Episode 11

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

0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. The lights are on and we're about to find out if anyone's home,

0:00:32 > 0:00:35as two more teams of students compete for a place

0:00:35 > 0:00:36in the second round.

0:00:36 > 0:00:38Winners go through automatically,

0:00:38 > 0:00:40losers could get the chance to play again

0:00:40 > 0:00:43if their score warrants a chance to redeem themselves.

0:00:43 > 0:00:47Now, the University of Bath began life in 1856 in nearby Bristol

0:00:47 > 0:00:50as a trade school, which later enjoyed the patronage

0:00:50 > 0:00:52of the Merchant Venturers Society

0:00:52 > 0:00:55which, at one time, virtually controlled Bristol's port.

0:00:55 > 0:00:56After several different incarnations,

0:00:56 > 0:00:59the university received its charter in 1966

0:00:59 > 0:01:04and is based primarily on a campus overlooking the city of Bath.

0:01:04 > 0:01:07Justin King rose from Bath to become boss of Sainsbury's,

0:01:07 > 0:01:11Diana Organ and Eric Joyce rose - if that's the right verb -

0:01:11 > 0:01:12to become Labour MPs,

0:01:12 > 0:01:16and Bill Giles, the weather forecaster, is another alumnus.

0:01:16 > 0:01:19Representing around 14,000 students and with an average age of 22,

0:01:19 > 0:01:21let's meet the Bath team.

0:01:23 > 0:01:25Hi, I'm Joe Kendall. I'm from Bristol

0:01:25 > 0:01:28and I'm studying economics and international development.

0:01:28 > 0:01:31Hi, I'm Adam Salvesen. I'm from Oxford and I'm studying biology.

0:01:31 > 0:01:34- And their captain. - Hello, I'm Matthew Wise.

0:01:34 > 0:01:37I'm originally from Surrey and I'm studying for an MSc

0:01:37 > 0:01:39in the modern applications of mathematics.

0:01:39 > 0:01:41Hi, I'm Toby Smith. I'm from Clitheroe in Lancashire

0:01:41 > 0:01:43and I'm studying physics.

0:01:43 > 0:01:47APPLAUSE

0:01:47 > 0:01:51The University of Liverpool began life as a university college

0:01:51 > 0:01:53in 1882 and is one of the original redbricks,

0:01:53 > 0:01:56with its Alfred Waterhouse-designed Victoria building

0:01:56 > 0:01:59being said to have inspired the term.

0:01:59 > 0:02:01It received its Royal Charter in 1903

0:02:01 > 0:02:04and was the first university to establish departments

0:02:04 > 0:02:07in oceanography, architecture and biochemistry.

0:02:07 > 0:02:09Alumni include the biographer Lytton Strachey,

0:02:09 > 0:02:12the literary critic Frank Kermode,

0:02:12 > 0:02:13the horror author Clive Barker

0:02:13 > 0:02:16and the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy.

0:02:16 > 0:02:20Representing about 20,000 students and with an average age of 26,

0:02:20 > 0:02:22let's meet the Liverpool team.

0:02:22 > 0:02:24Hi, I'm Sasha Torregrosa-Jones.

0:02:24 > 0:02:27I'm originally from London and I'm studying physics.

0:02:27 > 0:02:29Hello, my name is Jonathan Tinsley.

0:02:29 > 0:02:31I'm from Newcastle and I study physics.

0:02:31 > 0:02:34- And this is their captain. - Hi, I'm Andy Jones,

0:02:34 > 0:02:38from Ormskirk in Lancashire and I'm studying dentistry.

0:02:38 > 0:02:39Hi, I'm Agneau Belanyek.

0:02:39 > 0:02:42I'm from Southampton and I'm studying computer science.

0:02:42 > 0:02:46APPLAUSE

0:02:48 > 0:02:50Rules are as constant as the Northern Star.

0:02:50 > 0:02:5210 points for starters, 15 for bonuses.

0:02:52 > 0:02:54Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for 10.

0:02:54 > 0:02:58Which historical figure links a tragedy by Schiller,

0:02:58 > 0:03:01dramas by Jean Ennui and George Bernard Shaw

0:03:01 > 0:03:03and Voltaire's poem La Pucelle?

0:03:03 > 0:03:06Born around 1412, she was...

0:03:07 > 0:03:10- Joan of Arc.- Correct.

0:03:10 > 0:03:13APPLAUSE

0:03:13 > 0:03:16First blood to you, then, Liverpool.

0:03:16 > 0:03:18And your bonuses are on a historian.

0:03:18 > 0:03:20Born in 1834, which historian

0:03:20 > 0:03:22is especially remembered for the aphorism,

0:03:22 > 0:03:26"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely"?

0:03:26 > 0:03:31THEY WHISPER

0:03:37 > 0:03:39Caesar?

