0:00:17 > 0:00:20APPLAUSE
0:00:20 > 0:00:23Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. 30 minutes of furrowed brows and feverish whispering
0:00:32 > 0:00:35lie ahead of us as two more teams of students compete
0:00:35 > 0:00:37for a place in the second round.
0:00:37 > 0:00:39Now, the University of St Andrews
0:00:39 > 0:00:42is a small, cold institution off the coast of Norway.
0:00:42 > 0:00:45Founded in 1413, it's Scotland's oldest university,
0:00:45 > 0:00:48and the third most venerable in the UK.
0:00:48 > 0:00:52Local MP Sir Menzies Campbell was appointed chancellor in 2006.
0:00:52 > 0:00:56Alumni include John Knox, Edward Jenner and Alex Salmond,
0:00:56 > 0:00:59and more recently the university nurtured the romance
0:00:59 > 0:01:02between the happy couple whose nuptials meant
0:01:02 > 0:01:04some of us got a day off earlier this year.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06Tonight's team have an average age of 22,
0:01:06 > 0:01:10and are playing on behalf of a student body of around 7,000.
0:01:10 > 0:01:11Let's meet them.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14Hello. My name is Thomas Volker. I'm from Aberdeen,
0:01:14 > 0:01:18and I'm studying ancient history and archaeology.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21Hello. I'm Thomas Lazarides. I'm originally from Somerset,
0:01:21 > 0:01:24- and I'm studying chemistry. - And their captain...
0:01:24 > 0:01:26Hello. My name's Doug Kennedy. I'm from Southampton.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29I'm studying modern history and philosophy.
0:01:29 > 0:01:32Hello. My name's Dustin Frazier. I'm from West Virginia,
0:01:32 > 0:01:34and I'm doing a PhD in English and history of art.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37APPLAUSE
0:01:38 > 0:01:41The captain from Merton College, Oxford,
0:01:41 > 0:01:43said they wanted to take part this year
0:01:43 > 0:01:46because "given the current government's position
0:01:46 > 0:01:50on higher education, university teaching may have come to an end
0:01:50 > 0:01:53before there's another series, and we don't want to miss the bus."
0:01:53 > 0:01:56Merton College, who last won this competition back in 1980,
0:01:56 > 0:02:00was founded in 1264 by the chancellor of England,
0:02:00 > 0:02:03Walter de Merton, and it's a relatively small college
0:02:03 > 0:02:04with around 300 undergraduates.
0:02:04 > 0:02:08In the past, its fellows have included Sir Thomas Bodley,
0:02:08 > 0:02:11who founded the Bodleian Library, and its students have included
0:02:11 > 0:02:13the poet TS Eliot and Sir Andrew Wiles,
0:02:13 > 0:02:16who proved Fermat's last theorem.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19Tonight's team have an average age of 21. Let's meet them.
0:02:20 > 0:02:22Hello. I'm Bill Hellier. I'm from Reading,
0:02:22 > 0:02:24and I'm reading chemistry.
0:02:24 > 0:02:26Hello. I'm Dennis Dillon from New Jersey,
0:02:26 > 0:02:29- and I'm reading PPE. - And their captain...
0:02:29 > 0:02:32I'm Tim Smith-Laing from Maidstone in Kent. I'm doing a DPhil
0:02:32 > 0:02:35- in English Literature. - Hi. I'm Cosmo Grant from Glasgow,
0:02:35 > 0:02:38- reading maths and philosophy. - APPLAUSE
0:02:41 > 0:02:44OK. The rules are the same as ever.
0:02:44 > 0:02:46Starter question, solo efforts ten points,
0:02:46 > 0:02:48bonuses, team efforts, 15 points,
0:02:48 > 0:02:51five-point fines for incorrect interruptions.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54Fingers on the buzzer. Here's the first starter for ten.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57Which Mediterranean fruit links a silicate mineral
0:02:57 > 0:02:58that produces the gemstone peridot,
0:02:58 > 0:03:02a rocky outcrop overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem,
0:03:02 > 0:03:05a colour associated with the US Army in World War II,
0:03:05 > 0:03:08and the flags of the Republic of Cyprus and the United Nations?
0:03:10 > 0:03:12- Olive.- Olive is correct, yes.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14APPLAUSE
0:03:14 > 0:03:18You get the first bonuses. They're on founder members.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21Firstly, for five - attended by Christopher Wren,
0:03:21 > 0:03:24Robert Boyle and William Petty, the inaugural meeting
0:03:24 > 0:03:27of which institution took place on November 28th 1660
0:03:27 > 0:03:29at Gresham College in London?
