0:00:17 > 0:00:21APPLAUSE
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello. Proof there is life after death tonight,
0:00:31 > 0:00:32in the first of two play-offs
0:00:32 > 0:00:35between teams who lost their first round matches,
0:00:35 > 0:00:38but did so with scores higher than the winning totals
0:00:38 > 0:00:40in some other contests.
0:00:40 > 0:00:42Now, in recent years, several institutions
0:00:42 > 0:00:46have become series champions after surviving by this rule.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49Lincoln College, Oxford, seemed dead certs to win their first-round match
0:00:49 > 0:00:52when their opponents, Manchester University,
0:00:52 > 0:00:55obliged them by spending the first few minutes in the minuses.
0:00:55 > 0:00:57But victory was snatched away from tonight's four
0:00:57 > 0:01:00by the narrowest, cruellest margin
0:01:00 > 0:01:01of five points.
0:01:01 > 0:01:03Still, their losing score of 175
0:01:03 > 0:01:06is the highest of the four teams in these play-offs.
0:01:06 > 0:01:08Let's meet them again.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10Hi, I'm Victor Jones.
0:01:10 > 0:01:14I'm from South Africa and I'm reading for a doctorate in Plant Sciences.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17Hi, I'm Michael Hopkins, originally from Haywards Heath in West Sussex
0:01:17 > 0:01:19and I'm reading Biochemistry.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21- And their captain... - Hi, I'm Jackie Thompson.
0:01:21 > 0:01:22I'm from Orange County, California
0:01:22 > 0:01:25and I'm reaching for a doctorate in Experimental Psychology.
0:01:25 > 0:01:27Hi, I'm Hugh Reid.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30I'm from Winchester and I'm reading for a doctorate in History.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33APPLAUSE
0:01:33 > 0:01:36The team from Lancaster University
0:01:36 > 0:01:40were in contention for most of their first-round match
0:01:40 > 0:01:42against Pembroke College, Cambridge,
0:01:42 > 0:01:45but they faded towards the finish and came away with 140 points
0:01:45 > 0:01:46to their opponents' 200.
0:01:46 > 0:01:50Their strengths on that occasion included exhibits at Tate Modern,
0:01:50 > 0:01:52obscure European ossuaries
0:01:52 > 0:01:55and place names ending in "-stan".
0:01:55 > 0:01:58Let's see what sort of form they're on tonight.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00Hi, I'm Alan Webster from Blackpool.
0:02:00 > 0:02:04I'm reading for a Masters in Resource and Environmental Management.
0:02:04 > 0:02:05Hi, I'm Ann Kretzschmar.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08I originally come from Chesterfield in Derbyshire
0:02:08 > 0:02:10and I'm studying for a PhD in Environmental Modelling.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13- And here's their captain... - Hello, I'm George Pinkerton.
0:02:13 > 0:02:17I'm from Surrey and I'm studying History, Philosophy and Politics.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19Hi, my name's Iain Dickson, I'm from Stirling,
0:02:19 > 0:02:22I'm studying for an MSc in Ecology and the Environment.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25APPLAUSE
0:02:25 > 0:02:29OK. To say the rules are ossified would be to understate things.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31So, you all know them, fingers on the buzzers,
0:02:31 > 0:02:33here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36In March 2012, which reference work announced that it would stop...?
0:02:36 > 0:02:38BUZZER
0:02:38 > 0:02:40- Encyclopaedia Britannica.- Correct.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43APPLAUSE
0:02:43 > 0:02:47Right, your first set of bonuses, Lancaster, are on lost hands.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49Firstly, for five points,
0:02:49 > 0:02:51which major literary figure
0:02:51 > 0:02:54lost the use of his left hand as a result of wounds sustained
0:02:54 > 0:02:57during the Battle of Lepanto in 1571?
0:02:57 > 0:02:59Ooh. Um.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01Literary figure...
0:03:01 > 0:03:03That's in about the 1500s, so...
0:03:03 > 0:03:06- Cervantes or something?- Uh, yeah.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08Uh, Cervantes?
0:03:08 > 0:03:09It was Cervantes, yes.
0:03:09 > 0:03:13Lord Nelson's right hand and arm were amputated as a result of wounds
0:03:13 > 0:03:19received during a landing in 1797 at which of the Canary Islands?
0:03:19 > 0:03:22- Uh, I think it's Tenerife. - It was Tenerife, yes.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25And later a commander in the Crimean War,
0:03:25 > 0:03:27which soldier's right hand was amputated after Waterloo
0:03:27 > 0:03:29and gave his name to a type of sleeve
0:03:29 > 0:03:31that was designed for him to wear after his injuries?
0:03:31 > 0:03:34It was Lord...Lord Raglan.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37- Correct. Right, ten points for this. - APPLAUSE
0:03:37 > 0:03:39Quote - "In adolescence, I hated life
0:03:39 > 0:03:41"and was continually on the verge of suicide
0:03:41 > 0:03:43"from which, however, I was restrained
0:03:43 > 0:03:45"by the desire to know more mathematics..."
