0:00:20 > 0:00:22University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:33Hello. It was Kipling who described triumph and disaster as "those two imposters"
0:00:33 > 0:00:36and invited us to "treat them both the same".
0:00:36 > 0:00:40In a little under half an hour, tonight's teams should tell us if that's possible.
0:00:40 > 0:00:46Christ Church, Oxford was founded on the site of a monastery by Cardinal Wolsey in 1524.
0:00:46 > 0:00:50When he fell from power, it became the property of Henry VIII
0:00:50 > 0:00:54who established the former monastery church as Oxford's cathedral.
0:00:54 > 0:00:59Charles I lived there during the English Civil War and after the restoration of the monarchy,
0:00:59 > 0:01:03money was given to allow the former student Christopher Wren
0:01:03 > 0:01:07to build the Tom Tower over the entrance to the quad.
0:01:07 > 0:01:11Other alumni include John Locke, John Wesley and Robert Peel.
0:01:11 > 0:01:16Representing around 400 undergraduates and with an average age of 21,
0:01:16 > 0:01:18let's meet four of the current crop.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21I'm Thomas Hine from Twickenham in Middlesex,
0:01:21 > 0:01:23reading Ancient and Modern History.
0:01:23 > 0:01:27Hi, I'm Will Peveler from Southampton and I'm reading Chemistry.
0:01:27 > 0:01:31- Their captain.- I'm George Scratcherd from Northumberland.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33I'm reading for a DPhil in History.
0:01:33 > 0:01:37I'm Nimish Telang from Pennsylvania and I'm reading Mathematics.
0:01:37 > 0:01:40APPLAUSE
0:01:41 > 0:01:46The University of Bath traces its origins to 1856 and the Bristol Trade School
0:01:46 > 0:01:50which became the Merchant Venturers' Technical College.
0:01:50 > 0:01:55It's had several incarnations, most of them technical colleges based in Bristol,
0:01:55 > 0:01:59but when it was unable to expand any further, it moved to Bath
0:01:59 > 0:02:04where it received its royal charter in 1966 as one of the "plate glass universities".
0:02:04 > 0:02:10It's a campus university and its functional, glass and concrete buildings provide a pleasing relief
0:02:10 > 0:02:13from all that Georgian stuff in the city.
0:02:13 > 0:02:18Tonight's team have an average age of 20 and represent 14,000 fellow students.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20Let's meet them.
0:02:20 > 0:02:24I'm Steven Pagett from Essex and I'm studying Mathematics.
0:02:24 > 0:02:28I'm Dorian Lidell from Cornwall and I'm also studying Mathematics.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31- Their captain.- I'm Adam Melling-Smith from North Devon
0:02:31 > 0:02:34and I'm reading French and Politics.
0:02:34 > 0:02:38Hello. I'm Sam Causer from London and I'm studying Physics.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40APPLAUSE
0:02:42 > 0:02:47OK, the rules are as constant as the northern star. Here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:47 > 0:02:53Valued as a source of energy and taking its name from the town where it was first produced in 1869,
0:02:53 > 0:02:58what form of confectionery was eaten on Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing...
0:02:58 > 0:03:01- Kendal Mint Cake.- Correct.
0:03:01 > 0:03:05The first set of bonuses, Bath, are on English town halls.
0:03:05 > 0:03:10A statue of which Anglo-Saxon noblewoman stands beneath the central gable
0:03:10 > 0:03:13of the Council House of the city of Coventry?
0:03:13 > 0:03:16- Is it not Lady Godiva?- Yes.
0:03:16 > 0:03:18- Lady Godiva.- Correct.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21The subject of a biography by the historian Tacitus,
0:03:21 > 0:03:26a statue of which Roman general stands above the doorway of Manchester Town Hall?
0:03:26 > 0:03:29WHISPERING
0:03:31 > 0:03:37- Marcus Aurelius?- No, it's Agricola. Symbolising the city's traditional industry,
0:03:37 > 0:03:41a statue of which Roman god stands on top of Sheffield Town Hall?
