0:00:16 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:23University Challenge. Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:23 > 0:00:27APPLAUSE
0:00:27 > 0:00:30Hello, so far we have seen the University College London,
0:00:30 > 0:00:33Pembroke College Cambridge, and Worcester College, Oxford,
0:00:33 > 0:00:36win the first of the two quarterfinal victories
0:00:36 > 0:00:38our Byzantine rules require of them
0:00:38 > 0:00:40if they are to secure a place in the semifinals.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43Tonight's two teams are, you'll not be surprised to hear,
0:00:43 > 0:00:46hoping for victory in their first quarterfinal appearance.
0:00:46 > 0:00:48Whichever of them loses
0:00:48 > 0:00:51will have just one more chance to stay in the contest.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54The team from Clare College, Cambridge,
0:00:54 > 0:00:58scraped a win in round one against Worcester College, Oxford,
0:00:58 > 0:01:01but then achieved the highest score in round two with 320 points
0:01:01 > 0:01:04to a meagre 65, clocked up by a team from Leeds University,
0:01:04 > 0:01:07who obviously thought they were appearing on Family Fortunes.
0:01:07 > 0:01:11Clare College know more than is entirely normal about Occam's razor,
0:01:11 > 0:01:13Jenkins' ear and Russell's teapot.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15Let's meet the Clare College team again.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18Hi, I'm Chris Cao, I'm from Abingdon in Oxfordshire,
0:01:18 > 0:01:20and I'm reading mathematics.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22Hello, I'm Daniel Janes, from north east London,
0:01:22 > 0:01:24and I'm reading history.
0:01:24 > 0:01:25And their captain.
0:01:25 > 0:01:27Hi, I'm Jonathan Burley, from Bourne End,
0:01:27 > 0:01:28and I'm reading physics.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31I'm Jonathan Foxwell from Farnham in Surrey,
0:01:31 > 0:01:32and I'm reading natural sciences.
0:01:32 > 0:01:36APPLAUSE
0:01:36 > 0:01:39The team from Homerton College, Cambridge,
0:01:39 > 0:01:42took the scenic route to get here,
0:01:42 > 0:01:44robbed of victory by only five points
0:01:44 > 0:01:46against Balliol College, Oxford in the first round.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49But, in the highest-scoring loser play-offs,
0:01:49 > 0:01:51the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
0:01:51 > 0:01:54passed into a trance-like state and gave them victory.
0:01:54 > 0:01:56Homerton then demolished Durham University
0:01:56 > 0:01:58by recognising Byron's dog,
0:01:58 > 0:02:01although they tripped over Samuel Johnson's cat,
0:02:01 > 0:02:03and sat on Matthew Arnold's canary.
0:02:03 > 0:02:04Let's meet them again.
0:02:04 > 0:02:07Hi, my name's Jack Euesden, I'm from Sheffield,
0:02:07 > 0:02:08and I'm reading natural sciences.
0:02:08 > 0:02:12I'm Francis Conner, I'm from Downpatrick in County Down,
0:02:12 > 0:02:15and I'm studying for a PGCE in modern foreign languages.
0:02:15 > 0:02:16And their captain.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19Hello, my name is David Murray, I'm from Ripon in North Yorkshire,
0:02:19 > 0:02:23and I'm studying for an MPhil in European literature and culture.
0:02:23 > 0:02:26Hi, I'm Thomas Grinyer, from Southampton,
0:02:26 > 0:02:28and I'm reading chemical engineering.
0:02:28 > 0:02:32APPLAUSE
0:02:32 > 0:02:35Too tedious to recite the rules, so let's just get on with it.
0:02:35 > 0:02:3810 points for this starter question, fingers on the buzzers.
0:02:38 > 0:02:43What word links a viral disease of sheep, an album by Joni Mitchell...
0:02:43 > 0:02:44Scrapie.
0:02:44 > 0:02:46No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:02:46 > 0:02:49..A British rabbi and broadcaster,
0:02:49 > 0:02:52and a decrease in the wavelength of radiation emitted
0:02:52 > 0:02:56by an approaching celestial object as a result of the Doppler effect.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58A scrape?
0:02:58 > 0:03:01No, it's Blue, bluetongue disease, Rabbi Lionel Blue,
0:03:01 > 0:03:03the blueshift, and so on.
