0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:21University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:32Hello. Around 120 teams applied to take part in this contest.
0:00:32 > 0:00:3428 have appeared on the series
0:00:34 > 0:00:38and now only four remain as we begin the semifinals.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41Next time Pembroke College, Cambridge, take on
0:00:41 > 0:00:42University College London.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44Whichever team wins tonight
0:00:44 > 0:00:47will meet the winner of that match in the final.
0:00:47 > 0:00:49The team from Worcester College, Oxford,
0:00:49 > 0:00:52have demonstrated the importance of our rule which allows
0:00:52 > 0:00:56the highest-scoring losers from round one a chance to play again,
0:00:56 > 0:00:58because, having lost narrowly to Clare College, Cambridge,
0:00:58 > 0:01:02in their first match, they went on to beat St Andrews University
0:01:02 > 0:01:04in the play-offs, then Queen's College, Oxford,
0:01:04 > 0:01:08Newcastle University and University College London in the later stages.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11Let's welcome them back for their sixth appearance.
0:01:11 > 0:01:15Hi, I'm Dave Knapp from Woking in Surrey, and I'm studying engineering.
0:01:15 > 0:01:17Hi, I'm Jack Bramhill from Colchester in Essex,
0:01:17 > 0:01:19and I'm studying chemistry.
0:01:19 > 0:01:20And their captain.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23I'm Rebecca Gillie from Weymouth, reading French and Italian.
0:01:23 > 0:01:27Hi, I'm Jonathan Metzer from London and I'm reading classics.
0:01:27 > 0:01:31WHOOPING AND APPLAUSE
0:01:31 > 0:01:33The team from Manchester University
0:01:33 > 0:01:37sent Selwyn College, Cambridge, home in their first-round match
0:01:37 > 0:01:39and Christ Church, Oxford, in their second
0:01:39 > 0:01:43but then lost to University College London in their first quarterfinal.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46Needing two quarterfinal wins to qualify, they then had
0:01:46 > 0:01:49an easy victory over Newcastle University but a very tough fight
0:01:49 > 0:01:53against Clare College, Cambridge, winning by 20 points at the gong.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55Let's meet them for the sixth time.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59Hi, I'm Luke Kelly, I'm from Ashford in Kent and I'm studying history.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01Hi, I'm Michael McKenna from St Annes in Lancashire
0:02:01 > 0:02:03and I'm studying biochemistry.
0:02:03 > 0:02:04Their captain?
0:02:04 > 0:02:06I'm Tristan Burke from Ilkley in West Yorkshire
0:02:06 > 0:02:08and I'm studying English literature.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11Hi, I'm Paul Joyce from Chorley, Lancashire, studying for
0:02:11 > 0:02:14a Masters in social research methods and statistics.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16APPLAUSE
0:02:16 > 0:02:19OK, let's not waste any time on the rules.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25What country's national flag may be described as having
0:02:25 > 0:02:29the colours of Noddy's hat, Gandalf the Grey's later epithet
0:02:29 > 0:02:35and Rupert the Bear's jersey in vertical bands from hoist to fly?
0:02:35 > 0:02:36France.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38Correct.
0:02:38 > 0:02:39APPLAUSE
0:02:39 > 0:02:45Right, the first set of bonuses are on Anglo-Saxon kings, Manchester.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48In each case give the name and epithet by which they're known.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50Firstly, canonised in 1161,
0:02:50 > 0:02:53which King of England rebuilt Westminster Abbey?
0:02:53 > 0:02:56Having taken a vow of chastity, he and his wife Edith
0:02:56 > 0:02:59reputedly remained virgins throughout their lives.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01Edward the Confessor?
0:03:01 > 0:03:03THEY CONFER
0:03:03 > 0:03:07No, William the Conqueror wouldn't have taken a vow of chastity.
0:03:07 > 0:03:08Edward the Confessor.
0:03:08 > 0:03:09Correct.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12Which son of Alfred the Great united the Kingdoms of Mercia
0:03:12 > 0:03:16and Wessex, thereby paving the way for his son Athelstan
0:03:16 > 0:03:19to become the first King of all England in 925?
0:03:19 > 0:03:21Is that Ethelred the Unready? I don't know.
0:03:21 > 0:03:25It sounds like a quite competent thing to do for someone...
0:03:23 > 0:03:25He has an epithet.
0:03:25 > 0:03:26Ethelred the Unready.
0:03:26 > 0:03:27No, that was Edward the Elder.
0:03:27 > 0:03:30Which English king was murdered at Corfe Castle in 978,
0:03:30 > 0:03:33nearly three years after his accession?
0:03:33 > 0:03:36He was canonised around the year 1000.
0:03:36 > 0:03:38- Anyone?- Canonised.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40- Alfred the Great? - Yeah, go for it.
