0:00:16 > 0:00:18APPLAUSE
0:00:21 > 0:00:25'Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.'
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. Once again, we shine a torch around the dusty attic of the student mind
0:00:32 > 0:00:36in hope of finding something remotely valuable or even useful.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39The University of Plymouth was among the polytechnics
0:00:39 > 0:00:43which became universities under John Major in 1992.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46It's an amalgam of several colleges, dating back to 1820,
0:00:46 > 0:00:50including a mechanics institute and a school of navigation,
0:00:50 > 0:00:55and it maintains its links with the sea with its marine institute, one of the largest in Europe,
0:00:55 > 0:00:59which offers qualifications in things like diving and surf science technology.
0:00:59 > 0:01:04It's also one of the UK's largest universities, with around 30,000 students.
0:01:04 > 0:01:09Let's meet the four playing on their behalf tonight. Their average age is 21.
0:01:09 > 0:01:14My name's Rachel Remnant, I'm from St Albans in Hertfordshire and I'm studying medicine.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18I'm Laura Donaghy from County Tyrone. I'm studying medicine.
0:01:18 > 0:01:23- And their captain. - I'm Peter Lord from Hampshire and I'm reading international relations.
0:01:23 > 0:01:27I'm Rebecca Emmett from Fetcham in Surrey. I'm reading for a PhD in history.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29APPLAUSE
0:01:31 > 0:01:37Durham University was founded in 1832, thanks to the efforts of the last Prince Bishop of Durham.
0:01:37 > 0:01:41In 1837, a royal charter confirmed its constitution
0:01:41 > 0:01:44and appropriated Durham Castle for its uses.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47In order to meet the needs of the Industrial Revolution,
0:01:47 > 0:01:52it became one of the first universities to award degrees for civil and mining engineering,
0:01:52 > 0:01:58and its academic reputation was sealed when, in 1997, a team from Durham won this contest,
0:01:58 > 0:02:00a feat they repeated in 2000.
0:02:00 > 0:02:04Its outgoing chancellor Bill Bryson described Durham as having
0:02:04 > 0:02:07"the capacity to astound out of all proportion to its size".
0:02:07 > 0:02:13With an average age also of 21, let's meet tonight's astounding four.
0:02:13 > 0:02:18Hi, I'm Mark Rodgers, I'm from Staffordshire, and I'm doing a PhD in particle physics.
0:02:18 > 0:02:21I'm Adam Robertson from Kent, and I'm reading history.
0:02:21 > 0:02:26- And their captain.- I'm George Twigg, I'm from Lincolnshire, and I'm reading English.
0:02:26 > 0:02:30I'm James France from Lancashire. I'm reading chemistry and biology.
0:02:30 > 0:02:32APPLAUSE
0:02:34 > 0:02:37Fingers on buzzers. Here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:37 > 0:02:42Meanings of what short word include a systematic collecting of statutes,
0:02:42 > 0:02:44an individual standard of ethical behaviour,
0:02:44 > 0:02:47a piece of program text in computing...?
0:02:47 > 0:02:50- Code.- Correct.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54Your bonuses are on children's rhymes.
0:02:54 > 0:03:00Which novel of 1974 concerns the search for a suspected Soviet mole within the British Secret Service
0:03:00 > 0:03:05and derives its title from a traditional children's counting rhyme?
0:03:05 > 0:03:07(Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy?)
0:03:07 > 0:03:10- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. - Correct.
0:03:10 > 0:03:13The Big Over Easy, in which DI Jack Spratt and Sergeant Mary Mary
0:03:13 > 0:03:16investigate the death of Humpty Dumpty,
0:03:16 > 0:03:19is the first in the Nursery Crime series by who?
0:03:19 > 0:03:21- Jasper Fforde.- Correct.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24Which novel of 1962 takes as its title
0:03:24 > 0:03:26the words from a children's rhyme which follow,
0:03:26 > 0:03:32"Three geese in a flock, one flew east and one flew west"?
0:03:36 > 0:03:39- Sorry, we don't know. - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
0:03:39 > 0:03:43The Tennessee Valley Authority Act, to ease the effects of the Great Depression,
0:03:43 > 0:03:46and the Lend-Lease Act, to make war materials available to the allies,
0:03:46 > 0:03:50were among the pieces of legislation signed into law...?
0:03:50 > 0:03:54- FDR.- A bit more?- Franklin Delano Roosevelt.- Yes, OK, fine. Thanks.