0:03:29 > 0:03:31- The Royal Society.- Correct.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34Inaugurated in December 1768, which institution was founded
0:03:34 > 0:03:37by George III, and included Francesco Zuccarelli,
0:03:37 > 0:03:41Angelica Kauffman and Joseph Wilton among its initial members?
0:03:42 > 0:03:45- Royal Academy?- Royal Academy?
0:03:45 > 0:03:47- Royal Academy of the Arts?- Correct.
0:03:47 > 0:03:51And finally for five, inspired by the Raleigh Travellers' Club,
0:03:51 > 0:03:53the founders of which society formed in 1830
0:03:53 > 0:03:57included the botanist Robert Brown, the Admiralty secretary John Barrow
0:03:57 > 0:04:01- and the politician John Hobhouse? - THEY WHISPER
0:04:01 > 0:04:04- Royal Geographical Society.- Correct.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07Another starter question now. In 2009,
0:04:07 > 0:04:10the Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez made an appeal
0:04:10 > 0:04:13for the native name of Kerepakupai-Meru
0:04:13 > 0:04:16to become the official designation of which waterfall
0:04:16 > 0:04:18currently named after...
0:04:18 > 0:04:21- Angel Falls? - Angel Falls is right, yes.
0:04:21 > 0:04:22APPLAUSE
0:04:22 > 0:04:26Your first bonuses, St Andrews, are on the British royal family.
0:04:26 > 0:04:29Firstly, for five points, the monarch who had a strong friendship
0:04:29 > 0:04:33with a manservant known to the royal household as the Queen's Stallion
0:04:33 > 0:04:37was herself given what nickname indicative of the closeness between them?
0:04:37 > 0:04:41- Mrs Brown.- Correct. The names Mrs Morley and Mrs Freeman
0:04:41 > 0:04:44were used in the private correspondence between Queen Anne
0:04:44 > 0:04:47- and which of her favourites? - THEY WHISPER
0:04:53 > 0:04:56THEY WHISPER The Earl of Oxford?
0:04:56 > 0:04:59No. It was the Duchess of Marlborough, Sarah Churchill.
0:04:59 > 0:05:01Mr King and Mrs King are affectionate names
0:05:01 > 0:05:04by which the monarch and his consort address each other
0:05:04 > 0:05:07in which play by Alan Bennett?
0:05:07 > 0:05:09THEY WHISPER
0:05:11 > 0:05:14- The Madness Of King George? - Yes, it is.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16The Madness Of George III.
0:05:16 > 0:05:18Ten points for this.
0:05:18 > 0:05:21"To encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks
0:05:21 > 0:05:23powered by ideas, ideals and by idealism,
0:05:23 > 0:05:25and not powered by financial or political power" -
0:05:25 > 0:05:28- Project Gutenberg. - It is Project Gutenberg, yes.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30APPLAUSE
0:05:30 > 0:05:34Your second bonuses are on a colour, Merton College.
0:05:34 > 0:05:37The pigment xanthophyll, the hydrocarbon fulvene
0:05:37 > 0:05:41and the songbird Icterine warbler are all so named
0:05:41 > 0:05:44because they are to a greater of lesser extent which colour?
0:05:44 > 0:05:47THEY WHISPER
0:05:47 > 0:05:48- Red.- No, it's yellow.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51Which bright-yellow pigment obtained from a gum resin
0:05:51 > 0:05:54is so named because the resin came from Cambodia?
0:05:58 > 0:06:00THEY WHISPER
0:06:03 > 0:06:07- Sorry. Pass.- It's gamboge. And finally, the American custom
0:06:07 > 0:06:10of tying a yellow ribbon around a tree,
0:06:10 > 0:06:13seen a symbol of support for those serving overseas,
0:06:13 > 0:06:16gained a renewed popularity during which event of the late 1970s?
0:06:17 > 0:06:19THEY WHISPER
0:06:24 > 0:06:28- The bombing of Beirut?- No. It was the US Embassy hostage crisis.
0:06:28 > 0:06:30Ten points for this.
0:06:30 > 0:06:35"A beauty like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without" -
0:06:35 > 0:06:38- Mathematics.- It is, yes!
0:06:38 > 0:06:41- Bertrand Russell on mathematics. - APPLAUSE
0:06:41 > 0:06:45Third set of bonuses for you, then, Merton, on literary quotations.
