0:00:15 > 0:00:18APPLAUSE
0:00:18 > 0:00:23University Challenge. Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:33Hello. At the beginning of the year around 120 universities and university colleges
0:00:33 > 0:00:36put forward teams to compete in this contest.
0:00:36 > 0:00:3828 qualified to do so.
0:00:38 > 0:00:42Now, as we begin the quarter-finals, only eight remain. They are:
0:00:53 > 0:00:57From now on, those teams must work harder to progress in the competition.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00Not only will the questions be more difficult,
0:01:00 > 0:01:04but they must win two matches to go through to the semi-final.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07A team that loses two matches leaves the contest
0:01:07 > 0:01:09and a team which wins one and loses another
0:01:09 > 0:01:12must then play and win again to qualify.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14Now, in their first round match,
0:01:14 > 0:01:19Manchester University had pretty much a walkover against Selwyn, Cambridge.
0:01:19 > 0:01:24But their second-round match was a much closer affair against Christchurch Oxford
0:01:24 > 0:01:26when they were neck-and-neck most of the way.
0:01:26 > 0:01:32They pulled ahead in the closing minutes and were 215 points to Christchurch's 155 at the gong
0:01:32 > 0:01:36despite being baffled by Baffin, Newspeak and near-Earth objects.
0:01:36 > 0:01:39With an accumulated score of 470 points,
0:01:39 > 0:01:41let's meet the team for the third time.
0:01:41 > 0:01:45Hi. I'm Luke Kelly, from Ashford in Kent, and I'm studying history.
0:01:45 > 0:01:49I'm Michael McKenna from St Anne's in Lancashire, studying bio-chemistry.
0:01:49 > 0:01:55- And their captain.- I'm Tristan Burke from Ilkley, Yorkshire, studying English literature.
0:01:55 > 0:01:57I'm Paul Joyce from Chorley in Lincolnshire,
0:01:57 > 0:02:01studying for a Masters in Social Research Methods and Statistics.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04APPLAUSE
0:02:05 > 0:02:08Their opponents tonight, University College London,
0:02:08 > 0:02:12beat York convincingly in the first round.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14They had a tougher time against Warwick,
0:02:14 > 0:02:18but still managed to be ahead by 220 points to 150 at the gong.
0:02:18 > 0:02:22What's impressive about this time is when they're right, they're right.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25When they're wrong, they're very, very wrong.
0:02:25 > 0:02:30They'd no doubt like to offer an apology to the current poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy
0:02:30 > 0:02:34for suggesting she was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer prize in 1982!
0:02:34 > 0:02:38With an accumulated score of 405, let's meet the UCL team again.
0:02:38 > 0:02:43I'm Hywel Carver from east Devon, doing a PhD in the simulation of blood flow.
0:02:43 > 0:02:47I'm Patrick Cook from Texas and I'm reading history.
0:02:47 > 0:02:51- And their captain.- I'm Jamie Karran from London and I'm studying medicine.
0:02:51 > 0:02:57Hi, I'm Tom Andrews from north Somerset, studying genetics.
0:02:57 > 0:02:59APPLAUSE
0:03:02 > 0:03:06Rules are the same as ever. Fingers on buzzers. Your first starter for 10.
0:03:06 > 0:03:11"When I sit down to write a book, I don't say to myself I'm going to produce a work of art.
0:03:11 > 0:03:14"I write it because there is some lie I want to expose..."
0:03:14 > 0:03:18- George Orwell.- George Orwell is correct. Yes.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24First set of bonuses are for UCL on acronyms.
0:03:24 > 0:03:31For major investigations, UK police forces began in 1986 to employ a Home Office system
0:03:31 > 0:03:33known by what possibly appropriate acronym?
0:03:38 > 0:03:43- If it's appropriate, corpse or body or something.- OK. BODY.
0:03:43 > 0:03:47No, it's HOLMES, Home Office Large Major Enquiry System.
