Episode 31

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0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.

0:00:27 > 0:00:31Hello. We've seen the team from Worcester College, Oxford,

0:00:31 > 0:00:37become the first to qualify for the semi-finals by winning the required two quarter-final matches.

0:00:37 > 0:00:44They'll be joined by whichever team wins tonight because both have already one win behind them.

0:00:44 > 0:00:48The losers will play again and get one final opportunity.

0:00:48 > 0:00:54The team from Pembroke, Cambridge, beat St Anne's College, Oxford, Nottingham University

0:00:54 > 0:00:58and then Balliol, Oxford, in their first quarter-final.

0:00:58 > 0:01:03Their simple, but effective strategy was to build up a strong lead from the word go

0:01:03 > 0:01:10and hang on to it until the gong. With an average age of 20, let's meet them for the fourth time.

0:01:10 > 0:01:14My name's Edward Bankes, from Sevenoaks, reading English.

0:01:14 > 0:01:18- I'm Ben Pugh from London, reading German and Russian.- Their captain...

0:01:18 > 0:01:22I'm Bibek Mukherjee from Canterbury and I'm reading Economics.

0:01:22 > 0:01:26Hi, I'm Imogen Gold from London and I'm reading Engineering.

0:01:29 > 0:01:35Clare College, Cambridge, scraped a win against Worcester, Oxford, by only 10 points in the first round,

0:01:35 > 0:01:42then pounded Leeds University, coming away with a winning margin of 255.

0:01:42 > 0:01:48They then beat Homerton, Cambridge, in their first quarter-final, despite trailing near the end.

0:01:48 > 0:01:51With an average age just over 20, let's meet them again.

0:01:51 > 0:01:56Hi, my name's Kris Cao, from Oxfordshire, reading Mathematics.

0:01:56 > 0:02:00- Hi, I'm Daniel Janes, from London, studying History.- Their captain...

0:02:00 > 0:02:04Hi, I'm Jonathan Burley from Bourne End and I'm reading Physics.

0:02:04 > 0:02:09Hello. I'm Jonathan Foxwell from Farnham, reading Natural Sciences.

0:02:13 > 0:02:17OK, the rules are the same as ever. Here's your first starter for 10.

0:02:17 > 0:02:23Who stood as the Conservative candidate for the safe Labour seat of Dartford at the General Elections

0:02:23 > 0:02:26of 1950 and 1951 before being elected...

0:02:26 > 0:02:30- Margaret Thatcher?- Correct.

0:02:30 > 0:02:33Your bonuses are on a country, Pembroke College.

0:02:33 > 0:02:38Mario Vargas Llosa, the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature,

0:02:38 > 0:02:41stood for the presidency of which country in 1990?

0:02:41 > 0:02:48- Peru.- Correct. Jorge Chavez Airport in Lima is named after the pilot who, in 1910, flew from Brig

0:02:48 > 0:02:55to Domodossola over the Simplon Pass, making the first air crossing of which mountains?

0:02:59 > 0:03:05- Er, Alps?- Correct. Although known by an English name following his arrival in London,

0:03:05 > 0:03:10which figure in children's fiction was known as Pastuso in Peru?

0:03:10 > 0:03:14- Paddington Bear.- Yes. 10 points for this.

0:03:14 > 0:03:21What initial three letters link a city in North China that was destroyed by an earthquake in 1976,

0:03:21 > 0:03:23the lake in Ethiopia...

0:03:23 > 0:03:29- Is it...TIA? - No. Next time if you buzz you must answer straight away.

0:03:29 > 0:03:31You get a 5-point penalty.

0:03:31 > 0:03:37..the lake in Ethiopia that is the source of the Blue Nile and a sea port in Morocco...

0:03:37 > 0:03:40- TAN.- TAN is correct, yes.

0:03:42 > 0:03:46Right, these bonuses are on the humours.

0:03:46 > 0:03:51A choleretic increases the secretion of what fluid from the liver?

