It's somewhere... - Russian, do you think?
0:04:47 > 0:04:50- Israel, perhaps. I don't know. - Er, Israel?
0:04:50 > 0:04:52No, it's Russia. 10 points for this.
0:04:52 > 0:04:56Which play by Shakespeare was initially banned by the Nazi regime
0:04:56 > 0:05:00from being produced on radio, but was later adopted by them
0:05:00 > 0:05:02as a school text -
0:05:02 > 0:05:05- The Merchant Of Venice? - I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08..as a school text in which the ancient-Roman hero
0:05:08 > 0:05:12was compared to Hitler? It was subsequently banned
0:05:12 > 0:05:14by US forces in post-war Germany.
0:05:16 > 0:05:18One of you may buzz.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20Julius Caesar?
0:05:20 > 0:05:22No, Coriolanus. 10 points for this.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25"Classification and name-giving
0:05:25 > 0:05:27will be the foundations of our science."
0:05:27 > 0:05:29These are the words of which Swedish botanist -
0:05:30 > 0:05:32- Linnaeus.- Linnaeus is correct.
0:05:32 > 0:05:37That gives you the lead. Your bonuses are on beds.
0:05:37 > 0:05:41Which three-metre-wide bed dominates room 57
0:05:41 > 0:05:44of the Victoria and Albert Museum, and was probably built for an inn
0:05:44 > 0:05:48- in Hertfordshire in about 1590? - Oh, I've seen this!
0:05:48 > 0:05:51- Shakespeare's bed. - Er, Shakespeare's bed?
0:05:51 > 0:05:53No. It's the Great Bed of Ware.
0:05:53 > 0:05:57Consisting of a pillow, sheet and quilt supported on a frame,
0:05:57 > 0:06:02the 1955 work Bed was among which US artist's first Combines,
0:06:02 > 0:06:05the term he used for artworks incorporating cast-off items
0:06:05 > 0:06:08such as old material or furniture?
0:06:08 > 0:06:10- Warhol.- Are you sure?
0:06:10 > 0:06:13- Yeah.- Er, Warhol?
0:06:13 > 0:06:15No, it was Rauschenberg. And finally,
0:06:15 > 0:06:19which Turner-prize-nominated artist exhibited the installation My Bed
0:06:19 > 0:06:21at the Tate Britain in 1999?
0:06:21 > 0:06:24- Emin.- Tracey Emin is correct. 10 points for this.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27What nickname for a political grouping was an abusive term
0:06:27 > 0:06:30connoting Catholicism, foreignness and immorality,
0:06:30 > 0:06:35redefined by the followers of Charles I to indicate loyalty -
0:06:35 > 0:06:37- Cavalier.- Cavalier is right, yes.
0:06:37 > 0:06:38APPLAUSE
0:06:38 > 0:06:43Your bonuses, Pembroke, are on pioneering female scientists.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46Born in 1706, Emilie du Chatelet was a scientist
0:06:46 > 0:06:50whose achievements included the first French translation
0:06:50 > 0:06:52of which work of 1687 by Newton,
0:06:52 > 0:06:55usually known by a single Latin word?
0:06:55 > 0:06:58- Er, Principia Mathematica? - Principia, yes.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01What was the surname of the woman thought to have been the first
0:07:01 > 0:07:03to receive a salary for scientific work?
0:07:03 > 0:07:06The sister of a private astronomer to George III,
0:07:06 > 0:07:11her own achievements include the discovery of several comets and nebulae.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14- Herschel. George III's astronomer... - What was her name?
0:07:14 > 0:07:16- It's just a surname.- Oh. Herschel?
0:07:16 > 0:07:19Correct. Which Oxford college is named after the mathematician
0:07:19 > 0:07:22who wrote the influential 1834 work
0:07:22 > 0:07:25on the connection of the physical sciences?
0:07:25 > 0:07:28THEY WHISPER
0:07:28 > 0:07:30- Is there a Lovelace College? - No.- Er, Somerville?