0:06:45 > 0:06:50Which of Shakespeare's characters says that he would as soon make his secret intentions known to the world
0:06:50 > 0:06:54as he would "wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at -
0:06:54 > 0:06:58- I am not what I am"? - THEY WHISPER
0:06:58 > 0:07:00- Hamlet.- No, it's Iago.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03In the 1862 poem A Birthday, who wrote
0:07:03 > 0:07:07"My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot,
0:07:07 > 0:07:11My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit"?
0:07:11 > 0:07:13THEY WHISPER
0:07:13 > 0:07:16- Er, Browning? - No, it's Christina Rossetti.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19In the 1855 poem De Gustibus, Robert Browning claimed,
0:07:19 > 0:07:23"Open my heart and you will see, Graved inside of it"
0:07:23 > 0:07:28the name of which country where he and Elizabeth Barrett Browning lived from 1846?
0:07:28 > 0:07:33- Italy.- Italy is correct. We're going to take our first picture round now.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35This is the logo of a political party.
0:07:35 > 0:07:39Ten points for the name of the party and its country of origin.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44- Er... - You buzzed. You must answer. Sorry.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46The Republican Party in the United States.
0:07:46 > 0:07:50I'll accept it this time, but next time you must answer straight away.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53You get a set of bonuses, then. They are also party logos
0:07:53 > 0:07:57from other countries. In each case I want the name of the party
0:07:57 > 0:07:59and the country. Firstly...
0:07:59 > 0:08:03- United Russia, from Russia. - United Russia, from Russia.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05That's correct. Secondly...
0:08:05 > 0:08:08THEY WHISPER
0:08:10 > 0:08:14- It's definitely Hebrew. - But what party?
0:08:14 > 0:08:16THEY WHISPER
0:08:19 > 0:08:21It's Israel, but we don't know the party.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24It is Israel. It's Kadima, apparently.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26And finally, this party's full name.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28THEY WHISPER
0:08:36 > 0:08:39The Party of the Rising Sun, Japan?
0:08:39 > 0:08:41No. It's the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan.
0:08:41 > 0:08:43Another starter question.
0:08:43 > 0:08:46What, according to Philip Larkin, is "first boredom, then fear"?
0:08:46 > 0:08:49To Oscar Wilde, it's an imitator of art,
0:08:49 > 0:08:51and to Tom Stoppard...
0:08:51 > 0:08:54- Life.- Life is correct, yes!
0:08:54 > 0:08:55APPLAUSE
0:08:55 > 0:08:59These bonuses could give you the lead. They're on mathematics.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02Name each of the following well known conjectures,
0:09:02 > 0:09:04only the second of which has been resolved.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07Firstly, there are infinitely many prime numbers
0:09:07 > 0:09:11p such that p+2 is also prime.
0:09:11 > 0:09:15- Goldbach's conjecture. - No, it's the twin prime conjecture.
0:09:15 > 0:09:18Secondly, for five points, does there exist an algorithm
0:09:18 > 0:09:23to determine whether an arbitrary polynomial Diophantine equation with integer coefficients
0:09:23 > 0:09:26- has an integer solution? - THEY WHISPER
0:09:27 > 0:09:30- We don't know. - That's Hilbert's tenth problem.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33And finally, every even number greater than two
0:09:33 > 0:09:35is a sum of two primes.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38- That's...- Goldbach's conjecture?
0:09:38 > 0:09:40That IS Goldbach's conjecture, yes. Ten for this.
0:09:40 > 0:09:44To what manmade structure was Thomas Hardy referring
0:09:44 > 0:09:47in the lines "Dim moon-eyed fishes near gaze at"...
0:09:47 > 0:09:50- Stonehenge?- No. You lose five points.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52"Dim moon-eyed fishes near
0:09:52 > 0:09:54Gaze at the gilded gear
0:09:54 > 0:09:57And query: 'What does this vaingloriousness down here?'",
0:09:57 > 0:09:59in a poem on an event of 1912.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06One of you buzz. I'll tell you. It's the Titanic.
0:10:06 > 0:10:09Ten points for this. In 2010, Todd Reichert, a PhD student
0:10:09 > 0:10:12at the University of Toronto set a record
0:10:12 > 0:10:15for the longest sustained flight in a human-powered device
0:10:15 > 0:10:20with flapping wings. By what Greek-derived name are such...
0:10:20 > 0:10:22- Ornithopter? - Ornithopter is right, yes.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25APPLAUSE
0:10:25 > 0:10:28Your bonuses this time, Merton, are on an actor.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Trouble In Store, The Square Peg and The Bulldog Breed
0:10:31 > 0:10:33were among the films of which comedian and actor
0:10:33 > 0:10:36who died aged 90 in 2010?
0:10:39 > 0:10:42THEY WHISPER
0:10:42 > 0:10:44Er, Bill...Cosby?
