0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:21University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:30Hello, one of Oxford's oldest colleges
0:00:30 > 0:00:33plays one of Cambridge's youngest tonight
0:00:33 > 0:00:35with a place in the second round for the victors.
0:00:35 > 0:00:39The losers might also play again if their score is good enough.
0:00:39 > 0:00:40New College is
0:00:40 > 0:00:43something of a misnomer as it's one of Oxford's oldest.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46It was founded in the Mesozoic era
0:00:46 > 0:00:49and was called New to distinguish it from Oriel College as both
0:00:49 > 0:00:53of them had dedications to St Mary in their full titles.
0:00:53 > 0:00:55Imagine the confusion if they hadn't.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58Its architectural style is a typical Oxford combination
0:00:58 > 0:01:01of imposing stone quads and wood panelling.
0:01:01 > 0:01:05Its most famous buildings being the chapel and the cloisters which will
0:01:05 > 0:01:08be familiar to anyone who has seen Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11Alumni include the writer John Galsworthy, the politician
0:01:11 > 0:01:15Tony Benn and the actors Kate Beckinsale and Hugh Grant.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18Playing on the behalf of around 600 students
0:01:18 > 0:01:19and with an average age of 20,
0:01:19 > 0:01:22let's meet the team from New College.
0:01:22 > 0:01:24Hi, I'm Remi Beecroft.
0:01:24 > 0:01:26I'm from Letchworth in Hertfordshire
0:01:26 > 0:01:28and I'm studying psychology and philosophy.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31I'm India Lenon. I'm from London and I'm studying classics.
0:01:31 > 0:01:32And their captain.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35Hi, I'm Andy Hood from Wasperton in Warwickshire
0:01:35 > 0:01:37and I'm studying philosophy, politics and economics.
0:01:37 > 0:01:40Hi, I'm Tom Cappleman from Bracknell in Berkshire
0:01:40 > 0:01:41and I'm reading mathematics.
0:01:41 > 0:01:46APPLAUSE
0:01:47 > 0:01:50Homerton College, Cambridge only became a full college
0:01:50 > 0:01:53of the University in 2010, but its convoluted history
0:01:53 > 0:01:56goes way back to the 1700s when it was
0:01:56 > 0:02:00an academy for dissenters in Homerton High Street in London.
0:02:00 > 0:02:05In 1850 it became a teacher training college and in 1894
0:02:05 > 0:02:09it relocated to Cambridge to avoid the diseases of the East End.
0:02:09 > 0:02:13It used to be all-female but by the 1970s it was taking men again.
0:02:13 > 0:02:17Alumni include the comedians Nick Hancock and Jan Ravens
0:02:17 > 0:02:19and the actress Tamzin Merchant.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22It's by far the biggest Cambridge college.
0:02:22 > 0:02:24Let's meet the four with an average age of 19
0:02:24 > 0:02:26playing on behalf of Homerton.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28I'm Jack Hooper.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31I'm from Altrincham in Cheshire and I'm studying natural sciences.
0:02:31 > 0:02:32Hi, I'm Michael Angland.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35I'm from Cork in Ireland and I'm studying Arabic and Spanish.
0:02:35 > 0:02:37And their captain.
0:02:37 > 0:02:38Hi, my name's Luke Fitzgerald.
0:02:38 > 0:02:41I'm from Hadleigh in Suffolk and I'm studying history.
0:02:41 > 0:02:42Hello, my name is Drew Miley.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45I'm from the city of Durham and I'm reading mathematics.
0:02:45 > 0:02:49APPLAUSE
0:02:49 > 0:02:51OK, the rules are the same as ever -
0:02:51 > 0:02:5310 points for starters, 15 for bonuses.
0:02:53 > 0:02:55Fingers on buzzers. Your first starter for ten.
0:02:55 > 0:02:58Published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office
0:02:58 > 0:03:01and appearing in print daily, weekly and online, the official reports
0:03:01 > 0:03:04of the proceedings of the Westminster Parliament
0:03:04 > 0:03:05are known by what name?
0:03:05 > 0:03:06BUZZER
0:03:06 > 0:03:07Hansard.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10Hansard is correct.
0:03:10 > 0:03:11APPLAUSE
0:03:11 > 0:03:15Your bonuses are on 18th-century history, New College.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17After a mutilation suffered by a British sea captain, what
0:03:17 > 0:03:23name is often given to the Anglo Spanish war that began in 1739?
0:03:23 > 0:03:25Nominate Beecroft.
0:03:25 > 0:03:27The War of Jenkins' Ear.
0:03:27 > 0:03:28Correct. Now in Panama,
0:03:28 > 0:03:30which Spanish seaport captured in 1739 by Admiral Vernon
0:03:30 > 0:03:34gives its name to an area of Edinburgh
0:03:34 > 0:03:37and to a street and market in West London?
