0:00:19 > 0:00:24University Challenge! Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:30Hello. The mills of this contest grind slowly,
0:00:30 > 0:00:34and they grind exceedingly small, and they've now sieved out
0:00:34 > 0:00:37two teams, Worcester College, Oxford, and Pembroke College, Cambridge,
0:00:37 > 0:00:39who have to prove themselves in the semifinals.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42Whichever team wins tonight will join them.
0:00:42 > 0:00:45Manchester University have adopted an approach we've come to term
0:00:45 > 0:00:49"Extreme Answering" - either extremely right, or extremely wrong.
0:00:49 > 0:00:51So far they've seen off Selwyn College, Cambridge,
0:00:51 > 0:00:54Christchurch, Oxford, and Newcastle University,
0:00:54 > 0:00:58but have already lost one quarterfinal match to University College, London.
0:00:58 > 0:01:02That means they're here tonight on their last chance to stay in the competition.
0:01:02 > 0:01:05Let's ask them to reintroduce themselves.
0:01:05 > 0:01:07I'm Luke Kelly, I'm from Ashford in Kent, and I'm studying History.
0:01:08 > 0:01:12Hi, I'm Michael McKenna, from St Anne's in Lancashire, and I'm studying Biochemistry.
0:01:12 > 0:01:13And their captain.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17Hi, I'm Tristan Burke, from Ilkley in West Yorkshire, and I'm studying English Literature.
0:01:17 > 0:01:20Hello, I'm Paul Joyce, from Chorley in Lancashire,
0:01:20 > 0:01:24and I'm studying for a Masters in Social Research Methods and Statistics.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27APPLAUSE
0:01:27 > 0:01:32Now, the team from Clare College, Cambridge have beaten Worcester College, Oxford in round one,
0:01:32 > 0:01:38Leeds University in round two, and Homerton College, Cambridge in their first quarterfinal,
0:01:38 > 0:01:40but then they lost their second to Pembroke College, Cambridge,
0:01:40 > 0:01:45which means this is also their last chance to qualify for the semifinals.
0:01:45 > 0:01:46Let's meet them again.
0:01:46 > 0:01:50Hi, I'm Chris Cao, I'm from Abingdon in Oxfordshire, and I'm reading Mathematics.
0:01:50 > 0:01:54Hi, I'm Daniel Janes, I'm from East London, and I'm studying History.
0:01:54 > 0:01:55And their captain.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59Hi, I'm Jonathan Burley, I'm from Bourne End in Buckinghamshire, and I'm reading Physics.
0:01:59 > 0:02:03Hello, I'm Jonathan Foxwell, from Farnham in Surrey, and I'm reading Natural Sciences.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06APPLAUSE
0:02:06 > 0:02:10OK, fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:10 > 0:02:14July 13th, 2010 was the 25th anniversary of which event,
0:02:14 > 0:02:20ultimately prompted by BBC News reports in 1984 on Claire Bertschinger's work
0:02:20 > 0:02:24at a Red Cross feeding centre in northern Ethiopia?
0:02:24 > 0:02:25Live Aid?
0:02:25 > 0:02:26Live Aid is right, yes.
0:02:28 > 0:02:32First set of bonuses, Manchester, are on nicknames used by Private Eye.
0:02:32 > 0:02:37The Grocer was Private Eye's nickname for which Prime Minister?
0:02:37 > 0:02:41He was first given the name in 1962 as a result of his role in the negotiations over EEC food policy?
0:02:41 > 0:02:43Edward Heath.
0:02:43 > 0:02:47Correct. In the 1960s, a Scottish newspaper wrongly captioned
0:02:47 > 0:02:51a photo of which Prime Minister as Baillie Vass,
0:02:51 > 0:02:53having mistaken him for a Scottish magistrate,
0:02:53 > 0:02:55leading Private Eye to adopt this as his nickname?
0:02:58 > 0:03:00Alec Douglas-Home?
0:03:00 > 0:03:04Correct. Born Jan Ludvik Hoch, which publisher and former Labour MP
0:03:04 > 0:03:09was referred to by Private Eye as both Cap'n Bob and The Bouncing Czech?
0:03:10 > 0:03:13- I've no idea.- Whatisname? Daily Mirror, fell off the boat.
0:03:13 > 0:03:15Maxwell. Robert Maxwell.
0:03:15 > 0:03:16Robert Maxwell.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19Correct. 10 points for this starter question.
0:03:19 > 0:03:23What given name links a founder of the Cistercian order, born around 1028,
0:03:23 > 0:03:27the eldest son of William the Conqueror, who succeeded him as Duke of Normandy,
0:03:27 > 0:03:29and three Kings...
