0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:24University Challenge. Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:30Hello. Last time, we saw Worcester College, Oxford
0:00:30 > 0:00:34become the first team to win a place in the semifinals.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36Under the protocol of this competition which,
0:00:36 > 0:00:39like the peace of God, passeth all understanding,
0:00:39 > 0:00:42two teams who lost their first quarterfinal matches
0:00:42 > 0:00:43are now playing each other.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46Whoever wins will compete again for a semifinal place.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49Whoever loses will leave the competition.
0:00:49 > 0:00:53The team from Manchester University saw off Selwyn College, Cambridge in the first round
0:00:53 > 0:00:58and Christ Church, Oxford in the second but then lost to University College, London
0:00:58 > 0:01:01in the first of their quarterfinals despite being buoyant on the economy,
0:01:01 > 0:01:04familiar with the concept of ecstasy and knowing
0:01:04 > 0:01:08more than we might have imagined about the marketing of lipstick.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10Let's meet the Manchester team again.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13Hi, I'm Luke Kelly, I'm from Ashford in Kent and I'm studying History.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17Hi, I'm Michael McKenna from St Anne's in Lancashire, studying Biochemistry.
0:01:17 > 0:01:18And their captain...
0:01:18 > 0:01:22I'm Tristan Burke from Ilkley in West Yorkshire and I'm studying English Literature.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25Hello, I'm Paul Joyce from Chorley in Lancashire
0:01:25 > 0:01:29and I'm studying for a Masters in Social Research Methods and Statistics.
0:01:29 > 0:01:30APPLAUSE
0:01:33 > 0:01:37The team from Newcastle University took an early lead in their first quarterfinal
0:01:37 > 0:01:39against Worcester College, Oxford
0:01:39 > 0:01:43and they'd clearly mugged up on Sun Tzu's The Art Of War, always handy prep for a contest
0:01:43 > 0:01:46like this but not enough to give them victory at the gong.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49Let's see if they can pull off a win tonight.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51Hi, I'm Ben Dunbar, I'm from Heywood, Greater Manchester.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55I'm studying for a Masters degree in Public Health and Health Services Research.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59I'm Ross Dent from Chester-le-Street in County Durham, studying Economics.
0:01:59 > 0:02:00And their captain...
0:02:00 > 0:02:02Hello, I'm Eleanor Turner,
0:02:02 > 0:02:05I'm originally from London and I'm studying Medicine.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08Hello, I'm Nicholas Pang, I'm from Malaysia and also studying Medicine.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11APPLAUSE
0:02:13 > 0:02:17You don't need reminding of the rules so fingers on buzzers, here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:17 > 0:02:21Self-Portrait With Bandaged Ear by Van Gogh,
0:02:21 > 0:02:25Manet's Bar At The Folies-Bergere, Rubens' Landscape By Moonlight
0:02:25 > 0:02:28and Breughel's Flight Into Egypt all form part
0:02:28 > 0:02:32- of the collection of which London art gallery named...? - BUZZER
0:02:32 > 0:02:34- Courtauld.- The Courtauld is correct.
0:02:37 > 0:02:42First bonuses to you then, they're on returning to power.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45Firstly for five points, meaning the recovery or regaining
0:02:45 > 0:02:48of something lost, the term "readeption" is usually
0:02:48 > 0:02:52applied to the return to the English throne of which king in 1470?
0:02:52 > 0:02:56- Henry IV?- No, Henry VI I think.
0:02:56 > 0:02:57- OK, Henry VI.- Correct.
0:02:57 > 0:03:01John-Bertrand Aristide became the first democratically elected
0:03:01 > 0:03:05president of which Caribbean country in 1990? Removed by a coup
0:03:05 > 0:03:09in 1991, he was restored to power with US intervention in 1994.
0:03:09 > 0:03:10- Haiti.- Correct.
0:03:10 > 0:03:14What name is popularly given to the period between March and June 1815
0:03:14 > 0:03:16from Napoleon's resumption of power
0:03:16 > 0:03:19after his exile on Elba to his defeat at Waterloo?
0:03:19 > 0:03:23- The Hundred Days.- Correct. Another starter question now.
0:03:23 > 0:03:28A jaded, worldly-wise expression suggesting that an experience
0:03:28 > 0:03:30may be less than wholly favourable,
0:03:30 > 0:03:35for what does the internet abbreviation BT, DT, GTTS stand?
0:03:41 > 0:03:45I'm surprised. "Been There, Done That, Got The T-Shirt."
0:03:45 > 0:03:4910 points for this. According to Mercutio in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet,
0:03:49 > 0:03:51- what is the name of the fairies' midwife...? - BUZZER
0:03:51 > 0:03:53- Queen Mab.- Queen Mab is right.
