Episode 27 University Challenge

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University Challenge - asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.

Hello, in a test of stamina - the teams', not yours, I hope -

almost as much as of general knowledge,

we've already seen the first two quarterfinals decided.

Under the system devised by Wittgenstein's Granddaughter,

each team has to win two quarterfinals to go through to the semis.

Tonight, two teams chase their first quarterfinal victory,

but which ever of them loses must play again and win

in order to stay in the contest. Clear enough?

Now, the team from Worcester College, Oxford,

narrowly lost their first-round match against Clare College, Cambridge,

but then had a convincing win against St Andrews in the play-offs for the highest scoring losers.

Their second-round match was another close-run thing

when they beat Queen's College, Oxford by 200 points to 185.

On that occasion they demonstrated the differences between physics and psychics,

altitude and latitude, and Tokugawa and Tokei.

Let's meet the Worcester College team for the fourth time.

Hi, I'm Dave Knapp, I'm from working in Surrey

and I'm studying engineering.

Hi, I'm Jack Bramhill, I'm from Colchester in Essex

and I'm studying chemistry.

-And their captain.

-Hi, I'm Rebecca Gillie, I'm from Weymouth in Dorset

and am reading French and Italian.

Hi, I'm Jonathan Metzer from London and I'm reading classics.

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Newcastle University arrived here by a more direct route,

with victories handed to them on a plate

by a four somnambulists from Queen's University Belfast in round one

and a similarly dozy team from Birmingham University in round two.

This was despite Newcastle's inability to spell the number three backwards,

work out the gaps between elections,

or make sense of information designed to be understood by aliens.

-TITTERING

-Let's meet the Newcastle team again.

Hi, I'm Ben Dunbar, I'm from Heywood, Greater Manchester,

and I'm studying for a Masters degree

in public health and health services research.

Hello, I'm Ross Dent, from Chester-le-Street in County Durham

-and I study economics.

-And their captain.

Hello, I'm Eleanor Turner, I'm originally from London

and I study medicine.

Hi, I'm Nicholas Pang from Malaysia and I also study medicine.

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OK, I'll make the rash assumption for thinking you all know the rules,

so fingers on the buzzers, here's the first starter for 10.

Meanings of what five-letter word

include an area rich in a certain natural resource,

a region in which a physical force is effective, an item of data...

-Field?

-Feels is right, yes.

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Your bonuses are on politics in the 19th century, Newcastle.

After a speech made there in 1834 by Sir Robert Peel,

which Staffordshire town gives its name to a manifesto

that's often regarded as the foundation of modern conservativism?

-I have no idea.

-Litchfield?

-Sorry?

-Litchfield.

-Litchfield?

-I think so.

-Staffordshire...I think so, yes.

-Litchfield? What do you think?

-Could be, yes.

-Litchfield?

-It's Tamworth.

In the manifesto, what act did Peel describe as a, "Final and irrevocable settlement,

"which no friend to peace would attempt to disturb."?

-I don't know.

-I think it might have something to do with slavery.

-It was about that time, wasn't it?

-Reform Act?

-Could be.

-The Second Reform Act?

-Yeah, could be.

-When was the second?

-'32.

-OK, Second?

-Yes.

-Second Reform Act?

-No, it was the Great Reform Act, the 1832 Reform Act.

"The Tamworth Manifesto was an attempt to construct a party without principles."

Who wrote those words in a novel of 1844? He later succeeded in splitting the Liberal Party

to pass the Reform Act of 1867.

-Any idea? Don't know.

-That's Benjamin Disraeli.

10 points for this.

Quote, "Divorced, remarried, died and survived,

"it's an achievement of sorts for a woman to be able to lay claim

"to this sort of spousal pneumonic associated with a Tudor brute."

These words from The Guardian begin an article

celebrating the life of which actress whose films include...

-Elizabeth Taylor?

-Correct.

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Your second set of bonuses are on deaths attributed to laughter.

Firstly, said to have died in a fit of laughter around 206 BC,

after watching a donkey eat figs, Chrysippus of Soli was, along with

Zeno and Cleanthes, a leading figure in which school of philosophy?

-Stoics.

-Stoics? Stoic.

-Correct.

Last in the line of Wilfred the Hairy of Barcelona,

Martin the Humanist is thought to have died of a combination

of uncontrollable laughter and serious indigestion.

