0:00:17 > 0:00:20APPLAUSE
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:26 > 0:00:31Hello. Tonight is the penultimate match in this year's competition,
0:00:31 > 0:00:34because last time, we saw Manchester University
0:00:34 > 0:00:37beat Worcester College, Oxford to take their place in the final.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40Tonight, we'll find out who they will be playing.
0:00:40 > 0:00:44Pembroke College, Cambridge have been on consistently strong form
0:00:44 > 0:00:48throughout this contest and are the only team among the semifinalists to have made it this far
0:00:48 > 0:00:53without losing a match. They've beaten St Anne's College, Oxford, Nottingham University,
0:00:53 > 0:00:56Balliol College, Oxford and Clare College, Cambridge so far.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59Let's see if they can maintain their form
0:00:59 > 0:01:01as we meet them now for the fifth time.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04Hello, my name's Edward Bankes, I'm from Sevenoaks in Kent
0:01:04 > 0:01:06- and I'm reading English. - Hi, I'm Ben Pugh,
0:01:06 > 0:01:09I'm from North London and I'm reading German and Russian.
0:01:09 > 0:01:11- And their captain. - Hello, I'm Bibek Mukherjee,
0:01:11 > 0:01:14I'm from Canterbury in Kent and I'm reading economics.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17Hi, I'm Imogen Gold, I'm from London and I'm reading engineering.
0:01:17 > 0:01:19CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:01:21 > 0:01:26University College, London are here having beaten the universities of York, Warwick and Manchester,
0:01:26 > 0:01:29but a defeat against Worcester College, Oxford
0:01:29 > 0:01:32in their second quarterfinal meant they had to play a third
0:01:32 > 0:01:36against Balliol College, Oxford to secure their place here tonight.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38They tend to alternate unerring accuracy
0:01:38 > 0:01:42with completely random outbursts like booby or Uranus.
0:01:42 > 0:01:44Still, it works for them. Let's meet them again.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46Hi, I'm Hywel Carver from East Devon,
0:01:46 > 0:01:49and I'm doing a PhD in the modelling of blood flow.
0:01:49 > 0:01:53Hi, I'm Patrick Cook from the Texas Hill Country and I'm reading history.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55- And their captain. - Hello, I'm Jamie Karran from London,
0:01:55 > 0:01:58and I'm working towards a degree in medicine.
0:01:58 > 0:02:02Hi, I'm Tom Andrews, I'm from North Somerset and I'm studying genetics.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05APPLAUSE
0:02:05 > 0:02:09OK, you all know the rules. Fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11Quote, "You may not doubt that this object,
0:02:11 > 0:02:16"unwanted even in commercial America, is the deflowering of our capital."
0:02:16 > 0:02:20This statement concluded a protest by notable figures,
0:02:20 > 0:02:22including Zola, Gounod and Dumas...
0:02:22 > 0:02:25- The Eiffel Tower.- Correct.
0:02:25 > 0:02:27APPLAUSE
0:02:27 > 0:02:31Your first set of bonuses, UCL, are on red hair.
0:02:31 > 0:02:35"You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair.
0:02:35 > 0:02:39"People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is."
0:02:39 > 0:02:41In which novel of 1908 do those words appear?
0:02:41 > 0:02:46- Er... Gone With The Wind? - Gone With The Wind.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48No, it's Anne Of Green Gables.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51"Ethiopians say their gods are snub-nosed and black,
0:02:51 > 0:02:54"Thracians that theirs are pale and red haired."
0:02:54 > 0:02:57These words are attributed to which pre-Socratic philosopher,
0:02:57 > 0:02:59a native of Colophon in Ionia?
0:03:02 > 0:03:04I don't...
0:03:04 > 0:03:07Heraclitus? It could be Heraclitus.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10- Heraclitus.- No, it's Xenophanes.
0:03:10 > 0:03:14"Out of the ash, I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air."
0:03:14 > 0:03:17These are the final words of Lady Lazarus,
0:03:17 > 0:03:19a work by which poet who died in 1963?
0:03:19 > 0:03:22- Sylvia Plath.- Sylvia Plath.
0:03:22 > 0:03:24- Correct. Another starter question. - APPLAUSE
0:03:24 > 0:03:28Used since the eighth century to refer to jesting or entertainment,
0:03:28 > 0:03:31what short word became associated with a state of joy or delight
0:03:31 > 0:03:35but was revived with its original meaning in the 18th century
0:03:35 > 0:03:38in the names of clubs formed for the practice...?
0:03:38 > 0:03:40- Glee.- Glee is right, yes.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43APPLAUSE
0:03:43 > 0:03:46Your bonuses this time, UCL, are on fact recall.