0:03:56 > 0:03:58Your bonuses are on a scientist, Manchester.
0:03:58 > 0:04:03Which scientist gives her name to the prominent medical, biological and biophysical research institute
0:04:03 > 0:04:07in Paris that she founded along with Claudius Reygaud in 1921?
0:04:07 > 0:04:12- Curie?- 1921, did he say? Could be.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14- Um, Marie Curie.- Correct.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17"We believe the substance we have extracted from pitchblende
0:04:17 > 0:04:20"contains a metal not yet observed." What did
0:04:20 > 0:04:23Marie Curie call this new element after the place of her birth?
0:04:23 > 0:04:25- Polonium.- Polonium.- Correct.
0:04:25 > 0:04:29In 1903, Marie and Pierre Curie shared the Nobel Prize for Physics
0:04:29 > 0:04:31with which French scientist, who gives his name
0:04:31 > 0:04:34to the SI derived unit of radioactivity?
0:04:34 > 0:04:38- Nominate McKenna.- Becquerel? - Becquerel is correct. 10 points for this.
0:04:38 > 0:04:42What term indicates the theory of quantum gravity that was
0:04:42 > 0:04:45elucidated by Michael Green and John Schwartz in the 1980s
0:04:45 > 0:04:48and is sometimes referred to as the Theory Of Everything?
0:04:48 > 0:04:52The name derives from the idea that matter takes the form of open
0:04:52 > 0:04:54or closed loops rather than point-like particles.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58Superstring theory?
0:04:58 > 0:04:59Correct, yes. String theory.
0:05:02 > 0:05:05Your bonuses, Newcastle, are on The Iliad.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08In the opening lines of The Iliad, the poet invokes the goddess
0:05:08 > 0:05:12to sing because at the cursed anger of which Greek hero?
0:05:12 > 0:05:17- Cursed anger, Greek hero... Is Achilles Greek?- Yeah.
0:05:18 > 0:05:21Possibly. Agamemnon?
0:05:21 > 0:05:26- Agamemnon?- No, Achilles. - Achilles?- Achilles is right.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28Later, whose death causes Achilles
0:05:28 > 0:05:32to say, "I will make these Trojan women and deep-bosomed daughters of Dardanus
0:05:32 > 0:05:35"wipe the tears from their tender cheeks with both their hands
0:05:35 > 0:05:37"to raise the dirge"?
0:05:37 > 0:05:41- Hector, surely?- Hector, Patroclus. - Hect... Oh.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44- Who would you go with, Patroclus? Patroclus?- Correct.
0:05:44 > 0:05:48Who's the mother of Achilles who preserves the body of Patroclus
0:05:48 > 0:05:52from decay and gives her son the armour made for him by Vulcan?
0:05:54 > 0:05:57She's a nymph or something, isn't she?
0:05:57 > 0:06:02- I can't remember her name though. - Leda? I'm not sure.- It's not... Is it Leda? I don't know.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05- Leda?- No, it's Thetis. 10 points for this.
0:06:05 > 0:06:10Born in 1883, the Dutch musicologist Anthony Van Hoboken gives his name
0:06:10 > 0:06:13to a catalogue of the works of which Austrian composer
0:06:13 > 0:06:16whose 104 numbered symphonies include those
0:06:16 > 0:06:21popularly known as Farewell, Oxford, London and Surprise?
0:06:21 > 0:06:23- Haydn?- Haydn is right, yes.
0:06:26 > 0:06:28Your bonuses this time are on joints in the human body.
0:06:28 > 0:06:30Firstly for five points,
0:06:30 > 0:06:34joints are called fibrous or cartilaginous if they're immovable or slightly movable.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37What name, referring to a fluid and membrane,
0:06:37 > 0:06:41- is given to joints that are freely movable? - Synovial.- Synovial.- Correct.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45The olecranon on is the bony projection behind which joint?
0:06:45 > 0:06:46Shoulder joint?
0:06:46 > 0:06:51- Shoulder.- No, it's the elbow. Which disease caused by crystallisation of uric acid results
0:06:51 > 0:06:54in painful inflammation of smaller joints especially that of the big toe?
0:06:54 > 0:06:57- Gout.- Correct. We'll take a picture round now.
0:06:57 > 0:07:01For your picture starter, you'll see a British military symbol.
0:07:01 > 0:07:0410 points if you can tell me which regiment it represents.
0:07:04 > 0:07:05BUZZER
0:07:06 > 0:07:10- The SAS?- No, Manchester?
0:07:10 > 0:07:12The Parachute Regiment.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14The Parachute Regiment is correct.
