0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:32Hello. Oxford v Cambridge tonight for a place in the second round.
0:00:32 > 0:00:36The losers may qualify to play again if their score is good enough,
0:00:36 > 0:00:41so they've all worked out it's wise to get through as many questions as possible.
0:00:41 > 0:00:47Worcester College, Oxford, has had a seat of learning on its site since 1283,
0:00:47 > 0:00:53the first being a college for Benedictine monks which survived until the 16th century.
0:00:53 > 0:00:59The present college was established in 1714 with funds provided by the will of Sir Thomas Cookes.
0:00:59 > 0:01:03Its alumni have included the English opium eater Thomas De Quincey,
0:01:03 > 0:01:10the writer who regenerated Dr Who, Russell T Davies, and a pair with a pervasive impact on British society,
0:01:10 > 0:01:12John Sainsbury and Rupert Murdoch.
0:01:12 > 0:01:19Tonight's team came into being when the captain realised she'd left the pub quiz machine with a profit.
0:01:19 > 0:01:25In this contest, they play only for glory. Representing 500 students and with an average age of 20,
0:01:25 > 0:01:27let's meet the team.
0:01:27 > 0:01:31Hi, I'm Dave Knapp, from Woking, and I'm studying Engineering.
0:01:31 > 0:01:35Hi. I'm Jack Bramhill from Colchester and I'm studying Chemistry.
0:01:35 > 0:01:41- And their captain... - I'm Rebecca Gillie, from Weymouth, reading French and Italian.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44Hi. I'm Jonathan Metzer from London, reading Classics.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46APPLAUSE
0:01:48 > 0:01:55Clare College, Cambridge, is the second-oldest college there. It was founded in 1326
0:01:55 > 0:02:00and endowed by Lady Elizabeth de Clare, granddaughter of Edward I,
0:02:00 > 0:02:02with funds for 15 scholars.
0:02:02 > 0:02:06Clare boasts the oldest of the famous Cambridge bridges,
0:02:06 > 0:02:11decorated with 14 stone balls, one of which has a wedge missing -
0:02:11 > 0:02:17one much-touted explanation being that the builder wasn't paid and was making a point.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19Another explanation is it fell off.
0:02:19 > 0:02:23Hugh Latimer, burned at the stake under Mary Tudor, was a Fellow,
0:02:23 > 0:02:29Siegfried Sassoon was a student. Playing on behalf of 650 students and with an average age of 20,
0:02:29 > 0:02:31let's meet the Clare team.
0:02:31 > 0:02:35Hi. I'm Kris Cao, from Abingdon, and I'm reading Mathematics.
0:02:35 > 0:02:39Hi. I'm Daniel James from East London and I'm reading History.
0:02:39 > 0:02:45- And their captain... - I'm Jonathan Burley from Bourne End, reading Physics.
0:02:45 > 0:02:49Hello. I'm Jonathan Foxwell, from Farnham, reading Natural Sciences.
0:02:49 > 0:02:51APPLAUSE
0:02:54 > 0:02:58OK, you all know the rules. Here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:58 > 0:03:05The poisoning of King Pelias of Thessaly, the writing of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac,
0:03:05 > 0:03:11the axe murder of Agamemnon and the formulation of the Archimedean Principle are events...
0:03:11 > 0:03:15- In a bath. - In a bath, that's right.
0:03:17 > 0:03:21The first bonuses are on quotations, Worcester.
0:03:21 > 0:03:29In Dickens' Pickwick Papers, Sam Weller says that poverty and which shellfish always go together?
0:03:29 > 0:03:33- Sounds like oysters could be plausible.- Oysters.
0:03:33 > 0:03:38Correct. In which play by Arthur Miller does Willie Loman say,
0:03:38 > 0:03:42"The world is an oyster, but you don't crack it open on a mattress"?
0:03:42 > 0:03:48- Death Of A Salesman.- Correct. Which Dublin-born satirist, under the pseudonym Simon Wagstaff, published
0:03:48 > 0:03:54Polite and Ingenious Conversation in 1738, with the line, "He was a bold man that first ate an oyster"?
0:03:56 > 0:04:01- Joyce?- James Joyce? - No, it was Jonathan Swift.
0:04:01 > 0:04:0610 points for this. Which South American country was formerly part of the Inca Empire,
0:04:06 > 0:04:12is the site of the Cotopaxi volcano and takes its name from a parallel of latitude?
0:04:13 > 0:04:19- Ecuador.- Correct. Your second set of bonuses are on Europe and Asia.