Of which Spanish kingdom did he become ruler in 1396?

It could be Catalunya because Barcelona is in Cata...

-What's it called? Catalunya?

-Yes.

-Catalunya?

-No, it's Aragon.

A Scottish scholar and translation

who lost his collection of manuscripts after the Battle of Worcester,

Sir Thomas Urquhart is said to have died in a fit of mirth

on hearing of the succession of which King, whose court he had supported?

What year did he say it was?

-Charles II.

-Charles II?

-Charles II?

-Correct. Another starter question now.

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The Peasant Dance and The Peasant Wedding

are among the closely observed fictions of rural life by which Flemish painter,

born in the 1520s and often known as the Elder or Peasant,

to distinguished him from other artists in his family?

-Is it Peter Breughel?

-It is Breughel, yes.

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Newcastle, these bonuses are on circumlocutions.

To what specific weather phenomenon was the US Environmental Protection Agency referring

when it used the phrase, "Poorly buffered precipitation"?

-"Poorly buffered precipitation"? Fog?

-Yeah?

-Any idea?

-Or mist?

-Hail?

-Tornado?

-I don't know about precipitation,

-what would you go for? Fog?

-Hail, Hail.

-Hail?

-No, it's acid rain.

-Oh.

"User-friendly, space effective, flexible deskside sortation units,"

an expression devised by an agency of the Canadian government,

means what in everyday English?

"User-friendly"?

Is it a box?

-A box?

-Could be.

-Dexation unit?

-I don't know. That's tin, isn't it?

-A box?

No, they're wastepaper baskets.

What did a leading telecoms company mean when it reported in 2008

that around 1,800 employees in Finland had been,

"Affected by synergy related headcount restructuring"?

-You've been fired?

-Made redundant.

-They'd been made redundant?

Yeah, they were sacked. Right, 10 points for this.

What is the common name of propanone, that's CH3CO...

Acetone.

-Acetone is correct, yes.

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Your first bonuses, Worcester College, are on physics.

In a fluid, the speed of sound squared

is equal to the ratio of the bulk modulus of elasticity to what quantity?

Erm...

-Just guess.

-Try Young's Modulus.

-Young's Modulus?

-No, it's density.

If the fluid is a gas the bulk modulus is proportional to what property?

-I don't know.

-Pressure.

-Pressure?

It is pressure, yes.

So, in air, for example,

sound speed depends mainly on what single variable?

THEY MUMBLE

-It's going to be altitude or humidity.

-Altitude? Yeah? Altitude?

No, it's temperature. Now, we're going to take a picture round.

For your picture starter you're going to see a stave

showing the playing range of a musical instrument,

that is the highest and lowest notes it can reach.

10 points if you can name the instrument.

-Is it the piano?

-It is the piano, yes.

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Your picture bonuses are three more staves

showing the respective playing ranges of musical instruments.

In each case I want you to identify the instrument. Firstly:

-OK, bass clef.

-It's low down, so either, I'd say, double bass.

-I reckon cello, oh, it could be double bass. Yes, double bass.

-Yeah?

-Double bass?

-Correct. Secondly.

-Possibly the violin?

-Or flute?

-No, flute goes down to C.

-Does it? OK.

-OK, violin?

-Try that.

-Violin?

-No, it's the Piccolo. And finally.

-I think cello.

-Yeah?

-Yeah?

-Cello.

-No, it's a tuba.

Right, 10 points for this starter question.

Which major US city links Berthold Brecht's

The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui,

Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife,

Saul Bellow's The Adventures Of Augie March

and the musical by Kander and Ebb, first performed in 1975?

-Chicago?

-Correct.

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This set of bonuses is on Russian novelists, Worcester College.

Which novelist was arrested in 1849 for being a member of a liberal intellectual group?

After a mock execution, his death sentence was commuted to four years of penal servitude in Siberia.

-Dostoevsky.

-Correct.

In an obituary of the writer Nikolai Gogol,

which author's praise of the deceased writer so incensed the authorities

that he was sent to prison for a month before being exiled to his estate for nearly two years?

-Tolstoy?

-Don't know.

Yeah?

-Tolstoy?

-No, it's Turgenev.

Which novelist spent eight years in prison for criticising Stalin?

Awarded the Nobel prize in 1971,

he is noted for his exposure of the brutalities of the Soviet system.

Solzhenitsyn.