0:03:39 > 0:03:40Nominate Belanyek.

0:03:40 > 0:03:41Julius Caesar.

0:03:41 > 0:03:44- Born in 1834?! - LAUGHTER

0:03:44 > 0:03:46No, it's Lord Acton.

0:03:46 > 0:03:47Secondly, for five points.

0:03:47 > 0:03:51Lord Acton was the founder editor of which comprehensive history,

0:03:51 > 0:03:55of which only the first two volumes appeared before his death in 1902?

0:03:55 > 0:03:58- Encyclopaedia Britannica?- Yeah?

0:03:58 > 0:03:59I'd go with it.

0:03:59 > 0:04:02- Encyclopaedia Britannica. - No, the Cambridge Modern History.

0:04:02 > 0:04:04A leader of the liberal Roman Catholics in Britain,

0:04:04 > 0:04:06Acton went to Rome in 1870

0:04:06 > 0:04:09to organise opposition to which doctrine,

0:04:09 > 0:04:12defined authoritatively at the first Vatican Council?

0:04:13 > 0:04:14Any ideas?

0:04:14 > 0:04:16I don't know.

0:04:16 > 0:04:18Er, no. Pass, sorry.

0:04:18 > 0:04:21It's Papal Infallibility. Right, 10 points for this.

0:04:21 > 0:04:24Briefly imprisoned for protesting against a dam project

0:04:24 > 0:04:27in India in 2002, which author and anti-globalisation campaigner

0:04:27 > 0:04:30was awarded the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel

0:04:30 > 0:04:33The God Of Small Things?

0:04:33 > 0:04:35- Arunhati Roy.- Correct.

0:04:35 > 0:04:39APPLAUSE

0:04:39 > 0:04:43Now, these bonuses - your first set, Bath - are on national theatres.

0:04:43 > 0:04:44Firstly, for five points.

0:04:44 > 0:04:48The National Theatre of Ireland, Dublin's Abbey Theatre,

0:04:48 > 0:04:51was the scene of a riot among members of the audience

0:04:51 > 0:04:54for the premiere in 1907 of The Playboy Of The Western World

0:04:54 > 0:04:57by which Irish playwright?

0:05:03 > 0:05:05Say something Irish-sounding. Say O'Grady.

0:05:08 > 0:05:09Paul O'Grady.

0:05:09 > 0:05:12Paul O'Grady. Right. No, it was JM Synge.

0:05:12 > 0:05:15The National Theatre of Wales launched in 2009,

0:05:15 > 0:05:17since when its programme has included

0:05:17 > 0:05:19The Passion, staged in Port Talbot

0:05:19 > 0:05:22and starring which actor born there in 1969?

0:05:23 > 0:05:24Hector?

0:05:24 > 0:05:26An actor from Port Talbot is...

0:05:29 > 0:05:31Richard Burton. Go for Richard Burton.

0:05:32 > 0:05:34Richard Burton.

0:05:34 > 0:05:37Er, no, it's Michael Sheen.

0:05:37 > 0:05:39And finally, in which London theatre

0:05:39 > 0:05:42was the National Theatre of Great Britain founded in 1963?

0:05:42 > 0:05:45It was based there until it moved to its new home

0:05:45 > 0:05:47on the South Bank in 1976.

0:05:50 > 0:05:53- Pass.- That was at the Old Vic. Right, 10 points for this.

0:05:53 > 0:05:56Meanings of what five-letter word include, in botany,

0:05:56 > 0:05:58the husk or shell of a fruit

0:05:58 > 0:06:00or the lower bract of a floret of grass,

0:06:00 > 0:06:02in mathematics, a subsidiary theorem,

0:06:02 > 0:06:03and in literature,

0:06:03 > 0:06:06a heading indicating the subject of a composition?

0:06:08 > 0:06:10- Lemma.- Correct.

0:06:10 > 0:06:13APPLAUSE

0:06:14 > 0:06:18Right, these bonuses are on radiation, Bath.

0:06:18 > 0:06:19What term is used to describe

0:06:19 > 0:06:23electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths in the approximate range

0:06:23 > 0:06:25of 0.01 to 10 nanometres

0:06:25 > 0:06:31and energy between 0.12 and 120 kiloelectron volts?

0:06:32 > 0:06:34- Gamma rays.- Gamma rays, X-rays.

0:06:34 > 0:06:35Gamma rays.

0:06:35 > 0:06:38No, they're X-rays. X Radiation.

0:06:38 > 0:06:40The first cosmic x-ray astronomy satellite

0:06:40 > 0:06:44launched from the San Marco platform off the coast of Kenya in 1970.

0:06:44 > 0:06:47It was given what name, the Swahili for freedom?

0:06:49 > 0:06:50SETI.

0:06:50 > 0:06:52SETI?

0:06:52 > 0:06:53SETI's the only one...

