0:00:18 > 0:00:20University Challenge.
0:00:20 > 0:00:24Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:32Hello. Last time, we saw University College London win their first quarter-final match,
0:00:32 > 0:00:36but they'll need a second win to make it to the semi-finals.
0:00:36 > 0:00:40The same dispensation goes for tonight's teams.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43Balliol College, Oxford beat Homerton College, Cambridge,
0:00:43 > 0:00:48then survived an Oxford derby against Merton College by 10 points.
0:00:48 > 0:00:53On that occasion, they recognised the Book of Revelation, the Pensees of Pascal,
0:00:53 > 0:00:58the demands of the Chartists and the layout of Toad Hall. Let's meet them again.
0:00:58 > 0:01:02Hi, I'm Liam Shaw, I'm from Shropshire and I study Physics.
0:01:02 > 0:01:05Hi, I'm Andrew Whitby from Brisbane, Australia,
0:01:05 > 0:01:07doing a doctorate in Economics.
0:01:07 > 0:01:11- Their captain.- Hi, I'm Simon Wood from Surrey, studying Chemistry.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14Hi, I'm James Kirby, I'm from Warwickshire.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16I'm reading for a Masters in History
0:01:16 > 0:01:19APPLAUSE
0:01:20 > 0:01:25Pembroke College, Cambridge beat St Anne's College, Oxford in round one,
0:01:25 > 0:01:28then the University of Nottingham in the second round.
0:01:28 > 0:01:34Strengths included pioneering women scientists, religious clothing, the Hawaiian islands
0:01:34 > 0:01:39and interpolating sea monsters into the works of Jane Austen. Let's meet them again.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42I'm Ed Bankes from Sevenoaks, reading English.
0:01:42 > 0:01:46I'm Ben Pugh from London, reading German and Russian.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49- Their captain. - I'm Bibek Mukherjee from Canterbury
0:01:49 > 0:01:51and I'm reading Economics.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55I'm Imogen Gold from London and I'm reading Engineering.
0:01:55 > 0:01:57APPLAUSE
0:01:58 > 0:02:04The rules are constant as the Northern Star, so fingers on the buzzers, your first starter for ten.
0:02:04 > 0:02:11Sarah Siddons, Sarah Bernhardt and Frances De La Tour have played which of Shakespeare's title characters,
0:02:11 > 0:02:15who in the First Act has the line, "Frailty, thy name is woman"?
0:02:19 > 0:02:21- Is it Gertrude?- No.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24Anyone want to buzz from Balliol?
0:02:25 > 0:02:27Ophelia from Hamlet?
0:02:27 > 0:02:30No, it's Hamlet! Ten points for this.
0:02:30 > 0:02:35Marking the emergence of a political voice from the unenfranchised,
0:02:35 > 0:02:40the London Corresponding Society was founded to promote parliamentary reform
0:02:40 > 0:02:43after which event in continental Europe?
0:02:43 > 0:02:46- The 1830 Revolution? - Anyone like to buzz from Pembroke?
0:02:46 > 0:02:50- The French Revolution? - The French Revolution is correct.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56The first set of bonuses are on a royal office.
0:02:56 > 0:03:01Which royal office was created with the appointment of Nicholas Lanier in 1626
0:03:01 > 0:03:05during the reign of Charles I?
0:03:06 > 0:03:11- Astronomer Royal?- Astronomer Royal? - No, it's Master of the King's Musick.
0:03:11 > 0:03:16In 2004, the tenure of the Master of the King's Music was reduced from life to ten years
0:03:16 > 0:03:22to give more composers the opportunity to take up the position. Who was appointed that year?
0:03:22 > 0:03:25- Peter Maxwell Davies. - Peter Maxwell Davies.- Correct.
0:03:25 > 0:03:32In 1985, the Master of the Queen's Music, Malcolm Williamson, composed Songs For A Royal Baby
0:03:32 > 0:03:34in honour of whose birth?
0:03:34 > 0:03:38- William or Harry.- William. - No, Prince Harry. Bad luck.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:03:41 > 0:03:46If the time elapsed since the extinction of the dinosaurs is one unit,
0:03:46 > 0:03:51what to the nearest 100 units is the currently accepted time since the Big Bang?
0:03:55 > 0:03:59- 2,000?- Anyone like to buzz from Oxford?
0:04:02 > 0:04:04- 1,500?- No, it's 200.