0:03:51 > 0:03:56It was one of the four humours of early physiology and called choler.

0:03:56 > 0:04:00- Bile.- Correct. Which humour, characterised as cold and moist,

0:04:00 > 0:04:06was a secretion of the mucous membrane and is the source of an adjective meaning calm?

0:04:06 > 0:04:11- Phlegm.- Correct. Meaning hopeful or confident, what adjective is derived from the name

0:04:11 > 0:04:15given to the complexion or humour that was dominated by blood?

0:04:15 > 0:04:20- Sanguine.- Correct. Another starter question. Quote:

0:04:20 > 0:04:26"Dry, obscure, contrary to all ordinary ideas and prolix to boot."

0:04:26 > 0:04:32These are the words of which German philosopher describing his own 1781 work, The Critique of Pure Reason?

0:04:33 > 0:04:36- Immanuel Kant.- Correct.

0:04:38 > 0:04:41Your bonuses are on Parliament.

0:04:41 > 0:04:47Usually a Member of Parliament, who is the government's principal legal adviser,

0:04:47 > 0:04:51the role involving civil law functions as well as criminal law?

0:04:51 > 0:04:58- Attorney General?- Correct. Dating to 1415, which officer ensures the order and security of the Commons

0:04:58 > 0:05:02and is the only person allowed to carry a sword there?

0:05:03 > 0:05:10- Black Rod.- The Serjeant at Arms. The holder of which office acts as custodian of the Great Seal

0:05:10 > 0:05:14and is Secretary of State for Justice?

0:05:17 > 0:05:21- Lord Chancellor?- Correct. 10 points for this starter.

0:05:21 > 0:05:25Coined in 1777 by the Scottish physician William Cullen,

0:05:25 > 0:05:31what familiar but imprecise term describes a relatively mild mental disorder characterised by anxiety,

0:05:31 > 0:05:36depression or irrational fears, but without psychotic symptoms?

0:05:36 > 0:05:41- Psychosomatic?- No. Anyone like to buzz from Pembroke College?

0:05:41 > 0:05:46- Sociopathic?- No, it's neurosis. 10 points for this.

0:05:46 > 0:05:50"A game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented

0:05:50 > 0:05:54"in order to give themselves some conception of eternity..."

0:05:54 > 0:05:57- Cricket?- Yes!

0:05:57 > 0:06:02Lord Mancroft's description. Your bonuses are on an element.

0:06:02 > 0:06:08On what would have been his 537th birthday, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry

0:06:08 > 0:06:15confirmed on February 19th, 2010, that element number 112 had been named after which scientist?

0:06:17 > 0:06:21- Copernicus.- Correct. As element number 112, copernicium was made

0:06:21 > 0:06:28by fusing isotopes of which two familiar metallic elements with atomic numbers 30 and 82?

0:06:32 > 0:06:39- Iron and gold?- No, zinc and lead. Copernicium was discovered at the Helmholtz Centre in Darmstadt

0:06:39 > 0:06:44which had also isolated the previous five new elements, numbers 107-111.

0:06:44 > 0:06:48Five points if you can name two of them.

0:06:51 > 0:06:54- Nominate Pugh. - Meitnerium and Seaborgium.

0:06:54 > 0:06:59No, Bohrium, Hassium, Meitnerium, Darmstadtium and Roentgenium. A picture round now.

0:06:59 > 0:07:06You will see the first eight positions in the American presidential line of succession

0:07:06 > 0:07:10as outlined in the Presidential Succession Act of 1947.

0:07:10 > 0:07:1510 points if you can give me the office that is missing.

0:07:15 > 0:07:19- Speaker of the House. - Speaker of the House is right.

0:07:21 > 0:07:27Your picture bonuses are three recent Speakers of the US House of Representatives.

0:07:27 > 0:07:29Five points for each. Firstly...

0:07:29 > 0:07:33- Nancy Pelosi. - Correct. Secondly...