0:06:53 > 0:06:56It's the Search For Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence...

0:06:56 > 0:06:58- No, pass.- It's Uhuru.

0:06:58 > 0:07:02And finally, the strongest known extra-solar source of X-rays,

0:07:02 > 0:07:06the double star Scorpius X-1, around 9,000 light years away,

0:07:06 > 0:07:08is what type of stellar remnant?

0:07:10 > 0:07:11Stellar remnant?

0:07:11 > 0:07:15- Neutron star. - Neutron star, will we try it?

0:07:15 > 0:07:16- We'll try neutron star.- Correct.

0:07:16 > 0:07:18APPLAUSE

0:07:18 > 0:07:21Time for a picture round. Let's see how you get on with it.

0:07:21 > 0:07:23You're going to see a map of a mountain range.

0:07:23 > 0:07:2510 points if you can name the range.

0:07:30 > 0:07:32- The Apennines. - The Apennines is correct, yes.

0:07:32 > 0:07:35APPLAUSE

0:07:35 > 0:07:37For your bonuses, three other maps of mountain ranges

0:07:37 > 0:07:39in countries around the Mediterranean.

0:07:39 > 0:07:42Five points for each you can name. Firstly...

0:07:42 > 0:07:44Dolomites, or something.

0:07:44 > 0:07:46Are the Dolomites there?

0:07:49 > 0:07:51- Slavic or something?- No.

0:07:53 > 0:07:55- Dolomites.- The Dolomites?!

0:07:55 > 0:07:57No, they're the Pindus Mountains in northern Greece and, well,

0:07:57 > 0:07:59stretching into Albania there.

0:07:59 > 0:08:00And secondly...

0:08:04 > 0:08:06Is that the Black Sea?

0:08:06 > 0:08:09- What's Turkey?- It's too far south.

0:08:09 > 0:08:10Try the Steppe, or something.

0:08:10 > 0:08:13- Nominate Smith.- The Steppe.

0:08:13 > 0:08:17No, they're... Absolutely not! No, they're the Taurus Mountains.

0:08:17 > 0:08:19Finally...

0:08:19 > 0:08:21That's the Atlas Mountains.

0:08:21 > 0:08:23- Atlas Mountains.- Correct. Right, 10 points for this.

0:08:23 > 0:08:26Meanings of what precise noun include, in phonetics,

0:08:26 > 0:08:29the exhalation of breath when articulating a sound

0:08:29 > 0:08:31and, in more general speech,

0:08:31 > 0:08:33a hope or ambition of achieving something?

0:08:35 > 0:08:36- Aspiration.- Yes.

0:08:36 > 0:08:40APPLAUSE

0:08:41 > 0:08:43These bonuses, Liverpool, are on a Roman author.

0:08:43 > 0:08:46The Pumpkinification Of Claudius is one translation of the title

0:08:46 > 0:08:48of a satire on the deification of the Roman emperor,

0:08:48 > 0:08:52the work being attributed to which Stoic philosopher,

0:08:52 > 0:08:54dramatist and statesman?

0:08:54 > 0:08:55Zeno?

0:08:55 > 0:08:56I don't know the Stoics.

0:08:56 > 0:08:58I don't know.

0:09:00 > 0:09:02- Zeno.- No, it's Seneca.

0:09:02 > 0:09:05Seneca was forced to commit suicide for his alleged involvement

0:09:05 > 0:09:08in the conspiracy of Gaius Calpurnius Piso

0:09:08 > 0:09:12to assassinate which Roman emperor in AD 65?

0:09:13 > 0:09:16Claudius? Something like that. Caligula?

0:09:16 > 0:09:18I can't remember who it is.

0:09:21 > 0:09:23Claudius, Claudius.

0:09:23 > 0:09:25- Claudius.- No, it's Nero.

0:09:25 > 0:09:27Telling of a Roman general's revenge

0:09:27 > 0:09:30on the Queen of the Goths, which play by Shakespeare

0:09:30 > 0:09:34is thought to have been inspired in part by a tragedy of Seneca?

0:09:34 > 0:09:36THEY WHISPER

0:09:42 > 0:09:44Nominate Jones.

0:09:44 > 0:09:46Coriolanus.

0:09:46 > 0:09:48No, it's Titus Andronicus.

0:09:48 > 0:09:5010 points for this.

0:09:50 > 0:09:52Yuka Sato of Japan won the first gold medal

0:09:52 > 0:09:55at which major sporting and cultural event,

0:09:55 > 0:09:58inaugurated in Singapore in August 2010?

0:09:58 > 0:10:01The next one is scheduled for Nanjing in 2014.

0:10:04 > 0:10:06The Asian Games.

0:10:06 > 0:10:09No. One of you may buzz from Liverpool.

0:10:10 > 0:10:12Nope. It's the Summer Youth Olympics.