0:03:30 > 0:03:32Er, Charles?
0:03:32 > 0:03:35No, I'm afraid you lose five points. And three Kings of Scotland?
0:03:35 > 0:03:39The first of whom was the victor of the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314.
0:03:39 > 0:03:41Robert?
0:03:41 > 0:03:43Robert is right, yes.
0:03:44 > 0:03:48OK, your bonuses this time, Manchester, are on single-word pseudonyms.
0:03:48 > 0:03:52Which writer, born in London in 1775, published essays under the pen name Elia,
0:03:52 > 0:03:58a name he borrowed from a fellow clerk at the South Sea House, where he had worked in the 1790s?
0:03:58 > 0:03:59Charles Lamb.
0:03:59 > 0:04:04Correct. Cato was the collective pseudonym of the authors, in 1940, of Guilty Men,
0:04:04 > 0:04:08a denunciation of public figures who were regarded as appeasers.
0:04:08 > 0:04:10Which future Labour Party leader was one of the authors?
0:04:10 > 0:04:12Michael Foot?
0:04:12 > 0:04:15Correct. What pseudonym was adopted by the British writer Hector Hugh Monro,
0:04:15 > 0:04:21born in Burma in 1870, and known particularly for his macabre and satirical short stories?
0:04:21 > 0:04:22Saki.
0:04:22 > 0:04:24Correct. 10 points for this starter question.
0:04:24 > 0:04:28In economics, the laws stating the tendency for money of lower intrinsic value
0:04:28 > 0:04:33to circulate more freely than money of higher intrinsic but equal nominal value,
0:04:33 > 0:04:36is named after which Tudor financier?
0:04:36 > 0:04:40He founded the Royal Exchange and financed the London College that bears his name.
0:04:43 > 0:04:44Goldsmiths?
0:04:44 > 0:04:47No. One of you buzz, Clare.
0:04:49 > 0:04:50Wolsey?
0:04:50 > 0:04:52No, it's Thomas Gresham, as in Gresham's law. 10 points for this.
0:04:52 > 0:04:55Originally thought to secrete nasal mucus,
0:04:55 > 0:04:58but now seen to play a key role in endocrine regulation
0:04:58 > 0:05:02and the control of growth, development and metabolism, which small gland lies...
0:05:03 > 0:05:05Is it the adenoids?
0:05:05 > 0:05:07No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10..which small gland lies at the base of the brain in vertebrates?
0:05:10 > 0:05:11The pituitary gland?
0:05:11 > 0:05:13Correct.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17Your bonuses, this time, are on Egyptian gods, Manchester.
0:05:17 > 0:05:21In Egyptian mythology, Amon is the creator of the world,
0:05:21 > 0:05:24and Ra maintains it by means of the passage of the sun.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27Who created man and gave him wisdom?
0:05:30 > 0:05:32Osiris? Is it Osiris?
0:05:32 > 0:05:35- Atum.- Atum?
0:05:36 > 0:05:37Atum?
0:05:37 > 0:05:39No, it's Ptah.
0:05:39 > 0:05:42Which God of wisdom invented writing and was the protector of Egyptian officials,
0:05:42 > 0:05:45meaning that he was responsible for the efficient running of the state?
0:05:45 > 0:05:46Thoth.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49Correct. After the world was created, which God became King of Egypt,
0:05:49 > 0:05:52and ruled together with his sister-consort, Isis?
0:05:52 > 0:05:57- Osiris.- 10 points for this. Identify the poet who wrote these words.
0:05:57 > 0:05:59"Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02"The days of our youth are the days of our glory.
0:06:02 > 0:06:06"And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty,
0:06:06 > 0:06:08"are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty."
0:06:10 > 0:06:12Dryden?
0:06:12 > 0:06:14No. One of you buzz, Clare.
0:06:14 > 0:06:16Tennyson?
0:06:16 > 0:06:18No, it's Byron. 10 points for this. Listen carefully.
0:06:18 > 0:06:23Six of the traditional nine counties of the historical province of Ulster are in Northern Ireland.
0:06:23 > 0:06:27For 10 points, name any one of the three in the Republic.
0:06:27 > 0:06:28Donegal.
0:06:28 > 0:06:30Donegal is right. The others are Cavan and Monaghan.
0:06:31 > 0:06:36Right, Clare. Your bonuses are on fishing in literature.
0:06:36 > 0:06:40Which US author's collection of writings on fishing, published posthumously in 2000,
0:06:40 > 0:06:45include his experiences of the sport in Paris, the Pyrenees, Spain and Cuba?
0:06:47 > 0:06:49- Ernest Hemingway. - Ernest Hemingway.