0:07:14 > 0:07:17Following on from the paratroopers' symbol for your bonuses,
0:07:17 > 0:07:20three more symbols of UK military units.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23- Five points for each you can correctly name.- Firstly...
0:07:25 > 0:07:28- Something to do with cannons. - Royal Artillery?
0:07:28 > 0:07:30- Royal Artillery. - Correct, secondly...
0:07:32 > 0:07:36That's Mercury, is that going to be the Medical Corps or something?
0:07:36 > 0:07:38- Yeah.- Do you reckon? The Medical Corps.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41- No, that's the Royal Corps of Signals.- And finally...
0:07:42 > 0:07:46- Tank Regiment?- Is that a such thing? - There's a tank.- Anyone?
0:07:46 > 0:07:50- I'd go with that.- The Tank Regiment? - The Royal Tank Regiment is correct, yes.
0:07:50 > 0:07:5310 points for this. What group of people are represented
0:07:53 > 0:07:58by the trade union founded in 1918 and known since 2001 as the FDA,
0:07:58 > 0:08:01derived from the First Division Association?
0:08:01 > 0:08:03It joined the TUC in 1997...
0:08:03 > 0:08:04BUZZER
0:08:04 > 0:08:08- Civil servants.- Yes, senior civil servants, that's right. I'll accept that.
0:08:08 > 0:08:12Your bonuses are on words, specifically new definitions recently added
0:08:12 > 0:08:16to existing words in the Online Oxford English Dictionary.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18Firstly for five, "A style of collarless neckline
0:08:18 > 0:08:22"that closes with a short row of buttons or press studs," was added
0:08:22 > 0:08:28to which headword also defined as a town on the Thames in Oxfordshire?
0:08:29 > 0:08:31- Windsor?- Windsor, maybe.
0:08:31 > 0:08:35- That's a knot.- Windsor collar.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37Why not? Windsor.
0:08:37 > 0:08:38- No, it's Henley.- Sorry.
0:08:38 > 0:08:42"Designating debt which has a high risk of default," was added to
0:08:42 > 0:08:46the meanings of what word initially defined as, "Of the nature of a poison."
0:08:46 > 0:08:48- Toxic.- Correct.
0:08:48 > 0:08:52What meaning ingrained dirt was given this extra definition?
0:08:52 > 0:08:55"A genre of popular music originating in east London
0:08:55 > 0:09:00"characterised by a minimal, prominent rhythm, a very low-pitched baseline and vocals by an MC."
0:09:00 > 0:09:02- Grime.- Grime is correct, yes.
0:09:02 > 0:09:0810 points for this. Quote: "My intention was to present in the form of an interesting story,
0:09:08 > 0:09:11"a faithful picture of working-class life or especially of those
0:09:11 > 0:09:15"engaged in the building trades in a small town in the south of England."
0:09:15 > 0:09:19- The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell?- Correct.
0:09:19 > 0:09:23Your bonuses this time, Manchester, are on a country.
0:09:23 > 0:09:272009 saw the death of Omar Bongo, Africa's longest serving leader
0:09:27 > 0:09:31who'd been president of which oil-rich nation for over four decades?
0:09:31 > 0:09:33- Nigeria?- No, no.- Equatorial Guinea?
0:09:33 > 0:09:37- Yeah, could be.- OK, Equatorial Guinea.- No, it was Gabon.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40Gabon is one of the world's foremost producers and exporters
0:09:40 > 0:09:46of which hard, brittle transition metal extracted mainly from the ore, pyrolusite?
0:09:49 > 0:09:53- Bauxite?- No.- What's that? - Metals, go for...
0:09:53 > 0:09:55- I was just going to say that. - No, say magnesium.
0:09:55 > 0:09:59- Magnesium.- No, it's manganese.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02And on which inlet of the Eastern Atlantic does Gabon lie?
0:10:03 > 0:10:10- Which...?- Inlet of the Eastern Atlantic. The Nigerian... - Gold Coast?- Gold Coast?
0:10:10 > 0:10:15- Gold Coast.- No, it's the Gulf of Guinea. 10 points for this.
0:10:15 > 0:10:18What is the term for the amount of energy required to change
0:10:18 > 0:10:22one gram of liquid to gas at its boiling point?
0:10:22 > 0:10:24The latent heat...of fusion.
0:10:24 > 0:10:29OK, I'll accept latent heat of vaporisation, it's also the enthalpy of vaporisation.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32Right, 15 points for these bonuses. They're on quotations.
0:10:32 > 0:10:36For each answer, I want you to give me the title of a novel and its author.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39The title will be the words that complete
0:10:39 > 0:10:41each of the following lines.