0:10:12 > 0:10:1310 points for this.

0:10:13 > 0:10:17What short noun, meaning a dividing ridge of unploughed land,

0:10:17 > 0:10:20or a roughly-squared beam of timber,

0:10:20 > 0:10:22is also used figuratively as a verb,

0:10:22 > 0:10:25meaning to refuse something or to shy away from a task?

0:10:25 > 0:10:27- Block.- No, you lose five points

0:10:27 > 0:10:31..or to shy away from a task, as if having encountered an obstacle?

0:10:32 > 0:10:34Shirk.

0:10:34 > 0:10:37No, it's balk. 10 points for this.

0:10:37 > 0:10:39"A canker'd granddam

0:10:39 > 0:10:41"and a monstrous injurer of Heaven and Earth"

0:10:41 > 0:10:44is a description by a character in Shakespeare's King John

0:10:44 > 0:10:47of which Queen, the mother of the title character?

0:10:50 > 0:10:51- Eleanor of Aquitaine.- Correct.

0:10:51 > 0:10:56APPLAUSE

0:10:56 > 0:11:00Right, these bonuses are on Home Secretaries, Liverpool.

0:11:00 > 0:11:03Which Labour politician became Home Secretary in October 1940

0:11:03 > 0:11:05and held the post until May 1945?

0:11:05 > 0:11:08His reforms included placing the fire services

0:11:08 > 0:11:10under the control of the Home Office.

0:11:10 > 0:11:12THEY WHISPER

0:11:14 > 0:11:18- Attlee. - No, that was Herbert Morrison.

0:11:18 > 0:11:20Secondly, which former Prime Minister later held the post

0:11:20 > 0:11:23of Home Secretary for more than nine years,

0:11:23 > 0:11:25a period that included the Peterloo Massacre of 1819?

0:11:25 > 0:11:29THEY WHISPER

0:11:29 > 0:11:31- Palmerston. - No, that was Henry Addington.

0:11:31 > 0:11:33Finally, who served as Home Secretary

0:11:33 > 0:11:36until the outbreak of World War II, but is better known for a pact

0:11:36 > 0:11:40fashioned during his time at the Foreign Office,

0:11:40 > 0:11:42which was intended to end hostilities in Abyssinia?

0:11:42 > 0:11:44Oh, it's the Bryant Pact.

0:11:47 > 0:11:49Bryant.

0:11:49 > 0:11:51No, it was Sir Samuel Hoare.

0:11:51 > 0:11:5410 points for this. Known in French as Reine Claude,

0:11:54 > 0:11:57the name of which variety of sweet plum consists of

0:11:57 > 0:11:59a colour followed by the surname of the man

0:11:59 > 0:12:02who introduced it to England from France...?

0:12:02 > 0:12:04- Greengage. - Greengage is right, yes.

0:12:04 > 0:12:07APPLAUSE

0:12:07 > 0:12:10Bath, these bonuses are on feasts.

0:12:10 > 0:12:13Its Greek-derived name meaning manifestation, which feast day

0:12:13 > 0:12:17of the Christian calendar follows Twelfth Night?

0:12:18 > 0:12:21- It's Epiphany.- Advent?

0:12:21 > 0:12:24- It's not a feast day.- 12 days after. So, it's like 6 January.

0:12:24 > 0:12:27- Let's have an answer.- It's Epiphany, then, if it's 6 January.

0:12:27 > 0:12:30- Epiphany.- Correct.

0:12:30 > 0:12:33What is the Hebrew name for the Jewish Feast Of Lots,

0:12:33 > 0:12:36celebrated in February or March and commemorating the deliverance

0:12:36 > 0:12:40of the Jews from a massacre planned by the Persian Vizier Haman?

0:12:42 > 0:12:45No, it's not Passover. No. No.

0:12:45 > 0:12:48- I'll try anyway. Passover. - No, it's Purim.

0:12:48 > 0:12:52And, finally, the Celtic religious festival Lughnasadh,

0:12:52 > 0:12:54the feast of the God Lugh,

0:12:54 > 0:12:56is celebrated in which month

0:12:56 > 0:12:59on the same day as the Christian Lammas Day?

0:13:01 > 0:13:03Pick a month.

0:13:03 > 0:13:05June.

0:13:05 > 0:13:06- April.- No, it's August.

0:13:06 > 0:13:0910 points for this starter question.

0:13:09 > 0:13:11In physiology, what type of lymphocyte

0:13:11 > 0:13:15is the main agent of cell-mediated immunity?

0:13:15 > 0:13:17They're produced in bone marrow...

0:13:18 > 0:13:20B-lymphocytes.

0:13:20 > 0:13:22No, you lose five points there.

0:13:22 > 0:13:25..they're produced in bone marrow, migrate to the thymus to mature

0:13:25 > 0:13:28and circulate between lymph nodes and bloodstream.