0:03:54 > 0:03:59Your bonuses this time, Durham, are on names for Scotland.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02Apparently derived from that of a small tribe in the Highlands,
0:04:02 > 0:04:07which Roman name for a part of northern Britain was later used to mean Scotland as a whole
0:04:07 > 0:04:11and is still found in many names, including that of a university?
0:04:11 > 0:04:12Caledonia.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14- Caledonia.- Correct.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17The name of which dukedom is an old Gaelic word for Scotland
0:04:17 > 0:04:23and survives in the title of one of the Scottish heralds and the name of a block of flats in Piccadilly?
0:04:23 > 0:04:25- THEY WHISPER - Alba?- Sorry?
0:04:25 > 0:04:28- Alba.- It could be.
0:04:28 > 0:04:30- Alba?- No, it's Albany.
0:04:30 > 0:04:35For five points, which two-word term for Scotland was promoted after the Act of Union in 1707,
0:04:35 > 0:04:41and was the source of the title of a periodical founded by John Wilkes in 1762?
0:04:45 > 0:04:46- North Britain?- Correct.
0:04:46 > 0:04:4910 points for this. Known by the Gauls as Cularo,
0:04:49 > 0:04:55which city's name derives from Gratianopolis, the name it was given in AD 381,
0:04:55 > 0:04:58situated on the River Isere, close to the Dauphine Alps,
0:04:58 > 0:05:02it was the venue for the Winter Olympics in 1968?
0:05:03 > 0:05:04Turin?
0:05:04 > 0:05:07No. Anyone like to buzz from Plymouth? You may not confer.
0:05:09 > 0:05:13- Grenoble?- Correct!
0:05:13 > 0:05:17Your bonuses, Plymouth. The first lot are on eponymous spacecraft.
0:05:17 > 0:05:21Firstly, for a possible five, which mission was launched in 1997
0:05:21 > 0:05:23to explore Saturn and its natural satellites,
0:05:23 > 0:05:28and was named after two 17th century astronomers, one Italian, one Dutch,
0:05:28 > 0:05:33both of whom made major discoveries about the planet's moons and rings?
0:05:33 > 0:05:35THEY WHISPER
0:05:35 > 0:05:37I don't think it is.
0:05:40 > 0:05:44- We need two names. - Just go with Galileo.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46- Galileo? - No, it's the CassiniHuygens.
0:05:46 > 0:05:48Secondly, for five points,
0:05:48 > 0:05:53thought to have been depicted by Giotto in a fresco in Padua in the early 14th century,
0:05:53 > 0:05:58which celestial body was studied at close range for the first time by a probe
0:05:58 > 0:06:02named after the artist in March 1986?
0:06:06 > 0:06:08I think it's Halley's Comet.
0:06:08 > 0:06:12- Hades Comet. - No, it's Halley's Comet.
0:06:12 > 0:06:15You were given the right answer, but you misheard it. Bad luck.
0:06:15 > 0:06:20Which spacecraft mapped the surface of Venus from 1990 to 1994
0:06:20 > 0:06:25and was named after a Portuguese explorer whose round-the-world voyage 470 years earlier
0:06:25 > 0:06:30had contributed to a similar understanding of the nature of the earth?
0:06:32 > 0:06:34- Marco Polo.- Magellan.
0:06:34 > 0:06:38Another starter. From the name of the US psychologist who devised it,
0:06:38 > 0:06:39what name is given to an apparatus
0:06:39 > 0:06:44in which an animal might learn that performance of an activity is rewarded,
0:06:44 > 0:06:46so that its behaviour becomes conditioned?
0:06:48 > 0:06:49Pavlov.
0:06:49 > 0:06:52No. Durham, one of you buzz.
0:06:53 > 0:06:55It's a Skinner box. BF Skinner.
0:06:55 > 0:06:5810 points for this. Crocus Valley is believed by some
0:06:58 > 0:07:01to be the derivation of the name of which London borough,
0:07:01 > 0:07:05perhaps indicating that it was formerly a centre for the collection of saffron?
0:07:07 > 0:07:10- Croydon?- Croydon is right, yes.
0:07:10 > 0:07:14Your bonuses now, Durham, are on mythological creatures.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16Derived from the Greek meaning "snatcher",
0:07:16 > 0:07:20what name was given to the winged creatures who repeatedly stole the food of Phineas
0:07:20 > 0:07:23as part of his punishment by Zeus?
0:07:23 > 0:07:24- The harpies.- Correct.