0:06:49 > 0:06:52Correct. Trout Fishing in America and A Confederate General...
0:06:52 > 0:06:54- Nominate James.- Richard Brautigan.
0:06:54 > 0:06:58Correct. Along with salmon fishing, the name of which country of the Middle East
0:06:58 > 0:07:00appears in the title of a prize-winning...
0:07:00 > 0:07:02Yemen.
0:07:02 > 0:07:03Yemen is correct, yes.
0:07:05 > 0:07:09Right, a picture round, now, slowing things down a little bit.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12Your picture starter is a photograph of a British political figure.
0:07:12 > 0:07:1410 points if you can name her.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17Baroness Ashton.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19It is Catherine Ashton, yes.
0:07:20 > 0:07:24She is the European High Representative for Foreign Affairs.
0:07:24 > 0:07:27She got that job in 2010.
0:07:27 > 0:07:29Your picture bonuses are three female politicians,
0:07:29 > 0:07:32all of whom are or have been head of government or state.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34Five points for each figure you can name.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37Firstly, this figure, who was elected in 2006.
0:07:41 > 0:07:42Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
0:07:42 > 0:07:43Correct, in Liberia.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45Secondly, this leader, elected in 2010.
0:07:49 > 0:07:50Nominate Janes.
0:07:50 > 0:07:51It's Dilma Rousseff.
0:07:51 > 0:07:55It is, in Brazil, and finally, this leader, also elected in 2010.
0:07:59 > 0:08:00Julia Gillet.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03No, it's Julia Gillard. 10 points for this starter question.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05Which pioneer of the High Renaissance style
0:08:05 > 0:08:08designed part of Milan's Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie early in his career,
0:08:08 > 0:08:13and in 1503 became the chief architect of St Peter's Basilica in Rome?
0:08:15 > 0:08:16Bernini?
0:08:16 > 0:08:19No. Anyone want to buzz from Manchester?
0:08:19 > 0:08:20Michelangelo?
0:08:20 > 0:08:22No, it's Bramante. 10 points for this.
0:08:22 > 0:08:25Renowned for its exact facial proportions,
0:08:25 > 0:08:29one of the best known exhibits of the Neues Museum in Berlin
0:08:29 > 0:08:31is a limestone and plaster bust of which Egyptian...
0:08:31 > 0:08:33Nefertiti.
0:08:33 > 0:08:38Nefertiti is correct. You get a set of bonuses now, Manchester, on thermodynamics.
0:08:38 > 0:08:43Which SI derived unit is named after a physicist and brewer born in Salford in 1818?
0:08:43 > 0:08:48He used a gravity-powered paddlewheel to measure the amount of heat
0:08:48 > 0:08:50equal to a given amount of mechanical work.
0:08:50 > 0:08:54- Joule.- Which SI unit is named after another British physicist,
0:08:54 > 0:08:57who, among many other things, collaborated with Joule?
0:08:57 > 0:09:00Faraday? Is that an SI unit? Or Kelvin?
0:09:01 > 0:09:02Kelvin.
0:09:02 > 0:09:03Kelvin is correct.
0:09:03 > 0:09:06Dividing the joule by the kelvin gives a unit used to measure
0:09:06 > 0:09:08what physical property of an object?
0:09:14 > 0:09:16Expansion?
0:09:16 > 0:09:18Is that a physical property?
0:09:20 > 0:09:21Heat capacity.
0:09:21 > 0:09:23Correct, or entropy. 10 points for this.
0:09:23 > 0:09:28What verb, meaning to gratify or indulge, is derived from the name of the lovers' go-between
0:09:28 > 0:09:32in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, and also appears in Shakespeare's...
0:09:32 > 0:09:34- Pander. - Pander is right, yes.
0:09:36 > 0:09:39Your bonuses now, Clare College, are on a Roman Emperor.
0:09:39 > 0:09:43Not to be confused with the author of The Meditations,
0:09:43 > 0:09:46who became the Emperor on the death of Claudius II in 270?
0:09:46 > 0:09:48He was later given the title Restorer of the World
0:09:48 > 0:09:51for his successful military campaigns.
0:09:53 > 0:09:54Shall we say Marcus?
0:09:54 > 0:09:55Come on.
0:09:55 > 0:09:57Marcus.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59No, it's Aurelian.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01Secondly, now a World Heritage site in central Syria,
0:10:01 > 0:10:07which city was the capital of a short-lived empire destroyed by Aurelian in 272?
0:10:07 > 0:10:10Its Queen, Zenobia, was taken as a prisoner to Rome.
0:10:12 > 0:10:13Nominate Cao.