0:03:03 > 0:03:0610 points for this. Losing more than 70 percent of its seats,
0:03:06 > 0:03:08which party not only lost power,
0:03:08 > 0:03:10but became the third largest party
0:03:10 > 0:03:14in the Irish general election of February 2011?
0:03:14 > 0:03:16Fianna Fail.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19Fianna Fail is correct, you get this first set of bonuses,
0:03:19 > 0:03:20they are on World War I.
0:03:20 > 0:03:24In contradistinction to the victorious Allies,
0:03:24 > 0:03:28Germany and the other countries defeated in the First World War
0:03:28 > 0:03:30were known by what collective term?
0:03:30 > 0:03:32- The Central Powers. - Correct.
0:03:32 > 0:03:36Which country lost Transylvania, Ruthenia and Slavonia
0:03:36 > 0:03:38by the 1920 Treaty of Trianon,
0:03:38 > 0:03:43as a result, it was reduced in area and population by two thirds?
0:03:43 > 0:03:44- Hungary. - Correct.
0:03:44 > 0:03:48Under the terms of which peace treaty, signed in March 1918,
0:03:48 > 0:03:53did Russia temporarily acknowledge defeat and surrender extensive territory to the Central Powers?
0:03:53 > 0:03:55Nominate Greniyer.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57- Brest-Litovsk. - Correct.
0:03:57 > 0:04:01which King of England was a direct descendant of Edward III...
0:04:01 > 0:04:03Henry IV.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08Edward III on his mother's side, and on his father's side
0:04:08 > 0:04:11was grandson of Henry V's widow, who had remarried after his death?
0:04:11 > 0:04:14He was succeeded by his second son and then...
0:04:14 > 0:04:16Henry VII.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19Henry VII, Henry Tudor is right, yes.
0:04:21 > 0:04:25Your bonuses, Homerton, are on words meaning "very big".
0:04:25 > 0:04:27What word meaning "very big" derives from a Greek term
0:04:27 > 0:04:31for a large statue, and was applied by Herodotus
0:04:31 > 0:04:34to those of the Temples of Egypt, although it later became
0:04:34 > 0:04:38associated with one particular figure in the eastern Mediterranean?
0:04:40 > 0:04:42I don't suppose it would be colossal?
0:04:42 > 0:04:43Colossal?
0:04:43 > 0:04:45Colossal, Colossus, yes.
0:04:45 > 0:04:50The Greek name for the sons of Gaia, who declared war on the gods and were destroyed by Heracles,
0:04:50 > 0:04:54is the source of two common synonyms for enormous. Name either.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56- Titanic? - No, it's gigantic and giant.
0:04:56 > 0:05:00And finally, before the giants, Gaia had begotten a race of gods
0:05:00 > 0:05:03with Uranus, including Cronus and Rhea,
0:05:03 > 0:05:08- whose collective name is the source of which adjective meaning very big? - Titanic.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11Yes. 10 points for this. Einstein published his special
0:05:11 > 0:05:16and general theories of relativity in 1905 and 1916 respectively,
0:05:16 > 0:05:20but wasn't awarded the Nobel Prize for physics until 1921,
0:05:20 > 0:05:22when it was given for his discovery...
0:05:22 > 0:05:24Photoelectric effect.
0:05:24 > 0:05:26Correct.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28APPLAUSE
0:05:28 > 0:05:31Your bonuses, Clare College, are on contemporary reviews
0:05:31 > 0:05:34of performances by the 19th-century actor, Edmund Kean.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36In each case, identify the Shakespearean character
0:05:36 > 0:05:39he was portraying.
0:05:39 > 0:05:43Firstly, from 1814, "Perhaps the most accomplished hypocrite
0:05:43 > 0:05:46"was never so finely, so adroitly portrayed, a gay,
0:05:46 > 0:05:50"light-hearted monster, a careless, cordial, comfortable villain."
0:05:50 > 0:05:53THEY WHISPER
0:05:53 > 0:05:55Nominate James.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57Is it Angelo in Measure For Measure?
0:05:57 > 0:05:58No, it's Iago.
0:05:58 > 0:06:02Secondly, in a review of 1814, a critic complained that,
0:06:02 > 0:06:05"there was a lightness and vigour in his tread,
0:06:05 > 0:06:10"a buoyancy and elasticity of spirit, unsuited to the character of a man brooding over one idea,
0:06:10 > 0:06:15"that of its wrongs, and bent on one unalterable purpose, that of revenge."