0:03:37 > 0:03:38Portobello.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41Correct. Later that year, a force under Admiral Vernon
0:03:41 > 0:03:44attempted unsuccessfully to take Santiago de Cuba.
0:03:44 > 0:03:48At which bay did it disembark?
0:03:48 > 0:03:50Bay of Pigs.
0:03:50 > 0:03:52No, it's Guantanamo. 10 points for this.
0:03:52 > 0:03:53What three digit number
0:03:53 > 0:03:55links the seats on the round table,
0:03:55 > 0:03:57according to Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur,
0:03:57 > 0:03:59the psalms in the eponymous book of the Old Testament...
0:03:59 > 0:04:01BUZZER
0:04:02 > 0:04:03150.
0:04:03 > 0:04:08150 is correct. And your bonuses this time are on literature.
0:04:08 > 0:04:10I want you to identify the following three US writers
0:04:10 > 0:04:14from lines taken from their obituary in the New York Times.
0:04:14 > 0:04:18First, he captured the essence of a period when flappers and gin
0:04:18 > 0:04:20and the beautiful and the damned
0:04:20 > 0:04:23were the symbols of the carefree madness of an age.
0:04:23 > 0:04:24F Scott Fitzgerald.
0:04:24 > 0:04:25Correct.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27Which tireless chronicler of smalltown America
0:04:27 > 0:04:29who died in 2009
0:04:29 > 0:04:31sought the clash of extremes
0:04:31 > 0:04:34in everyday dramas of marriage, sex and divorce?
0:04:36 > 0:04:38Garrison Keillor.
0:04:38 > 0:04:39No, it's John Updike.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41After his death in 1961,
0:04:41 > 0:04:46the New York Times wrote of which writer's lean and sinewy prose,
0:04:46 > 0:04:49his mastery of a kind of laconic, understated dialogue,
0:04:49 > 0:04:54his insistent use of repetition, often of a single word or name?
0:04:56 > 0:04:57Steinbeck.
0:04:57 > 0:04:59No, it's Ernest Hemingway.
0:04:59 > 0:05:0110 points for this. The impossibility of
0:05:01 > 0:05:04travelling around the Prussian city of Konigsberg on the River Pregel,
0:05:04 > 0:05:07crossing each of its seven bridges only once
0:05:07 > 0:05:10and returning to the point at which one started was proved in 1736...
0:05:10 > 0:05:11BUZZER
0:05:11 > 0:05:13Leonhard Euler.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15Euler is correct.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18APPLAUSE
0:05:18 > 0:05:20These bonuses are on astronomical discovery.
0:05:20 > 0:05:24Which Danish nobleman was the author of De Nova Stella
0:05:24 > 0:05:26describing the supernova of 1572 and thereby refuting
0:05:26 > 0:05:31the Aristotelian concept of the celestial bodies as being immutable?
0:05:32 > 0:05:34Tycho Brahe.
0:05:34 > 0:05:37Correct. Tycho Brahe's supernova was the inspiration for
0:05:37 > 0:05:41the poem Al Aaraaf, first published in 1829.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43The longest poem as well as one of the earliest
0:05:43 > 0:05:46by which US writer also noted for his short stories?
0:05:50 > 0:05:52Whitman.
0:05:52 > 0:05:53No, it's Edgar Allan Poe.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56Finally, it's been argued by some astronomers that Tycho's supernova
0:05:56 > 0:05:59is being referred to by the soldier Bernardo with the words,
0:05:59 > 0:06:01"Yon same star, that's westward from the pole,"
0:06:01 > 0:06:04in the opening scene of which play by Shakespeare?
0:06:04 > 0:06:05- Hamlet.- Hamlet is right.
0:06:05 > 0:06:0610 points for this.
0:06:06 > 0:06:09Composition In Red, Yellow And Blue is a work by which
0:06:09 > 0:06:14Dutch painter born in 1872, a founder of the De Stijl movement
0:06:14 > 0:06:15and in his later years...
0:06:15 > 0:06:16BUZZER
0:06:16 > 0:06:18Mondrian.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20- Mondrian is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:06:20 > 0:06:25Your bonuses, Homerton, are on world capitals, specifically those whose
0:06:25 > 0:06:28names would have a value of five points in the board game Scrabble.
0:06:28 > 0:06:29That is if proper names were allowed.
0:06:29 > 0:06:34The name of which EU capital city has a Scrabble value of five?
0:06:34 > 0:06:38Its country's independence was restored in 1991.
0:06:38 > 0:06:43THEY WHISPER
0:06:43 > 0:06:47- Riga.- Correct. Capital of a country whose independence was restored
0:06:47 > 0:06:51in 2002, which Asian capital has a Scrabble value of five?