0:03:40 > 0:03:41Alfred the Great.
0:03:41 > 0:03:45No, that's Edward the Martyr. 10 points for this.
0:03:45 > 0:03:48In his picture theory of meaning, which philosopher
0:03:48 > 0:03:51expressed the view that a sentence must share a pictorial form with
0:03:51 > 0:03:53whatever state of affairs it reports?
0:03:53 > 0:03:58The theory appeared in the 1921 work Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
0:03:58 > 0:03:59Wittgenstein.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02Of course.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02APPLAUSE
0:04:02 > 0:04:06Your bonuses are on schools of economic thought, Manchester.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09The classical school of economic theory is generally
0:04:09 > 0:04:11held to have begun with the publication of which
0:04:11 > 0:04:12major work in 1776?
0:04:12 > 0:04:15The Wealth Of Nations? The Wealth Of Nations.
0:04:15 > 0:04:19Correct. Emerging in the mid-19th century, which school challenged
0:04:19 > 0:04:22the foundations of classical theory and saw capitalism
0:04:22 > 0:04:25as an evolutionary phase in economic development?
0:04:23 > 0:04:25Marxism?
0:04:29 > 0:04:30Historical materialism?
0:04:30 > 0:04:32- Marxism. - Marxist school is correct.
0:04:32 > 0:04:36Flourishing in the USA during the 1920s, which school regarded
0:04:36 > 0:04:39individual economic behaviour as part of a larger social pattern
0:04:39 > 0:04:43influenced by contemporary ways of living and modes of thought?
0:04:43 > 0:04:45The Chicago school.
0:04:45 > 0:04:48No, it's institutionalist school.
0:04:48 > 0:04:5010 points for this.
0:04:50 > 0:04:51"Under pressure from the ruthless,
0:04:51 > 0:04:55"the clueless combined with the spineless to achieve the worthless."
0:04:55 > 0:04:58These words of the historian Norman Davies refer to
0:04:58 > 0:05:02the foreign policy of which 20th-century prime minister?
0:05:02 > 0:05:04Neville Chamberlain.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06Yes.
0:05:06 > 0:05:07APPLAUSE
0:05:07 > 0:05:10Your bonuses, Manchester, are on Persian history.
0:05:10 > 0:05:14A major commercial power on the Silk Road,
0:05:14 > 0:05:17which empire was founded in the mid-third century BC
0:05:17 > 0:05:21and supplanted by the Sassanid dynasty in AD 224?
0:05:23 > 0:05:25I've no idea whatsoever.
0:05:25 > 0:05:27- Just say something. - The Mongols.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29No, it's the Parthian.
0:05:29 > 0:05:32In the second century AD the Parthian Crown Prince
0:05:32 > 0:05:34An Shigao renounced his title,
0:05:34 > 0:05:37travelled to Han China and became one of the first
0:05:37 > 0:05:40translators of texts of what religion into Chinese?
0:05:42 > 0:05:44Into Chinese? Islam? Christianity?
0:05:44 > 0:05:45It won't be Islam...
0:05:45 > 0:05:47- Christianity. Christianity?- Yeah.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50I'm going to go for Christianity.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52- Christianity. - No, it's Buddhism.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55What regnal name is shared by the Parthian ruler who
0:05:55 > 0:05:58concluded the first treaty with Rome in 92 BC with the contemporary
0:05:58 > 0:06:01King of Pontus, also known as Eupater,
0:06:01 > 0:06:04who resisted Roman hegemony?
0:06:04 > 0:06:05Choose a number.
0:06:05 > 0:06:09- Regnal name.- Oh, regnal name. - Someone give me a name.
0:06:09 > 0:06:10- Darius. - Darius.
0:06:10 > 0:06:13No, it's Mithridates. 10 points for this.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16Believed to have been coined by Coleridge, what objective
0:06:16 > 0:06:18relates to the way in which certain organic disorders
0:06:18 > 0:06:21such as hypertension are believed to be caused or
0:06:21 > 0:06:24aggravated by stress or other psychological factors?
0:06:26 > 0:06:28Psychosomatic.
0:06:28 > 0:06:29Correct.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31APPLAUSE
0:06:31 > 0:06:35These bonuses, Manchester, are on relative distances in astronomy.
0:06:35 > 0:06:36Firstly for five,
0:06:36 > 0:06:40imagine a circle of one centimetre diameter on a piece of paper.
0:06:40 > 0:06:41That's Earth.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45Now imagine another circle, three millimetres in diameter.
0:06:45 > 0:06:46That's the moon.
0:06:46 > 0:06:50To the nearest 10 centimetres, how far will the moon circle
0:06:50 > 0:06:53be from the Earth circle using the same scale?