0:03:45 > 0:03:47BELL
0:03:47 > 0:03:49- Bertrand Russell.- Correct.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51APPLAUSE
0:03:51 > 0:03:54Your bonuses are on the works of George Eliot.
0:03:54 > 0:03:58In each case, name the novel from its closing lines.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01Firstly, "Oh, Father, said Eppie, what a pretty home ours is.
0:04:01 > 0:04:05"I think nobody could be happier than we are."
0:04:06 > 0:04:07Do you know George Eliot?
0:04:07 > 0:04:11- Mill On The Floss, did she write that?- It's one of the obvious ones.
0:04:11 > 0:04:14- Er, Mill On The Floss? - No, that's from Silas Marner.
0:04:14 > 0:04:16Secondly, "The growing good of the world
0:04:16 > 0:04:19"is partly dependent on unhistoric acts
0:04:19 > 0:04:22"and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been
0:04:22 > 0:04:27"is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life
0:04:27 > 0:04:29"and rest in unvisited tombs."
0:04:30 > 0:04:32Middlemarch.
0:04:32 > 0:04:33Middlemarch?
0:04:33 > 0:04:37THEY WHISPER
0:04:37 > 0:04:39- Middlemarch?- That is correct.
0:04:39 > 0:04:42And finally, "The tomb bore the names of Tom and Maggie Tulliver
0:04:42 > 0:04:44"and below the names, it was written,
0:04:44 > 0:04:47"In their death, they were not divided."
0:04:49 > 0:04:50Adam Bede.
0:04:50 > 0:04:52Adam Bede, or Mill On The Floss?
0:04:52 > 0:04:54That is George Eliot, isn't it?
0:04:54 > 0:04:55Mill On The Floss.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57Correct. Ten points for this starter question.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00Give me both of the following terms used in physics,
0:05:00 > 0:05:02which differ by a single letter.
0:05:02 > 0:05:06One refers to a process or medium that is not dependent on direction,
0:05:06 > 0:05:09the other means pertaining to versions of an atom or nucleus
0:05:09 > 0:05:11that contain different numbers of neutrons.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16BUZZER
0:05:16 > 0:05:19Er...isotope and speed?
0:05:19 > 0:05:21No. Anyone like to buzz from Lincoln College?
0:05:24 > 0:05:25BELL
0:05:25 > 0:05:28Isotope and isotone.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31No, it's isotropic and isotopic. Ten points for this.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33Quote - "It consists in doing and saying things
0:05:33 > 0:05:37"that cause shame to the victims, simply for the pleasure of it."
0:05:37 > 0:05:41These words form part of Aristotle's definition of what six letter term?
0:05:41 > 0:05:42In modern usage,
0:05:42 > 0:05:46it describes an excess of pride or ambition that ultimately causes...
0:05:46 > 0:05:48BUZZER
0:05:48 > 0:05:49- Hubris?- Hubris is correct, yes.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52APPLAUSE
0:05:52 > 0:05:55Second set of bonuses for you. They're on magnetism.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58What name is given to the weak effect which consists of
0:05:58 > 0:06:03the repulsion of magnetic flux away from the surface of the material?
0:06:03 > 0:06:04Do we know at all?
0:06:04 > 0:06:06- Repulsion?- Guesses?
0:06:06 > 0:06:09THEY WHISPER
0:06:09 > 0:06:10Repulsion?
0:06:10 > 0:06:12No, it's diamagnetism.
0:06:12 > 0:06:16What term describes those materials attracted to the poles of a magnet
0:06:16 > 0:06:20but which do not retain magnetisation in the absence of
0:06:20 > 0:06:22an applied magnetic field?
0:06:22 > 0:06:24Umm...
0:06:27 > 0:06:28- Magnetic?- No, it's paramagnets.
0:06:28 > 0:06:32And finally, what term describes a material such as iron,
0:06:32 > 0:06:35which can be permanently magnetised?
0:06:35 > 0:06:38HE SIGHS AND CHUCKLES
0:06:39 > 0:06:40Magnetic, again.
0:06:40 > 0:06:43No, it's ferromagnetic. Ten points for this.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46Which epic poem ends with these lines...
0:06:46 > 0:06:49"The world was all before them, where to choose their place of rest,
0:06:49 > 0:06:51- "and Providence..." - BUZZER
0:06:51 > 0:06:53- Paradise Lost.- Correct.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56APPLAUSE
0:06:56 > 0:06:58These bonuses are on the Armed Forces, Lincoln College.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00Firstly, for five,
0:07:00 > 0:07:04often abbreviated to MID and ranking below the Military Cross,
0:07:04 > 0:07:07what is the oldest commendation for gallantry
0:07:07 > 0:07:10and other exceptional services in the British Armed Forces?
0:07:10 > 0:07:11Mentioned in Dispatches?
