Episode 10

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0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman!

0:00:27 > 0:00:29Hello.

0:00:29 > 0:00:32Another 30 minutes of intellectual lucky dip lies ahead of us,

0:00:32 > 0:00:35as we do our best to pluck goodies from the student mind.

0:00:35 > 0:00:39There's a place in the second round for whichever team yields the most.

0:00:39 > 0:00:43Pembroke College, Cambridge was founded by the widow of the

0:00:43 > 0:00:46Earl of Pembroke in 1347, under the licence granted her by Edward III.

0:00:46 > 0:00:49It's the third oldest college in the University.

0:00:49 > 0:00:52Its original statutes required students to snitch on each other

0:00:52 > 0:00:56if anyone drank to excess or visited houses of ill repute,

0:00:56 > 0:00:59but nowadays, of course, that sort of thing is more or less compulsory.

0:00:59 > 0:01:00It boasts a chapel by Wren

0:01:00 > 0:01:03and alumni include one Python - Eric Idle -

0:01:03 > 0:01:06two Goodies - Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie -

0:01:06 > 0:01:09as well as several poets, including Edmund Spenser, Ted Hughes

0:01:09 > 0:01:13and Christopher Smart after whom the college cat, Kit Smart, is named.

0:01:13 > 0:01:16Playing on behalf of around 700 students,

0:01:16 > 0:01:18and with an average age of 20,

0:01:18 > 0:01:21hoping to go one further than last year's team,

0:01:21 > 0:01:24who were runners-up for the series title, let's meet them.

0:01:24 > 0:01:26I'm Robert Scanes, I'm from North London,

0:01:26 > 0:01:28and I'm studying Natural Sciences.

0:01:28 > 0:01:32Hello, I'm Emily Maw, from Oxford, and I'm studying Maths.

0:01:32 > 0:01:33And their captain.

0:01:33 > 0:01:36Hi, I'm Tom Foxall, from Birmingham, and I'm studying Classics.

0:01:36 > 0:01:39I'm Jemima Hodkinson, I'm from Portsmouth,

0:01:39 > 0:01:41and I'm studying Natural Sciences.

0:01:41 > 0:01:44APPLAUSE

0:01:46 > 0:01:47The University of Lancaster

0:01:47 > 0:01:51is one of the so-called plateglass universities founded in 1964,

0:01:51 > 0:01:53and its campus is at Bailrigg,

0:01:53 > 0:01:56around three miles from the city centre.

0:01:56 > 0:01:58The campus design of cloisters

0:01:58 > 0:02:00running off a central covered walkway

0:02:00 > 0:02:02was a kind attempt by the architects

0:02:02 > 0:02:05to shield students from Lancaster's often bracing climate.

0:02:05 > 0:02:08One of the university's traditions is the annual competition called

0:02:08 > 0:02:12the Roses Tournament, played against York University, of course,

0:02:12 > 0:02:16and consisting of over 40 sports, including waterpolo,

0:02:16 > 0:02:18kendo and ultimate frisbee.

0:02:18 > 0:02:21By comparison, tonight's match should be a doddle, therefore.

0:02:21 > 0:02:25Alumni include the cyclist Jason Queally, the actor Andy Serkis,

0:02:25 > 0:02:29the politician Alan Milburn, and the food writer Matthew Fort.

0:02:29 > 0:02:34Tonight's team are playing on behalf of a student body of around 12,000.

0:02:34 > 0:02:35Let's meet them.

0:02:35 > 0:02:38Hello, I'm Alan Webster from Preston.

0:02:38 > 0:02:42I'm studying for an MSc in Resource and Environmental Management.

0:02:42 > 0:02:44Hi, I'm Anne Kretzschmar, I originally come from Chesterfield,

0:02:44 > 0:02:48in Derbyshire, and I'm studying for a PhD in Environmental Modelling.

0:02:48 > 0:02:49And their captain.

0:02:49 > 0:02:51Hi, I'm George Pinkerton, I'm from Surrey,

0:02:51 > 0:02:54and I'm studying History, Philosophy and Politics.

0:02:54 > 0:02:56Hi, I'm Ian Dickson, I'm from Stirling,

0:02:56 > 0:02:59and I'm studying for an MSc in Ecology and the Environment.

0:02:59 > 0:03:02APPLAUSE

0:03:05 > 0:03:09The rules are unchanging. 10 points for starters, 15 for bonuses.

0:03:09 > 0:03:11Fingers on buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.

