0:00:20 > 0:00:21University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:24 > 0:00:27APPLAUSE
0:00:27 > 0:00:31Hello, this match is the last of 10 quarterfinals.
0:00:31 > 0:00:33Both of the night's teams
0:00:33 > 0:00:35have won one quarterfinal match and lost another,
0:00:35 > 0:00:38so whichever of them wins this match
0:00:38 > 0:00:41will take the remaining place in the semifinals,
0:00:41 > 0:00:42alongside Worcester College Oxford,
0:00:42 > 0:00:45Pembroke College Cambridge and Manchester University.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48And of course we'll be saying goodbye to the losers.
0:00:48 > 0:00:50University College London have shown
0:00:50 > 0:00:54a refreshingly cavalier attitude to what others might consider facts,
0:00:54 > 0:00:58but even so, they've beaten York, Warwick and Manchester so far
0:00:58 > 0:01:00but have lost one quarterfinal,
0:01:00 > 0:01:03which is why they're here on the naughty step
0:01:03 > 0:01:06for a last crack at the one remaining place in the semifinals.
0:01:06 > 0:01:08Let's meet them again.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10Hi, I'm Howard Carver from East Devon
0:01:10 > 0:01:12and I'm doing a PHD in the modelling of blood flow.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15I'm Patrick Cook from the Texas Hill Country
0:01:15 > 0:01:16and I'm reading history.
0:01:16 > 0:01:20- And their captain.- Hello, I'm Jamie Karran from London and I'm reading medicine.
0:01:20 > 0:01:25Hi, I'm Tom Andrews from North Somerset and I'm reading genetics.
0:01:25 > 0:01:29APPLAUSE
0:01:29 > 0:01:33The team from Balliol College Oxford beat Homerton Cambridge in round one,
0:01:33 > 0:01:35Merton College Oxford in round two
0:01:35 > 0:01:38and Homerton Cambridge in the quarterfinals,
0:01:38 > 0:01:41but only after losing a previous quarterfinal,
0:01:41 > 0:01:44which is why they're here tonight, also fighting, do or die,
0:01:44 > 0:01:46semifinals or oblivion.
0:01:46 > 0:01:47Let's meet them again.
0:01:47 > 0:01:51Hello, I'm Liam Shaw, I'm from Shropshire and I study physics.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53I'm Andrew Whitby, I'm from Brisbane, Australia
0:01:53 > 0:01:56and I'm working towards a doctorate in economics.
0:01:56 > 0:01:57And their captain.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00I'm Simon Wood, I'm from Surrey and I'm studying chemistry.
0:02:00 > 0:02:01I'm James Kirby,
0:02:01 > 0:02:04I'm from Warwickshire and I'm reading for a masters in history.
0:02:04 > 0:02:07APPLAUSE
0:02:07 > 0:02:11You know the rules, fingers on buzzers, here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:11 > 0:02:12What single name
0:02:12 > 0:02:16links the first Latin Emperor of Constantinople from 1204,
0:02:16 > 0:02:19the author of Go Tell It On The Mountain,
0:02:19 > 0:02:22and the Prime Minister at the time of the General Strike?
0:02:22 > 0:02:23- Baldwin.- Baldwin is correct, yes.
0:02:23 > 0:02:26APPLAUSE
0:02:26 > 0:02:30Right, the first set of bonuses are on men born in 1770.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33In each case, name the person from his works.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37Firstly for five, the phenomenology of spirit and the science of logic
0:02:37 > 0:02:40are among the works of which German philosopher?
0:02:40 > 0:02:41- Hegel?- Correct.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44Known as The Ettrick Shepherd, which Scottish literary figure
0:02:44 > 0:02:48wrote The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
0:02:48 > 0:02:52and Scottish Pastorals, Poems, Songs, Etc?
0:02:52 > 0:02:54I should know this.
0:02:54 > 0:02:56It's not Burns?
0:02:56 > 0:02:57THEY CONFER
0:02:59 > 0:03:01I can't think, I can't think of anything.
0:03:01 > 0:03:02Burns.
0:03:02 > 0:03:03No, it was James Hogg.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05Which composer's work includes
0:03:05 > 0:03:08the Emperor Piano Concerto and the Egmont Overture?
0:03:08 > 0:03:09- Beethoven.- Correct.
0:03:09 > 0:03:10Another starter question.
0:03:10 > 0:03:11From a Greek word
0:03:11 > 0:03:13meaning grace or favour,
0:03:13 > 0:03:16what terms used in theology for a...
0:03:16 > 0:03:17Charisma?
0:03:17 > 0:03:20Charisma is correct, yes.
0:03:20 > 0:03:24Right, your bonuses Balliol this time are on marketing.
0:03:24 > 0:03:28Named after a microorganism, what strategy encourages individuals
0:03:28 > 0:03:31to pass on a marketing message to others, for example,
0:03:31 > 0:03:34via chain e-mails or YouTube videos, so creating the potential
0:03:34 > 0:03:37for exponential growth in the message's exposure?
