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APPLAUSE

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'Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.'

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Hello. It's the final tonight.

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We've asked 3,191 questions so far in this series

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and after months of furrowed brows, feverish whispering

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and answers ranging from the impressive to the utterly bonkers,

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we're left with the best two teams.

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In a little under half an hour, one of them will lift the trophy.

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Manchester have taken the scalps of Selwyn College, Cambridge, Christ Church, Oxford,

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Newcastle University, Clare College, Cambridge and Worcester College, Oxford.

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Making their seventh appearance, let's meet the Manchester team one last time.

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I'm Luke Kelly from Kent and I'm studying history.

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I'm Michael McKenna from Lancashire and I'm studying biochemistry.

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-And their captain.

-I'm Tristan Burke and I'm studying English literature.

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I'm Paul Joyce from Lancashire

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and I'm studying for a masters in social research methods and statistics.

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CHEERING

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The team from Pembroke College, Cambridge

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have reached the final without losing a single match.

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Their victims were St Anne's College, Oxford, Nottingham University,

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Balliol College, Oxford, Clare College, Cambridge and University College London.

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Let's meet again four young people hoping to become series champions.

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My name's Edward Bankes from Kent and I'm reading English.

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I'm Ben Pugh from north London. I read German and Russian.

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-And their captain.

-I'm Bibek Mukherjee from Kent and I'm reading economics.

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I'm Imogen Gold from London and I'm reading engineering.

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CHEERING

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It's the final. You know the rules. Fingers on the buzzers. Here's your starter for 10.

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Which field of study appears in the titles of novels by Henry Fielding,

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Charles Dickens and HG Wells?

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The title characters respectively are Tom Jones, David Copperfield and Mr Polly.

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-History.

-Correct.

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The first set of bonuses are on a novel.

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Firstly for five. Give the author and the work of 1961 in which the following words appear:

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"One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up,

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"must be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur."

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark.

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Correct. Spark writes that Miss Brodie's pupils knew the rudiments of astrology,

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but not the date of the Battle of Flodden or the capital of Finland.

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For five points, give me the date of the Battle of Flodden and the capital of Finland.

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-When's Flodden?

-I want to say...

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-1645.

-No.

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I think it's 16 something. Try that.

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1645. Paul?

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-1645.

-Go on.

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1645 and Helsinki.

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It is Helsinki, of course, but it's 1513. Bad luck.

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Give the words that complete these lines that Miss Brodie recited to her class

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to raise their minds before they went home.

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"Down she came and found the boat Beneath a willow left afloat,

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"And round about the prow she wrote..."

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-The Lady of Shalott.

-Well done!

-APPLAUSE

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10 for this. A body of water between the Philippines and Borneo,

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an informal name for the Church of Scotland,

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the Swahili word for freedom,

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the authors of The Cherry Orchard and The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care

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are linked by what enduring science fiction -

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-Star Trek.

-Star Trek is right, yes.

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Manchester, these bonuses are on the number seven.

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"We've been waiting 700 years. You can have the seven minutes."

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Which Irish leader said those words in 1922

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when he arrived at Dublin Castle for its handover by British forces and was told he was late?

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Eamon de Valera?

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THEY CONFER

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-What shall I go for?

-Go for de Valera.

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-Eamon de Valera.

-No, it was Michael Collins.

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"I will give him seven feet of English ground

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"or as much more as he shall be taller than other men."

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Before which battle did King Harold II make this offer to an invader?

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-Battle of Hastings?

-There's two.

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Stamford Bridge?

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-Stamford Bridge or Hastings. Stamford Bridge.

-Correct.

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"There shall be in England seven half-penny loaves sold for a penny."

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Which historical figure says these words in Shakespeare's King Henry VI Part 2?

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-Give me just a historical figure.

-John of Gaunt.

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-Is he in that play?

-No idea.

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-John of Gaunt.

-No, it's Jack Cade. 10 for this.