0:06:51 > 0:06:55THEY WHISPER
0:06:55 > 0:06:57Dili.
0:06:57 > 0:06:59Correct. On a similar longitude to Dili,
0:06:59 > 0:07:03which former Olympic host city has a Scrabble value of five?
0:07:03 > 0:07:05- Seoul.- Seoul is correct. Well done.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08- Right. - APPLAUSE
0:07:08 > 0:07:11You're going to see a picture starter question.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13You will see a diagram of a knot.
0:07:13 > 0:07:1610 points if you can give me its full name.
0:07:16 > 0:07:17BUZZER
0:07:17 > 0:07:18Sheepshank.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21Anyone like to buzz from New College?
0:07:21 > 0:07:23BUZZER
0:07:23 > 0:07:25Granny.
0:07:25 > 0:07:26No, it's a reef knot.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28None of you was a Boy Scout, obviously. Right,
0:07:28 > 0:07:3110 points for this starter question. Meanings of what hyphenated,
0:07:31 > 0:07:35alliterative word include a bi-stable electronic circuit
0:07:35 > 0:07:37capable of serving as one bit of memory
0:07:37 > 0:07:41and a North American term for a backward somersault?
0:07:41 > 0:07:42BUZZER
0:07:42 > 0:07:44Backflip.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47No, anyone want to buzz from New College?
0:07:47 > 0:07:49It's a flip-flop.
0:07:49 > 0:07:53Another starter question. Picture bonuses shortly. 10 points for this.
0:07:53 > 0:07:54Central to the argument
0:07:54 > 0:07:56for demand management in Keynesian economics,
0:07:56 > 0:07:59which theoretical concept is based on an argument that
0:07:59 > 0:08:01an increase in government spending becomes income for consumers
0:08:01 > 0:08:03and relates an initial change
0:08:03 > 0:08:05in spending to the total change in activity...
0:08:05 > 0:08:06BUZZER
0:08:06 > 0:08:08The multiplier effect.
0:08:08 > 0:08:12- The multiplier is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:08:12 > 0:08:15Following on from that picture of the reef knot that you saw,
0:08:15 > 0:08:17three more knots for you to identify. Firstly.
0:08:23 > 0:08:24Sheepshank?
0:08:24 > 0:08:26No, that's a bowline. Secondly.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31Fisherman's?
0:08:31 > 0:08:35It's a double fisherman's, so I can't accept that, I'm afraid.
0:08:35 > 0:08:36Finally.
0:08:43 > 0:08:45- A figure of eight knot? - It is. Yes, to stop them off.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47Well done. Right, 10 points for this.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50At the same distance as Jupiter from the sun
0:08:50 > 0:08:52and approximately 60 degrees ahead of it
0:08:52 > 0:08:54and 60 degrees behind it in their orbit,
0:08:54 > 0:08:57what name from Greek legend is collectively given to
0:08:57 > 0:09:01the asteroids Achilles, Nestor, Hektor and Patroclus?
0:09:01 > 0:09:03BUZZER
0:09:03 > 0:09:05Asterieds.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07No. Homerton, one of you buzz?
0:09:07 > 0:09:09BUZZER
0:09:09 > 0:09:11Titans.
0:09:11 > 0:09:13No, it's Trojans. 10 points for this.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16A large public square flanked by Islamic academies,
0:09:16 > 0:09:19the Registan is a UNESCO World Heritage site
0:09:19 > 0:09:21in which central Asian city?
0:09:21 > 0:09:24Known as Maracanda when it was captured by Alexander the Great,
0:09:24 > 0:09:27it later became Tamerlane's capital and is today...
0:09:27 > 0:09:28BUZZER
0:09:28 > 0:09:29Samarkand.
0:09:29 > 0:09:33- Samarkand is correct. - APPLAUSE
0:09:33 > 0:09:35These bonuses are on sociology.
0:09:35 > 0:09:36What two word term denotes
0:09:36 > 0:09:38the effect noted by the US psychologist
0:09:38 > 0:09:40Edward Thorndike in the 1920s
0:09:40 > 0:09:43by which attributes are often generalised? For example,
0:09:43 > 0:09:46making the misleading judgement that clever people
0:09:46 > 0:09:48are knowledgeable about everything.
0:09:48 > 0:09:54THEY WHISPER
0:09:54 > 0:09:56- We don't know.- It's the halo effect.
0:09:56 > 0:09:58Named by the US sociologist
0:09:58 > 0:10:00Robert K Merton after one of the Gospels,
0:10:00 > 0:10:02which effect is loosely summed up
0:10:02 > 0:10:06as the rich get richer while the poor get poorer?
