0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:31Hello. With a place in the second round at stake,
0:00:31 > 0:00:35we give the student mind another spin in the centrifuge tonight
0:00:35 > 0:00:41to separate the little grey cells from cotton wool. University College London was established in 1826
0:00:41 > 0:00:47and was the first English institution to teach regardless of race, class or religion,
0:00:47 > 0:00:52famously earning the nickname the Godless Institution of Gower Street in the process.
0:00:52 > 0:00:58It's one of the two founding colleges of the University of London and with 23,000 students,
0:00:58 > 0:01:02a high proportion of whom are post-graduates, it's larger than many universities.
0:01:02 > 0:01:08As we never tire of reminding ourselves, it's also the resting place of the preserved corpse
0:01:08 > 0:01:14of Jeremy Bentham and tonight's team were toying with the idea of bringing his head as their mascot,
0:01:14 > 0:01:18but it's kept under secure lock and key and we'd rather they didn't.
0:01:18 > 0:01:22With an average age of 25, let's meet the UCL team.
0:01:22 > 0:01:27Hello. I'm Adam Papaphilippopoulos, I'm from London and reading for an MA in Philosophy.
0:01:27 > 0:01:31Hello. I'm Tom Tyszczuk Smith from Cambridge, studying Medicine.
0:01:31 > 0:01:37- Their captain...- Hello. I'm Simon Dennis from London, studying the History and Philosophy of Science.
0:01:37 > 0:01:42Hi. I'm Tom Parton, from Staffordshire, reading Natural Sciences.
0:01:42 > 0:01:44APPLAUSE
0:01:47 > 0:01:51The University of Exeter is rumoured to be a favourite among students
0:01:51 > 0:01:56who prefer, for whatever reason, to be a long way from the parental home.
0:01:56 > 0:02:02It traces its origins to colleges established in the mid-19th century by educational reformers
0:02:02 > 0:02:07and it became a university in 1955. Since then, the singers Will Young and Thom Yorke,
0:02:07 > 0:02:14the cartoonist Steve Bell and the creator of Harry Potter, Joanne Rowling, have all graced its campus.
0:02:14 > 0:02:20Representing around 15,000 students, with an average age of 26, let's meet their team.
0:02:20 > 0:02:24Hello. My name's James Bellamy, I'm from Exeter and studying Zoology.
0:02:24 > 0:02:29Hello. I'm William O'Rourke, from Dorset, reading English.
0:02:29 > 0:02:34- Let's meet their captain. - Hi. I'm Rob Bental, from Staines, studying Arabic and Persian.
0:02:34 > 0:02:40Hello, I'm John Ault, from Warrington, researching a PhD in Cornish Studies.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42APPLAUSE
0:02:45 > 0:02:49OK, the rules are the same as ever. Here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:49 > 0:02:55What term is used in demography to describe a group of people with a statistic in common?
0:02:55 > 0:02:59In ancient history it refers to one of ten divisions of a Roman legion.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01- A cohort.- Cohort is correct, yes.
0:03:04 > 0:03:09The first bonuses go to Exeter. They're on names. Which explorer gives his name to the strait
0:03:09 > 0:03:15between the south of mainland South America and north of Tierra del Fuego?
0:03:15 > 0:03:21- Magellan? Magellan.- Correct. Which explorer gives his name to the strait that lies between
0:03:21 > 0:03:25Cape Dezhnev in Russia and Cape Prince of Wales in Alaska?
0:03:26 > 0:03:32- Bering.- Correct. Which explorer gives his name to the strait between the north and south of New Zealand?
0:03:32 > 0:03:35- Cook.- Correct.
0:03:35 > 0:03:3810 points for this.
0:03:38 > 0:03:43"His success was built firmly on the idea that you should not give consumers what they want
0:03:43 > 0:03:46"because they don't know what they want..."
0:03:46 > 0:03:52- Excuse me, sorry. It's gone. - In that case, you get the whole thing, Exeter.
0:03:52 > 0:03:58"..they don't know what they want." These words of Julian Baggini refer to which US entrepreneur
0:03:58 > 0:04:00who died in October, 2011?
0:04:00 > 0:04:06You may not confer! I'm going to have to void it. Sorry. You cannot confer.