-Nominate Bramhill.

-Solzhenitsyn.

Correct. 10 points for this starter question.

Believed to have been coined by the software designer Harlan Crowder

to describe the relative facility of human computer interaction,

what hyphenated term means, "Straightforward to operate",

or, "Designed with the needs of a novice in mind"?

-User-friendly.

-User-friendly is right, yes.

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-You retake the lead

and your bonuses, this time, are on Trafalgar Square, Newcastle.

His noted designs including the Houses of Parliament and Manchester Art Gallery,

which architect remodelled Trafalgar Square from 1840?

-It's...

-Who designed the Houses of Parliament?

-Inigo Jones?

-Sorry?

-No, no, no, that's too early.

-It's Brown, or something, I believe.

-Brown?

-It's quite common.

-Brown?

No, it was Sir Charles Barry.

Secondly, in 1999 the first commission for the empty fourth plinth was Ecce Homo,

a sculpture of Christ by which artist?

-The formaldehyde thing.

-Oh, Damien Hirst?

-Yes. Was it?

-Damien Hirst formaldehyde.

-Yeah, but was it, was at him?

-I don't know.

-OK.

-I don't think it was, I didn't think Damien Hirst did...

-I'd say Golding.

-I think we better have an answer, please.

-Golding?

No, it was by Mark Wallinger. And finally, which capital city has, since 1947,

donated a Christmas tree to Trafalgar Square

in recognition of Britain's support during the Second World War?

-Is it Norway?

-Yes, it's Oslo.

-Oslo.

-Oslo is right.

Another starter question.

Born in 1896, which Swedish physicist gives his name

to the SI derived unit of dose equivalent radiation...

-Sievert.

-Sievert is right, yes.

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Your bonuses, now, are on artists, Newcastle.

The Ghent Altarpiece has been attributed to two Flemish siblings,

Hubert and Jan, who share what surname?

The latter's works also include Portrait Of A Man In A Turban,

now in the National Gallery.

-Van Eyck? Yes, I think so, yes.

-Yes? Van Eyck?

-Correct.

What's the surname of the 18th-century Venetian artist

who was the brother-in-law of Francesco and Gian Antonio Guardi and the father of two brothers,

Gian Domenico and Lorenzo, all of whom were also painters?

-I don't know.

-Could the Bellini.

-Bellini?

No, it's Tiepolo. And finally,

a Brother, in the religious sense,

the Dominican Fra Giovanni da Fiesole,

whose works include the frescoes in the Friary of San Marco in Florence,

is usually known by what name or epithet?

-Giotto? He was a monk.

-Yeah?

-Giotto?

No, it was Fra Angelico. 10 points for this.

Barrel and hedgehog are amongst species of which new world succulent plant,

distinguished from other succulents by the presence...

-Cactus.

-Cactus is correct, yes.

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Right, your bonuses, Worcester College, are on punning book titles.

The Ode Less Travelled,

a book about poetry by Stephen Fry, published in 2005,

derives its title from two lines in a poem by which writer?

-Frost.

-Is it TS Eliot?

-Is it?

-Could be, I don't know.

Whatever you think.

-No, it's not, it's not Frost.

-TS Eliot.

No, Robert Frost, about two roads splitting in the wood.

According to the title of the book of popular science by Marcus Chown, published in 2009,

we need to talk about which 19th-century physicist?

ALL: Kelvin.

-Kelvin.

-Correct. Which letter of the alphabet constitutes

the only difference between the titles of a 1967 book of popular anthropology

and a 2006 book about the theory of comedy?

-Oh.

-SHE MOUTHS

-That is so annoying.

-Letter?

-No, I...

-A?

-No, it's J, as in The Naked Ape and The Naked Jape.

Right, were going to take a music round now.

For your music starter you'll hear a piece of classical music.

10 points if you can name the composer.

CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS

Holst?

No, you can hear little more, Worcester College.

CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS

-Greig?

-No, it's Debussy, part of La Mer. So, music bonuses shortly.

Another starter question in the meantime. 10 points for this.

What two-word term follows "little"

when denoting a period between the 16th and 19th centuries in northern Europe...

-Ice Age.

-Correct.

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Get the bonuses, you'll take the lead, even one of them.

Following on from La Mer, which none of you manage to identify,

your music bonuses are three more pieces of music associated with the sea.

Five points for each composer you can name.

