0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:23'University Challenge - asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.'
0:00:27 > 0:00:30Hello. Tonight's match is a particularly intriguing fixture,
0:00:30 > 0:00:35because the two teams competing have already met in the first round
0:00:35 > 0:00:38of the contest and were only five points apart at the gong.
0:00:38 > 0:00:43The losers survived, however, being among the highest scoring losing teams from round one
0:00:43 > 0:00:47and now the meet again in the quarterfinals.
0:00:47 > 0:00:50Also, each team has already lost one quarterfinal match,
0:00:50 > 0:00:53which means it's curtains for whoever comes second tonight,
0:00:53 > 0:00:57while the winners earn one more chance to qualify for the semifinals.
0:00:57 > 0:01:01Balliol College, Oxford won, the first time these two met.
0:01:01 > 0:01:03Another very narrow victory followed
0:01:03 > 0:01:05when they beat Merton College, Oxford,
0:01:05 > 0:01:11and their first quarterfinal match was a defeat at the hands of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
0:01:11 > 0:01:12With an average age of 22
0:01:12 > 0:01:16and no doubt hoping history repeats itself tonight,
0:01:16 > 0:01:18let's meet the Balliol team again.
0:01:18 > 0:01:22Hello, I'm Liam Shaw, I'm from Shropshire and I study physics.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25I'm Andrew Whitby, from Brisbane, Australia, I'm working towards
0:01:25 > 0:01:28- a doctorate in economics. - And their captain.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30I'm Simon Wood, I'm from Surrey and I'm studying chemistry.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33Hi, I'm James Kirby, I'm from Warwickshire
0:01:33 > 0:01:35and I'm reading for a Masters in history.
0:01:35 > 0:01:39APPLAUSE
0:01:39 > 0:01:42And hoping to rewrite history are the team
0:01:42 > 0:01:45from Homerton College, Cambridge.
0:01:45 > 0:01:47After their defeat by Balliol, they
0:01:47 > 0:01:49crushed the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
0:01:49 > 0:01:53in the losers' play-offs, then Durham University in round two.
0:01:53 > 0:01:57They held the lead for most of the first quarterfinal against Clare College, Cambridge,
0:01:57 > 0:02:00but saw victory snatched away from them in the final minutes.
0:02:00 > 0:02:04With an average age of 21, let's meet them again.
0:02:04 > 0:02:07Hi, my name is Jack Euesden, I'm from Sheffield
0:02:07 > 0:02:09and I'm reading natural sciences.
0:02:09 > 0:02:12I'm Frances 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 > 0:02:19My 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 > 0:02:25Hi, I'm Thomas Grinyer, I'm from Southampton
0:02:25 > 0:02:27and I'm reading chemical engineering.
0:02:27 > 0:02:31APPLAUSE
0:02:31 > 0:02:35OK, let's not waste any time reciting the rules.
0:02:35 > 0:02:36Here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:36 > 0:02:42What short name links the Foreign Secretary in August 1914,
0:02:42 > 0:02:45the Prime Minister at the time of the Great Reform Act...
0:02:45 > 0:02:46Grey.
0:02:46 > 0:02:49Grey is correct, yes.
0:02:50 > 0:02:55Your bonuses. The first set tonight are on medieval history.
0:02:55 > 0:02:58The defeat of Philip VI of France at the Battle of Sluys
0:02:58 > 0:03:02in 1340 was an early victory for which English king
0:03:02 > 0:03:04in the Hundred Years' War?
0:03:04 > 0:03:08THEY CONFER
0:03:14 > 0:03:17- Henry IV?- No, it was Edward III. At which battle
0:03:17 > 0:03:21of 1356 did Edward the Black Prince defeat and capture
0:03:21 > 0:03:22the French King John?
0:03:26 > 0:03:29- OK. Crecy?- No, it was Poitiers.
0:03:29 > 0:03:32Defeat in the final battle of the Hundred Years' War at Castillon
0:03:32 > 0:03:36in 1453 lost England its control of Guyenne
0:03:36 > 0:03:40and which other French region, held for over 300 years?
0:03:40 > 0:03:43- Normandy?- Normandy.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46No, it was Gascony. 10 points for this.