0:04:06 > 0:04:1310 points for this. The designation AL288-1 and Amharic name Dinkenesh, meaning, "You are amazing",
0:04:13 > 0:04:19have been applied to the fossil remains of a hominid discovered in Ethiopia in 1974
0:04:19 > 0:04:21and usually given...
0:04:21 > 0:04:24- Lucy.- Lucy is correct, yes.
0:04:27 > 0:04:31Your first bonuses, UCL, are on Essex.
0:04:31 > 0:04:36Which Essex town describes itself as Britain's first city? Originally called Camulo-Dunum,
0:04:36 > 0:04:38the Romans named it Colonia Victricensis.
0:04:38 > 0:04:44- Colchester.- Correct. In 1920, the Marconi factory in which Essex town
0:04:44 > 0:04:48was the sight of the world's first official publicised sound broadcast?
0:04:51 > 0:04:56- Brentwood?- Chelmsford. Which Essex town became a new town in 1949?
0:04:56 > 0:05:04Its name later became an epithet for working-class voters who changed from Conservatives to New Labour.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08- Chingford?- No, Basildon. 10 points for this.
0:05:08 > 0:05:14The name of which British Prime Minister appears in historical expressions which also contain
0:05:14 > 0:05:16the words poodle and declaration?
0:05:16 > 0:05:20- Balfour. - Balfour is correct, yes!
0:05:21 > 0:05:27These bonuses are on scientific principles. Born in 1698, which French mathematician gives his name
0:05:27 > 0:05:32to the principle, also known as Least-Action, that states that a particle moving
0:05:32 > 0:05:39between two points will follow the path along which its total action is as small as possible?
0:05:40 > 0:05:42Do we know?
0:05:43 > 0:05:47- Ohm.- No, it's Maupertuis. Named for a 17th-century French mathematician,
0:05:47 > 0:05:52which principle is a special case of the Least-Action principle, applied to optics?
0:05:54 > 0:06:00- Pass.- Fermat's Principle. Finally, the principle allows the derivation of what types of equations
0:06:00 > 0:06:05named after two mathematicians, one Swiss and one Italian?
0:06:10 > 0:06:14- Pass.- Euler-Lagrange. 10 points for this. In coastal geography,
0:06:14 > 0:06:18what two-word term denotes the zig-zag movement of material...
0:06:18 > 0:06:21- Longshore Drift.- Correct.
0:06:22 > 0:06:28Your bonuses are on authors. In each case, the surname of the first person described is the given name
0:06:28 > 0:06:34of the second. For example, CS Lewis and Lewis Carroll. Your answer must include the given name and surname
0:06:34 > 0:06:40of both people described. Firstly, a US zoologist and author of the 1963 work Silent Spring
0:06:40 > 0:06:46and the Southern Gothic novelist whose works include The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
0:06:46 > 0:06:48and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe.
0:06:51 > 0:06:55- Pass.- Rachel Carson and Carson McCullers. Two US novelists,
0:06:55 > 0:07:03the author of The Jungle, born 1878, and the author of Main Street and Elmer Gantry, born 1885.
0:07:07 > 0:07:11- No.- Pass.- It's Upton Sinclair and Sinclair Lewis.
0:07:11 > 0:07:16Finally, both born in 1935, the authors respectively best known for The White Hotel
0:07:16 > 0:07:19and Schindler's Ark.
0:07:24 > 0:07:29- Pass.- It's DM Thomas and Thomas Keneally. Right, 10 points for this.
0:07:29 > 0:07:34The relative merits of stage design and literature in theatrical productions caused quarrels
0:07:34 > 0:07:40between the architect Inigo Jones and which playwright, his sometime collaborator?
0:07:42 > 0:07:44Tom Stoppard?
0:07:44 > 0:07:46Good Lord, no.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48UCL, one of you buzz.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54Harold Pinter?
0:07:54 > 0:07:58No, you're out by about 300 years! It's Ben Jonson. 10 points for this.
0:07:58 > 0:08:03What type of particle emitted by certain radioactive isotopes has a mass
0:08:03 > 0:08:09equivalent to 3.7 billion electron volts of energy, results in a decrease of 2 in the atomic...
0:08:09 > 0:08:12- An alpha particle?- Yes!
0:08:15 > 0:08:19Your bonuses this time are on third men.