0:06:15 > 0:06:17- Hamlet. - No, it's Shylock.
0:06:17 > 0:06:21From a review of 1815, "He was cold, tame and unimpressive.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23"Mr Kean was like a man waiting to receive
0:06:23 > 0:06:27"a message from his mistress through her confidant, not like one
0:06:27 > 0:06:31"who was pouring out his rapturous vows to the idol of his soul."
0:06:34 > 0:06:36WHISPERING
0:06:38 > 0:06:40Romeo.
0:06:40 > 0:06:43Correct, 10 points for this.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46"Slaves become so debased by their chains as to lose even
0:06:46 > 0:06:48"the desire of breaking from them."
0:06:48 > 0:06:51This observation appears in a work of 1762,
0:06:51 > 0:06:55by which Swiss-born philosopher and novelist?
0:06:55 > 0:06:56Rousseau.
0:06:56 > 0:06:57Correct.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01Your bonuses now are on scientific diagrams.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03In each case, name the diagram defined.
0:07:03 > 0:07:06Firstly, for five, named after a mathematician
0:07:06 > 0:07:09born in Geneva in 1768, a plot of complex numbers with the real part
0:07:09 > 0:07:14measured along the X axis and the imaginary part up the Y axis.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16Nominate Euesden.
0:07:16 > 0:07:17- Argand?- Correct.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20After two astronomers, one Danish, the other American,
0:07:20 > 0:07:23a plot of stars by luminosity and temperature or spectral type.
0:07:23 > 0:07:24Nominate Grenyier.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26Hertzsprung-Russell.
0:07:26 > 0:07:27Correct.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30Finally, after an American physicist born in 1918,
0:07:30 > 0:07:34a sketch representing a subatomic particle reaction,
0:07:34 > 0:07:39used in the perturbation theory approach to quantum mechanics?
0:07:39 > 0:07:40Feynman?
0:07:40 > 0:07:42Feynman.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45Right. We are going to take a picture round now.
0:07:45 > 0:07:46For your picture starter,
0:07:46 > 0:07:50you're going to see selected titles of works by a well-known author.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53For 10 points, name the author.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55To make it more interesting,
0:07:55 > 0:07:57each title has been rearranged
0:07:57 > 0:07:58into an anagram.
0:08:02 > 0:08:03Jane Austen?
0:08:03 > 0:08:05It is, we'll see the titles
0:08:05 > 0:08:07as they should be.
0:08:07 > 0:08:11So, well done to you, so, you get the picture bonuses.
0:08:11 > 0:08:15Following on from Jane Austen, three more sets of anagrams of titles of authors work.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17Five points for each author.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32The Idiot, that's Dostoyevsky.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34Dostoyevsky?
0:08:34 > 0:08:38It is Dostoyevsky. Let's see the titles as they should be.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42See if you can do it with this.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49WHISPERS: Oh, is it Virginia Woolf?
0:08:49 > 0:08:50Orlando?
0:08:54 > 0:08:57Come on, let's have it.
0:08:57 > 0:08:58Any ideas?
0:08:58 > 0:09:00Let's have an answer, please.
0:09:00 > 0:09:03- Virginia Woolf? - No, it's Mary Shelley.
0:09:03 > 0:09:05The giveaway is Frankenstein.
0:09:05 > 0:09:06And, finally...
0:09:11 > 0:09:13Who wrote Kiss Kiss?
0:09:13 > 0:09:14Oh, it's not...
0:09:19 > 0:09:21Let's have an answer, please.
0:09:24 > 0:09:25Dickens?
0:09:25 > 0:09:27No, it's Roald Dahl.
0:09:27 > 0:09:29Let's see the real titles.
0:09:31 > 0:09:33Another starter question.
0:09:33 > 0:09:37"That's the wise thrush, he sings each song twice over, lest you should think
0:09:37 > 0:09:42"he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture."
0:09:42 > 0:09:47These lines appear in which English poet's 1845 work...
0:09:47 > 0:09:48Keats?
0:09:48 > 0:09:52No, I'm afraid you lose five points, Home Thoughts, From Abroad.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54Robert Browning?
0:09:54 > 0:09:56Correct.