0:03:46 > 0:03:51Which visual communications system formed the basis of Claude Chappe's invention in the 1790s
0:03:51 > 0:03:55that enabled a message to be sent from Lille to Paris in less than an hour?
0:03:55 > 0:03:58- Semaphore.- Correct.
0:04:00 > 0:04:04So, your first bonuses, Homerton College, are on porridge.
0:04:04 > 0:04:08"He receives comfort like cold porridge."
0:04:08 > 0:04:12In which play by Shakespeare does Alonso's brother Sebastian say those words?
0:04:15 > 0:04:17< It's not Twelfth Night?
0:04:18 > 0:04:21I think it's Sebastian in Twelfth Night.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28Twelfth Night.
0:04:28 > 0:04:32It was The Tempest. "There's sand in the porridge and sand in the bed,
0:04:32 > 0:04:36"and if this is pleasure, we'd rather be dead." These words appear in The English Lido,
0:04:36 > 0:04:41a song from 1928 revue by which dramatist, actor and songwriter?
0:04:41 > 0:04:42Coward?
0:04:46 > 0:04:50- Coward.- Noel Coward is right. "We are not interested
0:04:50 > 0:04:53"in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge."
0:04:53 > 0:04:58Those are the words of which pioneer of artificial intelligence, who died in 1954?
0:04:58 > 0:05:00Asimov?
0:05:01 > 0:05:03Asimov?
0:05:03 > 0:05:06No, that's Alan Turing. 10 points for this.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08"His preoccupations with moral dilemma
0:05:08 > 0:05:11"and his persistent choice of locations that were seedy,"
0:05:11 > 0:05:14a word he was to regret popularising,
0:05:14 > 0:05:16"give his work a highly distinctive quality."
0:05:16 > 0:05:18These words refer to which novelist,
0:05:18 > 0:05:23whose best-known early work is the 1932 Stamboul Train?
0:05:23 > 0:05:25- Graham Greene.- Correct.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31Your bonuses are on women's education in the 19th century.
0:05:31 > 0:05:36First performed in 1884 and including a chorus of girl graduates who sing,
0:05:36 > 0:05:43"Man's a ribald, man's a rake, man is nature's sole mistake," which work by Gilbert and Sullivan
0:05:43 > 0:05:46is set partly in a women-only university?
0:05:58 > 0:06:01- The Mikado?- No, Princess Aida.
0:06:01 > 0:06:04In the US, the Seven Sisters and the Women's Ivy League were names
0:06:04 > 0:06:07traditionally given to seven prestigious colleges for women
0:06:07 > 0:06:12founded in the 19th century. For five points, name three of them.
0:06:12 > 0:06:16THEY CONFER
0:06:17 > 0:06:19Cornell? No, not Cornell.
0:06:21 > 0:06:25Shall we go Cornell... I don't know which ones.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28- Cornell, Sarah Lawrence and... - Sarah Lawrence?- Yeah.
0:06:28 > 0:06:30Cornell, Sarah Lawrence and Brown.
0:06:30 > 0:06:35No, it's Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley.
0:06:35 > 0:06:39And finally for a possible five, the verse about the two 19th-century educational pioneers
0:06:39 > 0:06:46Dorothea Beale and Frances Buss accuse them of not feeling what conventional symbols of passion?
0:06:52 > 0:06:54- Come on, let's have it, please. - Pass.- It's Cupid's darts.
0:06:54 > 0:06:5710 points for this. Which 19th-century German mathematician
0:06:57 > 0:07:00gives his name to the theorem which states that
0:07:00 > 0:07:02a nine-point circle is tangent
0:07:02 > 0:07:05internally to the in-circle of a triangle
0:07:05 > 0:07:07and externally to its ex-circles?
0:07:09 > 0:07:14- Gauss.- No, anyone like to buzz from Balliol?- Ryman.
0:07:14 > 0:07:17No, it's Feuerbach's theorem. 10 points for this.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20Give the two-word name of the sport introduced into the Olympics
0:07:20 > 0:07:25in 1996 when the gold medals were won by the US and Brazil. It is played by...