0:08:19 > 0:08:24The Third Man Argument is an examination of the theory of forms in the dialogue Parmenides
0:08:24 > 0:08:26written by which philosopher?
0:08:31 > 0:08:34- Socrates.- No, it's Plato.
0:08:34 > 0:08:40The Third Man Syndrome in which explorers hallucinate the presence of one more member of their team
0:08:40 > 0:08:48is described in South, an account by which explorer of his Antarctic expedition of 1914-1917?
0:08:50 > 0:08:55- Shackleton.- Who is the author of the 2010 memoir The Third Man,
0:08:55 > 0:09:00which the Independent newspaper recommended to anyone interested in politics, psychiatry and theatre?
0:09:00 > 0:09:05- Peter Mandelson.- Correct. Right, we'll take a picture round.
0:09:05 > 0:09:09Your picture starter is of a map with part of England and Wales
0:09:09 > 0:09:15with a Roman road highlighted. 10 points for the commonly-used Anglo-Saxon name for the route.
0:09:20 > 0:09:23- Fosse Way?- It is the Fosse Way, yes.
0:09:26 > 0:09:32Your picture bonuses are three more Roman roads highlighted on a map of part of England and Wales.
0:09:32 > 0:09:38Give me the commonly-used Anglo-Saxon names for each route. Firstly, for five.
0:09:40 > 0:09:43- Watling Street?- No, Ermine Street.
0:09:43 > 0:09:44Secondly...
0:09:48 > 0:09:52- Watling Street? - No, Akeman Street. And finally...
0:09:55 > 0:09:59- Watling Street.- It is, yes! Right, 10 points for this.
0:09:59 > 0:10:03One of three women awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011,
0:10:03 > 0:10:08Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf became the first woman to be elected head...
0:10:08 > 0:10:10- Liberia?- Liberia is correct.
0:10:11 > 0:10:15These bonuses could give you the lead, UCL. They're on philosophy.
0:10:15 > 0:10:19What two-word term is the title of a work of 1959 by AJ Ayer
0:10:19 > 0:10:26and denotes the doctrines emerging from the Vienna Circle based on the Verification Principle?
0:10:26 > 0:10:31- Logical Positivism. - What two-word term is the English title of a work of 1984
0:10:31 > 0:10:39by Soviet philosopher Alexander Spirkin? Derived from Hegel, they defined the Marxist USSR philosophy.
0:10:42 > 0:10:46- No.- Pass. - It's Dialectical Materialism.
0:10:46 > 0:10:52What name has been given to the doctrine by which, in the words of John Stuart Mill, actions are right
0:10:52 > 0:10:56as they promote happiness, but wrong as they produce the reverse?
0:10:56 > 0:11:00- Utilitarianism.- Correct. Another starter now.
0:11:00 > 0:11:06Referring to a character in Pilgrim's Progress, President Theodore Roosevelt allegedly coined
0:11:06 > 0:11:12what term in 1906 to describe writers and journalists who exposed political and economic corruption
0:11:12 > 0:11:16often in an excessive and sensationalist style?
0:11:19 > 0:11:21- Yellow journalist?- Nope.
0:11:22 > 0:11:28One of you buzz, UCL. It's muckrakers. 10 points for this.
0:11:28 > 0:11:32Meaning whey or watery fluid, what term denotes the greenish-yellow liquid
0:11:32 > 0:11:38that separates from the clot when blood coagulates? When taken from an animal that's been...
0:11:38 > 0:11:42- Serum.- Serum is correct, yes.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47Your bonuses are on pharmacology.
0:11:47 > 0:11:53Analgesics such as aspirin and ibuprofen are classified as NSAID.
0:11:53 > 0:11:56For what does this abbreviation stand?
0:11:56 > 0:11:59- Do you want to...?- Nominate.
0:11:59 > 0:12:05- Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs.- Correct. Aspirin and ibuprofen work by inhibiting
0:12:05 > 0:12:10the enzymes Cox-1 and Cox-2. What is their full name?
0:12:10 > 0:12:14- Cyclo-oxygenase. Excuse me. - Correct. And thirdly,
0:12:14 > 0:12:21aspirin and ibuprofen are also anti-pyretic agents, meaning that they serve to reduce what condition?