0:07:30 > 0:07:33Somerville, after Mary Fairfax Somerville, yes.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35APPLAUSE
0:07:35 > 0:07:38We'll take a picture round now. For your starter,
0:07:38 > 0:07:41you'll see a photograph which uses a specific lens
0:07:41 > 0:07:44generally known by what two-word term?
0:07:48 > 0:07:51- Fish-eye. - Pembroke, one of you want to buzz?
0:07:55 > 0:07:57- Wide-angle. - Wide-angle is correct, yes.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59APPLAUSE
0:07:59 > 0:08:03Following on from that, three more lenses used in photography,
0:08:03 > 0:08:06five points for each you can correctly identify.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09Firstly, the lens used for this close-up.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13- Not a macro?- Macro, yeah.- Macro?
0:08:13 > 0:08:17Correct. Secondly, the lens that creates this effect.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22- I think I've heard of it, but... - Is it fish-eye?
0:08:22 > 0:08:27- No, that's not. - I don't know, then.- Er, pass.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29That's a tilt-shift.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32And finally, the lens used for this photograph...
0:08:32 > 0:08:35- That's a fish-eye.- Fish-eye. - That is a fish-eye, yes.
0:08:35 > 0:08:3810 points for this. Which island comes next in this sequence,
0:08:38 > 0:08:41given in ascending order by area?
0:08:41 > 0:08:45Kauai, Oahu, Maui and -
0:08:45 > 0:08:48Honolulu?
0:08:48 > 0:08:50No.
0:08:50 > 0:08:54- Big Island.- Yes, or Hawaii, as it's more commonly known.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57Right. A set of bonuses now. They're on sociology, Pembroke.
0:08:57 > 0:09:00In an eponymous work of 2000,
0:09:00 > 0:09:04the Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman coined what two-word term
0:09:04 > 0:09:08to describe a contemporary society of seductive consumerism,
0:09:08 > 0:09:12rapid technological change, contingency and ambiguity?
0:09:13 > 0:09:15Any ideas? No?
0:09:15 > 0:09:17Pass. It was "liquid modernity".
0:09:17 > 0:09:19Now used of reorganisation in business,
0:09:20 > 0:09:22what term did the German sociologist Max Weber use
0:09:22 > 0:09:27to describe the process in which modernisation affects economic life,
0:09:27 > 0:09:30law and religion by eliminating traditional ideas
0:09:30 > 0:09:32and customary practices?
0:09:32 > 0:09:35What's the name? "De" something. Is it "de"?
0:09:35 > 0:09:39- I can't remember.- It's "de"... What happens when you go...
0:09:39 > 0:09:42- Downsize?- "De" something.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44- Devaluations?- Pass.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46It's rationalisation, apparently.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49In his 1900 work The Philosophy Of Money,
0:09:49 > 0:09:52which German sociologist explored the connection
0:09:52 > 0:09:55between modernity and the development of a money economy?
0:09:55 > 0:09:57- German sociologist...- Sorry?
0:09:57 > 0:10:00- Was that Weber?- Er, no.
0:10:00 > 0:10:03- THEY WHISPER - OK. Durkheim?
0:10:03 > 0:10:06It's Georg Simmel. 10 points for this.
0:10:06 > 0:10:09Appointed Johnston Family professor of psychology
0:10:09 > 0:10:11at Harvard University in 2003,
0:10:11 > 0:10:13which Montreal-born American cognitive -
0:10:13 > 0:10:16- Michael Sandler. - I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:10:16 > 0:10:19Which Montreal-born American cognitive scientist
0:10:19 > 0:10:22and experimental psychologist is the author of works
0:10:22 > 0:10:25including The Stuff Of Thought, The Language Instinct
0:10:25 > 0:10:27and The Blank Slate?
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Er, Steven...Pinkerton? Sorry.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34No. It's Steven Pinker. So another starter question.
0:10:34 > 0:10:37Answer as soon as you buzz. What is the product
0:10:37 > 0:10:41of the two smallest double-digit primes?
0:10:43 > 0:10:45- 143?- Yes!
0:10:45 > 0:10:48APPLAUSE
0:10:48 > 0:10:51Your bonuses are on a US city, Pembroke College.
