0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:24University Challenge - asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:32Hello, in a test of stamina - the teams', not yours, I hope -
0:00:32 > 0:00:34almost as much as of general knowledge,
0:00:34 > 0:00:37we've already seen the first two quarterfinals decided.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40Under the system devised by Wittgenstein's Granddaughter,
0:00:40 > 0:00:43each team has to win two quarterfinals to go through to the semis.
0:00:43 > 0:00:47Tonight, two teams chase their first quarterfinal victory,
0:00:47 > 0:00:50but which ever of them loses must play again and win
0:00:50 > 0:00:52in order to stay in the contest. Clear enough?
0:00:52 > 0:00:54Now, the team from Worcester College, Oxford,
0:00:54 > 0:00:58narrowly lost their first-round match against Clare College, Cambridge,
0:00:58 > 0:01:03but then had a convincing win against St Andrews in the play-offs for the highest scoring losers.
0:01:03 > 0:01:07Their second-round match was another close-run thing
0:01:07 > 0:01:10when they beat Queen's College, Oxford by 200 points to 185.
0:01:10 > 0:01:14On that occasion they demonstrated the differences between physics and psychics,
0:01:14 > 0:01:17altitude and latitude, and Tokugawa and Tokei.
0:01:17 > 0:01:21Let's meet the Worcester College team for the fourth time.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23Hi, I'm Dave Knapp, I'm from working in Surrey
0:01:23 > 0:01:25and I'm studying engineering.
0:01:25 > 0:01:27Hi, I'm Jack Bramhill, I'm from Colchester in Essex
0:01:27 > 0:01:28and I'm studying chemistry.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31- And their captain.- Hi, I'm Rebecca Gillie, I'm from Weymouth in Dorset
0:01:31 > 0:01:33and am reading French and Italian.
0:01:33 > 0:01:37Hi, I'm Jonathan Metzer from London and I'm reading classics.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39APPLAUSE
0:01:40 > 0:01:44Newcastle University arrived here by a more direct route,
0:01:44 > 0:01:46with victories handed to them on a plate
0:01:46 > 0:01:50by a four somnambulists from Queen's University Belfast in round one
0:01:50 > 0:01:54and a similarly dozy team from Birmingham University in round two.
0:01:54 > 0:01:58This was despite Newcastle's inability to spell the number three backwards,
0:01:58 > 0:02:00work out the gaps between elections,
0:02:00 > 0:02:03or make sense of information designed to be understood by aliens.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06- TITTERING - Let's meet the Newcastle team again.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09Hi, I'm Ben Dunbar, I'm from Heywood, Greater Manchester,
0:02:09 > 0:02:10and I'm studying for a Masters degree
0:02:10 > 0:02:12in public health and health services research.
0:02:12 > 0:02:15Hello, I'm Ross Dent, from Chester-le-Street in County Durham
0:02:15 > 0:02:17- and I study economics. - And their captain.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20Hello, I'm Eleanor Turner, I'm originally from London
0:02:20 > 0:02:22and I study medicine.
0:02:22 > 0:02:24Hi, I'm Nicholas Pang from Malaysia and I also study medicine.
0:02:24 > 0:02:26APPLAUSE
0:02:29 > 0:02:31OK, I'll make the rash assumption for thinking you all know the rules,
0:02:31 > 0:02:34so fingers on the buzzers, here's the first starter for 10.
0:02:34 > 0:02:37Meanings of what five-letter word
0:02:37 > 0:02:40include an area rich in a certain natural resource,
0:02:40 > 0:02:45a region in which a physical force is effective, an item of data...
0:02:45 > 0:02:48- Field?- Feels is right, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:02:49 > 0:02:53Your bonuses are on politics in the 19th century, Newcastle.
0:02:53 > 0:02:57After a speech made there in 1834 by Sir Robert Peel,
0:02:57 > 0:03:00which Staffordshire town gives its name to a manifesto
0:03:00 > 0:03:03that's often regarded as the foundation of modern conservativism?
0:03:03 > 0:03:05- I have no idea.- Litchfield?
0:03:05 > 0:03:08- Sorry?- Litchfield.- Litchfield? - I think so.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11- Staffordshire...I think so, yes. - Litchfield? What do you think? - Could be, yes.
0:03:11 > 0:03:13- Litchfield?- It's Tamworth.
0:03:13 > 0:03:18In the manifesto, what act did Peel describe as a, "Final and irrevocable settlement,
0:03:18 > 0:03:21"which no friend to peace would attempt to disturb."?
0:03:24 > 0:03:27- I don't know.- I think it might have something to do with slavery.
0:03:27 > 0:03:30- It was about that time, wasn't it? - Reform Act?- Could be.
0:03:30 > 0:03:34- The Second Reform Act?- Yeah, could be.- When was the second?- '32.
0:03:34 > 0:03:38- OK, Second?- Yes.- Second Reform Act? - No, it was the Great Reform Act, the 1832 Reform Act.