0:09:56 > 0:09:58APPLAUSE
0:09:58 > 0:09:59Your bonuses,
0:09:59 > 0:10:02the answer in each case is the name of a country which,
0:10:02 > 0:10:05with a different meaning or etymology, would be
0:10:05 > 0:10:07permissible in a game of Scrabble, for example, China.
0:10:07 > 0:10:11Give the name from the definition. Firstly for five,
0:10:11 > 0:10:14an alternative spelling of the name of a coniferous tree,
0:10:14 > 0:10:18with small, woody cones, fattened shoots, and scale-like leaves.
0:10:27 > 0:10:29WHISPERING
0:10:32 > 0:10:35We should at least try and guess.
0:10:35 > 0:10:36Pass.
0:10:36 > 0:10:37It's Cyprus.
0:10:37 > 0:10:40Secondly, an adjective that appears in the common names
0:10:40 > 0:10:44of a South American rodent, a ground-dwelling African bird
0:10:44 > 0:10:46and a long, threadlike, parasitic worm.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57WHISPERING
0:10:57 > 0:11:00Papua New Guinea? Or guinea?
0:11:00 > 0:11:04I can't accept... I've got to take your first answer, Papua New Guinea,
0:11:04 > 0:11:07and the answer was, in fact, Guinea. You got there,
0:11:07 > 0:11:09but it was the wrong answer.
0:11:09 > 0:11:12A piece of waste material punched out of tape,
0:11:12 > 0:11:15card or in the United States, ballot papers.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18- Chad, Chad. - Chad.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20Chad is correct. 10 points for this.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22Born in 1744, which French naturalist broke with
0:11:22 > 0:11:25the notion of immutable species and proposed that
0:11:25 > 0:11:27acquired characteristics are passed on from...
0:11:27 > 0:11:29Lamarck?
0:11:29 > 0:11:31Lamarck is right, yes.
0:11:31 > 0:11:32APPLAUSE
0:11:32 > 0:11:37Your bonuses are on conductors. Which German conductor began one of the most successful periods
0:11:37 > 0:11:40of his career when, in 1955, at the age of 70,
0:11:40 > 0:11:44he became music director of London's Philharmonia?
0:11:46 > 0:11:48Nominate Foxwell.
0:11:48 > 0:11:49Karajan?
0:11:49 > 0:11:54No, it was Klemperer. Secondly, which Dutch conductor was appointed music director
0:11:54 > 0:11:56of the Glyndebourne Festival in 1977,
0:11:56 > 0:12:00and in 1987 took up the same role at Covent Garden?
0:12:01 > 0:12:04WHISPERING
0:12:10 > 0:12:12Nominate Foxwell.
0:12:12 > 0:12:15- Claudio Abbado? - No, it was Bernard Haitink.
0:12:15 > 0:12:19And, finally, Sir Colin Davis is regarded as one of the foremost
0:12:19 > 0:12:22interpreters of which 19th-century French composer,
0:12:22 > 0:12:26having recorded works including The Trojans and Harold In Italy?
0:12:26 > 0:12:28It's Berlioz.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31- Berlioz. - Berlioz is right.
0:12:31 > 0:12:3210 points for this.
0:12:32 > 0:12:36Which two-digit number links the angle at which snow is most prone
0:12:36 > 0:12:39to side into an avalanche, the number of games played
0:12:39 > 0:12:42each season by the teams in the Premier league, and the sum...
0:12:42 > 0:12:4438.
0:12:44 > 0:12:4638 is correct, yes.
0:12:46 > 0:12:50your bonuses are on nuclear physics.
0:12:50 > 0:12:53Sometimes known by the name of its inventor,
0:12:53 > 0:12:57the Scottish physicist CTR Wilson, which apparatus
0:12:57 > 0:13:00consisting of a vessel fitted with a piston and filled with gas
0:13:00 > 0:13:04saturated with water vapour is used for tracking ionised particles?
0:13:12 > 0:13:14- No idea.- We don't know.
0:13:14 > 0:13:15An expansion cloud chamber.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18The bubble chamber which uses liquefied gas
0:13:18 > 0:13:22as the medium for making visible the paths of charged particles, was
0:13:22 > 0:13:26the invention of which US physicist who won a Nobel Prize in 1960?