0:03:37 > 0:03:40- Viral.- Correct.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42What term denotes the type of marketing in which a company
0:03:42 > 0:03:46links itself to an event for which they're not an official sponsor
0:03:46 > 0:03:50by means such as dressing those attending in branded clothing?
0:03:50 > 0:03:52THEY CONFER
0:03:52 > 0:03:54Is it guerrilla?
0:03:54 > 0:03:57- Guerrilla?- Guerrilla or ambush marketing is correct.
0:03:57 > 0:03:59Finally, named after an artificial surface,
0:03:59 > 0:04:01what technique relies on staff
0:04:01 > 0:04:04posing as members of the public, and praising their own product,
0:04:04 > 0:04:07for example, on internet message boards or in the press?
0:04:07 > 0:04:10- Astroturf.- Astroturf. - As opposed to grassroots.
0:04:10 > 0:04:1210 points for this.
0:04:12 > 0:04:16"It's a woman so beautiful, so proud, so modest, so touching,
0:04:16 > 0:04:19"so voluptuous, so chaste, so noble, so familiar, so mad,
0:04:19 > 0:04:21"so wise that one loves her with all one's soul
0:04:21 > 0:04:23"and is never tempted to be unfaithful."
0:04:23 > 0:04:25These words, in translation,
0:04:25 > 0:04:29are of a native speaker describing which language?
0:04:32 > 0:04:33French.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35Yes, or as we call it, guff.
0:04:35 > 0:04:36APPLAUSE
0:04:36 > 0:04:40Your bonuses are on fictional countries. Which oppressive republic
0:04:40 > 0:04:43is the setting for Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale
0:04:43 > 0:04:46in which the only function of certain women
0:04:46 > 0:04:49is to breed children for infertile, elite couples?
0:04:49 > 0:04:51THEY CONFER
0:04:51 > 0:04:55- God's Republic? - Shall we say the God's Republic?
0:04:55 > 0:04:58- God's Republic?- No, it's Gilead.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01To which hitherto happy Commonwealth in Africa
0:05:01 > 0:05:04is the hero of Evelyn Waugh's novel Scoop
0:05:04 > 0:05:08the journalist William Boot sent to cover an expected revolution?
0:05:08 > 0:05:09THEY CONFER
0:05:09 > 0:05:11Abyssinia? Is that Tanzania?
0:05:11 > 0:05:14I can't remember the name.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16What's Abyssinia now?
0:05:16 > 0:05:18It's a fictional place, I can't remember.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20- Abyssinia?- No, It's Ismailia.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23In CS Lewis' novel for children The Horse and His Boy
0:05:23 > 0:05:27which country was established in the Narnian year 204
0:05:27 > 0:05:31and is found far to the south of Narnia, below Archenland?
0:05:31 > 0:05:34THEY CONFER
0:05:34 > 0:05:37- It's something, vaguely... - I don't know.
0:05:37 > 0:05:41Is it like, it's something Tolkien-esque, isn't it?
0:05:41 > 0:05:44- Is it like Bree?- Try Bree. - That's from Tolkien,
0:05:44 > 0:05:46- but Bree.- No, it's Calormen.
0:05:46 > 0:05:48Another starter question. Give the forename
0:05:48 > 0:05:51and surname of the political theorist
0:05:51 > 0:05:54born in Brussels in 1924 who escaped to Britain in 1940
0:05:54 > 0:05:58and published his best known work Parliamentary Socialism in 1961?
0:05:58 > 0:06:02His home in Primrose Hill became a meeting place...
0:06:02 > 0:06:04- Ralph Miliband? - Ralph Miliband is correct.
0:06:04 > 0:06:06APPLAUSE
0:06:06 > 0:06:09Your bonuses are on philosophy.
0:06:09 > 0:06:10Firstly for five,
0:06:10 > 0:06:13calling it cupiditas, what was described by Spinoza as
0:06:13 > 0:06:16"nothing else than the very essence or nature of man"?
0:06:16 > 0:06:18THEY CONFER
0:06:18 > 0:06:20Cupidity love, or...?
0:06:20 > 0:06:22Or morality, lost?
0:06:23 > 0:06:26- Um...- Material...
0:06:26 > 0:06:28- Um...- Material desire?
0:06:28 > 0:06:30Material desire. Material desire?
0:06:30 > 0:06:32It's just "desire", so I can't accept that.
0:06:32 > 0:06:35It's title originally meaning drinking party,
0:06:35 > 0:06:39in which work by Plato is Socrates able to lead Agathon
0:06:39 > 0:06:43to concede that love or desire exists only in relation
0:06:43 > 0:06:45to some object that it lacks?
0:06:45 > 0:06:47THEY CONFER
0:06:56 > 0:06:57Seminar?
0:06:57 > 0:07:00- Symposium?- Just try it. - Symposium?- Correct.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03Which 17th-century French philosopher described desire
0:07:03 > 0:07:08"as an agitation of the soul that disposes itself to possess things
0:07:08 > 0:07:11"it sees as agreeable but does not possess"?