0:03:38 > 0:03:44"The Tamworth Manifesto was an attempt to construct a party without principles."
0:03:44 > 0:03:49Who wrote those words in a novel of 1844? He later succeeded in splitting the Liberal Party
0:03:49 > 0:03:52to pass the Reform Act of 1867.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56- Any idea? Don't know. - That's Benjamin Disraeli.
0:03:56 > 0:03:5810 points for this.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01Quote, "Divorced, remarried, died and survived,
0:04:01 > 0:04:04"it's an achievement of sorts for a woman to be able to lay claim
0:04:04 > 0:04:09"to this sort of spousal pneumonic associated with a Tudor brute."
0:04:09 > 0:04:11These words from The Guardian begin an article
0:04:11 > 0:04:14celebrating the life of which actress whose films include...
0:04:14 > 0:04:17- Elizabeth Taylor?- Correct.
0:04:17 > 0:04:18APPLAUSE
0:04:18 > 0:04:22Your second set of bonuses are on deaths attributed to laughter.
0:04:22 > 0:04:27Firstly, said to have died in a fit of laughter around 206 BC,
0:04:27 > 0:04:31after watching a donkey eat figs, Chrysippus of Soli was, along with
0:04:31 > 0:04:35Zeno and Cleanthes, a leading figure in which school of philosophy?
0:04:35 > 0:04:38- Stoics.- Stoics? Stoic.- Correct.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41Last in the line of Wilfred the Hairy of Barcelona,
0:04:41 > 0:04:45Martin the Humanist is thought to have died of a combination
0:04:45 > 0:04:48of uncontrollable laughter and serious indigestion.
0:04:48 > 0:04:52Of which Spanish kingdom did he become ruler in 1396?
0:04:55 > 0:04:57It could be Catalunya because Barcelona is in Cata...
0:04:57 > 0:05:02- What's it called? Catalunya?- Yes. - Catalunya?- No, it's Aragon.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04A Scottish scholar and translation
0:05:04 > 0:05:08who lost his collection of manuscripts after the Battle of Worcester,
0:05:08 > 0:05:11Sir Thomas Urquhart is said to have died in a fit of mirth
0:05:11 > 0:05:15on hearing of the succession of which King, whose court he had supported?
0:05:15 > 0:05:18What year did he say it was?
0:05:18 > 0:05:20- Charles II.- Charles II?
0:05:20 > 0:05:23- Charles II?- Correct. Another starter question now. - APPLAUSE
0:05:23 > 0:05:25The Peasant Dance and The Peasant Wedding
0:05:25 > 0:05:30are among the closely observed fictions of rural life by which Flemish painter,
0:05:30 > 0:05:34born in the 1520s and often known as the Elder or Peasant,
0:05:34 > 0:05:37to distinguished him from other artists in his family?
0:05:37 > 0:05:40- Is it Peter Breughel? - It is Breughel, yes.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42APPLAUSE
0:05:43 > 0:05:46Newcastle, these bonuses are on circumlocutions.
0:05:46 > 0:05:50To what specific weather phenomenon was the US Environmental Protection Agency referring
0:05:50 > 0:05:54when it used the phrase, "Poorly buffered precipitation"?
0:05:54 > 0:05:59- "Poorly buffered precipitation"? Fog?- Yeah?
0:05:59 > 0:06:02- Any idea?- Or mist?- Hail?
0:06:02 > 0:06:04- Tornado?- I don't know about precipitation,
0:06:04 > 0:06:07- what would you go for? Fog? - Hail, Hail.- Hail?
0:06:07 > 0:06:09- No, it's acid rain.- Oh.
0:06:09 > 0:06:14"User-friendly, space effective, flexible deskside sortation units,"
0:06:14 > 0:06:17an expression devised by an agency of the Canadian government,
0:06:17 > 0:06:19means what in everyday English?
0:06:19 > 0:06:22"User-friendly"?
0:06:22 > 0:06:23Is it a box?
0:06:23 > 0:06:27- A box?- Could be.- Dexation unit?
0:06:27 > 0:06:30- I don't know. That's tin, isn't it? - A box?
0:06:30 > 0:06:33No, they're wastepaper baskets.
0:06:33 > 0:06:37What did a leading telecoms company mean when it reported in 2008
0:06:37 > 0:06:40that around 1,800 employees in Finland had been,
0:06:40 > 0:06:44"Affected by synergy related headcount restructuring"?
0:06:44 > 0:06:49- You've been fired?- Made redundant. - They'd been made redundant?
0:06:49 > 0:06:51Yeah, they were sacked. Right, 10 points for this.
0:06:51 > 0:06:55What is the common name of propanone, that's CH3CO...
0:06:55 > 0:06:57Acetone.
0:06:57 > 0:06:59- Acetone is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:06:59 > 0:07:03Your first bonuses, Worcester College, are on physics.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05In a fluid, the speed of sound squared
0:07:05 > 0:07:11is equal to the ratio of the bulk modulus of elasticity to what quantity?