0:03:43 > 0:03:45WHISPERING
0:03:45 > 0:03:48- Vulcan.- Vulcan is right.
0:03:48 > 0:03:53Another starter question. Distinguishing between biological sexual difference
0:03:53 > 0:03:56and the socially imposed categories of gender,
0:03:56 > 0:04:01which work of feminist philosophy was first published in French in 1949...
0:04:01 > 0:04:04- The Second Sex.- Correct.
0:04:04 > 0:04:08Your first set of bonuses, Christ Church, are on homonyms -
0:04:08 > 0:04:12words with a shared pronunciation, but different meanings or spellings.
0:04:12 > 0:04:17For each pair, I want you to spell both words in the order of the definitions given.
0:04:17 > 0:04:24Firstly for five points, a strip of cloth wound round the lower leg and formerly worn by soldiers
0:04:24 > 0:04:29and a cement made from chalk and linseed oil used for fixing glass in frames?
0:04:29 > 0:04:32It's "puttee", so P-U-T-T-E-E...
0:04:32 > 0:04:37- Nominate Hine. - "Puttee", so P-U-T-T-E-E,
0:04:37 > 0:04:39- and then P-U-T-T-Y.- Correct.
0:04:39 > 0:04:43Secondly, to become wearisome through familiarity
0:04:43 > 0:04:50and a curved bar whose free end engages with a cogwheel to ensure movement in only one direction?
0:04:52 > 0:04:55WHISPERING
0:05:01 > 0:05:05- "Rachit", R-A-C-H-I-T...- No, it's "pall", P-A-L-L and P-A-W-L.
0:05:05 > 0:05:11And finally, a feeling of anger or resentment resulting from a slight or injury,
0:05:11 > 0:05:13especially to one's pride,
0:05:13 > 0:05:15and the summit of a mountain?
0:05:16 > 0:05:22- "Pique", P-I-Q-U-E and "peak", P-E-A-K.- Correct. Another starter question.
0:05:22 > 0:05:28In 1999, the US psychologist Stephen M Drigotas argued that close partners influence each other,
0:05:28 > 0:05:34so that each becomes closer to their ideal self, an effect he named after which Renaissance artist,
0:05:34 > 0:05:40who viewed sculpture as the revelation of the figure already hidden within the stone?
0:05:42 > 0:05:45- Michelangelo. - It was Michelangelo, yes.
0:05:48 > 0:05:52Right, these bonuses are on coastal regions.
0:05:52 > 0:05:56What name derives from that of the indigenous people of North Africa
0:05:56 > 0:06:00and was used by Europeans until the 19th century for the coastal region
0:06:00 > 0:06:05of what is now Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya?
0:06:05 > 0:06:07- Barbary.- Barbary Coast is correct.
0:06:07 > 0:06:14The Coromandel Coast extends for more than 650 kilometres along the eastern seaboard of which country?
0:06:16 > 0:06:18- Chile?- Chile?
0:06:18 > 0:06:21- Chile.- No, it's India.
0:06:21 > 0:06:27The British Gold Coast colony, which absorbed the Danish and Dutch Gold Coasts in the 19th century,
0:06:27 > 0:06:31became which independent West African nation in 1957?
0:06:31 > 0:06:33Ghana?
0:06:34 > 0:06:37- Ghana.- Correct. Another starter question.
0:06:37 > 0:06:41Paula Power is the heroine of which novel of 1881 by Thomas Hardy?
0:06:41 > 0:06:45It derives its title from a word used in the Book of Revelation
0:06:45 > 0:06:50to describe the uncommitted faith of early Christians in a region of Asia Minor
0:06:50 > 0:06:54and has come to mean one who is indifferent to religion.
0:06:56 > 0:07:00- Agnostic?- No. Anyone like to buzz from Bath?
0:07:01 > 0:07:05- Atheist?- No, it's A Laodicean. Ten points for this.