0:03:47 > 0:03:51VICAP, standing for Violent Criminal Apprehension Programme,
0:03:51 > 0:03:54was established in the mid-1980s by which organisation?
0:03:56 > 0:03:58Interpol?
0:03:58 > 0:04:01- Interpol.- No, it's the FBI. Finally,
0:04:01 > 0:04:04established by the Los Angeles police department in 1968,
0:04:04 > 0:04:11for what does the acronym SWAT stand when denoting US paramilitary law enforcement units?
0:04:11 > 0:04:13- Special Weapons and Tactics. - Correct.
0:04:13 > 0:04:18Another starter question. Which year saw Volta's invention of the first electric cell,
0:04:18 > 0:04:20the premiere of Beethoven's First Symphony,
0:04:20 > 0:04:23the establishment of the US Library of Congress
0:04:23 > 0:04:29and the passing of the Acts of Union that created the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland?
0:04:29 > 0:04:311801.
0:04:31 > 0:04:34Anyone like to buzz from UCL?
0:04:36 > 0:04:381707.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41No, it's 1800. Ten points for this.
0:04:41 > 0:04:45"It's the first time Arabs have toppled one of their dictators
0:04:45 > 0:04:49"so you'll understand why, despite reports of chaos, looting and a musical chairs
0:04:49 > 0:04:52"of caretaker leaders, I'm still celebrating."
0:04:52 > 0:04:57These words of columnist Mona Eltahawy refer to the popular protests in which country...
0:04:57 > 0:05:01- Egypt.- No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04..in which country that overthrew President Ben Ali...
0:05:04 > 0:05:06- Tunisia.- Correct.
0:05:09 > 0:05:14So your bonuses, Manchester, are on a civilisation.
0:05:14 > 0:05:18Uaxactun and Copan were principal cities of which civilisation
0:05:18 > 0:05:21which flourished from around AD 250 to 900?
0:05:21 > 0:05:23Mayans?
0:05:23 > 0:05:26- OK, then.- What were you going to say? - Go for Mayans.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28- Mayans.- Correct.
0:05:28 > 0:05:32Abandoned in about the year 900 for reasons not fully understood,
0:05:32 > 0:05:37the Maya ceremonial centre of Tikal lies in which present-day country?
0:05:39 > 0:05:42- It's in Honduras, isn't it?- Honduras?
0:05:42 > 0:05:45Are you sure? Honduras.
0:05:45 > 0:05:47No, Guatemala.
0:05:47 > 0:05:52A fundamental part of the Mayan calendar was the period of 584 days
0:05:52 > 0:05:55derived from the observation of a complete cycle of which planet?
0:05:58 > 0:05:59Jupiter?
0:05:59 > 0:06:01- Do you reckon?- Yeah.
0:06:01 > 0:06:05- Jupiter.- No, it's Venus. Ten points for this.
0:06:05 > 0:06:10The family name of the Dukes of Northumberland and of the seventh president of the US
0:06:10 > 0:06:13combine to give the name of which fictional teenager
0:06:13 > 0:06:18who at Camp Half-Blood discovers that he is the son of the Greek god Poseidon?
0:06:18 > 0:06:20- Percy Jackson.- Yes.
0:06:23 > 0:06:26Your bonuses are on fools, UCL.
0:06:26 > 0:06:30Who noted in his diary entry for May 29th 1871
0:06:30 > 0:06:32"It's a fine thing to be out on the hills alone.
0:06:32 > 0:06:38"A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain."
0:06:39 > 0:06:43QUIET CONFERRING
0:06:46 > 0:06:47- John Muir?- No,
0:06:47 > 0:06:49it was the Reverend Francis Kilvert.
0:06:49 > 0:06:53Which English art critic bemoaned the destruction of the landscape
0:06:53 > 0:06:57caused by the railway age in Praeterita, in the 1880s,
0:06:57 > 0:07:01"Now every fool in Buxton can be in Bakewell in half an hour
0:07:01 > 0:07:03"and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton."