0:07:14 > 0:07:15Erm...
0:07:15 > 0:07:21- Just guess.- Try Young's Modulus. - Young's Modulus?- No, it's density.
0:07:21 > 0:07:26If the fluid is a gas the bulk modulus is proportional to what property?
0:07:26 > 0:07:28- I don't know.- Pressure.- Pressure?
0:07:28 > 0:07:30It is pressure, yes.
0:07:30 > 0:07:32So, in air, for example,
0:07:32 > 0:07:36sound speed depends mainly on what single variable?
0:07:36 > 0:07:38THEY MUMBLE
0:07:40 > 0:07:44- It's going to be altitude or humidity.- Altitude? Yeah? Altitude?
0:07:44 > 0:07:47No, it's temperature. Now, we're going to take a picture round.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49For your picture starter you're going to see a stave
0:07:49 > 0:07:52showing the playing range of a musical instrument,
0:07:52 > 0:07:55that is the highest and lowest notes it can reach.
0:07:55 > 0:07:5710 points if you can name the instrument.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03- Is it the piano? - It is the piano, yes.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05APPLAUSE
0:08:06 > 0:08:09Your picture bonuses are three more staves
0:08:09 > 0:08:11showing the respective playing ranges of musical instruments.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14In each case I want you to identify the instrument. Firstly:
0:08:17 > 0:08:22- OK, bass clef.- It's low down, so either, I'd say, double bass.
0:08:22 > 0:08:25- I reckon cello, oh, it could be double bass. Yes, double bass.- Yeah?
0:08:25 > 0:08:28- Double bass?- Correct. Secondly.
0:08:29 > 0:08:34- Possibly the violin?- Or flute?- No, flute goes down to C.- Does it? OK.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37- OK, violin?- Try that.- Violin? - No, it's the Piccolo. And finally.
0:08:41 > 0:08:45- I think cello.- Yeah?- Yeah? - Cello.- No, it's a tuba.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47Right, 10 points for this starter question.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50Which major US city links Berthold Brecht's
0:08:50 > 0:08:52The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui,
0:08:52 > 0:08:55Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife,
0:08:55 > 0:08:58Saul Bellow's The Adventures Of Augie March
0:08:58 > 0:09:01and the musical by Kander and Ebb, first performed in 1975?
0:09:04 > 0:09:05- Chicago?- Correct.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07APPLAUSE
0:09:09 > 0:09:13This set of bonuses is on Russian novelists, Worcester College.
0:09:13 > 0:09:17Which novelist was arrested in 1849 for being a member of a liberal intellectual group?
0:09:17 > 0:09:23After a mock execution, his death sentence was commuted to four years of penal servitude in Siberia.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25- Dostoevsky.- Correct.
0:09:25 > 0:09:28In an obituary of the writer Nikolai Gogol,
0:09:28 > 0:09:31which author's praise of the deceased writer so incensed the authorities
0:09:31 > 0:09:37that he was sent to prison for a month before being exiled to his estate for nearly two years?
0:09:37 > 0:09:39- Tolstoy?- Don't know.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41Yeah?
0:09:41 > 0:09:43- Tolstoy?- No, it's Turgenev.
0:09:43 > 0:09:46Which novelist spent eight years in prison for criticising Stalin?
0:09:46 > 0:09:49Awarded the Nobel prize in 1971,
0:09:49 > 0:09:53he is noted for his exposure of the brutalities of the Soviet system.
0:09:53 > 0:09:54Solzhenitsyn.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57- Nominate Bramhill.- Solzhenitsyn.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59Correct. 10 points for this starter question.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02Believed to have been coined by the software designer Harlan Crowder
0:10:02 > 0:10:06to describe the relative facility of human computer interaction,
0:10:06 > 0:10:09what hyphenated term means, "Straightforward to operate",
0:10:09 > 0:10:13or, "Designed with the needs of a novice in mind"?
0:10:13 > 0:10:15- User-friendly. - User-friendly is right, yes.
0:10:15 > 0:10:18- APPLAUSE - You retake the lead
0:10:18 > 0:10:21and your bonuses, this time, are on Trafalgar Square, Newcastle.
0:10:21 > 0:10:26His noted designs including the Houses of Parliament and Manchester Art Gallery,
0:10:26 > 0:10:29which architect remodelled Trafalgar Square from 1840?
0:10:30 > 0:10:34- It's...- Who designed the Houses of Parliament?
0:10:38 > 0:10:41- Inigo Jones?- Sorry? - No, no, no, that's too early.
0:10:41 > 0:10:45- It's Brown, or something, I believe. - Brown?- It's quite common.- Brown?
0:10:45 > 0:10:46No, it was Sir Charles Barry.
0:10:46 > 0:10:52Secondly, in 1999 the first commission for the empty fourth plinth was Ecce Homo,
0:10:52 > 0:10:55a sculpture of Christ by which artist?
0:10:58 > 0:11:01- The formaldehyde thing. - Oh, Damien Hirst?- Yes. Was it?