0:07:13 > 0:07:15Mentioned in Dispatches?
0:07:15 > 0:07:17- Nominate Jones. - Mentioned in Dispatches?
0:07:17 > 0:07:18Correct.
0:07:18 > 0:07:22Initially bronze, which emblem was introduced in 1920
0:07:22 > 0:07:25to identify those who had been Mentioned in Dispatches
0:07:25 > 0:07:27during World War I?
0:07:27 > 0:07:29Is it some type of cross?
0:07:30 > 0:07:32Military Cross?
0:07:32 > 0:07:33- Military Cross?- Don't know.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35Military Cross?
0:07:35 > 0:07:37- No, it was an oak leaf.- Oh.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40In the UK, names of those Mentioned in Dispatches will be published
0:07:40 > 0:07:43in which journal, the official organ of the British Government
0:07:43 > 0:07:46and appointed medium of various official announcements?
0:07:47 > 0:07:49- Is it Hansard?- Sorry?
0:07:49 > 0:07:53- Is it Hansard?- Hansard? - Houses of Parliament.
0:07:53 > 0:07:54Worth a shot, I guess.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56Let's have it, please.
0:07:56 > 0:07:57Nominate Hopkins.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59Hansard?
0:07:59 > 0:08:02No, that's the record of Parliament. It's the London Gazette.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04We're going to take a picture round now,
0:08:04 > 0:08:06with the scores very evenly matched.
0:08:06 > 0:08:08Your picture starter is the title of a well-known
0:08:08 > 0:08:10philosophical work in its original language.
0:08:10 > 0:08:14For ten points, I want the English title and the author.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19BELL
0:08:19 > 0:08:22Uh... Critique Of Divine Reason, by Kant.
0:08:23 > 0:08:26No. Anyone want to buzz from Lancaster?
0:08:26 > 0:08:28You may not confer, one of you may buzz.
0:08:28 > 0:08:29BUZZER
0:08:29 > 0:08:31Is it the Critique Of Pure Reason?
0:08:31 > 0:08:33It is the Critique Of Pure Reason, by Kant.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36Here's the whole thing. Let's have a look.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40So, we follow on from that starter question with picture bonuses.
0:08:40 > 0:08:44Three more philosophical titles, all in the original language.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46In each case, I want the English title and the author.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48Firstly, for five...
0:08:50 > 0:08:52Uh, The Politics, by Aristotle?
0:08:52 > 0:08:55No, we'll see the whole thing.
0:08:55 > 0:08:57It's Plato's Republic.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59Second, this work of the first century BC.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05Uh, I think it's Pliny the Elder's...
0:09:05 > 0:09:08No, it's not. It's Lucretius's On The Nature Of Things.
0:09:08 > 0:09:09And finally, this work...
0:09:12 > 0:09:13The War of...
0:09:13 > 0:09:16The War of Gulf is not a place?
0:09:16 > 0:09:18- Do we know?- The War of something...
0:09:18 > 0:09:20Let's have it.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22The... Uh...
0:09:22 > 0:09:24Something about the Gulf War. We don't know.
0:09:24 > 0:09:28OK, it's Baudrillard's The Gulf War Did Not Take Place.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30Hmm. Right, ten points for this.
0:09:30 > 0:09:32In sociology, what two-word term
0:09:32 > 0:09:34describes the hierarchical arrangement of individuals
0:09:34 > 0:09:36according to wealth, status and power
0:09:36 > 0:09:39that was deemed necessary by such functionalists
0:09:39 > 0:09:40as Talcott Parsons?
0:09:43 > 0:09:45BELL
0:09:45 > 0:09:46Caste system?
0:09:46 > 0:09:49No. Lancaster, one of you buzz?
0:09:49 > 0:09:50BUZZER
0:09:50 > 0:09:52Social hierarchy?
0:09:52 > 0:09:55No, it social stratification. Ten points for this.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58Since 1961, the International Union Of Pure And Applied Chemistry
0:09:58 > 0:10:01has defined the unified atomic mass unit
0:10:01 > 0:10:04as the equivalent of one twelfth of the mass of an atom
0:10:04 > 0:10:06- of which isotope? - BELL
0:10:06 > 0:10:08Carbon 12?
0:10:08 > 0:10:10- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:10:10 > 0:10:14You will take the lead if you get these bonuses. They're on a play by Shakespeare.
0:10:14 > 0:10:17Also the subject of a work by Chaucer, which pair of lovers
0:10:17 > 0:10:19are the title characters of a play by Shakespeare,
0:10:19 > 0:10:21set during the siege of Troy?
0:10:21 > 0:10:23- Troilus and Cressida.- Correct.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26In the dramatis personae of Troilus and Cressida,
0:10:26 > 0:10:30which character is described as "a deformed and scurrilous Greek"?
0:10:32 > 0:10:34THEY WHISPER
0:10:34 > 0:10:35Maybe Nestor.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40Nestor?