0:10:13 > 0:10:14Palmyrea.
0:10:14 > 0:10:16Correct. And finally, for five points,
0:10:16 > 0:10:20Aurelian's victory over Tetricus at the Battle of Chalons in 274,
0:10:20 > 0:10:23marked the end of a breakaway empire named after which Roman territory?
0:10:32 > 0:10:34- Come on.- Nominate Cao.
0:10:34 > 0:10:35Is it, like, the Gallic Empire, or something?
0:10:35 > 0:10:39Yes, Gaul. 10 points for this. The Canadian territory of Nunavut
0:10:39 > 0:10:42has an area of more than 2 million square kilometres
0:10:42 > 0:10:46and comprises around 20 percent of Canada's total area.
0:10:46 > 0:10:50Which country of the Americas is closest in size to Nunavut?
0:10:50 > 0:10:52Is it Brazil?
0:10:52 > 0:10:54Anyone like to buzz from Manchester?
0:10:54 > 0:10:56Mexico?
0:10:56 > 0:10:57Mexico is right, yes.
0:10:59 > 0:11:03Your bonuses, Manchester, are on literary titles that contain numbers.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06In each case, complete the arithmetical calculations of the numbers
0:11:06 > 0:11:07in the titles of each pair of books.
0:11:07 > 0:11:14For example, Dickens' cities plus Dumas' musketeers gives the answer five. OK?
0:11:14 > 0:11:20Firstly, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's years of solitude multiplied by Tolkien's towers.
0:11:20 > 0:11:21200.
0:11:21 > 0:11:23Correct.
0:11:23 > 0:11:27Second, Hosseini's splendid suns divided by TS Eliot's quartets.
0:11:27 > 0:11:30- Any idea how many splendid suns there are?- No idea.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35It's something divided by four.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38Four.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41Four? No, it's a thousand splendid suns, I'm afraid, rather than 16.
0:11:41 > 0:11:45So the answer is 250.
0:11:45 > 0:11:50Kurt Vonnegut's slaughterhouse multiplied by Arnold Bennett's towns.
0:11:51 > 0:11:5225.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54Yes. 10 points for this.
0:11:54 > 0:11:57From the Latin meaning to shear, what term denotes the shaving
0:11:57 > 0:12:02of the crown of the head in the Roman Catholic Church before 1972?
0:12:02 > 0:12:03Tonsure.
0:12:03 > 0:12:04Tonsure is correct, yes.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07Your bonuses, Clare College, are on trees.
0:12:07 > 0:12:11What is the common name for the coniferous tree genus Abies,
0:12:11 > 0:12:15whose species include the Caucasian, Balsam, Red and Noble?
0:12:19 > 0:12:21Pine.
0:12:21 > 0:12:25No, it's fir. Which firs in the genus Pseudotsuga have distinctive pendulous cones
0:12:25 > 0:12:27and softer leaves than the Abies firs,
0:12:27 > 0:12:29and are named after a Scottish botanist?
0:12:30 > 0:12:32Douglas.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34Douglas is correct. Similar in appearance to the firs,
0:12:34 > 0:12:37which genus of trees has species that include Norway and Sitka?
0:12:44 > 0:12:46Come on.
0:12:46 > 0:12:47Spruce.
0:12:47 > 0:12:50Spruce is correct. 10 points for this.
0:12:50 > 0:12:53Etymologically unconnected, what short name links a French Department
0:12:53 > 0:12:56named after a tributary of the Loire, with a US singer and actress
0:12:56 > 0:12:59whose films include The Witches of Eastwick and Moonstruck?
0:13:00 > 0:13:02- Cher. - Cher is right, yes.
0:13:03 > 0:13:06Your bonuses this time are on Homeric epithets.
0:13:06 > 0:13:08As Achilles gazes out over the Aegean at the funeral
0:13:08 > 0:13:12of his friend Patroclus, in book 23 of The Iliad,
0:13:12 > 0:13:16which familiar epithet is used to describe the sea?
0:13:16 > 0:13:20- Wine dark.- In the Iliad, which God is frequently referred to
0:13:20 > 0:13:25as God of the Silver Bow, and The Lord who Shoots from Afar?
0:13:25 > 0:13:26Apollo.
0:13:26 > 0:13:29Correct. Because of his ability to summon earthquakes,
0:13:29 > 0:13:31which God is given the epithet Earth-Shaker?
0:13:31 > 0:13:32Poseidon.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35Poseidon is right. We're going to take a music round.
0:13:35 > 0:13:40For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of music by a modern composer.
0:13:40 > 0:13:4210 points if you can name him.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51Sorry, is it Philip Glass?