0:11:01 > 0:11:05- Damien Hirst formaldehyde.- Yeah, but was it, was at him?- I don't know.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08- OK.- I don't think it was, I didn't think Damien Hirst did...
0:11:08 > 0:11:12- I'd say Golding.- I think we better have an answer, please.- Golding?
0:11:12 > 0:11:15No, it was by Mark Wallinger. And finally, which capital city has, since 1947,
0:11:15 > 0:11:18donated a Christmas tree to Trafalgar Square
0:11:18 > 0:11:21in recognition of Britain's support during the Second World War?
0:11:21 > 0:11:23- Is it Norway?- Yes, it's Oslo. - Oslo.- Oslo is right.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25Another starter question.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28Born in 1896, which Swedish physicist gives his name
0:11:28 > 0:11:32to the SI derived unit of dose equivalent radiation...
0:11:32 > 0:11:35- Sievert.- Sievert is right, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:11:38 > 0:11:41Your bonuses, now, are on artists, Newcastle.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44The Ghent Altarpiece has been attributed to two Flemish siblings,
0:11:44 > 0:11:47Hubert and Jan, who share what surname?
0:11:47 > 0:11:51The latter's works also include Portrait Of A Man In A Turban,
0:11:51 > 0:11:52now in the National Gallery.
0:11:52 > 0:11:57- Van Eyck? Yes, I think so, yes. - Yes? Van Eyck?- Correct.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59What's the surname of the 18th-century Venetian artist
0:11:59 > 0:12:05who was the brother-in-law of Francesco and Gian Antonio Guardi and the father of two brothers,
0:12:05 > 0:12:10Gian Domenico and Lorenzo, all of whom were also painters?
0:12:11 > 0:12:14- I don't know.- Could the Bellini. - Bellini?
0:12:14 > 0:12:16No, it's Tiepolo. And finally,
0:12:16 > 0:12:18a Brother, in the religious sense,
0:12:18 > 0:12:20the Dominican Fra Giovanni da Fiesole,
0:12:20 > 0:12:24whose works include the frescoes in the Friary of San Marco in Florence,
0:12:24 > 0:12:26is usually known by what name or epithet?
0:12:26 > 0:12:30- Giotto? He was a monk.- Yeah?- Giotto?
0:12:30 > 0:12:32No, it was Fra Angelico. 10 points for this.
0:12:32 > 0:12:38Barrel and hedgehog are amongst species of which new world succulent plant,
0:12:38 > 0:12:40distinguished from other succulents by the presence...
0:12:40 > 0:12:42- Cactus.- Cactus is correct, yes.
0:12:42 > 0:12:44APPLAUSE
0:12:45 > 0:12:49Right, your bonuses, Worcester College, are on punning book titles.
0:12:49 > 0:12:51The Ode Less Travelled,
0:12:51 > 0:12:54a book about poetry by Stephen Fry, published in 2005,
0:12:54 > 0:12:58derives its title from two lines in a poem by which writer?
0:12:59 > 0:13:04- Frost.- Is it TS Eliot?- Is it? - Could be, I don't know.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06Whatever you think.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09- No, it's not, it's not Frost. - TS Eliot.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11No, Robert Frost, about two roads splitting in the wood.
0:13:11 > 0:13:17According to the title of the book of popular science by Marcus Chown, published in 2009,
0:13:17 > 0:13:21we need to talk about which 19th-century physicist?
0:13:21 > 0:13:22ALL: Kelvin.
0:13:22 > 0:13:25- Kelvin.- Correct. Which letter of the alphabet constitutes
0:13:25 > 0:13:30the only difference between the titles of a 1967 book of popular anthropology
0:13:30 > 0:13:32and a 2006 book about the theory of comedy?
0:13:33 > 0:13:36- Oh. - SHE MOUTHS
0:13:39 > 0:13:42- That is so annoying. - Letter?- No, I...
0:13:42 > 0:13:47- A?- No, it's J, as in The Naked Ape and The Naked Jape.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49Right, were going to take a music round now.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51For your music starter you'll hear a piece of classical music.
0:13:51 > 0:13:5410 points if you can name the composer.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:05 > 0:14:07Holst?
0:14:07 > 0:14:10No, you can hear little more, Worcester College.
0:14:10 > 0:14:12CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:21 > 0:14:25- Greig?- No, it's Debussy, part of La Mer. So, music bonuses shortly.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28Another starter question in the meantime. 10 points for this.
0:14:28 > 0:14:30What two-word term follows "little"
0:14:30 > 0:14:34when denoting a period between the 16th and 19th centuries in northern Europe...
0:14:34 > 0:14:36- Ice Age.- Correct.
0:14:36 > 0:14:37APPLAUSE
0:14:40 > 0:14:42Get the bonuses, you'll take the lead, even one of them.
0:14:42 > 0:14:46Following on from La Mer, which none of you manage to identify,
0:14:46 > 0:14:50your music bonuses are three more pieces of music associated with the sea.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53Five points for each composer you can name.