0:10:44 > 0:10:47- Bill Cosby?- No. It was Norman Wisdom.
0:10:47 > 0:10:51Possibly as a result of information inserted in Wikipedia,
0:10:51 > 0:10:53several newspapers erroneously stated
0:10:53 > 0:10:57that Norman Wisdom wrote the lyrics of which 1941 song
0:10:57 > 0:11:00- made famous by Vera Lynn?- Um...
0:11:00 > 0:11:02THEY WHISPER
0:11:03 > 0:11:07- We'll Meet Again. - No, it's There'll Be Bluebirds Over The White Cliffs Of Dover.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09Quite a good joke, really.
0:11:09 > 0:11:12Norman Wisdom was one of the few Western actors
0:11:12 > 0:11:16whose films were permitted in which country during the dictatorship of Enver Hoxha?
0:11:16 > 0:11:19- Albania.- Albania.- Albania is right.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21Ten points for this.
0:11:21 > 0:11:23Discourses On The Origins Of Inequality
0:11:23 > 0:11:26and Reveries Of A Solitary Walker are among works
0:11:26 > 0:11:29by which philosopher and social critic born in Geneva...
0:11:29 > 0:11:32- Rousseau.- Rousseau is correct, yes.
0:11:32 > 0:11:34- APPLAUSE - Your bonuses this time
0:11:34 > 0:11:37are on philosophy, Merton. What term derives
0:11:37 > 0:11:40from the Greek meaning "enquiry" or "doubt"
0:11:40 > 0:11:43and denotes the view propounded by Greek philosopher Pyrrho
0:11:43 > 0:11:45that "real knowledge of any kind is unattainable"?
0:11:45 > 0:11:49- Scepticism.- Correct. Literally meaning "only the self",
0:11:49 > 0:11:52what theory, similar to egoism, asserts that the self
0:11:52 > 0:11:56is the only object of real knowledge or the only thing really existent?
0:11:56 > 0:11:59- Solipsism.- Solipsism is correct.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02What name taken from the Greek for "knowledge" is usually given
0:12:02 > 0:12:05to an early Christian heresy refuted by Irenaeus?
0:12:05 > 0:12:08- Gnostic heresy. - Gnosticism is correct.
0:12:08 > 0:12:09Ten points for this.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12What word links the English language from the late 11th
0:12:12 > 0:12:16to the 15th century, races such as the 1,800 and 1,500 metres...
0:12:17 > 0:12:19- Middle.- Middle is right, yes.
0:12:19 > 0:12:23Your bonuses this time are on shipping-forecast areas, Merton.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26Until 2002, the shipping-forecast area
0:12:26 > 0:12:30off the north-western tip of Spain was known as Finisterre.
0:12:30 > 0:12:34- By what name is it now known? - THEY WHISPER
0:12:34 > 0:12:36Biscay?
0:12:36 > 0:12:39No, it's FitzRoy. As broadcast on the shipping forecast,
0:12:39 > 0:12:43which sea area lies between those of Plymouth and Wight?
0:12:43 > 0:12:46THEY WHISPER
0:12:51 > 0:12:53- Cowes?- No, it's Portland.
0:12:53 > 0:12:57And finally, covering the Bristol Channel and the eastern Celtic Sea,
0:12:57 > 0:13:01the name of which shipping-forecast area is believed to be derived
0:13:01 > 0:13:03from a Norse word meaning "puffin"?
0:13:03 > 0:13:05THEY WHISPER
0:13:08 > 0:13:11- Fisher?- No, it's Lundy.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13We're going to take a music round now.
0:13:13 > 0:13:18For your starter, you will hear an excerpt from a well-known piece of classical music.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21All you have to do is give me the title and the composer.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23SLOW-PACED TROMBONE MELODY
0:13:29 > 0:13:31Er, Morning Mood by Grieg.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33No. You can hear a little more, St Andrews.
0:13:33 > 0:13:36MELODY CONTINUES
0:13:50 > 0:13:53Let's have a buzz.
0:13:53 > 0:13:56The Rite Of Spring, Stravinsky.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59No. It's part of the New World Symphony by Dvorak.
0:13:59 > 0:14:02So music bonuses shortly. Another starter in the meantime.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05In May 2010, Nick Clegg became deputy prime minister
0:14:05 > 0:14:08of the coalition government. Before him,
0:14:08 > 0:14:10who was the last deputy prime minister
0:14:10 > 0:14:13of a coalition government, appointed to the office in 1942?
0:14:17 > 0:14:19Ramsay MacDonald?
0:14:19 > 0:14:22No. St Andrews?