0:03:11 > 0:03:16Which art gallery links How It Is by Miroslaw Balka,

0:03:16 > 0:03:21Shibboleth by Doris Salcedo, Embankment by Rachel Whiteread...

0:03:23 > 0:03:25Tate Modern?

0:03:25 > 0:03:27Tate Modern is correct, yes.

0:03:29 > 0:03:32Your bonuses are on British libraries, Lancaster.

0:03:32 > 0:03:35The Mitchell Library, one of the largest public reference libraries

0:03:35 > 0:03:37in Europe, is in which British city?

0:03:37 > 0:03:38Glasgow.

0:03:38 > 0:03:42Correct. The London Library, the world's largest independent

0:03:42 > 0:03:44lending library, was founded in 1841,

0:03:44 > 0:03:47largely due to the efforts of which Scottish historian and biographer?

0:03:51 > 0:03:53Could it be McAuley?

0:03:54 > 0:03:55McAuley?

0:03:55 > 0:03:56No, it was Carlyle.

0:03:56 > 0:04:00And finally, in which city are the John Rylands University Library,

0:04:00 > 0:04:04the Portico Library, and Chetham's Library, the latter being

0:04:04 > 0:04:07the oldest public library in the English-speaking world?

0:04:07 > 0:04:08Manchester?

0:04:08 > 0:04:09Correct. Ten points for this.

0:04:09 > 0:04:13Born in 1890, the playwright and author Lawrence du Garde Peach

0:04:13 > 0:04:16is noted as the author of more than 20 titles in

0:04:16 > 0:04:20The Adventures From History series of which children's publisher?

0:04:20 > 0:04:24They include Oliver Cromwell, the story of Captain Cook,

0:04:24 > 0:04:25and the first Queen Elizabeth.

0:04:27 > 0:04:30Is it Ladybird?

0:04:30 > 0:04:31Yes.

0:04:35 > 0:04:37Right, your bonuses are on a literary figure, Pembroke College.

0:04:37 > 0:04:41In his 1912 work, The Victorian Age In Literature,

0:04:41 > 0:04:44of which novelist and poet did GK Chesterton say,

0:04:44 > 0:04:47"He went down to botanise in the swamp,

0:04:47 > 0:04:50"and became a sort of village atheist,

0:04:50 > 0:04:53"brooding and blaspheming over the village idiot"?

0:04:59 > 0:05:00Hardy.

0:05:00 > 0:05:01Thomas Hardy is correct.

0:05:01 > 0:05:04Chiefly remembered for poetry written during the First World War,

0:05:04 > 0:05:06who, in 1945, described Hardy

0:05:06 > 0:05:10as "the nearest thing to Shakespeare I should ever go for a walk with"?

0:05:17 > 0:05:18Siegfried Sassoon?

0:05:18 > 0:05:20Correct. Greatly influenced by Sassoon,

0:05:20 > 0:05:23whom did Philip Larkin described as "the only 20th-century poet

0:05:23 > 0:05:27"who can be read after Hardy without a sense of bathos"?

0:05:32 > 0:05:34Rupert Brooke.

0:05:34 > 0:05:36No, it was Wilfred Owen. Ten points for this.

0:05:36 > 0:05:37One of the halogens,

0:05:37 > 0:05:40which yellow gas is the most electrode-negative element...

0:05:40 > 0:05:42Fluorine.

0:05:42 > 0:05:45Fluorine is right, yes.

0:05:47 > 0:05:51These bonuses, Pembroke College, are on recreational mathematics.

0:05:51 > 0:05:52Called Lo Shu by the Chinese,

0:05:52 > 0:05:55what type of square contains all the consecutive numbers,

0:05:55 > 0:05:59starting from one and arranged so that all the rows, columns

0:05:59 > 0:06:02and corner-to-corner diagonals add up to the same total?

0:06:04 > 0:06:06Magic Square.

0:06:06 > 0:06:10Correct. The year 1514 appears in a four-by-four magic square

0:06:10 > 0:06:12in the woodcut Melancholia I,

0:06:12 > 0:06:15denoting the year it was produced by which German artist?

0:06:17 > 0:06:18Durer.

0:06:18 > 0:06:21Correct. Which founding father of the United States is said

0:06:21 > 0:06:24to have invented one of the best-known magic squares,

0:06:24 > 0:06:27an eight-by-eight variation with a broken diagonal?

0:06:30 > 0:06:32Benjamin Franklin.

0:06:32 > 0:06:34Correct. Another starter question.

0:06:34 > 0:06:38Which military unit was created by King Louis-Philippe in 1831

0:06:38 > 0:06:41for the purpose of suppressing resistance...