0:06:53 > 0:06:59THEY CONFER
0:06:59 > 0:07:04About a third of that in centimetres.
0:07:04 > 0:07:09I don't know. Erm...
0:07:09 > 0:07:11- Let's have an answer, please. - 200.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13No, it's 30 centimetres.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15Using the same scale the sun would be
0:07:15 > 0:07:19represented by a circle around 1.1 metres in diameter.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22How far away would it be? You can have 10 metres either way.
0:07:22 > 0:07:2710 metres.
0:07:27 > 0:07:28Shall I just say something?
0:07:28 > 0:07:32Go for 120.
0:07:32 > 0:07:33120.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36I'll accept that, yes, it's 118. Yes, very good.
0:07:36 > 0:07:40Finally using the same scale, the nearest star Proxima Centauri,
0:07:40 > 0:07:46is around 31 of what unit away from our one metre diameter sun?
0:07:46 > 0:07:48- Kilometres?- Yeah.
0:07:48 > 0:07:49Kilometres.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52No, it's gigametres, or million kilometres.
0:07:52 > 0:07:54Right, we're now going to take a picture round.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57For your picture starter you will have to answer promptly.
0:07:57 > 0:08:00You're going to see excerpts from definitions of three words
0:08:00 > 0:08:03that are in close proximity in a standard English dictionary.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06For 10 points, I want you to tell me what all three words are
0:08:06 > 0:08:10in the order they appear from these definitions.
0:08:19 > 0:08:20BUZZER
0:08:22 > 0:08:26- Quattrocento, quaver and quay. - Correct.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28APPLAUSE
0:08:30 > 0:08:33Your bonuses, three more definitions of words
0:08:33 > 0:08:36which appear in close proximity in a standard English dictionary,
0:08:36 > 0:08:39again I want all three words from their definitions
0:08:39 > 0:08:42in the order in which they appear. Firstly, these three.
0:08:45 > 0:08:49- Is that Neolithic? - Neolithic, neolog...
0:08:49 > 0:08:53Neolithic, neo...neologism and...
0:08:53 > 0:08:56What's the last one?
0:08:56 > 0:08:58Some antibiotic?
0:08:58 > 0:09:01- What, beginning with "neo"? - I need the last one.
0:09:01 > 0:09:04Neolithic, neologism and neocitin.
0:09:04 > 0:09:09No, bad luck, it's neomycin, so I can't give you the points there. Secondly...
0:09:11 > 0:09:13An easy one's the Indian curry.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16THEY CONFER
0:09:16 > 0:09:19Anyone any idea what the second one is?
0:09:19 > 0:09:24- What's the first one?- I don't know, I'm going to come back to it! - LAUGHTER
0:09:24 > 0:09:28- Is the last one vindaloo?- Probably. - Go for it.
0:09:28 > 0:09:32- Vanquished...- Vanquished, something and vindaloo.
0:09:32 > 0:09:37- So... Come on, you're the scientist. - Not with maths! - There's ligament as well.
0:09:37 > 0:09:41THEY CONFER
0:09:41 > 0:09:44- OK, I think we need an answer. - Vanquished, vain and vindaloo.- No,
0:09:44 > 0:09:48it's vincibility, vinculum, and vindaloo, as you got.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50Got the curry anyway. Finally...
0:09:57 > 0:10:03- Jingo, jangle...- Chang, clang... - No, it's Jin, jingle and jingoism. 10 points for this.
0:10:03 > 0:10:07Situated at the point where the Allegheny and the Monongahela rivers
0:10:07 > 0:10:11join to form the Ohio, which city of Western Pennsylvania
0:10:11 > 0:10:16is nicknamed the City of Bridges and the Steel City?
0:10:16 > 0:10:17Pittsburgh.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19- Pittsburgh is right. - APPLAUSE
0:10:20 > 0:10:26Your bonuses, Manchester, are on entries from the Wikipedia page "Lamest Edit Wars",
0:10:26 > 0:10:31a list of topics that promote a pointless controversy. Name the person
0:10:31 > 0:10:37whose edit war may be summarised as follows. In each case, the answer is a single surname.
0:10:37 > 0:10:41Firstly, "Should this surname redirect to the page of a US politician
0:10:41 > 0:10:44"or to that of a member of the Monty Python team?"
0:10:44 > 0:10:46- Palin? Palin.- Correct.
0:10:46 > 0:10:50Secondly, "What demonym describes this scientist?
0:10:50 > 0:10:53"Born of Serbian parents in a part of the Austrian Empire, which later
0:10:53 > 0:10:59"became a part of the Hungarian half of Austria-Hungary, now in Croatia, he later became a US citizen."
0:10:59 > 0:11:01- Tesla?- Correct.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03"How is the surname pronounced?