0:12:21 > 0:12:24- Fever.- Correct. Well done.
0:12:26 > 0:12:32Right. 10 points for this starter. What everyday word can precede law, sense and market,
0:12:32 > 0:12:34the latter expression...
0:12:34 > 0:12:36- Common.- Common is correct.
0:12:38 > 0:12:42Your bonuses are on chess grandmasters.
0:12:42 > 0:12:50Which Indian player won the 2010 FIDE World Chess Championship, beating Bulgaria's Veselin Topalov?
0:12:50 > 0:12:55- Anand.- Which Danish player, who died in September, 2010,
0:12:55 > 0:13:00became the first grandmaster to lose a game to a computer program
0:13:00 > 0:13:04when he was beaten by Deep Thought in 1988?
0:13:04 > 0:13:07- What nation?- Danish.- Don't know.
0:13:07 > 0:13:14- Pass.- It was Bent Larsen. Finally, beaten by the incumbent, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov,
0:13:14 > 0:13:21which Russian former world champion lost the 2010 election for President of the World Chess Federation?
0:13:21 > 0:13:24- Kasparov.- No, Anatoly Karpov.
0:13:24 > 0:13:2910 points for this. In 1611, the civic guard of Antwerp commissioned which Flemish artist
0:13:29 > 0:13:34to create the Descent From The Cross triptych for the city's cathedral?
0:13:35 > 0:13:38- Vermeer.- No. Exeter?
0:13:38 > 0:13:40One of you buzz.
0:13:41 > 0:13:45- Bosch?- No, Peter Paul Rubens. 10 points for this.
0:13:45 > 0:13:52La Casa De Los Espiritus and De Amor Y De Sombra are the Spanish titles of two novels
0:13:52 > 0:13:56by which Peruvian-born Chilean author...
0:13:56 > 0:14:04- Llosa.- No, you lose 5 points. ..who fled to Venezuela after Pinochet's military coup in 1973?
0:14:05 > 0:14:09- Neruda.- No, it's Isabel Allende. Ten points for this.
0:14:09 > 0:14:15Listen carefully. The course record for the University Boat Race is 16 minutes, 19 seconds,
0:14:15 > 0:14:17set by Cambridge in 1998.
0:14:17 > 0:14:22To the nearest whole astronomical unit, how far does sunlight travel in that time?
0:14:27 > 0:14:29- Two.- Correct.
0:14:33 > 0:14:38The bonuses this time are on the views of AJP Taylor, the historian.
0:14:38 > 0:14:44In The Origins Of The Second World War, AJP Taylor argues that the Great War that began in 1914
0:14:44 > 0:14:49was not ended until the signing of which treaty in 1925?
0:14:50 > 0:14:52WHISPERING
0:14:53 > 0:14:55- Locarno.- Correct.
0:14:55 > 0:15:00What event of March 1936 brought about the end of the Locarno Pact?
0:15:00 > 0:15:06According to Taylor, it provided the first opportunity for the western powers to oppose Hitler.
0:15:06 > 0:15:08Anschluss. Anschluss.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11The Anschluss of Austria.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14- The Anschluss?- No, it's the occupation of the Rhineland.
0:15:14 > 0:15:18And finally, on the final page of that work, Taylor states
0:15:18 > 0:15:24that "the war that broke out in 1939 has become a matter of historical curiosity"
0:15:24 > 0:15:29and that in his view, the Second World War became a "real" world war only in which year?
0:15:31 > 0:15:34Maybe '40. The Phoney War finished earlier than '41.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37'41 because of the US and Russia. >
0:15:37 > 0:15:39- 1941.- Correct.
0:15:39 > 0:15:44We'll take a music round. For your starter, you'll hear a piece of popular music.
0:15:44 > 0:15:49Ten points if you can tell me the names of the prolific song-writing team behind the song.
0:15:49 > 0:15:51# We're no strangers to love... #
0:15:51 > 0:15:54- Stock, Aitken & Waterman.- Correct.
0:15:55 > 0:16:01They were guilty of many of the hits of the '80s and '90s, so for your music bonuses,
0:16:01 > 0:16:05three more tracks written by prolific song-writing teams.
0:16:05 > 0:16:09Five points if you can identify the team or duo behind the song.
0:16:09 > 0:16:12Firstly for five, the partnership behind this song?