0:07:11 > 0:07:13- Descartes?- Correct.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15We're going to take a picture around.
0:07:15 > 0:07:19You'll see a map of Africa with a nation highlighted.
0:07:19 > 0:07:2410 points if you can give me its name.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26The Ivory Coast?
0:07:26 > 0:07:28It is Cote d'Ivoire, yes.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31Your starter highlighted the Cote d'Ivoire,
0:07:31 > 0:07:35a member state of the international organisation of the Francophonie,
0:07:35 > 0:07:38a group of nations with links to French language or culture.
0:07:38 > 0:07:42For your picture bonuses, three more Africa nations highlighted
0:07:42 > 0:07:46all members of that organisation, five points for each you can name.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48THEY CONFER
0:07:48 > 0:07:49- DIC.- DIC.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51Democratic Republic of Congo.
0:07:51 > 0:07:53Correct. Secondly, B?
0:07:53 > 0:07:56- What do you think, Chad?- Chad.
0:07:56 > 0:08:00- Chad?- Correct. And finally, C.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02- Mali.- Mali.- Yes.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04APPLAUSE
0:08:04 > 0:08:0510 points for this.
0:08:05 > 0:08:10What uppercase letter is the symbol for black in dyestuffs...
0:08:10 > 0:08:12- K.- No, you lose five points.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15And in physics is a symbol for entropy?
0:08:15 > 0:08:18As a lowercase letter it is the symbol for distance
0:08:18 > 0:08:19and for a specific...
0:08:19 > 0:08:23- S.- S is correct, yes.
0:08:23 > 0:08:24APPLAUSE
0:08:24 > 0:08:29Your bonuses are on asymptotics in mathematics.
0:08:29 > 0:08:34The relation that enfactorial is asymptotically equivalent
0:08:34 > 0:08:37to n over e or to the power n
0:08:37 > 0:08:41multiplied by the square root of 2 Pi n, is known by what name?
0:08:41 > 0:08:43THEY CONFER
0:08:44 > 0:08:47Stirling's formula, something like that.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49OK. Stirling's formula or approximation.
0:08:49 > 0:08:50That is correct, yes.
0:08:50 > 0:08:55Secondly the prime number theorem states that the prime counting function Pi of x,
0:08:55 > 0:08:59that is the number of primes less than x is asymptotically equivalent
0:08:59 > 0:09:02to what ratio of functions of x?
0:09:06 > 0:09:08I think it has ln(x) in it, but I don't actually know.
0:09:08 > 0:09:11Ln(x), the natural log. I don't know.
0:09:11 > 0:09:13Um, 5 ln(x)?
0:09:13 > 0:09:15No, it's x over log(x) and finally,
0:09:15 > 0:09:17which constant is
0:09:17 > 0:09:20asymptotically equivalent to the difference in magnitude
0:09:20 > 0:09:23between the sum of the harmonic series up to n
0:09:23 > 0:09:25and the natural logarithm evaluated at n?
0:09:25 > 0:09:27Er...
0:09:28 > 0:09:31I think there is a Napier's constant.
0:09:31 > 0:09:32Napier's constant.
0:09:32 > 0:09:35No, it's a Gamma constant. 10 points for this.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38What primate links a candidate put forward for election to Parliament
0:09:38 > 0:09:41in Thomas Love Peacock's novel Melincourt,
0:09:41 > 0:09:44the perpetrator of the crime in Edgar Allan Poe's...
0:09:44 > 0:09:47- Orang-utan.- Orang-utan is right, yes.
0:09:47 > 0:09:51Your bonuses Balliol all are on a classical work.
0:09:51 > 0:09:54"Of shapes transform to body strange, I purpose to entreat.
0:09:54 > 0:10:01"Ye gods vouchsafe, for you are they wrought this wondrous fate to further this mine enterprise."
0:10:01 > 0:10:07These lines are from Arthur Golding's 1567 translation of which classical work?
0:10:10 > 0:10:13It could be anything, couldn't it? The Iliad?
0:10:13 > 0:10:15No, it's Ovid's Metamorphoses.
0:10:15 > 0:10:18Secondly for five, premiered in 1718, as a one-act mask
0:10:18 > 0:10:22and later revised, which pastoral opera by Handel was based on
0:10:22 > 0:10:25a story in Metamorphoses and concerns the love of a nymph
0:10:25 > 0:10:30for a shepherd. The latter being murdered by the giant Polyphemus.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33Any play, whatever it is, by Handel?
0:10:33 > 0:10:37- What did Handel do?- Something to do with Adonis? I don't know.
0:10:37 > 0:10:42- Um. Any plays at all?- Don't know.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44A Midsummer Night's Dream?
0:10:44 > 0:10:46No. It's Acis and Galatea. Finally,
0:10:46 > 0:10:48which story in the Metamorphoses
0:10:48 > 0:10:52concerns two lovers forbidden to meet by their parents so communicate
0:10:52 > 0:10:55through a crack in the wall between their adjoining houses?
