0:00:19 > 0:00:21University Challenge!
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:30Hello. Tonight sees another first-round match
0:00:30 > 0:00:34with one of Cambridge's newest colleges playing one of Oxford's oldest.
0:00:34 > 0:00:40The winners go through to the second round. The losers could play again if they score well enough.
0:00:40 > 0:00:44Homerton College, Cambridge only got full college status last year,
0:00:44 > 0:00:49but it dates back to a dissenters' society established in London in 1730 which was based
0:00:49 > 0:00:52at Homerton in Hackney, hence its name.
0:00:52 > 0:00:56Formerly single-sex, it started admitting men in the 1970s
0:00:56 > 0:01:02and in 2001 broadened its intake to include students taking courses other than Education Studies,
0:01:02 > 0:01:08as their captain puts it, "shaking off its reputation as the cradle of the nation's geography teachers."
0:01:08 > 0:01:13Alumni include Sandi Toksvig, Jan Ravens, Cherie Lunghi and Nick Hancock.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17Tonight's four play on behalf of 1,200 students. Let's meet them.
0:01:17 > 0:01:20Hi, my name's Jack Euesden, I'm from Sheffield
0:01:20 > 0:01:22and I'm reading Natural Sciences.
0:01:22 > 0:01:26Hi, I'm Frances Conner, I'm from Downpatrick in County Down
0:01:26 > 0:01:30and I'm studying for a PGCE in Modern Languages.
0:01:30 > 0:01:34- Their captain.- Hello, I'm David Murray from Ripon in North Yorkshire
0:01:34 > 0:01:38and I'm reading for the MPhil in European Literature and Culture.
0:01:38 > 0:01:42I'm Thomas Grinyer from Southampton and I read Chemical Engineering.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45APPLAUSE
0:01:46 > 0:01:53Now, Balliol College, Oxford was established in 1263 by John Balliol, a loyal supporter of Henry III.
0:01:53 > 0:01:58It's had something of a turbulent past, resisting Henry VIII in his struggle against Rome
0:01:58 > 0:02:03and being forced to sell its silver during the Civil War to support the Royalists,
0:02:03 > 0:02:07but it flourished in the 19th century under Benjamin Jowett.
0:02:07 > 0:02:11A Balliol rhyme has him saying, "All there is to know, I know it,
0:02:11 > 0:02:15"I am the Master of this college, what I don't know isn't knowledge."
0:02:15 > 0:02:20Balliol has the only college bar still entirely run by students
0:02:20 > 0:02:22and their captain often pulls pints there.
0:02:22 > 0:02:27All four have passed the Breathalyser tonight. Let's meet them.
0:02:27 > 0:02:31Hi, I'm Liam Shaw, I'm from Shropshire and I study Physics.
0:02:31 > 0:02:34Hi, I'm Andrew Whitby, I'm from Brisbane, Australia,
0:02:34 > 0:02:37and I'm working towards a DPhil in Economics.
0:02:37 > 0:02:41- Their captain.- I'm Simon Wood from Aldershot. I'm studying Chemistry.
0:02:41 > 0:02:45I'm James Kirby from Warwickshire, reading for a Masters in History.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48APPLAUSE
0:02:48 > 0:02:54You all know the rules. I'll remind you that starter questions are worth ten points, they're solo efforts.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57Bonuses are team efforts worth 15 points
0:02:57 > 0:03:02and incorrect interruptions to starters incur a five-point penalty.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04Here's your first starter for ten.
0:03:04 > 0:03:10What short adjective links the salt flats in New Mexico where the first nuclear weapon was detonated,
0:03:10 > 0:03:13an inlet of the Barents Sea off northern Russia
0:03:13 > 0:03:17and the main branch of the River Nile which joins the Blue...
0:03:17 > 0:03:19- White.- Correct.
0:03:21 > 0:03:25You get the first set of bonuses, Balliol. They're on secrets.