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Quote, "The English at that time had their hair cropped, their beards shaven,

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"their arms laden with golden bracelets, their skin adorned with punctured designs.

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"They were wont to eat until they became surfeited and to drink until they were sick."

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To what pivotal year in English history

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does this observation of the historian William Of Malmesbury refer?

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-1066?

-Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses, Pembroke College, are on comparative religion.

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"Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident

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"and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music or poetry must be developed."

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These are the words of which British author in the 2009 work The Case For God?

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-Who are you thinking of?

-Polkinghorne.

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Er, Reverend Polkinghorne.

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No, it's Karen Armstrong.

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An examination of thought between 900 and 200 BC,

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Karen Armstrong's work The Great Transformation

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includes the names of four influential figures in its subtitle. One is Jeremiah.

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For five points, name two of the others.

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Moses.

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-Was he that time?

-No, earlier.

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-Sorry?

-It's BC.

-BANKES WHISPERS

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Jesus and... ALL TALK AT ONCE

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Confucius and Buddha.

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-Confucius and Buddha.

-Correct. The other was Socrates.

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Finally, a 2010 work by Armstrong outlines 12 steps to a life based on what quality,

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described as "indispensible to the creation of a just economy and a peaceful global community"?

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-Fortune?

-Fairness or something?

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-Fairness?

-No, compassion.

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We're going to take a Picture Round. You will see a mathematical grid

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with certain prime numbers highlighted.

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For 10 points, tell me what term denotes these primes.

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Mersenne.

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No. Manchester, one of you buzz.

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Special.

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-No, they're happy primes.

-LAUGHTER

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Picture bonuses in a moment. 10 points for this.

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Formulated by the 19th-century German biologist Ernst Haeckel

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and popularised by The Simpsons episode We're on the Road to D'ohwhere,

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what term denotes the development of an organism undergoing an abbreviated form

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of the species' evolutionary development?

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Speciation.

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No. Anyone want to buzz from Pembroke?

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It's -

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Chrysalis?

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"Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny". 10 points for this.

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Lip, rip, lox, pox, oil and oxlip

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are among shorter words that may be made from the letters of which six-letter word?

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-Prolix.

-Prolix is right.

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APPLAUSE

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Pembroke, you get picture bonuses. You saw a grid for your starter

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of happy primes from 1 to 100 highlighted.

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Your bonuses, three more grids, each with different types of prime numbers.

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I want you to name the series of primes shown.

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Firstly...

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GOLD: Perfect? I know there's a series, but I don't know the definition.

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No, that's when it adds up... But you can go for it.

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-Perfect.

-No, they're permutable primes.

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Secondly...

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I've not the faintest idea.

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THEY CONFER QUIETLY

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Transcendent.

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No, they're Fibonacci primes.

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Finally, the name given to these pairs of primes...

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-You said Mersenne earlier.

-GOLD: That's a thing, but I don't know.

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-Er, Mersenne?

-No, they're sexy primes.

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10 points for this. Situated on opposite banks of a major river,

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the names of which two capitals are used...

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-Buda and Pest.

-No, I'm afraid you lose five points.

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..to distinguish their respective countries from one another?

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Both countries' official names include the words Republic and Congo.

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One of you buzz, Manchester.

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-Brazzaville and Lusaka?

-No.

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Lusaka's in another country. It's Kinshasa and Brazzaville.

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10 points for this. Quote, "My therapist has given me such a good rate

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"I can afford to indulge my bouts of infidelity

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"and still deal elegantly with my guilt."

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This is an illustrative extract from a typical personal ad in which publication?

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-London Review of Books.

-Yes.

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APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses, Manchester, are on physics.

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Which English physicists give their names to the law that states

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that the spectral radiance of a black body

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scales with the inverse fourth power of the wavelength?

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Does anyone know anything about when someone might've even thought that?

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HE WHISPERS

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Give me the names of two physicists who worked together.

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Yes. Rutherford.

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-Rutherford and -

-No, forget it. It was RayleighJeans.