0:10:40 > 0:10:41No, it's Thersites.
0:10:41 > 0:10:45Born 1631, which Poet Laureate rewrote Troilus and Cressida
0:10:45 > 0:10:46intending, as he put it,
0:10:46 > 0:10:49"To uncover the jewels of Shakespeare's verse,
0:10:49 > 0:10:51"hidden beneath a heap of rubbish"?
0:10:51 > 0:10:53- Is it Dryden?- Dryden?
0:10:53 > 0:10:54I think it's Dryden.
0:10:54 > 0:10:55Dryden.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57Correct. Ten points for this.
0:10:57 > 0:10:59Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01The distinctive tricolour flag
0:11:01 > 0:11:04of the liberation leader Francisco de Miranda
0:11:04 > 0:11:06forms the basis of the national flags
0:11:06 > 0:11:08of three Latin American countries.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10Ten points if you can name two of them.
0:11:10 > 0:11:12BUZZER
0:11:12 > 0:11:13Venezuela and Colombia.
0:11:13 > 0:11:15Correct. The other one is Ecuador.
0:11:15 > 0:11:19Right, you get a set of bonuses. This time, back on level pegging,
0:11:19 > 0:11:22they are on pairs of words whose spelling differs
0:11:22 > 0:11:24only in the substitution of a final L for a letter R.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26For example, brother and brothel.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29In each case, give both words from the definitions.
0:11:29 > 0:11:31Firstly, an item of movable property
0:11:31 > 0:11:36and a verb meaning to engage in rapid, inconsequential talk.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39- Chattel and chatter?- Yeah.
0:11:39 > 0:11:41- Chattel and chatter?- Correct.
0:11:41 > 0:11:43Secondly, a small or squalid dwelling
0:11:43 > 0:11:46and the collective noun for a group of trout
0:11:46 > 0:11:49or a verb meaning to rest on a cushion of air.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52- Is it a hovel and hover?- Yeah.
0:11:52 > 0:11:53- Hover and hovel?- Correct.
0:11:53 > 0:11:56And finally, a divine messenger
0:11:56 > 0:12:00and an abstract noun meaning hot displeasure, wrath or annoyance.
0:12:00 > 0:12:02- Angel and anger.- Correct.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05- Ten points for this. - APPLAUSE
0:12:05 > 0:12:08Although actually fought on Breed's Hill, above Charlestown, Boston,
0:12:08 > 0:12:09what name is...?
0:12:09 > 0:12:10BUZZER
0:12:10 > 0:12:13- The Battle of Bunker Hill?- Correct.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15APPLAUSE
0:12:15 > 0:12:16These bonuses are on football.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19In 1889, which Lancashire club became the first
0:12:19 > 0:12:22Football League champions? The club were champions in the next season
0:12:22 > 0:12:25and runners-up in the next three seasons.
0:12:25 > 0:12:27- Is it Preston?- Preston.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30- Sorry?- Preston North End.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32- Preston North End?- Correct.
0:12:32 > 0:12:33In 1926, which Yorkshire club
0:12:33 > 0:12:37became the first to win the English First Division championship
0:12:37 > 0:12:38three times in succession?
0:12:38 > 0:12:41They've not won a major trophy since.
0:12:42 > 0:12:46- It's not Leeds, is it? - No, they have.
0:12:46 > 0:12:48Maybe Sheffield Wednesday?
0:12:48 > 0:12:51- Right. Um...- No, no, no.
0:12:51 > 0:12:53- Huddersfield Town, maybe.- Bradford.
0:12:53 > 0:12:54- Or Bradford?- Please.
0:12:54 > 0:12:57- Uh, Bradford? - No, it's Huddersfield Town.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59Bradford would be mortified to hear you say that.
0:12:59 > 0:13:02What was the next club to win it in three successive years?
0:13:02 > 0:13:06I want the name of the club AND the decade in which they did so.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11THEY WHISPER
0:13:17 > 0:13:20- I'd say Wolves.- Wells?- Wolves. - Oh.- Wolverhampton Wanderers.
0:13:20 > 0:13:21Wolves?
0:13:21 > 0:13:24No, it was Arsenal, in the 1930s. Ten points for this.
0:13:24 > 0:13:28In 1824, the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel
0:13:28 > 0:13:31proved that there is no general formula involving radicals
0:13:31 > 0:13:34for the solution of polynomial equations of which degree?
0:13:35 > 0:13:38BELL
0:13:38 > 0:13:39- Fifth?- Correct.
0:13:39 > 0:13:43APPLAUSE
0:13:43 > 0:13:45OK, these bonuses are on winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.
0:13:45 > 0:13:49The 1973 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to
0:13:49 > 0:13:52Le Duc Tho, who declined the prize,
0:13:52 > 0:13:54and to which other recipient, who did accept it?
0:13:54 > 0:13:56THEY WHISPER
0:13:58 > 0:14:01- Uh, Kissinger? - It was Henry Kissinger.