0:03:25 > 0:03:30Firstly for five points, The Secret Pilgrim, John Le Carre's novel of 1990,
0:03:30 > 0:03:36sees the final appearance in print of which character, introduced in Call For The Dead in 1961?
0:03:36 > 0:03:38- Smiley.- George Smiley.
0:03:38 > 0:03:44Correct. The Secret Notebooks of which writer who died in 1976 were published in 2009
0:03:44 > 0:03:50with two posthumously discovered stories, The Capture Of Cerberus and The Incident Of The Dog's Ball,
0:03:50 > 0:03:54featuring perhaps her best-known character?
0:03:54 > 0:03:57WHISPERING
0:03:58 > 0:04:03- Anyone? Any famous authors from that period? Enid Blyton? - Iris Murdoch maybe?
0:04:03 > 0:04:06- Iris Murdoch.- No, Agatha Christie.
0:04:06 > 0:04:10The Secret Garden, first published in 1910, is a novel for children
0:04:10 > 0:04:14by which Manchester-born author and playwright?
0:04:14 > 0:04:18- Burnett. Frances...- I'll accept. Do you happen to know her full name?
0:04:18 > 0:04:20- Frances Hodgson.- Yes, well done.
0:04:20 > 0:04:22Ten points for this starter.
0:04:22 > 0:04:27"In barrenness...I hold a high place among English poets, excelling even Gray."
0:04:27 > 0:04:32These are the words of which poet, referring to the 26-year gap
0:04:32 > 0:04:37between his Last Poems of 1922 and his first collection, A Shropshire Lad?
0:04:39 > 0:04:41- Housman.- AE Housman is correct, yes.
0:04:41 > 0:04:46So your first bonuses, Homerton, are on a European city.
0:04:46 > 0:04:52The Red Cross was founded in the 1860s in which European city, later the HQ of the League of Nations?
0:04:52 > 0:04:58- Geneva.- Correct. Which philosopher and political theorist was born in Geneva in 1712
0:04:58 > 0:05:04and wrote major works there, including Discourses On The Origin Of Inequality in 1755?
0:05:04 > 0:05:10- Rousseau.- Correct. Based near Geneva, the Organisation Europeenne Pour La Recherche Nucleaire
0:05:10 > 0:05:15is commonly known by what acronym, formed from its earlier full name?
0:05:15 > 0:05:18- CERN.- CERN is right. Another starter question.
0:05:18 > 0:05:24"He had the mental abilities of a great king, but the inclinations of a petty tyrant."
0:05:24 > 0:05:29These words refer to which King of England whose epithets included Softsword and Lackland?
0:05:30 > 0:05:35- John.- Correct. Here are your bonuses. They're on 20th century history, Homerton.
0:05:35 > 0:05:40The Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 between Britain and France dealt with the partition
0:05:40 > 0:05:44of which Empire after the end of the First World War?
0:05:44 > 0:05:47- The Ottoman.- Correct. The Hoare-Laval Pact of 1935,
0:05:47 > 0:05:51later repudiated by Britain because of the outcry it created,
0:05:51 > 0:05:54effectively legitimised which act of aggression?
0:05:54 > 0:05:57Abyssinia. The Italian invasion of Abyssinia.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00- The Italian invasion of Abyssinia. - Correct.
0:06:00 > 0:06:04Which two foreign ministers give their names to the pact of 1939
0:06:04 > 0:06:09that agreed among other things to the partitioning of Poland?
0:06:09 > 0:06:11WHISPERING
0:06:13 > 0:06:16- Ribbentrop and Molotov.- Correct.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18Another starter question now.
0:06:18 > 0:06:22What can be defined as an exothermic reaction front in a gaseous medium,
0:06:22 > 0:06:25often but not necessarily emitting light?
0:06:25 > 0:06:31In internet-based communication, the same word indicates a hostile or insulting interaction.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35- Flaming.- Flame is correct, yes.
0:06:37 > 0:06:42Your bonuses this time are on the platinum group metals, Balliol.