0:14:53 > 0:14:57Firstly, this piece, first performed in 1914.
0:14:57 > 0:14:59CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:02 > 0:15:06Vaughn Williams did a lot of sea stuff.
0:15:06 > 0:15:10- Vaughan Williams?- Don't know. - OK. Yeah? Vaughan Williams?
0:15:10 > 0:15:15No, it's Sibelius, it's the Oceanidies. And secondly, from 1888.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:19 > 0:15:23- Vaughan Williams again!- I'm sure one of them is going to be a requiem from Mendelssohn.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26I think Mendelssohn did something, but he's earlier. Who do you think?
0:15:26 > 0:15:30- Who else?- Benjamin Britten? - No, he's 20th-century, I'd go for Vaughan Williams.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33- OK, Vaughan Williams? - No, it's Rimsky-Korsakov.
0:15:33 > 0:15:37It was the Sea and Sinbad's Ship. And finally, from 1725.
0:15:37 > 0:15:41CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:41 > 0:15:43- Handel! Water music.- Yeah. Handel?
0:15:43 > 0:15:46No, that was Vivaldi, La Tempesta di Mare.
0:15:46 > 0:15:48Right, 10 points for this.
0:15:48 > 0:15:52Its former name, still used in Britain to denote a variety of curry,
0:15:52 > 0:15:56what is the official name of the large seaport on the Bay of...
0:15:56 > 0:16:00- Chennai.- Chennai is correct, yes, the capital of Tamil Nadu. - APPLAUSE
0:16:01 > 0:16:06So, you get a set of bonuses now. They are on glue.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08What time is the Greek word for glue
0:16:08 > 0:16:12and denotes the billions of cells in the human brain
0:16:12 > 0:16:15that have neither axons nor dendrites, but pack the nerve cells together,
0:16:15 > 0:16:19covering everything except the synapses?
0:16:19 > 0:16:21It's never come up in Classics, so I can't help you!
0:16:23 > 0:16:24No idea?
0:16:24 > 0:16:28- No? OK? Pass.- It's glia.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31In quantum chromodynamics the eight massless vector bosons,
0:16:31 > 0:16:35known as gluons because they glue quarks together to form hadrons,
0:16:35 > 0:16:39are carriers, or mediators, of which fundamental force?
0:16:39 > 0:16:42- Strong nuclear force.- Strong nuclear force.- Strong nuclear...?
0:16:42 > 0:16:46- Nuclear force.- Strong nuclear force. - That's correct.
0:16:46 > 0:16:49From the Latin meaning, "cause to adhere," what adjective describes a language
0:16:49 > 0:16:54in which word formation typically involves the joining together of linear sequences of morphemes,
0:16:54 > 0:16:56rather than inflection?
0:16:56 > 0:17:00- Gluetative.- Gluetative?- Does that make sense?- I think so, yeah.
0:17:00 > 0:17:04- Gluetative.- Does that make... Yeah, go for it.- Gluetative.
0:17:04 > 0:17:07No, it's aglutinative. Right, 10 points for this starter question.
0:17:07 > 0:17:09Richer in texture than damask,
0:17:09 > 0:17:11which fabric is traditionally made from silk,
0:17:11 > 0:17:14often with highlights in metallic thread,
0:17:14 > 0:17:17with a raised floral or figure design introduced during...
0:17:17 > 0:17:20- Is it brocade? - Brocade is correct, yes.
0:17:20 > 0:17:21APPLAUSE
0:17:21 > 0:17:24These bonuses will give you the lead again if you get them.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26They are Dante's Inferno.
0:17:26 > 0:17:31In Dante's Inferno, how many concentric circles of suffering lie within the Earth?
0:17:31 > 0:17:33- Nine.- Nine?- Nine.- Nine.- Correct.
0:17:33 > 0:17:36In the second circle of hell, those guilty of which sin
0:17:36 > 0:17:40are punished by being blown about by the winds of a violent storm?
0:17:40 > 0:17:45It's here that Dante meets Helen of Troy, Dido and Cleopatra.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47- Adultery.- Adultery, surely.
0:17:47 > 0:17:51- Adultery?- No, it's the lust. In the eighth circle, those that guilty of which vice
0:17:51 > 0:17:56are condemned to wear golden cloaks weighted down with lead?
0:17:56 > 0:17:58- Avarice?- Avarice?- Avarice?- Avarice?
0:17:58 > 0:18:00No, it's hypocrisy. 10 points for this.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03"If you're lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man,
0:18:03 > 0:18:06"then where you go for the rest of your life it stays with you,
0:18:06 > 0:18:08"for Paris is a movable feast."
0:18:08 > 0:18:11These are the words of which US novelist?
0:18:11 > 0:18:13- Ernest Hemingway.- Correct.
0:18:13 > 0:18:15APPLAUSE
0:18:15 > 0:18:18You take the lead, your bonuses are on geography.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21The Strait of Sicily or Sicilian Channel,
0:18:21 > 0:18:23lies between Italy and which country?