0:06:41 > 0:06:43Foreign Legion?

0:06:43 > 0:06:46The French Foreign Legion is right, yes.

0:06:48 > 0:06:51Right, these bonuses are on the Roman Empire, Lancaster.

0:06:51 > 0:06:55When told by astrologers that her son would rule the Empire

0:06:55 > 0:06:57but kill his mother, Agrippina is said to have replied,

0:06:57 > 0:07:00"Let him kill her, provided he becomes Emperor."

0:07:00 > 0:07:03Of which Emperor was she the mother?

0:07:03 > 0:07:04Nero?

0:07:04 > 0:07:05Nero is correct.

0:07:05 > 0:07:08Which Empress was described by Tacitus

0:07:08 > 0:07:09as "a terrible mother for the state,

0:07:09 > 0:07:12"a terrible stepmother for the house of Caesars"?

0:07:17 > 0:07:18Erm...

0:07:21 > 0:07:23- Livia?- Livia is correct.

0:07:23 > 0:07:28"No other tyrant since mankind began ever inspired such fear."

0:07:28 > 0:07:31These words of the historian Procopius refer to Theodora,

0:07:31 > 0:07:34the wife of which Byzantine emperor?

0:07:37 > 0:07:39Could it be Constantine?

0:07:43 > 0:07:44Constantine?

0:07:44 > 0:07:46No, it's Justinian I.

0:07:46 > 0:07:48Right, we're going to take a picture round, now.

0:07:48 > 0:07:51For your picture starter, you'll see a British landmark.

0:07:51 > 0:07:54Ten points if you can give me the name of the building

0:07:54 > 0:07:55and its architect.

0:08:02 > 0:08:05Wembley Stadium, Foster and Partners?

0:08:05 > 0:08:08Norman Foster is correct. It is Wembley Stadium, yes.

0:08:10 > 0:08:13Right, for your bonuses, you're going to see three photographs

0:08:13 > 0:08:17of some of Foster and Partners' designs from around the world.

0:08:17 > 0:08:21I want the name of each construction in each case. Firstly, for five.

0:08:23 > 0:08:25It's that bridge in France.

0:08:30 > 0:08:31Millau Bridge.

0:08:31 > 0:08:35It is indeed. The tallest bridge in the world. Secondly.

0:08:43 > 0:08:45It's not the Velodrome, is it? No.

0:08:45 > 0:08:46We don't know.

0:08:46 > 0:08:49That's the McLaren Technology Centre,

0:08:49 > 0:08:51the headquarters for McLaren in the UK.

0:08:51 > 0:08:54And finally, the redesign of this building.

0:08:55 > 0:08:57Oh, that's the Reichstag, isn't it?

0:08:58 > 0:08:59Reichstag?

0:08:59 > 0:09:01The Reichstag.

0:09:01 > 0:09:02The Reichstag.

0:09:02 > 0:09:05It is, the German Parliament.

0:09:05 > 0:09:06Ten points for this.

0:09:06 > 0:09:10Which area of West London gave its name to the film studio, which...

0:09:10 > 0:09:11Ealing.

0:09:11 > 0:09:14Ealing is correct.

0:09:15 > 0:09:18Your bonuses are on financial terms.

0:09:18 > 0:09:19In each case, give the word

0:09:19 > 0:09:23that's defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as follows.

0:09:23 > 0:09:26Firstly, "To speculate or cause to speculate financially

0:09:26 > 0:09:27"on borrowed capital,

0:09:27 > 0:09:31"expecting profits made to be greater than the interest payable."

0:09:38 > 0:09:39Could be a hedge fund, or...

0:09:43 > 0:09:45Come on.

0:09:45 > 0:09:46Derivatives?

0:09:46 > 0:09:50No, it's leverage. Secondly, "A financial arrangement or instrument

0:09:50 > 0:09:53"whose value derives from and is dependent upon

0:09:53 > 0:09:55"an underlying variable asset

0:09:55 > 0:09:58"such as a commodity, currency or security."

0:09:58 > 0:10:01Collateralization?

0:10:01 > 0:10:02No, that is a derivative.

0:10:02 > 0:10:06And finally, "A loan, typically on relatively unfavourable terms,

0:10:06 > 0:10:09"made to a borrower who does not qualify for other loans

0:10:09 > 0:10:13"because of poor credit history or other circumstances."

0:10:14 > 0:10:16Sub-prime?

0:10:16 > 0:10:18Sub-prime is correct. Ten points for this.