0:10:55 > 0:10:58- Yeah, perhaps, Pyramus and Thisbe? - Correct.
0:10:58 > 0:11:02Another starter question. "The future belongs to socialism."
0:11:02 > 0:11:07These are the words of which German political figure? The East German Head of State from 1976 until 1989.
0:11:07 > 0:11:11- Honecker. - Erich Honecker is correct. Yes.
0:11:11 > 0:11:13APPLAUSE
0:11:13 > 0:11:19Your bonuses UCL are on French styles of cooking.
0:11:19 > 0:11:23Firstly, for five points, meaning a garnish of lobster, truffles and mornay sauce,
0:11:23 > 0:11:26a la waleska,
0:11:26 > 0:11:30means in the style of a mistress of which military and political figure?
0:11:34 > 0:11:37Napoleon? Yeah. Lobster Thermidor, right?
0:11:37 > 0:11:39- OK.- Napoleon.- Correct.
0:11:39 > 0:11:43Which area in south-west France now mostly in the Dordogne department
0:11:43 > 0:11:46gives its name to a truffle-based sauce or truffle garnish?
0:11:48 > 0:11:50Bearnaise? I was thinking Bearnaise.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53- Bearnaise.- No, it's Perigord.
0:11:53 > 0:11:56And sharing its name with a film director,
0:11:56 > 0:11:59which style is garnished with mushrooms and truffles?
0:11:59 > 0:12:01- Trufallo. Truffaut?- Truffaut.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04It's a la goddard. 10 points for this.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07Produced by most organisms, what globular protein consists
0:12:07 > 0:12:13of 24 protein sub-units and acts as an intracellular iron store?
0:12:13 > 0:12:17- Albumen?- No. Anyone want to buzz from Balliol?
0:12:17 > 0:12:19BUZZER
0:12:19 > 0:12:20Myoglobin?
0:12:20 > 0:12:23No, its ferritin. 10 points for this.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26Luscinia megarhynchos, a lover of Cupid,
0:12:26 > 0:12:28a mood disorder tending towards depression,
0:12:28 > 0:12:30an ancient artefact, a season of the year,
0:12:30 > 0:12:36and a lack of activity were linked in 1819 by the works of which poet?
0:12:36 > 0:12:37BELL
0:12:37 > 0:12:39- Keats.- Keats is right, yes.
0:12:39 > 0:12:41APPLAUSE
0:12:41 > 0:12:45Your bonuses are on recent works of non-fiction, UCL.
0:12:45 > 0:12:50In the 2009 book Sum, how many tales from the afterlives
0:12:50 > 0:12:53are told by the US neuroscientist David Edelman?
0:12:53 > 0:12:55Anyone give me an advance on 50?
0:12:55 > 0:12:5750.
0:12:58 > 0:12:59It's 40.
0:12:59 > 0:13:03Which British professor of psychology is the author
0:13:03 > 0:13:06of The Luck Factor, Quirkology, and most recently, 59 Seconds?
0:13:06 > 0:13:09- Richard Wiseman.- Richard Wiseman.
0:13:09 > 0:13:13Correct. In his 2009 book Catching Fire, the British primatologist,
0:13:13 > 0:13:15Richard Wrangham, argues human evolution
0:13:15 > 0:13:18was driven by the invention of what?
0:13:19 > 0:13:24Language? Yeah.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26- I'm going to go with language. Language.- No, it's cooking.
0:13:26 > 0:13:2910 points for this. Originally with about 20% lead
0:13:29 > 0:13:34but now with about 10% antimony and a small mind of copper, which blue/grey alloy of tin
0:13:34 > 0:13:37is used chiefly for ornaments and utensils and was a popular...
0:13:37 > 0:13:38BELL
0:13:38 > 0:13:40Pewter?
0:13:40 > 0:13:41Pewter is right, yes.
0:13:41 > 0:13:43APPLAUSE
0:13:43 > 0:13:46These bonuses could give you the lead, national flags, UCL.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49Similar to that of Texas, which country's flag consists of
0:13:49 > 0:13:52two unequal horizontal bands of white and red?
0:13:52 > 0:13:54- Chile?- Chile is correct, yes.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57The national flag of which Caribbean country
0:13:57 > 0:14:00has blue and white horizontal stripes with a red triangle
0:14:00 > 0:14:03at the hoist on which there is a white five-pointed star?
0:14:03 > 0:14:05- Yeah, Cuba.- OK. Cuba.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07Cuba is correct.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10And finally, resembling that of the United States, the flag
0:14:10 > 0:14:12of which African country consists of
0:14:12 > 0:14:15horizontal red and white stripes with a single white star
0:14:15 > 0:14:17in a blue canton?
0:14:19 > 0:14:22- Liberia.- Liberia is right. Time for a music round.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24For your starter, a piece of classical music.
0:14:24 > 0:14:2710 points if you can name the composer.
0:14:27 > 0:14:31PIANO MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:31 > 0:14:32BELL
0:14:32 > 0:14:34- Brahms.- It is, Brahms. Yes.