0:13:30 > 0:13:33I think, it's Anderson, or something?
0:13:34 > 0:13:36Anderson?
0:13:36 > 0:13:37No, Donald Glaser.
0:13:37 > 0:13:38The diffusion cloud chamber,
0:13:38 > 0:13:43developed by Alexander Langsdorf in the 1930s is continuously sensitive
0:13:43 > 0:13:47to ionising radiation and generally uses which common cooling agent?
0:13:50 > 0:13:51Dry ice?
0:13:52 > 0:13:54Dry ice.
0:13:54 > 0:13:55Correct, solid CO2.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57We're going to take a music round now.
0:13:57 > 0:13:58You're going to hear
0:13:58 > 0:14:02an extract from an opera, 10 points if you can name the composer.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05MAJESTIC, BRASS-LED PIECE
0:14:12 > 0:14:14Bizet?
0:14:14 > 0:14:18You can hear a little more, Homerton, that's wrong.
0:14:18 > 0:14:21PIECE CONTINUES
0:14:24 > 0:14:26Rossini?
0:14:26 > 0:14:29No, it's Offenbach.
0:14:29 > 0:14:30Bonuses in a moment or two,
0:14:30 > 0:14:3210 points for this starter question.
0:14:32 > 0:14:36The celebrated 10 volume Treatise De Architectura was written in
0:14:36 > 0:14:42the 1st century BC by which Roman military engineer and architect?
0:14:42 > 0:14:43Vitruvius?
0:14:43 > 0:14:46Vitruvius is correct, yes.
0:14:47 > 0:14:51So, that was Orpheus In The Underworld by Offenbach.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53Your bonuses,
0:14:53 > 0:14:56three more excerpts from works based on the story of Orpheus.
0:14:56 > 0:14:58Five points for each composer you can name.
0:14:58 > 0:15:03Firstly, the composer of this 17th-century piece.
0:15:03 > 0:15:08JAUNTY OPERA CHORUS BACKED BY PERCUSSION
0:15:10 > 0:15:13Well, it could be?
0:15:13 > 0:15:15Could be Monteverdi.
0:15:18 > 0:15:19Monteverdi?
0:15:19 > 0:15:26It was Monteverdi, yes. Secondly, the composer of this 20th-century piece.
0:15:26 > 0:15:31BOMBASTIC STRINGS AND TIMPANI
0:15:35 > 0:15:38- Could it be Stravinsky? - Stravinsky.
0:15:38 > 0:15:43It is Stravinsky, yes, and finally the composer of this 18th-century piece.
0:15:43 > 0:15:47ROMANTIC FLUTE MELODY WITH STRINGS BACKING
0:15:52 > 0:15:54Is it Gluck or Weber, which one?
0:16:00 > 0:16:02Weber or Webern?
0:16:06 > 0:16:09- Weber.- No, it is Gluck. Ten points for this.
0:16:09 > 0:16:13From a Hindi term meaning foreign, what word was used during the First World War
0:16:13 > 0:16:17to describe a wound serious enough to require recuperation at home?
0:16:17 > 0:16:20- Blunty?- No. You lose five points, I'm afraid.
0:16:20 > 0:16:24..recuperation at home, used in army slang as an affectionate term for Britain?
0:16:26 > 0:16:28I'll tell you, it's Blighty.
0:16:28 > 0:16:30Ten points for this, answer as soon as you buzz.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33If A is one, B is two, et cetera,
0:16:33 > 0:16:41what letter comes next in the sequence that begins A-A-B-C-E-H?
0:16:41 > 0:16:44J.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46No, I'm going to offer it to you.
0:16:46 > 0:16:50- K.- No, it is M. They are Fibonacci numbers, 13.
0:16:50 > 0:16:54Another starter question. According to Juvenal, it is not hard to write.
0:16:54 > 0:16:57Jonathan Swift described it as?
0:16:57 > 0:17:00- Satire.- Satire is right, yes.
0:17:01 > 0:17:05Your bonuses are on 17th-century generals.
0:17:05 > 0:17:11The son of a favourite of Elizabeth I, who became the first commander of the Parliamentary army in 1642,
0:17:11 > 0:17:16but resigned his commission in 1645?
0:17:16 > 0:17:20WHISPERING
0:17:23 > 0:17:25Let's have an answer, please.