0:10:18 > 0:10:21Originally describing a person deserving of the method of torture

0:10:21 > 0:10:23that would see him broken on a wheel,

0:10:23 > 0:10:25which short word from the French

0:10:25 > 0:10:28denotes a debauched or disreputable man, usually elderly?

0:10:32 > 0:10:34Lech?

0:10:34 > 0:10:37No. Anyone want to buzz from Lancaster?

0:10:37 > 0:10:38It's a roue.

0:10:38 > 0:10:41Ten points for this. What surname is shared

0:10:41 > 0:10:42by a woman traveller and author of

0:10:42 > 0:10:46Through England On A Side Saddle In The Time Of William and Mary,

0:10:46 > 0:10:48a polar explorer born 1944,

0:10:48 > 0:10:52and the star of The English Patient and The Constant Gardener?

0:10:52 > 0:10:54Fiennes.

0:10:54 > 0:10:57Fiennes is right, yes.

0:10:58 > 0:11:03These bonuses are on university scholarships, Pembroke College.

0:11:03 > 0:11:07Which crime writer has launched a series of scholarships

0:11:07 > 0:11:08for Sheffield University students

0:11:08 > 0:11:12in the name of his military policeman character Jack Reacher?

0:11:15 > 0:11:17We don't know.

0:11:17 > 0:11:18It's Lee Child.

0:11:18 > 0:11:20Benjamin Franklin Chemistry Scholarships are awarded

0:11:20 > 0:11:23by which Scottish university?

0:11:23 > 0:11:27In 1759, it awarded Franklin an honorary doctorate in law,

0:11:27 > 0:11:30and in 2002 unveiled a permanent tribute to him.

0:11:38 > 0:11:40St Andrews.

0:11:40 > 0:11:43Correct. What's the world's oldest international scholarship programme,

0:11:43 > 0:11:47allowing exceptional postgraduate students from various countries

0:11:47 > 0:11:50to study at Oxford University?

0:11:50 > 0:11:52Rhodes Scholarship.

0:11:52 > 0:11:55Correct. Ten points for this. What term denotes a solar eclipse

0:11:55 > 0:11:57in which the moon, being at a point in its orbit

0:11:57 > 0:12:00relatively distant from the Earth, appears smaller than the sun,

0:12:00 > 0:12:04leaving a ring of the solar surface visible around its dark silhouette?

0:12:07 > 0:12:09A corona?

0:12:09 > 0:12:11No. One of you buzz from Pembroke.

0:12:13 > 0:12:16An annular eclipse?

0:12:16 > 0:12:18Annular is correct, yes.

0:12:21 > 0:12:23Right, these bonuses are on the human brain.

0:12:23 > 0:12:26Also known as the grey matter, and rich in synapses, what two-word

0:12:26 > 0:12:31term denotes the much-folded outer layer of the cerebral hemispheres?

0:12:33 > 0:12:34Cortex?

0:12:34 > 0:12:36Cerebral cortex?

0:12:36 > 0:12:37Cerebral cortex.

0:12:37 > 0:12:41Correct. Which human function is associated with Broca's area

0:12:41 > 0:12:43and Wernicke's area of the cerebral cortex?

0:12:43 > 0:12:45Speech.

0:12:45 > 0:12:48Correct. What term denotes the enlargement of the hindbrain,

0:12:48 > 0:12:50anterior to the medulla oblongata?

0:12:50 > 0:12:53It co-ordinates and regulates motor activity.

0:13:00 > 0:13:01The medulla.

0:13:01 > 0:13:02No, it's the cerebellum.

0:13:02 > 0:13:05Right, we're going to take a music round. For your music starter,

0:13:05 > 0:13:07you'll hear an excerpt from a piece of classical music.

0:13:07 > 0:13:10Ten points if you can give me the name of the composer.

0:13:10 > 0:13:13SLOW, ETHEREAL MUSIC

0:13:27 > 0:13:30Brahms.

0:13:30 > 0:13:33No. Pembroke, you may hear a little bit more.

0:13:43 > 0:13:44One of you buzz.

0:13:44 > 0:13:45I'll tell you.

0:13:45 > 0:13:47It's Stravinsky's Song Of The Nightingale,

0:13:47 > 0:13:49so music bonuses shortly.

0:13:49 > 0:13:52Another ten points at stake for this starter question.

0:13:52 > 0:13:55Differing only in that one has an additional final letter,

0:13:55 > 0:14:00give both of the words that mean basic structural and functional unit

0:14:00 > 0:14:03of an organism, and string instrument, for which Barber...

0:14:04 > 0:14:07Cell and cello.