0:06:42 > 0:06:46Platinum is often found alloyed with its five close relatives,
0:06:46 > 0:06:50the so-called platinum group metals. Name three of them.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52Palladium, rhodium...
0:06:56 > 0:07:00- Palladium, rhodium... What's underneath?- I don't know.
0:07:02 > 0:07:07- They want three?- Yeah. - Palladium, rhodium...- I think you either know this or you don't.
0:07:07 > 0:07:11Palladium, rhodium and, uh...ruthenium.
0:07:11 > 0:07:16Very good, very good. The other ones are iridium and osmium.
0:07:16 > 0:07:22For five points, which object made of pure platinum was presented to the French National Assembly in 1799
0:07:22 > 0:07:28as a result of the world's first International Scientific Conference held in Paris a few months earlier?
0:07:28 > 0:07:31WHISPERING
0:07:34 > 0:07:37- Nominate Whitby.- The kilogram?
0:07:37 > 0:07:40No, it wasn't. It was the standard metre.
0:07:40 > 0:07:46Finally for five points, although it is chemically inactive and unaffected by common acids,
0:07:46 > 0:07:53platinum can be dissolved in a mixture known by what two-word Latin name to produce chloroplatinic acid?
0:07:53 > 0:07:56Royal acids? Is that not called royal acids?
0:07:56 > 0:08:00- So, "regis"... What's the Latin? - Aqua regis.
0:08:00 > 0:08:06- Aqua regis.- Aqua regis, aqua regia is correct. A picture round now, the first one of tonight's match.
0:08:06 > 0:08:11It's a flag. I want you to tell me which organisation the flag represented.
0:08:14 > 0:08:17The Thirteen Colonies.
0:08:17 > 0:08:21No. One of you may buzz from Oxford if you know.
0:08:24 > 0:08:28- Canada?- No, it's the flag of the East India Company,
0:08:28 > 0:08:34so picture bonuses in a moment or two and another starter question in the meantime. Listen carefully.
0:08:34 > 0:08:38When typed on a keyboard, what is the second character of the names
0:08:38 > 0:08:41of Emile Zola's open letter of 1898,
0:08:41 > 0:08:43the capital of Chad,
0:08:43 > 0:08:46Chicago's largest airport
0:08:46 > 0:08:48and the main character...
0:08:48 > 0:08:52- Apostrophe. - Apostrophe is right, yes.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55The bonuses are on more colonial flags.
0:08:55 > 0:09:00The East India Company was responsible for the colonisation of much of India.
0:09:00 > 0:09:04Your bonuses are three flags of British colonies or territories.
0:09:04 > 0:09:10In each case, give me the name of the colony or territory represented by the flag. Here's the first.
0:09:13 > 0:09:15South Africa?
0:09:16 > 0:09:18What was it called?
0:09:19 > 0:09:23- Cape Colony? - Shall we go with that?
0:09:23 > 0:09:26- Cape Colony?- No, that's South Africa. Secondly...?
0:09:30 > 0:09:35- That's got to be in India somewhere, hasn't it?- Ceylon?- Yeah, Ceylon.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38- Ceylon?- That is Ceylon, yes. And finally...
0:09:42 > 0:09:45- What is that? A tiger?- Try Burma.
0:09:45 > 0:09:51- Burma.- No, that's British Malaya. Ten points for this. Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:09:51 > 0:09:57Give three rhyming words that mean respectively: a fortified wine whose varieties include fino and oloroso,
0:09:57 > 0:10:01an adjective placed before the word Christmas in greetings
0:10:01 > 0:10:04and the second largest city of Northern Ireland.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07- Sherry, merry and Derry. - Correct, yes.
0:10:10 > 0:10:14Your bonuses this time are on the Welsh alphabet, Homerton.
0:10:14 > 0:10:18The Welsh alphabet contains eight digraphs or pairs of letters
0:10:18 > 0:10:23representing a single sound which do not appear in the English alphabet.
0:10:23 > 0:10:28Three consist of a double letter with double-L the most familiar. What are the other two?