0:13:51 > 0:13:52It is Philip Glass, yes.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57That was from Einstein On The Beach.
0:13:57 > 0:14:00Your bonuses are three more modern classical pieces,
0:14:00 > 0:14:04this time representing the avant-garde or experimentalist movements from the 1950s.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06In each case, simply name the composer.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09Firstly, the German composer of this piece.
0:14:12 > 0:14:14- Nominate Janes. - Stockhausen?
0:14:14 > 0:14:15It is Stockhausen, yes.
0:14:15 > 0:14:18Secondly, the Greek composer of this piece.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23- Nominate Foxwell.- Xenakis.
0:14:23 > 0:14:25It is Xenakis, yes.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27And, finally, the American composer of this piece,
0:14:27 > 0:14:30and, I can assure you, you are hearing it correctly. Here it is.
0:14:34 > 0:14:35Cage.
0:14:35 > 0:14:37It is John Cage, yes. 4'33".
0:14:39 > 0:14:41Right, 10 points for this starter question.
0:14:41 > 0:14:44"There exists a great background, vital and vivid,
0:14:44 > 0:14:47"which matters more than the people who move upon it."
0:14:47 > 0:14:52These words of D. H. Lawrence refer to the works of which novelist and poet, who died in 1928?
0:14:54 > 0:14:55Thomas Hardy.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57Yes, it is Thomas Hardy.
0:14:59 > 0:15:00Your bonuses, Clare, are on a physicist.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03Which Welsh physicist gives his name to the phenomena or effects
0:15:03 > 0:15:05that occur when an electric current passes through
0:15:05 > 0:15:09a very thin insulating layer between two super-conducting substances?
0:15:14 > 0:15:15Paul.
0:15:15 > 0:15:16No, it's Josephson.
0:15:16 > 0:15:20Also named after Josephson, what devices are used in a large integrated circuit
0:15:20 > 0:15:24to speed the positive signals by electron tunnelling?
0:15:35 > 0:15:36Semiconductors.
0:15:36 > 0:15:40No, they're Josephson junctions. And, finally, the components of the Josephson junctions
0:15:40 > 0:15:43only operate at temperatures close to what?
0:15:43 > 0:15:44Absolute zero.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47Correct. We're going to take another starter question.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50George III was the last British monarchy to claim which title...
0:15:50 > 0:15:52King of France?
0:15:52 > 0:15:55That's correct, yes.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58Get these bonuses, you'll be absolutely level.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00They're on nothing.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02The action of which Shakespeare's tragedies
0:16:02 > 0:16:05is precipitated by an exchange in which the line, "Nothing, my Lord",
0:16:05 > 0:16:09is answered with "Nothing will come of nothing, speak again."
0:16:09 > 0:16:13- King Lear.- Correct. "Nothing for nothing" was the expression
0:16:13 > 0:16:16used by which 20th-century dictator to summarise his foreign policy?
0:16:24 > 0:16:25Franco.
0:16:25 > 0:16:27No, it's Benito Mussolini.
0:16:27 > 0:16:30And finally, the song I Got Plenty Of Nothing
0:16:30 > 0:16:35comes from which opera, first performed in 1935, and set in Charleston, South Carolina?
0:16:43 > 0:16:44Porgy and Bess.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46Correct. 10 points for this.
0:16:46 > 0:16:52The order of hooved mammals known as Perissodactyla includes horses, tapirs and which other...
0:16:53 > 0:16:54- Rhinoceros? - Correct.
0:16:57 > 0:16:59You get the lead. Your bonuses, Manchester,
0:16:59 > 0:17:01are on expressions in which the last two letters of the first word
0:17:01 > 0:17:04and the first two letters of the second word are the same.
0:17:04 > 0:17:07For example, as in apple lemonade, or tomato torte.
0:17:07 > 0:17:13In each case, give the name of the food or drink from the definition.
0:17:13 > 0:17:17Firstly, Italian-style ice cream flavoured with citrus sinensis.
0:17:25 > 0:17:27Orange gelato.
0:17:27 > 0:17:28Correct.
0:17:28 > 0:17:34Second, young soy beans served in their pods and prepared above boiling water.
0:17:36 > 0:17:39Prepared above boiling water is steamed.
0:17:43 > 0:17:46Tofu steamed!
0:17:47 > 0:17:49No, it's steamed edamame.
0:17:49 > 0:17:53And, finally, a quickly cooked dish, made from beaten eggs and edible fungi.
0:17:56 > 0:17:59- Mushroom omelette.- Yes.
0:17:59 > 0:18:0410 points for this. In human anatomy, what term denotes the five vertebrae
0:18:04 > 0:18:07lying between the lumbar and the coccygeal...