0:14:07 > 0:14:09Correct.

0:14:11 > 0:14:14You heard Stravinsky's The Song Of The Nightingale

0:14:14 > 0:14:15for that music starter.

0:14:15 > 0:14:18Your music bonuses are three classical pieces that each

0:14:18 > 0:14:20feature a bird in their title.

0:14:20 > 0:14:21In each case,

0:14:21 > 0:14:23all you have to do is identify the common name of the bird.

0:14:23 > 0:14:24Firstly.

0:14:24 > 0:14:28LIVELY MUSIC

0:14:36 > 0:14:37Does anyone know?

0:14:50 > 0:14:53Just go with skylark, or something?

0:14:53 > 0:14:54Skylark?

0:14:54 > 0:14:58No, it's a magpie. That's the overture from Rossini's Thieving Magpie. Secondly.

0:14:58 > 0:15:00SLOW, OMINOUS MUSIC

0:15:13 > 0:15:16Right. What is the little bird, yeah?

0:15:18 > 0:15:19Erm...

0:15:20 > 0:15:22Could it be the sparrow?

0:15:23 > 0:15:27No, it couldn't be the sparrow! It's Blackbird, Messiaen.

0:15:27 > 0:15:29And finally.

0:15:29 > 0:15:32GENTLE STATELY MUSIC

0:15:51 > 0:15:53Right. We'll try cuckoo.

0:15:53 > 0:15:54Correct!

0:15:58 > 0:15:59Saint-Saens' Cuckoo.

0:15:59 > 0:16:01Right, another starter question.

0:16:01 > 0:16:06Deriving from the Latin for bone, what term denotes the chapel...

0:16:07 > 0:16:08An ossuary?

0:16:08 > 0:16:11Ossuary is correct, yes.

0:16:14 > 0:16:16Right, Lancaster. These bonuses are on place names.

0:16:16 > 0:16:19Bordering the remains of the Aral Sea,

0:16:19 > 0:16:24Karakalpakstan is the westernmost region of which former Soviet state?

0:16:24 > 0:16:26Uzbekistan.

0:16:26 > 0:16:29Correct. Its name meaning "mountain country",

0:16:29 > 0:16:32what is the southernmost federal subject of the Russian Republic?

0:16:32 > 0:16:35It is to the east of Chechnya and has a coastline on the Caspian Sea.

0:16:37 > 0:16:38Sorry?

0:16:38 > 0:16:39Dagestan.

0:16:41 > 0:16:43No, that's not. That's independent now.

0:16:43 > 0:16:45Dagestan?

0:16:45 > 0:16:46Dagestan is correct.

0:16:46 > 0:16:50A little smaller than Germany and including much of the Thar Desert,

0:16:50 > 0:16:52what is the largest state of the Republic of India?

0:16:52 > 0:16:54Its capital is Jaipur.

0:16:54 > 0:16:55Rajasthan.

0:16:55 > 0:16:58Correct. Right, ten points for this.

0:16:58 > 0:17:00Meanings of what four-letter word include

0:17:00 > 0:17:03coarse file with separate teeth and hoarse, grating sound?

0:17:03 > 0:17:07Etymologically unrelated, the same four-letter word also begins

0:17:07 > 0:17:10the common name of the fruit of the bramble Rubus idaeus?

0:17:17 > 0:17:18Rasp.

0:17:18 > 0:17:20Rasp is correct, yes.

0:17:22 > 0:17:24Pembroke, your bonuses this time are on adjectives

0:17:24 > 0:17:25that share the same suffix.

0:17:25 > 0:17:28In each case, give the word from the definition.

0:17:28 > 0:17:32Firstly, an adjective meaning holding or grasping firmly,

0:17:32 > 0:17:34stubborn or persistent, or tending to stick.

0:17:34 > 0:17:36Tenacious, possibly.

0:17:39 > 0:17:41Tenacious.

0:17:41 > 0:17:43Correct. From the Latin for "to take",

0:17:43 > 0:17:47an adjective meaning capable of holding a lot, roomy or spacious.

0:17:47 > 0:17:49Capacious.

0:17:49 > 0:17:52Correct. An adjective that means characterised by, or showing

0:17:52 > 0:17:54a tendency to talk great deal.

0:17:54 > 0:17:56Loquacious.

0:17:56 > 0:17:57Correct.

0:18:00 > 0:18:01Ten points for this.

0:18:01 > 0:18:02Formed from the union

0:18:02 > 0:18:05of the superior, mesenteric and splenic veins,

0:18:05 > 0:18:08what three-word term denotes the specific vertebrate blood vessel

0:18:08 > 0:18:12which drains blood from the gastrointestinal tract of the liver?