Firstly, this piece, first performed in 1914.

CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS

Vaughn Williams did a lot of sea stuff.

-Vaughan Williams?

-Don't know.

-OK. Yeah? Vaughan Williams?

No, it's Sibelius, it's the Oceanidies. And secondly, from 1888.

CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS

-Vaughan Williams again!

-I'm sure one of them is going to be a requiem from Mendelssohn.

I think Mendelssohn did something, but he's earlier. Who do you think?

-Who else?

-Benjamin Britten?

-No, he's 20th-century, I'd go for Vaughan Williams.

-OK, Vaughan Williams?

-No, it's Rimsky-Korsakov.

It was the Sea and Sinbad's Ship. And finally, from 1725.

CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS

-Handel! Water music.

-Yeah. Handel?

No, that was Vivaldi, La Tempesta di Mare.

Right, 10 points for this.

Its former name, still used in Britain to denote a variety of curry,

what is the official name of the large seaport on the Bay of...

-Chennai.

-Chennai is correct, yes, the capital of Tamil Nadu.

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So, you get a set of bonuses now. They are on glue.

What time is the Greek word for glue

and denotes the billions of cells in the human brain

that have neither axons nor dendrites, but pack the nerve cells together,

covering everything except the synapses?

It's never come up in Classics, so I can't help you!

No idea?

-No? OK? Pass.

-It's glia.

In quantum chromodynamics the eight massless vector bosons,

known as gluons because they glue quarks together to form hadrons,

are carriers, or mediators, of which fundamental force?

-Strong nuclear force.

-Strong nuclear force.

-Strong nuclear...?

-Nuclear force.

-Strong nuclear force.

-That's correct.

From the Latin meaning, "cause to adhere," what adjective describes a language

in which word formation typically involves the joining together of linear sequences of morphemes,

rather than inflection?

-Gluetative.

-Gluetative?

-Does that make sense?

-I think so, yeah.

-Gluetative.

-Does that make... Yeah, go for it.

-Gluetative.

No, it's aglutinative. Right, 10 points for this starter question.

Richer in texture than damask,

which fabric is traditionally made from silk,

often with highlights in metallic thread,

with a raised floral or figure design introduced during...

-Is it brocade?

-Brocade is correct, yes.

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These bonuses will give you the lead again if you get them.

They are Dante's Inferno.

In Dante's Inferno, how many concentric circles of suffering lie within the Earth?

-Nine.

-Nine?

-Nine.

-Nine.

-Correct.

In the second circle of hell, those guilty of which sin

are punished by being blown about by the winds of a violent storm?

It's here that Dante meets Helen of Troy, Dido and Cleopatra.

-Adultery.

-Adultery, surely.

-Adultery?

-No, it's the lust. In the eighth circle, those that guilty of which vice

are condemned to wear golden cloaks weighted down with lead?

-Avarice?

-Avarice?

-Avarice?

-Avarice?

No, it's hypocrisy. 10 points for this.

"If you're lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man,

"then where you go for the rest of your life it stays with you,

"for Paris is a movable feast."

These are the words of which US novelist?

-Ernest Hemingway.

-Correct.

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You take the lead, your bonuses are on geography.

The Strait of Sicily or Sicilian Channel,

lies between Italy and which country?

Malta.

-Yes.

-Malta?

-Yes.

-Malta?

No, it's Tunisia.

The La Perouse or Soya Strait

separates the Russian island of Sakhalin from which island of similar size?

-Hokkaido. Is it Hokkaido?

-Yeah.

-Hokkaido?

-Yeah, in Japan, I think so.

-Hokkaido.

-Hokkaido?

-Correct.

The Strait of Hormuz separates Iran from the Musandam peninsula

an exclave of which country?

HE WHISPERS

-Qatar probably.

-Qatar?

-I think...

-I don't have a clue so just...

-I think it sounds more likely.

-You think Qatar? OK. Qatar?

No, Oman. 10 points for this. Which university in California

is named after the Irish idealist philosopher and Bishop of Cloyne?

-Berkeley.

-Berkeley is correct.

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Your bonuses are on the Chinese classics.

I will read an extract from the opening lines

of an English version of an ancient Chinese work.

In each case, give the author to whom the text is generally ascribed.

"The art of war is of vital importance to the state,

"it's a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin.

"Hence, it is a subject of enquiry which can on no account be neglected."