0:04:04 > 0:04:06Ten points for this.
0:04:06 > 0:04:11John Heartfield's 1935 photomontage entitled Hurrah, The Butter Is Gone
0:04:11 > 0:04:16was a satirical response to which Nazi leader who proclaimed that "iron ore..."
0:04:16 > 0:04:18- Hermann Goering.- Correct, yes.
0:04:21 > 0:04:24Your bonuses this time are on error.
0:04:24 > 0:04:29First used by US astronauts to describe problems with electronic instruments,
0:04:29 > 0:04:35what slang term for a malfunction is thought to be derived from a Yiddish word for "a slip"?
0:04:36 > 0:04:39WHISPERING
0:04:42 > 0:04:45- Yiddish...? - A bug or something?
0:04:45 > 0:04:49- Bug.- No, it's glitch. What word for a social blunder or faux pas
0:04:49 > 0:04:52is taken from a specialised use of a French word
0:04:52 > 0:04:57meaning an iron hook with a handle, used for landing large fish?
0:04:58 > 0:05:04- "Faux pas" is French. - It's some sort of word for "faux pas". I can't think of anything.
0:05:04 > 0:05:08- Pass.- It's gaffe. What term has come to be applied to a software error
0:05:08 > 0:05:14and comes from an incident involving a technician extracting a moth from a US Navy computer in 1947?
0:05:14 > 0:05:17- Bug.- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:05:17 > 0:05:21The band leader and broadcaster Victor Silvester, who died in 1978,
0:05:21 > 0:05:25was associated with which catchphrase relating to the tempo of a dance
0:05:25 > 0:05:29which can be abbreviated to S, S, Q, Q, S?
0:05:33 > 0:05:36- Slow, slow, quick, quick, slow.- Yes.
0:05:38 > 0:05:42Your bonuses are on post-war British Prime Ministers
0:05:42 > 0:05:45in the words of AN Wilson in his 2009 work, Our Times.
0:05:45 > 0:05:49Identify the Prime Minister from the description.
0:05:49 > 0:05:54"Beside him, Stanley Baldwin was a giant. He was little better than a party hack.
0:05:54 > 0:06:01"He always voted at his party's call and never thought of thinking for himself at all."
0:06:01 > 0:06:04- Chamberlain? - No, it was James Callaghan.
0:06:04 > 0:06:10"Here was no stereotype. Indeed, the Dickensian family background was something no-one would have guessed
0:06:10 > 0:06:16"from the grey suit and the demeanour which was that of a friendly bank manager."
0:06:16 > 0:06:22- John Major.- Correct. "He approved a new set of coins that sent Britannia packing. It was a small thing,
0:06:22 > 0:06:26"but it signalled the end which any observer had seen coming,
0:06:26 > 0:06:29"the strange dissolution of Britain itself."
0:06:29 > 0:06:33- Heath.- No, that was Gordon Brown. - Gordon Brown.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36A picture round. For your starter, you'll see a cross-section
0:06:36 > 0:06:42of the interior of a planet in the solar system. Ten points if you can name the planet.
0:06:44 > 0:06:46- Venus.- Venus is right, yes.
0:06:49 > 0:06:54Your picture bonuses - three more cross-sections of planets' interiors.
0:06:54 > 0:06:58In each case, name it from its constituents. Firstly for five?
0:06:59 > 0:07:01WHISPERING
0:07:01 > 0:07:03- That's a good core. - Mercury?
0:07:03 > 0:07:06Shall we go with Mercury?
0:07:07 > 0:07:09It's one of the rocky ones.
0:07:09 > 0:07:13- Shall we go with Mercury? - Yeah, maybe Mercury.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15- Mercury.- Correct. Secondly?
0:07:18 > 0:07:20Two ice... This is Mars.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23CONFERRING CONTINUES
0:07:24 > 0:07:27- Two ice caps, yeah? - Yeah, it'd be Mars.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30- Mars.- Mars is right. Finally?
0:07:31 > 0:07:33That one must be Earth.
0:07:33 > 0:07:37- Earth.- That is Earth, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:07:38 > 0:07:41Right, ten points for this starter question.
0:07:41 > 0:07:47In Greek mythology, which daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra was offered as a sacrifice...
0:07:47 > 0:07:49- Iphigenia. - Iphigenia was right, yes.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55Your bonuses are on scientific terminology.