0:10:28 > 0:10:32There's double-D. I'm guessing... Would it be double-F?
0:10:32 > 0:10:35- F?- Double-D and double-F? I'll try double-D.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38- Double-D.- And?
0:10:38 > 0:10:42- Double-F.- Correct. In terms of dictionary entries,
0:10:42 > 0:10:46which digraph comes between C and D in the Welsh alphabet?
0:10:46 > 0:10:47CH?
0:10:47 > 0:10:50- CW? - Or is it CH?
0:10:50 > 0:10:52CW or CH?
0:10:52 > 0:10:54CW seems more Welsh.
0:10:54 > 0:10:56- CW.- No, it's CH.
0:10:56 > 0:11:00The Welsh alphabet regards seven letters as vowels -
0:11:00 > 0:11:06the A, E, I, O and U which also occur in the English alphabet and which two additional letters?
0:11:06 > 0:11:10- W and Y.- Correct. Another starter question now.
0:11:10 > 0:11:16"Simply one of the most objectionable books that we ever read in any language whatsoever"
0:11:16 > 0:11:21and "the most indecent novel ever written" were two verdicts on which novel of the 1890s?
0:11:21 > 0:11:26A third suggested that one word of the title be changed to "obscene".
0:11:26 > 0:11:28- Jude The Obscure.- Yes.
0:11:31 > 0:11:35You take the lead if you get these bonuses on secret police forces.
0:11:35 > 0:11:41In 1950, Wilhelm Zaisser was appointed the first Minister for State Security and the first head
0:11:41 > 0:11:45of the GDR's internal security force, known by what abbreviation?
0:11:45 > 0:11:47The Stasi.
0:11:47 > 0:11:53- The Stasi.- Correct. Replaced by the Central Nacional de Informaciones in 1977,
0:11:53 > 0:11:59DINA was the secret police of which South American country?
0:12:00 > 0:12:05- - Argentina or Chile? - I'd go for Chile because of Pinochet...- Yeah, OK.
0:12:05 > 0:12:09- Chile.- Correct. Replaced by the OGPU in 1922,
0:12:09 > 0:12:14which organisation was established in 1917 under the Soviet regime
0:12:14 > 0:12:18to investigate counter-revolutionary activities?
0:12:18 > 0:12:20It might be the Okhrana.
0:12:21 > 0:12:23You have a better idea.
0:12:23 > 0:12:27- Try Okhrana. - Nominate Kirby.- Okhrana?
0:12:27 > 0:12:31No, the Cheka. Another starter question. Described as essential
0:12:31 > 0:12:37by US sociologist Talcott Parsons because they allow individuals to predict what others will do,
0:12:37 > 0:12:42what term denotes the culturally established and socially enforced expectations of...
0:12:42 > 0:12:46- Norms.- Norms or normative behaviour is right, yes.
0:12:47 > 0:12:53This time, Balliol, your bonuses are about the comparative areas of foreign countries,
0:12:53 > 0:12:57helpfully provided for American readers of the CIA World Factbook.
0:12:57 > 0:13:02For example, Iraq is said to be slightly more than twice the size of Idaho
0:13:02 > 0:13:09and Mauritius is 11 times the size of Washington DC. Let's see if you can work out some other countries.
0:13:09 > 0:13:14Which member of the European Union is said to be slightly smaller than Rhode Island?
0:13:15 > 0:13:17Luxembourg?
0:13:18 > 0:13:21Is it a member of the EU?
0:13:21 > 0:13:23Rhode Island's not that small.
0:13:23 > 0:13:28- It could be Belgium, but Luxembourg...- I think Luxembourg's probably right.
0:13:28 > 0:13:34- Luxembourg.- Correct. Kazakhstan is said to be slightly less than four times the size of which state
0:13:34 > 0:13:36in the south of the US?
0:13:37 > 0:13:39- Texas?- Yeah.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42- Texas.- Correct.
0:13:42 > 0:13:50Georgia in the Caucasus is said to be slightly smaller than which state to the east of Georgia in the US?