-Who is it?

-Sun Tzu.

-Sun Tzu?

-Yes.

-Sun Tzu.

-Correct.

"The way that can be spoken of is not the constant way,

-"the name that can be named is not the constant name."

-Confucius, probably.

You think Confucius? Confucius?

No, that's Lao Tzu.

And finally, "To learn, said the master,

"and then the practise opportunely what one has learnt

"does not this bring with it a sense of satisfaction."

-Confucius.

-Correct.

Right, we're going to take a picture around now.

Your picture starter - you'll see a painting in which we've blacked out one of the figures.

10 points if you can identify the figure.

-Judas?

-Anyone like the buzz from Worcester College?

Mary Magdalene?

No, it is, as you will see now, St Peter.

So, we'll have the picture bonuses in a moment or two,

in the meantime here is a starter question.

What three initial letters link words meaning philosophical system developed by Plotinus,

synthetic rubber-like polymer, dread...

-Neo, N-E-O.

-Correct.

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So, you get the picture bonuses.

Following on from the blacked-out figure of St Peter, there,

three more paintings with figures blacked out.

In each case I want you to identify the figure

who's also named in the title of the painting.

Firstly, which historical figure is missing here?

-Oh, it's the, I think it's the death of Socrates.

-OK.

-That's Crito.

-Yeah?

-I don't know.

-Are you happy with that?

-Is it.

-Socrat...

-Yes.

-Come on.

-Socrates?

-It is Socrates, yes. Let's see the whole thing.

There it is, by David. Secondly, the figure missing here.

Oh, I've seen this painting.

Do I want to say...

Diana, is it?

It's a historic... Oh, it could be Adam?

-No, no, go for your one.

-Which one? Which one did you say?

-Diana.

-Diana?

No, it's Paris. We'll see the whole thing now.

By Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Judgement Of Paris.

And finally, the missing figure here.

-Oh, that's...

-Venus.

-Yeah, that's Venus.

Venus, Botticelli's famous Birth Of Venus. There it is.

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-Right, 10 points for this.

Founded in 1807, from a collection of an eminent historian,

the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery adjoins the University campus

in which major city?

London.

Anyone like to buzz from Worcester College?

-Birmingham?

-No, it's Glasgow. 10 points for this.

What double letter links words meaning Japanese edible mushroom,

President Obama's state of...

-I.

-Double I is correct, yes.

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You could retake the lead with these bonuses if you get them.

They are on adaptations of plays by Chekhov.

Firstly, for five points, Winter Dreams, a one-act ballet choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan,

is based on which play by Chekhov?

-I only know about The Cherry Orchard.

-Does anyone know any Chekhov plays?

-The Cherry Orchard is one play by him.

-Give it a guess.

-It's The Lady With The Dog is one, whichever...

-OK. The Cherry Orchard.

No, it's The Three Sisters. Wild Honey by Michael Frayn

is a reworking of which of Chekhov's plays?

Discovered without a title page almost 20 years after Chekhov's death.

It centres on a slightly married provincial schoolmaster.

-I don't know, but hurry up because we need time.

-What's it called?

-What's the one that you knew?

-The Cherry Orchard and The Lady With The Dog.

-The Lady With The Dog?

No, that's Platonov. And finally, Tennessee Williams described his 1981 play The Notebook Of Trigoran

as a free adaptation of which play by Chekhov?

-Let's go Cherry Orchard. The Cherry Orchard?

-No, it's The Seagull!

-LAUGHTER

-10 points for this.

Created when debris from the Swift-Tuttle comet burns up

as it hits the Earth's atmosphere,

what name is given to the annual meteor shower which reaches its peak in mid August?

-Leonitz.

-Anyone let the buzz from Worcester College?

The Perseids.

-The Perseids is correct, yes.

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You take the lead, your bonuses are on men born in the year 1829.

In each case identify the person from the description.

Firstly, the five, a founder of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood

whose works include Christ In The House Of His Parents and Bubbles.

-Ruskin?

-No.

-Who was he after?

-Let's have it, please.

-Rossetti.

-Nominate Bramhill.

-Rossetti.

-No, it's Millais.

The father of the author of the Mapp and Lucia novels who became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1882.

-Pass.

-That was Edward White Benson.

And finally, a religious leader who, in 1865, established a mission

in the East End that later became the Salvation Army.