0:18:07 > 0:18:09Thoracic?
0:18:09 > 0:18:13No, you lose five points. ..regions of the backbone?
0:18:14 > 0:18:15Thoracic?
0:18:17 > 0:18:19Sorry, I didn't hear what you said!
0:18:19 > 0:18:21Bad answer. No, it's sacral. 10 points for this.
0:18:21 > 0:18:26Given in reverse order, Anne, Louise, James, Edward, Eugenie, Beatrice, Andrew,
0:18:26 > 0:18:31Henry, William and Charles are the first names of the first 10 people...
0:18:31 > 0:18:34In line to the throne.
0:18:34 > 0:18:36Yes, order of succession is correct.
0:18:37 > 0:18:40Your bonuses are on a medical condition.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43What Greek-derived term describes an abnormal state resembling a trance,
0:18:43 > 0:18:49in which a person is apparently or actually unconscious, and the muscles become rigid?
0:18:50 > 0:18:53- Catatonic.- Catatonic.
0:18:53 > 0:18:54No, it's catalepsy.
0:18:54 > 0:18:58Which Greek philosopher is thought to have suffered from catalepsy
0:18:58 > 0:19:01because of his habit of standing fixedly
0:19:01 > 0:19:04when consulting his inner voice, or daemonion?
0:19:04 > 0:19:06That's probably Socrates, isn't it?
0:19:06 > 0:19:08Socrates.
0:19:08 > 0:19:13It was Socrates. In which novel by Charles Dickens does Mrs Snagsby become cataleptic
0:19:13 > 0:19:16and need to be carried up the narrow staircase like a grand piano?
0:19:18 > 0:19:20- Bleak House.- Correct.
0:19:20 > 0:19:22Another starter question now.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24What three-word phrase came into general use after it was used
0:19:24 > 0:19:30as the title of an economic and social study of 1958 by John Kenneth Galbraith?
0:19:31 > 0:19:32The Affluent Society.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34Correct.
0:19:34 > 0:19:38Your bonuses, this time, are on sensory receptors.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40Present in the epidermis of hairless skin,
0:19:40 > 0:19:44what stimulus do Merkel cells detect?
0:19:47 > 0:19:48Touch or pressure.
0:19:48 > 0:19:53Correct. Found in any area of the body, both externally and internally,
0:19:53 > 0:19:55what do nocio receptors detect?
0:19:55 > 0:19:56Pain.
0:19:56 > 0:19:57Pain or potential damage, yes.
0:19:57 > 0:20:02What do the sensory hair cells of the organ of Corti detect?
0:20:07 > 0:20:08Noise.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10Yes, I'll accept. Sound or vibration, yes.
0:20:10 > 0:20:13We're going to take another picture round now.
0:20:13 > 0:20:15For your picture starter, you'll see a painting.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17For 10 points, give me the name of the artist.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21Van Gogh.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23It is van Gogh, yes.
0:20:24 > 0:20:29His Blossoming Chestnut Branches, which were stolen in 2008, and recovered shortly after.
0:20:29 > 0:20:32You're going to see three more artworks that were stolen and then recovered.
0:20:32 > 0:20:35In each case, name the artist. Firstly.
0:20:36 > 0:20:38Edvard Munch.
0:20:38 > 0:20:39It is. And secondly.
0:20:40 > 0:20:44- Anyone?- Goya.- Goya.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47It's Goya's Duke of Wellington. And finally.
0:20:47 > 0:20:48Rembrandt.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50It is indeed, a self-portrait.
0:20:52 > 0:20:57Another starter question now. Give the four words that complete these lines from a play by Shakespeare.
0:20:57 > 0:21:03"Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure, like doth quit like, and...
0:21:03 > 0:21:05Measure still for measure.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07Measure still for measure is right, yes.
0:21:08 > 0:21:11Right, your bonuses are on short stories.
0:21:11 > 0:21:15Close Range: Wyoming Stories, which includes the story Brokeback Mountain,
0:21:15 > 0:21:18is a collection of 1999 by which US author?
0:21:18 > 0:21:20- Nominate Janes. - E. Annie Proulx.
0:21:20 > 0:21:23Correct. The Sacrificial Egg and Girls at War are among the short stories
0:21:23 > 0:21:26of which Nigerian author, born in 1930?
0:21:29 > 0:21:30- Nominate Cao. - Chinua Achebe.
0:21:30 > 0:21:31Correct.
0:21:31 > 0:21:36Notwithstanding is a 2009 book of stories about a fictional English village by which author?