0:14:01 > 0:14:04In 2010, Chinese state media censored news of the announcement
0:14:04 > 0:14:05that which imprisoned dissident
0:14:05 > 0:14:07was to be awarded that year's peace prize?
0:14:09 > 0:14:12Was it Ai Weiwei?
0:14:12 > 0:14:16- Ai Weiwei?- Yeah, was he an artist?- Yeah.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18- Ai Weiwei? - No, it was Lu Xiaobo.
0:14:18 > 0:14:21And finally, "The Closest Of Strangers"
0:14:21 > 0:14:24is how a headline in the Washington Post
0:14:24 > 0:14:28described which two joint winners of the prize in 1993?
0:14:28 > 0:14:301993?
0:14:30 > 0:14:34Could that be with, like, the Soviet Union? Gorbachev?
0:14:34 > 0:14:36Gorbachev and Reagan?
0:14:36 > 0:14:38Did he win it? I don't know.
0:14:39 > 0:14:41Gorbachev and Reagan?
0:14:41 > 0:14:43No. It was Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45Right, well, it's a pretty close match, this,
0:14:45 > 0:14:47and we're halfway through it. We'll take a music round.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50For your starter, you're going to hear a piece of popular music.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53Ten points if you can give me the name of the song.
0:14:53 > 0:14:55# Babe, you're getting closer
0:14:55 > 0:14:58# The lights are going dim
0:14:58 > 0:15:01# The sound of your breathing
0:15:01 > 0:15:05# Has made the mood I'm in
0:15:05 > 0:15:08# All of my resistance
0:15:08 > 0:15:12# Is lying on the floor
0:15:12 > 0:15:15# Taking me to places
0:15:15 > 0:15:16# I've never been before... #
0:15:16 > 0:15:19OK, I think we've heard enough now to establish
0:15:19 > 0:15:21that no-one has the faintest idea what it is.
0:15:21 > 0:15:25It was Elvis Presley, singing Way Down. So, music bonuses shortly.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27Another starter question in the meantime.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30In a well-known portrait by the photographer Robert Howlett,
0:15:30 > 0:15:33which engineer is pictured in front of the giant...?
0:15:33 > 0:15:34BUZZER
0:15:34 > 0:15:35Brunel?
0:15:35 > 0:15:36Correct.
0:15:36 > 0:15:39APPLAUSE
0:15:39 > 0:15:42So, Way Down, which we heard a moment or two ago,
0:15:42 > 0:15:44was recorded at the Jungle Room Sessions
0:15:44 > 0:15:48at Elvis Presley's residence, Graceland, in 1976,
0:15:48 > 0:15:49a year before his death.
0:15:49 > 0:15:51For your bonuses,
0:15:51 > 0:15:54three more songs recorded at those same sessions at Graceland.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57Simply name the song in each case. Here we go.
0:15:57 > 0:16:00# Put your sweet lips
0:16:00 > 0:16:02# A little closer
0:16:02 > 0:16:05# To the phone
0:16:05 > 0:16:09# Uh - huh
0:16:09 > 0:16:11# Let's pretend
0:16:11 > 0:16:14# That we're together
0:16:14 > 0:16:19# All alone... #
0:16:19 > 0:16:20Any song?
0:16:20 > 0:16:21THEY WHISPER
0:16:21 > 0:16:23Let's have it, please.
0:16:23 > 0:16:25We don't know.
0:16:25 > 0:16:26That's He'll Have To Go.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28And secondly...
0:16:28 > 0:16:30# Well, it's hard to be a gambler
0:16:30 > 0:16:32# Betting on the number
0:16:32 > 0:16:35# That changes every time
0:16:35 > 0:16:37# When you think you're going to win
0:16:37 > 0:16:39# You think she's giving in
0:16:39 > 0:16:42# A stranger's all you find
0:16:42 > 0:16:44# Yeah, it's hard to figure out
0:16:44 > 0:16:46# What she's all about
0:16:46 > 0:16:50# That she's a woman through and through... #
0:16:51 > 0:16:53Uh...
0:16:53 > 0:16:56- Let's have it, please. - She's A Lady?
0:16:56 > 0:16:58No, it's his last number one, Moody Blue. And finally...
0:16:58 > 0:17:04# But come ye back
0:17:04 > 0:17:11# When summer's in the meadow
0:17:11 > 0:17:19# Or when the valley's hushed
0:17:19 > 0:17:22# And white with snow... #
0:17:22 > 0:17:24- We don't know.- It was Danny Boy!
0:17:24 > 0:17:26- LAUGHTER - Right, ten points for this.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29In the 19th century, which pair of writers wrote
0:17:29 > 0:17:32both the German dictionary Deutsches Woerterbuch
0:17:32 > 0:17:35and a series of stories published in the collection Household...?
0:17:35 > 0:17:37- BELL - The Brothers Grimm.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40- Yes. - APPLAUSE
0:17:40 > 0:17:44These bonuses are on Scottish literature, Lincoln College.