0:07:03 > 0:07:06An art critic of that period. Ruskin, maybe?
0:07:06 > 0:07:08- Say Ruskin.- OK.
0:07:08 > 0:07:12- Ruskin.- Correct. To whom is attributed the observation
0:07:12 > 0:07:15that whilst fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement,
0:07:15 > 0:07:19"angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string
0:07:19 > 0:07:21"with a worm at one end and a fool at the other."
0:07:27 > 0:07:30- OK. Pass.- That was Dr Johnson.
0:07:30 > 0:07:36Now a picture round. The starter is the frontispiece to a book by a French philosopher.
0:07:36 > 0:07:37Ten points if you can name him.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45- Descartes?- Anyone like to buzz from UCL?
0:07:48 > 0:07:50- Voltaire.- It is Voltaire, yes.
0:07:53 > 0:07:56We follow on from the Voltaire frontispiece
0:07:56 > 0:07:59with three more frontispieces of works of philosophy.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01This time all by English philosophers.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04Five points for each work and author that you can name.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06Firstly, this work of 1516.
0:08:07 > 0:08:11- Thomas More, Utopia. - Yes, I knew that obviously.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14- Thomas More's Utopia.- It is indeed.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16Secondly this from 1620.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19QUIET CONFERRING
0:08:23 > 0:08:28- Did Jeremy Bentham write anything? - Not in 1620!
0:08:30 > 0:08:32Something by John Locke.
0:08:32 > 0:08:37No, it's nothing by John Locke. It's the Novum Organum of Francis Bacon.
0:08:37 > 0:08:39Finally, this from 1651.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45- Hobbes' Leviathan. - Correct. Ten points for this.
0:08:45 > 0:08:48"A state in which normal sense experience is suspended
0:08:48 > 0:08:51"and the subject becomes conscious of higher things
0:08:51 > 0:08:55"although what the subject is aware of is not typically communicable."
0:08:55 > 0:08:58These words from the Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
0:08:58 > 0:09:03describe what concept, its name derived from the Greek for standing outside oneself.
0:09:04 > 0:09:10- ..Ecstatic. No.- Yes, I'll accept that. The state is ecstasy.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12Next time, please answer straightaway.
0:09:12 > 0:09:18A set of bonuses on gases. In 1996, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California
0:09:18 > 0:09:25created the metallic form of which gas originally discovered in 1766 by Henry Cavendish?
0:09:25 > 0:09:27- Chlorine?- Chlorine.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31- Yeah.- Chlorine.- No, it's hydrogen.
0:09:31 > 0:09:35Which gas was discovered in 1898 by Sir William Ramsay and M.W.Travers
0:09:35 > 0:09:38in the residue of distilled liquid air?
0:09:38 > 0:09:43It's used in light bulbs, lasers and in arc lamps for cinema projection.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46Go for Argon.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49- Argon.- Argon.
0:09:49 > 0:09:55No, Xenon. Pierre Janssen and Norman Lockyear are jointly credited with the detection in 1868
0:09:55 > 0:09:58of which gas as an unexpected line in the sun's spectrum?
0:09:58 > 0:10:03It was discovered on Earth in 1895 in the Uranium mineral Clevite.
0:10:03 > 0:10:07- Helium.- Helium?
0:10:08 > 0:10:09Radon.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11Yes.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14Radon? Radon.
0:10:14 > 0:10:17No, it's helium. Ten points for this.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19According to a standard work on the subject,
0:10:19 > 0:10:25what form of artistic expression is "usually and conveniently thought to have begun in 1600,
0:10:25 > 0:10:28the date of Jacopo Peri's Eurydice?
0:10:30 > 0:10:34- Theatre.- No. Manchester, one of you buzz.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37- Opera.- Opera is correct, yes.
0:10:39 > 0:10:43Your bonuses are on language, Manchester.