0:03:46 > 0:03:50Which German terrorist group gives its name to an Internet meme
0:03:50 > 0:03:54and phenomenon in which, having heard an obscure fact for the first time,
0:03:54 > 0:03:57one encounters it repeatedly in other contexts?
0:03:57 > 0:04:00- Baader-Meinhof.- Baader-Meinhof.
0:04:00 > 0:04:04- Who's ever heard of that on the internet? Trolling is a thing.- No!
0:04:04 > 0:04:09- Baader-Meinhof complex is the only thing...- OK, Baader-Meinhof. - Baader-Meinhof is right.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12Named by the US psychologists Roger Brown and David McNeill,
0:04:12 > 0:04:18what phenomenon involves the recall of certain attributes of a fact, such as the first letter of a name,
0:04:18 > 0:04:20without being able to recall the fact itself?
0:04:20 > 0:04:23it's on the tip of my tongue.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26Association? Selectivisation?
0:04:26 > 0:04:30Selective memory is the best I've got, but I don't think it's right.
0:04:30 > 0:04:33- Selective memory?- No, it is tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35LAUGHTER
0:04:35 > 0:04:37It's on the tip of your tongue! There we are.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40Five points for this one. From the story of Cinderella, what name denotes
0:04:40 > 0:04:45a common tip-of-the-tongue experience in which one becomes aware of an unrelated fact
0:04:45 > 0:04:49which impedes access to the required memory and is hard to dislodge?
0:04:49 > 0:04:51THEY MURMUR
0:04:51 > 0:04:53- Glass slipper?- Glass slipper? I'm thinking pumpkin,
0:04:53 > 0:04:56something to do with pumpkins.
0:04:56 > 0:05:00Um... Glass slipper sounds more realistic than pumpkin. Glass slipper.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02No, it's the ugly sister effect.
0:05:02 > 0:05:0310 points for this.
0:05:03 > 0:05:07The cities of Dushanbe in Tajikistan, Katowice in Poland,
0:05:07 > 0:05:10Donetsk in Ukraine and Volgograd in Russia
0:05:10 > 0:05:14were all formerly known by names derived from that adopted...
0:05:14 > 0:05:16- Stalin.- Correct.
0:05:16 > 0:05:20- APPLAUSE - Right, Pembroke, you're off the mark.
0:05:20 > 0:05:24Your bonuses are on astronomy and Shakespeare.
0:05:24 > 0:05:26"But I am constant as the Northern Star."
0:05:26 > 0:05:29Which of Shakespeare's title characters describes himself
0:05:29 > 0:05:32- with those words?- Othello.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35- Othello.- No, it wasn't, it was Julius Caesar. In Act I of Hamlet,
0:05:35 > 0:05:40the soldier Bernardo points out, "Yond same star that's westwards from the pole,"
0:05:40 > 0:05:44thought by some to be a reference to what phenomenon
0:05:44 > 0:05:47occurring in the constellation of Cassiopeia observed in 1572?
0:05:47 > 0:05:49- Halley's Comet?- No.
0:05:49 > 0:05:54- Supernova?- It could be. - We might as well guess.
0:05:54 > 0:05:56- Go for it.- Supernova? - Supernova?- Correct.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58"But like a comet I was wondered at.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01"That men would tell their children, 'This is he.'
0:06:01 > 0:06:03"Others would say, 'Where? Which is Bolingbroke?'"
0:06:03 > 0:06:06Which title character says those words?
0:06:06 > 0:06:10- Well, Bolingbroke is Henry IV. - It's not Oswald, is it?
0:06:10 > 0:06:11He's not a title character.
0:06:11 > 0:06:15- Henry IV.- I'd go Richard II.
0:06:15 > 0:06:17- Richard II.- No, it was Henry IV.
0:06:17 > 0:06:2010 points for this. From the Greek for a mast or web,
0:06:20 > 0:06:24what name is given to a graph consisting of continuous rectangles,
0:06:24 > 0:06:28each having a width proportional to the size of a range of numbers...?
0:06:28 > 0:06:30- Histogram.- Histogram is correct.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32APPLAUSE
0:06:32 > 0:06:35Your bonuses are on signal processing.
0:06:35 > 0:06:39Firstly, for five, what term can mean both varying an electromagnetic wave
0:06:39 > 0:06:43in order to impress a signal on it and a change of key in a piece of music?
0:06:43 > 0:06:46- Modulation.- Correct. From the Greek for "different power",
0:06:46 > 0:06:52what term refers to the generation of beat frequencies by the combination of two waveforms?