0:14:34 > 0:14:35APPLAUSE
0:14:35 > 0:14:38That starter was Hungarian Dance No 5 by Brahms
0:14:38 > 0:14:44which won the 1877 Royal Philharmonic Society's gold medal
0:14:44 > 0:14:45for outstanding musicianship.
0:14:45 > 0:14:47Your music bonuses are three more pieces
0:14:47 > 0:14:49by other recipients of that award.
0:14:49 > 0:14:52In each case I want the name of the composer, please.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54Firstly, this 1935 winner.
0:14:54 > 0:14:58ORCHESTRA PLAYS
0:14:58 > 0:15:02THEY CONFER
0:15:02 > 0:15:06- Sousa?- No, it's Sibelius. It's from his Karelia Suite.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09Secondly, this 1975 winner.
0:15:09 > 0:15:13PIANO PLAYS
0:15:16 > 0:15:17THEY CONFER
0:15:20 > 0:15:23..Trying to play the piano, it's quite a weird piano.
0:15:23 > 0:15:24The piano sounds weird.
0:15:24 > 0:15:27OK, we'll go with John Cage. It'll be the wrong answer.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30- John Cage.- No, that's by Messiaen.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33And, finally, this 1947 winner.
0:15:33 > 0:15:37ROUSING ORCHESTRA PLAYS
0:15:37 > 0:15:39THEY CONFER
0:15:39 > 0:15:43- Is that the right period? He wrote things for the Coronation. - Sounds good.
0:15:43 > 0:15:47- Vaughan Williams.- No, that's William Walton. Spitfire Prelude and Fugue.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49So, ten points for this.
0:15:49 > 0:15:53Used from the 1920s onwards to describe art that incorporates movement
0:15:53 > 0:15:56or gives the illusion of movement, what term is used in physics...
0:15:56 > 0:15:59- Kinetic.- Kinetic it's correct, yes.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01APPLAUSE
0:16:01 > 0:16:06Your bonuses this time are on scientific terms, UCL.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09Dermatoglyphics used as a means of identification
0:16:09 > 0:16:13and as a genetic indicator, is the scientific study of what?
0:16:13 > 0:16:14Skin markings.
0:16:14 > 0:16:16- Skin markings.- Yes, fingerprints.
0:16:16 > 0:16:21And, secondly, comprising two extant species and resident in Southeast Asia,
0:16:21 > 0:16:26Dermoptera is an order of arboreal gliding mammals known by what common name?
0:16:26 > 0:16:28Flying squirrel? Flying squirrels.
0:16:28 > 0:16:30They're colugos or flying lemurs.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32And, finally, dermatophytosis
0:16:32 > 0:16:34is a clinical condition
0:16:34 > 0:16:38caused by a fungal infection of the skin in humans and some animals,
0:16:38 > 0:16:40and is commonly known by what name?
0:16:40 > 0:16:42THEY CONFER
0:16:42 > 0:16:44No, eczema isn't fungal.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47What about that thing with the...leprosy?
0:16:48 > 0:16:53- Maybe. Leprosy?- You're going to be a doctor, aren't you? It's ringworm.
0:16:53 > 0:16:5610 points for this. "The only thing that's certain
0:16:56 > 0:16:57"is that the music then was better."
0:16:57 > 0:17:00From the introduction to a work of 2009,
0:17:00 > 0:17:02these of the words of novelist Jenny Diski
0:17:02 > 0:17:05conclude a comparison of the present day with which decade?
0:17:05 > 0:17:06BELL
0:17:06 > 0:17:07The 1920s?
0:17:07 > 0:17:08No.
0:17:08 > 0:17:11You lose five points. Which decade, the title of the book?
0:17:12 > 0:17:14BUZZER
0:17:14 > 0:17:161970s?
0:17:16 > 0:17:19No, it was the 1960s. 10 points for this. In 1990,
0:17:19 > 0:17:22the separatist region of Transnistria proclaimed its...
0:17:22 > 0:17:25- Moldova.- Moldova is right, yes.
0:17:25 > 0:17:28APPLAUSE
0:17:28 > 0:17:31Your bonuses this time are on an Asian country.
0:17:31 > 0:17:35More than 5,600 metres high, Mount Damavand in the Alborz range
0:17:35 > 0:17:37is the highest mountain of which Asian country?
0:17:37 > 0:17:42- Is it Russia?- I think it might be Armenia, but I don't know.- Armenia?
0:17:42 > 0:17:44Armenia.
0:17:44 > 0:17:46No, it's Iran. Around 1,500 kilometres in length
0:17:46 > 0:17:49and roughly correlating with its western border,
0:17:49 > 0:17:53what is Iran's most extensive mountain range?
0:17:56 > 0:17:59- The Urals?- God, no. The Caucasus?
0:17:59 > 0:18:03- The Caucasus.- No, it's the Zagros.
0:18:03 > 0:18:09Situated at the foot of the Zagros Mountains, which made a city of southern Iran shares its name
0:18:09 > 0:18:12- with the grape variety from which red wine is made?- Shiraz.- Correct.