0:18:13 > 0:18:16Hepatic portal vein.

0:18:16 > 0:18:18Correct.

0:18:19 > 0:18:22These bonuses are on chemistry, Pembroke.

0:18:22 > 0:18:25From the Latin for bunch, what word denotes an optically inactive

0:18:25 > 0:18:28mixture containing equal quantities of right

0:18:28 > 0:18:33and left-handed enantiomers of a chiral molecule?

0:18:33 > 0:18:35Recaemic.

0:18:35 > 0:18:36Racemate?

0:18:36 > 0:18:37Recaemic.

0:18:39 > 0:18:40A recaemic mixture.

0:18:40 > 0:18:42Correct. Racaemic acid is an obsolete term

0:18:42 > 0:18:45for an optically inactive form of which organic acid

0:18:45 > 0:18:49with the basic formula C4 H6 O6?

0:18:51 > 0:18:54Propanoic acid?

0:18:57 > 0:18:58Let's have it, please.

0:18:58 > 0:19:01Shall we just go with it?

0:19:01 > 0:19:02Propanoic acid.

0:19:02 > 0:19:03No, it's tartaric acid.

0:19:03 > 0:19:06And finally, what is the common three-word name

0:19:06 > 0:19:09for potassium hydrogen tartrate, a white, crystalline deposit

0:19:09 > 0:19:12that's an ingredient of baking powder?

0:19:14 > 0:19:16Bicarbonate of soda?

0:19:16 > 0:19:19Oh, yeah, cream of tartar. That would make more sense.

0:19:19 > 0:19:20Cream of tartar.

0:19:20 > 0:19:22Correct.

0:19:25 > 0:19:27Right, we're going to take a picture round.

0:19:27 > 0:19:30Your picture starter is a photograph of an actor.

0:19:30 > 0:19:32For ten points, I want you to name the actor

0:19:32 > 0:19:34and the theatrical role being played.

0:19:43 > 0:19:46David Tennant in Macbeth?

0:19:46 > 0:19:48No. Lancaster, one of you buzz.

0:19:52 > 0:19:55Michael Sheen, and...

0:19:56 > 0:19:58Come on! If you buzz, you must answer.

0:19:58 > 0:19:59And the...

0:19:59 > 0:20:02No, I'm sorry. We can't hang around. We'll be here all night.

0:20:02 > 0:20:04It's Michael Sheen and Hamlet, So picture bonuses shortly.

0:20:04 > 0:20:06Ten points for this.

0:20:06 > 0:20:09Dead Christ and Dance Of Death were works by which German artist

0:20:09 > 0:20:12who settled in England in 1532 and is also noted for his portraits,

0:20:12 > 0:20:17including those of Sir Thomas More and of Henry VIII and his wives?

0:20:17 > 0:20:18Holbein.

0:20:18 > 0:20:20Holbein is right, yes.

0:20:21 > 0:20:23So, you get the picture bonuses.

0:20:23 > 0:20:26Three more depictions of actors who played the role of Hamlet,

0:20:26 > 0:20:28all of them born in the 19th century.

0:20:28 > 0:20:30In each case, simply name the actor. The first is English.

0:20:36 > 0:20:38No clue.

0:20:38 > 0:20:39That is Henry Irving, apparently.

0:20:39 > 0:20:41The second is American.

0:20:50 > 0:20:52Vincent Price.

0:20:53 > 0:20:55Not a bad guess. No, it's John Barrymore.

0:20:55 > 0:20:57And finally, the third is French.

0:21:01 > 0:21:02No idea, sorry.

0:21:02 > 0:21:04That's Sarah Bernhardt. Ten points for this.

0:21:04 > 0:21:07Appearing in the title of the heir to the Spanish throne,

0:21:07 > 0:21:10which autonomous community of Spain is known officially...

0:21:10 > 0:21:11Asturias.

0:21:11 > 0:21:13Asturias is correct.

0:21:14 > 0:21:18These bonuses are on a religious expression, Pembroke College.

0:21:18 > 0:21:21In Christian eschatology, the concept of parousia

0:21:21 > 0:21:25is usually expressed by what two-word term,

0:21:25 > 0:21:27the first word being an ordinal number?

0:21:36 > 0:21:39- First presence? - No, it's the second coming.

0:21:39 > 0:21:42Secondly, give the two words that complete this couplet

0:21:42 > 0:21:44from W B Yeats' poem The Second Coming.