0:06:53 > 0:06:57THEY MURMUR
0:06:57 > 0:07:00Hetero...mixing?
0:07:00 > 0:07:02I thought that was different.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05- Hetero mixing? - No, it's heterodyning.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07Including Hannibal Lecter among its devotees,
0:07:07 > 0:07:10and notably used in the theme music for Midsomer Murders,
0:07:10 > 0:07:14what instrument, named after its Russian inventor, uses the heterodyne principle
0:07:14 > 0:07:20to generate tones based on the movement of the musician's hands near the two antennas?
0:07:20 > 0:07:22- Theremin.- Correct.
0:07:22 > 0:07:24- We'll take a picture round. - For your starter,
0:07:24 > 0:07:26you'll see a diagram of a chessboard.
0:07:26 > 0:07:2810 points if you can
0:07:28 > 0:07:29give me the two-word term
0:07:29 > 0:07:31which denotes the particular form of
0:07:31 > 0:07:34checkmate by which white has lost.
0:07:36 > 0:07:38- Fool's mate. - Fool's mate is right, yes.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40APPLAUSE
0:07:40 > 0:07:43Picture bonuses. Three more chess boards, this time
0:07:43 > 0:07:47showing the state of play before the final move in three famous matches.
0:07:47 > 0:07:51For five points, I want you to tell me what the winning move was.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54For example, white queen from D1 to A1.
0:07:54 > 0:07:55Firstly, the winning move
0:07:55 > 0:07:59for white from this 1858 game.
0:08:06 > 0:08:10- Umm... So castle down to E1.- No.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13- Yeah, castle down.- Down to E1.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17No, no, no, no!
0:08:17 > 0:08:18LAUGHTER
0:08:18 > 0:08:22- E3, I think, maybe.- No...- Go.
0:08:22 > 0:08:23No, wait...
0:08:23 > 0:08:25Rook down to E1.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28- From?- Er...- Wherever it is now?
0:08:28 > 0:08:30- From E8.- Correct, yes.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33The winning move for black from this 1948 game.
0:08:40 > 0:08:41Is that the queen?
0:08:41 > 0:08:44Wait. We want the king.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46Oh, no, is that the king?
0:08:46 > 0:08:49OK, no, I think it's...
0:08:49 > 0:08:51It's knight from G4 to E2.
0:08:53 > 0:08:54Knight from G4 to E2.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57No, it's black knight from G4 to H2.
0:08:57 > 0:08:58- H2, OK.- Bad luck.
0:08:58 > 0:09:00Lastly, for five,
0:09:00 > 0:09:02either of the winning moves
0:09:02 > 0:09:03for black from this 1956 game.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09- We've lost the king.- Is the top one
0:09:09 > 0:09:11- the king?- King's the crown.
0:09:11 > 0:09:13- Not that one.- Which one?
0:09:13 > 0:09:16- It's this one.- The top one.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18- Knight to D5?- From where?
0:09:22 > 0:09:25- Wait. From where?- C3.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27Knight from C3 to D5.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30No. It's black rook from A2 to C2
0:09:30 > 0:09:33or black bishop from B4 to A3.
0:09:33 > 0:09:34Right, 10 points for this.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37The English counties of Cheshire, Durham and Lancashire,
0:09:37 > 0:09:41whose lords had royal privileges, the medieval rulers of Hungary
0:09:41 > 0:09:44and several counts of Germany and Burgundy all shared what name
0:09:44 > 0:09:50with that of the hill on which the original city of Romulus was built?
0:09:50 > 0:09:52- Palatine.- Palatine is right.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54APPLAUSE
0:09:54 > 0:09:57Your bonuses, UCL, this time are on women in the ancient world.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00In the words of the author Charlotte Higgins, in each case
0:10:00 > 0:10:03identify the mythological figure from her description.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06In Sophocles' play, she gives her brother, who died a traitor,
0:10:06 > 0:10:09his proper funeral rites. A standard bearer for courage
0:10:09 > 0:10:12in the face of brutish male authority.
0:10:12 > 0:10:13- Antigone.- Correct.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16When her husband leaves her for a younger model,
0:10:16 > 0:10:20she delivers a speech on the lot of married women culminating in the line,
0:10:20 > 0:10:25"I'd rather stand in the battle line three times than give birth once."
0:10:25 > 0:10:29- Medea.- Correct. In the Odyssey, she turned visiting men into pigs.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32- What more can I say?- Circe. - Circe is right.
0:10:35 > 0:10:40"He is of no age nor of any religion or party or profession.
0:10:40 > 0:10:44"The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable
0:10:44 > 0:10:46"depths of his own oceanic mind."