0:18:12 > 0:18:1410 points for this. Used in mothballs,
0:18:14 > 0:18:16which chemical comes between...
0:18:16 > 0:18:18- Camphor. - No. You lose five points.
0:18:18 > 0:18:22Between benzene and anthracene in terms of molecular structure?
0:18:22 > 0:18:23BUZZER
0:18:23 > 0:18:25- Naphthalene.- Correct.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28APPLAUSE
0:18:28 > 0:18:30Your bonuses are on historic trials.
0:18:30 > 0:18:34Sometimes called the Monkey Trial, the historic case tried in Tennessee in 1925
0:18:34 > 0:18:38is usually named after which high school teacher
0:18:38 > 0:18:41charged with teaching the theory of evolution?
0:18:41 > 0:18:44- Scopes.- Correct. The identity of which French peasant
0:18:44 > 0:18:48was the central issue of a trial held in 1560 in the town of Rieux
0:18:48 > 0:18:50in the South of France?
0:18:50 > 0:18:54THEY CONFER
0:18:54 > 0:18:57- Valjean.- No, it's Martin Guerre.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00And, finally, which locomotive won the Rainhill Trials
0:19:00 > 0:19:05during the development of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1829?
0:19:05 > 0:19:07- The Rocket? - No, that wasn't... Sorry.
0:19:07 > 0:19:08The Rocket?
0:19:08 > 0:19:12Stephenson's Rocket. 10 points for this. According to EM Forster,
0:19:12 > 0:19:17which French novelist altered his clocks hands so that his hero
0:19:17 > 0:19:20was at the same period entertaining his mistress's supper and playing...
0:19:20 > 0:19:23Dumas?
0:19:23 > 0:19:24You lose five points.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26And playing ball with his nurse in the park?
0:19:26 > 0:19:29- Proust?- Proust is correct.
0:19:29 > 0:19:30APPLAUSE
0:19:30 > 0:19:34Your bonuses this time are on the arts.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37A mural called the Beethoven Frieze
0:19:37 > 0:19:39and the painting Frau Adele Bloch-Bauer
0:19:39 > 0:19:43are early 20th-century works by which Austrian artist?
0:19:43 > 0:19:45- Gustav Klimt.- Correct.
0:19:45 > 0:19:48The works of which Austrian novelist include Young Torless,
0:19:48 > 0:19:511906, and the long modernist novel, The Man Without Qualities,
0:19:51 > 0:19:54left unfinished on his death in 1942?
0:19:54 > 0:19:55Um...
0:19:55 > 0:19:56Berger?
0:19:56 > 0:20:00Mural, or something like Muraz, or Mules, or, Mulaz...
0:20:00 > 0:20:02- Mules.- No, it's Musil.
0:20:02 > 0:20:06And, finally, Resurrection Symphony, Ode To Heavenly Joy
0:20:06 > 0:20:10and Symphony of a Thousand are popular names for orchestral works
0:20:10 > 0:20:12by which composer who died in Vienna in 1911?
0:20:12 > 0:20:13- Mahler.- Mahler is right.
0:20:13 > 0:20:16Time for another picture round, I think,
0:20:16 > 0:20:19where your pictures starter is a 16th century painting.
0:20:19 > 0:20:2210 points if you can identify the artist.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28None of you look as if you're going to buzz.
0:20:28 > 0:20:30It's Arcimboldo's The Librarian.
0:20:30 > 0:20:33Picture bonuses in a moment. 10 points for this.
0:20:33 > 0:20:34Used in the Atlantic Ocean
0:20:34 > 0:20:38and in the Northern Pacific to the east of the International Date Line,
0:20:38 > 0:20:43the Saffir-Simpson Scale measures what extreme weather phenomenon?
0:20:43 > 0:20:45- Hurricanes.- Hurricanes is right.
0:20:45 > 0:20:48APPLAUSE
0:20:48 > 0:20:50You get the bonuses. Following The Librarian,
0:20:50 > 0:20:55there are more 16th century portraits depicting professional men.
0:20:55 > 0:20:58In each case, give me the name of the artist.
0:20:58 > 0:21:01Firstly, this painting entitled Portrait of a Lawyer.
0:21:01 > 0:21:04That's a lawyer?
0:21:04 > 0:21:06THEY CONFER
0:21:06 > 0:21:08- Titian, Titian did that.- Titian.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10No, it's by Lucas Cranach the Elder.
0:21:10 > 0:21:14And secondly, this portrait entitled Portrait Of A Procurator.
0:21:21 > 0:21:24- Huh?- Holbein?- Holbein.
0:21:24 > 0:21:25No, that's by Bellini.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28And finally, this portrait of the doctor, Andreas Vesalius.
0:21:28 > 0:21:32- This is going to be Holbein.- No? - OK, no idea.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34- Judah?- Sorry?
0:21:34 > 0:21:35Caravaggio.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37- Caravaggio.- No, that's by Titian!