0:07:24 > 0:07:27Quote, "Their neck and countenance, arm'd with talons keen
0:07:27 > 0:07:31"The feet, and the huge belly fledged with wings
0:07:31 > 0:07:34"These sit and wail on the drear mystic wood."
0:07:34 > 0:07:39Which poet wrote this description of the harpies in these lines in translation?
0:07:39 > 0:07:43It's, erm... Oh, in translation...
0:07:43 > 0:07:44- Dante?- Correct.
0:07:44 > 0:07:48Finally, for a possible five, in Shakespeare's The Tempest,
0:07:48 > 0:07:52which character appears to Alonso, Sebastian and Antonio in the guise of a harpy
0:07:52 > 0:07:54reproaching them for their treatment of Prospero?
0:07:54 > 0:07:56- Ariel?- Correct.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59We're going to take a picture round now.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02You'll see a diagram of the chemical structure of a well-known drug.
0:08:02 > 0:08:0510 points if you can name the drug.
0:08:06 > 0:08:10- Morphine?- Morphine is correct, yes!
0:08:10 > 0:08:12Well done.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15So we follow on from morphine with your bonuses.
0:08:15 > 0:08:21Three more diagrams of chemical structures, this time of stimulants. I want their common name.
0:08:21 > 0:08:23Firstly...
0:08:23 > 0:08:28Erm... That's, erm, nicotine.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30- Nicotine? - It is nicotine. Secondly...
0:08:30 > 0:08:36That is... amphetamine.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38- Amphetamine?- Correct. And finally...
0:08:39 > 0:08:44- Caffeine?- Alcohol?- No.- All right!
0:08:44 > 0:08:49- Caffeine?- Correct. Another starter. Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52Three countries of the Americas have capital cities
0:08:52 > 0:08:56whose English name is the name of the country, followed by the word "city".
0:08:56 > 0:08:59For 10 points, name two of them.
0:08:59 > 0:09:03Mexico and, erm, Panama.
0:09:03 > 0:09:09I'll accept that, slightly reluctantly. You were a bit cheeky there. The other is Guatemala.
0:09:09 > 0:09:13A set of bonuses for you this time, Durham, on fermented foods.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16Give the food or drink produced by the following fermentations.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18Firstly, a flavouring liquid
0:09:18 > 0:09:23obtained by long fermentation of the seeds of Glycine max and various grains
0:09:23 > 0:09:28by microbes such as Aspergillus oryzae?
0:09:33 > 0:09:37- Go for grenadine or something. - Grenadine?- No, it's soy sauce.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40Lactic fermentation of Brassica oleracea
0:09:40 > 0:09:44by bacteria species such as lactobacillus or pediococcus?
0:09:48 > 0:09:52- Fermented cabbage? - Fermented cabbage.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54- Sauerkraut?- Correct.
0:09:54 > 0:09:58What beverage is obtained by the alcoholic fermentation of nectar
0:09:58 > 0:10:02regurgitated by Apis species?
0:10:04 > 0:10:06Apis species. Of course, it's mead.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08- Mead?- Mead is correct.
0:10:08 > 0:10:11Another starter question. "There's a point, around age 20,
0:10:11 > 0:10:15when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else...
0:10:15 > 0:10:18or to make a virtue of your peculiarities."
0:10:18 > 0:10:21These words appear in The Dispossessed, a novel of 1972,
0:10:21 > 0:10:26by which US author, also noted for the Earthsea novels?
0:10:28 > 0:10:29- Ursula Le Guin?- Correct.
0:10:29 > 0:10:35Your bonuses this time, Plymouth, are on 20th century history. Firstly, for five points. Quote,
0:10:35 > 0:10:41"This is rather a naughty document. The Americans would be shocked if they saw how crudely I put this."
0:10:41 > 0:10:45These words are referring to post-war spheres of interest in Eastern Europe,
0:10:45 > 0:10:50and are attributed to which national leader, speaking in October 1944?
0:10:51 > 0:10:54I have no idea whatsoever.
0:10:54 > 0:10:58- SHE WHISPERS - Pick anything you like.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01Do you want to go with Churchill?
0:11:01 > 0:11:05- Is it Churchill? - It is. Speaking to Stalin, yes.
0:11:05 > 0:11:10On the "naughty" document, Churchill wrote "Romania 90 percent Russian".
0:11:10 > 0:11:16For which eastern Mediterranean country did he write, "90 percent British"?