0:14:23 > 0:14:25- Clement Attlee?- Correct!
0:14:25 > 0:14:26APPLAUSE
0:14:26 > 0:14:29So, we follow on from Dvorak's New World Symphony,
0:14:29 > 0:14:32which you failed to identify, but was famously used
0:14:32 > 0:14:35in a television commercial to advertise bread.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38With music bonuses on three more pieces of classical music
0:14:38 > 0:14:41irritatingly used in advertisements, in each case
0:14:41 > 0:14:44simply identify the composer. Firstly...
0:14:44 > 0:14:47GENTLE PIANO MELODY
0:14:47 > 0:14:49THEY WHISPER
0:14:49 > 0:14:51- Chopin.- Yes, that was Chopin.
0:14:51 > 0:14:54It was used in a mobile-phone advertisement in 2010.
0:14:54 > 0:14:58- Secondly... - SWELLING ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
0:15:00 > 0:15:02THEY WHISPER
0:15:10 > 0:15:12Puccini?
0:15:12 > 0:15:16No, that's Mascagni. It was used to advertise tissues.
0:15:16 > 0:15:19Finally... STIRRING CHORAL / ORCHESTRAL PIECE
0:15:19 > 0:15:22- Hall Of The Mountain King.- Grieg.
0:15:22 > 0:15:25Grieg, indeed. The Hall Of The Mountain King.
0:15:25 > 0:15:29It was used in a theme-park advertisement. Ten points for this.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31Named after a 19th-century English biologist,
0:15:31 > 0:15:33which boundary passes east of Java and Bali
0:15:33 > 0:15:36and northward through the Strait of Makassar,
0:15:36 > 0:15:39and defines the western limit of the Australasian fauna
0:15:39 > 0:15:42and the eastern limit of the main Oriental fauna?
0:15:43 > 0:15:47- Banks? - Anyone like to buzz from St Andrews?
0:15:49 > 0:15:53- Punnett?- No, it's Wallace's Line, after Alfred Russel Wallace.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56Ten points for this. Give the spelling of the two homophones
0:15:56 > 0:15:59that mean respectively "means of controlling a horse"
0:15:59 > 0:16:03and "pertaining to the female partner at a marriage".
0:16:05 > 0:16:08B-R-I-D-L-E and B-R-I-D-A-L.
0:16:08 > 0:16:11- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:16:12 > 0:16:16Your bonuses are on particle physics this time, St Andrews.
0:16:16 > 0:16:18In the Stern-Gerlach experiment of 1922,
0:16:18 > 0:16:22evidence was first found for which quantum number?
0:16:23 > 0:16:26THEY WHISPER
0:16:27 > 0:16:30- The principal quantum number? - No, it's spin.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32What theorem relates spin to the symmetries
0:16:32 > 0:16:35of the quantum-wave function under particle exchange?
0:16:40 > 0:16:43- We don't know. - The spin-statistics theorem.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46And finally, the application of the spin-statistics theorem
0:16:46 > 0:16:50to fermions leads to what principle first formulated by Pauli?
0:16:50 > 0:16:54- The exclusion principle. - The exclusion principle.- Correct.
0:16:54 > 0:16:57Another starter question now. What word links, in entomology,
0:16:57 > 0:17:00the stage of the life cycle of a hemimetabolous insect
0:17:00 > 0:17:02which follows the hatching of the egg,
0:17:02 > 0:17:06and in Greek mythology, a female nature spirit?
0:17:06 > 0:17:08- Nymph.- Nymph is right.
0:17:08 > 0:17:09Your bonuses this time, Merton,
0:17:09 > 0:17:12are on novels that have won the Booker Prize.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15In each case, give the title of the work
0:17:15 > 0:17:18in which the following locations appear in the opening lines.
0:17:18 > 0:17:22First for five points, the Reading Room of the London Library,
0:17:22 > 0:17:24and Locked Safe no. 5.
0:17:25 > 0:17:28Reading Room of the London Library...
0:17:28 > 0:17:32- I don't know. - I'm afraid I don't know.
0:17:32 > 0:17:34AS Byatt's Possession, winner in 1990. Secondly,
0:17:34 > 0:17:36a fashionable apartment block
0:17:36 > 0:17:39on the edge of the ancient centre of Kracow.
0:17:44 > 0:17:47- No. Don't know. - Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally,
0:17:47 > 0:17:50won in 1982. And finally, Darlington Hall.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55THEY WHISPER
0:17:55 > 0:17:59- Wolf Hall?- No, that's Ishiguro's The Remains Of The Day.