0:10:46 > 0:10:49These words of Coleridge described which figure?
0:10:49 > 0:10:52- Shakespeare. - Shakespeare is right, yes.
0:10:54 > 0:10:57A set of bonuses on the former East Germany. Firstly for five.
0:10:57 > 0:11:01Subtitled Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall,
0:11:01 > 0:11:04which 2003 book by Anna Funder recounts personal histories
0:11:04 > 0:11:09- of some who lived under the threat of the GDR state security? - Stasiland.- Correct.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11Which academic wrote about the dossier the Stasi
0:11:11 > 0:11:13kept on him in his 1997 book The File?
0:11:13 > 0:11:15His other works included, in 2009,
0:11:15 > 0:11:17Facts Are Subversive,
0:11:17 > 0:11:21Political Writing From A Decade Without A Name.
0:11:21 > 0:11:26- Timothy Garton Ash.- Oh, yes. Nominate Pugh.- Timothy Garton Ash.- Correct.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29A work of 2010 by Kai Schluter reveals the efforts
0:11:29 > 0:11:33made by the Stasi to spy on which Nobel prize-winning author,
0:11:33 > 0:11:35code naming him Bolzen, as in bolt?
0:11:35 > 0:11:38THEY WHISPER
0:11:38 > 0:11:41But he was West German.
0:11:41 > 0:11:43Gunter Grass?
0:11:43 > 0:11:45Who was the one in...?
0:11:45 > 0:11:47- Can we have an answer, please? - Gunter Grass.- Correct.
0:11:47 > 0:11:50Another starter question.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53Popularised by the Hungarian Marxist Gyogy Lukacs as a means
0:11:53 > 0:11:56of generalising Marx's Theory Of Commodity Fetishism,
0:11:56 > 0:11:59what term refers to the process by which abstract concepts
0:11:59 > 0:12:02are treated as if they had tangible, material objects?
0:12:02 > 0:12:05It derives from the Latin for thing.
0:12:05 > 0:12:07- Pragmatism.- No.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10Anyone like to buzz from Pembroke?
0:12:10 > 0:12:12- Rarification? - Rarification is right, yes.
0:12:14 > 0:12:17Your bonuses are on economics, Pembroke College.
0:12:17 > 0:12:21Frictional, structural and classical, the latter caused
0:12:21 > 0:12:26by excessively high wages, are three distinct types of what economic problem?
0:12:26 > 0:12:27- Unemployment.- Correct.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30Which law takes its name from the US economist who discovered
0:12:30 > 0:12:33that a 1% increase in the unemployment rate, when above 4%,
0:12:33 > 0:12:38was associated with a 3% drop in the ratio of actual GNP
0:12:38 > 0:12:39to potential GNP?
0:12:39 > 0:12:41- Okun's law.- Correct.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44Named after an economist born in 1883, what type of unemployment
0:12:44 > 0:12:47results from insufficient aggregate demand in the economy
0:12:47 > 0:12:49to support all those who want to work?
0:12:49 > 0:12:53- Keynesian.- Correct. That gives you the lead.
0:12:53 > 0:12:54A starter question.
0:12:54 > 0:12:58What surname links an Australian poet born in 1833
0:12:58 > 0:13:01and honoured in Westminster Abbey, the 19th century
0:13:01 > 0:13:04Prime Minister Lord Aberdeen and one of Lytton Strachey's eminent
0:13:04 > 0:13:09Victorians who died in 1885 at the end of the siege of Khartoum?
0:13:09 > 0:13:11- Gordon.- Gordon is right, yes.
0:13:11 > 0:13:15You retake the lead and your bonuses are on square numbers.
0:13:15 > 0:13:20The next year that is a perfect square will be 2025, 45 squared.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23The last year that was a perfect square saw
0:13:23 > 0:13:25three monarchs on the throne of Great Britain. What year was it?
0:13:27 > 0:13:32What was the one with Edward VIII? When was Edward VIII?
0:13:32 > 0:13:36- I thought it was like 36 or 37. - 37, it's got to be.
0:13:36 > 0:13:38But which would make sense in terms of squares?
0:13:38 > 0:13:42THEY WHISPER
0:13:45 > 0:13:47- 37.- Bad luck, it was 1936, 44 squared.
0:13:47 > 0:13:50Which year, a perfect square, saw the denunciation
0:13:50 > 0:13:52of Martin Luther by the Diet Of Worms,
0:13:52 > 0:13:56the death of Magellan and the fall of the Aztec capital to the Spanish?
0:13:56 > 0:13:59It's got to be in the 1400s.
0:13:59 > 0:14:04THEY WHISPER
0:14:06 > 0:14:08Sorry.