0:13:50 > 0:13:54- Is that South Carolina or Virginia? - I think Tennessee.
0:13:54 > 0:13:56I think Tennessee's to the left...
0:13:57 > 0:14:02- I think it's South Carolina.- You're right.- South Carolina?- Correct.
0:14:02 > 0:14:07A music round now. For your starter, you'll hear music from a TV series.
0:14:07 > 0:14:12Ten points if you can name the actor for whose performance this piece was composed.
0:14:12 > 0:14:15TV THEME MUSIC
0:14:18 > 0:14:21- Matt Smith.- It is.
0:14:24 > 0:14:31Unique to the 11th Doctor Who. For your bonuses, you'll hear three more themes composed by Murray Gold
0:14:31 > 0:14:34for the BBC's revamped Doctor Who series.
0:14:34 > 0:14:40Firstly, name the character for whom this piece was composed as a motif.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42THEME MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:55 > 0:14:57Amy Pond maybe?
0:15:01 > 0:15:07- Amy Pond?- No, that's Donna, Catherine Tate, the companion in Series Four.
0:15:07 > 0:15:11Secondly, the character for whom this is a motif?
0:15:12 > 0:15:14THEME MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:18 > 0:15:22- I'd go for...Rose Tyler? - Rose Tyler?- Yeah.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26Is it Rose Tyler?
0:15:26 > 0:15:29- No, that's the Master.- Is it?- Yes.
0:15:29 > 0:15:33And finally, the specific event this piece of music signifies?
0:15:33 > 0:15:36DRAMATIC MUSIC
0:15:38 > 0:15:40- Regeneration?- Regeneration?
0:15:40 > 0:15:44Possibly. Yeah, I think that's right.
0:15:46 > 0:15:50- The Doctor's regeneration.- I'll accept that. Do you know which one?
0:15:50 > 0:15:56I'm giving you the points anyway. You just had to say "regeneration". It was the 10th Doctor.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58Another starter question now.
0:15:58 > 0:16:02Four Strong Winds by Ian and Sylvia, Heart Of Gold by Neil Young,
0:16:02 > 0:16:06Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell and Suzanne by Leonard Cohen
0:16:06 > 0:16:12are among songs that appear in a list of the top ten essential tracks of which country?
0:16:15 > 0:16:17- Canada.- Yes.
0:16:21 > 0:16:25Right, your bonuses are on a religious movement, Balliol.
0:16:25 > 0:16:32From a Dutch word meaning "mumbler", what term was used from the 14th century for those radical Christians
0:16:32 > 0:16:35who held opinions similar to the reformer John Wycliffe?
0:16:35 > 0:16:39- Lollard.- Sorry?- Lollard. - Nominate Kirby.- Lollard.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42Correct. A reaction to the Lollards,
0:16:42 > 0:16:48Henry IV's statute De Heretico Comburendo legitimised what penalty for heresy to be carried out
0:16:48 > 0:16:51by the secular authority?
0:16:51 > 0:16:53- Burning them.- At the stake, yes.
0:16:53 > 0:16:58Sir John Oldcastle, who led a Lollard rebellion in 1414, is said to be the model for which character
0:16:58 > 0:17:02in Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1 and Part 2 and Henry V?
0:17:02 > 0:17:05- Falstaff.- Correct.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07Another starter question.
0:17:07 > 0:17:12The names of a county in eastern England and of a city in the Ruhr area of Germany
0:17:12 > 0:17:15differ only in their final letter.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17For ten points, give both names.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22- Essex and Essen.- Correct, yes.
0:17:23 > 0:17:28Your bonuses this time, Homerton, are on animals.
0:17:28 > 0:17:31Platyrrhine or flat-nosed from the New World
0:17:31 > 0:17:37and catarrhine or downward-nosed from the Old World are the two sub-groups of which animals?
0:17:41 > 0:17:43- Primates.- Primates?- Yeah.
0:17:43 > 0:17:45- Primates.- No, they're monkeys.