0:10:43 > 0:10:48For which novel written in Paris over a period of 17 years and published in 1939
0:10:48 > 0:10:54did its author invent an idioglossia drawing on around 40 different languages?
0:10:54 > 0:10:57- Finnegan's Wake.- Correct. The US physicist Murray Gell-Man
0:10:57 > 0:11:01took the spelling of the particle he called the quark
0:11:01 > 0:11:04from the line in Finnegan's Wake, "Three quarks for Muster Mark."
0:11:04 > 0:11:08What, in the context of the novel, is the immediate meaning of quark?
0:11:09 > 0:11:11Try and have a guess.
0:11:11 > 0:11:15INDISTINCT CONFERRING
0:11:19 > 0:11:24- A pint of beer. - No, it's a gull's cry. Finally,
0:11:24 > 0:11:28what term did the US anthropologist Joseph Campbell borrow from Finnegan's Wake
0:11:28 > 0:11:35to denote the concept of the hero's journey common to the epic works and folk tales of many cultures?
0:11:35 > 0:11:36Anyone have any ideas?
0:11:36 > 0:11:38Odyssey?
0:11:42 > 0:11:45- Odyssey.- No, it's monomyth. Ten points for this.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47Kepler's third law of planetary motion
0:11:47 > 0:11:51states that the square of the sidereal period of any planet
0:11:51 > 0:11:56is directly proportional to its mean distance from the sun, raised to what power?
0:11:58 > 0:12:01- Power of two.- No.
0:12:02 > 0:12:04- Power of three.- That's correct, yes. Cubed.
0:12:06 > 0:12:11Your bonuses, Manchester, are on Italian terms used in art.
0:12:11 > 0:12:16What word meaning softness implies soft transitions from one colour or tone to another
0:12:16 > 0:12:19and is applied particularly to the depiction of flesh
0:12:19 > 0:12:22by artists such as Correggio?
0:12:22 > 0:12:25INDISTINCT
0:12:32 > 0:12:34Chiaroscuro.
0:12:34 > 0:12:38No. Morbidezza. What Italian word meaning shaded off
0:12:38 > 0:12:43denotes the technique used by Leonardo da Vinci to soften the transition
0:12:43 > 0:12:45from dark shadow to bright highlight?
0:12:45 > 0:12:49- That might be chiaroscuro.- How do you say it?- Chiaroscuro.
0:12:49 > 0:12:53- Nominate Joyce.- Chiaroscuro. - No, it's sfumato. Finally,
0:12:53 > 0:12:58Leonardo used sfumato to counteract the problem of harshness
0:12:58 > 0:13:01when employing what arrangement of extreme contrasts,
0:13:01 > 0:13:03it's name meaning light dark?
0:13:03 > 0:13:07- That's it. Chiaroscuro. - It is Chiaroscuro, yes.
0:13:07 > 0:13:11Its name meaning "the practice of the wheel of the law",
0:13:11 > 0:13:15which spiritual movement was founded in north-eastern China in 1992?
0:13:15 > 0:13:17Banned by the government...
0:13:17 > 0:13:19- Falun Gong.- Falun Gong is correct.
0:13:21 > 0:13:25You're on level pegging. You can take the lead with these bonuses
0:13:25 > 0:13:27on deaths with a shared location.
0:13:27 > 0:13:31What four-word name was given to the case of the bigamist George Joseph Smith
0:13:31 > 0:13:35who in 1915 was convicted of murdering his three wives?
0:13:35 > 0:13:39They were found in different parts of the country but in the same part of each house.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42Did he say a four-word name?
0:13:43 > 0:13:46- Acid baths.- OK.
0:13:46 > 0:13:50- Acid bath murderer. That's only three.- The.- Four letters.
0:13:50 > 0:13:52Four letters, not four words.
0:13:52 > 0:13:58- Bath.- If that's your answer. I asked for four words. It's the Brides in the Bath.