0:07:25 > 0:07:27- Beach volleyball.- Correct.
0:07:30 > 0:07:34You take the lead, your bonuses are on French writers' pseudonyms.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37What pseudonym was adopted by Marie-Henri Beyle,
0:07:37 > 0:07:41reputedly after the similar name of the German town which was the birthplace
0:07:41 > 0:07:45of the archaeologist and art critic, Johann Winckelmann?
0:07:55 > 0:08:00- Colette.- No, Stendahl. Which writer's first works were published
0:08:00 > 0:08:03under the pseudonym Willy, the nickname of her first husband
0:08:03 > 0:08:06Henri Gauthier-Villars, although she later wrote under her own maiden surname?
0:08:06 > 0:08:09- That is Colette.- It is.
0:08:09 > 0:08:13Thought to have been taken from a village of the same name in the Midi, the dramatist
0:08:13 > 0:08:17Jean-Baptiste Pocquelin adopted what name in the 1640s?
0:08:17 > 0:08:18- Moliere.- That is right.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21We are going to take a picture round now.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24You will see a notable line from a play by Shakespeare.
0:08:24 > 0:08:2910 points if you can give me the title of the play from which it is taken.
0:08:29 > 0:08:33And as you will see, it has been rendered into phonetic English.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38- Julius Caesar.- Correct.
0:08:38 > 0:08:42"Beware the Ides of March." There we are.
0:08:42 > 0:08:46In case anyone was in doubt. Picture bonuses for you, Balliol College. They are on lines
0:08:46 > 0:08:50from plays by Shakespeare, written in International Phonetic Association English.
0:08:50 > 0:08:56In each case, I want the name of the play from which the lines are taken. Firstly, for five.
0:09:05 > 0:09:08- It's A Midsummer Night's Dream. - A Midsummer Night's Dream.
0:09:08 > 0:09:11It is, let's see the whole thing. A bit of Oberon there. Yes.
0:09:11 > 0:09:13And secondly.
0:09:27 > 0:09:29- Henry IV, Part One. - No, it's from King John,
0:09:29 > 0:09:34as we can see, Philip Faulconbridge. Final lines of the play.
0:09:34 > 0:09:35And finally.
0:09:47 > 0:09:49- Richard III?- Did you say Richard III?
0:09:49 > 0:09:51- Yes, Richard III. - No, that's from Henry V,
0:09:51 > 0:09:55as we can see there. The chorus, the prologue. 10 points for this.
0:09:55 > 0:09:57"His prism and silent face,
0:09:57 > 0:10:01"the marble index of a mind forever voyaging..."
0:10:01 > 0:10:04- Isaac Newton.- Correct.
0:10:07 > 0:10:10This set of bonuses are on a shape.
0:10:10 > 0:10:14In Cartesian coordinates, what shape is the solution to the equation,
0:10:14 > 0:10:201 - x squared - y squared - z squared = 0?
0:10:20 > 0:10:22- A sphere.- A sphere? A sphere.
0:10:22 > 0:10:27Sphere is right. Which British-born US physicist gives his name to a sphere that is
0:10:27 > 0:10:30a vast arrangement of artificial habitats orbiting a star,
0:10:30 > 0:10:36which he proposed as an observable signature of extraterrestrial civilisation?
0:10:36 > 0:10:38- Dyson.- Correct.
0:10:38 > 0:10:42Being a planet's gravitational region of influence, what sphere
0:10:42 > 0:10:44is named after a US astronomer, born in 1838?
0:10:49 > 0:10:53- US astronomer? Anyone? - Lovell?- Lovell?
0:10:53 > 0:10:57No, it's a Hill Sphere. 10 points for this. "Everything reminds him
0:10:57 > 0:11:02"of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper."
0:11:02 > 0:11:07These words are the US economist Robert Solo, referring to which...
0:11:07 > 0:11:09- Milton Friedman?- Correct.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15Your bonuses, Balliol College, are on the colour blue.
0:11:15 > 0:11:19In 1957, which artist registered the letters IKB
0:11:19 > 0:11:23as a trademark for the distinctive ultramarine colour he had used
0:11:23 > 0:11:26in nearly 200 of his blue monochrome paintings?