0:21:36 > 0:21:41Settings of his novels include Latin America, Australia, Turkey and the island of Kefalonia.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49- Pass.- It's Louis De Bernieres. 10 points for this.
0:21:49 > 0:21:53"Alistair Campbell with an axe" is the historian David Starkey's discription
0:21:53 > 0:21:54of which historical figure,
0:21:54 > 0:21:58as portrayed by Hilary Mantel in her award-winning novel...
0:21:58 > 0:22:01- Thomas More. - No, you lose five points.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04..in her award-winning novel Wolf Hall?
0:22:04 > 0:22:05Thomas Cromwell.
0:22:05 > 0:22:06Thomas Cromwell.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10Right, your bonuses this time are on a regnal name.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13What was the regnal name of the three Russians tsars
0:22:13 > 0:22:16known as The Blessed, The Liberator and The Peacemaker?
0:22:16 > 0:22:19- The latter was the father of Tsar Nicholas II.- Alexander.- Alexander.
0:22:19 > 0:22:24Correct. Assassinated in Marseille in 1934, Alexander I was the king of which country,
0:22:24 > 0:22:26established after the First World War?
0:22:34 > 0:22:35Macedonia.
0:22:35 > 0:22:37No, it's Yugoslavia.
0:22:37 > 0:22:41Pope Alexander VIII notably rejoiced in the defeat of which Catholic ruler
0:22:41 > 0:22:44and ally of Louis XIV at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690?
0:22:49 > 0:22:52- Come on.- James II of England.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55- James II of England. - James IIr is right. Five minutes to go, 10 points for this.
0:22:55 > 0:22:59Which French city gives its name to a mixture of copper sulphate and calcium hydroxide
0:22:59 > 0:23:00used as a fungicide...
0:23:00 > 0:23:03Oh, no. Is it Paris?
0:23:03 > 0:23:07No, I'm afraid it's not, and I'm going to fine you five points.
0:23:07 > 0:23:09..originally used as a fungicide in vineyards?
0:23:12 > 0:23:16I'll tell you, it's Bordeaux. 10 points for this.
0:23:16 > 0:23:19Meanings of what six-letter word include hiatus, blank and gap,
0:23:19 > 0:23:22and in anatomy can mean a bone cavity?
0:23:22 > 0:23:26It's the title of an award-winning novel of 2010 by Barbara Kingsolver, and in Latin...
0:23:26 > 0:23:29- Lacuna. - Lacuna is correct, yes.
0:23:31 > 0:23:34These bonuses could give you the lead again. They're on Indian states.
0:23:34 > 0:23:37Panaji is the capital of which small state on the Arabian Sea?
0:23:37 > 0:23:39- It was ruled by Portugal until 1961. - Goa.
0:23:39 > 0:23:41Correct.
0:23:41 > 0:23:44Chandigarh, in north-west India, is a union territory
0:23:44 > 0:23:47that is also the capital of two states. One is Haryana, what's the other?
0:23:50 > 0:23:53- Nominate Kelly.- Orissa? - No, it's Punjab.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56Dispur is the capital of which state?
0:23:56 > 0:23:58Bounded to the north by the kingdom of Bhutan,
0:23:58 > 0:24:00it produces about half the country's tea.
0:24:00 > 0:24:02Kashmir? No, Assam. Assam.
0:24:02 > 0:24:06Assam is right. Three and a half minutes to go, 10 points for this.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09When William Howard Taft was elected President of the USA,
0:24:09 > 0:24:12which Liberal politician was the UK Prime Minister?
0:24:12 > 0:24:14Lloyd George?
0:24:14 > 0:24:16Anyone want to buzz from Clare?
0:24:16 > 0:24:18- Herbert Asquith?- Correct.
0:24:19 > 0:24:23You get these bonuses, you'll retake the lead. They're on human anatomy.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26In each case, give the medical name for the following bones.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28Firstly, for five points, the shinbone.
0:24:29 > 0:24:30Tibia.
0:24:30 > 0:24:33- Correct. Secondly, the breastbone. - Sternum.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35Correct. And finally, the lower jaw.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Mandible.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40Another starter question. Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:24:40 > 0:24:46Of the 88 keys on a standard grand piano, how many are black?
0:24:47 > 0:24:51No, I'm sorry, if you buzz, you must answer straight away, I'm offering it to you, Manchester.
0:24:51 > 0:24:5236.
0:24:52 > 0:24:5436 is correct.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58These bonuses could give you the lead again. They're on Scottish islands.
0:24:58 > 0:25:02In each case, name the island that may be reached from the following ferry points.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05First, for five points, Ardrossan and Claonaig.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07- Anyone?- Orkneys.