0:04:19 > 0:04:24Firstly, by convention one of the boundaries between Europe and Asia,
0:04:24 > 0:04:31which mountain range includes Mount Elbrus generally considered the highest point in Europe?
0:04:31 > 0:04:34I'm not sure.
0:04:34 > 0:04:38It's...the Caursicus. Caursicus.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41- Caursicus. - No, the Caucasus. Bad luck.
0:04:41 > 0:04:46Which major Russian river, known in Greek as Tanais,
0:04:46 > 0:04:51was in ancient times regarded as the boundary between Europe and Asia?
0:04:51 > 0:04:54- Volga.- Volga.- No, it's the Don.
0:04:54 > 0:04:58"Nor have I been able to learn who it was that first marked these boundaries
0:04:58 > 0:05:05"or where they got the names from." Which Ancient Greek author made that observation in his Histories?
0:05:05 > 0:05:09- Herodotus.- Correct. 10 points for this. What French term for boldness
0:05:09 > 0:05:15has been given as a name to several ships of the French and British navies, including a British example
0:05:15 > 0:05:20celebrated in a poem by Sir Henry Newbolt and a painting by Turner?
0:05:21 > 0:05:24- Temeraire.- Temeraire is right.
0:05:26 > 0:05:32These bonuses are on a letter of the alphabet. What letter, standing for the German for "source",
0:05:32 > 0:05:39symbolises the hypothetical document used by Matthew and Luke for many shared passages in their gospels?
0:05:41 > 0:05:42Q.
0:05:45 > 0:05:51- Q?- Correct. Q was the pen name of the poet and academic Arthur Quiller-Couch,
0:05:51 > 0:05:57noted for editing which work, which first appeared in 1900 and was revised by him in 1939?
0:06:01 > 0:06:08- Pass.- The Oxford Book of English Verse. Finally, in the Broadway musical Avenue Q,
0:06:08 > 0:06:12what question is posed by Princeton in the title of his song which says,
0:06:12 > 0:06:18"Four years of college and plenty of knowledge have earned me this useless degree"?
0:06:18 > 0:06:24- What Good Is A BA In English? - I'll accept that. What Can You Do With A BA In English?
0:06:24 > 0:06:3110 points for this. Troubles by JG Farrell, The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark and...
0:06:32 > 0:06:36- Er, the 1971 extra Booker...thing. - Yes, I'll accept that.
0:06:36 > 0:06:43The Lost Man Booker Prize. Yes, the year when they didn't have one. They were contenders.
0:06:43 > 0:06:47Right, your set of bonuses are on physics.
0:06:47 > 0:06:52Which instrument is used to split a light wave into component waves which recombine as patterns
0:06:52 > 0:06:58that can be used in the quality control of lenses and prisms and in the measurement of wavelengths?
0:07:04 > 0:07:06Let's have an answer.
0:07:06 > 0:07:11- Interferometer?- Correct. An interferometer was used in which experiment of 1887,
0:07:11 > 0:07:19named after the American scientist who conducted it and key evidence for the Theory of Relativity?
0:07:19 > 0:07:25- Michelson-Morley.- Correct. That experiment was confirmed with the aid of which device,
0:07:25 > 0:07:32invented in the early 1950s by Charles Townes to produce microwaves of a fixed density?
0:07:34 > 0:07:38- Maser.- Correct. We'll take a picture round now.
0:07:38 > 0:07:44You'll see a simple diagram of a well-known process. 10 points if you can give me the process.
0:07:51 > 0:07:55- Fractionation of oil? - No. Anyone from Worcester?
0:07:56 > 0:08:01None of you is going to buzz? It's brewing.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04Picture bonuses in a moment or two.
0:08:04 > 0:08:10In human evolution, what is the nickname of AL 288-1,
0:08:10 > 0:08:14a skeleton of Australo-Pithicus Afarensiss...
0:08:15 > 0:08:18- Lucy.- Lucy is correct, yes.
0:08:19 > 0:08:27So you get the picture bonuses. We follow that diagram with more picture bonuses on brewing.
0:08:27 > 0:08:31What word is missing at A in this diagram?
0:08:34 > 0:08:36- Mash.- That's the Mash Tun.
0:08:36 > 0:08:41Secondly, the process that takes place at point B?
0:08:44 > 0:08:50- Fermentation?- Correct. And which female fruiting bodies are added at C?
0:08:51 > 0:08:57- Hops.- Hops is right. 10 points for this. In astronomy, what term denotes a celestial object
0:08:57 > 0:09:04whose large red shift and very high luminosity indicate extreme distance and immense energy output?