0:07:39 > 0:07:42- Er, Tom Foley?- No, that's Tip O'Neill. Finally...

0:07:42 > 0:07:48- John Boehner.- "Bayner". - That's correct. Same person. 10 points for this.

0:07:48 > 0:07:54The Roman Catholic Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, said to be the world's largest Christian church,

0:07:54 > 0:07:57is in the official capital...

0:07:57 > 0:07:59- Ivory Coast.- Right, yes.

0:08:01 > 0:08:09Your bonuses are on fictional books. Which animated TV series has featured Great Machete Battles,

0:08:09 > 0:08:14Zapp Brannigan's Big Book of War and Harry Potter and the Balance of Earth?

0:08:14 > 0:08:18- Futurama.- Correct. Ethel The Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying

0:08:18 > 0:08:22and 30 Days In The Samarkand Desert With The Duchess of Kent

0:08:22 > 0:08:28are fictional titles in a sketch devised by which BBC comedy team?

0:08:32 > 0:08:35- The Two Ronnies?- No, Monty Python.

0:08:35 > 0:08:39Stu The Cockatoo Is New At The Zoo is used by Sheldon Cooper

0:08:39 > 0:08:44to create a flowchart in which US sitcom?

0:08:44 > 0:08:48- The Big Bang Theory. - Correct. 10 points for this.

0:08:48 > 0:08:55Used from the Middle Ages to refer to the Eastern Mediterranean and after WWI for Syria and Lebanon,

0:08:55 > 0:08:59what short term is the present participle of the French verb to rise?

0:08:59 > 0:09:03- Levant.- Levant is correct, yes.

0:09:04 > 0:09:07Your bonuses this time are on a name.

0:09:07 > 0:09:11Used by Pliny the Elder and the Venerable Bede,

0:09:11 > 0:09:17what ancient name for Britain is thought to derive from Latin for white in allusion to the cliffs?

0:09:17 > 0:09:23- Alba.- Albion!- Yeah. - No, I have to take your first answer. It's Albion.

0:09:23 > 0:09:26Alba was just the northern part.

0:09:26 > 0:09:30The Emanation of the Giant Albion is the subtitle of which poem,

0:09:30 > 0:09:34written and engraved by William Blake in the early 19th century?

0:09:34 > 0:09:37It might be...

0:09:41 > 0:09:47- The Marriage of Good and Evil? - No, Jerusalem. What adjective was applied, originally in French,

0:09:47 > 0:09:54to Albion by the Marquis de Ximenes in a poem in 1793 and later by Napoleon departing for St Helena?

0:09:54 > 0:09:57- Perfidious.- Perfidious?- Correct.

0:09:57 > 0:10:04Another starter. Sometimes called Suicide Bags because of their roles in apoptosis...

0:10:04 > 0:10:06- Lysosomes.- Correct!

0:10:09 > 0:10:12Right. Your bonuses are on hexagons.

0:10:12 > 0:10:18What natural product consists of a vertical lattice of rhombic decahedra

0:10:18 > 0:10:25with a hexagonal cross-section at the open end and walls less than 0.1mm thick?

0:10:29 > 0:10:37- Carbon nano tubes?- No, honeycomb. What concept was introduced by Linus Pauling in 1931

0:10:37 > 0:10:43to explain why a benzene molecule is a regular hexagon with six carbon-carbon bonds of equal length?

0:10:49 > 0:10:52- Delocalisation.- Resonance theory.

0:10:52 > 0:10:58The earliest known paper to conjecture on the hexagonal structure of the snowflake,

0:10:58 > 0:11:04the 1611 essay On The Six-Cornered Snowflake was the work of which German astronomer?

0:11:07 > 0:11:12- Kepler.- Kepler is right. 10 points for this.

0:11:12 > 0:11:18If the numbers from 1 to 100 are written in words and placed in alphabetical order,

0:11:18 > 0:11:23the first is Eight, the second Eighteen, the fiftieth is One.

0:11:23 > 0:11:27What number is the hundredth and last?