0:11:26 > 0:11:28- Yves Klein.- Correct.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31In which Moroccan city is the Majorelle Garden, formerly owned by
0:11:31 > 0:11:35Yves St Laurent and named after the French artist whose design for it
0:11:35 > 0:11:38used a distinctive shade of cobalt, now named after him?
0:11:43 > 0:11:46- Marrakesh?- Marrakesh. - Marrakesh.- Correct.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49In 1999, the colour-matching company Pantone chose which
0:11:49 > 0:11:53shade of blue as its official colour of the millennium,
0:11:53 > 0:11:58describing it as "the colour of the sky on a serene, crystal clear day"?
0:12:00 > 0:12:02Azure?
0:12:02 > 0:12:05No, cerulean blue. 10 points for this. Largely untranslated,
0:12:05 > 0:12:10the Liber Linteus, a text written on a roll of linen that had been used to wrap a mummy
0:12:10 > 0:12:14is the longest extant inscription in which ancient language?
0:12:14 > 0:12:17- The Emperor Claudius is said to...- Hieroglyphics.
0:12:17 > 0:12:21No, I'm afraid you lose five points. The Emperor Claudius is said to have been
0:12:21 > 0:12:23one of the last people able to read it.
0:12:23 > 0:12:28- Sumerian.- No, it's Etruscan. 10 points for this. Listen carefully.
0:12:28 > 0:12:34The heaviest oarsman in the Oxford-Cambridge boat race was Thorsten Engelmann,
0:12:34 > 0:12:39the stroke man of the 2007 Cambridge crew, who weighed in at 110.8 kilograms.
0:12:39 > 0:12:43To the nearest whole number, what multiple is this
0:12:43 > 0:12:50of the weight of the 1862 Cambridge cox, Francis Archer, who weighed in at 5st 2lb?
0:12:55 > 0:12:58- 20.- Anyone like to buzz from Balliol?
0:13:01 > 0:13:05- Two.- No, it's three. 10 points for this.
0:13:05 > 0:13:09A teenage high school dropout from Moscow, Andrei Ternovski,
0:13:09 > 0:13:13in 2009 created which controversial social networking website
0:13:13 > 0:13:16that pairs random strangers together for webcam...
0:13:16 > 0:13:19- Chatroulette.- Correct, yes.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:13:22 > 0:13:25We will enquire no further! Right, your bonuses
0:13:25 > 0:13:28this time are on place names. Which English city
0:13:28 > 0:13:31is the birthplace of the author of Rasselas,
0:13:31 > 0:13:33and shares its name with a society photographer?
0:13:39 > 0:13:43What's the name of that...
0:13:45 > 0:13:48- Lin... Lind...- Lindeman?
0:13:48 > 0:13:52- Come on.- I can't guess it.- Linnet. - No, it's Lichfield.
0:13:52 > 0:13:57Which city in Massachusetts is the birthplace of the painter of An Arrangement In Grey And Black
0:13:57 > 0:14:01and shares its name with the author of the poem The Quaker Graveyard In Nantucket?
0:14:03 > 0:14:06- Worcester?- No, Whitman.
0:14:08 > 0:14:12- Whitman?- No, it's Lowell. Which town in Northern England is
0:14:12 > 0:14:15the birthplace of the composer of Belshazaar's Feast and Facade
0:14:15 > 0:14:19and shares its name with a former manager of the Rolling Stones?
0:14:21 > 0:14:24Any ideas?
0:14:24 > 0:14:25- Leeds?- Try it?
0:14:25 > 0:14:27- Leeds?- No, it's Oldham.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30We're going to take a music round now. For your music starter,
0:14:30 > 0:14:33you'll hear a piece of classical music.
0:14:33 > 0:14:3510 points if you can give me the composer.
0:14:46 > 0:14:48Beethoven?
0:14:48 > 0:14:51No. Homerton, you can hear a little more.
0:15:04 > 0:15:08- Chopin?- No, it's Mendelssohn's 2nd Piano Concerto.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11Music bonuses shortly, 10 points for this in the meantime.