0:21:44 > 0:21:48"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of..." What?

0:21:54 > 0:21:55Contradiction, possibly?

0:21:55 > 0:21:57Dread?

0:21:57 > 0:21:59It's a rhyming couplet, though, isn't it?

0:21:59 > 0:22:02- Let's have it.- Contradiction. - No, it's passionate intensity.

0:22:02 > 0:22:06Second Coming was an early choice for the title of which horror story,

0:22:06 > 0:22:09Stephen King's second published novel?

0:22:09 > 0:22:11The Shining.

0:22:11 > 0:22:13No, Salem's Lot. Ten points for this.

0:22:13 > 0:22:15Originally referring to self-governing areas

0:22:15 > 0:22:19of the late Roman Empire, what Latin-derived term

0:22:19 > 0:22:23is used in English for any of the 47 administrative districts of Japan?

0:22:23 > 0:22:25The equivalent term...

0:22:25 > 0:22:27Prefecture.

0:22:27 > 0:22:30Prefecture is correct, yes.

0:22:31 > 0:22:33Right, your bonuses are on stage directions

0:22:33 > 0:22:35in the plays of Shakespeare.

0:22:35 > 0:22:38In each case, identify the play in which the direction occurs.

0:22:38 > 0:22:42Firstly, "A park with a road leading to the Palace.

0:22:42 > 0:22:45"Enter three murderers."

0:22:49 > 0:22:50Three murderers in Macbeth.

0:22:53 > 0:22:55It could be, I don't know.

0:22:55 > 0:22:56Richard III?

0:22:56 > 0:22:59No, it's Macbeth. "Enter blackamoors with music; Moth with a speech.

0:22:59 > 0:23:01"The King and the rest of the lords

0:23:01 > 0:23:03"disguised like Russians and visored."

0:23:07 > 0:23:09Is that Midsummer Night's Dream?

0:23:10 > 0:23:13Moth is one of the... Midsummer Night's Dream?

0:23:13 > 0:23:14No, it's Love's Labours Lost.

0:23:14 > 0:23:17And finally, "A noise within, crying, 'Room for the Queen!'

0:23:17 > 0:23:21"Enter the Queen, ushered by Dukes of Norfolk, and Suffolk. She kneels.

0:23:21 > 0:23:25"The King riseth from his state, takes her up,

0:23:25 > 0:23:27"kisses and places her by him."

0:23:30 > 0:23:33Could be any of the... history plays.

0:23:33 > 0:23:35Richard III, again?

0:23:35 > 0:23:37No, it's Henry VIII.

0:23:37 > 0:23:40About four minutes to go. Ten points for this. Listen carefully.

0:23:40 > 0:23:42Three chemical elements have names that indicate

0:23:42 > 0:23:44a region on the surface of the Earth

0:23:44 > 0:23:46that is larger than a single country,

0:23:46 > 0:23:47but smaller than the whole planet.

0:23:47 > 0:23:49For ten points, name any one.

0:23:50 > 0:23:53Americium.

0:23:53 > 0:23:57Americium is one. Europium and Scandium are the others.

0:23:59 > 0:24:02Right, your bonuses this time, Lancaster, are on Prime Ministers.

0:24:02 > 0:24:04In each case, name the 20th century Prime Minister

0:24:04 > 0:24:07whose cabinet included the following as Home Secretary

0:24:07 > 0:24:09and Foreign Secretary respectively.

0:24:09 > 0:24:13Firstly, Sir William Joynson-Hicks and Austen Chamberlain.

0:24:14 > 0:24:18Well, that would be very early on, so Campbell-Bannerman,

0:24:18 > 0:24:19or Asquith, or something?

0:24:19 > 0:24:22- Come on.- Asquith?

0:24:22 > 0:24:26No, it's Stanley Baldwin. Secondly, James Chuter Ede and Ernest Bevin.

0:24:29 > 0:24:31Attlee?

0:24:31 > 0:24:35Correct. And finally, William Whitelaw and Lord Carrington.

0:24:35 > 0:24:36Thatcher.

0:24:36 > 0:24:39Margaret Thatcher is right, yes.

0:24:39 > 0:24:40Two minutes to go, ten points for this.

0:24:40 > 0:24:45Which play by Dario Fo was inspired by a bomb explosion in Milan in 1969

0:24:45 > 0:24:49and the ensuing death of an innocent suspect who fell from the window...

0:24:50 > 0:24:52Accidental Death Of An Anarchist.

0:24:52 > 0:24:53Correct.