0:13:30 > 0:13:31T-killer cells.

0:13:31 > 0:13:34Yes, that's a subgroup. T-cells or T-lymphocytes.

0:13:34 > 0:13:37Right, you get a set of bonuses then, Bath, on human genetics.

0:13:37 > 0:13:40If non-disjunction of a chromosome occurs in meiosis,

0:13:40 > 0:13:43two of the daughter gametes will show trisomy.

0:13:43 > 0:13:46What abnormality would be seen in the other two daughter gametes?

0:13:50 > 0:13:52Nominate Salvesen.

0:13:52 > 0:13:56- There will only be singer...single chromatids.- Meaning?

0:13:56 > 0:13:58Meaning that they will show monomy.

0:13:58 > 0:14:01That's correct. Monosomy, yes.

0:14:01 > 0:14:03One chromosome will be missing.

0:14:03 > 0:14:05What name is given to the genetic disorder caused by

0:14:05 > 0:14:07trisomy in chromosome 18?

0:14:09 > 0:14:11- Nominate Salvesen.- Down's Syndrome.

0:14:11 > 0:14:13No, it's Edwards Syndrome.

0:14:14 > 0:14:17And, trisomy of which chromosome causes Down's Syndrome?

0:14:18 > 0:14:20- You don't know?- I don't know.

0:14:20 > 0:14:231 to 23, so just take a guess.

0:14:23 > 0:14:25- Two.- No, it's 21.

0:14:25 > 0:14:27Right, we're going to take a music round.

0:14:27 > 0:14:30For your music starter, you'll hear an excerpt from a film soundtrack.

0:14:30 > 0:14:3310 points if you can name the film in which it featured.

0:14:33 > 0:14:36INDIAN MUSIC PLAYS

0:14:37 > 0:14:39- Slumdog Millionaire.- Yes.

0:14:39 > 0:14:43APPLAUSE

0:14:43 > 0:14:46A.R. Rahman's score for Slumdog Millionaire won

0:14:46 > 0:14:49Best Original Score at the 2009 Academy Awards.

0:14:49 > 0:14:52For your bonuses, you're going to hear excerpts from three more

0:14:52 > 0:14:54Oscar-winning original scores from 2000 onwards.

0:14:54 > 0:14:55Again, in each case,

0:14:55 > 0:14:58I want the name of the film the piece was composed for.

0:14:58 > 0:14:59Firstly, for five...

0:15:01 > 0:15:07CELLO SOLO PLAYS

0:15:07 > 0:15:10THEY WHISPER

0:15:20 > 0:15:21Million Dollar Baby.

0:15:21 > 0:15:25No, it was Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. And secondly...

0:15:26 > 0:15:29JOLLY MUSIC PLAYS

0:15:29 > 0:15:32THEY WHISPER

0:15:48 > 0:15:50- The Artist. - No, it's Up. And finally...

0:15:50 > 0:15:54MUSIC PLAYS

0:15:54 > 0:15:56- Brokeback Mountain.- Correct.

0:15:56 > 0:15:58Right, 10 points for this.

0:15:58 > 0:16:00Which chain of volcanic islands

0:16:00 > 0:16:02stretches over 1,200 miles in the North Pacific

0:16:02 > 0:16:05westward from Alaska, towards the Kamchatka Peninsula?

0:16:07 > 0:16:09- The Aleutian Islands.- Correct.

0:16:09 > 0:16:12APPLAUSE

0:16:12 > 0:16:15These bonuses, Bath, are on belated achievements.

0:16:15 > 0:16:18Firstly, despite having directed films such as

0:16:18 > 0:16:20Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas,

0:16:20 > 0:16:24Martin Scorsese's first Academy Award for Best Director

0:16:24 > 0:16:26was for which film of 2006?

0:16:26 > 0:16:27- The Departed.- Correct.

0:16:27 > 0:16:30After 14 consecutive seasons as National Hunt champion jockey

0:16:30 > 0:16:33and 14 failed attempts to win the Grand National,

0:16:33 > 0:16:36who finally won the race at his 15th attempt in 2010?

0:16:37 > 0:16:40- Frankie Dettori. - I'm going to go with that, yeah.

0:16:40 > 0:16:41- Frankie Dettori. - No, it was AP McCoy.

0:16:41 > 0:16:44Which British author was honoured posthumously

0:16:44 > 0:16:47by the Booker Prize Foundation in 2011,

0:16:47 > 0:16:50having been nominated five times during her lifetime?

0:16:52 > 0:16:54Just say an author.

0:16:56 > 0:16:58Er, pass.

0:16:58 > 0:17:00That was Beryl Bainbridge. 10 points for this.