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Secondly, what two-word name was given to the prediction derived from the RayleighJeans Law

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that a black body should radiate with infinite power?

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-The dark prediction.

-No, the ultraviolet catastrophe.

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-Ohh!

-Finally, using ideas that led to the formulation of quantum theory,

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the ultraviolet catastrophe was resolved by which German physicist?

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Er, Planck?

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-Planck.

-It was Max Planck, yes.

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CHEERING

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10 points for this. Frequently cited as being among the most overused words in the language,

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what two adjectives, differing only in their second letter,

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describe persons or things uncritically admired or regarded as representative symbols,

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and events that happen in a way contrary to what is expected,

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and thus cause wry amusement?

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Ironical and iconical. Ironic and iconic.

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-Ironic and iconic is correct.

-APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses are on carelessness.

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I will read three extracts from well-known literary works.

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Identify the author and the title of the work.

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"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy. They smashed up things and creatures

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"and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness...

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"..and let other people clean up the mess they had made."

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-The Great Gatsby.

-Correct.

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-By?

-F Scott Fitzgerald.

-Correct.

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"Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?

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"Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find thee sitting careless on a granary floor

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"Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind".

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-Does anyone have any ideas?

-No.

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-No.

-Romeo and Juliet?

-No, it's Keats' Ode To Autumn.

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"To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune,

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"to lose both looks like carelessness."

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The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde.

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Correct. 10 points for this.

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What single word neologism was coined by KW Jeter,

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author of the 1979 novel Morlock Night,

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to denote the sub-genre of science-fiction

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and speculative fiction set in worlds...

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-Fanfiction?

-No.

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I'm afraid you lose five points.

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..and speculative fiction, set in worlds that run on clockwork mechanisms and...

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Steampunk.

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-Correct, yes.

-APPLAUSE

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Manchester, these bonuses are on a constructed language.

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Toki Pona is an experimental language, first published online in 2001

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by the Canadian linguist Sonja Elen Kisa.

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The word "toki" means "talk".

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What is the meaning of "pona", derived via Esperanto from Latin?

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Note that Toki Pona has no letter "B".

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-Talk well.

-Good?

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Yes, talk well or good.

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It's "good". I have to accept "well" which is what you said first.

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Toki Pona is intended to test the hypothesis

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that the words and forms of a language influence the way its users perceive the world.

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Which two linguists give their names to this hypothesis?

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Anyone?

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THEY CONFER QUIETLY

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-Chomsky and Searle.

-No, Sapir and Whorf.

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In Toki Pona, the word "jo" means "have", "kon" means "air",

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"breath" means "spirit" and "sin" means "new",

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all derived from which major world language?

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Greek?

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Chinese?

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-Chinese.

-Correct.

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We're going to take a music round. You'll hear an extract from Gustav Holst's The Planets suite.

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For 10 points, name the particular planet

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that is the title of the piece.

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PLEASANT, FAST-PACED MUSIC

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-Mercury.

-It is Mercury, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses, three more extracts from The Planets suite,

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but before you think that sounds disgracefully easy,

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I want you to name the planet and its largest moon.

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-LAUGHTER

-This planet and its largest moon...

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DRAMATIC MUSIC

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-That's Jupiter, isn't it?

-It's biggest moon is Ganymede.

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-Are we happy that's Jupiter?

-It sounds regal.

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Jupiter and Ganymede.

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No, it's Saturn and Titan.

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Secondly, this planet and its largest moon...

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DRAMATIC MUSIC

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That's Neptune.

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Why?

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MSUIC DROWNS OUT SPEECH

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I might go for Jupiter.

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It might be Mars. THEY CONFER

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-Go for Neptune.

-Neptune and...?

-Triton.

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-Neptune and -

-No, it's Uranus and Titania.

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Finally, this planet and its largest moon...

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SWEEPING MUSIC

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-That's Mars.

-Is it Phobos? Go for Phobos.

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-Mars and Phobos.

-Correct.

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-APPLAUSE

-10 points for this...

