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APPLAUSE

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'Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.'

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Hello. Once again, we shine a torch around the dusty attic of the student mind

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in hope of finding something remotely valuable or even useful.

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The University of Plymouth was among the polytechnics

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which became universities under John Major in 1992.

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It's an amalgam of several colleges, dating back to 1820,

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including a mechanics institute and a school of navigation,

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and it maintains its links with the sea with its marine institute, one of the largest in Europe,

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which offers qualifications in things like diving and surf science technology.

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It's also one of the UK's largest universities, with around 30,000 students.

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Let's meet the four playing on their behalf tonight. Their average age is 21.

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My name's Rachel Remnant, I'm from St Albans in Hertfordshire and I'm studying medicine.

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I'm Laura Donaghy from County Tyrone. I'm studying medicine.

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-And their captain.

-I'm Peter Lord from Hampshire and I'm reading international relations.

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I'm Rebecca Emmett from Fetcham in Surrey. I'm reading for a PhD in history.

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APPLAUSE

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Durham University was founded in 1832, thanks to the efforts of the last Prince Bishop of Durham.

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In 1837, a royal charter confirmed its constitution

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and appropriated Durham Castle for its uses.

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In order to meet the needs of the Industrial Revolution,

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it became one of the first universities to award degrees for civil and mining engineering,

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and its academic reputation was sealed when, in 1997, a team from Durham won this contest,

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a feat they repeated in 2000.

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Its outgoing chancellor Bill Bryson described Durham as having

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"the capacity to astound out of all proportion to its size".

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With an average age also of 21, let's meet tonight's astounding four.

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Hi, I'm Mark Rodgers, I'm from Staffordshire, and I'm doing a PhD in particle physics.

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I'm Adam Robertson from Kent, and I'm reading history.

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-And their captain.

-I'm George Twigg, I'm from Lincolnshire, and I'm reading English.

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I'm James France from Lancashire. I'm reading chemistry and biology.

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APPLAUSE

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Fingers on buzzers. Here's your first starter for 10.

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Meanings of what short word include a systematic collecting of statutes,

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an individual standard of ethical behaviour,

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a piece of program text in computing...?

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-Code.

-Correct.

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Your bonuses are on children's rhymes.

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Which novel of 1974 concerns the search for a suspected Soviet mole within the British Secret Service

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and derives its title from a traditional children's counting rhyme?

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(Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy?)

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-Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

-Correct.

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The Big Over Easy, in which DI Jack Spratt and Sergeant Mary Mary

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investigate the death of Humpty Dumpty,

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is the first in the Nursery Crime series by who?

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-Jasper Fforde.

-Correct.

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Which novel of 1962 takes as its title

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the words from a children's rhyme which follow,

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"Three geese in a flock, one flew east and one flew west"?

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-Sorry, we don't know.

-One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

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The Tennessee Valley Authority Act, to ease the effects of the Great Depression,

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and the Lend-Lease Act, to make war materials available to the allies,

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were among the pieces of legislation signed into law...?

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-FDR.

-A bit more?

-Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

-Yes, OK, fine. Thanks.

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Your bonuses this time, Durham, are on names for Scotland.

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Apparently derived from that of a small tribe in the Highlands,

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which Roman name for a part of northern Britain was later used to mean Scotland as a whole

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and is still found in many names, including that of a university?

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Caledonia.

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-Caledonia.

-Correct.

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The name of which dukedom is an old Gaelic word for Scotland

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and survives in the title of one of the Scottish heralds and the name of a block of flats in Piccadilly?

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-THEY WHISPER

-Alba?

-Sorry?

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-Alba.

-It could be.

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-Alba?

-No, it's Albany.

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For five points, which two-word term for Scotland was promoted after the Act of Union in 1707,

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and was the source of the title of a periodical founded by John Wilkes in 1762?

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-North Britain?

-Correct.

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10 points for this. Known by the Gauls as Cularo,

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which city's name derives from Gratianopolis, the name it was given in AD 381,

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situated on the River Isere, close to the Dauphine Alps,

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it was the venue for the Winter Olympics in 1968?

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Turin?

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No. Anyone like to buzz from Plymouth? You may not confer.

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-Grenoble?

-Correct!