0:10:51 > 0:10:55Named after a chief of the Native American Duwamish people,
0:10:55 > 0:10:58which major US city stands on an isthmus
0:10:58 > 0:11:02between Puget Sound to the west and Lake Washington to the east?
0:11:02 > 0:11:04- Seattle.- Seattle?
0:11:04 > 0:11:06- Seattle.- Correct.
0:11:06 > 0:11:09Meaning a forest incline used to send timber downhill from sawmills,
0:11:09 > 0:11:13what name was given to what is now Seattle's Pioneer Square?
0:11:13 > 0:11:16It's thought by some to be the origin of its later use
0:11:16 > 0:11:19to denote any dilapidated urban area.
0:11:19 > 0:11:22- Shanty something?- Sorry?
0:11:22 > 0:11:23- Slum?- Er, Slum?
0:11:23 > 0:11:25It's Skid Row.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28Appearing in outline in the title of the TV series Frasier,
0:11:28 > 0:11:32what feature of Seattle's skyline was completed in 1962
0:11:32 > 0:11:34when the city hosted the World's Fair?
0:11:34 > 0:11:38- Space Needle.- Correct. Another starter question. In philosophy,
0:11:38 > 0:11:41what name, derived from the Greek for "take",
0:11:41 > 0:11:43is given to a proposition in an argument
0:11:43 > 0:11:46often accompanied by its own proof?
0:11:46 > 0:11:48Hypothesis?
0:11:48 > 0:11:51- No. Anyone like to buzz -- Axiom?
0:11:51 > 0:11:53No. It's a lemma. 10 points for this.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55Appearing in the work's title,
0:11:55 > 0:11:58which creatures were introduced by the writer Ben H Winters
0:11:58 > 0:12:01into a 2009 parody of Jane Austen's Sense And Sensibility?
0:12:02 > 0:12:05- Zombies?- No.
0:12:06 > 0:12:08- Sea monsters. - Sea monsters is right, yes.
0:12:08 > 0:12:10APPLAUSE
0:12:10 > 0:12:13Your bonuses this time, Pembroke, are on bears.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16Tremarctos ornatus, the spectacled bear,
0:12:16 > 0:12:18has what alternative common name
0:12:18 > 0:12:22after that of an extensive mountain range?
0:12:22 > 0:12:23The Urals?
0:12:23 > 0:12:25- Rocky...- Um, Rocky?
0:12:25 > 0:12:27No, it's the Andean bear.
0:12:27 > 0:12:31The name of which Asian peninsula appears in the binomial
0:12:31 > 0:12:35of the sun bear or honey bear, native to lowland tropical rainforests?
0:12:36 > 0:12:39- The name of a peninsula? - Um... Malay?
0:12:39 > 0:12:42- Er, Malay.- Correct.
0:12:42 > 0:12:44Yosemite National Park in California
0:12:44 > 0:12:46is home to several hundreds of which bear
0:12:46 > 0:12:49whose scientific name is Ursus Americanus?
0:12:49 > 0:12:51Grizzly? Is it grizzly?
0:12:51 > 0:12:54- Er, grizzly? - No, it's the black bear.
0:12:54 > 0:12:5710 points for this. On the periodic table of elements,
0:12:57 > 0:13:01up to number 118, including those with only temporary names,
0:13:01 > 0:13:04which is the only letter of the alphabet
0:13:04 > 0:13:06that does not appear in a symbol?
0:13:06 > 0:13:09- J.- J is correct, yes.
0:13:09 > 0:13:12APPLAUSE
0:13:12 > 0:13:15Your bonuses are on a literary character, Pembroke College.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book."
0:13:18 > 0:13:22"Books are well written or badly written. That is all."
0:13:22 > 0:13:26In the preface to which work of 1890 does the author make that assertion?
0:13:26 > 0:13:28THEY WHISPER
0:13:33 > 0:13:36- Huckleberry Finn? - No. It's The Picture Of Dorian Gray,
0:13:36 > 0:13:38by Oscar Wilde.
0:13:38 > 0:13:42Entitled Dorian: An Imitation, which author's novel of 2003
0:13:42 > 0:13:46transposes the character from the late 19th to the late 20th century
0:13:46 > 0:13:49and draws parallels between him and Princess Diana?