0:25:07 > 0:25:08Come on.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11- Rhum.- No, it's Arran.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13Second, Oban, Kilchoan and Lochaline.
0:25:13 > 0:25:14Mull.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16Correct. Finally, Ullapool, Uig and Bernera?
0:25:16 > 0:25:17Harris.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20And Lewis, yes. Same island. 10 points for this.
0:25:20 > 0:25:25In zoology, mammals belonging to the order Monotremata have what characteristic...
0:25:25 > 0:25:30- They can lay eggs. - They are oviparous, you're right.
0:25:31 > 0:25:34Bonuses, this time, on scientific lines.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37After a German physicist born in 1787, what two-word term denotes
0:25:37 > 0:25:41the several hundred sharp absorption features in the spectrum of the sun?
0:25:43 > 0:25:45Nominate Joyce.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47- Fraunhofer lines? - Sorry?
0:25:47 > 0:25:48Fraunhofer lines.
0:25:48 > 0:25:49Fraunhofer lines is correct.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52After the German mineralogist who noted them in 1848,
0:25:52 > 0:25:54what name is given to the scratch-like marks
0:25:54 > 0:25:59revealed within some iron meteorites, possibly as the result of violent collisions?
0:26:02 > 0:26:04- Come on, let's have it, please. - Koch lines.
0:26:04 > 0:26:05No, they're Neumann lines.
0:26:05 > 0:26:09And finally, what name is that of a 19th-century British politician,
0:26:09 > 0:26:12and has been given to the line marks on the side of a cargo ship
0:26:12 > 0:26:14to show when it is displacing its maximum safe load?
0:26:14 > 0:26:18- Plimsoll.- Correct. Another starter question, now. Listen carefully.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20Words meaning Tokyo stock market index,
0:26:20 > 0:26:22worthless household ornament,
0:26:22 > 0:26:28and aficionado of the fictional universe of the Starship Enterprise all contain...
0:26:28 > 0:26:29K.
0:26:29 > 0:26:33Correct. Right, you get a set of bonuses on raw cuisine now.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35You get these, you're on level-pegging.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38What two-word term describes a dish of raw minced beef, onion and seasoning...
0:26:38 > 0:26:40Steak tartare.
0:26:40 > 0:26:42Correct. Literally meaning pierced flesh,
0:26:42 > 0:26:44which Japanese dish consists of raw fish, cut into very...
0:26:44 > 0:26:46Sashimi.
0:26:46 > 0:26:50What name is given to the South American dish of raw fish marinated in citrus fruit?
0:26:50 > 0:26:54- Ceviche.- Ceviche is correct. 10 points for this.
0:26:54 > 0:26:57In philosophy, what Latin phrase is used for knowledge
0:26:57 > 0:26:59that can be derived from pure reasoning without reference to...
0:26:59 > 0:27:01- A priori.- Correct.
0:27:01 > 0:27:05You get the lead. Your bonuses are on zoological names.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08In each case, give the common name of the animal from the species or sub-specific group,
0:27:08 > 0:27:10all of which denote human habitation.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12Firstly, gallus gallus domesticus.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16Nominate McKenna.
0:27:16 > 0:27:18Just say something!
0:27:18 > 0:27:20The seagull.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22No, it's the chicken, or fowl. Second, musca domestica.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26Ferret.
0:27:26 > 0:27:29No, it's the housefly. And finally, sus scrofa domesticus.
0:27:32 > 0:27:33Quickly.
0:27:33 > 0:27:34We don't know.
0:27:34 > 0:27:38It's pig. 10 points for this. In English folk songs, what general class of event
0:27:38 > 0:27:43links buttercups and daisies, Jan Stewer and Harry Hawke, and parsley and rosemary?
0:27:44 > 0:27:46Fair?
0:27:46 > 0:27:48Fair is right, yes.
0:27:50 > 0:27:54Your bonuses are on Irish literature. The Cattle Raid of Cooley and...
0:27:54 > 0:27:55GONG
0:27:55 > 0:27:59And at the gong, Clare College have 250, Manchester University have 270.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02APPLAUSE
0:28:06 > 0:28:08Well, thanks. It was a great game.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11Clare, you nearly did it, but you didn't,
0:28:11 > 0:28:13so we're going to have to say goodbye to you.
0:28:13 > 0:28:17Manchester, congratulations. We'll look forward to seeing you in the semifinal.
0:28:17 > 0:28:21I hope you can join us next time, for the last of the quarterfinals,
0:28:21 > 0:28:24- but until then, it's goodbye from Clare College, Cambridge.- Goodbye.
0:28:24 > 0:28:26- It's goodbye from Manchester University.- Bye.
0:28:26 > 0:28:28And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.
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