0:14:08 > 0:14:10- It's not easy.- 1456?
0:14:10 > 0:14:13No, it's got to be after 1492, when Columbus discovered America,
0:14:13 > 0:14:17so it has to be 1500s. Try mid-1500s.
0:14:17 > 0:14:23- Let's have an answer.- 1550, I don't know.- 1556.- 1521, that's 39 squared.
0:14:23 > 0:14:27Which year, also a perfect square, saw the deaths of Edgar Allen Poe, Frederic Chopin
0:14:27 > 0:14:29and the suppression of the Hungarian uprising?
0:14:29 > 0:14:34- 1956?- Chopin died that late? No. Chopin did not die that late.
0:14:34 > 0:14:38- The Hungarian uprising. - Different Hungarian uprising.
0:14:38 > 0:14:41- OK, fair enough.- Sorry. - That's all right.
0:14:41 > 0:14:46- 1856 or something?- Come on, let's have it, please.- 1844.
0:14:46 > 0:14:50- 1844.- No, it's 1849, 43 squared.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52We're going to take a music round now. For your music starter,
0:14:52 > 0:14:55you'll hear excerpts from two very different pieces of music.
0:14:55 > 0:14:5610 points if you can tell me
0:14:56 > 0:14:59the names of the composers of each piece.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01So listen to both before you answer.
0:15:01 > 0:15:06PIANO
0:15:14 > 0:15:18SYMPHONY
0:15:18 > 0:15:22# New York, New York!
0:15:22 > 0:15:25# It's a hell of a time! #
0:15:25 > 0:15:28- Debussy and Bernstein. - Yes! Well done.
0:15:31 > 0:15:35OK, the connection was that Debussy died the year that
0:15:35 > 0:15:38Bernstein was born, which was 1910.
0:15:38 > 0:15:41For your bonuses, music by three more pairs of composers,
0:15:41 > 0:15:45the first in each case died in the year the second was born.
0:15:45 > 0:15:48So I want both names for each set of five points.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51Firstly, the composers of these two pieces.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54SYMPHONY
0:16:01 > 0:16:02Where you think it's from?
0:16:05 > 0:16:08- No, that's Bernstein. - Oh, that's Bernstein.
0:16:08 > 0:16:11SYMPHONY
0:16:11 > 0:16:15Stravinsky or something? No, that's...
0:16:16 > 0:16:20- Are we guessing anything?- I really don't know.- OK. We have no idea.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23- What are you saying?- I don't know. - Go Benjamin Britten and Bizet.
0:16:23 > 0:16:27- Benjamin Britten and Bizet. - Bizet and Ravel.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29Bizet was the first one. Ravel, the second.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31Secondly, the composers of these two works.
0:16:31 > 0:16:35La Donna E Mobile is by...Verdi!
0:16:35 > 0:16:38Verdi and...OK.
0:16:38 > 0:16:42# Muta d'accento e di pensiero
0:16:42 > 0:16:44# Sempre un amabile...#
0:16:44 > 0:16:48GUITAR
0:16:48 > 0:16:53Umm...I think it's Rodrigo. But...
0:16:53 > 0:16:57- Yeah, go.- OK. Verdi and Rodrigo. - Correct.
0:16:57 > 0:17:01- The year of birth and death was 1901 in that case.- And finally...
0:17:01 > 0:17:04ITALIAN OPERA
0:17:04 > 0:17:10- Puccini.- Puccini and...? Wait for the next one.- So it'd be 1920 something.
0:17:10 > 0:17:11In the 1920s.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15- Bernstein? - No, we've already had that one.
0:17:15 > 0:17:16SONG: The Pink Panther Theme
0:17:16 > 0:17:19- Oh, Mancini, isn't it?- Mancini. OK.
0:17:19 > 0:17:23- Mancini and Puccini. - OK. Puccini and Mancini.
0:17:23 > 0:17:27Mancini. That's right. 1924. Right, 10 points for this.
0:17:27 > 0:17:29What two words have in their English spelling the letter A
0:17:29 > 0:17:32as every second letter with no other vowels?
0:17:32 > 0:17:37One denoting a Greek dish of fish roe paste the other a Turkish...?
0:17:37 > 0:17:41Taramasalata and Galata?
0:17:41 > 0:17:43No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:17:43 > 0:17:46The other, a Turkish football team based in Istanbul.
0:17:46 > 0:17:50- Taramasalata and Galatasaray. - Correct.
0:17:51 > 0:17:54Sorry, it was just on the tip of your tongue, wasn't it?