0:11:16 > 0:11:19Eastern Europe? Mediterranean. I don't know.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21Greece.
0:11:21 > 0:11:23- Greece or Cyprus.- Syria.
0:11:23 > 0:11:27I don't know. Go with whatever.
0:11:27 > 0:11:29- Let's have it, please.- Syria?
0:11:29 > 0:11:31No, it's Greece.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33In the naughty document,
0:11:33 > 0:11:39there was a proposal for a 50-50 split of influence in Yugoslavia, and which Central European country?
0:11:39 > 0:11:43It rebelled against its Soviet overlord in 1956.
0:11:43 > 0:11:48- I say Lithuania.- I would go with Estonia, personally.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50- Estonia.- No, it's Hungary.
0:11:50 > 0:11:5410 points for this. What general phenomenon may be defined as
0:11:54 > 0:11:58"an atmospheric suspension of minute droplets or ice crystals"?
0:11:58 > 0:11:59- A cloud.- Cloud is correct.
0:11:59 > 0:12:04Your bonuses, Durham, are on trigonometric identities.
0:12:04 > 0:12:09I want the given trigonometric expressions simplified to an expression
0:12:09 > 0:12:13involving a single trigonometric function.
0:12:13 > 0:12:19Cosine alpha times cosine beta minus sine alpha times sine beta?
0:12:19 > 0:12:21That's cosine of alpha plus beta.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24- Cosine of alpha plus beta.- Correct.
0:12:24 > 0:12:28Two sine alpha times cosine alpha?
0:12:28 > 0:12:30Sine... Oh.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34Sine of two alpha.
0:12:34 > 0:12:39- Sine of two alpha.- Correct. Finally, sine alpha divided by cosine alpha.
0:12:39 > 0:12:41That's ten of alpha.
0:12:41 > 0:12:45- 10 of alpha.- 10 alpha is correct. - APPLAUSE
0:12:45 > 0:12:47Another starter question now.
0:12:47 > 0:12:50In terms of both land area and population,
0:12:50 > 0:12:54what was the smallest nation to qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup?
0:12:54 > 0:12:59The team narrowly missed qualifying for the knockout stage after losing 1-0 to England.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01- Slovenia.- Slovenia is right.
0:13:01 > 0:13:06Your bonuses this time are on animals in the novels of Charles Dickens.
0:13:06 > 0:13:12Firstly, in which novel by Dickens does Miss Flite own a large number of small birds
0:13:12 > 0:13:15with names such as Hope, Joy, Despair, Gammon and Spinach,
0:13:15 > 0:13:19which she says will be released "on the Day of Judgement"?
0:13:19 > 0:13:21Nicholas Nickleby?
0:13:21 > 0:13:23- Hard Times?- No, it's Bleak House.
0:13:23 > 0:13:27Secondly, clerk to an Old Bailey attorney, John Wemmick,
0:13:27 > 0:13:34who makes sausages from the pig he keeps at his moated home, appears in which novel by Dickens?
0:13:34 > 0:13:36- Nicholas Nickleby? - Great Expectations.
0:13:36 > 0:13:40Finally, what is the name of Dora Spenlow's pet dog in David Copperfield,
0:13:40 > 0:13:43to whom she pays more attention after her marriage
0:13:43 > 0:13:46than she does to the demands of housekeeping?
0:13:47 > 0:13:48I don't know.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51- Toto?- No, it's... - LAUGHTER
0:13:51 > 0:13:53..Jip!
0:13:53 > 0:13:58Plymouth, there's still plenty of time to go. We're about halfway. We'll take a music round.
0:13:58 > 0:14:02For your music starter, you're going to hear a piece of popular music.
0:14:02 > 0:14:0610 points if you can name the artist and the song.
0:14:06 > 0:14:10# I fell in love with San Pedro
0:14:11 > 0:14:14# Warm wind carried on the sea
0:14:14 > 0:14:16# He called to me
0:14:17 > 0:14:20# Te diso te amo
0:14:21 > 0:14:24# I prayed that the days would last
0:14:24 > 0:14:26# They went so fast #
0:14:27 > 0:14:29Toto?
0:14:29 > 0:14:30No!
0:14:30 > 0:14:32Quite witty, but not right.
0:14:32 > 0:14:37- Madonna, Spanish Infanta?- No, La Isla Bonita, but it was Madonna.
0:14:37 > 0:14:40Fingers on the buzzer. Another starter question.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43When encountered by the Spanish in the mines of the New World,
0:14:43 > 0:14:46which metal was discarded as an impurity...