0:17:59 > 0:18:00Another starter question.
0:18:00 > 0:18:04Extracting more than the second, third and fourth countries combined,
0:18:04 > 0:18:07Peru, the USA and Indonesia respectively,
0:18:07 > 0:18:10which country is the world's largest producer of copper?
0:18:13 > 0:18:15- Brazil. - Anyone like to buzz from Merton?
0:18:15 > 0:18:18- Chile.- Chile is correct, yes.
0:18:18 > 0:18:22Your bonuses this time, Merton College, are on a fibre.
0:18:22 > 0:18:25Gossypium, a plant in the mallow family,
0:18:25 > 0:18:28- is the source of which fibre? - THEY WHISPER
0:18:30 > 0:18:32- Cotton.- Cotton.- Cotton is correct.
0:18:32 > 0:18:36Similar devices having been used earlier in China and India,
0:18:36 > 0:18:39which machine was developed by the American Eli Whitney in 1793
0:18:39 > 0:18:42for removing seeds from cotton fibres?
0:18:42 > 0:18:45- Cotton jim? - Gin is correct.- Gin. Sorry.
0:18:45 > 0:18:48After the Victorian English chemist who devised it,
0:18:48 > 0:18:51what name is given to the chemical treatment of cotton
0:18:51 > 0:18:54with strong alkalis to improve both strength and texture?
0:18:55 > 0:18:57I don't know.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00THEY WHISPER
0:19:00 > 0:19:03- Jenner's process? - No, it's mercerising.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05Another starter question.
0:19:05 > 0:19:08The film director Duncan Jones, whose 2009 debut
0:19:08 > 0:19:11was the award-winning science-fiction thriller Moon
0:19:11 > 0:19:13is the son of which...
0:19:13 > 0:19:16- David Bowie.- David Bowie is correct. - APPLAUSE
0:19:17 > 0:19:20Your bonuses, St Andrews, are on an artist.
0:19:20 > 0:19:24Firstly, Arrangement In Grey, Portrait Of The Painter,
0:19:24 > 0:19:27is a self-portrait of around 1872 by which American-born artist
0:19:27 > 0:19:29who died in London in 1903?
0:19:29 > 0:19:32THEY WHISPER
0:19:35 > 0:19:37- Come on!- Whistler?
0:19:37 > 0:19:41Whistler is correct, yes. Whistler's 1871 portrait
0:19:41 > 0:19:44Arrangement In Grey And Black No. 1, The Artist's Mother,
0:19:44 > 0:19:48is in the collection of which French museum?
0:19:48 > 0:19:50THEY WHISPER
0:19:50 > 0:19:52- The Musee d'Orsay?- Correct.
0:19:52 > 0:19:56The author of Sartor Resartus, which Scottish historian and essayist
0:19:56 > 0:19:59is the subject of Whistler's 1873 painting
0:19:59 > 0:20:02Arrangement In Grey And Black No. 2?
0:20:02 > 0:20:04- Carlyle.- Carlyle is correct.
0:20:04 > 0:20:06We're going to take a picture round now.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09The starter is a photograph of a public figure.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12For ten points, you have to give me his name.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16- Roman Abramovich?- Correct.
0:20:16 > 0:20:18APPLAUSE
0:20:18 > 0:20:22As you and everyone else knows, he bought Chelsea Football Club in 2003.
0:20:22 > 0:20:26Your bonuses are three more Premier League football-club owners,
0:20:26 > 0:20:30all born overseas. I want their name and the name of the club they own
0:20:30 > 0:20:35or have owned. Firstly the club, and this man who took over in 2007.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40Thaksin Shinawatra.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42Thaksin Shinawatra, and Manchester City.
0:20:42 > 0:20:45No, it's Birmingham City, and it's Carson Yeung.
0:20:45 > 0:20:50Secondly, the club, and this person who took over ownership in 2008.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55THEY WHISPER
0:20:58 > 0:21:02- Manchester City. We don't know the... - It is Manchester, Sheikh Mansour.
0:21:02 > 0:21:06Finally the club, and this person who took over with his company
0:21:06 > 0:21:09NESV as owner in 2010.
0:21:10 > 0:21:13- THEY WHISPER - John Henry.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15- John Henry, Liverpool.- Correct.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18Another starter question. Answer as soon as you buzz,
0:21:18 > 0:21:19and give the required unit.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22What is the acceleration of a car that travels 600 metres
0:21:22 > 0:21:25in 20 seconds from a standing start?
0:21:32 > 0:21:35Er, 30 metres per second squared?
0:21:35 > 0:21:39- Anyone like to buzz from St Andrews? - 12 metres per second squared.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41No, it's three metres per second squared.