0:11:29 > 0:11:33- Ninety-seven?- Nope.

0:11:35 > 0:11:42- Seventy-seven?- No, it's two. 10 points for this. Quakes, fuse, skua and ukase

0:11:42 > 0:11:46are among words that may be made with letters of which adjective?

0:11:46 > 0:11:50Meaning impenetrably oppressive, senseless or disorienting,

0:11:50 > 0:11:54it's an eponym of a novelist born in Prague in 1883.

0:11:54 > 0:11:58- Draconian? - No. Anyone from Pembroke College?

0:12:00 > 0:12:04- Kafkaesque? - Kafkaesque is correct, yes.

0:12:07 > 0:12:11Your bonuses this time are on words meaning very small.

0:12:11 > 0:12:16Which synonym for very small can also mean a letter in lower case?

0:12:16 > 0:12:23- Miniscule?- Correct. Minium, the Latin for cinnabar, was the origin of a verb

0:12:23 > 0:12:26meaning to paint with vermilion or illuminate a manuscript

0:12:26 > 0:12:32and thence, via an Italian art term, to which common word meaning very small?

0:12:32 > 0:12:37- Miniature?- Correct. Which six-letter synonym for tiny comes from the past participle

0:12:37 > 0:12:40of a Latin verb meaning to lessen?

0:12:43 > 0:12:49- Minute?- Correct. 10 points for this. What personal quality did Albert Camus describe

0:12:49 > 0:12:54as a way of getting the answer "yes" without having asked any clear question?

0:12:58 > 0:13:00- Intelligence?- Nope.

0:13:00 > 0:13:06- Beauty?- No, it's charm. Listen carefully and answer as soon as you buzz.

0:13:06 > 0:13:11Five European countries have internet codes that begin with a different letter from that

0:13:11 > 0:13:18which begins their one-word English name. One is Serbia, that is .rs. Name three of the others.

0:13:22 > 0:13:27- Germany, Hungary and...- No. - ..Ukraine.- Nope.

0:13:27 > 0:13:28Pembroke?

0:13:28 > 0:13:34- Er, Germany, Switzerland and Croatia?- Yes. The other is Spain.

0:13:35 > 0:13:41OK, your bonuses this time are on circumlocutions of the US military.

0:13:41 > 0:13:44What piece of equipment, often used by soldiers on manoeuvres,

0:13:44 > 0:13:49was given the name frame-supported tension structure by the Pentagon?

0:13:49 > 0:13:51Tent, maybe?

0:13:52 > 0:13:58- Tent?- Tent is correct. On one occasion, hexaform rotatable surface compression unit

0:13:58 > 0:14:02was the Pentagon's term for which object?

0:14:04 > 0:14:07- A spade?- OK. Spade? - No, it's a nut.

0:14:07 > 0:14:14And what is the usual English word for what the Pentagon has called an aerodynamic personnel decelerator?

0:14:16 > 0:14:19- Parachute? Parachute. - Parachute is right, yes.

0:14:19 > 0:14:25We'll take a music round now. There's still plenty of time, Clare, for you to come back.

0:14:25 > 0:14:28Your music starter is an extract from an opera.

0:14:28 > 0:14:32Ten points if you can give me the name of the composer, please.

0:14:32 > 0:14:34OPERA MUSIC PLAYS

0:14:37 > 0:14:41- Purcell?- No. You can hear a little more, Clare College.

0:14:41 > 0:14:43MUSIC CONTINUES

0:14:49 > 0:14:51Is it Handel?

0:14:51 > 0:14:53No, it's not. It's Telemann.

0:14:53 > 0:14:59We'll take music bonuses in a moment or two. In the meantime, another starter question.

0:14:59 > 0:15:04Which area of South London on the River Thames links Henry VIII's Royal Dockyard,

0:15:04 > 0:15:08Peter the Great's education in shipbuilding, the knighting of...

0:15:08 > 0:15:11- Deptford.- Deptford is right, yes.