0:14:46 > 0:14:48Platinum?
0:14:48 > 0:14:50- Platinum is correct. - APPLAUSE
0:14:52 > 0:14:56"La Isla Bonita" by Madonna was chosen by Michael Portillo
0:14:56 > 0:14:59as one of his favourite records on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.
0:14:59 > 0:15:03Your bonuses are three more Desert Island Discs,
0:15:03 > 0:15:06this time selected by Coalition cabinet ministers
0:15:06 > 0:15:08who came to office in May 2010.
0:15:08 > 0:15:13Give the politician who chose the song and the artist performing. Firstly...
0:15:13 > 0:15:16# Goodness, gracious Great balls of fire
0:15:16 > 0:15:19# I laughed at love Cos I thought it was funny
0:15:19 > 0:15:22# You came along And you moved me, honey
0:15:22 > 0:15:23# I changed my mind
0:15:23 > 0:15:25# Looking fine
0:15:25 > 0:15:29# Goodness, gracious Great balls of fire #
0:15:29 > 0:15:32Er, artist, Jerry Lee Lewis. Politician, William Hague?
0:15:32 > 0:15:34It was Jerry Lee Lewis.
0:15:34 > 0:15:38It was Iain Duncan Smith, "the quiet man", presumably when he's turning up the volume!
0:15:38 > 0:15:41- Secondly...- # Believe it
0:15:41 > 0:15:43# If you get down, get up, oh, oh
0:15:43 > 0:15:45# When you get down, get up, eh, eh
0:15:45 > 0:15:47# Tsamina mina zangalewa
0:15:47 > 0:15:49# This time for Africa
0:15:49 > 0:15:51# Tsamina mina, eh, eh
0:15:51 > 0:15:53# Waka waka, eh, eh
0:15:53 > 0:15:55# Tsamina mina zangalewa #
0:15:55 > 0:15:57Shakira and David Cameron?
0:15:57 > 0:16:01- No, it's Shakira and Nick Clegg. - LAUGHTER
0:16:01 > 0:16:02Finally...
0:16:02 > 0:16:03# You could hear The hoof beats pound
0:16:03 > 0:16:07# As they raced across the ground # I know this.
0:16:07 > 0:16:11- Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West) and David Cameron? - Who was the artist?- Ooh.
0:16:12 > 0:16:15- I don't know. - That's a shame. I don't know.
0:16:15 > 0:16:19I needed the artist. Very important distinction in a classic like that!
0:16:19 > 0:16:24That was David Cameron, Benny Hill. Further comment is superfluous!
0:16:24 > 0:16:26Ten points for this. Give, in the same order,
0:16:26 > 0:16:30the five four-letter words, which differ only in their second letter,
0:16:30 > 0:16:33and can mean "globe, telephone call,
0:16:33 > 0:16:38beak, cotton seed pod and mail bovine".
0:16:41 > 0:16:46- Ball, bell, bill, ball, bull? - Yes! Well done.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48LAUGHTER
0:16:48 > 0:16:51Your bonuses this time are on a German city, Durham.
0:16:51 > 0:16:57A centre for trade fair since the Middle Ages, which city in Saxony gives its name to a battle of 1813
0:16:57 > 0:17:01in which the forces of the Sixth Coalition defeated Napoleon?
0:17:01 > 0:17:03- Leipzig.- Correct.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05His works include the Hebrides Overture,
0:17:05 > 0:17:10which composer became conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in 1835
0:17:10 > 0:17:13and later founded the Leipzig Conservatory of Music?
0:17:13 > 0:17:14- Mendelssohn.- Correct.
0:17:14 > 0:17:17Born 1646, which mathematician and philosopher is noted
0:17:17 > 0:17:20for laying the foundation of integral and differential calculus?
0:17:20 > 0:17:23- Leibniz.- Correct.
0:17:23 > 0:17:26Another starter question. The village of Coxheath in Kent
0:17:26 > 0:17:29was the original venue for which annual event,
0:17:29 > 0:17:32inspired by an episode in the Charlie Chaplin film Behind The Screen,
0:17:32 > 0:17:37and won in 2010 by the High Pressure Cleaning team?
0:17:38 > 0:17:40Extreme ironing?
0:17:40 > 0:17:42No. Anyone want to buzz from Plymouth?
0:17:44 > 0:17:48- Lawn mower racing?- No, it's the World Custard Pie-Throwing Championships.