0:13:58 > 0:14:02Charlotte Corday, who killed French revolutionary leader Jean Paul Marat
0:14:02 > 0:14:08in his bath in 1793 was a member of which Republican party named after a region of France?
0:14:20 > 0:14:21The Marseillaise?
0:14:21 > 0:14:24No, it's the Girondins, or Girondist.
0:14:24 > 0:14:28The son of Marcus Aurelius, which Roman emperor was strangled in his bath
0:14:28 > 0:14:30by his wrestling partner Narcissus
0:14:30 > 0:14:33after his mistress's attempt to poison him failed?
0:14:33 > 0:14:36- Commodus.- Correct. A music round now.
0:14:36 > 0:14:41For your starter, a piece of music named after a figure from the Old Testament.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43Ten points if you can name him.
0:14:47 > 0:14:49- Zadok the Priest.- Yes.
0:14:51 > 0:14:56One of Handel's coronation anthems. Your bonuses are excerpts from works by Handel.
0:14:56 > 0:15:00In each case from an oratorio named after a figure in the Old Testament,
0:15:00 > 0:15:02five points for each you identify. Firstly...
0:15:06 > 0:15:09MUSIC DROWNS SPEECH
0:15:18 > 0:15:22- Say Sampson.- Sampson.- Sampson is correct, yes. Secondly...
0:15:32 > 0:15:34Did he write The Dream of Gerontius?
0:15:34 > 0:15:37- No, that's Elgar. - Whatever!- Wrong century.
0:15:40 > 0:15:42If no-one has anything better, I'll say it.
0:15:42 > 0:15:45- OK. Elijah.- No, it's Esther.
0:15:45 > 0:15:50Not the title of the oratorio, but the figure represented by this piece.
0:15:50 > 0:15:51Queen of Sheba.
0:15:51 > 0:15:55- The Queen of Sheba.- Yes, well done.
0:15:55 > 0:16:01The term phonetics refers to the study of speech production and pronunciation in general.
0:16:01 > 0:16:07What similar term denotes the study of the sound systems of a particular language...
0:16:07 > 0:16:09- Phonology.- Phonology is right.
0:16:11 > 0:16:14Your bonuses, UCL, are on metabolic pathways.
0:16:14 > 0:16:18Which pathway converts glucose to pyruvate
0:16:18 > 0:16:22with the production of two molecules of A.T.P and two molecules of N.A.D.H
0:16:22 > 0:16:25for each glucose molecule processed?
0:16:26 > 0:16:28Glycolysis.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31Yes, I'll accept that. Lots of other names for it.
0:16:31 > 0:16:37Which pathway proceeds via five carbon intermediates and generates most cellular N.A.D.P.H?
0:16:37 > 0:16:40That is the Kreb cycle, yes? The Kreb cycle.
0:16:40 > 0:16:43No, that's the Pentose Phosphate Pathway.
0:16:43 > 0:16:47Finally, which acid is produced in muscles during heavy exercise
0:16:47 > 0:16:51- by the anaerobic...- Lactic acid. - Lactic acid is correct. Another starter.
0:16:51 > 0:16:56Elastic in texture, often grey in colour and absent from barley, oats and maize,
0:16:56 > 0:17:00what is the main protein substance contained in wheat flour?
0:17:00 > 0:17:04- Gluten.- Gluten is correct. Here are your bonuses.
0:17:04 > 0:17:07They're on Economics, Manchester.
0:17:07 > 0:17:12What single word denotes the concept which can be defined either as a position of balance in the economy
0:17:12 > 0:17:17or as a situation in which no agent has an incentive to modify their chosen strategy?
0:17:17 > 0:17:21- Equilibrium.- Correct. Named after a US mathematician,
0:17:21 > 0:17:26what equilibrium concept is constituted if no player has an incentive to change their strategy
0:17:26 > 0:17:30- given those chosen by the other players?- No-one?- Von Neumann?
0:17:30 > 0:17:35- What is he... Yeah? Von Neumann. - No, that's Nash equilibrium.