0:07:05 > 0:07:09Developed by an eponymous Swiss psychiatrist and introduced in 1921,
0:07:09 > 0:07:15which projective test is designed to yield information about unconscious mental processes?
0:07:16 > 0:07:18- Rorschach.- Correct.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23Your bonuses, Christ Church, are on mathematics.
0:07:23 > 0:07:29What adjective is applied to a number which is not the root of any integer polynomial?
0:07:29 > 0:07:33- Transcendental.- Transcendental. - Correct.
0:07:33 > 0:07:38In 1882, the German mathematician Ferdinand von Lindemann proved the transcendence of pi
0:07:38 > 0:07:42and proved the impossibility of which geometric construction,
0:07:42 > 0:07:45one of the three geometric problems of antiquity?
0:07:45 > 0:07:52- Squaring the circle.- Correct. Nine years before Lindemann, the French mathematician Charles Hermite
0:07:52 > 0:07:56proved the transcendence of which ubiquitous mathematical constant?
0:07:56 > 0:08:00- E.- E is right. We're going to take a picture round.
0:08:00 > 0:08:05For your picture starter, you will see the symbol of a UK governing sports body.
0:08:05 > 0:08:09For ten points, give me the name of the sport it represents.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18- Weightlifting? - Yes, it is weightlifting.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20APPLAUSE
0:08:21 > 0:08:25Your bonuses are three more symbols of UK sports governing bodies.
0:08:25 > 0:08:29In each case, name the sport each represents. Firstly...?
0:08:32 > 0:08:35WHISPERING
0:08:36 > 0:08:41- Gymnastics.- No, that's the England Netball Association. Secondly...?
0:08:47 > 0:08:49WHISPERING
0:08:52 > 0:08:55- Handball?- It is handball, yes. And finally...?
0:08:58 > 0:09:01It's a type of martial arts.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03Which one? Not judo.
0:09:03 > 0:09:05Karate?
0:09:05 > 0:09:11- Karate?- No, it's taekwondo. You're in the right direction, but not right enough. Ten points for this.
0:09:11 > 0:09:17Named after an American lawyer and Usenet newsgroup user, whose law of analogies...
0:09:17 > 0:09:19- Godwin.- Godwin, that's right.
0:09:22 > 0:09:26Right, your bonuses this time are on artists.
0:09:26 > 0:09:32Which artist has been described by the critic Robert Hughes as "the greatest living realist painter"?
0:09:32 > 0:09:37His work entitled Benefits Supervisor Sleeping sold for over £17 million in 2008.
0:09:37 > 0:09:43- Lucian Freud.- Correct. "There are modern heads which people will go on looking at for a long time to come
0:09:43 > 0:09:47"and which perhaps they will mourn over after a hundred years."
0:09:47 > 0:09:51These words of Van Gogh refer to his portrait of which doctor
0:09:51 > 0:09:54who had tried to help him overcome his mental illness?
0:09:56 > 0:10:02- No, I don't think we know. - That's Paul Gachet. Which artist's double self-portrait of 1939
0:10:02 > 0:10:06was described by her as symbolising the duality of her personality?
0:10:06 > 0:10:12On the right, she is shown in Mexican costume and on the left in a colonial wedding dress.
0:10:12 > 0:10:15- Frida Kahlo.- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:10:15 > 0:10:21In his 1931 book Lo!, the American paranormal investigator Charles Fort coined what term
0:10:21 > 0:10:26for the hypothetical instantaneous transfer of matter from one point to another
0:10:26 > 0:10:29by psychic or advanced technological...
0:10:29 > 0:10:36- Telekinesis?- No, you... And it was an interruption, I'm afraid, so you're going to lose five points.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39..advanced technological means?
0:10:39 > 0:10:43- Teleportation? - Teleportation is correct, yes.
0:10:43 > 0:10:48Your bonuses this time, Christ Church, are on accents and other diacritics.
0:10:48 > 0:10:53Firstly, the national language of which European country uses a through-slash
0:10:53 > 0:11:00to modify the letter L, for example, in the names of its longest river and its President from 1990 to '95?