0:10:06 > 0:10:10THEY WHISPER
0:10:10 > 0:10:11The Matthew effect.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14Correct. What term is used to indicate the spreading
0:10:14 > 0:10:17unintentional effects of or repercussions of
0:10:17 > 0:10:19a single simple act?
0:10:19 > 0:10:26THEY WHISPER
0:10:26 > 0:10:28Law of unintended consequences.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30No, it's the ripple effect.
0:10:30 > 0:10:3210 points for this. In August 2010,
0:10:32 > 0:10:34the Kenyan runner David Rudisha
0:10:34 > 0:10:37broke the 13-year-old world record in which event?
0:10:37 > 0:10:38BUZZER
0:10:38 > 0:10:39800 metres.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41Correct. Your bonuses, New College,
0:10:41 > 0:10:45are now on neologisms as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary.
0:10:45 > 0:10:50Firstly, which neologism is defined by the OED as a radical alteration
0:10:50 > 0:10:53in the relationship between the sexes, especially one resulting
0:10:53 > 0:10:57from deliberate changes in women's economic or political activity?
0:10:57 > 0:11:00(Feminisation?)
0:11:00 > 0:11:02Feminisation?
0:11:02 > 0:11:03No, it's gender quake.
0:11:03 > 0:11:07What hyphenated term means the action of lying flat while being
0:11:07 > 0:11:10passed over the heads of members of the audience at
0:11:10 > 0:11:11a rock concert, typically
0:11:11 > 0:11:13after jumping into the audience from the stage?
0:11:13 > 0:11:15- Crowd-surfing.- Correct.
0:11:15 > 0:11:18And what compound word is defined as the making of rhythmical sounds with
0:11:18 > 0:11:23the voice and mouth in imitation of the rhythms of hip-hop music?
0:11:23 > 0:11:24- Beatboxing.- Correct.
0:11:24 > 0:11:2610 points for this. Also called white mica,
0:11:26 > 0:11:29which pale, translucent, potassium-containing mineral
0:11:29 > 0:11:32of the mica group shares its name with a native or inhabitant...
0:11:32 > 0:11:34BUZZER
0:11:34 > 0:11:36- Muscovite.- Muscovite is correct.
0:11:36 > 0:11:39Your bonuses this time, Homerton College, are on mathematics.
0:11:39 > 0:11:44All three are regarding a cube of edge length N where N is
0:11:44 > 0:11:46a positive integer.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48Give the formula in terms of N for the surface area
0:11:48 > 0:11:50of a cube of edge length N.
0:11:50 > 0:11:54(6 N squared.)
0:11:54 > 0:11:56- 6 N squared.- Correct.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59What is the smallest value of N for which the volume of the cube
0:11:59 > 0:12:02of edge length N is numerically greater than
0:12:02 > 0:12:03or equal to its surface area?
0:12:08 > 0:12:10(Two? Two?)
0:12:10 > 0:12:12- Two.- No, it's six.
0:12:12 > 0:12:16How many edges does the cube of edge length N possess?
0:12:19 > 0:12:20(12.)
0:12:20 > 0:12:22- 12.- Of course.
0:12:22 > 0:12:24Yes, 10 points for this. Born in 1845,
0:12:24 > 0:12:28which German mathematician developed the first clear and comprehensive
0:12:28 > 0:12:29account of transfinite sets of numbers?
0:12:29 > 0:12:32He gives his name to the theory of sets.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34BUZZER
0:12:34 > 0:12:36Godel?
0:12:36 > 0:12:39No, anyone like to buzz from Homerton?
0:12:39 > 0:12:40It's Georg Cantor. 10 points for this.
0:12:40 > 0:12:44Name the two countries whose representatives gave their names
0:12:44 > 0:12:48to the Kellogg-Briand pact of 1928, also known as the treaty
0:12:48 > 0:12:52for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54BUZZER
0:12:54 > 0:12:56America and France.
0:12:56 > 0:13:00- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:13:00 > 0:13:04Right, your bonuses this time, Homerton, are on name changes.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07The city of Berlin in Ontario was renamed in 1916 in honour
0:13:07 > 0:13:12of which Irish born field marshal who was killed en route to
0:13:12 > 0:13:14Russia in June of that year?
0:13:14 > 0:13:19THEY WHISPER
0:13:21 > 0:13:22- Kitchener.- Correct.
0:13:22 > 0:13:25After the capital city of Santo Domingo was temporarily
0:13:25 > 0:13:30renamed after Rafael Trujillo, which country did he rule from 1930
0:13:30 > 0:13:33until his assassination in 1961?
0:13:33 > 0:13:35- The Dominican Republic.- Correct.
0:13:35 > 0:13:39During the Soviet era, the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod was
0:13:39 > 0:13:43renamed after which writer who had been born there in 1860?