0:13:50 > 0:13:52THEY WHISPER
0:13:52 > 0:13:55- Pass.- Will Self.
0:13:55 > 0:13:59Finally, which British choreographer also reworked and updated Wilde's novel,
0:13:59 > 0:14:02making Dorian a model for an advertising campaign
0:14:02 > 0:14:05in a work which premiered at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival?
0:14:05 > 0:14:07- I thought it was Bourne.- Bourne.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10- OK. Matthew Bourne.- Correct.
0:14:10 > 0:14:12We're going to take a music round now.
0:14:12 > 0:14:16For your starter, you'll hear an excerpt from the score of a ballet.
0:14:16 > 0:14:2010 points if you can name the composer and the title of the work.
0:14:20 > 0:14:24- STIRRING VIOLIN MUSIC - The Rite Of Spring,
0:14:24 > 0:14:27- and Stravinsky.- Correct.
0:14:27 > 0:14:28APPLAUSE
0:14:29 > 0:14:32That premiered in 1913,
0:14:32 > 0:14:35and famously caused the audience to riot.
0:14:35 > 0:14:37Your bonuses are more pieces
0:14:37 > 0:14:40that met with less-than-favourable responses
0:14:40 > 0:14:44when they were first performed. Name the composer in each case.
0:14:44 > 0:14:46First the composer of this piece. On its premier in 1881,
0:14:46 > 0:14:49it was criticised for being long and pretentious,
0:14:49 > 0:14:52and "odorously Russian".
0:14:52 > 0:14:54SLOW VIOLIN MUSIC
0:14:54 > 0:14:56THEY WHISPER
0:14:56 > 0:14:58- If it was Russian...- Tchaikovsky.
0:14:58 > 0:15:00Er... Tchaikovsky?
0:15:00 > 0:15:04Is it... Is it... Do you think, maybe... Is it...
0:15:04 > 0:15:06His Violin Concerto?
0:15:06 > 0:15:09Shall we go with Tchaikovsky? We know the composer.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12THEY WHISPER
0:15:12 > 0:15:14Just go for it.
0:15:14 > 0:15:16Er, Tchaikovsky?
0:15:16 > 0:15:19It is Tchaikovsky, yes. It's his Violin Concerto In D Major.
0:15:19 > 0:15:22Secondly, the Russian composer of this piece.
0:15:22 > 0:15:27He himself termed its 1897 premier "a fiasco".
0:15:27 > 0:15:30SWELLING ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
0:15:32 > 0:15:36- Is it Mussorgsky? - Shall we go for Mussorgsky?
0:15:36 > 0:15:39I thought he was dead by then.
0:15:39 > 0:15:40THEY WHISPER
0:15:40 > 0:15:44I'd go with Rimsky-Korsakov. I think Mussorgsky was dead,
0:15:44 > 0:15:46but I'm not sure.
0:15:47 > 0:15:51- Er, Korsakov?- No, it's Rachmaninov's First Symphony.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54And finally, this French composer,
0:15:54 > 0:15:57who met with hostility and incomprehension
0:15:57 > 0:15:59from members of the orchestra and audience
0:15:59 > 0:16:01when this piece premiered in 1838?
0:16:01 > 0:16:04LIVELY ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
0:16:04 > 0:16:07THEY WHISPER
0:16:07 > 0:16:10I'd go Berlioz.
0:16:10 > 0:16:13- OK. Berlioz?- Yeah, Berlioz.
0:16:13 > 0:16:16- Berlioz?- It was Berlioz. Well done. Another starter question now.
0:16:16 > 0:16:20A concept adopted by German nationalists from the 1920s
0:16:20 > 0:16:24in an attempt to justify seizing territory in Eastern Europe -
0:16:24 > 0:16:26Lebensraum.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28Lebensraum is correct, yes.
0:16:28 > 0:16:30APPLAUSE
0:16:30 > 0:16:34Nottingham, your bonuses are on the skin.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37Relating to their colour, what is the common two-word name
0:16:37 > 0:16:39of senile lentigo? It's a benign condition
0:16:39 > 0:16:42caused after middle age by the long-term effect of sunlight
0:16:42 > 0:16:45- upon exposed areas of the skin. - Liver spots?