0:15:11 > 0:15:15The widow of the Roman senator Gaius Claudius Marcellus
0:15:15 > 0:15:19underwent a political marriage in 40 BC to which general and politician,
0:15:19 > 0:15:24aiming to cement the alliance between him and her brother Octavian?
0:15:24 > 0:15:30- Julius Caesar?- No. Anyone like to buzz from Homerton?- Marcus Agrippa?
0:15:30 > 0:15:32No. It's Mark Antony. 10 points for this starter.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35The summit of which mountain is the location of telescopes
0:15:35 > 0:15:38including the Gemini North, the Subaru,
0:15:38 > 0:15:42the James Clerk Maxwell and the Canada France Hawaii telescope?
0:15:42 > 0:15:44- Mauna Kea?- Correct.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47APPLAUSE
0:15:47 > 0:15:51So that piece of Mendelssohn you heard was commissioned by the
0:15:51 > 0:15:56Birmingham Triennial Music Festival, which ran from 1768 to 1912.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59Your bonuses are excerpts from three pieces of music
0:15:59 > 0:16:02that were commissioned for and premiered at that festival.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04In each case, I want the name of the composer,
0:16:04 > 0:16:09firstly the composer of this opera, which premiered in 1885.
0:16:16 > 0:16:18What was around 1885?
0:16:22 > 0:16:25THEY CONFER
0:16:31 > 0:16:33What do you reckon? Sullivan?
0:16:33 > 0:16:36- It's German, isn't it?- Strauss?
0:16:36 > 0:16:41- Strauss?- No, that's Dvorak. It's from his opera The Spectre's Bride.
0:16:41 > 0:16:43Secondly, the composer of this ballet,
0:16:43 > 0:16:46which also premiered at the 1885 festival.
0:16:51 > 0:16:54That's Tchaikovsky, I reckon.
0:16:54 > 0:16:57- Tchaikovsky? - No, that's Charles Gounod.
0:16:57 > 0:17:00And finally, the composer of this piece that premiered at
0:17:00 > 0:17:03the last festival, which was held in 1912.
0:17:07 > 0:17:09Elgar?
0:17:10 > 0:17:14- Elgar?- It was Elgar, yes. Very distinctive.
0:17:14 > 0:17:17- APPLAUSE - Right, 10 points for this.
0:17:17 > 0:17:21Meanings of what short word include "a type of fine linen resembling cambric",
0:17:21 > 0:17:25and in biology "a layer of bacteria uniformly distributed..."
0:17:25 > 0:17:28- Lawn.- Lawn is right, yes.
0:17:28 > 0:17:31APPLAUSE
0:17:31 > 0:17:34These bonuses are on medicine and literature.
0:17:34 > 0:17:37Known as the White Death, which disease contributed to the early
0:17:37 > 0:17:41deaths of DH Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield and Heinrich Heine?
0:17:41 > 0:17:43Tuberculosis?
0:17:43 > 0:17:46- Tuberculosis?- Correct.
0:17:46 > 0:17:49Which figure in German literature retired at the age of 39
0:17:49 > 0:17:54from his job at the Workers' Accident Insurance Institute as a result of TB?
0:17:54 > 0:17:57He died two years later in 1924.
0:17:57 > 0:18:01- Kafka.- Correct. The heroine of which novel of 1848
0:18:01 > 0:18:07was based on the real-life Parisian courtesan Marie Duplessis, who died of TB the previous year?
0:18:07 > 0:18:12- Nana.- No, it's La Dame Aux Camelias. 10 points for this.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14In physics, point sources that
0:18:14 > 0:18:16spread their influence equally
0:18:16 > 0:18:20in all directions without a range limit obey what general form of law?
0:18:21 > 0:18:23Inverse-square law.
0:18:23 > 0:18:26- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:18:26 > 0:18:30Balliol, your bonuses are on astronomy.
0:18:30 > 0:18:34To the nearest ten million, what is the mean distance in kilometres from the earth to the sun,
0:18:34 > 0:18:38that is one astronomical unit?
0:18:38 > 0:18:40INDISTINCT CONFERRING
0:18:43 > 0:18:45- So it's 150 million?- Yeah.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47150 million?