0:21:37 > 0:21:3910 points for this. Once closely associated
0:21:39 > 0:21:41with the Yale School of Deconstruction,
0:21:41 > 0:21:44which US literary critic and philosopher is noted
0:21:44 > 0:21:47for his Freudian-influenced theory of the anxiety of influence.
0:21:47 > 0:21:51His works include the Western Canon.
0:21:51 > 0:21:53Derrida?
0:21:53 > 0:21:55- No, UCL?- Harold Bloom.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58Harold Bloom is right, yes.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01These bonuses are on botanical terms.
0:22:01 > 0:22:05Originally meaning a shoot or a twig, especially one cut to form a graft,
0:22:05 > 0:22:09what word also means an heir or a descendant, particularly of a noble house?
0:22:09 > 0:22:11- Scion.- Scion?
0:22:11 > 0:22:12Correct.
0:22:12 > 0:22:15Used in electronics for a point in a circuit
0:22:15 > 0:22:18where several conductors meet, what word is also used for the point
0:22:18 > 0:22:21on a stem from which a leaf or branch grows?
0:22:21 > 0:22:23- Node?- Oh, node sounds good. I like node. Node.
0:22:23 > 0:22:25Node is right. And finally,
0:22:25 > 0:22:27used for the result of oxidation on iron,
0:22:27 > 0:22:30what term is also applied to a fungal infection
0:22:30 > 0:22:34causing reddish-brown spots on the leaves or stems of plants?
0:22:34 > 0:22:36- Rust?- Correct. 10 points for this question.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38Born in Jerusalem in 1968,
0:22:38 > 0:22:41which chef's writings include an eponymous volume in 2008,
0:22:41 > 0:22:45Plenty in 2010 and a series of columns for the Guardian?
0:22:47 > 0:22:50- Nigel Slater?- Nope.
0:22:52 > 0:22:56- Heston Blumenthal?- No, it's Yotam Ottolenghi. 10 points for this.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59What Greek derived term was coined in the 16th century
0:22:59 > 0:23:01for the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms thought
0:23:01 > 0:23:03to have existed in England...
0:23:03 > 0:23:06- Heptarchy?- Heptarchy is right. Your bonuses now... - APPLAUSE
0:23:06 > 0:23:08..are on a Russian writer, Balliol.
0:23:08 > 0:23:12A poem based on a fairy-tale and adapted as an opera
0:23:12 > 0:23:15by Rimsky-Korsakov, The Tale of Tsar Saltan was written by which
0:23:15 > 0:23:19Russian literary figure, fatally injured in a duel in 1837?
0:23:19 > 0:23:22- Pushkin?- Pushkin.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24Correct. Which Russian Tsar who ruled
0:23:24 > 0:23:27from 1598 to 1605 is the subject
0:23:27 > 0:23:29of a play by Pushkin and an opera by Mussorgsky?
0:23:29 > 0:23:32- Ivan the Terrible. - No, it's Boris Godunov.
0:23:32 > 0:23:34The Bronze Horseman is a poem
0:23:34 > 0:23:37by Pushkin about an equestrian statue of which Tsar?
0:23:37 > 0:23:42It stands in the city he founded on the banks of the Neva in 1703.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44- Peter?- Peter the Great is correct.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46Three-and-a-half minutes to go.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48Taking its name from a county in Kentucky,
0:23:48 > 0:23:52which variety of alcoholic spirit shares its name with a family...
0:23:52 > 0:23:54- Bourbon?- Bourbon is correct, yes.
0:23:54 > 0:23:55APPLAUSE
0:23:55 > 0:23:59Your bonuses this time are on physical equations.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02The orbital period of a planet depends on its semi-major axis
0:24:02 > 0:24:04raised to what power?
0:24:04 > 0:24:07Um... Last time it was three.
0:24:08 > 0:24:10- Three.- No, its three over two.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13At long range, the field of an electric quadruple
0:24:13 > 0:24:15depends on distance to what power?
0:24:17 > 0:24:19The power of minus two.
0:24:19 > 0:24:21The power of minus two.
0:24:21 > 0:24:22It's the power of minus four.
0:24:22 > 0:24:24And the radiated energy of a black body
0:24:24 > 0:24:28is proportional to temperature raised to what power?
0:24:29 > 0:24:32- Four.- OK, yeah? Four.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34Four is right. 10 points for this.
0:24:34 > 0:24:38In March 1950, Thomas Holden became the first person to be placed
0:24:38 > 0:24:41officially on which list in a programme implemented by...
0:24:41 > 0:24:45- The sex offenders' register. - No. Lose five points.
0:24:45 > 0:24:47..In a programme implemented by J Edgar Hoover.
0:24:49 > 0:24:51One of you buzz, Balliol, otherwise I'll tell you.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54It's the most wanted list. 10 points for this.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57The choice of Hercules, Liberty and The Age Of Terror...
0:24:57 > 0:24:58- BUZZER - AC Grayling?
0:24:58 > 0:25:00AC Grayling is right.