0:16:45 > 0:16:47- Liver spots.- Correct.
0:16:47 > 0:16:51Often a normal vascular condition whose effects are exaggerated
0:16:51 > 0:16:54by exposure to the cold, livedo reticularis
0:16:54 > 0:16:57is characterised by mottling seen on skin
0:16:57 > 0:16:59covering which part of the body?
0:17:00 > 0:17:04- Is it the hands?- Hands, lips...
0:17:04 > 0:17:06- What are we going to go for? Hands? - Yeah.
0:17:06 > 0:17:10- Arms.- No. It's the legs, or the lower legs and the feet.
0:17:10 > 0:17:13What common term is usually applied to the cutaneous condition
0:17:13 > 0:17:16known in dermatology as striae gravidarum,
0:17:16 > 0:17:19and associated with pregnancy or rapid weight gain?
0:17:19 > 0:17:22- Stretch marks.- Stretch marks.- Yes.
0:17:22 > 0:17:2510 points for this. Quite distinct from the European Union,
0:17:25 > 0:17:29which supranational body comprises those countries
0:17:29 > 0:17:32that have signed the European Convention on Human Rights?
0:17:32 > 0:17:35- Council of Europe. - Council of Europe is correct.
0:17:35 > 0:17:39Your bonuses are on plays at the Donmar Warehouse.
0:17:39 > 0:17:42Which prolific screenwriter made his debut as a playwright
0:17:42 > 0:17:46with the Donmar's 2006 production of Frost/Nixon?
0:17:46 > 0:17:49Oh! Er...
0:17:49 > 0:17:52THEY WHISPER
0:17:52 > 0:17:54- Pass.- It was Peter Morgan.
0:17:54 > 0:17:58The 2009 play Be Near Me was adapted for the stage
0:17:58 > 0:18:00from a novel by which Scottish writer,
0:18:00 > 0:18:03the author of The Life And Opinions Of Maf The Dog
0:18:03 > 0:18:06And Of His Friend Marilyn Monroe?
0:18:06 > 0:18:08THEY WHISPER
0:18:08 > 0:18:13- Scottish writer...- I don't know. - Do you want to guess?
0:18:13 > 0:18:15- THEY WHISPER - Iain Banks?
0:18:15 > 0:18:17No. It's Andrew O'Hagan. And finally,
0:18:17 > 0:18:21first performed in December 2009, John Logan's play Red
0:18:21 > 0:18:26fictionalises two years in the life of which Russian-born pioneer of colour-field painting?
0:18:26 > 0:18:29- Rothko?- Correct. Another starter question now.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32Answer as soon as you buzz. If A is 1,
0:18:32 > 0:18:35E is 5 and J is 10,
0:18:35 > 0:18:40which common preposition is indicated by the numbers 2015?
0:18:44 > 0:18:46- To.- To is correct. Yes.
0:18:46 > 0:18:48APPLAUSE
0:18:49 > 0:18:52Your bonuses are on environmentalists now, Pembroke.
0:18:52 > 0:18:55Which former director of Friends Of The Earth
0:18:55 > 0:18:58helped found the sustainable-development charity
0:18:58 > 0:19:01Forum For The Future in 1996?
0:19:01 > 0:19:03- Pass.- It was Jonathon Porritt.
0:19:03 > 0:19:06The original editor of The Whole Earth Catalogue,
0:19:06 > 0:19:09which US environmentalist has founded organisations
0:19:09 > 0:19:11including the Global Business Network
0:19:11 > 0:19:14- and the Long Now Foundation? - Environmentalists...
0:19:14 > 0:19:17- THEY WHISPER - I don't know.
0:19:17 > 0:19:20- Pass.- Stewart Brand.
0:19:20 > 0:19:23And finally, the South African Kumi Naidoo
0:19:23 > 0:19:26in 2009 became the executive director
0:19:26 > 0:19:30of which environment organisation, founded in Vancouver in 1971?