0:18:47 > 0:18:48Correct.
0:18:48 > 0:18:52To the nearest ten, how many astronomical units is the mean distance
0:18:52 > 0:18:55from the sun to the outermost undisputed planet Neptune?
0:18:57 > 0:18:58So it's 150 million to earth?
0:18:58 > 0:19:02INDISTINCT CONFERRING
0:19:06 > 0:19:07- Er, 20?- No, it's 30.
0:19:07 > 0:19:11And now more than 110 astronomical units from earth,
0:19:11 > 0:19:15what was the first man-made object to leave the solar system?
0:19:15 > 0:19:17INDISTINCT CONFERRING
0:19:19 > 0:19:21...Pioneer probe.
0:19:21 > 0:19:22Pioneer Probe?
0:19:22 > 0:19:24It was the Voyager space probe.
0:19:24 > 0:19:2510 points for this.
0:19:25 > 0:19:29Marianne Faithful, Helena Bonham Carter, Kate Winslet and Mariah Gale
0:19:29 > 0:19:33are among those who've played which of Shakespeare's characters?
0:19:33 > 0:19:34Ophelia?
0:19:34 > 0:19:36Ophelia's right, yes.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39Right, your bonuses this time are on philosophy.
0:19:39 > 0:19:43Also used in mathematics and biochemistry,
0:19:43 > 0:19:46what term is often used in logic for any inference whose
0:19:46 > 0:19:49premises do not entail its conclusions?
0:19:50 > 0:19:53INDISTINCT CONFERRING
0:20:00 > 0:20:03Let's have an answer, please.
0:20:03 > 0:20:04Inference?
0:20:04 > 0:20:06No, it's induction.
0:20:06 > 0:20:08Challenging the rational basis of any such inference,
0:20:08 > 0:20:11which 18th-century Scottish philosopher's argument
0:20:11 > 0:20:15is often credited with raising the problem of induction in its modern form?
0:20:15 > 0:20:17- Hume?- Correct.
0:20:17 > 0:20:21Which English philosopher advocated an eponymous method of induction in the Novum Organum
0:20:21 > 0:20:24as a means of studying and interpreting natural phenomena?
0:20:24 > 0:20:27- Erm, Bacon? - It was Francis Bacon. Right.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29We're going to take in the second picture round now.
0:20:29 > 0:20:32For your picture starter, you'll see a portrait of an historical figure.
0:20:32 > 0:20:3510 points if you can name her.
0:20:37 > 0:20:39Maria Teresa.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42No, anyone like to buzz from Balliol?
0:20:44 > 0:20:46Marie Antoinette?
0:20:46 > 0:20:48No, it's Madame de Pompadour.
0:20:48 > 0:20:52So picture bonuses shortly, another starter question in the meantime.
0:20:52 > 0:20:5410 points for this.
0:20:54 > 0:20:56Give the three rhyming words that mean
0:20:56 > 0:20:58author of The Rape Of The Loch,
0:20:58 > 0:20:59run away secretly to marry,
0:20:59 > 0:21:02and astrological forecast of a person's future.
0:21:06 > 0:21:09Elope, Pope and horoscope.
0:21:09 > 0:21:10Correct.
0:21:10 > 0:21:12APPLAUSE
0:21:14 > 0:21:16So you get the picture bonuses, then,
0:21:16 > 0:21:19Madame de Pompadour was the mistress of Louis XV of France.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21Your bonus is three more paintings,
0:21:21 > 0:21:24this time of women romantically linked
0:21:24 > 0:21:26to members of the British Royal Family.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28Firstly for five, who's this?
0:21:34 > 0:21:37INDISTINCT CONFERRING
0:21:40 > 0:21:41Lillie Langtry?
0:21:41 > 0:21:44It is Lillie Langtry, yes, Edward VII's squeeze.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46And secondly...
0:21:52 > 0:21:55INDISTINCT CONFERRING
0:21:59 > 0:22:01Come on!
0:22:01 > 0:22:03- Mrs Fitzherbert? - It is Maria Fitzherbert, yes,
0:22:03 > 0:22:07who actually married George IV before he was king, of course. And finally...