0:21:41 > 0:21:44Another starter question. Which Latin preposition
0:21:44 > 0:21:46begins expressions meaning "as a favour",
0:21:46 > 0:21:50"by virtue of office or position", "with full authority",
0:21:50 > 0:21:54in the case of a papal decree, and "out of nothing"?
0:21:54 > 0:21:56- De.- St Andrews?
0:21:56 > 0:22:01- Ex.- Ex is correct. Ex gratia, ex officio, etcetera.
0:22:02 > 0:22:04Right. These bonuses could give you the lead.
0:22:04 > 0:22:08They're on poets' graves. "Here lies one whose name was writ in water"
0:22:08 > 0:22:13is the self-composed epitaph of which poet on his tombstone in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome?
0:22:13 > 0:22:16- Keats.- Correct. The title of which poem by TS Eliot
0:22:16 > 0:22:21is the name of the Somerset village in whose church his ashes were interred in 1965?
0:22:21 > 0:22:23THEY WHISPER
0:22:23 > 0:22:25Er, Little Gidding. Little Gidding.
0:22:25 > 0:22:29- Little Gidding? - No, it's East Coker, another one.
0:22:29 > 0:22:33John Masefield was the last poet to be buried in Poets' Corner
0:22:33 > 0:22:35in Westminster Abbey. Who was the first, in 1400?
0:22:35 > 0:22:38THEY WHISPER
0:22:38 > 0:22:41- Chaucer?- Geoffrey Chaucer is right.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43Another starter question.
0:22:43 > 0:22:47Examples including Milton's Samson Agonistes and Byron's Manfred,
0:22:47 > 0:22:50what two-word term denotes a play intended to be read in private
0:22:50 > 0:22:52rather than performed on stage?
0:22:52 > 0:22:55- Closet drama. - Closet drama is correct.
0:22:55 > 0:22:58These bonuses will give you the lead. They're on whales -
0:22:58 > 0:23:01the marine mammal, that is. Firstly for five,
0:23:01 > 0:23:06known by the binomial Delphinapterus leucas,
0:23:06 > 0:23:09which cetacean is sometimes called the canary of the sea
0:23:09 > 0:23:11in reference to its high-pitched song?
0:23:11 > 0:23:14- THEY WHISPER - It's a dolphin.
0:23:14 > 0:23:17- Dolphin. - It's the beluga or the white whale.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20The blue whale is the largest of any animal.
0:23:20 > 0:23:23What is the common name of Balaenoptera physalus,
0:23:23 > 0:23:26- the second-largest? - THEY WHISPER
0:23:29 > 0:23:31- Sperm whale. - No, it's the finback whale.
0:23:31 > 0:23:35The eponymous white whale of Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick
0:23:35 > 0:23:38is what species, the largest of the toothed whales?
0:23:38 > 0:23:41- That is a sperm whale. - That is a sperm whale.
0:23:41 > 0:23:43Four minutes to go. Another starter question.
0:23:43 > 0:23:47What four-letter word may precede "reaction", "star" and "matter"
0:23:47 > 0:23:50to describe the second phase of...
0:23:50 > 0:23:53- Anti.- No, you lose five points.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56The second phase of photosynthesis, a stellar object...
0:23:56 > 0:23:59- Dark.- Dark is correct.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02Here are your bonuses. They're on film scores, Merton.
0:24:02 > 0:24:06"The bolognese sauce to director Sergio Leone's pasta"
0:24:06 > 0:24:08is how one critic described which composer's music?
0:24:08 > 0:24:13He worked with Leone on A Fistful Of Dollars and The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15- Ennio Morricone. - Correct. Which composer's score
0:24:15 > 0:24:20used a two-note motif performed on a tuba to indicate the presence of the shark in Spielberg's Jaws?
0:24:20 > 0:24:22- John Williams.- Correct.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25Born Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou,
0:24:25 > 0:24:28what is the adopted name of the composer and musician
0:24:28 > 0:24:31who scored Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner?
0:24:31 > 0:24:33Oh... Um, Vangelo...
0:24:33 > 0:24:36- Vangelis.- Vangelis. - Vangelis is right.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38Three minutes to go. Another starter question.
0:24:38 > 0:24:42Wall Street, Diffident, Mark Of Esteem, Decorated Hero, Fatefully,
0:24:42 > 0:24:47Lochangel and Fujiyama Crest were linked on September 28th 1996
0:24:47 > 0:24:49by which jockey?
0:24:52 > 0:24:53- Frankie Dettori?- Correct.