0:15:13 > 0:15:17That piece of Telemann you heard was from Don Quichotte.

0:15:17 > 0:15:23For your bonuses, three more extracts from classical works based on Cervantes' Don Quixote,

0:15:23 > 0:15:27this time all from the late 19th or early 20th centuries.

0:15:27 > 0:15:33Five points for each composer you can name. Firstly, the French composer of this piece?

0:15:33 > 0:15:35CLASSICAL PIECE PLAYS

0:15:43 > 0:15:49- Nominate Janes.- Is it Jules Massenet?- It is, yes. Well done.

0:15:49 > 0:15:53Secondly, the Austrian composer of this ballet?

0:15:53 > 0:15:55MUSIC PLAYS

0:16:06 > 0:16:11- Strauss.- No, that was Ludwig Minkus. And finally, the German composer of this opera?

0:16:11 > 0:16:13CLASSICAL MUSIC

0:16:17 > 0:16:19That could be Richard Strauss.

0:16:19 > 0:16:22- He did do Don Quixote. - Richard Strauss.

0:16:23 > 0:16:26- Strauss.- Which one? - Richard.- Correct.

0:16:26 > 0:16:29Ten points for this starter question.

0:16:29 > 0:16:35When Dr James Murray began compiling the New English Dictionary in the late 19th century,

0:16:35 > 0:16:39he worked from a corrugated iron shed to which he gave what name,

0:16:39 > 0:16:43that of a chamber in medieval monasteries for the copying of manuscripts?

0:16:43 > 0:16:45- Scriptorium.- Correct.

0:16:47 > 0:16:51Your bonuses are on the novels of Charles Dickens. Which 1838 novel

0:16:51 > 0:16:58by Dickens includes a chapter headed "Containing an account of what passed between Mr and Mrs Bumble

0:16:58 > 0:17:01"and Mr Monks at their nocturnal interview"?

0:17:01 > 0:17:03WHISPERING

0:17:03 > 0:17:06- Oliver Twist.- Oliver Twist.- Correct.

0:17:06 > 0:17:12"Too full of adventure to be briefly described", "The story of the goblins who stole a sexton"

0:17:12 > 0:17:16and "Samuel Weller makes a pilgrimage to Dorking

0:17:16 > 0:17:20"and beholds his mother-in-law" are chapter headings in which novel?

0:17:20 > 0:17:23Try Our Mutual Friend.

0:17:23 > 0:17:25WHISPERING

0:17:25 > 0:17:30- Nicholas Nickleby.- Nicholas Nickleby - No, they're from Pickwick Papers.

0:17:30 > 0:17:37Which novel of 1849 has chapters entitled "I am born", "I become neglected and am provided for"

0:17:37 > 0:17:39and "I assist at an explosion"?

0:17:39 > 0:17:42- David Copperfield.- Correct. Another starter question.

0:17:42 > 0:17:47The medical term "lordosis" denotes an inward curvature of what part of the body?

0:17:48 > 0:17:51- Is it the spine? - It is the spine, yes.

0:17:53 > 0:17:57Right, Clare, your bonuses this time are on eponymous states of matter.

0:17:57 > 0:18:03After a Danish physicist, what eponym is used for a dilute gas where the mean free path is greater

0:18:03 > 0:18:09than the dimensions of the apparatus containing it, so molecular collisions can be ignored?

0:18:11 > 0:18:13CONFERRING

0:18:25 > 0:18:29- Bose.- No, it's a Knudsen gas.

0:18:29 > 0:18:35An Indian and German-born physicist together give their names to what phase of matter...

0:18:35 > 0:18:38- Bose-Einstein condensate.- Correct.

0:18:38 > 0:18:44What term for a solid that is both viscous and elastic is named after a British and a German physicist?

0:18:44 > 0:18:47WHISPERING

0:18:55 > 0:18:58- Name a German physicist. - Let's have it, please.

0:18:58 > 0:19:01- Newtonian... - No, it's a Kelvin-Voigt material.