0:18:23 > 0:18:24Malta.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29- Yes.- Malta?- Yes.- Malta?
0:18:29 > 0:18:30No, it's Tunisia.
0:18:30 > 0:18:33The La Perouse or Soya Strait
0:18:33 > 0:18:38separates the Russian island of Sakhalin from which island of similar size?
0:18:38 > 0:18:42- Hokkaido. Is it Hokkaido? - Yeah.- Hokkaido?
0:18:42 > 0:18:44- Yeah, in Japan, I think so.- Hokkaido.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46- Hokkaido?- Correct.
0:18:46 > 0:18:50The Strait of Hormuz separates Iran from the Musandam peninsula
0:18:50 > 0:18:52an exclave of which country?
0:18:54 > 0:18:55HE WHISPERS
0:18:55 > 0:19:00- Qatar probably.- Qatar?- I think... - I don't have a clue so just...
0:19:00 > 0:19:04- I think it sounds more likely. - You think Qatar? OK. Qatar?
0:19:04 > 0:19:07No, Oman. 10 points for this. Which university in California
0:19:07 > 0:19:11is named after the Irish idealist philosopher and Bishop of Cloyne?
0:19:11 > 0:19:14- Berkeley.- Berkeley is correct. - APPLAUSE
0:19:15 > 0:19:18Your bonuses are on the Chinese classics.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21I will read an extract from the opening lines
0:19:21 > 0:19:23of an English version of an ancient Chinese work.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26In each case, give the author to whom the text is generally ascribed.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29"The art of war is of vital importance to the state,
0:19:29 > 0:19:33"it's a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin.
0:19:33 > 0:19:37"Hence, it is a subject of enquiry which can on no account be neglected."
0:19:37 > 0:19:40- Who is it?- Sun Tzu.- Sun Tzu?- Yes.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42- Sun Tzu.- Correct.
0:19:42 > 0:19:45"The way that can be spoken of is not the constant way,
0:19:45 > 0:19:48- "the name that can be named is not the constant name." - Confucius, probably.
0:19:48 > 0:19:50You think Confucius? Confucius?
0:19:50 > 0:19:52No, that's Lao Tzu.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55And finally, "To learn, said the master,
0:19:55 > 0:19:57"and then the practise opportunely what one has learnt
0:19:57 > 0:20:00"does not this bring with it a sense of satisfaction."
0:20:00 > 0:20:01- Confucius.- Correct.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04Right, we're going to take a picture around now.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07Your picture starter - you'll see a painting in which we've blacked out one of the figures.
0:20:07 > 0:20:1010 points if you can identify the figure.
0:20:15 > 0:20:19- Judas?- Anyone like the buzz from Worcester College?
0:20:19 > 0:20:20Mary Magdalene?
0:20:20 > 0:20:23No, it is, as you will see now, St Peter.
0:20:25 > 0:20:27So, we'll have the picture bonuses in a moment or two,
0:20:27 > 0:20:30in the meantime here is a starter question.
0:20:30 > 0:20:35What three initial letters link words meaning philosophical system developed by Plotinus,
0:20:35 > 0:20:39synthetic rubber-like polymer, dread...
0:20:40 > 0:20:42- Neo, N-E-O.- Correct.
0:20:42 > 0:20:43APPLAUSE
0:20:45 > 0:20:47So, you get the picture bonuses.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50Following on from the blacked-out figure of St Peter, there,
0:20:50 > 0:20:53three more paintings with figures blacked out.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55In each case I want you to identify the figure
0:20:55 > 0:20:58who's also named in the title of the painting.
0:20:58 > 0:21:01Firstly, which historical figure is missing here?
0:21:03 > 0:21:09- Oh, it's the, I think it's the death of Socrates.- OK.- That's Crito.- Yeah?
0:21:09 > 0:21:13- I don't know.- Are you happy with that?- Is it.- Socrat...- Yes.- Come on.
0:21:13 > 0:21:17- Socrates?- It is Socrates, yes. Let's see the whole thing.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20There it is, by David. Secondly, the figure missing here.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25Oh, I've seen this painting.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28Do I want to say...
0:21:28 > 0:21:29Diana, is it?
0:21:29 > 0:21:32It's a historic... Oh, it could be Adam?
0:21:32 > 0:21:36- No, no, go for your one.- Which one? Which one did you say?- Diana.- Diana?
0:21:36 > 0:21:40No, it's Paris. We'll see the whole thing now.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42By Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Judgement Of Paris.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44And finally, the missing figure here.
0:21:45 > 0:21:48- Oh, that's...- Venus. - Yeah, that's Venus.
0:21:48 > 0:21:53Venus, Botticelli's famous Birth Of Venus. There it is.
0:21:53 > 0:21:54- APPLAUSE - Right, 10 points for this.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57Founded in 1807, from a collection of an eminent historian,
0:21:57 > 0:22:01the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery adjoins the University campus
0:22:01 > 0:22:03in which major city?