0:19:30 > 0:19:33- Greenpeace.- Greenpeace.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36Correct. We'll take our second picture round now.
0:19:36 > 0:19:41You'll see a painting. 10 points if you can give the name of the artist.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43Lichtenstein.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45Roy Lichtenstein is correct. Yes.
0:19:45 > 0:19:47APPLAUSE
0:19:47 > 0:19:51In the car, following on from that, three more works by artists
0:19:51 > 0:19:53associated with the Pop Art movement,
0:19:53 > 0:19:55all of which were created in the 1960s,
0:19:55 > 0:19:59around the height of that movement. Five for each you can name.
0:19:59 > 0:20:01Firstly...
0:20:01 > 0:20:04- I don't know.- I've got no idea.
0:20:04 > 0:20:05Pass.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08That's Allen Jones's Sheer Magic. Secondly, this.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15- Clueless.- No. We don't know. Sorry.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18That's Richard Hamilton's Adonis In Y-Fronts.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21And finally, the artist who created this screen print.
0:20:23 > 0:20:27It's a screen print, so maybe Warhol. Just give it a go.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29- Yes. We'll say Warhol. - No. That's Peter Blake,
0:20:29 > 0:20:32Babe Rainbow. 10 points for this.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34Which of Shakespeare's plays includes the lines,
0:20:34 > 0:20:37"Some are born great, some achieve greatness
0:20:37 > 0:20:39and some have greatness"...
0:20:39 > 0:20:43- Er, Twelfth Night. - Twelfth Night. It's Malvolio. Yeah.
0:20:43 > 0:20:47Right. Your bonuses this time, Pembroke College, are on physics.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50Sometimes abbreviated to QCD, which branch of physics
0:20:50 > 0:20:53explains permissible combinations of quarks
0:20:53 > 0:20:56to form various elementary particles
0:20:56 > 0:20:58by the notional assignment of a primary colour to each?
0:20:58 > 0:21:00- Quantum chromodynamics.- Correct.
0:21:00 > 0:21:04In quantum chromodynamics, any one of the three complementary colours
0:21:04 > 0:21:08of cyan, magenta and yellow may be assigned to what?
0:21:08 > 0:21:10- Quarks?- Er...
0:21:12 > 0:21:15Photons or something? I don't know.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17- Antiquark.- Quarks?
0:21:17 > 0:21:19- No, they're antiquarks. - Oh, that's right.
0:21:19 > 0:21:23When a quark combines with an antiquark to form a meson,
0:21:23 > 0:21:25what is the resulting colour?
0:21:25 > 0:21:28White? THEY WHISPER
0:21:28 > 0:21:31- Shall we go white? Yeah.- No.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33- White may be...- White.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35White is correct, yes. 10 points for this.
0:21:35 > 0:21:39Pinkerton and Sharpless are among the characters in which opera
0:21:39 > 0:21:42first performed in 1904 and set in -
0:21:42 > 0:21:45- Madame Butterfly. - Madame Butterfly is right.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47APPLAUSE
0:21:47 > 0:21:51These bonuses are on the year 1961. Situated between Guinea and Liberia,
0:21:51 > 0:21:56which country became independent from the UK on April 27th 1961?
0:21:56 > 0:21:58- Sierra Leone.- Correct.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01How was Tanzania known when it became independent from the UK
0:22:01 > 0:22:03in December 1961? It changed to its present name
0:22:03 > 0:22:06after the union with Zanzibar in 1964.
0:22:06 > 0:22:08- Tanganyika.- Correct.
0:22:08 > 0:22:11Ruled by the Al Sabah family, which Persian Gulf state
0:22:11 > 0:22:15became independent of the UK in June 19th 1961?
0:22:15 > 0:22:18- Oh, '61? Yes. South Yemen. - Yemen.- No, it was Kuwait.
0:22:19 > 0:22:22Five and half minutes to go. 10 points for this.