0:17:45 > 0:17:50Which large Old World monkey is a type of baboon and is distinguished
0:17:50 > 0:17:55by its scarlet face with bright, blue-ridged cheeks, especially in the males?
0:17:55 > 0:18:01- Mandrill.- Correct. The rhesus is a species of which monkey found only in Asia,
0:18:01 > 0:18:05except for one species, the so-called Barbary ape from Africa?
0:18:06 > 0:18:08WHISPERING
0:18:10 > 0:18:16- Macaque.- Correct. Another starter. Noted for her contributions to the field of abstract algebra,
0:18:16 > 0:18:20which German mathematician gave her name to a theorem that states
0:18:20 > 0:18:24that each symmetry of a system leads to a physically conserved...
0:18:24 > 0:18:28- Emmy Noether. - Emmy Noether is right, yes.
0:18:28 > 0:18:32These bonuses, Balliol, are on two-dimensional shapes.
0:18:32 > 0:18:35In each case, I want the size of their symmetry group -
0:18:35 > 0:18:39the number of rotations and reflections they possess in total,
0:18:39 > 0:18:43including the identity symmetry in which the shape is left unmoved.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46Firstly, the letter Z?
0:18:47 > 0:18:49WHISPERING
0:18:51 > 0:18:53Two?
0:18:54 > 0:18:57- Is that right?- Yeah, I think so.
0:18:57 > 0:19:02- Two?- Two, yes, that's right - the identity and one rotation.
0:19:02 > 0:19:05Secondly, an equilateral triangle?
0:19:05 > 0:19:12- It's going to have one, two, three reflections.- Three rotations.- Six plus the identity, so that's seven.
0:19:12 > 0:19:16Is one of the rotations just itself?
0:19:16 > 0:19:18- So it's six?- Yeah.
0:19:18 > 0:19:23- Six.- Correct. And finally, a regular octagon?
0:19:23 > 0:19:27It's going to have eight, seven... So it's going to be 16?
0:19:27 > 0:19:30- Yeah.- Yeah? That's right, isn't it?
0:19:30 > 0:19:33- 16.- 16 is correct, yes.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36Ten points for this starter.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39Which member of the United Nations is the only one
0:19:39 > 0:19:45whose English name contains three successive consonants together and in alphabetical order
0:19:45 > 0:19:49and is also the first country on an alphabetical list of members?
0:19:53 > 0:19:57- Afghanistan. - Afghanistan is correct, yes.
0:19:58 > 0:20:05Your bonuses are on the deaths of Roman Emperors, according to Suetonius in Lives Of The Caesars.
0:20:05 > 0:20:09The death of which Emperor in AD 68 provoked, according to Suetonius,
0:20:09 > 0:20:15"such great public joy that the common people ran through the city dressed in liberty caps"?
0:20:15 > 0:20:17Nero...?
0:20:17 > 0:20:21- Nero.- Correct. Secondly, dying at the age of 63 in AD 54,
0:20:21 > 0:20:27which Emperor, according to Suetonius, "towards the end of his life gave unambiguous indications
0:20:27 > 0:20:32"that he regretted both his marriage to Agrippina and his adoption of Nero"?
0:20:32 > 0:20:35- Claudius.- Correct.
0:20:35 > 0:20:39On the day before he died in AD 41 aged 28, which Emperor dreamt
0:20:39 > 0:20:45"that he was standing in the heavens next to Jupiter's throne and that Jupiter pushed him with his big toe,
0:20:45 > 0:20:48"so that he fell headlong to Earth"?
0:20:51 > 0:20:53WHISPERING
0:20:54 > 0:20:56Anyone got any ideas?
0:20:56 > 0:20:59- No.- I think we need an answer, please.
0:20:59 > 0:21:03- Augustus.- No, it was Caligula. A second picture round now.
0:21:03 > 0:21:09For your starter, you will see a painting. Ten points if you can give me the name of the artist.
0:21:13 > 0:21:16- Renoir.- It is Renoir, yes.