0:16:12 > 0:16:16# Looking out on the morning rain
0:16:18 > 0:16:22# I used to feel so uninspired
0:16:24 > 0:16:29# And when I knew I had to face another day
0:16:30 > 0:16:34# Lord, it made me feel so tired... #
0:16:34 > 0:16:40- Bacharach and David? - No, Gerry Goffin and Carole King. Secondly, the duo who wrote this?
0:16:40 > 0:16:43# You ain't nothing but a hound dog
0:16:43 > 0:16:46# Been snoopin' round my door
0:16:47 > 0:16:50# You ain't nothing but a hound dog
0:16:50 > 0:16:53# Been snoopin' round my door
0:16:53 > 0:16:57# You can wag your tail... #
0:16:57 > 0:17:01- Pass.- That's Leiber and Stoller. Finally, the team behind this?
0:17:01 > 0:17:03INTRO PLAYS
0:17:08 > 0:17:12# Now if you feel that you can't go on
0:17:12 > 0:17:13# Because... #
0:17:13 > 0:17:18- Pass.- That's Holland, Dozier, Holland. Ten points for this.
0:17:18 > 0:17:24Which US poet and novelist wrote the screenplay of the 1987 film Barfly, starring Mickey Rourke...
0:17:24 > 0:17:27- Bukowski. - Charles Bukowski is correct, yes.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33UCL, these bonuses are on symmetry.
0:17:33 > 0:17:39About which line is the graph "y equals x-squared" symmetrical?
0:17:39 > 0:17:41WHISPERING
0:17:46 > 0:17:52- X equals zero.- Correct. About which point and by how many degrees is the rotation
0:17:52 > 0:17:57that produces the only non-trivial symmetry of the line "y equals x-cubed"?
0:18:02 > 0:18:05It'll be 180 degrees.
0:18:07 > 0:18:11If it's "y equals x-cubed", it's a rotation, so it's going to be...
0:18:15 > 0:18:18- 180 degrees... - I think we need an answer, please.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21- 180 degrees from the origin?- Correct.
0:18:21 > 0:18:26From the Greek for "opposite", what name is given to a pair of non-superimposable objects
0:18:26 > 0:18:29that are mirror images of each other?
0:18:29 > 0:18:34- No, pass.- They're enantiomers or enantiomorphs. Right, ten points for this.
0:18:34 > 0:18:39In immunology, what word, derived from the Latin for "to help",
0:18:39 > 0:18:44denotes a substance included in a vaccine that enhances the immune response of the recipient?
0:18:44 > 0:18:48- Adjuvant.- Adjuvant is correct, yes.
0:18:51 > 0:18:55Your bonuses this time are on US states and their official foods.
0:18:55 > 0:19:01In 2006, which state designated the Key Lime Pie as its official state pie?
0:19:01 > 0:19:06- Florida.- Correct. Georgia and Oklahoma are among states that have adopted a porridge
0:19:06 > 0:19:10of coarsely-ground maize kernels as an official state food.
0:19:10 > 0:19:13By what five-letter term is the dish known?
0:19:13 > 0:19:16- Grits.- Grits.- Correct.
0:19:16 > 0:19:20From the 1980s, several US states adopted varieties
0:19:20 > 0:19:23of what baked foodstuff as their official state variety?
0:19:23 > 0:19:27That of Massachusetts is "corn" while Minnesota's is "blueberry".
0:19:29 > 0:19:32- A muffin.- Muffin?
0:19:32 > 0:19:35No, go with "pie". I think it probably is...
0:19:35 > 0:19:37But it's corn.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40- Corn and blueberry...- Come on!
0:19:40 > 0:19:44- Bread.- Bread? Bread.- No, it's muffins. Ten points for this.
0:19:44 > 0:19:50The trilogy of plays by Aeschylus that comprises Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and...
0:19:50 > 0:19:53- The Oresteia. - The Oresteia is correct.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59These bonuses, UCL, are on art and astronomy.
0:19:59 > 0:20:04"That man am I, by whose accomplishment the painter's art was raised from the dead."
0:20:04 > 0:20:09These words are from a memorial to which Italian artist, born around 1266?
0:20:11 > 0:20:14WHISPERING
0:20:22 > 0:20:24- Come on.- Uccello. - No, it's Giotto Di Bondone.