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Your bonuses, Plymouth. The first lot are on eponymous spacecraft.

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Firstly, for a possible five, which mission was launched in 1997

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to explore Saturn and its natural satellites,

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and was named after two 17th century astronomers, one Italian, one Dutch,

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both of whom made major discoveries about the planet's moons and rings?

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THEY WHISPER

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I don't think it is.

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-We need two names.

-Just go with Galileo.

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-Galileo?

-No, it's the CassiniHuygens.

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Secondly, for five points,

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thought to have been depicted by Giotto in a fresco in Padua in the early 14th century,

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which celestial body was studied at close range for the first time by a probe

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named after the artist in March 1986?

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I think it's Halley's Comet.

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-Hades Comet.

-No, it's Halley's Comet.

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You were given the right answer, but you misheard it. Bad luck.

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Which spacecraft mapped the surface of Venus from 1990 to 1994

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and was named after a Portuguese explorer whose round-the-world voyage 470 years earlier

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had contributed to a similar understanding of the nature of the earth?

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-Marco Polo.

-Magellan.

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Another starter. From the name of the US psychologist who devised it,

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what name is given to an apparatus

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in which an animal might learn that performance of an activity is rewarded,

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so that its behaviour becomes conditioned?

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Pavlov.

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No. Durham, one of you buzz.

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It's a Skinner box. BF Skinner.

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10 points for this. Crocus Valley is believed by some

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to be the derivation of the name of which London borough,

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perhaps indicating that it was formerly a centre for the collection of saffron?

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-Croydon?

-Croydon is right, yes.

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Your bonuses now, Durham, are on mythological creatures.

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Derived from the Greek meaning "snatcher",

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what name was given to the winged creatures who repeatedly stole the food of Phineas

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as part of his punishment by Zeus?

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-The harpies.

-Correct.

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Quote, "Their neck and countenance, arm'd with talons keen

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"The feet, and the huge belly fledged with wings

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"These sit and wail on the drear mystic wood."

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Which poet wrote this description of the harpies in these lines in translation?

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It's, erm... Oh, in translation...

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-Dante?

-Correct.

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Finally, for a possible five, in Shakespeare's The Tempest,

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which character appears to Alonso, Sebastian and Antonio in the guise of a harpy

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reproaching them for their treatment of Prospero?

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-Ariel?

-Correct.

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We're going to take a picture round now.

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You'll see a diagram of the chemical structure of a well-known drug.

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10 points if you can name the drug.

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-Morphine?

-Morphine is correct, yes!

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Well done.

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So we follow on from morphine with your bonuses.

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Three more diagrams of chemical structures, this time of stimulants. I want their common name.

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Firstly...

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Erm... That's, erm, nicotine.

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-Nicotine?

-It is nicotine. Secondly...

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That is... amphetamine.

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-Amphetamine?

-Correct. And finally...

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-Caffeine?

-Alcohol?

-No.

-All right!

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-Caffeine?

-Correct. Another starter. Answer as soon as you buzz.

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Three countries of the Americas have capital cities

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whose English name is the name of the country, followed by the word "city".

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For 10 points, name two of them.

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Mexico and, erm, Panama.

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I'll accept that, slightly reluctantly. You were a bit cheeky there. The other is Guatemala.

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A set of bonuses for you this time, Durham, on fermented foods.

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Give the food or drink produced by the following fermentations.

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Firstly, a flavouring liquid

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obtained by long fermentation of the seeds of Glycine max and various grains

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by microbes such as Aspergillus oryzae?

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-Go for grenadine or something.

-Grenadine?

-No, it's soy sauce.

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Lactic fermentation of Brassica oleracea

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by bacteria species such as lactobacillus or pediococcus?

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-Fermented cabbage?

-Fermented cabbage.

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-Sauerkraut?

-Correct.

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What beverage is obtained by the alcoholic fermentation of nectar

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regurgitated by Apis species?

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Apis species. Of course, it's mead.

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-Mead?

-Mead is correct.

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Another starter question. "There's a point, around age 20,

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when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else...

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or to make a virtue of your peculiarities."

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These words appear in The Dispossessed, a novel of 1972,

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by which US author, also noted for the Earthsea novels?

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-Ursula Le Guin?