0:17:54 > 0:17:57But you get the bonuses, UCL. They are on exotic materials.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59What term refers to artificially engineered materials
0:17:59 > 0:18:04with optical or electromagnetic properties not found in nature?
0:18:04 > 0:18:07- Semiconductors?- No.
0:18:07 > 0:18:10- Paramagnetic.- Yeah?
0:18:12 > 0:18:15- Paramagnetic.- No, they are meta-materials.
0:18:15 > 0:18:20Referring to a Soviet scientist, what two-word term indicates the blue glow associated
0:18:20 > 0:18:24with nuclear reactors caused by a charged particle moving through
0:18:24 > 0:18:27a dielectric medium faster than the local speed of light?
0:18:27 > 0:18:29This might be from Star Trek,
0:18:29 > 0:18:32- but I think it might be the Cherenkov effect.- Go for it.
0:18:32 > 0:18:35- The Cherenkov effect. - That's correct. Cherenkov radiation.
0:18:35 > 0:18:39Occurring when Cherenkov radiation is emitted behind the particle travelling through the medium,
0:18:39 > 0:18:44the reverse effect has been observed in meta-materials with which optical property?
0:18:45 > 0:18:47THEY WHISPER
0:18:47 > 0:18:51- Like polarized light? - Really?- I don't know.
0:18:51 > 0:18:55- How does it bend? - What bends light? Like, I mean...
0:18:55 > 0:18:56I don't know.
0:18:56 > 0:19:00- Things that can polarize light.- No, it's the negative refractive index.
0:19:00 > 0:19:0110 points for this.
0:19:01 > 0:19:04It could be said that these two words had more influence
0:19:04 > 0:19:07in shaping the emotional attitudes of the English governing class
0:19:07 > 0:19:10between the two world wars than any other single phrase
0:19:10 > 0:19:12in the English language.
0:19:12 > 0:19:17- The working class' smell.- Uh, no.
0:19:17 > 0:19:20It's Orwell.
0:19:21 > 0:19:24- I'm afraid you lose five points. - Two words.
0:19:24 > 0:19:31The question is here referring to which two-word literary epigraph?
0:19:33 > 0:19:36No, none of you going to buzz?
0:19:36 > 0:19:39- Semper fidelis. - No, it's "only connect."
0:19:39 > 0:19:44EM Forster's remark. Right, 10 points for this.
0:19:44 > 0:19:49The Greek-derived term ochlocracy indicates rule or domination by...?
0:19:49 > 0:19:52- The mob.- The mob is right, yes.
0:19:55 > 0:19:58You're in the lead. Your bonuses are on French cinema.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01Which French director made Zero De Conduite
0:20:01 > 0:20:06and L'Atalante before dying in 1934 at the age of 29?
0:20:06 > 0:20:10Um...
0:20:10 > 0:20:14- Cocteau?- Cocteau? - No, that was Jean Vigo.
0:20:14 > 0:20:18Secondly, shot in Nice and Paris during the Nazi occupation, which film
0:20:18 > 0:20:22by Marcel Carne is set in the world of 19th century Parisian theatre
0:20:22 > 0:20:25and centres on the courtesan Garance and her lovers?
0:20:25 > 0:20:29Courtesan? Um... Maybe Gigi?
0:20:29 > 0:20:31Gigi?
0:20:31 > 0:20:34No, that's a very different kind of film. Les Enfants Du Paradis.
0:20:34 > 0:20:39Finally, the son of a noted artist who directed the 1939 film
0:20:39 > 0:20:41La Regle Du Jeu, or The Rules Of The Game?
0:20:41 > 0:20:45- Jean Cocteau? - Could be, I don't know.- Jean Cocteau? - No, that was Jean Renoir.
0:20:45 > 0:20:48Another picture round now. For your picture starter,
0:20:48 > 0:20:52you'll see a painting showing a scene from the New Testament.
0:20:52 > 0:20:5710 points if you can tell me the specific event being depicted.
0:20:57 > 0:21:02- The Last Supper?- No. UCL, one of you may buzz.
0:21:04 > 0:21:07- Water into wine? - I'll accept that, yes.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10It's more commonly known as the Wedding At Cana,
0:21:10 > 0:21:12but that's where it happened, yes.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18So, following on from that painting by Boscoli, three more paintings
0:21:18 > 0:21:21depicting the wedding at Cana, all by artists
0:21:21 > 0:21:22of the Italian Renaissance.
0:21:22 > 0:21:25I want the artist's name in each case. Firstly, for five.
0:21:25 > 0:21:27I'm thinking Caravaggio.
0:21:27 > 0:21:30- It's Giotto.- Giotto. - Correct. Secondly.
0:21:32 > 0:21:37- That's Carravagio.- No, it's... - It could be Titian.