0:21:18 > 0:21:24His painting of Venice. Your picture bonuses are three more depictions of Venice.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27Five points for each artist you can name. Firstly...?
0:21:28 > 0:21:30WHISPERING
0:21:38 > 0:21:40- Caravaggio?- No, that's Canaletto.
0:21:40 > 0:21:41Secondly...?
0:21:45 > 0:21:48- Turner?- Yeah, I was thinking Turner.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51- Turner.- That is JMW Turner. Finally...?
0:21:54 > 0:21:56WHISPERING
0:21:59 > 0:22:02- Monet?- Try it.- Monet.
0:22:02 > 0:22:04Monet is right. Ten points for this.
0:22:04 > 0:22:09What female given name links a genus of shrub noted for its flowers,
0:22:09 > 0:22:13a nymph who turned herself into a laurel bush when pursued by Apollo
0:22:13 > 0:22:16and the author of The Birds...
0:22:16 > 0:22:18- Daphne.- Daphne is correct, yes.
0:22:21 > 0:22:25Your bonuses, Homerton, are on a surname.
0:22:25 > 0:22:31The composer and playwright Jonathan Larson won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for which Broadway musical?
0:22:31 > 0:22:35He died on the morning of its off-Broadway preview.
0:22:35 > 0:22:38WHISPERING
0:22:46 > 0:22:49- Oklahoma!- No, it's Rent.
0:22:49 > 0:22:55Established by the explorer Carl Larsen in 1904, Grytviken was the first land-based whaling station
0:22:55 > 0:23:02and permanent habitation on which British administered island in the South Atlantic?
0:23:02 > 0:23:06- South Georgia.- Correct. The American cartoonist Gary Larson created
0:23:06 > 0:23:12which much-syndicated single-panel cartoon series, published from 1980 until his retirement in 1995?
0:23:12 > 0:23:14The Far Side.
0:23:14 > 0:23:20- The Far Side.- The Far Side is right. There's four minutes to go and ten points at stake for this.
0:23:20 > 0:23:23What is the family name of the Earls of Orrery,
0:23:23 > 0:23:28the fourth of whom gave his title to a mechanical model of the movement of the solar system
0:23:28 > 0:23:32and whose great-nephew gave his name to a law of physics?
0:23:32 > 0:23:36- Cavendish.- No. Anyone like to have a go from Balliol?
0:23:36 > 0:23:39- Hamilton?- No, it's Boyle. Ten points for this.
0:23:39 > 0:23:46In the hierarchy of biological classification, which taxonomic rank comes between phylum and order?
0:23:46 > 0:23:48Examples include...
0:23:48 > 0:23:50- Class.- Class is right, yes.
0:23:50 > 0:23:53Your bonuses now are on abbreviations.
0:23:53 > 0:23:58What two-letter abbreviation can signify both an imperial weight and, in cricket,
0:23:58 > 0:24:03a run made after the ball has touched any part of the batsman, except his hands or the bat?
0:24:03 > 0:24:08- LB.- Correct. For what two-word phrase does the abbreviation LBO stand
0:24:08 > 0:24:13when it refers to the purchase of a company that's financed by borrowed capital?
0:24:14 > 0:24:18- Leveraged buyout. - Leveraged buyout.- Correct.
0:24:18 > 0:24:22LBA is the code for which UK international airport?
0:24:22 > 0:24:25It began operations as Yeadon Aerodrome in 1931.
0:24:25 > 0:24:30- Leeds Bradford. - Leeds Bradford International is correct. Ten points for this.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32Concerning the doomed relationship
0:24:32 > 0:24:38between Elizabeth I and the Earl of Essex, which Benjamin Britten opera was commissioned to celebrate...
0:24:38 > 0:24:42- Gloriana.- Gloriana is correct.