0:11:03 > 0:11:06"Does it rhyme with foaling or does it rhyme with howling?"
0:11:10 > 0:11:14- Cowling.- No, it's JK Rowling. 10 points for this.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17Twice adapted for the cinema, the title of which novel
0:11:17 > 0:11:21of 1959 by Richard Condon has come to denote a person
0:11:21 > 0:11:24who's been brainwashed by an organisation or adversary...
0:11:24 > 0:11:26- Manchurian Candidate?- Correct.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28APPLAUSE
0:11:29 > 0:11:34Manchester, your bonuses this time are on life in the words of 20th-century novelists.
0:11:34 > 0:11:38"Life is a luminous halo, a semitransparent envelope
0:11:38 > 0:11:41"surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."
0:11:41 > 0:11:44Who wrote those words in the 1925 work The Common Reader?
0:11:44 > 0:11:48- Ooh...- Go on.- George Bernard Shaw? - No, it was Virginia Woolf.
0:11:48 > 0:11:52"Books make sense of life, the only problem is that the lives
0:11:52 > 0:11:55"they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own."
0:11:55 > 0:11:58These words appear in Flaubert's Parrot,
0:11:58 > 0:12:01a 1984 work by which novelist?
0:12:01 > 0:12:02Julian Barnes, right? Yeah.
0:12:02 > 0:12:06- Julian Barnes.- Correct. "There is no point to life, though there is a point to art."
0:12:06 > 0:12:10These words were attributed to which Booker prize-winning novelist, poet and critic
0:12:10 > 0:12:13shortly before his death in 1995?
0:12:15 > 0:12:19- Anthony Burgess?- Do you reckon?- No, it's...- Did he win the Booker prize?
0:12:19 > 0:12:23- He should've done.- Anthony Burgess. - No, it's Kingsley Amis.
0:12:23 > 0:12:27Worcester College, still plenty of time, not even halfway. 10 points for this.
0:12:27 > 0:12:28From the Russian for "fist",
0:12:28 > 0:12:32what term indicates the higher-income farmers who emerged after...
0:12:32 > 0:12:35- Kulak.- Kulak is right, yes.
0:12:35 > 0:12:36APPLAUSE
0:12:37 > 0:12:40Right, for your bonuses,
0:12:40 > 0:12:43give the largest real root of the following polynomial equations.
0:12:43 > 0:12:44HE LAUGHS
0:12:44 > 0:12:50Firstly, X squared - 10X + 25 = 0.
0:12:50 > 0:12:53I don't know what the question means!
0:12:53 > 0:12:54AUDIENCE LAUGHS
0:12:54 > 0:12:56THEY CONFER
0:13:00 > 0:13:01Seven?
0:13:01 > 0:13:03- Seven.- No, it's five.
0:13:03 > 0:13:09Secondly, X to the power 4 minus 5 times X squared + 6 = 0.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14- What was the middle bit? - I don't know!
0:13:14 > 0:13:15Five.
0:13:15 > 0:13:17No, it's root 3.
0:13:17 > 0:13:21And finally X to the power 6 - 64 = 0.
0:13:23 > 0:13:25- 64 divided by six...- No. - Eight.
0:13:25 > 0:13:30- No, it's two! - AUDIENCE LAUGHS - We'll take a music round now.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33For your music starter, you'll hear an excerpt from an opera.
0:13:33 > 0:13:3610 points if you can give me the name of the composer, please.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39MUSIC: "The Soldiers' Chorus"
0:13:43 > 0:13:47- Is it Bizet?- No. So you can hear a bit more, Manchester.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49MUSIC RESUMES
0:13:53 > 0:13:58- Verdi?- No, it's Gounod, it's The Soldiers' Chorus from Faust.
0:13:58 > 0:14:00So music bonuses shortly, another starter question.
0:14:00 > 0:14:04From Greek words meaning "branch" and "tribe" respectively,
0:14:04 > 0:14:08give either term that indicates the system of classifying organisms
0:14:08 > 0:14:12based on their evolutionary relationships as opposed to present-day similarities.
0:14:15 > 0:14:19- Taxonomy?- No, Worcester?
0:14:19 > 0:14:20- Cladistic.- Correct.
0:14:20 > 0:14:22WHOOPING AND APPLAUSE
0:14:25 > 0:14:27OK, you're off, you get the music bonuses.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30An excerpt from Gounod's Faust you heard for the starter.
0:14:30 > 0:14:33Three more excerpts from pieces based on the Faust legend
0:14:33 > 0:14:35for your bonuses.
0:14:35 > 0:14:40I simply want you to identify the composer in each case. Firstly, the French composer of this piece.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43MUSIC: Excerpt from "The Damnation Of Faust"
0:14:43 > 0:14:46- Might be Ravel, I've got a feeling it might be.- Or Wagner?