0:11:00 > 0:11:02- Polish?- Polish?
0:11:02 > 0:11:05- Poland.- Poland.- Poland is correct.
0:11:05 > 0:11:10The double acute accent, for example, over the "o" of "Erno",
0:11:10 > 0:11:16the first name of the inventor of Rubik's cube, is found primarily in which central European language?
0:11:16 > 0:11:19- Hungarian.- Correct. In 20th century Danish,
0:11:19 > 0:11:23the double "A" diagraph, as in the city name Aalborg,
0:11:23 > 0:11:28was largely superseded by an "A" with what diacritic mark?
0:11:29 > 0:11:31CONFERRING
0:11:32 > 0:11:36- Nominate Telang.- Diaeresis? - No, it's a ring or circle.
0:11:36 > 0:11:40Ten points for this. Thought to have been modelled
0:11:40 > 0:11:43by CS Lewis on his gardener Fred Paxton,
0:11:43 > 0:11:47Puddleglum, who appears in the Narnia story The Silver Chair,
0:11:47 > 0:11:51is a member of which race of pessimistic, frog-like humanoids?
0:11:52 > 0:11:56- Fawns?- No. Anyone like to buzz from Christ Church?
0:11:57 > 0:12:01- Dwarves?- No, they're marsh-wiggles. Ten points for this.
0:12:01 > 0:12:06Easily mistyped, which two nine-letter anagrams mean respectively:
0:12:06 > 0:12:08"yielding, flexible or submissive"
0:12:08 > 0:12:12and "expression of grievance or dissatisfaction"?
0:12:17 > 0:12:19- "Compliant" and "complaint".- Correct.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25Bath, your bonuses now are on novels.
0:12:25 > 0:12:31I'll give you the synopsis of a novel which is a recent winner of the Costa Book of the Year award.
0:12:31 > 0:12:33I want the title and the author.
0:12:33 > 0:12:39The winner in 2008 - "Roseanne McNulty, perhaps nearing her 100th birthday, faces an uncertain future
0:12:39 > 0:12:45"as the Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital, where she has spent the best part of her adult life,
0:12:45 > 0:12:47"prepares for closure."
0:12:47 > 0:12:50WHISPERING
0:12:51 > 0:12:56- The Gathering by Anne Enright? - No, it's The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry.
0:12:56 > 0:13:03Secondly, the winner in 2007 - "He found his proper purpose as the tail gunner in a Lancaster bomber.
0:13:03 > 0:13:08"He found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew and he found Joyce, a woman to love."
0:13:08 > 0:13:10- When was this?- 2007.
0:13:10 > 0:13:13Hmm... I'm not sure.
0:13:14 > 0:13:16No idea? We don't know, sorry.
0:13:16 > 0:13:20Day by AL Kennedy. Finally, the winner in 2006 -
0:13:20 > 0:13:26"1867, Canada. As winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dove River,
0:13:26 > 0:13:31"a man is brutally murdered and a 17-year-old boy disappears."
0:13:33 > 0:13:35CONFERRING
0:13:37 > 0:13:41- No idea. - Stef Penney's The Tenderness Of Wolves. Another starter question.
0:13:41 > 0:13:45Estimated to affect around 20% of women between 60 and 69,
0:13:45 > 0:13:52which age-related metabolic disease of bone formation results in a much reduced bone mineral density...
0:13:52 > 0:13:54- Osteoporosis.- Correct.
0:13:57 > 0:14:00Your bonuses are on Caribbean islands.
0:14:00 > 0:14:07Which Caribbean island lies between Grenada and St Lucia and is the site of La Soufriere or The Sulfurer,
0:14:07 > 0:14:09a volcano which last erupted in 1979?
0:14:09 > 0:14:11St Kitts?
0:14:13 > 0:14:15Montserrat?
0:14:15 > 0:14:18- Montserrat.- No, it's St Vincent.
0:14:18 > 0:14:21Located on the south-west coast of Trinidad,
0:14:21 > 0:14:25Pitch Lake is one of the world's largest natural resources
0:14:25 > 0:14:29of which dark-coloured, bituminous substance?