0:19:01 > 0:19:07Ten points for this. What given name links a US civil rights leader murdered in New York in 1965...

0:19:07 > 0:19:11- Martin Luther King. - I'm afraid you lose five points.

0:19:11 > 0:19:14..four kings of Scotland, a fictional...

0:19:14 > 0:19:17- Malcolm.- Malcolm is correct, yes.

0:19:19 > 0:19:25Your bonuses are on young British artists. In each case, name the artist from her works.

0:19:25 > 0:19:30Firstly for five, the monumental paintings Plan and Torso 2

0:19:30 > 0:19:34and the triptych entitled Strategy: South Face, Front Face, North Face

0:19:34 > 0:19:39which appeared on the cover of The Manic Street Preachers' album, The Holy Bible?

0:19:41 > 0:19:44Tracey Emin doesn't paint, does she?

0:19:44 > 0:19:48- Maybe Tomma Abts?- Sorry? Nominate Pugh.

0:19:48 > 0:19:52- Tomma Abts?- No, it's Jenny Saville. Secondly, for a possible five,

0:19:52 > 0:19:59the photographic series of 1992 to '93 entitled "Signs that say what you want them to say and not signs

0:19:59 > 0:20:02"that say what someone else wants you to say"?

0:20:02 > 0:20:06- Might as well guess Emin. - Tracey Emin?- No, Gillian Wearing.

0:20:06 > 0:20:10Finally, the photographic series entitled Naked Flame and Crying Men

0:20:10 > 0:20:13and the 2009 feature film, Nowhere Boy?

0:20:13 > 0:20:16Sam Taylor-Wood.

0:20:16 > 0:20:21- Sam Taylor-Wood? - Yes, Sam Taylor-Wood. - Sam Taylor-Wood.- Correct.

0:20:21 > 0:20:24A second picture round now. For your starter,

0:20:24 > 0:20:28you will see the family tree of figures from the Old Testament.

0:20:28 > 0:20:32Ten points if you can name the missing figure highlighted.

0:20:34 > 0:20:37- Abraham.- It is Abraham, yes.

0:20:40 > 0:20:47So, Clare College, your picture bonuses invite you to identify three more members of Abraham's family

0:20:47 > 0:20:51from their place in his family tree. Who should be at "A"?

0:20:53 > 0:20:55WHISPERING

0:21:00 > 0:21:02- Hagar.- Correct. Secondly, at B?

0:21:06 > 0:21:08WHISPERING

0:21:10 > 0:21:12- Lot.- Yes.

0:21:12 > 0:21:15And finally for five points, who's at C?

0:21:16 > 0:21:19- Jacob.- Well done, yes.

0:21:21 > 0:21:27Ten points for this. A port in Yemen on the Red Sea, an order of friars founded in 1525 and Italian...

0:21:27 > 0:21:30- San. S-A-N.- No, you lose five points

0:21:30 > 0:21:36..and Italian words meaning "stained" and "pressed out" are all associated with which beverage?

0:21:40 > 0:21:42- Coffee.- Coffee is correct, yes.

0:21:44 > 0:21:46Your bonuses are on England.

0:21:46 > 0:21:52England, Your England is the title of the first part of which long essay by George Orwell in 1941

0:21:52 > 0:21:58in which he suggested that England is "a family with the wrong members in control"?

0:21:58 > 0:22:01CONFERRING

0:22:06 > 0:22:12- Inside The Whale.- Inside The Whale? - Inside The Whale.- Inside The Whale. - The Lion And The Unicorn.

0:22:12 > 0:22:18England, Their England, a novel of 1933 expressing a satirical view of English life and manners

0:22:18 > 0:22:23from a Scottish perspective is by which author and journalist?

0:22:23 > 0:22:26- When's it from?- I don't know. - What date?