0:07:55 > 0:08:02"I have taken your advice and the names used are 'anode', 'cathode', 'anions', 'cations' and 'ions'."
0:08:02 > 0:08:06These are the words of which English chemist and physicist in 1834
0:08:06 > 0:08:10to acknowledge terms suggested by the philosopher William Whewell?
0:08:10 > 0:08:14- Faraday?- It could be, yeah. - Faraday?- Correct.
0:08:14 > 0:08:19In 1832, Whewell coined the terms Uniformitarians and Catastrophists for those
0:08:19 > 0:08:22with contending viewpoints in which science?
0:08:22 > 0:08:27- Formation of the Earth perhaps? - Yeah, but what's the science?
0:08:27 > 0:08:30- If it's Catastrophists... - Yeah, so which science?
0:08:30 > 0:08:36- Geology or something.- Geology. - Correct. Also in 1834, Whewell wrote of "the want of any name
0:08:36 > 0:08:42"by which we can designate the students of the knowledge of the material world collectively".
0:08:42 > 0:08:47What term, now in universal use, did he coin to address this lack?
0:08:47 > 0:08:52- Metallurgy?- No, it's scientist. Ten points for this.
0:08:52 > 0:08:58The birthplace of Hans Holbein the Younger, which city north-west of Munich gives its name
0:08:58 > 0:09:00to a Lutheran Confession of 1530...
0:09:00 > 0:09:03- Augsburg.- Augsburg is correct, yes.
0:09:06 > 0:09:10Your first set of bonuses are on a name, Balliol College.
0:09:10 > 0:09:14What word for a gentle breeze derives from the name given
0:09:14 > 0:09:17in Greek mythology to the personification of the west wind?
0:09:17 > 0:09:21- Zephyr.- Correct. In one version of the Greek myth,
0:09:21 > 0:09:25Zephyrus and Apollo competed for the affections of which youth?
0:09:25 > 0:09:29Discovering that he preferred Apollo, Zephyrus killed him
0:09:29 > 0:09:33and from his spilled blood grew the flower named after him.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36- Hyacinth? - Yeah, try it.
0:09:36 > 0:09:39- Yes, I think it is. - Hyacinth.- Correct.
0:09:39 > 0:09:44In July 2010, the UK-built Zephyr, described as the first "eternal plane", broke the record
0:09:44 > 0:09:51for an unmanned aerial vehicle when it flew non-stop for over a week by what means of power?
0:09:51 > 0:09:53WHISPERING
0:09:56 > 0:09:59- Solar?- Solar is correct, yes.
0:10:00 > 0:10:02Here's another starter question.
0:10:02 > 0:10:07Which of Verdi's operas was based on Victor Hugo's verse drama Le Roi S'Amuse,
0:10:07 > 0:10:11inspired by the amorous exploits of the French king Francis I?
0:10:11 > 0:10:16It deals with the escapades of the Duke of Mantua, aided by his hunchback jester,
0:10:16 > 0:10:19and includes the aria La Donna E Mobile.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23- Rigoletto.- Rigoletto is correct, yes
0:10:25 > 0:10:28Your bonuses are on literature.
0:10:28 > 0:10:32Newland Archer, a young man in 19th century New York society,
0:10:32 > 0:10:36is the protagonist of which novel of 1920 by Edith Wharton?
0:10:36 > 0:10:39- The Age Of Innocence. - Age Of Innocence.- Correct.
0:10:39 > 0:10:43William Blake's Songs Of Innocence were first published in 1789
0:10:43 > 0:10:47and then re-published in 1794 in a volume with which other collection?
0:10:47 > 0:10:50- Songs Of Experience.- Correct.
0:10:50 > 0:10:54In which novel of 1954 does the protagonist weep
0:10:54 > 0:10:57"for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart
0:10:57 > 0:11:02"and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy"?
0:11:02 > 0:11:04- Lord Of The Flies.- Correct.
0:11:04 > 0:11:06Another starter question.
0:11:06 > 0:11:10Which three consecutive letters of the alphabet begin the surnames
0:11:10 > 0:11:16of the philosophers who wrote Sense And Sensibilia, Matter And Memory and The System Of Positive Polity?
0:11:21 > 0:11:23- A, B, C.- Correct.
0:11:25 > 0:11:30Your bonuses are on functional human anatomy, Balliol College.
0:11:30 > 0:11:34What term denotes those muscles which perform movements
0:11:34 > 0:11:37away from the sagittal or mid-line plane of the body?