0:17:44 > 0:17:48Subtitled A Life In Four Books and including his own illustrations,
0:17:48 > 0:17:50Lanark is a work of 1981 by which author?
0:17:50 > 0:17:531981?
0:17:53 > 0:17:56- I don't know any Scottish novelists. - It's not Iain Banks, is it?
0:17:56 > 0:17:58- Banks? - No, it's by Alasdair Gray.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00Secondly, for five points,
0:18:00 > 0:18:03which Scottish writer and comedian won the 2007 Costa Prize
0:18:03 > 0:18:05for the novel Day?
0:18:05 > 0:18:09Her other works include On Bullfighting and Paradise.
0:18:15 > 0:18:19- Mantel.- No. That's A.L. Kennedy.
0:18:19 > 0:18:21And finally, making her debut in 1997 with Like,
0:18:21 > 0:18:23which Scottish writer's novel The Accidental
0:18:23 > 0:18:27was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2005?
0:18:27 > 0:18:29Is that Sarah Waters?
0:18:29 > 0:18:31Worth a shot.
0:18:31 > 0:18:32Sarah Waters?
0:18:32 > 0:18:33No, it's Ali Smith.
0:18:33 > 0:18:35Ten points for this.
0:18:35 > 0:18:38Based on a plot by the Egyptologist Auguste Mariette-Bey,
0:18:38 > 0:18:41which opera was commissioned from Giuseppe Verdi...?
0:18:41 > 0:18:43- BELL - Aida.- Yes.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46APPLAUSE
0:18:46 > 0:18:49Right, these bonuses are on geometry.
0:18:49 > 0:18:53In three dimensions, what operation takes two vectors as its input
0:18:53 > 0:18:57and outputs another vector which is perpendicular to them?
0:18:57 > 0:19:01THEY WHISPER
0:19:01 > 0:19:03Cross product?
0:19:03 > 0:19:04Correct. Cross, or vector, product.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07What is the only dimension higher than three
0:19:07 > 0:19:11in which a similarly defined vector product exists?
0:19:11 > 0:19:14- Only dimension above three? - I don't know.
0:19:14 > 0:19:15Five?
0:19:15 > 0:19:17Pick a number.
0:19:17 > 0:19:19- Five?- No, it's seven.- Oh.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22The magnitude of the cross product of two vectors
0:19:22 > 0:19:25is the product of the vectors' individual magnitudes
0:19:25 > 0:19:27and what trigonometric function?
0:19:27 > 0:19:30It's either the Sine of the angle between them,
0:19:30 > 0:19:33or the Cos of the angle. I can't remember which one.
0:19:33 > 0:19:34The Sine of the...?
0:19:34 > 0:19:36The Sine of the angle between them.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39Between the two vectors, correct. Ten points for this.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42Which nocturnal African mammal is the only extant animal
0:19:42 > 0:19:44classified in the...?
0:19:44 > 0:19:45BUZZER
0:19:45 > 0:19:46Aardvark?
0:19:46 > 0:19:47Aardvark is right, yes.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50APPLAUSE
0:19:50 > 0:19:51You retake the lead
0:19:51 > 0:19:55and these bonuses are on Church of England dioceses.
0:19:55 > 0:19:58During the 1540s, Henry VIII established five new dioceses,
0:19:58 > 0:20:00two of these were in former Roman towns,
0:20:00 > 0:20:03one on the River Dee, the other on the Severn.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05For five points, name both.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08- Chester.- Did they have Aberdeen?
0:20:08 > 0:20:09Chester's on the Dee.
0:20:09 > 0:20:11Chester and...
0:20:11 > 0:20:13On the Severn?
0:20:13 > 0:20:16Maybe Shrewsbury or something?
0:20:16 > 0:20:17- It might be Hereford.- Don't know.
0:20:17 > 0:20:20Shrewsbury. No, Hereford was probably...
0:20:20 > 0:20:21Let's have it, please.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23Chester and Hereford?
0:20:23 > 0:20:25No, it's Chester and Gloucester.
0:20:25 > 0:20:27Which city in North Yorkshire gives its name
0:20:27 > 0:20:29to a diocese established in 1836,
0:20:29 > 0:20:31the first since the 16th century?
0:20:35 > 0:20:39Yes, it might be, actually. There's Ripon Cathedral, isn't there?
0:20:39 > 0:20:41Uh, is it Ripon?
0:20:41 > 0:20:42It is, yes.
0:20:42 > 0:20:46Which diocese in Cornwall was created in 1877?
0:20:47 > 0:20:49Truro?
0:20:49 > 0:20:52Is there a Truro Cathedral?
0:20:52 > 0:20:55- I don't... I'm not sure, but...- Go for it.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57- Truro?- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:20:57 > 0:21:01Founded in 1826 as a satirical weekly gossip sheet on the arts,
0:21:01 > 0:21:05which newspaper is now France's oldest daily paper and is named...?