0:22:07 > 0:22:09INDISTINCT CONFERRING
0:22:09 > 0:22:11Yes, it is. Er, Nell Gwyn.
0:22:11 > 0:22:12It is Nell Gwyn.
0:22:12 > 0:22:14Yes, five minutes to go for this.
0:22:15 > 0:22:18From the Italian meaning "someone else" what term was coined
0:22:18 > 0:22:21by the French philosopher Auguste Comte for a disinterested
0:22:21 > 0:22:25concern in the welfare of others as an end in itself?
0:22:25 > 0:22:26Altruism?
0:22:26 > 0:22:27Correct.
0:22:28 > 0:22:32Your bonuses are on a central Asian city this time, Balliol College.
0:22:32 > 0:22:36Thought to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the world,
0:22:36 > 0:22:42which city on the historical silk road is the second largest city of Uzbekistan?
0:22:43 > 0:22:44- Samarkand?- Correct.
0:22:44 > 0:22:48Subtitled - The British Ambassador's Controversial Defiance Of Tyranny And The War On Terror,
0:22:48 > 0:22:54Murder In Samarkand is a 2006 work by which former diplomat?
0:22:55 > 0:22:58INDISTINCT CONFERRING
0:22:59 > 0:23:01I don't know. Pass.
0:23:01 > 0:23:04Erm...Richard...someone. No, pass, sorry.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06Richard Someone? No, it's Craig Murray.
0:23:06 > 0:23:10Samarkand was the capital of which Turkic conqueror born in 1336?
0:23:12 > 0:23:14Tamerlane?
0:23:14 > 0:23:15Tamerlane is correct.
0:23:15 > 0:23:1610 points for this.
0:23:16 > 0:23:18What initial two letters link
0:23:18 > 0:23:21an upland region of Arkansas and Missouri,
0:23:21 > 0:23:25Shelley's King Of Kings and an allotropic pungent...
0:23:25 > 0:23:26- O-Z.- O-Z is correct, yes.
0:23:28 > 0:23:32Your bonuses are on probability distributions, Homerton.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35In each case I want the name of the distribution being described.
0:23:35 > 0:23:38The discreet distribution taking the value 1 with
0:23:38 > 0:23:42probability p and taking the value 0 with probability 1 - p.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46- Binomial.- No, it's Bernoulli.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49And secondly, the discreet distribution that
0:23:49 > 0:23:52results from summing n independent Bernoulli random variables?
0:23:56 > 0:23:58I think it's Poisson.
0:23:58 > 0:24:00- Poisson.- No, that is binomial.
0:24:00 > 0:24:03And thirdly, the continuous distribution obtained
0:24:03 > 0:24:06as a limit of binomial distributions as n tends to infinity,
0:24:06 > 0:24:08but p doesn't tend to 0?
0:24:08 > 0:24:09Nominate Grinyer.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11Gaussian or normal.
0:24:11 > 0:24:14That's correct, yes. 10 points for this.
0:24:14 > 0:24:16In chemistry, how many electrons are lost
0:24:16 > 0:24:19when a stannous ion is oxidised to a stannic ion?
0:24:20 > 0:24:21Four?
0:24:21 > 0:24:24Anyone like to buzz from Homerton?
0:24:25 > 0:24:26One?
0:24:26 > 0:24:27No, it's two. 10 points for this -
0:24:27 > 0:24:30from a late Latin word meaning "womb",
0:24:30 > 0:24:32what term denotes a rectangular array of elements,
0:24:32 > 0:24:35or the rock material in which fossils are embedded?
0:24:36 > 0:24:38Matrix?
0:24:38 > 0:24:40Matrix is right, yes.
0:24:41 > 0:24:44Your bonuses, Balliol College, are on a US government department.
0:24:44 > 0:24:47What two-word title is given to the head of the
0:24:47 > 0:24:48US Department of Justice?
0:24:48 > 0:24:51- Is it Attorney General? - Attorney General?
0:24:51 > 0:24:55Correct. The Department of Justice headquarters in Washington DC are
0:24:55 > 0:24:58named after which former Attorney General incumbent from 1961 to '64?