0:21:37 > 0:21:41- Not very colourful. - I thought Titian... Yeah.
0:21:41 > 0:21:44- Go with Raphael then.- Let's have an answer please.- Raphael.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46No, it's by Veronese. And finally...
0:21:48 > 0:21:53- Is that Caravaggio?- No. It's early Renaissance, I think.
0:21:53 > 0:21:56- No, it's not...- Bellini?
0:21:56 > 0:21:59- Bellini is a person.- Yes, it's a person. He's a bit late, though.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02- I guess it could be.- Bellini.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05No, that's by Tintoretto. 10 points for this.
0:22:05 > 0:22:09Recent holders of which cabinet office share surnames
0:22:09 > 0:22:12with the authors of Treatise On The Law Privileges, Proceedings
0:22:12 > 0:22:15And Usage Of Parliament, The History Of Rasselas,
0:22:15 > 0:22:17Prince Of Abyssinia and Not Waving But Drowning?
0:22:20 > 0:22:22- Home Secretary.- Correct.
0:22:23 > 0:22:25You retake the lead there.
0:22:25 > 0:22:29On science and mountains, Pembroke College, which mountain in
0:22:29 > 0:22:32central Italy gives its name to the large particle physics laboratory
0:22:32 > 0:22:36within it, which holds an experiment searching for dark matter?
0:22:36 > 0:22:39Etna?
0:22:39 > 0:22:41No, that's a mount.
0:22:41 > 0:22:44- Mount Fernie?- No, it's Gran Sasso.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47Which peak in the Harz mountains in Germany
0:22:47 > 0:22:51gives its name to the phenomenon in which an elongated shadow of the observer,
0:22:51 > 0:22:54often bearing a halo, is cast on a layer of cloud?
0:22:55 > 0:23:01- Mountain. Um... Zugspitze. - I nominate Pugh.- Zugspitze.
0:23:01 > 0:23:05No, it's the Brocken. On which mountain in California is the 100-inch
0:23:05 > 0:23:09Hooker telescope used by Edwin Hubble to reveal the expansion
0:23:09 > 0:23:10of the universe?
0:23:10 > 0:23:16- I don't know about Hubble. - I don't know.- OK, pass.
0:23:16 > 0:23:19It's Mount Wilson. 4.5 minutes, 10 points for this.
0:23:19 > 0:23:22From the word mass and an old English word meaning loaf,
0:23:22 > 0:23:24what name is sometimes given to...?
0:23:24 > 0:23:26- Lammas Day.- Correct.
0:23:28 > 0:23:31Your bonuses this time are on the Arab world.
0:23:31 > 0:23:35Also that of a city in Saudi Arabia, what name is given to the ancient quarter
0:23:35 > 0:23:39in various North African cities and derives from the Arabic for town?
0:23:39 > 0:23:42- Medina.- Correct. From the Arabic for citadel,
0:23:42 > 0:23:45what word is used for an area of the city of Algiers
0:23:45 > 0:23:49and more generally for an old and often walled section of a city?
0:23:50 > 0:23:53THEY WHISPER
0:23:53 > 0:23:57- I nominate Bankes. - Metua?- No, it's Casbah.
0:23:57 > 0:24:01What short Arabic term denotes an open air marketplace or bazaar,
0:24:01 > 0:24:03for example, El-Hamidiyeh in Damascus?
0:24:03 > 0:24:06- Souk.- Souk is right. 10 points for this.
0:24:06 > 0:24:07Deriving from the Latin,
0:24:07 > 0:24:10what term is used for air or other gases that have been thinned
0:24:10 > 0:24:13or have had their density reduced and is used figuratively
0:24:13 > 0:24:16for anything considered particularly fine or exalted?
0:24:16 > 0:24:18- Rarified.- Correct.
0:24:19 > 0:24:24These bonuses will put you on level pegging, they're on a French scientist.
0:24:24 > 0:24:26The unit of optical frequency equal to 10 to the 12 hertz,
0:24:26 > 0:24:30or one terahertz, is named after which French physicist?
0:24:31 > 0:24:35- Becquerel?- No, Becquerel is radiation. Dioptre is like a thing.
0:24:35 > 0:24:38- Yeah, but that's like... - Come on, let's have it.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40- Dioptre.- No, it's Fresnel, Jean Fresnel.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43Also named after Fresnel, what method is used
0:24:43 > 0:24:46in crystal optics to represent the doubly refracting properties
0:24:46 > 0:24:48of a crystal?
0:24:48 > 0:24:52- Fresnography? It was named after him.- Fresnography.