0:11:39 > 0:11:42WHISPERING
0:11:45 > 0:11:51- Transverse?- No, they're abductor muscles. Which muscles work antagonistically to abductors?
0:11:51 > 0:11:54- Adductors.- Adductors.- Correct.
0:11:54 > 0:11:58What is the principal extensor muscle of the elbow joint?
0:12:03 > 0:12:06- The tricep?- Correct. Another starter question.
0:12:06 > 0:12:11Which European microstate gives its name to a declaration of 2008
0:12:11 > 0:12:16at which more than 150 scientists voiced their concerns about the threat to marine ecosystems
0:12:16 > 0:12:19from the acidification of the world's oceans?
0:12:21 > 0:12:24- Andorra?- No. Anyone like to buzz from Pembroke?
0:12:25 > 0:12:28- Monaco.- Monaco is correct, yes.
0:12:29 > 0:12:35Your bonuses are on Ancient Greece this time. In each case, name the person described.
0:12:35 > 0:12:39To make it easier, all three names begin with the letters L-Y.
0:12:39 > 0:12:43Firstly, an Athenian statesman born around 390 BC.
0:12:43 > 0:12:49A supporter of Demosthenes, he was noted both for sound financial administration
0:12:49 > 0:12:52and for his public architectural works.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55- Lysander?- No, it was Lycurgus.
0:12:55 > 0:13:02Secondly, an orator born around 540 BC and noted for his clarity of thought and expression,
0:13:02 > 0:13:07for example, in his speech against the Athenian tyrant Eratosthenes?
0:13:07 > 0:13:09WHISPERING
0:13:11 > 0:13:13Nominate...
0:13:13 > 0:13:16Lycidas, do you think maybe?
0:13:16 > 0:13:20- Lycidas.- OK, Lycidas. - No, it's Lysias.
0:13:20 > 0:13:25Finally, the Spartan commander who defeated Athens at the Battle of Aegospotami
0:13:25 > 0:13:28in 405 BC and captured Athens the following year?
0:13:28 > 0:13:31- Lysander.- Correct. We'll take a music round now.
0:13:31 > 0:13:37For your starter, you'll hear a piece of music from a film of 2008. Ten points if you can name the film.
0:13:37 > 0:13:39DRAMATIC MUSIC
0:13:49 > 0:13:51- Quantum Of Solace?- No.
0:13:51 > 0:13:55Balliol, one of you like to buzz? You can hear a bit more music.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57MUSIC CONTINUES
0:14:04 > 0:14:11- The Bourne Ultimatum?- No, it was The Dark Knight, so music bonuses shortly. Another starter question.
0:14:11 > 0:14:18Listen up. Fingers on buzzers. What 12-letter word is a concatenation of the Greek for "same" and "shape"
0:14:18 > 0:14:22and is used in abstract algebra to denote a structure-preserving map?
0:14:22 > 0:14:27- Isomorphous?- No. Anyone like to buzz from Pembroke College?
0:14:27 > 0:14:31It's homomorphism. 10 points for this.
0:14:31 > 0:14:37What five-letter word comes from the Russian acronym for Chief Administration for Corrective...
0:14:37 > 0:14:40- Gulag.- Gulag is correct, yes.
0:14:40 > 0:14:48So you get the music bonuses. You heard music from The Dark Knight, co-written by Hans Zimmer.
0:14:48 > 0:14:53Three more excerpts of film scores by Hans Zimmer. 5 points for each.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56First for 5, the name of this film from 2010.
0:14:56 > 0:14:58DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:58 > 0:15:03- Inception.- It is Inception. Secondly, this film from 2006.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06SWEEPING MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:08 > 0:15:12I think it's Pirates of the Caribbean. I don't know.
0:15:12 > 0:15:16- Pirates of the Caribbean? - No, The Da Vinci Code.
0:15:16 > 0:15:21Finally, the full and specific title of this film, also from 2006.
0:15:21 > 0:15:25- Yeah, Pirates of the Caribbean. - Which one?
0:15:25 > 0:15:27The last one.
0:15:27 > 0:15:33- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End?- No, bad luck. It's Dead Man's Chest.
0:15:33 > 0:15:3910 points for this. Later a Roman province, the ancient kingdom of Numidia overlapped the territory
0:15:39 > 0:15:44of two present-day Mediterranean countries. Name either.