0:22:04 > 0:22:06London.
0:22:06 > 0:22:08Anyone like to buzz from Worcester College?
0:22:09 > 0:22:13- Birmingham?- No, it's Glasgow. 10 points for this.
0:22:13 > 0:22:17What double letter links words meaning Japanese edible mushroom,
0:22:17 > 0:22:19President Obama's state of...
0:22:20 > 0:22:25- I.- Double I is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:22:25 > 0:22:27You could retake the lead with these bonuses if you get them.
0:22:27 > 0:22:30They are on adaptations of plays by Chekhov.
0:22:30 > 0:22:34Firstly, for five points, Winter Dreams, a one-act ballet choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan,
0:22:34 > 0:22:37is based on which play by Chekhov?
0:22:38 > 0:22:41- I only know about The Cherry Orchard. - Does anyone know any Chekhov plays?
0:22:41 > 0:22:44- The Cherry Orchard is one play by him.- Give it a guess.
0:22:44 > 0:22:46- It's The Lady With The Dog is one, whichever...- OK. The Cherry Orchard.
0:22:46 > 0:22:50No, it's The Three Sisters. Wild Honey by Michael Frayn
0:22:50 > 0:22:52is a reworking of which of Chekhov's plays?
0:22:52 > 0:22:55Discovered without a title page almost 20 years after Chekhov's death.
0:22:55 > 0:22:59It centres on a slightly married provincial schoolmaster.
0:22:59 > 0:23:02- I don't know, but hurry up because we need time.- What's it called?
0:23:02 > 0:23:06- What's the one that you knew?- The Cherry Orchard and The Lady With The Dog.- The Lady With The Dog?
0:23:06 > 0:23:11No, that's Platonov. And finally, Tennessee Williams described his 1981 play The Notebook Of Trigoran
0:23:11 > 0:23:14as a free adaptation of which play by Chekhov?
0:23:14 > 0:23:18- Let's go Cherry Orchard. The Cherry Orchard?- No, it's The Seagull!
0:23:18 > 0:23:19- LAUGHTER - 10 points for this.
0:23:19 > 0:23:23Created when debris from the Swift-Tuttle comet burns up
0:23:23 > 0:23:25as it hits the Earth's atmosphere,
0:23:25 > 0:23:30what name is given to the annual meteor shower which reaches its peak in mid August?
0:23:30 > 0:23:33- Leonitz.- Anyone let the buzz from Worcester College?
0:23:33 > 0:23:35The Perseids.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37- The Perseids is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:23:38 > 0:23:41You take the lead, your bonuses are on men born in the year 1829.
0:23:41 > 0:23:44In each case identify the person from the description.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47Firstly, the five, a founder of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood
0:23:47 > 0:23:51whose works include Christ In The House Of His Parents and Bubbles.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53- Ruskin?- No.
0:23:53 > 0:23:57- Who was he after?- Let's have it, please.- Rossetti.- Nominate Bramhill.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59- Rossetti.- No, it's Millais.
0:23:59 > 0:24:04The father of the author of the Mapp and Lucia novels who became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1882.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09- Pass.- That was Edward White Benson.
0:24:09 > 0:24:13And finally, a religious leader who, in 1865, established a mission
0:24:13 > 0:24:16in the East End that later became the Salvation Army.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20- Oh.- What was his name?- Oh, I can't remember!- Oh!- Come on!
0:24:20 > 0:24:22- Grant, I think.- Grant?
0:24:22 > 0:24:24No, it's William Booth. 3 and a half minutes to go,
0:24:24 > 0:24:2510 points for this.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28In the collection of the Soane Museum, in London,
0:24:28 > 0:24:31The Heir, The Arrest, The Prison and The Madhouse
0:24:31 > 0:24:36are among the eight paintings that make up which series by William Hogarth?
0:24:36 > 0:24:38- A Rake's Progress?- Correct.
0:24:38 > 0:24:41Your bonuses, this time, are on acids, Worcester College.
0:24:41 > 0:24:44Which fatty acid, soluble in alcohol and ether,
0:24:44 > 0:24:47but practically insoluble in water, is used to make soap and candles.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49It's name is derived from the Greek for fat or tallow.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52- Stearic acid.- Stearic acid.- Correct.
0:24:52 > 0:24:55Which white crystalline carboxylic acid
0:24:55 > 0:25:01was first derived from rowan berries and is used to inhibit mould growth?
0:25:01 > 0:25:05- Propanoic Acid.- Nominate Bramhill. - Propanoic Acid.- No, it's sorbic acid.
0:25:05 > 0:25:08And finally, which poisonous acid used in the leather and ink industries,
0:25:08 > 0:25:09is found in rhubarb leaves
0:25:09 > 0:25:13and takes its name from the scientific name for wood-sorrel in which it occurs as a salt?
0:25:13 > 0:25:16- Oxalic acid.- Oxalic acid.