0:22:22 > 0:22:25Alphabetically, which of the first five cardinal numbers
0:22:25 > 0:22:29comes second in Italian and French, third in Spanish -
0:22:29 > 0:22:32- Two.- Two is correct. Yes.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35APPLAUSE
0:22:35 > 0:22:38Your bonuses are on pairs of words that differ only by the presence
0:22:38 > 0:22:41of an acute accent. In each case, give both words
0:22:41 > 0:22:45from the definitions. To allow light to fall on a photographic film
0:22:45 > 0:22:49and a revelation of something discreditable.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51- Expose and "exposay".- Ex-...
0:22:51 > 0:22:54- Expose and "exposay". - Expose and "exposay".
0:22:54 > 0:22:57Correct. Unable to walk properly,
0:22:57 > 0:22:59and fabric interwoven with metallic thread.
0:22:59 > 0:23:02- Lame and "lamay".- Lame and "lamay".
0:23:02 > 0:23:04Correct. The heterogametic sex in mammals
0:23:04 > 0:23:06and the capital of the Maldives.
0:23:06 > 0:23:09- Male and "Malay". - Male and "Malay".- Correct.
0:23:09 > 0:23:1410 points for this. An acronym comprising four French words,
0:23:14 > 0:23:19FIDE - that's F-I-D-E - was founded in 1924,
0:23:19 > 0:23:21and is the world governing body of which -
0:23:21 > 0:23:24- Chess.- Chess is correct, yes.
0:23:24 > 0:23:26APPLAUSE
0:23:26 > 0:23:28Your bonuses are on a peace treaty.
0:23:28 > 0:23:31Which conflict was ended by the Treaty of Portsmouth in 1905
0:23:31 > 0:23:34through the mediation of Theodore Roosevelt?
0:23:34 > 0:23:37- Russo-Japanese?- Yeah. Russo-Japanese.
0:23:37 > 0:23:40War. Correct. By the Treaty of Portsmouth,
0:23:40 > 0:23:42Japan and Russia agreed to return the sovereignty
0:23:42 > 0:23:46of which territory to China? It was occupied by the Soviet Union
0:23:46 > 0:23:50- at the end of the Second World War. - Manchuria?- Was it Korea?
0:23:50 > 0:23:51THEY WHISPER
0:23:51 > 0:23:53- Come on!- Manchuria.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56Correct. The southern half of which large island
0:23:56 > 0:24:00was given to Japan by the treaty? It's been part of Russia since 1945.
0:24:00 > 0:24:03- Oh, Sakhalin?- Yeah.- Come on!
0:24:03 > 0:24:07- Sakhalin.- Correct. Four minutes to go. 10 points for this.
0:24:07 > 0:24:10Give any of the three short anagrams
0:24:10 > 0:24:13that mean "principal river of north-eastern Spain",
0:24:13 > 0:24:16"pertaining to York or its archbishop",
0:24:16 > 0:24:18and "dull or vapid"...
0:24:18 > 0:24:21- See? - No. I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24..and "dull or vapid person"?
0:24:28 > 0:24:31- Bore?- Bore would do for the last one.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33The other ones were Ebro and Ebor.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35So you get a set of bonuses now on geology.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Which specific branch of geology
0:24:37 > 0:24:41is concerned with fossils and their use in dating rock layers?
0:24:41 > 0:24:45THEY WHISPER No, it's not that.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48- Paleogeology?- Yeah. Just...
0:24:48 > 0:24:51- Paleogeology? - No. It's biostratigraphy.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54Widely used in biostratigraphy, fossils that are useful
0:24:54 > 0:24:57for dating the strata in which they are found
0:24:57 > 0:24:59are known by what term?
0:24:59 > 0:25:01- Indicators?- Come on.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03- Don't know.- They're index fossils.
0:25:03 > 0:25:06Key indices for stratigraphical investigations,
0:25:06 > 0:25:09which fossils are remains of a marine cephalopod mollusc
0:25:09 > 0:25:12from the Mesozoic Era with a flat, tightly coiled shell?
0:25:12 > 0:25:16- Trilobite.- No, they're ammonites. 10 points for this.
0:25:16 > 0:25:19An identity module used in mobile phones
0:25:19 > 0:25:21is usually known as a SIM card.
0:25:21 > 0:25:25For what does the letter S in SIM stand?
0:25:25 > 0:25:27- Subscriber. - Subscriber is correct, yes.