0:21:05 > 0:21:07BUZZER
0:21:07 > 0:21:08Le Figaro?
0:21:08 > 0:21:10Correct, yes.
0:21:10 > 0:21:12APPLAUSE
0:21:12 > 0:21:15These bonuses are on botany, Lancaster.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18In what specific part of a flowering plant
0:21:18 > 0:21:21are the integuments, chalaza and nucellus found?
0:21:24 > 0:21:25Uh, stamens? I don't know.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28Uh, right, OK.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30- No idea at all?- No.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33- Right, the stamens? - No, it's the ovule.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36Secondly, what term denotes the pore in the ovule
0:21:36 > 0:21:38through which the pollen tube usually enters,
0:21:38 > 0:21:40prior to fertilisation?
0:21:42 > 0:21:46It's not something like the egg duct or anything? The seed duct?
0:21:46 > 0:21:49No, I'm thinking of the stomata, but that's not it.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51- Right, umm... - Come on, let's have it, please.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54- The egg duct, seed duct...? - No, it's the micropyle.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57And finally, from the Greek meaning to join or to yoke,
0:21:57 > 0:22:01what term denotes the initial cell form from two haploid gametes?
0:22:02 > 0:22:05Was that the zygote?
0:22:05 > 0:22:06Or diploid.
0:22:06 > 0:22:09- Right.- Or zygote, maybe, actually.
0:22:09 > 0:22:12Right. Diploid?
0:22:12 > 0:22:15No, it's a zygote. Ten points for this starter question.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17It's a picture question.
0:22:17 > 0:22:19You'll see a photograph of a political figure.
0:22:19 > 0:22:21Ten points if you can give me her name.
0:22:23 > 0:22:25BUZZER
0:22:25 > 0:22:28No, you buzz, you must answer. I'm sorry.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30Lincoln College, one of you may buzz.
0:22:32 > 0:22:33BELL
0:22:33 > 0:22:35Christine Kirchner?
0:22:35 > 0:22:38No, it's Christine Lagarde, the head of the IMF. Ten points for this.
0:22:38 > 0:22:44The Labour Party And Political Change In Scotland 1918-29 - The Politics Of Five Elections
0:22:44 > 0:22:49is the title of the doctoral thesis submitted in 1981
0:22:49 > 0:22:51by which public figure?
0:22:52 > 0:22:54BELL
0:22:54 > 0:22:56Er, Alex Salmond?
0:22:56 > 0:22:58No. One of you buzz from Lancaster.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00- Gordon Brown?- Correct.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03APPLAUSE
0:23:03 > 0:23:06So, we revert to the picture round.
0:23:06 > 0:23:10Picture bonuses are on photographs of prominent women,
0:23:10 > 0:23:14all voted into the top ten of the Forbes 2011 list
0:23:14 > 0:23:17of the world's 100 most powerful women.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20Five points for each person you can identify. Firstly...
0:23:20 > 0:23:24THEY WHISPER
0:23:24 > 0:23:25Right, Sonia Gandhi?
0:23:25 > 0:23:26Correct. Secondly...
0:23:26 > 0:23:28Argentina?
0:23:29 > 0:23:32I don't think it is, but I don't have a better one.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35What, Cristina Kirchner?
0:23:35 > 0:23:36Is it Cristina Kirchner?
0:23:36 > 0:23:39No, it's Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook. And finally...
0:23:42 > 0:23:44Maybe that's her.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46But it isn't. I don't think it is.
0:23:47 > 0:23:48Any idea?
0:23:48 > 0:23:50Let's have it, please.
0:23:50 > 0:23:51Cristina Kirchner, again.
0:23:51 > 0:23:54No, it's Bill Gates' Mrs, Melinda. Ten points for this.
0:23:54 > 0:23:58Given a two by two matrix with top row AB
0:23:58 > 0:24:00and bottom row CD,
0:24:00 > 0:24:04what name is given to the associated quantity AD minus BC?
0:24:04 > 0:24:05BELL
0:24:05 > 0:24:08- The determinant?- Correct.
0:24:08 > 0:24:10APPLAUSE
0:24:10 > 0:24:13These bonuses are on diseases in fiction, Lincoln College.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16Set in a Congolese village, which novel by Graham Greene
0:24:16 > 0:24:20has a title that refers in part to those suffering from leprosy?
0:24:20 > 0:24:21Umm...
0:24:24 > 0:24:26I don't know Graham Greene.
0:24:26 > 0:24:29I think there's Heart Of The Matter.
0:24:29 > 0:24:31It's in Africa, but not in the Congo. I think that's wrong.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33The Heart Of The Matter.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35No, that's not... That's completely wrong.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37It's A Burnt-Out Case.
0:24:37 > 0:24:41In which novel by Ian McEwan does the neurosurgeon Henry Peron
0:24:41 > 0:24:43diagnose that Baxter, his assailant,
0:24:43 > 0:24:45is suffering from Huntington's Disease?