-Correct.

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Your bonuses this time, Plymouth, are on 20th century history. Firstly, for five points. Quote,

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"This is rather a naughty document. The Americans would be shocked if they saw how crudely I put this."

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These words are referring to post-war spheres of interest in Eastern Europe,

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and are attributed to which national leader, speaking in October 1944?

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I have no idea whatsoever.

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-SHE WHISPERS

-Pick anything you like.

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Do you want to go with Churchill?

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-Is it Churchill?

-It is. Speaking to Stalin, yes.

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On the "naughty" document, Churchill wrote "Romania 90 percent Russian".

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For which eastern Mediterranean country did he write, "90 percent British"?

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Eastern Europe? Mediterranean. I don't know.

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Greece.

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-Greece or Cyprus.

-Syria.

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I don't know. Go with whatever.

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-Let's have it, please.

-Syria?

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No, it's Greece.

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In the naughty document,

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there was a proposal for a 50-50 split of influence in Yugoslavia, and which Central European country?

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It rebelled against its Soviet overlord in 1956.

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-I say Lithuania.

-I would go with Estonia, personally.

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-Estonia.

-No, it's Hungary.

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10 points for this. What general phenomenon may be defined as

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"an atmospheric suspension of minute droplets or ice crystals"?

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-A cloud.

-Cloud is correct.

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Your bonuses, Durham, are on trigonometric identities.

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I want the given trigonometric expressions simplified to an expression

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involving a single trigonometric function.

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Cosine alpha times cosine beta minus sine alpha times sine beta?

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That's cosine of alpha plus beta.

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-Cosine of alpha plus beta.

-Correct.

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Two sine alpha times cosine alpha?

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Sine... Oh.

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Sine of two alpha.

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-Sine of two alpha.

-Correct. Finally, sine alpha divided by cosine alpha.

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That's ten of alpha.

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-10 of alpha.

-10 alpha is correct.

-APPLAUSE

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Another starter question now.

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In terms of both land area and population,

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what was the smallest nation to qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup?

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The team narrowly missed qualifying for the knockout stage after losing 1-0 to England.

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-Slovenia.

-Slovenia is right.

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Your bonuses this time are on animals in the novels of Charles Dickens.

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Firstly, in which novel by Dickens does Miss Flite own a large number of small birds

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with names such as Hope, Joy, Despair, Gammon and Spinach,

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which she says will be released "on the Day of Judgement"?

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Nicholas Nickleby?

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-Hard Times?

-No, it's Bleak House.

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Secondly, clerk to an Old Bailey attorney, John Wemmick,

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who makes sausages from the pig he keeps at his moated home, appears in which novel by Dickens?

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-Nicholas Nickleby?

-Great Expectations.

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Finally, what is the name of Dora Spenlow's pet dog in David Copperfield,

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to whom she pays more attention after her marriage

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than she does to the demands of housekeeping?

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I don't know.

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-Toto?

-No, it's...

-LAUGHTER

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..Jip!

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Plymouth, there's still plenty of time to go. We're about halfway. We'll take a music round.

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For your music starter, you're going to hear a piece of popular music.

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10 points if you can name the artist and the song.

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# I fell in love with San Pedro

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# Warm wind carried on the sea

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# He called to me

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# Te diso te amo

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# I prayed that the days would last

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# They went so fast #

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Toto?

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No!

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Quite witty, but not right.

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-Madonna, Spanish Infanta?

-No, La Isla Bonita, but it was Madonna.

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Fingers on the buzzer. Another starter question.

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When encountered by the Spanish in the mines of the New World,

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which metal was discarded as an impurity...

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Platinum?

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-Platinum is correct.

-APPLAUSE

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"La Isla Bonita" by Madonna was chosen by Michael Portillo

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as one of his favourite records on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.

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Your bonuses are three more Desert Island Discs,

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this time selected by Coalition cabinet ministers

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who came to office in May 2010.

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Give the politician who chose the song and the artist performing. Firstly...

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# Goodness, gracious Great balls of fire

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# I laughed at love Cos I thought it was funny

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# You came along And you moved me, honey

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# I changed my mind

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# Looking fine

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# Goodness, gracious Great balls of fire #

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Er, artist, Jerry Lee Lewis. Politician, William Hague?

