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