0:09:05 > 0:09:08- Quasar?- Quasar is right.
0:09:08 > 0:09:16Your bonuses are on a judicial issue. Which decade saw the establishment of Judges' Rules,
0:09:16 > 0:09:21which enshrined the right of a suspect in a criminal case to remain silent
0:09:21 > 0:09:26without prejudice at a subsequent trial?
0:09:26 > 0:09:29- 1960s?- No, the 1910s.
0:09:29 > 0:09:341912. Amending the right to silence by allowing a jury to draw adverse inferences
0:09:34 > 0:09:39from a defendant's reliance in court on something not mentioned in questioning,
0:09:39 > 0:09:46a bill that became the 1994 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act was introduced by which Home Secretary?
0:09:46 > 0:09:48That was...Michael Howard.
0:09:49 > 0:09:55- Michael Howard. - Correct. Coined in 1966, what name is given to the rights
0:09:55 > 0:09:59- of a criminal suspect in the US? - Miranda.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02- Nominate James.- Miranda.- Correct.
0:10:02 > 0:10:0610 points for this. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
0:10:06 > 0:10:10is a work of 1942 by which Austrian-born economist,
0:10:10 > 0:10:14who popularised the term "creative destruction" to describe...
0:10:14 > 0:10:17- Schumpeter.- Schumpeter is right.
0:10:18 > 0:10:24These bonuses, Clare College, are on unusual world championships.
0:10:24 > 0:10:31A wrestling championship restricted to what part of the body is held at the Bentley Brook Inn in Derbyshire?
0:10:39 > 0:10:42- Is it the foot? - No, it's toe wrestling.
0:10:42 > 0:10:49Won in 2009 and 2010 by Taisto Miettinen and Kristiina Haapanen,
0:10:49 > 0:10:53which championships are run on a 253.5-metre track
0:10:53 > 0:10:55in Sonkajarvi in Finland?
0:10:55 > 0:11:01- Oh! Wife carrying.- Wife carrying. - It IS wife carrying.
0:11:01 > 0:11:06In the hybrid sport originally conceived by the French graphic artist Enki Bilal,
0:11:06 > 0:11:12four-minute rounds of what game alternate with three-minute bouts of boxing?
0:11:14 > 0:11:18- Chessboxing.- It is chessboxing! Right, 10 points for this.
0:11:19 > 0:11:24Which US Government building was designed in 1941 by George Edwin Bergstrom
0:11:24 > 0:11:29and lies between the Memorial Bridge and Arlington National Cemetery?
0:11:29 > 0:11:33- The Pentagon.- That is right. Your bonuses now are on self.
0:11:34 > 0:11:39The Divided Self: An Existential Study In Sanity And Madness
0:11:39 > 0:11:45is a 1960 work by which Scottish psychiatrist, also noted for The Politics of Experience?
0:11:47 > 0:11:53- We don't know.- RD Laing. Which novel by Will Self describes a future society
0:11:53 > 0:11:58in which the misogynistic rantings of a 20th-century London taxi driver, printed on steel,
0:11:58 > 0:12:01are treated as revealed truth?
0:12:01 > 0:12:03Book of...
0:12:09 > 0:12:10Book of...
0:12:11 > 0:12:17- No?- OK, I need an answer. - We don't know.- Nearly there. It's The Book of Dave.
0:12:17 > 0:12:23A former public prosecutor under the Nazis, Gerhard Self is an elderly private investigator
0:12:23 > 0:12:28in works by which German novelist, also noted for The Reader?
0:12:28 > 0:12:30Did Brecht write The Reader?
0:12:30 > 0:12:33I'm not sure.
0:12:33 > 0:12:38- Brecht?- Bernhard Schlink. 10 points for this. From the Arabic for "coarse wool",
0:12:38 > 0:12:44denoting the kind of garment worn, what name was given from around the year 800 to Islamic mystics
0:12:44 > 0:12:48who adopted ascetic practices as a way of achieving union with God?
0:12:48 > 0:12:51- Is it Sufism?- Sufi is correct, yes.
0:12:51 > 0:12:57Your bonuses this time are on the seven deadly sins. Firstly, for five,
0:12:57 > 0:13:04in Purgatory, the second book of Dante's Divine Comedy, those guilty of which sin
0:13:04 > 0:13:08have had their eyes stitched and sealed with iron wire?
0:13:08 > 0:13:10Envy?