0:17:35 > 0:17:40Finally, the point at which both sellers and buyers are happy with the price and quantity,
0:17:40 > 0:17:43price equilibrium is found when which two factors are equal?
0:17:43 > 0:17:46- Supply and demand.- Supply and demand. - Correct.
0:17:46 > 0:17:50Which decade saw the foundation of the Greenwich Observatory,
0:17:50 > 0:17:56the publication of Huygens Treatise on Light, Spinoza's Ethics, Bunyan's Pilgrims' Progress
0:17:56 > 0:17:59and Milton's Paradise Regained?
0:18:00 > 0:18:02- 1670s.- Correct.
0:18:04 > 0:18:08Your bonuses, Manchester, are on 20th-century fashion firsts.
0:18:08 > 0:18:13Dating to antiquity and used by women in the US from the late 19th century
0:18:13 > 0:18:15as a sign of social non-conformity,
0:18:15 > 0:18:19what product was marketed for the first time in 1915
0:18:19 > 0:18:23in the now familiar containers devised by the US cosmetician Maurice Levy?
0:18:23 > 0:18:25- Lipstick?- Lipstick.- Correct.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27Commissioned by a French couturier,
0:18:27 > 0:18:31which enduring product was created in 1921 by Ernest Beaux?
0:18:31 > 0:18:35- Antiperspirant?- Yeah. - Antiperspirant.
0:18:35 > 0:18:43No, Chanel No.5. In 1960, the Warner Lingerie Company introduced the Little Godiva step-in girdle,
0:18:43 > 0:18:47believed to be the first garment made of which synthetic polyurethane fibre
0:18:47 > 0:18:50- with the elastic qualities of rubber?- Lycra?
0:18:50 > 0:18:52- Yeah. Lycra.- Lycra is correct.
0:18:52 > 0:18:57Another starter question. Munchausen Syndrome, Munchies and Mung Bean
0:18:57 > 0:19:03appear in the dictionary close to which Latin-derived word meaning dull or ordinary?
0:19:04 > 0:19:07- Mundane.- Mundane is right, yes.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12Your bonuses are on an African country.
0:19:12 > 0:19:16Which African country encloses Gambia on three sides and shares its name
0:19:16 > 0:19:19with the river that runs along its northern border?
0:19:25 > 0:19:31- Niger.- No, Senegal. Dakar, the capital of Senegal, is situated at the tip of which peninsula,
0:19:31 > 0:19:33the westernmost point of Africa?
0:19:38 > 0:19:41- Horn of Africa? - That's on the other side.
0:19:41 > 0:19:44- Don't care. The Horn of Africa. - No, the other side. Cape Verde.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46Prior to independence in 1960,
0:19:46 > 0:19:50Senegal formed a short-lived federation with French Sudan.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53By what name is the latter country now known?
0:19:53 > 0:19:56- Mali. Mali.- Yeah?
0:19:56 > 0:19:59- Mali.- Correct. A second picture round.
0:19:59 > 0:20:02For your starter you'll see a photo of a war memorial
0:20:02 > 0:20:06commemorating the missing of which battle of the First World War?
0:20:09 > 0:20:13- The Somme.- The Somme is right. The Thiepval Memorial.
0:20:13 > 0:20:19We follow on with photographs of well-known memorials of the Great War.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21In each case name the battle or series of battles
0:20:21 > 0:20:24with which each one is associated.
0:20:24 > 0:20:25Firstly.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29It could by Ypres, I suppose.
0:20:29 > 0:20:32- Yeah?- Can't think of anything else. - OK. Ypres.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34No, that's Verdun. Secondly.
0:20:36 > 0:20:38Passchendaele sounds like a good shout.
0:20:38 > 0:20:42- Passchendaele.- No, that's Vimy Ridge. And finally...
0:20:44 > 0:20:47- Ypres.- It is. The Menin Gate.