0:17:00 > 0:17:03Hampton House, Belfast, Millburngate, Durham,

0:17:03 > 0:17:06Old Hall Street, Liverpool and 3 Northgate, Glasgow

0:17:06 > 0:17:10are four of the regional offices of which UK Government service

0:17:10 > 0:17:13which has its London office at Olympia House?

0:17:14 > 0:17:16Passport Office.

0:17:16 > 0:17:18It's the Identity And Passport Service, yes.

0:17:18 > 0:17:22APPLAUSE

0:17:22 > 0:17:26Right, these bonuses, Liverpool, are on military awards.

0:17:26 > 0:17:29Preceding the Victoria Cross by two years,

0:17:29 > 0:17:32which medal was instituted in 1854 to recognise acts

0:17:32 > 0:17:35of outstanding courage by other ranks during the Crimean War?

0:17:35 > 0:17:37George Cross.

0:17:38 > 0:17:41- I don't know.- I have no idea.

0:17:44 > 0:17:46- It's too late. - Gallantry, or something...

0:17:49 > 0:17:52- George Cross.- No, it's the Distinguished Conduct medal.

0:17:52 > 0:17:56And, secondly, in 1855, the Royal Navy introduced

0:17:56 > 0:18:01which equivalent to the DCM, represented by the abbreviation CGM?

0:18:06 > 0:18:08G could be gallantry.

0:18:08 > 0:18:12- Something gallantry.- Common? - Combat gallantry?

0:18:12 > 0:18:15- Combat Gallantry Medal.- No, it's Conspicuous Gallantry Medal.

0:18:15 > 0:18:19And finally, which late medieval order of chivalry

0:18:19 > 0:18:22was revived by George I as a regular military order,

0:18:22 > 0:18:25and was expanded and divided into two classes,

0:18:25 > 0:18:27military and civil, by the Prince Regent in 1815?

0:18:27 > 0:18:29The Knight's Garter?

0:18:32 > 0:18:35- The Knight's Garter. - It's the Order Of The Bath.

0:18:35 > 0:18:3710 points for this starter question.

0:18:37 > 0:18:42What is the derived SI unit of magnetic flux density...?

0:18:42 > 0:18:44- Tesla.- Correct, yes.

0:18:44 > 0:18:47APPLAUSE

0:18:47 > 0:18:51These bonuses are on an English scientist, Bath.

0:18:51 > 0:18:52Born in 1773,

0:18:52 > 0:18:55which English scientist gives his name to the term

0:18:55 > 0:18:58for a numerical constant that describes the elastic properties

0:18:58 > 0:19:01of a solid undergoing tension or compression?

0:19:01 > 0:19:04Young's Constant. It might be Young.

0:19:04 > 0:19:06Hook or Young?

0:19:08 > 0:19:11- Young.- Correct. Thomas Young, Young's modulus.

0:19:11 > 0:19:14A qualified physician in 1793, Young identified the changes

0:19:14 > 0:19:18occurring in which specific part of a human sensory organ?

0:19:23 > 0:19:25- Retina?- I think... Yeah, it's got to be the eye.

0:19:27 > 0:19:28Retina.

0:19:28 > 0:19:29No, it's the lens of the eye.

0:19:29 > 0:19:33And finally, Young also deciphered foreign proper names

0:19:33 > 0:19:37on which objects, rediscovered on the Nile Delta in 1799?

0:19:39 > 0:19:40- Rosetta Stone.- Correct.

0:19:40 > 0:19:42We are going to take a picture round now.

0:19:42 > 0:19:45You will see an illustration of a character

0:19:45 > 0:19:46created by Charles Dickens.

0:19:46 > 0:19:48For 10 points, name the character.

0:19:53 > 0:19:56Is it Mrs Homp?

0:19:56 > 0:19:59Anyone want to buzz from Bath?

0:19:59 > 0:20:01Miss Haversham?

0:20:01 > 0:20:05No, it is Mrs Gamp from Martin Chuzzlewit. Picture bonuses shortly,

0:20:05 > 0:20:08see if you can buzz in on this starter question.

0:20:08 > 0:20:09You must buzz immediately.

0:20:09 > 0:20:15What is the only positive integer that is twice the sum of its digits?

0:20:22 > 0:20:2411? Sorry.

0:20:28 > 0:20:29So you should be.

0:20:30 > 0:20:35- Two?- No, it's 18. Another starter question.

0:20:35 > 0:20:39The Volta Bureau Research Library was founded in Washington DC

0:20:39 > 0:20:43in the 1880s by which Scottish-born scientist and inventor

0:20:43 > 0:20:47with the Volta prize money awarded him by the French government?

0:20:50 > 0:20:53Logie Baird?

0:20:53 > 0:20:55No, Liverpool, one of you buzz?

0:20:56 > 0:21:01- Maxwell?- No, it was Alexander Graham Bell. Another starter question.

0:21:01 > 0:21:08JCF, WF, JC, another JC, JL, JM, CPE and JS are the initials

0:21:08 > 0:21:14of the given names of which family of composers?