0:13:43 > 0:13:45- (Maxim Gorky.)- (Yeah.)
0:13:45 > 0:13:46- Maxim Gorky.- Correct.
0:13:46 > 0:13:5010 points for this starter question. Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53Give the name of the common chemical element whose symbol,
0:13:53 > 0:13:57when written backwards, becomes an indirect article.
0:13:57 > 0:13:58BUZZER
0:13:58 > 0:14:00Sodium.
0:14:00 > 0:14:04- Sodium is correct. Na becomes an. - APPLAUSE
0:14:04 > 0:14:06Your bonuses this time, New College, are on a film director.
0:14:06 > 0:14:11His flamboyant style and unorthodox biographies of musical notables
0:14:11 > 0:14:15have divided viewers into outraged observers or staunch followers.
0:14:15 > 0:14:20Those words refer to which British film director who died in 2011?
0:14:20 > 0:14:23THEY WHISPER
0:14:23 > 0:14:26- Sorry, we don't know. - It was Ken Russell.
0:14:26 > 0:14:29Described in his own words as the story of the marriage
0:14:29 > 0:14:33between a homosexual and a nymphomaniac, Russell's 1970 film
0:14:33 > 0:14:38The Music Lovers depicts the life of which 19th-century composer?
0:14:40 > 0:14:43- Brahms.- No, it's Tchaikovsky.
0:14:43 > 0:14:46Glenda Jackson won the Academy Award for Best Actress
0:14:46 > 0:14:48in which Ken Russell film of 1969
0:14:48 > 0:14:50based on a novel by DH Lawrence?
0:14:52 > 0:14:57THEY WHISPER
0:14:57 > 0:14:58Nominate Beecroft.
0:14:58 > 0:15:00- Lady Chatterley's Lover? - No, it was Women In Love.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03Right, time for a music round. For your music starter
0:15:03 > 0:15:05you'll hear an excerpt from a film score.
0:15:05 > 0:15:0910 points if you can name the film in which this theme first appeared.
0:15:18 > 0:15:19BUZZER
0:15:19 > 0:15:20Halloween.
0:15:20 > 0:15:24- Halloween is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:15:24 > 0:15:27Right, your music bonuses are three more pieces of music
0:15:27 > 0:15:30composed for well-known horror films,
0:15:30 > 0:15:32in each case the first of a franchise.
0:15:32 > 0:15:34Five points for each film you can identify.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37Firstly, this film of 1976.
0:15:54 > 0:15:58THEY WHISPER
0:16:01 > 0:16:04MUSIC DROWNS OUT SPEECH
0:16:07 > 0:16:09Final Destination?
0:16:09 > 0:16:12No, that was from The Omen. Secondly, this film of 1982.
0:16:22 > 0:16:26MUSIC DROWNS OUT SPEECH
0:16:28 > 0:16:29Nightmare On Elm Street.
0:16:29 > 0:16:32No, that was from Poltergeist.
0:16:32 > 0:16:35And finally, this film of 1984.
0:16:43 > 0:16:45- Nightmare On Elm Street. - Yes, it was. Well done.
0:16:45 > 0:16:47APPLAUSE
0:16:47 > 0:16:49Right, 10 points for this starter question.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52Carriacou and Petite Martinique are among the islands of which nation?
0:16:52 > 0:16:56The southernmost country of the Windward Islands,
0:16:56 > 0:16:59it was the scene of a US military intervention in 1983.
0:16:59 > 0:17:00BUZZER
0:17:00 > 0:17:01Grenada.
0:17:01 > 0:17:06- Grenada is right, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:17:06 > 0:17:08Bonuses this time on fungus.
0:17:08 > 0:17:11Firstly, what name, meaning mushroom, is given to a fungus
0:17:11 > 0:17:17in the form of a loose mass of branching and interwoven filaments?
0:17:17 > 0:17:21THEY WHISPER
0:17:23 > 0:17:25- We don't know, I'm afraid. - It's mycelium or mycelia.
0:17:25 > 0:17:28Also called honeydew, what name is given to a white fungus on
0:17:28 > 0:17:30the surface of a plant and to a similar growth
0:17:30 > 0:17:34found on paper and cloth after exposure to damp?
0:17:34 > 0:17:35(Mildew.)
0:17:35 > 0:17:36- Mildew.- Correct.
0:17:36 > 0:17:39The term mycorrhiza describes the symbiotic
0:17:39 > 0:17:43relationship between a fungus and which part of a plant?
0:17:43 > 0:17:44(Roots.)
0:17:44 > 0:17:45- Roots.- Roots is correct.
0:17:45 > 0:17:4810 points for this. Listen carefully. In 1901,
0:17:48 > 0:17:53the first Nobel prizes were awarded for achievements in five fields.