0:24:53 > 0:24:57Your bonuses now are on a planetary system.
0:24:57 > 0:25:01Which planet was discovered in 1846 as a result of mathematical predictions
0:25:01 > 0:25:04made by Urbain Le Verrier and John Couch Adams?
0:25:04 > 0:25:06- Neptune.- Neptune?
0:25:06 > 0:25:08- Quickly...- Neptune.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11Correct. What is the largest moon of Neptune,
0:25:11 > 0:25:14named after the son of Poseidon in Greek mythology?
0:25:14 > 0:25:17- Triton.- Correct. What is the second-largest Neptunian satellite?
0:25:17 > 0:25:20It shares its name with a shape-shifting Greek sea god.
0:25:20 > 0:25:22THEY WHISPER
0:25:22 > 0:25:24- Proteus.- Correct.
0:25:24 > 0:25:25Another starter question now.
0:25:25 > 0:25:28In what manner is it necessary to read an ancient text
0:25:28 > 0:25:31written in the style known as boustrophedon?
0:25:33 > 0:25:36Um, right to left and then left to right and then...
0:25:36 > 0:25:39Correct. Alternate directions. Yes.
0:25:39 > 0:25:41Your bonuses are three questions on palindromes.
0:25:41 > 0:25:45Which English poet and dramatist coined the term palindrome
0:25:45 > 0:25:49in his poem An Execration Upon Vulcan, written in 1623
0:25:49 > 0:25:52after his home and books were destroyed in a fire?
0:25:53 > 0:25:55- Quickly!- We don't know.
0:25:55 > 0:25:58It's Ben Jonson. Which palindromic boys' name
0:25:58 > 0:26:01does not signify a position in a family as might be supposed,
0:26:01 > 0:26:05but is derived from a Germanic word for prosperity?
0:26:05 > 0:26:08- THEY WHISPER - I don't know.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10- Otto?- Correct.
0:26:10 > 0:26:15Which 18th-century composer wrote The Palindrome Symphony in which the minuet and trio
0:26:15 > 0:26:18are marked "al roverso" and are played both forwards and backwards?
0:26:18 > 0:26:21- THEY WHISPER - Don't know.
0:26:21 > 0:26:23- Haydn.- Haydn is right, yes!
0:26:23 > 0:26:27In plants, statoliths are membrane-bound starch grains
0:26:27 > 0:26:29found in the tips of roots and...
0:26:29 > 0:26:32- And leaves. - I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:26:32 > 0:26:34And in tissues close to vascular bundles.
0:26:34 > 0:26:36What stimulus do they detect?
0:26:37 > 0:26:40You can't hang around. Buzz right now.
0:26:40 > 0:26:42- Light.- No, it's gravity. Another starter question.
0:26:42 > 0:26:46What line of seven words precedes these lines by Byron?
0:26:46 > 0:26:48"Of cloudless climes and starry skies
0:26:48 > 0:26:50And all that's best of dark and bright
0:26:50 > 0:26:53Meet in her aspect and her eyes"?
0:26:55 > 0:26:58- "She walks in beauty like the night".- Yes!
0:26:58 > 0:27:01Here are your bonuses. They're on fountains.
0:27:01 > 0:27:05In which European city is the Jet d'Eau, which, with a jet of water
0:27:05 > 0:27:09rising to 140 metres, is one of the world's highest fountains?
0:27:09 > 0:27:12- Paris?- No, Geneva. Which fountain is believed to take its name
0:27:12 > 0:27:15from its location at the intersection of three roads,
0:27:15 > 0:27:18and is the largest of Rome's baroque water fountains?
0:27:18 > 0:27:21- Nominate Frazier.- Trevi. - The Trevi fountain's right.
0:27:21 > 0:27:25In the fountain outside the Pompidou Centre, a nightingale, a mermaid
0:27:25 > 0:27:28- and a firebird are among the... - GONG RINGS
0:27:28 > 0:27:32St Andrews have 165. Merton College, Oxford, have 195.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39No shame in losing by a score like that, St Andrews,
0:27:39 > 0:27:43and 165 might be one of the highest-scoring losing teams.
0:27:43 > 0:27:46You may well come back as one of the highest-scoring losers
0:27:46 > 0:27:49next time round. Merton, terrific performance from you.
0:27:49 > 0:27:53We shall see you for sure in the next stage of the competition.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55I hope you can join us next time,
0:27:55 > 0:27:59- but until then, it's goodbye from St Andrews University...- Goodbye.
0:27:59 > 0:28:03- ..goodbye from Merton College... - Goodbye.- ..and it's goodbye from me.
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