0:13:11 > 0:13:16- Envy.- Correct. Again in the Divine Comedy,
0:13:16 > 0:13:20the penance for those guilty of which sin is to run endlessly
0:13:20 > 0:13:23around the mountain of purgatory?
0:13:23 > 0:13:28- Sloth.- Correct. Dante writes that those guilty of which sin
0:13:28 > 0:13:34must pass through an immense wall of flame in the seventh and final terrace of the mountain?
0:13:44 > 0:13:49- Wrath.- No, it's lust. A music round now. You'll hear a piece of classical music
0:13:49 > 0:13:55written for a ballet. 10 points for the title of the ballet and the composer.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57MUSIC PLAYS
0:13:57 > 0:14:00Is it Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky?
0:14:00 > 0:14:03No. Anyone like to hear more?
0:14:03 > 0:14:06- The Nutcracker, Tchaikovsky.- Correct!
0:14:09 > 0:14:14The Nutcracker Suite was famously used in Disney's 1940 film Fantasia.
0:14:14 > 0:14:20Your bonuses are three more pieces of music used in that film. In each case, name the animal or animals
0:14:20 > 0:14:26for which this section of music acts as a theme in the film. Firstly, this music...
0:14:26 > 0:14:28MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:44 > 0:14:46Dog?
0:14:46 > 0:14:50- Dog?- No, ponies or unicorns.
0:14:50 > 0:14:55Secondly, the three animals featured with this music.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:20 > 0:15:24- Yeah? Birds?- No...
0:15:24 > 0:15:29Cunning, but not good enough. Ostrich, elephant and hippos. And finally...
0:15:29 > 0:15:31MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:57 > 0:16:00- Mice?- It is. Mickey Mouse, yes.
0:16:00 > 0:16:0510 points for this. Crossing the River Thames where the River Fleet once entered it,
0:16:05 > 0:16:10the name of which bridge commemorates a Dominican monastery?
0:16:10 > 0:16:16- Is it Blackfriars?- Correct. Your bonuses this time are on plate tectonics.
0:16:16 > 0:16:23What term denotes the process by which one plate slides under another into the Earth's mantle?
0:16:23 > 0:16:24- Subduction.- Correct.
0:16:24 > 0:16:31Examples including those which struck the Kamchatka Peninsula in 1737, 1923 and 1952,
0:16:31 > 0:16:37what name is given to extremely powerful earthquakes which occur at subduction zones?
0:16:46 > 0:16:50I think we'd better have an answer, please.
0:16:50 > 0:16:51Um...
0:16:51 > 0:16:55- Thrusts.- They're megathrusts.
0:16:55 > 0:17:00Finally, caused by the African plate subducting under the Eurasian plate,
0:17:00 > 0:17:07the megathrust earthquake of AD365 had its epicentre on or near which Mediterranean island?
0:17:13 > 0:17:17- Either that or Greece. Crete. - Yes, that's correct.
0:17:17 > 0:17:2310 points for this. An application of Thomson scattering, named after a British astrophysicist,
0:17:23 > 0:17:27what term describes the point at which gravity is balanced with...
0:17:27 > 0:17:29- Eddington.- Eddington is correct.
0:17:31 > 0:17:35That gives you the lead. Bonuses on paintings of the Madonna.
0:17:35 > 0:17:39Around 1535, Parmigianino produced an unfinished easel painting
0:17:39 > 0:17:44that featured a Madonna with what specific physical feature?
0:17:48 > 0:17:50Let's have something.
0:17:53 > 0:17:57- Um...golden hair? - No, she had a long neck.
0:17:57 > 0:18:01Basing his composition on an altarpiece by Piero Della Francesca,
0:18:01 > 0:18:08who painted his first version of the Madonna of Port Lligat in 1949?
0:18:19 > 0:18:24- Go for Bacon.- Bacon. - No, Salvador Dali. Which English city provides the alternative title
0:18:24 > 0:18:28of The Virgin and Child with St John and Angels,
0:18:28 > 0:18:32an unfinished work by Michelangelo in the National Gallery?
0:18:35 > 0:18:39- Salisbury. - Manchester. 10 points for this.
0:18:39 > 0:18:43John Tenniel's 1890 Punch cartoon "Dropping The Pilot" commented...
0:18:43 > 0:18:46- Bismarck.- Bismarck is right, yes.
0:18:47 > 0:18:51Your bonuses are on parts of the human body.
0:18:51 > 0:18:56Where on the body does a thin fold known as the eponychium extend
0:18:56 > 0:19:00over a crescent-shaped area called the lunula?