0:15:44 > 0:15:48- Tunisia. - Yes. The other one was Algeria.
0:15:49 > 0:15:52Your bonuses are on terminology.
0:15:52 > 0:15:58Popularised from the 1950s, what two-word term refers to the disorientation experienced
0:15:58 > 0:16:04by those who move from one environment or country to another that's markedly different?
0:16:04 > 0:16:07- Culture shock?- Culture shock. - Correct.
0:16:07 > 0:16:12Popularised by US historian Theodore Roszak in the title of a 1969 work,
0:16:12 > 0:16:19what term describes the lifestyle and approach of those who reject dominant values of society?
0:16:19 > 0:16:21Beatnik...
0:16:21 > 0:16:25Maybe counterculture? It could be.
0:16:25 > 0:16:30- Counterculture.- Correct. Which historian emphasised culture as the way groups handle
0:16:30 > 0:16:38the raw material of social and material experience in 1963's The Making of the English Working Class?
0:16:38 > 0:16:42- Hobspawm?- Hobspawm. - No, EP Thompson. 10 points for this.
0:16:42 > 0:16:49How many valence quarks are present in a particle of alpha radiation or a nucleus of Helium-4?
0:16:50 > 0:16:52Two?
0:16:52 > 0:16:56- Anyone from Balliol? - 12?- 12 is correct, yes.
0:16:58 > 0:17:05Right, these bonuses are on geography. Argentina is the eighth largest country in the world.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08Which landlocked Asian country is ninth?
0:17:14 > 0:17:16- Mongolia.- No, it's Kazakhstan.
0:17:16 > 0:17:20The two countries with area closest to that of the UK are in Africa.
0:17:20 > 0:17:27The Republic of Guinea is a little larger. Which landlocked country in East Africa is slightly smaller?
0:17:39 > 0:17:43- I think we'll have an answer, please.- Ethiopia?- No, Uganda.
0:17:43 > 0:17:48Of the 27 EU member states, which has a total area closest to that of the UK?
0:17:55 > 0:17:59- Try it? Italy.- No, it's Romania.
0:17:59 > 0:18:0510 points for this. The surname of which poet is an anagram of words meaning establish a claim,
0:18:05 > 0:18:08thick slice of meat or fish...
0:18:08 > 0:18:10- Keats?- Keats is right, yes.
0:18:12 > 0:18:19Your bonuses this time are on a part of the body. Plantar fasciitis is a painful inflammation
0:18:19 > 0:18:25of a thick, fibrous band of connective tissue in what part of the human body?
0:18:25 > 0:18:28- Did he say plantar? - Plantar.
0:18:28 > 0:18:30Foot or something?
0:18:30 > 0:18:36- Foot?- Correct. Other than bursitis, what name is commonly given to an inflamed foot swelling,
0:18:36 > 0:18:41- especially of the bursa on the ball of the big toe?- Bunion?
0:18:41 > 0:18:43- Or corn.- Yeah...
0:18:45 > 0:18:51- Bunion.- Correct. Gout, which most commonly occurs in the toes, is caused by which acid in the blood?
0:18:51 > 0:18:57It crystallises and is deposited in joints, tendons and surrounding tissue.
0:18:57 > 0:19:05- Uric acid.- Uric acid, correct, yes. 10 points for this. The name of what musical genre is formed
0:19:05 > 0:19:10by concatenating the symbols for the SI base units of time, temperature and electric current?
0:19:11 > 0:19:15- Ska.- Ska is right.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18These bonuses are on Australian marsupials.
0:19:18 > 0:19:24Inhabiting the coastal scrub of both Australia and New Guinea,
0:19:24 > 0:19:29a pademelon is a small species of which marsupial?
0:19:30 > 0:19:35- Kangaroo? A kangaroo? - No, it's a wallaby.
0:19:35 > 0:19:43Which large, nocturnal marsupial has three species - common and southern and northern hairy nosed?
0:19:43 > 0:19:48- The wombat.- Correct. In 2010, Australian scientists announced they had taught the quoll,
0:19:48 > 0:19:55an endangered cat-sized marsupial to suppress its instinct to eat which invasive toxic amphibians?
0:19:55 > 0:19:57Toads? Cane toads?
0:19:57 > 0:20:04- Is it cane toads? Cane toads. - Cane toads is right. We'll take a second picture round now.