0:14:46 > 0:14:51- It could be Ravel. I can't think who else who wrote about Faust.- OK.
0:14:51 > 0:14:52- Yeah?- Go for Ravel.- Is it Ravel?
0:14:52 > 0:14:56No, it's not, it's Berlioz. It's from The Damnation Of Faust.
0:14:56 > 0:14:58Secondly, the German composer of this work.
0:14:58 > 0:15:00MUSIC: Excerpt from "Faust"
0:15:03 > 0:15:07- Richard Strauss. Go for Richard Strauss.- Yeah? OK.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09Is it Richard Strauss?
0:15:09 > 0:15:11No, that's Robert Schumann.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14And finally the Hungarian composer of this piece, please.
0:15:14 > 0:15:16MUSIC: Excerpt from "Faust Symphony"
0:15:16 > 0:15:21- The Hungarian composers that I know are Bartok. - Bartok. Shall we go with him?
0:15:21 > 0:15:25- Bartok and Liszt.- Do you know any others... Is Liszt Hungarian as well?
0:15:25 > 0:15:28- He's Hungarian but I don't know... - THEY CONFER
0:15:28 > 0:15:31- Could be Bartok or Liszt. Sounds more like Bartok.- Bartok?
0:15:31 > 0:15:34No, it's Liszt's Faust Symphony. 10 points for this.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37Give the three words that begin the titles of all of the following:
0:15:37 > 0:15:43A short story of 1911 by Willa Cather, a web comic created by Nitrozac and Snaggy,
0:15:43 > 0:15:45a 1931 cookbook by...
0:15:45 > 0:15:48- Joy. - No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:15:48 > 0:15:50A 1931 cookbook...
0:15:50 > 0:15:52The Joy Of.
0:15:52 > 0:15:54- The Joy Of, indeed. I asked for all three words. - APPLAUSE
0:15:54 > 0:15:57Right, so, you get the set of bonuses this time.
0:15:57 > 0:16:01They are on two-word terms in which the last two letters of the first word
0:16:01 > 0:16:04and the first two letters of the second word are the same,
0:16:04 > 0:16:07for example, ghost story, or modal algebra.
0:16:07 > 0:16:11In each case, give the term from the definition.
0:16:11 > 0:16:14First, a detailed examination using the approach principles
0:16:14 > 0:16:17of the Greek philosopher who was tutor to Alexander the Great?
0:16:17 > 0:16:20It's Aristotle.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23THEY CONFER
0:16:23 > 0:16:26Aristotle? No, something else?
0:16:26 > 0:16:28But what?
0:16:28 > 0:16:33- Aristotelian logic? - Aristotelian, Aristotle logic.
0:16:33 > 0:16:36No, it's Aristotelian analysis.
0:16:36 > 0:16:40Secondly, a specific part of speech that can take a direct object,
0:16:40 > 0:16:45examples being eat, make and ask.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48- Some transitive verb? Transitive verb.- Correct.
0:16:48 > 0:16:52The line of longitude that passes through Greenwich?
0:16:52 > 0:16:54Green... What is it?
0:16:54 > 0:16:59- Something meridian. Prime Meridian. - Correct, 10 points for this.
0:16:59 > 0:17:01According to the historian GR Elton,
0:17:01 > 0:17:06what political measure destroyed the last possible refuge of papalism, enriched the Crown,
0:17:06 > 0:17:09and anchored the new order firmly in the self-interest of the landown...
0:17:09 > 0:17:14- The introduction of the Book of Common Prayer. - No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:17:14 > 0:17:18..in the self-interest of the landowning classes who purchased the estates?
0:17:18 > 0:17:20The dissolution of the monasteries?
0:17:20 > 0:17:24- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:17:24 > 0:17:27Your bonuses this time are on modern political philosophers.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30A proponent of analytical Marxism, who died in 2009,
0:17:30 > 0:17:34which political philosopher's works include If You're An Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich?
0:17:34 > 0:17:36- Nominate Kelly.- GA Cohen.- Correct.
0:17:36 > 0:17:41Born in 1939 in Mandate Palestine, and the leading proponent of legal positivism,
0:17:41 > 0:17:47which philosopher's works include The Authority Of Law and The Morality Of Freedom?
0:17:47 > 0:17:53- We don't know any political philosophers.- That were born in Palestine.- Possibly Jewish.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56- We probably do.- There's a lot.
0:17:56 > 0:17:58I don't know.
0:17:58 > 0:18:03- No, sorry.- It's Joseph Raz. Finally, credited with the reinvigoration of modern political philosophy,
0:18:03 > 0:18:06which US philosopher is noted for the dictum that the principles of justice
0:18:06 > 0:18:09must be chosen behind a veil of ignorance?