0:20:47 > 0:20:51After a French physicist born in 1841,
0:20:51 > 0:20:55what term denotes a dimensionless measure of gas density in terms of...
0:20:55 > 0:20:57- Amagat.- Yes.
0:20:59 > 0:21:02Your bonuses are on German philosophers, UCL.
0:21:02 > 0:21:05One of the most systematic of the post-Kantian idealists,
0:21:05 > 0:21:11which philosopher wrote his first major work The Phenomenology of Spirit in 1807?
0:21:11 > 0:21:131807.
0:21:13 > 0:21:17INDISTINCT
0:21:23 > 0:21:25- Nominate Cook.- Is it Herschel?
0:21:25 > 0:21:29No, Hegel. Which idealist philosopher's first work
0:21:29 > 0:21:33was published anonymously in 1792 and mistakenly attributed to Kant?
0:21:33 > 0:21:36His works also include The Vocation of Man in 1800.
0:21:42 > 0:21:47- Is Herschel definitely someone? - Yes.- Let's have an answer.- Herschel.
0:21:47 > 0:21:49No, Fighte. And finally,
0:21:49 > 0:21:55- noted for his pessimism, which philosopher's major work The World as Will and Idea...- Schopenhauer.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57Correct. Another starter question.
0:21:57 > 0:22:04B-C-E, E-K-T, E-K-P, E-Z-B and E-C-B
0:22:04 > 0:22:07are combinations of letters that appear on what items,
0:22:07 > 0:22:12being variants in different languages of the initials of the issuing authority?
0:22:13 > 0:22:14Coins.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16- No.- Currency.
0:22:18 > 0:22:23- Stamps.- No, they're euro banknotes. Ten points for this.
0:22:23 > 0:22:27The second-most-visited cemetery in the US after Arlington,
0:22:27 > 0:22:31Oakridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois was dedicated in 1860
0:22:31 > 0:22:33and contains the tomb of which American president?
0:22:34 > 0:22:35Um...
0:22:35 > 0:22:41I'm so sorry. If you buzz, you must answer. UCL, one of you buzz.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43- Lincoln.- Lincoln is correct, yes.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48Your bonuses are on the classification of birds.
0:22:48 > 0:22:51To which order of birds do owls belong?
0:23:00 > 0:23:02- I need an answer.- Buntings.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07Strigiformes.
0:23:07 > 0:23:12Which bird having only one species belongs to the order Struthioniformes?
0:23:12 > 0:23:14- Could be ostrich.- Ostrich?
0:23:14 > 0:23:17(INDISTINCT CONFERRING)
0:23:18 > 0:23:20- Ostrich.- Correct.
0:23:20 > 0:23:27Within the order Columbiforme, the family Columbidae comprises birds known generally by two common names.
0:23:27 > 0:23:32- Give either of them.- Dove or pigeon. - Doves. Or pigeons.
0:23:32 > 0:23:37That's correct. Pigeon and doves. Correct. Four minutes to go.
0:23:37 > 0:23:42Answer as soon as you buzz. In terms of atomic number, what letter comes next in the sequence?
0:23:42 > 0:23:45F, O, N, C.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48- B.- B is correct, yes.
0:23:50 > 0:23:55Bonuses are on a French moralist. "The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it."
0:23:55 > 0:23:59This is one of the maxims of which 17th-century French moralist
0:23:59 > 0:24:04noted for his insights into the part that self-interest plays in human motivation?
0:24:04 > 0:24:06Pascal?
0:24:06 > 0:24:08- Pascal. - No, it's De La Rochefoucauld.
0:24:08 > 0:24:13What did De La Rochefoucauld describe as "a tribute that vice pays to virtue"?
0:24:17 > 0:24:19- Happiness.- No, hypocrisy.
0:24:19 > 0:24:23"Her novels are the maxims of La Rochefoucauld set in motion."
0:24:23 > 0:24:29These words of the Italian novelist Di Lampedusa refer to which English author born in 1775?