0:20:04 > 0:20:10You'll see a postage stamp. 10 points if you can identify the scientist depicted.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17- JJ Thompson?- No.
0:20:17 > 0:20:20Pembroke, one of you buzz.
0:20:20 > 0:20:23- Rutherford.- It is Rutherford, yes.
0:20:25 > 0:20:31That was part of the Royal Mail's collection of Fellows of the Royal Society, issued in 2010
0:20:31 > 0:20:37to mark the Society's 350th anniversary. Three more stamps featuring prominent Fellows.
0:20:37 > 0:20:405 points for each you can name. Firstly...
0:20:40 > 0:20:43Is that Benjamin Franklin?
0:20:43 > 0:20:47- Was he a member? Benjamin Franklin?- Correct.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49Secondly...
0:20:51 > 0:20:53What is that?
0:20:55 > 0:20:57The DNA one?
0:20:57 > 0:21:03- Rosalind Franklin? - No, that's Dorothy Hodgkin. And finally...
0:21:06 > 0:21:08Might be Jenner.
0:21:10 > 0:21:14- I think it might be Jenner. - Jenner?
0:21:14 > 0:21:18Yes, it is. The inventor of vaccination. 10 points for this.
0:21:18 > 0:21:22Built between 1825 and 1827 to the designs of John Nash,
0:21:22 > 0:21:28which royal residence is named after the dukedom of Prince William Henry, who lived there as King William IV?
0:21:31 > 0:21:33- Clarence?- Clarence House is right.
0:21:36 > 0:21:40Your bonuses this time are on chess terminology.
0:21:40 > 0:21:47A deliberate sacrifice, usually of a pawn in return for an advantage in position, is known as what?
0:21:47 > 0:21:54- Gambit.- What French term is spoken by a player to indicate that he or she intends to correct the position
0:21:54 > 0:21:58of a piece on the board without performing an actual move?
0:21:58 > 0:22:00It's...
0:22:00 > 0:22:03En passant is something different.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05It's "pas" something.
0:22:05 > 0:22:08- Pas jeu?- Come on!
0:22:08 > 0:22:13- Pas jeu.- Pas jeu? - No, it's "j'adoube". I adjust.
0:22:13 > 0:22:18Along with a queen, which chess piece is considered to be a major piece?
0:22:21 > 0:22:24- Rook?- Correct.
0:22:24 > 0:22:2910 points for this. Linked to the Mediterranean at Toulouse by the Canal du Midi,
0:22:29 > 0:22:35which river rises in the Pyrenees and joins the Dordogne to form the Gironde Estuary?
0:22:35 > 0:22:38- The Garonne.- Correct.
0:22:38 > 0:22:43Your bonuses are on the films of Billy Wilder.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46In each case, identify the film.
0:22:46 > 0:22:51A 1950 film named after a major thoroughfare in Los Angeles, it stars Gloria Swanson
0:22:51 > 0:22:54as a faded silent movie star.
0:22:54 > 0:22:59- What were you going to say? - Rodeo Drive. Oh, Sunset Boulevard.
0:22:59 > 0:23:03Correct. An Oscar-winning film of 1960 in which CC Baxter
0:23:03 > 0:23:07lends his flat to company superiors for extra-marital liaisons.
0:23:07 > 0:23:11He is seen using a tennis racket to strain spaghetti.
0:23:11 > 0:23:14I've no idea.
0:23:14 > 0:23:20- Er, pass.- That's The Apartment. And, finally, a 1959 film starring Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis
0:23:20 > 0:23:25on the run after witnessing the St Valentine's Day Massacre.
0:23:25 > 0:23:29- Some Like It Hot.- Correct. Another starter. With Niles Eldredge,
0:23:29 > 0:23:35which US scientist, born 1941, developed the theory of punctuated equilibrium in evolution?
0:23:35 > 0:23:38- Stephen Jay Gould.- Yes!
0:23:39 > 0:23:45These bonuses are on people whose names begin with the name of a Greek letter.
0:23:45 > 0:23:50For example, Rhodes begins with Rho. In each case, give the letter.
0:23:50 > 0:23:57The authors of The Tale of Genji, An Unofficial Rose and Para Handy and Other Tales?
0:23:58 > 0:24:01Any ideas?
0:24:08 > 0:24:10- Mu? Er, Mu?- Correct.
0:24:10 > 0:24:17The artists who painted The Baptism of Christ, The Boulevard Montmartre by Night and Child With A Dove?