0:18:09 > 0:18:12- John Rawls?- John Rawls.- Correct.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15Another starter question. In 2010, to mark its 10th anniversary,
0:18:15 > 0:18:19the Lowry Art Gallery commissioned which US artist
0:18:19 > 0:18:24to photograph groups of nude volunteers in various locations in Manchester and Salford?
0:18:27 > 0:18:29Anne Liebowitz?
0:18:29 > 0:18:30No.
0:18:30 > 0:18:32- Tunick?- Yes, Spencer Tunick.
0:18:32 > 0:18:36So, your bonuses this time, Manchester, are on a school of art. Firstly, for five,
0:18:36 > 0:18:39which 19th-century group of French landscape painters formed a school
0:18:39 > 0:18:45that took its name from a small village on the outskirts of the forest of Fontainebleau.
0:18:45 > 0:18:48Avignon? I don't know.
0:18:48 > 0:18:52- OK, give me a clue.- I've no idea. - It's a town, isn't it?
0:18:52 > 0:18:57- Ardennes. - No, it's the Barbizon school.
0:18:57 > 0:19:02The Barbizon painters were greatly influenced by the 1824 exhibition in the Salon de Paris
0:19:02 > 0:19:05of the works of which English painter?
0:19:05 > 0:19:07- Turner? Turner.- No, it was Constable.
0:19:07 > 0:19:11Settling in Barbizon in 1849, and closely associated with the school,
0:19:11 > 0:19:16which artist's works include The Gleaners, painted in 1857,
0:19:16 > 0:19:19now on display in the Musee d'Orsay?
0:19:19 > 0:19:23- A French Millet. - Is there a French Millet?- Yeah.
0:19:23 > 0:19:27- The French Millet.- That's correct, Jean Francois Millet.
0:19:27 > 0:19:33Right, 10 points for this. Which vole-like Arctic rodents are noted for their mass migrations in...
0:19:33 > 0:19:35- Lemmings.- Lemmings is correct.
0:19:35 > 0:19:37APPLAUSE
0:19:37 > 0:19:40Your bonuses are on US state capitals.
0:19:40 > 0:19:44Which state capital is closest to Chicago, Illinois?
0:19:44 > 0:19:49What's the capital of Michigan? Is it not...
0:19:49 > 0:19:50THEY DISCUSS
0:19:50 > 0:19:52The one on top would be Wisconsin?
0:19:52 > 0:19:55There's no state on top of...
0:19:55 > 0:19:57Come on, let's have it, please.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59Ann Arbour.
0:19:59 > 0:20:01In Michigan, no, it's Madison, Wisconsin.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04What is the closest US state capital to El Paso, Texas?
0:20:04 > 0:20:07- Albuquerque?- Santa Fe, maybe?
0:20:07 > 0:20:10Where's that, Albuquerque's the capital of New Mexico.
0:20:10 > 0:20:14- No, Santa Fe's the capital. - Are you sure?- Yeah.- Santa Fe.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16Santa Fe in New Mexico is right.
0:20:16 > 0:20:21Finally, which state capital is closer to both New York City and Philadelphia than any other?
0:20:21 > 0:20:27- Baltimore?- No, that's lower down. Vermont? No.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29Come on.
0:20:29 > 0:20:32- Hoboken?- No, it's Trenton, New Jersey.
0:20:32 > 0:20:3410 points for this. It's a picture round.
0:20:34 > 0:20:38For your starter, you'll see a painting depicting the fall of a major historical city.
0:20:38 > 0:20:41For 10 points, I want the name of the city,
0:20:41 > 0:20:43which is also in the title of the painting.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49Troy.
0:20:49 > 0:20:53No, one of you may buzz from Worcester. You can have another look.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55Carthage.
0:20:55 > 0:21:00No, it's Constantinople. So, picture bonuses, shortly. 10 points for this starter question.
0:21:00 > 0:21:03With the chemical formula C40H56,
0:21:03 > 0:21:09what is the name of the red carotinoid pigment that gives tomatoes their red colouration?
0:21:09 > 0:21:12- Lycopene.- Correct.
0:21:12 > 0:21:13APPLAUSE
0:21:16 > 0:21:19- OK, you're storming away now! - LAUGHTER
0:21:19 > 0:21:23Your picture starter was Delacroix's Crusaders' Entry into Constantinople,
0:21:23 > 0:21:26the event marking the beginning of the end of Byzantine empire.
0:21:26 > 0:21:31Your bonuses are three mosaics depicting emperors or empresses of that empire.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34Five points for each one you can name.
0:21:34 > 0:21:38Firstly, for five, this sixth-century emperor?
0:21:38 > 0:21:44- It could be... Justinian was pretty damn successful in the sixth century.- OK.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46- Justinian?- Justinian's right.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48Secondly, this 11th-century empress?