0:10:41 > 0:10:42Firstly for five points,
0:10:42 > 0:10:46"I will show you something different from either your shadow at morning
0:10:46 > 0:10:51"striding behind you or your shadow at evening rising to meet you. I will show you fear in..."
0:10:51 > 0:10:53- A Handful Of Dust by Evelyn Waugh. - Correct.
0:10:53 > 0:10:57"Away! Away! For I will fly to thee, not charioted by Bacchus
0:10:57 > 0:11:01"and his pards but on the viewless wings of Poesy, though the dull brain
0:11:01 > 0:11:04"perplexes and retards. Already with thee!"
0:11:06 > 0:11:09- Anyone?- Wings Of The Dove? - Yeah, that's what I'd go for.
0:11:09 > 0:11:12- Wings Of The Dove.- No, Tender Is The Night by F Scott Fitzgerald.
0:11:12 > 0:11:16Finally, "Any man's death diminishes me because I'm involved in mankind,
0:11:16 > 0:11:19"and therefore, never send to know..."
0:11:19 > 0:11:22- For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway.- Correct.
0:11:22 > 0:11:27Another starter question now. What word means a hole cut in one part of a framework
0:11:27 > 0:11:29to receive a corresponding projection on another
0:11:29 > 0:11:33and so can denote a type of door bolt or lock that can be housed
0:11:33 > 0:11:37by such a space and, by association, the key used in such a lock?
0:11:39 > 0:11:43- Mortise?- Mortise is right, yes.
0:11:44 > 0:11:47Your bonuses, Manchester, are on physics.
0:11:47 > 0:11:50Respectively singular and plural, what shape characterises
0:11:50 > 0:11:54two different optical effects named after Einstein and Newton?
0:11:56 > 0:12:01- Refraction?- Can you have Einsteinian refraction?- Think so.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04- OK.- Go for that.- Refraction. - It's ring or rings.
0:12:04 > 0:12:08Newton's rings, which can be seen when a convex lens is placed on
0:12:08 > 0:12:12a flat surface, are produced by what basic phenomenon of wave mechanics?
0:12:12 > 0:12:15Um...interference.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18- Interference?- Yeah, try that. - Interference.- Correct.
0:12:18 > 0:12:23An Einstein ring is a distorted image of a distant astronomical source produced by
0:12:23 > 0:12:26- an effect known by what two-word name?- Is that red shift?
0:12:26 > 0:12:29- No, gravity lensing, isn't it? - Gravity lensing.
0:12:29 > 0:12:32Gravitational lensing, yes, I'll accept that.
0:12:32 > 0:12:33Right, 10 points for this.
0:12:33 > 0:12:36The poetry of Byron, a French edition of Don Quixote,
0:12:36 > 0:12:41an 1866 English Bible and works by Coleridge, Milton and Dante
0:12:41 > 0:12:45were all illustrated by which prolific French artist and engraver?
0:12:47 > 0:12:50- Dore?- Gustave Dore is correct.
0:12:50 > 0:12:53You get a set of bonuses this time, Manchester, on a philosopher.
0:12:53 > 0:12:57Born in 1813, which Nordic philosopher is widely considered
0:12:57 > 0:13:00to be the progenitor of modern existentialism,
0:13:00 > 0:13:04most notably expounded in his concluding unscientific postscript?
0:13:04 > 0:13:06- Kierkegaard.- Correct.
0:13:06 > 0:13:08Expressed in the 1845 work, Stations On Life's Way,
0:13:08 > 0:13:13Kierkegaard's theory of intellectual development contains three stages.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16One is aesthetic. For five points, name either of the others.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18- No idea.- No.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21- No, sorry. - It's ethical or religious.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23And finally separated by a forward slash,
0:13:23 > 0:13:27which two words translate Enten-Eller,
0:13:27 > 0:13:30the title of an 1843 work by Kierkegaard meaning
0:13:30 > 0:13:34- an unavoidable choice between alternatives?- Either/or.- Correct.
0:13:34 > 0:13:37We'll take a music round now. For your music starter,
0:13:37 > 0:13:40you'll hear two extracts from pieces by composers
0:13:40 > 0:13:42who are related to one another.
0:13:42 > 0:13:4610 points if you can give me their familial relationship.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48So listen to both pieces before answering.
0:13:48 > 0:13:52CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:01 > 0:14:02FIRST PIECE FADES
0:14:02 > 0:14:08CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:09 > 0:14:13- Father and son.- No. You may hear a little bit more, Newcastle.
0:14:13 > 0:14:14SECOND PIECE RESUMES
0:14:17 > 0:14:21- Uncle and nephew? - No. How remarkably sexist of you!