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Answer as soon as you buzz.

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Goldman Sachs' chief economist Jim O'Neill coined the acronym BRIC to denote the notion...

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Brazil, Russia, India, China.

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-Correct.

-APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses are on plant cytology.

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What specific term denotes the soft-wall, undifferentiated cells

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that form the basic ground tissue of plants?

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They make up the bulk of non-woody structures, such as pith and mesophyll.

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Something "thin". Erm...

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GOLD WHISPERS

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-Let's have an answer.

-Pass.

-Parenchyma.

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From the Greek for "divided", what term indicates plant tissue capable of undergoing mitosis,

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thus giving rise to new cells at the growing tips?

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THEY WHISPER

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-Pass.

-It's meristem.

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What term denotes the lateral meristems

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from which secondary growth arises, forming cork and vascular bundles?

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Buds?

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-Buds.

-No, cambium. 10 points for this.

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"A tidy laboratory means a lazy chemist".

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This remark is attributed to which Swedish scientist, born 1779?

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He established the modern technique of chemical formula notation

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and discovered selenium, thorium and cerium?

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Celsius.

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No. Anyone want to buzz from Pembroke?

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-Berzelius.

-Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses are on psychology.

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Which US university gives its name to a notorious experiment of 1971

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in which a prison was set up in the basement of the psychology department

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and students were assigned the roles of inmates and guards?

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-Stanford.

-Correct.

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Which Midwestern university gives its name to a starvation experiment

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in which conscientious objectors were subjected to malnutrition

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and their physical and psychological responses monitored?

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-Iowa.

-No, Minnesota.

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Which US psychologist gives his name to an Obedience To Authority study

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in which people showed themselves willing to administer electric shocks to other subjects?

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-Milgram.

-Correct. Another starter.

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The name of which Asian island is spelt with the initial letters of the world's deepest lake,

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the world's highest waterfall, France's longest...

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-Borneo.

-No, I'm afraid you lose five points.

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..France's longest river and the UK's northernmost city?

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-Bali.

-Bali is correct, yes.

-APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses this time are on angles, Pembroke.

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What name is given to the steepest angle of descent

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relative to the horizontal plane, at which material on the slope-face is on the verge of sliding?

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-THEY WHISPER

-Come on.

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-Er, pass.

-It's the angle of repose.

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What term is used for the angle that a ray or beam of radiation makes with a line

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perpendicular to the surface at the point of arrival?

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Refraction?

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-The angle of refraction.

-No, it's the angle of incidence.

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Named after a Dutch physicist, which law states

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that the ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction

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is constant when a light ray passes from one medium to another?

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Would it be Fresnel?

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-Nominate Pugh.

-Fresnel.

-No, it's Snell's Law. 10 for this.

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Its definition varying, depending upon whether market institutions are included,

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what two-word term describes the set of intermediate relations and associations

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that are neither the state nor the extended family?

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Civil society.

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-Correct.

-APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses are on volcanoes.

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Pelean eruptions are named after the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelee

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that devastated the town of St Pierre on which island in the Lesser Antilles?

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-Montserrat.

-Is that in the Lesser Antilles?

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-Montserrat.

-No, it's Martinique.

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Named after an Italian volcano, what eruption involves moderate bursts of expanding gasses

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that eject clots of incandescent lava in small cyclical eruptions?

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-Stromboli.

-Strombolian eruptions is correct.

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Involving the explosive ejection of relatively viscous lava,

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the most powerful type of eruption is named after which Roman scholar who died in AD 79?

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THEY CONFER QUIETLY

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-Do you reckon? Pliny the Elder?

-Go on.

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-Pliny the Elder.

-Correct. We're going to take a second Picture Round.

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You'll see a painting from 1914.

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10 points if you can tell me who painted it.

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Adolf Hitler.

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-Yes!

-LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

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Your picture bonuses are all paintings by amateur artists,

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all of whom happen to be, or have been, world leaders.

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In each case, give me their name. Firstly, this painting from 2009.