0:24:58 > 0:25:01He later became a US senator.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04INDISTINCT CONFERRING
0:25:07 > 0:25:09Let's have it, please.
0:25:09 > 0:25:10Robert Kennedy?
0:25:10 > 0:25:11Correct.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14Which other agency within the Department of Justice is
0:25:14 > 0:25:18charged with implementing laws that cover trafficking in controlled substances?
0:25:18 > 0:25:20It's often referred to as the DEA.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26Drug Enforcement Agency?
0:25:26 > 0:25:29Drug Enforcement Administration. 10 points for this.
0:25:29 > 0:25:31In a trilogy published from 1962,
0:25:31 > 0:25:35the historian Eric Hobsbawm defined a long 19th century
0:25:35 > 0:25:39that began in 1789 and ended in what year?
0:25:41 > 0:25:431917?
0:25:43 > 0:25:45No, Homerton, one of you may buzz.
0:25:46 > 0:25:481914.
0:25:48 > 0:25:491914 is correct, yes.
0:25:49 > 0:25:51APPLAUSE
0:25:51 > 0:25:54Your bonuses, Homerton are on homonyms in French.
0:25:54 > 0:25:58Which French word can mean both "raw" and "vintage"?
0:26:00 > 0:26:02- Cru and cru. - Cru is correct.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05Which French word can mean both "wave" and "imprecise"?
0:26:07 > 0:26:08- Vague and vague.- Correct.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11Which French word can mean both "ice cream" and "mirror"?
0:26:11 > 0:26:12Glace?
0:26:12 > 0:26:14Glace and glace.
0:26:14 > 0:26:1610 points for this. The Okavango is the only permanent river
0:26:16 > 0:26:18in which desert covering most...?
0:26:18 > 0:26:19Kalahari.
0:26:19 > 0:26:24Kalahari's right. Your bonuses this time are on words beginning with the letters K-I-E.
0:26:24 > 0:26:27In each case give me the word from the definition.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29Firstly, the surname of a Polish film director
0:26:29 > 0:26:31whose works include Decalogue and Three Colours.
0:26:31 > 0:26:33- Kieslowski.- Correct.
0:26:33 > 0:26:36From German words meaning "gravel" and "yeast", a variety of
0:26:36 > 0:26:40diatomaceous earth that has been used to make cat litter and dynamite.
0:26:43 > 0:26:44Come on!
0:26:44 > 0:26:47- Kieser.- It's Kieselguhr.
0:26:47 > 0:26:51The capital of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein that gives its name to a canal
0:26:51 > 0:26:53- connecting the Baltic and the North sea.- Kiel.- Right.
0:26:53 > 0:26:55Once used to describe the mark
0:26:55 > 0:26:59burned into the skin of a criminal or slave, which word...
0:26:59 > 0:27:00Brand?
0:27:00 > 0:27:03No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:27:03 > 0:27:07..From the Greek for tattoo mark can mean a stain on one's reputation?
0:27:07 > 0:27:09- Blemish.- No, it's stigma.
0:27:09 > 0:27:1010 points for this.
0:27:10 > 0:27:14What generic term for supposed paranormal processes such as telepathy
0:27:14 > 0:27:18and clairvoyance is also the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet?
0:27:19 > 0:27:21Psi.
0:27:21 > 0:27:24Psi is right, your bonuses this time are on types of nutrition.
0:27:24 > 0:27:28Meaning "self-feeding", what term describes those organisms...
0:27:28 > 0:27:29GONG SOUNDS
0:27:29 > 0:27:32And at the gong, Homerton College, Cambridge have 145,
0:27:32 > 0:27:35Balliol College, Oxford have 170.
0:27:38 > 0:27:42Well, you left your comeback a little too late, I'm afraid, Homerton.
0:27:42 > 0:27:46We've got to say goodbye to you, you've now lost two quarterfinals.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49So Balliol, you get the opportunity to play again.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal,
0:27:52 > 0:27:55- but until then it's goodbye from Homerton College, Cambridge. - ALL: Goodbye.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57- Goodbye from Balliol College, Oxford.- ALL: Bye.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59And it's goodbye from me.
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