0:14:31 > 0:14:35- Tar.- It's asphalt, but that's not precise enough.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38Named after the Royal Navy's base during the 18th century,
0:14:38 > 0:14:45the English Harbour lies on the south coast of which island, the largest of the Leeward Islands?
0:14:46 > 0:14:49- Jamaica?- No, it's Antigua.
0:14:49 > 0:14:53There's plenty of time to come back, Bath, so don't get in a panic.
0:14:53 > 0:14:59We're halfway through and we'll take a music round. For your starter, you'll hear some classical music.
0:14:59 > 0:15:03Ten points if you can give me the title of the piece.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05LIVELY CLASSICAL PIECE
0:15:13 > 0:15:17- Is that a Brandenburg Concerto? - It is indeed, No.3, yes.
0:15:21 > 0:15:25The Brandenburg Concerto was presented by JS Bach
0:15:25 > 0:15:29to the military officer Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt in 1721.
0:15:29 > 0:15:35Your bonuses - three more pieces of music that are associated with notable historical figures.
0:15:35 > 0:15:40Firstly, name the person to whom this piece was initially dedicated.
0:15:40 > 0:15:42CLASSICAL PIECE PLAYS
0:15:46 > 0:15:48WHISPERING
0:15:50 > 0:15:53I think it was dedicated to Napoleon, but I'm not sure.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56Any ideas? Napoleon?
0:15:57 > 0:16:01- Napoleon?- It was indeed, by Beethoven, of course, his Eroica.
0:16:01 > 0:16:06Secondly, this piece was commissioned for which historical figure?
0:16:06 > 0:16:09CLASSICAL PIECE PLAYS
0:16:17 > 0:16:20CONFERRING
0:16:23 > 0:16:26- Europe? America? - I think it's a Russian.
0:16:26 > 0:16:32- Tsar Nicholas II? - No, that was for Queen Victoria. It was Elgar's Imperial March.
0:16:32 > 0:16:35And to whom was this piece written as a dedication?
0:16:35 > 0:16:38CLASSICAL PIECE PLAYS
0:16:39 > 0:16:42It's the Radetzky March.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44Radetzky.
0:16:47 > 0:16:50- Radetzky?- It was Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky.
0:16:50 > 0:16:56Another starter. Which eponymous character completes these lines from a poem first published in 1833?
0:16:56 > 0:17:00"Four gray walls and four gray towers
0:17:00 > 0:17:04"Overlook a space of flowers and the silent isle..."
0:17:04 > 0:17:08- The Lady Of Shalott. - The Lady Of Shalott, yes.
0:17:11 > 0:17:15Right, your bonuses are on mammalian physiology.
0:17:15 > 0:17:20Firstly for five, the adenohypophysis is part of which gland,
0:17:20 > 0:17:24dominant in the regulation of the endocrine system?
0:17:24 > 0:17:26WHISPERING
0:17:29 > 0:17:32- The pituitary gland.- Correct.
0:17:32 > 0:17:36Which gonadotrophic hormone, produced by the adenohypophysis,
0:17:36 > 0:17:40stimulates Leydig cells in males to produce testosterone?
0:17:43 > 0:17:45I can't think.
0:17:47 > 0:17:50- We don't know, sorry. - It's the luteinizing hormone.
0:17:50 > 0:17:53From the Greek for "extremities" and "large",
0:17:53 > 0:17:59which medical condition is caused by excessive release of growth hormone in later life?
0:17:59 > 0:18:02- Elephantiasis.- No, it's acromegaly.
0:18:02 > 0:18:06Ten points for this. The German name of a legendary Nordic hero
0:18:06 > 0:18:09gave Richard Wagner the title of which opera...
0:18:09 > 0:18:11- Siegfried?- Correct.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14Your bonuses this time are on place names,
0:18:14 > 0:18:20specifically those that differ only in their final letter of the English spelling of their names,
0:18:20 > 0:18:23for example, Peru and Perm in Russia.