0:17:53 > 0:17:58In which field did the Bank of Sweden launch a sixth Nobel in 1969?
0:17:58 > 0:18:00BUZZER
0:18:00 > 0:18:01Peace.
0:18:01 > 0:18:03No. Anyone want to buzz from New College?
0:18:03 > 0:18:04BUZZER
0:18:04 > 0:18:06Economics.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09- Economics is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:18:09 > 0:18:12Your bonuses, New College, are on the Turner Prize.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15Which Indian born British sculptor was the first recipient
0:18:15 > 0:18:19of the prize after it adopted its current format in 1991?
0:18:19 > 0:18:20(Anish...)
0:18:20 > 0:18:21- Anish Kapoor.- Correct.
0:18:21 > 0:18:24Which painter and filmmaker was nominated for the prize in 1986,
0:18:24 > 0:18:30particularly for his film Caravaggio?
0:18:30 > 0:18:31Sorry, we don't know.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34That was Derek Jarman. And finally, Prousch and Passmore
0:18:34 > 0:18:38are the surnames of the Turner Prize winners in 1986,
0:18:38 > 0:18:40better known by what names?
0:18:40 > 0:18:41- Gilbert and George?- Correct.
0:18:41 > 0:18:4410 points for this. Listen carefully. A plank of wood
0:18:44 > 0:18:47leans against a wall, touching the wall two metres up
0:18:47 > 0:18:51and touching the ground one metre from the base of the wall.
0:18:51 > 0:18:54- How long is the plank? - BUZZER
0:18:54 > 0:18:56Root five metres.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58It is, yes, it's the square root of five metres.
0:18:58 > 0:19:01Right, a set of bonuses this time for you on children's books.
0:19:01 > 0:19:05In each case, identify the book from the titles of three of its chapters.
0:19:05 > 0:19:10First - The Old Gentleman, The Pride Of Perks and Saviours Of The Train.
0:19:12 > 0:19:13THEY WHISPER
0:19:13 > 0:19:15- The Railway Children.- Correct.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18Now - The Return Of Ulysses, Dulce Domum
0:19:18 > 0:19:21and The Piper At The Gates of Dawn.
0:19:23 > 0:19:28THEY WHISPER
0:19:28 > 0:19:30- Sorry, we don't know. - It's The Wind In The Willows.
0:19:30 > 0:19:35And finally, The Shadow, The Never Bird and Do You Believe In Fairies?
0:19:35 > 0:19:36(Peter Pan.)
0:19:36 > 0:19:37- Peter Pan.- Correct, yes.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40Another picture round. For your picture starter,
0:19:40 > 0:19:43you're going to see a painting of the streets of an English city.
0:19:43 > 0:19:4510 points if you can identify the city.
0:19:50 > 0:19:51BUZZER
0:19:51 > 0:19:53Bath.
0:19:53 > 0:19:55Yes, it is. That's Bath Abbey in the background.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57APPLAUSE
0:19:57 > 0:19:59Picture bonuses. Three more paintings
0:19:59 > 0:20:01of the streets of English cities. Again, five points
0:20:01 > 0:20:03for each city you can identify.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06Firstly, for five points, this 19th-century work.
0:20:09 > 0:20:10Lincoln.
0:20:10 > 0:20:13It is. You can see the cathedral in the background.
0:20:13 > 0:20:15The second is also a 19th-century work.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19(Salisbury, maybe.)
0:20:19 > 0:20:21Salisbury.
0:20:21 > 0:20:25No, that's Newcastle. Central Station on the left there.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28And finally, this late 19th or early 20th-century work.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36- York.- No, it's Chester.
0:20:36 > 0:20:3910 points for this. Mentioned in the Analects of Confucius,
0:20:39 > 0:20:41which strategy board game
0:20:41 > 0:20:44is usually played with black-and-white stones...
0:20:44 > 0:20:45BUZZER
0:20:45 > 0:20:46Mahjong.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49No, you lose five points. ..On a 19 x 19 grid.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52It's usually known in English by a two letter name.
0:20:55 > 0:20:56BUZZER
0:20:56 > 0:20:58- Go.- Go is correct, yes.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00APPLAUSE
0:21:00 > 0:21:02Your bonuses this time are on rivers.
0:21:02 > 0:21:05If the Mississippi and its tributary the Missouri are considered
0:21:05 > 0:21:08to be two separate rivers, which is the longest river in the world
0:21:08 > 0:21:11to flow through only one sovereign state?
0:21:14 > 0:21:17THEY WHISPER
0:21:17 > 0:21:20- Yangtze.- Correct.
0:21:20 > 0:21:23Which is the only river that flows from the Alps to the North Sea?