0:24:46 > 0:24:49- Ian McEwan?- Is it Saturday? - Sorry?- Saturday.
0:24:49 > 0:24:51- Saturday?- I'm not sure.
0:24:51 > 0:24:52Um, Saturday?
0:24:52 > 0:24:54Saturday is correct.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56In which novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
0:24:56 > 0:24:58are the effects of love likened to and mistaken for
0:24:58 > 0:25:00the symptoms of a bacterial...?
0:25:00 > 0:25:03- A Hundred Years Of S... Sorry? - Love In The Time Of Cholera.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05- Love In The Time Of Cholera. - Correct.- Sorry.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07Ten points for this.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10Etymologically unconnected, meanings of what short word
0:25:10 > 0:25:13include a culinary herb often used in infusions
0:25:13 > 0:25:15and the place where money is coined?
0:25:15 > 0:25:17BUZZER
0:25:17 > 0:25:18Mint.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21Correct. These bonuses are on one-act ballets.
0:25:21 > 0:25:24The one-act ballet choreographed by Robert Helpmann
0:25:24 > 0:25:27for the Sadler's Wells ballet in 1944
0:25:27 > 0:25:30concerned a miracle in which area of Glasgow?
0:25:30 > 0:25:32Gorbals?
0:25:32 > 0:25:33Gorbals.
0:25:33 > 0:25:35Uh, nominate Dickson.
0:25:35 > 0:25:36- The Gorbals.- Correct.
0:25:36 > 0:25:41Les Patineurs, a plotless ballet with music by Meyerbeer, has
0:25:41 > 0:25:44a demanding choreography which requires its dancers
0:25:44 > 0:25:46to portray what eponymous activity?
0:25:52 > 0:25:56- Any kind of activity that would be difficult...- Let's have it, please.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58- Come on.- I don't know. Fighting?
0:25:58 > 0:26:00No, it's skating.
0:26:00 > 0:26:01Set to music by Tchaikovsky,
0:26:01 > 0:26:05which ballet is based on Chekhov's play The Three Sisters?
0:26:06 > 0:26:09- Uh, that would be The Nutcracker, or something.- Yeah, go for it.
0:26:09 > 0:26:10The Nutcracker.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12No! Winter Dreams. Ten points for this.
0:26:12 > 0:26:16What former industrial activity links the sites
0:26:16 > 0:26:18of Eastlands in Manchester and the Stadium of Light...?
0:26:18 > 0:26:20BUZZER
0:26:20 > 0:26:21Gas works.
0:26:21 > 0:26:24No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:26:24 > 0:26:27..and the Stadium of Light in Sunderland?
0:26:27 > 0:26:28BELL
0:26:28 > 0:26:30Ship works?
0:26:30 > 0:26:32No, it's coal mining. Ten points for this.
0:26:32 > 0:26:35The capital of Picardy until 1790,
0:26:35 > 0:26:37which city on the River Somme
0:26:37 > 0:26:41is home to the cathedral of Notre Dame, the largest church in France?
0:26:43 > 0:26:44BELL
0:26:44 > 0:26:46Reims.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49No. One of you buzz, Lancaster.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51- BUZZER - Rouen?
0:26:51 > 0:26:53No, it's Amiens. Ten points for this.
0:26:53 > 0:26:55The daughter of which national leader
0:26:55 > 0:26:57wrote the memoir Twenty Letters To A Friend,
0:26:57 > 0:27:00first published in 1967 after her defection
0:27:00 > 0:27:02from the Soviet Union to the USA, via India?
0:27:02 > 0:27:04BUZZER
0:27:04 > 0:27:06Joseph Stalin? Correct.
0:27:06 > 0:27:07APPLAUSE
0:27:07 > 0:27:10These bonuses are on human anatomy.
0:27:10 > 0:27:13In which bone is the Glenoid Cavity found?
0:27:13 > 0:27:15THEY WHISPER
0:27:17 > 0:27:20Come on, let's have it, please.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23- Come on.- The ankle bone?
0:27:23 > 0:27:25No, it's the scapula, or shoulder blade.
0:27:25 > 0:27:28The head of which bone articulates with the Glenoid Cavity?
0:27:28 > 0:27:30- Uh, the humerus.- Correct. - GONG
0:27:30 > 0:27:33And at the gong, Lincoln College, Oxford, have 120,
0:27:33 > 0:27:36Lancaster University have 165.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:27:41 > 0:27:43Well, it was a pretty close match.
0:27:43 > 0:27:46Lincoln, we shall have to say goodbye to you, I'm afraid.
0:27:46 > 0:27:50Lancaster, we look forward to seeing you in the next stage. Congratulations.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53I hope you can join us next time for another play-off.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55But, until then, it's goodbye from Lincoln College, Oxford.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57ALL: Goodbye.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59- It's goodbye from Lancaster. - ALL: Goodbye.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03APPLAUSE
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