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2009...

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THEY CONFER

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What language is that at the top?

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Oh, I reckon it's Boris Yeltsin.

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No. 2009. Vladimir Putin.

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It is that nice Mr Putin, yes.

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Secondly, from the mid-1950s.

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Winston Churchill.

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THEY CONFER

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-Eisenhower.

-Do you reckon?

-Yes.

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-Winston Churchill.

-No, that's by Dwight Eisenhower.

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Finally, this painting from 1938.

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Churchill.

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-Churchill.

-It is Churchill, yes. 10 points for this.

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Definitions of what two-word term include, fancifully, Santa's Little Helpers

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and, more correctly, sub-divisions of a sentence, introduced by words such as "who"...

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Subordinate clauses.

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-Correct.

-LAUGHTER

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Your bonuses are on The Definitions, a Dictionary Of Philosophical Terms,

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often included in the corpus of Plato's works.

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Give the philosophical concept from the definition.

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You may answer in either Greek or English.

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Firstly, "Political judgement of many people, not limited to a certain time"?

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Democracy? Law?

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-Anyone?

-No.

-Democracy.

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-Democracy?

-No, it's law.

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"The bestest position, the state of a mortal creature, which is in itself praiseworthy,

0:21:370:21:41

"the state which produces faithfulness to law"?

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-Fidelity?

-Judgement?

0:21:440:21:47

THEY CONFER

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-Fidelity.

-No, it's virtue.

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"The gift of good things given for virtuous deeds, the dignity conferred by virtue,

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dignified bearing, the cultivation of one's dignity"?

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-Honour.

-Mm.

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-Honour.

-Correct. Five-and-a-half minutes to go.

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Which Polish composer entitled his first symphony in 1959?

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The second is known as the Copernican

0:22:060:22:08

and a recording of his third, Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs...

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-Gorecki.

-Correct.

-APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses are on melting points. Name the elements which are liquid at 20 degrees Celsius,

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one having the atomic number 80 and the other having an atomic mass of approximately 80.

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-Mercury, bromine.

-Correct.

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Which group 1 element is solid at normal body temperature,

0:22:270:22:30

but melts at a fever temperature of 39.31 degrees Celsius?

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THEY CONFER

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-Potassium.

-No, it's rubidium.

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What is the only element that can, in pure form and at standard atmospheric pressure,

0:22:390:22:44

remain solid above 3,500 degrees Celsius?

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Carbon?

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-Carbon.

-Carbon is correct. Four-and-half minutes to go.

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Which ravine in Northern Tanzania

0:22:520:22:54

is the site of significant finds of humanoid fossils?

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-Olduvai.

-Olduvai is right.

-APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses are on Florentine architecture.

0:23:000:23:03

Dedicated to St John, which building in Florence has a gilded bronze door

0:23:030:23:08

known as the Gates of Paradise, designed by Lorenzo Ghiberti?

0:23:080:23:11

-Baptistery.

-Correct.

0:23:110:23:13

Which of Ghiberti's contemporaries

0:23:130:23:15

was the architect who designed the Basilica of San Lorenzo, begun in 1418,

0:23:150:23:19

and gave a practical demonstration of the geometric method of perspective?

0:23:190:23:23

-It could be Brunelleschi.

-Brunelleschi.

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Correct. Which square or piazza lies in front of the Palazzo Vecchio?

0:23:270:23:30

Its features include Cellini's Statue Of Perseus With The Head Of Medusa.

0:23:300:23:35

THEY CONFER

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-Pass.

-It's della Signoria.

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10 points. Answer as soon as you buzz.

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During the 1980s, three men served as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Name two of them.

0:23:410:23:47

-John Major and Geoffrey Howe.

-Correct.

0:23:480:23:50

-The other one was Nigel Lawson.

-APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses this time are on soldiers in music.

0:23:530:23:57

The Soldier's Tale, in which the protagonist gives his violin to the devil

0:23:570:24:01

in exchange for knowledge of the future,

0:24:010:24:03

premiered in 1918 with work by which composer?