0:22:26 > 0:22:30- Pass.- That's by AG Macdonell. And finally,

0:22:30 > 0:22:36England, My England is the title of a collection of short stories including Wintry Peacock,

0:22:36 > 0:22:41The Horse Dealer's Daughter and Fanny And Annie, published in 1922 by which novelist?

0:22:43 > 0:22:48- Virginia Woolf?- Virginia Woolf?- No, DH Lawrence. Ten points for this.

0:22:48 > 0:22:51A military organisation established in 1920,

0:22:51 > 0:22:55Haganah became the basis of the army of which state after...

0:22:55 > 0:22:57- Is it Israel?- Yes, it is.

0:22:58 > 0:23:03Your bonuses are on an Italian city, Clare College.

0:23:03 > 0:23:07In 1300, Pope Boniface VIII paid tribute to the people of which city,

0:23:07 > 0:23:12declaring them to be the "fifth element" alongside fire, water, earth and air?

0:23:14 > 0:23:18- Florence.- Correct. Containing artwork by Donatello and Giotto,

0:23:18 > 0:23:25which Franciscan abbey in Florence is the burial place of Michelangelo, Galileo and Machiavelli?

0:23:25 > 0:23:27WHISPERING

0:23:27 > 0:23:29Sorry, I don't know.

0:23:29 > 0:23:35- Pass.- Santa Croce. Finally, in 2008, 700 years after it was issued,

0:23:35 > 0:23:41Florence's city council revoked a sentence declaring that which poet would be burned at the stake

0:23:41 > 0:23:43if he ever returned to the city?

0:23:43 > 0:23:49- Dante.- Correct. Another starter question. What flower links a 1985 film directed by Woody Allen,

0:23:49 > 0:23:51a song by Edith Piaf...

0:23:51 > 0:23:53- Rose.- Rose is correct, yes.

0:23:53 > 0:23:57Your bonuses are on pharmacology, Clare College.

0:23:57 > 0:24:02Antipyretic pharmaceuticals reduce what general medical condition?

0:24:02 > 0:24:07- Fever.- Correct. What is reduced by the group of pharmaceuticals known as sartans?

0:24:07 > 0:24:09WHISPERING

0:24:09 > 0:24:12- Blood pressure.- Correct.

0:24:12 > 0:24:18What lipid component of plasma is lowered by the class of drugs known as statins?

0:24:18 > 0:24:21- Cholesterol.- Correct. Ten points for this.

0:24:21 > 0:24:25What activity is the subject of a painting of 1930 by CRW Nevinson,

0:24:25 > 0:24:31donated to Manchester Art Gallery because it seemed "peculiarly suitable for Manchester"...

0:24:31 > 0:24:34- Is it football?- It is, yes.

0:24:35 > 0:24:39Your bonuses are on damaged reputations now.

0:24:39 > 0:24:43In which comedy by Sheridan do Lady Sneerwell, Mrs Candour

0:24:43 > 0:24:47- and Sir Benjamin Backbite... - Nominate Foxwell.- No, it's not.

0:24:47 > 0:24:51..do their worst to damage as many reputations as possible?

0:24:51 > 0:24:55- School For Scandal.- Nominate Janes. - The School For Scandal.- Correct.

0:24:55 > 0:24:58Shortlisted for the 2003 Booker Prize, Notes On A Scandal...

0:24:58 > 0:25:05- Zoe Heller.- Correct. The 1989 film Scandal is based on the events surrounding the revelation in 1963

0:25:05 > 0:25:11- that which politician had an affair...- Profumo.- Correct. Another starter question.

0:25:11 > 0:25:14"Dia", "para", "ferri", "ferro" and...

0:25:14 > 0:25:16- Magnetic?- It is magnetism, yes.

0:25:18 > 0:25:23Your bonuses are on men born in the year 1829. Identify the person from the description.

0:25:23 > 0:25:29An Apache leader who led an uprising of 1881 to '86 in Arizona and New Mexico. He later became a farmer...

0:25:29 > 0:25:35- Geronimo!- Correct. A German philologist who gives his name to the dictionary confirmed in 1902

0:25:35 > 0:25:38as the official standard for German spelling?