0:21:14 > 0:21:16- Bach.- Bach is correct, yes.

0:21:19 > 0:21:24You will be thrilled to hear that you get the picture bonuses.

0:21:24 > 0:21:26To mark the author's bicentennial this year

0:21:26 > 0:21:28your bonuses, three more of Joseph Clayton Clarke's

0:21:28 > 0:21:32sketches of characters in Dickens novels, in each case, five points

0:21:32 > 0:21:36if you can name the character and the novel in which they appear.

0:21:36 > 0:21:37Firstly for five points.

0:21:37 > 0:21:40THEY WHISPER

0:21:47 > 0:21:48Fagan and Oliver Twist.

0:21:48 > 0:21:51No, that's Captain Cuttle in Dombey And Son. Secondly...

0:21:55 > 0:21:57- Bill Sikes, maybe?- Yeah, Bill Sikes.

0:21:59 > 0:22:00Bill Sikes, Oliver Twist.

0:22:00 > 0:22:02No, it's Quilp in The Old Curiosity Shop. And finally...

0:22:13 > 0:22:14Is it Uriah Heap?

0:22:14 > 0:22:17It doesn't look at all like Uriah Heap! He's thin.

0:22:17 > 0:22:21No, it is Mr Micawber in David Copperfield. 10 points for this.

0:22:21 > 0:22:23What is the Arabic word for lawful,

0:22:23 > 0:22:26used to refer to meat from...

0:22:26 > 0:22:28- Halal.- Halal is correct, yes.

0:22:32 > 0:22:35Your bonuses are on artists born in the 1880s.

0:22:35 > 0:22:38Early Sunday Morning and Second Story Sunlight are works

0:22:38 > 0:22:41by which US artist, active mainly in New York?

0:22:46 > 0:22:48- Hopper?- Correct.

0:22:48 > 0:22:52The Bride of the Wind and the Prometheus and Thermopylae triptychs

0:22:52 > 0:22:54are among works of which Austrian-born artist

0:22:54 > 0:22:57who became a British citizen in 1946?

0:23:04 > 0:23:07- Klimt? - No, it was Oscar Kokokschka.

0:23:07 > 0:23:09Coming Out Of School, The Football Match and Peel Park, Salford

0:23:09 > 0:23:13are works by which English artist?

0:23:13 > 0:23:16- Lowry.- L.S. Lowry is right. 10 points for this.

0:23:16 > 0:23:19One single word is the motto of the state of California?

0:23:19 > 0:23:22One of the few state mottos not in English or Latin,

0:23:22 > 0:23:25it means "I have found it," and it is associated...

0:23:25 > 0:23:28- Eureka?- Eureka is correct, yes.

0:23:32 > 0:23:36Your bonuses this time are on world currencies, specifically

0:23:36 > 0:23:40those that in recent years have had a value greater than the US dollar.

0:23:40 > 0:23:44In each case, identify the currency and the country from

0:23:44 > 0:23:47the three letter code of the International Standards Organisation.

0:23:47 > 0:23:50First, for five points, KWD.

0:23:58 > 0:24:00Nominate Kendall.

0:24:00 > 0:24:05- Korean Won?- No, it's the Kuwaiti Dinar. Secondly, AZN.

0:24:13 > 0:24:17- Let's have it.- Pass.

0:24:17 > 0:24:19It's the Azerbaijani New Manat.

0:24:19 > 0:24:22Finally, CHF.

0:24:22 > 0:24:24- Swiss Franc? Swiss Franc.- Correct.

0:24:24 > 0:24:26Three and a half minutes to go, 12 points for this.

0:24:26 > 0:24:29Which 12th century Welsh chronicler and Churchman was the author of

0:24:29 > 0:24:31The History Of The Kings Of Britain?

0:24:34 > 0:24:38- St Anselm? - No, Liverpool, one of you buzz.

0:24:38 > 0:24:40Thomas Becket?

0:24:40 > 0:24:43It was Geoffrey of Monmouth. 10 point for this.

0:24:43 > 0:24:44The Goleston Palace

0:24:44 > 0:24:47and the Azadi Tower are among prominent buildings in which

0:24:47 > 0:24:50capital city, located around 100 kilometres south of the Caspian Sea?

0:24:52 > 0:24:55- Istanbul? - No, one of you buzz from Bath.

0:24:56 > 0:24:58Moscow?

0:24:58 > 0:25:01South of the Caspian Sea? No, it's Tehran. 10 points for this.

0:25:01 > 0:25:05"Fat liver" is the literal meaning of the French name...

0:25:05 > 0:25:07Foie gras.

0:25:07 > 0:25:10Foie gras is correct.

0:25:11 > 0:25:14Your bonuses this time are on an element.