0:21:50 > 0:21:53What were empresses often called?
0:21:53 > 0:21:55No idea.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57- Sofia?- No, it's Zoe.
0:21:57 > 0:22:02And finally, this emperor of both the Western and Eastern Roman Empire?
0:22:04 > 0:22:06Maybe Theodosius.
0:22:06 > 0:22:10- Go with that? Theodosius. - No, it's Constantine the Great.
0:22:10 > 0:22:1110 points for this.
0:22:11 > 0:22:16Backed by President Cristina Fernandez's centre-left government, and passed by 33 votes to 27,
0:22:16 > 0:22:23which country in July 2010 became the first in Latin America to legalise gay marriage?
0:22:23 > 0:22:24Brazil.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26Anyone like to buzz from Worcester College?
0:22:26 > 0:22:28- Argentina.- Argentina is correct.
0:22:28 > 0:22:31APPLAUSE
0:22:31 > 0:22:34Worcester College, your bonuses this time are on the periodic table.
0:22:34 > 0:22:38Which two elements have symbols that together spell the name of
0:22:38 > 0:22:41the largest island of the greater Antilles?
0:22:41 > 0:22:44- Cuba. So, copper and...- Barium. Copper and barium.
0:22:44 > 0:22:45- Copper and barium.- Correct.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48Which two elements have symbols that spell the name of
0:22:48 > 0:22:53the South American people who founded their capital at Cusko in Peru in the 12th century?
0:22:53 > 0:22:55- Inca. Indium and calcium. - Indium and calcium.- Correct.
0:22:55 > 0:22:59Which three elements have symbols that spell the name of the mountain range
0:22:59 > 0:23:03that includes the Eiger and Mont Blanc?
0:23:03 > 0:23:07- That's Alps.- So aluminium, phosphorus and sulphur.- Yeah?
0:23:07 > 0:23:10- Aluminium, phosphorus and sulphur. - Well done.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:23:12 > 0:23:1310 points for this.
0:23:13 > 0:23:17"A convulsion of the lungs vellicated by some sharp serocity."
0:23:17 > 0:23:23These words are Dr Johnson's description of what respiratory movement,
0:23:23 > 0:23:25often a symptom of illness?
0:23:25 > 0:23:27- Coughing.- Cough is correct, yes.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30APPLAUSE
0:23:30 > 0:23:33Your bonuses are on a disease. Scrofula, now an uncommon condition,
0:23:33 > 0:23:35usually acquired by drinking infected milk,
0:23:35 > 0:23:37is a form of which disease?
0:23:37 > 0:23:40It's a skin disease. The king's touch would cure scrofula.
0:23:40 > 0:23:43- I don't know, maybe eczema? - Let's have an answer.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46- Eczema?- No, tuberculosis. In the Middle Ages,
0:23:46 > 0:23:49scrofula was believed to be curable by the physical touch of a monarch,
0:23:49 > 0:23:52and was consequently known by what name?
0:23:52 > 0:23:55- King's disease?- King's touch?
0:23:55 > 0:23:58King's touch? OK, King's disease.
0:23:58 > 0:24:00It's the King's evil, or the Queen's evil.
0:24:00 > 0:24:05And, as a small child, Samuel Johnson was brought to London to be touched by which monarch,
0:24:05 > 0:24:08the last in Britain to practise the custom?
0:24:08 > 0:24:12- Charles II?- Charles II.- No, it was Queen Anne. Three and a half minutes to go, 10 points for this.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15Velazquez's portrait of Pope Innocent X
0:24:15 > 0:24:18and a still from Eisenstein's film Battleship Potemkin
0:24:18 > 0:24:22were among the inspirations for which Dublin-born painter's series of works?
0:24:22 > 0:24:24- Bacon.- Francis Bacon is right, yes.
0:24:24 > 0:24:26APPLAUSE
0:24:26 > 0:24:29Your bonuses, Manchester, are on national parks.
0:24:29 > 0:24:33The first Scottish National Park was established in 2002,
0:24:33 > 0:24:36covering Loch Lomond and which wooded glen near Loch Katrine?
0:24:36 > 0:24:39The Great Glen? Yeah?
0:24:39 > 0:24:42- The Great Glen.- The Trossachs. The Great Glen is much further north.
0:24:42 > 0:24:44There are three national parks in Wales.
0:24:44 > 0:24:48The Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia are two, which is the third?
0:24:49 > 0:24:52Is it Pembrokeshire Coast?
0:24:52 > 0:24:53Pembrokeshire Coast.
0:24:53 > 0:24:55Correct. Created in 1954,
0:24:55 > 0:24:58which national park lies primarily within Somerset
0:24:58 > 0:25:02and shares its name with a native pony characterised by a winter coat able to repel rain?