0:25:01 > 0:25:05Your bonuses this time are on the Napoleonic wars.
0:25:05 > 0:25:08The Battle of Aboukir Bay, a decisive victory for
0:25:08 > 0:25:11Nelson over Napoleon's fleet in 1798, is more commonly named
0:25:11 > 0:25:14after which river, which opens into the bay?
0:25:14 > 0:25:15- Nile.- Correct.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17The Battle of the Three Emperors,
0:25:17 > 0:25:20a victory for Napoleon in December 1805 is
0:25:20 > 0:25:22better known by what name after a town in Moravia?
0:25:22 > 0:25:25- Austerlitz.- Correct. A defeat for Napoleon,
0:25:25 > 0:25:27the Battle of the Nations in October 1813,
0:25:27 > 0:25:30- is also known by what name after a city in Saxony?- Leipzig.
0:25:30 > 0:25:33Correct. When OPEC was founded in 1960,
0:25:33 > 0:25:36which country was the only South American member?
0:25:36 > 0:25:38- Venezuela.- Venezuela is right.
0:25:38 > 0:25:41Your bonuses this time are on the solar system.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44Which planet has an equatorial diameter close to twice that
0:25:44 > 0:25:45of the Earth's moon?
0:25:45 > 0:25:47- Mars?- Yes, Mars sounds...
0:25:47 > 0:25:49- Quickly!- Mars.- Mars is right.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52Which planet has an equatorial diameter around one-tenth
0:25:52 > 0:25:54that of Neptune?
0:25:54 > 0:25:56Um...
0:25:56 > 0:25:59- Come on.- Uranus.- No, it's Mercury.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02With a difference between equatorial and polar diameters
0:26:02 > 0:26:06almost as great as the diameter of Earth, which planet, by virtue
0:26:06 > 0:26:10- of its size and rapid spin, has the largest equatorial bulge?- Venus?
0:26:10 > 0:26:11Saturn. 10 points for this.
0:26:11 > 0:26:14A diminutive figure of English folklore, an island in the Dodecanese
0:26:14 > 0:26:18and a fragment of snow-formed glacier floating in open water,
0:26:18 > 0:26:21all share their names with varieties of what leaf vegetable?
0:26:21 > 0:26:23BELL
0:26:23 > 0:26:25- Lettuce?- Yes!
0:26:25 > 0:26:26APPLAUSE
0:26:26 > 0:26:29Your bonuses are on aquatic birds, UCL.
0:26:29 > 0:26:34Common, or foolish and black are the main species of which sea bird,
0:26:34 > 0:26:37an auk with a long painted bill, its name derives from a French
0:26:37 > 0:26:39or Welsh form of the given name William?
0:26:39 > 0:26:41- Booby.- No, it's a guillemot!
0:26:41 > 0:26:43LAUGHTER
0:26:43 > 0:26:46The northern gannet, Morus bassanus, derives the second
0:26:46 > 0:26:51part of its binomial from Bass Rock, an island in which firth of the UK?
0:26:51 > 0:26:54- The Firth of Forth is a firth. - The Firth of Forth.
0:26:54 > 0:26:55Correct.
0:26:55 > 0:26:57Alca torda is an auk known by what common name
0:26:57 > 0:27:00after the distinctive shape of its beak?
0:27:00 > 0:27:03- Spoonbills?- That sounds great. Spoonbill!
0:27:03 > 0:27:05No, it's a razorbill. 10 points for this,
0:27:05 > 0:27:06meaning "horizontal rope"
0:27:06 > 0:27:09in Japanese what is the highest rank in sumo wrestling?
0:27:09 > 0:27:11BELL
0:27:11 > 0:27:14- Yokozuna?- Correct!
0:27:14 > 0:27:15APPLAUSE
0:27:15 > 0:27:19Your bonuses are on place names. Give the name from the description.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22All three names begin with the same letters.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24A peninsula of south-east Mexico,
0:27:24 > 0:27:26formerly a centre of the Maya culture.
0:27:26 > 0:27:28- Yucatan.- Correct.
0:27:28 > 0:27:32A Chinese province that shares borders with Burma, Laos and Vietnam?
0:27:32 > 0:27:33GONG SOUNDS
0:27:33 > 0:27:36Balliol College, Oxford have 145.
0:27:36 > 0:27:38University College London have 235.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46You weren't really on song tonight, Balliol,
0:27:46 > 0:27:49but no shame at all in going out in the quarterfinals
0:27:49 > 0:27:51so we shall have to say goodbye to you and UCL,
0:27:51 > 0:27:54despite booby and Uranus and the rest of it,
0:27:54 > 0:27:57we shall look forward very much to seeing you in the semifinals.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59Congratulations!
0:27:59 > 0:28:02I hope you can join us for the first of the semifinals but until then,
0:28:02 > 0:28:04- it's goodbye from Balliol College Oxford...- Goodbye.
0:28:04 > 0:28:07- ..from University College London. - Goodbye.
0:28:07 > 0:28:11- And it's goodbye from me, goodbye. - APPLAUSE
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