0:25:14 > 0:25:15With atomic number 50,

0:25:15 > 0:25:18which element has the greatest number of stable isotopes?

0:25:23 > 0:25:25Let's have it, please, come on.

0:25:25 > 0:25:27- Iron?- No, it is tin.

0:25:27 > 0:25:28Originally meaning an alloy of silver and lead,

0:25:28 > 0:25:31what is the Latin name for tin,

0:25:31 > 0:25:33from which its chemical symbol is derived?

0:25:39 > 0:25:42- Let's have it, please.- St...

0:25:42 > 0:25:44- I don't know.- It is Stannum, you were nearly there.

0:25:44 > 0:25:48What alloy of tin consists of around 90 percent tin with the rest

0:25:48 > 0:25:50usually being copper and antimony?

0:25:53 > 0:25:55Try brass?

0:25:55 > 0:25:57No, it's pewter. 10 points for this.

0:25:57 > 0:26:02What invertebrate garden pest shares its name with a unit of mass

0:26:02 > 0:26:05used in the obsolete foot-pound second system,

0:26:05 > 0:26:07being the mass accelerated...

0:26:08 > 0:26:10- Slug?- Slug is correct, yes.

0:26:13 > 0:26:15Your bonuses are on playwrights under the age of 30.

0:26:15 > 0:26:17Written at around 28,

0:26:17 > 0:26:21which playwright's last work was 4.48 Psychosis,

0:26:21 > 0:26:24produced posthumously in 2000, five years after her first play,

0:26:24 > 0:26:27Blasted, had brought her to public attention?

0:26:27 > 0:26:30- Pass.- It was Sarah Kane. That Face, which opened at

0:26:30 > 0:26:32the Royal Court in London 2007,

0:26:32 > 0:26:34was written at the age of 19 by which playwright?

0:26:38 > 0:26:39- Pass.- That was Polly Stenham.

0:26:39 > 0:26:42Finally, which British playwright was still in her 20s

0:26:42 > 0:26:45when her play, Enron, opened at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2009?

0:26:47 > 0:26:49- Pass.- That was Lucy Prebble. 10 points for this.

0:26:49 > 0:26:50Answer as soon as you buzz.

0:26:50 > 0:26:54What is the relative molecular mass of calcium carbonate...

0:26:54 > 0:26:5640. 100.

0:26:57 > 0:26:59I'm sorry, I have to accept your first answer

0:26:59 > 0:27:01and I can't offer it to them

0:27:01 > 0:27:03because you've given us the right one. You lose five points.

0:27:03 > 0:27:0510 points for this.

0:27:05 > 0:27:082011 saw the completion of a multibillion-dollar project

0:27:08 > 0:27:11to build a dam 25km long across the Gulf of Finland,

0:27:11 > 0:27:15designed to protect which former capital city from flooding?

0:27:15 > 0:27:17Moscow?

0:27:17 > 0:27:19No. Liverpool, one of you buzz.

0:27:19 > 0:27:21- St Petersburg?- It was St Petersburg.

0:27:24 > 0:27:27These bonuses are on pain, Liverpool.

0:27:27 > 0:27:28Meaning "nerve pain,"

0:27:28 > 0:27:32- what medical term is used of pain in the area covered...- Neuralgia.

0:27:32 > 0:27:35- Neuralgia is correct. The term myalgia...- Muscle pain.

0:27:35 > 0:27:36- Sorry?- Muscle pain.- Correct.

0:27:36 > 0:27:39Deriving from the Greek term, rachialgia denotes pain

0:27:39 > 0:27:42in which part of the skeleton?

0:27:43 > 0:27:46- Spine?- Spine is correct. Another starter question.

0:27:47 > 0:27:51In geology, the Udden-Wentworth scale is used to classify what?

0:27:53 > 0:27:54Hardness?

0:27:54 > 0:27:58No, anyone buzz from Liverpool?

0:27:58 > 0:28:00It's particle size or grain.

0:28:00 > 0:28:0310 points for this. The Andaman and Nicobar islands,

0:28:03 > 0:28:06the Sunda Trench and island nations including...

0:28:06 > 0:28:07GONG

0:28:07 > 0:28:11University of Liverpool have 110, Bath University have 125.

0:28:17 > 0:28:20It wasn't the highest scoring match but it was an exciting one.

0:28:20 > 0:28:24Liverpool, we're going to have to say goodbye to you, I'm afraid.

0:28:24 > 0:28:28Congratulations, Bath, we shall look forward to seeing you in round two.

0:28:28 > 0:28:31I hope you can join us next time for another first-round match,

0:28:31 > 0:28:33but until then it's goodbye from Liverpool University.

0:28:33 > 0:28:34ALL: Goodbye.

0:28:34 > 0:28:37- It's goodbye from Bath University - ALL: Goodbye.

0:28:37 > 0:28:38And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.

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