0:14:21 > 0:14:23No, it's brother and sister, the Mendelssohns.
0:14:23 > 0:14:27Music bonuses shortly, another starter in the meantime. 10 points for this.
0:14:27 > 0:14:31The first volume of memoirs by which novelist were put into print in 2010,
0:14:31 > 0:14:34- their publication delayed for 100 years in accordance with... - BUZZER
0:14:34 > 0:14:37- Mark Twain.- Mark Twain is right.
0:14:39 > 0:14:43So we follow on from Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, whom you heard
0:14:43 > 0:14:47in that music starter, with bonuses, three more pairs of composers.
0:14:47 > 0:14:51In each case I want you to tell me the familial relationship between the two.
0:14:51 > 0:14:56Once more, you've got to listen to both pieces of music, of course. Firstly, this pair.
0:14:56 > 0:14:58CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:06 > 0:15:08I can't even date that.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13SECOND PIECE FADES IN
0:15:23 > 0:15:25- Brothers?- Yeah.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27Brothers.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30No, that's Mr and Mrs Schumann.
0:15:30 > 0:15:31Secondly, this pair...
0:15:31 > 0:15:33OPERA PLAYS
0:15:35 > 0:15:37English opera...
0:15:37 > 0:15:39Old English opera.
0:15:39 > 0:15:42What is old English opera?
0:15:42 > 0:15:44Purcell.
0:15:44 > 0:15:46Did Purcell write operas?
0:15:53 > 0:15:56What are we going to go for?
0:15:56 > 0:15:59Give me a familial relationship.
0:15:59 > 0:16:03Shall I go for brothers again? Brothers.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05It was brothers.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08- You get to the point anyway, do you know which ones?- No.
0:16:08 > 0:16:12- It was the Purcell brothers. - And finally, these...
0:16:12 > 0:16:14CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:14 > 0:16:17CUCKOOS AND BIRDS TWEETING BELLS RING
0:16:19 > 0:16:23The Cuckoo Clock Suite.
0:16:25 > 0:16:27Have we had father and son yet?
0:16:30 > 0:16:32OK, shall we go for that?
0:16:32 > 0:16:33Father and son.
0:16:33 > 0:16:35It was, Mozart, father and son.
0:16:35 > 0:16:3710 points for this - in astronomy, declination
0:16:37 > 0:16:41and right ascension are measured with respect to the celestial sphere
0:16:41 > 0:16:44having as the origin what point of the year?
0:16:46 > 0:16:49No, sorry, it's gone.
0:16:51 > 0:16:52Summer solstice?
0:16:52 > 0:16:54No, it's the vernal equinox.
0:16:54 > 0:16:5910 points for this - Deriving its name from the Dutch for Wildcat Creek,
0:16:59 > 0:17:02which mountain area in south-eastern New York State features
0:17:02 > 0:17:06prominently in Washington Irving's story, Rip Van Winkle?
0:17:06 > 0:17:08The Catskills.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10Correct.
0:17:10 > 0:17:11APPLAUSE
0:17:11 > 0:17:13Your bonuses are on physics, Manchester.
0:17:13 > 0:17:17What is the SI-derived unit of thermal conductivity?
0:17:22 > 0:17:25- Ampere.- No, it's watts per metre per kelvin.
0:17:25 > 0:17:29Secondly, among metals, what element has the highest thermal
0:17:29 > 0:17:33conductivity of 430 watts per metre per kelvin at room temperature?
0:17:33 > 0:17:34Silver.
0:17:34 > 0:17:35Correct.
0:17:35 > 0:17:39In the one-dimensional case, how thick slab of silver will be needed
0:17:39 > 0:17:42to maintain a temperature difference of 10 kelvin
0:17:42 > 0:17:44with a heat loss of 43 watts per square metre?
0:17:44 > 0:17:47It sounded like a simple bit of maths.
0:17:47 > 0:17:484.3.
0:17:48 > 0:17:494.3?
0:17:49 > 0:17:51No, it's 100 metres.
0:17:51 > 0:17:5410 points for this - writing in 1620, Francis Bacon noted
0:17:54 > 0:17:59that three things had changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world.
0:17:59 > 0:18:01One of these was the compass.
0:18:01 > 0:18:04For 10 points, name either of the other two.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09The discovery of the New World.
0:18:09 > 0:18:11No.
0:18:11 > 0:18:12The wheel.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14No, it's printing and gunpowder.
0:18:14 > 0:18:1710 points for this sometimes known as the Wolf Berry,
0:18:17 > 0:18:21what is the Chinese-derived common name of Lycium barbarum,
0:18:21 > 0:18:25a red fruit acclaimed for its nutritive properties?