0:17:48 > 0:17:52Oniscus asellus is a common British species
0:17:52 > 0:17:55of which ubiquitous terrestrial crustacean,
0:17:55 > 0:17:58preferring damp and shady places...
0:17:58 > 0:17:59- Woodlouse.- Yes.
0:17:59 > 0:18:04Your bonuses are on illustrators. 15 points if you can get them all.
0:18:04 > 0:18:08From 1935 to 1965, Alfred Bestall wrote and illustrated eponymous stories
0:18:08 > 0:18:13of which children's character, who first appeared in the Daily Express in 1920?
0:18:13 > 0:18:15- (Charlie Brown?) - No, that was Schulz.
0:18:15 > 0:18:17Just William maybe?
0:18:17 > 0:18:20- Just William?- No, it's Rupert Bear.
0:18:20 > 0:18:23Pauline Baynes illustrated the works of Tolkien,
0:18:23 > 0:18:26and A Dictionary Of Chivalry, for which she won the Kate Greenaway Medal,
0:18:26 > 0:18:32but is perhaps best known for her work on which series of novels, published between 1950 and '56?
0:18:32 > 0:18:35(The Fantastic Five.)
0:18:35 > 0:18:39Mm, I don't think so. That's Enid Blyton.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42- The Fantastic Five? - No, it's The Chronicles of Narnia.
0:18:42 > 0:18:47Finally, Thomas Henry is noted for his illustrations between 1921 and 1964
0:18:47 > 0:18:52of works featuring which fictional schoolboy and his friends, Ginger, Henry and Douglas?
0:18:52 > 0:18:54Just William?
0:18:54 > 0:18:56Just William.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58Correct. William Brown. 10 points for this.
0:18:58 > 0:19:02Spelled out in letters, "eleven plus two" is an anagram
0:19:02 > 0:19:05of which other three-word arithmetical sum
0:19:05 > 0:19:07that will produce the same total?
0:19:09 > 0:19:12- 12 plus one?- Yes, well done. - APPLAUSE
0:19:14 > 0:19:16Your bonuses, Durham, are on Marilyn Monroe.
0:19:16 > 0:19:20Monroe's character in the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
0:19:20 > 0:19:24shares her first name with which siren of German folklore
0:19:24 > 0:19:27who lured men to their death in the River Rhine?
0:19:27 > 0:19:28(Ondine.)
0:19:28 > 0:19:32- Sorry?- (Is it Ondine?) - No, no, it's...
0:19:32 > 0:19:35- Nominate Robertson.- Ondine?
0:19:35 > 0:19:36Lorelei.
0:19:36 > 0:19:40Secondly, in which 1955 film, directed by Billy Wilder and also starring Tom Ewell,
0:19:40 > 0:19:45is Marilyn Monroe simply credited as "The Girl"?
0:19:45 > 0:19:47- Some Like It Hot? - No, it's The Seven Year Itch.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50And finally, the Broadway musical Sugar
0:19:50 > 0:19:54took its title from the name of Monroe's character in which film,
0:19:54 > 0:19:57on which the musical was based?
0:19:57 > 0:20:00- I don't know. Some Like It Hot? - That was Some Like It Hot.
0:20:00 > 0:20:04Second picture round now. You'll see a notable painting.
0:20:04 > 0:20:0710 points if you can name the artist.
0:20:10 > 0:20:11Vermeer?
0:20:11 > 0:20:16It is Vermeer, yes. You get the picture bonuses.
0:20:16 > 0:20:21Your pictures are three more 17th century paintings depicting the artist at work.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23Five points for each artist.
0:20:23 > 0:20:27Firstly for five, the figure to the left of the painting?
0:20:27 > 0:20:29(Diego Velazquez.)
0:20:29 > 0:20:30- Velazquez.- Correct.
0:20:30 > 0:20:32Secondly...
0:20:37 > 0:20:39(Rembrandt.)
0:20:39 > 0:20:41- Rembrandt.- Correct.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44Finally, the painter next to one of his paintings.
0:20:45 > 0:20:48(Van Dyck. It could be Van Dyck.)
0:20:48 > 0:20:53- Van Dyck?- It is. Well done. 10 points for this...
0:20:53 > 0:20:58What name was one of those of the sun god Viracocha, of pre-Inca mythology,
0:20:58 > 0:21:03and was given to the craft that, in 1947, made a voyage from Callao in Peru
0:21:03 > 0:21:06to the Tuamotu Islands in the South Pacific?