0:24:33 > 0:24:34- Jane Austen.- Correct.
0:24:34 > 0:24:38Three minutes to go. Ten points for this. Who wrote these lines?
0:24:38 > 0:24:40"Had we but world enough, and time...
0:24:41 > 0:24:46- Lovelace.- No. You lose five points. "..and time, this coyness, lady..."
0:24:46 > 0:24:49- Andrew Marvel.- It is, to his coy mistress.
0:24:49 > 0:24:55Your bonuses are on US history. In each case, name the president who was in office
0:24:55 > 0:24:59when the following constitutional amendments were ratified.
0:24:59 > 0:25:03The 22nd amendment, which set a term limit for the US president.
0:25:03 > 0:25:07- Roosevelt.- Franklin D. Roosevelt. - No, it was Truman.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10The 21st amendment, which repealed prohibition?
0:25:10 > 0:25:13- That was Roosevelt. - Franklin D. Roosevelt.
0:25:13 > 0:25:19Correct. And the 19th amendment which gave women the right to vote in state and federal elections.
0:25:24 > 0:25:30- Try Coolidge.- Coolidge.- No, Woodrow Wilson. Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:25:30 > 0:25:35Which letter of the alphabet begins and ends words meaning defamation by written words,
0:25:35 > 0:25:37faithful to another person...
0:25:37 > 0:25:40- L.- L is correct, yes.
0:25:43 > 0:25:47Your bonuses are on European royalty. Which country's royal family
0:25:47 > 0:25:51lives in the Chateau de Laeken, a palace built in 1772?
0:25:55 > 0:25:58- Let's have it, please.- Belgium. - Correct.
0:25:58 > 0:26:03Grasten Palace in summer, and Fredensborg in spring and autumn
0:26:03 > 0:26:06are the residences of which country's royal family?
0:26:06 > 0:26:10- Austria?- No, Denmark.- OK. Denmark. - Correct.
0:26:10 > 0:26:14Drottningholm in the capital and Solliden on the island of Oland
0:26:14 > 0:26:18are among the residences of which country's royal family?
0:26:20 > 0:26:22- Norway.- No, Sweden. Ten points for this.
0:26:22 > 0:26:28Fred Noonan was navigator to which US aviator when their aircraft disappeared over the Pacific...
0:26:28 > 0:26:33- Amelia Earhart.- Correct. Your bonuses are on measuring instruments
0:26:33 > 0:26:38especially useful at airports. A ceilometer uses an intense beam of light
0:26:38 > 0:26:40to measure the height of what?
0:26:40 > 0:26:43- Ciel means sky in French. - The clouds, then.- Clouds.
0:26:43 > 0:26:45Cloud bases is correct.
0:26:45 > 0:26:50A bourdon gauge is used widely for measuring the pressure of liquids and gases
0:26:50 > 0:26:54and is therefore a type of which instrument deriving its name from the Greek for thin.
0:26:58 > 0:27:00- What's Greek for thin?- Come on!
0:27:00 > 0:27:02- Thinometer.- No, it's a manometer.
0:27:02 > 0:27:08Used in astigmatism, a keratometer tests the degree of abnormal curvature
0:27:08 > 0:27:12- of which part of the eye? - The back of the eye?
0:27:13 > 0:27:17- Come on!- The lens.- No, the cornea. Ten points for this.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20In compound nouns, what word of five letters...
0:27:20 > 0:27:26- GONG - At the gong, Manchester have 125. UCL have 195.
0:27:33 > 0:27:37Bad luck, Manchester. We will be seeing you again, though,
0:27:37 > 0:27:42in a couple of weeks' time, when you must win to stay in the competition.
0:27:42 > 0:27:46Well done, UCL. You're one step closer to the semifinals.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49One more victory means you'll definitely go through.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55- So it's goodbye from the University of Manchester.- Bye!
0:27:55 > 0:28:00- Goodbye from University College London.- Bye.- And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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