0:19:00 > 0:19:04It's the fingernail. Yeah, the nail.
0:19:04 > 0:19:08- Fingernail.- Correct. Also called the infra-nasal depression,
0:19:08 > 0:19:14what name is given to the vertical groove on the surface of the upper lip below the septum of the nose?
0:19:15 > 0:19:18- Philtrum.- Yeah. Philtrum.- Correct.
0:19:18 > 0:19:25A literal translation from the Latin, "nares" is an alternative name for what part of the body?
0:19:27 > 0:19:30- Bellybutton.- Bellybutton. - No, it's nostrils.
0:19:30 > 0:19:3510 points for this. Non-existent in Japanese, Russian and classical Latin,
0:19:35 > 0:19:39which short word has six forms in German, four in French and Spanish,
0:19:39 > 0:19:43seven in Italian and one in modern English?
0:19:43 > 0:19:45- The.- "The" is correct, yes.
0:19:45 > 0:19:50Your bonuses now are on literary titles that contain numbers.
0:19:50 > 0:19:56Complete the arithmetical calculations of the numbers in the titles of each set of books.
0:19:56 > 0:20:02For example, Dickens' Cities plus Dumas' Musketeers gives the answer five. OK?
0:20:02 > 0:20:08First, Ray Bradbury's degrees Fahrenheit multiplied by Jerome K Jerome's Men In a Boat.
0:20:18 > 0:20:23- 1,402?- No, it's 1,353. It was 451 times 3.
0:20:23 > 0:20:29George Orwell's year of Big Brother divided by TS Eliot's quartets.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48It's the other way round...
0:20:50 > 0:20:58- 496.- 496?- Correct. 1984 over 4. And, finally, subtract Joseph Heller's Catch
0:20:58 > 0:21:05from John Buchan's Steps and multiply the result by Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse.
0:21:14 > 0:21:20- 85?- It is, yes. 39 take away 22 times 5. Right. We're going to take a picture round.
0:21:20 > 0:21:26You'll see a photograph of an actress. 10 points for her name.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30- Greta Garbo.- No.
0:21:30 > 0:21:34Anyone like to have a go from Clare College?
0:21:34 > 0:21:36Margot Fonteyn?
0:21:36 > 0:21:40No, it's Marlene Dietrich. Margot Fonteyn was a dancer.
0:21:40 > 0:21:44Picture bonuses shortly. Meanings of what term include
0:21:44 > 0:21:50in geology, a metamorphic process resulting from a decrease in temperature or pressure
0:21:50 > 0:21:55and in astronomy a planet whose rotation is the opposite sense to its orbit?
0:21:55 > 0:21:57- Is it retrograde?- It is, yes.
0:22:00 > 0:22:04Following on from the astonishingly unrecognised Marlene Dietrich,
0:22:04 > 0:22:10you'll see photos of three prominent actresses from the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood.
0:22:10 > 0:22:145 points for each you can identify. Firstly...
0:22:21 > 0:22:26- Come on. Let's have an answer.- Pass. - That's Jean Harlow. Secondly...
0:22:30 > 0:22:36- Is that Joan Crawford? - Nominate James.- Joan Crawford? - No, Bette Davis. And finally...
0:22:41 > 0:22:45Mae West. Try Mae West. Is it Mae West?
0:22:45 > 0:22:47It IS Mae West, yes!
0:22:50 > 0:22:5410 points for this. Based on the findings of Stanley Milgram,
0:22:54 > 0:22:59the concept known as the "small world phenomenon" inspired the title of which...?
0:22:59 > 0:23:01- Six Degrees of Separation.- Correct.
0:23:03 > 0:23:08Your bonuses are on an English town. The name of which large town on the River Tees
0:23:08 > 0:23:14is said to have originated in its position halfway between Whitby and Durham?
0:23:14 > 0:23:20- Middlesbrough.- Correct. Carrying a suspended gondola of passengers across the Tees in 90 seconds,
0:23:20 > 0:23:26which conspicuous bridge forms part of the A178 between Middlesbrough and Hartlepool?
0:23:32 > 0:23:37- Middlesbrough Transport Bridge. - No, the Middlesbrough Transporter.
0:23:37 > 0:23:43Opened in 1932, which construction in the Southern Hemisphere is built of steel components
0:23:43 > 0:23:47- made in Middlesbrough? - Sydney Harbour Bridge?
0:23:47 > 0:23:51- Sydney Harbour Bridge? - Correct. 10 points for this.