0:21:07 > 0:21:09Quetzalcoatl?
0:21:09 > 0:21:13No. Anyone like to buzz from Plymouth? You may not confer.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18No? Maritime subject, you should know. It's Kon-Tiki.
0:21:18 > 0:21:2210 points for this. Also meaning "trifling" or "unimportant",
0:21:22 > 0:21:27what term denotes the lightest weight allowed to be carried by a race horse in a handicap?
0:21:27 > 0:21:29In boxing, it lies between...
0:21:30 > 0:21:32- Feather.- Featherweight is correct.
0:21:32 > 0:21:36Your bonuses now are on the Indian Ocean, Plymouth.
0:21:36 > 0:21:40Which sea of the Indian Ocean is bounded to the north by the Irrawaddy River Delta
0:21:40 > 0:21:44and takes its name from the islands that form part of the archipelago
0:21:44 > 0:21:48separating the sea from the Bay of Bengal?
0:21:48 > 0:21:49(No idea.)
0:21:51 > 0:21:54THEY WHISPER
0:21:54 > 0:21:57I don't know.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59- Micronesian?- Just say it.
0:21:59 > 0:22:03- Micronesian Sea?- No, it's the Andaman Sea. That's miles away.
0:22:03 > 0:22:08Rising in Zambia, which is the largest African river to empty into the Indian Ocean,
0:22:08 > 0:22:10which it does in Mozambique?
0:22:10 > 0:22:12The Zambezi?
0:22:16 > 0:22:18Zambezi.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20- Zambezi.- Correct.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22The Mozambique Channel is an arm of the Indian Ocean
0:22:22 > 0:22:28that separates which large island from the eastern coast of mainland Africa?
0:22:28 > 0:22:30- Madagascar.- Correct.
0:22:30 > 0:22:3310 points for this. Its name derived from the first names of their parents,
0:22:33 > 0:22:39which independent film production company was created by Harvey and Bob Weinstein in 1979?
0:22:39 > 0:22:41- Miramax.- Correct.
0:22:41 > 0:22:45Your bonuses now are on pairs of words
0:22:45 > 0:22:49whose spelling differs by the addition of a "T" at the beginning.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52For example, rash and trash.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54In each case, give both words from the definitions.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57Firstly, "to turn over and over on an axis"
0:22:57 > 0:23:02and "one who tries to disrupt an internet community by provocative posts or messages"?
0:23:02 > 0:23:05- Roll and troll.- Correct.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07Secondly, "of great vertical extent"
0:23:07 > 0:23:11and "location of the semitendinosus muscle"?
0:23:11 > 0:23:14- High and thigh.- High and thigh. - Correct.
0:23:14 > 0:23:18Finally, "handsome, muscular man" and "dull, abrupt sound"?
0:23:18 > 0:23:20- Hunk and thunk.- Well done.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22- Another starter question. - APPLAUSE
0:23:22 > 0:23:26Constituting roughly seven percent of the sun's energy output,
0:23:26 > 0:23:29what broad band of the electromagnetic spectrum
0:23:29 > 0:23:34covers the range of wavelengths between about 200 and 400 nanometres?
0:23:34 > 0:23:39- Ultraviolet.- Correct. Another set of bonuses for you.
0:23:39 > 0:23:44These are on wetland plants. Its cylindrical stalks, used in weaving chair seats and in basketry,
0:23:44 > 0:23:46and its pith used as wicks in oil lamps,
0:23:46 > 0:23:52"juncas" is a genus of over 200 species of plants commonly given what name?
0:23:52 > 0:23:53Reeds?
0:23:53 > 0:23:57- Reeds?- No, it's rush, or rushes.
0:23:57 > 0:24:02Phragmites australis is the common species of which wetland plant,
0:24:02 > 0:24:07the dried stem of which is used in thatching, basketry, arrows, pens and musical instruments?
0:24:07 > 0:24:08- Reed.- Correct.
0:24:08 > 0:24:13Also known as reedmace, or cattail, which plant of the genus "typha"
0:24:13 > 0:24:16is used in Northern India for ropes, mats and baskets?
0:24:16 > 0:24:18- Sisal.- Sorry?
0:24:18 > 0:24:19Sisal.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22- Sisal?- No, it's bulrush. 10 points for this.
0:24:22 > 0:24:27"The Tasty Beggar" is an anagram of the title of which novel of 1925,
0:24:27 > 0:24:29set largely on Long Island, New York?