-Oh.

-What was his name?

-Oh, I can't remember!

-Oh!

-Come on!

-Grant, I think.

-Grant?

No, it's William Booth. 3 and a half minutes to go,

10 points for this.

In the collection of the Soane Museum, in London,

The Heir, The Arrest, The Prison and The Madhouse

are among the eight paintings that make up which series by William Hogarth?

-A Rake's Progress?

-Correct.

Your bonuses, this time, are on acids, Worcester College.

Which fatty acid, soluble in alcohol and ether,

but practically insoluble in water, is used to make soap and candles.

It's name is derived from the Greek for fat or tallow.

-Stearic acid.

-Stearic acid.

-Correct.

Which white crystalline carboxylic acid

was first derived from rowan berries and is used to inhibit mould growth?

-Propanoic Acid.

-Nominate Bramhill.

-Propanoic Acid.

-No, it's sorbic acid.

And finally, which poisonous acid used in the leather and ink industries,

is found in rhubarb leaves

and takes its name from the scientific name for wood-sorrel in which it occurs as a salt?

-Oxalic acid.

-Oxalic acid.

Correct. Another starter question. Which vegetable links the dishes

caponata, baba ganoush and imam bayildi?

-Aubergine.

-Aubergine is right.

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Your bonuses this time are on roads, Newcastle.

Following the great North Road for much of its route,

passing through, or near, Peterborough, Darlington and Berwick,

which is the longest numbered road in Britain?

-A1.

-A1.

-Correct. The A1 on the Isle of Man connects the capital, Douglas,

with which town on the West Coast, the home of the island's Anglican Cathedral

and connected to St Patrick's Isle by a causeway?

-I think it's Ramsay.

-Ramsay.

-No, it's Peel.

The A1 in Northern Ireland runs from Belfast

to the border with the Republic of Ireland, south of which city,

straddling County Down and County Armagh, at the head of Carlingford Loch?

-Is it Lisburn?

-Sorry?

-Lisburn?

-Nominate Dunbar.

-Lisburn.

-No, it's Newry.

10 points for this. What short word can follow

canopic, mason, kilner...

Jar.

Jar is correct. Your bonuses, this time, are on sorrow in Shakespeare.

Identify the play in which the following lines appear.

"Firstly, when sorrows come

"they come not single spies, but battalions."

-I don't know.

-Come on, let's have it.

-Hamlet.

-It is.

"Let's talk of graves and worms and epitaphs.

"Make dust our paper

"and with rainy eyes write sorrow on the bosom of the Earth."

-Don't know.

-King Lear?

-No, it's Richard II.

"Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say good night till it be morrow."

-Romeo and Juliet.

-Correct. 10 points for this. In aeronautics,

four what do the letters S-T-O-L stand?

-Short takeoff and landing.

-Correct.

Your bonuses, this time, are on confectionery.

In each case identify the item of confectionery from the description of the eponymous location.

-Firstly, a market town and on the River Wye in Derbyshire.

-Pontefract?

-Pontefract.

-No, it's Bakewell tart.

A town in Salford on the former Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

-Eccles. Eccles cakes.

-Eccles cake.

-Correct.

The Scottish city, finally, that is the home to Captain Scott's ship, The Discovery.

-Dundee.

-Correct. 10 points for this.

In medicine, the term sternutation denotes a attack of what?

Coughing.

-No, anyone like the bus from...

-Shortness of breath?

No, it's sneezing. 10 points for this.

What three-word term denotes the line of latitude

at which the sun is directly overhead

during the December solstice?

-Tropic of Capricorn.

-Correct.

Your bonuses, this time, are on flame tests, Newcastle.

Selenium, lead and arsenic all burn with flames of what colour? Quickly.

I don't know. Sorry? Orange? Orange.

Blue. Which element constitutes 8% of the moon's crust,

is the fifth most abundant element in the Earth's crust

-and burns with a flame usually described as and acted on...

-GONG

-Newcastle University have 150, Worcester College Oxford 190.

-APPLAUSE

Well, it was a great game

and I shall look forward to seeing both of you in action again.

Thank you both very much indeed.

I hope you can join us again next time for another quarterfinal match,

but until then it's goodbye from Newcastle University.

-ALL: Goodbye.

-It's goodbye from Worcester College Oxford.

-ALL: Goodbye.

-And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.

-APPLAUSE

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