0:24:55 > 0:24:57These bonuses are on a letter in physics.

0:24:57 > 0:25:02The temperature scale named indirectly after a river in Glasgow

0:25:02 > 0:25:03is abbreviated by what letter?

0:25:05 > 0:25:06K? Indirectly?

0:25:10 > 0:25:12Let's have it, please.

0:25:12 > 0:25:14K.

0:25:14 > 0:25:15K is correct.

0:25:15 > 0:25:18What is one Kilo Kelvin, or KK, expressed in degrees Celsius?

0:25:18 > 0:25:22I want the answer to one-hundredth of a degree, please.

0:25:25 > 0:25:26727.

0:25:26 > 0:25:32Er, no. Not precise enough. It's 726.85.

0:25:33 > 0:25:35Right. And finally, for five points,

0:25:35 > 0:25:39stars of spectral type K with surface temperatures

0:25:39 > 0:25:43in the range of 4,000 to 5,000 Kelvin appear what colour?

0:25:45 > 0:25:46White?

0:25:49 > 0:25:51- Come on, let's have it, please. - Red.

0:25:51 > 0:25:54No, it's orange. Ten points for this.

0:25:54 > 0:25:56What type of feedback system operates when a displacement

0:25:56 > 0:26:00from a state causes an action which increases the displacement?

0:26:00 > 0:26:02Positive.

0:26:02 > 0:26:05Correct. Here are your bonuses on film adaptations, Pembroke College.

0:26:05 > 0:26:08The Big Bounce, 52 Pick-Up

0:26:08 > 0:26:12and Out Of Sight are films based on novels by which American writer?

0:26:14 > 0:26:16- Let's have it. - F Scott Fitzgerald?

0:26:16 > 0:26:18No, it's Elmore Leonard Jr.

0:26:18 > 0:26:22In 1999, Leonard published Be Cool, the sequel to which novel,

0:26:22 > 0:26:24whose film adaptation starred John Travolta

0:26:24 > 0:26:26as the loan shark Chili Palmer?

0:26:26 > 0:26:27Get Carter.

0:26:27 > 0:26:29No, it's Get Shorty.

0:26:29 > 0:26:33Under what title did Quentin Tarantino film an adaptation

0:26:33 > 0:26:36of Leonard's 1992 novel Rum Punch?

0:26:36 > 0:26:37Jackie Brown.

0:26:37 > 0:26:41Jackie Brown is correct. Ten points for this.

0:26:41 > 0:26:44What three-word term denotes the meteorological event

0:26:44 > 0:26:46whose most severe period coincided

0:26:46 > 0:26:50with the maunder minimum of sunspot activity between 1645 and 1715?

0:26:50 > 0:26:53Little Ice Age?

0:26:53 > 0:26:54Little Ice Age is correct.

0:26:56 > 0:27:00These bonuses are on a naval commander, Lancaster.

0:27:00 > 0:27:02The USS Ranger and the USS Bonhomme Richard were among ships

0:27:02 > 0:27:04associated with which naval commander,

0:27:04 > 0:27:08often described as the founder of the United States Navy?

0:27:08 > 0:27:11He was born in southern Scotland in 1747.

0:27:14 > 0:27:15Perry?

0:27:15 > 0:27:17No, it's John Paul Jones.

0:27:17 > 0:27:18John Paul Jones led the daring

0:27:18 > 0:27:21but inconclusive raid on which Cumbrian seaport in 1778?

0:27:24 > 0:27:25It's, erm...

0:27:26 > 0:27:27Come on, come on, come on!

0:27:27 > 0:27:29Whitehaven.

0:27:29 > 0:27:32Correct. In 1788, Jones entered the service...

0:27:32 > 0:27:35GONG

0:27:35 > 0:27:37And at the gong, the University of Lancaster have 140.

0:27:37 > 0:27:40Pembroke College, Cambridge have 200.

0:27:45 > 0:27:48Well, you were up against a very strong team, Lancaster,

0:27:48 > 0:27:49but 140 might be just enough

0:27:49 > 0:27:52to bring you back as one of the highest-scoring losing teams,

0:27:52 > 0:27:55so I hope we'll see you again. Congratulations, Pembroke.

0:27:55 > 0:27:58We enjoyed seeing you work things out on various occasions.

0:27:58 > 0:28:02I hope you can join us next time for another first-round match, but until then,

0:28:02 > 0:28:04- it's goodbye from Lancaster University.- Goodbye.

0:28:04 > 0:28:06- It's goodbye from Pembroke College. - Goodbye.

0:28:06 > 0:28:09And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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