0:18:23 > 0:18:27In each case, give me the names from the description.
0:18:27 > 0:18:33Firstly, a New England state and the capital of the German state of Rheinland-Pfalz?
0:18:33 > 0:18:38- Maine and Mainz.- Correct. Secondly, a metropolitan borough of Merseyside
0:18:38 > 0:18:42and an island in the South Atlantic with its capital at Jamestown?
0:18:43 > 0:18:48- St Helena and St Helens.- Correct. Finally, an Italian river
0:18:48 > 0:18:51and the region sometimes known as "the roof of the world"?
0:18:51 > 0:18:56- Tibet and...?- Tiber. Tibet and Tiber.- Correct.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59Another starter question. The hypothesis
0:18:59 > 0:19:05that a decision on whether or not to accept a risk depends not just on money but also on utility
0:19:05 > 0:19:09is named after which 18th century Dutch-Swiss mathematician?
0:19:13 > 0:19:17- Euler?- No. Anyone like to buzz from Bath?
0:19:17 > 0:19:20- Bernoulli. - Bernoulli is correct, yes.
0:19:23 > 0:19:27OK, Bath, these bonuses are on translations of the Bible.
0:19:27 > 0:19:31Firstly for five points, often abbreviated to LXX,
0:19:31 > 0:19:37what title is given to the earliest surviving Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible
0:19:37 > 0:19:42and refers to the belief that 72 translators produced identical versions in 72 days?
0:19:42 > 0:19:44Can you think of anything?
0:19:44 > 0:19:48I know there's the Codex Sinaiticus, but I don't think that's it.
0:19:48 > 0:19:51- Shall I say that anyway?- Yeah.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54- Nominate Lidell.- Codex Sinaiticus? - No, it's the Septuagint.
0:19:54 > 0:19:59The first printed edition of a complete English Bible published in 1535
0:19:59 > 0:20:04was translated by which reformer after whom it is usually named?
0:20:04 > 0:20:06Wycliffe? I don't know.
0:20:06 > 0:20:12- What do you think?- Go for it. - Wycliffe?- No, it was before him. It was Miles Coverdale.
0:20:12 > 0:20:17The Treacle Bible of 1568 is so called because Jeremiah 8:22 reads,
0:20:17 > 0:20:20"Is there no treacle in Gilead?"
0:20:20 > 0:20:25What word takes the place of "treacle" in the authorised version?
0:20:26 > 0:20:28- Balm?- "Balm" is right.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31A second picture round now. For your starter,
0:20:31 > 0:20:35you'll see a postage stamp issued by the Royal Mail in 2009.
0:20:35 > 0:20:38For ten points, name the figure depicted on the stamp.
0:20:41 > 0:20:46- Josiah Wedgwood. - Correct, it is Josiah Wedgwood, the pottery manufacturer.
0:20:47 > 0:20:51He was one of eight figures selected by the Royal Mail
0:20:51 > 0:20:55for their Pioneers Of The Industrial Revolution stamp series.
0:20:55 > 0:21:01For your bonuses, three more stamps in that series. In each case, name the industrialist shown. Firstly?
0:21:04 > 0:21:06WHISPERING
0:21:07 > 0:21:13- Newcomen?- No, that's Richard Arkwright, the inventor of the cotton spinning frame. Secondly...?
0:21:16 > 0:21:18That's an aqueduct of some sort.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21Who built aqueducts?
0:21:22 > 0:21:25Oh, I know this.
0:21:25 > 0:21:29- Stephenson?- No, James Brindley, the canal engineer. And finally...?
0:21:31 > 0:21:34- Is that Stephenson? - Yeah, it's got to be.
0:21:34 > 0:21:38- Stephenson.- That is George Stephenson. Ten points for this.
0:21:38 > 0:21:42Ernest Hemingway's 1929 novel A Farewell To Arms has been credited
0:21:42 > 0:21:46with introducing into the English language which Italian expression,
0:21:46 > 0:21:49used both as a greeting and a form of goodbye?