0:17:25 > 0:17:28- Essex.- Correct. Robert Devereux, the Third Earl of Essex.
0:17:28 > 0:17:32Nicknamed Black Tom in reference to his swarthy complexion, which Yorkshire-born soldier
0:17:32 > 0:17:38replaced Essex as commander and led the army to victory at the Battle of Naseby in 1645?
0:17:38 > 0:17:39Fairfax.
0:17:39 > 0:17:45Correct, which general fought with Cromwell at the Battle of Dunbar in Scotland in 1650,
0:17:45 > 0:17:49but later played a key role in the restoration of Charles II?
0:17:49 > 0:17:51WHISPERING
0:17:52 > 0:17:55Come on, let's have it, please.
0:17:57 > 0:17:58- Come on.- We don't know.
0:17:58 > 0:18:01It was George Monck, the Duke of Albemarle.
0:18:01 > 0:18:04The provinces of which EU member state are sometimes known
0:18:04 > 0:18:09by the Anglicised term Voivodeship? They includes Mazovia, Pomerania...
0:18:09 > 0:18:10Romania.
0:18:10 > 0:18:15No, I'm afraid you lose five points. They include Mazovia, Pomerania and Silesia?
0:18:15 > 0:18:18- Poland.- Poland is correct, yes.
0:18:18 > 0:18:22Your bonuses this time are on Italian artists.
0:18:22 > 0:18:26What was the surname of the Venetian renaissance artist Jacapo and his sons Gentile and Giovanni?
0:18:26 > 0:18:31The latter's works include The Agony In The Garden in the National Gallery.
0:18:34 > 0:18:36- Gellini.- No, it is Bellini.
0:18:36 > 0:18:41Bellini's The Agony In The Garden is thought to be influenced by a painting of the same name
0:18:41 > 0:18:45also in the National Gallery by which artist who was also Bellini's brother-in-law?
0:18:52 > 0:18:54WHISPERING
0:18:54 > 0:18:56Come on.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59Nominate Faxhall.
0:18:59 > 0:19:00Michaelangelo?
0:19:00 > 0:19:05No, it is by Mantegna. Finally, Gentile Bellini is known for a portrait now in the National Gallery
0:19:05 > 0:19:10of the ruler of which power at whose court he worked from 1479-81?
0:19:10 > 0:19:13Don't know.
0:19:13 > 0:19:15The Vatican?
0:19:16 > 0:19:18Come on.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21- Vatican.- No, the Ottoman Empire.
0:19:21 > 0:19:25Ten points for this, what part of the psychic apparatus defined by Freud
0:19:25 > 0:19:29is an anagram of the Roman numerals for number 501?
0:19:29 > 0:19:31- Id.- 1D is correct.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36Your bonuses this time are on Victorian clergymen.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39William Buckland, who became Dean of Westminster in 1845,
0:19:39 > 0:19:41was a prominent contributor to which science?
0:19:41 > 0:19:44- Paleontology.- Correct, and geology.
0:19:44 > 0:19:49Secondly for five points, born 1828, the Reverend Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
0:19:49 > 0:19:55was a noted authority on members of what terrestrial class of the filum arthropoda?
0:19:57 > 0:19:59WHISPERING
0:20:03 > 0:20:04Come on.
0:20:06 > 0:20:07Wood lice.
0:20:07 > 0:20:11No, it is arachnids, specifically spiders.
0:20:11 > 0:20:14Built in the late 1870s by the Manchester clergyman George Garrett
0:20:14 > 0:20:18and designed for use in war, Resurgam was the name given to two early vessels
0:20:18 > 0:20:22in what general category of water craft?
0:20:22 > 0:20:25- Dreadnoughts?- Maybe submarines.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29- Submarines?- Correct.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31We're going to take a picture round,
0:20:31 > 0:20:35you're going to see portraits of two European royal figures.
0:20:35 > 0:20:39For ten points I want you to give me the name of their eldest child.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47- Maria?- Anyone like to have a go from Homerton?
0:20:50 > 0:20:53- Louis the 14th?- Louis the 14th is correct,
0:20:53 > 0:20:56that is Louis 13th and Ann of Austria.
0:20:57 > 0:21:02Your bonuses, three pairs of portraits of European royalty.
0:21:02 > 0:21:04In each case, identify one of their children.
0:21:04 > 0:21:07Firstly the eldest son of this couple.