0:23:51 > 0:23:58Which Shakespeare character is described by her father as, "so young and so untender"?
0:24:00 > 0:24:02- Taming of the Shrew?- Worcester?
0:24:03 > 0:24:07- Cordelia.- In King Lear, yes.
0:24:08 > 0:24:15Your bonuses are on the year 1711. John Shore, Sergeant Trumpeter to the Court, is generally credited
0:24:15 > 0:24:21with the invention of what two-pronged steel instrument in 1711?
0:24:26 > 0:24:28- Quickly.- Tuning fork?- Correct.
0:24:28 > 0:24:33"A little learning is a dangerous thing, drink deep or taste not the Pierian Spring."
0:24:33 > 0:24:40This couplet appears in which work by Alexander Pope, first published in 1711?
0:24:40 > 0:24:43- We don't know.- Essay On Criticism.
0:24:43 > 0:24:49Born in Edinburgh in 1711, which philosopher's works include A Treatise Of Human Nature
0:24:49 > 0:24:53and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion?
0:24:55 > 0:25:02- Locke.- No, David Hume. Denoting a colour, which soubriquet is often applied to the snap election of 1900
0:25:02 > 0:25:05called by Lord Salisbury...
0:25:05 > 0:25:07- Khaki.- Khaki is correct.
0:25:09 > 0:25:15Your bonuses are on geography. Give the next country you reach if you head due west
0:25:15 > 0:25:22from the following capital cities. For example, Lisbon would give the answer USA.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25First for 5 points, Kiev.
0:25:29 > 0:25:32- Hungary?- No, it's Poland. Secondly, Bangkok.
0:25:34 > 0:25:38- Myanmar.- Myanmar? - Or Burma, yes.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40And, finally, Cairo.
0:25:41 > 0:25:43Cairo would be Libya.
0:25:43 > 0:25:47- Libya?- Correct. 10 points for this starter.
0:25:47 > 0:25:54What is the two-word name of the publishing imprint that first appeared in 1946 with The Odyssey?
0:25:55 > 0:26:02- Penguin Classics.- Correct. These bonuses could give you the lead. They're on chemical elements.
0:26:02 > 0:26:10The first three letters of which Group Two element form a word meaning unit of pressure?
0:26:10 > 0:26:12- B-A-R.- Er...
0:26:12 > 0:26:18- Barium.- Barium. - I can't accept it. Barium is the answer and you said Bar.
0:26:18 > 0:26:26The first four letters of which Group Three element form a word meaning "test the metre of a verse"?
0:26:31 > 0:26:36- Scandium.- Scandium is correct. The first five letters of which Group Seven element
0:26:36 > 0:26:41form a word that means Japanese-style comic books?
0:26:41 > 0:26:44- Manganese.- Manganese.- Is right.
0:26:44 > 0:26:48Another starter question now. Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:26:48 > 0:26:52What is the sum of the two largest double-digit prime numbers?
0:26:54 > 0:26:56Sixteen.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58No. Anyone from Worcester College?
0:27:01 > 0:27:03Come on.
0:27:05 > 0:27:09- 177?- No, it's 186. 10 points for this.
0:27:09 > 0:27:14Defined by Edmund Burke as, "the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling",
0:27:14 > 0:27:18what concept was fundamental to 18th-century aesthetics and is...
0:27:18 > 0:27:22- The sublime! - The sublime is right, yes.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25These could give you the lead. They're on English kings.
0:27:25 > 0:27:32Which English king was defeated by the Scots at Bannockburn in 1314?
0:27:32 > 0:27:34Er, 1314. It's...
0:27:34 > 0:27:36Come on.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39Er...
0:27:39 > 0:27:41- Edward II.- Edward II.
0:27:41 > 0:27:48Correct. At which decisive battle in Gloucestershire in 1471 did Edward IV reclaim his throne?
0:27:48 > 0:27:51- Tewkesbury.- Correct. In August, 1346...
0:27:51 > 0:27:54GONG
0:28:03 > 0:28:08Well, that was a terrific contest and a very good performance, Worcester.
0:28:08 > 0:28:14We will look forward, I imagine, to seeing you as one of the four highest-scoring losing teams.
0:28:14 > 0:28:22Clare College, a terrific score. Well done. You left it pretty close, but it's a win nonetheless.
0:28:22 > 0:28:29I hope you can join us next time. Until then, it's goodbye from Worcester College, Oxford,
0:28:29 > 0:28:34goodbye from Clare College, Cambridge, and goodbye from me.
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