0:24:43 > 0:24:50Your bonuses are on US state capitals. Identify the cities that share their names with the following
0:24:50 > 0:24:56and give the states of which they're the capitals. Firstly, a British military commander of World War Two,
0:24:56 > 0:25:00a town in the Welsh Marches and the author of Anne Of Green Gables.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02- Montgomery.- What state?
0:25:04 > 0:25:06Alabama?
0:25:06 > 0:25:12- Montgomery, Alabama.- Correct. Secondly, the author of the song Leaving On A Jet Plane
0:25:12 > 0:25:16and the dukedom held by Lord Peter Wimsey's brother?
0:25:16 > 0:25:17I don't know.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23- We don't know.- Denver, Colorado.
0:25:23 > 0:25:30Finally, a nude by Manet, a sports venue in Ancient Greece and an exhibition centre in London?
0:25:30 > 0:25:36- Olympia, Washington.- Olympia, Washington is right. Two minutes to go. Ten points for this.
0:25:36 > 0:25:40MacLeod's Tables, Blaven, The Storr and The Quiraing
0:25:40 > 0:25:44are among the notable hills on which Scottish island?
0:25:47 > 0:25:49- Skye.- Skye is correct, yes.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54Your bonuses are on the figurative use of the names of metals.
0:25:54 > 0:25:58Which metal links the Age of Zeus in Greek myth,
0:25:58 > 0:26:04the fir tree Abies alba and the formal method of serving food?
0:26:04 > 0:26:09- Silver.- Yes. Terms meaning "impudent", "musically strident" and the No.2 wood golf club
0:26:09 > 0:26:12all derive from the name of which alloy?
0:26:12 > 0:26:16- Iron.- No, it's brass. A snake similar to a rattler,
0:26:16 > 0:26:22the tree Fagus sylvatica purpurea and a fine handwriting all derive their common names from which metal?
0:26:22 > 0:26:26- Copper.- Correct. Level pegging, ten points for this.
0:26:26 > 0:26:32Although both men and women wore the toga in Ancient Rome until after the 2nd century BC,
0:26:32 > 0:26:38what name was given to the later, loose outer garment worn by women to indicate their marital status?
0:26:38 > 0:26:40- Stola.- Stola is right.
0:26:40 > 0:26:43You take the lead. Your bonuses are on a position.
0:26:43 > 0:26:47What position is offered to the homeless Davies by Aston and Mick
0:26:47 > 0:26:51in the three-character play of 1960 by Harold Pinter,
0:26:51 > 0:26:54the position also being the play's title?
0:26:56 > 0:27:00- Come on, let's have it.- The Dumb Waiter.- No, it's The Caretaker.
0:27:00 > 0:27:03In November 1834, while Sir Robert Peel was in Italy,
0:27:03 > 0:27:09which former PM led a caretaker government with himself as Home, Foreign and Colonial Secretary?
0:27:09 > 0:27:15- Wellington.- Correct. Joe Mercer, Howard Wilkinson and Peter Taylor all held what post as caretakers?
0:27:16 > 0:27:20- Come on!- Pass. - It was the England football manger.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23Ten points for this. In Dante's Divine Comedy,
0:27:23 > 0:27:26which mythological creature does he describe
0:27:26 > 0:27:30as "the infamy of Crete, detested brood of the feign'd heifer"?
0:27:30 > 0:27:37- Minotaur.- The Minotaur is correct. Here are your bonuses on British islands and their wildlife.
0:27:37 > 0:27:41- GONG - And at the gong, Homerton have 200, Balliol have 205.
0:27:48 > 0:27:53You very nearly did it, Homerton, but you couldn't lose by a narrower margin.
0:27:53 > 0:27:59I'll have a quiet bet that you'll be back as a high-scoring losing team. Thank you very much for joining us.
0:27:59 > 0:28:05Well, you like to live dangerously, but we'll definitely see you in the next stage, Balliol.
0:28:05 > 0:28:10- I hope you can join us next time, but until then, it's goodbye from Homerton College.- Goodbye.
0:28:10 > 0:28:14- It's goodbye from Balliol College. - Goodbye.- And it's goodbye from me.
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