0:18:25 > 0:18:28- Lingzhi? - No, anyone want to buzz from...
0:18:28 > 0:18:29Goji.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32Goji Berry is correct, yes.
0:18:32 > 0:18:36Manchester, your bonuses are on 18th-century clergymen.
0:18:36 > 0:18:39The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne
0:18:39 > 0:18:42is a work of 1789 by which Hampshire clergyman?
0:18:43 > 0:18:46Paley? With an EY on the end?
0:18:46 > 0:18:49- Paley. - No, it's Gilbert White.
0:18:49 > 0:18:53Born in 1702, which Presbyterian minister gives his name
0:18:53 > 0:18:56to a theorem on inverse probability presented in essays
0:18:56 > 0:19:00towards solving a problem in the doctrine of chances.
0:19:00 > 0:19:04- Bayes?- Bayes. - Correct, Thomas Bayes.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07Appearing in several volumes from 1760,
0:19:07 > 0:19:11The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy is the work of which Yorkshire clergyman?
0:19:11 > 0:19:12Laurence Sterne.
0:19:12 > 0:19:16Correct, 10 points for this starter question which theatre on the Strand
0:19:16 > 0:19:20was named after the district developed by architect Robert Adam
0:19:20 > 0:19:23and his brothers in the late 18th century?
0:19:23 > 0:19:24The Aldwych?
0:19:24 > 0:19:27No, someone buzz from Manchester?
0:19:27 > 0:19:29The Temple?
0:19:29 > 0:19:31No, it's the Adelphi. 10 points for this
0:19:31 > 0:19:36what activity links Lorca's poem, Weeping for the Death of Ignacio Sanchez Mejias
0:19:36 > 0:19:40Picasso's La Corrida, and Ernest Hemingway's Death In the Afternoon?
0:19:40 > 0:19:42Bullfighting.
0:19:42 > 0:19:44Bullfighting is correct.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47Your bonuses this time are on a city.
0:19:47 > 0:19:49Lying at the foot of Mount Uludag,
0:19:49 > 0:19:53Bursa is the fourth-largest city of which Mediterranean country?
0:19:57 > 0:20:00Mediterranean country Cyprus?
0:20:00 > 0:20:03- Malta?- Does that have four cities?
0:20:05 > 0:20:06I'd go for Malta.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09At the bottom of a mountain, does Malta have mountains?
0:20:09 > 0:20:12- Malta. - No, it's Turkey.
0:20:12 > 0:20:16The tone of Isnik in Bursa province was the site of a Christian Council of AD 325.
0:20:16 > 0:20:20- How's this council better known in English?- Nicaea.
0:20:20 > 0:20:22Correct. Bursa is the home of Iskender,
0:20:22 > 0:20:27generally reckoned to be Turkey's most popular version of what dish?
0:20:27 > 0:20:28- Kebab.- Correct.
0:20:28 > 0:20:30We're going to take a second picture round now.
0:20:30 > 0:20:33For your picture starter, you're going to see a painting
0:20:33 > 0:20:35showing a scene from American history.
0:20:35 > 0:20:39For 10 points, name the historical figure who's also named
0:20:39 > 0:20:41in the title of the painting.
0:20:45 > 0:20:46Christopher Columbus.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49Christopher Columbus. It's The Landing Of Columbus.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52It's one of eight canvasses hanging in the Rotunda of the US Capitol building
0:20:52 > 0:20:54in Washington DC.
0:20:54 > 0:20:56Your bonuses are three more of those works,
0:20:56 > 0:20:59all depicting scenes from early North American history.
0:20:59 > 0:21:02Five points for each historical figure you can name.
0:21:02 > 0:21:05Firstly, who's the central figure on horseback in this?
0:21:06 > 0:21:10- George Washington?- Yeah. - George Washington?
0:21:10 > 0:21:14- George Washington. - No, that's Lord Cornwallis. The Surrender there of.
0:21:14 > 0:21:17Secondly, the kneeling female figure in this one, please.
0:21:17 > 0:21:19- Pocahontas?- It looks like...
0:21:19 > 0:21:21THEY CONFER
0:21:21 > 0:21:24- Go for that.- Which one?
0:21:24 > 0:21:26- Pocahontas.- OK.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28- Pocahontas. - The Baptism of Pocahontas.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31And finally, this group of people.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33- Pilgrim Fathers, presumably? - Looks like it.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36- The Pilgrim Fathers. - It is.
0:21:36 > 0:21:39Right, ten points for this. Armand Jean du Plessis,
0:21:39 > 0:21:41The First Minister of France from 1624 to 1642,
0:21:41 > 0:21:45is more commonly known by what name?