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It was Jerry Lee Lewis.

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It was Iain Duncan Smith, "the quiet man", presumably when he's turning up the volume!

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-Secondly...

-# Believe it

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# If you get down, get up, oh, oh

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# When you get down, get up, eh, eh

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# Tsamina mina zangalewa

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# This time for Africa

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# Tsamina mina, eh, eh

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# Waka waka, eh, eh

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# Tsamina mina zangalewa #

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Shakira and David Cameron?

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-No, it's Shakira and Nick Clegg.

-LAUGHTER

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Finally...

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# You could hear The hoof beats pound

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# As they raced across the ground # I know this.

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-Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West) and David Cameron?

-Who was the artist?

-Ooh.

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-I don't know.

-That's a shame. I don't know.

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I needed the artist. Very important distinction in a classic like that!

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That was David Cameron, Benny Hill. Further comment is superfluous!

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Ten points for this. Give, in the same order,

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the five four-letter words, which differ only in their second letter,

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and can mean "globe, telephone call,

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beak, cotton seed pod and mail bovine".

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-Ball, bell, bill, ball, bull?

-Yes! Well done.

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LAUGHTER

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Your bonuses this time are on a German city, Durham.

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A centre for trade fair since the Middle Ages, which city in Saxony gives its name to a battle of 1813

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in which the forces of the Sixth Coalition defeated Napoleon?

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-Leipzig.

-Correct.

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His works include the Hebrides Overture,

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which composer became conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in 1835

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and later founded the Leipzig Conservatory of Music?

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-Mendelssohn.

-Correct.

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Born 1646, which mathematician and philosopher is noted

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for laying the foundation of integral and differential calculus?

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-Leibniz.

-Correct.

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Another starter question. The village of Coxheath in Kent

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was the original venue for which annual event,

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inspired by an episode in the Charlie Chaplin film Behind The Screen,

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and won in 2010 by the High Pressure Cleaning team?

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Extreme ironing?

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No. Anyone want to buzz from Plymouth?

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-Lawn mower racing?

-No, it's the World Custard Pie-Throwing Championships.

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Oniscus asellus is a common British species

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of which ubiquitous terrestrial crustacean,

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preferring damp and shady places...

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-Woodlouse.

-Yes.

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Your bonuses are on illustrators. 15 points if you can get them all.

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From 1935 to 1965, Alfred Bestall wrote and illustrated eponymous stories

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of which children's character, who first appeared in the Daily Express in 1920?

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-(Charlie Brown?)

-No, that was Schulz.

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Just William maybe?

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-Just William?

-No, it's Rupert Bear.

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Pauline Baynes illustrated the works of Tolkien,

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and A Dictionary Of Chivalry, for which she won the Kate Greenaway Medal,

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but is perhaps best known for her work on which series of novels, published between 1950 and '56?

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(The Fantastic Five.)

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Mm, I don't think so. That's Enid Blyton.

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-The Fantastic Five?

-No, it's The Chronicles of Narnia.

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Finally, Thomas Henry is noted for his illustrations between 1921 and 1964

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of works featuring which fictional schoolboy and his friends, Ginger, Henry and Douglas?

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Just William?

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Just William.

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Correct. William Brown. 10 points for this.

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Spelled out in letters, "eleven plus two" is an anagram

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of which other three-word arithmetical sum

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that will produce the same total?

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-12 plus one?

-Yes, well done.

-APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses, Durham, are on Marilyn Monroe.

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Monroe's character in the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

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shares her first name with which siren of German folklore

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who lured men to their death in the River Rhine?

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(Ondine.)

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-Sorry?

-(Is it Ondine?)

-No, no, it's...

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-Nominate Robertson.

-Ondine?

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Lorelei.

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Secondly, in which 1955 film, directed by Billy Wilder and also starring Tom Ewell,

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is Marilyn Monroe simply credited as "The Girl"?

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-Some Like It Hot?

-No, it's The Seven Year Itch.

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And finally, the Broadway musical Sugar

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took its title from the name of Monroe's character in which film,

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on which the musical was based?

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-I don't know. Some Like It Hot?

-That was Some Like It Hot.

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Second picture round now. You'll see a notable painting.