0:21:25 > 0:21:26The Rhine.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29Correct. What is the longest river in Europe, West of Poland,
0:21:29 > 0:21:31that flows through only one country?
0:21:34 > 0:21:37THEY WHISPER
0:21:39 > 0:21:41The Seine?
0:21:41 > 0:21:42No, it's the Loire.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44Six minutes to go, 10 points for this.
0:21:44 > 0:21:47Naskh, Tulut and Muhaqqaq are among the cursive styles
0:21:47 > 0:21:49of the calligraphy of which...
0:21:49 > 0:21:50BUZZER
0:21:50 > 0:21:52Arabic.
0:21:52 > 0:21:56- Arabic is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:21:56 > 0:22:02Your bonuses are on graduates of the University of Manchester, Homerton.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05Born in 1924, which playwright's works include
0:22:05 > 0:22:07The Tiger And The Horse, State Of Revolution and
0:22:07 > 0:22:09A Man For All Seasons?
0:22:10 > 0:22:13THEY WHISPER
0:22:13 > 0:22:15- David Hare. - No, it's Robert Bolt.
0:22:15 > 0:22:19Born in 1930, which novelist's works include The Rage Of The Vulture,
0:22:19 > 0:22:22Sugar And Rum and Sacred Hunger?
0:22:22 > 0:22:25THEY WHISPER
0:22:27 > 0:22:28Julian Barnes.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30No, that's Barry Unsworth.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32And finally, born in 1917, which novelist's works
0:22:32 > 0:22:37include The Napoleon Symphony - A Novel In Four Movements,
0:22:37 > 0:22:39The Malayan Trilogy and Inside Mr Enderby?
0:22:42 > 0:22:43We don't know.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46Anthony Burgess. 10 points for this. Which Liverpool born author
0:22:46 > 0:22:50was posthumously awarded the Lost Booker in 2010
0:22:50 > 0:22:52for his 1970 novel Troubles?
0:22:52 > 0:22:58He previously won the prize in 1973 for The Siege Of Krishnapur.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00BUZZER
0:23:00 > 0:23:01JG Ballard.
0:23:01 > 0:23:04Anyone want to buzz from New College?
0:23:06 > 0:23:09It's JG Farrell. 10 points for this. In astronomy,
0:23:09 > 0:23:13the abbreviation SMC stands for which satellite galaxy
0:23:13 > 0:23:16of the Milky Way, about 60,000 parsecs distant?
0:23:16 > 0:23:18BUZZER
0:23:18 > 0:23:20Sirius Major?
0:23:20 > 0:23:23No, anyone like to buzz from New College?
0:23:23 > 0:23:26It's Small Magellanic Cloud. 10 points for this starter question.
0:23:26 > 0:23:29Author of novels such as Vivian Grey and The Young Duke,
0:23:29 > 0:23:32the first Earl of Beaconsfield was better known...
0:23:32 > 0:23:33BUZZER
0:23:33 > 0:23:34Benjamin Disraeli.
0:23:34 > 0:23:38- He was Benjamin Disraeli, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:23:38 > 0:23:41These bonuses, Homerton, are on royal jubilees.
0:23:41 > 0:23:45In which year did Queen Victoria celebrate her diamond jubilee?
0:23:45 > 0:23:49THEY WHISPER
0:23:49 > 0:23:50- 1897.- Correct.
0:23:50 > 0:23:54George V celebrated the 25th year of his accession by a silver jubilee
0:23:54 > 0:23:57on May the 6th of which year?
0:23:59 > 0:24:02- 1945.- No, it's 1935.
0:24:02 > 0:24:06Which King's golden jubilee was celebrated on October the 25th,
0:24:06 > 0:24:091809, the day on which the 50th year of his reign began?
0:24:09 > 0:24:10- George III.- Correct.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12Another starter question.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15Erewhon, the title of Samuel Butler's satirical novel
0:24:15 > 0:24:19of 1872 was chosen as a deliberate anagram of which word?
0:24:19 > 0:24:20BUZZER
0:24:20 > 0:24:22- Nowhere.- Nowhere is right.
0:24:22 > 0:24:26Your bonuses this time are on Greek mythology.
0:24:26 > 0:24:29Which minor nature spirits derive their name from a Greek word
0:24:29 > 0:24:31that also means bride?
0:24:34 > 0:24:36Let's have it, please.
0:24:36 > 0:24:37- Nymph.- Correct.
0:24:37 > 0:24:41Believed to be propitious for sailors, which group of 50
0:24:41 > 0:24:44are the daughters of one of the Gods known as the Old Man of the Sea?
0:24:44 > 0:24:45Nominate Lenon.
0:24:45 > 0:24:47Nereids.
0:24:47 > 0:24:48Nereids is correct.