0:25:16 > 0:25:19Correct. Another starter question. Which vegetable links the dishes
0:25:19 > 0:25:21caponata, baba ganoush and imam bayildi?
0:25:21 > 0:25:24- Aubergine.- Aubergine is right.
0:25:24 > 0:25:25APPLAUSE
0:25:25 > 0:25:28Your bonuses this time are on roads, Newcastle.
0:25:28 > 0:25:30Following the great North Road for much of its route,
0:25:30 > 0:25:33passing through, or near, Peterborough, Darlington and Berwick,
0:25:33 > 0:25:37which is the longest numbered road in Britain?
0:25:37 > 0:25:40- A1.- A1.- Correct. The A1 on the Isle of Man connects the capital, Douglas,
0:25:40 > 0:25:44with which town on the West Coast, the home of the island's Anglican Cathedral
0:25:44 > 0:25:46and connected to St Patrick's Isle by a causeway?
0:25:46 > 0:25:48- I think it's Ramsay.- Ramsay. - No, it's Peel.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50The A1 in Northern Ireland runs from Belfast
0:25:50 > 0:25:54to the border with the Republic of Ireland, south of which city,
0:25:54 > 0:25:57straddling County Down and County Armagh, at the head of Carlingford Loch?
0:25:57 > 0:25:59- Is it Lisburn?- Sorry?- Lisburn?
0:25:59 > 0:26:01- Nominate Dunbar.- Lisburn. - No, it's Newry.
0:26:01 > 0:26:0410 points for this. What short word can follow
0:26:04 > 0:26:07canopic, mason, kilner...
0:26:07 > 0:26:09Jar.
0:26:09 > 0:26:12Jar is correct. Your bonuses, this time, are on sorrow in Shakespeare.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15Identify the play in which the following lines appear.
0:26:15 > 0:26:16"Firstly, when sorrows come
0:26:16 > 0:26:20"they come not single spies, but battalions."
0:26:20 > 0:26:23- I don't know.- Come on, let's have it. - Hamlet.- It is.
0:26:23 > 0:26:25"Let's talk of graves and worms and epitaphs.
0:26:25 > 0:26:26"Make dust our paper
0:26:26 > 0:26:30"and with rainy eyes write sorrow on the bosom of the Earth."
0:26:30 > 0:26:33- Don't know.- King Lear? - No, it's Richard II.
0:26:33 > 0:26:37"Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say good night till it be morrow."
0:26:37 > 0:26:40- Romeo and Juliet.- Correct. 10 points for this. In aeronautics,
0:26:40 > 0:26:44four what do the letters S-T-O-L stand?
0:26:44 > 0:26:46- Short takeoff and landing.- Correct.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49Your bonuses, this time, are on confectionery.
0:26:49 > 0:26:54In each case identify the item of confectionery from the description of the eponymous location.
0:26:54 > 0:26:57- Firstly, a market town and on the River Wye in Derbyshire.- Pontefract?
0:26:57 > 0:26:59- Pontefract.- No, it's Bakewell tart.
0:26:59 > 0:27:04A town in Salford on the former Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
0:27:04 > 0:27:07- Eccles. Eccles cakes. - Eccles cake.- Correct.
0:27:07 > 0:27:11The Scottish city, finally, that is the home to Captain Scott's ship, The Discovery.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13- Dundee.- Correct. 10 points for this.
0:27:13 > 0:27:17In medicine, the term sternutation denotes a attack of what?
0:27:19 > 0:27:21Coughing.
0:27:21 > 0:27:24- No, anyone like the bus from... - Shortness of breath?
0:27:24 > 0:27:26No, it's sneezing. 10 points for this.
0:27:26 > 0:27:28What three-word term denotes the line of latitude
0:27:28 > 0:27:30at which the sun is directly overhead
0:27:30 > 0:27:33during the December solstice?
0:27:33 > 0:27:35- Tropic of Capricorn.- Correct.
0:27:35 > 0:27:38Your bonuses, this time, are on flame tests, Newcastle.
0:27:38 > 0:27:43Selenium, lead and arsenic all burn with flames of what colour? Quickly.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45I don't know. Sorry? Orange? Orange.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48Blue. Which element constitutes 8% of the moon's crust,
0:27:48 > 0:27:51is the fifth most abundant element in the Earth's crust
0:27:51 > 0:27:55- and burns with a flame usually described as and acted on... - GONG
0:27:55 > 0:27:59- Newcastle University have 150, Worcester College Oxford 190. - APPLAUSE
0:28:04 > 0:28:05Well, it was a great game
0:28:05 > 0:28:08and I shall look forward to seeing both of you in action again.
0:28:08 > 0:28:09Thank you both very much indeed.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12I hope you can join us again next time for another quarterfinal match,
0:28:12 > 0:28:14but until then it's goodbye from Newcastle University.
0:28:14 > 0:28:18- ALL: Goodbye.- It's goodbye from Worcester College Oxford. - ALL: Goodbye.
0:28:18 > 0:28:20- And it's goodbye from me, goodbye. - APPLAUSE
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