0:20:24 > 0:20:29A space probe named after Giotto was part of an armada of craft
0:20:29 > 0:20:33that made observations of which astronomical object in 1986?
0:20:36 > 0:20:38- Halley's Comet.- Correct, yes.
0:20:38 > 0:20:43A heavenly object thought to be Halley's Comet appears in a fresco by Giotto
0:20:43 > 0:20:48in the Arena Chapel in Padua, depicting what event in the early life of Jesus?
0:20:50 > 0:20:53WHISPERING
0:20:59 > 0:21:01- Adoration of the Magi.- Correct.
0:21:04 > 0:21:06We'll take a second picture round.
0:21:06 > 0:21:10For your starter, you will see a painting by an American-born artist.
0:21:10 > 0:21:13Ten points if you can name the artist.
0:21:18 > 0:21:20- Whistler?- It is Whistler, yes.
0:21:24 > 0:21:29He was one of many western artists in the late 19th century and early 20th century
0:21:29 > 0:21:36to be influenced by Japanese art and design, following the reopening of trade with Japan in the 1850s.
0:21:36 > 0:21:41For your bonuses, here are three more examples of Japonisme in western art.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43In each case, name the artist.
0:21:43 > 0:21:45Firstly for five?
0:21:51 > 0:21:54- Cezanne?- No, that's Gauguin.
0:21:54 > 0:21:58Secondly, this painting not in the artist's most familiar style?
0:22:01 > 0:22:04- Try Toulouse-Lautrec. - Toulouse-Lautrec.
0:22:04 > 0:22:07No, that's by Monet. And finally?
0:22:12 > 0:22:16- Van Gogh.- It was by Van Gogh, yes. Right, ten points for this.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18Begun in 1580, the year of his death,
0:22:18 > 0:22:23the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza was the last building designed by which...
0:22:23 > 0:22:25- Palladio.- Palladio is correct, yes.
0:22:28 > 0:22:32Your bonuses this time are on idioms.
0:22:32 > 0:22:40"Das kommt mir spanisch vor" is a German idiom most nearly approximate to which English equivalent?
0:22:40 > 0:22:42WHISPERING
0:22:43 > 0:22:48- "It's all Greek to me."- Correct. Which two-word English phrase suggestive of a European relative
0:22:48 > 0:22:52is synonymous with a candid, but benevolent adviser or critic?
0:22:54 > 0:22:58- Dutch uncle.- Dutch uncle.- Correct.
0:22:58 > 0:23:02What is the English equivalent of the French idiom "filer a l'anglaise"?
0:23:09 > 0:23:11WHISPERING
0:23:11 > 0:23:14Come on, let's have it, please.
0:23:14 > 0:23:19- Prodigal son.- No, it's "to take French leave". Ten points for this.
0:23:19 > 0:23:24In trigonometry, which function of an angle in a right-angled triangle can be found
0:23:24 > 0:23:30by dividing the length of the side adjacent to the angle by the length of the hypotenuse?
0:23:30 > 0:23:32- Cosine.- Cosine is correct, yes.
0:23:34 > 0:23:37These bonuses are on insect development, UCL.
0:23:37 > 0:23:42From the Greek for "to flow", what word for a mythological water nymph refers
0:23:42 > 0:23:45to the aquatic larva or nymph of, for example, a dragonfly?
0:23:47 > 0:23:50- Dryad?- I'll try that.
0:23:50 > 0:23:56- Dryad?- No, naiad. Derived from the Latin for "form" or "likeness", what six-letter word describes
0:23:56 > 0:24:01a growth stage between periods of moulting in the development of an insect larva?
0:24:02 > 0:24:08- Instar.- Correct. The process by which an insect sheds its old exoskeleton
0:24:08 > 0:24:12is known by what term derived from the Greek meaning "put off"?
0:24:12 > 0:24:15WHISPERING
0:24:17 > 0:24:20- Come on. - WHISPERING CONTINUES
0:24:20 > 0:24:24- Let's have it, please!- Pass. - It's ecdysis. Ten points for this.
0:24:24 > 0:24:29First performed in 1958, which play by Shelagh Delaney concerns a working-class girl from...
0:24:29 > 0:24:31- A Taste Of Honey.- Correct.