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10 points if you can name the artist.

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Vermeer?

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It is Vermeer, yes. You get the picture bonuses.

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Your pictures are three more 17th century paintings depicting the artist at work.

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Five points for each artist.

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Firstly for five, the figure to the left of the painting?

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(Diego Velazquez.)

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-Velazquez.

-Correct.

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Secondly...

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(Rembrandt.)

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-Rembrandt.

-Correct.

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Finally, the painter next to one of his paintings.

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(Van Dyck. It could be Van Dyck.)

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-Van Dyck?

-It is. Well done. 10 points for this...

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What name was one of those of the sun god Viracocha, of pre-Inca mythology,

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and was given to the craft that, in 1947, made a voyage from Callao in Peru

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to the Tuamotu Islands in the South Pacific?

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Quetzalcoatl?

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No. Anyone like to buzz from Plymouth? You may not confer.

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No? Maritime subject, you should know. It's Kon-Tiki.

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10 points for this. Also meaning "trifling" or "unimportant",

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what term denotes the lightest weight allowed to be carried by a race horse in a handicap?

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In boxing, it lies between...

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-Feather.

-Featherweight is correct.

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Your bonuses now are on the Indian Ocean, Plymouth.

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Which sea of the Indian Ocean is bounded to the north by the Irrawaddy River Delta

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and takes its name from the islands that form part of the archipelago

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separating the sea from the Bay of Bengal?

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(No idea.)

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THEY WHISPER

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I don't know.

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-Micronesian?

-Just say it.

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-Micronesian Sea?

-No, it's the Andaman Sea. That's miles away.

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Rising in Zambia, which is the largest African river to empty into the Indian Ocean,

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which it does in Mozambique?

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The Zambezi?

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Zambezi.

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-Zambezi.

-Correct.

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The Mozambique Channel is an arm of the Indian Ocean

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that separates which large island from the eastern coast of mainland Africa?

0:22:220:22:28

-Madagascar.

-Correct.

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10 points for this. Its name derived from the first names of their parents,

0:22:300:22:33

which independent film production company was created by Harvey and Bob Weinstein in 1979?

0:22:330:22:39

-Miramax.

-Correct.

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Your bonuses now are on pairs of words

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whose spelling differs by the addition of a "T" at the beginning.

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For example, rash and trash.

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In each case, give both words from the definitions.

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Firstly, "to turn over and over on an axis"

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and "one who tries to disrupt an internet community by provocative posts or messages"?

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-Roll and troll.

-Correct.

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Secondly, "of great vertical extent"

0:23:050:23:07

and "location of the semitendinosus muscle"?

0:23:070:23:11

-High and thigh.

-High and thigh.

-Correct.

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Finally, "handsome, muscular man" and "dull, abrupt sound"?

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-Hunk and thunk.

-Well done.

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-Another starter question.

-APPLAUSE

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Constituting roughly seven percent of the sun's energy output,

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what broad band of the electromagnetic spectrum

0:23:260:23:29

covers the range of wavelengths between about 200 and 400 nanometres?

0:23:290:23:34

-Ultraviolet.

-Correct. Another set of bonuses for you.

0:23:340:23:39

These are on wetland plants. Its cylindrical stalks, used in weaving chair seats and in basketry,

0:23:390:23:44

and its pith used as wicks in oil lamps,

0:23:440:23:46

"juncas" is a genus of over 200 species of plants commonly given what name?

0:23:460:23:52

Reeds?

0:23:520:23:53

-Reeds?

-No, it's rush, or rushes.

0:23:530:23:57

Phragmites australis is the common species of which wetland plant,

0:23:570:24:02

the dried stem of which is used in thatching, basketry, arrows, pens and musical instruments?

0:24:020:24:07

-Reed.

-Correct.

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Also known as reedmace, or cattail, which plant of the genus "typha"

0:24:080:24:13

is used in Northern India for ropes, mats and baskets?

0:24:130:24:16

-Sisal.

-Sorry?

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Sisal.

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-Sisal?

-No, it's bulrush. 10 points for this.

0:24:190:24:22

"The Tasty Beggar" is an anagram of the title of which novel of 1925,

0:24:220:24:27

set largely on Long Island, New York?