0:21:14 > 0:21:16Let's have an answer, please.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22Alexander II.
0:21:22 > 0:21:28No, Tsar Nicholas II. That was Alexander III and the Emperor Maria Feodorovna.
0:21:29 > 0:21:32Secondly, the only child of this couple to reach adulthood.
0:21:32 > 0:21:36WHISPERING
0:21:41 > 0:21:43Let's have it, please.
0:21:43 > 0:21:44Henry of Navarre.
0:21:44 > 0:21:48No, Mary, Queen of Scots. That's Mary of Guise and James V.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51And finally the only daughter of this couple.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55That's Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria.
0:21:55 > 0:22:00- Queen Victoria.- It is, that was the Duke of Kent, her father.
0:22:00 > 0:22:06Ten points for this. Belum, Salvador, Porto Alegre, Curitiba and Belo Horizonte...
0:22:06 > 0:22:07Brazil.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09Brazil is correct, yes.
0:22:10 > 0:22:14Get all three of these bonuses you're level pegging, they're on chromosomes.
0:22:14 > 0:22:18The tandemly repeated short sequences of DNA called the telomere
0:22:18 > 0:22:22are found on which area of a chromosome?
0:22:22 > 0:22:23- The ends.- Correct.
0:22:23 > 0:22:28What term denotes any of the basic proteins containing a high proportion of lysine
0:22:28 > 0:22:32and arginine residues and associated with the folding of eukaryotic chromosomes?
0:22:32 > 0:22:35- Histones.- Correct.
0:22:35 > 0:22:38How many chromosomes are present in a human spermatozoon?
0:22:41 > 0:22:43- 23.- 23 is correct.
0:22:45 > 0:22:49Ten points for this, what double letter initial links the authors
0:22:49 > 0:22:54of Dialogue Concerning The Two Chief World Systems, New Grub Street, and the Tin Drum.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56- GG.- GG is right, yes.
0:22:56 > 0:23:03Your bonuses now are on a place name. The assizes of 1612 that tried most of the so-called Pendle witches
0:23:03 > 0:23:08were hold in which town of north-west England granted city status in 1937?
0:23:08 > 0:23:10Whitby?
0:23:10 > 0:23:13Did he say north-west? Carlisle?
0:23:13 > 0:23:15Try Carlisle.
0:23:15 > 0:23:16It won't be.
0:23:16 > 0:23:18- Carlisle.- No, it's Lancaster.
0:23:18 > 0:23:22The Duke of Lancaster, both the son of Edward III and the father of Henry IV,
0:23:22 > 0:23:26is usually known by what name after his place of birth?
0:23:26 > 0:23:29- Nominate Janes. - John of Gaunt.- Correct.
0:23:29 > 0:23:33Signed in 1979, the Lancaster House Agreement confirmed the independence
0:23:33 > 0:23:37of which African country from Great Britain?
0:23:37 > 0:23:38South Rhodesia.
0:23:38 > 0:23:42Yes, Rhodesia, or Zimbabwe as it now is. Another starter question.
0:23:42 > 0:23:47Which country has hosted the Winter Olympic Games more than any other?
0:23:48 > 0:23:50Austria.
0:23:50 > 0:23:52Homerton, one of you buzz.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55- Switzerland.- No, the USA.
0:23:55 > 0:24:00Ten points for this. March 2011 marked the 40th anniversary of which consumer organisation
0:24:00 > 0:24:05founded in 1971 after a drinking holiday in Ireland?
0:24:05 > 0:24:06Campaign For Real Ale.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09Correct. CAMRA, yes.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13Your bonuses are on novels that have won the Booker Prize.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16In each case, give the title of the work in which the following
0:24:16 > 0:24:18locations appear in the opening lines.
0:24:18 > 0:24:23Tipperary, Van Diemen's Land, Victoria and Donnybrook.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26MUMBLING
0:24:27 > 0:24:30Can we have an answer, please?
0:24:33 > 0:24:35- You never listen to me! - Vernon God Little.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37No, it's the True History of the Kelly Gang.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40Beijing, Capital Of The Freedom-loving Nation Of China
0:24:40 > 0:24:45and Electronic City Phase One, just off Hosur Main Road, Bangalore, India.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49Slumdog Millionaire?