0:24:030:24:07

-Stravinsky.

-Yes.

-Stravinsky.

-Correct.

0:24:070:24:09

Based on an unfinished drama by Georg Buchner,

0:24:090:24:12

which of Alban Berg's eponymous protagonists is a soldier who drowns

0:24:120:24:16

while trying to retrieve the weapon with which he stabbed his mistress? It premiered in 1925.

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-Nominate Pugh.

-Wozzeck.

-Correct.

0:24:210:24:23

Which eponymous character in a 19th-century opera is stabbed to death by Don Jose,

0:24:230:24:28

a corporal in the Dragoons?

0:24:280:24:30

-Nominate Pugh.

-Carmen.

-Correct. 10 points for this.

0:24:300:24:33

Meaning "small town", what Spanish word denotes the settlements of flat-roofed, stone or adobe houses

0:24:330:24:39

that are home to Native American peoples in Arizona and New Mexico?

0:24:390:24:43

-Pueblo.

-Correct.

0:24:430:24:44

Here are your bonuses. They're on inventions.

0:24:440:24:47

Give the decade of the 20th century in which the following were invented:

0:24:470:24:51

Liposuction, the laser printer, Post-it notes and magnetic resonance imaging.

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The '70s or '80s?

0:24:560:24:58

-Come on!

-The '70s.

-That's right.

0:24:580:25:00

Astroturf, the hover-mower, the cash dispenser and silicon breast implants?

0:25:000:25:05

-The '60s?

-Correct.

0:25:050:25:07

The lie detector, the medical dressing Elastoplast,

0:25:070:25:10

bubblegum and the commercially-manufactured car radio?

0:25:100:25:13

-The '50s?

-Probably the '40s.

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-'40s.

-The 1920s. Ten for this.

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From an ancient word meaning Etruscan, what name denotes that part of the Mediterranean Sea,

0:25:180:25:23

bounded by Corsica and Sardinia, Sicily and mainland Italy?

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-Tyrrhenian.

-Correct, yes.

-APPLAUSE

0:25:280:25:31

Your bonuses are on enzymes, Pembroke College.

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What is the chief digestive enzyme which splits proteins -

0:25:350:25:38

-Pepsin.

-Correct.

0:25:380:25:39

The digestive enzyme trypsin

0:25:390:25:42

is formed in and secreted from which gland?

0:25:420:25:44

-Pancreas? Pancreas.

-Correct.

0:25:440:25:46

Which enzyme interacts with fibrinogen to create fibrin

0:25:460:25:49

and so playa an important role in blood clotting?

0:25:490:25:53

-Prothrombin.

-Nominate Pugh.

0:25:530:25:55

-Prothrombin.

-No, it's thrombin.

0:25:550:25:57

10 points for this.

0:25:570:25:58

Cloudy in appearance, what drink is made in Spain from ground tiger nuts

0:25:580:26:03

and in Mexico from ground rice or cantaloupe melon...

0:26:030:26:06

Mate.

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Anyone like to buzz from Manchester? I'm going to have to deduct five points.

0:26:070:26:12

One of you buzz, Manchester. It's horchata.

0:26:120:26:15

10 points for this. What short word meaning "vigour"

0:26:150:26:19

is an anagram for the Roman numerals for the number 1,004?

0:26:190:26:24

-Vim.

-Vim is right. Here are your bonuses.

0:26:260:26:29

They're on a Scottish island.

0:26:290:26:32

Portree is the chief town of which island,

0:26:320:26:35

the largest and most northerly of the Inner Hebrides? Quickly!

0:26:350:26:39

-Harris and Lewis.

-No, it's Skye.

0:26:390:26:41

What name is given to the rock

0:26:410:26:45

that rises from the summit of Sgurr Dearg in Skye's Cuillin mountain range?

0:26:450:26:50

-Come on!

-The Slippery Slope.

-No, it's the Inaccessible Pinnacle.