0:21:45 > 0:21:47Cardinal Richelieu?
0:21:47 > 0:21:48Correct.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53Bonuses this time, Manchester, on British coins.
0:21:53 > 0:21:58Since September 1992, which two British coins have been made of copper-plated steel?
0:21:58 > 0:22:00- One and two pence?- Probably.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02- One and two pence.- Correct.
0:22:02 > 0:22:06The alloy used for 5p, 10p, 20p and 50p coins consists principally
0:22:06 > 0:22:08of which two metallic elements?
0:22:08 > 0:22:11Nickel and... I think...
0:22:11 > 0:22:15I was thinking that was copper as well but it probably won't be.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17Nickel and...
0:22:17 > 0:22:18Nickel and copper.
0:22:18 > 0:22:23Correct. The two-pound coin has a cupronickel centre and an outer ring
0:22:23 > 0:22:26made of which alloy, also used to make £1 coins?
0:22:26 > 0:22:30- The gold one, but what is it?- Brass, maybe.- Do you reckon?
0:22:30 > 0:22:31- Not sure.- Come on.
0:22:31 > 0:22:32Brass.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34Nickel-brass, I wanted.
0:22:34 > 0:22:3610 points for this.
0:22:36 > 0:22:40Named after the 18th-century explorer, the Cook Strait separates...
0:22:40 > 0:22:44- North and South Island. - Of New Zealand. Correct, yes.
0:22:44 > 0:22:48Your 15 points for these bonuses. They're on an English poet and dramatist, Newcastle.
0:22:48 > 0:22:52All For Love, a reworking of Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra,
0:22:52 > 0:22:55is a work by which Restoration author?
0:22:55 > 0:22:59- Restoration... Just think of... - Um, Restoration... John Dryden.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01- Dryden.- Correct.
0:23:01 > 0:23:06Which poem of 1681 by Dryden adapts a story from the Old Testament to satirise
0:23:06 > 0:23:10the role of Lord Shaftesbury and the Duke of Monmouth in the Exclusion Crisis?
0:23:12 > 0:23:14Samson and Delilah...
0:23:14 > 0:23:15Samson and Delilah.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18No, it's Absalom and Achitophel. And finally, set in Sicily,
0:23:18 > 0:23:22which comedy of 1673 by Dryden shares it's title with a later series
0:23:22 > 0:23:25of six paintings by William Hogarth, now in the National Gallery?
0:23:25 > 0:23:27- The Rake's Progress. - No. Marriage A La Mode.
0:23:27 > 0:23:3210 points for this. The red sulphide cinnabar is the chief ore of which me...
0:23:32 > 0:23:34Mercury.
0:23:34 > 0:23:37Mercury is right. Your bonuses now are on layers of the atmosphere.
0:23:37 > 0:23:42The name of which layer of the atmosphere means, in part, turning? It's marked by convection
0:23:42 > 0:23:45- and a decrease of temperature with height.- Troposphere.
0:23:45 > 0:23:49Correct. The ionosphere lies primarily within which layer of the atmosphere?
0:23:49 > 0:23:54It begins at about 85km and within it the temperature can rise to over 1,000 degrees Celsius.
0:23:54 > 0:23:55- Thermosphere.- Correct.
0:23:55 > 0:24:00What name is given to the layer situated above the stratosphere and separated from it
0:24:00 > 0:24:02- by the stratopause?- Mesosphere?
0:24:02 > 0:24:04- Mesosphere. - Mesosphere is right.
0:24:04 > 0:24:08- 10 points for this.- Pashto and Dari are the official languages of...
0:24:08 > 0:24:10- Afghanistan.- Afghanistan is right.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13Your bonuses this time are on sport.
0:24:13 > 0:24:18What's the nationality of the tennis player Novak Djokovic, the first player from his country
0:24:18 > 0:24:20- to win a Grand Slam?- Serbian.- Right.
0:24:20 > 0:24:24Which Serbian football club is the only one to have won a UEFA competition?
0:24:24 > 0:24:27- Red Star Belgrade.- Correct.
0:24:27 > 0:24:31Serbia won the 2009 championship in which aquatic team sport, admitted to the Olympics
0:24:31 > 0:24:34- at the 1900 games? - Water Polo.- Correct.
0:24:34 > 0:24:36Starter question. Born in Lancashire in 1917,
0:24:36 > 0:24:40formerly married to Max Ernst and based for much of her life in Mexico City...
0:24:40 > 0:24:42Leonora Carrington.
0:24:42 > 0:24:44Er, no. You lose five points.
0:24:44 > 0:24:50The artist Leonora Carrington is principally associated with which artistic style?