0:24:270:24:29

-The Great Gatsby.

-Correct, yes.

0:24:300:24:34

Bonuses this time on the atmosphere, Durham.

0:24:340:24:36

Fortin, Fitzroy and Kew Pattern are all types of what instrument?

0:24:360:24:43

-Let's have it, please.

-Barometer.

-Correct.

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What term denotes barometers that detect changes in pressure by means of an evacuated, flexible metal box?

0:24:500:24:56

Coiled barometer?

0:24:590:25:01

-Coiled barometer?

-No, it's an aneroid barometer.

0:25:010:25:04

What happens to fluids when vapour pressure equals the surrounding atmospheric pressure?

0:25:040:25:09

-It boils.

-It boils.

-Correct.

0:25:090:25:11

Two-and-a-half minutes. Answer as soon as you buzz.

0:25:110:25:15

Seven of the first 20 prime numbers

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are themselves the sum of two primes.

0:25:180:25:21

Name three of them.

0:25:210:25:23

5 and 13.

0:25:300:25:32

-And one more.

-17.

0:25:320:25:35

Er... 17?! No.

0:25:350:25:38

Anyone like to buzz from Plymouth?

0:25:380:25:41

5, 7 and 23?

0:25:460:25:49

That's not right, either. It's 5, 7, 13, 19, 31, 43 and 61.

0:25:490:25:53

10 points for another starter question.

0:25:530:25:55

An acidic complex mixture of melittin and other proteins,

0:25:550:25:59

apitoxin is produced in the abdomens of which animals?

0:25:590:26:03

-Bees?

-Correct.

0:26:040:26:06

Your bonuses are on regencies.

0:26:060:26:10

Richard Duke of Gloucester - Richard III - acted as regent

0:26:100:26:13

during the minority of which king, his nephew, in 1483?

0:26:130:26:16

-Edward V.

-No!

-Edward IV, wasn't it?

-No.

0:26:160:26:19

Edward V.

0:26:190:26:20

Correct. Lord Chancellor and Bishop of Ely, William Longchamp,

0:26:200:26:24

served as regent during the absence of which monarch on the Third Crusade?

0:26:240:26:28

Richard the Lionheart.

0:26:280:26:29

-Richard the Lionheart?

-Er, Richard I is correct.

0:26:290:26:32

Which of Henry VIII's wives ruled as his regent

0:26:320:26:35

while he led a military expedition to France in the summer of 1544?

0:26:350:26:39

Catherine of Aragon?

0:26:410:26:44

-Catherine Howard?

-No, it's Catherine Parr.

0:26:440:26:47

Nicholas Hilliard was a painter of miniature portraits

0:26:470:26:51

at the courts of two successive monarchs. For 10 points, name either.

0:26:510:26:56

-Mary Tudor?

-No. Anyone like to buzz from Durham?

0:26:560:27:00

-George II?

-No, it was Elizabeth I and James I, or James VI.

0:27:000:27:03

Its name meaning "inactive", which element is the third most abundant in the earth's atmosphere?

0:27:030:27:09

-Argon.

-Correct. Your bonuses this time

0:27:090:27:11

are on the French Revolutionary Calendar.

0:27:110:27:14

Bastille Day fell in the month named Messidor, which has what meaning in English?

0:27:140:27:19

-Come on, let's have it, please.

-We don't know.

-Harvest.

0:27:200:27:24

Instead of weeks, every month was organised into three groups of ten days, known as...?

0:27:240:27:29

-Decimes.

-Decimes?

0:27:310:27:33

-No, they were decades.

-END-OF-SHOW GONG

0:27:330:27:36

And at the gong, Plymouth University have 45.

0:27:360:27:40

Durham University have 325.

0:27:400:27:43

Plymouth, we have to say goodbye to you.

0:27:460:27:48

You were up against pretty strong opposition. It's been a pleasure having you on.

0:27:480:27:53

Durham, 325 was a very impressive score.

0:27:530:27:55

We look forward to seeing you in the next stage of the contest.

0:27:550:27:59

-Until then, it's goodbye from Plymouth University.

-ALL: Goodbye.

0:27:590:28:03

-Goodbye from Durham University.

-ALL: Bye.

-And goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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