0:24:49 > 0:24:53- I don't think that's won the Booker. - Come on!- White Swans.
0:24:53 > 0:24:54No, it's the White Tiger.
0:24:54 > 0:24:58Finally Dr Narlikar's nursing home in Bombay?
0:25:00 > 0:25:02Midnight's Children.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05Correct. Two and a half minutes to go, ten points.
0:25:05 > 0:25:11What did JF Kennedy describe ironically as a city of southern efficiency and northern charm?
0:25:11 > 0:25:14- Washington DC.- Washington DC is right.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16Your bonuses now are on biochemistry.
0:25:16 > 0:25:20What element is present in the molecule of the amino acid glucosamine, but not in glucose?
0:25:22 > 0:25:25- Come on.- Nitrogen.
0:25:25 > 0:25:29Correct. Peptidoglycan in the cell walls of bacteria is a polymer
0:25:29 > 0:25:34of an N-acetylglucosamine and which other monosaccharide?
0:25:34 > 0:25:36No, sorry.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39It's similar, but I can't.
0:25:40 > 0:25:43- Pass.- It's N-acetylmuramic acid.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46Finally, what polymer of glucosamine residues is the main component
0:25:46 > 0:25:51of the exoskeletons of crustaceans and the cell walls of fungi?
0:25:51 > 0:25:53- Kaitin.- Kaitin is correct, yes. Ten point for this.
0:25:53 > 0:25:55Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:25:55 > 0:25:58How many days are in the first three months of a leap year?
0:26:00 > 0:26:03- 91.- 91 is correct.
0:26:04 > 0:26:09Your bonuses are on Welsh food. Which rich cake is traditionally made from flour,
0:26:09 > 0:26:13dried vine fruits soaked in tea, mixed spice and honey? Its name means speckled bread.
0:26:18 > 0:26:19We're in the dying minutes.
0:26:20 > 0:26:23- Laverbread.- No, it is bara brith.
0:26:23 > 0:26:27Made with oatmeal and red-tinged seaweed, which food is fried as a breakfast dish
0:26:27 > 0:26:29and has the Welsh name bara lawr.
0:26:31 > 0:26:32- Laverbread.- Yes.
0:26:32 > 0:26:36Which dish is known in Welsh as caws pobi?
0:26:37 > 0:26:41- Welsh rarebit.- Correct. Another starter question now.
0:26:41 > 0:26:44The cause of malaria, which genus of parasitic protozoa...?
0:26:44 > 0:26:46Anophelese.
0:26:46 > 0:26:51I'm afraid you lose five points. ..is transmitted by the bite of a female anopheles mosquito?
0:26:53 > 0:26:57- Is it tryptizol? - No, it is plasmodium.
0:26:57 > 0:27:0110 points for this. The martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev and Guru Nanak's birthday
0:27:01 > 0:27:03are among festivals in which religion?
0:27:03 > 0:27:06Is it Sikhism?
0:27:06 > 0:27:09Sikhism is correct, your bonuses are on a shared word element.
0:27:09 > 0:27:14From the Latin name of a forest deity, what adjective is used poetically for something associated
0:27:14 > 0:27:17with or characteristic of woods and woodlands.
0:27:17 > 0:27:19- Nominate Janes.- Silvan.- Right.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22Named after a 17th-century anatomist, the deep lateral sylvian fissure
0:27:22 > 0:27:25is found in which part of the body?
0:27:28 > 0:27:29Come on.
0:27:29 > 0:27:30Lower back.
0:27:30 > 0:27:33- No, it's the brain. - GONG SOUNDS
0:27:33 > 0:27:36At the gong, Homerton College, Cambridge have 145,
0:27:36 > 0:27:40Clare College, Cambridge have 170.
0:27:44 > 0:27:48It was a very closely-fought match and we shall be seeing both of you.
0:27:48 > 0:27:53Homerton you have got to win two more matches, you've got to win one more, Clare College.
0:27:53 > 0:27:56I hope you can join us next time for another quarter final match
0:27:56 > 0:28:00when our teams continue their fights for a place in the semis.
0:28:00 > 0:28:03- Until then, it is goodbye from Homerton College, Cambridge. - Goodbye.
0:28:03 > 0:28:08- It is goodbye from Clare College, Cambridge.- Goodbye.- And it is goodbye from me, goodbye.
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