0:25:02 > 0:25:04- Dartmoor?- Dartmoor.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06No, that's in Devon. It's Exmoor. 10 points for this.
0:25:06 > 0:25:12Which EU member state shares its name with the palace used for the Paris peace conference of 1946?
0:25:12 > 0:25:14Luxembourg?
0:25:14 > 0:25:16Luxembourg is correct, yes.
0:25:16 > 0:25:17APPLAUSE
0:25:17 > 0:25:22Your bonuses are on shorter words that can be made from the letters of the word "lyrical".
0:25:22 > 0:25:25In each case, give the word from the description.
0:25:25 > 0:25:28Firstly, a small tree of the genus syringa,
0:25:28 > 0:25:33whose fragrant blossom gives its name to a pale pinkish violet colour?
0:25:33 > 0:25:34- Lilac.- Lilac.
0:25:34 > 0:25:35Correct.
0:25:35 > 0:25:38A covering or appendage of some seeds,
0:25:38 > 0:25:41for example, the red fleshy cup around the seed of a yew tree?
0:25:44 > 0:25:47- Come on.- Berry. - No, it's an aril!
0:25:47 > 0:25:53A portion of a curve or a luminous discharge between two electrodes?
0:25:53 > 0:25:54- Arc.- Arc.- Correct.
0:25:54 > 0:25:58Another starter question. "This, above all, to thine own self be true."
0:25:58 > 0:26:00In which of Shakespeare's plays...
0:26:00 > 0:26:03- Hamlet.- Hamlet is right, it's the advice to Laertes.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05APPLAUSE
0:26:05 > 0:26:08Your bonuses are on tributaries of the River Thames, Manchester.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11For each, give the tributary whose name corresponds to the following.
0:26:11 > 0:26:17Firstly, a river whose name rhymes with the surname of the heroine of Pride and Prejudice?
0:26:19 > 0:26:22Something, a river that rhymes with... Kennet. Kennet.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24Kennet is correct, yes.
0:26:24 > 0:26:28Secondly, a town in East Lancashire, part of the borough of Pendle,
0:26:28 > 0:26:31- along with Nelson and Barnoldswick? - Eccles?
0:26:31 > 0:26:32- No.- No.
0:26:32 > 0:26:35- Monton?- What?- Monton.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37- Monton.- No, it's Colne.
0:26:37 > 0:26:42Finally, a timid, home-loving animal, the first character to be introduced in a novel of 1908?
0:26:42 > 0:26:46- Mole? Yeah. Mole.- Mole is right, yes.
0:26:46 > 0:26:52- 10 points for this. - What five-letter German word can follow curry, blut, weiss, bock...
0:26:52 > 0:26:55Wurst.
0:26:55 > 0:26:57Wurst is correct. Here are your bonuses.
0:26:57 > 0:26:58They're on a name.
0:26:58 > 0:27:01In 2010, which director became the first American woman
0:27:01 > 0:27:05to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, for her film Somewhere?
0:27:05 > 0:27:07- Kathryn Bigelow. - No, it's Sofia Coppola.
0:27:07 > 0:27:12Which Act of 1701 declared Sofia of Hanover, the mother of George I,
0:27:12 > 0:27:15- to be the heir to the throne of England and Ireland? - Don't know, pass.
0:27:15 > 0:27:17- Pass.- It was the Act of Settlement.
0:27:17 > 0:27:21In which modern city is the Hagia Sofia, or Church of the Holy Wisdom,
0:27:21 > 0:27:23built by the Byzantine emperor Justinian in 537?
0:27:23 > 0:27:27- Istanbul?- Correct. Another starter question. Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:27:27 > 0:27:30Which positive integer has the binary representation 1111?
0:27:30 > 0:27:31GONG
0:27:31 > 0:27:35And, at the gong, Worcester College, Oxford, have 65,
0:27:35 > 0:27:37but Manchester University have 240.
0:27:37 > 0:27:41CHEERING
0:27:41 > 0:27:44Well, Worcester College, it's a shame to go out by such a wide margin
0:27:44 > 0:27:47because, actually, you've been terrific in this series.
0:27:47 > 0:27:51With the right questions, you'd have done a lot better than that.
0:27:51 > 0:27:52But we have to say goodbye to you.
0:27:52 > 0:27:57Many congratulations to Manchester, you go forward on that magnificent score to the final.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59I hope you can join us next time for the second semifinal.
0:27:59 > 0:28:03Until then, it's goodbye from Worcester College, Oxford.
0:28:03 > 0:28:04- TEAM:- Goodbye.
0:28:04 > 0:28:07- Goodbye from Manchester University. - TEAM:- Bye. - And goodbye from me, goodbye.
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