0:24:30 > 0:24:34- The Great Gatsby.- Correct, yes.
0:24:34 > 0:24:36Bonuses this time on the atmosphere, Durham.
0:24:36 > 0:24:43Fortin, Fitzroy and Kew Pattern are all types of what instrument?
0:24:47 > 0:24:50- Let's have it, please.- Barometer. - Correct.
0:24:50 > 0:24:56What term denotes barometers that detect changes in pressure by means of an evacuated, flexible metal box?
0:24:59 > 0:25:01Coiled barometer?
0:25:01 > 0:25:04- Coiled barometer? - No, it's an aneroid barometer.
0:25:04 > 0:25:09What happens to fluids when vapour pressure equals the surrounding atmospheric pressure?
0:25:09 > 0:25:11- It boils.- It boils.- Correct.
0:25:11 > 0:25:15Two-and-a-half minutes. Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18Seven of the first 20 prime numbers
0:25:18 > 0:25:21are themselves the sum of two primes.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23Name three of them.
0:25:30 > 0:25:325 and 13.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35- And one more.- 17.
0:25:35 > 0:25:38Er... 17?! No.
0:25:38 > 0:25:41Anyone like to buzz from Plymouth?
0:25:46 > 0:25:495, 7 and 23?
0:25:49 > 0:25:53That's not right, either. It's 5, 7, 13, 19, 31, 43 and 61.
0:25:53 > 0:25:5510 points for another starter question.
0:25:55 > 0:25:59An acidic complex mixture of melittin and other proteins,
0:25:59 > 0:26:03apitoxin is produced in the abdomens of which animals?
0:26:04 > 0:26:06- Bees?- Correct.
0:26:06 > 0:26:10Your bonuses are on regencies.
0:26:10 > 0:26:13Richard Duke of Gloucester - Richard III - acted as regent
0:26:13 > 0:26:16during the minority of which king, his nephew, in 1483?
0:26:16 > 0:26:19- Edward V.- No!- Edward IV, wasn't it? - No.
0:26:19 > 0:26:20Edward V.
0:26:20 > 0:26:24Correct. Lord Chancellor and Bishop of Ely, William Longchamp,
0:26:24 > 0:26:28served as regent during the absence of which monarch on the Third Crusade?
0:26:28 > 0:26:29Richard the Lionheart.
0:26:29 > 0:26:32- Richard the Lionheart? - Er, Richard I is correct.
0:26:32 > 0:26:35Which of Henry VIII's wives ruled as his regent
0:26:35 > 0:26:39while he led a military expedition to France in the summer of 1544?
0:26:41 > 0:26:44Catherine of Aragon?
0:26:44 > 0:26:47- Catherine Howard? - No, it's Catherine Parr.
0:26:47 > 0:26:51Nicholas Hilliard was a painter of miniature portraits
0:26:51 > 0:26:56at the courts of two successive monarchs. For 10 points, name either.
0:26:56 > 0:27:00- Mary Tudor? - No. Anyone like to buzz from Durham?
0:27:00 > 0:27:03- George II?- No, it was Elizabeth I and James I, or James VI.
0:27:03 > 0:27:09Its name meaning "inactive", which element is the third most abundant in the earth's atmosphere?
0:27:09 > 0:27:11- Argon. - Correct. Your bonuses this time
0:27:11 > 0:27:14are on the French Revolutionary Calendar.
0:27:14 > 0:27:19Bastille Day fell in the month named Messidor, which has what meaning in English?
0:27:20 > 0:27:24- Come on, let's have it, please. - We don't know.- Harvest.
0:27:24 > 0:27:29Instead of weeks, every month was organised into three groups of ten days, known as...?
0:27:31 > 0:27:33- Decimes.- Decimes?
0:27:33 > 0:27:36- No, they were decades. - END-OF-SHOW GONG
0:27:36 > 0:27:40And at the gong, Plymouth University have 45.
0:27:40 > 0:27:43Durham University have 325.
0:27:46 > 0:27:48Plymouth, we have to say goodbye to you.
0:27:48 > 0:27:53You were up against pretty strong opposition. It's been a pleasure having you on.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55Durham, 325 was a very impressive score.
0:27:55 > 0:27:59We look forward to seeing you in the next stage of the contest.
0:27:59 > 0:28:03- Until then, it's goodbye from Plymouth University.- ALL: Goodbye.
0:28:03 > 0:28:07- Goodbye from Durham University. - ALL: Bye.- And goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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