0:24:50 > 0:24:51- Cubism.- No, it's surrealism.
0:24:51 > 0:24:5410 points for this. Listen carefully.
0:24:54 > 0:24:58Putting the English preposition "in" into the French word for an "inn"
0:24:58 > 0:25:02gives the name of which fruit, eaten as a vegetable?
0:25:04 > 0:25:06Tomato.
0:25:06 > 0:25:08Good heavens, no.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11- Pineapple. - No, it's aubergine, as in "auberge."
0:25:11 > 0:25:12Ten points for this.
0:25:12 > 0:25:18Which part of the human body suffers paralysis in the condition known as glossoplegia?
0:25:18 > 0:25:19The tongue.
0:25:19 > 0:25:23Right. Your bonuses this time are on pairs of anagrams, Manchester.
0:25:23 > 0:25:26In each case, give both words from the definitions.
0:25:26 > 0:25:30Firstly, a large company of musicians and a large quadruped used for heavy work.
0:25:30 > 0:25:33- Orchestra and... - It wouldn't be orchestra.
0:25:33 > 0:25:38It could be. There's lots of anagrams of orchestra.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40Come on, chaps.
0:25:40 > 0:25:44- Orchestra and...reschatro.- No, no. It's orchestra and carthorse.
0:25:44 > 0:25:49Secondly, a landlocked African country and a verb meaning to rule over.
0:25:50 > 0:25:54- Reign and Niger. - Reign and Niger.- Correct.
0:25:54 > 0:25:57An adolescent and a verb meaning produce or create,
0:25:57 > 0:26:00for example, electricity.
0:26:00 > 0:26:01Generate and teenager.
0:26:01 > 0:26:03Correct. Another starter question.
0:26:03 > 0:26:07Sir Robert Walpole's successor as prime minister, which nobleman
0:26:07 > 0:26:10gave his name to the largest city in the state of Delaware?
0:26:10 > 0:26:11Dover.
0:26:11 > 0:26:14No. Somebody buzz from Newcastle.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16Lord Salisbury.
0:26:16 > 0:26:21No, it's the Earl of Wilmington. 10 points for this. "Bolshevist art controlled by the hand of Moscow"
0:26:21 > 0:26:26and "the last judgement of our age" were two of the reactions provoked by which of Picasso's paintings?
0:26:26 > 0:26:28- Guernica?- Guernica is right.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31Your bonuses this time are on kings of England.
0:26:31 > 0:26:36In each case, give the king whose reign coincided most closely with the papacies of the following.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39Firstly, for five points, Gregory VII.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41THEY CONFER
0:26:41 > 0:26:44- Henry VII.- No, it's William the Conqueror. Second, Innocent III.
0:26:44 > 0:26:48- Any idea?- Edward II.- Edward II.
0:26:48 > 0:26:51No, it's John. Finally, Leo X and Paul III.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53Um... Henry VIII.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56Correct. Another starter question.
0:26:56 > 0:27:00In 2009, Professor Michael Green succeeded Stephen Hawking to which academic post,
0:27:00 > 0:27:05established in 1663? Previous incumbents include Charles Babbage and Isaac Newton.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07Astronomer Royal.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09No. Newcastle, one of you buzz quickly.
0:27:09 > 0:27:13Is it Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge?
0:27:13 > 0:27:15Correct, yes. Your bonuses are on Christmas Eve.
0:27:15 > 0:27:19The treaty signed on Christmas Eve 1814, ending the 1812 war
0:27:19 > 0:27:23between the United States and Great Britain is named after which town, now in Belgium?
0:27:23 > 0:27:24Um...
0:27:24 > 0:27:27- Charleroi.- Sorry?- Charleroi. - Charleroi?- Charleroi.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29- Charleroi.- No. Ghent.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32Which North African country gained independence
0:27:32 > 0:27:36from Italy on Christmas Eve 1951, with King Idris I as its Monarch?
0:27:36 > 0:27:39- Libya?- Libya.- Come on.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42- GONG - Libya.- Libya is right. At the gong,
0:27:42 > 0:27:46Newcastle University have 95. University of Manchester have 330.
0:27:50 > 0:27:54Bad luck. You were a long way off your normal storming performance tonight, Newcastle.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57We have to say goodbye to you. Thank you for joining us.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00You've been a very entertaining team. Well done, Manchester.
0:28:00 > 0:28:04You've won the right to play again! Many congratulations to you.
0:28:04 > 0:28:07I hope you can join us next time, but until then it's goodbye
0:28:07 > 0:28:09from Newcastle University,
0:28:09 > 0:28:11from Manchester University
0:28:11 > 0:28:13and from me. Goodbye.
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