0:24:34 > 0:24:40Your bonuses, UCL, this time are on the To Be Or Not To Be soliloquy in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
0:24:40 > 0:24:44Deriving from an archaic or dialect term meaning "tumult" or "trouble",
0:24:44 > 0:24:49what phrase does Hamlet use to mean the turmoil of earthly life?
0:24:49 > 0:24:51Sea of troubles?
0:24:52 > 0:24:54Try "sea of troubles".
0:24:54 > 0:24:58- Sea of troubles? - No, it's "this mortal coil".
0:24:58 > 0:25:05What term does Hamlet use to denote the unknowable afterlife "from whose bourn no traveller returns"?
0:25:09 > 0:25:14- Let's have it, please.- No, pass. - It's "the undiscover'd country".
0:25:14 > 0:25:19What two weapons does Hamlet describe as those inflicted by "outrageous fortune"?
0:25:19 > 0:25:24- Slings and arrows.- Correct. Ten points for this. Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:25:24 > 0:25:28How many convex polyhedra make up the group of Archimedean solids?
0:25:28 > 0:25:32- Five.- No. One of you may buzz from Exeter.
0:25:34 > 0:25:38- Seven.- No, it's 13. Another starter question now.
0:25:38 > 0:25:41Also referring to the guardians around the throne of God,
0:25:41 > 0:25:47what name is given in Christian angelic hierarchy to the highest-ranking celestial...
0:25:47 > 0:25:50- Archangels. - I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53..celestial beings in the nine orders of angels?
0:25:53 > 0:25:55- Seraphim.- Seraphim is correct.
0:25:55 > 0:26:00These bonuses are on the parliaments of EU member states.
0:26:00 > 0:26:04Name the country whose seat of parliament is the following.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07Firstly for five points, the Christiansborg Palace?
0:26:09 > 0:26:11- Denmark.- Correct.
0:26:11 > 0:26:16Secondly, the Hotel de la Chambre on the street known as Krautmaart?
0:26:18 > 0:26:20- Belgium?- Go with Belgium.
0:26:20 > 0:26:22THEY CONTINUE CONFERRING
0:26:22 > 0:26:25- Belgium?- It's Luxembourg.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28Finally, the Sao Bento Palace?
0:26:28 > 0:26:32- It's Portugal.- Portugal? Portugal.- Portugal is correct.
0:26:32 > 0:26:34Ten points for this. Which sporting figure
0:26:34 > 0:26:39is the subject of the biographies Nobody Ever Says Thank You...
0:26:39 > 0:26:41- Brian Clough.- Correct.
0:26:43 > 0:26:47These bonuses this time are on the abbreviations used by the IUCN,
0:26:47 > 0:26:50or International Union for Conservation of Nature,
0:26:50 > 0:26:55in its annual Red List of plant and animal species under threat.
0:26:55 > 0:27:00EN represents endangered animals and plants. What does the abbreviation CR mean?
0:27:00 > 0:27:03- Let's get on with it. - Critically endangered.- Correct.
0:27:03 > 0:27:10Species such as the red deer and the European hare are classed as LC, representing what to the IUCN?
0:27:10 > 0:27:15- Least concern.- Correct. In the same context, what is denoted by the letters EW?
0:27:17 > 0:27:19No, sorry.
0:27:19 > 0:27:23- Pass.- Extinction in the wild. Ten points for this.
0:27:23 > 0:27:30The number of letters in successive members of which familiar series of words is 3, 3, 5, 4, 4, 3...
0:27:30 > 0:27:35- Counting numbers.- Correct. I was going to give you right up to 9, but I'll accept that.
0:27:35 > 0:27:39- Your bonuses this time, UCL... - GONG
0:27:39 > 0:27:44And at the gong, the University of Exeter have 85, University College London have 260.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51It started well, but you just faded.
0:27:51 > 0:27:56You were up against a very strong team. We'll have to say goodbye to you, Exeter.
0:27:56 > 0:28:01UCL, that's a terrific score. We shall look forward to seeing you in Round Two.
0:28:01 > 0:28:07- Join us next time for another first round match, but it's goodbye from the University of Exeter.- Goodbye.
0:28:07 > 0:28:11- It's goodbye from UCL.- Goodbye. - And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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