0:24:48 > 0:24:52What is the habitat of those nymphs known as hamadryads?
0:24:52 > 0:24:55(Something to do with trees. Trees.)
0:24:55 > 0:24:57- Trees, forests.- Trees is right.
0:24:57 > 0:24:5810 points for this.
0:24:58 > 0:25:022010 is the year 4343 of the current era
0:25:02 > 0:25:04in which Asian calendar,
0:25:04 > 0:25:082333 BC being the year of the founding of
0:25:08 > 0:25:11the ancient kingdom of Gojoseon by Dangun?
0:25:11 > 0:25:13BUZZER
0:25:13 > 0:25:14Japanese calendar?
0:25:14 > 0:25:16No, anyone want to buzz from New?
0:25:16 > 0:25:17BUZZER
0:25:17 > 0:25:19Korea.
0:25:19 > 0:25:21Korean calendar is correct, yes.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23APPLAUSE
0:25:23 > 0:25:28Right, these bonuses are on astronomy, New College.
0:25:28 > 0:25:3412.566 of what unit is equal to the entire celestial sphere?
0:25:34 > 0:25:36Come on.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39- A billion light years. - No, it's steradian.
0:25:39 > 0:25:41Rounded to the nearest thousand,
0:25:41 > 0:25:44what is the total area of the sphere in square degrees?
0:25:47 > 0:25:49- Sorry, we don't know.- That's 41,000.
0:25:49 > 0:25:51As viewed from Earth,
0:25:51 > 0:25:55it would take 200,000 suns to cover the whole celestial sphere.
0:25:55 > 0:25:58What is the angular diameter of the sun to the nearest half a degree?
0:26:03 > 0:26:04- Come on.- 1.5?
0:26:04 > 0:26:06No, it's half a degree.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08Right, answer as soon as you buzz.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11In the Fibonacci sequence, which number follows 21?
0:26:11 > 0:26:12BUZZER
0:26:12 > 0:26:1434.
0:26:14 > 0:26:17- 34 is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:26:17 > 0:26:20These bonuses are on a European capital. Which European capital
0:26:20 > 0:26:22gives its name in part to the settlement that was
0:26:22 > 0:26:25captured by Britain in 1664 and renamed New York?
0:26:26 > 0:26:28- Amsterdam.- Correct.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30At a similar latitude to Cape Town and Melbourne,
0:26:30 > 0:26:35the volcanic Amsterdam Island is inhabited only by scientists.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38In which ocean is it and which country has sovereignty?
0:26:38 > 0:26:40(Southern Ocean...)
0:26:40 > 0:26:42Come on.
0:26:42 > 0:26:44- Southern Ocean, Britain. - No, it's Indian Ocean and France.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46First published in 1998,
0:26:46 > 0:26:50the Booker Prize-winning novel Amsterdam is by which author?
0:26:50 > 0:26:52THEY WHISPER
0:26:52 > 0:26:54Eugenides.
0:26:54 > 0:26:57No, it's Ian McEwan. 10 points for this. Resembling a cornet
0:26:57 > 0:27:00but having a slightly larger bell, which instrument is a standard in
0:27:00 > 0:27:02British brass bands? Its name...
0:27:02 > 0:27:03BUZZER
0:27:03 > 0:27:05Trumpet.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08No, you lose five points. Its name being the German for wing horn.
0:27:11 > 0:27:12BUZZER
0:27:12 > 0:27:14- Trombone.- No, flugelhorn.
0:27:14 > 0:27:1710 points for this. Derived from the ancient kingdom
0:27:17 > 0:27:21of Pontus, the adjective Pontic refers to which body of water?
0:27:21 > 0:27:24BUZZER
0:27:24 > 0:27:26- Black Sea.- Black Sea is right, yes.
0:27:26 > 0:27:27GONG
0:27:27 > 0:27:30And at the gong, Homerton College, Cambridge have 145.
0:27:30 > 0:27:31New College, Oxford have 230.
0:27:31 > 0:27:35APPLAUSE
0:27:35 > 0:27:36That was a more tightly fought contest
0:27:36 > 0:27:39than the score line suggests. I would bet, Homerton,
0:27:39 > 0:27:41that on that score you will come back as one of the four
0:27:41 > 0:27:44highest scoring losing teams to fight another day.
0:27:44 > 0:27:47New College, terrific performance from you. We shall look forward to
0:27:47 > 0:27:49seeing you again in round two of the competition.
0:27:49 > 0:27:53I hope you can join us next time for another first round match
0:27:53 > 0:27:54but until then it's goodbye from
0:27:54 > 0:27:56Homerton College, Cambridge.
0:27:56 > 0:27:57ALL: Goodbye.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00- It's goodbye from New College, Oxford.- ALL: Goodbye.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04APPLAUSE
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