0:25:29 > 0:25:32Your bonuses this time are on the noble gasses.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34Which noble gas, atomic number 54,
0:25:34 > 0:25:38is commonly used in photographic discharge tubes?
0:25:38 > 0:25:40- THEY WHISPER - Radon's not... Xenon.
0:25:40 > 0:25:43- Xenon.- Correct.
0:25:43 > 0:25:47Which noble gas, atomic number 18, is used in incandescent light bulbs?
0:25:47 > 0:25:49- Neon.- No, it's argon.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52Which noble gas, atomic number 86,
0:25:52 > 0:25:55is produced when radium 226 undergoes alpha decay?
0:25:55 > 0:25:57- Is that radon?- OK.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00- Radon. - Correct. Another starter question.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02Answer as soon as you buzz. Stibnite is a mineral
0:26:02 > 0:26:04containing sulphur and which other -
0:26:04 > 0:26:06- Antimony.- Correct.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08APPLAUSE
0:26:08 > 0:26:12Your bonuses are on religious clothing.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14Firstly, for five points, usually made of wool,
0:26:14 > 0:26:18the tallit is a prayer shawl associated with which religion?
0:26:18 > 0:26:22- Judaism.- Correct. Consisting for men of two lengths of white cotton,
0:26:22 > 0:26:24ihram clothing is worn by those performing
0:26:24 > 0:26:28- which of the Five Pillars of Islam? - Hajj?- The Hajj?
0:26:28 > 0:26:32It is indeed. Part of the distinctive dress known as the bana,
0:26:32 > 0:26:35the term "dastar" denotes what religious headwear?
0:26:35 > 0:26:38- Maybe a turban, do you think?- OK.
0:26:38 > 0:26:42- OK, a turban. Turban. - It is a turban, yes. Sikh turban.
0:26:42 > 0:26:4510 points for this. What is the common name
0:26:45 > 0:26:48for the Engraulidae, the small members of the herring family
0:26:48 > 0:26:51often used in cooking as a garnish and flavouring?
0:26:52 > 0:26:55- Anchovies.- Anchovies is correct, yes.
0:26:55 > 0:26:57Your bonuses this time are on astronomy.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00Which celestial body is 1.3 light seconds from Earth?
0:27:00 > 0:27:03- It's the moon, surely.- Come on!
0:27:03 > 0:27:05- The moon?- It is the moon.
0:27:05 > 0:27:09What is the most distant planet within one light-hour of Earth?
0:27:09 > 0:27:11- Jupiter, I'd say.- Would you?
0:27:11 > 0:27:14- Jupiter.- It is.
0:27:14 > 0:27:18To the nearest integer, how many light-minutes distant is the sun?
0:27:18 > 0:27:19- Eight.- Eight.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22Eight is correct. Another starter question.
0:27:22 > 0:27:26In pharmacology, phenindione, heparin and warfarin
0:27:26 > 0:27:28are drugs with what property?
0:27:28 > 0:27:32- Blood-thinning agent. - That's correct. Anticoagulants.
0:27:32 > 0:27:36Three questions on the arts for your bonuses, Nottingham.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39First performed in 1782, which Mozart opera
0:27:39 > 0:27:42is set in the Ottoman Empire?
0:27:42 > 0:27:45- Oh, it's the one in the harem. - Come on. We need an answer.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47- GONG RINGS - And at the gong,
0:27:47 > 0:27:50Nottingham University have 125.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53Pembroke College, Cambridge have 280.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58Well, you had a jolly bad start,
0:27:58 > 0:28:01but you showed us what you can do towards the end.
0:28:01 > 0:28:04We'll have to say goodbye to you, though.
0:28:04 > 0:28:07Pembroke, another terrific performance from you.
0:28:07 > 0:28:09We shall see you in the quarterfinals. Join us next time
0:28:09 > 0:28:12for the first quarterfinal, but until then,
0:28:12 > 0:28:15- it is goodbye from Nottingham University...- Goodbye.
0:28:15 > 0:28:19- ..and from Pembroke...- Goodbye. - ..and from me. Goodbye.
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