0:26:500:26:53

Which castle on Skye claims to be the oldest continuously inhabited...

0:26:530:26:57

END-OF-GAME KLAXON

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Pembroke College have 135. Manchester University have 180.

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APPLAUSE

0:27:030:27:05

Bad luck, Pembroke. Someone's got to lose, but you've had a terrific run.

0:27:110:27:15

Thanks for being with us.

0:27:150:27:16

Manchester, terrific performance from you again. Congratulations. You've won the title.

0:27:160:27:21

CHEERING

0:27:210:27:24

We recorded that final at our studios in Manchester,

0:27:290:27:33

but for the first time in our history, we left the studio for the trophy presentation.

0:27:330:27:37

We've come to Clarence House in London for this, the 2012 trophy presentation,

0:27:370:27:43

the 50th anniversary of the first broadcast of University Challenge.

0:27:430:27:46

I'm delighted to say

0:27:460:27:48

that Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall has agreed to present the trophy.

0:27:480:27:53

APPLAUSE

0:27:530:27:55

-Hello.

-Thank you very much for doing this.

-Very nice to see you.

0:27:560:28:00

-Well, what did you think?

-I thought the questions were unbelievably difficult!

0:28:000:28:05

-Well, that's intentional, you know.

-They do get harder and harder.

-They do. Yes, they do.

0:28:050:28:10

Have you watched the programme for long?

0:28:100:28:12

'62, I watched the first programme. I watched it all the way through, with Bamber Gascoigne.

0:28:120:28:17

I remember sitting there with my father,

0:28:170:28:21

and he got more questions right than anybody else.

0:28:210:28:25

And when you came on the scene, I used to sit with my children.

0:28:250:28:28

There was a lot of arguments, but Tom did answer a few.

0:28:280:28:32

He could answer some of the ones I couldn't. So I've seen it for years.

0:28:320:28:36

I'm its greatest fan.

0:28:360:28:39

Well, that is a real treat for us!

0:28:390:28:41

Can you anatomise what it is you like about it?

0:28:410:28:46

I think it's a family programme. I think all ages can watch it.

0:28:460:28:49

I think everybody can join together and answer the questions.

0:28:490:28:53

I also think it shows how wonderful a lot of the youth are today

0:28:530:29:00

and how many clever people there are out there.

0:29:000:29:03

I think they give young people a very good name.

0:29:030:29:07

Good. May I ask you please to meet this year's runners up,

0:29:070:29:11

the team from Pembroke College, Cambridge?

0:29:110:29:13

You're the captain.

0:29:130:29:15

-How do you appoint a captain?

-This is quite funny.

0:29:150:29:19

I think we flipped as coin and I managed to get lucky!

0:29:190:29:23

-Very, very well done.

-There we are.

0:29:230:29:26

-We've got a trophy for you, as well.

-Thank you.

0:29:260:29:31

-I'd better give it to the captain.

-APPLAUSE

0:29:310:29:34

Now, would you like to come and meet this year's winners?

0:29:380:29:43

I will.

0:29:430:29:44

-How do you do?

-Hello.

-This is the captain.

0:29:440:29:47

-Very nice to see you. So, they picked you as captain?

-Yes.

0:29:470:29:51

Well, it wasn't my decision!

0:29:510:29:53

-Did you flip a coin?

-Oh, I was appointed.

0:29:530:29:56

-You were appointed.

-Yes.

-You must be a very good leader.

0:29:560:29:59

No, I'm not!

0:29:590:30:01

Can I ask you to present the trophy now, Your Highness?

0:30:010:30:04

-Can I give you this rather splendid trophy?

-Thank you.

-Don't drop it!

0:30:040:30:08

APPLAUSE

0:30:080:30:10

That's it for this series of University Challenge.

0:30:140:30:16

Many thanks to Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall for presenting the trophy.

0:30:160:30:21

Many congratulations to the runners-up and the winners.

0:30:210:30:24

-Thank you very much for watching.

-APPLAUSE

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