0:24:52 > 0:24:55No, it's a Fresnel ellipsoid.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58Finally, a Fresnel lens used in lighthouses to concentrate
0:24:58 > 0:24:59the light into a narrow beam
0:24:59 > 0:25:02is characterised by a surface consisting of what?
0:25:02 > 0:25:05Sort of concentric rings.
0:25:06 > 0:25:10Sort of ridges making up concentric rings.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12That's correct, yes. 10 points for this.
0:25:12 > 0:25:15One of the most treacherous stretches of sea in the world,
0:25:15 > 0:25:18attributed to Lord Nelson, these words describe which Strait
0:25:18 > 0:25:22bridged by Thomas Telford in 1826 and Robert Stephenson in 1850?
0:25:25 > 0:25:30- The Devon?- No. Anyone want to buzz from UCL?
0:25:30 > 0:25:32Gibraltar?
0:25:32 > 0:25:35No, it's the Menai Strait. 10 points for this.
0:25:35 > 0:25:38The harbour of Port-en-Bessin, in the Calvados department,
0:25:38 > 0:25:42and the island of La Grande Jatte on the outskirts of Paris...
0:25:42 > 0:25:44- Seurat.- Seurat, correct, yes.
0:25:47 > 0:25:50Your bonuses on surnames that begin with the letters ZA.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53Name the person from the description. Firstly,
0:25:53 > 0:25:54the Russian writer whose 1920 novel
0:25:54 > 0:25:57We was an influence on George Orwell's 1984?
0:25:57 > 0:25:59- I nominate Pugh.- Zamyatin. - Correct.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02The Polish born philologist, who from 1870s devised
0:26:02 > 0:26:04the constructed language Esperanto?
0:26:04 > 0:26:09- Oh, God. Um... - You don't know, do you?
0:26:09 > 0:26:11No, but... No, I can't think of it.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13- Pass.- That's Zamenhof. Finally,
0:26:13 > 0:26:16the US musician who noted that rock journalism is
0:26:16 > 0:26:18people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk
0:26:18 > 0:26:22- for people who can't read? - Zappa.- Correct. 10 points for this.
0:26:22 > 0:26:26In astronomy, what term denotes a system of two stars
0:26:26 > 0:26:29that revolve about their common centre of mass?
0:26:29 > 0:26:32- Binary?- Binary star is correct, yes.
0:26:34 > 0:26:37Your bonuses this time are on children's charities.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40Which organisation was founded by the Austrian Hermann Gmeiner
0:26:40 > 0:26:43in 1949 and is the world's largest charity
0:26:43 > 0:26:45for orphaned and abandoned children?
0:26:47 > 0:26:49Barnardo's?
0:26:49 > 0:26:53- Let's have it, please.- Barnardo's? - It's SOS Children's Villages.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56The plight of starving children after World War I prompted
0:26:56 > 0:27:01the sisters Eglantyne and Dorothy Jebb to found which charity in 1919?
0:27:03 > 0:27:06- Come on.- Save The Children?- Correct.
0:27:06 > 0:27:11Which Irish doctor founded the East End Mission for destitute children in Stepney in 1867?
0:27:11 > 0:27:14- Barnardo.- That was Barnardo. 10 points for this.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17Familiar on UK high streets from the 1930s onward,
0:27:17 > 0:27:20what word derived from the Greek meaning song
0:27:20 > 0:27:23and originally meant a hole in which poets and musicians contended
0:27:23 > 0:27:27for prizes in Ancient Greece and Rome?
0:27:27 > 0:27:30- Odeon.- Yes, you're right.
0:27:31 > 0:27:34Your bonuses are on the analysis of colour.
0:27:34 > 0:27:38What component of HSI colour space is defined as the angle from red?
0:27:40 > 0:27:45- Pass.- That's hue. What is the SI unit of luminous intensity?
0:27:45 > 0:27:47- GONG - And that's the gong.
0:27:47 > 0:27:50University College London, with 125,
0:27:50 > 0:27:53and Pembroke College Cambridge, with 185.
0:27:58 > 0:28:01There's no embarrassment losing in the semifinal,
0:28:01 > 0:28:04and you've been a most entertaining team.
0:28:04 > 0:28:05Thank you very much for joining us.
0:28:05 > 0:28:09Pembroke, we look forward to seeing you. Another storming performance.
0:28:09 > 0:28:14We look forward to seeing you again in the final, which takes place on the next occasion.
0:28:14 > 0:28:18- I hope you join us. Until then, it's goodbye from University College London.- Bye.
0:28:18 > 0:28:24- It's goodbye from Pembroke College Cambridge.- Bye. - And it's goodbye for me. Goodbye.
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