0:25:38 > 0:25:41- Pass, pass.- Pass.- It's Duden.

0:25:41 > 0:25:45A Bavarian who, in 1853, founded the clothing company in San Francisco

0:25:45 > 0:25:48that is held to be the first maker of blue jeans?

0:25:48 > 0:25:51- Levi.- I can't accept. Levi Strauss. Ten points for this.

0:25:51 > 0:25:55Admirers of which author hold an annual Bloomsday celebration...

0:25:55 > 0:26:00- James Joyce.- Correct. Your bonuses this time are on space telescopes.

0:26:00 > 0:26:05Give the name of the broad energy band of the electromagnetic spectrum each telescope detects.

0:26:05 > 0:26:07First, the Chandra Observatory?

0:26:07 > 0:26:10- X-ray.- The Fermi Space Telescope?

0:26:13 > 0:26:15- Quickly!- Infrared? - No, it's gamma-rays.

0:26:15 > 0:26:18And the Spitzer Space Telescope?

0:26:18 > 0:26:21- Optical.- No, that is infrared. Ten points for this.

0:26:21 > 0:26:25In terms of the relative proportions of land and water,

0:26:25 > 0:26:29what geographical feature is said to be the converse of an isthmus...

0:26:29 > 0:26:31- A river?- No, you lose five points.

0:26:31 > 0:26:36..Examples include Bab-el-Mandeb, Messina, Bering and Gibraltar.

0:26:36 > 0:26:38- A strait.- A strait is correct.

0:26:40 > 0:26:43Your bonuses are on escapes by boat.

0:26:43 > 0:26:49Helped by the family of her gaolers, which royal figure escaped by boat from Lochleven Castle in May 1568?

0:26:49 > 0:26:54- Mary, Queen of Scots. - In June 1746, Flora MacDonald helped Charles Edward Stuart escape to Skye

0:26:54 > 0:26:58from which island situated between North and South Uist?

0:26:58 > 0:27:00Come on.

0:27:00 > 0:27:06- Mull.- Benbecula. In 1943, citizens of which Nazi-occupied country achieved the clandestine evacuation

0:27:06 > 0:27:09of more than 7,000 Jews...

0:27:09 > 0:27:14- Denmark.- Correct. Another starter. Answer as soon as you buzz.

0:27:14 > 0:27:20What two-word term denotes a unit of distance with the same abbreviation as the chemical symbol for gold?

0:27:20 > 0:27:24- Astronomical unit.- Correct. Another set of bonuses on a shared name.

0:27:24 > 0:27:29Which of Henry VIII's wives, accused of intent to commit treason, was beheaded in 1542

0:27:29 > 0:27:33after the execution of Francis Dereham and Thomas Culpeper?

0:27:33 > 0:27:39- Catherine Howard.- Correct. Howard is the family name of which dukes whose seat is at Arundel Castle?

0:27:39 > 0:27:45- Norfolk.- Correct. Lord Howard of Effingham commanded the English forces in 1588

0:27:45 > 0:27:49- when they faced which fleet under the Duke of Medina... - GONG

0:27:49 > 0:27:52And at the gong, Clare College have 175

0:27:52 > 0:27:55and Pembroke College have 250.

0:27:55 > 0:28:01Bad luck. You had a terrific comeback, but just left it a little bit too late. Thank you very much.

0:28:01 > 0:28:08You'll play one more quarter-final to have a chance of going through to the semis. We look forward to that.

0:28:08 > 0:28:14Terrific performance again from you, Pembroke College. You definitely go through to the semi-finals.

0:28:14 > 0:28:17We look forward to seeing you there. Congratulations.

0:28:17 > 0:28:23- Join us next time for another quarter-final, but until then, it's goodbye from Clare College.- Goodbye.

0:28:23 > 0:28:27- It's goodbye from Pembroke College. - Goodbye.- And it's goodbye from me.

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