0:21:49 > 0:21:51- Ciao.- "Ciao" is right.
0:21:51 > 0:21:55Your bonuses this time, Christ Church, are on physics.
0:21:55 > 0:22:01In electronics, what single-word term describes a pair of parallel conducting plates
0:22:01 > 0:22:03separated by a thin insulating material?
0:22:03 > 0:22:10- Capacitor.- Correct. If two capacitors with the capacitance C and 2C are connected in parallel,
0:22:10 > 0:22:13what is their equivalent capacitance?
0:22:13 > 0:22:17- 3C.- Correct. What is the SI unit of capacitance?
0:22:17 > 0:22:18Farad.
0:22:18 > 0:22:21- Nominate Telang.- Farad. - Farad is right.
0:22:21 > 0:22:24Ten points for this starter question.
0:22:24 > 0:22:28Particularly noted for his entrances to the Paris metro,
0:22:28 > 0:22:33Hector Guimard is chiefly associated with which architectural style?
0:22:34 > 0:22:37- Art Nouveau. - Art Nouveau is right, yes.
0:22:37 > 0:22:40These bonuses, Christ Church, are on chaos.
0:22:40 > 0:22:44"Chaos umpire sits, and by decision more embroils the fray
0:22:44 > 0:22:48"By which he reigns, next him high arbiter, chance governs all."
0:22:48 > 0:22:52In which work of 1667 do these words appear?
0:22:52 > 0:22:54- Paradise Lost?- Yes.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56- Paradise Lost.- Correct.
0:22:56 > 0:23:03"Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! When I love thee not, chaos is come again."
0:23:03 > 0:23:06Which of Shakespeare's title characters says those words?
0:23:09 > 0:23:11- Othello.- It is Othello.
0:23:11 > 0:23:17According to James Thurber, what quality is "emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity"?
0:23:19 > 0:23:22- Love?- No, it's humour. Ten points for this.
0:23:22 > 0:23:25Born in the county of Cleves in 1380,
0:23:25 > 0:23:31to which monk is attributed the authorship of the devotional work The Imitation Of Christ?
0:23:33 > 0:23:35Erasmus?
0:23:35 > 0:23:39No. Christ Church, somebody like to have a go?
0:23:39 > 0:23:43- Jan Hus?- No, it's Thomas A Kempis. Ten points for this.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46In the standard model of particle physics,
0:23:46 > 0:23:51what is the only anti-particle whose name does not begin with the prefix "anti"?
0:23:51 > 0:23:57- Positron.- Correct. Another set of bonuses for you then, Bath. They're on printers' marks.
0:23:57 > 0:24:01What word, meaning a stone pillar with a pointed top, is another name
0:24:01 > 0:24:06for the typographical sign called a "dagger", used for footnotes or other references?
0:24:06 > 0:24:11- Obelus?- I can't accept that. It's "obelisk".
0:24:11 > 0:24:17The typographical mark called the "pilcrow", resembling a reversed and in-filled capital letter P,
0:24:17 > 0:24:22is a familiar ASCII character on a computer screen indicating what?
0:24:23 > 0:24:26- Paragraph break. - The end of the paragraph, yes.
0:24:26 > 0:24:32What word or term is abbreviated by the symbol often found in legal documents,
0:24:32 > 0:24:35approximately resembling a double letter S?
0:24:38 > 0:24:42- Section?- Correct. Three minutes to go. Ten points for this.
0:24:42 > 0:24:49In terms of Latin roots, if "find" and "sleep" give "inventory" and "dormitory", what does "wash" give?
0:24:50 > 0:24:52- Lavatory.- Lavatory is right, yes.
0:24:55 > 0:25:00I don't know why we smile just at the word! Your bonuses are on human anatomy.
0:25:00 > 0:25:06Give the structure of the human body in which the following are found. First, the fovea centralis?
0:25:06 > 0:25:09- The eye.- The eye.- Correct.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11Second, the foramen magnum?