0:24:17 > 0:24:21- Picasso, so Pi. - Pi?- Correct.
0:24:21 > 0:24:26Finally, the wife of King Edward III and the husband of Queen Mary I?
0:24:27 > 0:24:30PH-I, so Phi.
0:24:30 > 0:24:34- Phi.- Phi is correct. From the Greek for joined or yoked,
0:24:34 > 0:24:40what term in biology means the diploid cell formed by the fusion of two haploid gametes?
0:24:40 > 0:24:44- Zygote? - Zygote is correct, yes.
0:24:45 > 0:24:51These bonuses are on large numbers in the short-scale terms now commonly used in the UK.
0:24:51 > 0:24:57In each case, give the exponent of 10 in the following quantities. Firstly, one billion.
0:24:57 > 0:25:01- Is that nine? Nine.- Correct. Secondly, one billion billion.
0:25:04 > 0:25:11- 18?- Correct. And, finally, one billion raised to the power one billion.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13One billion...and nine.
0:25:13 > 0:25:18- No, nine times...81. No... - Come on.- It's nine billion.
0:25:18 > 0:25:22- Just nine billion? Nine billion. - Yes! 10 points for this.
0:25:24 > 0:25:292011 and 2017, 461 and 467, and 13 and 19
0:25:29 > 0:25:36are among pairs of primes known by what term, said to be derived from a Latin cardinal number?
0:25:39 > 0:25:43- Mercian?- No. Anyone like to buzz from Pembroke?
0:25:45 > 0:25:49- Primal?- They're sexy primes. 10 points for this.
0:25:49 > 0:25:55What name from the Spanish indicates the flat intermontane area lying at an elevation of more than 3,000m
0:25:55 > 0:25:58in Bolivia and southern Peru?
0:25:59 > 0:26:04- Altiplano?- Correct! Bonuses are on the history of Afghanistan.
0:26:04 > 0:26:10I want the decade in which the following began. Firstly, the first Anglo-Afghan War,
0:26:10 > 0:26:14in which a British force was destroyed at the Khyber Pass.
0:26:14 > 0:26:21- 1870s?- No, the 1830s. The third Anglo-Afghan War in which an Afghan attack on British India
0:26:21 > 0:26:26- achieved the formal recognition of Afghanistan's sovereignty in international law.- 1870s?
0:26:26 > 0:26:33No, that's 1910s. The Soviet War in Afghanistan, which supported the government at its own request.
0:26:33 > 0:26:39- 1970s.- Correct. 10 points for this. Three countries have a coastline on the Arafura Sea.
0:26:39 > 0:26:42One is Papua New Guinea. Name both the others.
0:26:42 > 0:26:47- Australia and East Timor?- No. Pembroke, one of you buzz.
0:26:47 > 0:26:51- Australia and Indonesia? - Correct. That is right.
0:26:53 > 0:26:57East Timor's on the Timor Sea, immediately to the west.
0:26:57 > 0:27:04Your bonuses are on British seafood. The invention of which fish delicacy is credited to John Woodger,
0:27:04 > 0:27:08who accidentally discovered the process in 1843?
0:27:09 > 0:27:12- Sorry?- Come on!- Nominate Banks.
0:27:12 > 0:27:19- Tinned sardines?- No, it's kippers. Secondly, the Norfolk village of Stiffkey is noted
0:27:19 > 0:27:25for which bi-valve molluscs? The shells get their blue tinge from the sea beds they colonise.
0:27:25 > 0:27:29- Whelks?- No, cockles. Partly named after a fishing village in Moray,
0:27:29 > 0:27:34which rich soup is made with chopped potatoes, milk and flaked smoked haddock?
0:27:34 > 0:27:37- It's not cock-a-leekie...- Come on!
0:27:37 > 0:27:40- GONG - Too late.
0:27:50 > 0:27:56Bad luck, Balliol. We will be seeing you again, though, on which occasion you must win
0:27:56 > 0:28:00if you're to stay in the competition. Well done, Pembroke.
0:28:00 > 0:28:06You're one step closer to the semi-finals. One more victory means you'll definitely be there.
0:28:06 > 0:28:12Thank you both very much. I hope you can join us next time for another quarter-final match.
0:28:12 > 0:28:17Until then, goodbye from Balliol, Oxford, goodbye from Pembroke, Cambridge,
0:28:17 > 0:28:20and goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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