0:25:13 > 0:25:15I don't know. Brain?
0:25:16 > 0:25:19- Brain?- It's the skull.
0:25:19 > 0:25:21Finally, the fenestra ovalis?
0:25:21 > 0:25:24The oval window, which is...
0:25:24 > 0:25:29- The ear?- Let's have an answer, please.- The ear.- The ear is correct.
0:25:29 > 0:25:33Another starter question. Work this out before you buzz.
0:25:33 > 0:25:38As a measurement of mass, how many kilotonnes are equal to one teragram?
0:25:45 > 0:25:49- A billion?- Anyone like to buzz from Christ Church?
0:25:50 > 0:25:54- One?- No, it's a thousand. Right, another starter question.
0:25:54 > 0:25:59Yell, Unst, Fetlar, Bressay and Papa Stour are among islands...
0:25:59 > 0:26:02- The Hebrides. - No, you lose five points.
0:26:02 > 0:26:06..of which archipelago whose largest town is Lerwick?
0:26:07 > 0:26:10- Shetland.- Shetland is right, yes.
0:26:10 > 0:26:13Your bonuses this time are on Greek mythology, Christ Church.
0:26:13 > 0:26:18Eurycleia was the nurse of which hero whom she recognised after many years
0:26:18 > 0:26:21by a scar on his leg made by a wild boar?
0:26:23 > 0:26:28- Come on.- Theseus?- No, it's Odysseus. Against Odysseus's orders,
0:26:28 > 0:26:33the crewman Eurylochus persuades his fellows to slaughter cattle belonging to which deity?
0:26:33 > 0:26:37Zeus then sends a storm causing all but Odysseus to drown.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39- Poseidon.- No, it's Hyperion.
0:26:39 > 0:26:47Both killed by Odysseus, Eurymachus and Antinous are the two principal suitors of which figure?
0:26:48 > 0:26:50- Penelope.- Penelope is right.
0:26:50 > 0:26:56Another starter. What term, meaning "resurgence", is the Italian name for the 19th century movement...
0:26:56 > 0:27:02- Risorgimento.- Risorgimento is correct. Your bonuses this time, Bath, are on ships.
0:27:02 > 0:27:08The Olympic and The Britannic were sister ships of which ocean liner launched in May 1911?
0:27:08 > 0:27:13- Titanic.- Yes. The Mayflower was due to sail from England in 1620 with which other ship,
0:27:13 > 0:27:15found en route to be unseaworthy?
0:27:15 > 0:27:19- Speedwell.- Yes. Which ship was named after a Roman province in Africa
0:27:19 > 0:27:23and was the sister ship of the Lusitania, sunk by a U-boat in 1915?
0:27:23 > 0:27:29- Mauretania.- Correct. Another starter. What word is common to the English names of the three countries
0:27:29 > 0:27:32whose capitals are Malabo, Conakry...
0:27:32 > 0:27:38- Guinea.- Correct. Your bonuses are on host cities of the Summer Olympic Games since World War Two.
0:27:38 > 0:27:42Identify the city from its geographical co-ordinates. First for five,
0:27:42 > 0:27:4641 degrees, 23 minutes north, 2 degrees, 11 minutes east?
0:27:46 > 0:27:51- GONG - And at the gong, Bath University have 105,
0:27:51 > 0:27:54Christ Church, Oxford have 270.
0:27:57 > 0:28:02You were just getting into your stride. You should have started earlier, Bath.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05Thank you very much for joining us.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07Christ Church, terrific performance.
0:28:07 > 0:28:13You're also the best turned out team of students we've had on this programme for a very long time!
0:28:13 > 0:28:17We shall look forward to seeing you again in some other elegant suit
0:28:17 > 0:28:21in the next stage of the competition, in round two.
0:28:21 > 0:28:26- Join us next time for another first round match. Until then, goodbye from Bath University.- Goodbye.
0:28:26 > 0:28:31- Goodbye from Christ Church, Oxford. - Goodbye.- And it's goodbye from me.
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